Variety (Dec 1934)

^Mt«h#« Wanklir at 114 WMt **th 8t^ New Tork, N. lur TwOtf, lao. Annual ralMcrlptlon. f«. p I t — (w niaii mttltViir DfMmlMr it. t«9l; at tte >eit Omo* ajt Now Yortb M. T.. under th#! lit >jd. 12 NEW YORK. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1934 64 PAGES OPEN WAR ON niy Proves It Can Ts^ , PhUiulolphla proves it ''pAik/'iiMl'b^ ^, U on Army-Navy Duy/^^^^- • ' ^ ^' irWr'» Eve oi^ : t*ii»i^ clMMi. Philly •tiuts tta eyM wfChdiil; ll^blttMf r while anMts;';i]iai>s'''t»c(||^r ■ winds. WouldMt drive north on » (id^iitli- boujid atreitT Q\»y, a thousand ' '4^ turn where all turns are verboten? Take It, Major, take it. 'Anchors A weigh' versus *SIum and Gravy,' aung in fuU- Ifniiicad competitloik. iiav*r^^j^^ ;:|«9liit«rpoint^t>«atitlftfl 6n fth y ^iJM^t corner. A bit of a snake ^^ance? Go ahead buyn, the cops will clear the way. Any citizen who mtea to aleep when Thiladelphia'a 4 mirtainlng: ^ t^^ Service la nuta. ' Knowing that the Service is made up of gentlemen who, no matter how mad the fun, remain gentle> m«n, PhUiy feela aafa ln jnaintain- Hif55 m^-<i^. iCa iMtft-Hihytliliif And the Service has grown to love Phllly, too. Phllly seems to un- derstand that an olTlcer's nay can Kaitfai City, Dec. S. •j. C. a.' (MofAtt) of the Kansas City .Star, and 'L. L..' (Lawrance) of the K, C. Jour- nal Post, both picture rcvlew- '.■vaik .l«y« If^njaktoit shots each other's idio.syncrasios In the public prints. Their views on pictures vary widely a greater pari of the time apd they hav6 been if^rig to shoir each other up. ?-\/.'Ivi;;-;^-^:',^-. Some fun. OCIOBER BEST sSl'Olh the best bu.siiu'sa month on the theatrical calendar, November has tumbled down to the ranks of the mediocre months of the y****' til fha opinion of showijMR lias supplanted Nov^iliibtfif! the Bwci't month. Ffbniary cQAtinufM to he :ihV sec- ond ■ bipst..-v ■ Inheatrical mien say the chctnge has been gradual for several yoars now, but became alarmhiKly marked la.'^t year. B\isinoas for the Novem- ber iust ended definitely removed tl!i# liit>i»th ftt«ri«^^^ t^^ i4o. I spot in I'i estiinatloti. •PEETTY BOY' ON PLATTER Hillbilly song merchandisers lost no time in rushinj; out Trotty Boy Flpyd' as a timely ditty wit)} an It's oh the dl.sks alrendy, ap- propriately coupled with anotlier 'billy titled, ^If J0S89 >tfille^^:|toao . Agaih-'. ■ . V^vU-vri'! ■ ■ ■■"iinj" lit. iiiiiii>iiiii-ii I'l/i/ >,'''V 70 WEDS 73 IN H'WOOD , HpHJr#ood, Vcc. i. ;, :V|otor^^^^^^^P^ And^rsofi, 70-yearroW pi*ttif© character actoi^ married lOliznl...!!, Ann lVW,fS;:ln;'?h^((|Ulfnt today ,(Monday). /x.?'' - ■ 2-HOUR DRAMA IN 13 SCENES Two hours of continuous radio drama is the record for Herbert C. Rice, Buffalo program director, and his players, on VVGK Sunday nightf- Hicii .ih a recent trip td Eiiglafid made arf«t)gem<ents with British Broadcasting io eilporlment with full l«'n>?th dramas over here. Five dramas previously broadcast In iSiiglahd -wiM : ha 'alrM to Buffalo audionco.M. Fir.«t ffrort wa.s Du la Garde IVachs 'Love One Another.' The play was divided \ntq tlu'e^ acts, with IZ :.96i>n««;'4wd:^^^^ the cast. Fred Darriijiwf 1^ ralne Pahkow Rice. assOcIilitO <!ra- inatic dhti'tiiis, woro in charge of rehearsals tor the prpductlpn, lyhiffh consumed'woro tlMua; tAxtt-'twi^, ^pi^iaj»ax^loiiJ^ Political Hook-Up ' Sbw EukHtation One of. thtbiiioat uhi<iii4^.B^ ^'ay legit #h6^ feifplOltatJtort tief<i|»s win t>e the politico-patriotfc haily- hoo fi>r IvMie iulinc;".s 'Tluiinbs t'l)' mu.sjcal when it opens at the St. Jame.s. 'X, v.. arouihd. ttib .;ho'l!*; ■day.s. It breaks in in T'hilly I)ef. in. Some of the showman-ixilitici.in's pals, from the civic and indu tiitl \Valks of life, have engaged a, l'a»:k :vv<»nue CJ^ploitcer, lienjarnln Soft- nonhtr^T, to gO ah«rt<l with a cam- paign vn Wc^wUng awd hi« show on tho «<iu«tl0h of ' pro-Ncw^^ I>e»iii|«Rr*; a pal of the T>mo(^rat^^, etr*. This bally will be in addition to Industry in Concerted Fight o n Commercially - Spon- spored Free Show Men- ace—Standard Oil of N. J. Hat Lombardo Show on War has been declar«ft; IMI^^ business against the Comimercial show. It's the first cpncerted ' iiiova. of.'lit'^S^' avtr iniStiPtairaii by theatre men. Situation dawned Saturday (1) in Neir Uavan^ whara tba Oil Co«liiil|^ «C ilfww i^tmr opened Ita Ouy Ix>mbardo advertising road- show. The S.O. show la booked for «i mbiith of ona-nljiiit gtaiids in the principal citt»a oc ii:>'iiti<»gvitaiiii;^ All performances will be gratis, with the flashing of an automobile driver's license the only requtt«« mcnt for admission. Xiombardo band Is g<^ttlnt « lireok for ■ S;: 'llJwi^il^^ ■ 2)'' tllovi«w .of ^'flrti •lamicfi Pil ahew appears-on Pm§$ 2.) , WHAT A STAR TALKS ABOUT wiyi Qerb lear as Trick Letters Sent to Pk Stars Pile Up Current faahion . for - sky- scraper hats Oil -W^an haa re* vived neck trottbl* ill th# theatre. Impos^iible to see over some M. thopa ^jtri«k. ^^jre^UoM., th« there are Requests being tap- ped over the ladles' shoulders for the first time in years ask- ing that the 'thou-ahalt-not- :gei-&-po«ii5 "^M^m''''M* moved. Charlotte. N. C, Dec. 3. According to Grace Moore, here for a concei;t i^st W4^i rod ucers wanted to send to Europe for Verdi so he could chanpe parts of his 'ta Travlata' to lit the plc- pna, 'Qno: N^^ In which she played. Said they didn't know that Verdi had b«en dead 40 years. And in the plctlire, she also added, the e.veni.s.'.s taken were lier own. and the scene on a balcony was ba.'^od on an incident when «ho ac- tually sang on, a balcony in Veni».e. In h#. t|«kt plcturerahe says.^^ s^^^ »!;4^ .Ia<rtt ;tihat shots be included to ithb# now *ttt» opera 8in>,'er sjionds hor d.iy bt-fore a concert—with at- tention to strict rules — so a few tiuiiisand Jiieople, who hay«\(be^h of- fended because slhgOrii do-not ac^ cept inyitutit^s to i|>iirtle^i);i^^i^ t i.^niJil ,<!»• likfi^; understand;^ ADULTS ONLV FOR TOLIES' W LOOP Chicago, l>ec. 1. For the booking of 'Folies Ber- fferes' into the Palace the house has decreed 'no Ohildreii admitted..' TWO - i> day theorr eaiMed the 'adutts onljr* tiiUngr f*w' Kfds the house plays to, anyway; s.a. build- up which causes the 'adults only' clan.se impresses on the public. This is a voluntary 'pinHing' and the first tinie that a veitni* iri^bw has been thus handled here! •Potlejii Bergero' was originally imported fron> Paris by the Music Corporation of America fop the French Casino, ••ihitertT-'':-.'' 'liooa,'■ ito X.,y.:after Pal«cO::date;r;-'-'."'' Peoria's (III.) Educated ifosers Treat Vaude ^^^^^^^ Y.M.C.A. Has Girl P.A. Foiir Xew York fixations ar« o^r- ty'l»ig''■ Voung' -Sifen's' Civrlf?tiah-"ji'i!i(i''n''^ nrofeiirims including wrew, ^nixsi' W^^VC and M'HN. ■ 1 l<-ni if'ttf H'lrri.-^Mii i.-i i i li i i\'u (-r- tpr for the asH.oplatlon.i»,nd pla«f»,.the I'eom, Pec. i. PeOrla atidleincos may be cold; but they're ^lulcji to take up 8ucrK»\stion. When 'The Drunkard' recently I)layod thr^ Palace (Great Ktates> here, the management encouraged the customers to hiss the villain. If - iiw^a/a;,r ««Rfi^^ ■ . Cheers roeic^d fti# rtift<*i^iand hissed jfegl.Mi the toiTO'^ntorfs. 15iit the priynff canir. witli the f<d- louinc: weeks rf»>?ul;ir vaud'-vilh' bill. The gallery had taken the mani^gcmeht^s ti^dvlc« llte^ co^tiniiied to take grpsit dellL-ht in t>oollnij» arid I'lssin;,'. The hIp-.v was sti>|,;), il .viosyi'nl tinio.s, tlie af't.s colll- plaiiiitiK they couldn't hear tJjem- ii>A ve.s ■' spea K., -..r.-A ' .do«eh:''i')(Eliec,t|^,n«'' a4^;Vtv .^V;<)|i;:jihflMiey'M!«''-feH>tftoi^'i;^^ <ory|lci(!ii \l.'''4'■■"■'.'■■^v \ -rh** sljow'^^w^^^^ and ^^an- r^^'e^^ Lou <^•ldi^ made a cutt.Un ^]>C'>cli^.;,' Jt<vul' ,-;. rxaoliy' fttl., ■ X^w thfi,;. 'Vavld^'viWe .■..goc^ '^h' .e«i!t^|^■ w-'■>■':. foi(^;cpiwvlir»(th«'ffai^l*^ Holly W00411^0. t. Post Office department is irettlny ready to call a halt on thoie letters^ addres.sed to picture stars in which the address if a' cartoon of tt^a player, a eaten ifne frOiit one <MF their pictures or some other phoney method used by fans to give postal clerks headaches. Since Bob. Hipley, Feg Murray and Cai>t. Roseoo I>*aii^tt have baeh ifeatur- ing them in their dally cartoon lay- outs, number of letters minus names and addresses but havillS the trick wording or picture InstiM^ haVa-lticr«a*ed' :about': fiis^; • -.,''-v'^''. It's so tough now that the Holly- wood post office has one man as- signed to d. :lt»herl^ the j>^«al«g 'and' .jHf^a ^l^aflMiliif; ''.to'.va)^';'-.thai atriUii.-■ : v;..r'''r:;;; > In addition t4)^ ttini gag envelopes about 1,300 fan' letters arrive at the Holiyvbod p. 0. ditljr wrongly oddreasied.; it's the one man's Job to see that they get to their proper destination. He has to read all the picture trade papers and fan mags to acquaiht hlmaeif ¥lth tfat> play^* cr's pram^nt addresses ahd that's a tough aaslgnmeht without unravel- ing the trick mail. Though there is but one Holly- wood post office, studios rOceiva their mail at Burbank, Universal (Continued on page 50) -ED'S OWN Lancaster, Pa., Dssftl t*. Henrietta Re.sh, co-ed at Mlller»» villo state Te.ichers' College, l.s the imiiresario pf a program over' \vu.^L oaiiad 'Cam^ Review-.' co- ed ;uajM.iiw?j^ (blonde) to maifisliAl'i|ai|a»t t(^ the station. She tackles lUl; *tt(|:.,iBundry from the coilCKe president down to the most popular janitor, gha brings glea clubs, football fOama. debtiterjs ait^t . campus cut >upa to tha niicro|i)ioi»9.: Pi-opram l!l|Q:::'fitiiv)«i^'\tM graduates.'' . y.-''■?■','>■■;:;:■;;'•.'-"V'r^ . ' yVf j ffni i jii i 'i: i ' i ';'''. 'V i " ii ; ':'".■^"'.VI'^ Prof. Can't Teach B'way 'The Lord Ulttssts the JpIshopV ■ I>ened last Tueaday (27) ait^^ti^ Ad<. ItJlil. '(f!>rn>ofJy Cral}?) c\n 1 '.i i adi Avay; fridav show's ads in thi dailies antir.urtced-'vtha: last-:tjtf^b;"' j>?Vtorntajj..;e8.^;..~^, ''^.--: ,v •)['^'\C^ 'Viny, .^vUs.-'iiii'ritteh^'^tijf^."^^ lTntr.hAr,.;tt{i:gjj.^ \vh.r:::5|t<itil>i[!ified'- thf H.H.>ol Of liiaywriiihtih^-'it Cp- I ini^i.i rniver.-^tty. Me wns award- • i t h<» i\iUt;{i, f pri^ifii t'l* 'Heji Ifeiita*