Inside facts of stage and screen (May 23, 1931)

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RADIO ■ MUSIC PRICE 10 CENTS Otily Theatrical Newspaper- on the Pacific Coast EDITED BY JACK JOSEPHS ESTABLISHED 1924 Vol. XIV Entered as Second Clasi Matter. April 29, 1927, at Post. ofTice, L(>8 Anfireles, Calif., under Act of March 8, 1879. Saturday, May 23, 1931 Publiahed Every Saturday at «9&S Hollywood Bou1.»vard, Hollywood. Calif. No. I COL RED PEOPLE WILL ASK AMOS 'N^ ANDY BAN Novelty Acts For Big Time Special to Inside Facts. NEW YORK, May 22. — The popular response to the in-flesh pull of thexircus has set the vaude magriatea W calculatine. and the i all is more th<*n liket/ jee aa ^ extensive revival of big time offer- ings. Hu \\ c vxr, not on the old basis of two-a-day, but with high-class acts playing in support of feature pic- tures. Formerly bucking against the singing and comedy of the talking pictures and presentations and prologues, the revived vaude in- stead will go heavily for novelty turns, and vaude magnates here are reported to be already casting a critical eye toward European acts, the variety bills there run- ning more heavily to this type of entertainment than American vaudeville. Coast Revival The RKO circuit is expected to revive big-time vaude in almost all the Pacific Coast houses where it formerly held sway, the indications being that the bills offered will consist of four class acts. The Orpheum in Los Angeles is under- stood to be set to get a revival of this type of entertainment, prob- ably with a second week's booking in the RKO Theatre in that city. The coast policy at present of booking four local acts in support of four circuit acts is understood to be due for the shears, and the RKO Theatre in Los Angeles, now the only house in that city playing RKO vaude, is understood to be due to go again immediately on a policy of ..ll-touring acts, elimi- nating the four now booked lo- cally and continuing the four now sent in from the East. (Note; Current week's bill at the RKO has four road acts and three local acts, a cut-down of one local act.) Have Experimented The RKO chieftains are under- stood to be in somewhat of a quan- dary as to how to meet the in-flesh competition of rival picture houses. They have experimented both with elaborate and with economical stage shows in various houses, and in neither instance could they show such a net from the in-person part of the program as was reg- istered by rival houses. This is said to have determined them to eliminate the direct competition of 'similar entertainment by going (Continued on Page 3) (Mil Call Skit Slanders On Race WILLIAM Ja CRAFT NOW DIRECTING ^^HONEYMOON LANE For Sono-Art ^ Eddie Dowling Featured STILL UNDER CONTRACT Marco, of Fanchon and Marco, and Richard Limberlegs Edwards played tennis at Marco's home last Tuesday. Marco won. Ltmberlega is still under contract for an F. and M. tour. SARECKY RE-SIGNED Louis Sarecky has been signed undera new contract by William LeBaron. for Radio Pictures. Among Sarecky's supervisorial efforts were "Cimarron" and "Rio Rita/* two of Radio''^ ' TO BURLESQUE RENO Next for Wheeler and Woolsey at Radio Pictures will be a bur- lesque on the Reno divorce mill, titled "«ix Weeks in Reno." Cast and director not yet chosen. Louis Snrorkv will supervise. The colored people of America, acting through the National As- sociation for the Advancement of the Colored People, are pr^^ ing to^ " demand that Aroos Andy be barred from the air slanderous to the colored race. The N.A.A.C.P. will first pre- sent their demands to the Na- tional Broadcasting Company, it is understood, and, if r e f 3 e d there, will take whatever other steps they think advisable. A growing resentment amongst the colored people as the Amos *n' Andy story unfolded was fin- ally crystallized into action by the Pittsburgh Courier, a paper for colored people, with wide and authoritative crculaton. This jour- nal is running front page smashes on the subject, including four- column cartoons, and several col- umns of letters of protest from all parts of the country. Typical of the type of cartoons is one in a current is.sue show- ing the Amon 'n' Andy Fresh Air Taxi wrecked to smithereens against the Pittsburgh Courier's Campaign for Self Respect. Amos 'n* Andy are bewilderedly iiursing their bruises. All Bad Headline on the issue is "Sen- timent Against Amos 'n' Andy Radio Propaganda Becomes Na- tionwide as Citizens Rail y to Support Courier's Campaign." The Courier's campaign de- clares that the Amos 'n' Andy skits are entirely derogatory to the colored race in that there is not in them any colored person of the admirable qualities which is a general attribute of the race. It is pointed out that all colored people involved in the skits are either terrifically ignorant or else crooks. It is stated that there are undoubtedly ignorant people and also crooks in the col- ored race, as there is in any other race, but that no other race would stand for itself being rep- resented as composed entirely of ignorant and crooked people. They say that whenever a white person is introduced, the white person has admirable qualities, b uthe negroes are always shown in a bad light. A typical exam- ple was during the "trial. The negro lawyer engaged by Amos •n' Andy was a crook, but as soon as the white lawyer entered, he was perfectly honest. Also Madame Queen turned out to b»> (Continued on Pagv :»