Variety (Jan 1942)

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Oro Waltrr Jolio Walter Waltora Old EVilla Ttven Gray & Harlow Barbara Wars "XTKirkWiax Eddio Thoroaa Billy I^yoa* Ors OiMn Door Caf« Dun & R Marahall Joaonattea (10) llarela Drummond ^loronc FranlfJa Schluth Viola Klalaa Oro PBlaiubo'l Tvooettea Kayo & Oroya Banks & Fayo Le Sbonnos Honry Patrick Johnny CahlU S Peppera Bonnie Btotrart rbnidelphU Hotfl Vera Cruz Tbe Loonardoo Dick Wharton Ors PofreltOD C«r« Doc Smith Frank Ponta Kan O'Rourko Cbarllo Ray ROM Jovlnellt Kovt Parker Oro ned HIU Inn Boy O'Day Helen Jerleco Bill Carlton uoward Lanin Oro Bonma OrllU Al Capron Oro amythe t Dolorea Tonl Sorrell i3lorla Dale Billy Kelloy BondesTou (Uotel Senator) The Contlnontal Ooalo 3t Bays Biun'a Cafe Joe McFadden Sonia La Dnre Groat Leator 3 Klnc** Rhythm (Ulver Uike Inn Col Geo RoeU Monya Alba Alice Lucny Duoboaa A Hormnn Moro & Chita Frank Ilasaol Oro StaiDP'a Helono Martin Eddie Dolan Jack Spanslor ThundertioltB I^abo CumnilnitP Son Bay Gardena Beatrice & Danny Agnes Wlllla Don Anton Oro. Janlne Reoao Joanne. Ware John Lucyen «»tb-Btv-Bathib(Slle>- Bill Alklnaun Uatto IL Tbrraie Regsle Duvan Belle Belmont Tony Bennett Ore SvroB Clab Buddy l#e\vla <;harloteera Grace O'Uara Little Jo* ft T Lee KIppeo Velez Earl Denny Oro' 20tlf Cealnry 3 Pepper* Johnny Pick (3) Sally La Mar Blanch* Saunden Venice GilU Nick Varallo Oro giuy.J!M?^ SCoC^ GTmy Conohlta ft Antonio Great Leatar Peiiy Hoavona Warwick Hotel Roger Btanley Oro meber** Hot Bna Camdea Tonl Jack Moea Little Fred 'Martinet llal ft Honey Bee Temple City (1) Dave. Plerson Pen Bannerman Julea Flacco'a Or* Byd Golden Ratha'r Sldoradlan& WUeon'a Joe Hough Art Matbuea Catherine WolR Ola Diane Dale Pamela Britton Freddie Buach Oro Barney Oreene Ore llncb's Red ford Inn Uao McOraw Oro Royal* Jack Owynne Cappella ft Patricia Jack Millard Dolly Bell H Smith Dane Aylene Maaon Skoeter l^almer Oro Statler Hotel Pancho Ore Sab* Buddy Leator -> Daro ft Corda Marian Powora T^onard Scol Oro San Dlei:<» Gene Emerald Glenn DaJa The Bordena Dotty Slonn Cliff Arvln Al Aloxiintlor Oro Stevadora Everett & Conway Bill Harria Roland ft Rlto Irene Burke Tiny Gormen Jack Thomaa Oro The Tropics Johnny Pineapple O Tapu Temea Buddy Wllllaraa Laura Jean Vlrgle ft Janle Gay Baird* Chuck Stoven* Oro Whtttler Hotel (Gold Cnb Boom) Herman Fine Wonder Bar Manuel Lopez .Oro ifammy DllMri Oro SOS Clnb Dale Rhodea »l Giovanni Good ft Goody. Dottle Ard Jitnn Muoro Joy ft Juanlta Doha ft Drigo Horace Rouck Oro PITTSBDBGH Kelly & Hayeii (Oardeo Louoire) Mai & F DoarSon 6t«iiben*a (Tlonna Boom) Lew Conrad Oro Don & DarroTv Jack & Lorralna Doria Abbott Jimmy Marr' Adcto Corey Tlie Chv« Don DlBona Ore JacU Klslter ■ Tamara Uorlva Jack ^ Lorralna PJr-cttoH (S) A.Ocle I'ni-py Tk'-To« .100 NovIIh Oro 'J'iny Slnc)alr t<urant8 Kownnl Puller Kr fil> Trrniimt I'liizn Duko Lorenxo ore Orson Welles ^ConUnued from pae« ts CarM Joyce Goosaquct Oro - Vacbt Clob Harry Holly Tacht Club Boy* Victor NelJOD Oro Joseph I no Yvonne Kerr Mary liove Al Gold CLEVELAIID Alpine VUlag* Bumi & White Ron Sis Orplia Towie Bel Kay Willie Matthias Ore Boh Copfcr Uldorado Club Estralleta Carlos Campos ^ Manuel Ovando Ore f^cddle'a Cafe wry Vincent Newell St Stoser Utnhattanettca Hirb Ross Ore •Ooonnet Clnb Royal Hawallana O jQles Si Webb , Hotel AllertoB Joe Baldl Oro ^ Hotel Carter Tlilxion Sprenaer Ambn?8adors Oro Charles Wlclt ^ Hotel Cleveland Herblo Kay Ore Hotel Fenway Ball Poison Gardner Coram Hot^l lloilcndeD Carolyn Marsh ' nich&rds St Cnraon 1'atrlcla RolIlnB Stones Sammy Watktns Ore Hotel Statlrr Clint Noble Ore Lu Conini Club Kroddle Carlono Ore Lindsay's Skybar Kokomo Ray Rayaor Sue Sanders Hal Simpson ' Monaco's Cafe Curtlsa & Care 1')orothy Barlow Jullanna Mario's Ore Becal Clob Ducky Ualvin Oro 3700 Clab Sammy Wolfe Sammy Morris Bert Gilbert Don Walsh Oro ADchoraffo -&Riy n ard-44«n n--Or Or ../Arlla^on l<«dfe ' Phil Cavezsa Ore June Gardner Fran Rdigo Balcooatlee ' Johnny Lann Oro Bill Greea'a. Joey SImma Ore 3ktp Nelson Bill Bseh Blue Bldse Ibb Lou Lucky Oro Benny Austin Harry Manning Cornell Cooper Sylvia Starr BooRle-Woosle Clnb Boos Sherman Maxie Simon ■Harry 'Goinorada Jiuddy Blnlne J Comorada Clob Petit* Plocolo Pete Oro PatU Gene Oeorffle Claire J & L Marks Cork and Bottl* Nelson Mapleit Colonial Art Farrar Ore - Eddlo Peytoa'a Kenny Clark Oro Bl Ctoh Lyda Rodnok Ray Englert Ore Hotel rort rit« Ken Bailey Oro Johnny Mitchell Hbrry Walton Jessie Wheatlcy Hotel UentT (riUver Grill) Dorothy Matthews l::acorts (Gay M's) Dorothy Neubltt Hotel 7th Avenno Mike Barker 4 Ifotol Roocevelt Art Baker 4 Jole Carole Daye Hotel Bcbenley Billy Hinds Oro Joy Llnd DETBOIT Bo^-CadUlae Hotel (Book Coalno) |lela Staudor Frank Gogen Ore (Uotor Bar) Wck Rock Belle BakeV Wenon Broa Cbandra-Kaly Dane Paddy cilff ' Don Arden l)ano Johnny King Charlie Carllale Benny Reah Oro ('UMtn^vn DaiiMs K T)aye Annctlo Rnea {tenia Iliadley Irene Burke Jeaslca Garwood Lee Wnltera Ore Clob Congo ]!!"■ Mae Carllalo T^-'?V"' Walkino i?"''«layo ft Lopei Congo On • . , Borl Dancer Corktown Tai-era S"" Harria «»rl Parchman Wart ft Alllaon g«o Bell S°ncWta Villa Pliil Skiiiman Ore Prontier Ranch gfiny McCurtln gloria Shnyne Elfchlla Villa g«rl Bftllontlne noncheroa Ore "•ving Sppctor Grand Terrace l-our Dohea . . . Billy Joy A Junnltn Earl Parchman Phil Sklllman On Htiitd'e Sun Val Sorenadora I<ondon Chop Uonea Chot Bvertaart Ituby Ore Clob May fair Uarty Joyce Carol Crane Marvin Jenaen Dorothy Gerron Phil Ol*on Oro Mickey's Margie Vail Meagher ft Roth ShPlTah Wood* LeGary ft lAtlna Happy Holmoa MIokeyottee . Joe Banket Oro Neblola-* Pay ft Andre Johnny Policy Laakoy Sla . Clem Hawklna Leonard Seel Oro Nortliwood Inn Date Rhode* Thereaa Rudolph Don Amato Ray Carlln Oro Olde Wayne Clnb Charloa CoatcUo Ore :ttcColl Sla Jack Tendon Palm Beach Colllna ft Anita Lea Palmer Mackle d Paul Al Tucker Monnle Drake Don Pablo Ore Penobacot Cluli Hotel Wm renn —r-IGIiallerlwx)- - Baron Elliott Oro. Mary Krleg , Jackie ^IcCartby Babe Rhodea Dick Mack Billy Douglaa I'ee Wee Loul* Sonny Falgen (Continental Bar) Frank Andrlnl 4 MercT-Go-Ronad Gary Lee Oro Jeanne Boaz Bill Shaffer New IIUIer«*i Denhy Burton Oro Betty l<e* Skip Nelaon Kbron Cafe Al Monaco Ore Bob Carter ■Poncho-ftr-Dolore*— Carol Gould Dowllng. Sla Faith Hope Orchard Inn Rudy Gnle Oro Oa*ls Charlie Laun Ore rine* Don Ruttor Bill LeRoy On Squirrel Coop Tiny Miller Joey Reynolds l>al« Hnrknosa Ted Delmonico . Vacbt Clnb II Middleman Ore Terry I^wlor M ft B Wbalon Van Kirk D.inco Cocktails Shirley Heller Sky-Vne Clyde Knight Oro Fran ElchTor Betty Jean Union GrIU Sammy Walter* Krat\k Natal* illko Sandretto Villa Madrid KUl Covato Ore . Mark Lane Michael Strange Nick Lucas Anne O'Connor .Sylvia T Christian Purnell Dano best possible type of picture _l9r showing both in this country and S. A. at no cost or, at the worst, a comparatively small cost. Fix shot in Latin America with largely native casts also overcome that old bugaboo ol 'Hollywood phoniness,' which has so often been the complaint about films with S. A. backgrounds. This should enable them to get maximum response south of the border, helping to ce- ment good relations which the Ol- flee of Inter-American Affairs has been designated to establish. Fix will also help accomplish the other it-thrTWhitney groupr'SCtiuaiTit^ people In the U. S. with South America. i Shorts in One Featnre Welles' film is unique in that it will consist of four separate short pix welded together .into one lea' ture-length production. All four parts are based on factual incidents. One portion has already been shot in Mexico by Norman Foster for Welles. Foster was hired to write it and did so well Welles had him direct it, too. Called 'My Friend, Bonito.'-lt's about a small boy and hic ppt hull Aftor wpral mataHnra have fought and failed to kill the bull, it is given a special pardon by the president and can no longer be sent into the bull ring. Welles will leave around Feb. S to film the next two episodes. One will be backgrounded against the giant Rio carnival which annually high' lights the pre-Lenten season, and the other will be the story of four Bra- zilian peasants who constructed i raft and made a dangerous sea jour, ney to Rio to protest what they thought was an injustice by the gov- ernment. Fourth portion of the film will be shot in the United States, but will also pertain to South America. En- tire, pie will be in color. Phil Reis- man, foreign sales chief of RKO, who is also associated with the Of flee of Inter-American Affairs, will accompany Welles to Brazil. Camera crew is already there. BOSTON Deacit comber Harry MorrlSHoy Ore Chico i^iinono uro Argentine Blln Nixon & Andre 3 Co-Etls E;.ddlo & Eddie Bllnetrub'a Poter BodRe Oro Boyd H^nthen Wlnlon & Diane Goodvlrh & Nelson^ Waltc- Behr « (:lnb Mnyfair nann> Weoka Oro Nick Jcrrot Ore Julia Bnrbour Lou Uoltz Boots McKcnnn Rov Club Vanit)' Fair Al Cova Ore Doone Parrlsh Uadel'e Harrington Stella Ray OInnle O'Keefe Cooojuint Grove Mickey Alncrt Oro Don nico Ore Buster Kelm Hev Billy Pnlne Marianne Francis Emmott Oldfleld Co Mae Johnson Romero & Roeltn (Melody l^nnce) Gertrade Woodsum Herb Lewie Copley riniA (Sheraton Room) Tommy Tucker Ore Amy ArnoH Donald Brown Kcrwln Somervllle Dr Rolf Paiwcr (Merrr-Oo-Roond) Mark Gilbert 8 Cmwfnrd House Froddy Rubin Ore Crawfordcllos Regie White Vera Lament York St Tracy Bobby Bernard Marya Br^nn Fox S Hoandfi 'Milton George Oro David Dallentlne Mnjcino Coleman (Rbamba Casino Boom) Charles Wolk Ore Lea Habaoeroa <6) Foderlcos Dorothea Contfllo Argentina Mia HMInt Pete Tfermnn Ore Terry Andre Frnnk Prtty Hotel Rrndford (Clrcns Room) Lucille St J Malonpy llotr) Rninfnvlrk (Bemintin Termre) Lionel Hnnipton O llntfl f;ff<w Jack Manning Oro Billy Kolly A4IA Mnrova Itlll Groin Conga Tereaa .loan &IbntI Bleanor Boland Hotel J^nox (r.«nox Arms) Bob Hardy Oro Kay |vpr»i Hotel Kilnerra. Bunny McVoy Oro Barbara Douglasa Hot^l Somenet (Ballncee Boom) R Frotlilngham Kussoll Swan Harry Mnrshard O Hotel Statler (Terrace Room) Leighton Koblo Ore (Cafe Rouge) Saivy Cavlcchio Ore Hotel Yendorae (life & Drum Km) Jolnne Victory 3 Terry Popln liitematlonni Cafe Tod Crowley Oro Norman Bolster Frances Gr.mt Archie O'Brien lloborts £ Trebor Ken Club Parron Bros Oro Russ Howard Jerry St Lillian l4itln Quarter Anthony Bruno Ore Ithunibollers Oro Don Richarda Hal Lo Roy Yola Gain Stuarl Morgan Dans Charlo & Dupreo Wally Wangor Gla (Lounge liar) irum Si strum Uacudero & La Plato Mliiml GroTe Jimmy McHale Ore I.ennle FItz Tom Chales Klla May Waters. Phillips & Breen Oficar Carmel dOlnno Norton Arthur Mnclel Rio Casino George Harris Ore Kay Doyle H:irry Spear Harrison Aulger Barbara Leo Tom Brooks Carl Hoffman Patrick Itogors r.oulfto Sherwood Jane niddlnge Don Muckel Bpiiny^rohan 'I've Grown to Like It' Continued (rem page 2; break down under touch of kind- ness. When you hurl 'Fine!' at thein with enthusiasm an(j a smile they goggle, they tremble, they babble, they blubber; and you have to take a lot of time gentling them down by explaining everything. D-don't you miss the theatre?" they whimper. 'Sure,' you admit, -'l miss it every time I read about a new hit like 'Lady in the Dark' oi the new Noel Coward piece. But when I think of all the stinkers I had to catch in 10 years of flrst-nighting I don't feel so bad.' They stifle a. sob ai.d try again. Don't yo'j miss New York?" 'Sure,', you say. 'Certain parts of it like The Flayers and Bleeck's and the office and the Dutch Treat Club and the guys I used to see around. But I miss lots of other places like Faris and Rome and Westport and Jones Beach—and when I'm through here 111 miss Hollywood, too. Yep, this is the place for me f-om now on. You. wait and see. You go back and ip about a week you'll wish to God you'd never seen the place. You won't be able to get back here fast enough.' Mcbbe so. But if it does become so, it will prove one thing I have feared. It will prove that living in Southern California makes one fat in the headt flabby in the body and unable to compete with tougher peo- ple who never made the mistake of oozing away their lives in a land fit only for beachcombers. And it will prove that Hollywood has passed a major miracle in being as intelligent, ambitious and admirable as this re- porter thinks it is. to be taken. Tobias did not comply with the law which specifles that .By-now^yWi^terrogator--is-be-4->'^K'tlfin-StAiem^^ Airlines :Contlniied from page 2; □ clusively by TWA within the United States, will be stripped, of course, of the men's dressing room, the ladies' 'Charm Room' with its mir- rored dressing tables, the galley and coat room as well as its 16 sleeper berths. In return for TWA's collection of five super-supers, the man with the whiskers plans to okay priorities in new ships for the line to afford an equal amount of available seats. TWA probably will get the 21-pas- senger Douglas DC-3 type of plane, many of which, are created 'club style,' although not in the ultra- ultra manner of the $300,000 stratd- liner. '' Elisabeth Berfner Elisabeth Bergner had a ticket for Los Angeles for Monday (26) night's Stratoliner but the icy weather was so severe, the flight may have been held over until yesterday (27) (after this was written). Friday's (23) kiddies witnessed the arrival in town from the Coast of Charles NordhofT, co-author of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' and a hand- ful of other South Sea sagas, here to spend a fortnight conferring with his agents. Nordhoff said his writ- ing partner, Norman Hall, is at thair South Paciflc home and has written to him frequently, reporting he is well. Another who traveled the Amer- ican Airline route from the western end of the star belt to LaGuardia- ville-on-the-Hudson was Brian Don- levy, of the Paramount sound sets, here for a brief vacation, several radio appearances and business con- cerning the release of his two latest pictures. Delivered to L. A. the TWA way were (jharles Coburn, the actor; and Mrs. Ray Eberle, wife of the band- singer; while the line of the Strato- liner toted Conrad Thibault to Chi- cago, to complete the week's hither and yon-ing. . ■ v i i •! ■ ginning to flght back. He has re- covered slightly from that first shock and he isn't going to take a licking lying >.-.own. 'But isn't the movie business the dumbest, cheap- est, craziest business i.i the wdrld?' he asks, 'Nope,' you say. There Is too much idiocy, vulgarity and liinacy way at the top, among the few who own the business, but beneath them I And all kind; of Intelligence, good taste and high ambition. I shouldn't wonder but what the average is higher than it is on Broadway. I -get-to-thlnfcihg-be-Ai-and-when—I count up all the clucks, cbiselers, mice, bandits, stockjobbers and dirty little boys who managed to get hor- rible plays on the stage, I don't think the Hollywood bi tting average is sa bad.' About now your quivering victim tries another tack. He feels he must make you agree about some- thing, so he falters: 'Of course it's a lovely place to live. The climate and aU that.' And you say: Tooey on the cli- mate. It stinx. This is a helluva place to live. Give me New York or New England any time.' - By now your man is completely unwound and shuddering. * • • And I Do Mean the Movies When I say I like Hollywood I mean I like the movies. I like the way they are made and the people who make them. There are witches and dastards among the actors, to be sure—bvit not many;- and practically all of these were dastards and witches in the legitimate theatre first There-are show-offs, politicians and sneaks in all the film trades—but not many; not any more, I would guess, than there are in the American Tele- phone & Telegraph Co. or the Kohler of Kohler Co. There arc many Sammy Clicks—but there are many more honestly able men. A movte looks only as good as the brains that wrote, directed and acted it, and sometimes these could be im- proved—as whose couldn't? But into even the worst movie has gone some of the greatest technical skill to be found in any trade in the world; the meanest of studios works daily mar- vels of resourcefulness and elTiciency. And I, for one. admire this endlessly. A Non-Contormlst Beachcomber As to life in Southern California- I can do without it. From Santa Barbara north and Laguna south— which neatly skips the Los Angeles area—the coast line is enchanting; but generally speaking, the beauties of the land elude me. It is a tree- less desert, dirty brown most of the time and possessed of lawns and palms only by virtue of a couple of miraculous water lines. Its Inhabit- ants, except for those imported by Hollywood, are either mad or dull. Its.motorists are 90% insane, and its roads, in which it takes such study pride, are about 20 years behind those in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and points about. Sure, it's swell not having to work out of an pfTice. It's grand being able to play golf or swim so much of the year. It's a comfort, slopping around in casual clothes and not hav- ing to wear a hat except in the rain. But I have found only two or three restaurants which can be classed as good, and none which, like so many in New York, can be called superb; and a man's size highball is not to be found at any price. I make it a point never to a.sk any- body else how HE likes it out here, because the answer is invariably and sickeningly this: 'I didn't like it ot first. I could hardly wait to get back to New York. Then I did go back to New York and I couldiyi's'.pnd i-t. ASCAP-Neb. ^Continued from page 4'; must be made on the face of the sheet of music that the filer owns all rights, and also, on the music, must be printed all the performance charges. In other words. It would seem a rubber stamp is going to have to be prepared to ba used on all hiusic distributed in Nebraska. It'll have to Carry some message like this: 'Attention: N;ebraska Buyers' 'Undersigned owns all rights^ to this song, and; it cannot be performed wiUiout permission Of same. Buyer miist specify for what purpose music is intended, and pay specified amount foi^ that use at' point of pdrchasa. Falsification or evasion will be prose- cuted.' 'For private use In home: 25c. 'For use by orchestra: $2.50. •For use. by ballroom: S3.00. 'For use by hotel: $3.00. 'For use by commercial radio sta- tion: $15.00." That puts the burden of collection for the copyright holder on music houses in Nebraska, or in points other thari the state itself, if music is to be played in Nebraska. Lawyers will come in only when a check is made with a music house at which music was said to have been, pur- chased by oser. If music house 3iA not remit, user falsified and cannot show receipt that he paid price men- tioned, the attorney for the copy- right holder has a case. Most informed opinion is that ball- room and hotels cannot crawl out of responsibility, after an orchestra has ' paid the proper clearance. When the anti-ASCAP law was passed, the main quarrel with ASCAF was that it allowed the assignment of copy- rights of others to it. Kansas Talks Feb. 2 Meeting in ' Topeka between ASCAP representatives and Kansas broadcasters spokesmen at the olTice of the Kansas .attorney general to discuss the master of finding a way for ASCAP to do business In that state has been put off to Feb. 2. The two groups had been slated to get together last Thursday (22). A statute now on the Kansas books*, bars the Society from licensing local users directly. In regard to the predica'mcnt which Nebraska users find them- selves an ASCAF official last week declared that he questioned whether publisher members, to whom ASCAP has. returned their rights for that particular state, will exempt fliQi exhibitors from a drive to compel compliance with the Federal copy- right law. The official stated that such publishers. In suing dancehall operators and passing up theatre owners, would subject themselves .to charges of discrimination and that even If they have licensed film pro- ducers for synchronization they would have no choice but to sue the theatres playing these pictures for - not holding the required performing rights licenses. From publisher sources It was learned last week that a cooperative policing setup has already been established in Nebraska and that wholesale suits against various Nebraska users might be expected around Feb. 15. ASCAP Sustaining In Hub Boston, Jan. 27. As a result of a tentative agree- ment between the Yankee and Colon- ial networks in New England and ASCAP, tunes of the latter catalog are now permitted on sustainers, but not commercial programs as yet WHDH has added BMI mu.sic, which had been absent from the sta- tion for the past year, using ASCAP tune«; p oxci'ii'ivplv^ •• . ■ " j ' > '.—