Variety (Mar 1929)

46 VARIlETY TIMES S Q U A R E Wednesday,^ March 27, 1929 New York Chatter Lou Davis back from MlamL Hilda Harrison on the vocal staff At the Roxy. New Cotton Club show opens Sunday next Helen Morgan flew back from Palm Beach. Hnuser Brothers back from Lon- don. Well, sir, Mark Hellineer has sprouted spats. Jack Felgle Is sporting a broken arm following fisticuffs. Harry Cnrey and Tim McCoy In town. Vincent Lopez, long an absentee of the gay places, is making the rounds. Cynthla . White's 11th annual Greenwicli Viilago Revel is set for April 6 . at Webster Hall. Ramon and Rp.-iita, having coni- plctcd their season In Florida, pro- ceed to London shortly* Evelyn Martin, formerly of the Mirador, opened at the Rlchraan with George Olsen premiere. Doctor has ordered Barbara Dean to quit eating so much stuffed celery. Lloyd Garrett restored as m. c. at Park Central Grill, Cliff O'Rourke had been there. Fanny Brlce, who went under the knife two weeks ago, Is again mak- ing the rounds. Joseph P. Bickerton, Jr., recov- ered from pneumonia and south 2 ZIEOFELD SENSATIONS QLORIFVINa THE AMERICAN OIRL MEW AMSTERDAM Thcatrt. 42nd. St " -rht Hnu«< Beautiful." Wwl. * Bat. EDDIE CANTOR V^^lV.r WHOOPEE >llh ETH EL 8HUTT A 4 ALL STAR CAST P^DX WHl'l'JiiMAN EtniHE band ^icvsrcLiU M,,,. Tftras. & bat. SHOW BOAT Norna Tairlt, Howan) Mank, Barbara New. Mrry. SamM Wkitt,'Halaii Mergaa, Edoa May OII«er utf CHARLES WINNINGER Mete. Thuta. & BaL TirkcU for all performances at Box Offlw. Seats S Weeks In Advance. ~ LEON FANVIE MONEL ERROL BRICE ATWHL »> In the musical comedy hit "FIORETTA Uusle bj Qeorge Bagby & O. RomllU featarlnir Dorothy Koapp and Qeorge Houston QCHEERS WK.I, ROGERS dorotut STONE "I aad WOI Is liable tn that ■■ totalkaboot BniBsb anybodr QLOBE, Mth ft B'war. Mats. Wed. ft Bat. AaetMr VasdttMtt Mnlcsl Canady Saaikl L ADY FINGERS with EDOie BUZZELL 4 LOUISE BROWN MOVES TO LIBERTY THEATRE MONDAY, APRIL 1 MORRIS OBST, by arransement with DAVID BBLASCO, presents LENORE ULRIC In Mr. Belaaco's (ifUIIMA" Masterpiece WllWl/> with SIDNEY BIACKBIEB D_l_Thea., 4«th St B. of B'way, OelaSCO Eves. 8.30. Mts. Tbur. & Sat. Df AVUmiQITW. 48Ui St Erga. 8:30 rLAXnUUdE^Mats. Wed. ft Sat.. i:30 ELMEB BICE'S New Play SMET SCENE Eitra Matinee Thursday, Mar. 2:8 Mais. Every Day Easter Week, April 1- THBATRE GUIIiD PRODUCTIONS DYNAMO FLBBQCTORS NEW EAST Thnr-SntM Mar. SR to SO' Stara af tlie Rkdl* • VTrua Slani' Hour MARY and BOB IN PERSON .«» .~ . Talkim I MARIAN NIXON ICOR.ltX.AVE. I ft souad. la "aEWALOINE" ALL GIRL SHOW WltN 29-Olrl>-25 Talktnl and Saund Pletura _ MARIAN NIXON IMEMIWAVE.I Is "QERALOINE" Snpreme TandeVlUe—Pictures CaatlBseut Neas ta II P. M. Uw PrIeaa . NEW EAST 58'-^St, CAPITOL BUSTER B'way ft Slst SL Midnight Pictures Nightly 11:20 KEATON In H-Q-M's LauEh Riot with Sound SPITE MARRIAGE Also Excellent Surrounding Program of Itovletone and Specialty Artlsta CAPITOL GHAND OKCHESTRA Tth ATE. ft BOth ST. DOX T DInctloa of 8. !>. EV\^^V A Bothafel (BOXX) Srd Week Hear New Tork City Talk -WILLIAM FOX Presents ^m> SPEAKEASX K Fox-Movietone Production with PACT. lOlA HENBY^B. PAGE lANE ^ WAITHAJ4. Stupendous Anniversary Spectacle wltli ENTIRE BOXY ENSEMBLE Uartla RITPir Tli.,48 SI.,W. of 8 Ar. DC^IV E„ni„g, 8:50 Mats. Tbur. ft Sat, 2:40 CAPRICE /^ITIt n Thea., W. CM. T.n. 8.C0 STRANGE INTERLUDE Jobs Cnl<lAii ''>'^- t^"^ ^ lO-KEmF —PALACE ?;sr«*^ Q I L OA 0 RA V (Is Penae) VINCENT LOPEZ AND ORCHESTRA RITZ BROTHERS ROOEII IMHOF 4 CO: Peter HIgdne—Ted.4 At Waldnaa Bud Htrrla 4 Radclitt—Sawyer '4 Eddy -^HIPPODROME— CONTINUOUS, 10:30 A. M. ta II P. H. Prioet Ex. Sat, Sun., Halldaya Alia., Ores. Ue; NliliU, Oreb. tOc %,* FAKNIE BMCE Ban?'* Alls SMITH 4 DALE sT Avfts Csnady Fcur la an All-Talklai Cemedy OB Uie I HUBHIE CLARK 4 SANS SUh WILLIE SOLAR; Othen Tliun. t* Sat, Mar. 28 ti 30 Om-WHITING & BURT-8»i"» . HARLAND DIXON DAVIS 4 DARNELL) Othtra Talking 4 | MARION. NJ^^PN. Saund In "OERALOINE" i —^RIVERSIDE ^S.-'^s * Thura. ta Sat, Mar. 28 ta 30 CHARLES RAY (in Pei^on) RUNAWAY FOUR CLARK & BERGMAN: Others . Talking 4 I MARION NIXON Sound I In "OERALOINE" W A R N E A. a ft. O S viTAPMONc TALHiNO picruac* WINTCK CAttDCN BOTH SHOWS - twice daily t.4i-a.*s CXTB,A ft p. M. SHOW SUNDAYS FIRST TIME AT POPULAB PRICES DAVEY LEE SMARK rV tranD B'way 4 47tli Doors Open Dally at 10:20 A, M. 35^ All Seats Deluse Mldnlshl Show Nightly ll^U tol P. m: in "Somy Boy" He sings—He Talks —He Clinrms All-Sound PmcnuB $7 Win Cost $250 A Broadwar tAiowerlrl Is sulTorins ^om iv slot-machtae malady. Girl stopped, with friends at a speakeasy In which was a 26-cent slot-machine Into which she dropped a quarter, obtain- ing $1 on the.first yanic Uer second quarter netted a deuce; her third, brought a deluge amounting to $4. She Inserted all her winnings and $8 In ad- dition. Madtlne, in bad working order, stuck frequently and when she was through 10 little blisters appeared on a tender palm. Infection set In and she paid a specialist $260, recuperating. Back in his offlce next weelc. Tommy Lyman winds up next week at the Chateau Madrid after a long run. Jack White remains. ' J. Anzoldl will represent Reuben, who Is opening another theatrical delicatessen in Paris. George White and Nick Blalr hav^ plotted a trip to Europe shortly. Betty Compton signed for three more years by Aarons and Freeley, Is now signed for five years. Jack Sobel, formerly with the Yiddish Art Theatre, has a canvas hanging in the National Academy titled, "Rose." Lou Lusty, personal p.a. for Lupe Velez the pact three weeks, has 'lost nine pounds during that period. It's part of Lusty's Job to go shop- ping with Lupe, get her to the the- atre on time and carry'the Mexi- can dachshund. He has two more weeks to go. Llndy, the restaurateur, is com- plaining to Police Commissioner Whalen to clear his sidewalk from the guerilla hangers-on. Harry Ormlstonand DukeMurtha are back In Unlversal's exploitation department after several years de- voted to trying out other jobs. Rlan James, columnist for the Brooklyn Eagle, sailing for vacash in Europe. Column will be done by friends during his ab. At the Garden Friday. Hal Hixon applauding when his fighter, itay Miller, was Introduced. Just a master of ceremonies. Lester Allen diverts his friends with slides he has of World War scenes, depicting gruesome battle results. One ' of those Fords with limousine body and chauffeur was outside a night club the other a. m. Halt a dozen Tale lads and the goll friends emerged. . Marvel Dobbs and AUeen Mae on the level about their cross-country trip to San Francisco by car. Have bought a Cher and obtained .licenses. A stuffed stork, some four feet high, brought into the Gulnan club by a Wall street broker who placed the bird on his ringside table. Significance unknown. Display window In the 60s of Broadway causing trafflo conges- tion, all the cab drivers in town stepping to >vlew a new make taxi- cab. • ' iBuIl Montana, rlngslded with Jack Dempsey and Estelle Taylor at the Chateu Madrid, volunteered a song Saturday night. He sang "Among My Souvenirs," and it wasn't bad. An epidemic of coat thievery in night clubs and theatres. One light- headed gal is weeping over the loss of a mink coat that cost some mug three grand. • She left it in a the- atre seat to take a smoke. Nagakl, Harry Rosenthal's Jap, driving' his Lincoln from Palm, smacked a state trooper's BUlck nea,r Wilmington, Del., Saturday. They put him in the ancay until as- si^red the damage would be paid. They are telling the story of the young . man who was recently told by his prospective sweetheart that she was going blind, so she wouldn't hold him to his marriage intention. The y. m. declared he'd stick, and they were married. The bride is now sightless. Pat Pursley, of "Animal Crack- ers," now singing at the Chateau Madrid. Dressed in black evening gown, ' 3 looked .so good that when Joe Frisco saw her being in- fR)aire6d'-by-jKk'-WHire'tire--'otiTCr- nlght he summarized the situation by .shouting, "Don't do anything. Just stand there." New wrinkle In travel to Atlantic City is the Blue Goniet, a de luxe train run by the New Jersey Cen-. tral. Cost Is same as ordinary coaches, thereby saving $1.13, the usual Pullman- rate. Profetjslonals giving train a play. Idea originated last year by New Tork Central with some trains to Buffalo. Dorothy Hughes (Mrs, Phil Payne) bought, a typewriter and Is studying shorthand and stenog- raphy, hoping to acquire the arts in order to carry out the wish of her late husband who always want- ed'.Dorothy to become a writer and connect with some newspaper. Former showgirl has. given up the stage permanently. A world's record is claimed by the proprietors of Broadway's , latest speakeasy, which opened Saturday night. Lease was signed Friday, bar was installed within an -hour. Ventilation fan put in in the after- noon. Chairs, tables and an auto- matic nickel music box Installed within half hour. Bar opened eight p.: m. Friday; formal opening- next night. . . Wine buyers naturally get all the breaks, in the retreats of the Stem because there aren't , many of 'em left. One wealthy buzzard, a tee- toter, Invariably orders a spar- kling pitcher of champagne, telling the waiter to be sure to load it up with cherries. He .sits by the hour with a spo'oii fishing out tlie little red berries. He is allowed to walk about the clubs making dates and otherwise frolicking, as- sured of no intimidation, for his check is always Insurance. Often he leaves a place with his wln^ untouched. Hostesses watch him and when he leaves they conAscate the drinks. Actor going down the street with a copy of a weekly comic maga- zine under his arm, declaring, "I'll be 'up' In this before the mdtlnee." Blanche Ring held a night club in her la,p the other night when she took the middle of the floor and let loose a flood of her old songs; Demands from the ringslders for the song which made her fa- mous a generation ago, brought forth a little- piano at which Blanche seated herself. Great ova- tion followed. Waiters at the Will Oakland club playing the horses had a great streak of luck and placed' winnings en Singer, who. licked Bud Tay- lor. Now they have their earnings in a stock market pool, their dough shooting skyward when the mar- ket jumped five points. If the luck continues, Will Oakland will be visiting his former help, on Park ave. A woman whom Sam Shlpman aided Several years ago, when she was down and out, called him last week and asked for an appoint- ment Dramatist granted it ex- pecting another touch. Woman sliding to his place In a limousine with chauffeur and told Sam she had now an $800 dally income from gold mines she owned. Sam is still unconscious. Other night a gent in tails se- cured a needle and thread, knelt down at the side of his blase blond companion and sewed a run In her hose. Amateurish Job, but served to dam the run from traveling be- low the knee. In a night club. Florida Booming St. Petersburg, Fla;, March 26. This city, and the West Coast of Florida were guests to over 100,000 tourists during the season just closed. It was the biggest year Florida ever had. The same is true of the East Coast and Miami, where more folks registered .than in the balmy and goofy days of the boom. Bootlegging Music Walt^ J. Kane, head of the '\A'al- ter J. Ksine Publishing Company, 1595 Broadway, distributors of sheet music appeared in West Side Court to prosecute Paul "VereSl, 31, .and Henry Orshansky, 19, charged with petty larceny and receiving stolen property. Complainant alleged that Or- shansky who has been employed by him for several months has been systematically stealing copies of popular music and-selling them to VeresI for ten cents a copy. Tots).! amount stolen, stated iCane, win amount to $125. Although the specific charge Is the theft of $10 worth of sheet music on March 19. ■Veres! conducts a music'store at 1B2 East 23rd street. Players Stuck Up, But Bandit Soon Caught A plea of guilty woa entered by Angelo. Mancuso, -22, in West Side Court to a charge of robbery. He was held without ball for the Grand Jury. Mancuso,. with three other men, went to the apartment of Carl Llnke, actor iii "Follow Thru," at 68 "West 65th street. In the apartment were 16 people, including three women, all theafHcal folk. ■The men drew gunS and com- manded hands up. While two stood guard two others frisked the guests, who had been playing cards, and obtained about $530 cash and a quantity of Jewelry. They then bound all but Llnke and gagged' them and fled. Llnke was able to give the police a description of the bandits: A few days ago a restauraiit was held up on Ninth avenue, near 42nd street, and in the place police found a pa.per wrapper and strands of rope which corresponded io that used int . the liinke holdup. Detective , James Fltzpatrlck ' rounded up a dozen men in a near- ^ by poolroom and brought them to the station house. Llnke promptly picked out Mancuso as one of the highwaymen. ' Mancuso admitted it and said that ' all he received was $66, The hold-" up victims were members of "Follow" Thru," Blue Moon" and "Hello. Daddy" companies. Mancuso said lij did'not know his companions am he had met them only a few days before. He did not know how they knew of the card game at Linke's. A. K.'S SATISFIED No Crime for Village Girls to Kid Old Dodders A charge of maintaining a dis- orderly house was dismissed by the Justices of Special Sessions against Frank Qlsella, 37, manager, and Dominlck Manfredo, 34, owner of a cabaret knowii as the "Alimony Jail Club," in Greenwich Village. Officers of the First Detective Division testified to having arrested the two defendants after paying a visit to the cabaret on January 24. The officers described the actions of several girls employed in the place as hostesses.' These girls, the of- ficers said, because the table com- panions of . Ave elderly men patrons of the place. During the evening the men, each described as about 60 years old, danced with the girls. After these dances, according to. the detectives, Manfredo would remark, "I bet they feel thirty years younger." The Justices decided the evidence of the officers was insufficient and dismissed the complaint. Crandall Must Provide Hay for Marathoners Milton D. Crandall did a little fixing to have his next dance mara- thon, elated to start May 6 at the Madison Square Garden, okayed. It was, with a special proviso for a 21/i-hour sleep every morning from 6 to T:30 a. m. In addition there win be special awards for sprints and exhibitions intermittently. to jack up the interest. Crandall haa been touring a set gang of professional marathoners a;i over the country. Tommy Nolan and Anna King, the youthful couple who comS to attention at Crandall's mad marar. thoh lost year, are at Chin's, a Times Square chow melnery, mak- ing personal appearances and dancing nightly. TAXI NOT SO TOUGH Charles Rocco, 29, a musician for the National Broadcasting Co., was exonerated of a charge of assault la West Side Court. Samuel Sagarin, a taxi driver, said Rocco had beaten him with his fists and dragged him from his taxi- cab seat with such force that his shoulder was dislocated. . Sagarin is alleged to have blocked the street at 82nd street and Broad- way with his cab so as to prevent Rocco from proceeding. iRocco al- leged Sagarin called him vile names and Idckcd him when he went over to remonstrate with him. Where the Broadwayfarers Meet to Eat at No. \568—Ol>p03ile the Strand Mrs. GERSON'S TEA ROOM Among Thoie Prcient Rcgularh IJOV IRWIN CIIAS. HOWARD H,\RRT KAT_„„„„ C. C. GRKE.V .nUX KUKMOS SIDNEY BI..*rKMEB AI. MOHI.ER ,1ES8 LONG VINCENT l/OPEZ