Variety (Dec 1934)

Tuesday* December 18, 1934 N US1 € IT E CLUB S VARIETV 47 ,.' Ruth Ettino Two fllirtUBlcal ditties fh.Mlso Et- ting's usually expert lyric Interpre- tation getting plenty, even out ot an essentially dftnce tune such as .'Needle In a Haystack' from 'Gay Divorcee/ 'Stay As Sweet As Tou Are' from .'College BhythmV Is more in the ballad category arid toetter at- tuned to the songstress': rich so- prahOv Coluhibla 2979. Kate Smith 'Stdy As Sweet'- dgajn^ thla tinie 'under the. Kate Smith treatriient, coupled with 'I'm Gr6\vlhg Foiider 'of You 'aOconipanled by her Swanee .music. In like imanner, 'When My Ship Gomes In' from 'Kid Millions': and" 'The . Contlnehto;l' : from 'Di- vorcee,' morO filmuslcal hits,' latter •furthci' fortlfifed by the. Ambassador Trio as vocal backcround. Decca ■■2r6-8;;.- : ^^'^/ --^ ;"GiiBrtrude.'Nioseh.. Miss Nleseri : is, also partial' to '•0Ontlnental,' doing it,more spirited and moia^rnfe, ■ hacked up the drn- inatlc 'Bo Still, My;Heart!', martial ballad, hovelly brchostrated and Ih- terprotcd on. Columbia 2972. A nifty sweet brasis Is the vdccbmp,. staiid- :iout. GeralddV Gauchoa\^^..V ■: ' Pip tangos iriaiii. abroad and lumbla 2983-released On this .side. Geraido and;, his GauchO Tango or- chestra do tricks with Sarohy-Raf- "^ffelli'H''Ma'dbnTMrMlm^ff-clHch :fb^ International hltdom. The already popular foxtrot, getting to be aa y.k. , in America as: abroad. 'Isle of Ciprr (Grosz-Keniiedy) is -doriei in tango afrahgemcnt on the reverse. Both with vocals, and very nlcesj top.. ^ IryiOB / Aarpnson Aaronson and his Commanders are iiiarklng a fast comeback both on the air, vriox and in person; and cement' their, riice impressiOh; with .'Let's Be Thahtful,J ohe .Of the be.t- . ter. foxtrot ballads, and 'In An ;Old Log Cabin,', one of those corny num- bers that usually emerges ecoribinlc- ally successful; despite all other Broadway captiOusness. Dick Dixon and Sklppy Caristrom assist In the vocal interpretations to - fortify a brace of smooth foxes 'oh Colum- bia 298i. • Another riice AarOhSori couplet 0" ' No. 2980 ■ is 'Me With- out. Youi' .Roblh-Gcnsler's number from 'One Hour Late,' "and Tllrta tloh Walk' from, the film of that Tiariie. Dlxori and Louis Still are assisting vocalists.. , AjitLd%rJii9 :^i^m»:^iXh Or<t Nonsense waltzes by this radio ; team backed by their Dixieland or- chestra. 'The .Anlmal Trainer' Is of —'Flying .Trapeze' -pattei'nrai-ls-'No ^- No! A Thousand Times! NO.!' an other. . hoke -waltz: in the 1934 spoofery manner which the vocalists and: their aggregation get acrosis nicely on Victor 24,804. Paul Penfdaryis .- Frdrii Chi comes this very dahceable- Gombo on Columbia 2973-4. The four selectlohB: (two disks) consti- tute a good sample of their brand "^f terp muslJST^THerpljjrcr-of-My . AlTejctlOn' : laJlmmle ; Grier's _ CoasL hit backed by 'Mississippi Honey moon,' from 'Gay Bride,' Eddlb -S cope and P atricia Norman, eimr- Ing the vocals. .'A Little Angel Told Me SoV (CoslOw) Is another picture song backed by 'I've Got An Invita- : lion _ to ia:..Parice,'v. novelty by. that -eohgfwrlting-novelty t h r. e e s o m e, Symos-Nelburg-Levinson. All done : in ultra manner. > ; : :■, Otta-wa, Dec. I7> Once upon "a time when Quebec was wet and D'nta.rio was dry, the' hoyia in Ottawa used to troop across the river to Hull to the Quebec side for liquid .inspiration. The tavcrhs, and clubs around Iliilli with their floor shows and: vjaudevllle,: enjoyed hdayy- patronage from the: Canadian. GapItal..v.V Last August Ontario Syent as ,wet as Quebec had ever been, and how the .shoe Is oh tire other foot, partic- uiarly as :t result of an order from the IQuebiec Liquor "Commissi that all floors showiS /a night club eh- tertainiri.ent wlh. be .tabbo^^arbTihd Hull and in other Quebec centei-.H tifter December 22.. ; It^s. a tough blow for thd night clubs across; the river with Ottawa establishments how ruhriin^.; in^ full sNVlng; Hull clubs were presenting real attractions, Further acts] are being cancelled. " ' B.B.B. M C'ing Jacobs ^^^^ to r Jacobs Family, . which runs Al- aniac; hotel at Lake Hbpatcong, -N.-J,i-ls^pening- a slhtilarly—named l}.bstelry at Miami Beach. . 1. B.B.Bi lis going in a:s m.c., with d smair dance coriibbi ' Suiiig Si$8le V ^ , - ; Clncinhatl, Dec. 17. Suit for 112,500 .damage against Noble Sissle wis filed in GOmmori Pleas Court last week; wliille Sissle's brk was piaylhg at Greystohe ball- room, by Ohah L; Speneer, local res- ident. He alleges he is the atithpr and copyright holder Of 'The Rb mantle Evolution of Jazz,', tvhich, he charges, sissle and others produccid as.a pageant In Chicago leu3t August. . Spencer claims that last June he and Sissle entered into a contract to collaborate on a hew play,. 'Oh, Sing a New J Song' which, .he coniefids, Jnrab presented in large part by Sissle and others in the Windy City. ■Nother Cafe-Theatre Little Picfhi-e HOuse on Edst 50th street. New York, recently . shu tered, becomes one oi: those cabaret- "theatresTin January.- , Operators .will be Nick Prpunlsi former owner of the Simplon club, and Arnold Rossfleld, long associ- ated with Barney Gallant's Green wich . Village niterles. Whites : for Harlem Opening pf Harlem Moon, new -dlmier—dance: spbt in WeBtr-l'251:lr streetjL . ..New - JYorkj, . by ■ William McAvoy, is scheduled for Dec. 22, with a no cover, ho minimum Film's Cobny Chb^ra^^ Prowl for $100 Payees A.Hollywood, Dec. 17. Colony Club; hangout fox'the pic- ture, mob, is; eplng private with^ memberships Belling at |100 Initia- tiOh pluis a monthly fee. r Attempt is h>ade to Vget members from out- side the picture business. .' Also understood that if the Colony is. successful as a private, club, Dunes, Palm Springs, same opera- tion, will do likewise,: Crawl Wihher Socfcs i Manager Oyer Na C^ ; bubufluei la., Dec. 17. ■. Ralph Kemp, BOtpe dancer accord-; Ing to his own 'admissipn, irOt lated iriasquei-ade prize; 10 days in the county Jail, after Iiavlhg ciea,ni.ed up ion a night dance spot mahdger when the, latter f^iJled to award prizes as advertised In a frollb' night billing. Kemp and ; a; girl frIOnd spent plenty bh masque costumes, niade the dajibe and waited expectantly for: the pirize. No prize, there, was a JTurnpus, ■ the .Bnanager disappear- ing. Kemjp 'met up with him on the street the next day. L A. Is Iowa wnere rate lires . New Orleans, Dec. 17. : Club tJhibase^^^^ pronto. Former Suburba.h Gardens, terraced and primped by an expenditure of $18,b00, just, coiildnlt stand up such a loner way out. . . .> Place has started and stopped so ofteii.it has coriie to,be an open and shut proposition. " A : 'pniiikwd^^ South 'The Drunkard' Is going to Flori- da.' Same troupe that performed the old mieller In an old East Side church, Is Abooked for 12 weeks at ^he Coliseum, Miami beach. Same night club policy with the beef is to,-:be followed.; Max Hart arrahged the yacatlOii booking. . Oscard at C%i Paree ^ ; V Chicago, Dec. 17. ; Paul Oscard brought back to town tb"7"prbiaiarce~ rthe~ Chez- Pdree. - ' V ■ ' bscard is Just back from Europe. Had. previpusly been iiiTXhicaeo as production man for Balaban & Katz.' One More Spcjlalite - Kitty Jdrvis, j^unlpr LeagueiTj now at the Surf Club, New York, Is another in the cycle of socialite wa.rblers doing their bit for the couyer-t:-charges. -—^ - - Frank Farirel band alhd Riley and Cbnifort cpmprlsb the regular en- tertainment. , (FauHh of d aeries on n«e W/e in; the principal cities of the V. 8.) Los Angeles Diec. 17^ . It's the riutSk ' Los Angeles does not knowwvhat night life is. Town is strictly Iowa or any. 6pot In the sticks. ■ ■■■■ They still do not know that pro- hibition Is over. Hit the night spots with their own hootch. ' That goeis for some Of the picture mob, too.. Town boasts of nothirtgr, smarts But with the sophisticated , air of the ultra-social and the boresomeness that the pic mob get put of the night spots—rlt'is Just too bad. ' . . Appears/.thdt theLlocals are strict ly bridge, mah jbrig, penny, gariibllhg and ■ preview minded, and want ' to haul in the side'Walks before the clock hits the midnlte; point, ^ Though thb tbyirn, which has an uhdeflhed: radius, so far: as Us bOuhdarl^s a,re cOncerne^, and a popuiatiph of plenty of consequence, as well as celebrities by itbns and tbns, there seems to be little of the mlxihg qualities^ so far ds the locals are ^concerned, to rub arms or shoul-. ders with the celebs wheh it conies to spending their own coin. . They just let the pic mOb enjoy themselves unmolested, in their BOf^ called fay 6pots, which shift as often asi 'the tempbrament of an opera priina dohna. Qocasiohally the tour- .IstS: horn iri here or. there, but kind of gb away disgusted, -because ho one 7 pays' any attentioh to ■ them,' evieh though they have spent a good chunk of coin. In -the hotel division tops is di- vided between. the Coconut Grovb at the Ambassador : hotel and tbe Blltmore Bowl, which Baron Longr transformed into a public fendez vous from a ballroom at the Bilt more hotel. . ] Grove Still Aces ' Grove, which. has world-wide, rep starting from the time of Its open- ing 12 years ago, when the pic stars were thick. Is always on hand with a topnotch musical aggregatlbn.! Cur- rently "Ted FloRlta and his boys are holding forth, .with Velez and Yo landa giving the floor smartness with their dance routine. Trade here has been fairly good, with top being hit as a rule Friday and Sat urday nights. Friday the college kids hold fbrth with their antics and gin bottles, and Saturday the boy who has his one night a week spend ing mohey takes the gal friend to give her a taste of luxury. The old Tuesdays nights, known ds 'star' night,' , seem to have dwln- Aieed_away..;bjit_stlU ;draw; a. fe.w.^of the personalities who generally drop in after the fights. There's a ll tap week nights, excepting Tuesday and Saturday,. when it is- a case - And. a- half. Blltmore Bowl, operating less thah a year, got off to a bad start, due tb a poor selection of music, but when lit switched to Jimmy Grier and his outfit, with an aggrregation of unim- portant vaude talent V for a floor show,, things begah. to perk up. Sbr ciety from Pasadena gives it a play, as well as all the transients, as place campaigns heavy on a (1.60 dinner,-even-thoijgh-there^ls-ah-ex- tra buck tap for eouvert nightly except Saturday, when it Is abed up four bits. -Be vWi l Uii re D jfneJ giving the customers a fair shake for their coin; When It comes to smartness Clo- ver cliib seems to be the outistandr ing spot of the town. Seats little over 200, has a glass dahce floor and a smart musical aggregation of 10 men headed by. Maurice ; Menge. Also has 75-foot bar which is the class of the town dnd gets a heavy . nightly play, mostly by the pic mob. ■■ Currently for entertainment Clover has Nan Blackstone, froni the east, with; her brisk and, snippy song routine. Also hds a chantress, Linda Lee, who boos through the mike as the- customers get terpsichoreally Iriclihed. —. ■'.■ ■': •.-.;■ ,■ Eastern Chef a Factor Main attraction here is: a $2.50 dinner put on by Geprge Le Mdze, ; also an eastern importation, •which. is ascribed as. the best food in town. Charge for dining room is $1 eouvert,; with spirituous refresh- ments medium priced, • ; . Also in the club line is the Troca- . dero, recently opened, which tried a Tiffany sqalb for food and liquors,: . but gradually cut to compete with the Clover; This place depend s mostly on pic executives for Its play, as others still figure food tap . kind of hard to digest from the check angle;. Place seats around 200 and has Phil Ohman for the - miislc, picking up now and theh a local dance attractlbhk With enter- tainment policy al'ways up in the alt-. ■■■.■■■■:. ■■■.■■/.■".VI- ■. ■ : ■ ; El RaVi one of the former speaks, is still doing fair trade, with Gene Austin, with Candy and Coco providing the impromptu ■ enters , tainment. • Gets most of Its play after " midnlte. ' Same ; goes for Kings club, another former speak, where Tommy Lyman holds forth with his chanting of numbers which mothers do not want the kiddles to listen to. These places are dependent most- ly on the walk-In-ahd-out drink customers. . Outside of here in the downtown area Is the Paris Inn, , whbre Bert Rovere and-his enter- taining waiters provide a lot o£^ operatic melody between courses. Place Is. popular with the crowd .who want a bottle of vino tossed In with a $1 or $1.60 meal and want to stick around all night on the meal charge. This place gets .a, good ' deal of Its trade' from air listeners, as it hits the. ether twice dally for half-hour periods. Cafe de Paree, in the West Lake region. Is also catering to a similar class of trade, lisihg a pickup band and ■"cb"<mi?iMg^'^ts^irteitalhers '"a3 does a small-time vdude house. Customers, here are mostly nightly repeats, j. TAnbther place but Hollywood way~ caterlnjg tb the small spenders Is the Pacific Sunset club, which has a dance orchestra with a. regular 'professor'; ' a mistress : bf' cere- monies, Dorothy Woodward, quite V pert and smart > cracking; a fan dancer' who heats the atnipsphere and an Interchange of other acts as well as the usual mixed dahce team. Here trade is very consistent, with mos t of the ■ customers knowing each 'other and' a "trahelbnt visitor a novelty. :...■.;:. Then There Are Others Therft arft >l flock of oth er places : Everett Marshall This musical comedy bdritohe has gone somewhat into the depths to dig up tunes suited to his .resonant vocal delivery. From 'As Thousands Cheer' he has dug up a more or less Incidental Irving Berlin ballad, 'Lonely Heart' and given It unusual distinction and vocal eclat. It's on a 12-Inch Decca disk with full or chestra accomp and Jack Jenney .featured for hjs unique trombone policy. ■■ Moon will present an all white show, an Innovation In this district Saxie Holtzworth is producing the show—whlch^vHl-.lhcTude Pay^icrcer Ike Forbes, Jean Castle, Ted and Cathierlne 'Andrews, Hardiman, Cas tie and Porter (Three Melody Boys) and Don Zito orchestra. GEOEE IN CHI Chicago, Dec. 17, the Silver Forest cdfe at the Drake hotel Dec. 29 for ah Indef stay. The first appearance in Chi fbr the Grofe orchestra. Boio, ana deservedly so. Keverse is from the short-lived 1934 'Black- birds' edition, titled 'Let Me Be Born Again.' The Cavaliers vocal quartet backs up Marshall in this.' Decca No. 16002 Valley Clut Reopens - - ; ■• -Hollywpod, Dec. 17. ■ Dark for several months. Club Airport, in the San Fernando val ley. reopens Dec. 20 as the Club Continental; '■:'■;■■■';■; .•.:■'■■;, Frnnkte , Masters band—^placed—In- TOWN CA^O BAHEBUPT John Prete's Town Casino Club, Inc., has been petitioned Into in- voluntary bankruptcy by trades- man-creditors. ■ , ■ ■•■ This is a class nltery at 9 West 52d street. New York, i '■ .. Beverly Wilshire, which for some reason or other hap miffed, so far as popularity is concerned, gets a Sun- day trade, as the other two spots have~no-danclne-and-'that-^iostelry is in another municipality. Place, however, seems to be laid out wrong —too posty—and folks just do not seem at all thrilled after an evening there. At present it has bne of the best dance aggregations playing, in tbwn, headed by Orville Knapp. It's Just a spot that seems to' keep It.self in the doldrums and no one aggres- sive enbugh to realize that the mu- sical bunch should be exploited. That's about all the town has tb offer in the hotel line for night en- tertalnmerit. Of course, Blltmore and Ambassador go In for the cock- -tati-mate-and get the eis amt-nrtft— of this BOTt, such as Sherry's, where Gene Morgdn is ni.c. and leader of a dahce aggregation. Place gets an average of 76c. a customer, who Is given two to' thriee hours' entertain- ment and dancing for this .amount, as people .who hit this spot are generally of. the early >tb bed type. Then, In Hollywood, couple of the sandwich eating spots having the singihg and 'entertaining waiters who give the crowd food, and en-, tertainment for four . bitsj. PririCi- pally along these lines are Bob Per-- ry's and the Three Little' Plgs, which has Lou Singer's dance or- chestra and a girlie floor show, also the Hollywood Stable, which does four floor shows a night and forgets all about eouvert, no mdtter. how little a customer spends or how long ^pot. Music Notes " Roy Fox Fox Is one of several American Jazz beaus who had to go to LOn don to make gOod. With his band Pox is quite a West End fave and shows how on Decca 176 with the foxtrot transcription of the nielodLc 'Dreamy Serenade,' credited to Carr- Grahlund'-Iida. . Backer-Upper Is 'Swaller Tall Coat,' a novelty quick step by Miller. Danny Dennis does the vocal honors and Fox registers, in toto with the terps. " Red Norvo ■ Red Norvo and his Swing Septet .will sell big in the campus belt un- doubtedly. It's nifty synco in the 1935 manner, reviving 'I Surrender, Dear', and 'Tomboy', with which Norvo and his henchmen do iazz tricks oo Columbia 297Z. - ^ CLUB IN A BABBEL . A new' night spot. Barrel of Fun, a,dds New York'jS fast increasing list Saturday (22); with a floor show including Henry Youngmah, m.c., Lewis and Dody, Andy's Aces, an eight-piece colored orchestra and a line.of 15. Place is so constructed that peo pie will have to walk through a huge barrel to enter the club. Dick Fiddler's Orchestra will opeh an Indefinite engagement a.t the Hotel Syracuse Dec. 14. Band comes frpm Columbus, O., and will broadcast frOm WSYR. • Mort Dixon and Allie Wrubel number, 'Mister and Missus Is the Name,' highlighted In Warners 'Flir- tation Walk,' Is the title of a Merry Melody technicolor short by Leon Schlesinger» . AABONSON AT TBIANON i Chicago; Dec. 17. Irving Aaronsoh band , cbmcs to Andrew Karzas' Trianon ballroom Dec. 21. for a 10-day stay. Arrives to substitute for Jan Gar- bcr band while it ihcads for a.short tour. Garber will ; bb back at, the Trianon In time for. New Yeaf'p •y«. . Abe Lymah band opens tomor- row (Wednesday) at the Paradise, N. Y,, on the second anniversary of the''original premiere of the nitcry. . . ■■■.;..■.• :' ■.' Jacques Lube with a Meyer Davis unit opens Dec. 23 at. the Princess botH Bermoda, tronly trade, 'which is.so-so. . . Another, element to contend with is the bid California law which pro- vided that hard liquors could not be served in eating hou.sos. It was kicked over at the last election. Lot: of: the: spots have been serving the ■ hard without mblestation, even though the boys in Sacramento have not taken the lid off yet by okaying the vote of the citizenry officially. ; ,.■■;■•..■.■.-■■. At 35c a Drench This may be given as a rea,soh for the locals who hit the speaks to keep ph going to these spots which' serve anything, with white or col- ored water appearance, as hard stuff for ah average of • 25c. to 35c. a drench. Also d lot of these speaks have lingered on with cheap: trade', where a cover charge stares no one in the face. They have, as a rulei about four to six nieri in an orches- tra, couple of hostesses and a few girl entertainers, a fan dancer and, oC.'course, the usual adagio, team. Trade is always oke for those spots, some being on the clip and others he stays. • :■• ■ Couple of the dance halls have also gone in for fioor shows and dramatics. One of thehi is the Palo- . mar, which has a dance floor han- dling about 3,000 and Nick StUart, former pic dctor, leading the or- chestra. This spot picks up vaude acts and gets most of its play frohi the 'necker'. bunch and college kids. Then Solomon's Penny - a - Dance spot, which now is called the Bow- ery, has gone ultra for the sailor, trade, which is its mainstay, charg- ing 40c. for melo, a floor show and all thb dancing the customer can" digest. ■ ■ ';■'•'■.;''■'■ .. ; Gut Culver City way the Sebas- tian Cotton club isi'the big thing. Place is circused with, a' llo.ck: of entertalnmont, white and . colo.rcd, and going on all the time in two dirt'crerit .rbom.s,. with ttie entei-taln- crs sogrbgatcd. ; Place always has a hot band and gets a heavy week- end ti'aclc; especially Sunday, ac- count, of dancing. Bands are not featured here, as they change too frequently. . ■■■:; , .' .