Variety (Nov 1931)

Tuesday, November 10, 1931 TIMES SHWARE VARIETY 45 Broadway George Akerspn'B amlabUlty. J, J. Murdock left Thursday (4) for the coa«t. , Mrs. Phil Bloom Is recovertn;; from ptom^ilne. Jack Partington broiught back a heavy tan from the Coast. . lira. Wa <Arthur) Prince and daughter are In I^ew York. Boris Morrofl, Par stage director,, palnfuUy Injured In a taxi crash. Those eappy plctureis of Ruth Gordon in 'Church Mouse' chartic- Dave LUstlg is thinking of wrlt- jiig a book on^exhlbs some of these days. . ' ! i \- William F. Canavan (I.A.) re turns from the west cciast this Solly Shaw is in the market for a New. E^ng1and house, for musical fltock* Somebody noted a police escort U a big speakeasy opening re "^Moe Slivers,- Just east . from the' Coast, spent the week-end in New England. George'Scbaetter and Charlie Mc- Carthy, of Par, trying out'Chllds' for a.change.' Anne French Is convalescing^ 'following ' an operation a]t'. the French hospital, (Miss) Syd Hayes is - handling 'The ' Challengers,' : forlmer Carroll act of 12 people. ■'Bi 'Wynn's mother visiting from Atlantic City 'attending every per fomlance .of his show. .Jack Levin telling about the rural eibib who thought bicycling was a. ^y of shipping prints. The next regular meeting of Jew- ish Theatrical Guild In the Bijou theatre, 2:80 p.m., Nov. 29. Times Square buses now offer a round, trip over the new George. .Washington bridge for 50c. Jay Thorpe has.opened a theatri- cal department for dressing dramatic ' showa Blanca Strook is in charge; Hazel Halrston resigned from NBC's publicity department last .week to assist George Lottman, p. a Helen Cobiim, legit, was oper- atied for appendicitis at Polyclinic hospital.' She' Is reported improv tag. 'Vaude -was dropped out of the Central }>urlesque shows this week. ' There werd plenty , who never knew It was there. . Loew's lias set midnight of Nov. 26, when all its greater New Tork theatres will give the huge unem- ployed benefit. ' Tesd Michaels wonders about, that five-pound box of candy without the donor's name coming Just as she was eniecting a ring. ; ...•Variety* Item saying Budd Gray loB^ two p.a. posts inside of eight weeks Is -wrong. Gray says It was I Within two weeks. ! ' Invitations to an actor's coming I out party read, 'Come and see me I thrown out of the Park Central on : 'Wednesday at four.' \ RKO is said to hold a blanket ac- •Ident insurance of $20,000 each for \ any employe in an airplane accident I on regulation transportation lliie. E New stuff? Opening night of 'Here Comes the Bride' had laugh Parade' and 'Cat atad Fiddle' exiting at same time. Jam of cars and people on 46th street terrific. Eleanor Boardman, film actress, ^ is said to have rehearsed the femme ■^d part in 'Liouder Please.' Jane Bnchanan now has It, follcwing Louise Brook's, Charlie Freeman had a birthday •ffair at his- Freeport, Jm X, home. His bhthday;. Only the bunch from the RKO booking offices Invited. A few local ringers. After a patron asked Gertrude Sellg (WB) to explain plots of their current plcturesi- they knocked her over by asking what an opposition talker waa all about. Mrs. Eddie Foy, widow of the comedian, who has been running .a restaurant on Boston post road, near New Rochellei, N. T., is trying to obtain bookings In vaude with a new turn. Mrs. Foy was forced .w abandon her restaurant. Bad. biz. Since the Lyric went ■vaude that Jouse and the next door Republic, Jith burlesque, have been having * .^wker flght Lyric has femme sniiis, with the gals trying to out^ nouer the men a few feet away, jamme criers also at the Central, burlesque. Mrs Lea (Buddy) "Wlnik has had jtradlQ audition at WHN: The air f« IS the daughter of Sam Koenlg. wi-? Toplltzky is in New York, f,";?' call for. a long while for the rAi. East on some Shubert •t? "^"^"era he and the receiver '"Jeyeeted in. , reported trying to diplb- Jf^Jcally sell Seth Parker to Henry f",™. w the lattor's proposed au- tomobile advertising broadcasts. »fht ".«*work is said to have the »hf ."•evlvallst chiefly In mind to Ford *° submitting talent -tn^Jj^'""? PettlJohn, Jr., up In his iihA«. ' "'"zed his way to the trap- rn7i». "^^ medal of the 'We.stchc.ster eMi^""^ Club. The son of Hays' gen- wSi f°""sel stood up with old as "^ii OS yourg. -With a double-bilr- oivlh ^"o'eun that performed only 2£ ir, s'artoard side he nailed 22 of *• eiay pigeons tossed in the am. By Lea Rees Want ads offer 10 husky men Jobs to box Jack Dempsey.here. . New Owen MCQlveney sketch noisiest act ever RKO Orpheum, Esther Benz,. secretary to Itlartln Kelly, Publix advertising- manager. Hi. : H. Xi. Khappep, Cleveland new ERPI sales. manager, succeeding £. C. Leeves. Any policeman found drunk off duty: as well, as- on will get sack, mayor-says. Arnold Saxe of erstwhile Saxe Amusement Co., Milwaukee, in town for gridiron clash. Minneapolis'to have first six-day bike race next week to'raise funds for winter sports' week. . RKO Orpheum radio fan mall boosted f>om 74 letters first week to 1,660 letter fourth week. Community fund drive to raise $2,600,000 for relief purposes going, over -with a bang despite depression. Marie Wlttrock of Fanchon & Marco's 'Gay Vlehnia,' at Minnesotsi, dislocated arm in. fall while danc- ing. More than 5,000 Mlnneapolitans took -week end trip to Chlca:go to witness Minnesota. - Northwestern . football game. Local film exchange salesman or gahlzlng territory for unemploy ment benefits. One hundred of 'em lining up theatres. . Local musicians' uiilon protesting against park board plan to elimin- ate band music, in parks next sum- mer as economy measure. Stanley Malotte, featured Minne- sota organist for more than a year, going to Paramount, Toledo. Jack Malerick, localite, succeeds. Newsreel pictures of Chicago football game rushed to Milwaukee by airplane and on screen at Wis- consin theatres there at 10'p.'m. Saturday. - Alice White liked town so wiell she remained here for week after Minnesota theatre engagement, as guest of Capt. and Mrs. Roscoe Fawcett. Eddie Ruben, Publix division manager and former U. of Minne- sota fullback, in Chicago. Saturday for' Minnesota-Northwestern foot- ball gome, Paul Lamay, assistant conductor, appearing for Henri Verbugghen Minneapolis Symphony conductor.. Latter's health so poor that he may never direct again. Edmund A. Stein, new Metropoli- tan manager, says all attractions, except big musical shows, be limited to three days, instead of customary week. Policy a success to date. Eddie Ruben, Publix division manager here and Minnesota alum- nus, credited for continuity, of 'Movie Memories' film, depicting memorablie Minnesota athletic and campus events. All Minneapolis and St.Paul RKO Orpheum ushers and cashiers last week wore U. of Minn, homecoming emblems, bought from student com- mittee In charge of celebration. Dick CMlbert's idea. C H ATT E has become an art again around here. They've evien got Leo Spltal- ny. doing it. " Smoke from a transformer on the State-Lake marquee brought out four squads of flre engines and nothing happened. Dnhth By James WatU ' Ice-skating season opens' at the Amphitheatre. ■ 'Bill' O'Hare, Lyceum : manager, in hospital with sinus trouble. Homegrown strawberries are a delicacy available at local markets. Amateur nights at Lyric not much of a draw. Trained' bear added. Merchants throughout city are organizing for pre'Chrlstmas store windo-w display. Balmy weather ruined duck hunt- ing season ending Oct. 81. No deer or moose season this year. .: Seth Parker and His Jonesport Neighbors lifted a $1,400 mortgage on the Endion Methodist church at two performances. Frank Malnella and his broad- casting orchestra reorganized with Gustav. Jackson, directing. Opened the new season at the. Amphithea- tre Gardens. - Leading restauranteur advertises beefsteak feeds at 19 cents. Others at 15, 17 and 26 top. Women ex- pecting . babies, are told the foods they must eat. Infantile paralysis epidemic, wide- spread late in August, and which almost wrecked dancing studio pa-, tronage, is over. Final case dis- missed by city health dept Ev. Seibel, Publix p; a., and Pros- per Schwle, Garrick manager, spent four hours and a halt shooting'at a duck. flight and brought down two birds,' One wafl stolen by a mink. Pictures will be introduced as weekly entertainment at' schtfol auditorium at Bamum, Hinn., Fri day and Saturday. Community en-, terprlse. Paraniount-PubUx book- Loop Myrtle Gordon In from the Coast. Frank Delmaine now a 33rd de- greer. Sam Roberts and Maurice Green- wald N. Y. bound. •Leo Terry now pumping the or- gan at White City. Balaban family staged a reunion during A. J.'s vlislt. Max Turner'Is only worrying half as much these days. Mugg claiming to be Sir Jos, Gins- berg's brother around. .Genei Norton, the kid warbler, looks set over WBBM. Charlie Hogan motoring to New York In the nevir Bulck. Moxle Rosenbloom here for the Battallno-Masgfro scrap. Joe Abramson doing a work-out up In the B. Sc. K. press office as prepai-ation for his flight into thea- tre operation. Benny Rubin got a kid football team named after him. He financed the sweaters. With J". L- & S. returned to activ- ity, Cyril Samuels Is bustling as chief receptionist. Jim Luntzel wondering what he's going to do with those cases and cases of chewing giim. Jack Horwlts, Dorothy GuUman •nnd Phil Levant broke .in the 'Times' que.stlon column.. Walter O'Kccfe told Phil Baker .something at Ihe College Inn. Baker Is 'Still thlnlilng.- It over. Sani Roberts was framed at a spa- ghetti b.inquct when ho found him- self cliewing a wad of string. Jack Horwit.s claims the success ot 'Jlmmio Durante's .schnozz has set back plastic surgery at least 10 years. Ted Hcaly Is being rci-iuested to cut the percentage clause out of his contract when 'Crazy QulIt' goes on the road. * With Bill Hollander l)acK, ribbing Cleveland By Glenn C. Pullen By Rudy Do'nat Ropes in use again. Ray Beall scarce as ever. Bess Falrtrace taking to golf. MarJorle Bebe^ pictures, sighteee- ihg. Hal Ramsay settling to married life. • Sam Hefley taking back Parkway, natie. Ritz, ace do-wntown grind, cutting scale. Bill Wolfson a«z he'll get married Jan. 32. Another native In plots, Bob Spencer. Frank Stars and Jim Cherry ohow together. City cops rating radios for the patrol hacks. Gene - Finley around P-P head- quarters again. Dell Burnley can talk through two phones at one time. I^n Smith and M. Harding han- dling Blizzard sales. Joe Bell, warbling usher, with Larry Rich unit* (RKO). Jim - Hayden cutting comers with native talent for his stock. D. Bernbaum's daughter, Gladys, and Irving Lambert married. Weather ideal—no cooling or heat- ing. Break for the headaches. Curt Beck insists It cost 25 G's to piit vaude into RKO Majestic. Jeff Holcomb has a symphony. Di- rected Majestio pit for 11 years. Most of the gang back to. tuxes; i. e., ^vhere the moth balls held out. Edward Eschmann new sales chief for DeForest branch. Formerly with F-N. ■ . With vaude back. Majestic moved top to 60 cents, highest scale for the stem. 'News' pushing its dramatic per- sonnel. Columnists rate plots on Sunday.' Papps bragging about town rating ace In NBC's appreciation (music) requests. . Lcn Brown and RKO (southern) reps In their quarterly get-together last week. Merchants think they need, an- other S.inta ClaUs parade. This time nround Nov. 27. \ Johnnie StaiiflU, Melba p. ai., sport- ing coupla assistants, Virgil Gay- wood uiid Fred McFaddeh. '.Showliouae (legit) and Melba fplcts) played 'Five Star Pinal' con- currently. Plct got the edge. -. '.Susan Lenox' went Into Old Mill from Jlolba for a holdover. An4 a lioldovo:- is news in this burg. Texas', suburban, had a contest. Pi-lze for the most henpepked hubby: Trick wn.s finding tlie contestants. . Nabos going In for the amateur vaude gag seriously. Usually bno night ptr week. One tried, how .rest of 'cm. Bagdad, last of the night Joints, rGO)>oned by college students. Cou-. vert $1.50, and Ruth Laird handling floor show. ' Oriental, grinder, to be made into store. . ' Freddie Hronek, Keith drummer, is how a papa. Illness of Evangeline Adams post- poned date here. . Howard Cull, local mugger. Joins vaude act in . Chi. . Charles Seaman made chief an- nouncer at WJAY. Frank Monaco moves Into Kline's to get theatre trade. Bill Gr'ey, with leg ailment cured, back at Ohio again. Virginia George at Hanna heaves lemons if called 'Babe.* . Marie. Diehl's troupe out .of Pic- cadilly to'go a-touring. . Bernard Mallin, Pat Harrington's pianist, scribbling chunes. Rocky Austin, radio sihger, -with (irlff Morris in dance halls. Where's Harold Von El, who planned to go globe-trotting? - Ohio (legit) dark; rival Hanna also takes a rest next week. ' Loud spe'aker on Cameo's . mar- quise turned off bv the lia.w. Frances Hart, here to see her 'Hide in Dark' play premiered. - Morris Gest dickering with Pub- lic Hall for 'The Miracle' date. Frieda Caplane, Keith's stenog, sealed to Hy Laskin, local Insurer. Hilda Kay at Ohio won't leave town^ven to wed a Detroit man. Bill Haines burnt up here over unauthorized cig ad using his name. . Rainbow Room booking in floor show to. give ailing biz shot in arm. . William Haines topped Stalte's attendance record, held by Helen Kane, Tom Manning and 'Pie Plant Pete' team for vaude date at Lo rain. Art Catlln at Stiilman, a polo flend, organizing ' musikers Into team, Vonciell Elliott of WGAR has scrammed for stock Job at Youngs- .town. A Joe Collitch boy at Fenway Jade. Room is town's only dance decoy. Ollie Alger, Maude Adams' man- ager, was formerly manager of Ohio h%re. Mar Jun and Bill King, ex-cafe managers, now waiter t at Golden Pheasant. - ' Harry Goldstein, State drummer, sez he's engaged to Sylvia Nelson of thci legit. James Church, WTAM production manager, used to manage Otis Skin-, net's shows. Loew's .going in for midnight pre- views, making critics and managers hollow-eyed. ■. Yellow Peril Joints hit by slump here too so bad that one hasn't paid rent for six months. Wally. Ford writes back to wife here that Hollywood Joint has named a salad for him. What Critic on a pight raig |ias. the bad habit of shltchlng Items from rival oh an ayem paper? Robert McLaughlin and Sam Manheim, local producers, opening stocks in Pittsburgh ttnd Detroit. . Paul Pirrone, protege of (3ene, and Glenn, made local history by kayoing George Dillon with first punch \t seconds after first bell. Bill McDermott, 'Plain Dealer' crick,' made prohibition speech at City Club but took gang of friends to protect him. Drama rappers were nice but firm in telling Maude Adams she looked too old for Portia In 'Mer- chant of Venice.' Hollywood Frank Condon back after several weeks in the east. Adolphe Menjou eiast the end of the month for vacash. Ninetta Eugenia Sunderland, legit, engaged.to Walter Huston. One Eye Connolly in . the front row at the Majestic for opening of 'Nine O'clock Revue.' Sigh in a prominent boulevard men's shop: 'Come back^ prosperity. Please! All is forgiven.* Chlqulta, Spanish singer, will pick up the Fanchon & Marco 'La Plaza' Idea- in Denver. Opens No. 12. MarJorle De Haven, legit, en- gaged to Paul liockwood, non-pro. She's the daughter of Carter De Haven. Among his near-namesakes, who made good- in show- business, Al Uoasberg lists Clara Bowsberg and Major Bowesberg. Herbert O. Yardley here In story conferences at Falhe - giving the lowdowh on cryptography for the next Constance Bennett picture. Morgan Howard, magician, will be given a chance to do his stuff at the Pantages theatre, where he. Is ushering between prosperity eras. ' ' Frank Tuttle wrote a' play. Title is 'The Red Diamond,' and he dedi- cates It to Raymond Griffith, Oliver Garrett and Keene Thomson, "wliose aid and guidan<% made it pcsslblc' Miami Minnie business' left to two courses on the beach. William H. McFarland, veteran outdoor showman, died here. Charlie Keorner, with nine horses^ first trainer at Hialeah Park. Steve Hannagan and bride, tho former Ruth Ellery, honeymoon- ing. Spuks Circus showed two days, 30 and 31. Business poor. 'Weather bad. 'Hoover Turkeys' Is the aippella- . tlon given here to hot dogs selling for a jit. Fisher Properties announce the opening of the Boulevard and Lin- coln Hotels Nov. 25. ■ . Jas. H. Noble, manager of Boule- vard Hotel, died at a government hospital In Key West. The Hl-Hat Club, dance spot out near the race track, opened.' Ole Olsen music, floor Show, and- 10 hostesses. Frank Bruen back from Broad-, way to rush , work on his Coral Gables race track.' Expects to open Christmas. . This Is the .usual open season for weekly papers. A new one appear- ing about once a week. It will be pretty tough on the boys, if the ganie rooms do not open. Fairfax theatre, closed. Is belhg reconditioned, under direction of H. H. Weiss, for the wintct- season. It'will reopen next week with Greta Garbo in 'Susan Lenox.' Iiatest racket reiwrted to police by visiter from Iowa. The yokel. claims. a couple of tough guys pushed him overboard and thiein de- manded $2 to save. him. He paid. .Lindbergh will pilot the Ameri- can Clipper on her first trip out of here to Cristobal for Pan American Airways. The maiden trip of this, giant 60-passcnger ship will take place November 17. Anne Booker, local diving' girl 'Who was with the Diving Ringens In Europe when . she Injured . her spine in a dive In a shallow tanl^ arrived home from Vienna. A wel- coming committee was at the dobk to meet her. A new golf tournament, to sup-. ^ plant the- $15,000 La Gorce open, with a purse of. $10,000 was an- nounced by the Henry L. - Doherty Interests, to be held In Coral Gables at . the Miami Biltmore Country Club. The dates, March 18 and 20. Hal Cohen Jack Hobley do'wn with tlie flu. Dave Selznick. in town to visit relatives. Ruth. Miller Wllbert, dancer, suf- fering from lumbago. Of all things! Johnny Harris Invariably stops in front of windows filled' with par- lor games. Karl Krug says there's a former $100,000-a-year film director In. the breadline here; George Scibel, back from New York, bugs about 'Mourning Be- comes Electro.' Mike Cullen combined her birth- day and (^rlstmas and . gave the Mrs. a fur coat. The Stanley chorus has been re- hearsing every morning since the musicians' strike. Harry Mlllsteln off for the biig town to become general sales man- ager for U shorts. Jack Benny brought both his wife and his sister to town dtirlng 'Van- ities' engagement, George Tyson Is \ the ping-pong champ of the WB office and willing to take on all comers. Caspar Koch, city organist, Is a bug on chess and estimates he's played over 2,000 games. 'Wonder Bar' and 'Three's a Crowd' pitted against each other here Thanksgiving Week. Bootleggers complain boys who used to buy by the case are now- getting a pint at a time. Abbey Irish Theatre Players here in repertoire sponsored by snooty Twentieth Century Club. . Rtith Gamble, the Nixon B, o. blonde, says It's a lie that she won't let anybody buy her limch. That's was Jerry Mayhall's mu- sical arrangement In Von Grona's 'Mechanical Ballet' at the Roxy.. Roy Rowe, Warner manager, was president of Emertoh College, Swansboro, N. C, back In 1926. Bin Scott, Stanley manager, and Bill Zeller, his assistant, were also together In Washington and De- troit. Paul McGrath, Sharp stock lead- ing man all last season, coming here with. Helen Hayes In 'Good Fairy'. Sylvan Levy, who supplies the WB crowd with hats, has been wearing the same one himself for two years.- Despite the depression the' de- partment stores are getting more calls than ever before for silk hats and tail coatsl. A certain assistant theatre man- ager has been' married since June to a local dancer and nobody the wiser except hia boss. Harvey Gaul, the crick, has fol- lowing legend on his typewriter: 'This Is Gaul's, clavier. It responds only to Czerny technique. Lay off.'