Inside facts of stage and screen (February 8, 1930)

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SATURDAY, FEB. 8, 1930 INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN PAGE SEVEN Harold J. Bock Manager PHONE DOUGLAS 2213 SAN FRANCISCO 935 Market St Office Suite 504 THREE LEGIT SHOWS OPEN TO GOOD RETURNS AND LOOK SET SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— Three openings provided the legit week’s highlights, both shows initial seven days comes around. Out in the North Beach district at his upstairs Green Street The- NEW PICTURES GET OFF TO GOOD START; OTHERS HOLD OP SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.-— week of “Show of Shows” at Aided by plenty of the usual pub-"Wagnon’s Embassy nice at $14, licity fanfare, the Marion Davies looking set to cash in on an otherwise dull theatrical Febru- ary. “Oh, Susanna” drew its first curtain Monday night at the Cur- ran and at capacity, with all ap- pearances pointing to at least a $16,000 week when the last of. the FINANCIAL LOSSES OF OPERA CO. BRING CLOSE SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— The local season of the Columbia Opera Co. ended abruptly last week when the company’s tour was suddenly cancelled because of heavy financial losses. After two weeks at the Columbia members of the cast found themselves stranded and appealed to the State Labor Commission to collect ap- proximately $13,000 in salary and transportation from Mrs. Hector Geiger, wealthy Los Angeles woman and backer of the com- pany. Mrs. Geiger paid one week’s salary and transportation for the troupe in an effort to clear up the case. According to reports the opera was about $30,000 in the red at the end of its engagement here. How- ever, Alexander Bevani, organizer of the company, hopes for an- other tour next winter. CHANGE THEATRE NAME SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6 .— Golden State Theatres re-opened their Wigwam Theatre Saturday night, changing its name to the Rialto. The house, managed by A1 Hixon, has been greatly im- proved and remodeled. IN S. F. FOR TOUR SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— Mrs. Hazel Stephen, wife of the Australian theatre owner, arrived here this week for a tour of the United States. NEW OPENING DAY SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— Fox El Capitan, beginning this week, changes its opening day from Friday to Thursday. This week’s show will run for only six days. DOES A TIE-UP SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— Hal Horne made a tie-up be- tween a local bakery and tea house to serve tea and cake in the Granada lobby during, the run of “No, No, Nanette” at that Pub- lix house. Doby and Lou have signed with KTAB. The boys have several programs a week at the Pickwick station. THE NEWjjSENSATION! “JUST ONE— THAT’S ALL” A Comedy Mock Ballad AMERICAN MUSIC CO. atre Sid Goldtree opened another of his sex farces, this “The Peep- hole,” doing approximately $2600 for its first stanza, which is good business. Midnight matinees on Saturdays are counted to help quite a bit. Provided civic authori- ties don’t interfere too much as they did with “Bad Babies” at the Capitol, the show should have a good run. Following two weak weeks of “That Ferguson Family” at the President, Henry Duffy opened “His Friend, the King” and to good biz. Second and last stanza of “Ferguson” did only $2900. Taylor Holmes in “Your Uncle Dudley” at Duffy’s Alcazar was good for $5500 in his second week. Columbia, Geary and Capitol are dark. ITOflf IH SOB BOOK FIT SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— Local music men seemed well on their way toward stopping street sales of a bootleg song sheet fol- lowing receipt of a wire by Abe Bloom from the New York office of Irving Berlin. According to the telegraphic message an air mail letter is enroute to Sam Roeder, lo- cal attorney for the American So- ciety of Authors and Composers, authorizing him to secure an in- junction against all peddlers and printer of the sheet, now believed to be a San Francisco enterprise. Lacking other means of combat, music men have been using their influence with the police to run off the street all peddlers found without a city permit. However, a new crew of salesmen came on this week with a different sheet of songs, this one containing a num- ber of tunes and the pictures of Jolson, Chevalier and Ted Lewis. While bootleg sales are decreas- ing, the legitimate sale of sheet music in the stores still is not back to proper proportions. Music men in the fight are Lou Emmel, Harry Bush, Larry Yoell, Abe Bloom, A1 Sather, Ron Jon- son, Newton Kelly and Lloyd Campbell. DUFFY PLAYERS WED SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— Margaret Gillespie, Duffy player, and Kenneth Garnet in the cast of “Your Uncle Dudley” at Duffv’s Alcazar were married in Holly- wood Jan. 15, they revealed this week. An NBC artist, Clarence Cole- man, who works under the title of Prof. Herman Schnitzel, is being featured as a daily columnist in the News. To Cecil Wright, KFRC has given a spot of his own, putting him on the air each Friday night between 6:15 and 6:30 when he plays and sings old-time waltzes. On The Air Happenings f • SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— The rumor having reached KFRC that there are some proud and skillful golfers up at NBC the fol- lowing KFRC staff members have been imbued with the desire to beat them on the Lincoln Course: Pete Barlow, drums; Tom Quirk, trumpet; Cal Pearce, mezzo-bari- tone; Johnny Hicks, slip horn; A1 Zohn, trumpet, and Walter Kel- sey, fiddler and vocalist. This constntutes a challenge to the NBC boys and the KFRC gang would like to hear from them as soon as possible. Pedro says he will run bases. * * * Tenor soloing over KYA is, George Nickson, who is a mem- ber of the Pacific Artists’ Trio. Doing a classic work and also has several programs of popular num- bers a week. In addition to this work George takes small dramatic parts on the Calendar of the Air. * * * William Don is in San Fran- cisco. Coming from KFI in Los Angeles where he was known as “Dr. Oojah,” and one who had plenty of fan mail, Don is looking over the local ether situation and expects to announce a connection here soon. * * * There’s clever music in Johnny O’Brien’s harmonica. Johnny plays that instrument at NBC and he has a sweet band of listeners-in. * * * Stars of the Pacific Coast Opera Co. are now being heard over KFRC each Friday night from 8:30 to 9. Charles Bulotti and Alberto Terrasi are featured. * * * Joe Wright’s orchestra, broad- casting from the Silver Slipper Cafe, has transferred its remote control from KTAB to KPO and is heard over that station nightly between 11 and 12. picture, “Not So Dumb,” came through with good returns for the Fox, which, together with Fanchon and Marco’s “Desert Idea” and Walt Roesner, m. c., did about $49,000. “This Thing Called Love” and Frankie Richardson in person now in. Paramount’s “K i b i t z e r” with Harry Green at Publix’s Granada had a good intake, the film gross- ing $22,500 for the house. Third week of “Sally” at the California did $15,000 and Ronald Colman in “Condemned” current^ holds the screen. Seventh stanza of Che- valier in “Love Parade” at the St. Francis, helped by Lillian Roth’s personal appearance and a lot of special stuff, up a bit at $ 10 , 000 . “Sunny Side Up” bowed out of Loew’s Warfield after four weeks with a gross of $16,000 hanging at its belt. “Hallelujah” in for a week only and then Garbo in “Anna Christie.” Radio’s “Love Comes Along” with Bebe Daniels okay for the Orpheum at $13,500. “Hit the Deck” now there and big. Second W. E. MOVES SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— Western Electric has moved its local offices from the Golden Gate Theatre building to the Crocker First National Bank building. A. B. Lamb is district manager for W. E. NEW ASST. MGR. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— Max Rattner is the new assistant manager of the local RKO ex- change. 500 while the Davies took in $9000 on “Peacock Alley” and now has “Phantom of the Opera” revived. Casino big at $12,000 on “Night Ride” and a stage show with “City Girl” looking only average this week. HERO OF THEATRE FIRE MAY DIE FROM BURNS SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— The heroism of H. A. Olson, pro- jectionist, in putting out a fire that started in the operators’ booth of the Acme Theatre, may result in his death, it is feared by at- tendants at St. Mary’s hospital where he is confined. Through'-Olsen’s efforts the fire did no damage to the theatre. JAP TROUPE ARRIVES SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— The Tokujiro Tsutsui Japanese theatrical troupe arrived here this week en route to Los Angeles where -they will present a reper- toire of Ken-Geki plays. The Cali- fornia performances are being sponsored by the Japanese The- atre Association. From Los An- geles they go to New York where the Theatre Guild is sponsoring them. EXTRA SHOWINGS SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— Publix’s St. Francis capitalized on the appearance of Maurice Che- valier at the Auto Show by throw- ing a midnight performance Wed- nesday night of “Love Parade” and a one night return engage- ment of “Innocents of Paris.” Business was good. KRESS BLDG., SAN FRANCISCO INVESTIGATE THIS NEW PROCESS! We Make PHONOGRAPHIC RECORDS OF YOUR OWN TALENT 602 Kress Bldg. 935 Market Phone Kearney 5083 San Francisco HOTEL GOVERNOR TURK AT JONES SAN FRANCISCO THE HOME OF ALL THEATRICAL PEOPLE PLAYING SAN FRANCISCO SPECIAL RATES TO PROFESSIONALS JACK WOLFENDEN, Prop. FRANK RATCHFORD, Mgr. on a long run engagement at the fox el capitan san francisco “the southern song ace” jimmie barr 48th consecutive week as a san francisco enter- tainer .... there’s a reason SCENERY BY MARTIN STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA