Variety (Oct 1938)

Wisdn^sdiar, October 26, 1938 OUTDOORS-'SPORTS VARIETY SB Probable Footbal} Winners And Prcipelr CM^s (October 29) By NAT KAHN GAMES Cornell-Colambla Fordham-Pltt Dartmonth-Tale Prihcetdn-Harvard » Army-Notre Dame Navy-Penn , i... Coltrate-Holy Cross ... Syracuse-Penn State Georcretown-Temple Miimesota-Northwestern ......... IIlinols-Mlohigan Iowa State-Marquette Missouri-Nebraska Santa Clara-Mlchigah State Auburn-Rice Louisiana State-Tennessee Duke-North Carolina Georgia Tech-Vandierbllt. S. M. TJ.-Texas Arkansas-Texas A&M Stantord-U. C. L. A (Predictions Based WINNERS ODDS Columbia ,., 1/2 Pitt 2/1 Dartmouth ....^ 2/1 Harvard Even Notre Dame 2/1 Penn ,.Xvtn ,HoIy Cross ,. 9/5 > Syracuse 9/5 Temple. Even Northwestern , ^ 5/8 Michigan 7/5 Iowa State 8/5" Nebraska , 9/5 Santa Clara 8/5 Rice Even Tennessee Even North Carolina 5/6 Vanderbilt .7/5 S. M. U ; . 7/5 Texas A&M Even XJ« C. li« A. ..»..••**.«■*..■«Even on Fair Weather) " Bills Next Week (Continued from page 46) Harry Kayburn Schwartz Tommy Dorsey Ore Bob EJherle Ore I.,ee Lei eh ton Ore Claude Parmlnter Stat« Gardens Dorrlne Alma Williams Tommy Reynolda Tlo Top Tnp Jackson & CUftord Sally Joyce Florence Barlow ^ Herseys AnchoraKtf Hughle Morton Oro BalcAnades Tommy Cfarlyn Oro Bill Green's Tommy Tucker Oro Amy ArneU Club Fetlte Ted Blako Ore Louise Dllda Kamona Ray Cork and Bottle Jack Davis Eddie Peyton's Jimmy Gamble Ore Kddle Peyton Wlke Peyton Marion Muller Hotel BoBoevelt Lowd & Kissinger Hotel Schenley Jack Walton Oro Art Qlles Hotel Webster HaU Major Olmes Ore otel William Penn (Chatterbox) Lawrence Welk Oro Lois Best Walter Bloom (Continental Bar) Larry Murp'hy 4 Itiillan Gardens Et^il Covato Oro Town and Country Club Laureen Nevelle CllfC Burmek Wlrth's riiturlHtIo Joe Caravella Ore Steve Swedish Ore Bill Schweitzer Ore Jack Fexer Ford & Barnes Maureen Rosay Rogan & Mann Wisconsin Root Jack Denny Ore Loralne De Wood PITTSBURGH Mien Utah Miss Jacksonville Rhythm Sis New Penn Harry CanduUo Ore Mlxon Cafe Fran Uichler Oro Bob Carter Shavo Sherman Miller Sis Lyman & DrlscoU Ruls'n, Tamuro & B Lester & Irmajean Angelo Dl Palma Plaza Cafe Jimmy Peyton Ore Adele Curtis 6 Dance Darlings Billy Cover Lenore Rika Moran Sis Pines Nick ParlUo Orp BUIer» Joe Berlek Ore Show Boat Al Marsico Oro Jack Peck Hartzell ft Benson Sherry Lane Ragtime M'talneera 6 Beo Gardner Gls Willows Ray Hei'beck Oro Kirby Brooks FHILADELFHIA Anchorace Bin Honey Oro Arcadia Int'l Gall-Gall Happy Felton Ore Eddy Piatt Billy Galbralth Loi-ratne Barre Muriel Thomas Joe Pietro 3 K-Mar Rellevue-Stratford (Main Bininr R'm) Meyer Davis Ore (Rurgandy Boom) Frank Juele Oro Clin Hall Murray Dancers Edmund DeLucca Adolpli Lanza Benny the Bum's Johnny Howard George Clifford LIna Basquotte Dottle Mallinson Marlon Kingston Jerry Foster Irving Ore Deloyd McKay Jfthnny Graff Oro Eherman Gls (12) Cadlllao Tavern Deane St. Thomas Sunny Ray Henrick & Adrlenne Darlene Jones Dick Thomas H Reynolds Ore Jack Newlon Club African* F Riley & Sunda Rita Long Sis Flash ^ Dash K.iy Banks Lillian Evans Kitty Murray Hurricane 6 Doc Hyde Ore ' Club 16 Blllle France Mae Masters -Terry Parker Jny Palmer Donna Lee Marcelle Mar.schon Bftverly Fisher Johnny Young's Or Douglas Show Boat •JarUie Mabley flobhy & Jimmy Jpniile Dhncer Bon Bod Harold Reed Yack Taylor Beach Combers Charley Gains Ore Embassy Helen Benton Bert Clemoux Joan Gray Olive Faye John Elliott Betty Lynch Peggy Taylor Botty Davis Barbara Joiinston Ann Klrwln Pedro Blanco Uro Evercreea Casino Beth Chain* Joe UlUkopf Oro Marlon Melton Helalne & D'nalds'n Ann Hudson Ann Collins Al Engle Franhle Palumbo's Les Barclay Don St Doresse Emerald Sis Maude O'Malley Stump & Stumpy Bobby Morrow Oro Hlldebranri'a Francis Renault Mary Weldon Mntto & Therese Larry Harklns Jack Ulman Marna Leonard Joan Metlon Smitty Madame Dorea Richard Bach Bobby Lee Oro Hotel Adelphia (Cafe Marsnery) Allen Fielding Ore Dick Centerfleld Gower & Jeanne Vanderbllts Kitty Kallen 6 Continentals Margo Gls (12) Don Angelina Oro Hotel Fhlliidelithin C :Wo1f GlsWfil Barry & DcAlba Mel-O-Dy Tohy Senna Mary Clifford Harry Taylor Joe Frasctto Latimer Club Vh'fjlnla RfinniiU Evelyn Ijimpshlr* Sonte Pelrova Manny LaPorte Ore Anita Chandler Llnwood Barnes Little Bathskeller Jack Griflln Oro Gaye Dixon Buddy Walker 3 Peppers Kinley & Grant Gladys Crane Jack I^ynch's Jeno Donatta Oro Vincent Rlzzo Oro Barney Zeemnn Terry Lawior Step Bros Raye & Naldi Mildred Reed Chas Smith Joe Lewis .Tlmmy Blake Jack Lynch Gls 12 Open Door Chick Mullery Dolly Vaughan Edward & Angela Clarence Williams Scotty MIddleton Viola Klaiss Oro Jim Rossi Bob Spedden Parrlsli Cafe Blanche Saunders Anna May Fisher Billy & Flo Gross Ted Miller Rhythm Duke's Or Vernon Guy Rendezvous Alan Gale Lane & Carroll Sybil Ross Mlaco Ben Tracey Chet Fennis Oro Stamp's Cafe MIml Stewart Johnny Welsh Cleo & Valentine Joy & Juanlta Marrone & Galle Gene Baylos .Tack Hutchinson Irving Braslow Ore Silver Lake Inn (Clementon) Mickey Famllant Or MacDonald & Ross Mala Monterea Shirley Gay Dut kin's Rathskeller Lola Bonnie Slewart PuUy & Gump De Mayos Leslie Sis Dick Phillips Ore Frank Pontl 20th Century Eddie Thomas O'Conner Bros Bert Sinclair Ruth Kay Derby Wilson Tommy Cullen Ore' Harold Beswick 21 Clnb Mitzl O'Neill Ruth Martin Ann Rush Marlon Kingston Jerry Foster Doll Morris Marty Land is Ord 1214 Clab Dan Healy Soni. Shaw H'wood Gls (8) King's Swinger Oro VIklDff Cafe Jackie Whalen Murry Wood James & Peltz Audrey Jordan Jerry Delmar Ore TlUage Bans Dolores O'Neill Lloyd & Willis Frenchy Martin Marty Bohn Nancy I>e 6 Bob-O-Llnks Teddy Oliver Oro Weber's Bot Braa (Camden) Nino Carmlno Karl & Gretchen Bavarians Use Hart Rudy Bruder Ray Miller Dolly Reckless Eddie Flckard Eddie Polo Chesters Eddie Sheppard J & T Shellenh'mejf Yacht Club Kitty Helmllng Ore Jimmy Bailey Babe La Tour .1 Martins Louise Clayton Kipple Velez X'atricia Robinson Cleo Warner Roberta Ramsey Patricia Robinson CLEVELAND Alpine Village Royal Skate Duo SwieSoneltes Herman I'irchner .SwisBOnettee Otto Thurn Oro Avalon Hy Barron Ore Eileen Joyce Nicholas & Sylvia Melanle LaKar & Frances Bob Marchand Cedar Gardens Duke Melvln Oro Detroit Red . Davis & Davis Zeta Sheniian N Dudley l»ltts & Pitts Boris Flink Loul? Depps Uosalle Chateau Clu Art We.Mt Palmer Gls Gloria Gaylord Mnrty Lewis Oro Freddie's Cafe Tony Emma Ore I-yneh Sis Coakle Sydell Kathleen MacCrae Kddle Barnes Commodor.'ibles Gourmet Club Louis CIna Ore Judy Lawton Hotel Cleveland (Cleveland Room) Walt Bergner Ore (Little Cafe) Gene Erwln Ore Hotel Fenway Hall WUlte Potts Ore .Hotel Hollenden Eddy Brandt Ore .lean Travers Romany 3 Bernhardt & Gr'h'm Hotel Statler Dick Barrle Ore Pollard & Martin Russell Swann RIonaco's Cafe Jacques Pollack Or C & G Cahsino .George Shepherd Gayle Gaylord Ohio TlUa Freddie (Jarlone Or Nick Lucas Begal Club Rita Cazell Co Southern Tavern Paul Burton Ore Nick Bontemps Don Kaye Carmen Castillo Judy Lane Cataliono Rolon Jimmy Dcland Murray Dancers Neblolo Cafe Leonard Seel Oro Tudell .& Jean Vera Walton Morthwood Inn Ray Carlln 'Ore Moaty Wysong - Bobby Cook Santoro & Lorraine Sigrid Dagnie liafayette & LaV- The Guardsman, Oasis 8 Guardsmen Ginger Cole Leola- Taylor Hal Borne Oro Phintatlon Club Edgar. Hayes Ore Sausage, P'k. Chops Lelthla Hill Pedro &<Ddlores Whirlwinds (3) House Line (8) PowMtan Paul Neighbor Ore Dawn Bros & Merry Marc Ballero' Ho(iey & Wilson Saks Les Arqu^tte Oro Ralph Fisher Harry Jarkey Ullian Barnes Ryek & Itaye To-Je' Vsrms Bums Cambell Ore Willie Green Tondelayo & LepeK Silly & BlUie Ted Louis Wehttter Hall (Cocktail Grill) Art Mooney Oro Jean Shailor Duanps Paul Gordon .Wonder Bar Dorothy Berlin Al Vierra Oro Thea.Atis Center (Continued from page 1) number of charter memberships at $100 and annual dues of $10. Mem- bership will be open to all Equity members and professionals in' the theatre, as well as a limited number of Federal Theatre ^Project workers. It is also figured that Equity and other; theatrical groups may help finance it. Plans for the Center will be submitted to the Equity, council wittiin the next couple of weeks (several members of the board are on the Equity council), but it wiU be carried out regardless of whether approval is Voted. The Actors Repertory Co. and the Motion Pic- ture Arts Committee have already endorsed it. Meeting of the board is scheduled for today (Wiednesday) to map further plans and a series of luncheons will be given to launch the financial drive. Tentative plans call for the use of two floors of the building for the Theatre Arts Center. The ground floor will probably be leased tot use as a restaurant, negotiations for v/hich have already Iiegun. The re- maining two floors would be rented out as oflices. Idea.- of £Uch a meet- ing place for' actors has been sug- gested from time to time in the past, but nothing has ever come of it. Antoinette Perry's audition cominit- tee of the American Theatre Coun- cil has consideried various plans along similar lines and was reported last spring to be actually looking tot a site, but nothing has been .heard of that lately. It has also frequent- ly been suggested that Equity spon- sor such an enterprise. Those favor- ing the idea of such a meeting place claim that actors (piarticularly the yoimger ones) are now forced to gather at drugstores and taverns, which are expensive and do not of- fer the proper atmosphere. Sweet vs. Swing (Continued from page 1) consistent grossers here year after year. Management has found that Stanley is strictly a band house, that units are no go, but it's also learned, and not without considerable finan- cial loiss either, that the house regu- lars lik« their music sweet, not hot. Couple of topnotcli maestros who have of late switched style of melody to lowdown are finding Stanley's doors closed to them now. Same fellows in past have played here Regularly and done biz, too, but no dice now that they've turned their back on sweet. Incidentally, same situiation is ap- plying but to a lesser degree at cafes and hotels here. The kids' like it but not the spenders, and that's what counts. Similar trends have been noticed elsewhere, in theatres and nlteries; but just as sharply refuted in other key cities. DETBOIT Ambassador Club Buddy LeHter Baron RIcco .MlUle Oberner Charlie I^azln Ore Itook-Cudlilnc Hotel (n<»ok Caslnu) Joe Vonutl Oro JUisnlewn & ."Seville i'jml l.aVols Oic (.Motor Itiir) Art Ravel Ore Muriel Boyd OI»«^ne-'rron)bk'.T .Thiniiy Giu'cuiio Or Belty Woods Al Rome Club Frontenae Geo Alfand Oro Harry Jarkey Sally Osmon Don Ernesto Uoryce & Freddif Commodore Club O Cromwell Ore (Srnoe Drysdale Spec & Spot Hotel Statler (Terrace Kooni) Xavler Cug.it Ore Oeorjres & Jalna I'hil Brestoff Ore . HAIUD BEATS GROTTO Cleveland, Oct. 25. Beating the time of Al Sirat Grot to, which won't stage it.<! annual win- ter circus in the Cleveland civic atid' itorium until Feb. 2, Al Sutphin i$ bringing in the Hamid-Morton cir- cus Oct. 21-Nov. 5 as the Arena's initial fall theatrical event. Clyde Beatty from nearby Chilli- cothe, signed as added attraction for Arena show although Capt. Proske's Bengal tigars are regularly the bill- toppers in the H-M unit. CIRCUS ROUTES Week of October 31 Barnes- Sells-Floto Win.ston Salem, N. r.. ai; Ralelfth, 1; GrcenMhoro, 2; Charlolte, 3; Columbia 4; Aiigu.sta, Ga., S. WM Quick Fold Bobbins Bros.' circus clolsed sud- denly Saturday (2i2), failing to con- tinue skeddeid tour which had couple of days to run. Arrived, at winter quarters in Rochester, Ind., late Sun- day night (23), passing up dates in Columbia, Tenn., and Hopkinsville, Ky. Performers and other personnel were not informed of sudden deci- sion to close and were first told Simday while training through Ken- tucky. Performers claim they have not received full pay for months, getting part time irregularly. New Bobbins Bros.' show was put out this year by Zstck Terrell and Jess Adkins. Terrell had been with Cole Bros.' show until folding that also without notice on Aug. 2, fmmm Spartanburg, S. C, Oct. 25. Providing approaching cold weather doesn't dish out goose pim- ples—which the censors and John Law have failed to provide so far —flesh is heading into its greatest season in pixie. The numerous big fair midway shows carted along more strippers this fall than they've displayed in • many years. Stage shows playing the southern circuits are strong on strippers, and some of the larger fair shows are carrying 20 to 30 zipper gals with their units. Censoiship and taboo stuff which knocked flesh shows for a loop in Gotham and other spots rarely in- terferes down here. Example: World of Mirth shows on Spartan- burg fair's six-day midway bill fea- tured Huliss America,' a unit of four straight strippers, all week, with several other large shows spotting more of them a few yards away. Setup was minus complaints and customers included several officers —but none with padloo)cs, and no loud complaints were heard from re- form groups. I. H. Morten fhm To His lqir«d Wik Philadelphia, Oct. 25. Airline flight skeds were disrupted last week to speed Hobert H. Morton to Miami, where his wife was await- ing his arrival before undergoing a major operation. Morton is in charge for George Hamid of an indoor cir- ciis to be put on at the Arena here next month for the Sfariners. Mrs. Morton was injured in a ten- nis tournament When fog prevented Morton's taking a plane from New- ark, he trained to Camden, but foimd that planes were also grounded there. Then he learned the Miami plane would leave from Newark, but couldn't land at Camden. Special plane was provided him between Camden and Newark and the Miami plane was lield until he arrived. 4 New fwages Sel for Frisce s Streets of World B. A. C. I. f or N. 0. New Orlearis, Oct, 25. Orleans Levee Board has accepted a bid of $262,000 from Harry Batt to operate an amusement park pat- terned after Coney Island at Milne- burg on the lakefront here. The lease on the new site will be for a term of 20 years. Pontchartrain Beach, the old amusement park, is being razed. N. C. Fair and Parks Charlotte, N. C, Oct. 25. The Bowan County Fair, Salisbury, put 50,000 through the turnstiles this year, an increase of 22,500 over last year's 27,500 . attendance. Charlotte had had a new fair, fol- lowing in the wake of the regular fair this year—Southeastern Colored Fair. A parade through the city opened the event. Bantly's All Amer- ican Shows were on the midway. World's Exposition Shows have Just completed the Sumter County Pair. Before that they were the second annual Cotton-Peanut Festival-Fair at Enfield, Edney Brothers Shows played Raleigh under Legion sponsorship, featuring the Wilno cannon act. County police have closed up the elaborate Pine Harbor amusement center on the Catawba river, near Charlotte, for 'moral reasons,' Legal tilts have failed to remove the pad- lock. Stin Francisco, Oct. 25. Four colorful foreign villages last week todk place in Streets of tiie World, hJggest concessiim in San Francisco's 1939 Goldeh Gate Inter- national Exposition. B. D. Bussell, Managing Director, announced that 25 buildings for a Hawaiian Village would bp Shipped from the Islands Nov. 12. 75'Ha- waiians will be in the village, includ- ing entertainers and merchants. The village will be built around a cen- tral ceremonial house, where tradi-- tional native dances will be per- formed. Star of the show will be a full-blooded native princess. Second village will bring Latin America to Treasure Island. With financial backing coming partially from members of Hollywood's Latin colony, the Latin American quarter will feature a large Spatilsh restaut- ant, Mexican artists ahd entertain- ers. Headliners will be the rumba- dancing Miliano Sisters from Har vana. Approximately. 100,000 square feet within the four-acre Streets of the World area will be occupied by a Swiss village and a reproduction of Paris' famous Montmartre. A feature will be a completely equipped mod- el milk chocolate factory, built by one of the Swiss chocolate compan- ies. There also Will be a Swiss res- taurant, which will be open for a 'preview' about Jan. 1. Exposition-trained engineers aftd artisans will direct construction of the French and Parisian exhibit This information was received last week by Russell from Eberhard and Sandoz, Swiss, .showmen who oper- ated villages at fairs in Lyons, 1914; Antwerp, 1930; Brussels, i935, and Paris, 1931 and 1937. Eberhard and Sandoz left Monday (24) - for the states. These two villages will be built by local labor, under the direction of the Swiss designers. Feature enter- tainment acts for both show§ will be brought from France and Switzer- land, Eberhard reported. WflHEHEAD TO ADDRESS OUTDOOR SHOWMEN Chicago, Oct. 25, Ralph Whitehead, chief executive , of the American Federation of Ac- ' tors, has accepted an invitation to address the convention of the Inter- national Assb(!iation of Fairs and Ex- position at the Sh^erman hotel her* on Nov. 29. Invitation grew out of the present activity and campaign on the part of the AFA to organize performers in carnivals and fairs, with the Inter- national indicating a desire to listen to Whitehead's expressions on the growing need for affiliation with or- ganized labor on the part of the car- nivals and fairs. It is particularly felt by some of the leading fair secretaries who hrve expressed their opinions that the time for complete alliance with or- ganized labor has become a nec6.ss;ty in the outdoor field, especially 5tt view of the pro-labor leanings of the public to which they are looking for patronage and support. Just an Idea New Orleans, Oct, 25. Mayor Bob Maestri Saturday (22 > revealed that he has launched a movement to have the Al G. Barnes- Sells Floto tircus make this city o^-e of its chief winter quarters. He pointed out that this would be an added attraction for winter tourists^ The Jefferson race track, which has not been in use for several ye?rs, but where barns, track and stables are in good condition, was sug*estfid as the site for the quartering of the circus. Jess Cave, finance commissioner, will leave here in the near futu-e to confer with John B?n:«:ling No^th, head of the circus. North, it v.yis reported here, is lukewarm t> I'^e su'j^jestion. The Barnes show has v/'m*-i-"pd on the West; Coast and is unlikely ta change.