Variety (Jan 1934)

60 VARIETY ¥IMES SQU4BE Tuesday, January 30» 1934 Broadway LQon Natter to Florida. Fanny Ward in from Europe. Elaine Arden with tlie N.T.G. unit Halsey Raines off on a Florida vacation. Metro office put its Sat lirdays off. . 'Miriam March -has created a new rhumba' tap. Jack eimpbell ghosting » novel _ for .Red Book.. • ; Percy Elkeles hopfted a rattler for Miami Monday* kelcey Allen rvt)tured blood ves- sel in lieft eye.. , Mary Heatph out of the hospital, and around again.- TThe Nat Wihstons still talking of that New Orleans trip- John Wright Ncrr York's most suave theatre manager. Hunter Perry, Par's theatre part- nier in the Virginias, in town. Wayne Pierson doubling between the CWA businesis census and the •Roosevelt, balli WHert you- sep Max Tishman in striped : pants you can bet it's Sun- day..' Eleanor Powell ;goes Into the Ca- sino de-Paris Feb: 6, set b-y Murray Rltter.. •Al. Sanders connected with Ckpitbl Distribs barry on his thirst-quenching service. Max Gordon might Just as .well have stayed home. Back from Palm Beach inlnus any isuhburn, Dick-Webster, w.k. in orchestra circles on. the Coa^t, thinking of settling down In New York. V.al. LieiWtorii quitting Metro Feb. 1,: can't decide whether to . write a,t: home- or take an office downtown. Joe Sh^a resigned froni piubllcity department of Radio City Music 'Hall, Jim 'MacFarland, succeeding. ' Palais. Rbyail advertised for gigolos tinder the Personal^ of the •N. T. *T.ime$' as hosts at cocktadl "iioun • " ;■' •■ Richter and 'Banzhaf, one of. first picture, company legal Arms, dis- solved, -with Robert Richter now on: his own* ' The B. A. Bergmans moving from the sw-ank S.utton Colony apa,rt-. ment to Greenwich Village now that < Bergman's one of the editors on the • New York lAinerican.' The Liyhh Parnola shove 6ft Feb* '28 on the Manha,ttan for two months in Ireland, .following which ■Farnol -wants to work oh-a Liondon neyvspaper until summer before re turning to the Sam Goldwyn fold. C H A T T E to meet the Earl Carroll, troupe and o.o> the home town. . Bill tieinneman brought enough clean shirts from . A. to .stay around here for a, while. : tAte F. W. Murnau's yacht, Bali, peddled t6 a local broker; was first owned by George O'Brien.. Eddie Murphy still at St. Luke's hospital after three, weeks as Idoca. continue to treat his infected arm. Helen -Kerr neW sec'y to Arthur Garbett,. NBC educational director^, succeeding. Hazel MPKinnoh, who's olT to L. A. Otto 'Liochbaum, indie: exhib a,nd distrib, and Frank Sigillia; vet box offlcQ.man,^ in S. F, hospital, former with pleurisy. Eai-l Frederick,. . Of NBC's Clef Tivie\\&T3^ married to .Isabel Gale,, nph-pro of Chi. Honeymopn spent In .the studios. Alma Qiiirolo : wants 10 grand, froni El Patio ballroom for assert- ediy fracturing her left ankle and bruising her sunny side durihjg a dance. Art Weidher-Harry Cohen barid at the old Golden Gate ballroom which" Mike Fishei* : his irenamed Pavilion Rpyale and reopened ' at nickel, a Jig. Ethil Umann, p.a. at RKO. Golden Gate, is gping to school with an armful of text books* He Wias pinched for speeding, and sentenced ::o attend, traffic school, for io days, and to buy 'ii traffic text boolc and a new driver's license. Miami Chicago Frank Smith ducked for a winter vacash. , ^ Eddi,e .Levin , week-ending with the folks in Jbliet, .' "tJflarlie: Baron in tpwn for ex ploitatibn on 'Nana..' .Lou Lipstohe headed for New York on a.nother talent snoop. ■ BiU Brumberg handling 'Dam- .a^ed Lives' for. state rights. . . Sam .Beer offering free rehearsal room to the profesh at the Three Deuces. . Lou. Epstein here with 'Student Prince' learning what four and.flve- a-day means. Aiaron Jones, Sr., golfing it iii midwinter, on the slightest let-up by the thermometerl Ben Nudleman, the sandwich king of. 5^d street, planning to spot a dance floor on the balcony. ' ' Charlie. Miller has bought a house in Highland Park, next to J. O. Stein, so he can. borrow the Doc's speed-boat. Minneapolis By Les Rees San Francisco By Harold Bpcic Fr^ink Borzage's frau in.. . Moore-and Alien hooiing at the Pal£^<je. .Jirnmy Cagney down at Carmel, punching, a typewriter. Val Valente doubling fcPm his beer parlor to the Lido. cafe. .Qpie Warnbr commuting to Saug- ailitd now that the missus Is back. Henry Pincus again In as man- ager of Fllmarte whenever it ppens, Heck. Church planning a swaiiky club upstairs in the Tivoll building. Wives bf -.Henry Goldenburg and George Roesch bitten by flu bug, too. ■ Harry Ettllng, out to . set-a hew weight record, is 10 pounds ahead of himself. . Tony Moreno, ex-vaudstei*, starts an auction block at the Fruitvale, Oakland. D. II Mclnerny, UA exchange "ihanag;er, off to Honolulu on a 30 day stay. •Autumn Crocus' will reopen the Curran When It closes at Hollywood -j=El=Gapit«n^.=^==^.L==v-==^.=,_=^ _ Arvid Erickson quite ill with flu and pneumbnia for several Wj,eeks, now better; ^ Eatl Whltie, formerly with U ex change, now running a fruit market In Sebastapol. Lottie Schwleterlng, MGM sec'y, soon will be spliced to Belden-Tay lor. nort-pro. Company of Warner players and technicians up to shoot 'Gentleman from Frisco.'. Rufuis Etlalr up from the Par lot Eddie Gruenberg here over week ehd. W. . A. from New York. A. B: Frizzell, of Star, dead; ^ Lillian Q. Jensen, blonde sec at Warner Brothers, to. take screen test. MikP Ji .Comer, .Wiirher office manager, sustained fractured ankle shoveling ^now* Threei Dennis Sisters .of vaude^ Vllle her© . to testify for another sister In a law suit. Johnny Johnson's orch<festra tb play- for University of Minnesota Junior ball, big social event, Theodore Hays *of Publlx, heads committee arranging stage show in conjunction '' with. local Rooisevelt ball. Betty Dee, siecretary to.J^ax Stahl, United Artists' exchange- manager, back. on. job following successful eye operation. Minneapolis Symphony pbR' all- Victor Herbert concert drew capac- ity at 3,500-seat U. of M. auditorium,' season's largest crowd. 'Miss Pane's Baby , is. Stolen' hurriedly spotted into Lyric tb take advantage of furore created by kid- naping of E. G. Bremer. Secret marriage of Mbrt Ives, Capital office manager,, and Esther Boe of National Sbreeh office, last September flhally leaked o.iit. Samuel G. Smilbw. attorney for Bainbridge Players' corporation; has been doing booking and handling bperalipns for Shubert theatre since A« G. B'ainbridge's election as mayor. E:^hibitor visitors-on-fllm row: Roy McMinn, Superior; Bill GlasCr, Fairbault; Andy Anderson, Detroit Lakes; Al Ashenbrenner, Staples;' Andrew Severson, psakis, and Jack DcMarco, Benson. , City council finally passes wet ordinance, legaliizing 200 . on-sale licenses to hotels, night clubs and restaurants at $1,20.0 annually and 95[. bff-sale licenses to bottle goods' liquor stbrgS at $250 annually. June Knight at the races. Sammy Walsh at D6auville. . , Grantland Rice In' for a short stay. Helen Daniels with Ben Bernie band. Gebrgie Pricb at Flbrldian hotel with $1 cover. ' E, R. Burch new general manager at Hiaieah Park. Mopre : and Itevbl at Hollywpod Country Club: Lorraine Sanchl and Josephine Butler bpened at Miami Blltmbre. Hervey Allen, iauthor: of 'Anthony Adverse,' wintering on the beach. - pilie Webb of the Ringling show wintering hbre With bis daughter. Ross Young quit shbw business and has opened , a real estate office. Myrcn Nast and Al Russell mbtpred in a;hd are beach-cbmbing; Bob Grant orchestra opens Mert Wertheimer's Beach and Tennis Club. Sailing Baruch has opened a brokerage office for H. Hentz in the Roman Pools. Helen Madison, Pete Desjardins and Mickey Riley in the water sports Sundays, Don Pedro and hid entertainers opened ..the Clqb Porest, new- spot out on the Dixie. Highway. Tommy Lpughran setting ub training, quarters in, West Palm Beach for his fight with Camera. DeauVille Yacht Club only spot where the boys <;an,play the various games. . Reason—^Just pver Dade County line. On the beach Deauviile is get'tlng the big play, but , the Broadway bunch still like Ben Bernie at the Roman Pools. Jiminy Fox, f'reddy Lindstrom, Pat Malone, Paul Waner and Ben Chapman ., some of big leaguers wintering here. Hughie Clark m.c.'ing at the. Savoy, on the ocean. Others Include the McNallie Sisters, Kay Spahglei- ahd Bernlce Paige. Hiaieah Paiik opened a 45-day meet with a> 17,900 attendance. Looks like a big meet. The take in the. machine? opening day was over ^ three hundred gees. ^ Race track crowd llvipg on the beach giving the play to Auby's Lagoon. Jack Edwards, m.c, with Cliff London, Betty Rbyce, Kath- leen.^ Sullivan and Hinsdale La Tour. Eric Peterson for music. Al Howard^s Embassy Club the popular spot In Miami, with Chic Endor and Charlie Farrell headlin- ing. Others Include Carolyn Nolte, Veloz and Yolapda, Delbres Reade and Henr^ King foi* tunes. Bell, took a flying trip to N. Y. to book a new show for the Commodore Glub. iRegular thing on the Mon. night amateur show at the Colonial tb put chairs in the Orchestra-pit for visit- ing .acts.:' " Milton Berle and his mother grave a party In his suite tot all the ac- tors, -Wbrklhg arid otherwiise. Wound up swapping gags. Three flrst-irun stage shows In town added to njimeroud night clubs, bringing plenty of talent here^ with the night spots getting flockd of ad lib performers. Eddie Lbughtoh working at' the Colonial with Maxie Gaeler had more performers, at the ihidnight amateur g'hbw* than aniateiirs. Wound up in a free for alL Nobody .got paid. for a Milwankee By Frank Miller St, Louis interests will continue to run ball cliib. . Lacross • ho go Team switched to Chicago, Auto show had 20,000 more cus- tomers than last year. C. Pahnill Mead agai dbihg music reviews after months. Of ill- ness. A dally spbrt story Is the "new stint for Dick Davis,- Journal's mur sic and drama reviewer. Dave Miller using his spare, min^ utes as the Riverside's direptpr tb' brush, up oh violin technique. After fi-ve years of doing withbiat, the Shriners re-vlved , their an'riual ball at the Auditorium Saturday Milwaukee Athletic Club going in j^or pro wrestling for the first time since The"^giarHttTTg^bTlsIne?s Is flourishing. • Arthur Price Roberts, a leading medium for years, and an expert at finding .almost anything, is uhable to find any assets of his own and has gone voluntarily bankrupt. Amateur nights In the big nabes are again tb the fore. The winners in Saxe Modjeska tryouts were given .some pretty .scenery and put on a good show at other Saxe the- atres, Boston Anita Page's Dad In town. ^ Everybody up arid yfelling for the Theatre Treasurers' berieflt. Letters, tell of Charlie Curran's new eixplpitation job In Detroit. Marty Glazer as aide to Harry Brown, Jr., on Publlx publicity, Al Sheehan shuttling biabk and fprth between the Wilbur and Col- onial. Marty (Publix) Mullln hotcha In the :gym. Electric horse n' every- thing. Wally Miinro continuing getting swell breaks for *Rlchard of Bor- deaux.' Fabien §evitzky host to ye scribes, and many others, in hl^ Met em- porium. Prank Bruner departing for Gotham after eight hectic days of night and day tPlL . Ed Smith caught 'black'siappihg Marty Mullln and Sam Pinariski over thbse Pickford'profits. George MacKinnon, deftest of liquer- cbnnoisseurs, actually a teetotaler, these past years; Fultbn burner and frau guests of Mary Plckf brd at the Wilbur to see Lillian Gish, Miss' Pickford then departing with the Ourslers to Cape Cod. Art Parrar In New short vacation. Bill Scott fell out of the bath-tub arid cracked two: ribs. George Jaffe off for Hot Springs, Ark., on his anrilial vacatiPn^ Luke: Barnett the big hit of the Variety Club banquet in Columhusl Amos 'n' Andy first pf big r'adlb names for Penn. They comef. In Feb. ■9.,. ... ; Kaspar Mbnahah, drarntitic editor of 'Press', alsb doubles occasionally in politics^ Mprt Blumenstock .aroX'h.i plot- ting campaign for • 'Fashions of 1931' at Stanley. Joe Cappo held over again at Plaza cafe for new floor show star- ring. Ann Pennirigfton. Bobby (Uke) Henshaw spent his day off motoring down to Wheel- ing, W> Va., his hbm<5'town. Earl Carroll tossed u party for newspapermen abbard. his special car during short stopover here; Prank Kruehinskl, brchestra. leader,, named, president of new Pro- fessional Entertainers ^ASsociatibn. Lou Brager back tb his WB post in Phlladephia after cleaning up some business odds and ends here. Ruth Slenczynski, bhild piano prodigy, . booked for two concerts with MihneapPlis Symphony here. Dudley Mecum, formerly with Don Bestor's band, now Illinois sales representative for cocktail calendar. With Brian McDpnald's with- drawal as manager of Tent Club, Bobby Rosuali now in active charge. Eubie Blake, with 'Shuffle Along', liked daricing pf Dick Wilder, Ibcal cplored boy, sb well heJoffered him a'contract. Johnny Mitchell, for years feat- ured organist at Harris and En- right, now playing, at. dbwntown restaurant. Three years, ago, Dick Powell, Joe Penner and Hal LeRby were on the same bill at Enright at total salary cost of $900. Harry Greenberger, now at. Va- riety, celebrating 28 years as. local ^tage electrician. He started with Harry Davis. Phil Doyle, . of stagehands local, estimates there are 103 members in Pittsburgh group, of which 40 are now working. Three-year-old daughter of the Bob Senfts—he's Penn's assistant manager—^wintering with her grand- mother in Flbrida. John Harris has postponed his Florida vacation until after that testimonial dinner to his uncle. Senator Frank Harris. Detroit By Lee Ejman Liquor by glass legal P,6b. i3. Sammy Walsh left for Texas; but wbund UP in Florida., Jane Schermerhorh doing a little column writing. bn the side. Charles Gbritry of the Times, wear^ ing a . sweater a.t screenings. Lotti Loder refuses to work out of town since she married a local. Roy Sedley's stopge walked out on him, with Se'dley -closing at Lulgi's. =-^DOllJrrOpera=at'the-Wllson=giving.= that house a nice four weeks' book- ing. Sandy Lang in to n last week trying to market ..a couple of new inventions. Freddie Stritt taking his new act on the road. With twb people, Ann Saber and Roy Rboder, Jr. Sally Fields, p. a. of the Club Maxine, sprained her ankle getting off a bus arid is going to sue. Harker Thbmas and his boss. Cliff DaBas By Raymond Terrariella Paiil Specht pne-nighting at the Adolphus. Four-year-bid. Jackie White chbo- chooirig to cbast for MGM'S 'Cat and the Fiddle.' Jesse Crawford's one week at Palace, stretched to three, with'the Mrs. due for flnal week. Eleanora Plaige, master dance class over,, appeared in concert spbnsored by teachers' :as$ociation.. . Jimmie Lbveli new aniusement editor of Times-Herald after Joe LInz's decampment to-joint.thb Ho- blitzelle^ staff, After tPUr of Interstate, houses Tpm Alix broncos to coast for a pair of pix and. then back in April fbr tour with . Dill circus. Manag'br Sholl adding to the un- usual by opening his Melba for mid- nite showing of 'Emperor Jbnes' ex- clusively for Negroes. J. B. Dugger eying $30,000 worth of iriiprovcments as they go into a building under spficial reconstruc- tion to house his Par exchange. J5Iain=stemi,i3jpaRa^_rpv5^^ just j»bw. Prank Starz arid FredT*attersb.n"bT Interstate operations copying each other in the matter bf feminine off- spring. Karl Hoblltzelle, Bob O'Donnell and Clarbnce Linz, as played by Messrs. Barr, Jbe Linz and Rosen fleld bf the papes (when Clarence Linz allowed the critics, to father a stage show), were characterizations promptly disowned by the smolder- ing victims. IMlywood Sheila Terry now a brunet. Solly Viplinsky still missing. Ray Rockett laid with the flu. Nat Levlne In from New York. Ned Deplnet In from New York.. Bud LoIUer camping In Phoenix. Arthur Freed N. Y. bound shortlr, Henry King out frbm under Vf» flu. Jesse ^uzizell here to visit his sbh. Eddie. • R. G. Dettinson, in from England, ogliitg. • Helen Ferguson opening publicltjr offices. Bbb Mclhtyre Honolulu vacashv. Jerome Safrori to Chi bh Colum* bla biz. Karen Morley recuperating from the flu. : Sidney Schallmg.n on a grape juice diet. Ed Dearing back from plane trip to Mexico. Sally Rand : i^oad tour. Dave Liptori town Sally Rand. Judy Randell now. chanting, at the Colbriy club. Dari Ratbriy, Hungarian writer,, here on spec. „. Jack Marshall from auto accident. Ben Marksbri has gone fbr a bar- becue fireplace. Martlri Beck showed • Harry Gfeeri a few card tiricks. " . Chester Morris, over the fiii, stage trek, to N. Y. Greg Ratoff directing tests at Col Ih meggihg; tryoUt. A.rch Reeve,dinner had a fiock p.a.'s reritlhg-suits. ". George Jessell coming back here to try pictured again. • DaiTyl" Zanuck paid $15^000. for a polo nag narided Gaucho. Sol. Rosenblatt wears a smart topper for formal affaira> Paul English,. Pat- . Patterson's guardian, in from London. Dimitrl Tiomkin played his piano so hard he broke a pedal. A. J. Balaban o.o.'ing possible- names fpr B&K Chi spot^. Roland Pertwee in from to Script at Columbia. John Osi has quit his perSpri.nel mariager post at F-WG. Joe Riley, Fox police head, has gone in fbr. riding habits.. E. J>. Smith: subbing for I>. McNerney, ill, in Frisco. Earl Baldwins (Mildred :Lamb) expecting an heir in May. . Lewis Milestone and Jo Swerllng dialoging at Palm Springs. Johnny Boyle in demand as hoofer at all the class affaira- Barbara Bennett arrived. :With the junior William Raridolph Hearsts. 'United Artists building a. private projection room for Sam Gold-wyn.. William Hillman, head of Hearst foreign n.ewshounds, o.o.'ing studios* Sammy Fain and Al Kahai re« turning to N. Y. fpr* a Shubert spot. Georgie Tapps. showing Dario .and Diana a new hoof routine on Holly blyd. Garrett Pbrt back after New York on the death father. Old Congress hotel at Tucson, sho,wfolks;. stbpover, burned tb ground. . Ken Murrtfy In • town on vaude layoff. . Back tp Keith's, Washing- ton, Feb. 29. Ben Piazza sent a box' of gold balls instead of flowers to Kath- arine Cornell. Rosy's assistant, accompanying him west, is Morris Legendre,. pro- nounced La Jbhn. Every block in town has its beer joint. And beer is selling in some spots for a nickel.. Walter Wahger threatens to have bigger dobrs built in his office so Jack Moss can get in. Sally Eilers went home HI after taking a drencbing in sceries for 'Three on a Honeymoon.' ZaSu Pitts preparing for a New York trip after lihiShiHg Pox's 'Three on a Honeymoon.' Martin Beck moved from the Bilt- more to the Bev-'Virilshire be close tb the Hillcrest linkb. George Burns chafing at the bit to get back to New York arid the snow. Grade . not sb anxious. Erik Chareli brought his poodle from Europe, and a dachshund as a present to producer. Robert. Kape. Million Dollai" sued 'by customer for $50,360 .damages fpr 'alleged Ih- juries received in a, fail in the gal- lery. ~' ■', John Storie, producer ■ at Fbx Western, leaves tomorrow (^ues.) for Mexico City bn a fbur weeks' vacatibri. . Big mob hit fbr Paim Springs bver the weekend with an idea of getting a flash of Sol Rpsenblatt at the Dunes. Sid Skolsky flrially got his mug on . the screen in Warners 'Hi Nellie!'' for a three-word bit, and Is he lousy. Suit for $297 asserted legal fees brPUght=b3r^liraiJetlr=^Pord-aRains Pern Andra, privately Baroness Fern Vori Andra. Betty Paget, Charles R. Rogers' ex-secretary, now warbling over' KMPC and has a small tune, spot in Metro's 'Merry Widow.' Lee Loeb, freelance scenarist who came here after working in Warner Flatbush studio for three yern's. leaves for LPndon next week on spec.