Variety (November 1961)

12 VAUDEVILLE Vaude, Cafe Dates Leon Bibb booked for the club Dec. 4 for a pair. Chicago | Bob Melvin opens a three-week’ Jo Ann Yal, currently at the]17 in Phoenix. ..Rosa Linda into stand at the Drake Hotel, Chi, Nov. | Roosevelt Hotel, N.O.. set for. the | John Barbour's ‘Open House _as j Bau Hai, Dallas. Oct. 26 for two | 88er. weeks and Freddie's Mpls., Nov. “ die’s, Mpls., Nov. 9 for nine nas, {an nine davs . . . Adam Wade |. down for the 20 Grand: Detroit, 1! ..Sepbie Tucker set for Fred . Diana Trask into the Tidelands, Houston Nov. 17 for a fortnight : Nov. 24 for 10 days . .. Marian . Doree Crews booked for the | Marlowe ato the B&B Club. ian Vice Rap Closes. P:ayboy Club, Miami, Nov. 20 for | dianapolis, Noy. 28 for two weeks three weeks ... Tod Aubrey set Don Rice . booked. for for two weeks at the Embers,. Indianapolis, Nov. 20 for two Eagle & Mann play the Colony | Club, Omaha, Nov. 30 for two] Diana Pane into the Brown Hotel: ; = Louisville, Oct. 20 for two weeks, | There il be no more champagne Exodus, Denver, Dec. 18 for : followed by the Coronados Nov. 2 | at $25 per with a femme com weeks .. . Leon Bibb into the fortnight . . . The Wanderers | for two. skedded for Le Bistro, Chi, Jan. 2 for a month. Ames Bros. set for a week at the Living Room, Chi, Nov. 20, followed by Billy Falbo for three . Bob Melvin into the Drake Hotel, Chi, Nov. 11 for three weeks .. . Pompeff Thedy Family held over for four weeks at the Latin Quarter, N.Y., until Dec.1. Thedys also down for the Deauville Hotel Miami, Dec. 22 for a month... Claney Bros. & Tom Makem currently at Crystal Palace, St. Louls George Jessel plays Freddie’s Mpls. Noy. 9 for a wis. Nov. 9 for a fortnight . . . Rickles into Sahara Hotel's Casbar eee Hollywood camps, concerts and tv... Folsom Prison. Nov. 12. LATIN QUARTER “ATH STREET AND BROADWAY NEW YORK 36, NEW YORK October 27, 1961. Me, Ronald Field 150 West 9th Street New York City, N.Y. Dear Ron, G want to take this opportunity to congratulate you and, at the very sane time, thank you for your splene did cooperation. Youn many wondenjul ideas and. admirable way in which you handled the entine cast created an atmosphere that was moat enjoyable Son all § an certainly Looking forward to our next show. "Gn the neantine, on behalf of the Latin Quarter, again = thank you very much, Sincerely, Managing Dinecton. MARTIN BURDEN, New York Post . * ‘Manhattan Holiday’ excels in all departments. Staged by Ronald Field, it’s a huge, lavish affair.” BOB DANA, New York World-Telegram “The scops of the production, staged and choreographed by Ronald Field, is. enormous. “it is the Latin Quarter’s 20th anniversary. Production, by all odds the finest in its history. GENE KNIGHT, New York Journal-American “A salute to Ronald Field, who staged and choreographed the spectacular presentation. His dancing girls did intricate steps and formations that rival the famed Radio City “Music Hall Rockettes. “Exciting admiration and wonder, ‘Manhattan Holiday’ is the most phenomenal show ever presented at the Latin Quarter.” LEE MORTIMER, New York Mirror “Ronald Field, former chorus boy at the Quarter and now a big time choreographer, has handled the production with imagination, keeping a cast of more than 50 moving with circus-like precision. RONALD FIEL || Currently i in PARIS... CHOREOGRAPHER FOR “LA PARISIENNE” Opening Dec. Ist BEIRUT, Lebanon ey Oa Pa A LES tir OO weeks each at the Miami Playboy | ~ Hub’ S St é Bar Club Nov. 4, Chi Playboy Dee. 17, and N.O. Playboy Feb, 20, "62... ‘Boston, Oct. 31. June Christy will tour Japan, Licensing Board.. Nov.. 22-Dec. 31, trek. including ap-{| The drastic action, which lifted pearances in niteries, military |the club’s liquor; victual and en Bros. will repeat Nipponese bases. weeks after ‘two gendarmes and a April 4-May 15 ..Danny Kaye jcivic minded citizen told the board now in four-week stand. at Desert | all they did was walk in and withInn, Las Vegas ..Sammy Davis|in minutes were solicited by a Jr. will repeat his Noy. 6 Com-| flock of femmes. including the cigamand Performance act before {ret girl. Queen Elizabeth at California's ' Board chairman John Callahan Rickles into Sahara Hotel's Gasbar Clarence R. Elam edicted there'll Needless to say, Mr, Loew and myself ane extremely VARIETY Room,. Vegas, Nov. ‘21 for. four j frames. . ‘Judy Garland returns to 4} San Francisco's Civic Auditorium | §. : 1 Nov. 4 for another one-nighter. . Ji Gene Barry launches 25-day South ;American tour Nov.. 23 in Rio de Janeiro.. Danny Thomas plays same benefit performance . for. Hayden Golden Anniversary Dinner Nov. panion thrown in at the Stage Bar. Yesterday (Mon.), the spot was shut down. by orders of the Boston Mills|tertainment license, came two and. associates Timothy Tobin and eee be no more such incidents, and put ithe ban on the bar, bubbly and habes. The spot was closed per|manently. Judy ==em. Continued from page 69 mamaame | space, came off slick. Producers Bernstein & Drew called‘ in. the city’s top sound engineers to make. sure there would be no problem. The ‘sound was great, and when. Judy asked in a soft voice, “can |) you hear me when I talk?”, there was a thundering chorus of “yes, yes.’ and “we love you, Judy.” i _ Establishing atremendous. rapport with her audience, Miss Garland was. all but mobbed at closing with her “Over the Rainbow” | as hundreds rushed to the front of the stage to shake hands with her and plead for more. She took encore after encore, until the top lights went up,.and sang. her final number,. “Chicago” with lights on. “Miss Garland, with ‘one day’s rest, went onto the Forum, Monsitreal, where she appeared Sunday .(81(29). “Previously, she had sung at i} Haddonfield,. N. J.; Saturday (21) for the Bernstein-Drew producing team,. and has one more date for lthe pair in Washington, D. C., at {f the National Guard Armory Dee. 9 ae $10..top. ; or * a MJ _ SDP EM Ew wane On _—— ARA Bids =—mms Continued from page 70 = | and. Florida. These states have Iaws Which ‘make.it mandatory for agents based in New York. to operate through a correspondeti® agent or booker. All talent buy|-F iting must be done through offices | licensed in those states. It is also generally admitted that ‘many of the indies without .representation in various cities must work . through’ correspondent 'Y agents or bookers in order to get} employment for their acts. There jis little doubt that there is ‘split commissions in these cases. Agencies are ready to admit the |¥. importance of such bookers as. Miss Abbott, Roy Cooper of Montreal; George Claire and Joe Hiller, both Pittsburgh; Dave Barcin of Toronto as well as. others who }: tightly control a ‘number of buying . | situations. etasons FUN-MASTER ‘PROFESSIONAL COMEDY MATERIAL _ For every branch of theatricals ' “WE SERVICE THE STARSI 35 Gag. files $15, plus $1 postage FOREIGN: 35 for $30 e3 Parody Books, per Bk. ..... $19 0 e8 Blackout Books 1-2-3 Each $2560 No. 4 for $35—Ne. 5 for $30 ‘@ Minstrel (white face) Sudget. $25 « « “How to Master the ceremonies” ° $3 PER copy ...N0.¢ 0.0.'s qf BILLY GLASON . 200 W. Séth St., N.Y.C. 19,. CO: 35-1316 (We TEACH M.C’ing and COMEDY) T| (Let a real. Professional train you) Auditorium, Oct. 27, $4 top. Woody . Woodbury ts Lauderdale, Fla. saloon comic ; makes jokes. about them. who has hit it big with a record or two, plays the piano a bit and. pit playing the same song over advises’ his audiences he is non-, and over~off-key. hip, likes “ring-a-ding” stories! All of this may have its place in a cozy 100 or 150-seat saloon in a ‘small city of the Deep South, but 1. it seems more than a little out of . area was concerned-—almost 4/1 -place for $4 ticket buyers in’ Frisco. totally unknown quantity. on his. arrival, and leaves in the same condition, for only about 600. showed }to see his act in the 3,200-seat Masonic Auditorium. Many, indeed, departed at his intermission, after hhe’d been onstage more than: an hour and -a quarter. He tells long. strings of : short. ‘(often one-line) jokes, many unrelated and most of them fairly whiskery. At the outset he informs his audience he’s: not. going to “try to tell you what's wrong with the world” and reports that he and booze. In roughly that order. He was—so far as the Frisco Om mag oo _Wednesday, November 1, 1961 Woody Weedbury as, “I went over like 2 hernia ‘at San Francisco, Oct. 28, | a Weightiifter’s. convention.’ . fo.0 « MHS. “Necalist SANDY MERRILL impressed "Here Is one. of the mest promising In launching the bill with his soft young singers. that has.ever played " romantic treatment ef Melancholy The Crown Room. We want him Serenade, Vertigo. He lowered the back again at least twice «. yeat.” after dinner sound level effectively, SAUL HOCKMAN, | The Crown Room, indianapslis. Here Is a comer in the good-looking young pop singer field.” CORBIN PATRICK, indianapolis Star. MERIDIAN RECORDS ‘The Frask Edwards Skow, WTTV, Detroit A.B.C. RADIO and TV Dir: ROSS W. CHRISTENA ASSOCIATES, Marott Hotel, Indianapolis MAURICE SEYMOUR I ‘internationally Famous THEATRI CAL PHOTOGRAPHER 111 E. CHICAGO AVENUE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: for appointments ‘DE 7-2250 1697 Broadway, New. York 1%, N. XY aware of these facts now. “YUGENE. ‘SMITH TRIO. Pianist YUGENE SMITH’S. TRIO Now Appearing at New York's ROUNDTABLE “Personal ‘Management: Pat. NORELL Concerts Inc. presentation of| He. plays the yokel to the -hilt, | Woody Woodbury. At. Masonic } Wears an engineer’s cap and a red sports shirt on stage, chats with | pretty young girls and their. boy. a Fort. ; friends in the audience, then ‘He also tinkers on the piano a The promoters, Concerts ‘Inc., have to share some of the blame. The hall was far too. large and. the microphone system:was completely out. of whack, so that there were yells: of ‘can't hear you” early in the show. Woodbury later suggested all those who couldn’t hear move into. a qquadrant of the auditorium where: the reception was slightly better. There. was no Staging, no pack-. aging, Further, this earnest young comic was ill-advised to.'try what, is ‘strictly. an intimate, saloon routine. in a concert hall. Apparently, he. | had no alternative routine to eschews racial, religious. and {| offer. The promoters doubtless are political jokes. He uses such lines’ no buildup, no nothing. Stef. meee