VARIETY

Plttaowritft GRAND (ttbo)

"Green Beetle Raymond ft Bain Meredith ft Snoozer De Vol 3 7 Bracks (Others to fill)

Port Jervia, N . Y. NEW (shea)

The Lippincou Gilmore ft Ozuma Calen ft Davis

2d halt Devala ft Zelda Evelyn Ware Howard ft Mason

Por t land , Ore, ORPHEUM

Roshanara Theo Roberta Co McDevitt Kelly ft L Hufford ft Chain Jarvis ft Dare (Others to fill)

EMPRESS (sc) Dorsch ft Russell Harry Rose • In Old New York" Usher 3 Cecile Eldrid ft C

PANTAGES ( m ) Alisky's Hawaliana Creo Comer ft Sloane Toagn ft Geneva Danny Simmons De Alberts

Hii-hmond LYRIC (ubo)

"The System" Grace Wilson Stan Stanley 3 Joe ft Lew Cooper Hueman 3 (Others to fill)

R o c h e s t e r , N. Y . TEMPLE (ubo)

Bickel ft Watson Fannie Brlce Sully Family Will Oakland Co Gordon ft Rica (Others to Oil)

FAMILY (loew) Ruth Curtis LaBelle Clark & Horse Mark List Man Hewlns Co Golden (k West Tallman

S a c r a m e n t o EMPRESS (sc)

(Open Sun Mat) Moffat Clare 3 Hong Fong Jas F. Sullivan Co Olivetti Troupe "Top World Dancers"

S a g i n a w , Mich. JEFFERS (ubo)

"Lovers & Lunatlca" 2d halt

Southwick & Darr Calloway & Roberts Whipple Houston Co Helm Children Alice Teddy

Sa l t L a k e ORPHEUM

(Open San Mat) Marie Lloyd Cameron ft O'Connor Carlisle ft Romer Sam Barton (Others to fill)

EMPRESS (sc) (Open Wed Mat)

Dennis Bros Berke ft Korae Rossow Midgets R E O'Connor Co Murray Bennett Mr M ah on ft Chapelle

San A n t o n i o MAJESTIC (inter)

(Open Sun Mat) La Toy Bros 3 Creighton Sis Wiley ft Ten Eyck Capitol City 4 "Lawn Party" Marshall Montgomery Chalaboo Guatemalans

San D i e g o SAVOY ( m )

Riding Duttons Rhoda ft Crampton Patsy Doyle Duncan ft Holt Clara Stevens Co

San F r a n c l a c o ORPHEUM

David Blspham Harry Gilfoil Ruth Rye Keno Walsh ft Mel Ward ft Weber Woodman ft Livingston Ben Deely Co Kartelll

EMPRESS (sc) Eddie Marshall Maye ft Addis Canfleld ft Carlton Frank Mullane Peklnfse Troupe

PANTAGES (m) (Open Sun Mat)

Aduie's Lions Milt ft Dolly Nobles Phil La Toska Richards ft Montrose Howard 8 Arthur Rigby

St. Lon la COLUMBIA (ubo)

Elisabeth Murray Vaa ft Beaumont Sis

Creasy ft Dayne Nina Barbour Merrill ft Otto Ernie ft Ernie (Others to fill)

St. Pawl ORPHEUM

(Open Sun Mat) Claude ft Fan Usher Dainty Marie Doris Wilson 3 Edna Showalter Reed Bros (Others to fill)

EMPRESS (sc) (Open Sun Mat)

3 Falcone Moscrop Sisters Dick Lynch Hallen ft Fuller "More Sin Again"

Scrantoa, Pa. POLI'S (ubo)

Milt Collins Julia Curtis Claude Rant Derkin's Animals . (Others to fill)

Seattle ORPHEUM

Odiva Master Gabriel Co Mabel Adams Co Kimberly ft Mohr Violet McMillan Moralls Bros (Others to fill)

EMPRESS (sc) Berry ft Berry "Barefoot Boy" "Salvation Sue" Morrissey ft Hackett Picchiani Troupe

PANTAGES (m) Fields ft Lewis Torcat's Roosters American Whirlwinds Tracey Goeti ft Tracey The Halktngs

Sioux Ci ty ORPHEUM

(Open Sun Mat) George Dameral Co Kajiyama Dooley A Sales Marie Bishop Ambler Bros Pantzer Duo

S p o k a n e ORPHEUM (sc) (Open Sun Mat)

The Skatelles Green McHenry ft D "Four of a Kind" Julian Rose Paul Azard 3

PANTAGES (m) (Open Sun Mat)

"Soul Kiss" Jos Remington Co Skipper Kennedy ft R Scott ft Wallace Warlenberg Bros

S y r a c u s e , N. Y. GRAND (ubo)

Jos Jefferson Co Ed Morton Kathleen Clifford Chung Hwa 4 Beaumont A Arnold Howard's Ponies (Others to fill)

Spiinarfleld, Maaa. POLI'S (ubo)

Edward Abeles Co O'Brien Havel Co Webb ft Burns Lorraine ft Barkea Ray ft Hllltard Dandry Bros Alexander Bros Marjory At wood

Taeoaaa EMPRESS (sc)

Zeraldas Louis Granat "The Punch" Bob Hall "Mermaid * Man"

PANTAGES (m) Barnold's Doga Barrows Lancaster Co Tom Kelly Wood ft Lawson Jerome ft Carson

T e r r e H a n t e , l a d . VARIETIES (wva)

Elliot Bros Pearl Bros ft Burns Charlotte Parry Co 2 Kerns Adelaine Lowe Co

2d half Robt Hodge Earl ft Neal Clara Ballerlni Hip ft Napoleon (One to flu)

Toledo KEITH'S (ubo)

"Woman Proposal" lack Gardner Martin A Fabrlnl Burns ft Kissen Ouerro & Carmen (Others to fill)

Toronto SHEA'S (ubo)

"Kid Kabaret" Charles Ahearn Tr Melville A Hlgglns Lyons A Yosco Mary Dorr Albert Perry Co Miller A Lyle Rayno's Doga

YOUNGE ST. (loew) Paul Stephens Laurie A Aleen Kelso A Leighton Tierney A Sabboth Ellzaeth Cutty Lottie Williams Co Klein Bros 6 Divine Nymphs Purcella Bros

V a n c o u v e r , B. C ORPHEUM

"Sergeant Bagby" Lillian Shaw Wright A Deitrlch Weston ft Claire The Berrens Powers Bros (Others to fill)

IMPERIAL (sc) Ryan Bros Williams A Segal 'Spiegel's Daughter"

Al Herman "Harmony Girls"

PANTAGES (m> Lottie Mayer Girls Lasky's "Hoboes" Muzette Rackett Hoover A M Cornalla A Wilbur

Waaalugrton KEITH'S (ubo)

Anna Held Flanagan A Edwards Gliding O'Mearaa Asakl Buckley's Animals (Others to fill)

W i n n i p e g , Cam. ORPHEUM

Valeska Suratt Co

Irene Tlmmons Co DeLeon A Davis James Cullen James Cullen Stelllng A Revell Aileen Stanley (Others to fill)

EMPRESS (sc) 2 Georges Rathskeller 3 Tom Nawm Co Mary Gray Onalp

PANTAGES (m) "Masqueraders" Daisy Harcourt Dr Will Davis Mae Erwood Co Salt Bush BUI Co

Parte OLYMPIA

Pichel A Scale Dorvllle Bourrillon Footit A Sons Alice O'Brien Y Prtntempa Mary Thery Chariot Martens Jackson's Girls

EMPIRE Thales A Mile Maaailln Nine Plnson Apollo Trio Gaby Daphy Corn ft Hart 6 Merry Macs Heros MacRockan ft Partner Malbert

SHOWS NEXT WEEK. N E W Y O R K .

"A PAIR OF SIXES"—Longacre (5th week). "GRUMPY" (Cyril Maude)—Wallack'a (10th

week). "HELP WANTED"—Elliott (11th week). "HIGH JINKS"—Casino. (18th week). "JERRY" (Billie Burke)—Lyceum (3d week) . * KITTY MacKAY"—Comedy (14th week). "LEGEND OF LENORA" (Maude Adams) —

Empire (16th week). •MARRYING MONEY"—Princess (6th week). 101 RANCH—Madison Sq. Garden (April 21) . "PANTHEA"—Booth (3d week). "PIV*FORE"—Hippodrome (3d week). "PEG O MY HEART"—Cort (7uth week| . "POTASH AND PERLMUTTER"—Cohan (36th

WG©k) "SARI"—New Amsterdam (15th week). "SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE"—Gaiety

(30th week). "THE BELLE OF BOND STREET" (Sam

Bernard and Gaby Deslys)—Shubert (4th week).

"THE BEAUTY SHOP" (Raymond Hitchcock) —Astor (2d week).

"THE CRINOLINE GIRL" (Elt inge)^Knick-erbocker (6th week) .

"THE MIDNIGHT GIRL"—44th Street (9th week).

"THE DUMMY"—Hudson (2d week). "THE GOVERNOR'S B08S"—Garrick (2d

wcV>. •TH RED CANARY"—Lyric (2d week). •THE TRUTH" (Grace George)— Little (2d

week). "THE MISLEADING LADY"—Fulton (21st

week). "THE RULE OF THREE"—Harris (10th

week). "THE SECRET"—Belaaco (16th week). "THE WHIRL OF THE WORLD"—Winter

Garden (15th week). "THE YELLOW TICKET"—Eltlnge (14th

week). "THINGS THAT COUNT"—Playhouse. "TO-DAY"—48-th Street (28th week). "TOO MANY COOKS"—30th Street (Oth

week) .

P H I L A D E L P H I A . "THE MADCAP DUCHESS"—Oarrlek ( Id

week). "CORDELIA BLOSSOM"—Broad (2d wook). "FORWARD MARCH"—Forrest "WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE"—Lyric (2d

week). "THE LURE"—Adelpbia (3d week). "THE LADY IN THE CASE"—Little (opens

April 21). "THE WHIP"—Metropolitan (7th week). "MAGGIE PEPPER"—Walnut (2d week).

CHICAGO. "PECK O' PICKLES"—American (7th week). "HELP WANTED"—Cort (18th week). •MADAME MOSELLE"—Garrick (2d week). PRINCESS PLAYERS—Princess (5th week) . JOHN DREW—Illinois (1st week). "SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE"—Cohan's

( loth week). "THE DRUO TERROR"—La Salle (3d week) . "THE UNDER DOG"—Comedy (2d week). "DADDY LONG-LEGS"—Powers (8th week) .

NEW BUILDINGS. Herman Welngarten has accepted plana for

a new movie at 1901-1008 Broadway, costing about $15,000.

A limestone neighborhood theatre is to be built at 466-470 Grand street by the Terrapin Realty Co. (G. S. Nelson, president) which will coat about $60,000. It will be a three-story brick affair.

A $10,060 open-air theatre Is to be built by the Economy Real Property Co. at Seneca avenue, Hunts Point and Trvlne street. In the Bronx.

cupancy by June. A $15,000 playhouse is to be erected at Federalsburg, Md.. with a seat­ing capacity of from 800 to 1.0U0. J. A. Bader ft Co., of Wilmington, through Philadelphia attorneys, have purchased, under a foreclosure Hen, the plot of ground located at German-town and Tulpehocken street, that city. They have arranged to complete the picture house for which they contracted.

Jacob Somen has accepted plans tor a new $10,000 movie at High and Washington streets. Brooklyn.

Gustav Konigswald is building a new movie house, costing $10,000 at Fifth avenue and 47th street, Brooklyn.

Herman Weingarten has accepted plans for a new open-air theatre at Nassau avenue and Hausman street. Brooklyn.

Hamilton, Ont., April 15. If rumors count for anything, this city of

100,000 souls .will soon have more theatres than there are people to fill them. Every real estate deal of any note which takes place in the central part of the city has coupled with it the name of some new company which in­tends to build a "show shop," but when it all simmers down it is doubtful if there will be more than one new one built. That the Mar­cus Loew interests intend to Invade Hamilton Is a certainty and work on the new house will start shortly. Since the Lyric was purchased by the Canadian Theatres Co., U. B. O. vaude­ville has had a monopoly here. There are al­ready three large houses playing pictures ex­clusively besides a large number of small ones.

Terre Haute, April 13. Plans and specifications have been accepted

for the erection of a theatre at the southwest corner of Eighth and Ohio streets by T. W, Barhydt, Jr., owner of a half-Interest in the Varieties theatre. Associated with him In the enterprise are Joseph M. Finn and Marcus Heiman of Chicago.

A new pop vaudeville theatre Is being erect­ed in White Plains, N. Y., financed by a local butcher, which Is to be booked through the Loew offices.

_ . Lynn, Mass., April 15. West Lynn's new vaudeville house, which

Manager Charles A. Dooley expects to have completed by Sept. 1, wijl be called the

St. Louis, April 15. The annual spring crop of theatre projects

was augmented this week by announcement that a new theatre is projected for Seventh and Franklin avenues. This word was given out at a meeting of the Franklin Avenue Mer­chants' Association, and details were with­held. The corner is considerably north of any present downtown theatre or inmportant amusement district.

Toledo, April 15. Two attempts to provide Toledo with a

larger and exclusive picture theatre are be­ing made by local and New York promoters. A movement to remodel the old First Con­gregational church property, now the Plaxa dance hall. Into a modern film theatre is be­ing promoted by local investors. Representing Leevy Amusement Co., of New York. F. Kll-shiemer Is endeavoring to interest local capi­tal in a proposed $150,000 theatre, also to be located on St. Clalr street near Madison. Plans for remodeling the Frank Collins property, now occupied by the Plaza, provide almost complete rebuilding of the structure and pro­vision for an all feature show with two per­formances dally at 25 cents admission. Pro­moters of the plan are Leslie Bettis, Fred Colburn and R. P. Hull.

Philadelphia, April 15. Two large picture houses opened Saturday

and three others are planned. The new movies being operated are the Overbrook, situated at 63d and Haverford avenues, and the Wind­sor, at Kensington avenue and Womrath street. Both appear to be well located. At the Overbrook the opening feature was "Oeorge Washington at Valley Forge." The house Is owned by V. R. Carrick, A. Brown and Will­iam Sachsenmyer. Mr. Brown Is the man­ager. The Windsor has been equipped with a handsome Kimball organ, similar to the one In the Regent. The syndicate headed by Charles O. Kruger, president of the Philadel­phia Rapid Transit Co., Is having plans drawn for a picture house to seat 2.000 to be erected In 17th street below Venango. -»nd to cost about $50,000. Levlck ft Waldow will soon award the contract for the erection of a movie measuring 45 by 100 feet at 2007-0 North Fifth street, and Herman Beyer. Jr., has filed plans for a movie to occupy a site 43 by 110 feet at 61st and Vine streets.

Georgetown. Del.. April 15. Carl A. Parker, of Denton. Md.. Is erecting

a picture theatre at Main and Fourth streets 28x75 feet The building will be ready for oc-

Buffalo. April 15. Still another handsome palace of entertain­

ment Is to be erected In Buffalo. The Strat­ford Theatre Co.. Inc.. incorporated for $250,-000, has purchased under contract property at the northeast corner of Court and Franklin streets at a figure said to have been upwards of $200,000, and propose to erect a theatre representing an outlay of half a million dol­lars. The Incorporators, according to the papers filed at Albanv. Include Postmaster William F. Kastlng. William O. Houck. presi­dent of the Buffalo Structural Steel Co.. and Ansel E. Whltbeck of Detroit and Pittsburgh. Cleveland parties are also said to be Inter­ested. Officers of the new company chosen are: President, William G. Houck; vice-presi­dent. Robert Huntley; treasurer. William F. Ka«ttng: general manager. A. E. Whltbeck: secretary. -I. T. E<1dy. Seating capacity ap­proximately 1.725. Two performanrf< will be given daitv. with concerts on Sunday. Moderate prices will prevail.

OBITUARY. Mrs. P. A. Tft nehill, at one time a

famous actress, the widow of a well known actor, and the mother of Frank Tannehill of contemporaneous renown, died April 9. The body was taken to Carlisle, Pa., for burial.

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James O'Dea, musical comedy ana song writer, died at his home in Rock-ville Centre, Long Island, April 12, aged 42. He is survived by a widow, Anne Caldwell.

Johnny Busch, Jr., a well known juvenile vaudevillian, who has ap­peared with his parents, was killed by an auto, April 11 while crossing Am­sterdam avenue, near his home on 109th street. The boy was 14 years old.

Ada Lane (Mrs. Jack Wilson) died April 11 of pneumonia, after a short illness. She had been appearing with the Jack Wilson Trio, and was orig­inally of the Lane Sisters, in vaude­ville. The temains were cremated Sunday at the Union Hill, N. J., Crematory.

The German musician, Seiler, dur­ing an interview with his wife, in hit attorney's office in Berlin, shot hit wife dead and then committed suicide. Divorce proceedings between the twe were before the court.

J. Wallace Brownson, better known as "Brownde" Wallace, died last week at Excelsior Springs, Mo.

Xaviere de Leka, a cafe concert chanteuse, and also Mile. Lambell, comedienne, died in Paris April 6.

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John B. Shermer, an agent for the Philadelphia Billposting Co., dropped dead Monday afternoon in Philadel­phia. He is survived by a widow and two children.

Baltimore, April 15. H. C. Buckingham, of the Naziraova

company, lost in a race from Cincin­nati with death a few days ago. He had been notified that his wife, Mrs. J. Buckingham, who lived here, was dangerously ill. He arrived a few hours too late to see her alive. Mrs. Buckingham was 27 years old. Be­sides her husband, she leaves one son.

FORUM. New York. April 10.

Editor VARIETY": Regarding the story about my going

with the Progressive Circuit, I beg to say I have no connection with the Progressive Circuit or ever made any conditions with it for a franchise.

I have four more years franchise with the Columbia Amusement Co. and also a franchise with the popular price circuit of the Columbia.

Sam flnwe.

Opened in "The Crisis." Jamestown, N. Y., April 15.

William Courneen opened at the Samuels opera house Monday in "The Crisis." Lola Crandall has the leads with the new stock company.