Variety (Sep 1940)

42 MSCITIliATO on Wednesdiiyt Septeinbcr 18^ 1910 Hold on to Your Hat» iiuiBibal comedi' in ' acta. .an<r IS kROfiM presentea Sept. II, '40. at the Shu- fcsrt, :N. T., by Al Jolaftn anil GtorKO. icVia. with J»lBon starHng. Featured, Mar- Cba, Raya, Jack WhltlriR, Bert Qordon. Arn- 61(1 Mo83, Gil Lninb, Buss Prowh and^ EM- nlija Healey; music by Burtoni tahe. lyrlca by B, Y. Haiburgt: book by Guy BoUfMi, Matt Brooks and Eddie Davis; staffed by Bdgar MacGregor: under personal direction of George^ Hale;. dances by Catherlne^^Wtr tleflsld: costumes and scenery deslgnea by Baoul Fene Du Bola; muRlcal direction Al G(»odmah: .arranffenienta, Hans SplsWc .and Don Walker; vocals, Joseph Lll.ieyi-8 show.-, girls. 14 ponleB. 12 boys; $4.40 top, pre- miered- scale,' <8 .8(h. ; . iMacgarot Irvlnff . ........ iGiri«mb . .George .Church. ..... Jack Whklng Martha Raye 'Jtnk" FalkanburR ....Joyce Maitthefws ...vV/iThea Pinto;, Uew EcUles ......Arnold .-Moss .. r..;.. .Al Jolson ,.,; John Rh ndolph .i .'..; Joe .Stiwer .....Marty Brn1:e . .Bert Gordon .Gieoiire Mamn Rubs Brown Eunice Henley ........SMOssel ..... ;W>H K»<lm-i» JlnK FantcnbiirK Siiirra'.................. •S\im\.....»i..K.y-.y ■ tljOR...'. ^ . . .i^........ Pets.... ...'^...^...... Mamie......... • ; First Diidette..,.. V., :S<^conil-Dudetta........ ■nhlrd budette.. Sheriff'....'. Fernando.'...,. ... liohe .pideir. • . • Rndto Annottncer..;... •Shepr Martin...V;... •Old Man* Hawklna-.. •Concho'......... .... SMtind- .Effects-........ . 'Dinky'....;;;;. iihlrley ... . . , . , ..;.... liiil*...!.;; . ..;'. • .;• •. ... r 'I*edi*QVv.-.".' ...... • •: Rita .......I...*.....'.. • ' "The •.Talrmer Sislif ra.. Current Road Shows (Week of Sept. 16) Miss Rave team liicely .with 'Would You Be So Kindly.' Again Mlss Healey ahd'Whiting scoi-ie with 'Dpn't Let It Get You Pawn,' while Jblsbn Winds, lip act one with •Therie's a Great Day Coming, Manana.J Miss Raye , just previously has sbniethihg , with George Church in the number, .'Life: Ayjis Pie for the; Pioneer.' -O . ; A comedy highlight of the show is /Down on the Dude Ranch' and has been sii>ce the show opened ih Da- troiC as given by Jolson, Miss Raye and Bert Gordon. Latter wiis well known in vaudeville but better khbwri as the 'mad Russian' in Eddie .Cantor's broadcasts. From his en- trance'when he flaps those loving-; cuf» eiars, .Gordon ; counts oh the: comedy end, playirift a; Y dian; _; ■ " '. . ■■ ■ '' ■ Jolsbn's parts are ;varied. He starts as the Lbne Rider, ia radio hero, the title being adapted, from the -Lone: Ranger' of the air,. His product ■ a biieakfast food. Script writer convinces, the Rider that, he should go west to Sunshine Valley and there capture Fernando, a bandit who has been getting; away with murder. rWesterri scenes /shift to „ Mexico and back aigkin to the ViaUey Mitttlft Tanner in that coUrse, ,Jolson, is a dame, tbreadoi: and peon. As-the latter he waii-bles 'Old Timer,' another lyric that catches his faiiCy, : Among dance specialists is Gil LamW . a fellow- With an-. eccentric style. Later on instead of repeating he dbiss thlhg^ with; harmonicas. Aritbld Moss : ii very good as the Al's back; And so Jolson^^ r^^ — ,**^b3^'*oSc! A ^ i *• * •cr;viA show And Joe Vitale replaced. Russ to;. Broadway t<y iriotiyate Hold On Brown is the strsiight man and knows to; Your iHiats,' the 'first click ol the his stuff., The Tanner Sisters (Mar- new sjeason; tha, 'Mickey,' Betty) are used at the •Hats' is really pleasurable diver- opening of both parts and join with 6ion and that's what the theatre the. Radio Aces (Marty Drake, Lou fihoiild offer right; now, more thaii and Joe Stoner) in the ensegible sing- ever beforie. .. -j in3;t A quartet^^ o dancers^; Jolsoh, who. repeatedly states be is.vMirgie ■ Greene, Artita Jakpbi,; Iris' 'Boys and Girls Toffether' (Ed Wynn )-rShubert, Boston, •Oharlot'B Revue' (all-name cast--^ for: British War Relief fund)—El Capitan, Hollywood (2()-i2i;). •Geflrffe Washlnffton Slept Ilere'r- Bushhell '■: AuditoViunv; Hai tford, Conn. (21). .. ■ '■ ■■'■■■''"*'v ♦Life with Father* (Lillian Gisly)— Blackstone, ichicagQ. / : ; : ' •Little Foxes' (Tallulah Bankhead) -r^bmmunity. Hershey, Pa. (16); K^rlton, . Williamsport, Pa. (17); Shea. Bradford. Pa. (18); Shea. Jamestown, N. .Y: (19): Colonial. Akron (20); Park, Yoiingstowri (21). •Male : Animal' ■ (Elliott Nugent)— Selwyn;■Chicagb;;-V'• "■.'■•: - •Man Who Came t»:DihnerV (Clifr ton Webb)—^ass, Detroit.^:. : ^ ; "Meet the PeopIe'j^Geai y,,; San Francisco. •Meitt the People*—Miisic Box, Hbllywobd. Plays i)ut(rf1^ Zone ojF Quiet Cleveland, Sept. 7. FiiiVe In three nets (itlx scenes) by J^eon It. Dcinbo; staged by EJlennor Van IlOMen; Ikresentcd Ht Honna theatre. Cleveland, .Sept. 5. 'W, .Ur. .Fiib.i\v^, .:;,.;...■..... . i)r.. iOonnis..., ...;..'., Dr. 'iVn ymore,... • > • '> • • .IJr. ]jnr.»oii... ..,., , Pr.-.ljlnil.. .; •: :'I)r,: JnrkHon.:;.■ i . i l)r,Wln."'low.:...,..,.,: MuRsy ^>U•^^oy,.^,. ... :!>(•. .Durdll,...;. .....v.. 1)1-;: Holt. Air. Ci uz^.. . Dr. .Di>.*ulo, ; Roily Ilyrke..;. Vhoebe .Ciifvpr.; MlBM Ilo wnril... Stlii'TKop'rolllnr'.. I'olii'cnKii) . . ..c Niirses ............. . ...Donald Ropef. . , .Frank StrlnRor ,.,. . Joneph Jtobb- i..; . riionla nVoolcs , .Daniel Steuhens ..;., .John ninzlciv .. , ;Gip'ne' JerOt^e J^nv Weeks .Rlchiu-a Wttltei's .. . ..Martin Fuss. ..Alvln Allen i Janiea Morirlson ..,'.,.. i . Janet Ra vly, .. /Ronnie' Walter > iSlcahor -Van Ho0sen' .Taut Mica le ....;... . .Peter- Doyle TE!Ii5nbeth Walters . ^ Mlrinm dhll.tRhah • I: , Evelyn Fuerat -The.. Radio': AcflB-.. ThO' Ranohettes.. Mickey' Tanner Betty T.inner (Marty Drake { I>o« .ttoner I Joe Stoner TMargle Greene I AnlU Jakobt V .Iris Wf».vhe (jaitis WtUtams^ Leon Hi Dembo, Cleveland rhedicb who turhed playwright^ followed routine traditions by writing a hos- ^ V,-. jii-t T>»v..;».f xw,ii« pital olcy for his first,;but he doesn't - Needles'-Locust, Phila- ^^^^ ^ ^^^^ Instead of treat- ing siibject seribusly, his. •Zone bf delphia. •Show Off* (Joe E. Brown)— Bricihtoni Bri,fi[hibn Beaeh, Y. : •Skyterk*: ((Jertvude; Lawrence)-f Technical Highschobl. Omaha : (16); OrpheiHti Stouk City (17); Shrine, Des Moines (18); Lyceum, Minneap- olis. 09-21)..:. •Time of Your Life* (Eddie Dbw- ling).^Maplewobci, Maplev/ood, N. J. . "Tobacco Road' . (J9hn Barton )—- ^Erlanger^ BtifTalb);-: '■■ 'Too ":'Maiiiy-. .■■Glrls*:--Grand:; ;Op.era;: House, Chicago. •Ship, ol ZIoii'-^M.ayaiv Lbs : Ah- glad to be back, after nearly JO years in-Hollywood, hasn't made 'Hats' a, dne-man show by any means but it has the personality 'ttiat formerly packed the Winter Garden. And in the somewhat ; smaller Shubert he should turn the trick for a flbmish- ing seasbh;. That he i^ pne of the top draws of - the theatre was amply shown by the grosses-out-of-town. . •Hats' is a well-rounded entertairt- ihent,^ possessed iof ah excellent score. Here's a niiisical comedy that isn't loaded with book and while the story is not of the sophisticated type it is far froni dated. Comedy content is ■ generous aind' there are .belly laughs. What , with the stag- ing by Edgar MacGregor; splendid dance ensembles by Catherine Little-. Held, the- Philadelphian whose diirec- itioH of 'Amieirican Jubilee' at the World's -Fair stamped her. as un- '.tisual, pliis dazzling . costumes de- signed by Rabul Pene: du Bois,. the Jolsbn outfit seems to have eVery- : thing that it takes^ First act holds the score's, best .' numbers and some bf the best giggle rousers; are there, Skene between Marthai Raye and the star near the Wayne and Janis Williams—are in the guise of specialists. Just before the close,; at the pre- miere, voices from. the lower floor rear called for Miss Raye who was in the line of principals' Waiting the .durtaih and plaudits: Jolson brought her forward and Said that's the way he feels about the clevef girl clown, too". C^lever fellow, that Jolsbn. ' ' Continued froni pay«>*l residehtsy : A man. Ray Quiet' becorhes a; rowdy, rather un orthodox travesty bn the boys jind girls in white. ; ^ Crowd at local preem showed sigiis: oif enjoymenti but reactibhs were not an accurate key of show's values, since flrst-highters were predoml- nahtly medicos; in S friendly mOod. Perfor-mahce ran to midnight, due to slow timing of amateut' cest, which was too inexperience to do It jus- tice. Additionally, several characters ais well as a half-hour of paddled bonversatibn could be eliminatedi Best about farce is its cirisp, fresh dialofj, which carries plenty of good laughs. Theire's also some daiffy cli- maxes steeped in breezy ribald ;hii- mor,. but too 'many; windy, passages; take; the edj;e off.. . , Student-doctors and 'apprentice- ntirses are impudently shown with their ; hair down; ;;gett;ihg .cauiiht iti' rteckihE: parties, shooting craps or at b-wzih^c sessions by. a sp.ur.-fiaced hos Adams, IS a high officiail with the pUaj superintendent. A strict disci- Mexican telephone company. One Dlinarian, he bounces a: young couple rnember was the wife: of the Spanish ^If dispen- stage director at : the Tiiatrb: !*!^^ Nidu)lson^mb^rger To Encore in Backs Cduiity ■ : New Hope, Pa.; S^^ ■ ifehybri Nicholson and .Theron Bamberger, who:, last Saturday night (14) closed their first season as opera:^ tors of;the Bucks County playhbuse' here, will have: the house agaiin next suriimer> probaijly offering another 13-week schedule. 'They've not only made a modest profit bn their first first act . finale had fitrst-highters; year of operation, but have pleased screaming. Miss Raiye has been on Broadway before but never to such Eersonal advantage. . Jolson builds er up, as he does others in the .cast., and that is showmanship- by a player who piit his own coin in the produc- tion. ^ Georgie Hale.- who supervised the entire works, has a/-piiece of it. about 20%. He also supervised. the entire production and did a show- manly job thereof.. When 'Hats' opened the cast in- cluded Ruby Keeler whom Eunice Healey replaced. There .again is a performer -Who hasn't appealed as she does how, thbugh she attracted attention last season in Two for the: Show.' Miss Healey and Jack Whit-: ing slupply the love interest, dueting the scoring iiielodies. At . one point she . fears - that the man she, loves isn't quite that Way about : her. That's a cue fbr Jolsojn to saiy: •I'mi; old enough to be your father and I can give .you Ics.-ons in carrying, the torch.' He said it smilingly but the initial aiidiehce was' well. aware of What he meant. , Jolson got the show Off With an Intimate touch. . He sat .in' an easy ehair in one, saying it was a gala night for him: because 'my kid is lis- the stockholders, who were disgusted with conditions last year, thisi tliie- atre's first. ■': " ' First real; click was with 'Yes, My Darling Daughter' the fourth week; Top biisineiss for . the -season (ex- clusive of this week's offering .of Joe E. Brown 'The Show-Off-): was with Pauline: :Lbrd in , "The Late Christopher Bean,' alnipst xapacitj'. for the week. That was a ;:Siirprise click, as it had been figured that the extensive little theatre, and school production oi the Show would crifhp it for the professiohal. theatre. With a capacity of 422 :seats and a top of $1.65 ($2.20 Saturday nights); the house can gross about $4,100' weekly. Although .nd reduction was .offered to subscribers; nearly 100 regular .pa- trons paid in advance for reserved seats for series; of six shows, even though the actual plays hadn't been announced. Virtually. ' all.; likewise bought and paid: for in advance for the next.six shows. , .Remarkable . angle on ; the season Only one American actress, Jeanne Washhurnei had :ev«ir been/'irriported' (i.e. fare paid) from New Ybvk; by Wagner. Being strictly on her: bwh and on a weekly salary that the aver- age ..tbiirist spends here in' a day. Miss Ttegob (billed here as Lilli Trisps) has resourcefully:; supported herself in that nianner of ..making aU^ a Iphg way, for whibh. young Amer- ican legit actresses are famous. ■ Nbw 'With/ the conclusion of the English season.: (Wagner also, has a Spanish season)-Miss Tregob is leav- iiig Mexico City liye 'With a Mexi- can fainily. .in a- rernote village ih order to learn Spanish. She has a i>bssible chance to ;appear. in a Mexi- can motion picture later ih 1040. She hopes, should that materialize, that some film .sCbut might see her as, a promising character actress; ma terial. "-'^ ;;■..■•:";■. ■'■ ;/'-:' :V TTie' legit -actress' eternal hope of beine /discbver-ed' or 'scbuted': is not dead even ' on ,the A'venida Juarez Miss TTregob and her colleagues Were sRiritually crushed when Gil lifibur BroWrt frorn the.■Pasaderia ^Cal.) Playhouse suddenly switched his plans and went to Taxco, the mbuntaih resort. Instead of to the Pah-Americaii performance not long ■ago..'/'. Their, sympathetic' staff frietids— nine internes and four nurses—get together to have them reinstated by trying, to. frame the hospital .liead. One youn.st medico . gets the supe's sweetie, a hatchet-facisd superyisbr .o< nurses' dept.; stinko ;in a nitery to make: her use hei-. influence. An-- other -lad. higH-piressures a rich trus- tee whose Junior League daughter is doing volunteer ward duty to be hear him. Neither gag works, but the payoff that reinstates the two kids ' comes when the dignified supe and his g.f. are fbund petting hot and heavy under a hospital bed. That's the livelieist scene of the lot. , What this cbmedy vitally neecls is terse characterizatibns ^hd a staccato George Abbott-like, tempo in; direc- tion,, pltiS: a play doctor. Geiie Je- .rbske; in part of hardrto-get interne chased by. the dehi. offers a prbfes- isiohai piece of Svbrk. Others look niorie like college sophomoresthan : medicos. 'r'-'. .^' Pullen. SHIPiNZION " ;/ " v Los Ahgeies, Sept. 11. " ' Folk! pliiy In three arts by Zark WHllnma; preKenieJ and .Ptnpcei by riarenfo- -Muse;, mu.ilc . Int.eriMlaMon.s,. .lOllloit -Oiirpenter,: Harry ■ ravroll' anJ rnulihe .Cairoll; choral 41r(vt'''"' 'WUHom Wllklns. Wlnclpnls: . JSick. WllHKhis,. Florence O'-Hrloii, l-Irnest Wilson. Nathan Culrry. ^tyinle noar(1,;ner- nice -iPilot,- .Bilwarrt Thomj-won. : .Opened .'«t Mnynin. lioai A.hfrelo.''. Sept. 11 : $2:2<» top. A" serious effort is here afoot to duplicate the sticce's of Federal The- atre's 'Run' Li'l Chilliih,' whith had the .. longest rutf of any. Negro show in dbniestlc show history;,. .The. com- ■ parison ends with the effort;/. In overwhelinihg, nurnbers. are Negro players scattered : over the stage. At the launching of 'Ship of Zioh' the staging .yifas sloppy and the perfbrttiahces too faintly etched, If the barge thiat's to take them all to • heaveh ever ;gets out of port it- Will ■ have, stornjy sailing.. . ..Play is: given Oyer largely; tb the: chanting, of spirituals; foot-stpmping, hahdclapping and other antics of the camp meeting. . . Only ia thread ,of a stbry runs through the playi.but it is l,(^t . in; the constant raisiir\g. of vbices!; eh .masse Sebbnd and t.hird ;acts are dominated by . the. - gosPel. singers^ • with little trace pf the story remain- ing; ; Openint? actvis given over to sinful carousing in a dive* whiph. the church brethren' try to break .up. ; I,n the end the sinhcrs are all converted . to the faith, and the 100. more or less, voices shoiit and sing the praises of 'glory: .:'.\.:- :- .'} ' • None in-, the: cast rises above an ordinary, performance.; The -play doc- tors will have to be; called in prbhto if any kihd of a run is anticiDated: It's nriiich top ; thin , theatriicnllv . to lure the payeeis.. ' Helm. , Leoinafd J. Potter and Ronald T. Hammond,. co-bperators Of. the Stony Greek, Conn.,; strawhat this siimmer, have bperied a prodiuction office in New York: and hbpe to present .bri Broadway at: least; one of the; three hew plays they tried otit duriijg the Siimmer. Shows include: 'She; Ate Her Cake,' They That Love Best^ and 'The ;Adam Family.' . tening in oh the Coast—he's fpur click was the fact that the spot years old—it's piped in and- the kid operated without big names. , Jbe E. will hear me sing.' For a number | Brown this week and Miss Lord ih or two he uses a microphone, as he 'Christopher Bean' were the only warbles snatches of such, always popular songs as 'My Blue Heaven,' crooning ■ in the Jolson m&nner. Down towards the close when he,, , . _ ^ . , ^, . , started a little cycle of old faves with ' l«ad, Jane Cowl, Ina Claire. Ethel •You ain't heard nothing yet,' the Barrymore and Ruth, Chattertorj, stars. But. unlike ;most strawhats which depended on a succession; of ;uch guest stars as Tallulah .Bank mike was discarded with the remark: •We dbn't need this gadget any more than we did before,' It was getting late and: he said that since all the critics had gone, . the house could settle down and have; a good time. He first asked if they liked the show ' and the resobnse was that of a de lighted audience. He opened the cycle With 'Swahee.' then came Bucks County used a resident stock company with Louis Calhern as top name. . '...■; ■ ; Stockholders of the theatre, who include some of the leading residents of this wealthy 'art colony,' are now trying to work out an as-yet vague plan tp operate the spot on an all- •April Showers.' 'You Made Me Love : year basis. . Nich^olson^ and . ^am- You,' . 'Sonny Boy.' and finally , berg^r would presuimably take over <Mammy.' [ operation during the siimmer, with Miss Raye goes into action- with i.seyeral; local :people; charge the thel theme niunber, 'Hold On to Your ; rest of the year Year-round opera- Hats,' with Jolson soon getting; tjori is admittedly too tough to be Plfjjty aPP^l^S* '^'i!? ^-^PSffi-talfe- ■ attempted thirf year. But according mIU Hi^l^ J2S te'rt<> Pr£ent tentative plans at. least i ness, but it is Miss Healey and Whit- . . ^ . ^ , ^ ^. j- ing who send over the topper. The)mpdest start, may be made in the World Is in My Arms.V ^Plspn and fall of 1941. Sunday Legit .Conuntted from p^ge 4i. Sinclair. Lewis, who has a new; play ready for production, has told friends he's 'retired'- as an actor. Novetlist toured last season in his: 'Angela Is, 22' and has;made several strawhat appearances the last two sumrhers; Ai; Simon and Wayne Lawrence have co-authored a comedy, 'Full Hoiise.'- Simon is pres.s agent for WHN,. New; ,York, and Lawrence wrote 'Decently Indecent' and other plays. Cy Grody, former treasurer of the Nixon, Pittsburgh, and more recent- Coast will not particularly figure in the voting. The California vote is not as im- portant a^ formerly because last sea- son around 900 members occupied; in ! ly at the Granada, Cleveland, the studios applied for and received I named treasurer of Davidson thea- hohbrable .withdrawal cards, making tre. Milwaukee, succeeding Don Lar- them ineligible to ;ballbt, There aire' sop, resigned, between SOO and 700 on the Coast who are in good standing, but the ; Deny Giahnini Bankroll Reopening Tiyoji, S. F. .; San Francisco. Sept. 17. Long-dark Tivoli Opera House, undergoing complete overhaul to re- light Sept. 30 wittj :riew, Civic Opera Guild production of 'The Enchanted Well;' A. P. Gianriini reported to be; angel for the venture, but: this is. denied by , Frederick Carroll, direc- - tor of the production, who also will conduct 30-piece symphony orchestra in pit. According to Carroll, -who has previbusly presented one-day concerts in the house, group of eight is putting up coin, ijutiidentities of, octet are being kept dalrk. 'Enchanted Well,' which will In- troduce 2S new compositions. Is work of Luigi Sbrana, who wants; 'it un- derstood he was ; born ih Tunisia.; Miisic Is his hpbby, composer being';: prominent, local attorney; in public life. Plans call for two weeks at Tivoli, after, which company will move td LPS Angeles for fortni.ght's stand. ■ If initial venture clicks, 'Chocolate Soldier' will fbllow.; Tivoli, which is; owned by Mrs. William Leahy, has story-book hi."- tbry, present edifice . being fourth Tivoli in a line founded ih the;'765. In the early days, patrons got 'Pina- fore' and beer for two-bits. Third Tivoli. which was destroyed by fire in 1906. saw the American debut of Tetrazzirii. in . 'Rl»oletto.' Edgar Selwyh and Lowell Biirwell Aetor Boosts ^Continued from page 41 • matteir of Sundays is .not expected are negotiating in Hollywood for the to interest them, most of that group auturhn production on Broadway of may not even, bother to cast their j the Selwyn play, 'Prejudice.' written Votes. ;.'.,. ■' ' ', ' .; . . - , ! two years ago. Dramjf had a straw Equity originally blocked Sundays hat tryout at Dennis, Mass. on Broadway by exacting double pay. J so that the present attitud.e is complete change of front. Stage- hands, follb wed suit, but said they only did so because of Equity's move. Over a period of time; the managers (League of New York Theatres) put registered. That proposal was Sundays up to the deckhands and : given little consideration, musicians union, and on the theory | At the managerial-Equity confab that such performances would aid | the shbwhien displayed further in- employment,' both unions assented ; terest in financing a hew .drive to t6 regular pay provided Equity peo- | .'organize audiehces' to attract siibur- ple would do likewise. That is tile ■ banitcs to'Broadway. They want a point the membership will vote upon, j practical plan worked but, however, A number of shows have tried Siin- ; before; setting- aside fresh; coih lor days, but it has- been .quickly dis- \ the project. . Last season the at- tempts on varying outlying com- munities to arbiise interest in :thea- tre-going met with little or no suc<> cess. League had set aside $2,500 for the campaign and it was all ex- pended.; . , • cerned that double pay nullified the state law because of the : added ex- pense. Thoise -who: conceived the idea' of boosting the pay for Sun- days are not active'in Equity r""«:- ently. ■> ' Lult Hits Agcys ,J_^.^Contioued Irom pace ft ■ ■ ' Bernstein ih Ni Y. supreme court have disclosed that he will hand down 12-page ' opinioh tomorrow (Thursday) in the suit of seven ticket brokers against Licehse Com- .missipner Paul: Moss and Police Cpmmisslipner Lewis J. Valentine. The brokers are battling a law Which ..holds them to a 75c increase on any ticket, regardless pf its price, which they might i-e.sell to the pub- lic. :Ciase was argued in ;coiirt over ia thonth'agb. with the;judge ponder- ing his d.ecisioh. since then. NO hint as to which way the decision is going could be gleaned. .; Sam Mayer, associated- with Sam Beckhart for many years; is enter- ing the Joey Deutsch; agency. Beck- hart ' suspended his; agehcy .last spring and has been associated wi^'" Supreme. '[