Variety (Oct 1936)

Wednesday, October 28, 1936 TIMES VARIETY 61 Football By DICK FISHELL T^e half-way mark ..has been passed, and as . we settle down fdr the home stretch there are so many things that are obviously true that we might mention. Minnesota's undeniable consist- ency in beating down opponents to win games; ..-Holy Cross' playing with 12 men. ..Dame Fortune hav- ing no little to do with her pulling games out of the bag and remai ing one of the unbeaten. ..Fordham's , stone wall defense can be rated with the best in,the land and Syracuse's poorest season in 2Q years. With the avid plea, 'Con't Bet on Football Games,' here we go again! ittsburghrForOham Defensively, there's none better than Jim Crowley's Rams. The highly touted Gaels were set back with ah average of minus yards for their total by the fast*chafging Maroon li ! The Fordhamites are Vicious in their defensive tactics, but offensively there's little cohesion; The Panthers, by defeati Ohio State without resorting aerial maneuvers, and by . swamping Notre Dame,' have proven themselves to be one of the best powerhouses in, the land. Led by. 18-yea.-old Mar- shall Goldberg and Bob La Rue, Pittsburgh's scoring the day should exceed the Rams, if there is any scoring done at all. Northwestern-Minnesota Sere's one of the J best two games the country. The Gophers seem There, as wc pointed out in the pre- vious column, is a question .of mid- western manpower versus eastern football. Two elevens from the -At- lantic Seaboard, ..with the material fairly well matched. The smarter and more experienced Columbia boys will outfox Ithaca's Sopho- mores and make, their coach's wife a very happy "woman. Pennsylvania—Navy After three year's, Penh seems to have just , about come, into its own; Princeton served as the awakening arid Brown helped to make the Red and Blue cognizant of its own power. Navy is strong and gains plenty of yardage, but the trouble is Navy gains it between the two 20-yard lines and they never pay off that area. Bill Curlish, the Quaker full- back, is the. best backer-u'p in the business. : He'll stop the Middy dreadnaught and Penn marches on.'. io State—Notre Dame The.'worst drubbing in years was administered to the: Ramblers last week. They just, don't seem tot, have it.' The- Buckeyes probably aren't all they Were cracked up r to be in Sep- tember, but there's enough talent and clever manipulating:;.to make Notre Dame buckle once agai . Carnegie Tech—Purdue , The Boilermakers are smarting under the terrific lacing they re- ceived from Minnesota. They vowed at outset of the season, out of Probable Football Winners and t Odds October 31 By Dick Fishell (Inter-City Network Sports Commentator) (Predictions- based on fair Weather.) Copyri , 1936, by Variety, to be impregnable; they mow down one foe after another. Bernie Bier- man is undoubtedly in a class by imself and succeeds to the spot held by the Immortal Knute as the outstanding, mentor, is decade. There's only .'one team, in this entire nation that has the remotest possibility of handing Minnesota a setback, and that hap- pens to be the wildcats' of North- Western. Waldorf, coach at Evanston, has come " up very fast. He's got material and his team' is re- puted to be the best blocking outfit on the grid map. The Gophers', if not fat With luxury, should'continue to roll .along and .sweep the Cats from their door. Dartmouth- had a breather., against Rut- . and kept their wi ing streak intact with victories ..over Cornell, Penn and Navy. The Big Blue .team- should be rated a favorite over the defeated Hanover Indians, But Yale's reserve- material is nil. They lost the best blocker and kicker on the squad iri Dave Colweli; via the ap-. pendicitis route. Dartmouth put- played Holy Crofce, despite, their, loss. It's our thought that Earl . ik's team will- wear down : New Haven team to wi Army-Colgate The Cadets' only test so far has been their triumph over, the Colum- bia Lions, while the Red Raiders ap- pear to be weak up iri front. Army's hard-driving forward wall should ?Pjll the Colgate backs before they fiai momentum, And what's more, this game is being played on the Plains of West Point. 'Nuf said for the Army. Columbia-Cornell Mrs. Lou Little feels terrible about her husband's loss. Michigan. respect to the memory of their team- mates who were killed in an. acci- dent, they would not lose a game ail, year. They will bound back to .snow Carnegie Tech under. Michigan'—Illinois The Sophomores of Ann Arbor are on their way. It took them just about a month to get up the steam and Columbia was. the stepping stone used. These two veteran coaches, Harry Kipke and Bob Zuppk'e, have a longrstanding rivalry. This time it will be Kipke. Temple—Holy ' iJndefeated-^untied-^-and Unpaid— is the cry at Worcester, Mass., the place that the Crusaders, call home. They just, eked out several of these victories with; the rabbit's foot play-; ing a prominent part; Pop Warner's system at Temple has given Uie Qwls a fairly good record,. Their only loss was to Carnegie Tech and they'll take the Crusaders put of the. immortal class this week. Kentucky—Alabama • Kentucky football has been over- rated since .'Shipwreck' Kelly went into pro business. The Crimson Tide will be slight favorite .and. the slight margin should gai victory. LSU—Vanderbilt Louisiana State continues' to show surprising strength iri every depart-, rrient of the game. Air that, Ray . Morrison has in Vanderbilt is a pass and a prayer. The pass is all right but it seems as if his athletes are not religious, enough. Louisiana is the dark horse for the Rose Bowl.' Stanford—UCLA The initials are potent whili Stan- ford's having .a lot of difficulty, win- ning its first western . conference game. Wins over California and i Oregon State make UCLA the choice here. v Princeton^-Harvard Another Big 3, game that mustn't be omitted." Harvard has nothing and Trinceton has shown a lack of a punch... But the Tigers will ..prance, all over Harvard Stadium to anni- hilate the Harlow team. California—Washington State Here's , one that's fairly even on paper arid Washington State by vir- tue: /victories over .'Oregon arid Stanford is the logical favorite.. But who ever heard of a football expert being logical, arid so we'll pick Cali- fb'rni >.' Indiana—Iowa Iowa still has Ozzie Simmons, but Simmons' ; is no. longer the phantom he was of the turf, a year ago. Beau McMillen convinced his moleskiners that they . have something. and they're starting to believe him. Indiana will grab this one by at least a touchdown. BEEFSTEAK CHARLIE TO PROTECT THE NAME Charlie Chesser, the ori inal 'Beef- steak .Charlie,' out to, protect his title, instituted suit ih\N. Y. Supreme Court Monday (26) to restrain the New Beefsteak Charlie's Bar & Grill, Inc., from using that name. David Karitor, secretary and manager of the corporation, is also. named de- fendant. Chessar seeks an order for an accounting of profits made by the defendants since the opening of their place at £16 West 50th street, the scene of- the original Charlie's 18 years ago, 'Argument on the mo- tion will be heard Monday (2), / . To r back up his claim to exclusive right! to the title of /Beefsteak Charlie,! Chessar, through his at- torney, Theodore U. Delson, submits affidavits by John Chapman, col- umnist of the News,- Charles Free- man, concert and radio manager of the New York Philharmonic,orches- tra, Lady Wilkins and others. "Each declare they had beeri. 'misled' When passing the defendant's place • into: believing it was the inal. Charlie's. In his, complaint, Chessar explains, he. opened his. first place at the 50th street address in 1918. He threw a party for newspapermen and Broad- way notobies of the day. As a re- sult the papers the. following morn- ing, ran stories of the affair, calling his place 'Beefsteak Charlie's.' . The name stuck and his rep Was made; He.' expanded until a few years later he bad a half dozen places running iri Manhattan. , When depression came, Charlie lost a fortune in the market. His places, closed and. for several years he worked as a . manager of . various places. Finally he. got enough to open a place .at Third ave'nue and 41st street. He now. wants to re- establish himself on the WestVSi under' his original name. Kantor said last night his corpor- ation had , bought the name from Chessar last January. The' corp. controls, a chain of similar places un- der the 'Charlie' title: Odd Fellows Odd • Classing hotel arid restaurant pro-; prietors. who sell beer or liquor for consumption the p-emises with saloon, keepers arid bartenders. In- dependent, Order of Odd Fellows in Michigan last week ' barred them from membership in. lodge.- Saying there are 68,000 members i state,. Andrew J. Brodie, Detroit undertaker who was elected Grand Master, declared, 'however, that it was impossible estimate how many, of these, will be afTscted .by new ruling. Lodge also .Went ori rec- ord asking for stricter enforce- ment .state', liquor law, 'which :\ Puid eliminate dancing from, beer gardens.' BIRTHS Mr. ;'Mrs. Charles Einfeld, daughter, ' New- York, Oct. 20, Father is advertising chief of War- ner , -Mr., and. Mrs, Benny Cohan, * Oct. 20, in Los Angeles. . Father is camcra.rnan v/ith Principal Picturest Mr, and Mrs. Henry Spitzer, son, Oct. 24, in N. Y., their first; Father is head of Chappell's, music pub- lisher; mother is former]' Madge Smiley, musical comedy.. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hill, son, , in Jackson, Mich. Father is general manager of "WIBM, Jackson. News From the Dailies . .. This department contains returitten theatrical neuw items as pub- lished during, the tueek In the daily papers of New York, Chicago, San Franci'scoV 1 Hollywood and: London. Vamsty takes no credit for these news items; each has been rewritten from a daily'paper. East 'Abie's Irish Rose? in drydock: Will push off again after recasting some Of the small assignments.. Will be kept out on the road' until ready for B'way revival. : Met announces it will do. Dr. Dam- rosch's 'Man.'. Without a Country' some time, during the spring- but can't say just when. Stravinsky to write a new dance: for the American Ballet. May be ready for spring perfOrmarice. Effort- ori foot to make Musicians Emergency Fund a permanent set- up.' . ' > ■ Leslie. Howard reported to Boston police last week that Mrs. Howard had. been robbed Of $14,000 worth of jewelry; evidently by a hotel thief. .Elaine Barrie in the 'Petrified For- est* company at- Brighton Beach theatre. Practise for her film con- tract; London ' musical union bans bag- pipers as not being musicians within their sense of the word. Theatre men huddling with Trunk Line association for better railroad concessions, including reduced rates on scenery and coach tickets- for pullman rides. . Richard Whorf writing a, coihedy. Locale is a. cockney laundry. • Eddie Cantor's personal effects from his Great Neck home to tie auc-' tioned this week. He's going com- pletely Hollywood. • William GaxtOn plans an experi- mental theatre next summer. Has not picked his spot, but wants-a . try- out . for musicals,- which 'are too heavy for the usual strawhat/. Cornelia Otis'.Skinner will open her N. Y; season in December. : Carol Stone gue^st of honor at the Drama Comedy Club at the Astor last Friday. Others were Helen Menken, Billy House, Frarifc .Vosper, Emlyn Williams, Anrie Nichols, Thomas Cook,, Ada Patterson. Amateur Cinema League gave' a dinner last Friday at the Roosevelt. Some 400 'personal filmers,' as Prexy Stephen F.. Voorhees calls 'em* lis- tened to talks and watched a show- ing of 16mm filni. Also an exhibit of early devices, including the Edi- son home machine and the Spiro- graph, as well , as a camera used by the former Ki of Siam, who is a league member. >,>iMii iMlilllHlilltiniliriilinitllnnnlnfTnpiriiriifitiiiinii' l^'lllll IIIIIIMl(l|lllllllli||i|tinillllli(MU|i>MllllillMIIH1IIMIIMl Paul Whiteman to direct a concert at the N. Y. Hipp Dec; 1, with the Phila. orchw Joint benefit for the band and Whitetnan's Hall of Ameri- can Music. Mario Chamlee, of the Me,t, ; put up $15.80 on a speeding charge in Al- tbona last week. Told the cops he didn't know he was in the city limits. Ruth Miller,' also , of the Met, with him in .the car. Amelia Stiiiingg Heymanri,; forriier chorus girl,; asking $50 a week arid counsel feis ihi het suit for alimony and divorce from Paul. Heymann, son of a .whisky king,- Says he's a brute, though she tops him by about 40 pounds. , Decision' reserved. .' Columbia Theatre .Associates formed at that university to conduct a theatre laboratory.; Theatre Guild has a (Continued ori page 63) ■Z 3 ■- = 3 - MARRIAGES <* Gwendolyn Waflj.to Ray Jones at Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 15. Jones is Los Arigeles Newspaperman-publicist Virginia Nisseri to Vincent Ma- honey, in Los Angeles Oct.; 22. Bride formerijr Worked iri the Paramount studio casting office, . and Mahoney did newspaper ■ stints on L. A. sheets. Martha Townsend to Jjee Bastajian- at San Francisco Oct. 22. Both are connected: with the sports department of the L. A, Illustrated Newsi Dorothy Marguerite Hill to Frank Tashli at Westwood, Cal., . 24. Groom is Tish-Tashi, thfe 'comic strip • artist and director for Leon's Schle* siriger's ; cartoons, and bride is a fadi singer) . . Cecilia Hermsen, non-pro, • to Le-. land Mischnick/ riia.nager ;of ■; the Kiva, ? Lincoln, :Neb., Oct.. 19, Lincoln. Phyllis Rosenberg, daughter. Mike Rosenberg, president Of Prin- cipal Theatres,' :L. A., to .Lester Blumberg, . in Metro . studio's' adver- tising department. Oct. 23, Las Vegas, Nev. "• }'• ",.v. Hilda . Bookheim,' nbn-pro, • to Joe Lefkowitz, •' manager of Proctor's Troy, N,Y„ Oct. 18, in New .-York. Virgihia: Desmond to;Eddie Garvi cameraman, Oct.; 25, in Yuma, Arj' tmiiHuitpti^tiHi«imuoro|i>HiHWilu*M llll iniUlHWfltMtMWHlltoltfllltnilliniHlHcflflHtlUiMlMlHl^l * ■-' - " v i| M k m It'" HIMlimMlllllW PARAMOUNT. 1 "" 59 " I AQUAHE I K£L>1> OY1SK "The ^Broadcast of 1937" RA CITV T MUSIC HALL "A WOMAN REBELS" with KATHERI HEPBURN roductions Hit . A r. 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