Variety (Jul 1930)

92 VARIETY LEGIT MM AT E 'Wednesday* July 30, 1930 4 NEGRO REVUES SET BROADWAY AUG. GOAL Four colored shows are In re- hearsal with each <itteinptlng to get the jump on the other by getting to Broadway first. The last ot Au- erust, as a result, should see four all-Negro revues on the street at the' same time. Whether he will make it or not, "Will Morrlssey Is hurrying down the stretch with "Hot Rhythm," scheduled for opening next Tues- day (Aug. 6) at the Vanderbilt. Another colored show is "Brown Buddies," to be presented by Marty Forklns with Bill Robinson as star and part-owner. Adeiaiae Hall is featured in the cast. This show ex- pected to open by the middle of Au- gust. Connie Immerman Is In rehearsal with a second edition of "Hot Chocolates," featuring Bobble Cox who appeared in the first edition, and Lew Leslie Is getting together a new edition of i'Blackbirds" with Miller and Lyles heading the cast. Both shows win open the latter part of August for New York runs, ac- cording to present figuring. The cast of the Morrlssey show fnbludes Johnny Lee Lone*, ^wey "Elgmeat" Markham, Hilda Perllna. Gertrude Saunders, Arlene Brooks, Arthur Bryson, the Mldnlte Step- pers, Three Black Aces, Pewee and Ed<lle, Joe Willis and Sam and Slappey. r 'Last Mile' Claim Trouble Los Angeles, July 29. Salary claims of the cast of "The Last Mile," which lasted only one week In San Francisco after moving from Los Angeles, will be handled by the New York office of Equity. Although local production was ostensibly under auspices of the Macloohs at the Majestic theatre here, the producer was Ernest Ma- cauley, of the 46th Street theatre, New York. Basebal and Tea (Continued from page 1) talent from the American artists playing the town. Those who have been coerced Into playing In the past Include Lew Hearn, Billy Kent, Jack Edwards, Tex Maeleod, Robert Armstrong, Regis Toomey, Bernard Nedell, Ben Welden, Eddie Smith, Herb Wil- liams, Murray Leslie, Clay Clement, Ben Blue, Syd Tracey, James 61ea> eon. Jack Perry and Bob Stlckey. As baseball players most of these lads are pretty good comedianq, but the casual natives don't know the difference. There's usually plenty of fun dur- ing the games.. Those over here, not knowing the game, reckon it's one way of killing Sunday afternoon. The audience Is generally a mix ture of Americans In town, wanting get a breath ot home atmosphere, and curlQus English sportsmen..The last named try to see the game doesn't become too American. They won't have their sacred .Stamford Bridge ground, where one of Lon- don's classiest football sides loses matches regularly, Americanized. Still Claiming There's a great argument English- men always put up against the American baseball fans. They say the game Isn't American at all, but originated with "Rounders," a game played In England since Adam. This argument Is backed up by the statement General Abner Dou- bleday, who Is supposed to have started baseball, came from Chip- ping Norton, a small village near Oxford: If that's so It's tough on Double- day, for Chipping Norton, unlike any other place In England except Lon- don, has a baseball team. It's the world's lousiest Going to a game, so the Amerl-, cans over here say, is a cure for the homesick. It gets 'em back to the old. atmosphere. Game gets thor- oughly American, by the real fans putting" ovlfnnnthe' war^TTesr iah^" the English spectators Imitating 'em by way of giving 'em the razz. England comes Into Its own when the game Is Interruped regularly for a cup of afternoon tea, a ritual without which no English summer ^porting fixture would be.complete. Charlie Mulrhead now has am- bitions. He's heard of a place call- ed Wembley Stadium, where 200,000 people once fought the police In ordpr.to see the,final of the English football ibup, and where 100,000 much better ordered, and very polite, peo- ple now see that final every year. Mulrhead Is fixing a-game 'Wlth the United States Naval Academy at the Stadium.. Another Inside rumor is the intention of forming a ^om- ens' team, with Sophie Tucker as captain^ PARISIAN FRONT (Continued from pa«e 94) case In New York. He ought to come right over and meet this showgirl as a matter of fact. Her name is Fanny Delatmay and she felt she wasn't getting enough pub- licity Just showing off her beauti- ful body in the music hall every ttight' So she took to standing in front of her open window during the daytime clad only In a ravish- ing necklace. She got a warrant for outraging public, diecency. Her employers were furious because they clalhied if she showed herself off free dur- ing the day the customers would stay: away at night—but Fanny got the publicity. In fact one very witty newspaper gave her - a . story with this heading,.. "Exposure of Fanny Seen by Columnist as Publicity Stunt" That certainly beats any that Earl Carroll ever got;' but he never had a Fanny to'deal with. , Anna May Wong bought heaps of clothes when she was here and then she tripped over to London to do.an English, picture, and now she Is In Vienna doing one In German. But she Is coming back to Parld very ^ooh and really ' learii French so=she can do one In that language. This talker business Is forcing education, on the picture stars,' all right Rum'or has ft that "The Let-^ ter" might be rewritten so that If played by Anna May she wlir get a real Chinaman's chance on a dam good role. Fashion Situation Quiet Not a word on Fashions at this minute; all the mannequins are swanking it In midsummer gowns and snappy beach costumes. ■ And all the big'dressmakers .are hiding behind closed doors refusing to see anyone; In fact working hard on the designs for the new winter clothes. A Finnish Javanese J. J. Sbubert, when. stopping at the Clarldge, kept an eye out fiM new- talent He hit on the pooti "Revue MlUlardalre" (the one with Jack Forester and Damla. mentloiH ed here last week), which Is gasiM Ing Its last Notice has been post* ed, that they close Aug; 30. Sbubert la trying - to ° book tb* javenese dancer. Princess Yo Hay« Tong, who says she dances only by inspiration and her knowledge ot the sacred Javanese, dances. : She used to dance before the king when her father held a high plao* In the court of Batavia In Java. Three years ago In Persia she met up with Kalli Ogll, who Is a Flna by birth, and a pantomlmlst-dancer on the Russian order. He seemed Just right for a team and they've been together ever since, uanclng on the Continent Outside of that and the fact that she dances best In full moonlight there's nothing ' to prove that she Is a princess. But she is a good dancer, a.hd her costumes are exotlo enough to hold any audience. OH JUDGE (Continued from page 90) The restlessness In her heart de- ceives her into going to his room I to Instill in him the faith she has found out But the old yearning proves too strong; In a short two hours all the months of faith have crashed about her, and In despair I she casts oft' the army garment j which she fears never fitted her. Her belief In her salvation is re- stored through the efforts ot her | lover who. In a somewhat weak third act, finds the way out for all concerned. It Is a sort ot modern "Thais'* I with the sexes reversed. While Nicholson has observed both shrewdly and sympathetically.. a corner ot life; viewing It truthfully and smilingly and at times with tenderness, love and religion are a dangerous tandem to drive In the theatre. Joanna Roos, Harry Worth, John Junior. Hal K. Dawson. Guy I Klbbe, Dennle Moore, Russell Hicks and Paul Porter have the fattest parts of an able company. The play | Is In a prolog and three acts. , JTeintrattft. HERMAN SHUMLIN Presento By JOHN WEXLEY staged by Cheater Brakia The Most Exciting Play in New York Noj^s'N 6th MONTH HARRIS THEATRE PAUL WHITEMAN Booking Exclusively Through His 0»n Office 1560 Broadway New York City [m JAMES F. GILLESPIE Personal Representative A REVUE YOU^VE BEEN WAFTING FOR BftADY & WIMAN PRODUCTIONS CORP. and TOM WEATHERLY THE present with AL TRAHAN RUTH TESTER, JOE LEWIS, KATHRYN HAMILL DAVEY JONES, GLORIA GRAFTON, JOEY RAY HELEN GRAY, YUKONA CAMERON and TASHAMffiA and a Knockout Chorus OTHER BRADY & WIMAN PRODUCTIONS Scheduled for the 1930-31 season "A GRACEFUL GENERATION" ^ By KNOWLES ENTRiKIN "HOPE HAVEN" By L. G. LIPPMAN and PHILIP DUNNING "MRS. COOK'S TOUR" By JOHN FLOYD and J. KIRBY HAWKES "THE STRAD MYSTERY" By MARYA MANNES