Variety (May 1925)

Wednesday. May 6. 1925 VAUDEVILLE VARIETY INDEPENDENTS MAY ORGANIZE FOR REGULAR TIME AND MONEY RUGOLES* SETUBN Charles Uugglea will retire from "White Collars" at the Cort In two weeks to return to vaudeville. Ruggles will revive the same act he played for a week prior to Join- ing the legit attraction but with an entire new cast. fieed Protection to Hold Acts anchNeed Better Ones —Route Necessary and Uniform Salary t<%Bene- fit Performers and Bookers Alike With current preparations ma- terializing there will be more weeks 'of consecutive bookings in the inde- pendently booked small timers ' ttext season than ever before. Six bookers ^landling the bulk of In- dependent business out of New York are planning to hold conclave dur- ing the summer to discuss an inter- change schedule that would benefit the performers and bookers if ratl- fled. The arrangement would make for continuous work at good salary for acts of merit available for inde- pendent time and would also serve as protection agralnst having standard circuits take good material after a few weeks of independent time. The acta would know where they were at for at least a stipulated r.umber of weeks at the opening of the season and could be seen by the standard circuit bookers while play- ing around Instead of going In un- der the handicap of the usual "show" performance for little more than expense money. The Inter- change arrangement ^ between bookers will call for a uniform salary and also make for shorter jumps. A similar plan had b^en partially worked out last sumniBr when an " attempt was made to consolidate all independent bookers In New Vork Into an organization but this Idea fell by the waysid*. With most of the bookers scouting the Idea of organization several at least are in- * terested In the current plan which will be attempted when the new sea- son ushers In. '' nx AM) nrjuEED Irene Borry has left the Belvedere Sanitarium, Los Angeles, recovered, and l8 at the Leighton Hotel, same city. (Jeraldine Markham ("Stepping Stones") recovering from effects of injdrifts received in auto accident, Chk>a^o; confined to St. Luke'a hom>^l. lirm: Madge Nillls, wife of Ar- th*- asiilHs (Handers and Nillls) sertoJlsly ill in Fifth Avenue Hos- pital. Doris Riley ("My Girl") In autoi-; mo^iif accident. New Rochelle, N.' T.,|A6rll 28, removed to hospital In th« ,«lty. ^bxtma Trentini, who callapsed at the- ^lace. New York, last week, wh|!l^ singing. Is home quite ill with ■clfti(A. ^ward Lewis, formerly manager 8l4 Street. New York, now In the K.^A^ foreign departipent, Jll with Inmivnza. darle and Lucille have been com- pelled to cancel all future bookings pei|^diRg the recovery of Miss Lucille frotn an attack of rhuematlcs which ■wi$ |teep her eonflned to her nome forTseveral weeks. AtMn Menken. featured In "Seventh Heaven," recently oper- ate upon for appendicitis, rejoined th^ company this week. Arthur F. Driscoll (O'Brien, Male- vinspky & Driscoll) is home with a cafe of tonsllitls. ^ I IHOUSES OPENING MISS RASGH'S HEW BALLET Albertlna Rasch has produced a new ballet, "The Gypsy Mas- queraders," for the Keith-Albee Circuit. This will mark .her third production for the big time this season, the others being the "Pas- telle Ballet" and "Albertlna Rasch Girls." MIXED SHOWS OH BOWERT The Royal (formerly Miner's Bowery), has been taken over by .Feldman A Shapiro, the latter as- suming tenancy June 1 and with the current policy of Italian stock dls- laced by English and Jewish vaude- ville. TtM Strand, jfreehold, N. J., has swjtcheil its bookings from Fally Mirkus to Jack Linder. It plays sir act Friday* and Saturdays. The United, Freehold, N. J., has added midweek vaudeville in addi- tion to the Saturday shows and is now playing six acts on Wednes- days and Saturdays, booked through the Dow Agency, New York. The Arverne, Arvernp, N. Y.. will play four acts with picture Fridays ^d Saturdays beginning this week. i HOUSES CLOSING JKeith's, 'Syracuse, closes next tioek. Keith's, Lowell, Mass.. closes May 30. Palace. Manchester, closes week of May 25. * If you don't advertise in VARIETY don't advertiae Shea Buys Two in Ashtabula Ashtabula. O., May 6. M. A. Shea, of Feiber & Shea, of New York, has taken over for his own account, the full working in- terest of the local picture theatres. Shea formerly held a 25 per cent in- terest in the houses. IH AHD OUT Roscoe Ails and Co. were forced to leave the bill at the 81st Street Theatre last Thursday evening, when Kate Pullman sprained her ankle. Trentini left the bill at the Palace, New York, Thursday with Fritzi Scheff going on for the matin%e and the balance of the week. The operatic singer was suffering with throat trouble. HERBERT TRIBIITE (Continued from page 1) Carlton which will be the remoto control source of the^entertalnment. The Ritz entertainment will be strictly a private performance, with but a few privileged people In at- tendance, Silvio Hein. secretary of the American Society, has the me- morial in charge. Among others who will broadcast will tc Ann FItzlu, Alice Nielson, Fritzl Scheff, Eugene Cowles, Ru- dolf Frlml, Vlollnskl and Nahan Franko. These include artists who have been irrevocably opposed to radio, but acceding In honor of the great composer. It will require spe- cial dispensation from the Kelth- Albee ofllclals In some Instances. Augustus Thomas will officiate as master of ceremonies with Gene Buck, associate. Hilliam Closes Revue B. C. HilMam's vaudeville revue, Dears and Ideas," which had been playing independent dates In the middle west closed last week. The piece was a girly flash featuring Betty Oallendar. It wag produced out of New York. WHITEMAN'S CONCERTS (Continued from pa«e 1) be Iconoclastic In shattering: all fetishes that have been erected in the music world which compares everything to European standards Just as many years ago the medical world went by the Viennese medicos and the architects by the Latin school whereas today American medical progress and architecture Is the standard of the world. To prove there Is a typical Amer- ican school of music, the revolu- tionary concerta by Whlteraan and his concert orchestra, which will be augmented to II next season, will offer a Negro opera by George Gershwin; a typically American bal- let; a "Family Ford" musical work by Deems Taylor (n ho has also been commissioned to contribute to the Metropolitan opera house and New York Symphony Society repertoire); and Leo Sowerby's "Monotony," a rbapsodle in Indigo > music. For these concerts, Whiteman will be assisted by popular artists on - the order of Blossom Seeley and Bennle Fields for the Negro Inter- pretati<vu. Belle Baker, Jane Oreen, et at. ;■■* \./ • '■i^.'l' CHARLIE CHAP LI u m \jhe gold Riish Release Date -August 16* IINITED ARTISTS CORPORATION Mary PickforS Charges Chaplin Douglas \fairbanjis II Hiram Abrams. President. D.W.Griffith Joseph M Sehenck. ChMtrman. Board of Directors