Variety (Jun 1930)

46 VARIFTY TIMES SQUARE-SPORTS Wednesday, June 11, 1930 Broadway Chatter (Continued from page 44) planinfir to coast to interview the fllm celebs. Hostesses in the talce joints are now going for new downs when a churiip is lifting. Baby lemonades masquerading as gin fizzes at $1 a (iraclc. When Johnny Weissmuller, champ swimmer, returns in July from Euroiie, engagement to Camille Lanier is expected. Johnny has just published a book on how to forestall drowning. New influx of ragamuffin shoe- shlners frequenting the Square late- ly pick up anything.and everythin.? lying loose when they pass In and out of buildings. Moe Ducore sold out his drug- store lease on 45th just off Broad- way to Scliulte and moved his stock to his other store at 55th and Broadway. Child adoption around show cir- cles appears to be a mania of late. Also outside- of show business. One orphanage is said to have a waiting list of 200 hopeful pseudo parents. John and Christo will take space In every and all Long Island sheets, numbering 72 in all, to advertise the opening June 18 of their Pavilion Royal. 'The cops were in hopois Commis- sioner Mulrooney would call 'cm off the nightly "stagger plan" trick <.n Broadway. But the Whalen gas still rides. Vera Sawyer of M. P. Producers and Distributors office to be given luncheon at the Blltmore by the Motion Picture Board of the Inter- national Federation of Catholic Alumnae. Although most theatres are con- tent to advertise their premises as 20 degress cooler, the barker of the sex picture at the Earl Carroll loud- ly announces that house as "70 de- grees cooler inside." Ned Bitner, 16-year-old son of Ed Bitner, is the envy of Rocco Vocco and Nat Feist. Can shoot golf in the 80*3 without half trying while Rocco and Nat have to break a liga- ment, to. get a score under 100. Heywood Broun got a kick out of being told by the Palace theatre stage managfer lie couldn't appear without his coat. The dancer ahead had as near nothing on and no protest. HB couldn't see the logic. J. Fred Coots won the golf cup in the championship tournament held by the Oakridge Club in Westches- ter the past week. Jack Pearl held the deuce spot and George Jessel and Harry Richman split the trey. Those Doughertys with the win- ning sweepstake ticket in the Que- bec split, seemed to have had a publicity man with them, at home in Brooklyn and in Canada. If a publicity gag for the sweepstakes thipg, not so bad. Zeppelin arrival and take oft at LaUehurst, N. J., last week, proved a life saver for the bus lines oper- ating out of Times-Square. Most of the Coney buses -were diverted to Lukehurst trips at $3.50 round trip' and did land-offlce biz. ' . Thomas Metz, septegenarian song- writer, said "hello" to New York the past week for the first time in six years. Metz spent the past six years in Paris. He's best known as com- poser of "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." As regularly reported recently in "Variety." Col. W. S. Butterfield of Michigan, had a daughter, his si.Kth.. An absent-minded reporter ne- glected to say the Colonel is 67. with his eldest girl's age 38. The Colonel won't mind. He rather 'thinks the same way about it. The Abel Greens were married nine years last week, on Abel's birthday. Despite tliat length of time and a long Paris visit, they still "dedr" each other. It wa.s Curfew Must Be Observed Speak operators in Times Square, who have been going lax on the 3 a. m. closing law since foi-mer Po- lice Commissioner Whalen swapped his swivel chair at headquarters for another at Wanamaker's, are finding out that the curfew closing is' still in force. Detectives from Inspector Mc- Cormack's squad have been tabu- lating the violators, mostly operat- ing as restaurants, but on list as suspected speaks, and have been notified they'll have to continue the 3 a. m. closing law Or else. - Downtown places still running on 24-hour schedule, especially • in Greenwich Village. TO ERR IS HUMAN, BUT R-K-0 OVERDID FUMBLES M. P. League Standing SAPS ARE HEP Real McCoy Chinese Quarter in Newark Draws Tourists A trip to Chinatown no longer intrigues out of town saps like it used to and operators of the China- town lines are angling for another spot as substitute but none In sight. Since the Ycllo-\v Peril invasion of Broadway and some of the best chowm'eineries have passed up Chinatown ■ for uptown stands with the latter district, formerly a show place of other decades now offering nothing but smelly markets! dingy stores and mediocre chop suey em- poriums in- comparison to uptown. The Joss House and Bowery Mis- sion are all there is left to glimpse at In Chinatown with an extra 50 cent nick on tourists for the former and a collection taken up at the lat- ter. The Joss house purports to be a Chinese religious service but is an outside concession not operated by. Chinese.' The Bowery Mission shows a congregation of Mission stiffs at service and also the con- crete floor flop house In the base- ment; Both theatric enough to touch the onlooker. The fall off in bus trade on the trips to Chinatown is mainly due to the out-of-towners going back home and telling the neighbors there's nothing left to be seen in Chinatown. ■ Newark's Chinatown, Newark, N. J., is a far better show place for slumniers and is also getting the out of town Chink patronage that once was the mainstay of New York's Chinatown. while in Paris Abel discovered his birthday was also their anniversary day, June 3. Previously Abel had been celebrating June 21 as his natal date. Caused by indifference or long usage. Big social events, theatrically. In New York last week were Senator Francis Murphy's marriage ""at the Hotel Astor Thursday night, and Colonel Roscoe Ails' wedding Sun- day noon at the Central Park Casino. On the Senator's ihvitation, issued by authority of Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, the bride's parents, the name of the groom was spelled out as Samuel Le Traunik, and then in brackets, like this: (Senator F. Murphy), proving the mugg thinks more of the Senator than he docs of Francis. A reformed souse, Irked at his enforced good beliavior, observed that "a side room in Campbell's looks like a nite club to me." Betty Compton leased Otto Har- bach's classy shack in Larchmont, moving in when back from west coast. Jules AlbertI, opening for the Crying Goldmans at the Caslillian road house, says he's brought his own Wailing Wall up to Pelham. Accidents will happen or misplays or a passed ball which accounted for Fox nosing out R-K-O in a 12- innlng battle on the Catholic Pro- tectory grounds In New York June 7 by a score of 12. to 11. It was anybody's game until the 12th, when a passed ball eluded Bottom- ley, R-K;,-0'3 catcher, and Levy, Fox's shortstopper, scooted in with the winning marker. Some loose playing at times, ^specially -by R-K-O, . with nine errors telling some of damage done in scoring by Fox. Only two errors charged to F-bx,. Some tall and rangy hitting by both sides, with Fox clouting Ben- der for 20 hits and Schultz for four while R-IC-O got 10 bingles off Weiner and 2 off Cans. Bender fanned 12 and Scliultz two, while Weiner struck out six and Cans seven. ^ At one time Fox was six runs ahead, but R-K-O got busy and tallied six in the eighth and two in the ninth to'take the lead. Fox tied it In last half of ninth on a two-bagger by Gans and a hit by Israel. Score by innings: R H E Fox 13022020105 1—12 24 2 RKO 0 2 0 0 10 0 6 2 0 0 0—11 13 9 Batteries: Fox—Weiner, Gans and Israe; R-IC-O, Schultz, Bender arid Bottomley. . (Rain postponed the league match .between Warner Bros, and Columbia Pictures.) De Lormes Pleads Guilty Of Swindling Many G. Philllppe Laumalne de Lormes, 51, of Sea Cliff, L, I... who, 20 years ago, promoted French liglit opera in this country, pleaded guilty in General Sessions to grand larceny In the first degree. He. will be sen- tenced next Monday when he can receive a term of from five to ten years in Sing -Sing. The .defendant was arrested sev- eral months -ago, after dozens of complaints were received by the district attbrney from French chefs, walj||||t3, waitresses, etc., employed in and about New York. They charged de Lormes wltji swindling them in a, stock scheme. The dis- trict attorney declares de "Lormes gypped his victims out of about $50,000. Inside Stuff-Sports Corbett's Picking Crisis It l>i a gag th.it James J. Coi bett makes the wrong selections in pick- ing winners of important fight.s. Around the Friars they asked Jim whom he liked in the Sharkey-aohnioling, match, so they could bw^on the other guy. As a matter of fact the former champ is a smart^^lector of fights. It happened that he did make a mistake in picking Jess Wil- lard to beat" Jack Dempsey and that rep has followed him ever since. Corbott likes Sharkey in the big match at the Stadium Thursday night, giving a logical reason based on an expert boxer's viewpoint. If he flops this one, however,, the Insiders will have to dig him up a new alibi. Ticket demand slowly mounted and Broadway agencies figured the peak by last night. JPrlces for tickets Inside the first 12 rows, about $75 per, with locations nearer the ring, higher. Only Licensed Lens For Sharkey and Max Promoters of Sharkey-Schmeling fight for .the heavyweight cham- pionship Thursday evening at the Yankee Stadium will take precau- tions to prevent bootleg motion pic- tures of the event. On the reverse of each ticket is printed: "In consid- eration of the sale and honoring of this ticket. It Is agreed no motion picture of the contest will be taken, except as may be authorized by the promoter." When the Tunney-Heeney fight was staged at the Stadium, high powered searchlights swept nearby apartment houses, the upper win- dows and roofs of which were filled with people getting a free look. Frequently the lights blinded pat- rons within the enclosure and there was much squawking. It was later explained that the purpose of the lights was to spoil attempts to take pictures of the event by cameras with long distance lenses. "Color Harmonist" Pinched Rochester, N. Y., June 10. Dinshah P. Ghadiali, Hindo mys- tic, slated for series of lectures'hore on "attuned color ^<l£lves," was ar- re.sted oii complaint of Buffalo man (.lalmlng fraud in connection with the sale of an Invention. Mystic was released In $1,500 bail in time for the first lecture, but despite publicity, had an audience of only six persons including a phy.sician and a college professor planted by the police to pass on the lecture. Police admittedly unwillin.g to pass judgment on discus.sion as in- tricate as "the inljerent power of color harmonies." Film WorM Peace (Continued from page 7) tional patent entangremenxa en- tered. Efforts for deeper mystery never veiled any confab In this industry or any other. But, before the long session of producer powers, not yet en route, at the Hays headquarters Tuesday (10) afternoon, confirma- tion of America's ultimatum to Germany in particular was re- garded as perfunctory. Featuring in thi-s, which J. G, Ot- terson, as spokesman, will oflter to the Swiss quorum of talker nations, are the big Am^erican electric com- promises (these come from highest film executive sources in on all of the moves). They are: (1) The United States will pay a royalty on all pictures that it pro- duces In Germany. (2) If those same pictures are'ex- ported to the U. S., then Germany will pay either Western Electric or Radio Corporation's Photophone subsidiary (whichever recording system has been used) a royalty. Summed up by Otterson's propo- sition, as already, secretly outlined to producers here before his depar- ture last week and declared to hold no obstruction for formal ratifica- tion by the Hayis' meeting yester- day, is Interpreted In Roman fash- ion as: Give, and Pay Give to the Germans the things that are German, .with the Ameri- cans paying for participation. - In return, give to Americans rights in all English speaking coun- tries and all other parts of the world, gratis, except where Vater- land audiences predominate. Augmented, the Ottersbn pact is still more elastic. The royalty on pictures made in. America will be considerably less when exported to Germany for ^exhibition. The same holds for the Germans. The roy- alty of any pictures that they pro- duce in America will be much higher than those which they make in their own country and ship here for consumption. Analyzed, the Otterson compro- mises indirectly stress the minimum royalty for both countries. No German pictures, except a few by American companies, or ever have been, produced here. Only Warners have actual pro- duction plans for Germany and their case is uniquely individual throughout every move leading up to this trip. Paramount, the only other com- pany, which has set up a produc- tion machine abroad, has done so in France, one of those countries com- ing within American rights under the pact and assessable only for the minimum when German dialog from the same is projected in Germany. Thus Otterson would actually maneuvers the world market, with a sliglit increase in rate for Ger- many, but compensated by Ger- many's tax here, back to its origi- nal silent status, it is said. Worried Warners have the entire Ameri- can industry worried, however. More so even than Tobis-Klangfilm and the German group? that have been resting in Germany since the permanent injunction against Amer- ican recording and reproduction there. Warners' 20% foreign buy and the declaration of some of their execu- tives that the arrangement places the brothers on^ the dictatorial throne of Germany's ironclad pat- ent situation is to be reckoned with in such a -way that outside film rrien are riot laughing at the ques- tion: "Why all the European ex- pense when the matter could be settled at home?" The sailing of Harry Warner with Will Hays today (11) follows in the wake of Otterson who in turn took the foam from ships which had carried over Warner's Vitaphone lawyer, George Quigley, and Charles Ross, head of Photophone. Joseph Schnitzcr is soon enibarking and within two wepks Harley Clarke (Fox) will be on the high seas. There arc ma'ny of the lossers over there now. For the Warners, al.so, refusal at the start to join the Hays group in giving Germany the freeze, has re- versed tliem in the otherwise red foreign situation. By playing with the Germans, the wealthiest foreign outlet, next to England and its principalities, Warners, it is of- ficially reported, have made more dough in Germany than at any time in the happy silent history of that country. Official spokesmen for the trade, speakiiig for the record, summarize the Swi.ss conference as notjung, and the fact that a number of American fllm powers are takmg to the boats as Just a g'.orious coinci- dence. It Is learned that Will Hays will function abroad chiefly as a con- fidential reporter for the stay-at- homes. The General, himself, re- plied to all questions Monday: "I am simply going over to hear, see and observe." ' Otterson brought tears, even to the eyes of his press agents, when, ^:pon crossing the gangplank he last-minuted for the learned trade: "I have made no plans at all for attending any conference of sound equipment manufacturers in Switz- erland." The publicity featured the trip as having to do with the manu- facture of "the new trans-Atlantic submarine telephone cable." Hays' Statement Yesterday (10) Will Hays .sent out a statement to the dalles. In which air reference to the Swiss confer- anue was avoided. "I shall make no definite itinerary until I get to the other side," tho statement read. "The universality of motion pic- ture entertainment presents many problems with relation both to the ar: and to the industry, which must b© considered upon a world scale." Sound, the statement said, "pose-s" more probleriis for solution. "Very probably I shall have op- portunity for first-hand exchange of. views with some of those who are contributing much to the develop- ment of the motion picture art abroad," the statement concludes. Chas. H. Doll Dies Chicago, June 8. Charles H. Doll, one of the first cabaret agents in this city, suc- cumbed at the American Hospital today to a tw'o weeks' illness from pneumonia. Widow and two" sisters survive. Budapest Hits U. S. (Continued from page 7) certain producers, notably the Am.er- ican, treat their writers arbitrarily like lifeless goods not giving thei author least chance for moral or- artistic control. The Confederation of Interna- tional Authors' Societies expects every author throughout the civi- lized world to manifest an under- standing of the author producer situ- ation for the common Interest and welfare of their fellow-creators (i. e. composers, writers, dramatists, lyricists, et al.) and tho artistic, moral (whatever that is) and ma- terial control of their works. Tho old idea of a royalty cut or a per- centage of the gross popped up again, but nothing beyond a "reso- lution" was accomplished. Elmer L. Rice, In a speech, condemned the picture producers, meaning the Hollywood . bunch especially, as "financial slave holders who treat creative product as so much dead material." Bunk, Paris Says Paris, June 10. All the excitement being worked up in the current Budapest con- gress of authors Is regarded hero as bunk. Intended to frighten Amer- ican producers over the author's royalty threat. Criticism of Amer- ican equipment means nothing ex- cept that the Europeans are jealous of the supremacy of the States in tills respect The reason the French Authors' Society is agitating the idea of making producers pay royalties on picture plays instead of working on the customary straight sale plan, is that the Authors' Society would like to justify Its existence, for it is through the Society that French authors collect their payments. Contiriuance of the Society means the continuance of plenty of soft jobs of executives, but the cam- paign is absurd because the au- thors themselves couldn't be kept in line, individuals constantly breaking the Society's royalty rules when there Is money involved for the writers. Metro's New Theatre Rep. London. June 10. David Goldonberg, house mana,i,'er of the Empire, ha'S"-assumed full control of Metro's theatre inleroslfl here following Joseph K. Freeman's departure from the organization. Latter was managing director of the Empire. Freeman, with Harry Porlman (now in New York) and Robert Hurol, Paris showman, figured in a Loew deal which prompted Vrcf" man's resignation following confi*r- cnces with Arthur Loew.