Variety (Sep 1931)

40 VARIETY ■ i- . ; ■ . Tuesday, September 29, 1931 "'^ ~" T— a wife,, £dlth, who told the L. A. mu- nicipal Judge that he had hot been inaklner regular payments. Andrews' lawyer sold the director hod paid Ills wife more than $C0O In the. oast two montlis. Warner Baxter was treated In a Hollywood hospital last week for leir lacerotlohs received from broken transom glass on a Fox set. Lupe Velcz testined in L. a. courts last woiek for the proseciitioa of Fred Solilnden, accused of forg, Ing Miss Velez's name on a check for )1S0. : News From the Dailies Thi9 department contains rewritten theatrical news Items as pub- lished during the. week in the daily papers of New York,. Chicago. San Francisco, Hollywood and London. Variety takes no credit for these news items; each has been rewritten from a daily paper. Aiming the oratorio of Elijah In the Holy Xdnd. EAST his court martial by the British Ordnance Corps, .of which he was then a.'member. Delight Thompson, giving hef occupation as actress, under ob-' eervatlon at Bellevue following at- tempted suicide In apartment of J. Marshall Mayes, 60. W. lOth street. Found tliere with. the' gas turned on, but Mayes says he doesn't know her and cannot, understand how she gained entrance. Mra Nlxon-NlrdUnger seeking to change her name to escape obnoxious notoriety. Court Appli- cation. Claudette Colbert collapses on Par set at Astoria, Ii. L Taken to her home for a . throat operation, due to strain - of Ave retakes of a difficult scene. "Will be Idle for a couple of weeks. lillllan Foster, of "Divorce Me Dear,' divorced from her Job be- cause of a disagreement with Sid- ney M. Bidden, producer. In Bos- ton. Ploy premiere, deferred. Miss Foster achieved a sort of fame some time ago by smacking Han- nen Swaller In a London restaur- ant Lillian Bond, loaned by Warner Bros, to Schwab' & Mandell for 'Free for All,' was left free by . the closing of' the show and has been ordered back to the coast tor fllm work; Woman signing herself the mother of a choi-us girl and aunt of. two more, is writing : Chorus Equity urging It to call a strike of all chor- ines for bettiar pay. Walls that pro- ducers are getting rich on the pro- ceeds of girlie shows which pay the gals only |30-$36. There Will be no. strike. Bringing suit for divorce against her husba'nd, Frank M. MarguUes, asst. mgr. of the Ambassador hotel, Mrs. MorguUes asserts that when they broke Into a room, at the Pettir Stu7vesa;ht and fouiid him In com- pany with ah unnamed briinet, clad only In Oriental pyjamas, Florence Blue, chorusi with 'the raiding party, fainted. ' Helen GUllgan announces her en- gagement to Ray Buchanan, non- pro, of Ware, Mass. Ceremony In a few weeks. Anti-trust suit brought by tube manufacturers against RCA ad- justed by conference. Companies, principally DeForest, will be li- censed by KCA and will recognize tier's rights to patents. Ethel "Wynne, who will be In..the cast of 'Good Companions,' is the daughter of Shirley W, Wynne, health coinmlssioner of N. T. Her professional debut. Bernard Lohmulier, technical dir. for Earl Carroll, presented with a chest of sliver by the co. ds wedding gift. He wa^. married to Tyohne Mills, coincident with oi>ehIng of Vanities.' ■M ' Not In sympathy with the move, A. P. Olanninl retired as chairman of the board when Transamerlca bank arranges to sell controUIhg fn terest. His brother and son also resigned from this board. Margaret Mayo wins her suit against the N. Y. Central R. R. for properties claimed by her to be a part of her estate at Harmon, N. T. Mostly underwater land, part of which was .flUed in by the road Property returned to her and she ia also given six cents damage. Max Gordon has decided to do •The Three Cornered Haf by How- ard Dletz and Arthur Schwartz. Adaptation of a Spanish folk piece by Pedro deAIarcon. Fred Warlng's divorced wife, Dorothy McAteer Waring, selling pillowis in. New York department store. Divorced about a yeeir ago. Rose Wenzel, ez-show girl and wife of N. T. G., doing extension work at Columbia university this year. Saul Z. Martel buys four plays for the coming season.. First will be 'Rainy Days,' by Claire Green Others are 'Triplets,' by Mark Lln- der; 'Revenue Man,' by Mark Hen kel and 'I. C. U.' by Samuel H Conny and Eflle Funk. Eddie Cantor, offering his Great Neck, Xu I., home for sale. $260,- 000 marked down from $500,000. In California sb much gets no use from the place. New York having Its own county fair. Cotton, corn and tobacco, grown In cost side gardens the ' exhlbs. No midway. Laurette Taylor discovers that she has money coming, to her. Some 15 years ago her brother opened an account In her name In the Union Dime bank. Recently the bank advertised hers among the unclaimed accounts, as required by law. The orlf^inal $590 now amounts to nearly $1,000- Now It's Sanitation Commissioner Hand who Is protesting sale, of benefit tickets. AUeired to be held Oct. 11 by Joliit Council Drivers and Sweepers. Says it's phoney. Edward A. McSw<ieney, an adver tlsing man, being sued by his wlf Norah, for divorce on the grounds that he bigamously remarried. Mc Sweeney explained that when his wife disappeared and remained aw.iy, he misinterpreted the Enpch Arden law and thought that the passage oC time automatically made him a widower, go he married Agnes Morrison Rae, writer, of Greenwich Village. Back home again, Mrs. Mc Kweenoy is raking up the dirti re onllinfr In her piipers that Mc Sweeney also got in a jam with • Russian Countess, shortly after theh- marriage, which nearly caused Elizabeth Vaughn, actress, suing James V. Audltore, contractor, for 1260,000 for failure to marry her. They became engaged in Aprllr 1928, and about Christmas, 1929, . Audi- tore explained, there were dlfllcul- tles in the way of their union. Dif- flcultles were a wlfei and four chil- dren, so Miss Vaughn has retained Dudley Field Malone to do some- thing about it Paul Hanson suing JBIlly Gaxton- for $.3,000 damages to his map. As- serts that following a row- Gaxton handed' out real instead of stage slaps. ' Fire panic in the Tiffany theatre, Bronx, Thursday. (24) night, was checked by Charles Fink,manager, who made bis way to the stage and quieted the crowds which (ell Into orderly exit The fllih caught Are and the projectionist failed to drop the port, the flames and smoke, chiefly the latter, coming Into the auditorium^ Damage was conflned to thei projection room and the blaze was quickly extthgulsbed. Lora Ha.ys, In 'I Love an Ac- tress,' Is the daughter. of Arthur GarAeld Hays, prominent attorney. Her debut. Fake reporter got backstage at the .National last Wednesday night to interview: Sam Jafte and Sieg-. fried Ruman, ,who share a dressing room. While they . were ' on the stage he went through their street clothes. All he got was about 7Sc George Graham Rice suing to re- cover his .600,000-name 'sucker 'list' held as part of the court records of his trial. Up from Atlanta to ap- pear. , New York full of fake wine bricks, Violet Heming will succeed Lil- lian Foster in 'Divorce Me, Dear.' Virginia Joyce, of F. & M; "North East' Idea, was arrested Wednesday (23) charged with drunkenness. Police at Arat refused to believe her story that she had been drugged and assaulted,, but discovered that she had been the victim of a man she alleged to be Paul Walsh, brother of Adam Walsh, the Yale coach. She entered the car, thinking he was someone she knew. He. drove to a lonely spot, and when she resisted his attempts to attack her, she says he beat her up. . He then pretended to regret and gave her a drink to brace her up. Liquor, she says, was drugged. Left her on the road and she was taken Into tovirn by a passing motorist,' who turned her over' to the police. With her main story substantiated, she was turned loose with apologies. Later developments proved Walsh entirely out of the story. Another man was subsequently arrested and later discharged. Bohack, chain groceiry, voicing protest at habit of rum runners du plicatlng its trucks for camou- flage. John Wenger, scenic artist, mak. tng an exhibit of his water colors at Montross gallery. Edgar J. MacGregor is doctoring Ed Wynn's 'The JlAugh Parade* be- fore it comes into N. Y. Sammy Lee is on the dance numbers. Thomson Burtis, magazine writer and author, complains that he can not do creative work in Jail. Ho has been there for three months, on civil arrest on account .of the suit for, divorce brought by Frances Re gan Burtis, who worked .in the Dolly Kay club as a dancer before she married him. Plea was offered In an effort to get a reduction in alimony from $50 to $25 weekly. Judge'Just ^hook his head. Also refused to reduce the amount of bond required. Suit is based on a raid on Burtis' apartments in At lantic City where Mrs. Burtis found a bathing beauty. Mrs. Pat Campbell here to play In 'The Sex Fable.' Twelve gypsies, comprising Lac zl's orch., held for deportation at Ellis Island, released . on ' 46,000 bond to permit them to; niake concert tour. All kings aiid queens and princesses, according to their titles. Madge Bellamy, Bert Lytell, Catherine Dale Owen, Eugene O'Brien and Conway Tearle to be guests of the American Associa tlon for the Better Photoplays at the Aster, Oct 6. Idea of the as sedation Is to better photoplays by Judge Victor McLucos in . Su- perior Court, here, upheld Muni- cipal . Court's previous . ruling re- leasing Metro from' all obligations In bringing LeRoy Briean, sound engineer, to the coast under con- tract and later discharging him. Judge McLucas stated a contract based bn satisfaction of "Fancy or Taste' can be voided at the will of ah employer. Trial of Jocelyh Ljee on charges of disturbing the peace of Ivan St. Johns, .fllm writer, by'smashing 16 windows in'his home, was post- poned until Oct. 9 la,L.'.A, muni- cipal cburt A scenario writer nanied Fred Linden - is being sought by Holly- wood police; who want . to return the man's . pants.. They found him sleeping in a pew of a Hollywood church' biit he escaped after arrest, ledvlng his trousers. John Golden has sold the picture rights to 'After Tomorrow': to Fox. Told he had Inherited $60,000,. M. Hlldebrandt of Miami, who has been dancing 48 days in a. marathon at Atlantic City, kept right on dancing. Figures on adding flrst prize to the $50,000. . Heywbod Broun contemplates a new Intimate revue, 'Pie tn the Sky.' WIIL employ eight principals, a chorus of 12 and be non-coopera- tive. Two pianos instead of an prch. Just a Broun Idea. N. T. Censor board to hold ex amination for .projectionist and as slstant, Oct 24. Main Job pays $8,000 a yeair and the ass't., $2,400. Attendance at N. Y. Radio show. Just closed, was 252,573, bettering last year when 246,395 clicked tlie turnstiles. Business booked was claimed nearly a million above last season. Rudolph Ganz, formerly of St. Louis Symphony, will direct the Na- tional Little Symphony organization, sponsored by NBC. Band of 26 players will, open tour in Oct "Heaven Bound.' negro play pro duced In Chicago as 'Pearly Gates, win open in Phila tomorrow (29) at the Met opera house. Negro churches behind the production. Adele Astalre denies report she Is to wed Lord Cavendish. Knows him, likes him, but not Interested matri- monially.. Alex Carr to appear in West Side Court to answer a charge of secret Ihg replevined property. Bought a radio set from the Vim Co. about a year ago. Paid in part but qiilt with $88 stIU due. Radio people sought to replevin but unable to locate the set and Carr was of no assistance In their endeavors. He was summoned to appear Friday last, but failed to answer. Bernard Granville' complains to Equity that after Gregory RatofT hired him for the road show of 'Girl Crazy,' he was supplanted by Allan Kearns. Ratoft says Gran- ville was not familiar with the role. Mrs. Morris'.'Gest has presented Equity with a painting of her father. David Belasco, done by Haskell Coffin. Ralph G. Famum is prei>aring to enter an alienation suit against a well known producer. Also suing his wife, Maybelle Lorene Farnum, for a .divorce. His room at the St, Morltz.was broken into last Friday presumably In a: search for the es sentlal papers, but only some cloth Ing and Jewelry are inlselng. Bebe Spolan, now a tdxl dancer but formerly of burlesque. Is seek Ing a separation from her husband. Jack, on the grounds of fraud and desertion. Benny Moore buys the rights to 'The Sign of the Rose,' which George Beban used for many years. Originally a. poem. It was developed Into a sketch and later into a play and a picture. ilrs. Charlayne Courtland Gcllatly radio entertainer and former. ac tress, obtains court order requiring her husband John Gellatly, wealtiiy philanthropist, to pay her $800 rent bill. Gellatly offered as defense that he had married her about' n year ago and that she had deserted him shortly after the ceremony. He Is 7S- COAST Mrs. Audrey 'Fuller Price, dancer, had her marriage to Rex C. Price annulled In Los Angeles. She left her husband when, another wife started to hound him tor alimony. Rose Marie Redwing,'Indian Aim actress, lost her. suit against Charles Moncravie, Osage Indian, for $68,171 damages for injuries re- ceived in an automobile accident, Her husband, Robert Redwing, pro^ ducer, received a. $26,000 Judgment some time ago in connection with the'accident Glenda Fdrrell, legit' actress; or- dered in court to pay Dr. Florence Mount $17 for treatment of her son after ho attempted to smoke, his uncle's, pipe. Mrs. Jessie Barber, sister of Hoot Gribson, whb told police she hud' been kidnapped from downtown L. A. and held prisoner for three days, last week disclaimed the story and said she had gone to the beach with isome friends, and had so much beer she forgot tor go'home. ' Guy R. Coburn, agent, arrested In Hollywood on. an assault and but- tery charge sworn out by his wife. Myrtle, who alleges he struck her. Agent said the trouble occurred, when Mrs. Coburn came to hie ottice for her separate maintenance money, $25 per week. And 'raised a scene.' Coburn was released with- out ball. Roscoe "Fatty' Arbuckle 'was ar- rested in Hollwood in company with Eugene Allen, writer, and two wom- en' as they emerged from the Em- bassy Roof. . Su.bjected to a so- briety test which, they pasesd, Ar- buckle -then insisted that the ar- resting officer take the same test He did and - passed. Arbuckle. was booked on a charge of breaking 'the evidence' on the street and Allen was booked for resisting an officer. They were relea.sed on $100 bail. Women were not held. Mrs. Leonard Cooper granted offi- cial custody and guardianship of her son, Jackie Cooper, child actor, and allowed $1,600 monthly from, his Metro' salary for maintenance. Mrs. Cooper testified that she had npt heard from the boy's father since they were divorced in 1928. Peggy Prior von Eltz, Aim actress,' last week lost the cusjtody of her two children, admitting several weeks ago that she 'hod an affair' with Joseph Moncure March, writer. Actress and her former husband, Theodore von Eltz, also In pictures, have been battling over the children for months. Court awarded them to neither, but ordered that they be sent to school. Mrs. Nina Lawler, pictures, Aled .suit for divorce from Harry D. Law- ler. alleging that he cursed, abused and beat her. She exhibited a black eye. Florcnz Zlegfcid, in Hollywood With his family, \ last week stated that the' present slump Iri legit pro- ductions 'Is due not aio much to the' depression as to the fact that the public Is getting choosey about Its entertainment' Then he went hgme to bed. Mildred Rogers, film extra, Issued a complaint against Lawson SclVobn over, golf caddy, charging, he at lacked her Sept. 19, At that time she had him arrested on a .battery charge. Schoonover, stIU In the L. A jail, denies all charges, Jake Fond, merchant, lost a court tangle last week when L. A. courts awarded Rose Jbyce, dancer,. $2,000 for Jirulses and cuts assertedly •re- ceived by her from a beating ad- ministered by Pond. Doris Roscher, actress - known as Doris Stone, was awarded a'divorce from Charles'; Roscher, cameraman last week In L; A. when she testi- fied that he treated her as a mental Inferior. ' Del Andrews, Aim director,' last week was exonerated on charges of failure to provide for his slx-ycar- old feon. In custqdy of his former . -1 Joe Doke, studio employee,. lost week was divorced in Los Angeles by Pearl Doke on a^ charge of ex- treme .cruelty, Pathe, RKO, and E. B. Derr and Andrew: j. Culp, studio oinclajs were made defendants In a $6,000 suit flled In L. A. lost 'week i)y. thQ Macauley Co., publishers, over as- serted sale of the. novel, 'Women Like Men,' by Georgette Carheal un< der the name of Allen Leiglu ' Plaintiff asserts that in July, 1930, the defendants agreed to buy the screen rights to the novel, but ^lnc»': have refused to make payments. Hoot Gibson 1^ being sued for $80,- 307 damages by Mrs.: Mary Hobbis^ who cliarged she was severely In- . Jiired when the car In which site was riding collided with the actor's last August in Hollywood.. Rex £.ease was Injured hear New- hall. Gal., last ;week wlien the horse he was. riding threw him.. Twisted his pelvis and wrenched his leg. muscles. He was on location. ~ Pinched in a raid on an alleged indecent, show, three girl dancers pleaded not guilty, to vag charges ' 'at a hearing last week and were released on ball of $250 each'pend-' ing. Jury trial Oct. 22. Checkroom attendant and the planldt, both women, were released on $26 ball, with trial on the same date. Two women in the. audience will appear for trial, 'While two more pleaded guilty and paid $26 fines. Some 28 men pleaded not guilty and. put up $25. baU. each, pending trial, while 41 others entered guilty pleas and were sentenced to pay $1'0 fines or spend two days In Jail. One Filipino was icllled and an« other shot in the leg last Week when a car containing four ttiora Filipinos sped by the doorway of a L. A. Main street dancehall, shoot- Ing as they fled,. Killing came as the climax to a feud between several Filipinos over a white taxi dancer employed In the dancehall, open to Filipinos only. . Condition of Jack Pickford is re* ported serious. He is attended br .his wife, Mary Mulhern, in Holly* wood. He. has been ill for the past Ave weeks. Lloyd Hamilton was seriously in« jured Sunday night in HolUywood- when struck by an auto. Don M. Compton, vice-president and general manager of the Grigs- by-Gronow radio company, said lost week that his organization would press its $30,000,000 suit against RCA. George Wattles suing. his wlfe^ Tyrti, a former show girl, for di- vorce, last week secured a slash In alimony from $40 to $30. Mrs. Wat< ties has a cross-bill pendlng.ln Chi- cago charging cruelty and asking separate maintenance. Sue Carol and Nick Stuart arrived in Chicago last w6ek, angling for a radio account. Ravinia Opera in Chicago this summer cost Its guarantors $279,-. 829. Red; is for the reguliir ip« week season and represents an 18?& cut in receipts. Louis Eckstein, guiding hand, takes care of $187,884. of the deficit Lamar, Essaness thentre in Oak Park, III., opened last SCinday against the municipal law In order to establish a test case. Matter will be taken to the. State Supreme Court,-lt necessary. Foreclosure proceedings against the St Glair hotel, Chicago, were. Instituted last week. Bill charges hotel company became Indebted $1,575,000 on June 15, 1927, and also dcrnulled on $48,274.50 In interest due on bonds Iiist Jul.v. Foreclosure proceedings against the Ascher Brothers Theatre Corp.,, In Chicago, were started last week with the filing of a petition for a receiver by the Chicago Title and Trust Company, acting as irusloes. Petition states the company haa failed to retire $107,000 In bonds and Is behind $33,075 In^ Interest payinents. Mrs Isabel Dreyfuss, formerly , Isabel Randall, show girl, last weeK reported to Chicago police the io»» of $a!5.000 wortli of jew<'lr,v. saiu to have been left In a wJ