Variety (Sep 1946)

54 yAntETY Weclno8«]ay, SepleiwlMrr 25, 1946 Fred Waring Looks for lOOG Take On 10 One-Night Concert Dates Fred Waring is taking his aggre- gation on a brief tour thi^ week which is expected to gross at least $100,000 in 10 days, in addition to his $17,500 per week gross, from sponsorship over NBC. ' Playing to a lop scale o£ only $3.60 In seven cities, and to a ceiling of $4.80 in Chicago, Waring will aver- age a SlO.OOO-per-concert cleanup for his 10 appearances in eight towns. ■ He opens tonight (Wednesday) at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Thence, as far as his concerts go, he proceeds to the Military Auditoriuni, Milwaukee, tomorrow (Thursday) niaht: two concerts at Purdue Uni- versity s Hall Of Music, -lialayette, ind„ 'Friday night (27);' and Butler : University's Field House, seating 18,000, at Indianapolis, Saturday night (28); The Chi date is down for Oct. 1 at the Civic Opera House; then comes the Warner Theatre, Erie (two performances); the Armory, at Syi-acuse, seating 6,500; and the We-st Side Armory at .'ingston. Pa., out- side .Wilkes Barro, seating 5,900. Here, ih addition to the regular $3.60 top, a special block of tickets is be- inu sold to local bigwigs at $24 a couple. All except the Erie and Purdue Univ. dales are on 60-40 percentages, ■with the bigger end going to Waring manager of hi.s orch, plus Lawrence Golden, is taking a total of 66 peo- ple with him, including producer, radio engineer, writers, etc, so, he won't miss a beat on his daily NBC broadcasts, In th6 group will be his soloists—Jane Wilson, Joan Wheat- ley, Gordon Goodman, Walter Scheff, Mac Perrin, Stuart Churchill, Joe Sodja, Gordon Berger, the Swingcrettes, and glee ; club.. The broadcasts, done separately from the concerts will originate during the tour from Buffalo, Chicago and Cleveland, necessitating several shuttles to the Chi and Buffalo radio .studios between concert dates. Adams, Newark, Grants Pitmen Tilt; Resumes Shows Adams theatre, Newark, last week settled its dispute with the Newark local of the American Federation of Musicians and is set to open vaude shows Oct. 3 with Buddy Uich orch on initial bill. Seltlement came after a compro- mise agreement in which miisicians mir.imums were upped $5. Original unioii demand was $10 to previous $80 scale in addition to shorter hours. With the $5 raise other, demands were dropped. LOUIS HEPS TAMI GO BACK TO BARTENDING 1CE-CAPADES' SETS MANAGERIAL CHANGES Brian McDonald, former musi- fonvedy jiive and for the last three seasons emcee for ''Ice-Capades," has been named company manager of ice show, He'll continue in his old berth; too, doubling between the two slots., McDonald replaces Bud Blum. Who is still unable to return to work after a stroke he suffered last November. At same time, Wal- ter Good, just out of the Army, was appointed business manager for "Ice'; Capades." ' With return of Bernie Lynanii from the service and his reunion At Erie and Purdue, the guarantees | with Larry Jackson as a comedy act bring the take well into the $10,000 per average, but there will be two shows each in those places. , Waring, whose awn office made the arrangements through Ed Lee, STEVE EVANS Olferlnn HAPPY TIMES & JOLtY MOMENTS Cun«ntly Sd.l CLUB, SAN rBANCISCO MATTV K0SI5N ASS0C'I.4TKS Leo Loeb, featured in"Ice-Capades'' last two seasons, has left show, along with Howard Sullivan, to join "Ice-Cycle.s," minor league icer being backed jointly by "Ice Follies" and "lee-Capades" to play spots not covered by the larger icers JOE VILANE DAMCE STYLIST Glenn Rendezvous NEWPORT. KY. MKi.: CiUO. LlUItY Carnegie Hall. New York Dir.: JOE M.\{«X Union Melts Ice Show Producer for Bond American Guild of Variety Artists clamped down on rehearsals of Roy Schulte's blade show, "Ice Revels, land held up proceedings until pro- ' ducer put up $3,000 cash security to guarantee salaries of the perform- ers. Show had been .set to open in Haverill, Mass., but had to cancel because of the N. Y. truck strike. Schulte, according to AGVA, had been on the union's unfair list lor having closed last season owing $1,500. When-he started lining up current show the union stepped in and he subsequently paid ofl that indebtedness. Another claim for $650 held by the Chicago branch pf i AGVA then cropped up and Was taken care of. When an AGVA rep apprised Dave- Fox, head of the union's N. Y. local, that Schulte was readying to take out the show, latter stepped in and made producer lay the bond coin on the line. IkO V<H,' need (^00(1 right lianil man t*.viK*i-ieiice(l ill various- pliusCN n1u>\v- iMiHliieNU iiK'ludinc vauflp Ikooldnff, !iK:**iit. talent buylngr. ca»tinif. Arni.v (^.viierien^'e an entertainment Hi>e<'iHi- istv produeert t«.l. Sir,:wi4 overseas, script writer witlt Armed Foriies Kadio >«iivoric, publie. relatl«»n witli .^riiiy- Headquarters in states. Itox 10!!« farlety, tS9 IV, 4<ttU'St.,,N.y.r., N.V. By JACK PULASKI Fight addicts got a far bigger bang out Of the first'round knock- out of Tami Mauriello by Joe Louis in their title meeting la.st Wednes- day (18) at New York's Yankee Stadium than when the champ kay- oed Billy Conn earlier this summer. Tlioy gathered in the ballpark list- lessly but went out talking to them- selves. It was an, unexpected thrill- er, one (hat will bolster the gate for the Tony Zale-Rocky Grazianp middleweight championship bout that finales the outdoor boxing season Friday 127). Tickets for the latter are $30 top, as was that for the former. When Mauriello, the Bronx bar- keep, suddenly smacked Louis with a right to the face shortly after they squared off. sending the Brown Bomber halfway across the ring against the ropes, there was a differ- ence of opinion whether the champ's knees touched the canvas. Well, they almost did; Louis grabbed the mid- dle rope to become vertical. If it hadn't been for the ropes he would have landed in N. Y. Times writer Dawson's lap. Two minutes later Tami was on one knee, in the same spot, while being counted out. Ttie radio buildup before the fight was compared to a soap opera by listeners who weren't sure they heard correctly when Mauriello said "I got too g.d. careless" into the portable microphone in the ring af- ter it was all over. He was bulled into apologizing the nest a.m. Tami went into a spasm of weeping in his dressing room, bawling because "my friends will think I'm a bum." The fight was at least a break for Metro's new, advertising blimp, which circled overhead flashing a running electric news sign ballyhoo- ing "Holiday in Mexico" at the Capi- tol. Louis-Mauriellp match was some- what reminiscent of the Dempsey- Firpo fight, most colorful socking event in a generaton. Last week's scrap could have been like that but for the fact that the contender couldn't take it as did the "Wild Bull of The Pampas." Tami had his eyes open with one arm draped over the .second rope at the count of 10. It didn't look like he could have got- ten up. He was dragged to his cor- ner. Yauder-Hotel Clerk, Stabbed by an Irate Cowhand, Recovering Vauder Francis Cotter, who was doing a temporary stand as ni.iiht clerk in a small midtoWn ^Manhattan, hotel while waiting a booking, is re- covering in Roosevelt hospital, N. Y., from ills brush with a rodeo hand and the housing shortage. Cotter, wiu) has a cat act. with his wife, Signa Andres, was clerking at 5:30 a.m. Sunday (15) when a rider with the Gene Autry Rodeo strode in and demanded a room. When Cotter said there were , hone available, yokel drew a: knife and stabbed him in the neck and- chest. Andres and Gotler did a song-and- comedy act on the old Keith circuit'. Recently they've been brcakint; in a boxing cat routine on the yet's;cir- Cuit, and were in New York waiting for a dale.^ - ■..., ACROBAT'S ASSAULT PUT OVER UNTIL SEPT. 30 Alex Ben Yarbi's assault. case was put over until Sept. 30 in special seivsions court, N. Y., last' week. Yarbi, acrobat and understander of the Four Moroccans, was continued in $500 bail. He was arrested two weeks ago on complaint of Bernard Sussman, stage manager of Nicky Blair's Carnival, N. Y. nitery. who alleged the acrobat beat him up. Latter claims he hit him in self- defense. Yarbi and his partners, who had . been appearing at the nitery, were cancelled after the fracas. Upon taking their woes to Ameri- can Guild of Variety Artists on Blair's alleged contract breach, Yarbi was subsequently given a hearing by that union's trial board, with latter meteing out a $700 fine, suggesting that he reimburse Suss- man in the amount of $300 medical expenses, also a six-month su.spen- sion from membership in union. Yarbi plans to petition AGVA for a rehearing when court case is set- tled. AGVA Gears GACinPactMK American Guild of Variety Artists has absolved Chi branch of General Artists Corp. of blame for issuance of American Guild of Musical Art- isls contracts several weeks ago for quintet of acts booked by GAG into Shadowland nitery, San Antonio. Matt Shelvey, AGVA head, who went to Chieagft to straighten out' the snarl, upon return to New York yesterday (Tues.) stated it was iust the case of a green stenog fillin? out wrong contract forms and union would let the matter drop as tat as agency was concerned. Acts had been booked in for .six weeks but cancelled after two weeks, with implication being that since Shadowland does not have any basic agreement with AGMA, which cov- ers concert and operatic fields, it was not obligated to fulfill contract. Nitery does, however, have pact with AGVA, which paid off acts two weeks' salary from bond cash pre- viously posted by nitery and also intends processing claim for per- lormors for additional four unplayed weeks,'. Meantime Shadowland has folded and union can only hope to collect when its ops start up again. Vic Perry Carries On Despite Leg Injury Vic Perry, pickpocket act, despite a fractured leg received in a fall at the Olympia theatre, Miami, Mon- day (23) insisted ■ upon finishing theatre date. He had to take time off for medical attention. After fini.shing Olympia date he'll open at the Kitty DavisV" !M3ami Beach, Sunday (29). Comic Held in Fatal Stabbing of Boxer Montreal, Sept. 24. William "Bill" Acorn, comedian, playing the Samovar nitery, is under police guard in the hospital, and Lester "Al" Velez, a U. S. boxer, is in local morgue, as a result ot an alleged stabbing match that took place early Friday morning hour between the comic and the boxer at the nome of Carol Grauer, manager of the nitery. Acorn, who had been playing the Samovar for the past eight weeks and was set to close yesterday (24), tried to commit suicide by slashing his throat after his lifelong friend was knifed to death. Slaying came after tfi all-night drinking bout and argument over an unidentified woman. Grauer said he was awakened 'Razor's Edge' Will Shave Stageshow at Roxy, N.Y. Roxy theatre. N. Y., in setting "The Razor's Edge" for mid-Novem- ber, will use an abbreviated stage- show because of the lengthy film. Talent will comprise Rasario and Antonio, Senor Wcnces, and Bob Hannon. Carl Ravazza and Al Bernie ara slated for bill following current-lay- out topped bv Beatrice Kay. Film will be "Margie," Paid attendance was 38,494. gross I about 6 a. m. when he heard Velez being $335,003, not exceptional at ' scream, and, running down stairs, the -scale and considering the size of the park. Federal and state taxes of $75,000 came off the top, net being ,$259,029. Louis got $103,611 and Mauriello's share was $38,854, by far the largest purse he ever collected. Entire upper stand went for $3 a copy and fans ambled into the upper shelf almost up to the time the fight started. saw the boxer lying in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. He also said he saw Acorn bending over Velez with a knife in his hand. Acorn then ran into the bathroom and attempted suicide. Jema - - Concerts—ROBERT STOLZ—-'ollowing his recent successes at Hollywood Bowl. Lewisohn Stadium, Grant Park, $et for European tour in October. Available guest appearances in January, 1947. DANCE ORCHESTRAS- ENOCH LIGHT opens Hotel Taft, New York, Sept. 26th. JOHNNY MESSNER opens Hotel McAlpin, New York, Oct. 4th. CHARLIE VENTURA opens Spotlight Club, New York, Oct. 1st. SHORTY SHEROCK now at Stardust Ballroom, New York. —other big doings brewing— —-Fron—■ Exclusive Representation HARRY MOSS AGENCY Hotel Lincoln, New York City Sufte 314-31&—CTrele 6-4500 Tops Also in Name Acts and Cocktail Units Write—Wire*—Phone for Open Time on Attractions Saranac Lake By HAPPY SENWAY Saranac Lake, Sept, 24,, After a rest routine at the Rogers, Earl Larimore, shot back to Broadway to resume activities with the Theatre Guild, Terry Douglas, songstress, who summers here did a few stunts ort local station WNBZ. Glenn Forrest, formerly of the Charlie Ahearn troupe, checked in tor ob.servation and rest cure. Chris Hagedorn, ex-NVAite who cured here eight years ago, motored in for check-up. Given an okay and returned to N. Y. Oscar Price left for Broadway last week after summer vacash. in the downtown colony. Ivy Ritchie, who mastered "Rib" operation, upped for meals and mild exercise. Recent visit from her daughter Caryol cheered her up plenty. Bob Cosgrove, ex-legiter, left for Broadway after a two month fur- lough here to reserve duties at Co- lumbia Pix. Eddie Vogt has studied so hard between rest periods, he is now head ol Research Department Lab- oratory at the Rogtersi Fanny Montana in from N, Y. C. to bedside her brother, Dri Mon- tana, who is perting up o.k. at the Rogers. . Write t« lliose who are 111. "LAfflNGlY YOURS" Hal Fisher JUST CONCLUDED 3 WEEKS MAYFAIR CLUB BOSTON TO: SOPHIE TUCKER —IT IS INDEED A PRIV ILEGE TO WORK ON THE SAME BILL WITH YOU. I>lr.: «ir.LI\<I MOKIilS AttWNCS Lauretle and Glymas DANCING HU.MOltlS'l'S Hei»t. SO to Oct. S , BKOiVN HOTKIi* lK»jil9irHlf. K.*'