Variety (Aug 1932)

Tu<$s(Iay, Augaet 23, Tl K^E S SQUARE VARIETY 55 Broadway Martin Liewls back from Germany **']Siul QuUck has discarded the • 'cane/' , ..>'•■ Albert Deane hates to miss a nrst alght. ' Postcards arriving: from Bddle ■ Kugast. ' Fhll Relsman Is a very busy exec these days. Honey Burns doing a Warner short In Flatbush. Jerry Wald's brother, Harry, Is a Mills song plugger. Walter Fielschinann spreading out on personal p.a; accounts. , Joe Plncus stuck a toe In the. pound, but It's still too cold. • Charlie Elnfeld Is nlbllcklng for the president's cup at Plnerldge.. Pat Caeey joined the boys at Saratoga on a quick In and out. ' The Pete. Macks celebrated their 32d wedding annlversai'y last- week. Bob O'Donnell Is down to 116, has the game licked, and he'll tell you low. Jack Campbell coming back to New Yoirk. Says he's through with Paris. Joe Shea Is going for all the treatments the N; Y. Athletic Club has to offer. • • • Harry Cohn passed' up the town for a couple of days to watch, 'em run at Saratoga. • Bernard Siegfried Is doing the pic i-evlews for the 'Island News,' new Long Island dally. ■ Joey Gold after 16 years with thei Broadway ticket agency, has switched to Mackay^s. Kay Johnson* biggest of the Indle iNew York Theatresil is B£RT BOBEBT Wheeler & Woolsey in/'Hold'Em Jail" with JBDNA MAT. OLIVBB To a P.Il., 3So—11 P.M. to ClOM. fiSe On the Btaoo OISEH & JOHNSON •nd nig BcTiM On the Screen "American Madness" with WALTER HUSTON CMtliuout mm I* «. Wv.. AfteiiuiODt, 28-40. Evenings (MondtT to rildiT) Stlly Mianlgbt Shovf Fe*tur« Picture W«d. lo FrI. Aui: 24-26 "MADAME RACKETEER" .with GEORGE RAFT ALISON SKIPWORTH KKTBA ATTBACTION TOM MIX in . '^BXAS BAD MAN" Wed. tt FrI., Auf. 24.2fi "MADAME RACKETEER with GEORGE RAFT ALISON SKIPWORTH TOM MIX in . •^BXAB BAI>. MAN" Bustir KEATON iRd Jiianiy _ """t DORANTE i« Speak Easily |B!\VXy. Ben Eddla ■ '""^ BEBNIE DOWLINQ Boiwall Siit«n, Ray Oocley, Art Jarrett, J.Fred Coeti The Oeraare'e* George Prontlee 1 V BE m lot CHATT £ Next Thiiri.: "m Uit Mile" R ^SEVENTH AVEJN'UE AT 60tb STREET Janet Charles ^ GAYNOR FARRELL THE FIRST YEAR' !.. IloiT Orchestra !9, 'Ilallot, Chorus, Itoiyettes, . MICKEY MOUSE, FOX MOVIETONE NEWS 'One of the finest plays of the year, subtle, beautiful and tendpr."— Atkinson, Times. /'Another Language'' »lth eicnn Andere. Margaret Wyoherly, . Dorothy Stlckncy, John Beit BdnTV Theatre, 4Sth. St.. W. of B'way. •DVVXII. E„. »aO. Malt. Wed. & Sat., 2:40 producers, wants to make enough to retire before he's 46* .. R, H. Cochrane Is so tanned some Mondays even his brother, P. D., has to look at him a second time. Clayton Sheehan spent the •week- end slipping the qiieen of spades to Jeff McCarthy, and vice versa. Stage hands at the. Casino 'won from the 'Show Boat' Jubilee Sing- ers In a ball game last 'week, 16 to 13. ■'■■ ■ ■, Herman Ruby, casting director at Warners Vltaphon'e studios in Brooklyn^ Is tagged 'the Commo- dore.* • Arline DeHass, playwright and short story writer. Is assisting A. P. "Waxman, publclty director for the Roxy. William Madlung, resident man- ager of the New Yorker hotel, moves into Times Square as manager of the Picaddllly. . Bernlce Petkere (Mrs. Ed Conne), who wrote 'liUUab'y of the Leaves,' rushed to the hospital for an opera- tion for ulcers. Ja^k Levin of the Copyright Pro- tection Bureau (pictures)- Is at Mt. Slnaf Hospital. recuiperatlng from an. appendectomy^ Doing nicely. Sept. 3 will be a red letter day for GSeorge Cohan. That's the .date his picture Is due to be flnlshed and he can start east; He's that anxious. Charles Koerner, RKO southern division manager, - and Nat ' Holt, div. head for the middle west, spent part of last week In home office confabs. Two members of the Seaside, Long Island, boardwalk amusement colony havo, just announced thielr engagement—Eleanor Haiisner and ■Thomas Fulcher. . Duke McHale and D'Ahdrea and Donaldson added to the Bobby San- ford showboat fiobr show on the Hudson this week. Jack White stays nautical as the permanent m. c. V Frank Vreeland, ex-p.a. and now oh Par's eastern scenario stiEilI, has a detsk next tct the Par theatre's vent system. Fra;nk says the little things In the air are not bygs but' Just moisture, Hal Roach, In New Tork for a few days, tells of. his prize winning spaniel. It won. first and a second prize so far. 'Would have had two firsts,' says Roach, 'only there was a second dog in one of the shows.' testers, was the dirty work of Marty Dlcksteln, 'Eagle's' picture critic, who made the first complaint against all night .saxlhg from Maxim's under his hdtel window— and then blew for home. London Riviera By Frank Scully Summer at l£ust. Peggy Joyce pretty quiet. Old Honio week' at Majorca. Bin Seabrook has eye trouble. Eddie Mayer-George Aiitheil hud- dle off. E. Phillips Oppenhelm has a cock- tail bar in his car. Hope'Hampton and Jule^ Brula- tour not leaving Cannes till. Sep- tember. Ed Hope Coffey has finished .his lioVel and scrams with th^ Mrs. for Germany. Kay Boyle hopes to get as far as Bulgaria In that second hand car before returning to Nice. Chevalier's getting bronchitis as soon as he got home put Cannes' official pluggers in a spot. Suicide of Lieut. Victor Point aboard her yacht sent Alice Cocea Into black velvet pajamas. Dorothy Caruso planning to hop back to Cannes, the Lido being duller than neglected pewter. Rex Ingram's still loyal to La Grande Bleue,-though now the east swanky of Nice swimming holes. Tyrolean shorts for beach wear look like the. next etepup -from pyjamas for femmes, with cute har- ness gadgets as the brassieres. Wisers not leaving the Riviera for the mountain cure resorts before September whpn the taxes tone down and the weather warms up. Another Lido report Is that Ven- ice is so dead the pigeons are eat- ing the English, which accounts for all the pilgeon English you hear there.. ' ■ ■ 'Llbby Holman Surrenders' gets front page streamer from the Paris Chi 'Trib,' probably oh the local in- terest theory that she summered with Reynolds at Juan les Pins two years ag<i. "Traveling trouper pushing a truckload of scenery, while, nursing a sprained knee and memorizing his part for the night's performance—a eight observed In Alasslo on the Italian Riviera. George Axelsson, U. P. scribe, left Nice for a load of Venice but passed up. a flve-day Adriatic cruise aboard the 'Conde Verdi,' priced at 133 lire. When he found that 133 lire made only $6.65 for the cruise he fainted! Mrs. Frank Gould's not finding her Hlspano at Juan-lesrPins and driv- ing off Instead with M. Rosenbart'a own kiddie car, sending him a check for the: lifti was a p. a. tleup. Rosle makes the French Austin and Mrs. G's husband owns Juan-Ies-Plns. Curfew hour on Juan-Ies-Plns jazzers which this mayor ordered In spite of Mletinguett, Harry Pilcer, Earl Leslie and 20 carloads of pro- Boris Petroff here. Jack Curtis lining up talent. Hierschel Henlere thrives on four- a-day. Redheads' rqeplacing platinum blondes. Tom Miller leading retired life at Biarritz. Leslie HehsoQ recovering from operation. Mark Anthony back from vaca- tion at Tunis. Swatison Sisters here after two years, absence. Peter Bernard at last getting West End break. Dora MaUghan throwing farewell party at Ca:j:e Anglah Frank Condos (Condps Brothers) dancing with split toe. Apollo theatre undergoing long delayed reconstruction. Binhie Barnes In close coinference with her'bank manager. Charles Cochran framing another revue around December. Jack Curtis due here Aug. 11 to confer with Dave Apollpn. Hartley Po'wers taking out his English citizenship papers. Water Rats giving Will Fyffe great send-off to America. John MuiTay Anderson with sun glasses, but still recognized. Heatwave responsible for shirt sleeves in West End stalliSi Cochran contemplating .doing a Shakespearean play in modern set- ting. Harald Bowden, J. C. William- son's New York representative, here.' . Henry : Sherek having his after- noon tea on the Pavilion stage door stairs. Gciorgle Wood has his'own yacht, which he uses when playing seaside towns. ' Miraveta' Devi, called the Indian Pavlovai staging dance , season here shortly. Elinor <31yn, with very .red hair, at the premiere of 'Orders Are Orders.' Kaye Don on board Majestic^ after that International trophy from Gar Wood. - , Bernard Nedell going to Berlin to make pictures for Qaumont British at Ufa studios. Roy Fox broadcasting six times on the air In one ^onth, a record for a local band. Cecil Humphreys .showing Harry Bannister the sights , of London. . Jeirome Beatty. in town. ... Miss Joseph, Jack Buchanan's personal secretaryr going to Charing Cross hospital for operation. . .... M&lmalson restaurant closed for summer, -with the adjoining 'Blue Train' the ace night, rendezvous. Guinness, the Stout firm of Dub- lin, show reduction in net profit of about 13,000,000 .year ending June last. . . ' , The Schumann Family will not be In the Mills Olympia Circus this year, a regular feattire for eight years. Hannen Swaffer to be awarded a Welsh bardic crO'wn next year with native title meaning "Voice of the People.' Stanley Scott off to Berlin to make .arrangements for. Emll Jan- nlngs and Conrad Veidt to open In London. Maxlne Forbes-Robertson, Just divorced by Viscount Ratendon, secretly married to Frederick Miles, flying Instructor. Helena Plckiard presented Cedrlc Ha:rdwlcke^:%lth son Aug. 7. Father app|0.riHg In Shaw's 'Too True to BejSood' at^Malvern. Lticien Sammett in conference with Sir Oswald Stoll, which might result In Sammett takijng charge of vaudeville production side of the SI oil Circuit. Basil,Foster asked the libraries to defer deal for his 'Orders Are Orders,' just opened at the Shaftes- bury, till end of month. Ethel Levey has option on the show for BUI Brady. Loretta McNalr In from K. C. Sir Ben Pratt has a mustache. Clyde McCoy smokes ah octagonal pipe. John Joseph has a law-abiding red jiose. Frank Dare on a motor trek to Manhattan. Al Blelen taking it easy at Haw- thorne dally. Freddy Rosenthal is missed by Teddy Shiaw. Charles Kretslnger, WBBM, pent- housed the radio editors. Jim Cookj NBC, reached court be- cause of a quarrelsome neighbor. Harry Munns got a sudden yen for the soil and traipsed oft to see the Kankakee Fair. Neville Fleeson was surprised taking a sun bath au naiturel on the roof of the Sherman. Lar-TT Rich 'was Insulted; some- body wanted one of his actors to b/oadcast without I Arry Rich. After shooting a 72, Willie Hor- owitz was patted sympathetically on the shoulder by Blng Crosby In a recent golf match. 'Now, don t blow up on the second nine,' said Crosby. Appendix annoying Mrs. Fred Beetson. , ' Mrs. Louis B; Mayer heading for New York. . ' , Leonard Spigelgass threw a party for his sister. A, M. Botsford troubled with two sprained fingers. There's a baby specialist here named Dr. Stork. - Jesse Lasky, Sr., and Jr., hunt- Injg at Tabs, N. M. Eddie Ecl.els still looking for bar- gains in automobiles. Eddie Mannix will be next presi- dent of Rancho Golf Club. Petet Higglns, vacationing here, decorating Roosevelt lobby. - . Bill PerIberg looking for bets on the U. S. C.-Notre Dame game. • Richard Diggs, no relation to actor, calla his spa.niel Dudley. Guy Price and HenryWalthal back from" .Yosemlte fishing trip. Radio's previews now embellished with refreshments for reviewers. Wilson Mlzner writing In the sun, following a month of pneuinonia. Oliver H. P. Garrett to Mexico on month's leave, from Paramount. Sam Schnltzier, son of J. I. Schiilt- zer, . ccond assistant director on dai's 'Second Fiddle,', Alfred Stern who writes the Trenker unit for Universal Is now working In Switzerland. Dr. James Wingate of N. Y.'state board of review luncheon guest of Paramount production cabinet. Rufus Le Malre had three-day vacation playing 'hearts' before taking over his new Job with Foxi. Actress tiu-ned down for Job In 'Sign of the Cross' at Paramount because . 'she had no Roman accent.' Tom Kress, former manager of the Egan here, back from Wiscon- sin, where he has been managing Fox houses. Tablecloth figures by Indle film producers can't compare with the lunch cloth higher matheinatlcs of Metro's sound department, - . Mrs. Jack Francis, .wife' of' Fox studio. p.a., is at Cedairs .of Lebanon hospital,-, recovering from major oners tlon performed Wednesday (17). • , Japanese horticulturist named O'Hara at Fox studio among hosts entertaining Nipponese Olympics contingent, being only .'man on lot to speak language. Covei; of Ernest HentlngTfray's latest novel, 'Murder In the After- noon,' identical with butlflght pos- ters Lynn Farhol is using as iitn ex- ploitation stunt for 'Kid Proin Spain.'' • - . Roubeh Mamoull'an left Saturday (20) for New York, starting a vaca- tion trip to Europe. He sails on the He de France' Aug. 27. He's due to resume directing at Par Oct. 15. Unconunon Chatter (Continued from page 33) newness and beauty of. a classical drill, reserves its heartiest applause for an old favorite, 32 Colonial sol- diers, gleaming In regimental bhie and white. Montedoro Moves Downtown ' Montedoro has moved his paints, sketch boards and keen sense of stage design down to the Para* mount and, with them,, turned, out a suite of sensitive. costumes for the current 'Pei^sbnallties.' For the dreamy moOd ot a shcid-. owy ballet, he provides beige crepe in the clear, warm shade that re- sponds to delicate gradations of light. Described in gowns of simple, circular grace, the fabric swirls and dances, heavy with its own weight. The opening novelty routine doesn't go begging for bright color. White crepe dresses are split Up the front to reveal layers of tulle that start at brown—to match the panties—and stop at orange, yellow and green on their way to the hem. The green's there to carry out the color of hats. Irish bodices and long, she^r stockings. Red satin' gowns, kick-pleated in front to permit breathless fitting, probably had the right idea on pa- per. But the wardrobe department failed to give them the sheath-like smoothness that was Intended. Marjorle White, bobbing in and out with the wriggling movement of a Hollywood baby-talk artist, Is cute In a rcd,^nd white silk. Berlin William Karol here. Max Mack to Prague. Karl LudwJg DlehT off to Vienna. Henry Bender's restaurant again open; G. W. Pabet, director, moved to Paris. Director Hans Brodnltz left the 'Emelka.' Phil Kaufmann for a cure iat Karlsbad. Reglerungsrat Voelger back from his holiday. • • Victor Barnowsky taking over th^j Komoedlen theatre. .. Frftzl Mass.ary here for rehearisalst at. MctropoUheatrei, . Dorothea 'Wleck off for outdoor shootings In Hungary. '" Lucille Page at Scala Vaudeville, goes to Hamburg next. Caxl Zuckmayer off to Salzburff to negotiate, with. Max Relhha'rd't. ; ■ Guitano Amadel, former managei; of once famous Gaby Desly,' dead. ' Universal staff gave a farewell to Al Szekler at the Zoo-station. Richard Tauber signed for a plc*' ture with 'Relchsligafilm' ln..Munlch. Charles Boyer here again. .Says the best place .. to live is . Holly wood^ Emll Llnd, head of the associa.tloh, of German stage artists, 60 yearai old.' ... . .. A. Fritz Kortner here on passage,' will, perforni ^i-few plays with his troupe. ■ Harry Piel ; with his picturd 'Johnny stiehlt Europa,' on a tou? through the provinces. . . Elisabeth Bergh'ef to guestplay. the coming month at Rotter's 'Theatre in der Stresemahnstrasse.* Paul Kohher, Max Laemihle,' Al> frod Stern, and the i^emalnlng Uni^ versal staff off to St. Moritz foi^ outdoor shootings. . ' Runiprs here ,A, E. Duppnt, -who at present Is In Los Angeles work?. Ing on a picture, to take pver- the mahagemient of the 'Capitol' after his return here. ■■■ ~~~ — ' ■ Depresh Hits Babes Barrlngton, Mass., Aug, 22. Babies will bear the brunt oT'thtf ■effort of officers of the Housatonic Fair to'economize this year. They'vd decided to ellmih&te the, baby rest room. Adnilsslon, prices have bieen re-f, duced 26c in the hope of Increaslniif attendance. MARRIAGES Jesse Rogers, 21, -of Medford, Mass., musician, and Mary Rponey^ 18, of Mattapan, Mass.,-' a daMcer, married Aug. 8 at Mllf oi'd, N. H. Frances Starr to Robert G. Don«( aldsoii,:Aug. 16,.<ln New York. Jane Murfln to .Donald: Crisp, Aug.'' 15, in Veiiturja, Calff. Bride • is a' sceharlo .'Writer, and groom a dH rector. Jean Carmen to Walter Lehman, Aug. 16, In Sant«i Mdnlca. Bride'is a IJnlversal player; grodm a non^ pro. ■ ■ Lucille A. Bennett, Mickey Mouse's secretary, to William J. Mahr, non» pro, in Hollywood! Aug. 13. Mrs. Mary L/Qor4bn 'to Alexander B. Hamilton In Westwood, Calif., Aiig 16. Bridegroom father of Neil Hamilton, actor. Blanche Mehaffpy . to Ralph Like, Aqua. Callente, Mexico, July 27.' Bride Is. a picture actress. Groom an indle producer, Muriel Bultman, non-pro, to Owen. Francis, Radio scenarist, In Los An- geles, Aug. 20. Lo'rna MaCDonald, daughter of J. Earrell MacDonald, to GJarrett Ar- belblde, former U. S. C^ football star, at Yuma, Ariz., Aug. 17. .. Leo Romanelli, Toronto band^ leader, tp Rita Garbarlnb in To- ronto, Aug. 17. Ann Christie,^ film player, to R. L. Moore, non-professional, Aug. 6, in Vernon, i'ex. ' Irma Thebboldj professionally known as Barbara Robblns, and Robert Bell have taken out a license to wed, with the ceremony tenta- tively set for today (Tuesday), Bette Davis to Harmon O. Nelson, Jr., Yuma, Ariz., Aug. 18. Groom is ah orchestra leader, bride In pic- tures. Ann Lee Cunningham, non-pro, to Douglas Shearer, Metro sound en- gineer, In Las Vegas, Nev., Aug. 20. Groom brother of Norma Shearer. BIRTHS Mr, and Mrs. Dave Levy, son, In Chicago, Aug. 15. Mother -was Jacqueline Stern, daughter of Emll Stem, head dtBHanncnH Circuit. . Mr. and Mrs. Frank FrJsh, son, at Passavaht ho.spital, Chicago, Aug. 15. Father is of/the vaudeville and cafe team of Frl.sh, Rector and Tbllln. . Mr. ana Mr.i. Jp.seph D.eutch, son, Aug, 19. Father, a ticket broker, kin of the late Joe Loblang.