Variety (March 1932)

Tuesday, Marck 1> 1932 T i ^i E S S Q U A R E VARIETY 47 Canton^ 0. By Rex McConnell jjlckl* tore*** • j«flB Sprlnerer in town. , ; BDldemlc of coids h?re. Mbonllght ballroom folds. ■ Closed banks to open spon. _ ■ jYeak show on Main street folds, . BKO Palace, Akron, Iryout hoUso tor this area hdw^ . ^ . ; ^Talkers for local park to replace ■Uents offered nightly as blis plug. ^Btirly stock out at. Grand, Akron, after city executives revoke license. ^Loew's switches opeiningrs from Sunday and Thursdays to Tues- Jays and Fridays. -Akron BKO Paliace goes back to weekly policy, after several months •f split week shows. ;^ , Inez Leedam, tabster; gets break •with local stock;company when.lh- «enue: weds and quits. . Kay Kyser due back soon at New liarid o' Dance, doing one and two. Hlghters through !Ohlo. lioew shifts new program open- ings from Thursday and Saturdays to Tuesday arid Fridays.. Pop song venders make their ap- pearance on Marjtet street after ab- sence of sfeveral weeks; . Free . permit for Akron, apple peddlers,, but niust get consent from building owners where" they bper- ;»te,-; Ishiun Jones bdrid winds up month ^«f one niters here and goes into: Golden Pheasant Restaurant for 12' . Xioew's and Warner Palace still .getting 40 cents top for pictures, '•nly houses hercaboutis at this level «nd doing only fair. Burlesque folds at Grande Akron, after t*ro years when city revokes license for the house. C. Wv Brill, promoter, protests. Kay Kyser, rsham Jones, Henry Busse, Coon Sanders and Jean Cal- loway, all .due to play New Land o' Dance withih month; . • Dorothy ■Stone, Informed of death of grandmother, finishes engagement ^Wlth 'husband at RKO Yourigstpwn, tbeii goes east for the funeral. . B6b Wilson, once a radio crooner, las been conscripted for regular an- nouncer WADC, Akron ,whcn George Houston departs for New York, ■Edythe Siegrlst, aerlallst, granted right by court to continue to. use Siegrlst name for act, after, she Is granted divorce from Charles Sieg- rlst. . Walter Ambler's co-operative stock at Grand doing well as com- pany Inaugurates its fifth month. Show to go under canvass about May 1. ■ Musicians' local puts stop to re- mote control programs from local diEince halls, when local station re- fuse's to use union musicians oh its programs. Co-op stock .company at Grand enters fiftli )m6nth, with stage hands and. musicians getting almost scaliei 6nly . twice. Company shotild hang on now till spring. ■ A. H. Buehrlg, Lbew's manager, sets off real fireworks In observance of Canton house's fifth anniversary. Traffic tied up while flood lights play on house and whistles blow. Musicians' local officials squawk- ing because pit . band at Grand are not making scale in co-operative vtock setup. Musicians, idle two years, say it means cakes for them. Cleveland Rosehblum Celtics, .world's -champion pro basketball team, falls to draw in Cleveland and win play In Canton one night a week for next two months. Top a half buck. ^ YoungstoWn cops . wall< Ift on strip" show in downtown hall, ar- Wstlng four girls and two musicians. Promoters made their escape in the confusion. Report 800 tickets sold at a buck apiece and only half this number could get In. Toledo By pick McGeorge .. Phil Glbbs .a benedict. Board ball new craze here. - Jean BedinI In town last week. . : A letter on the way . to Usilton, Police reporters playing bridge. Lang Kumler out at the pantheon. Granada: starts with isecond runs. Wally Caldwell has his golf sticks out. . ■ : . ■ r Mayor hires nephew at $3;000 per year. ; ■ ■ SUr"" *° Lima Stoopnagle and Bud new radio craze, ■ Ed Martin leaves the 'Blade' to go traveling. Valentine hereafter to be known as. Loew's. . ; Opening as Lioow's delayed sev- eral weeks. . Clark Gable has a double here. A taxi driver. .: Ray Allison hasn't been seen for several .weeks.' ; ' • Harry. Caliahati stopplnir for a couple of weeks, .Blade' tied up with Par. for the magician. Nicola. *^®ws Bee' Ileadpin tourney .at- ^■^actlng hundreds. «Kr ■of a Stooge' drawing favor- able comment hcrci Loew's and Paramount scooped the town with war pictures. oVn, continues double run and SHU looks .for the trade. ^Journey's End' to be produced by >^ar veterans here with own ca.st € H ATTE will be'the flirst legit in the Palace for more than a year. .. Daye Davies Writing script: for police dramas over WSPD. Speakeasy patronized by stage people bumped by city police. Blkck and . White Revuie at the Empire held for second week. Rby Sherman, pres. of the boxing rconimlsslon, running for sheriff• Theliha Smith and brother Bunny Join the burlesk stock troupe. Rbsa mond May also is back. Booking of Horace Heidt for De Molay dance has caused a splurge in ticket sales for the struggle booked .for March 4. Wally Caldwell, at Loew's, al though he has been here but 18 months, is the deaii of the Rialto since Winters Is: gori.. O'ConrieU, Dannenberg, Feigley, Gollner, Lanjg Kumler and Winters all gone from nianagerial positions. ■ Alton C. Saunders, .76, of Hillsdale, Mlchi, malier arid mender' of violins which some of . the world's best known artists ndw carry, died last week. One of his possessions was a 300-year-bld Stradivairlus. Brooklyn By Jo Ranson Blanche Livingston freelancing. Ed Cherry having tonsil trouble. Bob Shapiro of Par staff married. Maurice Bergman has sinus troui 'ble.': ■ . Bom Weltman is smiling. " It's a gin:.. ■' ■ ' Les Kaufman contemplating nup- tials. Vine Manelll supervising Par's stage shows. . , Heriry Spiegel Joins Blng Crosby's bowling team. Morris Klnzler going to write" Eva Tanguay's memoirs. ■ Earl B.an'on replaces Irwin Blaine as announcer at. WLTH. Everett Crosby pulling strong nrian act with new rowing machine. Eddie Paul dickering With com- nierclal sponsor for national hook- up. . Blng Crosby and Art Jarrett have to travel to New York for broad- casts. WBBC and WCGU sever relations after two years, for independent operation. ITrank C.ulp recovered from flu. Rex thieatre reopened by Ben Carter. Jim Hughes resigns.as Universal salesman. H. T. Nolan on annual Browns- ville, Texas, vacation. Ross Bluck made office manager RKO-Pathe exchange. Breakfast club .(200) eat break- fast on brpheum stage. George Bent, Orpheum organist, sets the crowd singing. ' Skouras Bros, and Oscar Old- know were here Saturday. .. Councilman to take wlne-tonlc bribery charge before grand Jury. Bob Cain, Fox salesman, sta,Hed in train On Cumbres pass six days; R, D. Mason, Orpheum chief of personnel, and Doris Clarkln of Hollywood married here. Margaret Perry, visited her grand- mother hero and went on to the coast to appear in. MGM pictures. L, L. Savage takes Job as special representative with Columbia. Ter- ritory from Denver west, Including coast. Gardner Wilson,, coming from Malnstreet, Kansas City, publicity director Orpheum. Former 'Variety' mugg. Sam Feiristeln, former manager iRKO exchange,' has taken territory for 'Passion Play' from Denver west. Betty Craig, motion picture editor 'Post,' collapsed with stomach trou- ble while at work and taken to fios- pltal. Barney Rose new Universal ex-; chiange manager, succeeding C. J.' Feldman, who goes to coast .as salesman, Gus Cohn, manager, and Bill Egrcn, head booker Rocky Moun- tain division Foxwcsco, to .L. A. for conference,' Ray Marshbanks jpromoted from treasuryshlp Kansas . City Main- street to as.sistant, manager Den- ver Orpheum. . Manager Swiger a.nd Assistant Shuttee guaranteed 'Broken Lullaby" from stage and offered money back if any wished It. Otis Skinner and Maude Adams In . 'Merchant . *of' Venice" booked three days at, feroadway last, of March. Earl Garrdll's 'Vanities,' AprH 11-13. Snott'storm only thing that stopped . Dick Adams from playing gbif last Tuesday. Tried to ; got caddy to ishovel snow, so he cbujd make at least nine holos^ OUt-of-towTi cxhibs on .film row; Ed Solvu'itc, Casper, Wj'o.; Kenneth Powell, .Palisade, Neb;; Fred Koot- man, Colo. SprlriKS.; Sam Cain, Pueblo, and Ed Anderson, Ft, Mor- gan, Colo, Imcohi, Neb, By Barney Oldfield " 'RIaltb .folds.- '' : Lincoln theatre open. Best ^pot on Berger time. Local art lexhiblt drawing. Flu epidemic going the rounds. Annual dollar day . packed the town. $100^000 drop off In auto , license plated. .,' ■ More fenilBlne iirolletB: seen smoking. 'Good' stuff goes for nine bones per gal. Eddie Jung.bluth didn't connect with CBS.. Vernon Cohover Is • taxidermist on the side. Joy Sutphen g^ts lots of: mall in favor of stock. ^ State Fair to be, a six Instead of elght-diy show. . Adam Krl^ger cIaloiB world light heavy mat title. , Charlie Shire formal with press boys and it hums'erii. Two Cbarltoni la., lada confessed to recent Stuart robbery.. . Hart Jenks sold Shakesptsare fpi: three extra perfbrmahces. Eddie White had to. hold Des Moines off two weeks—flu. Fights, rnied out of Liberty; probably go to; Auditorium. Churches housing, musicil presen- tatloris opposition to theatres. Johnny Lee, fighting: referee, In Jam with state boxing comlsh. No frat men or football players In recent university liquor raid. : Baseball , dropped frorii U, of N. sport .calendar in cutting expense. Nebraska U. gals Intend to elect a/'Moisi popular man' at leap year party. All prominent citizens ribbed In song and dance at annual gridiron dinner. Bridge tables in theatre lounges popular. Patrons go to the show an hour early to play. Public dough going for 'Wonder Bar' since Civic Opera broke annual appearance schedule. Solomon Rlckner, oldest U. S. white man, celebrated • his 111th birthday with a party. . Doc Barrett, owner of largest Uncle Tom'-show. Is re-equipplng for the road late In April. : Average seven features per Week for midnight screenings in Cooper- Publlx houses. Managers, and criclts never sleep. Intimation that station KFOR might discontinue was an erron Ether link has merely moved to dif- ferent quarters. Lincoln theatre, dark nearly a year, xmdergolng overhauling for opening Feb. 22 with 'Emma.' Will go for 60-36-10. Bob Russell, state league presi- dent, waff congratulated at a recent baseball confab for being able to be sued for ^20,000. . Dulath By James Watts E. R. Ruben,- Publlx Northwest mogul, visits here. AJan Wallace, director of the Lit- tle theatre, has a son. . Vandals tour city slashing auto tires during late evening. '"White collars' seen among show- shoveling crews on streets. One Duluthlan Is said to have $15,000 In gold cached In a bank vault. Aviation dub organized here , to promote aviation and airports In the Northwest. . Fair weather Is bringing the crowds back to the theatres after two weeks of frigid blasts.. . Duluthlan Orientals are fighting the Japs with chop suey. Chinese here send $16,000 to homeland for war. : . Gordon & McKlbhln hats, $1;. suits, $1; neckties, . 2 for 6 cents,; shirts, 10 cents.. All In one news- paper ad. Mrs. Bernhard Silberstelrt, Du- luth's first bride and widow of late safety conimlssioner and merchant, dies at 82. Mme. Sigrld Onegln, contralto, found the big armory -virtually sold, out When she arrived here for a concert Friday, Feb. 19. Publix theatres of Duluth, Supe- rior^ and range cities are observing Al Anson week, dedicated to the Publix district riiariager. Manager Spaeth of the. Lyric, wants to know why prowlers smashed the front. doors and left without taking any souvenirs. .' Mrs. T.. L. Chapman and Marlon- Schmidt won city championship In the. "HeraldrHotel' Duluth contract bridge tourney over a field of 194. Receivership asked here for Wal- ter R. Whiteside, Duluth and Tulsa sportsman and owner of Tulsa hockey team and $li<)00;000 stadium. Col, William f; Henry, business manager of 'The .Herald,' elected vice president of Midland Press as^ sociatlon for Minnesota at Chicago convention. . ' ■ ^ Nobody, hiirt this week in the comic opera ■warfare between Du- luth and Superior union riiusicians for broadcasting rights over Sta- tion WBBC. , - . 'Hell Divers,' heralded by a big ballyhoo at the Lyceum, headed Into an Arctic blast with sheets. o£ glare ice over the entire city. A change iri weather brought big housed for most of the Week. B; H. (Gene) Harbliaon, actor and stage manager at the Little theatre, new president of the. Minnesota: So- ciety of the Sons of American Revolution. Frank Teririey,' .forrrier presldent of Little, theatre," heads ,the Duluth chapter of the S;A.R. Ann McEwen, daughter, of W. E. McEwen, labor editor, sails for England to Mrs, I3dgar Wallace. She will collaborate with Mrs. Wal- lace in dramatizing works , of . the late novelist. She Avas assistant to Mr, Wallace at Hollywood during' the early winter. . Little Leona Moffatt, aged 12, wins ■ 14111 annual Superior dog derbj^ by .strategy. Holding her pooch, Teddy, in ieash at the start while other dp^s engaged In a free for-all flght, she made the course twice before, the . other snarling muts had riiade the first round. By H. Gene IHaynes Charlie Davis'band is still urioo- cupied. '■ James Leby. now with Berkell players. Hall Bailey band' playing Lyric ballroom. . Bandits nicked two nclghbs for total of $185. Ethel Barryhiore coming to Eng- lish's week March 17. ' Rotary club's district convention helped out picture grosses. Al Sky and his band hack In at Indiana roof for short period. Joe Elliott, mortologist for yearS) has .opened a key and lock shop. 'Prestige' pulled out early at In- diana to give 'Shanghai Express' nine-day run.* Plans for Charlie Davis band to go Into Circle, Publix house, have been abandoned. Mrs. George Mess, local artist, received award at Fountalnebleau, France, art show. : . Ed Rescner, former violin soloist with Davis band, now playing- in English orchestra. Berkell players, how at Keith's, augriiented last week with Blue Grass colored band. Police and firemen again collect- ing old clothing for needy. Thea- tres cbroperating on screens. They are bringing their, lunches now on. Monday's when Lyric and Apollo give away an auto free,. Margery WllUariis, lead at Berkell stock in Keith's, was in Chicago re- cently negotiating for sale of a play. Lupe Velez files through. Says John Gilbert Is Just another man. On way to Pittsburgh and 'Hot- Cha' bid. Ted Nichols,,Publix p. a., hurried by plane to help but Ohio istate theatre owners' meeting last week at Columbus, O. Satisfied with showing of first all German talker. Circle Is pulling out No One Man' and showing for two days 'Die Privatsekertaertn.' The 'News' Is running a series of 'Hooslers in Movies,' pointing out screen, names born in Hobslerland. Series Is timed. to hit releases at local houses. Including Carole Lonir bard, who Is heading cast at Circle this week. Tom Kelly, actor at downtown hotel, bewailed loss of auto tire from rear rack. Going up front he nbted slip imder windshield wiper. 'The person taking your tire had llcenise No. so-and-so!. Police nabbed the thief. Now Kelly Is looking for his benefactor; . : Indidnapolis's annual auto show closed Its eight-day run Saturday nifeht (20) to a total gross of about $18,000. Figures are much less than in 1931; Management even went so. far as to pro'i'ide free taxi service to the State fair ground where the sho.w was. held; Westchester Door throrigers .shunted off by polled at Ossining show houses. Charles R, Tigho, Yonkors, treas- urer of newly formed LYoadcast I'r'.pduders. Kevin, young son of Roy C, An- drews hurt in coasting accident at Tarrytown. Mrs. Mary Ilelt.cr secures .sepa- ration and alimony from husband, I.x)Uis, Mt. Vernon musician. Can of food admission tb Sid Lehman's thfalre one day last week at Ilastlhg-on-IIudson. . - I'arkway .Garton-IIau.s, North White Plains, succeeds one Imrned out at Larclimont a month ago. All hand.s home by 2. .a. rii. by edict'of '\Vhitc Plains police. After that hour \vandf!rf:r3' will, be ques- tioned. Koran, «minrt roader, hooked up with Yonkf-rs 'Il"ralfl' on. oucry column during \v(Ok'.f ,«:t;iy at RKO I'roctor'.si Voiiker.s. Hit. Cleveland By Glenn Q. Pullen Dick Curiiniings back In radio blr here. . '-. City-wide pinochle contests latest, thing. Gangland's guns settling-; local corn sugar px'oblem, . Free coffee and cake served by Park at midnight shows.. Restaurant boys. , preparing for 'Electra' at Ohio March.?. Local Theatre Guild opens new heq.dquai',tcrs with carnival. P.aul Yaple* ex-mugger, how ped- dling new Argentine soft-drink. ' Murray Winkler of Cameo has ideas about western burly chain. Mary Elizabeth Gleason back from two years dancing In Spain. Carl " Osbbrn, singer, .saved WJAY's radio Interference car from fire. Eddie Miller at Cameo engaged to .Flo McDonald, dancer in 'Fol- lies.' Rex O'Malley left 'Experience Unnecessary' for part In new N. Y. play, Norman Slegel, 'Press' radio ed. In Miami; with Beverly Dean pinch- hitting, Tatso Johnson has scrammed for opening in Detroit stock^s 'Payment Deferred.' Ed J.acobs of 'Jfews* swipes .'Fee- dee's' Idea of running movie time schedules. Ken; Murray spent most of time checking sAles of his new book' in book stores. - . ' With Prohlb ' squad abolished, speaks are bringing experisive bars out of storage. Olsen and Johnson, originally slated for 105th St., ishifted to Pal- ace for March 6. They're rumoring that McLaugh- lin & Manheim .wlll rent Ohio this summer for stock. Sidney. Danhenberg- made hea;d of advertising and publicity for War- . ner's 33 Ohio houses. Cal De"Voll, song writer for Gene and Glenn; makes stage debut with radio team at Palace. 'Man Who Played God' and "Lady With Past' first films to rate hold- over In several months. Tommy Blng.'Corcoran doubles for .Palace's. organlog as singer wheri not running elevators. Uba.ngl tribe's Interpreter said they won't play any more theatre dates; preferring to do circuses. . 'Girl Crazy's' time schedule made State's bill longest on record, with last feature sta,rtlng at 11 p. m. Harry : Richrrian discovered old singing pal In Al Schenck, m. c. for Frankle Burns' spot for six months; Ton! .Sllvestro, whistles lullabies when wife brings his new ^even- pound baby-girl around to his cafe.; Llta Grey Chaplin leaving In July . for southern France tp visit her two sons living: there with her mother. - Chuck Seariion, 'WJAY announcer, likes tb tell hbw his grandfather, Doro Dare, -Was first to tight rope It across. Niagara Falls. By Sidney Burton All .Shea-Publix neighborhood houses down to 25c. Legitimate houses go dirk, again next week Indefinitely. Town flooded with theatre two- fpr-ones and thrift books. Lafayette now plugging over 000 one-sheet lithographs weekly. Saturday night's midnight bene- fit for unemployed turned in over $5,000. Kreutzberg and his dancing group In for one night at Erlanger, Friday. Jimmy Goodrich, former light- weight champ, filed bankruptcy petition, Gayety reported closing shortly with Palace ditto, maybe due to ex- piring lease. Western New York one-nighters reported begging for 'flesh' appear- ances. ■ Magicians and handcuff kings In demand. Connecticut Dramatic stock at Empres.s, Dan- bury,, folds. ... Palace, Danbury, giving away thermometers. Exclusive .Choate school; Walllng- ford, being wired for .sound. State police trying tp clamp down lid Pn Danbury's wide-open gam- bling. ; Qeorge Howell, retired actor, in demand In Danbury: territPry as speaker. Sidney K. Bennett and Madeleine H. Glass, writers, New York, mar- ried at Danbury. Edward GInty, former actPr, ar- rested at Danbury as gambling house proprietor. , Harold G. Cummlngs, man.ager Of Palace, Danbury, .joined by "wife and two daughters from Boston; Danbury Llon.s hear address by B. E. Ilpffman, general manager of the Eastern division of Warner JJro.i. theatres, • William X^lemlng. manager of various hou.sfs in Southern states ,at lil.s home In Watcrbury suffering. Trbm loss of voice. .