Variety (Nov 1942)

Wrdoesday, NoTembcr 25, 1942 u Unelfe Sam's Roll Call Centliined from p*i« 4 and former usher at Stanley. Army. Lon G. Velaa, manager of Velas thMUes in'^rldgeport and YorkvUle. ° Marg^erite Webster, of KDKA. en- lisVed in WAVES, first woman in tacaJ radio to Join up. She leaves Sfr 1 for training at the University o Wisconsin and will be assigned to communicationa division. Herb Morrison, former WCAE an- nouncer, promoted from lieutenant to captain at Oklahoma City army mit depot, where he's aUUoned. Larry Alexander and Willard Fraker, both KDKA spielers, en- listed in navy. Regis Junker, asst. mgr. of Barry theatre, army. Jimmy Grew, formerly with George Held transcription studio, has won his wings and second lieutenant's bars in air force. Steve ChuriUa, assist, mgr.. of Ci'lonial. army. Dan Corson, national advertising manager ol Post-Gazette until he v^as commissioned a major several months ago, upped to lieutenant colonel. He's stationed somewhere In Alaska. Frank Tuecio, manager of Roxy theatre in Benv/ood, W. Va., army. Vaudeville,' she haa operated the Pahqa and her Peacock Inn tearoom at Okobojl, Iowa, clnce 1935. She drove an amublance in ^the first World War. PhiUy'a QaeU Philadelphia, Nov. 24. William Torello, member of the Philadelphia Orchestra^s bass-flddle section. Army Air Forces band. Camp Luna, N. M. Neil Harvej, announcer at WFIL's F-M station, 53PH, Army. Ralph Ward, ex-WFIL engineer. Army Air Forces ti'aining base at Atlantic City. Joseph Shallit and Mike Mont- joy, record staffers, have joined Army as volunteer officer candi- date.-!. Saul Shraga, Philly In- quirer rewrite man, al.so enlisted as a VOC. Grideast =_ By NAT KAIl.N _= COLLEGE GAMES 26 THI RSDAY, NOV (THANKSGIVING) GAMES WINNERS Brown—Colgalc Colfatc Colgate moving ol lot*. LSU—TnUne LSU LSI/ has abilitv to score more often. Northwestern—Great Laces Norlhwestcm Wildcats to finally take a major game. ODDS 1-5 :-5 &-i3 GA.MES WINNERS Penn—Cornell Penn PeiDi 10 pill!/ it's beat puHie o/ jeoson. Texas—Texas A & M Texas Longliorns touyh on home field. OODI SATURDAY, NOV. 28 H'wood on the March Hollywood, Nov. 24. Phil Greenbaum, theatre operator. Army. Joseph Valentine, cameraman. Army Signal Corps. Boris Leven, studio art director, Army Air Corps. James Seay, screen actor, Army Air Force. George Webb, studio artist. Navy. Robert Hauser, cameraman. Army. Charles Thomas, studio technician. Navy. Victor RamoB, studio technician. Navy. Don Porter, screen actor. Army Signal Corps. Leslie Adams, radio ' announcer, Army. Virgil Fry, studio technician, Army, Bob Usher, atudio art director. Army. Ray Orrill, studio technician. Army. William Glasgow, studio tech- nician. Army. Jack R. Berne, assistant film direc- tor. Army. Henry Fonda, screen actor. Navy. Henry Slater, film salesman. Navy. Les Gaunt, studio technician. Ma- rines. John King, screen actor. Army Air Force. Alex Lovy, cartoon director, Navy. Ronald Lubin, script clerk, Army Air Force. Fred Rodgers, sound technician. ■ Navy. Joseph M. Rothschild, sound tech- Biclan, Navy. William Higgins, cartoon animator. Army Air Force. George Logan, sound technician. Navy. Walton Farrar, studio press agent. Army. Howard Shoup, studio ocsigner, Army. G. Gayle Gitterman, shorts direc- tor. Army Signal Corps. Harold Turberg, studio props, Army. Ray Donney, studio artists. Army. Belh Gardner,' NBC music rights, WAVES. Wonderful Smith, Negro radio comedian. Army. Charles Isaacs, radio writer. Coast Guard. Jules Bundgus, radio agency press agent, Navy. George Fisher, CBS film gabber, reports Jan. 1 for officers training. George March, studio technician, Army. Van Hetlln, screen aciur. Army. George E. Byard, studio policeman, Army. Lou Smith, screen actor. Navy. Dave, Todd, production assistant. Army. Ralph Clement, studio artist, Army. Cliff C.nrling, talent agent. Army. Allan Abbott, studio artist. Army. Jerry Stanley, studio technician. Army. Ben Roscoe, Jr., press agent. Ma- rines. Don Redell, studio messenger. Army Air Force. Jimmy Rowe, legman for Jimmie 'idler. Marines. Indpls. Qoola Indianapolis, Nov. 24. Bill Mcllv;iin, manager of the Lyric when it was a vaude house and recently at the Uptown, Army. Don McClure, art and roto editor of Indianapolis Star, Marines. Max Fetty, WFBM announcer; Barry Stuart. WFBM vocalist; Bert BroiLve, WFBM technician, all Army. John O. Servas, exhibitor, com- mi.>;sioned lieutenant Army Air Force at Miami, EAST Boston College—Holy Cross B. C. This may be the place /ur on upset. Fordham—No. Car. Navy Na.-y Cadets have too »iiicit e.rpcricur''. 3-1 .3-1 Current Road Shows Continued from page SS , «3); Metropolitan, Seattle SOUTH Ga.—Ga. Tech. Ca. Sinkwich It Co. to give Tech Its first deleat. Alabama—Ca. Navy Alabama One 0/ llic best pamet in the nation. So. Car.—Wake Forest Wake Forest Deacons huie been inot'ino o/ late. Miami-West Va. West. Va. Miami may take this one. Vandcrbilt—Tennessee Tenn. It'll he close. SOt'TIIWEST Rice—Ba.vlor . Rice Rice more consi.^tcnt TCU enoupli here. FAR WEST I'SC—Notre Dame USC Trojtnis in a hifih-scoriny game. Wash.—Wash. State Wash. A tossiij), Stanford—Calif. Navy Stanford Pre-Fli{;litcrs in first deleat. S.MU—TCU Horned Frogs hare B-t ft-S 2-1 «-5 2-1 1-S 1-i (-8 Even 'Peacock of Vaude' a WAAC Des Moines, Nov. 24. Mrs. Howard Turnley, the former Muriel Window Hanford of Sioux City and Arnolds Park, Iowa, has en- •I'icd as an auxiliary in the WAAC s. Known for years as the IPeacock pf Spokane (5). 'Doughglrls' (tryout)—Klein Au- ditorium, Bridgeport (5) (premiere). 'Dracula'—Windsor, Bronx (25-29). 'FIreBy' (tryout) — Ford's, Balti- more (25-28); Majestic, Boston (30-5). Gilbert and Sullivan — National, Washington i25-28); Locust, Phila- delphia (30-5). r'Good Night Ladles'—Blackstone, Chicago (25-5). 'HelliapoppUr—Forrest, Philadel- phia (25-5), 'Her First Murder' (tryout) — American, St. Louis (25-28); Coli- seum. Evansvlllc, Ind. (30); Memorial Auditorium, Louisville (1); Victory, Dayton <2); English, Indianapolis (3-5). 'Junior Miss' (2d Co.) —Harris. Chicago (25-5). 'Junior Miss' (3d Co.) —Wilbur, Chicago (25-5). 'Lady In the Dark'—Hanna, Cleve* land (25-29); Cass, Detroit (1-6). •Life of the Parly' (tryout)-Wil- son, Detroit (25-5). ■Life With Father* (2d Co.)—Er- langcr, Buffalo (25-28); Royal Alex- andra, Toronto (30-5). ■Maid In the Ozarks'—Great North- ern. ChicaKO (25-5). •Merry Widow'—Locust, Philadil- phin (23-28); Erlanger,Buffalo (30-5). •Papa Is Air—Pabst, Milwaukee (25-28); Cox, Cincinnati (30-2). 'Porgy and Bess'—Studebaker, Chi- cago (25-5). 'Priorities' (vaude)—Erlanger, Chi- cago (25-5). •Private Lives'-Majestic, Boston (25-28). 'Sailor. Beware'—Shubert, FhiJa- delphia (25-5). 'Spring Again'—Cass, Detroit (25- 28); Keith's, .Grand Rapids (30); State. Kalamazoo (1); Michigan, Ann Arbor (2); Hartman, Columbus, O. (3-5). 'Student Prince'—Arlington, Santa Barbara <25); Civic Auditorium, Pasadena (26); Civic Auditorium, Fresno (27); Senior High School, Sacramento (28); Curran, San Fran- cisco (30-5). •Sun Field' (tryout)—Colonial, Bos ton (25-5) (premiere), •This Is the Army'—Boston OpCia House. Boston (25-28); Music Hall, Cleveland (30-5). 'Three CurUlns' (tryout)-Bush- ncli Auditorium, Hartford (25) (pre- miere); Klein Auditorium, Bridgeport (26); Playhou.'c. Wilmington (27-2a); Ford's, Baltimore (30-5). Three Sisters' (tryout)—National, Wa.shington (30-5). 'Tobacco Road' — Lafayette, De- troit (25-5). 'Topsy and Eva' (tryout)—Music Box. Hollywood (25-5). •Watch on the Khlne'— Victory. Dayton, O. (25); Hartman, Columbus, O. (26-28); Nixon, Pittsburgh (30-5). 'Willow and I' (tryout)—Walnut. ,Phil;ic!clpliii> '.2?-5). STANDING Won, 2Z9; Lost, IIS: Pet., .666 Play Out of Vown Coniinued from paRr .U ■— THE WILLOW AND 1 supplies the shock which n-loics tne older sister's sanity, and the rest of the play is devoted to solving the ensuing .set of problem.-;, some of which ure too involved even for the dramatist. John Patrick has drawn his char- acters well, and the dialog, while stilted in spots, is suited to the play's varying moods. Only in the third act does he flounder, and then the play's weak spots become apparent. The acting generally is first rank, especially the two sisters whose ac- tions dominate the plot. As the girl who loses and then regains her san- ity, Martha Scott is appealing and dramatically .sure of herself. Joanna Roos, in the role of the younger sis- ter, wins sympathy for her character despite the many unpleasant quali- ties bestowed by the author. Greg- ory Peck, in the roles of father and son, is pleasing and al.io handsome enough to make plausible the fact that two attractive girls would bat- tle for his affections. Edward Paw- ley, Cora Witherspoon. Pauline Mey- ers, Armanda Randolph and two tal- ented juveniles round out a fine -last. Both Lemuel Avers' living ro.im .set and Aline Bernstein's costumes help carrv out the mood of the play. Donald Blackwcll hn? diitctcd wi'ih surenes.s. and the lighting effects are especially good. Klep. Coyege Show m, NEW CHAMP, PACKS N. Y.GARDEN By JACK rULASKl Indications that the prize ring was on the toboggan were disproved at Y.'s Madison Square Garden decides to run for political office in that small town, only to find, at the last moment, that his opponent is an elderly land not tio gentle) spinster. As usual during recent seasons. Dr. Clay Boland wrote the score and he has clicked again. How a man with his flourishing medical prac- tice can turn out so many tunes a year is something of a mystery. Candidates for the Hit Parade in this ' pi. year's show include "Not So Deep as • _',, ,.„, . , .. . a Well' and a patriotic piece 'If i f^'-'t^ay '20), when a kid named Wc Don't Do Our Part To Win the i Willie Pep from Hartford copped yL"' ift'J"'.-^?°'' !?. ^ the featherweight (128 pounds) title 'Mama What s Love?. . .. ... . , I'jj;^ n.i--»« , « _ from colored Chalky Wright. House Eddie Delange, a pro and not a , , -.u _ ?>» cnn < Wigger, is credited with the excel-| ^.^VP^'^'^^'L ^°"'' lent lyrics, and Raymond D. Senior ! P'^nty of Connecticut nut-meggers wrote the dialog. Pete Conlon di- ' getting to N. Y. in sundry ways re- rected and Joseph Follman was kardlt-.ss of gas rationing and other again in the pit. I transportation curtailments. Of the cast, Donald Pr: :e is excel- Pep is said to be 21 and looks lent as the train conductor and Ray- younger. Most of his 53 previous mon • Senior is delightful as the, ring bouts were sUged up in hia home town, and while he attracted attention at the Garden recently In a preliminary, there wasn't much feminine role. As was to be expected | '"g'c in making the lad the cham- the dancing, especially by the Mask | pionship contender. Fact that be and Wig 'First Chorus' is outi>tand- | sold out the Joint speaks for itself. It ing. The production and costuming certainly could hot be credited to are both artistic and, considering the , Wright, lanky Negro who has been times, quit e pretentious. Waters. \ around for quite a time, coming from the Coast and getting recog- inltion as the champ of the division. I It has been a long spell since the Air-Conditioning Props Garden was capacity for a fight card. w,.,h■„^«^r^,. M«„ oi Gro.'iS was $71,868 at $7.75, new high Washington, Nov. 24. , ,\. . ... , . for men of that weight Indoors. Be- Would you like tg .sell your the- | f^re the scrap Pep was quoted the atre air-conditioning equipment? | favorite, with odds as high as 9 to 9. Office of Price Administration an-■ Connecticut mob came down loaded nounccd Saturday .21) that owners 1"" ffi" .J'^'^^'^'' " '° I That looked like easy pickings to some of the wise guys, who thought as the spinister. Russell Krantz deserves ! special mention u.s a vamping .-^ong- i stress, and Tom Hart, son of the: Club's president, is also fine in a | OPA Wants to Buy Back PAOLI LOCAL (l-. of PENN—MASK S: WIG CLUB) Philadelphia, .Vov. 22. Fitty-Otth annual production of the Mask and Wig Club of the Uni- versity of Pcnn.sylvania, which opened Saturday (21), at the Er- langer. is only schedukJ (or 10 per- formances this season due to cancel- lation of the Wiggers' u.sual tour because of scarcity of transporUlion f. cilities. There is every reason to believe that it will fare just as well durinK its 10 local performances as its predecessors, and perh.ips a mite better than some. In the (Irst place, this new Mask and Wig show has a title that's a natural for Philly- The Main Line, written about in .lovels and plays many times, is a Philly institution and the Paoli Locals run out that Main Line by the Pennsylvania Railroad are institutions in them- selves. In the Wiggers' new offer- ing, the consistency and infallibility of Main Line cr.mmulcrs catching the 8:15 in the morning and the 5:14 01- at night is not loo roughly kidded by the authors. The plot is tenuous to be .sure, concerning a conductor /in the Pan!' Lirtiil who of large-scale refriKeration and air conditioning equipment who sell this machinery for use by war in- dustries will be paid the total cost, less depreciation, but including the full cost of original installation. War Production Board is urging enterprises to sell such equipment since new production cannot meet all the needs of war industries. OPA ruled that since the sellers of this equipment would be patriotically sacrificing its use for the duration of the war they should t>e fully re- imbursed. OPA ruling provides that deprecia- tion be figured at the rate of fi'Tn a year, pointing out that this is the generally accepted rale recognized by the Treasury in its purchases. Buffalo Thealreman in OTS Buffalo. Nov. 24. David Keen of the Phelps theatre, nearby Phelps, is a candidate at the air force officers training school. Camp Crowder, Mo. Angelo Abramo, of Greyhound Film Laboratories and last that Wright would smother the up- start after the third or fourth round. Pep, however, proved himself one of the smartest little men seen in action for years. Hartford kid has a fa.st left Jab, with which he plied up many points. New champ has the speed of youth, which generally ex- plains the win, but his ability to keep Wright off balance most of the 15 round distance is another reason. I Pep was cautious of Wright's left : hook. Now and then Chalky would ' connect, but the kid bounced right I back into the milling and in the 10th I landed a hook that would have dropped an ordinary opponent. The Judges cave Pep 11 rounds, which was the consensus of opinion, while the other sessions were rather clo.se. Reading Theatreraan In Marines Reading, Pa., Nov. 24. Dwight C. Van Meter, formerly manager of the Astor, then operated with :by Warner Bros., and morfe recently Telenews, is in the photographic manager of the Hippodrome and service of the Marines at Parris Strand in nearby Pottstown, Marine Island. ■. rf' , ' ■ ,