Variety (Apr 1939)

40 VARIETY MUSIC-^DANCE BANDS WedneBflaj, April 12, I939 Inside Stuff-Music CBS' music execs have been asked to, Investigate a complaint made against one of the network's stafi conductors by a publisher who claimed that the maestro demanded $100 a month for the continued use' of the pub's copyrights as theme songs. The publisher advised the network that it was the baldest approach he has encountered in all his years iii the business. The staff leader, according to the publisher, informed the latter during • personal call that he had been using several of the firm's numbers as theme songs and that he (the conductor) thought that $100 a month would be a fair compensation for favors done. When the pub didn't react favor- ably to the .idea, the leader Is purported to have set a deadline for coining across or else. The piib didn't make payment and the day following the deadline all his numliers were missing troni the leader's sustaining programs. Trading in Decca Records, Inc., was revealed In last week's Securities ti Exchange' Commission report on the stock market activities of insiders in registered corporations. Harold I. Thorp of New York, director in the music cannery, reported Laurence M. Marks & Co. bought and sold dur- ing February. Firm sold short 500 pieces of. common and then bought a covering batch but also dumped two lots of lOO.each, winding up the month with 300 shares still in the portfolio. Thorp holds 200 shares in his own name. Another report revealed Samuel H. 'Vallahce of New York, another boardite, holds 1,252 shares via Vallance & Co. RCA Victor's appeal from the $65,000 judgment granted David G. George In connection with the recording of "The Wreck of the Old 97' was argued last week before the Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. Arguments lasted three hours, David Mackay appearing for Victor and Robert Nase foil George; , ' it cost Eddy Duchin $1,500 to make the opening of his band at the Palmer House, Chicago, last Thursday (6): Bandleader was on the Coast visiting his oaby and took a plane east which was forced down at Alber- querque. Duchin chartered a ship to fly him into Chicago in time for the opening. He arrived at 11 p. m. Royal Worth FOes Claim Against Consolidated International board of the Ameri- can Federation of Musicians has un- ^er advisement a complaint made by bandleader Royal Worth against Charles Green end Consolidated Ra- dio Artists, which'claims Worth is owed $1,B00 back pay for • partly filled date at the Lincoln Terrace, Pittsburgh, last year. Worth says h* wai booked into the spot for six weeks last aummer, but th« qxtt folded befora it was balf completed. Claims ha wai not paid off for actual working time. Fats Waller's Egyptian Road Company Clicks Cairo, April 1. A local Fats Waller imitator, Juhnny High Smith, currently at "La Belle Marquise' Is really named Mohamad, and is an Egyptian with a Dutch mother. He game from Hol- land and America and although he has been in Alexandria for some time, this is his first visit to Cairo. His technique is good but not ex- traordinary but the ensemble of playing swing .tunes and islnging a la Waller is proving popular in Egypt where Waller is unknown, and this type of act is absolutely, novel Band Bookings . Meyer Davis,. World's Fair Fleet Ball, Waldorf-Astoria, N. Y., May 1, and Terrace Cl<ib at Fair opening, AprU 30. ■ ^ . Vincent Lopez, 'Union Pacific' pre- miere ball at Omaha, April 29r May 4, Cedar Rapids. Iowa; May 12-13, U. of North Carolina. Joe Rines, guest Hotel New Yorker Sunday (10); opening May 10 at St. Regis hotel, N. Y. Ph'il Spltalny, Boston Gardens, Boston, AprU 28. Del Courtney, Boston College hop, Statler hotel, Boston, May 6. Mike RUey, State theatre, N. Y., week May 11. Lairy Clinton, Harvard U, May 2; Rhodes-on-Pawtucket, Cranston, R.I., May 6; week Aug. 11, Capitol, Wash- ington. Al Donahue, Villanova College, Phlla, May 6; Garden City, L. I., May 6. Glenn Miller, week of April 21, Paramount theatre, Newark. Will Osborne, Bdwdoin College, Brunswick, Me., May 19. Frank Dailey, Turnpike Casino, Lincoln, April 16; Muehlebank hotel, K. C., two weelu, April 21. - Tommy Dorsey, Penn hotel, N. Y., May 25 to Sept 17. Zisso Leaves SESAC Leonard Zissu has quit as staff counsel for the European Society of Stage Authors and Composers. He is setting up his own' law office. It isn't decided whether he will ntain- tain some client connection 'With the music rights ageniey,' Zissu had I>een with SESAC for seven years. SETS CHI baub sates Chicago, AprU 11. Series of bands has been booked Into the Chicago theatre by Max Turner, leading off with Orrin Tucker, who opens at the Balaban & Katz key spot Friday (14) after a stay In the Empire Room of the Pahner House. Following 'Will be Joe Sanders, Clyde' McCoy and Eddy Duchin. Network Pkigs. 8 AJM. to 1AJH. Followtnff {* 0 totalization of tht combined plu(r« of current tunes on JVBC (WEAP and WJZ), and CBS (WAflC) computed /or the toeefc /rom Afondav throuah Sunday (April 3-9). Totol represent* accumulated per/ormance* on the two major networJes from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. Symbol • de- notes ^Im song, t leflfif, all other* art pop. TITLE. PUBLISHEE. TOTAL Little Skipper Feist 62 Heaven Can Wait ■ Remick 47 Moon Is a Silver Dollar Robbins 37 Deep Purple Robbins 32 Little Sir Echo BVC 82 Penny Serenade..... Shajpiro , 31 28 27 26 24 24 28 x23 22 21 20 20 20 17 17 Crotta Get Some Shuteye .Berlin Our Love Chappell . Masquerade Is Over Crawford I Cried for You ; Miller .... It's Never Too Late Berlin ... . Begin the Begtilne Harms ... Could Be Santly ... I Want My Share of Love Harms ... This Is It.. .fStars in Your Eyes ChappeU . Hold Tight. Exclusive I'm Building a Sailboat of Dreams. Shapiro .. Step Up and Shake My Hand Famous .. I Get Along Without You Very Well Famous .. Romance Runs in the Family Ager Sing Song of Sunbeams... 'East Side of Heaven. Santly 17 I Long to Belong to You. R«d Star le It's All Yours... tStars in Your Eyes S^^PP*^ « We've Come a Long Way Together £el£' le And the Angels Sing gVC 15 Cuckoo in the Clock Eterlj? ' 15 East Side of Heaven... ♦East Side of Heaven.... Santly 15 NiRht Must Fall .Ma'Jts 16 That S^ Old Gentleman..,*East Side of Heaven.,Santly 15 Don't Worry 'Bout Me... tCotton Club Revue.... Mills 14 Funny Old HlUs... *Parls Honeymoon S?,""*'", •••• • • M Good for Nothin' But Love Wltmark 14 Last Night a Miracle Happened |P»er M Sweet Little Headache...'Paris Honeymoon.... M This Night.. .•Honolulu .'. .fVC, 14- Chopsticks I**"?,''^, II If I Had My Way PauU-Pioneer 13 Happy About Whole Thing.,. ♦Naughty but Nice..™™* 13 How Strange...♦Idiot's Delight H I Promise You ABC 12 This Can't Be Love... tLeave It to Me Sw??^*" Class Will Tell. ; • • • 11 My Heart Belongs to Daddy...tLeave It to Me. . CliappeU U Tears from My InkweU, ^".'^ Jl At a Little Hot Dog Stand. • f?'®',' • • • 15 Gardenias ; JJ^cpln 10 Hooray for Spinach... ♦Naughty but Nice Remick 10 Patty Cake Fox 10 Then Came the Rain...; Harms 10 I . =^==^^^^= Haka Reeerd, Ine, File* Albany, N. Y., April 11. Maka Record, Ine, has been char- tered to conduct a voice recording business in New York. Directors are: Max Benkowltz, Irving Bresa- Uer, and Grac« Mannioii. Robert Eopple, New York City, was filing attorney. 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