Variety (May 1934)

70 VARIETY Tuesday, Ma^r 1$* 1934 OBITUARIES News of die Daifies (Continued from page 68) DAN ASTELUA PeLos Aspi'lU (Dan, Astella), 48, dl^d at the, General hospital Sara- nac Xake, May 4, after a foufth Irir tesflnal operation. He had been an TJ.V.X. patient for the past two died In Halifax, N. S.i recently, after a long illness. She was a professional stage daiicer, and later j ^^^^^'^ PaUUne Frederick spent 12 hours cameraman. Escaped with $1,500 In rugs and clothing; Superior Judgie McdJomb, Los An- geles, approved contract between Metro, Wanda Perry and William a dancing instructress at Halifax, Interment in Halifax. She was un- years. In yaudeviile he was with the As- t^lla'^; a well-known acrobatic IGRUM SALVASON SigrUm Salvaaon, 25; who doubled in Xios . Angeles, coming out from MTew York to testify . In her bank- ruptcy suit lield for the purpose of discharging her-of liabilities. Ruling , that a . husband- who ob- tains a dlVorcis need nbt pay ali- mony, Superior Judge Valentliie, Los Aiigeles, refused to order C. M^ Caskey to pay his former wife, Connie, actress, $300 awarded .her at the time of the decree. 3etty McMalion, picture extra, has filed suit for divorce In L. A. from P. Ci Stevens, Beverly-Hills broker. Lenore De l^rsh, of tje^ne-tlme .died In NewLrg;{^»<J JSJ^luS^hl-tii '$25!oo0 sister team of Lenore and Vivian, y^rk May 11 after a long Illness. U^eart balm ftctldh of Earl W. Bstes, died in Minneapolis May 4.. She has gjjQ counted among, her pupils Mary musician, against James and Jennie been engaged out of the profession Ljarden, Nora Bayes, Freda Hempel Vance and WilllAm CofCee with the tab musica,l comedy fleld^ tburlng .the Southern States. A daughter, son and slster'sur- ihterment Saranac yive. L I^N Q Ri DE LAR S H Rae Randall, committed suicide in Hollywood, May 7. . i She played bits In several 'pix. Her husband survives. MRS. SARAH ROBINSON^DUFF Mrs.' Sarah Roblnson-Duff, fa- for several years. She was , well L^„^ jjjary McCormlc. Surviving are known in dramatic Stock and reper- j ^ daughtier and two sons tOlre. She is survived by two broth- ers,. James and Atfofd; Mrs. Julia I Svirarthout pf .Detroit, Mich;,; and| Miss Vivian iBulmef of Minneapolis. Margherlta SarfattI, Itiallan au thoress, has' left for New Tork, after visiting Los Angeles. _ ^ I Emmett Flynn, 42, former director TOM QUEEN . land film writer, sentenced some Tom .Queen, 73, . veteran of the | timd, ago to. San Quentin on a charge THEODORE P, ZADRA .-Theodore-P. Zadra, president of the International;Amusement Co., died at his honrie in Denver May, 10. Zadra ^as .ala^b. a mining operator. Death was caused by pneumonia. Survived by his wife, Ave children and a. brothier and sister. minstrel days, died In . Glendale, Gal.,' May il, following a perform- ance for the American iLegiojj. He/ is survived by an invalid, brothei'. CARR LYNN Cairr Lynn,. 49, animal mimic on of escaping from Riverside. Call., iall, has applied to Gov. Rolph for a full pardon. John Cromwell and Kay Jc^hiison have beei;i relieved of payment of $1,860 In fees, to an architect for de- signing their ranch house by a L.A. judge. Retrial of Princes David and C H A T T E (Continued from page 69) Jean Harlow and her mother^Kop- plng to Honolulu i^oon. Carl Laemmle, Sr., niissed his llrst Kentucky Derby In years. Joe B. Brown cablliig from Hong- kong he'll return In a month. Maurice iCoslofiC sole operator of the Shelton' & Edmunds Agency. Barcelona By Lawrence A. Farnsworth Juan de LAhda's picture, 'Dale de Betun' ('More Shoe Polish'), will soon be released here. 'Queen' Christina of Sweden' en- terlng Its fourth week at the ITr- Dlana Wynward will spend the I flu^naona *.nd still going strong. three summer months In England If Wlnl Shaw's good In a Warner short she goes Into 'Sweet Adeline.' Estelle Clark given a party on a Honolulu-bound boat by Leo Robin. Hungarian artist, Helena Ban« hldy, has been . contracted for the new Spanish picture 'Que te Quierea Apoistar.' Actualldades, hewsreel picture , , ■« 1- -rr , ^ .house, finishing third week of spe- Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler we Mickey Mouse programs. Only slipping ajvay via the canal May 18. Disney creations used. on hour's Andy Levlne'King Of the Ball'at program, the Little Rock, Ark.; cotton fes' - Etlenne Pallos, director of Lon- . . . ^ J. , don Films, spent several days in Blng Crosby bought an Interest In Barcelona last week. While here Freddie Steele, Tacoma fighter, for | i^g^j^g the guest of Associated Ar- $7,500. Suzuki Demi, Jap actor, will come I to Warners If Mervyn Le Roy ha&| his say. Sally O'Neill Is being sued for $653 rent, etc., by Hotel Park Central N. Y. Mozeile Brlttone will be In Alan Dlnehart's (her hubby) play. "Alley Cat,' In N. Y. Rebecca and Sllton. are suing tists at a luncheon at the Ritz. •Dos Mujeres y un .Don Juian* ('Two Women and One Don Juan')« new national production, will be released in Barcelona next week. Distributed by Cinnamond Films. National production In full swing. Seville all hot And bothered over the opening of new studios there. One picture now being filmed. At vaudeville stage, die-J. In London ^ ^ * w . ^, ■ - j,, - ^ ^v, April 20. He had befei^ HI for some |.fJfOwlng ^Out^of^thelr pr^ Metro staff Zadra's compaiiy owns the Ogden |;tlme, following an operation, and Hiawatha, Denver; and the Lib erty Bell, Leadvilie. Marian Nixon for- $393 .commIsh on the Orphea two pictures are.near- an RKO job. inff completion. Joan Blondell and George Barnes Vilches, one of Spain's most popu» expect to join Norman Foster In lar aOtors, had to retire f rom a per« Tahiti In July. formance of 'Jaball' during the sec- Ethel Borden, from legit, and Mer- | ond act because be completely lost CRISS WILLIAMS Criss Williams, 64, burlesque actor j here May 11. and manager, died of l^Idney trouble May 12 at Manhattan General hosr pltal, New York. Williams was a Mutual and Co- lumbia wheel franchise holder for years,.produ-lng and managing his own shows and also playing In them, widow survives. frolr1n,?^ri,,X «!■' t^ni-^^^^L^S^^j he^^^ ^'^^^ scrlbblers on his voice. Actor Is now resting, and fhf^afiflo nnV^ L?*^^^ has greatly improved.. V?,n«^9R' ' """M Stewart, King's club Anny Oridra and her husband, June i!0. chanters, doing ditties in'Stamboul Max Schelming, returned to Bar- ,. Mrs. Helen Cooke has. filed suit In Quest' at Metro. celona from Paris. They stopped Mother of late Henry White 3d, A. against Mrs. DeEtta DeGroff Herbert Marshall, Hugh Williams just long enough to call on the playwright, known professionally as for $100,000 damages, charging she and Henry Stephenson have reniged President before leavlnjar for Sltges, Roland Olivei-. died at hei- home .P**^®*^ ^^"^ *^"sband's wife. on European treks. where .Schelming has his training " • I state Supreme Court, Chihuahua, Jack Haley is jumping to his camp, Mex.,; has. Issued a statement up-^ shack on Lake Mahopac, N. Y., on First film to be finished in the holding Its much-discussed divorce completion of pic work. new studios of C. E. A. in Ciudad Michael Duffy> ?-mohth-old child I law. Meta Carpenter quite Wm. Perl- Lineal, has jUst been released. It of Al Duffy, Boston publicity dlrec-| Lewis Borzage and his wife are I S,^'^^J^Tt J^lri.!^!^^^^^ with | is titled^'Agua en el Suelo' ('Water eklne-S2S nnft #i«Tnae.«Q It. +v.« T. A Edward Small productlons. tor for the Shuberts, died last week seeking $25,000 damages In the L. A. _ on the Floor'). Opening was at the „- - ' ^ „ I sunerlor Court from~Finppnr.«" nori' I NVA shuttering office. No funds. Coloseum in Barcelona and picture of pneumonia. Mrs. Duffy was Beth sd^foMnliS?s In an aX a^^^ ^arry English, In charge, and Mrs. is now finishing its first week's run Stuart of the stage. I Sm^JIi « *"'°*<'<^^^f"*- English vacationing in Boston. to good buslneis. tflSTn^r««^l^ «^^J^; S. Fisher, p.a, for Amal- Salvador Gervas, impresario of *L »r - T ^ K, *!. ^1 nn«iJ^f!^^ «^«Ko«™«^«" h,^- Kamated Theatres in Singapore, and the Olympla Circus, was killed In a Father, 75, of Joe Cornbleth, vaude to apply for probation on conviction brother of Joe Fisher, ogling studios, motor accident In Barcelona. He booking .»gent, died at his home In I O'^ttaoklng^ a | patsy Kelly suffered contusions was riding In the car of Rafael Los Angeles, May 6, following a 4 y®ars ago Franc^^ the feet in making a Roach Belda, member of the Human »-^^_t_J? I daughter of a then millionaire lum- j picture, but continued work, after Eagles, troupe who were playing berman was a deb. She was offered medic probing. the circus at the time of the accl- $360 a week at Paramount, put | Ramon Novarro, on a concert toUr | dent. Belda escaped serious in- DOROTHY HARVARD Dorothy Harviard, 22,, died at the | lingering' Illness N.V.A, lodge, Saranac Lake; May il, _ ^ ^v,..v,^vv ^w-^ after an illness "of five years. She! Frank R. Macauley, Santa pruz j gpurned the offer for marriaie^ The I in*^^ was In 'Lovely Lady* and.'Broadway lexhibltpr, died of heart trouble May.l marriage failed and now she is an I takes up Its option on his ^rylces Ramblers^ companies/ At the time 114, aged 64. of her breakdown she was in vaude- vllie with Blake and Howard act. , , Survived by a father, mother and iYCIT IfUSinCSS sister. Interment lit New York. (Continued from page 66) | She recently was- divorced from 26 announcements on Luncheon Perry B. Prank, banlcer. Melodies, KLZ. I Jean Harlow announces she in- Denver Buick Co., seven announce- tends to sue Hal Rosson, camera- ot his London flat. May 2. Had 1 ments dally, indefinite, ItFEL. man her^thlrd hubby, for a divorce, acted fui musical director, and com- Denver Buick Co./ seven orie-mln. .^^^,^°}^, ^°PP®^', dancer and ^sed many of the early Andre j spot amjounce^^^^^^ | niece of Eddie Polo, divorced in Los Chariot revues. extra to. aid in paying off a $36,000 starting In October, mortgage .on her parent's $126,000 Municipal court Judge^ Blake, home In Pasadena. I friend of show folks, has two beds Amalie Baruch, niece of Bernard Iset aside at the County hospital for Baruch, Is In Hollywood arranging people of the profesh. screen tests. . Her father, H. N. Alleging plagiarism of. her story, Baruch, was ah- actor at one time. 'An Exiled God,' Claire Evans Don- PHILIP BRAHAM Philip Braham, B2, composer; of light music, died of heart failure ahue has. brought suit for $60,000 dama^res against Par. Mona Maris and Anita CampiUo entrained for N. Y. for the Hecht- Sifrdney By Eric Gorrick Dance reason starts. Sir Ben Fuller to London In May« Joe. Joel ^handling Columbia ex« ploitatlon here. Par tickled over the big success Mac Arthur picture, 'Crime Without of 'Alice in Wonderland' here. Passion,' filming in Astoria. F. W. Thrlng will produce 'The E. Bruce Johnson has become as- Beloved Vagabond' In Melbourne me cuny "^^'^^^ I ~^nMni^ PMrfl ' zr "nrftf^^ | sociated With Sam Berkowitz and next week. His latest work ^^JP^^^JJJ^ Warrei Wiufrms hSf purchased U^^^^ Everybody agreed past . Lenten was theme songs for films, two df | jyogae Motor Co., six one-min. an estate at Enclno, Cal. Gary Exchanges, and wiU run the 'Ftisco was the best ever ■ experienced in which he left unfinished. Survived by widow and. young daughter. Dodge spots, KLZ. Shell Oil, 100 KLZ. LevHa Medical Co., 'Tums,' 26 an nouncements, KLZ. , Buick Motors Co,, 26 announce ments, KLZ. Ford Motor Co., 26 announcements, KLZ, Fontiua Shoe Co,, 13 MRS. JACK DUNCANSON Mrs. Jack Diirtcanson, 63, .Chair- man of I^os J'^eejf !',^"^*5"°herl Fo'-dJI^^^ willbecome a dude ranch women's conimlttee, died at her ^^.j^g, Conway Tearle must appear In home in San Diego May 7 after a Fontiua Shoe Co,, 13 announce- San Francisco May 15 to show cause 13-day illness. For 11 years she .^^nts, KLZ. why he should not be adjudged in provided San Dleg6 vfH'^ L. A. Fhll- Waltere Beer, three l5-mi pro- contempt of court for not paying harmonic orchestra concerts, aided grams,. KLZ. | alimony to the estate of his ie Cooper, E. E. Hortoni Ann Nichols I ^ « ^ -r ^ . Sydney since back in 1927. announcements, I and Frances Lederer as neighbors. Sultan and Sultana of Johore, who 'I Was a Spy' (G-B) has turned Bob Robinson, 40, former actor, ^'""e*^ S'^^sts out the biggest hit scored by a stabbed several times during an al- °'^/ '^•J^,"'"**?''''^u^*"?,^ with Prank Brltl|3h picture in Australia, tercation In Hollywood. Following the dinner; the In- 'Viennese Nights,' after a good Valley of the Moon, near San f???^*^ "^^^^.^^ R^^^^./^^^^ season in Sydney, will again Francisco, written of by Jack Lon- .K^P. "i™ which the Sultan Is | be screened In Melbourne for a rurt - - - ' picturized deserving . musicians. Survived by-l her widower, two cousins. GORDON HOEYE Gordon -Hoeye, 43,. veteran coast film salesman, died May 6 in Den- ver, of pneumonia. Deceased for -ceased wife. DUBUQllEy IOWA I Three household, workers have LorenH Laundry, quarter hour Aled suit for $729 in Los Angeles dally for 26 weeks, with Lorenz against EVelyn Brent and her hus- Laundrymen and tenor. WKBB. band Harry D, Edwards. Trenkle & Co., three fifteen-minute Legislation to combat unethical periods weekly for 26 weeks, using radio advertising, by what are des 'Organ Melodies.' WKBB. Rosheks Department Stare, two. Mexico City By D. L. Grahame Very warm. Drihke»'ies report unprecedented demand for cocktails. Government advising Mexican laborers not to go to the U. S. A., explaining that jobs are scarce there. Chihuahua state government has years was with the PathiB ahd FBO I quarter hours daily, one at npon, the sales forces, and at one time oper- ated a picture house in Wilminstoh, Cal. For a number of years he made his home In Los Angeles. Nq immediate: survivors. BERTRAM H. CURRIER Bertraih H. Currier, 69,. musician and composer, died at his home, Newton, Mass, May 9. He Was a member of the first orchestra of the Boston Opera Co. and played with I hour nightly for 26 weeks the People's Symphony Orchestra. Review. WKBB. His widow, three sons and two Krafrs Clothing Store/one fifteen^ daughters Bun'lve minute period weekly using 'Th» daugnters sun ive. I Mississippi Male Singers' for 13 -weeks,=-WKBBr other evening, for 52. weeke' using news flashes,! WKBB. Hartmon'c Furnitute Store, daily ten-minute period for 13 weeks with 'The Inquiring Report;er.' WKBB. Kelly Springfield Tirea, quarter hour daily for 26 weeks presenting 'Band of the Week.' WKBB. Sketly Oil Company, quarter hour nightly except: Saturday and Sunday with transcription series 'Jlmmle Allen, for 13 weeks. WKBB. Star Bretoing Company, quarter Sports ^l;^p'P£0 ALDRIDGE I Dubuque Safety Deposit Com,pany, Aip^^A Ai^firicra K8 «?hnir«*BnAi».viin two' annoirticements, one day, one Alfred iUdridge, 58 Sha^^ daily for 62 weeks. WKBB. actor, died In Hollywood, May 4. ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ announce- He was . born In New Orleans and k^ent dally for 13 weeks. 'Mail Bag toured with Frederick Ward, Julia Hour.' WKBB. He Marlowe and William Thorton. also played picture bits. Survived by a cpuflln and aunt. NASHVILLE an I Armand Company, begin Monday May '21 for 13 times. Electrical transcriptions. Placed by N.' W, loi^A I Ayer & Son, Inc.' . KATHLEEN GILI8KA suick Motor Company, May 7, Kathleen Marian Piper, known through May 11, 6 each day—30 word professionally as Kathleen Glliska, | announcements—Campbell-Hwald Co. crlbed as 'medical fakers', urged by the Calif. State board of Medical Examiners in a Rolph. I American newspapers. Francis X. Bushman and Owen | John Barrymore, his try. Charles Munro, co-director of G. T., still sticking to vaude acts at the Regent, Sydney. Latest im- portation. Is Al Prlora. 'White Horse Inn* predicted to chalk up the biggest success yet scored" T>y W-T. Seats are^^selllng two weeks in advance.. Joe McCurdy successful, in get-^ ting ace Columbia product Into the G. T. circuit. Win preview 'It Hap- pened One Night' for the trade. Film probe thing Is still'continu- ing, but its mostly chatter by the lawyers. now, Will be some weeks drafted a law. forbidding its dl report to Gov. | vo^ce^ lawy^s _from_ I be^^^e a decision is handed down. wife Do- ' all set to open Its new Mel- Atkin, a West Los Angeles Inventor. I lores Costello, and their childrenT I S^r^or^'^t^hAS® fnr"^^ have announced completion of a visited Guaymas on their yacht camera worked by the trigger of a Second trip since Easter, revolver which photos a. bullet fired Twenty eight hundred divorces tre and hundreds rushed to grab the I jobs. It was thought by some that 'I'm from the gu^. I were granted, mostly Americans, by I NrAn^el'"would onlv^stliy "around Byron G£y, song writer, who civil courts of Ciudad Juarez, across SJo-^/fttJ*. PHnr? i^dward Svd- .nnftfl -artth Arlmlral Ttvrrl .T.JttlR h-rrwm Wl TJaort rToir tWO WeOKS at Frince EdWarfl, JsyU- hopped with Admiral Byrd to Little from El Paso, Tex.» during the past America, has returned to Holly- 19 months wood. Frank Beas, owner of the Beas Elsa Luhmann, 21, German ac- Model Circus,, robbed of a valuable tress, has arrived in Hollywood. . gold watch presented by a fond Leon Beaumon, film extra, was municipality, while counting the served with legal papers In a suit house duilng a show at Guaymas, fot* $250,000 in Hollywood. Beau- a Sonora state port mon is an inventor-engineer and Foreign Club, backed by an has several patents i^ettlng him $16,- American-Mexican syndicate, cost- 000=Tyearly,=aGc6rdlhB=to-the-.plain!.:= -lne..$60O,OaOr^.a^^^^^ tiff, and it is on one Of these that Ing gaming halls,' completed In a he is being sued for infringement. local suburb and to be inaugurated Virginia Ruth Roberts, actress, soon. First club of the kind to be divorced In Los Angeles, from Orrln | opened liere in years; W. Roberts,, picture technician H. H. "Van Loan appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court and an, nounced he would pay $260 back alimony as quickly as he receives a'che(ik for collaborating on a New York play to be produced In the fall. Mrs. Daisy Canfield Chapman, daughter of the late Mrs. Antonio Moreno, and Harry Plckel.son, both of Los Angeles, married May 2. ney. But that West personality has fooled them all. Picture Is in 6th week and will stick longer. DOROTHEA AMTEL 926 W. 12d St.. New York City Ms New AsBortmnit ot OBEETINO CARDS and FOIiDERS. Ooxed. Post- paid., for' One Dollar INSTITUTION INTEKKATIONALE Shoes for the S^^g^ Street SHO WFOtk'S SHOESaOP-^lSSa BROAOWA.Ysi^