Variety (November 1924)

" *FTf '■"^s'acwM-; VARIETY WILLIE HOWARD and EUGENE HOWARD "^ ^ Phyins Retonr Eimement at KEITH'S PALACE, NEW TOKIC Thb Week (No?. 10) i^# > ■i-«' HOWARD and LILLIAN NORWOOD Abo PbjiDg PALACE (B.t The Act That Can Play Any Place and Anywhere ^ ^^THER FROM PITTSBURGir IS A LAUGHING SENSATION U MaachestM, N. H.) See ALF T. WILTONI the amount usually paid debutant* alngere. ;'A Met contract for a year la a fcood thing with the five-year op- tional angle aa Ita most Important ^(•ature, but that she Waa entrust- ed with such an important role in a revival as widely presa agented ■as the "Hoffman" thing Indicates that.'Oatti-Casaxsa expects some- thing of her. CBiUlTADQVA IN (30 (Continued trom page 1) .the best obtainable, are auppoaedly ;* being sappUed by Harrlsob and t Harshbarger of Chicago. In reality. . however, they come through the Redpatb ofllees. In addlUon, all the You mtt JtHtgad by the company you're in. Sua WUIiamaem at the Shubert. New Yerib in the Greenwich Village Follie«« playa many, parts well In this oiaaiar shew. Bud smokes I A Y •ia«r% AH I a Y amoker* are dis- SMkinaUna. Vouni always find I a V in a eonnoisaur'a company— Judge them accordingly. ijiyaGARS -ifOf, BaO# WOltLDt FAVORITBa Mi B EVitW T B ATSNVB. NVW XOmS ■Ma Thaetre DOROTHY ANTEU urges yo« to aeo her line of birthday cards. .Mias AntdU a former artist, for Iho paat low years an invalidt wiH have for aale a handsome coU leetlon of novelty oards. Also silk hoe*. Help her help hersoif. Visit IMT at 600 West lOOth Street, Now York. local help of the Redpath office la enlisted In trying to make the series, a success. It Is. perhaps, the first time a lyceum or Chautauaua baa been tried on a town of this slse. The fact that it Is under another name and that this particular series en- lists some of the wbrld's greatest artists may get it by. Press agents brought in from the outside are also being used. - If the project geta over the busi- ness men of the uptown section, who. have lent their support, will then bo ready for the next event, which will undoubtedly be a regular Chautauqua or lyceum and not called as la the present one by a fancy Utle. UUJAN OSH'S $1,500 (Coifiinued from page I) plaint, he had arranged for the mar- keting of the serial biography in McCall'a Magaslne after having written It. When Charles H. Dtaell, Jr, the Glsh manager and president of Inspiration Pictures.' heard of it, he declared the publicity not want- ed. Levlnson alleges that his work In writing the blogrraphy, to have been signed by the mother of the Gish girls. Is worth the amount named in the suit. A recent volume lately on the book market la of the Talmadge sisters, reputed to have been writ- ten by their mother. M INERS MAKE UP Eft, Henry C Miner, Inc. VAUDE DIVIDENDS (Continued from page 2) (Company has declared a dividend of 7 percent. Halls which run sub- sidiary to the V. T. C. are, accord- ing to a report issued by Charles Gulliver, doing well. The Brighton and I^eeds Hippodromes, originally Barrasford houses, declared a 7^ percent dividend for the year ending July SI. The shareholders are now only faced with an Indebtedness of $56,000. Southampton Hippodrome and- the - Bescombe Hippodrome (South of England Ilippodrolnes, titd.) show a dividend of 10 percent for the year ending May 24. These houses have now redeemed all their mortgages and there are no charges. Southend Hippodrome registers a dividend of 10 percent, the mortgage being reduced to $2S,000, and the Liverpool Hippodrome mortgage bas been reduced to $60,000, w(th the directors advocating a dividend of five percent. With no existing mortgages . the Portsmouth Hippodrome will pay a dividend of 10 percent. Newcastle Hippodrome, with no charges against the company, recommends 20 per-, cent, while the Alhambra, Paris, has declared a dividend of ISVi percent. The Sheffield Hippodrome has also declared 10 percont. FILM REVIEWS (Continued from Page 26) oomer, who la handsome enough and show* promise as an actor. Violet Meraerau returns to the screen after some years as the poor girl, and Burr Mcintosh and J. Barney Sherry are Included la th# balance of the strong cast. The film baa been lavishly set and the scenes on board a tranaatlantlo Une and at a big country club danc» are particularly expensive looking. If any fault Is to be found It is the almost total abaeaeo of comle roIleC. TURNED UP WinUm Stelner Prodnctkni, ftstorlBs ChariM Hntchinaoa. DMHbut«4 br Har- rlcui* Film Corv. Rasnloc time, U aMoa. R«in«w«d at houWm Htm Tocfc. OoC S8. BaU at dosbla MIL Bruoa Pomroj Charles Hutcblnaon Bcttr Browne Uary Batb Ullford Paul Onmore Ciaslora Kaet John Cralgbtaa.-.«.« Ottv Dadertr Lola' .........BaUr Mornaay Jo* Turner Cbarlea Cnia Tom Martla ....Cbarlea Force Bd Caftcr ..•...••...•.••••••. .Leroj Ifaaoa ■*! ^ JOS. E. HOWARD Features MARTHA LAWRENCE m "ETCHINGS FROM LIFE'^> ^^■■'. iN VAUDEVILLE Another "thrllllngly melodramatic" attempt with too' many thrills and too much hokum dramatics to allow for credulity or realism. However, the picture luts much to recommend it, thanks to the excellent, cast and the good w<vto of Charles'Hutchin- son, who aoems to be one of the few athletic artists who can act. Hutchinson aa Bruco Pomroy, a bank oashler, has for an employer and rival Paul Ollmore (Crauford Kent). Kent Is using the bank as a clearing house for stolen bonds. Pomroy and OUmore were class- mates. Both love Betty Browne (Mary Beth Mllford). Hutchinson frames Pomroy through Joe Turner (Charles Cruz), the teller. He steals is.000 from PomroKls money. The shortage la reported and Gllmore offers to cover It up with his own money. Pomroy refuses. Tba di- rectors are notlfled and vote with Gllmore to arrest Pomroy. He eludes the police, and after a "chase" jumps off, a roof into the office of the gang 'of bond thieves who are working with Gllmore. The master mind of the crooks bides Pomroy and then proposes he join the gang. He appears to do so, and remains at their headquarters, a suburban mansion. He places a dummy in his l>ed and escapes to .warn Betty of Gllmore. The rob- bery Is succeflsful, Pomroy making a giant swing over and back to the office building to be robbed. The picture ends In a wild battle in' and around an abandoned mill where the gang congregate, with Pomroy and Gllmore tumbling over a precipice In their struggle. The denouement develops that Pomroy is working with a couple of Depart- ment of Justice detectives after men higher up In the bond thefts. The direction is the weakest part of the picture and Is responsible for the unconvincing portions. The tech- nical errors are many and glaring. The "surprise" expected when Pom- roy is revealed aa working with the detectives doesn't materialise, due to faulty continuity, and several other portions are equally as vague. This makes for a very ordinary picture, with the usual strained attempts to Inject thrills for whleb the story ha^ been sasriflced. The work of the cast is splendid but powerless against the faults of tho director and the spotty continuity. 0««. Napoleon and Josephine Forelga-mad* prodoctlon. No director or plajrera named. Shown at tba Btanler N. T., Oct. as. Raonlns time. «S This Is another of those "French Revolution pictures," aa the exhib- itors are terming all of the eostume stuff. Thl« one la almply a straight- forward plcturisatiOB of the rise anj fan of the Corslcan who t>ecame the Emperor of France. The Em- press Josep]^lne and later the Em- press Marie-Louise are the two lead- ing characters, together with that of Napolten. There possibly is an audience for thia type of plotura. but it seema that they would t>e rather hard to And among the aver- age run of picture fana that attend the cheaper priced admission bouses. Yet there is nothing about this pic- ture that would make it worthy t^ play any of the better houses. History is the baae of the story. It takes Napoleon through to Mos- cow and later Waterloo. The battle "Bcenas in the tatter event hre only fair. The film Is cheaply ^rodaeed and in apota the tinting Is deddediy bad. Fni. THE LOST TRIBE TMitrlbnted by Arwon Film Corv. Am edacatlonal feature credited to Capt. Frank Hurler. Bbowlns at Loew'e New Tork aa half the bill, Oct. 24. Rnnnlng time, 00 mlns. An Interesting edqcatlotaal pro- grram addition that might enhance Its value with deletion. The flim Is dedicated to Sir Erneat Shackletdn by Capt. Frank Hurlef and la the depiction of the latter's exploration of remote regions In New Guinea. The picture is given novelty through the invading party having niea 1 Imported two sea planes from whli many "shots" have been obtain* Otherwise the action does not vlate from others of the type I abowtag the native dancea, madal living ajid "types." The fllm claima to reveal the dij covery of one of the Lost Tribes Israel and asserts that It is flrst time white men have inv this New Guinea sector. The titling la out of proportion! the photography in referring threatening "head hunters" and natives working themselves Int frensy, as throughout the action subjects appear extremely calm docile. The danger Is not appar4i^ on the screen and might Just aa weQ have been eliminated from tbi wording, for under the circum. stancea It fails to ring true. However, the showing of stuffe4 skulls and other somewhat gruesome detaila attain Interest, while ths aeroplanes comprise a new twlsl aUKESPEARE wrote for high-brows. I, JAMEft MADISON, write for that portion of the vaudeville-Boing pubUe known aa "hoke-browa" — folks with mentality, I grant you, but who check it at the box office, aa th«ii> purpose in coming to a vaudeville theatre ia ta bo anter talnod without putttng too muoh strain on their eerebettum. I aiao r e V i a e musical comediea and revuoo, adding comedy aituations and putting vaudeville apeod into tliom. Addresa me until further notice at Hotel Granada, Sutter Mid Hyde Stroata, San Franoiaeo. If Ebie Wheeler formerly vaudovilio •rtlat, will con*< NMMloata with thm undersigned, H will be to her advantage. Address, Box H. K. F. i| VAHIETY, NEW YORK ^^ STAGE DANCING Taught by America's Greatest 3 Months' Course, $50 JACK BLUE 281 W. 51it St.. W. Y. 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