Variety (Jan 1935)

148 VARIETT T I M E S iHH A B E Tuesday^ Januaiy 1935 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■^■■■■■■■■■■■■mwmn This depdrtmiht contami rewritten theatrical neios item aa publishetl dmng jte ipfick hi the daily papers of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, H^^^ London. Vartety no credit for these news items; each has been rewritten from a daily paper. »JfBrdriJIHilllBP 1«l«llllll"U™ H I 11 I I 1 1 II I I I I I I I I I,,, MM II I I II II II II I 11 I M M 11 II 1 I M 11 lll lll'l"' . l l"""".'J Stock Market S6ttlerti€iht offer, would elve^lbby- Holmah's .BOii $7,000,000 - (some papers say only $6,000,000) of the estate of the . late Zacchary. Smith Reyriblds. y She fieraelf will recelye aWiit $760,000 : tor . her own claims to the estate. jack Doyle and Phillip Cardelloi, his employe"; dismissed in Jefferaori Mairket'^Cburt; They wore iarrested on charges of gambling in.Doyle's, billiard room. Mary Ndlin woi-klhigr iii a. Jackson Heights^ nltery. . Altoona Piibllx theatre, Irivolved In the;, J!rl-Brgon suit which the ■ Supreme Court originally declined to review, filed its brief. Claimed that th^ talking picture is essential- ly of American origin and .that the patent ofilce refused Edison; a pat-, ent oh the flywheel in 1879, when. he claimed it a,s an improvement on the phonojgraiSh, cla-lmlng It was not original. 7 ' tfeopold. Stokowskl announces he will return to the, Philadelphia orch next iseaebh as^ guest, conductor.; Gave his last cohcerl of the seaspnv itUt w.eek.. Goes to rCallforiiiia, theii ChlnaJ in; March, V V; ~ TTTerTjeit^Smes^ ^ Binger,' with a- reputed, salary of $lft weeklyj ordered to give $10 to his wlfe.^ He claims she is , an heiress, but the Judge siys that does not. , ftlter his responsibility. iParamount trustees tell ^ court Thursday (27) that unless reorgan- - Izatlon' Is completed auickly. it will bo difflcult to hold stars and studio —execs." Contends It is -dlfflcultT7to make or extend cohtractSi Roerlch niiiseum, offered at:;aucr tlon under foreclosure, bought in by the bondholders. . .Only bid was $300,000. Face of mortgage was $2,478,823 plus $110,661 taxes. . Government releases threle more Jkictiire thrillers. They are 'Beavers ' HOnie,' 'Why Save the ElkT'^'ahd ♦Porcupine Control in the Western States.- Free loan to societies and picture .theatres for transport charges. .Luuiezla Bull preaenled wlUn preaenlea wiut a testimonial by the Met directors. In acknowledgment of her efforts as chairman of the Save the Met. . • Court reduces" to $13;i66 the $40, 000 Judgtaeht against Equity for cIoBlhg: 'Right to Happlness.*^ Higher figure -deemed excessive. Equity titiU has right to appeal- the lower flg'ure: Ticket specs who have not applied lor licenses will sue producers r6- fusing-to-Issue-to-^them--the-usual- conslgnment of tickets.: To charge cbnsjplracy In restraint of trade. Hearn'a: offered an indlanvvlllage . at Its store last week. Indian vU- liages .-were a craze/SO'years ago; but new again. ' Peaches Browning married to --3e'tmfi-j. HVnes, DeWverTtlreatrff tnan, in Tuckahoe, N. Y., Xmas eve. . Nev,rest cbunterifeit gag. Is fake commemorative coins, sold. dealers oflvft' prl ppg:- Snfftf.. than U. S. issues. annlviersary as. a conductor, last Wednesday (26). V Indecency c h a r g O dismissed against two of the management and seven dancing girls, arrested Nov. 16 at the Eltln|re (burlesijue), N. Ti, theatre, on a charge of giying a vulgar and Indecent dance, As- resting officer admitted he did hot regard the perforifnanco aa viilgar. Men were Charles ijank and Morris Rudiilck. Alexander ..S, Rice has filed a certificate with the N. .T. county clerk organizing the World's Fair of the World. To be held here In 1942-43 on a tract one mile square, Katharine Cornell in the red even if her 'Romeo and Juliet* plays to capacity, according to announce- ment. ' ■ ■\ NRA preparing tb crash. dOwn on tobacconists. who give more than one card of matfches with a pack of cigarets. Against the code. Wanda Allen announces her en- gagement to Norman Frescott, mind reader. Both in the Dorchester house show, London. - Frank Spencer Meador and Anne Gould, socialite, were married ait Harrison, N. T.,: Christmas night.. Meador, minor legit actor,- known on the- stage as Michael Spenser. ; Ra^ Henderson and Jack Mc- Gbwan to double on another mu- sical.- Ready—for late - spring—or early next fall. Board of Governors of the League of N. T. Theatres decided Equity's plea for an C0-?0 ratio, between junio • ■ and senior actors, was against the code. John Rumseiy protested that screen productions of stage hits hurt the shows value to Coast leglt producers. No action _o.n _the..tlcket specs. : Appellate division of N. T. su- preme court find; that nudilsm In Itself Is not illegal. Reversed con- viction of: ohb of the men arrested last April In a nudist tym. Restaurateurs up In arms against sales tax on liquor. Customers kicking, too. . .. P. G. Wodehouse asks Washing- ton for a review- of his income, tax assessment. Revenue Department is asking $160,703 and. he says it's all wrongi ■ '■ .'■ '-^ ■ Louig Sobol and h la wife in aUto kicked at paying radio tax and then being fed advertising. . / Setting forth that he Is the author of 'Alina, Wo Wohnat DuV copy- righted -in. 1909, Adblph PhlUpp. on Saturday < 29) entered bu1|; against Jerome H. Remiok & COh Bomlck Music Corp.; Geno Buckj aa prezjjf the ASCAP, Columbia and NBC broadcasting systemB, and Rudy Vallee,: alleging infringement Ad- mits that the defendants have some rights, but still feels that he has been injured. Don Barclay arrested for being under influence of narcotics In an auto. . Held pending posting of $1,600 ball. Ruth King, daughter of Henry King, Fox director, announces she and Joseph Perry, of Elizabeth, N. J;, are; on their honeymoon. Jury awarded $7,500 damages to Seabron Calhoun, 10, colored boy, who sued Phillips Holmes,- now in England, for Injuriei In auto acci- dent in 1931. ■■-^ V Richard Dlx's wife expecting a baby In January. : Clark Gable's auto caught flre in downtown L. A. Firemen ex- tinguished flames. Irvine 'Cotton' Warburton and Julie Bescos, use grid stars, work- ing as bit players at Metro. Wife, son and daughter of Leslie Howard arrive In Hollywood. ; , Dan R. Snyder gon to trial Jan. 7 for murder of Otto Elllnger, MG studio police - captain. Patricia Havens - Mounteagle, Pebble Beach socialite, signed by Universal for a bit In "The Great Ziegfeld.' Jean' Waste, radio warbler, and daughter of Chief Justice of Cali- fornia Supreme Court, operated on for appendicitis, . w, Jaiiette DeValcrla, Pairla Inn dancer, who wandered off In a daze, returned home In the same condi- tion. Grac e Miooro with her husbandi (Continued from page'6) fell backwards to 2%, where It was off a quarter. This stock again hit 2% during week, which is top for current move. Qeneral Eleotrib Up : ' . General Electric went up 2% points during week to close at 21% after touching 22. Action of com- pany's directors In voting Friday to redeem bonds and special stock-was rated as being bullish for the com- mon stock. Move will require dis- tribution of nearly $60,000,000, mostly to private investors. General Electrlc'a last published balance sheet showed company had $60,901,644 In cash and $60,976,864 In marketable securities, these quick assets being more than twice the amount needed to retire bonds and; special stock. Action of company Is in line with that taken by several large corporations of late. Idea of :bond redemption is existence In cor- porate treasuries of more working capital than needed by changed biisiness operations, plus fact that tontporary , Investments lii which cash can be placed bring negligible return. Advance of General Electric common stock rated all the more sensational because Issue sold 'ex- dlvldend' shortly before It began to rise. ' : . Notice also glyen by General Elec- tric during week to holders of re- ceipts representing interests in fractions of shares of - Radio Corp. common -stoclc :that- sale-of shares-of such common stock held against the receipts had been completed. Re- ceipt holders are entitled to receive $1.01 for each sixth of a share of Radio's common stock on surrender of receipts..at General Electrlc's office on Wail Street. Receipts must be surrendered by Nov. .21, 1941, being rated of no value after that date: . Details of reorganizing plan . for Paramount-Publlx Corporation and Paramount - Broadway ..Corporatloa were outlined during week to fed- eral court This move bad little or. no effect on Paramount-Publlx liens, although Parapiount-Broa.d- way 6 H8 climbed to 45Vi. less :thaa two points from year's high. Para* mount certlflcatea;were up fraction* ally at 3%. ^ ; . FutMrel^oka Good Manner In^nlch Stock Exchange took news of death of John B, Andrus, one of nation's wealthiest men. and then forged ahead Friday In face of a number of stock sales . for cash;, wais described as. vastly encouraging for future of market Even with usual bash sales coming over tape Friday and Saturday stock prices either spurted ahead or held an even balance. While many traders do not expect the real ad- ! vance to get under way until first Of year, rally last part of past week cheered speculators and apparently bodes well for future. Keith 6s and Pathe 78 were out- standing bond Issues during week, both hanging up new 1034 tops. - . Keith liens climbed to: 73%,, where they closed, up 3% points. Paithe l)bnds forged ahead Saturday to 102, new high for year. Liens showed a gdln of 1% points at this closing flgure. Other best performer was Paramount-Broadway bonds,' which rose to 46 They soldi oft to 46% at finish, but were still up 2% points. Paramount-FamOus-Lasky 6s ad- vanced fractionally,--: closing- prlce--^ being 61%. Certificates of same dropped three-^quarters to 61%, Paramount-Publlx bonds were up a fourth at 62. Certificates of sanie lost half a point to 61%. Warner Brothers. 6s rallied to. 68% at close, ^ where they were ahead fractionally. Loew 6s held close to 106 level most ■ of week. They wound up at 106, - where they were down' three- quarters. Summary tor Week Ending Saturday, December 29: STOCK EXCHANGE '. ' aish. Low. Sales: /ssue and rate. 7H BOO Aihbrlcan S'eat....... 41% 21% . 1,700 Col. P. vtc (l)?...;.. ' 0% . 194 ■*,0<W Coneot. Film.;....,.. SOU lOH O.OUO Co'nsol. Film pfd (2)t llOH 70 6.000. Eastman Kodak (4)t. , 147 120 1110 Do. pfd........V,.. 17V4 8% 4,000 Fox Class A..;...... 25% .16% 120,500 Qen. Elec (e0c.)...i. 87 20% 17,800 Loew (!)»........... 105; :vi 2 00 ' DO. p t a (b%).....;. 7 . - 2% 200 Madison Sq. Garden. 28% 21 100 Met-QM pfd; (1.89)i, .1% 1% 80,400 Paramount ctfs...... V/k % 2,000 Pathe Exchange.... 24% -■ 10% 8,400 Pathe Clasa A...... e% 4% 88.300 Radio Corp......... 6554. . 23% 1,000 Radio pfd. A.... 4(1 15 27,800 Radio pfd. B....... 4% 1% 10,000 RKO ............... 8% . 2% . , 10,800 Warner Bros 81% V> 1100 Po. pfd........;.. 47% 27% .04,200 WestlnEhouse 06 82 .180 Do. pfd. (8%)..... Last. C% 38% C% 10% 112% 141 ■Net ctaff. 18% +1}4 21% +2« 84% + % 1U4% 6% +.% . 28 - 2 8% + « 1% + %. IS , ,+l.% - 6% -T % 04% +1K 42% +5tt 2% - ^ 4% +H 21% -if 87% +4% 00% + % $ Plui cash Elsie Janls staged a Christmas evo .show for immigrants on Ellis Island. Goeta LJungberg, from the Met, . sang carols - - with Hugo Marian I and his orch; . •Dry Dock savings bank bought —tfaff-Vaiiderbllt" theatre—^Decr-^47 Bank's bid of $126,000. was the only Offer at the auction sale following ltd foreclosure. Bank claim was for 1271.000. ... __.W.octJtiingtonLMlner.-to::dJrje.ct.^n. to Fortune' for Crosby Galge. Piece had a summer tryout lit WestpOrt Met. op. to trek to, Newark Jan. 29 for a performance of 'La Boheme-' First time there. Bam berger & Co. angeling a hospital benefit. ■ H Sinllhsoiilau liistltule dlgH o ut an old circular In which the advertiser beats radio to the idea of sponsor- ship. Offered to press records con- taining a musical number and ah advertising 'spiel. To be given free to phonograph users, N. Y. cops put out 6,000 Christ mas - greeting window cards. The caTds donated by- a casualty CO, Only. two of the six Christmas inatinefes were'selloiltsV ."The^ others Leblahged. ; ' / WOB Interrupted a Christmas •^^ broadcast for a-plea for a-.blood transfusion. . Had to be made within two hours to save a life. First donor arrived within the hour Patient rallied but later died. ' Lester Allen quits 'Little Shot' in rehearsal. Donald MacDoiiald Will replace him. Loota Morgan Boehm sued for a divorce. gho's a playwright. . Lucille Glannliii; costume designer, and her husband chief witnesses for ■ the prosecution. Al Goodman celebrated his 19th crash. Columnist had a finger trac tured. Mrs. Sobol nursing a broken nose. Belle .Livingston's new club crashed by the cops on allegation she had been sentenced for dry. law violation, but later the. Police Com ritlssioner says he'll not stand In the way of a license. . Mills hotel, built for the down and-outers, finds times too.hard and quits ~iLrfglffgTi"tlclffet"'tax"bn":free-radio shows Restaurateur^ held a" meeting to urge a sliding scale liquor license proportioned to the buslnesjs,. done; Claim it,'s uniFalr to soak the srtiall spots as much as the big places. Urge halving the present $1,200 and a^raTng~?%^a'tirc"wroTe8airiiwor bills. At its meeting Friday the Ltogue of N. Y. "Theatres formally endorsed Senator Berg's bill to legalize Sun day dramatic performances. Eddie Dowlln"gX~nejf£~lvlinij"e~lf posthumous operetta by the late Victor ^Herbert. , Present title is 'Lavender Lady.' Otto Harbach did the lyrics. Will bring "book up to date. ; ^eatpe^uild-^ensiderlng^^a^lrama based on 'Postman Always Rings Twice.' James M. Cain' will do his own Job of dramatizing. Metro, which holds the screen rights, hot; interest ed in the drama venture, since ltT)r^»ba:bly wllI~not maite ft film. ■ U. S, revenue bureau announces that a-tax must be -paid oh .charity shows when actors participate in the receipts. General practice of paying a percentage will make most benefits taxable; Also held the the- atre must nav on. bVbcks of tickets Valentin Parera, and Mario Mara- fllotti, her tutor, has returned to her Beverly Hills home. . Clara Bow's : son named. Rex Larbow Bell. Carmen Rio, dancer, and actress, says she and a Denver broker, Ed- die Kay, will wed. William B. Dixon, vaude, sues David Weber, .66, for $76,000. Al- leges alienation of his wife and -partner, -Eva-IjeeTDIxon,-:known.-aa Sugar Nelson. - ,.• . Roberta Macklln, studio art worker, faces third trial Jan. 10, on charge of- drunk drivings - Sidney Fox and Charles Beahanr her hiiSband; ruled against In hOtel claim In Municipal Court. — Barbarar-Blalr'says^he's-sbon-go- ing to England to wed Count del Palmar. ■ ■ .•' Oliver Morosco forfeited a $26 ball when falling to appear In Van Nuys~"TRn3rt—o"n an lntoxIcatlon-| -charger • Plun stock extras.' , f Paid this year on account of accumulatlona. ■fextri 'dlvIdiSnd;"~|"Unlf pf'tradlnSrriQ 'ahar^^^^ — CURB .14%. 8% 7%:. -'% 2,000 Technicolor ....... 8,800 Translux .(20c.)*. < i ••••••••• 18%. 2% 13% 2% Maid of Mary -Miles Mlnter seri- ously slashed her hand on a bath- tub fixture Xmas day. • ~ Carl Dreher heads technical award committee for .Academy, with Max _Parker,£ Bernard Herz- 'bi»un, Wes Miller, Emll Oster,..wm. Mueller, Fred Jackman and Ray | Jiine members. Charles BrOwn, 23, blind cbllege I student, gets role of a blind youth | In .Par-'s-'WJngs .In.,the. JDark.L 78% 10,"5% • 47- 60% ;eB% 66% -lOS— 67 BONDS a%— |M,'OdO-aen^Thea.^E<i.r—'40. 61 16,000 Keith Os, '46. 88 21i000 Loew 6s, r41. 80 88,000 Par-Broadway 6%s, 20% ei.OOO Par-Fani-Lasky 6s, 28% 19.000 , Do. otfs..,^...., _2a% 1164)00 PaE.-£uh.-6%a,- 20 76.000 Do. ctfs.. jOiOO0^athe-73r-"8 7;........ 40% 73:000 Warner Bros. -6s, '80; %—---8%- 71% .. 78% 104% 106 : 43% 46% 60% 61 it +8V 43% 02 61% 60% . 61 ~«!%^:—00%—62 62 00% 61% tl02 1 00% 102- 68% . 67% 68% PRODUCE EXCHANGE, N. Y. 4,200 Par^Pub. .......;............!.. 8% OVER THE COUNTER. N. Y. 8% Bid: 22% 48% 102 Asked. 23% . ■45% . 105 • • • »• Col- Bdcast A (3)tl. Col. PIc.t. pfd.. Pathe E. pfd. ■ * * * *.*.* Mae Clarke recovered from ill- ness and back for work. Ernest Vadja ! accepts ' places oh Playwright board Of embryo Holly- wood Theatre Guild. Non-payment of city license fees resulted in revocation of. 139 per- mits, includlrig li. theatres, 16 4aBcer-asademlgSr-43-dancfthall. cftfea • Paid thifl year, f Includes extra dividend, t New 1084 . high. I Ex 00 per cent ■Btock-and-caalr-dividends;— ———.... . Incorporations NEW YORK ■ Albany, ■ - Bocheater Broadcaatlng Cowiptthy, Inc.; senerai raaio 'oroaacastlnK: business; capital stp.ck,. 200 shares,, .no par valuie ; Bdw. I. Crlsty, Alfred W. Dunbar and Lewis Clinton, all of 31 Exchange street Rochester, N. T. ■ .BemdtrMaurer Corp.;.'pictures;- capital stock, 120,000; Morris Talbot, Lena DO- roshkln and Harry. Talbot, all of 40 Ex- change place. New York, Noah Prpdactlohs, Inc.; talking pic- tures, etc.; capital stock, l6o. shares, no par value; Jerome F. .Mayer and Harriot S. Tiaylor, 125 West 46th street, and Jas. 3. -Linbuin7~^646~Flftlii ■ aTeiiuBr"-ini"~oT New York. . brome Corp.; pictures, plays, -. etc:; capital ' stock, 1,100 shares—100 pre- ferred 1100'arid 1,000 common, no par value; Stuart' "W. Webb and . Thos. P, Gorman, 36 Weat 45th street, arid Frank F. .Kolbe,. 1775 .. Broadway, . all of New York. • . 'On To Fortiiiie,Mnc.t theatricals, etc;; capital stock, 160 shares, no. par -value; Charles S, Heften 70 W6st 40th street, Kew York; Baa Levitt, 1819, Clinton avenue, Bronx, and . Arthur Bernstein, 1730 East 27th street, Brooklyn. . ' OothBDi Dlatribotors . Corp.;. - general radio, tuslness; calpltil stock, 120 shares ^20. preferred' |100 and 100 Common^ ntf par value; Saul Mbdell, 424 Bast 62nd sjtredt. New York; Jack dctaarC 117 Liberty street. New York, and Lillian Avnit, 1906 East loth street, Brooklyn. V«nie Porter, Inc.; musical - composi- tions, etc.; capital stock, 110,000; Verne H. Porter, Algonquin hotel; Leon A. Brody and'Lillian Rolnllt, 14S6 Broad- way, all, of New XnTlt, sold to a charity Doug Fairbanks, Sr., booked pass- age on the lie de France Saturday only 90 minutes before sailing time. Told reporters he did not intend to visit England. : Theodore Rochester, handy man at the Star theatre, .Brooklyn, shinned up the flagpole on the the- atre building Saturday, to free the hal yards ; SUpJied,;^ut jwasj caught In'. the rope. and-^ hung" head rflown-r ward until' rescued .. by firemen. Street packed by excited onlookers, but audience knew nothing of the big show. : 'Dodsworth* will be shifted to an- other theatre when It is forced out of the. Shubert Will play there un- til the road tour starts in February, Max Gordon, Gladys Cooper and Raymond Massey In a triple alli- ance to do plays here and In Lon- don. First, chore probably will be 'Worse Things Happen at Sea.' French minister announces there will bb no. more cbmmerclal broad casts on Frencji radios, - Listeners and 16 pool rooms, del Duncan, actress, and Wlimer Anderson, broker, wed In Yuma, Dec. 26. ■ Dave Hutton returned his. dia- mond-studded police badge to the cops, but reluctantly. • Year-old niece of Blng Crosby ate a Christmas tree ball and had to be surgeoned. She's the child of .JLacry.-.Crosby. ; BeeHo Gray, exrOklahoma cow- hand, is training a coyote to croOn for vaudeville. Betty Compson, back from six- month Orient. trip,. announces she will return to China to supervise and direct pictures for a million- dollar Shanghai company, plx to be In Chln'ese language. .Lynn Soot, screen scrlb, .and Helen Walter, assistant editor of Fawcett fan mags, wedding New -Year's evo^ ■ Wife of Henry Menjoa, Adolphe'B brother, had poUco. hunting him on charge of socking her with a 'binocular. casK Steinberg ft Sons ~ Hbldliir Corp.i: realty theatricals' of . all kinds; capital stock, $20,000; Nat Steinberg, 1146 Woody crest avenue; Philip Steinberg, 1147 . Wheeler , avenue, ~ and.-Benj. Stein- berg;. .1145 Woodycrest avenue, all of thai. Bronx. ■. ..y •, Statement and Designation Walt'Disney Ent^rprlMS; pictures; LoS Angeles;-New York otiflce, 160, Broadway; B, T. Gardner, vice-president I |60,000; Edw. M. .Francis,., secretary;' 1,000 shares, ■no-par-^value-f^flled—by^U—8.^ Gorp/^Goir-! Albany, • - • CALIFORNIA Sacramento; : Peerlesii '.Tlctores, Ipc; Capital,' 600 shares, subscribed $3. Directors; I*. Ryan, Barnett Shapiro, Irving Cohen. JUDGMENTS (First name Is that of debtor; second of Judgment , taker,) PeiCRy Fean Dlamenthalt .Q; Bernard; 13,314, -.■ -SfiinliattaB PlayhoaMs, Inc.i Utlca Mutual Ins. ■ Co,; |413, ~' '"r- ;• .T " Manhattan : PIa;rhotisei. Inc.; State Suptv ot Insurance; 11,068. '