Exhibitors Herald World (Jul-Sep 1930)

48 EXHIBITORS HERALD -WORLD July 26, 1930 WITyAAKK. PREoTEAITATIOMJ' AND AXATEMAL FOK OP.GAMiy*Twr SPECIAL SETS TWO GREAT LITTLE NOVELTY SETS FOR TALKING OR "MIKE" ORGANISTS "TAKE ALONG A LITTLE LOVE" and "WASNT IT NICE" Short, Breezy and Interesting Novelties Featuring Our Two Big Song Specials JUST RELEASED from First National-Vitaphone Production "Bright Lights" ANOTHER "AM I BLUE" ENTITLED "Nobody Cares If Fm Blue" Chorus Sets Ready Still on Top of the Music Ladder "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" Sure Fire for Audiences to Join In STAGE SHOWS AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST VICTOR HERBERT'S PARISIAN MOONLIGHT ROSES ARE FORGETME-NOTS THINE ALONE .,,,i 1 T E. FOP. ADD/ I N FOR M AT 1 ON TO w^A/^ WARD CIAL.^ERVICE MGK. I •VITAPHONE" REO'D TRADE /-NARK n-WITMARKe/yONy* 1659 BROADWAY NEW YORK» {Continued from page 47, column 1) offer the song "The Bells Are Ringing for Me and My Gal." Tommy Harris engages in a bit of gay repartee with Eddie Hill and then goes into a bit of eccentric dancing. The Dunbar Bell Ringers are the hit of the Idea and with unusual artistic ability ring out "Bells of St. Mary's," "To a Wild Rose," and "I Want to be Happy." Eddie Hill next sings several funny songs after which Eva Thornton, prima donna, garbed as a bride, offers a vocal selection. The chorus, attired as guests at the wedding, swing into a ballroom dance routine while the Dunbar Bell Ringers chime in. A huge silver bell, hung from atop stage, swings glittering in the spotlight, adding color to the scene. Jack Martin at the Wisconsin theatre organ plays "The Key to the Mystery," which includes "The Moon Is Low," "Just Can't Be Bothered with Me," "In Old Monterey" and "You Brought Me a New Kind of Love," the words to all of which are flashed upon the screen. Cincinnati R K O Albee Week Ending July 18 The current bill marks the initial presentation by R K O, which acquired the Libson group of theatres. This is the only house in Cincinnati playing stage acts. Rogers and Wynn, two juveniles, in the "hello" spot, get off to a good start with some individual and (Continued on next page, column 2) KATHERINE KADERLY ORGANIST DBOOKlrA^ ^ Station FPAP-NewYorli City enny ^^^ Ai ^^^r has been re-signed for the Fifth Year by After 5,000 sensational performances at the Marbro Theatre Chicago ALLEY HELLO EVERYBODY— Well, by the time you read this colyum I will be in the old hometown, the city of gunmen and beautiful buildings, whatever you want to call it, it's HOME. Don't worry though, I'll continue to bore you, I hope, for some time to come. Anyway I'm just making a short trip and will be back on the eld main stem in two weeks. That's to relieve some of you who thought I wouldn't be back, ha ha I * * * I was just wondering if you had ever thought of the, phenomenal rise of that wellknown organist, Jesse Crawford. His story is like one of the old Horatio Alger stories we all read when we were kids. You know, "Poverty to Riches," etc. No kidding, it's the truth. Jesse Crawford was a poor little orphan in an asylum some years ago and, just think, now he demands and gets 15 grand for playing an organ solo at some ric'n man's private estate. That's about the topnotch for one organ solo, but that's the truth, Crawford played a solo for an eccentric Pittsburgh steel man last week and received that amount for doing it. That is an interesting story, but his meeting of his present wife is even more interesting. Like Mr. Crawford, the future Mrs. Crawford had worked her way up through small movie houses until she became the organist at the Roosevelt theatre in Chicago. Jesse, at that time, was organist at the Chicago theatre, a few blocks away. One night a little more than seven years ago, Mr. Crawford dropped into a dance given by the Chicago Organist's Club. There he was introduced to the beautiful, slim, black-haired Helen Anderson. Six months later they were married. They have one child, Jessie, four years old, who already is being instructed in the organ by her fond parents. * * * Handman, Kent and Goodman, music publishers to Universal Films, have made a peach of a tieup with the New York Daily Mirror and each week are having the Mirror publish one of their songs as an added inducement to buy the Mirror. It's a great tieup and is one way of getting the public song conscious again. * * * One of the most distinctive records ever made by the Columbia Phonograph Company is of the song "On Revival Day" (a Joe Davis number), recorded by Bessie Smith, who is known as the "Queen of Blues." Columbia Intends to release it as a special. Talking about Joe Davis and his company reminds me they have a great number in "Wonder." It's a beautiful fox-trot ballad by Andy Razaf, Spencer Williams and Cliff Burwell. Mr. Davis feels that this song will be equally as successful as "S'posin' " and he intends to do everything possible to make it so. Besides the two mentioned songs, Davis has three others that show fine potentialities. They are "I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland," "Suez" and "Blue Turning Grey Over You." Ray O'Hara and His Governor Clinton Orchestra are introducing a new waltz ballad over the air in a number of their programs. I heard it and was pleased with its pretty little melody. I inquired about it and found out that my good friend Charles Williams, organist at Loew's State, Times Square, and Ray O'Hara and Max Wartell are the writers of it. Charley is one of those guys that wouldn't mention it to a fellow (even though he knows I want the news). I'll really tell you just what kind of a fellow Charley is. First, he is affectionately known to his intimates as "Deacon," secondly, he plays a H of a game of golf, and thirdly, I believe he is a smuggler, in fact I know it because on his return from his recent trip to Canada he presented me with a one ounce bottle of "Peter Dawson's." That's between you and me, of course. I know what you're thinking, but I'm sorry, I can't do anything for you. * * * In my talking about Charley I darn near forgot to tell you the name of the tune. Well, it is entitled "By All the Stars Above You."