Variety (Jan 1933)

Tuesday, J»n««"7 31, 1933 O VT D O O R S VARIETY 63 CH ATT E .;,/<.CQnUitued from Page 59) ■ ■ . folng Wff, however, for hockey ffftmeo..: > ■ ' • Ted Champion, p. a. for John Hamrlck houses, directs copy for. Hamrlck's four first rynq, Seattle (2) Tafe6ma and Portland, Hain'ribk liAB ■ three'suhdequent-run houscis In Portland, one here (Rei), and Tem-. ple lnTaooma. x-U, \- ISylvla Thompson, co-ed at Wash-: • Inetori, sues Universal liTews. Jteel Biid Ji^. Ba'lnler National Pajpk Co. for $20,000, alleging her beauty marred when news movies shot of her and.othera ^lldlne .ln the enaw at the mountain..,.She was at,botr toni of h^ap when tl^e ^Hde ^en^ed and fpun^ ^f^} P^.^'J'^^^ planted on i her face. ' ' '"''V '.^ " Boston By Len Libbey Eglefitbn" goes'stock two nights a ^weel^;••■- ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ r- '■• Zelda Santley pays all expenses of a sick chorine to Saranac. < Te4.>i?I:UE€i succeeding. Stan Mey- . ers as m.o. at the Keith Boston. Franklyh Farnum, old-time flllum star, almost .. unrecognized during emanipart'.Vt^e appealrance hfere'.' ' < Br<K)h11n4i' having btfokesii the - lefe*- by^ letting dn' Itis first movie house; now.,ba9. its flrat ^dtuice-dancery,: the: Joliqe.,. ^i;-. :.••.!■■.•:■••••' Clare l^ree Major Children's the- atre gives Its fourth, 'Sleeping Beauty,' In Jordan hall, next Sat. ■ afterqpQit, And «ve. .• ; > E;teonpra,t^eAr9i.'most .famous .oS... , . Hub society^ folk, interested in co-op ; theatre J^ea i^ojr -Boston.. .Ditto, Mrs. Bradbt;in^.'Cuahlrig. Willfaji>Bdh; undersea film'' inaker; at Uarvafd fbi* confab with ba<il^er6' of a million-dollar expedition for additional sclentiflo movies. Bill' ° Fergusbn's M-G-M .movie train' tdotlngf airound, and are the ■ lassies' thrilled taking the screen- tests: at State and'Orpheum! '. Hinson< Stiles, asst. managing ed. ' of Boston ..'Becord,' returns . soon from Havana vacation. To be asst. . to Bmlle Oauvreau on New York 'Mm-or* editorial! staff. Rumor'ha^th It that Mayor Curley \ dlc.tuj9., .abpujt .night, club's spilling I the hoit-.chai ehow^eaiis is said.to have been due to his having caught the opening night of Faith Bacon at the Cascades. Lou Walters cut the hot number ^after that first night. By Matt Corbett Frank Wade's visual broadcast at Aud. is big success; sponsored, by Curlisrs. Cliff 'McN"eIll, "Free Press radio editor, has expanded his column from formerly a strip to almost the whole,page now. Lillian ^Beynon Thomas has writ- ten a new play 'His Majesty's Mall.' Characterization of early Cana- dian life in the west. Jimmy Coghill and Jerry Bourke prove most popular in CJRW visual broadcast: Jerry as 'Uncle SI'; Jimmy as 'filmer.' Little Theatre deserts th6- little playhouse they own and will from now on holdj forth In the smaller theatre of the new Audkorlum. 'The Mask and the Face,' their next major production. Easton By A, M. Powell Magicians of Pennsylvania will hold convention at Allentown In 1934. NO more vaudeville at State this season, leaving field clear to Seville, which has live acts last throe days of week. Walter Hampden appeared at Lyric, Allentown, In 'Caponsacchi' on Monday (23) and attracted a highly representative audience. The •best' people In tho T.pMcrh Valley were present. Russ Colombo appeared at Mea- ley's auditorium on Saturday (28). Jack Dempsey was given testimo- nial dinner by service :lub3 of Eas- ton on Tuesday (24). having ap- peared at State during the week. A number of leading sport figure were ' present, including Walter Okeson, boss of football; Charley Berry, of White Sox; Wilder Tasker, Rutgers coach; Harry Stuhldreher, of the Four Horsemen, and Herb Chrisler, Princeton coach. Jack made a hit With his speech. by WFBB a convenient goaL . Bd Marshall, RKO. traveling audi- tor, went |in for the 'I do'-.routine here with Isabelle .,Quihn, an .Erin beaut. Joe Alexander fdrtiflied. Joe Torbett, former feature ed of New York 'WorldsTfelfegram'- re- placed Ed Mills as mife, ■ of 'Popt,' where Don. Patterson Is new na- tional adv.. mgr. Theatre chain efilclency man came acros^ a house staff that was already chiseled to the bone, so he replaced lone cleaner with a one- armed Negro at half salary. Reno . . Gambling ^ license collections for entire year of 1932 drop 60% behind collections for, eight months in 1931. Flfi Wldener and her new hubby depart for New York after sojourn here - than -wa-s longer than most dlvo|:ce seekers enjoy. , Legislature promises juicy: news by. liaunphlng investigation of bank- ing situation in state, with .special reference to why they 'closed, George Wlrigfleld, whose banks are stfll on a holiday, has' been spending time in bed for couple of week? recovering from the flu.. . Antl-gambUng .adVocates... flash long petition In legislature seeking repedl of gambling law, and..comr mlttee bt assembly 'promptly buries p'etltton 'f6r'*tinn(9 being. -Explosion at' 'Cedars' night club gives police temporary scare that bootleggers' war had started. In- vestlgatlort 'Btlll going on. but own- ers coritertd It'wasr gad fiirnac'e blast. Buffalo By Sidney' Burtbn , , Skouras ..reported - relinquishing Cataract and Strand, Niagara Falls, April 1. Mike Shea off to New York to meet his hew partners, 'he Publlx receiviEirs; . Opening of Court Street Feb. 13 with stock announced under spon- sorship of Rupert Labelle. Jane Kleeler has taken Gayety (formerly burlesque) and aifter rte- decoratlon will present Theatre School productions- at the house. M. Shea donating house. - > - Cantor and Jessel show» two per- formances Wednesday at the Cen- tury, 'Kid from Spain' at the Buf- falo this week. Ed Wynn In 'Laugh Parade' at the Erlanger. All during one week. Capacity audiences greeting Buf- falo Symphony pop concerts at Elm- wood Music hall every Sunday night. No admissions, charge being made only for refreshments. Event build- ing up real old-fashioned beer gar- den atmosphere. . Cincinnati By Joe Kolling Lew Kozal fingerprinted his twin babes, Billy and Bobby. Castle Farm open only on Satur- days; other outlying cafes also ga.splng for patrons. Hlllbllllos romping for special of- fer by a music shop of a guitar and 25 lessons for $19.95, with the near- Portland, Ore. Amelia Earhart lecturing In the burg for one night. Jack Gault nursing the b.o. at the Fox-Liberty and getting results. Two local radio performers, James Beard and Gordon Onstead, now with Taylor Street Players, legit stock. Taylor Street Players with Tom Chatterton and Helen Kleeb, leads, did 'The Alarm Clock,' holding It two weeks. J. J. Parker released control of the Fox-Hollywood, and that house now being operated by Pacific Northwest Theatres. Significant feature of local ex- ploitation Is Increase In nabe and indie lineage. Shopping for pic- tures in low admlsh houses is im- portant new trend in the burg. Maurice Colbourne and Barry Jones with their English legit troupe here two days and did 'The Queen's Husband' and 'Too Good to Be Good.' Company got good attention. Albany By Henry Retonda Leland. operating double features, goes back to single weekly feature. MadisQn, class neighborhood, re- duces prices from 36 to 25 cents, also cutting changes from four to three weekly. Samuel Rosenblath leased Arbor theatre, neighborhood, from Walter Suckno. adding 260 seats and new sound equipment. Palace, vaude and pix, and Proc- tor, second-run, are no^\'- the only houses In Albany to allow smoking In boxes, loges and balcony. Contest Is on among upstate War- ner housfts, with Albany headquar- ters, ending March 1, to see which manager gets the biggest weekly average gross. Capitol, clo.sod .several weeks, re- opens Feb. 6 with 'Bringing Up Father.' Bookings made for Hamp- den in 'Caponsacchi,' also Muni, Tallulah Bankhead and other legit road shows. ni^ Fairs Make Plea for $80,000 in State Aid OalesbUrg, liL,' Jan. 30. The 'Illinois Association of Agri- cultural Fairs, In annual session here last week, adopted resolutions calling upon the state; now deep in a combined economy and unemploy- ment relief program, to hurry along with nloney tb help this various Illinois county, fairs pay oil their 1932 Indebtedness. The resolution proposes advance of I80.1S3 to 67 fairs which went Into the red last year. The association funds are derived from the state license and taix upon the parl-mutuel betting machines and legalized horse-racing. Noth- ing said about how the boys are going to get coin to buy the little tickets thkt provide- -the money. ! Earl Walker, Shelbyville,- was elected*-presidentHo succeed J; Fred Temple of ■ Gtalesburg. TO FAIRS Birmfnghami Jan. 80. - At the annual meeting of Lolilsl- a,na Fair offlcials at Lake Charles, La., recently, there was talk that the 'back to-farm;movement' would be ani ald..,to the ,.falr,r^ this year, Harry D. Wilson, Loulfllana Com- missioner of Agriculture, delivered a speech on 'Back to the Farm and County Fains.' Reports of. agriculture depart mepts of thja various southern states,, shows a heavy trek back to farms from cltles and towns. The figures at the department "of agri- culture at Washington also bear put the reports of the state depart- ments.' Thousands of families that have lived in cities and towns during the plentiful days up to 1929 and thrived on luxuries are going back to the farms and. raising what they eat and a few crops to sell. The 'back to the farm, pioyement' Is re- ceiving the approval of charitable and state organizations. It helps relieve the unemployment situa- tion and removes part of the bur- den of feeding the unemployed and hungry of the cities and towns. Some charitable, organizations are even giving transporation to some families in order to get them back on farms where they can grow what they eat. The R.F.C. Is. furnishing money to buy seed and fertilizer to grow crops. This , money comes indirectly from organizations to those who cannot furnish security to float loans themselves. With thousands of families back on farms fair men feel that a large amount of interest is certain to be revived in annual fairs. Residents of farins must have some form of amusement and the annual fairs will help provide it for fairs are first and last agricultural events. The money Idea Is the one one big drawback. The average farmer today has very little cash and most of what he has must be spent for necessities, leaving very little cash for amusements. For this reason, this coming season will see still more free fairs in order to boost attendance. Then, too, there will probably be the largest crop of fine farm prod- ucts suitable for competing for fair prizes in years. This will help the attendance for farmers, of course, will have to bring their products to be displayed. All of these theories point to the little county fairs deriving the most benefit. Farmers will not have far to travel and the old horse and wagon can be used for transporta- tion. The old fiivver has been stored away until the price of op- erating is brought down or uniii farmers get that relief that they've been seeking in Congress for the last blue moon. At any rate, this one hope is about the only reason fair officials are looking forward to the coming season and carnival owners are not so sure yet that the 'back to farm movement' is so hot. Promoters with Everything hut Cash Find Breath Wasted in Chicago Buffalo Dance Derby Scandal Inspires Bill Forbidding Marathons Buffalo, Jan. 30. Following complaints from mem- bers of local clergy,- local authori- ties made an Irvestigation of a marathon being held at the old Palais Royal and reported that there was nothing the authorities could do as the health laws :and po- lice regulations were . being ob- served. The climax came New Year's, eve when Timothy Balder, member of Buffalo police force was accused of having picked up two girls under 18 at the marathon and under pretext of arresting them took them,.into a club here where, they were as- saulted. Baker was immediately In^. dieted and his trlal'in County,Court last this week, resulted In a convic- tion of rape second degree. '. ' During the trial conditions of the marathon hall were gone into in de- tail, and there was testimony that the'girls In the case had stayed In the premises for two days and nights without leaving and had also been given whiskey by men specta- tors. There were repeated com- ments from the judge and the dis> trict. attorney during the trial re- garding the ownership and opera- tion of the marathon. ' La^t week Charles J. GImbrone, Buffalo assemblyman a'; Albany, an- nounced the drafting and presenta-, tion of a bill under the health law to legally prevent operation of and participation in marathon dances. Showmen Will ComeasNeedeill Is Expo s View Chicago, Jan. 30. Admitting that there are few perr sons from the show world at present connected with the Century - <jf. Progress Exposition the Fair man- agement here seems to regard this as a self-adjusting deficiency. In other words as and when the Mid- way gets organized the Influx of showmen to take care of the showf will be automatic and the show- manship needs of the Exposition as exemplified by the Midway will be taken care of. Nat Rogers In charge of the Mid- way concessions is a circus and carnival man and one of the few executives of the Exposition with a show biz background. A good deal of reliance is apparently being placed upon his knowledge and judgment In framing the entertain- ment end of the Exposition. Don't Expect Showman Administration circles here re- gard as Improbable the entrance at this late, date of M. H. Aylesworth or anybody else to have general charge of the Exposition from a showman's viewpoint. They think that such an appointment If con- templated would have been made long ago before the Exposition had reached its present state of de- velopment with most of the build- ings completed or nearlng comple- tion. Although theatrical men are scarce In the Expo's set-up there are many newspapermen holding execut.'ve posts while the promotion department from Director Ross Eartlcy down is solidly Journalistic. H. F. Miller, of the Federal and States Government division. Is formerly of the Chicago 'Record.' Hugh Donaldson in the operating dfept. is from the 'Tribune.' Others employed by the Expo include: A. H. Kirkland. former 'Horal<l-Ex- aminer' city editor; "Victor Rubin, 'Herald-Kxainlnor'; George B.ircl.Ty, 'Intrr-Ocean' Syndicate: F.OOio John.son, Chic-a;,'o Tost"; J.ick Mor- rison, Ctiicnpro 'A mf lir-an'; J. V. Cranfljill, Cliionpo 'Aerial Survey', and R. C. Haws, ,nn neU-f^rf ls-l":r ntreney ni.an. ."\rr.«. Mai-n'-ii-('t C.-iiiU'is, furii erlv sfi-i-(-iary to ''ll' n (ii-j.-u f.M, of l-'ox. nriil ni- |.«;.- iJi'iju n. i \-ni I'.n; ii>.'in- • :IL'ir 'if |!:,M'-iM I'mIIi'., .(.li'.'lll' iltl.l'^llCS. i Chicago, Jan. 30. Promoters, both grandiose and petty, are learning sorrowfully that the motto of the Century of Prog- ress Exposition is 'lay It on the line.' Never before in the history of ex- positions has th6 management been so hard-boiled about the financial standing of the people with whom they do. or even talk, business. This Is . embarrassing some of the promoters no end. They can de- scribe their Ideas glowingly. They can point to all sorts of past ex- perience and success. But unfor- tunately many of them haven't got certified checks In their wallets. Exposition's M; 1 s s o u r 1 attitude cramps their style woefully. In other words many have knocked at the portals of the World's Fair, but only a select few have gotten In. Aiid with times tough and money toiighfer, the Exposition's Iron-clad rule of 'no advance publl'clty' ab- splutely denies pronibters the ad- vantage of soliciting capital by using, the Exposition's endorsement of the project. Fair'management Is vrery determined thdt promoters shall promote their money first and- get the Expo's endorsement afterwa,rd8,' not vice versa as,.the promoters' would like to have It... Chiseliers.' Scores of. chlselers haye already flocked to Chicago with all sorts of get-rlch-quick notions. Most- of these have icon discovered that they were dealing - -with organized" - biff business and.have scrammed after a lirellmlnar'y survey. iPalr manag'e,- ment has pfoceeded in several .In- stances against those, shady <^arac.t' ters who have acfljaily -violated tlie laws. Among thes^ were .the peddlef 3 of stamps purporting to have the official endorsement .of the Expo- sHion. Badefes, auto plates and .sim- ilar , emblem.s, sold] . ui^de'r false pretenses! have.also been stopped. ' So-cailied 't;ou|^sts club's'. of qtie kind or anbther have already m^e their appearanceili. These v'^ry In set-up- wit"ii the various groups be- hind them, but most of them are out ^d out rackets deBlgned to. victimize skna^l-town people who contemplate aittendliig'the f^I'r. ; Apart from aiiy question of gucu-d- Ing against actual dishonesty strin- gent attitude of the Exposition towards those who come to them with propositions has a deeper sig- nificance. : Expo wants to make sure that everything that's promised the public will be delivered. Therefore, to avoid premature publicity on things that later prove Impractical or financially prohibitive, they Insist that everything shall be worked out to the last detail and sealed with a substantial cash deposit in advance of general announcement. In the early stages of the Expo- sition several fantastic possibilities such as moving sidewalks and over- head boulevards were widely dis- cussed. "Various, spectacles and novelties were also mentioned. Ex- position knows that these things cannot be. But it la feared the pub- lic may come to the Exposition ex- pecting to find the.se wonders In op- eration. This has buttressed the conservative policy of the manage- ment. Boston Zoo Bargains Boston, Jan. 30. City Is selling part of its free show—the Franklin Park Zoo, Economy the reason for sale, city deeming curtailed, revenue grounds sufllcient for cutting out cost of feeding the sold animals, which are dopcribed as 'extras,' or surplus. Thirteen head brought $475. Male Sitka deer brought $30. Ha-ha! Male yak brought $75! Prices for males beat the average for females. Seven of the latter, of viarlous rare species of deer, to- taled only $245. LETTERS Wlwn M^ndlnR for Mnil (o V.\KIETY Address Moil Clerk. I'OSTrARn.S. ADVRRTISING or Cmrff.All LETTKKS UIM. 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