Variety (May 1929)

Wednesday, May 29, 1929 TIMES SQUARE VARIETY 47 On the 3qnaire Much Trouble Over $8 ' A dlKerehce of 18'dtartednuch trouWe Friday night at and tot the Bendezvous nlte club, the night bef<fre It closed for the season. 'When . abeck-tlme came, four college boys-a^t'one table found they-were $8 shy l)etwee?. tbein.Ior the amount of their total check, around $20. Prevlo|Mly,. one^ of the . boys had been flipping, ice arpiind the room . (jnd had Deen asked to' stop. 'Whenj unable to pay the check the boys. *ere told to leave the place. At the time the Purante trio were .enter- taining on the floor. As the boys reached the bottom of the istalrs' on the street floor, the annoying boy took a swing at one of a group be- longing to the club. , A battle started, which sent the boys to the station house, with a couple of them badly bruised. They returned to the Rendezvous with a cop and demanded, the arrest of L«on, the head waiter, who hald had no part in the affair other than to ask them to pay their check or leave. In police court Leon was discharged. None of the boys named, hliri as one oj, the brawlers, npr .did they know who they, had fought wlth., , An angle, of .the cpllege boy thing In the^ nlte clubs. The bad ones amongst th^m cause mo.re .trouble thian all of the college trade is worth, . while when , an affair of this sort ^reaches, the police courts and the dallies. It sounds pretty terrible for the nlte club Involved. With all of the sympathy for the boys, of co.urse^ Capone's Sentence Fluke—Not Frame ' No one' who knows Al Capone or Chicago Inclines'to the printed reports that the'gun«totlne arrest and sentence of the Scarfaced one for k i^fev in Chilly, was a frame for safety by Capone. The first version and Capone's owii appears to be the onie accepted. That is, Capone had Just left Atlantic City after maklfig a'"peace pact there with three Chicago mobs. That had been settled, leaving Capone without personal fear If he ever had any. Stopping over be- tween trains in Phllly and v^alklng along the street, Capone and his bodyguard were recognized by .a Phlla dick who had seen him at the Sharkey-Stribllng ftfjht in Florida early in the spring. The-cop, probably figuring on his local If not national rep, stopped Capone. There was no listening in, the detectives insisted on a pinch or march to headquarters. Capone and his companion, unknowing of the Pennsylvania laws, on gun torrylng, but knowing' that meant nothing in Illinois without a search w^rant for the person, surrendered a gun each before starting for. the chiefs ofllce. Capone is reported to have been , advised to plead guilty to the gun cih'arge iih'der the impl^essloh there would be a fine and .that would end it Even the heavy ball Imposed of |36,0bQ each when arraigned seems to have been satisfactorily explained to the Chicago mob leader, with the finish as a year's sentence for both of the men, stlU a daze for Capone's friends who know him and understand such things as this as a rule, whether in Chicago, Phllly or elsewhere. Ruined $56,000 in Furs for $35 Bet Sam Katz' father, who is in the clothing business, went to the Ken- tucky Derby. 'While he was making a bet, two women, one'In a ^30,000 ohinchiUa coat and another, her friend,' in a $25,000 ermine with sable ^mmlng, made bets. Mr. Katz recognized the women from Park avenue here, and knew where the "-garments" were bought. The chinchilla dame placed a $25 bet on one horse and the be-ermined one 'bet, a sawbuck on another. .'When the race started the two women 'hished'out In the' pouring rain .and stood next .to Katz'at the fence. "Come on, there," yelled ch'lnchina to .her 'horse. '"Come'on,'' Joined the erizilne. Katz nearly h^d a nerVoiib brleakdown as he saw the expen- aive coats wilting under the t.errlflc storm. "Ladles," he said, "I think you forget you are putniiig your clothes. "To hell with the clothes,'^ i-epUeid the chinchilla gal. "I've got $25 an that hor'se." ... Just then'the horse crossed the line th^ winner. The woman was so elated she fell Into a pool of mild. Her friend, whose. horse is still rurinlngr, burst Into tears at the sight of tier ermine, which resembled nabblt fur after the race. Disastrous Parties on Boats Tbi;ee, steamship .C4^panies,_ CosHltcbj. .Nav.Igazlone Generale Itajlana and the Italian Line are reported' to have formed a pact prohibiting the ]oan of their vessels to other interests for ship parties, dances and teas, whether they be for charitable purposes or not. . This decision was reached as a result of the party given aboard the Oosullch liner, Satumla, last fall by the New York American Xmas B!und, W. R. Hearst's pet charity. The affair, bllle'd as a 'Venetian Carnival, lasted 12 hours and almost wrecked the costly furnished ship. The Cosulich Line awoke to the fact the next day that not only had they contributed gratis the use of the ship, along with tea and dinner for approximately 1,000 persons, but they would also have to stand the expense of extensive refurnishing. . A. previous party, given aboard the "Berengarla," proved a hot penny for the' Cunard Line. Not only was furniture damaged at that aftalr, but the steamship company Is still wrangling with the New York Amer- ican Xmas Fund for money they claim Is owed them for suppers, which they provided at $1 a head. Travelecl via Phone It -might be said that most of the promotion stock selling is done by phone from New .YotV. Ix>hg distance Is as much employed as locally. The phone has become the biggest stock salesman and Is looked upon as the greatest gag the sharpshooiing racketeers have ever hlt'upon. About a month ag'o' one of the slickers talked over prospects for sell- ing with & concern Just formed wb^ch wanted to put out its stock. The salesman said-he wanted no drawihg account, just bis commission and expenses, as he would have to do; considerable traveling to reach his best customers. "Commission is all right," said the president, "but we will not stand for a traveling expense account." "That's okay with me," replied the slicker, "but you will agree to pay my re'nt.for a small ofllce and a phone, won't you?" The president agreed. "When he got the first phone pWl he staggered. The'salesman :had hugged the phone without once leaving the office to Interview anyone. Two Late and Sad Toothaches A little blonde In the ensemble of Jimmle Durante's exclusive retreat for the rich and noble, above the Winter Garden, was taken with,severe toothache during a number at 2:30 a. m. A dentist sitting on the ringside, observing the swelling In her jaw and pain on her face, volunteered to take her to his office In the rial to and _flx th e toot h in tlmefor the last show. The girl ahd~ono,'of*tKe"B5yff^rom--the"clUb>'-went«wlth.»thfi.,dentia);», He started to work. 'While attending her, he developed a screeching toothache himself. Before he could yank out her tooth, the novocalne having been Injected, he was obliged to attend to his own. The girl was then fixed up when she and the dentist and escort got back In time for the show. Houseeleaning Eighth Avenue Eighth avenue Is going ritz and the picture houses along the newly paved street just west of iBi-oadway are among the first to show evidences UUrr ON DBIHSS Perhaps the most exclusive drink of the prohibition age is called -a -Lanlhan and Is par- taken of In a 16-ounce Tom Collins glass. Bartender's guides do not contain the formula, which is a pony of fl've-star Martelle brandy as a . basis, pint of vintage cham- pagne, sec, then a pony of three-star Hennessy brandy for the top. Doubtful if any speak in New York can supply the drink, but Havana isn't so far away. Yet there are limitations there. IJolel Sevilla will not serve more than two Lanihans to one perspn during a sitting. That should be sufficient. WBITEB8 VS. FRIABS ' Baiseball writers will meet the Friars in baseball June 17 at the 'Yankee Stadium. Nine or more Friars will forego their prerogatives of sleeping late'to be on the dia- mond at 9:30. Pro baseball players will kid in the grand stands with comment critically on their critics. "cahnonball" outdoors "With two human, cannonballs in the country, Zazzhlnl, with the RlngUng-Barnum circus, and an- other with Sells-Floto Circus, an agency booking outdoor attractions Is bringing, another from Europe, known as the Original 'Wllno. Mme. Zazell 'Is the originator o.f this type act she did abroad as far back as 1890. State*s Attorney After Chi Gangs* Dog Tracks Chicago, May 2S. State's Attorney Swnnson, Chi- cago's energetic prosecutor. Is all set to close up dog racing in. this town. Case is now before Master- In-Chancery Korshak, with a deci- sion expected this tveek. State con- tends that the severial dog' tracks are controlled by gangisters. A temporary injunction, issued by former state's attorney Crowe and former Sheriff Graydon, Is at pres- ent protecting the three tracks now open. One Is the Hawthorne track, owned by Al Copone; another Is the Thornton track with a Chicago Heights syndicate, r.nd third, Foir- vlew trock, operated by George "Bugs" Moran, northslde. gang lead- er and opposition, to Capone. SHRINERS' L. A. CIRCUS Chicago, May 2.8. Sixty people and two baggage cars of circus'equipment will leave Chicago May 30 to show In Los Angeles June 4-6. It Is the Circus Maxinius of the National Shrine Conclave, to be held In L. A. Coliseum Exposition Park. Jack Relth, of the "Western Fair Service, booked all acts. Benjamin 8ohnenbei<0, Amefictlh public relations' counsel (pretty' for p. a.) for the HoterGciorge V, Paris, oi<ayed special rates: for a.flock-of literati and theatrical celebs' visiting Paris, among them Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Nunrially Johnson, Ar- thur Krock, Ward MTdrehouee, Paul Palmer and others. ' He seems to be getting it pack plenty, iik' space pn this aide. of the Improvements certain to follow as the trench work made necessasy by the building of a new subway -gradually disappears. The Tivoli; at 30 cents top. Just north of. Madiso;i Square . Garden, has been wired for talkers. Although playing features and talking shorts that were screened on Broadway from two to. three .months previously,,It biggest on the street; has been cleaned up inside and'out,/aqd Jn ail respects resembles a miniature carbon copy of the ace plctiir^ houses Oh the main stem as regards lights and lobby art work. Truck Clothing Racket Clothing speakeasies are more -numerous this spring oh the side titr^ets than ever before. G^ents attired-as truck drivers or chauffeurs' ply th'eir trade in low'voice - and quickie manner from park^^ delivery'truck^'or dark alleyways: The line to the susceptible looking, male is.;. "Hey,-Bud, Wtmtta get suit with real Englush material cheap!'* If falling the chump is given the impression that he is trading through a fence and can get a real suit at Baxter street prices. Some of the mugs even let a customer get in the back of his closed truck and try on the outfit. They will not permit him stepping out with it on, however, until the coin has passed. Others, in fact a large number, refuse a try-on, stating it will fit a:ny- way, and that the exchange must be quick because of the cops. Many of the alley and truck clothiers try to unload four and five suits at a time: The asking price is according to the size-up given tiie customer. Chain Cigar Stores Feel Opposlah United Cigars Stores and Schulte chain tobacco retailers are cutting out the premium coupon system in connection with their syndicate mer- chandizing and cutting prices effective Friday on all the popular bra.nds. Inroads on the chain stores' turnover has been made by syndicate grocers and other outlets under-pricing United-Schulte's.^ures. Pictures of Monte Carle Pacific and Atlantic Photos have the first, pictures ever published of action and crowda around tables in the game rooms at the Monte Carlo casino. Pictures of a roulette and chemin de fer "shimmy" game taken with an under-cover small-sized camera were released this week for general reproduction In the rotogravure and picture sections of tbe. dallies. No interior scenes of game rooms In action at the ciaJSa resorts In this country have ever appeared In print. Theatre in a Store In the new professional building on Broadway, between Blst street, and 62d street, opposite the Warner Bros, theatre. Is a double'windowed store, about 26 foot space on the street, and enclosed with wooden staples, which is puzzling squarites. For there Is a sign'ou£side .which reads that in that site Warner Bros, are erecting the -niost beautiful theatre in the world. What that may mean outside of a store which seems cut out for a wear shop, nobody knows. The only solution the squareltes have reached Is that "Warner's intends to place within the store paraphernalia which will publicize their pic- tures. Tunney Paid Fogarty Woman $35,000 Katheryn King Fogarty, starting suit against Gene Tunney, received $35,000 in cash from Tunney shortly before his last fight with Heeney. At that time she threatened legal action, with the lawyers compromising. Now she is asking $500,000, with Tunney holding an affidavit from the woinan signed sometime iago stating she held; no claim. The affidavit may have been following the $35,000 settlement. • ' Mrs. Fogarty at one time spent most of her time when In Broadway nn5"51nB3~*aetai1Ing-'her~grIevances~agalnst-J:unney„ftjid_.tlie„^a5tU9J^ intended taking. That also was before she received the $35,000. " ,' Operator Hoffman Must Now Learn Sound The picture operator of Staten island, Hoffman, acquitted after' the fourth trial for murder, Is free but his five years in Jail does not qualify him as a sound operator. "With all of the other troubles Hodman has had and the extraordinary procoedure of trying ono man four times for Mb llf«, be must learn a new event in hie trade since taken Into custody. Chatter in Loop Western Blood New York show; business Is draw* in'g plenty of. new blood from this territory, possibly In ah attempt to bolster the doddering old hamlet in the same manner an octogenarian tells his doctor to try a monkey. Young western boys Who have made good here are trekking eastward in droves and Invading the hurg with a .vengeance. Among the crowd are Johnnie, Irving and Ferdle Simons, Harry and Nat Kalchelm, Sammy Tishman, Greenwald and Weston, 'Ez Keough and an actor named Josw A. J. Balaban forth and back from Tiew York. Going on vacation soon. . Joe' Howard' denies he and Anna Case will separate. Eddie Clifford, In cafes here four years, has worked himself Into ligiits at the Green Mill. Reform stuff is keeping wheels out of tlie two local amusement parks tempornrily. Report from the east said Wanda GoU Is seeking to untie the loop from Irving Foster. An actor rushing Into an agent's office: "Lend me five bucks until the Vltaphone craze blows over." Louella Parsons, Hearst's HoIly« wood sob chattevei-, slipped lnt<! town. ' A night club: gal seen around 4 booking office with an Americaa Mercury under her arm. Marc Helmarti arriving On Celt> tury, met by his two local cronies^ Sam Kahl and'Ash'er Levy. ' Actors here attempting the HoIIt* wood fad of black shirts and whlt« ties are booed as morons. > -\ 'Viola Allen, winner of a B. & Kt' beaut 'Contest last year'. Is taking- the prize, a trip to Europe, this year. Sunday acts walking around the Loop midweek with plastered nose^ to kid brothers Into thinking theY were able to afford a nasal recon^ structlon. -' N. Y. can expect big things from this -crowd, and many others un^ named.' - All are heavy eaters and think ginger ale poisons good likkev, Onoe they tackle a thing they either finish It or decide to do something else...; -.-.....'.. ..... .. Meantime Chicago likewise ht drawing new face^. from surrounds Ing pr6yih'ces, .and; Is not sufferlii^ any from-tifie wholesale exodus. A good tlpoS h- that Variety's Chi- cago office moves, hext month from' the slkth 'to- second floor of the 'Vfooda" building. (Continued from page 46) Ing "Opportunity "Week^s" final sho^. ' ', , - For the first time oh --the M-O lot .' three actors without previoiiii screen experience are playtiig-fea^ tured ports. Trio Is in "Cdlleg* Days" and namely are Sally Starr, Robert Mont^ofatery and .- Elliott Nugent. Harold 'Franklin spends most pt his "at hoihe" hours keeping a c(fl^ He away from a pet varrot. Albefi^' the younger Franklin, has his eye set on a new car guaranteed IM m.p.h., showing what a nasty aMa smash means to Albert. ' V<' . .Tired of paying the Kong end Ifih double-edged prices asked by Hof« lywood shops, picture colony is touring on the boulevard. Result ^ia that a number of merchants aire , trying to recoup this trade by vt' terlng a. 10 per cent, professional discount. Vic Shapiro Is plugging buslnesgs for the 'Miinchers, eatery at Fox'^ Sunset studio, by picking the pr^j lunch psychological moment to dl£ tribute the day's menu on the desks of all executives. To date Vic has been paying for Joe Shea's noon da,y repasts. Shea now being suspected of having a gimick In the dally coin tossing. Willie Collier's idea on Foxfa "Cockeyed "World," for which he's directing the dialog. Is that if they , an "Son'r'go'toniaIl'"ll'U-brTt-Breat"''' picture. Plenty of flip stuff In t^ll8 one,, the boys sitting aroiind nights thinking up gags, not too blue,'to slip in. picture Is affording many a projection room laugh which will , never see a theatre screen, some'pt It being declared loo flip by Utfi hlcher-UDa> ';.