Variety (June 1925)

' VARIETY'S LONDON OFFICE t a St. Martin's Place, Trafalgar Square (HIES IN US. OF OYER mooo FROM 1925 CENSUS ESTIMATES FOREIGN CABLE ADDRESS, VARIETY, LONDON .209e-31M Recent Wednesday, JivM 3, IMS !l'i . V«ri«ty pUreflMt , ! ^, Washington, Ji^iM 9. . Th« BuVeau of *tU^ Censiaa' Kas aoade public its MiUmated Osures on tb« population of dtlea wboae tn- habitants number In exceoa of 100.000. Althougb comparative data la not stven. It Is stated by bffl- clals of the burieau tbait the Mtl- mated flgures disclose a remarkable growth Ih Papulation. . New York (Greater) City i>OW UaV a population of «.103,'384. Ifanhat^air borough Is given as In excess of ^,267,000 with Brooklyn mnnJng close to this.flerure with over ^- S35.0QO. AJl the New Jorlt estimates, however, are tentative pending state census figures. This Is also true of Rhpde Island ^ni Massachusetts. Oblcago nftw. Is close t,o 8.000,000, the exact Sgw^e being 2.»9B,2a». while PWladelphlA registers. 1,97«,- S«4. lAss than 16.000 separate.Bal- timore aij4 Boston, with the first ' named totaling 796,206 and the lat- ter 783,1 je. Bt. Louis exceeds both Baltimore and Boston, the middle west city h&vtog 821,648, and Cleve- land tops aU of these wUh 936,i86. Ban Francisco is given as 667,630, with Oaklaiid. 5«st across the bay, having 263i700; New Orleans with Its 414,498 is topped tDf Newark, H. J., wiJh 463,618. Washington' has' • taxAreaised' fk-om 460,000 to to'eettauOvd popnUtton of 497,908. " lx« Angel**, Akron. Atlanta. Bridgeport. Detroit. Norfolk. Okla- homa City. Seattle and Waterbury ' have been omitted pending the ^- tabUshment of more satisfactory flguree. The following table by states sets forth the estUnated poi^blctlon as compiled by the buteau: Alabama , , v Birmingham ,,;«Vt**.'** ^'^'^^^ California ' ;; ' ^ Oakland .'.'...„...*v*i*- ^W.'*' Ban Diego ,..;.^,...,,.• IW^.Mt San Fran<B|M|p..,.^e«..^... WHWf coiuifcticitt ,,', ,:,, ;,.^,, ..: Hartford ..,)...f..< \W^i9T N^^ £lav«n ....'.,.....,^. 178.927 Colerade . , ^.', „., ,., Denver .y»^..»4«e,e.»... > tt , t ll Delaware ..^ ,^ Wilmington ...<(•-.'••.• e^e. 1SS,M9 Distriet of Co!uml)i|i. Washington .........^e^ 497.908 . Florida i >>o Jacksonyllle 4<<.ee*>««*<» 104,898 Ckorgia ',i x*/ .i^ *»..*.ri j« . AUaatft *.«.<• *.e..ee*•'«^ S8S.487 Illinois Chicago S.996.289 Indiana ^ ' Indianapolis tM»S19 Iowa • - • '^■■' Des Moines - ^4»,1S8 Kansas Kansas City u;... 188,748 Kentucky Louisville ;.... 859.269 LouisisMi New Orleans 414,493 Maryland ' Baltimore 'i.'.e.W.>;•«.... 798.298 MassaeKusetto Boston 788.188 Cambridge ..«•*•*«»*•••• 112.444 Fan River ^......... 181,168 Liowell ....... ^.. ...«••..•» • . 118.421 laynn ••.....'.f•.«•.«.•..« 1^,704 New Bedford .....eeer.e 186.182 BomervUle ...,.•••<•«•«•• 1(12.073 Bprlngfleld .....,,.p.^.... 162.678 Wor.38ter ...,,,.'.....,.'...; 198.883 Micliiflan Grand Rapids .......,v> 1^.898 Minnesota Dulutb x^.^t, 110.502 Minneapolis 4:^6,436 St. Paul .*...., 248,001 Missouri Kansas City «... 887.481 St. Louis 821.643 Nebraska d. , Omaha .....l.^........^' 211.868 New Jersey ••'"■ ' "' ' Oalnden .....i...;<■;.:... 12t.842 Jersey City .....-.'i...>'i 818.380 Newark 468.618 Paterson ......ii..'..'.V». 141,896 Trenton ,\:',».,,'.,',.",.,. 183,0t8 Ms^ York . ., , '^jsunai^ *ff .J •^ *.'j * f*.* y * * *. T4ew XorK •••.*•*•....«. Manhattan Bo^o. ,.'... Bronx Boro. Brooklyn Boro. Queens Boro. Richmond Boro. ...... Rochester 'Schenectady .Syracuse r..i»i...ia.>»*. ; <1|tieai-.....'.^.tiVtvii..... 7onk4s:B'i .>. .vi.; .^-T • \. • •. Ohio •'^'. ••; ■•• ;^v: '''-'i Canton a •'.• ^'« •*..•.. .^.*t.. < Cincliinati' .i..^•....'•...' i. I •I - » •e • • •••e I » e • »e ««eeeee« Columbus Dayton- ., 7\ Ol^OO • •• eee eeeee«e*e*f,e ; ■ - .« ( • 1 • I ;■ '*' ToungBtown \mj» • t a • •.r.\yf, Oklahoma '' M* ',., Oregon ..^. i. c/1" '. r • ■ r • Por^a^. . .,...{>•.«.. f.«e*>) Pennsyjyania , jj j.V'j Phlla4elphia .^,k v^. Pittsburgh.!.-.;. .f <«r . «,<>.»'«% Jteaolng ••••«.£.t...^... Scranton Rhode Island ProvidenQe Tennessee ' ri.. «...<.,e- JnOIViPniS ••••■«e*«a*ee«e Nashville .... .••.•■••* Tojcaa -i.fj v J-MLU|La ••••••e«ik«f4ir***«* En Paso Fort Worth Houston Ban Antonio Utah Bait Lake City Virginia Norfolk ;....;.... |li(;hmond ...«... r.. |>«. «••■?.. WiashTrigton. ' ^pokkrte' -.;•;•.; Tacoma . Wisconsin jKlIKf^miOlV, ,e'e««*r»*<e< teeeseeeei 119,679 663.8^8 6,103.384 2.267,228 902.560 2,236,733 674,018 133,845 331,630 - 102,161 191.659 J0Tk>78 111.717 106.260 409,2«3 986 486 278,886 172,942 . 287,380 , W,870 ' 121,688 :; 882,383 l,»70i64 631,663 112,707 142,266 146,112 174 488 124,220 198.460 104.929 162,394 184,954 198.069 180,888 169.121 ^88,403 188,897 104,465 601,692 POUNDS SISTERS APART TeeAs' Over Hers in New Play— ' Lorna for New London 6how London, Jose 8. The Pounds Bisters have left the show at the Palladium. Toots Pounds in America will appear In a. new show by Clifford Oiey* . Lorna is off on a holiday. She will appear In a neW- production in February at the Palladfom. The Pounds Bisters are as well known to the Bngllsh stage as the Dnnoaa Bisters are over'hMW. 10 SKVUES 0£ SIIMMEE ACTS London. June 8. During the summer iaAonths and beginning Immediately, the QuUiver circuit Is booking nd revues for variety shows. Only straight musical comedies will be given time oatil the weather breaks. Cosmo Buys Reissues London. June 2. ^ Cosmopolitan Productlone has purchased the Bngllsh rights to five reissues of the Sellg-Talmadge pro- ductions. Nathan Hlrsch made the sale. There Is a Cosmopolitans Produc- tions operating In Europe with head- quarters in Paris. It is not related to nor aJniLated with Cosmopolitan Productions (H.»arst) ot New York. , The cable does not designate which concern made the buy. Russian Midgets Paris. May 21. Ratouchefs' 20 ssidgets in New 7ork during the winter, are back in Paris and are opening shortly at the Smplre. :: PJJ Thert^s Welcamm on the Mai at THE PICCADILLY ". '> FOU THEATRJCAt FOLK CABLE FOR A ROOM C*U« Addreks: PIQUDILLO, LONDON U44 iH ^ « ^tiwt < i>r[».iMfi> >i<' tjj ♦♦♦44^»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ufdENGumnr ) DAVB CHASBN starts^ his iBBC- NU^aeaaoa wtth BABIiK^ARROLL.: AN^<BOV&N hlr^ out to MAX HOLDBN. .GUS.8UN goes tp Coli- lomla. HARRY, AflHOlON goes tp MilwauHee to visit' ^xicl LEWIS ^nd CHARLIE POir. -DAVE CUASEN starts hlS SEC- OND season 'with EARL CARROLL. VAN HOVEN never had Mn CmiQ- INAL bone in his.body and ROSE to FAMK on the ideas of others. I NEW Orleans is calling me; this is n, VSRY poof add. , CHICAGO is a flne ieity, I'll soon be thete' BOB MURPHY'S farm is' calling' 'io6. Like X6 hSar froift DANNY GRAY. Al86 I^P HOL- LANDBm in DBNVIEm. Recelye letters tritweekly . ftoiui JOE TOWLE. He is doing QREAT.. J DAVE CHASEN Joins AOAIN, Siis coming sefksqn, flARL CAR- OLL. Like to hear ftrom DAW^ 8TBAMSHIP AGENCY in JiON- DON, haVe NEWS. This la Just a w^k, poorly con- structed VAN HOYEN add, and like the rest of them, very UNINTXai- ESTING. BUT THEY ARB RKAD, and that's MA* I CARS. Would like to bear from BEN BEnrER and MAURICE DIAMOND quick. FRANKIE VAN riOVEN Direction, EDW. 8. KELLER Luclen , Quitiry. i«8, v^eateat'. of Fhmch actors knd slMad 6t hto ^fa- mqus family, died here laat night fn^ heart trouble. He had stopped aenng three weeks ago because of hi^.health, but;W4(;^p««i to re- turn shortly. Recent^ he )>ad been pUylng In the. Theatre Bdouard SeVenUi. Luci^i was the father of Bacha Guitry, today the foremost drama- tist of the French stage and author of 'Debtarau.* The Comedian." "BleepinflT , Pfcrtpers" and 'The Grand Duke." Yvonne Prlntemps is also In ttoe..Guitry famUr,'thls fa- qttius laotress being {«he wife of Sac^a.......^.'* . -I-;k ■,«-'.■»,.. I ; The iSelwyns, among mothers, Ikave a^hounced the Guitsys would come to: America, Luclen, Sacha and YVonne. ..iPriotemps.. but it never happened. They did play In London; "GORHIA" AT OXFORD London, June 2.. "The Gorilla" (American), to be produced over liere by ■ WinteSQ Morris and Harry Foster (English agent), will probably ope* June 22- week at the Oxford. William Morris l)as 76 per cent. of the English showing, and Harry Foster the other 26 per cent. The producers procured ' the Bnglish rights on a royalty basis without any advance to the New York pro- ducers, these unusual terms being possible through the standing of William Morris. . Another unusual circumstance was that the Morris olBce la New York arranged for the Bngllsh rights, engaged people and started them abroad without having con- tracts signed. The contracts were drawn afterward. Poorly Played Meller Paris. June 2. 'Tfult des Amants." a melodrama, has Just been produced . at the Comedie Franoais. It Is poorly acted but splendidly mounted. Mme. Plerat. M. Luguet and M. f^raanay have the leads. The plot Ofincems an amorous consumptive woman In love with two brothers, Glacomo and Paolo. One :of them she attempts to keep from going to w4r. but after be goes and Is killed, she finds that her atfectlons rested with the other on« ariyhow. The period Is of Louis the Fif- teenth. ' «' ■ '■ ' • Too Fast for English -' London. June 2. Toney and Norman (American), opening yesterday at the Victoria Palace (vaudeville), proved a trifle too fast for the natives. They did splendidly nevertheless, and finally made a speech. "Beggar's" Successor London, June 2. Sir Alfred Butt will shortly pro- duce "Salomy Jaae" at the Queens. It will fbllow "The Beggar on Horse- back." LOPEZ ON TOUB London, June 2. Vincent Lopez and his band, on their English tour, played at Mar- gate Sunday afternoon and evening to a turnaway. Bo great was the Lopez success that two return dates were booked lyniediaftrtyu fui jiy o)'.^) v rr i{ , > ^TEj.L ME MOPE" OPEWS Mfsica^ Comedy , Has Chance at . :\ LpKtlo^'s .1Vin«i^ di^nlen • [_ ' . '.",'"'! tonf^n, ^i^ne 1 . rrelj, Mi. More." .tl:^^ ?5n?lfsh pro- duction,'..9f the Gershwin itRuslc^l comedy current at the Gaiety, New York, opened at the Winter Garden. It;is splendidly staged, with no sen- sational individual hits. The show 'ip«k8 like k traditional Winter Gar- de^ entertainment and is figured to endoy a profitable run. Oeorge Gershwin, its composer, ca|ne ovM- to see it put on, and while here will play several concerts of his Jasx. His famous "Rhapsody In Blue" will be Included in the concerts, two of which will be with the London Symphony. Bil) MorHs Picked 'Em But Couldn't Collect Xondop. fTufie 2.' fVlllian) Morris, president of the Jewish Theatrical Guild of Amer- ica, sticks to his colors. Inlaying a hunch he backed the first and sec- oh0 Derby winners because their blames were Mapna and ZioDtst Another reason he back^ Mapna was that a man n(uned Morris oWned the horse. Morris , made Kubstfintia] win- nisgs, iso much that the l>ookmaker wtilciied on hiin. ,',- Shuberts Buy In London, June 2. The Shuberts as per official an- nojuncement .have purchased 60 per cerit. interest in Grossmith & Ma- lOne,'Ltd.. also Joining the board of directors. The deal probably will g]ve the Bhnberts the production control of thk^ or four legit houses here. They anticipate an interchangeable base of t>roductlon supply on both sides of the water, believing on the Eng- lleli end they will be enabled to procure more suitable plays for Anierica with the risji over there reduced to a minimum through the productiotas «n view here. The announcement the Bhuberts have bouglkt 60 per cent, of Gros- smith a Malone and that they have been given a place on the directo- rate marks the beginning of the Shuberts' second- Invasloit of ' Eng- land > '' Borne years ago they butlt the Aldwyeh theatre and later another house, for the purpose of etttering the English production'fl«ld'. Trum- pets Were blown and their entry into British theatricals was accompanied by a great fanfare. As an opening card they sent over Sothern and Marlowe, but even these stars, Ehtg- lish favorites, couidnt put It over, as i: was sal6 then that the British public resented the attitude of tori- quest which marked their entry. Today Ollbert Miller arid A. H. Woods of the American managers own London theatres, but Miller is the sole American manager who carries on pro&uclng as a business regularly in both London and Nei(r York. Various other American mfinagers porduce their big bits to London, but Miller owns the St. James theatre there and frequently leases others. ETA, (£ CAUJEW , WDilNG ST. MARnirs. ;, , —-t-r i * - Take^ Possestioh^ June 12- '"Pottehthelle" Withdrawn After Week's Run xU rrir .« Paris, June 1.. T Zamacois' poet lea] comiBdy." iBelg* 11 neiu- PoUchinelle," has been with<4 drawn from the Theatre Porte St« Martin after a week's run. "Mme, r Sans Gene" has 'Men revived to .;1 fill the gap until Julie It, when Eva 'i LeGalUene (AmerleaB).4akfl8 over tM koBSSi s >; t ^ lAss'LeGa111en« wlh ^ir«l«nt Mer^ ' ce^es 'DeAcosta's version 9^ "Jeanne d).4'<i". with a French east.< The se^Bgs and staging Itave been done by! Norman-B^l Geddes. Richard Hdmdori Is asso<ilkted''W)th MiSs'* LeJQallienf in this venture. Miss LeGWlliene caqie 'over here ., to'lipase the Odeon^ .b^t It, was not.;.„ ■■ ^TT? i * ti SAil^irfcs fVtr •■J«i; i 9tl#a,Se (New York )t« Xondon). M|.. a«d Mrs. Fc^devV^i Schang . (Cib^p), , ., . J liiBS )l (New Y^orji ito liondon), :i Cliff Sdwfuds (MaJeetip). . . . .,4. June V (New, York to |>aris). Ed * SchfUer (Aquitania). f , . .| June • (From Ban Francisco to i. Japan). Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ocko-''>c oneff.. lUnora Bierkainp. (Siberia | Maru).. I Jupe < (New York. to.Ijoiidon)^ r^ Arthur Rlchman (Homeric). June 6 (New York to ParU), Eddie ' ' Cantor (Paris). ; June 4 (from London to Aus- tralia), Bert Bouthwood (Bar.< nibool). June 4 (London to New York) *■ Professor Aleko (Pittsbuigh). June. 4 (New York to Ijoadon)^ Henry Carvel (Maureitania>. r .i* Jtone S (London to Mew York} ■ ■ Mr. and Mrs. Max Gordon (Majes- ; tic), *. . June 2. London . t« . New York, , ' Charles Dillingham. (Majestic). v June 2 (New York, to Paris), Nor- • man Hapgood. Mrs« Hapgood and - ■; children (Resolute). - '] Maiy 20 (from London to*Aus« . ■- tralla). Milton Hayee^fOsterley). ^ May to (New Y<Mrk. to Parls)# - Alexander Woollcott.^ Mary, Satonn Doris Eaton. Ottokar BartIki Ous- tav«.Tiniot. Lazare Bamlasky (L» «j France). , ■> ■■ . .>.4. May W <New York to Lon'-"-v George Appleton. Saturday Nlgbt r/ Eddie.O'Jirlen (Camania). . May 30 (New York to London) E»hel Kraemer. Chailea J. Geb«rt (Carmania). May 19 (New York to London) Mr. and Mrs. Cosmo Hamilton. VincenO Yonmans, Auriol Lee, Mrs. Hol« brook Bllnn, Edward Lorrilard^ Mme. Alma Clayburgh aAd daughx ter, Oeorge EI Ruppert (Olympic); May 28 (New Yoi^ ^o London) Sidney Garrett (Belgenlahd). May 27 (New York to London), Herbert Brenon and Mrs. B^eno^v Kitty Rachman, Peggy White, Ed- ward B. Pidgeon. lOeh Hayea Oerengari^). May 27 (New. York t© LondopiL, M*rtfc W. Cutler (B«r($na^ia). \^^ ARRIVALS t^^^ June 2 (Paris to kiw' ^©rk) Ma» * Mbnuy (Parliri). ^ , i^*" ! jJ •<ic^fiiin in Chariot'^ Q«vu« Abroad, t J , 4^ - London. Jsi;; 3. > jafik j^uchfnan Is vejolalng Char- i.i to^'s Reyu* for July «nd August, »«, prior to ib*t organlxatlpp's sailing | for America. M^isie Gay also rejoins la Octo<< ben i 1.! 11 .1- Est. WILLIAM MOItkiS I ,3 aobnct: ia«. WV. MOKKU W»- M<MUUt. iUL: rotaaat Wdg.. 14n Breiidway, Hew Tefk Pavlowa's Single Show Paris, June 2. Anna Pavlowa will give one per- formance hers, at Uie Troc&dero, on i^ane IL iiU" • -♦n <f THE TILLER SCHOOL JF DANCING m Charina CroM B—d^ . ' :• i^^' ' LONDON Director, JOHN TILLEft,,