Variety (Jan 1948)

. W«(lnc8(Iay, January 14, 194« UBIETY OneUESTllAS-MIJSIC 55 Bands at Hotel B.O.'s NatBrawdwynne*.Waldorf (400; $2) FranlcJe Carle.^.. .Pennsylvania (300; $l-$l.go). Larry Clinton*. .. New Yorker (400; $1-$1.50). , Johnny Pineapple. Lexington (300; $l-$l-50) .... GiiyLombardo.., .Roosevelt (400; $1-$1.50) 3 Sonny Dunham*.. Commodore (400; $1-$1.50) 3 Carlos Ramirez and EsteUe Sloan at WaldorJ; Ice. Show at New yorfcer; Mel Tonne at Commodore. • . .14 .. 12 .. 3 ...61 ■ r«ver« Total Covers Wurk On Date 1,975 32,350 1,200 1,150 650 1,950 1,0.50 4,125 4,150 85,700 28,875 3,325 Chicago Murray Arnold (Empire Room, Palmer House; 550; $3.50 min.-$l cover). HOstelrie.s bulging with some 50,000 furniture men convening in city. Phil Regan and Arnold did huslcy 4,200. . : Sfetteb HendenMn (Boulevard Room, Stevens; 650; $3,50 min.-$l cover). Dorothy Shay is mainstay; lofty 4,800 tabs. Bay Morton (Mayfair Room, Blackstone; 300; $3.50 min.-$l cover). Victor Borge nifty 2.600 in third week. Georsre Olsen (Marine Room, Edgcwater Beach; 700; $1.50-.1)2.50 min.). Conventioneers quartered here helped reach adequate 3,600. Freddie Slack (College Inn, Sherman; 700; $2-$3.50 min ). Nellie Lutcher and Slack nearing end of stay. Lusty 4,600. Los Angeles Freddy 1H»rtltt (Ambassador; 900; $t.90-$2). Solid 2,100 tabs, Jan Garljer (Biltmore; 900; $1^$1.50). Snappy 2,200 covers. ' bcation Jobs, Not in. Hotels fCii'cngo) ' Marty Gould (Chez Paree; 550; $3.50 min.). Martin and Lewis staying bigtime with 5,900 on books. Eddy Howard (Aragon; $1-$1.1S adm.). First poor week of engagement. Slow 13,200. Art Kassel (Blackbawk; 500; $2.50 min.). Phil Levant bowed out for Kas.sel who opened Wednesday (7). Good 3,000. Buddy ShttW iLatiit Quarter; 700; $2.50 min.). Billy Vine package show in first week garnered peppy 3,200. Lkwrenee Welk (Trianon; $1-$1.15 adm.). Tapered off to fair 14,300. Los Angeles Ttx BwliekiB (Palladium B., Hollywood, 3rd wk.). Satisfactory 14,000 takers. .■■' Allegro io Advance ^ Hollywood, Jan. 13. . Bert Shefter has turned in his Allegro label title for one spelling Advance. Change is due to a New York Arm's daim to have registered the "Allegro" title first. Shefter has 34 masters socked away for the new firm, which isn't much ot a backlog. GIFT PHONOS UP CHI SALES ChicpgO, Jan. 13. Local retail disk sales were up approximately 10% for week of Jan. 3-10. Reason given by storekeepers is the vast sale of phonograph and phono-radio combos before Xmas. Clerlts say "that more new record customers appeared after the holi- days than in any previous period within memory. Peabody, Memphis, Okays 6-Day Week for Bands Memphis, Jan.'13. Peabody hotel, here, one of the longest holdouts against a six-day week for bands playing its Skyway and Venetian room, i.s doing just that. Hotel has okayed idea of Orville Bond, new pi-csident of the Memphis AFM local, to use a local 14-piece concert oichostra for luncheon and dinner sos.sions Sunday only in the Skyway, giving the regular orchestra a day off. Hitherto, bands in the Skyway have played luncheon, dinner and supper dance sessions six days, and two Sabbath meals to boot, a policy that ha.s caused many leaders to turn down repeat bookings here. Sunday ensemble is being called the Peabody Concert Orchestra, and is under the loader.ship of violinist Noel Gilbert, concertmaster for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the WMC Staff Ensemble. Outfit debuted Sunday (D) to goodly patronage. Godfrey s Tolb' At 1.000,000 Mark "Two-Fat Polka," Arthur God- frey's first recording for Columbia' Records, hit the 1,000,000 sales mark last week, after being in circulation approximately 14 weclcs. That's one of the fastest selling disk.s of recent years and, since the tune ha.s as yet shown no signs of skidding, Colum- bia expects it to reach 1,500,000. Few artists. cSick so heavily, with their first recording. It has been done in the past, but rarely with such speed. Columbia, incidentally, had another 1,000,000 di.sk hit by a new' artiit during the past year. That was Dorothy Shay's "Feudin' and Fightin'," which originally was enclosed in an eight-sided album she made for the company, which was her first try at recording. Only Capitol Records. matched Columbia's sales clicks with names new to the recording business. Diskers Begin Sorting, Evaluating And Schedtiling of Pre-Ban Masters Perry Como's Rib Fracture Perry Como suffered a broken rib two weeks- ago during one of tlie many snow and ice storms that have hit New York, and didn't know about it Until 10 days later. It has not interfered, with his Chesterfield broadcasts (NBC) nor any of his other activitie.s. Break followed a' fall on ice and, though he drew twinges from the rib, didn't know it was fractured un- til the pain forced him to see a doc« tor. He figured it was iu.>it a sprain. WUMN' INVOLVED IN PIC LEGAL SNARL Hollywood, Jan. 13. Legal action may result from an error made liere by Fred Rapliael in the sale of synchronization rights to a tune titled "Autumn," by Chami- nade, French composer, Andrew Stone bought the fllmization rights to the tunc through Raphael for $250 for u.se in his "Fun On a Weekend," released through UA last .^iumrrier and only recently found that due to a mistake by Raphael he had no rights to use the song. It seems that Enoch &.Cie, of Paris, owns the disputed tune and Raphael was under the impression the copy- right was held by Enoch & Co., oE London, a publisher having no con- nection with the Parii! outfit. Now the real owner of the song wants $1,000 for its use and Stone is pre- paring to legally demand' that Raphael pay that sum, plus costs of straightening out the tussle.- Originally, when Stone decided to use "Autumn" in liis film, he con- tacted Harry Fox, New York pub- lisher representative in .synchro deals. Fox cabled Paris' Enoch and got a $600 quotation^ This Stone subsequently rejected by explaining he could get it cheaper elsewhere. Fox didn't know where a better deal could be mad© until the Paris copy- right owner ti'aced the deal, wlfich it hadn't consummated. ■ Major record companies have only during the past week begun conning up for air following the final week's rush of recording, to begin the tedi- ous ta.sk of evaluating, coupling and planning release dates for the moun- tains of songs most recorded prior to Jan. 1, when they halted record- ing by order of the American Fed- eration of Musicians, Companies such as Columbia, RCA-Victor, Capitol, and even Decca to some extent, threw fresh material into bins so fast that they hadn't time to look at it twice, Columbia, for example/ has had one meeting for the purpose oC .siz- ing up its stockpile, and is due for a couple more. After thsit it Will have a fairly clear idea of what's in stock, how to couple up sides and a planned schedule of release, which will, of course, be lloxible enough to allow lor various coutin- geneies, such as the delay of film release dates, jumping of publisher release dates by rival comiwnies, etc. It'.=; now coming out, incidentally, that those companies with recording studios on both coasts had quite a mixed up time in the rush tu roiord huge stockpiles. There are in.stanccs where, through errors, songs wore as.signed twice to different artists, others where assigned tuiies wore not done at all and others wherein artists, themselves either substituted tunes handed them by recording company repertoire heads with ma- terial of their own, or just added the latter to assigned numbers without permission. . mrBairintoP:D. "After the Ball Is Over," one ot the, biggest sheet-mu.sic sellers ol all time and one of "the" cornerstowes in American pop mu.sie, goes into the public domain this year. It Was copyrighted by the late Charles K. Harris, its author and publisher, in IBOZ; ALL DRESSED UF WITH A BROKEN HEART