Variety (Apr 1941)

44 VAUDEVnXE Wednesday, April 16, 1941 iiy II.'VrPY BENWAY . who ozpned on ♦Rainbow, lake, is now " • " I aii ing in Gabriel, Y.- ■ : Sarahac Lake, ^pril l^: ^ ^ ; Jack; Norwcrth^re^s - the^Actbrs Joe Bishop got £ thrill when, he GoU)ror from llje Umb^ ^1^^ • •''^^ '''7'Tudor Cameron ; (and Flanagan) tuned jin.and got We the ^^^^^^ and . ^e reached: care of . jqe Er- h.«,old boss, Woody peun^n and ^ , Ambassador Theatre. Bldg., St. orchestra spent ,a few momenr^ say-.- .r:n. ffo n.-nmhtins K^w; nosRi, . ..>, .. '..> „ T • o- i iw I u-^-1 r Louis, fie is: promoting new possi ing..'Oet^ell Jpe.V Since that broai^ ^^^^^^ cast, Bislipp has^xewMved an, iiP trick up here :in.i8 ;mbntfis.: : oxerpise pjc^^jl;^ frau.JS here ?ind -spring is- hefe'-.storm windows bedsules,him daily. ., .,.; , beihg\'packcd away;/tame fish Arthur Sheltpn,. .exrcritic of the .for Ruth Morris', arc bejng let lobse Baltimore Evenipg,^Sun. .is^packing a . La,^g ^.^^^^y and eggs are: being mess of good comebacks at the local .readied -for .Camp Intermission. Trudeau sanatDi'ium. ■ Maneges. 9: which denotes the anticijiated arn- downtown-twjce-a-week visit. ■ of Mrs. Wiliiam -(Mother) Mor- Barry ;Kelly ;is: doing ,well at TrU- / ^is; the one big thrUl of th^e Actors deau. . . : Colony. .. Bows and salutations .to A- B, Percy Wenrich, who wrote ,'Put <'Tpny') Ariderspri, . -nniatiager of YPur : Old -Grey ■Bonhet,' 'Moon- Schine's Pontiac. - Neyer misses a ijgHt BaY''.and:many other song hits, chance to take;:time out to visit the accompanied by his frau,- Dolly Cbn- imcny who are • .riiarking time and • nolly,; registered at .the .Hotel " Sara: manages .to: giye f^^ p£ their nac. an(J .will vacash here,. Dr.. wants. V ■".■.y'':-'' v -r..-' ' ;'■ ' George ■Wiisoh. Is b/o.'Ipg.;Pprcy.'.fpr. This office' is seeking' the aiddress a bad throat. ' and whereabputs of Lerpy ('Lasses') , After pne month of'thiis ozone, Al White, minstrelman, who headed his Brandt has added IQ pounds, and re- pwn show for years. It's important, ceiyed . ~ report that he was not 'The 'Ghet :Kniff ihs, profe^iohally , troubled.with..'this', kind of illness.; ,ls' known as 'The Dells,' took tirhe . but Ihat boy cutting .cape^ .. ' ■/■ while en route from Ottawa, to New Betty Schefer. . . prpfessi.onally .York city to mitt and ogle the-Col-, known as Betty Jackson, a former. ony; .'Geor^e.VWhite chorister; is geitting . Colin Tracey,.-a Brboiiiyn jproduct.-good-reports.' ' • ;. . . . ■ and formerly connected ivith-Golum-; Vicks- (and Lawrence),, bia pictures, is a newcomier at; the ; who .commuted; between . Union,, N,. Will Ropers. H./ and Boston, due here.; Johri Eaton, legiter.' ■vi'ho hai l»en'' ni^ check-up, fighting a. bed routine for so long, j . So many cures .have been miade Is n.bw ailowed u'p^ for the talkers i and so many. p>atients .going;home at the iPdge. i that the .Rogers hospital lopks Bbb Cosgrpve just received a re-1 as deserted. as a local ..undertaker's port fi^om, his meclico that .nearly makes him fic lor arthy service. A re;il comeback, .. Roma Bliss (and CalaHah) is a neW arrival..' . librothy MaxwelU dancer of other; days, just licked a mfess bf hospital routine and is back in circulatlonV The Lohey Drews are now a fout- ■ome. It's a girl this time. Bryce Lavign, who." used to baton the local Hotel Saranac orch, is now gelling radios. . Grace Moore" caime in to p.b. her husband; Valentin Parera, then was ofl to Worcester, Mass, lor a con- cert Parera is packing a . mess of gpod reports.. Harold Rodner, the big boss of the Will Rogers, greeted the gang with a lot of good cheer and' nice things that help the ozoning rou ihe. Jimmy . Marshall, ex-N.'V A.-it6, parlor! Bows -fpr Dr. Geprge Wil son and the can's home-like atmos- phere. ■ ' ■ , ; .Harry -Martin asked: Ben SchaiSer what he thought iabout the ASCAP music war. ■ ben snapped back .'Who B.M.I, to'talk about my song w"ting friends?' ; 4VHte to those who are ill. MORMAN . .and SYLVIA N0WIN17THWEEK GEORGE WHITE'S CAY WHITE WAY, N. Y. ." ManaBcment: Vt'M. KENT 1776 Bnmdway ' Ne« To>k Dario's U MartMque To Jersey for Sninmer La Martiniqiie-in-Jersey will prob- ably be. sited this season at the old Vivian Johnson roadhouse at Mon- mouth Beach, N. J; . Bpniface Darip of La Martinique • is dickering for the surnmer spot arid will shutter his West .57th street nilery, a signal suc- cess since Danny Kaye's ihcumiiency, ais soon as the hot weather asserts itself. ■; ■ Meantime, April Ames, from IjOU- isiana Purchase,' jind the Eddy Oli- I ver band moved in last .night (Tues ), the latter replacing D'Artega. ELEPHANTS FOROET ; Bridgeport, April 15. Singer's Midgets opened iat Ma jesticdO) withput elephants.; Train carrying act's, hay-eaters didn't stop in Bridgeport with rest of troupe and couldn't biB found until too late for first day's show. Elephants were located back in N. :Y. and arrived at Majestic next day. Meltzer 2d P.A. Turning Talent Salesman for CBS Al Meltzer, formerly handling press relations for CBS Artists Bureau iii.N. Y„ is being segued into the: talent-selling end and will spe.'^ ciaiize. in picture- talent under Herb [ Rosenthal, head of the bureau, and , Jack Berlell, ! Another eN-p.a.,"Lou; Mindlihg; te- cbntly joining, CBS, is aide to both Rosenthal arid. Bertel 1 on- film, radio and hitery talent. Mindling brought in .Adelaide Moffett, who will be agented by CBS ip conjijnction with Mark Hanna, her personal rep. VAUDER SETTLES BASH ON CONK FOR $6,000 Los Anseies, April 15. ; Eddie Medley, vaude actor, ac- cepted $6,000 as an : out-of-court settlement of a $.50,000 pcrsonai darh-^ age iuit agaifvst Louis; and; Anna Kaplan, operators pi the Yost thea- tre in Santa Ana. ' '. ' ■; A member of the Medley and Du- prCy. team, . performing last • New Years'. Eve, Medley was struck on the head by- a counterweight;.while waiting for hisi tuVn. He ricbpyered frprrt liis injuries. : Marden's Riviera Bow Depends on Weather Bill Kent has not yet fully set the opening show for Ben Marden's Riviera, just ■ across the George Washington Bridge in New^ Jersey, but the top roadhouse will open May 8 or 15, dependent on the warm- ness of the weather around that time. Kent is booking the spot without taking a commission from acts, Marderi .paying • him a fee fPr the service. ■ / ' ' \ only acts set; thus, far are Gower and Jeanne, current at Lbew's State on .Broadway; Sarah Ann McCabe, singer; and Betty Bruce, hbofer, with two to fill. , According to plans, no. names are contemplated for • the opening, show, at least; which is in contrast to tlie .Riviera's policy last season, when it : played Sophie Tucker, Harry Richman. and Joe E. Lewis ail at one time. There will Be a ballet chorus of 16, plus eight showgirls, with Chester Hale pro- ducing. Pancho's, the second orch at the Riviera last. year, will be the first band this coming season, but aug- mented in size. Second band has not been set.. IN. Y. Nitery Folbw-Up ii i * 4 « ' ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ' ♦ t i ♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦ ♦♦> ♦♦»♦♦. Xavier Cu{Bt with his sock Latin rhythms is back at the Waldorf- Astoria's' Seft Room and contihucis until he shifts into the hotel's Star- light Roof. Meantime the Waldorf's Empire Room has called it & isea.son; there Leigh ton Noble did .quite well for. a reliatively modest- budgeted, band. -He .^vpiind up his run a day earlier, in prdey .to rrtake train connections, which resulted in Joseph -Sudy pinch-hi.tting for the final (Saturday) night, the same'time that Cugat preemed at the Sei-t Room. . '■■;'•... ■■■;• Rosario and Antohib". . |the -kids from Seville,' who clicked here with their- extraordinary Spanish dances, are: back with a new repertoire and: ah even more inspired perfprmahce, presumably aided by the authentic Latin baton of/Senor Cugat The" dancers left this spot for Hollywood to do sceneis in Metro's 'Ziegfeld Girl' and -Sing Another Chpriis.' Proniinent with Cugat. is Miguelito Valdes, the Afro-Cuban imported warbler who out-Amazes.-Desi with that style of twrigp-banging and singing, and a brunet looker, Evelyn, Tyrter, featured..vocalist. . Abel. Det Police ^ain Nix REOPENING OHIO VILLA WITHOUT THE CASINO . Cleveland. April 1.5. Ohio Villa, swank: casino -whicli folded three months ago at the:height of city's; . anti-gambling . crusade, emerges next mojtith. lirbm the dol- drums to becpme a straight deluxe nilery operated by Freddy Myers; . / Myers, who also runs, a hot spot in the ;d6wntbwn sector tagged Freddie- XJafe, is whitewashing the Villa's rieputation by tearing out its • old gambling room and ehlirgiing the dining room. With a gate tax of 50c -and an fljo capacity, Ohio Villa will.reopen, with large prbdiibtibn. umt^ arid name acts booked by Frank Senries, ; who ' angling to get Harry Richman or. Sophie Tucker for preeml New Act in Nilery . . DetrOiti Api-il 15. ; : For., the second ■ consecutive year the Detroit police department has refused to approve Sammy Sofferin's license for his downtown nitery, the Wonder Bar. However, likelihood is that the . Michigan Liquor Control Comniission will -approve "his license anyway, which won't prompte. any more amity between SofTerin and the local gendarmes. .. Police a year ago refused his license on the grounds he had broken the law at his famed Powatan Club by allowing gambling and overtime drinking, but the Liquor Commission overruled them in granting, a license for his new spot. Recently Sofferin fell afoul the local police again through, the em- ployment of a 17-year-old girl to sell ciggies. He was haled into court and convicted, but then acquitted in an- other court. CORD AN AND SAWYEll Comedy, Son^s, Dances ^ Vlll.'i Madrid, Pittsburgh Fcmme teams are pretty rare the.se days but Cordan and Sawyer are. rare in more than just that one re- .spect. They're a two-act with plenty on the hall iand;should definitely go [■places,. Rose Cbrdari is the clown half, who resembles a good-lobk.ing edition of . Fannie ; Brice, and ;Very ■funriy. Myra Sawyer -is. the straight. : and is oomphish with - a flggec that pops the eyes Of the ringsiders. Gals have some first-rate special song material and, whilp Myra is do- ing it straight.. Rosic gives it the comic works. She's a slick mugger who knows what to do and when. Contrast is ..efTective and. laughs .spill cont inyously^ Most ;, of \ the time, they're on together, but in couple of spots Miss Sawyer comes put-for a legit sbit of legmahia in a sieity outfit and then her partner: follows in a genuinely riotous burlesqiie vetsiprt. Best audible number is 'Sex Is- nere to Stay,' with Rpsie getting the punch lines aind doubling ordinary. returns; with quick ad libs to the audience. She's a crack comedienne and an efTective foil for her visually okay partner. At Villa Madrid they've been tying the show in knots and look like real .corners,' Cohen. Asks Singer to Apt., Then Has Her Held for Theft Pittsburgh, April 15. Christine Osborne, 22. nitery sing- er and , dancer, was, arrested here last week and held for further , in- vestigation when Don Washbtirn, en- tertainer and m.c. at the Club Petite here, accused her' of taking $400 worth of his wife;s dresses from his aparttrient. Washburn told Magis- trate.. Wjllianri D. McClelland in Morals CPurt that he met Miss Os- borne at the Petite. She said she told him ishe wanted to be an adagio dancer and that he then took her to his apartment, . Gal tiBstified she . tried on a dance cpstimie, but couldn't find her own dress when she; got ready to leiave. Then, she said, she took a gown be- longing to Washburn's wife, an en- tertainer in Uniontown, Pa. She de- nied taking any other articles. Wash- burn accused her of taking two Chi- nese gowns worth $200, four eveping .dresses - -worth $100, and six- stireet dresses. - y Mv G. as Nitery Op Boston, April 15. ' Larry Thornton, singer and m.c- here, is - Opening: up Dreamwold in Sqituate, . Mass., next : weekend - as host 2lid manager. Spot wiU l>e bp-- erated as daytime eatery arid night time club. . Dreamwold was formerly home of late Thorrias W;' Lawspn. Fianc^B Eaye's Buff. Date . Buffalo, April 15. : Harry AUman has set Frances Faye, singer, to open his Glen Park Barn in suburban .Wiliiairisylile Fri- day (18). Barn is nitery amusement pairk which unshutters Decoration Day, .. Also starting spring: season Friday will be Alttnan's dancery, at other end of park, playing Bernle Sandler's crew.■' - Donovan, Ex^Arbiter Of VMPA, Now Brig. GenM Former , l^.ajbr J. O. bohoyan, once closely associated with Pat C^sey and arbiter .with the now de- funct Variety Managers Protective Assn., now ranks.: as a brigadier- general in the U. S.. Army, plus be- ing adjiitant-generial of the .State of California. General Donovan was administra- tor on the G6ast of the NRA's mo- tion picture code. Hie. campaigned vigorousily for. the electibn of Cali- fornia's Governor Culbert. blsen, which resulted in his appointment as adjutant-general. Paul TVhiteman opened Monday (14) for four-;day stand at Paramount, theatre Atlanta; which normally is straight pic house., 'Play Girt* is coupled with Whiteman's show. . Cris Cross Appeals • Cris Cross, vehtriloquist, who lost once before has appealed to the joint arbitration board of the Anberican Guild of Variety Artists and the Artists Representatives Assn.. for a rehearing of his contract dispute with agent Charles H. Allen. The joint board originally ruled that Allen's pact with Cross was valid and that the agent was! - titled to commissions, including 50% of the collections of Music Corp. of America .to Cross ifbr agenting him, ColeV L'vilie BoW Louisville, April 15. ;Gple; Bros. Circus, wintering .-in Louisville, will open season here' April 25 for a three-day engagement.; Show has been completely vamped^ .■ .- NY. Strand SaYing Time On lie'-J. Dorsey Combo Flffurliiff that the Bette Davis starrer, 'Thfe Great Lie,' and Jimmy Dorseiy's band arc enough Of a draw, and also as ■; means of holding down the overall running time of the en- tire show,, the Strand theatre, New York, has bought only pnc act. Tip, Tap and Toe, to go Into its stage show with, Dorsey. Layout opens thla Friday (11). ' 'I-ito' consumes 107 minutes .and the stage show has been «1- iptted 45 minutes. With the ex- ception of the dancing trio, Dor- sey Will fill the entire stage por- tion. Combination Is set for at least foiir weeks and may go six. , T-From Variety, tssiie Apr, 9, 1941. W Ish to thtihk V^timmx Dorsey and. Harry Mayer for (-hoosing ua as THE acti. PrrMnal ManaWer r^ EDDIE [^MITH . ' -82 Went 48th Street, N. Y. TEN-S HU N !I BOOKED SOLID ONE YEAR Sehsatlonal Two Weeks at Roxy, New Address Mail U. S. Army, Camp Meade, Maryland Direction: MARK LEDDV