Variety (Jul 1936)

84 VARIETY TIM ES SQ U ARE Wednesday, July 15, 1936 Broadway Dr. Saul Colin back from Europe. Leo Morrison in from the Coast by plane. Tom Naughton basking in Ber- muda solo. Ed Davidow at home under treat- ment for eye ailment. Tom Patricola left last week" for the shindig at Fort Worth. ' Phil Dunning gimping around his Westport place with sprained ankle. Shep Traube doing personal pub- licity for Major Bowes. Out of CBS. Gay Adams, out of 'Ambassador ho- tel garden and off for. Denver to act as bride's maid. William Randolph Hearst sailed Saturday (11) for Bad Nauheim, with 27 in his party. ' The Earl Wingarts are house guests of C. N. CVDell at his Long Beach summer chateau. Harry David and William Borack, of Par's Utah-Idaho theatre operat- ing division, in New York. Since Sam Lyons made Joy Lyrine the new Mrs., Sam is quite, a Con- necticut Yankee at Darien. Douglas Whitney, News sports writer, at the Sun and Surf club while his wife is in Alaska. ; . Howard Barlow, conductor for March of Time radio program, mak- ing .shorts at Par's .Astoria studios. '. Sarah Newmeyer, publicist for Museum, of Modern /Art', in New England lor six weeks, brushing off a play. . - . Arthur Coulter, Banger hockey player, in town for a hrief stay ."be- fore trekking to Calgary to hunt wildcats.• Irene Hamlin, who; went to Holly wood 6n 'visit, landed in 'Cain and :Mabel,' Marion Davies-CJark Gable film now in production. T 'Gracie Allen's Foolosophy' will be title of. daily article' comedienne is to wrife lor King Features. First yarn, will appear "in a. few. weeks. Robert : Ripley - luncheoned '15 .representatives of New York Asso^ ciation of. Boys' Clubs on Monday (13).'» Leaves' on world tour this week, ■• * Paul Gulick popped a high prize in. the Sweepstakes ! golf tourney Sunday (12) at the Pelham. Country Club. .' Even he was astounded by the score. Lee Galvln, vet with organization, has been nained to M. .M. Wright's spot'in public relations 'department of RCA, Wright resigned several weeks ago. . Walter Wangec .testimonial lunch eoheoV by -S. Rankin Drew Post of Aiiierican Legion, on Friday, at the Astor before- the producer left for Hollywood. Dallas- heat too much- for' Terry Turner, who is returning to New York. Harry Reiriers will act for him at Crime Prevention exhibit on ' fair grounds. ■ , . O. M. (Monte) and Helene Samuels passing through from New Orleans, en route to Mame for their usual six weeks. Due back oh Broadway in Sept. and then back to N. ' O: . . Irving Mills trained tor Holly wood Moriday (13), with -stop .off in Chi- cago; Will stay • on -the Coast for three weeks, returning.here for, one •week after which he sails for Lon- don, w • ■• Fortune Gallo tried to get a room near.Jones Beach last week after 'Student .Prince' opening and nearly got left .out A roadside inn three, miles away found some space for him. Diamond ring, formerly property of late Lillian Russell, which caused trouble between Dorothy Benjamin Caruso and Lillian Russell's daugh- ter, being auctioned off by Plaza Art Galleries. • Cannery Chappell, London jour- nalist; back home today (Wednes- day) after a Hollywood sojourn Irvirig\ Asher, E. E. Horton. Dietrich and Gfrantland Rice among those- sailing out today. Two young ladies', trying to be comfortable on one of last week's hot days, were reclining on a big shot's couch at Paramount smoking when Barney Balaban walked in— and were their faces red, : Madeline Foss', assistant to Paul Gulick, Universal's publicity chief, is retiring from the company's staff after 16 years in order to assist her husband in savings and loan associa- tion biz.. Miss H. Orford named as new aid6 to Gulick. The Hague By M. W< Etty-Leal -Dutch National Revue Co. -opens ' with a new show entitled 'Get Into the Sun.' Dutch actor Louis de Vries named to Legion of Honor by the. French republic. .* 1 Mengelberg, for first time in hid life; conducting the Hague residence orchestra at Kursaal in Scheven- in«en.- -..., . Yale Glee Club singing at Kursaal this week, conducted by Marshall Bartholomew; AVRO broadcast this " concert. - Grace Moore received, before her " performance at the Kursaal, Hague, two'gold medals, presented to her by the Kings of Norway and Sweden. Dutch Bridge Association negotiat- ing with Ely Culbertson to play in Holland. • Culbertso'n's- 'conditions are: > no pay if he loses, but a stiff ;ium if he wins. Berlin Circus Sarrasani to Potsdam. Ayako Karasawa radioing Japa- nese folk songs. . Tobis sending 65 kids on a four weeks' vacation. Thirteenth German Radio Exposi- tion, opens August 28.. Syndikat acquired Schmeling-- Louis fight pic (RKO). Mary Wigman and her dance studio current at Bach Saal. Sepp Hist signed by Leni Riefen- stahl for. her Olympiade .film spe- cial. Twentieth - Fox trade-showing Message to Garcia' and The Little Rebel.' . Jean Galland in from Paris for "Die Unbekannte." (The "Unknown) Anderson and AllenVand The Six Lai Fduns at the Wintergarten month of July. 'Anny Ondra radioing- her im- pressions of. her hubby's squabble with Joe Louis. . ^ -Wintergarten requesting " offers only from such acts as have not played Berlin yet. Michael Egan's play, The Domi- nant Sex,' acquired by the Berlin Deutsches Theatre; Marta Egeerth's;, 35th. film, *Where the Lark Sings' (Berha), now.be- ing shot in Budapest. • 'Fridericus'. (Syndikat), new Otto Gebuehr film, directed by Johannes Mavers, now in the making. . Harry Avers, formerly with The Four Whirlwinds, to Gotebnrg, Sweden, with his new act,. The Two Roilwinds. ' ' : Thirtieth- anniversary of Bros. Rose in management, of Hose the- atre, Berlin, with Gerhardt Haupt- mann's 'Rats.' '' „ ■ . Liebich Breslau (vaude), last Jewish directed theatre, has. gone Aryan, with Phil Lesing resigning and Manager Werschky in charge. Willie Mauss over from N. Y. for a month .at the Scala» .His first.Gerr mandate after bejne 15/consecutive yeTs.in Northland "South America. ZoDDot Forest O^ern (Danzig),* arranging a Richard- Wagner sea- son commencing Jiily 25, with Pro- fessor Robert Heger, of Berlin. • State- Onera. - Tobis^Magpa. oreriaring a new ski film, to be directed by Max OM1 wh" scr*» tt T)">id 'Abenteuer in ^n- saciin' (' Adventure in' the En- ga^in'), T«*"V first "i t*»'e series. Hans Wilhelm. Stei^er". new musical;maestro of the Berlin Je«'.» ish Cloture Lea*u<\ dentin"? with •» symnh^nle- ,cor»«ert !w;th lyn'-W hv ' Ernest Blo'eft Mahler and Tschai Belchs Film f!ha7«*.*r remind* thst.c^^ial owe r*>"niM b° nhqftt-"ed Berlin t>icti>re ^ous*" 1 the oij»?r>*>if? sens>>r> d' < * r,, fi°d nW+xtibn." >o"^ ■ films and in-and outside decorati*™. " Hilda Morena. back to Barcelona. Eddie Knoblaugh oft to the states. Pierre Clarel back from Havana - Hartley Manners sunning in Ma- jorca. Ganzalez Marin off to Buenos Aires. Paulina Singerman hack at . the Alkazar, Leslie Banks basking at El - Ter- rene, Majorca. Tale of Two Cities' (MGM) in third week at the Capitol. Maria del Carmen, Conchita Ro- mero and. Pastora Soler at Abascal. Spanish matadors' boycott driving Mexican bullfights back to Mexico. F. Hernandez Girbal resigning as manager of the Figaro, shocker film house.. 'Morena Clara* (Cifesa), Spanish language pic, in 12th week at the Ri-\lto. Pilar Calvo and Luis Maravilla, Maria Antinea and Roberto Ballet at Stamboul. Paulino Uzcudun had really pre- dicted Snhmeling's smacking of Louis locallv. Ann Barlev scripting a Dupont program for CBS and studyirig Span- ish on the S'de." Conchita Martinet and Carmen Amaya smashing .b. o. marks at the Zarzuela desoite the' heat. 'Santa. Rogelia' by Palacio Valdes scheduled for the Aranjiiez studios with E"riaue Campos in the cast. . Cas^eUana Garden, A^acoal, Stam- boul.. Ideal Jtosales and P^Vkan Rosa- les are the onen air niirht snots. Enrioue Pambal set for the Es- nanol for the summer, with Ana Adamur movtin/? to the Maravlllas. Presidepi.of JPortt?j»al.?T».d various fah'net rninistprs nftende'? shootin'T first reels of 'El Poeta Bocage' in L^hon; Benito Peroin me«"*'ng > 'Wnes^ra "Matach^' ('Our. N^tnchn'.), Aleiandro Cas"na's stage hit, ai the Aranjuez st.'*^ios. Lina V*i<»ros, P^ro^tx de Sentme- nat "«rtd '^'"•men 'R'»'1,rigtj.ez featured in 'La M'iio nai > being -shot at Le,- panto s tl tdios. An« Marin ■ Custidto s^'^rrP!d ! in •Centinela„Alerta! ('Sentinel, Alert'y- which Filmfono ia shooting at Rop- tence studios, Madrid. Production of 'La Noche de San Juan' ('Night of St. John') under way at. the T. R. E. C. E. studios with Jose Maria Lado heading the cast. Cifesa producing pic» Cast of which includes Rafael Rivelles, Pastora Pena, Blanca Negri, Manolito Diaz, Pepe Calle, Rafael Calvo and Concha Villar. ■' , Luis Cabezas' new 'International Film' outfit to produce 'Los Heroes del Barrio' ("Neighborhood Heroes') and 'Gigantes y Cabezudos' ('Giants and. Thickheads').' '• Jose Buche reeling 'El Rayo' ('The Ray'), adapted from a stage play by Munoz Seca and Lopez Nunez, with cast including Antonio Dieguez, Sal- vador Soler^Mari, Mercedes Prendes, and Rafael Lopez Somoza. Imperio Argentina, star of the record-shattering 'Morena Clara,' will start work soon in another pic for Cifesa, 'La Casta Susana* ('Chaste.Susana') which Florian Rey will meg. - Jean Gilbert will supply the musical score and pic will be. in Spanish and FrencB". Miguel Ligero, Maria Bru and Jose Calle in the cast. London Jack Petersen a oapa. . Olive'Groves "arid George .Baker, two- radio stars here, 'about to be wed. . Horace Reeves* parents celebrating their golden wedding. Senior was in-the agency business, too. The King's •Leisure' closed at' Daly's" July A, after, five : and a half weeks.. Paul Cavanagh now free. Victor-Barnowsky,. former owner of three theatres in Berlin and dis- coverer of Elisabeth Bergner, here trying for a hook-up. • ' Beatrice Lillie arid Reginald Gard- ner around the West-End taking in all the shows before, the former opens at the Cafe de Paris. ' Andre Chariot has given up the idea of staging revues at the Vaude- ville theatre. Instead Jhe will pro- duce straight shows there in 'the future. ' • • , Oliver Messel exhibiting • his sketches for the 'Romeo'and Juliet' costumes at the Leicester Galleries, with Charles Cochran ah interested spectator.. Betty Davies no longer with Wielarid's agency. Now casting director for Pascal Prod., newly formed. But still has a monetary interest in .the^.former company.- Charles .. Peniey, Faramount- Astpria. stage director, producing the big show for Radio 1 Olympia,"- week of .July 20, -with Peter Bernard, American, as master of ceremonies. Management of 'Spread it Abroad,' revue at the. Saville theatre, having trouble, in -getting a^replacer for Dorothy IMckson, who is vacating to go into the new Drury Lane show: Alice . Deiysia, Binnie Hale and Florence. Desmond .thumbed the proposition. ' Paris Pittsburgh By Hal Cohen A. W. Bachelder in town- beating drums for Marx Bros, unit Irving Aaronson has the, youngest band in his career, riot a man over 23. • Bill - Scott cancelled a European trip because of his mother's illness. Beatrice Lewis has finished three new one-acters for tiny Kilbuck theatre. " Jack Bernhard and C. J. Latta train out tonight (15) for Hollywood once-over. s. Ed (Hip) Segal has.turned up in Buffalo on managerial staff of Gran- ada theatre. . Harry Martin off for Fort Worth to company-manage Sally Rand's Nude Ranch. .' . - -Variety Club's annual golf tourna- *ment set for Westmoreland C. C. Monday (20). ' Shirley Heller pulls out foT some Chi cafe dates when she winds up at Villa Royale. Eddie Palkot in Westport, Conn., directing apprentice. group at Coun- try Playhouse. ' Willows' deal for Jackie Heller to head a band there has fallen through. Dough trouble. Marc Daniels, assistant stage man- ager of 'Dead End,' is Danny Mar- cus of Pittsburgh. George Seegan will manage show Boat for'George Jaffe when nitefy reopens riext month. > • Oscar Levant here to see his fam- ily . before hitting out for Coast and post with Sol Wurtzel. . Roy Rowe, one-time Warner man- ager, nominated by Democrats,,for North Carolina State Senate. Senator Frank' Jr Harris tossed party for nephew, John Harris, on latter's 36th birthday last week. Film Row friends plotting testi- monial dinner to Bert Steam, just, upped to d&Wefcraanagersbipby UA».. Ann Morgan in town. Yvonne Leduc on tour. Gaby Morlay to Egypt. Agnes Capri due at the ABC. - 'Marie de la Nuit' opening at the Rex. Josette Day and Jeanne Boitel b&clc* * ™ " Con Colleano at the Kursaal, Geneva. ' . ' -. • ••' Paris hot for 'Country Doctor' (20th-Fox).: ...... Maurice Chevalier dickering with Jo Bouillon. Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Griffin (Irene Dunne) here. Joan Warner nude-showing at the Casino de Paris. - . Cervantes' 'Numance' to be adapted to the Paris .stage. J. Richard to make all-color pix of Hungarian gypsies. . Evanova, -MisS: Venus 1936, signed for music-hall here. 'Modern Times' (UA) into fifth month at the Marigny. Jean Copeaif deplores the death of !Tragedy'in France. Cecile Didier, star of 'L'Heure H,' writes verses on the side. Germaine Aussey. and Marcelle Chantal going on vacasb. Folies Bergeres' Nicoel Dumas singing at Vie parisienne; •' "Jean Fontarige,-Charles Fallot and Barbara La-May on tour. Wanda Muth, star , dancer of the Chatelet, on a tour to'America. Theatre Saint Gorges to reopen with .'La Femme en Fleur' in. Sept. Premiere of '3-6-9' postponed be- cause of failure of sfage-machinery^ Renee and Henry of the Casino de Paris at Grand Duchess Helena's ball. Marx Brothers' 'Night at the Opera (MG), hitting fifth week at the Olympia. : - ~ . Lino Cafenzio, Mistinguet's partner in .the . Alhambra revue, signed for the London Palladium. • *'■'.'' Conservatoire National de Musique going through yearly rigmarole of singing, acting and. music contests. Marcel Stern arid brother Eiriil giving finishing touch to 'La Petite Gare' ('The Little Station') operetta Mary Marquet and Rdger Gaillard to have leading parts in 'Helio- gabale' at Orange's Antique Theatre; • Jean Benoit-Leyy,, to meg Vickl Baum's 'Helen' with Madeleine Renaud and Helen Manson starring, Simone Mareuil has the femme' lead in 'L'Amant de Madame Vidal,' CMme, 'Vidal's Lover'). Philiipe Gavibert and his Gonser vatoire .Symphony. Orchestra to sup ply music for 'Un Gfarid Amour de Beethoven,' 'Beethoven's' Great jLove' Abel Gance pic; - - New Haven By Harold M. Bone • Jimmie Mahon under the weather briefly. ■ ^_ Ben Cohen entertained a stiff neck for a week. ' ' Walter Slezak totes around a mutt tagged. 'Angel-Face.' .Senator Matt Daly gets photoed at all the WPA premiere's. Frances Joannes helping out her pappy as asst. stage mgr. . Audrey Davis to Austria following •Winterset' at Stony Creek. Douglas Gilmore back with Guil ford Players after brief illness. . Clayton Collyer, playing a. straw hat here, landed WB 30-day option. Jessie' Royce Landis hops from Stony. Creek to Skowhegan .for try- out; ' ' . . 'Jonfire to Glory,' by Katherine Roberts, gets Stony Creek tryout soon. . WPA supervisor Walter KlavUriy now in Bridgeport, will put on 'Cel- lini/ an original in 14 scenes. Conn. Players will try out 'Murder by Appointment' by Paul Burney and Bernard He'rshey at Milford, week Aug. 10. Chicago Dick Voyno.w now on the Coast. ' Frank Schreiber hiking east for a spell. Bill Crouch back from his honey moon. —* Ramon and Renita into Palace, July 17. ' Paul Cohen back from Cincy for a visit with 'the folks. Doring Sisters to - guest on the' Carnation Milk show in August. ' Just back from Europe',' Judith Waller lammed for the Carolinas for a look-around. Emilio Ascarraga, owner of XEW, Mexican radio station, and Alemeda •theatre, making rounds of the loop, spots with Ed Voyhow. ' ■' , Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor; and his frau. passed through town on his"' way to Hollywood, where he will take the part of the dean, in 'Green Lights for Cos- mopoUtflBb. , ...... - , i 1 Hugh Grady here.'en route t<Jt. Hawaii. i' Sam Kerner joined the. fiolder* Lang agency. Joe E. Brown bought a ranch at Canoga Park. • . . . Lou Diamond remaining on Coast another week. Lou Golder planed to Victoria and Vancouver'on biz. • ; Mae Clarke is writing-coupla tuaea with Gene Autry, * • - - Dave. Diamond is leaving tT when his contract expires. Gail Borden, Chicago Times drama editor, ogling studios. Ben Piazza'goes to San Francisco ' weekly., for diet advice. Mary Jane Russell, sister of Rosa- lind, set for tests at Metro. Barrett" Kiesling in Hollywood hospital for abdominal, op. Gene Autry has taken up his option on Smiley Burnette. Clara Kimball Young set for part in >'Ohi Suzanne,' at Republic. ; , Leon Wolf added to cast of 'ParhelT for El Capitan run. Gene Fowled spends many of his. evenings at the p'olice station. Bud Lesser joined his-, father's father's publicity department Sol Rosenblatt in town , on legal business and Democratic politics. . ■■■ •Jack' Benny and- Irvhv S Cobb en- tertained by,Elks during convention. Effie - Shannon and Edith Barrett. in from New. York for 'Parnell' legit spots. ■, Irene Hervey has obtained con- tract release from Metro to free Mei Riddle anil Pat" Paterson re- signed from Par publicity, depart- ment. " : ' Emanuel Cohen ordered, general overhauling, of. General Service. Studio. Sir Guy , Standing laid. up for coupla day? from spider bite -while fishing.' Jack Weiner. joined Joan Kahn and Harry Green as partner in agency. ■. * - . . Leon Wolfe planed into Mexico to do research lor Leon >Schlesinger"s cartoons. '. ' ■ Lester Markel, Sunday mag editor of N. Y. Times, breezed in * for studio o.o. Harry Wurtzel carries a pocket compass to find his way around Hollywood. Mary Alice Rice ' arrived from Broadway to make her picture debut., at Universal. . •Sir Cedric \ Hardwicke in from: London for Coast preem of 'Nine Days a Queen.' William. Mueller, of Warners sound department, east to looksee new equipment. Columbia Pictures has asked L. A. county equalization board to reduce , $574,200 taxation, . . .. ^ \ Eleanor HUnt left' for London to,, appear in 'On Your. Toes,' which. sta*s»Glifton; .Webb. • Arthur Schwartz planed in to- start work on ^s/;ore of next-Lily ^Pons film at Radio. ' Lelarid Hayward and Sig Marcus planed to Kansas City to pick up former's private ship. ; George Boles, vet legit manager, seriously ill in Tahiti, where he' has made his home for years. . • ■ v ' Kay' Linaker, now- in -Call It a Day' a*t the El Capitan, set for spot in 'Parnell' at same house. Bill Roddy, oldtime legit agent re- covering at Veterans' hospital fol- lowing attack of jaundice. . Charles Teske hired by Warners to stage special dances for 'Cam and Mabel' production n'uiriber. Clifford Odets returned to New York to attend rehearsals of his stage play,' The Silent Partner.' Frank Morgan will plane east to visit his ailing mother after he fin- ishes in 'Piccadilly Jim' at Metro. , George. Bourne, MG assistant lenser, has gone to Utah to catch shots of locusts plaguiriff country, Corinery Chappell has planed out for New York to beat it back to • London after conferences at Metros Roger Eerrl and William C. Gehr- ing here from N. Y. to.mull sales with John Clark and Darryl Zanuck. George R. BatCheller and Maury M. Cohen back from long stretch m ; New York. Both talk'ng new ui- dies. ■ '.. Lon YoUng checked out at Chesterfield and Invincible last week after suping for two years on 30 filmsi • .; ; George Regas goes to New YorK to negotiate spot in Broadway plajj • upon completion of Three in Eden ; (WB). J ' Allen Saunders, picture ed or Toledo News-Bee, and Virginia Sturm; Of Dayton News, ogbng studios. , Steve McDonald, head of the Metro florist shop, will direct 'Why Leave Home' on 16 mm.' film fot the studio Cinema club. „ Herbert Moulfon, head of Par shorts department, also will handle production of trailers. Herman Hoff- man will assist. • Delia Lind, Viennese operatic star, reached Metro for first picture jo» here. SLe was sighed on strengui of tests made in Austria. W. G Fields, recovering from pneumonia, has been transferrea from Riverside, Cal., hospital to Pasadena sanitarium. Expected fcacjc itawerk in two monthi. • ■