Variety (Aug 1937)

46 VARIETY MUSIC AND DANCE TOURS Wednesday, August 25, 1937 On the Upbeat Duke Ellinsrton's band will open the Tromar ballroom season In Des Moines Aug. 26. Ivie Anderson is the featured singer. The Continentals, featuring Mary Alice Seip, playing in English Room of Penn-Stroud Hotel, Strousburg, Pa. Clair Hill's orch will finish sum'^ mer season at Buckwood Inn, Shaw- nee-on-Delaware. Johnny Johnson opens at Meadow- brook Country Club, Aug. 28, for two weeks. uBIue Steele and orch play a return engagement at the Club Royle, Little Will Hudson's Latest YOU'RE MY DESIRE "From New Faces of 1931" PEGKIN' The New Summer Sensation! IS THIS GONNA BE MY LUCKY SUMMER Season's Loveliest Ballad MOON AT SEA Comedy Hit of the Season TODAY I AM A MAN Pinky Tomlln's Smash Hit I'M JUST A COUNTRY BOY AT HEART Mills Music, Inc l«l> MiOAkWAT Ml* TOfR. N. T. Rock, from Aug. 24 to Sept. 1. The band played same spot several weeks ago en route to Mexico and South Texas. Jack Melvin at Sea Girt Inn, Sea Girt, N. J. Ray Keating playing at Murray's, Tuckahoe, N. Y. Lloyd Huntley's band stays at Mount Royal hotel, Montreal, until late fall. Southern Gentlemen orch closes at The Pines, Pittsburgh, Pa., and will open at Deshler-Wallick hotel, Co- lumbus, O., SepL 7, with a WBNS wire. Bobbie Hayes band replaced Enric Madriguera's at the Surfside, Long Beach, N. Y. Jimmie Lunceford one-nights Sun- day (29) at Roton Point Park, South Norwalk, Conn., and then goes to Se- bastian Cotton club, Culver City. Jack Denny hits one-niters for CRA after playing the Chicago the- atre, Chicago. Mike Riley's crew play a returner at Gypsy ■ Village, Louisville, Ky„ opening Aug. 27, Exits Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, N. Y. Don Bestor musicks for American Legion convention at Manchester, N. H., Sept. 10. Maurle Sherntan will be opening attraction for Marigold ballroom, Minneapolis, Sept.'10 to 12, inclusive. Carvel Craigr, new CRA band, and Reggie Childs touring Pacific slope on one-niters. Erskine Hawkins enters Reade's Casino, Asbury Park, N. J., Sept. 1. Frank Britton' has signed with Rockwell-O'Keefe qnd for first date under new management opens at Se- Wt. WITMARK & SONS RCA BLDG., N. Y. HAROLD LEE Prof. Mgr. BROWN and FREED'S Greatest Score By Far the Crowning Achievement of the Series M-G-M'S "BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938" With These "Hits to Come": YOURS AND MINE I'M FEELIN' LIKE A MILLION YOUR BROADWAY AND MY BROADWAY EVERYBODY SING Robbins Music Corporation • 799 7th Ave., New York bastian's Cafe, Culver City, Cal., Sept. 26, for an indefinite engage- ment. . Ran Wilde opens at Rice hotel, Houston, Sept. 7, for Rockwell- O'Keefe. Jimmy Dorsey preems at Congress hotel, Chicago, early (in October, after concluding his theatre tour. Gets 14 weekly broadcasts, four net and 10 locals, while there. Phila- delphia, Cleveland, Youngstown and' Akron wind up theatre trek. Bobby Gleason replaces Rudy Bundy at Reade's Casino, Asbury Park, N. J., Aug. 29, as weekday house band for Charlie Shribman. Rudy Bundy recording for Master Records, Mai Hallett bucks Rudy Vallee at Steel Pier, Atlantic City, for one week starting Aug. 31. Henry Ltshon at Gunter hotel, San Antonio, Tex. Frank Dailey and his orch from Roof of Pennsylvania Hotel, N. Y., go into Surf Club, Virginia Beach, Va., Aug. (28) with Johnny Johnson winding up'Aug. (27). .Dean Hudson and his Florida Clubmen playing Seaside Park, Vir- ginia Beach, for rest of season. STABILE, LOPE INTO CLEVELAND FOR ROSE Cleveland, Aug. 24. Extension of the Great Lakes Ex- position for three weeks will' bring bands led by Dick Stabile and Vincent Lopez to town to appear at ^illy Rose's. Aquacade. Stabile has been signed from Sept. 7 to 16, with the Lopez crew coming in for the remainder of the extended run until Sept. 26. Bob Crosby's band, currently ap- pearing at the Aquacade, will be fol- lowed by the Casa Loma orch, Aug. 27. It will play the show until Sept. 6, original closing date. Mercer-Whidng Pact Extended by Warners Johnny Mercer and Dick Whiting have been signatured for another year as a writing team by the War- ner Bros, studios and the Music Pub- lishers Holding Corp., WB subsid. Second termer becomes effective Aug 29 Ed win H. (Buddy) Morris, MPHC v.p. and gen. mgr., closed the deal. Pubs Abandon (Continued from page 45) who are pressing for the establish- ment of a licensing bureau within the association, exercise a dominant influence as members of the writers classifXration committee in the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Also that these officials are intent upon carv- ing out high-salaried jobs for them- selves, with such money to cortie from the commissions deducted from the disposal of the sync and tran- scription rights. This charge is scouted by the heads of the SPA as absurd. They declare that it was about time that the writers undertook to obtain a more equitable share from rights that have been bringing publishers many hundreds of thousands of dol- lars a year, and that are proving more and more valuable, particularly with the development of the tran- scription industry. Hollywood, Aug. 24. Hollywood branch of the Son - writers Protective Assn., was or- ganized last week at a meeting in the Beverly-Wilshire presided over by L. Wolfe Gilbert, SPA vice- prexy. Following were named to the exec- utive committee; Sigmund Romberg, Arthur Freed, Jay Gorney, Harry W^r^en, Dave Dreyer and Albert von Tilzer. Richard S. Hartmann was named secretary. Gilbert was depu- tized to go to New York to report the organization to SPA members at a meeting skedded for today CTues- day) at the Astor hotel. Inside Stuff-Music Scores of 'Damsel in Distress' and 'Goldwyn Follies' are being published by the late composer's own firm, the Gershwin Publishing Corp., while the exploitation of the tunes In both instances will be done by the Chappell Co. Max Dreyfus, dominant owner of the latter concern, organized-the Gershwin Corp. with George Gershwin last year, or while the Warner Bros.' music group was out of the American Society of Composers, Au- thors and Publishers. The New World Music Corp., controlled by WB, was the previous repository for the Gershwin works. Vernon Duke has been called in by Goldwyn to write a ballet for the filmusical. He and Ira Gershwin co-authored 'I'm Not Complainin'/ which has been included in the 'Follies' score.- Of all the national anthems and hymns associated with all the countries around the globe, royalty for performance. for profit is exacted on only one, and that, ironically, on the 'Internationale,' official [song of Soviet Russia. 'Internationale' is controlled by an obscure French music-publishing firm, located in Paris, which attempts to track down users-for-proflt of the piece and exact royalties. Insertion of the song in- any fllmj tor instance, costs $100. Piece got its first public Innings during the French Revolution in the late 18th century. Abner Silver 9nd Dorothy Guiman are writing nine songs for N. Y. Hollywood Restaurant's new fall show,, opening Sept. 28. Miss Guiman is p.a. for the nitery, and this is her first songwriting job. DORIS HAVENS ACAIN LOSES PHILLY SUIT Philadelphia, Aug. 24. Injunction asked by Doris Havens, WCAU organist, to keep the Union from fining her $200 and expelling her because she refused to fork over, was denied for the second time last Friday (20) in Common Please Court No. 4 here. . On Mar. 12, Judges Finletter and Brown handed do'vm a decision in which they fully upheld the right of a union to discipline a member for infractions and to dismiss, if refusing to swallow the medicine. Last Fri- day's dictum was a decision by ,the same judges on exceptions brought against the earlier ruling. The whole battle is essentially not one between Miss Havens and the Union, but is part of the long struggle between WCAU and the local. The gal organist's attorneys, David Bortin and William A. Schnader, were provided by the station. The Havens, difficulty began last September when the femme defied a union edict against playing sustain- ing programs on a station which has no studio orchestra. Called before the local's trial board, she was given a hearing and told to cease work at WC^AU at once. She refused and was socked with a $200 fine. When she wouldn't pay, she was threat- ened with, expulsion. Attorney Bortin asked the court to restrain the union from stopping her working',- from fining her, and from expelling her. He said it threatened her livelihood. Whether the case will be pressed any further is doubtful. Miss Havens recently announced her en- gagement and will be married next month. Mai Halietfs Tour Following through on the complete itinerary laid out in the spring, Charlie Shribman office has set Mai Hallett for solid theatre bookings until October. Band recently fin- ished its big one-niter stint and is now touring at $J,500 weekly in houses. Band one-nites week until hitting Steel Pier, A. C, Aug. 31, to be fol- lowed by another week of similar bookings. Sept. 9 starts theatre tour again at the Metropolitan, Bos- ton. Earle, Philadelphia; Palace, Cleveland, and Lyric, Indianapolis, follow from Sept. 16 to Oct. 7, re- spectively. Goes into Shea's, Toronto, and will then proceed to the Palo-* mar ballroom, Los Angeles, for an indefinite stay. 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