Variety (Aug 1932)

Tntadrnj^ Aujgust 2, 1932 MHSIC-NITE CLUBS VARIETY 53 Disc Reviews . By Abel Green -Joe Sanders Pianlst-maeBtro of. tUe Joe 6a.n- decs Nlgllt Hawks <forild6rly'Collab* orative with the late Carleton A. Coon) tickles the Ivories lii 'mean' manner.'. on . Victor ' •240S3, titled 'Soiithology' and 'Intangibility.' Both are his original .compositions from the piano folto titled 'Tmprovl- sation.' r Some snappy digit throw- . liiig at .them tbar keys by Sa.nders. Ruby Newman' New Victor dance maestro ■ fea- .iures a nice, smooth, melodic style oin his first itiixr disks With the ]^nny Boners t^lo and-Gordon Gra- ham assisting vocally. Thei>opular' and -jatz iaymphonic 'My Silent Love,' lyrlcized by Edward Hey- mahn from the 19-year-old (Miss) . Dana Buesse's 'Jazz- Nocturne,' is syihphpnically syncopated by Ruby Newman.''Am I >Wastln'g My Time?' Is 'the,. companion .piece. 'Thriee Guesses', and 'I Send Itfy Love "With Thesia Roses,'' on Victor '24043, Is ' equally .qke.. ' , • "■ ■■ '— [ —. 7 ■ , . Buddy Roper* Screen Juv«, -with -his California Cavaliers,' holding: forth currently at the Hotel Penhsylvainliiit New^York, dishes ,uk>'.a ltt9,ir of,fox trots In.'With .My Sweetie in the Moonlight' and *I'-Beg' Tour ipardoni • MadSmolselle.' IjOuIs R^'PPt his sat : player, , and Barpey Rapp, the maestro's'brother, and. Rogers split the vocal honors i-espectively. They're nice 'polite fpxe^,,. Waring's Pennsylvanians The "Warlngs are taking a show- manly Attitude oh their recordings. Thei^e's so much smooth stufCi: ex- tant, with- every polite; melodic 'I love you' tyiie of fox trot song sounding the. same, that .the 'War- Ings- are finding that it pays to p6p It up a bit That's why they're going in for the 'scat' school of foxtrotology, as with .'I Heard,' composed. by Don Redman. The novelty vocalization, featuring that bass-voiced drummer of. t^e' W<irings,:; makes nice, varia- tion for the dansapatloh. "A Plcnfc lor'.Two' with vocal tHo=offsets the scat stuff; ■'Leo Reisman Sniooth fdx trots by o, ctksB maes- ■ trd. 'You Gave Me .J:i«.erything But Love'.and/In the StiU of the Night' are Just the'-type of. foX'trots i^eis- mait' \Voijld purvey . at the Central Park Casliid, where he is still baton- ing thefe. .'/ .v.i '..RuM' .Coliimbo . ■ ■ The crooner Is now back as an orchestra leader, as hd 'wip(s during his Dbscur)9 days oh,the Coais't before .coming ieajst. Nat'uiaily be warbles with his band, but. 'Just Ano'ther Dream of Tou,' A waltz, and 'Living In Dreams,' l.t., are. essentially dance numbers. And good, too. Ted Black ' Another nice waltz-fox trot couplet, the contlnentallsh 'Masque- rade''and the more. zlppy .'Banking on the 'W'eather.' Played with jpro- fesslon eclat, they'll satisfy on the hoof. , Dick Robertson sub-blllcd for the ibine:aI6gs. Jesse Crawford Finished console specialties, by the Paramount : organist. 'Road to Mandalay' and 'Sylvia' are coupled for the mass trade, and the longer playing 85c disk links • tunes from 'Student.Prince,' Including the Sere- nade, 'Deep in My Heart' and the 'Students' March/ Grand organlo^s. spired by the Lucky Strike radio slogans; and musically interpreted to remind thereof. Apart from that, Kassel does this and the companion 'Hell's Bells* In snappy fashion. It's a different sort of a record, and should fetch some extra cus- tomers, Columbia 2682. Eddy Duchin The Central Park Casino maestro reaches across the Atlantic for 'You're Blase,' a smart musical comedy type song how a West Bnd<P^ucce6e London rage, which has been taken up also by the smart spot orchestras in New York. This and 'Night When Love Wfes Bom,' a more natural and less, strained foxtrot, are crjsply handled by the finished Duchin danoe : technicians.' Columbia 2677. , Same goies for. 'Clouds 'Will Soon Roll By' (Hamilton Sisters warbling the pollyahnalsh olbservatlon) and 'Now You've Got. Me "Worryin' for You' (Fra;nces Lahgford, radio bullder-iipperlng right now, .vocal refraining), which are coupled on Columbia 2680. Edith Lorand On the Continent, this mistress of the baton enjoys an enviable repur tatlpn with her concert <>rchet9tra;, which is extensively recorded abroad iahd some: of whose rMords Colum- bia lmj>orts from time to time. . .On No's.: 2667 and 2683, Columbia brings over on the wax some of the world's favorite concet*t waltzes. 'De&tlny Waltz' is cdupled with Flbich's 'Poem,' and. the classic 'Schon Rosmarln* (Fair Rosemary), composed by Fritz Itrelsler and one of the vlrtudso'il concert favorites, is a worthy companion .piece to the waltz themes froni Oscar Strauss' operetta, 'The Last "Waltz.' Viennese music addicts will go big for both of these. . - Buddy Rogers The screen juvenile-ddnce maestro Is' recording prollflcally for Victor with his'California ICavalferis (as is the billing of the Biogers dance bisind at the Hotel Pennsylvania, N. Y.). And Rogers' dishes forth a nice brand of dansapatlon, too, wlthi couplets such as 'Happy-Go-Lucky You' and 'In My Hideaway'. (No. 24015), ' whereon he .splits the vocal Interludes. - between > ■' himself and Frank Parish. ' . Of. his ■ ow'n CQllabocatlcn, '^o'u Fasclnate. Me,'. .could: be'built up as a trademark for Rogers. 'H^Ilo Gor- geous,' a pip Walter Donaldson number «h' the' reverse, is vocally reprised by Rogers alsol • Still another (24049) Is the popu- lar 'Please Handle With Care.' one of the few Intelligent song construc- tions extant, which is backed by ah equally fetching melody fox trot, 'Ask Yourself Who X«ves You.' The first is something of a mild hit; the second deserves equal repute. Louis Rapp of the. band pei'sohner does nicely with the vocal chorus.. Art Kassel! . Zestful .fox trot couplet by Kassel and his Kassels in the Air who snap it o\it handily with 'O. K. America,' a timely topical ditty obviously iri- ^•^fe^l^r' .0.. ^*hUzV Ofr^yS HAM" r O B B TUlli BAKEB, hEN HERNIE, ' WAtTEB IIIRSCH MILLER MUSIC offer ■ STRJUfGE-INTERLUDE A N«w Soni;. • . Johnny Hamp Hamp and his Orchestra (it used to be 'and his Kentucky Colonels' in the days when they went in for those klnda billings) strut their fox- trotology in swell style on Victor 22990, featuring 'Cabin in the Cot- ton' and 'By a RippJIlng Stream.' AS fox trots they serve their pur- veyors handily; as commercial pop songs it's a coincidence and an anomily at the same time that both are of the same i3iatinctive type that win fare but mildly for royalty- getting purposes. 'Cabin' particu- larly is one of those constructions which furnish gopd stace or radio material but serve their .creators ill as. revenue producers. • •Rippling Stream' Is even more popular, on the air, composed by Bernlce Petkere, one of those.tin pan alley larlties—a femme composer with' a consistent batting average. Her 'Lullaby of the Leaves' has al- ready enjoyed a No. 1 national pop- ularity which, in others times would have earned her a small fortune, but can mean only about $3,000 gross these days to hier and her lyric col- laborator, Joe Young, and h6r 'Lady I Love' l3;anothcr very much In-the- alr tune. But these, like 'Rlpplincr Stream,' which Hamp's male trio vocalizes so effectively, can only be- gin to mean anything on quantity OS we'. 1 as quality. The anomaly arises from the basic quality of all of Miss Petkere's corn - positions, which are t.p.a.—concc..:- edly unusual tunes. Anyway, she has the artistic sat- isfaction' of a skillful dance inter- pretation by the Mampltee. Too. Long A friend- who had been but of town asked Jack' Osterman how long a run be bad on a recent roadhouse engagement. 'I stayed for one bad check,' said Osterman. High Scliool Band Act Date$ Extended by RKO CihclnhatI, Aug. 1. of: the WlB^thrbp High School bc^nd locally for RKO re- sulted in an additional: date for the aggregation at ! RKO's 106th St., Cleveland, week of Aug. 12. High school group comprises 40 pieces, in- cluding 31 boy studentis and 9 girls. Band Is trained and conducted by Julius B. Smith. Band is the winner of the recent Wurlltzer state contest In Ohio as the best musical organization of Its kind in that state. Features vari- ous instrument types. Including a French horn sextet. Big Show for BIow-OfF Galveston, Aug. 3. Hollywood, ace night club on Texas coast, closes iLabor Dai'; . Henry Busse and band with SJtldle Bash trio are booked for the rest'of the season, wlih floor show fea- turing "Wells and Brady, Henry Dunn, Pcpplho and Rhoda and the Reynolds " isters. (Continued from page 42)' receivers refused to piy Interest and taxes over the summer, pro- posing to 'operate the theatres and to refund to the first mortgagees the fixed charges out of, .operating profit next season./ The .inortgagees re- jecte;! the plan and started fore- closures, the court setting Aug. li for hearing.'- It Is.doubtful if the cases will be disposed of at that .lime. PIn<;us and Goldstone own the Imperial first mortgage and Sam HaiTis Stone owns th<s paper on the 46th St ISrlanger's dalm . owner,';hiP' or booking privileges of live Broad- way theatres, despite the fact that Erlanger's theatre has been lost. City Marshals walked Into the house about two weeks ago. a!nd turned possession over to a reprecentatlve of' Vincent Astor. The Gaiety Is now a stock burlesque house, leav- ing but the Fulton and the New A.msterdam, the. latter being also involved in court proceedings. Un- deratopd ampng the. h.ouees.Jtp be bobked by Erlanger's Is the Cohan, whicli is owned by the estate of Joe Leblang. The . Liberty, In which Srlanger's had an Interest, was t6.<3sej back last seacfon. . Other Stiuberi'Houses Dlspoeitioh- of the . Booth and Plymouth are in doubt, Former was turned back 'as .a Shubert corpora- tion property and has been oper^lkted by Wlnthrop Ames, Lee Shubert also being personally interested. Ames has not signified whether he will renew, the present leasing ar- rangement which expires in Octo- bsr. The'.Plymouth Is owned .by the Ehuberts personally and oper- ated under_ lease bjr Arthur Hop- kins. That lease is also about to expire. Schwab & DeSylva are angling for the Alyln, which Aaron .& Freedley had. Latter firm has moved from the theatre and are again quartered in the New Ams- terdam. The producing arm of the new Iccrit circuit has not been .actually formed, the backing reported still to be secured. One deal was for Artlrur Hopkins to do two shows for the liew regime, but that, toe, is reporl?d.off. Bands and Orch, (Continued from p.^.ge 52) "Weber, Tboa., Hollywood J(Dlckerl)Ock«r H.. Hollywood. . 'Weeks, VVuBon, Mark HopMns lii, S. F. WeemH, Ted, Lincoln Tnvem,. Morton Grove, 111. Wend(, Geo., Root Garden C. B. F. Welch, noy, FultonrRoyal, n'klyn. Werner,. )Jd., Mldilgan T., Detroit. .Wesley, Jos., 317 12th :Avo., Milwaukee. Wetter, 'Jos., 017 Adams Ave., Scranton, Pa. ■ , WI Idden, Ell, 125 Dlkeraaii St., Brooklyn. Wl.itcmnn, I'aul, Blltmore H.. N. Y. C, Wilklns, Dc.1, Vox T.i San - Diego, C'al. 1\'l'llam30n, Ted,, fsle of Palm* H.: Charleston. S. C. . WlJson, BlUr, Du Pont H.. Wilmington. Wilson, Claro, Madison Gardens, Toledo. Wilson, MercOlth, Station KPHC, .*). T. WIncbionrer, W. S.; 267 Frederick St., M.nnovfr, Pa; Wlllstf:,), Eddie, New H.ivcn. ■Wolr, I,-. Vanity Fair C, Chlcngo. Wolfe, T:ube, c-o .Foji'Jion & Mdrco, Hollywood, WOtohan. Johnny, El Fatio '.R., B. F. Wright, .foe; A10 Mine 131<1K.. S;- P. Wunderlli li, F., 1B87 B. Jfilh St" Bklyn, Wy.'e, A-Mieter, Coronado JT., Bt.-L. 2 ■'■. Zoo■^tv^n Arabian KnlglitA, K^tgt Harbor, OMa L«ke, MIcki hside Stiiff--Miisic The strong personal friendship existing between DeSylva, Brown & Henderson and iBpbby Crawford figured In their acquiescence to Craw- ford taking over the firm bearing their name, of which he had been the president all along, and organizing a special subsidiary, Elar Music Co., to' publish on a SOrSO basis tho B.rovirn-Henderson stuft. with Crawford the operating head. DeSylva is not In on Elar because be is so much tied up on the Coast with pictures (he may return to Fox as an associate producer), and is also writing 'Humpty Dumpty* for example, with Lau- rence Schwab, .Dick Whiting and Naclo Herb Brown. Another Brown (Lew), no relation, is .writing exclusively with Ray Henderson of the original trip. While DeSylva on his own is a free-agent, he is also writing some pops 'With Jimmy Hanley, Wh|tlng and others. DeSylva, Brown & Hen- derson will .handle these. Popular concerts ait itdllywbod Gardens, the film city's attempt at an outdoor nea.r-beer garden, opened July 24 vfith Helnrlch Hammer con- ducting a 76-plece orchestra of first quality. Top is 30 cents excepV at tables where the assessment is 60c. Entire gate' goes to the musicians with owners of the property content to operate the refreshment concession. 6)>ening drew xMoriy. Steel guitar and piano accordion are the two musical instruments now In most demand as reflected by sales. No particular theory as to why muslcians-to^be are studying .these Instruments in preference to others. Neither are partlPuIai-ly conspicuous on tbo radio. Saxophone remains a strong seller and choice of hew pupils taking tip niuslc. Banjo is also strong. Ukujele saUs has fallen way off, WiVicli somewhat disproves thp Musicians' Union fear that the country would be flooded with these 'cigar-bo::es.' This wcs the offlclal reason the union refused to admit May Singhi Breen to mentbershlp aii a, ukulele player. Mayfalr manner of New York band leader has the music publlsjioi-s burning. Established custom , of'doing buciiiess direct with the pilot of the combo is out as far as thin lad is con3erned, ' Publishers''xeps, who come cplllng with a ne^ piece of music, are. In- variably advised by this maestio to take it up with his secretary. Two veteran songsmlths, Lee S. Roberts and J. Will; Callahan, who. produced 'Smiles,' 'Tell Me' ar.d other nong hits, are now scattered ^,000 miles apart, Robierts Is selling pianos on the Coast and Callahan, fblirid for years (he's the lyricist of the twain), is in semi-retirement in Flo "ida and comfortably situated financially. Music publishers send him a title e/ery so often to ^hich to fashion a lyric. Roberts'■ instrumental hit, 'ChingrChong*, made tin pan alley hisfcvx in that it was a piano roll of the novelty instrumental which started .it to. a 1,000,000-copy hit. Siame''went, for-'Cecile' and 'Mllllcent,' whlc!?,. ln. those hialcyon days of t. p. a. (to hear the music pubs talk) were n-'m?'' bers which were hig^ily .productive of revenue both from disks, phiiip rolls and sheet hiuslc. . George Gershwin is composing a new rumba which will be Introd*: cod- on Aug 16 at the Lev/isohn Stadium by Oscar Levant-pianologlng to either Albert Cbates or William Dailey's baton. Latter is the maestro of the Hoffman hour whereon Levant is piano soloist. ' Gershwin's 'Ah American.in' Paris' and- 'Concerts in l** will also be performed at that time. Levant. Is G'ershwln's favorite piano Interi^rcilpr.. Levant has^compostid 'Sonatina' for Paul Whiteman, whlcH RpbbTns will-publish. ' .'. ■ , . ., Emulating the ^Jazz Noctuvne' idea,, which Paul Whiteman also fea- tured, Shapiro-BerhEteln lis iisuing a popular song based on the syin- phonic tbnie poem by Peter De Rose and Cliarles Harold, Sam M<.Lein'>^ has written 'NlghtfaM! based on the chief strain of the symphony. Similarly, Dana Su.esse's 'Jaza Nocturne' furnished the chief-strain for the popular song, 'My Silent Love.' Guy lK>'mbardo almost started suit against Paramount for allegedly unauthorized use of his name In advertlsin? 'The Big Broadcast,*'for comlng radio film >inade by. Par, but decided not to bother «ven desplta the publicity it would entail. This was prompted by the orchet^lra' leader's relations with Publix on theatre bookings. - Par had announced Lombard© in ads as performing In 'Broadcast' whlch also has Bing Crosby^and Burns and Allen among Its radio pe:°r sonalitles. A. personal tiff between Crosby and the Lombardos, and also a matter of billing, kept the latter out of the Par film. Tin Pan -Alley's committee representing the soncrwrlters and publishers in the parleys with the radio interests on a radlo-mucic tax comprle.es Edgar Bither (Feist), Robert Crawford (DeSylva, Brown & Henderson)! GustaviB Schirmer, Edgar Leslie, Jerome Kbrn, Otto Harbach, with Gene Buck and E. C. Mills cx-oflicio. . Ross-Fenton Farm Asbury Park, N. J., Aug. '1. For . years this roadhouse, has been at the top of the list among class spots along th^' Jersey coast. It's still there with a ^2 convert on week. nights and. $3 on wed'.< eiids. But despite this tap, which is stiff for even the Ross-Feiitort custom- ers, it is getting the blggeist share of what's left of the roadhouse biz around here. Bill is changed weekly and that's necessary because this, place'gets a big repeat trade. When caught, Ve?oz and Yolande;. and Carolyn Nolte shared the to") billing. Both are of the type that Is a cinch with the Ross-Fenton trade. Veipz and Yb'ande scored nicely witli their dancing as did Mvss Nolte with her son78, all pops, r.:id fine. S.Tiith and H'jrbert, / song iters, round out the fipor entertainment. Re:c Reynolds ha idles the m.c. end and gets his st;if( over in /rood style. Reynolds knows wluit they want here ani gives it to 'ein. Henry King, whose band plays during the winter at Franlc Ford's Embassy , Club in P'lorlda, (nrnishes the mu.sic. This' Is King's third season, at. the. Farm, and lie has built up ."i. following among t'le so- ciety seti Coakley in Oakland Hplly\yopd, A.1,0'. 1. Tom Coaklcy'H brchestr.'i from the Athens club, Oakland, opens .at the Rocjcvelt hotel here, Aug. 3 5. Replacing Henry Halstend'r; com- bo. ■ . . Kpiiig Rock Operators Cb'/gd with GafflbGii^^^ Get Restraimng Order Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 3. . Piping Rock, excruslye nlgl-.t club near here, can be operated during the racinj season, for legal business, by tho Piping Rcok- Saratoga., Inc., Si preme Court Jus- tice Brewster decided. Flat Rod; Holding Corpora'.Jon, as owners of the property, made charges against- the tenant with regard to the cluL's use as a grm- bllng iefjOrt, and to alleged fr^aud in extending the i^rin of the lea'."c. The 1 -,>stralnlng order remains ifi effect only until September, wl-f-n trial of action Is to take place in Supreme Court. In -asking aa injunction agai/Mt the tenant, the J'lat Rock cf/i). claimed tho. lessee company, h€a<':?d by Peter J. SiiUivcn, had hired tl'<3 club for a i illegal business, iHcluil- ing gambling, and that the extend .d term of o;ie year, with an option of renting for eight more years, w •.'3 in.serted in a clat '.e typewritten ia the lea-;e without knowledge of - tl:e owners.