Variety (Sep 1946)

44 ORCnESTRAS-M VSIC Wednesday, September 18, 1946 Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey in Mock Hatchet-Bm-ying, Team in CaL Date Hollywood, Sept. 17. t Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, who , haven't seriously disagreed since j shaking hands over their father's grave several years ago, went' •thrpxigh a mock . (or press agent's) ] hatchet-burying routine at the Ca- j sino Sardens Ballroom, Ocean Park, hear here, when their two orches- tras started a dual run Friday (13^ Playing on the same bandstand for the first time since late in the 1930's, when the band of one opened and i the other closed a rUri at the New Yoilcer hotel,' N. ^. . {This was the first time they worked togettier; lor coin since splittmg up the Porscy Bros, band at Glen Island Casino, N Y.t. the freres put on a "for- mal ■ hanging up of the gloves by exchanging handshakes with a six- ■ inch axe. . From now, on the air's-oilicially I clear of Dorsey swings at one afl-i . other—and there's been plenty of the latter- since the days when the t*a wore learriing trombone and sax A-B-G'.s from, the elder Dorsey,] It's only abbut five years age .since the fabulous Dorseys,, whose activi- ties alternately against, or lor one another, and/or ^inybody within reach Irit the headlLRes with a slug- icst at T.O,'s opening at the. Astor Boof. N.Y. Opening was considered light, but in view cf being post-Labor Day, and J.D.'s band having been in for four weeks already, the event was not as liijht as surface appearances. Frank Sinatra, a T.D. erstwhiler, hit the boards for a^ue.sting, ton- silling "I Don't Know 'Why" over the airwaves. Singer worked first , with T.D. and then re-chorused with Jimmy, and also helped in announc- in a titles of some others. Band.stand is set up to accommo- date-both crews, and the night pro- gressed with customary and expect- ed kid gapers up-frontmg while "bands, challenged on some tunes ,ahd alternated tor dancing. Broad- cast.'! were similarly handled, with bands taking easy jaai numbers to- gether, simultaneously and sepa- rately soloing sidemcn, and eachf baiid taking alternately sweet and swing single sessions. . A pair of i;iain bONHV.; gloves dangled from the li n!;e of the raised curtain over ■them. Hotels Settle AFM Coiiliiiucd froin pane Disney's Big Waxinaf Score of Walt Disney's "Make Itfinp Music" is piling up an un- usual number of recordings and transcriptions. So far, there is a total of 52 popular dvsks and transcriptions sot, and more are to come, . There are six songs in the score, four of which will be worked on by Santly-Joy, BOURNE. Inc 799 SEVENTH AVE,, NEW YOHK 19, N. Y, the guvs really being hurt by the strike called by 802. On Monday the hotel men's committee and 802 executives met and the former leiteratcd that their raise limit was still the same 12>.'i% offered 802 Sept. 1. This, after everyone dir rectly or indirectly involved with the situation had figured that the 'smoothing out of the hotel angle of the dispute was a matter,of rou- tine since,, the came operators, who are rated in the same class '■A2*' category as the hotels, had settled They based their attitude on the fact that once the cafes accepted a scale the hotels had to take the same figure or leave it. It looked for a while as if they would leave it. ] A Threat io Near-Names I Agents see in the boost obtained by 802 a threat to their bands in the category just, under the top names. They feel; that the price of a young band looking for a job in a N.Y. hotel for the prestige in- volved, will cost so much even at flat .scale that mo.st hotel operators will be desirous of spending the $500 or $1,000 more per week for a top name and get the advantage of the . in- creased m.arquee value of the latter.: In Other words, it's another situa- tion wherein the name band is not bothci-ed but the gmallies are; this: is true of the club-jobbers, too,, who weekly do hundred.s of private party lobs in the bancfUet and ballroom niches. The music price to such af- fairs will go much higher iind fewer men on individual jobs is the inevi- table result. At the moment, none of the hotel rooms employing name orchestras will be able to reopen immediately. There is no talent available to them. Since it seerhed to leaders and agents that the hotel strike would go on much longer than it did, outfits that had been commited o N.Y, jobs all had been handed a string of one- night dates and sent out on the road to mark time. There's no ques- tion that these dates will be can- celled as quickly as po.ssible and the bands hurried back into ,N.Y., but that may take the rest of the week, or possibly longer. Truck Strike Nips Printer Shiprate While the New York trucking strike has been bypas,sed by publish- ova in the shipment of music, a goodly number of them are still in poor shape due to their inability to secure copies from printers. During the past week, pubs have been using the mails and railway express to ship copies, breaking large orders up into small lots tor the mail route. Meanwhile, printers of music have been having a tough time. All have been unable to secure any deliveries of paper and some of the printers are running dangerously low on stocks. This situation won't improve for a while due to the fact that paper mills, unable to make de- I liveries in N. "V., have gone about di.spoiiing of current and large slices of the immediate future's output to users in other areas. This means that when the strike does break eventually, there won't be any" back- log at mills for printers, to draw upon immediately. Bands at Hotel B.O.'s Chicago Henry liriitidoii (Marine Room, Edgcwater Beach Hotel: 900; .$3-!!!3.50 min,). Outdoor Beach Walk clo.scd for the fall and winter; Marine Room drew very good 7.2Q0. Sherman Hayes (Walnut Room, Bismarck Hotel; 46.'); $l„")0-,f2.50 min.). With three local hotels without nuwic, jumped to robust 3,400. Louis Prima (Panther Room, Sherman hotel; , 950; $1.50-$2.50 minD^ Claude Thornhill out Thui'.sday (12) Prima in to round out bolid fi,500. Los Angeles I.eisbluii Noble (AmbH,>!sador; 900; $1-$1.50; 1st wk.). Sweet 4.000 tabs, Kuss Mor^fan (Biltn)ore; 900; $1-$1.50; indefinite). Re.soiindinn 4 300 tabs. Location Jobs, Not in Hotels iChicago) Gay ClarldKc (Chez Paree: 650; !l!3-$3.50 min.t. out successful run with healthy 5,700. Der Courtney (Blackhawk; 500; $2-$2.50 min.V. He did great biz. finishing with very good 6,200. ; Art Kassel (Trianon; 90c-$1.15). Nifty 17,000. Georee Olsen (Aragon: 90C-$1.15. Smash 21,000. ■ Buady Shaw (Latin Quarter; 700; $3-$3.!)0 min.h feet after bad .summer with a nood 3,800. (Lo.s Anoeic*) Tex Beneke-Glenn Miller (Palladium, B, Hollywood, thing to hit here in years at repeat 30,000 admishes, Billy Butterfleld (Avodon, B. Los Angeles, 5th wk.'). Hiked up nicely to 6,000 pasteboards despite heavy opposish. Lionel Hampton (Trianon. B, South Gate, 2d wk.). Beautiful 7,000 ad- mishes, Don wood-Don Alfredo (Giro's, N, Hollywood, 8th wk,); - Around 2.,'150 for close of Charles Tienet. Benny Goodman (Meadowbrook, B, Culver City, Ist vvk.). Mighty 9,000 payees on bow-in stand. ■ .llmmy and Tommy Dorsey (Ca.sino Gardens, B, Ocean Park. 4th and 1st wks >, Double billing brings up customers to 14,000,, Jan Garber .(Aragon, B, Ocean Pai-k, 1st wk,). They like schmalt?; fine here for 9,500 on the -starting stretch. , Gracie Field,'! i;oiiivding Courtney's Iniial week, Getting back on its 2d vvk. 1. Biggest; This Guy Had a Real Problem Philadelphia, Sept, 17. Saddest member of the musicians union here is Jules Benner, member of a local cociitail unit. Benner's problem is this: He'-s scheduled to be married next i I week. Wedding is scheduled to take | place at the Warwick hotel. Every- ] thing is all set; 380 guests have been | invited. But' the Warwick is part of the Kirkeby hotel chain, which has been declared unfair by James C. Petrillo. If-Benner goes past the picket line, he's liable to, be bounced from the union. His bride's family say that the arj-angemenls for the wedding can't be changed at this late date.- Benner appealed to union officials^ who carried his appeal to Petrillo, asking that an exception be made in his cfise, but the word is "no exccp- I tions." Entering MPCE Tourney On Both Coasts Raises Issne; Taylor Tops N.Y. Hollywood, Sept. 17. There was a big hullaballoo here last week prior to the start of the annual golf tourney of the Music Publishers Contact Employees Union. It seems the local divolers Of the MPCE objected strenuously to participation in the tournament by Paul . Barry, professional manager in New York for Mayfair Music, He's here on a visit and had al- ready participated in the N. Y. MPCE tourney; Squabble over Barry reached the point where donors of prizes threatened to withdraw their offer- ings if Barry was allowed to play. Tommy Dorsey was one of the.se, but he subsequently hushed-up when it was pointed out that Jack .lohnstone, N. Y., head of Embassy Music, with whicH Dorsey is con- nected, was playing in the tourna- ment. He. however, has been here .some time and didn't play in the N. Y. tussle. Tournament started yesterday .(Tuesday), and both Barry. and Johnstone teed off, li^ide Orchestras-Music Leonard 'Vannerson, who left New York for the Coast Monday < I6i with Carlos Gastcl, to run the latter's Hollywood office a,s an associate; will not retain management of Claude Thornhill's orchestra. Whether Van- nerson's move to .join Gastel's operations is responsible lor llie break, or whether Vannerson took the Gastel spot subsequent to a break with Thornhill, is undisclosed. King Colo Trio recorded a Xmas tune for Capitol last week with un- usual instrumentation—for them. Trio, normally composed of guitar, .piano and bass, addedt ejgtit: fiddles, two violas and two cellos for cutting of a tune whose title is; undisclosed. Idea seems to be that Cupitol, tor which Cole cuts, does not have Xmas material to compete with, other top pop names and this Item will be its entry: Too, there's an idea to appeal to the Xmas spirit of the Negro disk fans. Artie Shaw's Musicratt platter of "Begin the Beguine" has been replaced in the company's Cole Porter album he cut for that diskery. New number, also an instrumental, will be "Love for Sale." Some 30,000 albiinis were sent out to dealers with the "Beguine" side included before RC,?i..Viclor halted it on basis of Shaw's former contract with them, which lorbade liiin from recutting any of his original Victor numbers for anyone else. Some albums were recalled and "Beguine" replaced. SANTLY-JOY m WHEN THE ORGAN PLAYED AT TWILIGHT WALLACE-CAMPBELL-CONNELLY Taylor Wins in N. Y. Larry 'Taylor was the final winner of the annual mashie match of the N. Y. MPCE. This was quite an up- set since for the first time in the 11 years of tourney play, not one of , the golfers classified ; in, the "A" feroup got into the finals. Taylor, who started from the "B" group, knocked out Marvin Fishef, 3 and i. Latter topped the "C" contingent plavofl's. Taylor drew down $200 plii.s a watch donated by Mitton Boric. Before tackling Fisher, Taylor had knocked out; Mike Sukin, survivor of the"'A": players, 3 aiid 2. Fisher had disposed of .Murray Luth, top man of the "D" group. - Taylor'.'i winning of the cup that goes with the title finished a tour- nament that for probably the first time was free of handicap squabbles. That the -stroke . advantages were accurately laid out. was evidenced by the number of elimination matches that were decided on the ISth green. No less than eight were concluded that way, one, between Sukin; and Rocco Vocco, going 36 holes, and another, between Mickey Cjarlocic and Jerry. Johnsoti. going extra sudden-deaUr holes. Prior to his match with Sukin, Vocco had j knocked but Tommy Valando on the last putt. Itf his match with Sukin Vocco was tour down on the 15th tee and boat Sukm tour straight holes to halve. Handicaps this year were revised downward with every progression tow&jcl the finals It pioved the cor- rect arithmetic. Mex. Govt. Recalls Orch From Texas Fair in AFM Row Austin. Texas. Sept. 17. Mexican government has recalled the Tipica orchestra, which had been scheduled to work at the Texas State Fair next month: Government's move was made after a long argu- ment between Fair ofTicials and James C. Petrillo, head of the Amer- ican Federation of Mtisiciaas, who had barred the Mex outfit from working in this country and threat- ened to order Tomm.v Dorsey's band, also set for the Fair, not to fulfill his appointment if the Mexican group was hired in the face of his .ban. ■ Mexican rgovei nmont took the ac- tion, made through its consul gen- oral at San Antonio, to avoid "any cau.se which ma.v in the least alTect .. /relations between the countries." Prior to the order; however, Texas Gov; Coke R. Stevenson had spoken up against Petrillo's ban on the band. IN OUR NEW STUDIO R«ady To Serve You— Aircheck.s, Rehearsals All Your Recording; Problems Chicag:o's Largest Independent Studio Will Accommodate A SOLO or a SYMPHONY Two Studios 42nd FLOOR 20 N. WACKER STA 5635 7121 RIDGE ^BHF R£CORDINr. CORPORATION CHICAGO ANDY KIRK And His ''CLOUDS OF JOY" Featuring BEVERLY WHITE ^ .CURRENTLY AQUARIUM, New Yark DECCA RECORDS EXCLUSIVELY i