Variety (Sep 1933)

f Tnesdaj, September l!^,' 1933 TIMES SQUARE VARIETY 57 Repeal Lets Loose 500,000 Rouglmecks; May Be Thrown on Country as Menace Not less, than 600,000 men now at- tached in some manner or meana to mohs, gunmen and racketeers en- gaged In one wa,y or ithother. with liquor, will be thrown. Into the ranks .o£ the unemployed, it is expected, when Bepeal arrives. Thi$ half million men' gerous element will require extraor< dinary police scrutiny, eay those who seem conversant with, the pres- ent and future conditions of these, loose horde of muzzlers and guz- zlers. They know nothing beyond their present worki mostly strong- arming. If driven to desperation, through non-employment after Re- peal has stopped-any kind of a.n in- (Come for them, the vast mob' may develop into, ah unruly band of stick-ups or go into other unlawful pursuits to obtain the same easy living they have been getting dur- ing prohibition. Inside. . sources appear • to . think that this army of roughnecks niay becpmie a real menace to the peace of the country at lar^e, unless some action is ta,ken to curb them at the' outset, when Repeal will have, re- leased them from the present iilegal labor. EXPECT $100,000 GATE FOR ROSS^ANZONERI -Expectation is that, the fight be- tween Barney Ross of Chicago and Tony Canzoherl of Brooklyn for the world's lightweight champion- . ehip^ to bia .held at the Polo Grounds tonight (tiieisday) will exceed $100,000. Top is $10. Betting- bdd$ are close, New York pports stalling until the last min- ute on the alibi they have not seen Ross in action. Indications are that the chainp will be a slight faVoritie^ but ft can finish either way. The boys met In the Windy City early in the summer when Ross oopped th^ title, there, were , skep- tical comments on the. eastern end. JMARRIAGES Augustus P, Scheu to Dorothy Kyper, Greenwich, Conn., Sept. B. 6room is GuS Shy, musical co- median. Andy lack and Miss Ethel Pepers, of Cleveland) O., Sept. 6 at •Club Casino, Summit Beach Park, AkroUi The pair -were contestants and partners in a walkathon -which has oeen in progress there. Jane H. Lord and Guy S.'Duck- worth at San Diego, Calif. Groom is an announcer at KMPC In Los Angeles. Dorothy Lee, picture actress, to Marshall Ddffleld; a:t the Agua C^li- ente hotel in Baja California. Sept. 3. This is M:iss Leie's second niar- rlage. Groom -was football player at the University of Southern Cali- fornia. Ann Boland to Victor Freshman, Tprk, Sept, ^8. ride is on Mary TuthiU Hereford to William Northrop Robson, 2d, at Tuscon, Ariz., Sept. .6. Bride works in films. Dorothy Gore to Irving Starr, Sept. 2, at Agua Caliiente. Starr Is a supervisor for Phil Goldstone. ride is non-pro. Ruth Hall (Tbanez) to Lee Qarmes In Hollywood, Sept. 10. Miss Hall is a screen actress and. Garmes is a Fox cameraman. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wilk, a son, Sept. 8, at Cedars of Lebanon Hos- pital, Hollywood. Father is Holly- _;wood representative of 'Film Dally.' Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Pantages, a daughter, Sept. 8, at Good Samari- tan Hospital, Hollywood. Father Is ,.Jke.;aon._of=Aiexander--Panta;ffcs=.ani ftiAnager of the newly formed Pan- tages Booking .Ofllce. To Al. and Both Stuart Duffy, at Massachusetts General hospital, Boston, Thursday, September -7, 8 pound boy. Mother was formerly In Zlegfeld 'Showboat' chorus; father is handling publicity for 'Hold Tour Horses.' Nite Club Ads Top Chi Theatrie Space Chicago, Sept. 11. For the first time in this town the local nite clubs .and other amuse- ment places outside of legit, picture houses and thefittres, .are using more newspaper space than the theatres. There is nothing uniisual a nite club to take full piage, even Ih the staiid 'Tribiihe.' They enjoy the weekly theatrical rate, even on Saturday and Sunday editions. Sp^cs Under Code (Continued' from page 53) the agencieis are not ih the legit code . (although the prpteisting group has applied for jpermlssion to codify); If broker violates a NALT rule, the\manag:ers will not be allowed td^o Wsiness with that agehiSy, forcing it out of^ business. That is the drastic discipline which Rosenblatt said !cpuld he applied. Under the NiElA .violators are sub- ject to a fine of $600 each offehce. The NALT had told the brokers to form an organization, so that the new rules may be applied. After the reputed grab oh the part of Mc- Bride's, Sullivan-Kay and- Postal- Leblang's. was made the subject of charges, the committee received an urgent plea that consideration wa3 due the agency group which was In the Theatre League's fiop ticket control system. . These are the agencies that, paid off the League's. $2S,000 ideficit despite the depression, after It abandoned ticket .control' There were 16. agencies in the- League's schenie, number now being about 12 due to combinations and one of t-wo drop-outs. Agencies Recognized Just what agencies are to be recognized Is to be decided! prob- ably this week, and whether all. brokers Operating under a New York state license are. to be Included, but that does not mean that all man- agers will have to do business with all the agencieis recognized. ..tinder stood each house' will deal with, the agencies It selects. The protesting brokers - declared that the National Ticket Dis- tributors was a mythical organiza- tion and that they had hot; been consulted .about anything pertaining to the legit code. The brokers' added that they dloi not authorize representation at the open hearing on the code In Washington, yet William Klein, the Shubert lawyer, intimated at the . hearing that he represented Broadway's ticket inter- ests and he mentioned the r>is- tributors thing. ^ However, brokers conceded, the move for code representation was the right gesture, most of the other specs paying little attention to the NRA movement. The result of the Washington participation was that- Rosenblatt conceded the brokers right to have two ticket nien at NALT meetings if and when ticket matters were under consideration. The-protesting agents hardly agrfeo with th^. two brokers named to act for the ticket business, but under the general NiElA set-up all regula- tions are subject to change—where there are objections thdse Intierested are expected to discuss and Iron out differences. The'unorganized group* taking in the front of the house which is en- titled to onie representatlye to act for company and houie managers, press agents, treasurers, ushers , an 1 so on down to scrubwomen, failed to get together. The New York box office men, who have a benevolent ,organlzatIon known as the Treasurers Club. nov/ propose the formation of the Na- tional Theatrical 'Treasurers' As- sociation, tiie object being to have a box office man .riepiiesentatiye on ihe N^^^ committee, ,A meeting ToiTthiaT objpl^Hal "Becfi calTeaT'fSr Friday The sub-committee handling problem of tickets: Brock Pember- ton, chairman;' Frank GtllmOre (Equity), Leo Shubert, Philip Dun- ning (Dramatists) and William Elliott (stage hands international union). FRENCH PHIZ SNff DIG DODGE BOBS OP IN N.Y. Snapping pictures of passersby on, the street and selling them back later is a new gag to hit New York. Called 'Mpviesnap' and being .-worked mostly among the crowds around the Radio City Music Hall, in a tleup -with a drug store chain. Photog picks 'em out of the crowd and after taking the'shot hands the subject a cpupon.ad-vlsing that three poses, if -wanted, can be obtained, at the store. Ta.p Is two bits. , - Same gag is a regular ginimlok at Cannes, on the. Firench Riviera, and used mostly- on foreigners. Makes a lot of the Visitors thinlt .they're being classed as celebs until they find out how it works. Anybody 's Guess (Continued from page 29) come out of its present tiallspin within the. next few hours when it faces the government. That is why there are so.many wlse'smlles whien th6 brief epidemic is mentioned. It is evident that a lot of picture people here ha,ve the two codes: submitted to Rosenblatt as yirtUT' ally .fcay^ocd already and a;re writ- ing their own heads; off with the hope that the government will be swayed by their peninanship when writing, the industry law gets down to business. Constantly Shifting very hour around the town pro- posals ar^ .being amended Or re- pudiated. Even the MPTpA Is not standing' by some of the find- ings which committeemen a few weeks ago. approved.. This and other recantations are explained as perfectly ethical, that no trade as^ sociation Is bound by anything agreed upon' by tbe now defunct committee. Majoi* beads , are now reporting in. Hays, Kahane, Laemmle, Kent are a few. Louis' Mayer and Nicholas Schehck are not coming, but are represented. H. M. War- ner has a reservation. A number are due in this evening. Their sales managers and other subor- dinates are already here. Just what they are going to do cannot be figured'. Outwardly they In agreement On the production code, but inwardly there is knb-wn to be pleinty of friction. Independent leaders credit the suave major ex- terior to organization. For that matter, all trade, groups are talking about their 'ace cards.' They expect to reveail them for the first time tomorro-^/ and jthere-. after. But there are so many codes, clauses, committees and what-: nets adding to the confusion that a lot of representatives are unconscious- ly- siibstantiating the bromide of the business still being in its In- fancy. The'exhibitor has come to Wash- ington Only to find that he has no status as yet. Distributors main- tain that the exhib is just a re- tailer and. entitled to such consid- eration under the code. Exhib lead- ers, however, maintain their flocks are consumers. Batde of hewers in LA. Tests Right of Cities to Tax Beer llG for Ripley Chicago, Sept. The 'Belle-ve It or Not' con- cession, (lO-ih-one show) at the World's Fair last, Sunday probably broke eyery conces- sion record in the world for a day. They- took ,in a dollar and twenty-five., cents ..less than .$ll;000v RACE TRACKS IN M. ARE IN A BAD WAY ^ Racing around New on' pretty bad legs. It was bad in the spring -When, opening, now. Week-day crowds at Belmont are less than .2i66o, Cut in the gate from $3.50 to $2.60 isn't helping. There's no band on week days, at- tributed to necesisary economy. Stands are staring vacuums and the bookies handle less than $1,000 daily. Time -was when they took $500 and $1,000 bets to a race. Only the regulars are around and they are mostly all in. Racing In New York 8hould..emu- late Chicago and Improve th,e status even there, from the viewpoint of amusement and sp.prt for the patron. New York ncedc a mutuel bill If racr ing is to continue, admissions should be cut to $1.60 and - mile circular courses should supplant those now in vogue, Pebplei go to the races to bet on and see horses run; With the present eastern ' courses and their shoots and istralghtaways, which are like, iao many jigsaw puzzles, the audience is in a da.ze for most of the afternoon. It seems a question of selling rac- ing as amusement to the patrons of sports or pieasing the vanity of wealthy horse owners. The old mile and a- half courses were bad ehough because most of the afternoon the horses -were starting too far awa:y. If the courses are ever changed, and they should be, the mile courses tvoiild be Infinitely better. The Hertz totalizer at Arlington Park- Is much superior to the Wid- ener tote at Hialeah. If the Niew York patrons aren't given a decent break by the tracks, perhaps they will pass up the. tracks. Or perhaps the funny stult has broken all tihe followers .and they don't care anymore. With the ' $2 bettors also staying away to lose, their money in the pool room. Whether or not a municipt well as state and Federal, goyern- niehts, may be permitted to; slap a tax on locally brewed beer is the .question foaming .up for decision here on. , a test case. Los Angeles brewers. are to prevent: local .taxation, under a licensing ordinance, .by attacking the Issue through complaint for an Injunction against city officials. En- joining request, under which the Whole power and constitutionality of tills type of revenue getting is challenged, comes up for decision within a few days in Superior court.. The Los Angieles Brewing :Com- pany has taken the initiatlyei, and If thiey win out similar tactics may be adopted by the beer barons In other cities, and towns where local legislation is contemplated a^ ,a means of sopping rei-venue from suds. Court edict here will be con- sidered significant because spnae .of the points' involved are cbmmoh to most American municipalities', generally alike jthelr: charterisi and governments. The challenged city ordinance, re- cently adopted-and to become ef- fective Oct. 1 unless 'punctured, provides'for a .t4x of one cent per gallon on beer in the keg, graduated down to. 3 cents per case or fraction., Tithe, would be collected by meahei ■ of revenue stainps issued by the city. Brewing company, on^ the major suds factories of the .'West, demands the enjoining order to forestall arrests on the grounds, that the ordinance violates the city charter's maximum figure on per- missible tax rate. Another cause of action is that the prdinance Is un- constitutional in that it discrim- inates against piersons engaged in the tsanie kind of occupation. To support the latter contention, the plaintiff asserts there are inany Iklnds of beverages containing mpre than one-half of one per cent Itl- cohpl being . distributed In Los Angeles at prices ranging from 10 cents ' to $5 per bottle, not subject to. lo'cal tax. I'm Telling You By Jack Oaterm^n CALIFpBNIA, HERE I GOME. Open Up Those Golden• Gates. Well; after, this -week your hiimr ble columnist -will be sehding in notes, from Hollywood where men are men and Edgar Allen Woolf cooks the best suppers. I'm open? Ing at a new night spot called the 'Mallbu Club.' What It will be called at the finish, no one knows. Air I know Is what I read In the air. mail and I have a four-week guarantee so I figure it Is better to be owed In California than never to: be . owed at all, Observati It's reported . that A. Blumen- thal IS dancing with Fears in his eyes. It's Possible L Jl^h ey-=-^ayv_that^a=LlD.t ^l=_JEiuS comedians are coming oyer here to put Milton Bcrle- on a five-year PAN.. Debcripti Fred Allen desdri a pa.ssport photo as an X-Ray picture with skin on it. Add N.R.A. Puns Jack White knows a typical N.RIA. Never Refuses Anything. Switch .iules Kendlei^ has an actor client who has changed his policy; he re- hearses In the Winter and lays 6ft In the Summer. Yog're Telling Mo Sisters, of the Skillet whisper that the radio audience may bei seated as. it listens, but they STAND for a lot. Off The Corner On 47th street one actor wsre heard to say to the other, 'Vaudeville today is very healthy for you, it keeps you oiit-doprs.' Qstermania They say Kufus LeMalre's new daughter will get In pictures,. .she jDi2kstJilfe..Jxer=Jiiathcr™ .^Ed.:.W-ynn says It was orlgin'Sally 'Tea for T?wo,' but M.Q.M to make it bigger called It 'Dinner At Eight'. . .If that plane arrives okay In Burbank our next coiumn win come from Hollywood, In the mean time think of me on that 20-hour hop to L.A.... You re- member me. Jak(i 'Llndy Ealbo' Os- terman...AUK YOU IlEAJD^NG? American Grabs Border Town CambGng Rights Mexico City, Sept. 8. Over protests of citizens, the Tamaullpas state goverpnient has apprpVed a 16-year concession granted to LPuis Swed, Amerlcian, for building and operating 'tourist centers', consisting of cabarets, sa- loons and gambllngr casinos in the border towns of Nuevo Laredo, Ma* tamOros and Reynosa. Rumored that Swed proposes to obtain state concessions to estab- lish and. operate aimilar 'tourist centers' in other Tamaullpas border towns. Safe Names May Come Back Alons^ Broadway _..Vltal_mo_Ve8:Ltoward:_the restora- tipn of Broadwaty night life are seeii In the proposed mammoth restaiU- raht to be erected on the Criterion theatre corner at 44th and the main drag. Sam SalVIn and Ben Marden have closed with Walter J. .Salmon for the Palalsi P'Or site, which was the former P'alalsi Royal, Broadway in- stitution as run by Paul Salvin and Jimmy Thompson and are planning to rename it the Palais Iloy.al. Names like Reisenweber's, ley's, Murray's, Pekm, et ai., the works for revival. Imminent re,- peal Is the big reason back of It, XIN&FISH CBAWnSHES New Orleans, Sept. il. Kingflsh Huey Long crawfished on his proposition to go: to New- York and appear at Madison Square Garden to tcl' the world all about being=^8ocked-on--Long=lfrlandi=-Wlth-" Wall Street as a side issue. Under- stood here that the Garden was willing to book the date but the senator changed his mind, although he proposed the stunt. Long, thought he inlght make the appearance later but the Garden is filled with engagements for the bal- ance o£ the month.