Variety (Nov 1928)

44 VARIETY TIM ESS QUA RE i Wednesday, November 28, 1928 New York Chatter Bo'iil.y Koldman's lai-ynRitis. .Bou Ii-win and Bormiula to rest E)iiiihiU cignrets have been corked Yihna Pianky Is at the \y»rwick. Enlj Herron on the Telejfrraph. John Byioh, scribe, has ixpr>endl- 'cltis. Bi'l i Moss opening a. club in Florida. Leo Sisters are to be in the Dati Jiealy floor show at the Madrid. ■Dooiey twins-are intent on hit- ting .Cor Havana. .. Xeii Marshall Is how a full liedged driiminer, sig'ned by Joe Candiiila; Lillian Gish receiving a select few at the'Drake. f hej bottorii : fell out of Sunday night .vafide. Biz ialbhg BrCadwa^ Dorothy McCarthy, Is doing a single. -Sis ill, Bobby Connelly, is buying George Holland's house in Great Neck. Walt Roesner was thrown a party In a night club. Dot Justin has made a tap dance talker. ' ". Esteile LUdwIg will appear in the next Belasco production. Lou Hartman, Keith's, is. with a Wall Street house. • . .iRoger Bauer,, bnce WMCA. an- noiinccri now with; WOR- Lionel Barry more left his finger- prints on a night club check. isvelyn Boone, American sobble, quitting, ".. . ■ Si.v more chorus glrla have bought peke dogs. In one supper club: the other night was everyljody but Mr. B. V.. D. Phil liosen takes his mother out nearly every night. Tale and Harvard tackled Broad- way on the week-end. . : Marion Benda ia out of. "Whoo- pee,".a girl from ''Scandals" taking her place. Sammy Smith, formerly actor, is associated with Ell Dawson, vaud agent. Dolly .Inez (Carl and Inez) has retired from the stage; now writing and. producing. Joiinne Clare and Ted Ti*evor have split a5 prospective dancing partners. A Broadway orchestra conductor has a now policy of playing no num-. ber more than six weeks old. As soon as the drapes are up, the Charlie Morrisons will have a house warming. A Broadwayite is endeavoring to start a fad, wearing a red necktie, four In hand, with swallow tails John. Steinberg has brought his nine-year-rold. son, . Larry, from Swltzcrlarid, Moselle Ransom of "Three Cheers," whlt<i as a lily, says she is half Indian, and the remainder French; John Wenger has replaced Clark Robinson as art director at the Roxy' theatre. Elliott Stuckel Is back In New York and doing, press work for "Hello, Yourself." Joe Hannon, fire tjomniissioner, uses. torch matches a foot long In his apartment in 86th street Billy Rearddn, In Paris, toys he Will shortly get a load of the Statue of Liberty. Juno Tripp, of "Polly,", was favorite in the supper clubs of Paris Lee Tracy, of "Front Page," Is being upheld by-a cane as a. result pf an injury to.his leg. J. C. Stein sailed suddenly last week on the "He. de France" for Europe, He returns Xmas eve. : A mineral water plant Teceived a fancy price for its lay-out for •'.Canadian" ale ibootleg factory. Joe Frisco says ail the night club.*5. are clicking, or are, his ears h ea r In g b n ly . lo cks.. Evelyn Bennett' is out of "Good Boy" ;on orders from her doctor. Margy Finley in the role. Evelyn Xe.sbit Is now entertaining at the Joe Ward Club on 125th street. After a long lay-off Harry K. thaw is again making the rounds of . the night life spots. Sam Siiain, ex of Paramount and Excellent Pictures, has opened his own ptibllclty ofilce. ===-^Baba-^FGrster=^(flustjiajiifi,jm=th^ up and up) sailed for Kngliand, leaving, her sister behind. Mrs. Clarence (Louise) Willetts Is press agenting the Gene Lewis stock at San Antonio.: Fowler and- Tamara danced at the home of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who tossed a party for the heir ap- parent td the throne of Spain, A newcomer to Broadway is Ilor- tchso Ragland, Southern typo, who sings and dances a la Francos" Wil- liam.^, She's from the coaaL. "i. Ann p.Gnnin.irton's-pai tii's. in her apartment at the Park- Central are iiuite the amiable ; tul.k of the tO\vn. Pat riooney; Jr„ never escorts a £;1rl less than..a hoi'ul taller than his youthful .self. ■ - Earl Rlcltard is m.c. at* the Beau Monde Club' on Diverscy parkwaj'., .Chicago. It's a regular: :floor show. Jack Pepper checked one of his molars with a fiond iiuilding den- tist^- The Roxy retiring room is featur- ing mascara layouts for the femmes who weep at picture shows. Harry Rose is again strangling himself with the well known im- portAdJsniti.niuffler. (3d_season). Gimbela is securing Broadwayites" to wear their merchandise for riewaaper: ads. Shannon Cormack has been of7 fered a managing editor trick on ah Australian rag. Richard VIdemar, of the Times sport staff, will baseball write, for the Telly. Mort Downey, vocal wizard of the Casanova, when singing "Ramona" interpolating a, whistle. GUve McClure, dancer, is enter- ing a musricai show where she will also talk. . Meyer Solmson is ; playing the market successfully and will not return to journalism if the luck endures. Nat Lewis has opened a theatri- cal basement in his Broadway shop wherein a. golf achpol will shortly appear;^. ■ Blanche" Krebs, whose' mother died recently, is changing her name to Dorothy Ritter, her mother's maiden nanie, for sentlhaent. . Dolly Tree is now the surviving designer of Brooks'. Miss Tree re- tains her connections with the Fol- les Bergere,, Paris. The Hanley Sisters, Midge and Cassle, will go wltli thie Slipper en- tertainers when they open in an- other club. ' . Robin Harris, scribe. Whose legs were chopped when a hiotorboat propeller started while he was swimming, is back on his feet. Alys' Fitzgerald, large-eyed Zieg- feld girl, injiired when a .spotlamp fell upon her while, in "No FoUln'," has recovered. Practical jokers are calling the favorite girls- of Broadway pro- ducers and leaving the name of an agent who is burning up. Sales are depleting in dress vests, since the popular double-breasted dlnher jackets dO not require them and are more comfortable without. Joseph i. Schhltzer, gen, mgr, of FBO, is part owner of the new "art" theatre now building on 8th street. Named after a vegetable is the fortune or cur-se of Albert. Broccoli, adopted son of P. J. Deccico, who Introduced broccoli In this country, Gertie Vanderbilt has met one of those brokers whose tips on the market are fast making her a mem- ber of in the money sorority. Dwyer's Country Club is the bill- ing for the miniature indoor golf course In Dwyer's pool and billiard establishment. . Three lasses from Hollywood ar- rived to take in Broadway. Rose Klnnem, Velmj^ Edell and Lucille Williams, - . . . ^ Betty Lee Co'oper, blonde show girl, married five mpriths ago in Paris, Is how doing Broadway in sables, and ermine. Robert Wilder has join6d the press department of Sam H. Harris He was associated with the ; late :D.ixIe Hlries. • , Newspaper people at the premiere of ^'Rainbow" smiled at the .side whiskers of the. chorus men, a la Bob Coleman the Mirror reviewer Ralph Shacklee, the red-headed photOg^of White's and Mitchell's, has opened his own studio on top pf the Mayfair. Seymour Wally, star photographer of the downtown dailies, has gone to the class weekly, Panorarha, to make!' round-the-tpwn -picturesv D. F. Scanlon, representing Brit- ish film interests, has g.one to Hollywood to sniff around the talkers.' -=PaiH^Sprrht=owns"a=fiook-otfTLrma: in Pennsylvania and has been tak Ing mobs over to shoot those fa^ .Dutch rabbits those week-ends. Lieut. Richard Grace, Hollj'wood's Hying sheik, Is cracklnjr up Park Avenue hearts botwocti chapters on hla book, "Crashing Into ITell." Ailecn St. john-P>rcn(>n back on the Telegraph a.s first striiitr (Miicnia critic. Alleen'.s l''ncU; IIiM-lxTt is duo back in town this week. Aiire .I Ian-is Is rfsniuinn ln-i broach of pconii.'to suit I'lH- ?li)ii,ni)o uKiUn.st a Montreal millionaire, whoso let tors she remotnijerod. not 10 forget. Edna May French, of "Scandals," is doing biisino.sy buyi.ng dainty uii- nvntlonabk'S . and . selling them profitably to the otiier girls in th<: cast. ... .'. John Carter, N. T. Times: book reviewer, connected with the Stuto Department jii Washington. John Chamberlain of the hews staff got the 'vacated -post.. Flora LeBreton, English musical comedy star,' lead Ini "Present Arms," off for six months by.Equity alien ruling, will have ended her pfC term liext week. Lord Northesk, . following Pat Ropney, jr., and Frank Far num, in an exhibition of tlie Charleston a la British, is nursing a blackbpttOm after a severe fall. . Al-SeigelHn-a-night--club-played^ "Rhapsody In Blue" for Sam ShIp- man the other night. Sam wanted to knovv who the boy concert pianist- was! ■ ' ■ ■■ Kew Gard.ens' agitation pyer the chateau of the Havel Brothers is centered on the new. maid, who sits up all night playing hymns on a soprano saxophone. Evening Post gets a new city ed next v/eek. Rowland Wood, general news editor of Consolidated Press and former city editor of A. P., moves in. There's a neyt 'phone exchange, Medallion, taking, in a fringe of the Times Square sector around 42nd and 7th avenue, whicli eases off part of the .Liackawanna exchange. Madeline North way, . ballropm dancer, has been engaged with a dancing partner, but she has no partner yet to open with her at the Riviera. Miss Northway bought; passage for two. Jack Lawrence, sport writer for the New York- American, prolific scribe, used to get $5 a column for his material a short time back on the Port Chester Daily Item. Four other pips have been signed by Lou Sch\va-rtz for his 54th street rendezvous: Louise Taylor, Kay Wolfe, Louise Dryden and Ellen Marita'. Two English showgirls—Felicity Seddon and Ann Barberova, of "This Year. of Grace'.'—have become habitues of Broadway's smartest ringsides. A former Ziegfeld showgirl ex- pects shortly to open a booking Office. She already hsis several ac^ counts and only needs a bank ac- count. ■ Frank Selzer and Gabe Yorke, ex- ploiteers for Fox specials on Broad- way, have assumed charge of news- paper advertising for the Roxy the- atre. This is the first announcement Of the French Costume Ball Jan. 11, at Pavilion Royal on Merrick road Given by ESAMPLAE, each letter of which sta.nds for one of the arts. While watching a Broadway tenor the other night a sarcastic matron fro;ti park avenue observed: "He has as much personality as a wet powder-puff." Again has. the ax fallen on the staff of the Morning Telegraph, be heading six composing room men besides Harry Wooten and Willie Reldy Of the news staff. Bill Hart, city editor, is now Sunday ed Nils Asther, Greta GarbO; Bessie Love and Lew Cody are due in New York within a fortnight. Cody, is playing vaude dat6s en route and sails -Dec—14-for London, opening Christmas eye at the Palladium. .Knocked to the street when ho went after an imitation pearl, ear ring which rolled toward an ap- proaching cab, the. doorman of the Frivolity Club was given a note 10 times the worth of the bauble Flo Ziegfeld presented Marie Dayne with an entire new costume outfit, part of the (ielebratibn of her returning to "Rio Rita" in Chicago after Equity ruled she did nOt have to return to the Shuberts A Broadway matinee idpl, renting an apartment in a hotel neat the Plaza, the other day and signing a lease, learned upon his first night home that his ex-Wife lived next door. He broke the lease instantly BaVnoy Gerard,, now a rpaltpr In Whlto Plains, N. Y., ttiade a tempor ary return to show business recent ly to produce a benefit revue for the Grace Cliurch Of that town =Show-:-was^pretty^.=_go.Qd,==auQfl5J:din£ to Barney, girl fainted in one of the over- onded s'ypper clubs Saturday night. Her bo'y friend, carried her to the adies' room. Five minutes later'he aiiited liirnseif. And was carried to the street to recupoi^'ate. -. Burton Davis, formerly critic on lie Telegraph ahd .la.st season press a.!j".nt for Gene Buck attractions, Is as.'irstant to Wpiltpr Kingsley, pub-, iolty for Flo Ziegfeld. Davis suc- ceeds Sears Taylor, A statistical BrOadwayitei calcu- lates that auburn haired females of i:he ti-ibe which tears arOund Broad- way exceed the brunets five to one and the brunets exceed their blonde sisters six to One. If yOU know your henna, then figiiire. The Merley, Jlmmie Quigley's place, moves from 48th to the old Eaves building, 110 West 46thi Eddie'11 be In charge. Jlmnile's got the new ^ay Shore Tavern at Bay Shored. L.; XT "ahri^ clusiveiy. The. mother of George Mayer died Sunday at the age of 84. Mayer is Broadway's champion first night- er, almost invariably accompanied by his mother and usuially. sitting in the first TOW of all important T>re- mieres. More tangos being . terped to in thi nite clubs than, ever before. Jerry . Friedman has a special tango quartet gfiving . put .at least four sessions a night. The later the hour the more nervy the fancy steppers biscome. . : ' Hope Lorlng, scenario writer, and lier husband, LOuis Lighton, pro- ducer 'with Paramount, are spend- ing their Thanksgiving with Harold Bell .Wright at Tucson, in the Ari- zona desert. George Kaufman, - of the New YOrk Times, has Joeen catching the Palace, New York,, shows for re- views for the past three iveeks, Owing to the Illness of .John Byram. Byram has been in Broad Street hospital where he was operated upon for appendicitis. A .score of night club dolls who played a benefit aboard the Beren- garia Svere detained by customs offi- cers for inspection of their make- up bags. Eight of the lassies, had silver knives, forka and spoons secreted in their scant costurrics— f that is possible I Two girls from "Show Boat," Fuzzy Kay and . Bettye Baker, toured Broadway seeking a "movie" tie-up. After two weeks of cement pounding Bettye dropped outi Fuzzy carried on and landed with Fox. Evan Burroughs Fontaine is pressing agents for work since the Vanities club closed, arrears in salaries. Evan's little sonny boy is attending school in Kew Gar- dens, L. I., while mother is pre- pai'ed to go to Detroit for work should iBroadway offer nothing. The publicity of the impending marriage of John Barrymore and Dolores Costello has resulted in Warners cuing its salesmen to start a supplementary compaign on "The Sea Beast" and "When'a Man Loves," in which Dolores did in- genue to John's quivering pash. A woman wa§ observed in one of the formal rendezvous the other night and ort her fingers were counted 16 diamond, emei-ald and ruby rings; around her neck was a collar of diamonds, 12 rows deep; diamond pendant with a rock the size of a walnut and earlngs so full O'f gems they resembled miniature Christmas- trees dangling from her lobes', ' Used to be a time when the quo- tation of complete Wail Street stock prices was a mld-afternooh feature. With the ticker running nearly two hours behind as it did lately, the complete quotations came out about the same time the sporting finals appeared, the top liner in at least one New York afternoon paper call irig attention, to that rather than a sporting event. Harvard has a system "of invit- ing stage comedians and humor- ists to amuse the football squad on the e've of an Important contest The morale idea worked out well judging from the win over Yale last Saturday,- thanks to presence of a couple of. Friars with the squad Friday night. There is no compen- sation but such guests accompany the team to the game and are given seats on the sidelines with the play ^orsjand. c oaches^ Tlie credo of New Haven "urcirins i9"Scrambo," so far as visitors to the Yale-Harvard football f^ame are concerned. Those Who saw last Sat- urday's contest! traveled by train and had to trolley to the station from the Bowl, since the town has only about 12 taxis.. The trolleys crawled along In a long string. At each street crossing, the kids would bawl out "Scrambo." It being their John Steinberg, of John and Christo, says he'll have the kitchen for Zlogfeld's new Midnlte Frolics i£ Zlggy. has anything actively to do with it. John says Ziegfeld doesn't want to put a nickel Into the place, leaving it to George Olsen to handle the business, details and defray all expenses. Because of Olsen's fall- ing-out with Stfeinberg over th« Lido-Venice, Saratoga, booking last August, that eliminates the restau- rateurs should Olsen .finance the project. A fellow cleverly saved himself from a scene In one of the. spiffy clubs the other night when h« pinched his girl, causing her to cry. Sh0 was about to give him a vocal tirade when he quickly turned to th© next table and said to his girl, "Meet Mr. So .and So." The girl smiled through her tears, saying "I'm so glad to know you." Then as she .t«rnM.tp__g.ive Jher J)py_frie^^ the wotks, he found someone else near- by to introduce her to. She smiled aigairt, saying, "I'ni iglad to know you." Again she started to cut loose and he selected a woman next. By that time the girl's pain had vanished and she was too. exasper- ated to squawk.- ^ Sports Writers' Edge . The footbali pools around the newspaper, offices have the nnob forking over a weekly J2' to the sports desks. Unlike the vsual pools, these are guessing contests, Ingcn-. ioiisly organized by the sptfrt scribes. The boys pay $2 for the privilege of guessing the Winners of all the games for the. week. The sports ex- perts have been winning regularly, but' the boys are. still playing the "pool." , Mr. Hall of Times Mordaunt Hall of the 'Times is still a source of joy to Broadway theatre ushers. . He couldn't get a seat in the Paraniount .the other Saturday, and' you can imagine! ' Gerson's Reason Just why Meyer Gerson, the alter ego for Ml-s. Gcrson's Fudge' Shop, doesn't carry- Lucky Strikes sounds like Joe Cook's stOry of the Four Ilawaiiaris. It seems that Lucky ballyhooed against the confectionery business by plugging a ciggie for the femmes whenever they craved a bon-bon, stating it saved them on the avoir-, dupols and yet satisfied their yen for the saccharine because of Lucky Strike's iridividual sweetening. Ger- son took this as a personal affront to his business and carries all smokes but Luckies. Incidentally, Gerson figures he'll go over the top this year, with a . (Continued on page 57) In. a tour of all the Broadway.re treats the'other night, two out. Of every five women in evening dress wore observed wearing pink gowns Most of the women looked sour, for 'tis a dinicult color to wear. Wabash is reported planning 20-hour pa.ssonger service between New York {ind Chicago and a 24 lurur train between St. Loul.s and llio oust. Wabasl* now doi>ends Uvay to attract nickels and dimes lUDslly on froight. | fyc^m the fans. "Fat" Walsh Freed James ("Fat") Walsh, 33, former bodyguard of Arnold . ROthstein, Charles Uffner, 33. 225 Central Park. West, and Charles Lacania, 31, .261 West 10th street, were exonerated Of charges of robbery when they were arraigned before Magistrate McQuade in West Side Court. Following the arraignment Walsh was brought to West 47th street station where he was interrogated by Assistant District Attorney Wil- liam Ryan in reference to the mur- der of Rothstein and also the Kill- \nB^.QLJio§ ^<>^j_^e^jryrmer who was shot in front of the Club Mad-" rid, 54th street and Broadway, and Tony Marlow who was killed in front of the Hotel Harding, 203 West 54th street. .^t the conclusion of the invciiti- gation Ryan said that he was con- vinced that Walsh knew nothing of the murders and allowed him to go. Walsh and his two companions werie accused of being implicated in the robbery of Arthur Davey,. con - tractor, 701 West 175th street, on Oct. 5 in Central Park at 81st street when an $8,000 payroll.was stolen. Davey was. in court but failerl to- Identify the trio. Stew Judgment Punching Broadway policeman is not a healthful pastime. Ask John I-Iackert. 24, salesman, 532 East 8Sth street. . .Early- the other morning. and 45th streot when he. met Police- man-Frank Huffaker, West 47th sitreet station. Ilac-kort playfuU:-' took a swing at the cop. Ilackert never knew what hap- pened. The next he remembered was that a surgeon from Bellevue was putting a half dozen stiti hes In his scalp. Before Magistiat.^ CJ.ittlieb if West Side Court Haoki.-rt sai.i h*» was sorrv. slentenec was suspended.