Variety (August 1925)

54 VARIETY Wednesday, August 19, 1925 E, F. ALBEE, President J. J. MURDOCK. General Managrer F. F. PROCTOR. Vice-President B. F. KEITH-ALBEE VAUDEVILLE EXCHANCE ■■-'.'::'' ■ :;;■v^.;.■.■'>■ "^ ■^'.•'•■^-•.,■-•;'.':;.,-■ " (AGENCY) ■;,•,;:.,..,"'.-v; ;.;•,■ ,^v ;;•■;■ ,,■;:;■■:..•■'■:■.;.,■ \.\ \-.. : ^-.r.^. ':l,:/ : j'' ^ (Palace tlieatreltuilding, B. F. KEITH. EDWARD F. ALBEE, A. PAUL KEITH. F. F. PROCTOR Artists Clin book direct by addressing W. DAYTON WEGEFAI^TH Narcus Loews Booking Agency General Executive Offices IPEW BUILDING ANNEX 160 WEST 46^"ST NEW YORK^ JHUmiN OSITEIULL MAMAOMH MOE SCHENCK BOOKING DEPARTMENT PaUc« Theatr* Building NEW YORK EXECUTIVE OFFICES iUt«-Lake Building CHICAGO BERT LEVEY CIRCUIT Ii«irT*rk «r. 47th M. OF VAUDEVILLE THEATRES ori'-icBS Umlm OAc* Saa irraa«toe* Aloamax TbMitre Ohleair* Wood* wit. Dotrott Barima Bldg. BMttto Einiir— Bfdr. Vo9 ABcelooo HllUtroot BIdg. Uoaver VmhoT O. H. DallM Mclb* Bld». sailed for Australia she contempIat< ed a 14 weeks' tour. It has been cx« tended another 14 weel<s. The M. J. Lapp Greater Shows play the Brockport Balr the last half of this week. The James K Victor Band, New York city, is also booked. BOOKING MANAOKm WUBM Ui LOS ANGLES SEE ^ CHICAGO OFFICE 604 Woods Theatre Building JOHNNY JONES IN CMAan ACKERMAN & HARRIS . EXECUTIVE OFFICES: THIRD FLOOR, PHELAN BLDa MARKET. GRANT and O'FARRELL STREETS SAN FRANCISCO ELLA HERBERT WESTON, Booking Managmr LOB ANOBLBS—tit C0N80LIDATBD BLiDO. IMEIKEUOHN and DUNN EIGHTH FLOOR, MAJESTIC THEATRE BI.DQ. I WE CAN FILL OPEN TIME FOB ALL | -THE OFFICE OF PERSONAL 8TANDABD ACTS ~».iB<rmi* TIVOU THEATRES—AUSTRALIA CELEBRITY VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT A wonderful opportunity . for Standard Acta to visit Australl*, South Africa and London. Apply to I.ONDON NEW YOBK 'FRISCO Tom Holt H. A. Bowdea Panto* Room tS Uajrmarket The Colonial, Utlca, reopens Mon- day with Denman Thompson's "The Old Homestead." Columbia bur- lesque plays the last half of each week, beginning: A«b. 27. Barney Lumberg continues as manager. The George L. Dobyns Shows re- turns for a third year to furnish the midway at the New York State Fair, opening Sept. 12. California Frank's Wild West Show has also been booked. 902 Kesaa BIdff. 140 Wnt 4Zn« H. Malic* Alcasar Theatre Bids. O'Farrell Streot Nelson Mirlck will handle pub- llclty for B. P. Keith's here thia season. .. SYRACUSE, N. Y. By CHESTER B. BAHN . Wiating — "Handa Up!" (Frank Wilcox Co.). Premiere original new three-act mystery romance by De- witt Newlng. atock manager. B. F. Keith'a—Dark. Temple—Dark. Strand—"The Half-way Oirl." Empfra—"The Price of Pleasure." Robbina-Eckel—"Are Parents Peo- ple 7" Rivolt—"The Fighting Demon." Regent—"Declasse." Ruth Abbott, ingenue, closed with the Frank Wilcox Co. Saturday. She plays one week in Albany with the Wilcox-Newing Capital Players, and then goes to New York for screen tests at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. The Temple opened ten years ago and has played i)op vaudeville and pictures at a 40-cent top. That pol- icy will be maintained again this season, it Is said, In spite of the fact that, almost next door, B. F. Keith's will have six acts of vaudeville and a feature picture at a 60-cent top. The Temple is operated by the Cahill Interests. Albert A. Van Auken again manages the Temple, the house likely reopening Aug. 31. The Strand theatre may revive its box-office tariff to meet Increased overhead, chiefly due to film rentals. The Strand now gets 40c. and may boost to 50c. The Empire, a stone's throw away, has been getting fiOc. for about a year. The Summer Theatre Players, Cornell University, closed their sea- son at the Campus Theatre, Ithaca, last week with "The Playboy of the Western World." Pauline Frederick, now In Aus- tralia, goes to London after the close of her extended engagement there for a run, according to relatives at Ogdensburg. When Miss Frederick Intervention by an international offlcer In the contract controversy between the Shuberts, Wieting les- sees, and International Theatrical Mechanics' Union No. 9 of this city is expected this week. The present differences will not serve to.delay the opening of the legit season week Sept. 7. "Blos- som Time" Is penciled in for a fifth local engagement the last half of that week. "Artists and Models" fol- lows, and "Rain" after that; "The Student Prince" underlined week Qct. 12. Jack Hubb, manager of the Qus Sun Detroit office, has secured bookings for the Colonial in that city. ,._,,-,,.- ANNOUNCEMENT ON AND AFTER SEPT. 1ST The SUN-KEENEY VAUDEVILLE AGENCY, inc. WILL BE LOCATED IN OUR NEW OFFICES At 312-314 Third noor, 1560 Broadway Bldg., New York City \ J. WARREN TODD, Gen. Mgr. ^THE SERVl CE THAT SERVES''' GENERAL BOOKING OFFICES, FIFTH FLOOR.STATE-LAKE BUIlDING.CHICAGd.lL^ NOWBOOKINC FROM CHICACOB WMJIFIC («i ST. LOUIS, MO. 889-91 Aroada BIdg. I KANSAS CITY, MO. Second Floor Main 8t. Theatre BIdg. BRANCHES DENVER, COLO. 406-7 Tabor BIdg. LOS ANGELES I Hill Street BIdg. *^..< .