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The Indianapolis Recorder, Saturday, Sept. 1,1928
THEATRICAL
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NEWS AND VIEWS OF SPOKEN AND SILENT DRAMA — MUSIC AND VAUDEVILLE
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ATTRACTIONS BOOKED BY MAJESTIC TO BE COSTUMED LIKE BROADWAY SHOWS
NEW YORK CITY. August 30 — The heads of the Majestic Theatrical circuit, Inc., Mr. Jack Gold-, berg and Jos. J. Myers are leaving nothing undone to make this circuit the greatest of its kind in the world and when their efforts are accomplished, the Majestic Theatrical circuit, Inc., to the colored theatre patrons will be the same as the Shubert Theatrical circuit is to the white theatre patrons. Berhens, Theatrical Customer in. New York City, has received one of the largest orders ever given out for an organization of this kind. Something like two thousand costumes have been ordered by the Majestic Theatrical circuit, Inc., just for the chorus alone. This does not Include the hundreds that will be used by the principals. Berhens customers are working night and day to have everything in readiness for the grand opening of this gigantic enterprise which is Sept. 3. • Mr. Berhens has just returned from an extended tour of Berlin and Paris, where he purchased many novelties and designs for costumes from some of the leading designers and artists of Europe, so you can close yours eyes and dream of the grandeur this wonderful circuit has in store for you with all their presentations. What is more pleasing to the eye than beautiful wardrobe worn by girls that know how. Messrs. Goldberg and Myers, have scoured the country from
New York, to California, to obtain the sweetest girls in the theatrical profession. -oOo
FACTS!-NOT BULL
T. O. B. A. Sued By Bandanna Company
Charging breach of contract, the Bandana Amusement Company this week, through their lawyer, W. Franklin Clark, filed suit against the Theatre Owners Booking Association for $5,000 this week. Concerning the alleged contracts, the Bandana Amusement Co., says engagements for performances at St. Louis, Indianapolis, Chicago and California were cancelled by the T. O. B. A. ; -oOo-
‘‘The Birth of the Blues," Grand, Lenton, Ind. • Mamie Smith, Walker, Indianapolis. * "Broadway Vanities,” Pythian, Columbus. * Sandy Burne's "Philadelphia Follies,” Lafayette, New York City. • Black Birds, Liberty, New York City. * Drake and Walker, Willard, Chicago. * Joe Simms "Dancing Days,” Grand, Chicago. • "Shuflln’ Sam.” Booker Washington, St. Louis. • Billy Pierson’s “Miss Broadway,” Lincoln, Kansas City. * "Bessie Smith’s “Steamboat Days,” Palace, Norfolk, Va. • “Rrfineo and Juliet,” Roosevelt, Gary, Ind. * Irvin C. Miller’s “The Merry Go Round,” Pearl, Philadelphia. • The Lafayette Players In “Rain,” Lincoln, Los Angeles, Cal. • Irvin C. Miller’s “Harlem Harry,” Howard. Washington , D. C. * Prince Shah Barbar, Howard, Washington, D. C. * “Exposition Four,” Pantages, Salt Lake City. • Brown and McGrew, Palace, Peoria, 111. • Ada Brown Co., Orpheum, Omaha, Neb. • Buch and Bubbles, Keith’s Toledo. O. * Easton and Howell, Keith’s, Ottawa, Canada. * Chap pelle and Stennette, Keith’s Ottawa, Canada. • “Norman Thomas Five,” Palace, Chicago. * Worthy and Thompson, Ramona Park, Grand Rapids, Mich. • Curley. Brook’s Hot Babies,” Colonial, In-
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Quiet is the little town of Dayton, O. So quiet is this town that even the street cars don't make any noise from 12 p. m. till 5 a. m. The line of business 1 follow, and that’s about all that I am doing now days, is following it, is about on par with the rest of the towns its size. At the Palace theatre, I found Carter and Clark’s big company. Paul Carter has organized a different kind of a show this year. He has all school girls and boys with about three old timers for cast work. And the youth he has given to the public is pleasing and brightens up the show in every way. They are a clean little set in mind and body, with intelligence, and he is keeping them that way by carrying an extra woman along to look after the girls while he himself looks after the boys. Lew Lamar Is in charge of the Palace as manager (and spemingly has restored business about as well as it can be regu-
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CHICAGO. 111., Aug. 31.—Walter L.Rector and Annice Johnson are
BERLIN. Germany. Aug. (Special to the Bee)
Josephine Baker, former “Darling of Paris” and who established a precedent in the wearing of abbreaviated costumes, has been doing her stuff in Germany for some little time now and will be in Berlin the 12th to 15th of September, to open at the Theatre das West-
still holding down the boards at the | ens a big revue, which has been popular Monogram with their fast specially written for her. It Is said and clever company of players that that the revue will have about 60 makes the theatre-goers set up and people in support of the famous
take notice. L « I dancer.
lated in these pip Tim E. Owsley ing times of peace. The owners, all of them at last, have woke up and gone some place and left their houses in the hands of a real showman. And now even the citizens have a new confidence in the business. Lew has been in t h e show game all his life, not pie tending but actually working as an
actor, manager and etc.
All shows, when playing Dayton, will do well to stop at. 218 Norwood, Mr. and Mrs. Evans’ place. They understand actors and have a house for their comforts with less expenses. The Classic the atre is a modern picture house 'j with H. T. Elliot as manager and no finer man could you meet. His place is doing wonderful business and it is a real picture house. The Palace theatre is a modern play house and the Classic is the same for pictures. Whetr- in Dayton, take a look and you will see something to surprise you. These theatres cost three hundred and fifty thousand or more. each. So they don’t look like no barn. Dropped into Columbus, O., Monday and at this writing am still here. Found Will Mason's big show laying off from having been canceled at. the last moment that the Mamie Smith Co. might fill the date. Will has a big show and a good one, but unfortunately, he is a Negro, and his manager and people are Negroes. If Will was wise he would get a white manager or at least pretend some white man owned it. because there are but few such people with business principles in this game. Paul Carter’s show is at the Pythian Temple^ “Tim"
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‘QUEEN OF DANCE” LIKES “ACE OF SYNCOPATION'
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PARIS, France, August 31—“I love to dance to the music of your marvelous band. It is thrilling.” — Thus was the autograph of Josephine Baker in the now famous “Blue Book” ol Noble Sissle, containing the autographed comments ot different celebrities concerning the merits of his band which is the featured attraction at the Ambassadeurs, here. The above photo shows Miss Baker having tea with Sissle during her short visit in Paris, at which time she bought a small fortune in property, it is said. Miss Baker goes to Berlin soon for a long engagement. Her name is added t o the long list of people who have autographed Sissle’s book. Among them are Irene Castle McLaughlin, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Beatrice Lillie, Jascha Heifitz, and many others.
Charlie Chuch. They are,
Johnson, cornet; J. I). Jones trombone; Allen Mitchell, banjo; William Lewis, drums. This yei.r’s offering of the “Queen” of the blues is strictly of the revue type, fast, clean and up to-date. Miss Smith is using a semi-blues numbsr but no blues, and appears only twice in the 1:10 minutes the offering rani, when we caught it Wednesday night. DeWayman Niles is a show in himself. Words fail one when they attempt to describe bin wonderi'ul contortionist work. Next in the spotlight of notice come:; Darling and Phillips, two boys w 10 are in on the know when it cones to hoofing. Peg and Peg score big with their Apache number. A complete new show is promised tor the midnight show Saturday night. Next week’s offering at this popular play house will be Butte’beans and Susie, two of the best entertainers on (he American stage. They will be supported by 4 com-
pany of 30 all star artists
NOBLE SISSLE AND HIS BAND “CLEANING UP” AT THE AMBASSADEURS, PARIS
PARIS, August 31.—So
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TJZI Musical Offering ned. Sissle opened with his new band on July 5th, and has steadily gained in popularity, until tie is I
At The Colonial
now a valuable asset to the Ambas-! Srdir'T I ^!”h lhe sadeurs. as ™ Presenting
tor’s 86th Street theatre. Prosl pects are bright for a trip over the entire Eastern sector of the K-A-0 Time.. The new vehicle of the com posing pianist includes :—Jones, Marion and Dade, Dewey JBrown and an ensemble of colore I maidens called Seven Panama Pansies. George O. Weeden, chief of t ie Pat Casey office, is superintending the bookings of the act, which goes in to lights as Eubie Blake afd Col
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a musical re-[ B y Isabelle Fultz the Colonial l' 110 week of August 27th 1928,
sorig "specialty 7 in^the^reirularsbmv 1 ^ fhea ) n ‘ dmvn ,ovv, *• ^ week! In] Gibson’s Standard theatre present being the featured artfs^p n^ enn' ,he H “ re ^\ly Saunders, tumb-Ud.a Big Double Bill, elusive proof was given of ^ho^popu"I jherohat dehixe; Toy Brown Sammie Lewis’ Southern fcevue
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NEW YORK, N. Y„ Aug. 31.— Oscar Micheaux, pioneer producer of race movies, is about to release his latest and greatest screen production, "The Broken Violin.” It Is a race drama of intense interest and thrillingly dramatic episodes. The continuity is well established and the interest sustained. The artists for the cast were carefully selected. Those most prominent in the picture are.—J. Homer Tutt, Ardel Dabney, Alice B. Russell, Ike Paul, Daisy Foster. Gertrude Snelson, Boots Hope, Ethel Smith and Pickaninny Hill. Mr. Micheaux is now photographing another of his great stories entitled, “Marcus Garland.” It is an exciting story of love, intrigue and the gamble for the control of a continent. Salem Tutt Whitney and Amy Birdsong are featured in this production.
Gladys May of Shufflin’ Sam Co. Follow the lead of Gladys May, vivacious actress in. Shufflin’ Sam from Alabam* who says she finds Exelento the most delightful hair dressing she has ever used.
ed they were qbliged to take a
side stand and allow
Main stage. And although their contract called for them to be ihe ! featured band, the management declared, “That they would sooner pay them their Salaries and not have them work, Rather than let
them take Sissle’s place.”
Many people of prominence have
Bridges, straight and a fast chor i Emm a Simmons, J. Homer) Huhf
us iij which are Baby Harris, Geor-i bard,
oi a ~i 0 *i.. "***v,i, uaujr rmins, iieor- Daybreak oueh Dif'ir ^ ia ^ rep11 ’ Mable Simms and Billy | Keith ’ and a very
fast stepping
Williams. An A No. 1 orchestra beaded by our own Elvia Guy, plays from the stage and they can play. Oh Roy. The offering opens with an ensemble number “Helld Swaoee,” introducing “Dinah, then an orchestra number, “Changes,” followed by Miss Bobbie Toliver, in “More Than Satisfied”
autographed Sissle’s now well-
known “Blue book 2,” among them ..r. ,,,
being:—Peggy Hopkins lovee Be- .Me Blue.-v, both taking o0o _ , Moss, Bridges and Brown. Leroy
Moss next uses “(’hole,” with
Watts & Ringgold Hit At Linton, Ind,
By J. ERNEST WEBB
LINTON, Ind., Aug. 29.—Ernest Watts and his talented wife partner. are presenting their “Birth
dance specialty, good. The orchestra uses another number, and are followed by a sister team, Harris and Green in a “Black Bottom”: dance specialty that goes over w’ell. -Jolly Saunders is next in thfe- spot in his tumbling act, going over as usual. “Bungle
chorus, opened the bill. It jwas a very fast show, good dancing and singing and pleased the audience. Wiltorf Crawley, the Clarinet King and Record artist, who just closed with Lew Leslie’s “Blackbirds,” stopped the show cold, playing those blues on the clarinet
and i as only he knows how.
- Van and Ball, White novelty act, Imitations mimicry. Sensational Boomerang Throwers, were receiv ed very warmly. * Jenkins and Idaho’s Mississippi Steppers with a surrounding cast of twenty, including Hezekiah Jenkins, Idaho and Idaho, Jessie Wilson, and a very fast chorus rounded out the bill with fast dancing, goodl sing-
ing, and good comedy.
—Isabfelle.
of The Blues” company to an all i HIues l) >’ the &irls is next and
white audience Jhis week in an all white town, Linton, Ind., and mak ing them like it too. “The Birth of rhe Blues,” which is about the best show to play here, and the only one to bring us somethng new and different in the way of shows, played to good business at the Walker in Indianapolis, the past week. The show is making three complete changes this week, urs ing for the first show “The Birth of The Blues,” without the same effect as that used in Indianapo lis. For the second show, starting Wednesday, minstrel offering i s
followed by Curley’s specialty well you know Curley and as there is only the one, I need not further detail it. He is followed by a doll dance by girls leading into the closing which is a novel one, using an' American Hag in honor of the V. F. W. veterans who are holding a convention here this week. The offering is well presented and costumed although four girls are not enough to make a good showing on so large a stage. The girls dance well and look well in the costumes which are new. In fact every one fits into his part as
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week. * Sammy Lewis’ “Southern Revue,” is opening the bill at the Gibson theatre up in Philadelphia,
given with every one on stage. The ; ir if was written for them alone
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last offering is a southern plantation number called “Sugar Cano.” Harold Brown works this week doing comedy. Also using his dance specialty which ho titlos “Monkey Charleston.” He is also some what of a Russian dancer. Three new girls have been added to the cast to replace Bobby Wilson and Loretta Franklin, who left in Indi anapolis. They are Amie Smith, Baby Mander and Lavaughn Moodae. The Recorder theatrical editor the 120 mile trip with the show to see how it would take with white audiences. Also to further note the inner workings of theat rical troups on tour. - Conditions and treatment of performers i n small towns and must say the re ception was grand, We stopped in white homes and ate in white places as there are no colored people in or around Linton, but never but once were we made to remember we were colored and that was by accident. This writer missed his train and taxi fare being rather high for 15 mile trip to Sullivan, Ind., the nearest place to get a car or train out for Indianapolis, that night, was driven there by two young white boys and when tire trouble forced us to again miss it at Sullivan, drove all the way to Terre Haute, a distance of 45 miles and this in a blinding rain storm and only charged $2.00 and would not have taken that if it had not been for that much gas, oil and tire patch were used. In fact, I kind of like Lintort and may accept the invitation ■ which I received to return, but to get back to the show, there is no need to further it as it’s just ^ darn good show worth going miles and miles to see. They go from Linton to Brazil, Sunday for
one day and then split the week
Sept. 3rd between Bedford
and with the chorus enlarged to 8 or 6 girls af the least, a very nice offering will be had. Too bad Wc
Un's can’t go see them.
“Webb.”
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Gang’s Booking
Hal Roach’s original “Our Gang” kids have been routed by Loew as follows:—Cleveland. Sept. 1. Chp,ltol, New York; Sept. 8, Metropolitan, Brooklyn; Sept. 17, St. Louis; Sept. 29 and Kansas City, October 6. After that they return to Holly-
wood.
Ray Coffin, Hal Roach’s press agent, will accompany the kids and act as m. c.
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BLAKE’S SHOW OPENS IN N. Y. BLAKES SHOW G L NEW YORK, August 31.—Eubie Blake, formerly of Sissle and Blake, and later teamed with Broatfway Jones, played his first local date in his new 30-minute act the last half of last week at Proc-
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this week. Jenkins and Idaho’s “Mississippi Steppers” close the bill. * Mamie Smith and her big company, are gracing the boards at the Walker here this week. * Wilton Crawley, “The Clarinet Fool,” has left the cast of “Black Birds” and is featured as an act at Gibson’s Standard in Phila., this week. * The writer received a letter and photo this week from Miss Annetta R. Copeland, the dainty little Miss who won the Bathing Beauty contest out in Norfolk, Va., at the Attacks theatre, winning the title of “Miss Norfolk,” and also the title of “Miss Tidewater,” in the contest held at Tidewater beach and maybe you think she is not a treat for any sore eyes. But then we will use the photo on this page next week, an then you will see for yourself. Oh! Boy! It seems that the judges attempted to misplace the honor in the last contest and give the title to some one else, but our friend won out and Arlene Brooks have a sister anyway. The Misses Frankie Watts tea mthat they say is “Just too tite.” This week finds them at the Globe in Cleveland, where they are appearing with Andrew Tribble’s “Ophela Show From Baltimore.” Miss Bobbie Wilson closed with “The Birth of the Blues” company here the past week and went to Columbus, O., where she joined up with Paul Carter’s “Broadway Vanities.” Mail this week to the Pythian theatre. * Say Gang! when writing me, hereafter, why write me to my home address instead of the office. Address it J. Ernest Webb, 533 N. Senate Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. That ^oes for all my mail. Please remember this if you want service from me. * Happy Winbush writes from way out in Pratt, Kans., where he is playing with the “Leggette Shows.” The writer received a photo and programme of the Cafe “Les Ambassadeurs,” Paris, from his honor. Noble Sissle. The photo is being used on the page this week. * The Masonic Grand lodge gave an amateur show at the Walker theatre here the past week. * The writer made the trip to Linton, Ind., with the “Birth of the Blues” company and spent 3 enjoyable days i n this little country town. Although there is not a colored person in 4 miles of there, we were, treated with the best of care. The theatre was packed nightly and your work was applauded and made you feel like working. We stayed in white homes, ate at white places and were made to feel at home all the way round. Think I’ll go to Bedford with them next week. Oh! Boy! Our old friend and correspondent, Tim Owsley, has hit the road again, but if you write right away you will catch him at 1096 Mt. Vernon Ave., Columbus, O. * George Williams and Bessie Brown
are rehearsing a new show
take out over the Majestic Cl when the season opens. ♦ Cl Brooks has a musical Reyug 6 people at the Colonial theatre,. Ofay house down town, and been held over for another so they must like it, I’ll safr. r * tie Baby Harris and GeorgftO are working as a sister team Curley Brooks’ “Hot Babtes” 1 vue down at Colonial theater You should see them. Thes
“Too bad I tell you.” *
Fairchild is with the Mamie ; bunch at the Walker here week. * Johnson and Lee, Baby and Johnny, want the world to know that they have closed with the “Birth of the Blues” company and are in Indianapolis for the time being where mail will reach the care this office. Asked about these plans, the reply was they had nothing for the present btrt would have something to give out in near future. Charlie Taylor his wife, Thelma, also closed sat
can be reached care this office, for the time being. * Mail wilt reach
Bamboo McCarver, the* trick skater, at the Grand theatre, ton, Ind., week of the 27th,-Wiu he is appearing with the “Birth
The Blues” company.
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August 26, 1928. Pratt, Kans., Mr. Ernest Webb, - - Dear Sir:—Know you will 1m surprised to hear from me. Becar -- I am no longer with Dad Ja “Louisiana Black Birds,” Co. with C. R. Leggette shows, fine, getting paid every Sal night, money is coming out office. Those cuts and letter h< you made for me, at the time _ made that matter for Dad Jones, would be glad if you could Send mine to me C. O. D., to WHlington, Okla., in care of C. R. Legette shows make you remember who I am. the one that blew the Broom and Jug, with Dad Jones, “Louisian^ Black Birds,” because I need that matter now. I got your address from Jack Cooker. I will close In hopes of getting an answer at once. “Happy” Win Bush. Willington, Kaos. oOo
Ruth Johnson
NEW YORK, August 31. —The ten-twent-thirt’ thriller plot about the clerk who was made president, when he had libbed for the executive in a pinch, has been rewritten into real life on Broadway, only this time the clerk is a chorus girl named Ruth Johnston. She was working along with the group in “Blackbirds of 1928,’* when Adelaide Hall, was forced to withdraw from the cast at a moment’s notice. Miss Johnston was pushed in, just like that, and clicked. As a result. Lew Leslie will feature her in the 1929 edition of this production ?md she has been signed for this purpose.
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