Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

November 29, 1930 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD 53 WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 22 No. i "Three Little Words" — (Harms, Inc.). No. 2 "Betty Co-Ed" — (Carl Fischer). "When the Organ Played at Twilighf — (Santly Bros.). No. 3 "Moonlight on the Colorado" — (Shapiro). No. 4 "Somewhere in Old Wyoming" — (J. Morris). "I'm Yours" — (Famous). No. 5 "If I Could Be with You"— Re "Kiss Waltz"— (M. Witmark). No. 6 "Body and Sou!" — (Harms, Inc.). "I Still Get a Thrill"— (Davis. Coots & Engel). "Little White Lies"— (Donaldson). "Sweet Jennie Lee" — (Donaldson. Doualas & Gumblc). "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" —(Villa Moret). No. 7 "Here Comes the Sun" — (Robbins). "Peach of a Pair" — (Famous). "I'll Be Blue Just Thinking" — (Feist) "Beyond the Blue Horizon" — (Famous). "Confessin' That I Love You" — (Berlin). "My Baby Just Cares for Me" — (Donaldson). "Go Home and Tell Your Mother" — (Robbins). "Yours and Mine" — (Villa Moret). "FOOTBALL FREDDY (My Collegiate Man)"— (Remick Mnsic Corp.) — Perfect right now with the football season at its height. There seems to be quite a market for this type of song. Lyric by Edgar Leslie music by Con Conrad. • * * "GET GOIN* (Get Ready to Love)" — Davis, Coots & Engel, Inc.) — A hot tune with a fast lyric. Makes a good dance tune. Words by Tot Seymour, music by Max Rich. » * • "YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY (What Did I Do?)" — (Donaldson, Douglas & Gamble) — A typical Donaldson tune that only he knows how to write. A natural that should have no difficulty getting to the top. Words and music by Walter Donaldson. * • • "DC-NT FORGET ME IN YOUR DREAMS"— (Robbins Mnsic Corp.) — A beautiful waits ballad. The melody and lyric blend perfectly. Should be used a lot on the air as it's a great sign-off number. Lyrics by Edgar Leslie, music by Con Conrad. • * • "THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE"— (Irving Berlin, Inc.) — This song was written especially for young married people. However, it should have popular appeal because of its exceptionally good, both as to words and music by that master, Irving Berlin. * * • "THERE'S SOMETHING MISSING IN YOUR EYES" — (E. B. Marks Mnsic Co.) — L. Wolfe Gilbert and Dave Dreyer, writers of RAMONA and ME AND MY SHADOW, have collaborated and turned out this fox trot ballad. This one may put E. B. Marks Music Company, back in the field as a publisher of popular hits. ■j/^T ft" Calls Jazz an Art (Special to the Herald-World) NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 28. — Jazz music finds one of its stoutest backers in Cherniavsky, guest conductor of the Saenger Orchestra. Joseph Cherniavsky says that jazz is an art, if it is played as an art. ORGAN SOLOS HAL PEARL (Sheridan Chicago), the "youngster of the console," has made himself an integral part of the programs at this theatre. Both adults and the children 6eem to get a great kick out of following the tantalizing lines that flash on the screen, while Hal puts "music in their souls" by a mastery of the instrument that thoroughly belies his age. Now that the Fox houses are forming Mickey Mouse clubs, with great success, Hal should be right in his element, for he is a success with the kids, and when that is true, that's about all that needs to be said. His program for the past week consisted of "Conglomerations," which was introduced to the tune of "Congratulations." The opening slides got everyone in a jovial mood, and then he swung into "When the Organ Played at Twilight." Somehow or other, this number gets audiences, and is always well received. Followed by "Swinging in a Hammock," "I'll Be Blue," and then a clever little parody about shrimps, sung to the tune of "Around the Corner." It was a tongue twister into the bargain, and a good one. Then a "man and woman" (men sing one line, women the other) number to "Funny What Love Can Do" went over like a million, and had many good laugh6. His closing number consisted of "Bye, Bye, Blues," always popular, and played as Hal played it, still more so. ART THOMPSON (Clarksburg, W. Va., Ritz) presented, for his solo last week, a very clever 6lide novelty entitled "And They Call It Love." There are plenty of funny gags on married life and love in general, which serve to keep the audience in a good humor. In this solo Art featured the numbers "By All the Stars Above You," "Loving You the Way I Do," "Moonlight on the Colorado" and "Ro-Ro-Rolling Along." Art's crowd really 6ings, and show their appreciation of his work with splendid applause. This solo may be safely said to be another of Art Thompson's hit performances. JOHN HAMMOND" (Staten Island, N. Y„ St. George) offered a novel and entertaining solo in "There's Something About an Old-Fashioned Girl," and original solo in which Hammond brings in a lot of good old time songs, to which this audience sang with zest. Intermingled between songs, Hammond told a little story as he went along and also sang in a husky whispering baritone "Old-Fashioned Girl." (If you have heard Whispering Jack Smith, you will know the type voice we mean.) The audience went wild over it and Hammond should have taken an encore, but instead ad libbed and went on with the solo. Another feature of this solo, and one that received a great deal of applause was the pedal cadenza (the right foot playing the melody, the left the bass, and the hands playing the accompaniment) of "Kiss Waltz." All in all, this solo is one of the best that Hammond has "put on" since he opened here. AL HORNIG (Baltimore Loew's Century) seated at the console in a spot with a mike to a loudspeaker over the stage, offered a novelty by inviting the audience to sing "I'm Confessing," with the words on the curtains. Then he introduced his puzzle song with pictures for representations of words and sung to the tune of "Should I?" After this he invited all in the audience to get affectionate and throw out their voices in "Kiss Me," following which he announced the proper follow up 6ong should be "Just a Lot of White Lies," for which words were exhibited. He then offered a little advice to the audience with the song "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me," but took liberty with the words and had a parody flashed about vegetables winding up with a stanza about the mustard sticking close to the hot dog's side because he brought a new kind of love to me. MILTON SLOSSER (Philadelphia Earle) after an illustrated "Lecture on Applause" which the audience followed to the letter, played and eang Irving Berlins, "Little Things in Life," "Maine Stein Song" and "If I Could Be with You." KENNETH T. WRIGHT (Lloyd's, Menominee, Mich.) at his Saturday Midnite Songfest was a novelty with the introduction telling about the organist asking the manager for a raise, and his getting it depended upon the audience's singing. The lines for this were set to "My Fate Is in Your Hands." Other depicting various stages of penury, etc., were "Am I Blue?" and "Vagabond Lover," with parodies following to the tunes of "Springtime in the Rockies," "Sidewalks of New York," and "Tfptoe Thru the Tulips." It introduced among the requests that come in each week by mail the tunes of "I'll Be Blue Just M Kill ' '"BPK 68^. ■I,":tfffi't WU B51PF ——, — 1 -.,< -. WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 22 No. i "Three Little Words" — (Harms). No. 2 "When the Organ Played at Twilight"— (Santly Bros.). No. 3 "I'm Yours" — (Famous). No. 4 "Betty Co-Ed" — (Carl Fischer). "Little White Lies" — (Donaldson). No. 5 "Springtime in the Rockies" — (Villa Moret). "Moonlight on the Colorado" — (Shapiro, Bernstein). "Body and Soul" — (Harms). No. 6 "Sing Something Simple" — (Harms) "Kiss Waltz"— (M. Witmark). "I Still Get a Thrill Thinking of , You" — (Davis, Coots & Engel). "I'll Be Blue Just Thinking of You" — (Feist). No. 7 "Here Comes the Sun" — (Robbins). "If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)" — (Remick). "My Baby Just Cares for Me" — (Donaldson). "Sweetheart of My Student Days" — (Feist). "Go Home and Tell Your Mother"— (Robbins). No. 8 "Somezvhere in Old Wyoming" — (Morris). "Gee, But I'd Like to Make You Happy"— (DeSylva, Brown & Henderson) "Sweet Jennie Lee" — (Donaldson). "The Little Things in Life" — (Berlin). "Loving You the Way I Do" — (Shapiro, Bernstein). "Maybe Ifs Love"— (Remick). "You're Driving Me Crazy" — (Donaldson). Thinking of You," "The Kiss Waltz" and "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes." The solo opened with the usual trailer shot of Wright at the organ, introducing the number. And how the audience eang! WESLEY LORD (Paramount Omaha) at the console conducts a songfest at the Omaha Paramount this week in connection with the showing of "The Big Trail." As an excellent tie-in with the picture. Lord suggests to the audience that it join in singing songs, some for young folks, some for the older folks and others for all folks. "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" is used to start off with, as an organ number. With a colored slide showing flowers on the screen, the first song sung is "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree." Others include "After the Ball," "If You're Not * Stylish the Whole World Laughs at You" and the "Bye, Bye, Blues." FRED KINSLEY (Bayside, West, N. Y. Victory) presented a special inaugural program of popular songs for the opening of this new community theatre. Playing for his opening number, "March of the Toys," Kinsley then orally introduced each of the following numbers, which the audience were asked to sing. Regular chorus of "Just a Little Closer," a special version about the community and theatre to "Closer," "Kiss Waltz," "I'm Needin' You" and another special about the community to the tune, "Needin' You." Needless to say, Kinsley had the entire audience with him and received a splendid ovation.