Variety (Nov 1931)

Tuesday, November 10, 1931 TIMES SQUARE VARIETY 47 By Bob Brown ' Leroy Jacobs back after flu, Mothera with babes In arms free. Tw9-blt stock .at Chattanooga by ;he Peiiichl players. . ^ - Happy Chapman Is trying to get lettled at CentervlUe. William R. Hicks of Rock City Shows will winter In -JasiMir this rear. A couple of cigarette manufac- turers have been angling for Lu- ther'Patrick for chain programs. Harry Snodgross, the - prison Dlaylng pianist. Is playing small Picture galleries in North Alabama. lASses 'Whltci-.stopped oyer, eh route to stage a home talent show. Still s^ys minstrels will. do .a come- back. . ■ ■ ' • ■ , ,, , Pete Marsonl says he Is the .only aramailc editor ^vho never even wanted to write a play. Sheet music for' 10 cents now making its appearance on: news- Btands and causing the; music bouses tp b'>ll. Charlie . Haucp. is another fellow that rides thoise Highland avenue cars and .threatens to biiy a saddle and a pair of spurs. Montgomery is making a hard ight for vaude. Amateur, vaude has been running there for months and it seems to be paying. ■ ' Papers are howling for benefit, shows for . charity suggested by Owen D. TOuhg. More, so because Toung came here to open Commu- nity Chest drive and It was good copy. . ' Birmingham Is almost sure to be without a roadshow this year;since Erlanger cancelled lease on the old Jefferson. Roadshows are playing all around the Ham now and no signs of bookings here. Kahsiis City . By Will R. Hughes Charity drive went over for the full quota, $1,550,000. Tommy Taaffe has been appointed cashier In the - city W'oiter depart- ment. Eddie Kuhn reopened his ..waffle shop, where, the night crowd 'Waff and Coff.' Reported W. P. Kyne, manager of. Riverside,. Is contemplating a mile track. He has place under a two- year lease. . Jack MofHtt,. after a year on the Universal lot, Hollywood, Is'back'as picture editor for the 'Star.' . Street car In attempt to get Sun- day business is offering a' Ave cent fare. Regular rate Is a dime, . Harry Puck, Qreta Alpeter,. Jor sephlne Huston and Clifford .New- dahl,: from 'Three Little Girls,' on the air oyer WDAP. American Royal live stock and horse show opens 14, and the tlte- atre men. are preparing to welcome their country, cousins. Ogden By D. J. Greenwell - Little theatre's second play, TJover Rood,' drew better than flrst Leord Thatcher directing. Seventeen McKinley high school footballers from Honolulu had their first snowball flght while here to playgame. Ogden merchants' organization totes against proprsat made by chain store to. keep stores open after ( Saturday night. 1.0'oka like Ben Lomond club:will cancel remaining lecture engagie- ments account club's nioney being tied up in closed, bank'. Gen. Snied ley D. Butler declined to cancel and got his 1600. Lagoon Amusement Co. and Fi- delity and Casualty Co. sued for $10,000. by Anna Ca.no, who charges her child was' burned when sparks from a miniature locomotive set Are to child's dress. Peeved because Governor Dem took'Weber county to task for non- co-operation with Juvenile court, county . commissioners said they l>rohably would vote against county co-operation for state fair unless governor eliminated gambling games at fair. OktahoDia City ;Cyclones whipped Sooncrs, Bob Hutchinson back from New tork. Good rye and corn now selling $3 per gallon and up. : It is reported that Muriel Moore will soon become a Savage. Roller skating revived In Merry Garden and with excellent atten dance. Doris Kenyon appeared in per- son In 'Lyric Silhouettes' at Shrine Auditorium. . The klds' were all happy and some gro-wnups not so happy' oyer Hallowe'en pranks. RKO vaudeville folded and rcgu lar stock substituted at the War 'her, one show each evening and couple matinees weekly. Three of the lead In^r theatres had ihldnight previews with 'A Danger- ' 0U8 Affair* at Warner, 'Shanghaied **ve' - at Mld-west and 'Blonde Crazy', at Criterion. U. S. Sen, ISlmer Thomas, Oklahoma, en route to Washington, said that Gov. 'Alfalfa Bill' Murray of Oklahoma will be the next.Pre.'jl dent of the Unlte<'. States. Atlanta By Ernie Rogers .Show business at low. Al Evnns, Fox organist, on air for Colonial bread. Bust of Enrico Leide unveiled with ceremony at Fox. Commercial accounts picking up at WSB and WGST- Vincent Kay replaces Dave Love as orchestra leader at Georgia. ' Legit shows at Erlanger canceled oecanso of trouble with stage em Ployccs. Perry Bechtel has organized own papa for Merita bread broadcasts -over AVSB. Mayor Jim ;Kcy, who says 18th nmcndmont Is all wet,, has begun oiimloy school class In Capitol thc- "jre Ousted from class at Grace Methodist Church. C H ATTE sha but brought up locally, had usual good time 'irlsltlng old friends while at Davidson In 'Blossom Time,' Made, debut iat same house In Charley Salisbury's - stock, which had oh its roll Bleanor Robson, Au- brey. Boucclcault,. Richard Bennett, Theodore Roberts and John Daly Murphy, By Uen Libbey Admiral Byrd 'making public speeches again. Al 'Boston'American''Duffy'js col- umn being missed. . The Group Playeirs Ib Boston's latest resident stock.' ' Bob Berger's waffle 'place extend- ed closing time to 4 a. m; 'Will Hays due soon to address the Chamber of Commerce. . Rodeo gave the town its flrst street -parade in. Ave years. The depression has' reduced the prices on complete tuxedo oubHts to $2 a night Col. W. T. 'Rodeo' Johnson treated N, E. newspapermen to a Chuck \yagon-dinner. •• Two dollars will bo top price at all performances of the 'Student Prince,' due soon, . Mrs, Morris Gest'wired the local rags that Morris^ was producing 'The Miracle' on his own and not. with her coin. Publlx-Paramount must start work on it's theatre at Coolldgc Corner, Brookllne,.. or lose its' li- cense, selectmen voted this week, Montgomery, Ala. By Tom .Hall Bill Cherry looking for reportorial Job. Jimmie Pepper may get married soon. Automobile tag license for next year out Alabama votes down $25,000,000 bond issue. < Bowling alley . opens and doing nice business. Leon Copeland. Patramount dpor- m&Tt, back on Job. Al Stanley and. his orchestra top Paramount vaudeville. Dutton Circus leave here for win- ter quarters at Sarasota. Fred Spear picks Tennessee foot- ball team as national champs. ' Rubin & Cherry carnival In win- ter quarters at Fair grounds. Exchange Hotel breaks awdy from chain operation. Local people buy air Interest By H. Gene' Haynes Business sUghtly better. Loew's with 'Madelon Claudet' Dot Ciitshaw new sec. to Indiana moguls. Ted Nichols handling press for Skouras-Publix:' Dick Snyder's band coming in to help out Tom Deylne. ..... Indiana Theatres Owners' Assocl atlon has legal staff aiding city in attempt to haye water, light and power rates r-duced. Carl NIesse, new assistant man- ager of Skouras-Publlx. Aids B. V. Sturdlvant, who recently sue ceeded Cullen Espy. John Hodapp, Cleveland second sacker, came back to the scene of his flrst baseball and got himself married. Gone to Europe. Indiana management has plan now to call in advisory committee, namely: Assistant manager, musi cian, isound and projector m^n, ad vertlslnp and ballroom representa tlve, before any policy matters are' decided. Buster and John West back from Europe. Is Nothing Sacred?' will have to get olong without Stanley Ridges.. Married couples' popularity con- test under way at Bayside 'Victory. Few high-class restaurants can moke the grade., on North Shore sans liquor.. ' ■ ' Mrs. Eric Blore (Clara Mackin) off on hurried trip to coast with Miriam Hopkins.' ; Muhlclpally-owned. speaks sug- gested for Incorporated villages In Great Neck News. TO give the trustees' a chance to' muscle in, ho doubt. 'Lily,' the Bill Harris show, with- drawn after Brooklyn tryout de- spite Harris' confidence in it Star trouble rumored, ■ with Ulrlc sug- gested for lead If 'Social Register* doesn't go. Bronx , Sid Kpenig looking for Hi Gains- borough. Morris Sussman reading plays^ and liking it George Costello being taught to box by his boy. ' Adolph Gbldberjg out of the Wind sor, going to the Shuberts. With Fox out of the Park Plaza, Monty ; Salnion may return to Brooklyn. Washington Heights theatre peo- ple laugh at reports that that sec- tion will get some new theatres. Joe Kllgler doesn't want to go to the seashore next summer and the wife does. They'll go to the sea- shore. Pre-wedding gifts not so nu merous. Bert Korbel thinks it riiay be more profitable to put it off until better times. Seattle By Dave Trepp Jlmrale Hicks out at Fox-West Coast Toby Leltch and ' Sam.. Gore to Taklma playing Fox Taklma vaude. Harry Jordan, old-time actor, now here in business and doing oke. ' Mrs. Leslie Carter, booked for two weeks in' Northwest towns and B. C. Gal ushers at local prize fights Is new stunt, and why not with so many women at the ringside? MIdnlte show with vaude bill working in a unit and regular pic' ture on screen at full'prices at Or pheum went oke at first trial last week. .Helen Gorham, U co-ed, doing good Job for women students''or- ganization concert series, with S. O, for Tlbbet and. Hayes. Three more to come. Milwaukee • By Frank J. Miller . Old Heidelberg,' oasis, padlocked for year. Jack Worner again business agent for stagehands. Ed\Vyn PAster, local singing cop, headed for stage. James Cagney In person at 'War- ner, accompanied by Mrs. Geo. Bach's Little Syrriphony Sundays again at West Side Turner Hall. . Seventy-eighth year of Bach music in this building. Lawrence Gross, Bo.iton store buyer, has completed 'The Perfect Crime! in collaboration with , Ed- w.ird Childs Carpenter. Bill Hooker, columnl.<'t on 'Jour- nal,' has had Oregon Trail moirker unveiled '.for him near Douglas, Arizona. Formerly cattleman; Because the contract was made oh Sunday, Geo. Smith lost suit for $341.SO alleged duo him . on s\x months' contract as roadhousc man- ager. Nick Burke, friend of theatre folk who stopped at his Davidson hotel years ago, died at Deficoness hospital following operation. For- merly manager Grace hotel, Chi- cago, and part, owner Milwaukee ball club, . • „ Robert Lee Allen, born In Keno- Cindnnati By Jo« Kolling Nelse Trowbridge a symphony in brown. . A:Vine street dinery using three strummers for window ballyhoo. Old Robinson Opera House in second season as relief kitchen. Mayor Russell WHsbn, ex-critic of 'Times-Star,' breezed' to re-elec- tion. Alexander MoOre is gen., mgr. for Joe Cherniavsky Sympho-Synco- pators. ■ Erlanger-Grand dark for fort night due to postponement of 'Fine and Dandy.' RKO theatres now plugged by several hundred three-sheet stands within 20-mile radius; No Childs filling station here, but eateries are aping policy of offer Ing harvest hands' feed for flat rate, Martin Johnsons to be with their animal film at Taft Auditorium Nov. 20 and 21; $1.26 tpp» ' 'Mother' Krause, Albee' wardrobe mistress, subject of two-col. sen timcntal yam by Joe Doran 'Post.' AVrestling promoters putting all-femmo mat show to pop patronage. Fighting racket Is the ropes. Patrons of Green I.antern, over tho-rlver black and tan cafe, are frisked before gaining admlllancc Artillery is returnable upon depar ture. ■ in on up on Long Island Albany, N. Y. By Henry Ratonda Milton : Smith traveling through, state on e'Sploltation'wOrk. Slg Whitman was in town to con- fer with Al Herman, Albany Uni- versal manager. John Sorensky, fonqer Rihgling Bros, tattoo man, applied to A1-. bainy police for night's lodetlng. Dick Haxtigan, former organist at Troy theatre, replaces Steve Rbls- clalr-at RKO Plaza, Schenectady, resigned. 'Visitors in town during the week were .Frank Walker, Mike Kallett Marsha:u Taylor, Bill 'Benton, Bill Smalley. Rockne. silver football' trophy presented to chaniplon "Vincentian football team from the stage Of RKO Palace. . As winner of a mileage estimate contest conducted by O. H. Buckley, Mr. and Mrs. tieRoy .Y. t.ong are ojt on a 16-day West Indies cruise. ' RKO Palace, which has been run- ninct shows as. late as midnight tor almost a week after opening, is breaking nearer to 11 p.m. now. Bernie Depkin, former Warner Bros, zone manager at Albany, re- signed from similar position' at Mil waukee to go with Skouras Bros, ih Virginia. W,.W. Farley, theatre owner,,took part in the welcoming .ceremonies for. his famous son-in-law, Hugh Herndon, -Jr., and Clyde Pangborn. first to span the Pacific' - Every theatre in the city will screen a midnight show Nov. 19 fpr the benefit pf the Jobless relleif. Charles Smakwltz, zone ihanager for Warner Bros., has been named chalrnnan of the Albany committee in charge of nil branches of the theatrical field for the drive.- Continued from page 40) desk, 1 want a pass to Texarkana.* And the guy says, .'Who are youT* says, 'Me? I'm affiliated, with the Interstate Bus Service.' And tho guy says, 'Oh,.' and writes' me put a pass. You'd think a fellah with ihy tal- ent could pull the same line on Schulberg or Mayer. -I mean, that's what you'd think. 'There's oiily one big thing I did out here,' says One-Eye, .'and that was .keeping Will Hoys off the Fox lot a couple of years-ago. Fox was In pretty, weak shape and needed some good publicity, so they hired me as gate-keeper. Along com^ Wlll Hays, and I figured it would make more publicity if I kept him oft the lot But tltey didn't appreciate it . at Fox.' One-Eye's eye/ lighted with de- termination. 'But I'm gonna hang around here,' tie says, 'until I beat this town. I sent out 600 Chrlstmais cards last year, and I'll send out a thousand this year. 'There must be way.' „ Reno Slump (Continued from page 1) roster of games includes: fdro, 4; craps,. 10; roulette, 12; twenty-one, 10; poker, 10; stud, 8; panguingul, f -'keno, 4 ; .hazard, 3; big six wheels 4; punch boards,. 1; fan tan, .1;. race track pool room, 2. Though they '.are not organized into a union, unemployed gambling dealers here are making an etiort to Induce, the boss gambleris to ro- tate or stagger their crews and thus give more dealers a chance to get In a shift or .two ^ch week.. Many dealers work seven days a week, while oth'er dealers are walk- ing the streets looking for work of any kind. During the height of the'gambllng activity last summer SOO dealers were on the payroll of the various Joints. Now there are but 160 work- ing regularly,' as ihe games in the bootlegging. Joints run but one shift a day, and but half a'dozen games in the town are open at all times. . Portland, Me. ..By Haj 'Cram Jim Moore living here again. Empire only dark house out of nine In city. Cold draft In balcony at Play house not so good. Frankle De Hlce In town to take over winter boxing. lidcal Lions presented seven acts vaud. at midnight frolic. RKO Keith's used for meetings by teachers in State convention. Huber, pjaylng Jefferson, does numerous street stunts as bally. Local promoter puts up $26 bonus to . two boxers turning in best scrap. s ' Local Legion Post to stage Maine-in-Market Exposition No vember 16. . Ken Berry now dramatic editor 'Evening Express', replacing Clara ROsebrook. Easton, Pa. By A. M, Powell 'Elizabeth the Queen' opened legit season in Easton to near capacity. Nearly 20,000 hunters took to the woods around here during past week for small game,. llefprmer elected district attprncy In Northampton County, Platform was to close up roadhouses. Burlesq^ies drawing fairly In Al lentowh and Easton, playing former on Mondays and in latter Tuesdays. 'Price cutting amonit; theatres in Lehigh Valley. Colonial of Bcthlc hem gpos from 50 to 35 evening and 35 to 25 matinees. Two well known summer resorts at Delaware. Water Gap burned down, the Kittatlnlngi a fa-shlonable place.-and Brushy Mountain Lodge. Darnagc, $150,000. Marquis Players of Lafayette Col lege did'the opening ants only o£ 'Tho Xast Mile' and 'Inhoritori' Idea was to show sharp contrast between the two plays.. Gate Crasher $500^000 Studio Cqpa ■ ■ (Continued from page 1) that this type of man won't do since they can't soft-pedarthe tough man- ner in which :they are accustomed tp. treating the public and arc cen- tinually Ippking fpr spmethlng spfter and mpre remunerative. . Regularly employed at all of the studios are about 250 men,, with this total rising to 400 with peak pi-o- duction when at least one man -Is assigned to each picture,.. ., ' One studio has cut Its theft'toss, from $30,000 a year to almost noth- ing by tightening up on its force. Loss was not 'made up of' the ar-' tides stolen, but the amount of time It added to productions -while Inslg-' nIAcant prPps that had been fllclied frpm live sets were being replaced. This studio had been subject to an epidemic of bathroom fixture steal- ing since those articles could be un- screwed without detection and could be adapted to use around the house. W. C. Bryant Dean Dean of Hollywood studio police , chiefs Is W. C. Bryant at Para- mount, who started 14 years ago at. the old Par lot with two meni He now has 21. Numbers at other large studios are: Metro, 31; Fox, 32; Ra- dio, 19; First National (three lota), 32; and Universal, 16. ' In addition -tp the chiefs, bigger studies usually have captains, lieu- tenants and s.ergeants pn their staffs, some assigned to night duty - and acting as night chiefs. knowing the habits of most of the actors, writers and woriters of Hol- lywood, chiefs will often send in warnings about previouK violators who are unreliable, habitual drink- ers, cir larceny hounds to the casting or other hiring offlces when they hear that the offenders are belne .considered, in order to stave off unplea.santness pn tho Ipt, TYROS' FABASISE Paris, XPVi 1. A now dcparturp is that of Henri Lc.slcur, owner of the Theatre Pori- talne. In search of new material, he advorllses for yoUng authors to cpmo and bring their scripis. Usual: procedure here, as . elser where Is for authors to send manu- scripts with the chances script r«a mains long unread. ri