Variety (Jul 1935)

60 VARIETY TIM ES SQUARE Wednesday, July 24, 193S C H ATT t ] Broadway Peggy Hoover to the Coast. Herman Citron back from Coast. Sam. 'Warshawsky at Wlldwood, N. J. Lee Shubert back from England today. Matty Rosen back from Holly- wood. 'Alex Hanlon had all his teeth ex- tracted. Dr. Pishel, NVA 'san head, va- cashing. Rodney (Par) Bush to Hollywood by ■ plane. Tommy Rockwell a Long Beach commuter. Louis K. Sidney back from up- state vacash. There will be no Mayfair club this coming season. Verna Burke spending the sum- mer in St. Louis. Bill Howard back to old Vlrglny for a coupla weeks. Maurice Golden got athletic and dislocated his shoulder. Charlie Pettljolm Installed a cool- ing system gadget in his oiflce. Dick Maney planed to Seattle to visit parents in an Inland town. David SarnofC In Atlantic City for confab of RCA dealers last week. Patricia Bowman strolls the Jones Beach boardwalk, but not on her toes. Most film companies closed down Friday afternoon (19) because of the beat. ' Joe Breen due in from his Hi- bernian sojourn tomorrow (Thurs- day). Edison hotel has taken over the adjoining ll-story building on 47th street. Graham McNamee talking Eu- rope for a vacash late this next month. . Arthur "Willi seeing the country covering the summer, stocks for Radio pix. Two muggs picked a thunderstorm for sound effects for some.fisticuffs in Llndy's. Max Plohn oft for London Friday (19) and couldn't change his mind ihis Ume. Carlos and Marchand, dancers at Pavilion Royal, go to Lido club, lilontreal. Julius Tannen, east on a radio deal, returns to the cpaat today (Wednesday). Irving Mills and the Ralph Hltzes shared a royal suite coming back from abroad.' Madelyn Foss, assistant to Paul Gullick at U, kept at home ,by sprained back. Blasting, on tbe adjoining Rlalto ette scares the heck but of the Re- public strippers. Walter Kelly doing a stint as ra- dio announcer In addition to .p.a. and ad agency duties. Vacation for George Scher, RKO theatre publicist, will mean a Jaunt fo Nova Scotia in a 47-foot ketch. John Byram planed to St. Louis for the opening of "The Beloved Kogue' by the muny'opera'company. Ted Claire has left radio and vaude for the time being and has hiked to the Coast for a pix fling. Harry Goldberg, vet. distribution man, handling a new theatre ticket register tbat Paramount is con'sid- erlng. Joe Helbook reopened Onyx club last night (23) with Red McKenzie, singer, artd the Eddy-Riley band as features. Joe Roberts In Boston last week, making arrangements for another 'Three Men on ia Horse,' due there In the fall. Sincerest 'ovations' at those nltery- handclapplng marathons goes to Victor Moore, and it usually sounds oii-the-level. M. M. AVrlght rates highest offlce In N.Y. in publicity-advertising ranks. He's on 63rd floor of Rocke- feller Center bldg. John C. Fllnn has taken an apart- ment while his family is here from Hollywood. Formerly registered at N.Y. Athletic club. The Minsky burlesquers who went to Hollywood were allowed $S5 per head, equivalent of bus fare. Most of them drove out, 'Men Without Names' is the pic- ture at the Palace this week, but on the marquee it looks like the billing for the vaudeville show. Ralph Branton, in town from Des Moines, where 100 degrees is noth- ing this time of the year, anxious to get away from New York heat. Jimmy Coyle, the amateur fly- weight, wants to continue ushering at Radio City Music Hall, a Job he takes seriously, rather than turn pro. Louis Phillips, Paramount attor- ney, off to Virginia to fish, and two. other Par counselers, Walter Gross and Irving Cohen, away on vaca- tions. Bob Weitman threw a stag party for pals at the Sheepshead Bay mansion to celebrate, receiit arrival of a spn, tind nearly ended up with- out a house. Radle HaVrls yesterday (Tuesday) did a British Broadcasting Corp. mass Interview with eight Holly- wood satellites now in London, etherizing the q.'s and a's. John' Dobson, in final year at Cor- nell, son o. George |Dobaon, Western JElectric's general engineering man- ager, making the film rounds. Hopes to go- into engineering trade jour- nalisms. Twice weekly free fireworks show at Jones Beach drawing 25,000 peo- ple. Nightly open-air hoofing on the boardwalk also mopping, and Long Beach is feeling the compelish. Patents of the Catalin Corp. of America have been upheld as valid and infringed upon by Federal Judge Galston In the action brought by Catalin against the CatalazuU Mfg. Co, Lou Irwin already talking of opening a New Orleans branch of- fice now that Huey Long Is advocat- ing vaude's comeback for Louisiana. His brother, Ellis, is a Long political adherent. Louis Notanus, Far nim buyer, asked John Wright for a couple passes to the Rlvoll after it closed and Wright said the attraction was 'Dark House.' Louis wanted to know which distributor had this one. Amos 'n' Andy .were the windup of the 'Big Broadcast' stuff shot at the Paramount, L. I., studio on Monday and yesterday, - Director Norman Taurog, Nathaniel Finston. Arthur Jacobson and Jack Mintz returning to the coast. Vienna Rudl Loewenthal to Stockholm. Director Rolf Jahn to the Dolo- mites. Wagner-singer, lizabeth Reth- berg, to Vienna. Paula Wessely to Vienna to look at script for film, 'Rose Bernd.* Poet Karl^ Zuckmayer working on script tot UFA film at Henndorf. llatthlas Wiemann coming back to Vienna after two years In' Ber- lin. ' ChrlstI Mardayn back to Vienna to play at Relnhardt's Josefstadt theatre. Richard Tauber and Franz Lehar taking , their Lehar show to Egypt this winter. New company called 'Roxy' formed here, to make children's, and fairy-tale films. Gusti Plchler been made honorary member of the State Opera after retiring as first .ballerina. Willy Eichberger and Anton Ed- thofer, to Vienna for Kaethe von Nagy'a film, 'Die Pomjjadour.' Austrian actors and actresses having lots of trouble with Mr. Goebbels about. their ancestry. Walter Relsch to London to pro- duce a ballet film in English and then German, without Paula Wes- sely. Richard Straiias decorated by Japanese and a fete, in his honor will be celebrated on his 70th birth- day. Yugoslav government putting one dinar tax on .all film theatre tickets, money to support films and theatres. Jules Verne's 'Michel Strogoff* will be filmed In Bulgaria by French-British .company In three languages. Ida Roland, Austrian trage- dienne, will .return to Burg theatre next fall, her first role being Shakespeare's Cleopatra. AttUa Hoerbiger will meet Max Reinhardt in Venice to talk about production of 'J_dermann' ('Every- man') in Salzburg this August, Sydney By Eric Gorrick Edmond Seward here. Walter Johnson arrives for Neil. Sir Ben Fuller again to New Zea- land. Latest song hit nowadays Is 'Old Faithful.' Joan and Betty Raynor back again from overseas. Fight game slips. New scrappers wanted badly. Sid Griesman Ipoklng after the A. T. P. interests. Dante, magician, playing farewell season under Nell direction. Clhesound gaV'- a luncheon to wel- come Edmond Seward, scenarist. Yehudi Menuhin gave one farewell concert before sailing for New Zea- land. Monogram pix going into the Lyric, Sydney, under G. T. manage- ment. W-T will premiere 'Ball at Savoy' early next month with Oskar Denes and Mabel Gibson. Bitter cold hurts nabe trade. One local grossed around $15 on night's show with dual bill. W-T will revive 'Within the Law' and 'The Patsy' prior to Criterion, Sydney, closing. Firm will then operate only one legit locally. Sydney wilt soon have three wceldy-change houses In operation. This will give the dl.strlbs a chance to get .some of their programmers off the ice. Bunch of American acts here for Tivoll .include Ruth Craven, Ted Leary, Flo Mayo, Dave Monohan, Jilvclyn Fairfax, Forsythc, Seamon and Farrall. " Opening set for Mel- bourne. London .Tohn TlUey seriously ill. Teddy Joyce readying an all-girl band. Ronald Adam tripping to Rou- mania. Blnnie Hale recovering from tonsil operation. T. H. Bostock coasting It on a 10 days' vacation. - liee Shubert returning from Paris to London, July IZ-. John Baxter getting ready a new quickie for Universal. Winifred Barnes, former musical star, left around $26,000. J. B. Priestley's 'Good'Compan- ions' sold for Scandinavia; Thornton Freeland to direct tlie first film for Nervo and Knox. John Paddy Carstalrs off to Spain for' atmosphere travelog picture. Matt McKelgue back at his desk after week's layoff with gland trou- ble. Eugene Robert considering Jack Celestln's 'Nightingales' for Hella Kurty. Felix Marouanl, French agent, here to line up some talent for the Con- tinent. Gosta Ekman, Swedish actor, to play 'Hamlet' at the Old Vic next season. Elsie Carlisle, for several years the' feature in Ambrose Band broad- casts hour. Wm. Blackwood, who Wrote Harry Lauder's life story, has completed George .Foster's. Joe and Jane McKenna postpon- ing trip to America to play more vaudeville dates. 'Jill, Barling* closing seven months' run at- the Savllle, July 20, with no replacer. John Maxwell re-elected president of Klnematograph Renters Society for another year. Buffalo Broadcasting company ap- proaghing B.B.C. for performing rights of 'Llebelel.' Klmberly and Page on another of their broadcasts. Title,- 'Any- where in America.' Paul Winkle of the Hearst Paris office, blew in "for couple of days and back to Paris. Lew Stone and band vacationing for three weeks and then resume Moss Empire dates. Manny Kahn sailing for America for talent for newly formed Barney Jacobs Attractions, Ltd. Grosvenor house 'Follies' finish- ing Aug. 3, with new Felix Ferry show due In early September. Max Reinhardt seeing, a film test of Vladimir Sokoloff, his former, star in Germany. Dave Bader's Idea. Herman Felner Is first to have obtained Puccini's permission for his works to be done in English. So many Indie film production units springing up there is an acute shortage of studio space. All the sister acts In London camping at the Palladium during the fortnight's stay of the Boswells. Harrison and Fisher vacationing at Czecho-Slovakia to be in trim for the next Palladium 'Crazy' show. Lord Derby presiding over dinner given in honor of Seymour Hicks on his recently, attained knighthood. Benny Levin and Jesse Jacobson doubling for long shots of Flanagan and Allen In their Twickenham films. British Film Institute announces a library to include free loan of films to educational and religious bodies. City financiers holding out on-film promotions till audience reacation on tinted 'Becky Sharp' is pro- nounced. Joe Rock's studio- truck bashing .Into Dave Berman's car at Elatree, with camera man on the spot to take shots. After 12 months of British films policy at the New Gallery, theatre reverts to American products with 'Becky Sharp.' Only temporary. Reginald Denham (Phoenix Films) to direct 'Lieutenant Daring' at Cricklewood Studios for Butcher's Films, with Jerry Ver'no in comedy role. 'All Rights Reserved' closed at the Criterion, July 13, after 11 weeks, succeeded by 'This Desirable Resi- dence' recently tried out at the Em- bassy. William MoUison escorting the Cambridge University Cricket team to the Gaiety show, 'Gay Deceivers,' with team's captain conducting the orchestra. Aubrey Smith putting on a good .show In the cricket match of actors vs. schoolboys, with Cedrlc Hard- wicke and Laurence Olivier both out with no score. Godfrey' Tearle starring In new play by Bernard Merlvale, 'The Un- guarded Hour,' at Daly's, July 31. Show Is from the German of Ladislaus Fodor. Bela Lugosl will do a film for George King's Embassy Film Pro- ductions, titled 'The Vampire' of the Skies,' after he finishes current Hammer Productions fiicker. Jean Batten will have femme role. India Jan Rlno's band gets the call at Greens. Harlan and Janet Mllner booked for three months on the Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi loop. You can see an entire 30-reel, 15- part serial for a dime now. Cur- rent run 'Burn 'Em Up Barnes.' Taj Mahal Hotel is featuring 'The Hollywood Blondes,' none of whom are blondes or from Hollywood. Karachi getting first-runs ahead of Bombay. Film comes air mall. Current there, 'Devil Is A Woman' (Par). Quake at Quetta blew up three picture houses, none Insured,'but all owners escaped. No :Americans killed or hurt. Teetotalers Band, none of whom are teetotalers, doubling at Vla- nellis for cocktail dances and Wat- son's Bar for the rest of the Alght. Bombay has 17 producing film companies now; Calcutta, three. They bting In an average feature in 10 days. Even permit kissing In some - now. 'Imitation of Life' (U) no smash here, where the sad story of a cof- fee-colored gal 'is too well known. More than 20,000 Eurasians In Bombay alone. Bob' Flaherty, although here 16 weeks, still can't find a 'mis- chievous lovable boy' for the jungle feature he is to make for Alex Korda. Flaherty has location picked in Mysore but no cameras have turned yet. Tentative title is 'Ele- phant Boy.' The Hague By M. W. Etty-Leal Dutch soprano, Dl Moorlag, got married. A hew mushroom company, bill- ing- itself Blauwiand troupe, ^ at Hague, started a ' revue, "Today's the Day.' Schouwtooneel bought Holland flghts to English play, 'The "Old Ladles.' Mrs. Chrtspyn-Mulder to play lead. Theatre' Royal bills premiere of new play by Molnar, 'The Pastry Baker's Wife,' in Dutch version by Adolph Engers. Karseboom Cafe at Amsterdam one of the bright spots of cafe life In 1900, coming down to make way for a modern theatre seating' 1,600. 'New York Yiddish Actors gave farewell performance in Hague Theatre Royal ■ with Aleichum's 'Tevie the Milkman,'' and left Hol- land to tour Belgium. New palatial museum opened 'at Rotterdam after ceremonial per- formance in Municipal Theatre "of 'Halewyn' with music by the Dutch composer, William Pypers, . Another new venture on stage is a short revue with semi-pros and amateurs by Tonny van Otterloo.- It is labelled 'Tonny's Musical Cowboy Show' and lasts only 23 minutes. Mexico City By D. L. Grahams Lazar S. SamoiloIT vacationing here. Stevenson girls playing the Tea- tro Llrlco. Scenarists Joining Mexican Au- thors' Union. Carney fire eater blinded a' spec- tator and was jailed. Historic port of Vera Cruz has gone dry: civic government bans sale of all Ukker. No reason given. Big radio receiving set factory under construction at Monterey, near the U. S. border. Will open In August, Fernando de Fuentes, ex-local Par exec, signed as director for Pani Productions, S, A,, new native producer, to make three features during first year, Walter Gould, manager of UA's foreign department, visiting here. Arrived by rlane from Los Angeles with-Sam Seidelman, local UA man- ager, who attended company's con- vcntitjn. Native pic producers have started a move to Induce government to censor scripts of productions they propose; argue that procedure will ■be better than delaying censorship until pics are finished. Federal arbitration and concilia- tion board nixed strike move of em- ployees of biggest local bull ring to back up cushion renters In their .squabble with management. Board held that when one group of work- ers 'Is at odds with the boss, other workers can't strike In sympathy. Paris Jane Armstrong singing at Casaa nova nitcry, Doris Nlles and Serge dancing ak Lc Touquet. Llaette Lanvln of films'slerned fo^ Bouffes Parlslens. Sam and Bella Spewack stopping at Jo Davidson's place, Louis Lumiere getting Grand Cross of Legion of Honor. Max Ophuls to start 'Ei;emy,* with Simone Berriau, in August Film press agents' association of- fering prize for best poster by local artist. Marcel L'Horbler talking of mak- ing film of Oscar Wilde's 'Picture of Dorian Gray.' Newspaper Intrahslgeant to add two newsreel theatres, both down- town, to its chain. . ' ' ' Jacques Rouche, director df ParU Opera, getting high decoratlbn from Italian government. Rachel Berendt going to London to play In 'Circumstantial Evidence,' with Godfrey Tearle. 'Inspector Grey' new whodunit opening at Capuclnes, which spe- cializes In this type play, Dlno Alfierl and Charles Mere ex- plaining international copyright problem to Premier Laval. Jacques Feyder beginning 'Ker- messe Herolque,' to- be" made in French and German versions, Jacques Charles, Paramount stager, to Riviera for vacation Im- mediately after return from U.S. Marie Dubas to take femme- lead In Erik Charell operetta, 'Flying Trapeze,' at Mogador next season. ' Benolt-Leon Deutsch to reopen Nouveautes In fall with revival of 'Tonton,' operetta, to be followed by a Rip revue. . .Max Reinhardt passing througlt on way to Venice to put on 'Mer- chant,' then Salzburg music, festival, then Hollywood. New theatre group doing playa by young authors, formed. under title Compagnle Theatrale to give shows at Salle d'lena. Charles Boyer,- Pat. Paterson, Maurice Chevalier and other flimers, showing'up at -Monte Crlsto nltery just before summer shutdown. •Madeleine Rei\aud of Comedto Francalse and' films, to open In vaude at Geneva In Henri Duver- nois sketch, followed by poetry re- cital. French team, presumably comic, calling selves Likury and Hardel, making film called 'Mysterious In- vestigation,' directed by Max Do- rlgny. Minneapolis By Lea Rees Max Rivkln Injured In auto ac- cident in South Dakota. Star getting tougher on theatre, tie-ups since start , of new regime.' George Weeks, head of Gaumont- Brltlsh distribution, here from New York. Carlos Meleno band from Con- gress hotel, Chicago, now at Radia- son'Inn. Richard Arlen in Twin Cities par- ticipating in St. Paul Open Golf .tournament. City being fiooded with fake Irish Sweepstake tickets selling as low as one buck a throw. During summer slack,. Jack Male- rick, band leader, doing organ turn on WCCO, local Columbia station. Hasry Levnson and 'Sandy' Gott- leib, RKO and MG bookers, respect- fully, back from motor trip to New York. Eva Phillips, secretary to Ben Blotcky,' in St. Andrew's hospital recovering from appendicitis oper- ation. Selby Carr, head of Paramount ad department, playing host to hla mother, Mrs. Florence Carr, of St. Louis. University of Minnesota Play- house presenting new play, 'Land Ho, Sailor,' by William Davidson, St. Paul realtor. 'East Lynne' out of West hotel Moorish Room , after three weeks' run,' and T. F. Griel's plans for fur- ther mellerdramers abandoned. 'Golf Clinic,' staged by Star with admission free, drew 3,000 at even- ing session, entertainment including various shots illustrated by experts.- Mlnneapolls host for second suc- cessive year to American Associa- tion. All-stars vs. Minneapolis base-- ball game, with 9,000 crowd indi- cated. Break in electric current, caused by storm, halted shows in all movie houses for three-quarters of hour July 13 and necessitated many refunds. Teddy Blonlck, former Publix booker, to forsake WCCO 'Barn Dance' to become director of pre- sentations for Eddie Ruben's ex- panding circuit. Wife and' two children of Ben Blotcky, Paramount district man- ager, narrowly escaped Injury when auto wont over 90-foot embank- ment near Yellowstone Park en- route to Minneapolis from Cali- fornia. All the raspberries and cream a 'person can eat free at raspberry festival at Hopkins, lonal suburb. W. A. Steffcs, Theodore Hays, Merle Potter, Journal screen editor, and local theatre men comprised com- mittee that selected raspberry queen.