Variety (Apr 1930)

Wednesday, April 30, 1930 VARIETY 5f Devlto Derny Co lister Irvine 3 VANCOUVER Keith's (3) De Toregos I>ytell & Fant KlttV Doner Frank Gaby (26) Knos FrQzore Boyd' Senter Co Conlln & Glass Tiny Town Rev WHITE ri^AINS Kelth'd let halt (3-6) XdtL Kaufman Glrla Robert Ben & D Johnny Marvin (Two to All) 2d half (7-1) Ada Kaufman Girls Bobbins 3 Johnny Marvin (Two to flU) 2d half (30-2) Ada Kaufman Girls Xiorlmer & Hudson Donnelly & - Forest Johnny Marvin WINNIPEG CApItol (3) Flo Mayo Co G & M Ellne Babe Egan Co (26) A Prlt'chard ft Boys' Z^Ida Santlcy Bddle'Nelson ; Claire Sis & Q'Day TONKERS Kelth'8 1st half (3-1) Cook Sis Smith Gardner Joyner & Foster Follies of B'way 2d half <7-8) Large ft Morgner Billy Taylor Co Suite 16 Claude & Marlon F O'Denlshawn Co 2d half (30-2) Golden Dreams * 3 Jolly Tars W Courtl'elgh Co Billy Purl Co Mary Collegians TOUNGSTOWN Keith's (3) The Dlgltanoes Stan Kavanaugh Dillon ft Parker CUffora ft' Marlon Luster Bros (26) Osborne ft Chico Harrison ft Dakin Blossom Seeley Co Roy Rogers Broken Toys EXC1.USIVELY DESIGNED. GARMENTS FOR GENTLEMEN BEN ROCKE 1632 B'way. at 50th St., N. Y. City Fanchon & Marco ATLANTA, OA Fox (6) "Art In Taps" Idea Myrtle-Gordon Rodney ft Gould Al ft Hale Johnny Plank Jeanne McDonald Eddie Lewis Brown & Wllla BRIDGEPORT Palace (3) "Let's Pretend" Id Alfred I^atell Tilyou &■ Rogers Florence Fernian Ed Cheney Jimmy Hadreas George Green Rita Lano BROOKLYN Vox (2) 'Jazz Temple" Idea Wally Jackson Sylvia Doree Gus Elmore Van De Velde Tr BUFFAXO Lafayette (3) •International" Id Markell & Faun Frederlco ft Faun Mlgnon Laird Billy Carr Osaka Boys BOTTE, MONT. Von ■ 1st half (1-4) "Sunshine" Idea Batley & Bnrnum VInce Silk Arllne Langan Norman- Selbr Richard ■'Wally Mary Lou CHICAGO Coston (2) "Peasant" Idea June Worth. Johnson ft Duker Dlehl Slii General Levlno Belcher Dancers DENVER. COLO. Grand (1) "EyoB" Idea 6 Candreva. Bros Don Carroll Paul Olsen B &■ H- Burrotf Keo Yokl ft Tokl DETROIT, MICH. Fox (2) "Desert" Idea B ft M Beck Murlol Stryker Croplcy- ft Vlolot Carla Tornay Girls FRESNO WilROu 1st half (l-9> "Bells ft Belles" Id Eddie Hill Eva Thornton Dunbar's Bell R Tommy Harris Frances- Ted ft B Ix)retta G'T VI^, MONT. Gmnd iBt half (S-4) "Marble" Idea Roy SmoOt Prancia Al ft Jaok Rand Hector Co Harris 3 • "Types" Idea Trndo 2 Carlena Diamond Harold Stanton MILWAUKEE Wisconsin (2) "Manila Bound" I Lloyd ft Brico Rometo Kam Stella Royal .'iamuel Lopez MISSOl)!^, MONT. WUmnn 2d half (6-7) "Marble" Idea Roy Smoot Francia A ft J Rand Hector Co. Harris 3 ' Georgene & Henry- Plobelle ft Charlie OAKLAND Fox (2) "Gyp Gypsy" Idea Chaz Chase Bvers ft Greta George Prize Vlaekin ft Lorraine Jeanne Alexandrea' Jose Gonzalez OKLAHOMA CITT Orphenm 2d half (6-8) "Types" Idea Trado 2 Carlena Diamond " Harold Stanton PASADENA CoIoMdo (11) "Smiles" Idea 3 Slate Bros ' Frank Hamilton Walter Bradbury Dorothy Neville Acrobatic Co PHILADET.PHIA Fox (2) "Idea In Green" Born ft Lawrence Moran ft Weston Franklyn Record Watts ft Armlnda Doria Nelrly • • PORTLAND Brondway (1) "CorBl" Idea ' Maurice & Vincent Prank Due Royal Samoans La Petit Marie SALEM Elslnore 1st half (3-4) "Changes" Idea Baker ft Mandell Muriel Gardner Art Wadley Dave Le Winter 12 B'way Benuts SAN DIEGO Fox (1) "Candyland" Idea Jones ft Hull Masters & Grayce Reeves ft Lou Sunklst Ballet SAN FRANCISCO •Fox (2) "Miniatures"- Idea Singer's Mfdgets SAN JOSE California 2a half (4-7) "Belles & Belle's" Eddie Hill Eva Thornton HSHERandGILMORE Direction lEDDT & SMITH , Georgene -ft Henry Plobelle ft Charlie HARTFORD Capitol (3) Uniforms" Idea Armand ft Perez Hunter ft Perclvai Ruth Hamilton Joy Bros Shore ft H Moore IIOLLTWOOD - I'^ptlan (1) "Good Fellows" Id Lucille Page Bud Avcrlll 18 Good Fellows Helen Burke LONG PEACH West Const . 1st half (2-4) Milky Way" Idea Vernon Sllles Noroe Stone & Lee Bert Faye Et'-vo Moroni LO.t ANGELES State (1) niy ."ervlce' Idea Rhapiro ft O'Malley J'ft'lrlle LaMnnte IieQulncy ft Btanl'y S/^b Meza Edillo Mack's Co - -MlAMi.OKLA. Majestic 1st half (30-1) Dunbar's B Rincers Tommy Harris Frances Ted ft B Lorelta SEATTLE ■ Ilfth ATei <1) "B'way Venuses" I Mel Klee 16 N T Beatu Wins Aerial Bartletts Wells ft Wlnthrop Freda .Sullivan SPOKANE Post St. (2) "^>kirts" Idea Keal Castagnoli Julln Curtiss Ruth Sulvcr Up In Air GIrl.i SPRINGFIELD I'alaoo (3) "Hot Dominoes" I I.*s Kllcks r.Tul Mall Hart W ft Polly .ST. IX>I1S Fox (2) "Trees" Idea Naynon's Birds I^evlne ft Relcard Mavis ft Ted Esther r'ampbell Tri^A Orpheum .... lat half i2-4) . "Types" Idea Trado 2 Carlena Dlan^ond Harold Stanton WASmNGTON Fox (3) Par East" Idea Frank Stever Helen Pachaud M Sanaml Co Ruth Kadamat.<ia Joan Hardcastle MTATERBL'RX Palace Ist half (4-6) "Black ft Gold" 1 4 SCenimys Arnold Grazer Maxine Hamilton Lee Wllmot WORCESTER • Palace (3) "Ivory" Idea 4 High Hatters Hy Meyer v Betty Lou Webb Win Aubrey Peggy Carse Association CANTON, OmO Loew's 2d half (8-10) W H Groh Co i Billy Maine Co Rea ft Santora Co> (Two to fill) C'D'R R'P'DS, lA. Iowa Ist half (4-6) El tinge ft Vernon Primrose Semon Jack Wilson Co (One to flll) 2d half (7-10) Dixie 4 Kane ft EUIs Joe Jackson (One' t<j till) CBtAMPAIGN. ILL. Orpiieum 1st half (fl-ll) Marie Decoma (T^vo to flll) CHICAGO, ILL. Englewood 1st half (4-6) Marie Deroma Smith ft Barker (Three to fill) . , 2d half (7-10) Clinton ft Angelina Rodero ft West (Three to fill) DAVENPORT. .lA. Capitol 1st half (4-6) - Dixie 4 - Packard ft -Dodge Lights ft Shadows 2d half (7-10) Eltinge & Verjion • Jack Wilson.-Co Tates ft Lawley DES MOINES. lA. Orpjieum 1st half (4-6) Tates & Lawley Kane ft Bills (One to flU) 2d half (7-10) All Girl Rev DETROIT, MICH. . Holl}'>voo<l let half (4-7)' Marcello Hardy Coscia ft Verdi Rhea ft Santoro - 2d half (8-10) Bwing Early Frank Melino Co Borans Mel FT. WAYNE, IND. Palace 1st half (4-6) Romas Tr M Montgomery Claudia Coleman Boran's Mel 2d half (7-10) O'Connor Fam Mllo (Two to flll) G'D R'P'DS, M'CH. Keith's 1st half (4-6) Rae & Nighthawks Mllo Gracella ft Theo (Two to flll) ^ 2d half <7-10) * Romas Tr Claudia Coleman P Oukransky Ballet (Two to flll) IND'P'LJS, IND. Lonrie (3) H ft F Usher — Jack Kneeland Co (Two, to flll) LINCOLN, NEB. Stuart (S) Murrell ft B'ckwjth Britt Wood Big Parade LONDON, CAN. Loew's * 1st half (6-7) Bvans & Wolf Davis ft McCoy Froslnl's Melodlans 2d half (8-10) Gilbert Bros Chaa Wilson Co Edna Torrenco Co MADISON, WIS. Orphenm 1st half (4-6) Monroe & Grant Jean Boydell Cunningham ft B ■ 2d half (7-10) Glftofd & Gresham Bachelor's R'm'nce (One to flll) MEMPHIS, TENN. Orplienm (3) Bla,okstbnc MILW'KEE, WIS. Riverside (3) Cherry Bl's'm .& J Viola Dana Co Fielder Harriet Co Klutlng's Enter (One to flll) NASHVILLE, T'N. Princess (3) 3 Jests Morris & Shaw Palm Beach Girls ROCKFORD, ILL. Palace 1st half (4-6) Tabor ft Green Joe Jackson E Morgan ft Boys (Two to flll) 2d half (7-10) Monroe ft Grant Jean Boydell Mirror Personalities (Two to flll) ■ SIOUX CITT. lA. Orplicum Ist halt (3-6) All Girl Rev SO. BEND. IND. Palace 1st half (4-6) • Payne ft Decosta W.hitey Roberts Gitford ft Gresham Mirror Personalities 2d half (7-10) E Morgan & Boys (Three to flll) ST. LOUIS, MO. Grand 1st half (3-6) - Angelina ft Clinton Winchester ft- Ross Ray Parker (Two to flll) . 2d half (7-9) -6 Sakuras (Others to flll) WINDSOR, CAN. Capitol • let half (6-7) Gilbert Bros iChas Wilson CO Edna Torrence Co ■ 2d half (8-10) Evans ft Wolf ' Davis & McCoy Froslnl's Melodlans ATLANTA Keith's (6) Miller ft Wilson 2 Daveys Chinese Showboat (Two to nil) BIRMINGHAM . Keith's (6) Maxine ft Bobby Rose Perfect • McKay ft Ardlne Dutler Santos OHARLOTTB ' Orphenm 2d half (9-11) • Lovejoy Dancers Clara Howard V ft B Stanton The Brlants DALLAS • Keith's (S) Nalhal Everett Sanderson Eddie Pardo Franklyn D'Amore fOne to flll) FORT WORTH Mojeatio (S) Ellz King's-Steppers Voice of R-lC-O Any Fam Bert Walton (One to flll) HOU.STON Keith's (6) Bruno Weise 3 Marty May 12 O'clock Rev (Two to flll) NEW ORLEANS Orpiieum (C) Highland Collies Hlbbltt ft Hartman Hlckey Bros Ruiz ft Bonlta OKI^HOMA CITT Orphenm (0) Howard's Ponies Melino ft Davis Al B White Co Markert Dancers (One to flll) 8AN .4NTONIO Male.Mlc (^) Deo Pfurr HainMun Sis ft P ) MriT Burns The Srci.glors T"L8>1 Orpheum (9) Howard's Ponies Melino ft Davis Al' B White Co Markert Dancers (One to flll). , Great States JOLIET, ILL. Rialto 1st half (6-7) Frank Melino Co (One to flll) 2d half (g-ip) .. Smith ft Barker ' Dancing Manneq'ns WAUKBOAN. ILL. Genesee Id half (8-10) Joe ft WIIMe Hale Rea ft Californlans (One to flll) PEORIA, IIX. Palace 1st half (2-4) Ray ft Nord Burchll) ft Blondes (One to flll) Mutual Wheel Week of April 28 . Burlesque Revue—Lyric, Bridgeport, 8; NIte Club Girls—28, Star, Brooklyn; D; L. O. Bert Lahr -will have to take It out In dirty look.g on Joe Brown. M. L. Malevlnsky, the business* crack on lifting, .says If a fe'uy does, he doos. Mai wouldn't take Bert for a fee because he-didn't think there wa.H a chance. PARAMOUNT (Continued from page 48) cliange. Dancer here Is either Halph Levis or Charles Roddick, neither being announced and only one un- identified specialty artist with show. Halph Moore, bandsman, does a brief trumpet Solo, but Is announced for that, peculiarly enough. Why not giv6 that dancer a chance In that direction? Miss Kane stopped the show Fri- day night and bad to make a speech. She did three numbers with Ash, topping it on fourth with both Ash and Rich. A couple were moss- laden with age, but that didn't mat- ter. The baby-voiced-boop-la-doop girl got her big start at this house two years ago. With she and Ash, plus regular unit, what's on stage cost a little dough this week. Presentation show nicely staged, with hell motif carried out. Running time, 38 minutes. Crawf0rd organ concert handled this week by Mrs, Jesse alone. . She gets the big notice from her giily colored spring dress, if nothing else, it being a combination of bright red and lavender. Five numbers played with' lyrics thrown on screen. They lepre.sent collection frpm hit musicals and talkers, each boiled down. New.sreel Paramount's. ■ Capacity biz and standees" at 9, Char, PENN ("Pearls"—Unit) Pittsburgh, April 25. Proving again that musical com- edy names mean nothing in the presentation houses,; at least away from Broadway,- Shaw and Lee, who did their stuff at the Alvin a couple of months ago in "Pleasure Bound," for |3, dished up the same stuff for one-tenth that amount and fared only moderately well. No opening re- ception, and applause at the end bf turn was less than that of at least two other acts in the same unit. Shaw and Lee have packed some solid entertainment into their 10 or 12 minutes, retaining the best fea- tures of their two musicals, "Five o'clock Girl" and "Pleasure Bound," both of which played here* but their stuff either too familiar now or went over more thaAn a few heads. Comedy here has to be plenty vig- orous to be recognized as comedy. Faring the best In point of re- turns this afternoon was the Jen'y Coe act. Three brothers .start off In conventional rtyle playing ac- cordions, but wind, up in. a. fury ra^h of dancing And instrumental spe- cialities that brought them back for a flock of bows. Boys move fast once they feet over a-slow start,* and Jerry's slow-lnotlott hip wiggling Is a happy thought.' Also surpris- ing wa3 enthusiastic reception of two vocal nuinbe;rs in Spanish by Tito Coral, who -war around liere recently in a Shubert fevue. T.ejior does one number from :plt. platform with Al Evans, m.'c„ at piano, and then slips onto the stage for- his second. -Desha and -Sansbme died quietly, though gracefully. In one of those slow-motion adagios. Settings effective, carrying out "Pearls" Idea with pleytn of flash, and Chester Hale Girls had a couple of good routines,, one a high-klcking affair and the other a fast tap. Evans, who was around once before as guest m. c, has nothing to do In this one except accompany Coral, exchange a little cross-fire -with Shaw and Lee ^and make the an- nouncements. David Pesetzkl bows In this week as conductor of the symphony or- chestra and impressed favorably. In "Echoes of Spain," a collection of Castanet melodies, he gets real music out of this jazz aggregation, working himself Into a short encore, unusual for an overture. Pesetzkl, late of Loew's Kings, has an easy though forceful manner with the baton and his rhythmic direction looks good from out front. The tousled, flying hair doesn't hurt him any, either. Penn has been without regular organlog for several weeks. Dick Lelbert still on the sick list. Picture "Puttln* on the Ritz" (U. A.) and biz opening show good. Cohen, STANLEY ("Danctna Kty"—Vn\i) Pittsburgh, April 26. This one sounds better than it plays. It's only good at the be- ginning and at the end. In between, it takes a nap and bo does the au- dience. After novel chorus opening, Six MaxelloB get things off to a flying start with wallopy feats in tum- bling. Boys get Art Kahn, m. c. In their act for a few good laughs and wind up in flash fashion with one of the understudies spinning four others, one by one, on top of up- raLqed feet of partner nearby. Act runs a little overboard on time, but n'ot noticeable because of speed. Next-to-.shut Kahn does his piano stuff, a natural. But between the Maxellos and Kahn is about 20 min- utes and little else. Nelson and Knight had some old comedy that failed to register, and an orchestral production Introduced a singer and a couple of dancers for less than ordinary results. -.Two planOs heard on stage-bofore curtain rises and Vred Evans' Girls News From the Daflies This .department contains rewritten theatrical news items as pub- lished during the week in the daily papers of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Hollywood and London. Variety takes no credit for these news items; each has been rewritten from a daily paper. LONDON "End of St. Petersburg," for long timer banned by the censor, and "Drifters," British fllm which Is sur- prisingly good. In the bill at the New Scala. Ritzy' critics claim U>Is is the hottest program ever pre- sented here. Shamrock V, yacht with which Sir Thomas Lipton hopes to win back the America cup, launched at Gos- port. Louis Elyashavltch landed a tliree months' stretch for not treating a chorine like a perfect gentleman. Herbert "Wilcox, who has been figlUing First National for monhts over alleged wrongful exploitation of his British film, "The Only "Wa>-," lost his case on appeal. sheets, was the tlrst man to bo' ser»- tenccd to jnll for the llU-gal sale of song sheets. He was given ond month's imprisonment. Charles H, Tuttle, l-nlted States Attorney, declared after the.trial that if song vendors continued breaking th© copyright act "by selling bootleg sheets, he would recommend the maximum sentence of two years. Emily Hadley, 28, .alleged actress was in Women's Court on .a charge of attempting to steal a $4S dress from a Fifth avenue store. Her bail of $600. was supplied by Dr. Hip- polyle Wertlielm. Scottish exhibitor has just been nabbed for evading quota act and fined $100. First exhibitor proseru- tlon under the act, although a num- ber of renters have been scotched for evasion. Duchess of York has canceled ail engagements throughout the. sum- mer. ^ • Prince of i Wales will lead the lunch of the Actors' Benevolent Fund at the. Savoy, May 20. ; Walter Hackett, Marlon Lome's husband, has authored "The Way to Treat a Woman," shortly to be- pro- duced with Lome In the lights. . Edith and Edward Ellis are the authors of "Women," in which Owen Narcs will start his connec- tion with the' Famous Players' Guild. Divorce proceedings have been started by Captain Kenyon-Slaney against his wife,,Eldest daughter of the Duke pt Abercorn. The B. B. C.'s •experimental short wave station, 5SW, will shortly start a series of Empire news bulle- itins at 6 p. m., British time, • Idea being to get 1-ound. the globe "With 'em. ' ' . Sir Harry t,auder has lent $20,000 to Obaii, Scottish town, taking the town as security.. Law sult has been started In the courts, 'fighting over the make ot tennis ball to be used in the yearly Wimbledon championships. NEW YORK Starting In September, all ploture operators will be entitled to. one day off -during the week, according to the bill signed by Governor Roosevelt which makes a six-daly week for operators a legal right. . Lee Shubert and the Shubert The- atre Corporation applied to Suurerric Court Justice Morschauser in White Plains for a change In ventio from Westchester cOUnty to New York City of the trial ot a sujt for '$68(3,- 000, brought slx months ago by Mrs. Ella Gray Discala, wealthy White Plains woman, In which she charges she was' dfefrauded of that amount when she sold the sit© of the Cen- tfca.1 theatre, 47th street and Broad- way, to the Shuberts, In 1926. The application is opposed by Paul Groos, attorney for Miss Dlficala, who claims -that the case is already on the calendar in Westcheflter county, whereas a change to New York would delay the trial at legist three years. Temperamental separation of Ina Claire and her husband, John Gil- bert, Is to end In a divorce, accord- ing to reports spread around town by friends of MI.s,s. Claire after she' left New York, The couple'a mar- riage will bo a year old May 9. Salvatore Tralango, non-pro, ar- rested foir selling bootleg song lyric are seen playing a huge prop piano, later jumping on top of It for line dance. At conclusion of this they Introduce Kahn, who is seated on platform at top ot stage behind scrim. Looks very musically come- dyish and a nice flash to get things under way. Kahn Is last of traveling m. c.'s for .Stanley, Dick Powell returning to old stamping grounds next Fri- day after vacation of five weeks. He was supposed to go to Enrlght upon return, but cornCs back to Stanley In.ftcad, Dave Broudy's overture a collec- tion of springtime melodies, best of wrlilch a peach arrangement of "Springtime in the Rockies." PInturc ' Show Olrl In Hollywood," Bernle Armstrong's uneventful or- ganlog and news clips, sound and silent, rounded things out. Biz off. Cohen, Mrs. Rabinowltz, non-pro, suihsf heV husband. Miles C. Rabliiowltz, for divorce and naming more th.an half a dozen show girls upon- whom her husband showered his atten- tions, she saj's, brought a phristmas list to court to show the part- played by her weajlliy husband with the women named. According to her list, the late M>Tna Darby received' $1,925 during 1928 fi-om Rabinowlta and during the first two months ot 1929 received $900 more. Kathryn •Moylan received $600; Florence Cy- ron, one time feature of "Artists and Models,'.' is alleged to have re- ceived $150 by telegram and l.tter additional payments bf '$500 and $200. Lllliah Bond was named' aa given $500 by Rablnowitz. . Dorothy Foster, and Evelyn Groves didn't faro 'so' well, as' Rablnowitz. came through with only $200 apiece for them, the wife says. Other checks listed showed what Rabinowlta spent while visiting tilght clubd along the main stem and also while staging "little parties." Natalie Moorhead, screen actress, admitted that sha was engaged to marry Alan Crosland, fllm director. Tentative time set tor the marrIag«*T Is July. Emily McCormlck, who Imper- sdnates a boy on the radio during' ' the "Main St. Sketches," was named by Mrs. Mary D. Tate Smith ae- tlio object of the affection of her hus- band, Albert Tate Smith, social reg- isterlte. MfS. Tate stated that <vhlle trjing to make both ends meet on the pittance allowed her by her husband, he was cutting capers 'With Miss' ilcCormick. Mrs. Smith as- sorted tliat for the past year her ' Ivusband has been associating "In > ah open aind notorious manner" with Miss McCormlck and: that the latter , jwas formerly, a flle-clerk in his o£- flce. ' Major J. Andrewai "White, presi- dent of CBf3. and pioneer . an- nouncer df sporting matches, will resign from all broadcasting on ^lay i to partake of some sports him- self. First intends to keep his golil score down. White brought Amos 'n' Andy to New York to broadcast over CBS in 1925 and 1926. At that time they were known as .Sam and' Henry, and floppei over CBS both times east. Separation suit of Dorothy Hiiyett, or Mrs. Dorothy Huyett Jakobs, against Ned Jakobs, producer, wha gave Miss Huyett air in 1928 when he married Marietta' O'Brien, will go to trial next month. Jakobs owes $025 back alimony to Miss Huyett. .S. L. Rothafel ("Roxy") may be director of a mammoth theatre In "Rockefeller City," In midtown Nc'W York. Theatre will be built by John D. Rockefeller and will be leased and operated by R-K-O, It Is re- ported. Supreme Court Justice Strong, In Brooklyn, granted $50 a week ali- mony and $300 counsel tee to Mr^, Sybil Manahan, dancer and wife ot Tommy Manahan, whose act in vaudeville is blUed aa "Tommy Man* ahan and Hie Co-Ede." She wa« granted the alimony and counsel fee pending trial of her suit for separa- tion against Manahan. She alleged that -when she Joined her husbapd in Detroit last .November he in- formed her he was in love with lao- bel Bherlock, ot his troupe, and asked her. to get a divorce so he could wed Miss Sherlock. Manahan did not oppose his wife's appllca«_ tlon. ^ CHICAGO Edna (Eddye) Adams, 23, who said she was a blues warbler over WCFL, paid a fine of $10 and coMi for masquerading In public In men'* clothes. Ralph Capone, owner of the Cot- ton Club, was found guilty on four counts of attempting to defraud on Income taxos. Faces 22 years at Leavenworth and fine of $40,000. Chi. Opera will send thre war- })](;VH to Study abroad, with the thie^ to be chosen by public contest.