Variety (May 1928)

38 VARIETY VAUDEVILLE Wednesday, May 30, 1928 Gus Edwards and %. Wu' Become Publix Units Chicago, May 29, "Mr. Wu,V vaude act, has been convert«?d into , a presentation and will pl;iy 30 weeks of Publix time as a unit. Gus Edward.s, With a tm^^ his juveniles, also will play the same. route. Birmingham House Leased Lyric, Birmingham, has been leased from the Interstate Circuit for. niuisical stock during the sum- mer. ■ ■ ; Jimmy Hodges has the company in it. FOR DROPS 36 in. wide at 75o a yd. and up A .full Iln^ of gold and sliver bro- cades, metal cloths, gold ' and stiver trimmings, rhinestones. s p a*n e l e s, tlffhts, opera hose, etc:, etc, tor stage .costumes. Samples uppo request J. J. Wylie & Bros.; Inc. (SucceSNors to Slegman & Well) 18-20 East 27th Street NEW YORK NOW PLAYING I'VBIJX TILEATIl£S MASSE AND DIETRICH 1>lrection ABTIIVR BEELIO of LYONS and LYONS United Booking Agency BILLY WEINBERG, Mgr. : 605 Woods Theatre BIdg. CHICAGO . Phones Dearborn 3363 and 6087 TWO-YEAR SENTENCE- C. R. Fox On Road Gang For Non- Support—Co. Pays Family .Los Angeles, May 29, Carlos Ray Fox, vaude actor, was sentenced to two years on the coun- ty road gang: by Municipal Judge Fi'ederickson for falling to sufJport his wife and two children. Mrs. Edna Fox, his wife, corn- plained that she had not received a penny from her husbtind. for the past year. Fox's defense was that he had been ill and out of work. During the next two year.s Fox's family. will be paid J2 a day by the county. Gene Dennis on Publix Route With Percentage Los Arigeles, May 29. Gene Dennis, the wonder girl from Kansas, has been booked, to do her mental observation and thought In the Piibllx houses for 26 weeks. These houses are booked by Mil- ton Feld, with the engagement opening at .Palace, Dallas, June 2. Miss Dennis Is to have a special press agent ahead and back. She will al.so give morning matinees ex- cluslve:ly for women. She is on a. guarantee and percentage.. Bopkihg was made through the local William Morris Agency. Darling's Vacation Eddie Darling, the Keith booker, Is taking a vacation of two. months in Europe. : . Mr. Darling of recent, seasons ap- pears to have been especially inter- ested in the booking over here of foreign acts. .He's probably going over for another load. : Many think that this summer i.s a good time for Keith people to stick around if .they expect to stick. Darling is leaving today (Wednes- day). DRIVING 'CROSS COUNTRY Bert Wheeler, Al St. Clair and Rube Bernstein leave New York June 4 for an overland trip to Los Angeles. The boys intend driving in Wheeler's • car by way of the Grand Canyon. Both Wheeler and St. Clair do picture work out there. Wheeler going on Vitaphone. Marcus Loew BOOKINCACENCY General Executive Offices LOEW BUIIDING ANNEX leO WEST 46^"ST* BRVANT- 9S50-NEW YORK CITY I Jv H. LtJ^ CEN KBAL M ANAOEB . MARVIN H. SCHENCK BOPKINO MANAGER CHICAGO OFFICE 600 WOODS THEATRE B'LD'G JOHNNY JONES IN CHARGE Girl at $125 Wldy Sold To Show at $300—Suit Colette D'Harville, French And with "Here's Howe," is the subject of two suits by Edward S. Keller iand Sam Shannon, who are suing Tonal Productions, Inc. (Aarons and Freedley subsidiary), the owners of the musical comedy In one action, and Miss D'Harville, in another ac- tion. Keller and Shattndn had groomed the French girl and gave her a year's contract guaranteeing her $125 a week from January 9, 1928. in turn they sold her services to Ben Bernie's Club Ihtlme : nd the. Richmsin for $200 and to Aarphs and Freedley at $300 a week untir Oct. 6, with $100 weekly increase there- after. • Kieller and Shannon, . through Jtillus Kendler, maintain that the "Here's Howe" .management was obligated to pay Miss D'Harv^Ue's .salary to them^ instead of which they paid her In person. The agents are suinig Tonal Pro- ductions, Inc., for the eight weeks the show has run out of town and on Broadway, or $2,400. In another suit, they claim $1,400 frorn Miss D'Harville, the difference between the eight weeks at $125 a week or $1,000 they allege she is entitled to, and the $2,400 she. earned on the contract. ACME BOOKING OFFICES, INC. Booking All Tlicutrcfl Controlled by STANLEY COMPANY OF AMERICA A Tout« of J6 werkB wltliln 200 inlloH of Now York Artists Invited to book diroct " 1560^Brdadw_ay^ INCORPORATIONS NEW YORK Artkrnft PrMluctlons, Inc., Manhat- tivn, manage theatres, employ singers, J20,000; Hebert S. Vopel. Michael Le- bauer, David Berk. Filed by Vbgel & Whynman, 239 Broadway, New York, . Cairo. Amusement 'Corp.; Manhattan, manage theatres, 200 shares no par value; Milton D, .• Blanksteln, Nora d'Leary, Abraham Solomon. Filed by Diamond, Abrahams & Strauss, 270 Madison ave., Niew York. One Aille Vp, Inc., Manhattan, the- atrical enterprises, 160 shares no par value; Elsie Cohen, Irving S. Strouse, Louis N. Pollock. Filed by Ebner J. Ruben, 1440 Broadway, New York. Staler ft Howell, Inc., Rochester, moving pictures, $76,000; Richard F. Staley, Mortimer B. Howell, Casa F. Stahley. Filed by Lewis, Makay, Bown & Johnson, 816-21 Union Trust Bldg., Rochester. Theatre Supply Merchanta, Inc., New York, theatre furniture, tickets,, general business of theatre ' supply .merchants, general mercantile and commission and brokerage business, lOQ shares no par value; Lawrence Bolognine, Aaron Sa- plro, Harry Brandt. . Filed by Frank Aranew, 84 William St., New York. Manhattan Studios, Inc., Manhattan, motion pictures, studios, exhibitions, $10,000; Carl Mittenthal, Gertrude Wino- grad, Estelle I. Weintraub. Filed by Samuel Jesse Buzzell,: 1440 Broadway, New York. .Billy Baskette; Inc., Manhaittani print- ing, iMibllshlng, song, plays, operas, operate devlce.f .and apparatus , for' .amusement, motion pictures, 500 shares no . par value; Tbeo. Alban, Billy Bas- kette,. Clifford Y. Brisscoe. . Filed by Ru.ssell H. Klttel, 3 East 44th St., New York. _ Newpo Xlieotres, I|ic., Newburgh, man- age theatres, musical productions, mo- tion picture machines, cameras, 200 shares no par value; Daniel Becker, Henry Grusky, Hahna Lindberg. Filed by Henry Grusky, 64 2nd St., New- burgh, N. y. Woodcliffo Roller Coaster Co,, Inc., Ppughltoepsie, operate Ferris wheels, roller coasters and other amusements, 500 shares no .par value; Arthur I. .Strang, Marion E.. Alley, J. Henry Neale. Filed by Strang & Taylor,. 2'03 Main St., White Plains, New York. Certified Automatic Devices, Inc., New York, motion picture theatres, entertain- ment devices, $10,000; Thomas GUleran, Charles S. Lubln, Max Lubln. Filed by Joseph E. Glnsa, 61 Chambers St., New York. Lou Irwin, Inc., New York, sell tick- ets, rent theatrical costumes, moving pictures, business of warehousemen, $20,- 000; Arthur Barnett, Lou Irving, Albert .«}Omkin. Filed by Harry Sakes Hech- helmer, 140 West 42nd St., New York, Arlington Amnsement Corp., Manhat- tan, motion pictures, $2,000; Benjamin Berson, Barnet Liman, Morris .-Left. Filed by Jamea Rosthal, 12 East 4l8t St., Manhattan. Charles Barns, Inc., New York, mo- tion pictures, theatrical proprietors, $li000r Charles Burns, Al>e Petal, Wil- liam Meltzer. Filed by Louis Levene, 37 2nd ave,. New York. 40Ut StFMt Theatre Ticket Service, Inc., New York, buy and sell tickets for theatres, 160 shares no par value; Mor- ris R. Seanioh, Howard C. Burkhafdt, Irving Blank. Filed, by Thos. Jefferson Ryan, 163 West 46th st.. New York. Lewis B. Gensier Productions, Inc., Manhattan, musical and dramatic -pisr- Cormahces, manage theatres, plays, 2,331 shares, 999 shares preferred stock $100 par value, 999 sharse class A stock no par value, • 333 shares class B stock *o par. value; Lewis B. Gensier, Harry A. Bioosberg, Louis Glazer. Filed by Bloomberg & Bloomberg, 1482 Broad way. New York. MOLLIE FULLER ON COAST Blind Actress Visiting Mabel Fenton —After Health Mollle, Fuller, blind for five years, has gone to Lo.s Angeles. Miss Ful- ler 13 going to visit Mrs. Mabel Fenton-Ross and to take a com- plete rest in an attempt to regain her health. Last winter, after an Illness, Miss Fuller played the ' Loew tlnie. She has been In New York for the last few months, not appearing on the stagie. Her enforced Inactivity, has made her terribly nervous, and,'as Miss Fuller expressed It, "I can't stand sitting around New York." She. is accompanied by P^ppy Miller, who appeared in her sketch- es for two years and a half. Miss Fuller said, "I have not definitely retired from the stage and if the change of climate will only give me back my health and strength I will return to vaudeville." Act Unknowingly Kids Critic and Gets Panned Milwaukee, May 29. Benny Burt and Wallle Lehman ran into a storm when they, opened at the Riverside last week. Coin- ing their laughs through kidding late arrivals^ the pair picked on Peggy Patton, "News" critic, as she walked in, and as a result got a sweet razzing In tliat paper's re- view columns. Miss Patton also kicked to the Orpheum management, claiming she didn't think perforniers should pick, on an unescorted woman. " MARRIAGES Reno Comez and Sarah. McPhee, Boston night club dancers, married In an airplane over Boston, May 26. Gladys WheatOn (Woertz) of the "Greenwich Village Follies," to Maurle Rubens, composer, In New York,, at the Municipal Building, May 28, religious, ceremony being held the same evening at the Park Central Hotel. Bob Knudson, assistant manager of the Varsity theatre, Evanston, Ind., to Erma R. Coyle, treasurer of the Congress theatre, Chicago, May 15. Both are Lubllner and Trlnz houses. Matilda Splnrad to Jack Zeppi- nick. May 27, Jin New York. Danny Dowling, former dancing partner of Joan Crawford, secretly married to Lorna Doone, Los An- geles society girl, last November in Tia Juana, Mex. J. C. McCann,: general manager, T. & D. Jr. circuit (pictures), to Carmen Bledeman, San Francisco, May 17..' .. ; . Wyn Richmond, English musical comedy actress, to John MacDonald Henderson, in. Australia last Au- gust, confirmation by bride recently. Miss Richmond played in "Sunny" and substituted for Marilyn Miller during her illness. Annette Davis, dancer in "Green- wich Village Follies" to John H. Paton, honey merchant, of New York, in Philadelphia. Daniel Barleigh, 69, to Mrs. Lena Runner, at Plattsburgh, N. Y., re- cently. Groom is playwright. Kenneth Thomson, actor, to Alden Gay, actress, Los Angeles, May 28. Al Raboch, picture director, to Curtyne Mohr Englar, dancer, Los Angeles, June 3. fiOEY BACK TtTEN Herbert Hoey will.go' to vaude after two years on the west coast as m. c. in picture houses. Hoey will be as- sisted by Paul Bernard at the piano. Before going west Hoey was in musicalis, ■ Al Shaiyne on Route Al Shayne, erstwhile hite club m.c, opens at Loew's Delancey, New York, on a Loew tour June 7. Shayne is also a new Brunswick recording artist, with special mate- rial authored by DeSylya, Brown and Henderson. Pofi Deafing With Both Keith's and Fox All reports agree that S. Z. Poll Is In negotiation with Keith's and Fox for the transfer of the PoU New England .circuit. Nothing concrete has been reached by Poll with either of the other chains. Each Is said to b© expectant of accomplishing the Poll deal. Fox people think the Poll circuit will be under their direction before June IB. Keith's Is saying nothing, but it seems to be known that It is in active negotiation- with Poll, in person and Keith's has been since the Murdock-Kerinedy regime took over the Keith control. DRAKE and WALKER'S All Colored Revue with ■ Drake's Cyclonic Jazz Band .Keltii-Albee Bookinir Excltance RAY L-.UBIN JUST A GOOD BOY GONE BAD Pldylngr oonaecutlvely for Fanohon and Marco With tlunks to Gene Morgan and Marry Walilln NEW HOTEL ANNAPOLIS IVasiiington, D. O. Single, II17.G0 Double, $38.00 11-12 and H Sts. in the Heart . ot Theatre District DOTSON One af Faoohtn and Mareo't Got4 "Idcat" BABE MORRIS Tap Dancer Supreme EARL FAGAN ORCHESTRA AND with — • BOB and EULA — RATCLIFF DANCERS THE MEMPHIS COLLEGIANS Tliat Sweet Band from the Sontit Hendilningr Pantages Circuit DIrectton ot ESTELLA GREEN featured In Fanchon and Marco's "Itnthtub Idea" LUCILLE in SPECIALTY DANCES P. ft,—A WMk of UuBht with Benny Rubin One of Fanchon and Slarco'a "Ideas' _ ' VINA ZOLLE PRIMA DONNA Featured In "Great White Way" Idea A VAUDEVILLE AGIOCY WHICH PRODUCES MORE THAN IT PROMISES CONSISTENT, EIFICIENT SERVICE SINCE 1013 The rally Narkiis Vaudeville Agency Afttor Theatre BIdg., N. W. Cor. 45th St. and Broadway Lackawanna 7876 New York City |il.|,|il.|,|,|il,|ilil,|,|,|,|,|,||UJJXIJJ.I.I,I.IJj.l.lJJ,l,l,lllJ4Xl^frf^^^