Variety (Nov 1931)

42 VARJETY TIMES SOUARE—SPORTS Tuesday, Novtember 10, 1931 HOLL YWOOD SH ORTS :By Claude Bmyoii~ Hollywood, Aug, 7. Dear Ma: Ma, sometimes I think I can't stand It no lonser. Poor Ot la In Jallt Such a sweet boy, but always fighting for me when, there's no rea* son why he should fight.. I went down to the jail to see him and he "was shoved into a big I>en with a lot of people all dlfferr ent color^; It was awfuK There were Negroes, Filipino's, white people and some picture people . who , was pinched In a raid on a stag party, A stag piarty, ma. Is where there's onIy_ men, only there's ladles, too, and'that's what makes' It a stag party, I finely got to talk to him and, guess what, poor boy, he was search- Ing the studios for me. after I run away from him oh Hollywood boulevard and he- run Into Henry Henry^ X don't know,how he hap- pened to get In touch with that big Blob, but he did. "When Ot asked where he could find me Henry Henry made some awfiil remark. I can't Imagine what ma, and Ot Just doubled up his fist and let go. Henry Henry didn't go down, so Ot did It twlcet more and then Henry Henry went down. Everybody come run- ning and a policeman pinched Ot and Henry Hcni^r got free.' Just to show how terrible he Is, the first thing he' did was call me up and tell me my boy friend was in Jail, lia, ha. Oh, ma,. Ot knocked his knuckles In again like he did the last time, but he's so sweet he Just smiled at me and said, 'That's all right, no- body's going to say things like tliat about Elsie,' i can't stand it, ma. I got your letter and quit both- '«;;lng me with silly questions about titr. Bowsteln. Can!t you see I have enough troubel. I/>ve, EUie. Bowsteini the Bailer ' Hollywood, Aug. 8. Dear Ma: Just a little note to let you know Ot is out of jedL I wrote you all about it day before yesterday and you ought to of got It on Chicago's d^y before yesterday. ' Mr. Bowsteln bailed Ot out and went and talked to Henry Henry, and If Henry Henry tries to get - fresh and persecute 6t Mr. Bow flteln Is going to ina!ce him plenty of trouble. Mr. Bowsteln was drunk when he did it, ma. I told him Ot used to be my boy friend before I met him and wants to marry me, but don't mean no harm, and Mr. Bowsteln said a guy like Ot is nice and handy to have around. I don't understand what he means, but I think he's go- ing to give Ot a'job, so the poor boy won't be heartbroke when I marry Mr. Bowsteln. I think I'm going to marry Mr, Bowsteln, ma. I haven't seen Ot since he got. out yesterday, but he don't know where I am, I guess. Irf>ve to you and the old boy. Love, Elsie. pretty soon he was blubbering. Mr. Bowsteln grabbed a hold of his coat collar and started, to shove Ot out the door saying, Whata the matter with you you little Idiot? I couldnt stand It ma and I grabbed a book and: threw It at Mr. Bowsteln. but It hit Ot in the head: Poor Ot Then Mr. Bowsteln quick whirled around and called me a ria.me. ^hen he did that Ot busted loose and socked Ifr. Bowsteln right on the side of the Jaw. Then Mr. Bowsteln socked Ot arid made his nose all smeary. Then Ot socked Mr. Bowsteln and Mr. Bowsteln socked Ot again and knocked him flat. H» plcked Ot up and dragged him on the porch and then he grabbed me and pushed me out too and told me to. stay out Its terrible ma. The reason he coud do that Is he had fooled me and rented the bouse that very day, so he had a right to throw me oiit Its a law In California ma, and you cant break it I called Mr. Bowsteln a Iota of namies and,people come running out from other houses. Ot wus coming to so I dragged hlm.Alon'Gr the elder walk, with me. We took a. buss to HoUyTirood, poor Ot covering up his face with a hankerchief and peo- ple looking at him but' he dldnt say nothing. Then he took me to hla rooming house and let me In his room and islammed the door and run away. I coud hear him prying when he ruii down the steps.' Here It Is tomorrow afternoon and he hasnt come back. • . . Thats why you got to send me buss fare ma. ToU got to. Talk to' pa and make him understand Im coming home . and never going to Hollywo<^d again. Tou got to mother dear. Pleswe before X die, I feel so terrible. Tour faithful loving daughter, EUle. Surrounded by Fighters Hollywood, Aug. 16. Dear Ma: 0 mother dear, please send me buss fare home. . I promise 111 use It this time. Why do you turn down those collect teleeri^ms, they cost me money and I havent any. 1 couldnt explain nothing In the telegram on account of I was wor- rying about how much It woud cost you, that shows how much faith had In you mother dear. Ill die It t dont get out ot here. Ot is mad at me again and Mr, Bowsteln Is mad at me and poor Ots face Is cut up worst than ever. Why do men have to. fight all the time, especlaly men like Ot? Such a sweet boy but such a fighter, and now hes mad again. * ""There wasnt really nothing, was tfut at my place in Beverly Hills last night just like I have right to be, and Mr. Bowstefn hap ^ pend to be calling on me for the evening. Nothing 'wrong in that ma. . But Ot had found out where live and he come around and all at once when Mr. Bowsteln and I were Bitting In' the living room talking, Just sitting, Ot bust a window and tried to crawl In from the porch and fell on the floor. If he was a drunkard Id know he was druiik. Since hea . met me, ma, hes changed so much I cant understand It Ot started to yell at'Mr. Bowsteln and tben he said something to me and CorneD's 10 Football Captam Shot ffimself, But Won't Ten Motive ELECTRA BECKONS TRADE Quild Theatri Re^M Revive* Trade in Near By Spots Thomas Xee Miller, football cap- tain of Cornell, 1910, stopping at the Ootham ;Aotel, Is still alive despite he fired a shot from a pistol Into his breast that plowed through his body. Miller, unmarried, 43, sought to end his life In his apartment at the Qotham. Miller has stopped at the Gotham for years.' He was a renowned cap- tain ot Cornell's fooCbalf squad and is now a mechanical engineer. Miller declined to tell detectives Meehan and Farley' his motive for wanting to destroy himself. Following the shooting. Miller phoned his nurse to come to the hotel Immediately. He announced over the phone his Intentions. Miss Murray, the nurse raced to the hotel. She was greeted by the for- mer football star.. He was bleeding from his wound. Miss Murray fled for help. Dr. E. K.. Elaston ordered Miller to Bellevue. He Is a; prisoner charged with possessing a gun and having no permit. The pistol was one used by Miller during the World War. $68333 DAMAGE FOR MRS. W. W. WARNER Galveston, Nov. 9; Mrs. Sylvia Shear Warner, of New York, widow of W. W. Warner, ad^ vahce agent for Rozy and his Gang on their tour last season, has been awarded a verdict of $68,333 against the KerrvlUe, Tex., Bus Co. ' Warner was Killed In a bus and truck collision near Brenham, Tex Feb, .23, while a passenger in one of the company's busses. His mother was also awarded $7,833 damages. It was in a speakeasy near the Guild Theatre, where 'Mourning Becomes Electra' Is doing Its hot trade. Thei speaks and restaurants around the Guild which were, starv- ing are crowded now with the au- die'nce but for Its dinner'hour each night Into one of: tliem walked one of the Guild's offlclals, trying to get fed himselt He had his chow and was pre- paring to leave. The proprietor jisk- ed him If he. weren't from the Guild. The man'said he was: 'Vou shall have brandy, sir... Tou shall have brandy ?vorjr time you come in.' Thorpe Content In Job m L A. Sport Emporium . Hollywood, Nov. 9, Chuck Riesner, the Metro director, has opened a sporting goods shop on Wllshlre boulevard In Hollywood, One.of bis employees Is Jim Thorpe, the Carlisle Indian athletic star, who was recently discovered digging ditches at $4 per diem. Jim Thorpe Is glad to be back amid the atmosphere which had shed so much athletlc.glory on him in the past So glad was he that Chuck Riesner had difficulty mak- ing Jim Thorpe accept a decent wage, He is payrolled at $60 weekly. Thorpe and Olymplada Thorpe's main ambition today Is to see the Xmas Olymplade In 1932, held here In Xjos Angelea, and to have the honor and privilege of presenting the prizes.in the pentathlon and de- cathlon ge^mes. For Thorpe had won these for the United States In Stock- holm almost two decades ago, only to be deprived of lasting world-wide glory on. the findings he had ac- cepted board and lodging during the summer, or some such thing in ex- change for playing on a, summer resort's baseball teain. This techi- cally disqualified him from amateur athletics. But they couldn't take away the fact that, even it unofficially, he set an all-time record by scoring over 8,000 out . of 10,000 points . In the Olympiad. Today Thorpe, In the course of his duties with Chuck Rlesner's store, while selling equipment to the Hollywood high school and to the sundry prep schools and lesser col- leges,'sees in actuality or knows by expert knowledge, how college ath- letics'are i>erched on the same thin ice In accommodating worthy grid- iron or baseball material. Riesner Reticent Riesner Isn't exploiting Thorpe. This Info' came from a source for- elgn to the director. All Riesner wdnts to talk about are two things: His son, Dinky Dean (who appeared with Chaplin'and Jackie Coogan in an early picture) and his Btore as a thing to keep his brother and his brother-in-law occupied. Thorpe acts ajs a contact for the sporting goods shop with the varl ous schools. His modus operandi Is as natural as it's effective. He'll chat to the coaches, many' of whom he probably, tutored in the past and klddlngly ahpw them how to punt or ' pass or execute plays. ' The young pigskin aspirants, so that Thorpe is more of a'legend than a memory, drink it all in, as the 46 year-old athlete (although like all Indians, his age is deceiving) does his stufl!. From • then on Chuck Rlesner's store is on the map. Rodolph Nenman on Trial Rudolph Neuman, former attor- ney, went on trial yesterday . (9) In the Cptjrt .of General Sessions, New Tork, on ah indictment charging grand larceny. Neuman Is alleged to have swln died Arthur M, Grace, reth-ed mer- chant, of Forest Hills, Ik'I., out of $5,000. The transaction is alleged to have taken place In July, 1927. Neuman has been at large under ball ot $2,600. Amateur'S BaBet Real Cleveland, Nov. 9., An amateur performance staged a thrill that wasn't in the script or scheduled when ThoAias liee, of the Merry-Go-Round Players, pulled trigger of a gun that accidentally had a bullet In it and shot Samuel James below left shoulder. liee In r^ of policeman was sup- posed to Wioot blanks at James, clowning as a tramp In a black- out James collapsed In wings, but wound not serious. Probable Football Winners and Proper Odds By Sid Silvennan November 14 GAMES Columbia-Brown .......... N. Y. U..>For<lham Syraeusa-Cofaate. .... • . Cornell-Dartmouth ..".'.,.,.. HarVard-Holy Cross Pennsylvania-Qeorgia Tech Illinois-Chieago Miehioan-Miehigan State < Northwestern-.Indiana .... Army-Pittsburgh ........... Purdue-Iowa ........'..«_•.,. Notre bame-Navy Ohio State-Wiseoristn ..... WINNERS • ••••• ...Columbia ..... .. ..N. Y. U. .«•»*. ...SyraeuM ...Cornell ....... ...Harvard ......' ... Pennsylvania . .Illinois . Michigan . Northwestern ....... . Army .Purdue .Notre Dame .Ohio State .......... QDDS .. 6/4 ■ •Even .. 6/4 .. 10/7 6/3 7/6 7/6 6/3 0/6 Even' 9/5 9/5 6/3 (Predictions based on fair weather) , Hotel* ahd Reeeivers ;. Hotels around the mId-tOwn section appear to find repose so rapidly after opening In the hands' of receivers that coluaes are being rumored.' . One. story Is that a 6th avenue'hotel owed for 30,000 eggs. Another version Is that Itcwed $30,000 for eggs. One hotel is reported keeping Itself , out of court proceedings by send* Ing bellhops witit foaming pitchers ot beer to various rooms. The bell* hop says, after knocking at the door: 'Tou ordered this beer?' , , Without about one in every three,, after getting a fiash, saying: 'No, I didn't bat leave It here and get 'whoever did order It.anothee pitcher.' ' . In One ot the receivership-hotels a guest comiplained the rates w^re not high enough. 'Tou mean the. ceilings, not-the rates,*. answered the clerk.' - 'Tpii heard me. I said rates,* retot-ted the guest whereupon the clerk sent out for a cop, believing the guest had gone wild.. Mrs. Guest saved her husband by okaying his. statement and men* tlonlng they were going to move to a hotel 'where the prices made a better front Buck Smith Years Ago F. Berkeley Smith, 'who recently died In Paris, was a familiar figure on Broadway years ago. He had a tiny studio in the Metropolitan Life building 'Where he used to design book covers. He probably would have gone show business but for his father, F. Hopklneon Smith. It was the latter who persuaded his son to go to Paris and write, feeling that It was the safest place for him. Buck Smith, as he was known, had a particular liking for the buriesque shows at the old Xjondon theatre , on the Bpweiy. . He was a weekly patron throughout the season, sitting In one corner ot the lower box,, which was well behind the tootllght line. Oine night he ran into a° theatrical friend 'who Introduced him to James H. Curtln, then man- aging the house. Curtln gave hiin a pass to go back stage. Buck, turned up after, the show with the report that he had had a. glorloni time. They had let him help clear the stage after Sparrow, the cloim. Juggler, who always left the stage a terrible mess. Buck had cleaned up nearly a barrel ot vegetables, etc, and was glowingly happy. He knew all the show parlance and it was hla delight to engage In con- versation with .» friend on trolley cars and similar places talking loudly about the Imaginary trapeze act he and.'the oilier man were supposed to work In. It Buck fooled the crowd, and generally he did, his cup of happiness overflowed. Bill Taylor Loved the Tenderloin Bill Taylor, 60, for over 20 years attached to the West 47th street police station, was burled from his home, 867 8th avenue. Taylor 'was founder ot the Police Band. He'played the tuba. Taylor started in the job 30 years ago. He was liked by former Police Commissioner Arthur Woods who wanted to give Bill a detail, Taylor loved the new Tenderloin. He declined Commissioner Woods' offer. Bill was on his way to play at the I/evel Club (Police Dept) service when he collapsed In a subway train aiid died shortly after on the L R. T. platform at Columbus Circle; Taylor was given ah inspector's funeral. The police commissioner and other high ranking officers attended. Taylor leaves a widow, a married daughter and two sons. ', Not Much Wish Left In the mob of colored people which dally surround the celebrated wishing tree In front of the Lafayette theatre In Harlem there are many professionals who l^ave laid off so long that they havie barely striength to make another wlah. The tree has gained so much popularity through its special writeups Negroes come from a long distance in the hope that they will get ». prosperity 1>reak through the placing of a hand on the tree and making a wish. Iron Sign Falls Workmen started clearing away the Mulligan's kitchen slfen which hung above the West 46th street sidewalk at the Mills building foUow- Ing the raid there by federal agents. i No danger sign was posted oh the walk. One-halt ot the metal awn- ing crashed and caught Milton Levin, a 'Variety' office boy, passing beneath. Levlh was removed in an ambulance to the hospital and a day later was permitted to go to his home. Apple Promotion Apple season was officially opened with the distribution of one thou- sand boxes of apples in Times Square by Eddie Cantor, George Jessel and others from the current bill at the Palace, The real business of apple promotion was opened the following morning from a depot »t Hudson and Desbrossea street by the distribution of an additional 6,000 boxes to those holding tickets from the Salvation Army, Volunteers ot America, Knights ot Columbus and slpnllar organizations. This stake the men to their stocl? in trade and they will renew from- the proceeds of their first sale. Mayor Walker has given orders that appW sellers are not to be molested and that they are not to be subject to the usual vendor's license.