Variety (Dec 1929)

74 VARIETY MUSIC Wednesday, December H, 1929 DISC REVIEWS By Bob Landry Not as a new bbsei'vatlon but merely by way of corroboration from the phonograph recorcl angle there are practically no hits from a;ny stage musicals this season. Tunes a-plenty but none: of the clearly-defined melodies that get translated into whistling- Explanation may be the talkers and the liresent Hollywood writing- colony. Brunswick "Why Dp Tou Suppose" and "My Man Is On The Make" are Rodgers^ Hart blends from "Heads Up," (stage) neither better than fillers, at least not as canned by the Col- onial Club Orchestra. Sanie group recorded "It's Tou 1 Love" and "Why" from Davisr Coots "Sons O'Guns," (stage) more dahceable with a possible edge from a better orchestration using a pul- sating trumpet. Al Goodma:ri presided over "Lone- some Little Doll," lilting cute tune, and ."May 1 Love Tou," pleasing, pairing for. ah attractive dance couiilet. - ■. Disciples of the odd wa-wa and twisted phrasijig of latter day jazz will go for Isham Jones' "Song of the Blues" and "Feeling That Way." V. Meyer Davis' Swanee Syncopators .nicely represented on nethei* sides CUFF WiNEHOl Master of Ceremonies . "THE PEANUT MAN" At Coffee Cliffs 47tlt St. and 7th Ave.. Kew York by "Lonely Troubadour" and "That's Why I'm Jealous of Tou," dia.nceable. . Combining the modern slow tempo with the still-like fast . one step, Carl Fehfon plays prettily "I'll Close My Eyes" while Six Jumping Jacks In keeping with the connota- tions of their billing snap through "It's Unanimous Now." "Love Me" aided by an earsome pizzicato is teamed with "Please Come Back," jointly a fair number credited to Regent Club Orchestra. There's high voltage heart tug in Belle Baker's recordings of "Love, Tour Spell Is Everywhere" and "I'll Still Go On Wanting Toif,'' ballads, occasionally hymn-rlike ' In manner as she handles them. A racial record is "Say A Prayer for Palestine,'! sung by Irving Kauf- man,, and "My People," of similar strain, played by the Brunswick Salon group under Louis Katzman's direction. Dealers will know -wheth- er to stock this one or not. Like all numbers commercializing a tragedy the songs partake of du- bious taste. Y Pathe . Vincent Lopez' preoccupation, with orchestrations rather than melodies is again apparent in "Lov6, Toiir Spell Is Everywhere," coupled with "Wliy." Pathe genierally goes after easy- dancing tunes as per Joo Ryan's Orchestra's "Love Made A Gypsy, of Me" and "A Little Kiss Bach Morning," and again "Miss Won- derful" and "My Fate Is In Toiir Hands,", persuasive sales stuff. Gloria Gear, who has an unusual vocal personality interestingly offers 1 IRVING AARONSON And HIS COMMANDERS Now Featured Trfth IRENE dORDONI in ''PARIS" Doc 8* HANNA TUEATBE, CI.EVEI.AND VICTOR RECORDS EXCLUSIVELY THE BRICK TOPS DANNY CAIRNS And His R-K-0 MELODY BAND tMde«llle'« Greatest Pit and Stage Band ■ Now ^aylns Orphevn Xbeatre, LOB ANQi;i.l>S FROM DETROIT UEAN GOLDHETTEI Orchestras VICtOB BEC0BD8 Offiea: 812 Book Towor DETROIT I TAL HENRY || and His ORCHESTRA Victor Records Playing Baker Hotel Dallas, Tex. ExclQHlve Manhgement Orcliestra Corp. of America lOGO Broadway, New York I VINCENT LOPEZ | and His ORCHESTRA ()uminerlh|t at the PELHAM HEATH INN Pelhnm, N; X. Oonblliig at tke ST. REGIS HOTEL New York City (PABItOAN BED HEADS) America's Greatest Girl Band This Week, Blverslde, New York Permanent Address t8 West North St., Indianapolis, Ind. I PHIL FABELLO and His ORCHESTRA The Different Ensemble . Presentation Feature COLISEUM THEATRE . New York City OWEN FALLON And His CALIFORNIANS Now Playing Second Tear WILSON'S BALLROOM (Formerly Cinderella Roof) LOS ANOELEB MAL HALLETT | AND HIS ORCHESTRA America's Greatest Dance Band Bigger and Better Than Ever Personal Management CHARLES 8HRIBMAN Salem, o Mass. n GEORGE OLSEN AND HIS MUSIC ROOSEVELT HOTEL HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. With SID GBAVMAN VICTOR RECORDS I B. A. ROLiFE I Radio's Premier Conductor Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra -Palais-0-Or^Restaupant^Opchestpa^= Edison Ace Becording Orchestra ARTHUR WARREN AND HIS Park Central Hotel Orchestra BrondcasUng- WEAF—WJZ PARK CENTRAtT HOTEL New York. Now. Florentine Grill Hirt. Vnrlefy Music 4; Entertainment Broadway. New York, Suite 711. THE MISSOURIANS World's Greatest Colored Band VICTOB ABTISTS ALHAMBRA BALLROOM 7th Ave. at J2eth St., New York JESSE STAFFORD and HIS ORCHESTRA PALACE HOTEL SAN FBANCISCO Brunswick Becordinr ANSON WEEKS Columbia phonogrraph is now Without deals peTTJcLlngr, it is stated at that pfflce. . At the Paramount headquarters the statement is th6t,t office under- 'Standine is 'to the effect that the Par-Col deal, is still ia^egotiatidn. A Columbia-Victor (Gramophone- England) rumor started last week when Messrs. Sterlihg and Clarke coincldentally sailed from New .York on the same, ship.' Telegram Sucker List T^elegraph companies now have solicitors seeklner riight club busi- niess for special occasions and open- ings. Salest ea.g' is that a wire commands instant attention while a printed announcement is apt to hit the floor. n Companies haye lists of night club habitues and have form wire's for announcing, openings, new shows and gala nightis. New clubs have sent out as many as 600 Wires night before opening. AND HIS ORCHESTRA Now In Tliird Year at the HOTEL MARK HOPKINS COLUMBIA RECORDS PAUL WHITEMAN "He's So Unusual," with "Little By Little," from the picture "Sopho- more," with those intelligent Wal ter O'Keefe lyrics. Okeh Best of an assembly of., not-too- good discs Is Smith Bellew's *My Pate l3 In Tour Hands" and "I'll Clo^% My Eyes," quietly pretty. Bellew's heated orchestration of "Lady Luck" is offset on apother record by a very mediocre rendition or waxing of "Love Is A Dreamer," by Casa Loma Orchestra. Entireily too shrill particularly in this- fera of crooning is "Manhatta^ri Rag,'^" reversed by a wobbly version of "What Wouldn't I Do For That Man" and blamed on Frankle Trumbauer's orchestra. yirginia Wllhrlch and Her Texas Rangers are exclusively devoted to the accordion.. They make of "Through" and "Same Old Moon" a. monotonous metallic din. Broken hearted laments, "All That I'm Asking Is Sympathy," and 'Lucky Me—Lovable You" are Lew Bray's contributions. Rather dirge- like but there's probably a market for this type of thing. ColumbiVs Deals Off No A. Y. & B. Split Declaring reports that Ager, Yel- leh & Bernstein, music publishers, were breaking up has been put into circulation by a picture man on the west. coa$t who. tried to make a deal. with th(B company and failed, Ben Bornsteln. statea'Chat although Paramount desires to sign Milton Ager and Jack Yellen as songwi^it- ers, no -kind of a deal Will be en- tertained unless the Aser, Yellen & Bornsteln fl]^ publishes'the num- )ers. Reports around were that Ager and Yellen were being signed as songwriters under salary and that the firm-, which has recently reduced ltd staff , considerably^ would fold up as a result. In Big Leagues Lou Breese, Publlx, promoted to big leaerues as m. c. £t Publix- Saenger, irew Orleans, opening Dec. 20. Feist-Fischer Gaarantee (Continued from page 71) Mills admitted was too long a story to tell. He emphasized that his new job makes his axia against this sheet sharper, • "The paper is Just .a racket; one that has no respect for the tradi- tions of journalism. I never read It, bu( - friends /keep it before me by sending clippings of articles. "And," he continued, "we have to put up with It. There doesn't , seem anyway.ofstopping.lt." f Mills occupies the smallest office In the NBC building with tea room drapps on. the outside.. Between himself and his. secretary there* Is hardly sufliclent space for a healthy Individual to stand up. Mills didn't want to be quoted because he knew "Variety" couldn't get him authentically. He didn't want to have it known that'he re- fused to talk to the vvariety'* mugg becausCr it was obyloua, he stated, it would Ihjiire his campaign against "Variety."" HERE AND THERE Leo Mopre, formerly the Philadel- phia rep for Remick's, will here-,, after cover thei same territory for Charlie Bayha. Harry Revel, European pop song writer, has become associated with the Sam Fox Music Publishing Company in. New York. Dusty Rhodes, entertainer with Ted Fiorito in Chicago, is organiz- ing his own band. Gus Kahn and Ted Fiorito have signed as a composing team with Feist for two years. California Collegians band, cur- rently in "Fifty Million Frenchjnen" in New York, are doubling as the dance orchestra at Don Dickerman's Daffydil, new Greenwich Village nite spot. Paul Specht moved to Cincinnati Dec. 12 for a short booking, leaving one of his ban^s^ directed by Al Payne, to take his place at the Gov- ernor Clinton, New York. Alex K;eese, pit conductor, is be^ ing transferred from, the Capitol, Austin, Mass., to Palace, Dallas. Tex. Johnny Winters, organist. at the toonver theatre, Denver, also goes to the Dallas house. PEACTICAILY NO JOKE San Francisco, Dec. 10.. Larry Rich, vaude band leader. Is off practical joking. - Ode of his stunts sent Harry Bush, profes- sional contact man for Villa Moret, Inc., to the hospital. Rich had a box of medicated candy in his hotel room and Bush was invited to eat heartily. At the hospital a stomach pump saved him from serious illness. 'Round the Square (Continued from pa^e 58) about, is employed by this concern. Exit from the Embassy into the office building can how be used only in an emergency. Curious Minister A clergyman visiting Times Square and dropping into one of the stock brokers' offices, says Jack Haley, grew mu(5h interested in the operations, ticker and tape. He inquired about each and was given unusual courtesy by the firm. . Seeing the tape unreel, the minister mentioned he Wi)uld like to look at all of the figures and the clerk accompanied him to it. Picking up the tape and running it through his fingers, the clergyman suddenly shouted: "My Heavens, "Steer at 159!" Swimming PboI on Broadway A recent scheme Is to convert an armory bordering on Broadway into a swimming pool with trimmings. It will be an expensive transformation with the promoters now cogitating how it fihall be accomplished. The new pool is expected to be glass enclosed, and have special entertainment attractions. At present the Hotels Sheltoh arid Park Central have swimming pools, also the Pennsylvania and .others. The Shelton's is the ritzy hang-out with the others anxious to separate some of its avenue trade. Swimming pools alopg Broadway-have been ideas of many show people for many years. They have remained ideas only. And His Greater Orchestra Wow Making "KING OF JAZZ" for Universal rer8»ual Rep.: JA$. F. GILLESPIE East Side Beer Gardens , German beer gardens, along upper Third avenue, offering bored New Yorkers a dash of old Heidelberg, are stealing a lot of thunder away from Broadway night spots. Probably more than 20 of these welner and sauerbraten resorts with beer at 50c by the goblet. Most of the places employ from three to four-piece orchestras, specializing in "Llebcr Augustin" and "Unter der Linden,", throwing in an American pop tune once in a while. Unless a request for the latter they stick to native melodies strictly. . . ' No cover charge, although entertainment is liberally supplied by singing waiters. Lange Separation Declaring her Ivusband, Arthur L. Lange, earns $50,000 a year arrang, ing music for M-G-M in Hollywood, but has paid no attention to her nor their two children in New York. Charlotte Lange filed suit for sepa- ration, in Supreme court last week on charge of desertion. . Mrq. Lange said she was informed her husband is going to sue for di- vorce in Los Angeles, charging cruelty. Justice Alfred Franken- thaler; granted permission for her to serve her husband by . mail. Married 17 years ago in New York. MORAL? Church Qrganists Who Quit for Theatres Can't Get Back Los Angeles, Dec. 10. Of the 400 organists registered with the local .union,, only 60 ai'e now employed. Eighteen of these are .in theatres, the others doing ra- dio work. A great number of the 400 are former church organists who went into the more lucrative theatre em- ployment. Most of them will bo, unable to return to church work. .Lucien Littlefleld, Lucille Ward, Mary Hutchinson, Billy Taft, Junior Bailey, Dell Henderson, Dot Farley, "Good Manners," WB short. A CHOP HOUSE OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT ISttS WEST 4STH STREET Eaat vf Broadway TED HENKEL Musical Conductor and . Presentation Director CIVIC THEATRE Auckland, New Zealand PITT ORCHESTRA OF 30 STAGE BAND OF 20 Tributes and Testimonials Whoii a- great, loader playa. a tune. It's a teatlmonlal to tnat tune's greatness, and a tribute to Its pub- lisbor. Tbat'n yto'te rrateful to GUY loBIBARDO wbo, with his JIOYAL CANADIANS, Is New York's newest orcbe(>traI sen- sation, at the Hotel Boosevelt and over station WABC, and whose mu- sic features include ''SIngrn' in the Rain" "How Am I to Know" AND "Just You,^ Just Me" IHpbbins Music Cobforati itiiAvw»og.W«wYotlL---'-^'- I If You Don't Advertise in You Don't Advertise