Variety (August 1925)

-*■■ •■•••¥. ' -*rr« VJTu'rfMmnnvuaDKSUi: VARIBTY OUTDOORS r«j"jfcW4 lO-^^.-'C. ' WednMday, August 18, 1928 RUBIN GRUBERG CHARGED WITH PETTY NICKING IndJependent Showmen on R. & C. Shows with Many Grievancet t K fe.. k'' Chicago, Auff. 11. ^ Reports from the Canadian fairs *i« to the effect that the Rubin and Cherry shows made monejr. But there are plenty of inside stories about Just how that money was made. It seems that when the show played the last stand this side of the border, Rubin Qruberg told the independent shows with his outfit that if they did not pay the office Ave i>er cent more on the grross. they mierht quit. Too late to make other affiliations, the shows had to stick. That five per cent meant much not only to the showmen but swelled the profits of the carnival consider- ably. It is also stated that a concession •perator, who does probably the largest business of any in the coun- try is much disgusted with the treatment given him and his men. Every little petty chaurge that could be thought up was tabbed against him. Oruberg operated his Juice Joints at Regina and on Tuesday when the concession price was aske' for he refused to pay it. He was told to tear them down and pay for the«two days, or his cook hpuse would be attached. The Independent showmen make no secret about their dissatisfac- tion, the various concession agents are sAre at the treatment of their chief and broadcast their grievances and the Rubin and Cherry shows iiave another season to consider as well as the big state fairs of the United States they hare contracted to'play. (7.000.000 AVAILABLE FOR PIIILA. EXPOSmON Sesquicentennial Calculated to Draw 50,000,000 Visitors to Quaker City PhiUdelphia, Aug. 11. The city of Philadelphia to date has expended or has authorised the expenditure of over 17,000,000 tor the Sesquicentennial Exposition. An advance attendance estimate by an official is placed at 50,000,000 for the six months the event will hold forth next year. This figure is I based on the fact that the exposition is within an hour's ride of over 10,- 000.000 people and that a nation- wide publicity campaign will be maintained. Barnes Boy* Quitting Chicago, Aug. 11. It seems certain Fred and Mike Barnes will sever connec- tions with the World Amuse- ment Asitoolatloa at the end of the present fair season. They will undoubtedly enter business as before^ on their own re- sources. Fred Barnes is at present ne- gotiating with the Western Vaudeville Managers Aosocla- tion to purchase acts, paying that organisation a 10 percent commission and relying on his resell prices for proAt. CARNIVAL GDtL HELD ON RIVAL'S WARRANT Rogers Too Attentive to Vema Beardsley to Suit Indig- nant Spou8« "POKER TEMT" RAIDED Sheriff and Wi/e Mistook it Side Show—Players Held for BREAKS BOTH LEGS Lighting 6lamedl <er R. Wolfe Missing Net W. Butler, Pa., Aug. 11. Visiting the circus grounds last Wednesday, where a Wild West show had t>een set up. Sheriff and Mrs. Harvey Hockenberry stepped into a large tent to see what was going on. The sheriff pulled aside a curtain and surprised ten men playing poker. While tiie sheriff and another of- ficer stood the men in line, Mrs. Hockenberry gathered in the money on the table and helped to take the names of the prisonera They were taken t>efore Justice of the Peace Theodore L.' Kearns of Lyndora, where they posted forfeits of $6.50 each. Salem, Mass.. Aug. 11. Robert W. Wolfe, dtunt acrobat with Miller Brothers carnival, was seriously injured last week when in doing a 100-foot head dive from a ladder he missed landing In the net, 1 striking the edge on his back and falling to the ground uncon- scious. He was rushed to a local hospital, where it was learned he received a compound fracture of both legs above the ankles and probable internal injuries. An x-ray will be taken. The accident was witnessed by a crowd estimated at mbre than 2,000, who stood around the net in the semi-darkness, the lighting facili- ties being very poor. Eihaployes of the show laid the blame for the accident upon the lights, declaring that Wolfe was unable to see the net plainly from the top of the 100 foot ladder. Wolfe declared it was his first injury in the nine years he has been doing this dive. May Export to German Fairs Without Permit Washington, Aug. 11. American manufacturers desiring to exhibit at forthcoming fairs in Germany may have their exhibits imported into that country without permit. The requirements are that goods registered at the custom houses in the exhibition cities, re- main under customs control during the stay in Germany and be re-ex- ported wltt^in two months after the close of that particular show. This is according to consul advices to the Commerce E>epartment. The five exhibitions scheduled be- tween now and the middle of Oc- tober are as follows: Koenlgsberg, Aug. 16-19; Breslau, Sept. 6-8; Kiel, WAYFARER" DREW $90,000 Seattle Spectacle Showed Profit of $25,000 Seattle. Aug. 11. Attendance at The Wayfayer, the great passion pageant given last week at the University^ Stadium, was 8S,57S. The total receipts were 1*0,010.80. Ehcpenses were around 165,000. In IMS. when the pageant was last shown here, the attendance as 72,114; receipts. $86,607. The society announced that the big pro- duction would not be staged in Seattle for three years, due to the time and trouble, as well as ex- pense, required. However, during the week beginning September 7. a modified "Wayfarer" will be put on at Vancouver, B. C, with the Gyro club backing the project. Costumes and scenery have been leased for the purpose. $75,000 Awards at K. C. Stock Show This Month Kansas City, Aug. 11. Awards of some $75,000. $10,000 more than last year, will be given to the Kansas City American Royal Lave Stock show, this season. It will be the S7th annual show and will be held in the rebuilt American Royal building. A feature this year in the program of the world-wide cattle show, is the opening of its doors to dairy cattle. including Jerseys' Holsteins, Guern- Sept 13-16; Cologne, Sept. 2S-Oct. Iseys and Ayrshlres. The total prizes 2. and Frankfort-Main. Oct. 2-T. Elgin's Pageant of Progress Elgin. 111.. Aug. 11. The city of Elgin is holding a Pageant of Progress this week under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce. There are no carni- val attractions connected with it. JOE BREN Production Co. NOW LOCATED IH OUR NBW orricBS , 1M6-10I0 Oarrick Theatre BslMInc Chiraro. III. SCENERY DiamoiMi Oye. Oil or Wat«r Colera ICBOU.L SrKNIC 8TVDIO OotambM O CHICAGO omolc H-W GIVES MATIHEK Quincy. III.. Aug. 11. Hagenback-Wallace circus, sched- uled here for i. Sunday perform- ance, filled its matinee date despite severe handicaps. The show was several hours late in arrival and it was 1 o'clock in tfie afternoon be- fore the tents reached the circus field. The first show did not begin until 5.15. but the evening performance was started promptly. Full per- formances were given and the pa- trons were well pleased. The show Jumped here from Springfield. OAKBUNO CLOSES CABHIYAL Pittsburgh, Aug. 11. A carnival playing at Frankstown and Lincoln avenues, which on Fri- day night was ordered to close down all its games of chance, was ordered to "take "its tents off the ground" by 9 o'clock the next morning by the police. The ousting order came after the commissioner of the district had re- ceived a complaint by a man that he had lost $16 while trying to win at games of chance. CIBCUS OntL ATTACSJJ) Pittsburgh, Aug. 11. Mrs. Sadie Wise, 26, a former cir- cus acrobat, is confined to a local hospital with a probable fracture of the skull received when she was attacked by two men in an auto- mobile \Anl week. Police are search- ing for the asHailiintH. f NEUMANN TENT & AWNING CO. '^'^e North May Street CHICAGO Phone Hsymsrket 2716 ST^JitrL* TENTS AND BANNERS e^ Sf^TTENtS AND eiRCUS SEATS FOR RENT Haad T« in this department total over $5,000. CHBIBTrS OH L. L Chicago. Aug. 11. Everyone predicted that the Long Island trip of the Christy circus would prove to be a bloomer, but the show fooled 'em. With the ex- ception of one stand, business was* big. Some of the long ears had Quite a time getting through on some of the third rail systems, and it took 10 days for one car to make It. The train is intact again. St John. N. B.. Aug. 11. Considerable mystery surrounds the arrest of Vema Beardsley, a local girl, while preparing to leave Halifax. N. S.. for Newfoundland. The girl had been traveling through the maritime provinces with the Rogers Show, a carnival aggrega- tion of minor classification, which has been playing week stands under auspices of fire departments. The girl is said to have Joined the show in St. John and to luive arranged to accompany the organ- isation to Newfoundland, where several stands have been b oked. Just as she was about to l>oard the steamer, a policeman appeared with a warrant for her arrest. She was detained in the Halifax police sta- tion while the show people left on the steamer. The warrant was sworn out by Mrs. Ray Rogers, wife of Ray Rogers, proprietor of the carnival. One report is that Mrs. Rogers objected to Verna traveling with her husband's show because of at- tentions showered on the girl by Rogers. Rogers has received some notoriety recently. following a thrilling motor pursuit of a whisky laden motor car on the Nova Sootia highways. The car was al>andoned, as well as the whisky. Rogers was not located for some weeks. He was also recently fined in Windsor, N. S., for operating gsunbling devices. Rogers has been connected with fcarnivals and fairs in Eastern Can- ada for several years and makes his home at Glasgow. N. 8. During the winter he operates Indoocs under various auspices. — . ,';!;. LA RUE'S RIDE COSTLY WIten Carnival Man Returned Helper Had Stolen Equipment Ilion, N. T.. Aug. 11. Cleve La Rue. operator of a travel- ing one-man wild west show, is off auto rides for the rest of his life. Also, he's through with playing Hhe Good Samaritan. La Rue had his outfit set up here last week. With him was a young man by the name of Perry whom he had signed up as a heli)er while playing in Binghamton. La Rue re- ceived an invitation to go on an auto ride. He went. When he re- turned Perry waf missing. So was show and personal property La Rue valued at $600. THBEE nrjUBED DT PIT Revere Beach, Mass., Aug. 11. Three person were injured in one day in the Pit. an amusement de- vice, on the boulevard here. H. O. Sharian, of Dorchester, sus- tanied a fractured right knee-cap and Armand Degagne, of Oranlteville, a fractured right hip when they were thrown from a revolving platform. Grace Stanley, aged 10, sustained a fractured right clavicle later in the day. All were t iken to Chelsea and Boston hospitals. CONCESSIONAIREB APPEAL New Haven. Aug. 11. Twenty-three concessionaires at Miiford Beach. Conn., found guilty of doing business on Sunday in violation of the law, and who were fined $25 and costs, have appealed. Ekich has posted $200 bond, pending a hearing in the common pleas court here. OTTO FLOTO IS BACK Mr. and Mrs. Otto Fioto I ave re- turned to New Yorlt, stopping at the Hotel Alamac. after a trip of 10 weeks over Europe. Otto and his brother. Bill Floto. are around together this week. Bill will leave for the midwest the end I of the week. Hearst Dailies Hold Over Flying Circus Washington, Aug. 11. Hearst's "Times" and "Herald." afternoon and morning dailies here, held over the Gates Flying Circus following that aggregation's appear- ahce here in the air circus staged by the army. The two dailies gave everything with a free gate and pulled enormous crowds out to the field for three days. Prior to the opening of each after- noon's show a land ofilce business was done by the Gates planes in carrying passengers. Watermelon Festival Lake Preston, S. D., Aug. 11. Classifying watermelons for the annual Watermelon ■ Festival here, Sept. 7, is the hardest labor in con- nection v^ith it. This festival is one of the season's unique events of the section. aOVT. ZOO WANTS KEEPERS • Washington, Aug. 11. The local National Zoo is in need of •several assistant keepers. Men familiar with the care of wild beasts are wanted. By writing to the Civil Service Commission, Wash- ington, D. C, a "berth" with Uncle Ham may be obtained. The salary Is $1,140 a year. HIP AFTEK HIPPO Chicago, Aug. 11. John Shults, booker of the Keith- Albee Hippodrome in New York, is in town negotiating with Jerry Mug- givan for the purchase of a baby hippopotamus to add to the toy de- partment of the big vaudeville theatre. RIDES CLOSEI TO AVOID ACCIDENT ^"N\- Glen Echo's Managemi Preferred "Safety Firtt'*'' Precautions Washington, Aug. ll. For the first time in the histc of Glen Bcho, Washington's ami ment park, as well as in the 26- years that its manager, Leonard Schloss, has been managing oi door ventures,, practically ei ride in the place has heen cl down to avoid injury to youngster due to the vast cr. at the park on Wednesday of tel week. The occasion was a lo, shoe ptore's "Fun Club" day, tl had been "plugged" for a good months In advance. Bchloss states that the 1$,« kids, along with their parent made an onslaught on the park minute the gates opened and stt, throughout the entire day. Althoui he has had much larger crow4 recorded on a single day on pi. vious occasions, there has been moving bunch going and coming until the final closing hour. N4 so, though, with the "Fun CIil. youngsters. They came early ai stayed late, and in so doing nt< ally swamped the park. RIDE DISPUTE Order Restrains Removal of M« Qo-Round Springfield, Mass., Aug. 11. An order has been issued in the Superior Court restraining the re- moval of a merry-go-round from Joyiand, local amusement park. The park company seeks a receiver te Uke charge of the ride, naming tl Spillman Manufacturing Co., a Mariano Pavone of Rochester, N. Pavone had agreed. It is alleg. to operate the ride from June t Sept. 7. At the end of each the park owners were to receive per cent of the receipts and Pavoi 76 per cent. It is asserted Pav^ has failed to perform his part the agreement and now owes the l men $117.85. It further is char Pavone has left the state. An ad- ditional $380 is asked on this charge. Pavone. it is said, bought the merry- go-round from the Spillman com- pany on the installment plan and! not fully paid for it. CAKHIVAL BT COEENSON Los Angeles, Aug. 11. Sam Corenson has been selected to provide carnival attractions and three acts at the Embracadero FiesU Grande, the San Francisco Diamond Jubilee Celebration, Sept 5-12. The Jubilee will be held on the Plasa facini^ the steamship pierg overlooking the harbor. nroiAN BODEO OUTDBAWS FalU City, Neb., Aug. 11. More than 2,500 persons attended rival rodeos, one at White Cloud, Kan., and the other at Du Puis. Neb., both 18 miles from here. The all-Indian rodeo at White Cloud, where five Indian tribes "par- ticipated, drew the largest crowd. TightS Silk Opera Hose and Stockings Are Our Speoialties QUALITY the BEST and PRICES the LOWEST lold and Sllvei Broc&daa, Tbeairua. lawalry. (SpanKi**, cto. Oold and Sil- ver TrlmmlngB. Wlsa, Beard* and ■•> Oooda TbaatrloaL 8aini>laa apon re lueaL « J. J. WYLE & BROSm inc. 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