Variety (Oct 1928)

54 VARIETY NIGHT CLUBS Wednesday; October 10, 1928 n-"FOLLIES" GIRL DIES FROM NIGHT CLUB BLOW Bessie Poole Struck by Em- ploye and Succumbs to Shock —Objected to Ammonia First of tl>e seasonal blackballs against the nite clubs was chalked up this week o-gainst Tommy Gui- 'nan's Chez Florence, West 48th street, when the death, of Bessie Poole, 33, of Brockton, Mass., wasf laid at the .door of the couvert charge place. A blow on the nose, alleged to have been delivered in the; Chez Florence Saturday night by a club attache, precipitated Miss Poole's death from .shock Induced by the fracture. Miss Poole is identified. as a Brockton society glrl» but was a Leading Organists in New York B "OIUSANISTK JLLY ARNES liOew'B Stat« Thentre, Tlinca Sq., N, .T. PAUL BRASS Solo Organiat Keith-Albee Theatres NEW YORK CiXY w~j7gilroy FEATURING - Organ Novelties PROCTOR'S 86th ST. NEW YORK Eddie Schwartz Featured Organist Eeith-Albee Theatres, New York Proctor's Fifth Ave. Theatre JACK SKELLY At the Wurlitzer Keith-Albee: WHITE PLAINS THEATRE Howard Warren Feature Organist at the Albee Theatre, Brooklyn WALTER WILD Feature Organist AT Keith's Hippodrome NEW YORK 1918 "Follies" girl In Ned Way- burn's danco troupe. Miss Poole was a familiar face to ..the regulars down at Long Beach and was es- corted Saturday night at the club by Joseph L, Whitehead, wealthy, of the Hotel Drake on Park avenue, along with Whitehead's brother-in- law. Both attempted to defend their feminine companion allegedly and were likewise struck. Protest Draws Slap The altercation resulted from the girl's protest against the ammonia administration to a pass-out patron at the nite club. The liquid was being smeared on a, man to- tally unknown to Miss Poole, when the latter protested the ammonia would burn his face. Miss Poole's protest fetched a slap from one of the Florence club's attendants. With blood still stream- ing from nose and mouth, the ex- "Follies" girl was accompanied back to Lillian Lorraine's apart- ment in the Hotel Dorset with whom she was stopping. Dr. Harry Gilbert, 150 W< 55th street, who at- tended Miss Lorraine, in her recent appendicitis crisis, immediately ordered Miss Poole removed to the Park East hospital on 83d street where a dangerous high tempera- ture which soon set in resulted in her death Monday afternoon after she lapsed into a coma.. Miss Poole Is alleged to haye named and Identified her assailant and police are understood to be after him. Tommy Guinan reopened the Florence last week . with : Sn6eze, formerly of, Sneeze and Palnier, at the h61m. The colored artist, Flor- ence, for whom the club is named, went back to Paris after a wrnter season in New York. FOURSOME AFTER STRAND Granlund. Richman,* Schwartz and Levene Want New Club Ffances White on Floor Gene Geiger Is going for a $3,000 weekly show nut for his Casa Lopez when it reopens Oct. 18. "Vincent Lopez will not appear personally, contracted as general .musical di- rector at the Hotel St. Regis where he will play in person, . doubling from the "Vanities." Frances White, will be the main- stay of the floor show on a $750 weekly guarantee- arid couvert per- centage arrangement, booked in for four weeks with options by Crea- tore, Lerietska & Martin, At least four other acts will surround the comedienne. ' ' An attempt to revive a pre-war type of glorified nite life will be made by Nils T. Granlund (NTG), in association with Lou Schwartz, managing director of the Club Rich- man; Han-y Richman and Harry Levene, owner of the Brass Rail. A deal is pending for their taking over the Strand Roof, negotiating with Moe Mark, the o>yner, direct- - Plans call for w, k. former Zleg- fold girls like Pearl Eaton, Llllia.n Lorraine, et al., to be Installed as hostesses. Richman will not appear but win oifflclate merely as a part- ner, being scheduled to return to the Club Richman. shortly. Strand roof's annual rental is $30,000 which was too much for the Chinese syndicates interested in the premises. The Roy, Restaurant Co., the present lessees, went into bank- ruptcy right on top of the former Ellas Meyerowltz management do- ing likewise, as a result of poor business; • No License "Tickets" Plalriclothosmen Francis Dolan and Dick Tobin of Captain Edward Lennon's staff of We3t*47th street station gave out plenty of tickets to night clubs for falling to have a cabaret license. They are; . ^ Harry Werner, Epicure Club, -13 West 56th (suspended sentence); Harry Baker, Furnace Club, 131 West 52nd (aiispended sentence); John Martini, Franclne Club, 127 West 49th (suspended sentence); Harry Baker, Furnace Club, again (suspended sentence); 'Tom, Dunn, Clubmen's Club, 121 West 51st (dis- charged). Magistrate Weil presided. Lew White Rotating Lew White, at the Fox, Brooklyn, N. y., this week, will be rotated as a guest organist in the Fox houses. White was at the Roxy, New York, froTh Its opening. Dr. Melchiorre MaUro-Cottone is now the chief organist at the the- atre while White has been concen- trating on his organ school. W. J. Gallagher Bankmpt William J., Gallagher, veteran Times Square cabaret manager and proprietor, has been petitioned Into bankruptcy with his place, the Broadway Gardens, In the basement of 711 7th avenue. Gallagher, after 15 years at the Monte Carlo, fur- ther up Broadway at 5l9t street, lost that spot two years ago and con- centrated in the meantime on Mont© Carlo-by-the-Sea, Rockaway sea food place, and at his 7th avenue basement cafe. The new trends in the nite life spelled financial disaster for Galla- gher.. When at the Monte Carlo ho was constantly In difflcultles with the prohibition autl\orltIe3, the at- tendant notoriety and the head- aches attendant to the enforcement proceedings counting against the room. BILLY, OYSTEEMAN, PADLOCK Billy, the Oysterman, Is 6n the padlock list according to suit filed in the Federal Court. The famous seafood restaurant at 7-9 East '20th street. New York, is charged with liquor violation. Harvey, Harry and William T. Ockendon are the alleged proprietors. BIG SHOT JAZZ Cleveland's Cabaret Biz Off to Flying Start Cleveland, Oct, 9. Ownefs of 'cabarets hero regard their f.all .sea.son so far as another •19 gold ru.sh. With Sammy Watklns and his band as a draw, Claremont Tent opened to the best . businesa in six. years. Watkins moved out last Tuesday to take over Ray Miller's orchestra' at the Gibson Hotel, In Cincinnati, and Billy Burton, New York leader, stepped in. Burton's the first band leader the class radio station of the town, WTAM, ever turned the mike over to. Ruth Durrell, warbler, is being featured with the band. . Austin Wylle, minus Jack Rose and Jack Marshall, his big aces, is at the Par East, a Yellow Peril parking place, and drawing unusual business Without radio hook-up, Both night clubs, the Sixty, with Al Waldon's orchestra, and Bessie Brown, chocolate fecording waller, and the Club Madrid with "Person ality" Selznick at the mike, are on the radio, doing better than in the past three years Doc Whipple, organist and jazz band pianist, is leading his own or- chestra at the Golden Pheasant, an- other saffron sub-gum sticker, where he caters to frails at noon hour when .they can dance together. So encouraged is the WInton Hotel, it opened the Rainbow Room Saturday with George Williams and his band, Vlrgitila "Temple and floor Landry at Parody Art Landry and band, are engaged for the Parody, New York, reopen- ing Oct. 22. LEADING ORCHESTRAS DIREaORY IRVING AARONSON and HIS COMMANDERS Now featured with Irene Bordoni's "Paris" MUSIC BOX THEATRE New, York City PHIL FABELLO I and His ORCHESTRA LOEWS 7th AVENUE THEATRE New York City MAL HALLETT AND HIS ORCHESTRA NEW ENGLAND DANCE TOUR Personal Management CHARLES SHRIBMAN Salem, Mass. THE ORIGINAL DINTY MOORE Philadelphia, Oct. 9. Meyer Davis conducted an S5 piece dance orchestra, for the Amer ^^.^ ^ lean Bankers' Association Ball at show, after it had been closed for the Bcllcvue Stratford last week This is believed to be the largest dance combination ever heard any- where in this country. Principals Record Evelyn Herbert, William O'Neill and Richard Halllday have re- corded the "New Moon" music for Bi-unswick. The trio are in the cast of the Sigmund Romberg operetta. Re- lease date of the records depends on RbfhhFrg's " appi'bVal, four years. Ginger ale and ice and food are only things peddled by all the joy joints in Cleveland; every spot is run b. y. o. 1. now at ARTHUR MacLEAN'S HUNTER ISLAND INN Pelham Shore Road, N. Y. GEORGE OLSEN AND HIS MUiSIC SOON ZIEGFELD'S "WHOOPEE" Starring Eddie Cantor Office: ZO West 43d j>treet New York City FROM DETROIT JEAN GOLDKETTEl Orchestras VICTOR RECORiOS . Office: 812 Book Tower DETROIT SAMUEL HEGGENj. Leading: a Great Little Band Prqptor's 86th Street NEW YORK CITY VINCENT LOPEZ and His ORCHESTRA Exclusive Brunswick Artist WbODMANSTEN INN Pelham Parkway, N. Y. CHARLIE MELSON The Maestro of Ceremony and His Bands Stanley, Jersey City Branford, Newark PAUL WHITEMANI And His Greater Orchestra CONCERT TOUR Offlbe: 1560 BROADWAY. N. Y. C. Direction F. C. COPPICUS Singing Drummers Chicago, Oct. 9. Ted Brown, western independent music publisher, has 30 singing salesmen on the road for him. Good pipes are a requisite of tKgge fl«ld saiiesmen.^^^^" ' " " PARISIAN RED HEADS America's Greatest Girl Band Permanent itddreNS ' truest Noirtii St., to^ IF YOU DON'T ADVERTISE IN V A R I E T Y DON'T ADVERTISE HALE ("PEE WET) BYERS Conducting His Different Dance Orchestra FOR THE FIFTH CONSECUTIVE SEASON in Greenwich Village (85 West 3d St.), New York WAYNE EUCHNER PIANO NYE MAYHEW SAX WALTER LONG SAX PERRY BOTKIN BANJO EMERY KENYON DRUMS