Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-10 | Page 67 | Vaudeville Gossip

; Vaudeville Cossip j Music lovers among the pitror.s of tee drpheum cireui! wit! he interested to know that Martin Leek. ma:;aLcne dire di-re tor of the circuit, v.as one i.r ;ho-e who presented Mn-e. Ameiita Galli-curci wt:h a soli, col.J wreath as a "token of admlrathm for her e.;u:si;e art" last veck. The oc. asion was the fare'vei performance .-.r Mine. Gaili-C'urci's s:f.a- tional engagement in New York. Mr. Beck was present on every occasion that the great prima donna sang in New York. Fred Lindsay, who played the Orpheum circuit several seasons ago, has been appointed ap-pointed colonel of the Seventeenth Cam-erordans, Cam-erordans, a Scotch regiment. It is believed be-lieved that Mr. Lindsay thus becomes the first actor to attain this high rank. Fred Lindsay is an Australian, and in vaudeville vaude-ville lie was known as "The Whip King." He was a captain in the London yeomanry yeo-manry at the outbreak of the war. Bert Levy, Jr., son of Bert Levy, the cartoonist, cartoon-ist, is now a lieutenant in the Canadian aviation corps. His promotion f rom a private came after only six months' study and application to flying. Not content with making himself the best loved of the old time baseball players, play-ers, "Pop" Anson, who has-developed into a regular actor, is now gaining new laurels lau-rels as an orator. During his Orpheum tour, this sturdy youngster of 05 years is talking before various Rotary clubs and fraternal organizations, and the force of his oratory leads many to suspect that Billy Sunday, who was one of his first pupils in baseball, also got some tips from the old bat swinger on how to put over talks with a punch. Jack Clifford's engagements have been extended throughout the Orpheum circuit. cir-cuit. Now that his sprained ankle has mended. Mr. Clifford is doing Fome remarkable re-markable dancing. The neck swing which he first introduced to Orpheumites with Evelyn Neshit two years ago has beeomn even more wonderful, as Mr. Clifford now undertakes to swing two young women instead of one. Miss Nes-bit, Nes-bit, by the way, lias her newest act In splendid shape. Hobby O'Neill is her partner. The second edition of the Four Mortons Mor-tons will finish the balance of the season in the Orpheum theaters, in their a-t, "Then nnd Now." Old-time vnudcville enthusiasts vividly remember the Four Mortons as constituted a few years ago, with Sam and Kitty, the parents, and Pji ul a nd CI a ra. Paul Morton is now playing the Orpheum circuit with his winsome win-some wife, Notuni Class, arid Clara recently re-cently put on a. new act. Their youngfr sis?or and brother, Martha, and Joe, have taken their places. It's a bnv and he weighs a of rlr-ven pounds. Thp happy par-puts arc Kridif and Birdie Conrad, sin gers. dancers and mimics, who toured the Orpheum circuit two years ago. Mrs. Conrad will retire from' l lie stage for a year.