Variety (Aug 1944)

Wednesdaj, August 16, 1944 47 CHATTER Ctn Little in for annual visit trom Si Irimore. Lt. Bob Broder back in civvies i.><il practising law. " Brian Donlevy Goastward again iSter fast three-day visit. ■ Walter O'Keefe peddling musical ccmtdv written by hiimself. / Leonard Sues, Eddie Gantor's. new I II iipeter-macstro, to the Coast, •lack Bertell (Mu.sic Corp. .of Ameiica) gentlemdn-tauning lor a week Claik T. Brown, Paramount tax tMciilue, IS 111 tiie Coast Guaid le- f Hrrb Crooker .spending .his off- %vwk on his boatj sailing on.Long Is' If'nd Sound. FiBTiti-s X Hope residing with sis- /»!.,in PhiLidelphia, maae the Bioad- II .IV rounds last week Meyer Davis bade trom Maine- va- t.'kh to supervise rehear.-alii of "Wall- fiotter" for its road tour. ■ Warners tossmg cocktail parly to-', o.iy (Wednesday) for Jane Wvnwji, ff>-slar of its "Doughgirls " • Whereabouts of Lillian Pierce Giiffith being sought by Frank Giif <iih. of 215 W. 101st street. New Yoi k. ., .Husband-wife writing .team of. Kathleen and Charles G. JiJoriis to Coast following latter's lelease from >)Ospilal. "Champagne for Bverybody" into />hear.sal this week, it being Earle L McGilfs first staging job Aince join- ing CBS. Mary Hatcher, LS-year-old colora- tura .soprano, and protege of Gladys Swarthout, placed under contract by Pal amount. After eight weeks at the Clover Club. Hollywood, Peggy Fears.playir.. jng two-week date at Calnava Lodge, X/Sil(€ ■ Tflhoc'' ' Harold M.' Goldblatt, theatrical at- torney, back'jn N. Y. from vacash in the Laurentians, plans return to the hills in 10 days. Earl Wrightson. Jean Dickenson }ina Sarita Romero, giving concert sf J^AJP Convalescent Center, Pawl- InK. sr. Y., tomorrow (17). While -John Garrrtv is m Holly- wood, George Oshrin LS handling hi.s Jlieatre .assignment, and F. M. O'Con,-. no? attending, to Shubert office detail. Lillian Silk, of the legal depait- n>ent at Paramount, who put in an »pplication. to Join the Marines, is. »waiting orders to get inlo uniform. Dolores Grayy holdover singer at., tic Copacabana, being talked of for the new Billy Rose revue "7 Lively: Arts." due at the Ziegfeld m the Sale fall. Winchell still calls the Stork "the best summer resort," and is back in town from Hollywood for his. month's iHVofT, but holding.forth at the same^ cild stand. ' < Capt. Matty Fox, attached, to U. S Public Relations in England.' back on fi 2^li-week furlough, some 28 pounds JiRhtw. En route to the, .Coast to \ i.sit the Ndte Blumbergs. .' A special recording of- song."* in Re- public's "Atlantic City" sent to p^x i-ritics throughout the country.. an- yioiinced by Ben Graiier and featur-; ■ing Paul Whrteman orchestra. . Liza; Morrow, singer with George •' Paxton'.s band, current at Ro.seland, : j.s the Ruth Morrow, who couple of years aBO worked in Universal Picts" Jiomeoffice publicity department. ' Joe Laurie, Jr.; had a minor op at Pest-Graduate. He was allowed out in, time for.!. Saturday's broadcast • on "Can You Top This'/" but mu.st take : it.easy for a week or two. He missed- his Wednesday airer. _; Journalistic /loyalty wa.s manifest in the way name bylitiers roiie to Sherman BiUingsley's caClse when his Mork Club got lammed on a lecent , ».'IIeged! tax: violation. The Broadway i:olumnists; et al., all. went, out of their way to pin journalistic posies the Stork's boniface. ' Ka/an to dueci 'Signed With Their Honoi." Jack Li\e'!fy, Jack Barker fot Jack and .Daphne Barker) have .been signed by Lou Jackson for the film The World Owes Me a Living." This will be Baikei's first screen ap- pearance.". ■■ Bei naid Shaw celebrated his 88th biithday by donating his country home Evoi St. Lawrence in Hertford- shiie ion his demi.se) to the nation, to be preserved as a literary shrine lo. his works. . Cail ■ Bernard ; recovering .from Mrious operation. J. W. Pembeiton producing a,new -'evue at the Palace, Aug. 10. Denis Arundell will couveit "The Scarlet Pimpernel" into a musical.' ■' Bernard Delfont has. new. comedy,. 'Forbidden Fruit" by Thomas Brow,ne. Edward G. Robinson due back in America shortly to continue his tour of .Mmy camos. Law'ence Wrieht has signed sevrn' Ve?r lease of the North Pier Pa- vjhon RIacknool. ■I. B. Prie.stley elected piesirieni of :;..Sc.reen. Writers Assn:; succeeding- A. P. HnrbPit. re^icned. Riah Fciner doing lyi ics foi new -'lusical, "Darling, I Hate Vou.'i 'tJ'iing Ruth Naylor, „-..: -'jl.Wiirly-' .■pfiilli'bs: sehi^rai riiariager I'f Peter Ma.urice Music Co, -laca- -.Tioninp at Rnurnemhuth. ■ .Mbei'f Billine» former licensee of ficcadilly theatre, is ouitting show ' otKinp^s to enter cafe field. Pc^til Srtstfiij brinninr ovef Ren t^Om and Dudley Nichols FO'-mei ■" Jll v'viif c-ni-jrj) for "TMe of .S''' Esther Fernandez to Mexico City.. Mai a Montcz laid up with an ear ih'fectfitfii..j:.'.\V C--:.^' ".-.'■-. Ciii i ie Jiicobs Bond celebrated her 82d bij-thdayv ■;- -V;:^ -f;;/; ' ,.' M.iiioiy Clements recovering from ■niiitoif sui^g'cryii -. i. ■ ■..■■};', Bctiv Hutton leaves this week on a-itheatre'tour. . ',' . Moe SiKti in fiom Pittsburgh for li'iiddtes at Wr.nirr.'^. 'V. ■ Kay .Mulvev laid : up . lor. 'two ^^eek.s Wlh poison oak. Richard Wiley opened his own agency on Sunset Stiip. . .Loretta Youmj home from the hos- pital \Mlh hci b.ibv boy. i Betty Compson; star of silent films,, to wed Silvius J. Gall, a sailor. Joe Frisco lelurned to work in Charlev. Foy's iiitery after .illness.- Benny Rubin in -trom Chicago, where he played at the Chez Pans. Hany Mines, p'ublicist for Bing Crosby, recovering: from appWidec- tomy. Viiginia Wood, former mag -writer, joined Helen Ferguson's . publicity office. Jackson Paiks appointed editor of the Conference of Studio. Unions Bulletin, Eva Moore, of the London stage, returned to, Hollywood pictures after 13- -yca-rs.' •■ -Bette Davis; injured .by a falling lamp at:Warners and missed a day's shooting.,,--"',' HaiTiet Parsons, film /producer, and King Kennedy,'writer, agreed lo sepal ate Eufiene Muiphy checked in as di- rector of advertuiing- and . publicity, for PCA. Geopge Thomas, Jr., shifted from David' -Oi Selznick to - Paramount publicity. -- Dudley Murphy in town on vacar lion from: his production chores, .in Mexico City. ' Robeit Ray Monogram film direc- tor, severely burned when , his bed caught fire.: . Lieut. Commander Robert Mont- gomery planed to..- Washington on ofTieial business. ; ■: Jinx Falkenburg emcee.: at . the Mexican-Aniei lean Fiesta in down- town Los Angeles. John Wildberg here from New York to ,consider film- deals for his various stage plays. Cecil B. DeMille holding a double celebration, :hi5: 6.')d'birthday and: 42d wedding anniversary.: : Pedro Armcndariz, Mexican fikn .star, m town to make his. debut in EnglLsh-language pjetures. . :. . Provo.st MaKshal lifted ■ out-of- foounds military;-bans on the Mo- canibo and "Trocadero niteries: :Con.stance Bennett returned from the east to huddle on arrangements for her first job as a film producer, George Jcssel :doing 10 days - of camp show appearances en routes to the San Francisco opening of ''Wilr son."...-...' ,, , Here McIntyre.' Universal's Aus- tralian general: manager, huddling at. the. .studio .before shoving off for home. Henrv Ginsberg .to be gue.st of honor at the launching of the crui.ser Los Angeles m Philadelphia next week. - . . ..-.-r. ■- -. ■ Dave Bershon guest of honor at a testimonial: dinner after retiring as- Southern Chairman of the. Theatre War Saving.s Staff, : Donald O Connor recuperating at Palm Spnng.s after, hospitalization for overwork with the Army Air Coips at Santa Ana. Chicago Bra.s.s hat.« of the Civic Theatre here are placing around with th& idea of choiigii g the name to Wacker Thcatie Eddie ^noel.-on (Rochester) in town on his way back to Hollywood, Comic, who has two hor.Scs running at Washi ngton Park> spent most of his time at the track. P.Tiil Winchell open.s in the Empire Room of the Palmer House on Aug, 24, replacing Wyntei's & 'Angeline, who ha\e a 20th Century-Fox film: contiact," efTective Sept. 4. "Kiss and Tell passed the 66- werk let Old set by "Life With ■•F.ilh<;i''-','1a.st ,A<-(j'i-k,,-'ha'ving:''play;ea ''tff 700 000 people during that period with art estimated bOxofflce take of. SI 0715 000, ,;: Colonv Club, formerly owned by: Nick Deifii ■ and clo.sed for: several months. wJ.s ipopcned last week as' The Colfuiv House Jim AUcgretti, v lui (iptu'fes several other near^ ■n(HihHdi',,: -i-'{i04S. --pliins 'riihning '.th'e- j:t(vi',t.'j.,s .'t' rt'''^!f ■(l'i'!'lW' IMII'l :f'i)y: wfif-n. he will change over lo a night club policj'. N'. S. Barger, owner of the Rialto 'theatie, has puichased lots for two dnve-in theatres to be erected after the war. Barger, who already has one dii\e-in on the noith.side, will build the two new theaties on the south and we.st;;si,des.: .■ . , - Healing date on Colony theatre, McHeni'.y, Ill.i clearance case against Great States Theatres in Elgin. 111., has been set for Sept. 11, by Arbi- trator William McSwain, Miller theatre. Woodstock, III., and El To\ai theatie, Crystal Lake, 111., are intervenoi s. Aftei 25 yeair together as profes- sional and bui!ines.s partners, the team of Doll.y Kay ti Phil Phillips ha.s been ciissoUed. Phillips, who was M1.S.S Kay s manager and accom-. pani.st, will continue to conduct the National Artist^ Burea^. - Miss Kay ha.s established a voice-ooaching stu- dio. Literati Exactly 10 Wks. C'i>ntiniir.d from piific 1 setting up hnd cair.Mng 'exclusive" bulletins fiom then own ineh. Top esecs at all «cbs weieonhand as the .stoiy bloke as exemplified at the Blue network vvheie e.\.ec vee- pec Eagar Kooiik was a-nong the early .arrivals: at the iie-A'.sroom. In the ab.seiice- :o£ Johnny JohOvStone-: lon'tlie West Coast setting up ex- tended Pacific co\eiage for the net) John Madigan and Tom VeUotta lined up the dornestiq st^ff soon after midnight Johnstone' was ap^irised ot happenings by phone. _ __ Blue coverage from N.,: Y. and Washirigtoh was :bandl.ed, by , Walter Kiernan, Cieighlon Scott. Ray Henle, Maitin .\gron*ky and David Mills. Fust offshore flash came at 7:21 a.m. with Donald Coe on trom Rome. CBS Coverage At 7 18, toUoH ing the reading of the first comniuntque and back- giound hllins bi John Daly and Maj. Geoige Fielding Eliot tiom N.Y., CBS brought in Winston . Burdett from Italy and followed with Bill Shadel from London Eiic Se\aieid, who landed with the inxadint; foices, and George Moorad, who observed the invasion shorelines; from a plane as part of the CBS eovei a;ie. sent back commiinique.s w?hich; were read m N. Y. but neither WoS able to get to a, mike for a' fir.st-hand report dur-. ing the early houis of the story. CBS also featured broadcasts from the Aimy headquaiteis in the-Pen- tagon building. Wa.shineton. Honey- mooning Paul White was noton hand for the development w iln Ev Holies, taking over organizational chores, lor ColuiYibia. Mutual hopped into the picture, according: to Jim: O Bryon. press chief, at 7-16 >. m. v ilh Da\id Blown fiom Rome. The i\(b, IiKe the oth- er-s; hit the air .with the ofiicial an- noiinceinent ol the landings at 6:10 a.m,. Brown was, on again from Rome at 10 o'clock; Mutual also car- ried other pool broadcasts in addi- tion:, to, comments, '.interpretations and stiaight news bulletins handled by staff Hnnouncers and commcn- tatois in N. Y. :i-Wav Hookup Latci in the dav, at 2 15 p m , Mu- tual broadcast a three-way loundup of 'developments pVe.senting Ted Hos- kins, 110111 Cairo; Arthur Mann, in London, and Les Nichols, in N. Y. Latter lecentlv letuined fiom Cairo assignriieht,; ■ ii ,''-,.:!.-' -, :' : _.' NBC aleited if iietwoik listening audience at 1:.55 a.m. w ith announce- ments thnt the web would remain on the an all night in e,\pectation of important: oversea.s developments. Then H. V. Kahciborn interrupted his vacation to come to N. Y. head- qjuarters and take the an at 2 11 am. for a conjectuial suinination of what might be in the ofiing, , With the other nets, NBC launched actual invasion cos ei age at 6-10 a.m. WMth the flash 'from Allied hcfqSi in Italy immediately followed by Mor- rison's, pool broadcs.st from a boat diiectly ofTshoie the Southein France beachhead. Then followed bulletins and lepoits read by Kaltenborn, Moigan Beatly. Richaid Harjfness, Don Coddard, Elmer Peterson, Clyde Kittell, in thi.s countiy, and at 7.22 Ed Haaker i London) and Ralph Howard iRomef wete piped in via shoi tw a\ e. ,. -.■ifl^t;:,8-;51-:- a.m.,': th^ /o.ii't: '.majo.r :n,ets-' carried anoihei pool broadca.st pre- senting NBC's MeriiJl JWueller re- porting on official Army announce- ment that Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Ji , ua'- commanding the Third Av:r.y in ■:Frkntf, --^'''y-:'". ■■ 7'^ .' : ■;''' \.;Sey«reid, \S,'iiS'.ib);OU};'Ht' 'v. by CBS a,t:,12:.30' .,p;'oi.;pn',;..tlie'-pool; 'with,.:re- ports diicct, ftom^the beachhead'at which time BBC's Vaughn Thomas also was heaid. 'J'hiOiiKhoiit the day all the web.» followed the policy of holding to if->;u!Br skeos but inter- r.tipiiit^ .two or: 'jhree-' fime!; -an vhoijr.. Vvilh"r).t'!.v .yeyelopjti-t'irt-.' htxfi .bt|l).etj.t).'s.; Iifim the iCtriti frj sirn.n, ' ' Appleton'i Flaper Jam t •War Production Board has ordered a reduction ot almo,st 500,000 pounds in the paper conKuniption ot D. Apple- ton-CenUir.y, New York book pub- lishers, tor pciiod fiom Aug. 11 through Dec. 31. WPB chaiges th.nl t'le book firm "illegally" used 435 tST pounds ot paper above Ii.s' iillolment. Gompanv. according to WPB, olaiiivs coiilusion CHATTER Joh>t Dos Passos summering m Piovineetown. Eugene O'Neill and Sinclair L« \< is sunimering m Duluth. .. Hicks Coney, of the Los An>.tlf« Examiner editorial staff, joint d Northrop Aircraft. . Jerome Odium:sold the AiLstralinn publishing rights to his tale, "The in the accounting depaitment v as | Morgue Is Always Open." responsible for error. | Kenneth Crist, newspaper and ' mag writer, shifted from the Mar)ne«. to. Lockheed-Vega publicity. , Inga 'AiiTiM/.|ii»lly-woe(d '''eori-es^i)- Pr«w QuUs. LviMlon ,Dail,v Mail Robert J. Prew, editor of the Lon- don Daily .Mail, has tendered hi: of August. He became editor fi\e years ago. Prew entered ;,new.spaper bii.siness a.s a reporter m ,Bri.stol in 1904, lOiii- ed the Mail in 1929 He tiavcllcd throughout the U, S wi h Loici Rid- dell, owner of the News ot the World. Occupying the po.st of head of the Pans office of the Mail for a. dozen years,- he returned to London as head of William Randolph Heai'st's IN$, later lejoinmg the Mart, dent for NANA, now playji)i| 'film 'Variety' Double Talk Headlines and vroTria'>e~nr-"V<ri~ riety''' have- , been vanou.slv . de^ scribed but m a new S.iie\eposl ftc- tioner the hero -scans the - paper s "doubletalk until his head :spun- like a fan wheel " "Doubletalk"' cropped up in "Fur- lough in Flatbush," bv William Fay, appearing in three parts in the mag. resignation to take effect at the end ,'o'es^»»» addition to writing her dwly " column.-,'- ;' ,■.-'-,:■-'.-'■ ,':,.';' f'. ;Ge<jrge'': tal,,'getting.;:.'bu^^^^^^ corHiii. bopk, ieatiiritig liiis :Piij|get«jt«ii,! Screen, ',Gharacte'r; ,'.fo'r, ,-.Fa.%«.^frtHifc'i'; 'itshing ,Cpi' -,;>- ':"■■,-,- .-■•',''':.'-' ', ,'"■'•.'' :' John. Rosenfeld. Jr., Dallas' 'N't-w.s drama editorj to^^^^^^ ,v«Bel^''-:t6-^-'^it^(!jervpe^Sofiv^^^ 'pi-Oitluiistien.,'':';:■..'■,.r',-- ;0 ■- '.:■';■:,; Fred Othihan^ Uiiited Press Holly- W.po^.-coiiiiri-nijfet-; fot comes rovin? cohi-^ 'or the UP Washington bureau Oct. 1. ■•",'",.-.;',' -..' John Farrow .wrote.. ,j foreword ; to,'a;:, biroli;; of. poeto^ sftion-j.-,; dedicat^: -jtb' .;her".late''' h'u^feiainti,':; Capt. Lee Harmon, RAF, killed -'-fn; -aefion.^';"'.-.''-!,;' -', ' '•, -'.-■.','■:■;■''' '■ ' ' '.. .-" ■.'/,.■''.' .^ngna Enters, Who begins her'an-, mia| transcontinental tour in.:..her- one-woman "llieatre .of. Agna Env ■ 'iftiiJitiii0n^',-' ti'a's'sold..' -.» '(^^j(sKt. ^|o.vOlia^rio^it^-;'IJJag.■'-j'^ ■',-;-:,''■'' ,- '■'':C!fpt{y3i^ttd'.-Wo^ :i'^itoe4'':'at;.-,cainp'-P^^ completed a book on hi.s experiences with the Tliird Marines at Bougain- ville, for fall publication. . .:'^ ■Ci(rj!ient'..:.Ii«»kv-koS^^ :pifetSB''-Voii;'-''.'t'W»^ ZplotoWi with .marginal footnotes of ^orfection^^'ampli^^ ted by the subject of the piece, i.e. Allen. -:-:': ■:,- , '"''■■:<::■■■ ''-"V-^ ;•,::■ -"'^'^ Ray Josephs' "Argentine Diai-.v." published ,by Random House, sf- leeted, ffor, ];eprint' by 'ihe Book Finft Club, v'iiiterarjr; . 'Classic.*-'-al^ff.''JiJaif; ,,,p'iij'i^,:tp .'.jBlriitis .li January. . ;. ;'...'.-;•-'' ,'-'...::;"■.''';''...;' '..'; ■- Olsen and johnsori have written e dual-autobiography which Ziff-Davi.^ will publish next; spring. Tagged "From Gags to Riches,"' book will V:be.';a-:;j5tep-^iy-Stiep,'';,*^^ climb^and-slips-tp success. '■:,i: Ajie'iwnd<?ini ■tfjiitei's,. ■Ciowffl.it.t.e^ iot composed of show biz, literati aiid PayAe Headi ABC Board -' ' tbe arts leaders, plans a weekly Alan W Payne who ha- been ' "e^'sP-W. with articles, cartoon Mac Edition of Gentile Tome A 25-cent magazine edition of "One-Man .Mr Force," by Captain Don S. Gentile as told to Ira Wolfeit, goes on sale on all n^w.sstands this- week, simultaneously with publica- tion of the regular bookstore edition at $1.25, Mag edition is unabridged and; .coiriplete,. with firi5t - printing 160,000 copies. Pagfttit's Book Direst Amy Lovemant ot Saturday Re- view of Literature staff, will select the best*.se1ler each, -month: to be used as a book digest in Pageant; the new pocket-size inagazine which Eugene Lyons will edit for Hillinan Periodicals. Pageant now is slated lo debut with a November :.i.ssue;, out in inid- Oclober. covering the District building in Washington for the Tunes-Herald, was appointed chairman, of the Al- cohol Beverage Control Board, which has charge of all liquor license; in D. C. Payne takes the place of Thomas E, Lodge, who le- signed becauije of ill health. Payne, who is 49 years old had previously .sei ved with the AP ui Washington and New York: and the Detroit Free Pi e.s?. Job pay,s $5,000 a year and his appointment fills the unexpired term of Lodge, up to Feb., 1946, and editorials by nationally promi- nent figures., Andrew Bemhard, managing editor of the Brooklyn Eagle for .several years, has resigned that post to be- come m.e. of the Pittsburgh Po^-t- Gazette, a Paul Block daily. Bern- hard replaces the late Warren U. Christman, who died in May and guided the Post-Gazette and its pre- decessor, the^ Past, fot nearly 30 years. . Cvffo Free Pt-esw tiOtt Sept. \9 That projected West Coast paper about which theie h^'d been all .soits Gf rMmors which-had it-from a - gen-, cral Los Aiigele.s dailv downwiird.. now sufficiently well under wav for a- clear picture, of .intention."..' :.: Still tiue that its lea.son for being is the strong anti-Roo.se\ elt policy of most of the Los Angeles dailies. Otherwise il s to be a bi-monthly, illustrated papei and will caiiv no ad.s. Sponsor i.s Ihe Ilollvvvood Democratic Commiitee. m which many film people are enrolled; Luna, Palisades COBtiHucd from page' I -ss Luna on Saturday (12) and at ih( ■Palisades on Sunday (l.'Ji,. at the height mid-day business Thousands wcie forced to flee. Bill Miller, New Yoik and Coast agent, who recently bought Luna with Ihe Danziger Bros., aftei opci- almg it for several year.4 on a -leas- ing basi.s, has indicated that con- ditions were still too unsettled to determine whether he'll rebuild the park, over, half of which was hit. at an estimated $500,000 damage. Indi- cations, however, are that it w ill be Paper i.s lo be called the Fice I igpiaced, since it has for ycar« bfcrt Press, and G. K. Williams, of the L. A. Daily New.s. and an offu-fi of the American New-spspci Guild there, will be the editor Will set editoiial aid fiom numoti^ of trie Gui'd and .Screen Wi.icis ,ina Pub- liCLSts Guild. ■ .A.S. Its:, title . impjie.s, 'Fi:fid. Pre.s.s .'will, be - cfis t i-i fiyi ted :gr&tjs> Fir.st Issue, with a run of aiound 500,000, will appear Sept, 19. the Sportn-Week ReiHminiC Sports-Week, which halted publi- cation some years ago. set to resume mostly .as a giveaway, to member.s (jl Vke'kitr\eA; ipyi:'ei. :.::f^ap<;r-.: ^.H(it:tecl;,tfl the mag on that b,isis, with perini.^- sion also tor a hinted publ c sale. Becuse of a stuctly male teader- ship; dLstribution to seiv icemen is regarded as be>:t inearis ot re-e>-tab- lishing demand until su(h time a' it can regulaily go on 's;jle. M&g i' a weekly digest ic\.cw anci foiccast of all .snorts. a terrific draw for .visitors to- re sort. Miller's purchase price for the- park was $400,000; $275,000 cash and' the rest on'aTnortgage held "b.v-s bank, with the sale consuinini'.ttd only two weeks ago. Luna Park was insured for $400,000. It had foi msny . ^ vears vied with Steeplecha.'e a» the mecca for Coney Island visiiors; Steeplechase biz is reported to have { boomed since the Luna debacle. I Estimated Palisades damage (f Sl.000,000 was partially coveied b\ t400,C0O insurance. Jack and Irv ng Rosenthal, operators ot the paik itf \caled it would be rebuilt for m.f.i: .season. Park had been in operation- for .36 years, with Hosenthals having. Ibkcn Over from Nicholas and Joseph' M. Schenck, who originally built and operated park for number of iti.r* l.iior to entering film indii'-tiy..' f'srk's ballroom was ra^cd by fi'«; 'r\<r:i\ ve.irs »eo and rebuiK