The New York herald., 1922-07-23

from Paris to lend the oh-so-vital
Latin Quarter touch to these "Follies"
and the Marion Morgan Dancers,
who have simply been lying in wait in
vaudeville for some manager to snap
them up.
Spiegel, the partner aforementioned.
is going to have Nora Bayes under his
management next fall and will present
her in farce, with the George NJ.
Cohan Thcater, acquired by him, serv-
ing as the place in which to make a
fuss over Miss Bayes. Until she ap-
pears in this attraction the George
NJ. Cohan Theater-concerning which
there is talk of changing the name to
the Commodore Theater--will continue
to serve term in the movies.
Shubert vaudeville is to expand its
scope. galloping ahead of itself. It
was at first planned-and so announced
Ito have the circuit next season ex-
tend only as far as Omaha, but since
then more theaters have been signed
up clear to San Francisco, and the
performers will stop just short Of
falling into the Pacific Ocean. Among
those who will take trips across the
continent in pursuit of applause on
this continent are Weber and Fields,
reunited in their famous act after a
decade--now that it is once more safe
to speak German dialect on the Ameri-
can stage. Fields headed Shubert
vaudeville unit last season, but this
will be the first time that Weber will
take the plunge.
Since their appearances with Lillian
Russell, William Collier and others of
the celebrated Music Hall days, Weber
and Fields have had their choking
spells together only at benefits and
such. 1t was following their recent
performance of this kind at the latest
Friars' Frolic that it was arranged to
present them on the stage. since it ap-
peared that a public had arisen which
was badly in need of knowing some
thing about their art.
The Avon Four. Blanche Ring
Charles Winninger, the Courtney Sis
ters, Bessie Mccoy Davis, Vera Niche
lena and Jimmy Hussey will be other
headliners who will keep the public
out of bed on this circuit
James Barton, besides intermittent
outbreaks in Shubert vaudeville. will
probably be the next contender for the
Winter Garden title. 1t is likely that
he will return to his first home under
the Shubert banner in the attraction
which goes there after "Spice of 1922"
has lost it's pep.
Barton has always registered most
heavily at the Winter Garden. his
style of comedy seeming particularly
adapted to the customers there, and so
keen that 1t cuts even through the
smoke laden air. He has not been
signed up to appear with Eleanor
Painter in "The Lady of the Rose"
slated for the Century Theater, which
has been Barton's stamping ground
for the last two years.
1t appears to be an anomaly that
none of the big vaudeville circuits
have any clearly defined system for
uncovering new talent, except that
which has had to fight it's way up
gradually through the lesser circuits.
until it is nearly limp by the time it
arrives In New York. Many Of tho
best stars are discovered purely by
accident. yet their rise is so rapid
afterward that they justify the install
lation of a system that might choose
variety stars with the same care that
o.. ,.f,a
Such is Frances White, who might
never have been known II a friend OF
William Rock had not mentioned to
him casually that there was a pretty
chic little performer at a. tawdry. cheap
vaudeville house in a small Western
town. and IL he had not, just as cas-
ually. dropped in to see her between
the rounds of his own show. Many
Of the best comedians now seem to be
furnished TO vaudeville and the legit-
innate via burlesque. and it seerls as
IL they had to elbow their way into
New York before they received any
recognition. Such was the experience
of Barton and of Bobbie Clark, who.
with Paul Mccullough. is bound over
to the next Music Box Revue" Yet
there must be hundreds of Bartons
and Clarks waiting to be plucked. es-
pecially out on the Pacific coast, where
1T seems likely that diligent search
might at least turn up good jazz
band like the Paul Whiteman and
other orchestras from California.
Charles Dillingham's first produc-
tion Of the new season will be The
Bunch and Judy" the new musical
comedy by Jerome Kern and Anne
Caldwell. which will be chained up at
rehearsals OH August l. For leading
role N tnis piece it is likely that Oscar
Shaw will be diverted from his pres