Variety (Apr 1937)

50 VARIETY BAND TOURS Wednesday, Aptil 7, 1937 FIVE ONE-WEEKERS AT BARNESVILLE PARK! CRA will get a nice hunk of biz of Lakeside Park, Barnesville, Pa,, with five of its bands set there on one-week stands starting April 18. Opener is Charlie Bairnett. Chick Webb, Rita Rio, Lew Brown and Johnny Messher play from April 18 | to May 24 respectively. Another CRA'ef is Mentor-on-the- Liake, near Cleveland, opening Miay ist, being booked by Stan Zucker of | Cleveland-bflice. Crews set are May arid Lee 'Gdrdon, Austin Wylie, ick Fidler arid Blue Barron. Harry Wallace's band at the Vil- lage Brewery, Ni Y., after a session at 1214 Club, Philadelphi PRCiEIIIini!: m greatest score eVer written fRVINd BERtlN'S "ON THE AVENUE" > CENTURY-FOX DEIEASE) JUST RELEASEDI LOST HORIZON (WALTZ) From tilt 6rt#ttit Motion Picturt "LOST NORIZOr m.mm;v 1 !NK (; P,ol M. 14-Word Title Rating as one ot the current year's crop of lengthy song titles is that of the, Jack Mills' publication, 'I'm Still a Hill- billy at Heart and.My Heart Is Still in the Hills.' Maurice Sigler and Johnny Kleriner are the writers. RADIO ORCHESTRA CORP. SIGNS UP J. T. DODD J. Dodd, manager of Dbtney Park ballroom, Allentown, Pa., has signed for exclusive use of Radio Orchestra Corp. bands on Saturday nights beginning April 17 when spbt opens. Crews so far set are Felix Ferdinand©, Charlie BoUlanger, Paul Tremaine and Ted Black. HEIDT^S WHAM GROSS Draws 2,800 ; Payees at $1.10 In Prldgreport ridgeport, April 6. Horace Heidt's Brigadiers set new attendance record at Ritz ballroom with 2,800 payees at $i,ip. Prior one-night toppers this season had beien Shep Fields, Rudy Vallee an^ Benny Qoodman. Heidt date marked first time itz had lifted ante above 99c. immie Samriiy Kaye and Mai Hallett set Sundays ahead. SALT LAKE CITY SETS BANDS FOR SUMMER Howard Hobbs Opens WeD At Mahoney Ci^, Pa., Spot lioWard Hobbs opened his Lake- wood Park ballroom, Mahoney City, Pa., Easter Monday with thie Hudson- De Laingei band and an attendance of 2,000 trippers: Follow-up band was Joe Hayihes, Horace Heidt; Sammy Kaye, Shep Fields, Hal Kemp and Mai Hallet also set. Hobbs' Riti in Pottsville goes more for local area bands, with Ray Brown, Norman Dropkin and Ed Richards seit. Box Office on Wheels As Ballyhoo Stiint for Band Columbus, April 6. To plug Don Bestor's one-night stand at Olentangy Park Sunday night (4) Manager Leo Haenlein sent a traveling box office around town to stimulate .the advance' sale. Office was' on a wagon, and dirawn by^-of all things—a horse. Stunt probably will be repeated for bands to follow on Olentangy's night spring schedule. Arnold Jolmson's New Men Salt Lake Cityi April 6. Oiit-bf-town name' bands will, be the magnet at Salt Lake City and surrounding niteries this siimriier. Waily Stoefler's band replaces Ray Herbeck ditto at Hotel Utah Empire room April 9. Later outfit may re turn erid of May to opien hotel's swank sumnier spot, $tarlight gar dens. Lagoon, suburban^ resort a la Coney, Island, will have Verdi rien' holdt's band, while Old Mill, canyon dance hall, has. set Joe Kirkham's Swingsters. Saltair, combo beach, and dance spot; which lised traveling orks ex clusively. last year, will again use name outfits, alternating twice a month. Several swank country clubs con sidering importing bands, with local musicians assured of jobs at Rendez- vbus, Louvre, and Coon Chicken inn. basement spots, intending install additional ventilating systems during hot weather. On the Upbeat Al Kavelin replaces Griff ,Wil- liams in Peacock Court, Mark Hop- kins Hotel, San Francisco, April 26. Williams moves on to Dallas and then to Chicago lor another season at the Aragon-Trianpn Ballroom. He is expected to return to the Mark Hopkins tliis Fall. Silver .Grill, Buffalo, N. Y., for ^four wetiksl on April 19. Nano Rodrifo and Eliseo Grehet CRA tango-mjarimba bands, set for sustainers with NBC. Ick Fldler closed after 20 Weeks at the Lotus Gardens, Toledo, 6. and goes bne-:riighter tour for CRA. Joe Relchman's orchestra, now with the be Marcos at the Ambas- sador, hotel* Los Angeles, openis at the Fairmont Hotel, Frisco, April I Charles Stenros followed Austin 18, where he will remain imtil the Wylie into the Webster Hall hotel early paxt of June, when Henry King will returri to th6 Nob Hill hostelry for ahother season. Henry Kalstead ahd Lou Conrad signed by CRA. Former will be fea- tured, for the surnmer at iossoih Heath Clu , Oklahoma City. Conrad is current at the Cocoanut Grove, in Boston, wheriB he has Colonial andi Yankee net Avires; Pittsburgh. .: Spot has. a.KDKA wire. inn Arthur under recofdi tract to. Master. Joe Haymes booked for two solid months of one-highters through N. Y.. Pennsy, New England and New Jersey during April and May by R.b.C. Skeeier Palmer, R O C. band, doing a series for, Brunswick and follow- ing through one-nighters at Jaffa Mosque; , Pa., and St., John's College, rboklyn, N. Y. ichard Himber and Jpe Haymes will do a music battle at Westchester Country Center, April 22, for Mau- rice Reidy and booker, R.O.G. SHRIBHAN SETS DANCE GROUPS AT ASBURY Arnold Johnson has reorganized his ore, and will trot but ne\y ag gregation for first public inspection when outfit plays a. vaudate at Fox, Philly, week of April 16. Thereafter new. crew wiU be used on the Feena- mint program over Mutual web. Newcomers to .the jbhnsbn roster include Eddi6 Wade, from White- man'a band; Jim Hanson, trumpet- eer with Vallee tor past four years; Gary Gillis, who has been drum- ming for Abe Lyman; George Tudor and Larry Tise, saxes from Lopez outfit. Johnson still swinging the lariat for other musikers, notably Howard Smith, pianist at Onyx Club, N. Y. Asbury Park Casino opens its doors April 9 with Horace Heidt's band and will continue open on weekends only, until May 30 with narne bands. After Decoration Day policy will chfinge to two week stands for namers. Those already set by Charles Shribman on exclusive de^l are Hal Kemp, Benny Goodman and Jan Garber. Del Milne iU spend the entire 13-week summer season for CRA at local ' dance ' payilibn at Edmunds, Wash. Opened April 3. C. i Rose will reopen his re- modeled Modernistic ballroom. State Fair Park, Milwaukee, around May 30. Dick Messneir's band, under direc- tion of Johnny Messner, opened , an engagement at Nbrmandie, Boston, on April 4. Stays for two weeks under CRA deal. Tfit Ntwf Song Hit of the New Scatbn/ SPRING CLEANING (GeHing R«acly for lov«i) IRVING BERLIN, inc 799 7th Ave. New York FEMHE SWINGSTES Lana Webster, fem swing saxo- phonist, and her band opened at the Onyx Club, N. Y., for the cocktail and dinner Sessions, replacing the Spirits of Rhythm. Two of the Spirits, Teddy Bunh and Leo Watson, now alternating with Stuff Smith's crew during supr per ■ hour, having replaced ^ Haven Johnson, composer of *My Last Affair.' Henderson's Theatre Date Fletcher Henderson plays a week's engagement at the Biiverside theatre, Milwaukee, opening April 30. , Single, nite stands follow until May 15 when he opens for CRA; at Ed Fox's hew Grand Terirace, Chicago. GaHopm' the Scale . Hollywood, April 6. Jack Scholl and M. K. Jerome are on their 12th cleffing assignment at Warners for a Dick Fpran western, 'Devil's Saddle Legion,* Pair are doing three songs,' and when completed they'll have written 35 ditties for the cowboy' crooner. Tunesmiths also are writing two special numbers lor the Marion Da vies picture, 'Ever Since Eve.' One will carry title of the film and the other 'Little iStar of the Night.' TOLEDO HOOFESIES OPEN Euclid Beach Park ballroom,. Tp ledo, O., and Chippewa Lake Park open their doors oh April 9. Former is operated by Harry C. Shannon and reputedly the largest in Ohio, Initial band at Euclid is Larry Funk's. Blue Barron's, band, continues .to 22nd week at the. Southern Tavern, Cleveland, O., exiting on April 23 for ai 6ne-nite stint. Cet Set for the Song Barrage on the New UniversaPs "Top of the Town" ''WHERE ARE YOU?" ''THAT FOOLISH FEELING" "JAMBOREE" "TOP OF THE TOWN" By JIMMY McHUGH and HAHOLD AOAMSON wJ FEIST, Inc. 1629 BROADWAY • NEW YORK Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Crawford or- ganing at Fox theatre, Philadelphia, for week of April 9, ..with Hippo- droncie, Baltimbre,. following. Tommy Tucker will inaugurate one week's tour of California one- nighters April 21, before gbiiig into El Patio, San Francisco, for a run. Merle Carlson band goes into Ca- sino Gardens, Ocean Park, Cal., Aprli 21. Presents Ft6m i;VII.T.1NG AND TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS JUST ft QUIET EVENING SENTIMENTAL AND MELANCHOLY • VIENNA DREAMS ■BRAND HSW I'M HATIN' THIS WAITIN' AROUND A New 52nd STREET "Tli« kins nn«1 tlie Cliorivs GIri* FOR YOU HARMS, INC., RCA BIdg., . Y, HACK GOLDMAN. Prof. Mcr. Eddie Fiizpatrlck, Jr., and his ork, follow Al Kavelin: into the Cosmo- politan Hotel, Denveh M.CA. book- ing. Glen Gray's Casa Lonia ork moves into the Palomar ballroom in^ Los Angeles May 25 for an indefinite stay, Sol the Ha\yaii nitery. ork now playing at Paradise, Hollywood Glen Miller, formerly an arranger, now heading a band. Currently re- cording for, Brunswick. Rockwell- O'Keefe handling. Bita Bip Girls Head~Soiitii Rita Rio's girl band, having fin- ished a one-niter tour of the Cy Shribman ballrooms through New England returns to the CRA fold for furthei booking through the south. ; Dates; in Pennsy, Florida, Tenhes-, see, Louisiana and Texas are being set by CRAi after which she goes to California sometimie, in May. Leon Belasco going into the Roose- yelt Hotel, New Orleans, beginning April 15, for. an indefinite stay. Deal set by Rockwell-O'Keefe; ' Rudy Bundy's Long Stay Rudy Bundy, going into his 2'lth week at Xevaggi's Flamingo Room, Boston, Mass., )vill remain on until June 1, for longest stay of any band. . Deal being closed now iEor him to transfer to Levaggi's Showboat, summer tub anchored in Back Bay; when indoor spot closes for season. . Lennle Hayton opens tomorrow night (Thursday) at the New Yorker Hotel, N. Y., also set by Rockwell- O'Keefe. Nye Maybiew Orch goes into the the Glen Island Casiho, Westchester, N. Y., May 27, following completion of his run at Hotel Statler, Boston. Ixieland Jazz band goes into the Song! You'll Hear and Rave Mont When Love Is Young Did Anyone Ever Tell You? From the new Universal picture, "When Love Is Younfl" o ■ I Hum A Waltz A new. waltz hit by Gordon and Revel fron^ the 2bth Century-Fox film, "This Is My Affair" MiiLLCBi /^um. Inc. 19 BlibAOWAy • HIW YORK Old Orchard Opens Auff. Zi Id Orchard Pier, Old Orchard, Me., opens April 24 using nanie band policy, . Exclusive Shribman location will .start oft with Chick Webb, who is now touring New England for samp office. GO RPOH and REVEL Click Again! in 20th Century-Fox's "WAKE UP AND LIVE" Featuring Walter Winchell, Ben Berme and Alice Faye NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS IT'S SWELL OF YOU THERE'S A LULL IN MY LIFE WAKE UP AND LIVE I'M BUBBLING OVER Robbins Music Corporation • 799 7th Ave., New York