Variety (Sep 1928)

Wednesday, September 12, 1928 V A U D E VI L L E SANDERS BACK WITH ORPHEIM Earl Sanders, now with Tublix and former Orplieum booker, re- turns to the Keith office in charge of Orpheum bookings within three weeks. Saunders wlU be in charge of Orpheum bookings. Arthur Willi Is currently booking the Orpheum senior houses and may remain in that office as assist- ant to Sanders. Roy Meyers may also be called back to Keith's, as Sanders' assistant. Arrangementsl to have Saunders return to the Keith organization were consummated by cable be- tween J. J. Kennedy and Sam Katz, the two circuits having a recipro- cal arrangement as regards office personnel and officials. Sanders resigned from the Or- pheum Circuit to enter the real estate business, shortly after Mar- cus Heiman was elected to the Or- pheum presidency. He returned to show business via William Morris agency which he left after a short teunre to become a Publix booker. It Is reported' Saunders, when ap- proached by the Keith people to return, made it a condition that Heiman would have no supervision over him. This was acceeded to by John Ford, Kennedy's representa- tive in Keith's. H, Hollowell will Buccoed Sanders at Publix. Houses Opening Fay's, Philadelphia, reopened La- bor Day. Now booked by Lipschultz and.Maser. Capitol, Palisades, N. J., reopens this week with presentations sup- planting vaude. Palace, Danbury, Conn., opened Sept. 8 with a four act show sup- plied by the Amalgamated Ex- change. Booked by Buddy Irwin. Ritz, Bronx, opens next month. Loew's new picture house, 167th and River streets, Nevv York, opens Sept. 12. Loew's wire Fairmont (177th street and Tremont avenue), with vaudfilm, opens Sept. 12. Willis (Bronx), after repeated policies, reopens Sept. 12 with vaudfilm. Strand, 161st street and West- chester, Bronx, dark all summer, re- opened Sept. 3, named the Arcadia. Pictures, Stanley, Utica, N. Y., opened Sept. 10. This is a pew 3,000-seater in the chain, playing pictures and presentations. Wired. Rialto, Palisades, N. J., resumes vaude next week after a summer of straight films. Five acts on a split week, booked by Walter Plimmer Agency. The Lyric, Hackensack, N. J., re- opened last week with vaudfilm, five acts on split week, booked by Keith's. New Capitol theatre (Publix), Cedar Rapids, Iowa, opened last week. It has a stage band policy employing four acts. George Spoehr, m. c, and band is local. Seats 2,200. New Atlantic, Atlantic, Iowa, has reopened, playing pictures. Lyric, Bridgeport, Conn., former Poll house, reopens Sept. 17 playing Mutual burlesque. E. L. Lynch has resigned as manager, succeeded by E. Fitzpatrick. ' West Coast reopens its Broadway, Tacoma, Sept. 13. Loew's 4Gth Street, the old Uni- versal, opens In Brooklyn this week, Alhambra, Brooklyn, one of the Julius Joelson houses, offering straight films, takes on vaudeville starting Sept; 14. VARIETY 37 EQUITY MEETING A number of important matters .ire scheduled for the meeting of the . Actors' ICrjuity Association in the Hotel Astor, New York, Sept. 21. "Tlio bigge.st item of interest is the Alien Actors' statu.s. It is expected to he threshed out to a final. David Esterson, former theatre man, reported missint;- from Nor- ■ ■^valk, (^-Ohh;, ^is-ill >;r.w-'Yor]ifvHe flroppod in ju^<t to pi-ovc he wasn't liiding. James W. Coty, formerly of the 'i-M'} ('aii'oll ollict>, is now with Andy Wright as gonei'.-U stago inntiagf.T. VARIETY THEATRES. ■UiPPODndME.—Miss Sally . Burrill and Mr. Herman Hyde have the air rf enjoying t,h« burlesque which is aU that ihcy give us m placo of an expected son^ und danca show. And if U»cy themselves, to whom th(f> whole business may by this lime be stale, can take it in that spirit, there is the more reason that we others should enjoy it. Theirs is a triumph of impertinence—nevci has an audience been so BuccessfuUyJ cheeked from beginning to end A^f a per-• formance. Th«iy risk thn stsp from the. tidirulouB to the .subhme. and their success IS a reminder—if laughter leaves time for thought—of Yiow well even the cheeked an be pleased by the cheek ihati has neither bounds nor misgivings. Rambling on through their skeleton of a programme, rith an inconsequence whi<!b can scarcely be credited even when it is seen, these two performer3 stand in much the ^ame relation to thA art they trafHc in as docs Mr. Frank Van Hoven to that of th« magician. Perhaps Mr. Van Hoven, is quite incapable of genuine conjuring, while these two can cer- tainly play and dance and sing; "but'they tantalise us with sugge.stionfl of what they □light do rather than do any of it and the tantalisin,? is both the subelanre and the sling of their show. They leave us most decidedly .iskinff for more. "When the Hyde- Burrill fiasco was not p;ii_the_at&ec <he best .thing there was • • • • H. D. N. THE MANCHESTER (JUARDIAN TUESDAY. AUGUST 7. 1928,