Variety (May 1928)

62 VARIETY TIME S S Q U A RE Wednesday, May 9, 1928 uare Speakeasy Humor . : ' The Nancy CarroH Sort of Girl Bi-foro Ni»n(^v.Cu)-ri..ll jikkIv lu-v Broadway i.->iotxu-o <itl)\u in ••Abio.'rt-li-ibh KoV slie had been in miisioal coineily, and in a rcvuc i" ^'♦•■^v^T^<>»'\\'. S*-l.>cted by ilic pi-oduoor of ihe show for ht-r appearance, Mi.ss Carroll wa<? a sked by bim to strip as b<^ had. bcr in niind for a principal bit ami wanted to see her xmdrossod from, the waist up, on a pedestal. ;M)s*s Cari'oll refUJ'cd; whereupon . the producer, with an oath, demanded sh»- do as directed. The girl again declined, ending the .scene in tears. >She didn't get on the-pedestal and she didn't leave The show, . . . . Pursuing her; however., the producer, probably identified by the wise bunr-h by.now, insisted. .that Miss Carroll meet him for lunch at u euburban roadhouse. where he. wanted to talk over an show for her. The producer was insistent upon her promise ^o^^^tin^ after his previous experience, but the young woman would be there, When lunch time cam^ arpund Miss Carroll droxe iip .^I> ?he Toadhouse with her husband, and her husband, went, mside to .in. form th'^ producer his wife was oUt5=ide. . >, i^rLps^Mark Hellingor or N. T. O.-should, have written t)us. . Phoney Champagne' in Hornkey Tenks Isicht clul.s in New York seiung i)hon.>y ohampagne at $30 a '^"^^'t^^;^" not hiy claim TO being pioneers at that gyp. It was done years ago^ n "he l onkiv lonks of ;hc Northw^.t/although rhe price per. ciuart for tlu.. ••Win ■ "^^^^^ --vs.the phoney oo-d the joint but iTc a quart to make thev ih^i^ch: ih.- pront bic enou:-'h. It was made of apple cid^r; ami ^lu^S^ J^-L Patrons of the pla^.s wl^o. knew v:ine and wore 'Si^^A r:.s-^^:.r .iv„d.r..r.-.. iv.d th., genuine su.« when order- " -Iro--^- co,,..:^- ,- s^,wduj-t 'd.tys no; y.t piaord-in off.vot in Times S<iu^^C^'wk- a"o:.v.prr runway .aU.n^ th.-up^^;ail;^^ bar. to ^^'^ S?^he" --;,..v :.^n;iwhohad -to wori> tbe boxos.".as.it was ojdled, pthe^- ;?iJ^^dn^wi;^^h; male customer., usually ordered, beer at $1 a bottle U was fiod beer and'the. girls didii't w?int to drink it. ,A« they received : "i^5?af mnmission on sale^; they always ordered it. An inyentive mii d brouS tlxe concealed runway. As the girls siood alongside the bar w. 1; ?he bocr glasses in their haiids, - they slightly tipped the glasses, with tl beei- gofcg^down the runway to a contaiiu-r below. There, .with .the al^^bxvmps it was rebottled. The oopper runway was in use for years In the honkey tonks'without the customers.aware of it.^ .• Many of the girls became noted as beer drinkers, 'con.suming, ap- P'lrehtly as many as. from SO t6 75 bottles of beer in an evening. In reality,.they,iievcr drank a drop, though often touching tlu; beer, glass to. aheir lips. "■ Six Mobs of Cheaters on One Boat ■ One of the ocean liners reaching Kew York-last week had brought across six mobs of card cheaters, or IS men in all. There were loo many aboard to make the trip profitable for any. Lack of organization among.st the card sharks may have accounted for the oversupply. although the names on the passenger list likely attracted all of them as r>ros~Y,<^ciB; Wilson Mizner has written a .scenario for a feature picture to be called ■ "0^'ean Cheaters." Bill hKs permission-tq .stick in this one. If ns a talker, he cftn" include'the sciuawks of the mobs when they landed, Bounding Ahead as'Hotel Man . From tramp comedian to owner and operator of three, hotels catering e.-necially to the prof'^.'^siun is. the Horatio Alger-like story of Harold L.. Keynold.s who is host at the Maryland hotel on 49th street. He also operates Marble Hall, on upper 'Broadway, and the Isew \orker in Atlantic . City. . , ■ - . . ^ . Reynolds was in show btisiness for 31 years. He auit to entei. the hotel field seven yews ago. For 17 years, he did a single ti amp.turn in vaude,. later playing juvenile , leads in road show.s. Yarns in Electrics Pix electric band signs in the .Square fla.sh a running yarn in behalf . of the product or place .advertised. Choice locations are hold by auto- mobile concerns. The Capitol theatre and Madison Square (.harden arc the only amu.seiuent places using this type of moving sign. Messages mu.st bo caught on the fly, as anyone stoppihg to read the story to a conclusion before or after'theatre takes a chance of being u ainpled on. Hed.Tiles and Mortgages Irving Wortis, forinerly a i^quareilo but now fuelling Tx.ng I.^land realty, talked I'erry Charl- .s, the. Lo( w exploiter, into' a Sp;inish vill.-: ■ at LaureLton, L. I. The nuW Casa Charles is covered with r» d tiles and mortgages, according to Pony. Charge by square Inch to Remove Tattooing Tattooing is another of the trades that onoe. flouri.«h.'d in Kl-w York how showing sisjns of vanishing. >?o longer is the trade handed down from lather to .son as was once the custom. Nowadays the son takes up interior decorating instead of practising fleshly an like the old man. However, a woman with "an oflioe on 42n-d .street is doing a flourishing business the.se days removing tattoo marks by electrolysis from the bodies of foi-mer .sailors and cthev individuals who went in for. that sort of thing dvn-ing-thcir^-yOtiXh. ;--^^—r-^-^r^——- - ■. ——-^—-—^^^ One of the bov.s, a rubber in a; Turkish bath, when questioned about . his body decorat^ion.s, probably expressed the sentiments, pf thousands of otlu'rs when he said ho wishedMio.wa.s rid of, the big ship on his chest asw(-ll as tlic other examples he sported on various parts of his anatpmy. He said-the total cost of the colored .electric needle work he had gone in foi- • had cost hinx app.roxim.itely:$100. but. that the lady on 42.nd street wanted $0 a square inch for its iu?moval. As. his art. work measured, he .«aid. ' more than 200 square jnches and the nut would. ;b.e a grand,, he prob- ■. ably'would carry, i.t-with him tO: the grave, as rare of the wiJe and ^ho. kid-donTOnOcd niost of his weekly earning.s.' . " . • Annual Luncheon to Cardinal Hayes" . . • Tho fighlh annual luncheon of the Catholic-Actors* Guild to Cardinal ilaves us held vesterday .(Tuesday) at the Hotel Astor. I'rch-ent on the'dais with, the Cardinal were Capt. Kochl, Major Fitzmaurice and Paron Von Huenefeld., the trans-Atlantic flyerf. Among, the^ other •■hohored guests" wore Uaniel Frohman, Mrs. Richard Mansfield, .Mrs. Caroline Xoew, -I^lr.^...'David Loew. AVilliam IMorris, Frank .Gillmore. Nfllie Kevell and Ttev. Randolph Ray of the Episcopal Actors Guiui. Jack "Donahue was toa.-Mmaster. Will >rahon.<y and Milton R"yb\ th- auihor, speokirtg, as w'.ll- as the Cardinal hirnsoTf. "Lil"' Drawing the Mobs AuoiiUC'S atir.nding the Mao Wt-tt .show. ••Diamond I>il,"- ba.scd on the in- lo itself. A "buckward vlan. o diirin:; the p-rfounivnco one night la-it wvek convinced a- ni.nii'£'l.''U:-(o\sn t;.;.T .a. f,/iv ni-r.-rnalion of tr;;)ii:strrs, guiinicn aiul (.lii's'wa- on Aia-h.r ).'y -Jiti afr' od with liiih, .sa:.ing: _ . \ . . • „„. -I'll lay C, 2 and fvi-n that'lf soi^'^' fc*'"'y '""l-- ^-f^^'- o.:'-.';l' tl.r M.o^^. he'll bo buried \\5ii)oiif .liis wati'h." .Detroit, May 8_. <:Rg siun 4.iv6r the bar in a hir.al blind . ])ig .sin.'.e the 2 (.'clock (■k-.'--ing ord'jr ha.s been in f-fffCi:.- . -. . "ft is Illeg.vl to .Servo DnnkH After Two A. M." . ' 2 Con Men Picked Up Dete ctives- Barry and Finder', Pick^ poiket squad, were at Broadway and 42nd street When they observed two n>en whoni tliey recognized as confidence "Ten. They watched the pair for about a half hour, during wbich prriod tli.ry \\.alked through •J2nd street towards Cth avenue'sev- tral times. Finally the dvteciives questioned- ihem. Not satisfied with their an- sw-ors. both wre taken to Police Hf adquarters. There it was found both men were wanted on. other rhar.i^os. one, AllVed Lewis, 48, 257 West .JCrd street* is ..to be extra- dited to Hostpn. . ' • The di'tectiyes said that on Feb, ], Lewis cheated William -Noel of Bostgh out of a small sum of money in a I'oin matching game. . Tire otfif-r, James Whitney, :1.'), 320 West 9Gth street,, was^ accused of cheating fJoorge H..T'riht'e, jeweler, 510 Ex<;hange place, Geneva, N. Y..,, out of $1.0.0. during a -ooin. inuLChing game on Pec. 28, .lf)'27. AVhen the case waft called the de- toctives.toUlMagi.strate Cotlieb that they had rceeived a. wirf> from Prince xhat he oouUl not afford the time to leave his business and cbnje here to prosecute. As a result, "Whitney.was discharged. Lr-wis was held awaiting the ar- rival of an bm(^er fi-om Jr!osl<)n. Both Have police recoid.s. B B. PQol Mea Freed This department contains rewritten theatrical newsjtems^w lished during the, week in the daily papers of New York, Chicago, . San Francisco, Los Angeles and London. Variety takes no credit for these news Items; each his been rewritten from a daily paper. NEW YORK Mi»nday, in a-, statement, sent to the dailies, Arthur Jlammerstein Ac- cused the ticket brokers of dosing •'Golden. Dawn." which ended a 24 weeks' engagement - at .Hammer- stein'.s theatre .Saturday, Declaring that lii.s operetta should havie at- tained iv i-uh of a year and a half, the producer claims the brokers hm- dered the .sale of tickets through certain tacti<\s. Hammerstein al- leged that because he . fought the brokers via his testimony during the ticket investigation last summer, he .ox))eeted reprisaks from the brokers and was hot disappointed. Jafk Dein))sey and.hi.s wif<» Estelle Taylor were signed by ^iam II. Har- ris to be starred in a comedy-drama called "The Big Fight." The jilay is due in the fall. ■ ■ vjction of the- bandits whp killhnl 'Pearl Eggldston, an usher, while- holding up the Rita theatre in Ht-r- wyn,; now total ?2,600. The theatre management has posted $lt000, vil- lage boards of iBerwyn and Cieoro have offered .$500 .^-ach, Chica/c^o has offered $500, and the jpionce inagis- tratc in Berwyn, $100. . • LOS ANGELES Vera .LiKlitmor, Ainerican dancer, ivturned from Europe as Mrs. Eli.'is Brody, wife.of the Hungarian artist who once attempted suicide on her ai'oount. She was b'nve: reported engaged to Henry Clews, third; whbs(.' graitiifathor was founder of .the brokerage and .bankinig, house of that name. . ■ " Sally O'Neil, whoso riariio off the. screen is Virginia Noohan, v.a.s nained in a group Of Income l.-ix liens tiled by Collector of Inteinal Reventi* Welch. She is .said to owe th6 government $472.50 for lfi:;7 oh one iteni and an additional $1.")7.54 on another item for thm sain<- iiar, Lawrence White,' scenario wi ii.-r, who died in the Hollywood, polii o. station "drunk tank,", was a vi\ iIni of acute alooholi.sm, accardi'it; ii> report from County Chemisi t^; m - nathy's ofiiee. ThiM'o Russian ilihns imported by .Vriliur Hamim rsiL-ih for exhibition in thi.s Goimtry wore heVd tip at the custom ■ liouse for insiH ction. The productions were mad'. . by the Sovitt government- with whi. h th<; U. S. does not carry oh bu.sinesSi. -i'liey are called' -'The. Knd of tri. 1 -t-tn-sburg," ••Ten.DiO s .'Ph;it Shouk the World" aiul ".Mother." Vii-ginia ■ ITobbs, beauty, t iPi-iii Winner and fih'u actreiis, rilod suit lor rhe annulment of her' re,<,.i)t m.ar- riago to J. Marvin Hall/- rt alinr; Complaint oharges fraud i,n ;;rounds that Mall has another w ife front .whfim ho bas niiver been divorct-d.. Hall is known to have liled-suit fbr tho annulm.ent of his nthi i- livai-i-.iago a year ago, but lator had ilio a' ti-oi dismissed.. l-''ive men, all<g.-d ,))liiyers and .solioitoi's .of the Albany and New Vork Basoball Pool, were fieed in -\Vcst Side Court - by Mai;istiate Maurice Gotliob. The livo defeiid- anis.. w'ero part ot eiglit mon .s^i.zod in a sp-i I'tactilar raid in rof'm 202 •at Kut) Broadv.:ay, 4Tth strrot and Bro.'uUvay. .Magistrate Josi ]di F. Currigan, in- West .Side, court disnii.«5seU two al- leged .clerks.. .Jf'bn Goldberg, 33, salesnum, o'f 1911 T.'nivcisity avenue, Bronx, an allrgcrd solicitor,was held by :Mfigistrate Corrigan for trial in .Speoial Sf-ssions in bail of $'500. CJoldbl'rg is allfgcd to hav.-- had.nine booUS on him. , Tho raid was made by di-teolives attaolu.d to D>vputy Chief Inspector James S. Bolan's staff. Combination sheets and- "]^lay<-r's book.s"' wAe- seiz'.d in the raitV District Attorney John Al.<:Geehan, in Bron.K.' recently .announced that he would drive sim- ilar baseball pools out. of the Bronx; .<ovoral raid.e hiivo been made in the Uialto revontlv. The inconu-. from these games of.chance is said to bo tremf-ndous. The dcfcndan<(» gave thoir names as Henry Moyoiw, lO.n Figlith avp- nue, Brooklyn ; J Tarry Vrsc-'y, 47 Java str«.'et. Ih'uoklyn; John Dohorly, 125 \Ve.-<t 47th strfOt; J.Tvnes Malone, 330 Htjd^.on Ktri-ft. and M orr is J'ain. .345.3. 85th .<;treet, B.rooklyn. Formal, aunouncf'ment was sent out ol: ' ilri; .•ngtigemenT of- Javk Domi.sev 'ind' F.st.^lle Taylor lor "The Big Fighf sponsored by Sam Harris and Albort Lewis; to bc- stag«nl under J}ela.s.e:ys su)>ervisi.)n. ^jiTsehrr-i-fM-fT't^fr^wtir"*^^ vordii.-t of liil 11,350 agjuii.st the Wolf- sohri MUsieal Bureau. He .set up the claim that the concern con- tracted to book him for 50 concerts at not less than $2,0(jO each for the season }!)24-25, and provided only 47 Kuelrrn,tra.gv:n< nts. For these he ;-Jleged an '.inpaid balance of $13,- Lieut. John HooP''r. -U-. S. A., sta- tioued at Fort Hancock, brought suit a.5ninst DeMille Pictures and r'aihe, alleging itlagiarism of his original story entitled "Rc-oogni- tion" in its film. "Dre.s.s Parade." He declares the two .stories in many portion.s are identical. Ji)]in J^. .Sumnor-8 Vice Society .ic ized a ton of ob.scehe books last year, according to its annual re- port issued .a few days ago The society obtained ih<> cohvicVion of 2S. persons. A total of* 3,440 im- moral pictures, mostly postcard siv.f, were destroyed. Illegal circulars and leaflets werv tokeh. •rho will of the lilt*' J^yiliri !)i<-k- son, stage a nd screen: a ctre.-is; ■ i.s be- contested in Stiperior. Court hy her aunt, .Mrs. Jf-nnie (.'Owan. '("ou- testant asks that her .nlft«e;s will and testament he .set aside that , she be allowed a shai-f- ii estate, valued at $.">0,0b0. lltr contention is that liie l.-ist lid the will entails unsound mihd,^ undue inflti- ence and illegal execution. -^^Jtwtr^-n it g-i rong Alqni s t's^ FV ^ ^ i.sm suit against Cecil B. fit, Mille, Jeanie Macpherson and Othors for alleged theft of the plot of "king of Kin.gs" must stjmd trial. Fedt-ral Judge James so ruled. Miss AJfiuist alleged that iho plot Of "icings" had been .stolen from her book and scenario,'"The Wooin?;- of Mary pf iNlagdala." Defense attor- neys argued that"Magdala'' bad' been tPikfn from the.Bible and .-oiild not be copyrighted. > CHICAGO .^.im:»isky aodMiU'-V have re- opened the F<»re«t I'ark the;iti:e after making improvcmem.**. Robert Ohetwinrt. dancer, was hold for trial by Mtmicipril Judgv l-taird on three counts of forgery. Clu-t- winn waived preliminnry ln-aring and bail was .set at $2,000. lie was arrested several week.s ago after liassing a number of cheeks on loi al stores. ' . W. II. Uegelin, arrested in eon- nection with the promotion of a beauty show, was freed by l^iiinii.-i- pal Judge Stafford when the rase came to tritil, Cotirt rviled tliat no criminal intent was show-n by Itege- lin, charged witli having ac' « iited monty for the project. A warrant, however, was l--.sued for H. C. Coney, Regcliii's partn'^r, who disappeared shortly after' Die complaint was sworn to. Nile Club's Rubber Checks Don't Rate Palice Court ; Magi.-^ii'at.t' Tvfaur.ice.. Got'lieb in Wi.-st .Side Court , reriised to gi-anl five ."•--oinmonsos f i an attoi'-iu-y rep- re.->(nting the Montmarii'c Club a.uainst live per.«ons wlio biid-given boum.ing checks in payment for their ehtcrtainiueiit. \\]\(n informed V\h:ii the sum- nioh.>;es W('re for'; tlie: magistrate j beeame inecn.sed. He iiot Oiily de- I olinod to grant the suniiiKm.'-os, Inil let it be known that he wotild not permit the court to b<: used as a eolleetion ageney. . •'l"'his is Jirobably one ' of those -l.U a.ces J\v h (-rel, i h e.y...(. -li.;.i.r ge ^A^ _ a.. ^o t - tie for giiigi r ale."' eommonled . the magi.--ir.ate. -rf tb( y want to re- I (M' r fi-oni thosi pi.rsons wloi g.i\<^ the fl.tcks, let tii"n1 instittHe ei\il pro.'''.■ding:^." Five young nit n staged a slick-up at the lfar(-nng (Jrili. whi-'h netted them $2,K0O. Tiioy took $2,000 worlh ;of--ji.^weli=^y -aiid i^xOO-iiY-iJ.'i.sh-froin-thc- L'tJ dancing couide."? ;on ■ the flo'.-r. . Closing of the Ashland block drug stoi-e .at the eorher of Clark and 'Raiid'olpli streets removes another •old landinarlc of the the;rtro zone, lieavily pati-oiiizi'd by .tli^ afler- tliea.tre i-)-(jwds. .■ . .. Rewards for ili.e arrevt and ■i:or- Jack O'X. il, lirother of Sally 0'jN'<-il and Me)ly O'Day. p^ead.d not guilty to ,a cliarge of . b;>t (ery uhen he was arraigned before Judge Leonard Wilson. Tri.al w.is .set for .May 11. I'.(.md w.'i's fixed at $100. Peggy .Starr." dancer, in.'^tituled suit for $1,000 against. J'-^-ank B. Ki.sher •;whose dog, .clie claims, bit her on the leg. As a re.sulT. Miss Starr .says, p.he cnuldn't work for .six weeks; Munieipal Judge !M>-Lay heard the evideiiee and took the matter under adviseinent. . MiK'or Waliicr was late Stimk-y .f"r a ;-:lt"ii i-i,- •Ila;ia.n paper, "11 I'rogf .^o l-VuD'.'.ino.". lie I-mI i.u i - ol Rome, Potonziano. ^ , The Mavor had .mi exeiiM-. lb- had b. ■•n .i.i.. "\yiien wo doeked. Grovor Wlialt u '^^'■'•■^ Wfc find our "ftay around wiiliout him?" .-l -i-i.'-i : ■ I {.•.■>< '•t ti ' the 1' • ; Drusilla at Grill- A'f T. W.'Lltou has placed r'n.'ilia : at 'V.c K: ;-k'rbot ker Grill, New . Vo.ii. j 1-: s;;i,j gi t iu.'.' .;i,(-t l.'.lio- ..bi-oa.l ir. \v . ..iihl ] ViV dan. ing 4,1 op the- Eiffel Tower ] in ri.! !.*?. Ruby Hart Given 6 Mos. -Ruby Han, 38, eal.j-a-et oniutaincr, of 2213 \V»-st 50tli .street,, wiis.'sen- tenced to six months in the Work- house in Sj1eei.1l Sessions, follow- ing her )'l"-;i <jf nuiliy to possessing a hyjuwlennic needle. TliC woman, also known to tlie puliec of this and other cities as iMae Bu<'kley and Mae Williams, was arrested April 26 in her honie bj Deteinive John O'Brien, (■if^tll t^=4ii\V0(t )4l4=S.l;' 1 mIt-^ -v AecDi'ding to ijro'eaiion on'icers ;ind the jieliee records,, the. d^.f< ndant, wl'O claims to ));i\e 'woikrd as-tin f-ntei taitn r ar.d li<-stes.« In .several l!r(..'iilway nit;Ut clubs, has been in iroiiirh' witli the j-olice ever since ,rnno, l','2-i, wlun .siK w'.i.<5 .sentenced to one yvar at A uburn' State Prison from .b.i'i'er.'.on x'ily. N. Y.. for .<-(.ll- j ing' nari otii-.o. A ;,' i'.r ai'tin 1< a^ed ; she -(\as again an-fs^i'. St. I.oiii;-^ for sboj'lifting and t»'t oil will; a fine cf ^100. Rally.Fili-r.'--, foatnrod in the '-Good .Rye Ki.ss" .GilmV, irt engaged, to Miitty Kemp, .screen actor. Mack Senhett in.sists that if the. t-oiTple marry, they cannot divorce w i'tbitr five yoar.s. Mai'joric ^^cAnally, radio ehWr- tainer.was re.'-ponsible for Fiaiicis Michel getting 120 days In j.".il. Michel 'wa.s the girl's boy friend; at least, he believed so until he found but .differently. That was when liis rival appeared. A free-for-all between the triangle started on the street and ended In Judge Wilson's .court where Ati' hel faced a charge of battery pref'ed by the girl. Alfred >rorgau. pioturr- produor, is .suing R. F, ^lathcson, prop'-'' of a Hollywood hotel, for $2it "00 damages. Trial is on in Suix'^J'-'r Judge Crawford's court. . ']\lorgan alleges that while he was talking busiiies.s. w ith B. R. Htffuer. screen midget, in the lobby of 1h* hotel the midget was for- ib'.v ejected. Mor.u'an deciarf."-: Ic wa*: Ineonvenieheed In his brs;i.»'"--s • r.-in.-s.-u'tion with -fleffner by the in- • 'idi-iit. Matiieson says in an<-w<r tha-. Ill fin. r left the hotel of hie iov, n accord. The judge will de<'lde.