Variety (Aug 1929)

46 VARIETY TIMES SQUARE Wednesday, August 14, 1929 m Bhtrley Dorr, calls Loms Bhurrf **The Passionate- Piigrirn." The ISd Linihans are-going par- ■Voprdthy. Fields. to^ H^^ for ^flicker lyrics.' • Lewis liag returned to Kew TprH-aTid. the Fox ■casting ofHce. • Sign in. front :o.f ihe Hudson rendS: %'pnnie'$: Kqt pho.cp ' tated^''-: , . .■•.'' ''.! /■ •. ■ .'.■.'<•• '.■ .' pieodpniiEi:, Coste, .Frencli "trans- . atl^nti'c .fly^r^' • has threatricai ; press ag.ent, :Irv.ihs :Stv6use. ;..>. After visIting'hHefly with f**Tir iiy in PhijadQlp iiionel JBarry- more left Friday for the coast, Ber.t-Xviieeler back in tow"!).after poTripieting work on "Rio Rita'' tur^;->■V i^-'-: ■ ■ . Alice Ridenor; still: a bloh after, taking ypx-al .lessphs, topic a test for ' a talker.' ■ Garl Lapriimle iis due in New fork from his present J3uropean' rest bet. i4..:..\.-" ■ -r -y. PauV-l*reiinaine..a yoeng's. chow-r liveiiiery ■ has . 16.. men and 117 ih- ■ Strunvents;; . :■■ Whferi /Joe Ven^^^ ..was hurt in autP crash .on .ihe,vco,ast,^ his wife went . to hini 'from their Atlantic city liome by-itirplaiie.'. United Artists says Mary Pickfprd; ittrtd Dpug Fairbanks. w.iU -arrive in Mew- X^^r^ l-kiior day. .TlVey sail a few..diays;'iaten.'. i -'. One of the strieets better-lfchowh orchestra ' l^adejrs, r^stindr iietween seasons, announee;S>that he!s brealcr ing- in'.a ■1ay-'ofC..-V .- Efehveaa is the; name of. the new railroad station-fpr thfe N.V.A. San- itarium at Sa.ranac:. A request some ■weeks ago, was. :t.o call it ."Albee;" Song shfe'et. : pitchmen on street ajgain doing cieari-up biz VitK the d^me-a-copy: verses. Sanie edition ■j^'ts a jit in BrooiclynVrialto. . Herbert FieidS; up in 'Westchester county, hti.s wort: two' blue tibboii^ in., horse shows. Names his nags after characters . in Wagnerian operasi' .. • • • • Cpuple of th.e Dally News' pa.-; jama . ijropagaiadiists . -paraded the: Square Sunday afternoon; sporting, canes arid looking hot and bothered,- despite theirs studious .riphcHalancife.., "Zeppelin .Zowie" in . honPr of Dr.. Eckener'S iGSraf Zeppelin is Vincent Padula'3 tPpical cdmpositioh .he's playing at GUinan's; Show place bn 'Merrick road-. ;. .. j . ■ - . ' Issuing iiis iisiidl wdrhing to. tKe fish, Jo<s WeT>er with ihe^^ left ■for the Thoxikand Islands Mon^ Last siimmeir Joe lost iOO. ftiji. arid the Bt/Lawrence, fish n^^^^ Hid for him, ■: Add Frances Upton and Dan Cur- ry to list of sunl>urn victims. Miss Upton got iiers in her back yard in Liong Island City. Cur^-y was singtfd at Long. Beach.. Said the isun was not out. Legs swelled up and liad to be lanced.. . John. Harklns is sitting in f or LeP Marsh, handling drama fpr thei'-Niew' York American. Leo is siimmeririg at Weslport where he has a house and sc'veral acreg; in the rear yard there is a pond' but they refused to call the lilace Marshland. Helen M. (Mrs, Marsh) ' has / named 1* Marshmalipw. ■." Not SO: long affo CddTcie Hanria- lord, in . charactcrxsiio- VArsute adornment, ivas :the leader of the Hoilse of David liand:. Today, he's toilh a leg sh'oto, .Earl Cai'roU's "SKetcTi B6o%" vldyiW ift' lidy kuv- anagh's pit.oi-chestra and heing the vocfil feature loith the comhina:tioii- Cookie, of course, is sans;; the alfa If a this season. , [ ^ . , ''^ . A. "inereier .pa.rtyV ;i recent de* . veJopnient in Freeport,; U. |. As .ah • • ecoihomic- esciapade, it. was- pulled Saturday night at Jack . KraWS H home and held '. 6ver ' for. Sunday. BP tfH»y be running yet. Split three way s bet wee'n . it he K rafts, • wh. o ha d 'ah .anniversary- fpp an .alibi; jack i Haley, vyho 'dug up a birthday,- iind .Jack.Masters; the latter insisting he had .Something to celebrate and Would mention it later. . Everybody •. . iR. Firetspprt invited .and everybody . /Went. Everybody, always does—in ',- ■. 'Fre.eipprt.'. • Joe Pincua leaving today (Wed)' for HollyVlrood and Fox. Yes>. he's . coming back. IViet>o put oh "the liv.irtg bill- ===bodtd^fop^H.d!fyjAoDd=Jft,eL^^ the Astop last highti Afraid picture couldn't start otherwise. Living / pictures will run» cops pernrtitting, daily or nightly.^ New film starts to- night (Wed.). Golf courses in the metropolitan ' atca are burned, out because, of lack : of rain. Only the greeris where irrigation is used are in good con- dition, but fairways must be 're- fteeded. One enthtmiast claims the BOY SLEUTH MAKES BET Detective brake Lands Alfre^l L^ewis . For Bookmaking Vri Theatre . ijetcctivb Drake, one of the bpylsli cops of inspector McCorrni.ck's ^taff, saw Alfreid -Lewis, 'a?,. '1751 • Unipn street, Bropkiyn, enter^ the stagci. en- trarice pf the. Broadhurst theatre and decMcd ■ to follow -iiini. : After lie hiid. been there a. fevv in1ri.utes Drakfe. said .he saw. •.a, .itiah-. hand Lewis; a: slip: arid, soriie money. ^ Drakie then . rtiade but a.' slip; he said, on vi'liich lie Wrote .the./narhe pt ''Nettie . Stone''- and niiat^ .1^ to win. . ^he' cop. said: he handed it to /Lewis anci. walliied 'oiit; " He re turned ilmost immed'lately..with Ivis br6ther..pifi.cei^, Dete^^ : Tliey frisic^d. Lewis /arid, Drake testified,, found; his :&lip; and .several Pthers. " L^wis/wras / arreste^^^^^ - In dpui't, • before Magistrate Sriiitli, he denied that he had ^tcepted a bet .from the cpp/ .;, He said Dr^ke came" in .arid left a: slii>^ and ..$5- on/ the. balustrade arid walked out. He also denied that he told Drake that he had beenmaking iiopk in the theai- tiucardistvict .for three^ .Drake was /so positiyie in his ,state- nienta that /the judge had ripthing (^Is'e to do but : hold, LefWis/ in. $500 i>all for trial in /Speclai Sessions) RUBE GOIDBEEG'S "PIG" Rubfe Goldberg has a suriimer place at Westport, Conn. Now and . then he dashes into Bridgeport, "wiiore the 1?oor is good. In the party, recently was Low Heilly,- ari Imporlarit guy .in . Bridgeiport'3 city halU lie. induce^ Rube to stop at thfe house and take a slant at his kidSi eight and 10 years of age, / The; kids were asieepi, but Rube' drew ;ari elephan.t bii the bla!Clcbbat>d./. In the! morning Reilly asked .;.iiie-youngsters: "You bpys know What that Is?"' -. ■ ".: 'V. ' They chirped: "It's a pig," and feiarted to rub it out. ALICE JACOBS AGAIN Now Charged .By Mary Gardner With Theft of Clothes Freemsui Sa^ Uust Gmng fot(Zep) Ride' . ;'rlhies square/had .its /sha .titeriierit in the .recent depar.ture of the Graf Zep. . Two of its faypr- ite sons, ;kate. Wexler;.<)wner: of the Palaqe hotel, lP\rilliam Wehfer, pro prietpr of the Hotel i?iGcadiliy, em barked on /it, bag, ba.ggage and wiisecracks.-. •. Brpadway c p ri fi e c t i o n s and friendships in th^ theatrical- world didn't help the teami .of Weber & Wexler .when; it broke in a duoiog fpr the aydibie news reels:.at Lake- iiiurst./ "I'he .hotel men, uncowod by tiie. thought of/the.fcomirig trip,; de- velppied an att.acic pf riervousiiess befPre. the lenses; But after they had. been ■ shot many tirties, sepa- rately, and togethei'^- 'with their wives, . in sound arid silence, they .admitted, feeling like veteran screen stars';. •. ....... ■ Mayor Walker was sa delighted when he heard the boys, were leav- ing town that he co.rnriiissi6ne.cl the Acting Mayor to descend on. Lake- hdi^St'to make sure that they caught t.'. ship. He carried to therii a letter bearingV the gpbd wishes Pf New /York's head' man to Obef- bPurgpmeister Bpess of Friedrich^ shafen; . Wexler promised to brush up on his German to piit the pre-, sentatipri over with a bang. /Asked if he were : making the world . :6ur, Mr. Wexler replied, "No, we're - just going as far . as FiiedicV.ato T-- l«^riedriclisl — well, we're going to, Berlin," . Wives:Squawking Their wives. Icneiiv. notliirig about the trip until two days before sail- ing and, when they were informed .saiu plenty—Mrs, /VV>be'r, beciiuse her h.usbarid was/ going;: arifi Mrs, -Woxlor. ^because hers was -going-, witiiput.iwr. - . But the/ halves were: finally won over .when a long shppi>ing list made out for Paris, was 'O K'd.: : The two Zop-itcs .could have cashed" in very sovindly on. their, passage; Wtldnesr day morning .- they .were' offered $9>obo for their .$2.00.0 titikets; to Priedrichshtiireri. After a few days .'In Berlin:: and Paris they will return t'o New 'York on the Olympic, .Aug; .2(J. / Both admit they're just ''Golrig for..the ridie." -/ Z"^.' / courses are so. bad that when he hits the balli. it bounces - back at hiin. ■/:•/'.' ■'. Schulte gar Co. has bought ih6 Oregon apdrtnicnts a.t. 5ith and 7th May. put d cigar store on corner Quite a fashionable apartment^ be Jjnr.eSth.eJllharJie_.:M(yn±sm.s^^ in. .Sinc$ then house half empty. Many people of. the theatrp at- tended the funeral of William Yeii- ger Monday; He was connected with the Strauss sign company. George McFarlane has joined the Hollywood colony, acting 'and di- recting. Also Charles S. Wobb do ing dialo/j for Uriivorsal. S. Jay Kaufman is hack from abroad ' 'Bo, I've: been' hangirig: around this corner waiting to , hand you a cigar and a! pat on the back. You're my dream-Of a radketeer," • Freeman Bernstein .again with a Panama hat needing a cleaning two ■years.ago./. ■ -v..-/-••/.■:,'■;., . 'Th)it*s what r said, Vackefeer,' kid/ You heatd trie. H<;re I've been running td/ s'^pu with petty larceny schemes tlitit neyer got either of us a dollar and you're the grand lar- ceny, iriiugg of the neighborhood, without ever piftering tp split. •'And -virbile I've got to dp a run out in Boston over a lousy .'$1,100 I never haridled/ you'd probably buy the district : ittorhey lunch if he called on you. .1 And :lf he doesn't, he's a chumpi. . . '1^0, I'rii not beefing or spre*; J.uSt burning. .1 Ippk over Variety every time I can bo,rr<)W brie iandt I know there's something the/ matter with it/ but I can^t just tell: .But I see thctt boy Sid out there on the coast is wise to a lot pf thlngsv 1 lippe he gives" another/ blast over that Parampunt-Publix number "Variety hid last AVjeeki; - HighW^ay ..Robbery: ^'l3 that highway robWy? r die when I see something like that and I must walk slow when turning a corner. If Sid don't ujpis and spill the insldes bri. that one, I'm going tb write him that he ain't on the level. . . - , . "Why, bo, I seen na,mes In that Paramount number/ that couldn't have been there unless you used two clubs. Don't giye me the works I know the grift, kid. /Wlien I got hold of that .Variety last -week and looked . It over, I just sat down on the curb and iftoaned. 'And i *says, 'Freeirian, there's a racket,' And after thinking it over, it's rio new stuft for you, either. And I says, 'Freeman, yoti've got. to get in on that. Variety must be split- tirig with somebody. You've tipped that guy- off to so many good things, the least he can do Is to give you 4 per cent of the gross, tp keep yOu still/ • •■ ^ ■■/ Why, I am easing this into you kinda nice Is because I know you don't stand so well, npt even .with Sid, That was another line on ypu Arid*! says, 'Freemari, see, that, kid Sid ain't got ho use for them, so it's safe to go the llmilt ■ Just make a bawl and. it must get over, and if hot, 4 per derit,' take a fiat set- tleriventv'.', ■ ■:' . ' .J,...' Threatens ppppsitidn ••It's up to /ypu^/bo. Either you dome .acrpSs and decent or ril start an opppslfiph paper, I know the show busiriess and aill yoU have to .do - is to print what you know. •'You/ / can't- -eveii v.^lo that,... ac- cording to. Sidv 'What that. b6y ?ays must be. so. Variety can't last; very long If it's, going" to. be rutt by In the .wrpng way .as Sid says .lt is. If I-start'an ppppsltlbn pSLper, yon won't last that long, / •'What a. racket./, page after page with, nothing but ada and then at the end three pages of reading rhat- tor. That's whait ypu call news. And on top of the page-bypage gyp, 25c. to see how It's done. •■Never hilrid that 4%. I don't want npthingV I'm Just going, to start the paper. You can't stop me. Vvhc-it .1 don't know. Sid will .fill In for rir tak e that' kid, juSt as^ an advrs^r-ari^a'^curmm-lnT^S,^ Giving the name of Mary Sliee- han,. 27, organist, 116 West 72nd street, a girl, who v/as identified by fingerprints as Alice Jacobs and who on May 25 was arrested for the theft of $8,000 in genis/lrbm Jarie .Kaplari, fornier sweetheart of 1^1- tanic Thoriipson, .pal of Arnpld RPthsteiri, was again in West Side: Cpurt ort a, larcohy cjiargc;. . . / She -^as. arrested in the. llptel BelVfcderei W.es.t 48th street, by. De- tectives Divyer arid O'CPnnbr, West ()8th street-station; on complaint of Mary Gardner, 116 West 72nd street. Acc ord i rig t b M iss . Gar dri 6 r, A lice: debamped with/ $B0O Vortlv bf her clothing. /;• ■ . ■ / The -couple had been, living to- gether, Saturday riight when Miss Gat-drier cariie hbreie she dis.cbyered her'^Glothes gone. Deltectives JoPated Alice at the Belvedere: Hbtel where they also found the elpfhing.. When Alice was questipncd by the detectives :she. said that Miss- Gard- ner had left hbine arid/did . not .re- turn and as she was gbinfe to move, toPk the clothing with her,. She maintained she/ had phpned Miss Gardner pf. her whereabouts. Magistrate Smith: held hei? in $1,000 bail for further hearing. Wh^n arrested befpre, the jewelry Was /returned and. the Grarid Jury declined to return- ari indictment.- Parked Autos in Tunes Sq. Towed Away in Daytime The vigorous aritl-parking/ cnir sade in the Times Sciualre septor ripw sees parked pars, towed away in midday. Heretofore, with the inr. ception of the Whalen trafflcv i-egUr ia,tions' .regini^, the D. S. C, trucks tpw^d away the motors, only during evening theatre hours. . Among tlie early victirri^ Friday afternoon' was Maurice Holland, the dancer, who had gone up to.. Jimmy Ashley, his-agent's bfHce in the Bond building, returnirig just irt time to see his Chryslet sedan, on its .way to- the motor poundage; redeemable for 10 flish. He. had left It parked and unattended foi^ a little more than an hour, on West 46th street, between Broadway and .6th iivenue> ■The mounted trafTlc/cdp op /duty on that ■ and other side, streets, . super- vises all timing/ They are iall "out- side'', assignees to _ the midtpwih sector. . ■.. • ;■ Oblig€€l Actor to Waiit^ Thett Had Him Arrested Eugene Boriovan, 29, 840 7th ave hue, formerly with "Mimi," was dls-. charged: In West Side Court on a feharge of disorderly coriduct.. . .-Donovan was arrested by PbUce- rndn Gormari; Traffic F, on comr plairit Of Dr. Hillel Feldman, den^ tist, at 7.30. &th avenue/ Adcprding to the dentist, Donovap came to his office ' to have some dental wprlc done. He left a short tifne later, without receiving attention, When Donovan c^me back he ap- peared tb be under the influence of liquor, and began to curse and yell and threaten him, the dentist said. In court .Dr. Feldman. asked per- mission to withdraw his charge as he felt the actor had been suC- flciently punished by being arrested. Usher with Record Lied To Judge—3 Yrs. in Peu Instead, of receiving his freedom :: from a sympathetic judge, Gharies Battley, alias Charleb K. Chadwick, , claiming to be/a. jobless actor; wa.* . given a term up to three, iyeara in the / penitentiary before J u d g e George L^ Donribllan in ./ General - Sessions. ■■ .'' •'. ■// y-r-. ■■ ■ ' Battley,.under :the name of Chad- ' wick, was: permitted to plead'guilty . to; petty larceny following his iri- " dictmerit fop robbery in the flrst degree. ."The .judge had listerieXJ to- ; his pathetic. storr pf being put- bt .work; arid haying a Virife /on- hi^. hands..'wlib was^^s^^^^ de- ' claredy with tears. In. his eyes,, he committed the. robhe^y to obtain, funds with- which: tb .serid lUs wicb.; to .a hospital. The judge after ac^ \ cepMng his plea to' a hvisdein remaridod .'him tb tlie: Tpmbs for in- .• VeStigation andj. sentence. . : ■ Wheri the .probation .pfiicerS./rer - ported .to Judge. D.orinellari»/lt was^ .v fortunate for.-Battley the court had accepted his plfea tp a lesser charge.. >After reading the report Judge Donhellari said to Battley; . //. - .:-..-:.";As...U.shet 'Only:-■/: ~ "A week/ago, under a misappre- : iVensibn dub to yblir deliberate ly- .ing,,thb court accepted ybur. plea of . guilty; ;tp petty larceny.; / At that time ybu claitned: ypu ha.d cbrnmitr- fed robbery because. ypu were out :bt work arid /ypu-had: a sicic/wife . -whp , was starving.: Ybu Plairoied to hive; been an aoior:arid' that;your right' : nbme was Chadwick.: V'Si'rice then vfo learned ypu /were never riiarrled and that the wpinan ybu claimed tp be ypur wife. wJis. the divOrce.d woman, who had . deserteid her twp children iri order tp. cohabit with / ypu.. Def'ectiyes. repo.rt . that you were involved in other robberies and that the nearest ypu ever 6ame to be'ari actor \vas as ari,usher in a theatre. Thb coiirt is/unable to re- scind .thei acceptance Of your, pleai to petty larceny ijiit:; will make surb that you spenthe mai'X.imiVm ti^rm in the periiteritlary,'' • According to probation officers, Chadwick,; or /Battley, is 20 yeats old aind has been living at 518 West • 134th street. July 3 h?^. entered a Coffee Pot restaurant at 3415. Brpad - way, Ariried with a cigaret case in the form of a revolver he. stuck up the manajser, William .Willettfe, and robbed: thb. lattbr Of $53, He . ran from the place with /Willette after hini. A policeman tbolc tip the* Chase .and stbpped.*Ghadwlclc after firing two' shots,- .For three mbriths rthe dbfendant, according to probation pfn.c6rs, .was ah usher in the Capitol theatre. New York. He quit there last April. fnonby saved? Loses coin betting on his golf game. I'm off that gUy then. . I don't wp.nt muggs around mb; thinking ot golf. I'm a riionpy getter pnly and -VpU can't make money betting on yourself unless there's an edge. That's for the chump.s. . -Pinger-Printing Bad "Aro you fltiger-printod yel? Be carefut pf. that, bp, when thpy eome after .you.. . It's sure fire/ with 'the cops, It rooks as though they'll come, 'tooi so- you'd/ better: get - your hands. ami)utated.- . .says .tb May when. I shows her that, paper Inst we&it. 'May/ I siys, •■iooic at /this. : Reriaem1>er. that , guy Who used tb hang .arpxind p.ui* flat on li3th street and steal the cold potatoes pit the pan? V/ell, I .h6ar he's got a piece of this. . .That's ;the same mutt : i told., you . /double crpssed me 60 /tlriies, althougi) 1 alv -ways bffered hini his bit/ . •'And 'what do you suppose .May said?: Slie says, 'Freeri:iarii gb ahd get that paper fpr ypurself. Prbm^ ise him a square' meal and if it's the/same, he can't help biit fall.' . <'(pf course that's May*s idea and it. riiay be.'right, but .1 don'.t want the paper, I want dough.. Give me Tnough^b"^mtSS~Sara"toga~rorT"l'o dtiys and I'll -vs-Ire you back 4. bun die. I iiave a now scheme to boat the books; I'm going to make book myself and only bet with the other fellows. I should have thouglit of that years ago, but I was too busy making motiey. . "No toufh. 6ke.. So long, gyp. .Try and get .me" for a page some lime." 3 Mos. for Negro Peeker Found, seated oli a 'roof at 256 West 47th street peering into wiri- dows of the - Paramourit Hotel on West 46th street, tvrhere women guests were, undressirig, James Green, 35, colored, 32.8 West 59th street, was; sentenced to three mpnths by Magistrate Sriiith in West Side Court. Guests had complained to House Detective John McCaffrey. Ho notified Detective Tom Early.. . To- gether they -W'erit :.tp the roof and arrested Greeri. : He admitted he had gone to the TDirf piT several-pccaslohs jiist tb peeic at\the women disrobing. . MEUREtTE NOEL MISSED Despondent Pancer Arrested For .. Possessing Revolver ' : Despondent befcause. she had been Separatbd ftonl her husband, Meiir- ette Kpel, 22, dancer, 140 West 7ist street, tribd'to/end her life by shoOt- Jnff« '■ Becam.e/: nervpUs ^lien firing the revbiyer and bullet went wild.. , \ The shot ^as heard by neigl^b.orS, who notified Detective. Frarik Cas* sidy. West 68th street station.. H» fOund the revolver and arresfted the dancer on, a charge of violating the. Sullivan Law; In/ West- side Court Miss Noel, .l^leaded not guilty and was held in 'isOO .bail for/Special Sessions. . . .%l>oiit a NoBlootwl Instlfiitloh f - The '•Phone Km>th" fliisslc H "THE SPEGIALISr' By CHARLES (CHIC) SALE Over 150,000 Copies Sota .Last "Two Months _ fl 'On Sal« at ll MRS. GEBSON'S TEA ROOM 16«B IlroadwuF, N. V.