Variety (Nov 1928)

Wednesday, November 21, 1928 TIMES SQUARE VARIETY 47 UMP IN fflS HAT, MINE HURLER HELPS But Manager Fears Blonde's Room Rent Stare July 16, 1920. : ■■r^ear.:Chick: ' ' ' - ' v My wblves haye been going* great gnns, ■ and we Are now in fourth place. It shows what a difference just a few rattles of the can will Diake on one of . t h ese flat - wheeled ball nines. l " . sent . a . eoupie of the eaps I had on their merry •way, and the rest of the gi- : borieys figured ■ they'd better ■ start ■ hustling or they would be divorced itom their hot jTieal as far as this, cluib was c o n c e r ned. I have a new pitcher who has Stories by Jack Conway From 1920, onward. Jack Conway wrote a series of stories appearing j y. Variety. Mostly the stories dealt with baseball and prize fights, play- I rpfi and pugs. This series will be reprinted weekly. Ea,$h story will carry onBinal head. The story below appeared in Variety of July 16, 1920. ■ ;, . • • ■■ . . ^ • •■ ■•• : " '•■ - ■ ■ ' ■ Baron Hanley in Court Over Driver** License John- (Baron) Hanley, 39;; sports-, man and man about towii. was In West Side, cfourt before Magistrate Maurice. GotUeb on the charge 6£ disorderly conduct. The portly "Baron" was freed, but plainly vexed when in court, Patrolman Oscar Hoffman of. Traf- fic e was the complainant against HanleyHe charged that Hanley had :advised -.his chauffeur not to show Hoffmoin his' driver's license. HpffmaW .hialted Hanley's chauf- feur at Broadway and llOth street. Hartley waa in the rea:r of the ca.r Hoffman demanded ; to see the chaiuffeur's license; Hoffman chjcirgedr that when he asked . the chauffeyr to display the Ucertse, the 'Eardrt* advised the chauffeur not to. . Hanley was taken to West 100th street and "booked." He quickly got bail. When in court he .seemed bored. .The officer said thit; there had -beert some; mi-sunderstanding.^ The vBaron''.• left with his lace beaming. . Rothstein Hooeyiitg Keeps Up; Burkan Now in as Atty. Gpp Father of 13 Barney Stager, traffic cop oh thp east Ride of Broailway and 46th street, became the fathor of his 13th chlia a coui^lo of weeks? ago. Ten are living, seven girls a.nd three boys. Mr. an<i Mrs. Stager have been married Zi years, but Barney gallantly. says you wouldn't believe it to see his wiffe, or that she is the mother of such a large flock. Barney has been on the 46th street corner for-15. years. Didn't Waiit Chamiis to Leave Joint; Beat 'Em Up ABOUT ROTHSTEIN Skin Game Easily^ ! UFFNER GIVES INFO Worked in Cleveland j 01<-\ci;nul. Nov. i;0. i : , . . ■ 1- . . * . ■ , /iviv, I J.'.ii I ^ \\ II. .!.v imt.i A1-. auc.-d u n..sv sum f^^^^'^'V ^>"^ , Vuu ul'V... i> N. . r...-mer u.sing ri'at. .«kins in tlioir •^'>^ »'>'l'^'-! i„„1>xim; i1 ■ tor Ai n.>',.l Ki.;';.-u ;n.; It l.s .a wiiAv.. as ono sU'-kt i- vu<vi'i>lly li s V" iViu r, ;ii'.-• i> :y .-alos- testiliea iifU'T iH'ing i-HplHHl to lU.^ nian..—auio aiUhv>ts. ;,iul C.hailea- Liuiaiiia, 31-. LHil. Wi'.'-t imh iiireet. CON "Beating patrons in alleged sup- jper clubs must' stop," said Magis- trate, Maurice Gotlleb in West Side COurtwhen he found John Morr mandbi 30, who said he was a por- ter in the Lafayette Cafeteria, 149 West . -tStl? street, guilty and sen- tenced him .to 30 days in the Work- house. The court reduced the sen- tence when the complainant stated to the magistrate th^.t there were some extenuating ■ circumstances. Mormando then got 10 days. Mormando was arrested by Par trolnian Bob Enright of the West 47th . street istation, on the com- plaiht of James W. Shilling, 30, stock broker, of 206 West 105th tune .of .iriOO, A nioh of two 'stiiU-Walk" hustU-r?* are lUilHns plY tho iriok. Both met in tho i;hun»p"s store apparently as .«trunKOJ-s, one c'tuTying a bap, which, he ooniidetl to sharpshooter >;b- 1, contained snuigglea genuine Alaska seal skins tluvt liQ,, wanted to soli. After a lonji .spiv'l,,.the skin rack:: eteer finally offered to ..^ell the other the entire bag for $1,500. lli.s shil- laber agreed to the b>iy, usked the seller to wait uhtil he got some money,. and then.. (lid the fade-out act. ■ When his a^-ooinplico failed to re- appear, the key man put the bee Ion tiie sap, saying that in despera- tion he would sell the furs for one- third ot his original price. The wci't^ before Ma.ui.st r'.iti' 1-". X. Mc»: tJviaUo in' ^\■osf S.iil. .i.'uurt' .on '.'liargos of rohl'evy aiul were held in $■'1,0110 bail each t'ov, \u-i\yu\'ii: l'".riday. Tl.ie trio are .accused .iff being Im- plicated in the rvbhei-y 'of Arthur IJavey, 25 West ■-llh-d .^^trect,. presi- dent of a. lirepVooling .concern, on OtH; 5; at- gist street .and- Central l^ai-.k. When the men were ar-' raigncd a squad of unifi-rmed police guarded the outside of the building and the corridors while detectives circulated among the iuidienco, ■ Arrest of the three \vtvs made by. Detective Thomas Tunney, West CS.th. street station. They were^ bnnigiit to police, headquarters, where Inspector Cpughlin-and other detectlvef* Interrogated them about the robbery and also in connection storekeeper fell, espe^ialljr after the K th:^e assa?;sma .<ni of Kothstem shlllaber phoned later, biit was told .Tl^'^V. rtf'njed. knowledge of the rob- that the furs were being sold td.l ^^^^y o^the slaying. a merchant. The Alaska seal skins turned out to be rabbit skins.. Somebody Snickered and Dancer Socked Miller won two games in a row, and he has helped, some.. How. this . .bird, ever wins a ball game will have to be answered by Harrj' SharrOck, for he hasn't got a prayer. He just, lobs them up, and they pop them all over the park. However, I am keeping a flock ?f bandages .and Sloan's on handfor .the day they start belting :him. will need them to patch up the shins of the rest of the owls. His name is Jones, and he came to us out of a hole in the ground. He was a. codl miner when one of my scouts .gabbed him, and when I met .him at the train he still had the lamp in his hat. But as long as he wins ball games I wouldn't care If he wore snow shoes.off the diamond; This bird is about as loose, with his change as a Pullman car win- dow. He will probably wind up by buying the club. If he lasts long enough. He came to me the other day, and after I explained to him that the club only paid living and . ether expenses when the ball team was on the road traveling, he want- ed to know if he moved to the sub- urbs wouldn't we consider him as on the road. He's making a great play for the phone operator at the Eagle Hotel: She's a swell lookin' dame who has nearly wrecked the league at various tirrie. Oh, how she . can take those chumps! She's a blonde with a room-rent istare, and she" can . introduce a guy to more checks to lift than any^ three of -^Siggie's flock. Well, she took a chance with Jones one' night last week and allowed him to date her .up. The next day I hung around the switchboard lookin' for info, and she finally gave me a detailed description of her wild night with the coal miner. He took h*?r to an autoniat aridVgyPPed the . joint out of about a buck's, worth of . food by dropping- cluck nicitela In' . the'.slptt;. This wa."? followed by an Invigoratin' walk of about ii mile . while he cxpilained to her why he was .so neryotis in stiveet cars and taxis. "They topped off the evening by a». dash . througb the. public • li- brary. For a ninth innin' finish, she told him she had lost her purse con- taining her salary, and that if she went home witliout it her drunken stepfather would beat her to a pulp. ■He'told her not to worry; that if she w.ould give him her I. O. U. ho would insert, and add in the local ^••=-:''Pupei»=an d ^Tsign^lti s^owsi-^ii an ^t»=lo^ t; figurih' that any one in town would h(; glad to return the, j>u:'se to the prido of trie liall eluh, ' '" •• •'■ ■-. I left her ligurii'i* sfiUH.'' way to 'give, him the worst of it, hut at thf prf-.«f-nt wrltin" he's 6 to B to pre- s< jit h'T with a bill for u,sin' up his e . (lilrif,'. ^V(•■l|. cbiik (aUI .sncU, ii's tinu' to f ' (.n lb' no.Mnag. «(i I'll ring off. ii>"i' tiifi pal, Con- An unparalleled circUliation maker may have been discovered by the dallies In the Arnold Rothstein mat- tel- that still hangs ; ardtind the front pages after dayia and days; "The hobeying keeps up with the police waiting for the people they Want to see to call On them, and Mayor Walker staging one of those angry, things with his police Over the bbjeetion of State Sena- tor Klmer Quinn, Magistrate Mc- Quade held them until Friday to give the. police an opportunity to produce Davey and hia secretary. Quinn charged that the police knew , the throe had nothing. to do with the robbery and were using it as a subterfuge to hold them in jail hoping to get Infori'nation about the Uoth.^teln case. Rothstein Wise ' . Uffner told newspapiermen that commissioner. About the most noteworthy inci- dent of late is the selection of Na- than Burkan as counsel for the three administrators of the Roth-, stein estate. The latter still rcr mains, estimatied at $3,000,000, net, despite the dailies trying to dis- sipate it or raise it a few millions through stolen bonds.. : Officials found put more about th.e "Vestris" catastrophe* costing over 120 lives in 24 hours than all. of the New York police and federal in.spectors have ..located in 15 days concerning, the. loss of Roth.steiii's one life. Administrfvtprs wore appointed by the Suri-ogate last week. They are Rothstein's father, Brow-n, his book- keeper and a real estate expert. .In the only safe deposit vault so far located was found, a couple of in- surance policies for about $20,000 each, one payable to his. wife and the other to his dame, and some diamonds, unappraised. While it seems to be the same impr.os.sion that some Important iieople mu.st be mixed. up in the Roth.stein affair. 10 DAYS FOR KICK Jas. Fay Goes Away for Booting Dorothea Wynans A tempernicntal outburst on the part of Ramon, of Rosita and, . _ . ' = ^q„„uu,„r #rA«% "Tii.> had known Rothstein for about stocK oroKer. ox , Ra'"^"' He said he was not ao i c!hii::„^ r-harsed that he Moon" into the Club Lido, re- U^.g ^^at the killing was due to; a street, Shllung charged^ inat ^« 1 ^^3^ ^ an attack on Charles Mil- gambling debt because he pointed was savagely beaten in the suPPe'' ! ^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ,„ Harry out that Rothstein always paid his club at 5 a. m., Nov. 14. L, ' „ ;.„u^of..o t debts, even If they were a little de- He testified .that Mormando ^^'^"'^^^ said the story about one of his assailants. Shilling col- As a result of the melee in the n^^rked and .shaved .cards was the lapsed on the sidewalk!. His com- musician's room Friday night Miller, bunk as Rothstein probably knew panion. Myra McDougall, 24, model, Lugtained several painf ul face lac- more about crooked gambling than of 206 West 105th street, dodged a and the loss of at least a any man in the country, bottle hurled at her and hid in a r*^^"""^ anu u.b When asked if Rothatem might phonVbooth She was rescued by handful of hair from his scalp, k^^^ j^^^ ^is head when he went the cops Although the squabble was quickly to the room in the Park Central Shilling had to be attended by squelched by the Intervention of Hotel Uffner scoffed at this. He an ambulance surgeon. He appear- Frank Garlasco, one of the opera- said the slain gambler was never ed in court with his nose broken tors of the club, artd Miller had no ii„own to become excited or lose and his scalp deeply gashed. His chance to retaliate, he has Vowed | i,io j,ead entire head was swathed In Tjand- revenge ages. Mormando was first charged The trouble according to an eye^ Avith felonious as.sault. This was witness started^ while Rosita .and later changed, although Mormando Ramon . were. doing their dance admitted in court that he had a "L'AmoUr Tragiquc." Rout ne calls " 'for Ramon to take a drink 01 poison, with suicidal intent, and Rosita, stopping in and stabbing , him to frustrate it. • Ro.sita's timing was a little, ofl Friday. When .she prop-stabbed Ramon he started to choke on the ginger alo ho was about to swallow. Somebody .snickered. Ramon wati convinced that it was one of the boys in the Ilosonthal'orchestra, al-. though one of the Hernande// Uros., _ _ . 'also In "New Moon" and doubling . Shilling with Miss McDougall and into the Lido, tried to persu.'jde.him two other.?, man and woman, had it was a couvert-paying guest, spent ..some time at the supper.„club. Following the dance Ramon, boil- whic.h is in the rear of the cafe- ing, entered the musician's ante- tcria. The other man, Enright told Loom and ber.ated all tho.se present, reporters, was giving the dancers picking especially on Miller, and hostesses bills of large dcnpm- When Miller said phewey Ramon inations leaped on him with outstretched . Miss McDougall suggested all go finger.s, dug his naila In Miller's ^J^^ (^Jj^nce oeilerS home. A dancer came to her side, classic features and had nearly | ^ r\((:^^ I seizing her by the breast and began succeeded in carving his initials on ~ to treat her roughly. Shilling pro- the violinist's face when hauled off. tested. Immediately the fight was IV^iUer was seated in an easy chair on Bottles. • chairs, costumers and Lsmblting'. a cigar when the attach everythinir'movabie ■ ^ said Shilling. to his other injuries sustained a lie feared Miss McDougall would | burnt lip. be struck. He covered her, he said, and endaayored to run from the stick in' his hand. Shilling told the court.he wanted to withdraw his charge. Saul Price, assistant district attorney, suggest- ed a hearing be had immediately on the charge of disorderly conduct. In many of these kind of cases, Price told reporters,; the complain- ants are scared off. "That Is why I wanted an immediate hearing," said the young district attorney. Giving Money Away Charged with kicking a girl in the back, 'j^mefj .Fay, 28, of 292 West ■92nd .street, wa.s sentenced to the , Wbiiiiipuse for:;. 10 .;days by. Magibtrat6 Maurice Gotlieb in West; Side Cdu/t. . Fay was arrested after a cha.se by Patrolman Philip Burns of the Wes't 47th street station.. DoVothea Wynans, 23, of 210 Dana road, Los Angeles, stopping at the Century Hotel, was the cpmplaihant against Fay. . .'^lie asserted, that slie hiid been, at Kosdand with bohK' friends. They left the dance hall and went to the Vil1a.t,'c Grove. After leaving there Mi.-Ts Wynans started =f G ivJu;.i-=h o.tcU^:.-..Shx;„i;ttachf^fm CJ way and 40th street, when she averred that l-'ay called her an in- deCehf name,' .Slve""resented it. -■ F.'jy, who was with som" friends.. .slu< cliarged, booted her ir the bark, fellin-.' her. Her .•^creams wore- lieard by Horns who caught Fay on tbe run, lie said he had be<'n drnikinir but .denied the. charge. In imposing the f»<ntenff tb'- I'onri'hf'tly llayed tlu- dffend.ini. Uffner also discounted the drug story that was circulated. He said . that during his association with Rothstein he never kiiew him to be IntcreiJted with narcotics In any way. lie said that If the police or federal authorities knew of this they should have taken aume action before the gambler was killed to give him an Oppprtunily to refute It. The three .men, through their at- torney, complained that they were kept In the basement at police lu'.'uhiuartcrs since Friday without the formality of a court arraign- ment. They said this was don© to "sweat" them Into giving informa-. lion they did not po.s.sc.'»s. Magistrate McQuade made it quite plain that he will take ade- quate action Friday when the case is called, and warned the police of- ficer.^' to have their complainants In court at that time. In Office Building In the Galvin building, 23ij West 50th street, deectives under the com- mand of Deputy^ Chief [hft pect of Jamo's"S.n^Tan raidTd^n' office Vrr and endaayored to run irom me _ x\tU^ t Vvc* XHntrc place. As he was passing through Woitian WnO LOSt KingS the cafeteria, Mormando struck him.' - . . Cops and detectives hurried to the It looked as if a "Big Ber- . Panned by Magistrate place. tha" had struek it., Mormando .was identified .. by .Shilling and placed under arriest. He said he had al stick but was. trying to ...save himself from being lilt. > "I'eople-go, to these alleged sup-, per clubs. Many of them are noth- ing but speakeasies. They spend plenty of money; In .ffornc places they "are robbed, In others they are beaten. "It has got to stop be,f:ause .r arrj i;fjing to .stind-alL.offenders.that ap- pear before mo for beating cus- tomers to Jail." said the wrathful " ' PETER"BICE. STRICKEN -r Pe.ter Ki(;e, veteran member of e Frinr.s was btrlek- . with apofriexy ! an<l Is under ob.'.ervailon In' tln-^ i Mdri.istery. He i.", reported In serrii- • jci.nsfious fondilion; I ■ |{i.-e w.'i'- formerly Iderififi^-d wiii Assorting, that ' .she.den red to withdraw her: charge: of larceny, Mrs; 'Jtrary Sperb'er,- 30, dancer, of 149 West C2nd .street, caused Pelle- grino Truncale, 22, chauffeur, of 313 Kast 39tli street, to be discharged in West f^ide Court ■ by ..Magistrate .\Tauriee Gutlieb. Trunrale wa.^j airesled by detec- tive Pat ifarty, of .the .West 47tli street station, on the complaint of the d.*i.nc(;r who declared that She had ber n ■ robbed of three• diamond rin^.'is while in a fid'-r stube. She charged th.'it Truncale, whom' Bhe only knew tliree week.'^, had forci- bly taken them from her fingers. ^'=Pl :V'=^srniT-d-^'^^rhn 1^"'7^hTT--•^'m^^ return: of the rlnt'.'i but that Tiun- i-ale j^ef'lj efl to f-'i/e. them hack., f^h'- • heil noljfif^d'Tla'rty. "■fruneaV. had 1h.e'rhigv when ' .vr- leyje.i. s;iid llariy. ife -aid Iliaf !hr d.'lliee;- i.;i<\ >;iVeii .>l 1 rtj . the I I.'i;.'.'? ') rri:iid. Til' f'l-jrf flayed Mi<-, S);'rb'i r.'(l -latf'! M.vr s! e (l.'i ri'iT t..);l;:- the fourth floor, room 414,. and seized aeveral hundred, books repre.^entlng chances oh various .stock.s. Books and three prisoners were ta'cen to the West 47th street station. Prisoners gave their names as Gilbert Roberts, 40, engineer, 217-00, 110th avenue. Queens Villlage;. Sam-^ uel .Tohnsori, 32, salosmari, of 10 Sherman square, and James Gal- lagher, 37; fireman on "a locomotive, he . said, of 1563 Park avenue, Biidgeport, Conn. They were charged with conduct- ing a game of chance.. Detectives Wohlfei and H.'Uik, led by Bolan, entered the office.building. The ar- rest came about, In.'^'pei'-tor Bolan Kta.tf'd, when a wife wrote to him 'and naid her hui-band'.^ •arnlngs were being i)layed on tlio dol! ir chances. . TlKi lj|f;he.Mt jirize was s.'ild to be $3,700. .Lowest $1"0. The jiri'^oners =w'iil=""lTTrA'c^a^^hea'il n g-=-f his--vvj.i;k=*ln Wc-t ."^'ide Court b( fore Mat-'i.-lraio John A'. Flood. |Minet'a powery. J the C/.mr''^''"* '1' good |.M!h. Ii'oii 1 I/iiK ohi now ge! ,1 rej-'ular .'rf.e fi'l ori <ii< !•'■!■' tl..o,i: ii lio'.ising th'j i;,r!!"t-.' J'.!- 'I'er-.' •-t:i:!(/ii AVGPS: on f';e. JTmi |!o"'- of tli<- ri:i'l!owrj j,, I. . l;. • .■ ; • .• 1. ■ ' o)! ref; - (•n fvr luov'iu}.. '<oe .-'iidio.