Variety (Sep 1928)

44 VARIETY BURLESQUE Wednesday, September 12, 1928 Mutual Adds Three New England Stands Thvi-c .now sLanila ro in . thft Mutual iMiTuit. The l.yri.o.-Hridgo- port, and tlu> llyijorion, Now Havon, play thciV first shoyvsj on full wcok Sept. 17. Tlie'tliinl liousf^ is the J?.h\y.i\, \Vi)i'COst,cr, .Ma.-<s.. whioK opf-ns Sept.. 24. Tho a'ddition- of' iho-so liou.sos ihcan.« a roai:rangcment in ■ Now England ,territory. Muluala going Into tl.ic Gayoty, Boston, from Provi- dcnoe will go to Worcestei'. and . Springfk'ld'and tliQUCe through, the usual route, . Aii the Mutual, also, playa another Boston hpuse, the Howard, the shows-will continue coming from there into the Columbia; New York. Shows go from Hartford to New Haven and thence to l5ridgeport and Into the H. .& S. Apollo, New York. FORE Parainount's 3d Event Beginning. Sept. 23 Paramount's coast studio will.stage, its third golf tournament. of the year; Harvey Pugh is handicapper. Two weeks will be allowed to play and cards turned In for qualifica- tion will be accepted' froni any course rated at par 70 .or over. En- trants, are expected , to number 125. Cups will be awarded as prizes. : George Huiiimell; present cham- pi6h< plays in the low 80s and Keji Ahlberg, last year'S: champ, rates a six handicap. Stagehands' Pay Up On New 2-Year Contract A two-yoars' agrooniont has boon sjixncd by the burlesque nianii!;or.s Willi the stagehand.s of Now York and Jirnnklyn. T)io unions had demanded $85 for .stage carpenter, olevtrioian and property nian, but this was corn- pro mi.sod at $72 for a six day sched- ule and prorata f6i' Sundays. The head flyman in a Now York or Brooklyn burlesque house here- tofore getting $61 will how receive $6G. The grips and usual stage- hands who \vere getting $r>7 are now receiving. $61. Other' conditions remain un- changed; ; The Columbia, • N. Y.. house crew .humberis seven, trion. Most houses employ a similar num- ber. .■ The musicians In the burlesque houses are now getting a $3 In- crease with tiie m\jsical directors receiving a; similar flgui'e. Thus the director and orchestra men at . the Columbia, N. Y., . are getting $75, compared to the for- mer $T2. The musical contract, now in Its second year, provides the men work seven days which accounts for them playing for the Sunday vaude con- certs. •. Where a burlesque house has no Sunday show the pay is the same for' the week. . 485 Yards in Two •George Hummel, chief or Para- mount's "still" department, holed out In two on the par 5. tenth at Fox Hills: He drove 260 yards iand his bras- __^Ie rolled home. Hummel is Par's ■'studio champ. ■The foursome nriade somewhat of a record'for Itself on the sahie hole. Wally Sparks, club pro, "sank a 45- . foot putt for an eagle,, and John Mescal, camera champ, and Frank Thorwald each got their par, mak- ing a total of 15 for the foursome on the hole. Friar Handicaps Handicaps of FriJars as posted at the monastery are headed by Lpu Qoldnjan pla.ylng from scratch and trailed by Joe Laurie and Lew Cantor, each with a 33-stroke con- cede.- Other .handicaps are William Col- lier, 21; Lester Allen and Walter Kelly, both .20; Bobby Clark, 18.; Harry Jans, 15; Geoi-ige Price, 17; Bert Wheeler,' 17;. Leonard Mudle, William Maindell and Charles YatCs, one each, and Charlie Freeman, two, Jack Tuerk is handicapped at five. Golfing Actress Kate Hepburn, who plays one of the hostesses in; *'The Night Hos- tess," Is a Hartford, Conn., known society .girl, daughter of a physician. She Is a graduate of Bryn Mawr and last year was one of the seml- finalists in the women's state ama- teur golf championship. At that time the sports writers predicted a brilliant golfing future for her. Blend Runway Workers Into Touring Shows A new plan has been evolved for the Mutual shows that hop Into New York from the Howard, Bos- ton, which hereafter entails a week- end trip each weel<; to the Hub by the stager of the runway. numbers for the Colunibla. ; Ray Midgely, who had been signed to direct, them, succeeding Billy Koud, found the Boston trip Impos- sible, so James Stanton gpt the job. With Emmett Callahan, Stanton familiarized the Kitty Miadison show, in Boston'last week with the Inter- polated numbers flearned for the Columbia runway; . . The runway gals are now worked In the opening and the finale of the current Mutual attractions. Burlesque Routes Burlesque Changes In the realignment of things at the Mutual, H. & S.-MInsky Apollo, Erin Jackson, of the stock, moved down to the Coluhribia,. New York, Monday. . Margie PennettI left Saturday to join the MInsky runway bevy at the National Garden (Houston, street), Herbert Barrass moves down to the Second Avenue stock house. Raymond Paine and Steve Mills, other stock principals, have been s.witched by the Minskys to the Houston street stock. Ella Corbett also withdrew from the 125th street house. Lew Sidman this week replaced Harry Shapiro. as manager of Ben Levlno's "Dainty Dolls" (Mutual). DAiEY SHOW KEADTING Ed. Daley, obtaining a franchise on the Mutual Circuit, placed his show, "Bare tfacts," in rehearsal this week, with Joe Yule and Jean. Steele as featured players. Show opens Sept. 24 in Springfield, Mass. . Daley was formerly a Columbia producer and this summer had out "Rang Tang" (colored), headed by Byrd and, Higglns. TdM HENBY'S VACATION Tom Henry,, veteran burlesque man„ celebrating his 50th year In show business, and managing the Gayety, Boston, for the past io years, has quit burlesque tem- porarily to take a trip abroad with his wife; They are now in Ireland visiting Tom's relatives in Cork. Then couple will tour .the Continent. Fuller's Akron Tab Ely Fuller opens a stock tab sea- son at the Miles-Royal theatre, Ak- ron, O., Sept. 15. House will also show pictures for a holiday top of ^O^^oents^,^^^ ; Cast IncludesTB'nTiT^BozO^'nsle^ The Allen, Felix LeClaire, Madelyn May and Dorotliy Jsansen. Utica Goes 3-Paily 'trtica, N. Y., Sept. il. Mutual Burlesque will start three a day at the Colonial next Monday (Sept; 17). Admission will be cut from 60, 75 and $1 to 25, 35, 50 and 60 cents. S^h owis at 2 :15, 7 TEhd '9 p; rhT are planned. "Laffin' Through" will be tiie opener. Tom Henry's Vacation "Tom Henry,, retired manager of the Gayety, Boston, sailed for li-eland on the Celtic, Sept. 9. He was accompanied by his wife and remains in Europe until No- vember. ALBANY^S DOG RACING Albany, N. Y., Sept. 11. Capitol district Will see grey- hound racing this fall If plans sponsored by J. Norman Beck for a 90-day meet go through. Beck announced last week that he Is seeking to lease a building near Mid-City Park, on the Albany-Troy road, and that as soon as papers are. signed he will begin construc- tion of a track. He intends to open Oct. 1 and to run until Jan. 1. .Application for franchise has al- ready been made. Initial announcement made no reference to the type of wagering to be in force. Weeks of Sept. 10 and 17 Post.. Sh.w In Town--Ij. O.; 17, Gdyety, liuff.-ilo. ItliT riovlow—Trofftdero, Philadelphia; 1", Cijiyoiy,' Haiilnioro. . n.^hcmianH — Columbia, Cleveland; IT, li. O. r.Dwrry Burlp.squcrs—Empire, Provldonce; J", Ciiyety, llo.ston. Uuilesquft Uevlew—Gayely, Milwaukee; 17, Kmpress. Ciilcugo. Chicken TrustT-U O.; IT.. Lyceum, Cun- tori. Dainty Ddtls-.Vfademy, Pittsburgh i 17, Lyceum. Columbus. Dimpled DarllnKS—Star, Brooklyn; 17, Oriiheuni, Patterabn. t'inpper Folilcs—Howard, Boston; 17, Columbia, N. T. C. ' . . French Models—Lyric, Dayton; IT, Em- press, Cincinnati, Frivolities—Gayety, Montreal; 17, How- ard, Boston, Ginger Giris-Colonial,'Utlca; 17, Gayety, Montreal. Girls From Happyland—Grand, Hartford; 17, Lyric,. Bridgeport. . Girls From the iFolUea—Gayetyi Wllkea- barre; 17, Lyric, Allentown; 18-19. Or- pheun>, Reading; 20-22, Palace, Trenton. Glris in Blue—<3arriclt, St. Loulo; IT, Gayety, Kansas City. Girls of the TJ. 3. A.-rState, Sprlnsfleld; 17, Grand, Hartford. Kellb Poree—Lybeum, Columljus; 17, Lyric,. Dayton. HIkIt Flyers—L. O.; IT, H. A 3.'s Apollo, N.. Y. C. Hindu Bellea—Strand, Washington; IT, Acadeniy, Pittsburgh;. Jazztime Revue—Columbia, N. T. C.; 17, Gayety, Brooklyn. . ! KuddUng ■'. Kutles—Gayety, Boston; 17, State, Springfield. '. Laffin' Thru—Majestic, Albany; 17, Co- lonial, Utica.- . Merry Whirl-L. Q.; 17,. Gayety, Minne- apolis. Mischief Makers—Hudson, Union City; 17, Irving PI., N. Y. C. . Moonlight Maids—Gayety, Minneapolis; 17, GSyety, Milwaukee. Moulin Rouise Girls—Empire,- Brooklyn; 17, Tcocadero, Philadelphia. - Naughty TJIftlea—Mutual, Indianapolis; 17, Garrlck, St, Louis, Nite Life In Paris—Empire, Toledo; 17, Columbia, Cleveland; NMght, Club Girls—L. O.; 17, Empire, Providence. Parisian • Flappers—Empire,. Newark; 17, Star, Brooklyn. . Puss Puss—Gayety, Buffalo; 17-lS, Geneva; 10-20, Oswego; 21-22, Schenectady. Radium Queens—Empress, Chicago; 17, Cadillac, Detroit. Record Breakers-Orpheum, Paterson; 17, Hudson. Union City. Red Hots—Cadillac, Detroit; 17, Empire, Toledo. SoclarMaids—Irving PI., N. Y. C; 17, Hyperion,- New Haven. Speed Girls—10-11, Geneva; 12-13, Os- wego; 14-15, Schenectady; 17, Majestic, Al- bany. Sporty ■Widiws—Gayety, Louisville; 17, Mutual, Indianapolis. Step Along—10, Lyric, Allentown; 11-12, Orpheum. Reading; 13-16, Palace, Trenton; 17,- Empire,. Newark. Step Lively Glrls-r-Gaybty, Kansas City; 17, L. O. Step On It—l5mpresa, Cincinnati; 17, Gayety, Louisville. Stolen Sweets—Gayety, Scranton; 17, Gayety, Wllkesbarre. Sugar Babies—Gaybty, Baltimore; 17, Strand, Washington. , Round the Town—H. & S.'s 125th St., N. T. C.; 17, Empire, Brooklyn. Wine, Woman & Song—Oayety, Brook- lyn; 17, Gayety, Scranton. JAZZ TIME REVUE (MUTUAL) Fonturcd Soubret Kitty Madison I'Vaiurt^d Comic Hurry Evanson Second' Comic George Rehn Soubrot MiJglb Brandon iMKonuc. Babe Abbott .St ml Kb t Lew Harris Juvenile ,.. i ,. .Frank McKay Bowery's Stock Flops stock burlesque folded at the l>lpzin, New York, last week after a two months' ill-fated effort to sell the girl-and-wiggle shows on the Bowery. The rival stock at the Royal, Bowery (formerly Miner's) is also winging and due to close any time. B. & K. Staff Changes ChicagOy &ept^l1.r-- Ed O'Donneli vfill be thie manager of the new B. & K. Paradise and will be. assisted by. S. Felch. A. P. Conroy, formerly treasurer at the Oriental, will assist A. H. Eisner, nxanager of the new Mary- land. Harry J. Potter, assistant manager at the 'Norshorei, will now manage the Senate; R. K Kolber, assistant manager at the Chicago, being tra.nsferred In a similar ca- pacity to the Senate. E. Lievin re- places Kolber at the Chicago. Mike.Vogel, formerly of th© Par- amount exploitation department, has joined the B. & K. publicity staff to handle the Paradise. Los Angeles, Sept. 11. Hazel Dayton, 19, cashier at the Burbank theatre, stock burlesque, was arrested by police on suspicion when she reported having been held up by a bandit and robbed of $40. Police claim thoy found the money cached in an ante-room of the the- atije.^,,. WHEEL SHOWS COMPLETE Two Mutual new shows got under way this week and another starts Wt"Wxt'~'w6clC"-«0mpIcting=the^cir-., cult. Ed,. Ryan's "Around the Town," his second on the wheel, opened Monday at Hurtlg & Seamen's Apollo, N. Y. DIcl: Zelsler's new show, "Puss Puss," opened In Buf- falo Monday. The last under way will be Ed. Daley's "Bare Facts" in Believe it or not they've found a new use for lambrequins that served time as piano covers before the music boxes were declared archaic by radio. They now use 'em for teaser costumes for. rUnway soubs on the Mutual Circult> and at the Columbia in particular, Th© fringe and everything. Erin J'ackson; who supplanted Isa- bel Van as chief runway card here, wore one Monday night but took so long to um-avel the palm slam- mers Contracted paralysis and con-' sequently nO one saw It drop; These long draw« teasers are getting the cork of even burlesque's most patient devotees who won't go a dozen encores to glimpse a dame in strips. Miss Jackson will have to speed up the dropoff to mean any- thing. Isabel knew her Onions and gave It to them, quick when they wouldn't h© stalled, which made Isabel a great runway gal. Runway racket is just Incidental to the show whlch.^'for the current week is "Jazz Time Revue," co- featuring Kitty Madison, producer, and Harry Evanson, boob comic. It's a Mutual opera that has most of the wheel ingredients but not enough to differentiate it from rou- tine burlesque. Kitty Madison, one of the best eye filling soubrets around, makes the. mistake of side ."Stepping the show most of the time to project other femme principals that don't mean a thing in com- parison. Maybe It's the show owner angle that keeps her In the back- ground, figuring it'll get by without her working. Al Reeves tried the same thing and now he's out of burlesque. "Jazz Time Revue" m.ay be^ okay for Mutual but just slides under the lino. The gals work hard, and so do the principals, but as a whole the show doesn't click. Kitty Mad- ison could remedy the deficiency by checking the ownership high hat and giving them a show such as she did two seasons ago. She'll have to do It eventually to hold up at Mutual prices, Harry Evanson Is okay as'a boob comic but has little to work with. Comedy scenes have done service for so long" they have lost gusto, but the mob does the best that can be expected with them. George Rehn, doing a somewhat similar character to Evanson, gets no chance at mirth provoking saddled with ah eccentric makeup and un- funny lines. The boys struggle along and just finish so-so. Rest of the cast are similarly handi- capped, Song Ihterruptions with accom- panying wiggles were handled ade- quately, by the Misses Brandon and Abbott with both being confined to the stage so as not to detract from Erin Jackson and Babe Healy, house runway gals with a runway mob of 20, hous© feature, for the varicose alley numbers. Even Misa Madison passed up the Illuminated, possibly through house orders. Sandwiched between the two stanzas were two added attraction!?, (Jen©' Keating, half man. half wo - man freak, and Patsy O'Neill, nifty blonde who planted two vocals which meant little although she's billed all over the place. A nice babe for a floor show who hasn't yet developed stage presence. Keat- ing, prefaced by a male announcer, displayed physical abnormalities (at least as much as permissible), pro- viding a Coney Island atmosphere which may become permanent with Columbia added attractions. Neither meant a thing to the show. From a song and dance angle, "Jazz .Time Revue"_has something, but it needs considerable comedy jacking up to stack with com- petitors. Edha, APOLLO GOING COLORED? Efforts are being made to make the former MInsky Bros.* Apollo; 12Bth street, a; spoke in the newly formed Majestic Theatrical Circuit which will play all colored attrac- tions. Jack Goldberg, head of Majestic and who recently sold the T. O. B. A. circuit, called a conference last week. Among those who attended wer^ Martin D. Klein (white); Chi- cago, and S. H. Dudley, who owns several colored houses in Washing- ton, CALLAHAN HOLDS Emmett Callahan will continue ^UPCTLYisijis^^urigsq^©^^ productions at the Columbia, New Yoflc;"ln soclation with Jerome Rosenberg. Billy . Koud, ' fotmer Columbia dance director, had been promoted to director of dances for the entire Mutual Circuit. James Stanton succeeds Koud at the • Columbia making weekly trips, with Calla- han, to Boston to blend in the run- way >ElrIs with the Mutual vhoma. s Set-Up; Poor Reopening Cad By JACK PULASKI Yoiing Sti'ibllng won by a technl-* cal knockout from Jack Squires, oC South Africa, they say, last Thurs- day at Madison Square Garden which reopened the Indoor season. It was a poor card over-priced at $7.50 top, 'When Joe Humphreys announced the bout a,s the first of the new heavyweight eliminations the call of the bird came from the galleries and the fans laughed. Louder raspberries when Strib was introduced. . Everybody seemed to know that the match was designed to brlhs back Stribllng who has mauled his way to victory In the sticks but who has invariably looked bad in New York. The Squires thlnff figured a set-up and was. And now with another one or two. such matches the promoters may match the Georgian with a leading conr tender. That is the only sort of . fight Which Will prove whether Stribllng has changed his ideas about boxing. Both men weighed 184, Stribllng being much stronger. He tore into Squires savagely ahd with his left tucked away in close he socked With the right. Squires bent him- self double to escape punishment aroiind the neck and back of the head. He was pushed over once or twice and when the bell rang it was . seen that Jack's left eye was closed. In the second round, after Squires had dropped again, referee. Louis Magholla stopped the match. A bust any way you look at it. Short Bout Semi-flrial was also short. Napol- eon. Dorval got sick or something and Paul Swidersky, of Syracuse, was sent in against Jake Warren of Chicago, Jake is a rangy colored fello'w with, long arms and it was no trick to keep Paul pretty vfall away from lilm. Occasionally the latter landed a left hook; then, suddenly. In the third he whipped over a right for which he is known and Warren was worried. The bell had no sooner sounded in the fourth than Paul rushed Jake and the Chica- goan slipped down. While J'ake was on his haunches Swidersky took a sock at him. That was the end. Arthur Donovan, refeering, disqual- ified Paul and awarded the match to Warren. Paul started to bawl. Real tears and contorted face. A handler tried to make him stop it but Paul was broken hearted. Had he been cool and waited, Swidersky might have attracted attention with a pos- sible knockout. Little doubt that he tagged the. colored man in the previous round. An alibi for the card may be the resignation of Jess MacMahon, matchmaker, who has become at- tached to Starlight Park in the Bronx. It Is planned to stage box- ing in the large arena .there this winter. Tex Rickard is said not be interested. Burlesque Wheel of Seven One-Nighters San Francisco, Sept. 11. , Nat Holt, who for several years operated musical burlesque at tho Wis warn, Jn^t^^ Mission district, has inaugurated a"lrolaling'sftoclc^ burlesque policy for nearby towns, playing seven olio-nighters and then repeating with an entire change of bill. Holt lined up dates with 'West Coast Theatres, Golden State circuit. National Theatres cir- cuit and Henry Arkush; selling his show outright for $250 per day and providing his own transportation. ■Two large buses are utilized to transport people and scenery. Opening stand Is Saturdays alf Modesto, with the balance of the week as follows: Richmond, Hollis- ter, Watsonvllle, Monterey, Salinas and San Mateo, all in California. Business opening week reported as satisfactory. Balto Stock Baltimore, Sept. 11. ^-=.I?alaae,...j;imne£=^iQoiui^^ lesque house, will open with stock" hurlesque on or about Oct 1, under the management of William Proctor. Proctor is now in New York sign- ing up principals and choristers. The house will use runway gii's. Isabelle Van from th© Colunil)ia. New York, will be a runway pi in-