Variety (Jan 1934)

RADIO SCREEN STAGE VS. PARK AVE. Dillingliain In On Next Due m October With Marx Bros. rtJriderstopd' that' Charles B. Dil- lingham "wiU. be Interested in the next Irvine- Berlin show, .which is dieted for. next.October at the Mu- Bi9 Box, N, Y. This production will Mobftbly^brlhg:, the Marx Brothers, pack-to" Broadwiy. M6p3,,JIart', who. collaborated with Serlin.oh 'As Thousands. Cheer/ is- expected to. again team with Ber- lin piillnghajh has been. priming. ^6 returii to legit activity, for months. I*ottitier producer was forced "Into |>aplcruptcy last season through be-: ing involved. In obligations, concern- ing the estate of the late A- Ef- langer. It was explained that 1511- llAgham hs^d endorsed paper as an ac'(;ommodation for Brlanger,' the. esj^te thereafter seeking collection. Berlin's, first major musical show score was ♦Watch Your Step/ which Dillingham produced in 19i4> and there has been a friendship between thV composer and manager ever since. Sam H. Harris will also be Inter- ested Jii the Marx show, he and Berlin holding the controlling In- terest. Iii the Miisic Box theatre. Fre-Repeal Cafe Rent Based on No Booze, So Landlord Is Peeyed Pittsburgh, Jan. Bepeal or no repeal, Al Forney In- sists liquor can't be sold on his property. That's why he has gone to" court In an efCort to force Freda Pope,' nlte club operator who also runs the downtown Show Boat, out of Ldng View Farms, a roadhousC: which Miss Pdpe runs xiRdet a lease fri>m Forney, ^Forney contends that when the lease was; signed, one requirement that. no liquor be sold at the roadhlouse. Since April 8, the spot has been selllhs: beer and on Dec. 13 also received .a liquor license. Miss Pope claims that when Re- peal! was imminent she made an agreement^ with Forney to permit booze sales. She contends that she has spent .$9,000 in Improving Long View Farms and that the rent Is paid up. It's the first case on record where a pre-repeal lease prohibiting sale of liquor has been claimed to hold even after legalization of liquor. Even in Mexico Mexico city, Jan. 8'.- Teatro Principal, which has always played stage shows- of one form or another. Is going straight pictures. House Is 200 years Old and' Just" acqulreid a. theatre oper- ator. ii,rmiiFt LAST OR W. SIDE Y«i6inaii EfforU to Bring Back B'way—^Gnp of East Side's Class Spots Too Strong — Symposium of New Year's Eve Biz Across the U. Sk^Effects of Legal Likker? CHINESE KICK ABOUT CfflNir AIR IKE } Xtos Angeles, Jan.-8. Yi-seng S. Klang, Chinese vice consul he,re, throi^gh the condutate attorney. Samuel Schwartzberg, has entered compliEilnt with several local radio stations-and with Fanchon & Marco for allowing, ajrtists tb use the word 'Chink^ In reference to Chinese. Radio 8iatiop.8 are mentioned par- ticularly for allowing-the. singing of the songs, 'Ltlmehouse' Blues' and 'Minnie the Moocher.t Similar pro tests made by-the. consulate several months ago resulted. In I^BC and CBS banning these songs. Klqk against Fanchon & Marco was for allowing the Mills Brother? to sing the 'Moocher' during their Paramount theatre run. Not the Biggest Hollywood Party Throwers Make LA '34 Hue Book JURY STILL OUT He AdmiU It Advertising afeency. radio exec interrupted the rehearsal of a script show^. He tapped hl& forehead, c^alrvoyantly.. T am a 12-year-old Intellect/ he chanted to. himself. Then having achieved the . proper state of mind, he told the actor: .'Now let me hear that line again.': Looks Good for Fla. Chicago, Jan. 8. Florida looks for a big winter season. The Illinois Central, which han- dles 90.% of all western travel south, has added Over 60 people to Its southern travel bureauf--with reservations for Florida alone run- ning 300% above last year. Reservations on the crack Flori- dian have to be made a week to two weeks In advance. The repeal thlnff already. Is easing oce. It Is now expected that within another fortnighi .or so Broadway; ^nd the hinterland BrpaUways, will find their levels and just what're- peal means to lthe.natIon'fl nite life. So far it's meiBunt Ilttfe as a gea- era.1 thing and-much In certain con- centrated iitreas. Discounting New Year's evo^ which-haberdashers will tell you was 'the biggest dress busi- ness In 10 years' (meainlng. that everybody put it on and stepped out)»-repeal has-been'a disappoint- ment In ntany respects, before and. since, and especially'pince Jan. 1. So fiar <as Brpadwi^y. la concerned, the- conciuslon .Is that the, grip of the class hideaways^ during more than a decade .of illegal, thirst- quenching, tnay be too much for the rehabilitation -of Broadway to over come. Such' ehtrepeneuirs as Joe Moss and N. T. Granlund' (Nicky Blair, et al.), respectively at the big Hol- lywood and Pairacflie cabaret-res- taurants, have been more than mod- erately successful 80 far, but with the audition of such astute nltery bonifaces as Ben Marden at the re- furbished Palais Royal, Jphn Stein- berg, Billy Rose, et al., at the Ca- sino de Paree, and the already de- funct Manhattan Music Hall (which the Casino peopliE! m^y absorb for (Continued on page . 61) Musician Lives 500 Miles Froiti Where He Works 3IinneapoliH,.,J,an.. jfi. In 'Red' O'Connor, drummer, the Orpheum -here claims to have the "world's champion lonjj-distahce mu- sician. E!very time the local theatre has a stage show for a week, O'Con- nor drives here from Chicago, .a dis- stahce of nearly 500 miles. Between stase shows he hangs out in the Windy City.. Waxing Mae London, Jan. 8, Mae West. Is the newest person- ality to enter the halls of Mine. Tussaud's Wax Works here. Paramount in New York was ho- tifled via cable Thursday (4) and promised to ship post-haste a dress worn by Miss ■V\'e.st in one of her pix. GRIDDER TO FOOTnTES Newark, Jan. 8. Bob Pa-skow grabbed Al Barabas, scorer of the Columbia team, for pergonals at the Stanley, , Jersey City. Barabas is a native boy and was received at the station by the mayor with a procession &,nd all the fixings. Piri?ate Zoo Aronses Public Sympathy When Lion Dies of Hunger Mlnneai^olis, After the 'Journal' had published a story to the effect that Trainer A, M. 6'Relily attributed the death of his pet llonv Pedro, to lack of sufnclerit food, scores of persons volunteisred cash and other a.ld for the animals at Longfellow Gardens, the city's only zoo, privately owned aS'd^'oper a^edr"^""^"""^" ' 7'^ Within two hours jaf ter the news paper came out on the. street, 600 pounds of horse meat was delivered to the zoo gratlis. pfflclals of the Animal Rescue League said they would see that, no animal at the zoo would suffer for the lack of food and warmth. FANie WARMS IH WHERE ITS 4S BELOW winnepeg, Jan. Fay Baker, one of the fan dancers from the. Chicago world's f^ilr, Is doing some hot fanning in thia cold weather north of 68. Last week she lieft here by plane for an engage- ment at thie Northland theatre, Flln Flotu mining town just south of the Artie Circle, where the average teAiperature for this time of the year Is 4^ -below zero. Miss Baker's Initial fanning In thesia northern parts was at the In- ternational Fur Fair here last month. ince then she's been warming 'em up In theatres here- abouts. Los Angeles, Jan. Names that hit the local Social Register this year are somewhat surprising to the show and picture mob, Indicf^tlng that the biggest party-throwers do not always quat- ify. For Instance, Pearl Saton, sister of Mary and Doris Eaton, now iba wife of Richard Enderly, local cluh- msui and lumber baron, is In It, al- though Miss Eaton Is still staging numbers for musicals. Lucille Cav- anaugh, who quit fshow business more than 10 years ago to become the wife of Walter H. Lelmert, lo- cal realtor, .finds her nam.e on the register. Inoludod Is Theda Bara, the .wife of Charles Brabln, director. Also from the direptorlal group In the book are to be found OecU B. and William Do MlUe and John O. Blystone. They are not newcomers. John Wayne, western star, who married Josephine Saenfca, daughter of the Dotninican Cotamil, la listdd with his bride under ^the name of Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Morrison. Added too are Richard Bonelll, opera istar, marled to Mozia Wood, _member of . a-prominent family In S'anta Barbara; and Paul. Gregory, who married Ehnlly. Earl Pllsen. Listed from .the theatre arei R. D. McLean, Shakespearean actor and his wife, Odette Tyler, actress, tin- der the name of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Elhepherd; Elaine, daughter of Ar- thur Hamniersteln, who is now Mrs. Walter Kays, and Constance Howard; slater of Mrs. Samuel (Frances) Goldwyn, who is the wife of Wilson Jones. Dropped from ^he register are Joel McCrea, who recently married Frances Dee, an actress, and David Blankenhorh and Irene Rich, who recently wer6 divorced. F»n dancers are going over furi- ously in hundreds of picture thea- tres. In leaser cities, especially throughout the middlewest. And there's little that can be done to stem the tide biecauae the NRA overlooked fans and so did Hays In his own writings on picture and ad- vertising morals. Unable to get sexy fronts because of the heavy ban HayEi has put on all of that material through the J. J, McCJarthy advertising lighthouse, exhibs are believed by part of of- ficialdom to be retaliating by au^u- menting their picture programs with a bit of flesh just to get those life- sized 99% nude cut-outs alongside of their boxofflce. In the northwest area alone field scouts reported in New York Mon- day (8) that 100 cities and towns, "wrtE" oWo "oTT" m^^ houses, are grabbing up the bur- lesque angle at every opportunity. Fanning In liable to step ahfad of double featuring. Kick-back to watchdofjs of tin; bu.slrfe.ss Is that womon'.'< club.s and civic orpanizallons aro ...c' \rr; the censor war cry all over n- U. S. Army on Radio Seeks Higher Type Of Enlisted Soldier Sah Francisco, Jan.. S. Uncle Sam's Army Is out after a higher type of enlistee, and Is using radio to ensnare him. Army Is presenting a series of weekly shows on NBC's western network to lure the family youth into army life. Programs Include band concerts by the group from the Frisco Presidio, and a glowing word picture of army llfei is painted by one of the colonels In either a' straight sales talk or a dramatiza- tion. According to the Army, there Is quirlcs and potential enlistments from ynitthH, m.any of thorn from the sti' ks. Tho clKince to learn many trades while In the ranks Is being lif'ji.vlly .pl.nyf'fl up. .\rniy .'uvl Xiivy ''nrollinonts have >.(■ !i ).-11.'■•ularly heavy during the d'i>rf'.«.si')