Variety (Aug 1932)

Trntedtyr Amgmd 30, 1932 TIMES VARIETY 39 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■MiMiiimm News From the Dailies This depariment ccntatm rewrittefi iheabical news kerns as published during the week in the daily papers of Neii> York, Chicago, San Francisco, Holl}tr»oqd and London. Varietyi takes no credit for these news items; each has been retoriiten from a daily paper. 11 i-( 1.111 11 11 u I in nn l'^n t Tt-ri n i rn.ii ri i iii'iT lud 1111 n i ii.m > 11 ii i i i i 11 i n • i t-i 11 mi ii i-t i ■■' i i i ( i, i - •■ - : . N. T. Centra) now using a single ticket for combinetl transportation and Pullman, Iioher IsIiEind radio police raided a itioda bar early Thursday" morning (26). When they came oa^ the police car had been stolen. Found by a peidestrlan ' abandoned some distance from the scene of trouble. ; TVest End theatre property, on 126th street, sold by Joe and Max .Weber to a Arm headed by Samuel. J)erektor. . May alter the structure Into stores or erect a new building. Bichard vAl<3rlcb, getn. mgr. for Ifacgowstn & Reed, back from three moi^tbB in Europe, v Berkshlrei Playhouse, Stockbridge, Kass., closes its season this week. liillian Albertson, former actress, who turned musical comedy pro- ducer,- is asking for a divorce from lier .husband, Iibuls < O; MacLooh, also a producer; . Charges mental .cruelty. ... . Nat. Assn. of Broadcasters an- .houncb that 'dictatorial powers' have been conferred, on Oswald F. Schuette,. of Washington, who will represent NAB in treaties with the composers and others. Schuette organized the. fight of the indie sta- tions Against the big chains^ Fatty Arbuckle has gone to work Mt the Vitaphoho Brooklyn studio. If his first short clicks, there will . be others, . Bon Bickerihan,: who tried to run his . Village Pirate's Den on a dry basis, is a bankrupt for 1(66,681. Only assets some old olothes. R; O.. JLydy arid Beri Bemie re- place Chiaz Chase as backers of -Prltz BlOckl. Earl Carroll adds his name as a prefix to Manhattan and Broadway theatres. 'Black Water' will be one of the .first tank driEun&s in. years. One act transpires aboard ship, which :floats-in a shallow tank.-- I>anclng teachers, who have been in convention at the; Hot^I Astor, New York, the past week, declare that long skirts will bring the waltz into new popularity. Longies hamper the more acrobatic dances^ Marc Connelly back frbm England on the 'Bremen,' holds that coming .season will be noted more for qual- ity . than quantity. Thinks plays have naid too much attention to the* IboxofDce itither than to the stage. Projectibnlste' Local 306 carries .out itil threat to sue producers for product for its theatres started in opposition to houses not using Its mbmbers.' Entered 'suit Saturday <27> for 1200,000 against United Artists, Badio Pictures, Metro, Faramount-Publlx,, Fox, Waraer and the Exchanges operated by them. Also names Theatre Owners Chamber of Commerce, !Hays or- ganization and Film Board of Trade. Paul D. Cravath, "ticw head of Metropolitan opera, back from Eu- . rope and optimistic over season. Group theatre, which has been working at. Dover Furnace,' N. Y., through .the summer, expects to come into N. T. about the end of September with 'Success Story,' Its first offering. It. H. Burn^Ide has been touching »p 'Smiling Faces; for Fred Stone. After dropping her annulment •oit against William Diiryea, Helen Henderson, former showgirl, .begins a suit for divorce, alleging miscon- duct in d flat on 56th street. As- serted he entertalne'd s.everal women there, keeplns one three day?. Case put on fall calendar.. . Earl Carroll announces a $2. top for 'Black Water* when It opens at the Manhattan^ M'uslcals which may follow at the same house will be scaled to sell at^;3. Mltzl Downs, Broadway hbstess. Involved in the death of Frank Tut- hin. Long Island com doctor, found killed with one of his own revolvers. Police held her for thfe graiid Jury on a murder charge. Saya heir hus- band did the shooting. Association for a. Yiddish : Public Art Theatre the latest Addition to the upllfters. Plan is a Yiddish the^ atre along lines of the" Theatre Guild. Peggy Rich, show girl and wife of the b.-ind leader," denies th.-it she Is suing for a divorce In order to man-y Jack De Ruyter'. Jack LindCi has directed his at- torney. Philip Adler. to bring suit •gainst the Hudson River Day Line for Infringement of his showboat ideau According to . Llhder he soujght to sell the idea to William Olcott, president, in 1929. Contracts were drawn up but never signed and the idea was dropped.. Lirider will ask an accounting of the pro&ts on the Bobby Sahford productions and also petition for the cessation of the shows until damages are paid,; ; Benefit for unemployed entertain- ers of Harlem night clubs came to an untimely end Monday (22). About 600, white and colored, took the boat trip. Passenger bet he could Swim faster than the ship could traveL Stakes placed and he went over- board. When the crew fished him out B riot started and the boat put bock to 129th st.^ blowing the police call. Talking machines barred from Dannemora'prison. Convicts made knives out of the motor springs, no more phonographs. . Elmer Rice explains he is not go- ing to bounce right into that rei>er.- tory theatre he' has been talking about. Will take at lesist a year to work out the details, he says. Guthrie McCllntic to do the late Edgar Wallace's 'Case of the Fright- ened Lady', at the Belasco. Claire Luce back from Europe. Declares the Riviera is becoming Just another Coney Island, Midgie Miller (Mrs. Will Morrlsey) wants a divorce from the producer- comedian. They've been married seven years. Lee DeForest is being sued by the estate of the late. Henrietta Tilgh- man for 16,760 Claimed due under his^romise to finance her career at 9360 a months Claimed , that he signed a 10-year contract in i929/tb pay the monthly stipend in return for which she would give up stock work and study for grand opera. Before heir death she was about to siie for twO months' arrears. He also signed an agreement. It is claimed, to take two diamond bracelets out of pawn, pledged for $2,960. Mrs. Vera Montgomery, former Viennese actress, suing her husband, William D. Montgomery, for a di- vorce in the Brooklyn courts. As- serts she found him in a hotdl with a. woman. Suit Is uncontested. Ac- tress announces that if she gets the writ she will marry Prince Swasti Pradish Svasti, brother-in-law of the King of Siam; ^ ■ ■ Friends threw a party to mark Leon E^rrol's 26th year on the Stage. Harry Askin and Hugh . Ford plan a series of legit productions at |2 top for New York. After sitting on a flagpole in At- lantic City 64 days,- Mike Gillette dropped the last ?0 feet in shinning down the pole. Badly injured. 'Nona,' with Lenore Ulrlc, now marked for the Miller theatre late next month. Marguerita Sylvia had to abandon her projected performance of 'Car- men' in Hackensack for the benefit of unemployed musicians. Fo'utid that the'cost of orchestra anid chorus would leave too. scant a margin of profit, ' Mltzl Mayfair out of 'Humpty Dumpty' rehearsals. Doris Groday gets the job. - WiJlli3.m G. Norton back as! mgr. of the Music Box after an illness. Equity forms the National Plays, Inc., authbrlzied by Its chirter to make theatrical productions of all kinds. Mrs, Emily Holt, Paul N. and Edward Turner the stockholders of record. To make stock productions and rotate cos. Theatre Guild now casting 'The Pure in Heart,' its second produc- tion this season. Frank Buck sails for Siim, via Europe,^ for some, more animal foot- age. Will appear with 'Bring 'Em Back' in London first, i ' -Reglhe de Valata, actress, sues Benjamin Goodman, her landlord, for ?1,600 alleging damage to wear- ing apparel through a leak caused by nesUgcnce.. When she sought to cross-examine him the court shut her off and reserved decision. John Golden In a spot for a Jew- ish com<!dfan who can act and Who wants a Job'. Needs someone for the lead in 'Why Don't You, Go Back?' > Robert E. Sherwood back from Europe and will head for Hollywood. Five persons added to the eight already under Indictment for fraud in connection with the Natioiml Di- versified Corp. Original eight are Otto E; Gobel, Irene G. and Eliza- beth. M. Flautt^ John Elder, Thos. A. Lynn, Jerome D. Kline, . Jamea F. Cassidy and James Gallagher. New names are Franklin Johnson, Ray- ndond Kear, Jos. F. Weel, Raymond J. Patterson and Bernard J. Flynn. Charged with improper use of the mails to sell about $6,000,000 worth of stock on the representation that the idea had the backing of promi- nent Roman Catholics. Ostensible object was to make religious pic- tures, .. Post office has Issued fraud orders against 1,637 persons in the past two years because of their complic- ity in lottery schemes. Says lotteries are more persistent today than since the old Louisiana lottery was broken up. ' William Kelly, a . diver employed on the Steel Pier, Atlantic City, bit- ten by a performing bear Aug. 24. Feared his arm may have to be amputated. Kelly was lying in a bunk when the hear, used in an ani- mal act, seized his arm. isidora Newman, author and play- wright, caused the arrest of two men last week on! an extortion charge. Stated they took 14,000 from her on threats of unwelcome publicity. Men are held in ball for a hearing today (Tues.>. . Coney Island Mardi Gras will tie In with the Washington bicenten- nial. Putting a bounty on bootlegger scalps in Nichols, N. Y, Booster Club offers $25 a head and Citizens' Committee adds $16 for each one caught. ; , Last week police raided alleged policy hestdquarters in Harlem ahd got 22 men and abdtit 1^10,000 tn re- ceipts for the day. Morris Humphrey, former m.c, Is suing Mrs. (3ertrude Greeley Whit- ing, t Massachusetts, for $166,000. Asserts she promised him $100 a week for life, took bim to Europe and then dropped- him. She dis- covered him at the Real Club, At- lantic City, where, he states, he was getting $200 weekly, and decided to develop his talent. Obtained per- mission to serve by publication, since he doesn't know where she is, . Dolly Sisters, Beatrice Llllle, Mike McTisnie and Johnny Dundee all get Into the Walker hearing when testi- mony reveals that R. T. Sherwood was their financial agent as well as the Mayor's. Charles B. Dillingham failed to j*/in with Mitchell Erlanger, Marcus Heiman ind Saul J. Baron In con- testing the claims of the National City Bank for failure to pay notes of the Erlanger Corp., which, the quartet had guaranteed. Judgment was foun.' against him for a sum In excess of $600,000. Largely a legal gesture. Emma, Redell, of Chi. opera, en- gaged, by Soviet to sing with its orchestras. First American to be invited. Arthur Hammiierstein has' taken 'The .Sun Worshipers,' comedy- drama, for his second production in conjunction with Lawrence Weber. By Norman Foster and Harry Ham- ilton. Rudy Vallee's wife has decided to get a legal severance from her crooner husband. Former Fay Webb Is leaving New York the latter part of this week to establish a residence In Reno as a prelimi- nary st^p to filing suit for divorce. Alienation . of affections. suit brought against Marlene Dietrich by Josef, von Sternberg's wife, Riza, and In which the latter asked .$500,- 000 damages, has been discontinued. Application .for withdrawal of the action was filed in the N. Y, .Su- preme Court by Nathan Burkan, at- torney for Miss Dietrich. Though not divulging the cause for the withdrawal, Burkan's offlce let it be known that a friendly agrcefnent ..had been reached In Hollywood. Whether a financial .".ettloTK^nt <»ntered Into agreement it was not revealed. Coast Cross-complaiht for separate maintenance to divorce suit of her husband^ Alexis, Hollywood techni- cal director, has been filed In L. A. Superior Court by Seraphine Davldoff. Superior Court Judge Stutsman continues one month suit for $6,000 against Pathe Studios, by Joyce Payne, assignee for Zasu Pitts, who charges studio failed to call her on four-week contract she. held. Burr- Mcintosh celebrates 70th birthday at home of James E. Hub- bell, Walnut Hill, Los Angeles. Sev- eral hundred persons attended. Failure to serve Teddy Hayes, Hollywood technical director, re- sulted in postponement of contempt charges brought in Superior Court by former wife, Florence Lee Hayes, who says Hayes is $5,175 in arreaf's on alimony. 'Kibitzer,' political weekly, sued for libel in Los Angeles Municipal court bj- W. V. Anderson, candi- date for. district attorney, who charges paper accused him of iih- proper relations with underworld. Richard L. Hargreaves, farmer president of closed First National Bank of Beverly HDls, Cillf., and husband of Helen Ferguson, lists $1,145,011 in liabiliUes and $320,407 in assets in schedule in voluntary bankruptcy filed in U.S. district court. Because her husband told her she interfered with his. expression of artistic thought, Marie Cotea Hal- ler granted divorce in Los Angeles :Siiperipr court from I^rnest HaUer, actor. Gets $500 a mbnth alimony. Prlscilla Dean does not have to pay Bartholomae Properties $180 for rent on room she sublet to Jp- sejth Schildkraut, according to Los Angeles Municipal court decision, More, than 1,600 carpenters, skilled artisans and laborers added to Fox studio payroll as^ result of nine pictures In production. . Old H. C. Weaveir Productions studio at Tacoma, Wash., destiroyed by fire. Jackie Coogan Is cheer leader at Santa Clara (Calif.) college.. Falling 30 feet, Jerry Joyce, tra- peze iverformer in Al G. : Barnes cir- cus, is in Mercy hospital, Merced, Calif.. Stage at RKO-Pathe studio in Culver Clty>s,cene of rally for Wil- liam Gibbs McAdoo in his campaign for U. S. Senator. Attempt at suicide made by An- nette Westby Scarborough, actress, wife of George Scarborough, film writer, in leap from fourth floor apartment in Hollywood. Charleis Chaplin appeared in pub- li2 with his sons, Charles Spencer, Jr., and Sidney Earl, when they accompanied him to U,A\ studios, HoUj^vood. First time he had seen his boys in two years. Buster Kcaton's representative, Walter Buttcrfield, in Seattle to pick up new boat for comedian who parted with his first yacht during divorce proceedings brought by Natalie Talmadge Kcaton. - p.m., half hour before oloslne «C border nightly. Hollywood Bowl officials plaii new $40,000 administration building. Baroness Elsie D. von Kocztan files for Los Angeles divorce from Baron Gustav von Koczlan,"' ex* screen technical director. Payment ctf $300 alleged back alU mony due his ex-wUe, Esther Muir Ends, actress, won continuance in Los Angeles Superior Court for Busby Berkeley in action to have alimony reduced. Eddie (Tantor Enterprises Incorrf porated by comedian, preparatory to four months' tour with his own revue. Opbns in New York, in Nb<i vember. Custody of two children grsuited Mrs. Estelle Llghtstone in L. A. divorce from Robert Bt. Llghtstone, actor. Henry SchUmahh-HeInk,. son of the diva, 8ues ;Noel B. Clark in Los Angeles over auto injuries.. Sales of auto radios for first six months of 1932 total more than all; installations for previous 12 months. Western Auto Supply Co., Los An* geles, reports. Louis O. MacLooh sued for dl^ vorce (second inning) in Los An- geles ;by Lillian Albertson Mac-. Loon^ ■' With property settlement belnir made, divorce action nears in Los Angeles between Bobbe Arnst and Johnny Welssmuller. I Disney Film'Recording 'Co. files suit in Los Angeles, Oharging $1,300 promissory note has not been piald by National Players, Ltd. Turtles will not race Labor day at Col. Zack Miller's 101 Ranch, Ponca City, Okla., as is the custom. . Former circus man's 6,000 terrapins have been sold to California pro- moters; •: V Edna Hickox Is seeking- divorce, $60 a month for support of daugh- ter ajid share in-$30,0bO community- property from Sidney B. Hickox, camera mah, in Los Angeles. ' Bonnie Jean Gray, actress-cow- girl, divorced from cowboy hnsband, Donald Harris, in Los Angeles. Rehee Adoree, who has: returned to Hollywood after two year(^ ill- ness in Frescott. Ariz.; will be back in pictures in two. months, accord- ing to Metro. Mkl-Weit Ruth Pryor, Edward Caton an4 Harriet Lundgren engaged as prin« cli;als of the ballet for 'Alda? an4 11 Trovatore' by the Outdoor Opem of Soldiers Field, Chicago. Minneapolis anticipating 'Cynwnf for Sept'26, at which time the Min. neapolls season of dramatic art wlQ be ofllclally declared open. Catherine Layacchl, 26, 6f tha Hugony Sisters, married John Koort, 37, of the Karoll Brothers, while Rlngllng circus was pllaylnp Minneapolis. Judge waived state residential requirements. Clevelani^s Ohio theatre had the pleasure of printing an advertise- ment that no tickets were available for 'Mourning Becomes Electra,* with' Clara Joel. Meanwhile, tha busy Robert McLaughlin is toying with an "appealing idea. He Wants to do 'The Miracle' for Cleveland only. WTAM, Cleveland, had guest artist J from CKGW, Toronto. They were Norman Lucas, Stanley Max* ted, Simeon Joyce a,nd C. H. Cope- land. Jackie Coogan has registered for the four . year ■ drama course at Santa Clalra (Cal.) University. Will try for talkers after graduation. District Attorney Fitt.<3 in Los An- geles denle.s permission to Mamita Coieman Hayos; dancer, to marry Herbert Foi'mes, bandit suspect, in jail. Mrs. Maiy Dolores Roblson, 25, sentenced to 60 days iA jail In Glcn- dailCi Cal., for posing in nude for photographs, made by her husband. Mrs. Er.nc.<jt . s. Cowell sues Dor- othy Jordan In Municipal court, Los Angeles, for $1,000, • charging actrc3!5 owes lhat as commission on 20 weeks' employment, . Dancing Masters in convention assembled declared crooning an im-. proycmen^ over jazz. . They were hi»npy to be so far from the Charles- ton, which they marked as the low- est form of dancing. At the time the Dancing Masters cashed In plenty. Clongress hotel, Chicago, had the convention. Supposedly, to put a a&mper on holdups, northern district of Lower California (Tia Juana, Callente and other sporting j/laces)" has ordered .sorvliig of llkker stopped at'll:30 A man who Is blind, deaf and sick abed donu.ted $100 to the Mlnneapr oils Symphony orchestra fund. Burg is after $25,000 .'for cufturc. • Heart failure suddenly ended the life of a widow, Mrs. Emilia Geeks, 64, in a St. Loul.s undertaking par- lor, where she was attending the funeral of her husTjand. Frank Occk.s had been a vlollrilst tVith the Symphony orchestra there. Omaha's hospitality to Ringllng's circus could not be arbitrarily de- nied just booau.se the Ak-Sar-Ben CContfnued on. page 46)