Variety (Dec 1934)

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Tuesday, Pecember 18, 1934- t I M E S > l| n^ A - ■>< ■ • VARiEtr S9 East PoMpe raided top floor of 19 W. filet ptreet last week (12) arreatlng three men. Found 600.000. ticket? to a fake Canadian Bweepstakes. Pie- ure that about 2,600,000 tickets have 'been planted through the country at jl a copy. " : Jacqueline Logan takes ' bank-: ruptey dip in N. Y. Owes |i4,461. No assets. Most ot the sum rfepre- aents Income tax here arid In Great •Brltaln..\-;;-;-^--,\ ■ •■ ,;' Walter • Hampden to play at $2 top for hla N. Y.. engagement. Philharmonic-Metropolitan- deal oft when Toscianlnl thumbs down the idea as helpful to neither side. Arthur M/ Loew sued In N. Y. ■upreme Vjourt by Collette Francois, of Paris, who alleges he promised In 1929 to marry her. Suit adjourned to the April terni sinc|» the de- :;fendantL la..abrci!ad.:._ . . W. A. Brady, sets Christmas, night for the ipremiere ot Tools Rush In' at the Playhouse. Internal Revenue baa men In Canada trytrig to approximate amount 6f liquor smuggled in from Canada during prohibition; Will seek a ^ff,iO slap oh each gallon. Figures to get $5,^0,000. ; ^Harvard University, tosses ale and beer out. of commohs. Not, enough, de^nand to. pay the license fees.- 'Brlght;;star' backed up.until after the holidays.: Miad been down lor tomorrow (Wednesday). Alex. Basy .announces be will send 29 vaudeville , people to ' Russia shdrtly. Under cpntract to the So- viet for three, to jsix: month?. Mostly dumb acts. ' ', License . Commissioner .Moss cracks down on the. mugga who . snap pedestrians with ; cdndld cameras along the; sidewalk.: . Been dolrief a thriving business 'svlth two fldples for two. bits. Seven held.: Bmbassy theatre,: Bayonhe, dam- aged by a Are Wednesday (12). Starteid. backstage iand niushroomed over the celling to the prbjefotlon room. Damage about $20,000.V Claire Luce back from abroad and announces :th(9 fli-st. Order of busi- ness will be ah. effort to collect some . alimony, Zoe AlkeriB in f rbm Hollywooil to ' supervise rehearsals of her, 'The Old Maid.' " License , department has nodded at~ -10,000 slot ^devices which that office holds to be within the law. But. the-lfegalrdepartmerit saya-lt-:le not. so certain.. Curtis Bok latest to fall In the Phllly syihphony row. He quits as president and director and his mother, a director, follows him out. Friday. Stokbwskl was tbld to write his own tlcketi . -; Newest drive oh. theatre mar- quees will Ihcltide other signs which arte ovet the limit. —Legit C.^AT-called--a :m0etIng-. for last Wednesday (12) and found It was a week ahead. Meetings to be held every^ other week. . So they ^^entrhoTSe UfttlPtomorroWT"'^^^ y S. J, Vincent acquires Ward More house's'Miss Quls.' S. L. Rbthafel announces lighting Idea for the Mastbaum, PhlUy. No scenery and lights In the audiences' eyes In place Qf a' curtain. Scenery by lighting, too. Betty Hamilton, British picture Actress, gets her. wardrobe back from Uncle Sam; Entered herself as an American ; citizen and her baggage; ihcliidlrig professional cos turnes, held. - -Herbert Rawllnson' one of the" Witnesses at the hearlng-of-the suit cf tlm produccra df ' K lglifr bt Hap- plness' against . Equity. Jury gave m verdict of |40,000 against Equity Red Flannel Pliayers, dosed at the Greenprlch Village Music Hall on account ' bT~11censel trouble, re- open,;. Place Is'in a restricted area. I. \Nem York Theatres Weeki'G A R B O ^'PAINTED VEIL/V HsrlMrt Marshall,. 0«o. BiMt On 8t«o* fl » JEeftEL Othvt ••iilni Xmu-^-Cnuvford, Oabit and MeatHMwir In "Fenaklni All Otiieri" ; RKO THEATRES 86'»ST. ■ Wed. to Frl. Doo. 19 to ai "Beddr for Xiove" { itnd '^Oombllni" ''biTl of tK« UmtMrlos^'' •od ■ 'By. iovr liMvo" , This 4epartment cdntaim re^tvrftten^^^ as published during the vieek in the dailj) pqpm of New. York, Chicago^ San Fraticisco, HoUytvood md London. Variety <q^M no cr^edit for these neivs ilems; each has been reifiritten from a dailypaper. ^^■□■■■■■■■■■■■■■BlIlllMlHHlMlllllllH^liPllllllllIlillllllM but shown -Theatre .Gfulld ' and ProvlncetQwn Players had; been per-; thltted to show there so license was Issued on thevrepresentation that It was a' private club. Ticket buyers must now show membersh^ James Buchter, chief electrician of the Met, demohstFated new light- ing systehi Of the opera house. First important addition; to the lighting In 60.years..; ■ ■ N Commissioner Mulrooney states that 40% of the N. Y. liquor dealers are violating the laws. Chiefly in regard to advertislnif In the; win- dows and curtalrilng of 'on premises' places..''.. ■ Metro ties the N. Yi : American to a contest. : Writing captions for 'DaVId' Copperfleld' stills. One dally.. Mairla Jerltza admits that a di- vorce might be In the offing. Says she may ntarry again, and to an Amierlcan this. time. Nicholas Prounls and Arnold RbssfVeld head the corporation w hich will op e rat e a o ahare t In the Little Picture House. Nbw It's Dr. Moucowltz, of the N. Y. Leajgue of Theatres, who yips at the 'negligible- mlnbrlty' of critics who anible Into the theatre with a bun on; Spoke at the Cheese Club.', ■ • Crosby Galge retltles 'Old Love.' Now It's .'Accent on Youth.' . . Mrs. William Fox again a witness at the trltXl of Maurice Mohnler for attempted extortion. First trIflJ re- sulted In a dlsagreeihent. This re- sulted In acquittal. :. Reported.. that the Catholic drive against pics will be extended to In- clude staifepiays. Siie Hastings Will glVe her annual Chrlsltmas marionette .show this year at the Plaza theatre. Morn> ings only. Mtu'le Burke made a member of the Columbia University r Women's Club last week. Not ..sin alumha. Harry Stockwell has done a rb- mantlc; farce, 'When Roland Sings.' Will air It over WOR. If a click, it:g.ets to. the stage. ; Katharine Cornell will revive 'Barretts' Jan. 21. Dr. Moskbwitz, of Lealjgue of N. Y. Theatres, asks member managers'to slip hlni a pair for each drfess re- hearsal. Regarded aa a hint, of censorship from within. . Oattl-Casazza designates ; Desire Dufrere as stagb manager of Met prbductlons this season. He was a -baritone with:-the JHaminersteln Co., and has. also been with' the Chi. opera.. ' -'. Hostesses In a 42nd street ball- -room—bn—strike—in—protest—of—the municipal abolishment of the 'sit- ting out' practice. No longer get a chance to rest their <aogs. . . : Herbbrt James (Jimmy) Noel $,sks supreme court justice fo help him patch up his domestib affairs. His wife, Delbres Zlejgfbld Is suing for divorce. Noel, who's a bftjes singer, says It's too mdch mother Sidney Franklin, Brobklyn's only matador, has filed that threatened suit against Fbx Mbvietonb for $200^000 - alleging he was libeled Cohsented^to pbae for_the_newsree.i: d^und-tho-clips-In^aJBtay-short titled 'Throwing the Bull.' Cohteist crossword puzzles create such a drive on the libraries for un abridged word collectlbnis that the library crashes down. ■ Too tbugh.on the bobks; A. C. Blumenthal won a: legal point •yvhen court denied aisslghee of a libndon; Jeweler summary Judg ment for $8,787.12. Blumey Is en tering a counter claim, of $32,800. Bobkus wlld-anlmal show' wenit oh-the ^relief-rolls.^tJlutland,-:Vt,i when the show folded there. Meat for 66 a.nlmals and' 86 humahs. Belle Llvingstbn cbming back to N. Y. to-start a nltery. London reports British. Marconi engineers ebgaged to build a chain of .radio stations In Brazil, practl' callv blanketing thft country. To be cbmpleted within 16 months Last Equity phibllcatlon carried an bditorlal advl&ln? the member ship that this time the Sunday per formahce blU promises to gb thrbugh In Albany. Local option and one day off each week for all play:ers.' Theatre .Owners' .'Chamber of Commerce urging that if .K. Y. Is to have the Legion of Decency it also should have J a locally censbred list. Federal Judge Knox) at a dinner of the N. Y. County Lawyers' assn;, decried the alrihg of fliensatlonal trials. Treasury Dept. reveals a growing percentage .of baneful ,aldehyde In bootleg liquor. In May 34% of the stufE was harmful. In Oct.; 61% was more or less; jpiblsbhbUSi Hedgerow players back home aiid enthusiastic about the tour,. Did Bome. 8,000 miles by auto. 'DodiawQrth' will hbp: to the- road Jan. 12 with Walter; Huston, Fay Balnter and N4h Sunderland. Strand theatre tied B'way traffic for more than an hour and a half oaclf Fridajr nisht (14^ FiiF«i in the-1 engine robin and: sparks drawn up through the ventilating flue set flfe to the roof. Flues quickly fllUd the audltbrium . witbi. dense smbke but the audience got but safely.; Pro-' jectiohlBts had to slide down a telephphe cable'. Mayor crashes dbwn , on those pier banquets. Held to be unfair .competition to tax-paying ; restati-r rants. ''. Andrew. T.' Merson killed by a fall down the balcony steps, of the St. James theatre, Sunday. Was at- tending the Newspa:per OKilld bene- flt.;:";:. ;-:"-;'-;'.:;:;.:v:;..',-.■. . '• ■';.■.•... Reported that ■NVIlliam Collier,: Jr., will wed Marie' Stevens, show girl, New:' Year's Eve, at - the Little Church Around the Corner, in New York. Report .iated dchled by 'Col-; Her, when questioned pri engage- ment,..^' Pacific Coast Football Conference voted ;to permit continuance of gariie broadcasting next fall; provid- ing re.sponslble B];>bnBor Is found. . Betty: Compson's art objects find househpld' effects, currently - being sold at atictlon. .. . Ruth Armstrong Stelnmetz, slain In New Yprk hPtel, buried In Hplly- wpbd with services private. Fred i»alii»gr, 28, : fllm bit player, confesses shbotlng to deietth Mrs; Laura Basil, 37, who had befriended him. ..■ •- ;.'■ Harry Alblez, prop man for W. 8. Van Dyke's: at Metro, planed to Las Vegas, N. M., wedded Lee Mansfield, of St. Louis. Mrs. Bessie Lasky Is exhibiting .her paintings at the Bbell Club. C. of C. elited that . Leopold Stokowski is going to live on a farm in Californlai Eloping lo Phoenix, Ariz., arid wedding William McAdoo,; distant cousln"~of"~:th'o~: Seiiator,-^—brought- Lucllle Watson, In (Seorge White's 'Scaindals' : (Fox) a featured role Also offer of a term contract at the istudio, Eleanor Barry, Harper's BazaaLr fashion ed, here and praising Hpl lywood styles. • Suit for $90.000 agE^nst: Frances Marlon, result of auto :crash Which almost ccst her life. Is listed feji-; trial: Mexican ifamlly, Which, lost an 18-months baby, plaintiffs. . ; E.. W. Butler, RCA pfflclal frpm Cam^diah,_ja.J.,jdBlting _here.___.. .._ Vlctcr F. Andersen, 70, and Eliza- beth •Betty' PeW, .73, bareback riders 40 years ago, wed at Pasa- dena. Fellclta Chavez, 21, dirank poison in a downtown L. A. picture house, but a theatre attendant who eaw her do It, called an ambulance arid her life was saved. Court hearing suits of Christine Wells, actress, and Anni Glover, for $26,000 and $12,600,: respectively, against W. R.. Millar,: attorney, as result of Injuries in. an- auta colli- slori.'- L esnhari ygajOOO bf ihe $126,000 exec,. made biz manager of Holly- wood Picture Players; Ass'n. Enrico Caruso, Jr.i babied by; Mus- solini's attorney r general, that he Is free to retbrn to Italy withput fear of jail term. Ben Frank, manager of Ambas- sador hotel, dubbed a Ky. Col. Suit for $4,000 comlsh against Jeannette Porter Meehan, filed by Max Welsfeldt, N. Y. agent, for sale of picture rights on four Jean Straton Porter novels, was dropped In local:cc>urt when neither side ap- peared, Frank Capra,- under treatment at Cedars ,Qf Lebanon hospital, re- ported making satisfactory prog- ress. : Upton Sinclair vlctbrlous against Grace. Holmes, authoress. Who claimed he filched her material for his 'Immediate Eplc% Wife announces there will be no Xinas reconciliation between herself and Charlie Chase. Danny Danker and Lorena Lay- son, newlyweds of last week, are ^i:pp«vtng-<or-pft.<wpnrt„q for European honeymoon. Reports reach Jean Harlpw that husband, Hal Rosson^in Londpn, has . had newspaper notice she is seeking sundering of the marital ties; Cast In Warners'. "While the Pa tlent Sleeps', Claire Dodd has been forced biit by ia flu attack. Olive Clark Day, convicted of operating a 'love mart,' freed after serlvng 10 months. John S. McGroarty,. author and Congressman-elect . from. Southern California, has had motion pictures taken of forest fire and flood area butslde Pasadena for showlnjg as a flood cpntrpl dpcument. . Suit of Mrs.' Harriet Margolles agaliist Paul Munli for alleged dain age to furniture and ruga, during star's occupancy of her home on lease, settled out of court. . Nancy Kane, .danceball, enter talner who tried sUIclde by jumping from a window at San Pedro, will recover. ■ Mrs. Lbuls B. Mayer reported re sought has been subscribed for the L. .A. Philharmonic orchestra. Mary Blackford, . actresa, para- lyzed as a result of' auto Injuries, Is recovering. . . Marjorle Lawspn, playing In Bev- hlUs. Community produbtloii of 'World Without End,' bruised and shaken when her car turned- over. Though her divorce from Nick Stuart is not yet flnal. Sue Carp} Is rumored readying to marry Howard Wilson, legit- actor- now at - Para- mount. ■.: - ; ".■ . ■■:'■ ■' • . Hal Hayes LeSeuer, brother of Joan Crawford, divorced by; Kasha: LeSeuer. , Karl MahIa Brown, screen writer, ordered to p&y. second wife $76 monthly allmonj^, in addition to slipping his No. 1 $60 Jeanette Loff reported to police that her $600 watch was stolen. Marina Schubert, screen player and daughter of Nina Koshetz, con- cert singer, granted divorce from Bruce Pierce, fllm technician. ■ \ Wera Engela recuperating after losing tonsils. - Grantland Rice here for holidays and Rose Bowl game. Carl Badenthal, alias Baron von Badenthal, held on charge of clip- ping John Schllefer, of Huntington Park, for $2,600 by alleging he'd sold Universal an opera for 16 grand. '■: .;■'' ' Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan cre- ator, granted divorce in Los Vegas, Nevada, after more than a quarter century bf married life. :. George Regas,. character actor, re- covered from a nervous collapse after two days In Wllshlre hospital. Vllma Banky's suit etgainst a lo- cal bank, over Investment Iiv,& trust fund, Is dismissed. ^ Harry Schultz, character actor, and his wife celebrate 25th wedding anniversary. gdwairA D. Endfilefc (le{>L etore Reinhardt'g 'Miracle' abrcad, pla^ Ing extra bit in Par's .'Gilded LUy.* plarampuht buys ppsthumbuBqr sc^harlp pf *WaIklkI • Wedding,' written and'. submitted by Danlbl Evans, Btudlp contract writer, who went to bis death . In ah auto ac-; cident some months ago. Margaret Van Pelt, writer, planed here from Philadelphia to deny Alexander Van Pelt's testimony in their divorce suit that she called him a sap and was indiscreet with another man on shipboard. ' Mrs. Kate Kent,. 70, character actress. Was killed near Universal City when an auto ran her down in the rain... She was the niother of Ted Kent. U film cutter, and lived In a cottage at the studio. Harry C. Brandon, former man- ager of Dave Hutton, must stand trial for alleged theft of a $600 bond from Almee's temple.- Lydia Martha Raswan seeks di- vorce from Carl Raswan, bona fide Arab sheik. Who has ^eorked at Ra- dio studio; also asks part of .royal- ties from his book, 'In the Black Tents.' ;■:;;.;■ . '•;■:■'■•■■■;. Bernlce (Giggles) Hansel], the vblce of Mickey Mouse, who. Is a dressmaker :When hot duping for Mickey, in court against Charles and Louise Miller on suit for $6,500 damages as result of alleged attack by Miller when she delivered a dress to his wife. She.was awarded $26. '.'.■.■;■■■.::. .■:. ,:■..:'.•'..■ ,■;.;; ' r-:: Paul : De Gaston, musician, on trial' for murder bf Irene Ellert, Kaniity pnrlni. oparn»nr; via nllogftd covered frbm~pneumoniar John Gilbert, and Wera iEhigels: on the sick list. Richiard P. Green, 31, studio tech nlclan, shot and killed,, himself In igrlef for his':! recently deceased Wife, District Cburt of Appeals: con- firmed conviction of Edward Fried- man for robbery , of Mae West in: a sti :kup during September, 1931^ . Alice Lake, Brooklyn Vltagrapher who was a sllbnt star; Interviewed as an extra and quoted as being grateful for jobs. •—Mother and-brother-bf-Gene-Rajy-- mond here from Long Island tp spend Xmas with him. , Bartlett Cormack back. ; ' Cathojlca renewed 60,000 Legion of Decency pledges Suhday (9), in Los Angeles-San Diego areas. . Jocelyn Lee and Jim Seymour, Warners' associate producer, re- ported planning wedding after holi- days. •■■■' Florence Fair, ex-N.Y. legit, de- feated suit for $-176 agent conimish filed by Grace Conklln. Charles- Purthmari, Col writer, Wlth^crimlnologlst rep,: submitted ideas to fedBr a l antl-crtthe con f e r=- ence. '. " ' . ■—. ' •The DrunkiEird' in L.A. passed Itfi 127th . performance m^ark Sunday (16). ■ Papers oh. body of a hitch hiker Incinerated In that Wlckenburg, Ariz., tragedy -where a gasoline ti*uck exploded in a house collision, establish victim as Richard C. Fredericks, Itinerant; film technician eh route here after visiting relatives east. -- ■: - ■ , ■ .- ' —.- > •Islia Knowles, daughter of Sir Arthur Pearson, former. bWner of London "Times, here to write chatter for English publications. James Dunn, Fox c'ontractee, re- ported to police an automatic pistol.was stolen from his car when parked In front of a night club.- - Illegal operation. Edwlna Booth, ill since the •Trad- er Horn' expedition, said tp be get- ting worse.; Dbrls Deane, one- time .wife bf Fatty ^Arbuckle, gets' divorce from : brbker e; S. Hartz, with Jack Demp- sey's sister her chief witness. Girl born to wife of George Hyder, assistant manager of Fox Westwood studio cafe, Dec. 12; Will Rogers m;c.'d an air apipeal for Salvation Army Xmas . fund, aided by J'eanette ;MacDonald, Blllle Burke, John Boles and Irene Frank- lln. Cow bblonging to Ann Dvorkk and Leslie Fenton ate part of their walnut crop, , shells arid all, and ■ died. - Clifford Mitchell, 27, held In Ber- erly Hills jail on charge of forging Lowell Sherman's name to a cheek for $36. ■. ■ Two men pleaded guilty to ped« dling lottery tickets here and wero fined $600 each, slmuitaneovs. wittai starting of an In quir y: In TIa Juaaa^ that a phbney lottery racket there was finding many film colony -vio- tims. ■ . .: ■..' " • ■ . ■ -. ... • '» Helen Walton Langdori, second wife of comic, Harry ; Langdon, granted divorce on grounds of cru- elty, despite decree he obtained ia Mexico and under which he ■.mar- ried-present wife. - - Catholic students, numbering t,» 000| adopited a resolution &t con-- ventlon in L. A. to 'cpmbat the prp- diictlpn and success' Ot black-listed -pictures. , — :... :_•. How Bowlers Stand uicR Arien and Btng Crosby en- tered In open golf tourney starting Dec. 20. Superior court has allowed Vir- ginia Cherrill $167.50 weekly tem- porary alimony, $2,600 counsel. fees and an order restraining Gary Grant from spending ■ his income, pending trial of their separate maintenance suit in which she asks $1,000 a month. Schnauser valued at $600 reported lost by W. S. Van Dyke. Gary Leon, who figured in Rudy Valle-Pay Webb legal crossfire, here for dance engagement at Bilt- more hotel, announces he and wife are divorcing. Bebe Daniels absolved of respon- sibility in $56,000 damage suit filed against her husband and self by Fred Swickey, their ex-chauffeur, charging fal.<3e imprisonment- for larcency; Pat O'Brien Beriously Itl with stomach ailment. ' , . Barbara Davis,; stster bj ; Bette, here for film try. M^riska Aldrlch, former Met opera, .singer and for three years In Paramount leads the league' so far in the M.P. Bowling. League'i| rolling at the Radio City alleys. .: . Standing of the clubs to date: . . Per- cent-High' Won Lost age Score Paramount ..'..18 8 . .'867. 616 R.K.O. ....... .16 6_ . .76.2 _ 92i .Pox. ..'..'«...«..14 Columbia .....11 Consblidated '. i 8 United Artists. 6 Warners' ... . 6 • ' M.G.M... ....... 6 ~T" 10 13 16 ,16 1« .627 .380 .28tf .286 .238 MARRIAGES . Maynie Curtiss tp; Loiiis Sapft Nov. 29, la .Washington, D. C. Miss Curtlss for several months .on WADG, Akrbn. (Jrobiori hoh-pro. ' Jean Southern tp Harry E. Hea- neman In Chicago Dec. 13. Groom Is .saxophonist with Charley Agne'v orchestra. Bride npurprp. Eflle 6'Cbnnpr tP .Qharley. p9m buque in Chi<!fl.go.; Beutel iifa rr laig o of mother of the O'Connor Family, vaudeville act, . . Mary Wood to Ed. Fitzpatrlw Dec. 16, In San Francisco. Bride i* radio singer, groom is, NBd .©rk leader. '"•■:■' Molly O'Day, fllm actress, to Jack Durante (Mitchell and Durante), of stage, married four -months ago at Tla Juana. . BIRTHS . Mr. and Mrs, Darryl Zahuck, son, at Cedars of Lebanon'hospital, Hok lywood, Dec. 13. "They have two] daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Bell (Clarii Bow), pon, Dec. 16, In Santa Monica, Gal. . • ■• Mr. and: Mrs. . C!hlck Condon, daughter, Dec. ll. She; is the for- mer Dean Ryan (Ryan Sisters). H«i is leader: the orch jU, ih^ li§0 Kbninor© hotel* Albaajb