Variety (May 1932)

60 VARIETY YIME S § QUA RE Tuesday, May 24, 1932 News From the Dailii This department contains rewritten thfatrjcarnews items as pub> lished during the week in the daily pikpers of New York,. Chicago, San Francisco, Hollywood and London; Variety takes no credit for'these news items; each has Jieen rewritten from a daily paper East Eijui.ty miaeazlne asks former leelt people now starring in films to re- tu.ra to the stage at Intervals and help keep legit afloat. Edward. Corbett. 26 West 96th street, seeks an Injunction restrain- ing. Hyiinan Adier from producing 'There You Are,' musical, at the Cohan, N. Y. Corbett. says he wrote •a story for Adler which-.wasn't used and that the book of 'Are' plagiar- izes his worlr; -. Jules Murry, Shubert booking, head, home from Europe. Appeal for funds made by Mrs. Chas. Guggenheim for summer concerts at the Lewlsohh Stadium, N. Y. John ifCane,: assignee b£ a $10,Q0O claim for legal service reAdcred to the Roxy Theatfes - COrp. by Son- nenscheln, Berkson, LaiJtmah, Lev- inson & Morse, files for receivership of the Boxy theatre, N. Y. Harry Kosch, president of the corp., files answer adinlttlng allegations and consenting to an equity receiver. Clarence W. Morganstern, 61, ]cglt producer, held for grand Jury action in $1,000 ball by Malglstrate Stern on charge :of $900 theft firought against him by Dennis Connelly, playwright. Latter says ho gave Morganstern the money to buy an option on 110,000 worth of scenery . for •.Connelly's play, 'New York/. on the. strength of Morganstern's al- leged statement he could finance the production. Connelly blalms there was no scenery, no -one financially interested in-the play and no inoney returned to. him. Wurlltzer Co. will build the three .organs for Rockefeller Center. Picture in the form of an en- graving radioed to the liner Bremen, at sea from Zurich, Switzerland. Receiving apparatus aboard ship transformed the picture into a cut ready for printing. Process called .^a^OtriMX— -rt.^ .. .... Senate excuses pages from a night session so they can see a circus. Doiie on Senator Watson's motion. Ira . Hards, stage director, joins Erlanger'a to produce. Selena Royle, actress, will marry Earle Larrlmore, actor, this fall. Players' Club production of 'TtolUus' at Moss' Broadway thea- itre, New . York, some time next month. Dust trap, eliminating dust, in • use for excava^tlon work at Raclie- f eller.. Center. riiptcy; with $500 eaulty ih an auto to .offS(bt; liabilities of $19.6,375. Bulk of that sum Is represented by two notes,, one for $100,000 and another fpr $25,000 indorsed by the Shuberts and Bobby Connolly. . . Voice carried by light beam from dirigible flying over ah air field and then, broadcast by^ radio. Ruth Fallon, daughter' of Wm. Fallon, late attorney, drops libel suit brought, ag^iinst those . con- cerned With 'The Mouthpiecet' at the Winter Ga:rden, New York. Case dismissed; George MetaXa engaged to sing at the Central Park Casino. : Hannah Williams Kahn drops divorce action against Roger Wolfe Kahn. ■ ■. Giuseppe Gozzl, who sang in Ital- ian and ' Mexican- bpera companies. Is now a Boston blacksmith. Elmer Rice opens offices for legit production. ' . Richard Bonellt and Helen Glea- son, Americans, engaged by Metro- politan Opera Co. ■, i?ool in RCA stock netted pool's participants $5,000,000 . in a yireek, Senate Investigation committee is told. Nils . Asther, whose deportation had. been ordered, caii stay In . the U. S. and can apply for citizenship. 'vRosita, of Roslta and Ramon, re- coVerinis from an ai)pehdlx removal. Mrs. Nat Nazarro, Jr., sues for divorce. Rule prohibiting: National League ball players frOm talking -with spec- tators rescinded. A $50i000 fire damage to Erie theatre, Schenectady, N; . Y, Film taken by a doctor of hiS; young son and a baby ape tends to disp.rfljre. L.the .jnedico's.. prevjoy^ statement the animal vrda more 're- ceptive mentally. Tito Schipd replacing' Beniaihino 6lgli next year in Metropolitan Opera. . Gigli quit over a salary cut. . Luis Cdlvo, Colomibian leper, is freed from a colony, cured, and wTlt^ 'Eligia,' musical composition. U. ^Marine band plays it. for the first time Friday (20), broadcasting on short wa^e to Colombia where ■the composer will hear It. Marguerite Sylva will dd 'Carmen' for one night at Chanln's. 46th St., New York. Alex Aarons joins 'Ballyhoo' mu- slcat production staff.' Gilbert Miller moving his produc- tion quarters to his father's thea- tre, the Henry Miller- , Mrs. Catherine StOrr brings Ar-. thur Tracy 'Street Singer' to court, claiming h^ owies $227 lii back rent. Tracy says a pair of suspendera and a suit were stolon. Court .ordered Mrs. Storr to pay $50 for lost ap- parel and Tracy $177 rent. . Leon Errol enters sanitarium for treatmieht ol! Infected hands. Mrs. Roark Bradford, wife, of the author, gets a separation. Martin Herman back from a round-the-globe hop. Pierette Club, headquartered at the hotel Pierre, New York, closes Saturday .(21). not wholly confined to Fox interests and that 1,600,000 class A shares of Fox Fllihs were sold by , the Iheoltre corp, at less than market volue. AH of which is denied by Fox oRlcIals pending: the hearing. Favorable rei>ort. from the House Pateiits ■ Committee in. Washington towards the Slrovlch . bill which would extend copyright term from 23 to 66 years and absolve motion picture houses from paying th& American Society ' of - Authors .and (Composers a seat tax. . > Amelia Earhatt Putman, .who flew the Atlantic, won't go'into pictures. After the battle of the newsreei, wife of. the publisher will probably write a book and let it go at that. United Stores Realty Corp.,, sub- sidiary of United Cigar Stores, in bankruptcy. Liabilities are $8,116,- 589, with assets of $1,643,625. De- preciation in real estate values blapied, but several theatre invest- ments a factor. Irving Trust re- ceiver. John Montagu play gets a new title. Hereafter The Boy Friend.' . Ruth Merrill beliig considered for the Martha Madison play McKaig will produce next season. Reported that Chester Eirskin will come back to • ErJanger, fold in the fall. ■'. . Moss Hart reported to have dis- carded the play he wrote abroad in favor of another idea. Chester Beecroft coming to town shortly to arrange for release of the pictures he is making In Miami. Grreenwich .Village holding open house week to attract them from Uptown. Art exhibit, puppet shows and other exhibits. Dwight Wlman and John Tuerk considering a musical version of 'The Command to Love'* If done, Guy Bolton win iadapt a script pre- pared ' by Dr. Lothdr, with P. G-. Wodehouse on the lyrics.. Music by Ralph Erwin. Al Woods has a play by Lothar- Gottwald, which win be adapted by the Hattons, Also! Interested In ■Venus on Wheels,' by De Kobra. Contract requirement Is that 'Good Earth' shall come to th^ stage not later than Nov. 1 for the Guild. Gilbert Miller will remove to'Mil- lat's^'the&tTir ■us'-MO'dai'-iftr"^ ^ Kingdom' cloEres at . the - Empire, around June 15. H. M. SchifCer, who owns the Eng- lish-speaking rights to 'Cocktail,' denies that the Shuberts ever had any right to that production. Players' Club reads the signs and gets a $3 top for its production of 'Trollus . and Cresslda' at Moss' Broadway June 6. Three-fourths of the orch with be $2.60 and $2. Dr. Smith Ely Jelllfe, neurologist, loses.sult for $10^000 against Harry K.. Thaw for services rendered "Thaw In connection with his mur- der trial 26 years ago. Cause of ac- tion outlawed. Illness of Rlchy Craig, Jr., post- pones o'penlng of 'Hey, Nonny, Nonny' mUslcal originally due at the Shubert, New York, May 23. Now coming in May 30. Arthur Hammerstein makes peace with United ScSnlc' Artists tfnlon Loca:i 829, thereby okaying his pro- duction with lAwrence Weber of 'Man Who; Reclaimed His Head.' Hammerstein owed Cirker .& Rob- bins, scenic builders,: $9,700 knd 'it 'Man' is d hit will pay them back. Homer Mason, va-ide actor, stag- ing 'On the Make,' legit. Allied Theatre Owners of New York, Inc., granted certlflcaUe of in- corporation. Radio City opens Iniforihatlon bur reau at 21 West 50th St'., New York. BelasCo & Curran get coast 'Cat and Fiddle' rights. Boston police s'ay Shipwreck Kel- ly la a public nuisance and bring him down from hla; flagpole after being Up 24 hoUrs. Judge tells him Boston has enough to do without entertaining him. Harry M. Warner subpoenaed by the Senate stock market investiga- tion to tell the story of an alleged $1(),000,000 profit in Warner Bros, stock by Goldman-Sachs Trading "and' certain associates. Arthur M. Swanstrom, who did 'Sons o* Qune,' in voluntary bank- Estate of. William Leahy looking for Harry Sebastlen, owner of rights to 'Welcome Stranger' by the Jate Aaron Hoffman. ' Somebody wants to buy Sebastlen's rights. Judith Lloyd, actress and divorced wife of John Eshelihan Lloyd, lum- berman, starts a . trespass suit against the latter's present wife, former Mrs. Mary Penrose .Gilford, In West Chester, Pa. Jim Barton must tell Emanuel Lewis, referee, why he can't pay $150 weekly alimony, '.• Owes about $3,000. Richard Crooks, Aniorlcnii opera singer, dt the Metropolitan O. H. next season. i.Tacob Rubensteln, holder of Fox Theatres shares, aaks the appoint- ment of a receiver on the grounds that. W. il. Sheehdn received large sums of money for wliich no serv- vlce.? Were rendprod, that $1,500,000 was paid to attorneys for services Life guards went on full time at Coney Island Sunday (22). ^ Aarons & Freedley and itot Sam Harris "will present the Sherwood- Gershwin musical next season. Jack Buchanan -will head the cast. As A. & F. have relinquished the Avon, production is likely to go into Moss' Broadway at a moderate b. o. scale. Romney Brent to London for the English 'Warrior's Husband* and will stay there for the Cochran re- vUe in the fall. ' Coast Mrs. Irma May Weltzenkorn is asking a Los Angeles* court to grant her $1,000 alimony pending trial of lier divorce suit from Lovvls Welt- zohkorn. Paramount Writer, She has already Obtained a Mexican mall divorce. Mar.v Lewis, opera, singer, in Los Angeles. , William Paley, president of Cbr lumbid Rroadcasting -Co]., sailed for Honolulu With his bride. Dorothy Hart Heai-st, ex-wife of John Ran- dolph Hearst, son of the publisher. Minor injuries -were sustained by Jeaiiette MacDondld when a horse she was riding for a picture at Para- mount forced hei: against a fence. • Home and furnishings of Jack Dempsejr and BsteUe Taylor went under the auctioneer's hammer last week in L. A, Helen Lee Worthing, former show girl, was granted . $300 .per month temporary alimony pending her dlvoi'ce suit against her colored hus- band, Dr. Eugene C. Nelson. She asked for $700 a month. Former actress charges her husband gave her medicines which affected • her mind, and frequently struck her. Convicted of defrauding her apart- ment house owner of $41 rent, Jean DeLare, of pictures, was granted a new trial June 21. While Constance Bennett Was in Europe somebody lifted several hun- dred dollars' worth of linen, silver and glassware from her Mallbu Beach home. She reported It tWo weeks after the discovery. • Lbs Angeles County grand Jury issued, a secret in'dlctineht against four men who hi-Jacked $3,336 stolen from the safe of the Million Dollar theatre. Quartet took the money from Ruth Hornbeck and George Miller, , who'stole it. . Abatement proceedings' - against the L. A. Paris inn, Zucca Inn and George Olson club were dismissed by the Attorney-General's office in 'Washington. Cafes assertedly sold setup of ginger ale and cracked ice. Robert A. Etiie, Jr., married last week to Helen Gibson, former wife of Hoot Gibson, has been ordered to appear for trial Wednesday (26) on a: charge of ducking his hotel bill. Parents of Sally Eilers were In- jured slightly in an auto accident. •..--...'.■•.- .*... *»#^».*^ ■ I . — ■ .. . . Harry Bannister denies ,ia new ro- mance, with Wanda Lyon, non-pro- fessional. Frank Hardy, 69, theatre Janitor, arrested on complaints that he had lured children Into the theatre with candy and mistreated them. Three bandits held up A. Esberg, manager of the. RKO theatre, Los Angeles, and five employes, and es- caped with $3,800. Holdup hap- pened shortly before noon^ Sir Philip Ben Greet's Shakes-' speai'ean players to England for summer appearance in the prov- inces. In the fall, to France under government auspices. .Bobby. Newman gets Vina Del- mar's 'A Chance at Heaven' for'the stage;. ; .- ■ . . ■. . Officers claiming to be elected on. a rump ticket to Amateur Cinema League bring suit to oust previous olflcers and take their places. Court holds their claim not proven arid orders another election in 30 days,. Sponsors the 16mm. movement. Carmella Ponselle, contralto, given contract with the Metropolitan for next seaison, Equity studying alleged violations by licensed and non-licensed castr ing agents! House of Flowers, florist, sues Florenz Zlegfeld, claiming he hasn't paid a $1,267 promissory note for flowers received. Metropolitan Opera announces program and . personnel for , next season, dropping some stars, includ- ing JeHtza. Bohrien and Gigll; 28 singers are out. Florence Jane Foreman, former film actress, awarded $1^250 monthly alimony fro(n her late husband's es- tate. He Wds Wlnfleld A..Foremat). La Casa Texas Guinanr Valley Stream, Tj. t., opens. May 2S. Jane .Reld, actress, won a divorce from Thadeus R. Brooks, camera- man. She charged Brooks sold her furniture. Harriet Parsons, daughter of Lou- ella, and Marquis Busby, former legman for Miss Parsons, were in- jured when a car In which they were riding sldeswlped a train. Suit for $11,900 damages has been filed against Fox Film Corp. by Hayden Talbot. Latter claims the company, terminated his writing contract without paying him the full amount. ' . Diane Duval, actress, and mother, Mrs. Blanche F, Brown, have asked $10,^66 damages allegedly resulting .from an auto accident. Hal Wilcox, film set designer, and Dr. (31en T. Logsdon. have started around the world in a d2-foot boat. Damage suit for ■ $35,000 agaSitst Ralph Ince, director, by W^ M. Patch has been settled out of Court. Suit resulted from a fight In ,the old Press Club when Patch tried- to be peacemaker.' Late Edgar Wallace left a $2,000 estate in Los Angeles, this sum be- ing due him from Radio as salary at the time of his death. Wife of Stephen Goosson, art director, has filed divorce suit. She's asking $455 monthly alimony. James Bralnerd, fllni employe, was found nude and badly beaten In a suspected robbery. . the defendants ruined her alle?tt>i romance with Maurice CosteiiS through disparaging remarks abou* her moral conduct. Lew Cody, Marian Nixon ahfl other picture people testified m th« trial of Jack Nixon, fllm promoted on nine counts of alleged grand theft and one of issuing a rubber check. -Miss. Nixon is to testify she Is no relation to the promoter who aiald he was her brother. Hoot GIbabn had. two wives named Helen, hence .wife No. 1 wants it known she's not the Helen Gibson recently married to Robert A. Etle^ jr. ■ .. . ■ - . Bench warrants for Mary Nolaa and her husband, Wallace T. Mai creryj were l:.sued when the couple failed to .surrender in Judge Cle- ment Nye's court; Their $400 bttU was forfeited. Pair were recently convicted of violating .the state. labor law in operation of their dress sh'qp. . Ort the same day Earl Burtnett effected a tecoriclliatiori with his second wife, a bench warrant was issued for him because he was $1,. 6O0 behind in alimony to his first •wife. Daisy DeBoe, Clara Bow's former secretary, appealed to the state Su- preme Court on her conviction of the theft of $8Z6 from Miss Bow; . Nils Asthef... after renewing his visitor's permit several times, went to. Mexico and returned across the burder as an immigrant. Swedish actor will now be naturalized. Judith Voselll,- film actress, has filed first papers in a trespass suit against Mrs. Mdry Penrose Gilford, second, wife pf John Eshelman Lloydi to. wliom Miss Voselll was formerly married. Papers filed in West Chester, Pa. . . Mid-West Dick Daniels, Minneapolis boxer, lost a: decision to his estranged wife in court when he was ordered to pay $60-a month temporary alimony. John J. O'Mara, editor of thft 'Electric Trade Review,' went on trial in St. Louis on libel charges brought against him by Orville Jen- nings, president of the Intefnatlonal Electrical Workers. O'Mara mean- while Is out on bond on a 10 months sentence for passing bad checks.' Chicago Is to have Its second an- nuaX^'Csiitury «.?JE>rogres<3.-Pe,y*J[<u)A.. 1. It Will be a bUIld-up for next year's fair. Enrico Caruso,- son of the late opera star. Is Hollywood boutid for a musical career. As a means of raising a necessary $159,000, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc« Cormick is out to get a rental sllc* on the Chi Civic Opera auditorium. Rental on the house has been $3,001 a pei^formance. Whether WRHM, of Minneapolis, will be allowed a full 24-hour serv- ice will be decided by the Fedei-al radio commission this Week. Appll* cation is being contested by tw» collegre stations in the same vicinity. Omaha went whoopee last ,wee]^ with its annual Oom-Pah carnival, sponsored by the Knights of Co- lumbus. Israel Erieau, aspiring actor from Menominee, Mich., Is marathonlng towards Hollywood, a baby carriage holding his, belongings and a police dog accompanying him. Claims he's in no 'hurry and la " playing every- thing from theatres to garages oh- the way. Five men operating a wheel In a street carnival at St Louis were arrested on gambling charges. Com- plaints from players stated the game wasn't square.- . ■ Government radio station opened in Omaha, last week; It's for air- plane service. .. Mrs. Juanlta Pique; mother of MItzl MaySaIr, dancer, got a divorce In St Louis from Robert Pique oti grqunds of general indignities. Court allowed $50 a mionth for the care of Mltzl. Action wasn't con- tested. Earl Carroll's 'Vanities' skipped Minneapolis arid will go to St,- Paul Instead, opening May 31. Action of the city fathers oC Minneapolis in. banning 'Crazy QuUf caused tbe switch.. George Randolph Hearst, son of the publisher, is being sued for di- vorce by Mrs. Blanche Wilbur Hearst, who charges desertion. Slander suit and $100,000 darxage actjon against Mrs. Anna Hallor and lier daughtei-,.Mrs,. Edith Dillon, wife of John Francis Dillon, fl-lm director, were temporarily^ptopped, whe.n Mrs. Hallor collapsed after giving testi- mony. Vlvletirie Sengler, actress .Tnd writer. Is suing. She charges Dog racing track belonging to the Mississippi Valley Kennel Club, Ca- hbkla, 111., auctioned for $1,420. Spot had been closed for .some time. Report of receivers for Skouras Bros. Enterprises in St, Louis made in Circuit Court there showed a loss of $224,000 for the Ambassador and Missouri theatres last year. Claimed by the receivers that for the.'ttrst 15- weeks ©f this year the Ambassador had only five profitable weeks, while, the Missouri liad bu*