Variety (Mar 1928)

40 VARIETY V A U D E V IL L E r Wednesday, March 21, 1928 Divorces Loiiiso Croody, in Boston, with .'*Hit tiio Dock," revortled that she had oiiiainod a divorce some time iigo fii-ia Wlilhun F. Mc-CJoc, Ne\y York stuck broker, no«- . Horviny time fur l)ucketinfr In conuiHHlon with ilie crash of IV M. FiiUpr & Co. ■ Uve years- ago. ■ .. lVeaiiK;o Mary I'ahiU'r; (]>.i.'atrlco Valo.nliiU',' ijlcttiros) from (Joorpe A. Palnu-r. Brldfircport ' mutunnaii, . whom .s'iit; murriod in wlion she •was iiv liiiinhin,',' scluiol in Hartford. ■ Wife - !.;i't.s cusiofiy of 7-year-old ila,iiRtr'r-. H A t- DANCER EXTRAORDINARY t'ealurod by * AXCHON and MAItCO CHARLES BEAUCHAMP TENOR iltli CuoNeicutlve Week ut PubHx Million Dollnr Theatre. l/os An«ele» ED D r E ROGERS •TOK NO REASON AT AO/' Now XMuyuas. for Alex Paiitoges MARRIAGES Andrew IJrook.s, niyht chib pro- l^riotor, nnd Roho C. Xane, both of N'ow York, ni)iJlled Cor a marriage liconne Rt Grci'nwicJi, Conn. Sophie SUeikcr, non-pro, / to Henry H. Toliia!., song, writer, at Park" Royal Hotel, New York, \tarch-.18i v ' Slierry .Polharn, "(lood . News" cbori.stor, to liioliard Berger, of (."hariin's 4r)th St, box otiicc, .^^a^ch 12, in New York. O. F. Washburn,' rhlladelphia,' and I.eila West, in j\It.'. Vernon, Iowa, Feb.. .11. Former manages a La\\n-enoo Weat . picture house' in Mf. Vernon.' ': John Earle to Flcota Kind, both of "Desert Song," F(>b. 1 '1,-. in Chicago, . Virginia Wiiiting, actress, daugh- ter of . the w, k, vaude two-act, neorge ^Yhlting nnd .Sadie Burt, wa.^ mnrriod March IS to AI Moore, orchestra . leader, at the ^.Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood. Irene Riccardi and A. M. Davis, Indlannpolis business man, were married in that city last week. Be- fore the marriage Mi.ss . Riccardi canceled, all contracts and an- nounced retirement. Jack McKee to Jeanette Fox-Lee tit Unity ehurch. New YoT^ City, March 15. Both legits- Mike Lyman, best known cafe man on the Pacific Coast, to Birdie Fogel; screen actress, at Ventura, Cal.; :Feb. 20. Bride Is' related to Buster Keaton., ■ Irene "SkeeteW Hartwell, dancer with Fanchon and Marco; to Charles Raymond Justus, stage actor, at Vancouver, B. C. March 12. ' ■ ■ ■ CHINESE BLUES SINGER Sl'X'OXD CONRECtnVE YEAR WITH FANCIION AND MARCO TlinnkB to Harry Wnllin King Back with Levey George King has rejoined Bert Levey and will iagain assume charge of the New York headquarters of the Bert Levey Circuit. Levey Circuit has added the Star, Milwaukee, . and Pearl, Highland Park, III. Foi-mer plays combina tion burlesque. and vaude policy with the latter playing Ave. acts Saturdays and Sundays. LOEWS REPORTED FOR CINCY OPPOSITION Cincinnati, March 20. The presence here the pa.st week of .some Loew executives prompted one of the dailies to publish a storj' that Loew's Intends to build a the- atre here and enter opposition to the Kelth-Albee, which have had the local vaude and movie situatiori to themselves. Marcus Lotjw and David AV'arfield operated a - museum In this city years ago. It has been , freely . re- ported that Marcus Loew ex pres.se.d a desire to have one of his mod- ern temples of amusement located close to the site of the museum that brought returns which helped pave tlu> way for his later succes.'^e^. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. John C. Chevalier, son, in W^ashlngton, D. C. Father is assistant manager, Washington K-A house. . . Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Sherwood, daughter, In Baltimore, Father is running Sherry's night club atop the Stanley theatre thete. Mr. a.nd Mrs. Charles Braun, In Milwaukee, son; Father is man- ager of the Miller thea,tre tliere. . • Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ciannelli March 9 at Forest Hills, L. I,, son. Father with "Broadway,", how in Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Healy at the Brooklyn Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y"., March 17, daughter. Father -is l e;;, ' lt actor, mot her—n-onn>r»f<^ Kional, .To Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Hall (Lew Kelly and Co., vaudeville), at Knickerbocker hospital. New York, March 17, son. ILL AND INJURED Itee Morse fell a victim to flu at Galveston, Tex., last week and missed a few performances at the Interstate house there. She ^ ex-! pected to reappear this week at Houston. It's the first time In her stage record Mies Morse has missed a performance. Frank Llbuse, master, of cere- monies, Cocbanut Grove, Los An- geles, recovering from a recent ton- sil operation. Viola Dana recovering fronni ill- ness in Hollywood."^ " White and Tierney resumed their vaude dates this week after sieveral. weeks' layoff due to the illness of Margie AVhite. . Daisy Harcourt, English come- dienne,. left the Roosevelt Hospital, New Y'ork, last wCtSk, aft6r having been confined for 11 weeks through illness. I. R. Samuels, independent agent, hJLS recovered from his recent^i operation and reUn-ned to his desk thiij week. Bonnie Hplzman, of Holzman and Dorfman, publicists, is confined to his tiome with neuritis, with day. and night nurses in attendance. . Bill Seymour, 15, son of Harry Seymour and Mina Cuhard, operated on last week In Nbw York . for appendicitis. Parents on the Loew time. • riugo iliesenfeld; new head of United Artists theatres, is confined to his room in the Roosevelt Hotel. Hollywood, with a strained, tendon in' his left leg. Ben- Atwell,: press represehtativc for the Chicago Civic Opera, con- fined to hia i-oom in the Congre.^is Hotel, Chicago, with a sHght attack Robert Evans, manager of Arthur Hammersteln's "Rose-Marie," bailed on the Olympic, March 17, for Ger- many. He win have charge of the. production of "Rose-Mario" at the Admiral's Palace, Berlin, starting April 15. of Influenza Ed G. Milne, eastern general ma;n^ ager of the Pirtitages Circuit, .has recovered frbm his recent Illness.. Gloria SWahson,was forced to u.se crutches .for several days when she twisted her knee during a tennis game at her home in Beverly Hills. Injury is not serious.. Melville Birown, 'Universal di- rector, is recovered from an attack of Influenza. EDDIE CANTOR DID IT . . . WILL MAHONEY DID IT . . . JOE COOK DID IT AND Houses Opening^ Coleman Brothers have taken over the Webster, Bronx, on a 21-year lease and reopen the house thin week with vaude-fllm, playing five acts on a split week booked by Wal- ter Pllmmer. : The Elsmere, Bronx, N. Y., has been taken over by the Cosmopoli- tan Holding Co.., from the Elainere Holding Co., 'ornier operators. . "The former owners had operated with straight pictures, but the new ones wlli operate with vaude and pictures. wl1|h the vaude booked through an Independent, . Loew's new Akron theatre, Akron, O., seating: 3,000, how under .way, is expected to be ready, by rail. The new Dormaiht theatre, Dor- mant, Penh., built by the Harrli* Amusement Co., opens with vaud- film the middle of April. ? HE IS ON HIS WAY MAURICE COLLEANO Keith's Palace NOW March 20th with the COLLEANd FAMILY Sensational Comedy Dance Pot Pourri VAUDEVILLE'S NEWEST SENSATION Direction HARRY WEBER Split Language Bill English and Yiddish^ vaude went In aa a new policy at the Grand Street, New York, this week. The'bill comprising one . Yiddish and four English speaking acts with semi-weekly change booked .by Jax5k Under. The Grand will split with the El- ton, Brooklyn, playing a slinilar policy and also booked by Linder. Joe Penner's Rep Martin Sampter, of the Selwyn theatre building, as representative of joe Penner, was omitted from the Joe Penner advertisement ini last week's Variety. AND UI8 ORCHESTRA FLAYING KiSITH- AliBEB-pRPirECf.M nirVfitloa WIT.TJAM JACOHS The report that Jazx is dying must be true. There is no other v^ay to account for some of the weird noise it makes. WHO SAYS SO? 7 BEN BARTON 7 JAY VELIE IN "A VARIETY OF SONGS' IK WEEK (MARCH 20) KEmrS PALACE, N. V. Dir. B. S. STEWART* ROSALIE STEWART OFFICE VERA STRELSI^A *»«> ES€0 LARUE- JANET GIBSON JULIA LA CHANE . — THE SO DIFFERENT DANCERS ' With DON BRYNE, Lyric Tenor, and THE SIX VAGABOND GIRLS PATRICIA MANGAN MARJORie HOUGHTON lTofion(od by JOK rARKHIl Bet»r«sehtatlY« LEW flOLDl GEARL JENTOFT RENE VICTORIA WEEK OF MARCH 19 (THIS WEEK), RIVERSIDE, NEW YORK WEEK OF MARCH 26 (NEXT WEEK). PAUCE> NEW YORK