Variety (Sep 1933)

TIMES SiQIII/iJIE 83 Just a Pest-And How! By O. M. Samuel -rr—. " ■¥ . I'm just ft V^bL • fiA pne of those guya, who. comes tato VARtBTT's office on Saturday, Itunctay or Monday with everybody wrlnlng at top Bpeed", aiid do I make jiiyself at home? Tou're asking me J And I do I I'ja BO glad to see myself and I ]ietturally think everybody else is, ' When one of the boys is taking a story on the wire and trying to ctttoh itll the facts, I'm sure to in- terrupt "with, 'Do you think the Giants will win the pennant?' or *^hat do you think of the NRA?' Tou see. I have nothing to do, • j<pBt.loaf around ifrom place to place, l^ing to kill time» or bother people. Nothing on my mind but the old ettlson.' 'X'lid I'moVe around frohi chair t'o chair, always scraping them on tlie floor; BO theyll know It's me. holler loudly in the office. It does not seem to disturb anyone, although nobody has suggested I go on radio. •■^l ri'eVer rush away either. Doh't wint 'theYn to think I'm discourteous. I hay^ plenty of time! 'Some time the boys , will fidget, prpw nervously husky, try and let their minds wander back to their ^ikt but I'm not going to walk out on them. They're o.k. with me. il.think the boys Uke my compahy. if: they don't they would walk but en me. "V^l'lii no pest and I'ni popular, "^j^k'.any of the- VAiuErry boys. l^nsy love mel !! ;iX-M0NTHS4)LD BEER' IN 10 DAYS PROMISED Fairmont; W. Va., Sept, 4. Fairmont may have the first brewery in West Virginia. No li- censes have been issued by the state for breweries. All the beer being consumed in West Virginia comes from oiitdide the state. Now a icompany of Fairmonters la converting an old meat packing establishment, unused for 12 years. Into a brewery. Old refrigeration equipment of the slaughter house is being con- verted for use in the brsewery. New brewing process -said to produce beer equal to brew aged six months In but 10 days will be used. In- vestment of $20,4)00. Draught beer now selling in Fair- mont at 10 cent& for 12-ounce glass and 10 cents per 'bottle for Pitts- burgh and Cumberland brews. Other beers bring 16 cents per bot- tle. New brewery promises to pro<- duce beer that can be sold here^at five cents for 12-oilnce glass. Plaint will not have . bo,ttllng plaiit at start. Will concentrate on draught beer. MARRIAGES "qhloe Douglas, actress, and Rich- ted DeAngells, actor, have filed in- tentions to wed in Los Angeles. JUta Adelson and Liouls F..EdeI- nknv 'supervlsdr at Metro, have filed intention to wed in Lios An J^ii'zz Balrton, screen cowboy on tbiir with the World' Brothers cir- cmh^ -announces his engagement - to Elvla'Batest 18-year-old' aerialist, firMn' Kansas City,- also' with' the ^ Mhpw. .Barton said they jpldrined" to 'm' 1^1^.i^^ PeniQsylvania ^ •^'^ of ttie show' next. wieek. Peggy Stafford, of society, will t)«: married vto Georges Metaxa> ac- toft.'at: Greenwich,- - Conn.,- Wednes Aky (6). Mary Duncan, film' player, to Stleph^n Sanford. socialite sports nmri; K^ew York, Sept. 1. V itriillam Rodney Feelyater and iCrs. Nellie G... Tlsdale. Aug. 6, at iippg-iBeach, Cal. Groom Js veteran lUitoF, .having toured several seasons with Nat Goodwin and, more rfl ««ntly, with Otis Skinner. Bride Is Hbn-pro. Eileanor Holm to Arthur Jarrett, In Los Angeles, Sept 2. Bride, Olympio swim champ,, is now In pictures, while the groom is a radio performer, and is also working in tie films. if I SHOWMANLY BEER ADS FOR FEHME APPEAL Some brewery ads and billboard copy are getting a film touch aa the result of several picture pub- licists migrating into foam ezplolta> tion. Those beautiful wonoien gulp-. Ing downi the various brews is cred- ited to fil'- showmanship in an ei- fort to offset the femme sales* re- sistance that hops make for heft. Among the picture boys doing this work, Jerry Rudolph, for dec- ades a film publicist, is digging in even deeper. For his brewery out in Buffalo. Rudolph is writing what might be termed 100% picture copy. He's even addressing messages to Broadway columnists. Saratoga Season Red Hotels Cut Rates; Games Unmolested Saratoga, N. T., Sept. 4. The Spa's season of one month (August) proved an in and outer. The track is reported running in the red. Prices were' downward in the hotels, and, whereas the ra,tes were $20 and $25 per day in the top spots, rooms averaged $4 and |6i Shnllair lowering of ,ra,te.& appllfed id th^ lake resorts>>t>articu]arIy/the small hotels where the uniform,,rule.was a buck a d&y. Night .dubs had a. fairly good43ea- sen particularly the final two weeks when several' spots strengthened their attractions. That accounted for week-end, crowds including tracl^ devotees who quartered away from the Spa. No Interference with the game rooms. The' Show Boat on Lake George which ■ sailed nightly drew- from as far as All^any. Boat is the old Hori con. Leo RelstnaU's orchestra was the attraction for dancing, with no floor show. Understood that the game room aboard was opened after the boat crossed the line into Essex County, which is far up the lake The district attorney of Warren County ruted no dice and held out to the end. Holdouts P. C? Long Beach Can't Hnsb Trek Quake Quivers Scare at Least 60,( Sunny Clime Town From FRENCH WINE BALLYHOO IN ROCKEFELER CENTRE Inside Stuff-Music (Continued frbhl page 66) iffeant a nice dividend. Now since the Radio Music Corp. hookup, which Proved'a fiasco and Feist's had to buy back its business, paying off in stock, etc., there's been no divvy what with' the ttluslc business being What. i't has been'. ' ' " -Vlotor Albert!, most prominent itiusic publisher In Germany,. now a Mfugee in Switzerland, has had his imusic dealer business taken over by Aa&lbert Schalln, as of Sept. 1, who'has long been , associated with AlberU. Schalln qualifies under the restrictions now obtaining in Germany. 1 .' Albertl's will continue Its music: publishing technically, but the. real dealers' business has bfeen changed into the firm name of Albert! Muslk- Bortlment G.m.b.H. Warner. Bros, still holds an option to buy the 799 7th avenue, N. T. (Brunswick Bldg.) which It will most likely not exercise. When took over Brunswick along with other music publishing buys, the reaiiy Oiptlon was included. George Hall, general musical director of the new Amalgamated Broad- wing System, denies any union trouble. He Jnv"«<^,,^\"^X''^,x*;„ "lodman of the Local 802 musicians' union to once-over the Asa sei-up *nd convince themselves that the staff of 30 musicians are being pay- ^ned at the union scale. q&navan and Friedman stuck around all afternoon one .f^^J f Jtndio to pow-wow with Hall and the boys, ^"d that's how, thinks HaU 5»ey. might have deduced there was a union Jam through two union wlegates being there for so long a time. ^Of the 45 songs named in the three groups, eo'^P'^^^^^t^^r^s'eVchal'n for tho eastern, central and western divisions, on ^^X^^^SXotoMr ^tov the week enking Aug. 29, 23 of the tunes ^^^^'Z publishers. They are Robblns, Sam Fox. Southern f"!* ^ther J^o.rrls. Each of the^e firms do their distributing through sources otner loan tl^e Music Dealpi-s! Service, Inc. (Continued from page 74) salary basis, and the circuits, with few exceptions, declined to make deals.. But the circuit bookers and theatres are said to have again become affected by the name yen, and unless they restore the figures which they recently called 'ruinous,' percentage Is the only alternative. Prefer Sharing From the viewpoint of the average act in the $4,000 or |6,OO0 and up class, percentage Is m.ore desirable than a straight cut. Those $6,000 act9'who,feel they are Worth $6,000, despite the circuit's contrary opin- ions, would rr.ther gamble on a chance to draw the $6,000 than take the |1,26Q or ^1,600 cut, without an oppb'rtunliy to get it back.' ' The ■ charges of acts' ajid 'agents tliat the theatres don't give ,the player&any ttio'best of it when ar- riving, at percentage split figures, and also the theatres' aversion to the partnership arrangement that necessitates showing the books^ are ahgles that must be. straightened out on both sides. Charges of acts' rangiei from the Jacking up of previ- ous.average weeks' groases to short counts on the git>ss drawn during the week of the engagement. •Loew gave in to the percentage things to thie extent of playing Robert Montgomery'at the Capitol three weeks ago on percentage, and now has Almee Semple McPherson booked for Sept. 22 - on the same basis. Latter will also play Wash- ington and Baltimore for Loew on sharing terms. Others Sharing Warners and Paramount have been playing acts on percentage now and then right along, but RKO has been the most prolific in' this re- spect. The units playing irregularly; in the RKO, mid-western (Orpheum) theatres lately have been on per- centage mostly, while the Palace, Chicago, has also been going In for deals pretty consistently of late. Percentage playing is regarded by a growing majority as the solution of the salary problem. The smaller salaried acts whose demands ellm-, Inate them from the percentage: class, have no objections. Their salaries are now at rock bottom,, and' In many cases they hold the heavy salaries formerly paid to names re- sponsible. In the $5,000 and $10,000 straight salary days for names, the bookers Were obliged to toss all the rtioney Into one spot, and ihe little acts suffered. With the names on percentage, they figure, the names won't get more than they can draw, and the intermediate salaries will eventually grade upward propor- tionately; The circuits give no reason for continuing the general cuts, beyond the promised expiration date. It's estimated that through the slices the circuit that has benefited most,., Loew's, has saved from $5,000 to $7,000 a week on cost of Its stage | shows all over. Savings to the others were con- siderably less, since the Loew time Is nearby New York. RKO's sav- ings on salaries were largely nulli- fied by the necessity of paying transportation to the cut acts on long Jumps. AIBAITY STATE VAUBFTLM Albany, Sept. 4. The State, closed several months, reopened Saturday with vaudc and first run picture on split week. Tops for five acts and feature, 30c nights and 25c for mat. Children are admitted for 10c at all times. Six men in the orchestra. The house was leased by Louis Cappa, who also owns the Rfjgont, a second run house in .the down- town section, from Henry Oramrath. As part of nationalistic prop- aganda which, in America, asso- ciates good wines, cuisine and gay times With Paris, the French build- ing in Rockefeller Centre when it opens will have nite life adjuncts for institutional good-will ballyhoo in favor of French tourism. Paul Whiteman's orchestra in an ultra restaurant environment is being considered as part of this ventiure. , A mammoth bar, perhaps the longest in New York, running the- length of the basement restaurant underneath the Fi^nch building, will be an architectural feature of the proposed restaurants L A. Can Mop Up Ik^w Brand Daily; Cheating on Alk^ Los Angeles, Sept. 4. | With over 100 different brands of beer already competing on the open market, and new labels being flaunted by the score, prospects are that this City of Angels will be flooded by at least 300 varieties of brew from many nations by Christ- mas, according to officials who are keeping tab. Suds sippers wlU be able to order a different brand every day for the next nine months, if the present rate of new bottlings keeps up. Over half the beer thus far tested by the county health board inspec- tors falld somewhat short of the re- quired alcoholic volume content, 6.4% shewing 8.6% by volume, or 2.72% by weight, while only. 24% tops the 4% legal limit with. 4.15% by volume or . 8.28% by weight. Fourteen per cent is away below par with 2.6% by volume. Fluctuations abqve ' and below' standard are regarded by thd 'iLU thoritles as' indicating 'brewing in experience father than' deliberate Intent to evade requirements. at Grocery Co.'s Choice liquor Cache Vlslonlng repeal before Christmas, efforts are already being made to place orders with a grocery concern for some of the rum or wines which Insldei^ have learned it has had In storage ever since the Big Mistake began. IJnderstandlhg is the company has .$100,000 worth of ryes, wln^S, cor dlal^, etc., under lock' and key and win be ready to deliver the stuff the minute the gong sounds the death knell of prohibition. This firm's stock Is probably the largest kept Intact through the years. Probable that prices will he high but potential buyers who have approached the company on the matter are not worrying about that, however. One of the largest holds of pre prohibition liquor was the Wendell cache. On administration ■ of that estate recently its appraised value was placed at $10,000. Good or Calif. Climate Ruins Night Baseball Los Angeles, Sept. 4, Good or California climate sound- ed the. death knell, to night baseball at the Pacific Coast League park last week when fog came up and made It impossible for the players to see what was going on. League decided then that it had enough of trying to educate Angelenos in go- ing to ball yards at night and will content itself to appease the ball fans' appetite with afternoon games for the rest of the season. Coast has had night baseball for the past two years. In the smaller towns It has been successful, but L, A. has never gotten enthusiastic about candlelight ball. Expense of operating Wrigley Field at night far off.set tho chancoB the L. A. club had of m.aklng any money on the night games. ^, > Long Beach, Cal., Sept. 4L. Though Long Beach won't talk, it's conservatively estimated, that 60,000 persons have left here «ince the earthquake last March. Popu- lation of the burg has dropped from 160,000 to around 90,000. A favorite summering spot for Iowa rurals, the past thrcv. months has seen a meager influx of tourists and vaca- tionists. Walkout of citizens who were shaken out of their faith in CaU- fomla is carried on in a hush hucAi manner. Evacuation, started after the first shock, lasted fbr two months with every succeeding' shoplc sending more people to the railroad station and steamship piers. It Is all very disheartening to thejocals who have seen their town grdW from a Cowpath to a metropolitan city in 20 years. Outdoor People Long Beach residents are all out- door people now.. Theatres hav* been j^aord hit due to the. inhabitan.tjs feeling safer 'when not under a roo|L Result has been the increased pop- ularity of the amusement pike. Most of the people are getting their re- laxation knocking over wooden doUs, grabbing a -look at the li>)t shows , and . patronizing other gkh- cracks.peculiar to the outdoor flel<U All ^ames, ridea and showfr on the pike , have-dipped their prices to five cents. Long Beach was also hit in the pocketbook following the quake. Pike has been' doing 'ca.- pacity' business aU mimmer, topp&|; other outdoor spots and beaC|i^ lib. Southern Gal. . Town in the main has complet<^ rebuilt .the results of the quajie; however, in ■ the outlying - eectio^ there are a lot of sctirs on the^ city's face. Chances are' the most of tM tumbled down spots which have iillt been rebuilt will, remain 'In their present. condition until L. -B, goto another real estate boom* or' >Xh9 quake is forgotten; Owners of thto still tumbled down, property moMIy have pulled up stipes and. vanlisiied from 'the town; *, BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Al Evans, in Bpute- vard hospital, I>Tew York, a d&ugix- ter, Aug. 16. Father is pianist ^th Rudy Vallee*s orchestra,- on tOur through Ohio; . : J " 'Mr.' and Mrs.' fames 'R, UHmaii, son,. New YorW, iCug. 2^. Fath^ Is a playwright and producer, now associated with Sidney Harmon. Mr. and Mrs. George Isaac, % daughter, in Chicago, Aug; 27. Father is corhmercial manage^''<bj( WGN, Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Darryl ^Zanuck, daughter. Cedars of Lebanon hos- pital, Hollywood, Aug. 20. Father' is vice-president of 20th Centttry Pictures. . ■ —qinnmni 11 iknniHHuiwuitlNranntUPililHHltimniiiaiuiaiiluiau IINcii; York Theatres] IL i77u>< i ALWAYJ A BETTER SHOWRKO' Wed. to. TrL, Sept. «t8' ♦'Tarzan the Fearlesi"' "King of Jsaa." RKO 61 It ST.i^^f Wed. to X-rl., Sept. ff-8 BUSTEE CR&BBE in "Tarzan the Fearlesa" An M-G-M Heart OrMa wlili Mintti "Broadway to Hollywood" ALICE BRADY, MAOOE EVANS ErtVAY ^f***^ MorgaD, Jimmy OurMte ' Ob 8tai)«— ray BOLGES* EVERETT MARSHALL SIBYL BOWMAN CASS, HACK OWEN Il Oa Ah 1012 (TATE if MON.~FRI. I ."GOLD DIGGERS.. 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