Variety (Nov 1948)

54 vavdeviuuee Wednesday, November IQ, X94A Keith's, Boston, to Resume VaudeviDe After AFM Agrees to lO-Wk. Minimam ' - : Boston, fiov.- 9. ■♦• Hub's Local 9; AFM, has reached { an agreement with heads of RKO for the return of stage shows to Keith's Boston. Stage shows were discontinued last May and were expected to re- Roy Fox's CircQS Room Opens in Dec. in London Florenoe Desmond, slated to sail Ifor England, Dec. 17, will return I in time for a stand at the Black- stone hotel, Chicago, early next I Riiss Emery, formerly of the .London, Noy. ft Bandleader Roy Vox, who after , _ . , , ^ , returning to the U. S., for several sume In early September, but due'ygars has been striving for some to management's'inability to line j time to make a comeback in up topflight shows for consecutive ; Britain, opens in December at Mur- weeks, latter wanted local to agree [ray's Glub in the heart of London's : to ''spot-book';" pit band ' New agreement, which goes into effect Immediately, guarantees pit- musicians, at least 10 weeks' work and will probably extend beyond that if . satisfactory stage shows can be booked.' as RKO Boston is only house m town that has had a hver show policy for several years. :. land, Dec. 9. He's added a third girl to the act. .'■.■.•'■i.. Harry Richman, opens Ndv. 19 at the Carousel, Pittsburgh. Larry Ad- ler pre^tras at that spot Nov. 29... , . Beatrice Kraft inked for the j West End when spot resumes. The I Beverly Country Club, New Or-,^ Back to Civilian Use, Resuming Shows London, Nov. 9. ' Reorganization in the BBC varie- ty department will follow the resig- nation taking effect on Nov. 30 of Hire's airshow, set for"Samovar, .Mark White, producer of the radio Montreal, Nov. 22, along with Bay-; "Jazz Club" and co-producer of mond Chase and Cathy Moore. I "Band Parade," the British hit Dave ApoUon into the Vogue {parade counterpart, room of the Hollenden hotel, Cleye; , On Dec. 1, White is joining Club is to be renamed Roy Fox's ! leans, Nov. 24 Circus Room, ■ The interior is now being con- verted into a replica of a circus. Princess of Satire JUST CLOSED KAI.KKill ROOM. WARWICK HCtTEIj, .V. Y. OPENING NOV. WTH, CAFK LOliK(i1<;. SAVOV I'LAKA, NEW ¥OKK CITY DOROTHY DOUGLASS Dorothy Douglass hina a. fine collec-. lion .■ of. special material that- ahould place her-in the upper 'strata of in- time cafe worlcera;- The material ts^ clever and' clean' and^wrltten" with' an, .itiin■■ to pleasiti?-. .the.- carriajte .-trade, ■siPipers. ■ ■■ ' ■ '"■ ■ . .. . Hhe passes muster on looks atid gurh . . . /she impresses tta being;, a ffood bet for.ioffit as well.- Jose.' ■(Oeti;"'io, 'vaTipiy.>; ' ... Spcciiil ; Itliiteriiil by . .. SVI) SHWV ruhncit>: ART VKVNKMN l*t'r; 'Mfft.: MAKTIX UAUM Mirertlon: .im:S /llOlil.KK A<iKNCY SUGAR CHILE'-OASER PACT OK'D BY COURT " : Detroit, Nov. 9. Term contract putting Sugar Chile Robinson, moppet pianist, under the management of Joe Glaser's Associated Booking Corp., of New York, was approved here last week by the probate court. Agreement goes into effect imme- diately. Glaser was here for the decision. ; Robinson, whose home Eleanor PoweU plays Borsalino's, Cleveland, for 10 days starting Nov. 19. Tommy Dix plays Clover dub, Miami, Nov. 17, following current run at the Embassy, Jacksonville. Vice Damonc signed for the Copacabana, N; Y.^ starting Dec. 2. Bobbie Baxter slated to open at Le Ruban Bleu, N. Y., Nov. 17. Pircker Rebels At ^ AGVA Request For Cleve. Nitery Bond . ,,: Cleveland, Nov. 9. Herman Pirchnet* is first Cleve- is in I land nitery owner here to rebel DietroU, is an important b.o. name | against the latest American Guild in the middle-west and in.the east, i of Variety Artists demand for.-cash In the past two years the young- ster's gross earnings surpassed $275,000. Palumbo's Enters Name Stakes, Sets Thomas Palumbo's, Philadelphia; has en- tered the Quaker City talent . sweepstakes with the booking of ' Danny Thomas for that spot Jan. 14 Thomas' booking into Palumbo's puts the spot in competition with the Latin Casino, Chateau Cnllon and the Celebrity room, all of which book name talent. bonds guaranteeing salaries of per formers at his Alpine Village. When Blackie London, local rep, informed him that he would have to post a $2,000 bond with AGVA, the impresario flatly refused. Bather than concede to what he termed a "preposterous demand," Pirchner threatened to yank all the acts from his theatrerrestau- rant Nov: 15 and install a policy of iguest"name" orchestras; ■ Currently playmg in the spot's show are Howard and Wanda Bell, hand-balanccr.s; Profe.ssor Olgo. mental wizard; Ted Taft's line ol dancers and a haSf-dozen .local singers in stock light opera com- pan^■, backed by Frankie Strasek's band. • It's, a matter of principKi—-not the newly reopened Empress Hall, Earls Court, London, as production manager. His job there will be to organize, produce concerts and shows for this .10,000-seater, which is to be run on Madison Square Garden lines. The Hall was de- requisitioned only recently by the government, which used the prop-; erty for imUitary purposes; ' Barto Drafted i Continued from page SZ ; Will Aubrey, Lenny Paige, Harry Mendoza, Eddie ' Rio, Ralph Mor- gan, Georgie. Price, Rex Weber, Myron Cohen; Jack - Gwynne,. Al Tucker and .Cal Emmett. ' Board also voted for monthly membership meetings in' all branches to be held the first Wed- nesday of every month. First branch meetings. will be held Dec. 1, at which time the various branches . :WiU ' elect executive boards. Action on Benefits Most surprising action by the group was taken on the question of benefits. Board voted to fur- ther study the free show situation and if at any time the union feels that the situation is getting out of hand, it has the power to - set up its own benefit control on all shows in; which AGVA performers are asked tO: appear gratis. ^If latter action is taken at &ny time,. Thea- tre Authority, which currently po- lices free talent, displays, will auto* matically be junked. The executive committee con- tinued to meet after the national board ad.iourned Saturday. Rem- nants of the coitimittee will remain in -New York to further; discuss AGVA matters. However, the carrying out of the national board motions and reso- Kent ARA Prexy For 10th Term William^Kent was elected presi- dent of the Artists Representatives Assn. for the 10th straight term; at a meeting ot the AltA board held yesterday (Tues.). Kent has headcid this agents organization Since Its inception in 1940. Elected vice presidents were Nat- Lefkowitz, William Morris Agency' treasurer; Art Weems,- General Artists Corp. veepee; and Jack Russell, head of the Entertainment Managers Assn. of Chicago. John : Dugan, of Mu«lc Corp. of America was named secretary, and Nat Kal-^ cfaeim of the Morris office was selected treasurer. Board members are Kent, Jack Davies, Mark Leddy, Nat Lefko- witz, Phil Offin, Sol Tepper, Art ' Weems, Charlie Yates, Ben Ku- chuk, and Jack Ru.ssell. I Board members selected from ] associate agent ranks are Milton Bergen of the Singer & Tishman I office, and Billy Shaw of the Moe I Gale agency; Jack. Katz- was .re--, tained as counsel for.another term. : HELENE and HOWARD club Dates and Television In New York Dir.: MAm HOSEN Robey, Franklin to Stage , money operator said m explainmg u,tions are contingent upon the \r Jt n _j. • XT' fU ^^^""^ again,st AGVA on the 'outcome of court proceedings by VaUde l^OncertS m rS W K 'ash bond issue. "My business I the AGVA dissidents. Justice Din- Ken .Robey, producer of the a-edit is A-1, my establishment is [een, in vacating the injunction, re- short-lived "Hilarities" and, in con- financially sound and its record in manded the case to trial, date of junction with Joe Franklin, a disk dealing with entertainers unblem- jockey, will stage a series ot vaude i 'shed. AUhough I am willing to ' ■ • ' • ° ' post . $2,001) with an authorized concerts at the Mosque theatre ' Newark, starting Nov. 20. A series : of eight shows is planned, i Opening lineup isn't definite yet; bank or any other legally respon- which Is still to be set. Should the court uphold the . plaintiffs,-it's re- garded ^that the national board ac- tions will be voided and new elec- Manny Opper that new comedian 78th Week HoUywood. Shew. Lounge .. .'Chicaga' !»•«. Wjt.r IBV. tEVIN- Freeman's 6-Weeker Chufk Freeman has been signed for the Queens Terrace, Woodside, L. I., for six weeks, starting Nov. 25.. Boots McKenna booked. . Comic is the son of Charles Free- man, talent booker for the Inter-^. sible party, I refuse to place that tions will have to be held amount in the hands of AGVA, | case is actually a continuation which IS too unaccountable in its of the proceedings instituted in the actions. I name of Shelveyj which was dis- Pirchner also tangled witn|missed with prejudice during the COMEDY MATERIAL ^or AH Branchm of Thtalricali FUN-MASTER "Th* ORIGINAL Show-Biz Gag Fib" Not. I 10 22 @ $1each 3 DIFFERENT BOOKS OF PARODIES (10 in oocfi book) $10 per book FRKE COFX' or "HUMOR BCSI- NKSS," The Sliow-Biz Cacoxlne with each #3,011 mtolmum order. Send lOe for llstt of - other: eomrdjr mnterlab •oonn, . parodiei, mlnHlrel- patter,-btack-onn, etc. NO e.o.D.'s PAULA SMITH tO« W. Stth Street, Mew York W AGVA's representative . here re- cently over transportation money which London claimed had not been paid to a Noel Sherman unit on its Alpine Village engagement last season. Impresario insisted he had given I state Circuit, Texas: He previously ! round-trip railroad expenses in ; worked und(!r the name of Dink j cash to the troupe's booker in New ' Freeman. i York, but had no receipt to prove I I it. To settle long-drawn-out con- I Ann Hathaway into Club Charles, | troversy Pirchner paid off again— With a check this time-^but said Baltimore, Nov. 23. LOEW BOOKING AGENCY he was getting fed up with AGVA's "sniping tactics.'' ■ summer. Shelvey and several other litigants were forbidden to take part in AGVA affairs under terms of an out-of-court settlement. How- ever, initial petition under which proceedings were started contained the signatures of about 2,000 AGVA members,. Case is being continued -on behalf of the re- mainder. Arthur W. A. Cowan, Shelvey's Philadelphia attorney. Is behind the suit's 'continuation and has retained the N.Y. law firm , of Halpern, Nathanson & Scholer as his correspondent attorneys. ' «INERA( IXtCUTIVt OFFICES lOEW BUIIDINO ANNEX ;IM W. 4«h St.N. V. C-MyanlM'IM ONT Saranac Lake By Happy Benway Saranac Lake, N. Y., Mov. 9. I Belated Ilollowe'en Party was I given at the Rogers by "We the I Patients" with the traditional cider i I and doughnuts buffet lOnch. Bill! ; "Decca" Lalis, Arthur Slattery, i 1 Andy Grainger and Mary : Mason { ! hosted the affair. | Victor Gamba suffered a setback that rushed him back into the Will Rogers Virginia Godwin here received her O.K. and left tor her West- port, Conn., homo. Mable Burns mastered a minor 1 operation at the general hospital l and back at the Rogers. ! I Rube Bernstein. Arthur Proffitt j and Bill Lalis motored to the U. S. ! Veterans hospital, Sunmount, N. Y., ! to visit Albert Smith. i Dr. George E. Wilson, medical I superintendent of the Will Rogers, to Pittsburgh for a two weeks va- I ca.sh. i The best trick that "The Amaz- ' i ing Mr. Ballantine" ever did was ' , to pull his final good health papers out of his hat, He left for N. Y. C. ' I to resume .work at the Diamond • Horseshoe. ' I Edward (1ATSE1 Gaiser, into the . • general• hospital for the. Bronso-| scophy operation... - Write to those who are ill. THE COLSTONS currently at the PALLADIUM, LONDON wer* chosen to do the ROYAL COMMAND PERFORMANCE Nov. 1st PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF OUR NEW PHONE NUMBER MUrray Hill 2-2080 Jules Ziegler Artist Representative S45 Fifth Avenue, New York Cfty Atfoclates ABE NEWBORN, MARTIN BAUM. HAL DAVIS