Variety (Dec 1933)

S8 VARIETY TIMES S Q■A R E Tuesday, December 12, 1933 East Monal JLingley starts suit In N. T. aigalnst Mrs. OlUyer Morosco, claiming damages for Injuries re- ceived while making a picture, tor the Moroscos. Struck .by an auto, she claims,' a,s part of a'scene , and has since been una hie to work.' Clenience Dane hero to help stage her 'Come of Age> . Peggy. Fears, basting for 'Divine Moment,' :whlch used to be. called 'Brief CahdlCiV Rowland Leigh will etage. Special, detail o£ 700 cops and plain clothes men on guard in mid-- town section. Stores inspected for fire hazzards in anticipation -of hoU-:. day. shppplner crowds. Mrs. Betty Cosentlno, also known as Jackie Dallas, hite club enter- tainer, was 3td,bbed on Broadway Dec. 4i Though at the point of death, she refused to name her assailant to the. police. Adelaide Gloria, dancer, suing F. X Xiques, . Cuban sportsman, for $50,000 charglhg assault; tells police of Baysidie, li. I., she was beaten by ah unknown man. Face shows signs of attack but she is Unable to give details. Gothaih„ theatre, burley house, giveh until tomorrow (Wed.) In which to file brlisfs to supplement hearing last week on charge of im- moral • perf ormahce.,, Arthur .Lubin plans to, give the uriderst'iidies a chance at :a special hollda.y mi,tinee of /Growing Pains.! Eddie Dowling has started re- hearsing 'Big Hearted, Herbert', which opens Xmas'night In Jackson Heights. iPaul Cravath, chairman o£ the board of Met. bp., appoints a spe-. clal comihlttee to form plans f.br future opera seasons .insteiiad- of working year by year. Penn station, N. T., using the eletric eye door openers in Its .walt- Ihg I'ooms. Foiir In service and eight more to come. Vjice society warns of a drive against' smut Xnias'cards, prevalent, the last two years> : Opera at the Htipp to blow Deo. %%. May resume in April, after the Met seaison. . Ftank .C. Walker head new NBA body. News From the Dailies Thi$ department cqntam remitten theatrical neJ»s Hems as published during the week in ihe dailj) papers of Net) York, Chicago, San. Francisco, Hollywood and London. Variety taf(es no credit for these nert>s items; each has been irei»ritten from a daily paper. ga L'ii.'!]T-PS!gg ^Eal»!li£33UIlKl^rdlM■,hbaKl^*l^««lfc!^y?^JfldU3 the chain he founded. Transfer document fllbd in Ne\y HaVcn Tliiiirsday (7). It covered 700 printed pages and contained ae- knowledgements made In 30 courts. At the same time t mortgage for $6,943,150 on Fox New England the- atres was recorded. interested in 'Tight Britches,' play written by the Ashevllle (N. C) firemen. May fix it up and produce. Warning Issued that , mail ship- ment of hooch for Xnias gifts is illegal; Air right by express. Hotels brighten as repeal brings, more gueistis., Closed floors being EcLUity win^. arbitration suit opened.again fo.r^ the flrst time In a brought against the Shiiberta for | cpuple of years, salaries to the cast of 'Face the Music'. Award Avas fot" UvinS ex- i)erises of the cast while the show Wc closed •. during the Illness:. bf Mary Bolan John .Wexiey's 'They Shall Not Die' to be the fifth Theatre Guild production instead of 'Blood on the Mpoh'. Iteputedly based on Scotts- boro case, il^rookliyrn Eagle applies for a brdadcasting license. Askd a wave length already occupied by four dither local stations. N; .Y. Evening iPost passes . to J. David Stern, of Phila., who will continue it; Paper was about due Martin Greeh >coins 'pedagrogs' for barkeep. Instructors. Eva lie Gallienne plans to come Into N. T. for spring season. Mary McCormIc tells PhlUy lieAvspapermen she'll marry Harry Bannister Jan. 30. Road company being formed for ^Her Master's Voice'. Queenie Smith and Violet Kemble-Cqoper to be c6-starredii -Frances WHilams, in .to-wn, denies talk of divorce from Miguel de Souisa and Shows telegrams to. prove It.. Njatalle Hali, selected to sing na- Coast .to discontinue when Stern stepped tional anthem at a command pcr- ih. No changes other than staff | formance in Xiondon. Guild shoves the curtain for 'Mary of Scotland' back to 8 :20. Girl, witness in a current suit told the court the defendant had taken her' to one theatre a,nd four burley . shows adding, 'I don't call that en-. heads, i ii&ic Connolly and the Mrs. among the first to be pisrmitted to bring ashore private stock. In from Europe Tuesday (6) with several bottles jbf champaghe, Actors' Dinner Club celebrated Its I tertainment but rulnation% second v ^i'rth^^y Wednesday (6). i^^ner Reade, as a creditor of Has served 169,425 free dinners. rko, in court to protest against Sue Hastings' marionettes to do living Trust Cd., receivers, con- their Christmas capering' at the firming lease on Radio Music Hill Plaza picture house. Four days. and the new Roxy. Contends they Belle liiVIngston telling friends In are White ele|>hahts and deterl- Mlami she's going to marry Count. I mental to stockhblders' interests George D'Eplnay,, but doesn't say Harry B. Swan, radio, In Queens when.. He'll he number five. I court asking annulment of his .mar- Jury finds for the wife in the dlr rlage to the former Josephine vorce case of the Bernard Alt-; Riddle, music teacher of Rushville, schulers. . -Altschuler Is a cellist oh ind, CBS. I Ivan Abramson's |i,600;OPO dam- Marguerite Hart and T?eeey Mar- age suit against the Haya organiza tin arrested , in the Globe, theatre, tion settled out of court. Former N. Y., Monday (4) oh complaint of producer claimed he was put but of AM«r Tra«r (Str«t, ,S.„r.r) | tjo otJj^P^^^ ^ '» » i>Iego lynching. Discharged in court j^^g ballet gives America up as the following day when complain- j^^^^^^j dan6e appreciation. Will ants failed to appear. Then Pre-ILo^^oni cSed^San?^^ iving, sister of caused their arrest. ^^^^^ ^^^^ j^^^ ^^^^ stricken while to cut the salaries of Laemmle I Macy's took its holjday circus to ^ j^j^ broadcast In the. NBC lo cui ine salaries oi Jiaemmie g |j entertain the child . ° ^ x,.«,., xx.,.„ . . ^ ^^xienis Tuesday (6). Small gift to ^^.f'Setirf^iS Smbulinc/ SrgSn each child.. arrived. Had been a sufferer from Alexander Leftwich to the hospi- j heart trouble. tal for an eye op Fr.iday (8),. Canadian govt, made a formal Frank Merlin switches from | protest against the. use of 'Quebec charged with having beaten .. his wife 'so that sh^ had to go to a hospital. ' She says he knocked her dowii with a telephone, and choked her in a row over a mailbojc key. Supreme Court denies the motion Senior and Junior. Holds court is not Justified 'in substituting its own judgment for that of the directors of Universal.* When the dogf bites Owen Davis His sbn^s pup, Jezebel, ] ir^^ake And Sing* te 'False Dreams Liquor Commission* by a N. T. con- It's hews, chewed his chin last week! Court told that the late Smith Reynolds, husband of Libby Hol- man, left a personal estate of $200,- 000; This is in addition to trust fund of about $20,000,000. Trans-Atlantic Jlnes frame win- ter schedule but will not promulgate until. Dec. 23. iPrices down. Adelaide Hall, Negro songstress, gets full title to her home in LarchV mont. Farewell.' Lawrence G. Wood denies that he Will do 'Slightly Delirious', by Ber nard J. McOwen and Robert F. Adkins. Announcement sent out on cern, Offlces raided by the police, Billy Sunday coming to N. T. early In Jan- for a two weeks' re- vival. Chang Apana, who was the pro behalf of the authors who now state totype of Earl Derr Blggers' Charlie another producer will stage. Stronger beer now current ups the price $2 a barrel. For tax. Newsreels tipped Al Smith was to receive a case of champagne from Sylvester Z. Poll again owner of ] a grateful vintner "VV'edhesday (6). AH set up cameras, but Smith turned down the wine. Told them he could have had a cellarful but ho like the advertising angle. WILURD TAVERN Vnder Hgt. Mlss I!. P«ronl 251 West 75th St., N. Y. Pelioious Dinner 65c Also A-lA-Carte Open Until 3 A, M. Chan, died in Honolulu Dec. 8 . Eleanore Anderson, member oiC Gertrude. Hoffman's troupe at the Paramount grill, hurt ih a fencing number Saturday (9). Received a scalp wound, and' fainted. Rumor has Anny Ondra divorc- ing Max Schmelllng. She says no. Several newspaper men have finished play now gunning for pro- ducers. Partial'list includes: Bui- Fay Webb Vallee falls in her legal jj^er iprlze Winner. Jack Miley plea to stop^Rudy Irom applying for ^nd Larry Rue, with some help from a Mexican divorce. Court holds she failed to establish his intention and can do -nothing. Sultan, a lion, used for whoofs in radio bits, shot by dourt order Wednesday (6) when keeper was brought into court on charges o* Donnan 11 insecure caging and violating of Man giving his name as Raymond '^^^Sw^crSliei tak e iJ ^' G o odyear^ated-^w^it^sses- 'slap when repeal permits home drinking. Several already canceled Ben Gross; Til Have a Fine Wed- ding', Ben Washer and Molly Ri cardel; 'Greateir Gods', .William Bohnel; western drama by Phllo Higley, and 'Call Me Pete', joint effort of Milt Gross ahd Geo. D. Second Week I JOAN CRAWFORD-CLARK QABLE In M-G^M-'s "PANCJNO: LADY" ItAtflV Franthot Tmi« ipiww. sue(e: Ferd« Grofc, Grand Drtli., , :_ Jthtm . r^fm ^ Stortt Krl., Dec; 15: and ships sailing carry scanty pas senger lists, "Should LadiM Bahavo" in a Sixth, avenue restaurant for a tryout.' Took them to a rehearsal hall where they partly undressed while he went after rehearsal .^oV.,, „^or.c, >vf „«nf«.ntinTi I rompers. When he didn't come fe^S^ K ^Joh'J M^'w^SS •h^^^^s^^SeVS^Ssa'i'^^ holds James Joyce's ^Ulysses' to be; with .^im «o t^^^ not ob scene an d allowed to be im- P^^J^fijo^ t'tl ported ' :—«-J --rr — ■ -Goe d ye ar ^ i o la- vau de-aeter—who^-has Jed Harrls to direct 'Yellow Jack.' I been accused before. In the toils, Mrs. Pfeggy Wlndihullev, 32, sce- narist, minor Injuries in Hollywood auto accident. ■Wynlfred Harvard, 23, recovering. In Hollywood hospital from Injuries received. In a fall ht a performance- at the' Pantages,' deterinlned to do a comeback. To . start light, work on the rings, William J. Clark, general manager. Of Par for Australia and the; .Far East, in. Holly wood, honeymooning. Ernest B. Schoedsack, RKO direc- tor, and Charles J. Stumar, camera- man, granted private pilot licenses iri L, A. Oreal Keene, dahcer, suing John Costln in L. A. fOr $22,600 for alleged damages received in auto accident.. Ned Sparks has filed divorce com- plaint: against his wife, Mercedes, who recently applied for separate maintenance m Los Angeles. Hugh E. Trevor who died recently bequeathed his eintlre estate to Mrs. Rachel. W. Cartah whom he was said to have been engaged to marry. Unable to. settle a dispute witli Metro, John Gilbert has filed Suit in L. A. to have the court construe the' terms. Gilbert got $260,000 per pic prior to the picking up qt an option. Cbrllss Palmer Brewster dlvoi'ced In L. A. from Eugene V, Brewster. David O. Selznick is erecting a 22 room $100,000 home in Beverly. Hills. Georgian style. Hollywood police arrested Tom Burrescia, 21, for sending alleged obscene letters to Gloria..Ray, pic actress. Bill Hart, convalescing from Ill- ness at his .. Newhall, Cali, home, celebrates his 63rd birtfiday. Constance Cummings . injured when thrown from a horse at Palm Springs. Dist. Atty. Fitts investigating al leged threats on, the life of Nelson Eddy, pic'actor, in Los Angeles. Berli Roach, received a suspended sentence of a $10 fine or five days in jail on assault and battery charges. Prince David Mdlvani* former hubby of Mae Murray, and Prince Serge, his brother, and ex-husband of Mary McCormIc, appear before district attorney In L. A. in connec. tlon with probe of the affairs of the Pacific Shores Oil Co. Elsie Larsen, dancer and pianist, hurt in auto accident. Jess 'Wlllard' found . guilty of as sault and battery on Joe Logreco in Glendale, Cal. Asks new trial. Under Indictment tor a holdup in which Mae West lost $23,000 In jewelry and currency* Edward Friedman and Morrla Cohen have been Indicted again for the robbery of Abe Brown, Hollywood cigar store operator.. Joseph W. Williams, 40, radio philosopher, arrested in Los. Angeles on federal charges of receiving mall not his own and forgery. Pauline Frederick has filed a l)er- sonal petition in involuntary bank- ruptcy. Last week Miss Frederick and Morris J. Herbert, her partner in theatrical productions, filed a joint petition -on the firm's biz. Grace Darmond, former film ac- tress, divorced in L. A. from Ran- dolph P. Jennings, Beverly HlllS theatre owner. ' —Beth-Milton, : stage and screen actress, has filed suit for divorcie in L. A. against Charles- Spencer Belden, Hollywood scenarist. She asks' custody of thre^-months-old son. Recovering speedily from an &.ppendlcltis.. operation, Joan Bloh- deli has, returned ;to h er he me in Hollywood.. ' ■ ' ' - LOEWS -.v-'v. In Perian Bela LUGOSI la • dramatio teeM from "Draeula". And Othtr Headltnert - On Screen—PAUL MUNI In '•THE WORLD CHANGES' Fiederal Alcohol Control feels that llcLuior prices are too high, but will wait before taking action. Feared upped prices will give boot- leggers prolonged life. Billy Rose staging Max Baer's. vaude apt. Helen Cox Williams, former ac- tress, and Walter S. HalUwell ar- rested in a .Park avenue penthouse by N. Y. police and a Conn, state trooper. Wanted in the Nutmeg state on statutory charges, it be- ing asserted they used Mrs. Halli- well's home as a'love nest. In Har-i Lew Brown due- in from Holly wood soon to give his attention to a musical, which ho will produce on his own, ' 'Wednesday's Child' is the fourth g.uess on a title for the Leopold Atlas play. Previously 'Mother and Child', 'Hope of a Tree' arid 'By Product'. Speakeasies and Other antl-pro- hibltlon themes out as drama tna terial. One producer figures that one play out of every recent three has dealt with such a theme. Courtney Burr drops 'Amaco' Llem=couct==aunday^(lfi.)=arid^heldjn= Jrama^ $1,000 ball each. Theatre Guild gets the ecrlpf of . Eilieen Wenzel, showgirl who is G. B. Shaw's .'©n the Rocks'. Too suing Louis J. Ehret, Jr„ because | essentially British in theme to pass of scars resulting from an auto mishap, supplies the bill. of partic- ulars demanded by the defense. In substance she says she lost her looks and so her chances for a job. Mary Lewis, otthe opera, and her hu.sband, Robert L. Hague, give an organ to Holy Cross church, N. Y, ] Dedicated Sunday (10). without liberal revision, so It won' be shown this season Fashionable halter offers head- gear similar to that worn in ^Little Women'. N. Y. Post to go back to standard size sheet. Tab -form not popular with staid readers. Morris Schlessinger the real George M. Cohan reported to be I backer o£ 'The Locked Door', Flo Bilkie, known on the stage as Flo Jassen, was falsely arrested and maliciously, prosecuted on a chock charge and therefore caused to in- crease in weight from 117 to leo pounds. Passkey burglars stole $60,000 in jewels and furs from the home oi: Harry Rapf, Metro associate pro- ducer, in Bcvorly Hills. Cynthia M. Schilling, pic actress, and Robert C. Schilling divorced in U A; , Fire damaged Ben Lyon's four- seat cabin, plane $1,000 in. ^oUy- wood. Lloyd S. Stapes, 23,. Hollywood musician, hurt in auto crash when he 'swerved' the car. to keep from striking, a child. Formal cbniplal^t ciiarging Mary McCormIc, opera singer, with as- sault and battery, hka been issued In L. A. after Grace Williams, writer, signed the complaint. Miss Williams ,asserts the singer slapped her. Tod Sloan, oldtime jockey, is re- covering in the General hospital in L. Av Minor's contracts between Toni Browri; 20, and Radia, and Con-. Stance: Allen, 19, and; FOy I'roduc- tlonS, Inc., haVe been approved by Superior Judge Marshall McComb! Despltia general Interpretatloha o£ a recent Mexican supreme court ruling, divorces obtained in the state of Chihuahua are. legal, ac-. cording to. the Bar Association oi Juarez. Edward G. Robihson^ sued for $11,000 alleged fees by A. Koftman, S-ctlng in behalf of Atty. C. K. Feld- man. Feldman performed servicen for Robinson in . connection with litigation between the actor and B'rank, Joyce-Myron. Selznick, Ltd., complaint asserts. Raquel Diaz, 22, and .Dolores t>o- lan, 20, pic actress, injured in Hol- lywood auto accident. Mid^West Harry Voller, Chicago cabaret promoter, seized on warr9,nt from! Los Angeles charging him with the robbery of $20,400 in jewels an4. money from Mae West in 1932." Case continued until December 14. Mrs. Ritz Gentry BisiiOp Millard, dancer, held on $6,000 bond on charge of bigamy. Second husband Is S. S. Millard, World's Fair con-- cesslonaire. Master In Chancery denied temporary injunction sought by two Chicago Federation of Musicians members to restrain Jimmy Petrlllo from collecting dues or disbursing union funds. Two violins owned by Danny Russo and valued at .$$00 stolen from an auto. Thieves broke into motor bus parked in front of Studebaker the- atre, Chicago, and stole costumes valued at $900 belonging to mem* beris of Hall-Johnson Negrro chorus from 'Green Pastures' company on recital tour. Edith Mason and Mario Chamlee booked for the new ChlOago Clvio Opera. Company, formed by George Lytton and others. Evidently believing Buster Crabbe lived his 'Tarzan' role in civil life, a thief ransacked his auto and stole two suits valued at $100; Hal Roach, chairman of the L. A. Turf club, has asked for a permit to hold hoss races, on 'one of three sites in Southern California. Investigation of activities at the Colony Club, West Los Angeles, has been demanded in a petition filed with the city' council by 60 property owners in the vicinity of the spot Alfred C. Read, Oakland broker, sentenced to 30 days in the L. A, ^aii--l;or-stertilnr=$lt=^fi'am-=Clitlre Windsor, pic actress^ Alton T. Thomas, 23; .son of Jim TuHy, hobo author, under arre.st for alleged attempted attack on a Monterey Park, Calif., married woman. Francis Weldon, dance director at the L. A. Cotton Cliib, nursing bruises said to have been registered by an unidentified stage and screen comedian. No report to police. Jury must decide whe,ther Mrs Behind the Keys (Continued from page 23) tweeh A. H. Blank, who holds th« lease, and Ralph D. GOldberg, who holds controlling stock in^ realty company, which owns the. house. Plan is also to show some first-run indies which havo been stocked up. Operation of the house for a time is to be as an experiment to test the possibilities. Management will be In the hands of Lionel Wasson for the! present. Wasson will stay on the job until he leaves December 2T with E. H. Gelsler, Blank maintenance man, on an eight months world tour. Bronx, N. Y. Consolidated Amus..- Enterprises relinquishing the Willis, with Loew dickering for It. Consolidated's operation of the Willis was opposi- tion to its ForUm. Melrose . dark again/ after; a month's try by S. Bermah, who continues with his- Hub theatre Bhiy. " :—-.. ■■ ■■—— "T— William Salkin (Rhlnelander cir- cuit) has retained Gilbert p. J'o- sephsoh; as a business builder for the circuit's Monroe theatre, Jo- sephson will also Continue to oper- ate his own Brooklyn and Long Island houses. Des Moines. Tri-StatQ Theatre Corp. (A. S. Blank) besides management of IS theatres, 13 of which are in lOwa, acquired since the reorganization the Capitol and Princess, SioujC City; Paramount aind Strand, Wa- terloo; Paramount and State, Ce- .dar-=IlapidSi»and=Gapitol-and-Bialto,- Newton. Stanley • Brown, formerly Orpheum, Omaha", has come to t)es Moine.s as city manager and man- ager of the Par. Pottsville, Pa. John, David and Joseph Humph- ries and Ellas Coury have pur- chased the Strand and Victoria theatres, I>ahsford, fijom the old Chamberlain Amus. Co. Strand be- comes the Palace, the Victoria Will be reconstructed for stage shows.