The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15
New Boardwalk, Opening Next
Month, Expected to Drive
BaIIyhoos to the RockaWays
CONSTANCE TO WED AGAIN
Pacific Coast Says Miss Tai
madge viii Become Bride
of John Charles Thomas
BY SINE SLOVENIAN,
IInirArsFI Service.

Coney Island is doomed to vanish
within the next five years, show
men say. Coney's new board
walk, opening next month, will be
responsible. They assert the
boardwalk along the ocean at
Coney cannot fail to convert the
ramshackle appearance of New
York's famous summer resort
with its walls, wheezes and nick
'em-quick devices into a business
section for investors.
1t is anticipated the future Coney
Island will be lined with hotels and
commercial structures, not unlike
Atlantic City, though perhaps not
so extensively. The opening for
Coney is seen through the pur
chase of giant roller coaster and
its site for $750,000, to be replaced
next year by a large hotel with
stores.
With the passing of the street
baIlyhoos from Coney, their successor
Is looked for in the Rockaways.
Rockaway Beach has been getting
some of the hot weather pop"
trade.
Constance Talnadge and John
Charles Thomas may be married
in June. Coast reports. predict it,
after the divorce decree given Miss
Talmadge from her first husband,
John Paialogou, the cigarette manu-
facturer, becomes absolute. Thomas
was recently divorced by his wife,
who Immediately married Harry
Puck, an actor in Tangerine.
Times Square is to have a de-
partment store, about the only
thing in street displays that that
populous section of New York has
missed. At the same time the
Square will lose one of its best
known legitimate theaters. 1t is to
be demolished for the new stores
site. Negotiations. are about con-
GLIDING.
Life in New York is not as bad
as restaurant checks might lead
one to believe. In witness comes
the report that S. L. Rothapfel has
enjoyed an increase Of annual
salary from $50 900 to $65 900, as
manager Of the Capitol Theater,
New York, playing pictures, and
Victor Herbert has hired a new
safe desposit box through William
r. Hearst, paying him SIS, 900 for
one year to run the orchestra at
Hearst's new Cosmopolitan Thea
ter. The usual salary of a New
York theater or house manager, is
1925 a week and the union scale
for good musicians is $50 weekly,
leaving Messrs. Rothapfel and Her.
bert possibly under the definition
Of unique and extraordinary.
Lolita Crabtree, famous and
wealthy actress, now eighty, is
not expected to recover from her
present serious illness. She is in
her room at the Hotel Brewster,
Boston, among the properties owned
by her, all totaling SO, 900, 900. AS
fas as is known Miss Crabtree has
no living relatives. She was the
supreme star of the Bret Harte
dramas on the stage.
The International Dramatic Festi-
val at Salzburg. Germany, will not
be given this year. Refusal of
the Collegiate Church for the per-
Torrance was followed by an at.
tempt to secure the historical Rid
ing Academy. The provincial diet
is opposed.
"Giboulette," as produced at the
Varieties, Paris. this week, has a
plot including the Paris exposition
in 1857. A few of the famous per.
sonages Of that period, still living,
attended the plays premiere and
were introduced from their orches.
ira seats. 'Prende Moi" Is a Pa
risian operetta, with it's book tell
ing of Diana condemned by Jupiter.
who comes to earth and visits a
modern bathing establishment
Upon the American consulate
IN London protesting to the British
Home office against obstacles
placed in the way of Americans,
preventing them from making pro
fessional appearance, the restric-
tons were removed against Paul
Whiteman's Band. Whiteman is to
appear at the Grafton Galleries
(cabaret), London, also in the revue
Brighter London" at the London
Hippodrome.
The Auhors' League Of America
Is about to take up it's cudgeI to
force moving picture producers who
transfer story from novel to screen
to confer more intimately with the
author Gene Stratton-Porter is pri-
marily responsible for the leagues
modern attitude. She lately sue.
cessfully produced and procured
distribution for a picture, Mich
ael O'Halloran," personally directed,
when Famous Players-Lasky made
s"Freckles" in 1917, directed by Mar
shall Neilan from Mrs. Stratton-
Porter's book, it was frightfully
butchered in it's authors estimation
1t decided her to withhold her
works from the camera.
The performing animals bill in
the English Parliament has long
fingered, creating wide feeling pro
and con. It's aim is TO stop ami
mails performing on the stage. The
most recent result was to reveal
that two members of the present
house are showmen. The show
business on this side is committed
TO its only Congressman elect Bloom,
of New York. although Congressman
Kahn of California is regarded as a
spokesman for theatrical interests.
Georgette Leblanc Maeterlinck
wife of the Belgian poet, is contem.
plating an American vaudeville tour,
She is now in New Fork.