Variety (December 1922)

VARIETY Friday, December 1, 1928 LEADING ORCHESTRAS AND BANDS EDWARD HARKNESS '^ ORCHESTRA-HOTEl SI. FRANCISJilll FRAm GEORGE LIPSCHULTZ Sensational ^nist and Conductor NOW PLAYING AT THE TENT, N«w York Society's ''Rondezvous" "Orchestras Extraordinary" EXECUTIVE OFFICES The New Willard The BelleYue-Stratford WASHINGTON, D. C PHILADELPHIA, PA. which asks for $250 damages for the imllcensed performance of "Ka- Ltj-A." Maurice Richmond, Inc., is alHo 8uing Jacob Goldberg, who runs the Shuffle Inn in Harlem's black belt, for the same reason, alleging "Mello Cello," a Richmond number, was performed without permission. CABABET (Continued from page 9) $750 a. week for a single place and aj high as $2,000 a week for a group are "visited," with tho only deduc- tion that the money isn't split enough ways. As there are no comebacks or outs, anyone neerlected may make trouble at any time and get away with it. The easy money boys should district the cities and countries, because as they kill off the places they shut oCf their rev- enue. When bootleggers are agree- able to give up their lucrative trade to accept official positions in con- nection with liquor. It's proof in a way there is more monf^y in going after liquor than in selling it. A Coast band that had been touted to be on a par with some other musical organizations from the west which came east and scored, failed to impress here in a showing. A press agent was en- gaged but his term of office was brief, because he walked out. He stated his salary, expecting" to have the leader counter with a pmaller. The answer came the next day, when the leader borrowed $10 from the press agent. At the time the latter was invited to lunch the fol- lowing day. The Coast musician explained he didn't like "lho.«o l^ide otreet joints" and in.stead picked out a dinini;r place on an avenue no better than the others if more popu- lar. When they were ready to go the leader made out a check for 420 drawn on a Canadian banl; and handed it to the press agent, Buy- ing half was the sum borrowed and the balance in cash wouJd be wel- come as change. Dut the press agent had no money, or .s.iid he didn't, ojid went outside. Tho leader argued with tlie rosuiurant management, finally rushing out- side but leaving hia overcoat '.vithin as security. August Janssen of the Hofhrau House, New York, has brought suit in the U. S. District Court a^rainst Edward C. Yellowley, acting Fed- eral prohibition director in >;ew York city, to recover over 125 separate items of liquor seized by Prohibition Agent Julin P. O'Xoill Auir. 17 last. Jan.ssen aHo;?es that U. 8. Commissioner Samu<'l M. Hitchcock recommended it.s return, but that Yellowley is wilfully with- holding it in the Knickerbocker warehouse. Janssen's grievance is that the fourth and fifth floor of the* Hofbrau house premlnes at 1214 Broadway, New York, are his private abode, where his family has been living for 23 years and that the intrusion of the prohibition agent, though armed with a search warrant, and the breaking down of the door leading to his rooms, con- stituted a violation of his rights as a citizen under the fourth and fifth constitutional amendments. Jans- sen claims the damage exceeds $6,000 and asks the court to fix damages in his favor in addition to giving him back his liquor. • Billy B. Van, James J. Corbetts vaudeville partner, as a result of his hotel enterprise in the summer of 1519, had a judgment for $3,000 entered against him in the New York Supreme Court by Mrs. Bea- trice A. Foster, who originally asked $20,000 damages to reimburse her for injuries alleged sustained in Van's hostelry at Georges Mills, New Hampshire, known as the Van Harbor Casino. Mrs. Foster al- leged that her fractured ankle and other injuries sustained through a fall from a piazza were caused by ,Van's personal negligence in not properly lighting and guarding the passageway. A jury before Justice McAvoy Oct. 10, last, awarded the plaintiff $4,000, but by subsequent stipulation Van agreed to pay only $3,000 in consideration for waiving his right to appeal. It was agreed she is to receive it at the rate of $50 weekly until the judgment is paid in full, plus a $100 Nov. 18. Liquor prices have not changed from the quotations in Variety of last week, with one exception; Johnny Walker (Scotch) in non- reflllable bottles at $80 a case, pur- chaser to make his own dellven'. The same source is offering all cor- dials, including Benedictine, at $80, also and under similar conditions. Thtt latest market quotations oti liquor in Chicago will interest those who have gin done up in Gordon bottles, though there is no pretense made it is the genuine, at $50 sin- gle case and $40 where two or more cases are pur6hased. White Horse Scotch at $120 a case and at $100 in five-case lots. Black and White Scotch. $100. in single case lots. Bourbon. Waterfall and Frazier, $110 a case. Beer at many saloons at 2i and 30 a stein (which is noth- ing but a fair-sized glass). Caterers around New York who supply service for private dinners are being ed^ed out of business by the cabaret demand for waitors and mu.'^iiians. Their troubles reached a climax In the preparations for Thanksgiving dinner*. Engli.sh and Scotch waiters raised their de- mands for the serving of a dinner from $7 to $15 per man, declaring that extra restaurant work on the holiday would return them that much. One caterer got an estimate of $1,100 for a 20-piece orchestia for two ni?;ht.«<. but the en^ia^ement fell through because the customer wouldn't stand the tariff and gave his dinner in a hotel private dining room. The employment of Greek and Swiss waiters by private cater- ers is decreasing and the call for Englishmen and Scotchmen puts a premium on their services. John d« Salvio, proprietor of Jimmy Kelly's place on Sullivan street. New York, is being sued for copyright infringement by T. B. Harms, Inc., music publishers. | The first "Wine-Beer-Tobacco" trade exposition ever held will be staged in Chicago "upon Congres- sional action expected to follow the nation-wide repudiation of the Vol- stead law," according to announce- ments which come on the heels of the victory Nov. 7 for light wines and beer In Illinois. Jim Kerr, who staged the International Radio show at Chicago recently, is admittedly "the worlds greatest optimist" and took an option at 10 o'clock on the morning of Nov. 8. "The Wild ViHage," at the Rendez- vous, on West 45th street, with Gilda Gray the star attraction in the Gil Boag re.«;taurant, will undergo re- vision. The rearrangement of the room had a stage at the extreme rear, with the performance follow- ing the ei ding of dancing at 1 a. m. Besides Miss Gray there were some operatic vocalists and a chorus of four girls, also an "announcer," after the "Chauve-Souris" style, without doing much with it. A return will be made most likely to the /ormer manner of giving the show on the floor, with some other changes. Including redecoration, re- placing the "Russian" coloring scheme. The Rendezvous is retaining its hold upon the real society people of New York. Miss Gray is tlie at- traction. John Parsons, of O.swego, N. Y., formerly chief field agent for fed- eral prohibition enforcement In New York state, who was "roasted" by the foreman of a metropolitan grand jury probing the latest hootch enforcement scandal, has re- fused to make any statement. Par- ttWWIllllWIlVlP Guerrini A Co. LsrMM ACCORDION fACTCRV m tkt Uatt«« Statw. Th« onL* f'arion ttiat make* any aat ot need* — Oiidr h» hand. t77.I7» C«iumfeH> San Fraaclto* Cat #■»>• sons was a close friend of William Brennan, agent in chsurge of the Syracuse headquarters, but there have been no developments there. Whereas in Albany and Now York there have been wholesale dis- missals, the Syracuse force remains unchange 1. The Syracuse enforce- ment record, while admittedly not perfect, is far more so than any other district in the state. Savoy and Brennan open at the Monte Carlo, New York, one of the Salvin cafes, next week. The p^^ir are getting $1,600 weekly for the cabaret engagement, which they will double into after the night perform- ances of the "Greenwich Village Follies," with which they are feat- ured. Acceptance of an offer by a pair of state troopers to help him change a tire led to the arrest of a Fort Covington man, the seizure of a load of booze and the confiscation of a Cadillac car. The man was chang- ing a tire alotig the road between LowvlUe and Dekalb when the troopers came along and preferred their assistance, which he gratefully accepted. The coppers saw the au- tomobllist take a drink from a bottle which he had on the ground beside him and they decided to search the^ car. They found 14 sacks filled with bottles of Canadian ale, seven cases of assorted Canadian liquors, and one case of Gordon gin. 'M^ I'M LWHUIMVN » v->irsi(; ;''-''^ I hriiPaiil\V hiteinan, Inc., llie. ser\ ices of . L'cnuine l-aul ^Vliire- in:«n Orclu'.strav arc now available li^r con- tract work at Hotel, C aharet and Resort. . I he Service is cc>ni- plete, tno artisf" , men • \nIu> plav tor phono- ;,raph re^.ords — and liu* cost iN surp'^i-'inylv WnA Wniti n\Ait Or- > he'^trav :ire :u<i»a\ail- .il'It *i^r \ am."ti'N ill t It's pretty expensive business to forego "sugaring" along the booze trail from the border south, a Troy, N. Y., bootlegger is now convinced. Last woek he was robbed of a Pitok- ard C3LV, 25 cases of Canadian ale and one case of whiskey, and the week before he lost 45 cases of booze. The first steal was pulled off at Chestertown in the night time, a man in another car firing at the Trojan until he was forced to aban- don his automobile. The other rob- bery was perpetrated at the rum runner's place In Troy. The un- lucky victim reported the robberies to the Saratoga police, admitting that he was a bootlegger and declar- ing that he "didn't do any sugaring along the line." \Ni>rK in cunjutKlJon vvitli IvcaJHnc a^ls. H'rife or »irr for J,t.tt!' rU I. VMIIi KM\N. Itn t<a» U«Nt l.",ih Strt'vl \t\- > oris i ity l'*lf trphunr ltr%dnl liUTU A ago became inoculated with th« vaudeville bug and decided to abandon the restaurant dates. He has changed his mind however and Is permanently stationed at Th« Tent. Brooke Johns has given up the idea of abandoning cabaret work for vaudeville. Instead he Is foregoing the latter and continues as the single handed entertainer at The Tent where he has built up a following In the past several months as a society draw. Johns has been in- creased in salary from $750 to $1,000 at The Tent, exclusive of the sup- porting orchesra. Johns, after see- ing his name featured in front of the Palace and doubling with an- other local Keith house, two weeks? The followino have been engaged for the Ringside. v,'hich opered this v.'eek in the Earl Carroll The- atre Building: Tlu'lma Carleton, Murray and Wolff (female wres- tlers), Lillian Pearl. Connie Almy, Jean Sherrly, Bergen and Adams* Nat Mortan and Al Siegle's orches- tra, under the management of Wil- lie Leonard. Dorothy and Jay Hendricks hav« been engaged for the revue at th« Bongiavani, Pittsburgh. Marion Wirth and Florence Hou«« opened at tho Richmond Hotel, Richmond, Va., this week. A revue with fourteen people. In- cluding Josephine Savole, Lester Lane and Billie Shaw, will open next week at tho Beaux Arts.^ Phil- adelphia, booked by Harry Bestry. HEAR WILLI EUGENE I I SING THE NEW SENSATIONAL SONG HIT ''GEORGIA CABIN DOOR" , in the "PASSING SHOW OF 1922" »^ " . AT THE WINTER _GARDEN, NEW YORK Be the First to Get This New Hit—Wonderful Patterm Write!! Cjoll!! WiriJM^ ••VJ. ^