Variety (Sep 1928)

42 VARIETY TIMES SQUARE-SPORTS Wednesday, September 19, 1928 News From the Dailies Thia department contains rewritten theatrical news items as pub> fished 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 has been rewritten from a daily paper. NEW YORK Carlo DeAnffolc), stage, 'manager, has gone with: M-G-M talkers on the Coast,' District Attorney Dodd of Kings county,, following the arrest of prin- cipals of . "The Night Before" at Werba's in Brooklyn, took pains to announce to ,this .world at large he proposed hereafter to apply thfe pad- lock provision to theatres offering dirt pla.ys. He wanted to deliver a warning that any house who tried to use the courts to ballyhoo a spice performance was taking a ch£^;nce on the. projperty. : Marlon Davies received decoration of the Frehch government the order of "Officer of . Public Instruction." Owner has right to wear the purple ribbon with a tiny symbolic palm branch. Reason for citation was star's "achievements and distinction In thie cinema art and her gracious regard for French art and French arttsts." Breach of promise suit for $250,000 by Viola Weller against Max A. Schle^inger Was brought anew into notice by girl's attempt to substitute new counsel. Revealed at same time that Schlesinger had miarried Betty Jewel more than six months ago, which had not been much publicized. Schlesinger says "It's a gag," mean- Ing^ the suit. . Will Hays said Jimmy Walker was the greatest, little Mayor of New York and other kind things during an address at the bpdning of the Motion picture club in the Bond building. The Mayor Was present And also made an address. Plo Zieg;feld's private car was <rfearched coming In from Canada and customs olflcialig found 106 bot- tles'of champagne. Zieggy paid $614 In fines at Rouse's Point, N. Y. In the cir with Ziegfeld were J. L. Repogle and Dr. Jerome Wagner, of New York. Alleged Albany baseball pool operators were held in heavy bail They are Walter J. Kane, John Otto Sr., John Otto, Jr., iahd James Otto. James Otto and Kane were" convicted on lottery charges last year and are .under suspended sentence. Their . Joint ball was $25,000. Others were $10,000 and $5,000. U. S. Judge. Thomas D. Thatchw vacated the padlock orders on the bars at. a number of nite clubs, tak- ing a slam at: the high-handed meth- ods of Assistant Attorney General Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who had directed the padlocking on her own. Among places affected are Tex Guinan'g^ Helen Morgan's, Silver Slipper, Frivolity, Jungle and Lulgi's. CHICAGO desertion and cruelty, Jlihe 27, 1927.. ; Married DorLs May filed suit for divorce from .Wallace' McDonald, Sept. 12. Alleges cruelty. Married ; May 5, 1921. Norman Cramer, alias Norman Jewell, who describes hinisclC as an actor and assistant dlrectoi-, is being brought, back to Los Angeles from Suhnydale, Wyo., ; by the Depart- ment of Justice following his arrest on a charge of stealing and forging a government compensation check. This check was stolen, by Oramet from the liOs Angeles office of Va- riety's mail box while the back of the office secretary wag. turned. It ha,d been made out for $50. in the', name of Morse Olkin, an actor and a crlppledwar; veteran.. Cramer had called at the Variety office for mail at the. time the check disappeared and federal agents followed him six \yeeks before locating him at Sunny- dale. He had cashed the check. CORBETT BEATS BAKER BUT NOT IMPRESSIVELY Touted Coast Welterweight Holds Too Much Jack .Hplt, screen actor, was so badly beaten up by two thieves whom he surprised trying, to steal the. motometer-from his automobile in a Hollywood parklnj? station that he was confined to' his home. for several days. \ Jack Dempsey, former : heavy- weight champion, has, purchased San Joaquin Valley property valued at $400,000, according to deeds filed at Fresno, Cal., Sept. 12. . The prop- erty incltides a downtown building in Fresno, and. 40-acre ranch west of that place. Joseph Ellason, pronioter of spec- tacles and. amateur theatrical pro - ductiohs. In. Municipal Judge Bul- lock's Court in Los Angeles, was arraigned on charges of falling to provide for three minor children, complaint being filed by wife. Case •was continued. Irwin McDonald, self-styled .film casting director, attached .to no studio, charged in Los Angeles court with petty theft by Mrs. Catherine Murtlahd, stenographer,- who ac- cused him of taking $45 from her to pay for a bond premixJm, which he is alleged to have demanded in return for giving her a position as his private secretary. Casa con- tinued to Sept. 19. Corinne Wahl, theatrical costume designer, granted divorce from Gor^ don F. Wahl, by Superior Judge McLucas, making usual charges. By JACK PULASKI Toung Corbctt, 3rd, from the Pa- cific Coast bowed In at Madison Square. Garden Thursday and copped a decision from Sergeant Sammy Baker but plenty of cus- tomers thought the soldier should have gotten the win or at least a draw. Sammy's failure to let go with his right more often cost hjm the decision. ' . Both are hard hitters and it looked for a time as though'a knockout would occur either way. Corbett Is a southpaw and his re- cent knockout of Nick Testo by means of a left hook to the stomach won him no little credit. Baker was impressed with that sock, going down for a nine-count in the sev- enth round. But Corbett could ..not follow It effectively; . . * In the later rounds Baker car- ried the fight to the coast boy, who held too much in the clinches, for which he ■was bobied. In the 12th and final round Corbett woke up and showed his earlier form. The westerner is a faster puncher but had little variety, ncr did the sol- dier for that matter. Out oh the coast Corbett defeated the colored Jack. Thompson, who recently knobked out the welter champion, Joe Dundee in two rounds, but he should have more , stuff if he is to be considered for the title. Dun- dec, is still champ because he forced. Thompson to .come in over the weight limit. . The fans razzed the Corbett de- cision but were more displeased over the-semi-final re.sult when Al Brown, the elongated colored boy from^^nama, won from Kid Fran- cis, a bantam from Detroit and rated, a walloper.^The kid was so short that It looked like a poor match; Brown seemed to have everything and he popped Francis at wilL For several rounds Fran- cis got In close and hurt Al with body punches. Bro-wn's handlers ruled that out and for the . balance of the fight the colored boy danced away, shooting In so many taps that he had a wide lea,d on points. Brown had a rep as a socker and probably will get a shot at the title this winter. Over 4,000 subscriptions to the Theatre Guild's second Chicago sea- son have been received to date. This la three times the number of last year. Max Bendix is musical director of "My Maryland." George Rosencr has written a play / for the Shuberts entitled "The Five Leaf Clover." \. "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" is cur- rent of the Art Colony players. -When the American Opera Com- pany opens its four Week Chicago gnnd It will occupy the Erlanger theatre instead of the Majestic. "The Flve. o'Olock. Girl," reopening at Cleveland Sept. 23, will play De- troit the. week following and then , Chicago. Glickman's .Yiddish theatre has reopened with Samuel Roscnstein the lead, in "A Yiddish Girl." "The Little Clay Cart" Is to be the opening attraction at the Good- man Memorial theatre. LOS ANGELES Attempt hy two bandits to rob Strand theatre, film house at Ver- non avenue and Broadway, Los An- geles, Sept. 12, was foiled, one of bandits being captured. Pair of holdups seized janitor and tied him ^up,=-announcing..--inlcii:tlon o f -for.G- liig manager to open safe which contained $4,000. Janitor managed to wriggle out of bond.s, .sneaked out and summoned three policemen who were In a nearby restaurant. When they ran into the theatre, one of holdups escaped. Renee Adoree, screen actress, filed suit for divorce from William S. Gill In Los Angeles. Sept. 12, charging Edna May, screen actress, filed suit for divorce from her husband, Hyatt Edson Clark, in, Los. Angeles court, charging desertion and non- support Earl T. Montgomery, film direc- tor, filed cross-complaint in an- swer to divorce suit by wife, Mrs. Beulah Beatrice Montgomery, in Los Angeles Superior Court. Mrs. Mont- gomery charged that her husband drank.to excess. His counter charge was that, she threatened to commit suicide, pretended to take poison and was dictatorial in manner. Gilbert Warrenton, film camera- man, granted divorce from his wife, Marion, charging desertion. Lois Griffin, screen aspirant, gave Los Angeles police another reason for searching here for Clinton S. Carnes, missing Atlanta churchman, charged with, absconding with $1,000,000 of- Baptist missionary funds. Miss Griffin stated that she, like Sonia Nordie, . screen actress, previously brought into the case, was having her attempt to crash into films financed by Carnes, un- der an agreement whereby Carnes was.-to receive a percenlaige of any contract she signed for picture work. She admitted having received more than $.5,000 from Carnes since July,: 19'27.. Police activity in the search for Carnes increased \vhen a Glendale, California, resident,. . formerly of Atlanta,. reported h.aving seen and recognized Carnes on the streets of tloljywood. Prince Georgo oif England came to Hollywood after all in spite of the rule of his falhei-. King George, not to. fly here from S.anta Barbara, -wiiore his .ship Ava,s at anchor; He came inco.tjnito, with the under- standing that no puljlieity be given out of hi.s. presence, lie arrived in llullywood . Sept. 12 and made a tour of seycral of the studios. , That evening, at the home of .Doug- JLas ICaiiihanks and Mtiry I'icknmj, an inf.orinal reception Ayas tendei-od to the 3''rinee, with all gue.sts pledged to make no mention they had met the Prlneo in Uoverly r-Iill,s. • There were some 21)0 people there, Including social leaders, picture ex- ecutives and stars from tlie. 'Los Angeles area. After the aKirhanks and i'ickford reception the Prince and entourage 1-Reel Football Games Los Angeles, Sept. 18. College Humor Films, working in co-operition ■with the magazine. College Humor, will make 26 one- reel subjects. In the course of their production the company will attend 10 of the country's biggest football games, which will be shown in the pictuires. Through the influence of the magazine the company will have full co-operation by the various universities. The first football game will be that between Berkeley and Santa Clara on Sept. 29. Besides showing the athletic activities of the col- leges the pictures will include social affairs and associations. Duane N. Mowatt will be pro- ducer, and Al Davis, formerly with Fox, will direct. There will, be two featured players running through the series, Horace O. Mowatt and Ann, niece of the late Lincoln J. Carter. ON THE SQUARE 50c Blue Plate Table d'Hote Main street front restaurants in the small towns of the mainly traveled highways are serving a 60c table d'hote dinner, much better coo'ked, served and looking than the country hotels in the same towns can give. These restaurants are getting aJl of the tourist trade, with the hotels and their A. A. A. signs passed up. . The street lunch places haye discovered the blue plate dish as their secret. All of the dinner excepting soup and dessert with coffee is on the chiseled, out plate that holds the meat and vegetables: "A Broadwaylte after paying the socking checks of the Times Square sectio'n for food Is paralyzed to discover what a good meal may be had away from home for 50c. Aerial Publicity Night aero advertising; first tried out the evening of Dempsey-Flrpo fight at the Polo:Grounds five years ago, is. ag'ain coming in for, atten- tion, Thursday night a plane flew over the Square carrying an elec- trical sign on its lower wing flashing ."aerial advertising" In colored lights. The plane flew up arid down Broadway several times before visiting Jersey to. thrill the suburbanites. The first plane to carry an electric sign successfully ballyhooed Larry Fay's taxi venture, long since, defunct. Several companies were formed to exploit aerial advertising and began dickering for theatrical accounts. After two planes were wrecked, mainly because of the extra ■weight carried, the project was abandoned. Charming Companions One of the ballro'oms on Broadway no longer advertises 150 hostesses or Instructresses; The dames on hand to show the lonesome boys around the dance floor are now billed In lights as I'charming, attractive dancing companions.'* Mose Rings In on Birthday Mose Gumble took advantage of a double situation for a ritzy Ritz Towers', whoopee Thui-sday night In celebration of his own birthday last week. It ialso co'Inclded with that of the former Edith Bobe, one time Times Square modiste, who Is no^w Mrs. Bobby Hague, "wife of a vice-president of the Standard Oil Co. of N. T. Both sailed for Euro- pean, vacation Sept. 15 on'i;he_"Leviathan.". Aside from refusing to confess as to his youth the cherub, chubby, clubby, chummy Mose was quite the center of attriactlon despite Miss Bobe being technically the chief guest of honor. Smith's Head The latest of the Smith ballyhooers is a head of Alfred E. done in bronze which can be attached to any car radiator. This went on display in Bro'adway shops last week. ' Colored Girl Swimmer's Disappointment Pauline Jackson, colored swimmer, former show girl, who participated in the Third Wrlgley Marathon swim at Toronto recently outswam a lot of white girls but had to be taken frorn the water after finishing six and one-half niiles of the 10. Of the 35 swimmers ohly 16 com- pleted the swim. ' . Miss Jackson went into the contest noticeably upset. At the last minute she learned that the man managing her Toronto appearance was unable to meet financial obligations of the swim and that appeared, to shatter mvrch of the colored girl's confidence. The view of New York from the Paramount Tower Is being widely advertised In the weekly guides distributed in hotels, and visitors to the tower have been on the Increase lately. One of the best views of the Paramount Tower itself Is obtainable at night by those having friends with apartments in the 'tower , of the War- wick Hotel. Hotels Exchange Ads Most of the newer hotels aro'und the Square are advertising in out-of- town papers on a trade basis. That is when bills for advertising are presented the hotel Issues due-bills which are exchia-ngeable for room accommodations. Several advertising agents have thousands of dollars In due-bills on their hands, which the publishers of the papers they represent have failed to take advantage of. As a result rhany of the advertising repre- sentatives are offering due-bill at 50 per cent of their face value to their friends, making it possible for some of the boys around the square to hold down what Is ordinarily a $3 a day room for $10.50 a week. left to Join his ship at Santa Bar- bara. Suit by Evelyn Eagan, former film actress, for $56,150 against Will F. Peck, contractor, may be settled out of courL When case was called Sept. 13 announfccment was made that negotiations for settlement wiere \mder way and continuance granted. Miss Eagan claimed negligence by defpiidantls employes in leaving a steam shovel in a street without affording proper safeguard against approaching motorists caused her to crash into the shovel with her car. She claimed she' suffered lossv of an eye and that her face was permanently disfigured and screen career ruined/ Defendant main- tained Miss Eagan neglected to ob- .serve a barricade of warning lights around the shovel. —-Re,ne©^^^AdoECo,.=wJio_ JlCjL-jultJ^or divorce from W. S. GUI on Sept 11, changed her mind Sept, 12. The marital troubles of Jan Ru- binl, violinist, continue. The latest move of his wife, DIano Rublnl, was filing of $50,000 damage suit on Sept. 14 against Ruth Shepherd, also known as Lena Andreanl, actress, charging alienation of afCcctlona. BROADWAY GUIDE (Changes Weekly) For show people, as well as laymen, this Guide to general amusements In New York will be published weekly in response to repeated requettsi It may serve the out>of-towner as a time-saver in selection. Current Broadway legitimate attractions ar¥ coltipretely " nstsd' an^ •emmented upon, weekly In Variety under the heading: "Shows in N«W York and Comment.'' tn that department, both in the comment and ths actual amount of tha gross receipts of each show, will be found the necessary Informatlort as to the most successful plays, also the scale of admission charged. NEW FEATURE PICTURES OF WEEK Capitol—"The Camera Man" KKcaton) and Our Gring in person. Paramount-^"Docks of New York" (Bancroft). Rialto—"The Patriot" (Jannings) (run) (sound). Rivoli—^"Tempest" (.Tohn Uarrymorc) (sound) (last week). Roxy—r"Ilivcr Pirate." (McLaglcn). Strand—".The Whip" ■\vith sound and talker shorts. SPECIAL FEATURES WORTH SEEING "Wings" "Mother Knows Best" and Movietone "White Shadows'* "The Air Circus" "Submarine" "Lilac Time" NIGHT LIFE Chateau Madrid atop the 5-lth St. Club i.s "doing the bulk of cafe biz. Helen Morgan's Is a morgue and Texas Guinan's Salon Royal with Tex Vitaphone in Hollywood is also shut. Other cafes are hanging pn liko the Frivolity and Silver Slipper, benefiting from established prqstige O^nd.iQllPwi.ng,__b^ suffering through padlocking notoriety. ■The speaks .and" ■\vTfJSpFr'-16\vs^a;re""tn« Hotel roofs also registering and roadhou.Sea, notably Vincent Lopez at Woodmansten Inn, enjoying their scasonal oppoptunitles. Pavilion Royal and Ben Riley's Ar*rowhead doing well as Is Post Lodge with its West- chester younger following. RECOMMEN.DED SHEET MUSIC "A Kiss Before the D^iwn" "Don't Cry, Baby" "Tell Me You're Sorry" "Sweet Ella May" "Mr. Hoover-Mr. Smith" "Two Lips"