Variety (Jan 1927)

-« ft •r WtdaMday, January ig, 1927 VAUDEVILLE VARIETY S7 DE KALB DODGES VAUDE 'COMPETITION;NOW TABS S. & S. Circuit Cliange Policy of Brooklyn Houae—Contin- ' uoui Parformanee Mow Th« De Kalb theatre, Brooklyn, i switched from vaudeville to «tock burlesque tab revue Monday. 8ig- mund 8. Salomon, district manager of the 8. and S. Circuit states the ebang*' !• 4uo to the auperabund- • .tavern of Taudevllle houeea in the > laistrlct With Gates, Bush wick, and the Balsey within a few blocks, the .De Kalb has been on the wrong •nd tat Mm* tuno iMuit. y,. .Aaatabk liM • olMrua pi la sad '^t l^World'e Only Monopede Comedian I :ta%d Danoer (Olackbottoming) t This WMk (Jan. 17) L oow't' aietro»o»t«w, Orookiyn 125 "Silent Salesmen" Several independent bookers are Inoreaaing their revenue through placement of silent salesmen vending machines houses on their books. ▲ new corporation has been canvassing ths bookers and offering bonuses of $2S for each machine placed In on a season's contract Ono booker placed M of these contrivances last week and received a check of $500 for his trouble. nine principals in a 60-minute per- formance. A continuous perform- ance Is expected is raise the grosses while at the same time do- ing away with restrictions applying on legit offerings. This ineans .in one instanoe^ that the show will bo allowed to run Sunday. Coughlin's Tab Jim Coughlin. firom muslesl com- edy, is entering vaudeville, heading a tabloid musical, "The Rest Cure." He opens on the K-A circuit in two weelDi. ^ -v;' Four otlMfs a«o la ttio tnapart cast OVE-PRODUCED FLASH AOS: FROM MANY DANCING SCHOOI^ MABBIAOES Jinette Vallon, 19, of the dance team of Carlos and Jinette, in San Francisco, Jan. 10, to Rorjald Hurst, saxophone player at the Boulevard theatre, Los Angeles. Jack Bennj, comedian, to Sadie Marks, non-professicrnal, in Chicago Jan. 15. Benny is in Chi- cago with "Great Temptations." mm BACK TO THE STATES again at B. F. Keith's Palaoa» N. Y. (Week Jan. 17) • . r - •< • Jf BERT ERROL INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS biroction JENIC JACOBa—ERNSaT BDttaTCN Congested condition of flash acts duo to tbo obligatory ooaditions of tho Tarloos daaoo Mbools to pro- vide employmoBt for pnpili has crealei a wpair 9i tUi tjpo of offorint f>ur le moiw oC tho de- mand. The oversupplj bag oron tho la- dependent bookers, who foraierlir welcomed these ensembles et a price, shopping carefully. The influx recently parallels the band erase in vaudeville two years badt In that Instance when'a few "name" bands clicked all sorts of "scrub" organizations were grouped together for' vaudeville with wise promoters with a produofnir com- plex taking in ambitious young musicians with money to finance acu figuring that if thb standard circuits passed np their product the independents would take them. Their prophecies materialized while the band craze was new but soon petered out 88 Dance achools A survey on dancing schools in operation shows 26 operatioig, all guaranteeing placements of pupils When courses have been completed. Any sort of placement Is an "out" on the agreement between school and pupil. The flash act was pounced upon by the dancing school operators as an *'out" on the em- ployment-guaranteed clause. With this channel closing the school heads aro in a quandary as to the next mOvo. The guaranteed employment clause when written in the pupil's agreement puts it up to the school to deliver or else court a Jam for misrepresentation. Since the fla«h act craze has at least temporarily flopped the nnartor school oper- ators are no longer guaranteeing placement in writing as they iiad previously done. KEENEY'S ELMliM PROFIT Comoo Out In auit by M. tlbaon * ■ for aaiary Elmira. N. T., Jan. It. Malcolm D. Gibson's cktim for salary as manager from Frank'A. Keeney of New York was up before Justice Abraham JU Kiglogg, of Qn- eonta. OfbsoB itmm former manager of the Keeney theatre. Attorney William Plannery, for the defense, was granted five days In whtoh to put in a supplemental answer and additional arguments. One of the original points of de- fense against recovery by Gibson %tM "impossibility of performance of contract because tho theatre had been sold." Attorney Phillip Lonergan at- tacked this defense, declaring that when Keenoy entered into the contract to hire Gibson he knew he was fighting competition and was doing so for a purpose^ Lionergan pointed Out that K ee n o y was not at an ultimate flnancfal loss because his program had been carried out so successfully bis competitors had been foroed to purphaao' ibo lease of the Keeney theatre vnder terms by which they are to pay $100,000 in rentals i^bove that paid by Once again the Willis (Bronx) has changed managers. When Harry Lieighton seemed set for the season ho is leaving and Ely Frankel is now manager. The Willis is playing pictures and vaude with three splits. Sunday is one of the change daya SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMEHTl ALBERT S. UYENO AND CO. SEVEN (7) IN NUM9ER Formerly Known m Now in Their 20th Anniversary BErrER TThiAN EVER GREATEST COMBINATION OF; Pyramid Hand Balancing Contortiona, Tub Juggling 6 People Ground Tumbling 2 and 7 People Ritley FEATURING: 35 Spot-Flio-Flaps on Table and 45 Back Somersaults in Risley ,/v,.«n«f.^« . •TRAHO THBATIIt lUILDINa JOHNSON & LOWENSTEIN, Inc. n.w vork Organa Organs are being installed at the Hippodrome, New York and Bushwick, Brooklyn, ac- cording to information. LEVEY'S M. P. BOOKINQS Coast Agent Going After liowr Field—Change on Books X San Wanoisco, Jan. 11. Phil A. Frease, for many years booker for Bert Levey, is off the book due to a near-nervous break- down. Ho la booking picture houses for Levey. One of his first bookings in the new flcld was Ben Nee One for 20 weeks with Fanchon and Ifaroo. The Levey office is goina after the picture houses strong. Bert Catley is handling the book for i" PAN LAY OFF FJJMTNAT] Kansas City, Jan. Starting Jan. t tho entfaro tages bill goes to the Gilloiz tIio- atre, Springfield, Mo., instead of, to Memphis. Tlie Springfield housO Ig managed by Walter Feeney, fot» merly of this city. By the new arrang»»ment. Pan acts have the benefit of the extra three days at Springfield, withovl the three-day layoff between h4 an(^ Moinphfs MARION ORPHEUM crRcurr *lf more spontaneous en- tortatners of this type were in vaudeville Instead of in musical comedy, the sub- ject of Is vaudeville deadr wouldn't have so many «f- flrmatlTO debaters." ^VARIETY. i HEADLINING HIPPODROME, NEW YORK This Week (Jan. 17) MAiiia lOWARO CHANEY AND FOX *'DANCE VISIO NS OF 1927'^ A HARRY ROYE PRODUCTION Next Week (Jan. 24) HEADUNING, EARLE, PHUA. Dir. LEW COLDER