Variety (Feb 1937)

60 VARIETY TIMES SQUARE Wednesday, February 10, 1937 ews From the Dailies This department contains rcuiritten theatrical news items as pub- lished during the week in the daily papers of New York, Chicago, San Francisco^ Hollywood arid London* Variety takes no credit for these news items; each, has been rewritten, from a daily paper. East Lone gungirl held .up Chin -Lee's eatery in ■ imes Sq. last Wednesday. Got away with $70. Air show at Grand Central Palace did so well it's to be made an annual. Cab Calloway, through a proxy, contributed $5 to uptown traffic court. ' Doing 54 per on the Harlem speedway; National oard of ; Review, a three-day session the Pennsyl- vania Hotel. Vinto n Freedley, in Coral. Gables, tells the world musical comedies will. be out presently unless a new crop of comedians develop. All the old ones, he says, are in Hollywood or on the air, : . Pearl Buck tells the Nat. Board of Review that the real menace of pic- tures is 'the occasionally false out- look on life' they create.- Thinks ' many' suicides might be traced to the 1 influence of films. A. L. Jones , back with a musical, •Orchids Preferred.' Due' around Easter.' Paul. Berney has doubled with. S. Ghauncey .Olman ••. for production. Will' produce a number of plays, . most of which have bjsen previously announced.''' '.,. . Mrs: Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch in from Europe Thursday "with her head In .bandages, due to the rough trip. Widow of the former conduc- tor of the Detroit Symphony and daughter of Mark Twain: , .- David Sarhoff lands Toscanirii. Will plaice him at the head of his fown symphonic orchestra for RCA Broadcasting and concert work.' Will be given time out to take his crew to Palestine each yean Contract is for three years. Lolita Cordoba, rhumba dancer, 'pulled off the Berehgaria by her re- cently acquired husband, Prescott Van Wyck. Explained he had to re- ; main In the U, S. 6n account of law- suits. '" ";. r Artef Players. (Yiddish) to go on fbuxl in mid-April. No new produc- tion meanwhile. Theatre Union has cast 'Matching Song' and is Tehear$ing for a. debut next week (17). Federal liquor takes for 1936 $110,- 687,158 over the soak for '35. . Drama League of N. Y. gave a dinner at the Pierre Sunday In honor of Nati Drama Week! Grant Mitchell was toastmaster. Gustav Tihlot, coricertmaster of the Rochester Symphony, out. Alex- ander • Leveriton replaces.. Reported to be due to a tiff with Jose IturbL . Katharine Cornell Foundation backing the local run of Remo Bufano's marionette show at Mac- Dowell Club. Dora jeda, hatcheck girl .at 1 Chico, niteryi stabbed Doris Roy in an argument over Cesar Conception, trumpet- player, Don Alberto's orchestra.• , Group Theatre offering' life mem- berships at $100 to establish a fUrid for next season's, productions. Vilhjalmur Stefans'son elected prexy of Exploiters' club*. Lowell Thomas is 2nd v.-p. Will of the late Martin Johnson probated in N.' Y. court. His widow, gets bulk of the estate. Katharine Cornell to revive 'Can- dida.' Will alternate with 'Wingless Victory.' Eight performances a week of the Anderson play too mucji of. a strain, she says:, , 'The White Bird,' American opera by Ernest Carter, • with libretto by Brian Hoqker, given a single, per- formance . at. the Hudson Sunday night. Had already been done in Chi- cago and Germany Uday Shar-Kan to give four mpre dance recitals at the 46th St. r Talullah Barikhead in Washington for 'Reflected Glory' and b e * dad sees her for the first time in two years. .' Press photpgs to hold their annual dance at the Commodore April 9. Robinson Smith, who is in with Eddie Dowlirig on 'Richard II,* is fig- uring on sponsoring Theatre Union's production of 'Life and Death of an ATncric&ii/ ■. Chalmers Clifton; of-Columbia Uni- versity, to take over the Federal Music project in the N. Y. area. Suc- ceeds Lee Pattison, who went over, to the Met. . Owen Davis working, with Arthur Tiraih .on 'Mr, Tutt Comes Home,' play using the familiar Satevepost character.'' Title of <Sam J» Park play chopped from 'Driftwood in the Eddy* to just 'Driftwood.' Due in March, •Country Wife*- Co. partied Roger Livesey and his bride after Monday night's show. Mrs. Livesey (Ursula Jeans) 'given a loving cup. Fortune Gallo, with.. Columbia Concerts Corp., to re-form San Carlo wtintiii«iuimili«i>uiiiiUitiiHulmiuo«i«*muii» ■MIMHII wiiidttiumi nh^untuuj intiiuiHiiiniiniiiiiiuiiiittiiuwiMHUUiiiiinMwwi »ir.MinnnaMiiia«iimHMiiinNnniminiiKinmimmiM IlimiilllMIMIII^IiHIIIHMIIWWMIllllMWItlllHIHIW unitiiiniuiniiiiiiiiHiniMiatinMii. PARAMOUNT 1 ^'*". HEtD OVER "CHAMPAGNE WALTZ" -OX THE STAGE— FRED WARING HIS ORCHESTRA YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE' with HENRY FONDA and SYLVIA SIDNEY UNITE? ARTI8T6 RIVOLI rWAV ■( 4tm «i capitol m THIRD 16 WEEK ! GARB0 - Robt. TAYLOR "CAMILLE" em" MUSIC HALL "ON THE AVENUE" Spectacular Stag* Product; • sotbt*. RO X Jf "HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE" —ON THE STAGE- LUCILLE PAOE ' \ AND OTHERS STATE WILLIAM POWELL bTvkna LO\' 'After The Thin Man' —VAtJDEVILLE— LEON' NAVARA Si ORCH. BERT WALTON KAY FRANCIS in "STOLEN HOLIDAY" 25c to 1 pm/ NEW troupe for a road tour, Opera will carry a Russian ballet troupe. Stamford University to hold an- other Max Anderson Award contest. Poetic dramas only; Peggy Garcia's breach suit against Dave Rubinoff a. mistrial when called Monday (8). Will: start again next Monday (15); Queen Mary made 'French With- out Tears' .her first play since the death of her husband. Attended the Monday performance. Coast Civay II 47th Htreal ' UnorK Own 9:30 a.m. SPECIAL MIDNIGHT .SHOW. TONIGHT Comiht; Vrl. 0:30 a.m. "Green Light" William Russell Malcor, editor and columnist of the Redondo Beach, Cal„ Reflex, recently recommended in his column that prospective politi- cal candidates carry but their' threat to 'sock him in the nose.' They did. On the perennial newspaper re- vival of the William Desmond Tay- lor murder case in L. A., Mary Miles Minter asserted that 'I would give everything 1. possess- to solve, the mystery of Mr. Taylor's murder.' . Julius Tannen and his wife cele- brated their 37th wedding anhiver-; sary Feb. 2 in Los Angeles.- . , Shirley Seward, - picture. actress, received ah annulment of her mar- riage to Edmund Garfield Seward, scenarist, in Los Angeles: William F. Dugan, 42, who wrote the radio script 'Death Rides the Highway,' was convicted of drunk driving in Beverly Hills. He applied for probation. Will of William B. Hogg, radio parson known as Josiah Hopkins, was probated in L; A., leaving $5,000 estate to his widow. Gambling raid on Clover Club,, heavily patronized by . film crowd, may result in revocation of liquor license, Board of■ Equalization an- nounced. Policy of the board has been to cancel . liquor .-, permits where evidences of gambling are found. Ring Lardner,, ., announced his forthcoming , marriage to. Silvia Schulman, secretary to : David Selz- nick. Son. of late humorist is on the Selznick International writing staff. Mayo Methbt, actress, filed suit for divorce in Los Angeles from Percy .Morgan, charging too much inter- ference With her career, Arline Judge* instituted divorce proceedings against Wesley Ruggles, film director, charging 'cruel and in-, human treatment.' Property settle- ment gives actress $1,000 a month for support of their soru They Were married in 1921. Stan Laurel and his wife, who ob- tained a default divorce decree last December, 'eloped' to New York to start all over again. Petition to allow Sunday dancing in Los . Angeles submitted to City Council with request that it go on the next ballot as an initiative ordi- nance. Walter Meyers, agent, won a step in bis $75,000' damage suit against Lionel Stander, actor, when L. A. judge overruled actor's demurrer contending there was nothing mutual in their contract. Meyers is seeking possible commission for four years of a five-year pact.' Complaint was 1 filed in L. A, charg- ing C. Sharpe Minor, theatrical organist, with forging three checks for $38. Humphrey Bogart admitted in L.. A. that his wife (Maty Phillips) is returning to New York shortly to start divorce proceedings.. Ellen Prescptt. stage player, had her picture contract with 20th-Fox approved- in the L. A. courts. Unusual method of photography has been invented in Hollywood by Robert W. Coburn, photographer, and Rowena Thorn Rathborie, his as- sistant. In what they declare is a 'soul picture,' "the, face alone is dis- closed, while hair, clothes and back- ground are entirely eliminated. . Alleging that L. A. court decisions against his client made it possible for an actor's manager to collect on .his earnings while devoting 'little or no time to his affairs,' Attorney Morton Garbus filed an appeal oh behalf of Lloyd B. Nolan, actor, with the'California Supreme Court. De- cision on appeal granted Ruth Meyers, Hollywood agent, the right to collect on Nolan's contract, al- though it had been broken. Jewelry and heirlobms valued at several thousand dollars were stolen from the Hollywood apartment of Elizabeth Allen, English film actress. Unauthorized use of his literary work for the production of a film based on 'Crime and Punishment' by Dostoevski, Russian novelist, was charged against Columbia Pictures in L. A. suit for $25,000 damages filed by David Chagi, who alleges he adapted the novel for pictures and that'the studio appropriated it.. . Gay Matinez, actress, was arrested in L. A. on a charge of lifting $125 from the wallet of Tonimy Thomp son, Santa Anita horse trainer. Pilotless airplane designed by Reginald Denny as an improved W CR JAMES CAGNEY Hit Nawt'tt and Grcaftil Picluf* "Great Guy" OTH SMASH WEEK. ma r**Y* 45M, • Optn« • AM.* MIDNITf SHOWS AST OR B'WAY. at 45th St. All Stat* Reurved TwJre Daily, 2 H:V>. Sun. & Hnl., S:00, (J:0lt, 8:40. Mid nlte 8llo\V Snt. Prices (plim tux),.' Mats, (ex, Sat., Hwi. & Ho); i nOc to tl. Bres, Wc to $2. Silt; Mldnllt ti Hurt. 0 p.m. GOe to ■ fj.no. target for- army anti-aircraft prac- tice will be submitted to the u. S, army officials in a test at San Diego. .. Adrienne Ames asserted, in L. A, that she is planning to file a second divorce suit against Bruce Cabot. Previously, Miss Ames received an interlocutory decree against the actor but later ' they were recon- ciled. Betty Miller, picture player, filed $200,000 breach of promise suit against Gilbert H. Mosby, L. A. patent medicine manufacturer. Barbara Stanwyck issued permit to erect $22,000 home in Van Nuys, Cal. Her neighbor will be Zeppo Marx, who is spending $20,000 for his struc- ture. Charging cruelty, Mrs. Elizabeth Mankiewicz, wife of Joseph L. Man* kiewicz, Metro producer, filed suit for divorce in L. A. Cbmplairit asks approval of a property settlement giving her $1,000 a month. Settle- ment also gives custody of couple's seven-mohtn-old child to the mother with- $500 monthly for boy's support. Olympe Bradna requested the L. A. superior court to determine the status of her agency contract with Zeppo Marx, Inc. Actress, 16, asks court to affirm discharge of contract asserted to have been, made Deo. 17,1936. Suit claims, discharge of agency should be upheld as she was Under 18 years of age at the time of sighing. She asks return of ail monies paid to the agency. Two bandits held xvp and robbed William Lawrence; ic actor, in Hol- lywood. Ignace Jan Paderewski' assertedly owes the U. S. government $15,3jM in additional income taxes for 1932, ac- cording to lien filed in L. A. Slim Martin, ork leader, ordered to appear in a L A. court to explain why he hasnt' paid $6,700 alleged back alimony to Mrs. Martin; adopted daughter Of the late Alexander Pan- tages. Former wife stated he is earn- ing $350 weekly. Gastone Usigli has been named acting director of music-for, the Fed- eral Music Project in L. A. county. Aroused over a remark made about his 'big cigars,' Ben Bernie dropped off the bandstand at the Ambassador hotel in L. A. and planted a hay- maker on the jaw of a naval officer. Bernie said the ribbing was 'very annoying.' Radio Logrolling (Continued from page 1) if this decorous approach to be consistent -it would ill behoove a comic visiting another's program to behave himself in any way that would be contrary to the expectation of house guests. What would be re- garded as still Worse, is any attempt on the part of the show's regular comic to put his guest over the rollers. Not New Reciprocal exchange of appear- ance dates by their comics is okay with the sponsors involved. The guests, working either way strictly on the cuff, manage to sneak in one if riot several plugs for their pay- roll's product. Idea of mike log- rolling started three years ago. Jack Benny and Fred Allen were among the first to do it. In due time it be- came an intra-ggency fashion. Comics working under the -same agency banner made it a practice of appear- ing gratis on one another^ program.. From this arrangement developed t he you-appear-for-me-and-ril-doi the-same-for-you thing. In some cases it helped to' bolster a program that wasn't doing so well, without added expense to the advertiser. > In recent months the outstanding exchanger of favors along this line has been Eddie Cantor. Within a short period Cantor played the I'll- db-the-same-for-you act three programs emanating from Holly- wood; Reciprocities involved Al Jolson (Rinso), Jack Oakie (Camel) and Irving Berlin, who appeared -bli- the" 'Hollywood Hotel's' stanza (Campbell Soup) when it broadcast (5) an excerpt from 'On the Ave- nue.' Berlin, had the previous Sun- day (31) traded compliments with Cantor on the Texaco show. During his several weeks' stay in New York this winter, Cantor reciprocated on dates with Rudy Vallee. Walter: Winchell and Ben Bernie is another long-standing 'feud,' with consistent build-up every week. Benny has , Ben Berni slated to visit him this. Sunday (14) and* it : is assumed that Benny ill return the favor on the American Can program. Others that have done some gadding about from' one program to another on the . tit-f or-tat basis are Stoop- nagle and Budd, eatrice Lillie, Ed Wynn and Phil Baker, and quite-a number of others. Not all comedians t but latter category is most active at visiting around. BIRTHS Mr. arid Mrs. Charles Edward Midgley, Jr., son, Feb. 2, in New York. Father is spot time buyer for Batten, Barton, Dursline & Osbornei DORIS DAWSON'S SUIT TO RECOVER FINERY Charlotte, N. C„ Feb. Doris Dawson, New York who spent a short time in Greens- boro in November, 1935, filed suit in Guilford superior court against Wil- liam Comer Covington, High Poi manufacturer, for actual and puni- tive damages, aggregating! $30,000, and for the recovery of the value of a dianion'cT ring and two estimated at. $13,400. It is alleged in the complaint that Covington, with force arid firearms, attacked the plaintiff on Nov. 7, 1935, in Greensboro, arid forcibly took pos- session of the ring and coats. It is also alleged that the plaintiff suf- fered great physical shock and was. ill in bed for some time by reason of the treatment accorded her by Covington. The complaint set out that 'on Nov. 7, 1935, the plainti was the owner of a marquise diamond ring, valued at $3,400; a sable coat and a blended mink fur coat, valued at $5,000 each; that on the above date i Greensboro the defendant by force, violence, arid threats* whereby the plaintiff was put in fear for her life and great bodily injury, wrong- fully arid; by force, of arms, seized and took the aforementioned tides. Uncle Sam, Host (Continued from page 1) would pick a suitable site, make es- timates of cost, and formulate plans for operation of 'the structure. No architectural work is in sight at the present time. Idea had. its real genesis in the deluge of rain ori Inauguration Day. While previously there have been short-lived drives to bring about a ; public convention, hall locally, the present crusade was prompted. the lack of space with which to ac- commodate the crowds, who wanted to see President Roosevelt take the oath of of fice. Despite the huge Federal building program, the Capitol lacks a good- sized hall. . The .ohly spacious pri- vately owned building has been taken over by the Works Progress Administration for office, space, while the I n t e r i o r Department, Commerce Department and Labor Department auditoriums cannot ac- commodate crowds of more than 1,000 apiece. MG Radio Ban (Continued from page 3) are also taking into, consideration is that there might be a little flare-up at the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America convention in- Miami next month. They feel that complaints about inconsistent prod- uct at that session will be enough to contend with and necessary to square off without having the exhibs blow off a lot of steam about producers* talerit donation to radio Which the exhibs claim is a box office menace, tudio. heads here are glad^ that New York has taken the' initiative in ordering the ban as it leaves them in a position to carry out the order Without fear of any diplomatic tangles with : ir personnel. MARRIAGES Juanita Pollard to Joseph Walker, in Los Angeles, Feb. 4. Bride is .film writer. Groom is cameraman with Columbia Pictures. Nedra Smith to Thomas Knox. Jr., i New York, Feb. Bride-to-be is secretary for^SJdwin H. (Buddy) Morris, gen. rngr. of Warner Bros.' music pub'ishing interests'. . Rosalind Broads to Sol Immerman in New York, Feb. 21. Groom 1 is, a -theatrical artist arid son of Conrii Irrimermari, night club operator. . Florence Elaine Smith to Robert Beresford, iu Hollywood, Feb. 5, Bride is. daughter of Robert Smith, manager of Grauman's Chinese. theatre. May Virgi ia lmstead to John Whitney Sampson, in Los Angeles, Feb. 4. v Bride is daughter of Ray Olmsteau, Los Angeles independent film distributor. Thelma Goodman to Harry Ein- stein, Feb. 7, jn Los Angeles. Groom is, Parkyakarkas; bride, Thelma Leeds, icture actress. : 'i till