Variety (Dec 1928)

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90 VARIETY MUSIC-NIGHT CLUBS Wednesday, December 5, 1928 Whisperlows Rabid for Mat Biz; Easing Out AD Stalling Barflies Times Square speakeasiea are soing in for kitchens more ancl more as side-lines to the liquid dispen- saries. The theory is that "they can hold more with food under their •belts/' .'■ The .speaks also figure that they're not assured clicks uniess their matinee^ draw Js of sizeable pro-' pbrtjions.The nite; trade is« ac- cepted, as a nia'tter of eourse, no matter how much the, gnjss may be, but if .they can't,.- get , the ifero^me:' . in for a little cocktail or ihr steadies fpr an' occasional, beer ... hball, a self-respecting- joint it's not quite "in.", assurance with which the j'ei lows also take their perma- .'cy for granted makes one mar- :'el. Without seeming thought lo a padlock or official molestation, the newer, spots are fixing their rooms up elaborately, .including more •umptuous -fixtures and conve- niences, Including elaborate kitchen facilities. This confldencie Is ah^- swered by .the ."protection" they rely on from the local gendarmerie. "To protect themselves further, a strict admission basis only to those they know is carried out'by: Some. Paradoxically, there are others which keep their doors open until 9 or' 10 p. m., and only get the latch into operation with the ad-^ verit of the theatres letting put, the favorite wandering stews' hour. The ''nice" speaks don't want souses; only those who know how to carry their likker. The barfliies with a quarter investment for the Initial beer around which; to stall until they can ease themselves into a convivial drinking group are quickly given the ozone. It means the loss of a sale of that one drink,. or maybe morie, if the affable barfly, '.;nowg his routine well enough to i>ase in with a group of bar patron^, but the house doesn't want that sort of Income, appreciating it will iitimately cost them the good will of the spenders. One loft building.has three speaks on as many floors, with the un- welcome ones .shunted from speak to speak. Wbiteman Ends First Lap Paul Whiteman yi^inds up the first lap . pf his concert tour next week, returning to New York Dec, 10 where h^ will recon' until the ilr.'it of the year. Whiterhah's all-talker. Universal production, "King of Jazz," with Wesley Kuggles to direct, goes Into production March 15, having been set back a month. Paul Schoefield citrnt on from Universal City to tour with White- man for autobiographical scenario material and is now back on the coast, Mabel. Wayne and L. Wolfe Gilbert, tiieme songwriters for Feist's .are completing the special song matter which Whiteman vvlll feature In thie talker. Whiteman's Sunday niglVt con- cert at the Auditorium, Chicago, last week; at 60-40 to a $3 top; grossed $4,800, or $300 better than, his last Chi conceft at the same hall. . THOSE BOYS PADLOCKED INTO NEW NITE CLUB Toronto Cafes Picking Up; Four Will TJse Acts Toronto, Dec. 4. >Jight qlubs, failing here dozens of timies, a.t last seem to be making some headway. King Edward Hotel is using a few acts, the Old Spain has juat begun taking one or two through the Lioew office, and the Silver Slipper is coming in after Christ- mas. Most elaborate restaurant in town Is also billed to open with floor show Feb. 1. Leading Organists in New York B ILLY ARNES "ORGANIST MODERN" Loew'B State Theatre, Times Sq.. N, T. Eddie Schwartz Featured Organist Keith-Albee Theatres, New York Proctor's Fifth Ave. Theatre EEDER AT THE ORGAN E. F. ALBEE THEATRE, . Brooklyn,' New York Tluinks t6 ITKED KINSMST . Chinese Disk Names Washington, Dec. 4. Malay and Chinese artists that have box office value in the Far East are being placed un3er con- tract by the German makers of Parlophone for records. These con- tracts are giving . the artists a sliding scale from $1,000 to $5^000 monthly on a yearly basis. Sales are reported ais large. .Ger- nian manufacturers first attempted to sell the popular numbers with- out "names" only to have them flop. \ ' Organist as M. C. Des Moines, Dec. 4. Acting as a pinch-hitter here while Jay Mills was transferred to the Riviera at Omaha from, the Capitol, Herbie Koch, organist at the Capitol went over as m. c. He did some peppy work at directing, piano solo and hoofing. N. O. Still Lively New Orleans, Dec. 4. • Quite a few of the less preten- tious cabarets have be6n padlocked, but the main night clubs of the town are. still In the running. In certain districts every second door- step Is a speak. For a town that's reported being cleaned up. New Orleans la more alive than ever. JOE lEWiS AT PAEODY Los Angeles, Dec. 4. Joe Lewis, former Chicago cafe favorite, victim of thugs In a Chi cago hotel about three years ago. Is en route to New York. He will open at the Parody Club Dec. 11 as m. c. Durante Trio, With Silver Slip per Shut^ Going to Rendezvous With plenty of cigars and his wife alongside of him, Jimmy Du- rante expects the surgeons to blast Friday. In the Flower. Hospital at G4th street :and Avenue A. Mr. Durante selected a hospital on the east side to feel more at home. He has been there since Aiohday. Jimmy says the operation will be a minor, meaning he won't allow over 16. Mrs. Durante told her husband to go to the hospital after the Silver Slipper was padlocked Friday. "You're not going to hang afound this house again," said Mrs. Durante, who has had to look at the schnozzle for abdut 14 years, Consulting his own doctor, wht>m Jimmy alw:ays pays oft In laughs, the doc'said James would have to lose his sense of humor. That is the first thing that will be clea,ved from Durante Friday, If recovering, and thie chances are 800 to 1 that he will, just to spite his wife. Durante with schnozzle Clayton and blackface Eddie Jack- son, will amble up: to th6 Ren- dezvous in the Winter Garden build- ing next Tuesday or Wednesday, to make f iin. . . .. , The Rendezvous Is being prepared for their grand entrance by Johnny Irish; Tom Marlowe and Charlie Sherman, While In a Shubert build- ing the Shuberts have no piece of it and may not want one since they were mentioned as defendants in the 1 ittle Club .padlocking action started this. week. On and Off Padlocking Is the cause of the schnozzlea vacating the Slipper after a record week with the. gross. "Tuesday evening a U. S. marshal hove onto the Slipper's door with a padlock and keys. He told everyone to git, but they wouldn't git, as the Slipper's attorney was downtown trying to secure a stay. To stall a U. S. ^marshal is not as fUnny as the schnozzles, but some, bright mind informed the marshal he could not lock the place until the porter changed his clothes, The marshal agreed It Would be wrong to lock In a porter for a year. Word was Immediately dispatched to the porter to change everything but his clothes.: Even with all of that, occupying one and one-half hours, with the marshal fretting, the stay did not arrive. Whereupon the marsh locked it up and blew, taking the keys with him. Ten minutes after up came the lawyer with tbe stay and another marshal. But the No. 2 marsh had no key. Marsh No. 1 could not be located. » "Bust her open," said the attorney. Marsh No. 2 started to bust. Up comes a cop. "What's all this?" said the cop. "Opening 'er up," answered the marsh. "You can't break in on my beat," said the cop. "Read this," said marsh No, 2. "I can't read on duty," said the cop. "Can you see this badge," asked the marsh, turning on a pocket lamp. , "Oke,^ said tihe cop, and Tie help- ed to bust her open. . Whereupon the Silver Slipper again did business. But on Friday the stay was va- cated. Connecticut's Most Beautiful BALL ROOM 500 Couple Capacity FOR RENT BRIDGEPORT^ CONN. ^. Great Opportunity for An Experienced Dance Hall Man to Cash In Apply to M. L. SAUNDERS FOX-POLI PALACE Bridgeport, Conn< little Chb on Padlock List Mirador Tide Dispute Edward J. Churchill, president of the Club Mlrador, Inc., former class nite club at 16 CO Broadway, New York, would enjoin Harry J, Suss- klnd and the Mlrador Restaurant Corp. from the use of that name, petitioning the Supreme Court to that effect. A referee, Philip J. Dunn, 165 Broadway, has been ap- pointed to pass .on the injunction Issues. V Sussklnd contends that Church- ill's Mirador was a financial flop; which is conceded, and that the Secretary of the State of New York approved a .chjarter for the Mirador Restaurant Corp.: Churchill's claim Is that his Club Mlrador, Inc., was an exclusive membership club while Sussklhd's couvert-catching cafe la: Indlscirlmi- nate. ■ Churchill points out tp the Mark Strand's verdict against the Har- lenoL Strand theatre as an analogous sltuation> while Sussklnd. in his pa- pers wants to know why Churchill is all het up about a flop cafe venture. The room is beginning to click for Sussklnd who_ has Bill Duffy, Charles Arohsbh and the Slipper-Frivolity mob associated. A new revue Is credited for the draw. Tex at Hotel Harding? The Harding hotel, on 5-ith sti-eet; near Broadway, is due to enter the list of night places with Texas (Quinan in charge of thie-show. Thb hotel is said to have been acquired as a. spot for Miss Giilnah, The Harding has over, 50 rooms, which exempts cabarets from New York's 3 a. m. closing law. Tex's new spot will be located o»i the hotel's street floor. SONG PLUGGING ON VITA DISKS Lester Santley, of Leo Pelst, Ihc, has devised an ultra-modern me«, dlubi for song exploitation with 4. Sllde-a-phone, a set of slides wiUi synchronized, musical accpmpanl* ment to Include singing and comedy dialog. A l2-inch record, running four minutes, carries; a Feist song , which the booth operator repro- duces on the usual Vitaphone turn- tables and projects the slides to. synchronize with the Iryics. While an expensive plugging stunt. Feist will ket the cost back through rentals. Just as with some of its special, material slides of the past which are paid for by the. lesser exhibitors, Publix and Stan- ley, circuits have booked the Feist Slide-a-phone subjects as talking shorts. First release is on "I'm Sorry, Sally." The second will be "I'lii Beitting on You" with an applause wager idea utilizing the house or- ganist. "High Upon the Hilltop" will also probably be the plug song. Pelst has contrived this device for the wired houses as a miieans to plug Its usual catalog and disprove the . theory that the cued-ih song themes in picture productiojns will destroy thV popular music business. . Feist has recorded these disks oil what is known as Vltaphohp stock, 1. e., three-inch' thick disks which Insures their non-breakability. The record carries the same seleotlor. on both sides of the disk so that the operator can pick up any side for convenience and, at the same tlmie, it give the disk double wearing 'V^Iue. LEADING ORCHESTRAS DIRECTORY IRVING AARONSON and HIS COMMANDERS Now featured with Irene Bordoni's "Paris'' MUSIC BOX, NEW YORK After Theatre: Club Richiiian FROM DETROIT JEAN GOLDKETTEI Orchestras VICTOR RECORDS . Office: 812 Book Tower DETROIT PHIL FABELLO and Hit ORCHESTRA OpenlsK Dec. SB BIVERdlDE THEATRE New I'ork City TOM GERUNOVICH and HU ROOF GARDEN ORCHESTRA Ezclaalve BrniMwIck Artists ROOF GARDEN CAFE Broadway and Kearney Sts. San Francisco MAL HALLETT | AW y TOURING N. E. BALLROOMS Personal Management CHARLES SHRIBMAN : Saleni, Mass. GEORGE LIPSCHULn The Little Club, in the basement of the 44th Street theatre, 216 West 44th,. is on the padlock list along with Gus Weiss and Samuel J. Weiss, its operators, as defendants. Technical co-defendants are the Shubert Theatrical Co. and Lee Shubert, landlords, and Heritiah Katz, the headwaiter at the Little. Weiss has since retired from the racket and, as S. J. Weiss & Co., is In the stock brokerage business, downtown. ^^^Plxll^J^kerJh^djbe^p m a headlinor for a hew floor show at the Little. Other padlockeea are the Ger- maine Restaurant, 27 West 44th, with Augusta I*. Germaine, pro- prietress; Harry and Lou Silver, and ITai-ry Gordon's alleged speak at 121 West 61str the one at 42 West 49Ui street, and the Club Shadowland, Inc., formerly known as the Golden Gate, 102 Weat B3rd. Columbia Recording Artist Conducting SIR FRANCIS DRAKE HOTEL Concert Oroliestra SA.X FRANCISCO GEORGE OLSEN AND HIS MUSIC F. ZIEGFELD'S "WHOOPEE" Starring Eddie Cantor . N EW AMSXERDAM,=.NjLjfAJC^ Office: 20 West 43d Street New York City PHIL PHILLIPS AND HIS ORCHESTRA TOURING PANTAGES CIRCUIT DICK GASPARRE] and His ORCHESTRA HOTEL PLAZA, New York City Permnal Rep,: in. SCOTT FATON Permanent Address^ 48 W. 60th St., N. T. C. Circle lOSOt VINCENT LOPEZ V and His ORCHESTRA ST. REGIS HOTEL New York City JByULROLLSOM^ and Hiaf_ Bed ^Peppeirs ^ TIctor nuileordinc Aitists The Originator of Jaic and Stomps S7th Week, Rose .Danceliind Communicate for Open-. Time Management H. G. A. Permanent Address > Tarlisty. New TmII I PARISIAN RED HEAD S I - ■ ■ ■ - ■ — — -■ - : - ■ ■ ■ I America's Greatest Girl Band WEEK DEC. 2 Ilennepln-Orphenm; Minneapolis Formnnent Address 2a West North St., Indianapolis, Ind. WILL PRIOR I ^ And His Concert Orchestra at United Artists Theatre PAUL WHITEMANI And His Greater Orchestra CONCERT TOUR Offlte; 1560 BROADWAY, N. Y. C. 1>or.>.oiinl D.lrootion. JAMES F. GII'LRSm