Variety (Dec 1929)

58 VARIETY TIMES S Q U A RE Wednesday, Depember II, 1929 New York Chatter Nitza Andre, of "Scandals." dou- bling at the Silver Slipper. Arline Judd never worked for a newspaper. Twas her dad. • Merle Johnston's concentrating on his own studio endeavors. Hal Roach is due in town today (Wednesday). IT Warren Nolan gets back from the Coast this Thursday. Janet McLeay's gone for ping- pong and expects a motorcycle for Christmas. Irwin Hammer and Julius Kohl, piano bangers,. have mbve^ in on the Ledova act. When the exchanges moved" frpna 729 Seventh avenue th6 cigar stand went blooey arid folded. Don Clarke andi Halsey Raines, M-G-M publicity, have collaborated 9n a play called "Ne'y(r, England,". Marlon Spltzer will leave for the Coast In time to spen<l th.e holidays there. Pulling put about Dec^ 14. Adrian Morris, new pub man with Radio Pictures, is a brother of Chester Morris., Hiram Brown, president of BKO, went away over the - week-end to bunt ducks at the Thousand Islands. Mrs. Philip Ourry (Blanch O'Brien) Is anticipating.one o£ those events. > . George Callahan sold hiai first short to Pathe. Is working on. a Gilbert and Sullivan series. Fred Keating, magician, has sign- ed a life contract with his manager, C M, Hub, formerly in the lumber business. Sonny Arpnberg turned out his first novel and will devote all fu- ture time to shorts. 'Bye to the law business. Liottl -Lbdl, Daryl Zanuck's for elgn screen find, appeared at a local ivarty in a blue gown and blue tinted finger nails<^ Peggy Goldberg, publicity writer for Educational, has half her face in bandages as the result oC doing a Prince of Wales In Central Park. Name of horse was Submarine. Goldwyn office is looking for a blonde girl, with stage experience, to piaj' opposite Ronald Colman in bis next. All the blondes in town are at witter. • Following the New York opening. Bill Frawley had his contract changed to run-of-the-play arid got a voluntary $100 raise. He's in "Sons o' Guns." "Pev" Mar.:ey, husband " of Liria Basquette, and 10 years cameraman for DeMille/ is rehearsing in his wife's vaude act. His first stage experience; David Vivian Bath, News re- porter and husband of Mary Hay, dancer, added -the extra letter In his first name after a numel-ologist told him he was shy one letter to make hihi lucky; . '. , It was .k reporter of a major dally who,, while interviewing a politician,- caught going wrong vand - facing a prison stretch, asked, "Mr, So-and- So, when do you expect to commit suicide?" Whitaker Ray ' and ' Richard Maney have taken desk space at Warner Bros/ headquarters. Over there ■ they're!. known as "Warners' theatrical press diepartmlent." Ray and Mariey will: remain there to publicize "50,000,000 Frenchmen," for which W. B, Is trie bankr'oll. . . In addition to paying Jack Demp- sey a reported $6,200 for trie Palace week, RKO added the . cost' of a 'beefsteak' dinner for. ±)erppsey . and sports writers. Around 40 people at $7 a head. Writers, were irivited as guests to cover Denipsey's act." Office boy at an into desk in the Metro offices is -a bit hard of hearr ing. In. the rush of triings the kid was given a. crieck with orders to rush it trirougri a protector machine. "Chest protector?" he asked (Continued -on Page 61) Murray's iFee James D. C. Murray, attor- ney for George McManus at the latter's trial, is said to havp received $75,000 for his fee. Wiseacres on the "Main St'emV quote the figure at $50- .000. ' NEW Y0RK THEATRES .»\"/■»^■,;/»\^\^^;;'^\■,;/»\,"''«^'^/•\'lY«V..7•^'.7*\!;^•\ll/•^^V«\■^4^^^»^■.|'•v■.lV•V.^/4■^^'»^■ Mito, Thurs., Sot., 2j49 DAVID BIXASCO Pr«Mnt> It's a fise ChOd A-New Comedy by Laurence B. JoUdbod AVnir Thelttre, We«t 4Cth St. Gres 8:S0 iXMva jjats. Thursday and Saturday. 2:30 Dir. A. L. Erlanger Brfck PamktrtOD Presents Strictly Dishonorable Coffledy Hit by Praiton Sturge* Staged bt Antoinette Perry & Mr. Pemberten PLAYHOUSE W. 48th St. Ets: 8M0 Mata Wed., Sat., t:30 STREET SCENE 60th 8t &,7tli Ave. Dir. 8. U Rothafel (ROaV; William Pox presents ' LENORE ULRIC in 'SOUTH SEA ROSE' All Talking Movietone wlth Senot New York's areateit staoe entertainment Entire Boxy Ensemble and east of brilliant artists. - Midnight Pictures Nightly, 11:30 ROXY O X BELLE BAKER m "SONG OF LOVE" with RALPH ,GRAVE8 and DAVIO DURAND ' A Columbia Picture on Stage: Revue spectacle, "L'Parfum," an Arthur Knorr produetlen, with WESLEY EDDY, the CapitDllans, 40 Chester Hale Girls Hearst Metrotono News Yasha Bunohuk conducting the Capitol Grand Or, B'way & 513t St Major Ed. Bowea, Mng'. Director Mldnirht Pictures Nightly at 11:30 CAPITOL Chatter in Loop Palmer House claims the record for dicks. ■ Has a total of 21. Emll Stern, of Essariess, answers trie prione without secretaries. Al Spink, Schwab arid Mandel rep is back from points north and west. Irene. Bordoni, having had her marriage annulled, is now applying 'for citizenship. , John D. Hertz, taxi man, turned down a 91^000,000 offer for' Relgh Count, trie. Derby winner. Na.t Carson is responsible for the murals at My Cellar, the Coffee Dan similitude oh Liaike street. John D. Sousa, nephew of John I>hilip, has a. singing daughter iil opera abroad. Hotel In town doesn't like gurii. Fired a head waitress last week for chewing spearmint. \ . Jack Hess Is teaching: Bill Adler, his RKO p. a. assistant, how to eat Ave meals a day, -llke Hess did. in London—'When rie ate^ l|aIlyhoo man- for trie Randolpri St. peep-sriow rias ai new overcoat. Arid ian Interest in trie hot-chestnut stand in the next doorway. Archie Blyer, dance arranger, hauled his Chewie put of the gar- age, and left "for N. T.. in trie worst early snow of the season. Frank Dare, local Equity head^ and Fred Lowentrial, attorney for the organization, spend days' Wres tUng over religious problems. Mary McCormic In a Sunday con cert here, spylrig a bunch of grain meui sang "Among My Futures" in English and wowed 'em. Jack Hess, the'p., a., has plans for publlsriing a book on press agent- Ing, written particularly for the benefit of trie managers. Charlie Freeman Is now wearing a topper and a cane on Saturday nights only. That booking office gets em all. Julius Klein, Chi newspaper mugg, has been planned with trie Oi'own of Roumania medal. By trie dowager queen Marie herself. ThQse fellows carrying unvar nished canes were stock show visit- ors and not Showmen's League del- egates. League canes were all yar nished. Winter settled In Chi with trie opening on West Madison street of full meals for 15 cents. Trie buy Includes boffee and bread and but ter and Is a winter feature. Joseprilne Halderhian J'ullus, the Kansas publishers' daughter who rias made a companionate marriage stick two years ago. Is now wor]|c-. ing at one ot trie department stores RKOTHEATRES trs MM> let 's Co B. F. KEITH'S PAUCEII^ Biggest MM Briihtest Show Year JACK DEMPSEY ESTHER RALSTON KEN MURRAY RIVERSIDE WO HiCNRY SANTREY Si^^^" CUtUEN LANDI8 JOSEPHINE I WM. &. EL8A HARMON I NEWELL Tabor & Greene;, Felovis; others NEAK 3rcl AVE. Q^SS^ST. ' Wodnissday to Friday, Deo. 11 to 13 JjaUjGLAS.E/yJiaANKS,. Jr.i_ "THE FORWARD PASS-'-AII Tall( LIEUT. QITZ RICE L Northwest Mountles: Glenn ft JenKlns; Lillian Morton PROCIORfS COR LEX AVE Wednesday U Friday, P«o. II to la DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr. AIL talk—"THE FORWARD PASS" LULO I WILTON ft • MoCONNCLL I WEBER Tiny Town Revu«: Margaret Schllllna ■ WARNEB BROS. 2 Tltnphone Hits JOHN B ARRYMORE In His First Talklner ricture "GENERAL CRACK" Warner Bros. Thea. B'way ft S2d St. Dally, 2:4S, 8:45 Sun., 3, 6, :8:45 77 Stars! 100 Shows in One I "SHOW OF SHOWS" (In Tecliuicolor) Winter Garden . Bw|iy ft SOth St Dally, 2:45, 8:4(1 Sat. 3. 8:45, 11:45 Suh., 3, 6, 8:45 . Matinees: dood Seats, All Prices At Box Office GEORGE ARLISS in "DISRAELI" Central Theatre B'way ft 47th St. I Dally, 2:45, 8:45 I Sun., 3, e, 8:45 Held Over for 2d Week by Popular Demand "Gold Diggers of Broadway" ■ Womor Bros, and Vltnphone- and Nnhinl Color Plcluro with Winnie LIGHTNER . Conway TEARLE, NIok LUCAS • and Ann PENNINGTON All Sents Dally, 10:30 a. m. to 1 p. mi, S5e B'w'oy'ara^iqf W^ARWErRRVS."^|VWrannToBlio»? >J T R A> N 4(th St A' N KlKlUly,ll:30 Game of Love and Death By ROM.\IN BOLLAXD A THEATRE GUILD PliODUCTION CLTLD THKA., 52d St., W. of B'way Gv8. S;SO. Itlats. Thurs. & Sat., 2:40 HODND THE SQUARE Won't Meet Smoke Slice Smaller grocery, cigar, drug and stationary stores still operating as indies in their field, are not likely to meet the cut on Lucky Strike, Old Gold, Chesterfield and Camel ciearets just Instituted by tlte United Cigai: Stores, One small store oper^itor, who has sold these l>ra,nd3 at 13 cents a pack, or two for a quarter, claims his profit "Is only 6 cents pn a carton, and that when he flgrures the cost of pocket matches given away free, costing him 4 cents for 10 packages, he Isn't able to do much better than break even. 1930 Sherlock Holmes Marries Pat Harty, detective attached to West 47th street and formerly a blue- coat of the sa,me precinct wJiPse post was on Broadway and 5 2d street for y«ars, biecaiive a Benedict last week. . . The Party's are-on their honeymoon. In Miami. Mrs; Harty is said to have been a show gjlrl. Harty met her recently while conducting an investigation of the loss of $25,000 In genis. The gems were recovered and the thieves sent to prison. Mrs. Harty was so impressed with her 1930 Sherlock Holmes that they soon became husband and wife. Frenchmen Tipped on Stocks Returned travelers from Paris Say that during the big stock break all of the French stock, traders were selling American securities over there, while the Americans In Paris could only sit by and see themselves wip^d out. How and wnon or by whom the French were tipped to get out of the market, wait for the . break and then sell, none of the Americans could loc.ite. But they did learn that from last August, onward and until the break, the French were disposing of their American holdings.. One large French banking house is said to have cleaned up an enormous amount through the Well Street smash, so tremendous a sum it'would not be, given credence if printed. ■ : . One ii^renchman in explanation of his-co imtryjnen's "foresight" daiined Anierlcains dealt in futures, gambled on prospects rather than Investing in dividend paying stocks, and soine of the, American dividend payers, be declared, returning a yiteld less than bonds, were far In advance of what the gold bonds were seiliiig; for, leaving a markfjt condition that cbuld not stand tip. TJhder that-opinion, they sold, said the French, and ''guessed" right. Sample Booze in Small Bottles ' A recent scheme of selling cordials in small bottles, each bottle holding three drinks, and said to .come froni-Cqba, has developed a double edge. Bootleggers ar6 sending In sample bottles of the cordials,'pricing them, at $100 a gross (1.44 bottles). They wiU fiirnish the same kind of samples of scotch, rye or any other liquor, to be delivered "as per siniple or de- livery returnable, with payrhent to be made after acceptance. The scheme sounds all right excepting one logger around the square who priced his cordial bottles at $100 a gross evidently doesn't know ho^ Is being freely undersold for the same thing at $75. . Apartment Theatre New York's neweist little theatre Is the Candlelight, in an apartment structure on EJast 60th street. It will be devoted to midnight entertain- ment, with programes of sketches of a sophlsticateii nature. The Idea Is said to be continental. Material Is to be secured from American and European sources, with players secured from the legitimate. • The ven- ture is belngr sponsored by Charles Morton Bellak, president of a group of metropolitan hotels. Embassy Trick Exit Closed Use of the Bond building exit for the Embassy theatre, making it a slniple matter to empty the house after eiach hour show, has been stopped.by protest, from reports, of the BOnd Clothes people, who have the entire say-so on the lobby running .4o Broadway. Paying a steep price for the lobby space, the clothes outfit squawked; The special cop In the lobby, chasing show people and others hanging (Continued on Page 74) husband is with They still claim in Chi, while her the Bell Tel. Co. happiness. Stanley f»rice, who played the juvenile In the local "Abie's Irish Kose," in town to welcome his wife, Frances Sebarens, and the addi- tion to the family which she prom- ises fbt this week. . Next to the stage door of the Palace Theatre will be the new home, of . MRS. GERSON'S GRia 11 Years on Broadway and Moving . Qii^s made by VdUents from Show Business in Saranac, N. Y; For the real spirit of Christmas, order gifts ^^m^ hand in the workshops of patiients from the show business now in Saranac who have spent long hours conceiving beautiful and appropriate articles. 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