Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1929)

December 28, 1929 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD 57 PRESENTATIONS AND Material for Organists SPECIAL LARGE SETS SINCIN' IN THE PICTURES 1930 VERSION 1930 Featuring PAINTING THE CLOUDS WITH SUNSHINE TIPTOE THRU THE TULIPS GO TO BED WOULDN'T IT BE WONDERFUL SINGING IN THE BATHTUB A Song Slide Playlet of that rip-roaring, smashing comedy hit from Warner Bros, triumphant Talking picture production SHOW OF SHOWS A MUSICAL AERO-LOCUE Featuring AM I BLUE? SMALL SETS ~~ WOULDN'T IT BE WONDERFUL TIPTOE THROUGH THE TULIPS PAINTING THE CLOUDS WITH SUNSHINE SINGING IN THE BATHTUB LADYLUCK GO TO BED MY SONG OF THE NILE AM I BLUE? VITAPHONE RECORDS SHOW OF SHOWS medley GOLD DIGGERS medley MY SONG OF THE NILE ON WITH THE SHOW CHORUS SETS ON ALL SONGS , Write for Special Bulletin Jimmy Clark Special Service Manager 321 West 44th Street, New York "VITAPHONE" REC'D TRADEMARK M. WITMARK & SONS 1560 Broadway, New York RUSSELL SAYS MUSIC (f1* TALENT CH1CAOO About Town. . . . Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everybody. Have you made a new year's resolution to read the Exhibitors Herald-World every week for the coming year. Well if you haven't, ain'tcha? Oh, by the way "Ain'tcha," you know is the theme song of Helen Kane's new picture coming to the Chicago theatre next week. "Pointed Heels" is the name of the picture. The song is being promoted here in Chicago by Billy Stoman, who is head man at the Shapiro Bernstein Music Co. Billy tells me that they also have another good bet in "The Dough-Boys' Lullaby" which is the theme song of Eddie Dowling's new Sono Art production "Blaze O'Glory." . . . Al Jolson and wife accompanied Dy Robert Crofford who is the president of DeSylva Brown & Henderson Music Co., passed through the city this week on their way to New York from the coast. . . . Al Evans who for the past year has made a very fine name for himself at the Michigan theatre, Detroit, and at the Palace theatre in Washington, has been chosen by Loew's Inc., to be the first "Music Master" to move intact with a unit. He is now at the Valencia, Jamaica, New York, on hie second week with the new idea. . . . Charles Ruggles who made a big hit in Paramount's recent all talking picture "The Lady Lies" is appearing in person at the Brooklyn theatre, New York, this week. . . . Joe Besser, well known comedian, is taking the place of Ann Codee, French personality comedienne, who was taken ill at Loew's Kings theatre in New York. . . . Julius P. Witmark, well known in the music world as "Junior," is passing around cigars these days with a theme song as its band. Why? Oh, you know he is the proud father of a healthy seven pound baby girl, Junior Whitmark is one of the executives of the Whitmark & Sons Music Publishers. . . . Here's good news. The pit orchestras returned to the motion picture theatres of St. Louis on Friday, December 13, in accordance with the terms of the recent peace agreement entered into by the Musicians Union, the St. Louis Amusement Company and the independent theatre owners of Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois. . . . Jimmy Can-ins, manager of Santly Bros. Music Publishers is not having a hard time putting their song hit "My Fate Is in Your Hands" across in a big way. It is one number that seems to be putting itself over. In the past week it has been featured by Russell Cookie at the Capitol and Al Kvale at the Uptown. "Beside an Open Fire" is another which looks as though it will be equally as popular. . . . Harry Wallen, assistant to Marco, of Fanchon and Marco, was married Sunday, December 15, to Adelaide Bryson, a nonprofessional. Wallen will be absent from the Los Angeles office of Fanchon and Marco for two weeks of honeymoon. . . . Joey Stoll of DeSylva Brown & Henderson Music Publishers tells me that their best sellers are still "Sunny Side Up," "If I Had a Talking Picture of You," and "Turn On the Heat." If you don't believe they are popular, just turn on the radio. . . . Rudy Vallee, who has set the national female heart aflutter, comes to the Woods theatre this week in "The Vagabond Lover," 6inging his song hit of that title. Rudy was tne crooning saxophone player of the stage presentation, before the talkies lured him to Hollywood. . . . Jean Anthony, one of Chicago's most popular theatre organists, opens an extended engagement at the Belpark theatre the first of the week. . . . Little Irwin Pincus, the three week old son of Geo. Pincus of the Leo Feist, Music Publishers, wishes everyone to know that he is getting along fine and appreciates all the good wishes he has received. His father tells me that his new song "Love Made a Gypsy Out of Me" is a sure hit and may even become as popular as "Love Me." . . . Maurice Chevalier's newest talkie hit "The Love Parade" which was released last week in New York, brings us a brand new theme song "Nobody's Using It Now." Well, with Chevalier using it, this beautiful number gets a head start. It's published by the Remick Music Co. . . . That's all this time. See you next week. Eddie Leonard on Loew's "January Festival" Program As one of the first acts in connection with its "January Festival" program Loew's theatres have 6igned Eddie Leonard, the famous blackface comedian, who will open his engagement at Loew's State theatre in New York Saturday, December 21, and will play other theatres of the circuit around New York during the coming festival month. Eddie Leonard was last seen on Broadway with the showing of his Universal talking minstrel film, "Melody Lane," which will no doubt make his appearance in New York stage presentations an event. It is rumored that after his engagement with Loew's he will make another picture for Universal. New Song Trio Does Numbers for Talkies Original song and instrumental numbers for four of the new pictures filmed at Metropolitan Studios have just been written by a trio of authors composed of Irving Bibo, Henry Cohen, and Harry Lawler. The team of Bibo and Cohen has been doing numbers before and they have been joined by H. D. Lawler, musical manager for the Metropolitan Sound Studios. Three of the new numbers are for Christie Talking Plays, including "La La Mama," written for the Louise Fazenda company, "So This Is Paris Green": "The Night That I Found You," for Taylor Holmes in "Let Me Explain" ; and "I Don't Believe It, Dear," for the new Christie play with James Gleason. Another new number was written by the trio for the Lloyd Hamilton Company's Hawaiian comedy, "Grass Skirts," and is called "Lua." Publication of most of the Bibo-Cohen and Lawler numbers will be through the music firm of Bibo-Lang. Six Original Songs in MGM Picture "Montana" Six original song numbers will be heard in MetroGoldwyn-Mayer's first musical Western, "Montana," in which Joan Crawford is starred. Three of the numbers were written by Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, of the "Broadway Melody" fame. "Trailing in Old Montana," "Happy Cowboy" and "The Moon Is Low." "Trailing in Old Montana" and "Montana Call" were written by Herbert Stohart and Clifford Grey. Mai St. Clair is directing the original story by Sylvia Thalberg, with Johnny Mack Brown in the leading masculine role, with a supporting cast of Cliff ("Ukelele Ike") Edwards, Benny Rubin, Carl Dane and Holmes Herbert. From Screen to Victrola (Special to the Herald-World) NEW YORK, Dec. 24.— John Boles, Universal star, is making records for the Victor company. He has already completed several. His first are of two songs by Charles Wakefield Cadman for his new picture "La Marseillaise." Charles Williams SOLO ORGANIST LOEW'S STATE THEATRE NEW YORK CITY Rose Diamond CONCERT ORGANIST