Variety (July 1921)

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FViday, July 'A l^^l VAEIETY *'^ ?: A •»»f7( NEWS OF THE MUSIC MEN Ben AH HagsiDi tbo artiKt and i AKRoriation forinnlated a cninpaigD to 7"effeld art director, huH been sued combat tho new copyright umendmcnt ill the Third District Municipal Court; introduced in rontress by Sonntor in the -- ,. ^ , . ,> •■ t by Harry Akst, IrviuK Herlin h musi- ,,g| v,,.tL.u>, songwriter and music director. The suit is for $400 and «'onccrns Akst's latter profeKKionu! IpliaBeriiiui'«t'"^""^'* ■*• i'^»»d«u*tor. The plaintiff i« KccklHg to recover the amount for serviccH rendered with three other musicianH Muy 27 last at a Haggin dinner function at the artist'H Htudio on Kast ]Otli« street. liuuiiiuri lust week. Nalhun riiiikun. J. ('. Itoseiilhnt and K. V. Mills, tlir respective e.xecntive chairmen of both organizations, rontemplatc leaving for WitsliinKton. I). C, to confer with the (\)mniittec on l*atentH and convince them of the inequity of the new amendment which provides that any purehaser of a printed or publiKh<>d copyrighted work ouu per- Ted H. Rarron has been appointed head of the bund and orchestra department for the Hroadway Music Corporation, in New York. PARIS INSIDE STUFF ON LEGIT This is the second time Haggin has form it for profit, ■ * '' " ^' ' ' ' The (\>mmillee on PatentH will not been sued by Akiit. the judgment (.ward in the plaiutiffs favor the iirM time being for $450 on similar urounds. Kendler & Goldstein are acting for Akst. as they did in the previous suit. Al Dodson, formerly with Harri- «on Music Co., is now in charge of the band and orchestra department of the Chicago office for Berlin. Irving TTllman, formerly with the New York otfice of the Broadway, is now in charge of this company's Chi- cago office. He replaced Koy Tiiorn- ton, who returned East. Eddie Lewis. Chicago manager for Harry Von Tilzcr, left for a foar week's' vacation to New York. A default, judgment for $1,521.08 has been entered in the City Court by James B. (libson on an assigned claim of the Orient Music Itoll Co. of Bridgeport, Conn., against the Har- rison Music Co.. Inc., of 1658 Broad- way. The Harrison is a newcomer to the ranks of tlie metropolitan music publishers,'having moved its offices from Detroit. The claim is for goods sold and delivered toUlling $7,114.10 on which credit for $5,019.98 was allowed. The $1,494.12 balance was ipvolred in this action which the Har- rifon never defended. Ti. Wolfe Gilbert has purchased right, title and interest in "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" and "Hitchy Koo.** Gilbert, who was the ]yric author of both aonge, bought them for sentimental reaaons and becau;jj^ he anticipates a revival in the num- bers. The Chamberlain Co., mu.sic pub- lishers, is a recently formed firm in Detroit. Its executive personnel has H. C. Berg, Albert C. Schosch, H. Alf Kelley. (Continued from pag > IS) Catherine Hayes, the Americim act- ress, has arrived here to Hp«;nd the Hummer in France. reu<'h the new amendment for f'irinal consideration before the fall, but both societies are Rending reprcKentatives to the capital to squash any ponsi- blc serious consideration of an > ■ <1- ment which obviously affords no pro- tection to a copyright owner. The bill was introduced "by re- quest" and is known to be sponsored by the picture interests who object to paying a tax to the American So- ciety for the public performance of its music for profit. Alice Hale Douglas, tiie secretary of the Anglo-American stage society here, was married .Inly 5 to Sherwiu Finch Kelly, engineer, who also de- voted attention to the theatrical group, which gave tliree performances of American and English plays at the Theatre Albert 1 at the end of June. A new night resort has been found by playing professionals, during the summer. Previously the night places had been a cabaret or delicatessen. Now it is the swimming pool at Madison Square Ciarden. Any night at 11:30 or thereafter the show people may b« found swimming in the pool. Milton Ager, last with Feist, hos signed a contract with Harms to write production stuff exclusively. George Piantadosi, until recently professional manager for Fred Fish- er, Inc., is now connected wiU> Sha- piro, Bernstein & Co. Mr. Fisher himself will look af? tlje profes- sional work for his firm, ^^^.isted by George Joy. The Riviera Music Co. of Chicago announces it will publish henceforth only cl'if^sical and semi-classical mu- sic and give up the popular music business. Irving Mills, of the Jack Mills staff, will represent the firm in Atlantic City for the summer season. Georges Flateau is now in the French capital and may probably re- main some months to fulfil an en- gagement. His brother, it. Flateau, has resumed the direotion of the Cigalc, which hall, however, is let for the summer for the run of the operetta, "La Galants Epreuvc.*' The Federation du Spectacle has assumed the role of caterer, present- ing classical tragedies on Sunday afternoons at the al fresco theatre of Champigny, near Paris. The enter- prise is meeting with a certain suc- cess. The annual competition for prises at the Conservatoire is now in full swing and much talent revealed. The local cafes will now be able to ad- vertise more "First prise violinist," in their quartets. CABARET. The Q. R. S. Music Ron Company has recently announced a new factory in Toronto to handle its Canadian and British business. Thopias M. Fletcher, the president, states the new factory will turn,out a million rolls a year and bcciitisc of the ("anadian incorporation will reap the advantage of preferential duties in deaKn«\ with the British possessions, to ^estimated savings of $50,000. Selma Bloom is associated ynih Witmnrk & Sons in the band and orchestra department. Berlin, Inc., through A. L. Libman, has leased the old Churchill quar- ters on 49th street and Broadway, to be remodeled into professional studios and offices. The Berlin com- pany hag outgrown its present suite at 1587 Broadway (old N. V. A. c]nh> being compelled to hire a sepa- rate suite in the Uomax Building to house its stenographic force. ^ The bell-hop bootleggers of Angeles proved theniHclves in "iron skull" class last week. They had it all framed mentally what they were going to knock the visiting Klks off for a quart of "hooch." ThVy had stocked up to the ends of their bank rolls' with tht; stuff that makes one want to climb telegraph poU's and they were going to ask $ir» and Recent additions to the staff of the ^^'^^"^ « n"art for the alki and brown The new Music Box theatre, with Sam H. Harris. Irving Berlin and .1o8. M. Schenck the interested parties, will represent an invest- ment when completed of $1,100,000, instead of the $450,000 originally figured upon. The theatre's interior is being sumptuously flniniied off. Orchestra chairs costing $20 each will be there. The Music Box is to «pen with a very pretentious reVue, written by Berlin. One of the Broadway managers caught In the Wall street squeese Anally washed up on all of his Mock holdings, Uklng a loss of $300.- 000 by doing so. At one time the manager was in for nearly double that amount. Los the Richmond Co. include Frank Wright in Frisco: Harry Pearl, manager in Detroit: Frank Bucher, in Philadel- phia; Archie Fletcher, in Atlantic City. » The newly formed music publish- ing company recently organized is Lee White, Inc., and not Lee David, Inc., as previously reported. Mr. David still is associated with the B. D. Nice Co., with whom he has been the past two seasons a« staff writer and composer. T^ee White was for- merly a vaudevillian. The Broadway Music Corporation has consummated a lease for the , . ^, .,-. . fifth, sixth and part of the scvf nth ] tently, suhbiiig for Joseph C. Smith. Irving A. Weiss has replaced Mnx Fischer, the Frisco orchestra niHii. as leader at the Ritz-Carlton. Weiss also officiates at the Pla/.n intermit- floorn of the new Robertson-Cole building, on 4Sth street and 7th ave- nue, which adds further proof to the who recently left for Europe. Couplr'd witli the fact Weiss is conducting the Harry Carroll-Carle Carlton iir-diie impression that for some reason or i tion. "They're Off," in vaudeville, he other the music publishers seem to I is quite n busy young man in keeping further think "tin pan alley' is duo to i up with his schedule, mdve further upt»»wnwurds. Berlin. Inc. recently leased the old Churchill site (upstairs) on 40th street and Broadway and will move into tlieir new quarters following renovations. The Roseland building, Mst street. looked upon as too far OHt of the beaten path, now seems to be locat- ed in the heart of it. Handy Brothers have removed from West 4('»th street one block uptown. leaving only four publishers on the 46th street* alley. With the Broad- way company deserting 4r>th street that leavcH onlv .Tack Mills there and William Horowitz, formerly New Kngland representative for the Bro«dwR.v, is now stationed in the New York office. A deal was recently comijleted wherebv the For««ter Music Co. of Chicago was assigned the copyrights of all of James C. Mai'Derniid's songs, as well as all future compositions. Mr. MacDenr.id is an established c<mu- poser of standard and cla«^sical songs which have been used in concert and sugar juice. But they flopped. The Elks caipc and they brought their own. There was more good liquor in each of the various lodge headiiuar- ters in the hotels than could be found in a film star's cellar. About Wcdfiesday the boys in one of the downtown hotels, which was by far the liveliest of the lot, were going around begging the visitors to take the stuff off their hands ,at ST) a qOart with few takers. A slight es- timate of how wide open the. town was during the week may br gathered from the fact that a liOuisvUIe ron- tiiigent on the first night tliat thry arrived held open house in the lobby of the hotel that was their headquar- ters. They placed a r»0-gallon cask in the lobby, hammered in the spigot and attaclK^d two tin r-ups with <liains, the word being passed to "help y<»- self," and there was a grand r\ish for the works. Six per cent suds were oil tap all over the town. Federal offi<ers. howev<r, getting busy after about the third day made the dis- pensers a little shy on handing it out to everybody. That "The Follies" Is not drawing to the balcony of the Globe, where the scale ia $4.40, isn't spreading a pleasurable feeling around the Ziegfeld headquarters. The stories say Zlegfeld was advieed not to try the $5.50 scale this summer, but insisted upon It. While the impression spread Zlegfeld made it $5.50 at the Globe to bring the grosB to the former amount as done at ^he New Amsterdam, it is also said Ziegfeld insisted upon a $5.50 top at the Amsterdam, one of the reasons why A. L. Erlanger protested against withdrawing "Sally" In Ita successful run at that houFe. Erlanger said "Sally" Avas In there on a good box office scale that should not be disturbed, while he did not think much of the $5.50^soheme. No one appears anxious to see "The Follies" at $4.40 and sit in the balcony, though If they do It la necessary to pa<over $4.40 since the specs also hate the balcony seats. If one wants to sit down front for the show the specs as of old are asicinc and getting $10 per seat. The specR even want to charge a little above the usual premium for.; the balcony seats, to make up th«lr losses as the "PjOllies" buy Is an outright one. To sit in the balcony and watch the Zlegfeld show It Is probably necessary to pay $6 or $12 for a pair. People who can pay $12 for two seats won't sit In any balcony. Right on top of the "Follies" dilemma. White's "Scandals" comes Into the Liberty, and at $3.50 is cleaning up. getting all the return vlsttors and creating a theatrical commotion for the moment. The White Show scale was set with malice aforethought, the aforethought being directed at the 01ot)e's prices. What will happen to the "FolUea" after the first eight weeks, when the buy by the specs runs out. Is not foretold. It won*t be a sbock if tho Zlegfeld attraction plays out Its eight weeks and theiw mov«t on, for with the present scale, It's most unlikely the ticket offices will tackle another outright buy for that show.. As though Flo Ziegfeld must have It all In one season, he is now preparing against his will and Inclination another roof production for the Amsterdam. Zlegfeld thought he was through with the roof. One day Ned Wayburn called on Erlanger and told him he wanted the roof for a new entertainment scheme. The next day Zlegfeld sent for Wayburn, but Wayburn kept away, as he has a suit for some $ar>.000 pending agalst Zlegfeld. And the next day Zlegfeld an- nounced he would atgaln produce on the roof. Mlmi Aguglia. the Italian star. Is much put out over the Judgment secured against her by T. O'C. Sloane. Jr., for $285.70. Mlml has appealed to the court to reopen the case on the ground of faulty summons. She says the first she heard of the suit was when banded nn execution of judgment and that she was never notified by sum- monH or any other way. Sloane Is a "high art" photographer. At his suggeatlon he posed Mimi for some test pictures; Though she didn't think much of them. Hhe consented to again visit Sloane's studio, he promising some artistic results. When she asked for proofs. Sloane replied he never raadc any nor did he ever touch up a plate. Russian farces were under discussion recently, one of the Interested parties having recently returned fro« Trotsky land, where she had been sent to look for material. From all accounts, the popular fancy that Krench farces are naughty Is fkllacloua. The Russian brand as ofl'ered in Petrograd leave the Paris bunch laps behind. One of th« "plays" set within a notorious house. Is presented on a revolving btage, the scenes showing what fi^oes on In five different rooma There is an Ingenious comedy situation throughout, but while Paris might take a chance with the piece. It will never land on thia side of the water. he is contemplating changing head- opera by a great variety of artists, quarters shortly. Harms over nearer 6th avenue iR a produetion music pub liRhor thus making West 40th street the southern limit as far as the pop music men are concerned. Remlck has taken over "Why, ^ .....^.^m^. Dear" written hy Hurry Cohen, from pJVuhiet ions, to" recover a the Kll & gelefl. Ell Music Co., liOR An- Suit is on file in the County Clerk's office by the Manchester Romper C-o., Inc. against Garnette Sabinson. known as CJarnet Sabin. and Muriel i;i.*tJv. known as Muriel Ostriche. b<»th doing husiMl^^ A^ ^^^ Muriel ()>trirhe balance of In a raid last week on Criswold's Tavern, a few miles soutli of <Jlens Falls, N. Y,, during which brtwi'cn $7,000 and $10,00(» wortli of high grade Scotch, C:inadian and rye I whiskey was seized, the state police beli«>ve that they have located thf, I liea<h|uartorR for boo7,c runners \\o:k ' I ing along the line from Canada t<» I New York. The troopers allrgc I that thousands of dedlars worth of ' 1 the precious fluid has been trans- ferred to points throughout the state ' from t\u^ Tavern. They say that it has been used as a distributing <'i'n- The line-up of attractions for the new legitimate season has "Sonny." a Selwyn piece with muFic, opening at the Cort, whllo diagonally across the street in the 48th Street will be Marc Klaw's "Sonya." Not only Is the similarity of names close, but both shows are listed to open the f>ame night. *** ' A booklttg switch may Insert "Sonny" Into the Apollo, with tho Sdwynf; chooFJng another attraction for the Cort. Confusion that may arise over the llken^'ss in Utles and proximity In theatres Is the probable ^auKC for the intended clwinge. $7,372.0.'^ on various sn)ali loans made i ter for a y«'in and a half. The Tav Tlarry Hume is now in charge of Berlin's Snn Francisco branch. su<'- ceeding Phil Furman. resigned. Hume Was formerly in charge in Ix)8 An- fejcs.. Negotiations whereby non-members of the Music Publishers' Protective Association will afTiliate with it are 'learing completion. A meeting of these publishers. <om|>rising chiefly the classic and ^^tandard music men. them between May 17. 1020. and .Tan. r>. 11)121. These loans, .12 in nniiiher. aggregated $11,018.31. Allowing %'.',.- 040.2S which was returned to the plaintiff there is an unpaid balance of the seven thousand odd dollars. Tlic Arrangers' (iuild of Ameri<'a. the recently organized mutual pro- tective association of music arrang- ers connected with the metropfditan publishing companies, has decided to ho'd its charter open until July 1?, .so as to permit all |M)S'jil)le metiihers ern, known tf> «'very horseuiarj and sportsman in (ii* ruuntry, was prc- suinahly stocked up with licpior for the races at Saratoga the coming month. Fearing that an attempt wr»nld he made to steal the lifpior from the three troopers who rnad<' the rai<l, a reinforo4Mnent party of eleven was seiit out to acoomftMnv the eargo to the harra«k«! at Troy. TImcc troopers' trucks and tw(» touring cars were necessary to trarwport it diffrrcncos in methods both classes r>f ruMislirrs mjiintain in condinf ing n'.:sinevs. such as the free dist rihnl im J^f "icIiPstratijt^is hv the popular piih- lislicr. wlierras Fischer, S<'hirmer. Hi'*"i(li. i'i „). sell theirs. At a rero!it confrrence held at ♦h«" ('IjM-idgc the American Sofi«'ty of Aiitliors, Cou)posers and Publishers ""d tlic Music PublisherH* Protective formed f>r tho purpose of eradif-atiji;: certain existing evils in the pr<ifr:- sion a*; well'as for the purpose of mHititnining the set ftandard.s of mii- sirnl arrafig*'!'^. tnre. Harry Tlnhv «nd Pert Kalniar will do a regular vau<leville two act in Hic fall, tdaying in and around New York mostly. ' An application to revoke the li cense of the Toa'l Stool Ii>n . Cin einnati. !:m« he««n ijiade l>y Mrs. II. Helwitz. who says that the j;i// inn sio io the resort is a "l»"(lluni of nolHe' instead. Chateau Laurier at <'lty Island (New York) quite likely holds one record at present among all of the road houH«H of the metropolitan area. That is a nightly turnawny. There have been occasi(»ns wImmi- a road hoiiKc in the Kumniertime has drawn an overflow on Saturday or Siin<Jay night in the hot weathir. hut the Chateau seems to he doing it eveiy night, (.^uite a common sight in the lohhy of the Chateau is a rrow<I of fr(»ru no to .%<) people wailing for tahl<'><. Pill Werner, the Chateau's malinger, and his following miiy he hljinie»| for the rush, or the reason- nhly priced shfjre dinner could have soinething to do with it. hut th** fact remains and confirms the early pre- diction that under Mr. Werner's per- soMiil supervision, this best situated of nil tJie New York road |>laces wonhl he restored tf> the iM>pularity map. Ben Gross has tnk<!i over .loe W;ir(l'< interest in the Cjife 1 >r Paii^, Atlaiilie Citv, N. .1. Maurice iind Lecmora II;i;;liC>.. \\!i«. hii\c giiiiied nincli alteiitiin i'l l-< n rion hy their danciiij;, will |i;i\e ;i >iii;ii en;;;ij;eriient here, sfartini: III tin- fall. They have been cng:i;," d to a[»pear in I>illingham's "(lood Morn- ing. Dearie. " and will al^o darn'c at the <'luh Mauri<e, a cafe name<i after the dancer. The engageiiients were eoiitrarted thitiugh l>avidow 6c Le- Maire. IT "• )•.»• «" ¥fa .» ««!ti )X'>*J»*»i^K, i t i-.f/'f t >». t William Raymond Rill has rhnnired his plans legarding taking over a hotel on Long Island Sound which was to have been calli-d "Sills-on-the- Sounil," the former publicity champ saying the M>aHon was too far de- layed to get the place ready. In- stead, he has taken over Itieger's Murray Hill Hotel at Pr(»adway and i;:th Street, Flushing. L. I. The hostelr., is IftcHted on th« main mot<»r car artery of Long Ishind's North Shore and it will open I'ridaw 'Die pl.'ice will he known as- Sill's Hot'I. There are Iiincli ntnl dining rooii ^, \\itli I I gticsts' rooni>i in ad- dition ti» |.ii.;ite diniii^; moni"^. Sill's • :s .",(» iiitHitc; from r.i (iili.lu;iy by nioinr. tivt- iiiiiiites fi-<ii:i tie Murray 11:11 ^l.i;i.Mi «'f the LoilK I-I.iik"! liUC iit:i| two III Ii - flt'H r.;l\.'>'<lc cciilt-r. Every week li'ini;'- ft-rdi a new .-■tuit in hoot'--gj; iig aioii^; the Cara- 'iImmi hoiilei- 'riic latel WUs pulled, i (Continued on p.'tge 1!4)