Variety (December 1924)

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■ *'^ .TTAJia, nv^ i*. ~W' -. ,-Tn-a Fyt"^ VAftnrr EDITORIAL , > » ■ W'edneadqrt )bc)eemb«r ^4, 1924 1 Trmd* Mark R«BUtara« PabllBhed Weekly by VABICTT. Io«. Sim* BIlTcrman. Prcildent in W«at 4(1 b Btrmt New Tork Clti SUBSCRIPTION: Annual »1 for«l«n ■••*• ■Incle CaptM '• Canta Vol. LXXVII IM No. » NEWS OF THE DAILIES Pedro de Cordoba has left the niovJes for Equity Players (Actors Theatre). The engagement of Elizabeth Pat- terson to Rupert Uughea has been announced. Diana Miller, screen actreBS, and George Melford, picture director, ad- mit they are engaged, but won't tell When ihey're going to get married. The American girl is glorified at the new MouUne Rouge In'Paris. Tliere are seven "Follies" girls and 18 Hdffman girls In th* cast. The Columbia Varsity Player* will 1»roadcaat "Half Moon Inn" over "WJZ, and from there make a tour •f the large cities east and south. Franlc Conroy and Helen Robbing Conroy will try a secend* marriage. They were divorced two years ago. Miss Conroy la In the cast of "The Second Mrs. Tanaueray." Betty Winslow of "Mme. Pompa- dour" la engagfed ta Carl E. Moore of Cleveland. Mr. Moore is politl- eally prominent. T^y will be mar- ried Dm. »9. Peggy Hopkins.Joyce's limousine Is being held in the Brewster Com- pany garage in Long Island City because she didn't pay a rental bill •f $23<.22. "'. It cost James Rennle, husband of ttorothy GIsh, $12,900 tor forvetttns to list Jewelry the Olsh CamHy bought In Italy. Renaie la with "The Beat People." , CUda Gray was presented the key -f^f at. Louis by Mayor Kiel after a parade of 60 aufos and seren bands. Miss Gray broke the house record at . a local theatre, it being nacsaaary to •All the police. "^.^■iV)^*;. .■*,'■ ,— — Mail :a, ^ Alex. H. Pincus, part owner of the ^Imperial theatre and the Hotel Marie Antoinette, New Tork. must ;>l>ay Mrs. Pincus 115,009 a year all- ' mony. He was convicted of petting Audrey Maple, an actress, living in one of his apartments. Mrs. Pincus was granted a decree of divorce. 5 Frank Glllmore, executive secre- ..' tary of the Actors' ^uity Associa- tion, accepted the chairmanship of the actors' committee of the cam- paign for the completion of the ■ Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Walter Damroach was appointed rhairman of the Musicians' Commit- tee. RIGHT OFF THE DESK By NELUE REVELL MY CHRISTMAS WISHES t If I fftt the withhone this ThMrsday and all of my vnihet come true. You'll all have a tconderful Yuletide and spend it with whom you want to; You'll 7iat'« a full route for the season, he happy andiftne in the port;. Short jumps, good hotels, life and laughter, and the critics u>ai all have a heart. * Ben and Molly will regain their eyesight; Molly's sketch will for years yet make good; Dorothea Antel, who lies five years helpless, will walk like she always could; Mary Moore will dance every number at the next Actors' EQuity BaU; Emma Francis forget she was injured and don the grease paint ere fall. If I get the wishbone this Thursday and all of my wishes come true. Your loved ones will never neglect you; you'll never have oaute to he blue; Aching hearts will find peace and comfort, broken homes will be mended like new. Wounded soldiers will not find us ingrates, forever with tear we'll be through. That brave little girl out In Broadmoor, whose halo's a lustrous hue, WiU be back in her home next Xmas — for no greater joy could I sue; Kate and Sammy now in deep waters, sotn will stand in the wings for their cue. If I get the wishbone this Thursday and all of my wishes come true. Our friends who are "curing" in health camps, some of whom fcave helped many of you. Will come back to us well and happy, if half of my prayers come true; Old grudges tciped out and forgiven; your enemies all forgive you. If I get the wishJ>one this Thursday and all of my wishes come true. "Peace on earth, good wili to menC I^there were as much forgiving at this season as there is giving, there wbuld be no need of such things as peace treaties. Many of us are unable to give m«ch in the way of material things. For some it will be an effort to scrape together even enough to f>uy a doll for little Goldencurls and a horn and a drum for Junior. But there is something even more precious than gold and rubles that all of us, high and low, rich and poor, can and should civ*. It is love for our fellowmen. If we give of it wholeheartedly and generousl]^ our Christmas la bound to b« happy. But you and only you, when Christmas momlnc dawas, can know if you are eqtltled to the cheery greeting. "Merry Christmas!" If you havj done your dut;^ to'ward your companions on this Toyage through life, nothing can happen to spoil ^he day for you. This duty doma't include subscribing begrudglngly for a gift to the boss or to sdnk* one you don't like for lack of character to say 'no," or sending tor mer- cenary reasons expensive gifts you can't afford to people who don't need them. When you do that you viola.te the Christmas teehng. ^..v rw. w- INSIDE STUFF '.r\ ON LBOIT George M. Cohan may return to producing Just to set even with Walti^ Moore. Cohan got a report last week on the performance given by Mo«c# •■ part of the cast in tb« ISth annlTeraary plajr of the City Attalatta Ctnh, at the Blltmore. In his memoirs, written (or "Liberty," Cohan stated that Moore was reapoaslble to a great extent tor his being In show business, as Moore brought Cohan and Sam H. Harris together. Now Cohan wants to put Moore In show business as an actor, but only on the condition that Moore will let Cohan get the printiqfer order for th* production. On the quiet the intormatlon from the City ▲. C. was to the effect that Isaac and Dave Franklin and Al Herman, wers the real actors In ths show, but no mention was made of Moora Cohan, however, insists that his scouts reported Moore was all "there." One of Broadway's flops remained a week longer than Intended. On the Saturday it was supposed to stop, the box office telephoned Jo* Leblaas's cut rate office, calling back the tickets, and although that order was oountermanded, this was the conversation: "What's the ideaT" asked the nyin in the bargain ticket office. '• "Why, we get a new show, kid.' "Whenr' - » "It's supposed to open next Thursday." . ' "Teh? v. j "Well, we'll be around Friday." •■ • - .. r t The new show really opened on Monday, but the cut rate agency started handling tickets for U the very next day. '■ Anna Nlchola was heralded on the front pages last week for the kindly and generous act of aiding Helen Vineskl, a 17-year-old Hungarian girl who was arrested (or abandoning her Infant. The girl was married to her sweetheart the day following, being released under $1,000 ball furnished by Miss Nichols. The authoress-producer also arranged to give the glr) $26 weekly for a year. The couple explained they were too poor to marrr» each supporting a family and the charge was dropped by the court. Miss Nichols did not know the girl. She read ths abandonment story in thS papers, then telephony M. L. Malevinsky, her attorney, instructing him to take care of the case. But i: there is one man or w«ma4 with whom you have Quarreled and to whom you do not speak and you do not make an effort to patch up the difference, then you have no right to enjoy a really Merry Christmas. How easy it would be to send a wfre of greeting to Mr. Smith or Miss Jones, tellin„' them you really do wish theih a happy day. Probably they would like to do the same, but it is human nature to wait for the other person to make the first move. And It shows a really big soul when one takes the Initial step towari. a reconciliation. When Tom Wilkes was in Columbus. O., last week, he emphasised hit intentions of Standing pat with the "Topsy and Eva" show personnel tat the Broadway premiers. The show closed Wednesday In Coluinbus, gola^ direct to New York. Wlikes will open the new Ram)>«au ahow, "Galley of Disconent," la i<ow York, Jan. 12, taking Rex Cherryman, a eoast product and now th* Juvenile lead In the "Topsy" show, for the Rambsau production. Differences between the Duncan Sisters, ths stars of "Topsy," and Wilkes over the (ormer's refusal to play a ratnm visit to Callfont|» following the Chicago engagement, have not bsea (ully adjusted. Wilkes presents "Topsy and Bra" at ths Harris, Kew York, individually, Sam Harris has sold out his Interest. John J. Oarrity, ths Bhuberts' general wsstsm manager, has bsan meantime placed In charge of the Duncan Sisters' music publlshlsc bouse in Chicago. ▲ report on Broadway alss has it that the slstiip have offered Garrity a big salary tender to rstaln htm as general man* agcr o( their personal oontracts. Garrlty*s appearance last week la Indlsnapolls added, furthsr sigalflcance to this rsftort. With Wilkes holding a lease on the Harris theatre, it now means hs and Harris are no longer associated in a boslnsss way, but perfectly friendly. Indictments for assault in the sec- ond degree, kidnapping and con- .spiracy against Harry Thaw were dismissed by Judge Mclntyre in General Sessions Wednesday upon the recommendation of Assistant District Attorney Pecora, following a conference between Pecora, Dis- trict Attorney Banton and the Thaw family of Pittsburgh. The $660,000 assault suit brought against Thaw by Frederick Gump, Jr., of Kansas City, was settled out of court. Mrs. Sidonte Steele was awarded an interlocutory decree of divorce from John Steele, tenor, by Justice Taylor in the Supreme Court at White Plains, N. Y.. Friday. The decree will become final In three months. An agreement has been made whereby Steele will pay his former wife flSO weekly alimony and she will have the custody of their three-year-old son. You decorate 9our home with Christmas bells as a symbol of peace. But peihaps you have Just passed some one on the street with whom ycu are not at peace. If you have done that, all the symbols In the world will be empty and meaningless for you. Instead of being like the man who said nobody liked him and he liked nobody, most of us want all those we meet to like us. And then we reserve the right to dislike anyone we choose. Kverything we get. we must pay for; and if we want everyone to think of us affectionately on Christmas Day, the price we must pay is to reciprocate their love. . <■ . Word has Just reached New York of the death of Jack Raynes, ths musical conductor, while a passenger on the steamer "Mishima Mara."- en route to Sydney, Australia, from Hong-Kong on Sept. t, 1924. HO was buned at sea. Raynes spent a great many years In the Orient, and Is credited with having givsn Shanghai its introduction to Jass music by pUylng "I Want to Be Way Down in Dixie" thsrs years ago. He want to the Far E^aat as the musical conductor for the Ferris-Hartman Oot Prior to'that he had beer In this country as musical conductor for a nnm^ ber of rood musical comedy comiianies. Hs was for three years wltk "Peggy Fro n Parla" when It was under the management of Madlsoa Corey. UK wife and a small son In Shanghai suTTlve blm. Maybe Horace Llverlght, the book publisher. Is a smart sho^ mon. His first venture In producing b^ a success, but hs btsppsd out as a managsr Another thought. Have you selected thf neediest family in your nelgh-^ borhood and divided your holiday cheer with them? Perhaps if you cutViS™^_f.**^/",*,'"„^f_fj*'.T-°'^"'^'..\*'°"*'*' holding on to his highly profit* down a bit on that expensive, imported tablecloth you mean to buy for ~ ' ~ * " ..^ — . - Aunt Emma, who doesn't need U and will lock it away In ths linen chest anyway—it would not be a great strain on you to provide the kiddies of that family with new shoes for Christmas. And then you would be on ths right track of what the day really means. Christmas is not Just^ giving. Christmas is unselfish love. Mrs. Cora C. Wilkenning, who .; claims she "discovered" Mary Plck- ■ (ord, filed a pcition of bankruptcy in Brooklyn, N. Y., giving her liabllitleg at $36,899 and assets as $20,000, for which amount she is suing the city. She alleges that a taxlcab in which she was riding ran into a depression ' In the pavement and caused a per- - manent injury. Included in the lia- , bllitles la an Item of $498, the alleged i court coats of a breach of contract J suit Mrs. Wilkenning brought 1 against Gladys Mary Moore (Mary i Fickford) Wniette iCershaw will sue David ■ Sturgts, her poet husband of a year, i (or divorce. On March 29, last, in ' ber room at the Gotham Hotel, he ^ told her that it was humiliating to {.him wh<>n she footed the bills, so be > asksd that she turn her money over ito him. This she refused to do, she I dsclarea, and be proceeded to beat 4 her. During the tussle the telephone ) reesiver fell off the hook, and her I screams were heard at the desk' w4o*nstalrs. The manager came i^ An unmarried mother was In trouble in a Kew York police court. Unable to support her child, she had left It on an asylum doorstep. And then abe bad been apprehended and the outlook for her Christmas seemed a gloomy ona Charity organisations stood by. Welfare societies looked on. Pbilanthro;jlcal institutes viewed the little drama unmoved. None lifted a tiand to help this unfortunate girl. And then Ann Nichols, who has always been of, by and for the theatrical profession, stepped in. gave ball for the girl, arranged for her marriage to the father of the baby, and got the latter a Job so that he could support his family. It was the supposedly hard-hearted and selfish theatre that did this, not one of the organisations whose purpose tor being is to help the unfor- tunate. I think George Ade was right when he said, 'If you want to uplift, you have to get underneath." Al a recent meeting to raise funds for the orphans of the Near Kast, it was announced that l>oth EMdle Cantor and Julius Tannen had been raised in orphan asylums. And Pat Catey is another. Here are the three best arguments—and about the only ones—I have ever heard against keeping the family together. If orphan asylums turn out those kind of men, the next family 1 hare goes to one. ' able interest. Llverlght teamed with Lawrenes Schwab and Frank dell In producing "The Firebrand." Schwab aad Mandell are contlnnlaf as a production firm, Llverlght declaring himself out when he found hs had no voice In direction or staging. That was specified In tho partnership agreement, because of the publisher's lack of stageomft knowledge. The publisher later said be went in shew business to have fun. but the other partners couldn't see it that way. Xjiveright is understood planning production on his own. Guthrie McCllntlc's production of "Mrs. Partridge Presents," which is highly regarded out of town, came as an aocldent. Just a few wsOks ago he had no intention of producing anything this season but "Chat- tels" when a frteqd in a Turkish bath mentloasd the "Partridge" pises. McCUnUc secured It. placed BUnche Bates In ths title role and opsaed in Washington., So well did the piece go over that from an ItOO Sunday opening the paos Jumped to $1,500 dn Monday, remarkable for the week before Christmas. , It Is reported that Dr. Irving Koll, whose wife is the author of "hUir of the Streets," In Chicago, is heavily Interested in the Hnancing of tbO play, which Is being produced by Lest*r Bryant and Ed Well. Mrs. Koll wa3 formerly the wife of Weil. Don't forget to send a Xmas greeting to Dorothea Antel, 600 West 186th street. New York City, and Kate Ellnore at the Methodist Hospital, Indi- anapolis, as well as to our friends In Saranac and Colorado, and other health campa. It will make your Xmas happier and also theirs. I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be. I'd like to give you back the joy that you have given me Yet that were wishing you a need I hope will never be. -I'm wishing at this Christmas Time that I could but repay A portion of the gladness that you've strewn along my way; Could I hsve but ens wish tKis year, this only would it be, I'd like to be of ths sort of friend thst you have bean to me. f ". ♦ ''•' . —Bg Permission Of Edgat tf% An author who has contributed to a number of music shows was denied a percentage royalty arrangement by one of the big show produesrs. Instead it was agreed the writer receive a flat sum of $600 weakly. After the show opened all of the author's material save a few line's waO tossed out, but the weekly royalty will continue for the life of the attrao* tion. The same author was kidded about Journeying to Palm Beach last winter and not "getting a contract for a proposed revue. However, it wa* a lucky trip, he having won $5,000 at Uradley's. G^evleve Tobin going Into vaudeville recalls she gave up a BelssoO role to enter "Dear Sir." In whioh she was featured and in which shO also received a salary of more than $1,000 weekly, which excited much Broadway comment. "Dear Sir" lasted but four weeks and a fe* days. M'ss TobIn then found that the play which D. B. had saved tat her wars Indefinitely postponed. Alfred ti. Sebel, who has placed'a new fclay, "Damon and Pythias, TnO..* with A. H. Woods (or winter prbduetlon, la a New York boy. BO attended DeW^itt Clloton High Schotol and was graduated from New Torlt College as an electrical engineer. When la school he took an astJvO dnuadtk jrfrbdix