Variety (Apr 1927)

WfdnitdisFi AprO if, 1M7 VARIETY n MINNEAPOLIS Metropolitan—"Mubic Bu]( iievue." jShMbtrt—^Belleve M«, X»ntipp«" (Balnbrldge Players). Honnopin-Orphoum — Vaudeville, pictures. Pantagot—^Vaudevill« (Van aild gchenck), pictures. pplMa-^'Tha Deml^VlivlB'* (M^:- Oall-Crldf?e tab.). > Savsnth Btroet^VaUdeville ("Sun- cMika fliMDny**K ptcturaa. day^tX'-CArria Finnall ShaF (Mu^ tual). Stata—"Aft&lr of tha Fotlias," Vituphone (Elbmui), "SoDsa of the Cka" (stage). Oafriok—"A Kiss In a Taxi." Strand—' The Yankee Clipper." Lyrie—"Love's Greatest Mistake." Qpand^''The Wron« Mrs. Wright.*' Fred Harding, former Hennepln- Orpheum publicity man, has rc- ilgned as manager, Orpheum Cir- m% hou—, Sp ringfleK ^ JUL ,^ With the promoters featuring home talent in most of the uhows and holding pricea down to a 13.30 top, boxing has staged a great coniS* bac^ here. There are weelily shows drawing from $6,000 to $8,000, the last three being complete sell-oyts m t^e Armory. "Buzz" Baiubridga is bringing Fred Ekio from New York for a single week's engagement to play Romeo opposite the Juliet of Mary Toung, present guest star at the Shubert. It will be the Bainbridge Players' first fling at a Shakespeare 'play, but they have tackled Shaw. Masefleld. Galsworthy, O'Neill, Jones, Pinero, Ibsen and Suderman with marked sueoeas. After Miss Young's engagement next week .Edith Taliaferro returns for three weeks, foUowed by Martha Hodman lor three weeks. *«TralawBir of the WoUa" playa the MetropoUtan May n IV , v Fred Randall, winner of a aong writing contest held by Pantages, has been routed by Manager Bostick over the circuit* 1 The Garrick (F. & R. movie), used loeal •ehoruses for a stage act last week, the Madrigal Ladles' Chorus (36) worked three nights and tho muni^lMa: tfkoM Uftl two Bights. Florence Macbeth, Minnesota ginger, will take part In opening of the new municipal auditorium in June. '■' ' Helen Joy has replaced Bella Calms as leading lady, Casey Play- ^TS (stock), at the President, St. Paul. Martha Hedman (guest star) uppears in "Outcast" andmdda Gabler/' jtarti ng May %. Flnkeisteln & Ruben have In- stalled stock at the Princess, St. Paul, in connection with the photo- play program. Its personnel con- sists almost entirely of Vfimft Twin City players. Two new movlo theatres have been announced for Richfield, a sub- urb. which Mlnn« ap(>lis has just an- nexed. Joseph W. Cohen, owner of the Lagoon theatre, now leased by F. & R., will or,>( t a $125,000 hou.se to be equipped tor Vitaphone and vaudeville, as well as screen offer- ings. Thf othor thfatre, to cost $B0,000, will be eretied on property owned by A. R. Wattles. Jack R. Keegan, publicity mana- ger for Vitaphone, has advised Ed- die r.alllnaKh, Minneapolis F. A R. j advertising manager, that the news- \ paper advorti.sing copy prepared by ' fl.tllinagh for Vlt.iphone here will be ,sent to all tho theatres with Vitaphone Installation throughout the United States as a model. . INDIANAPOLIS iy CDWIN V. O'NUL Murat—Dark. Enolish't~"L,Utle SpitiOro,'^ Ber- kell stock. Keith'o^Vattde <UMt week of sea- son). Oirol»—^tter Ole/* VIU. Apollo—"Johnny Hair Cut." Colonial~"Beau Qeste" (2d last week). ' v.: Ohio—' Mr. Wu. " Mutual—Burlesque. Last week of big time vaudeville at Keith's this season. Stuart Walker's stock company wlU open thoro wlUi "Road to Yestorday.^ Bella noto' circus here Ifay t. A buildlQg permit petition for a $l.S60i000 house at tSth and Merid- ian streets has been withdrawn by Mark Margolis, promoter, following a storm of protest from a Methodist churoh CWifregation. >: i ffte*Rozy downtown moTle house to be erected by Fox, according to dispatches. New movies will be In oonnection with the James Whit- comb Riley $3,500,000 hotel at Ken- tucky avenue and Illinois street, ac- oordlng to rumor. The site la iMa than a block from the Tythlsr» —IT Indiana Publix house. VARIETY BUREAU WASHINGTON, D. C. 616 Ths Argonna (1029 Columbia Road) Tetepheno eolwnhia 4|lt Michael Freedman. Schine aide, put "\ er the stunt. Mrs. David Ross, Indianapolis, was re-elected president of the Na- tional Indorsers of Phot<q|^asra in convontloB last week. Pat Heavey, Terre Haute, man- ager of Hippodrome and Liberty houses, goes to Saginaw, Mich., to become manager 9i houso there. The Colonial, operated by Harry E. Cohen and Edmund Bingham, was placed in the hands of receiv- ers. Sale price of the fumiidiihgs purchased by the Capitol Amuse- ment Co. was $941. H. H, Wood- small, Indianapolis, la dent a< tk» |ton|busch Mil, Theodore W. Barhydt, 17, died in Terre Haute. He was the for- former lessee of the Grand and at one time was half owner of a the- atre thore, first oomhlnatkMi Ipouae in the city. ^ Oeorge Somnes. director, Stuart Walker stock, which opens here May t at Keith's, was to confer with Walker In Now Tork^thla week.. Jules Buffano, composer, succeeds Arthur Oelsler as director of the Texas Orchestra, the latter having been transferred to aMithar Pvhlls houaa^' - JAiy Cahin, one time Broadway star, scored a hit with the first production of I>ittle Theatre's "Dover Road," presented under iMir man- agamont. By HARDie MCAKIN Beiasco (Shubert)—George Arll^s in "Old Cnglish." Sunday night of week giveii over to Jacob Ben Ami in "rJanison and Delilah." Week seemingly marks end or sea-ion. National (Rapley)---NlghtHawk"; next, Eva Lo Qai)Honnif;r Miy |» Cochran stock. ' ^ ; : Poll's (Sbuboipt)—Dark, ovideiitly for season. Earia (Stanley Co.)—Vaude-pcts. Keith's (K-A)—Vaude. Gayety (Columbia)—"Kongo." Mutual (Mutual)—Burlesque.' Sat- urday next end of season. Strand (Linklns)—I*cts-burlesQu« Wardmaii l ^iHi ' ^ea^ Ototf/* Pieturaa Columbia—"Love of Sunya" (run). Little —'•Caligarl": next, "Cran- quebiiie" and ''IMiiUMa Wanta KO (MiiUlren." Metropolitan — "Sea Tiger" and Vitaphone; next, "Three Hours." Pslace~"Let It 9ain"; aairt, F$re BriRade." Rial to—"God Gave Me 20 Cehta**; next, "Menu Cristo'V (rala(Mia>, Washington is seeing the neces- sity of advertising an orchestra as "in person." Warlng's Pennsyl- vanlans, as a Vitaphone, were last week at the Met. This week the orehigtra itself is topping the Barle Vitaphone may h.ive failed to dirk in some towns, but In Syra- cuse it is drawing? land-oflUr l.u.>>!- ne.ss to tho Strand. The liuuse wiih "Don Juan" last week lulled Up a record gross. After a yery much up-and-down sea.«ion of it the Mutual closea on Saturday night. Tho Qayety«<|MW* ever, is eontuivlhg; * The Villa Roma» a roadhouse on the RoekvUle plk# about fliNi miles from Jtown, is trying It again. Moe Baer'^ias his orchestra set as the ■■iliall'lHl •■■•■■Mill" Edwin Wmiamson, for nine years chief electrician ^ th* Hat, and Gertrude McKoa. iNl^ Kaster Monday. Elsie Janls is in for a quick re- peat at Keith's. She replaced Ce- cilia Loftus and Blossom Seeley, originally scheduM tO split thO top billing position. KANSAS CITY By WILL. R. HUGHES 8hubert—"The Honor of the Fam- ily" (Otis Skinner). Missouri—National Playarii atock. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Newman—"KlMekoiif Homy" and Publix (unit). Royal—"Children of Divorce" (2d week). Mainstrast—^Vaudeville, pictures. Liberty--"Shadow8" (picture). Pantages—Vaudeville, pictures. Globa^LoiO Brtdco (8tock>« clo- tures. Garden—Vaudeville, pictures. ^mproM^^lirlooquo (IfVtiua). SCENERY STUDIO REHEARSAL HALLS Drop Curtalna la SHk. V«lY«t ana Palntod Sateen W. H. BUMPUS, INC. tM West 4eth 8t^ New York FOR MODERN •EN8ATI0NAL •TAGE DANCING 8tr«tetalas sad Llmbsrlat Sserslsss Now at 118-136 W. 43d 8t. Now York LOUISVILLE By P. H. D. Brown—"The Patay" (atock). Rialto—Vaudo. "Devil Horse' (24, 25, 27); "Remoml 29, M). . Iri^'i 8trand—VlUphono—"Speelal l>i^ livery." Mary Anderaon — "Knockout RelUy." ' Majestic—"Orchids and Ermine." Walnut—"Husband < by Proxy" (musical stock). NstionsI—"Afraid to Love." Gayety—"Skyrockets" (Mutual). Alamo—**Bltter Apploa.** The Brown Players (summer stock) did excellent business here on their Initial offering of "The Butter and Egg Man." Robert Mid- dlemaas In the Broadway produc- tion bad the same rolo In the stock cast. The Junior Lea^uo Follies, the town's biggest amateur annual, at the Shubert thia week, ataged by Ned Wayburn, had t^^^M WMSs orchestra (Hotel MlUlMaoh) la tllO Night Club acene. The Ted WooiBi OPflliestra, which holds the long run record of the Hotel Muhlebach's Plantation Grill, leaves May 1 for an engagement at the Hotel Baker, Dallas, to be fol- lowed by a summer run on the Steel Pier, Atlaatle GIty. The Kansas City Collegians will play at £dgewater Gardens, a aum- mer daneo plaoo hare.' .sjrTEralT' MAi^E-iir PIF^OUCT With That IMighttul Odor of Roao Ftowon GROTTA'S COLD CREAIM 16 02^14M) 8 02.—80e. Made thirty yesni nffo at .MGKVKBOCKEB PHAKMACT Milllcent Worden, with the Na- tional Players stock as Ingenue, has returned to Rye, N. Y. According to report her stay in Kansas City from pleasant. She jrave Up nn engagement with the Marx Brothers to accept the local offer. Her first week hero tinm6 lier too ill to play. The next she played a colored maid in "The First Year." A week's lay-off followod and then another "bit" In ' WoltMlfi ill jlippIV** and then home. 'V",-'/' . SYRACUSE^ N. Y. By CHESTER B. BAHN Wieting —"The Butter and Egg Man" (Frank Wilcox Co.). Temple—"Love 'Em and XiSave •Em" (Temple Players). B. F. Keith'*—VabdevUle-ploturao. Savoy—Dark. Empirs—"Let It Rain." Strand—"Casey at the Bat"-Vita- phone (Van-Schenck, Warings Pennsylvanians, Margaret McKee), Eckel—•It." Regent—"Summer Baclielors." Palace—"Mismates." Harvard—"There YOo Are.** Spring Bylngton, former Stuart Walker leadinc: lady, is Joining tlu Temple Placers its second woinun, repli^oitaff BIwyn Harvey. Fred Perry, Watertown, former I») ess aRent for Hobbins Enterprises, is handling publicity for the Bing- hn-rViton theatre. Hinghamton. Perry Is a former ai tor. David Cohen is now in charge of the Bingham tun. succeeding H. M. Addison, who has pone to Huffalo to direct the new Great Lakes theatre. The marines are much Is evidence on the local Rlalto. Last week the New Eckel used "Tell It to the Ma- rines" as its opening bill, playing to excellent buslneaOi This week it H the Rmplre's turn to cater to the leathemecics, with Doug. Mac- Lean'a T«t It Rain." Corporal .Tnmes Dwlght Snyder Detachm^^nt, Marine Corps League, provided a continuous oelor vuiu^ tor a bally- hoo at tiM Now MmI iMt week. The Century IM ly Co. has ac- cepted Leave It to Jfirry" as the new title for the Rlda Johnson Youni? play done in New York as ' Cock o' the Roost.' The title was suggested by Henry Wette of this citv in th«' < (tnte.st conducted by the Temple I'layers, who used the piece as its opener, billing It as "A Play Without a Name." Vladimir Shavitch, conductor, Syracuse Symphony, which closed its season Saturday, goes abroad immediately to. cimduct as guest conductor in LoniUjn. I'aris and Madrid. Returning to America, he V. ill serve as gue.st conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony durinp: July and August. He will conduct the Los Angeles concerts in the Hol- lywood Bowl and the Frisco orches- tra in its Berkeley series at the Greek theatre. The new Little Theatre at Hobart College. Geneva, was d^cated last week with the production by the Medbury Mummers of iRiIlIp Barry's "The Youngest.'* Hingilafi»9aiiittm. Show hero June 15-16. ^ William O'Hean of this city lias joined "The Student Prince" in Chleaffo. Dr. John H. Van Rensselaer. 68. long a figure on the local Rlalto, and house physician for several local theatres at various times, died April 24 after ian Illness of three months. The Elks conducted funeral ritea on Tuesday. DEIItOIT « By JACOB •MITH Shubsrt-Detroit—"A Night In Spain" (2d and last week). Re- ceipts the opening Sunday exceeded by |125 the record of the house. Next, premiere of "Tenth Avenue." moiodrana bjr John McGowan and Lloyd Orlaooni, with William Boyd, Edna Hibbard* Louis Calhern. Roy Gordon, Frank McHugh, Gregory Ratoff and John Rutler. Garrick—"Broadway" (2d week). Bonstslle—"Daisy Maarme." Shubert-Lafayette —'^Tho . DofO" (National Players). . New Detroit—"Cradle Snatchora" (Blanche Ring); next, Tlrolawny of the Wells." Csdillao—"Huddling Kutles." Michigsn — "Wolfs ClothlBS"- Sousa's Band. Adsms—"Slide. Kelly. Slide." Brosdway-Strand—"Her Indlacro- tion" (Bert Smith Players). State—Matinee Idols." Capitol—"The Love of Sunya." Madison—•T>on Juan"-Vltaphone. Wsshington—"The VirRlnian." Colonial—"Tarzan and the Golden LlOfc*^ PITTSBURGH By JACK A. SIMONS Alvin - "Oaye Parent' (2il \v»ok>. Gayety — Mollie WilUanis Mhow (I'olumbla). Aldine— Sliile. Kelly, Slid. " Academy— liand Box Kevue" (Mutual). Davis—"T'pstrram" and vaude. Grand— Tlie Yanki v ClipiMT." Harria^'^Whisperlng Base" aad vaude. Liberty— 'The Yankee Clipper.* Olympic—' I^on Juan*^. and vita- phono (2d week). State—"Hitter Apples." ' ' V Cameo—"The FouTtli Commatii4> ment" (2d woe^^. • V ;.. - '.r The Shubert AlWw, with •'Oay Paroe," has the town to itself this week from a lec;it offering stand- point. The Nixon closed the most succesHful season of its existenee on Saturday nig-ht, according to iiarry Brown, and the Pitt la dark follow- ing the seven-week run of "What Price Glory." A stock company will move into this houso shortly. "The Poor Nut" that wound up the season at the Nixon also folded its tent here. Tho Al¥||i will close wMh a return entrnfremenf ol *^lMi VjMlPi^ bond King," May 9. MILWAUKEE By HERB ISRAEL Pabst—(Jerman stock. Emproao ''"'*'April (St(>C\j). Gayety—Jack LaMont (Muti«al^ Alhamhra<i^*^llaattrrjletl6ii^ Cli|* week). . .' Davidson—"What Price Glory." Garden—"Birds of Prey." Majestic —"Ik rtha. tha Sawlns Machine Girl"—vaude. Merrill— The Flaminff Forreat." Millei—"California ar. JtM"^ vaude. ; -- f . Palacs—"White Gold"-^litl|ii, ■ Strsnd—'Easy Picklnga." , Wiaoonstn—"Evening Clothaa.* Oilda Gray slipped into town laat week to visit her parenta here. Ot^ leaving she announced she was ei route to New York before retumipt to California to start a new Aim. Bonstelle Playhouse starts its regular summer season May 16. with a change of program every week. The prices will also be re- dtioa«.""'''" "The Miracle" opens the new Olympic Arena In the fall. It is booked for four weeks. The Olym- pic will seat l.'i.OOO. The second at- traction will be rodeo, followed by hockey and ice akatinff on oflT nights. Efforts are being made to secure some of the big fights through Tex Rickard. The Wiaconsin la celebrating it thhrd annlveraary this Wiik ' monstlMr stage show. liH . '. . . Tho Oarrick, dirit tho grsate part of last year, mtor i^en next fal with hurlesoue. Tw WUi give thi town thros ^rt ei n i o Mliti atxt The Wisconsin News. Hearst sheet, is producing a four-reel pro- motion film, written by Hassal T. Sullivan. It will be shot In MUwau* keo with interloni i^lM OA thSiAl* hambra stage. S8TH ST* <ContlaM< fropi fago tt) \ ; ivory tickler, lllaa Korton's songs registered. So did some of the talk. The act landed squarely without much effort. Johnny Hyman held next to shut with his chalk talk and managed to oearo ttp oeoaaional rtppleo. wel- rome to an almost barren comedy bill. Johnny did nicely while on and finished to good ftCWNin' Frank Hughes and Co. closed with a dance revue. Bdha, loy Now Voric CMy INERS MAKEUP Egt Hennr C Mimt. Inc. Monk Watson, who Is still a big attraction at the Grand Riviera, has | been signed for nett season by.the Munz Theatrical Enterprlseo» Who operate the Riviera and other local housM. , Robertson Theatrical Enterprises announce a new theatre, the York, on Shaeffer road, near Michigan avenue, seating 2,500. Eyebrows Dsrkened Permsnently B^tbfov* n4 iMbM p«rf«rt«d and dariraa^d wlUi Coloon: hot aff«rt*d W WMblnf. pcrapiratlon, rrMint. ttr ; )•*(• tw wMka, pMlUf^y tamlMi. Bip«rta a« boUi •hapa. Tmtaiant BCa •« VMS SNMMIMS. tl.lt poftrald. Iflra'a. M W. Mth tl & 34 W. 4ttli St.. N.V. WANTE.D V e s r 's work* Additional salary for talonM glrto to lead aiimbers or OMciohy dsneo^ Also, two s^brottos and mala dancing tssm. ART MOELLER STAR AND GARTER THEATRE. CHICAGO, ILL.