Variety (April 1950)

S2 V^iHIEVlLLB April 5,, 1950 Steel Pier Again Will Public resistance to the\ Federal. > 20% amusement tax Was blained in the announced closing of the Ter- race. Room Of the Hotel New , Yorker, N.: Y., to the floorshow; type of entertainment .Frank L. ‘^rscht* for Pissoyer Ghica^d, April 4. Atlantic City> A pHl 4. Steel Pier again will try legit : this summer, The. Surf Playhouse, ' which will Occupy the same theatre - as vyras used last year, will open I about the middle of June under I the direction of Gail Hillson. Plan is to bring names In ■i "T.. • • ^ •‘Borscht Capi4es/- : SS: Mc^sSh **’“ “ Motel Assn declared that the tax ; Yiddish playgoers, who make up was too ^hiuch of a handicap to the majority of the attendees, due SioinSumte, : , to Passover holidays Saturday and As a resulti the Terrace Room Sunday, will change its format to ah alb ; Hal; Zeiger, producer,, got tire girl band under direction Of Ving | okay from the stagehand and rnu-^ Merlin startihg April 13, day after [ sician unions, but Shuberts irisisb Tony Pastor band and Cpnnie t eu pn playing the days. While Haines Close current run. With there w>^as practically no business that type of band entertainment at all Saturday night, Sunday eve- forniat comes under the heading of ; ning was surprisingly good. ‘incidental entertainnient-’ and no tax is required. With the change ! of policy, room's emphasis will be • on dining. It will open for lunch, ' reopen at 6:30 p ni. for the dinner - trade, and close at 10 P^wi* j Terrace; Room had been operat- ing as an entertainment spot for ; about 20 years, during Which time i Mnnfrttnl Anril talent budget averaged $5;000j - , Montreal, p . weekly, according to •inn’s spokesr | -Boxy theatre, last vauder man Chicago, April . 4. ton Holt* and jPierre Angelo set for the Hicollet Hotel, Mpls., April 20 . , . ProfcMor Backwards opens tonight (4) at the Shamrock Hotel, Houston . , . iisuH. I heon Miller* Pj^ncess CMo ^ded c inoiiiH !to Bonnie Baker Reyu# for R®y^J s, inclua--' a ishnvuv. which, opens at I New Orleans, April 4. , ! Carlo Quartararo, Owner of the ' Latin Quarter, and Lucille Caro- :. line Cotta, 23-year-old ; brunet • party, girl at the: club, were in*^ i dieted Saturday (1) for the f’Mickey [ Finn" murder of Robert Dunn. 1 The indictments were returned by i the Orleans Parish grand jury sf- I ter ah albniglit session before ’ Judge George Platt of criminal i district court. Platt ordered Quai*- . ! tararo and the worhan to be held V., .... . - , , . ^ j ! without bail. Indictment rpr . mahy years, a hanie . Montr^^ lost its license today tor j death was caused by band and ice show policy was in : running midnight shows- oil Sun- jjj;.0pg given hini in tlie w:. ...............I , iG cimilar American Shows, whjchvopens the Cotton Carnival, .Memphis* May 8; also Claude Sechrist and Isaibella, and^ii-16 girl line . Giis Vail pacted for the Sm?ator theatre. Pitt, .^riL2X. , Trocadet’o* BWansville, Ihd*;,, is expanding budget >; featunng name acts and ban^. nearby nitery, ^so^^rmgipg ^ top acts : . . Dick Drake in^ SSJ theatre, St. Louis, May 6 • Waitohs and Biith^Day, the Club Hollywood, Apnl Jl • Isbell’s dropping acts and centrate on bands > . . Silver Ft Pl- ies brings in the Selma M«>fJ®w® chorus^ April 8, along ^th Dick Hyde as production vocaUsL . .. . Jimmy Amei clowns ' at Eddy s, K. C., April 8 , . . Turm Inn, Sioux City,' has inked Neal JStrade^^^^^^ April 7 and Billy Grant the.follow- ing week.i . David. Street & Mary Beih Hughes headline at the Ra- cine theatre, Racine, WiSc., April 7. effect. Rlhk displays were dropped - day. Cancellation ^is similar to last year, ■ j action taken against Gayety thea- " *1 •• ; • .ftre'.here last.irtonth.^:-;, Roxy owner, Paul Cardinaii . has eight days th appeal to the 5 city on the cahcellation notice. Closing eliminateb all vaude offer- BIGGER AUSSIE Sydney, March 28. David N. Martin, head of the Tivoli loop, presents the Joan Davis reVUe, “Here From There,” at the Tivoli, March 31.; it’s the bigr gest live show yet handled by Mar- tin and Will play nightly, with two weekly matipees. Lineup includes Max & Barry nitery last New Year’s eve In the meantime, a’ :Committ^ j appointed by city officials to in- vestigate conditions in the Vieux Carre district at its . first ;ineetmg^ Saturday (I) urged mandatory jail’ . . , sentences for B-girls uhd taxi iiigs here excepting occasiohal one- j Olivers who solicit)for prostitution, night attr.actions. i The coriimitfee heard Thomas C. —— ... I Schheideau, member of the Louisi- ana ABC' Board, who promised that his investigators would con- fiscate lewd displays in front of Bourbon St. honky tbhks. . Advance Sale In American Guild of Variety Ar- tists is clamping down oh blanket contracts now in effect in some . booking offices. Union last week forced revision of such methods on performer contracts; in the A1 Ac Belle Dow Agency, N. Y;, aiid the Irving ‘Grossman agency ; Dei Moines.;' Henry Dunn, union's administra- tive secretary* has informed the poW office that henceforth no blanket contracts coyering several theatres ate to be issued. All talent pacts must be issued indlviduaH>\ Thus in fhe Schine route of seven houses covering about 18 days, seven contracts must be given; per- formers and each house is to pay off. Under the former method, acts got paid at stipulated theatres. Union has also ordered the con- tracts to stipulate performers as employees Instead of indepeiideht contractors. In the GCossMan office,’ guild ordered the booker who sets talent for Intematiohal Harvester Shows playing rural areas in connection witii Exhibits of farm machinerJ^ to pay acts salaries weekly. It was Grossman’s custoin to pay the per- formers $75 weekly and hold the remainder until: the end of the tour. Arena Managers Assn, last week added foul new members to the Nesbitt, Robert Lamouret & Du-j organization. Board approyed the! dule, Gus Brox & Myrna, Nancy . Sports Arenn, Toledo; William Neal 1 Brown, Eugene's Flying Ballet, - Reynolds Coliseum of the Univ. of' Shirley, Sharon & Wanda, Alice Broeninann, George Nicholls, Or- monde DougleS, Helen Bobinina and Marcus & Famili^. Show is produced by Miss Davis. North . Garoliha, Raleigh; Arena, San Bernardino, Calif., and the Windsor Arena, Windsor, Gan. Dallas, April 4^ The State Fair of Texa s will suf- . ^ fer; its secopd loss of a key official. New admissions bring up AMA s { cj^arles R. Meeker, Jr., manager COMEPIENNI PERSONAL APPEARANCES WM; H. KING 202S N. Argylt Av«. Httilywoed 28. Calif. total menibership, to 25 througheut the country. arenas Continued from pafe 9 are willing to pay fabulous fees for sporadic TV engagements on spe- CM Thanksgiving, Xmas and i . ^ and will remain on duty through of the Casino musical shows and the State Fair Auditoiium \Vill leave on Npy. 1 to become direc- tor of the Toledo; Civic Light Opera Co. W. H. Hitzelberger, v.p. and gen- eral mahagCir of the State Fair, also announced his resignation re- cently. Meeker will manage the comr Milwaukee, April 4. Plethora of names will be fea- tured at the new Milwaukee Arena in the week starting Sunday (9\ Dicks Haymes, Frances Langford, Ethel Smith and Dennis Morgan, a native son, will show. Arena has a 11,000' capacity and some 52,000 seats already have been sold for the week-long festival. . Committee is receiving fine cooperation from local brewers. Pabst Beer is bringing in its“Life of Riley" radio show as is MiUer High Life Beer with Lawrence Welk’s band. Producer Cy Howard, another local boy, is slated to present his CBS show, “Life With LuigL” Miss Smith, incidentally, I is the only performer booked for the entire week. Others are only one-nigbt appearances'. AGVA, Music Hall To Confab on Union Pact American Guild of Variety Art- ists is slated to start talks with the Radio City Music Hall, N. Y., today (Wed.) on a union agree- ment for that house. Music Hall is the sole N. Y. variety house that does not have an AGVA contract. Music Hall is AGyA's latest tar- get in its unionization drive. Easter programs, then certainly the theory of “continuity of per- formance” is mythical, since there is nothing continupus by these an- nual Pr semi-annual gala shows. ; Cantor doesn’t think any come- dian can do justice to TV on a;; weekly basis and, for that reason,; ITStarr’s 2G 1-Niter nixed Pabst’s bid last year. NBC’s i * ^ a rT Niles Trammell agrees with the cor: Hpiiywoodj Apni 4, median and will follow that pat- the next State‘Fair. He was for merly with the Interstate Theatres circuit as theatre manager and publicity man. tern. ‘‘Producers never die; it’s the actor who gets killed off by wear- ing out his welcome,” says Cantor. WHITlY ROBERtS ALWAYS working P layed the PALACE, Cleveland, i PALACE, Ail»ahy, N. V. PALACE, Rockford, III. PALACE, Mancha$ter, N. H: PALACE HOTEL, S. F. PALACE HOTEL, Denver, Col. PALACE, NeW Britain, Conn. But Not the PALACE, N. Y. Kay Starr, spngstress, played a one-niter at Balboa Beach ball- room Saturday (1) giving spot year’s best biz, and exiting with 1 $ 1,917 as her share. In at $1,250 And for that reason I feel that it 3,967 . is smart not to kill off your value i admissions. I by appearing too often in so eye- ! Ballroom paid Dick Pierce band absorbing a medium as teleyisipii. a flat $400 to back the chirp. i What’s, worse, if you appear often ' — — i and don’t click that’s gotta be pro- I fessional . suicide. So. if a star is I of any value to his sponsor, isn’t ; it smarter to preserye it for,as long I as possible? I certainly feel that way, and now the sponsors and the networks are coming around to see j weekly; it my way also." ; j Cantor is breaking , his jump I t back to BeyeTly Hills with These [ 1 cpllege edncerts and charity dates. ! Hte returns to the Coast April 20 | and will continue tape-recordihg the“$64 question” program until his contract expires, having re-1 fused to' renew v/ith the Blow! agency.. s Burns Cincy Promoter Cincinnati, ApriV 4. Cincy’s Variety Club Tent has Jack Benny show booked for May 28, and now is negotiatirig for ;the. 12,000-seat Cincinnati Garden in' which to spot it. To close the deal Chief Barker Vance Schwartz and his committee ihust soothe Edward Schott, Garden /manager, who is bumed because he claims he was the first io dicker for the Benny radio troupe’s appearance here. Also that, he was figuring on the Music Corp; of America asking $10,000 guarantee against 60% of the gate. [ If Schott refuses to rent the! Garden, the Benny Show may be ^ staged by the Variety Clulr in the Xavier University’s 5,000-seat field-1 house, Schwartz said. j COMEDY MATERIAL For all brahehat of fhaatricala FUN-MASTER «'Th« ORIGINAL Show-BIx Gag Rla" • NOS. 1 thru 35 « $1.00 aa. • (Ordar in Saquanca Only) SRECIAL: First 13 Bias for $1B All 35 Bias for $30 • 3 Bks. PARODIES, par book. $10 • • MINSTREL BUDGET .. ..;. $25 • • HUMOR-DOR FOR EMCIES $25 • • 4 BLACKOUT BKS., aa. bk. $25 • —^>r all 4 diff. Vols. for $$$— • ,''HOW TO MASTER THE CERE- MONIES" (ra-Jssua) -^$2.00 par copy — NO C.O.D/a FAU LA SMITH 200 W. 54fh Sta Dtpf. V NEW YORK If PATRICE JAN HELENE anil HOWARD Currantly. CLUB DATES and TELEVISION L^venson’s Hub Date Sam Levenson will play , his first Boston cafe date at the Latin Quar- ter starting May 14. 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In April and May, the weather is too nice for indoor recreation; In June, people start thinking pf vaca^ tions.- July and August; the Gustomers are at the mountains or the shore, and besides it’s too hot for nightclubbing. In September, the customers aren’t back yet. Christmas shopping explains the Decem- ber decline, There’S still no Latin Quarter, ( Vic Damone slated for the Click club, Philadelphia, starting April 10 . Edith Fellowes and Tommy Dix will make their N; Y. cafe bow as a team at the July 2. Tommy Henrichs, first-sacker of j the N, y. Yanks, signed by agent} Jack Davies. ; Latter will rep him i for personal appearances and bh' endorsement tieups., l^ildred Jocelyn and Larry Douglas, both singing ; singles, 1 have paited into a new act, Myron Cohen, who recently re- turned from Florida, is slated to! open at the Vine Gardens, Chi- ■ cago, April 21; Agent Leon Newman leaving this week for a talent hunt that will take him to Hollywood and San Francisco. . THE NATION'S LEADING CONTROL ARTIST HURLEY WEEK APRIl 16 ORPHEUM THEATRE OAKLAND P«r. Mgt.: BERT COLLINS , ACTS. GAGS* SCRIPTS. faRodies, special songs 1950 CATALOG FREE target S*lcctlon of Comody Matorjal In Showbizl ' Wo alio writ# matariai to '-ordar. J. & H. KLEINMAN 514«-K Sirohm, North Hollywood,, Cal, Tolaphon#: Hillxjd# $141 alibi if or.,Oct.-Noy>, tf.l i t r I* J ir i f) n-i SATIRICAL dance IMPRESSIQNISTS ! Currency CHASE HOTEL. St. Louis, Mo. Dir.: William'MORRIS AGENCY •l.-lv'