Variety (Sep 1928)

60 V A RLE T Y Wednesday, September 12; 1928 •a VARIETY'S CHICAGO OFFICE HAL HALPERIN in Charge Woods Bldg., Suite 604 Phones: Central 0644-4401 CHICAGO Professionals have the free use of Variety's Chicago Office for information. Mail may be addressed care Variety, Woods Bldg^ Chicago. It will be held subject to call, forwarded or advertised in Variety's Letter List. Palace With iill the; ucts laying: off iiround town, th(> I'Ulacp boolu'i'.s.had to out,sit[o. ;ind taice the Alaryoii Vadic and Ota Ciyiri Kevuc ivom the I'an- tages- circuit. Turn is a good fliash for . tl\e vaude-iiictures audiences, but not for the I'alace mob. Bill siilTorcd-in the layout from other anfjios, too. Two flash acts crowded toffother in the first half would have . been a near complete loss only for the timely spotting of Davis and Darnell, high powered comedy, saving the situation. Toplining honors went to Jack ipearl, who foijnd his spot in next to shut more tlian he probably bar- g£>.ined for. • . ' ' Guy and Pearl Magley, third flash on the bill and scheduled to tlo&e, failed to appear on time, due to transportation delay. It was left to Pearl to hold the meagerly assem- bled mob Sunday afternoon after finishing his own turn.. Again, the show started later than lisual and dragged entirely too much. With less than a half fllled house, the Five De Cardos, four men and a woman, opened with acro- batics th3,t stood out in spots but inconsistent as a whole. Broad Jumping with barrels arid tables drew some attention, but their best effort was a mid-air front somer- sault timed right and saved the finish, . .. Neixt was Johnny Hynian with a novelty in tlie way of gaging words aiid sentences on • a blackboard. Idea in general is not new, but Hyman's method is. Local names and places niostly used by him. In appearance Hyman rates first rate, and spiels a good line. . Vadie and Gygi revue comprised a 10-plcce band led. by Ted Eddy, group of eight ballet, girls; Rita de Simone, soprano,-and Rachel Bon- stein, pianist. Latter is a whale of a key manipulator. .Miss Vadie and her partner Gygi, violinist, made up the center, with both showing skill in their respective talents. . Up to here the audience were still asleep. Then Frank Davis, with Adele Darnell, came out and woke them up. . Enough laughs to go evei-ywhcre and anywhere around the circuit. Following and closing the first section was Sally Rand, movie gal from Hollywood, assi-sted by Jack Crosby and Harvey .Karels and seven boys. Act originally was routined for picture houses and started off for Fanchon and Marco on* the Coast. Has been revamped since and looks okay for vaude. Plenty of youth added to the sure- fire looks of Miss Rand" puts this one over.. She is one of the few of .the movie colony.who can do some- thing on a stage. Neat little dancer, with pipes not bad either, Can wear clothes with splenty of class. Well liked here. Bobby. Folsom opened intermis- . Bion and was the first show-stopper on the bill. Miss Folsom is working alone this time. She scored with all of her songs and stopped everything with the last number, the drunk bit. At that; Miss Folsom looked as if ehe appeared more at ease with a piano at her side. Pearl, assisted by Chai-les Marsh When in Chicago Viait These Hits SELWYN Mats. Thurs. and Sat. eCfJWAB and M AND Eli Bring Tou TUB NKW COI.LEGIATB MUSICAL COMEUT "GOOD NEWS" .with on . ^LL-AMERICAN TEAM OF PLATM^tS FORTY FLAPPBR FRESIHES . ABE I.VMAN (HiihRelf) & HIS ORCH. FRI ANOFR WEDNESDAT AND E.I\L./;\I^VSCI\ sATliRDAT MATS. GEORGE M. COHAN Oltera a New Comedy BY REQUEST Jty- j, C. Nuiront and Elliott Nuercnt with ELLIOTT NUGENT MATS. WED. and SAT. A. H. M GODS' ADELPHI A. H. WOODS* "The TRIAI OF MARY DUGAN" By Bayard Velllcr with ANN HARDING and Original New York Cu8t STUDEBAKER Mat. Today MARY BASIL Vlolot Kemple NASH EATHBQNE COOPER HENRY FERDINAND STEPHENSON aOTTSGHAIK Asfllsted by Origrlnal Cast in the Continental Comedy Sensation The Connnand to Love .. • - • « n -« V 4f «r « » k « « ' ■ 9 ■ and Billy Ilarria, was a riot with his "Interpreter" skoteli, formerly used by him as a blackout. Pearl's .initiative and hard work are ap- parent. This house, always a hard boiled audience, took to him like a duck to. water. Guffs and stories, old and new, went over for solid laujjhs. ■ Guy and Pearl .Magley. flash dance turn, closed. Loop. State-Lake .. After a capacity audience at the State Lake had . waded through about 10 minutes of boresbme trail- ers, vaudeville new ' era announce- ments and other useless and prop- erly adjectived propaganda, they settled into their seats to see the show.. Heras and Wallace, comedy tum- blers and acros,. one French and the other Italian, dished put plenty of fun. Mary Marlow and Charles Jordan, purveying comical domestic chatter, were mildly entertaining. Mary Marlow hit particularly with her imitations of a pari^ot; dog and baby. Double dramatic rendition of a "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" skit was okay.. Harry Bussey and Dohia Case furnish oodles of fun, singing, kid- "dlng, chatter, with some telling gags in the clos^. Shie plays an accor- dion and has a sweet voice. Mercedes gave an excellent per- formance, going over strong. The woman at the piano got her , cues perfectly, save in one or two cases. House went strong for the cOmbo, and the combo knows its stuff. Natacha Nattpva, with several niale helpers, . appeared in her Salome dance, looking good and dancing better. Carries her own eye and is a good bet. Al. and Fanny Stedmah, in the next-to-close, took plenty of ap- plause. House, generous through- out the §how, and very receptive, took Al and Fanny to its bosom. The Five Lamys, casting act, closed. Picture, "The River Pirate" (Fox). Business, capacity, at second show. Loop. producers. Tlio service will enable exhibitors to obtain jcue sheets to fit their pictures. C. L. Carrell of the Carrell Theat- rical Agency has returned, from a trip through Michigan and Wiscon- sin. He signed theatres in Mani- towac, Water town, Hartford, Wis- consin. Two other Carrell houses, at Grand Rapids and Mu.skegon, have already opened the fall and winter vaude season. B. & K.'s new Paradise, opens Sept. 14, replacing the Senate on the Oriental Publix route, with Mark Fisher as m.c. . First sound program at the Orien- tal is on Sept, 15. Billy Weinberg (United Booking Agency) is again booking the Sat- urday midnight show at the Hay- market burlesque. Will Aubrey, after a tour of the Western time, has been signed by Publix, opening Sunday at the Oriental. Harry Harris, former professional manager Milton Weil Music Co., has gone into business for himself. Freddie Strauss and Florence San- ger, formerly of the Harms office, have joined the Weil staff. Harold Rossiter's Chicago office, is now managed by Jimmy Cairns and Larry Shay. Jean Goldkeltc's recording or- chestra is again at the Trianon ball- room, Avith Harold Stokes direct- ing. With "Lilac Time" (film) showing downtown, the Dudley Players at the Ke<lzie theatre are producing the stage play this week. Follow- ing "Lilac Time," the weekly change of shows at the Kedzie will include "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath," "The Show-Off,'' and "Lightnlh'." Following the recent Involuntary bankruptcy of the Ambassador The- atre.s Corporation, that circuit's Drake theatre has been closed. John Mednlkow. has taken over the Midway, south fjide burlesque house, and will play straight i)ic- tures. Louis Brecka, owner of the Ho- man theatre, has acquired the Standard, 748 North Clark street. Balaban & Katz'.s new Maryland opened Sept. 1 with straight pic- turea^ two changes weekly. ' Adolph T3lH'ner=^ is-fflTmapr«.^rr •"--^ Bill Adler, former publicity di- rector for Lubllner-Trinz, has been signed by Marks brothers to act as assistant to Jack Hesa, exploitation chief. .,' William Fox's loop Showing houfje, Monroe, will reopen Sept. 15, with "Street Angel" and Moylctohe. Abe Cohen continues as manager. Great States theatres, operiating in Illinois towns, will put on art exhibits this October. Arrange- ments have been completed with local art organizations whereby ex- hibits of. oils and etchings will be shipped to the larger hduses. Each exhibit will. be accompanied by a high hat explainer. Three more Great Staties houses are being wlried by W. E. These are the Grand, Alton; Or pheum, Gales- tourg, and the LlncolnT Dixi^, Chi- cago Heights. SYRACUSE, N. Y. By CHESTER B. BAHN Keith's—Vaudfilm. Syracuse—^Vaudfilm. Strand—"Tempest," wired. Loew's State—"Two. Lovers." wired; v ' . ; ' ■ Empire—"Street Angel," wired. Ecke!-r:T"The Terror," wired. Savoy—Phillips' Burleskers. Regent—"The Gauchb." Harvard—"Harold Teen." Avon-"Laugh, Clown,'LUugli." Palace—'IRemember." Swan—Double bill. Having given away everything from dislies to turkeys to patrons as iynlal, lOlmira, which recently eliangtMl hands. A flat 10 cent rate for children has also been estixb liahed. ■ Babe White, Lily. Shea and Marie Clark are new additions to the fern Inine contingent of Tom Phillips* Burleisk.ers at the Savoy. They re- place throe girls who walked by request. ''. Warren Wade, associated wltli Dewitt Newlng in the Ill-fated Temple Players venture Jiere during the early sumrtier, will direct the Robertson-Smith Players at the Gordon Square theatre, Cleveland. MINNEAPOLIS Metropolitan—"Dawn," Shubert — "Wanted" (Bainbridge stock), . Hennepin-.Orpheurh— Vaude and films. Pantages—Vaude and films. Paldce — "Butter and Egg Man" (McCall-Bridge tab). Gayety—"Moonlight Maids" (Mu- tual). Minnesota—"The Whip" and Pub- lix unit. State—"Lilac Time." Lyric—Double change films. Grand — "Jazz Sing-er." 2d loop run. Strand reopens Sept. .13 with "Wings," Granada, new F. & R. uptown house, opens Sept. 19. Both wired, giving F. & R. five Minne- apolis houses equipped for talkers. Garrick, 2,000-.seat F. &. R.-Publix first run; and the Seventh Street, Orpheum local Ass'n. theatre, con- tinue dark .and no plans announced. With the advent of Vitaphone and J. J. Cooney ha.s loa.sed the Drake (Montrose avenue), formerly (Oper- ated by the M. & II. Amusement Co. Harold J. Smith, Inventor of the Orchestraphone. has perfeeted a euelng service for non-synchronized .{wIj.! -tyr^i, table, jphotpgraphic re- door prizes, Frank Sardiho 'of the Syracuse has now gotten around to ukuleles. Four a night are given, and Sardine threatens to form a ulce orchestra under the leader.ship of his master of ceremonies, George Mello. L. R. Cullen, late of Baltimore, is in charge of Loew's State here in the absence of WilUani K. Sax- ton, who is vacationing In New York. Mr. Cullen is slated to man- age the new Loew house now be- ing near completion in Providence; R. L Sim Allen, Schine Utica represen- tative, has tied up with the "Ob- server-Dispatch" there to cash in on its promotional project, a juvenile Birthday Club. Each, club member; on'his birthday, will receive two tickets to the Schlnes' Avon. "Speed Girls," wheel attraction, opened the Richardson's season at Oswego Tuesday. - The' house has been undergoing improvements dur- ing the summer months. In the 11 weeks of its existence, the Eckel Organ Club has attained a membership enrollment of 14,000; »cach "<nembership'* representing -a "request number"'subn:^itted to.Paul H; FOrster, featured' organist. The novelty has catight on rapidly; and R. W. Thayer, managing director of the Schine house, is now ordering club cards In 10,000 lots. "Ramona," "Chloe" and "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" head the song "vote." Willis B. Whitnall, veteran Syra- cuse Rialtolte, has returned to the Empire as house manager for Kauf- man-Buckland Enterprises. Improvements completed, the Lib- erty, Watertown, has reopened with a film policy. The Colonial, Utica, changes pol- icy next Monday, when the house MKrrnme.s"=a -weelt-stand^fori^^Mutual Wheel shows, with three perform- ;inees to be given daily. An "invisible" master of cere- jnonies is the newest stunt of Albert v. Kaufman, managing director of the Empire. A split week policy and a 15-25 ccnt^.i5ciile' Is ann9un(;etl for t^o ^o- Movietone, Grand, second run loop. F. & R. house. Was followed in the Minnesota's steps and boosted prices. Former Grand 25c.- It's 30c now on week nights and 35c week- ends, Minnesota jumped its night price from 65c to 75c an,d its week- end mat from 40c to' 50c. "The Perfect Crime" at Hennepin- Orpheum this week without sound sequences. House isn't wired. Kenr nedy connection for F.B.O. product tied up along with the Pathe output. . Many neighborhood houses here are going in for inexpensive sub- stitutes for Vitaphone and Movie- tone. Two large uptown theatres, not controlled by F. & R., now wiring are Homewood and Logan. DALLAS Palace —"The Fleet's In," stage; "Hfey, Hey," wired. Old Mill—"Magnificent Flirt." Capitol—"10th Avenue." Melba—"Our Dancing Daughters," wired. Majestic—"Four Sons"-vaudoville, wired. Pantages—"Ladles of the Mob." Crystal—Pictures. Arcadia—Pictures. Mielba (Publix) showing only sound pictures during September. Louis Glauberg, former doorman at the Old Mill, now assistant rnari- agor. The Fair Park Auditorium has "Naughty Marietta" Nov.. 10. . Work has been started on a $200,000 supper club on the Fort Worth pike eight miles from Dallas. Governor Dan Moody granted a reprieve until Sept. 21 to T. R. (Bob) Silver, sentenced to death for participation in the holdup of Roseoe Wilson, Fort Worth theatre eashieri-^who -w-as =ki 11 edr^^S 11 vcn-w^s sentenced to be electrocuted Sept. 3- bcr one of the theatre's visiting .star policy and will be followed by Frances Starr. Others in the open- ing cast are Mona Burns, Frank M. Thomas, Austin Falrman, Baker Moore and Kathryn Givney. . A group of local business men la backing 'the enterprise, from re- ports. Marathon dance contest staged at Arena ballroom by eastern piro- mOters is nearing the BOOth hour with a dozen ot. the 44 original couples remaining. One contestant, Eugene Ward, was arrested.;on the floor for forgery after dancing for two weeks before the cops discov- ered his whereabouts. This was strikingly similar to a happening; .al the marathon at Madison Sqiiaro Garden, New York. DENVER , By HARRY FORMAN Denham theatre (residertt stock) opened Friday under the new man- agement of Arthur Oberfelder and Ben with Alice Brady in ^'.3;he Letter.", lyiiss Brady is num- ST. LOUIS Ambassador—"The First Kiss"; Ed Lowry (stage). Garrick—Burlesque. Grand Central—"The Terror." Grand Opera House—^Vaude- films. r Loew's State—"Two Lovers"- Mo vie tone news. , Missouri—"The Whip"TPrank Fay (stage). Shubert• Rialto — "The Desert Song." - St. Louis—-Vaude-films. The Shubei"t-Rialto opens the legit season here with "The Desert Song." No opening act for the American. The passing of the Orpheum> the big downtown vaude house, leaves the St. Louis theatre, out in tlio Grand Boulevard district, the only house available for vaudeville. .. Al Spink, former sports writer on St. Louis dailies, is liandling the advance for "The Desert Song.". CINCINNATI By JOE KOLLING . Taft—"Icebound" (Stuart Walker Co.). Cox—"Behavior of Mrs. Crane" (National IMayers). Albee—"River Pirates"-v£iud©. Palace —"Man - Made Women"—' vaude. Empress—"Step On It." C a p i t o I—"Street Angel"—Vlta-i Movietone. Keith's—"The Water Hole," Strand—"Steamboat Bill, Jr." Lyric—"Four Sons" (2d week). Shubert's. begins .its legit season Sept. 16 with "Excess -Baggage." The house staff: Nelson G. Trow- bridge, manager; (Seorgo W. Brown, assistant manager; Erwin Bellstedt, musical director; Charles H. Zuber, publicity; John Echart, stage man- ager; Tom Corby, advertising agent. Stuart Walker has leased TaCt Auditorium in the new Masonic Temple Building until Sept. 1, 1929. The Erlanger Grand reopens Sept. 23. wlth "Rio Rita." National Players, began fourth stock season last week at Cox. Con\- pany Includes Kathleen Comegy.s, Emmett Vogan, Edith Gresham, Mil- lard Vincent, Gilbcrta Faust, Ber- nard Graney, WiUianl Phelpes, R^abel Jaunay, Cl.arc Hatton, Sarah Pickens Cabell, Richard Bowler, Joe Allen, manager. Dan Russo's orchestra in third week at Swiss Gardens. 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