Variety (Nov 1933)

Tuesday, November 28, 1933 O U ¥ D O O R S -BURLESQUE VARIETY 63 OBITUARIES MARK N. 0ITTENFAS8 Mark M. . Dlftenfass, ,61, one bt the plQttcers the Motion Picture Sales Co., from which Universal Films eventually was derived, died At Gllffside fscrW, N. J., Nov. U. pittenjass entered, the picture business. aljout 1?06 when a little group of .independent prbducers led by Carl liaemmle and his. Imp Film Co. banded toggethetf to distribute their product along the . lines of General Film Co. and to light the Motion Pictuir© Patent^ Co. Din - tenfa^s eontrlbUtfed the Champion brand, with studios Iii Fort Lee and a small Indoor studio in F3. 15th street. His was an odd personality and no one ever could convince him that by spending a, Hltle more money he could produce , better pic- tures. He was fully convinced that his Champion product was- , the ianest oh the market. He reallj^ be- lieved it, though he seldpm pro- duced an accel)table release. In time the various factors of the Sales Co. were absorbed into the single Universal Co., of which. Din- tenfass was made an ofhcial. Per sey City, died at his home there of a heart attack N'oy. 21. He built.and operated the Orph- exim and lat er took over , the Monti- cello and the Majestic. He also built the Gaiety In Hoboken. Be- fore he settled in Jersey City he was interested with Morris S.chlee^ singer In various ventures.. Survived by his widow, a soti, three daughters, a brother, and tWo sisters. CAME BACK TO PAY Showman Who Had to Pass Early Debts Returns to Square Up York, Pa„ Nov. 27. -Max—LInderman,- -owner—of._lhe. World of Mirth Carnival Shows, [which wirtered her* last year and dpehed on a . local lot last spring, I made a round of local husiness con- cerns here to close accounts with dealers in various supplies for the carriival. Lindennan had two weeks 1 of riin lier© and bad bi-eaks on the road. ' Eventually the show pros^ /pered.. lindermaia cwM back and paid. Show Is now In winter quar- ters In Richmond. Minskys and Hub Censor Go to Mat Pronto on Bnrley s Park Opening , MRS. BERTHA PARLOW iMrs; Bertha; Barlow, 60, wife of Col. ReglnaW Barlow, actor, known on thfe stage as "^ Vma Hose, died In Los Angeles, Nov. 21. Death was due to a heart attack; Funeral services were held. in Hollywood, Nov, 23. Cremiation fol-. Icwed. Survived by the widower and a brother, Jop ph Merkelj of Roches- ter, N. T. . IX MEMORY of Our Beloved Friend LYA DE PUtti IVho pastted away two years ngo Nov. 27 HERB CRUlkSHANK REdlNA CREWE FRANK E. VALLAND Frank 'E. yalland died in Atlanta aboil t three weeks ago. He was aii announcer on WEAF in 1928 but in recent years, has been connected with stations in the ^southeast and around LoS; A.igeles.. liis real riame was Ney, His widow survives. In- ternien.f In Bay City, Mich. Stale Fair of Shows $2S,(H)0 Profit St. Paul, Nov. 27 Omcials of the Minnesota. State I Fair have announced -a profit of nearly $26,000 for this year. Attendance was 430,000; ^nearly 100,000 greater t^an In 1932. In- crease was creditied to abolition of J gate passes a;nd decrease of admlt- Itance fee (from 50c) to. two bits. Two to One ZULUS IN CANADA Seven ^HaHem Basutos Left in. Can ;by Carney Co. haps his outstanding achievement was the production, of 'My Four Years In Germany' witb Ambassa- dor Geraird, done in 1918, but he Will also be remembered as tlie first producer to erlve the late Sidney Drew a chance; an erratic western production titled 'The Four Devils'. Later he organized the Natlona;! Film Lab. and also dabbled in poll tics, once running for the governor ship of New Jersey on the single tax ticket: .Of recent years, he has not figured in pictures. He was too thriftily, minded to stand the grow ing salary list. . MRS. M. Gi HEIM Mrs. Martha. Gunn Heim, 50, wife of M, G. I "elm, former president, of the Electric Park. Amusement com- pan^r, died Nov. 2i at heV home In Cocoa, Fla. Mrs, Helnv had been in poor health for ia. number of . years during which she. and her husband had spent most of the time on the coast and in Florida. FIRiyilN GEMIER Firmin Gemier, 68, an Important figure In ^ the Paris theatre world or 40 years, died there suddenly Nov. 26 of hear failui-e. He was engaged in writing a picture sce- nario of 'The Merchant ot Venice when stricken. Gemier was director of the gdeon theatre, a government subsidized house, for about 10 years lantil 1930. He had to quit at that time because of increasing deafness, but he had earned himself an important place by introducing to the French the- atre many modern stage names, inr eluding Shaw and Ibsen. He was also a fervent Shakespeare enthusi- ast and the founder of the Shakes-: peare Society of France. His. great est stage ro'.e was Shylock, Gemier also - introduced Eugene O'Neiil to the French- theatre, by staging 'Anna Christie'. With his troupe he came to the U. S. in 1924 for a three-week sea son at the Jolson theatre. After getting out of the Odeon directorship, Gemier rested for a while, theii taking oyer the.Troca- tlero, another national house, and i urriing it into a ^fiim theatre for oc- casional showings. He was much ihtercsted in pictures during the past couple years, advancing the theory that the finest staige plays ought to be i^ewrltten for film pur poses and thus brought to' the masses. JAMES E. TUCKER James Edward Tucker, 67; for- merly vice' president of Electrical Products Co. and credited with, bringing to Amefica and perfecting Neon signs; died at-his home in Los Angeles, Nov. 23 after a linger- ing illness. Mr. Tucker; while visiting In Paris soon after the war, discoyet'ed the ihVentor of Nieori. gas illumina- tion and brought the process to this country, where It was perfected in Los Angeles; Survived, by widow and three childi'en.' JOSEPH A» LITTLE Joseph A. Littlie;, 59, promotional speaker for the "Wlorld's Fair of 1933, died in Chicago Nov. 19. Little was one of the 'tout mih^ Ute* speak iri. during the Liberty Loan drives. Survived by widow and three children. Burial in Chi- cago. MRS. WALTER FRITSCHY Mrs. Matilda Fritschy, wife of Walter Frltschy, manager of the Fritschy concerts, died in Kansas City, Nov. 22. .She was stricken with heart trouble as she stood iat the door of her hotel. Buffalo, Nov. 27; Nathan Roasberg, manager of the Palace (burlesque) and James Mur- phy, a strike picket, engaged In an arresting inatch In front of the the- atre tvhiqi: ended with a score ih favor of Boasberg, he haying air- rested MuiTphy twice and having been arrested by Murphy only once. . When police refused to" Interfere upon Boasbierg's coniplaint thalt Murphy was annoying patrons' of the theatre, Boasberg arrested the picket himself charging violation of the Swift law in jostling, iaccostlng and molesting people on the streets. L^ter the same day Murphy showed up again and was rearrested by Boasberg On the same. charge to which the picket retaliated by char^ging iobasberg with a similar violation of Interfering wltlk Mur- phy on a public highway. The police still neutral. BAIfK BUYS :^ABK donneaut Lake, Pa., Nov. 27. Conneaut Lake Park, northwest- ern Pennsylvania amusement park, has hit the financial rocks that lie waiting for pliayspots in business depressions. The Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust Co is the new owner of the park which went under the hammer this week for. $S5,d00 at a United States dis trict court sale. There was also the obligation to pay about $10,000 taxes tagged on the sale price. Officials of the bank would not say what disposition they plan to make of the property. Toronto, Nov. 27. They were 'wild men of i)arkest Africa' during; the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition, byt B^\pn , Afrl-^ cans via Hirlem -are stranded at a, Salvation Army hostelry here un'- able to re-enter the United States. A unit of the Model Shows of Ame. - ica (Rubin-Cherry), the Basutos were turned back at the American border in September when they sought to join their Harliem fami-: lies. Natives of Basutoland, they are urtablj t6 offer docurhentary proof of their birth or iehtry into the United States; ... Appeals to Washington have brought no re'^ponse and the city welfare depjartihent is .foptlrig the upkeep bill here. The Negroes maintain that they Had previously resided Iri. the. United States for ten years, although born In Basutoliand and Nigeria.. ^ The men ispeak Eng- lish and 'are . a fine Idt of fellows,' accbrding to Major Smith of the Salvation Army. Tabs Back Duals Salt Lake City, Nov. 27. Playhouse, State Street, double: feature picture grind, goes into burly on Friday (24) as added at- traction to. picture?. W. Rex Jewell and his Musi- Girl comedy revues is the key to new billing. Tommy Parker, comedian; Mae Tibbits, dan-singer ; Tommy Seymour, singer and a line of girls riiakes up the new bwnch. Jewell m. c; Tbsteviii's Qpera Job Los Angelas, :Nov. 27. William Tostevin, with Rihgllng Brothers' advertising car No. .1' for five years, is set in here for the winter months as active manager at the Mason opera house. Returns to Rlngllngs at Madison Square Garden in Feb. Tostevin is the nephew of Peter Armatinger, who manages the Biltmore. ALBERT G. NICHOLS Albert G. Nichols, 64, famous for .a quarter of a century as one of the Nichols Twins, champion fancy roller skaters, died Nov. 15 in North Adams, Mass. rthe other, Arthur M. Nichols, died in 1928. Motor Carney Lights TlltonsvUle, 0„ Nov. 27. The Winters Shows (carnival) has established headquarters here. 1 The carnival traveled 1,500 miles in trucks during the past season, it is stated. CUTS OIJT STATE AID Albany. Noy. 27. Agricultural fairs and their ally, the amusement business, received .a virtual knockout blow with the proposal that the state greatly re- duce gra.nts of funds for next year and withdraw this financial aid completely in 1935-36. The recommendation was made Friday (24) by a sub-committee of Governor Lehman's budget adviso.ry committee in drafting proposals for governmental economy. ..The pro-; posal docs not apply to the State Fair, at Syracuse. Boston, I^py. 27. Watch & Ward's blast Howard last winter was nothing to the .burlesque war lioW raging here between the Minskys and City. Cenr isor Stanton R. White, The Mihskya opened their biirley show- at the Park Friday night on schedule In defiance of White's fiat refusal of permit. Ahd hp^ White's saying, he is going to shut 'em up tight, re- gardless. Minskys Signed on with Ix)ule Boas and Adolf Burrows of Park, and sunk $35,000 I'^ remodeling house, giving it spic and span front and insides. Six days ago White dpwn thumbed the proposish. . Minskys kept, right, on, Floyd Bell doing, a swell ballyhoo, and all, hands meeting all the rial to., who's Svho at .a ieed iFriday noon at :Hptjel Tourairie, White not appearing [though. Row a Ballyhoo Had the town .talking, so there, was a jam outside Park Friday night , for premicire show, .first gala event this spot has had .in who knows when< Show went. ' .. .^pei" schedule. Title localized" "'Wanda Rover From the' Back.; Bay'r and sure enough some Back Bay folk were noted wandaring oyeri .Show was snapiy arid had tal- ent; and patrons seemed to think it was-okay. Censor White a:ttended and took, the. other notion. 'Tboroughly Indecent show,' says. 'Star of thk shipw (reiferrlng to comely Gypsy Rose Lse) violates the city ordinances by. baring her body (as if they didn't do that plenty elsewhere in town) even to the extent of walking off the stage with only her arms shielding her breasts.' White says Minskys are operating through 'straw' men.' In stateinent White referred to after-shoW party thrown by Min- skys at Tpurainei 300 attending, when the humorously dubbed 'bad hurley bpys of Manhattan' piitlined their plans to keep btirley in Boston; Censor concludes: 'This is a war to the finish. They can either clean up or get out.' Rumor has it the censor plans to act drastically this week. White's regime ends with, this year, new adhiinlstration coming In. Plenty reports afloat Just as when 'Strange Interlude' was barred .as stage show. JOHN E. MARTIN John B. Martin, 77, died in New I York, Nov. 22. He was for; many years ''In the late William ' Hodge's companies, and more recently has been in pictures. His widow sur- vives. Cowpoke Yodelefs Plug Fsiir Oyer Air, Make LA. Stations Like It CLOWN WANDEES Troy, Nov. 27, Dressed in .his Barnum & Bailey clown, outfit and with his face smeared with grejise paint, George Fillo,. 47, was arrested here when a policeman found him lapping up . snow with bis tongue- Fillo, who I has been, living in Albany, later was freed of a public intoxication charge In police court. Tex Brunette ^ Dallas, Nov. 27." State Fair of Texas black-inked I $50,786 for '33 run. Intake $277,073, outgo $226,287, an auditor's report 1 showed. JAME3 • STROUD James T. Stroud, 55, father of two St. Paul theatre managers and himself prominent throughout the northwest as a theatre, manager, died In Spencer, Iowa, Nov;. 18. At the tinwi of his death,. Mr. Stroud was manager qt the Fini?el- steln theatres In Spencer and Spirit Lake, Iowa. : His last Twin Cities f?how pest was with the Minnesota, in Minneapolis, .He hart previously directed iiotivitlo.'s for 16 nabe houses for Finkelstcln & Rub(?n ixhere.- JOE BANpELlr Joe Bandell, program adyertise- ment isolicltor for the World theatrei St. Louis, died there Nov. 15, of heart trouble. Interment in Pitts- burgh, where his mother and sister reside. C. J. ALLAiRDT .C..J. Allat'dt, for. 12 years .man-: ager of Orpheum, South Bend (first vaucl.evllle theatre, bvult in 1911), died Is'ov. 17 In that city. Besides Is window and two daughters, two ■ sons, James C. Stroud, nianager of th6 Park, and Donald 'V., manager of the St. Paxil, loop Strand, survive. JAMES M. BRENNAN James M. Brenhan, 60, builder and operator of picture theatres in Jer- JAMES E. PLUNKETT James E. Pliinkott died at South- cr*j I'inos. N. G./Nov. 24, of a heart attack. Detail'swill be found in the vaudcville^depai-tnienti -' --^^— ■r:-^--'-^ - Father,. Iciiard R. Prager, 63, of Norman Prager, well-known theatre pub man of the east and mid-west, died in New York, Nov, 21. Father, 72, of Mrs. Wolfe Kauf- man, died In Austin, Texas,. Mon- day (2.0) after a lingering illness. Los Angeles, Nov, 27. P/-6moteri3 of a senii-mdnthly ro- deo and country fair have splved the problem of advertising the events without spending a^nickel.^ With the town currently over- board on hillbilly and cpwboy acts over the air, the promoters have a deal with ealch of the yod,eling groups to plug the fair, over the air for a 50-50 percentage .on the. take. As the yodclers are at the stations on percentage, broadcasters have nolhing. to say. As worked, a hillbilly act on each of the eight stations plugs the rodeo for two weeks, but with the Instruc- tion to the listeners that If thoy at- tend to be sure and buy their tick- ets from the windows of their fa- vorites. At the fair, held. Sunday.s at a riding academy ou the out- skir.ts- of-th e t own.^a re.,_c ight. _Mn--l dows each one with the name of a radio act over the box plBce. Acts cut in for half of the take at each window. However, acts do not cut in on the concessions Inside or on the betting privileges. Races are of the coun- try fair type,. With cowboys and j their nags principal contenders. State Fair Officers Oklahoma City, Nov. 27. Oklahoma State Fair Association elected the following officers: A. 6. Campbell, prejident; F. S. Lamb, vice-president; Oscar M. Dlctz, LETTERS .When Sending foi- Matt *o VARlETTf Addresn Mair Clerk. EOHTCABPS. AnVEKTISINC^;or_ ClKCVJw\R LETTERS WIlX >OT BE ADVERTISED LETTERS ADVERTISED IN ONE ISSUE ONlyV treasurer; Ralph T. Hemphill, sec- retary-manager { Vera McQulikin, assistant m«;nager; Lawrence S. Baker, auditor and supt. of privi- leges. Directors are G. A. Nichols, R J. Behzcl, Virgil Browne, .Tolin R; Baker, J. F. Owens and C. C. bay. CONCESSION CONSUMED •WatfrUin. Jii., Nov. 27. TlK! Fun Jloii.sf. ,'it Kloctiic I'Jirk was dostruyci] by flif oE'iuiknown origin, ontalJinf,' n Jos.s in t-xcoss .of $5,000. .Vtriictuio will, be rfplaccd, 326. W 12d St.. New Vork City Siv .Mew .tftHortihent 61 OKEKTINt; f'AKPS Is Now Reml.v, 21 HeaUMnil CAKDS nn<l FOI.DEKS. Hdxe<l. I'Ofit- palil.- for One Dollar I N S T I. T U T i 0 N INTEANAXIOMAtS eJto for the S^age and St^^^t ^SHOWFOLK'S SjHOESHOP—15S2 BROADVA-YSaA