Variety (July 1924)

Wednesday, July 16, 1981 OUTDOORIS VARIETY C9 liGUSH PRINCE IaY HAVE LOST TEXAS PONY idn't Call for It at Wem- bley Stadium—Newly Wed* Did Well Liondon, July 1. Ihe final declBlona ol the Judges tli« Wembley rodeo were made ibUo today. The men seemed to kve no kick save In the bronk (Inc. It la the opinion of most the boys that Jess Coates (Amerl- in), should have taken the first oney In place of Howard Teg- nd (Canadian). There have been any arguments among the con- •tants, but they all appear to r«ck In Coates' favor. It was a ote contest and a hard one to idge, but It surely did look like tgland was outridden. The de- ■lons on trick roping and rldfng, illdogging and steer roping were icepted without a protest The Prince of Wales attended the thlbitlon yesterday, but avoided le rodeo. He has not as- yet given tptaln Hickman a chance to pre. nt him with the pony from Texas, be boys would like to have him ime to the show, but they won't «1 put out If he doesn't. The newlyweds of the rodeo have )ne remarkably well. Buck Lucas th« bit 9t tb* «bow. Tb« Bnglfaih people get more pleaxur* out of Red and 'Vpark Plug" than they do In • whole year of ordinary elowns or comte actor*. Red !• besieged with newspai>ermen, ertiats who want bis autograph. He has been offered |90D for tbo mulo, but re- tnsed to sell. The autograph craxe In this coun- try Is the curse of the cowboys' ex- istence. A cowboy can't go outside without dozens of women and chil- dren running after bim with pencils and books, shouting '"Won't you please sign my book." The boys with the broken arms are lucky. Smckoy More'* Bout Smokey More, the fighting cow- boy. Is booked to have a fight with some ring professional in the near future, but the details for the bout have not as yet been arranged. If the Prince doesn't come out for bis pony, Captain Hickman may sell It to the highest bidder. Al- ready Hickman has received offers of $600 for the "horse the Prince was some day to use.'* N. Y. RODEO AT GARDEINlNOa. The "Menominee," which took the rodeo contestants to the Imperial Rodeo in London sailed for hdliie with most of the bunch aboard July 8 and will arrive in New Tork har- bor July 20. Tex Austin and his secretary. Frank Moore, remained behind making other business arrange- RODEO NEWS lOk first in the bull^oggingi $1,500 k1 some day moneys In the same rent, and Tad Barnes (Mrs. Buck ucas) took second In the relay, u in the relay money every day, Id third in the trick riding. This ip to England la taking the place : their honeymoon. It sure paid lem well to come over. Sunday night, the contestants ere Invited to Landsdowne House, ic home of Mr. Self ridge for a real Igb-class blowout. There was lampagne and wine. In fact every- ling that a cowboy wants. Every ie had a good time and saw a real It of the social life of the high- it class in England. Mr. Selfridge the owner of the largest Ameri- in department store in England. Rider Kicked in Head In yesterday's show Homer Ward as thrown from bis steer and Icked in the head. He was taken > the hospital, biit>. the doctors lU not give the resblt of their ^gnosis without an X-ray. This is w second time Ward has been In- ired during the show. Les Collier also out, owing to a severe strain laUlned In bulldogglng. Red Sublett and his mule are still ments, leaving London on the "Leviathan" yesterday (July 15). As soon as they arrive the pre- liminary plans for the presentation of the American Championship Rodeo to be held in Madison Square Garden in October will be attended to. Captain Tom Hickman Is In charge of the return trip of the ,"Menomlnee." RODEO NOTES ^♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦» ^ NOW PLAYING JERRY DREW ORCHESTRA «t COLUMBIA PARK NORTH BERGEN, N. J. BOOKED BT J. A. DRISCOLL ■«*Bi 8«0, Aator Thratre Balldlng Kew Xork City Bee Ho Gray ad Ada Summer- vlUe and their congress of rough riders are playing the county fa|rs through Iowa. Bee carries 12 head of stock and has a midway show besides working on the track as a free act. It is a neat outfit and getting the money. Carl Haupt, an old-timer, hai\ the wild west concert on the OoUmar Bros. Circus. Tom Howard Is manager of the wild west show on the T. A. Wolff's shows. The show lasts 25 min- utes, ^teer wrestling is out, but steer riding is the big hit. The roster is as follows: Tom Howard, manager; M. Young, steer rider; J. 8. Smith, bronk rider; Boy Snyder, steer wrestler; Pauline Rock, trick rider; Ed Erwln, bronk rider; Chas. Rothrock, bronk rider and trick rider; Zeb.Jones, clown. WATEBBUBT PABK BEOFEBS The Dow agency Is booking vaude- ville and feature acts at Luna Park, Waterbury, Conn. The park reopened last week, after having been closed for several, due to damage by fire. IT WILL CERTAINLY PAY YOU To Do Business With Us THESE ARE THE REASONS: One price only for e.ach article. Same day shipments Ruarantecd. Most complete line of concession goods. Dolls, Blankets, Auto Robes, Cameras, Clocks, Silverware, Jewelry, Lsather Cioods, Table and Floor Lamps, Wheels and Paddles. YOU NEED OUR FORTY-FOUR PAGE, 1924 CATALOG. IF YOU DID NOT GET IT — WRITE FOR IT TODAY FAIR TRADING CO., Inc. 309 Sixth Ave. New York COWMANAT68 WINS CONIBT Jesse Tanner Roped Calf in 22 Seconds; Also * Judged Chicago. July IS. ' At tbe Oravada, Colo., Rodeo Jesse Tanner, one of tbe Judges, won the calf roping In 22 seconds. Mr. Tan- ner la 68 jlears old, an old time cow- man and at present foreman of one of tbe biggest cattle outfits In Colorado. The trick : oping contest was won by Chief Tojng Deer and Princess Sunshine. They appeared In full Indian regalia. Both are well known wild west folks. About <,000 paid admissions for the Fourth, considered very good. The winners In tbe various events were: One-Half Mil* Raca (Cowpony) First—Ray Martin. Second—Bill Chou8«. One-Quartor Mil« Rac* First—Ray Martin. Second—Ade Vanlandlnghan. Ona-Quarter Mile (Cowpony) First—Harry Steode. Second—Dave John. Relay Race First—Ray Martin. Second—Ade Vanlandlnghan. Calf Roping First—Jesse Tanner, 22 sec Second—Leonard White, 20 sec Bronk Riding First—Johnson Eberle. Second—Wlllard Brooks. Boat Bucking Horso Allen Johnson, $60. Wild Cow Milking First—Jesse Tanner, time 1.15. Second—Ray Martin, time 1.20. Judges Jesse Tanner. George A. Baxter. C. O. Smelta Race BERNSTEINLIKES POUNDS AND MARKS Just Stepping . in New York to Test Out New Scheme "Got a cigar, bo?" ashed |iYeeman Bernstein as bo breezily blew in early the other morning, looking like an Arrow collar lltho, excepting his suit. That's good, and does a little drink go with?" continued the guy who uses Ice water for blood. "Do you know" said Freeman, a« he sh^ok bis Panama, '19, "that New York Is tbe only place I feel at home? Somehow this is tbe only town where I get what I want when I want IL "Just Mopped off going through," added Freeman, who thought he saw the dreaded fear of a touch In his listener's lamps. "Don't worry, kid, it's too early to try to work now; so here I am, talking to you as of old and wanting to get jpour Idea of my newest scheme. "The next you hear of me I may be in Chill or Canada, as I hpve been studying up extradition rather than Prohibition. You know we guys who travel fast and are called explorers must be conservant with the self-protectors. Do you get my smooth flow of language? Picked it up on a boat from a Spanish Prince on my way up from Mexico. He was a very nice fellow and I promised to show him a good time if he ever saw me on Broadway. If he ever sees me it will be through the windows of a hearse. "Oh yes. I have been liT Mexico. Surprised you didn't hear of It. I was an oil salesman down there. Don't you remember that oil well I nearly discovered In Kentucky? Well, bo, I discovered It all over again In Mexico. Yes, sir, they can say what they want to about Mex, but I say it's a great country eve.n If T am never going back tftere. Lea $68,000 behind in cash, too, but INSIDE STUFF ON THE OUTDOORS Circusmen As Double-Crossers . Circuses may have "cleaned up" to a greater or lesser extent as far aa the public Is concerned, or the gypping of the public, and some of them may have gotten rid of the gun mobs, but few have overcome their habit of stealthily doing anything to hurt un opposition circus that they wouldn't do In the open. This applies more so among circuses than among the carnivals. Tha carnival men as a rule allow each of their fellow owners tp do as ha pleases and stand for what he does, without seeking an individual advan« tage from or through the mistakes or misfortunes of others. But the circus people, and it seems to go for the highest as well as for the lowest as a rule, delight In sending ahead of another circus on Ita route any adve-se criticism or other matter that might Influence a town or its people or officials against the show getting the bad report. No matter what may be said against the other circus, whether it was' working grift or carrying an Immoral show, or gave a bad performance, got into a Jam locally or had any of Its people pinched for disorderly con- duct, other circuses may be depended upon to clip that published account and send It ahead. One of the biggest circus Institutions in the country takes a delight In doing Just these things and, in fact, wherever possible. Inspire adverse notices In ord ""r to send them ahead. Whether It's Just sneak stuff or animosity Is never disclosed, since the circusmen when together ara friendly enoug!i or profes to be with each other. If some of the "posltlo i guys" who do those things bad bead enougb to know that they make It Just as tough for themselves or help to'bring the entire circus business Into disrepute, they might tell their preaa department to stick to the press business only. Although a reformed circusman may be like a reformed anything else, he's a terrible nuisance while reformed, but there Is always the chance he will go back to bis old bablt or trieks at the first opportunity. They say n. reformed drunkard bears an everlasting enmity against any drunk he meets and It may be a reformed grlfter feels sore because he's not the only reformed grlfter. Not meaning any one reformer grlfter but all of the reformed grifters, those who are and those who say they are. Nellie Revell Is at the Hotel Clarldge, New York, comfortably parked In a commodious corner suite overlooking Rroadway. The suite Is a large parlor, large bttdroom and large bath. It's a suite In fact and not In the usual Broadway hotel name only. Sd Arlington Is the host to hih guest, and why he's a boat and Nellie Is a guest, Nellie found out by asking. After returning from Atlantic City last Wednesday, Miss Revell reached her "apartment" in the Clarldge and the next day was visited- by Mr. Arlington's secretary, as the former circus man has a number ot hotels in mid-New Yorft. , The secretary didn't know her boss had ever been on the lot, and it's questionable If she ever had heard of a lot. But the young woman Informed Miss Revell that Mr. Arlington wanted to know If everything was all right and If he noulC do anything for her. Nellie answered: "Evaorthlng is all wrong until I know about tbe 'nut,' and yod tell htm that." The young woman asked If the nut needed ttiiig, and Nellie said she though: It would have to be adjusted. Later in the day the secretary returned to say with real solemnity that "Mr. Arlington says everything Is o. k., you can 'set up' and go the limit because the town is fixed for murder." Later, Arlington called upon Nellie and told her not to send the cute messages through the sec. again, as the girl was threatened with nerve trouble over the first two. Then Eddie told Nellie the rate tor the suite. When Nellie beard it she thought the hotel man had declared her In one the Clarldge. The suite Nellie has usually gets $20 a day. She's paying about 25 pei' cent of that, and only paying anything because staa Insisted upon it. Publicity That Broke Wrong A suspicion has lurked In New York that the piibllcity given the Wem- bley Rodeo by the English papers wasn't Just .the publicity Charles B. Cochran had worked on. Cochran is a foxy kid with London papers; ba makes them print what they don't think they ever will print. "That o/ten has happened, until Cochran has grown accustomed to getting bis stuff over. He's so far ahead now of the English press it nefer will catch up to him. The chances are that, knowing some noise should be made aibout an Innovation and in sports such as the rodeo was to London, Cochran framed to "steabn up" the English Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He may have steamed up the society, but a steer threw the monkey wrench when it had the bad grace to break its leg In public. If the "steaming up" process had been properly gone through with, and no doubt it had been, that was a break for the society. It couldn't have framed It better, and the society hopped right on to It. An English writer in "The Clipper" recently said that the fact four horses had been killed in the National Steeplechase was nothing alongside of that steer breaking its leg. When four horses are killed In one race, that Is sport, but for a steer to break a leg, that Is .cruelty. Before the society got through Cochran had had all be wanted of publicity. It wearied him. Probably he never before bad encountered a bunch of reformers. It seemed the same way with the Prince of Wales. The Prince is the honorary president of the society and the society looked to the Prince to wlthdr%w his sanction for the rodeo. , But the Prince of Wales is one of the best Americanised Englishmen In England and he knows all about rodeos, also all other forms of western U. S. sports. He sidestepped the society and, while calling at the British Empire exhibition, he evaded watching the rodeo riding, which left him free from criticism. The humane societies ovei here have raised similar outcries against the rodeo. ' Up to date, however, no society has caused tbe arrest of a horse that kicked a rider In the head or brok# all of his ribs, but any time a rider doesf't throw a steer Just in the way an unskilled reformer thinks he should, the reformer wants the Flder arrested. In London one steer suffered a broken leg and 89 American rodeo riders were Injured. No one yet ever haa suggested that the reformers be given a chance to ride a steer so that they may gather the correct angle of tbe whole rodeo sport. Meanwhile Cochran and Tex Austin (American promotor) had to sit pat and watch the old women get away with their stuff, although the two rodeo promoters won out in the end. During the wait, though, they suffered through drops of attendance of 50 per cent, at times. That was a lot when after the opening performance of the London rodeo it looked as though the Wembley Stadium would play to 125,000 people dally (two performances). the bank wasn't open that early tbe morning I left. "The Clipper" Was Rough" "Say, did you see 'The Clipper'? It had a story al(out me. A fresh guy trying to be fftnny—and h gave him a cigar, too. No wonder that paper blew up last week; it ought to after the story It had about me. "You're al>out the only one of this gang I can put any faith in and that's why I am taking you into my confidence on this new schemr, juKt for your opinion, though, and dou't spring It or tell anyone, for this la some Idea, bo. "You see, coming up on the boat I had a lot of time to think and read. I worked out a plan to book around here and other things, but so for they have set me back, and if you hear I have taken tbe fenca again, hold that out, will you? "You remember those stories yoa used to put In Variety and I thought them all right because everyona around the square knew me, so It (Continued oo pa4(e it)