Variety (August 1925)

yjiiUSEMENTS INTERNATIONAL NUMBER TIMES SQUARE Publlahad WMklf at lt4 West 4<tb 8t^ N«w Tork. N. V.. by VartMy, Inc. iUwuai aubacrlptlon ST. Sinci* copies 19 cents. Batersd ss second elsas tnattsr De«emb«r tt. I>0t. at ths Post Oflic* at New Tork. N. T.. under tbe Act of March i. IVtt. VOL. LXXX. No. 2 NEW YORK CITY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925 64 PAGES NIGHT LIFE OF THE WORLD ^ARAnor OF VALENTINOS I PUBLICITY FOR 2 PICTURES ?y Hfln. Valentino and Husband Give Separate Luncheons to New Yoric Women. Picture Writ- Separation J^ ers to "Announce*' M At the Tavern restaurant on R^wrt 48tli street. New Tork, last fireek Mrs. Natacha Hudnut Valen- tino gave a luncheon to the women picture writers on the New Tork fcriWes. at which time she announced ti separation b«tween her husband find self. EUach of the women writers the CoUowlns day claimed It •■ their "exclusive" story. I Los Angreles, Aug:. VL f iV7eII timed and thought out pub- ' (Continued on page 12) THE WORKS'FOR iCBEAUn \V CONTEST Inside Story "Miss Amei^ Picked to Keep tea Interest Alive rVoUowing Variety's story last to the effect that a New Tork eatrica^ producer's aasociates ed he had the national beauty^ Mbtest at AUantic City "sewed up" tor one of his musical comedy prin- ^P^ came information from an |Uthorltative source that the yearly Miss America" contest is "the 'Orics" for Atlantic City. Two influential men of Atlantic "Ky are claimed to be behind the ompetiaon with full powers. The ontest, as a flnal, comprises final- Its in previous competitions from « over the country. In the »ea- inore event next month it is ex- 'eoted that 100 cities will be repre- eoted With 103 conteatanU. Aioong the nine Judges now set- (Continued on page 2) ySlTEMA» PATENTS HIMSELF ^f the first time an orchestra »der has registered himself as a •a. Letters Patent for trade pro- wtive purposes. Paul Whlteman has instructed his tw^ors to agister his name as a Me-mark in the Patent Offlce, foa- "■ing the oval Whlteman likeness •ated by Ed RandalL Variety's Radio Invite station WOR. the L. Bam- berger & Co. department store station at Newark, which has a New Tork control studio at 1440 Broadway, New Tork, has invited Variety to take up an hour oa its program next month. A. J. McClosker. speak- ing for WOR, stated it was a gesture of friendliness to Va- riety to afford it an opportun- ity for self-exploitation via the ether. An hour's program any day In September was pre- ferred. It was explained that Variety ts the only theatrical paper thus InvitadL WOR's invitation declined with thanks. Hang^ing on to "Punch" Jolson Must Be Peppy Al Jolson wiU remain In New Toi^ bat 16 weeks. That is the stipulation he made for the resump- tion of "Big Boy" Monday when the show relighted the 44th street The limiting of "Big Boy's" Broadway engagement is explained by the temperament of the star, who declares he loses his stage punch after prfllonged engagements. Jolson explains he needs first nights to keep him pepped up. It makes little difference in what city but Invariably the first night finds him as nervous as any prima donna. Beauty with Booze Rye. N. H., Aug. 2S. Bleanora Richardson, of New Tork, who won a recent beauty con- test, was fined $100 and costs In Municipal Court here for Illegal possession of liquor, as tbe result of raids by ofllcera Two cases and a quart of whisky were aoised. (First of a seriM to bo published in wookly installmonta detsiiins night life in the best known cities of Amorioa and Europe.) NEW YORK New Tork's night life Is outwardly drab, but privately colorful, of a daring and brilliance not approached in the halcyon days of Rector's, Shanley's and Delmonico's when everything was wide open, the "nick" on the b.r. light and the gaudiness heavy. Instead, the night life of present-day New Tork has given way to a private, almost secretive aspect, necessarily mo be- cause of the eighteenth amendment and Ita relation to tho cup that cheers. There is a remnant of public night life left in the cafes and cabarets along Broadway, in Greenwich Vil- lage and the local rialtos of Harlem, the Bronx and Lower East Side and suburban roadhouses, but it doesn't begin to compare to the apartment parties nightly, away from prying eyes and ears, with all the conveni- ences of everything that is conveni- ent and pleasurable and at a mini- mum cost. It all sums up as the aftermath of prohibition. "Throwing a ptrty" means but one thing these days— booso with consistent and thorough (Continued on page <> ENGLISH BASELY REFLECTED i IN COWARD'S 'VORTEX'-^WAFFER ^-.^l-j- RADIO ARUSTS FORM FOR PAY London's Best Known Play Critic "Goes Aftei^' Friend and Author in Letter to Variety—Sajrs Production of Play on Broadway an Insult By HENNEN SWAPPER Red Hot Music for Red Hot Firemen Seyiwur, Conn., Aug. 28. The local Noumawauk band is going to play for the flrrmen at all fires here in the future. The bandsmen have voted to attend fires and regale the flro laddies with music. Among the special numbers already chosen are "Lot It Rain. Let It Pour;" Hall to the Chi*." and "The Firemen's La- ment." 4 8, St. Martin's PUo«^ ' I Trafalgar Square. J London. W. C. 2. Aug. 8. UK. Iidltor Variety: When I was lunching today with Basil Dean, who is a man I bold in the highest respect, and whose theatrical management in London has served Art with a fidelity and courage, I told him I would chal- lenge him concerning his produo- (Continued on page 2) Money, Not Glory, Here- after in Chicago Chicago, Aug. IS. A group of singers and other en- tertainers over the ether have or- ganised themselves into the Radio Broadcasting Artists Association and are out to force the stations to pay for their servicea No fixed remuneration is sought. They wish merely to entablish the precedent of working for hire in- stead of for glory. It is said stations WMAQ ("Dally News") and WHT (Thompson- Wrlgley) have already paid fees to certain entertainers, although of- ficials of the studios wlU not con- firm It. THE NIGHT LIFE OF THE WORLD Commencing with ,this issue, Variety will publish in serial form "The Night Life of the World," giving one chapter weekly devoted to a world known city or community. This week's installment is of Night Life in New York, to be fol- lowed next week by Night Life in Greenwich Village. Buys Split Week, $13^ "The Oreen Hat" Broadway pre- miere has been set Sept. 14 at tho Broadhurst. first playing a week be- tween Asbury Park and Long Branch. Walter Read bought the date from A. H. Woods, guarantee- ing the producer |13,500 for tho show's share. It is figured the Arleh play must gross 118.000 on tho week for Road to break. REDUCING FOR RETURN Mary Miles Minter Under Doctor's Caro—N. Y. Stsge Appearanoo Mary Miles Minter, whose disap- pearance from the screen was fol- lowed by several romances, a legal tilt with her mother and the addi- tion of much flesh, is reducing in view of a stage appearance in Now York this winter. Miss Minter Is now under a doc- tor's care, and last week saw sev- eral producers, who were Interested In sponsoring her stasre comeback. BELASCO'S AUTOBIOORAFET David Belasco has begun the writing of his au'oblography. Whothor this will be a compre- hensive work Is not known, but tho one on which lie Is wurkiiig will be syn'llcated to many nowspapers through the CoHrnos Nowspap^r Syndicate. Mr. Mcla.sfio sovTal yoars ago wrote a book on Iho theatre, culled "The Theatre Through tho BtaKo Door." HEARST AGAIN PRODUCING PICTURES? : Looking Over Scripts on Coast—Negotiating for New York PUys ^ Los Angeles, Aug. 26. William R. Hearst is reported again reading scripts and ordering negotiations for the film rights to stage hits. Those two events simul- taneously occurring have started the story that Hearst Intends re- turning to picture producing. Mr. Hearst has been on the coast for quite a while, breaking his stay by a brief trip east during July. Ho Is spending most of his time hero on his ranch. Hearst expects to ro- (Contlnued on page 61) COUNTESS IN B'WAT CABARET A real countess opened as pre- miere danHeuse at the midtown Hof- brau. New York, Aug. 22. She'TS'tho Countess Melofsky Vocellonvitch, last at the I'oncoafit hotel, Miami. GOWNS--UNIFORMS FOI< EVESyBOOy WHO IS ANVBODy ON THE STAGE OR SCPKN..O(a.WIVE » 0E5IGH3 OV L£/U)IN6 CTVli CREATORS