The Film Daily (1933)

fx^S DAILY Wednesday, June 21, 1933 Film Golf Tournament at Rye Club Breaks All Records B-l-R-D-l-E-S ;Bv jack harrow er DAX DOHERTY was the guest of Jack Alicoate the nite before at the well known trade publisher's "Georgian red brick Colonial mansion" which is five minutes' ride from the Rye Country Club. (Walter Futter insisted that we get this item in first, as he thinks that Mister Alicoate's personal description of his new home is something the architect sold him.) The reason for Dan being up ahead of time teas to get set for his Fox Movietone crew, who brought their sound truck up at 8:30 in the morn to catch the gang arriving at the Club. They were busy till noontime, when they rushed their stuff to the lab downtown to have the completed film back in time to show at the banquet in the evening. Dan and his boys did a marvellous job. Added Attraction — An Italian accordion player greeted the guests as they arrived, and serenaded the boys all over the grounds. Walter Futter arrived in a milk wagon wearing his sporty ice cream suit. As he drove up and stepped out he said to an attendant: "Here, boy, take my car." Morris Kutinsky arrived with Joe Fliesler, the professional Booby Prize Winner. As Morris approached the box office he sez: "Lock your cash box, boys. I have an exhibitor with me." The English atmosphere was contributed by the arrival of Arthur Kelly with the two Furber brothers — Percy and Beverly, who came direct from Lunnon for the Tournament. While the Committee were at supper the n!te before the affair, Al Lichtman walked into the Club dining room, as they were eating their soup. Al yells: "Hey. I thought this was the notorious Gentile club. And you guys eating noodle soup!" Practically everybody got in on the dollar chance to win the raffle of the 9 Bobby Jones irons with a leather bag, proceeds going to the Rye Pro — Duncan Barr. In his practice drive, Billy Brandt posed for the sound pix pretty. He took a slam at the ball, and it popped four feet and hit a caddie. Some actor, that mug! And what a lousy golfer. /( teas great to have Bruce Gallup back again as the Official Handicapper. Bruce was up half the nite before going over the dope and refreshing his memory on the golfers. Back from his honeymoon at Virginia Beach just in time for the Tournament was Paul Benjamin. The gink seemed kinder weak and listless. His golf game was slightly off. .. PS . —RfAlT© WITH PHIL M. DALY • • • JUST TO give you an idea what sort of a successful affair this 21st Film Golf Tournament was at the Rye Country Club there were 152 players out for the morning practice round and at 1 o'clock the motor cars were still pulling up to the clubhouse with new arrivals a Perfect Day ...... from every angle the first few dozen who arrived around 8:30 at intervals were assured that they were "the very first" it made 'em feel good till they compared notes, and found that some mug had arrived before 'em * * * * • • • THE MAIN fun of the morning was staged at the 16th the Fox Movietone sound truck took its position there Dan Doherty and his crew caught all the film celebs as they took a practice drive Louis Nizer officiated as announcer Jack Alicoate was the alleged director Tom Wiley was the Stooge he stood just alongside the "actors" registering a dead pan sayin' and doin' nothin' Tom did both very naturally * * * * • • • AFTER A lot of jockeying around by both teams for the match play selections were finally made as follows Empey Team, Artie Stebbins, captain, Mich May, Arthur Seidman, Ted Curtis Ampa Team, Herb Fecke, captain, W. B. Frank, Charlie Einfeld, Grad Sears at the time this is being written as the boys are out struggling it looks like a tossup as both teams are pretty evenly matched nobody was willing to bet odds * * * * • • • THAT STOOGE match between Lee Och's Duffers and the Afternoon Tea boys known as the Birdies got off in grand form the gallery were making bets as to whether they were playing bridge, tennis or water polo that will give you a slight idea as to their FORM up to a late hour they had not been seen or heard from a searching party was sent out to try and bring 'em in * * * * • • • THE DAY was filled with fun, gags and all sorts of hilarity Eddie Golden started off on the 13th hole by mistake, and at the 18th hole he thought he was through some golfer! Pat Garyn took an awful swipe at the ball on his first drive, missed, spun around twice and fell flat on the grass rhyme this any way you want, and it still goes Morty Spring tried to alibi himself to Bruce Gallup, Handicapper, as a Dub and he shot the pill 260 yards on his first drive the chiseller! A Souvenir Score Card was supplied by Warners, titled "How To Break 90" The 19 holes were each labeled with the name of a Warner pix. Hole No. 1 started off "Life Begins." Then there were "The i rash," "Hard To Handle," "Grand Slam," "A Successful Calamity," "Goodbye Again." A slick job that, doing the cartoon page Hollywood Premiere Stuff The Movietone outfit caught all the celebs as they arrived— a la Hollywood premiere. Rex Beach thouRht it was a gag. When he found out the newsreel boys h id really shot him, he insisted on doing it all over again to get it right for "his public." of the event. Pud Lane of National Screen York. Harold Rodner of Warners acted as handled the assignment. his host. As Harry Warner started off, with the gallery watching, he sez: "Here goes one of the Gold Diggers, boys." Always an Advertising Man. All the way from the Spreckles theater in San Diego, Cal., came Lou Metzger. But his Distance Drives didn't prove it. He acted like a shorts subject director on the fairways. Representing the Quigley Publications in the Movietone Neivsrecl was Jimmie Cunningham. James took his position for a drive with a Motion Picture "Herald" conspicuously displayed in his hip pocket. He posed with his back to the camera. Modest youth! One of the distinguished guests was Christophei < . Mollenhauer, Grand Master of the Masonic organization for the State of New // any producer is lookin' for a real comedy team for the screen, we recommend Al Lichtman and Artie Stebbins. They pulled a wow in the morning for the Newsreel, di iving up in a bakery wagon. They got out and started a Joosh argument as to whether their delivery basket contained pretzels or doughnuts. Louis Nizer, master of ceremonies, finally decided that they were dunking biscuits. The management of the Rye Country Club certainly treated the gang royally. Everything possible was done to give the players a grand time, on the part of steward H. W. Kittmcyer and office manager J. Kreider. Thanks go to the Club officers, president H. W. Beals, treasurer Robert Kerr, and secretary Willard McKay, for one of the finest receptions the film boys have ever had at any club for their Tournament. Clear Skies, Fine Crowd and Swell Program Make It Perfect Event The 21st annual Golf Tournament is now history. And what history! All hands agreed that the event at the Rye Country Club yesterday was just about the most successful of the entire series. There were 170 golfers who competed and it was after 8 o'clock before the last foursome came in at the 18th green alongside the clubhouse. All hands piled in for luncheon a little after noontime, with pitchers of beer at every table, the lager being the donation of Braumeister Harry Thomas. In fact the beer was on tap all through the day and evening, served in the locker room. So the latter spot was unusually popular. Then the big shindig in the evening, when the dining room was crowded with about 200, many film men coming up after the day's work for the evening's fun. After the supper, the program started with the showing of several short subjects, the most important one being the special newsreel of the day's events made by Fox-Movietone with their sound truck right on the club grounds. This newsreel was a wow. As official reviewer, we will give it a critical review herewith. Opened with Jack Alicoate cross-questioning Capt. Artie Stebbins of the Empey team and Capt. Herb Fecke of the Ampa team. Why did they expect their respective teams to lose, and why shouldn't they? They pleaded guilty and took a suspended sentence. Then Judge Alicoate examined Arthur Kelly for the Duffers and Harry Brandt for the Birdies, and wanted to know what right either one considered they had a golf team. So Arthur talked on the Foreign situation in his broken English, and Harry squawked about the way the exhibs were treated by the major producers. The scene then jumped abruptly to the Rye Country Club as cleverly as a $300,000 Sam Goldwyn production. Class, boys, class. Dan Doherty's gang picked up the film celebs arriving in their mortgaged motor cars. Al Lichtman and Artie Stebbins stepped out of a bakery wagon in costumes of east side kosher bakers. They (Continued on Page 9) Scnnett Gag Queered They were all set for a good gag with Mack Sennett when he arrived. They bought a dozen mixed pies, and were ready to slam 'em at him as the newsreel camera ground. And the mug didn't show up! But somebody pinched the pies. The Committee suspected Mitch May.