Variety (Sep 1935)

78 VARIETY IIMES SQUARE-SPOR¥S "Wednesdiajf September 25, 1935 News From the Dailies Thia department contains rewritten thealru.ai news items as Puh' Hahta Titirinirthe-is^k in f he d«'7l/.|i(iWfiW. P/..*L?2* .,?f?r*r.' Chicago, San Francisco, Hbtlyuood and London VAniCTT iufcia no credit for' (K'eae: leica items; each-has been rewritten from a dailj/ paper. East •Detectives grabbed Guptav Freer man on the Sicench ;Lihe pier last week and took away a whole trunk- fill of sweepstakes- tickets-.- Tickets said to be phoney. ; Dennis- KiiiB'," who-owns -the-5ng— llsh rights to 'Petticoat Fever,' to sail, for London to get production Jlnied iip, Roxy theatre getting so much more business these days the serv- ice staff has had'to be enlarged. , Mra." G«orge S. lfiaufmair,, wife of ,th^' playwilght, now .fiction, editor of likrpgr's Ba:zaa>. : Ma,x ,.Baer again/sued by ShiEley- ' La Belle; who alleges assault In a hotel room In '33. As^ to hold hliin In. the.ista.te...' '. Roof of jHoflls Street theatre, Bos- tort, caved -In' Wednesday, killing two of , the ineh engaged in de- moillshihg the, old house. ' Mayor La Giiardla anhoun,ces the sales tax will run another year. Stage Relief, fund to get the first ■ ^ay's receipts of' the Blue Room at the Lincoln- hotel Oct:- 2. •. Vivian. Johnson's .club at Monr moiith Beach, N. J., Just a heap, of ashes. Fire . last Thursday morn- ing. Loss $iO(),OQO.. . Sound apparatus at the RKO 6rpheum, Brooklyn, broke down, at 'S:45 Wednesday night (18) and after a quarter of an hour audience •• was so restless cops were .called; Rain checks given th.ose desiring them. At 9:30 refund. was made' to the 200 who had elected to remain in their seats. Bermuda officials bar women's halter "backs on the street. Joe Dunninger tells just how that London fire walker. did his , stuff, but doesn't-take-off his shpes, to demonstrate. .Gladys George made a surprise hitch .to Leonard Penn, In^ New Haven Wednesday. Penri, who was opening in 'Paths' of Glory,' ob- tained a waiver of the five-day law. She got back to N. T. In time for hep .own shoyv, .'Personal Appear- ances.' ' . . Camera Salon opens In Rockie- feller Center Oct. 1. Many novel Shots to exhibit. Miss Martha L. Kobbe, of S.P.C.A. starts a crusade to supply city . pigeons with seeds • Instead of bread, Says . - too much bread evientually kills the birds, i - S. S.- Rpyale,' Boston floating nlte club, burned Wednesday. /Manned by skeleton, crew. All rescued; Loss $5O,O0e-'$7S,000j' N./T. liquor stores forbidden to sell bitters. Grocers fear prafetlce will be followed by'sales of ginger ale, cherried, olives, and - crackers. Bitters, sold In drug stores and groceries only. Garbo celebrated her 29th birth day at'-her 'oottage' 60 miles from Stbckholm. Says sh^'s starting for Hollywood presently. . Women's Christian,. Temperance Uiiloh evolves the 'female moocher' with proper shudders of horror. She's the dame who drifts into a bar •with -a dime .ln...h,er...p.yrse,, hoofs up to' the brass rail and lets men buy her drinks. D?scrlbed as 'a new creature of the drinking world/ William Fox must pay the IS.r/ee.'SSa • back Income taxes., over -which he has been quibbling with the~interjjai_Ke.Y.enue.,._B.oa:Td finds that Pox, 'knowingly and willfully;'; made wrongful claims for exemp- tion In 1929 and 1928. Most of the tax Is due on the '29 return. Eight Negroes dismissed In a Brooklyn court where they were charged- with Ipitferlng. . They sang 'Old Time, Religion' and the Judge ;spruhf ..them. . Conchlta Mon.ten^ro and Rabl 'Roullen ' married .'• In. Paris last 'Wediiesday (18)-. . Katherlne Poillon Smith, one of the PoUlon slsters,^ dead. They, sup- plied the newspapers with scores of sensational, stories. . Vet Bdswell, of .thie Boswell sis- ters, overcomes her embarrassment long, enough to tell the. world she's been married more than a year to John Paul Jones, oil man. Claire De BuloW, former chorus girl,- through, her attorney asks the Supreme Court to require Maurice Manasse, broker, td submit to a blood test in the paternity case she- brought against the brpker three years ago. Shirley Dahl Alls in the. N. T. Supreme Court to obtain a separa- tion and maihtaliiance from Rpscqe Alls, alleging brutality. She says ho put the boots to her at his summer home In Ohio, .regardless of the fact they were entertaining guests. Emmerich Kalman, composer, su- ing Jjike Shubert to detei-mine what rights. If any, the latter has to Kal- ma,n's 'Miss Springtime,' 'Czardas- furstin,' 'Soldier' Boy,' 'Die Bajadere' and 'Yankee Princess.' Wants an ac- counting and permission to examine before trial. " Alarmed by canned beer, glass makers are planning a glass con- tainer which need , not be. returned. Central Park cop3 on lookout for duck-fishers. Kids use hook and line to take duck dinners; Berengarla first ship to . sail (Fri- day) Under the hew dry order. No bar or Stateroom service until after the ship cast off. Pa,ssengers and their guests had to resort to water- front liquor stores. Ships Ijave no state license. John Papadulll, soda Jerker In a 23rd street cE>.ndy store, the latest vocal find. Francis P. L.oubet, maes- tro; says hfi;il get ?i,000 a night after his first .concert. Says he's a Caruso. ' Asadata Dafora, who wrote and produced 'Kykunkor,' has a new one, •Ziinguru,'; based on Nigerian folk lore, \tfill assume the chief role with Abdulj[Assen In support. Details not yet aii'anged. ^Ifforrt being made to increase memrershlp of Brooklyn Instltute.of Arts and < Sciences, to. enable It to take over the Academy of Music Academy is the home of the Instl-^ tute. • ■ Eric Locke, beading a Paramount New York Theatres ri lltllltnnlnthlttnlllHlil^lltlllllHUllHHllllllltllllll(lMlltllll■lullltlllll •HmuiiilH|HiHmuuiiii;MigHiiiriiniiii)mHiitiiiiiiiliiimiMHniinHmiiiniNiiiiooiMmiuiiMqHiiiiMiiiim tiiniiiiiiiHiMHtiiiiiiiHiuuuuiiiiiiiiiiinHHiiiimHH. lilADlO CITi «"«*gS¥isR''° MUSIC-HALL. WILL ROGERS in "STEAMBOAT ROVND THE BEND" -pN^THE STAGE—"SPORTS" o revue ,ln Ave' colorful scendK, pT<>duced by lieoDldoff. Syinphoiiy: Orchestra. 71b Av.& 60tb 8i. 25*0 2 35*0 i Robt. Donat MADELINE CARROLL In "The 3p Steps" Pliia Blfj Slaao Show Billy-Hlir-Totniity Mack-othr. E^TRAl^"VOICE OF EXPIgRlENCEl" PARftMdUNti^iffi "THE BIG BROADCASr OF 1536" 25c TO 1 P. EVERY DAY. I,— ^SIUIqUa Aliovv 1 'Special Agenf with BETTE DAVIS , GEO. nRRNT-rRICARDO CORTEZ a' CMmopohtan Prod,' A Wiither Itroii, Picture RKO THEATRES 86^ ST. DTinAeTM S9t>t. 18*20 , "DANTE'S INFERNO". With Spencer Tracy and "One. Frlffhtened NiBht" 81" ST. W MOUMT Sept. 18-20 .r'D.4NTEH INFERNO" ■with Sp.encer Tracy and Daddy Rollers In "OLD MAN' RHYTHM" 4M nmnt GARHO-MARCH f^ANNA KAREN IN A" .. On llic StKBol LOUIS Endar& 3 RITZ SOBO L Farrell B ROS. Slaptj "CALL 9f th« WILD" Frliliv WIttr. Clarlr Grbia film unit in Spain, robbed of |442 and some papers by six men. It sounds better when stated In francs. He- la getting backsround stuff for a Marlene Dietrich production. Joe Kennedy, ex-FBO plx, resigns as chairman of the Securities and Exchange commtsaluii.-—• • - When she heard John Barrymofe had returned Tto the Coast, Elaine Barrle, his recent protegej-flew to Chicago to overtake him but he re- fused to speak to hen She went by train to- Kansas Cltjr .th.en,.)?ack to. N. Y. saying she had been told all's O.K. Actor says Is hooey. "William Krebs, a porter, winner of the fii'st prize In Mrs. Harrl- man's slospan coateat fpr Grand Na- tional Treasure Hunt. Says he'll -PUt .roost of the $20,000 In the bank. N. YT'"~PfillfiarmonTe^'Symphohy- adds about 600 to new subscribers' list. Friday dates favored. Carol Sax takes a third option on 'Rolling Skies', New England drama by Miss Leslie Cameron. May do it this timei. : George M. Cohan suing Maurice A. Richmond and Max Mayer, doing business aq the Paiil Pioneer Music Co., for $100,000 as royalties on his old aonga. They bought the rights at the sale of the effects. :of a bank- rupt publisher. ,. Ted Allen, who makes his living from the prize money won in horse- shoe pitching contests. In town, for a three weeks' schedule. He's the champion., Mrs. Frances Landau, of Denvllle, N. J., asserts that she and not Mrs. Delight Landau Is the legal widow of David landau, who ' died last week In Hollywood. Shows separa- tion papers and asserts that there never was a divorce. Received lier" last alimony Aug. 10, she says. Louise, Prince, of Bangor, Me., under surveillance because she threatens to. commit suicide unless Ben Bernle replies to her letters and telegrams. Never saw the..M£iestr6, but fell in lovo with his mike voice. Now that "World's Fair In N. . Y. is dated for 1939. To be held on a tract In Queens. James Klrkwodd joins the ranks of Jeeter Lesters. Joins the touring 'Tobacco Road' No. 3 company in Buffalo Oct. 7. Saturday night 10 Broadway shows played to capacity. Five of them also had rnat sellouts.' Josephine Dunn announces' she'll marry Carroll Case some time in November. Eddie Dowllng expects to have 'Agatha Calling' ready for a Phila. tryoiit Sept„ 30, with the following • week on !B' way. Greenwich Village artists making their fall sidewalk display of the sort of airt they can show on the sidewalks. Sam Jaffe and Hortense Alden Interested in 'The Gold Watch' from the Hungarian. Gilbert Miller liked It at one time, but not enough. Martin B. Jones, Jr., wh'6 ran a straw hat at l>obb's Ferry, now try- ing to get 'The Mulatto' a chaTice on B'way. Has downtown backing, it Is stated. Cleveland schools to try a course In chemistry with talking pictures. Theatre Guild reports subscrip- tions within 2% of last year's Al- ways some additional subscribers after, the first production; so it hopes to beat the figure. Katharine Cornell - home with a prize dachshund, which she tells ships news men is a fiance for her Sonya, acquired three years ago. Don Watt,'musician, reports to the police Mpnday 'ZZ) that his wife, Sara Allen, actress, has been miss- ing since Saturday. ' Department of Commerce bias been advised that Balrd and Mar- coni television systems will-- be in' operation next year. Radio Corp. of America also expected to be ready next year, it says. Harry Moses has an untitled mu- sical, book by Earl Grobker and music by Frederick Loewe. Hopes to put. it in work as :s6on- ias 'Old Maid' shoves oft for the road. Werner Janssen, who last sea- son ".was a conductor of adven of the N. Y. Philharmonic-Symphony concerts, seriously hurt in an auto accident near AUehtown, Pa.i Mon- day. All branches of N. Y. stage In a huddle with Hallle Flanagan Mon- day.' She's boss of the new W. P. A. theatre project. Proposition n.s.h. to theatre men. , Tuesday's fisticuffs no help to M.onday box offices; Out of .town^ ers didn't show up. Football By Benny Friedman CAPITOL "BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936" ' Jack Benhy-'Eleanpi* PqV veH 25c—10:15 A.M. to i P.M. Every Day Tommy Dorseiy wHr gt> CBS: artist bureau next, which connection will have him heading Joe Hayme*' band. Combo will be bllle;! as Tommy Dorsey's orchestra. Ccast Damage suit for $30,760 agalnst- Allco White as .result of Inju-lea' I'ecelved in traffic crash,, settled out of court; ' . William. Faversham joined vol-, Unteer flf6" fighting brigade to save home of- Hollywood hdighbdr. Testimonial luncheon tendered L.' E. Bchymer, Los Angeles impre- sario, by art, social and civic lead- ers for his Interest In cultural, ad- vance for the past 50 years. Sam Coslow ordered by court to pay his former wife $2,041 in back alimony. Testified that Coslow (Continued on page 79) —-Tfi«—annaal—aittumji .Jua^dxieps. Is here .again. The big battle of Yan- Hee .Stadium Is fresh, the world serifes .ls still In •the offlng, but;.he-. fore j^oU know It Saturday's millions are going to be out there, rain, cold or sunshine, rootlnir the boyfl. home. lip and down and across the na- tion, boys m schools and colleges ar6-haying their points .'worked off : to get in shape for the season. Coaches are anxl.ous, playerfj^^r^ .anxjpiis, alumni a^ anxiouis. Only the public Is not anxfdus—yet."" Without preconceived notions and. ba-slng predictions on wjir^ of mouth reports, this Is the way the strength of the. country seems to. be dis- tributed: In the east one of the duds of the last few years is about to come to life; Pennsylvania has. a team in thie making. Maybe the Gates^ plan is beginning to work, or It may be something else, but the 'word indi- cates that the Quakers are loaded, this year. Unfortunately they will meet 'Princeton in the opening game Oct 6. Thus facing the crossroads at the outset, the Quakers may be. made or broken right there. Harvard, beginning its new deal with Its, first non-graduate coach, Is still something of an unknown quantity. But like Lou Little when iie came to Columbia, Dick Harlow isn't there to fail. Yale looks good, as good as last year, but here, top, the grapevine cir- cuit says further developments are necessary. In New York It seems there will be at least three teams that will rank. Fordham has Whale of a squad and. should be able to do things. N. Y. U. may have its best team since '26. And Manhattan, trying to break into the big time for the last three years, seems about to realize its anibitiori. Columbia has a squad that is not up to the caliber of past material. It will be a new team and this time, at least, the Mournful Maestro of Mornlngslde Heights, Little, has reason to be pessimistic, j Elsewhere in the east the big gun again, It seems, will be Pittsburgh. The Panthers have lost a good many first stringers, but Pitt has the greatest amiouht of sophomore talent in its history. Jocic Suther-. land has a tough schedule to look forward to, but Pitt always has had fierce, schedules. Colgate will still bewilder with the razzle-dazzle. Andy Kerr, pace- setter when It comes to providing new tricks, is still one step ahead of the rest of the boys. Army and Navy will liave their usual fine te.ams, but this year Navy Is apt to bf> among the leaders. Navy also Inaugurated a new deal last year, with fine results. It's going to cap- italize further this year. Mid-West Perhaps the strongest current of pre-season ballyhoo Is coming from Columbus, wherevOhio State Is re- puted to be among the hottest in the country. The Buckeyes are be- ing touted as the next national champion, and nothing less will sat- isfy them. The rest pf the Big "Ten, from the way it now looks, will be led by last year's champion, Minnesota, which lost most of its team, but which still has Bernle Bierman as coach. That usually means trouble, ' Michigan will bie better than last year, if that's any consolation; Notro Dame is loaded. South Down south Alabama, the Rose Bowl champ has lost most of its .squad and the outlook Is decidedly bearish, but don't be surprised If the Tide comeg, up with a great team. 1'ulane, Diike" and. Louisiana State look good. In the southwest Rice seems to have the edge. It has a squad big in numbers' and size and, in addi- tion, has a great fullback nanieci Friedman (no relation). "Texas also has. a big squad, while Texas Chris-! tinn and Southern Alethodlst'are' still unknown .quantities. Coast Out on the. Coast Stanford lost only two men from the team thai won the conference championship and played In the. Rose Bdwl. If the Indians can learn to throw and de- fend- passes Stanford will be the toughest team }n its section to beat. Southern California , the klelg- Uls-sed sons'of Troy, Is said to be cuttlnq: out the folderol, and Is set- tling down to business. They should ba. better than 1934^ California is being primed for Its best sea.^on in a long while, while 'little' St.' •Mary's- TrlU-mako It hot -for -any ail of Its opponents. This Saturday Is mostly a warm- up for the big teams. Next .weeki they start to jget tough and we'll try to pick 'eiii. Oil Co. donating Name Act$ far Balto Qharlty ^howr Bowes to M.& Baltimore, Sept. 24, • Community fund of Balto, which annually drums up dough for mu- nicipal welfare relief, has taken the Fifth Reiglmeiit, Armory here for nlte of Oct.. !l4. Major Edward Bowes will come down from New York gratis to. bfflciate at the cele- brutlpn. Armory can accommodate 12,000, and show will be put oh at 60c. top, all proceeds going into com- munity fund coffers. The American Oil Company here buying name radio talent for tha benefit show. Through Ar- thur Booth, of the Joseph katz agency, which handles American Oil's advertising, the gasoline firm has already signed the Casa Loma ork. Negotlatlpns are under way to alse snag the Balto Symph Orch fcr the evening. Booth, in the mean- time. Is stin angling for two mora name radio acts, with American oil donating them fpr the shpw. Bowes was contacted direct by tho conimunlty. fund, and will be only one of the'lniported names not lined up for pay. Host of local little theatre and amateur thesplc groups will play the benefit that nlte, how- ever. MARRIAGES Carol Rosenbatim, non-pro, to Roy Chartler (Vauiettt), in Wash- ington, D. C, Sept. 21. Lucille Morrison to John War- burton, film actor, Aug, 14, in Tla Juana, Mexico. Beatrice Weihl, theatre cashier, to ^ Marsile Chinlquy, theatre manager, * Sept. 13, In Los Angeles. Conchlta Montenegro to Raoul Roulien, In Paris at the Spanish Embassy in Paris, Sept. 19. Betty McKay to Garland Jenks, Sept. 21, in Los Angeles. Bride la daughter of business manager for Mary pickford. Ellin Boyer, studio secretary, to Bob White, editor of L, A. Times Sunday magazine, Sept. 20, In Los Angeles. Evelyn Gertzman, studio secre- tary, to Bernard Leavltt, Santa Monica theatre operator, Sept 22, Jn Los Angeles. Ruth Mei-riam to Capt Earl Robinson, president of Motion Pic- ture Pilots Association, Sept. 19, In Los Angeles. Marianne Kernan to Arthur Focke, 3rd,. In Dayton, O., Sept. 15. Bride - is ih the WHIO commercial depart- ment. Rusty Gllckman, Broadway press agent, to Ruth Everett, .singer, Sept. 19, in New York, Gladys George, legit actress, to Leonard Penn, also legit, Sept. 18, in New Haven. Theresa Pepeto, Andy Sctte W. B. house mav..ager, Sept. 19, in New Haven. BIRTHS , Mr. and Mrs. J; Kelly Smith, son, in Chicago, . Sept. 17. Father is sales manager of WBBM, Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Will McLaughlin, daughter, Sept. B, In Ottawa. Father is picture and dramatic edi- tor of Ottawa Journal. Mr., and Mrs. Harry Marlcer, son, Sept. 18, in Glendale, Cal. Father is film editor at Reliance. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Stothardt, daughter, Sept. 23, in Hollywood. Father Is Metro musical director. Mr. and Mrs. True Boardman, daughter,, Sept. 23, in Los Angeles.' Father }s radio actor-writer. Mother Is former . Thelma Hubbard, KHJ dramatic -actress. HOTEL AMERICA 47"* St., & Broodway UNDJER NEW MANAGEMENT New Low Rates in Effect