Variety (Apr 1928)

44 VARIETY BUR L E S Q U E Wednesday, April 18, 1928 News From the This department contains rewritten theatncal newsjtems^as pub- lished during the week in the.daily papers of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and London. Variety takes no credit for these news items; each has been rewritten from a daily paper. NEW YORK Alia Niizimova will become a. . mciiibor of Kva Le Galllenne's Civic Repertory group next season.. ■ Pegey Joyce got herself men- tioned again as a playmate of John and Herbert Locke, indicted on fraud charges connected. with . cop missing charges against Karl Offer and Frank Dalezel, charged with making compressed grape bricks and selling for beverage purposes. LOS ANGELES Mary Pickford will be the guar- dian of her niece, and namesake, Alary pickford Smith, 12-year-old per stock sales. When they were I daughter of LiOttie Pickford by her e6ine. good they spread a lot of coin around Broadway, much of It oh Peggy. Attorney for. Alex Carr in, oppos- ing Carr's wife's demand ,lor ali- mony pending divorce trial, said the marital trou'bles of the couple were, due, to the Influence of a woman, a former actress, who was Mrs.. Carr's constant companion and attended her on drinking parties. Mrs. Carr was formerly Helen - Cressman, member of the "Follies," First day's isales at auction of the effects of Eddie Foy's New Ro- chelle home, sold by direction of. the comedian's fourth wife,, real- ized $6,400.. - • first husband. The child was left $200,000 by: her grandmother, the late. Mrs. Charlotte (Smith) Pick- ford, with the provision that Mary be her guardian. The screen star has. already taken steps to legalize the proceedure. - Dispatch from Mexico City says that a closer contact betwoien the theatre and all branches of Mexi- can public schools is being urged through the Secretariat of Public Educa,tion, ' It is said this movc^ ment will benefit general education In Mexico and also serve to raise the standard of the theati'e. in that republic. Conde Nast, publisher, acquired a controlling interest in . Grand Cen- tral talace and. adjoining property, value estimated at nearly. $10,000,- 000. It now 13 proposed to make the building the home of large in- dustrial exhibitions on 8L pei-manent basis, with the upper floors of Jthe place .used as sales ofiices, Hope Hampton, atccompanled by her hlisband, Jules Brulat6ur,~ are visiting the studios in Hollywood. They are leaving shortly for Piaris. has one of those endless topical .<;ongs, each verse and chorus hold- ing a gag. „ For once, a Keith-Albee bill wasn't made up entirely of, mixed talking teams. The first of tw6 In the show wore'Wheeler and Sands (New Acts). . ' Eva Clark still has Dan Caslai- at the ivories, but they, have tied up with the Crooriadera, quartet of singing musicians. The combination niakes a first-rate number with musical quality, appearance, sauve parloi' comedy and plenty of class entertainment. Miss Clark always could hiihdle numbers with per- sonality appeal. She has grown at- tractively plump and her jaunty I Burlesque Routes Fedaoza Gets 3 Mos. For Indecent Performance W«ek of April 16 and 23 Bare Facts—Haymarket, Chicago; 23, Empress, Chicago. Antonio Fedanza, , 4S, of 171 East Band "Box Revue—I*. ,Q.; 23, Acad- 111th street, owner of the new 125tli emy, Pittsburgh. street burlesque. theatre, was sen-* Bathing Beauties—Cayety, Kansas tended to three months in the worki City; 23, Gayety, Omaha Be Happy—Empress, Cincinnati; 23. L. O. Bowery Burlfsquers— Empress, Chicago; 23, Orpheum, Grand Rap- ids. Bright Eyes^-Gayety, Milwaukee; 23, Haymarket, Chicago. Scandals—L. O-; 23, bearing and artlegs way. singing jjy^g^^^ Union City li"ht opera standards is a charming carrie Finnell—Mutual, Indianap performance. She's a specialty Ljjij.. 23, Garrick, St. Louis trouper selling songs and never suggests the heavy prima donna- ing thing. . Brown and Whlttaker were next to closing for the big laugh returns. Russ Brown as a fast lcidder Is run- nel* up to Joe Cook on his style of work funiiy without a,33lstance from grotesque get-up or knockabout. They have canned the travesty re- hearsal, fiilliig' In 16 minutes with quip, crossfire and wise crack that never lags. Opening is Brown's .in^ troduction of Miss Whlttaker as Dimpled Darlings—Garrlck, Louis; 23, Gayety, Kansas City. Di.\ori's Big Revue—Gal-rick, Des Moines; 23, Gayety, Mlnnea.polis. Follies of Ploasure^Howard, Bos- house by justices in Special Ses- sions aftf^r being convicted of giving ^an indecent perforrhaiice at his the- atreJ'^b. 16, Ray Martelli, 21, was also convicted of giving an indecent dance, and was fined $100, wb.|ch she paid. Charge was made by policeman of, the Sixth Division! Fedanza wa« specifically accused of allowing th^ Igirl to give an indecent performa:nce. Broadway Scandals I •Comedian.,...... Second C'oriilc'.., [ StralKht . ;. Juyonile........ I'rhna Donna. .. ton; 23, Empire, Providence. French Models-^ayety, Minnepip- Ilere's a clown who.can bejolis;. 23, Gayety, Milwaukee. , Frivolities of 1928—Gayety, Omaha; soiibret, 23, Garrlck, Des Moines. ; " S^.V.^iXt' Ginger. Glrls--Gayety, is^oui-rot 23, Orpheuin, Patersbh. Girls from Happyland—Orpheum, iEd E. Daly operates this group ......v.....Billy l^iel«I» ,.... 1,.. .LCfiy lioVlna .. .Prank- O'llourlce'! Walter ("Pep") Smith .. .Jycs LaRUo .......... Bebe Almond , .Patricia Bums, .Zella Sievona Police raided the first baseball gambling pool of the season In this city and confi.sciated about 50,000 tickets. Capital prize of the week- ly pool, it was discovered, was $2,- ifjje I 000 in cash with daily prizes rang Grand Rapids; 23. Cadillac, Detroit, which has lately been reorganized in Girl? from the Follies—Columbia/ its personnel as. well as in its ma- ^?\"riirpVuVz" of "Hbbbkeh^ I Cleveland; 23, Lyceum, Canton. terial. As it stands it is <vell among ^^^Z SS^E^t^r'fi^ . Gi^ Khe leaders of the Mutual umts,^,. minutes. Brown built on the. ab- Akion 23 Gay^^^ surd name of "Glutz" for laughs and fj^^^lPJ'^s^.?"^^^^^ Newark, 26. When the Intro 13 over go^^^^^^ Paiec-sW, Brooklyn; 23. fast talk, including reference to r}„„-:.fv Brooklvh partner Uncle Angus "the big hook ^'-gf^jJ^^'g^Tie-lS, Majestic, Al and eye" man, (who goes from K^ ld-2l. Colonial, U*i-» • speakeasy to speakeay asking who can I drink on"?) Finish is a blt^of I Hollywood Scandals Canton; 23, Grand, Akron song with more side play of clown ing. . Miss Whlttaker is a perfect feeder for this style, building up U(,g]phia,; 23, L. 6 Utica; 23, Lyceum, statement that is pretty moderate praise when you consider the aver- age quality of the Wheel outfits. At any rate the Daly company Ims three good women principals; one first i-ate comic and several new and bright numbers. .. Principal of these elements is the presence of ah effective funmaker. The way burlesque has been run- three lower floors win. continue to house the annual Automobile and oth6c shows,! The Division of Motion Pictures . of the New York Department of Education Issued a license for the exhibition of the Edith Cavell pic-, .tura despite protests by German ■.Societies as well as those of James Wv Gerard, former ambassador to Germany. Mr. Gerard said he would seek an injunction to prfevent the exhibition. Anne Morgan, Mrs. W: K. Vanderbllt, Mrs. S.. M. Perkins and other prominent women urged that the picture be released on the ground It is, a powerful sermon against war. Supreme Court Justice' Glennon ruled that Beryl Halley's $75,000 Ing from $10(^ to $1,000, Tickets sold at $1 a copy; police said. George Morris, asserted operator of the scheme, was arrested. on the dumbbell pose for just the right tone and never overdoing. Grace Adelphl and Co. (formerly Three Adelphis) have done much to smooth out their* dance routine. Girl.does some excellent toe; work Empress, Cincinnati Mary McLaren, who 'left the screen three years ago to go to In- dia, "where she married an English army oflRcer, is back in Hollywood and intends to return to pictures. Miss McLaren, sister of Katherlne McDonald, former screen star, de- clares she has separated from her husband and there is a likelihood of divorce. and now slng9 only one number, late in the act. Nicely dressed and ma- terial laid out nicely for variety; with fast succession of solo and team dancing,' costume changes and song and piand bits to fill in pauses. Rush. Jazztime Revue—Trocadero, Phil- ning this last few months, anybody who can promote real laughs from a Wheel audience stands out lilce the Montauk light And how the Columbia regulars responded to a real, excuse t6 haw-haw! Fields cafe bit toward the lend of the show was one continuous riot. • This was real burlesque humor, .si bit messy as to table manners, but Laffln' Thru—Empire, Providence; 23, Howard, Boston. . Land of Joy—Columbia, N. Y. C; 23, L. 0. Merry Whirl—Lyric, Dayton; 23, Moonlight Maids—Hudson, .Union City; S3, H & S 125th St., N. Y. C. Tom Mix has deeded $100,000 worth of property to his Wife, Mrs yictoria Fordo Mix. This was diss AMERICAN ROOF (Vaudfilm) Naughty Nifties—Gayety, Mon- with the saving grace of honest fua treal; 23, Gayety, Boston.' and wheel mobs are not fastidious. Night iHawks—Gayety, Brooklyn; The. point here is that spilled food 23, Columbia, N. Y. C is only an Incidental of the comedy Nite Life in Paris—Gayety, Balti- technique and not the comedy itself, more; 23, Grayety, Washington. Fields Is a genuinely effective Parisian Flappers—lft-17, Geneva; burlesque comic, making his points 18-19, Oswego; 20-21, Schenectady; easily and legitimately. Matter ,o£ 23-25, Majestic, Albany; 26-28, Co-' fact he doesn't need noise and un- I lonlal, Utica. Pretty Babies Good house on the roof Monday .......... ..V... ..... ..... ...-.night. Also a.good routine bill for I'^Jian^^^^^^^ ^ 23-24, Geneva- covered at the county recorder's of- the price but could have been Deiter- 125.26 ' Oswego; 27-^28, Schenectady, flee. The transfer was made Jan. 13 Usual eight acts. Usual is/'fniv , Record Breakers—Cadillac, De- last and conveys to Mrs. Mix 3 her | Nothing unusual. But jj^^^^^ JJJ troit; 23, Empire, Toledo. . separate property, their large Bey- Mazie from Avenue suit against ajjeauty sPfflallst for ^rfy Hills home and their former friends ate it up and stuck for the alleged unauthorized of ber k Carleton Way in Holly- picture. , "The Last Command, photograph be sent to tnal.. Posing -^^^j They'll all give you an argument tidy business, becauise lie Is funny L, O,; 23, Mutual, I In pantomime and talk. He works in tramp char^-cter and gets very little assistance from Lefty Le Vine, doing a mechanical Hebe. The comedy is laid out in revu© blacliouts rather thjvn the old-fash- Red Hots—brpheuni, Paterson; 23, rined "bit" scheme, and some of the. show girl charges she suffered great -anguish because the photo repre- sented her as having a double chin that they were well set for the coin, • Murray Phillips testified In his suit against Eleanor Boardman that he obtained her a contract Empire, Brooklyn. Saratoga. Chips-r-Empire, Brook- lyn; 23, Trocadero, Philadelphia. Social Maids—H & S 125th St., N, Y, C; 23, (jayety, Brooklyn. Speed* Girls—Academy, Pitts- burgh; 23, Lyric, Dayton. Sporty Widows-MSayety, Boston; . Jean Gilbert, picture actress, was and that counts over there, never more embarra; d than when Harry Hincs, next to shut, walked picked up by a detective in a down- away. Harry knew his roof tactics, town department store over a check got a gauge on what they wanted misunderstanding. Also, she says, and played down to them from.then . g^.^^^ Brooklyn ,nev"er before has she been so man- on, getting as biirleacy as the law stolen Sweets—Emnire Toledo- with Mfetro-Goldwyn Pictures under handled and mistreated as on that allows, making his nance bits count 03 ColumblaT dlevSand which.she earned $46,005, of which particular occasion, not even in for yells and leaving them yelling. suea" Ba^^ she promised to nay him commls- movie sequences. Therefore Miss Nelson's Catlahd opened 23 L O Blon of 10 per- cent. Actress makes GUbert has filed suit in Superior scored mainly through the boxing 'swpf^e'«?wpf^tips—Oavetv Wilkes general denial. ' | Court, for $71,675 for alleged false bout of two felines, the knockout of g^^.^^^^^^ arrest, insults, rough treatment, the act. ' ' ' - ' — CAM CD A Mr'icr*/^ I clothing and personal Injuries. The Perry and Cbvan, colored ml'^ed OAIN rKAINV^ltJVoVl 1 department store and a number of duo, flanked by another mixed team, others are the defendants. •' also colored, were adequate deucers Mrq Ttuhv Blaok 21 dancehall I ' — with fast stepping. giJf- and cabafet entcitair^^^^^^ ..Charlotte OoUins, 21, entertainer at |. Forsythe and Kelly, two men.wlth Tempters—Gayety, 23, L. O. Buffalo; Washington; w^ton in Xnth bv ^ Cliff Dwellers cafe, has filed suit one doing comedy, managed nicely, i',w iui.;i!and BPdlG ^"r $50,000 damages a^'ainst the Cal- with a mixture of tomfoolery. qr> on'iior nf l-'omia Cab Co. for injuries she sus- "Jiah! Rah! Tommy," Six-people Olympic's End April 28 little sketches are highly effective besides being occasionally new in substance and style. At the Colum- bia tliose with a high flavoring of SPice were received best, one or two that held, considerable smut beinff small riots., ,- The/ principal women are fairly moderate on their display and there are no emphatic livriggles, but what they lack in "spice" they hiake up in sprightly performance. Bebe Aly mond presided on the Columbia run- way about a month ago, and here la assigned as the dancing mainstay bf the troup. She's an active little woman, a nice looker arid; clean-cut worker both , in her stepping and In her handling of numbers. First class legitimate ■porker in ljuilding. up the comedian's bits as well and an all around asset. Undress display is In the hands of tried to kill himself, but will prob- ably recover. He confessed, police say. Olympic, New York, formerly Tony Pastor's, will pass out bbth 1 patdcia ' B'urns7Arolup^^ as a stbck burlesque stand and the-| who has the right ai-chltectural lines for that assignment and lets it go at strangled and her common law Setr oikS hLe Hear^^^^^ The girl's com- turn, mostly girls, proved nothing their Oakland home. Heainsbeiger | ^^j^j^^^ declares she will be unable to more than the stereotyped dance, work for several months. flash with a collegiate background I *''?'*® Apni , , . i ™ ^ • ^ ^ , i and a fern comic Her spearing at The historic house adjoining that. Pleasant voice and good looks Allesandro Gabrtlieri, artist, filed 1 cbmedy was pathetic most of the Tammany Hall was Sbld- some clbthcd or otherwise and good as a siilt In municipal court for. $950 time. Even the .supposed grotesque months ago and is part of the.lat- Posing sin^^^^^ *^t^^^T^if^il dolph Valentino. Action is against dancing clicked. .I ^ _ .... .»v-_ -.r...,. loapiiai mezzo voice, a^^ George Ullman, executor of Valcn- Billy Casey, accompanied by- a tino estate; Alberto . Guglielml, chap at the piano, offered the con brother of tho dead screen star; ventional song cycle and clicked Maria Guglielml Strada and Eu- heavy on the personality angle, genla Strada, all relatives. The ar- Casey's showmanship, if nothing tlst asserts he h.ad a verbal .agree- else, can get him over anywhere, ment assuring him of $600 for " - - ■ . Mrs.- Faye LavagiiinOr of Holly- wood,, claiming to be a former screen actress and part owner of a . sex film, in which she Is alleged to have played a part, was rescued by ,:Oakland police from a hotel. This followed a drinking Orgy in which she asserts she was lured and held prisoner several days by stranige men. Several weeks ago Mrs. Lavag- nino went to a Contra, Costa county resort and Is said to have slashed ■her wrists while despondent. She .returned there two weeks ago and accompanied by several, "doctors" went to the Oakland hotel, where a drinking bout Started. Police ar- rested William Pragman, night clerk of the hotel, and Carl Giistaf- Boh. Both were .fined $100. for pos- session of liquor, but wore not-held on the woman's complaint she was detained against her will. . Ifor the New York Gas and Electric Company. po£>ing singer. Jyes LaRue has a knack of handling lines and business, and fits perfectly into this altogether satisfactory trio of wbmen. Frank O'Rourke. does straight in acceptable manneir aiid a youngster 4 MutuaU Coming Off _ Four more closings prematurely I with nice, vigorous style is Walter . Leon Leonard and Co. came next I to end of regular season on the .Mu- I Smith. Both handle numbers agree- sketchos and work in supervising a I and did so-so with a conventional | tual Circuit, (Continued on page 63) BROADWAY (Continued from page 37) ably one of, the boys has-a gold tooth. Still No. 2 in a Broadway bill It was in No. 3 that the entertain ment started.. The Colleanos, three girls and three men acrobats were a riot. Ground tumblers don't come any more expert and sen tional skit that Incorporates Ingredients of at least a half dozen others. Leon- ard has the fat stuff, with the sup- porting girl and two men, having little to do. Managed weU with the roofers but may And it tougher else- where. '.'Sweet Sweeties" , and Smith. ably and round out one-^of the best „p ; . I average casts the new burlesque ^ „ ... producing technique has developed Fennell Show" called it «- season gince the mtsrger. last week. Show's equipment Is old for the Jake Potar's ''Land of Joy" folds most part, although: something has after the current week at the Co- been done to freshen it up. Notable lumbla. New York, with Kitty Madl- 11" this, respect is the opening num- Hines, nejqt, stopped the show and gon's "Jazztime Revue" also closing PfJ. ^Jj^the sec^^^ Tamilra . Lawass, Russian d.ancer 4jand formerly of tho Imperial Ballet I turns off a double from' the mat Just in Lenlngi-ad, vi^as awarded tempo- in^e that and then smilingly-clowns. .=^-aKy.=alimmiy.ja£:^$ji5jtti^^ Ing her suit for divorce^ against although to anybodv who admires Peter, her dancing partner-husband She charges failure to support. . was the real wake 'em up kid of the evening. Harry has nothing re- m.arkable in songs and chatter, biit I seems to have what small time audi- ences crave. He ambled in legit- imate until he got the tempo of the mob, cracked a few blue ones and Saturday at the Trocadero; Phila- delphia. Columbia, N. Y., Indef picturesquely staged and newly cos- tumed. A pretentious item this Inv>a production way and with the excel- lent X'olces of Miss LaRue and O'Rourke it was a heavy applause getter, demonstrating that the Wheel Nothing Is set for the Columbia, audiences, having been fed up on than Maurice. CoUeano, the lad who l^yj^^;^ p'^g^ong^'juVtifl^ York, for. the summer as yeti Rrind wriggles as the sole basis for ^ them that stuff at the slightest U stock burlesque pbllcy with week- still appreciates a good was^u rewaraea. ... I n,T«„nwhna - as a pcrmancncy.led three numbers Buaincss Monte Blue crashed the front pafro' of tho local dalllfs when on returning here with his company from' a four months stay in the Bbuth Seas', he told reporters a screen shipwreck which tliey wore filming turned Into a near tragedy. Returning with Blue were Raquel Torres, Renee Bu.sh, Director W. E. yandyke and Robei't Anderson Wine bricks are not a violation of of juggling and other stunts. "The Last Command" (Par- Edba, athletic skill, some of the same young man's routines of delirious mat worlc will be ,a wonder and a dollglit. Thf» girl's dou]>le from the | amount) screen feature, springboard into a padded chair is another striking fe.it in appoarance, .showy and a tlirlll. So wtis Mauloe'a turn-and-half from the board into a .<ihouldor balance on the feet of the pedal jugRlcr, wurk ing from a rislcy mat rigA'od over the middle of the sprinKl^nard. A whale of an acrobatic display. Joe Browning's hoke patter as a Kiku and Yoshl mixed Jap double i ,'Meanwhile Columbia closed" with an entertaining potpouri shows ore being booked on a week I and^Was weU-few-'arded Billy Billy Exton III Detroit, April 17. Exton, manager of the to week basis with most of The dates much improved over recent weeks, set until June. with Thursday night crowd within 20 per cent, of capacity downstairs. _.. uu'it 04. ^w I That ought to mean something, for JblJOU, rmiiy, S>tOC& during the past month when attr.ac- Stock burlesque went in this week tlons have been uniformly below as a summer policy for the Bijou, par, trade has been slipping badly." Philadelphia, with Billy Vail in-1 Rush,. Broadway Strand, who went to New stalling company. York last week on business, took I Roster Includes Joe Moss, Sammy the prohibition law. was the rulini? J blue-nose reforinor liad them lu nt 5tf Federal Judge St. Sure in dls- into knots. He did 16 minutes. He Walter League and Don Charno. ill •vvhlle 'there and is confined at I Evans, Frank Murphy, Rose Grlflln, 1 respectively manager and m. c ol! the Forrest Hotel, that city. Jlmmie Marsh. Ruth Bradley, Gla- the Florida theatre. St. Petersburg, Exton was to have returned to dya Dale, Eleanor Gilchrist, Jessie have switched to the Olympia, Ne^ Detroit Saturday. I Ranold and Sue McLean. j Bedford, Mass.