Variety (August 1925)

■'inrcii'' 81 VARIETY MUSIC -^'^ ■t*-: -"■■^rq Wei9n<ttaay. Augusl 5, 1985 LEADING ORCHESTRAS I IRVING AARONSON AND HIS COMMANDERS NOW RitZ CARLETON HOTEL AT LANTIC CITY, N . J. THE ORIGINAL Broadway Entertaiiiert new with •<Arti«U and Modeb" Co. APOLLO THEATRE, CHICAGO Indefinitely ACE BRIGODE and Hu 14 Virginians 24« West Slat Street NEW YORK rlMae CIral* 17M BROWN-AGLE'S x^ I WALTER DAVISON and his Louisville Loons Toorliic Orpheam Oircett Baok horn* In LonlsTllla for tka Mimmar, at Rainbow Oardaaa OPBMINO SWl Mh ICHARLESDORHBERGEKI and Hit Orchewita Playing at the maonifioant Kanaaa City Athletic Club, Kanaaa City, Mo. BreadMMUac NIahtly Thronah Stotloa ••WDAF" VICTOR RECORDS JEAN GOLDKETTE i Orchestra Tletor B«<»rdiBa ArtMa Ifanaaement of '. Jean doldkette drchettras 17 Brady Street DETROIT ORCHESTRA Mew nmriam ABCADIA BALUIOOM •fM*H» at IM MTMt. mm Vift JO& W. KAT. Manager WILBUR DE PARIS AND HIS Cotton Pickers "PICKIN' COTTON" Playing Dance Tour DIrvaUae JACK nOBU laM B'way. M.T. EDDIE FRAZIER and his Orchestra TMmlaatiBf aa Bicht Mfnttaa' nnent at the PLANTATION CAFE, Culver City, Cal. Op«B for aavacemaDt aftar A«v. t 1«0» PolnMttia DriTo. HaU j w o aS. OeL Phone Heaapataad 17M 'Music Tax' on Checks Juat to be "dirty" some of the cabaret proprietor* In Cbl- cago and mldweet are denot- ing the Ctovemment tax on thair checks as "mualo tax." The theory la that this sur- chanre will enlist publlo sym- pathy airalnst the taxation by the American Society of Com- poeers. Authors and Publish- ers for the prlTllsc* of ustn« their copjrrichted mnsle Cor profit. As a matter of fact, the so- called "teuslo tax" Is the Ctor- emment's luxury surchargs on restaurant cheeks snessdlng tio. DAN GREGORY HEARST GIVES HIMSELF UP; BROKE Canadian Music Publisher Heard Of—^Price on HUHead MUSICALS LUCKY BUY PltUbunrh. Auc. 4. An old dust-covered violin, found in a heap of dlsoarded artloles in the garret and exchanged by a Mt. Pleasant youth for a saxophone, has been found to be an antique Instru- ment valued at more than $10,000 by William P. 8ohwarts of Beeoh- view, a local theatre musician, who purchased the violin at a low price aoon after the exohang*. The Identity of the boy who traded the inatniment to a Pittsburgh mu- sical inatrument dealer has not been learned. Schwarts said he purchased the violin after a dosen strokes of the bow had revealed a tone he had never before heard from any instru- ment. He removed the black ac- cumulation on It and established Its luster before taking it for examina- tion to a connoisseur of old violins staying at a Pittsburgh hoteL There the expert declared: "It Is a genuine Peter GuamlerL" The expert explained that the In- strument had been made prior to the year 1700 and easily valued at 110.000. Schwartz refused an offer of |8,000 for the instrument and has pur- chased a bow of ancient Torti manu- facture valued at $800 to make his outfit complete. VICTOR'S PATENT MAY EXPLAIN CUT RATING Application for New Reproduc« ing Device in Patent Office —Stock at Half Price pSLEEPY HALL ^ and His Orchestra Attar oomplatlnc a auocaaafnl aa- racement at Clnb CrllloB. Chleaco. apeniaa Jalr 1, for return enfaaement at CLOB DADNOU. PARIS. PRANCB. Permanent address, H. Y. P. Club, 821 Plymouth Ct., Chicago Crystal Palace Orchestra Exclualve Victor. Record Artiets SS«h street, aaar Broadway, Mew Tetli MAL HALLETT PBAVE HARMAN | AND ORCHESTRA on TODB it addraaai WIlHaaaapert. I TEDHENKEL i^( and hu Orchestra LEIQHTON'S CAFETERIA >S1 B. Braedway. Laa Saaalea VIRGINIA HOTEL LONG BEACH K. r. O H. MUrktly. ISdS to lliSS snd hia Versatile Entertaining Band Permsnent sddress. Box 612; Lswrenoe, Mass. •nrOURINQ NEW ENGLAND" Managementt Charles Shriebmsn FLETCHER HENDERSON AND HIS Roseland Orchestra OOUmBIA BBCOBO AKIURS AT ROSELAND BALLROOM Brosdwsy snd Sist St, N. Y. C Origmal hdiana 5 jThe Origjnal Mcmplik 5 ON DANCE TOUR Direction BptNIE FOYER 1674 Broadway, New York Record and Radio Artists New Playing Cinderella Ballroom 4Stk street and Broadwar, New Teak TOmnr MOBTOM, lUaacca BiehaaaM HUl S47S. Btarltec SStS DINTY MOORE'S PRYQR MOORE ORCHESTRAS 4 ll(l<l> ltK(», ( \KKTKHI\S «ONTIH(TIN<i »rni\l I).\\( K LOS ANGELES I RADIOLIANS RAY WALKER. Director ^ I . > STH MONTH AT CHUMMY CLUB 711 7th Avenue, N. Y. C. ■epreaentatlTai HABBT PRABL I HARRY STODDARD 1^ AND HIS 'Ittreeti of Hew York Oroheitra" .Ksith-Albae and Orphaum Cirouita Direction ROSS * OCBTIS rBB. ADD. VBIAB8 OI/VB. M. V. I MR. AL TUCKER aad hla SOCIETY ORCHESTRA Ketth-Orpheum Circuits IMreetloa Bernard Borke Orchestra Second Year Hunter island Inn Pelham Shore Road New York Baalaeaa BaUder Bead DAVE PEYTON and hla Symphonic Sjmcopators The Paal Whlteman of the Colored Orohaatraa Palaee. Chlaace, ladeSaltaly The SANGAMO BAND DICK I,UBntT. BMOBT DAHOHBKTT Now at the Powhatan Hotel Roof W«ahlncte«'a Moat BzelaalTe Boe« Wlnblpec, A«v. 4. J. X. Hearst, absconding Canadian music publisher, has surrendered himself to the local polios. It is remarkable bow a man so physically conspicuous as Hearst could have evaded the authorities for a year despite the iarys award ottered for his arrest. Hearst was wanted on a criminal chaiss of de- fraudiniT stockholders In the Hearst Music C6. Marked by a withered left ann, like the former Kaiser's, plus a prominent rrowth on his forehead, coupled with other physi- cal distinctions, Hearst suocessfnlly evaded the police until he came into the Winnipeg poUoe headquar- ters last week and gave himself up, stating he had heard thers was a warrant and a Ulk^ reward out for his arrest Hearst, alias Nathaniel Hlrseh and Nathaniel Osboma, was believed to be somewhere in South America, Ukinc with him between $(00,000 and $760,000 in cash derived from "blue-sky" sales In his muslo pub- lishing enterprises. He confessed having been in Oermany, the oddity being he was enabled to re-enter Canada, pass the customs offldals without detection and walk through the streets of Winnipeg with safety until he surrendered himself. To propagate his stock promotion schemes Hearst for a time was de- claring abnormal dividends as part of the "come-on." He operated ex- tensively throughout the Dominion and in the.United States, maintain- ing elaborate quarters in Chicago and New York. Thomas J. Qulgley was the general professional man- ager in Chicago. It culminated in an involuntary bankruptcy against Hearst, following his disappearance. The American professional men were not paid ott the last two weeks, Quigley taking over the Hearst cat- alog and suite in Chicago and con- tinuing with Edgar Benson, the band booker, as Qulgley-Benson, Inc. Hearst's bail wtw placed at $10,- 000, a ridiculously low amount in view of the amount lost which the ex-promoter could not raise, con- fessing himself penniless. Tell Taylor's Old Song Not a Cop Convincer Chicago, Aug. 4. TeU Taylor, local song writer and publisher, fell from grace recently and minij:le<Y rather freely with Demon Rum. After several years of teetbtalism a few sips wew enough to interfere with his efflciency as an automobile driver. He was stopped at an intersect'cn by a cop. The OOP told him to drive, around the comer. Taylor did—and kept on going. When ths cop overtook him In a taxi and asked who he was Taylor told him he was the song writer. This didn't impress the cop so Tay- lor to prove it sang one of his old ballads, "Down by the Old Mill Stream." Later at the sUtion he also rendered the ballad for the magistrate to convince him. Taylor's friends rescued him the next morning. CHARLEY STRAIGHT AND HIS Rendezvous Orchestra BROADCA8TINO NIOHTLV WJJD RENDEZVOUS CAFE. CHICAGO r BBOKE DOWN ABBOAD Domonlco Savino, composer, sails from Milan Aug. 6. Savino went over with Vincent Lopes as his mtisical arranger and subsequently suffered a nervous breakdown, ne- •essitating recuperation abroad. HALSTEAD OFENINO BALLBOOM Los Angeles, Aug. 4. Henry Halstead, whose orchestra played at the St. Francis Hotel, San Franqisco. for a year and is now playing at "The Lodge," To- semlte, will come to Los Angeles to open the new Hollywood ball- room of James Morley and Chsu'les Ward Sept. 15. The ballroom is located on Selma avenue, near Sunset, in the heart of Hollywood. Washington. Aug. 4. All Victor dealers in WashingtoC^ are selling their stock of Vtctrolas and records at reduced prices an4:; advertising with big displays dailyJ From the most expensive down ts! the camping outfits the instruments' are going at half price. Records.^ including some of the latest Reaj Seal issues, are going at SB and 4|| cents each. Variety's reporter, although get-'^; ting nothing definite, learned froiv^ a reliable source that the Vict Company has an application pend« ing at the present time in the Pat> ent Office for a reproducing Instru- ment that will do away with all the-] "evils" of the present device. The officials of the Patent Office wiU never discuss an application until it is granted, but from this same source. It was learned that tests have been made that have met with excellent results. Victor dealers in New York are also slashing prices. Marks' Damage Suit The Eidward B. Marks Music Co. has started suit for $25,000 damages against J. Fred Coots, musical com< edy composer. Marks is suing on a contract to publish one of Coots' scores. The plaintiff alleges that after Coots wrote "Spices of 1»24" (the Jack Lait show) it agreed to accept the next Coots' production for pub* lioation. That show is "June DaQrs." ooming into the Astor, New York, which Harms, Inc., is publishing. Lyman's Band Joins Aerial Reserre Station Los Angeles. Aug. 4. Abe Lyman and his Ambassaaor orchestra bear the distinction of being the first organisation of their kind to be attached to an Aerial Reserve Station. Lyman and his outfit of 11 men were sworn into the "SSSnd Pursuit Squadron" as a group band of the Reserve Force. All members of the orchestra were given the awlvel chair test at Clover Field by Army medical offi- cers and passed, including Abe himself. They will receive an eight months leave of absence from the Army to enable them to begin a trip on the Orpheum Circuit and also an en- gagement at the College Inn, Chi- cago. OLSEFS DOUBLDTO George Olsen and his music from the Ziegfeld "FolUes" opened at the fashionable Bmbassy Club Monday. When the "Follies" leaves town the Marilynn Miller show, "Sunny," fol- lows into the New Amsterdam. Olsen will double between that show and the supper club. JOHES nr COAST BALLBOOMB Los Angeles, Aug. 4. Isham Jones, who has an open week on his Orpheum tour, is taking advantage of it by playing a num- l>er of the better class ballrooma is Southern California this week. Oeorge McCarthy, of the Cinder- ella Roof, filled in the dates for him. with Jones tp double at the Roof with the Qlen Oswald, Victor outfit. Aug. 6. ST. LOUIS OH AX. CIBCinT Chicago, Aug. 4. Harry W. Trimpb pioneer dance hall operator of St Louis, has des- ignated the American Ballroom Cir- cuit to supply the musical aggrega- tions for his dance halls. The con- tract is for one year. Polia's Band May Double W. C. Polia's Clover Gardens or- chestra is touring Loew vaudeville around New York -over the summer. The Clover Gardens ballroom re- opens In September and Polia's band, a prominent Edison, Columbia and Okeh recording unit, may take up the doubling proposition if book- ings can be arranged. PUBLICITY PUN SERVICE In < is a simple and inexpensive manner of keeping your name or business before the show business of the world each week. Gives displayed or pictorial publicity for 52 weeks each year. Amount may be regulated by the advertiser. 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