Variety (Jun 1930)

S4 VARIETY TIMES SQUARE-SPORTS Wednesday, June 4, 1930 Broadway Chatter Lew Hearn ia retiirnAe to vaude. Warren Nolan Cap' Coding * Val Lewton comm yting from Rye. Ed. Giroux Is sVA taking his sun baths. Doctor's ci-ders. Arline deHaxs and Katherine Zimmerman In Paris. Jim Timony and his cane are pals. "Lobo," with Heldt's Collegians, on pay day gets an extra bone. Lou Sidney has become a bug at Ashing. Phil de Angeles is dieting and tak- ing on weight. Bert Kirby and frau are back from Mexico and glad. Tommy Bodkin Is now g. m. for Swanstrom & Connolly. Fred Schader Is In charge of the publicity at the Fox, Detroit Bobby Connolly's new home. Great Neck. Fronts ther bay. "Phews Gardens," near Corona, passing. Fllle'd in and tilled. Bugs Baer et al. Getting sunburned on Friars roof. ^ Patrlcola's classy gas station, * Long Beach, cost 80 grand. Roger Wolfe Kahn stunting at night at Roosevelt field last Thurs- day. Best thing in show. Lon Hascall says times have be- come so hard the tide doesn't come in with Its old pep. Burt Schlesslnger Is getting very doggy, going for the various hued Barrymore collated haberdashery. Willie Sullivan is off Broadway, handling a Gulf gas station at Hidgefield Park, N. J. Harold "Par" Flavin rushed up to Canada over the Decoration Day week-end. Blake McVeigh is living on 42d street, over the flea circus, 4nd says he sleeps well. Tom Noonan's off the air until next fall. He's still on the Bowery though. More free literature passed around ^ Times Square than similar city area ' in the U, S. Barber shop shaving mugs back In fav. They and the galluses only survivors. Capt. Irving O'Hay starts annual trip to coast Sunday. But not in a flivver. In his own Cadillac. Lloyd Corrigan, director and scenarisst for Par, arrived In New York Monday for a brief stay. Georgle Sands, formerly with Jo- sephine Harmon, has formed a new vaude alliance with Dixie Norton. Rivoll Is giving an autographed photo of George Bancroft with each copy of music sold. Harry Reichenbacli has been riding bicycles in Bermuda. Back on- Broadway looking for a Paris alibi. Eugene Ormandy was in bed sev- eral days at> a result of falling asleep under a sun ray lamp and badly burned. Wallls Clark has gone to England to bring back his recently widowed mother. Clark will join the Skow- hcgan stock later in the summer. Chiropractors haven't found the pickings so good any more. The old army of 'em along Broadway has dwindled down to a few. Bus boys at most of the Square restaurants are given so^-much dally by the waiters, all chipping in a dime or more. George Jessel, back from Europe, is going Radio until a couple of shows he has in view will see actual production. Odd Mclntyre and his gang are again verifying their suspicions of Paris, gained In previous sum- mers. Bob Doldge, exploiteer, has a new office and a new sec, Mary Mor rissey, formerly pounding type writer for Alf. T. Wilton. Ruth- Chatterton Is being sued on Coast here for $2,270 balance on a bin of $3,770 Incurred in April, 1926, with Frances & Co., dressmakers Making bets not so hot around the Squai-e and some of the bookmakers on the one and two-dollar racket are giving up the biz. Soph Tucker is spending her spare time at the Belmont track Soph was never Interested in the V horses before, according to Paula Gould, handling the publicity of the (Continued on, page 65) Chatter in Loop E. M. Glucksman beored at Wind- sor, Can., last week-end. Chicago theatre had its terra cot- ta face washed last week. Peggy Charters, ill, will return to work shortly with the Schooley agency. Harry Hochstadter, racing expert for the "Post," first on the street with a straw hat. Harry Rossnagle, manager of the Princess, never lets on he's an erudite bibliophile. Cookie is going on the 18-day diet on orders from his agent, Charlie Hogan. Florence Couthoui, ticket broker, is going to Colorado for the sum- mer. Nellie Revell partied Amy Leslie, the Bryant Washburns, Charlotte Greenwood and herself to the last two-a-day bill at the Palace. Art Sheekman (A.G.S.), phone col- umnist of the "Times", vacationing the next three weeks In New York and on the tip of Cape Cod. Nick Basil cooked a spaghetti dinner for a gang of friends, picking a near northside bungalow, and none passed out. Will Harris back on the Job in the B. & K. production dept. after battling a horde of laryngial strept- ococci. LIbbey Holman Is,going to crash the art section of the Chi "Evepost" with a likeness Of herself by George Ayers, newly discovered "unknown" who is a wiz at pastels. . Like a return from the Styx, Cal Griffiths, former Orpheum office rep here, made a dramatic entry into Foo Chow's last week and surprised all the R-K-O bookers at dinner. He had been away 10 years. Mystery of how Marie Gayde, wait- tress, was able to carry two armsful of dishes on one hand was solved when the girl quit her job at the Green Grill and Jules Greengard learned she was Marie Gayde, acro- bat. $60,000 in Midget Golf Denver, June 3. Either Denver or the promoters are going nuts on vest pocket golf. Nearly 20 permits for the minia- ture pasture pool tables have been Issued by the city building Inspector and more are being applied for. The average cost is being placed at three grand each or $60,000 for this town alone. Chatter in Nice By Frank Scully * Nice, France. Olga Petrova's In retirement at Cap Ferrat. Paderewski still hanging around Monte with that bum gam. Raymond Guglieri has closed his sweet little St. Aqdre studio. Heads for Paris soon. Jack Gavin and Jill Astor, who had the Gould Casino spot, pulled out for the north. Fanny Hurst is taking alj meals these days with Hubby Danielson on an automobile tour of Riviera. Chauncey Olcott was the only cocktail customer on the Palais de la Mediterranee terrace the other morning. Cody and Pringle are billed here as "Lew and Alleen Pringle." The new "Bar Americain" In the Hotel de Paris has a wall paper sky scraper design to give the right at mosphere of a whisper-low. Chiron, the hiU-cUmbing king of racing drivers in France, was once a hoofer at the Cafe de Paris. Amber oil, surface polish of the ritzy strip bathers, costs $2 a pint— or aliout the price of good cham pagne. Jeanne Saulier, creatrice of "Chantecler," has so titled a swell villa she's grabbed for Jierself at Cap D'Ail—our old friend "Garlic Point." Edward Blatt's claiming to be a show producer on Main Stem. He engaged Pamella Pamm, German girl, to-a three-year contract for pictures. Fraulein Pamm has no experience beyond what comes to every pretty Riviera visitor. Albert Tadlewskl, key pounder, who sprained his wrist cjranking a car months ago, still paints It with Iodine when Invited to tea fights , Then, when asked to play, he ex hiblts the lodlned wrist as an alibi Will probably hang on to the gag. Old Ingram studio, now Gaumont Franco 'iF'ilm, silent since sound came In, shortly starts construction on three talker stages. Split with Ingram is complete though he has a villa in the middle of Franco lot with a right of entry even after the sell-out Franco is now trying to repair this oversight In Its dumb bill of sale and air the ex-director com pletely. GARDEN'S TAME FINISH; LABARBAUCKS GRAHAM By Jack Pulaski Madison Square Garden shut Its indoor boxing season last week, the show going on Wednesday instead of Friday when, because of Mem- orial Day, It was figured the customers would be out of town. Didn't make any difference, a very slender house being present to see a mediocre card. Fidel La Barba, who created a sensation on . the coast a couple of years ago when he beat Pahcho Villa, only later to relinquish the title for further schooling, out- pointed Bushy Graham of Utica by a distinct margin. The upstater has been making pretensions as a featherweight and claimed that since leaving the bantam class he has been able to tilt over most op- ponents. Perhaps Bushy was leery of La Barba. He danced around the ring as much as formerly and he sure Is one of the most persistent step- pers-around. Fidel did all the forcing_^nd the decision was un- animous but the supposed develop- ment of the coast lad could not be discerned because he did not really show his stuff against the retreat^ ing, clinching Graham. S«mi-Final Had Sock Seml-flnal contest.^ however did provide the customers with a kick or two. Joe Dundee, Baltimore's former welter champ went against Harry Briton of England and man- aged to cop the decision. But Dun- dee had no easy thing of It. In the first round Briton smacked over right to the chin and Joe wab- bled, Mason however didn't know enough or. have enough stuff to go in and finish his man. Several times Dundee seemed to be dazed but he connected with hard socks to Mason's body and earned the edge in a slugging match. It was the nrst time that Dundee showed in the Garden this season. On. the coast he came to grief with jack Thompson giving him a terrible beating. Then he lost the^title to Jackie Fields, who but recently was defeated for the championship In Detroit by the same Thompson, The Garden is now pointing for the outdoor fights, its first to be the Mild Fund show at the Yankee Stadium next week, when Jack Sharkey and Max Schmellng meet, the winner being expected to be de- clared the world's heavyweight champ. Back Home By Abel Green Gov't Wants to Know About Cubs B. 0. Stand-In Chicago, June 3. U. S. government and officials of the Cubs, National League ball team, are conducting a sweeping Investigation of the Cub box offices following the arrest and fining of Abe Kaufman, known among ticket scalpers as "Brody." Brody was selling box seats at a $1.50 premium without stamping the ducats, depriving the government of its 55 cents on ».*ch ticket. He pleaded guilty and paid a $200 fine. This gave the government a tip to possible collusion between box offices and some of the speculators. With sale of tickets by specs around Wrlgley field running around 2,000 a day, the rakeofC has been tre- mendous, according to government agents. All boxoffice men at Cubs park are members of the Theatre Treas- urers' union which recently was re- turned its A. F. of L. charter, taken from a combined ushers' and jan- itors' union. WOMAN TWICE ARRESTED Same Coppers Pinch Mrs. Weinberg, Widow Mabel Charged with violation of the Sul- livan law In having secreted in a wall closet two loaded revolvers with an extra supply of ammuni- tion, Mabel Weinberg, 40, comely widow, of 203 West 103rd street, was arraigned In West Side Court before Magistrate George F. Ewald and held in $1,000 ball for trial in Special Sessions. Mrs. Weinberg had completed several days in jail after con- victed on the charge of vagrancy by Magistrate Silbermann in Jeffer- son Market Court. She was ar- rested on both charges by Detec- tives James Brady and Robert Mor- ris of Police Headquarters. The sleuths received Information Mrs. Weinberg was receiving too many male visitors. They gained admission to her home and she was arrested on the vagrancy charge. While in the fiat the cops located the guns. Chatter in London Bros coming back. Film purity drive on, Chaperones round again. Vogue for Shakespeare continues. Hip-length coats now. Owen Nares' fad Is title changing. The King at the theatres. Widening Wardour street. Talkers not so hot round town. Mark Hambourg reckons he's In form these days. It seems British talkers. If pos- sible, get worse. Folks now are so many years young, not old. Gerald du Maurier's got his Grand Giggle again. This town looks almost beautiful on spring nights, Hilda Russell says her leg trouble isn't housemaid's knee. Eddie Fields and Douglas Wake- field married. Hal Kemp's been dumped on these shores. John Hastings Turner now pro- ducing, S. F. Webb, Drury Lane manager, ill. Rooster concert troupe crashing cabaret at the Locarno. Herbert Clayton says all shows slump unless they entertain. Will Fyfe's another with a pash on fishing. Douglas Byng m.c'ing at Dcau- ville. Conan Doyle says Sherlock Holmes is dead. Rosa Ponselle's been telling the boys about her Ideal husband. Ballet fiends propose to book seats when Agna Enters, Gracie Fields reckons she's put the s. r. o. in box-office. Betty Balfour's illness—overwork —envy of the talker players. This town's pet marionette the- atre Is attracting the high hats. John Masefteld's poetry is now best selling. Diana Hamilton, actress, is the latest to wi-Ite a war play. C. J. A. of the "Dally News" thought out this one: "How to test a cocktail. Dip your finger in It. If the nail stays on pour .it out." John Abbott and Eddie Day hav- ing welcome home dinners. Town getting ritzy in view of So- phie Tucker's impending visit The American golfers have been fraternizing with the Prince of Wales. Procession of debutantes to the Palace is the current free show for rubbernecks. Lennie Deane chats at the way she used to be a dance school mate with Jessie Mathews. Houston Sisters reckon road- shows in the sticks are a great idea. Madeline Carroll's new apartment decked out by Hugh Gee, this town's best talker art director. Rita Shields revisiting the Queens, where she first hit the lights. Walford Hyden, who used to wield the baton for Pavlova, composing on his own. Stunt stories about Par and Fox producing here haven't hit the homegrown industry any. George Clarke reckons he's laid Chaplin to the deuce spot as a talker comedian. Problem Is not so much to name the theatres which are flopping as to find the other ones. Meg Boodle, one of the chormes at the Queen's supper show, mar- ried to Tony Escott, jockey. Lulgi Saccani, one 'of the best known members of the waiter breed, dead. It is not true that 5 o'clock tea habit is general la London film studios. In some cases it is 4.30. This town's nite life Is too quick moving to check up. Clubs open one day, raided the next, fold the next, open next door the next Current craze of vaude players on the wheel Is to ape stuff by the Command Performance birds. Saves thinking. The Club Abbey trying to be as Frenchy as the Club Abbaye (pro- nounced in three syllables), Mont- martre joint catering chiefly to an Argentine following with a pansy m. c. Usual queries about how bootleg, booze compares with vintage stuff. Impressive law and orderliness of the joints with the admonition to a hip-toter to "please be careful; please remember that If 'they see you' It means putting 52 people in this establishment out of work," ever an Impressive warning. Toting champagne Into a joint and pouring It over Ice like a highball Instead of chilling It on Ice. The joints fear even the old "lemonade'' subterfuge of pouring it into a pitcher and chilling It thusly In a container. All because of the "ac- cessories" law. More gigolos arc^nd than heretofore. the joints, New sign on the Hotel Claridge front....New Warner Bros. Holly- wood theatre... .New side-street taverns with surprisingly good 6eer on tap, good test through just com- ing off the "Europa," a German Lloyd liner, and a trans-Atlantic "Muenchep brune" and "Pilsner blonde" ^diet, as relief from French wines Basil Gerson's new eatery. ... .but same old Bond Bldg. eleva- tor congestion. .. More than ever before obvious now how . much it's to the Interests of the drlnking-restaurants to see to it that their first cocktails give (Continued on page 75) Paris Chatter E. Ray Goetz by coincidence trailed Irene Bordoni Into Paris. Mrs. Richard Herndon and Mrs^, B. C. Hvass received by Pope in Rome. Henri Lartigue to Riviera for re- cuperative rest. Almost bad case of f}u and bad relapse, hence the rest. Lester Allen pays rent at the' Carlton but lives at Zelli's Roual Box. Over here for his annual two months' loaf. Mary Murillo, pioneer scenarist in the old days, writing over here for Pathe-Natan. Did Menjou'a "Mon - Gosse du Pere," "Tendresse" - and "Accuse Levesvous" (Tournler).- Instead of a "slave bracelet," Willy Frltsch, Ufa juvenile star, wears a "slave necklace" of plain gold around his neck, under his shirt George Canty, U. S. Film Trade Commissioner attached, to the American Embassy, Paris, is back from the general European survey of films. Canty is one of the best Informed picture men in Europe. In Austria it's fashionable for men to wear full-length silk stock- ings. Strictly stocking manufac- turers' propaganda nurtured as an aftermath to medieval times when pantaloons were what the well dressed man Is wearing. Joe Zelli's capacity is three bot- tles of champagne a night as ac- curately computed by him. That is his gross In making his nite club and "having a.drink" with the cus- tomers. Joe sez he remembers 5,000 first and last names of his custom- ers. O. Dufrenne is back from his trip to Algiers. He and his partner, Henri Varna, have always liked the country and the natives. Two good looking Algerians, formerly ticket scalpers at the Mayol, are now sim- ilarly occupied at the Ca.'iino de Paris. FORE Tom Thumb Golf The first of the "Tom Thumb" outdoor golf courses bobbed up this week In upper New York on Dyck- man street just off of Broadway. N. V. A. Tournament N. V. A, golf tourney will be a two-day affair, June 23-24. The golf committee is headed by Dave Thursby. The competition wiU be 72 holes of medal play.