Variety (Sep 1933)

Tuesday, September 26, 1933 ¥ I M E S SQUARE VARIETY 61 HoDywooiI Charlie Ruggles buys a farm on Ventura blYd, ^ Sam Mlntz looking for a Aew brand of tobacco. Zeppo Marx getting a new front on his Brass Rail ejatery. iirs. Arch Beeve recouping after a siege of stomach disorder. Promoters trylrtg to interest pic- ture names in tango parloris. Monta Bell taking a. vacation in bis backyfird between pictures, Jimmy Durante canvassing. his pats for opiniohSi on hts broadcasts. Luclen Llttlefleld in 'East of Fifth AyenuOi' for Co'l, playing his 301st .part.. r. , • . jilae West popularity, restoring the gusset, to 'favor. Bustles ..niay do comeback. Three-year-old daughter of John BariTrmore Is beginning to • give oiut the answers, .Beverly Hills eating spots getting a break throug;h new agenciies mov- ing out there. . Bobby Stewart, formerly'. with. Bort licyy and West Coast, now as- sociated • With the Sadi Halperin agency, Alan Crosla^id is defendant in a $1>442 wage suit filed, by Eric Ru- belius,.. director's' former combo ; chaufteur-butler. Florence Desmond raying over the treatment she receiv.i?d from .San Francisco natives. Warits to play a return engagiemient.. Gaekwar of .Baroda, world's sixth richest man, passed through Kplly- wood. Didn't give ,{)lctures .a tum- ble; Ha4 seen a picture. John W.. Bum^ey, formerly head of the American Play Co. in New York, Is how maitre de hotel in a Hollywood delicatessen shop. C H A T T E manage the house after opening, set tentatively for next Saturday night. Frank. Webb of the 'Republic- Oazette' advertising staff becomes manager of the'Journal-Miner' ad.- vertislng.. department in prescott, Monday. Understood that ' f hoenix lilttle Theatre dickering . for rent: of Apach^, dark .for- several riionths. House is owned by publlxrRiokards and;Nace,; The Rendez^yous Galrdens is the city's top-notch hl^htlery now. .The bid Pueblo hais failetii as far as prestige is concerned, biit still rakes in the dollars. -By Hai d;ohen Harold Daniels- going to coast next week for another fling at the movies. Roberta Gale, flicker ingenue, here frpm tlie coast for a short visit with relatives. ' ■' . , .The Joe Perinerst. and Norman. prOscott here. for. a day between motor hops. j:J4ck' Gilniore In town ahead of zo(ld($hi)!W engagehient of 'Dinner at ■ElgUj'5 ikt Nixoh. ■ ... .. Stittl^^iRauh, head of ittsburgh Syi»iim>fiy orchestra, back from a vacation in Europe. Lico Robin, en route to coast, stopped ofE here for a day to visit friends and rielatiVes.. Dorothy Bushey (Ml-s, Bernie Arm- strong) touring with the condensed version of 'Strike Me Pink'. Repairs .being rushed on Alvin, with prospects now of opening within another three weeks.' Harvey Gaul, the 'Post-Gaiette's' .'triplerthreat critic, on the job again after the annual summer lay-off. Jerry Mayhall On from PhlHy over the week-end to see. the. family, and raving about 'As Thousands Cheer? One of the sax players In Happy Felton's band almost a dead ringer for General. B^lbo,.the Italian bird man. First year in long time that Dave Rubihoff wasn't able to get home to spend the Jewish holidays With, his parents. Benny Drob, the veteran property man and for years, at the \Stanley, has popped iip this season at the Variety. , . Ada Burt, cousin of. Belle Baker, and Mrs; Lou' Gittleson. in private life, singing at her better half s Club Rhythm. Happy Felton's band Stays on at William Perin to open hostelry's Winter nite. spot,. Chatterbox, Frl^ ray nite. Mildred Cozierre, buxom burley- cue queen, back. .a$ her old. stamp- ing gi'Ounds at the V«triety, Where she's quite a fav. A. Certo, publisher of an Italian. hewspap6r . here, backing , a pop.- price grarid opera .company this sea- son. Opens next month at Syria Mosqiie. Denyer •Par, CantoD By Rex McCottnell Few eastern Ohio theatres dark now,- ... Pauline Le Van Joins .Fred . Hall's new musical show here as soubret. Gtay Wolf Tavern reopens after being dark all. summer, with Ed Kriowles again in-charge. "Fried Hurley plans to feopeii Prin- cess, dark .severial months, ' at youngstown 'Sooih with girlesk; . Palace, Akron, open .three ^weeks ago " with split- yeek. vaude-fllm. switches to full week .progriamBi. Al Katz and his Kittens, lost MCA -band to play Summit ■ Beach Park pavilion,' Akron, for H. W. Perry. Bob Rhodes, four years assistant manager toew's here.o now with Weller Mort Shea's'new hotise at Zahesville. Russ 'Clutterbuck, tab producer, here supervijsing • rehearsals^- for- Fred. HaH'a new musical, show,. 'WoMs and Music* Cy Riddle, paj-k concessionaire, convaleBcing in Mercy hospital here frpm. fractured rib. suffered several weeks ago in a fall. . Billy Foster,, latei of the Curley Buriis Show, Is musical director for 'Words-and Music/ new S'red Hall tab, leaving here soon., 'Pop' Crawford's Northerners band back at Massillon resting after successful summer season at Tei*.r race Beach/; on Lake Erie, Art Mallbry, for six years man- dgiair Craig Beach Park, near Ybungstown, reopens, his Trianon ballroom in Allianco this week. Lew Platt^ manager dance par vilion at ■ Craig Beach Pat>k, hear Youngstown, turns oVer. manage- ment of his Rainbow Giardens'ball- room in Salem to Ken BurcaW, and will devote all his time to booking dance- bands, Emerson Gill and his band close summer season at Youngstown> Iddra Park pavilion, Monday night, Sept. 18.. Gill to Bermuda for a rest .and band due. to reopen for the win ter at Book-Cadillac llotel in De trOit late this month. Eddie Loy, formerly how selling for Fox,: ■ Earl . KayO. and his Orchestra inoyes into the new Rainbow ball- room;.. Film board 'secretary, Duke Dun- bar,' Visiting woi^ld fair during va- cation. Athut landerd, WB saleshian from Pittsburgh and ..New York, now On staff here. . . Harry Brunet, manager of change operations for Coliimhia, - specting .the branch here. ; 'Just a Sweet Memory,', by Ruth Ellis, Denver; composer, played by West . Masters at. the Paramount this week. West Masters*., organist at the Paramount, and Miss Lucile Gram of Denver were, seicretly married July 28 at Colorado Sprihgs. Harry Huffman and A. A. , Mc- Vittle were given a testimonial ban- quet by the trust^s. of three, sani- tariums and hospitals ill alpprecia- tlon of their work lor them^- With the Opening of the organ at the State, eVery playable organ in the city is being worked. Bob Moore,' from the El 'Capitan, Los Angeles^ at the State consolo. The::f611owing out of toWn eshib Itors were seen on_the row: Nathan Salinon, Santa Fib; B. L. Hessbeck, Chappel, Neb.; J. g. Ward, Douglas, Wyo.; Tom Murphy, Raton. N. M;; George Besse, Gunnison,. Colo.;. L M. Teller, Curtis, Neb., and J. K Powell, Palisades, Neb. Musicians who baye ' resigned from the union (or have been. ei pelled),: and: arO"playing- at the Huffman Orpheuni and Tabor: Howard Tillotson, who. was direc ;or of the orchestra at the old Or pheum; Dick Wallace, John Llb- onatl, Harry Vail, Abby McDonald and Doug Barnes. Phoenix^ Ariz. By Robert J, Rhodes J. C. Barnes Of ttie San Carlos back frOm Atlanta, Ga, Joan Huddleston, local dancfer, had a part in a recent picture. Ruth Leslie will be seen as ,a dancer in liolores Del liio's next. The Phoenix Theatre Guild will stage 'It's a Wise Child' as season's opener. Harry Boyle of the Biltmore back, from the east after drumming xip Winter trade. Betty Stoddard; is attending U. of JD. and^lsojgoing^to Fox^jichOol jqr^ "screen-star^aspifantsi ^ • ^^ : Rachel Crbthers' 'Let's Be Gay' ,wlirbe first presentation this fall of the Phoehix Little Theatre. Western pictures were at one time made at an old studio here. Site is now occupied by the Grunow Memorial . clinic. Amateur dramatics at Phoenix Junior coUdsc this year will be di- rected by j. N. Smclsci' and at the liiffh school by AliUi Bray, , Albert Stft.so will open thp Stu- io la Proscott; ot kiiown who will Seattle iBy Daye Trepp Coliseum is re-seating and doll Ing. Paul Tutmiarc on air and special clubs. Eddie Rivers in town from Lewis ton, Idaho. Metropolitan, ^eady about Oct. 16. Al Baker back In hospital for a second operation. Harry Seb^r booking for time in Northwest for 'Change Your Luck' tab. . ' . Katherihe' Havlland added to staff of Kelghley & Roscoe as yaude is perking. J, T. Sheffield and Herb gobbotka to Denver and Salt'Lake et :cet .f6r a .month on biz. 'Whitey' Merwin, Victory theatre, Tacoma, on the merid after trouble Witb his molars. . Dan Lussier pj^ess.agented for the Great Raym.ohd Go,-. 2. weeks tour in western Canada,.' There is a Dr. Bull in Seattle arid jim Clemmer had him as a guest for Win Rogers', pic. Howard Lang aflflUates with Cur ran & Bclasco,. announcing legit company soon for Seattle. Bill Connor from Ceritralla to Tacoma,^ as asst .:manager to Ned Edrlis for the Hamrick houses. Hi- W. ruen' again in show biz, operating 45th St. theatre. Bruen sold out for a mint to Universal Chain Theatres In 1927. ' Ai'gonaut cafe opening new beer parlor advertised It as 1933.2 open- ing. But architecture in. style of loe-cabin pioneer days, '^WaltW=Dou'Blasirprexy:='-ofT'U:nlVer sity Theatre Co., to N. Y. for the Met angling for attractions. Met is former Erlanger house. Gordon Cfaddock, salesman for Universal film exchange, to Port land, as rrianager of U Ex there succeeds Al O'Keefe, who gets pro motion to L. A, office. liorse racing: seasons ends with' . great mol) .-xt the tracks; .season so so. O^^oial.s insist next year pari iniiliK'l mao.hihos nm.«^t ho in.<!tnlU'd or clso not within state law. DaDas Saranac Lake By Happy Benwuy their su*rimer schools and announc- ing the new dances. None, however, have mentioned the fan dance.. Manager . McManus getting a lot of eitra merit loris In the sports, sec- tions, with art aplenty,: for the comiiig run. of 'Prizefighter and the Lady.' -; ,: The directors of the Kansas City, Kdns., Little Theatre have, anw hounced a contest for-local writers and hope to secure isbme original plays for the coming seasbn. Sail Francisco By Harold Bock Oscar- Qldkhow in plane. Leon Levey up from Hollywood on^ quickie triple, iFrank Newman dbwn from Seat- tle en route tb L, A, John Stein covering the town In advance of Tex Gulnan. When Hof Brau cafe opens It will Louie Rhelngold, still strictly a- bed, Kitty Vogelle, holding nice comeback. Marya Blake is going through H mass of. high terhping. ■ Robert Brown Farley, shotying,up very nice toward the cure. ; kathierine - Lowenberg lodge With ah arrested okay. The n! V: A. lodge is getting a , new. smeair of. hew paint, lOOka. nice. Toriinriy Viclts holding up great' .with Ibtsa exercise V;. and- added WCiSht. Bert Ford and Helen O'Reilly arb back Saranacing after a New York vacash, ' Are you writing to those that you. know in Saranac and elsewbere that are sick? Tommy Abbott, I.A.T.S.E. boy, by I strictly a bed patient, .is .folding up on the oke. 1 Chris Hag6dbrn, now. curing at 2S Sh6ppard avenue; ditto for Leon- ard Crowley. Hazel Gladstone , . Murray Weston are newcomers at the. lodge, under observation. Ruth Morris, female boo.ker. de- luite, left Camp Intermission after, a three-week vacash.. Nice to see Fred "Bones' Bach-. be with Jinimy Davis' band, Bruno L«a^ing's in town ■writing for Hearst; likes the griib hei-e. , , . . . Miles Lay. relief stage'doorman at ] man sitting m thejounge room, at the Warfield, died of heart attack, I least twice a moath Eleanor Bairnes. Is ott isea trips after a jaunt up from Hollywood by boait. Harry ipe, -radio ed . Berkeley 'Gazette,' grabbed himself :& wife 1: Reho^ Nlta Mitchell Is warbling on Gebrge Harmbh. - craOks that he oWes his breakdo-wn to making Jumips. Page Gus.Sun, . Mannie Lowy, ex-Rudy VoUee fid- dler, is Showing up, to good results. Ably nursed by his frau, Salvadore Ragone up for three KRFC are Al Lvons and Buhhy a day with mild exercise, a KRFC, as are Ai i^yons ano uunny 1 united Artists Corp. boy. Sydney Plermont, week-ended ii here, hlia frau has been doing won- ders while airing up here. Paul Jones , adding , another year as news spreader for Sta,te fair. Hal Worth Oztra-busy with page ant plana for DaUas Day at fair; Koslbfif.' back from a. coast trip visiting Cecil DeMllle, reopens studio. Dallas Little Theatre into a new seasbn with "Both Your Housed" first. Out-of-the-way booking for Melba film house is option on Ballet Russes de. Monte Carlo next February. Majestic to be refurbished with new seats and a perhiarient white velvet stage setting; an innovation. Lasses White and Pat Wilds, 'Liasses and Honey,' tapping off their home-folks Visit to return to WSM-^Jashville. Bagdad nite spot uhlldded by John (Mlckle) De Grazier, with Knox Pugh's music and m. c. work by Buddy Roger's bud, B. H. J. J. North, ejecting unpaid . ad- ttish to Majestic, ia hero-of-the- week usher as a knife wound inflict- ed by the crasher will testifVi Staffs of WFAA,. Palace, Baker Hotel and dance studios In midnight shOw to help Rio Grande Valley storm and flood victims, With Par donating 'Three-Cornered Moon.' Paul Short, Majestic manager, and Besa Falrtraciei, Majestic publicist, are Mr. and Mrs. Short by recent announcement, but not by a recent •wedding; Event evented in Okla-. homa on April 9, . 1932, while Couple were Melba-ites. Plato. Baron Hartsough. in as organist at OrpheUm "after long' session in Honolulu. -Nat Blank will bow out as-house, manager of -the Fox end of the. month to go south. Jay Hurley (Putnam & Hurley) has grahbed himself a hotel Instead of the usual No. 3 spot, v Emma Wyhn newest hostess at NBC after all that staff shuffling that left Jane Burns as chief. Benny . Rubin reported dickering, with the Catholics after he opened, his Oakland cafe on New Year's. Anson Weeks' band and .. Lou Sonny Dinklris, former-ly BenWay and. .Dtnkins; ir:now .Automating after a siege of hospltallng. . ' Harry Namba, who has seen spe- cial nursing for quite Some time, la now bpei^ing one eye for a few laughs. ' ■ , , ' Salome 'POrk* Schllllngi late of the Park stbck company,, is a new arrival at the lodge, taking the cure like a vet.. Harry Barrett that old-time jug- gler, socked by-a drunk, Harry Ifl laid up with a broken arm-frOm the Will Hughes 'jJoUrnal Poet' commentator John Cameron Swayze, now a papa. 'Spike' Hennessy, of the Midlahd staff recuperating from a. broken wing, Joanha Downs, new addition to the dance .faiculty :,of the Kansas City conservatory. Taylor Myiers,, aisslstant manager at LOew's Midland, -started his son to school last -week. Joe Rcichman's, engagement at the new Hotel Kansas 'Cltl.an^ ha;S been extended to Its eighth' week,- Rumored that 'Dinner at ■. Eight,' picture, will come to the Shubert at an early date, as a road shbw. Lawrence; Lehman, of the Mainr street, has 'dreater Movie Season' spread all over the front Of the place. George Bowles now* on KMBC bir weekly with his 'Tattler' gagging sponsored by onO of the local "eiptiTigrs : .r" -—^ -- ^ ^ ^= ==,^.= Billy Mlllbr, for several years treasurer at the Shubert, is how handling the cash at the dog track at Can/ield, O. Two of the leading' flr.st-run houses ran icicles on their ad., slgs when the ni(*rcury registered. Iri the 60's a "few days ago. ; Ray Wluttaker, manager of the Shubovt. is oxpected in shortly, al though no liookings for the- house liavo hrf>n. announced. I Darxin,!? teachers returning from Tobin, imitator, butting 'Hollywood results of the attack. Impressions' discs for MacGregor- Joseph Vaughey bf Denver, Colo.; Sollie. Is seeing Chicago World's Pair and Uzia Bermani back along the will New York It for an extended rialtb after a month of musical vacash, first in six years, synchronization on the Mae West-I Billie Jerome, who did a ya'ude- filckeri^ vllle act with her husband some Haii Ellas in for- Metro- readying years ago, is holding np oh the oke the campaign on "Dinner at.Eight,'[side In Liber,ty, N. Y., an Actors which opens Sept, 30-at the Cbltim- Fund guest. bia as a ioadshow. Lawrence McCarthy, .ex^N-V-A. Chris tykke, city ed "News,' I patiient curer, now piano playing at elected president of Press club; Pat [the Jack Phillips nlight club, MUir- Frayne, "Oall' sports ed, y.rp.; Wal- [ ray Salet still holds dOwn the job ter .Swansoh, p.a., secretary. as chief jsongster. , . — . " - - • ' Benway, old man Benway*s oldest I son, Happy, and your muger. Is do- DA«4l«kM«l AwA' Ing nicely, he has so much exercise rOnianUi Ure* now that he offered some Of it to B i T \A/ it. Ben Schaeftier, who turned It down. By James T. wyatt | getty Huntington, Buckley House, „ ^ . *t. V V ..Liberty, IT. Y„ who Is doing well, Alex Pantages In th© burg, but pens 'Thanks for Viubitt. I sure ambiguous about taking over the appreciate It and enjoy the news Orpheum property, Jaina Kay Burke Is the fancy name of the feme sex lecturer which the Columbia found. She told them' things they didn't know tWiCe dally. J. J. Parker reads incessantly. Blo- graphiesf of Talleyrand, Bismarck, Generial Grant; Disraeli, are his meat. Parker says that those bozos figured oiit the answers, and selling a pic isn't , so dlifferent that they send me up here In the 'sticks' each week. Answering the morning mall.. No, the Harry English that Was here Is not the Harry English that managed the Los Angeles N.V.A^ club... .George Harmon here Is not the George Harmon of circus fame ... .iMcManee, who has departed, la not McManee the clay moulder, .v. N.V.A. lodge Is situated On what Is Homer Gill claims disco-very of a [called Spion Kop..,..Harry Namba headline -vaude' act , in Walter Bux- baum, young Viennese concert pian- ist, Who displays a jeweled stickpin given, himi. by ex-klng Alphbnsb of. Spain for a command performance at. Madwd, but says he likes playing yaude better than concerts',. . Part of the exploitatloh. fbr 'Sins of. L'o.Ve.; at an fndie. house was-a nurse In attendance on faintlhi;. Customers. Second day the screen went dark;ln the middle of the show. Investigation found the operator had fainted In the booth. Nurse had to be called to help out the help.; is the Original. head walker to do the up and downstairs routtne.- By Bill iley Trenfon By Qeorflfi Rosen bag of Trenton Fair Sept. 26.: Al CoUlsbn has new tricks. Sidney "Goldmann is back from Boston.' JOhnhy Ipp now meter here. Hunt's State all set to open next week with stock. Hunt's OrpheUm still boarded tip With sign outside reading: "Will ^Open^Labor -Day-;^ ,-=-^y,==^ RKO Lincoln and Capltbl The- atres haVe changed opening; days to Saturday and Friday, respectively, reversing order, Trenton 'Times' outing at Spring- dale. .Park for employees and families attracted more than 600. Twenty barrels of beer conisumcd. George. Ahthiel hag been notified that he has been decorated by the Prrnch Governmffnt. Nqw a mcm- ber of Iho Socioto Historiquc of Ihr French Academy.' Keith's, once the host to most of today's stage stars. Is now show- ing second run pictures. WKBP is using .mostly lOcal pro-' gram-s since becoming .local outlet for NBC red and blue networks,. ^ Paramount Club, where dancing was in the opeti,^ has moved Into wiiiter quartets on the same lot, Tom Devlne, major dbmo of the Indiana ballroom,publiciy prisdicting that jazz dahcingr has had its day. Carl Niesse and Ted Nicholas get their daily dozen walking over town checking patronage at opposing houses. Now that the Indiana and Circle are once more jointly operated the. boys are always 'in conference' when phoned. . Fran Royse, mgr. of the Trees, la figgering on entering the mercan- tile industry after the nightie closes Jor.^thejylntcK,^-— ,^^.^-=^==^-=^^==^ Charle Olson, bf the Lyric, has given up his home at Wawasee and moved here to be closer to the seat of his troul»les. , . Corbin Patrick, Star crick, swells his chest with pride .when he. re- flects that he's the only pljc review- er In t()wn who is a parent. ICcn Collins of the Apollo, tthd Swlgcr oX the Indiana,, with their wivf.M, ftM-Kot. box office figures for tbo w«.'"k by .^pending a night at the I'recs.