Variety (Oct 1929)

68 VARIETY TIME S S Q UAR E New York Chaiter Wednesday, October 2, I929 . llaV SktiUy ia around on . a. jauat for AWliile. Gcoirso Gerhax'ds hunting an apartment .in town asairt. ' Ryan • Walker, art diroctW of /•Graphic." but.' Long dresscsi.' ar6 : back w'ith ' bang this year. , / . • . Gordon.Bostbck sailed tor London i;iiday, .to remain one month.- . • Vv'lre^nie Swor and, Aa'thur Ball .at ■^he' i^ariamdiint GrHi:.^^^^:, • Al Frazin/:anhouncer. at. the>^^^G^ deii; writing hockey- for thb ''Tolly Lillian , Lorraine, looking, ■ gijckl, .left a N- Y; ..ho^ipUal and! is H '.wbb^l-due.\\ ' ■" Qiiilre. Witid^ Ne\v Yprif ' Monday, Ibpking . fbr : \'aude. sketch, " ;.. Lee:/^rosncr, ■ chjt'f: of- the ^ Jtal:- l<?jiianiacs; has taken: aiv aiJarinioiit in the' black bolt. ■ ; JijmhVy Potriil.o, ! ClU- niii.>iioians chieftain, yin.' town 'looking around. So he sez. The. Shiihcris'. ■ Mister. ^ivimbnSi 90victimies tcferred to as] Ma} Jiqs McKiiileU hdis/give^^^ up liis job of ilrivino the choi'U^ hoy picker around to play, (irttms in- the ''Lucky. GirV': ¥odd^.conip(iny,.: y: . : .. "Triidy.JCrieger riqw with the Lobw advertisiilg Oiflco'.;- Fbvmorly with the AVprld .Nbw's • Service. . • Danny,. Siihmbns): lornier• .Keith booker, abroad" for sbmb tiine, .ill in I?ari.s<; :.^tpmach trOubi^ / ..'; i . sixty per cent of the cals ih Kixrl : Qarroli's .' ,"Sketch Bboit"/ liye ' in J3^oc7i^ly^i . " : • ■; ; New ■SPbrk "Tihies'' running newS: tibbbn aroUnd its building is ..called VThe ;Scotbh 'Newst»aper:" .; ■ Mariana .Puga .Vega, .Chirean .iat:-- r torney for many ..oC the Americjin; .iKfi .companies; is in New York. . •—-Jac k Lloydy Dt-W: .6rifi ltirg-"p. a .?or .eight years, will write the dialog for D, yv.':!i '.'Abraham Lincbln'' nii:xi Shbvy. girj. puttinig on. the ,Ritz to Her. dressing room partner $;£i.id bhe intended to . marry the ypuilg Eng- lish nobleman With vvhpm . she . has. been nightclutrbihg lately. ''He has everything, dearie,'' she raved^ "And furthermore .has a seat in Parlia ment." . "Take my advice,'' said the second ; girl and . pibk a guy whi* can get you a .seat in the Par;a . mouhtl" - -Ludyig taw-rence, M-G-iVI's conti^ hental sales mariagei', arrived- on . thb "Bremen", f or. an indef stay. W. 0. Fields Is •.rehearsing for "Vanities'' in the baUrooin of; the Manger hbtel. Violihski siays: I've.got;:a song in the A'ault . called • "That's Living.' It!s dying! Paul 'Tremaine -is writing a sym phonic modernization. .of isliowboat riiu.Vic, for bis theme jsbng. Mrs.. Vanderbilt Church has or . dered: .the .:erectipn of a, stone wall about: iier entire.estate. Talk of the Street is the.delight- ful "break" which came to Evelyn Cr.bweli,- \vho. was givefi .Dorothy Brittpn's roles. In "Sketch Book." A Boston gavihler arrived on Broadway : the other day, declar- ing he coujdh't find : anyone there who'd take a i/rand note let on a horse. lie, was telling 'his woe io a Broadioay druggist, who chirped vp that he'd take if: The . horse won ,1Q minutes later and the drug .gist paid no attention but rari a block, after a fellow who forgot to paif a jitney for d coca cola Sirtptly biz on Broadway. Jinnies Churc^^^^ .entr'ein-en'cur. of b'yTgoric days, has returned f rom . Europe, starting: bu t afresh Avith a chain bl tea shops- A,London shoehvakcr, whb. started the lizard skin slipes. for men. Is swamped with orders from f he New. Yorli males. ' • ■ Gene . Geiger, and his plehipoteu tiary de exquiisito mala dolapidas otherwisb- ■ yincent Lopez, abruptly ■ disassociated as .joint tenants of an apartment.. Valerid llaemier, often alluded to bj»;»Miltbn and Keats- as the' Zibg fold Venus db Amsterdam, .sudden ly recuperated from dire illness and is back ' In the line-up " Fred Kealing, magit-lan ..who pan .mak.e .hankiejs slip out oC 's.'iilprs' knots and bow your, tie witlib.bt touchirlfi: it, had an awful tinib find- ing ]iis hat chock in Sardlls. / ' . • It is getting to be a- regular thing for incoming Amoncans to radio,for "tlrrartre—tickets- —f nmr^h5:^"bDirnfr Sornpliow . they find out abbut the Jiew hits. Most discussed feud in New York at the mbmcnt is the Frisco-Winch- ell fracas. The boys aren't 'calling tfTcTr siibts. Recently they shook hands after a year's mutual silence. Tfifsn Frisco claimed a crack about Al Jolson breiaking Davy Lee's ear' drum singing.mammy songs to him. Winchell claimed tp have obtained it from another source. The two again split. They are now heeling each other, .Wincheir using his col umn and , Frisco . employing res- taurants and night clubs. j\IiVrr.ylng ■riUdoinic cbntihucs in thb : Mpri-iii oillre. .Latc;.sL to triv.td ili'o bridal ivalh is one of ,v'.id sti'no.i,M;ai>iu<)'.s, iluleii .Si-lu^nkiii, wlio has 3 U.S t .a.cc'opted a tinie con tract \yiLh ilal". Sliei'inan,:. V • '.• ■ : Si;.l via ^liltor.- at the .r^^^^ ls>w York, as prima. donna for 18 rtonths and.how.with, a Publix unit, burned \vhen'' s'iiip ■ :tot)k. a.:- trip' to. TinioK Square to dipryyor a; gal u.sing . the name' of Sylv:ia ■Millor, as a yodelcr :tt Chin's , eatery, . . -. ' . Jfdcketccrs now sjavil on the cor- noi's ^fith jingcr nail files moanin' plenty low. The boys who hud large suites- in the Jiighv.r taxing hotels have - chfpkcd into hostclries with unhcard-. of names. Many blavie the new.ynoncy: for the change of luck. .Bfimoh, bC Uampn.' find Rosita, Is sued ,l.)'y .d M'enbh count for 150,000 Crapes,, as a reisult of a motbr crash 0'ut!side:;Biarritz, wherein one wPman- .was icillfJd and anbthbr sieriouaVy ih- jurpd-. .Courts .favpivdRai^^^ the crash proceedings. : - FpUr. passengbr planes .were ready to take off :from iElbosieveit Field Sdcturday night With, a* scbro pf 'girls' iTom . the • Bropklyn 'Parampunti' wiieh Lpu i^oldi^^^ a. for tiie theatre,, decided •diseretioaWa^S • the better part of publicity and bailed it off; ■ , ' • \ '\ : . ; •' Wh^n the magician :at the Casa- nova, club, requested the use of a rinjgsider's handkercliief the other nightj a fair damsel tossel hers on the flopr, but he had meanwhile se- ared' another -from .a gentleman. The. wbmain's kerchief, lay on thb floor five minutes, with at . least twenty■• rhe n" nea r • wh o • nri ig ht h avc retrieved . iti, . -Finally from. the .rear of the club Heywood Broun thread- ed his way to the floor and returned •.it.;: . ; • ;. . A cbipred; valcl .Went abroad with his mastei', wiio one day discovered the follow playing poker with sev- eral first" cabin passengiers. . He, was ■reprimanded for mixing up and when asked how that came about saldr "r. jest. told them I was the Cuban consul." . . . ■ Phil Harris is,the doorman at the. Columbia ;, (burlesque)", :. Nevy York/ He graduated to that important post from the. Palace . (straight vaude),. where, he'sp'eht six' months. • He is quite, yoUng and wears a baby blue uniform with gold braid. Noted mostly for . his nerve. . : Al . Sherman's party, slated to be held last Wednesday at the. Percy Odkes' bfiice so that Louise Bickford could meet the gentlemen of the r)rc.ss, has been postponed iridef. Sherman,, his wife and another gal labored all day Saturday getting out invites to every leg man in the burg' and Monday gave them to Louise to mail, Wednesday morning •.she trooped into the' pfTice and told Sherman she had forgotten to mail the letters. Anyway, she said, it was better to put it off a week be- cause some swanky friends of hers woiild be in from Europe by then. What .Sherman said about swanky friends can't be printed. . • Society J oiks . are throwing on shows which ruii into exorbitant figures. At the- Montmartre the other night it was revealed^that the UiirTiss^ J^^ bvilt a nexo-rose garden for a mere $50,000; that the Butlers had .in stalled a sp.und-proof stable for $90,000, and that the Bdiccrs of .Newport have imported d-Roman drinking . fountain, the duty on which iHll M .^ZO.QGO, ibhile John Nicholas Brown Picked up a feio pencil sTtetches ichile cruising the Meditcrrancdn, . which came •• to $33,000. ■■ s Statuettes Will Be Set in Niches Oct. 20 A . unique bvent for Broadway will be; s'laged Suh.daj', Oct, . 20, Wlu^n statiiottes- of stage and screen Htar.s.irlarcfl in nic.-hes on the ex- t«''i"ioi'.. or tho r. Aimer building_aLt: '^i^i SfiWr;1nTrTKj unveiled. The seulplures dre of Ethel Bar- rymbre, •Alurilyii Millor, Mary I'ick- ford and Ko.si. Pon.-olle. The niches liavcr.: been vnoaiit slripe the build- in.g -was built,, ahnut two years. A coinmitlee bC T.rofidway show- men will att(\n«l. ilio fiiniMion.- 11. II. .JlJurnsido is the chairman. haccurate Biographies EDDIE CANTOR By' Claude Binyon Eddie <Two-C!ag) Cantor, ballot boy in 55iegfeld's "Whoopee," ha.^ often b*vn hailed as tho sooond iJootii from the right. . .Two>-(i(ig Is one of the nuniercius startling;: pi'odiictii of New Yoi-k'.s great CiiuUtp.djslrict> better known now as TUdbr .City, lie often re .turns to the scene of his birth to inake a cohtented, mbtpr-like noise by blowing liLs tongue softly against hi.s liuip lower lip.- . •■ Thrown, on his own at an early agcV Can tor' rubbed if and started out to iiiiaite a :.iiving;: llls^ ^^^^ m o I her, • the ; i nevitaii.le. Mrs. . Fiske,: cooked hi4' meals .foi: him but; didn't seiv' him arbund the liouse ehpugh to decide whether he belonged there or had just dropped in to melt the load out of the quarter ga^ meter Two-Gag started his commercial career as a newsbpy, peddling pa- pers ih hi.s .own neighborhood. Knowing everything about ■every- bpdy -in. the rblock, Tw'p-Gae: hiade quite a few . extra .Sales .with iiec- gbhai hiritsi,, He'd call on Mrs. Ga- iinzkiy; .dnd tell; her. .she btiglit- to read an. artiple in the "Time$'' about a neNV: way pf shavink oft moles. Or he'd .tell' some ^cute little dame a western chump . was listed. in the "World" 'among Out of Town Buy- ers. .'; •.' •• ; .'; ■ Thp racicbt 'Wprk^^ until 'he asked one of the hbusewives to buy a pa- per., and tell her: husband that Mazie's. joint had finally beb.n closed: Song Plugger From .newspaijofs Two-Gag went iptp. song, 'plugging; dping^^ stuff in niekelode.ons where. his flapping cars provided an excellent cooling; system, in ..the sUmni.er.: Twp-Oag sppilod that job by going-tP a dbg; hospital.and having; Jils ears pdred. Gu§ ;Ed.wards . picked the kid put of. a. sdiobn. Where . Two-Gafr wds tryirtjr to' drown his failure in itree lunch. A^tei' a \y.hirl 'at' kid stuff in one. of the Edwards-^ mids^et troupes; Two-Gag joined the .iledint ind Arthiir. vaude act; as the . sex appeal.. ' / Then came the war. .; Cantor did; his bit by starting an act called Caritor and ShaW and singing "Over There" as a finale. : . Looked Like Abe ;. Noting his resemblance to Abra- hatn Lincoln without the,brush. Fib Ziegfeld took Two-Gag in tow and istarted him in iegit, Two-Gag's first great success was "Whoopee,'! aiso known d.s "Ziegfeld's l?bliies," "Kid Boots" and. bthei: cornc-ons. : One of .Twp-Gag-s boyhood pals, Dan Lipsky, has become a name in Wall Street. Getting a cbuple of tips on stocks, Two-Gag invested all his dough and all he could; bor^ bw, and cleaned up enough to buy a hotrie in Great Neck. ,\fter two y<^ars pf good fbrtuhe Two-Gaff •bought bathtubs and Great Neck peasants shamefacedly called off their dHve tb have that .colored man named Cantor kicked off the Neck. : . Besides doting. Cantor does some writing with as.sistance of a me- dium. Sbine believe Two-Gag Is Joe Miller reincarnated. Others claim he "wouldn't reincarnate or change a- cbuple of words in a good gag. :Mr. Miller left some of the best Naming Children . Two-Gag has a wifb and five daughters. Some of the daughters are narned. aftier stars, such as Mary lin Cantor, Three-Star Hennessey Cantor and Uncork ;De Cahtpr. Jf hb eybr has' a \bby,7;Two-t3ar w^^ nanie him iBosehblatt Cantbr and see. what can bb done about a beard, or may call him 2-Guh Murphy. Two-Gag is only 33. He has threatened to ret,ire from show busi ■ ness ever since Ziegfeld spoke to him;. ph tlie .Iphone. Twp-Gag had expected, ai wive instead. . . Two-Gag'i latest is presidency of the N; v.. A. He may run for mayor :any time. His chances to be police commissioner are slim, as he has about as much sartbriai class as a Avhi'te "wing-bji .duty. Mx's. Cantor seems to be a most lenient wife. Two-Gag can stay out .111 night any night. N.p one home appears to miss hirn; As Mrs. Can- tor bnqe remarked ' to a Variety re- porter, "Eddie only comes hpme to steal gags froni the kids.'-' SLOAN INDICTED FOR BIGAMY AND PERJURY in ' .Indicted for bigamy and perjury, Charles A. O'Sulljviin. Sloan, 51, forhior newspaperman and recently inanager of the Badio Newsi Inc., 11 ^V;est :;42iid. street,^ was arratgiied before Judge .Mux ; SJ; Levine in General Session.s, He pleaded not guilty dnd wa.s .r-eni.dnded to the Tombs for trial. S.lban,' who lived at Woodstock Tower,?. Tudbr City,; "was indie ted two weeks ago on the complaint of ivis first wife, Mrs. Gladys .Robin- son Sioan of Grand Kapids, Mich She bidims that her; husband neg- lected'to divo rob; her befoire he mdr- rib.d -in . October, 192.8, IDorothy MogUe; ai hurSe>who attended him When he underwent an operation, in St. Luke's llbspltal. .The perjury bharge resulted when he swore oh his nrtdrriage . certificate to Miss Moguc that he had never been mar ribd. ;...; Slbdn was.; .arrested FHday i)y Detective; Thomas Smith of- the District . Attorney's offlbe'.v ih the lobby of the Hotel Lincoln. ' 'The arrest' occurred after i -^search of twvo;; weeks and resulted from a phpn^ call received by the first wife in Grand . Rapids from; a room In tlie . I/Ihcpln. ."The cajl .Svds frpm : ter hiifibahd and threalerted her if she: pressed, the prosecution' of tlie base. . ■ Mrs;' . Sloan;- .inrimediatety wired the District Attorney, and tlie arrcst:,fbllowed. Sloan's first marriage occurred in 1922 . xyhilbr ;;hb ' was . a. repbrter ;.in Grand ' Rapids. ."Two biiildferi were born pf ■ the.; rnarrldge.: In .19^5 Sloan; deserted his. fanailyl It was pnly recently that Mrs, Sloan read in a; New;: York paper ;that the . sec- ond Mrs. Sloan had fi.ied a suit foj- separatibn. , .■ COP AN IDIOT WOOD $5 Thclma Wpod, 27, tall and lithe^ was .fined $5 in'West Side epurt:fbr characterizing John J. Sullivan, red headed rhbtPrcycle cop, an idiot. Miss Wood, who ?tated she. was an artist, paid tlie.' fine -froni a portly bankroll. She hung her head and offered an . explanation t hat Xvas hot audlbie; - . A O'Sulliyan explained' to .Magis- trate ..Gopdniari that the. defendant had applogized. Nevertheless. the Court imposed the fine, Mi'ss Wood gave her address as 60 West 68th street. She asserted slie was em- ployed in. a 5th. avenue: art gallery. According to the affidavit drawn by O'Sulllvan, Miss Wood had been imbibing'. She accosted him at G6th street and Erbadway, addre.ss- Ing 'hini as an idiot, O'SuUivan tpok offense and; ordered the artist to continue her promenade.- She refused, and O'Sulllvan, tired of be- ing balled nambs, locked her up. Friends hurried to Night Cpurt and urged Magistrate' Adolph Stern to fix bail. The magistrate did, sparing Miss Wood the humiliation of spending the. night in the "cboler.!' '. ■ _Puffrin Acqultte'd^ ■^\Tlliam Dliffrin^ 30, salesman, of L'Oo West 5:ld slft't't, was nequitted in Special Session.s bf a charge of making book. ' He w-as.arrested July 25 by Poiiee- uian John Drake bC the 3rd Divi.sioh who claitned .Dnrfrin had. accepted lii'ls Jrom several men In front of Wu West 47.th .street, • Larry Fay^s Milk Tap Is Still Under Investigation :: Despite Larry Fay, ex-BrbadvVay lakT bWnciF; "n and once backer, bf Texas Guinan, •has announced the di.ssolution of an organization. to keep retail milk dealers frpm battling among theni selves on prices,- District Attbrney Ban ton is proceeding with his in- ■.vestlgatlbn of the Pay .concern ih-ah effprt to find but if the Broadwayitb has bpmmltted a erihie. • Should the District Attorney, after' questioning oyer 100 former members bf Pay's organization, de- cide Fay did wrong, the matter will be. submitted to the Grand Jury.' According. .to Health' Commis-' sioner Wynne, Fay collected exorbi- tant fees from the milk dealers of the. city - and that these febs ampunted to^ several hundred thou- sands of dollars a year. Fay .denies this chargb, declaring the members of the orghnij?atipn greatly benefited through his efforts. . - 5 Days for Shoplifting John Gordon, 42, alleged actor, living at the Longwell hotel, was given live days, in the WorkhouHe by the Justices of Special Sessions on his pli-a of guilty to.shoplirtihg. Ill' was arrested Sept,.25 at Wahdr m;iker'a fbr stealing a tapestry.. Saia (Romance) Brdmson wastin.? time and money in N. Y. ' IDddie Gro-ssman, local head of U. A., hustling in the smaller olfios, .,; Morris Katz back hi town:'after four t.uonths in Europei . . .il(^n rl El I in an, 1 opal T ifilany - S ta ll 1 head; figuring up a swindle. sheet in N. i'.. . ■: " ■. ; ■ - M i I to n Wei I has sq uared the Com - edy Club's debts, being the presi< denti Tbd Browne niusifcN offices, . for some ..rbdsbri, being torn dbvyh and put together again. Job Murphy .has .resigned - as manager • of .■ the Wboda; buiiainjt. Too much .grief. New head is Wal- ter dough. . ' For three weeks .straiight George Sidney never missed making a lit- tle .«5ecp"nd act. curtain ' speebh in "Kibitzer," at the Wbpds. Having reelas^iifieicl men as cana- ries, Madeline Woods npw uses; the tei'm "sihart ,rat.s" for fem,alo ore-. shoVelers. G. J. Buliiet, . Iegit "reviewer and art rndg- editor, of the .Ghrl -Evepbst,. tb Manhattan this week for a meet- injj w'th publlslrers.ahbut a bbok. Charles Lowenbergei:, local. pres.^ man for.; trniyersali chasing around the country: In to^vn 'so .little' he ' claims- hp. .needs; an .1 ntroductip n. to hi.s-wife. -. fetaff of the 'Evening American ;i.'5: back:..to normal, spirits now/- that itcdr.st-.bnd'ed his bminoiis^v squeaked, blue thunder., at cyery- bbdy, includi'rijg Jihr Bieket, m.'e. Bni PidzzO; dclhidxblcd'ged .intr»' duct ion . as Straiiglcr Lewis to 20 high school girls at Jocic I)Cmp.icyXr . dinner- last w.cek, ilifi weight has dropped from 250 to 24tl, ; - ■ As fotirbd presirtent of the' Film. J^oill'd^ 1 b^ ./l^ Clyde : Eckhardt;.- locdl 'Fo:< liedd> -vvas ylctim .ofTa; testiiinoijial diniier. at the Stevens Ffidayl '.; ;..■ • ■ ■ _ Fred Stone, still goes big .with the ncws: photogs. . Stopped between trains here to; pose for. dpppus .shots, arid did a tew stop.s to denibrtstrate the inoffebti.venoss qf airplanes as. saiidbags. :/ Ella Van Ilueson (Miss GhicaKp, IMis.sV America' and Miss T^hiveV.se of 1928) bas. a husband, . He is Hal White/ band leader' at the Corigress hotel,. iiitched nearly a year befoie ' anybPdy knbw.. • _ Midnigiit .shows in- .the-Ipop 'cbh- tiniic to bring box-bar Saturday; night business to- thb penny arcade, ; twp. doprs .-fi-bm the :XTnitcd Artists aii'd dci'QRS, the street from. the. Ori-' ental, . . ■ . •; ' .. • Now the; story can he' told. . At • the A. J. Balabari dihricr last mpntli: the spedkeV.s iscramblcd for .the mik-e, believing it hooked- up. A bhink, attached only to the room am- " plifiei's. Reootds pf.' sbmpthing pr other. .., ..Dbnn Werniuth, company man - . agbr for "Follow ThriA" dt the. Apollo, Is probdbly the ybunge.st boss bf'dn important show gang in . America. ':;■;..: John C. BrovyncU,' authbr of "The Nut Farm," at the Cbrt, swears pn the book that he never witnessed a performance of his brainstorm until a few' nights ago, when he got. in froni the Coast. Educdtional, havin.g been relieved bf its weekly pay by three bad men. now piying pff in cheeks. It is known that the sdme. crowd whieh pulled this affair also got to the Warner . payroll- a couple of w^--its ■ ago. "■ '""y ■ ' '■ ;■■ James Tracey walked; a-cable'be* tween the Mather toyver. and the Carbide and Cai*bQh building : dur* ing "Safety Week/' Some of the people who filled . State street to. watch him Were nearly crushed by a .faliing-L;,span:'-; ^ ' State Street 'Johnny, panhandler of panhandlers, known to every one. on Randolph street/ is dead of starvation. Taxi guys all called him the worst, but best, bum In Chi, He had spent 55 of his 76 years mooching. . Peppery Ashtph Stevens, roView- ihg "Caprice" as presented in tho Blackstone by the New York The- atre Guild, supposedly wrote: "Thp; LUnts are an incornparab^e pair,', really Iripbrnparable on two;-snored • • • - Linoty.pers and proof-toailers responsible,, ; Loop rohnnnists have been plug-' titeven's dnbs it "saltiest of the- atrical- sliects." Tticliard Atwater Uyirj. ), of the . Post, confides that ihc two-bits 7ie covgiis xip for it every week is one of his seeret ex- tritvaganres, and Art Hheckmon. of the Times {A. (7. *vj, uses it in stuff crackfs. in the old' 'Journal huildin;g walls.