Variety (Sep 1928)

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Wednesday, September 12, 1928 VARIETY 63 HOTELS FOR SHOW PEOPLE HOTEL HUDSON ALL NEWLY DECORATED $ 8 and Up Single $12 and Up Double Hot and Cold Water and Teleptione Id Each Room 102 WEST 44th STREET NEW YORK CITY Fhone: BRX A NT 1228-29 HOTEL FULTON (In the Heart ot Nen Tork) $ 9 and Up Single $14 and Up Double Sbowet Baths, Hot and Cold Water and Telephone Electric Fan In eacb room 264-268 WEST 46th STREET NEW YORK CITY Ebone: Lidckawanna 6090-1 Opposite N. V. A Flotels L.ORRAINE airvd GRAI^iT--Chicago LORRAINE SINGLE KOOM. BATH, $2.00 OP DOUBLE KOOM, BATH. $11.60 AND $21.00 WEEKM DOUBLE WirilOL'T BATH. $14.00 WEEKLX LEONABD HICKS President GRANT iilNCI.E IIOO.M WITHOll BATH, $1.25 A-ND $1.50 I'KR DA¥ .SINtil.K itOU.M, BATH. «-,>.0U WAX DAY DOrni.K l{00,M WITHOll BATH. $14.(M) PKK WKER DOTBLF KOOM WITH BATH $n.DO AND $21.00 WEKKLT Reduction in Rates Large Room Private Bath $16.50 Week TWO PERSONS filnsle ttoom. Hot and CoW $12.00 IVnter . ...v. WeoK y Hotel America 166 Went 47th St., New Vork City Phone Brynnt 0004 AristQ Hotel 101 W. 44th St., New York City Single Rooms, $8.00 Up. Double Rooms (with bath) $12.00 Up Hot and Cold Running Water In Every Room. A Uome-LIke Hotel In the Heart of the Theatrical District - NEW HOTEL 100 Rooms 100 Showers and Tubs Double Rooms • $3—$4^5 Single Rooms $2.50 and $3.00 HOTEL KILKEARY, Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH'S HOTEL FOR THE PROFESSION Conveniently Located Within Five Minutes of All DOWNTOWN THEATRES Announciha thd Opening of New Restaurant and Coffee Shop THE FAYETTE In Connection with the Hotel—Something Different, (aood pood, Reaisonable Prices Absolutely Fireproof Artistic Steel Furniture . J. F, KILKEARY Proprietor NINTH ST and PENN AVE LOU HOLTZ'S 241 WEST 43D STREET, NEW YORK CITY PHONE LACKAWANNA 7740 Low Summer One and Three Rooms, Bath, Kitchen Completely Furnished In the Heart of Times Square Rates Now Effective WRITE, PHONE OR WIRE POR RESERVATION REAL HOME FOR THE PROFESSION MARYLAND HOTEL 104 W. 49th St., New York City—Ownership Management Lnrgre Rooma Running Water Newly Decorated .00 Immaculately Clean $^ . Courteous Treatment f •V'' a day Newly Furnished ^ a day and up Special Weekly Batee and up Double ' Room (or 2; Bath and. Shower Phone: LONGACRE 680G Hotel Wiiithrop TACOMA, WASH. Right Across the Street from Pantages and Broudyaj Theatres Fireproof and Real Beds Rates Reasonable RAY W. CLARK. Manager. VARiETY BUREAU WASHINGTON, D. C. 416 The Argonne 1629 Columbia Road, N. W. Telephone Columbia 4630 By HARDIE MEAKIN Gayety—Stock,bur., ^. ■ , National (Erlanger R<apley.)—Coch- ran's stock In "Seventh Heaven, final week. "Wings" (film) next,. Strand—"Hindu Belles"' (Mutual bur.). Pictures Columbia—"Tempest." ' Earle—"Lights ot New York. Fox—"Street Angel" (2d week). Keith's—"Kings" (2d week). Metropolitan—"Forgotten F^ces. Palace—"Cardboard Lover." John B. Dia,niel, long here as chief announcer for 'WRC. is now. assigned to WEAF in Manhattan. Lester Scharff, twice here han- dling the stage at the Fox, suddenly switched to the newly acquired Fox- Poll house in Hartford, Conn. Other switches took Alfred Manning, for- merly choral master of the Fox, to the new house in Detroit; al.so Fred- erick Stark to serve as associate conductor of the orchestra there, which was his assignment here. This made Samuel Korroan, formerly concertmaster.. local associate with Leon lirusiloff. COMPLETE FOR HOCSEKEEPfNQ. 325 West 43rd Street Private Bath. OICO. P. SCHNEIDER. Prop. FURNISHED APARTMENTS CLEAN AND AIRY. NEW YORK CITY 6O0 HOUSEKEEPING APARTMENTS LANDSEER APTS. BENDOR COURt 245 West 51st Street Columbus 8950 IRVINGTON HALL 355 West ^ist Street Columbus 1360 343 West 55th Street Columbus 6066 HENRI COURT 312 West 48th Street 3830 Longacre HILDONA COURT 341-347 West 45th Street. 3560 LonpAcre 1.2-3-4-room apartments. f]ach. apartment with private bath, phone, kitchen, kitchenette. $18,00 UP WEEKLY—$70.00 UP MONTHLY The largest maintainer of housekeeping furnished apartments directly under the supervision of the owner. Located In the center of the theatrical district. All fireproof buildings. Address all communications to CHARLES TENENBAUM Principal Cfllce: Landseer Apts^ 246 West Sist Street, New York Apartments can be seen evenings. Cfllce In each building. tVili Lease by the Week. Month or Sear — Furnished or Unfaroiiihed. 3-4 Rooms. Catering to the comfort and eonvenience of the profession. ' STEAM HEAT AND ELECTRIC LIGHT- - - - - $16.00 UP T Hotel CUMBERLAND Broadway and 54th Street NewYotkCty "Long tbe New York Home o/ HeaJUners" Rooms with Twin Beds and Bath 21.00 Per Week for Two Parlor, Bedroom and Bath 25.00-30.00-3S.OO ' 40.00 Weekly Inquire for MANAGER MANSFIELD HALL THE BEST VALUE IN TIMES SQUARE SINGLE DOUBLE $10.00 UP $12.00 UP Our Best Front Rooms, $16.00' 226 W. SOtk 8t, New Yerli- Columbiu 5070 and evenings to 60c. But the musi- cians keep their jobs. So does the organist. Shortly,- a new organ will play all day in the lobby. Manager Soriero annotmces Movietone and Vitaphone and five acts of vaude- ville. Jacob Kat«, manaiger. Lake, the- atre (neighborhood), took the day's receipts, $700, home with him one nig:ht last week but left it in two cigar boxes in his automobile. The next morning it was gone. Mme. Ernesiirie Schumanh-Heink Is to make her farewell visit to Rochester at the Knights of Colum- bus building, auspices of the Audi- torium Concerts, Nov. 15. B. B. Gustadt & Son, Syracuse, former Geneva theatre > operators, have taken over the Star, Waterloo, and closed it for re:modeling. : Rudolph. Schaum, pianist in the Columbia (pet) orchestra, while driving into here hit a telephone pole, the cra.sh killing Steven Bes- paloff, fiuti.st, a.nd serioiasly injuring Schaurti and hi;s wife. Meyer Davis closes his Chevy Chase Lake with its two dance bands this Saturday and opens his Swanee ballroom the same night. Ted Weems is the fir.st orchestra booked for the Swanee, with Ray Crawford s .band to foUovi*. ■ Joseph Walsh, of Lyons, and Dor othea Flexner, Metropolitan Opera contralto, will be married Sept; 14 at Allentown, Pa. Aristo Hotel 101 W. 44th St., New York City Single Rooins, $8.00 Up Double Rooms (with bath) $12.00 Up Hot and Cold Running tVater In Every Room. A Home-Like Hotel In the Heart of the Tlieatrlcal District THE DUPLEX HOUSEKEEPING FURNISHED APARTMENTS 330 West 43rd Street, New York Loneacre 7132 Three and four rooms with bath, complete kitchen. Modorn tn every particular. Will accommodate four . or more adults. S12.00 UP WEEKLX PORTLAND, ORE. Portland—"The Racket." Broadway—"The.Fleet's In." Pantages—"The Foreign Legion." Oriental—"Uncle Tom's Cabin" (2d week). . Columbia — "How to Handle Women." Auditorium^Brltz Opera Co. 340 West 57th St. NEW YORK FIREPROOF APARTMENTS 1-2-3 ROOMS BY THE iVKKK. !ii2.'> UP RY THE MONTH, *00 UP Full Hotel Service Very Low Rental through there and will locate In Seattle. Embassy (Joe Danz) now chang- ing shows twice weekly. No truth In Los .Angeles report Orpheurn vaudevine may show at the Oriental here. Orpheum ha.** a three day lease on the Heilig. No date set for the opening of vaude- ville here. Al Franks is changing people In his tab at Palace Hip. After 105 continuous weeks Dorothy Ray- mond, Les Eveson, Billie Reams and Lee Jackson are leaving. Bob In- gersoll is back, Hal Harri,s, re- cently In Alaska, has also joined. Eddie Peabody, m. c. at the Broadway several months ago, re- turns here with the Fanchon and Marco revuie at the Portland next week. Andrew Saso is house manager new Mu.slc Box. Cold weather closed the Nata- torium last week. It was planned to keep the Sea Breeze Park pool open until the marathon dance, Sept. 9. ROCHESTER, N. Y. By E. H. GOODING Rochester—■'Street Anger'-Vaude. Eastman—"Cardboard Lover." Fay's—"Lights of New York"- fhorts. . Regent—:'Good-F.ye KiPP." Piccadilly—"Vani.shing Pioneer." Gayety -T7- .Vf.; r. o W -n_- .u P_^.B^ <.*^tock biirlosque). The Eastman theatre is in.stalUng Thotophone. Tlie sound d'.'vice will I'p xif^vd only to pupplomont the v.ork of th(- or'jhVstra in .s'ptcial eff'-ct.':. • The TlofOv .'■■tcr theatre goes "talkie" thin wfeek, wixh niat.s to 35c Ray S. Averili, after a: loiig absence In Boston, returns, to manage the Victoria theatre for Dewey Michael.s, of Buffalo. The house opens this week with first-run films and shorts and musical comedies on three-a- day basis, instead of burlesque at pop prices. Jack Lamont will stage the production. Fay's, in addition to going all- talkie and starting the week . on Saturdays, last wt-ek pulled a mid- night ^ho\y Friday. . BRONX, N. Y. C. Loow will be Fox oppo.sltion in this section for the first time when -LTiPW'B-"^I'-ai rmtju n ti vau d ev-i 11 e--a n d picturo.q. open."; Sept. Theatre is two blocks away from Fox's Cro- tona, playing the .same policy.: lyjui.s flan.'; )ia.« resigned as nian- airer of the JJelnidnt.. Juliu.s Joel- .son hou.^e, tn manage- a theatre at Bctljlchom, Pa, , Five theatre and show openings this month starting with the Britiz opera troupe at the Auditorium Sept. 1. United Artists opens about Sept. 14. John Hamrick opens his new Music Box about Sept, 21 and the Dufwin, new home of the Henry Duffy Players, ptjshes off Sept 28. Fifth opening Is Orpheum vaudc at the lleilig. < SEATTLE By DAVE TREPP President—"Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary" (stock). Coliseum—"Night of Mystery." Columbia—"King .of Kings" (3d week). Blue Mouse—"Women They Talk About" (2d week)-vita. Winter Garden—"Steamboat Bill, Jr." Music Box—"Terror" (3d week) vita. Pantages^"No Other Woman"- vtLijde ^- "- Orpheum — "The magnificent Flirf'-vaude. Fifth Avenue—"Fleet's Tn." Seattle—"The Cardboard IX)ver"- st.'ige .'■"liow. D. fr. Invar.irlty,- former manager \\ ill Shakey hou.se'j in Spokane, i.s John Nylen, assistant to Bob Blair at Seattle theatre, has been shifted to the Metropolitan, Boston, by Publix. Leonard Williams here tem- porarily." Go Go De Lys, featured the past year in Fanchon & Marco shows in the West, has gone to New York t<J open at the P.aramount theatre un- der direction William Morris Ofllcc. RUANOAPARTNENTS 800 Eighth Ave. (49th St) CIIICKEKINO SSnO Z-3 Roomn, Bath nnd Kitchenette. ..Accommodate 3-n Pernons. . Complete Hotel Service. Atlrnrtlvely I''^rnl8licd«' Under Now Manu>remrnt REDUCED RENTALS LETTERS When Sending ttm Matt tm-' ▼ARIETT, nddrcM MaU OIm%. rOSTCARDB, ADVKRTISINO OmOULAR UETTBBS WITX UOt BS ADVERTISED UCTTERB ADVBBTI8SD Oi OMK IBBUK ONX.V Alden Mary Bacr Abel UanUs Flrlle Boyle LcOra Carlton Mrs T Cullun Cl)loo Dale Pierre I.>ayton Mrs. L Dean Dorothea niBello .1 n DIry Hob GrecTi Harry CJ.ulran_,& Margaret .Tohniiton J. A Kikuta I'^amlly r.an(Iry Art Lucille r MacT..ean Ted Marlowe Ray Matthews Tub Pantzcr Chan Vtcdncid Rita Shaw Ulllan .Shepard Harry Shrlncr Jos Smith Paul 0 .V\{IHon Belle Wrlffht Andy Wrlffht & Douglaa Harold Bi.shop, manager of new Capitol theatre, Edmonton, Canada, expects new house to open about Oct, 1, INDIANAPOLIS BY EDWIN V. O'NEEL Apollo—"Street Angel." Loew's Palace—"Excess Baggage." Indiana—"The Fleet's In." Circle—'"Tiie. Night Watch." Colonial— House of Bondage" Mutual—"Naughty Nifties." CHICAGO OFFICE Andrcw.s Cecil "Lilae Tinu'" will .•^lart Circle's sound t)o]icy Sept, 15 .wlu-n Dick I'owcll's sage band will bo dropped. Jane Oghorn. is new exe.cutlvc sec- retary of Little Th<'atr<! society. She is eondueting a meiiib'-.rHhip drive. Marion :o)lo>igli, ("(jrint-r travel- ing r'))re.<<enatlvc af the .Valional Film Hf^ard, . ha.^ I't plai '-d Kiitli Doyle, tjari.'^fMTefl to ,M('riii<;il.- Baln.ffair V E Bear Betty Belle & GoatcH Brunnle« Merrett Bucltley Jack Burke Minnie. Cathro J Tj Chamberl.iln If .7 Conley Harry J Couler ile. Illch Downey ■ Esther Doyle Jimmy Kt-rKUHon Mao l''oley Thomas I-'oHter & Illtc.hio Krohman Deri Fuller & Jewell Glfford Wm O (;ilbert Bort Hammond Al llerinnn I.cwis Herly, Ijilllan )fOKan ft Stanley, Howard May. TI nrrtf^r'-cjirtTrg'f n— Iniiian W;irrf'n I' Iversrn l^'ritiiln Kehoe Miso I.aMnrf J,iil;i" T>:in>,'i' Ilnwaril Lauren & l,ul).iie Lester H & C lAirctla Dee .Maok Eddie G .Martin Freddie Mayo:& Mack May Janet McDermott Lorctta .Meyers Btitty Miller Bob Morgan C^has A, Muriel & Fl,>iher Owen Dick l';llmer Henry I'r.rry Ifarry H Petrella T G Powell Albert I'yiJim Fred & P Ticcd .t T>urey Ilo'^ers Jack HoK'TH Wilson lUiKiTH Sc. Klntc Ilonic iv. Dunil 'Hotli.Mtrom John Hyan Buddy Si:ott Is()t)p| -H li u int ton ,T-^."hl«?f^--^= SiCKie SxiK i-It Roy StVlnbri'k iiruno , .Stevens (lo .Sylvi'Hter & V.inoe White Pierre H Wright Geo M Wynn Hay Zuluir Dave I » .1.» ifr ^ « ... •