Variety (Jan 1932)

Toesdajt January 26, 1932 ■-ESQWE VARIETY 35 Burlesk Wheel Shows All Out Of Idwest Chicago, Jan. 25. ' Columbia wheel la entirely out of the midwest and Chicago, the flnal drop-out being I. H, Herk's Star and Garter theatre here, which re- verted to stock policy Saturday (23). Switch to stock waa immediately, necessitated by the elimination of the wheel shows from Toledo, from where the companies used to Jump into this town. "With the Empire, Toledo, now off the route,' It's flg- iired too expensive to hop shows all the way from Cleveland or Pitts- burgh, Entire route of the Columbia wheel is now confined to the east, with Cleveland as . Us most west- ernly point. Gayety, Detroit, also formerly on the circuit. Is switching to stock. Shows at the Star and Garter are being produced by Jimmle Francis, handling the book, and Chiick Greg- ory for the numbers. Trying 5 Acts Columbus, Jan. 26. Five acts supplanted the usual four at the RKO Palace, Saturday (23), when the unit show made its entry into the house after .four months of top-scale vaude. Move- ment Is understood to be in nature of a test. Prior to recent vaude comeback house always three- fouiths empty but biz infrequently top-hole even, with four good acts. MarcusLoew BOOKINGAOENCY General Executive Offices t LOEW ftUILDING AN N E X 160 WEST 46^ST* vr.nt 9-7800 NEW YORK CITY J. H. LUBIN OIlNBIi4Ii MANAOKB NilRVIN E SCHENCK BOOKIMO MAMAOI BOOKED SOLID R-K-O REPRESENTATIVES B-K-O EUBOPEAN LOEW-nnOEPENDENl JACK GDBTIS LABTIOUE & EISCHEB AL 6B0SSUAN ISM Broadway 89 AveniM dea Champa Eljs«ea 160 WmI 46(h Bt. NEW YORK CITY PARIS NEW YORK CITY Hollywood (continued from page 6) all studios have had writers at work, failed to jell, and scrlbbers have been taken off the job of trying to romance the contests. Eight shorts remaining on the Roach program of 40 will be fin- ished by April 1, with Laurel and Hardy then doing another feature, directed by one of the Roach meg- gers. Tattle Cycle 'The Broadway Columnist,' story by Warren Keefe and Edward Sew- ard, is being considered by Uni- versal and Warners as a story for the looming group of columnist pictures. Abeh Kandel, New York Action wfiter, arrived here to .fulfill his Metro contract. U Wants Brook Universal seeking Cllve Brook to play opposite Tala Blrell in 'Mar- riage Interlude' If he can be bor- rowed from Paramount. Miss Blrell will double between 'Interlude' and the'American remake of 'Mountains In Flame.' : Lasky, Jr., Censor Jesse Li, Laaky, Jr., who was in the Paramount writing dept. last summer. Is now the studio's cen- sorship editor. Judgment for $1,100 back commis- sions given Edward Small agency against Le Roy Prlnz, dance stager, now in Philadelphia. Segregatino Marxes Arriving with 16 relations, and four authors, the Four Marx Bros, are quartered in a separate section of the writers' annex, so as not to disturb anyone else, working on 'Horse Feathers,' their next film. Mob of salesmen for everything is trying to contact the comics. Half a dozen indie companies now working at Universal, with dharles Rogers' expected to return for his Radio releases. Others due are M. H. Hoffman, Harold Lloyd, Morris Schenck and Ray Coftman. ■ New Indte Newly organized Adventure Pic- tures will make indie . features. Headed by J. G.- Hawks, Reginald Barker, Charles Stalllngs and Percy Hllburn. Wage claims totaling $1,600 brought by 27 employees of Jack Johnson's Show Boatdub. Spot has been reopened with Sunny Clay's orchestra and a show staged by Mildred Washington. Chimps in Vaude Charles Lewis' troupe of chim- panzees, which made the Tlilany shorts, booked for the San Francis- co, Oakland, and local RKO houses, beginning Jan. 29. Three lots have put $60,000 into construction work in the last few weeks. Educational's new cutting rooms went 26 g's. Fox has spent about the same amount in altera- tions at Movietone City, and Sen- nett has gone for $10,000 in improve- ments. Mitzi's Route With her route rearranged, Mltzl Green leaves here Feb. 1 to open four days later for RKO at St. Loulq. Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland, De- troit, You ngstown, Akron and New- ark follow. Nat Levine switches from Tec- Art to Sennett's for his next and last serial for Mascot, 'Shadow of the Eagle.' John Wayne, Marian Seegar, Richard Tucker, Kenneth Harlan, Dot Darcy, Pat O'Malley, Little Billy, Ivan Linbw, .Wilfred Lucas and Jas. Bradbury, Jr., cast. Ford Beebe directing. May MartiD Gets 6 Mos. as lesson,' Mgr. Freed in Buffalo Strip Case Buffalo, Jan. 26. Arrest and conviction of May Martin, known to burlesque as 'She, the Radium Queen,' appearing at the Palace this week, climaxed a competitive stripping battle which has been waged here for several months past between the Gayety (Columbia) and the Palace (Inde- pendent). Each house Is attempting to outstrip the other, with both in- vestigated repeatedly by the local police. Gayety reported to have fallen out with the Deputy Police Commissioner a fortnight ago after protests were made against nude and semi-nude dances. Police protests came to a head with the arrest of the Martin girl, who was found guilty in City Court of participating in an Improper per- formance and sentenced to six months in the penitentiary. 'She' gave her age as 29, residence as Cleveland and stated she was mar- ried and the mother of two chil- •en. Carlton (Bud) Purcell, producer of the show, was discharged uiion an explanation that he was unaware of the'full nature of Mrs. Martin's dance. Disposition of charges against Abe Berk, manager of the production, was deferred pendlne submission of briefs. In denying pleas, of leniency for the woman. Judge Keeler stated, 'By her own admission this woman'? act was a moral pestilence. Such things can- not be in Buffalo. I want this case to serve as a lesson.' 4 Mos. Enough Reading, Pa., Jan. ,26. - . Orpheum, ■ burlesque,' closed its season this week, after an unsatis- factory four-months' try. Manager William O. Heckman haa been Instructed by Wilmer & 'Vin- cent, lessees, to transfer all road shows booked, not burlesque, to the nearby Rajah, a larger and more modern house. VArOEVIIXE HEADQUABTEBS an v> Het«l ortldndt 142 West 49th St.atB'way >i.5o • no •p-OoUy •»— WmUv N*w Y«rk City I THE GREAT NICOLA WORLD'S MASTER MAGICIAN WITH HIS COMPANY OF MIRACLE WORKERS FEATURING The VANISHING ELEPHANT JUST FINISHED LOEW'S PRESENTATION ROUTE- BREAKING RECORDS EVERYWHERE (if You Don't Believe It, As^c^e IManagers) THIS WEEK, JAli. 23, LOEW'S STATE, NEW YORK PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS 29 West 46th Street NEAR 6TH AVE., NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE: BBYANI »-iSU PAUL TAUSIG «e SON Times Square Travel Bureau Oldeat Steanablp Tlok«t Accncr Catorlac To the Theatrical rrofMnion PAUL WHITEMAN PRESENTS ARLENE AND NORMAN SELBY THE INIMITABLE DANCE CREATORS NOW APPEARING WITH PAUL WHITEMAN—RKO PALACE, CHICAGO Personal Direction BILL PARENT, 140 North Dearborn Stre et, Chicago