Variety (Dec 1934)

*0 VAXIETY rr i M t S ^ Q iB 4 « c Tuesdiaf, December 11,; 1934 East . ; Mec(» temple to have , eight per- tormances ot Russian opera In Jan^ Van Dyke Amusigment Corp. leases land /at B'way and Dykeihan street, for , a new picture house. To be ;:; rcady^-.by ;;May. : cdatrbom glirls plcketlngr. several jiltespotsr Suppoised 'to be a strike, but patrons still have to buy back headgear.' Mary Jane Hamlltoii asking for annulment of liet marriage to " George ijowney, vaudeville ° cyclist She married: him after three ;days of courtship and quit after a slmU lar matrimonial period. iShe ;has been In the N:T.G. revue. . ■ ■ Government's sale, of confiscated liquors Thursday (6) i: washout. Many lots were wlthdra'nrn..because -bids, were tool low. About ,100 bid- ders present. All wholesalers. Re- ■ tailers not admitted^, JCjeopold. Stokowskl blows away from the Philadelphia Symphony. -,Sore at the delay In electing a suc- . cesspr to Arthur Judison, former : executive, and also makes refer- ences to differences with the boardi Will probably make a trip to the ■ Orient. ■■ Mayor LaGuardla doubled with . i>r. Damrosch in a radio stunt Thursday (i6) to launch Musicians.. . Week.. ■ »n€tr d ■ S lllman ha s acqu ired^ Clemence Dane's own dramatization '—of her novel. 'Broome Stafeesi' and at a later date her dramatic treat- ment of Max Beerbohm's . 'The / liappy Hypocrite.' . ^ ' . . Hartford the: scene of the .tryout of a new Ainerlcan ballet by School of the American Ballet. Later to be ;produced In N. Y. Charles 'Wlnnlnger, after limping through one performance of ' 'Re- venge "With Music,' found It wa& ia! . f broken bone Instead of a sprained " ankle. Did. subsequent , shovrs .on fcrutches with his leg In a cast. ■When action -got tod strenuous he ; told the audience what he was sup- ; :po£fed to be dolii. Application made 'to Equity to layoff show: for two :'"Weeks. :,-:;. .■ Billy Rose bobs up with a _proJect ;: • "fib • do a- play in" a ring oh the' stage.; "■*T6 be tagged 'Junibo.V aiid not the . German circus play he was think- ing, of importing. Ben; Hecht aind .Charles MacArthur working on the script. ■ .._i_lliawrence Schwab.; to Jjeldlrectlng ■ head bf St. Irouls muny opera next summer; Has been Jake Shiibert's job In recent years. Will try . out two new ones for : posslbte N. T. V- flhOWlllg.—-r ' ^V^ , . - Crosby Galge to'.tackle the Liang-r neirs' <'For Love or Money*' but he'll call It 'Oh to Fortune.' ; Theatre Guild again to stage Christmas mats with Robert Reln- -^ha^t—magician7-Punch-and-Judy-and- otheV kid stuff. . N. Y. Opera Comique preparing , for a spring tour, but not unless it Is guaranteed backing. \-. ;. Commissioner of Licenses. Moss held another hearing Thursday (6) on benefit racket.. Announced plans to-require licensing of all benefits after proper investigation. : At a hearing over the flllhg of the will 6f the late Edward Browning, •held last week. Surrogate Delehanty held; there were ^grave doubts' that -Peaches vBrownlng • would be eh titled to; dower rights If his earlier divorcia from his first wife, should 'prov2—to be Illegal, as Mrs. Nellie Br6\. ri alleges, . Later found first Mrs. Browi^ing had no status, Mar. .J or-le—3r-ow-nln s ou sted as ' having been legally adopted. . . . Theatre Guild-has arranged with . C. B.; Cochran to take over the toiir of Elisabeth Bergrier In 'Escape Me . Never,' Frankwyii firm passes but "of this picture. Husband of Pauline Frederick, Col. Joseph A. Marmon, died In I I I I M I M r 11 I i I I II r I I I I I I I I I I L I M I M M f I M I I I I I I n I I I I I I I . : I ; 1 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■jiiiiMiiimiiiiinmiifc.iTra ThU dcparUncht contaim rt^^ ^« pMisHti during the week in iht daily papers of Nev York, Chicago, San Francisco, Hdllyi»ood and London. I^ariety takes no cr^il for these hews itenis: each h^^^ I I I I I I M. M I I I I I I I I I I 11 1 1 I I M I 1 I I I I I I I I I M I I I I I I I H I I I I I I I I I Washington last week.; .they were married last January. Greed foj* Gold' prevented at the Greenwich Vlliaefe Music Hall when police chase the customers, George Kelly, manager of the Red Flannel Playeris; ha:d omitted > to obtain a llcenise.'/-..V, ;..■:;;:.'';;■.. ■; Mildred Monti, prbfe'sslonai. fat girl, arid Jack Glicken, riiidget, mar- ried five times at the Edtson hbtiel last Tuesday (4). Once fbr; each newsreel. ■ ^ '. ■ Abbey Players holding bvei' this week though.the end was announced for last Saturday (8). Biz picked upi .: Gbrnelia Otis .Skinner back from her westbrn tour and will be seen irf town .Dec, 16. . : Busiiar & Tuerk put 'The! Perfect Gehtlemah' back on the shelf. May dtist it oft next Fall. , ( Llla Lee married • to Jack Pine (Virginia's brother) in .Harrison, N. Y. - Dec. 5. Miss Lee .has been Neiv York Thedtresyi GAR BO "PAINTED VEIL" ,^ H» f >» rt H Hrilnl l f 6 e « . .Brfitt ^^W^' "In.'. Ptrioo RKO THEATRES 86"ST. 81" ST. All Thl3 Week Dec. 8 to 14 . Fred Astaire Olnrer'RoKii'H. 'fTHB "fcAY ■ iyiVQKCEE"' :working. ln the Astoria studio. Lily Pons back, frbm . Europe. Thinks she'll wait a/ while before getting married. To make a .con- cert tour, then three months at the Met, and Hollywood next - June : for a picture. Enrico Caruso, Jr., loses an appeal tp: the Italian Supreme court. If he ever goes back to 4taly he faces a SO-morith Jail term for an auto scrap a cbUple of-years ago. Menuhln muislcal family landed last; week. Mosche Meriuh.in, the fatherj ainriounces he ;Wlll riot forcci a professional career on Hephzlbah. She Is too flnfe an artiste, he asserts^ to be subjected " to the rigors of a tour. Adds he never saw a happy woniari .ihstrumentallst .Walter Hariipden will open at the ;4.4th .Bt;,; Ghristriias" night, for'"a brieif. stay. Recent N., Y. dates :have all beeii in Brooklyri 'Sailors of Cattaro' had ; three previews last week prior, tb^regular opening. Harry Rlchman selling tickets to the Imperlarior . 'Say When' iri'his spare moments. Same press gag, has been- used before. White Plains .court dismisses the ^9Ulfc= Theodore Dreiser. Reswlck sought to collect >$66,O00 from the novelist for the failure of the Moscow Ballet tour.; Dreiser merely . loaned his name. .:.-,-ActorI^j3[lnrier.-Club celehratedillts third anniversary last Thursday ($). Originally intended tem pbrary relief. London. dispatches tout Lulu Cranston as the first woman clown First woman clown stepped on to sawdust half a century agb; :. Dannbri' Runyon and Howard Lindsay to Miami to see if thfey ;cari turn out a comedy. Racing back ground, but not a racing story Courtney Burr wants it. Marc Connelly, Richard Rbdgers and Lbrehz Hart, Berriiiida' bound and thinking hard. ; Francis Carpenter expects to bring In his all-Negro. 'Romeo :And Juliet' around. the New Year, Estate of the late A. L. Erlanger emen t of >26.215: which gives a credit of $1,709. Oh the 1910 return; \ ; Hey wood Broiiri pulls hli-News paper Guild out of the NRA hear. Irig, charging the newspapers have the NRA 'terrified Brooklyn police raid a stag show of indecent pictures and some 306 men spend the night in th(6 station house in default of $500 ball. :Elght held for triar as being the principals Arnaud & - Connors, who did 'Roman Servant,' to try a riliisical /Coast to Coast' Early production Gladys Georgie, of. 'Personal Ap pearance,' served with divorce pa pers by her husband, Edwaird Fow- ler. Explains that the man Fowler saw leaving her apartment at 2 a. m was helping: her tr^t a sick cat 'Prince' Mike Romanoff out of 'Say W nen' cast Monaay. ; uittle m4tt^r' of some $300. worth; of boiincihg chiecks he; wrote five yearsi. ago Grabbed on a body; execution Bailed out. , Lillian Gish will have the leading role- in^a-pantomlme-written-to-ac company Bach's Christmas oratorio -Will be given-late evenlng^perforrii ance'Dee," 24. Opera at ihe Hippodrome ended Sunday, night (9).: ; Charles Creamer, of the Rbyal ticket agency, attacked In the vesti- bule at his home Monday (3). Ren- dered'almost unconscious but. not robbetd, though he was carrying sev- eral thousand dollars.. , • , ^'We-stchester; -w^ that-the boys and;girls are getting tanked on beer sold them at Play^ land, civic playground. : .Gpeji through tho winter for Ice rlrilt;- . Oilcn McNaughton and . Johrj} Carne.i'on . now .own 'Marie Baumer'3 "Ci'ep.iih)?:;Fire.' :. - ■ ; '.^ .o.: ..iulia Moone.^'. .with N;T.G.. revue,, tells (h.'it;: h(?v hu.sb.'iiKl, -Bernard GlltilcV giLVc! .Ivor out-, last.- wefc'l,-S0_ she'll go; to ■ Rono ;whon .she gets time. : Giick was sec, to the : late Arnold Rbthstein. RKO staging a Uttlei tliteatre tournament on the Albee,. Brooklyn. One-acter every Monday .nlght. ; .Vera Brodsky, plaiiis^ 111 . with pneumonia. Ina Claire hoarsed up at Prince- ton tryout: of 'Ode "to -Liberty* Saturday (8). Announced play was called oft but that all were, wel- come, to attend a public reheia^rsal gratis, Only .bout $100 returned. Now alleged an actress "beautiful and welUknown' is Wanted by the police for harboring Dujtch Srhultz. Possibility that ^Little Old Boy' will be revived this season.: Two ariglliig; for it. - Courtney Burr, passes 'Saratoga. Chip* and Jack Curtis a,nd Carlton Hpagland pick it up. Sing Sing hbliday reviie loses its star' actor. . Board of Parole turned him loose. ; ; v Miirrftv Kazan- alleged heald Of the song sheet racket, will probably go to trlial in Brooklyn this week insteald of in January/ : To permit Rcilph Lbsee to testify before he re- ceives, his own sentence.: ; ' Lpssee wasi pinched in Jamaica for selling the; sheets arid has. been convicted. Howard Sargent stage hand of the Regent theatre, Elizabeth, N; J., killed by an auto Dec. 9. William C. McNavightQn^ mariager of the Hempstead theatre, his wife arid their child, folind dead; of gas polsonirig. in their home Saturday afterrioon (8). Believed to have been an accident. . Moss iilart and Cole Porter , to do a rhlusical for Sam H. Harris. Later Hart will do anbther wlth Irving Berlin, but for the moment it's Morocco and Porter^ 'Cardiff Glanti'; recently revived for showing In Syracuse, N. T;, will be .taken oh a tour of the country, EQUity perritits two weeks': layoff of 'Revenge with Music' to permit Cha:s. Winninger's, .broken foot to mend.- -He^dld the latter part of-ifist week on crutcheEi. :, Harty Thaw gets In the news again when. Valentla Lador of N. Y sues him in Harrisonburg, Va.,, for airg ea' tha t. h e beat h er in Berliri during summer of 1933, Married midgets on a sideshow In Macon, Oa., in a scrap because the wife objected to dlsposltlbn made by the husband of some pres- ents.-^T^everalr-nbrmalrslzed-persons tried to Interfere, but It took the .700-pouhd fat boy to put on the brakes.. Coliseum, on Washington Heights held up Friday night (7). Two bandits got $160 from the cashier; Made their getaway* ■ .; State Federatlbh of Laborr; an' nounces It is going to; ask Albany for Sfunday shows when legislature convenes, Morris Rosenstelri announces that about half the ticket specs will not apply for Code licenses. Feel they are gypped in ticket distribution Iritimates their : revelations could flop entire legit code, Crosby Gialge picks "Touch Wood' for his third. It's by G. L. An from a recurrent attack bf pneii-; mpnla, first contracted; in Paris. Father of Harold Lloyd seriously lU. of Influenza at Palm Springs. ,.• Blazing drop backstage at L.- A. Parambunt' theatre extinguished without capacity house beinisr aware bf 'danger,.-: ■: Wendy:. Barrle, Enjgllsh actress, dented In Santa Barbara that her engagement to Woolwbrth Donahue had been broken. : Harold Bowes, \28, Studio prop- ertyman,- - instantly .killed near Bakersflield when his car collided with a truck. ; Santa. Monica beach home of Biebe, Daniels and Beii Lyon looted of silverware. EHssa Landl will UgHt miscon- duct charges contained in divorce ^ul«: filed in London by John Cecil Lawrence, Erigllsh barrister. Allowance of $1,000 a month And $2,600 attorney feeis is asked by Virginia CherrlU Iri her suit for sep- arate maintenance, filed in L. A. agatrist-^-eary-^-Gra rit. ' Obmplalnt Rahney Productions to offer Im- moral Support,'a comedy. Eve LeGalllenne will lay her Civic Rep off week before Xmas and re sume Dec; 24 with 'L'Algloh.' Henry Kornblum,; 39^ resUtor and well known , among show- people, shot himself: to death in his office Friday (7), Money troubles. He recently married Lily Aridrus CMIss America,' 1929). John Ringling divorce case niakes its third .trip to Florida supreme court, this-tlriie on' motion 6f Mrs Ringling tb' strike, but cruelty and other charges. 'The Dilunkard' finally out of the Amei:ican Music -Hall, N. T. To be replaced by 'Murder In the Old Red House.' ' y. ' .■' Jean Muli- paid $5 fine and dam Jigea to„car_g.he crashed intojn L._A, - Suit, for $i3,126 .filed in . L. A, ,agairi.st Franlc. Sebastian, riight club rpwnerrby-Miw-Packor^Tdancer,"^^^ claims her toenail . was ripped oft by an obstruction on floor, . Margaret Perry, legit: abtress, in Reno to dlvbrde ; Winsor Brown French,. Cleyelarid columnis.t,: der dares she will riiarry Bobby Bums, film actor. After a married life of 34 years both Edgar Rice Burroughs, au thor and creator of 'Tarzan,' and his wife are pla.nnlrig divorce BiuToughs hasi talferi up residence in Nevada. .; Coroner's jury in L. . A. blamed both drivers for the auto accident which caused the death of Abraham F. Frainkensteln, for many years leader of the Orphoum theatre or .pUcstra.: Thelma Cortez Alley, flirit. actress, dismissed, blit. player" must servS manslaughter sentence for death ot James Redmond, radio techniclaa. in auto smash. L. A. grand Jury .drops renewed quiz Into death of Jerry Jarnegln. called. suicide by . fh« coroner's panel. ,. .; . Arthur Grler, musician and brother of the band leader, ordered by L. A, court to pay his wife temporary alU mony of |20 a week, pending dlvore* ti-iai. ■ ■:■ I ■ .- • •-. Marilyn Miller ordered by l; A. " court to pay $16,000 to a fisherman who was struck. by her ' cair and severely Injured. • maintains that she Is without funds. First • ■ attack on the will of • the late Doi^ Lee, radio chain owner of Los Angeles who left an estate of : 12,000,000, rinade by his third wife, Mrs.. Geraldlne May Lee. Latter filed suit for a widow's allowance of $2,600 a month. Norman Kerry" ordered by L. A court to pay forriier wife $2,Q16, amount of a Hen removed at the actor's demand from the estate of his grandfather In N.. Y. Suit by Mary Plckfbrd for the re covery of $26,000 real estate. lrivest ment taken under advisement by .L. A. Jurist. ■■:■. ',■.■.;■-..■■.' ■•• Court fight over custody of rilne year-old sOn of . Dohald^ .Nieman, Pittsburgh broker, and Irene Kent, actress, postponed. Patent infringement suit filed in L. A. by RCA, AT&T and General Electric against five local radio manufacturers; - Alienation suit for $126,000 filed In L. A. by Charles Jordan, husband of- Neoma - Judge, -film, .actress, against Alfred Baxter, Frisco lum- ber exec. Attorney for Jean Harlow .draw- Irig. up ^ divor ce cbmplalrit against Uai Roa&on, cara.erumun: Greta Garbo to start on 'Anna Karenlna' (Metro), Feb. 10,.. spiking reports that she'would sail around the first of the year for Stockholm Aversion to gambling by Mexico's -ney^t*resldent,^-Lazardo—Cardenas, may. result in closing of casinos at Agua Caliente. Complete custody of her five year-old daughter will be sought in the courts by Ann Harding. Agree ment made at. time of divorce was that her: ex-husband, Harry Bannls; ter, have the child two months in the year. Cross-complaint to divorce action of Gatty Jbries, former stage dancer, in.L. A. links name of Betty Comp son. .: .J.: Plea of Jan Rublnl, violinist, for a reduction of the $160 monthly payment for support of his two chll dren, wins him a $25 cut. Robert Van Horn Work, soh of the:former secretary of the interior, arid Lucie Hopkin s , secretar; Radio studio, married in Los An- geles. '■■ Milton Rogers, manager, of the Mlrrcr theatre, Hollywood, suffered bruises when kribcked dbwri by an auto. ■ Slight injuries sustained by Pa- tricia' Reginalds, bf state relief drama department, when the car in which she was riding figured in col llslon. For failure to make alimony pay ments,- Carey Harrisori--de-. Rlppe teau, film player, sentenced to five days in the county jail. Williarii ■ Thornton, Shakespearean actor, kribcked frorii the stage of the Belasco theatre, L. A., to the pit when. a flood lamp dropped and struck him on the head. Escaped with a ocalp wound Despondeixcy over the death Wlllard Mack, to whom he was sec retary, caused Edgar Mathews, to attempt suicide in L. A. by slashing his wrists. He will, recover. ^:F,ce4_D;elin^!,l-:„cJrc}is_^p>rf.oriner, suffered painful injuries when he landed on his face in a loop t he lo op on'-skoles-af^a-dance pavilllonr Verdict of suicide while tempor- arily Insane due to intoxication was returned last week by corner's Jury Investigating death of Mrs. Nellls Walker Ablln, Chicago •' showgirl, who leaped to death frpni hotel. Judge in Chicago last week denied motion for new trial In the personal injury suit brought by Mrs. Dor- othy Lambert, concert singer, who was:: awarded damages ot $36,000 from the New York Central rail- road. New trial motion was mads for the railroad. :-. Mayor-Edward Kelly last week ■Iblnprt nrlth hiia lncsB and prftfPH. slonal leaders In appealing for "^up- port of the Chicago Civic Opera. . Film Strike Breti)^ of Ethel Shattuck, vaude, recovering from a major operation in Glcndalb, Cal ' Homer J. Carr, 76, veteran news- paperriian and one-time president of the Chicago Press Club, died Nov. 30 in Los Angeles. ; ' Roslta : Erena du'Rand, Basque dancer, tkken to Hollywood hospital when she sprained her ankle while appearing at the Biltmore Bowl. ' Frank J. Lynch, 60, istudib ma- chinist at Metro, died Nov. 28. Police Protective Association of L. A; under grand' Jury investigation following complaint of Hugh' Wal- pole. He paid $100 for .an hbnoray riieriibership arid later: demarided jre- J.tUrri of the. money. (Continued from page 3) roundabout way of the producers to halt A: F. L. afniiatlori, trhich will follow the granting of the AAAA . charter. No Dice Oh Closed :8hop. Upshot of Rosenblattis week hers ; was that :the Guilds refused to go any further with the, discussions ; Unless the parleys were understood to be on a basis! assuring closed shop, In other words , recognition that the Guild wais the complete - representative body for actors. Pro- ducers, refused to accept this arbU trary stand arid Rosenblatt Wlt.h« drew.:.; ' : ' ;7,; "''' ' .' Producers held to*the vlewpbint that - In future negotiations they have a rlight to deal with any and. alL-bodies-and^would^e^ht-^ny or- ganization that sought to be ac- knowledged as the one representa- tlve group. Industry looks for crystalizattoa jt>|JJS>ft_a)tcl-ke Jhrieat^ On that date the Academy basle studio agreemieriti on whlbh the cur- rently used standard form of con- tracts are based, expires. These contracts carry: 'no strike' clauses. ■' A'- .;: ■ ; ... :;' \ MARRIAGES ■■V:':^.:v Lorena Layson to Danny Danker, in Las Vegas, Nov., Dec. 6. Bride is a film actress, -groorii is adver-- "tislng"'man' wlth-Lux"Boap "on studio ~- tieups. Evalyn Laye to Frank Lawton at YumE^ Ariz., Dec; 7. Bride is a fllin actress. Groom is an English ttctor. nny— FuIIoft— dancer, to Boyd— Rutan, In-New York, Dec. 7. ■ Groom is an executive with General Mo- tors. ■ . :• '■ ■ EVelyn Venable to Hal Mohr at" Yuma, Ariz., Dec. .7. . Bride is a ■ Paramount contract player. Groom is: camei'aman at Fox. Gloria Garcia, non-pro, of Balti- more, to Stanley Shaw, announcer on WNEW, New York, Nov. 30, at St. Stephen's church in New York City. - •. . . > . •■■ Rosalie C^astner to Earl Rettlg, In Tla Juana, Dec; 2. Groom is unit manager for Jesse Lasky; produc- tions. ' -;■' Martha Mears to Sidney Brokaw, in Larchmont, N. Y„ about six; weeks ligo. Bride Is a radio Blnger« groom' with Ozzle Nelson's orch. ; : Llla Lee to John R. Pine, In Har- rison, N. Y.; Dec. 6; Groom Is hon« pro. - '■ : ■ ■■■. ■ :; Lycille -.Walker ..t.o__WlUiarii Mcr .. Adob, in Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 7. Bride is a..Fox . chorus girl.: Grobm, IKIrd" cousin of'Wlliram 'Qlbbs "MoS" Adop, is nori-prp, . Mrs. .Louis B; Mayer recovering' Damage suit (tf '$76,000 against BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Nat . Lefkowltz;: daughter. In New York, Dec. 2, their first. Father Is business accounts manager of the William Morris Agency._ :. '- Mr. and Mrs. Bill Briscoe,: daugh- ter. In Chicago, Nov. 27. Fa;ther is- assistant manager of Oriental, Chl- .cago. .- :rv}'i.-:- ; Wr. and Mrs. Jules Alberti, son. In Chicago, Deo. 1. Father is band leadeir with Columbia Artists* Bu-