Variety (July 1929)

Wednesday, July 31, 1929 TIM ES SQUA R E VARIETY 45 Stories by Jack Conway Frorn -1920, ohwafcl. Jack Conway wrote, a series of stories appearing iii Variety. Mostly the stories dealt with baseball and. prize fights niavers and p.ugs. This serie's is reprinted weekly. .Story be(ow appeiared in Variety, May 13, 1921. , - ' RUBBER BAIIS FOR cunnrsDAiiY w Qoii Switches Baseball^ for Star Hitter-^ife Be- lieves It CON •Syracuse,.. Ma^^^ - 'Ijear'eiiick;;; ^ '.'v' :. Cuthbert has: busted seyeh lioni ers since the season oi>feif».e(J .up. ' hfere arid has; ithe yahoos TunriinV . -with tapes jneasurlrie his. drives.. He has. heat all <\ ^. ; ^ •^orld's ■ .records:-.- ■ ■, for distance, arid. up; in; this.>..or-^ chard they think : Ruth Jipd Kelly;. are a co.u .p l a ' iungo hittiers." ; ■ Vi ; can picture/ yau-Wtinklin*. up your n 0 s € . .as . . the idea . begins to p. e r ;C o I a. t e: ■thrqiig-ii. y o u r- /cranium -that; J Hi a . Y e • p il l I e d . sorhiEithin' and ■ you're right,. so■ put on the car- ; jp<t ■ sli p.p e'.T s;-. :; light tlie';6ld^ T. ■ i3..'';a,'hd ^ listen.;:'-.; • ■ ;■ - ■ ■■ .. The; public: has gbn.e cobkoo ; over homb run hitters.and .far be it from mfe: to cheat the g.. P-, out, of their daily' box .kcdro t^ ,1 hopped ovk* to ;Philly about a week before -the season, opened, .to the fafctory wher^i they make X\ie Spalding balls vhich we;u.se". in this :league. I gave them, my specifications and got a flock of balls with about three quarters India rubber in the center. Thse fippl€!s;are so lively they jump tip and kiss.you wh fan them ■■wi:th a: hiat.: ■.;:. Then 1. called .a meetin' of , my pitchfers ahi gav6: them their in- str.iicti.ons which .were abou,t as fol- lows: . Wh^ri Gvjthberi: Is due: to - cohie tp biat in our half/iriy prtcher', aiter retirW opposite side, switches: the balls and leaves one of my own private ;brand in the box for .the- other, ^^ap to -Work with. If .Cuthbert don't l^ad Off for us I .make- ,the guy- ahead, of .him stand xip. at thie plate without takin* his bat Off his shoulder. If I difln't, they would ia.ll he .hittin' homers, When Cuthbert: come up to hit the ; rubber ball is all ready fox' him and th!6 only thing that can-, stop him from ridin'-: It into the next county ii? a base on balls, or an accident. • : y6u-know he's a prietty: fjbcd hit- ter. anyway.s,?ind^witi^ the lively sipplfi to help him he has been get- tin' his daily homer a.s regular as hi.s morriiri' coffee.. After he. rid.es the ball out of the park the regular, apples are in Order and the game proceeds as u.sual. So far irto" one. has tumbled; I will have to. keep my . present pitchin' Staff ail season, for-if I ever tie a can oh one of them there will be af, squawk about the rubber apples thiit will rock Judge. I^ndis. But it has been a,wful funny for me sittin* oh the bench arid watchin' - the expression oh. the faces Of those bthi6r pitchers when Guthie gels in beiiind a fast One:; The balls disap- , : pear , Oyer -the .fencer and they've tidijii' faster, when they go over than they Were just after .they were hit One of his diilves broke a \viri.dow • in. a liOuse. four blocks away from, the ball parjc, iind. is the. lortgest ; drive eVer Vnade with. anything,.that wasn't'fired QUt . of aj gun;'/ '■';; The yokels , are all wprried to death that some of the big league .. cl.ubs win. Offer a: miiiiqn- dollars for ■ :my . socker, .but I . promisied them, he'll fini-sh the season /right in this burg. ■; - I have t)een ;gcttin': wires.^f^ every club in the m.ajors aSkln' mfe to put a price on him, but: X intend to keep, him and cut up some Of that ■ dough rriyself.' I'lJ-get a gob for hini when the season end.<3 and next, year: some .smart big league manager, will ^jLe^Jscndini^.n - .-gtririg-:. /nf. vp'ljst;*]! Hectic 6ir[ Kidnapper Gpe^s to Eeforinalaiy .Ari^Jinda-(Belle Glrahdori; ■ Mqore, ip,. cabaret, .dancer, iyas sentenced up/ to; five, years in the. Bedford .Reformatory by Judge .George .L. Dprinellan. of. General .Seis^iqrisi fol- lowing, her plfca . oi guilty . to • .at4; tenipted .kldriappingV , ; Mrs, Graridoh^ whose profe^siOrial: riam.9 l,s Betty Mpdre^ was arreste^^^^ Iri April,: following the : kidriapping. ofvthe .morith-bld child of Mr; dnd Mr$. Frahfc Scara, of 510 West l24th ,street,: froni in front: of a' departr merit store-ph^ W 125th streiet; The girl, atorig with;Joseph; Sutton, •37i of 164 Havenieyer street, .Brook;-- lyri, -.wa:s. arrested-'Irt a, furnished ropm; at 234; ^ Soutli.- 9.ih street, Brooklyn!. The child . Was: in '. the : girl's ipossesslbn during: the' 10 4&^ys the ^police were seeking it.;' ; Aecordirig::'tO iirObatlOri .ofUcers the;; girl .cariie, to :New York .four: y6{ir.<5.- - dgo from a- small town iri' Penns-yiyahia. , She obt^^ gag.emerit with a; musi.cai ,^liiOw fpr,': the -past twb.'.years:' has beeri dancing- iil cabarets. '.H gaigerri.cnt was in -Tex. Guinan'fe ;54th .Streiet,,Glub/ :\ V. ■;^■^';■. - Itiie probation .office; told the court; .- the. -.girl had • bee.n inarried. Aviien and/had d ch.ild: that died a mbntii. .after . birth.,; It . .was Ipngijig' to; posispss 'a child ,about the . aigre.. of. the" bne. she ilost that Induced her to kidnap the . Searai baby.: - '. Judge Donnellari in ..;.sentj3neirig the girl expi-essecT his'synipathy f oi: her but .decided that the dancer's life in Nevy; York had been .some-. what .hectic, iie thp-ugh t: she wpuld . be better pff- in tlie. reformatory than loose along Bi'oa.dwp.y. ... The; girl exonerdted " Sutton of any part in the .kidriapping. . - .-. ' Barney's Ballot A giftpf thousands bf throw- aways in the form below has •been made tO Barney,.the Cop, by the Geriera:i. Outdoor Sign Co.: ■;.•■■: Vote for the Cop .That Needs' The Car \ .. BERNARD J. STAGER Shield No. 1168 ; Traffic, B jQroup 14 .- 14 : years on . the crossirig of; Broadway and 46th Street Popularity Contest , N. Y. EVENING JOURNAL Gist Your! Friends to Vote ■; ',;■:''..'•'- .;- ' Every Day Watch; the';r>aily Returns and, . ...Keep ijim. in the Lead .... TTollow liules Carefully • Father of 13 -'-.': Needs the Car Amen.. m ra fflgr.j Accused by Young Girl Eugene Aridrey, owner .and man-, aging director Of the Chicago Hun- garian Opera Coriipaiiy, was placed under arrest on / Monday when hb. appeared in the Tombs Court in .an- swer to a summons' brought / by • Vivian. Vajda, 19; . of 156 West 78'th street. . The girl ,chrtrged\ Andrey with criminally attacking her In: her; r-pom in the Hotel Hermitage. last February. : '•",''- ''\\ . AocOrding tb;.the blonde, complain- ant, she had been a member of Afi- di'ey'a company for three -months, but quit in T'rentpn,. N; J., :In .Feb- ruary because of .Andrey's unAvelr. cpmpd attention's to hOi'. Sljo csxmt to New York and stopped at the Hermitage. ..... ^ . .. ---j.- _.... Miss Vajdia declarod, that on the night of Feb. 18 ;hc called at .the hotel, located.the room she dccupied, and Induced, her to open ,th.e door by. tplling her-he had some money due her., He then attacked her, she alleges, and disappeared; • It was only , recerftly, the girl clairiis, she-located; the ma,nager at 156 West 44th street.- Throufifh a misunderstanding she- obtained a summons against . Andi'ey return.-. able, in ...the.r .rroriibs /:,cpuf:t.^ listeriing to tire giri^s , story, the Magistrate informed ;her; the mat- ter, was not in his jurisdictlpri, but advised- "her she; cpiild .: cause . An-: drey's .iriimediate d,rrest..''^Without hcsitatlori ShQ seized Aridroy in the courtroom and called for an Pfflcer. .'.ftetectlve John. .Dufify^ of. thb Ellzabotli. street st.ation;:-.was' pres- ent dh'd took the manager id cui?'- tOdy. The three, accPidpanied by atlPrneyS, left the: court for the W«!St 3Qth' street station. hou.«-e where Andrey was booked, to be later arraigned in the Jefferson Markbt Court;/. Baumes Law's Terrors Make Tough to Life • ai'oiind to Cuthie's house tryih' to . find out; what became .of. the ,80 or PO. homers he. hit in- this league. . If thoy don't tumble, to the r,ub-. bpr liall stunt lie ought to,/make I'Jilio lOith's average look like toon Aiix'.s, jirinuai binglci The funny bf^rt i.s that Cuthie's Wife thinks its al| .up and' up and she's so rhe-sty she hardly gives me a rumble. She wants hirii to loave mc. flat and migrate to a' big iciigue town wliero she will be interviewed by the sport' 'Writers askin'. her .what ,s.hjB_fj[iejT3„hejr sUiggin'.husband to Fidtb Bacon TeUs AR . irdith'. Bacon,-, featured;'shovv; ,gi.rl, having ! UncPve.red everythirig else^ decided to reyeai; the seprpt ot; Ker success. . - -. -,..;-; ' If^aith was.recently glorified to the positio-ft of .Chipf Nude, in a. current-, not-too^byer^dresged revue. Thiis elevatibri: means. the': vrealization of dearest childhood: dreams; Out of the : Nursery Into the - Nude, so to spealc.: Out of .obscurity,; • .into, the limelight and- Vbry^ little else- in the way bf concrete covering!. ::. Fpr ..Faith may :appear. to be iA; th,e riiid.e when .she tableaux, but she Is! actually wrapped id;, heavy; thought.' She's one Of. the few sho\v girld to taiie. her art seriously. She's ;;ap .pearing in What Sbe classifies, as her "fi'rst sta,rring ■vehible." ' ■ / '.',.: ■ ' . Faith has set herself a stringent routine. Diet, of course, is the main thing.. Meat might.;eet .jhto muscle sp Faith is a strict Vegetarian. She never eats a-hedvy meal before a performance ^since. it . would be. bad. "fbi;^ the waist-line.. She spends .her ddys, - • Slipping:" orarige • juice, the strongest , beverage ; permitted to pass her lips. E^cerCise, strenuous, might give her That ; Tired LOolc .that Tired Business Med don't like to . look at. The only outdoor ac- . tiyity she' permits,^ herself is a brisk .horse-backing jaunt. . ' ; An Idea' "Don't you find that horseback. riding broadens the hips?" she Was asked; - She. hadn't , thought of it .bcfbre. but .looked-startled. ' I'm; afraid I'll have to give that up too," she said, "and the horse was,36:fond of mc.". •'No, I wouldn't allow niatrimony to interfere with my career," Miss Bdcori roplicd in artswer ' to the query,: '•■'That is, ■ if my husband would let me—well, I ; don't nieah let nib, because I'd" be .the boss—but I mean, .if: he didn't mind I'd like tb,-<:pntinue-my work. Now that I'm being starred, it's all so wOnderful, I'd bate to give it up. .. ;"I'd love to get mai-ricd. And my hu.sband. wouldn't have to be a miillioriaire. . I'm, not merCen.ary— I'd marry a street cleaner if I lovcd him. Of course .1 don't know a street cleaner, though." Asked if she knew enough do- mestic • science to man^ige without the million. Miss BacOn thought. "Well," she meditated, "I c.'vn't cook as well as my sister. Iiut"-r: with a. beatific smile,; "i" can >oil vv'atcr." ;. 12 Hours to Snooze Roturriing to. .rintpre matter-pfrfact' aubjifcts, she said that she must ab- solutoly; have 12. hours of sleep, a ,ddy-^ady -.hiours as - lopg as they number 12. • ',-.-, -.•..-' -,:...' ■-;. She. stated that ."she. feels rio. em- barrassment; in posing ^sans any- thing. ■ . , ■■■-.;•;. ' ''You fjee," she explained, "i;think of "niy body; only as a thing bf beauty. . I' IbVe; purity or beauty," .she af.ter-thoughted. - , "A student of numerplogy. Miss Eat-on believes thiat success cadie as a re.sult of changirig her name froni Yvohric to Faiths - This made the key niimber;pf her nadie.a 3. "I can't quite - remember what 3 -starid.s .for,"'..!jh:e' added,;"but it's something gpod--arid anyway, it rw.orkod out. all right/'. giyo him; power and all; the rest of that bunki If. they ever 0lit opori ono of thf-m balls it will kill hor and. all. hands coiiGOrnedi- ; .. >fGt a ;word .to the wife. YdUr pal, Con. Speaks in McCormick Area Being Raided by Scores Pblice; Irispector. Patriolt' McCbr- m ick, boss, of: the co P s on- the Ma i ri Stem, raided scores of speakbasieR during: the week. /Joints' aiid: dives that have heretofore been, ididiune ■ because of political pull, fell;; deyer-; theless,: under. McGormick's: ax. Op- eratbrs of ''whisperlows'' seem" rbc-. bnciled to the fact that. McCorniick. mfeans business. ; Od'e.witli political influence queried,-: "How Ibrig dP you thinlc' McCormick W.iH One of ,th e. places raided was Bob Mey - • evs... The ; latter was .talven .twice, d urin g, the week. ;Bpb. is wel 1 iinowri- anxl his place is freiiuented :by' peo- ple "of "weight." . >iis ..VplJtce ,is on ■\yest Fifty-second ' Street .just Oft the Lane; '^ .;.. ■. .. ; Meyers, •lVer'6tofoi;e, got, very little. "a:tt,entiori" f^odi" former inspector's men. That Meyers .has' bpcn, raided twice in; one week, is-' extrertibly- ominous. "The seizure:'id M-eyer's' was substantialiy': large!.:,., • ;: No ,Calling .Carjds \ McCormick's '.micn . are visiting places without beidg.heraldpd..,^^^ have np. band. nor calling.; cards. Tlley . ring the bell- of the allcffed "spedk."' If . the. bar-keep; Is aome- what diffiderit they inform him. he must hurry ;or they will, be r comr peiled to remoye the dbori r The bai;- keep realizes. In.; the everit the raiders are compelled to stPrm their way in they don't stop until the inside looks'as if ifi Big BCrtha had ■Struck It;:■.-;;_.'-', ■.'■;:■ ' ■ '■■;'; While Inspector McCormick ahd his staff arc raiding plaCe.^, cletec tiVPS under acting captain John Appel, boss bf. the .sleuths of the Square,'' ai-e visiting stubes, beer joints,.: and every , place ;they niay get sodie. .^nforma.tion ^bout Jack. Diamond. ' '.--■■.•■". ''Diamond will • nevei:. suhender; Eye\v finesses to the shooting in the HPtsy Totsy .\wbere two were slain.- .and several hurt recently will stand 'pat' in ' their stoj-y. Heretofore Diamond: has. been lucky, If Dia- mond, had: an alibi he:would have walked, intb Mr. Banton's office long ago," said the sleuth. .' Appel ha..s almost eVery available mdh he can' spare' running . down Dladipnd ; olues. . DctcctivCs Jim Donnelly, and Fred llus.sell, both aces of West 47th street bureau, have . the assignment. Since Mc- Cormick .has been in chdi:ge' hpt a stabbing, :shpoting pr rbaliy a :heavy squawk bas Come . f rom BrOadwiay. Those- boys are ' er/iktuting- theAe soT-y and stocking-lcss gals;, they've : also dispensed . ibith sox) insfviing their masculine^ albeit shnven -tootsies into- sport shoes sans any silk or lisle coveritig—the brutes 1 Similar conditions tP . those . re-' ppon.<?l.blp for the :numbor of e.^-con- ! ■ii'icts and criminals in the bCor run- - nidg and" speakeasy ra(!kot arpund '. Brpad.wdy are. resppnsble iior tho reced t prispn ■ riots at; pd n n enypra ; and-Auburn,, N. ."Y. The Baunieis la-yif With its life'-.seh-' . tence for third offehders' works, in ; two wdysi ;It either scare^ criminals' pff Pr ji:bri,<lers theUi desperdte.' ' . r A good :many. br the second or third : sentence, .bbys around V town ■ were scared off VfrOm :;their uSual: paWtimos and; entered the- boOze racket,; w.her«, if one .is arrested, the offense is a fpdcrivi one and pre- yious ■ state cPnylctiods c count. ,; CrPoks- sticking, to; crookedness : are -gi-vlntf plenty-Of trouble-, to the; ooi)s: :Mp.st dre of a .dew, young ' generation, . say ,,the - police,. with, desperntibn •which the Old fellows, Who left, the 'rackbt, never had. V With .the' ^knowledge that , three . . N; . Y. . state . Convictions will send. them , away^ for ,life,; . the ' young' crbolfs, pdrticjvldrly:"' the stlckup men, dt'e ready to do anythiher and ' always shoot tp' klii: if -mble^ted. -. ]. ' :'. Saine in the pi-iisbris.. 'ivIed ther'e for life \iridbr}the .!l?aumes law. would just ias soon Hslt beidg kiUed mak- ing a- dash for. it,' a^ ;spcnd thp :rest • of their, lives Ayjthout ehfadce.b^ par^ dodv repi-ieve br dny other.'loophole -.of escape. -"i.^ ■ . ipripiihals sent up in the past were • usually mightily consoled, the police ■say, by their, ability: to figure out. just.- how., mdny' ;days;;they would have to .spend - if: ^thOy ■ gOt lEtli the.;' breaks possible in: gpod conduct, etc.^; for a pardon. Now, they are id fpis it.apd feel that they might as wrell try to shoot thbiJC' way put. iluch stricter; regime in the pris- ons is to be the putcpme: of the situation, the; police beileve. .V .. . "Jobless Actor? Is Held ,.- Oil Stickup Chargie :': Charles: Chadwick, legit actor living at Js'o. 518 W. 134th street. New York, was held in $5,000 bail after pleading not guilty, to an in- dictment charging robbery, in Court of General Sessions. lie "Was com- mitted to the' Tombs in default bf bail with trial .set for next month; According to indictment Chadwick is alleged t<i, have attempted to hold* up . William 'Willetle, restaurant cashier at No- ■ 3415. Broadway on July. 3, vi^ho says TJhadWick poked a revolver under his ho.se and ,d.ex manded he hand: Ov'pr cash, but iost; his nerve and ran from the restau- rant-,. :willette pursued, and Chad- wick, was seizfd two blocks .away by a. patrolman. ■When'arraigned id: Ilarledx Court,, Chadwick gave .his occupatlph aS ,an actor, but is imknown under that name at Equity. He Claimed ,tb have appeared in . "Tho Bat" and other productions, but had been doing pic- ture -Nyork until hi.s .recent unem- ployment. Sitiall Articleis Missingr, Druggist Mirsky Arrested jracob . Mirsky, druggist, 126 Wes^ 48th- street and. residing at the Mdngcr Hotel, was . arraigned in Weist Side Court on the., pharge of grand larceny. He was; released; bn . bail for further examiriatibn. lie denied, the charge..' ■ ...r ';. The complainant, Mbrris' Pearcie, real estate/ bf 7'4i' West -End . aye^ due, chElrges he sub-let . his ;eipiirt.- ment; to the. druggist. .July 10 the lease expired. Pearce examined his. apartment,, he told the sleuths, and found "that .a,lmOst :$206 -\yprth of.: floor lamps.' rivg.'i add other articles.: were missing. .".; . .■ ■ ',..... He asked Mirsky what happened to • the articles and ; States; .tha,t Mir>sk.v- refused to- tell Jilmv' He then - notified thb. sieuths .and Mir.sky'a arrest followed. INDECENT FILM SENTENCE Charles Cinaglio, 2.']!/...picture op- erator Of 178' Itiphfirtisori. street, lirooklyn, wd.s sontenord to ;30 days in the workhouse by the Jii.sticcs of .Spocial .tiosslons for unlawfully pps- .sc^.s.sing an .obspcno- pibturc filtn "C'iTiagrib was arrf.stcd. iTy Dotfic- tjvc (U'.orfiQ KilCr ' of (lio Sccodcl 'Division,- May 30, after tlvf;; df- fe^ridant. l)a(l exhihitcd 'tho .jjicturr- to thf; ofli^'f-r and liad .at.fcpl'jd ^'J.'i Sor the renting of the iilm.' ■ :,Thi- :aTi'est occin rtd. at '1,0 >Stuy- vesant Blroct. - Chatter in Banff Banff, Can., July 27. Bob Vignola, . the director, w.13 at the Banff Springs: Hotel recently. He hbpes to make a picture soon, with the Rocky Miountains for. a background. "Well, that's that," said- Frazicr Hunt to Ray I^ong;, whijn they ar- rived at the Banff. Springs Hotel, from the Stdmpede,Which,h just closed - at; C.dl^ary, Hunt Claims it 'was the finest show of its. lislnd that he had ever attcndedi . arid ea.sily the. best Wild West Itodeo that is held on this Continent. , IjUoien Roy is the.- camerman in 'charge of :th.e -P'ox- Movietone. Ne.wS- .Souh'd truck now in Calgary. ■- The JRedslciris ran am%ck dgain July .23'25. About 500 -of the Htoyxy Indians :i)eiieg€d Banff. fiome of the . older chiefs carried (/rim reminders of the ancient wars be' tivesn the first whifc ; men an.d themselves, . in the form of real saalps hanging, frqiii their belts. Th<S 401h Annual Dominion Track and Field: Championsljip.s will be held on the Bfiiiff Spi-ings Hotel AtliietU! .CJrounds KCpt. - 2. All the :fla',t'r';i;ee.s \\:U\ hii run' off. Open to .{ill reAiist'ered athlcte.s-^^rules 'of. A. A'. tJ;. of.Canada. . Chief Sitting ;Eagle of th? Stpny I ndian—T.r-ibe..ta.t-BahffLea5.ily„W -0-n_a novel competition on the ^ Banff Springs Hotel Golf course" the other day, ' beating a prbfessiorial. golfer four holes up on a nine-hpi.e course. Thclndian shot an arrow against the golfer's bail. They «ire to play a- repeat ,soon for a $25 prize. Golf- ers say it will never dp for an in^ dian to have $25 all at once.