Variety (August 1925)

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It VARIETY WednMday. August 86, 1985 Rewritten new$ items which have appeared within the week in the NEWS FROM THE DAILIES Daily Papers of NEW YORK CHICAGO COAST Thi« department co itains rewritten theatrical news items ■• published during ths week in the daily papers of New York, Chicago and the Pacific Coast. Variety takes no credit for these news items: each and every one has been rewritten from a daily paper> NEW YORK New York, Auk. 25. Dorothea Antcll, who six yoars a!.;o rtroivoil spinal Injuries while playinK a Hartford theatre and haH lain on her back since then, ha.^ Issued a plea for her fellow players to visit her at her home, 600 W. Iii6th street. Rober; T. Kane, picture producer offers an annual $5,000 endowment fu.id for a university chair in mo- tion picture learning. While rehearsing "The Little Poo. Man" at the Princess theatie Mi «- day, Jerome Lawler, who plays iiie leaffiiiK role, fell knto the pit anil Bcvoii-ly wrenched his back. After an examination It was found nces- saiy to take him to the French Hos- pital. With yesterday's (Tuesday) "Mir- toi" Mrs. Rudolph Valentino began a .series of signed articles regard- ing her recent marital diiriculties. 'I'lie articles are written by Jamca Viitaker and dictated by Mis. Val- entino, who signs them with hei pi ofesslonal name, Natacha Kain- bova. Mrs. Harry P. Williams, formerly Marguerite Clarke, stage and screen star, underwent an appenticitls ope- r.'ition In New York last Wednesday. 8he Is reported recovering rapidly Earl Cirroll has petitioned Gov- ernor Smith to commute the de.ith sentence of Julius Miller ("Yellow Charleston") to life imprisonment. When Carroll was arrested last year for exhibiting "indescent" display pictures in front of his theatre, he met Miller in the Tombs. Miller was convicted for the' murder of Baron Wilklns, cabaret owner, to which he pleaded self-defense. Mrs. Ida May Blankenburg of Tulsa, Okla., who contended she Is the unknown daughter of the late I.otta Crabtrce, whose will Is being fought by a gi>oup of relatives, was sentenced to six months In jail by Judge Priest. In Boston. The charge wa.s for "willful perjury In attempt- ing to deceive the court and obstruct Justice." Mrs. Blankenburg will ap- peal. Louis Seigelman and Irving Lips- hits, operators of the Playhouse theatre, Poughkcopaie, N. Y., with ofllces at 135 Dolancey street, New York, filed a voluntary petition of bankruptcy in Federal court. As- sets were li.<<ted at |150 and liabili- ties at $6,898. According to papers filed 1 . the Monroe county clerk's ofHce, Roches- ttr, N. v., Nick llufford wi.i seek to recover $15,000 from Edward Con- rad, manager of the Al G. Fields M .istrel Co.. for. alleged breach of c 1 tract. afford, principal comedian with tl ■ minstrel show, claims ho .signed ■ )ntract for which he was to re- -«< i.'e $375 weekly for 40 week. He c ^ris he was s'^mmarily dismissed Aug. 1, last. VViien a warrant of at; ichment was issued oy Supreme <■ irt Justice Dike, Conrad tiled a $'5,000 surety bond and was per- »> Med to take his properties on the liiiiistrel toar. I'o.sclibaum, 300 JSlone avenue, ot iCiunious assault, 'i'iie girld allege iiiat during ait absence tioin Itkeir oungaluw at Gerriilsen lieath last ..lunUuy i<'orschL'uuin entered and ...d.'.iiy Micci.ed ilie liotise. I<uter, when they went to see the al- Coi^d wicci.ci, lne> ciiarne, ho beat litem up. Miss Lu v ere is under ro.ainent for ber Injuries at fcJt. Mary's Ifospital, while her sister is at home with a lacerated eye. .^ oisclibaun'' Is held In $1,500 ball. Kuth Wadav-ll, "Follies," was the .V iiiMor of the recent contest held by a in.'igazine fur a face to decoraie the cover of a coming issue. .\.,i.y .Mouir, w iio sii.lcied a broken back three and a half years igu, retuiueU Irom Kuroi>e last aecli, ..here she hud been under treat- .nent of Dr. l.oren<.. Altliuugli her injuries are healed Miss Moore will i.>e unable to return to the stage .Ills season as she hud planned. Mary, daughter of "Dinty" Moore, well-known restaurant owner, was ibout to commence rehearsals for "i lie Silver Fox" when she met with an automobile accident. For three months she lay unconscious HI Kroad Street Hospital with three fractured vertebrae and several .iroken skull and neck bones. At the time her recovery was thought > ho doubtful. Dr. Lorenz, the fa- nous Austrian physician, took an interest in Miss Moore's case and outlined a course of treatment for her. Since the accident she has remained in seclusion and for the ast year has rested in Europe. Paramount's Colonial Theatre, one of Reading, Pa.'s, largest pic- ture houses, has been sold to Mar- cus Loew lor a sale price said to oe about $600,000. The Colonial will oe converted into a Metro-Goldwyrt .ouse Sept. 1. Carr and Schad, who sold the .leatre to Loew, operated it on a .0-year lease. They still bad 12 years to run. "Applesauce" will open in New York Sept. 7 at a theatre yet un- named Henry W. Savage will produce "The Balcony Walkers," by Christine Norman, the actres.s. Klora Le Breton will have the lean- ing role... ... .August Thomas' "Still Waters" Is In rehearsal "A .'Ight Out," the A. E. A<arons pro- '.uction, will ope/i In Philadelphia 'Sept. 7, coming to New York two eeks later A. H. Woods will star Mrs. Leslie Carter in John Col- ton's "The Shanghai Gesture." >I)cning on or about Oct. 6 Re- hearsals have begun for the "De- sire Under the Elms" road com- pany The Charles Frohman of- fice announces two Mohiar plays Ihls season, the first being "The filass Slipper" and "The Tale of the iVoIf" the- second. I<eadine; roles will be done by Wallace Eddinger, Roland Young and Phyllis Povah. Irene Bordpni will be seen In Avery Hopwood's "Naughty Cin- derella"; Marjorie Rambeau In Melchlor Lengyel's "Antonla," and KIsle I-^rguson In "The Duchess irfd the Walter," hy Alfred Savolr. "If I Were King," with music hy Frlml will open at the Casino '>pt. 14. "r.,oves Call" has been placed In rehearsal under Joe Byron Totten's « oHon.—The first production of tiie new producing firm of ames Kiik'vood, screen and legit actor aad Walter Perclval, will be "Duty,'" bv lames Bradbury, Jr., and Hus.sell <. .Vledcrjft- Listod amoim the fc iliroming plans of the Norman Hi I CeddeH-Hi.h.ird llci.idon Corp., are three plays, the fir.st being "Arabesque," by Cii.y.i H<\: I and Kuiiice Tjetjens; "The (5iil! Killer," by Hope Barni'tt, and acinla lion.i- VeiitrH "Saturday NiKht.- Another now producer l.s M. J. Nirliolas. ■wli'se first piece, '•.Mission Mary." b'- Kthclbert I). H.iles. which will oi'oii in New York iliiriiig Oi tober — '1 lie .''iluilicrt.s will present a rni.sical Veiaion of "Grauslark.'' CHICAGO Chicago, Au.s:. 25. The Actors' Theatre (ECquity Play- ers) revives "Candida" Sept. ) at the Princess theatre, and "Easy Terms," by Crane Wilbur, opens Aug. 30 at the Playhouse. Following the exit of the Duncan Sisto-s (Sel- wyn), "Tell Me More" opens there Sept. 20. Kate H<'niiiiiiim\va> was injured 1:.;. week when tlie car in wlJieli Ithc was rilling with Mr. niid .Mrs. J;ii k r<:iurie ("I'lic Mouse Painters") €1 .si cd Into aiiDlhcr at 46th street a 1 ^th avenue <liiven t)y Dr. ""'.'■ .i)."!^. The Dolly Sisters were In the Thompson car, but left lin »i tely after the arddenf. s llemnihigway refusid to lo I to a hoH' lal, although ■ lit to be badly injured. t th. " lir V. R. .S. Illinois, s rapped 111 li'.- the disarmament treaty, will I inverted into a dance hall. The s I i> may be rented for afT.ilrH at t ■ a night, the proceeds going to V; : Ions navy funds. T n >'ere De Mnrr, nrfrevs. and her Marjorie Mantello, oprra singer, announces she will relincinish her career for the sake of hor b.iliy. The father Is I>awrence Kine, local at- torney. rora; Orpheum, Crystal, Princess and Rlalto Square, Jollet; Crocker. Rlalto and Grove, Elgin; Orpheum and Majestic, Springfield; Orpheum. Oalesburg; Majeotlc, Bloomlngton; Midway, Rockford and De Kaib in De Kalb. This Is the former Thellan circuit. The postponing Shuberts have set back "The Love Song" again. It Is now mentioned for Chicago In No- vember. John Roach Straton, New York's blue-law apostle and Mary Plckford denouncer, came to Chicago last week and made a speech about the "dance of death," which title he uses to cover modern ballroom conduct. Ascher Bros, announce regular film house presentations «lth straight vaudeville at the West En- glewood. George M. Cohan paused briefly In Chicago to see bow the remodeling of the..aranif Opera house was pro- gressing. He now promises a revue here Chnstmas eve. Herbert M. Johnson, manager Chi- cago Civic Opera, returned last Tuesday from a four months' trip to Europe. Stewart S. HcClelland Is now manager of "Topsy and Eva" (Dun- can Sisters), replacing Capt. John Potter, who sails for Europe shortly "The Gorilla" may move back to the Studebaker when repiilrs there are finished. It will be the show's fourth drift In Chicago. Toney Thenee, manager Majestic, Milwaukee, was held up by armed bandits, but tricked them, and they escaped with scrap-paper Instead of cash. Jane and Katherlne Lee will be Topsy and Eva In the second com- pany the Duncan Sisters are putting out to hit the towns they themselves can't make. The Lee kids, former movie stars, have been in vaudevllk for several years. LOS ANGELES Los Angeles, Aug. 25. Mrs. J. J. Smith, wife of Smith (Smith and Holden), playing the Pantages circuit, was placed under arrest in Sacramento, Cal., on a charge of disturbing the peace. She was released on $50 bail pending trial. Mrs. Smith had entered Capitol park with a Pekinese which she had attached to a leach when a state police officer Informed her It was against the rules to take a dog into the police officer, that here was an exceptional dog and she would con- tinue her stroll. A heated argument followed, with Mrs. Smith plying the officer with the leach about the face. George Jacoby, " representative Orplld *nim Co. of Berlin, and Frit* Hulskempf, Vienna film man, are visiting the Hollywood studios and negotiating for the services of sev- eral American stars to appear in pictures for them. The first one that expects to sign is Clalrs Adams. The two men claim that they are backed in their enter- prises by German and Austrian bankers. Metro Goldwyn announces that L. Abrams, who directed the Uist mo- tion picture In which Sarah Bern- hardt appeared, has been added to their staff of directors. He will be assigned a story to make this week. on a complaint of his wife, who said he was trying to use her as a punch bag. She stated he also struck his young son. The alleged attack took place after Dempsey had returned home after release on a $25 ball on a charge of Intoxication. When arraigned on a charge of siieeding, Hazel Coler, screen act- ress, offered a novel excuse. The excuse was that she had been swim- ming In a scanty suit and her legs had become sea poisoned, and she was rushing to the doctor for a treatment. It was so good a $20 fine was suspended. Police have been requc ted to take into custody Albert N. Ray, who posed as a brother of Charles Ray, film star, and obtained /arious sums of money from Hollywood residents. The fact that Afbert Ray, director for William Fox, Is -a cousin of Charles Ray. complicates the matter, as the man, when cornered, asserted he was a director and a cousin of Charles Ray. It is said the impostcr obtcilncd around $1,000. The Los Angeles County Jury is conducting an Investigation into charges that two defense witnesses for Claud Holcomb. Chas. Z. Stevens and A. J. Wood, the former two serving 10 to 60 years for conspirao / to kidnap Mary Plckford, perjured themselves in their testimony t e trial. Mrs. W. R. Praser, wife of the general manager of Harold Lloyd Productions, was painfully injured when her automobile crashed into a tree and only halted after striking the corner of -. house. Police are looking for three mem- bers of an alleged bootleggers' ring who have endeavored to blac'<mall Petro Valensula, screen actor. They had obtained $3 CO from Valensuela to help p^v the fine of one of their gang who was in Jail. When they wanted $400 r ore and Valenzuela refused It is said the blackmailers fired a volley of re- volver shots Into the doorway of his home, but 'njured no one. '^he po- lice have picked up a girl, said to be a member of the ring. Leroy Starr, fllan actor, is under arrest, charged with suspicion of assault with a dangerous weapon. It is alleged th..t In a brawl at a downtown hotel, he stabbed ack Rowland, 66. The latter is in a dy- ing condition at the Receiving Hos- pital. S. Laz Lansburgh, Kan Francisco attorney, filed the divorce petition. Bessie Love left for New York where she is to play opposite Adolphe McnJou In "The King on Main Street," which Monta Bell is directing at the Paramount Ivmg Island studios Thomas Matson, an electrician at Famous Players-Lasky, was fined $300 for bootlegging by tJ. S. Dis- trict Judge Hennlng, after pleading guilty. Fred Osborn was appointed guard- ian over Manchu Duke, a dog, valued at $2,000, and canine screen actor. Manchu belonged to Ix>uls E. Os- born, who died recently, and Judge Willis of the Superior Court made Ix)uls' brother Fred administrator of the estate. Gloria Swanson's $200,000 Beverly Hills home has been placed on the market for sale. In an amendment complaint to her suit against Producers" Distributing Corporation, Agnes Ayres, picture ♦ h- ..o-i. OK • # J w. - actress, asks $50,000 additional dam- .k! 5"„ ,«5„*"'°11!'*,?.Jl*™'.?^>'*i«»e". making the total amount $93,- 000. She asks $18,000 for salary as- serted due on a $30,000 contract for three pictures; $26,000 because of a failure to advertise her as a star; $25,000 because her name was used in "Three Faces East" with that of an oxtra of no importance and 1 cause the picture has not been made, and $25,000 for falling to make the pictures, thereby keeping her off the screen. Theodore Strumm, carnival em- ploye who believed his wife and two children were being held prisoners by an aunt, Virginia M ger of Venice, California, went to the lat- ter's home and shot and seriously wounded her and then attar "J her n'T-ed father. Miss Mettzger wa; shot th ough the lung Just above the heart. It Is said she -111 recover. Htrumm Is un- der arrest. Cainer.imen (International News) took tiic.tuie.s aliiiard the convict .':hip SiieeosN last Week. It w.ts a pulilicity tie-up with Cooney Bros., whoso C.Tplfol the.iire is hta^inK a •irosent.-ifion c.illeil n "Slave Mar- ket," depicting "Caucasian beauties in ch,ilns." "The Optimist" (American), true to his noin de plume, gave "Merce- nary Mary," at (he (ianick, a good report and a prophecy of long run. Frederick Donaghey (Trilume), on the other hand, wrote liow bad he eonsiilcred the show. Six days of parades, concerts, dare-devil exhibitions, tireworks and other didoes celebrated the opening of Bal,'ilian A Katz's new Uptown theatre. The Uptown Chamber of Commerce provided the jnbllatiou T. C. Chester, 50, actor, was ar- rested by the Hollywood vice squad on a charge of violating the Wright act and having a quantity of liquor In his home. Police said that Ches- ter admitted he had bought the liq- uor. Charles Gibbons, art director, em- ployed by Metro-tSoldwyn, will begin serving a two-d.iy sentence in the city Jail for speeding 42 niilos nv hour, in Hollywood. The sentence was Imposed after the judge allowed him several days to settle his busi- ness affairs before going to j.ill. Officers of Balalian A Kalz an- nounce the formation of Gnrat State Theatre.s, Inc., to control 16 phtiire theatres down stale. Theatres In Bister. Laverne, accuse Benny volved Include Fox and Rlalto, Au- Agncs Ayres, announce.^ she is go- ing to Europe to be starred In pic- tures over there. She has signed no contract, hut stated she has had offers from both English and Ger- mtin producers. Gertrude H^ Lythgoe, "queen of the bootleggers," wired the Metro- Goldwyn studio offlcals that she was open to consider a proposition to .appear In pictures and ready to cap- itall/.e her $4,000,000 international pulilicity together with miaking per- Ron.il appearances. The st: dlo offi- cials declined her offer. John Dempsey, 32, brother of and gymnasium manager for Jack Dempsey, has been sent to the psy- chopathic ward of the I#<js Angeles County Hospital by the lunai y com- mission on a complaint filed by his wife, Edna Dempsey. Dempsey was arrested at his home R. Manuel- R.ichI, commercial at- tache of the Mexican consul-general. R.-in Francisco, and husband of Agnes Ayres, screen actress, denies he was the husband of Mrs. Nora Hlngsley de Hachl, who was granted .a divorce at Honolulu on the grounds of desertion. Mrs. de Hachi had charged that her husband, while still married to her, entered into another marriage contract with .Agnes Ayes. Rachl said he never heard of Nora Hingslcy de Rnchi before; that he had nevei; been In Honolulu; h.ad never been married before, and was in no way connected with the case in Honolulu. A. C. Blumenthal, the.itrieal realty operator, has filed suit for divorce in Superior Court against his wife, tor- merly Alvida Hamburger. Mr. and Mrs. Bliii entlial made a pnipcil'. ecttlcmcnt in New York last January. VALENTINO'S PUBLiCin (Continued from page 1) licity, to promote a couple of mov- ing pictures, appears to have been the objective so far successfully aimed for in the "announcement" of the "separation" of Sheik Valen- tino and his present wife. Valentino's "Lone Eagle," film, Is nearly completed and due for re- lease Sept. 27. "What Price Beauty?" the Natacha Hudnut- Valentino picture, completed, is also expected tc benefit. At the time the separation story was sprung in New York a signed story in the Hearst papers here carried the same stuff. It was given to a man known to be very friendly with Valentino. Mr. and Mrs. Valentino may not be the most friendly couple on earth but for the Hollywood colony, they were looked upon as not so bad for the show business. In the canyon where they live neighbors often heard quarreling o' night but as it aeemcd only talk after all, the neigh* bors would turn over. These spats appeared to be mostly on the sub- ject of careers and responsibility. "Beauty" Cost «80,000 Its an old story in the picture group of Mrs. Valentino's continued interference with the picture pro- ductions starring her husband. This was finally ended when Mrs. Valen- tino then started upon her own "beauty" film, financially backed by S. George Ullman, Valentino's man- ager and also a lawyer. Mr. Ull- man Is reported to h.ave invested $80,000 in it. That neither distributors nor ex- hibitors hastened to apply for the "Beauty" film may have accelerated the "separation" scheme, especially by Mrs. Valentino and Mr. Uhlman. Uhlman's idea of the Mrs. Valentino picture is said to be that it would be worth'the money to have her In a picture of her own, to disillusion her of the belief she can success- fully guide the screen destiny of her husband. "Hen-Pecked," Not Sheik Chiding over pictures and re- criminations as to the other's knowl- edge have lead to several quarrels among the Valentlnos. These re- ports getting out, the Rudy Valen- tino side was that If the flappers lost their Idolized "sheik," merely looking upon hini as a hen-pecked husband, box ollice results mit;ht be' disastrous. The«e two points Jire rdporlcil to have led to the conference tli.'vt publicity, probably international in scope, would restore the Rudy stand- ing while there could He more pub- licity gathered In \.lieti tlie 'recon- ciliation" is jammed on the dailies. From |>eople close to the couple it is gleaned that the Valciiliii<'8 are still In love and that their fare- well at the station here, which Valentino's press agent claimed as staged to throw off the public, was very much on the up and up. Kudy and Natacha are reported daily wiring one another. .Mrs. Valen- tino may go al-'Tond to visit her parents after placing "What Price Beauty?" B. B. B (Bobby Bermin ip ned Mm- ' .y at the rinh Krntii.W N"''* York, as master of ceren»oiiies.