Variety (September 1952)

S2 VArBKVnXH . BhilMfilphia, Sept. 23.. PhUad%lphia cafes beat the gong on the Walcott-Marclano fight with three of the fargest spots kicking off the ttew season over the week- end. The recently enlarged Latin Casino reopened after a hot weath- er closing; and the Little Rath- skeller, which reverted to its former New Omaha Aud. Omaha, Sept. 23. construction of new City Atidi- torium is going swiftly. It takes up nine blocks of downtown dis- trict. Bids are under way for old arena, which housed Golden Gloves boxers, rasslers. Shrine circus, wildlife shows and flower exhibits. New spot will ..vie with Ak-Sar- Ben for icfe shows, concerts, etc. JJ £, I f "> ■Vv* S. lARON LONG HARRY!. WALSH OwiHrt . r o t?:': Wi ROYAL GUARDS Currently *NEW GOLDEH RENO, NEVADA IbSO 6wau.NGwYorl(Ny owners last spring, mad* its debut under the new Yhanagemisnt.. Frank Sinatra is headliner at the Latin Casino, the town’s top name showcase, and club management reported heavy advance interest even before ads began to kit papers. Casino, incidentally, is, booked heavily with banquet and dinner party reservations for its first eight weeks. • The Kaliner Bros.,. Si and Joe, who ran £.ittle Rathskeller for 17 ■years before they retired from cafe biz in 1949, have resumed pretty much where they left off. Jackie Winston, initial headliner, Is a vet- eran of former Rathskeller days and the Victor Hugo orch, which played the spot for 12 years, is back on the bandstand. Kaliners have rounded up about 80% of their former service staff. Palumbo’s Cabaret - Restaurant, 750-seater in South Philadfelphia. resumed .officially la§t Thursday (1?) after a summer shutdown. Catering largely to dinner and ban- quet trade', Palumbo’s offer custo- mary two-hour show, headed by Comedian Guy Marks, dancer Joe DeMarco, comedy terpers Baro & Rogers, and singer Gaye ' Dixon with Howard Reynolds orch back for 11th season. S.R Hotelier. Wins RFC Nod On Nev. Casino Via 225G St, Louis, Sept.. 23. A cash offer of . $200,000 by Har- old Koplar, manager j)f the swank west end Chase Clufit for the de- funct ‘Tahoe-Bilfbore Hotel-gam- bling casino in Nevada fell short by $25,000 of the next best cash bid, and the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corp. last week sold the premises to Joseph Greenback, San Francisco hotel owner. All four • bids received, two of which were for term payments, were below the 75% ofTi $488,000 construction loan the RFC granted in 1946. When the casino went bankrupt in 1949, only $10,000 had been paid. A Sacramento, Cal., bank financed the construction with RFC support. Greenback’s offer to pay $75,000 now and the balance before 1954 was accepted by RFC. One of the original partners in the Nevada enterprise was the late Charles Bigannio, murdered Kan- sas City politician-gangster who promised to make the casino “the bigg^fst gambling Joint west pf the Rockies.’’ However, the spot con- tinually lost money. N.Y, Uavana-Madrid Now 500 Club and Sepian • Tke Havana-Madridv N. Y., which closed ei^rly this week for a bit ox refurbishing, y^ill reopen tomor- row <Thurs.) as the 500 Club with a Negro revue policy. Dancer Bill Bailey will hea^ine the first show. Spot has attempted to revive the old Club 18 policy during the past show, but gate failed to Uft appre- ciably. Salt Lake Fair Gate Up, Sex, Gambling Downed; Allentown Off—No Bingo Salt Lake City, Sept. 23. Utah State Fair wound up its 10-day run here on Sunday (21 ^ with record paid attendance -of over 200,000. Boxoffige was hypoed by “Holiday on Ice.” a , consistent grosser at the Fair (see separate story), and the addition of such grandstand attractions as auto racing, wrestling and Joie Chit- wood’s Auto Daredevils. For the first time the midway was taken away from local op- erators and turped over to Sie- ,brand Circus & Carnival Shows, which may have been the reason for police stepping In to close a girl show. After complaints of “Indecency” had been received, J. A. Theobald, fair manager,' put up the shutters. Allentown 29,000 Off Allentown, Pa., Sept. 23. A ban on skllo and bingo report- edly accounted for part of the drop in attendance at the Allentown Fair here last week. Paid admis- sions for the five days declined tnmi-144,800 in 1951 to 115,3407-a*} decrease of 29,540. The best at- tendance was Saturday (20) with 34,850, compared to 39,240 on cor- responding day of previous year. The take that day was $20,900, a drop of about $3,000 from a year ago. Skilo and other forms of gam- bling at fair stands was taboo this year. This suited police who handled fewer complaints, but women who like skilo and 'bingo did not take too well to the pro hibition. George A. Hafnid’s “Grandstand Follies of 1952” did good business, witp an overflow crowd Saturday night. Evelyn Knight will open Oct. 27 for a fortnight in Century Room of Hotel'Adolphus, Dallas. ‘HOLIDAY ON ICE’ BIG 105G AT UTAH FAIR Salt Lake City, Sept. 23. “Holiday on Ice” topped all its previous hefty gates here in a 10- day stand at the Coliseum during the run of the Utah State Fair, pulling a sock $105,000. Fifteen performances, Including five mati- nees, one of which was an extra tossed in because of the heavy sale, were scaled to $3.60. leer left here for Council Bluffs, la., and then heads for Ft. Wayne, Ind. Wedneadayy S<?ptembeip 24 , 1952 Palladium SlU Revue To Follow Hutton Dale Loiuion, Sept. 23, The .engagement of. Betty Huttoh. at the Palladium for three weeks beginning next Monday (29) marks the end of the current vaudeville season.' Her ; date winds on Got. 18, and three days later Val Parnell launches his fall revue Which will continue until the Christmas pantomime. The revue, like the vaude, will be on a twice nightly basis. The fall production is titled, “Wonderful Time.” It will star Max Bygraves, Joy Nichols, George & Bert Bernard and the Billy Cot- ton .band. For his annual panto, Parnell ■ has chosen “Dick Whit- tington,” and will star Frankie Howerd, Richard Hearn and Son- nie Hale. Ex-Sadler’s Ballerina Terps Straight to Rate Kudos at Canuck Carnie Alymer, Que.-, Sept. 23. A ballerina who danced at Lon- don’s Covent Garden last year with the Sadler’s Wells Ballet ap- peared in a girl show called “Pari- sian Revue,” seen on the midway at the Aylmer Fall Fair here. She didn’t do a cooch, though, but a straight dance. The style was broadened a little for the carnie crowd and sweeps were some- what foreshortened because of the bandbox stage. She got more ap- plause than the show’s bump-’n’- grinder, and the Ottawa Journal's iheatre and ballet-eritic,--Richard. B. Coates, trekked the 15 miles across the river into another prov-j ince to cover her performance. So did the Quebec Chronicle when she played there recently. The terper is Nadja Tores Krko- vic, 24, once a featured dancer with the Yugoslav National Ballet in her homeland, and in 1950 she appeared by invitation at the Salz- burg Festival. Her Sadler’s Wells stint was during the Festival of Britain, after she’d ^gone to Eng- land to have her eyes treated by a specialist. Her husband was a member of the Yugoslav water polo team which toured and never went back. He’s now studying architec- ture in Toronto, where Nadja taught ballet this year till the sea- son ended. She saw a carnival ad, applied because the money was good,, and took it when they agreed she could stick to her style. She’s been out since the beginning of May. When the carnie season ends she hopes to audition for either Ballet Theatre or the New York City Ballet. The. management can afford to pay good money. The show—only live one on the midway—-is Tn a standup tent, with a velvet back- drop, two cotton side curtains and (Continued on page 54) Knorr & Hale New Roxy froduction Team; Had Woxkcd Cap 2D Yts. Ago Chester Hale has been signed to direct the dances for two bills at the Roxy,,5'heatre, N.Y, First show goes on today (Wed.). Hale will .work under Arthur Knorr, recently appointed production, head at the house. Under present plans, there’s a likelihood of guest choreog. raphers following Hale’s two stints. He’ll design both the ice- and stage terps. Hale’s Roxy stint marks the re- union of Knorr and Hale after about 20 years. Both were asso- ciated at the Capitol Theatre, N.Y., under the late S. L. (Roxy) Roth- afel. Hale for the past several years has choreographed “Ice Ca- pades.” In another Roxy change effective today, Bob Bouche, former as* sistant conductor of . the Roxy orch, steps up as maestro, succeeding Paul Ash who leaves that ppst after many years. THE CHORDS inttrumantaliMfs without fnsfrvtnenfs S«pt. 22-24; Club Daltv, LouItvilU, Ky. S«pf. 25-27: Club DoUt, PhtaburRh, Pa. ~MTi£W¥if~ ^hilri>atef-<i«d Falnl HARRY GREBEN 203 N* Wabatli Avt., Chicane, 111. G.A,C* □ WHEN IN BOSTON It's the HOTEL AVERY Avery A Woihlnqton Stf. Horn* of Show Folk $50 to $150 Weekly. Salary WOMEN OVER 21 FREE TO travel U. S. Transportation paid. No exporlonce nacessarjr. Wo train you to model hair stylos. Salary while training. Write giving ago, holght, weight, color halP.Rnd education, to Mr. Coty— LOCKS LABORATORY 200 E. 3rd St., Mt. Vernon, N. 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