Variety (March 1951)

>f IMKIJ..VXY Salmaggi in Fight on Sacrilegious’ Met Cav’ & Pag’; Appeals to Cardinal Opera traditionalists are still • fuming al the modern streamlined version of "Tafliaret ’ and "Caval- leria Rustirana ' % which the Met i>pera put on thia *ewon and are atill tr>mg to do something about It. Ijt aiding the Old Gawd attack |s Alfredo Salmaggi vet Brook n oi>rra Impresario, mho ha% been ton!acting newspaper*. k 1st or tea I Mietiet. Italian ihlr leader* and even Cardinal Spellman In pr*r«t ol m hat he rail* the sacrilegious Impertinent stage direction In the nem Mel \er%loo of the w.k. op- ei tie double bill nunring streamlining b> a direct ora In search of arty eli* ».*.’• Salmaggi claim* the rtiongea In “Cav" and "Pag" stag Ing. especially In “Cav." "lean m the direction of religion* dure aped.** Writing to Cardinal Spell man. Salmaggi said: Hosing taken the % Igneous aland regarding public the theatre that Par Paying $135,000 For ‘Country Girt* Pic Pat amount la laying out 1115 000 for the screen-rights to Clilford Odets’ hit play, “Country Girl.” turrently at the Lyceum theatre. S' V, and starring Lta Hagen and Paul Kelly Film irrdM mill be mithhcld until after completion of the io*d*hom engagements of the pUy, $50*Per-PUte Jolson Memorial Benefits NCCJ; Sparked ky Fddie Cantor Miami Beach Man h i An Al Jolaoo Memorial dedicated to mter-rmcial amity mas held Sun- das night i3> at the Lord Tarldon Wexlnemlnv. Morels 7, 1M1 L Theatrical Cocktail Party (Villi Apologies lo T. S. Lliat) By 1IAL BUM* Have >ou ever to a theatrical cocktail party In New York? It's Jhe Battle of the Bulge with canap es If you go to the party to new people, when you gd then WILL MAHONEY THE INIMITABLE ruiirnily U n»4« c •••*•* U >11|«.»iikee. %% m. Mesrstu f f by AtBOCIATtO BOOKING COBP. — SSIifSS £*s«S££ Par Deters to Col «hurch lowing upon that of the ilm. The Al trade. * perpetrated at the Met- io pot it an I urge Your Eminence to take cognisance of thla and raise your voire In disa p p r oval " The Cardinal. according to Sal ntaggl. acknom • edged the Idler, atatmg "I muh to say that others mho haie seen the operas have •Continued on page Ol ho-> pi re pei« in drr auspice* of the frrenre of Christla -elect group of IN* dinner at $30 a plate ellmased the event Proceeds went to NCCJ Fddle Cantor, as emcee, intro- therv you alma>s see the tame people youvq trying to gd away from, mho are also there to used new prepie. And the thing thot’s doubly embarrassing Is the fad that at the last pmrty \ou went to. you all vowed that you mould drop dead before >on went to another norty again. Any real New York rorktail parly must be given In an apartment on one of the highest Boors of a smart hotel In fad. by the end of (ho evening the only thing higher than the apartment la the guests In any manual an haste training for a rorktail party they will tell you that the drst thing you do when you come in the door Is to reran- nmter You’ve got to figure what groups you're gonna horn Into and mhat groups you ran rdreat back to in case you are repulsed A well covered retreat M basic strategy in cocktail party society. Now, the reason you mu«t have friendly bases to fall bark on h w that you will not fall into any of I he four categories of rorktail party failure* For Instance there are the loaf Souls , these are people mho maik aimlessly to and fro among (he groups hoping to find someone . —anyone—to talk to Then there are the (ringer*—these are people mho pause on the fringe of groups, listen lo the conversation and throw in an opinion of their own from the bock held hoping to be mis- taken as one of the group Then, of course, there are the teeners— people mho leaa against the mall, glass In hand, with one foot beared behind them, ready to leap into any vacancy that occurs. Lastly and morally, there are the untouchables These are people who have given up any chance of meeting anybody and as a sign of defeat-hove sol down alone' Members of all other categories may somehow redeem themselves, hut an untouchable la forever doomed to lonely bars and parlies' Of course, there la another may lo mod people at a rorktail party, can plant yourself irmly nest to the bartender Thla la the com Ards may out. Horn ever. In the event that you don't have murk you might he excused for taking this short rut. If you do one caution doo t touch the punch'! (Punch la an unidrntifUblo hub always starts out tho evening being too weak and then lo effect as «££ On Blonde’ Rights h 10 A midnight j Y — __ In $165,000 Buy ns J liquid m up Its * Piked to much that by the end of Ike evening. R has the in tK# uranium & aoda't nl«t Loull Sokol. Kay Armen Phil Foster and others mho con- tributed talks oo the late shorn- man. Boniface Walter Jacobs con- tributed all facilities. Cantor pro- d that thla b ecome an annual Fears Another Fix F*riinKcnstdD .no*u*i*««c«»»•«»» j«i- »!*.••<> ••v*’ 1 •• ,h, .v,' , *T k 1 ,A * v.n Corner to the tun M » Moll •« "*•*•« the rn.l .lud«. . tod re- -a-— y. iwu suits from Par v ownersh i p of the In Germany Today £ a* tho of caution duced Jimmy Durante. Joe E l*rwte. Danny Thom.. M.| Albert Par.mm.nl n.rwr nmnMvCMI ***** Bro^,*' -gentle- H >— hav* I. dnnk the puark <rn4 this M oftea men Pre(. r Blond*. * Column.. H UMmlly run. out m halt M hour) Me An.l m . mull art. the proper!) Iu ... Be w. tu uipe the loo.prl.1. .11 your lore before bid price of 1115 0 0R -'$97,500,000 Asked of Fame of show Mi great* Thomas .poke mi htt early life In Toledo mg it in mltk Jolson s inter- ini tnmepts. Berlin tdiimr. VvaifTY: At the present lime, the German Am industry is on the verge of nunplde collapse If sufficient aid does not come soon, we shall be guilty of neglediog one of the most important voices of free speech in Germany If the West LOEWS DEFENDS SELF IN FIRING LESTER COLE In Coff»t 'Sailor, Hfwire’ Phoenix March f Afickcy Rooney mill me legit debut at the Sombrero house here nest Tuesday *13» revival of "Sailor. Bern are * K >on Ntchol-on hit of 1133 is due •mn k run here, but if rship screen rights lo the original non- musical veruon of the Anita l^nos plav. It pr«»ducctl a screen vei**on in 1121 ■■ In a deal with Herman !*evin and ^ _ Oliver Smith produr-ers of the cur- (| rent legit musical Par threw in tin ri( , rights in let urn for III 3% of the ( v rh c harttow oho will co-ora- 1 frmu «1* of Eta. pnv»- ^.Hll Ann^!** ..II dtrrrlTC ges or IZSfifiO. ehbhsrir was rAt | ohick includes Dun "Red" HMpg. Since the net on 9IA3O00 Claude Stroud and Tommy Farrell. iH To Step Up Aid To £ “Voice of America' proceeds Washington. March t IdOrm'a. Inc, told the Supreme After com mi** ions mill hr 11415(10 _ Court yesterday *3* that it mas per- the If 2.) r « mill equal Just about German ilm Industry la allowed lo frrtly justified in Bring Lester Cole 933000 d e. the consequences mill be vivid and (here is no reason for the High Got made top hid for "Gentlemen" and deadly Court to hear an appeal from the | R competition with 2uth-Fox. During Hiller's time a Bute- 1 * Circuit Court ruling which offered SI30 000 Roth D . . L s.t* •v nedMarganlaotlon. UFA became adverse to the a rreenm rtter. Agreed to a Julv. 1P53. release dvte Rehfar$al for lit Tim€ »nd d.MoniMt .hkh to tho <“'* .u.p»»d«d b, booo . »f- J«d» HoMtd.r lo lb, produr1H« | || P|f| SvtTipn HlStOrV 4 i. th of thousands of Innocent (rr he mas charged with contempt She's currently bringing in topi 1 * JopJe Wt are ^ullt" of paving « « .mgrem to 1B47. sued for the mlth C ol s version of "Born the mav for another I'FA if me do mooey called for In his contract. Yesterday Washington Morrh i Paid Admission to Lanza to it that tho struggling. Trial court awarded him $73 MtO ious and tuled that Loews must con I tinue to pay him until the end of his contract, and moat withdraw its wuhpension. However, the U S Circuit Court of Appeals over- turned thla verdict Nov 23 last, re- manding tho rase for new trial. Cole imprisoned for refusing to nean Acilv- of 197 MJO MB to struct mn of bcoodcaattng facilities for "Tho Voice of America* mas 1 requested of Congrem > osterday 3* by President Truman In a message tn Speaker Sam Ra> burn of tho House the Presi- dent said the funds ore needed to complete installations "designed to a««ure adequate radio coverage by this nation in rritlral areas of the world and to make our cam- paign of truth more effective in German studios are supported to aiN-h an extent that they are given a thence tn prove their ability to partake In a free competitive In- dustry. If the Allies withdraw from Ger- many «it bout having established a free dust expected to take place II The Bonn Federal Govern- ment can step in and support a Stale-owned organisation •such a* the former UFA*, or 2» The very powerful, rich. Communist - owned outfit DF.FA mill dominate in Ger- my. Pittsburgh March I. Clamor for tickets here to the Maim Lsiua concert with the Pitts- burgh S' mphony Orchestra tonight countries behind the Iron curtain •<« at Syria Moaqur. mhuh mas money mould be c«»mplelr!> <*wt less than im President, to provide the hours after the tickets went on |, M | imkt In a nng of radio Iran*- Commies Make it Touth For McCarthy to Shoot 4 ib it • r sale, led man-itii s.tnt of Ihe o* al milters and eouipment for which Rommel m France *vmph to an unprecedented action, the Congress has com net it ivr German ft lr»» in- ,rl1 ,hr Moum> ^n-Amenc rompetHivt G erman hi m m committee whether 1'?** Cher hrto a Communist already provided It sold se^ts to the Btm tcnoi * substantial sums, and on which a warmup rehearsal yesterday after- CrT al deal of • 3*. Paris. March • The ditfUlulfies that American he had producer* encounter in producing It asking hr re and how to defeat them, is the Supreme Court to hear an ap- evidenced be what happmed this peal week to Frank McCarthy in Aiming In its brief. Loew's declared some sequenc«« for 20ih*Fox pcc- “the conduct of the petitioner lure. 'The Ik-nt Fu» " This is g . . «(oie in rann action with said hear- the *i«»iy of the Nad General —***" *.. * . ~ quiies that tho program bo cmP F-dward Sprclor symplionv man- tw. president said that it mat «cr. «ut l,«. un the p.««, to ln ,,„^ (ba , (1M | okay the move and it was also agreed koff. stages ... n L , 1 _. - he completed in the a v| lo b> \ Ud.ntir H^k.lr.nt- )t(r> ^ (r.,11, ol IM Im -ill r.MMlurt (ur Ijnta. , a , rrU | lua ,| «MlW* • ing created a widespread belief— Rommel (a* that he mas a Communist and Prrviouslv. McCarthy h.cd ar- hrld in contempt the Congress «nd ranged an okay from the Centre the fundamental Institutions of the National du Cinema *an approval To say the lend, the first alter- country; *nd ‘bi that the respon- on the script, loo* native is preferable to the latter dent and the Industrv employed labor Ministry He Rut why should me sit back and and hai bored Communist* and ranged for the French Air Force to permit the establishment of such a were sympathetic and indulgent help in some toward Comm """ h.ppe«*«l bel«.« la th* hto- plrlnt , murh tarlirr Bat* too of thr I'ltuburith S.mpbony. , haB , u p |, nMd - Seats were sold on a first come _ . .. __ a-. k a. u. Lrging early action on his re- •an approval fj? $ lnZmuO!!r ** Qi»cst. the President asserted (ho and from the 1**7. of .* " t i,r ' l «* n projects are essential “to achieve , K .a allil tl for the first and second ha I- Z roa.*, R*h*ww.l drr, nr.rtr •»'-r»ot««l M.bUMy .od pr*.ra» Wb*^ W-w aeyC, P "' r "‘ •Continued on page €3* Smburriptlvm Order Form Enclosed And check for $ Plea** send VARIETY for s a v In a« r Street ity Stoto Roqutor Swbicnptioa ffofos One Yoor—$10 Cn end Fnroiqn—$1 Add tioaol per Y Inc. -r IM Weit 4 fifk $?roet f New York )f. N Y First condition was that, brsidrs his crew, he should hire a crew of 12 French technicians This was done. Although the men said they mere milling to do the Rommel picture, two of them mere Com- mies. and they got the Red union 2 One paid admissions, more than half the capacity of the auditorium Sock 11.741. Riel Mario l~*rua did SKO hu in his rrcilal al the Mosque. Richmond Friday night (2*. tenor grossing a , CBS and Ken Murray started „ anek figure of SB 240. Ilu lake mas gotialtons this meek on a oew to «*B to Hr-ult »•* usoo ronlit for lb* rom*d.,n «h»b KEN MURRAY’S 10-TEAR CBS PACT; 7!G W’KLY (Continued on page 20) •Slim Him Nim Fim* Kansas City. March fi. A muc h public tied headline of VsaiKTv'a -Stis Nis Ills PU"I came m very handy in a switched veision devised by Bill Yaughua. the Kansas City Star's * Starbeams ' columnist. la his ccDlumn of March 1 Vaughan funrnentrd IhosJy on the current sports scandal "Colleges in small midwest- era towns seem immune from the basketball bribery which p agues Ihe big city schools Ur. ,‘s Vvrrrt mould headline U Sox lbs Nix Fi± m , ■ .. contract for the Singer, doing a short tour be- mould net him personally I* 5(J0 tween films under itiauagemrni of per meek. Murray’s present port the Judxou. O’Neill & Judd tfivi- expires next year and tho new uno of Columbia Ariuls Mgt . also mould extend it on an escluaivo a sellout at his previous eon- basis for another 10 years Onro at the Lyric. Baltimore last the CBS deal la finalised, he’ll hud- Tuesday *27». Capacity grows there die with the D’Arcy agency for an mas 9fi 330. with Lanza's lake equal extension on his poet mKh 'fUll j Budwriser Beer, his sponsor, Murray and the web are cur- Kon/n Dim in Vi re rrnmily mulling the poaaibiliiy »f n/.O HIPS in r ire stretching hit show next season tn Hollywood. March fi. a full hour-and-a-half production Bon/o. Ave-year-old chimpanzee each meek. If that goes through •t^r of Cl’s 'Bedtime for Bnnzo." he plans to add a serialized situa- Miffocated Sunday morning *41 in Hon remedy series to the present fire at ttorld Jungle Compcund. variety format, in which he ll re- TIwhi -and Oaks. tain such features as the short dra- llooliran Hondo's stand in. and malic sketch, the “Girl of the time* other rhinprarrs aim kitted. Brak." eke. . f # fi o