Variety (Sep 1926)

26 VARIETY VAUDEVILLE Wednesday, September 1, 1926 HEADUNER OF DAVIS DOING 4 SHOWS DMY-OIHERS 3 Peculiar Playing Angle for Formerly Straight Vaude- ville Theatre—Future Possibility in VaudeTille for DaUy Appearanpi^f—Play for Pay PKttburvh, Auc. tl. A iMCuliar iairl* (if tlie new con- tinuous policy at the Davis, formerly » iRtraight Keith - Albee-booked taudevllle house, nov plnyins con- tinuously. Is that the headliner of each bill will appear four times daily. Others of the six-act pro- cram will appear but three time*. The Dftvis iNis changed its play- Ingf performaaet to iM^Sltttlii.fl^^ picture*. . . , ihli re|wrt«d irtaytng policy is the Sret of Its kind in an American vaudeville theatre. It is to ensure ai| audience that the advertised at- tntettoa <hiMl^> win appear at •very pertorauuie* «f the show. What is known as the "State-Lake policy" plays four performances dally of Its vaudeville ^111. but an aet or im& M out of each perform- ance, giving all of the acts hu* three performances daily for themselves. Such a policy as the Davis' newest to lotfci] tor iNradevflle theatres if not wholly agrreeable to the hoad- liners. It is in line with the picture house playing system that vaude- Tine qC indibt fSiam iwini gir Ub- eraUy borroWod from lA Wiy Ur Pay The Davis plan In a Keith-Albee booked vaudeville theatre is tant- amount to informing vaudeville arttola that they ttaty as woir oon- clude the time is arriving when it will be four-a-day Instead of three, and that the two-a-day will be- •eme but a iriekiiery in vaudeville* At the same time It also tells the ietor tiMit If .va«id«ville Is to de- mand four performances dally, though at present but from featured turns, that there beeomeo no rea- sonable reason left why acts should flifferontiate between the picture and the vaudeville theatre. That leaves the matter of playing or engagement right now as it should have been for years with the vaude- ville actor—to play with the man- agement that will pay the most. K-A BOOKING CHANGE Wayflo Christy Now Handliiit Eight Weeka A shake up In the bookings In the Xoltli-Albee office places BlU Howard on the books of Indianap- olis, Cincinnati and Detroit, Wayne Christy booking the Davis, Pitts- burgh under the new policy, with Bill McCaffrey continuing the bopkr ing of the Palace, Cleveland. The change gives Wayne Christy eii^t weOka, his others being 105th Street, Cleveland; Palace, Cincin- nati; Erie, Columbus; Toledo; Grand Rapids; Dayton: Louisville, and 'Aki^B ittd ~'VSiM#ttg«% igltt PHILLIPS WITH AL LEWIS Sidney Phillips has Joined Al I«ewis, Inc., and succeeds Ben Boyer In ^largo of vaiidevllle productions. Boyer reslgttOS recently to enter the legit produciOS field on his omn M Boyer, Inc. )': -■:'.: Mllllps w»« l^vovtovsly aoiiNiftl with pioCUro hOUiS booklnjrt tMt iutm thur XMbk Marcus Loew BOOKINGAGENCY General Executive Offices LOEW SUIIDIHG AN N EX 160 WEST 4^6^ST* BKVANT-9850-'NEW YORKaTV J. H. LUBIN QSNERAT. MANAGI HARVIN H. SCHENCK ::_i_ »0OKnHI MANACUia-ll^ CHICAGO OFFICE 6Q4 WOODS THEATRE B*LD*Q JOHNNY JOiffiS DC csuamm SUN'S EXPANSION Despite the ooUapM of the pro- posed ^us Sun-Jack Llnder merger called off by Linder last week, Qus Sun has not abandoned his idea of Invading oaatom territory. With the previous merger off it is likely fiun will reorganize his New York Ofllce and expand in the east Although nothing official has been passed out by Warren Tofld, general manager of Qus Sun's New Tork office, vndOrgroiikid channel reports have it that Sun has been corresponding with field men with present connections, proposing their swinging over to too Sun C^ult and going after independent houses in the east to bo added to the Sun Circuit With the ooUapoo o( the Bun- Under deal the idea of enfranchis- ing agents to book on the Sun Cir- cuit has also been temporarily abandoned until raeh time as the circuit to ready to announce Its further plans for InvaOlon of oaot- em territory. HIP AS'GRIND' IN GOOD START $60,000 Adttd Of Poa Chain in Injury Suit Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 81. Poll Entor prto so , IbOh and 8. Z. Poll, president, have been named defendants in suits of $60,000 filed in Superior Court here on befialf of MarloB lioako and her hoahand, Arthur G. Leake, of this city. The suits are the result of injuries suf- fered by Mrs. Leake. Her plea to for $60,000 and the husband's for $10,000. The complaint sets forth that due to the negligence of employes of the theatrical enterprise, Mrs. Leake suMM ntuBorovo lacerationo of the head and body, including a sprain of the right hip and concussion of the brain. The injuries resulted when Mrs. Ltsko 'Mllded Vtolent- ly" with a fire escape as she was making her way through an alley exit of the local Majestic theatre. She was hurrying and ran Into the Loew's First Routes The first two official routes for the new season tosued by Loew for tholr i^lBlM bonoeo are to the Al- bert de Courville revue and to Al Herman's Minstrels. De Courville opened a week ago Saturday and Honnaa Wkm ott IBto mminj Sat- urday from the State, St. Louis. Both routes are identical, start- ing in St. Louis, thence to Allen, CleivOtaad; AldlJlO, MfUburgh; Washington, D. C; Century, Balti- more; and State* Boston. OpeMd MoBclay to $iJS0O at 25-50 Cento The Hippodrome new grind poUey of continuous vaudeville and pic- tures at a 25 cent matinee and 50 cent top, nights, opened Monday with an estimate the bouoo would groMi |t,BOO OB the dny, whioh was not capacity. The opening was preceded by un- usual publicity and the house given tho benefit of overy oonthigency in having a strong feature picture in "Young April" featuring two New Tork favorites, Joseph and Rudolph Schlldkmiit: A Wg ;tlM tlS-Mt vaudevlUa bill and tlio now' prloo scale. The new policy to expected to pull the Hfp out of tho red but Times Square experts are reserving forecasts until the season gets well under way, arguing that openings are no guides. It to expected the new policy will do if the feature pictures stand up. Vaudeville has proven it cannot draw people to tho Hippodrome. Btith avenue being as far away from Broadway theatrically as Staten toland. Last Season Last season the Hippodrome weekly '"nut" was said to be around $25,000. Drastic economics have been instituted this season, the house staff and salaries cut to the bone, but tho ovorfte^d remains such that consistently good busi- ness will be neeessary. to show a profit. Tho house has been given all the breaks, including that pre-release franchise for P. D. G. features, which are a matter of speculation as agBlnst their Broadway competi- tors. Thomas Gorman to the manager and I. R. Samueto the booking man. Gorman WM tl|0 orlgtoiU oiaiiagor of the house whOB It was taken over by Keith-Albee, while Samuels has been given most of the 'sick' houses at different times, In^uding the now almost defunct Royal and Al- hambra, $mt^ thS tOtlMljr Colonial. Dan Cellinsp Intfepondont Agent Danny Collins has left the Harry Fitzgerald Agency (Keith - Albee) and will operate as an independent Sf«Bt. ACTS AT ST. LOUIS EXPO. St. Louis, Aug. 31. St. Louto' largest exposition since the World's Fair opsns hoio Satur- day (Sept. 4). It will run until Sept. 19. A principal feature will be Bmie Toung's ^'&q»08itlon Vroltes,** with the Six Brown Brothers. Russian Cossack Troupe, Toby Wells' Acro- batic Clowns, Joe Jackson, Coster aaC IUeli, John Qrlfflth, and Four flsnsstlniisl Jacks. BOOKINQ CHANOE Southern K-A Houses Turned Over to Interstate and W. A V. Bpokera The Ritk. Birmingham. Ato.. and Forsythe, Atlanta, Ga., two of the Interstate bouses formerly booked by Jules* Delmar, through tho Keith-Albee Exchange, are now be- ing booked by Charles -Freeman, Interstate booker. Norfolk and Richmond, formerly booked by Del- mar, are now being penciled by Frank O'Brien, of tho Wilmer and Vincent Circuit Norfolk and Richmond, when booked by Delmar, played bills which could not be carried further south, due to their cost. The cheap- er K-A southont road shows opened' in Roanoke, Va., and played tho balance of the circuit which gave Birmingham and Atlanta indiffer- enjt vaudevlUe. . • • 2 Weeks on Interstate Added in the South AttoBta, Aug. tl. Itaterstato will book tho now Famous Players-Kelth-Albee house here when it opens around the mid- dle of September with vaudeville and piotnres. pIsytBg a fun week. Another new house, the Interstate Circuit's own, at Birmingham, Ala., and also a full week, to now added to the Diterstato's rovtSb tIMn it llH weokSi soTSB of whleli are fun weeks. On the Interstate route the Jump win be from Now Tork over a weOk of Famous Players (PabUz) one*. nlghters into Birmingham, then At« lanta to close the tour. Michigan Vaudeville Nttiien AsMciitiaa Lti , OKABLiiD MACK. o«o, ifaaaser 8118 John R St. DRmoiT. MICH. Booking * AcU Diitel |L E. KafMW in Show Robert Emmett Keane wlU ptoy one of the leadlnp roles In the new Erlanger production of "Happy Go Lucky," thoroby ruining a perfectly good OrplMum Circuit unit. ' Keene was slated to head one of the units assisted by Ctoire Whit- ney (Mrs. Kssao) but eouM not agree with the Orphcum peopio on salary, aooording to report. Hayes-Lorraine Again Leo Hayes and Harriet Lorraine have reunited as a vande tea. The duo did an act earl^ last season but dissolved because of illness of Miss Lorraine, who subsequently under- Irving 'Ik IFtant »io win again tour in *'Ro8e-Marie." composed a melody during his vacation called "First Lady Waltz," which is dedi- cated to tho wlf^||»f tho President. ACKERMAN & HARRIS txicimvi oFFiCBSi THIRD FLOOR, PHELAN BLDG. MARKET. GRANT and OTARRELL STREETS SAN FRANCISCO ELLA HERBERT WESTON, Baokmg Manager U)S AWOIf <H CONSOLIDATBD BLDO. BERT LEVEY CIRCUIT A VAUDEVILLE AGENCY WHICH PRODUCES MORE THAN IT PROMISES. CONSISTENT, EFFICIENT SERVICE SINCE 1913 The Fally Markus Vaudeville Agency 1579 Brakdway LMlttwuuMi. 7876 N«w Yotli City MEYER GOLDEN Presents GRACELLA and THEODOR in "NIGHTS OF LOVE" THIS WEEK (AUG. 30), KEITH-ALBEE HIPPODROME, NEW YORK KISMET'SISTERS and CO. Thu Week . 30) LOEWS STATE, NEW YORK DvrmcHon MAX OBERNDORF