Variety (Apr 1927)

VARIETY RADIO-MUSIC Wednesda/. April 27. 1927 BANNED' BROADCASTING FOUGHT BY CHI UNION C. F» M. President Radios Pub- Ho W W Print Speeph : Chicago, April 26. James C. Pctrillo, president of the Chicago Federation of Musicians, is making a solid issue of his crusade against radio stations employing ^i Mi > < aiiMiltf* in plaoa of union musiciant. Petrillo launched his fight upon learning that WCRW, station of the "Marigold Gardens, north side dance ftan. was making use of the "canned Biusic" without notifying listeners- la and at the same time employing InliOii orchestras. Petrillo ordered the station's maaageitfeitt 46 out th* doubling and use all live muslcUiUi or none at all. At the tatter's fail- ure to comply, the union president pulled all orchestras out of the sta- tion, notifying: he would keep them out until such a time when the sta- tion would discontinue its practice of broadcasting wtth a **meohaiitoal device." Petrillo then spoke over four dif- ferent stations in one evening, in- forming the public as to methods tn TOgue at WCRW. The newspa- pers printed his statements In full. All this does not seem to have affected WCRW, M tha station is still operating with ita "device." But It has put a damper on several other stations that before the fight are known to have Intendad using the "canned muslo** as a means of cutting expenses. BABIEIT LfiiTSS W0& Newark, N. J., April 26. Joseph M. Barnett, in charge of WOR (L. Bamberger ft Co.) since the station opened, has resigned. Succeeded by B. Paul Hamilton, piRciat of the eompany. CABARET BILLS RW YOBX Artaro GoVdonl Gordon! Celebrities Eleanor Blake OMtUliaa Bo^el ■erl Rick&rd ■ttwavft tt^ Bab* Morris Bellhop 6 Bobby Alden ■oasy Hints Tony Shayae : Xrrlsg Bleep Clob Alabam ColoMd Bsvee Club uds ; Frances WilllaiiiS Mey«r Davia Oroh Connie's Inn Li«onard Harpar R Mlgaea Laird Marr Gleason Madeira Whita Maa Wyna veios 4 Toiaada Bii}ir,i;psMg':^::.: Dally Kay Clab M & M Hnmphrs^ BiUy Neat Vara Bnrt Hsak Skinner Nattla l)ninnnt Helen Jolinscin Bunny Neldon Rev Milt Bplalmaa Or Kversladas Boaoy Waldea Ilsv Jack Inriag Parisian MgklS S Mort Downey Baa Selyin Bd nroUe Dan Hoaly Rav Carlo a Nonsa Jack DufTjr "Hotsy Totsy" Dolly Sterling Hanley Sis Joe Casdjitfle B4 Helea Morraa'a Mth 8t anb Helen Morsan Hofbrao Cotby A liurphy Oladys Reed I^ola Fletcher I^a Mae A Jonina Frank Corawell Ous Good Corn well Orch Hotel Ambaaaador Larrjr Slry Orcb Kentacky Clab Milton Dottslae Bthal 8taalar> Masla DavIS: Jaek Carroll Babe U9m$. Brownla Flo Raed It KastMklMS Clttb Xistatkr Or OtMl The Tacht Club Boys Johnny J'nson Bd McAlpIn Hotel ■nUe Oel««i Oroh Mitty & Tilllo Kmll Coleman Bd Palala D'Or Rolfa'a Revao B A Roiie Bd Lou Clayton Eddie Jarkson Jimmy Duranta Durante Orch Paul Whlieman'a Paul Whitpman Or Whlteman Boys Jobn Meehan Jr C Pelhasi HaaOl to Al Shayna Shayno's Rer Ky Nlsht Hawks PAMyHaala Betel Roser Wolfe Kahn Henri Garden Blchmaa Clab Harry Rlchman Nate L«lpsls Nataelia Nsttova Betsy Rees Alice Weaver M da Forrest Dave Bsraie Bd Sovea-BloTsa Chib Cbaa CoraoU Bev Bd Ooorse Them Dan Healy Beryl Hallay Jack White Ruby Keeler Eddie Edwards Straad Boot Godfrey ReT Prank Llbuae Buddy Kennedy Hat Kemp Oroh Texas 0«liieii*to Mth nt, Clab Texas Oalnaa Oulnka Rot Jof y Rsy Twin Oaks Max Fisher Bd Waldorf-Astoria Harold L'aard Bd ■Sfi Alamo Rick A. Snyder Florence Shubert Shora CMa Harry Glenn Jack Housh Al Handlar Bd Joo Cook Sims A Babette Joly Rl.. Wells A Winthrop Farley His Bmio Youns Rev & Oardea : <^9h ■ Osfb De ftrts Ethel Waters Dave Peyton Bd Clies-Pierre Plerret Nuyten Rv Bsri Boffinaa's Or Jlmmie IlawkifiS. Ruth Olson Petty Abbott joaa Fosariy Bob Dsndorii pete DoQuarto' fi|d DeaavUle: , Bflto Burton Betty Whoeler Thplma White Yayara Sid Stpppt' Louis Salnmnie Or FroUos Jack Waldron Dorea Lealla MaddloB iteKeaslo Wallace & Cappo Collette Sis Julia Gerity Bert Gilbert 8aittitoy: Xaha Pd Millie Gerber Virginia Cooper I^e Sis Trixlo Rose Ruth gchnoldor Joo Lowla Jimmy Ray I'Muline Gaskla <;autlt«r Sis Ktlith Murray Ilomay Bailey Sol Wagnor's Or Hollywood Bare Frankio Morris Mary Colburn r«i'scheron A H'W'y Uimio Sla ,Rl-m tterfo Boys f'rank Sherman M Briinnles Bd Kit Kat Club Louise rioner !'.ob HfPn Mrs Dio Parsons Harvey A Conlin Paulette IjO Pierre June Warwlc fl ceidirell ON* Parody dab George De OSfla Al Gault Rose Mario Tilly Helsa Bobby Marcalloa Virginia Sheftall Harry Harris Jules. Movit Peaches Brownlaf Itabo Kane Jay Mills Eddie CUHord George Sli Helen Swan Alfredo & Gladys Friinkie Klauasen Harry Delsoa Ben Pollack Bd Ralnbo Gardcna Femo Ros«rs Flo Whitman Eddie Ma thaws .loo Sullivan Knm> Marie' I'pte Theodore Kats A Kittens Ramavar I'-raiiriH Alyse Carroll A Gorman Fred Watdte Ud Harry Moon Dot Johnson Vora Wllsoa NIaa Smelloy Joe Udridge Alberta' Orch Terrace Garden Gertrude Chauae 3 A L Ctonis CtliS Edward's Bd Oolorls Sbaimaa Salerno Bros Margaret Williams Clay Orch Taalty Fair Vlerra HawallaBs Buddy Fisher JAM Jennings Skeet Lane Jaofcle * Lillian Al Marlneau Vaalty Fair Bd Venetlaa Room (Southmore Hotel) Lew Jenkins Moore A Bdlth Tracey A Duncan Art Cassell Bd PHILADELFHU Olah Alabaai Nightingale Rav Dixie Knlghta Dee Hydor Orch Oottoa Clab PrtllA MuuiiuiuvJi Svncopatlon Rov Flo MoClain Madrid liouisf! S(iuir«'S Loon A H( ( l>o S^biUa Bowham 1^1 ita Palo mi Isabella Oraham H McDoBSid Orch Ploradinr K<I<Iif Cox Nydeli Sis Tony Franeasee Mayor Darts Or Swaaee CM Dixie Dandles Doc Strain fiAftAti Pink* Or WA8HIN0X0N Better 'Ole Phil Jaekaon Oroh Osrttea t Bernstein Orch Chanfecler Walter Kolk Paul FIdelninn ^1. ■i r T>- la Java Joe Bombrest T Thompson Orch Le Pwadis ni<k Hiiiihcr Himber Hev Jnrk Golden Mayflower Sidneys Orm MIrador iMiil Hayden M Ifartnon OrcO Spanish Village S|»pnror I.ipman J O nonnell Orrh St. Murk's Ten Heese Tavora Villa Roma Tereta Schaaffar Mannle King Don Hudilfo Moe Baor Orch Wardenan Park Moe Baer NO OFF-^N RADIO CLAIMS Soon Exploiting It—Sum- mer 'Hour'' Layout Radio will soon engage In the exploitation of the fact that no off-season obtaina in radio and that high-grade entertainment ts sched- uled right through tha summer monthi. ^ The commercial and other features which will be etherized during the sununer on the WEAF network and Ita t# allied stations will Include the Atwater Kent Hour. Hires' Harvesters. Tabloid Grand Opera, Eveready Hour, South Sea Islanders. Clloquot Club BslUmoa. The Week-Ehdera, La Franca Or- chestra, Goodrich Sllvertowners, National Concert Artists, Tabloid Light Opera, Ipaiia Troubadours. The Calvacade, Great Moments in History, Capitol Family, Half Hours With Great Composers, National Cavaliers, ate. WJZ and ita "blue network" of 13 stations will ofTer Hoxy, Cook's Tours, Godfrey Ludlow, Record Boys, Gaorg^ Olson and Stromberg- Carlson Orchestra, Grand Opera Program, U. S. Army Band. The lodents, R. C. A. Radtotrons, Max- well Hour, Pur Musical United States, Royal Hour, Phllco Houl, Klein's Serenading Shoemakers. Way Down Hour, Ruud Light Oporm* Hoar, ato., as ragular features. Radio merchandise sales always fall off with the advent of the warm weather, but the many port- able radios being sold for outdoor camping and canoeing warrants the maintalnonoa of a high radio amusement standard througliottt tlia year. This insures choice programs and proportionate returns on ap- paratus sales, as well as exploita- tion lor ths air *%paoa'* buysn. AU-Amerkan jMint T^e New Toirk "Evening Tele- gram** is keeping the names secret of three all-American broadcasting teams totallnff M-artists whs will be combined in a gigantic radio program. May 7, from WJZ. The dally paper will publicly an- nounce the artists this Saturday, the selections bstaig based on tlisir radio adltors DpinionSi Van at Half Moon Bstsr Van 8t«sdMl, Jr. (Van and htg OrohsstHO htm kuidad tha obolQS Daw Half Moon hotel en- gagement at Coney Island for tha season. Van opens at the new United chain hostelry May 8. Van Steeden continues vas or* ehestra booking manager for Roger Wolfe Xalin. LEADING ORCHESTRAS DIREaORY IRVING AARONSON AM HIS COMMANDERS Exdmhf^y Victor Me Week. April M ALDINK. PITTSBURGH Permanent Address, Variety* N. Y. FRANK CORNWELL and His Orchestra WEAF Radio-Phonograph Records AT JANSSSN'S MIDTOWM HOFBBAV-HAVS sari SI. and Breadwar Mew Terk CKy Chicago Election With Bill Hay, President Chlcagro, April 26. Chicago broadcasters at their an- nual meeting elected Bill Hay. manager of the Chicago 'trib- une" station WON, to Its presi- dency. He succeeds Robert D. Boniel of WEBH, Edgewater Beach hotel' station. Session was repMted as a out- and-dried affair. Other officers chosen were Everett Mitchell of WENR, Tioe-presldeBt; Judith Waller 6f VTUAQ, secrietiary and treasurer. Brunswick's WCFL Chicago, April 26. When WCFL opens May S it will be as a Brunswlek-Balke-Colleiider Co. enterprise, under the managing directorship of Joe Lyons. Bruns- wick's local recording chief.. Jules Herbuveauz's orchestra will be the orchestral nucleus of the station, permanently afTlliated at $2,000 a week. Herbuveaux is also a Bninswlck recording artist ex- clusirely. WQL ASB WEAP MSEB WGL, th# Hotel Majestio staUon. and WHAP, rado mouthpiece of Franklin Ford, h^ve agreed on a wave length-sharing operation schedule. Both will operate on 322.4 metres. Ford is the broadcaster who has long been a storm centre among radio factions. He was accused of anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic ut- terances which he denied at the time. Straight In Road House Chicago. AfirU t€, Lincoln Tavern, summer road- house, will shortly reopen for the sea.son with Charley Straight's l)and. Stralfiht, now at the Frolics, will be replaced by Sammy Kahn next week. - a • • • I 4««r m m m ••••< if V • • • • I Proprietor's Booze Trial Los Angeles, April 26. Kddie Leroy, proprietor of the Kod Lantern cafe, Is standinjer trial before Municipal Judge Stafford on a charge of seflling liquor. He hss admitted chargres Of pos- session and transportation. BRICK ENGLISH And His ORCHESTRA NOW WITH CINDERELLA ROOF L08 ANGBUS, CALIF. FROM DETROIT JEAN GOU>KETTE Orchestras TIOTOB BECORD8 Back in Detroit GREY8TONE BALLROOM DAVE HAllMAN And HIS GREATER ORCHESTRA Week April tS. OKKTSTONS BAIX- ROOM. DETROIT. MICH. — Thanks to Chas. Horrath and J«an Goldkette PersoBel Manasement: ■DWASD X ROGER WOLFE KAHN and HIS ORCHESTRA HOTSL nEHKgnTAKIA, MBW YOBK Victor ll«rords — Bnescher IntttrumeMs Booklns Offlce: 1607 Broadway. New York OBO. D. LOTTMAN, Gen. Myr. HELEN LEWIS WESLEY BARRY ana Hfo ORCHESTRA jnoir liOKo hVeA» SUTKBS DOK EISENBOURG ~ t And Hik SINFONIANS Featured Statlonit: WNAC .... Boston WEAN .... Providence Flaying smn^ABii COLONIAL nummtmAMt^ BOSTON V FRANK FUNDA AND HIS TEN EYCK ORCHESTRA ALBANY, N. Y. Breadeasttns Btottoa WGT, MAL HALLETT I AND HIS ORCHESTRA HOW Wv-MWa ' Fermaasat AddrenHt CHARLES BHRllkMAN, Maaas«r, 8AI<BM. MASS. GEORGE IRISH . AND HIS Indianapolis Athlelie Club OrdMsIra One Consecutive Year WFBM, INDIANAPOLIS ART KRUEQEit And His HOTEL WISCONSIN ORCHESTHA 3iil\% ai:kee, wis. AND HER MELODY WEAVERS FRANK L. VENTRE, Directing Perm. Address, Variety, New York CHARLIE MEI^N And Hia PLAYBOYS Featarina ''MELSONIC JAZZ STATE, DETROIT FOURTH MONTH GEORGE OLSEN AND HIS MUSIC EXCLCSIVELT VICTOR Cara of Variety, New York CHARLEY STRAIGHT VINCENT LOPEZ ] And His ORjpHESTRA Ixcluaiva BiNiliilMlftk 1598 BROADWAY NEW YORK Dinwmn WM. MORRIS , AL MOORE and His ORCHESTRA ^ADLININO LOEW TIIEATRll Direction WH. HOBRIS B. A. ROLFE AND HIS PALAIS D'OR ORCHE8TKA WEAF ARTISTS Edison Records ROLFB OflCHBSTRAS, tn«^ 1600 Broadway, New York City And HIS BEUNSWICK ORCHESTRA Closlna FROLIC8. April 24 Opeainff LINCOLN TAVERN, Mar S WM. WACO'S ORCHESTRA in J'SUNNY'' CO. Now PlayinK IITIVOIS TIIEATRK. CHICAGO IF YOU DONT ADVERTISE IN VARIETY DON'T ADVERTISE IRVING ROSE"! And HIS HOTiX STATLER ORCHESTRA ST. LOUIS, MO. Bteadsasllwg KSD, St. Loals HERBERT STRAUB and His MAGIC MUSIC lUFfTAI Q BUFFALO, M* , Breadeastlav SMUIeii WMAK, liaffalO PAUL WHITEMANj And HIS GREATER ORCHESTRA PAUL WHITEMAN'S 4Sth Street and Broadway NEW YORK CITY