Variety (October 1925)

12 VARIETY Wcdnc«d«y, October 14, l^ NEWS FROM THE DAIUES This d«partment eontain* rewritten theatrical newa items aa pub- lished during the week in the daily pcpere of New York, Chicago and the Pacific Coast. Variety takes no credit for these news items; each has been rewritten from a daily paper. NEW YORK Mis. (l;ir(il(l Riipsel, who as Ail« Wwyer was Un- yfars a well-known »tfljse figure, is the chief henefloiary cf the estate of Amy Lowell, poetess find sitser of A. L. Lowell, pieslJent ©f Harvard University, This wan revon'ed by an inventory filed in Norfolk Proluite Court. The ewlate consists of over $700,000. Miss Dwjer left the st;ige to become sec- retary ami personal companion to iMss Lowell. -_ In an ad»lress to the Harvard Ora- niatic Club Basil Dean, English pro- ducer, said that the future of the Kngllsh-speaking stage is in Ameri- ca rather than in England; that the people of Enplantl <ion'4 care for the theatre any more; that the great obstacle confronting the English Htage Is the censorship of produc- tions; that America Is suffering from too mtich cinema, and that the best contributors of America to the stage are Eugene O'Neil's works and the Little Theatre movement. Marion Tal'ey, 18, signed by the "Metropolitan Opera Co.. and who received much publicity, has begun a series of article in the N. Y. '•.Vews" on how she achieved her Huccess. Marjorie nainl>eau again figured when A. E. Anson, actor, issued a statement he is and has V)een for the past ir> months eng.'iged to the much co-respondcntcd actrfss. At the same time Miss Ranibcau is the defendant in a $100,000 alienation suit filed by Mrs. Kevitt Manton, who alU-Kes she stoic her husband, an English actor. Miss Rambeau's name has not missed a day in the papers for the past few weeks. The fifth company of "The Gorilla" opened in Rochester. Aerording to story In the "•Mirror" signed by one "Ritzy," Gloria Gould and her husband, Henry A. Bishop, Jr.. have separated. According to ••Ritzy." the marital rift has to do with Gloria's time being devoted to !lhe directorship of the Embassy theatre, Xew York. G'oria sailed for Ktirope Saturday. An Identical ar- ticle appeared later in the "Ameri- can," signed by Cholly Knicker- bocker. A Judgment In favor of Ganna ■^'nlska was filed in New York at the conclusion of a suit brought against her by Clarice M. Barbrlght, an attorney of 170 Broadway. Miss Barlght sought to recover $2,850 for Ictral services alleged to have been rendered the singer previous to her marriage to Harold McCormiok. The bnseball, newspaper and sporting world are mourning the death of "Big Six" Christie Afathew- »on. The famous pitcher died Oct. 7. a victim of fuberculo.'fis. He was sussed during the war. A caption under a picture of Louise Brooks. "Follies" girl, in a morning tabloid sayn that the atten- .fions Charlie Chaplin recently lav- ished upon her have set Broadway's tongues a-wagging. An announcement ty Carl I.,aemmle following his return from Europe is that Universal intends to engage in production In England and release the pictures made there generally. I>actiinile's p!;in, ns it now stands, is to employ Kngli'-h directors and an EiiKllsh cast and to supplement the 1^ ^Britishers w itli Amerloan stars. The """^'^utmirs, he .s;ii<U uiu- be tvpically British. A short tircui; at H)e Century tlip;ilrc last Tuesday night .liist be- fore the S.iu Carlo Opera Co. was to give a performance <ause<l and obliged the nic-mbcrs of the <ompany to go into the street in costutne, as were tliosc rchcirsing for tl>e Shu- brrfs "Mayflower" in the t:ytn up- stairs. As some damage was done hy the xmoke the opera performance for the evening was called off. betwe^-n Frieda Herspel. oi>fru and <'(incerl star, and Williiiui i! Kaim. New York banker. The old \VashlnKton I'all park in Ftrooklyn has been pur.-liaseil by the Kdison company. It wi'l be used fo" storage. Marion Fairfax (Mrs. Tully Mar- shall) will head her own Hlni-pro- ducing companyj First National will release her first production. Jacqueline Hunter is reported wed to Stephen .Sanford, New York so- ciety man. Georgette Cohan, daughter of George M., has announceil her en- gagement to marry William H. Rowse, perfume manufacturer. tJeorgette is the widow of J. W. Souther, who died last year. Gilda Gray sailed for Porto Rico with a large company to make "Aloma." Tex Rickard has made pubilc his plans for events of the coming sea- son to be housed in the new Madi- son Square Garden. The huge arena will open at mid- night Nov. 2t at the start of a six- day bicycle race. The official open- ing will take place Dec. 8, when the local team of the National Hockey League will play its first ^ame. On the following evening tiie Friars" Club will stage a ball and entert.-iin- raent for the purpose of raising funds for the Association for Im- proving the Condition of the Poor.' Dec. 11 Paul Berle-.'^ach and Jack Oelaney will go 15 rounds -for the light heavyweight title. The San Carlo Opera Co. of .New York has filed suit for $l'0.000 in Suffolk Superior Cpurt against the Cosmopolitan Grand Opera Co. of Boston, alleging breach of co^uract. T)ie suit charges the Boston com- pany agreed to pay $10,000 for a 50 per cent Interest in an opera pro- duced in Boston in 1923. That com- p.iny Is also charged with agreeing to i)ay half the difference between the gross receipts and $60,000 should the receipts be less than $60,000. Receipts were $50,228, and the Bos- ton company paid but $1,500 of the difference, the complain alleges. An Associated Press story ffom Vienna says rubber costumes were used there in a production dt "King Lear," direction Max Reinhardt. This rubber idea was carried out in Reinhardt's desire to have tije en- tire production resemble sculp ure. Although Solomon Hurok was re- cently adjudged a bankrupt, Hurok has become the head of a new pro- ducing company. Universal Artists Inc., to handle theatrical and mu- sical entertainment. In 'he Hurok plans.are a series of coni'erls, with $1.50 top price. Orsranlzed refprmers and "Vduc r>os»s" meeting in Washington have uiub'rl.'iken to deoid<» whether New York "is a menace to the public," l)Ut als<j decided that it is up to the people there to prove its innocence. A couple of paraKrai)l)s accompa- nied l..y a I'liotograph of Mii^e. I>:inccs ATda. said that the operatic ftar. al.-irmed by the stoiies of re- cent lH>]diips. is soon to tra\«I ahotit in a iuik'-proof sedan. t»iit<taii.\ refKirtea marital IrcubJt'' Captain Roald Amundsen, Arctic explorer, launches his American lecture tour In Carnegie Hall, New York, tomorrow <Oct. 15). He wi!l speak on "Our Airplane Dash Vvr •,he North Pole." Foreign dispatches inform Amer- ica that Suzanne L«nglen, worlds feminine tennis champion, w.ilked off the court where she was play- ing with Count LudwI.g Salm when peeved at the Count's poor playing. The next morning she graciously shook hands wi.h Luddie and re- sumed playing with him. Plans for a national contest of chiidren imbued with stage asi>ira- tions or whose parents believe their offspring have natural stage taleni and desire to see if developed, were disfUsVeU at the first meeting of the yeaf of the National Stage Children's Associatiun in .\>w York Sunday. The i on csts wi'l ♦-nit>r,Tc<> singing, darning, dramatic art and music. T'nifcd S'l.itts Attorney Binkn*! was on the radio Oct. 11, speaking via WRNY and he emphasized tli*- imperative nee<l of the enforcement Of the dry law. If was his (ipinlon that "the prohibition law should .either be enforced or repealed." "Venice For Two." Arch .Selwyn't newest, ofiens at ilie I'lyniouih Oct. 26. "OMcn House," li.\ Saiiuie'. Buskin Goloing, with Hf!t-n Mai'- Kellar in lead, opens <.n Broad- way Nov. 2. "A L,id\s Virfnt" (.Sliuberti^) <l<biits at the ;t!>th Street 0(t. 20. .Mary and Fl<.reti( c Nasli starretl and Roberl Waiw ick fe.i- tured. Sousa offered nla r.rst concert of the sc.i'nn In the new .'mui t<.-inrn of Mecca Temi)le, New Vork, tut. n. The noted band leader, nearlng 71. drew a crowd numbering 4,000. The New York ''Herald's' London bureau submitted a story Oct. 1' saying the Labor par.y has voted to create an orchestral organiwi- tlon for London labor. Noel Coward, author and star oi "The \ ill tex," was guest of hon« r at a dinner .Sunday night given by IO!s;e de Wolfe at htr -New Yolk home. AVaslungton .Sqiuire Playii's, Ran- dolph .Sonmit rviIJe. dire<- or, Jiave obtained jicrmission from George Heinard Shaw to produce 'Fanny's First Play,' "Misalliance," "Getting Married," and "liow He Lle<l To Her Husband." The Square Players comprise stu- dents or former students al New York I niversity. "The News" is giving .spec.al it- tentlon to charges made by Mile. Vraie, opera singer, that the "so- called opera trust" had ruined her career through its workings. "The News" regards the prima donna's charge as sensational, and is quoting statements made by the diva that a gigantic trust controls the musical world of America, in- sisting through its backers upon some "verbal agreements." Pathe News gives a dinner Nov. 14 in the Hotel Plaza, New York, and Vice-President Dawes is an- nounced as the main speaker. In his Sunday sermon (Oct. 11) the Rev. 'T^anon H. Adye Prichard, .acting dean of the Cathedral <jf St. John the Divine, star.led New Y'orkers with his emphatic state- ments about prohibition, pict-- -, books and plays. He assailed the films as "degrad- ing" and that they had a low, vul- gar and degrading attitude toward human life. He said there were books and plays that also repre- sented challenges and he al.so toolt a fling at divorc^. Regarding i^Toliibitlon, Dean Prichard said ;hat a man drinks, and yet speaks loudly in favor o' prohibition, which in hi.S viewpoint was immoral. CHICAGO Evan Burrows Fontaine was re- leased in $5,000 bonds w hile ' her lawyers prepare to fight extradition proceedings to bring her b.ick to California to a^iug^v contempt charges in the FetVPriil Court aris- ing out of her filing a second suit against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit- ney. An injunction was previously issued against Miss Fontaine pre- venting her suing Whitney again. She is now at Ike Bloom's Deau- ville Cafe. Ted Coy accompanied his wife. Jeanne Eagels, is In town for the opening of "Rain" at the Harris. Miss E:agels gave out an Interview- that while she loved her art she loved her Ted even more and that if he hadn't agreed to come to Chi- cago she would have called It all off. The p.a. for "Kid Boots" has had a two column cut and story in the Hearst papers practically every day since the show.,opened. Eddie Cantor and associates will give a midnight performance of "Kid Boots" this week at the Woods. The Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial theatre, which opens Oct. 20, will have the European system of seating, the rows being wide spaces an<r entered from the sides. There will be no central aisles. It is considered Improbable that the Chicago Opera will broadcast this season for several reasons. his wife, Eetelle layjor, picture ac- tress, they say. The couple seem to be happjr together and deny rumors a separation is pending. Anna Q. Nilson has filed eult for divorce against I er husband, J. Mar- shall Gunnerson. whom she married Feb. 16, 1923. Gunncri^on Is a shoe manufacturers. She charges non- support, cruelty and inhuman treat- ment. The ctiuple separated March 15 last. No request made for ali- mony. Chas. Reimer cf the district at- torney's staff and Chief of Polled Cain of Culver City are on the search for a $6,000 wrist watch stolen from the dressing room of Constance Bennett on the Metro- GoMwyn lot.. Claiborne Foster, star of "The Patsy," is posing for health piitmes. Having broken her engagement to William Haines, Metro-Goldyvyn ac- tor, Pola Negri now conies forth with the statement that Rod La Roque will make a wonderful hus- band, but not for her. She denies any Intentions of marrying La Roque or that she had secretly mar- ried him. Se admits, though, that La Roque is in her company nearly all of the time and that he has been a regular visitor at her Beverly Hills home. of theJr offlcee wrere signs re..i ] Miton Cohen, attorney for Gloria Swanson. has left for New York and will probably extend his trip to Paris. Cohen, It Is said, will confer with Miss Swanson regarding taking action against the (Hearst) Unlver- sail Service (news) for the story they printed, which Mrs. Swanson ^els besmirched the character of her hus- band. Marquis de la Felaise et de la Coutlray. It is said that Cohen will make a search of French records to prove that Mi.ss Swanson's liusband can trace his antecedent sto royalty. Barnes City, a community named after Al G. Barnes, the circus man, located between Culver City and Venice, is desirous of becoming in- corporated as ii vlHiige. E. M. Asher, pic ure producer, has purchased "Stella." a nude painting made famous at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. It is said he paid $5,000 for the pic- ture, which he will hang in his new- home in Beverly Hills. When Mary Pickford, with a 19- month-old baby in her arms, slipped from a hammock into a synthetic sw.imp during a scene from "Scraps,"' her next picture, it looked as thouglj slie and the child might be immersed. Several cameramen and mechanics waded into the water and pulled her out from three-foot depth of mud and dirt. Hector TurnbuU. west coast su- pervisor of production for F. P., is en route to .New York for the pur- pose of looking at a number of the present season's crop of stage plays. Plans have been filed for the erec- tion of A theatre seating 1.200, to be operated by Wm. T. Wyati at Sev- enth and Vermont streets. The pol- icy will be dramatic stock. It will be known ss the Wyatt theatre and is being financed by a number of business men in the Vermont avenue section. Katherine Hatch, film actiess and dancer, who asserts that she wa.^ engaged to participate in the pub- licity stunt at the Ventm-a counf>- fair and while performing her duties was pernianentl.v injured in an auto- mobile accident, has brought suit for $15,()00 damages against VVni. E. Buch, Inc.; Horace McVay and Wm. P. Connors in the Superior Court. The accident happened Sept. Ifi. when an automobile operated by McVay and Connors, employed by the Bush company, collided with another m.-ichine and turned over. Injuring Mifs Hatch. SPECS AND AMATEURS Will Rogers will do a one-min show at the Auditorium Nov. 1. (Continued from page 1) Series games here to make one grand killing .ind were b«'a\itiriil)y scalped themselves at the. hands of W. K. Hollander, press agent for'*^*'''" «>'^" «<''ivlties. They were Balaban and Katz, Is tfi. k fo Chlr, "•'"''< ''«>"• cago after dCTtig his siiifr in Br»s»'[-'"*jfSte|ul of making n cleaning ih«,v ton for the opening of the Metro- were neatly ele ined themseUeF. The polltan there. j bottom fell out of prices as the time "Arabesque." which debuted last'^^'" "'«'„^'-';' ^-'"'''"^ approacy*H| and week ill Buffalo, is the work of!'^"» '«""« ^''^ ^^ *i"'« «'"^V Cloyd Head and his wife. Eunice I I^"t *" """* "' '^i« '>'« "^'pw Tietjens, who live In Oak Park, a! Yorkers certainly stole a niar* ii on suburb. i the local boys. Everybody here ,„,, ,, ~7 ,"~, ^^ . . I knew or t>elieved that if caught is ,rn^re"of''trc^'''/;'?',Iren-' !-«••>'"« ^^^^ ^^ "' '^'T,'"''' tation wliich will feature Josepli .ind''' '^*'''*' ^^« '" ^'^ *^"> scalping at Rose Moraehe, brother and sls'er "" *t w<nild have to be done stiictly winners of the city Ch.irleston con-| under cover and with tlie pieafest t^st. I of secrec.v. Then in trooje*! a flock _ _ „■" " , . 'of .New Yorkers, -wise in the wavs i-f Constaifee Talmadge s latest Pi<-|meetinc «iieh t situation ture. "Her Sinter hYoni I'aris." has' '"'^ '^ '^ sitiiatum 'I'l e> en- been banned from Chicago by the xaK*"*! :'" «<lori.ey here. He scanned local blue pencil girls. It w,is to show at flie Chicago The.'iire this we«k with the rest of the b. & K. tiouses to folUiw. LOS ANGELES Despite reports from the e;ivi th»if is no niotrimonl.'il tniankrle- m«'nt between Jaik I lenipnev and the law tKioks and found therein no loia of int'orniation declaring it is ilP'gal to sell ticket;; at price."-: high- er llian liieir face value. So these New Yorkers. ut»>D ad- \ict» of tliiir i.iw^vr. initiieuiatvly took out broker's licenses. Two pro- eined i.ffieo liftiil in the htari of the dowiiiowc oisliie! ol tlu . iiy .ind iipeiied lor bostntKS. <iri the fttini "Tlcketo for the WorlV'US? Doutrht, Sold and Exchansed "iC •ven went so far as to insert V^ advertisements in the loea; dai)i. Plttsburghers were starti.o tU audacity of these scalpers y,^. *• palling. Pittsburgh specuiail,. gamblers and boys aroiiiul town 2 never heard of such a thing bm less never dreamt that bucfj «2 was possessed by any human ^ The superintendent of ^St learned of the opening of the sc^ Ing ofBcert. He sent a i^ioup o) cers to one of the two plncei um ordered the signs torn down. -jZ scalpers openly defied the com They called in their attorney. Jf Immediately challenged the poli,,,! show him any law on tiie sutwi books which prevents the selling ol tickets at inflated prices. To th* scalpers, his clientst he said, -Pu, your sign up again and let yow business go on." That was the end of police lniti.\ ference. The next morning (},p pj^' pers all came out with big ficnj page stories about the opening ^t the scalpers' offlces. One of the»p». pers spread the story over thi»« columns pear the top of the pag* with a three-column bla> k head, it gave the addresses of the iilaces am that day fans by the hundr*di flocked there. The "buy" part «( the sign drew them like a mighty magnet would draw a fragment •! steel. These were the fans who h»4' bought three tickets each, thouft they could afford only one, artd wm glad to jump at an opportunity ot disposing of the reni.'iiiiiMM iwoasj at a profit. Amateur Scalpers They became at that niomwt amateur scalpers, created by "Bon* other than Barney Drevfuss, grani owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates who wouldn't sell single tickets for hii ball orchtird. but made his custom* ers buy three at a time. TWi method Incidentally let the aitial fellows out, the fans who .--iiiportei the team and^who couldn't s«« spending $16.50 for a reserved .seat to witness .-i single game, l.iiitwii* with thousands of baseball fans Ifecjrt this method put Mr. Dre\i'u«is or. I par in popularity with a fiia mij«« ster. It created a peculiar |u..~u.<'n«l far as the professional scalofrs w«» concerned. These amateurs as tlwT: were called by the formc-r, \\amf4 exorbitant prices for theii- dmaH They thought nothing of asi<iii;; tbt ticket broker $10, $12 and even til for a ticket. The professional s alp- ers, the New York boys. . t-oVi'oW them up at these prices. Tliey la turn had visitms of getting $-0 and 25, and even iiigher for the priied pasteboards. Great Ticiifits loonitd before them. The town h.id gen« baseball mut. The first pennant In 16 years threw the city into * frenzy of excitement. Everybody wanted to see the games. 10 tiiDM tMfe number that could be hcoob- iiiodated at Forbes Field. Tin scalpers knew that Mr. Dreyfusshad turned back over $500,000 in certl- ed checks for tickets. (TliatJn didn't get heart failure in doing M ' Is a miracle.) Then, too, the scalpers were ap- prised of the fact that thousands of out-of-towners would be floi king In a day or two before the opening game. They would want tiekctK » they listened to the <ieman<U of IM amateur scalpers and paid tHtif prices. The visitors came In *" right, 100.000 of them, and tW wanted to s< e the games. The First Wrench ■ " Then the first wrench w.iv thrown into the works. The g«/\ c-iimcnt has a right to collect 50 ptr ctnt. of the profits made in ti.l<ei tfalp* ing. From the Internal Kevefiirti Department went fc>rlh a"eMis "'it" instrucyoB,B Uo park at tl.e i*^*^ fices from ojieiiing till dosini.' w.itffl every sale, every traiisa' tii-n, """ grab off a half for I n. Ic Sani- There was eoiisideiable seeing «' tickets but on the morning of tW «>j'*ning game, with huriican* sui"' ness, the bottom fell <nit of |vi'** The .scalper found liim-eK "tucl with a sto'-k tliat would he vili il:'* in a few hours. \Vhen they asked fans $10 ea<h for the du.: ts. U«* than they themselves paid fov thcnij the fan laughed and walked o'lf. A* the time wore on and 2 o'rli" K. 'j' time set for fhe opening .f tlt« game rapidly approached, the ivi-'* i.ia.I «' ;... .1.1'y t!l»<- droi'l-erl lower and lowt game time ticl\eis ueic ■' selling at face value iin«t i.c.e'v It was a CISC of eiil.e: t ett"* something or nothing .'ii •■" what lilt hci'iptlfe diO fcl" ^ -'"^ enough. They were oj.iii.v and inslead of going to \> with the team t'ley d< !• hea V v ini..ts i.iii! li^ti' r find 1.1 ntr*""