Variety (Sept 1929)

eo Tt M ESS QUA RE Wednesday, September 25, 1929 Chatter in New ' Billy Jiobcrts,here from Olil.: Johhily O'Cohnpr.iii Hollywood, Phii: IXiRley, ex-aramatic, iil tov/n. ' .licigh-llo club .opoiia Oct. 4, . - Fuzzy Knigiit.. back ^nisht-cliibr . l^ashioriable; (aames; carryiiig ante- loRO handbag?. ; Eddie .Morfiri havi''nff,:bbn«ir tt-ouble "in hl3. iipstTite. hou.se, . ;. . Wditeiv . O'Keefe back,^ .coascflTg ^ast fr6m one haunt to. the other. JaolV Kpar^ ;havin(5 .trouble 'with no.se. .Qperafidri ihiniinent. Arthur- qordohi back with F^urp- ~pean wafdro.be.' '• ■'■ • .. Earl Carroll's, birthday party .was strictly: foririai.:. ' ' • : '■ \:':'r. Ben ■ Pollfiok . o!penlng. at .George Oiseh's old sppt-^Peter'a Blue Hour. Sam Shipman .and JohnriSf'.Hyther leaving far the 6oa.st - this, \ve,ek. ■; Jbe ..FriscbVs i^ister' -'cjied^ on the eoast last .week.' : Bugs' Baer Ahd^ Sv?Jay Kaufm^iri ripipini^ around together,' : ; The. Riudy yVdll^^^ the Four JSxmdred', a rare: autKdrity saySi .is tdcldie . Sanfordi, ilie poloist,- who even -has priit^cessei chaHn^^^ Doblje ■ Arn.at ■ is • i' H fiend! Radie Harris liis .Returned frQih.j Hollywbddi-:'. The Julius: Ziegler. 'heii:ess has been named: Joan Garph riolores :i)el- .Rid ;retvirne^ to the coast Monxlay.~- ;! . -v- '... • : ■ . Ghas. Tennebauin's pai^ents .are Safe in.. Jctu.sjilem^^ y ■ . Tommy Nip: Stxiying.for a pilot's licence. . ■ Jarrett',And . Llste ■ back on the Stem after a 'long illness, Madeline Northway \yritin5 a book, called,, *Tenthoiise,";;. .' v, ' Wlien Abel: Green • tifeiched Paris he registered at the JHoteV Sc.tibe.. ... Ted Healy wearing big^^^ floppier', coilairs^ Sax player jxt the. E^^^^ makes furniture during the day- Tex may open a . tiight. cluli in Chicago. Irving Caesar's skits in "Scanr- dais'" were, last-niinute:additions.:, Jay :Fllppen and. Bed . Nichols opening'it.Pavillbn Iioyal. Dr. and Mrs. Amey retuched Sat- urday in their car from the Thou- sand/Islands. Taking a grip or: so. and leaving the car in front of the hotel, .when' the porters i-eturned for the remainder of the luggage, car and bags: ha:d disappeared, . Two days later xjar with contents undis- turbed was foUhd at the foot of -18th Btreet. .,■ •■■: :.: • '-.V • V:-'; '' Dick LaMarr,: JLarry. Schwab . and George: Holland left iEbr the coast. Mike ■Slrhmpns is inflated, Thtee of his scripts now being, shot .into film at the R. L», A. Laboratories^; Royal KniQfterbocker, night . :cluh and restiauraht in:42d streets, openia Sat.-- :•:■■• .Betty Giilen. knpcked. off the first big i-ock • of ~; the .'fail season. A sparkler I ' .. ^ :' I,Dndbn has. hiad. so much suA .since June they're thinkiris of 'advertising it. - . • ■■ ■ Morris Gest due back at. ofTice this week. Home with: an' eye infeotibn from looking, over front pages. ^ Bill GradV'S alibi, cold and" doctor told liim to virear something . warni : on his chest, Wearing red. necktie. Louis Harris quit the Cohan box ofllee and in 'Wall Street. Clarence : Jkcobsori got the job. Jack Fllnn's daughter was mar^ ried Friday night at the Hotel. Mp- Aipiri, isTew.yprk::^: 'V' ;' ■■■ ■• • - Golf :in shirt sleeves is: finally making . itis way in England. Heat of 90 finally broke down the habits of generations. . : Niftiest cdble . address in New York; is Gilbert .'iMEiller's "Portwine." .That al.so gets: him . in Lpri^bn.^ . j: P./McEvoy's sequel to "Show . . Gicl'! puit tonibrrbw. .Called "Hplly- wood Girl." . . Job Benjamin around town these - days. In frorn the coastv Got many a social decision out. thdr! -: Henry Busse leaving next, week ' for Shanghai with band. To play, at the Royal hotel. Betty Jundod did sb .well in Mar-- . garet Lee's part she'.s been signed for three years, Broadway acrobatic and tap danc- ing schools plenty in the red with no-pay, no-work clients. Those hoodlum sketches on the ; . front of the P aramount studld have been 'removea~1}y~sa3Rl^l>l^i?fti Williaril Sclnvartz is chali'tnan of a cornmlttee of Yiddish actors wh.o will'work for Mayor WalKer. Bugs Baer back from the coast, weiffliihff 10 pounds more than when -iie l<?ft. Bank account fatter, too., Arthur Zellher, p. a. for Mary and Doug, In town iintil the opening of ^'The Taming of the Shrew." M Barney Hutchinson is now at- tached to Parampunfa home bffice publicity staff. .: iscven hundred gUcsts at the,L. I, coming out party '6t Gwendolyn Roome, the dob, . ' Sic.eyelesra weddings is the thing in •society now. The ;brides \bare their arms!. '. . Five girls from granimar school in. St. Regi$ restaurant with school bobks, three, dragging on cigs, ; Helen Mijrgan iflaunting the glass je^yel^y fad.. Qiasa'biracelets, glass eai"ri.ngs and glass cig holder. ; : Only female sports editor in New Yoric is Marion Yurdin, Wor'<'"9 ®" ai new mag. :,('*Para4e/'> Homer Oryis denies ' being ehr gaged tp Shifley y<;rn.ph, so riepbrt- ed in the dailies. ':' Many a gold-digget' without- table; eticiuet 0a;n- write a; bobk. on./isable ■manners.;;•■':.■ ■" ,; .:.;■ • .■^.: ; ;. /juditli. Anderson: careem^^ along Broadway .in ;a iear;hrho\^^^^^ hack. Hopes to; si)ear a- license. Harry. Romin; the agent, Is ha.nd ing .out costly bbmpaipts for pub liclty'jpurppses.':;^ ■ ■ . Park :.Gehtf a.1 ; p,QbI has installed ..a miniaturb golf :cours,e?, .with colored attendaint,- : whoi ■ char dime a •garnb,'/■'■;';;': •:■.;. .•■; v; opened his; Chateau - night (Tubs.). . Al Leo .Bernstein .mana- Mass for Jack Conway Rei(iiiion» masS will be said for Jack Conway at St. Malachy's GhUrch, .In West 47th street, Oct, 2 at 10 a; m. Jack died in Bermuda, Oct. ■2, 1928.'. in Inaccurate Biographies Rl.CIIARD ATWATER iSy Clautte ©inyon Richard (Zang) Atwateiv is best known to Ibvers of primary litera- ture;^^?. Riq, under, wliibh protective covering lie ;cpndcuts' the .Pillar to Post column in: the; Chicae.o ;"li^ve- 1 ning,, post.": ■ ■'• ■ ' ^ .He fha's.: a faint .connection with Hai Hixoh: Shanley: ;iast bavis revubi : ■ger.v,. v' :'v'. ,'• Fellow ;sPT.d' a; solid .gold, cig; hold_ er.. in a nig^ht club "to liquidate; tlie .check.', . bldn^t,- even; .'have... dpiagh ehbugh for bigs to put in. the holder -: Forty ; events have been : planned for Boston debutants: "^fbt-; iOctpber Seetris some of tl)e dbbbies are p'.ay;- linig'four. a day Lily Dahnita ia quite proud of her Work in ''The ,Cocit'ijyed WorlS." •Has her apiartmeht all doU^<l .vip in posters of the hit talker. - Some show girl was :tii)pcd off that: Hilda Ferguson got those Mdndartn fingernails: l>y_ soaking her niitis in olive oil. Also: that the oil. is a halm for the fcn^e*^ .d>ifc|^«, '^ftacfc, brqiti and \.i)iccps. -.So the news spread and a fello'm h<is to be careftil how near he dances with the greasy gals these/ days. . • :Eugene Castle is. photpgraphmg ^he rbrnance of the banana oh the ;streets of'.Astoria. It's an 'indus- :trial.- ;■ '', Ramon, and Rpsita bpen at the Trbcadero . with ,; Argentine. band Libby Holman goes in Lido; and not Trocadeip.o, . Bee Palirter's latest .heart is Len- ili Hayton, yirlth the Whiteman. or- chestra. Also a piano player and ypung, like Al Siegel; ' A chatterer fcrasbed three sellout shows last week by saying "Variety" tough enough . thrbugh the pay [.window.: ■'. : Lpuig Blattner and Ethel Levey .(Mrs. Claude Graham White) are in a huddle • nightly at the Savoy Grill oyer something. Five pound notes are being bet that.Benita Hiime had nothing on in the bathroprii scene of "High .:Treast(n," . ,, "High Treason" was recorded on British acoustics put of doors niglits, Gauhiont having no sound-proof stage at the time. E. v., Liicas, back from a: vaca tion to his "Sunday Times" job, has published .VWindfall's Eve": and •'Turning: 'TlTings: Over." .;: Babe. .Patribia Ptywers, now in Paris/ claims a report on Broadway has; hibr d€a<jLv' She is^^^ so, she says; ; 'r' :■ '■ : J. : ip.' MacEyoy threw a swell party for his litera.ry friends at: his . VV^obdstock,. Ni Y,,,. home; bVer the .we.ek-end'. " JHarry Hprlliek, leader of the A, ,& P. Gypsies, couldn't bharige a can of beans at the; A. iSL P. grocery store acfSss the' street from; his home in Queens, because the proprietor wouldn't belieye him. Engagement bf Frances; Williams tb Mickey Alpert, m. c, at the Co coaiiut Grove in Boston, is expected any time now, ntaybe this week, ' Esther Llbyd .;bf "Connecticut Yankee" had her nbse reshaped Tue-sdiiy week, and back in the show two days later If.s settled that Const.ance Colllrr will play in "Happy Families''--at |"tlTlH=(lTnTirlc^imti l==Hrmt uaiiyr=Mvh e^^ she proe-^ to New York with "The MaLriardiV in Mrs. Pat Camimell's rblo, , i . A, .E. .Dupimt's swell ..shark in Ei.strotv i-sn't hi.>>. own. . He has to give. It up to sonio, titled dame who owns it two niontji.ts viuA\ year and park in a ItoIoI llU slie blows a'-,'ain Fashion piiraili" triccV to . f,'iit "SkotPh Hook" girls for $1"). Oalf) dei'linbd, s() the fashion people wont to "VV'hpppee' and knbckesd off a list of beauts; for $10. A Lu-lu party ait the^WCddrid the other , night! -At one table Loii , ., . Holtz, Lou Davis, : Lou Schwartz, Show .business, haying : >yri.tten. p Lou Shurr; Lew Brotvn and Lou opera to b^ f suhg pi- Whistled, en- Pollack ■ . • ■ - ■ tirely on the squickle. Some attempt Even'ti'^ iiiaglbian at the^Casa- cbu'-l vbe made to: explJ^in a squickle, novi .was unaJ)le-Sat. night to wake, .but t tedlQUS. up a sleeping felipw and girl In eve^ Zang was born in Chicago, exact- ning clothes, both sitting bolt Up- ly where that new hotel now stands., right, ;; - Hie ..used ;tQ bake^.'potatpes in a bon- Park Central hoteU cbnvihcbd the fire eWaetly .wiiere the old hotel late Arnold Rothstein's room has used. :to. .stand ; : wlilch is • }yhy that been jinxed 'since the shooting af- new hotel .stands \vhere the old one fair, haS: changed, the room •number might stili be standing,; His par- froni Z49 to 348, Ibaying no .'349 brv ehtS'feared; hb might :t^rn out to be that floor,: ~. .a. firebug •and dipped him in gasb- Leonti Pianskoy says. yitHcfjf linb. every morning so.therc'd .be .no garbled its account^^of hiS: recordinp \ .stainS, . :. ' technique and he's glad of 'it^r or'\ But . Zang started writing, and they: wo^ild .have :Jipp^^^^^ his parents wish tp; hoU they "■SSd ^tJSS at the Got- After-a metec^ic cai-^^ lo- ton ClUb; :comii6sed .o£ four males cq^l^pUljlic scliop^s Zang went to jhe arS a^^irl leadbr, Vl^ho. mandplin. University of CWca^^and_ started kazop, :With; Watbr glasa and wash--survey .of Greel^ Later l^e^ent ■bbard, -Hottest thing: In . New York «.<? .far as to teach Greelc^and the in line - : ' . ^ s-Vary he received just enough ^ Yvonne ■ Gray and her husbjirid Uo^ buy ; his rrteals in a .restaurant .helped'put out ii -fire in-one of th'ei where:they spoke no other language. T'lidor'City apartments :uhdernoath ;. Tired pf . finding; .bathtub rings in their ; ne\<'ly furnished io^'ie . .nest, soup bowls, :Zang wen.t to .^york on (Lovb' .nest is tabloid for . .flat.). the . ^Evening Post" as : cplumnist Lounge caught firei: .Mysterioust and bpughfan extra suit pf clothes. The Theatrical . Business . Men's .The cblurtin tbolt. up quite a bit of , AssoG^atl■on^ -pledged .tor Support .his.tinie for a while, until he grew ..Maypt 'jimmy. 'Walker's campaign it, when he Started fpr...r'e-electibni:.feas opened head- quarers. iiv .Harry Cooper's office, in the Churchill Building I'eprinting stuff from other publi cations and found he could leave tlve office almbst before ho ontereti e .V./HU1 liimi J4UA>\t'*'6< . — ^- Ghaiios Fa'rrell, Fox star, gets it, This reprint gag is a develop . • kV' ■»>■ • i '^...^.i.^'..'. /rnu.ii.t.l' .»ii<,:.I-■ ,.>r flio* /->1<-1 «m-ii "Vr>ii cliniili into; NeW York' tonaprrow (Thurs dajO : after: a^ tbur of. personal ap- peara'nce.s made in Detroit; Mony nibi-.t of that old alibi, "You should have heard the other fellow tell it." Zang. has a wife and two kids treil and Bbstpn. He is due to stpp W ^ife wants a new along Broadway fprvabbut. a; week dress he dpes a little extra writing and then head west again Unique display in the Paramount theatre lobby for the Buddy Rogers- Nancy (Carroll picture, "Illusion," opening Friday. One Sees a mirrpr, which, if he looks in,, changes sud- denly to an ad. on the side. When the kids were brrn he wrote a caiiple of books, and when they g'o to college Zang may have to start selling French postcards; . . ; He writes with both hands or either here's one word rather long that Allene Talmey,; fornier picture; Lvould better describe this feat, but reviewer fbr the ■Wbrld,'is the dra- j you can alWaj matic critic of /"Today, in New | handed gtuff. York,'* 12-page tab tramed for Put- pf-towner^ and distributed free in .hotels', Pat feerrigan (female) of "Show (3irl" stood shivering, on- th^ corner of ..56th and Sixth the other night, waiting for .a taxlcab. It'wasn't Sir Walter ■ Raleigh, who: drove up in his roadster and lent her his camel- detect the left aged.to write sinne «ong.s with (Sus Kahn, Mark .:;Fisiier presonled wilh a Ford at a testimonial dinner ..ton- dered hiin by the. Westside Bu.sihoss lien's Association. ; Daye Thursby," golf pro with. "Folibw Thru,'', won an invitation golf tournanient at Sunset Ridge Country Cjiub with a T8.. . .' :j6e ' Stool, . who ;ruh3 thirigs . herb for; De. Sylva,'. Brpwn and: Heriderr sPTiy babk froni N.. ir. Reported that the boys in charge in the. east gav© : ;ilin presents, and things,.; Alhia Cliiuse.n, prinria d.pnna, threw;. her annual dinner last Saturday at ; River Park - Field House for 300 relatives, : Percentage of : incrbase over 128 not. ahnbunced.. Miirgaret . Felch, of ; the ' United Bbokihg office, lias.a letter frorii. Al' Manning; .who/died: in the Study. Glub fire in Detroit,' yv^ritteh; the morning bf the; fire, .. Jack Mills, the big music m.aster,, in town; fbr biisiness. So far his firm has Itept out of foreign entan- glements, ; biit a .. nierger. miay be waiting bh the next corner^ . . B, . & k,'s ■ slogan,;' ■'Reniember ; Septertiber," brought, a:curt resppns© from.'prie of; the customers. '.'Sure _ will,''., he' - wrote; "September: is, when you .jacked the admissibri . to ■85c.";' ■..:; :•;■:. :■ Late Victor.Lawson's no-smoking edict, which banned fags and stbgies- in. the old firetr.ap, . "Daily. News'^ building,: still gbes, with modiflca- tioris; in the new "Daily , News'' ■plant-pri; the Chicago River, f^tory hpuhds, and evert; John Craig, cit, ed.; ..Beitler,. news ed.,. can't take a puff! inside the editprial rbPni.s be-:, fore 4:3b;vp.- mV Sports; dept. has carte, bianche, aifid' Howard Marin,: spPrts ed,, lights up "any time. -Boy Johnson's 76 , Roy Johnson .won the piayoPE oC the tie in the International Photog- raphers.' Coast, golf tpurnament. Ha (tefeated Ernest Depew,: 76:^82. Contest was held- at the s.<m9/ courae. Fox iHlUs. . • Johnsbn, 24, caddied for ope of the local ch£*^mps as ix lad. ' . • Everybody , of importance in the state bf Wisconsin, except Solly Levitan, state, treas.," drank sauer- icraut juice and celebrated generally at Milwaukfee last week in honor of Ed 'Weisfeldt,.'. who has resigned as Fox-Midwesco promotion manager his roadster ana lent.neT nis camei- U,, become production boss for Pub hair tpp coat till a Checker came j —j^. along, but Pat Rooney, Jr. Vaude actbr playing, the lay-pfif circuit for.: the. past six months needed cash* Sold his police dog for $50. Dog- returned, and had to. re- fund $40 left. Sold it io two other)?, the dog returning each time. Re- funded $30 and $35. ; Now owes $45 ahd stjll has pup.; :Zuhn and Dreis sauntered ohtp Brbadway the other day, fresh from fishing vacation in Wisconsin. iix at Detroit. Eddie mad© his amusement-World start 18 years ago in Milwaukee selling peanuts in a five-a-day burlesque, ■ William Adler, RKO's new assist- ant 'to Jack Hes's, new publicity di- rector, has a secret vice. He is a gymnast and acrobat par excellence, though strictly amateur. For four years he was a star gymnast.at,the University of Chicago. Some say that Will Singer, man- ager : of the State-Lake, eats and sleeps iJa his Showhouse. He defied Moscbni Reaps Charlie ;MoSconl Shot a 41-3J at: the hoys the; bthor. '<'iay ; at Rarichb on the Cbast. It cVidn't do Wullf r; Donaldspn any good;. a - „ --^ - Their wopdy beards had been whit- tled dPAvn^ ^) coars^-^tees and ^ tongties last week by tear- they looked like Prohibition-retired himself aWay from his pet to brewers, J.ust for a laUgh and. got it. SammV: "tl^shnian. and : Jimmy O.'Neal) .father ; of : Sammy's .es- tranged:: Wife,' are planning to take an. apiaVtment together. Mrs, .O'Neal returns shortly tp-^ Seattle, .where She is starting a string, of millinery shbps.: Jinlmy and the son-in-litw niay then. ;bunk together, . Tiie head waiter In one of.•Broad- way's. clasS joints-^walked to-a .table the other night arid said:; "I beg your pardon, sir. Will yoU kindly remove your cap from the table?" "Gap!'' cried the Wbman;sittirig with the fellow, .."Why, that's. my hand'bag,": . Only, half as many;ylce-presidents^ of the Guarantee Trust this year as last, .; The gag about the president saying to. the vice-president, "We're giving ybu a. bigger job now. TTo- morrbw you; start as asst; .qashler," is repbrted to have influenced the bank , in shelving the ylce-presi dential title for a less laughable status, |==J]jii<^=<>ollegiate=pasg==^hbund.i=h^^ bcbn ihakinf,- . a pest of himsijlf around tb'wn' iatoly. Boys have plenty of crust, declaring thoni solves newspapermen and prepared to argUe the point to any. extent. CGllogiail.s suppbsod to haVe got the tip-off from campus correspondents who get many privileges Hollywood, Los Angeles and Frisco swamped with eastern and ihg himself away from .his Pet to attend the Paiabe opening at Rock- fcrd, ill, . . . ; • Harry Hollander, of New York, Publix booker, was here last week- ■ Herb Washburn, iodai RKO chief, to New York, :bn business. ■ Al, Herman, tossed away $20 on a slot machine. . : : ' v , Al Burks, of the BSpK. publicity bffieej has ', gbne to WisconSih to 3hoot ducks. ' He|. calls it ii vacation, Lew Pollack, while in towni ma;n- Quiet Golf Louis Silvers: and Bill perlberg play a shouting game. Each hollers the' other down: wlien. about to play a stroke.. If that doesn't work, .they, lie down nekt to the clip: and.; make faces at the.: soni'etimeS approach- ing putt. . W.ihslpw's Threat Rancho's high. record pC 151 f* threaterted.by Max WinSlow, now Ihi Hollywood, Alibis The Philadelphia ticket brokers defeated, the Broadway agency golC team at a benefit match :held Sun- day, at Bedford Hills, Westchester, N. Y. Trophy was put up by JQ9 .Leblang'. ., B'arn'ey KlaiWahs of tlie CTprt the-' atre,: Won first individual pri?!e with 86;- -: -■•. Usual alibis from the other New Yorkers. : ■ . niiddle Western doctors: who. Unable to pay. their office rents, are Shin- gling themselves as sinus specialists and cleaning; up.. Medicos call it the .sinus: exoduSi: As, brte wagf ob- served,. eVerybbdy has sitius trbuSle: out there. Mobs get.it from crying "Sign us!" [: Night .club gals getting pretty crafty n dwadays. Wal 1 Street broker playing one of . the. little blondes, said to ebme down, tp the office sonie times. She vyent With thr^ e.- othe K^-g ii!ls-of-^the-elli^emb le. Observihg that his name. was hot on the door of the placer on^ ^f- the smarties cracked: ^'This must be a bucket-shop. Otherwise he'd have his name, so one could tell it was his place." The blonde got scared, so they beat it and made inquiry, learning that the fellow had been indicted three: times for swindling, and was marHedl , Annual faU tournament, of th* Arliists ahd Writers Golf' Assiociai lion, will* be held Tuesday at the Peliiam : Country (Dlubi: Grantland Rice, sports writer,, is prbsident and champion of the club, which hold* its Winter, tourney iii . Palm Beaclu the affair being one of the h'sH spots of the resort season,. Al Newmian, pianist, In Abe Ly- man's? orchestra; who has the indet fingers on bbth hands missing, iponr sistently shoots standard lieW Tork courses in the low SOIs. At Sara- toga this summer Newman's be«3t effort Was a 79 on the difficult Mac- Gregof bourse. " Mayer and Olympic Los Angeles,' Sept. 24, Louis B. Mayer has been named as one of the four southern Califor- nia- members of the Olympic game.i committee for i"??2, to be held here. • Other L. A. members nro Mnyor John C. Porter, William. May CJur- land and Warren B. Boyard. .