Variety (August 1949)

62 CHATTER Broadway to work for some time. Mario Pedro, lately manager of Teatro Avenida, subbing. Robles Monteiro, for 20 years impresario of the Teatro Nacional, Metro press contact Bill ftein on two-week vacation at Stan- fordville, N. Y. roa«?f organizing the four months’ com- Humphrey , whom Pulsory legit season at the Teatro with Dorothy K'rsten. "“om hes at "’*^1 start rehearsals in Sep- Daricer Nick Long jP. : tember and close down before Jewish Memorial f ^ 3 Christmas when the theatre will London suiting from auto crash. Gerald Mayer, Motion Picture Assn, of America’s continental manager, due in from Paris. David Wayne in town from Lake Placid for special recording retakes on Metro’s “Adam’s Rib,’’ in which he starred. , Murray Silverstone, 20th-Fox s foreign chief, arriving next week return to films. Lima, Peru By Bart McDowell Mexican ventriloquist Paco Mill- er moved to Callao. Bolivian cultural ambassador, on* the Queeri Mary from extensive Julio Martinez Arteaga, doing three European survey. | concerts here on Andean folk mu- BMI’s international copyright sic. and performing societies expert, j Westrex Andean Co. handing Jean Geiringer, back from three , out 1,000 soles in prizes and silver months in Europe. i plaques to Peruvian film opera- Mildred (Mrs. Henry) Ginsberg tors, flew in from a Paris sojourn and M-G-M’s Latin American super- out for Hollywood the next day. visor Maurice Silverstein brewing She’s been abroad over a month, | plans here for Silver Anniversary Marian Anderson, who returned celebration, from a European concert tour, and Jose Cibrian’s Spanish comedy Mrs Robert Montgomery, wife of i company featuring Jose’s dad, the actor, in on the Caronia yes-; Benito Cibrian, just up from terday (Tues.). Buenos Aires. Comedian Jack Pearl, back from 1 U. S. explorer Lewis Cotlow a vacation in Ottawa during which | back from African trip to make be had an operation, is recuper- i films in Amazon country on head- ating and expects to be up and , shrinking Jibaro Indian tribes, around in a few days. i ■ Eddie Cantor has moved his entire business staff east for a month while setting up the debut of his first four “Take It Or Leave It” shows for NBC. Lew Grade on quick looksee of Holland and Belgium. Boy Foy off to America shortly to pick up his citizenship papers. Dolores Gray back in the lead of “Annie Get Your Gun” after two months’ rest. Lee Royce has joined the Ben Blue act. Opens provincial tour with him at Empire, Glasgow, Sept. 5. Wednesday, Au|pigt 31 , I949 tion and business by filling Riviera engagements. Rita Hayworth with Aly Khan at their Villa Gorizia. Deauville, for the racing season there. Irene Hilda to La Baule and brother Bernard with his orch due ' back soon from Knokke, Belgium. Julius (ex-Ruban Bleu) Monk now punching the ivories at Oeil de Boeuf, formerly Boeuf sur le 'Toit. The Gerry Mayers celebrating their silver wedding anni. Sept. 3. Hollywood. Prince Littler has resigned post, wcuuhir of chairman and managing direc-1 ’ attend if can tor of Olympia, Margate, due to switch his boat reservation. He oressure of other biz. I came over to row in the Princeton pressure of other biz. Harry Bradbury-Pratt has ac vs. Oxford boat race I quired Pinoli’s restaurant, noted', Harry Brown to help Arthur ! West End rendezvous, for $300,000. i Lesser on local production of Spot also has annual rental of “Streetcar Named Desire, starring i $48,000. Arletty, in November at the An- [ 1 Pearl Bailey to New York after! to*"®, and Jean Cocteau trying to a week at Glasgow and Manchester, i 8ct the French picture rights to but returning next summer for West End revue, with Paris dates i to follow. J Dee.i River Boys and John Boles, both acts working in Hyman Zahl’s I vaudeville units, booked here till ; end of the year, and already signed I to return next year. After three weeks in London the play. Dublin By Maxwell Sweeney Trevor Howard in on motoring vacation. Bertie McNally, RKO Irish man- honeymooning and on biz, the Joe ager, to France on vacation Kaufmans to Paris, returning to ; Betty Cheatle pacted by 10-per- London Sept. 11, and planing for, center John Gliddon for London Minneapolis New York a week later. Harry Green host to Helen Haye, Britain’s oldest playing actress, at roles. Ex-Abbeyite Maureen Toal to London for “The King of Friday’s By Les Rees Lena Horne underlined for Club* Metro director Vincente Minnelli Carnival, planed from the Coast to Boston j Slim Gaillard band into St. Paul to join mate Judy Garland during Flame nitery. the Labor Day holiday. Minnelli Old Log strawhatter offering will be in Boston 10 days. i “Play’s the Thing.” Irving Berlin to the Coast for a j Royal American Shows again on w«ek and then three more at Lake Midway of Minnesota State Fair. Tahoe, where daughter Mary Ellin ’ Club Carnival has Harvey Stone, (Mrs. Dennis Sheedy Burden) is: Frar^'es Faye and Perry Martin “in escrow” while divorcing her orche&ira. husband. ! Georgie Gobel playing return at Actress Marie Wilson off on a 10 | Hotel Radisson Flame Room with key-city swing Monday (5) in con- j Irving Winslow’s orchestra, juction with openings of “My 1 Adrian Ames, female impersona- Friend Irma,” Paramount film; tor, into St. Paul Drum after a party Aug. 28 in celebration of Men. her 75th birthday. She appears i Jack Irwin, who directed “Badg- with him in “The Return of Peter ' ers Green” for J. Arthur Rank, in I Grimm.” * | on vacation. ! The old Bedford Music Hall, j Jimmy O’Dea has hit the jackpot cradle of early vaude stars, bought again with “Stop Press,” new re- I by two young thesps, John Penrose vue at the Gaiety, and Pat Nye, who plan to run it as Josephine Alberlcci, director ' I a legit house. Price said to be' Dublin School of Acting, about around $360,000. j again after long illness. ! j Harry Foster planing to New: Mine. Kirdwood-Hackett mulling York end of September and expects , role in J. B. Priestley’s “The Last to be away for six weeks. Will take Holiday” for Associated British in Chicago and Hollywood for new i Pictures. talent hunt for London Palladium’s Stariley Illsley and Leo McCabe vaudeville season next year. ^ back from London after look.see at London Hippodrome’s musical. | new shows. They’re ogling “Death ' “Her Excellency,” which has been : of a Salesman.” tottering, has been given a broad- ' - virus^ Charisse laid up with flu giving up golf for a while; doctor’s orders ^ I Maxwell Shane in town after a ! two-month tour of the stix * ! I, Cowdin in town for I huddles with UI studio toppers ^ ^ I Louis^ B, Mayers tossed birthdav part^ for Major John Zanft of Hoot Gibson will star in a rodeo Police' CitJ Edward .Nassour returned to wock^^^after siege with ,l„rt i^* Alan Young ea.st for two weeks in Chicago, followed by stand- in Miami and N. Y. Carol Ann Beery awarded $500 monthly pocket money from vS lace Beery estate. ^ * Ted Tetslair in from France The White Tower.” Massichi Wagata ganderlng Hoi- lywood technique at Paramount for use in his Tokyo studios. Gertrude Rozan in town to round up talent for American Theatre ^*’uup s play, “King Johnny ” n Valentino Memorial Guild holding its 23rd annual tribute meeting at Troupers Thea- tre. Ida Lupino suffered cuts and bruises when thrown from scaffold during fight scene in “Fugitive from Terror.” ^ * Allen Rivkin and Leonard Spiegelgass will represent the Screen Writers Guild at all- industry public relations conven- tion in Chicago. takeoff on the radio show, in the pic. Ted R. Gamble, board chairman of the Theatre Owners of America, shifting his permanent base from She’s I month’s engagement Paines here. With cancellation of “Diamond Lil,” originally set for week of Aug. 29, Lyceum gets late start with cast by the British Broadcasting ; Corp., with result that takings have at Persian picked up and closing postponed. ► Barcelona By Joaquina C. Vidal-Gomis Bahia nitery imported Hy Hazel Portland, Ore., to New York. Gam- “Brigadoon.” Sept. 19. ble is moving his family to Green- Annual St. Paul Civic Opera sea- wich. Conn., next month. | son starts Nov. 17 with “The Great Jack Benny, Morton Downey,; Waltz”; also will include “Aida” Hedy Lamarr and the Myrt Blums and “Song of Norway.” after voyaging together back home ' Pappy Trester’s ‘Screwballs,” on the Queen Elizabeth, continued novelty band, busting up after their conviviality by having their more than five years in Twin City first on-shore dinner together. 1 niteries, with most of boys but Vera and Nate Blumberg’s 29th , not T r ester, reorganizing as anniversary was signalized by a, Komikings. gag edition of Variety with the I P. 1 streamer reading, “Nate Lifts Vera’s Option.” Sub-bank was captioned. “Univ Prexy Extends Pact Another Year.” Jack Connolly, former Pathe ^ News editor and now with the State Mangles Sisters from London. Department, is hopping off for Eu-i .Mrs. Florinda S. de Lucena, rope today (Wed.) to pick up some Piamst. wife of Portuguese consul, 40 junketing editors and publishers m /fpm Bombay, now in London and Paris and es- Alfredo Matas, manager of Ar- cort them back to N. Y. cines pic house and Windsor nitery. Si Seadler, acting ad-pub chief Paris and London in search of Metro in the absence of Howard for talent. Dietz, in Philadelphia for on-the- Victoria theatre preparing sec^ scene supervision of the fanfare of big musical “Taxi being stirred by M-G, prelim to the I m Victori^’ by J. A. Prada and world preem of “That Midnight Joaquin Gasa. with music by Ki.ss” at the Boyd. Friday (2i. Alonso and Cabrera. Robert Benjamin, chief of *J. ' Another big musical staged at Arthur Rank’s U. S. wing, on the Principal Palacio, “Te espero Coast for huddles with William ol Siglo que Viene” (“I’ll Expect Goetz, Universal’s production top- Next Century”). Stars Pepe per, and Earl St. John, one of Barcenas and Mary Campos. Hank’s studio execs, on joint Following the success of the Anglo-American film projects. i musical. “Escuela de Serenos,” Robbie (Mrs. John) Garfield so song-writers Damaso and Llorca. accustomed to going arounci bare- "*1*^ composer Lopez Marin, are foot this summer at Fire Island. P^'^paring another show, “Escuela that she couldn’t keep her shoes on Vampircsas.” while attending performance of “The Madwoman of Chaillot” at the Royale last Wednesday (24>, ! .Scripter Hy KraH’s daughter, I Jill Kraft, summoned east from ' Hollywood by Michael Kanin for the national road company of “Goodbye My Fancy.” Apart from guesting a stint with the semi-pro Circle Jerry Lester and Buddy Ebsen Players on the Coast, this is her Fairmont s Venetian Room, first legit show. Promotion underway for Bal Esta Silsbee, now aide to Ed Tabarin reopening Sept. 8. with ” Seay, publicity chief of the Hotel Lewis heading show. Plaza, was originally Esther, but it Frank Fay and Dorothy Kirsten was switched by Vincent Lopez. head “Gold Rush Salute” pag- her onetime employer. Bandleader Sept. 10 at Frisco’s Ports- Lopez is w.k. for his numerologistic Plaza, tendencies, and that influenced Mi.ss name. Philadelphia By Jerry Gaghan Scotland San Francisco By Ted Friend King Cole trio at Giro’s. ‘Kiss Me Kate” cast Press Club By Gordon Irving Delta Rhythm Boys top at Glas- gow Empire. Noel Coward revival of “Bitter j Sweet” registering big coin in four- The Metropolitan Hospital is in- peeks’ season at Glasgow Theatre stalling a life-size television screen 1 t * * • to permit doctors and nurses on the c j staff to watch operations as they titled Annie Laurie , are performed. ; during run of nearby Edinburgh ! Theatre Guild is sounding out its o * subscribers on the plan of wearing . <^omic, evening dress for opening nights i biog-musical on his own here. Guild’s opener is Lynn Riggs’ m Title; I “Out of the Dust.” set for Sept. 19. ^ • * Local 77, American Federation of v I Musicians, has served notice on all ' bongo maraccas and Klavatc nlav- Pl^nes ^ back to Sydney Oct. 10 j ers that they are now eligible and headnna^rf^r«"^^^ Glasgow BBC , must apply for membership in the t u , union by Sept. 15. u Hervey Mrs L Wallacp Fean variety, at Gla.sgow Em- actress and widow of a former City a Councilman, has been named head ’ keeping Up of a drive committee to raise $60.- Jones^^ 000 to aid the Philadelphia LaScala __ ! Opera Co.’s new season. 1 |y|j;illll Ranpli “Stop the Music,” radio give- i lilidllll DcflCU away show, will be presented be- By Lary Solloway tween the halves of the city’s first Mother Kelly’s on the block but pro ^id game—Philadelphia Eagles high a.sking price is delaying sale vs. Chicago Bears, at Municipal Alan Gale clo.sing his Celebrity Stadium. Saturday, Sept. 17. Affair Club for refurbishing; to reopen ' will be spon.sored by the Philadel- mid-October. New partner for Giro’s, swank .supper club, is Jules Kasdin, local drug store tycoon. ' VFW convention delegates rushed _ _ ^ , pack to home cities on threat of »»>’ Geeno Garr ■ hurncane, nitering suffering. Sally Browne, .songstress from Claudia Jordan a click at Clover London, at the open-air Pavillion Club, with comic Milt Ro.ss holding night club. over for sixth week plus Maureen Trucii Bora has started a “Revue Hall Dancers, of Revues” at the air-conditioned Marta E.ster (Princess of Bour-' Zarzuela theatre. bon) now has own program on Meirelles Sisters, Portuguese WKAT (MBS) with song and chat- tno, clicked at the Baia nitery, ter show for Latins. Madrid. They will go to Brazil in — I September. ^ I Portland, Ore. phia Inquirer Charities, Inc. Madrid Mexico City By D. L. Grahame Ester P'ernandez and Antonio Badu, pic players, mairied. Maria Felix, top pic actress, to Spam in September for film work Edward D. Cohen. 20th-Fox Latin-American supervi.sor, here on biz. Charito Granados. Argentinian, inked by Diana Films for two pro- ductions. Pic scripters union elected Jose Revueltas its general secretary for the ensuing year. Oscar Pani, financier, and Jose Luis Bueno, producer, forming a pic production company. Georges Ulmer, French song- writer-singer, doubling at El Patio nitery and vaude-revue theatre, Lirico. Libertad Lamarque, Argentinian thrush, topping the Teatro Tivoli revue. After making another pic, she planes back home. Alfred Holquin, SRO Latin- American chief, readying Mexican preem of “Jennie” here Sept. 14, start of the annual independence fiestas. Santiago Reaclii. prez of Po.sa Films, producer of pix of Cantin- flas (Mario Moreno), is a news- paper columnist. His “Metas” (“Goals”) runs daily in Novedades. Reva Reyes, songstress, inked by Seki Sano, Japanese producer, for Spanish version of John Stein- beck’s “Brute Force” which he’s readying for the Palace of Fine Arts (National Theatre'. Fernando Alvarez, son of Sofia Alvarez. Colombian actress who’s a name in Mexican pix. organizing a pic production company here, Vanguardia Films, which he hopes to have in action pronto. Pittsburgh Spanish dancer Elvira Lucena. back from Paris, giving recitals at Teatro del Retiro prior to her de- parture for South America. Jacque Ravel and his line of )?H’ls into Club Hy Mac. Sacha Goudine Ballet clicked in a Bros, .set for three days Badajoz (.southwest Spain* nitery "‘’S month, after six months in Portugal, where Bros., circus in town for local Arti.sts Syndicate didn’t re- new their work permit. Silsbce’s curtailed given Lisbon Atlantic City By Joe W. Walker George Owen and Charlie Mur- ray into Babettes. Duke Ellington did neat biz dur- ing three-day stand at Orsatti’s in Paris By Lewi.s Gary© Illness of Teresa Gomez stopped propo.sed St rawhat season at Teatro nearby Somers Point '26-2’7-2Hi. Apolo. Lisbon, Jane Russell into Steel Pier’s New revue at Teatro Maria Music hall for week starling Vitoria. Lisbon, folded after three Sunday (28'. .Sammy Kaye coming weeks, due to terrific heat. into ballroom Sept. 2-4. replacing Teatro Ginasio, a firstrun house. Hal McIntyre, who starteil Sunday started its four months’ compuKsory (28*. Kitty Kallen to head new legit season with old F'rench farce, vaudeville show .Monday '5(. Kaye Alberto Reis, manager of Teatro is playing a return engagement Apollo, taken ill and w'Ojti’t be able here for season. By Maxime de Beix (33 Bird, Monti)arna!fsc) Elicia Parker to St. Tropez. Danton Walker here from Rome. Lou Parker and wife gandering Pans. Freddy Fox in Deauville for w’cekend. Harry Pilcer seen in Paris for a quickie from Riviera. three days featuring cut-rate prices. Woody Herman band completed one w^ek stand at Jantzen beach Park Ballroom. 1 Eddie Lawrence Quartet moves to Tropics Club after six months at Diamond Horseshoe. Worcester Eddie Sham’s banc^ at Sea Crest hotel, Falmouth, a'lrt Quentin (she’s Mara Williams of Worcester) dancing in Havana. Norman Kohler, radio Siizy Saint C’lair poslcardine Kohler, radio nn- from Juan Les Pins ^ nouricer. given six months for 'tF "" io/n'ATd"?o S Martha Zenlhy combining vaca- prwed bMh' '' " *’“* “P' By Hal Cohen Eddie Wapiiler to take over man- agerial reins at Nixon again. Wife of Bandleader Billy Yates into hospital for major surgery, Betty Annis Dancers finished long run at Club Copa. Aug, 27. Rose Flllovich. Carnegie Tech drama graduate directing at Cape May N. J.. Theatre. John Montague is beating drums for “Mister Roberts,” which comes to Wixon, Sept. 19. . Janet Blair guest of honor « centennial celebration in home- town, of Altoona. Pa. . Karl Krug. Sun-Tele drama vacationing and Leonard Mendio- witz .sitting in for liim , Harry Richman being for return engagement at JacK Heller’s room next month. Sam Mandelsman off to ^^^hfo ^ nia for rest after winding up su mer opera company’s affairs. Critic Kap .Monahan Y,, Ing at the Press but still crutches from his busted . Tebaldo Tamburi. chef at nay house Grill, back on J L three-month .sojourn in his na Italy. , I i« tnivu Lenny Martin back working with his vocal .-fi Martinaires. after a Virginia B • •ll^ A" C h^nu* E* 4 •* A 4 M