Variety (January 1950)

ClHATTEII Wednesdiiy^ January 11 , 1950 V sailing for Europe with his wife and six-m^Un^^ tO do a three- George Metcalf quitting press dept, of Veterans Hospital Camp former v ari^ mug g m u. Shows. The Wilham Morris^ Jrs, (Riith Bedding > piaiining a European honeymoon shortly. Wendelj Corey here for radio Sol Hurok out of the hospital personal appear^ce$- London here four nights with Minneapolis ^yhaphony orchr -. - - - i—, I. Gene Autry into Auditorium Norman Lawrence m for a four-.,Hollywood show for mati- week season at Ciro s. ■ and nicht Jan 14 Heniy^Sheret planes put Sunday > Hotel Rallsspn Flariie Soom has tdG. S.-to attend the open^. . gwann for return engage- tl5)'y • vw — K -5 ing of t. S. Eliot's VThe Cocktail' Party/*: • • Weston Drury, formerly casting director for; J. ^ Arthur; Hank and Russell Swann for return engage< ment plus Boh Cross orch. A1 Grant, new singing emcees into Cluh Carnival wUh Gonnee 1‘Bosw^I and Dean Murphy. Jimmy Durante M tog^e^ I latterly yWh ZOth^ox, has launched | ana convalescing at hpine- with new Chez Pare? owner Dave put on his ovm as agent. j Arita. Show also includes Annette r Marvin .R<^npnrlr' Mpfrft vppnpp rifil-A of . ennt’ .. I Tesv Unnn : to Soum Africa enu : n;;,. . civ , w x with new Chez Paree owner Marvin Schenck, Metro veepee Halper on possible date at spot and studio exec, > in . Gotham for wAiiio nporiiiPPr wppk’<i ponfah< with Ho fonnpr<; Hal WalUs, Paramount proauceCi weeK s contaps wiui n.o. toppers, ^ conferring with Harold ^.singer Vic Damahe hcadipg .|to Sevens, Pafloc^^hraniAmaiiageFlJ^^^ Jdiami, w*ere^ he „opens at ^e Masah Brown will be one I |eachpontl.er Feh. 2 Ritz ; .jJ?«“^ 1 LT li J-- • i. J f o Author Luncheon at Blackstone Marcello Girosi, head of Super- Jan 26 him; pistributihg"Gorp.v due; back Lewis win entOr St. Luke ^ junket fjpgpital after his current run j Friday (.13). ■ Chez Paree for surgery to remove j ^ “ ‘ i Jack Broder; prez of ; Realart cartilage from his leg: Pictures; in from the Coast Mon-; Ted Goldsmith comes in ^to take day (9) for a series of company over Ghicagb pubUcity for ‘‘Death X X o ru ; Arita. Show also includes Annette Bonn.to Soutlv Africa ^ Oi$om: Joe Rio and lirie of six of January till early June for bis j g|j.jg annual vacation, Mter Which he ^ [ “Light Up Sky’* o^ned at Ly- ^ ceum a night earlier than originally : , . . . . announced, giving liine perform- Jimmy- Wheeler, who , has gone! ances. solo after playing a double acti shipstad-Jobnsoh's“Ice Follies" with his father for 2(5. years as ^annual local ihree-week engage- s_ Wheeler St Wilson, has been inked; nient scheduled for Arena, April : f ' as : resident comedian for Henry I ig^May 6 . ^ Hairs “Guest Night’* radio pro.'. Rey; & Gomez, oh bill with Joey gram. ; ; .y : ; i Bishop at: Ih)tel .Nicollet Minnesota Maude Spectpr, casting director, Ipqiyi jiore to Bac- for . J- Arthur Rank, at .Denham j qara, Paris, opening there Feb. 1 . hoard meets. Sara Allgood home with flu. ' Evelyn Keyes laid up with strep throat ; Kay Williams recovering from surgery.: Jean Parker divorced Dr. Kurt Grotter. Harry Ruby reGOvering fro eya ^ trouble. Harry Popkin laid up with virus infection. ■ George Raft hospitalized for major Surgery. Henry King took off on South American tour: Frank: Bubk: in tovm after an: eastern lecture tour. Edgar Bergen to Houston for two weeks at Shaihrock hotel. Robert Welch to Palni Springs for story conferences with Bob. Hope, .. ' "■ • Ted Morris returned to the Metro flackery after eight-month illnesSi ■ '■ Al Jolsort returned from :H 6 no^ lulu where he put on two shows for X b i - .. K ’ studios for last five years, termi-; Margie,Hart, one: of "Light Up ef a Salesman while Hank jen- j^a^gg jan. I4;as part Of recent ax- stars, back in her home i Josephine ^iemiah, personnel as- . her goes ahead of company which j^g policy^ Expects to be back rtbwh where she started in show ! t^^rvirpmen sistant at Loew’s and, Metro home ; starts tour. Feb; 18, ^ . again later this year when activi-; ; biz as burlesque chorUs girh later i Canuck office, became engaged Xmas Day. Hugh Martin, vocal a^rajiger, ^i^g resumed. 1 becoming one of foremost strip- Darryl Z to William Bien. and Hanya Holm, dance producer Angiofiim, subsidiary of Colum Rudy Bretz, formerly with CBS i ^ *•“- - » teleyisiori and WPIX, joined . Dra- ) hoorsals with Betty matic Workshop as head of the KPhnor*? hpw TV qpptinn ■ IVISS iVie Kate checked in at r 20 th-F 6 x after his annual Sun Englarid - week after having completed her : , . • , t. • u., . , latest film assignment in Harry M. w n- ' Anton Karas, the zither player. Popkin’s production ■‘DvQ.A.-’ ^places William Saul Goodmah, a Ballrt Theatre ' returns :to New Yprk.. ElinorRjindp! 'founder, has gone, abroad for two ; i*'® months to gander plays and ballets ; for ahQut. 10 days while in Paris; London and Rome, . i Patricia Canty, is out ill. , Jimmy Strodek, head of Brooks’I.. Lydia Clarke, starring in .D^tec- Gostume, off the critical list at ; Story jiewing^ preview of pbetdrs’hospital. He’s been under , commerciaLshort, Julius ^Caesar, treatment for a heart ailment. . in which she flayed small role. Arthur W. Kelly, exec yeepee of * Halpern and the cast^^in United Artists, planed tb Mexico' « City last week oh a business/ junket. His wife accompanied days at Douglas Park theatre, him. Malcolm (RKO . Theatres prexy).; Kingsherg’s son, Harold, student [ at Harvard Graduate School of Business, engaged tO Ruth Joel of ; Yonkers: .. Morris Cohn, attorney fOr Screen Writers Guild, in Gotham on a * jtiumher of SWG legal matters, re-1 turns to the Coast. tomorrovy IThurs.).^- /'V- Mercedes McGambridge lost per- sonal property and furnishings valued at $15,000 in a recent tire at her eastside apartment. Items were uninsured.. ^ New Year’s Eve priees up slight- r Campbell appointed to ly £rom yeaiv ago ih-some ri public relations committee of Mo- clubs- but the, same . in most rOf : Tndii.qtrv'Conncil tiohah^nd John Campbell appointed i tion Picture Industry; Council. By Mabel Thomas N; Y ’s Elmer Leterhian back for a cHatI qIsv Dr. Sam Shellabarger .and wife here for a long stay. Spencer Weaver has taken over the Queen Surf Club. Paul Kelley and wife at the Royal for three weeks,, Ruth Alder, 20th-Fox writer, here for a month at the Royal. The Clark; Gables took a’ small'; Italy house in the Kahala district. i Henry them,-$10.85 per person for supr i QgQpgg Jessel will be awarded fayors.r dancing and floor JUeart ^ Gold medal by Mt SinM per, '• » • show being town’s top. Men’s Club for his humanitarian work in 1949. Ronald Reagan will be honor guest at testimciriial dinner tossed , b\' Friars Club at Bevhiils Hotel, By Helen McGiU Tubbk 1 with George JeSsel as m e. Valentine Cortese back to Rome; Kathlyn Williams reported im- after tWo months in Venice. ‘ proving in Lone Pine Hospital fol- : Danrtielle Darrieux being sought Vowing amputation of her right for a .%ux Film to be made in i leg, injured in auto acciderit. I Pat O’Brien and Glarence Blid- Lombroso hais b e e n ; ihgtori Kelland; will m.c, ; Rupert raIv . .;A1 Jolson and Wife here; he s to j uanied general rep for Republic i Hughes testimonial dinner to be /oo‘V entertain military forces here. pictures in Italy. I tossed jdintlv by the Authors, (33 Blvd. Montparnasse) Dorothy Aldrin, Warners fashion Dr. Felix Graziani of Rome’s : Lambs and Masquers.:. Robert Cummings in town, ; desigrier, at Waikiki for a month, Redel Films has left for Augsburg, [ Marthe Zenthy still on a dance ; Orville Dull back, looking over Germany, as head Of film branch ; junket in Spain, ^ ^ . I locations for Esther Wiliiams’next; there. Margot Grahame in from Lon- Robert K. Christenberry, prez of pn sock holiday trade, the Hotel Astor,: elected to his 10 th I Maria Maiiljap, French starlet, term as head of the, Broadway J to London to play in “Poison Assn, at the organization’s 39th: Road,’’ opposite Erie Portman. annual meeting. 1 Director H. G. Glouzot leaves Memorial Services, for Willie ; Jan. 28 for a two-year sojourn in Howard will be held by the Jewish . Brazil; He will be accompanied Theatrical Guild in its ClVapel in! by his wife and a fuH technical the Palace theatre building tomor- crew row (12) at 6 p.m. Michael Todd, Jr , son of the legit producer, taking leave of absence from Amherst College for ah eight-month around-the-world tour on a freighter. Author Dashiell Hammett off for Dr. Herbert Kalmus briefly in^^^^^p^ Paris before homing. ^ P. Roaen, Royal Theatres,' dOn to play a part in the Anthony Al Hurwitz back to London at back for his annual directors meet- i Havelock AllCn film, “The Eagle the Royal Academy of Dramatic irig. Arts. ; i E. B. McGreal, wife and daugh- “The Parradine Case’ and “I ter (he’s of Warners photo divi- Was a Male War Bride" cashing in sion), at Royal for a months arid Hie Lamb.!’ Lois Maxwell, American actress, has just finished playing Queen Ghnstine of Sweden for Herald Pictures’ “Amori e Veleni" (“Love and Poison"), Andy Devine caught the limit on nearby Lake Mead. X 1 - ... X 11 , ' Jon and Sondra Steele and: ^ 1 ,^ at El Rancho Vegas. ' Gcne Marvey lu from Palladium, Fev’s lcg?ter ‘^Drteefivt tomorrow fl2f^havinl fDlnPa We^ ‘ . ^ J- “Steve" Conley, general' in follo^^ ’ Stevenson, of the films, at j mariager, of KYWt back from Mi- whieh Started m israe Flamingo where Danny Thomas is! ami where he convalesced follow-: wnicn started m Israel end tooK, g.njoying the most successful two i int, an An^^ra+inn ^ By Jerry Gaghan Woody Herman and his Wood- choppers are at the Click. A syndicate plans to convert the long dormant Lincoln Theatre into a ballroom. Elliot Lawrerice, once a polio ] victim, is heading the dance band division for the March of Dimes. Jules Dassin, film director, cariie in from Coast to whip “Alive and Kicking" into shape for Broadway. Norman Black, WFIL maestro, arid his band playing for “Ice Fol- lies of 1950’' at the Arena for foiir- thera through Italy and France, >a^t Af Ki« inrai an- Irving Berlin returned from ! ing an operation Fred Fielding, former press By Emil W. Maass , ^ . Julius Brandt, 76, welLknowri ac- tor, died., Oscar Karlweis, actor, en route? tO; New York. . George London, Ui S. baritone, back to Arrierica. Boris Morros discussirig plans; with Willi Forst for a Franz Lehar biofilm. Charlotte Friedrich, 22; Well- known danseuse, killed in auto ac- cidCrit. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and fam- ily, reserved rooms at Bad Gasteiri, health resort. ; ‘ Peter Lorre and Jeanette Macr Donald appearing here in U. S. entertainment Centers. By Florence. B. Lowe FGC Commissioner Frieda Hen- nock on the southern vacation list. Nathari Golden, Commerce De- partment motion picture chief, ail- ing.at Emergency hospital; Irving M. Lichtenstein upped to director of public relations arid sales promotion at rtation WWDG. Nab prexy Justin Miller will ad- dress public relations section of Retaii Dry GoodS; Assri. in New York this week. / Local Variety Tent installed new officers, headed by chief barker Wade Pearson and assistants Mor- ton Gerber and: Jerry, Adariis, last Monday (9). Judith Evelyn, star of “Streetcar Named Desire." current in Balti- more, trekked in to make a pitch, along with radio’s Sigmund Spaeth i for National Symphony’s fund raising drive. Gift Your ter preceded couple of Orion H. an broadcasting system. London Thursday ( 5 ) after looking | annointpd nub- i Philadelphia wch named i : Robert Stol^^direct^;New Years , over British production of ‘’Annie ,.5®" ^*'1® “®' ^ ®°''E®*'‘ i** of Ravag, Austri -1 Gun” Wife and dauffh-! director .for Las .Vegas in j Lam-Dorville ad agnecy. , u..__j_-_x x— i ied him back to U s "bv ! Ghamber of Conimercev , Dick Mayers, forfiier William davs > ’ -I Had been member of Steve Hanna-j Goldriian flack here, returned to , ^ituii H Hicks director Of ’^ Associates, staff which re-; do promotion work for National! Metro’h overseas ICm . activities,.| Yegas^ for Ififantile Paralysis. ^ lecturing tomorrow (ThUrs.) onF v/a hifrjjert ever ' ?*'* ^^^valier L. J^kson^ inter- ) film distribution at the Amos Tudk ‘ .^evv ^ : nationally known bronchoscope I School of Business Administration hote. with almost 12,()0(j visitors , gpecialist, named head of newly- .: Hanover’N. H. ’ j jamming available facilities at all [organized Philadelphia Givicj Gertrude Lawrence, due to firiish • ^ i ^t^hd Opera Co, By Eric Gorrick Metro’s "Neptune’s Daughter solid at St. James, Sydney. Nightclub biz is solid in Sydney i ” vvr Av'"';"” 'I', . . , i after smash New .Year trade. In “Glass Meniagerie’’ for Wartiers i name-act j Sydney Symphony Orchestra led in the next week or so, goes to^ ^ 9 ®^’hieh 1 ^ogene U. S. Florida thereafter for a vacation i 0 am Lodge, 97 ^milos up the high- gagement..v The Thix^e Peppe^^^ tour in late ’50. With her husband. legit producer:^ ...... t , . . _ : _ .. /Richard Aldrich. Claire Trevor and Miltori Bren due in from Ihe Coast next Tues- day (17) to. ready rel plans on ' / Borderline” in which the actress stars, arid which Bren produced. Uriivdi'Sars; distributirig: are hpdked for_ Jan. 5^ with Hea.; .‘^onie^G Gun" continues Wain slated to follow. ^ j to. ^o sock biz in New Zealand for Marian Anderson received award -J c Wiriiamspn for “furtheiirig. understanding/ ‘Mkro’s revival of “the Wizard By Hal Cohen Jackie Hellers sail next weekend for i4-day cruise on Nieiiw Am-. sterdam.. Rae dtterbeck. former Casino chorus girl, joined Sally Rands show in Florida, , . Tiny St. Glair making cafe dehut. '.downtown at Copa after 15 weeks IS . at Blue Ridge Inn. . Sammy’s Steak House getting downtown iocatiori, on site of old Merour’s Music .Bar; Monica Lewis and Doris Stock-; ton headlinirig new show at Wu- liam Penn’s Terrace Room. , • Gaye; Jordan signed by Brock Peiribertoh for new LeC: .Tr.acy “Mr. Bai^y’s Efehings/’/ ■ • Arturo V ercesi. Nixon Ga te . among all peoples through her : of 6 z” is riUUine smash biz at own vercesi., mxon. ’ 1 vlilce,’'. .at Christmas CbtilliDh in i .Uberty ^ ^ ’®®?'vaitm'.; W (e Pep- i Reybqids Auditprium, staged for; jop ilcCanvilIe, Cel’s interna- i 1“ ?ta>5’ m 38 years tins sumnn. .. By Maxwell Sweeney , Trwiri Shaw’s “The Gentle . . o-x .o w*' i - tr • - ——v- pie’- skedded for Gaiety this . benefit of Mercy-Douglass Hospi' - tional prexy, was entertairied oy Gael Sullivan, exec, director of/month./ ’ : the theatre Owners, of America,/ Harry Mbsepw back from ErigT guest-speaking .Tuesday. (17) at larid after tour in “The Ex-Mrs Y” By Les '.-Rees- tion. ! best new Irish .production of. 1949 ! / Herbie Fields band into St Paul Martin Jurow has beeri/ eph- by critics here: = 'Flame, firriied . as joining the William' Hilton Edwards .and Michael • Ritz/Bros. opened at Club Cat Morris AgenGy in New York as; MacLiamriioir iu bn vacation from i riival Jari. 9. head of the play department arid filming with Orson Welles in ! Club Garnival ha.s Ritz Brothers [ “the Baker’s Wife," as best pic of l:s.lot. eo-ordinatbr of all legit and east-: Morocco; they’re returning to and Tbny Martin underlined. 1 ’49. Pic only played selected spots .j Lou Walter erri motion picture talent aCtivi-/finish “Othello." j Hildegarde at Hotel Nicollet didn’t run up a smash b.o. i bring his Hav /ties Sam Dembow, Jr., eastern rep for several Hollywood producers, announced engagement of his daiighter, Joanne, to Mohrhardt, Jr. A Lehigh Uni- New Zealand pic execs on looksee.! Eriianuel Silverstorie. 20th-Fox! topper; wined and dined by Sydney !. ^ ^ pic execs. He’s here for an exten- ' : By Lary SolloWay sive looksee; :^: /\ /( Ritz Bi’QtherSi Martha Raye Rex. Dawe has beeh placed iit' Vic. .Damone follow Martin-Lewis charge of Gplgate-Palmblive radio !: into/Beachebmber on Jan. 18. //. productipris/following the death of /. New show Jan. 13 for/Copa V/iy t--. producer Russell Scott. ; | will have Garriien Miranda in t()p Aussie Critics chp.4e French film, spot, with JoeV Bishop in comedy plans', lb /ana (Bl an quit a She Maureen Cusack back to stage ! Story" underlined for February at ^ . I ful triple lineup Col’s “Jolson: Sings Again" Is re-' and Vagabonds.