Variety (January 1959)

pjanEFf Wednesday, January 14, 1959 VARIETY BILLS WEEK OF JANUARY 14 NEW YORK CITY MUSIC HALL 15 Corps tic wallet ltoiketles It I’Jiijy Ore. ROXY Lonnie Sattin Sherry O’Neill De Mattiazzis Troupers llalladeers ltoht. Boucher Ore .AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE Tivoli Sabrina S & M Harrison Andrea Dancers Horrie Dargie 5 Bilty Baxter Le Mourner . Histin Juniors Nicoli Bros. Edit Juhasz Martin Clarke SYDNEY Tivoli Winifred AtweU Morecambe & Wise Gaston Palmer 2 Earls Ross & Howitt J & D Bees 3 Sylverkings Brian Baker Lorraine Bransgrove Beverly Urquhart Cabaret Bills NEW YORK CITY Deedy Sc BUI Gayle Walton Make Believes Golden Nugget Harry Ranch Lee & Faye May* nard Art (Cow Eyes) Engler Sons of Gold’n Wst Riviera Mickey Rooney Joey Forman Sportsmen Ray Sinatra Ore L. Hampton Ore Sahara Fernando Lamas Andrews Sisters Louis Basil Ore Sands Sammy Davis Jr. Auiie & Margo Ella Fitzgerald Steve Rossi Texas Copa Girls Antonio Morelli Ore I Shownoat * ■ Tex Ritter : Sons of Pioneers • Hank Morton Johnny Cash Merle Travis Silver slipper Hank Henry Beverly Hills June Wirth Alan Clive Sparky Kaye Red Marshall Danny Jacobs Annie Maloney Geo. Redman Oro Stardust . Lido De 'Paris "Ces’t Magnifique" Billy Daniels Happy Jesters Wingy Manone Thunaerbird “Cam’v'l de Paree” Robert Lamouret Vicld Benet Le Trio Martelli Tosca De Lac Charlie Ventura Ore Jackie & Roy Tropica na Roberta Sherwood Shecky Greene Nat Br’ndwy'ne Ore Stan Kenton Ore Double-Daters After appearing with, other com, ■ =sM? Boris Moiros’ T omo Adventures phia. They owned their own stock * company; they were joint owners, a; Continued from page 2 • ' ■ ■■ ■ ^th Stanlfym 5°vof A™erica» 1957, that Morros had been a 10 viction of Jack Soble and his wife of the Desmond Theatre; ana were year counter-agent for the Feds. Myra, Jacob Albam, and the inconsidered reasonably affluent. The key was really cast 30 years dictments (in absentia) of the milTh^n came the crash of 29. Stock ag0> In 1929 Morros was named lionaire Alfred K. Stern and his died with the advent of talkmg pie regionai director of Paramount wife Martha Dodd Stern, daughter tures. The Fielders lost everything theatres in the south and the of the late Ambassador to Gerexcept their courage. ■ next year was summoned to many, and some others. Today the Mae Desmond Chil New York as music director Morros was a little unhappy dren s Theatre has pioneered in for the Par houses in Brook when the “finis” mark was reached use of original plays for moppets jyn and Manhattan followed by his in 1957, but for a reason other than and is a widely recognize^ unit It sclection as music chie£ of the beiRg ■•unemployed" by the U. S. prepares five to six hoi^-and-^half chain’s 62 theatres. Later, the Rus He had been warned by the FBI to plays a season for a rotating reper sian emigre of Jewish birth also get out of Munich (the one word in j ■ j . „ took on the job of picking the tal the cable read “Cinerama” — the ^y f ent He ‘ had become the decision “danger” signal). Morros writes: Fieider points out, in the year of maker “That same day I was on a Pan Trotsky Deal American plane bound for New ent He Fielder points out, in the year of ma^er the Golden ^ Anniversary are the. Trotsky Deal American plane bound for New youngest old folJ^ in captivity. A smalli m j percenter offered York. My two FBI agents were at Morros a “freak” attraction — none La Guardia Airport to greet me. th^minn^Hiffnitv other than a chief architect of the As I stepped off the plane and th£ twin phfwvf a Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky joined them, the older one said, Sre^r my par^areTeaSnglhe by *ama' then in «dle (1933). Rus ‘Thank you, Mr. Morros. And now wav^n the toughest the most de sia could not “take” such anti-Sta you can 2° back to y°ur old trade maiding mid challenging phase of lin Propaganda as Trotsky would of making movies. We are arresting 5“ ^ bustoesSheatoe^ ^or chil Pitcb Russia bad °°t yet been rec Jake Albam and Jack and Myra show business— theatre tor chil ,0gnized by the U.S., and so Morros, Soble today. So we will not need “Tnppthpr With nthpr leaders in Uke hordes of others, was having you any more, except as a witness the ^hddren’s theaSf field the? trouble getting parrels into Rus at the trial/” are creatin® a ‘theatre of the fu sia for 1155 Parents and other rela Says Morros of this: “What they tlw bv huildinc audiences of tives» including sisters and broth had neglected to mention was that eager bovs P^driris whiteam to ers* Morros Persuaded friend Sol I was the government's only witlove live^ theatrebv seeing these Hurok to look up Morros’ family nes§ against the members of the wonderful troupers stout® tteto ™ taipresario's impendmg drip to Soble spy ring." But a few parastuff. Somehow tbey’ve never lost tte Soviet country. Hurofc reported graphs later, in the _ concluding that enormous zest for life. If any ,^?ck ,t0 Morros °? this^ subject parage, he relents: “The words thing they are even more excited wben he returned. Thereafter, Mor Thank you, Mr. Morros!’ from one committed, involved In the magic ros had his packages to Russia sent of the Bureau agents, remain" the and the full rich tradition of the through a travel company recom most exciting words I have ever theatre than they ever were.” mended by Hurok. . heard on stage, screen or in real In this period he was visited by hfe, and all the reward I ask for ■■ . ■■■— an Amtorg agent who knew all my ten years’ work with the FBI.” . . ■11. ■■ about his family. The conditions — ~ • 1 Jllles Alberti under which blackmail are sealed were custom-made from the spy IlltllirOfl IVaOTAAC Continued from, page 2 ring view. Morros himself seemed VIIIIIIAII llOgl Ullw , t , . to further such a cementation when — 7 Contnued from page 1 - later as general partners; to ac he casually mentioned that Trotsky . . quire properties for films, tv, “would make a sensation” on coura6ement and Inadequacy of radio and legit , and later to help Broadway’s Paramount stage The trainmg as accounting for the small finance their production, etc. Russian agent demurred “All number °f some 16,500 IATSE Half of the company’s capital is right,” 1 told him (says Morros) memb^rs here, as few as from one to be invested In the real estate “if yoU don’t want Trotsky booked *° a dazen ^Negroes, a union field to provide “a relatively steady jnto the Paramount, I can promise sPokesinan notedsource of income.” you he will never appear there as Walker further cited recent in Directors of Realty & Theatre iong as I am in charge of the stage stances where qualified Negro Ventures include, besides Alberti, shows there.” Morros was thinking craftsmen, trained extensively in Max Gendel, Harry Hershfield, Df the security and well-being of theatrical and electronic crafts In Arthur Steinthal, Richard Kaplan, his family in Kremlinland. Morros universities, and with the practical John J. Bergen Jr., Mary Flagg was even visited here by his father experience at least of jobs in Biddle, Gene Sarazen, Kunwar B. About a year later Morros got Armed Forces Radio and TeleviSingh and Rear Admiral Frederick word that his mother was dytog ^on Service behind them, failed, Wolsieffer. u and he sailed for Russia. There unaccountably. In their efforts to In addition to the 200,000 shares then occurs this cogent paragraDh* iand i°hs in the various film crafts, of “A” stock authorized, toe com . “Though practically everyone else “A lot of strinSs have to be pulled pany also is selling 180,000 shares fr0m America who visited Russia to ?et a ™egro such a Walker of “B” stock to i:s officers, direc complained of being followed I maintained. tors, promoters, counsel etc., at lc Was not even conscious of being Walker also pointed out that per share. Purchaser of this “B” spied on during that trf while in 1945 there were more than stock include Lou Reiter and Mon my n days there j 500 Negroes in SAG and Screen roe E. Lepow who were active in cities, Kharkov, Moscow and Lenin E^tras Guad» the number had toe organization of the company grad. The only explanation I can faU.en’ Jan* 1 of last year, to an and have purchase 25,000 and 40, offer is that high-ranking Soviet estimated 25 in SAG and 125 in 000 shares respectively officials gave orders to let me SEG‘ a total of 150» 0r only 30% The underwriter will receive a. aione because they felt I had rerT of the former membership. This maximum of $45,000. Net proceeds dered them an immenselv iml during the concurrent rise of overto the company wfil be about $225, portant service in keeDing linn all membership since the advent of 000 before deducting $10,000 in Trotsky offthe Broadwa^ftaM" tv, Walker pointed out. “Just prior expenses of toe underwriter. This in an intrim, ’ * to ‘Porgy and Bess,’ there weren’t MIAMI M.AMI BEACH Biu» Angel Kinssion Ino Dorothy Loudon. Bob Lewis Indios labarajos Jimmy Lyon J Bait Howard ’ Bon Solr Mae Barney Tony Edaie Jimmie Dan.els Three frames Murray Grand casenova Zozo Hicheline Bardin Ctidieau i.iaaitd Kmdip Singh Xiomaro Alfaro Bripii Font ore Panchito Ore Candi Conez Copac-h-iia Jimmy Durante Sonny King Juies Buifono Jack Roth Beuy Matiigan Bob Warren Lou Donn Ore Pagan Ore Downstairs Room Demi Dozen Jean Arnold Jane COnueU Ceil Cabot Jack Fletcher George HaU Gerry Mathews Stan Keen No. 1 Fifth Ave Cedrone & Mitchell Rooert Downey Harold r’onvun Joan Bishop Hotel Astor Irving Fields Horet Roosevelt Guy Lombardo Ore Hotel Plaza Carol Changing Ted Straeter Ore Mark Momte Ore Hotel Pierre Lois Hunt Mark Dawson Jim Hawthorne Joseph Ricardel Ore Alan Logan Ore Hotel Taft Vincent Lopez Ore Hotel Sh Regis Rofiita Serrano Ray Bari Ore. A! ill Shaw Ore Hotel St. Moritz Marshall Grant 3 In Boboli Herman. Chittison Greta Rae Latin Qoarter Jane Morgan Morgan Aros. Horry Mimmo Francis h'runn Dick Curry Pony Snerrell Jo Gomoaiui Ore 8 Harlow e Ore Interactional Sallie Bhiir Harvey Stone Pat Paterno McKenna Line Mike Durso Ore Paimieri Ore New Roumanian Pat Henry Byron Steele The Vincents Riviera Larry Steele Rev La Playa 6 Sy Oliver Ore RSVP Mabel Mercer Savoy Hilton Emile Petti Ore Town A Cpuntry Jewel Box Revue Ned Harvey Ore Sicari Ore Two Guitars Olga Valdi Ivan Nepa Xenia Brante K. Poliansky Ore Misha Usdanoff Viennese u.:.trn Rogello Roguera Margarita Sierra Ernest Schoen Village Barn Belle Carroll Jim. Lewis Tex Fletcher Flash Mason Karen Thorsell Vic Spaddy Lou Harold Ore Village Vanguard Anita. O’Day Jimmy Jones Mose Allison 3 Waldorf-Astoria Eartha Kltt Emil Coleman Ore Bela Babai Ore Admiral Vee Don Rickies Rosette Shaw Pete Brady 4 Americana Marlowe-Kuller Rev Barbara Heller Blackburn Twins -erry Collins Jack DeLeon Kaycee Jones Mara Lynn Mark Reddy Ty.er Ore Lee Martin Ore Nina Ramon Balmoral Marion Murray Rodriguez Revue Carillon Lou Walters Ziegfeld Follies Don Adams Kathy Barr Darryl Stewart Cautiers ofpl’chase Elsa & Waldo Collen Corkney Cecile Cowan Jacques Donnet Ore Ciro’s Alan Gaie Beverly Lawrence Granada Dancers Mac Davis Ore Redcaps , Clover Club Rip Taylor Barbara Velasco Magnetones Copa City Napoleon Reed Rev Dave Castle 5 Pat Darking Gray's Inn Charlie F-jrell Dori Lynn Doauvillo Victor Borge Lee Martin Ore Mam bo Gents Natale & Victoria ' Freddy BeU BT*boys Dream Lounge Buddy Rich Ore Willie Restum Marty Harris 3 Diplomat Henny Youngman Dolores Hawkins Step Bros. Hal Malkin Ore £den Roc Billjr Eckstine Sammy Shore Florence & Fred’rck Walter Nye Ore Jackie Heller Giovannis Sonny Kendis Ore Luis Varona Ore Fontainebleau Shirley Jones Jack Cassidy Sacasas Ore Campo Ore Harbour Lounge . Sammy Walsh Gilbert & Tracy Rasba Rodell Tony Matas Latin Quarter Pinky Lee Holger & Dolores Donn Arden Revue Jose Cortez Ore Lucerne ■ Havana March Gras Dxosa CosteEo Mhos Velarde Don Casino Roberto &r Alicia Pepe Blanco Fausto Curbelo Ore Murray Franklin’s Paul Gray Murray Franklin Dick Havilland Kay CarroU Sue Lawton The Cooks Eddie Bernard Nautilus Jerry Lester Holly Warren Syd Stanley Ore Singapore Mickey Manners Freddy Stewart Snuffy Miller Sin Ling Mickey Gentile Ore Freddy Calo Ore The Grate Georgle Auld 5 Flip Phillips & Bill Karris Quint SAN FRANCISCO Black Orchid Buddy Hackett Blue Angel Audrey Kizby David & Amorah Mighty Panther Lord Connor Lord Christo Blue Note Count Basie Ore Chez Paree Sammy Davis Jr. Elisa Jayne Geo Cook Ore. Chez Adorables <9> Cloister Inn Prof. -Irwin Corey Beverly Kelly Ramsey Lewis Trio Conrad Hilton Helga Neff “Frosty Frills'* Farra & Carter Ben Gee & Berthe Harris Jack Kodell Eddie Ash Manuel Del Toro Inez & Gordon Ken Harris Ore Drake Denise Lor Jimmy Blade Oro Gato of Horn Odetta London House Barbara Carroll 3 Mister Kelly's Cindy ic Tandy Jimmie Komack Marty Rubinstein 3 Marx A Frigo Palmer House Don Cornell Marthyx 2 J. Taylor Dancers Ben Arden Ore Roberts Show Club Dinah Washington Dyerettes 4 Red Saunders Ore Phyllis Branch Backstage Stan Arnold Rene Joubert Blackhawk Cal Tjader 5 Canterbury Geo. Alexander Benny Strong Ore Easy Street Gay 40's Bee & Ray Goman Sylvie St. Clair Dick Keegan Ore Hangover Earl Hines Joe Sullivan. Muggsy Spanier Hungry • Turk Murphy Ore {Nichols & May LOS ANGELES Band Box Billy Gray Bobby Breen Jimmy Ames Bon Biuo's Ben Blue Helen Boice x Smith Twins Sally Blythe Charles Vespla Sammy Wolf Dick Bernie Richard Cannon Ivan Lane Ore Cocoanut Grove Johnny Mathis Freddy Martin Ore Crescendo June Christy interlude Kaye Ballard Jack Dennison's Herb Jeffries /Eddie Cano 4 Moulin Rouge Louis Prima & Keely Smith Sam Butera Sc The Witnesses "Wonderful World" Regency Room Matt Dennis Dave Ketchum Jeanne Taylor Dick Hazard Slate Bros. The Players Statler Hotel Roily Rolls Clifford Guest Ralph & Lorraine Skin nay Rnni« ore Yo Little Club Diane Left! Joe Felix Roger Nichols Fack's T. C. Jones Meg Myles Randy Sparks Herb Barman Ore Fairmont Hotel John Raitt EL Heckscber Ore 44b Club Larry Winters Carol Davis Walter Hart Harrah's Club Jerry Colonna Art Engler Don Baker A1 Morgan Lyn Avalon Malfada Trio Holiday Hoosier Hot Shots Manny Lopez Esguire Trio Jazz Workshop • Johnny Griffin 4 On the Lovm Kid Ory Ore Purple Onion Coachmen 3 Ma$ra Angelou Ronnie 'Schell 345 Club De Castro Sis Moro Landis Ore BUI Clifford Ore. Mapos Wilder Bros. Nancy Lee New Yorkers . Riverside Ford & Hines Half Bros. Kay Stevens Della Qoadri Jack Schafer Riverside Starlets Ed Fitzpatrick Ore theatre than they ever were.” Jules Alberti Continued from page 2 ; Unhired Negroes CoMtinued from page I couragement and Inadequacy 'of to the company wfil be about $225, portant service in keeDin/linn all membership since the advent of 000 before deducting $10,000 in Trotsky off the Broadwa^ftaM" tv, Walker pointed out. “Just prior expenses of the underwriter. This an ‘Porgy and Bess,’ there weren’t ■ . . .... . . for what ft leaves out Morros does hp fd? Negro cards in SAG.” lie de France Ne 8 "e rW"W rfeL^‘M^cepictS“ mentioned from oas. ,= Ne^3 ‘® “'^tably tore, Stone has television commit is a scramble among theatres’ The JVSi i ciJad as ments with Metro. He has con smalltime talent agent mentioned ^ tracted to do an hour-long antool by Morros as having offered Trot u°“ of-th.e ®raYe ogy teleseries, “Jeopardy,” for sky to him would usually, upona klcl^din5 Metro, with toe usual overall turndown by one maimger go to Jamaica Run and authority, writer-producer-director, another manager or circuit head to 111 Jbe Actually* Stone will set the series, peddle his wares. Indies, and all made within the do the first 13 or so scripts, and If, indeed, the co-founder of r®SeS splu^e» maintain a supervisory control. He post-Czarist Russia had offered Por% '“J Anna Lu* will direct some when free from himself as an attraction on a stage 51311(1 feature commitments. there would tJ by someone else has “nerve He hopes to get the pilot shot ticularly those in New ^York' who lnrrfnffatUr€ Ne* before departing for England to would be normally expected to^vie •SSJJSk1 ^ P in’ As. ^ to say; launch toe feature. for such a catch liter Trnt! ^ somf °f that market Stone s wife Virginia will again «kv n>,. 0 . , . * , . , quickly. Walker declared. function, as co-producer and editor name than the long-in-exil^Keren wp^wn^w1 ^ S°rC S-50t £ tv on “The Last Voyage,” jobs she sky, first provis°Snal Z > Wa^eru said; declaring has also performed on their pre Russia foiimvinv _ . . . ® that toe people who make westerns vious pix Pmo^“eceut bSg “The ^matter ofLt Mohs'S; *? a^olute,y thn Ne Decks Ran Red” and “Cry Terror.” have gotten nV tBo ^^? u ght P°J actually a very important hisThe Stones are suner-realicts bv wrHb ™ . lbe hook by co toncal contributor in the settling Hol^tvoo^ stomdards,6 anywayf’dt^ to JS’ T™?^ ?f thaTest’ on both sides of th« ing all their shoott.|, tocludtog elseXVevfn afriva^o^ Other notable offenders are sound recording, on location — even However anparentlv it m °fJi)^lc^etecfaiVa Hollywood location. They edit and more important to Morrow Sat^h? Sho^S’ ^alker added* The actor record in their own home, where time to accentuate th#» weal on to command the producers they have special facilities for this to show his friendshin llVG ?GW Y°rk"°ri2mated tele-, purpose Steiiv , u p* ^ terms of shows» ^hose efforts on behalf of 1 ' . • ■ security, by a service I toe Negro “show up in employ g-% i L’ > p T° than fcy causing the ment figures” as opposed to. the Columbia S Coraponcrs Trotsky booking to be peddled else Hollywood figures. Columbia, S.C., Jan. 13. ^ker,e' stiU. there remains the Regarding toe abundance of maThe hillbillies, who haven’t done T^at Quss“on as to why, if Trot terial whereby the Negro could so well of late here, will try it available, he had not been easily be worked into tv westerns, again. so“ght by other theatres. Walker came up with a long list of With Jimmy Dickens and a coun Qnire Fe?t of the book, which is now-legendary Negro heroes and try music crew leading the way, a uu/o of lfc» is Morros’ chapter & heavies in the Old West. He also series of such shows is now sched £ersa 011 > first, his 11 years as a stated that Central Casting casts uled for once every six weeks. Russian spy and, beginning in ’47, few JjTegroes, even in crowded Local auditorium, which has had 1115 two-hatted affair. Much of it street scenes, and that the Negro some sound difficulties of late, will already is public property, particu has not been given ample opporbe the site. * Jlarly his work that led to toe con tunity in tv commercials. LAS VEGAS Desert inn Peggy Lee Bernard Bros. Art Johnson Donn Arden Dncrs Carlton Hayes Ore Ounes “Nuit De Paris’’ Carrie Finn ell Marquis Family Trio Cottos Ben Beri Naja Karamnra Gwen Harmon Bob Kennedy Al^en Conroy Irv Benson Jack Mann Jimmy Cavanaugh Murray Briscoe Cee Davidson Ore El Cortez Rossi & Boyer Eddie Bush Versatlles El Rancho Vegas Joe E. Lewis Mary Kaye Trio Dick. Rice Ore. Flamingo Pearl Bailey Louis Bellson Atkins & Cole Don Kirk ■Flamingoettes Jack Cathcart Ore Fremont Hotel Honeycones Frank Fielders Continued from . page 2 royalties and furnishes the entire 90 -minute production, programs, posters, etc. _ J_ _ Romance of 1907 | When Frank Fielder, a young stage manager and actor, saw Mae Desmond as an ingenue in a play at the old Chestnut St. Theatre in Philadelphia, it was during the! winter of 1907. To get her within courtin’ reach he hired her for the stock company he worked for at the Empire Theatre. Now it’s four sons and 50 years later. Miss Desmond has played more than 10,000 performances in sev¬ eral hundred different roles and the elder Fielder isn’t far behind. In the 1920s the Fielder’s were at the peak of their theatrical careers. Miss Desmond was a femme lead noted for toe range and depth of her characterizations while he was general manager of the Mae Des¬ mond Players and her leading map.