Variety (June 1925)

v>- ,« Vaudeville )• ,1 }•■•*-; VARIETY KEITH-ALBEE POOL WITH F. P. % ' •• OflTLANTA ACCEPTED AS INDICATOR ,:i.^;;(.i;:f/|;l.i> P. P. Now Building theatre That Will House Big Time Vanderilie Boolced by K-A and Pictures— Pop Vauderille for Present K-A Theatre There ../■>fv"-'" * '- ' Atlaata, June 8. WhsD tha n«w Urv* theatr* of tti« JTamoua Plajrera U completed It will be operated In a pool, It ie said, with the Kelth-Albee Circuit and F. P. particlpatlngr ae well aa con- tributing. The preaent local K.-A. theatre at that time will play pop Taudevtlle. with the blc time book- Inss from the IC>A. office groins to the new house, alongr with F. P. picture releases. This la the first Instance known •t K.-A. and F. P. poolins any- where. Liocal showmen eay they see In It a possible general understand- tng to arrive before long: between the two hig ooncema. They add that the concerns are too big to bat- tle with each other, with an expeA- •iTC contest eertiifai to follow a booking; tight The locals claim to have heard that former negotiations between the two firms looking to- ward a mutual booking understand- ing that were called off some months ago have been resumed. '■ •t-ir- Not Embezzlement Washington, June t. Hidden away in the United States Supreme Court decision In reference to responsibility for the collection and payment of the admission tax to the government -is a clause over- looked by most of the corre- spondents here. * In a recent order sent out to all collectors of Internal Rev- enue the following paragraph appears: "A person required by law to pay over to the government taxes collected on admissions is a debtor and not a bailee. Conversion of such taxes to his own ui^ does not constitute embexslement" Harrlsburgh, Pa.. June 8. According to a reliable sourcie. Famous Players Is on the verge of purchasing the entire Wilmer & Vincent Circuit, mostly of theatres In this State. ^ Americans Abroad Paris, May 20. In Paris last Week: N. Bekoloff, cotiduotor of CleVe- fcuid orchestra: Harry J. Mondorf, Colleen Moore and husband, John McCormick. J. J. McCarthy. Sam Bernard (en route to Baden-Baden for -cure). Lefeter Allen, comedian^ Philip MericaU Clara HL lAnghlin, writer: Brttton Hadden. editor of "Times." N. T.;: Irma Kraft. Inter- national Playhouse. Inc.. N. T.; . Sophia Breslan,' contralto; Rossika Dolly, Dolly Sisters; Jeanne Cas- selle. singer; Cohde Nast. publisher; Oeorge Paittulo. short story writer; Richard BotMlli. tMiritone; Kathleen Howard, Grace Moore^ Annette Mills and dancing partner, Robert SiellS; Grace Moss and Oeorge Fontano. Claire. Luce. Jobd McDermott. pic- ture producer; Jaok Dempsey aa^ wife, Queenie Mario singer. Martha Baird. pianist, from San XVancisco. made her Parts debut at • Dkatlnee concert last Sunday. Kdlth MUitza and Dorothy Fre- 4yaae are appearing in Uie FoUes Bergere sevue, Paris. HalUes Stiles, soprano, of Syra- euse, N. T., has signed at the Opera Comiaue. Paris, for a scales of per- fonnances extended ever two years. Mary Corday, dancer, is in Fior- ,.Italy. ' New Kind of Vaudeville Stand Up to See Amateurs l/ondon. May 88. In the same building whl<^ once housed the Belgian attraction—a Museum of Anatomy—another en- tertainment has sprung up which will probably last no lohger than did the former. This is the Alcaxer, a new-type vaudeville house run by one L<ucien Siemens. Four shows a day is the rule, and whether the place is packed or only has a half doxen persons in It. the rule is "standing room only." and there is but one admission price, one shilling and three pence. The aclinowledged idea is to give vaudeville talent a chance of attracting the managers by "auditioiM." but those who have tnade a study of this latest addition t6 London's brightness seem in- clined to think the true object of the place is less worthy. The sal- ary list U not big. being something in the direction of $500 for some doxen or so "acts" and a troupe of weary dancers. Fay Templetoii Nervotti Over Profesdonal Return Plttsburgli. June 8.' Thirty years to a day after she sigaed her first contract to »lay with Weber and FMda, lira. WU- liass J. Pattsrsoa. Camous as Fay Templetoa. will return to the stage Juoe 8 to appear (br twe weeks at the Palace. New Tork. with the celebrated pair la selections from their bits of former years. This will be Mrs. Patterson's first pre- fessional appearance since IMS, two years after she was^ married to Mr. Patterson, president of Heyl A Pat- terson, contracting engineers of Pittsburgh. A^ the thought of again facing the fooflighta, Miaa Templeton la more nervoua now. ahe oonfeased, than when she stood In the wings of a stage awaiting her cue to "go on" and begin her siege of winning an audience who knew nothing of her. Now she's famous and there will be few among the thouaanda who will aee her name in llghta in New Tork to whom it will not be familiar, but atili Miss Templeton has a bad case of stage-fright and admiU It freely. Mrs. Patterson said that the tele- gram from Weber and Fields last week asking her to have the two week's reunion with them had come somewhat as a coqaplete surprise and left her breathless. She talked the matter over with her husband and wired Weber and Fields she wouUI be there. Mrs. Patterton is to leave tomorrow for New York. "I want to be there a few days to enable me to get my sealegs." ahe explained. JAP THIEF CONVICTED Four Months in England for Steal- infl in Auatraiia E. Allan Woolf Escaped Waltar Winchell. dramatio editor oC the New Yotk "Daily Oraphlc," in hia "Tour Broad- way and Mine" column, Mon- day, published the following anecdote: it Really Happened Harry>' Thaw's visit to the white light belt reminds us of a paragraph. The night that he killed Stanford White oa the Madison Square Oarden Root, ESdgar Allan Woolf. who writes playlets for two-a-day headlinera. waa presenting a revue at the famous rendex- voua. It waa his first attempt Bdgar'a mother attended the premiere and Sccupied a table up front. During the proceed- ingra Woolf left her td arrange aome matters. While he waa gone, a party at the next table commented on the ahow. "Say." chirped one of them, "who put thla thing on. any- way? It'a terrible!" VDf all the awful ahowa thla is it!" decUred another.' "It's a shame, that's what it is!" added a thh-d. Two seconds later the shot rang out that felled White. "Oh. my God." shrieked thi embarassed Mrs. Woolf. "They've klUed my Bdgar!" NEW Aa WITH ALLAMAmiRS Lew Cantor Takes Entire "Opportunity" Bunch THEFT NOTICE BY PAT CASEY Opening Up WU.? Milwaukee. Wis.. June t.. Assemblyman Henry S. J|taab, Milwaukee, is seeking to legalize Sunday amusements in Wisconsin. He has offered a resolution asking l>ermi8sion to Introduce a bill re- pealing the state ban on Sunday baseball games, shows and other amusements, "to conform with pub- lic sentiment," which he said Is In favor of the amusements. The law is not enforced strictly, Mr. Staab ctalnva.' ■ ' "^ ■V'" DEATHS ABROAB Parts. May il. Lednoe Benedit% 66. writer ^n art subjecta. curator of the I^uxem- bourg museum. Paris, has died. De- ceased was well known to^Amer- ioan artists vislt^ig France. Louis Street, 46, juggler-dancer, died at Fontainbleau. Prosper Amie-Amiica, S8. French Taudevtlle jierformer. died reciently. Philippe Qai'nier, noted French comediazl. formerly of the Comedfe Francalse, lately passed away. Jaoquee Volnys, French comedian, died suddenly in Paris. He played with Max Dearly In May at the Champs Elysees music halt DAKCEB LOSES ACTION Paris. June 2. Mlaa L.ascalkL , has lost iier suit against. Leon Vol terra tOr a claim of S.OOO fnancs for rupture of con.- tract. Kngaged to dance at the Ca- sino de Paris revue, she was repri- i&anded by e stage manager dur-> Ing rehearsals, whereupon she re- fused to continue, considering, her- self unjustly treated. The manage- ment Immediately discharged Miss T.asmHa. She then sued for the amount of damages stipulated in her contract, but has been non- suited. Liondon. May 22. Harry Inagakl. the Japanese- American vaudeville artist known as Harry Namba. was sentenced at London Sessions, May 21. to four months' imprisonment for stealing a diamond ring from / the dressing room of Bessie Clifford in Australia Ii^t year. On completing the sen- tence he wiU be deported. The dia- mond taken from a ring valued at 11,260. was reoognixed by a friend of Bessie Clifford's on the finger of a shop assistant in Oxford str^t, and Namba's arrest soon followed. In passing sentence the chairman of the Sessions spoke severely on the fact that the prisoner had made a disgraceful and unjustifiable at- tack on prosecutrix's personal char- acter in his defense. Dancers Open at Muaie Hall Parla, June S. Maurice and his new partner, Barbara Bennett, opened at the Champa Eiyaeea Music Hall Friday. Vicent Eiscudero.'the Spanish dancer is also at the same plaoa. Bernard and Rich, dancers, (American) opened Friday at the Acacia's cabaret. • Another American dancer. Claire Luce, has arrived here for the Casino de Paris. KEBUILDIirO SCALA'S STAGE Berlin, June 1. To rebuild the stage the Scale ekMed this week and will remain dark until the alterations have been completed. A big theatre license will be ap- plied fon, and when reopening legit productions can be housed there. Faust Up-To-Date Pari^ June 2. Firmin Oemier haa produced a t-aot version, in 16 scenes, of Goethe's "Faust," arranged by Louis Forest an dRobert Dumas. Carson Touring With "Bamboula" London, June 3. James B. Carson will replace Wil- liam Berry in the title role of "Bamboula" on tour. THE niXER DANCING SCHOOLS OF AMERICA, Inc. 226 West 72d Stra^ NEW YORK - 11 Op«o for a I.tmlted Nanib«r' of PepUa Private LaaaoMi Ctaaaaa at S Chlldraa a SpaoliUtr PIumm: EDdleoti ni»-« MAJrr RBAD Sae r ata n r MNDON NOTES Of the . three plays which have been going continuously in London for over a year two are of American origin—"It Pays to AdverUae" (with the longest run In town) and "White Cargo." The other is the thoroughly British writing, "The Farmer's Wife," still at the CourU "The Devil to Pay" Is the old title for a new play authorised by Rita and Robert Whttehoune to be pro- duced at Bath. After "Twelfth Night" the Old Vic will add to the season by a revival of "Trelawney of the Wells," a Pl- nero stand-by. This Is quite appro- priate, as in what are now termed the "palmy days" the Old Vic was Juat such a blood-aad-thunder house as that satirised in the play. "Jacob's Ladder," put up at the Royalty was soon taken down. The play is about a man who made money and died. The play made no money, but died after five perform- ances. An out-of-London showing Is to be given of "Thomas Chatterton," by Josephine Knowles. Many failures have been written on the subject-of this boy poet. Lew Cantor (Cantor & Brandell), vaudevUle agents, esUbllshed a prcr cedent among the bookers of pros- pective stage talent by placing the entire array of entertainers that appeared In the "Opitortunity Con- test" st&ged by Harty Shaw. B. S. Moss' amateu^ department at Moss' Hamilton (146th and Broadway) recently under contract. Cantor dropi>ed in and stuck for the special show for amateurs. He decided to put the amateurs under option and build a big vaudeville act around them. > Among those signed were Bemle Ryan and Belle Barden, balU-oom dancers; Murray and Mandell. male hoofers; Edith Bohman. soprano; Sbler and Young, comedy team. YALESKA OWED HCTUBE BILL Valeska Suratt' ran up a photog- rapher's bill for 11,553.20 with Oeorge Malllard Kesslere, the por- trait photographer, from Sept. 11, 1922, to Sept. 6. }»2I. She only paid 1104 on .account, and Kesslere took her to court a^ got judgment for.the full amount by. default. . , V. M. P. A. Roquesto Ar- tists to Exercise More .^ Personal Care The Vaudeville Managers' Proteo- tive Association in a general letter to all Taudevtlle artisU anent com- plaints against the loss or theft of musical instruments, money and jewelry calls the attention to the fact that houses are not responsible for such losses, unless the property is left in the house safe. The letter asks the artist not to leave valuable property or instruments In their dressing rooms after they leave the theatre. Many ot; the complaints received of so-called thefts do not appear to be such when viewed In the light of subsequent Investigations. One In- stance where one musical Instru- ment was taken from a group of others, all In the same room, would lead one to believe the "thieT' was more than moderate in his choice. The letter follows: Notio* to Artoits Thla aaaoclatlon haa received many ooinplalnta within the past three months of losses of musical Instruments, money and Jewelry in the various theatres (all supposed to be thefts). This, la spite of the fact that the theatres have taken every precaution In their power t* safeguard the artists' property. It is a distressing state of affairs to cast suspicion upon one's oo- workers. It Is also most dlfllcult to decide, at times, whether the loss has really occurred In the absence oi proof beyond the claimant's statement. The manager wh^ complies with the law and customs governing theatres feels that the artlata ahould aasist him In preventing these thefts by taking every precaution for their own protection. This can only be done by leaving money and other valuables in the care of their hotels 01^ the theatre managefneat—taking home their instruments or at least locking them in their trunks—and hers let it be said that it is not undignified for aa artist to oarry his "tools of trade." ;Many artists are careless about thisl^ belongings, believing the thea- tre is alone liable for any loss they sustain. This is not so and it should not be so. The tact that some artists have been reimbursed for losses does not mean that It wM Compulsory upon the manager to meet the loss. The manager'a aotlon waa In keeping with that generoua spirit that la now In order for the good of vaudeville, but there la a limit to kindness when met by indifference. It la my belief that a co-ordinated effort on the part of manager and artiat wlir bring about the desired Improvement. Acquire that "get- to-gether" feeling and so dispose of an unpleasant condition. VAUDBVILLBS MANAOBRS' PRO- TECTrVB ASSOCIATION. Pat Oaaev. TULLDTOS MARRIED A WEEK Chicago, June 8. Filed, divorced and re-married la four days Is the record established by 4dolphus Trilling, profOsslonaUy known as Theodore Adolphus. Adolphus filed his bin May It. three days later he was granted a decree from his wife. Freda Krausa Thrilling In the Superior Court of^ Chicago. , The following day he married Orace Eastman, both are members sf the "Parisian Revue" a vaude- ville attraction. Leon A/pereanlak was the attorney. CARROLL STARRDTO COOK Karl Carroll will star Joe Cook ^ext season in a new musical com- edy now being written by Marc Connelly. Cook has been with Carroll a an- nual "Vanities" since leaving vaude- ville. * . 1 NED WAVBURN Studidf oF Sugt Okncmg Inc. 1841 Broadway, Studio F, N.Y.City Al CblMabMiClKt* (I!aMMa' M SOA hn»it