Variety (Mar 1948)

47 Bands at ^Hotel B.O.'s CMen. IMttl. tMt Cavera Week OaDato 2,178 55,800 1,575 1,275 825 1,550 900 7,425 6,500 64,450 3,150 000 Hotel' vLiTel ■SSrColeman*.-.. Waldorf (400; $2) S6 Writ Jurgens. ...... Pennsylvania ,(500; $1-|1.50) 8 fihei) FieldB* New Yorker (400; $1-$1.50) 5 Joimny Plnpappl»- -l^xington (300; $1-$1.50) 72 «!f^nence Welk.... Roosevelt (400; $1-$1.50) 2 j^ddyi Moreno.....Commodore (400; $1-$1.50) l ♦Don BichordS'Rob*. Lammret at Waldorf; Ice Show at New Yorker. Chicaffo ■ Chicago, March 30. . gklnnar Enni> <Empb:c Room, Palmer House; 550; $3.90 min.-$l cover). Holy Week took its toll; 2,000 secohd^week. Serbifl Fldds (College Irni, Sherman; 650; $2-93.50 min.). Kay Starr luid Meade Lux Lewis opened Friday (26) after slow b.6. show with jTobtt Kirhy did only 1,700 last week, Chttck Foster (Boulevard Room, Stevens; 650; $3.50 min.-$l cover) }f0W ice revue policy opened Saturday (27). Sock 1,200 for night. Bay Morton (Maytair Room, Biackstone; 300; $3.50 min.-$l cover) Liicienne Boyer's debut offset slump oi Jimmy Savo's Anale Thursday OS)., Big 1.500. KJ^crce Olsea (Marine Room, Edgewater Beach; .700; $1.50-$2.50 Gil Maison now heading revue. Okay 2,S00. Locatbii Jobs, Not Id Hotels (Chicapo) Tommy Garlyu (Aragon; $1^$1.15 adm.). Warm weather brought in great 12,200. ' Del Gonrtney (Trianon; $1-$1.15 adm.). Fine d,800. Marty Ctoidd. (Chez Paree; $3.50 min.). Jack Cole Dancers, 3lt(SA9 Green and Connie ISaiaes swell 3,000 Easter week, iitt Kaaiel (Eiaokhawk; SCO; $2.50 min.). New show. Okay 1,800. London Gramaphone's latest personnel and policy doings In- clude James P. Bray's appointment as a v.p., Joseph F. Hards' joining the organization to handle the full- range library service and the In- troduction of. Scottish records un- der the Beltona label. Basil Cornell and James Parks, who have worked in the New Eng- land area as disk jockeys and song- pluggers, have joined with Roger Barrett, musical director of WFEA, Manchester, N. H., to handle the distributorship of Exclusive Rec- ords for New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. . Loupes («pyr^ht SiA VS. Ms May Be Settled Out of Court dn the Vjibeat Coiktlmied from page 42 Sm Ists Corp. . . .^Pete Johnson re- optioned at Brass Bail, Glendale, fiff four weeks . . . Eddy Howard 'ft^ned at Aragon ballroom, Chi- cago, for eight weeks, Sunday (28). Jfovard orch takes off on one-niter imt through midwest and into west coast after Aragon siint ... Dick liSSaUe orch starts stint at Fair- mount hotel, San Francisco, open- ing April 20 . . . Nat Brandwyn outfit set for stand at Palace ho- tel,. San Francisco, commencing April 8. Garwood Van orch opens at Mark Hopkins fa($tel for hidef stay, start- ing April 20., .J|mmy Zito band's option picked up for 12 weeks at Sherman's nitery,' San Diego... I'rankie Carle outfit playing week at Zantzen Beach, Portland, Ore., starting June 24 .. . Chicago Leon Barry takes over the.or- ganist post at the Trianon ball- room . . . Louis Armstrong opens at the Orchid Lounge, SpringAeld, April 13 . . . Fred Benson, Ray An- thony's manager, in Chi for . con- fabs with GAC. Reported that Frances Foster was added to. An- thony's band, and that Danny Kern replaced Ronnie Deauville . . , George Winslow set for two weeks at the Prom bajlroom, St. Paul, May 19, and makes his first Tria- non appearance June 1 to July 25 .. . . Slam Stewart takes over the Blue Note April 12, co-starring with the Esquire All-Stars . . . Buddy Stewart, Kai Winding and the Ray Rodney Sextet opened at the Mayfair Club, Kansas City, for three weeks . Frank Dailey Win Fold Meadowbrook July 4 For Rest of Summer Frank Dailey will close his Me» dowbrook, Cedar Grove, N. J., for the sunimer July 4. Competition of summer resorts and other summer activities are responsible for the decision. Until closing, however, Dailey has a string of top band names set, with the final period, from June 6 to July 4, still in doubt. It was originally to have been filled by Elliot Lawrence, but that band goes into the . Pennsylvania hotel, N. Y., for six weeks opening May 24. Dailey now has Frankie Carle, gets Louis Prima, April 6; Tony Pastor, April 27; Art Mooney, May 11, and Tex, Benteke, May 27 to June 6. ^ Combination of Carle and clear weather, plus the passing of Lent, incidentally, has gilven the Meadow- brook the first decent b.o. it has had all wintet*. Heavy storms which hit the N. Y. area since Xmas all but ruined the spot's biz^ Carle played to 400-odd Saturday (27) evening and 1,100 Sunday on mat- inee (4:30 to 6:30 p.m. tea' dance) and evening performances. Case instituted last year by Lon- gines-Wittnauer against variouit music publishers and Harry Fpx,: agent and trustee for pubs in mechanical royalty matters, may be settled out of court. There have been several conferences between the, priileipals during the past few weeks, and the case may never go to trial although there are publish- ers who would like to see the point ibvolved tested and settled once and for all. Suit involves the 2c statutory royalty allowed by the copyright law for popular recordings, but in this case Ixingines is seeking to apply tliat royalty principal to transcriptions, which were un- known when the. law was written in 1909, hence are not specifically covered. For years, the music busi- ness lias set its own : rates for Goodman's 7G Gross For 2 Coast Concerts Hollywood, March 30; Two weekend jazz sessions pro- moted by Gene Norman, with Ben- ny Goodman's sextet toplining, grossed over" $7,000, after taxes, at $3.60 top. Goodman got- 50% take^ paying oif all talent, Friday, in Buss auditorium, San Diefo, about $2,100 represented about an even break for Norman. On Saturday, Pasadena aud sellout hit nearly $5,000 for hefty profit. transcription royalties^ u s u a 1 ly - calling foi: 25c per-disk-p^-pep> formance for the use of the averv age tune, and 50c each for uses of more valuable standard copyrights, show tunes, etc. Last year, Longines pi:epared a series of transcriptions and for- warded to Fox a check for about $6 to cover the royalties on the basis of 2c per use. Fox returned, the check and demanded tiie usual ' amount, - whereupon Longines launched an action in N. Y. federal court. £ver since the suit was launched, certain music business executives have been endeavoring to deter* mine who actually was behind the action. It was theorized that nei- ther Longines execs themselves, nor their attorneys, were suffi- ciently versed in music business affiairs to pose such a situation. It was figured that ,some <attomey now involved in music biz prompted the Longines action, and tliis angle was-strengthened when the watchmaker's attorneys' papers were filed in preliminary moves in the suit. They were too well planned; it was opined, to hav^ been laid out by; attorneys not exn pected to hav6 ii full knowledge of the vast intricacies ot copyright problems. Satchmo for Carnegie Louis Armstrong's small orches- tra will take part in the Carnegie Hall, New York, Pops Concerts, which run from May 1 to June 6. Armstrong will be shown May 3. Trumpeter's group wiU be on a concert series at that time. May 1 he works at the Music Hall, De- troit, -doing an 8:30 p.m. and mii- night performance and a single show there the following night (2). Following the Carnegie booking he does Rochester, Minn., Minneapolis and St. Paul May 8-9-10. Hiising: Doesn't Claim To 'Make' Tunes as Jock Ted Husing is one of the jfew disk jockeys who doesn't claim to "make" or "revive" any tunes. In fact, the WHN (N.Y.) platter-chat- terer gets "nary a rumble" about the artists or selections, since he does a different-type>show wherein the artists are grouped, such as a quarter hour of Crosby, the "girl friends" (thrusties),' "hoy frienda" (male singocs), etc. - Only exception has been the re* action to a Rondo disking of a German tune, "You Can't Be True Dear," by Ken Griffin (vocalized by Jerry Wayne.)