RADIO SCREEN STAGE Pebushad Weakly at 1S« West 4 St* BU Now York, N. T„ by Variety; tna Annual subscription. |«. Slnelt copies. IS eeoti. Entered m aecond-olass matter December It, 1906, at tbe Post Office at New York, N. T.. under the act of March t. t«T». COPYRIGHT, mi, BT VARIETY, INC. ALL. RIGHTS BK8KRVKD. lV©1. 114 No. 12 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1934 64 PAGES Film Critics Box Score Season of '33- -34 . (Juno 1-May 22) Key to Abbreviations: PC (pictures caught), R (right), W (wrong), O (no opinion), PCT, (percentage). NEW YORK (This score based on 341 pictures) PC R W 0 Pel. .KATE CAMERON (News) ....... 202 160 42 .792 - BLAND JOHANESON (Mirror) . . 30€ 210 8ft .687 vfltOHARD WATTS (Her. Trlb.) 176 119 54 .680 REGINA CREWE (American) ... 311 210 91 .474 < THORNTON DELEHANTY (Post) 2*9 160 6* .469 WM. BOETHNEL (World-Tele) .. 294 17* 109 .«09 MORDAUNT HALL (Times) .... 210 12T 46 .605 'ROSE PELSWICK (Journal) ..... 290 1C1 es «s EILEEN CREELMA14 (Sun) ..... SO IS is .600 • VARIETY (combined) ............... 341 Tl .791 MOTH — John . 3. Cohen. Jr. .left the Sun early In the eeasoa duo to (tineas. ■Bileea Creelman -subbed for him unofficially for some months, but -not offi- cially' before April *, Mis* Creelmao'a score Is from that -point on..' CHICAGO DOR 1 8 ARDEN* (Times) 216 MAE TINEEt (Tribune) 200 CLARK RODE N BACH (News) ... 196 CAROL FRINK (Her- Examiner) . . 137 .645 .638 .636 *Ellen Keene. {Frances Kurner. ; NOTE— Hazel Flynn did not. 6nish the season, leaving the Chicago Amerl- ,eaa. March 16.- .Jess Krueger, who replaced, -does not criticize Alms, merely 'reporting- them, therefore he is not included in the score. Post Critic Stops Gabriel's Streak — Doris Ardeb (Ellen Keetie) Chicago Leader on Films— Star System Picture Critics Win East and West, but Last in Legit 120 SHOWS; 341 FILMS JAZZLESS RUSSE FINALLY GOES BARTENDER'S BILLING Professor Cuervo Shakes 'Em For One Show Daily Moscoj^; June 4. Regarded as 'degraded music' for the last decade, jazz has not only ■ceased, to be 'taboo* .in the Soviet 4Jnlon, but may even be adapted to the needs of socialist construction. This is proved by the fact, that the Leningrad Educational and. Musi- cal Research Society organized a series of experimental jazz con- certs illustrating the development of this music from restraint orches- tras to revolutionary jazz opera. Having first been introduced as an attraction in the Moscow In- tourists restaurants for foreigners, jazE music became so popular that even ordinary workingmen cafes -^^J&omregaEdJIieii^ejst^ complete without a jazz orchestra for 'the lively energetic rhythm of Jazz attracts and inspires the audi- ence,' a labor leader explained. The Musical Research Society is now conducting a campaign to get Soviet composers and artists inter- ested in the creation of revolution- ary jazz by organizing jazz con- certs, followed by short lectures, in order to also introduce jazz into the realm of singing. New Orleans, June 4. Hotel Roosevelt's swank nitery. Blue Room, has imported Professor Jose Cuervo, former head bartender of the. National, hotel, Havana, to toss 'em across its gleaming circular bar with all his Cuban , fervor and finesse. The Professor is being billed like 4 a circus in all the. local papers. He does one show daily at the cocktail hour, from 5 to 7 p.m., dispensing his own verveful Presidentes, Da- quiris, Mojitos, Casinos, Bowmans and Remeros. DANCEHALLS AND CAFES GET MOST OF THE GOBS Gross . expectations on arrival of the fleet caved in with the saltles staying clear of most theatres, but running the take up high for dance halls, cafes., and all other places where wine, woman or song are the^attTactionSv^^^T^^^^^^^ Showmen ascribe sailor reluctance in going to theatres partly to the fact that they have films aboard ship. Thursday (31) when the fleet ar- rived, theatres immediately felt something lacking in box office turnover, checked to the' fact that thousands were lining New York harbor and Hudson shores waiting for the armada to come in. For the theatrical season of '33- '84 as covered by the Vabibtt box scoring, winners are ~ John Mason Brown of the New York Evening Post (legit) 'ana Kate Cameron of the New' York .News (pictures). Brown was right In his opinion 89 times out of 98 tries, while Miss Cameron was correct 160 times In 202. In legit the scores are based on 120 new shows that opened be- tween Aug. 1, 1933. and June 1. Picture score is on a basis of June to June. This Is Vajubty's 11th an- nual box score on' the Broadway drama critics and the seventh on the New York and Chicago film re- viewers. Leading the Chicago picture ret inue Is Ellen Keene of .the Times, whose pen name Is Doris Arden. Miss Keene's percentage, tor 147 rights in 216 chances, is .680, as against Miss Cameron's leading New York percentage of .7*2. The New York and Chicago second place winners, respectively, are Bland Jdhaneson of the Mirror, with .690, and Mae Tlnee (Frances Kurner) of the Tribune, "who hit .445. The New York and Chicago film winners both use the much-disputed star system in rating' pictures. In legit the same style of reviewing didn't work so well.. Burns Mantle of the News, only one using stars in his «leld, finished last in the drama score. Second to Brown in legit is last year's winner, Gilbert Gabriel of the American. His .864 was 44 per- centage points behind Brown's .908. Variuit's combined staff reviewr ers' percentages for the '33-'34 sea- son are .791 in pictures and .942 in legit. Legit season, as gauged through the box score, left the customary holes in both the pro and con opinions as to box office influence of reviews. Some shows that wkre panned became hits, others that drew rave notices . finished as flops. " ^Film-Grities -Story«on >Page-2~-- ^ Drama Critics Story on Page 51 Dramatic Critics* Box Score Season of '33-'34 (Aug- 23, 1933-May 17, 1934) W. Key to abbreviations: SR (shows reviewed); R (right); W (wrong); 6 (no opinion expressed); Pet. (percentage). 8R. BROWN (Post) ...................... 98 GABRIEL (American) 103 ANDERSON (Journal) .............. 102 ATKINSON (Times) 103 LOCKRIDGE (Sun) 106 HAMMOND (Herald Tribune) 101 80BEL (Mirror) 82 GARLAND (World-Telegram) 85 MANTLE (News) .......... i 107 R. 89 89 87 84 82 77 62 62 70 13 17 19 14 16 37 VARIETY* (Combined) 120 (This scons, based on 120 new show*) Pet. .908 £84 .353 .814 .7T4 .743 .764 ;T2*> i .6S4 .943- . . Mrs. F.D.R/s 13 Weeks On Commercial Program Mrs. Franklin . D. Roosevelt will do a series of 13 broadcasts for the Simmons Co., bed and mattress manufacturers, with NBC network. She will donate her pay checks to Charity. Fletcher and Bills has been desig- nated as the agency to handle the Simmons' Oo.'a air campaign this summer; Chi Fair, 1934 Resume of the World's Fair in Chicago this year, its sec- ond, appears on page 63, this issue. RADIO REPORTER IS GIVEN BODYGUARD GIRL SCARCITY San Francisco, June 4. Ed Fitzgerald, KFRC news com- mentator, who acts as his own re- porter; had an official police body- guard since receiving threats as a result of stories on the current longshoremen's strike. After telephoned threats that he would be beaten, Fitzgerald applied for and got a .weapon permit, and Police Chief Quinn 'hen delegated a Husky copper to escort Fitzgerald to and from his home and the studio, including- free rides in a police car. Too Much PnbEcity London, .June 4. With the King's announcement of his- knighthoods and peerage hon- ors to Britishers on the occasion of his C9th birthday, it brings, up anew the much discussed matter of a knighthood for George Arliss. Belief is that toning down on ail publicity reference to this possible honor for the actor may bring it about, and .that the too frequent publicity references in the past ha.ve,.ha(l^a,Aega.thrfi eff ect. Eddy's Opera Hollywood, June 4. Nelson Eddy, vaude and screen actor, has an offer for a season with the Philadelphia opera company. He's trying to get a leave of ab- sence from Metro to open in the falL Chicago, June 4. Theatres and cafes and flesh acts) throughout the midwest are com- plaining, about a sudden and se- rious dearth of chorus girls. Caused by the' huge demand for chorines *by the. dozens of girl-shows at the World's Fair. Result .proves the ancient law of supply and demand once more, with the price of gamsters jumping In two weeks from a SlO-flS low to bids of $35-140 weekly for io-town jobs. Cafes and joints, which .for- merly got by with their girls by feeding "them occasionally, are now finding themselves minus, the walk- outs being so heavy towards the more lucrative jobs. Even though" 'the Wage for line girls has already jumped to 340, it looks like, .the- rate --will go stHl higher unless, there's, a heavy im- port of girls from other cities. At present rate' of demand, there aren't enough around to sup- ply some 200-nite clubs and taverns, 10 theatres, and About' 75 World's Fair concession spots. Everything: on Cuff For Scribes in A. C. Atlantic. -City- -is- making a bid to put' itself b.n .the .map .all over again via its Press Club, .which has in- vited the nearby metropolitan news- papermen as Its guests with the clty"t^rrica-ovSr"t5^th« ^oiuranlsta= and the lIK6"as a 100% on-the- cuflfo. Broadway newspapermen as well as scribes from' Phllly and other nearby' cities will sojourn at the resort 'for a weekend with suites, meals ' 'n* everything annie- oakleyed. Idea is patterned after the Florida, ballyhoo stunts on behalf of a clylo community* Tuesday, Jupe 5,, 1934 Par Pays $40,000 for 'Milky Way Rights; RKO-Hetro Bids Boost Price Picture rights to 'The Milky Way' have been bought by Paramount for approximately $40,000.. Quick sale of the show, •which recently opened at the Cort, New York, caused some surprise in show circles/ also the price paid. Several film producers had put 'in prompt bids, RKO and Metro boosting the figure above the $35,0.00 mark. Prize fight comedy was produced by Sidney Harmon : and James R. Ullman, who came into the Broad- way picture this season with 'Men in White,' the Pulitzer prize winner, the Group Theatre being associate presenters. John J. Wildperg, an attorney, has a piece of TVay.' Har- mon is in Hollywood, mentioned for a" supervisor's berth with ..Warners Par's, set-up for the film version of the comedy takes in Jack Haley, W. C. ields and William Frawley A Chicago company 'Way! Is planned for summer. Mae Murray returns to Broadway, stepping into 'Way' in the part ©r iginally played by Gladys George, who was succeeded by. Mildred Wajl, Despite, good notices the show's draw has been mild and it . was de- cided to top the cast with, a name actress. Mom's Own Soviet Yarn Gets WB 0,0. As Next Starrer DROP ALL HOOEY Fox Plans No Ribbing of H'wood in Lilian Harvey Starrer Hollywood, June 4. Hollywood will jay off ribbing' and statirizing itself, as customary in picture stories, in ;365 Nights in Hollywood,' Story, being concocted by William .-.Conselman and Henry Johnson, won't have any of the usual hooey about villainous di- rectors with accents and girls from the -country, who become stars, over- night, whiCh Hollywood likes to in- ject in films about itself. Picture will '■ star Lilian Harvey. for Pox. ' . from James Starr's walked away with the Show book. Dramatic side of Hollywood ' *« " " ot at W111 8 will be played up. ■ I- 1j WILL MAHONEY Peggy Patton in the 'Wisconsin News* saidi "Will Mahoney, that expert and hilarious exponent of songs, dance and crazy, acrobatics walked away with the show. The house was in a riot at Will's antics op We xylophone." Direction WM. MORRIS AGENCY Mayfair Theatre Bldg. New York City "Variety' Sobbie Runs Between 'Em CURTAIN SPEECH GETS 'EM Will Rogers' Wow Legit Biz H'wood's 'Ah Wilderness' in 10 Moscow, May 26. Hollywood, June 4. Dissatisfied with stories . proposed for his next picture at Warners, Paul Muni has-himself authored, a dramatic Russian tale as his forth- coming, starrer. Tarn, as yet. untitled, has , been handed to Abem Pinkel, Muni's brother-in-law on the Warners writ- ing staff, to build up from material, gathered by the actor during his recent sojourn in the land of the Soviets. Unable to inject any sympathetic traits into the leading character in •Border Town,* Warners has tem- porarily shelved the book. Paul Muni was to star in the picture, but studio is negotiating for another story for Muni as a replacer. \ 'Border Town' deals with a liquor runner and general dealer in vice, operating in Mexico-U. S. border towns and in the Imperial Valley in California. Carroll Graham; the author, brought here to^adapt his book, has left the Warner payroll Heming-Nagel's Coast Legit, 'Always Met' Lew Cody Services Hollywood, June 4; I LeW <3ody funeral, conducted at J the Pearce, Bros.' mortuary Satur- ' 1 rr~ , " ? v < " ~. v |-day' j(2)', 'was marked by jsimp'UcityV ! A new sound-recording apparatus | only aDOUt ioo, ail by invita- tion, iri attendance, j Actor was given a Catholic service, Ley. Michael J. Mullins of. the Ihurch Of the Good Shepherd, Bev riy Hills; officiating. Body was not shown at the service, and will be kept here pend- ing arrival of relatives from Maine Hollywood, June 4, El, Capitan theatre with Will Rogers in 'Ah, Wilderness' broke all house records in second week by getting, in nine performances, over 120,000. Figured that Rogers; on three weeks stay, will hit around $60,000 mark. ; Rogers is drawing, considerable repeat trade of elderly folks, who sit through show a secdrid time wanting to hear his curtain speech, which lasts from M to IB minutes after each -performance. CENTER TO GET GORDON Known as the ?Shorlphone,' was re ceritly ,M dem6hstrated here -before Soviet and foreign broadcasting ex perts. Device records sound on film; iiy means lof ; an ordinary, recorder Used for' making gramophone rec ords. <>ld : film ntay be used. . , ~- A reel of 1,00.0 feet Wiil rim for | to. take the remains East. 10 hours, due to the great number of .• recording ' lines . which can be made on a single film, and thus qomplete musical performances can .be presented with great economy No developing of the r 'fllm is re '.quired after, the recording. Tests made . on a violin concerto, reiver Citv June 4 by Jascha Heifetz. in Moscow, and Culver City, June *. doiigs Ijy a soprano prima., donna George B. Seitz flew in Saturday proved successful." Inventor; of the I (2) from location 1,700 miles up the apparatus, A.. Shorih.is an engineer Ainazon river which will be used as known for his discoveries in the field location for Metro's 'Jungle Red T_ lnxU*** SEITZ READIES 'JUNGLE' CAST TREK UP AMAZON of soundfllm apparatus Leroy Johnston Speaks Universal City, June 4; John Leroy Johnston, Universal* s Coast publicity chief, is dug, in New York today (Monday) by plane to deliver a speech at the Universal Convention. ! Johnston will be away from the lot 11 days, stopping at Minneapolis on his' way back to plant a few fan magazine ideas with the Fawcett Publications editors. This is John | ston's first sight of New York in four years. Man.* „ . Director was eight days flying from the South American location to the stUdio. He will assemble a cast of principals for the picture and fly back with the group to the camp established up the Amazon while the- picture is in production. Ultimately the theatre, smaller of Radio City's two houses, will be established as the home of spectacles, occupying the position formerly held by New 1 York's Hip- podrome, it is reported. Rocke fellers will probably be identified with the remaking the 2,000 seater, which opened as the Roxy although the original Roxy held on to the name. Wnat to do with the Center has been a problem. Present policy is second run films. First of the spectacle type of productions is slated to be 'Waltzes From Vienna,' to be presented by Max Gordon at an estimated cost of $255,000, but Gordon, denies the Rockefeller interests will be con- cerned With the show. Manager also said the deal to spot 'Waltzes' in : the Center has not . been 9^ n " summated, although papers have been drawn. Understood several changes in the agreement bave held up the signaturing. Alice Eeinhart Testing Alice Reihhart,. legit, heads for the Coast and pictures Saturday (9). Goes for film tests via the William Morris office. Film Critics Box Score Hollywood,. June 4. Violet Heming will co-star with Conrad Nagel in 'There's Always Juliet,' opening' at El Capitan June '17-. Deal for Miss Heming, now on way from New York, made by Leo Morrison. Kate Cameron (News), on her J first full year as a film critic in New York, leads *the picture prognostl- cators in the final score for the 1933-34 season. ' Miss Cameron's score of .792 is not only the best in MOEE U THRILLERS Hollywood, June 4. More horror pictures in the offing, i — ~ ~- • - ~ - . - , ^ t Universal has engaged Bela Lugosi New Jork but is a ^ r 0 6 od in d ^ mc b l t 0 for one with options for an add i - ter than the best score in Chicago tional three. - - Jj*nA._. _ even; _tpps Boris KarloffV also on the U con- I Variety score INDEX Bills .■;«....•••'•■•'»••..•'•••• 49- Chatter ...... . ^ • • • »■•.»■• • .60-61 Editorial 50 .Exploitation. 23 Film Reviews 12 Foreign Film News \ . .... 11 1 Foreign Show News ...... 54. Mouse Reviews 17 Insider-Legit .......«...-» 62 Inside — Music .... ."• » , . ♦ . 46 Inside — Pictures «'...'.»•♦• 60 inside — Radio .....-.■•««■»• 41 Legitimate .... .. ,,»»•►.. 51-55 Literati .*. . ,....». 56 jMus ic_.. .;. ■.».», .»•»,»._« .t.r.i* ♦.! > .y?.i'-"iQ * New .Acts ............. • • 48 News from the Dailies... 68 Nite Clubs 45-46 Obituary 59 Outdoors ...... .;..»,••# .62-63 Pictures • 2-34 Radio .35-44 -Radio Reports. 38 Talking $horts ......»••• 12 Times Square 69 Vaudeville .47-48 Women 57 1 ' — 1 tract list for thrillers, has two moire to this type to' make.' i Likely, that- the. horror portrayers Will be teamed again as in 'Black ^at.' ' SAILINGS 4 the combined In Chicago Doris Arden (Ellen Keene) once more Wads the parade.. 1 In both New York and Chicago the first and second spots are held by the same persons who held them lii the mid-summer ratings, air though in v.he lower brackets there * w . were several shifts. -Miss Camerbn, : I However, was more than. 100 points June 13 (New York to London) | ane |[ d o£ her nearest competitior in New York! Behind Miss Cameron, as a matter of fact, comes the closest arraignment of percentages yet. Muggs and Alibis That Vaiuett came in behind Miss Cameron, even though by only one percentage point, and Variety keening the box score Itself, is an- other item to be conjured with Muggs had a lot of alibis to offer, but. it's nevertheless a second of- fense, Variety having ended behind the leader-.two. years .ago also. _ . . John S. Cohen, Jr., who had a nervous breakdown early in the season and had to retire, ended up with a score of .609, which would have put him in sec ond place. Richard Watts, who led the score r last year, is fourth. They were one-two-three also in the 'mid-season ratings Since then Bland Johaneson (Mir ror) came up from sixth to second, pushing Reglna Crewe and Thorn-' ton Delehahty down one niche Noel Gumey (Lafayette) June 5 (New York to London), Reg Connelly (Leviathan) June 9 (London to New York) Monty Berman (Berengaria). June 3 (Los Angeles to Hono lulu), Harry Brand, WilHam Dover, Jack Gain (Lurline) June 3 (Boston to Cristobal) Har- leigh SchultJ! and Wife (Peten) June 1 (New. York to London), | E. Ri Lewis (Europa). =TTune^l=-- (Los=AngeJea-=to--=-TNew York), AI Jolson, Ruby Keeler (St. Elena). ■ Mai^ 30 (NeW York to London), l^r. and Mrs. James A. Mulvey (Manhattan) May 30 (London to New York) Murray Silverstone, Adolphe Fried, I: W. Schlesinger (Olympic). ,May 26 (London to New York) Diavld Bader (Corinthia) < . * ■ May 25 (London to New York) Aubrey. Hyman (Washington). again. Others finished as they were in mid-season also, except that Eileen Creelmah, who replaced John Cohen, finished in the cellar. posi tion. .Miss Pelswick takes over the dubious honor of handing out the most no opinions, replacing Mor- daunt Hall, who was chief offender in this realm for many years. Miss Pelswick wouldn't say aye, yes or no in 61 cases. Hall had the same number of blanks marked against him the year previous but improved this year to 38. He caught 80 less pictures than MiSs Pelswick.. Hard Worker Most , work was done by Regina Crewe, who looked at 311 pictures, Next to her is ,Miss Johaneson, Who put herself on . the spot 306 times during, the year. Greatest number of rights is shared by these two at 210, while Bill Boehnel called them Wrong 109 times out of 294. With all the chatter in film clr cles about the harm or benefit of the star system in rating pictures, there is this fact to consider, as shown by the box score: In both New York and Chicago the only critics rating films via the star handout won. In Chicago Hazel Flynn didn't finish! jojtit_.th.e_fleas.ojn,, JeftyjDS- _ihe_ American to come to New York, where she' is now p.a.'ing the Radio City Music Hall. Jess krueger, who replaced her, is committed to a polity of reporting rather than criticism of films. Actually he said 'no' to two films out of 28, but those were obvious and it is against the paper's policy to do more than praise or render a no opinion. For that reason Krueger has been omitted from this final 1933-34 sea son box score. By CECELIA AGER Two weeks ago Ben Hecht and Charles;. MacArthur's,: flr,st picture-^ of the three they' scheduled to produce, write, direct and inspire for' Paramount -release— went - into production at the Lpng,,fsland stu- . dios. Wheii, that first, morning^ the lights were set, the miltes adjusted, the actors in their places; the make-, ups Smoothed, the cameras straining* to turn, and the. man who says 'quiet everybody^ . had , just, said 'quiet .everybody' — Ben ' Hecht:' mounted' the, platform frdhi which ' J he' is ' wont to survey 'the scene -and i into the • momentous silence •- hot i hurled these words: • 'Let— Holly-- • wood-^tremble ! * Sometimes Mac Arthur i feels that just - now — before their; i picture is finished • and released-r-^r. is not - quite the time for He'cht and A , him to do any : talking. • fit ief not. politic,' he thinks;/ It's, too much 'like., leading with your-ichin. .: But .Hecht r : explains that thatls the de, Talley- , rand in < Mac Arthur, and it's too late for them to stop talking anyway. The damage has been done. It does not. fit. with what's, gone before, for , them to stop talking .now. They're talkers. Arid besidesh they* lead r , int wrlth, plenty , of •. (Other chins, , Their first independent production, a cast j unknown ,to .the, picture -au^ . dience, -two actors who've never seen . a camera before, ' rio stars. Sut-^js.'-agaihs^. ^ad'ing,wiUi sev- eral ' chins— look what , they've got, look, at their reserve .strength'. Lee Garmes. They consider, him 'the best cameraman in the business. Siavko Vorkapich, ace technician. ' Albert Johnson for tjle sets. Director. Art Rosson. Ten years' experience themselves in the picture: business, during which time,, they've watched picture, production, picked. up a. few, tricks, decided how they'd do it When they got the chance. No uncles, and aunts. You've no' idea what strength It gives "youj, Hecht saysi not to. have anybody's aunts' # and uncles wbrking- on a picture. HeCht says a picture— once it starts shooting, once the script and prepay' ration' is completed-7-is 50% cam^ efamah, 15% electrician, the re- maihder sound, , director; and , crew.. That's after the script is finished. From that point oh he awards the producer .0, the supervisor. 6, and 00 to the uncles and aunts. Business-like, MacArthur listens, until Hecht pauses. . Then, business-'. | like, MacArthur Talks, explains that what Hecht and he are. doing is pro- ducing, pictures^i-wh'ich he hopes will be good pictures — cheaply. They know they can do it-^make, pictures cheaply — because with their present set-up they've elimi-, nated overhead, they're spared im- ponderable carrying charges. No supervisor's salary, no fancy- direc- tor's salary (with Rosson's guid- ance they're directing the picture, too), no mounting story, costs, no crushing salaries for stars. They believe sensitive casting in a good picture is more important than star names. They pay ''comparatively ' small ■•'- Balaries'-^their budget com- pels It— but offer great opportuni- ties. MacArthur amends it, 'What' we hope will be great opportunities;' Talking, MacArthur has been reg- istering quiet efficiency and mCd- esty. " He goes, on, 'There' arc s6' mahy. people kicking around ' NeW York, fine actors, who'd like : , try pic- tures, but . prefer to remain in New York. And it's better for them hr they do. They don't have to trans- plant' themselves physically from., their own environment, from the background they like, are at their best in — nor do they run the risk of going out to Hollywood, impor- tant stage names, and then find out that in Hollywood nobody , knows who they are, nobody knows what they can do.' Hecht fs back'. He'd been called away to oversee the last take. He'd iooked . pleased ^. ^nd^p r^oud whenjthey called him." jHe says: ^EVeryboffy:. knows that if you produce a picture below- a certain figure it's got to make money; if it's a good picture, you're in clover. Now, we Say^ we will produoe pictures on' a paying basis. We'll keep our costs below that certain fixed figure. Should our pictures not warrant release in the Class A's, we'll get our dough back in the Clii'WUV. W^'re 'going to procUu-o !:■•'" ;oi soo, .on a (Continued on page 33) Tuesday, June 5, 1934 PICTURES variety FUSING STAGE AND SCREEN Newsreels' Need for Showmanship Brings in Name Spielers and Stars It's strictly the show window for newsreels from, now They figure, that names may pull them out of the ru* and cop .many of those bookings which double-fea- ture policies have lost for them. From Graham McNamee and Ed Hill in Universal and the new. Hearst reels to Lowell Thomas in Fox — the latter reel going one better with the industry's first name editor,^ Laurence Stallings — the- reel- men figure they will be in a better position to battle the Mickey Mouses and rad'o name shorts out of the few minutes of program time be- tween doubles. Salesmen for '34-*35 will be able to mention names rather than just the reels: "Reel executives feel to- day that the average exhib doesn't know the difference between the reels; that he regards the reels, anyway, as so much filler, and that -when it comes to. that he would rather have something with a name for marquee purposes. With this in mind reelmen feel that competi- tion among the reels, quality and what-not, isn't worth the candle at tho average box office. Such spokes- men don't blame inter-reel differ- ences for the fall-off in business. They :know that over 50% of the country's theatres today are using two feature lengths at every show, and that that's the real trouble. Fox and Hearst Eyes in the reel field right now are centered on Fox and Hearst, Therp.. have been reports in their fold for months that, when the. split came Trueman H. Talley would be out. However, although Stallings has been announced as editor, a- job generally associated with Talley, it was Talley's idea from, the start to gel: just such names as Stallings into the Fox news outfit; Stallings will chiefly lend his name- and sub- mit ideas for human interest news angles, but Talley. continues the active and actual general manager and v.-p.. » The break with Hearst is regard- ed optimistically by Foxites. They hold it will make their reel the only one in the field with complete world, coverage. As for the financial loss caused by Vhe severance Foxites point to special shorts, features and other work done by the reel outfit reflecting a money return. Gov't Attitude on Film News Anent their box office worries reels are also being confronted with Government troubles, U. S. Cus- toms Department has men in the in- dustry, checking over film which has been brought in as neSvs, therefore free from tax, and later being re- leased in fe'atufe form which is dutiable, . . Distributor of an African expedi- tion picture is reported to have al- ready been quietly, yanked, on the Government carpet and ordered to pay a. fine of $5,000 for film enter- ing' the country, - according to ' - vestigators, as 'news.' From the progress of the general quiz it', is beginning to look as though the Government will wind up by re-defining news in film. "What will be done with film stamped as news and later incor- porated in a feature or short sub 1 - ject as strictly entertainment matter —and whether such later use of news will cause it then to be de- clared dutiable— remains to be seen. ' i- Rivkin and RKO Talking ~ A Possible Deal East WAR DEPT. ORES J.pe Rivkin is dickering with RKO Radio to head' its talent scouting east. Kay Brown would devote herself exclusively to stories in fu- ture and Lillian Messinger, con- tacting talent, work into the new setup. Negotiations with Rivkin haven't gone beyond preliminaries. He is eastern representative of Leo Mor- rison. Hollywood agent. WB 'Flirtation Walk' to be Made at West Point This Week Hollywood, June 4. Frank Borzage, who will direct, and the cast for Warners' 'Flirta- tion Walk' are slated to shove off by train tomorrow (Tuesday) for West Point, where main action of the cadet story is skeded to start on June 14. Yarn by Delmar Daves hi^s been okayed by. the War Department, and will feature Dick Powell, Ruby Keel- er, Pat O'Brien and Henry O'Neill. Ruby Keeler is on her way east via boat, with Al Jolspn. Sol Polito, who will photograph, preceded by plane. Technical crew of 25, which left here Friday (i), convoyed four bag- gage coaches of equipment. Mary Pickford Goes Ahead with Divorce Suit Vs. Fairbanks Hollywood, June 4. Mary Pickford intends to go ahead with her suit for divorce from Douglas Fairbanks, filed here some months ago, it was indicated when Judge Frank C. Collier of Superior Court signed the order for publica- tion of summons in. the action, which requires 90 days to. complete. Order was made on the applica tiori of Miss Fickfordls attorneys, who filed an affidavit signed by Miss Pickford, stating briefly that Fair- banks is out of the state, that he left California in May 23, 1933, and that his present residence is in care of United Artists' studio of London. Ralph (Francis X/* Son) Bushman -Set at Metro Hollywood, June 4. Ralph Bushman, son of Francis X. Bushman, has been given a contract by Metro. Young Bushman has freelanced in several Metro pictures lately. His next there is 'All GOod Americans.' Hepburn's 'Anne' Boston^ June 4. 'Anne .of Green Gables' has been sold to . Radio for Katharine 'Hep- burn by L; C. Page & Co., local publishers. (Miss) L.. Montgomery of Leaskdale, Onf... receives no extra income from the : sale of V these screen rights as the Page company, owns the. copyright outright. Buzzell's Engagement to Sarah Clark Announced Hollywood, June 4. Eddie Buzzell has announced . his engagement to marry Sarah Clark, laughter Of Hay Clark, retired Texas capitalist, now residing in Beverly Hills. She is non-pro. Keaton's Quartet Hollywood, June 4. Educational has picked up an. op- tion oh Buster Keaton for four more shorts; First starts early in August when the comedian returns from a Paris film engagement. This is the first indication of life around Educational since the atudio closedirhree weeks' ago. Company is lining up a shorts program for the ooming season. EARL (MOLL'S Backscreen Projection in .. Place of Painted Scenery -—Added $ight and Sound Effects for Revue* — 'Would Open 2,000-Seat Theatres to Legit — Producer Ex- ' perimenting at Astoria H'WOOD REACTION Fusing the stage with the screen along new lines is Earl Carroll's novel proposal as being the logical way to revive interest in the legiti- mate stage, on Broadway and off. That is the producer's reaction to his debut in pictures. Carroll has gone Astoria, if not Hollywood. Haying a flair for novelties on the stage, the revue maker sees the way to attract motion picture patrons as well as playgoers. It is admitted that such producing will be eostlier, but the draw should be wider and the legit of the future can be pre- sented in 2,000-seat theatres. Pres- ent small capacity houses are re- garded as obsolete. Eureka Carroll's idea which tie believes will be Eureka to play wrlghts would bring translucent screens into legit stage usage. Rather than have the characters in a play describe or mention a place or locality, the lo- cale would be visible by back pro- jection, That in combination with front projection, all pictures to be in color, would create an - illusion that words and players cannot alone accomplish. The idea is not merely theory. Carroll has been experimenting in the ERPI studio, in Astoria, L. I., and already it is claimed that back projection is practical a distance of nearly 36 feet. Projected scenic ef- fects -would not eliminate stager set- tings, but rather add to the effect- iveness. Desired scenes, might be visible from the front through a window in the set, or other opening. It is likely that the Carroll .plan will soon be attempted. Studio space is available in Astoria. Three set shows would be no projection problem. Musical shows and revues calling for elaborate settings would be given more authenticity than painted scenery. In other words, plays would have atmosphere that pictures only now contain, even though the screen is principally concerned with Mack and white ef- fects. Since scenery would not be dispensed with, the number of stage hands required would likely ap- proximate the; crews of the present, but several platforms or planes would be necessary for certain ..pro-; (Continued on page 34) Borrowing Funds From His Own Corp. Brings Adverse and Unique Ruling on DeMille s Income Tax BORZAGE ON 'SHOWBOAT' u Remaki Story leased in 1929 irst Re- Frank Borzage will direct Uhi- versal's remake of 'Showboat,' Kern-Hammerstein operetta for which some new music may be added by the same team. Charles Wihninger, Mae Oliver': and Tess Qardell (Aunt Jemima) will recreate their original roles. ' Helen Morgan has yet to be decided upon. Irene Dunne is slated for Norma Terriss' original part and John Boles' will vocalize the - principal male part. Laura La Plante was' the main femme When this film was first released by U in 1929. Screen Voice Double, Cracking in Nile Club, Falls to His Death Denver, June 4. ■ Herman Cline, 28, said to have doubled in voice for John Gilbert and George Raft in - pictures' was killed when he jumped or fell from his hotel room Sunday night. He had flopped a few hours earlier when his voice- cracked in night club here. Son of retired chief of detectives of Los Angeles, H. H. Cline. Scouting Yarns (or Baer Providing He's Winnah! Hollywood, June 4. Carrying several scripts for Max Baer to look over -as screen . .possi- bilities if he should win the Camera fight, Leo Morrison gets to New York by plane. Sunday (10) night. Morrison, besides tending to the Baer screen and theatrical chores, also will make plans for the reor- ganization of his New York office. He tylll remain in the East for about two weeks. Bernie Rehitched Hollywood, June 4. Following preview of 'Thank Your Stars,' Paramount lifted its option on Ben Bernie. Picture Was origi- nally titled 'The Great Magoo.' Bandman probably will make an- other picture in the fall. Ban Agents Off Pic Lots Haysian Majors Again Tighten Reins on Hollywood Lots— 81 Make 250 Daily Calls Hollywood, June 4. Studio, managers are again en- deavoring to ban visitors on the major, .lots, "with the current burn directed at agents. The managers .of the several lots mot Friday (1) at the Hays office to discuss plans for banning all persons, such as agents, jewelers, llkker salesmen and other commer- cially inclined from offices beyond the administration- buildings. With 81 agents currently doing work at the studios, It is figured that at least 250. agency, calls to the «tu~ don are made each day.' Extras Below Average ■^=-^«^- : == i ^-jioiiy^ao.d The mid-week holiday, Decoration Day, kept the extras total down be- low average again, but even without this dead spot . In production the total would still have been off. Only 3,189 found work last week up to Friday night (1). This is over 1,000 below average. Biggest day was Thursday, when 890 extras w^re placed through Central Cn.sting,, 22T> of them going -to Morro'A 'Merry Wi'low' company. Washi , . Ruling that the corporation was used for tax a.-oidance over a three- year period, U. S. Board of Tax Ap- peals last week ordered William C. DeMille Production, Inc.,"' to pay nearly $100,000 in back taxes. With ah c;;inion that provisions of law under which. Treasury claimed company -yiras deficient are constitutional, board decided that in 1926, 1927 and 1928 DeMille used the company to escape paying heavy income surtaxes. Asserted defi- ciencies of $92,340 for 1924 and 1925 were overruled, giving ' the film pioneer partial victory. : Subject to recalculation oh ac- count of disputed minor items, com- pany 1 debt to Uncle Sam amounts to $90,789, which Internal Revenue. Bureau maintained was due under statutes -providing .that additional tax of 50% shall be imposed when corporations are used to escape tax liabilities. ' v Opinion was based on conclusion that large sums borrowed from the company could have been paid out as dividends except that such pro- c-dure would have made director personally liable to heavy sur> charges. Review of evidence by the board revealed that during nine- year period from formation of corpora- tion until 1932 DeMille earned in salaries $304,000 and borrowed $1,450,945. Corporation paid into surplus over- same period $1,841,703 and paid out in dividends, chiefly to DeMille, who held' all but 12 of 2,998 stock certificates, $99,106. Observing thai surplus accumu- lations in 1924 and 1925 might well have been, for 'a legitimate purpose,' board said DeMille's handling of company Alms from 1926 on was indication : of his intent to » avoid paying stiff surtaxes. Pointing out that DeMille bor- rowed relatively small amounts up to 1926,- board emphasized that, method used by director to obtain funds to mal.e property settlement, with divorced wife marked change in company operations, Each sub- sequent year found DeMille Produc- tions lending its principal owner large sums with : no effort to repay. The remaining big borrowing comprised $195,000 obtained on per- sonal note without additional secur- ity in order that DeMille could pay Anna G. DeMille $200,000. Corpora- tion borrowed $100,000 on a . mort- gage to produce the. funds. Appeal. Bd.'s Opinion 'This transaction we believe marked, the crystallization of a new attitude toward the corporation and its utilization for the very purpose proscribed' by the statute/ majority of Appeal BoaVd asserted. 'Since the company belonged to. DeMille it was .open to him to have tributed the earnings to himself in- stead of borrowing in the manner indicated. Except for' taxes, the practical net result both to the cor- poration and to DeMille would have been .substantially the same in both cases. He chose to borrow the surplus. 'Assuming that the accumulations (of surplus) during 1924 and 1925 were for a legitimate purpose, the loaning of this large sum (in 1926) marks the abandonment of that pur-r pose and leaves us no alternative as to Intent. The loan to DeMille was made without security. Any repayment by DeMille would have to be made chiefly out of his sal- tended that the loan, should ever be repaid may be deduced .from the fact that, .although DeMille received from petitioner between 1927 and 1932 payments of salary aggregating $200,000, his loan has not been re- duced. "'Furthermore- with the -.abandon- ment of ;uiy Herluiis purpose to ex- l)?iriiisiiii-s-i, th" surplus, even M'.'d on page 34) 4 VARIETY PICTURES m Tuesday, June 5, 1934 Midwest Showdown on 2 Features; Exhib Readies Damage Suits Vs. Exchanges for Withholding Films Chicago, June 4. Final showdown on whether, the entire midwest territory will return to double features or not hinges on an occurrence which took place yes- terday (Sunday) In Rockford, 1.,. State theatre, operated by Charlie House, had booked, for Sunday a double feature program; composed of product from Universal and Fox. In the middle of last week both of these exchanges deceived notifica- tions from Great States Circuit to withhold service to the rival State theatre on the grounds that double features were barred in midwest 1933-34 picture contracts. Both ex- changes were therefore forced -to so advise the State theatre. House replied with a wire, to the exchanges that he had not booked any other product into the State for Sunday, and that since the product would not be delivered he would close his theatre. And that he would Immediately file suit in the Illinois courts': to secure damages from the two exchanges. Which means that the double fea- ture problem which has been annoy- ing the midwest for the past three months will be settled once ana for. all, one way or the other. Both ex- changes expect to. be haled into court this week, and oh that de- cision depends the entire future of the .1934-1936 selling season in re- gards to a major policy. Paul Jones, Ass't Dir., Le Baron's Prod, Aide Hollywood, June 4, Paul Jones, for years assistant director, has. been named production" assistant to William LeBaron at Paramount. Jones has reoently been a scriven- er and gag man. Uitays Hfoon Muffins' Hollywood; June 4. Universal bought the comic strip *Moon ■Mullin,' running in -the Chi- cago Tribune, to make into a feat- ure. Strip, which circulates in 160 papers, will be produced by Ed Grainger. Leo Morrison handled the negotia- tions, for Frank Willard, creator of the character. Juggles of Red Gap' By Par With Lawton Paramount has purchased the talker rights 'to' 'Ruggles of Red Gap.' : Frank ' Lawton' will play the lead. 'Ruggles' was made as a silent some seasons ago. Rights were controlled by the Shuberts and the widow of the late Ralph Hertz, who is .now Mrs. Gavin Muir. ALL-CHINESE CAST Mulled by Metro Execs for 'Good Earth'— Test Helen Menken for Lead Hollywood, June 4. Metro execs are still on the fence whether to use all-Chinese cast in the production of 'Good Earth,' which Irving Thai berg produces as a special for the 1934-35 program. Director George ' Hill . returned from China recently, where he se- cured many thousands of. feet of at- mosphere and background shots for the picture, besides bringing back- tests of a number of Chinese play- ers. Company will test Helen Men- ken for a lead in the picturp when she comes out here late this month, and final decision may be to mix up the cast, with several established players in the more important parts.. APPEALS COURT RULES FOR ROBT. LEVY VS. PAR First leg of an independent Para- mount bondholder's, fight for relief under the bankruptcy . has arrived, with approval of the Court of Apr peals at Albany, to bring an action there to determine whether an own- er of bonds of either issue of Par has a right- to sue officers and di- rectors for liability. The highest N, . T. tate court ruled that Robert S; Levy, the bond- holder who first sought to throw Par into 'involuntary .receivership, may argue an appeal from lower courts which denied him the right to hold officers-directors responsible. Samuel Zirn, acting for this credi- tor, also is trying to get the U. S. Supreme Court to unseat the pres- ent trustees of Paramount. In both appeals it isn't expected that a decision will be forthcoming until fall in view of the imniinent recesses for the' summer period, Fay Wray's Duo Hollywood, June 4. Fay Wray continues at Columbia, and will be featured in two produc- . tibns during. the coming year,. Op- tion for the., pair was lifted by Co- lumbia last 'week, and deal allows the player to- appear in outside pic- tures when not on call. Player has been signed for top spot In "Woman lh the Dark,' which Select, new indie, will produce in New York. Deal was Closed by the Selznick- Joyce office. Spewacks' Vacash Hollywood, June 4.; On completion of their current; •Repeal,' Sam arid Bella Spewack will take a four months' vacation from Metro's writing, staff. In about two weeks they'll go east for the opening of their new Broad-, way show, 'Spring Song,! which Max Gordon will produce. .'Repeal,* from the Charles Francis Cbe .story, is for Jean Harlow and Lionel Barrymore. Lamont's 1st Feature Hollywood, June 4. Charles Lamont graduated from a short field to direct "Tomorrow's ^OjLthl .fo.r;iM_o nogijun, fromoriglrial script by Harry Sauber, as hl^flrsT feature.- ' MAURICE SCHWARTZ STARTS Hollywood, June 4. Maurice Schwartz arrived to start on his actor- writer-director .con- tract at ijtetro last 'week.. ^idjUsli.' actb^-manager was tick- et?^ 'by Metro several, .weeks, ago: while ftppearipg Jlocally jn .'Yoahe Xalb,' deal providing for Kim to r^-, port to the studio at the mid of the tour .of that play. Muir-Coslow Return Esther Muir and Sam. Coslow got back from London and, returned to the Coast over the week-end on a hurry assignment for Coslow to do the next Bing Crosby Aim's -songs in collaboration with Arthur John- ston. Miss Muir had gone- over for a Gaumorit British .film chore; making It in three weeks. . -. Coslow, . - tionlng priricipaily, also turned out some songs for. London publishers while -abroad. Hackett-Goodrich Team Scripts in Skowhegan Hollywood, June 4. . Albert HaokeU and Frances Good- rich leave- here within tWo weeks on the. completion of the script of 'Hideout' for a six months' vacation. They will summer In Skowhegan, Me., where they will write a play and the former wlU appear with the Skowhegan stock, company. Writing, team have completed two months of. their ourrent year's con- tract arid will complete the remain- der on their return to the studio in the fall. RKO AND LOEW MAY SPLIT WB FIX 50-50 A product deal swinging Warner product to RKO on the 1934-'3B sea- son is getting hot. WB either will give the RKO circuit the entire pro- gram of 60 or split it up this year between Loew and RKO. If RKO gets but half of the War- ner output, such a deal gives that circuit a large variety of product, including its own (Radio),, half of Paramount and pick of Fox, Colum- bia and Universal. . Warners is reported favoring the RKO outlet 100%, on complaint that Loew's hasn't been giving its prod- uct the right break. During the past year Loew passed up some Warner pictures, notably 'Fashion Follies,' which RKO took off its hands', while with many releases the Loew circuit has wanted, to play them on the split week engage- ments, missing the full week neigh- borhood runs of importance. Loew during the past year de- manded long protection on 'Gold- diggers,' with results indies follow- ing the circuit raised a howl, many refusing to take the musical alto- gether. NOW DIANA LEWIS ; . Hollywood, June Maebelle Lewis, recently drafted by Paramount from the local 'Shim Sham' revue, starts on contract at that studio today (Monday), but with no assignment yet set. Studio may loan the player, with two of- fers In, before utilizing her on its. own lot.. * JMUss i :Lewls _d raw.s_ a .name ch ange to Diana Lewis. AFTER NATALIE HAIL Fox is dickering with Natalie Hall of the original 'Music in the Air' company for the filmizatlon which Eric Pommer is'maklng. Tullio Car- minati,. i now . freelancing on .the, Coast* is another who may be in. the film version., • Ditto Al Shean. •John Boles will probably get .the male singing lead lit the screen operetta! Brooks Joins Par Hpllywoo'd, June 4. George S. Brooks, Satevepost and Liberty writer, Is here under con- tract to Paramount's scenario de- partment. Scribbler Is reading two stories before making' a choice as to which one he'll handle as. his Inltialer. Brooks was formerly in Holly- wood writing, scripts for the . old Pathe company, during the B. B. Derr and Charles Sullivan regime. Howard Sheehan and Earl Sinks Bring Suit Against F-WC for $500,000 BALTO STILL TUFF Court Refutes to Reverse Ban on 'Unknown Blonde* Baltimore,' June 4. Judge §amuel K. Dennis, of the City Court, dismissed the appeal of the Gold Medal Film Co., when he was asked to go over the heads of the State Censor Board- and okay the Him, Unknown Blonde,* which the Board have previously banned in toto. The decision in the instance of 'Blonde' equalizes Judge Dennis record for the season, having cor- roborated the Censors' verdict in the case of "Blysia,' Bryan Foy's nudie flick, but reversed the Board's decision on both 'Blood Money' (UA) and 'Song of Songs* (Par). In another branch of City Court on. same day as hearing for 'Un- known Blonde,' Friday (1), Bert Lewis appealed the recent rejection by the Censors of a foreign nudist short subject, 'Children of the Sun.' Hearing of the appeal has been ar- ranged for Wed. (6), with Judge Charles Stein on the bench. FOX'S FLEXIBLE 1934-5 PROGRAM; 48 OR MORE As was his policy in Paramount,: Sid Kent wants the Fox program a little flexible, so that pictures may be added during the year without upsetting commitments to accounts. This year the Fox company will strive for around 48 but with pos- sible additions company may deliver more, Including a series of six un- der a deal with Erpi similar to that under which Ben Hecht and Charles Mac Arthur make four for Par, Erpr financing. . Fox's output thjs year will include one Harold. Lloyd. F6x production execs, such as Winnie Sheehan and Jesse L. Lasky, didn't come east for Fox's sales convention in Ni T. last week. PoweD's 'ZiegfeH' Hollywood, June 4. William Powell has been selected for the title role in Universale pro- duction, *The Great Ziegfeld.' WllHam Anthony McGutre, who wrote the story, will also produce. Mono Sets Six with English Casts Aimed Mostly at British Market .Hollywood, June 4. Sonogram will make six pictures, using all English casts, aimed di- rectly at British release. Although the films will be dis- tributed in this country the major, importance of this group is for Eng- land. First three of the pictures are 'Shock,' 'Moonstone' and- 'Jane Eyre/ Because of the old time popular- ity of the book, Jane Eyre' will be pushed domestically stronger than any of the others, although as in the case of the other five, the prin- cipal revenue to Monogram is ex- pected from England and the col- onies. ono'a Sales Hypo Cincinnati, June 4. Monogram Pictures, Inc., held reg- ional sales hypo huddle here over weekend. Seventy salesmen, office managers and franchise holders from 17 exchanges, extending from Buffalo to Dallas, on -hand. /Pow~ wow presided over by Eddie Golden, gen. sales mgr., who dished out year book and new product lineup. Ver- bal shots administered by W. Ray Johnston, prez, and J. P. Friedhoff, treasurer. • Nat Lefton and J. S. Jossey, Ohio franchise holders, and William Onie and Chick Weinberg, of Cinoy ox- change, hosted. ■ -.Biz sessions were .hold at the Netheriajid PJaza and banquet wa* spread at Arrowhead Inn, nuburban nitery. Freeman in N. Y. for Pic Deal f or kalist Girl Chicago, June 4. • Charles k. Freernan, legit direc- tor, is in New York this week to confer with' picture' Companies which have expressed interest , in Shaindel Kalish, local legit girl. Freeman has bids from three major producers. Freeman also looking around for a play for Miss Kalish. Foxites East-West Julian Johnson, Fox story editor, who came in with Frances Faye and Harold Lloyd as part of the Fox party, will remain east about a month. Johnson is huddling on next season's, scripts:— Gabe Yorke, head of the studio publicity, and Jack Dillon, Fox L. A. McJhAng e^'ma>ager L retu i neq S u nday (3). They had come "east ""for the convention. LEAD FOR BRENDA FOWLER Hollywood, June 4. Brenda Fowler gets the lead with Will Rogers in the Irvin S. Cobb story, 'Judge PrieHt,' which Fox puts into production today (Monday) un- der John Ford's direction. Miss Fowler's lone previous pic uppearance wan in Kox'h 'The World Moves On.' Lob Angeles, ue 4,. Charging Fox- West Coast The- atres and Us trustees, Charles p. Skouras, William H. Moore and Charles C. Moore, With deliberately taking advantage of a three-theatre operating agreement to run down the Value and patronage of the Iris and Hollywood houses to the bene- fit of the Egyptian, Earl Sinks and Howard. J. Sheehan have brought a breach of trust suit in Superior Court, demanding $600,000 damages. Due to the asserted breach, the complaint recites,, the. average an- nual profits, from the Iris, and Hol- lywood, which had been $43,000 prior to July 1, 1933, have dwindled into a loss; For this the plaintiffs nsk $250,- 000. Judgment for a second $250,000 as exemplary damages is demanded against Charles P. Skouras, who is singled out among the trustees of the F-WC circuit on allegations that he expects to profit by sale of the 'bankrupt: estate, and that he advised the purported breach of trust so that he might increase the . profits of - the Egyptian at the ex- pense of the Iris arid Hollywood. Voluminous complaint recites that during 1929-30 F-WC paid the plaintiff, Sinks, a compensation for the privilege of using first run fea-' tures in the Pantages arid Egyp- tian. Prior to June 30, 1930, Earl Sinks and West Coast Hollywood Theatres, were each owners of one- half interest in the lease and equip- ment of the Iris, and W.CH-T, was owner of the lease on the Holly- wood. Complaint states that F-WC was owner of one-half of all out- standing stock in W.C.H.T., and that the remaining half was con- trolled by Jl Leslie Swope, J. M. Young and Frank A. Grant. In order to avoid ruinous compe- tition between the Hollywood and the Iris, the recital continues, Earl Sinks and W.CH.T. entered into an agreement covering the manage- ment, operation and. division' of profits ..Qf the two houses. This deal permitted F-WC to purchase all feature pictures to be exhibited at the two theatres for the bene- fit of the joint venture because Fox was able to buy on better, terms. Deal Year Old On' July 1, 1933, Fox- organized- a corporation, the Theatre Holding Company,- Whereby it acquired one- third interest in the Slnks-W.C.H.T. agreement, the plaintiff, Howard J. -Sheehan, having previously ac- quired the interest, of Swope, Young and -Grant to one-third interest, in the deal. ; . i Following an. agreement between Fox and third party for operation of the Egyptian on a 60-50 basis, plaintiff Sinks agreed:, .that the Egyptian, Iris and Hollywood houses, should alternate in selection of first runs in the Hollywood .dis- trict. Subsequently F.-WC en- tered into the operating deal on tlie Egyptian, and other theatres with United. Artists and, according to the compialrit, was granted permission of plaintiffs to change, the hou'»e policy' to' select "from ' all . available features not more "than three, pile every two weeks' or 75 per year fbf the Egyptian. On Dec. 25, 1933, F-WC adopted, the policy of showing double fea^ tures arid changing its program each, three to five days. This, the charges state, was without consent, of plaintiffs, violation of its trust to act for the best advantage of the three-theatre joint venture. ./As a result, plaintiffs, declare, none of the first class pictures ; - are, available for the Hollywood rid Iris until they have lost their value in prior runs. Custom has fallen off, and operation has been at a loss. Sinks and Sheehan assert, and the reputation of the Iris has become valueless. F-WC action in changing policy and appropriating for the Egyptian all first choice of the best picture's," chSrgefl^deTJlarei^has^beenf-foi^i'he- express purpose of destroying ibe repute and good will of the Iris *i-nd the Hollywood. Allegations against Charles P« Skouras are that he will receive large benefit from impending sale <©C all Fox theatres; that he is one of • the. intended, purchasers of the FOX business, and that he has de+r Herately counseled the policy oE :jp«-' propriatlnff a IK choice features fyr the Egyptian for the purpose <>f getting greater benefit for hJjo u < it- Tuesday, June 5, 1934 PICT E S VARIETY NEW MORAL CODE CONTROL WB and Loew Breach May Be Outcome of Bidding for Fox-Met on Reorganization \ r A breach, the* echoes of which Vnay be heard in other parts of the country, is apparently fomenting ''largely between Loew's -and Warner 'Biros, coincident with the draft of a reorganization plan for Fox-Metro- politan playhouses, key to a strong , greater New York front desired by ..both WB and Loew. ••< With the Fox- Met plan on paper 4h considerable detail! following agreement oft all sides for reorgani- sation, both Warners artd Loew are reported ready to bid vigorously for control of the organization. At' the same time,, RKO is involved in view of the possibility Warners may turn over half or all of its 1934-'35 prod- uct to' this chain unless/. WB itself grabs Fox- Met and possibly other important New York theatres. Com- pany is reported making overtures to independent exhibitors in control of good houses in order to round out plans for a Greater- N. Y. circuit of Strength. . The, Warners --Loew situation started with failure of Loew to date WB pictures during the past year for preferred playing time, and it may end In Loew's invading Phila- delphia, a WB stronghold. * Warners, recently put In a bid for (Continued on page 18) Zukor Back and Forth Holly wood, June' 4. Adolph Zukor returned to New York Saturday (2) for home office, palavers before going back to Holly- wood again for the annual Par sales convention.: He will probably leave for the re- turn trip June 12 or 13, and remain on the Coast indefinite, closely watching production activities. WB'S $10,000, PROD/BUDGET FOR 1934-35 Proposed Hollywood Appeal Board of Prominent Citi- . zens Would Only Be Called on Disagreements Between Studios and Hays' Director SHARE RESPONSIBILITY Church s Offensive Now Directs Adverse Fan Mail to Actors; Authors Favor Clean Fix KENT'S CLEAN FILM PLEDGE Sidney Kent has pledged Fox Film to clean pictures. In that way the Fox president has taken the leader- ship in the industry's own fight against objectionfcbU films. Kent sounded the keynote of clean films on Friday (1) on the third and final day of the Fox company's annual convention in this city. He made liis address hefore 250 company delegates. ' Kent promised on behalf of Fox Film that no objectionable films would be released by his company. Thus, Kent goes back of the pro- duction department Itself in making, this pledge. '" The Kent pronouncement is . one which had been figured coming in the way it did. Kent's remarks have not been made available be- cause the press was not permitted Into the Fox meeting rooms during the convention. All sessions were closed and were for company dele- gates, or employes only. Royalty Basis For Authors on Fox Operettas The oft-advocated idea of a roy- alty .arrangement for screen au-. thors will be inaugurated in connec- tion with a proposed series of screen operettas for Fox to be authored by Otto Harbach and Sigmund Rom- berg. Latter is balking a bit on the idea of going to Hollywood for the chores. .. ' . Sam Fox iviusic .Co. would pub- lish thee j Fox Film specially screen -created eperettns. hi- Hollywood, June 4. ■ ■Universal is going for paying players a percentage of the gross. First deal along these lines was made with Claudette Colbet for in •Imitations of Life' hich John M. St&hl directs. ••Miss Colbert gets- $05,000 and 2% of the gross for her work. She pre- viously got a $65,000 fiat from. War- nei-H'for a single opus.' Retaining the. percentage system of selling, pictures in all major situ- ations but.- Increasing admission minimum to 15c mats and 20c nights, Warner Bros, announces 47 pictures now of a total of 60 to be made on the 1934-'35 season. This includes three musicals. Stressing a wide range of screen material for the new year, Warners met in Atlantic City yesterday (Monday) on a two-day convention Announcement concurrent with A. C. sales meet merely lists the 47 productions : definitely set, with a foreword by Major Albert Warner concerning the ambitious program to be undertaken, but With nothing concerning sales policies. At present Warner Bros, has- 19 Stars, 38 featured players, 18 direc- tors and 73 writers, the largest con- tract list the company has ever had/ Following the Atlantic City meet the sales forces shove off Friday (8) for the Chicago regional Monday and Tuesday (11-12), from there going to San Francisco for a two- day conclave June 18-19. By that time the sales policies will have been announced. On the 1934-'35 product a number of new names go on the Warner player list, including artists who have, either been placed under con- tract or are on .loans, They Include Franchot Tone, Dolores Del Rio, Claudette Colbert, Leslie Howard, Robert Armstrong, Ginger Rogers, ZaSu Pitts, Reginald Owen, Osgood Perkins, Veree Teasdale and- Edna Best.- While the production budget to cover the .entire program of 60 is not divulged, because it provides ammunition for forces which attack salaries spent in pictures, a total of $10,006,000 has been Set aside to coyer the 10 outstanding 'films planned by Warners, among them 'Anthony Adverse,' 'Lafayette Esca- drllle,' 'War Lord,' 'Captain Blood' and the three musicals, 'Gold Dig- gers of 1935,' 'Sweet Adeline' and an Al Jolson starring picture- While WB may not . spend the $10,000,000 on this group, the com- pany has okayed this as tops, if the studio wants to go that deep.. Shorts production may be in- creased on the Coast to take a part of the load off the Brooklyn Vita studio, but present plans do not call for , including features in the east. From six_to 12 two-reelers In Tech- ^cltlor"aW"3W^ BOGEBS' POLITICAL POST Saul E. Rogers has been picked as a member of the committee just set up on N. Y. city affairs of the Republican party. Rogers was for many years .yen- oral counsel for Fox Film. He is now practicing Independently disputed Hollywood product . may shortly be turned over to the American public as the an- swer to agitation against 'objec- tionable' pictures. Instead of a group of producers haying the power of decision on the propriety of questioned films in whole or in part, as is now the case, the authority for a final ver- dict is likely to. be rendered by a body ot prominent citizens repre- senting various business. and profes- sional pursuits. In other words, the proposal on tap Is to. establish new enforcement machinery for the Hays production code which was written by a Catholic priest' five years ago. The Idea is that if the public is so concerned oyer the type of prod- uct being released, to make that public share the responsibility as to what shall arid shall not leave the Coast for the screen. According to authoritative sources, if the plan Is launched, It will closely approxi- mate the following outline: The present moral (Hays) code will stand in its present form and remain applicable to all major stu dios. The Hays director of moral relations, Joe Breen, would continue ..in that capacity on the Coast and carrry on his duties of scanning all product prior to preview and re- lease. Should a producer of a pic- ture object to Breen's interpreta- tion of his film, then the new pro posal. calls for final decision to be left to a jury of laymen rather than the current appeal board comprised of producers.. This plan stipulates that both the producer and Breen must abide by the verdict of the -special body which, however, would only be called in the ca& of a dis pute. If Breen gives a picture his okay the responsibility remains his. Should he rule out a sequence or a scene, and the producer agree, there would be no necessity for as- sembling the appeal board. There is nothing definite at the moment as to who would have a voice, in selecting this jury, how a panel would be assembled and what would be the' desired number. Neither is anything said concern- ing the situation where prior to pro- duction Breen disapproves a script which a studio has bought. In the past most such emergencies have been .forestalled by the studio get- ting, an opinion from Breen on a story before jpurchase-Jt ia not often that a company has ignored a Breen : warning! but it has happened. This idea, now under considered tion in major circles, would, mark a revolutionary change for the picture business and Would come at a time, it is believed, when less than 5,000,- 000 stay-away crusaders could deal a drastic blow to any picture. Film men are inclined to this belief be- cause it is revealed that the aver- age big company feature is current- ly playing to. about 22,000,000 peor pie as its American audience. Hence, a boycott by approximately one^ q.uar.ter~of; that audie nce cojil d prgb- ably send a banned- picture into the red. Statistic i If the public is declared in on the proposed morality tribunal, picture men point out, the people will have a., chance to discover what film statisticians maintain is the situa- tion today— that at least 50% of adult nfmgoers want plenty ot sa. Kelly-Saal's N.Y. Indie Charlie Williams and Marcy Klauber are -scripting , for Select, new indie (Kelly-Saal) at the old Biograph studio. New York, „ on 'Woman In the Dark,' Dashiell Hammett story. This is Burt Kelly and Bill Saal's first starring Fay Wray and Ralph Bellamy. Release not yet set, but probably U A. D E C I D E IT S F0REIGNS Universal City, June 4. Universal's plans for production abroad will be settled within, the next few weeks by Carl Laemmle, who left here for the east yester- day (Sunday) with Joe Weil and Jack Ross. He will confer In New York with N. L. Manheim, Univer- sal's export, manager, on product to be made in England: Laemmle will hold further -con- ferences with Max Friedland, U's European head, in Paris, intention Is to have a British producer turn out pictures in London for the Uni- versal banner, but this will be set- tled when Laemmle reaches. Paris. in their celluloid fare, but don't want the children to see it. Therein, film leaders declare, stands the whblo morals situation. When the industry fostered juvenile shows and special pictures for chil- dren, with the hope that adolescents and adults would als,o be satisfied, It was found that the youngsters were staying away from these pic tiires.Jjut going to the more sophis- ticated type of film. Allowing the public to find out for itself by trying its own hand, rather than continuing to barrage fllm- dom with suggestions and threats, will not necessitate any rewriting of the present film code. If a certain number of citizens have the power of a morality verdict, and children then, continue to see things on the screen which it is Relieved is bad for them, it wiii then be as much" the fault of the public as the picture business, say film officials. The Hays organization is de- scribed as being tired of holding the bag. Some time ago Will Hays openly threatened scoffers within his own group that he would go to the public in the matter. With such a board as is now suggested it is held that Hays would be making good that threat. Hollywood, June 4. In the campaign against off-color films Catholic societies have indi- vidualized the attack through flood- ing Hollywood with letters in which players are -personally flayed for taking part in such pictures, sup- plementing the attacks on the pro- ducing studios. Produces a new. and unwt::omt form of fan- mail, which, however, seems to be haying ita effect. A sample letter reads substant- ially: 'I am surprised and disappointed to see. you playing in such a pic- ture. Being ah admirer of . your work, 1 want to inform you that I. as a member of (organization named), have taken a solemn oath hot .to patronize films of this type.' Names of- the individuals are ap- pended to these communications with the added information that they are' members of the Catholic Women's Guild, the Knights of Co- lumbus, Catholic Sodality and simi- lar Institutions connected with the Roman Catholic faith; Three members of the cast of 'Bolero' received such missives. With fact coming to light that certain writers are organizing to refuse scrlpi stories which might be considered offensive, feeling in Hollywood ; s that actor-directed propaganda has also been directed against writers,, particularly those of the Catholic faith. Authors Favor Clean Pix One of ;he newest twists in the campaign against off-color films la an undercover organization of writers. Who, fearing for their , jobs unless the screen is cleaned up, have agreed among themselves not to work on scripts that could be con- sidered offensive to the religious groups now active In .this direction. Attltr le of these scenarists is that unless their producer bosses see the writing on the wall, they (the writers* will find themselves without jobs. The scenarists who are carrying on their anti-dirt campaign through a word of mouth claiming that some producers and supervisors look upon the religious agitation an a Joke. They have a further peeve against certain stars, particularly comics, who work in off -color dialog into scenes during production that was not originally in the scripts. Most of the writers who are in this undercover move aS an indus- try protective measure are of the higher bracket order. ital's Stance Washington, June 4. Catholic Church's 'league of de- cency' .campaign to force Hollywood housecleanlng got under way here last week under sponsorship of Washington Sodality Union.' Crusade to enlist 7,000 to 8,000 women in the capital's 35 parishes was propelled by Mary Mattingly, p reside nt .o f .th e union, who caned on church members to sign "pledges to boycott theatres exhibiting ques- tionable pictures. JOxplaining nature of the cam- paign, Miss Mattingly placed re- sponsibility for 'vicious' films on producers, remarking she does not consider exhlbs are 'wholly .espon- sible' for type of entertainment thoy present. SALARY QUI SLUMBERS With nearly three months elaps- ing since he made the trip to Holr lywood and two months since lie was to have . revealed the contents of his report, Divisional Administra- tor Sol A. Rosenblatt Is now re- garded by codlsts to have virtually pigeon-holed a document which, was expected to make recommendations for wholesale changes in Holly- wood's salary routine. The report is viewed by some members of the Authority as being wilhhetd By "R53eTtblatt "until the Darrow darts have been forgotten by the jjublic. Once eagerly awaiting its con- tents, if for no other reason than for the reactions of a government man's investigation of a lone week, the industry now seems to have roni|>U>te|y forgotten about the Itosey quiz VARIETY PICTURES Tuesday, Julie 5, 1934 UK*CoRhg BiD Favoring Rome Copynghl Gnvenlton H« Jtedly Opposed by Films-Radio; Shelved Washington, June 4. American . adherence tp the inter- national copyright union— a per- renriial legislative foptball-^-came up for consideration before Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week and was. promptly shoved back to the dusty pigeon-hole where leg- islation of th}s character has slum- bered . for yt rs. Bringing forth same proponents 'and same opponents with- virtually unchanged arguments, Luce-Cutting bill paving way for .atiflcation of Rome copyrisfht convention without reservations was attacked forcefully b'y spokesman for motion picture rind" • radio .broadcast industries. Sub -committee decided to let the matter, go over until; next Congress after two days of listless . hearings. American entry * t » the union •Would wreak havoc on film produc- tion, Duffy sub-committee was told by- Edwin P, Kilroe, Fox Films at- torney; A. Julian Brylawski, v.p. of Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America, and Fulton Brylawski, producers' mouthpiece.' Questioning constitutionality of enabling—-, legislation and kicking about failure of the U. {S; to insist on reservations, film trio pointed out -that production Would be ham- pered by litigation and expense and Complained that Luce*Cutting meas- ure - is ambiguous, vague, obscure and controversial. ' films' Anti-Attitude Principal attack was aimed at treaty provision" which , stipulates that authors shall enjoy, 'right to object to every deformation, mutila- tion, or other modification of the said work.' . Right to make altera- tion in scenarios and film material ^S' of; it he. utmost importance,* film spokesmen emphasized. 'A dramatic play or story is usual- ly •'.written ' "vltb an appeal "to ' a particular class,' picture ' reps said in; a' prilef. 'A motion picture is in- tended to have ;eiiterteinnient .value fbr ^he' great masses' and its finan- cial sudcesa' depends, upon 1 its mass psychology entertainment value. The wider' ' the; ■ appeal .the greater its value'.' 'A limitation " on the right to change the plot, theme, sequence arid' description of the characters; in "li terary Works would bring havoc to the' film industry.' Illustrated Jtheir objections by re- calling difficulties encountered ; by Warner 'Brothers in filming 'Wonder Bar' when foreign authors 'made a demand for an exorbitant additional sum of ' money, . $ipO,000, under the moral rights ,. clause of the Rome Convention,' threatening if .they did . not; 'receive, .an adjustment of the cijJlm.tihey would enjoin the distri- bution of the picture in Surppe and sjiek money damages.' \ 'The enabling legislation causes u.ncei-tainty about the persons, en- ticed, to copyright projection,, the works protected, term of -copyright, and status wo " & in .public do- main, film group , pointed put. Placing emphasis .on/ latter objec- tion,., said act attempts to . remove greaj: number, of -works from public dp main and would result in confur slqn and expensive litigation. Revision of present copyright law Would be necessary if the U. S. sub- scribes to the treaty, film spokes- men asserted,* remarking on incon- istenciesj- while question about right , of ^0ongress to extend copy- right protection to - oral works Would be subject to court challenge in view of constitutional provision stipulating 'writings and discov- eries.' Presenting resolutions passed by theatre owners at Los Angeles con- vention,, the MPTOA v.p. warned that signing of pact would open ^door-tctfoi-eig-n^music^SQC^^ Jecting film and radio industries to hold-up: demands in addition to li- cense; burden, of the American So- ciety of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Radio and Old Debbie ASCAP Bdth 4 the bill and the treaty were opposed by Oswald "F. Schuette, Who' 'appeared for the;Nattqnal As- eo^atidh bit Broadcasters to urge 'a revi'si'oh ( of the present copyright law, "pyi said ( 4diierence' to the unioj* (Continued. op page; 26) 1st Runs on Broadway (Subject to Change) Week of June 8 Paramount — 'Marty Happy Returns' (Par). Capitol— 'Men White' (MG), Strand— 'Fog (WB) (6), Rialto— 'World Revolt' .(Mentone). Roxy — 'Such Women Dangerous' (Fox).. Music Hall— 'Little .Man, What Now?* (U) (2d wk). Rivoli— 'Born to Be Bad' (UA) (2nd Week). Week June 15 Paramount — 'There Comes the Groom' (Par). . Capitol— 'Men White' (MG) (2d wk). Stratid— 'Dr. Monica' (WB) (13). Roxy— "Let's Talk It Over' (U); Music Hall — 'Sisters Under the Skin* (Col) (14). Rivoli — 'Are We; (Carewe) (13). $2 Picturca 'House of Rothschild' Astor (13th week). (UA) N. Y. COURT TEST ON CODE NON-SIGNERS Question whether the Code Au- thority, local New York grievance board and- zoning and clearance committee's can refuse to entertain .complaints of non- signers of the Code; is going to be put to : a test ,in the Federal courts. • . Milton C Wiesman, attorney, representing independent theatre .interests In" New York, is under- stood going before the courts to- day (Tuesday) for permission to bring such an action. It would be in the form of an injunction, it is understood, permanently restraining the CA and other allied agencies from turning down code non-signer Complaints. 1106 Mowed in Pi. Without the opposition that was the case when the Paramount Pub- lix receivers and attorneys put in a big bill, the trustees under the Pub- iix Enterprises bankruptcy . have been allowed $110,000. Of this amount, $35,000 goes to the .Irving Trust Co., trustees over this bank- ruptcy, and $75,126 to the attorneys, Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts. : • Throughout bankruptcy and rer ce'Ivef circles, 1; T. and its' attor- neys have been commended openly for the rapid job done in the in volved P, E. bankruptcy, , ; New England Publix receivers in Olympia Theatres and Olym.pla Op- erating Co. have also been given court 'okays oh allowances. HaTry LeBaron has received $35,000 on ac- count and Sam Pinanskl. co-receiv- er, $25,000. WB Sales Hops Grad Sears, WB sales exec, lajd up with a leg infection, but expects to leave Friday . in. time for the Warner sales regional at Chicago, June 11-12. After attending the Chicago and San Francisco sales regionalsj Major Albert Warner, Sears and Charles Einfeld go to Hollywood to spend a week at the Bui-bank plant. They get there June 20. Heat and Drought On Market Pre-Convention Rush at U Sees 8 Writers Out Hollywood,' *' Universal has dropped eight writers, being further ahead on scripts for the new year product at this time of the year than ever be- fore. When the 'Convention is called Wednesday (6), the sales depart- ment will haVe comprehensive re« ports to make on at least 75% of the product for the new slate. Those who finished assignments in a' last minute pre-convention rush and are out are: : Forrest Halsey, who was writing an original; Jacques Deval, who Was handling 'Angel' ; L. G. lochman, who. furnished continuity on his original for Edmund Lowe; Gene Solow, writing an original for Henry Hull; Sarah T. Mason and Victor Heerman, collaborating on 'Imita- tions of Life'; David Hertz, script-, ing 'A Magnificent Obsession'; and, Doris Anderson, temporarily off for two weeks from, the script of 'Zest.' Plans are to immediately push production as soon as the sales con-, fabs are over, with- indications that the studio will put six pictures be- fore, the cameras this month. SUNDAY FILMS DOWN IN CAROLINA UP AGAIN Charlotte, N. C, With Sunday film controversy raging . in . Charlotte and , at . several; other N. C. points, • three cities in the state have qUietly provided for the Sunday shows and theatres, are now- functioning. Chapel Hill, little town where the state university .is located, was the first to break the ice. They have had shows seven days a week for nearly -a year. Durham followed several months later, after a suit and court action made the Sunday shows legal. Last to. be converted was Ashe- vllle, with Sunday 1 shows . for the past month. , •■■ Camden, S. ., populated in the ■winter with people from, the north and east, is the only place in that state where films are offered. seven days a week. WB Spots Archie Mayo Hollywood, June 4. Archie Mayo will direct the Mary McCall, jr., story 'The Lady Sur- renders' for Warners. Jean Muir, George rent, and Verree Teasdale are featured. Pic- ture goes in June 10. CARRUTH DIRECTS AT U Universal City, June 4. =^Milton^CarEuth.^Un iversal- .cutter , has been upped to. a director by x the studio. Carruth will co- direct with Ernst L. Frank on 'What Women Dream Of.' ROBINSON'S 1 FOR COL. Hollywood, "June 4. .Edward G. Robinson will dp .one for, Columbia during his layoff pe, Zoning board was frankly bowled over by the terrific response from the exhibitors who jammed the hearing room, though there had been, ho general notification of the hearing oh-the Lindy theatre case Boards heard some 27 exhibs in one session which didn't break until after 7 p.m. though the meeting had been called to order at 2 p.m. New Sales Policy Peeling on the film row is that the broadside" demands of the ex hibitors, both indie and circuit, will force a switch in selling policy this year to allow 10c. admissions. Ex- hibs are asking the exchanges to set. up a week of release in . which exhibs desiring dime tickets may operate. It is considered likely that the exchanges will designate the sixth week of general .release as the opening spot for a 10c. house. Other houses which have cases in- volving the 10c. admission problem are the Haymarket, Crystal, Olyrn pia, Milda, Eagle,- while the other exhibs with such problems are with holding suits, figuring one of the above cases will settle the entire admission problem once and for all SOUNDMEN URGE NRA DISSOLVE IBEW PACT S. A. and the C. A. More than one member of the Code Authority bowed under the big blue long- lashed eyes of their dep uty boss, Miss Clare Brokaw, who made her debut as the industry's first feminine codist last Friday. About the age, and possessed of all the dignity of a deb, the lissome blonde government observer listened to stories of overbuying, overbuild- ing, clearance and protection. .. Only once during the entire ses- sion did she bat an eyelash. That was when Divisional A.dm. Rosey peeled off his coat and let her sit next to his blue shirt and penders. BLUE EAGLE NO \^ $ ^ e ^- ^ en * or ^ rj[]j|^n Appeal Bd ; 2 More Chi Cases Go N. Y. Regional Refutations Bound to Arise — No Set Rule to Decide on Time-Honored Industry Problems — Strictly Up to Strictly Localized Conditions and Circumstances Lesser's 8 or 10 ENDLESS CHAIN Hollywood, June 4. Sol. Lesser will, probably make eight- to 10 pictures for 1934-1935. starting 'Peck's Bad Boy,' June 10 at the old Pathe studios. lh Culver City, where he is now headquar- tered. George' O'Brien film starts July. 16 for Fox' release and prob- ably one more with O'Brien will follow. Lesser puts 'Chandu, the. Ma- gician' into work Aug. 3. Hollywood, June 4 •Latest move of soundmen of Coast studios to get recognition for collective bargaining with producers without necessity of having to join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers or any other labor organization affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, has been made by newly formed American Society of Sound En glneers. Latter organization has sent its general manager, Harold V. Smith, to Washington, armed with documents to place before NRA officials to have the Government dissolve the contract entered Into between the IBEW and the major companies last January whereby the IBEW took control of the soundmen working in the studios. The sound engineers Organization, an outgrowth of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Em ployees, local 695, will present claims that the collective bargain ing provisions of the NRA are be ing violated through members of the craft being forced to join the IBEW, and although a large major ity voted some time ago against IBEW, producers and the union forced through contracts which disregarded the rank and file of workers in the sound division. Chicago, June 4>. Problem of premature advertising which has been a headache to ex- hibitors throughout the country is getting Bomewhat straightened out in this territory as the griev- ance board starts clearing up some of the situations. Also the two -for - one situation. Board last week ordered the Lawndale to stop advance adver tislng following the complaint of the B. & K. Central Park. B. & K. has a trio of similar pleas listed for hearing this week. One is the B. & K. La Grange against the Hinsdale; the others are for the B. & K. Ber- wyri for premature advertising com- plaints against the Anetta and the Palace in Cicero. Grievance board on the two -for one questions ordered the Lincoln to stop such practices following the squawk of the B. & K. Belmont, and told the Westmont, in Westmont, to stop two-for-ones on the complaint of the Tivoll in Downers Grove. An industry-wide illusion that the Blue Eagle has a bag of tricks from which can be drawn an- answer to every trade problem is. slowly but surely being shattered. This is being borne out as the Code Au- thority blazes the NRA path in pic- tures. And that path Is now long enough, industry overseers concede* to establish that many of the age- old problems of . the business ...will continue as such, with the code in its present form powerless to revise or correct them. Here are some of the thinks which the Eagle can't do, as represented in its attitude toward - such prob- lems to date: (1) It can't dictate what admis- sions any theatre can scale.. (2) It can't prohibit double or even triple featuring:. (3) It can't prevent an exhibitor from building another hew theatre in an already competitive territory (4) And it can't do much about quality product. Behind most of the over- buying charges, brought .within exhibitor (Continued on page 25) NRA NO C.A. WORRY BUFFALO EXHIB TO COURT ON NRA RULING Lawsuits popping up against the Blue Eagle are causing the Code Authority little or no concern, NRA aides aver. The code itself clearly provides for. privileges extended signers and non-signers. But,. aides point to the recent action of the C.A. in designating a committee to determine, advisability of lifting the membership bars and giving several thousand non-assenters another chance to get on the line. While non-assenters can only de fend themselves, having no right to file complaints with the local boards or C.A., those who avail themselves of such code benefits as the 10% eliminations clause must contribute to the support of the Eagle. Codists are confident the .Buffalo plea to the Supreme Court will not get. far. They declare that Edward Wick ignored the procedure pre- scribed by the code; that instead of appealing to the Code Authority from the desist order to exchanges he went into the civil court. Lotteries are banned . under the code, NRA aides remind. They will ask for a dismissal of the exhibitor's action when it comes up for trial in Buffalo next Friday. Chicago, June 41 Two more cases go into the ! of the New York code authorities as two midwest exhibs, dissatisfied with the decision handed down by the. Chicago clearance code board, go running to the eastern chieftains for a possible reversal. One case is particularly interest- ing because the local board ruled in favor of an Illinois exhib a squawk of too much protection and sliced the clearance in half. That is the case of the Amus-U theatre in LeHarpe, 111., which cq.nplalned against-, the 14-day protection held by the Illinois theatre in Macomb. Code board ruled that 14 days was excessive and" sliced the protection to seven days, effective with the 1934-35 product. But M. Ewlng. operator of the Ahius-U is not at all happy with this favorable de- cision and is going to New York to ask the Code Authority to give, him the rieht to. play day-and-datev with the Illinois spot.. Other appeal case is that of the Westmont in Westmont, which lost its attempt to get the local code board to slice the protection period held by the Tivoli in Downer's' Grove. Code- ruled that the . present clearance setup is entirely reason- able. Music Hall interested In French-Made Fib A French -made musical with Emil Jannings and Sydney Fox, produced by French interests on the Riviera, is the . center . of current . bidding among first runs on. Broadway. Music Hall has seen the picture and is inclined favorably, while same is true of Rialto. Title is *A Wife a Day,' based on the Pierre Loueys classic, 'Adventures of King Paus- ole.' Individuals not in the distributing business here are In possession of American rights. Alter Wants to Collect Hollywood, June 4. Joseph Aller, who sold out his ' in- terests in Rothacker- Aller labs to Consolidated Film Lab. and went to. Consolidated's payroll, left Satur- day night (2) for New York to get Certain financial adjustments in his earnings from Herb Yates, president of Con. MONO ENDS COSTLY PIC , Hollywood, June 4. Monogram has completed pro d action, on 'Jane Eyre,' carrying | heaviest negative cost of any pic- ture made by that company in the past three years; Picture jsroes out as a special for the 1933-34. program, and has fea ture cast including Virginia Bruce, [ Colin Clive, Beryl Mercer, David , Torrence and Aileen Prlngle. Christy Cabanne directed. Buffalo, June 4. Contending that decisions of the NRA board ar© arbitrary, unreason able and confiscatory of his personal rights, Edwin Wick, owner and operator of the Majestic theatre, has' asked the Supreme Court to show cause why exchanges should not deliver film to his theatre. Wick was up before the NRA board on charges of conducting a grocery giveaway contrary to the provisions of the code, complaint being made by Louis Isenberg, of the \ New Ariel theatre. He was ordered to desist. When he failed to do so, film exchanges were in structed not to deliver film to the theatre. Wick's action is against the dls tributo.rs and against Jules Michael, Sidney Samson, Jack Kerkowltz, of Buffalo, and William H. Cadoret, of Rochester; members of the board. Radio Cony. June 18-20 Around 175 sales representatives will attend the RKO Radio conven- tion in Chicago June 18-19-20. Company will probably make 48 for 1934-35. BEN FISH FINCH-HITS Ben Fish, brother of Sam Gold wyn, has stepped into the N. Y Goldwyn office to hold down the fort while James A. Mulvey and family is abroad on a summer va cation. Mulveys sailed last. Newsreel Subjects Get Another B way Break Two newsreel features of a topi cal nature bow in on Broadway at the Rivoli and Rialto. Edwin Carewe's 'Are We Civil- ized?' is the Riv attraction June 13 and E. M. Gluckeman's 'The World In Revolt' goes "into the' HlaW un der Doc Joe Lee's exploitive aegis Friday (8). Marc LAcjimann -Monte Proser will do special .'ing oh 'Civilized.' Both films have to do with recent world trends in politics and news events. Una MerkeTs Duo Hollywood, June 4. inlshing parts in both 'Rear Car* arid 'Merry Widow' this week at Metro, Una Merkel draws assign- ments In another pair of pictures on the same lot. ">■ Player will swing between roles in 'Have a Heart' arid 'All Good Americans' to keep her busy until the first of July. Discuss Invin. Plans Maury Cohen of Invincible Pic Hires is in New York with George R, Batchellor, producer of Chester- field Pictures, discussing next year's program. Both plan to go to Eng- land June 15 to line up releases there, and will carry with them 'House of Strangers,' the Eric Von Stroheim picture just completed, and 'Green Eyes,' a Chesterfield fea ture. Denver Z.C. Bds. Switch Original Schedules Denver, June 4", . After sending out a proposed zoning and clearance schedule the Denver board js cancelling same and starting over again. Instruc- tions from New York told them to proceed under the arrangeriifcnt hi use and hear protests on that. .Denver has been working with-' out a, set zoning and clearance ^ar- rangement, although it has been, generally understood that each ex- change was trying to work to the same number of days. If any cer^ tain theatre manager could put up a good argument why he should be favored, he got it If it was pos-. sible. The proposed zoning schedule, as sent out and later called In, was cause for happy smiles on the faces of numerous Denver exhibitors. It would have given many subseuent run houses pictures from 20 to 50 days sooner than at present. Many were already figuring it possible to cut in stronger on publicity of the first run houses. Subsequent men felt they would get a crack at the pictures before folks had forgotten ;he advance ballyhoo; . Harry Huffirtan, managing direc- tor of four first runs and four subse- quent houses, however, did not like the proposed setup arid entered a protest. He Indicated he would have used every possible means to prevent the hew schedule front go- ing into effect, arid especially as it applied pictures he had under contract and franchise. The board will proceed under the present zoning deal, and will hear protests from code signers only, for the present. If enough protests are received from any competitive " lo- cality making It necessary to open up the zoning and clearance sched- ule, the smart exhibitor, whether code signers of riot, wlll .be Invited to give their views* arid will ccive equal hearing. 3d Par Ref A third bankruptcy referee is go Ing to figure for Par. John E. Joyce is to substitute effective tomorrow (6) for Oscar W. EiOhhorn, who goes on vacation. A few weeks ago, Par trustees got an okay for Eichhorn to sub for Henry K. Davis, who took ill. Davis .is expected back Aug, 6. SHELVE 'MASTER'S VOICE' Hollywood, June 4. =Stor-y.^and.-east^dlfflc.u]JUejL^ temporarily put 'Her Master's | Voice,' B. P; Schulberg production for- Paramount, back on ice, with no indication when it will be hauled I out. Elmer Harris and Keans Thomp- son made the adaptatiori of the Claire Kum'mer play, Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland and Helen Mftck were in top spots. Tuesday, June 5, 1934 L. A.'s Best Is Still in the Red; 'Many Happy Returns' $11000; Nabe Duals Cramp Downtown Grosses Los Angeles, June 4. Town is devoid of trade in the first run locale with various excuses vouchsafed by the exhibs. Now the single bill houses claim that the double bills in the neighborhoods are too strong an opposition factor and feel they are keeping traffic but of the first run area as far as ,_ WBW amusement shoppers are concerned. Women Top gross on the week goes to the ■ — Paramount, which has 'Many Happy Returns,' featuring Lombardo, Burns and Allen and its billing and 'The Student Prince* on the /stage, but the house will hit the_ red with Ji take of around $12,000, due to the rather complicated advertising cam- paign it used for the bill. Chinese holding around the same figure with 'House of Rothschild' in its ninth week and still billed to linger An- other fortnight. „ •He Was Her Man/ at the Warner Downtown and Hollywood, has no b. b. draught, whatsoever, -with both houses taking it on. the chin. 'Queen Christina' can also be listed as one of the b: o. lost causes as It opened to fair returns Decoration Day and will come in. with around $8,500, which is not so forte. " '20 th Century/ for second week at the RKO, doing fairly good. United Artists. went dark Decoration Day, getting around $4,800 for final eight days of 'Murder at the Vanities.' Estimates for this Week currently and may get $10,000. Last week '20 Million Sweethearts' (WB) and 'Registered Nurse' (WB) $9,000. Capitol (FP) (2.700; BO^O-Day Princess' (Par) and "Witching Hour* (Par). Not much more than $8,000. Last week 'Change of Heart' (Fox) and 'I Believe in You* (Fox) $8,000. Loew's (FP) (3,200; 50)— 'Such Dangerous' (Fox) and •Three on Honeymoon' (Fox). Bax-r ter may boost a little, but best esti- mate is for $7,600. Last week Brit- ish program of 'Jack Ahoy' and 'Lost Chord* not so good at $6,000. Princess (CT) (1.900; 50)— 'Look- ing for Trouble* (UA) and •Whirl- pool' (Col): May gross $6,000. Last week '20th Century* (Col) and 'One Is Guilty' (Col) $6,600. ■ Cinema de Paris (France-Film) (600: 50)— 'Llberte Cherie' (3rd week). Should gross $1,000. Last week $1,200. Hofiday Openings Gives Omaha 8-9 Day Weeks, All Doing OK Toothtaver Hollywood, June 4. Metro has fitted up a dental office In a penthouse on the Administration building, This is in order that em- cees can bring their dentists the. lot in order that studio time might be saved. [IB S PIC FARE STRONG; 11L [pis. Taking It Plenty Between 107 In Shade and Drouths Crop Blight Omaha, June '4. Heat wave is the question of the moment. Question being whether $l C 6Sj^6usfTR?^ I" blz at hoUS <* ^ h C001 " Century), and sta « 6 show <9th lng plants or whether it drives cus- week). For length . of sojourn this Uonters away from all houses. Prob one doing fSf** at J 11 - 900 ' ** Bt ably the latter, as it is such unsea- week itgot$i3^uw. , K . 40 Isonal heat. One thing is certain, BBFl^WaV^ »ot; mere has already hit 103, Thev're none too hot for this one la record of years and years, which will come home with around On the current bills it's the old $4 200 Last week "Merry Wives of story of the Paramount, Orpheum, Reno'" (WB) reaped little short of I Brandeis playing one, two, three. $1 700 |Par has 'Change of Heart* and 'Hollywood (WB) (2,766; 25-35-40- I stands 1 to cheering biz with the 55)— 'He Was Her Man' (WB). Do- ing considerably better than Down- town and take will hit around $6,300. Last week* 'Merry Wives of Reno film in for eight days on a Decora- tion Day opening. Should better $8,000, probably $8,250. At the Orph 'Thin Man,' with the Hearst WB) nothinT^crow about with daily heavy on the ballyhoo, but $5100 $7,000 not so thin. Nice money at n "i /• Po „\ ^9 7Aft. 25-40)— both these houses, .o ^"wiwLi A^nin^rAuft' ^Fox) Brandeis is yet without its cool- but throttled without cooling eys tern. World is in a jumble caused by bad biz on 'Merry Wives.' Pix with the matrimonial contest on stage was jerked after five days, making way for Memorial Day opening on a second run of "Rothschild/ Policy .of next 10 days here undecided, but probable that "Rothschild' re- placed Sunday by 'Now I'll Tell' and 'Laughing Boy.* These stay until i_- came m W n.ni J u n « 8. when the house begins a i i i_™ t* aT , it LwTa4 as H new VoUcy with a residential mu ^^SS&SS^ £\e C ?e?tSe 8t ° Ck ' RKO (2 960; 25-3B-40)-^20t^ 8, g t ?Sas a week of jerklngs tury' (Col) (2d week). Started off , h adly at the Lyric that admlsh from 85c. to 60c. didn't make of them was yanked ahead of the customers hesitate. Pic is "Black tlme m the order named. Cat' and registered nicely. _ x . ... ,. Paramount having a strong week Estimates for This Week with "Women are Dangerous' and Minnesota (Publix) (4,200; 25-s 'Private Scandal.' This house is $5-40)— 'Sadie McKee' (MG). .Tip- hovering on .the edge of manage- top women's picture and -Crawford- ment ohange with Evergreen ex- Tone getting 'em, May go as high pectedtto take it. over from FWC. las $10,000, good under all circum- Evergreen now hap two grind stances. Last week, "Viva Villa* houses in the burg. (MG), $9,000. United Artists still clicking for Orpheum (Singer) (2,890; 26-35- run of nice biz. 'Tarzan' holding 40)— 'Strictly Dynamite' (Radio), up pace of "Manhattan Melodrama' No box-office names and critics last week. Plo going over with the panned it. Will be yanked tonight younger generation. (4) after bad $1,000 on four Per- AU b os. feeling effect of warm formancesr "Fog Over Frisco (WB) weather and some business slump succeeds. Last week, "journal of due to longshoremen's strike, with Crime' (FN) and Sally Rand unit grosses lower than average for the on stage, only $11,000, despite Arte week. exploitation campaign. Badly hurt E.«; m «t** far Thia W««lc by heat wave, and other adverse Estimates for This Week 1 factor8 Plenty of re d. .-■ — - -y-7V.^r- i .xia* i Century (Publix) (1,600; 26-3€- — 'Laughing Boy* (MG) and 'Hon- 4o)_«Nana* (UA). Big and effec- orable Guy' (WB). Getting a fair tlve campaign by Manager L. O. play for an average gate. Registered I Daniel, but critics were sour and well and good for about $5,000. Last. I other factors too adverse. About week, Til tell the World* (U) and « 3 B00 indicated; Third and last •Lazy River' (MG) kept this bouse weck of Rothschild' (UA), only $4,- ln the pay dirt class for okay $4,200. 1 5q 0 after two very big preceding United Artists (Parker) (1,000 M weeks and highly profitable engage- 25-40)— 'Tarzan' (MG). . Good . pace ment, aggregating nearly $26,000 for and holding up; should get nice three weeks. $4,500. Last week, 'Manhattan Melo- State (Publix) (2,200; 25-36-40)—) drama' (MG) got attention and "Such Women Dangerous' (Fox), closed for. okay $4,800. Baxter no magnet here; only mildly Paramount (3,000; 25-40) - "Such ^^ir^^^T'uV^lSwi^S - Women Dangerous' (Fox) and "Prl- 1****1**' Bottoms Up I^lZ vJt^l over' (Col) Not meeting box-offlce expectations. ^vi^iLw for^l 400 ° ver ^ Col) » but weather and drouth blamed. CU ffiL*B$Xm&» (1.400; ^B $ ^e around $1,800. fair; first 60)-'Black Cat' .and Olsen Jfe rSpio^puWixf (1 , 20 0; 26-36)- ?? hn t fl0 KnJ°^^Si;Jf^K ^100; 25)— 'Sisters Under Skin' (Col). In the money $2,900. Last week 'Journal of Crime' (FN) moderate $2,500. Strand (Wilby) (800; 30-40)— 'Rothschild' (UA). Second week at special scale following great week fit Alabama, $l,60Q ;i „Last week 'This Side of Heaven* (MG) and 'Murder in Trinidad' (Fox) on split, $1,100. Hun Man' Tops Chi on 9-Day Date At $34,000; McLarnin-Ross 'Her Man: McV. $10,000 , June 4. Last week added a new; house to the loop competitive field and in-, troduced a nine-day picture into the ace B. & K. Chicago. The addition is the remodeled legit Garrlck, now a subsequent run house for B. & K. at 40c. Circuit also started work on redecorating the Apollo last week and it is figured to be ready to op- erate by July 1.. When that spot, opens B. .& K. will put either the Apollo or Garrlck at 25c. and 15c. scale,' while the other sticks to the 40c. top. Nine-day picture Is 'Thin Man,' which went Into the Chicago Wednesday (30> when two previous flabby pictures had caused B. & K. to curtail the, usual full- week run. Is using the present William Powell flick in order to bring the house back to its standard Friday opening. Mystery-comedy is doing well, with B. & K. going out of its way to tell the public it's similar , in style to fit Happened One Night.' 'Change of Heart- taking a . whip- ping at the McVickers- and will scram after only one week, 'Holly- wood Party' coming ;in Wed. (6). McVickers is proving a difficult house for B. & K. lately. . And the same difficulty goes at the Oriental where the red is still all over the books. It has been effect of the Oriental to eat into the rival houses, such as the Chicago and State-Lake more than doing itself any good •Sadie McKee' will stick at the United Artists. May be around for three weeks, with B. & K. unable to find any immediate film available for replacement. Starting to howl about product shortage. Those one- week and five-day stays are eating lip product so fast it's hard to keep five theatres supplied. Estimates for This Week Chicago (B&K) )3,940; 35-56-75) •Thin Man' (MG) and- stage . show. Opened Wed. (30) Instead of usual Friday start and will go nine days in order to re-establish Friday opening. Will be able to garner good $34,000 for the long stay. Fair still hurting the Loop rather than helping It and everybody Is waiting for the vacation mobs to perk up the biz. 'Murder in Vanities' (Par) faded last week to $22,800. McVickers (B&K) (2,200; 25-35- &5) 'Change of Heart' (Fox). One week and out. Gaynor-Farrell had figured as a Chicago theatre bet rather than this house. Hardly bet- ter than $10,000 expected. Last week 'Viva Villa' (MG) finished at good $8,900 for nnar-seven days of a 17-day run. 'Hollywood Party' (MG) next. Oriental (B&K) (3,200; 25-35-40) Til Tell the World* (U) and vaude ; House isn't going anywhere. B&K uslncr it primarily as an opposition wedge. Taking red ink regularly. This week off to $9,000. Last week ^Trumpet Blows' ((Par) another headache at $10,100. Palace (RKO) (2,500; 36-65-83) •Such Women Are Dangerous' "(Fox) and vaude. Ken Murray holds over and Phil Harris band comes in to share honors. House is picking up slightly each week under new stage show policy and treat- ment, Tftis- week again better than sometime in the past at $18,- 000. Last week 'UpperWorld' (WB) pretty good at $16,000. Roosevelt (B&K) (1,500; 26-35- 45) 'He Was Her Man' (WB) and McLarnin-Ross fight pictures. 'Man* opened Wed. (30) while the fight scenes went in Friday (1) and the gross picked up oh Barney Ross' popularity here. Will, stick until this coming Friday at pace and go a likely $8,000. Last week 'Manhat- tan Melodrama' (MG) did fair On a third week holdover at $5,800. State- Lake (Jones) (2,700; 20-25- 85) 'Whirlpool' (Col) and vaude Starting to build its regular sum- mer patronage again after a slight slip. Will touch profitable $10,000 currently. Last week also oke at $10,- 200 for 'Hipsj Hips, Hooray* (RKO) and Seeley-Flelds act. United Artists (B&K) (UA) (1, 700; 3.6-45) 'Sadie McKee' (MG) Will go three weeks anyhow, the final week forced. Previously did $18,100 on opening ride and figures to hold maybe at $12,000 for this ^seHSionr--^- v-* — — ^ UL MISS MARKER'-GEO. PRICE, 156, BUFF'S BEST Buffalo, June 4. Hot spell which set in on Thurs- day affected grosses and sending current programs oft to poor start. Buffalo only downtown house which held up and slightly bettered esti- mates. Estimates for This Week Buffalo (Shea) (3,600; 30-40-55) 'Little Miss Marker*. (Par) and Georgie Price heading vaude. Opened good despite hot weather and should get around $15,000. Last week 'Change of Heart' (Fox) and George Raft bettered estimates here for $18,000. Hipp (Shea) (2,400; 25-40) and Waltz Time In Vienna' (BO) shed no light at $700. * Loew'3 State (2,780; 15-76)— 'Hol- lywood Party' (J^CO and Thurston. Given a weather break Thurston would mean something, but now will be lucky at $8,600. Last week,. 'Sadie McKee' (MG), great at $16,000. Paramount- Newark (Adams-Par) (2,248; 15-65)— "We're Not Dressing' (Par). Starting the new policy of films alone by holding over for three days. About $2,600. 'Little Miss Marker' (Par) follows; hoping to run 11 days. Last week, first of 'We're Not Dressing' (Par) fine at $15,700 on old scale. Proctor's (RKO) (2,300; 25-85) — 'Stingaree' (Radio) and vode; Will be sad at maybe $8,000. Last week, 'Change of Heart* (Fox) and 'King's Scandals* fair enough at over $12,000. Terminal (Skouras) (1,900; 15-25- 40)— 'Hell Cat' (Col) and 'Mystery Liner* (Mono) with *20th Century' (Col) and 'Beggar in Ermine' (Mono) split. .'20th Century' should take something on second run, but needs a weather break the second half. Probably. $.3,500. Last week, 'Woman Unafraid'.. (Hollywood) and 'Party's Over» (Col) with 'Crime Doctor* (Radio) and 'Hell Bent for Love' (Col), Just came through with $4,100. 'CATHERINE,' $4,200, TOPS INDIANAPOLIS Navy Outdrawing Film Spots On B'way; little Man' OK at $70,000, 'Villa a Fair Newark, June 4. Old Man Weather, has been very nasty and has killed the week-end with sweltering heat. He has been impartial, and no one has done anything to speak of. There is nothing in town they hay© to see, although "Little Miss Marker 1 opening' today at the Paramount- Newark may prove an exception. If any house does $9,000, it will be high. At this inauspicious time the the- atres have done the equivalent of raising prices by setting the limit of afternoon prices at Ave Instead of six, as it . was all winter. With daylight saving and summer against them seemed a dumb thing to do. Barnum and Bailey on two days did tremendous business. Estimates for This Week Branford (WB) (2,966; 15-66) — •He Was Her Man' (WB) and 'Half a Sinner' (U). Nothing here to hold off heat, though Cagney's name good for a little; $6,500. Last week, 'Black Indianapolis, June 4. Heat wave had a damaging effect In this town, too. Grosses were 6ft in both downtown and nabe houses. The Lyric is the only" first run spot that will hit fair figure for ihe week. Heavily advertised, 'Catherine the Great' is moving, along towards $4,- 250. This isn't sensational, but at least it's in the black. The Indiana closed its doors for the summer last Wednesday night after many weeks of ineffectual struggling with num- erous changes of policy; Estimates for This Week \ Apollo (Fourth Ave.) (1,100; 20- 25-40) — 'Such Women Are Danger- ous' (Fox). Warner Baxter failed to carry this one, and. the score sheets will record only a mediocre $2,500 for the week; Last week, holdover stanza of 'Change of Heart' (Fox) was just fair at $3,000. Circle (Katz-Feld) (2,600; 26-40) -^-'Stingaree' (Radio). Isn't regis-? terlng very well with this house's class of trade. Biz very thin at $3,- 000. Last week, *Murder at Van- ities' (Par) was fair only with a gross of $3,800. Lyric (Olsen) (2.000; 25-40)— •Catherine the Great* (UA). Re- ceived good campaign . breaks in. newspapers and will take $4,20*0, okay. Last week In closing session of combination policy 'Smarty' (WB) and vaude did excellently with receipts that tallied $6,600. Palace. (Loew*s) (2,800; 25-40)— •Hollywood Party' (MG). Somewhat disappointing with no better than a weak $3,800 in sight. Last week, 'Sadie McKee' (MG) was good at $5,600. RAFT AND 'VANITIES' STRONG 21G, DETROIT Detroit, June 4. Michigan is shooting off both bar- rels this week with George Raft in person coupled with 'Murder at the Vanities.' While Raft has been here before with mild response this time the picture Will help plenty; The Fox is in the van with 'Such Women Are Dangerous', and Art Jarrett and Eleanor Holm as the stage names; . Neither picture L or stage impressing much as a . draw. Last week 'Sadie McKee' was the town leader at the Michigan for a nice $23,000 considering the heat. The Fox' with Gaynor and Farrell in 'Change of Heart' was slightly behind with $22,000. The United Artists found one week of 'Cather- ine the Great' a disappointment at $6,500. The Fisher with a second Week of -Viva Villa' after a previous week at the Michigan was okay for a nice $7,000. Estimates for This Week Michigan (Par) (4,045; 15-25-55) -^-'Murder at Vanities' (Par). George Raft in person. Figure $21,000, oke. Last week 'Sadie McKee' (MGM), good $23,000. Fox (Inde) (5,100; 15-25^65)-- 'Such. Women Are Dangerous' (Fox) and stage show. Probably hear $18,000, off. Last week 'Change of Heart' fair at $22,000. - United Artists (Par) (2,018; 40-55) — 'Manhattan Melodrama' (MG). Expected to garner $9,000, overage average. Last week 'Cath- erine the Great (UA) was good for only one week at $6,500. . Fisher (Par) (2,760; 15-25-35-40) —'Sadie McKee' (MGM). Should see $5,000. Last week 'Viva Villa' (MGM) ' big $7,000 in its second week. HEAT WILTING HTTjrKEE' OK laity Happy Returns; Philly, $17,000; '20th Century; at Boyd iiadelphia, June 4. Despite some disappointments last week, this week's outlay of feature pictures in the downtown sector in- dicate better than average business. At the same time, nothing sensa- tional or record-breaking is in view. Aldine which ends its tenure un- der United auspices next Saturday has. 'Sorrell and Son' as its' swan song, and a very mediocre gross is expected. Estimates for This Week Aldine (1,300; 40-55-65)— 'House of Rothschild' (UA). One day over five weeks and $8,800 for last seven days. 'Sorrell and Son' opened Fri- day with nothing hot indicated. • Arcad i a (600; * 25-40-50)— .'You're Telling Me* (Par). Another .second run and more likely looking than some, of this house's re'cent offer- ings. $2,000 indicated. Last week 'Trumpet Blows' (Par). Floppo muchly. $1,650. . Boyd (2,400; 40-55-65)— *20th Cen- tury* (Col). Good 'notices, but noth- ing very exciting iji biz at the start. $12,500 indicated as best. Last week, 'Thirty Day Princess' (Par) pretty sad at $10,000. Earle (2,000; 40-55-65) —'Many Happy Returns' (Par) arid vaude. No names outstanding on yau devil,e bill, but film got fine notices and fairly good $17,000 is indicated. Last week .'Whirlpool' (Col) and vaude: Cab Calloway on bill, helped muchly* $20,000 reported. Fox (3,000; 30-40-60)— 'Change of Heart* (Fox) and Btage show. Bet- ter than, initial pace indicated. Biz first few days not so hot and notices divided, but got going later. $22,500 figured on week and film held over with $16,000 indicated this week. Karltoh (1,000; 30-40-50)— 'Very Honorable Guy* (FN). Another first run and should be good, althbugfc firwt two days were rather pale. $2,900 suggested ,by opening; pace. .Last .week 'Slaters. JXn dor t he Skin' (Col). Rather dismal, $2,700. Stanley (3,700; 40-55-65)— 'Little Miss Marker* (Par). House is hav- ing plenty of trouble getting by. Not over $12,000 indicated, and pos- sibly not that. Last week 'Murder at the Vanities' (Par) under ex pected figure with $14,000. Stanton (1,700; 30-40-55) — 'Smarty* (WB). Another doubtful one. Might up recent average a lit tie. *Fog Over Frisco' (WB) $Q.000 In full six days. Fair. Pittsburgh, June 4. Sizzling weather, the usual sum- mer bugaboo, coming early this year and only spot to withstand heat this week is Perm, where the b. o. pull of Crawford is more evident than ever before lnX'Sadie McKee.' A natural for fenuries, .flicker got off to great start in spite of a mercury hovering above 90 and should ex- perience little difficulty collecting $17,600, Which Is plenty ail right here these days. Warner with its new twin bill policy managing to hold Its own, giving the customers a real bargain at 40c. and with current layout, 'Strictly Dynamite' and 'Upper World,' ought to get an even break at $5,000. Fulton having quite a time of it with product lately; play- ing three pictures in nine days^ yanking each of them in half a week when biz "went kerflooey. House' generally has a tuff time of it any- way during the summer, sans a cooling system, and with product Situation to contehd with, too, site may fold for the summer. Estimates for This Week Fulton (Shea- Hyde) (1,750; 16- 25^40)-^HoIlywood Party* (MG). Opens today (4) due to floppo of .'Laughing Boy* (MG), under $2,Q00 in three days. Last week, 'Murder in Trinidad' (Fox) pulled after three days to weak $2,200, with 'Half a Sinner* (U) getting similar treat- ment in similar length of time. Penn (Loew's-UA) (3,300; 26-36- 50)— 'Sadie McKee* (MG). Crawford b.p. natural, with a strong femme draft, and should click on* a big $17,600, which is In the money for this site.. Last week, 'Manhattan Melodrama' (MG) just fair at $10,- 000. Pitt (Shafer) (1,600; 15-25-40)-^ 'Woman's. Man' (Indie), and 'Broad- way to Rio' unit. Still going, which apparently, still means an even break- here, is around $6,000. • Last week, ''Twin Husbands' (indie) and 'Harlem Frolics' on stage, around $6,250. Regent (900; 26-35)— 'Finishing School' (Radio), and 'Curtain at 8' (indie).. Giving 'em one indie and one from the major studios weekly and should manage to keep It up throughout summer. East Liberty Site hitting around an average fig- ure weekly and managing to turn a slight profit, too. Looks like $1,700 this week, Last week, 'Crime Doc Not much stirs on the New York first run front this week. The sail- ors in town aren't coming very close to theatres just yet. The navy dumped: around 40»OQO. men. on. New York Thursday (31) and managers attribute their lack of interest to the fact that the sal.ties have : plenty 1 of film shows on their boats. The day the fleet came in busi- ness immediately fell oft every- where. Too many, people hung 'on the hanks of the Hudson all day to see the boats come in. Subsequent parades •' and visiting the ships is also felt; to have minimized the pic- ture boxofflce. The Music Hall hopes for $70,000 on "Little Man, What Now,' in spite of a weak . start. House, is getting a better percentage of navy trade than others. Capitol has. 'Viva Villa' on first run at pop prices, after a brief and recent two-a-day at the Cri*- ' terlon. It will do. a nice enough $35,000, but won't holdover. 'Born to Be Bad' is doing fairly ' at the Rivoll, and stays a second week after picking up pace for $19,000 the first week, 'Are We Civ- ilized,' Edwin Carewe picture, opens Wednesday morning (13). ' . Of the holdovers 'Hollywood Par- ty,' Rialto, and 'Now I'll Tell,' Roxy, latter on its second lap indications point to only $15,000 at the most. •World in Revolt' comes, in at the • Rialto Friday (8). 'Little Miss. Marker' will be around $28,000 for a good third week. Estimates for This Week Aster (1,012; $1.10-$1.66-$2.2O> 'Rothschild' (UA) (12th week). Got $15,000 . last week 11th) and an- nouncement of final three weeks. No picture set. to follow and if any spurt Arllss will stick. Capitol (6,400; 36r75-85-$1..10> 'Viva Villa' (MG) arid stage show. Wallace Beery starrer, near $35,000, Just all right and no holdover. Last week, second of 'Sadie McKee* (MG) $30,000. Mayfair (2,200; 35-55-65) 'Sorrell and Son' (UA). Doing better than average, ending its first week yes- terday (Monday) at $11,200. Sticks around until too weak. 'The Hum- bug' (U) next. , Palace (1,700; 35-50-66-75) «Where Sinners Meet' (Radio) and vaude. Not more than $11,000 probable. Last week 'Stingaree' jCRadio) just under that. . , . Paramount (3,664; 35-65-76-99) 'Little Miss Marker* (Par) (3rd week) and stage show* Holding up well and possibly $28,000 this week. Second stanza was $36,000, fine. Radio City Music Hull (6,945; 40- «0-85-99-$1.66) 'Little Man, What Now* (U) and stage show. Started oft weakly but should end up around $70,000, okay. Last week 'Where Sinners Meet' (Radio) fell off a trifle, ending at just under $75,000. Rialto (2,000; 40-66-75-86) 'Hol- lywood Party* (MG) (2nd week). Okay at $9,000 on holdover. First week $17,500. Rivoli (2,200; 40-55-75-85) 'Born to Be Bad' (UA). On first week at $19,000, stays a second. 'Are We Civilized?' Edwin Carewe picture which may be taken for distribu- tion by UA, opens Wednesday morn- ing (13). * RKO Center (2,526; 25-40) tin- garee* (Radio),! four days, and 'Witching Hour* (Par) three days. Doubleton will be lucky to snare $6,600, poor. A little TJettferV $7,500 the previous week for 'Change of Heart' (Fox) and 'I'll Tell the World' (U). Roxy (6,200; 26-35-55-65) 'Now I'll Tell' (Fox) (2nd week). After a fine first Beven days of $26,600 Rothstein story sliding to $15,000 on holdover, mild/ Strand (2,900; , 36-55-75-85) 'The Key* (WB). Vicinity of $13,000 : looks tops, light. Last week 'Upper World' (WB) $11,300. . State (2,300; 36-55-75) 'We're Not Dressing' (Par) and vaude. Bing . Crosby draft asserting itBelf herd and possibly $19,000 will show up. good. Last week 'Twenty Million Sweethearts' (WB) over $20,000, pluc Thurston on stage. tor* (Radio), and 'He Couldn't Take If (indie), about $1,600. Stanley (WB) (3,600; 25-35-50)— 'Stingaree' (Radio). On wrong Side of the ledger and weak sister that will be lucky to get even $5,7.50, n. g. ^st^eek-r^^okihg^for^l^ojuble^. (UA), and Guy Lombardo's band got big Satdee and equally big Dec- oration Day to give house a profit at $21,000, best here in long time. Warner (WB) (2,000; 26-4Q)— 'Strictly Dynamite* (Radio), and 'Upper World' (WB), House giving customers a bargain at this scale and has pulled out of red as result. Current layout around $5,000, Last week. 'Merry Wives of Reno' (WB), and 'Wharf. Angel* (Par) just about the vxroe. 10 VARIETY E GROSSES Tuesday, June 5, 1934 Strike Clips Seattle $3,000 Weekly; Kate Smith, $10,000 'Sorrell,' Seattle, June 4. Showmen hope the watefront etrlke will .be settled, as stevedores have tied up the port and other in- dustries dependent upon shipment by water. Showmen think that grosses, are affected, at least $3,000 a week for the fir runs alone, not counting the nabors. Cool weather on Memorial day was a break for the theatres, with starting their present weeks on Wednesday. This gave 'Sadie McKee' a flying start, pix in for nine day run, to get Fifth Ave; back to reg change date (Friday), Kate Smith in person at the Mu- sic Hall looks big, as" this is her first time in Seattle. 'Rotsehild' didn't finish the fourth week, but was yanked at Music Pox for 'Sorreli & Son.' This started slowly on Memorial day, but has chance to build' . Estimates for This Week Blue ouse (Hamrlck) (1,000; 26) ♦Modem Herb' (WB). Singleton this week; $2,300; poor. Last week •A Very Honorable Guy! (FN) and •Success at Any Price' (Raflio) dual, better at $2,900. Coliseum (Evergreen) (1,800; 15t 26) 'Rip Tide' (MG) and 'Good Dame* (Par). Started with big lines on Memorial day. Headed for very nice $4,000. Last week 'David Harum' (Fox) and 'Jimmy the Gent' (WB) dual, fair $3,400, but below usual Rogers pix here. Fifth Avenue. (Evergreen) (2,400; 26-40) 'Sadie .McKee' (MGM)- Started big but flattened out quick- ly. Disappointment at $5,600. Last week, 'Viva Villa' (MG) five days, winding up 11 -day run, $4,300 after twelve grand in week. This pix lacked woman appeal, and so hit big pace first week, then sagged. Liberty (J-vH) (1,900; 10-25) •Mystery Liner' (Mon) and 'Man Trailer' (Col). With big bally for Buck Jones, who is liked by this clie./.ele. But laggard at $3,500. Last week 'Love Birds' (U) and 'Public Stenographer' (Mono) dual, good $4,000. Music Box (Hamriok) (960; 25 85) 'Sorrell and Son' (UA). Terrible at $2i0.00 or less. Didn't -get expected class trade.' Last week, 'Rothschild' (UA) fourth wek cut to four days, exited with .$1,300. Music Hall (Hamrlck) (2,300; 26- 60) . ?Glamour' (II). Kate Smith in person with.'Swanee Revue' bid- ding for $10,000, good. Last week •Merry Wives' (WB) and Tee, Lewis band the magnet, opened fair, but kept strong to finish at good $11,700. v /o t Paramount (Evergreen) (3,106; 26-35) 'Stand Up and Cheer' (Fox) Bigr billing for vaudeville, which is being majored at this spot. Okay at $6,500. Last week '30 Day Princess' (Par) and stage, nice $6,900. Sylvia of Hollywood, of Heart' (Fox) and 'Springtime for Henry* (Fox). Cricks prefer the latter picture, and accordingly, are giving it the breaks, but it's the Gaynor-Farrell team that's pepped, things a shade higher than the past weeks; looks like close to $5,000; tepid but better than past grosses. Last week ,'20 Million Sweethearts' (WB)- was around $4,500; off. Paramount (Indie) (2,200; 15-25- 40)— 'Murder' at the Vanities' (Par) and 'Stolen Sweets' (Mono). Bill well liked, but should have been stronger; start was swell on holi- day, but dipped when the mercury rose. House looks to catch at least $6r600"On=eight-day -run. ^ Last-week= 'Thirty-Day Princess* (Par) and 'In Love With Life' (Mono) was plenty flat at $2,200 on six-day run. RKO-Albee » (2,000; 15-26-40)— 'Beyond Bengal' (Showman) and 'Hell Cat' (Col). House got all' steamed up on nice campaign, but tho fish didn't bite. Harry Schonck, producer of the film, appeared in person at theatre, throe days. About $2,400. Last week 'Strictly Dyna- mite' (RKO) and 'Affairs of a Gen- tleman* (U) yanked after six days; poor at $2,600, TAC0MA REACTS TO BAND; 3 DAYS, 3|G'S \icoma, Juno 4. First half looks like 'happiness' at the Music Box, where Ted; Lewis with his high hat and band show is geting nice kale. The pix Is also, a help, 'Merry Wives of Reno' hav- ing some of what it takes.. Price is up to 60 cents general for the name- unit shows, and there is no kick, for the type, of stage fare ranks par ex- cellence. Last week Duke Ellington did big biz : for three, days, with Al. Fearce topping in four days that followed* having the holiday as an .aid. How- ever, Ellington had the two big. reg days of the week, Saturday and Sunday. This week Roxy continues at low price, duals ahd split week- Blue Mouse still so-so. . Estimates for This Week Music Box (Hamrick) (l;400; 25- 50)— 'Merry Wives of Reno' (WB), Ted. /Lewis band and specialties on stage, considered the big reason for a whooping $3,500 for three days,' followed by 'All of Me' (Par) fori. four days and $1,400. Last week 'You're Telling Me' (Par) and DUke Ellington band in^ person, big $3,000. in three days; then ^Fashions of 1034* (FN) meaning little with Al Pearc© and gang, in person, the rea- son for big $3,300 in four days, in- cluding Memorial day boost. Roxy (J-vbV (1,300; 15-25) — 'Laughing Boy* (MG) and' 'The Lineup* (Col). Split and dual with 'Women in His Life* (Fox) and 'Countess of Monto Cristo" (U). In- dicated-to-i'eaoh^^.SOO.-slow^Last^- wcek. 'P>ottonis T r p' (Fox) nnd. 'Ninth Guest* (Col) big five days, $2,TW0, then 'Social Register' (-Col) and 'As Husbands Go' (Fox) dtial, three days, fair $1,200 for $3,1)00 week, okay. Blue Mouse (TTamiiolO (6S0: 15- 25)— 'Lookln-r for Trouble' (T'A) and 'No More Women' (Par). Expect $1,300. Last 'week 'Come on Marines' (rar) and 'Journal of a Crime' (FN) dual split with 'Mod- ern Hero' (FN) and 'Private Scan- dal' (Par) slow, $1,350. " " " FOREIGN FILM NEWS Telephone* Temple Bur BM1-5M* Cnble AiMrern: VAKIETl. LONUON 11 Chambre Syndkale's Idea of a French NRA for FOms Doesn't Meet with Native Paris, June rench exhibitors, faced with the. possibility of being deprived of some of their best draws, are joinr ing actively -vlth film importers in the fight against the proposals of the plan of the Chambre Syndicate to ban all imports for. three months and to multiply, the 'Import duties, important meeting of. trade lead- ers is called at the Ministry of Com- merce this weekend to discuss .the project, which was submitted to the Government a week agoi Raymand Lussiez, president of the exhlbs' syndicate, says the squeal frpm the theatre managers will be so loud that the project will not go throu YChambre's report is nly a' suggestion,' he said, 'and ven as such can hardly be con- sidered as definite.' American trade leaders here. While ready to share Lussiez* hope- fulness, still feel' that the danger of being, choked out of the market, which is the Continental key spot, is sufficient to justify an active scrap on all fronts, Lussiez' opinion, which is based on the- theory that the French pro- duction cannot supply enough good films to k?ep the theatres going, is endorsed by French pioneers such to limited liability companies of less than $33,300 capital for pro- ducers and $16,600 for distri . Producers, would , be. fayored by the abolition of the tariff oh raw film; Block, booking would be barred for ail 1ms, but "blind book- ing for foreign films only. A French film eixport bureau, would be established, with agen- cies all oyer the world, with an automatic option on every French film produced by a concern that did^ not have exclusive direct French' agencies 'of. its 'own abroad. This bureau would promote '' French showcases abroad. Scheme, ..including these and. the antl- foreign features is considered a French film NRA code. Industry Is desperate, and figures something like this has got to be done. Nameless Pic Bally Paris, May 25.. Stuck a French title for 'Prizefighter and Lady,' Metro opened it tonight at the Miracles without a name, putting it up to the audience at the first two or three shows to suggest one. Stunt got lots of press approval. This is Max Baer film the Nazis barred. ft T. MAY EASE IN ARIJSSPIC U. S, Dept. of Commerce Statistics Show World-Wide Growth of Brit. FOms at Expense of U. S. Exports ZOLA AGITATION IN PARIS K.0.'S 'NANA' as Louis Lumiere, credited here with invention of motion pictures; Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont. In Paris alone there are 25 French- owned houses, employing French labor, which show American films almost exclusively and which would b out of luck if imports,, were stopped. Row in local American press (chiefly Chi. Trlb.; N. Y. Herald has been inclined to. lay off story, apparently fearful of hurting French feelings) has elicited reply from ad- vocates of the plan, who contend that it is not a scheme directed against foreign product but a d«s perate attempt to save the local in dustryfrom Illness which threatens to be fatal That French trade is in a bad way is certain, and feeling is unl versal that something has to. be done to fix thjngs up. Chambre's embargo scheme, however, is not the only idea proposed. Another, details of which- are undivulged, is known to be before the Govern- ment. Marcel Vandal of the Chambre, said to be principal author of the scheme, says the proposed three months' ban is intended only to give local producers time to reorganize. Tax Angle Tax feature of the scheme, he said, is an attempt to fit in with the ideas of the American distribs themselves, who said they would rather have- a tariff than see the import quotas continued. Amount of the tariff Is still, open to dis- cussion, he said. Reason for the discrimination in faVor of German -made French ver- sions, as against America-mades in English (to be dubbed here, as re- quired, if at all) was that the Ger- mans, thus gave employment, to French act'ors and directors. Holly- wood French versions would get the same break," he. said. The Chambre's scheme would force a domestic outlet for French films by making e^hibs and dis- tribs handle a fixed percentage of them, to be increased each , year over a five year period. This would be enforced by a check-up system operated by the Chambre, and vior lations would be punished "by fines or imprisonment. This distributing and exhibiting ctuota would be a substitute for the ; -^mpwtrqu0t^now^Th?1^ eulating it, foreign films in original languages and dubbed would be on equal basis. ■Further features of the Chambre scheme which emphasize the reor gunization of. the French industry are Every unit in the industry would be licensed, and license would be withdrawn for fraudulent bank ruptcy or violation of the quota rules. No license would be granted Paris, May 25. The. squawkers . got 'Nana' (UA). After 'curiosity-seekers stopped go- ing, to the Lord Byron to see film, and some t~j boo, for a week or so receipts'! nosedived, hitting as low as *150 daily. Film was pulled Wednesday (23), UA substituting 'Sorrell and Son,' British-made. Flop was cause of a wild tussle between UA and the showcase man- ager, M. L'manskl, who tore hair, threatened to try to split, with UA and talked wildly about a counter- suit against the. Zola heirs, whose protests had wrecked the picture's biz. UA is going right on dubbing the picture, however, in the hope, and belief that pop audiences will 'care little about literacy origins and squabbles. Korda's Duse May 25. Maria Korda. at present in Rome, intends filming the life of Eteanora Duse, using her own manuscript. Miss Korda is negotiating with D'Annunzio, who, it Is known, has had an influence on Duse's life. Josef von Sternberg* Rouben Mamoulian or possibly Alexander Korda, her divorced husband may direct. Paris, June 4, George Arllss,; here from London on short vacation, says 'Rothschild' is due to open September in Cinema de 1' Avenue here. This is taken" to mean that United Artists is confi- dent that- if everybody lies low the censorship trouble over, this film will have blown over by the end of summer. Month, or so ago; nou.nced that picture was n,g. for FYance, without saying why. Theor- ies were that French objected to portrayal of . Rothschilds financing war against Napoleon, or that the Rothschild family, very influential here, had quietly put in a wqrd. UA at first thought of a heavy pro- test, but later decided on a quiet policy, which they believe now is winning. Press, meanwhile, has been fanning censorship, which is directed by author Edmond See, for this and ^ other apparently illogical decisions. Nazi Nix on Austrian And American Bfans BADER'S TRIP TO U. S. WITH U. BRIT. TESTS Berlin, June 4. Because several of the cast are Jews, including Adela Kern, and be- cause Oscar Strauss composed the music for the nlm < 'Voices of Spring,' a Viennese picture, has been banned by the German censors. Censors also banned the German version of 'Trial of Mary Dugari,' Metro film* on grounds that picture was -a plea against capital punish- ment, and that this is contrary to Nazi principles. Film was to - have ; played the Volksbuehne theatre. London Films London, May 25. British & Lomlnion Films started something when , they got the idea of filming 'Sons 6' Guns.' Picture was to star Jack Buchanan and Lil.i Damita. with Sidney Lanfleld brought over to direct, and Barney 'Chic' McGill to assist. .They have been on the payroll five and three weeks respectively, and hold contracts for 10 weeks, but nothing has happened so far, except regular salary checks. Recent idea Was to dp art English Version of 'Sons,' but this has been abandoned: Latest is to dig into the old English farce. 'Brewster's Mil- lions,* and see wtiatScan be made of that as a picture. Farce -was originally thought of by Jack Waller to be made into musical for Jack Buchanan, but that was discarded, with 'Mr',. Whittington,' the current Buchanan and Waller Hippodrome musical, born instead. London, June 4. David Bader,. Universal's special London rep; has sailed for America to attend U's sales convention June 5. Bader brings with him a load of film tests. Included are Ena Moon, Carol Coombe, Robert Douglas and Derrick de Marriy. It is Bader's first return trip in four years, and he IS likely to return with Carl Laemmle, who is due here end of June. INTERNAT'L CINEMATIC CONCLAVE IN VENICE lans are going forward for the second annual exhibitlo of cinema tbgraphic art, which will be held in Venice, Italy, in August: The com mlttee announces assurance of en tries from China, India, Argentine, Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Mexico, Switzerland, Germany, Bus sla, England, and the,. United States. Poland will make ho entry, as it will have no finished product by that time. Radio is sending 'Little Women' and the 'Seven Seas' has promised 'White Heat,' formerly 'Cane Fire.* Most American com- panies will contribute with cartoon subjects by Walt Disney and Max: Fleischer. Italian government hangs up two prices, one for the best local and another to the best foreign film and the city of Venice will offer a gold cup for the best director. There will be other cups and medals, and two sub-standard cameras for the best miniature films. International Federation of the Cinematographic Press will be held August 6-8. I .versal is producing at Twick- enham studios here a fiimization of 'Are You a Mason?' Leads by Son nte Hale; and . Robertson Hare. Benny Rubin Set -^ Benn y Rubin,. arriv jE»d,.,hexe._and was immediately drafted by War- ners for a picture which goes into production, immediately. Fried Due in U. S. Aclolphe Fried is clue in New York shortly, taking with' him pictures made by Twickenham Film Studios, including 'Wandering Jew,' Sound City (London), is another company he is representing; 6also a couple from Nottlofold Studios, and a cou- ple of Carl Hrlssons made locally This is Fried's first trip over Sailings London, May 25. Steamship bookings from America to England are already 4$% larger than the combined bookings for the entire summer last year. Improvement in the position of British films as against others,, par- ticularly American films, to be noted elsewhere than in the United States. The British: films/are gain-, ing considerably in Britain's . own., colonies. Noted this way is Austra- lia. In that ritish possession, Brit- ish films during the past three years improved nearly 200% over what it 1 was in 1930.. Pictures like 'Henry VIII,' 'Con- stant Nymph' and 'Catherine the' Great' have enhanced the British position in the States the past sea— son, but in Australia, British film' Imports jumped from 8.2% In 1930 ; to 26.7% in £933. . Figures are via-' the U. S, Depart- ment of Commerce andjndicate that the determination of" the British- producers to Improve, their export position is a serious and persistent, challenge to American-made prod- uct. The figures would show' that the, . proportionate actual gain made by ; British film imports into Australia > corresponds almost to the actual ' percentage of loss - -by American films; over the three-year period from 1930 to .1933 inclusive. Whereas British films gained. 17.2% in the Australian market over this period, American films lost-. 20.2%. The total number of im- ports into the Australian Common- wealth for 1933 were 1,479 films. Of this number the U. S. tops with* 66.3%. Great Britain's percentage is 26.7%. During 1930, the total Australian film imports were 2,148. At that time the U. S. topped with ; . 86.6%, while the British percentage was only 8.2%. British importations amounted to 37.7% of the total American per- ' centage In 1933. American imports to Australia in 1933 totaled 980 pictures while Brit- ain's amounted to 380. All other countries accounted for. only 119 films in this period. The figure in- cludes features and shorts, Amer- icans total in features being 4G4, Britain, 108, and other countries, 23. MUNI-LAUGHTON IN NUINSKY BIOG FILM Hays' Protest to State Dept. Over Foreign Powers' Embargo on U. S. Pix London, June 4. Paul Muni, as Nijinsky, and Charles Laughton, as Dahglieff, in I a fiimization of the Nijinsky bi- ography of the eminent Russe bal- let master, is London Films' forth- | coming special; « Alexander Korda will direct. Washington, June 4, Charging foreign interests are at- tempting to ruin American film in- dustry and nab overseas markets, Hays organization today called upon State Department officials to protest against ban on Warner Bros, films imposed by the Polish government. * Exclusion order is unfair dis- crimination and 'classic example of the lmsy excuses' thought up by foreign competitors, MPPDA of- fice asserted. Explaining efforts made to placate Polish authorities, Hays organiza- tion said costly retakes were made and name: jus deletions ordered to remove sources of irritation and that exclusion was uncalled for. Picture which caused bars to be put up was 'The Life of Jimmy Dolan" which MPPDA explained had been revised to .remove various references t-> Polish interests and submitted for private review by authorities. Pointing out that .Polish govern- ment/ sald_ it ^bjectedjilso J.o 'The Match King' ('Private Life .6T Tvaf Krueger", foreign title) and 'How Many More* Nights', producer group remarked that former, film has been in circulation for a year arid a half and has beer, exhibited in most for- eign countries without murmur of complaint while latter is hot listed as a Warner product. 'This- is the second instance in a month of foreign interests seeking government action in the suppres- sion of American motion picture trade in Europe', Hays group de clared, recalling prior effort of French Chambre Syndicate to close gates for three montl s and boo.«t tariffs sky-high, investigation dis- closed That the French promoters of the proposal planned to create a rich government subsidy with which to force the sale of French films in the United StateB while excluding American films from France. Simi- larly it is known that the Polish ex elusion order was brought about by. interests which aspire to establish an industry not only to take over the Polish trade but with which to invade the United State* as well,' NEW LONDON INDIE'S RADIO MELLER FILM on. May 27. Latest picture concern being pro- moted is 'Phoenix Films, Ltd., with capital of $500,000, by Reginald Pjenhani and Hugh Perceval. Start _ "production" : IatTTn^Jurie~wTrR ; Tllmiz^ atlon of Eric Maschwitz and Val Glelgud's newspaper serial, 'Mur- der at Broadcasting House.' Masch- witz - and Glelgud are respectively directors vaudeville and produc- tions at the Kritish Broadcasting .Corp Reginald Denham will direct, with Peter II ad don, .to be starred for first time in films. It is likely Baling studios will be used. [ Novarro 0JL at $3; Nixed at $10 in B, A. Buenos Aires, May fc. " Disfavor which struck Ramon No- varro's appearance here in concert, upon his arrival, apparently was due more to the high $10 premiere ad-, mish. Realizing the b. 6. was too high, the scale was reduced to $3 top and No varro's gate picked up. I. W. Schlesinger Due In I. W. Schlesinger, resident chief Of the Schlesinger interests in South Africa, arrives in New York today (Tuesday) from London. The head of African Theatres has been in London for several -weeks. His stay in the U...S. is for the- usual periodic consultation with M. A, Schlesinger, American head of the Schlesingers, who own General Talking Pictures (DeForest Phono- film) among other properties in the U. S. G-B's English Remake London', May 25. Gaumont-Dritlsh has acquired the English speaking rights of 'Unfinr iehed Symphony,' Austrian film. G-B Is taking '.a company to Vienna, where film will be made in English. Only one of the original cast will he Martha Eggerth, who is hero studying English for that purpose. 12 VARIETY FILM BtVIEWS Tuesday, June 5, 1934 Little Man, What Now? Universal production and release. Stars arcaret Sulla van; Douglass Montgomery featured. Directed by Franz Borzage. From the novel by HarisCFallada. Screen- piny., William Anthony McQuire.. Camera, Norbert Brodlne. At Music Hall, N. ■week May 31. Ilunnlng time, 06 mine. r... Margaret Sullavan .Douglass Montgomery i. ....... Alan Hale , .• . .Catherine Doucet ...... Fred Kohler . . .Mae Marsh ..DeWltt Jennings Lammchen Hiins Plnnober . Jachman . . ... ... ,Mla Plntieberg. . Communist. . ■ •> ■ His Wife Errill tflelnhblz .., . . . : . Franz Schluter, the actor.. . Alan Mowbray the. her Marie Kleinholz. Nurrte .......... Wlilow Schn'rr Frenchman. ..... Shult'z - . v ■Frau Kleinholz. Kleinholz; Jr. . KcssleV . . , . . , Hcllbut .. Xaudevb Lehmnn «-.-. Tuttt-reeze .... Sr-nnnfufts Muriel Kirkland . .Hedda Hopper ....Sarah Paddcn ...... Earle Foxe ...George Meeker ....Bodll Rosing ; . Donald Haines .Monroe Owsley Huntley, Jr. . : . .Paul Flz. , ; .Frank Relcher ... .Christian Rub tienne Girordot 'lAU'e Man; What Now?', from the best selling novel of last year is al- most a profound film. . It's human, homely and romantic; it's as .good a concrete refutation of the current anti -Hollywood agitators as could be desired; and, what's more, it will yield ' idends to the producer and exhibitor. There are some who will captious- ly icomplairi of its lethargy and its somewhat overly painstaking 95 minutes' transition of the; novel in>. to celluloid, but in the main.it will grip. It Is thoroughly believable and understandable,, whether its: locale is Germany— this original geograph- ic background has been : retained in : ,the. • Universal production — or whether it's .the u . S. . The retention of Hans, Fallad9.'s original setting presents this saga of the vicissitudes :6f a. very much-in* love ' young' ' cquple objectively and yet contemporaneously, , without bringing 'It ;too. 'disturbing into the home grounds. . ' The action' in the- novel was said - \to have transpired in the Reich up until the recent' political revolution. As . ;a screen document there is" no" .definition of time. Some may endeavor, to" read of-the^mo- ment politic significance in this ex- position of Hans Plnneberg and his Lammcheh (Montgomery and Miss Sullavan). . But viewed objectively, aans any: thoughts of the daily cable news dispatches it: shapes up as an interesting picture,- the travail of the. provincial couple, in making their mark in' the world, securing a means of lucrative employment and enjoying the normal human ex- istence, As a cineniatic production it is a credit to all. Borzage's direction is replete, -with consummate under- standing for the subject in hand Margaret Sullavan and Douglass Montgomery are superb in their roles of the young couple. * Alan Hale as a cheerful rogue, Catherine Doucet, his wordly mistress, who is Hans' mercenary stepmother, De Witt Jennings, as the unrelenting, goading millowner, Alan. Mowbray^ Monroe Owsley, G. P. Huntley, Jr., Christian Rub, EUenne Girardot and Fred Kohler are all above par, han dling their histrionic assignments with rare understanding and cpn- ' viction. There are some evidences of chop py cutting and since that was forced to arise presumably for reasons of time conservation, some further ef- forts to chop the 95 minutes should be made. The forepart may permit that. 'Little Man, What Now?' should get ample b. o. attention on strength of the stars, cast, the technically ex- pert production and the novel's rep Its exploitation possibilities are ex- cellent. Abel. BORN TO BE BAD Hh Century production for United "Artists rnlense. I-bretta Young and Cury Grant starred. Directed by Lowell Sherman. ' Story and dialog by Ralph Graves. Continuity, Harrison Jacobs; Barney cGUI, photog, At Rivoll, New York, , starting May .81 Running time, 70 mine. Letly Strong Irtretta Young TUaicolm Trevor. ; .Cary Grant Mickey. . . ...... . . .Jackie Kelk Fuzzy. . , w, Henry Travers Steve Karris.'... . ; . ........ . .Russell HoptOn •Max-. Ii'pber. ; , •.;.,. ...Andrew Tombes Doctor Dropsy . . ... ..... ... .Howard Lang Artolph. .-Hairy Green Aiyce Trevor. . -:«... .' :MarIon Burns then 'Just to keep in touch with all departments of my business,* While truck driving one day he. runs oy*r the kid. The kid's mother tries to frame a big settlement, but is ex- posed in court. Anyway, the rich rnan adopts the hoy. Then the mother goes on the make for the rich man, gets him in spite of hie very nice but too generous and un- real wife— but at the finish mother-on-the-rhake realizes mistake, repents, and Bcrwni. Loretta Young loolis better than ever, 'but the story gave her too much of a handicap to do ^anything but loo* well. Her performance might be called satisfactory WgJ the : circumstances, but the same doesn't apply to Cary Grant, He irives a colorless, meaningless per- formance. Jackie Kelk, seemingly .about seven or eight years ^old must he a clever kid to be able to become so dislKble before the rfctuw* five minutes old, as he does here. Balance of cast, as well as the pro- duction and .Lowell Shermans deft but wasted directing, all much too good for the script. MOTHER (Silent} (RUSSIAN MADE) Maurice Carnoysky. £>££f d J,^ At I time, 72 minutes. . w „ . Vera Baranovskaya Mother. . .-. .. .. .. . . ;.. TchlfiUakov 1 Father j^ Kolal uatalov Son, . Sponsors say this silent picture is based on *laxlm Gorki's '1905' . Re- port has it that .'Mother' was. sup- pressed by American censors for several years until the current showing at a small, downtown grind was permitted after a, change of title. Music accompaniment aiid some effects are dubbed. Mother' is a hackneyed exposi- tion of maternal love. Soviet^ dis- tortion of the theme presents it even more archaicly than ordinary use of the theme justifies. A drunken factory worker in old Rus- sia, crazed by too much vodka, re- turns to beat his wife after a pre- sumed lengthy drinking bout with his pals in a saloon. The son of the family intervenes. Back in the vodka palace the father is inveigled to join a group of strikebreakers, while the son is on the workers* side. The father is Miniature Reviews 'Little Man, What Now?' (U). Artistically commercial fllmiza- tiort of best-seller with Mar- garet Sullavan and Douglas Montgomery topping a tiptop 'Born to Be Bad' (UA). Trash story too much for cast arid director to- Jive down. 'Mother* (Russian made). Si- lent propaganda .film with mu- • sic .acepmpaniment and some . sound effects dubbed. Off- screen' narrator. Uncommercial entertainment for the. U. S. Bad photography and plot. 'The Key' (WB). With the. 1920 Irish revolution, as the background, tale has its punchy moments but offers' little for the WiHlam Powell following to get excited about. •Sbrrell and Son* (UA). Worthy. H. B. Warner perform- ance, but .production as a whole too lethargic and epfsbdic, 'Registered . Nurse' (W-B), One of . the hospital cycle. Good acting and atmosphere cannot overcome story handicaps, 'Woman in Command'" (G-B). Poor entertainment. Edward Everett Hortbn' in cast. 'Voice in the Night' (Col). Tim McCoy doing- what a Mc- Coy is expected to do. Tim's sock is the same that always ' gets cheers in the lesser houses.' 'Harold ' Teen' ,; • (1st " Nat.). Cartoon character, in in infan- tile story that will be rejected •■ eveii by the juveniles. 'Thundering Herd'.. Good cast and expensive .production cannot overcome anti-western prejudice. •You Made^ Me Love you' (British made). Untoward title and slapstick plot that's much overpadded.' Thelma Todd' and Stanley Luplno starred. ROSS-McLARNIN FIGHT J 5 Mina Criterion, N. Y. I strand New Yo Barney Ross Is shown an easy «ran«, Another one; of the dizzy dame W it ? uJL ^Lnndav <28? * at ^the characterizations by X^ulu McCon- ^ a i t0 « k ^r ft ^^^^^^^^ with the entire 10 minutes Mad l S ?^S, U wfcieh ^were written so framed ar^ a single gag. Rapid low Punches which we re a _Y"" en ^° flre dla i 0f; that this one offers is much^about, ar,e not J ls1 ^ good for at least a couple chuckles. £eVb r ut a S H thin ^ r 600 M^Larnin struck : l ^.^JJ^" rSff'Stet 'Just Concentrate' ac- intentional blows tta jl'l'S countB for is hooked up with a talk. Interesting is the round ^ere °ne 1° machlne affair tagged the of McLarnin's blowfi ^. un ?^ n Ro ^ 'ThinTc-O-Player.' It will play any. and latter falls to the_ rosin, in composition that, the sub- the picture, he is up a u »ck ft s a flash jest e elects . A11 she has to do la hol if he slipped rather than fell, on o tQ rQ attached to the con- THE KEY Talking Shorts LULU McCONNELL 'Just Concentrate' 10 Mins. New York ne No. 8317 other hand, wh «" . f cl 5 t „ n trapiion and concentrate. Comedy as toppled almost immediately £ £ ter- I de rVves"f rom* the' mechanTsmVrepQ- ward, he fell backward as it struc.K tltlon q£ the same song . regardless rather than slipping. One of those Qf tne num ber that the rope holder- camera tricks or maybe the camera on ner chooses; Tag laugh eomes is right. . . when a guest at the McConnell home At any rate these pictures are picks th€ fbrrner tune and bets that nicely photographed *nd clear and th|e mac hine can't play it. After the interesting. Should please almost money ^ inlaid the noise box goes anywhere, but particularly where I , nto actlon and gives oft the very McLarnin or Rpss is well. Known, f 8ong that its owner had been all day Curiously enough,: the bell is heard trying to get it to play. ©dec only for the first : round. 1 The first two rounds unroll rather Slowly, but after that the picture DARLING ENEMY, gathers speed. The final and 15th I With Gertrude Niesen, Rpseoe Ails round is most interesting outside Musical Comedy of the ninth, where the falls take 1 20 Mint, place. Strand, New York The two fighters leave their cor- Vifephone No. 7526 ners and begin swapping blows, but ..inane concoction of. singing, danc- as if they are fatigued or else sud- | n g ( prancing girls and plot. Proves denly „ becomie most deliberate in I among other things that though she their action. McLarnln Is shown to I packs something , of a talent f or - be holding plenty -with Ross punch- warbling the Gertrude Niesen per- ; ing him profusely at close quarters Igonality is not for pictures. Short" and otherwise. In the early rounds I gives her lines to read, and this as- McLarnin is shown making plenty [ signment does anything' but make whiffs and it's curiously interesting f Gr a favorable impression; When to see how Ross' frame winces once left to her torchifyihg. routine the or twice as McLarnin's blows strike ! girl passes muster, the pit of his stomach. Bhani | plot deals with spy conniving be- tween two mythical countries,, with . most Of the action split up between HELD 'FOR RANSOM cabaret, military court and street Novelty I scenes. Roscoe Ails attempts to 16 Mins. I squeeze mirth' out of mirthless ma- Criterion, N. Y. . Iteclal but gives a better account of Jameson himself when the senarlo turns to history of. the dance interludes. — - 1 Woven into the - two-reeler are Warner Bros, "production ana release Stars William Powell; Edna Best and Colin un uic .. -r- \. i Cllve featured. Directed by Michael Curtlz. killed in a clash between the two Ba^ on play W.^ G ^ w M a mi B ic groups, as the soldiers arrive,. Son Hardy^ rf screen j /taJf^W D ^ is under suspicion, and through l*™ m , Thomas Richards. At strand sheer ignorance the boy's mother is New York; week May 30. r.unning time, the cause for sending him to jail; 8^ minutes, . ^ Firearms are found hidden in -their ^^•-••v-;---.'/.'.....^ Bert home as uncovered by the mother. N^h . — : f .f*im ciiye Thereafter the mother joins the ^rT .... ... .^-.--.^^Xbbf, lad^s cause with the workers. May rfhe General. . ... • • \r;;;;.^S„ o ? Nefn Day comes and the workers prepare d^—-^— \ .... a. Phil BB«n to march on the jail to free the ^V^&SS- prisoners, A maid helps the boy to orwty^. ■ . . .--.^ escape, In the fadeout a troop °* M^Eni,™! . ..Marine Doy-io Russian cavalry ride down all or Klrby ... .Arthur Ayieswprth nearly all beneath trampling horses Barmaid; ...... ■hSf? the mother being the last to I Flower Girt... fall waving the red flag. . Whatever fine sentiment marked Settng of 'The Key/ adapted from heroic usurpation of her the London stage play, Is the Irish flkt acainsroSressive em- revolution of 1920. Recalled is that «?^rS?nd brutS ^So?diery and her chapter of Anglo-Gaelic relations in ?mSi^S^\n SS%ehB.\t, is which the marauding Black-and- oimnfe\eirnullifled by the twisted, Tan troops, the street-sniping pa completely numn«uuy i _ \ * r \Mst and the nhantom-movinj This belated Urschell kidnapping at Oklahoma . . ,„ . . . . City of around a year ago, is un- «*«?. routine clips from one of the timely sinVe the newsreels long ago \viore elaborate Warner Bros, mus - scJIened similar material. Addl- «J». Kver . this fails to ..give a di- tionally there's 'the depressing angle ^JJJSffi^ JJnSi,* of such a . subject as kidnapping to ' ° susramea aunness. miniShing effect on the .20 minnfos Ode, BERT LAHR 'No More West' ........... ............ 1 Gertrude Short .Dawn O'Day blunt and unimaginative display of vicious Russiap class warfare. It is unadulterated propaganda of the most crude kind. As such the film is uncommercial entertainment for general American consumption trlots and the phantom -moving Michael Collins combined to make a gory, tumultuous time, of it. Orily'a minor pkrt of the color and dynamic drama that these pages afford has been captured by the pic- ture. But there is enough pulsing If the film were not only worthy sweep to the background episodes of itself, even the propaganda angle mcluded t o overcome the vapidity might be overlooked, but down to o£ & formula triangle— husband, wife cases the picture is just another and returri ed lover— to give the film one of those things. There is no | an a b 0ve . av crage rating consider. The offscreen narration empha- sizes the crime doesn't pay angle, I which is okay. However, in showing F a r Ce " a pieced-together scene of the ac- -jg Mins. tual kidnapping the subject may be- I p a |ace p N. Y. come a target for squawks. . f Radio-Van Beuren Quite often the suggestive power Bert Lahr in a skit opening with of the screen may be' stronger than him in cowboy clothes In a shdot- ahy offscreen narration, or vice gallery, letting a couple of thugs versa. That's a hazard, but if con- fo 0 l the police by pretending they sidered rigidly this short cannot be a re customers, but later holding classified in the entertainment class, them up and turning them over to It commercializes a most despicable the cops. He goes west to escape crime. 8h, which played two weeks at McVickers a month ago. Pictures, will stay as 1 long as possible, but hardly more . thari a week Is. ex- pected. Particularly since if the picture holds more than a week, the release date on the picture changes automatically to 'C week, which will put the Garrick in ' competition with some 1,000 neighborhood the- atres, whereas in. 'B' week it com- petes with only .18 nabe houses. Figured four . or flye days will be average length of run. There is no question that the Ori- ental's 40c policy with stage shows hurt the ace B.&IC Chicago. On the same thesis it's- likely that the Garrick will take some coin away from the. United Artists and Mc- Vickers, since it will attract the same type of patronage. Gold.. lobby, but actual money was small. It's going to take plenty of turn- over oh at least eight or nine shows daily to hit an overhead of What looks like $3,000 weekly. At 40c the house is going to have plenty of competish from the' Oriental, 1 which for the same price offers a vaude show in addition, while the PALACE, N. Y. Satisfactory bill that has two. comedy acts, a juggler, radio turn and name dance duo. Makes for variety and goes together better than, the average flve-acter . these days. Runs only 57 minutes, but all meat. « Pickens Sisters . are the . bill top- pers in the advertising and ap- parently doing, jtheir full share of the drawing. Spotted third, and followed a. rough comedy act, but they, had the crowd in hand from the start and pushed over a flock of numbers through the mike. Ad- vantage Of having a trio Is that they can't all hide behind the mike at the same time. Smooth harmony, nice arrangements . and finished style got them over in a big way, with an old-time down south air. for the encore that could have been worked, for another return had the time, permitted. Sammy White gets the next to closing, and holds the fort nicely with his combined dance and. oper- atic medley getting more of the hit. His fan dance is too broad and a bit too obvious, but a carioca, while as broad, was better planned. That made a little too much dancing just ahead of Harrison and Fisher, but it. didn't bother them. Opened with the 'Glowworm' waltz, but collected with the mod- ernistic dance which closes. Latter had some of the crowd feazed. at first, with its stylized gestures, but they . got the idea and the strip at the finish made everybody friends, giving them enough of a hand to stay the close-in curtain for a final bow. Breather. is a man Who does a novel combination of dancing, acrobatics and" fire eating, holding the tube lit - his mouth throughout his gyrations, which is a good little trick all by itself. It's a good closer with enough to appeal to those who cannot properly evaluate the. excel- lent dancing. Serge Flash .opens. . S.id Page is deucer with his two girls and tall stooge. Got the big laughs with the stoogery arid then made a new nick when the girls came back in glad rags. Some .of the gags might be soaped a little. Not necessary to. be rough to score, but turn was liked. It would be smarter with a better finish. Last' minute is a letdown. ■' Film was 'He Was Her Man' (WB), a Radio short and Pathe News. Business off Friday evening, partly as the result of a hot sum- mer day. Chic. FOX, BROOKLYN Friday night, change day., saw only a fair-to-mlddlln' attendance on the lower floor. Upper shelves were undermanned. This sparse trade must be indicative that if the closing of *he Brooklyn Paramount has helped the Fox a little, the biz previously at the Fox and before the Brooklyn Par shuttered must have been plenty bad. Cheap show currently. Cheap set- ting of as unrealistic and inartistic barnyard setting as ever glimpsed. Just a backdrop with a house paint- ed thereon, and some kind of wood- en gate swinging in front of the musickers wearing overalls and straw hats behmd a white railing. The style and stuff is faintly rem- iniscent of a Fanchon & Marco unit. Line Is pretty much out of gear currently. Not bad looking kids, butt showing no stage presence. Addi- tionally little brunet in. a blue gown trots out for a back leg bender that's inept. Ted Mess , solo stepper, and Perry noteholders protective agreement was reached, receivership following on J jne 6, 1932. Assets included 134 theatre lease- holds, eight theatre fee properties, in Greater New York, upstate arid New Jersey, plus equipment, fix-, tures, etc. As of May 1 last when- the receivers filed thelf fourth rer port, other assets included $400,000 in cash. Because of the complexity ' of the situation it is declared impos- . sible, pending judicial determina- tion, to state the exact , line -of de- marcation of all items between the mortgaged and unmortgaged assets, In addition, to the $12,460,700 in notes and bonds, liabilities include $830,262 in real jestate mortgages, , miscellaneous accounts 6f around $7,000, receiver's liabilities of around $26,000, and other general creditor claims, including those of doubtful validity of approximately $5,461,798, of which $4,536,742 is the Fox The- atres Corp. claim*. During the receivership 55 theatre, leaseholds were relinquished' or dis- posed of, reducing -properties to 79^' Plan of reorganization, for Fox- Met, calling for organization of a new company to take over assets and liabilities, deals directly with only the 87- theatre leaseholds' ano* fees, with separate- provision made for liquidation Of the interest of de- positing noteholders in the unmort- gaged cash assets of the corpora- tion. No specific provision is made for participation in the plan by any general creditors except miscellane- ous invoice creditors whose claims, around $7,000, it is proposed to pay in full out. of noteholders share of unmortgaged cash* when received. The plan contemplates, foreclosure of the mortgage securing the pres- ently outstanding notes under pro- ceedings now pending in the Fed- eral courts. Capitalization . of the proposed new company on a sale will be sub- stantially as follows: Secured 5% debentures due \n "1944, on an in- come basis for; the first three years and mounting] to $6,880,350, with common stock of 276,214 shares to be represented by voting trust cerv tificates. These amounts are 'maxi- mum, exact amount of new deben- tures to be governed by the amount of notes deposited under the plan. In addition to the. new bonds to be issued to depositors there will be reserved for subscription .at par, ah I aggregate of $650,000 principal amount of iiew debentures: 6f the common stock a maximum of 10%, not exceeding 27,000 shares, will be issued to Fox Film Corp., in con- sideration of obtaining from it nec- essary rights under existing picture supply, contracts held by operating companies in Fox-Met. Under the plan note depositors will receive for each $1,000 princi- pal amount of notes, together with Trai}ffia^nterestv J the=following^New- bonds to amount of $500; voting trust certificates for 20 shares of common; a registered warrant for a prorata share in the unmortgaged cash of the corporation and $50 in cash. Under the voting trust set up in behalf of depositing noteholders, Sidney R. Kent, Herbert P. Howell (banker) ' and Richard C. Hunt [lawyer) have agreed to serve as rust if approved by the notehold- ers and courts. The reorganization plan for ef- fecting 'initial control* calls for an Initial board of seven directors with $50,000 as maximum salary for any officer, including president, with op- erating management between Skou ras Bros, and Raridfo^ce, letter Sam Rinzler and Louis Frisch. Aggregate salaries for the five on the operating side is set at $119,200 a year, with new management ar- rangement specifying that all claims of the three Skourases for drawing account balances under previous contracts will be. released to the exv tent; that these claims are acquired by the new company taking oyer Fox-Met. A settlement of the $4,500,000 Fox Theatres claim has been worked out Under the reorganization, calling for payment to Fox Theatres Corp., receivers of $100,000, in addition to reduction in theatre rents, mortgages, etc. The Fox Film Corp. claim, amounting to $288,691, will be set tied, subject to approval of the plan, by paying Fox Film $25,000 cash plus 10% of the common stock of the new company and agreeing to cer- tain franchise and other conditions. HOW ST. L. THEATRES SHAPE OP UNDER F&M Neither RKO npr Paramount feel sweet about /the way each handed over options on product deals, in St. Louis to Warners for the coming season, when Warners had only one theatre in sight to house the prod- uct. Warners, presently, to relieve the situation, is talking about mak- ing arrangements with Fanchon & Marco for the latter to cut in on the options, but the outlook appears' that Par and RKO will prefer to do business direct with Fanchon & Marco. That's on account of . & M, coming into operating control of the Ambassador, Missouri and Grand Central theatres in St. Louis in around 60 days, after foreclosure sa,le of the houses in question, in- stead of Warners. The* foreclosure sale on the prop- erties takes place Thursday (7). Final details, however, will take another two months before F. & M. operation begins. Means the re- linquishment of operating control by the ^Skouras Brothers also. The Ambassador; Missouri, and Grand Central theatres added to the F. & M. link will provide Fanchon & Marco with control of the first- run situation in St. Louis, Only ex ceptipns will be .Loew's State . and the newly bought Warners' , Rlalto, a former -Shubert legit spot. Joe Bernhard, Warner theatre chief, has. been in St. Louis lately looking oyer things 'and only re- turned to New York the -past week From the Warner angle it's fig- ured to get out of this product jam with Par and RKO by taking up options with the latter compa hies on a selective picture basis, Warners Jftguring to assume the op- tions and pick" the clhdice fllm's7^th- erwlse handing all others over to F&M. The options, on the Par 'and RKO product if Warners are permitted to take these up will hand W.B. around 160 possible pictures for the lone Rlalto spot; tyith a seating capacity of around 2,000. The former Shubert 'spot, now called the Warner Shubert is pres entiy double-featuring, but acquisi- tion of the -Par and , RKO product wpiild ? . pjferrtiit that spot to three changes daily if using all the prod uct of three companies including Warners. Such .a policy would materially cut into the first run gross expec- tancies of Paramount and RKO, which is Creating plenty of a rub to these firms. Stiff Sentence for Stenching Hoped to Curb Theatre. Ev3 Stock Market (Continued from page -6) Lengths to which bomb stenching has gone of recent years in theatre labor troubles is finally resulting in a break for theatre operators, fol- lowing first • step taken by the. courts in causing convictions under a new law which makes it a misdemeanor to merely possess stench, stuff. In Bronx -1% -1% % +2 % - !4 + % ~ % - % - 94 -B % - % ♦ Plus stock extras, t New 1034 high. * Paid this year, 1 Trading in 10-share lots. 11% 8% 3,200 technicolor .. 1,000 Trans Lux (1 ._J3 ---=-|3^=$4ff,ooo =Gen .-Theav-Ea;- , 40;T.^^^,^ T =-0%- lvz 86 64,000 Loew Os. '41.. ... nm 08% 85 .7:o» path^Vs, "7 : :: :::::::::: % BP J' 000 Par-Fam-Lashy 6's, • ........ M SSi, ^ a4 ' 000 Par-Pub 6%'s, T.0....... 53 ka6 ?S. A 17 '000 Par-Farn-Lafiky 0's, '47, ctfs.... 52% 64% 20 47,000 Par-Pub 5%'s, '50. ctfs. . . . 52' 47 30 13.000 Par-Broadway 6%'s, '51 46% OVER THE COUNTER, N. Y. Did. Hoxy. Class A..... % De Forest Phono... PRODUCE EXCHANGE, N. V. ♦« «i 1,000 Par-Pub • Paid this year, t New 1084 low. — 7-%=- .^=114 - 67% 07% - % 08% 00% - % 07% 07% 51% 61% at no CO -2 50% 50% -3% 61% 51% + % 48% 48% -2% 45% .45% - % Tuesday, June 5, 1934 VARIETY 1 llU<« 4 1 i 1 '|t Ml J,t!ltli.»li"" "" u-w**^ MOVIETONE NEWS gave you talking newsreels with another tionary step again esday, June 5, 1934 4* t ■ ■■■■ mm' warn — m.^ . . ; - wrwwt^ ^ _ m 9 ' i: READ ABOUT the most sensational -x ■ ■■tot LAURENCE STALUNGS It will be a NAME newsreel . . . with nationally known personalities. Laurence Stallings, one of America's greatest writers and dramatists,will be Editor. Lowell Thomas, outstanding ace of radio news broadcasters ,will be Chief Commentator. 2 # H will be DEPARTMENTALIZED. Each depart- ment will be handled by different and promi- nent authorities in their fields . . . names with box office . . . each in his own voice. 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SIGN FOR IT IMMEDIATELY Tuesday, June 5, 1934 PICTIRES VARIETY 29 EXPLOITATION By Epes W. Sargent Birthdays for 'Betnrns' Inviting: alt persons whose birth- days fall in the playing dates of 'Many Happy Returns' is a .good promotional stunt for the para- mount picture of that title, but it can . be worked into something larg- er than a mere announcement if all persons who attend the per- formances .the second week before the showing are invited to register their birthdays. Without reference to the coming picture, it should be announced that all persons should register their birth date with the theatre 'for rea- sons which may "be important to you.' Getting this date ahead of the advertising for the picture will pre- vent most, persons from shifting their birthday to coincide with the dates... All who are entitled should re ceive cards inviting them to be guests of the theatre on their birth- day. Singles will he sufficient. AH others receive cards reading, 'The management regrets that your natal day does not coincide with the play ing ,■'■• dates for 'Many Happy Re turns', but you. will receive many happy returns on your small outlay if you- invest in a ticket for this screamer in which a happy com- bination of well-liked players are headed by those' incomparable fun- sters, Burns and Allen." As a by product; if it Is not reg- ularly done, it might be a good idea to file the cards by dates and at least send a greeting card, if hot a pass, .to each person as the dates appear. Many theatres which let the, birthday, idea drop through the depression might Use this to rees- tablish the list. run up a check at the rathskeller. With quarter admissions the probabilities are that it will be less feasible to make considerable cuts, but a concession can be made to draw them in through the warm weather, when they probably would stay away unless they 'had the tick- et in their pocket. TlSat's the. advantage of block selling of any sort. It requires, overcoming, the sales resistance only once to seil iO tickets. " Not only that, but' the holder is more apt. to stand, treat and use his book up more quickly than if he had to dig actual coin for each visit. That means a larger take in spite of the slight reduction.. Best form of ticket seems to be a hard card with, .punch spots for the 10 admissions, though some sec- tions prefer the coupon stri p. Getting the Dope NOW and then American exhibs make an effort to. sound out their patrons, generally on a postcard jpoll. Something more elaborate comes, from London, where the Bernstein theatres, Ltd., : sends out a four page questionnaire with a return post page envelope and a form letter, nicely phrased, asking the reactions of the recipient. Spaces for favorite stars and pet peeves; small part players regarded as lead material, film preferences, length of program, . choice of duals or one and . shorts, organ solo, favorite director, best, newspaper, favorite theatre, west erid (down- town) visits, seat location preferred, reaction to 24 named pictures and age. by group, (under 21, ' 21-40, 40-60 and over 60). Of the pictures named 16 of the, 24 are! American made. Bendezvous Loew's New York theatre, which grinds a dual bill at two bits, is running on its house program: 'Meet me in the green room of Loew's New York theatre. Entrance, in rear of main foyer, Make "your appointments to. meet your friends in this comfortable, modern lounge, Open to the public without charge.' . Loew's New York and the Cri- terion theatres, are a part of the huge, amusement structure, which Oscar Hammerstein built toward the close of the. last century. It was the building which dragged the- atrical New York across the former deadline of 42d street. The two the- atres are at either end of the block long structure, with the roof gar- den over both. In between there are a dance salon and what was planned for the chorus room, of the then. Oiympia. Lately, the latter was oc : cupled by a cutrate ticket agency, but the management is now turh- ing it to advertising use. The same idea has been , used in smaller towns, and always to good advantage. It makes the theatre the focal point of shoppers from out of town and where space permits, it pretty well pays for itself. Loew's probably figures that if it can .get the shoppers to use the place, it can advertise the entire string of theatres in the metropoli tan district. Sounds like a good scheme. : Fast Work Presence in Omaha last week of the Burlington railroad's new streamlined train, the Zephyr, gave the local Warner Brothers exchange just the opportunity to tie in a piece of exploitation with a speedy fllm : delivery. Asked . by the Denver exchange f or . a print of "Twenty Million Sweethearts," . tho Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, Ginger Rogers, flicker,, in a— hurry. Manager Olson of the Omaha exchange took advantage of the opportunity to give the Denver Orpheum a swell chance for a brand new ballyhoo stunt by arranging- to send the film on the new Zephr on its preliminary run to Denver prep aratory to its record non-stop run to the opening of the Century of Progress. Through cooperation of Miss Louise Cotter, local Brandels the atre exploiteeress, two Omaha so :clety debs in the persons of Miss Georgette Johnston and Miss Helen Aydelott were sent along as special guardians of the film. And when they . arrived in Denver, the Or- pheum theatre, receiving the film, added to the notice by entertaining the debs royally; . ^uBarryV Buildup Resides the public good will In volved through charitable angles. Warners looks to box office value in a series of balls around the country at which 'Madame DuBarry' would be screened as part of the show. Following the Waldorf- Astoria (N.Y.) ball Monday (4) for the benefit of the milk fund; at which the picture was shown, Warners is considering similar affairs; all of which would be for some charity. Summer Tickets • Sophie Smith, of the Little Pic- ture House, N. Y., must have found block, tickets worth while last year, •for-she-again- announces^their : sale for the current summer, selling blocks of 10 at a reduction. This may be against the code rulings in dome places, so' it might be well to find out the local authority's atti- tude toward cut rating, In blocks of 10 Miss Smith cuts from 40 to 30c for the mats, and nearly halves the evening admission of 75c. With those prices, she can afford to do so, particularly as many 'patrons will be men left alone for the summer who p/obably will Local Bands Contest Seattle. New kind of band contest gets under way at Paramount (Ever green) June 12 when the Elks* band, first of eight local community, or- ganization or fraternal bands-, does Its stuff. Idea is to have different band appear each Tuesday night for- the eight , weeks, with sound record ing band in one number, as it is played from the theatre stage. Then an eight-minute reel is made up, with each band in the sound-pix doing its darndest for one minute This reel is on the screen for the entire ninth week. Balloting is by votes of the audience. Harry. Woodin, manager, being assisted by Don Mills in putting this one over, to help bolster summer biz and in- terest in this vaude-fllm spot. Ex- pected to develop some rivalry be tween followers of the various com peting bands. Good press' stories an angle. Bookmarkers Recent press books suggest that even now some publicity experts lack the lowdown on this useful accessory. They advise book mark- ers which center on the picture ig noring 'the reason for library co operation.' ' " When a grocer or a baker comes into a co-operation, it's through a desire to move his goods. He- doesn't mind helping theatre tickets if, at the same time, he can also sell hi3 co.Tee or his' bread. But he wants his. It is precisely, the same, with public library. They, too, have something to sell, and they want to sell it. intensively in order to be able to present 'figures in justification of their being. They wa. t to show they perform a service to the Com munity which entitles them to sup- port, soma fashion, from that community.. Most libraries do not care for the book marker which advertises current or recent best seller. It does not have to advertise those books. There is usually a demand in excess of the library's ability to supply. What the library wants is to add to its lendlngs; to increase the book turnover* It wants to dis pose 'of the comparatively dead 'Stcck.-^fF-lction^takes- care^ofr itself to a large degree. On the back of the marker .advertise non-fictional reading suggested by the title. Help them to sell books on the war in- stead .of the war fiction. Sell books about the South Seas Instead of one book. It does not even have to be a play taken from a book if the sub Ject of the drama can make for in terest in non -fictional titles. Get this slant, and you'll be able to plant frequent markers, and i>" asked for more. All-Star Casts Probably no single item has cost producers and exhibitors more: monetary loss than the ' name .fetich, 'No box-office names' is a more damning com- ment than 'bad picture.' Stars may save a poor production, but the best of production ap- parently, cannot save a picture without big names. Any exhibitor can- recall in- stances where a picture with a very nearly perfect acting cast and a good story has done a crash at the box office where, on its' merits, it deserved a far better fate. But he seldom does anything about it. The most perfect ensemble acting is of- fered, often with apologies, where its excellences should be blared to the skies. < ^ . With the stars falling more rapidly than they are created through the practice of using the name, in as many pictures ,^as .possible, it would be the course of wisdom to plan a campaign of education and try to school patrons to respond to the appeal of good acting in which all players are working for 'the effect of the drama rather than to increase their own IumlnOmisty at the ex- pense of the general effect. It can best be done, perhaps, through the managerial per- sonal guarantee. The^ results may be' slight at first, but if the exhibitor organizations would sponsor a concerted drive, It might be possible to persuade the public that there can be delightful entertainment. Even a slight improvement will help the box office, which how sags whenever there are no- big names on display on the mar- quee. Stress the Bepeat Many exhibs have been sorry af- terward that they failed to give proper emphasis, to the fact that 'Tarzan and His Mate' was not a reissue of 'Tarzan, the Ape Man'. They, at least, ill be keen on stressing the fact that "Bulldog Drummond: Strikes Back' is not the original of some years ago, but a continuation of that character which does not require a knowledge of the original to be comprehensive. Perhaps, the best gag will be the slogan, 'Another fast Bulldog Drum- mond story' to be tagged to all men- tions of the title, with the advertis- ing taking such slants as, 'You re- member what a whale of a story 'Bulldog Drummond' was. Here's another with Ronald Colman again the hair: trigger hero.' ' Probably it will be best not to offer this as 'better than' the origin- al. That's seldom a successful sales approach. Tell them it's as good and you will have told plenty. Then they'll probably tell themselves its better, and find some pleasure in that fact. If you can get a good cutout it will help to make up a number of them and make the character the chief sales appeal. Probably that will work better than any other ap- proach, particularly if the advertis- ing is started with a cutout of the character with merely the title as a prelude to the straight advertising. Colman is so pleasantly remember- ed in this character that you have nothing more valuable to offer. Paging Via Screen Warner Strand, N.' ., paved the way for 'Dr. Monica' with notices on the screen asking that Dr Monica call at the managers of- fice or announcing a telephone call Plenty of lobby stuff, but figured the paging would help. too. Cooling Plants Hollywood. Forecourt of the Fox West Coast Egyptian here has been trans- formed into a refrigeration display, with upwards of 140 different styles of electrical refrigeration used. House is giving away one of the cooling plants each day to> fore- court visitors, with it not being necessary to buy a theatre admis- sion to participate in the drawings, Ready for 'Monica' One forethoughtful hustler Is all ready for his idea for *Dr. Monica' in spite of the fact it has not been released yet. : Just as good for other plays and can be adapted to 'Men int White.' It's, a pay envelop printed up with 'Dr. . Monica's Panacea. Good for headaches, . eyestrain, . weak hearts, sluggish livers, club feet and pyorrhea. Directions:. Take the en- closed powder dry: oh the tongue. If. relief is not obtained within three hours, consult Dr. Monica ;at the Dash theatre. Office hours. 1:30 to. 11 p. m.,' with the dates. For 'Men.* the direction is changed to 'see any of the staff in Men in ■White.' Powder Is merely a couple of grains of sugar of milk done up in regular drug store prescription fashion* Another and more elaborate stunt, planned by a larger house, is a baby that will spend a week in the. win- dow of a large department store. Window will be done over into a nursery, with material supplied from the store's* furnishing depart- ment and its- drug counter. Child will be under the constant care of a trained nurse.. Kickoff is a sign reading: 'This is what bothered Dr. Mon- , lea. If you want to know why, see' the picture at the Strand,' with: the dates. Figured to get plenty ; of at- tention and sell some baby things for the store. Helping will be a side sign close to the front Itemizing- every article With Its', price range. Des Moines; TrI- States Theatres' new set-up in managers is as follows: R. T. Newton, Paramount, and John Krier, State, Cedar Rapids; H. D. Grove, Capitol. Harry Holdsberg, Colum- bia, and Bill PrasS, Garden, Daven- port; T. J. Kempkes* Bonham, Fair- bury, Nebr.; Robert Dunnlck, city manager, Grand Island, Nebr.; Ed- die Forester, Rivoli, Hastings. Nebr.; C. E. Lockard, LeClaire, Moline, 111.: G. P. Hundling, Capitol, Newton; Wm. Miskell, Orpheum, and H, L» Davidson, Paramount; Wm. Beck r ley, State; Art Ableson, World, Omaha; Jerry Lunch, Grand, Ot- tumwa;. Ted Emerson, Fort, John McKay, Spencer, Rock Island ; L. E. Davidson, Capitol, C. W' Peterson, Princess, Sioux City; A. G. Stolte, Paramount, and R. K. Fulton, Strand, Waterloo. A. Don Allen is manager of the Des Moines; Vergne Ford, Paramount, and Art K. Far- rell, Strand and Garden, Des Moines. . . . . ^ . : Denver. . Louis Hellborn, manager' of the Denham, resigned to devote full time to his Old Town Hall, night club, here, ' and the State and Kimo theatres in Garden City, Kansas. Hellborn/ sold his 60% interest In the Denham to Charles J. Cooper. Allen Cooper succeeds Hellborn as manager. - Los . Angeles. Dick Moss from the F-WC .United Artists, Long Beach, to the Fox California, San Diego. Wayne Dailard will manage tfle U. A. in addition to handling circuit's West OOSLSt* » Tower, Pasadena, indie' first run, has cut admish from 40c top to 30C for summer. Single bills have replaced duals in the F-WS Broadway and West Coast at Santa Aria, Cal. After being dark 10 years, one time deluxer St. Andrews, reopened as the Pioneer and closed after one week. Wheeling, W. Va. West Virginia Theatrical Enter- prises, Inc., of this city, has again taken over control of the Court, Victoria and Liberty theatres, which have been operated by Warner Bros. The Capitol theatre, largest in the city, will continue under manage- ment of Capital Enterprises with the same personnel as heretofore. San Francisco, chon A Marco transferred Charlie Plncus from the local Orph to Portland, where he'll • press agent, and set Hal Niedes as Frisco Orpheum p.a. Charles Wuerz re- mains, house manager, with Marco popping in occasionally to look the situation over personally. ' In the Golden State chain, Charles Moser goes in as manager of the Parkside, replacing Oscar Attkis- son, transferred to the Daly City, taking with him Paul Kelly as as- sistant. Loren Emmick of the Daly City shifted to the Rivlern leaving Bill Smeltzer out. Hobby Shows Following on the heels of a rium- berf of department store displays, theatres with . plenty of. space can clean up some extra business with a hobby show. Entrants are invited to make a compact exhibit of their hobbies, miniature ships, coaches, stamp collections; anything which permits collection or making. Ask each to write a card of not more than 200 words for the display, and group them as attractively as pos- sible. * Hook in to the original idea of the exhibit which was to the effect that -with greater leisure, due to the NRA, the people were in need of some engrossment for their spare time. Work particularly for novelty and variety. If an old soak makes home brew his hobby, let him enter a few bottles; Avoid bulky' displays, where possible. Provide"*' ballots for votes and let the public decide which is the most interesting ' llsplay, the oddest hobby, etc.-. Number the displays, to save copying names, and do not group two similar exhibits side by side to prevent confusion. ■Most newspapers will help along on this idea, and it can be run up to something that will pull them In whether or not they desire to See the picture. Especially good for ample mezzanines or long lobbies, but as good in the rest room and can be. amplified with brief chats from the stage about the more pop- . ular Items. Lincoln. George Monroe, former manager and operator of the now dark State, went to Oklahoma City the latter part of the week to join the Joe H. Cooper chain there. Cooper is in K. C. dealing with G. L. Hooper, the money man on the State lease, try- ing to get him to assign the house to add to the LTC group here. It's only a 500-seater; Canton, O. Columbia, oldest' downtown de- luxe movie house in Alliance has been reopened with a first run policy under the management of R. C. Wallace. Valentine here, owned, by the Botzum Theatre . Corp., Akron, will go dark June 3, for extensive altera- tions.. , Mike Manos, who recently dis- posed of his Greensburg, Pa., the* atre properties to Warner Bros, has leased the Liberty at Ellwood City, Pa. Charles Blatt, of Somerset,- Pa., has opened the Grand In that city after a long period of darkness: Several Ohio theatres were in- volved in recent change of owner- ship! including Auditorium at Georgetown to A. H. Rosselot by F. R. Crist; Strand at Loveland to F. R. Crist from E. H. Hewitt; Opera House at New Richmond to E. A. Dodge by Frank Herbert; Rockford at Rockford has been transferred to A. M. Ehert by J._V. STderiberider: TSahuTjox^at "Spring-" field has 'been transferred to Toni Vowell by Gus Sun. Anderson; Jnd. Jas. D. Kennedy succeeded Frank Sutton at Riviera, Domlnlck Barrecca, Loew district manager of uptown N. Y. houses, lias shifted to Brooklyn to handle the zone left unheaded when ( ioovw (Continued r>n page 27 »' Helped on Hour Baltimore. George Browning, publicist for Warners' .Stanley, hit upon a natural for showing of Paramount's 'The Witching Hour.' Hooked up with burg's largest pop-priced jewelry emporium because of its ace locash, and arranged with the firm to wind an eight-day clock, place it in show- wind ow with apprizing announce- ments ''enlightening "public "that any passing person might drop into shop and. go on record as to what time on eighth day clock would stop. Public was asked to designate hour, minute and second that the. 'witch- ing hour' on the elght-dayer would occur. Browning sold the idea to. the firm .on principle ' that . plenty passersby would enter store who would other- wise flash right by, and that In en- tering and registering a guess, each person would thereby become a prospective customer, in that his eye might be caught by something on the way In or out. ' The store permitted Browning a special minute conservative sign placed in the window that directly plugged the flick. It was first time in burg a film got a . cardboard In a loop Jeweler's window. Uses the Boxes Some theatres are built with stage boxes, not that anyone wants to sit ln^;a=mili^b"5x^T's ■International copyright union (U'Uile'l in flic Lit'-i-aii w.s- ^:ccULhcatre.^r - ^ . 50G HIPP, BALTO, EEPAIKS tyiltlmore, June 4. Jy.xy li.j|>i>ai>orl, who recently in- corporated self and purchased the Hippodrome building at the expira- tion of his lease, has shut down operation for three weeks, during whlr-h tlnif spot will he entirely rfnov;i tod. Will .-,p.Mnl \ 26 VARIETY Tuesday, June 5, 1934 1 %\U OF i 4&£ Adolph Zukor Presents "MANY HAPPY RETURNS" with Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians George Burns and Gracie Allen / Veloz and Yolanda George Barbier • Joan Marsh R a y m o n d M i I I a n d Directed by Norman McLeod V MANY HAPPY BOX- OFFICE RETURNS! ^ —Hollywood Rtpori»r "This 'picture will undoubtedly garner plenty of shekels at the box-office." —Hollywood Vorlely "Sixty-six minutes of high-speed laugh entertainment." — Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, Jane 5,' 1934 PICTURES VARIETY vt Two-Bit Town Off; Thin Man' Gets $15,000 Abe Lyman-'ViUa' Combo Socko 25G In Sizzling Wash. HARRY HARRIS HELD IN FATAL SMASHDP Pittsburgh. June 4, Harry D. Harris. 29, divorced hus- Washington, June 4. | band of Jane Thurston and scion of Hot weather has hit most spots I th ® prominent Pittsburgh theatrical amidships and grosses are tumbling family, is being held here in $1,000 so fast it has the boys dizzy. Rialto ball as a result of a fatal automobile has folded for season, Keith's using | accident In which he was involved three pics in six days and Earle Is i'last-week '■' Kansas City. June 3. A sliver quarter is how the ad mission price to any firs; run theatre in town; any seat any time. This policy was made unanimous when the Pox Uptown pulled, down Its 40- ce'nt night price this. week, Newman anld * Mainstreet are showing double features for the sin gle admission, and opening, days at several of the' houses are . on the hit-and-miss, order. This , week the Malnatreet ad vance'ii its opening from Friday to Wednesday, and the Uptown also started a new picture on Memorial Day, four days In advance, showing 'Black Cat,' which lasted four days* giving way to 'Such "Women Are Dangerous.' The Mainstreet has 'Stiingar.ee' and 'Very Honorable Guy' set for nine days and got away to a nice business Wednesday night. The Memorial Day did hotincrease business, as too many ot the cus- tomers took advantage of the holi- day to head for the country and a possible, cool spot. After a week of pretty poor takings with 'Hollj'jyood Party,' Loew's Midland is. clicking, a lot better with 'The Thin Man.' Estimates for This Week Mainstreet (RKO) (3,200; 25)— •Stingaree' (Radio and 'Very Honorable Guy' (FN). Opened the 30th to get the holiday play and started nicely. Looks like near $7,- 000. ' Last five days 'Finishing School' (Radio) and 'Crime Doctor* (Radio) got light $3,300. Midland (Loew) (4,000; 25)— Thin Man' (MG). Local friends of Bill Powell will help this one along and, as the picture has been given extra newspaper space, it will make a good showing. Opened nicely Sat- urday and will get close to $-15,000. Last Week 'Hollywood Party" (MG). Never had a change after Sunday; $6,700, poor. Newman (Par) (1.800; 25)— t/Lerry Wives of Reno* (WB) and •Witching Hour' (Par). Will take around $5,500, fair, Last week 'Mur der at the Vanities' (Par) and 'AH Men Are Enemies' (Fox). $3,500, big. Tower (Rewot) (2,400; 25)— "Half a Sinner* (U) and stage revue with Billy Farrell and Dad. Frazler Brothers, Moret and Erita. Jose- phene Hackney, and Clifford and Pearl. Only theatre in town with any 'flesh,' and the policy Is working out nicely. Week end play gives house a good start. Should reach close to $5,000. Last week. 'Easy to Love' (WB) and stage show, $5,000 Uptown (Fox) (2,040; 25)— 'Such Women Are Dangerous' (Fox). Only Sunday opening . in town, and bust ness was good. Estimated to get $2,500, Last four days 'Black Cat' (U), $2,000. shooting for lowest week in sev era! moons. Contrast, however; Is Fox which looks like excellent $25,000 on com- bination of Abe Lyman on stage Harris was driving a car which collided with that of David D. Lef- kowitz, of Morgantown, W. Va. Riding with Lefkowltz was 'his and 'Viva Villa.' Lyman ork rates brother, Nathan, 29, of Pittsburgh, as the best- received tune unit this house has ever had. Ovation at start from air fans holds up to stop show in finale. Local Loew lads found critics responsive to pleas to who suffered internal injuries and was removed to the Pittsburgh hos- pital, where ho died a day later. Harris suffered Injuries to his back dig tip fern angles on 'Villa' and 1 and body bruises while the Lefko- even the dames are flocking to, WB stunt of playing 'Keep 'Em Rolling' under original title. 'Rod- ney*,' in view of fact that film was shot at local army post is paying dividends. Flock of local bally shoving flicker into very good fig- ] Harris Amus. Co ure considering that town has been leery of it with RKO house even taking ' chance on snubbing local army crowd by .turning it down. Estimates for This Week Earle (WB) (2,424; 25-35-40-60) 'Merry Wives of Reno' (WB) and .vaude. Using return of Grade Barrie as . guest m.c. as stage pull Kid Is big help, but not enough to ] put over just average plc In hot sun. Probably light $11,000. Last week 'Murder at Vanities' (Par), nice $18,300 Fox (Loew) X3,434; 25-35-60) Viva Villa' (MG) and vaude. Abe Lyman -unit knockout word' of mouth, and plus pic which is draw- ing dames, following clever bally week ought to see. very big $25,000 Last week 'Stand Up and Cheer' (Fox), and* Herb Williams, $22,000. Met (WB) (1,583; 25-40) 'Keep 'Em Rolling' (Radio) ptaye'd under original title, 'Rodney.' Bally on film being shot here responsible for oke $5,000, Last week 'Sing and Like It' (Radio), got late rave notices from first-string critics but light $3,000 was already inevitable Keith's (RKO) (1.830; 26-35-60) •Where Sinners Meet' (Radio). Opened nicely yesterdav (3) 'Strictly Dynamite' (RKO), died wltz, who was driving, and Isabella Lurle, another passenger on his car, escaped With minor scratches. Harris is the son of the late Sen- ator John P. Harris, founder Of the Florey, , Jackman Have Difficulty With Street Photography in China 15 in 17 Mos. On completion of "Death on .the Diamond' around July 15, Luclen Hubbard will have supervised 15 pictures in 17 months for Para- mount. This picture will be the last of this year's batch for Hubbard. He then goes to ' Europe for a two months' rest. EXPLOITATION By Epes W. Sargent (Continued from page 17) it had bitten off more than it could plays with cutouts and whatever I chew, and staff almost went crazy the house can provide in the way Urylng to keep the felines from rac- of drapes and foliage, and the boxj lns »1 lover the place. The animals is provided with lights the same as t were flnauy herded into a check? a regular stage, to permit a variety room and a frantic SOS went out to of effects. One side carries a tableau » lo ? al dairy for milk to keep them the advertising patter, ere Yinedlal to Identify their own pets, musical IS coming or where ? special B t * en , ■ d heartbre ak over disc is provided, the P*™^*** lost animals and the vociferous disc is put on a ^machine s with a prqteSta ti 0 ns of the cats themselves, loudspeaker directly behind *he il- the . theatre was ln an uproar . At lumlnated advertisement. House is I the finlsh Manager J( s> 3aker found kept fairly dark during the showing J hImse i f wlth SO me twb score or more to permit the full effect and some un dai me a cats on his hands that he managers believe that It. makes a l mu8 t take care of pending appear better impression than the trailer | anCe ot , t ne owners, on the screen. I Meantime Duke Hlckey went mar- Best design for the Illuminated rUy ott his way with a committee of sign is to make it to take a number city fathers escorting him;, to the of oblong stretcher frames, so that I tralnshed to be sure he left, each line is made up separately, per- r mittlng the retentUh of a number | Of stock stretchers such as the open- ing date. Also permits various col- prs to be used in a single announce- ment, since each strip can be of a different color of tissue paper with] all but the letters blocked out. Gives] a surprisingly good effect for small [ cost. Sigh is lighted first, with plenty House Reviews Wyler Switches Pix Hollywood, June 4. William Wyler, who was to have directed, is preparing 'Sutter's Gold' with negotiations still oh for nice [ Charles Laughton for the lead. Behind the Keys (Continued from page 17) Schenck. older brother of Nick, who left a week ago. for California to regain his health. Barrecca's houses in Manhattan split among three other Loew district chiefs. Switches aftef Decoration Day bow to be m effect only while Schenck Is yanked after light $2,000 for four away. 'Finishing School' (Radio), days. nulled last Tuesday (29) with sickly $4,600. ^ Palace (Loew) (2,363; 25-35-60) 'Manhattan Melodrama' (MG). Sec- ond week doing o.k. with probable $8,600. Last week good but not big, S3? .S3?* SSbS» <™. I ^"^H^SSSSS L°vfril Galveston. Liberty 'Theatre, -Beaumont, de stroyed by fire May 26, Loss of $75,000. Operated, by Jefferson Amusement Company. House will be rebuilt making third week on main stem months ago, but demand was bo s 'heavy, that Phillips decided to re- sume. took big $6,000. SAN FRANCISCO (Continued from page 10-) second place in the. double' billing. Golden Gate opened ts current show on Memorial Day that got 'Crime Doctor* . and stage . show off to a whanging beginning. United Artists has folded until Betty Wright, soloist well known throughout the South, has been added to staff at Empire and will [ appear along with ■ Red Foster, organist. New York, Charles W. Curran placed ' ln charge of publicity-advertising for Warner theatres in Greater New August, putting 1,200 seats out of I Y^k. Arthur Jeffery continues usage and giving that much of a I with WB under Curran. break to other houses. Estimates for This Week Robert Florey, . director, and Fred Jackman, photographer, have written to the studio from China that they are> having difficulty in filming' background, stuff for War- ners' proposed 'Oil for the Lamps of China,' . and have, been Jugged several times because they were photographing street and river scenes without the necessary gov- ernment,- municipal and other per- mits. While they have been able to straighten out all their difficulties, they state, they now are taking no chances and are. filming their stuff hidden in laundry wagons. Omaha. State theatre. Blank second-run Fox (Leo) (5,000; 25-36) — 'Party's I downtown house, closed last Friday OvCr'^Col) and 'Hell Bent for Love' after a week's showing of the prop- (C61) split. House moseying along aganda film, "Narcotic." Manager at $7,000 pace, quite good. Last week Fred Beckley will be located with was lifted up to $8,000 through help the Trl-State organization, though of Memorial Day with 'Sisters Un- his spot is not yet set. der_Skln' (Col) and 'Money Means . — — — • Nothing' (Col), split. \ Des Moines Golden Gate (RKO) (2.844; 25-35- Majestic, Cedar Rapids, fire dam 40) — 'Crime Doctor* (Radio) and aged equipment and fixtures $15,000. stage show. Started off Decoration | F. M. Carman, manager. NEWSREELS (Continued from page 17) = „ _^ __. plenty of newsreel plugs. Currently of time for reading and then the | Mayor invites all to attend. Hoover's lights in the tableau box are turned! first words to the newsreels in about on It's all worked from the projec- I a year fall to elicit much ' reaction tlon room. I one way or the other from audi- ences. Roosevelt's Memorial Day #i u„j;„ I speech is receiving much applause. Copying itaaio Coal mine disaster is well covered Taking up the idea of the radio by Paramount. Belgian King is newscasts, a theatre has arranged shown among the rescuers. Usually with a local morning sheet to give a dog show is the cameraman's day it bulletins of the news in brief for gags. Par crew, however. Stuck form Newspaper prepares, these, to standard coverage, letting off- flashes for use in slides, sending | screen reporter stretch for humor, over the typed slips, which are flashed on the screen between night shows. Each ends with 'full story in tomorrow's Herald,* and the bulN dog edition is offered the departing patrons by several newsboys as tfce patrons leave the house. Max Baer is earning for himself the rep of being the best nug^afctor vet. Seems to have an endless fund of gags and mannerisms which go big with average fan. Brief views of a Connecticut air- ship crash are offered by U. with Paper is learning to gauge the] lengthy verbal explanation. Hearst possible sales by the value of the covered- Rossi and Codos» getting no news and sends from 100 to 250 1 comment from the filers, copies, according to the news value. Mussolini and King George, do Naturally It gives the house the some more reviewing. Philadelphia most important news to help the sports meet is well cameraed by 1 Pathe. Annapolis midshipmen, a talk from Secretary Hull on Chaco and a Tuckahoe horse show round out the bill. ' Willy. sale. Idea has gone over so well that the paper Is trying to arrange a telephone service to suburban houses, with the last line changed to •See tomorrow's Herald.* Figure* It will help the Btation sales to com- muters. And it's appreciative of the fact that the theatre dug up the Idea, giving extra space to the the- atre announcements. CENTURY, BALTO. Baltimore, June 1. Fact that three turns embraced In this bill Insert warbling Inter- Germ of an idea here for even the I mezzos during course of runs, while smaller towns 'and if property th e remaining pair of . acts, consist pushed can be made into a definite I entirely of singing, rather . erases and pulling feature. One essential I the gloss that otherwise would ac- ts to advertise the flash for a stated f t 0 a uniformly entertaining time and come close to that. It will | itne-up. Added angle on the over- encourage the drop-ins. | Jose of singing: Tito Gulzar un- reins an operatic tenor In the deuce Booming the Ncwweel I that proved tough to follow, espeel- Getting a newsreel release , a week ^ffWfcSBSS » after it's out, a *™*ffi^™?r safed In the next-to-shut. ages to make capital of th*s feature. pje May, Moore, Martin and Mar- He has a special board at the side- conl A two men -girl adagio walk line devoted exclusively to his team wlth male planIst> start wl t h newsreel features. Every day he lampoone d adagio that, while over- gets two copies of the daily paper lQ for , deal effectiveness, was^ WARNERS' 2 REASONS FOR DROPPING 'NAP' Warner will probably not film •Napoleon,' although rights to Emll Ludwlg's biography were arranged. Two reasons figure, one that the market is pretty well flooded with costume biogs, and the other that Warners 'Anthony "Adverse' will cover much concerning Napoleon. When Ludwig's 'Napoleon' was warm, WB had Edward G. Robin- sort In mind for the little general. Chances aro Robinson will do the part In 'Adverse.' Day with a bang, and $12,500, oke, likely. Last week was somethlng of a mystery with 'Finishing* School' (Radio) and usual vaude getting surprisingly good $14,000 Orpheum (F&M) (2,400; 25-40)— •Sing and Like; It' (U) and Eddie Cantor on stage. Cantor getting 50- 50 from first dollar, and pulling big- gest gross since F&M started oper- ating hduse; despite the low scale,, very big at $19,000; Last week Olsen and Johnson In tab version of 'Take a Chance' and 'Embarrassing Mo- ments' (U) clicked merrily at $10,- 500, lotta money for those prices. Paramount (F-WC) (2,400; 25-35- 40)— 'Hollywood Party' (MG) and 'Private Scandal' (Par), spilt Flock of comedy names in the former get- ting it off to a good start and apt to Wind up with "around $12,000. '30 Day Princess' (Par) and 'Upper- world' (WB), split, grossed $11,500 last week. . , St, Francis (F-WC) (1,500; 25-36- 40)— 'Merry Wives' (WB) and ♦Double Door' (Par), split. About $4,500, okay. Same figure last week on the third week of 'Viva Villa' (MG) after a first week at. record money at the Warfield. Warfield (F-WC) (2.700; 35-45-65) — 'Murder at Vanities* (Par) and stage show. Highly exploited mu- sical pic a little disappointing at $17,500 In view of the campaign. About sami> last week on 'Manhat- tan Melodrama (MCI). T. I. Stoner plans $60,000 picture house ln the new Roosevelt shop- ping district. Minneapolis. Continued drought and heat forced Six closings as. against only two re- openings. Houses to close. Arcade, Berthold, N. D.; Willows, Linton, N. D.; Roxy, Hazelton, N. D.; Elk, Elkton, S. D.; Viking, Lemoon, S. D., and Playmore, Strum, Wis. Decatur, O. Opening of the New Adams, 600- seater, taking the place of the pres- ent house operated by I. A. Kalyer, is set for next week. Coshocton, O. A new house seating about 1,200 will be opened here about Aug. 1. Joseph Hickman of Columbus and Si.C. Carnes of J^ambrldge are back- "era of "the "project. ' " ' ' ' i Seattle. Jos. Rosenfleld, from Omaha> here as manager for Music Hall, local Hamrlck ace house, with super- vision H. E. Dalgler. Bronx, N. Y. Jame Brothers have reopened the Miracle theatre for week-ends only. Used to show German-language films, but because anti-Nazi senti- ment Is strong here, native talkers are In now. from the city and marks down the items he Is likely to receive a week later. When he gets the release sheet, he checks up and pastes on the board the clippings in reference to the features ln the cuts. He even tabs up mention of the people who are likely to be featured in their talks on the questions of the mo- ment as well as clippings on the questions themselves. He finds that It not only sells the reel, but that .it actually Seems to freshen the slightly stale releases. He argues that the roto sections of the Sunday papers go to press early and are frequently no more timely than his news clips, so he's level with them, and often his clips show practically the same pictures. Does, hot make the mistake of touting the .freshness, of. its news, but offers; It as an amplification of the dally story with 'Graphic mov- ing. pictures of the late events ln the dally papers.' Manages to make his reel more important than. those run by nearby houses .and makes a selling point of every issue. Backed Black Cats St. Louis. Pandemonium broke loose In the local cat world this week with the advent of Duke Hlckey, Uhlversal's ace gag man, and his special chil- dren's show in connection with the presentation of 'The Black Cat.' On' strength- of the success of the Stunt-'afthe- Lyric in Indianapolis a couple of weeks ago, where Hlckey gave It its Initial tryout. manage- ment of the Missouri theatre decid- ed to go for it as a Memorial .Day feature. Local papers grabbed onto idea and gave plenty of space, an nouncing that any boy or girl not over 16 would be admitted free by presenting themselves at the box office of the Missouri theatre .at noon with a black cat. - r ' Hundreds of kids stormed the doors with black cats of every de scrlption. Theatre began to figure punctuated with Stunts tougher than those customarily indulged ln stand- ard, straight routines, • While trio chased to change, pianist slipped on .the accordion straps and stepned down to 'one' for an s. and'd. The hoofing, a la ' Astalre, was nice enough, but the warbling mighfcwell be dropped. The team returns for a violent Apache session. The final toss hurls the femme half-way across the rostrum. landing her spread-eagled face-downward. Won very audible gasps. Tito Gulzar used a mike and ac- companied self on guitar. Has a prop, in shape of piano stool; upon which he rests a foot. Does a Mex ballad, then a noveltv and finales with bilingual rendition of '1,000 Goodnlghts.' Marty May and Jean Carroll did lustlce to the trey, finding It a walk- In. being only turn packing even an intimation of humor. Three X Sis- ters use but two harmony, numbers, filling In with barnyard elbllatloris. Imltashes of plx femmes and a eulo- gistic song about Eddie Cantor Latter Is a decided weakle; gl»*i" obvious metier Is harmony chantln" Audience qulcken'hK only apparent when the ..sisters worked in natural, logical sphere. Closer, Tommy Mapahari's S- S. Americana orch., 11 -piece crew. House had hastily scraped together a makeshift platform and second- hand music stands, lending, a n.s.g. appearance to the drop the ork. car- ries. Play pops in o. k. manner and - alT^oWr^oW^G that delved into just about co»nn1ete catalog of composer. Paul Hasan Warbles 'Wagon Wheels.' hut hasn't the pinos. A girl acro-contorf inhist, Toss Noel, has an o. k. routine but If* too brief ' to score fujl effect. The ork gets best reaction from 'Tiger Rag.' ' . . . Oelluloider, 'Miss Marker' (Par). Hcfore the vaude, ■ Harvey Ham- rnonrf gWe "*e"m~slx mlns. of organ - losing. Tn second week nt the Wur- litzer nnd apparently building a fol- lowing. 28 VARIETY Tuesday, June 5, 1934 HER STORY THROBS WITH £ HEART- u^R^STOR^ SFLDOM HEARD FROM THE SCREEN HER blUKY MAKES ONE OF THE GRAND :. POURK OF ALL TIME, HARDING RADIO Picture Directed by Alfred Santell from the story by Louis Bromfield. A Pandro 5. Berman production HELEN VINSON Tuesday, June 5, 1934 PICTURES VARIETY 29 Film Reviews SORRELL AND SON (Continued from page 12) episodic manner In which the Brit- ish version ha; been edited. A series of quick flashes, like a collection from a newsreol library, cover the father's loss of money, home and wife. The father's relations with his boy are, In many instances, stilted, and the footage, while emotionally well drawn, is at times wearylngly long. -Sorrell as. the porter at .the Inn -could have been made just as convincing had this sequence been abbreviated. , There is another time lapse, after which the boy is shown as a suc- cessful-surgeon. Neither Peter Pen- rose nor Hugh Williams, who play the son as a child and man, re- spectively, even approximate the Warner performance. An intelli- gent audience will surely grasp this, and it deters quality perspective, and complete Viewer conviction, Waty. REGISTERED NURSE I'Mrst National production and Warner release. Features Bebe Daniels, Lyle Talbpt, John .Halliday.: Directed by Kobt. Florey, From play by Florence Johns and Wllon Laclcaye, Jr., soreen (Play, Llllle Hay ward and Peter Milne. Arthur G. Collins, dialog' director; Six Jlkolc, camera. ' At the Strand, Brook- lyn, starting May 31 on a double bill. Running time, 61 mine. Slyvla Benton, .......... .Bebe Daniels Dr. Connolly,.. Lyle Talbot Dr, Hcdwlg, ........ John Halliday Sadie .Irene Franklin Sylvestrle .Sidney Toler Jinx .Gordon Westcott Schloss ....... » /. .Minna .Gombell M'cKenna .,».,,;......,. .Beulah Bondl Jerry .................. .Vlnce Barnett WOMAN IN COMMAND (WITH SONGS) (BRITISH-MADE) Gainsborough production and Qaomont British release. Features Cicely Court- cated and the latter was strung netdge, Edward Hrerett Horton. Anthony through the loose Incidents in an ?, ushc . u - „P orotb3 L H »"£9 ; _ D ! r *^^ u .^f effort to bind them together. Big jaiTi ortL Mus?c N«i idea Is a variant ot the noted sur- w ay p ' ^A%;TwSt geon who must operate to save his minster, n. t., week May 3t. Running rival's life. This time It's the wife time, 72 mlns. who must decide on. an operation to Malsie Mar veuo....... cicely Courtneidge preserve her husband's sanity. She Sebastian Marveiio^^ is persuaded. to coitsent by the phy- Ronald Jemleson.v Anthony Bushell siclan who really loves, her; Her Judle Marvello.. Dorothy Hyson reluctance is due to her affection Col. Philip Markham.v.v. .FrankCeilier for the other surgeon, liatter shows r^A 8 ^,^?.^,* 110 " her he's only on the make and when the husband kills himself she turns to her real admirer Husband's death is due to a sug Dan Marvello. Rebla .. . . Bransby . Williams Another In the hospital cycle, with more hospital than story. Well devised atmosphere, but only about half of it applies to the plot. Names hold little for marquee- box office draw. Nice acting and good local color cannot help a poor story, and this yarn is worse than weak. Story suggests that the gag men got to work" before the plot was -fabri- England sends a. weakling in 'The Woman in Command,' a heavily- _ .flavored British story with songs gestion from an up -patient that he an d adagio dancing which winds jump out of the window; which he jtself around romantic situations in- very obligingly does for no better yolving two couples. It may have reason than he thinks he's doing hooked like a good possibility on pa- his wife a favor. This is about as per, but in the production given it, clumsy a dramatic device as has p i ua casting, the results are disap- been unveiled In a long time. Jazzed pointing. up a little it would bo an ideal sit- Edward Everett Horton. is ,the nation for a farce comedy, but it's only member in the acting lineup supposed to be taken seriously here, well known to American audiences, Bebe Daniels gives all she has and he isn't so hot on this assign- to the part of the nurse, but all she ment as a lovesick stage manager, gets out of her efforts is Bebe Dan- Action is built around a famous iels in some rather silly situations, vaudeville family whose theatrical The role would sink a less com- tree goes back to Nell Gwynne. The petent player. I^yle Talbot does a self -appointed queen of the flock good Job as the surgeon who loves goes into- retirement and her daugh- ' em and leaves 'em, but the aoting ter takes cbmncwnd in the person of honors go to John Halliday, who is I Cicely Courtneidge. the one believable character, due Most of the footage concerns it- more to his playing than the script, self with her efforts to put on a show Vince Barnett, in a semi-serious and at the same time keiep at a safe role, is effective and is backed by distance the attentions paid her by Irene Franklin, and the others make I Horton as well the romantic inclina- You Made Me Love You Running time, C9 mlns. Thelma Todd, ........ Stanley Lupino .John Loder . ; . ....... James ' Care w , . . . . ^Gerald' Rawltnson tlon, and that it's doing Its initial date in the metropolis as top mounter in a pictorial two-high in (With Songs) a Brooklyn theatre gives the (BRITISH MADE) answer. . > rltish International production, M«r It's too childish even for the boys jeetlc release. Starring- Thelma Todd and girls to whom the appeal ap- and Sahloy Lupino. Story by Stanley Darently Is directed. Doubtful on Lupino. Scenario by Frank Launder, yareimy w ' ,7l„ ™,.„ ariA Photoc. John J. Cox. Musical director, cast names, With Patricia Ellis » nd Har f y Acres Songs by Noel Gay. Stan- RoChelle Hudson both figuring over , oy £ UJ >i n0i Clifford Grey. Directed by Hal Leroy. Monty . Banks. At Criterion, N,,Y., be- Story is high school stuff, with ginning May 31 Harold a year -bid graduate and a ^ amelft Berne columnist and man of all work on H ° a m rJ ; > Bern© the local paper. He gets unbeliev- oiivor Borne .ably chummy- with, the 1 new head jerry of the bank: Banker goes oh the make for I411ums. Looks as though Thelma Todd's first starring Lillums would have to marry the chance under' British auspices, and banker to save the old home because very inauspicious: The picture is a the bank holds a note, but it's all padded comedy of errors linked in fixed up and Lillums gets the note a flimsy plot with music based for a wedding present. .Nothing to on two inconsequential songs. The hold the interest and ho suspense, title itself is none too appeal Played mostly for comedy gags, inff for America, and although there visual and verbal, with the former are- some spare moments of good having the best of it. Dialog is humor to be noted in the picture, 90% pediculous, the comedy as a whole is the coy LeRoy looks the puVt arid reads or slapstick kind usually found in his lines well enough, but does not two-reelers. With the songs and as a carry the interest, though he's the short, this film could prove a dls- whole support of the picture. Only tinct program novelty. As a fea- about three minutes , of the tapology ture length production it doesnt that put hVrii b'ri the amusement | hold, map, and that comes rather too Miss Todd plays a rich girl role, late. Rpchelle Hudson makes a per- She is always in temper . and her sonable Lillums, with Patricia Ellis, work herein is a setback. Her sup- as the banker's sister, doing better posed fits of temper achieve silly by herself. Others help when they heights, as most of the time she is can, which isn't very often. They're photographed heaving furniture and all handicapped by a poor scenario bric-a-brac about at some cowed In the best of a bad bargain. Chic. LAC AUX DAMES tipns of «a young soldier toward a hew convert to the family group. In the end, both these efforts fail and the show Is a - success. In be- tween picture strives for laughs but gets few. Most of the comedy is both obvious and awkward> includ ing Miss Courtneidge's struggle to be funny. The lead, as a male Impersonator, THREE DUKES International Dancing Artists Held Over Second Big Week Paramount, New York NOW After Engagement* at COTTON CLUB, 16 Weeks PALLADIUM, London 4 Weeks HOLBORN EMPIRE, London 1 Week EMPIRE, SCOTLAND 1 Week Management NAT NAZARRO (Ladies' Lake) (FRENCH -MADE) Paris, May 26 roduced by Soolte Parlstenno de Fro ductlon; TobiS release. Directed by. : , -.. . , . ■ Maro Allegret; baaed on novel by Vickl sings songs for fair results but the Baum; dialog by Colette, . musio by comedy adagio endeavor is Just an- Qeorgea Auric, photography by Kroger. other waste of time mostly. An- Starrlng JeanrFlerre Aumont, featur- P*"?*" Tinrtkl ? iiiiri Dnrothv Hvson ing Roslne Derean, Slmohe Slmone, Ila thony Bushell and OOTOtny «ys° n Meery and Michel Simon; Presented at carry out the secondary love inter- Colisee, Paris. Bunntng time, 90 mlns. I es t. Bushell. Is a decided British type, very British in accent, al Job. Several songs, but nothing out- standing. Chic. THUNDERING HERD i Paramount production and release. PI- rocted by Henry Hathaway. Story by Zane | Groy. Jack Cunningham, screen Play- Mary "Flannery, continuity, Be"» i R e y no j d 1 S' ■ ^— «. = . camera; Cast: Randolph ^ Scott, Judith Immediately he splurges before a A !l^'wJftthn °Sancne F^d H^rfy mike in a British broadcasting stu- ca°r n ey "C°te* WurBart^ffiL^^ in , a song supposedly inspired Bridge. Frank Rice, Dick Rush., chas. Mc- . the blonde whose name he does Murphy.^uck Connprs. .At Stanley, N. T., : n0t ± noWt . But the inspiration angle dividual. In fact most of the film action has to do with crockery toss- ing, and when Miss Todd does ho heaving then Stanley Lupino takes up whei'e she leaves off. This china breakage should make the film appealing to kids. Lupino, a worthy performer, plays the part of a song writer gone mad- at a Single sight in trafflo of Miss Todd. i May 28-20. Running time, 56 mlns, mades of the year-^not as wide an Miss _ Hyson appeal as 'Le Grand Jeu' («Pull possibilities Char. Deck') but well worth showing in VKT TUD Klf/^UT America. Baron Philippe de Roths- VOICE IN 1HL INIUH 1 child^said to have backed Produc- Columl)la prod uoUon and release. Dl tion and actively worked with it. rected by Charles C Coleman. Starring Story- is slimmlsh, but beautiful Tim McCoy. Story and adaption by atmosphere, good dialog and .superb "g«g £ S acting put it over. Tyrolian scenery mma . contributes a lot. Tim Dale,.. v ,..^^^*^».. ; Tim McCoy Jean-Pierre Aumont plays young lobi&on::::;:^ crehS engineer out-of work who gets job Bob. . ........ . .Ward Bond as lifesaver at mountain lake. Tarn Jack... ^"^''''^tn^^SSSS is based on the atmosphere of sen- suality of the place. # Jackson „.„...... Franols McDonald For Hollywood producers short of | W. T. Dale Alphon. Bthler male leads, Aumont is a real pos Like the old horse who was al- ways able to trudge back to the barn, so Tim McCoy, as usual over- „„„ Tr ,„, , coming all obstacles, Is finally In a ftna ^ tha highest Position where' he may nobly fall one of the highest | ^ tho arm|| of h , B belovedf sibility. He's now playing with Jouvet at the Comedie des Champs Elysees in the lead part of Coc- teau's 'Infernal Machine,' and that troupe has standards of acting in Paris. On the screen he Is a looker, with a swimmer's build, not aB strong as Weissmiiller and Crabbe, but with a somewhat more refined plastic beauty which gets the femme fans here 100%. He's young,- and looks It. Ilia Meery, playing a fast lady whom he loves but who hasn't much time to take off from business for him, also does some fine stripping in this 'film, to keep the men fans happy. Stern. m BEN BLUE . WARNJSR COMEDIES Dir. JOE ICIVK1N XEO MORRISON, agency UNKNOWN VALLEY Columbia production and release. Star- ring Bock Jones. Adaptation of Donald Leo's story and direction by Lambert Hlll- yer. At-the -Arena, • N. ,Y. Running time. (H mlns. ' ■ Joe Gordon.... .Buck Jones Sheila Cecelia Parker Mary James. ........ ; . . . .Carlotta Warrick Tim .Arthur Wanzer Elder Wade Botelor Debbs i ..Frank McOlynn younger. Charles Thurston Snead ; .Ward Bond Bennson .Gaylord Pendleton But is not revealed to the audience uhr . . til later in the picture. The song Back in the days before the indie he sings is 'Miss What's-Her-Name* westerns plastered that type of pic- Lo n which, Incidentally he cbllab- ture as not worth while, such a pier orated with Noel Qay and Clifford ture as this would probably have Grey; But even in the broadcast- made some money for its producer, ing sequence he goes slapstick by A3 it stands, the less ambitious si- curling the microphone at the finish, lent version of this Zane Grey story Everything ends okay — but in probably cleared more profit than bed. That bed angle- may hot go this more costly production. , over so smilingly, as it is a crude Apparently the t>uffalb nunts have touch to the whole affair, been salvaged from 1925, which may Lupino has a fat role and bears account for the divided skirt worn most of the responsibility, , next to by Miss Allen, who in other scenes Miss Todd, for the action. He ac- wears costumes more in keeping qtiits himself decently enough, .but with the period of the play, which appears too much before the .cant- is set long before the divided skirt era and since he talks his musio was invented. Otherwise no little rather than sings it, the song angle care has been exercised to keep the of the picture goes somewhat dodo, production accurate. The buffalo Second Bong, Why Can't We/ are merely background, for the story comes towards the close, is sufficiently well laid but to stand Scenlcally the picture rates and without the aid- of sight stuff, but also atmospherically and the sets; it helps, along with the Indian fight, even if somewhat crowded, show Scott is a likeable lead, With Miss enhanclngly for the hiOst part, so Allen making the moBt of her few I that the film Is well dressed, chances, but the romance is sub- 1 Monty Banks, who directed, la sidiary to the more' epic bits of the a veteran of American two-reeler THEATRE For Rent Cincinnati, Ohio First cli3>, flnoly equipped, on .prinelptl' IhoruURlifaro; approximately 1,30* »mU; modern cooling system: fully equipped atRRo. 32x33 ft.; Idcsl for vaude* Hie .and motion pictures. Attractive proposition to responsible party. Marvelous opportunity. Vot further particular! Henry BeUf, 61T Fifth Avenue. New York City; JFar off the beaten trail of west- erns, 'Unknown Valley' succeeds in an experiment which should have wide Influence oyer audiences and' producers of mesa operas. It's un- like anything in its class. Nary a gun is fired. And yet there's more thah action. There's a surprising abundance of unusually well sus- tained suspense. An island of recluses in an American desert and. their strange doctrine furnish the locale and atmosphere. Story has for its in- spiration a sort's hunt for a lost Cather. Picture abounds with situations which more often than not bring i.t wltliih' this 'IJuTisaiCtiDn 5 -of- melo- drama. Scene of a whipping post, rather than a general store and of Buck straddling a rope over a cliff wall instead of galloping over the hills provide an idea of the" new flavor 'Valley' discovers. Cecelia, Parker essays the part of one of the Inhabitants about to be wished off in marriage to the colony's lead- ing hypocrite. Jones, however, manages to overcome all difficulties with only a couple of hand-to-hand encounters. Waly. • •Voice' is just as cut and dried as all of that, which means Ideal second- ary material for the houses whose audiences are unabashed by out ward emotional exaltation. Tim, in some of his pictures, has to. sock a couple of times before the villain folds UP. In 'Voice' it seems that every time he is in a fistic encounter one push remits in an immediate collapse. An exception is recorded against this, however, when Tim,, to keep his fans tail- end, fights a bad man in an aerial go-cart from one end of the wire to the other. The competency of the script, from bromidle. perspectives, Is su- preme. Audiences have every punch telegraphed in advance. They know, for Instance, that Tim, while re- lated to the head of the rival tele- phone company, is really in love with the daughter of the rival pres- ident. And they know that Tim Is true-blue to the point where he can't help but knock down all of those set-ups. And that's just, what Tim McCoy does. He delivers in the out and out McCoy fashion for those McCoy fans. None can complain. This time, instead of a saddle, Tim takes to the telegraph pole. That line must be stretched across Devil's - Gulch— and Tim stretches it. Of course, dear old Tim marries again. Waly. HAROLD TEEN (WITH SONGS) Warner Bros, production arid release. Features Hal LeRoy. Directed by Mur- ray Rc-th. From the cartobh srrlp. Screen play by Paul G. Smith and Al Conn. Irving Kahal, Sammy Fein, lyrics; Ar- thur • Todd, camera; Leo . F. Forbsteln* conductor. At Strand, Brooklyn, com- mencing Mny 31. In double bill. Rnn- Harold ,k • • Hal LeRoy Lillums Rochelle HuTIs6n Ml ml .... v ........... . . .Patricia Bills Pa Love well.... Guy Klbbee Rathburn Hugh Herbert Pod .............. i.Hobart Cavanaugh Lilacs Ohio Chandler Shadow Eddie Tamblyn Snatcher Douglas Dumbrllle Ma Lovewell... .Clara Blandlck Seldom happens that a story from a cartoon derivation makes good Hut 'Harold Teen' is pretty ane- mic even for a cartoon adapta- buffalo hide hijackers, and the char acter men, led by Noah Beery, run away from the lovers'. Action is helped by the fact that none of the players appears in most westerns. Less identified with buckskins, and therefore more easily get into their characters. Beery holds back on his villainy with decidedly good effect, with Raymond Hatton making all he can of a comedy part without pulling the story structure out of shape. Blanche Frederlcl does much in a few strong scenes. Just a shade too heavy, but highly effective; Productionally this is a much bet ter picture than the average west- silents. Bhan. CARDINI "THE SUAVE DECEIVER" LOEWS ORPHEUM (This Week, June 5-7) tend Week CASINO DE PARISH Thanks to Billy Rose The blgseat Indlfldiul lucceai wa« undoubtedly mide by Cardial, the oird manipulator, who kept -. , . *u>. i..- I the audience gaiplng with amazement, while the ern, but means no more , to the box g^ ^o^ue^, lorgnette to her eyei. bent rot- offices than the conventional type, word Intently for nearly ten minutes. It's a western and can't live it down. 0all - mM , t XM ^ nt May 23. im*. ChiC. 1 Experience • Service • Organization 1 56.0 Broadway New York City A Subsidiary of FANCHON & MARCO, Inc. so VARIETY Tuesday, June 5, 1934 YOU IT'S THE GAYEST FILM OF THIS SEASON ! TELL YOUR V ... . ^_L_ PUBLIC! 'Ufa.-.'"" iS-S^"** Eg* THIS STOR^ iter** 1 * Ml ..JN MAN tyAUREEN O'SULLIVAN I iri :TS.,;^. D ^"- : HUNT ST«OMM»a ARC *29k\ Tuesday, June 5, 1934 PICT E * VARIETY 31 CALENDAR OF CURRENT RELEASES Harold Auten Ofn i2io a'way. n. y. p. End of the World (*Fln du Monde*. (Fr)'. Scientific dream based on Flammarlon novel. Dir. Abel Gance. 65 mins. Rel. April 16. elo (German). Sensitive study of psychological difficulties. Elisabeth Berg- tier. Dir. Paul Czlnher. 93 mlns. Rel. Feb, 1, Rev. Feb. 6.. Iragea do Paris (French). Adventures of a girl who wants to be a star In Paris. Jacquelln Frahcell. Roger Thevllle. Dir. Fedor Ozep. 82 mlns. Rel. Dec. 23. Rev. Jan. 9. Poll de Carotte (Red Head) (French). A story of adolescence. Robert Lynen. Dir. Julien Duvlvier. 96 mins. Rel. Sept. .1 Rev.. Dec. 20* Savage Gold. Commander Dyott's thrilling adventures with savage hunters. Comm. Dyott. Dir. Commander George Dyott 67 mlns. Rev. Aug. s. cos: Chesterfield Sally .Blane, Henry B. Walthall. 1B40 Broadway, New York. N. V. Dir. tchard Ity Park— 3 Men and a Girl. Thorpe. Rel. May 1. In Love with Life. Lila Lee, Onslow Stevens, Dickie Moore. Dir. Frank Strayer, GS mlns. Rel. April 18. Rev, May 29. Ifteen Wives. Conway Tearle, Noel Francis, Natalie Mborhead. Raymond Hatton. Dir. Frank Strayer. Rel. May 15. Notorious But Nice. Marian Marsh has a hectic love adventure. Betty Compsoh; Marian Marsh. Dir. Rich. Thorpe. 71 mlns. Rev. March 6. Murder on the Campus. Mystery with a. college background. Shirley Grey. Charles Starrett and J. Farrel McDonald. Rel. Dec. 27. Rev; March 13. Quitter. The. Newspaper business in a small town. Chas. Grapewln, Emma Dunn. -Din Rich. Thorpe. 67. mins. Rel. Feb. 5. Rev. March 20. Rainbow Over- Broadway. Musical romance. Grace Hayes, Joan Marsh, Luclen LUtlefleld. Dir.. Richard Thorpe: 72 mlns. Rel. Dec. 23. Rev. Dec. 27. Stolen Sweets. Dramatic romance. Sally Blane; Charles Starrett. Dir. Rich- ard Thorpe. 79 mlns. Rel. March 15. : Gower at Sunset, ces, 729 Seventh Ave., Hollywood, Cal. ^OlUmDia . New York, N. Y, Crime of Helen Santley, The; Murder mystery In a picture " studio. Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Gray, Gail Patrick. Dir. D. Ross Lederman. 58 mlns. Rel. April 20. Fighting Code, The. Typical horse opera with mystery angle. Buck Jones. .■ Dir. Lambert Hlllyer. 64 mlns. Rel. Dec. 30. Rev. Jan. 16. Ightlng Ranger, The. Round-up of killers by a temporary furloughed ranger out for vengeance for killing his brother. Buck Jones, Dorothy Revler Dir. George B. Seltz. 60 mins. Rel. March IIS Rev. April 17.- Hell Bent for Love. Young state policeman defeats his gang rival. Tim Mc Coy. Dir. D. Ross Lederman. Rel. May 19. It Happened One Night. Girl marries without father's approval and on leaving his yacht meets boy on bus heading for home; developing comedy- romance. Clark Gable, Ciaudette Colbert. Dir. Frank Capra. 105 mlns. Rel. Feb. 23. Rev. Feb. 27. ing of Wild Hordes. Home life of wild horses on the' range. Little ro mance and less comedy: Rex, William Janney and Dorothy Appleby. 61 mlns. Rel. Nov. 10. Rev. March 27. ' Let's Fall In Love. Musical with usual backstage romance with a. different twist. Edmund Lowe, Ann Sothern, Miriam Jordan, G " ~ Dir. David Burton. 67 mlns. Rel. Dec. 26. Rev; Jan. 23; Line Up, The. Police story. Marlon Nlxoh, Wm. Gargan. Dir. Howard HIg gins. 64 mins, Rel. March 31. Rev. May 29. Man Trailer. Western story. Buck Jones. Dir. Lambert Hillyer. 58 mlns. Rel. May 24. Rev.. May 29. Moat Previous Thing In Life. Abandoned mother relives her own romance through her son. Jeart Arthur, Donald Cook, Richard Cromwell. Dlr, Lambert Hllyer. Rel. May 19. Inth Guest, The. Eight people mysteriously invited to dinner after arriving told Death is ninth guest and all will die. Six perish. Donald Cook, Genevieve TObln. Dir. Roy William Nelll. 69 mlns. Rel. Jan. 31. ' Rev, March 6. No Greater Glory. Ferenc Molnar's 'Paul Street Boys' With a. mostly juvenile cast. Geo. Breakston, Jimmy Butler, Ralph Morgan; Lois Wilson. Dlr, Frank Borzage. 78 mlns. Rel. April 20. Rev. May 8.- One Is Guilty. Well -planned murder mystery. Ralph Bellamy. Shirley Grey. Dir. Lambert Hillyer. 64 mins. Rel. March 31. Rev.. May 29. Once to Every Woman. Heavy drama of hospital life centering around big operation. Ralph Bellamy and Fay Wray. Dir. . Lambert Hillyer. 70 mins. Rel. Jan. 15. Rev. March 15. Party's Over, The. Bruce Biakely ends the party when he realizes his efforts to support his parents and brothers and sisters is robbing him of his own happiness. Stuart Erwin, Ann Sothenv Arline Dodge. Dir. Walter Lang. Rel. May 15. 8hadows of Sing Sing. Racketeer's sister In love with detective's son. Both sides objecting to romance. Boy framed by redhots and saved by father, Mary Brian, Bruce Cabot Dir. Phil Rosen. 63 mlns. Rel. Dec. 3, Rev. Feb. 27. These tabulations are compiled from information supplied by the various production companies and checked up as soon as possible after release. Listing is given when re- lease dates are definitely set. Titles are retained for six months. Man* agers who receive service subse- quent to that period should pre- serve a copy of * no calendar for reference. The running time as given here is presumably that of the projection oom showings and can only approx- imate the actual release length in those states or communities where local or state censorship may result in deletions. Running time in the reviews as given in 'Variety' carry the actual time clocked in the the- atre after passage by the New York state censorship, since pictures are reviewed only in actual theatre showings. While every effort is made to hold this list accurate, the information supplied may not always be correct, even: though official. * To obtain the fullest degree of accuracy, 'Variety* will appreciate the co-operation of all managers who may note disCrep ancies. Exhib Vs. Exhib Over a Bldg. Permit Suit KO'd Minneapolis, June 4. District court here dismissed the $5,000 slander suit brought by Harry Dickerman, independent ex hib, against lieo Aved, theatre owner, ruling that no cause for ac- tion existed. Dickerman had alleged damage ^_ . to. his reputation charging Aved Edm^nd lLowi, Ann Sothern, Miriam Jordan, ^Gregory Ratoff. | prevented bim from obtaining a_per- ~ ' " ~ ~ "mit to build a new neighborhood] theatre. He charged Aved with telling aldermen and businessmen that he, Dickerman, actually did not intend to construct a new show- house, but asked for the permit in order to try to block a similar proj- ect planned by Aved. Since the suit was filed the council has granted Dickerman his permit for a new theatre, but actual construction work has not started yet. Aved's House of ystery. An archeologist returns to America from the Far East,, with a curse on his head for h is stolen wealth. Verna Hllle, Ed Lowry. lr, .Wm. Nigh. 61 mins. Rel. Moiy. 30. Love with Life. A hardrhearted millionaire, "refusing aid to his starving " daughter, takes her young 'son- -from. her.: Lila Loe, Claude Glllingwater, Dickie M°°re. P lr - Frank Strayer, 68 mins. Rel. May 1. In the Money. A goofy family, suddenly broke, pin their hopes on a Shaker spearean-minded prize fighting champ. Skeets Gallagher, LOla Wilson, Warren Hymer. Sally Starr. Dir. Frank Strayer. 67 mlns. Rel. Jan. 15, Lawless Valley. Western horse opera. Lane Chandler.. Rel. May 1. Loudspeaker. Comedy -drama of a radio star. Ray Walker, Jacqueline Wells. . Dlr; Joseph Santley. 6el, May 21. Manhattan. Love Song. Two: orphaned Park Awnue . society deb sisters, forced to go to work, change places with their servants who go 'society.' Dixie Lee, Robert Armstrong. Dlr, Leonard Fields. Rel: May 30. Money Means Nothing. Efforts of a poor clerk to, make a go of marriage with an heiress wife. Wallace Ford, Gloria Shea. Dir. Christy Cabanne, Rel. May 31. . , . Murder, on the Campus. Mystery with college ^background. Shirley Charles Starrett,. J. Farrel McDonald. 69 mlns, Rel. Feb. 6. Dir. ard Thorpe. . , Mystery Liner- Noah Beery, Astrld Allwyn. lr.Wm. Nlgh> !»• Quitter, The. A father with the wanderlust .returns home long enough to straighten out the affairs of his now grown-up sons. Barbara Weeks,. Billy Bakewell. Charles Grapewln. Emma Dunn, Glen Boles. Dir. Rich- ard Thorpe. Rel. March 12. Rainbow Over Broadway. Musical rpmance of an ex-musical, comedy star ot twenty years before who makes a sensational, overnight comeback . In a Broadway, night ctub. Joan Marsh, Grace Hayes.. Frank. Albertson. Lucien Littlefleid. Dir. Richard Thorpe. 72 mlns. Rel. Jan.. 15. Road to Ruin. Innocent girl finds shame through ignorance and neglect of modern parents. Film on modern youth. Helen Foster, Paul Page, Nell O' Day. Glen Boles. Dir. Mrs. Wallace Reid and MelvlHfc Shyer. 58 mlns. Rel. Feb* 17. Rey. Feb. 20. Stolen Sweets. High pressure insurance salesman falls for -heiress and wins her via determined, rapid line of chatter route. Charles Starrett. Sally Blane, Johnny Harron, Jameson Thomas. Dir. Richard Thorpe. 73 mins. Rel. May j. Sweetheart of Sigma Chi. College musical comedy romance. Based on the famous campus fraternity song. Buster Crabbe. Mftry Carlisle, Sally Starr, Florence Lake, Ted Flo Rlto and- band. Dir. Edwin L« Marin. 7* mlns, Rel. Dec. 15. . '"'• Texas Tornado. ( ent.) Texas Ranger cleans up . Lane Chand^ ler. . Dir. Oliver Drake. Rev.' March. 6. Throne of the Gods. Travel in the Himalayas. 56 mlns. Rev. Dec. 27. Twin Husbands. Crook comedy drama. John MUjah, Shirley Grey. Monroe Owsley. Dir. Frank Strayer. 69 mlns. Rel. May 15. Rev. May 29; Woman's Man. Hollywood Inside story. John Halllday, Marguerite de la iMotte, Wallace Ford. Dir. Edward Luddy... 68 mlns. Young Eagles. Boy Seoul: adventures In wilds of Central America. Twelve episode' serial. Dir. Harry Hoy.t. Rel. May .15. First National 3mM ' , w N , rwVor^. v. itudloe: Burbank, Calif. Bedside. Comedy-drama of a women's doctor." Warren William, Jean. Mulr. Alien Jenkins. Dir. Robert Florey.. 65 mlns. Rel. Jan. 27. Rev .Mar. 13. Big Shakedown, The. Dramatic expose of the cut-rate drug racket; Bette Davis. Charles Farrell, Ricardo Cortez. Dir. John Francis Dillon. 64 mlns. Rel.. Jan. 6.- Rev. Feb. 3.- . \ Circus Clown, The. Roaring comedy under the big tent with'*' winsome ro- mance wound into hilarious situations. Joe E. Brown,: Patricia Ellis, Gordon Westcott, Tom Dugan. Dir. Ray Enrlght. Rel. June 30. Convention City. The hilarious lowdown on big. business conventions. Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, Guy Klbbee. Dir. Archie Mayo. 6$ mlns. Rel. Dec. 30. Rev. Dee. 27. Dark Hazard. Edward G, Robinson as a" whippet racer. ■ Genevieve Tobln, Glenda Farrell. Dir. Al Green. 60 mlns. Rel. Feb. 3. . Rev. Feb. 27. Fashions of 1934. Story of a style. stealer. Bet against a lavish background. Wm. Powell. Bette Davis, Verree Teasdale. Dir. Wm. Dleterle. 80 mlns. Rel. Feb. 17., Rev.. Jan. 23. ♦ application for a building permit is 1 Fo Qv Frisco. Mystery melodrama, set in. flan Francisco. Donald Woods, - - 1 — .... Dir. William Dleterle. ReL being held up. SEEK UNDERSEA LOCALES Hollywood, June 4. Scouting locations for '20^000 League Under the Sea', Otis Gar rett left by plane yesterday (Sun- day) for Mexico. Jerry Fairbanks, cameraman, is with him and they Bette Davis, Lyle Talbot, Margaret Lindsay. June. 2. \ Journal of a Crime.- Drama by the French playwright Jacques Deval, and de- picts the effect of a murder on a woman of fine instincts and delicate sensibilities who kills an unscrupulous rival. Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd. Dir. William KeigHley. 65 mlns. ReL March 10. Rev. May 1. -. Mandalay. Adventure In the Indies. Kay tfrancls, Lyle Talbot Rlccardd Cortez. Dir.i Michael Curtlz. 65 mlnsi Ret Feb. 10. Rey. Feb. 20. Massacre. Drama of the modern Indian and his Conflicts with, the white men. Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak. Dir. Allen Crosland. 70 mlns. ReL Jan. 13. Rev. Jan. 23. Isters Under the Skin. Tired business man takes a matrimonial vacation and along the GuIC of Lower Caiifomla to save time when the company sails | later. Plane will pick up a representa- I tive of the Mexican government in Ensenada, who is to act as censor and help smooth out the way with] local Mexican officials. Phil Gold- stone is producing 1 . will attempt to .spot undersea locales Mer(ty The ' Comed ' y . dram a ot the typical iamlly stepplngill ov6r M» gets it out of his system. Elissa Landr, Frank Morgan, Jos. Schildkraut. Dir. David Burton. 70 mins. Rel. April 16. 8oclal Register. A chorus girl's adventures in high society. Colleen Moore, Chas. Winninger. Pauline Frederick, Alex, Klrkland. Dir. Marshall Nlelan. 74 mlns. Rel. March 10. Speed Wings. Western with airplanes to break monotony .of sagebrush. Tim ] McCoy, Evalyri Knapp. Dir. Otto BroWer. 61 mlns. Rel. Feb. 6. Rev. April 3. Straightaway. Tim McCoy discards the chapB and sombrero for the speedway. Tim McCoy. Dir. Otto Brower. 68 mlns. Rel. Dec. 22. Rev. Jan. 23. Twentieth Century. From the stage hit. Temperamental theatrical manager and temperamental star on same train. John Barrymore, Carole Lom- bard. Dir. Howard Hawks.^ 91 mlns. Rel. May 11. Rev. May 8. Voice in the Night. Complications In the' telephone business. Tim McCoy. Dir. Chas. C. Coleman. 59 mlns. Rel. April 6. Whirlpool. A self-sacrificing husband meets death to shield his wife, Jack Holt, Jean Arthur. Dir. R. W.. Nelll. 74 mlns. Rel. April 10. Rev. May. 8. Office: 729 SeVeTrth Ave.,"" New York, N. Y. Mary Stuart 10 DuWorld Dir. Cameron McPher- 60 mlns. Beast of Borneo. Melodrama and anl mlns. Rel. April 15. v . ■. Dawn to Dawn. Artistic, rural story. Julie Hayden; son. 35 mlns. Rel; Jan. 1. Rev. Jan. 9. Fantomas (Fr) (dubbed English). Murder mystery. Rel. March 1. RevJ March 20. iri In the Case. Comedy in the Continental .jnanner^ Jimmy Savo, Eddie Lambert, Dorothy Darling, Dir. Eugene Frenke. 60. mlns.. ReU June 16. Hollywood, City of Dreams (Sp).. Jose Bphr. Spaniard's impression of clnematown. 68 mins. Rel. March 30. .. Romance In Budapest ' (Hung). Franclska Goal. Musical, Rel. April 15. Rev. May 15. Tod Uber Shanghai (Ger). Mystery of Americans In Japan. Rolff.Ran- dolf. 75 mins. Rel. Dec. 15. First Division 0ffi " 8: 1&°vSSt«. y. Releases Also Allied, Chesterfield and Monogram Beggars In Ermine. Lionel Atwlll, Betty Furness. Dir. Phil Rosen. 70 mlns. Rel. May 1. roken Dreams. A father's devotion to his young son. Randolph Scott, Martha Sleeper, Beryl Mercer, Buster Phelps: Dir. Robert Vignola, 68 mins. Rel. Dec. 1. . , City Limits. A millionaire, ailing and tiring of wealth, falls in with two hoboes and enjoys life for a time. Frank . Craven, Sally Blane, Ray Walkerj _pir. jvym. N L == City pVrk~"TFree men voiun1tWiiy _ become tl^gulffalans ora JesTIFuFe; young girl. Sally Blane, Henry B. Walthall, Matty Kemp. Johnny Herron. Richard Thorpe. Rel. May 16. Cross Streets. Young doctor, jilted by the woman he loves,' ruins his career, until daughter of same woman falls In love with him, years later. Jan. 22. Dir. Frank Strayer. Eat 'Em Alive. Jungle super thriller. 66 mlns. Rel. Feb. 1; Forgotten .Men, Collection of uncensored war film, taken from government archives of 14 warring nations. Rel. April 1. He. French production of a de Maupassant story. Dubbed In English. A village paragon who lost his virtue. 55 mlns, Rel. Dec. Jan. 9. from Germany by "the handling the direction- company, Player was previously signed by until she turns and leaves them on their own. Aline MacMahon, Guy Klbbee, Alien Jenkins, Hugh Herbert. Dlr.-A^l Green. Rel. May 26.. Registered Nurse. Drama of the romantic side of a nurse's life In a metro- politan hospital. Bebe Daniels, Lyle Talbot, John Halllday. Dir. Rob- ert Florey. 73 mlns. Rel. April 7. Return of the Terror, The. Mystery drama with , pjenty of heart interest Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, John Halllday, Frank ;McHugh. Dir. Howard Bretherton. Rel. July 7. Side Streets. Love drama based on an original story, by Ann Garrick and Ethel Hill. Aline MacMahon, Paul Kelly, Ann Dvorak, Patricia Ellis. Dir. Alfred E. Green. Rel. June- 30, . \ Son of a Sailor. Comedy of a sailor who gets into a funny situation because of his habit of telling- romantic stories about himself. Joe E. Brown, Jean Mulr, Frank McHugh, Johnny Mack Brown, and Thelnia Todd. Dir. Lloyd Bacon. 70 mlns f Rel. Dec. 23. Rev. De<^. 5. scenes of = , ,.. _^... w . Rogers. Allen Jenkins, the Four Mills Brothers, Ted Fiorlto and Bind. Dir. Ray En- right. 90 mins. Rel, May 26. Rev. May 1.'. , ) Very Honorable Guy, A* Comedy from the story' by : DanioA Runyon about a guy who always kept his promises. Joe E..'BroWn,' Altee White, Robert Barrat, Alan Dlnehart, Irene Franklin. Dir. Lloyd paeon. 62 mlns, ReL - May 26; Rev. May 22. SPARKS IN 'LOTTERY' Hollywood, June 4. __ Ned Sparks has been signed by 1 Twen ty"Miliion~Sweethearts. Musical romance taking piaW behind Fox for 'Lottery Lover* which starts | a broadcasting studio. Dick PoweH, :Pa$ O'Brien.. Ginger Rog July 23 at the Movietone lot with Hans Schartz, recently brought the company for spots in 'Servant's! Wonder Ban Dramatic musical spectacle laid amld^the jfa^ revelries, of^ a Entrance' and 'Marie Gallante', ' " " which go before 'Lottery Lover'. Rel. fashionable Parisian night club. Kay Francis, Dick Powell, Dolores Del Rio, Al Jolson, Ricardo Cortez, Hal LeRoy,, Guy: Klbbee, tflugh Herbert, Ruth Donnelly, FIfl D'Orsay, Dir. Lloyd Bacom 84 mlns. v Rev. March 6. World Changes, Th«. An epic drama of a family through four, generations. Paul Muiil, Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor. Donald Cook, Margaret Llnd say, Jeari Mulr/ Patricia Ellis. Dir. ervyn LeRoy. 95 mlns, ReL Nov. 25. Rev. Oct 31. Studio; Fox Hills, ***** cesi 444 Weft 66th St.^ Hollywood, Cal. TOX , New York. N Y. All Men Are Enemies. Hugh Williams, Helen Twelvetrees. . Dir. Itz- maurice. 79 mins. Rel. April 20. Rev. May 29. 4 As Husbands Go. 'When Ladles Meet' with the sexes' reversed. Warner Bax- ter, Helen Vinson, Warner Oland. Dir. Hamilton McFadden.. 05 mins, Rel. Dec. 29, Rey. Jan. 30. . Baby take a Bow. The Fox child star comes through again. Shirley Temple, Claire Trevor, James Dunn. Dir. Harry Lachman. Rel, June 22. Bottoms Up. Breaking Into Hollywood with a fictitious pedigree. Spencer Tracy, (Miss) Pat Paterson, John Boles. Dir. David Butler. 85 mlns, Rel. March 30. Rev. March 27. Call It. Luck. Pat Paterson, Herbert Mund In. Dir. Jas. Tinlln. Re|. June L Carolina. From Paul Green's stage play, 1 of last season. Janet Gayribr, Lionel Barrymore, Robt Young. Henrietta Crosman. Dir. Henry King. 82 . mlns. Rel. Feb. 2. Rev. Feb. 20. . , Holiyw^odr^^ Metro took another hitch on May Chas. Farrell. James Dunn, Ginger Rogers. Dir. John G. Blystone. Rel. TS SLOWS 'TRANSIENT LADY' Hollywood, June 4. 'Transient Lady', the Rian James story, has bean set back for three weeks at Universal to enable Eddie Buzzell to direct 'The Human Side- first. Adolphe Menjou will play the male lead in the Christine Ames play, and Eph Asher will supervise, with production slated to start June 11. Contracts Robson's pact. rsabell Jewell haa signed seven year covenant at Metro. Max Steiner has signatured a new ticket as head of . Radio music de- partment. 26. Rev. He Couldn't Take It. Inside story^ a process server who makes good with I Wa™«j British cast. 85 mins. Rel. March 23. Rev. April 10. Mascot has tied Milton Krims on ' Davld Harum. The old York State Hoss' trader. Will Rogers, Louise Dresser, a deal up to five years. | Kvelyn Venable. Dir. Jas. Cruze. Rel. March ' 2. Rf»v. March 6. Devil Tiger. E. Stone. Dir. Wm. Nigh. 64 mlns. Rel. Jan. 1. for George Brent in top spot. Wild animal yarn made in A.s.la. Marlon (Continued on page 32) Burns, Kane Rlch- 32 VARIETY PICTURES Tuesday, June 5, 1934 Studio Placements Hollywood, June .4. Ann Howard, Monroe Owsley, 'She Was a Lady,' Fox. Robert 'Defense Rests,' Col. Clarence Geldert, Selma Jackson, •Blind Date,' Col. Lynn Starling, adapting > ade,* Fox. Rose Frankeri, scripting tate vs. Elinor Norton/Fox*, Mae Clark, ' Walls/ 'All Gooi Americans.' Janet Gaynpr, 'Marigold,' Fox. Sam Hoffenstein, adapting 'The Fountain,' Radio. Gladys George, •Dolly/.' -Metro. 'George O'Brien, 'The Ddde Ranker/ Fox. William B. Davidson, 'Dragon Murder Case,' WB. Phillip Reed, •Lost Lady,' WB. Ann Howard, 'She Was., a Lady/ Fox. Alf P. James, William Robyns, •Ladies First,' Par. James Morton, "Public' Enemies,' Roach. Doris Malloy, 'Son Comes Home/ Par. Violet. Kemble-Cooper; 'The Foun- ta.i.' Radio. Alison Skipworth, Hates the Sea/ Col. Ricardo Cortez, 'A Hat, a Coat, a Glove/ Radio. Irvin S. Cobb, Frank Darien,. Katherlne Ward, Frank Brownlee and Benny Baker, 'Angle Worm.- Roach. Mary Astor, Howl- ing Dog/ WB. Gordon Westcott, Vivian Oak- land, Doris Atkinson. William Ker- ry. Herbert Evans, Mary Forbes, •Sailor's Holiday/ WB. Henry Kolker, Frank Morgan, Rafaelo Ottiano, Walter Walker, Herry O'Neill, Mary Forbes, Sam r uel E. Hinds, Virginia Hammond, •A Lost Lady/ WB. Alfred -Stern, in charge U's leas- ing department, Mono. David Landau, 'Band Plays Dixie,' Fox. Stanley Fields, Eddie Chandler, •Criminal Within/ Col. Rian James, treating 'Transient Lady/ 'Gift of. Gab/ and Human Side/ U.. Ben Markson, adapting 'Travel- ing Saleslady/ WB. Otto Kruger, 'AH Good Ameri- cans/ ; mg. Sylvia Sidney, George . Raft, •Limehouse Nights/ Par. Dave Gould, directing dances 'Gay Divorce/ Radio. „ Vincent Lawrence,, treatment 'A Man I Knew/ Par. Charles Logue, screen play. 'Wag- on Wheels/ Par. Lloyd Nolan, 'Outrage/ Par. Ruth Metzger, Dorothy Wilson,- Akim Tamiroff, Herman Bing, Lu- oien Prival, 'Merry Widow/ MG. Ralph Forbes, 'Barretts of Wim- pole Street/ MG, Monte Blue, 'Student Tour/ MG. Edward Keane, 'Count of Monte Cristo/ Small-Reliance. Sarah Hayden, 'A Hat, a Coat, a Glove/ Radio. Henry Armetta, Andy Devine, •Castle in the Air/ U. 9 Arthur Jacobson, Charles Berton, directing 'Wagon Wheels/ Par. Eugene Berton, Ralph Berton, Karen De Wolf, scripting 'School for Scandal/ U. Holmes Herbert, Helen Freeman, Alphonse Martel, 'Count of Monte Cristo/ Reliance. James Burtis, 'Burn 'Em Up Barnes/ Mascot. Ernest Pascal, screen play for 'Casanova — The. Immortal Lover/ Lasky-Fox. Franchot Tone, 'Death on the. Dia- mond/ Metro. Margaret Hamilton, 'A Hat, a Coat, a Glove.' Radio. n Robert Young', 'All Ameri- cans/ Metro. Douglas Fc-wley, Florinne. Mckin- ney, Betty Grable, 'Student Tour/ Metro. Herman J"i~Mankiewi.cz, rescript- ing 'Stamboul Quest,' MG. O. P. Heggie, 'Peck's Bad k Principal. I Noah Beery, Behriore, * 'Caravan/ Fox. - Sid Silvers, act and write; Mary Livingstone, 'Trans- Atlantic Show- boat/ Small-Reliance.. Jean Hersholt, 'The Fountain, Radio. Henry Kolker, 'Criminal Within,' Col, Jo SWerling, scripting next Jack Holt yarn, Col. , Arthur Hohl, 'Defense Rests/ Col. Arthur Piersori, '52 Weeks for =^eUt^ette,^^Par^ FranVlJavis, "WaHeF^angeFrSs^ sistant, elevated to direct, 'Forsak ing All Others/ MG. William Powell, ' lack Chamber/ MG. Richard Sohayer, scripting 'Any Port in a Storm/ for Wallace vBeery, Metro. Frank Craven, adapting, directing, acting, Geo' % e Barbier, 'That's Gratitude/ Bryan Foy. Douglas Fbwley, 'Student Tour/ *IG. Spanky McFarlahd, 'Peck's Bad Boy/ Principal. Jean Sargent, 'Transatlantic Showboat/ Small -Reliance. I CALENDAR OF CURRENT RELEASES (Continued from page 31). Dir. Rel Ir. Geo. Geo. Bel. Rel. mond, Harry Woods and natives, Feb. 16. Rev. Feb. *3. Ever Since Eve. Country boy licks New York. George Marshall; 75 mlns. Rel. Feb. 9. Rev. April 3. Frontier. Marshal, The. Familiar theme of the unknown cieaner-ujp. O'Brien. Dlr, Lew Seller. 66 mins. Rel. Jan. . 19. Rev. Feb. 6. Grand Canary.. Warner Baxter, Madge Evans. . Irving Cummlngs. July 13. Handy Andy. Will Wood. 81 mlns. .July 27. . ;' Heart Song. British made with Lillian Harvey and Mady Christians In the cast. Erich Pommer production. Dir. Frederich Hollaender. Rel. April 27. Hold That Girl.: Original story. James Dunn, Claire Trevor. Hamilton MacFadden. 65 mins. Rel. Feb. 16. Rev. March 27. I Am Suzanne. Novelty story' with puppet sequences. . Lilian Harvey, Gen* Raymond, Piccoll Marionettes, Yale Puppeteers. Dir. R, V. Lee. 99 mlns. Rel. Dec. 22. Rev. Jan. 23. * 1. Believed In You. Original story. Rosemary Ames,' Victor Jory, John Boles. Dir. Irving Cumin ings. 69 thins. Rel.. Feb. 23. . Rev. April 11.. I Was a Spy. (British) Based on -the story by Mnrthe MacKenna. Herbert Marshall, Madalelne Carroll,' Conrad Veldt. Dir. Victor Saville. 83 mine. Ret. Dec. 16. Rev. Jan. 16. Jimmy and Sally. James Dunn, . zt Rev. Dec. 19 Mr. Skltch. From the story 'Green Dice.' . Will Rogers, Zasu Pitts, Rochelle Hudson, Harry Green. Eugene Pallette. Dir. Jas. Cruze. Rel. Dec. 29 Rev. Dec. 2? Murder in Trinidad. Mystery story from Vandercbok's novel. Niegel Bruce. Heather Angel. Dir. Sol Wurtzel. 74 mlns. Rel. April 6... Rev. May 29.. Now I'll Tell. Mrs. Arnold Rothstein's story based on her husband's life. Spencer Tracy, Helen Twlevetrees. Dir. Edwin Burke. 87 . mlns. Rel. May 11: Rev. May 29. Orient Express. Mystery on a railroad train. Heather Angel, Norman Foster. Dir Paul Martin. Rel. Jan. 12. Rev. March 6. Scandals. Staged' by George White on the lines of his revue. Rudy Vailee, Alice Fay, Jimmy Durante. Dir. Geo. White, Harry Lachman. 8© mlns, Rel. March 22. . Rev. March . 20. She Learned About Sailors. Alice Faye, Lew Ayres, Mitchell and Duraht. ir. GeO. Marshall. Rel.. July 6 She Was a Lady. Helen Twelvetrees, John Blystoiie. Rel. July 20. Sleepers East. From the novel by. Fredk. NebeL Wynne Gibson, Preston Foster. Dir. Kenneth MacKenna. 69 mins. Rel. Jan. 26. Smoky. From the novel by Will James. Victor Jory, Irene Bentiey, Prancl* • Ford. Dir. Eugene Forde. 66. mins. Rel. Dec. 8. Rev. Jan. 9. Springtime for tienry. From Benn Levy's stage play. Otto Kruger, Nancy Carroll, Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel. Dir.. Frank Tut tie. (Lasky pro- duced). Rel. May 25. Stand Up and Cheer. Musical. Warner Baxter, Madge Evans, Sylvia Froos Dir. Hamilton MacFadden. , Rel. May 4. Rev. April 24. Such Women Are Dangerous. From the story, 'Odd Thursday/ Warner Bax- ter, Rosemary Ames. Rochelle Hudson.- ir. Jas, Flood. 79 mins. Rel. May- 4. Three on a Honeymoon. Love affairs on an ocean liner: Sally Eilers, John Mack Brown. Dir. Jas. Tinlihg. 70 mins. Rel. March 23. Rev. May 8, Wild Gold. John Boles, Clajre . Trevor, Harry Green. Dir. Geo. Marshall. Rel. May 11, A Lone Star Freuler Associates Office: R.K.O. Bldg., New York. N. V. Kiss of Araby. Original. Saraha story of British army and Riff, with love interest, .- Maria Alba, Walter Byron, Claire Windsor. Dir. Phil Rosen Rel. April 21. Love Past Thirty. A woman's struggle against the lure of youth for the man she loved! Alleen Prlngle, Theodor von Eltz, Gertrude Messlnger. Ehyl* ; lis Barry. Dir. Vin Moore. 73 mlns. Rel. Jan. 27. vVar of the Range. Tom Tyier western. Dir. J. P. McGowan. 60 mlns. Rel Sept 22. Rev,. Dec. 12. When' a Man Rides Alone. (Monarch.) Tom Tyler does a modern Robin Hood with a gold- mine. Dir. J. P. McGowan. 66 mins. Rev. Dee. 27. Gaumont-British™" m Wert S & New York Channel Crossing; Drama. Matheson Lang, Constance Cummlngs. Dir. Mil- ton Rossmer. 68 mlns. Rev. Oct. 81. Falling for You. Comedy drama. Jack Huibert, Cicely Courtneidge* Dlr Jack Huibert. 71 mlns; Rev. Aug. 4. Friday the 13th. Bus crash and what led- up to it. Jessie Matthews, Frank Lawton, Sonnle Hale. Dir. Victor Saville. 70 mlns. Rel. May 15. Rev. May 22. Ghoul, The. Thriller. Boris Karloff. T. H. Hunter. 73 mins. Rel Jan. 1. Rev. Jan. 30. Just Smith. Mystery comedy by Lonsdale. Tom Walls, star and director, 70 mlns. Rel. April 13. Rev. April 24. Orders Is Orders. Comedy Of American making film In British army. James « Gleason, Charlotte Greenwood. Dir. Walter Forde. 70 mlns. Rel. May 1. Rev. May 8. . ' Prince of Wales. Newsreel compi Rel. April 15. Rev. April 24. M.; p .»; r Offices: RKO Bldg., Radio City ITiajCSlIC New York City Charming Deceiver, The. (British made.) Romantic drama of Cinderella type. Coustance Cummings .and Frank Lawton. Dir. Monty Banks. Rel Dec. 8. Morning After, The. A merry mix-up of International spy systems. Ben Xyon and Sally Eilers. Dir. Allan Dwan. Rel. Jan. 1. Slri of Nora Moran, The. Woman Is framed to shield the higher-ups. Zlta Johann Alan Dlnehart Paul Cavanagh. John Miljan. Dir. Phil Gold stone. Rel. Dec. 12. Rev. Dec. 19. Unknown Blonde. From the novel "Collusion/* The divorce racket. Edward Arnold, Helen Jerome Eddy ir. Hobart Henley. 61 mins. Rel. March. Kcv. May 15. itudlos: Ity Metro : 1*40 Broadway, Calif. mciro New York. N* V Cat and the fiddle; The. From the successful musical play by Jerome Kern £"£' ? arb n c l 1 ; Ramon ^ovarro, JeSnette MacDOnald, Frank Mor< gan. Charles Butterworth. Jean Hersholt. Vivlehne Segal. Dir. Wll Ham K. Howard: Rel. Feb. 16. Rev. Feb. 20. Eskimo. Love and hate In the icelands. Native cast. Dir. W. S. Van Dyke Roadshow length, 120 mins. Re). Jan. 13.; Rev. Nov. 21 '. Fugitive Lovers. Robert Montgomery and Madge Evans as the lovers In a story most of whose action takes place on a transcontinental bus. Nat Pendleton, C. Henry Gordon, Ruth Selwyn. Dir. H. Boleslavsky. 84 mlns. Rel. Jan. 5. Rev. Jan. 16. Going Hollywood. Marlon Davies chases a. radio crooner to the studio. Marion Davies. Bing Crosby. Dir, Raoul Walsh. 76 mlns. Rel. Dec. 22. Kev. Dec, 26. Hollywood Party. All star musical film. 68 mlns. Rel. June 11. ReV. May 29. Laughing Boy. Ramon Novarro in the title role, Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Oliver La Farge. Lupe Velez. Dir. W. S. Van Dyke. 75 mins. Rel. May 20. Rev, May 15. Lazy River. Story of the shrimp fisheries among the Cajuns In the Louisiana "^^rl^-ciiv 1 ^^^ ^? n ==£^ k ^ r ..,5? h - e rt Young, C. Henry Gordon. Dir. George Seltz. 77 mlns. ReTf^rcTrTe^RevrA^ Manhattan Melodrama. Story of old and new New York. Clark Gable Wm May 8' Dir ' W " S< Van Dyke - ^ mins. Rel. May 4. Rev." M * n nH^uJ!* £i ct V '^ a M on ,9 f the successful BroadWay stage play of hoe- 7 P 2 U mln , s e - "iSSf r A p?fi b l*' ^M^\ ^ Her8h0,t ' ^ R " B o'^'*vsky: My9te p y «Wf M k„£^ Based r. on u l ¥u C Sl m * 9 lub novel °y P,,1 »P MacDonald. Rei l^Fei ?23. ^ Rev y Feb 27* ' St ° ne * m '' ™ S&r Sclwyn ' ° id "Parker!* Dl^Rtesner ^3fja? r tC man,pulator - Lewls Ston * J * a " Operator 13. Based on the last novel of the late Robert W. Chambers. Marion Davies, Gary Cooper. Dir. Richard Boleslavsky. No release Bet. Qu " n hr«H2hJ'» a r; <5 r f ta K ^""r 0 as t i ,e Beven teenth century queen, who was brought up as a boy. Lewis Stone, Ian Keith, Elizabeth Young. Dir Rouben Mamoullnn. 90 mlns. Rel. Feb. 9. Rev. Jan. £ Rip Tide (Opposing Forces Within Woman). An American girl marries Into English nobility and suffers disappointment and disillusionment. Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery/ Herbert Marshall, Mrs. Pat Campbell. Dir. Edmund Gouidlng. Rel. March 23. Rev. April 3. Sadie McKee. Based on the novel by Vina Delmar. Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone. Dir. Clarence Brown. Rel. May 11. Rev. May 22, Should Ladles Behave. From the stage play, 'The Vinegar Lionel Barrymore, Alice Brady. Dir. Harry Beaumont. 89 mine, Dec. L Rev. Dec. . 19. Showoff, The. Old stage play of a Conceited man who makes good. Spencer Tracy,- Madge Evans. Dir. Chas. Rlesner. 78 mlns. Re). March 9 Rev. March 20. • Sons of the Desert (Ha) Laurel, and Hardy attend a fraternal con- vention. Dir. Wm. 66 mins. Rel. Dec. ,29. Rev. Jan. 9. farzan and Hit Mate. Further adventures of the characters created by Ed- gar Rice Burroughs. Johnnie Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sulllvan. Neil Hamilton, Dir. Cedrlc Gibbons, Re|. March 30. Rev. April 24. This Side of Heaven. Domestic drama from a novel. Lionel Barrymore, Fay Bainter, Mae Clark, Una Merkel, Tom Brown. Dir. Wm. K. Howard. 78 mins. Rel. Feb. 2, Rev. Feb: 13. Viva Villa. Wallace Beery portrays the famous Mexican character, Panoho Villa. Stuart Er win. Fay Wray, Lep CarrlMo. -Dir. Jaek Conway. 112 mlns. Rel. April 7. Rev. April 17. Women In Hip' Life, The. Criminal lawyer, deserted by his wife, chair the map who stole her, Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, Dir. Geo. B. Seitz. 74 mine. Rel. Dec. 3. Rev. Jan. 30. You Can't Buy Everything. Story of a domineering old woman. Jean Parker^ Lewis Stone. Dir. C. H. Reisner. 72 mlns. Rev. Feb. 6.. Studio: 6048 Sunset Blvd., MAMAOMm bffTce: R. . 6 Building, Hollywood. Cal. monogram Rockefeller Center. N.Y.C. Beggars In Ermine. Bankrupt steel man organizes a mendicants trust. Lionel Atwell, Betty Furness. Dir. Phil Rosen. 70 mlns. Rel. Feb. 22. Rev. May 1. Blue Steel. John Wayne, Eleanor Hunt. Western. 59 mins. Rel. April 30. City Limits. Ray Walker. Sally Blane, Frank Craven., Story of breezy news- pai>er reporter who gets his. story— and the girl. 67 rains. Rel. April 15. He Couldn't Take It. Story by Dorc Scharg. Inside story ot process serving racket. Ray' Walker, Virginia Cherrlll, George E. Stone. Dorothy Granger, Paul Porcasl. Dir. William Nigh, • Rel. Dec. 11. Rev. March 27. Hou6e of Mystery/The. Verpa Millie, Ed Lowry. Dir . William Nigh. 62 minB* Rel. March 30. Lucky Texan, The. Western story of a man accused of the murder of his pal. John Wayne. Dir. Paul Malvern. 66 mlns. Rel: Jan.. 22. Rev. Feb. 13. Mystery Liner. Noah Beery, Astrld Alwyn. Dir. William Nigh- 62 mlns; Rel. March 16. Rev. April 10. Manhattan Love Song. Dixie Lee. Robert Armstrong. Dir. Leonard Fields. 72 mins. Rel. April 30. Sagebrush Trail, The. Lone Star western. John Wayne, Nancy Shunert. Dlr Armand Schaefer. 63 mlns. Rel. Dec. 15. Rev. Jan. 9. Sixteen Fathoms Deep. Sponge diver's romance. Sally O'Neill, Creightori Chaney, Russell Simpson. Maurice Black. Dir. Armand Schaefer. 69 mlns. Rel. Jan. 1. Rev. Jan. 23. West of the Divide. . Lone Star, western. John Wayne, Virginia Brown Fairs. Dir. R. N. Bradbury. 62 mine. Rev. May 15. Woman's Man. Hollywood inside story. John Halllday. Wallace Ford, guerite de la Motte. Dir, Edward Luddy. Studios: 6861 Marathon 8t., p nl , Am . 11 _t Offices: 1601 BroacrWay, Hoiiy wood, caiif, raramouni New Vo rk n.y. Alice In Wonderland. lr. SH * Ar?ln H Saiiv e 4hj^Jf l A Story . about T a , brutal an,mal t^^er. Rich. ~t Rev May 1 1 . ler3f " Ro ^-=-^P^^B^l^^a.lph:,M.urph y . Rel. JJaroh Sh00t Dorot W v r &ii A T?i e , n \^ re , d '^ no G/eat Magoo,' Jack Oakie, Ben Bernle, JJorothy Dell. Dir. Wesley Ruggles. Rel. June 29. S ' X 0f Bni n nlr d w ' r n e i. h i U i mor ^ of a D share-expenses trip. Chas. Ruggles, Mary Leo a "ckr W y. V !5l£' - G Z°\ Gr S c A e Alton,., Alison Skipwlrth. Dir. 60 mlns. Rel. Feb. 9. Rev. March i3. - playi Dir. Marion Goring. 76 mins? Reh May 18. . Rev. Thirty pays ai Princess. Obscure actress plays at being a prjncess. Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant May 16. Trumpet Blows, The. George Raft becomes an amateur bull fighter. Geo. Rel. Ap?il 13 Rev Aprn r i7° eS Drake ' D,r ' St *P hen Roberts. 6M mine. We're Not Dressing. Comedy of shipwrecked royalty. Bing Crosby. Carole Lombard, Burns and Allen. Ethel Merman, Leon Errol: Dir. N'orman Taurog. 80 mlns. Rel. April 27. Rev. May 1. Witching Hour, The. Augustus Thomas play of a murder innocently caused Tuesday, June 5, 1934 PIC TV R E S VARIETY 33 by hypnotism. Sir Guy Standing, John Halliday, Judith Allen. Dir. Henry Hathaway. 65 miner. Rel. April 27. Hey. May 1. Wharf Angel. Romance in San Francisco ot 1907. Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Dell. Dir. W. C. Menzles. 65 mlns. Rel. March 16, Rev. April 24. You're Telling Me. FleldB as a small town garage man. W. C. Fields, Loan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames. Dir. Erie Kenton. 66 mlns. Re). April 6. Rev. April 10. - Principal Office: 1270 6lxth Ave., New York. N. V. Jaws of Justice. Kazan, the dog, m a melodrama of the Northwest Mounted Police* with Richard Terry and Ruth Sullivan. 54 mlns. Rel. Dec. 15 Ferocious Pal. Kazan, the dpg, in a thrilling mystery-melodrama of the sheep-raising country. Ruth Sullivan, and Robert Manning. Din Spencer Gordon. 54 mins. Rel. Feb. 1. Rev.. April 24. inhtino to Live. Captain, the dot, and Lady, his mate, In a story based on a true incident in their lives. Mary Shilling and Gaylord Pendleton. 50 mine. Rel. .May. R.K.O. Radio Office; R.K.O. Bide., . Radio City, N.Y.C Men Corn. Talented young musician realizes after a series of disappointing love affairs that love and a career' won't mix and chooses career. Ann Harding, John Boles, Margaret Hamilton, Arnold Korfl. Dir. Edward H. Griffith. Rel. May 25. Ilnd Adventure. Adventures in London during one foggy night, Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Roland Young, Ralph Bellamy. Din meat B. Schoedsack. 63 mlns.. Released Aug.. 18. Rev. Nov. -7. 1 Crime Doctor. A famous detective, jealous ot his wife who no longer loves him, plans the perfect crime. Otto Kruger, Karen Morley, Nils Asther. Judith Wood. Dir. John Robertson. Rel. April 27. Rev. May 15* Inlshlno School. A young boarding school girl becomes Involved with a young doctor. Ginger Rogers Frances Dee, Bruce Cabot. Billie Burke. Dlr Wahda Tiichock and George Nlcholls. Jr. 70 mlnsY Rel; May 4, Rev. May 1. lying Down to. Rib. Musical extravaganza which takes place in the atr abovt Rio de Janeiro. Dolores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Raou) Roulien. Dir. Thornton Freeland. 89 mln9. Rel. Dec 29. Rev. Dec. 27. Keep 'Em Rolling. One man's ilfe-tlme devotion to his loyal army horse, Waiter Huston, Frances Dee, Robert Shayne, Frank Con roy.. Dir. George Archainbaud. Rel. March 2. Hips, Hips, Hooray. Musical girl show, Bert 'Wheeler, Robert Wooisey, Hulh Ettlng, Dprothy Lee, ■Thelma Todd. George Meeker/ Phyllis Burry. Dir Mark Sandrlch. Rel. Feb. 2. Rev. -Feb. 27. If I Were Free. A modern romance of two people, disappointed in marriage who. meet and try to flftd happiness together In their way. Irene Dunne. Cllve Brook, Nils Asther, Henry Stephenson. Dir. Elliott Nugent. 66 mlns. Rel. Dec. 1. Rev. Jan; 9. Long Lost Father. Story In a London nite club. John Barrymore, Helen Chandler. Dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack; 62 mlns. Rel. Jan. 19. Rev. Feb. 27. Lost Patrol, The. A detachment of. British soldiers lost, on the Mesopotamian desert are attacked by unseen Arabs, with dramatic results. Boris Kar- lofr. Victor McLaglen. Wallace Ford. Reginald Denny,. Alan Hale. Dir. John Ford; Rel. Feb. 16.. Rev. April 3. — r Man of Two Worlds. An Eskimo, his illusions shattered by a glimpse of Lon- don civilization, returns to his own people and Is brought back to reality by his irifaht son. Francis Lederer, EHssa Landl, Henry Stephenson. Walter Byron. Steffi Duna,. J. Farrell MacDonald, Sarah Padden. Ir J. Walter Ruben. 92 mlns. Rel Feb 9. Rev. Jan. 16. Meanest Gal In Town. Farce comedy love tin the beauty parlor. Zasii Pitts, EI Brendel, Pert Kelton, James Gleason. Dir. Rich. Schayer.. 61 mine. Rel. Jan, 12. Rev. Feb, 20. f Human Bondage. . A poignant story of a man who faces life as a partial cripple. Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Reginald Denny, Reginald Shef- field, Alan Hale. Dir. John Cromwell, ReL June 1. Ing and Like It. Gangster backs a Broadway show and makes sure of good reviews by furnishing special 'escorts' for each reviewer. Zasu. Pitts, Pert Kelton, Edward Everett Horton, Nat Pendleton, Ned Sparks. Dir William Setter. 69 mlns. Rel.; April 20. Rev. April 17. Son of Kong. Further adventures of Carl Denham, the director who Drought King Kong to civilization, this time with the Son -of Kong. Robert Arm- strong. Helen Mack, Frank Relcber, John Marston. Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack. 69 mine. Rel. Dec. 22. Rev. Jan. 2. Spitfire. A powerful story which deals with a beautiful mountain "witch" whose naivete, temperament -and personality comhlne wickedness and immaculatenesB. Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy, Martha Sleeper, Sidney Toler, Louis Mason, Sara Haden. Dir. John Cromwell, Rel. March 30. Rev. March 30. 8tlngaree. Notorious Australian bandit of the "Robin Hood" type with a flair for the esthetic things of life.: Irene Dunne, Richard Dlx. Conway Tearle. Mary Boland. Dir. William Wellmah. 76 mins. Rel. May 25. Rev. May 22. Strictly Dynamite. A poet becomes a gag writer for a famous radio comic. Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Norman Foster, Marian Nixon. Dir. Elliott Nugent. ' Rel. May 11. , Success at Any Price. Ruthless business man finds love at last. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Colleen Moore, Genevieve Tobin. Dir. J. Walter Ruben; Rel. March 16. Rev. May 8. Success Story. The ruthless rise to power and wealth of a boy of the New York telement district. Douglas Fairbanks. Jr., Colleen Moore, Gene- vieve Tobin, Frank Morgan, Dir. J. Walter Ruben. Rel. March 16. Is Man Is Mine. To preserve her marriage a young wife virtually hurls her husband into the arms of his first love. Irene Dunne, Constance Cummlngs, Ralph Bellamy, 'Kay Johnson. Dir. John Cromwell. . 75 mine. Rel. April 13. Rev. April 17. Two Alone. An orphan girt and a young boy who escaped from a reformatory fall In love and try to escape the inhuman farmer who keeps them enslaved on his farm. Jean Parker, Zasu Pitts, Tom Brown, Arthur Byron Nydia Westman, Benlah Bond), Williard Robertson. Emerson Tracy. Dir. Elliott Nugent. Rel. Jan. 6. 1934. Rev. April 10. Where Sinners Meet. An eloping couple have a break-down, in their , car and spend the night in an unusual hotel where the host, a philosopher, shows them the error of their way. Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Reginald Owen, Billie Burke. Alan Mowbray, Gilbert Emery. Dir. J. Walter Ruben. 68 mins. Rel. May 18. Rev. May 29. Wild Cargo. Frank Buck's expedition into the Asiatic Jungles to capture wild animals. Frank Buck, Dir. Armand Denis. Rel. April 6. United Artists 729. Seventh Ave., New V6rk, N. V. and puts the question to the test. Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Bcnlta Hume,.£3sa Lanchester. Dir. Alex Korda. 'No date.) Roman Scandal*. A town simpleton transported in a dream back to the grandeur that was Rome, Dir. Frank Tuttle. Eddie Cantor, Ruth Ettlng, Gloria Stuart 91 mine. Rel. Dec. 29 Sorrel! A Son. An epic of the love between father and son. H. B. -Warner, Peter Penrose, Hugh Williams, Winifred Shotter. Dir. Jack Raymond, Rel. April 20. Studloi Universal City, Calif. Universal Office*: 730 Fifth Ave., New York. N. V. Lukas, Leila Hyams. Patricia Ellis, Edwin L. Marion. Rel. June 18. Stuart.. Schertainger. '.Rel. Edgar Advice to the Lovelorn. RblViance and adventures ol reporter who edits' the agony column and eventually exposes the drug racket. Dlr Alfred Werker. Re). Dec. 1. Rev. Dec. 19. Affairs of Cellini, The. The love life of Benvenuto Cellini. Fredric March. Constance Bennett, Frank Morgan, Fay Wray. (No date set.) Born to Be Bad. Story of a woman apparently destined by circumstances to be always wicked in spite of herself; Loretta, YoUng^ Cary Grant, Paul Harvey. Dir. Lowell Sherman. Rel. May 18. Bulldog, brummond Strikes Back. Further, adventures in crime solution. Ron- ald Colman. Loretta Young,' Warner Oland. Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel. (No date set.) Catherine the Great. The story of Russia's greatest ruler. Douglas Fair- banks, Jr , Elizabeth . Bergner,- Flora Robson, Grl ths Jones. Dir. Paul Czlnner. 93 mins. Rel. April 13 Rev. Feb. 20 - Count of Monte Crlsto, The. The famous romantic old classic., of the French nobleman's struggle with his adversaries. Robert Donat, EHssa Land), Louis Calhern. Dir. Rowland V. Lee. Gallant Lady. An unwed mother who pays the price of silence In order to be near her child. Dir. Gregory La Cava. Ann Harding, Clive Brook- Otto Kruger, Tullio Carmlnati. 82 mins. Rel. Jan. 6. Rev. Jan. 23. House of Rothschild, The (20th Cent.). Strong drama of the gTeat financial house. George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young. Dir. Alfred Werker. 94 mins, Rel. April 6. Rev, March 20. ... Last Gentleman, The. Shrewd and elderly millionaire cleverly foils the plans of his children to chisel his money away. George Arliss, Edna May. Oliver, Janet Beecher and Ralph Morgan. Dir. Sidney Lanfield. (No ===^^dnte=aete\^~^-^=^===^^^^=^^=^ „ Looking for Trouble. Thrills in the lives of telephone linesmen,- with a couple of love stories on the side. Spencer Tracy, Jack Oakle, Constance Cum- mings, Arline Judge. Dir. Wm. Wellman. 77 mins; Rel. March 9. Rev. April 17. oulln Rouge. A talented wife proves her ability by a clever impersonation ruse. Dir. Sidney Lanflejd. Constance Bennett. Franchot Tone, Tullio Carmlnati. 70 mins.- Rel. Jan. 19. Rev. Feb. 13. Nana. Adapted from the Zola novel with Sam Goldwyn's new star, Anna Sten. Phillips Holmes, Mae Clark, Lionel Atwill. Rich. Bennett. Dir. Dorothy Arzner. 87 mins. Rel. Mar. 2. Rev. Feb. 6. Palooka. The son of a prizefighter follows in his father's footsteps. Dir. Ben- jamin Stoloff. Jlmmie Durante, Stuart Erwin, Lupe Velez. Re). Jan. 26 Rev. March 6. Private Life of Don Juan. Somebody insinuates to the great legendary lover that all his conquests really didn't love him— so he gathers them around Alan: JameB. 60 mlns: Wm. Wyler. Affairs of a Gentleman. Drama. Onslow Stevens, Lilian Bond. Beloved. Musical. John Boles, Jan. 29. Rev. Jan. 30. Bombay. Mall. Edmund Lowe Production. . Dir. Ed. Jan. 9. Black Cat v The. Mystery. Karloff, Beta Lugosi, David Manners; Wilmer. 70 mins. Rel: May 7, Rev. May 22. By Candlelight. Sophisticated comedy-drama. Paul Lukas. Elissa Lftndi, Nils Asther. Esther Ralston. . Dir. James Whale. 70 mlns. Rel. Dec. 18, Rev Jan, 9. Counsellor at Law. Drama. John Barrymore. Ir. Wm Wyler. Rel. Dec. 25. Rev. Dec. 12. Countess of Monte C r let o. Drama, Fay Wray, Pawl Lukas, Paul Page, Car - mel Meyers, Reginald Owen. Rel, March 19. Rev. April: 3. Cross County Cruise: Comedy-drama. Lew Ayres, June Knight. Alice White. Dir. Eddie Buzzell. 78 mins Rel. Jan. 15. Rev. Jan. 23. Crosby Case, The. Drama. Wynne Gibson. Onslow Stevens, William Collier. Rel. March 5. Rev. April 3.. • Embarrassing Moments. Comedy-drama. Chester Morris. Marlon Nixon. Dir. Ed. Laemmle. Rel. May 14. . Funny Thing Called Love. Comedy. Charles Morris, Andy Divine, Lois Jan- nery. Frank Craven.- Dlr- Curt Neumann, Rel. June 25. Glamour. Comedy-drama. Constance Cummlngs. Paul Lukas, Dir. William Wyler. 75 mins. Rel. April 9. Rev. May 15, Gun Justice. . Western, Ken Maynard. Rel. Dec. 18. Rev. April 3. •Half a Sinner. Drama. Joel McCrea, Sally Slane, Buster Churchill. ir. Kurt Neumann. Rel. April 30. Honor of the Range. Western; Ken Maynard .Rel. April 16. Rev. -May L Her First Mate. Comedy. Bummerville- Pitts: Rev. Sept. 6. Horse Play. Comedy, SummervlHe-Devine. Rev. March 13. I Like It That Way> Musical. Rodger Pryor. loria Stuart. man. 70 mine. Rel. Feb. 12. Rev. April 24. I'll Tell the World. Comedy. Lee Tracy, Gloria Stuart, Roger Pryor. Dlr, Edwin Sedgwick. 78 mins, Rel. April 16. Rev. April 24. invisible Man. Mystery-drama. Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Henry Travels, Una O'Connor. Dir. James Whale. 70 mins. Rel. Nov. 13.. Rev. Nov. 21. Let's Be Ritzy. Comedy-drama. Lew Ayres,. Patricia Bills. Frank McHugh, Isabella JeWell, Hedda Hopper. Dir. Edward Ludwig. Rel.' March 26. Utile Man, What Now? Drama. Margaret Suilavan, Douglass Montgomery Dir. Frank Borzage.. Rel. May 21. Love Captive. rama. Nils Asther, Max Marcln. Rel, June 4. Love Birds; Comedy. Slim Summerville, Zasu Pitts. Dir. Wm. Seiter. 60 mins. Rel. March 12. Rev. May 29. . Madame Spy. Drama. Fay Wray.. Nils Asther. Dir.. Karl reund. 70 mine Rel. Jan. 8. Rev. Feb. 13. Midnight. Drama. Sidney Fox. Henry Hull, Q. P. Heggle. Dir. Cheater ■ - Erskine: Rel. Jan. 22. Rev. March 13. Myrt and Marge. Musical. Myrtle Vail, Donna Domeril, Eddie Foy. Jr., Ted Healy, Grace Hayes, J. Farrell MacDonald. Dir. Al Boasberg. 66 mins. Rel: Dec/ 11. Rev. Jan. 23. Smoking Gun*. Western;.. Ken Maynard. Rel. June 11. Poor Rich, The. Comedy. Edna May Oliver, Edward Everett Horton. Dir. Ed. Sedgwick. 76 mins. Rel; Feb. 26. Rev. May 15. Uncertain Lady. Comedy-drama. Genevieve Toblni Edward E. Horton. Dir. Karl Freuod. ReL April 23. Wheels ol 1 Destiny. Western.' Ken Maynard. . Alan Jamesi Rel. Feb. 19. Rev; April 3. Aug. V ir. Harry Laeh- Sobbie's Runaround Studio*: Burbank. Calif. Warner Brothers Qm ™ SSSjSvUtfi : V As the Eartli Turns. Epic in the romance of American life and a revelation . of the character of the: New England farmer taken from the: story of Gladys Hasty Carroll. Jean Muir, Donald Woods, Dorothy Peterson. Dir. Alfred B. Green. 73 mins. ReL April 14. Rev. April 17; Disraeli. Political drama of England. George Arliss, 'Joan Bennett. Dir. AJ- ' fred Green. 88 mine. Re-rel. Dec. 16. Easy to Love. A frothy farce. Adolpbe Menjou, Genevieve Tobin, Mary Astor, Guy Klbbee, Edward Everett Horton. Dir. William KelgWey. 61 mins. ReL Jan. 20. Rev. Jan, 16. Friend* of Mr. Sweeney. Comedy-drama of the browbeaten husband who turns the big trick-, for his newspaper. Charlie Ruggles, . Ann Dvorak, Eugene Pallette, Dorothy Tree. Dir. Edward Ludwig, ReL July 7. From Headquarter*. A crime drama with a murder committed; right in head- quarter*. George Brent, Margaret Lindsay and Eugene Pallette. Dir. William Dieterle. 63 mine. ReL Dec. 2: Rev. Njv. 21. Gambling Lady. Based on the drama by Doris Malloy of a gambling lady :' who is such a sport she is willing to sacrifice her love to save her hus- band from a murder charge. Barbara Stanwyck, Joel 'McCrea, Pat O'Brien, Claire Dodd. Dir. Archie Mayo. 66 mina "Rel. Maroh 31. Rev. April 10. Harold Teen. Hilarious comedy romance which brings to life oh the screen the characters of Carl Ed's comic strip. Hal LeRoy, Rochelle Hudson, Patricia Ellis* Guy Klbbee. Dir. Murray Roth. 66 mlns. Rel. April 7. Heat Lightning. Thrilling romance of desert love and hate, based on the Broadway stage hit by Leon Abrams and George Abbott. Aline. Mac- Mahon, Ann Dvorak, Llyle Talbot, Preston Foster. Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. 63 mins. Rel. March 3. Rev. March 13, He Was- Her Man. Action melodrama of the gal who double-crossed herself in, love when her past came back. - James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Frank Craven, Harold Huber. Dir. Lloyd Bacon, 70 mine. Rel. June 16. Rev. May 22; HI, Nellie. Comedy-drama of a newspaper 'love' columnist. Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Kathryn Ser Dir. Mervyn Le Roy. Rel. Jan. -20.- Rev, Feb, 6., House On 66th Street. Drama of a gambling lady. Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond,* Margaret Lindsay and Frank McHugh. Dlr Robert Florey. 68 mins. ReL. Dec. 23, Rev. Dec. 6: Isle . of Fury. Fighting for love while the Sinn Fein and the Black and Tan crossfire during the Irish trouble. From the London stage success, The Key;' William Powell. Edna Best, Colin Clive, Henry O'Neill. Dir. Michael Curtiz. Rel. June 6. Tve'Go't Your Number. Rowdy, rollicking story of the telephone trouble hunter who finds it Joan . Blondell, Pat Gt'Brien. Dir. Kay EnrlghL 67 mins, Rel. Feb. 4. Rev. Feb. 6. Jimmy the Gent. Hilarious comedy romance based on the story by Laird Doyle and Ray Nazarro, which reveals a new kind of racket, that of digging up heirs- James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins. Dir. Michael Curtiz. 67 mins. Rel. March 17. Rev. -March 27. i_ady Killer: Jimmy; Cagney bats 'em around again. Jas. Cagney, Mae Clark, Leslie Fentoh. Dir. Roy Del Ruth. 67 mins. Rel. Dec. 6. Rev. Jan. 2. Merry Wives of Reno. Comedy-farce of the Reno divorce mill In action. Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, Guy Kibbee. Glenda Farrell* Hugh Herbert and Frank McHugh. Dir. H. Eruce- JJumberstone. 64 mlns. Rel, May 12. Modern Hero, A. Based on the novel by Louis Bromfleld, opening with the gay romance of circus life and carrying the hero through tremendous financial battles to a captain of industry. Richard Barthelmcss. 70 mins. Jean Muir, Marjorie Rambeau, Verree Teasdalc. Dir. G. W. Pabst. Rel.- April 21. Rev. April 24. Srharty. Comedy of the wife who wanted to' commute between husbands. _ --- Joan Blondell, Warren William. Edward E. Horton, Frank McHugh and Claire~DlTda.~DTrr^db^ri i, loTeyr ^64=mins.=-Relv='May=26 ' ued from page 2) paying basis. Good pictures — that'll be Our production staff ; maybe not ap good— that'll be lis. j 'Our array cf production talent,' said Heclit musingly, 'is probably the greatest assemblage of produc- tion talent under the— well, you get what we mean. Every one of those fellows is practically . a genius. Practically! They're geniuses.' And it did lbok like .'one happy family, late afternoon on the Hecht- MacArthur 4 Crlme Without Passion' Bet.. Polite good -nights. 'Splendid, work!' Thanks so. much!' 'Thank you." timers .'And now we shall drop our ex- ecutive- director roles, now that the shooting's over for the day,' said Hecht, 'and become writers. From 8 to 9 a.m. we are casting directors; 9 . to 10, producers: 10 till II, direct- ors; 11 to noon, Louis B. Mayer, We argue costs during that hour, watch the budget, give orders, hire, fire. Noon till 1, lunch; 1 to 2, di- rectors again; 2 till 3, we rewrite the script; 2 till 4 we talk to law- yers, sign contracts; 4 to 5, on the set inspiring the gals; 6 till 6, look- ing at rushes; 6 to 8, supervisors. After 8. we stop Jelng vital, get back, into out - original identities; we're writers writing' far into the night. Hecht's story of how all this came.. to.be, this wonderful new life they're leading, star's so: In > Hollywood if you're a writer, you've got to build 90 n mousetraps before any- body beats a path to your door, if you're an actor, you've only «ot to give, one. .squeak. However, we finally built our 300 mousetraps, and what do you suppose happened? Our price began to get bigger and bigger until at last nobody could afford to hire tie-any more. •But In reality, I'm not an expen- sive writer. Because of my record: Whenever I've written -a pictore script, that's been the. script the picture's gone to bat with. I offer to write a script for half of what they'd spent to date not getting one. That's not expensive, half of what they'd already thrown away. No, I never got any takers for. my prop- osition. One; fellow, said he'd see me, but he backed out. 'So when nobody could afford to hire us any more they «aid, Xook here, you'll have to produce your own pictures,' Or maybe they ran out of uncles and aunts; so maybe that's why we're here producing pictures. Or could this be it? One reason I thought I could make good as a producer Is because I had been reading Louella Parsons.' Mr. Hecht said, also, that it's wrong to hire two authors to write a script to start with, and wind up with a script that's been rewritten by 10 different writers. It's wrong. It was. wrong to spend $160,000 for a story for 'Scarface' before they got the story they jsed. it's the authors' Dirt 1 Lew' Collins. ReV.' Jan. '30. 'mlns. Rev.- Nov: 21> ; '■•>>. 1 (Protex.) Anna- Sten's first- In English. Ins,. ..Rel. Feb.. Rev; Feb; 20.. Unknown Soldier Speaks, The ' (Lincoln). War clips with a new angle; 70 , -'mins. TjteV. May 29. What's Your Racket,. .(Showmen.) Familiar gangster frameup. Regis Tooniey, Noel Francis. Dir.. Fred Guiol. 60 .mins. ' Rel. Jan. 1. Rev. March 6; ' : Wine, Women and . Song. (Chad wick.) Lilyan Tashman's last picture. Back- stage story, Lilyan Tashman, ' Lew Cody. Dir. Leon D'Usseau. 64 mlns. Rov. March 27. Woman Unafraid. (Goldsmith.) Story of a policewoman. Lucille Gleason, Skeets Gallagher. Dir. W~J: Cowen. 68 mins.- Rev. April 24. Foreign!. Language Films (Note: Because of the slow movement Of foreign fll this Hat cover* one year of releases.) (Moat ot these, available with English titles.) , Adieu Les Beaux Jours (Fr) (Ufa). Greek romance. Brlgitte Helm. Dir. Andre Beuoler and Johannes Meyer. • 90 mlns; Rel. April 15. Rev. May 1. ' rlgltte Helm. Dir. Ichard Os- Ira'une (Ger) .(Capitol). Test, tube! : wald. ' 70 mlrts. Rel. May 1. Betteistudent, . Per. .(General.) (. mlns. "Rel. Oct' 15, londe Christy Die (Ger) (Bavaria). Seitz. 75 mins. Rel. Feb. t 16. j roHen Shoes ,(Russ) . (Amklno), CHIld' reaction! to polltlos. Antl-Hltler. , Margarita Barskaya. ,80 mins ReL March; ; 16. • Rev: April 3. Musical. Karin. Hardt. 80 ranz Dir. 1 Chafutzlni ( ebrew) (Acme). First ; talker made In Palestine. Dir. Alexander Ford. 70 miris. Rel. 'March 15; luda'd de' Carton, La (Sp) (Fox). Drama of marital relations. Antonio Mo-. •TenOi Catarina Barcena. "Dir. Louts King. 70 mlns. Rel. Feb. 16. ^ Crown o» Thorns ; (Klnematrade) (GlerV (Dubbed Eng.); iblical drama." Dir. , Robert. Wlene,. 70 mins. :Rel - . (March 16. Cruz V La ,Espada, La (Sp) (Fox)i Historical romance. Jose Mojlca, ir. Frank Strayer. 76 mlns,. Relj Feb. 1. Deux prpheljris, Les (Fr) (Blue. Ribbon). Costume melodrama. Yvette Gullbert.' Dir. Maurice . Tour'neur. 90 mins. Rel. Feb. 1. Rev. Feb. 16. ream of My People, The (Jewish); (Palestine). Silent travelog of Palestine with records, by Cantor Rosenblatt. Dir. Jos. Fox. 60 mlns. Rel. Feb. 15. In Gewisaer Herr Gran (Ger) (Capital). Spy drama. Hans Albera. Dir. Gerhard Lampreoht. 70 mlns: Rel; Feb. 16. '■ in Toller Elnfall (Ger) (Ufa). Faroe comedy. Willy Frltsch, Dorothea . Wiecke. . Dir Kurt Gerron. 70 mlns. Rel. May 15. Ine Stadt Steht Kopf (Ger) (Capital). Farce.' Dir. Gustav Gruendgers. 70 mins. Rel.. Jan.. 15. ~ ines Prlnzen Junge Liebe (Ger.) (Ufa). Romantic comedy. Willy Frltsch Dir. Artur Robinson. 80 mins. Rel. March 15. En Glad Gutt (Norwegian) (Scandinavian). From BJornson'a novel. lr. * John Brunlus. 80 mlns. Rel. Nov. 15. . Enemies of Progress (Russ) (Amklno). Last of the Czarlst generals. ir. Beresnyeff. 85 mins. Rel. Jan. 15. Rev. Jan. 16. Es Wlrd Schon Wleder Besser (Get) (Ufa). Farce. Dolly Haas. Dir. Kurt Gerron. 65 mins.. Rel. Jan. 1. . Feldherrnhuegel, Der (Ger) (Bavarian). Military comedy. Betty Bird. Dlr, Eugen Thiele. 70 mins. Rel. April 15. Frau Lehman's 'Tochter (Ger) (General). Melodrama. Hansl leae. Dlr, Karl Heinz Wolff < 82 mins. Re,!. Oct. 15. • Frauleln — Falsch Verbunden (Ger) (Capital). Musical comedy. Trude Ber- liner... Dir. E. W. Emo. 70 mins. Rel. Jan,. 15. Frechdachs, Der (Ger) ••' (Ufa) . * Romantic xomedy. Willy Frltsch, Camilla Horn. Dir. Carl Boese. 76 mlns. Rel. Jan. 1. : Gatavorstellung, ble (Ger) (General)'. Mystery comedy with, muslb. Max Adalbert, the' Fratellirils, Dir. Fredrich Zelnlk. 87 mlns, Rel. Dec. 1. Geld Reg let-t die Welt (Ger)'. Domestic comedy. Gustav Froehlich, Camilla Horn. Dir. Max Neufeld.' '70 mlns. Rel. May 1. irls'ln Uniform (dubbed 'English) (Ger) (Filmchoice). Dorothea, Wleck and Hertha Thiele. Dir.- Richard QsWald. 80 mlns. Rel. March 1. lueckszy Under, Der (Ger) (Capital)!.- Boarding house romance. . Felix Bres- sirt, Charlotte Anders. Dir. Rudolf Bernauer. 75 mlns. Rel. March 1. rosse Attraction/ Die (Bavaria) - (Ger.). Drama is ahow biz. Richard Tauber. Dir. Max Relchmanh; 70 mlns. Rel. Aug. 1. : Heideschuimelster Uwe Karsten (Ger) (Ufa). Nazi back to the farm prop aganda. Dlr; Carl Helns Wolff. 70 mlns. Rel.. April 15; ell'on Earth (Ger) (Garrison) (dialog In five languages). Horrors of war. , DM Victor Trlvas. 80 mips.. Rel. Jan. 15. Rev. Feb. 6. Hellseher, Der (Ger) (General). Farce. Max Adalbert Dir. Eugen Thiele. Rel. Sept. 1. Heute Nacht Eventuell (Ger.) (General). Musical comedy. Ir. BL W. Emo 80 mins. Rel. July 1. Hochtourlst, Der (Ger) (Ufa). "Romantic comedy In Alps. Otto Wallburg, Dir. Alfred Zelsler. 70 mins. Rel. Jan. 15. 1 Ich GlaUb Nle Mehr an Elne Frau (Bavaria) (Ger.). Life of a sailor. Richard Tauber. Dir. H. Relchmann. 80 mlns. Rel. Oct. 1. Rev. Oct. 24. wlnge und die Milllonen (Ger) (Ufa). Romantic crook drama. Brlgitte Helm. 65 mins, Dir. Erich Engel. Rel. April 16. Island of Doom (Rusa) (Amklno). Two men and a woman on a desert Isle. . Dir. Tlmonshenko. 90 mlna. Rel. July 16. Rev. July 18. Juarez .Vnflaxfmffi^ 8d mins. Rel. May 1. July 14 (Protex) (French). Sentiment to music. Annabella. Dir. Rene Cialr. 76 mins. Rel. Oct. 15. Rev. Oct. 24. Kara' Slakten (Swedish) (Scandinavian). Romantic musical. Dir. Gustaf Mo- lander. .80 mlns. Rel. May 1. Lachendo Erben (Ger.) (Ufa). Farce. Max Adalbert Dir. Max Ophuels • • 77 mlna. ReL Nov. 16. Laughter Through Tears (Yiddish) Worldklno). From a Sholom Aleichem ' - novel. Dir. G. Critcher. 78 mlns* Rel. Nov. 15. Rev. Nov. 21. Lockende Zlel, Das (Ger.) (Bavaria). Musical. Richard Tauber. Dir. Max Relchmann. 86 mlna. Rel. June 16. Rev. June 20. Llebe Muss Verstanden S6in (Ger.) (Ufa). Comedy drama with music. Dir. : Hans Stelnhoft,. Rel. March 15. Luegen auf Ruegen (Ger) (General). Faroe.. Otto Wailburg. Dir. Viktor Jansen. 80 mins. Rel. Dec. 15. Meisterdetektlv, Dor (Ger) (Bavaria). Mystery satire* Weiss FerdL Dir. Frank Setts. 76 mlna. Rel. Feb. L Melodla Prohlblda (Sp) (Fox). Musical fantasy. Jose Mojlca, Frank Strayer. 70. mlns. Rel. March 15. Milady (General) (French). Sequel to Three Musketeers. Dir. Henri Dla- mant-Berger. 120 mine. IteL Sept L «Rev« Sept 12. Mile. Nltouche (French) (Protex), Charming love story. Ralmu. Chas. David. 90 mlns. Rel. Nov. 15. Moj Wujasxek x Amerykl (Polish) (Capital). Musical comedy. 120 mlns. Rel. Oct 16. Mutter- Der Kompagnle, Die (Ger) (Bavaria). Military farce. Weiss-Ferdl, Betty Bird. 70 mins. Dir. Franz Seitz. Rel. March 1. Oded the Wanderer (Palestine) (Hebrew). Life in Palestine. .'Halabml. 65 mlns. Rel. May 16. Para'da Rezerwlstow (Polish) (Capital). Military musical. Dir. Mlchael Was- zynskl. 75 mlns. ReL May 1. Patriots, The (Russ) (Amklno). Dir. B. . Barnett 80 mlns. Rel. Sept Petterson &. Bendel (Swedish) (Scandinavian). . Comedy-drama with music. Dir. Perl- Axel Branner. 80 mlns. Rel. Feb. 15, , Quick, Koenlg der Clowns (Ufa) (Ger). Comedy. Lilian Harvey, Hans Albera. Dir.- Robert Slodmak. 80 mlns. Rel. Dec. 1. Saloon In Kalro (German) (Ufa). Musical comedy. Renate Mueller, Willy Frltsch. Dir. Reinhold Schu'nzel. 80 mlna. ReL Dec. 15. Rev. Dec. 25. Sang d'un Poeto (Fr) (Rtcci). Jean Cocteau'a Idea of modern Alms. 60 mlna. Rel. Nov. 1. Rev. Nov. 7. Schlcksal der Renate Langen (Ger) (General). Domestic drama. Mady Chris- tians, Franz Lederer, Dir. Felix Guenther. 70 mins. Rel. Oct. 15. Simple Tailor (Russ) (Amklno. Drama of Jewish life. llent with ,soun'd track. pir. V. Vllner. 70 mins.' Rel. Feb. 15. Sobre Las Olas (Mex<) (Latino). Historical romance. 70 mlns. Rel. March. 15. Serment, Le (Fr.) (Protex). Heavy drama of love. 90 mini ' Rel.. March 1. Rey. March 20. Sohn Der Weissen Berge (Capital) ( or.). Alpine drama. Luis Trenker, Re- nate Mueller. Dir. Mario Bonnard. 76 mins. Rel. Oct. 15. Sombra de Pahcho Villa (Sp) (Col). Life of the Mexican bandit- chief. ir.. M. C. Torres. 70 mins; Rel. March 1. 1 '., Spy, The (Polish.) (Capital). Drama. 80 mlns. ReL March, 1. ^ Stern von- Valencia, Der (Ger) (Ufa). ' White slave traffic in Europe.. Llarie. Haid. Dir. A,lf red Zelsler. . Rel. April 16. . : ■, Storch Hat Uns Getraut, Der (Ger.) (General). it. Herman ■■ Kosterlltz.' 80 mins. Rel. Nov. 15. 1 "•' ; Tannenburg . (Ger) . (European). Military drama. Hans Stuwe. Paul. 85 mlns. Rel. .March 15. Tante Gustl Kommandiert (Ger). Romantic comedy. Hansl. Adalbert Dir. Carl Heinz Wolff. 70 mlns. Rel. May 1. Tausend fur Elne Nacht (Ger). (Capital). Farce. Trude Berliner. Mack. 70 mlna.' Rel. Feb. 1. Tochter Der Regiments, Die (Ger) (General). Military musical. Anny Ondra. Dir. Karl Lamac. 70 mlns. Rel. April 1.. Trenck (Ger) (General). Military drama. Dorothea Wieck. £>lf. Hans Paul and Ernst Neubach. 80 mins. Rel, April 1.. Und es Leuchtet die Puszta (Ger) (Ufa). Musical romance. Wolf Albach- / Retty. Dir. Heinz Hllle. 80 mlns. Rel. Jan. 16. Verkaufte Braut (Ger) (Ktnematrade), Smetana's operetta . diluted. Jamlla Novotna. . Dir. Max Ophuls. 80 mlns. Rel. April 15. Rev. -May 1. Vi Som Gar Koksvagen (Swedish)' (Scandinavian). Musical. Rel. April 16. .' Volga Volga (Fr.) (dubbed English) (Klnematrade). Adventure of a Cossack Robin Hood.. 7.0 mins. Rel. Dec. 15. Rev. Dec, 25, Wandering Jew. (Jewish American) (Yiddish). Terror of Hitler regime. Ben Ami. Dir. George Rolland. 70 mins. Rel. Oct 16. Rev. Oct. 24. Wle. Mann Maenner Fesselt ..(Ger).- Franzlska GaaL Musical comedy. Dir. Carl Boese. 76 mlns. Rel. May 15. Wle Sag Ich's Melnen Man? (Ger) (Ufa). Farce. Renate Mueiier. . Rein- hold Schuehzel. 70 mins. Rel. Jan. 15. Wenh Die Llebe Mode. Macht (Ufa) (Ger). Comedy with music Renate Mueller. Dir. Frank Wenzler. 80 mins. Rel. Nov. 1. Zwel Gute Kameraden (Ger.) (General). -Military musical. Fritz Kampers; Dir. Max Obal. - 76 mins. Rel. Nov. 15. Heinz i • Max ..Max Key to Address Acme, 56 East 14 St Amklno, 723 Seventh Ave. Bavaria Film. 489 Fifth Ave. Blue Ribbon PIcts., 164 W. 65th, Capital Film, 630 Ninth Ave. Embassy Plcta., 729 Seventh Ave. European Film, 164 West 55th. Filmchoice, 609 Madison Ave. Garrison Films, 729 Seventh Ave. General Foreign Sales, .729 7th Ave, Jewish American, 630 Ninth Aye. Klnematrade, 723 Seventh , Ave. Protex Trading, 42 E. 68th. Edward Rlccl. 66 Fifth Ave. : Palestine-America Films, 189 2d Ave.! Scandinavian Films; 220 W. 42d. j Ufa^ 729 Seventh Ave.' '' ! Worldklno. 1601 Broadway. DeMi lie's Tax (Continued from page 3) if theretofore wholly reasonable, be- came definitely unreasonable for the needs of . petitioner's business. We conclude that for the years 1926, 1927 and 1928 petitioner was availed of for the purpose of avoiding sur- taxes on its stockholders.' Payments to surplus reached a peak, of $291,965 in 1929 and ex- ceeded $200,000 every year- from. 1927 through 1932, evidence showed, while dividends reached a top ;of $17,998 in 1931. DeMille received maximum salary of $62,000 -in 1929 and low of $25,000 in 1932/ with figure being $26,400 from 1025 to 1928. Borrowings jumped from $11,614 to $206,687 in 1926 and were in the vicinity of $200,000 on each succeed- ing year, maximum being $20$,26'6 in 1929. Fusing Stage — Screen (Continued from page 3) jected effects ? and there might be two translucent screens set at angles back stage. With Sound . Sound track would be just as im- portant in front projection as the pictures. Possibly a name artist of radio or Hollywood would be filmed warbling the standout melody in the musical show-, granted that such artists may hot be available for the sho\v;. Should the script call for characters being "in a foreign land or locality some distance away, it is proposed to film the cast and chorus against more effective back- grounds than painted scenery' af- fords.'. Such • screen scenes would; fade," out, the same Rlayers then con- tinuing ,the action. It. Is likely that the proposed type of' 'stage-screenrshows would call for revising rehearsal rules; since the ..players .would . prepare for and appear in the picture shots in addi-? tion. to the stage portions, of prepa- ration. Added costs would not be the! drawbaok indicated because it ■ is expected the novelty of such peri forma-rices : ' would' attract' picture fans' 1 as 1 'well as playgoers. Close- ups iri/' the picture^ ' scenes are flg- • Ured to; • brirtg the performance to "the p'atron in 'the baclc of the balr xoWy, "'./• '•' NoVelty tof the proposal is not ex- pected' to interest some' of the' old line showmen, most ' of whom are striving : "' to' keep' small capacity houses lighted;. If the fused show plan, is made practical, younger niahagers are expected to. accom- plish it. t);nderstpod that ERPI is interested in . Carroirs Ideas and has. given him the use of the Astoria plant for' experimental work. Col. Shorts Ending Hollywood, "June 4. . With four two-reelers in the. cut- ting room, Columbia has only a pair of 'fllmuslcai shorts to make to complete the 1933-34 program. Archie Gottler will direct both, with:< the next slated to go into work , the end of this Week. -Only series set by- Columbia for the 1934-36 program so far will fea- ture, the- Three Stooges.- Present Indications point to continuance of the- fllmuslcai group and another series to bring the! Columbia total of two-reelers up to about 20 for the season. Next Pete Smither Hollywood, June 4. . Metro will make a short based on. rugby, . -with Pete Smith, who acknowledges he has never seen the ; game, doing the background explaining. Studio will use a team of Pacific coast players In the brlefy. Roy McCarey directs. Rugby has become particularly; popular on the Coast while garner- ing' a lot of support . around hero frori^ Britishers in the Aim colony, i •• A. FR I ED MANAGING DIRECTOR OF "FILM SALES IJMrrED^ 185a, War dour Street London, W. 1 Representing TWICKENHAM FILM STUDIOS SOUND CITY STUDIOS _ NETTU^ PRODUCTIONS All Communications to Above to Be Addressed Care of MR. M. J. KANDEL 729 Seventh Avenue NEW YORK CITY Tuesday,. June 5, 1934 A D I VARIETY 35 RAPS GOV.-GEN'L EXITS Expect W. C. Fields Comedy, Hear Frank Black Music, Execs Burn When the advertising execs of Campbell* Soup come to listen to a comedy program it's comedy they expect and hot a series of original European operettas. NBC found this out last week after it put on the substituted frame and came in for a rebuke from the cannera for misleading them and . imposing oh their time. In the . original sales approach, some eight weeks ago, NBC des- cribed to the Campbell- men a com- edy Idea it had which would make a perfect fit for W. C. Fields. Com- mercial, which has been off the web for almost two years, replied that the script looked okay, and advised the NBC contact to go ahead and negotiate with the name, suggested Weeks went by and the pourparlers with Fields eventually developed the info that Fields, was not available for radio. N Meantime, Frank Black, the net work's chief maestro, had been whipping into auditions shape a set of operettas that NBC. imported from. Europe over a year ago. It occurred to the commercial division of the web's program department that since the frame with Fields was out. there might be a. chance of celling the operettas as a substitute to Campbell Soup. Still under the impression that it was Fields and a crossfire patter session that NBC was working on the canning company's reps showed up -on invitation at the studios last week. They listened to the Black presentation politely, but after it was all over the Campbell spokes- men let loose with a withering blast. arl Buss Leaves Radio For Hollywood Writing Chicago, June 4. Carl former script, writer with NBC here, has been signatured to. a deal .by Paramount pictures. He heads to the west coast to . turn out some westers, the first, to be an adaptation of Zane Grey's "Fighting Caravan.' Buss got his break' on this story by virtue of his Frontier Romances, Which ran on the NBC National Earm and Home hour and which somebody put ir Hollywood heard and liked. Art Joseph on Air Calls Earl of Bessborough Un- tactful — Nobleman Dis- approved of Civic Recep- tion to Film Star I House-Senate Writing Compromise Communications Bill This Week; Will Determine Govts Air Policy CANADIAN UPROAR 180,000,000 SETS IN WORLD Station's Own Show Outdoors in Cincy— And Not for Love Cincinnati, June 4. All staff talent of WLW will par ticipate in the CroBley revue to be staged at the Zoo open air' theatre June 17-23. Programs to be offered nightly and Sunday, afternoon, with no two alike. Place seats 1,248. Ad inlsh will be 45c to $1 Saturday and Sunday and 35-76c other times. During course of the show, sev Aral regular commercial and sus taining programs = will be presented and remoted for airing by the sta- tion, among them the Crosley Fol- lies, William C. Stoess and his Fly Ing Dutchman band, Henry Thies and his Pureoil Pepsters, Refiners' Cotton Queen Minstrels, featuring Hink and Dink, and Ken -Had Un solved Mysteries. ' Station gets a percentage of the take; venture in the main being a good-will bid by Powel Crosley, Jr., prez., who recently donated six bears to the zoo, which .is sans' opera this summer for first time in * decade. Geneva, May 26. Number radio sets sold throughput the world in 1933 is estimated by the Internationale de Radiodiffusion of Geneva to have been. 20,000,000. Report made by the central bureau of radio informa tion adds that these sales brought the total sets in world use to 180, 000,000. In the United States, details the report, there are over 1,000,000 autos reported equipped with reception mechanisms. Number of sets dis tributed through North America figures the Internationale, about equal the total prevailing in Eu rope, 20,600,000. Latter calculation does not include Russia. Asia ranks next to North America and Europe in continents, with Japan topping the list of set own ers. Japanese In 1933 bought 7,200 a week, while the year before the turnover each week came to 6,160 Figures, on Latin America, says the report, are not quite accurate Argentine, Chile and Brazil among them account, for about 80,000 set owners with Chile responsible for 46% of this total. Australia and Africa are on the upgrade. As far as Great Britain is concerned, these countries have one set owner in every seven fami lies, which according- to. the Inter national's experts, approaches the market saturation point. x SHORTEN EXIT FOR SPLIT-WEB USERS Toronto, June 4, Because he called the Governor- General of Canada the Land of the Maple,' Art Joseph and his 'Hollywood Tattler' 30 -minute program has been suspended from the air by CKCL, following a flood of telephone, callil complaining of anti-British sentiment and sedition a'girist the King. So fearful of federal action was. the control, engineer that he imme- diately got in touch with the CKCL announcer to see if the broadcast could be cut off as a mark of station disapproval.. , Before station au- thorities could do anything about the- matter, Joseph had concluded his program. No action 'was taken by the Earl of Bessborough, the King's repre- sentative here. Protests were so immediate that H. S. Gooderham, president of the station, and Maurice Rapkin, program director, acted as spoil as the squawks came pouring in. Both admitted that Joseph's script had not been looked over by studio, officials. In. his role as 'Uncle Al,' Joseph referred to the derogatory remarks expressed in public here by the Governor r General regarding the civic reception to Mary Pickford. The script read: 'If the GPvernor- General becomes very unpopular and is withdrawn, we : won't have to. guess very hard at the reason. With all due respect to those in authority, Miss Pickford is very, very dear to the people of her na- tive city. She is of good red blue^ not blue— and. therefore, we can't take, an affront to her— particularly when it .comes from an alien to the Land of the Maple. It was either one of two things, egotism or lack of tact. Tact is a quality that a gentleman in his position- should have plenty of.' Program Director Rapkin states that the artist made 'an unhappy mistake which ws regret.' He points out that the studio management frowns upon any editorial comment unless this comes from news com- mentators. 'By the time I got in touch with Joseph we were besieged with tele- phone calls, many from pron.inent people, and an unfortunate, incident had grown to alarming proportions,' said Rapki Roche-W-C Agency Gets Portland Cement Acc't Chicago, June 4. s Williams and Cunnyngham agency has corralled the Portland Cement Association account. Mostly a newspaper-magazine advertiser, though there's a possi- bility of some etherizing for the account. Agency also handled the NBC broadcast for the Keep Chicago Ahead program of the World's Fair LIMBING THOSE Leg. and torso display in radio publicity photographs is returning. Sexing up the radio sopranos had a big whirl a couple of "years agp. but died of its own absurdities. Now' the same old synthetic glamour is being sought. No photo- graph is complete without revealing lots of bosom , and garter. Some of the results that find their way . into print are pretty funny. , Understood the New. York Eve- ning Post -in its circulation cam- paign wants no radio stills not oozing with sex appeal. New York American is another triarket lor the limb arid chest exhibits. 2 Mos. for Weston Pittsburgh, June 4. Fred Weston is out as manager of WCAE after being on the job only two months. Former advertising manager of the Pittsburgh Sun- Telegraph,. Hearst daily, Weston was transferred to the station con- trolled by publishing Interests when Jesse L. Kaufman, manager for sev- eral years, was promoted to an ex- ecutive post with Hearst Radio Service in New York. x Kaufman is due in town early this v.wee^at-whiGhUime-Jielll^prob^lx name Weston's successor. Notice of cancellation from users of split network has been reduced by NBC to two weeks. Previously if a commercial .of this category wanted to quit it was free to do so as long as it notified the web with- in 30 days of expiration of contract. For clients supporting a basic link or more the 30 -day arrange- ment stands. Studebaker Guests Chicago, June 4. Studebaker show on CBS will have Morton Downey as guester on June 26. Others going oh the show for ap- pearances are Jane Froman* and Irvln Cobb. WW's Prod. Mgr. Cincinnati, June 4. Harry Holcomb has been pro moted to production manager of Crosley's WLW and WSAI. Post, vacant — for,, several months,, .last filled by Richard Nicholls. Hol- comb has been wit't the 'nation's station' for five years, serving in production department, as art an nbuncer and actor in Crosley's Theatre of the Air. Jimmie Krutters is Crosley's new traffic manager, replacing Chester Thomas.' Krutters has worked on continuity arid sold time for WLW and WSAI. HERB M00RE BUREAU ABSORBS NEWS CO-OP Transradio Press, headed by Her- bert Moore, has taken over the Radio News Association, which was originally started as a co-operative news collecting enterprise by indie broadcasters in the east, midwest and Pacific region. Under the acqui- sition agreement the RNA retains its identity as a midwest organiza- tion with Stanley Hubbard, man- ager of KSTP, St. Paul, serving as sales director. Hubbard was one of the founders of the RNA. Deal also involves the merging of the Transradio and Radio News As- sociation offices' 1n Chicago. Trans- radio has under consideration an- other consolidation, this one affect- ing a news service which feeds its member ^stations exclusively by ehort wave. Newspapers Boosting Out-of-Home Amusements as Radio Opposition Chicago, June 4. Deciding that a flank attack is bet- ter than a direct assault, the Chi- cago papers are subtly trying to battle radio by enticing the people away from their homes and loud- speakers. Particularly hot on this scheme of aiding the out-of-the-. home amusements are the Chicago ^Hearst ^ ^papcrs,^wJ±h^tbe_ J^yenln^; American carrying large front page- box stories telling the people to quit sitting in at night and to start getting gay outside. This is the manner of the : the page one box in the Evening Amer- ican on Saturday (2): IT'S MUTINY It's mutiny of a particularly de- light fnl kind when you decide youve had enough of these stay-hame-slt in-thc-parloir-play-bridge evenings. Insist on a New Deal, and take out a new lease on life tonight. Get up a party of friends and spend a few carefree hours at a movie, night dub, theatre, ballroom or at the Century of Progress. There's so much entertainment awaiting you-^-so much variety to choose from. Consult the Amuse- ment pages right now — and mutiny tonight! The Eveni American has been making a terrific play for amuse- ment advertising lately, .particularly going strong for night clubs, whether in. town or part of the World's Fair. Newspapers figure that if thoy can play up tho out- side amusements, big enough that sooner or later' they will eat Into the standing of radio asanattractlon. Washington, June 4. Nature of Federal Government?* new communications control policy will be determined this week by con-, ferees of the House and Senate, who are hurriedly trying to patch up a compromise bill in. time for final en- actment before adjournment, which Is tentatively carded for end of the week. Exact effect of the Dill-Rayburn bill on broadcasting, remains to be decided at conferences between ne- gotiators for the two Houses, Inas- much as each t ranch passed a dif- ferent bill which treated radio In individualistic manner. Outlook is that the .most obnoxious Senate amendments will go by the boards and the new act will correspond pretty much with existing law. Avoi ing Tangle Major concessions by the Senate probably will be imperative to avoid a tangle which would , jeopardize chances of getting the bill approved this session. Chairman Rayburn of the. House Interstate Commerce Committee, . .author of the version, passed by the lower branch, Is ne£ disposed to tamper at present witb the existing statute. Feels question of changes should be left to the proposed new commission which is to report next session on. desirabil- ity and. character of added legisla- tion. • -The question of how radio con- flicts will be ironed put depends principally upon the stand of Sen- ator Dill of Washington, author of the.. Senate-approved draft. The head of the Senate Interstate Com- merce Committee ifl understood not to be very enthusiastic aboujt 'the new features embodied in his meas- ure, but niay put up a fight for the anti-moriopoiy and educational pro- gram clauses. NAB. expects compromise will re- sult in scrapping of the provision of the Senate bill requiring stations to give equal opportunity to candi- dates for political office or persons discussing public questions. Broad- casters' lobby has convinced House leaders that v this feature is con- fused, ambiguous and, in a sense, contradictory. A. 8wap Most likely agreement will involve a trade by which the House will ac- cept the Dill amendment calling on the new commish to investigate the feasibility of setting aside by stat- ute facilities for educational,: re- ligious, social and cultural programs and which will require the Senate to back down on the anti-monopoly amendment which limits the amount of facilities j^iven a single corpora- tion in any broadcasting area. The latter amendment, which caught broadcasters by surprise, was apparently a last-minute in- spiration with the Senate bill au- thor, and objections have been pointed out to Dill subsequently. Understood he agrees the provision is riiisleadirig and vague. Broad-" casters contend that this section might be construed to require sta- tions which have no competition in their service territories to yield part of their time to other stations in more intensively covered regions. Would hit particularly the one-sta- tion towns of the south and west. Major point to be resolved is size of new commish. Dill bill calls fca flye-man outfit, while Rayburn measure specifies seven-man body. The Rayburn bill whooped through the House Saturday (2) without an amendment, aside from a, minor.- Change. .by the .committee, being proposed and with only a handful of members sufficiently in- terested to participate in the dreary discussion. The sole alteration was to make the effective date July 1. Burt McMurtrie of CBS visited In Tacoma for several day* with his aunts. 36 VARIETY RADIO Tuesday, June 5, 1034 SEEKING NON-CANCELLABLE CONTRACTS IF SIGNED BEFORE FALL RATE BOOST NBC continues to expand its staff, of handshakers. Latest to join the network's station relations depart- ment in New York is George E, Zimmerman, whose broadcast con- nections have heretofore confined him to the southwest area. Zimmerman founded and man- aged KPRC, Houston, and among the other outlets with which he's been associated are WFAA, Dallas, and KFDM, Beaumont, Frank Buck Subbing on Pepsodent for Amos- Andy IcagO, June 4. . Frank Buck replace Amos 'n' Andy while they go on their vacash this summer. Buck will broadcast for Pepsodent from the NBC. studios here,' doubling fronv. his concession at the World's Fair. Generally Agreed Widespread Upping of Local Rates Will Come in September— 15 % Seems Universal Amount of Increase— Advertisers Seek to Hold Present Rates by Announce ments Spread ° ver Summer GEORGE ZIMMERMAN „ , „ NOW NBC GREETER ■General rate boost all along the * w " * w line in ''radio is being freely pre- dicted among radio men, with the rate increase due to hit by Septem- ber when the fall business starts hoppinsr, Though ..varioufl estimates of the amount of the raise have been made, it is surprising how the great ma- jority of the radio heads agree that the general upping of rates will .be approximately .15%. . This will bring the average rate of a metropolitan station from $-i00 to $460,^. This general inci*ease is being brought about by the expectation of a sharp flood of network accounts throughout the Industry with the Starting of the fall weather. And that therefore the only way for the station to make any real money is to increase, the revenue from its local sales. This despite- the new NBC rates, which call ' for neat boosts in station compensation, par ticuiarly i metropolitan areas which demonstrate any genuine su- premacy of an individual trains mitter. Stations feel that they have come to the end of their hopes on their present setup of prices and , that the only^way they can increase revenue is' m Increase rates.. This Is the basic reason for the jump In rates by WBBM. the CBS ace here, on June 15'. But other 'stations, too, are jammed to the . gills with shows due to heavy network demands and cannot see their way to clear any additional coin under their current scale. Preparedness Advertisers feel this expected general rise in time prices this coming fall, and many of them are being approached by stations with propositions to save that additional expense by buying winter time on the air at present prices. All sta- tions are willing to accept fall con- tracts at this time. But they are generally insisting that the adver tlser make it a 50-50 proposition and risk by signaturing a non-can cellable contract. In the case of fall contracts now being drawn up the stations are blue-penciling .the clause allowing the advertiser*- to cancel on a two -week notice. Stu dlos feel that they are taking a gamble In tying up their time for the coming season and that the ad- vertiser should be willing to shoul der the same amount of risk Rate* Holders Advertisers are making a general use of rate-holders In the announce ment section. Though cutting down on their ether expenditures for the summer the clients are striving to keep the present rates for possible winter expansion by using an- nouncement or two weekly as a means towards, holding the present price. This rate -holding system is being used extensively by the large buyers of announcement campaigns, particularly the patent-medicine companies arid the oil and gas '-dis tributors; SEN. DICKSON ASKS RADIO COMM. INQUIRY Washington. June 4. Special Inquiry Into conduct of the Radio Commission was asked in the Senate last week when Sen- ator Dickinson of Iowa proposed that the Judiciary ' Committee be directed to report on fitness of pres- ent members to occupy posts on proposed new. communications com- mish. Coming as complete surprise, Dickinson resolution was bottled up immediately in Interstate Commerce Committee and action Is consid- ered unlikely before adjournment. The Dill resolution for probe of A.T.&T. apparently is dead, Sea- ate Interstate Commerce Committee falling to take action at last week's meeting. Inquiry will be made by new communications cbmmish in- stead of select senatorial commit- tee.* AUDITIONS ON ICE Wednesday Night* Off Until Fall. •t NBC Wednesday night talent tryouta at NBC have been dropped for the summer. At these events Larry Cowan of the NBC Artists Service paraded before a delega£lon s f rom the sales and program departments his pick for the week's audition candidates. Ernest Cutting who does the au- ditioning for the program depart- ment and network execs whose friends send 'em in with a personal letter of introduction, .continues as is. - m;ort HARRIS with milman Mort Harris has joined Mort Milman's radio talent ^agency In N. Y. Harris is a yet showman-song writer^ VGN ENGINEERS JOINA.F.OFL. UNION NBC TO WAIT FOR GREEN LIGHTS Air Line News By Nellie Revell Hamilton Radio which Is one of Meyer Davis* radio production unit 3 has a new baseball script which they will auditlon>today at NBC. Script Is composed of, various old and new bits of. baseball lore. Bill Terry, manager of the New York Giants, Is set to be the commentator. He will have a .'ghost' handy for road trips. en Pollack's Audience Largest broadcasting schedule of any orchestra In the country has Ben Pollack's outfit oh the air over NBC, CBS, WOR, WMCA and WNEW, giving him coverage the envy pt any advertising man. Pollack Is on the air from the Casino de Paree and the Hotel New Yorker. , June 4. Broadcast engineers of WGN, the Chicago Tribune station, have joined American Federation of Labor, through Local No. 134 of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.' This makes WGN the only major station in Chicago whose engineers are A. F. of L. f with the exception, of course, of the regular Chicago labor station, WCFL. All other stations and network outlets in Chicago have company unions. -Particularly is this true of the NBC and CBS stations. Agreement between WGN and the engineers calls for a slk^day week of 48 hours maximum, as called for in the NAB code. Contract runs until July 1,. .1935, with renewal ai that automatic unless other negotia- tions are started at least 60 days previous, to the expiration date. Basic scale for engineers Is set . at $60 weekly. Big Item In the new contract Is the clause calling for arbitration of all difficulties, from the signaturing of a new contract down- to the slightest differences. Arbitration board will be composed of two men chosen by the station and two by the union, plus an arbitrator if neces sary. Chicago Tribune Is ordinarily a champion of the open shop. NBC from now oh won't announce the signaturing pt a« client until it has made sure that every station stipulated in the has been cleared for the program. New pol- icy, which has been put into effect by Edgar Kobak, v.p. in charge of sales, means that Info on a contract won't as a rule be released until a day or two before the starting occa- sion. Network wants to avoid the em- barrassment It, has suffered several times the past season as the result of last minute jams with affiliated stations. After the contract had heen announced as closed NBC found that it couldn't deliver certain outlets specified in the commercial's order, which automatically made the whole agreement void. And to add ,tb the 5pain7^We^^caTi^ and even the Near East- All en- tertainment will be framed express- ly for American audience compre- hension, and if there is talk on these programs it will have to be in English with a minimum of for- eign accent. Dr. Bing declares, that the rates for relaying programs from Paris or London to this side aren't in any way prohibitive. RCA Communica- tions currently charged about $500 a quarter hour and around $700 a half hour for the transmission of such frames; Dr. Bing. figures on originating most of his programs from Paris. Before coming over he struck up an alliance With the Ra- diocoloniale short wave outlet in Pontoise, France, STN. For this station he has arranged to. produce a daily progran. in English. He plans to work out a similar hookup with EA~, the Madrid short wave outlet, which currently originates a program for Philco Sunday nights. Dr. Bing intends to leave for the other side by June 16. P. & G. EXPANDING Chicago, June 4. Procter and Gamble are expand- ing the radio disc campaign for Drene and Dreft products following its click on a test ride in the mld- A^esk •Thl^ouglT "the "Xasi oT^gonljy^h'Cre it has ordered additional supplies of the one-minute announcement plat- ters for spotting o.\ more' stations. Columbia phonograph lab did the recording. Jarh between Hudson-Essex and NBS is now approaching the litiga- tion stage, NBC last Saturday night (2) laid the groundwork for a suit against the car maker for violation of contract by announcing over the. air that 'this time is reserved for the Hudson Motor Co.* (10 tb 10:30 ESDT), while filling in the niche with a sustaining program. Netr work claims that .the, contract on the. Saturday spot from which Hudson walked had six weeks to go. Court action against Hud son -Es- sex will also be taken with regard to the account's half hour on the red (WEAF) Tuesday nights. Burn- ing at the web's attitude toward the Saturday night obligation, the motor company last week advised NBC that it Was also pulling out the Tuesday segment. NBC will, during this niche, 8:30 to 9 EDST, starting tonight (5), repeat the procedure of last Saturday. It will announce the time as reserved for the Hudson Motor Co. and substitute a musical frame similar to the one previously bankrolled here by the account. It is the first time In, netwofHT broadcasting that a 'this time is re- served, etc.' announcement has been resorted by in a contract contro- versy. With newsprint the practice of ruling off the contracted |ineage and carrying therein info to the effect that the space had been re- served for such-and-such an adver- tiser is common. Unexpired term of Hudson's. Tuesday night obligation amounts to five weeks. Under the advice of its legal de- partment NBC will also continue to list both the Saturday and Tues- day shows in its program sched- ules. Cast that made up the Tues- day session included Conrad Thl- bault, Lois Bennett, Honey Dean and Harry Salter's orchestra. Agency on the account is the Black- man CO. Cancel Radio Act Baltimore, June 4. Jolly Bill and Jane, vaude act out of radio, was canceled out of last week's bill by the Hippodrome r indie vaudfilmer, last Tuesday (29). Management paid off for week and replaced the turn with the Bill Aronson act, which it hurriedly brought down from New York. WMCA Staff Expands ; ..Violet Sherwin, formerly with the Anneflbury-Sherwln (brolher)" cert agency, has joined the WMCA program department. Ralph Plerson, formerly of Colton advertising agency, is in the pub- licity section of the same station. EVERETT CROSBY EAST Hollywood, June 4; Everett Crosby, Bing'.s brother, and the crooner's business manager, left Friday for New York. Will be away several weeks On biz and pleasure. Edward W. Cochrane, .spoils editor of the Journal-Post, is do- ing a ten-minut Hports talk, night- ly over Willi, Kansas City. Ex Lax Alters Show ^ Ex Lax will shift to a light sum- mer show with the June 25th broadcast. Means that C.eftr'ud© Nlssen. and possibly Eino Rappee come out of. the program, Also ■'ellnriTOrted^^ill^De^lr^ artist.". Renewal 'run tract for timo cover- ing iho revised series is foi eight week's. Robert Valentine, foinieriy of the team of Bob and Peggy Valen- tine, succeeds Harry FJanrtery on WOWO's Fort Wayne announcing staff. 58 VARIETY RADIO « IFOBTS Tuesday, June 5, 1934 CLIMALENE CARNIVAL Gale Page, Jackie Heller, King's Jester*, Harold Stokes orchestra Musical , 30 Mine.. COMMERCIAL WMAQ, Chicago ' This is a morning show with eve- ning quality. For 30 minutes each Thursday morning and weary house- f rati is invited, literally, to put away the mop and pail and take a rest while she listens to sweet popular music. It's a perfect tie-up for this soap water-softener. Talent is top, and their names are known, hot only through, this program but through others. They add a lustre and a rep. to this morn- ing show that makes it a standout Miss Page is a regular ether singer. Jackie Heller has been com- ing ahead fast for two years. The Jesters are a standard Chicago radio name and so is Harold Stokes It's a free-and-easy 30 minutes full of smooth rhythm and light touches of comedy. It fits in ex- cellently for the early morning housewife. It's a swell excuse for her to forget about the dishes for a few minutes. Plugging on the show is done art f-ily and with plenty of selling punch. All around, it's a playable, sellable program that should Win for' everybody concerned. G-O/ff; FFtED TANGEMAN Piano . m Sustain! IS Mins. WOWO, Fort Wayne ' VOICE OF COLUMBIA' . WitH George J easel, Sylvia Froos, Gertrude Niesen, Evan Evans, Johnny Green, Freddy Rich, Mark Warnow 60 Mins. Sustaining WABC, New York CBS went to it Sunday night (3) from 8 to 9 p. m. with a conglomera- tion of about all the studio talent it could And as an important flU-in, The emphasis is probably due to the heavy Sunday night commercials on WEAF and a big sustaining outlay on WJZ. It is . Columbia's intention to make this a. weekly salvo in the same spot. Piloted by George „Jessel the inaugural attempt was well worth anybody's time. It's a cinch that most of those who tuned it in stuck until the finish. , e - An instrumentalrvocal-cpmedy 60 minutes, with JesSel Announcing about all the name orchestra lead- ers CBS commands, plus Sylvia Froos, Gertrude Niesen and Evan Evans for songs and himself for comedy; Nothing mote outstanding on the program than the orchestra- tions rendered, these renditions be- ing particularly .notable for not. be- ing over-orchestrated, but elaborate enough to give familiar tunes a. new Interest. Johnny Green, Freddie Rich and' Mark Warnow were her- aided as - batoning, and the studio band did well by all three. Jessel's pacing, was pert and to the point; using a supposed fum- bling family member as a foil and ringing in his phone qall to his mother next to closing. Being- among the few really well-versed perform- ers, this type of work is : in Jessel's lap,, and he should be able to re- CHICAGO WORLP'S FAIR With Rufus Dawes, Mayor E. J. Kelly, Jack Benny, Clara, Lu knd Em, James Melton, Joseph P«»*« r * naek, Morin Sisters, Anson Weeks, Fred Waring, Ted Weerns Special 60 Mins.. COMMERCIAL . WEAF, New York This IS one of a couple of full- hour programs co-operatively fi- nanced by participants in the second semester of the -Chicago exposition. Obviously it's a whooper- upper for tourists. And as promotional pub- licity on the grand r scale It unques- tionably will help, . Descriptions of the exposition grounds supposedly from an air- plane circling 1,500 feet overhead gives a clear picture of one model factory after another. Which /just possibly is not much of a spending Pianist on new summer quarter been identified with several name tor the > ale and avoid too vror bands, Ground country. .Hollywood rying through the week. He makes from the collegiate revue used as It enjoyable all the way. SSe^elbdy General program in* = Placing . the Misses Froos and eludes Variations on current popular Nieseh on the. same hour doesn't hits with an extra semi-classical figure to help Miss Niesen. Lat- piece added ter's forte is easily her lower regis- •Tartgemah plays on several com- Uer, for. when she starts to strive merclals on station, this being his. for volume her voice turns harsh first introduction to air as solo at- and her upper range is distinctly traction- Falls in line with pop-., nasal. ^Contrast throws MisS Froos ularlty of smart piano music right, into relief for range and smooth now quality, although she doesn't neces- sarily read a lyric any better than Miss Niesen. Miss Froos delivered Noel Coward's 'Zigeuner' (from Bittersweet'), probably one .of the most difficult songs to sing ever written/ because of its range, and did it exceedingly well. EVah Evans offered a pop. aided -toy a quartejt. It's all In the popular vein,, with a fine instrumental background. In the contest for listeners CBS should Sing ringY/HenSra TtTrnknttearoma] P/ck up- quite a few with this par Is; Til order. Combination narrative] ticular effort and music carries forward, epi eodlcally, the mating instinct see ©*)SCH'S JEWELRY. . 'Ring of Romance* With Chic Far- mer, Jean Tolbert, Chester Strat ton, Leo Kahn Orch. IS Mins. COMMERCIAL WNEW, New York Credit Jeweler uses this IB mirt utea to sell engagement and wed BOdlcauy, tne mating "» a "»^ »^ KORBER LIMERICKS narlo. Gushing tenderness, fln® 1 ^ Senrv Blanc ' spun love-phrases, are expressed by J "« !l Kf "r He and She, They are dancing.] IomEIrc^l It is a beautiful summer cafe. The wwumbiiwai, RADIO ROD AND GUN CLUB Harold McCracken Talk. , 15 Mins. . COMMERCIAL WOR, Newark * In Macy's department store Harold McCracken has a niche all his own. He's the information bureau that comes as part of the store fishing tackle department. If the angler •Wants- to know what tackle arid bait is required to catch a certain specie of fish, McCracken is there to do the advising. Also where the good angling spots are to be found and what the game laws in divers pre- cincts has to say on the subject of fishing and hunting.: McCracken brings this informa- tive chatter to WOR Thursday nights, and makes a diverting 15 minutes of it. Besides McCracken the program offers a guest adven- turer of the wide and Open. Last week's (31) added contributor was inducement for many a vacationist Courtney Riley Cooper, who uh- more anxious to get away £rom re ele*d a sprightly mess of fish commerce than deeper into It. stories involving a John Bunyan of ! That plane trip is divided into two tne lme and taolt i e w ith hidden installments separated by a. half Canadian waters as his scenes of hour. First the plane is described piaca t 0 rial combat. Cooper is one as heading south, later as returning of tnose fellows who can wax north. Two announcers keep up a equally enthusiastic whether the synthetic enthusiasm that arouses momenta ry object be elephants, wonder as to what sort of capsules p 0ft t a> c i rC uses, fishing, hunting or innouncers feed themselves tokeep SO me . stories he's written. Cooper up that artificial pressure. Over- also . recounte d here an absorbing selling, over- dramatic, it may en " visit he paid to Macy's fishing yelop some mentalities with a sense tsuckle department. For the. true Of somethmg terrific, but to others it Wue angler the effercescent act may seem like patent medicine cooper put on; made it tough re- pitching at its worse: ' sistihg a similar visit.. Great stress is made upon the new j n Ug prosl . am McCracken also factories and attractions at the expo tipa off tVie bjg game nunters on this year. Mayor Kelly, , Clara, ^.u wlld $tock conditions, in Canada, and Em, and others continually nam- Aa soon ag i the fishing season is mered the thought that It wasn t fully under way> Macy's. through expensive, that there' was plentyjjr ^ gtanza! wU1 put ^ a fishing cheap sleeping and eating available, tournament with prizes for out Mayor Kelly's remark about not landing catches. ' Otfec; having any traffic problems was a bit | > thick to those who visited the Fair last year. If there ever were traffic BOB HOPE problems. Chicago had 'em in 1933. Comedian Program credits G en *™}. Tire. COM M ERC , AL Gillette Razof and Pepsodent com- I It is a beautiIwl ^ n % e ^l 1 ( r- KGW, Portland, Ore air is pungent with flowers, soitl ■ ' . ' musta sets the mood. * August 30 pi then exnlaias its proposl- Korber, Jeweler, ventured on the tion For 50?dow2 and"ScTw** air.oyer station^GW with a unique •a nflnihim M* rta^zlea She with Program. An idea that many be- ™ »™r^ would not last even one SS%r;t«pini iside ana eivtns WEAF, N,w Y.rk the World's Fair program right-of- Bob Hope has made a number of way between 9:30-10:30 p. m. (Cen- guest appearances for Rudy Vallee. tral) Friday night (1). Ample His easy-going, underplayed style is credits of a commercial and adver- as likeable ph the air as upon the Using nature were sprinkled through rostrum of a variety or. legit , house, the whole- prograin. His. jokes are aged, -but his delivery Effectiveness of the program prob- and general approach to humor - is aibly hinges upon the reaction of modern. multitudes of people to a money- Seems no reason why Hope could spending appeal premised upon the not do well on a regular commer- fasdnation of the processes of in- cial assignment. Perhaps it may be dustrialism glorified In special argued he has no catch phrases or buildings. Just what, it may be distinctive identification, and this asked is the average American's may be valid cause 1 for caution up idea of a good time on his annual ] to^a. point. f«rtnisrht of Hberty and does the But he wears well, his knack of ^tlfJl n ? \ hi oJn«- n^int i Dicturer «elf- joshing and unabashed realiza- SSl^^1^iP& ^^ ! «on \t his own darihg is calculated ■««n™ It'a anvbody'a guess no doubt, to please where more perspiring Ss^&^S^Tto Pr0 ^ Wy and h ene 3 rva f te gettine laUgh9 «e n s ible that CoSle of clever stooees assist of last vear O 1 went back to their native ^p*** 3 / him ° uple ° C Cleve ' r » to °sesassiBt ^-i*"^^-' ."j spread the cynical viewpoint.^ mm. L,ana. Against this, of course, were hun- SOCIALIST CONVENTION With Norman. Thomas, Daniel 30 Mins. Sustaining , WABC, New York Democratic and Republican con- ventions get 16 hours a day when the excitement is high. . But 30 minutes is allotted the Socialists, and probably Norman Thomas la appropriately grateful to get that. It's a. break for the Socialists to have a national hook-up, it Only for 10 minutes. Norman Thomas has a splendid voice, resonant, firm, melodious. Before he took up the fight for the Socialist ideal he was a clergyman. So he knows how to talk. And he speaks , rapidly so that in 15 min- utes he said more than most poli- ticians manage to say in much longer. Daniel Hoan followed and was also pithy. As party propaganda it had the advantage of a good /hour, 8 :30 p.m. ' Thursday, a,lthough that's, right in the middle of the Rudy Vallee hour bri the. NBC web. Still, all in all,' the Socialists probably got more ' than they expected: Land. FRIENDLY ENEMIES Jaok Conway and Joseph K. Watson' Comedy,. Songs 15 Mins. Sustaining WMCA, New York It's their old vaudeville act that, Jack Conway and Joseph IC: Wat- , son have brought to WMCA for a Thursday evening airing. They're/ still exchanging Gaelic and Hebo ■ dialects and nifties anent the sur.i periority of the Irish over the Jews and visa versa. Like the general, nature of their turn, the boys' nifties, are' aged in the brine, but it's' doubtful whether this type of stuff' will have, a salty effect on the listeners' sense .of humor. As vaudo entertainment this good-natured crossfire' between the two races passed but of vogue years ago, and there is no reason to believe that radio can revive it. Watson, one of the standard comics of 'his day in vaudeville, does the Hebe dlalecting. When not en- gaged in nood-natured raillery over racial advantages the pair assail the mike with Irish and Yiddish melodies. Over the foots this cater- wauling might get by, but emerging from the loudspeaker it's a strain on the tympani. Gene Garvell's orchestra assists in the warbling interlude*. 1 Oidec. a new ring; which must be seen to \ be appreciated. Above average indie station pro- gram. Land. MARGARET ANGLIN With Judith Anderson Dramatic COMMERCIAL WEAF, New York Margaret Anglln's voice is not at- tractive on the air, While, her style seems ponderous and Old genera tiohish. She was outshone as a microphone personality, by Judith Anderson. Possibly because seem Ingly the latter "Ichbws radio" from experience and Miss Anglin did not. It is perhaps unkind to make con- trasts, yet . they "are Inevitable when two legitimate theatre actresses play together, and hence, it must be recorded that the . Anderson tones were crisp and sure while the Anglin interpretation was less vivid. Ladies from the drama are smit- ten with Queen Elizabeth and Mary of Scots since this year's success of the Theatre Guild play. Various versions of the two queens' meet- ings have been heard . ort the air. This is an older vehicle by Schiller. It sums up as one of the less memorable . excerpts offered on the Fieischmanh programs. Land, It's a three -times weekly program of limericks. Henry BlanC. KGW staff- announcer, undertook to recite the limericks and accompanying them with— rhythm music on the piano. Program has been and still Is tremendously popular, with a constant , stream of letters pouring into the station with contributions At first it was thought that the continuity department would run out of limericks, but it wasn't long until contributions from listeners began coming in. Typical of ma- terial used: No mater how grouchy you're feeling," . . _ _ .__ : ^ You'll find a smile more or less healing. It grows in a Wreath' Around the front teeth Thus preserving the face from con ^> gealing. Averaging six limericks to every five minutes, 624 have, been used thus far-^and theytre still coming in. tfreds of thousands of truly awed CARLILE : and LONDON and pleased tourists. How, again, • do these pros and cons balance . pian(> ■ d s Trf themselves? Obviously the expo 1$ 1g M1ns . tajjdng no chances, The radio pro- Sustaining As to the program gotten together After airing for many seasons via for the occasion, it relied chiefly on this outlet, Columbia has grabbed Jack Benny (General Tires) and off talent for a night spot every Fred Waring (Ford) for its name 1 Sunday at 7:15. Piano duo of Car- streneth It was a good show most 1 Hie and London have been leading ftf the 'time but pretty shy on \ Ivory pounders of the local ether laughs and overboard on commercial for years, and the Warwicks prob plugs. Few 60-mlnute revues on the. ably rate as the best female har air attempt to jam so much selling monlzers in PhiUy LAUREN BELL Songs 15 Mins Sustaining WGY, Schenectady This young baritone has been dis- playing, his vocal wares on an early- afternoon, once-weekly program over WGY for the post six months. It is probable listeners will find them adequate although not un- usual. . Bell's voice Is higher than that at many baritones, but it is less ro-: bust. Bell shows evidences pf care- ful coaching, albeit he has not yet attained the maturity and authority necessary to qualify as an outstand- ing concert-radio singen .He. does standard numbers. Bell should strive to develop more variety in his vocal style. At pres- ent ..there is a suggestion of same- ness about the manner in which he interprets all selections, Jaco. •ANAESTHETIC AND CEREBEL LUM' Van Fleming and Eddi 15 min. COMMERCIAL KGW. Portland, Ore. 'Anaesthetic and Cerebellum' is ^n6t i =the^.titIe^df^a^pre-medicL=.text ■The names, for no ffpparent reason are the title of a new blackface har mdny team now on KGW for 15 min utes three times a Week. Eddie King, staff announcer and pianist, and Van Fleming* contin uity specialist, do this presumably amusing sketch in some sort of southern dialect, and harmonize to the accompaniment of Eddie's piano and Van's guitar. Both Van and Ed- die are cpnfldent the act is superior. They get off some rather good gags across. Land. MUSICAL CLOCK Lee Everett. ' One Hour Sustaining WBT, Charlotte, N. C. This spot was a drab playing of one recording after another, just to while away the first hour of the day's broadcasting, waiting for everybody to get fully awake — un- til Program Director *Lee Everett decided it had possibilities, and took it over, personally. Now, judging by the mail, It Is quite popular. When he took on the program and called it his, own .o ne-m a n .show . Everett, did many things to it, most Important of all he injected plenty of informality. Along with the occasional re cordings and frequent announce ments of the time, the spot carries a birthday* club, greetings to the sick, recitations, scrap book mate- rial, and always frequent and spicy t chatter of Everett. There is the constant introduc- tion of stunts, such as breaking a record before a mike, where it can be heard by listeners, when too LILLIAN MESS1NGER Motion Picture Talk 10 Mins, Sustaining WGY, Schenectady 7 T.alk by Miss Messlnger of .RKO on 'Scouting for Screen Prospects' proved as interesting as any yet heard in the weekly series which femme film executives are broad - Sasting over the NBC red network s guest on the 'Woman's Radio Re- view,' Chat, with 1 Its Information on the manner in which . picture concerns scout talent, the requirements for. and the chances of, obtaining a camera test, . and, the intimate glimpses Miss Messinger . gave of various stars, was right down the alley for dialing. screen fans. Inasmuch as a test costs the com- pany between $400 and $500, Miss Messinger said that- the talent scout first interviews the prospect care- fully, to get a line on his or her looks arid voice, personality, intel- ligence; and adaptability to direc- tion. Speaker, paid tribute to Katharine Hepburn— denying the story that =Miss=Hepburn- rebels -at=direction»-" to a male star of 'Flying Down to Rio,' and to Mrs. Patrick Campbell. She tabbed John Beal and Barbara Robbins in. the coming release; 'Hat, Coat and Glove.' ~> — Mis:j Messinger is a first-rate talker, With a chatty manner and the mike aplomb of a veteran. Jaco. Show has neat fast pace, that travels without a let-down. Song turns are divided between the two pianos and the trio, while Marie Carlile leaves the bench for a solo backed up by the warbling girls. Program manages to sustain be- tiause—of the variety of talent in the quintet that completely elimi- nates any possibility of monotony. Warwick Sisters do yeoman work with the two featured spots, with harmony and arrangements that rival the best of the chains. Thing in the show's favor is the. compact- ness of the combination.- Has ex- cellent commercial possibilities. each, broadcast, written by Van- or at least copied: by Van. Their voices L many complaints come in on a par Wend exceptionally well. * f ticular number. Gwen rt/lcCleary, head of the con- tinuity department, KSO, Des Moines, succeeding Geo. Lampman, who leacis KSO June 8, GALAXY OF STARS Edna Odell and Phil Porterfield Music 15 Mins. COMMERCIAL WMAQ, Chicago Red Star Yeast is paying for this thrice weekly morning broadcast over an NBC wire. There has. come into radio a certain sm°°th type of program that doesn't necessarily rate a number one program of the air, gets no long raves from the critics, and its performers never rate big money, yet the show rates as a genuine all-around home pro^ rgrltffi^thm^raft^ fends nobody and pleases a good many. Such a show is 'Galaxy b£ Stars.' A man and woman singing popular songs in a popular way. No tor rifle wallop, no socking punch, but enough simple entertainment to please the wife who wants a little music with her morning, chores. Such, a show must be okay. Yeast company is malting use of a dram- atized plug ,in the center of the session. Usually uses two women since, the show primarily appeals to the housewife. Gold. WSGN'S 'School' Birmingham, June 4. With the summer months Just around £he corner, bringing the usual flood of high school and col- ege musicians seefcTng audiiidhs, WSGN is opening, a radio school to train would-be radio performers. A fee will be charged for the eight weeks' course. Sessions will be held' three nights a week. Announcing, production and busi- ness staffs will act as instructors; WGAL 13 Hrs. a Day Lancaster, Pa., June 4. WGAL went to full-time opera- tion last Friday (1), establishing a program service oC aWeast 13 hours a day. With its boost to an all-day and. all-night outlet WGAL underwent a shift of channels. From i.ilO kilo- cycles, with it shared with WRAW, Reading, WGAL moved to 1.500 Jdlocycles. Time increase will allow WGAL to add around 20 hours of ^progra ms a _ ..wee k to the^ old schedule. CARLISLE JOINS KMTE Hollywood, June 4. David Carlisle is the new program director at KMT It, succeeding David 13allou, resigned. Carlisle has been chieC announcer at the station, and, before that wan under contract to Metro as art actor. I To tils') sing« at the station under the name of John Page. Tuesday, June 5, 1934 RADIO VARIETY N.Y.U. Dept. of Marketing's Own Sponsor Identification Survey Jack J. Bpurke of the. Department of Marketing at New York Univers- ity has conducted a radio, sponsor identification survey, modelled after the survey published during the spring in Variety. Results of the survey are substantially similar to the results and percentages obtained by Variety. Bmirke, with a companion, made nearly 700 personal interviews in New. York and New Jersey over a period, of nine weeks in order to ob- tain the statistical data upon which his summary Is based. He v discarded about 100 of the answers for. one reason or another and based his final analysis upon! 600 replies. Questionnaire used cited 20 well- known radio programs and asked listeners to identify the sponsor. All but three names On Bourke's list were used on Variety's list which, however, included 25 names. Bourke check-up was conducted under the guidance of Prof. H. . W. Dickinson, of. New York University, and was frankly an independent research suggested by Variety's own efforts in this direction. Most notable disagreement be- tween the Variety and university surveys concerns Jack Benny, a leader with Variety but last on the Bourke list. What may account for the poor reaction here is the fact that while the survey was on Benny switched from Chevrolet to General Tire. Eddie . Cantor is 13th on the Bourke summary, 2nd, on Variety's. But otherwise the relative rankings are. quite even, both in percentage of sponsor familiarity and in se- quence of programs, one to the other. ■ a, • v« gram sponsor New York and New Jersey (600 INTERVIEWS) Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Correctly Not Wrongly Name of Program Named Known Named Amos and Andy 576 20 4 Ed. Wynn ....... ......... 504 SO 16 Metropolitan Opera ........... 291 239 20 Maxwell Show Boat 543 45 12 Myrt and Marge 250 339- 11 Wayne King 326 261 13 Rudy Vallee ... 412 166 22 Burns and Allen 254 320 26 Rise of the Goldbergs. 432 166 , 2 Byrd Expedition 86. 407 107 Will Rogers 23C 345 19 March of Time .'■ 261 321 18 Eddie Cantor 46C 121 1.3 Bing Crosby 160 -422. 18 Paul Whiteman 336 424 41 Joe Penner 231 304 65 Clara, Lu and Em 174 336 90 Edwin C. Hill 128 423 49. Ben Bernie 373 222 6 Jack Benny 224 354 22 "l_ . : : . ' . ■. ~- I 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11, 12. " 13. " 14. 15. 16. Mi 18. 19. 20. RADIO BLAMED' FOR WEST'S DROUGHT .Minneapolis, June 4. -A-rsuperstition is spreading among some of the masses throughout this territory that the radio is 'respon- sible' for the drought that has killed crop prospects and made many people, jumpy and ill-tem- pered. University of Minnesota scientists have publicly scoffed at the idea that broadcasting can af- fect the ether in such a way as to prevent or hamper rain, but the idea persists and local radio sta- tion officials, are jittery of the re- percussions. Already the agitation against the radio is making itself felt in letters to the stations and to the news- papers. It has gotten to such a stage that radio station officials hove are seri- ously considering taking cognizance of the agitation and starting a pub- licity campaign to offset it. On NBG-5 Yrs, Bayer's . Aspirin Now with CBS Bayer's Aspirin is rnovi its Sunday night 'Album of Familiar Music' from NBC to Columbia. Pro- gram has been on NBC consecu- tively for almost iivo yearn. Likely to move over with the; 'Al- bum' is 'Manhattan Merry-Go- Ttound* (Dr. Lyon's toothpaste) which the Bayer show on the NBC- "WEAF schedule Sunday nights. BRUNTON PREPARES TO UP TIME RATES San Francisco, June 4. Ralph Brunton has commenced operation of his Northern Califor- nia Broadcasting System, consisting of KJBS and the newly acquired KQW, San Jose, ant. has lined up a complete exec staff for the Frisco and San Jose studios. " This week Brunton closed the Frisco studios of KQW in the Dollar building, moving staff and equip- ment into the KJBS quarters at 1380 Bush, street, with intentions of opening new combined offices, and studios elsewhere later in the sum- mer. That may happen in August or September, -when KJBS goes from .100 to 500 watts, with equip- ment due to arrive from New York via the Canal about that time. The Federal Radio Commission okayed the increase last Week. Brunton has named Carlton Cov- ney sales manager of the NCBS, and H. Q. Fieburg sales manager for KJBS. Eddie Murphy Is p.a. and J. Clarence Myers, former Frisco manager of KQW, is doing agricultural features on that sta- tion. Sam Melnicoo is in as KQW manager in San Jose. With the increase in power and cove rage Brunton figures oh raising the ante' for his commercial time? and also on augmenting the staff and cutting down on the records. KARL0FF ON SHELL Los Angeles, June- 4. Boris Karloff do^s a scene from 'Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde' tonight. ("Monday) on the. Coast CBS Shell Show. He is billed a« top.«. Sponsored Horse-Race Descriptions 5 Hrs. Daily on WJJD; Also Mutuels Two Sheets End Long Battle Vs. Newsca sting — Dis- patch Has St. Paul News- paper Field to Itself— Promises Class Status for New Air Affiliate JOINT BUY St. Paul,. June 4. Failing to beat radio hereabouts, two Twin Cities newspapers, Dis- patch (St. Paul) and Tribune (Min- neapolis) have ; decided at last to embrace it; This was revealed to- day by Leo E. Owens and Frederick E, Murphy, publishers Of the re- spective sheets, In the announce- ment that together . they had pur- chased WRHM. local 1,000-watt indie. ispatch has ■ long been . angling for an 'in* in the radio field. Popu- lation of Twin Cities and nearby suburbs /totals close to 1,000,000. The new management stated im- mediate steps will be taken to fur- nish northwest radio audiences with entertainment and features ranking with the best on the ether. Belief Is that the Dispatch, already in con- trol of the local, daily newspaper field (haying purchased its lone op- posish paper. The Daily News, a year ago), will spread Itself with its new baby. In Other Words Queried by Variety on his atti- tude toward news casting, Publisher Owens parried by saying further conferences with his confreres were necessary before he could come ,out definitely for or against the several, prevailing practices. However, the official statement skimmed the cor- ners with this announcement: In many metropolitan centers of. the United States radio broadcasting stations, owned arid operated by newspapers, have rendered an out- standing press arid radio service to their readers and listeners. It is the intention of the management to achieve the same high 'standard of service for T^RHM:' KSTP, local NBC outlet, Is one of the pioneers in the freedom of the airwaves regarding news casting, Stan Hubbard, v. -p. and gen. mgr., being one of the prime factors In the formation of Radio News Asso- ciation, Inc., of which his station is one corner of the. triple alliance formerly represented by KNX, KSTP and WFI. WCCO, local CBS. affiliate, is, on the other hand, tied in with the Publishers' National Radio commit- tee plan. Thus, the prevailing set- up puts WRHM squarely in the middle. It will be Interesting to local radio observers to see what the new pub- lisher-owners will decide anent news casting, since they can't, being newspaper-owned* buy the RNA service — and it is considered un- likely that they will string along with the so-called 'news' dispatch se rvice dished out by the PNR members. Broadcasting River Boat With Meyer Davis Music Meyer Davis will personally con- duct the dance orchestra aboard Bobby Sanford'B Show Boat when it begins its nightly ploughings of the Hudson River, June 5. After the first night the orchestra's regular maestro, Milt Merrill, will officiate. Show Boat docks at 4 2d street ariji will broadcast from the wharf four nights a week oyer WMCA on a commercial time basis. DENTISTS SEEK ADVERTISING RIGHT Albany, June 4. Right of dentists to advertise on the radio or by use of motion pic- tures or . any other medium was* de- manded, in the Appellate Division of the. Supreme. Court Thursday (31). Arguments were directed against the State Board of Regents, which has decreed that dentists must limit their advertising to professional cards. Four dentists brought the case, in appealing from decisions of the Supreme Court, which previously 'denied their motion for a temporary injunction to restrain the University of the State of New York and. the Board of Regents from enforcing 1 the ban and also from a permanent injunction against enforcement of the regulation. The four dentists are waging the court fight on behalf of members of the profession, throughout the state. HOLLAND'S FOOTBALL Broadcasting Jam Between AVRO ahcfVARA Cupid Splits Clarks San Francisco, . June 4. Clark Sisters (Ruth and Lilah) are splitting a harmony team on KLX, Oakland, after this week, to allow Lilah a try at the matri- mQniiq j.oute. , ^ ^ She will marry a business, man, while Ruth will remain away from the mike as a. single. Helene Daniels on WOR Helen© Daniels starts on a twice- weekly half-hour sustaining pro- gram over WOR tomorrow (Tues- day) evening, 9-9:30. Norman BrokenshJre and a band will he on the program. The Hague, May 23. Controversy raging in Holland amongst football fant over broad- casting international match at Mi- lan between Holland and Switz- erland for world championship. Station AVRO, neutral broadcaster, has broadcasting rights from Du.tch Football Association, a monopoly which cost them plenty. Announcer Hollander is AVRO's expert for such occasions but fly In ointment is that owing to differ- ence in. time, match being played in Italy, AVRO has v on Sunday only sending time under official Dutch division scheme till 5 p. m. after which hour Communist station, VARA steps in. VARA refuses to swap hours with AVRO but is will- ing to take over Hollander's final period of the match.- Papers, public and football fans all up in air. Keene Troupe's 1-Niters In the Sticks at 25c Schenectady; N- Y„ June 4. Hank Keene, who has been broad- casting over WGY with his hill-billy troupe since last fall, opened a sum- mer's tour with his tent show in Kingston, N. Y., last week. . Keene is booked solidly into August, hav- ing arranged a scries of two, three and four-day stands in towns and smaTr^clliW Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. Most of the spots are within a 100-mile radius of Schenectady, which Is the largest oily in which the Keene tenters will do their stuff, They will give performances at night only, except on Saturdays. Cast of 25 is advertised. Admis- sion tap Is 25c. Koeno ha& plugged for date* on hif daily hroad'-ants. Chicago, June 4. Station WJJD, shut out of the baseball broadcast situation this summer, moves over to another field . of sport, and starts broadcasting a five-hour description of the horse races at the major tracks of the country. Will run daily from 1;30 to 6.30 p. m. arid will be sponsored. Taking the closing three and a half hours- is the National Distilling company of Milwaukee, placed on the show by the Klau, Van Pieter- son, Dunlap agency. Other tinte on the races will be split up among various sponsors. First to signa- ture. for a 30-mlnute additional por- tion is the Sells Motor company of Chicago. WJJD will describe 28 races daily, Syhich takes in the four major tracks of the country. In, between the races there will be, musical interludes to fill in the empty spaces between the plugs and the races. Station will take the regular news service on the horse races and will not only describe the running but will give the mutuels on the pay 6ft It will, however, be conducted strlct- jy from the sports angle with no emphasis on the betting possibilities. Larry Tate, 19, On CBS, PhOa, NBC New York Philadelphia, June 4. Larry Tate, WCAU warbling find, gets an NBC coast-to-coaster. This; puts him on every -Saturday as a sustainer. Tate sings on Columbia hook-up out of Philly in the morning, then, rushes to Radio City for the new ' NBC post at 3 p. m, NBC tie-up, with Tate under /copr tract to neither web, makes it funny for everybody. .Singer is only 19, but has had lots of air experience, both as a band vocalist with Ph'il Emerton's crew and as staff an- nouncer at WDEL in Wilmington. Pontiac Has Time, but No Show for Autumn Pontiac is due back on NBC in the- early fall. Although the time has been reserved the automotive ac-» count isn't decided about a show. .This time the manufacturer will, make It a half -hour affair once a week. WLW's Sus. Orks Cincinnati, June 4. WLW is picking up orks from five dine-and-dance spots to fill in nohr comnicrsh spots at nights. Remotes for the 600,000-watter are the Hotel Gibson, where Larry Lee!s combo Is in the Florentine room and Mel Snyder's band is in the rathskeller; Netherland Plaza hotel] which has Gene Burcheli's musilcers in the dining room and Charlie Kohler's - jazzopaters iri Its grill section, Otifo Vienna; Coney Island, amusement park, where Benny Meroff and his boys started off the daneelarid sea- son, and Castle Farm, suburban night club, which plays name bands. Cro'stey's smal lle. WSAI, is broad- casting Murray Hdrton's^TocaT - or-"" 1 " chestra from Avoca Park. Beechnut Back Sept. 25 Boachnut gum brings the 'Red Davis' series back to NBC Sept. 25 for three broadcasts a week. Food packer had the script show going for 26 weeks the early part of the current season. VARIETY R A D I O Tuesdaj, June 5, 1934 COMMERCIALS WEEK OF JUNE 4 networks, advertiser This Department lists sponsored programs on. both arranged alphabetically under the advertiser's pame. All time is p. m. unless otherwise noted. Where one has two or more programs they toe listed consecutively. An asterlsK before name indicates advertising agency ^Abb^viations: Su (Sunday); M (^nday>;. ^JJgJr** W (Wednesday); Th (Thursday) ; F (Friday) ; & (Saturday). 4 ACME LEAD «:3Q-Su-WAIJC 18:30-W-F-WABC Bd Mcbonnell •Heirti H-Mc A. C. SrABK VIMO D-W-WJZ •Cookoo.*" . Ray Knight EiUllO Green . Dick Campbell; •Campbell-E A A I* 0i3O-M-WEAF Harry Horltck Frank Parlter •Paris & Peort ABMOUtt »:30-FrWJZ Phil «Bake,r H McNaughton Mabel Albertson Irene Beasley Roy Shields Ore •N. W. Ayer B. T. BABBITT: 1:30-!?U-WEAF Mary Small Wm. WirgeB •Pefck A. 8. BOVL*E (Floor WaxV 2:30-8n-\VABe •Lazy Da,n* Irving Kaufman •Blackett BA KB A SOL 8:15-M-WABC Bdwln C. Hill •Erwtn 'Wasey (Blue Jay Com Plaster.! 4:15-Tu-F-WJZ Wade Booth Dorothy Day iflMeedham, L & B BATEB 9;30-9o-WEAF Frank .Munn Virginia Rae Ohman & 'Arden Bert HlracJx Haenechen Ore •Blackett BISOPOL 818O-W-WABC Bverett Marshall Elizabeth Lennox Ohman A Arden Victor Arden's Ore •Blackett BORDEN . 10:30-$u-WABO MB Mln. In H'lyWd' Mark Warnow 11:48-W-WABC lane Bltlson' ° •Young & Rublcam BRISTOL-MVERS 9-W-WEAF (SaV Hepatlca) (I pan a) Fred Allen Portland Hoffa Jack Smart Lionel Stander Blleen Douglas Irwin Delmore Minerva Pious Ipana Troubadours Theodore Webb Lennle Hayton •Benton & Bowles E. L. BRUCE CO. 10:30-Th-WABC Doris Loralno Cadets Quartet C Wheeler Orch- •O'Callaghan CALSODRNT CO 4:15-Tlt-WJZ •Rhyming Rover' •Thompson CAMP AN A 10-F-WKAT •First Nighter* June Meredith Don Ameche Carlton - Brlckort Cliff Soubler B Sagerqulst Ore •Aubrey .Moore- CARNATION MILK 10-M-WEAF Gene Arnold ljuliaby Lady M Ij' Eastman Joan Paui King •Erwin,'' Wasey CENTAUR (Pletcher'«> 10 : SO- W- WABC Albert Spalding Conrad Thlbault Don -Voorhees •Toung & Rublcam CHEBAMY (Cosmetics) 8-W-WABC Maxlne Lash String Quartet. •Oumblnner 4UTIES SERVICE B-F-WEAF Otga Albanl CavalierB ^•Lord_&_Tudmaa_^ CUMALINE 1«-Tta-WEAF Harold Stokes Jackie Heller GH Page King's Jesters ♦W. S. Hill CCTEX (Odorono) ■ 9-T-WJZ Phil Harris Xieah Bar Walt. Thorn*. jt^ i ^^i) *•» 004k. Donald Novls Prances Langlor Don Voorliees Brad . Browne . •Young & Rublcam 10-Tn-WEAF (Palmollve Soap) W ; A. Backer, pir 'Sweethearts', i.ucy ' Monroe James Melton John Barclay Nat Shllkfet Wi A. Backer. lr. : •Bent on -B 10;16-driUy-»VEAF (Super Suds) 'Clara Lu & Em' Louise Starkey Isabella Carothers Helen King ♦Benton-B CONTINENTAL OIL CO. 10:30-.W-WJZ Harry Rlchtnan Jack Denny John B. Kennedy ♦Tracv-L-D CRAZY CRVSTAI.8 Z:30-M to F-WEAF Oene Arnold Maple City 4 8;30-M-W-F WJ.Z Gene Arnold Commodores Orch ♦McC-Erlc CONT. BAKING 8:15-F-WABC Little Jack! Little •B.. B.. D. & O. CORN PRODUCTS 11:16-M-W-F- WABC (Kremel, Etc; Will Osborne - Pedro de Cordoba •Hellwlg B. B. DAVIS (Baking Powder) 9 A. M.-W-F-WJZ 9:45-Tu-Th-WABC 'Mystery Chef John McPherson •RuthraufT-R 6-M-Tn-W-Th WABC 'Buck Rogers' Curtis Arnall Adele Rpnson Edgar Stelhl Joe Granby Walter Tetley Allan Devltt Georgia Backen Elaine Melcholr Adele Klein BUI Shelley. Henry Gurvey Harry Swan . Lionel Stander Emmet Gowan Beatrice Allen •Ruthrauft & R ELIZABETH! ABDEN 9-Tu-WABO Maury H. B. Paul Fray A BragglotU Freddy Martin •Blaker Agency EX-LAX 9:30-M-WABO The Big Show' Helen Menken Gertrude Nleaen Erno Rapee •Katz FIRESTONE ft:30-M-WEAF H. -Firestone, Jr. Gladys Swarthout Vocal Ensemble Wm. Daly Orch. •Sweeny-James FITCH 7'.45-8u-WEAF Wendell Hall. ♦K. W. Ramsey FORD MOTOR 9:30-Sa-WABC 9:30-Th->VABO Fred Waring Ted Pearson •isr. W. Ayer FUNK ft WAGN'LL (Literary Digest) •7 :lft-W- WJZ Graham McNaflnee •Badger & B GEN. BAKING . B:30-Su-WABC .Julia Sanderson Frank Orumlt ♦B., B.. D. & O. GENERAL CIGAB D:30-W-WABC Guy Lombardo Burns A Allen •J. Walt. Thomp GENERAL FOODS (La France) (Washing Powder) 9:30-Sa-WEAF 'Beatrice Fairfax' Marjorlo Johnson =Mc^=Stlckloa_Orc._^. II :16-Th-WEAF Frances Leo Barton •Young Si. Rublcan »-Th-WEAF (Maxwell) Chas Wlnnlnger Lahny Ross Annette Hanshaw Conrad Thlbault Marlel Wilson •Molasses 'n' Jan'ry Qua Haenscben 8-F-WEAF •Marla'a Corto Lanny Ros«- Ma|7 Lou Conrad Thibault Kdua Haetiichan Ore >B»bfon A Bowles 10- W- WABC 'Byrd Expedition' •Ypung A. Rublcam GENERAL; HOUSEHOLD (Grunow) Refrigerators B:30-To-WABC Mlhneapolls Symp'y Kugene Ormandy •Hays MacFarlnnd GEN ERAL MI LI 5:30-Dally-WABC Jack Armstrong All American Boy 4-DaUy-WJZ 'Betty & Bob' Betty' Churchill Don Ameche Betty Winkler Art Jacobson Carl : Brlckert Louis Roen •Blackett GENERAL MOTOR (Chevrolet) 10-Su-WEAF Victor Young Ore • Campbell-E (Oldamob'lle) . Q :15-Ta-F-W ABC Ruth Ettlng Johnny Green . •B.. B., D. A O.. GENERAL TIRES 10:30-F-WEAF Jack Benny Mary Livingston Jimmy Grler •Hays MaoFarland GERBER A CO. 10-Su-WJZ Mme. Schumann- H •Erwin Waaey GILLETTE (Safety Raaor) 1:l5-DoiIy except Sa-Su-WEAF Gene' and Glenn •Ruthrauft! A R GOODRICH 1:45-M-W-F-WJZ 'Taxi- Max Baer Franc Hale Jean Southern ♦Rutbrauff-R GULF 9-Sn-WJZ Will Rogers Frank Parker. Revelers Pickens Sis Al Goodman •Cecil Warwick HEALTH PRODI'S (White Cod) 3-Su-WJZ Bar X Ranch' Carson Roblson John Mitchell Bill Mitchell Pearl Pickens •Wm. Esty ^ HECKER n-0 6:15-Dally-WABC •H-Bar-O Rangers' Bobby Benson Nell O'Malley Florence Hallan Billy Hallop John Barthe 'Bi Blackett LADY ESTHER IO-S-M-WABC 8:S0-Tu-W-WEAF Anson Weeks Orch Seymour Simon Ore *Stack-G6ble LAMONT-.CORLIS8 (Nestles) 8-FrWJZ Ethel Shutta Walter O'Keefe Bobby Dolan Ore •J. Walt.! Thomp. LARUS (Edgewofth) 10-W-WEAF Corn Cob Pipe Club of Virginia- •BBD&O l.EHN & FINK (Lysol). 10:30-Su-WEAF Zasu Pitts Ed Evert Horton Nat Shllkret Ore ♦Rutbrault A R lilGGETT-MYERS ( Chesterfield ) ^ 9-M-W-S-WABO (Monday) Rosa Ponselle Andre KoBtelanets (Wednesday) • Nino Martini Andre Kostelanetr (Saturday) Creta. Stueckgold Andre Kostelanetr Mixed ChorUB Ford Frlck ♦New.ell-Emmett LUXOR (Artnour) 3-Su-WEAF 'Talkie Pic. Time' June Meredith John Ooldsworthy John Stanford Gilbert Douglas Murray Forbes ♦N. W. Ayer MANHATTAN SOAP CO. 11:15-W-WEAF Jack Arthur DeMarco Sis •Peck J. W. MARROW (Oil Shampoo) t : 15 VIu-Th-W ABC Joan Marrow Bob Nolan Eddie House ♦Placed direct MACFADDEN (Liberty Magazine) 10-F-WJZ 'Stories That Should ' Be Told' • Fulton Oursler (True Story) 8:30-F-WABC 'Court / of Human Relations' Percy Hemus Arnold Johnson's Or Elsie Hltz Nod Weaver Lucille Wall Allyn Joslyn Paul Stewart ♦Staok-Goble . MET. LIFE CO. 0:4G-Dnlly WEAF Arthur Bagley DR. MILES LAB'S (Alka-Seltzer) 10:30-8a-WJZ WLS Barn Dance Ridge Runners Mac & Bob Clarence Wheeler ♦Wade MOHAWK MILLS (Carpets) 10 :30-Tu-Tli- WEAF Orch & Singers «B.. B.. D. A O. MOLLE CO. 7:30^M-ThrWEAF WEAF Shirley Howard Guy Bon ham Wairip Carlson Dwlght Latham Milt Rettenberg Tony Calliiccl ♦Stack-Qoble BENJ. MOORE 11:30-W-WEAF B6.tty _Moore "White OXOL K:4ff-M-Tu-W-F- WABO Dave, Bunny A O • Bunny Coughlla Dave Grant Gordon Graham •B. t B., D. A O. OXYDOL (Proct'r A Gamble) S:45-Dally Except Sa ft Su-WEAF •Ma Perkins'. Virginia Dayne . Margery Hannon Karl Hubel Will Fornum Chas. Eggleston •Blackett PACKARD 10-M-WJZ Walter Damrosch John B. Kennedy | •Cecil Warwick PACIFIC BORAX 9-TU-WJZ 'Death Vall'y Days'. Tim Frawley Joseph. Bell Edwin W. .'Whitney Lonesome Cowboy Joseph Bonlme Ore •McCBrlck PALMER HOUSE 9:30-Tu-WEAF Ray Perkins Betty Brown Gale Page _ Harold Stokes Ore PEPSODENT 7-DnlIy, Except Sa ft Su-WJZ ' Amos 'n' Andy Charles Correl Freeman Gosden ('Rise of Gold") 7:45-Dally, Except. Sa ft Su-WEAF Gertrude Berg James Watei^ > 9:30-Tu-Th-8a^ . WJZ (Junls Cream) Eddie Duchln ' BdWard Da vies •Lord & Thomas . PHILCO 7:45 dally ex. Sa- .. Sn-WABC Boake Carter •F, W. Armstrong PHILIP MORRIS 8- Tu-WEAF I^eo Relsman's Ore Phil Dvey • .•Blow POXSBURY . 10:30-DalIy-WJZ Today's Chll Irma Phillips. Walter Wicker Bess Johnson Irene Wicker Lucy Glllman Fred Von Anion Jean McGregor •Hutchinson 11-M-W-F-WABC 'Cooking Close Ups' •Hutchinson FABST 9- Tu-WEAF Ben Bernte Ore •Matt-Fogarty PLOUGH. INC. 10-W-WJZ Vincent Lopez Bd Sullivan •Lake-Splro-C PUROIL 1:80-Sa-WKAF Eddie Peabody De Marco Sisters Joey Nash Richard Hlmber Or •Freltag ' QUAKER OATS 8:45-M-W-FtWJZ Babe Ruth •Flecher A E BALSTON 5-F-WEAF Mme; Sylvia of Hollywood •Gardner REAL SILK 7-Su-WJZ Chas. Prevln Orch Charles Lyons •Brwln-Wasey RED STAR YEAST 11-Tu-Th-S-WEAF Bdna Odell Phil PorterHeld Irma Glen Earl Lawrence RITCHIE (Eno Salts) 8-Tn-W-WJZ . 'Bno Crime Club' Spencer Dean *N. W. Ayer SCHLITZ 10-F-WABC B. B; D. Sc O. SILVER DUST 7:80-Tn-Th-WABC Paul Keaat Tbelma Goodwyn Rollo Hudson's Oro ♦B.i B., D. A O. SINCLAIR 9-M-WJZ Gene Arnold Rill Chllds Mao McCloud Joe Parsons CHft Soubler Harry Kogen •Federal STAND. BRANDS (Chase A Sanborn) 8-Su-WKAF Jimmy Durante Rubknon* (Baker's) 7 :80-Su-W JZ Joe Pennor Harriet HUHard Oazle Nelson Oro S.W-WEAF (C A S Tea) Jack Pearl Cliff Hall Peter Van Steeden Kathleen Wells 8-Th- WEAF (Flelschmann) Rudy Vatlee and His Conn. Yanks Marguet Anglin Judith Anderson Henrlk Van. Loon ♦J. Walt. Iliomp. 8TD. OIL (N. Tf.) 8-M-WEAF Sooony Sketches Arthur Allen Parker Fenntlly Kate McCoinb tsabelle Wlnlocke Ruth Russell Robert Strauss •J. S. Getchell STERLING PROD. ^ 9-F-WEAF (Phillips Mag) •Waltz Time' Abe Lyman Qrc Frank Munn . Vivlenne Segal. 5:15 dally ex. Sa-Su- WABO •skippy • 8:30-Ta-WAltC Abe Lyman Vivlenne Segal Oliver Smith ' •Blackett STUDEBAKER »:30-Tu-WABC Richard Hlmber: ; ♦Roche-W-C SUN OIL 6:46-Dally-W 100 E. 42d St.. N. Y. C. William Esty. Edward Byron. Federal. Adv. Agency 444 Madison Ave.; 1*. Y. C. Fletcher & Elli 331 Madison Ave. Lawrence Holeomb. Gardner Advertising Co. 330 W. 42d St., N. Y: C. R, Martini. J. Sterling Getchell 420 Lexington Ave., N. Y. Howard S. Meighan. Gotham Co. 260 Park Ave., N. Y. C. A. A. Kron Lawrence C. Gumbinner 9 East 41st St.. N. Y. C. Paul Gumbinner. Hanff-Metzger, Inc. 745 Fifth Ave. Louis A, Wltten. Joseph Katz Co. 247 Park Ave., N, Y. C Bennett Larson. Lambert & Feasley, Inc. 400 Madison Ave., N. Y. C. Martin Horrell. Lennen & Mitchell, I no. 17 E. 45th S,t., N. Y. C. Mann Holiner. Robert W. Orr. Lord & Thomas 247 Park Ave., N. Y. Montague Hackett. McCahn-Erickson, Inc. 285 Madison Ave., N. Y. C. Dorothy Barstow. Newell- Emmett, Inc. 40 E. 34th St., N. Y. C. Richard Strobridge. Paris & Peart 3.70 Lexington Ave., N. Y. C. E, J. Cpgan. Peck Adv. Agency 271 Madison Ave., N. Y. C. Arthur Sinsheimer Pedlar & Ryan, Inc. 260 Park Ave., N. Y. C. David F. Crosier. Edward Longstreth. Frank Presbrey Co. 247 Park Ave., N Y. C. Fulton Dent. Ruthrauff & Ryan, Inc. Chrysler Bldg., N. Y. C. Myron P. Kirk. F. B. Ryan, jr. Walter Thompson Co. 420 Lexington Ave., N.Y.C. John U. Reber. Robert Cplwell. Young & Rubicam 285 Madison Ave., N. Y. C. Hubbell Robinson. W. R. Stuhler, is tied In with an essay contest for kids under 18 with bank going for scho .-rshlpa and cash prizes, and tossing a big supple- mentary campaign on billboards and in papers- behind the Don Lee radio show. Paris, May 25. French "taxpayers have constribu- ted $4,800,000 for licenses and other taxes, on radio sets and tubes, since last summer, and this sum is. to be used to make something out of the present anemic French radio biz, ' Neatly $1,500,000 will go right away improving programs. First slice of it to be paid to Na- tional Radio Orchestra ,. all first prize: winners of famous Pari Conservatory. Then regular broadcasts from Opera, Opera Comlque and Comedie Francaise will be made; So as not to neglect the lowbrows, additional broadcasts of sporting events are' planned. Bike race and soccer games figure als the biggest of these. Rest of ne ^ tax money — $3,300,000 — is to go into new stations or re- building old ones. Right now a 60- kilowatt plant is going up at Thourie, in Brittany, near Rennes, with relay stations at Rennes it- self, Btest. Nantes and other Breton towns. French programs will be broad- cast for Italy froni new station at Blot, in Maritime Alps, near the border. :Feari.ng high critical abil- ity o£ Italians, French will tak» special pains picking actors and musicians for this spot. Should be ready by Mid of .this year. Deluxe Station ci ial care is TJeln'g taken in consb-ucling a ne.w 100-kilowatter at Villejust, near Paris, which au- thorities want to make the finest and • most modern broadcast plant in -.France; Expert engineers are- being- hired for this job, which.won't be finished until 1935. If -there's any money left over it will' be applied to. amortizing old loans • granted by the State to the broadcast biz, before tit* tax was instituted. When improvements are com- pleted, French set owner may have a- chance to get something locally without', tuning in on foreign sta- tions.- ; But - law against static, re- quiring, silencers oh all domestic and- - industrial, motors,, announced last October, has yet tr produce any results. French housewife, having at last learned to use a vacuum cleaner, is not. in a hurry to have s> jigger put on .it so it. won't inter- fere with the neighbor's radio. | Incorporate Television Syndicate in England London, May 23. There was registered at Somerset House yesterday the Marconl-E.M.I. [Television Company, Ltd., with a | nominal capital of $5,000. On the board are Lord Inverforth, chair- I mi .; Marchese Marconi and Alfred Clark. The latter in chairman of the Electrical and Musical Indus- | tries, Ltd. - • - v - For the past, year or more, the. I Marconi Company has been co-op- I erating with the E. M. I. in perfect- , ing televlsldn, and the formation of I the new company was decided upon to continue the experimental co-op- eration.. '. . New.- combination, with its nomi- nal .capital, means a combination which practically amounts to a mo- | nopoly of television in England and the continent. With unlimited re- | sources, financial and ownership of patents, it is practically .certain to control television throughout. Eu- I rope. No statement was issued by the directorate, but ah official of the | Marconi company merely vouch- safed the statement the combined companies have developed a televl- | sion system that possesses impor- tant, advantages. KFXR, Oklahoma City, has three new women members, Ollie Dean Cook, announcer; Mary Louise Thomason, program director, and I Lorettn Miller, pianist. Linthicum Airing Baltimore, June 4, WBAL has taken on Jesse Lin- thicum, sports ed. of Morning Sun, to air a 15-in. sports resume daily at 6:30 p. m. On sustaining basis and opposes the WFBlt Gunther Brew sports commentary. WBAL spotted the Linthicum chore half-hour earlier than the WFBR Turbyvllle stint, thereby scooping on the sports re- I nulta readings. 'ftUINK' ANNOUNCEMENTS Chicago, June 4. Parker Pen company starts a test campaign of one^minute announce- ments for its writing fluid, Quink. Has recorded a 60-second drama- tization and will spot in on a couple of stations shortly, using KYW 1" Chlcafco. If a click, will spread. Placed through the local Blackett- Sample-Hummert agency and re- corded at the RCA Victor lab. Tuesday, June 5, 1934 RADIO VARIETY 41 RADIO SHOWMANSHIP (Merchandizing and Program Tieups) OUTSTANDING STUNTS: UNION CITY STATION w MCA, NEW YORK Cover! a Disaster On the afternoon the U. S. Navy steamed into port, Station WMCA pulled an emergency stunt in an effort to compete with the heavy artillery of the navy and the net- works. It was, the result of quick thinking and quick acting. Observing from the 10th floor of WMCA's offices on Broadway, New York, a fire raging in Union City, N. J„ across the Hudson river, sta- tion phoned a Jersey newspaper and learned that a famous Catholic shrine was burning down. Quick arrangements sent Fred Coll, Charles Westoh and Prank Marx scurrying to Jersey with portable equipment, to broadcast a 45-minute on-the-spot word picture of the lire. Coll also got the fire chief, police chief, and priests of the Passionist order to step before the microphone and comment on the disaster. •' ' Just an Echo! Vancouver, . . CJOR, local 600 -waiter, gave the listeners, something to argue about when it broadcast a blow by blow description of the Rosa-McLarnln bout last Monday night (28). Con troversy centered around the ques tlon of whether the thing was com ing direct from the .ringside in New York, despite the. fact that' the sta tion announced during the event that all the sound effects were being faked. With the cost of bringing in the reports by telephone lines prohibi- tive, CJOR resorted to a direct tele- graphic connection from the ring- side and sold the local Ford dis- tributors on a reconstruction of the fight. Engaged in putting over this version were two telegraph op- erators in the studio, taking down a blow by blow and descriptive story, three announcers, three sound ef- fects men and a local flghtcaster. Result was a broadcast complete from every angle, crowd noises, the ringing of the bell, the smack of gloves, the click of typewriters, the referee's whistle, etc. Following the broadcast the. CJOR switchboard was Jammed, for an hour with calls settling arguments for fans who were under the impres- sion that it had been the real thing. Fact that McLarnln halls from this section Increased its local interest. strongly alcoholic. WBAL, member Group Broadcasters, and WCAC, local CBS outlet, have announced selves as definitely inaccessible to such accounts. Nearest approach to direct ilkker plugging on local eth er gets going this week when WFBR Inaugs a daily 1-min. dramatization on be- half the Cocktail Lounge of the Lord Baltimore hostelry. Is aligned with Ilkker plugging in that the lo- cale of the dramatizations will be invariably laid in the Lounge and the program billed 'Cocktail Ro- mances.' Also a different recipe for an aperitif as suggested by the spot's barkeep and as on tap at the Lounge will be read at the conclu- sion of each day's 'cast. Graduating Exercises Iowa' City, la. W6UI, mouthpiece of the Univer- sity ot Iowa, made It possible for those members of the graduate's family who couldn't attend in per- son to sit in on the University's commencement exercises this year. All the TPs ceremonies from Thurs- day to Monday were released over this channel. WMBG'S Nsws Pamphlet Richmond, Va. Station WMBO is publishing a small news pamphlet monthly, called The WMBG Transmitter/ Volume three for June is chiefly devoted to quotations from Richmond business men concerning business recovery, and -anticipations. . In addition program highlights for the month are listed and miscella- neous news Included. K8TP Housewife Stuff St. Paul. . KSTP Is giving its listeners some- thing new in the way. of morning chatter to housewives in the Pear- son Wholesale Grocery Co. program, which airs every a. m. from 8:46 to 8:60. As a departure from the usual femme tonslllzer, a man — with plenty of personality in the old larynx — does the spieling, and, in- stead of offering prises for recipes, calls for poems, maxims, wlsecrax. He addresses his women listeners as friends' and accents the s. a. plenty here. Dally prizes are given for best contiibs — and since the. sponsor is in grocery, biz, prizes are aptly in the form of canned goods. Company Isn't stingy, either, giving a dozen cans of this or that for the best, and - taperlng.its gif ts down. to .three .cans, for accepted contrlbs having the , least glitter. Writers' names and contrlbs are read each morning, with commercial plugs kept to the minimum. Military ass on WJZ Baltimore. WBAL will feed NBC's WJZ web an air coverage of the Military Mass the Catholic Church will hold in the muny stadium Wednes- day (80) in honor of Maryland's Tercentenary. Figured 100,000 per- sons will be present at services, plus host of bishops and prominent churchmen from all over country. James Young due in to dish de- scription of event into mike and will bring on own technical crew to lay out wires and arrange the pick-up. WO.V is cut in on this campaign as the radio outlet, and has already two series of programs under way with a third coming up. Store studio is to be readied for broadcasts shortly, though no date for opening is yet set. Plan is to pick up all Hayden broadcasts from this auditorium, make all rehearsals there, and otherwise make use of it as a demonstration room for cook- ing schools and other advertising stunts. . Preparing and ; broadcasting radio programs alone will keep studio nearly filled, to say nothing of employing It for other gags. Tal- ent for. use on programs is being supplied by WOW. CBS Whets Curiosity New York. To make sure that its latest bro- chure doesn't land among the pile of printed matter that should be read, but won't, the Columbia Bales department has resorted to a mys- tery campaign among ad agency execs. Letters, couched in enig- matic phraseology, have gone out to the agency mailing list to whet the curiosity. The work is due off the press this week. Advance communication doesn't tipoff what the brochure's about but refers to it as a. 'basic contri- bution to radio thought' and a com-, mentury on an intangible but pow- erful factor In broadcasting. 'The Added Increment' is the. thing's rtitle. WCAU Toils Golfers Philadelphia. WCAU has arranged biggest local sports carnival yet, on the sus- taining basis. Series begins this week (30) nightly around the com- ing National Open in the Philly sector, and will feature all the big names of the fairways. . Included on the list scheduled for air appearances are. Denny Shute, Bobby Jones, Leo Delgel, George Dunlap, Ed Dudley, Craig Wood, Cyril Tolley and . the whole invad- ing British . contingent, Johnny Goodman, W. Lawson Little, and others. Station plans to. short-wave theBe shows by directional broad- casting to England via their W8XAU outlet. Program will follow the golfers from the first practice days until the finals, with the current day's play- ers visiting the mike to talk over the hazzards and bunkers after the daily matches are finished. Night, of June 8, before the. finals, studio has prepared a big musical show for the local tuners. 'Cocktail Romance' Baltimore. To date no local station has aired J-ny hard Ilkker accounts. Flock of oeer-booming spot announcements and one daily 15-mlh. program for Gunther's Brew, but nothing more Gould Woos 4A's Cleverly Baltimore. Purhe ll G ould, commercial man- ager-of WFBR, cached a carload of goodwill and garnered a gob of at- tention by placing spot announce- ments on WJSV and WMAL,. Washington, D. C, last Tuesday and Wedn esday (22-23) calling at- tention to WFBR. Stunt was done to catch ears of American Assn. of Ad Agencies which was - holding convention In the capitol last week. Copy was cheery messa ge of greeting, with reminder that WFBR was a pretty good station. . Chamber of Commerce Stuff Baltimore. WFBR has alloted a flve-min. spot to Junior Chamber of Com- merce daily for two weeks, during which time members of the club take turns before the mike and spiel about the clean-up, paint-up campaign the assn. is fostering. Time on gratis basis, station merely seeking good-will of the club which is made up of young business men, majority occupants of ^imT>"6rtttrit. chairs in firms that are prospective air advertisers. Local Riant-of-Way Dubuque. WKBB, broadcasting from the Hotel Julien, Dubuque (la.), doing a real Vox Pop in its territory going in more, and more for local slants to justify its appellation, 'friend of the people.' Latest addition as pro- gram of Father Joseph Lonergan, former national chaplain of . the American Legion, spotted every Sunday from his church, Me- nominee, III., 10:30, in The Little Church in the Valley.' Morning news broadcast at 8 daily, a new feature. Mike goes - to a speaker from the Dubuque Dental society every Monday, 8:16, With the Senior high school In an every Thursday night spot at 8 : 30. Studio policy is to 'give anything with a local slant the . breaks. Talent Prospectus Charlotte, N. C. WBT has issued an elaborate cat- alogue booklet describing the pro- grams that are how available for commercial sponsorship. Holly Smith is ■ production manager and edited the catalogue. The commercial de- partment places copies In the hands of prospective advertising clients. Booklet la titled *WBT Presents.' It classifies the programs into groupings according to their adap t ability for various types of adver Used products and in accordance with the size of the shows, the num- ber of people used, and the broad- casting time. Practically all pro- grams listed are now running as sustaining programs and are imme- diately available for sponsorship. ing Classics Over Air Birmingham, Ala. WSGN seeking desperately to find something entertaining, has started reading books over the air. One or two reading periods are held daily from classics and modern books. One or two chapters are read dally until the book is completed. Reading of books is not new but was resorted to in the early crystal- set days. ing the Funnies Portland, Ore. Reading the Sunday comic sec- tion, of the Morning Oregonian each Sunday morning a£ 9 o'clock is the latest radio showmanship project undertaken by KEX. Uncle Van Fleming calls the kiddies together with a lively tune on a phonograph record, bells, whistles and horns, and then - it's 'get down on your tummies now and turn to Andy Gump,' and the half- hour program .Is under way to the accompaniment of a symphony of sound effects using both phonograph record effects and studio props. Entire half hour is sponsored by a Portland dental firm specializing in children's work. Commercial an- nouncements precede and follow the program, and are interspersed be tween the readings of sections of the comics. 8tudio in Dept. Store Omaha. WOW, Omaha's NBC red n*etT>ut=- let here, has gone in for showman- ship. In co-operation with a local department store an auditorium is being built in the store building as the spot of origin of all its pro- grams over this station. Department store is Hayden Brothers, one of the town's first landmarks, which hasn't found biz so hot lately and has decided on a tremendous remodeling and adver- tising campaign as the answer. Baseball Fans' Servics Boston. -WNAC and WAAB get the base- ball crowd to listen in around 1 p.m., when the weather Is dubious with a 'Today's Baseball Game' an- nouncement. This gives the name of. the visiting club, whether the game Is at Braves' Field or Fenway Park, time game starts, and prob- able pitchers. When game Is called off,' that Information Is given in- (Continued on page 67) Deny Canadian Execs Fostered Any Tuition Racket Among Talent icago Ad Agencies Radio Product! Aubrey, Moore A Wallace, Inc. 410 North Michigan Ave. J. H. North. F. G. Ibbett. N. W. Ayer 164 W. Jackson Blvd. Nason McGuire. Batten, Barton, Durstine A Os- born 221 N. La Salle St. George May. laekett-Sample-Hummert 221 N. La Salle St. Edward Aleshire. N. H. Peterson. Dor em us A Company 208 S. La Salle St. H. Ray Henderson. Erwin, Wasey & Co. 230 N.. Michigan Ave. William Weddell. Fredericks A Mitchell, Inc. 360 N. Michigan Ave. Earl Frederick. Charles Daniel Frey 333 N. Michigan Aye. Larry Triggs- •■ Gundlach Advertising Co. 400 N. Miohigan Ave. Irving Rosenbloom. Hays MeFarland 333 N. Michigan Ave. Hays MeFarland. Henri Hurst A McDonald 620 N. Michigan Ave. N. L. Pumpian. Kaator 360 N. Michigan Ave. Read Wight. Kirtland-Engel 646 N. Michigan Ave. R. Mv K| rttand. Lord A Thomas 919 N. Miohigan Ave. Lewis Goodklnd. , Matteson, Fogarty, Jordan 307 N. Michigan Ave. H. L. Weller. McCann- Eriokson 910 S. Michigan Ave. Raymond Atwood. McJunkln 228 N. La Salle St. Gordon Best. 0 Needham, Louis A Brorby 360 N. Michigan Ave. Helen Wing. Reincke- Ejlis- Younggren- Fi 620 N. Michigan Ave. Russ Williams. Roche, Williams A Cunnyng- ham, Inc. Strauss Bldg. William Roche, Rogers. A Smith 20 N. Wacker Drive Everett Opie. . Ruthrauff A Ryan 360. N- Michigan Ave. Nate Caldwell, Stack-Goble 8 S. Michigan Ave. Ralph Goble. J. Walter Thompson 410 N. Michigan Ave. Dick Marvin. George Allan. U. 8. Advertising 612 N. Michigan Ave. George Enzinger. Wade Adv. Agency 208 w. Washington St Walter Wade. Inside Stuff-Radio Decision in the case of Alfred Kreymborg, poet, against Jimmy Durante and NBC for alleged violation of copyright, raises a point of law. Court found that copyright does- not protect public performance of poems or books for profit. It does protect dramas and musicals as well as sermons, addresses and the like. — Poems in question were later incorporated in a copyrighted . drama, but the court ruling was that the poems having been severally copyrighted as such before Inclusion in the drama, the blanket covering of the dra- matic copyright does not afford them the claimed protection. Claims must lie under the first, instance of copyright and subsequent adoption into a better protected form doed not accrue to their benefit. Toronto, June 4. Statement of E. A. Weir, former assistant to Hector Charlesworth, chairman of the. Canadian Radio Commission, that CRC staff artists Were running a racket in 'teaching auditionists the . art of broadcast- ing as a sideline to Commission duties,' is denied by Stanley Maxted, regional director for the Govern-, ment-owned network. Before the government enquiry, Weir claimed that auditionists were referred to artists under con- tract to the CRC for private les- sons in radio technique. He claimed that the practice was subject to wrongful abuses and should not be tolerated, much less encouraged. Regional Director Max ted in- sists that - promising, radio . talent was turned over to Commission ar- tists who gave tuition and their time gratis and sacrificed afternoons and evenings to assist radio aspir- ants. Hart Jenks Quits Radio To Pilot Folio Players Omaha, June 4. Hart Jenks, for the past year stu- dio director and production chief for KOTL's Omaha studios, left the sta- tion June 1 to devote his full time to the Folio Players, Inc., the organ- ization of local part time repertory players which he founded Just a year ago. Arthur Faust, one-time legit play- er, who has been with the broad- casting company a short spell, set to take over Jenks'- work. Folio Players are now set for a six-day stand In Convention Hall, Evergreen, Colo., dates of July 9-14, during which, they will present 7 •Hamlet,* 'Macbeth,' 'Merchant of Venice* and 'Taming of the Shrew' in modern costumes. Following these engagements, Jenks will visit Central City to catch Walter Huston in 'Othello' and to confer with Cen r tral City officials about his own company and his own services. 'Singing Lady' Wicker Doubling at Chi Fair Chicago, June 4. Ireen Wicker, the 'Singing Lady,* returns to the World's Fair again this year, starting weekly appear- ances at the Enchanted Island Thursday (7). Will continue to show Thursdays, which are set aside as children's days by the Fair. ^Max-BaeiHe^being^wrltten^ou (Goodrich Tire) jwjth the June 8th broadcast. His participation. In the program,^ any, will be limited, until after his bout with Carhera, June 14, to some patter on his physical condition and his mental reactions toward the fray. If his showing with Camera proves pleasing to the sponsor Baer will- re- sume his role In the serial and go on for an additional seven weeks. Jack Benny, doing 'Transatlantic Show Boat' for Edward Small at United Artists, Hollywood, has provision in his contract that he works only five days a week, Friday being the extra oft day. This is to cnablo him to rehearse bis broadcast for General Tires that evening. Columbus Baseball Cast Sponsored by Wheaties Chicago, June '4. Wheaties takes another baseball play-by-play service, this time in Columbus, O., oyer WBNS. Will take both home and. out-of-town games of the Columbus team. Sold through the local office of Grieg, Blair & Splght rep outfit, and placed by Blackett-Sample-Hum- mert agency. : *- Beaseley for Fitch Chicago, June 4. July 15 has been set as the date on which Irene Beaseley goes on the Fitch program in order to give Wendell Hall a breathing spell. Hall's vacash will last eight weeks, then he returns to the NBC weekly commercial shot. Ken Boucher's Hew Job Ken Boucher, formerly an ac- count executive with Lord A Thomas, has been named San Francisco manager for Free and Slelninger. Walter Biddlck, Pacific coast manager for the station rep- resentative outfit, did the designat- ing. For a year and a half Boucher served, as executive v. p. of the Pa- cific Association of Advertising Agencies. 7 A. If. News Program ■--^=^-^ WW tn^.^ttirj-nne-4v^ Radio listeners in this part of the country get up early and like to hear a bit of news over the radio before going to work. WDEV, local Btation, bad boon broadcasting news at 7:30 each morning, but after a flood of re- quests for an early broadcast is put- ting the news program on at 7 a, m. VARIETY Tuesday, June 5, 1934 Radio Chatter New England New York Marvin, with rother Frankle and Gloria Price, played, a quick return engagement at the Kite theatre, Newburgh, whose own- er, Eugene Levy, goes strongly for radio, folk as headliners his vaude. bills. .> ■ . Ptomaine poisoning put Cliff Car roll oh the radio for the first time. However, it was Byron Snowdeii, Knickerbocker Press news broad- caster, who had the sick tummy and Carroll was called in as substitute over WOKO. No fan letters. Edward B. Higgln of Rensselaer, known as the 'Irish Tenor of the Air/ will step to the altar some- time this month with Dorothy Mc- Herb Gordon's orch. is playing at the Albany auto show and WOKO is carrying his music every after- noon. He will resume regular air- ings over WOKO from the Ten Eyck hotel on June 16. ' ■ WfiSG, Elmlra, turns out a brand of publicity different from the ordi- nary run. F'rinstance, a news re- lease pointed out that there were 31 programs to be broadcast in a * l irma d L • • Ed Murphy is p. a.'ing , Ralph Br.unton's new network consisting of KJBS and the newly acquired KOW. Wilt Gunzendorfer, vet orchestra leader, is now aiding Ellis Levy in the Don Lee artists bureau at KFRC. Nannette LaSalle, NBC bluester, is blessed eventing these days MGM STUPIOS CULVER CITY, CALIF. Tennessee ROY FOX AND HIS BAND ON TOUR B.B.C. NETWORK GREEK AMBASSADOR OF GOOD WILL GEORGE GIVOT Loew's Deluxe Theatres WLAC, Memphis, had a rabies scare in a big way last week when more than a dozen members of the organization found themselves ex- posed to- the malady following a squab dinner. Menu included. home- made ice cream, and two days later the cow from which the cream came (1eveloped T *ibi6s." Hcweyer, health officials agreed there could be no danger from this source as the cream had been pasteurized. Elder Mlchaux is proving orte of WLAC's best bets. Gene French's orchestra contrib- uting half-hour of dance music for WLAC, Nashville, at II o'clock with the exception of Monday and Tues- day, picked up from 'Wagon Wheel,' located six miles on the Harding Road. William A. Burnett, for more than 50 years a farm editor, talks each Wednesday morning at 6:45, broad- casting 'Bill Burnett's Scrap Book from WSM, Nashville. -Bole.^Direvtlosu HERMAN BERN IE U19 Droad way . New York 99 -The Singing Lady 1 IREENE WICKER 4th Y««r for W. K. Kellogg Co. >H Material by Iree.ie Wicker Mm»k by ALLAN GRANT N~B\C.— WJZ 6:30 Daily Ohio John L. Clark, gen, mgr. of broad casting division of Crosley Radio Corp., Clncy, put in several days of biz in N. Y. last week. Jack Dempsey miked for Mail "Pouch sports spieTon WTJW'andjln Knot Hole Club program on WSAI, May 31, while in Cincinnati to ref eree a boxing match. Dorothy Frederick, soprano, a newcomer to WLW from Olncy Conservatory of Music, assigned to Friday afternoon sustainer with John Barker, baritone, and* Wesley Boynton, tenor. Carmela Valdes-Gallol, 16-year old Cuban concert pianist, has earned a 'place on staff of WLW, Cincinnati, and is featured in solos on the Los Amlgos broadcasts. Station WHDH has lost Its Fed- eral chain affiliation* Rumor has it that the web didn't care to have a short-hour station on the hook-up. Jack Atwood, WEEI Boston an- nouncer, -made a hurried trip to New York the other day. " Knox Manning completes two years as Yankee web announcer On June 4. Broke Into radio via the Yankee outlet in Worcester, WORC. Gang at NBC, Boston, threw a surprise party for Walter 'Hap' Myers r Thursday night at the Cop- ley Plaza. Party was in honor of his recent appointment.. . Roland Wingate, whose talks, •Saving Golf Strokes,' are broadcast over WNAC thrice weekly, comes from a family of pros. Roland has been pro at the Country Club in Brookline for seven years; the rest of his family live in England. His sister, 'Poppy,' is pro at the Ravens- worth Golf Club at Gates Head', brother Syd is pro of the four mu- nicipal courses at Leeds r and his father , was a pro for thirty years and Midland Champion of England for three years. Vermont American Legion uses WCAX, Burlington, for opening of poppy sale. Frlgidaire. dealers of Vermont area sponsoring a series of quarter-hour programs over WDEV, Waterbury. Zamplcini Trio is broadcasting Italian music weekly oyer WDEV. Waterbury, Vt. WTIC Playhouse, Guy Hedlund's Jramatic troupe, bids farewell to the audience of the Hartford sta- tion in June. Has been on WTIC more than two years. ' Jitney Players, group, which Is preparing for a season of sumnter stock at Madison, Conn.; will be- gin a series of WTIC broadcasts June 6, their first offering to be a radio adaptation Of the burlesque on oldrtlme melodrama, 'The Streets of New York.' Harry Tlghe arid Milt Francis, being imported by WTIC, Hartford, to produce a weekly Thursday night feature to be known as 'WTIC Variety Show,' the first of the series to be transmitted May 31. Ben Bonnell, former music-ar- ranger for Nat Shllkret, now. a member of the staff of WTIC, is commuting to the Hartford station from Highland Lake in Winsted. Len Berman, formerly planisfof the Merry Madcaps of WTIC, is now in New Yprk writing, special arrangements . for . Enric. Madri- guera. Also in. Madrlguera's or gahizatlon is another former WTIC broadcaster, namely Tony Sacco, formerly soloist of the WTIC Merry Madcaps, who is now singing wltfi Madrlguera's band. Harriet Lee . acquired by station WTIC as a member of its staff* Two new announcers, each with experience in the New York key stations of Columbia and NBC chains, have been/added to the staff of WTIC. They are Jerry Mohr and Paul Munroe. nA ^ a Ed Smalle and his Three Leaders and Dave Rlngle and his Grenadiers quartet, both groups importations from New York, are being retained in the WTIC semi- weekly program, The Travelers Hour.* Salvatore de Stephano, harpist or New York, has been added to the musical staff of station WTIC. Mountain Melodeers, directed by Jimmy Milne, are alternatingbe- tween WICC in Bridgeport to WTIC in Hartford for programs at both transmitters.. . Bob White (not Chicago) called 'The Friendly Philosopher,' is Phil- osophizing six mornings a week from WTIC. White is a veteran whose experience includes broad- casting from KDKA, WTAM and other mid-western stations. His last stopping place before joining WTIC was WEEI of Boston. Frank Sherry Is commuting from New York to Hartford to partici- pate in a commercial transmitted by WTIC three evenings a week. Sherry is tenor soloist with a band under the direction of Norm Clou- tier, WTIC. dance maestro. Vermont AAA is sponsbrng weekly automobile safety talks oyer WDEV, Waterbury. Donald White is covering the Uvea and works of Vermont poets in a series of quarter-hour broadcasts over WNBX, Springfield, Vt. Harry C. Whltehill, owner of WDEV, Waterbury, Vt., now and then Alls in as ail announcer. Business at WQDM, St. Albans. Vt., is picking up since change In management. Donald Glynn, WCAX, Burlington, Vt„ singer, does personal appear- ances at Ethan Allen Park ballroom. Marge Hull's WICCasters went into Hotel Bond, Hartford, last week John Connolly went fishing and came back longing for a. chair but not daring enough to use it. Luther Patrick on WBRC Sun- days at 8:36 p. m.- •Alva DeMarlcs, pianist at WBRC, has recovered from a badly Injured hand received in an automobile. Bill Edwards and Dud Connolly, oldest and youngest announcers re- spectively, were on the same pro- gram at WBRC recently. Jlmmle Jones, radio singer, joins amateur entertainers at Strand the- atre, Montgomery, for weekly en- gagements. Mrs. Nina Mercer- Stone, owner of Iris Inn, gives a dally chatter on menus, deluxe and of the .sim- pler sort over station WSFA, Montr gomery. . . Owners of WSFA, Montgomery, have contracted to spend $10,00Q making improvements at the local station, this including moving Bta- tlon to the top of the Jeff Davis Hotel. Lloyd Towns, Paramount theatre manager, is proving to be quite pop- Car with Montgomery radio fans during the 'Mickey Mouse* program given by the Southern Dairies. Howard Pill. Montgomery sta tlon owner, took part In the recent Alabama invitation golf tourna- ment, v ^ . John Holman, Y. M. C. A. secre- tary along with Millard Westcott, Boy Scout executive, have been given time on radio to promote In- terest in the summer camps to be staged by the two organizations this summer. scrlbbed Lee Everett, program di- rector at WBT,i Charlotte, N. C, a note in praise of his early morning 'Musical Clock' period. Foster is at Pine Crest Manor, Southern Pines, N, C. John Frazee, newscaster for WSOC, Charlotte, N. C, was mar- ried last week to Margaret Jones, non-professional. 1 Doris Andrews, new vocalist at WSOC, Charlotte, , N. C, has a 15- weeks' contract for one 1 5-minute program a ' week for the Charlotte Waffle Shop. Hal Kemp and his orchestra was on the air one and a half minutes over WSOC when Kemp played a dance here recently. After lengthy argument about picking up the mu- ( Continued on page 69) Pacific Northwest Abe Bercovitz, director, of music for station KEX and KGW, Port- land, celebrated 10th anniversary with KGW Friday, May 25. Abe gave a special half hour concert over the station commemorating the occasion, playing some of the musi- cal numbers he played on his first program back in ,1924. . As the Circus Court of the Air of KEX, Oregonian station, discontin- ues for the summer,, station officials are in a quandry as to where and how to get a judge to preside over the sessions next fall. Circuit Judge W. A. Ekwa'.l, how presiding officer of the Circus Court, Is /expected by his friends to be in Washington, D. C., performing the duties of a congressman. Circus Court, a half hour " weekly broadcast, has long been a KEX feature K and is one of the mbst popular humorous pro grams originating in Portland. Ted Lewis, in Seattle for a the atrical engagement at the Music Hall, being interviewed over KOMO. KJR, Seattle, broadcasting the Memorial Day exercises from the National Veterans' Cemetery. Perdin Korsmo, KOMO-KJR, Se attle, staff tenor, off on his third annual concert tour of North Da- kota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. Will Warren the new program head at KOMO-KJR. 'Carnival Hour/ radio-stage pre- sentation of KOL, Seattle, playing Chehalls and Centralla, Wash., the- atres on the week-ends. Previously having performed at Olympla and Bremerton, the 'Carnival Hour' is planning shows at. Auburn, Tacoma, Bellingham, and Victoria, B. C. Milkmen's Station WNEW, Newark-New York, is now operating its dance band pat rade until 3 : 30 a. m. and a further, extension Into the wee hours may follow. No other station In the Manhattan area has so many dance orchestras and such a long broad- cast schedule,. Station is campaigning to put itself over as the dance music sta+ tlon. Roth Andrews' orchestra from King's Terrace, New York, broad- casts from 3-3:30 a m. every morn- ing. \ Columbo Back R;uss Columbo returns to NBC June 10 for a weekly quarter hour on the red (WEAF) link, It's a Sunday night assignment with the broadcast originating from the Columbo has been off the network for about a year. FRC granted WICC, Bridgeport- New Haven, special right to opr erate 12:30-1 p.m. Mondays to Fri- days and 4:30-5 Wednesdays from June 11 to July 11. Jimmy Milne and Mountain Mel ocleers, doneNWlth their Crazy Water Crystal commercial on WICC, BrldP'-xirt, bplng groomed for pay- roller at WTIC, Hartford. Eric Peterson's Bridgeport ork taking a fortnight off from Rhine lander Gardens, Westchester, to play North Carolina resort. Iowa Spencer Dean- Dan Cassidy radio series, 'Crime Clues, (Eno Salts)'. will be made into a series of motion pictures. William G. Smith and C, C. Burr of Hollywood acquired the screen rights last week. HENRY BUSSE . AND HIS MUSIC NOW CHEZ PAREE Chicago SCHLITZ BREWING CO. Fri. 0-9:3© P.M. <3ST Colombia Broadcasting Co. FRANK PARKER Featured Soloist A. & P. GYPSIES WOC -WHO to pick up national school band contest for NBC when it is held In Etes Moines, May 31 to June 1-2. NBC to carry massed band of 6,000 instruments and to be under direction of Edwin Goldman and Arthur Pryor. KSO taking its Sat. morning kid show from the Des Moines theatre to Rlverview park for the summer. Show to be run by Al Morey and •Dutch' Schmidt, and sponsored by B and G Malted Ko-Ko, Colonial Baking Co., Martha Washington Ice Cream and Des Moines Co-operative Dairy. KSO broadcasting events of the greyhound races at the White Derby. Al Triggs announcer. Tune Tossers at WOC-WHO were formerly with WMT, Waterloo. To take the place of the Four Novelty, aces who leave the Iowa barn- dance frolic for WLS barn-dance. Ed. Barrett, who announces for Morell's Red Heart dog food, awarded cans of dog food as orchids to local dog heroes over KSO. Sally Rand and Ralph DePalma on KSO for Ford's lawn party. WOC -WHO'S barn -dance frolic In person for opening of Rlverview park hippodrome. North Carolina Big showcase for installation at WBT, Charlotte, N; C., to be used by advertisers Who wish to make displays of of their products, will be ready soon. Automobile and re- frigerator clients ure eliminated. Jack Foster, former radio editor of the New York World -Telegram, .wrote his first fan tetter when he. GENERAL TIRES First Tenor with THE REVELLERS OBOcaocao fred alien's HOUR OF SMILES With PORTLAND HOFFA JACK SMART IRWIN DEI.MORE LIONEL STANDER MINERVA riOUS EILEEN DOUGLAS LENN1E HAYTON'S IP AN A TROUBADOURS O Material bj Fred Allen and Hurry O Tugend 2 Management Walter Batchelor Wednesdays. 9-10 P. M., D. S. T. onocaoao U o D n u o D n VIVIAN JAMS "ZIEGFELD FOLLIES" CBS, Mon.-Frl., 12 Midnight Sole. Direction. . ' . HE R M A N BE R N I E„ ,. 1619 Broadway New Tork City EMERSON GILL ftg* ORCHESTRA General Motors Exhibit June 2-9, Cleveland Tuesday, June 5, 1934 ABI VARIETY 43 - 1..* New Business JACKSON, MICH. Swift d Co., local (Sunbrlte Cleanser), 60 announcements. Di- rect.. WIBM, , Barlow Bros.- (General Tires), three announcements dally, three years. Direct. WJBM. Michigan Bakeries, Grand Rapids (bread), six weekly programs. Di- rect. WJBM. Standard Oil Co. (gasoline), 26 ah? nouncements. Through McCann Ericksori, Chicago, WIBM. Procter. d Gamble (preft), SO. an- nouncements. Through H. W. Kas- tor & Son, Chicago. WIBM. Phillips Petroleum Co, (Phillips 66), three announcements daily, six weeks. Direct. WIBM. Acme Quality Paint Co. (paints), three announcements daily, six weeks. Direct. ' WIBM. . Goodrich Bilvertoum, Inc. (tires), 18- announcements. Direct. WIBM. ..Gem Products Bales Co., Camden, ft. J. (Laundry Gems), 26 announce- ments. Direct. WIBM. WessenOil Co., New Orleans, La. (Wesson Oil), 36 announcements. Direct WIBM. <-W. K. Kellogg Co., Battle Creek (Kellogg Pep), ( six announcements. Through . McCOrmick & Ketcham, Detroit. WIBM. Stillman's Stores, Inc. (departr ment stores), 30 quarter-hour news periods. Direct. WIBM. Young's, Inc. (jewelry), 120 time signals. Direct. -WIBM. Miller, Jnc. (jewelry), Iff • nouncements. Direct. WIBM. ' Miller Dairies, Inc., Eaton Rapids, Michi (ice cream), three announce-: ments daily, 13 weeks. '-. E>iret&, WIBM. ,'. Arctic Dairies, Inc., Detroit (Flem- ings Arctic Ice Cream), three an- nouncements daily, 13 weeks. Di- rect, WIBM. Eberie Bretoi (Blue Star J EDDIE PEABODY Radio's Most Versatile Entertainer Return Engagement MAXWELL HOUSE SHOW BOAT HOUR Thursday, June 14 NBC Coaat-to-Coast Network 9-10 P.M. KDST Every Saturday NBC Network— 7:80-6 P.M. EDST PURE OIL PROGRAM ' ' Pergonal Direction HAROLD F. KEMP NBC Artists Berrlce Jones Orchestra COMMODORE HOTEL MEW YORK . ' Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 11:30-12 P.M.; Saturdays, 11-11:15 P.M., coast to coast, WABC Direction Colombia Broadcasting System BARRIE "Thie Sweetheart of the Blues" Weeks' June 1st and June 8th EARLE, WASHINGTON Booked for 2 Weeks Sole Direction . HERMAN BERNIE 1619 Broadway, New. York HOTEL PIERRE DENNY AND HIS ORCHESTRA Richard nndnnt WABC Conoco Oil W ed., 10:30 P.M. . WJZ I rrl., 0i30 P.M. WJZ Hnt., \Z Midnight Mon., 11:35 P.M Beer), three announcements daily, Indefinite. Direct. WIBM. Jury Rowe FurKdure Co. (Gruno and furniture) , three . announcer ments daily, 13 weeks. Direct. WIBM. : Style Shop, Inc. (women's ap- parel),, three announcements daily, six weeks. Direct. WIBM. Watch . Tower Society, one half- hour transcription. Direot. WIBM. Hill' Automotive Co. (service), three announcements, daily, one year. WIBM. Gathmann Sales Co. (Crosley & Leonard), 30.quarter-hour programs, 60 announcements. Direct. WIBM. White Laundry Co., Jackson (laundry), three announcements daily, 13 weeks. Direct. WIBM. Azuria Laboratories, Inc., Jackson (chemists), 78 15-mi ute programs. Direct, WIBM. SAN JUAN, P. R. J. B. Williams Co. (shaving cream arid Aqua Velya)., 13 weeks, with Oria Batolomei, soprano. Through Conquest Alliance. WKAQ. H. J. Heinz Co., 13 weeks, twice weekly, quartet. Through Conquest Alliance. WKAQ. CHARLOTTE, N. C. B-C Remedy Co., Durham, N. C, Continuation contract for 288 five- minute live-talent programs at 6:30 p. m. each evening except Sunday known as .the B-C Sports Review, contract ending May 1, 1935. Placed by Harvey Massengale Agency, At. lanta. WBT. General Motors Corporation^ De troit, series 27 100-word announce- ments, three each day, one ■ day and two evening, beginning May 31, 1934, Placed by Radio Sales, Inc., N. T. C. WBT. Chevrolet Co., Detroit, series of 12 100-word announcements, three each flay, one day, two night,' "^Beginning June 2, 1934. Placed by Radio Sales, Inc., N. Y. C. WBT. Pure Oil Co. of the two . Carolinas, continuation contract for 13 30-min- ute live talent programs on Tues- day nights from 9:30-10:00 p. m., the Pure Oil Minstrel Show, con- tract ending August 20, 1934. Placed by Freitag Advertising Agency of Atlanta, Ga. WBT. CINCINNATI General Mills began sponsorship June 4 of 'Hymns of All Churches/ WLW sustalner. Airings daily . ex- cept Sunday 8:30-8:45 a. m., featur- , ing Joe Emerson, 'Bachelor of Song,' with, organ, violin and cello and .mixed vocal quartet support. ■Cal-Aspirtn including . WLW ■„ In NBC wave for morning blurbs, save Sundays,' from 10:45-11 on 'Painted Dreams' programs. DES MOINES , Deep Rock Oil, inquiring micro* phone, six times a week, 22 weeks. Direct KSO. : Ford Motor Co., two quarter-hour programs, 26 announcements on : Pord lawri party. (McCann-Erlek- son). KSO. ; O/Dea Motor Co., 78 chain oreak announcements. Direct. KSO, Vngles Baking Co., 18 45-minute copununity singing broadcast from Greenwood park open pavilion un der direction Ray Harrison. Direct. KSO. Siegel Furniture Co., renewal, 84 announcements, 12 weeks. Direct. KSO . Heilemann Brewing Co., baseball scores daily by Al Triggs, 52 weeks. (Frederick Herendeen Productions). KSO. ' White Derby, dog races and caba- ret, six 15-minute remote broadcasts pel' week for, 10 weeks. Direot. KSO. Flynn Dairy Co., 52 five-minute programs. (Battenfield & .all). KSO. Downie Fur Co 52 five minute programs. (Lessl.ng Adv. Co.). KSO'. ties Moines Retail Bakers' hsso- 'clation,' daily announcement for 12 Veeks. Direct. KSO. Manbeck Motors. Co., renewal daily pronouncement for four weeks. Di- rect. KSO. .Colonial., Baking Co., broadcast of. primary election returns,. June 4 (Falrall Adv. Co.). KSO. Thrift, Inc., 13 five-minute pro- gram. (Haag Adv. Co.). KSO.. Sendol Co., six one-minute an- nouncements per week, 13 weeks. (Hagan Adv. Co.). KSO. Walnut- Tire d Battery Co., re- newal, dally announcement, four weeks. Direct, KSO. . Des Moines Tent d Awning CO., daily announcement, 12 weeks. Di- rect. KSO. Theodore Newhoft. ' WBAl.. Phillips Packing Co., Cambridge, Md.,. announcements, ...13 weeks. Placed direct. : WBAli. McOormick A C».,"e: t. announce- ments, 63 times. Placed by Van Sant, Dugdale, Agency. , WBAL,. General Motors, three announce- ments. Placed by Campbell, Ewald Co. WBAL.. . General . Baking Co., announce- ments, eight .weeks. Placed by Bat-:, ten, . Barton, . Durstine & Osborne. WBAL, Ford, three announcements: Placed by McCann, Erickson, . Inc. WBAL. Broomline Chemical Co., .26 an- nouncements. Placed by John Queen. WBAL. True /Confessions Mag., two. an- nouncements. Placed by Critchfield Graves & Co.. WBAL. Black Flag Co., 65 e. t. announce- ments. Placed by Fletcher & EWse. WBAL. Crosse dBlackwell, 64 announce- ments. Placed by "Van Sant, Dug- dale. WBAL. Better' Homes d Gardens Mag., two announcemen ts. Placed by Coolldge Adv: CO. WBAL. Local Accounts Zimmerman Shoes, 26 announce- ments. Placed by Louis Shecter: Agency. WBAL. . . J. 'R. Hunt d Co. (Sparton refrig- erators), tie-in announcement, 13 times. Placed direct. WBAL. Arthur G. Grafflin . (air-condition- ing), 15>-minute program, 'At the Spinet Grand,' once weekly, Sunday, 13 weeks. Placed direct. WBAL. Gardner Jtursery, five-minute e. t announcements, three times. Placed direct. WBAL. Century Shoe Repairing, shopping service participation, 13 times. Placed by Emory, Adv. Co. WBAL. ^Martin J. Barry (Hood Tires), 13 announcements. Placed, direct WBAL.' .~ ' ., B. Mayer (optometrist), two on nouncements, weekly, 13 weeks, Placed direct; WBAL, . Si d N. Katz (jewelry), seven an ; nouncements weekly, 26 weeks Placed by Joseph Katz Co. WBAL. Balto. Commercial Bank (re- newal), weekly" political talk by Frank Kent, 15 minutes, Thursdays Placed direct. WBAL. M.. A. Ackers, shopping service participation, . twice. Placed direct WBAL. Miss Livingston (Harper Method), two shopping, service participations. Placed direct: WBAL. Parks d Hull (Westinghouse re- frigerators); five announcements. Placed direct. WBAL. Apple d Bond (insurance), seven announcements weekly, 13 weeks, Placed by Katharine Mahobl. WBAL. ' Schmidt Baking Co., twice weekly announcements, 15 times. Placed direct.. WBAL. Louis Mazor d Soto (furniture), four shopping servi ce participations. • Placed direct. WBAL. 14, transcriptions material are per- sonality Interviews. WOW; Chicago, Milwaukee, St.. Paul d Pacific Railroad, announcement daily for ten days. WAAW. . Kellogg Corn Flakes, sponsors of baseball scores brought through courtesy of Baseball Headquarters Cigar Store, throughout season. WAAW. Iowa Master Breeders, chick farm, renewal ' contract, announcement daily except Sunday,. , one month. WAAW. Bdnitary Laundry, renewal, an- nouncement daily except Sunday, one month. WAAW. Storz Breioing Co., . Old Saxon Beer, renewal, announcement daily except Sunday, . one month. Placed through Buchanan-Thomas Agency.. WAAWi Blatz Brewing Co., announcements twice daily, six days per week, be-, gan May 28. ^Placed through Klau- Van - Pietersom - Dunlap Associates, Milwaukee; KOIL. Chevrolet Motor Co.; local office, 17 announcements, daily except Sun- day. KOIL; Higgins Cleaners d . Dyers, . re- newal, six five-minute sketches, to be given on Sundays and Mondays, Through Bozell & Jacobs, Inc. KOIL. Cadwallader Fur Co., announce- ments" twice daily, till forbid, began May 11.. KOIL. Jordan Clothing .-, Council Bluffs, renewal, June,, announce- ments twice daily except Saturdays and Sundays. KOIL. SEATTLE Permanent Mothspray, series, ©t 13 announcements, three a week, started May 25. KOL. Lutz Fifth Avenue Shop, three announcements a week, started May 25. KOL. two quarter-hour started May 31. LOS. ANGELES Pacific. Electric Railway, Tuesdays and Thursdays,. 7:45-8 .p. m., John Page, tenor. KMTR. ; 8 1 o m o I a . (medical), , Monday, •Wednesday, Friday, ' 7:45-8, Paul Lamkoff, tenor. . KMTR. Gillinghdm, De Soto-Plymouth Agency, Sunday, Monday, Thursday, 10:15-10:30 p. m.. -Airflow trio, vocal and Instrumental. KMTR. NASHVILLE : Buick Motor Co:, 30' half minute announcements,' daily beginning May 7. Placed by Campbell-Ewald Co., Detroit. WSM. NEWARK, N. J. Reid. Ice Cream ■ Corp., renewal, five, weeks, Tuesday night half hour, and an . additional 20 weeks starting Jan. 29, with Borrah Minevitch and Harmonica Rascals. WOR, ' General . Motors-.: Corp. (national exhibit of G>.M. products), nine days, twice daily except Sunday, recorded musical, program. WpR. Chevrolet Motor Co., three times daily for four days, recorded music. "WpR. '. , (General Motors Corp., one daytinie and two evening announcements for nine days. .. WtfEW. ' Hartz Mountain Birds, six one- minute announcements. WNEW, Bashwood t programs KOL. Reo. Motor Co!, 13 announcements between May 22 and June 8. KOMO. Protective Diet League of Calif., series of 50 five-mlriute discs, be- tween May 22 and Dec. 12. KOMO. .Ice Delivery Co., series of 26 onc- minute spots, six a week, starting May 29. KOMO. General Motors Corp., series of 27 one-minute spots, three a day; starting May 31. KOMO. Schoenfeld Bros:, 10 announce- ments over KJR and 10 over KOMO, starting June 6. Bchoenfeld's Standar Furniture Co., 12 announcements. WOL. Barnett Auction Co., hour periods, WOL. Western Apparel, nouncements. WOL. Lutz's Fifth- Avenue (women's ap- parel), 26 announcements. WOL. * Permanent Moth Proofing Co., 15. announcements. WOL. PHILADELPHIA Perkim Products, 13 five-minute discs, 'Treasure Stories,' . Tuesday and Thursday at 6;10. Placed di- rect. ' WCAU. Chevrolet Motors, 12 100-word spot announcements, three daily, com- mencing June 2. WCAU. General Motors, 27 one-minute announcements, from May 31 to June 16. WCAU. Watchtower, ' religious program renewed . for one year.' WCAU. PORTLAND, ORE, Bernards and HadWen, t<&a room, three " announcements on Cooking School. : Through station. KGW. Dr. J. J. h Coltoni dentist, three times weekly, announcement' serv- ice, one year; Through station. KGW. Western Dairy Products Company, nine, announcements. Through Barnes Campbell Agency. KGW, Dr. Harry Semler, dentiBt, daily 15-minute news service, one year. Through Adolph Block Agency. KEX. Western Dairy Products Company, seven announcements. Through ' sta- tion. KEX. Portland Theosophical Society ; ,an T nouncements. Through station. KEX. • BALTIMORE National Accounts _ International Bedding Co. (White Cloud "Mattress), 52 'spet announce- ments. Placed direct, WBAL. Noxsema Chemical Co.. five mi - Ute dramatic skit, transcription, twice weekly, 13 times. Placed by Ruthrauff & Ryari. WEAL. Gosmaii Co., seven spot announce- ments weekly, 13 weeks. Placed by Louis- Shecter Agency. WBAL. J. A. Tumbler Laboratories (furni- ture polish), shopping service par- ticipation, six timr*. Placed direct. WEAL. % Bolariuf Co.. .'-•own, .'iniioiiuc-i-ni».-ivts wo Ilrpiulway Circle 7-7334 '•: ^'X --Sv'S"^ , "4-' ^> , 1 ^ s < / > ■■■■■U&m?. Is 4' S COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM ■■ Ac ^C'S- ' si-.' CAMEL HOUR COLONNADES DANCE TOUR GLEN ISLAND Just completed 26 weeks-52 broadcasts-as principal feature of the Camel Caravan, WABC CBS, for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.; William Esty and Company, Advertising Agency. Just completed 24 weeks at the Colonnades, of Essex House in New York City, the entire first season of d room which, with Casa Loma, has set dine-and-dance records. Just completed 3 weeks of dances in the East, a tour which established new dance records i Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and North Carolina with successive $10,000 weeks. ■v. v '- f<5 V* s , C*' ^ ■J8 COLUMBIA Just opened for a second season at Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, New York, to business averaging 30% above last summer— and last summer was sensationall The Casa Loma Orchestra may be heard in summer sustaining broadcasts from Glen Island over WABC and the entire coast-to-coast network of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Tuesday, June 5, 1934 MHSIC-NITE CLUBS VARIETY 45 Chi Expo Helps Recording Biz, But Fair Bosses Against Din BROCKMAN'S RHAPSODY Readied With Mute H'wood Bowl Aug. Music Pr«mi for . 4* Chicago, June 4. Nature takes care of its children and especially radio disc manufac- turers. While the regular ether biz has fallen Into a pre- 8ummer_ slump the studios don't have to worry since "World's Fair commercial biz has taken up the slack. Some 45 commercial ex- hibits at the fair have rushed Into the local studios to make canned talks, plugs and explanations. Among them are such he^vy .dorayme spenders as Stewart- Warner, Simmons Beds, Cudahy, Armour, Swift, Union Carbon and Carbide, Denham," Sinclair Oil, Firestone, Libby,. Adventureland. Not much coi in it for the talent field since most of the discs have only a single , spieler. However, a new angle, has cropped lip in the guise of actual Fair opposition to these spieling discs. Fair has passed a ruling that all exhibitors must get a permit ahd disc okay before any platter will be allowed. Fair: wants to keep the various exhibits as quiet as pos Bible. Last year they received a ^ flock of. squawks about the hubbub and pandemonium caused by dozen loudspeakers all howling at the same time; What Radio Did Toronto, June 4. Check-up here reveals that the three phonograph record companies in Toronto, whose sales soared skyward in' 1924, have fallen . by the wayside since the introduction of radio entertainment. One Tecord - manufacturing company is out of existence, one doesn't manufacture rec- ords any more, and the third is selling radios. The leading piano manufacturer claims that sales are less than 17% of 1924; and the market for player- pianos and music rolls Is nil. Hollywood, June 4. David Br pckman, .former head of the. Universal musical department, has written the words for a rhap- sody, 'Harlem la Heaven,' to which Clarence Muse has provided the mu- sic. It will be first revealed at the Hollywood Bowl, Aug, 11, when Brockman will lead the orchestra and Muse will chant, aided by a col- ored chorus, of 200 voices. ASCAP Contract in Abeyance Pending Pubs Settlement of Own Differences LONDON'S NIX ON FOREIGN BANDS Whiteman Turns on But No Acrobats? Strictly-by-Ear Band Confounds ASCAP'S $250 Suit in Balto Paul Whiteman is now $9,760 up on Frank E. Graves, the Albany, N. T., 'King of Jazz.' One difference in the equation, however, is that Graves collected his $260 in cash, while Whiteman will have to go through the process of attachment and whatnot before the $10,000, which a sheriff's jury in the New York Supreme Court awarded him last week, is actually his. Graves sued Whiteman about two •lalliinore, June 4 On the premise that musicians . can better remember numbers they *» ihe 8«> u ftds K • latter usurped something that was play than can another musician hls wnnev T«l;md. Show opens June 12. = 10- Yr. Stretch Ends — : ." " San i^ahTlsco, June 47 John W'olohari has bowed out or Rl ratio ballroom after 10 years, on and off, at the ace Market ptreet iiggery, Wolohan goes into the re- opened Trianon on Sutter street, an ln-and-outer that has been rrtight«-j! by George Setinmer after being dark for some time. Leonard MojiraV >"-".d. froni l f* Alleles, opens, nt 101 i'i'ti" J"»* 14 ' booked by MO 46 VARIETY fViUSlC~NITE CLUBS Tuesday, June 5, 1934 Brunswick Take-Over of Columbia Not Worked Out; Kapp Probable Boss Brunswick's takeover of Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc., is still an up-in-the-air . proposition pending financing from Decca of London, for. which purpose E. R. (Ted) Lewis; managing director of the British disk firm, came to New Yprk. Lewis sailed back Friday (1). Brunswick's scrapping of Colum- bia or building it up was a moot question ever since the mysterious Sacro Enterprises, Inc., stepped l.n and acquired the assets of Col.' Latest move is not to scrap Colum- bia but build up that outfit for elec- trical transcriptions, etc. Bruns- wick would benefit 'directly from taking over Columbia's vast; stand- ard catalog and other assets. Talk of Jack Kapp/. general man- ager of Brunswick, moving over to Col, as its directing head, persists. Kapp disclaims any knowledge thereof, sayingr that if anything he. might serve, in a consulting.' capaci- ty^' Selvin, long- recording manager for Columbia, stays on a piece work basis. When there are records to be turned out he will serV'e as musical director. Arrange- ; ment will" give, him the maestrolrig of eight " records" a month. Selvin has other interests, notably as Head of his own standard orchestra unit for radio • commercials. ■ Lewis' dealings on this side have been with Herbert J. Yates, head of Consolidated Laboratories and colli trolling stockholder of Brunswick', who; under the Sacro- agreement, -was to share on an equal basis- the ownership, of Columbia. Purpose of Lewis" visit was to take up Decca s option on the Columbia buy.* a* One viewpoint of the recording trade is that Decca's partnership in Columbia will cut deeply into Bruns- wick's income. Major share of Brunswick's. revenue 'has been from the- sale of masters to Decca. With the latter company, half owner of Columbia the master business will be tossed to Columbia, leaving . both Brunswick and the American: Rec- ord -Co. out in the cold as far as this British source is concerned. OH CABARET THEATRE FOLDS; $75,000 LOSS Chicago, June 4 Cascades, local theatre - club, folded Friday (1) after a three- •week washout attempt at show business by a- converted architect, Andy Rebori. Rebori had dunk about $75,000 into the b#gfe*Asudl;- torium and then produced toe «how himself. House will, reopen this coming Friday (8), With the spot booked and handled by Billy Diamond. Will keep the Lottie Mayer diving act, which has a four-week - contract, arid add several other vaude turns. FAED ERDMAN RESIGNS Phonograph Expert Leaves Victor's Chi. Office Fred Erdmah, rated among the top booking experts, in the commer- cial, disc field, resigned last Friday (1) from RCA Victor after over 10 years of service with the company. Erdman's title was manager of the artists' and repertoire department. Duties filled by Erdman have been taken oyer by Eli - E. Ober- stein, who also retains the assign- ment of recording? managet. Erdman started with Victor in the sales department as head of the Cleveland ' district. He lias also served as' recording manager for the company.' Erdman's hext move is riot settled. He has three proposi- tions: to choose front. Free Dancing Wi 5c Beer Put? Crimp In Reg. Terp. Spots Lincoln,' Sip and '. shimmy, joints have definitely given ball, room dancing a blow here. There's " about 15 such places in or near the down- town . district , ; where instead of spending/ a jitney for a dance, it goes fpr a^stein and you get all the wiggle you want thrown in. 6ri these 102 to 105 -degree, days, plenty of the cold froth is slurped up, so the house does oke. Where there were five dance spots which vied .for the shuffle trade. with name bands and diner novelties; two are now completely ; dark and. the others barely hanging ph.. : It is esti- mated that the gross on some of the beer-arid-gallop 0 joints runs over $1,100. for tlie week arid employ as many as 25 people. Two of them have IB-rriiriate radio programs each evening, so' the public can lis ten in on' the din arid dancers. Owner .Eats Elsewhere Pittsburgh, June 4 After speriding the entire season at the Plaza cafe*. Etfcl Covato's band has moved t-> Babette's Golden inn, Atlantic City, for summer. Covato was. co-owner of Plaza. He'll be back in Septeriiber. O'Keefe Okayed Hollywood, June 4. James b'Keefe, business manager • of the Fox studio music department, ■is set for another year. ' Studio has given him a new 12 month contract. Most Played on Air To familiarize the rest of the country with the tunes most on the air around Nebo York, the following is the compilation for last week. * . Plugs are figured on a Batur- day-ihrough-Friday week, ularly: Only the chain stations are listed as indicative of the gen- ' eral plug popularity. Data obtained from Radio Log compiled by Accurate Re- porting .Service.' WEAF WJZ itle VVABC Boat of My. Heart........ 24 String Along With You. ... 23 Love Thy .Neighbor. . . ... . . . 23 Love Go Wrong . .......... 22 Little Man Busy Day, . , . 22 May Have My Moments..... 21 Easy Come Easy Go..... .. 19 * Cocktails for Two • 18 So Help Me. ... 18 1,000 Goodnites. . . . ......... 17 All I Do Is Dream........ 17 Hat's on the' Side of.....* 17 Wish I Were Twi 16 Hold My Hand. ........... 14 Know It's Sunday......... 14 Night on the Desert . . ...... 14 Practice What Preach .... * 13 Usher Lands Following an, audition for N. T.G. arranged by a friend. Buddy. Ala, tenor, Went into the Paradise, N. T., Sunday night (3) as, a regular fea- ture. ; of the show. Alda, ■ an usher at, LoeW's Orph, has been broadcasting on indie pro- grams. Night Club Reviews MARDEN'S RIVIERA Englewood, N. ., June 1, What the: Casino de Paree has been, to New York's nite life this winter ' as a signal click and a money-maker, Ben Marden's Ri- viera, hanging on. the Palisades cliffs at Englewood, N. J., just across the new ; George Wash ingtori bridge, is to the ?ummer roadhouse trade. . What Billy "Rose's revue has done for the Casino de. P., ; Harry Richman single- voicedly .is doing: for the Riviera. In dollars ' and cents the Riviera is parring the top. paces of the com- petitive Casino, having run Well over $30,000 a week gross bri each of the first two- weeks. ' Richman on his guarantee and. percentage ar- rangement has taken, out . oye.r $6,00C for his end each week; arid Ben. Marden at each payoff tells his star 'he'll be. delighted to rhafce out the checks for niort, for the obvious reason that when he pays off to that extent there's plenty pf gravy alj around. There. Is an element of the scales balancing themselves, incidentally, in this. bullish biz for this roadhouse because Marden couldn't get . to first base last winter when he . in- augurated his Palais Royal in the face of the stiff opposlsh. from the Casino and the Hollywood (Vallee), riwt to mention the Paradise and other, competitive spots. Marden thought he could bring back th'e Palais' Royal of halycori Broadway memory and went plenty on the hut in redecorating the room, and while he started catching on- a bit better towards the- end he bas yet to make that enterprise click. However,, he'll more than offset" everything with the .Riviera this summer. He again returns to the Palais, in the' fall. Richman as. the particular satel- lite is also a; reverse-English on the conventional cafe booking.: . Marden (Continued on page, 57) Inside Stuff— Music Scramble among publishers to have their songs plugged on the air by indiscriminate paying of leaders for special arrangements, took a divert- ing' turn when one pub took- his plaint about being' double crossed by a hotel bandman to the . American Society of. Composers, Authors and Publishers. He demanded that the society . do something as to getting back the $25 he paid a leader for a special arrangement that didn't materialize. Accused bandman,- in the meantime, got to two members of the ASCAP directorate with .his version of the dispute. He contended that even though he wasn't given a generally annotated treatment on paper; the arrangement, his combo played was riot the same as the publisher's stock orchestration. What he had done, said the leader, had been to give the •number a 'mental ' reconstruction', and as long as this version differed the slightest from the stock arrangement he contended that he haft kept his 'part of the agreement Rules of the Music Publishers Protective' Association, of which the complaining publisher is. a member, specifically prohibits the compen- sating of band leaders for special arrangements. CHI COPS STOP -DIJCHIN Chicago, June 4. Opening of. the suburban Dells dihe-and-dance spot was stopped by the police, who kept- some 200 couples away from the club. Eddie Duchin and band were brought in from New York, to start the year's festivities at this Sam Hare-Louis Silversmith spot, but " they're still waiting around. Blockade of the roadhouse was ordered , by State's Attorney Courts ney. ' ' ' ' ..'"'" Courtney has stated that trio Dells would not reopen as long as. either Hare or Silversmith are con- nected with' it. Appeal ' had ' been ' made to the courts here to restrain Courtney from interfering with the nitery, but the judge refused to issue, any such injunction. Closing of the Dells, one of the country's best-known roadhouses,. arid long- immune from, any official . molestation at its . Morton Grove, 111.* retreat just outside of Chicago, waa : a' surprise all around, it was pad?, locked by the Chi gendarmerie on its first day for sundry reasons. 'It was .Eddy puchiri's orchestra's debut in. .Chi as the name attrac- tions at the roadhouses. The Delia has been a very wprth-while sum- mer stop-gap for the country's best dance bands, paying top prices, arid hence quite a blow to the maestros if the offlolal ire should persist. Duchin was' forced to essay a makeshift dance tour heading coast- ward, barnstorming his way into Los Angeles, due to the t sudden shut-down. Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. claims that a Walter Donaldson melody* in- cluded in Metro's 'Hollywood Party' is an infringement on a tune that the composer, placed with the former firm nine years ago, and has so notified the producer and Bobbins Music Corp., which Is publishing the 'Party'" score. Number complained about in the MGM release is 'I've Got My Moments'. Allegation made by Shapiro, Bernstein is that the 'Moments' composi- tion is a repeat on ' Where the Bamboo Babies Grow', which Donaldson co-authored With Lew Brown. The International Star HEADLINES The "F0LIES BERGERE" Direct from Paris At the* New Unique FRENCH CASINO =0HIGAGOHLI^— ^^—^^ Opening June 9 Thanhs to J. C. Stein and Clifford Fisher Sole Di recti HERMAN BERNIE 1619 Broadway, New York Top monthly income from radio discs was collected by the Music Pub- lishers Protective Association during May. As' the collections stood at the end. of last, week, the MPPA'is due to dietribute over $7,000 among the members June 1. ,.For the initial five months of 1934 r the MPPA has garnered from tran- scription sources around $30,000. Outstanding on licensee 'fees of a simi- lar nature is $15,000, while: the income to date from radio is 30% better than it was- a year ago. Ben • Pollack's doubling into two nitery engagements in N. T., at the Hotel New' Yorker, where he opened June 1, and at the Casino de Paree, where he has been for some weeks, , is .unusual because' of the coinci- dence of both bookings. However, in view of the long show at. the Casino, which Charles Drury conducts, Pollack has .plenty- of. personal layoff although his band performs. For the N. Y.'er .hotel ■engagement Pollack organized another combo Just as the 1929 Fox 'Movietone Follies' introduced the Breakaway, Warners is getting behind one. of its coming pictures in hopes of - estab lishing a new dance craze. Bobby Connelly, under contract at the Bur bank studio, has worked out a new ballroom idea which will be put into 'Flirtation Walk'. In about six weeks the company will send out creWs pf dancers to introduce it around, the country in : advance of release of the picture. Latest catalog of British Brunswick contains a recording of songs by 10 Hollywood and London names on its two sides. The. group, probably the most names collected on any one platter,, are Al_ Jolson, Marlene Pjetrich , Kate Smith, Bing^ Crosby, Mae. West, Carl Brisson, Gertrude LawrenceT^VloTeTT^y Street Singer (Arthur Tracy). Couple of . song writers on the- Coast have put themselves in the exclu slve class and will riot permit the agency handling them to handle any of their contemporaries. This camo-to light when another wejl known writing team wanted the ngency to represent them. All of the Franz Lehar music is retained in Metro's 'Merry Widow' Only new numbers so far as known is 'It Must Be Love', by Rodgers and Hart, which Is sung by Jeanette MacDoriald and Maurice Chevalier. This Is the same title of a sang wf itten by Harry Archer for one of his VamlerbHt theatre show's. 11 Pavilion Buyout To Hark Fischer's Cabaret Comeback Louis .Fischer, veteran cabaret, man, formerly operator of the old Reisenweber's and , now on. the N. Y. City Liquor. Control Board, will probably mark hjs nite club come* back with. John Steinberg as part- ner in Pavilion Royale, on the Mer» rick road, N. Y- If consummated, Fischer will buy out Joe Moss and Jacob Amron's in- terest in the roadhouse, leaving Steinberg and Fischer as sole part- ners." This is the- spot Rudy Vallee returns to next month. Steinberg would continue doubling^ with Casino de Paree and Billy Rose's new Music Hall, which opens shortly and of which John (formerly John and Chrlsto) is general man- ager. Chrlsto is now in the likker biz, 'having bowed out as John's partner. Music Notes erine Grossman and Harry A'kst are writing lyrics and music for three .songs for 'Mar,ie Gallante' at Fox, Team jrist finished three for. 'Servants Entrance' at trie same' plarit. 1 ' ! 'Henri Geridron's band is now playing aboard the Paradise .Ship, Troy> N. Y., Benny Meroff'3 Enter- tainers having moVod • e*ewhere. , Fletcher Henderson won't, as pre* Vlously scheduled, replace: Jimmy Lunceford at the Cotton Club. Mills' (Continued on page 68) I . I ► .1 An Old Friend JOHNNY HAMP A favorite wherever ho l>tays. Now with his or- chestra at the Blossom ^Heath^im, jiv- -St., Clair Shores, Mich. Hear "hlin- i>lay: ' ''I'VE HAD MV MOMENTS -ALL I DO IS DREAM OF YOU" -SLEEPY HEAD" THANK YOU FOB A L0VEL> EVENING" "HOT DOGS AND SASPARELLA" •i THOUSAND GOOD NIGHTS" ROB BINS MUSIC CORPORATION ■III 199 SEVENTH AVENUE llll • • • NEtV YORK • • • MM Tpesday, Jiitie 5, 1934 VAUDEVILLE ._ * VARIETY 47 SHERMAN A decision will be hande& down today (Tuesday) by License Com- missioner Paul" Moss in the com* l>iain't of John Hickey and Harry Anger against Edward Sherman, Mr die booker, of Philadelphia and New York: the booker with cancelling their unit, •Words, and Music,' out of the Hip- podrome, Baltimore, which caused them punitive. damages of $700. Sherman's defense at a hearing 10 days ago was that the .cancella tion" was the sole- doing of izzy Rap paport, operator of the Balto house, and just as much of a loss to him as it was to Hickey & Anger. A decision against Sherman by Moss would mean revocation of his (. booker's license. 1 Bee Jung Fads 4Q Ft in Freak Mishap, But Not Badly Hurt Baltimore, June 4. Bee Jung, trapeze aeriallst in the Shriners* show at the muny stu dium Saturday night (2), fell 40 feet to. earth when a steet pole toppled after a guy wire had been .snapped by a truck that was cruis- ing, around gathering up circus paraphernalia. Miss Jung and her partner, .Dor- othy Roland, were dismantling their parallel-bar act equipment at conclusion of show when ■' accident occurred. Miss Roland was already on the ground and Miss Jung was about to . start her descent. As 'she was precipitated through the .air she shouted a warning to a man who was standing below, enabling him to' jump to safety. As she crashea, she 'rode* the Bhaft, breaking the fall to ah ex tent. At the hospital it was said she had incurred only a sprained ankle and a bruised heel. She made light of her injury and left for hotel soon after treatment. The Jung -Roland turn formerly trouped with the Ringling show. Miss Jung a few years ago was standard in vaude. Helpful Henry When Harry Rose missed the orchestra pit platform that should have been there', but wasn't, at Loew's Valencia, Jamaica, he fell to the floor of the pit and was painfully in- jured. Rode was unconscious while everybody was trying to figure out. what happened. The stage band conductor peeked over the edge of the pit, saw Rose's prostrate form at the bottom, and stage-whispered: 'Should we play your intro- duction oyer again?' -PAR B" Arthur Willi Sole Witness- Jack Curtis, Case as Test for All — Court Calls Ac- tors 'Roamers' MOSS* SHOWDOWN UP AGAIN ; A. dear is reported, in progress between. Paramount and Lbew to take stage shows out of the Capitol, N. T., but retain them at the Para- mount oh Broadway and give the Cap choice of Metro and Par prod- uct. What is left between the two major programs, would go into the Par with the stage shows there, as against the Cap, to help bolster. About a year ago overtures were made for an arrangement between the Par and Cap to retain stage shows in one -or the other of these houses, butnbthing came of it then. Hershfield riles No Payoff Charges Vs. Allen and Davidow Vaude Code Committee Meets On Report; Washington Sees Slim Chance for Producers F&M 0RPH, S.F., BIG NAME POLICY HOLDS San Francisco, June 4. Fanchon & Marco's Orpheum will continue its name policy throughout the month at least, al- though opposition theatres had been hoping for a letup before then. No indications yet what the suihmer Orph policy will be; In the meantime, besides Eddie Cantor; Orph has two musical tabs coming in besides Ted Fio-Ritb and band. Tabs are 'Student Prince' and 'Street Singer.' * Harry Hershfield, whose checks for after-dinner speaking go to charities, has, filed a complaint with the New York License Department against Ed Davidow and Edgar Al- len for non-payment oh a banquet date fulfilled about four months ago. Hershfield claims that Davidow agented the date, while Allen was the booker. Others entertaining at this same affair were Lou Holtz and Joe Frisco. .The affair was a bachelor dinner given for Irving Geist, dress manu- facturer, at the Ritz Carlton hotel, NY Y. The cartoonist averred in his complaint filed *With License Com- missioner Paul Moss that Allen has stalled payment, with no dough forthcoming from Davidow, either. Matter ^s set for a hearing be- fore Commissioner Moss Thursday (?>• " _______ jttike Shea Estate to JVijdow and Daughter CALL HIM HERBERT 'Spotlight' Williams Goes Legit For Max Gordon Herb Winiams^is~^^lliihg out on vaudeville and has gone ' legit. Signed* with Max Gordon to appear in a straight show next season and prefers now to be called Herbert. Play was written by Marc Con- nelly with Williams in mind for the lead character. Actor says that he finally qualifies to belong to tb.e Lambs, where he has been a paying member, but Herb still thinksi he's •n on- a rain check. Title is a four-word label, said to moan 'wise guy.' •Buffalo, June 4. Will of the late Mike Shea, .filed here last week, gives nominal value of $10,000 in real estate and a sim- ilar sum in personal property. Trust fund is created from which the widow, Mrs. Josephine Shea,, will draw two-thirJs and his daughter, Mrs. Mary Giffoniello, the remain- der of the income, Mrs. Shea will also also receive any residuary es- tate and all personal property. Mrs. Shea and her attorney, Thomas D. Powell, arenamed exec^ utors. Members of the local Variety Club and other friends and asso- ciates of Mike Shea, in and out of "show business, held a memorial service and luncheon in the grand ballroom of the Statler Monday (28). Eulogies by business men and ministers of the Catholic and Jew- ish faiths were broadcast. Sidney B. Pfeifer, Buffalo attor- ney and intimate of the late show- man, was chairman of the affair. Pat Rooney came up from New York to speak as representative of the acting profession. Abe Last fogel of the William Morris office also made the trip. Eight vaude agents were ar- raigned yesterday ; (Monday) in West 54th St. Court on the. com- plaint, of the N. Y. License Depart- ment that they are violators of the General Business Law, as it ap- plies to employment agencies, in not being licensed to operate as the latter. Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky, after hearing the testimony of one witness, Arthur Willi, RKO booker, reserved decision until next Thurs- day (14); Basic purpose of the; Magistrate's decision is to determine whether, as License Commissioner Paul Moss contends, the agents are* =merely employment agents coming within the province of the law, or, as coun- sel Maurice Goodman and Harold M, Goldblatt for the reps, claim, they are personal representatives giving acts and performers unique and special- service and advice. Magistrate Brodsky can either dis- miss the city's complaint or hold it over for a trial before a jury in Special Sessions. Conviction in the latter court could mean a maxi- mum fine of $500 or a maximum jail sentence of six months or both. The agents who received sum- monses to appear in - court were Jack Curtis & Charles Allen, Mark Leddy and Eddie Smith, Marty For- kins, Charles Yates, Ferdi Simon arid Harry " Romm. Curtis was chosen as the test case at this hear- ing for all the agents, the reps.' counsel conceding to Corporation Counsel assistants, Sidney B. Schatkin and Herman J. McCarthy that the sum and substance of his testimony would be similar to the answers that could be gotten from the remaining seven.., Curtis, how- ever, never reached the witness stand. Buster West's Case Testimony from Willi under ex- amination by Schatkin revolved around the booking of Buster West through Curtis into the Palace, N. Y., at $750 for the week. Willi admitted that Curtis had submitted the act for employment by RKO; that the RKO Booking Agency de- ducts a 5% booking fee from acts; that the Vaudeville Collection Agency, an RKO subsidiary, gets another 5% from the act"s salary that., went to .Curtis. When ques- tioned by Schatkin as to the reason why the 5% wfis deducted from the act's salary for. the agent, Willi admitted, with prompting from Magistrate Brodsky,; that this was done to protect the agent. Brodsky here, laughingly referred to actors as 'roamers.' Under cross-examination by Goodman, Willi declared that he had frequently gone to see acts on the suggestion of Curtis in outlying theatres, and some times in rehear- sal halls, and that the agent had pointed out the changes he pro- posed to make in these acts/ This testimony was part of Goodman's- attempt to ..prove that the agents are personal representatives and play a part quite different from that of an ordinary employment agency. The booker stated that the RKO Booking Agency was duly licensed by the City of New York and that it took out 5% from acts' salaries in conformance with the employ- ment agency statue. Asst. Corp. Counsel Schatkin, however, was under the impression that the law contains no stipulated maximum commission that an agency can ex- tract from an employee, but Good- man set him straight on this, stat- ing, 'The gross commission an em- ployee can pay an agency Is 5%. This the booking agency extracts: from acts, so, in asking that Curtis By Request A " New York vaude hooker was approached last week by members of a suburban police force and again asked to take charge of the annual benefit. . 'And listen,* said the head re- quester, 'we don't think so much of vaudeville anymore. What about a unit?' R.C. LIFTS BAN Having plenty of floor space '.oh its hands, Radio City has decided to lift the 'ban against agents. Orig- inal policy, officially announced, was to keep act reps; out 6f all R. C. buildings. J==1 Shortly before Radio City opened, Martin Beck, then head of the RKO booking office, called a meeting "of agents and advised the boys that they weren't wanted at R. C. be- cause the Rockefeller interests didn't 'want the halls cluttered up with actors.' A Jarge number of the agents so advised were tenants of the Palace theatre building, of. which Beck is part owner. With the ban now off, the Curtis & Allen and Simon Bros, agencies are moving over to the RKO build- ing in R. C from their present quarters , in the Palace. Another agent moving into R. is Max Richards. Loew's Rochester Buying Occasional Attractions Vaudeville-. Code, committee, con- sisting of Sam Dembow, Leslie Thompson and Charlie MOskbwitz, held its first regular meeting yes- terday (Monday) in the Motion Picture Code offices in Radio City* ' Committee was appointed some time ago, following. Administrator Sol Rosenblatt's ruling against re- quested changes in the vaude sec- tion of the code. Its duties, as out- lined by the Code Authority, were the investigation of vaude problems withja.view of alleviating the situ- ation without. actually rewriting the code..' Any revision would have re- quired opening up the entire pic- ture code for pubUc hearings. : The committee's report, as made yesterday,, will .be delivered to Rqsenblatt this week. Part Of the rieport will deal with demands froni the vaude producers for reduction in break-in. and layoff minimum salaries, for chorus people- Rochester, June 4. With vaude out of the RKO Pal- ace for the summer, Loew's Roches- ter is bringing in occasional stage attractions with heavy exploitation. Sally Rand unit is booked In for June 15. also be licensed, you are asking that he Work for nothing.' When this same point was brought out to Moss about three weeks* ago, Muss then told Good- man that he would shut, hie eyes to the law. and that acts could not only pay the double commission, in violation of the law, but that agents could extract . as much ' commission from acts as they could get. Willi was in court in answer to a summons sworn to by Commis- sioner Moss, as were the. other major circuit bookers, J. L. Lubih and Marvin H. Schenck, of Loew's; Jesse Kay, of Fanchon & Marco, and Harry Kalcheim, of Para- mount. Examination of the others, however, was waived by counsel for both sides, Goodman again conced- ing to the. Corporation Counsel as- sistants that their testimony as re- garding agents would b„e similar to that given by Willi. The bookers were first called into the matter on Friday <1), when Moss subpoeariaed them to appear at his office to give him expert testimony about the vaudeville agency business. Willi's answers ,th f.n were used . as -the. -. .basis of Schatkin's examination yesterday. Counsel for both sides will sub- mit briefs to Magistrate Brodsky next Wednesday (13), giving him one day to form his decision, which will affect all unlicensed theatrical agents in New York City. Com- missioner Moss, hpwever, has pre- viously stated that he will not, go by the first court decision, Or even the first eitfht, and will continue to Horvc .summonses until he has ex- hausted all unlicensed agents. , Washington, June 4, Hopes of vaudeville managers for either revision of film code or: promulgation of a separate, pacjt hinge upon discussion between Re* coyer y Administrator Hugh John- ; son and ■ Divisional Administrator Sol Rosenblatt, with prospects .for granting directors' wishes not very encouraging.- Protest against Rosy's handling (Continued on page 48) UNIT STOOL PK AT 35-CENT TOP Omaha, June 4, World theatre,, Blank-Tri- State operated :and Ralph Goldberg' owned, will open a new policy June 8 with a residential unit stock company of- fering a new production' each week in connection with a feature picture. Players are the Bert Smith com- pany, which several years ago played a run of 85 weeks at the Empress theatre. Company per- sonnel Includes 35 people, a line of 14 girls and a 10 -piece band. Man- agement of the company is in the hands of Smith and his partner, Roy Pierce, former Orpheum the- atre manager here in days of RKO vaudeville. Principals are Vi Shaeffer (Mrs. Bert Smith), Tommy Hanlon, Nellie Clark, Herman Ferber (m.c;)," Diohe Dillaire, Douglas and Doreen, Mae Mack, the Four Kings, Earns and Gibbs, Ray and Ruthe and Cohn and De Pinto. Recent policy of World has been double features for 25c. matinees and 25c. and 35c, nights. Musical comedies and pix will be presented at same rates. MARY BRIAN'S ON-CUFF SHOWS WITH HOOFING 3 , June 4. Mary Brian in town last week incog. Spent most ' of time back stage at Loew's Orpheum rehears- ing dance routines with Gordon, Reed and King. Did four shows Thursday, preparatory to her forthcoming- stage==date«=-Avith--=the= trio. Being a surprise appearance, with no publicity, audience salvoed Miss Brian. MAEKERT'S FLU Russell Markert, stager at the Music Hall, is stricken with flu, but not in danger. Vincent Mlnclli is doing the stag- ing in his absence, as Leon I^eonl- doff is vacationing abroa 48 VARIETY VAUDEVILLE GERMAN ASS'N DENIES US. ACT BAN Official body of German actors, with headquarters in Berlin, denies any boycott of American acta as re- ported recently. Organization states that not only is the report liable to cause disturbance among Interna- tional artists, but that good artists were, and always will be welcome in Germany, . On the other hand, the letter brings out that German artists have more of* a complaint against the U. .8. than American acts have against Germany, for. It states, eight German acta were cancelled this season by RKO-^-aomethihg, as far as known this has never hap pened in Germany, as the author! ties will force managers to. fulfill their contracts.' Report that the German artists association protests was in of* feet that Germany , was only ioa-^ porting about three or four acts a month now, against the dozen odd a month that were booked there be- fore the Nazi government. The let- ter, however, does not refute this, detailing that In January four U. S. acts played at the Scala; February, three; March, two; April, four, and in May, two. Some of the salaries paid to U. S. acjts the past four months are 14,560 marks ($2,640) per month to the Tacopis; $609 a month to Dezzo Retter; $1,125 a month to Franklyn D'Amore, and $1,126 to DeWelfe, Metcalf and Ford. it* Bros, in Surf In addition to Ij&o Relsman'a or- chestra, Sam Salvia has signed the Rita Brothers for the Sun and Surf Club at Atlantic Beach, Ii. L Bobby Sanford will handle the floor enter- tainment. Club opens June 2S. PAULINE COOKE 1«H VBOADWAY NOW PIATOiG SIDNEY PAGE r ALACK THKATBK, NSW YOM O. L. OZ Experienced accompanist avail- able only for outside studio work— COACHING, DANCING and VAUDEVILLE. 35c per hour and up.* Phono Rose Miller, RHine- lander 4-6309, 9 A.M. to 1 PM. Les Smith's 'Drunkard' With Free Beer, Eats Newark, June 4. Lester Al Smith, former manager of the Broad, will open, June 16, the National Music Hall at the ball- room of the Mosque. He will double as m.c. . . Smith intends stage The Drunkard/ while he will have 24 singing waitresses. Customers will be at tables and Set all the beer they want. At midnight a supper will be served gratis. Harry Win- terbaum Will assist. Newark May Go Vodeless Newark may be 100% vaudless in the next couple of weeks, depending on a meeting between the Loew and RKQ operators an*' the. Adams Bros., independent owners of the Paramount, to be held probably this Agreement in force among the three stipulates that if one drops vaude in that town, all must do so, Proctor's, booked by RKO; State, operated by LoeW, and the Par play vaude on a full- week basis in New- ark. Cal. Spot Darken* San Francisco,. June 4. Al Beatty has switched the lights out on' the 900-seat Liberty, San Jose, where he has been running vaude and two pi* at a lucent tariff. ... Theatre darkened last week, with no present indications of reopening. Heat Kayos Vaude. Lincoln. June 4. Stage show are out at the Or pheum and won't come back until fall, when the summer heat makes an exit. Due to the oven-like temperatures recently, the bis at the Orph took a landslide into red ink. Denver Now V Then Denver, June 4. Stage shows have been dropped at the Orpheum by Fanchon & Marco, with house continuing under, a straight pi* policy. Name stage attractions will be booked In from time to time; but there will be no regular stage policy. ST. GEORGE VAMPS St. George, on Staten Island, booked by Arthur Fisher, dropped vaude for a summer straight-picture policy Saturday (2). House was scheduled to make the change a couple of months ago, but Harry Shiftman, operator, changed his mind in favor of units to com- pete with the Paramount in Staple- ton. New Acts SMITH and DALE (4> Comedy* Singing 17 Minis One, Three (Special) S They^ve Changed their act a little, this Smith and Dale pair of funsters, ThaklnV the first half something SffiS "new To vaudeville, but retain- ing the 'Hungarian Rhapsody' mate- rial for the balance. Opens with the bank sketch, done a little differently here, that was made into a short a year or more back. It's a laugh-heavy barrage -of banter between the one at? bank president and the other as a deposi- tor who wants to be sure his «even bucks in quarters Will be safe. Its very funny and has a couple gags that are pretty warm. Twain of straight men break this sequence and the 'Hungarian Rhap- sody' thing, doing a song exception- ally well in W Smith and Dale aren't using scenery of any kind for the second half, in which restaurant boss and chef work a crossfire. They carry a special drop in 'three for the bank sketch. Act registered solidly Friday night. Char ' HONEY BOYS <4> Singing, Dancing . 11 Mins.; One (Special) Academy, N. Y*" Four lads, working in blackface along minstrel lines, doing a^rou- tine of songs set off by some danc- ing. Shapes up as suitable No. i material and well enough presented and executed to bring general sat- isfaction. . Boys have pretty good voices, the basso standing out as quartet winds uo on To Heaven, on a Mule, with mention of both "Wonder Bar BoHwell Sis- Murray A Char'ston Oeo Galls DeMoy Moore Ma'n Edith Murray Stratford A M' berry Larry Rich Co Long Tack Sam AKRON Loew's let half (8-11) Sally Rand Wm A Joe . Mandel Benny Roes BALTIMORE Century (8) 'Dave Jones Co Sheila Barrett 3 Swifts Carr'A Martin Enoch Light Orch May Davis BOSTON Orpheum (8) Cab Calloway Orch CANTON 2nd half (12-14) Sally Rand JERSEY CITY Loew's (8) [ OFFICIAL DENTIST TO THE N. V. A DR. JULIAN S1EGEL PARAMOUNT BUILDING This Weed: Jerry Lester; Rube Demarett -Gus Ro.bey Co Billy Wells & 4 F's Paradise (8) 3 Jackson Boys Stone A Lee Buster Shaver Co George Givot 'Louise. Gay Relss Bros Rev State (8) ices of 1934 BROOKLYN Gates Ave. (Int. half (8-11) Brosins A Brown 3 Kew Sis Ross A Bennett Herbert Faye Co B Wells A 4 Fays 2nd half (12-14) -Great Johnson Bobhy Cook Co Thomas A Gray Al Norman. Society Scandals Regal (1) Jackie Merkle Paul Sydell Sid Marion Co. Russ Elmer A A Lewis A Van June Pur'celi Ted Cook DETROIT Michigan (8) -Mae Questele Nicholas Bros . Melson Alrmanette Park A Clifford Warner Shaw A Weston WEST HAM Klnema' 1st half (4-C) Co. as booked 2nd half (7-9) 3 GUsBonS Co. as booked WOODS GREEN Palace Eltottes Conrad's Pigeons Provincial Week of June 4 ELIZABETH Rltz 1st half (1-4) J Postfne. Co H A F Usher Williams A Charles Goss A Harrows 4 Trojans 2nd half (6-7) Joe Fanton Co Roy Rogers (Three to fill) PHILADELPHIA Forte («) Wesley Eddy Pat Kennedy Fred Sanborn (One to All) (1) Chappelle A C'lton Kirk A Lawrence DAE Barstow "Vic Oliver Donatella Bros A C WASHINGTON Earle (8) P Remos Co H A F Usher Joe- Termini Oracle Barrie DAE Barstow (1) . Large A Morgner Gracie Bdrrle Brltt Wood Rosette A Luttman Paul Tisen .Orch BRIGHTON Hippodrome Gene Dennis Forsythe Semon A F Co; as booked EDINBURGH Regent 1st '. half (4-S) 2 Lads 2 Nelsons 2nd half (7-9) Co. as booked GLASGOW Empire Mollis Bros Tracey A Hay, Dick Henderson Low A Webster Chevalier Bros 3 "Van Stratlans Co. as. booked LEITH Capitol 1st half (4-6) Co. as booked . • 2nd half (7-9) 2 Lads 2 Nelsons MANCHESTER . Palace E A D Waters Max Milter , Tommy Handley.- Fay re . 4 Carlyle COublna Clapham A . Bwyer Will Morris. Blond le Hartley Duncan Gray Young A Younger NEWCASTLE Empire Alexander A Moso Trix.Sis Billy Bennett Charladies Stanelll NOyea A Dee Hengler Bros Karlson 4 NOTTINGHAM Empire Mrs J Hylton Bd Co. as booked Frances Fay Miss Harriett Modesca A Mich els I Ben Bernard Slmplon flub Endor & Farrell King's Jesters Wm Farmer Ore Sherry's Harry Bush Ore Mario A Flarlo St. Merits otel Lcor- Belasco Orch Wilklns A Meyers Sheila Barrett Cabarets •' egls Hotel Vincent Lepea Ore Medrano A Donna Surf Club Jack Myers Ore Charlotte Murrte Taft Grl Geo Hall Orch Tavern, B'klyn Jack Murray Ore Theatre Cafe Chas Strickland Ore Henry Fink Tic Toe Club Arthur Boron Cross A- Dunn RAE -Reyes Sugar Marcel i Mlml Rollins Pomeroy Girls Buddy Fishers Ore Tuscany Hotel Beta. Loblov Ore Vundcrbilt Hotel Joe Moss Orch Ward A Hopkins Vlllnge Barn Anthony Trlnl Ore Beth Chnllls Eddie Ray Geo . McGulre Frances McCoy Josh .Medders Sir Jack Joyce 3 Octaves' Ruth Dclmar Rose McLean Waldorf-Astoria Guy Lomharflo Ore- Zfto'.s Ore Wash Sq. Club Frank Farrell Orch Westchester Club Froy A Braglotte Arthur Brown Weylln Hotel Michael Covert Ore Harriett Lee 3 Jays Wlvel Cafe Amy Atlhsan Jack Wick. Lillian Lorraine Ami Pavo- Maldle Du Fresm- La Salle Orch ZelU's . Bob Grant Ore Godoy Bd Milton Douglas Gloria Grafton Saranac Lake By Happy Benway CHICAGO SEW YORK CITY Ambassador, L I, , Hotel Pierre Independent HOLLYWOOD Chinese (Indef. ran) Gambarelll Jack Powell Jackie Hughes Cass, Mack A O 100 Voice Errs Grauman Ballet LOS ANGELES Orpheum (30) 3 Rounders Nat Taylor Claudia Coleman Crowe) 1 A AHan> Pat Hemming Co Harrison Circus CHICAGO State Lake (1) Jackie Heller Hubert Dyer Co . Abbott A Bisland Danny & Edith Charles Foy Co Smith Rogers & E Fanchon & Marco NEW YORK CITY Boxy (8) Columbia Univ Bd 6 Maxellos Wesley Eddy Co Gae Foster Girls (Others to fill) DENVER Orpheum (7) Duke Ellington Bd LOS ANGELES Paramount (7) Yawbut Sk Cherrily Sunklst Ballet Andy Andrews (31) Student . Prince PHILADELPHIA Fox (8) Pettet A Douglas Paul Tisen Orch Rosette A Luttman Caron Sis Ray Sax (Others to fill) . SAN FRANCISCO Orpheum <8) Street Singer (1) Eddie Cantor Lillian Miles Mahon A Rucker 12 Girl Ens London Week of June 4 Al Gordon's Dogs J & K Lee Radio Rogues Betty Jane Cooper Tiathrop Bros STATE Newark (8) t C.y rails' " ■Lillian.. Carmen Tommy Mack Co Alexander A Snntos pittsbur<;h Loew's (8)" Bob MuTphy Lewis A Moore Phil Spltalny Orch PROVIDENCE, R-I. Loew's (8) 'Thurston' WASHINGTON Fox (8) A LeFlcur Co 3" X Sis Harry Burns Co Benny. Davis Co . NBW YORK CITV Paramount (8) Busier- 1 West Co Davis A ThOrn'o Raymond Bnird * Trojans . Jackie Borene ■ Bucoancern x _ BOSTON Metropolitan (8) flomerosi ^ Kirk A Txiwrence Gilbert Diaz Sidney Pnlgc Co w'lltens.A J M'y'eis BflTALO Buffalo (8) .Mary Brian Gordon, Reed A K ..Charlotte .Aaren Co Tilo Guizftr .Marie McQu <'HlCAGO Chicago (8) George Raft liny Smeck :1 Kmcrnlds O) Puppy, S5ckc A E til l on Brltt Canterbury M. H. 1st . half (4-6) Rusty & Shine Co. as booked 2nd . half (7-9) 4 White Flashes Co. as booked Kit Eat Rest 8 Rhythm Girls New Victoria DJnkle Denton 8 Palladium 6 th Crazy Show Nervo A Knox Flannagan A Allen Naughton A Gold 3 : Pallors Eddy Gray 3 Bonos Jrene Vermillion Alphonse Berg Phester's Dogs Agar Toung Tr MelvlUes Palladium Gls TrOcadero fi S Melvlii ' Frakson Phllmore Co Ted Ray Elizabeth MAurice CLAPTON Rlnk Efflc A Sylvia Colurhbla 4 ' Shaw A WestOn EAST HAM Klnema 1st half (4-6). 3 Gllssons Co.. as booked 2nd half (7-9) Co. as booked Premier f,co llurd 3 Emeralds Daimler A Eadie. EDGEIVARE ROAD Grand "Lliilan BurgTss Keith A Cortez Connor A Drake FINSBl'RY PARK Empire Jack Payne Bd Gcraldlne A Joe Co. an booked HAMMERSMITH Palace Old Time Music 'I Charles Austin Dave O'Toole Willie Lancet Harry Bedford Arthur Recce Tom Lea more Nell Calvert Ida Barr HOLBORN Empire Sophie Tucker George Robey Mexano Bd Hatton A Manners Billy Russell Jovers Co. as booked ILFORD Sopor Geo Hurd 3 Emeralds Daimler A Eadie "'ISLINGTON . Blue. Hall 1st halt (4-6) 4 White Flashes Co. as booked 2nd half (7-9) Rusty A Shine Co. as booked KIT/BURN Grange Lillian Burgiss- Keith A» Cortes Connor A. Drake LEWISHAM Palace Cotton Bd LEYTONSTONE Rialto A I A Bob Harvey NEW CROSS Empire Jack Hylton Bd Co.' as booked Kinemn George Betton Nick A Marie R A H MyleH PECK HAM Palace George Bcttb Mick A MaHt' RAE Mylcs Tower Colli nson A Dean J «rffce=f iiifimm Thorn A Mack SHEP'BRD'S IIVSII Pavilion Dlnkle Denton 3 HTREATI1AM l'nlaoe Colllnson A Dean Grace Hartington Thorn A Mack SYDENHAM Rlnk I'otion L'd TOTTENHAM Palace Blfie A Sylvia Columbia 4 Jackie Maye John. van Lowe Evalyn ^Martin Bubbles Shelby ■ Kathleen Howard Dot A Dash Earles .Bros. A L Will WiDlB Thel Dressier Neil Golden Ore Arrowhead- Irving Conn Ore Bal Musette Millard A Anita George Marshal PlerrOta Madam Georgette Mme Yvotte Leon Bedore Apache Oro Boseert Boot Eddie Lane Ore Casino de Farce Eleanor Powell Jimmy Savp Cardlni Carolyn Marsh Leon Friedman Ore Ben Pollock Orch Casino Town Club Breez Fletcher Allan Cales Ore Claremont Roger W Kahn Ore 3 Marshalls Joan Blane Evelyn Doe Vincent Calendo Clab Kentucky Jack Bdwarde Ada Lee Wilma Novock Louise Dryden Mabel Russell Roes-Kenan Orch Club Rlcbman Jack Mason Rev Lido Girls Oro Commodore Hotel Isham Jones Oro Isabel Brown Cotton Clob C .C Rev Adelaide Hall Jimmy Lunceford O Croydon Hotel Charles Eckels Ore Dubonnet Joe Fejer Ore Glen Island Casino Glen Gray Ore Pee 'Wee Hunt Gov. Clinton. Hotel Enoch Light Ore ll'Iyw'd Restaurant Helen Kane- Charjes Davis Ore Moore & Revel Bbauval A Va Mickey Brahtz Iris Adrian Mathea Merryfleld Marlon Martin Drucilla Strain Gene Marvey Jerry Lester Holland . Tavern Florence Bender Elmer Dade 3 Blue Chips Hotel Blltmore Paul Whlteman Ore. Goldie ■lack Fultbh itainona Robt Ijfturence Babe Hauscr Hotel Edison Raginaky Ens otel Gotham P Van Stceden Ore Hotel Lexington \1 K avail n .Ore Hotel Lincoln Pancho's Ore Hotel Gt. Northern rerdenando Orch. Hotel McAlpIn .Sam Robblns Ore Hotel Montclolr Harold Stem Ore Mario A FlOrla Rosila Ortego Hotel New Yorker Ben Pollack Ore Hotel Fcnnflylvahla I)op Bcstor Ore Knron A Blair Nell Buckley Joe Lynne Ramon Ramos Ore Jack Denny Ore Hotel Roosevelt Reggie Chllds Ore Hotel Whitehall Don Bigelow Ore Kelly's Cblqulta .Venezia Peggy La Plante Jeanne McCauley Evelyn Thawl Claire Osgood Danny Higgens Ira Yarnell Carlos Lopes. Billy Plaaa Bralne McCoy Carlos & Marchan Joe Capella A Orch King's Terrace Jack White Jerry Bergen Lillian Fitzgerald Roth-Andrews Ore Leon ft Eddie's Chas Drew Bd Ron Ferry Orch Mayfalr Yacht Club Walker O'Neil's Ore Dwight Fiske Marden's Riviera Harry Rlchman Carpenter A Fonta'. Dixie Dunbar Georgie . Tapps Pearl Twine Fred Berrehs Ore Mori's Best Nye Mayhew'e Ore Mantllles CInb Dave Bernie Ore New Wonder Bar (Union City) Ann Pennington Bernard A Rich Gale Tracy A L Lily Lido Joe Pape Edith Lowe Ernie Golden Ore Paradise NTG Rev Peter Higgens J Johnson Ore . Felicia Sorel Ann Lee Patterson Needa Kinkatd Bruno A Manon Earl, Jack A B Johnny Hale Iva .Stewart Edith Murray Paradise Dnck Inn (Long Island) Mel Klee Billy Glason Carol Sis -Marelyn -Seed Caron Sis Betty De Elino Dorothy Dioho Ray Q'Hara Ore Park Central Hotel Chas Barnett Ore Plnza Hotel E A J Vernon Marlon Chase Orlando's Ore Emil Colman Ore Restaurant La Rue Arthur Warren's O RHz Tower. Nat Harris Ore Russian Krelcliuna Kuztietzoff A N Samovar Mme Nlcollna Radneff Simon Phllipoff Mon'negrb A Dorlta P Zam's Gypsy Bd Savoy-Plaza , Freddie Martin Ore S*r net's l'ob Gertrude Moody Zora Gray -Pat -Whalen ckliawk | Seymour ■ Simons Earl Rlcka'rd Chea . Parce Gus Van .. The Tick Tocka Countess V'n Lessen Maurice A Cordoba Henry Busee Ore Clob Leisure Luclo Garcia Billy Meagher Joe Manors Orch Befty Chase Jack Sexton Jr 'Sugar' Harolds Or Clob Royale Lee-' Morse 3 Racket Cheers Nellie Nelson Szlta A Annls Dorothy Wahl Fritz Miller Ore College Inn 8 Evans Co-eds Jackie Heller Beuvell A Tova Frankle Masters Or Congress Hotel (Joe Urban Boom) Art Kassel' Robert Royce Cherie A Tomasita Coloslmo's Julia Lyons Dorothy Henry Deronda A Barry Enrico D'Alba Eddie Deerlng Countess Borlsks Signer Barsonl Art Buckley. Bob Tlnsley Ore CInb A la bam Trudy Davidson Eddie Roth Ore Drake Hotel Slavic Ballet Stanley Hickman - Blltmore 3 Frances WiUer Harriet Llndgren Ruth Lee The Crusader b Earl Burtnett Ore . Edgewater Beacb Esther Todd DeRonda A Barry. Art Carroll Harry Sosnik Orch Harry's N. Y. Bar Joe Buckley Don Fenfield Germalne LaPlerre Harry Harris Al Wagner. Billy Meyers Elmer Schobel Joe Buckley Orch HI-Hat Clob Sunny Gaer Jimmy ■ Cnssi EOle Burton Rick A Snyder Roth Barton Dot Meyers K-9 Clab Billy Brannon Half-Pint Jaxon Billy Calligan Ann Rosb Chris Mechan Showboat CaHlno (City Island) Dave Fox Ruth Nagel Helen Davis Castle Sis Gordon A Bennftt Merrymakers Show Place Hums A Kissen JAck Waldron Ed Casey Ore Leon .La Verde Earl Partello George Oliver. 'Maronl's Rolando A Verdltta Gwen Gordon Neecee Shannon Marge A Marie Virginia Buchanan Bob Wyatt , Maurle Moret Orch Clob Mlnnet Sylvia Lee Yvonne) Nova Henry Mack' Adellna Dossena Frank Sherman Marat Room (Brevort Hotel) Earl Estes Edgar Rice Stan Rlttofl Orch Ja'ros Sis , Not Hoose Moe Lee. Jo-Jo Geo DeCosta Harry Sherm. Jimmy Lane "Opera Clob" Edwina Mershon Lawrence Salerno Tom Gentry Orch Jose Rlvan- Orch Pierce A Harris Palmer. Hoose Ted Weems .Orch Lydla A Jbresco Stone & Vernon 4 Calif's Larry Adter Abbott Girls Paramount Dora Vaughn Phil White Julia Gerity Edna Rush Hiss Harriett i Pearl Trio Balnbo Gardens Samovar Leon Lavarde Dawn Sis Lyle Smith Orch Alice Rydner Terrace Gardens Roma Vincent Alnsley Lambert B Clyde Lucas Oro Tin Fan Alley Al Sanders Eadie Hayes Crane Sis Vernon Craig Gwen Lorry Barney Gogle . Stuart Woodbrldge Floyd Townee Ore Via Logo Bobby Graham ■Crane Russell Orch Zlta A Marcelle Jack Housh Wanda Kay A I Handler Bd Z2S Clob Al Garbell Edna Leonard Billy Richard Art West Jean LaMarr LOS ANGELES Biltmore Bowl Jimmy. 1 Green Ore Blltmore R'dezvous Mel Rulck's: Ore Cafe De Faroe Mbdic A LamauX Merle Carlson Ore Cocoanut Grove Downey Bls- Ous Arnhelni Ore. Cotton Clob Harlem Rev Uroomfleld A G'ley Anderson A Taylor Dudley Dlokernon Green Gables Mclntlre's Hawai r n M Paris Inn Pete POntrelll Ore Rainbow Gardens Gordon Smith Marge' Keely Jack. Dunn Bd Ship Cafe Geo Redman's Bd The Nineties Will Cowan Rev I'at Harmon Ore Topsy'e Dorothy Gilbert Sis Jerry Phillips Bd' John Montalese now ozonlng. at 56 Franklin St., is doin^ ©Kay and up on exercise. Salvadore Rngone, United Ar- tists boy just returned from a Brooklyn yaca jh, will bed it a while getting back lost energy,' Harold Rodrier accompanied Dr. Karl Fishel, made qualnted round of. the san,. highballed to M; Y. C. Salome Schilling,' who aired, here some time .ago and left, is back for an -ozoning siege at the lodge. Jack Casey, IATSE boy, after trying airing in New York City and downtown, is back at the lodge for a general check-up. Marion Greene, who saw a : mess of ozoning here, thefe and every-, where, is now aring at the San- fonohi apartments. i&t. and . Mrs. Bert Lipsit are reg- ular donaters of new books to our library. Marya Blake, that gritty little fighter, Is shooting up her batting average via the comeback route. Between this san and hospitals that little girl has seen plenty of the cure thing. Amelia Johnson, a new : arrival at the lodge, was with Ziegfeld Fol- lies, White's Scandals, Hftchy Koo, and the Capitol theatre ballet, cipient case. pr. Martin Dworkin, ex-:N. V. A. house medico, is walking around Chicago minus his appendi Mannie Lowy, that Rudy Vallee ex-fiddler, swelled up our. library with a mess of timely books. He is an' ozoner that is making the grade okayi Many thanks to Jerry Vogel. Through him the sah has received three Skill games for lounge iroonL They were sent up by Mr. S.'Kal- son; of the Metropolitan Skill Game Board of Trade, of. Brooklyn. A local medico has enraged the town by quoting 'one doesn't hay© to come to Saranac to cure, he can ozone at home.' Marya Blake, Ford Raymond and Benway, your correspondent, are off the pueuroo -thorax. They couldn't take it, so now the natural cure prevails. Armand Monte, who has been In bed about this long, how and up and on exercise boy. He has etaged a wonderful: comeback. Stella Barrett, that Ilt^e Boston curing cyclone, is. doing extra well. Her roommate, Flfl. Climas, ex- N.. T. .G. girl, also reported on the Improvement side. On. account of the zero weather that we had here during Easter, the Easter style parade was held on May 30th. No one knew the dif- ference. • Betty Blair, who i» strictly bed- ding it and between cures is taking a mess of pneumo-thorax, Is get- ting on the okay side of the ledger. • White Face mountain will not be marred. Looks like the squawk, of Bill Morris, Jr., took effect with the powers that be and nature will still take its course with beauty. Ben Schaffer,.all messed up with : a throat ailment, peeved because George Harmon \e topping him via the wise-crack i*oute. Fred 'Bones' Bachman., nrst to sport the white flannei panta with an overcoat.. Mrs. Williajh Morris, flaranae's Mother, is due here as Camp Inter- mission Is being perted up. Ruth Morris also due, as three or four backgammon instructors are seen daily watching the incoming trains. Margaret Newell, that, ever f alth- ful little curer, has written two songs. Goldies Branch Out Ann Pritchar , Jack Goldie and splitting irito two separate acts on advice of Irving Yates, their man- after. Goldie will continue his wife's act, with Audrey Gibson substitut- ing; and the Sibley Sisters and pian- ist continuing as before. MJms Pritchflrd will build a new act with six fiirls. I ■"■ i Hearing on the plan 9pmi?s tip June. 20: before Federal. Judge. Mack! in. Ne.W York. ^airriejrs and. mothers h^ve been, mentioned .^as' ready \p , offer bids in opposition to. the plan, but .the Depositing Noteholders' Commltjtee is ready to bid '.'their, fuljl amount of around $10 ( 00u,000 ln bo'rtdsV'betemed doubtful by picture men if .any; other hid will -surpass this- one. j Contrary to the impression made- with) the > announcement of the de- cision on ; Fpx West Cpast.-,Clstrajid k . there was heavy firing* and -for- a one-time prominent factors in the old West Coast Theatres' circuit, are about to. resume exhibition activity, after being, in semi-retirement for several years. % The Gores recently disposed of their, downtown Los Angeles holdings, and will now concentrate on the Hollywood operation.. Around $35,000 will be spent in. remodeling the Iris, which Is expected to reopen July L, Jack Benny told Walter Meyers he'd straighten out the commish tangle foe. his booking. into Ed Small-Reliance picture, ^Transatlantic ShowbPat'. Benny stated he knew that Meyers 'Started 'the deal; but since Meyers and the Small-Landau .(Hollywood), agency split on their east-west fep- resentation, new complications arose. Small and Lyons & Lyons, acting for Benny, consummated the deal, but the actqr promised to take care of Meyers regardless. With some 20 appeals already on the C. A. appeals docket for hearing Friday (8>, and -more pouring in, codists are mulling breaking up the hearings into'' parts. This would mean that instead of the entire body listening to every case the authority would be divided Into groups, each of which would, handle so many cases,. The Film Boards of Trade future is all up in the wind again. Majors are unable to agree among themselves as to just what the boards should do. Some are strongly advocating the new role be that of collection agent; that the boards check and collect bad exhlb debts; Others, how- ever, just as stubbornly oppose this. Screen Actors' Guild intends to geTalong hereafter without paid press agents. On June 5 the Coast organization will dispense with the -services of Landy and Hunt, who have been blurblng for the' group since its inception. Press agents also have been editing the actors' house brgan and 're- cently endeavored to get the Screen Writers' Guild, for which they "also publicize, to join on the publication of the monthly mag. New York exec of one of the major firms is reported peeved because another exec moved iritp : office space on which the' former had planned ever since it was made available} through a resignation, , ., ""Where the peeve becomes complicated is that the, space, wasn't Just grabbed by the present occupant but was assigned, by higher-uppers. Demonstrating how little things beepmo significant, Fox- West Coast is looking forward to next week's showing of -Fog Over Frisco' (WB) at the Fox Paramount, San. Francisco,: where It-' will top a double bill. Plenty squawks are- expected since It's, considered a capital crime to call it Frisco In the first, place, let alone .mentioning ..that •fog, A number of established Hollywood stars have protested against a new foreign player, recently Imported by a major, claiming hd Is allowing publicity to go out in which his name is linked in vttfious ways With these sure-fire news names. Squawkers say they' ha vie ^ never met the newcomer. Not so long ago 98% of the footage submitted to the Bengal oard of Censors was American, .1% Indian, and the remaining 1% British and other origin. Now it's 62.49% American, 9,9?% Indian, 32.87% British and 4.67% other countries. Jack Hess, on the Cpast, Is trying spihethlng different since turning scenarist. Former film advertising exec is preparing ad and exploitation 'Oampalgns»to.go^along^wlth.,hi3^se^^ story would be sold and how it lends Itself to boxpffice steamup. ■ "~ Hays headquarters Is one of the first film departments to receive its official number from the NRA. Under the permanent code for. the in- dustry the H. O. is listed as No. 31-44. Mae West Inserted a Negro camp meeting' sequence In her plpture, 'It Ain't No Sin', using 92 singers for the number. Decision was made hy the star after she heard a choir over the radio on a national notwork.. John Balaban, when in New York a fortnight ago, made il fl "•"' * h *£ he hasn't given up hope of .Obtaining a Paramount partnership in DetrolU Tuesday, Jane 5, 1934 LEGITIMATE VARIETY 51 GOOD BW YEAR Hits of '33- '34 'As Thousands Cheer/ 'Ah, Wilderness.' 'Putsoit of Happi 'Her Master's Voice.' 'Roberta:' 'Sailor, ' Beware/' 'She Loves Me Not/ 'Mary of Scotland/ 'Ziegfeld Follies/ 'No More Ladies/ 'Dodsworth/ 'Men >n White/ 'Tobacoo Road/ 'Double Door/ MODERATE 'ilurder at the Vanities.' •Hold Your Horses.' 'Champagne, Sec,' '10 -Minute Alibi/ 'Green Bay Tree/ •Three and One.' •The Lake v '. 'Big-Hearted Herbert.* SUCCESSES •All the King's Horses.' 'The Wind and the Rain.' •The Shining Hour/ •New Faces,' 'Stevedore/ •jig Saw.' •The Milky Way.' 'Invitation to a Murder/ Dramatic Critics' '33-'34 Score Maintaining a torrid pace all season, John Mason Brown of the Evening Post winds up as batting champ in the legit critics' Swatters' League. With a very nifty average of .908. for trie "33-'34 legit season, Brown gave a 44-point trimming to is nearest competitor, Gilbert Ga- it briel of the American; John Ahdef- j eon of the Journal finished' third at % .353 This is Vaiuett's 1.1th annual compilation of the New York legit reviewer's' critical hits and misses^ By % a strange coincidence Ga- briel's batting percentage of .864 is exactly the same as his .'32-'33 aver- ago,, with which he won the box score. But this time it got him no •better than second. Brown's win- ning figure of .908 is exceptionally high for a full season, being only nine percentage • points behind the record of .917 established by Gar. briel in '31-'32. For Gabriel, finishing second rather than first, might prove to be lucky rather than sad. Had he won it would have been three in a row for the American's actor- scarer. That would hi^ve prompted Variety to turn the whole box score over to Gabriel, arid, let him wrassle with the dang thing himself. In snapping. Gabriel's Whining streak at two, Brown kept alive the. bugaboo which has followed all double winners since the annual box scoring began. But for Brown it was only gettiri' even, for Gabriel stopped Brown three years ago. after Brown had knocked off the batting crown in '29-*30 and '3Q-'31. Gabriel had been a two-timer once before, In '26-'26 and '26-'27. Between Brown and Gabriel this box score business is getting to be a two-man proposition, it seems. They've combined to take, the title lor the past five years and together have won seven , out of 11. The other members of the Broadway critical league are getting ,to re- semble the Brooklyn Dodgers. This year's score keeping- com- menced Augi 23, when the season officially opened with 'Love and Babies,' and ended May 17, when Invitation to a Murder, was ad- judged to have concluded the legit year. During that period 120' shows opened. By their box office , ratings 14 of the shbws were hits, 16 mod- erately successful and 81 flopped. Six shows, all flops, that opened be- tween June 1 and Aug. .1 :are Xslass'ed at 'summer shows,', and, as is the custom, not counted in this tabulation. Brooks Atki imes, $800,000 in* Picture Coin Doesn't Hurt — Hollywood Buys 21—120 Shows: 16 Hits, 14 Moderates, 90 Flops — Producers Bat .250 ODDS NOW 4/1 who dropped the J. which used to lead off his by -line, drew the fourth position at .816 to keep the score's Big Four intact. Last year Brown, Gabriel Anderson and Atkinson also occupied the first four .positions, the only difference- this time being that Brown and Gabriel shifted spots- Richard Lockrldge of the Sun, who finished seventh last year, jumped two places this time to take, fifth with .774. He is followed by Dean Percy Hammond, whose mark is .763. Bernard Sob'et of the Mir- ror, in his first year, follows in sev- enth place with .756. Richard Gar- land is strictly next to closing with .729. Burns Mantle is in last place at' :664. By his own system the latter would rate approximately 1%- stars this year. Incidentally, the star system of reviewing for a quick-reading public fared just the opposite in legit as in . pictures. In the film field the two star-users in New York and Chicago (Kate Cam- eron and Doris Arden) led their- re- spective towns this year. There Was a happy decline in the the number of 'no opinions' this time, the impression .being the boys have decided to stop giving out panegyric, double talk. Only 36 cases of slipping it to 'em easy dur ing '33-'34, with everybody more or less calling them as they saw them Garland was the worst offender in this respect, but his eight 'no opin- ions' in so far as they lead the field, denote more than anything else the general improvement in that respect. Atkinson, whose evasions formerly were up in the 20's, delivered but six this time. Only Mantle, whose star system demands an opinion, was totally immune. Mantle was the most prolific show-catcher, seeing all but 14 of the season's premieres. Lbckridge followed with 106. Sobel caught the least, 82, but he didn't get start ed as the. Mirror's first-stringer uh til the season was three months old. Mantle, guessed wrong the most times, 37, and Brown the least, eight. Variety goes into its annual prop bliish over its '33-'34 average of .942 for 113 hits and seven misses in 120 tries. Of the individual muggs, Jack Pulaski (Ibee), who caught the most shows for this sheet, had a percentage of .949. He saw 79 shows and was lucky 76 times. On the other four occasions he was only fbolln'. For hitting .949 Variety's class mugg gets his var sity 'V,' which he will have tattoed on; his chest. triking gold 14 times and get ting an tven break or. better in 16 other instances, the Broadway pro ducers enjoyed a decided improve-* ment during the '33-'34 >ogit season. They increased their batting aver- age to .250. and lowered the odds against any show's success chances to 4 to 1. For the past few seasons the odds had beep 6 to 1. Even more satisfaction was . de- rived by the legit boys • from the results of their dealings with Holly- Wood. So far, and with several additional deals still pending, the picture companies have contributed approximately 1800,000 in buys for film rights of *33-'34 legit shows. This large item went far in helping tte street to recoup its stage losses. At the bqx office the 120 shows in the season just , ended smashed no records as a whole, but they did fare better than those of any season since 1929. Quality, not. quantity, counted. The 120 new shows pro- duced totaled three more than '32- '33, but still considerably below the annual quota of 150 to 200 that pre- vailed five and more years ago. A -etter Chance That a really meritorious show 'Variety's' Box Score Winners '23-'24 "'24 -'25 '25-'26 '26 -'27 '27-'28 '28-'29 '29 -'30 '30-'31 '31 -'32 f A l inn '33-'34 CRAIG (Mail) . >JL . POtl^CK _ (B 5 icIyn GABRIEL (Sun) .... GABRIEL (Sun) .... ATKINSON (Times) LltTEL (Post)' BROWN (Post) BROWN (Post) ..... GABRIEL (American) GABRIEL (American) BROWN (Post) SR. 78 =«r 109 105 94 89 88 104 109 103 98 63 73 90 90 81 72 79 85 100 89 89 W. ^24' 18 15 12 16 9 18 8 13 8 Pet. .677 .753 .826 .857 .862 .809 .898 .817 .917 .864 .908 Hollywood Buys Shows purchased for films during '33-'34, with buyer and approximate prices -paid: 'Ah, Wilderness' (MGM) $75,000 \ 'Sailor; Beware* (Par).. 75,000 •Roberta* (Radio) ..... 66,000 'She Loves Me Not' (Par) * 60,000 •Double Door 1 - (Par) .... 66,000 •No More Ladies' (MGM) 60,000 'Men in White' (MGM) . 46,000 'The Shining Hour' (MGM) 46,000 •The Milky Way' (Par) 40,000 'Her Master's Voice' (Par) 37,500 •Murder Vanities' % (Par) 36,000 •Big Hearted Herberjt' (WB) 35,000 •The Dark Tower* (WB) 36,000 'Pursuit of Happiness' (Par) 30,000 •Wednesday's (Radio) ............. 26,000 •By Your Leave' (Radio) 20,000 •Heal Lightning' (WB) 20,000 •All Good Americans' (MGM) 18,000 •A Hat, a Coat, Glove* (Radio) ...... 17,000 'Wind and* the Rain* (MGM) 15,000 •Dr. Monica' (WB),... 10,000 Total ..... .... $807,500 had a better chance to make money this year is evident in the 14 hits registered, as against only nine the year before. There were 16 'mod- erate successes' that, either broke even or made some money. Some shows that are rated among the flops actually turned a profit through sales to pictures, but still class as failures because of their legit bfix office records. • An ex- ample of this is 'The Dark Tower,' Which flopped in legit, but wound up in the black through Warner Bros, paying $35,000 for the screen rights. There Is also the opposite excep tion in which a show lost money, but rates as a hit, regardless. 'Zieg- feld Follies,' produced at a cost of (Continued on page 64) Failures of '33- 9 34 Tattle Tales.' •Fly By Night.' •Shooting Star.' •The Ghost Writer.* 'Shady Lady.' •Going Gay.' •Love and Babies.' •A Party.' 'Come Easy.' The Blue Wi •Crucible.' •Heat Lightning.' The Sell-Out.' •Kultur.' 'Amourette.' •Undesirable Lady.' •Her Man of Wax.* . 'Keeper of the Keys.* The Curtain Rises.' •Let 'Em Eat Cake.* •Move On< Sister;* •Spring in Autumn.* •The World Waits.* •Divine Drudge.' •Give Us This Day.' •Eight Bells.* •Under Glass.' •Thunder on the Left.' •It Pays to Sin/ 'Dr. Monica.' 'Thoroughbred.' •Is Life Worth Living?* •I Was Waiting for You.* •Birthright.' •Growing Pains.' The Drums Begin.'- The Dark TOwer.' The Scorpion.' •Strange Orchestra".* •Blackbirds,' •All Good Americans.' •Jezebel.' The Locked Room.* The First Apple.' •Yoshe Kalb' (English). 1, Myself.' •Come What May.* •Every Thursday.' •Halfway to Hell.' The Wooden Slipper.* The Gods We Make.' 'Oliver, Oliver.* 'A Divine Moment.* "Days Without End.* 'Re-.Echo.' 'Come of Age.' 'False breams, --Farewell.' 'Wednesday's Child.* 'Mahogany Hall.' 'And Be My Love.' 'John Brown.' 'Mackerel Skies.' •By Your Leave.' 'Whatever Possessed Her.* •Hotel Alimony.* •American, Very Early.' 'Joyous Season/ •A Hat, a Coat, a Glove.' Theodora, the Queen.' " 'No Questions Asked.' 'Broomsticks, Amen.' •Sing and Whistle.* •Richard of Bordeaux.' 'Legal Murder.' •Queer Peopled. They Shall Not Die.' ♦Ragged Army.' .. •When in Rome.' Too Much Party.' •Yellow Jack.* •Perfumed Lady.'. •Another Love.' The Shattered Lamp.' 'Gentlewoman.' . 'Pure in Heart.' 'One More Honeymoon.' 'House of Remsen.' 'Moor Born.' 'Brain Sweat' •Wife Insurance.' 'Are You Decent?' 'Broadway Interlude.' 'Late Wisdom,' •Love Kills.' •Picnic* These TWo.' Equity Session Rather Mild but Oldsters Disinterest Causes Alarm; Toungsters Dominate the Meeting Beer-Meller Troupe Goes Co-operative Seattle, June 4. Old Town Hall, running melo- drama of the last century type and depending on beer sales for 'take, was acquired last week by the em- ployes, on co-op basis. Eight are in the cast and 11 make up the other employes, so that" 19 persons are in. Town Hall opened in becember and clicked for many weeks. Re- cently Heyes & Siegfried operated the spot. Harry Cleveland Is man- ager for : the" employes, temporarily at least. Biz has been up and down the past few weeks with strike not helping any. Theatre Runs Gamut; Once Church, Speakeasy, Now Is Theatre Again Sap Francisco, June 4. Lucille Ryman has leased the 250- seat Kamokila on Bush street that has successively been a church, a theatre, a- speakeasy and again is a playhouse. She reopens it June 12 with 'Green Bay Tree,' produced by Arthur Lubln and Louis Macloon, With. Donald Crisp heading a cast Which includes Edward Cooper, Herbert Bunston an d D avid Scott. "^l^ss^'prylmanTform^ Pasadena Community Playhouse, has dropped Fcrrler's French thea- tre, which she took several months ago. The Kamokila, which was built as a church, was converted into a tucatre three years ago by a wealthy Hawaiian, Princess Alice Kamokila Campbell,, who later - made it into a nifcht Hub until pollre. pay- off in\'«stigation.s darkened iL While Equity's 21st.ahnual meet- ing at the Hotel Astor, New York, Friday (1) Was not accompanied by all the flt-eworks expected, there were several closely contested votes on new amendments to the . consti- tution. Much more important was the lack of -interest by the member- ship at large. Leaders viewed the growing listnessness of old-line members with no little concern. There were 448 members in at- tendance, but only 241 were paid up in dues and privileged to vote, the others being onlookers, but with booing and 'shushing rights. At least 1,000 Were expected and the grand ballroom was engaged. Because an important element In Equity failed to attend, the younger group, an organized minority, domi- nated the session, but In a generally orderly manner. Only boisterous in- terlude during the afternoon came when a member lisped, admonitions, to the gathering and referred to the group as being 'insurgents' and 'radicals' who should not be per-, mitted to Sway the membership. He drew plenty razzing. Regular Ticket/ Elected Regular ticket which included six nominees by the younger group was elected; officers being named for three years. Group succeeded in getting two out of four of its pro- posed amendments adopted. Two were not decided on until Saturday, when four tellers counted the votes at Equity's .offices. Because of closeness in rising votes, ballots -were=thcn^Gaiit. : on«b.oth^pri3PiisaL%=: Meeting was eonchuled on schedule, by five o'clock, although it was thought that another session would bo needed to consider the flock of resolutions which the group had in mind. Only one was considered and the balance will doubtless come up at "the next general meeting, slated fur September. Not unlikely that a (Continued on page 52) 52 VARIETY LEGITIMATE Tuesday, June 5, 1934 Equity Session (Continued from page 51) Special meeting will be called sooner. Amendment , most closely contest- ed was that which will give mem- bers in. arrears of dues for not more than 12 months, the . right to vote. President Frank' Gillmore an- nounced the . count ; to be 116 votes, against and 114 in. favor. Imme- diate cries for a recount ended in a closed ballot, When the count was made Saturday it was first an- nounced the amendment was adopt- ed;, 121 votes to 120, a tie being prevented when one vote was thrown put, that member owing a small amount of dues. Monday, however. Equity announced that the count was tied up, because of which the amendment was not adopted, Some indication that the result on that amendment will be put to ref- erendum, as provided for in the con- stitution, Clause, reads that if less than 750 senior resident, paid -Up members are present, amendments may be put to referendum at the discretion of the Council or by peti- tion of 100-paid-up members. Deci- sion will be made after Council takes action one way or another on the tie vote. Loeb's Talk Equity leaders fought the arrear- age amendment, while Philip Loeb, virtual leader of the younger group, calmly spoke for its adoption. Loeb's contention was that, any number of reputable actors, were actually unable to pay the dues be- cause of scarcity of work, and he argued that such members should have . a year's grace In time of stress. The other amendment' which .was balloted on, but defeated 13a to .98, would have had all nine of the nom- inating committee named from the general membership. Present rule, which holds,, calls for six from the k membership and three from the council. Since a majority count goes in deciding on nominees, there was no real argument for a change, ^ and the leaders said that the trio 'from the council really represented non-resident members. One amendment adopted gives the general membership the - right to amend, the by-laws, provided there is a two-thirds vote registered at general .meetings. This amendment is, a check on the council, which up to now has been the controlling, power in Equity. Group wanted a mere majority vote to make changes or add to the by-laws, but the older leaders won the two-thirds point Other amendment provides. for four general meetings annually, there be*, lng little opposition. Speaking . in favor of it, Albert van Dekker, one of the group's representatives elected to council, said such meet- ings are needed because th 'actor is dying on his feet, standing against the wailing wall and talking about the good old days.' - Gillmore Flustered. Gillmore, it was charged after the meeting, became flustered during the meeting and when putting one .amendment to vote was said to have asked: *Do you wish to adopt this proposal and thereby register objection to the opinion Of your leaders?' Peggy Wood of Council was. all primed, to go and read paper objecting to any element in Equity attempting to 'traduce 1 : your officers.' Strength of the liberal group will probably develop later because it elected six members to the Coun cil, which has a quorum of seven Howe; r , the average attendance In Council meetings is between 18 and 20. Total number of Council mem bers Is 50, 10 of whom are elected annually. Single resolution considered and referred to. Council for final action concerns salary cuts and conces slons. It is rather lengthy and ex planatory and is aimed at managers claiming high operating, costs when asking actors' to slice. Proposal is that the manager go directly to Equity and present his books, Equity then putting it up to the actors, Latter would hot contact the manag. who would not have the - chance of, singling out cast $1.25 Boomerang? Amendment . giving Equity members the right to vote if in arrears of. dues for a period of not more than one year, was supposedly adopted after a close count of 121 to 120. Proposal made at the annual meeting Friday (1) was first announced as haying been re- jected by Frank Gillmore, Equity head, who, on a rising vote count, t h o ugh t the amendment had lost 116 to 114. , Balloting was Ordered whent objectors demanded a. recount. Ballots, were counted Satur- day (2), votes being carefully checked with Equity's records verify each voter's stand- ing. After several .votes were : thrown out the count was even. \ Then the question of an ac- tress' vote arose. It was found that she owed $1.25. Paul N.. Turner,. Equity counsel, was in the building and the question of whether the vote should or should not be counted was put up to him. Turner, oh the spot, disqualified the voter, although he knew it favored the liberal group iii Equity as against the older faction^ Monday Gillmore stated the actress' had paid up half an hour before the meeting. She was therefore qualified to vote and since there was a tie the amendment was not adopted. t Tellers named to count the ballots were Lister Chambers, Jack Byrnes, Horace McMahan and George Christie. Hays on Broadway FURNISHED ROOMS Drama In three acts. - presented at the Ritz, New York, May 29 by Edgar Allen; written by Ragnhllde Bruland; staged by Bussell Morrison, Prank Foster.. ..John P. Marrlesey Rose Gordon. .. ......... . . .Ronnie Madison John Mntaer... BUly M. Greene Adele Willis.;.,.......... ...Violet Barney Tom Carney. ........... . ...Huntly Weston Billy. . .... . . . . . . ..- .Spencer Bent Icy Ann Hadley.... ....... ....Vlckl CummliigB Margie Kelly. ............. Valerie Raemier Mario. ........ ..... . ."Liana Grey Joe. .......... ............... ; . . .Joy Toune Paul Monti.... ...... ........ Clarence Rock Robert . Foster. Prank Reymati Officer. ... .................. ...Jock. Willis paid up members at 2,100, as against more than 10,000 about 10 years ago. Total 'assets were put at $400,- 000, while the' surplus amounts to ; 300,000. Both amounts include the Dquity office property, valued at 1230,000, which was the cost price. Balance of the surplus, about $70,- 000, is inclusive of bonds and other securities owned by Equity and written down '.of security; shrinkage.. Brady Held Down Late in the meeting William A. Brady, only manager-member at- tending, arose to tauc Chairman Gillmore told him he was out of order, but when members yelled to et him .talk, the showman dis- coursed on ihe Dlcksteln antl-for eign actor, bill which was snowed under In committee at Washington last winter. Brady did not get a chance to tako up the Sunday mat ter. Because limited in time, he de inanded another special meeting be called within 10 days, and was told that could be arranged Lf a petition signed by 30 members was pre sen ted to Council; In addition to Gillmore, re-elected, the other officers are: Osgood Per kins, first vice-president; .Florence Reed, second vice-president', Arthur Byron, third vice-president; Peggy Wood, fourth, vice-president; Leo Curley, • recording secretary, and PauVDuUzell, treasurer. All "officers serve for three years. Named as councillors for five-year terms were A. G. Andrews, George Arllss, Eddie Cantor, Katharine Cor- nell, Augustin Duncan, George Heller, Victor Klllan, Philip Loeb Louise V. Prussing.and Van Dekker. Replacements' oh the. council were E. J. Blunkall, .William Gaxton, Only new show In two weeks on Broad way. Opening on the eve of Memorial pay, it rather rudely broke the . calm of the season's end, an unnecessary starter sa,ns diversion. 'Furnished Rooms' has been in preparation one way or another for several months, two ' other women in addition to the authoress being dentlflfed with it. Rehearsals start- ed and stopped but unfortunately re-began doubtless at the insistence of the play's pen mother. A distressing story as drab as the cheap lodging house whlbh it locales. There is no drama, no fun, and it eemed a feat of endurance to sit through. Set in one scene a side is removed and the 'furniture changed to show another room but the same five and ten cent little ..pictures are on the same walls in the same spots. Ann Hadley comes to New York to get a Job. Luckily , she is be- friended by Rose, one of the room- ers. Latter appears to have been ensnared by Frank Foster, the mid- dle-aged . inn ; keeper, at . least slightly so, although she otherwise: acts like a dame who . can take care of . herself. Foster makes' a pass at Ann and she faints. -. Curt'aln as he takes her in his arms. Despite fact that Foster .runs a oint like this, his son, Robert, has gone through college and comes back with the degree of civil en- gineer. Roy goes for Ann in a. big way and it looks like wedding bells, that is, after he gets done telling his old man what he thinks of him. There is a bit of gun play for third act excitement but it doesn't help much. Characters are mostly 'dull. Even as. a summer try out in the woods Furnished Rooms' would Tate the air. Ipee. Florence ' Nash; Farmer;, Robert Helen Brodeiick. "Mary Virginia T, Haines and Inside Stuff-Legit Ticket brokers perked up last week when it was announced in Wash- ington that price fixing by codes is put as applied to Industries which furnish service. Spbcs immediately claimed that agencies merely fur', nished service and therefore the limit of 75c premium should' not longer operate.. Understood that the ticket people will press -the point before the re- vised -legit code is completed and formally adopted. Ticket regulations set forth in the revision are expected to give the Code Authority the right to"" mete out severe penalties for violation of the rules, particularly the exaction of excess prices. Managers were skeptical that the modifica- tion of service codes would apply to ticket agencies. tanding of agencies so far as the code Is concerned "is questioned,, because it is stated they are not actually in'the code, although the CA has supervision oyer the brokers and representatives of the latter sit in at meetings during which ticket matters are considered. Peculiar percentage arrangement applies to 'Sailor Beware', Lyceum, N. Y., in regards to. salary cutting. Recently it was agreed that if the gross went under $9,000 players receiving $160 would accept $75,. with proportionate cuts applying to others, except for those having run of the play contracts. New schedule calls for cut players getting 1%% of the gross. Actors quickly figured that if the show grosses %7,Qf>0 their share would be $78, or three bucks more than the $75 maximum When the takings dipped under $9,000. Run of the play contracts expired Saturday (2). They are sticking, but are also on the percentage thing this week. Arrival of fleet was expected to tilt takings, but there was little trade" latter half of last week. . Saturday matinee saw four gobs in the badly attended house. Gross around $5,000, with the players approximating $52.75 salary. Plays Out of Town BITTER HARVEST Hollywood,' May 28. Play In three acts, by Catherine Turney Presented at, the Hollywood Playbouee by Melville W. Brown, Mar 29. Leslie Fen- ton starred. $1.68 top. Fletcher. Darwin Rudd Lady Caroline Lamb.... Catherine Manners Augusta Leigh ............Lilian Bond Lady Jane Oxford..... ....... Nola Luxford John Cam Hobnouse.. Alfred Cross Walter Scott. .Lindsay MacHarrle Tom Moore.... ........... Benjamin Brlndley Lord Byron.... .Leslie Fenton Annabella Mtllbanka. ....... Elsa Buchanan Lady ' Melbourne. .............. .May Beatty Clare Claremont. Finis Barton members for dismissal because' op - posed to a cut. If & manager claims $6,000 as the gross for an even break and the show got slightly less, total cut (say 10% t, would not apply but the reduction shall be pro-rated with the actual loss. Resolution is the result of the backing and filling by the management of 'Sailor, Be- ware!' this season. 2,100 Paid Up Annual statement placed the total SHRINE AUDITORIUM SOLD Des Moines,. June 4. Shrine auditorium, with equip ment and furnishings, has been sold by the Sheriff to the Bond holders Protective committee for $291,097.88. There was no other bidder. The contract between Za Ga Zig Shrine as. tenant and the jSJteJjteiTej^ as holding company, was purchased by the same buyer for $15,000. Fore- closure sale was to satisfy a judg- ment of $850,000 obtained by the bondholders in Polk county dis- trict court a month ago. Doing 'Pursuit* Blossom MacDonald, sister of Jeanette, will do 'Pursuit of Happi- ness' at Dennis, Mass., June 2, at the Raymond Moore showshop. " 'Bitter Harvest' depicts with brutal frankness the loves and life of the madcap British .poet. Lord Byron, with. Its tragedy and pathos;, the moods and whims of the bril liant bard, and his unholy love for his half-sister. It la daring in theme, and' stacks high as sophlstl cated stage fare. As presented .at the Hollywood Playhouse, . finder the management of Melville W. Brown, the Catherine Turney .love play gives every lndl cation of being geared for- success on Broadway, where It will be taken in the early fall* . Leslie Fenton portrays Lord Byron, giving a superb performance of the nobleman who damns society and refuses to be swerved from his mad infatuation for his lovely half sister, the Wife of a profligate and wastrel. Lilian Bond gives a sincere and convincing, portrayal of the ob ject of. Byron's affections, and scares with Fenton the acting hon- ors'.. . Life to Byron means nothing without women, and he discards his flames and passions as easily as he receives the news from another sweetheart that she is breaking off their relations. Goaded on all sides by sharp criticism of his affair with his own flesh and blood- relation! Byron weds a simple, demure maid who tries vainly to win his love, but the lust for the sister continues ever uppermost, and he finally sinks to the lowest depths with exposure openly threatened as the final straw that forces him to give up. his over powering passion. - — Outstanding- members-of-the- cast include Catherine Manners, as By ron's discarded love, his nemesis Lindshay . MacHarris, as Walter Scott, between whom and Byron i beautiful friendship has developed Darwin Rudd, as the poet's faithful and understanding man-servant, and May Beatty as the elderly Lady Melbourne whose word with Byron is law. Alfred Cross Is excellent in the small part of John Cam Hobhouse and Elsa .Buchanan demurely swee as the madcap's wife. Other mem- Ownership of the Selwyn, N. Y., is passing to the Dry Dock Savings Bank, holder of the first mortgage, through foreclosure proceedings. Bank: has held the property for the past year under mortgagee in posses- sion arrangement, collecting rents and revenues which were credited against interest and taxes owed. Under foreclosure, however, the Selwyn interests will lose alt interest in the property. Same bank took over and operates the National, Dry Dock too has an interest in the Vanderbilt, operated under an assignment of rents but, latter house was not so heavily involved as the Selwyn and National. When Broadway was going" towards, its peak, Arch and Edgar Selwyn and' Crosby Gaige Improved the north side of 42nd street by adding the Times Square and Apollo theatres. Latter duo is in the hands of the Aaron Naumberg estate. When the run of 'Dodsworth' is temporarily suspended for seven weeks starting June 30/ the box office at the. Shubert, N. Y„ will remain open throughout that period for the sale of tickets for the resumed engage- ment which begins Aug) 13. Ads will be carried in the dallies and the. cost of carrying on the ticket sale will be about $1,000 weekly .1 No drama ever presented in the house drew grosses comparable to 'Dodsworth'. The Shubert was designed for musicals and most attrac- tions housed there were of that type. Reason for Interrupting the run la the prior engagement of' Walter Huston to appear In Central City's (Denver) revival of 'Othello?. Doubtful if 'Stevedore' will move up to Broadway; although It' is draw- ing excellent -attendance at the Civic Repertory theatre, 14th street, N. Y. Show specializes on parties, usually ' radical organizations, selling blocks of 100 or more tickets as low as 40c each but alloting lower floor loca- tions which are priced at $1.50. Theatre Union which presents 'Steve- dore' is rated an educational organization for whlbh reason there is no admission tax, same recognition being given the Metropolitan opera and the Philharmonic orchestra. F. Ray Comstock was delayed in starting west on a vacation but will, shove off by boat Friday (8). Itinerary now includes Alaska. Upon his return down the west, coast he will sojourn in California, with Palm Springs one objective. Mex Strike Off Mexico pity, June 4. Mexican actors' union has called off, for the time being, a strike against organized stage hands and other theatre attaches who refused to join' them In accepting pay slashes they suggested; It would have closed this city's four remain- ing playhouses. Actors and other unions accepted parley called by the civic govern- ment with view to straightening out their differences. HALE STAGING FERRY'S MONTE CARLO REVUE Hollywood, June 4. Georgie Hale, who has been stag- ing dances for Fox productions, left for New York today (Monday), from where he sails for France next week. Hale is going to Monte Carlo; where he will stage a show at the Casino for Felix Ferry, opening July 1. It wilt have a cast of . all-Amerlcan talent, with 35 people to be taken, aboard. Efforts are being made to get June Knight or Dorothy Lee for the aggregation. Deal was made by Ferry with Hale, with the former having been here for several days also talking to studios on foreign production, with, a deal reported ,P^ding:,,wlthJM£trj^ ;== ^ = ^_ i== Hale plans returning to New York in September and do a show there, after which he returns to Hollywood, hers In support portray their roles in satisfactory fashion. Entire action takes place in the London study of Byron. Dickson Morgan has done a corking good Job of directing, and it would seem that Producer Brown has a money-makd- In his initial production venture. POLICE ASCRIBE ACTOR'S MURDER TO ROBBERY Nashville, Tenn., June 4. Stabbed ^through the heart and him left eye, John Forrest Stephenson, 31 -year-old Shakespearean actor of Nashville and New York, was found dead on South First street. Police believed he had been robbed. His trousers pockets had been turned out and a money belt which he wore was missing. A trail of blood spots led from the base- ment of the vacant dwelling to the Stephenson was known on the stage as John Forrest. He Was a member of the Actors' Equity. For the past, two years he led his own troupe, playing principally for high schools and state normal colleges. Troupe was known as the Immacu- letta Players. Denver Stock Gets Donald Woods from Warner Bros. Denver, June 4. Leading lady for the Elitch stock this summer will be Helen Baxter. She will star, and with Donald Woods, secured by arrangement with Warner Bros., will lead, the cast, Others include Albert Van Dekker, J^h^rhie^GJy^ej^ Elizabeth Ris- don, Brandon Evans, Helen Addison Pitt, director, and G. Brad- ford Ashworth, scenic director. Pitt, Ashworth and Woods are returning, Pitt for the third year, Woods for his second, while Ashworth is prac- tically a fixture. Last year the top was 75 cents. Tlits year It is boosted to $1, while or.\'s 25c. will remain. Opening i.i .Insip 2?., running probably ten weeks. Ed Lyons handling publicity. VARIETY 53 MM ret QhlUuUum* VAfe F xmd9nUilution. 5^ •V •VABIEXr'8 LONDON OFFICE. 8 St. Mortln'* Place, Trafalgar Square FOREIGN SHOW NEWS Cable AdMak VAULTS; LONDON. THepho— Tmplg Bm B041-(f4t Frau Wagner Fearful of Boycott's Meets on Bayreuth Box Office Berlin, May 25. On July 22 the Wagner Festival lays In Bayreuth will once again commence. Mrs. Winifred Wagner, Richard Wagner's daughter-in-law, who is the manager of the Bayreuth festival plays and the preserver of the Wagner tradition, has on this occasion made statements concern- ing the most important questions of interest to the inland as. well as The main question, natural- ly; at present is economic. Bayreuth has always known eco- nomic crises.. While Richard Wag- ner .'was still alive the plays in 1878- 1882 had to be interrupted. Then, as a result of th«. war and the In- flation, period, the plays .were stopped for 10 years. • -After ; that one- third, of the visitors, stayed away, which proved another finan- cial blow. The first year to show any progress was 1930.' But the times when good profltB could.be had are. gone : and the re- serves created by the. royalties, which ceased • when the Tights' be-, came extinct in 1933, are. exhausted. Thqse times- when all performances wpre 's.bld out, as was th4 casje about half a year ago, are also gone. i: I.J. ; 'i ' : 1 1 .' : \ .at a- Loss-' ' A- -full : hotise nowadays only show's a loss, as' the whole budget must be gotten within 21 days. The large orchestra, consisting of 137 people, must be kept, and the salaries-., are enormous. Many people believe that the directors play.for the honor* but ever since the beginning of the Bay- reuth plays, only three directors have worked, without pay, namely, Hans Richter, Toscanini and Rich- ^ ard Strauss. The -old Entrance fee w of. 30 marks must be maintained,, and a ..reduction is impossible. Mrs* Wagner bears the. loss her- self. Jt.ls also impossible, to per- form the - play s every year, as .tradi- tion demands that an Interval, of one year follow every two performance years. In accordance with the tra- dition, six opetfrs are sung during each season. ■'- ■-' Frau Winifred Wagner also spoke of the harm done by the boycott of certain circles in the inland and abroad last year. All performances duririg'1933 were sold out, with the exception of eight tickets,. but the Reich bought. 10,000 of the 36,000 .available ticket's, which were dis- tributed among people] of small means,- mostly music students. This year the National' Socialistic Teach- ers' Union has bought ticket's in the amount of 50,000 marks, and further negotiations are still pending with the organization 'Kraft durch Freude' ,('Joy Through Strength') to buy anothejr large block of tickets. Hotela Won't Play Ball Tarn -.sorry 'to say,' Frau -Wagner stated, 'that a boycott ij also to be felt this year,, inasmuch as foreign hotels which used to lay out prospectuses on the " Bay? etith plays refused downright to do so this year, returning the material immediately. On the . other hand, the bad exchange conditions have made it difficult for visitors frOni several countries who are Interested in these Wagner Works to come.' The Minister may cause the . sale of theatre tickets to be placed: un- dei his supervision, the same as all (organizations of theatregoers. -Po lice' authority within the scope of the theatre is to be limited and only to come into question in case of danger to the safety and order of the public. All in all, the effects on the economic and artistic fields can- not be foreseen. €0VTS SCHOOL FOR ACTORS IN BEGRADE Belgrade, May 22. A school for actors opens next fall in Belgrade. School will be a government. Institution and the Director of the National Theatre will be. exrofBcio director. Course [is to last three years.. . Lectures will he given' by prominent people in art. and literature, while the prac- tical \*rork will consist in attending and assisting the work in ther Na- tional Theatre. ' ... ' Age limit for the school is 16-25. The pupils will have to pay a small yearly tax, but the poor will be exempted. For the first' two years hi the school the pupils will not be paid for taking part in. the per- formances - ot the National Theatre, : as that will be counted in the prac- jtical work of the school. SLOW PAYOFF FOR ACTS IN GHMAN HJOIESt BW ANTI-NAZI 'RACES' Prague, May 25. Performance of Bruckner's play, ■"Races" in Czechoslovakia continues to meet great difficulties. Hardly had a few performances of the drama given by the Jewish-Juvenile Stage in. Brno Moravia, when by order of the police authorities, the play had to be taken off the boards, owing to a protest of the German Consul, residing in. the Moravian Capital. The Aim, "Wolga in Flames," made by the Czech A. B. Film Studio, has been nixed in Berlin by order of the Prussian film censor. Ail film scripts must be presented to the Ministry of Commerce for approval at least two weeks; before work is begun in studios; WHITE TAKES STAVISKY PLAY London, May 25. Artists contracting to play north- ern Europe, particularly spots in Vienna, Basle and the entire Czecho-Slovakian territory, should see they get their, full salaries de- posited in some reputable bank or with the local American or British consul. There has been a growth of -gyp-., ping- to acts in the last few months. The way it is done is to book acts, for a month, pay salaries after the first fortnight, with the booker do- ing a disappearing act when next pay day comes along". When acts apply to the theatre owners for the; money, ' being under the impression they are responsible, the -manage- ments disclaim all liability, alibi- ing they are only the renters, and in Some cases state they were also done. It is then useless to appeal to the local consul as he can give nothing but sympathy. There are at least a dozen acts here which have recently been mulcted of their pay. One of them is Murray, the escapologist, who has escaped from many a tight cor- ner, but maintains these birds can still teach him a lot of tricks. FRENCH 'EQUITY' AND 'AFL' REMAIN AUK IF CfltO'S, LONDON, MAY -J01IL0RJERYJQQN London, May 22. Ciro's Club, one of the oldest Eng- -lish niteries, Is likely to fold shortly. For many years Ciro's has been considered most exclusive club in London, with its members including most of the English nobility. Mem- bership fee was $40 per annum, and at one time it had a membership of , v over 2,000, Lately it has been in trouble. * rlsj May 25. Conservatives won. in convention of French Union des Artistes (Ideal Equity) and. outfit will remain aloof from the Confederation General de Travail- (local A. F. of L.). In Order to smooth things over Jean Toulout, retiring .president, consented, to hold that office for an- other two or three months. During this period he will work oh. a new line-up for the union, so as to con sole-the defeated radicals. Among the projects hell work out are naming a non -professional gen- eral secretary to handle the union's business, development of an em- ployment bureau, issuance of work- ing cards checked by the union and a general reorganization of the u n lon^s^ac 1 1 vi. t lesr ■._ ^ PHYLLIS BARBY'S LEAD Hollywood, June 4. Phyllis Barry has been set In as lead opposite David Manners in Monogram's production of the Wil- kie Collins' play 'Moonstone'. Regindl Barker will direct from, Adele Bjiffllngton'a adaptation, with Paul Malvern supervising. In the cast are Jameson. Thomas, Joseph von Seyffertltz and Charles Irwin. Paris, May 26. With the Idea of capitalizing on the Stavisky case publicity in the United States. George White has bought Louis Verheuil's play 'Banque Nemo" for Broadway. Ir- win Marks put deal through. Greg- ory Ratoff. will do. the Stavisky role. Play was written three years ago and ran some 300 performances here. Stavisky affair came after- wards, but the play was written to fit it — a prediction. Verneuil got his idea from the Oustrlc case,, which was like Stavlsky, only it didn't go so far and involved right wing French politicians instead of left. Actor figures part of Stavisky is for. him. . Legit's Good Year (Continued from page 51) $110,000, has not regained its. in- vestment cost, but cannot qualify other than as a hit because of the large grosses it drew for a- Consid- erable stretch. Max Gordon and the Theatre Guild had a big year financially, Gordon having three smashes and the Guild two. Gordon's were 'Her Master's Voice,' 'Roberta' and 'Dods- worth.' while the Guild had 'Ah, Wilderness* and 'Mary pf Scotland.' Shuberts also had a pair of hits,/ 'Follies' and 'No More Ladies,' but the former didn't make money. Year's remaining hit shows and their producers were: 'Double Door* (H. C. Potter-George Haight), 'Sailor, Beware' (Courtney Burr), 'As Thousands Cheer' (Sam Harris), 'Pursuit of Happiness' (Rowland Stebbins), 'She Loves Me Not' (Dwlght Deere Wiman-Tom Weath- erly), 'Tobacco Road* (Anthony Brown), and 'Men in White' (Group Theatre - Sidney Harmon - James Tillman).' No Favorites The $800,000 picture coin was dis- tributed among the flop shows as well as the hit¥i ' c5VBi*ing 22 shows in all. Hits purchased for films were: 'Sailor; Beware,' 'Double Door,* 'Her Master's Voice,' 'Pur- suit of Happiness,' 'She Loves Me Not;' 'Ah, Wilderness,' 'No More Ladies,' 'Men in White,' 'Roberta.' Moderate money shows that at- tracted Hollywood's attention were; 'Murder at the Vanities,' 'Milky Way.' 'The . Shining Hour,' 1 'The Wind and the Rain,' 'Big-Hearted Herbert.' Flop shows saved by picture buys were; 'All Good Americans,' 'The Dark Tower,' 'Heat Lightning/ 'Dr, Monica," 'Wednesday's Child,' 'By Tour Leave' and 'A Hat, a- Coat, a Glove.' There were no $100,000 picture buys this time, but the money as a whole : denoted liberality on HolIy r wood's part. 'Sailor, Beware,' and 'Ah, Wilderness,' each brought $76,- ^OOO-from^aramounUandUMetEo^rie^ spectively, and 'Roberta,' a musical attracted $6.5,000 from Radio, while 'Double Door' and 'No More Ladies' got into \he" $50,000 class. Even a moderately successful piece like 'The Milky Way' brought $40,000. Six shows were produced in be- tween seasons last summer, from June 1 to Aug. 1, arid are not in- cluded In the count. They wore 'Tattle Tales,' 'Fly by Night,' 'Shoot- ing Star,' 'The Ghost,. Writer," 'Shady Lady' and 'Going Gay.' All flops. British Conks, in Sympathy with Jans & Whalen, Offer to Walk Out London, May 25. .. There are. those who feel Jans and Whalen are having a rough deal with their Palladium, engagement. They opened with the Crazy . Month contingent May 21, having previous- ly supplied the management with a lot of material, which is still in the show. -Their own work did not fit In with the slapstick burlesque, knockabout comedy of the native comedians and Jans and Whalen asked the management to be prop- erly spotted. This was not done, and as a consequence they were cut to about four minutes for their act and are doing one or two other lit- tle bits through the slow. . Intimation having reached them that It would be wise' to retire en- tirely, they -consulted , the local comics, who told them if they were, ousted, they would all go on strike. The following day they. .were asked to make a settlement and quit, but they declined to do so, and will play out their four Weeks' engagement as per contract •' Passing Dividend Moss Empires, Ltd.; held Its an- nual meeting May 23 and> although its trading showed an improvement on last year, company was -unable to declare. a dividend for the ordinary shareholders. Trading 1 has improved since Jan. 1, 1934, and the directors were able to declare a six months'' dividend on their preference shares payable on June 30. 1934. This is the first pref- erence dividend paid for two years. George Black, , head of General Theatres Corporation. Was elected a director. night, following its recent produc- tion by Stanley Scott at Sadler's Wells. This Granville Barker play is being, run for chauity. Tallulah Looking . ... Tallulah Bankhead has had a play submitted to her by Sir Patrick Hastings, the English barrister and author of 'The River,' 'Scotch Mist' and other plays. She doesn't think It suitable for her and is still look- ing around for a starring vehicle for London. Break for Acts .American acts, oyer here are get- ting, a. .new kind of break.; Several are being contracted for the World's • Fair, Chicago,: and are being given round -trip transportation. -.. Among the acts thus lined up are the Litrio Tri. Plenty of Other negotiations pending u,nder same conditions. Fined for Ad Lfbbing ' ■R. H. Gillespie, managing director of Moss Empires, Pierre Cohen, manager of Finsbury Park- Empire, and. Messrs. Hope and Palmer, pro- ducers of a revue, were fined $25 apiece and taxed another ?25 for costs. Hope and Palmer presented a re- vue at Moss Empires' Finsbury house, but it was charged some of the performers used dialog that was not in the original script sub- mitted to the Lord Chamberlain' for licensing. The defense was . the comedians, had interpolated some gagging. The judge remarked he did not see the necessity- for inflict- ing the maximum penalty or for suspending the license of the the- atre. Show On Air First time in British broadcast- ing that a musical show playing the. West -End has been on the ether. Distinction belongs to the Gaiety show, 'Sporting Life,' headed by Stanley Lupirio and Laddie Cliff; Only 40 minutes of the show went on the air, but it Is causing plenty Of discussion. When idea of broadcasting was firs': submitted to the British Broad- casting Corp. by Matt McKelgue, the BBC was amenable to . the project providing certain dialog . was de- leted. Particular objection was made to an expression used. by Lu- pino where he asks the audience to whistle a time. He then asks the ladle3 to whistle, telling the' men to abstain, or 'they will lose their whistle.' The last phrase Was blue pencilled, with management prom- ising it would come out. But de- spite promise it was repeated over the air, with BBC burning up. - Price paid for broadcast by BBC was. $270, but it is worth to the box office is almost Impossible to esti- mate. Night of broadcast house was sold out and future bookings are healthy. Summer Shakespeare Sydney .Carroll's West End : sum- mer season of. Shakespearean: open-, air performances in Regent's Parte commenced May 21 with . ff,000 at- tending the afternoon performance of 'As You Like It.' and fully as many turned away. Last year more ■than a quarter of a million theatre- goers attended throughout the pea- son, which was given by West End players. The first Summer's ven- ture . was blessed with especially felicitous weather. 'She Loves' Co. Sails Members of 'She Loves Me Not' company, sailing, leave behind them Edward. Robbins. who remains to appear in 'Living Dangerously.' in support of Carol Goodner. It opens shortly at the Aldwych. Brady's Buy -.=Wi 11 iarrwA»=JB rady=h as^heAmer.;. ic.in rights to 'Libel,' now current at the Playh-^uue. He will produce It In New York, in the fall, in associa- tion with Lee Shubert. 3 Floppos Three closings with Saturday. May 19, denoting fiascos in at least two r rases.' The longest rim was 'She Love* M > Not' at the Adolphl with throe weeks to its credit; 'The Dark Tower" lasted nine days at the Shaftesbury; 'No Way Back' at the Whitehall survived three nights. 'The Vuysoy inheritance'' moves into the Shaftesbury for a, fort- Capetown, May 4. John VMcCormack failed to draw capacity at his . Johannesburg con- certs, due to big admission charges. The singer fulfilled his. world-wide reputation! v but- Afrlcn* Consoli- dated Theatres was out > squeeze money, and, got bit, resulting in prices at Durban (Natal) dropping to 12 shillings and six pence, and seven shillings and sixpence. In- cluding tax. The Clara Butt ' con- cert tour in 1911, still stands .un- beaten as a .financial success. Sehlesinger's Opposition . . J. Kalusky, managing- director of Independent Flint Distributors, op- position to the Schlesinger Trust, returned April 30 to South Africa. Said he is more than satisfied with the result of his trip overseas. Africa Speaks News received oyer here that Elred Tidbury, now known as Don Elred, South African winner in Paramount Beauty Seeking • Con- test, has had his stay in Hollywood extended a further six months. May have small speaking part in- Mae West's next picture. NO-SPEAK PARTNERSHIP ENDS AFTER 15 YEARS A. Max. former partner of Grock, has arrived in Belgrade with hia new partner and is playing the cabarets. Max left Grock not long ago, after a partnership of 15 years. The two partners never spoke, for the last 10 years, except during the per- formances. Plays Abroad TOUCH WOOD London, May 19. 'Play In three acta by C. L. Anthony, pre- sented By Horace . Watson at the Haymar. ket,: May IT. Production by Uasll Dean. Elizabeth Entlcknnp Flora Robson Julian Chance. A,;....'..... Dennis Arundell Wllllahri Berriilge .....Stafford Hllllard Arnold l'oole Krlc Cowley' Sylvia Herrlot. . , , . ...i^.. . . . . .Mur.le N.ey Robin Herrlot...... ».,.,. Ian Hunter Annie McCrotM'u Elliot Mason Vera Berrldgc ............. , Oriel Ross Fi-ed McCrossan ; : . .-Krunjc I'etllnpell Mab Lawrence; . . . .-. Dorothy .Hyson Nonny Lawrence. . L'ameUi Standlsh ssdward Lnwrerir-e . . .Desmond Tester One or two of the daily newspaper dra)natic critics' referred to this play as a modern version of . Ibsen's 'The blaster Builder.' it is by the au- thoress of 'Autumn Crocus* and 'Service.' The press opinions are, in the main, fulsome. The motivating event is the natu- ral falling- in love of. a 22-year-old girl with a married man of 40. At the finish one character says to an- other: 'My dear; man, what is there to make a play about:' By this ex- pedient the authoress disarms criti- cism, but even that doesn't explain the fulsomeness exhibited in the press reviews; Even if agreeing- with thfr writer that there is little to make a play about, one cannot help partially JigJCeeln^wjt^th^._^criUM that it is good entertainment, weir actPoT" albeit a trifle slow in Its develop- ment. Opening Just before the Whitsun holidays, business has been off in the orchestra stalls, but those con- nected with the- enterprise n.re con- fident, that as soon as thc» holidays are over, the- business will take a sensational spurt in the right direc- tion. The libraries, however, are not quite so sanguine and have adopted the more conservative atti - dido of preferring to wnit and sop. JolO. Tuesday, June 5, 1934 LEGITIMATE VARIETY 55 Chi Legit Threesome Holding On By Sharing $000 Grand Total Chicago, June . Cut-rates are holding two- thirds the local legit industry on the boards, The other third is manag- ing to get along with class trade at top prices. . Half price and service charge gag is bringing in whatever money 'I Loved You Wednesday* and ig Hearted Herbert' are getting. 'Her- bert' Is'; leading on present pace, though 'Wednesday' is displaying some hope of an increase, " The lat- ter has discontinued advertising in the dailies and is depending en- tirely on word-of -mouth and the cut-rate slips which are flooding the' town. It's a struggle, though,, all around and taking' plenty of cor-" n'er-cutting to get by. at grosses under $2,000. 'All the King's Horses' is the only Shubert show in town. Fig?* ures to. stick a couple weeks more. Nothing, else is slated for the. Loop, previous attractions planned failing to materialize. imatefi For Last Week 'All the King's Horses/ Grand (M-1,207; $2.75) (4th week). Doing better than $11,000 now and can stick at that pace. House is re- frigerated, which counts. Besides, it's the only musical in the town. 'Big Hearted Herbert,' Cort (C- l,i00; $1.50) (6th week). Dipped slightly to $2,700 last week but can go along: withont any serious trouble, at this pace. Low-cost ehow can go even lower without dipping into the red. T Loved You Wednesday,' Stude- baker (C-1,250; $1.50) (3d week). Holding around $2,000, which puts it. near the breaking line. , But a slight increase would erase all wor- ries. LYNCHBURG'S PROBLEM ON 'GREEN PASTURES' Duffy , on Coast, Takes Rights to milky Way' Hollywood, June 4. He.nry. Duffy has acquired coast production rights to 'Milky Way,' current in New York, from Sidney Harmon and James R. Ullman. Production here planned by Duffy to start in the next six weeks; with Buster Keaton or Jack Oakie, con- sidered for the part created by Hugh O'Conneli; . Lynchburg, Va,, June. 4. Question has been raised here as to "whether it is 'proper' to play the all-Negro road show, 'Green Pas- tures,' in the all-white Paramount. Willis Grist, Jr., for Hunter Perry, operator; of the Paramount, has been approached to, "turn over the 1,800-seat house to the troupe for one night at $2 top. '"' Proposal was said to have been met with strong opposition from. C. M. Casey* major stockholder in the local theatres controlled by Perry. Another quoted as objecting is Richard P. Wagner, director of public safety and head . of the. police department. Grist is consulting other business men before making a. decision. One point raised is that Negroes will ob ject to an all-colored show playing in a house where no provision is made for seating them. The Par- amount .has no colored section. On the other hand, it; is feared whites, who regard the Par as a deluxer, will resent colored thespians on boards. Show played many other cities of the south last year with great success, and, so far as known, with out the local question being brought up. Nearby Roanoke, the first city on last year's 'Green Pastures' route, played, the show to S.R.O in a house with a Negro gallery. Greensboro, in North Carolina, pre- sented the Negro players with a key to the city. Pitts' Civic Playhouse Doing 6 B'way Shows Pittsburgh, June 4. Pittsburgh to have its second summer drama season with Civic Playhouse, semirpro group which organized last season, presenting a series of six Broadway shows which have never played here. They'll be offered oh a subscription basis at Arnold School theatre. Season, opens week of June 25 with 'Curtain Rises/ to be followed every other week by 'Green Bay Tree,' 'Oliver Oliver/ 'Her Master's Voice,' 'The Shining Hour' and Dark Tower,' Weeks between sub- scription plays will be devoted to new works, foreign translations and couple of locally written pieces. Playhouse is again under general management of M. E. Flerst. .A IN SMART NEW GARB The non'Smarting, tear'proof, per/ fectly harmless mascara preferred by the profession for seventeen years, is how contained in an ultra'Smart polished gold and scar' let metal case. Black, Brown of Blue . . . still "75C St all leading toilet goods counters. MASCARA Akst Working with Lew Brown on Summer Show Fleet the Malarkey to Producers As Biz Drops; 'Mary' Tops with 23G Hollywood, June 4. Harry Akst, who has been writing tunes on. the Fox lot for the past 'six months, hopped to New York by plane over the weekend. Went -east . to work with Lew Brown on tunes of,a Show the latter will produce this summer. Frisco Dark San Francisco, June 4. All Frisco legit houses are dark again, with nothing doing until June 25 when Henry Duffy opens 'Shining Hour* with Jane Cowl at the Cur- ran. He is now casting fo the shew in Hollywood. 'She Loves Me Not' folded at the Curran after two fairish weeks un- der the Homer Curran banner, and house remains dark until Cowl. Co- lumbia, Alcazar and Geary also un- lighted. ROGERS IN AH' GRABS BIG $13,000 Los Angeles, June 4. •Ah, Wilderness,' in second week at El Capitan, hung up . a record week, with the holiday and an extra mat sending the take close to $13,- 000. Biz so healthy Will Rogers consented to a Sunday .mat, and may agree to an extension of the run beyond the ' three weeks orig inally set. . Ortly opposition is i'Bitter Har vest,' at. the Hollywood Playhouse, after bei.ng tried out with a semi- pro cast at the. Beverly Hills Little Theatre several weeks previous. 'Harvest' has started building and opening' week garnered close to $6,000, which plenty bke. Coast tour is expected to follow local run. Estimates For Last Week 'Ah, Wilderness/ El Capitan (2d week) (C-l,571-$1.65). Film colony and other admirers of Will Rogers are giving this O'Neill opus a big play, with nightly and Saturday reg- ular mats at near capacity. One more week skedded, but engage- ment will probably be prolonged. Second week at close to $13,000, plenty healthy. 'Bitter Harvest/ Hollywood Play- house (1st week) ,(CP-1,162-$1.65), Initial stanza garnered close to $6,000, which took care of all ex- penses .and left a little over for Mel. Brown on His first straight legit venture. Akron's 1st in 2 Years Akron, 6., June 4. Ed Clarke Lilley and his director, Bern! Steel, have arrived Here ttnd started rehearsals for the Akron Guild Players, who open a Summer run at the Colonial today (4). Premiere offering, 'Big Hearted Herbert.' It is Akron's first stock in more than two years. Guest star policy will be inaugurated later in the season. » SHOWMEN SHAKE HANDS ACROSS SEA (Left to Right)-A. B. IWARCUS, Managing Director of pf^jii^DQ er MARCUS SHOW now touring the Far East 5£aRLES NAGAL, Nippon Minister of Overseas Affairs, and CHAHLta HUGO, Director of MARCUS SHOW tour, as the distinguished statesman congratulates Yankee entrepreneurs on Success of the attraction in Tokyo. $7,500 FOR HERBERT,' PHDIY'S ONE AND ONLY Philadelphia, June 4. Philly'e one remaining legit is doing exceptionally well. It. is 'Big Hearted Herbert*, and present indi- cations are that it will hold on at the Broad for four weeks and pos- sibly more. House not . expected to get another attraction; $7,600 for the Lean-May- field vehicle meant profit. 'Drunkard's' 4th Dallas, June 4. The Drunkard' has gone, into its fourth' week here. Hearn apd Gunn's Madcap Players, in a tent show op- posite the Ford plant; picked up the piece while still on, the Coast, put in tables for the audience and asked them to drink 3.2 while also Imbib- ing the drammer. Hisses for the villain, and- cheers for the hero were requested on the program, and the response was 100%. Admish was upped to 55c to cover free beer. This stand did a cleanup on 'Ten Nights' some weeks previously, while in another part of the city the town's main little theatre has been guessing 'em wrong all season with disastrous results. Current Road Shows (Week of June 4) .S pringfield , Katharine- Cornell, ■1-6; Boston, 7-0. Gilbert & Sullivan Co., Shubert, Boston. ^ 'Ah, Wilderness' (Will Rogers), El Capitan, Los Angeles. 'Bitter Harvest" Hollywood Play- house, Hollywood; •Alt the King's Horses,' Grand, Chicago. 'Big Hearted Herbert,' Cort, Chi- cago. 'I Loved You Wednesday,' Stude- bakei Chicago. Broadway wrongly figured imme- diate better hient from crowds at- tracted by the fleet. The naval dis- play did attract throngs, but the people went to see, the warships on the Hudson and riot to the theatres. Fleet arrived late Thursday (31) afternoon and that evening 6aw a drop in attendance. Hot weather also smacked the box offices.- The sailors on shore leave passed up all types of theatres, playing the dance halls and wet spots. How- ever, it is certain that the gobs and the visitors drawn to town will spend plenty of coin and. that Should result in better business, even if after the navy takes to the sea two and one -half weeks after arrival. Added matinees last week her cause of Memorial Day (30) mostly flivVed, the heat being responsible But in the face of drooping trade, ■Mary of Scotland* got $23,000. in nine performances and topped the list. . Final appearances of the show's leads (Helen Hayes and Philip Merlvale) provided the draw 'Mary,' with another cast, moved from the Alvin to the Guild and summer, holdover is hoped for.. 'As Thousands Cheer' was ruriner-Up at approximately $22,000, 'Dodsworth' running third with $19,600. 'Follies' will close this week at the Winter Garden, leaving four musicals to start the summer counting 'Caviar,' which }s due (Thursday (7) at. the Forrest. The others are 'Cheer,' . 'Roherta' and 'New Faces.' Due off Saturday, too, is 'Every Thursday/ Royale. 'Come What May' bowed out of the Plym outh last Saturday. Two shows open this week, but nothing new is slated for Broad- way next week, save 'Ten Nights in the Barrbooin;' with Yale players at the Venice (formerly Jolson's) Estimates JFor Last Week 'Are You Decent?' Ambassador (8th week). (C-i,166-$3,30). Geared to l'o along at light coin; business approximated $3,000 weekly; with rent off okay with house, too. 'As Thousands Cheer/ Music Box (36th week) (R-l,000-$4.40). -r Heat wave took gross toll from leaders and extra matinee - (Memorial Day) no. aid; estimated around $22,000. 'Caviar,' Forrest (1st week) (M l,076-$3.30). Presented by Pat Leonard; musical . comedy is first of its type this summer; opens Thurs day (7). .'Come What May,' Plymouth Withdrawn Saturday; played about 'Dodsworth,' Shubert (15 week) (CD-l;387-$3.30). Dramatic leader stands out among biggest money draws; despite weather last week' takings nearly $20,000. 'Every* Thursday,' Royale (5th week (C-900-$3.30). Slated to slide next' Saturday; among, lowest grossers; maybe $2,000 from 40c admissions. * 'Folljes,' Winter Garden (23rd week) (R-l,483-$4.40).' Final week; added performance last week failed to help; estimated around $15,000; off until new season for Chicago, y 'Furnished Rooms,' Ritz (2nd week) (C-918-$2.75). Panned plenty and has no chance; house guaran- teed; only reason it continues; 'Invitation to Murder,' Masque (4th week) (D-789-$2.75). Expected to stick; slightly better last week with takings claimed topping $4,000. 'Jig Saw,' Barrymore (6th, week) (C-l,096-$3.30). Again around $10,- 000, which indicates comedy has good chance for summer continu- ance. 'Mary of Scotland/ Guild (28th week) (D-914-$3.30). Moved here from Alvin; with substitutions in lead parts gross expected to drop; $23,000 last week, was top gross on Broadway. * 'Men in White/ Broadhurst: (37th week) (D-l,118-$2.75). Picture 1 ver- sion gets first exhibition here (Capi- tol) Friday (8), but stage show in- definite; quoted at $10,000 last week. 'New Faces/ -Fulton (13th week) (R-900-$3.30). Intimate revue mod- erate grosser aided by out rates ap- proximated $8,000 last week. 'No More Ladies/ Morosco (20th week) (C-916-$2.75). Eased off fur- ther,., but should improve with cool- er weather which started week; $7,000. 'Roberta/ New Amsterdam (29th week) (M-l,717-$3.30). 'Lower floor prices revised, with $2.20 applying to rear rows; off to $14,000 and less, but should come. back. 'Sailor Beware/ Lyceum (36th week) (C-923-$3.30). Fleet did not help; takings down around $5,000.; with cast on.. »ercentage ,.tliat,be t.ter.s. der $7,000 last week,, profit at that fisure; until end of July. 'While Parents Sleep/ Playhouse 1st week) (C-869-$3.30). Presented by William A. Brady; run comedy, from. England Written by Anthony Kinimins; opened Monday. Other Attractions 'Stevedore/ Civic Rep 14th street success. •The Drunkard,' revival; night draw with beer in East 65th street. •The Only Girl/ 44th Street; re- vival withdrawn last Saturday. Grand Opera, Hippodrome; td'p. Stage-Screen Ulen in White On Broadway Stage and screen presentations of 'Men In White* will be opposed: Broadway, starting Friday (8), when the picture goes on at the Capitol, Drama is current at the Broadhurst, where summer holdover is anticlr pated. Show is in its 37th week. Recent average gross for the Pulitzer prize winner has approximated $10,000 weekly. When. Metro bought the film rights the release date . was. set for June 1 in New York, out-of-town releases being April 1. Because of contract the legit code regulation, which bars picture exhibition 'of..*, play during Its stage run, does noi apply. 'Men' has been shown in stock in a number of stands/but the original -company is booked to open in Bos- tori early in October. Cast will re- main there for. ' repertory, another company touring the drama to other key cities. G.&S. REVIVALS SOLE LEGIT LEFT IN BOSTON , , June, 4. Shubert, only survivor in local legit field, tonight (Monday) pre- sents S. M. Chartbck's second offer- ing in series of four Gilbert-Sulli- van revivals, 'Pirates of Penssance.* to be followed Thursday (7) by 'Pinafore' and 'Tried by Jury/ split week, in an effort to overcome 'Barretts of Wimpole Street/ Last week, 'The Mikado' was well, re- ceived and garnered a splendid $8,600. Katharine Cornell and her >4 Bar- . : retts of- Wimpole Street' company halt here for four performarices at Boston Opera House. ' Open Thurs- day (7); matinee on Saturday. Ad- vance sale, very cheerful. Will be sole dramatic attraction and should do near-capacity, Miss Cornell great favorite here and broke Shubert house record during previous 'Bar** rett' engagement. even break. 'She Loves e Not/ 46th St. (33d. week) (C-l,413-$3.30). Laugh show should come hack when summer influx starts; slipped under $10,000 last week.. •The Milky Way/ Cort (5tli week) (C-l,057-$2,75). Mao Murray's en- trance* into cast may help, but tiwle so fir disappointing after good no- tices; $5,000. 'Tobacco Road/ 48th St. (27th week) (D-969-$3.30). Kawed off un- LOTS to live FOR .... PLENTY to live WITH . ... when you get older... IF YOU HAVE THE MONEY! 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That copyright protection shall be extended to the following literary \ and artistic works r 'All productions in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever the' mode or form "of expression, such, as: books, pamphlets and other writings; lec- tures, addresses, sermons and other works of like nature ; ' dramatic , or dramatico-musical ' works; choreo- graphic works, and. pantomimes, the staging (mlse eh scene) of which is fixed in writing or otherwise; mu- sical compositions with or without words-; drawings! paintings; works of architecture and sculpture; en- gravings and lithographs; illustra- tions, geographical charts; plans, sketches and plastic works relating, to geography, topography, archi- tecture, or the sciences.' Also cov- ers 'translations, adaptations,, ar-. rangemehts of music and other re 7 productions transformed from, a lit- erary "or artistic work, as well as compilations from different works.' 2. Authority to exclude; partially or wholly, political discourses or debates is reserved to individual countries!. Each nation may provide own conditions under which lec- tures, addresses, sermons and like works may be reproduced by the press. 3. The convention extends to pho- tographic works and 'to works ob- tained by any process analogous to •^/photography.' 4. Authors in one country ehall enjoy in other countries the rights given to their nationals. 5. Representation of a dramatic or- dramatico-musical work, per formance of musical production, exhibition of work of art, or con- struction of piece of architecture does not ■ constitute 'publication.' 6. Authors not within Jurisdic- tion of a country of the union may obtain protection, in all countries by publishing /works In one of the member countries. But when an outside country does. not. protect In an adequate manner the works of authors within the union, pro- tection for outsiders may be con- ditioned or restricted. 7. Author retains right to object to changes in his work 'which may be prejudicial to his honor or to his reputation.' 8. Period of protection extends 50 years beyond life of ihe*author, sub Ject to limitations imposed by mem ber nations. For collaborators, pro tectlon is determined by death of last survivor. 9. Serial storied published in papers or magazines of one country may not be reproduced in other countries without author's consent. Economic, political, or religious ar- ticles may be reproduced unless right is expressly reserved > 10. Protection does' not cover •news of the day' or 'miscellaneous news having the character merely of press information*' 11. Right to borrow lawfully from literary .or artistic works is gov- erned by. legislation of each country, and any treaties, between individual nations. 12. Stipulations of the convention Lpply 'to the publife repi-esehtation* of dramatic, dramatico-musical and musical works 'whether these works are published or not.' Authors pro tected against unauthorized public representation of a translation. 13. Authors enjoy exclusive right to authorize use of their works for ^.broadcasting under conditions pre "scribed by each nation. 14. Unlawful reproductions in- clude 'indirect, unauthorized appro- ;i ^^priations^of^a^literar-y^or^artistic ""Vwork, such as adaptations, arrange ments of music, . transformations of a romance or novel or of a poem Into a theatrical piece and vice versa, etc., when they are only the reproduction of such work in 'the "same form or in another form with non-essential changes, additions or abridgements and without present- ing the character of a. new, original Work.' 15. Subjeot to domestic restric- tions. Of ieach nation, authors of musical works have sole right to authorize adaptation for mechanical reprodu > and public perform- ance by mechanical means; 16. Authors have sole right to authorize reproduction, adaptation and presentation of works by cine- matograph. Cinematographic pro- ductions protected as literary works when author gives the work an orig- inal character, but if this character la missing the protection is the same as photographic works. 17. . Author's name must be signed to give him protection. Work pub- lished under anonymous or pseu- donymous name is, protected under name of the publisher who is the representative of the author. 18. Infringements may be. seized by authorities of countries where the original work has right to legal protection. 19. Convention covers all. works Which have not fallen into the. pub- lic domain of the, country of origin because of expiration of copyright term. No new protection afforded works which have fallen into, the public domain. Non- Story Pi Recent sales of book matter for pictures once more . prove that a best-selling volume, with little ot. ho picture angles, has as good, or better, chance of purchase for films than a little known work of narra- tive fiction. Such books as 'Life Begins at 40' and 'The First World War* have been bought for pictures, while nu- merous pieces of fiction go begging. 'Life Begins' at 40' is. nothing more than a health treatise, while 'The First World War' is a compilation of photographs of the World War. Purchases of the picture rights in both cases were actuated by the value of the titles and the ideas they may possess, Last year Universal acquired the film. rights ".to the news record 'Only Yesterday.' Company used only the title, which it affixed to a foreign play. Pub*. Ask Plagiarism Immunity That $100,000 plagiarism suit now pending, in which P. F. Collier & Sons Co., publisher of Collier's, is co-defendant with Edward Gard- ner, Jr., author of a story that ap- peared in the mag a year ago and allegedly plagiarized, is claimed by] publishers to be a grossly unfair) situation. It is their contention that the publisher of a plagiarized story should not be held liable with the plagiarist. Publishers point out that it is utterly impossible to determine" If I a submitted story is an original or a. copy. There is no means of checking up on stories, and an edi- tor would have to read — an*-remem- ber — everything published to spot an infringement. Various means are used by some of the mags to avoid Just such an occurrence as the difficulty now faced by Collier's, but they are not] wholly satisfactory. Some mags accept a story only on condition that the author attest to Its orig- inality arid absolve the publica- tion of any possible plagiarism suit Other mags, like the Munsey group, pay new authors, or those .Unknown to the editor, after publi- cation on the chance that the same story may be claimed by another. Publishers, however, don't want to rely oh authors' statements and the memories of editors to avoid suits for plagiarism, and feel that the law should be so amended, that the blame would be placed solely on the plagiarizing soribbler.. Suit against Collier's and Gard- ner was brought by Robert Wins- more. Wlnsmore' charged that the Gardner story was a copy of his 'Almost . Rellly,* which appeared in the Satevepost. in 1931. Best Setters Best Sellers for the week ending June 2 ■• reported by the American News Co, I no. ..Fiction 'Anthony Adverse' ($3.00) ........... ..».:....>.... f ..By Heryey Alien 'Lamb in His Bosom? ($2,60). ..,.».,, i .•».;< . . . . ...By Caroline Miller 'Seven Men Came Back' ($2.50) , By Warwick Deeping 'Seven Gothic Tales' ($2.60) .By iBak DineSen •Tender Is the Night' ($2.50) '.......By F. Scott Fitzgerald 'Private Worlds' ($2.60) • .By Phyllis Bottdme ■While Rome Bums' ($2.76) .. . . .,v. ... . . . ;By Alexander Wopllcott 'Men in White* ($2.00) ....... ....... , .... . . . ... . . .By Sidney Klngsley 'Robber Barons' ($3.00) .......... By Matthew Josephson •Life Begins at Forty' ($1;60) .....> By" Walter B. Pitkin •100,000,000 Guinea Pigs' ($2.00) By Arthur Kallet and P.. J. Schlink •Native's Return' ($2.76) » >. -By Louis Adamio . & ft. Soloing Farrar & Rinehart not joining those book publishers who have agreed not to publish any story of 30,000 words, or' more, that has ap- peared In three installments or less in a mag. That house is getting out Leslie Ford's 'The Strangled WitneBs,' which originally rah com- plete in a single issue of the Ameri- can Magazine. » ' P u b 1 ishers* agreement was prompted by the growing competi- tion of the mags that carry 'novel- length stories' in a single issue. Stephens' Nazi Run-in Pembroke Stephens, "British news paper lad, expelled from Germany by authorities ^nrho were offended by. the despatches Stephens relayed to his London sheet, was the corre- spondent for the London' .'Dally Ex- press.' Stephens sent first-hand de scriptions of conditions in Germany to London and these apparently were unfavorable to the present German regime. In the May 16th issue of the Lon- don "Daily Express,' under Stephens' by-line, appeared a supposed first- hand account of conditions in Ham burg. His despatch .calls Hamburg ■'a graveyard among cities,* and he cites that war-time scenes of suf fering have returned to that town as the export 'trade, on which Ham burg depends, went completely flop ro under the Hitler policies. Stephens mentions interviews with working-men and sailors who, ac- cording to his despatch, are dissat isfled with the Hitler rule. Condi tldns, he stated, are so bad that the poor of the city are brewing corn coffee . as ' a substitu te. ltd Convention Cuffos More from hither and yon are getting their land legs after sessions with overland rattlers, while at least another 100 are coming into St. Paul via their, own cars to attend the American Newspaper Guild's first annual con- vention in the Minnesota capital. Begins today (6). Delegates are guests of the Newspaper Guild of; the Twin Cities, with Bob Thomp- son of the St. Paul Dispatch acting as general convention committee chairman. N ' Bob Fitzsimmons, St. Paul Daily News, is chairman Of the week-end committee and hai arranged for the scribes to hie up to Pino Beach Ho- tel at Brainerd, Minn., after close of convention' biz on Thursday (7) and stay through Sunday (10). Here the boys will loll under pines, and fish and golf, while George Snell of the Dispatch has recruited some two dozen of the hardier souls to ex- plore the wllderneas water trails of Minnesota for another week or so. Governor Olson has expressed himself in the public prints as amenable to . the idea of the news men and gals, too, visiting any and ail. parts of the state carte blanche during their stay here. George H. Bradley, state tourist director, is working hand-in-glove with the guilders, to plant the Mln nesota hospitality idea with the view 'to- attracting future, steady tourist patronage. O. O. Tops^-400 Papers , Odd Mclntyre is currently syndi- cated in 400 newspapers which still tops all daily columnists. , Nearest to O.O. is Will Rogers in the num- ber of tubscriblng - papers but the rubber band chewer is" not actually a columnist. Widest distributed writer of the type had a contender in Arthur Brisbane but the latter's daily com- ment is more restricted than for- merly. Mc In tyre's Sunday letter ap- pears in as many if hot more pa- pers than the daily column. ft iJJJVai: New Mag Promoters Warren Bower, Samuel Spelsman and . David. Perlof have formed a new mag holding company called the Publishers. Syndicate of Amer- ica. Propose to issue a group of new and old periodicals,. Understood they will acquire a number of mags, to which will later be added a couple of new publica- tions. Brooks to Coast George S. Brooks, short story writer and author of the play 'Spread Eagle,' has gone to Holly- wood to write for Paramount. _Eour^-years^=ago^he^=was=6n--the- Coast as. a writer for Fox. He is a former Rochester, N. Y., police re- porter. rs. Briggs Hurt Marie C. Briggs, widow oC the late Clare, lirlggs, cartoonist, suf- fered severe wrist Injuries in an automobile accident in Fort Wayne, Ind., while driving to a hospital to visit her mother, who is how a patient. Collins Finally Starts James Collins, who began mak ing. plans to go into book publish ing on his own as far back as a year ago, gets started . this week. He will bring out as his first book, 'Slightly Sour Grapes,' by Evelyn Love Cooper. The new book pub was last with the old Liverlght concern, which he served as sales manager. In addi tion to his work in the book field, he. served in editorial posts on a number of mags, including. Life and Judge. Samuels Switches Arthur H. Samuels, editor of Harper's Bazaar,: has been appoint ed editor of House Beautiful, com blned with Home and Field. Ap- pointment was made by Richard Berlin, general manager of the Hearst mags. Stewart Beach, who edited the mag since the merger, stays on as associate editor. New chief editor of Harper's Bazaar, succeeding Samuels, is Carel Snow, formerly the period- ical's fashion editor. Another new appointment on Harper's Bazaar Is that of Kathryn Bourne as fiction editor. Miss Bourne formerly served as an associate editor of Cosmo- politan. novel, 'The . Ancestor,': July 6. ' Val Lewton, former p a., will have another novel released next month »y Vanguard. - T,he title had to come up sooner or later.. One of the summer books - will be 'Murder Among the Nudists.' With a contract from Houghton Mifflin for a new book, Maude Parker Will go to Wyoming to write It. Harleigh Schdltz and wife (m. p. ed of Boston American) to Los An- geles via boat June 3 on six weeks' vacash. Bellamy . Partridge now an editor for William Godwin. Used to be with rentano's in the same ca- pacity; James T. Farrell doing his new novel at Yaddo. Evelyn Scott has left .Yaddo to write her next book in Jersey. .. Robert Behchley's answer to James Cain's 'The Postman Always" Rings Tiyice* Is 'The Milkman Usu- ally Forgets.' Frank E. Gannett is the latest publisher to purchase a plane, for personal use and to fill rush assign- ments for the Gannett papers. Thayer Ridgeway, former ad copywriter, has moved into Yosem- ite, Cal., for the summer to write a novel, "Voice of Romance,* about a radio station. Robert Baral, Fort Wayne, In- diana,, newspaperman, has authored a fan article on Carole Lombard, formerly of Fort Wayne, for Screenland. Josephine Lawrence, Newark newspaper woman,, has had her novel, 'Years Are So Long,' picked by the Book-of-the-Month Club as its July selection. Longest book title of the season is Robert Harborough Sherard's 'Oscar Wilde Twice Defended from. Andre Gide's Wicked Lies juid Frank Harris's Cruel Libels.* Ed Delaney's B'way^Yarn Ed Delaney, former . advertising chief of Xioew's, has written a Broadway novel, 'A Lady, by De-. grees,' published by the Reilly and Lee Co., Chicago. Delaney's tale concerns the rise of a chorus girl, and the yarn trickles through the prohibition, racketeer era into the New Deal. Tower Title Changes Two of the three original Tower mags have changed their Identities, illustrated Love Magazine under- went a change of title to Serenade when Ruth Raphael left the Hearst mags to become its editor. More recently the Illustrated Detective Magazine became Mystery Maga- zine. Only the Home Magazine retains the title with which it started. Eddie Cantor's article, veek ago (28). J. A. Chambers; .Crossley techni- cian, tells radio engineers lit Phila- helphia that future stations will be fewer and bigger. •> Dramatists Guild quits the NRA Theatre Authority. Resignation ac- cepted by code officials. Stage- Children's school held grad- uation exercises last Wednesday. Gave 'short plays in Avon theatre. Otis Skinner handed the diplomas. Rose C. Frledmman Ales default Judgment for $33,473 against Gene Buck. On a note given the late Otto Kahn for $25,000 made in 1927. W. A. Brady, Jr., hooks. Harry Davenport to a contract for next •season for 'Too Many Boats/ Prohibition off, but Treasury re- ports 289 stills raided in week of May 19, With 443 arrests. N.:Y. con- tributed. 45 of them, with a com- bined capacity of 11,270 gallons. Julius Hopp arranging an Indian Village and outdoor theatre to de- pict manners " and customs for the Newspaper Club at Holmes airport, v Jackson Heights. Indian villages were all the rage 50 years ago, but unknown since the wild West; Lyda Roberti boots Hollywood tc remain in ^Roberta.' Hippodrome to drop Mdnday per- formances and Saturday mats dur- ing the summer,. Alleged gorilla, really a chimpan- zee, broke loose at" Coney Wednes- day while being unloaded into a sideshow. Climbed up on the ele- vated structure and narrowly es- caped electrocution. . Finally col- lected and back in her cage. ' 'Mississippi Showboat Players Frpm the Golden Gate' will take over , the Lyceum Hall, on 3d avenue for a' drama and beer show. Will play 'She Done Him Wrong, Our Nell.' Laurence Schwab will spot his •Hide and See*' at the Mansfield. To start rehearsals July 15. Formerly 'Snatch as Snatch Can.' Clifford Fischer acrived Wednes- day with some 75 members of the Parisian cabaret for the Fair. There are 60 women and 11 men in . the troupe. George James Hopkins will have •His Favorite Wife' tried out at Ogunqult, Me., this summer. May- be for FayMarbe. r ■. Max Gordon will not try to replace Walter Huston in 'DodsWorth.' Will open again in the fall. Some 600 naval officers and their wives will visit BObby Sanford's l i i i i i i i i i i i ii ii I I I l l l I I r-l l M I III I I l l i l i ii II l n I i I I I News From the Dailies This department contains rewritten theatrical news items as published during the week in the daily papers of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Hollywood and London. Variety iakes no credit for these news items; each. has been rewritten from a daily paper. umnmmntttmitiiMr it New York Theatres] > mmn[iiiiimiii m „«„„■„„„„ j ?~ RKO THEATRES 86 T " ST. n UMtCTM 81" ST. / Wed. to FrK. June. 6 to 8 Itohlnt Heur" and "Uncertain Lady" , Wltenlaa Hour" * j / "Sueeeaa. at- Any / • PrKe" On Screen WALLACE BEERY in "VIVA VILLA" On Stage— Everatt MARSHALL Barrah MINNEVITCH, Pa- ^.trlela B0WMAN.,0th3. • Coming Friday iTAfl Clark Gable In |^^"Men In While" BING r CROSBY BURNS. A ALLEN In "We're Not Pressing" „ . On the Stnaje SMITH *' DAUB— Other* showboat tonight (Tuesday) as the guests of the Day Line. Lawrence Langner to open his Westport (Conn.) summer season with an operetta, 'Chimes of Nor- mandy.' 'Stevedore' will give a" benefit for the Actors' Fund Sunday (10) at the Civic Repertory; ' Raid last week uncovered thb Brooklyn printing plant of a, lottery scheme supposed to garner about $750,000 a week. Twelve persons taken, but all' refused to talk. ry weather and careless campers have shut N. Y, state forests. Sey- efal big fires started, supposedly by campers. Decision was reserved in White Plains court in the ^application of Mrs. Berte Rer.ihger, "of Larchmont, for $5,000 Weekly alimony pending decision in. her separation, suit. Her husband, Sol Berlnger, was. willing to sever the shackles, but objected to the alimony. He is said to have angeled a number of stage produc- tions. Mae Murray to replace. Gladys George in 'The Milky Way.' Billy Rose planning to tour his Casino de Paree show next winter.. To add three hew acts and play au- ditoriums, as he. did with 'pra?.y Quilt.' . American Civic Opera Co., being organized for light ops. Will, open June 18 at the Lyric. 'Bohemian Girl' the first whirl. TW6 weeks ago a jury in White Plains nixed Abraham Abrams suit for divorce against his wife, Shirley. Last week the court declined to award her the >custody Of their son pending trial of her separation suit. Abrams, theatrical producer, ap- peared to have a cinch case until his, sister confessed, she had helped frame Mrs. Abrams. Court also en- joined Abrams from taking any fur-' ther legal steps until he comes across with the $25 a Week alimony awarded. - Prince' Serge Obolensky before the British' consul in N. Y. last week to give testimony in the divorce case brought in London by Edward F. W, .James, whose wife is known to the stage as Tilly Losch. Failed to convince the consul that it was not he who kissed the dancer at various specified places, so he . announced he's off to London to fight the case there. Mrs. James . went across April 7. Gus Hill is having a hew version made of 'Our .'American Cousin,' in which Laura Keene was playing at Ford's when Lincoln Wag shot Plans to give ft serious production, in Sep- tember. Alice Faye back from Hollywood. Just a vacation and then back to the grinding camera's grind. Mauch Chunk switchback railway, Which gave the idea for the roller coaster, for. sale. Taken over frOmi the Jersey Central Ave years ago by local business men. Now they're tired of .it.. Army officers planning a strato sphere -trip from Philadelphia will make special tests for radio fading and dead spots. Vodka distillery started- in Bethel, Conn., birthplace of P. T. Barnum Latest Washington rumor is that Mary Pickford may- run for Con- gress. She says it's not true. Perry Roystoh, of the Timber Point country club, Great River, L. I., soaked $200 counsel fees to his wife, pending her suit for divorce. Alimony .denied. 'Caviar,' set to open last night (Monday), put over to. Thursday. Elihii players; of Yale, and Smith College girls Will open at the former Jolson theatre, N. Y., Monday (11) in. what is announced as a 'serious' presentation of '10 Nights in a Bar- room.' Pretzels and beer out. George Mandis, arrested in the Al bee, Brooklyn, May 27, Was given a 30- JOHN C. RICE In Xovlng and Devoted Memory SALLY COHEN-RICE Reed, and was for five years stage director of the Proctor 5th avenue theatre stock. He had. staged, a. number, of important productions.; Interment in Philadelphia. MLLE. FAYOLLE Paris', May" Mile. Fayolle, 68, (like many French actresses, she never used A first name), formerly of the Come- die Francaise, died in Paris May 22. She started on France's ace stage In 1876, and for. 43 years remained with the company. She was never starred, but frequently took- im- portant ;parts,. and was, considered •an . excellent repertory player. GLADYS RICE Montreal. Howevr , medic'ihe did not interest him and he joined a stock company ih North Carolina His first stage job was lh 'Pierre of the Plains.' Quitting the stage in 1915 to enter the picture biz, Cody was leading man for Thomas Ince. ;and Metro after' Which he turned producer and made several films, in 1929 Cody made his first talker. His last was 'Shoot the Works* at Paramount, last week. r .. . Cody was married .twice; His first wife was Dorothy Daltbn, who Is now the wife of Arthur Hammer ' stfein. In 1926 he'married Miss Nbr tnarid, who died to 1»30; ; When he arid Miss Normand eloped to Ventura; Cal., for ; the wedding Cody had to borrow. $20 to pay expenses., > Funeral • services . . were > .. held 4n, Hollywood. ; Saturday <(,3). ..-.There were nor pallbearers.. The body was sent to his home, in Maine fpr prin vate interment. MRS. V^ILSCN TODD Mrs. Wilson ,Todd, &2, „ former stock actress, killed herself in a. leap from the 11th floor of the Hotel Lawrence', Erie, Pa., May 29. Firian cial reverses and domestic trouble given as the cause. With Her hus- band' she trouped in repertoire and stock for thirty years, settling in Erie about five years ago. Her maiden and stage name was Tressle J. : Canada; Husband : could not be located. Friends rescued her body from Poster's Field. She, was bprn in North . ' Two sons survive. robert j. .Woodman Robert J. Woodman, 79, for, many ''years ~a"SHairespearean- actor, died May 22 at his home in .Cleveland Mr; 'Woodman, .came to Cleveland's years ago, and was associated with EUGENIE BE3SERER Eugenie Besserer, 64, actriess, ied in Los Angeles May 30 while she was planning her golden Wedding anniversary to Albert' W. Hegger; She went to Hollywood in 1910. She made her stage debut with Maurice Barrymore; , and stage ' arid screen career covered a period of 50 years. '. Survived by the husband and a daughter. JAMES F. ARCHIBALD James F. Archibald,' 71, known an the dean of War correspondents, committed 'suici in Hollywood May 29. He had. Jived in Hollywood fpr 15 years,, among his war ..relics. He began his career in the days of ,the western Indian Wars and had covered- 23 conflicts all over the world. B'way Whitewashing? Broadway may get a fresher appearance by giving, many of the dirty, old buildings border- ing it a cosmetic treatment. Supporters of the Bring Back Broadway movement, the Broadway Association and business men feel it's £hout ' time something, was done about the eyesores along the street. Radio Chatter (Continued from page 42) sic for broadcast, it was permitted Installation was made in time to get 45 seconds of the rhythm. Carl Zomar, WSOC, Charlotte, N. C, mystic, hynotized a girl ih a local store window, saying the magic hocus pOcus' over the radio, the pub- iject getting it over a radio receiv- ing set. He claimed it was the first hypnosis via air waves and without the eagle eye. vama Barney Ross G In Trimming LOUISE GRANDJEAN Louise Grandjean, 64, for many years lyric soprano at the Opera and Opera Comlque; died in Parisr May 21. In her later years she was a teacher at the Conservatory. Miss Grandjean started her oper- atic, career at the age of 23, and her •principal roles were in 'Mignon,' Falstaft>* 'Lohengrin,' 'Aida,'. 'Tanri- hauser' • and 'the 'Meister.singers.' SAM CLOyER 1 Sam iplov.er, i editor of . the Lob Angeles iSaturday Night, died in Los Angeles May. 55*. He was born m London in 1859 and was educated, ih England. He entered newspaper Work there,, but . .came to' the U. S. 'arid' "VprHed'. on various, .papers throughout... the country. His wife 'died six weeks ago.' BO N I T A. GIB BO N 8 •Jolly' Bonita Gibbons, 63, fat Woman of , Midget City kx the Fair, died in Chicago June 2, of , heart disease. Though only 46 inches tall she weighed 229 pounds. Had spent years with circuses and museums. Interment Bourbon, Irid. Alan Muncie, WCAU engineer, the bouncing pop of a six-pound baby girl. Andy Stanton, WIP sportscaster, lost plenty of meals on that Ber- muda trip. 'Harold Knight's or unit sighs with CBS for, coming road tours. Bob Bennett gets the Wilmington Country Club job. Philly Record planning revolu ;tionary idea in the news handling of entertainment phases. Powers Gouraud importing per- fumed carnations daily from New York. . Helen Grey, WFI p. a., setting a new interview series with Phllly's political great Mort Schwartz married a swell looking spouse. - Pat Haley, who has worked for both WCAEand KDKA in Pitts- burgh, to Chicago - to audition for NBC WCAE to build half -hour local show weekly under direction of Frosty Harris to give Pittsburgh talent a break. Show went on for Eddie Peyton over WJAS, Pittsburgh; despite death of his father just a short time before. . Dutch Haid, announcer at WWSW. laid up with a blood hem orrhage. . Elsie Wyland of WWSW and J. Wilbert Smith will soon say 'I. do.' "' Jim Hays; radio ed of Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph and ah officer In the naval reserve, will spend his vacation aboard a cruiser. WWSW celebrated its third an nlversary Decoration Day with, a special program, George Boeder in N. T. biz jaunt. DOLORES BACON . . Dolores, Bacon, 64, dramatic and fiction writer, died of heart" trouble to NeW York, June 3. Under, the h^me of Dolores Mar- bury she wrote 'Juggernaut,' 'End r Of the Century,* and 'Dead Heroes and Live Ones.' 1 When for the first time in ring history a lightweight champ wins the welterweight title, it's hews. That achievement shot Barney Ross of (Chicago into the ranks- of the greatest of little box- ers, for he not only outpointed Jimmy McLarnin, the knocker- out- er, but at the finish actually out- gamed the wearer of the green. Those fistieally minded want to •know what Ross is going to do with the 147 -pound laurel- now that he has got That is nothing to worry about— Barney thought so himself when training at Grossin- ger's country club and hotel, ' r Ferndale, N. Y. If the welter di- vision doesn't look inviting any longer, and .Ross can make the 135-, pound lightweight limit without lessening his stamina,, that crown can go back into open competition Then, too, there is a return match which Jimmy says he wants and Barney says he'll get. From the way Madison Square Garden howl across the bridge was attended, anil the fact that it looked very: close to many rlngslders, another great gate should be drawn in New York or elsewhere. When Leonard Misted Maryland IN MEMORY OF JACK— Eva 1 Fred Ward and John: Ellsler . stock company in Shakesp'earean reper- toire. He retired from the • stage several years ago and had been eh* gaged in the paint business there; Survived by his widow, two sons and three daughters. Interment in Cleveland. BEN GIROUX Ben Giroux, 71, died in Oakland, Calif., May 29. His fame dates back to Hooley's theatre, Chicago, and he managed the tour of 'Bird of -^Paradise: ? =^He^had^been^ln-ipoofe health for some time. His son, George, is a film salesman. Also survived by his widow. JULIAN REED Julian Reed», 74, veteran actor and stage manager; ' died of pneumonia in. the Englewood (N.J.) hospital May 21. He had been a guest of the Actors' Fund, home there fotf the post .10 yeara He played lot many seasons with bis uncle, Roland ■■ W« J» f»RESTON W. J. Preston/ 51, Tor .mah^. years' Qobrmah ;to .Seattle theatres',' re- cently, at ; Blue Mouse, ended , his life in Puget. Sound,' near Seattle, May 24. Disappointment in love is given as reason; \ . :alber>t c. geori i- .Albert 6< Georig, 70, prominent contractor and -operator of the Fol* lies (old Paritages) theatre, Seattle, a6out 'tw6 ye&rs . ago, ; died in , Se- attle, M.ay '23.' " VICTORIA HASTI Victoria .Hastings, actress, diea in Hollywood May ?4 from a heart ailment. She was the wife of Trevor Bland-Addinsell, British actor. JOHN H. ANSHUTZ John H. Ansh-utz, sec-treas, of Roton Point amusement park, died May-31- of--heart-attaGk,^Had ..been With the park for 26 years. LEW E DEL MAN Le*/ Edelman, formerly with Par- amount, died in New York May 30. Daughter, 16, of Morris Shulman, tJtica theatre manager and former Syracuse exhibitor, instantly killed ih automobile crash near Utica; other of Henry. Bergman, of Lydia Calvert, Balto News-Post fashion ed, ether debuting over WCBM. Besse Traub, Goucher grad, join ing WBAL's. commercial staff. Ether mob ribs El Gary, WBAL warbler, about the mash notes he receives, Jqst to glim his blushing The hour program WFBR fed the NBC red ribbon in honor of its 12th ann'y at midnight Sunday (3) used three announcers, Bert Han- auer, "Blaine CornweH and Henry Hickman. Eight warblers, Louis Ellwood Hawkins, Elsie Craft, Roy Williams, Louise Neunsinger, Thelma Viol, Beth /turner, Mary Wiley and Edgar Dobson. Male quartet composed . of Andrew Ham ilton, Brooks . O'Neil, William Aps ley and Fred Scheuerman. A femme foursome, Sarah Stulamah, Eliza beth Bolek, Alma Reitz and Ger aldine Mutter, plus a couple com posers; Franz Bornscheirt and Ed- mund Cook; the Baltimore Music Club; Sylvia Meyer,, solo harpist; Rangers Quartet and the WFBR Little Symphony under Joe Im- broguilio. All local, save the Three X's, in as guest, artists. Script was written up by Hammond Brown, quondam half-owner of the station and currently radio ed of the News- Post. a right to the jaw and sat doWn. Both were up without a count. Last' Round Told Anyway; the match is regarded if it was even up to the last round, Ross was rightfully the vic- tor. McLarnin was rapidly weak- ening and taking a pounding most of the final three minutes, his legs wobbling at times. Courage,' tenacity, skill spell the. mastery of the new double champ who was born in New York's east side. Dope told, it seems.. Several years ago Boss - beat ; Ray Miller, who stopped McLarnin in. Detroit, only later to put up a very bad exhibi- tion against Baby Face in the Gar- den. Barney' figured that if Ray could lick. Jimmy, he could do like? wise. Miller, didn't believe Ross could do it, probably because Ray once bdssed the kids in the. same Chicago neighborhood, until Ross became their idol. . Clark and Bergman, . and grand- mother of Millie Millard, of Millard and-Marlto,^JiefL )XL New. York May 29. dianapolis, age 72, after prolonged illness. Widow of Tom Smith, Ohio the- atre manager'; died .May 17 in Ham- ilton, O. Survived by two sons and a grandson./ Father of Edwin Booth, Metro exchange manager in Cincinnati, died May .25 at his home in In- -so did Jimmy. Possible because of Benny Leonard shbuld have won the double crown. When he was invincible lightweight ruler, he nearly kayoed Jack Britton. But when Jack was on one knee, they said.'Bennah tapped him and Wild disqualified; losing oh a foul," fcossjl as intelligent as Leonard, 1$ tem- permentally cooler and .probably wouldn't have made that mistake. Interest in the -Ross-McLarnin match was apparent • when> the men signed and grew as the "battle : date nearedi? The experts . didn't, seen willing to make up their, minds, .ant When they did on the eye of .th« fight, leaned toward Baby Face Mc Larnin, the- indecision reuriously strengthening the ballyhoo. Well khowns in othef fields of • Bport chose the Chicago kid. "With': "Mfcti more certainty than. ,tjje -experts, while both Camera and Baer picked :Ross-r-Max saying: 'Ba6r and. Ross the winners,' including- hla match with Primo, to be held in the BpWl June 14. Take Your The guys who make" ' bjetting : prices on sports events were Jiiet as uncertain and at ringside , they put it up to the . customer who wanted to wager^-6 to 5 and take your pick, they said. That meant that if a mugg wanted to bet on Ross he had to lay the., odds and that went if the sucker wanted to bet on McLarnin. Reason for,that appears to be in the fact that there was no possibility of a fix' to this, match. Neither contestant ever- was suspected of participating in anything but an up and up, ring fight. How the three official observers judged the match, widely opposed in one ■ case, is another oddity at* tached to the ROss-McLarnin shindig" One judge, Harold Barnes; awarded but two "rounds to M/c- Larrtln, counted two rounds as evert, all the,; rest going ' to Ross. Referee Eddie Forbes, who made the decision when the judges dis- agreed, gave 'only one round, to Jimmy (32th), called the first round even and awarded 13 sessions to the challenger. But Tom O'Rourke saw it differently, calling the 12th in favor of Barney, judging that four rounds were even and giv- ing nine to Jimmy. O'Rourke hasn't had much experience offi- cially counting punches at m a J° r fights. Little doubt that McLarnin lost two or three' rounds because hitting below the belt, such errors too figuring in the rounds called even At ..the final . ..bell Jimmy seemed to realize he was defeated. Ross was quoted both ways about the ninth round when both boys, toppled. Ross said he slipped and M. P. BASEBALLERS CONFAB ON SCHEDULE Motion Picture Baseball leage will hold a meeting today (Tuesday) at 6 P. M. in the NBC building, when it is expected 'that representatives ■of the six clubs ^111 be present to make up the schedule. Present scope is a six^club league composed Of Columbia, ERPI, NBC, RKO, Rocke- feller Center and Warner's Brook- lyn studio.. During June all scheduled games will be played on the field of George Washington high, school. Monday? Wednesday and Friday nights. Sat* urday games win he played on the Boys High field, Brooklyn. ' Street Tavern Grosses 1G Daily at Bar 1st We«k > --j r * Newest of the Steuben Taverns at ; 42d a,nd .Rrbad'way got ' off to fc.gobd' ifltart^ ' BAr \Wsinesg ay.erage4 IL00Q' daily Tthe first weelc . • • . > . $teuben haa . three flot>re for' din4 ing. and •.drinking purposes; one on the eubway level: Building itself is down two stories under' the subway,* that space being ! re'cruired for t|i^. cooling plant ahd '" storage, oif f ood- ; sjuffS.' 1 "" ' \; , « "' Opposish wet spots in the middle of the ring. But onlookers arc sure that a tap on the chin sent Ross off balance. He twisted as he went off balance and touched hands to the canvas, but did not actually go down. McLar- nin wan knoHu'fl off hi» pins with Minneapolis, June 4. A purvey . just completed here shows- that. the femmes are patronix- - Ing bars heavily, with Indications that 'mariy of 'em are being lured away froin . the film emporiums to the booze parlors. One of, the most popular loop bars found that put of 14,000 oustomers week before last '42% were womert^ This 'has caused some fears that 'pictures may 'be', losing Its grip on the_gals ,whp ; alWa^s. h^vf .heeii ihe •prlncipal fans and who now appar^' - ehtly are goingi in^trbnjely'for wet goods'. ' 1 u nm Criticiii / " ill La Hiff, of the tavern, Ne^v Yo*k, is in . a critical- condition, itt the Medical Arts hospital, where h> underwent an intestinal Operation seVeral weeks ago. Yesterdair (Monday), he "was" given a seventh blood transfusion. It was stated that should La Hift survive for 72 hours, his chances of recovery would be improved. MARRIAGES Ken' Aneser to Lucille Rbder, June fl, in NeV York. Groom is with Warner ad department in N. Y. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. John Arnold, daugh* ter, in Los Angeles, May 25. Mr. and Mrs, George O'Brien, son, at Los Angeles May 30. Mother is Marguerite Churchill. Mr. . and Mrs. R. E. PirscheL daughter, fn Los Angeles, May 81. Father is associat/p of Frank &• Dunlap agency in Hollywood. 60 VARIETY TIMES SQUARE Tuesday, June 3, 1934 Broadway Louis Marcus left for Salt Lake. Harry Arthur is moving to St. Louis, M. A. Schlessihger back, from At- lantic Gity. Janet Falk around again after two tough weeks of colitis. . Beatrice, Anne and George S. Kaufman to Katona for summer; . Mack Millar . out of the hosp but still has that hayf ever hangover. . Edward . Bouchn-d now at' the Algonqiii with bis Continental ditties. Marc Lachman and Monte Prosser are on the wing for Edwin Carew's new film. Third season .of- Bobby • Sanford's Showboat on the Hudson starts .to- night (5). I. Robert. roder and Murray Brensilber are dissolving their law partnership. Monrde Greenthal; of the UA homie office, .is now in London, after visiting Paris. Maurice Golden's ice cream stilts dazzle the visitih ball players at the Polo Grounds. Martin Givot is Geprg's' '. cousin, ■whom he's sponsoring as a new- comer to show biz. Business Men's Health Club and Actors Athletic Association, in Sal- mon Tower, getting play. Harry Rose going away this week to nurse wounds received in that accident at the Valancia. Block and. Sully slated for a Fris- co revue, this summer in between their United Artists, film assign- ments. Ellin arid Irving Berlin have taken a Westchester house for the summer. There's a swimming pool with it. ..•.'.-Prank H; Eldridge, Jr., son of the dvertislng specialist, is in a seri- ous condition at Brown U after a kidney operation.^ ' - Fred Chasten, one of the. original. Lubin cameramen, giving B'way' the' quick once over. In retire- ment', -in. Pennsylvania. .. Helen' Kane-' and Max Hoffman,. Jr., moved Broadway to their River- side Drive penthouse for a fleet re- viewing cocktail party. '■ Sydney Howard,; British comedian, got in Thursday (3i) from Europe to do a picture for Reliance. Left for Coast Sunday (3). A Paul Whlteman premiere al- ways brings out the talis and burled shoits, even if it's oh the- Biltmore roof and in warm weather. William Wright, last of the old Kalem Co., says he looks that way because he goes to bed every night at nine. Didn't in the old days. Joe Harris, bill -posting man, and- his bride, Margaret Hussey, who married, today (5), sail tomorrow (Wednesday) on a South -American cruise. Frances Williams was treated for fen appendix attack last week at the Park West hospital. She returned to her home without being op- erated on. John. Pollock, having won- the Re- publican primaries for congressman from the Ninth District in N. J., has started campaigning for the regular election in the -fall. Emile Boreo is a non-imported addition to Clifford C. Fischer's Folies Bergere revue of 60, which arrived from Paris bound for Rain bo Gardens, Chi. Boreo joined ..on as m. c. Longue-Vue at Hastlngs-dh-Hud-i eon had. its premiere 'ruined by rain last Friday', so it. staged another •opening' the following- weekend, Heavy rains a week ago dented lotsa roadhouse biz. -New 'Billy Rose Music Hall prom- ises everything but a room and bath for $1 table d'hote, including 100 singing waiters, dinner, vaude, films, floor show, hostesses, etc., When it opens next month. Paris By Bob Stern Raymond Bros, playing Gaumont Palace. Tbbis, signing up Jacques: Feyder for, a film.. T.oscahini here, dodging, reporters and ph.otogs. Gene Markey and Joan Bennett £jlhg the town. .'Races' celebrating iOOtb. perform- ance at Oeuvre. : E(imee Favart at A. vaude house next week. , 'Damaged Lives' (Col) at Cameo, panned by critics. Alice B. Tully giving first Paris concert in Ave years. Bernard Na'tan, Pathe chief, sail- ing for New -York soon. French birth rate dropping, de- epite increase in marriages. Claude Genia replacing Breville, ill, in 'Hunchback' at the Odeon. = F= i Ninar i Tarasova=singing^at-Phare vde France annual tea t Meurice. Lily Pons entertaining May Birk- head and Irv Schwerke at lunch. Argentina giving last gala of sea- son at Theatre des. Champs Ely- sees: 'Lady for a Day' (CoV) In second fun at Pathe's Imperial, on boule-. vards, Rene Clair nearly finished with •Last Billionaire' chain, except cine Opera; Press urging Premier Dqumergue to use newsreels for messages to public, . how the radio. "Elvire Pop'esco, recently star of •Tovatitch/ reported booked, at Odeon. Shakespeare's 'Comedy of Er- rors' to open Tuesday (30) at Oeuvre; .'.,-":' Gregory Ratoff seeing 'Let's Fall, in Love' (Col) Studio des Acacias. Dejazet "opening new piece, 'Rose in the Air,' . by Alfred Vercourt and Jean Bever. Danish actor, Paul Reumert, com- ing to play 'Tartuffe' and- a Danish play at Odeon, Sacha Gultrys curtain lecture on 'Love and Women' getting the fem- meS. all' excited. Jean-Pierre Llausu .squawking because ho French Alms are . going to Venice expo. Lilian .Harvey herself dubbing 'I'm Suzanne! in French at Fox Saint- Ouen studio. Fred, Bacbs' latest fllm for Fox finally named 'The Fifth Imprint.* It's a detective, yarn; . Eclair's 'Wilson to Roosevelt' be- ing shown at Cine il'Auto, owned by leading sports paper, Jouvet considering play by Yvan Noe about music hall life, titled, 'Woman Cut 'to Piece's.* Jean Sarment's .'Miss 15,' three- acter, accepted, by Comedie .Fran- chise as part of repertory. Exhib's union and Chambre Syn- dicate coming, to theoretical agree- ment on standard contract. Painters and. nude- models rollick- ing in the Hall of Learned Societies at the Jullian Academy ball. Film gals, with personal appear- ances; planned for June 22 as part of Grande Sem'aine program. Pirandello's 'Henry -IV' played in special, performance at Italian The- atre in Paris, with Enrico Glorl. Comedie Francaise voting . $60 toward subscription to monument to late King Albert of Belgians. •You're Telling Me' (Par) titled 'Dollars and Whiskey,' . in English, getting good hand at opening at Studio 28. Leading actors of 'Le Grand Jeu' ('Full Deck') and "LiHom* showing up at Club dii Faubourg for debate on those films. Agriculteurs and Bonaortex join- ing dual bill policy with 'Coming Out Party' (Fox) and 'Smoky' be- ginning Friday (25). Syd Rayrier getting . big hand at return to Comique after American, trip; .of eight months. Reopening in . 'Cavr.llierla Rusticana.' Jean : Geaal of 'Franco-Brazilian Film Co., signing up nine French pic to . show &t Rio and Sap-Paolo, on guaranty-percentage basis. Adaptation of Noel Coward's 'Pri- vate Lives' completed by; Claude Andre Puget, probably for Michel with Gaby Moriay and Andre Lu- guet. Jules Frantz and Herol Egan de- fending Al - Brown, from irate Frenchmen after his disqualification for holding in fight with Tiger Humery. ' Ruth Allen and Elizabeth Hale to. London to see production 'of Eng- lish version of . Jerzy Szaniawski's 'Lawyer and Roses,' which, they ajented. Tenth anniversary of death of Duse celebrated by the Catholic Theatre League at mass at Domiti lean Chapel in the Faubourg Saint Honore. \ Saint Graiiler doing .a song turn at Bobino, to .be followed by one at the European and at A.B.C. He's lust back from playing 'Tartarin 4e Tarascon' in' Algeria. Dave and Myron Selznlk here for Whitsun weekend, because London Is dead for busines; at that period, Edith • Davis playing at Villa Chagrin in, Montparnase. Frank Jay Gould, on theory that there are too many young ones offering cup for best amateur danc- ers more than 40 years old. Alec Mackenzie one of judges. . Etherphone, new. instrument, used in Salle Gayeau concert by. Aus- senac GrogHe, . playing music by Russian composer, Nicholas Obou hov, written in 12- tone scale. Montmartre- cabaret songsters go film for first time in pic 'VoilaMont martre,' directed by Roger Capellant and supervised by the Montmartre review expert, Antoine Rasimi. Ed Hammeras, Fox cameraman, astonishing bistrots by drinking ironworker's cocktails . ( whiskey with beer chaser) between trips to Normandy to take stock shots for 'Marie Galante.' Gaby Rey, 25, cashier, and Andre Drucker, 25, fur' merchant, winning Metro's dance Contest exploitation for 'Dan cin g« .Lady;.',^_3Zhey,. J go^t.o J , Amsterdam for European contest, which prize is Hollywood trip. 'Semiramis,' ballet with Honrieg- ger music and Paul Valery words, produced by Ida Riibenstein's in her annual dance season at Opera, getting big hand frpm critics. St. John Ervine's 'Anthony and Anna' and Shaw's 'Village Wooing' both played here before London production by English Players headed by Edward Stirling and Margaret Vaughan. Troupe is here for summer of stock at Albert 1. London Victor MeLagleh due here for an- ther film shortly.. Gordon Beccles recuperating from another break-down. Harry Foster applying for a fly- ing pilot's certificate. Teddle Gerard taking out Eng- lish citizenship papers. Nat D. Ayer rehearsing act with Marie Burke for vaudeville. Charlie Farrell escorting ina Malo around the West-End. Geraldine and Joe here for seven weeks after two years absence. Archie de Bear likely to be next dramatic critic of 'Sunday Express.' Naomi Waters, Australian, being groomed by Fox Films for stardom in; Hollywood. Sales of paintings -from- Royal Academy exhibition already in ex- cess of last year. Twickenham Films' oft delayed flotation deflniteiy going to the public middle June. Martha Eggerth looking for Amer- ican companion, to perfect herself In American dialect. Lionel Braham to do 'Big-Hearted Herbert' here in July, with Viola Tree in starring role. William 'Hutchinson, Fox Films chief here, oft to Paris to confer with- Clayton Sheehan. Latest theatrical name., rumored for inclusion in . King's Birthday Honors is Tom Walls.. . John Von Herberg, of Jensen & Von Herberg, here to study English show business methods. Marlon Lome and Walter Hack- ett at the Palladium giving Sophie Tucker a Welcoming hand. William Mooring; publicity man for BIP, vacationing in July, and off to. Hollywood to free lance. Practically certain 'Three Sisters,* the Hammerstein - Kern musical; folds at Drury Lane June 9. Oma replacing Sherkot' at the Prince of Wales' revue, former hav- ing dislocated a leg muscle. ' Vera Marshe, star of 'She Loves Me Not,' getting plenty of offers from English film companies: . John Maxwell becoming quite a columnist for his house organ — British Motion Picture News. Elisabeth Bergner at the opeping of Shakespearean season in Re- gent's Park on Whit Monday. - Martin Marks, - handling Charles Farrell's publicity here, got him to talk on the ether on his .arrival. • Thelma Todd turning down offer to do another British fllm. Matter of getting together on the coin. - Dorothy Fox (Mrs. Roy Fox) has got the cruising bug. Just returned from one, and is off . for another. Roy Simmonds now ' handling the Clifton-Hurst Films: publicity; go- ing through the Fox Films office. Violet Melnotte gets kiss from her manager as luck token for opening of hew Duke of York's theatre show. Robins "Thunder in the Air' Mil- ler having to see 'Escape Me Never' from the gallery. .House being sold out. Joan Ware, daughter of old Amer- ican standard team, Wilson and Waring, to stage vaudeville - come- back. Honorable Anthony Vivian being film-tested for Uriah Heep role in 'David Copperfleld,' by George Cukor. Gilbert Miller is reputed to have lost $45,000 on 'She Loves Me Not,' his short-lived production at the Adelphi. Maurice Ostrer, Jeffrey Bernerd and Harry Foster plenty, singed at Le Touquet gaming tables over the holidays. Allied Film Company, promoted to produce string Of Stanley' Lupino films, not materializing due to . lack of capital. Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon turn- ing down Vaudeville offer here, as . due on Warner's and RKO lots re- . spectively. . Sol Newman escorting Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught around at the trade-showing of 'Wild Cargo. ' Producers of German Version of .'Unfinished Symphony' scouting for local talent to make English , version of a fllm in Vienna. Loy Rick, ^ Royal Academy stu- dent, in his last term, being tested by George Cukor for title role in 'David Copperfleld.* Stanley Lupino spent $500 to talk long distance with his wife and daughter, Ida, at Hollywood. Say s it Was worth it. ""TEFhTe"TSIar con^^ and Jerry) in Vaudeville Golfing Society's,, final, and set to play op- posite the Captain, Hal Swaine. Open Air theatre, in Regent's Park, playing to 3.5C.0 people per day with Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' as the attraction. Krcisler giving charity concert at Aubert Hall, June 3, in celebration of King's birthday. Proceeds go to Musicians Benevolent Fund. 'Precipice,' a new play written around the Russian Ballet', comes , to the Savoy, June . 5, with Isobel Elsom and Anton Dolln starred. ' LeontovicK Is. being dickered for the lead in 'Ballerina,'. which is to be made by A. T. P.; of wljich Basil Dean is joint managing director. Once again Harry Foster's luck played him right. Had 25% inter- est in 'She Love Me Not,' which was not okayed before London's open- ing. Penelope Dudley Ward, young so- ciety beauty, down with appendici- tis.! Recently slated to play oppo- site ..Emil Jannings in forthcoming film. Twentieth Century Films, Ltd., have acquired fllm rights of 'dive of India* current Wyndham;s .the- atre success— Ronald Colnian to star? . Jack Waller how deflniteiy decid- ed, on co-starr ing 'Cicely * Court- neidge ^nd Jack Hulbert In a new musical. Original idea was to split them up. „ . ; Victoria Hopper and Basil- Dean, honeymooning at the ' Dorchester.! Secret wedding followed announce- ment" of broken engagement three- weeks ago. ' Laurence' Olivier, had a very at- tractive " offer to return "to Holly- wood, but prefers to remain here at present to appear here in another stage play. Gordon Davlot, writer of 'Richard of Bordeaux,' to, do another ' his- torical, titled 'Mary, Queen of 'Scots.' As in case of former will go to. the New theatre. . . George Cukor seeing veryman' as presented- by the Exeter College Dramatic ' Society,. Oxford, . and thinks it's worth while; Or maybe he is kidding. Tom Webster's name on the dotted line for Columbia Gramo- phone company to make , series of records to be known as the 'Caval- cade 'of Sport.' .Margaret Sulla van here, staying at London hotel under assumed name. Notified Universal of her presence, but would not divulge where staying. Film of 'Autumn Crocus' was withdrawn at one of the outlying London houses after two days, man- agement alleging his. public found it was too slow. Sophie .Tucker's one- night stand at . the Winter Garden, : Margate, netted her over $1,000 for her bit. House played to capacity, with many turnaways. Gaumont-British tightening up on vaudeville at most of its picture theatres dur nig the summer months; only ones where policy is maintained are the deluxers. David Rome, cricket Captain, of Harrow School team, lost plenty in his initial venture as bankroller In the defunct 'No Way Back' at Whitehall theatre. Campbell Gullan In to doctor the Gertie Lawrence T Douglas Fairbanks,. Jun.,, show 'Winding Journey,' but not likely to reach West-End for some time — if ever. Hilalre Belloc and G. K. Chester- ton awarded Star of Order of St. Gregory , the Great by the Pope in , recognition of literary services to the Catholic Church. Gene Gerrard. has patched up his quarrels with British International Pictures. His next for this Arm will be from . the Hungarian, to be directed by Alex Esway. Funny no one has though of fllm-. ing the' Hyde Park Sunday orations. May be -Max 1 Milder, head of War- ner's here, a frequent spectator:; of : these functions, has an idea. British International Pictures latest Richard Tauber production, 'Blossom Time;' cost" $200,000, which is biggest ever spent on picture , by, this company. Tauber will do an- other. Sophie Tucker's one night stand- at Sherry's dance hall, Brighton, pulled 1,700 people, 200 over ca- pacity. Was Soph's day of rest by the seashore, to recover from laryngitis. . All the Charles Dickens highlights are lunching David Selznick, George Cukor and Howard EstabrooK, in- cluding Alfred Noyes, Hugh Wal- pole. Sir John Martin Harvey and G. C. Priestley. . Next Hippodrome show due around September, to be produced by Jack Waller, who is writing the music With Joe Tunbridge. Weston and Lee . are doing book, and Bobby Howes will be starred. Harry Bradbury Pratt, just back from New York, tried to land Dave Appolon and company of 30 for- the Princes' restaurant. Deal went , cold when Dave asked $5,000 . per week,, with transportation- all round. ^^MlclOT^SchWalbr- ,I7 Jomposer; : ==her«' writing for London Film Produc- tions and British & Dominion Films, has complete musical score which will be used for a Guy Bol- ton and Fred Thompson musical script. 'Hullo Again,* British stage ver- sion of the American "Good-bye, Again/ a Steele.-.Poster-Lynn pro- duction, currently touring, is being dickered for the Shaftesbury. American title likely to be adopted for London premiere. Berlin Relchsverband (Reichs Union) o( German olnema owners to hold thfcg year'a general meet at Trier from June 16-21. ' Leontlne Sagan, director of 'Mad- chen in Uniform,* invited to direct college plays by Oxford students, first to be 'Richard nr.* Lydia Potechlna, Russian' actress, working in Berlin since end of war, died after severe Illness.- She was married to the Ufa producer,. Max Pfelffer. ' kitty Doralne, . . eighteen-year-old dancer and , daughter of Michel Curtiz, director,' and Lucie Doralne, actress, ' tried to commit -suicide in Athens/ with' morphia. . She was saved. ' Emll. Jannings has .been engaged for three, seasons by the Berlin Staatsthefctre. He will begin the new; season with three Shakespeare roles, ' Macbeth, Falstaflf in 'Henry IW and Caliban in 'Storm.' -'International Confederation of Stage Authors and Composers will >be': held-' in Warsaw "on June Hi Yearly meet. Chairman, Charles Mere,- who is French. Amongst 'others, Pirandello, Lehar, Richard Strauss and several Soviet authors (although Russian is not member of 'Confederation) are expected to par- ticipate. General manager for exports of RKO, Bo Dowling, ha^s left Berlin for Paris and London. Declared himself . satisfied With Berlin ne- gotiations and hopes that RKO's big pics, above all those with Kath- arine Hepburn, will be shown dur- ing next, season. Miss Hepburn Is still unknown in Berlin, as hone of her pics were shown here. ' ..Two American openings this week: Metro's 'Looking Forward* at MarmOrhaus (original version); Good ''success for Lewis Stone and Lionel 'Barr'ymore, well known here. Especially good press for manu- script which is named as example for local authors. German synchro- nization of Universal's -!Only Yes- terday' at Mozartsaal. Much ap- applause, especially for Margaret Sullayan, who is unknown here. Four , of Berlin film studios were empty during the week- before Whitsun, namely Efa, Grufa, Terra- and Ufa studio at Tempelhof. The larger Ufa. studio at Neubabelsberg was working at a pic, another pio .was being. built. One pic was be- ing shot at the large Jofa studios, another concluded. Frpellch him- self was working at the lltle Froe* lich studio. Anny Ondra was work- ing at the Munich studio at 'Litle Dorrit.' Montreal Bill Singleton back from World'* Fair. Willie Eckstein building up on CFCF. Ken Large orch - to Huntingdon, Quebec. ' '< Marcel Prevost has baby girl, both doing well. Jim 'Oastler to Windsor Border City Star- on police. New series humorous shorts CFCF flve nites weekly. Joe Nito opens first beach resort' Verdun Boardwalk (26). KCn Wright to Windsor Border City Star as provincial editor. Dornberger orch boys taking to bicycling this summer for reducing. U. S. tourist trade coming back' 'this year. Hotels booked well ;ahead. Paul Whlteman concludeb five- day engagement Mt.. Royal Hotel, Fair biz-. . Corey Thomson, local MacNamee,' launches yacht on St. Lawrence with eclat. Sketches featuring Luclenne Co- del, Paris, -clicking over local CFCP every jnite. Local horse show at Montreal Horse Club" cancelled until August. .Glanders scare. ■ • Charles Cramer opens at Chez Maurice to big house which gave new orch big hand. . Mollie McGee to. Murray Bay (Manlor Richelieu) on publicity for Canada Steamship Lines. Bob Grannary has audition CRCM Friday (1) and goes with orch to Palais Montreal June 11. - Adolf Ginsberg opens at Windsor Hotel, succeeding Maurice Meerte, outward bound to Ontario. McColl. - Frontenac etherization Fridays has full dress compulsory all performers. Must be tails. Charlie Dornberger, leader local ace 'orch, ends grass widowerhood with wife's return from vacation. ="Blue- iv Bonnets-race=track=opCncd= Saturday' (2) "or 14 days straight racing, which will lower theatre au- dience figures. Charles L 1 .. Sibley appointed pres- ident British-American Publishing Company, holding corporation for Montreal Herald. • Quebec Theatre Association meets first time in months with good at- tendance on layout for renewed campaign to compromise on Chil- dren's Act barring minors from the- atres; Tuesday, June 5, 1934 TIMES SQUARE VARIETY 6.1 Hollywood Jim. Timony wearing a blazer. Anita Page back from Europe. Al Steen pulling out for Boston. 'Will Rogers wiU see Europe soon. Marian Marsh back from Euro- pean trek. . Arthur Johnston In Honolulu for six -weeks. ' Anatol'e Frjjedlahd due here June 8 for va'cash. Al Kingston going to New York next month. Joe E. Brown checks in from Hon- olulu June 10. . Norman K. Doyle new spot booker for MCA here. Mona 'Rico taking rst citi asenship papers. Janet Gaynor will do the Conti- nent this summer. ' Tom Buckingham is yachting off Santa Cruz: Island. E. H. Griffith building an annex to his Laguna house. Sam W. B. Conn's home robbed of $300 worth of stuff. Lew Nemerpon and Larry Lowry In for a whirl at pix. Mitchell and Durant going to the Baer-Carnera -fisticuffs. Leo Morrison is packing his bags for a trip to New York, Richard Bennett making, reserva- tion on a Honolulu boat. Jack Bobbins publishing Freder- ick Hollander's song 'Tears.'. Mae West writing added scenes for 'It Alrit't No Sin' in bed.. Marian Nixon appendectobled . at Cedars of Lebanon last week. Jack Gain left Friday (1) for Hon- olulu on two weeks' vacation. Bob Collier doing radio deals' and programs for Fanchoh & Marco. Tom Reed and Nevin Busch on leaves of absence from Warners. Alison Skipworth paying bills for five youngsters in a dancing school. Perclval' Montague and ' Victor Houser have opened an agency in Bevhills. ' Carl Laemmle, Jr., and. Stanley Bergermans holding party tot Mer- vyn LeRoys. Alice Brown, Warner exchange cashier, severely bruised and cut in an auto smash. A'alter Ramsey, western rep of Syndicate "Publishing Co., recuper ating from an op. I-uclen Hubbard, Metro supe on •Operator 13,' took the part of Lin- co":P for a few scenes. 'Mrs. Grace Hyde, New York so cialite. arrived Saturday by plane to visit her son, James Blakely. Waite, ex-New York Roxy pub- licity director, named western head of the mayonnaise code authority. Tristam Tupper Editing the Screen Guild monthly. Brian Marlowe,. Joel .Sayre and Wilfred McDonald, asso- Walter Futter paging Mary Nolan for starring spot in a feature pro duction, for which he- says. she's ab eolutely necessary. ^ctty Arlen, former Baby Warn .pas star, is quitting films and is go ing back to Muncie, Ind., to liver Formerly Mrs. LOu "Golden. Ruth Etting checked In at Radio last week, to start series of four un- titled shorts, arriving from her. Ne- braska home with friend husband. Fay and Sol Lesser , are putting Mavjorie Lesser into Wellesley in the fall and the parents will prob ably go east via boat at that time. Carl Brisson, long time friend of Primo Camera, has accepted invite from world's heavyweight champ to be his guest, when he fights Max Baer at Madison 'Square Garden. Jean Arthur training for New York Wednesday (6) to join her husband, Frank J. Ross, Jr. (non- pro), for a vacation. Has just fin ished 'Defense Rests' at Columbia. Fred Keating clue to arrive tomor mow (Tues.) morning from New York by motor. Will be house guest or - Irene" Franklin ; until he .Starts •The Captain Hates the Sea* at Co lumbia. tagged the New Embassy after re novations. Gordon Variett Sinclair's African jungle series starts in 'Daily Star' end of May. Edgar . Stone leaving Hart hl-hat drama directing to devote all his time to radio plays. That hi-soundirig Riviera spot Is the bid time rendezvous nickel-a- dance spot. Timmy Reid, ousted 'Daily Star' city editor, will write advertising copy for McCbnriell and Ferguson agency. . . Doris Bellhiore, who won that Benny Davis warbling cpntest here, is already appearing with a London Mazo de la Roche Blighty-bound to advise in the London production of her own dramatization of 'White Oaks of Jalha.' Nancy Fyper will direct the first three Hart House, productions next, season, with Melville Keay in ah business manager. .■ Records being broken at the Royal Art Gallery With exhibit of Disney's 'Mickey Mouse* and illy Symphony' drawings. Frank Camp and Forrest Orr, late of Empire stock here, are Blighty- bound for the London production of 'Pursuit of . Happiness/ . Stevep FalloB making a Canadian market survey here with UA snaff- ling some of the London Films' out- put from Ni, L- Nathanson's Regal outfit. After a six-year ban on 'pawn,' reputedly because the Nurse Cavell Story ..would arouse war-hatred* board of censors has just passed the BIP flicker. Barry Peterson (Collins & Peterson) reminding the lads that he sold pa- pers oh the. Island ferries' while Georgle White was hoofing on the boats for pennies. Leland Richardson, University of Toronto carilloneUr, moving his tropical fish into the Soldiers'. Memorial Tower where he can watch them while he plays the bells. The Hague By Ml. W. Etty-Leal Minneapolis By.Les Rees Toronto lloirmy Bailey and Lee Sims stroll- ing. I' : ' George Keppie casting a play/ but secretive. Sports-writer Alexandrine ibb. in hospital* Fred (Impelial) TrebUcock Ber- muda-bound. Jack Evans and his band to play the lake boats. Gene Fogarty and his band to Wasaga Beach. Jules Laget designed that stirring 'Centennial* poster. Douglas Dumbrllle's mother moves here from Hamilton, Piano-playing Norman Wilkes is ' running for parliament. * Nelson Kelly and his tunesters to --the Hollywood Terrace. — - Blanche Winton, interiors adv.iB- or to Fox, visiting relatives. John Ford will m. c, on the Duch- ess of York trans-Atlantic summer hops. Buddy Rogers telling the boys he still has a tender spot for Mary Brian. Arthur Levasseur replacing Ran Daly as the tenor warbler at the Savarin: After a 4-month sickness bout, Marion Brown back on the Wrigley program. Sam Ulster's Victoria to be re- Northwest magicians holding then- convention here. ■"' . Rud Lorenz, Warner salesman, has taken up horseback riding* Mrs. Mabel M. Dietz, code board's secretary, preparing to move to new offices. Film Board the past week reported two theatres reopened and six closed in territory. Threatened walkout o'f cooks and waiters during . Shriners' convention this month averted. Columbia to move into new and bigger quarters' in Warner Brothers' building about July 1. Code Authority boards . moving from Film Board offices " into new quarters of their own. : Leading Twin City hotel offering full course dinner with Mumm's ex- tra dry one night a week for |2.50 a plate. Andv Devine came from Chicago to act as m. o. at Twin City News- paper Guild midnight frolic at Or- pheum.. Randy Merrlman, former vaude- vlllian and now with Federal Land Bank, making occasional radio ap- pearances. Most of town's, night spots losing plenty of dough, but hanging on in hope of getting break from Shrine convention. Party of eight, including booker, office manager and entire sales' force, taken by Fox to New- York for sales' convention. Gilbert Nathanson, of Monogram, has taken Over distribution . of Mas-: ter Arts' shorts in territory, replac- ing Celebrated exchange. Bennle Berger, local, independent operator still adding to his chain, Iris latest acquisition being Fred Boles' Majestic theatre, Stillwater, Minn. Out-of-town exhibitors visiting Film Row included W. T. McCarthy, Fargo, N. D.; Harry Nelson. St. James, Minn.; S. N. Grengs, Spoon- er, Wis., and Don Buckley, Redwood Falls, Minn. Trudi Schoop Ballet from Zurich Theatre touring here. Dutch actor Saalborn wrote a novel, just got Into print.. Dietse Spelers Company off to West Indies again, third tour. Fakir Blacaman, who hypnotizes lions, the only thing in Amsterdam just now.' Only two artists oh bills . in con- cert halls: Janine Weil (piano) and Lea Fuldauer (soprano). . For medico congress in Utrecht a special play staged, written by Kelk under ominous title: 'Para sites.' Pierre Monteux conducted one concert in Utrecht, before leaving Holland for good. - Had taken Mehgelberg*3 baton during his ill- ness. Nini Theilade, Danish - Dutch dancing Star off ; to LOs Angeles. Signed on by Bernhardt for 'Mid- summer Night's Dream' to be -pro- duced by . his company in Holly- wood this fall. Szoeke Szakall, Hungarian film star, still here and signed on with Barhsteyn '(distributor here for *U.-A) to act in a Butch film for which scenario Is written by actor himself aided by an expert, Carl Noti. , . ■, "Several plays breaking records here; a play 'Suikerfreule* by Van Wermeskerken, with Java as back- ground ran into 1,000 performances. While Zuckmayer's 'Zirkus Khie, and a German play, 'Abitur* ran in Fritz Hirsch Operetta, not think- ing themselves beaten as yet by bad times, forcing one premiere after another and just staged Kal- mah's 'Marie Louise,' with Hun- garian, operetta-diva Maria Eisner, guesting.- Lien Deyers, Dutch Ufa star, came over to Hague for celebration re- building of hotel owned by her father, which she financed. She was born on premises. She now lives in Berlin , and engaged to German producer Zeisler. Florrie Rodrigo and dancing com- pany had bad taste to stage satiric sketch in which scandal of Dutch battleship mutiny, which happened in Dutch East Indies last year, was ridiculed. Police stepped on stage during performance and threatened to Btop whole show if this was not cut out. Group flow playing, con- trolled by a censor. for the RKO boys when they con- vene here next week. Nate Piatt has been named super- visor of the B. & K. Garrett, which gives him two loop spots., Jack Dempsey, Floyd Fitzsim- mons and Al Borde are talking an athletic carnival at the. Fair, Walter Branson still snooping around the dust-covered plains of Nebraska trying to find Omaha. Henry Herbel is now a commo- dore, having gone for a midget yacht, and will commute dally from Evanston to the Universal exchange A. J. Balabari here for a. look' around and going to England for the summer with his wife. Will be joined there by Mrs., Max Bala- ba jackie Merkle, kid psychic, has been putting Oh amazement shows for the B.&K. office force while waiting for his date at the Ori- ental. , . Have to reserve, tables two weeks in advance if you want to dine and dance at the Palmer House Em- pire Room, or the Eastman Room at the Congress. Mexico City By D. I_ Grahame By Hal Cohen The Harry Kalmlnes back from their two-week cruise in Bermuda. Willows opens tor summer season' with Skin Young back in harness as m;c. Chicago Budapest By E. P. Jacobi All swimming-pools open and in floribus. ' Gilbert Miller promised to come to Szeged for open-air performance of 'Tragedy of Man,' national clas- =gli & — * T ,= " ~~'"~ — v " "' Tibor Halmay, dancing juve, marrying Grete Glogau, Vienna ac- tress, who played, opposite him in •Tale of the Grand Hotel' in Vienna. Universal's new Francy Gaal pic- ture, 'Spring Parade,* . taken off with a view to shooting it at Joihville in French, now continues in German at Hunnla. Katie Klraly, daughter of Erno Kiraly, one-time popular musical comedy male lead who toured U. S. in Hungarian shows, Joe Paster- nak's discovery for pictures, Mort Singer a grandpop. Leo Salkin humming at officle again. ■ Roeco Vocco vacationing here for a few days. Billy Elson ahd Mrs. on their way to New; York. Charlie Cottle will be a poppa any day now'. Stace Pheasant booking Italian Village at Fair: Frank Burke p.a.'ing for the MCA-GM Show. Woods Theatre building getting Its face washed. Col. Gimp Snyder in town to sing a mammy song. The first Archie HerzofI youngster is due in August: At Borde is in his Usual mid-form and breaking ..pars. Earl Bronson Is summer, vaca- tioning in. Michigan. Thomas Sacco has orchestra and show in Spanish Village. .. .' N. Weber back in the Jules Rubens office after a minor op. B.&K. Chicago and UA getting prettied up for the Fair mobs. Preview nite at the Folies Ber- gere wil be sold out to charity. Dave Lipton ducked into town on a fast beat ahead <* Sally Rand. Moe Lee and Nut House gang will double at Prima-Midway at the Fair - v - « They are talking about Bunker Hill for the next film golf tourna- ment. Paul Sander handling Thaviu band -leader publicity at the Streets of Paris. Joe Phillips driving to Coast Tuesday on contract to do a couple of shorts. Eddie Levlri and frau postcard- "ing"IHe = ctrarrt^ New Mex. Looks like Charlie Hogan will take to: Michigan week-ending for another summer. Getting so Johnny Jones has to stop and think whether he's in Mil- waukee or Chicago. Milt Schuster prefers to be on the outside of the Fair, booking bur- lesque on Clark street Cascades, Chicago's newest nite spot, is suffering with unionitis and paving for four bands. Ju'-k Osserman thinking up ideas Marie McSwlgan on the job at Kennywood Park again this sum- mer. ■ : ■ a ■ Mo Glanz pulling out shortly, for his annual summer stay in Atlantic City. • BUI Scott called to his home in New Jersey by serious illness of his Roy Rowe and the family off for North Carolina on their annual Va- cation. Art Flanders here briefly en route to New York by motor from Denyer. „ ■■■ ^ Mrs. C J: Latta and the Latta youngsters to Los Angeles for the summer. Edith King, ex-stock fav here, with St. Louis Municipal Opera company. ' With C. J. Latta's family away for'^he summer, Ben Steerman has moved in.. . » Sam Blowitz, son of Joe, .Manor mgr., marrying a Hollywood girl this month, m „ ... Dora Rinehart of R. C. Music Hall chorus Visiting her ' sister, Kay Dean, of KDKA. Bill Beck, asst. mgr. of the Stan- ley, will join the ranks of the ben- edics Wednesday Cfl). Circus season gets under way here June 6 with one-day stand of Hagenbeck -Wallace outfit. Sylvia Stein called home by death of her father, right back to New fork for 'Black Crook' revival. South Hills Community. Players winding up season this Week "with Wilde's 'Lady Wlndemere's Fan.' Joey Ray, singer, who has Just landed a Hollywood . break, is a Pittsburgher whose right name is Schnitzer. Eddie Peyton's nltery gets Con- nie's 'Hot Chocolates' for three days, following unit's recent week at downtown Pitt. Harden Church, who wrote, score for forthcoming Broadway musical, •Caviar,*, the son of Samuel Harden Church, president of Carnegie In- jsti tu tc here Variety Club holding itk weekly luncheon at the Haryard-Yale- Princeton club for summer. Harry Kaimlrie elevated to presidency of club with transfer of Harry Gold- stein to Cleveland. Warm to hot. Gentleman cowboy ing In vogue again. P. O; department now selling, postage stamps and post cards on all trains. Boxers and wrestlers pix orna- menting match boxes, supplying actors' mugs. Police inviting tourists to make complaints about any gyping or discourtesy by chauffeurs" and guides. American whaling cowipany w forming here to hunt leviathans In the Pacific up to the U. S, border and industrialize their product. More than 36,000 Americans, trav- elling in 9,000 automobiles, visited Tla juaha and Agua Gahente dur-. ing April, government announces. Five-year closed season on deer and wild game along the border has been decreed by government to stop indiscriminate slaughter by hunt- €rs* ■ Sunday is not a legal holiday and ■those who work on that day are not entitled to double pay for' their stint, rules the federal labor de- partment. Government has exempted Amer- ican, gasoline from, import duties for most border towns as means of eliminating wholesale smuggling of the comtnodity.' ... Los Angeles ' tourist agency has sent representatives here to ar- range for a series of monthly parties of Southern Calif or nians to visit Mexico, using the water, route for international travel: National Antiaicohollc Cornish an? nbunces that it has lined up all federal government departments; state governments, commerce, in- dustrial and agricultural chambers and private organizations in a drive against demon rum which will fea- ture ' a, countrywide lecture pro- gram before workers and farmers, Cornish is encouraging competitive sport to get . populace's mind off Ukker. Dallas Boston Esplanade concerts all set.' Pops at Symphony Hall getting big play. Court decision against Beano games this summer. Ed.. Smith's newly-enlarged Met stage is talk of the town, Billy Minsky's Park burlesque stays indef. No competlsh. Artist Will Harrison leaps end of this month. Rosamond Hawkins is the name. Major circuit ushers trying ex- ploitation in hope of home office recognition. Mary V. Corbett staged annual 'Danco Varieties' at Colonial Mon- day evening (4). ^With^plnk^tii^t, = Wj^ari )n; g-Ca^ sino giving 'Seventh Commandment' first Hub showing. Free admish to Paragon Park, Nantasket Beach, has Dave Stone smiling once more. Dick Gannon, vet stagehand, talk- ing himself hoarse with Corinne's 'Stars of Yesterday.' Maurice Wolf's baby, Boston Friars Club, now a healthy child. Weekly feedings at Statler. Starlight Promenade uhlnlnj? again at Chas. Ba.ssin's Oriental. Free beverrrgen and cigar At*. By Raymond Terranella Never before was the town so nite-clubbery. Ted Murray's Town Club is latest of the village's niteries. Irving Rose initiating the sea- son for Peacock terrace. Jack White now managing' the Tropics, suburban' nltery. Bert Wheeler, motoring to New Yawl:, .guest, of the O'Donnells, Eddie O'Neill and Phyllis Young new mike singers in the Palace Babe Lowry and bunch- musick* ing for White Rock beach danc- ers. . Daphne and her dancers .did aq inaugural for . El Tlvoli's new garA den spot. Lou. Bisslnger planking down hii twenty-second year as manager of the Queen. Louis Veda Quince -off the singlg ftandard — the Mrs. is the formef largaret Stanford. Betty Jean Crocker exiting Ai Dallas little theatre secretary fof connection with a dept. store. Jean Darnell In the Dallas Newi. columns with a 'remember when* story on -Earl Carroll's stay in texas. Messrs. Paul Short of the Man Jestlc, Fred Patterson of the Pal*, ace, and W. W. Lewis of the Melba. slnging the latest hit, 'Ain't W* Glad the Races Is Over/ Baltimore By Albert Scharper, Jr. Lou Azrael-s mater ill in hosp. Benny Franklin slimmer than I years. Don Kirkley back from a .N. quickie. Weber's, floor show. Harry Ellerbe will Join Mt. Kisco summer sto.cki AJ Trahan gave Jack Coegrove a straw sailor. Hit-Hat Club skeded to shroud for summer July 1. Now Celestial dropping shows for summer. Leda Lee Lacchi in from Holly- wood to visit parents. Lord Balto hotel shuttering Terrace Club for summer. Fredericks', class nltery, gives burg its first sidewalk cafe. Edwin Huber, adv. mgr. News-'. Post, elected prez local Ad Club, Boulevard and Walbrbok, north side nabes, install cooling systems. The Townsmen, ork, spotted into Mago Vista, seaside spot, for sum- mer. ^Jack=MBTitOTT=gc+tihg-firflt--taste=of^ show biz, at helm of MayfaJr Gar- dens. Sidney WoJpoff will . spend hot. months with a Catskill Mts. summer stock. Though folding stocfr company. Charley Cook will hartg around awhile. Harvey Hammond, organiM. shifted by Loew's from Valencia to (Jftntury. Ball club seeks to bolster biz by (Continued on page *2) 62 VARIETY OUTDOORS Tuesday, June 5, 1934 Taiis' Dark for 1 Day as Funny Chi Fair Gets Morals, Permits They sloughed a couple of the World's Fair spots last week, "but to the insiders it looked phoney all around. 'Streets of /Paris' was shutterffd by Fair officials' on Friday and the fact struck the front pages 'all over the country. Reopened the next day with same routine that the officials had complained about in print. However, on the reopening the Fair official department explained that the closing wasn't on, account of immorality as the papers had said the. day before, but that there was rio proper registration for per •< ihits. it so happened that the shutter- ing! of the 'Streets of Paris' oc- curred, on a day on. whi "i- the at- tendance was particularly disap- pointing. Fair, however, allowed the village to reopen on Saturday noon (again very strangely) just in time to catch the bulk 62 week-end rush. o Canadian Club "also sloughed a •painted lady' dancer, but that was strictly the club's own idea and had nothing to do with the Fair admin- istration. Club, tossed out its en* tire floor show .due to dissatisfac- tion and slapped in a, couple of vaude acts for immediate replace ment'. BIG OUTDOOR SET Toronto, June 4. plans are riearing completion for the great pageant stage to be used at the Canadian National Exhibi- tion for the July 2-4 celebration of Toronto's 100th birthday" as an in- corporated city. Model" reveals that this is the largest stage ever to be erected at the annual Canadian fair. ■ Consists of three 1 levels dominated by pylojns 100 feet in height. Stage is, approximately 300 feet in length and 150 feet deep. To be used for ballets, processional groups and scenic-historic presentations^ Chorus of 2,000 will be used. HAGENBECK SHOW CRAFT BACK IN EUROPE GARNET MAN JAILED Galveston, ,' June -4, N. 'Whitey' Dixon, carnival employee, was found guilty of rob bing Ritz theatre at Corpus Christ! on March 6 and given five years, plxon offered several alibi wit- nesses, but Miss P. Singleton, cash ier who was held up, identified him as robber who held her up and es- 6aped with cash. MTXLTUM IN FARVO Alton, ., June 4. Mat Klein has started something new in this section, a 38 acre tract devoted to. an amusement center, Will feature in one spot, a dine and dance center, amusement park, tourist camPi service' station, res- ;aurant, and have ^summer recre atlori sports facilities. • Barcelona, May 22. Carl Hagenbeck Circus ship, which has 'been knocking about the world since February 2, 1933, sailed into Barcelona harbor, .direct from Alex- andria' May 9. .This being the, first Europe h port it had touched since shoving off from Hamburg 15 month's. and 7 days previously. Lbrertz Hagenbeck, one of the Ha- genbeck'-brother 6wners, who : ac compani'ed the .show, the circus ship, the Karriak, had aboard 200 animals including 22 . tigers and. 23 Hons. There are 10 elephants, but one' of the big features are the beautiful horses and ponies. Her- bert Hagenbeck, son of Lorenz anc 23. years. bid, personally appears In one of the horse acta. Incidentally Herbert ru«s the show single-hand- ed whenever the padre is away,«as often happens. . . The circus ship Ntroupe almost struck a snag after landing In Bar- celona.. Although Barcelona, has more\than a million inhabitants, the larger part of them have a very small-town mentality. The theatre impresarios created quite, a ruction at the advent of the circus and sent a petition to the Catalan gov- ernment to run it out of town forth- with on the, ground that it might hurt the business of the local show folk. The Catalan government de- bated the matter, in cpyncl}^ but decided to.lQt the show remain. The circus has sent its. ship back to Hamburg and plans to troupe around Spain for seven or eight months. GETS NEW MANAGER • Geauga Lake, >, June 4, Florian DeNarde, who was assist- ant' manager of the Palace theatre lii Cleveland for several seasons, has been made manager of the out door opera theatre and beer garden at Geauga Lake. Park here. ' BUYS A TENTER Newton, la*, June 4 Al E. Root, New York, has pur chased of Glenn F. Chase, the Chase-Lister tent show, possession June 2. Root, will follow the Iowa circuit as scheduled by Chase, LETTERS When Sending lor Mall to '• '-VARIETY' Address Mall Clerk; < POSTCARDS, ADVERTISINO . or CIRCULAR LETTERS WIU NOT BE ADVERTISED -.LETTERS ADVERTISED ONE ISSUE ONLY Doviiriny HdHls Dexter Herbert Lambert Edward J Lane John Stern Mr Lombard N'rman Jr Mlorao Walter Rollln John Rand Dance Brings Edict Dubuque, la., June 4. Carneys in this sector buttoned their own welcome, so far as the county is concerned (the city coun- cil, years ago, having put the old Roman, thuhibs down, on ventures of the sort within the, city limits), when aggregations, ' affiliated with the Sunset Amusement company, started a real 'Sally Band' show during the last two closing days. The show was oke, only fans were missing. The rub comes from the fact that the Veterans of Foreign Wars post; sponsoring the presentations of the carney outfit, takes it on the chin for the dirt. Board may even in- sist, in the future, on paid morals censors on the grounds during * any carney spotting, as part of the li- cense hut. Park in Difficulties • Tacoma, June 4* Point Deflahce Amusement Co., operators of Fun'laiid, local park amusement" center, is 'delinquent $100 on 1933 license arid city com missioners want 1934 fee of $200. Park owned by the city. State , has put in claim to city for industrial insurance fee of $33.59 on last year's operation and this brought ' up status of amusement concern. Setts-Sterling Circus Fremont, O., June 1. Seils-Sterjing circus, motorized, known to showmen as the Lindeman Bros, family show, after opening In its winter quarters city. Mt. Vernon, Mo., is now in the midwest doing good business. With the exception of rain and cold at the start of the season weather has been ideal. Show this season is enlarged over former years/ equipment is better than the average for a small mo- torized show, and as in former years the trick is being routed into only the smaller towns. A street parade is an innovation this season, and the pageant has been receiving much comment all along the route. Big top this season .is a 100-foot round top with four 35 middles, menageries is 60 with three 30's, Sideshow is a 40 with three 30's. A palace marquee is different from the old-time marquees, and is a real flash for the front. Padroom is 60, by 30, and the- cookhouse 40 by 60. All canvas is new except the pad- room And cookhouse, which were used for the first time last fall. There are 32 trucks . and . semi- trailers, also about 20 privately owned cars and trucks. All blues are new this season. " The grand- stand, recently purchased frdrii the Rlngllng interests at Peru, Ind., has a capacity of 864. As in former seasons, much stress is laid' on the performance, ' which ranks with the best of the motorized shows out this; year. An opening spec titled 'Princess of Slam,' is well costumed, and 'gets' the program off in great style. Leaps open the ac- robatic end* of the program with Orval Lindeman featured in the somersaults over two bulls, two horses and a camel. Wallett Biding act, featuring Will Wallett, black- face riding comedian, is another of the outstanding' turns. Menage num- bers are under the direction of Bert Mayo; Hal Silvers, wizard , of the wire (doing, somersaults) ; Richard Barnsdale in his breakaway loop; Orton Troupe, Sunshine Trio; Rose Heller, aerialist; clowns, performing animals, mostly dogs, ponies artd monkeys, make up the program. Finale is labeled 'March of Prog- ress,' in which entire performing, personnel participate. It's imposing ahd leaves audience. In good humor. Gary Owen, western, film star, dominates the concert, and presents a large company ' of cowboys and cowgirls in sports and pastimes of the frontier days. Sideshow under the management, of King Baile, of- fers 12 acts. and. is doing nicely Candy stands are under the man- agement of Otto Zabel. Professor Heller has a good 12-plece band. William Lindeman directs the ad varicewith Marshall Greene doing the contracting and Harry v. Wins- low, special exploitation,. Art Mil- ler has a crew of six men and four trucks ahead, and i<- using plenty of paper, much of it special sheets: Pete Lindeman, continues as gen- eral manager, and is being assisted by Al Lindeman. Al G. Beck is legal adjuster. C H ATT K (Continued from page 61) giving away a motor car each Sun- day home game, Iz Bappaport re-chalrlng and re- draping his Hipp. Rostrum will be given new floor also. .' . .' Dave Franklin, songwriter, spent week here collablng with Isham Jones on pair of new numbers. Howard Burman penning new comedy.basing it on Elkton's rep as being east-coast's Gretna Green. Belvedere "hotel, reopening outdoor terrace as summer dine-dancery. Has been camphored since prohibi At close of convention here, Wll fred Stead, of Hamilton, Canada, elected prez Of Hotel Greeters Assn. Los Angeles selected as next year's convention host. San Francisco By Harold Book Mel Hertz, organist, moved to the naborhood Parkside. Tom Cbakley's band adds Billie Lowe of L. A. as a singer. Foley & Burke carnival here' June 4-10 under auspices of the Sciots. Going a bit English, Jerry Kllgore has taken up cricket for recreation. Lloyd Yoder's country shack was looted by badmen over the week end. Ed Fitzpatrlck, Sr., visiting Jr. in San^a Monica, where Jr. has -an orchestra,- too. Pinky Lee planed to Detroit, where -his- parents were injured in an auto aceldent. Mary Wobd has gone with Gus Arnhelm to chant 1 in his Cocoahut Grove band in L. A. Independent Theatre Owners and the Harvey circuit moving into the Golden Gate building. Ellis Levy finally sold that dog of his. and tossed in that phoney fur piece for good measure. Palace hotel put out swanky an- nouncements on Tom Coakley's as ceridency to .transcontinental broad George Mann's wife suing the vet theatre operator for divorce and asking custody of the 16-months- old son. ' The Paul Carsoris. are living in their hotcha country place near Los Gatos, but still keeping their tbwn apartment. Bruce Jorden, vaude monologlst, won a free auto at the bike races, but it cost him $200 to get it be- fore he co'uld make his week's date in Denver. Portland •By James T. Wyatt I any time to take his kids to a ctr- CUSi Mignon Laird, actress arid model, collected $6,425 for. auto injuries here. Tale's. Dr. Arnold'Gesell- now a member of Natl. M. P* research council. 1 . With Shubert seasonal, foldup, Sam Horwarth can now go back to his pinochle. Harry Berman, Roy Ward and Leo Troostwyk again into Wilcox^s for summer. Francesco Rigglo resigns as head I of Civic Orch for trip abroad* Prof. Hugo Kortschak; successor.. Milwaukee Leo Salkln in hospital with liver trouble.. L. K. Brln and George fisher also hospitalized. ' Waukesha Beach, which went into bankruptcy last year, has been opened under new management. Girls will be permitted to wear shorts on bathing beaches and ten» nls courts of city this year for first time. ' Jean Blandford, p. a. for Johnny Jones' Oriental, has switched her typewriter to. the Garden In similar capacity; Agnes Ayes, silent screen star, here for week demonstrating recipes at Milwaukee Gas. company annual home, economics show. . Pressure of anti-Nazi groups has caused Milwaukee State Teachers college band to cancel proposed trip through Germany this summer. Francis Lederer, at a meeting of the- Women's Association for Peace- and Freedom here, protested against armaments to promote ending of-- wars. International Opera company, which will present free operas in the city parks this summer, has.., filed articles of incorporation. Com-., pany is* to be operated by Milwau- } kee business men. . New handbill ordinance now" be- ' ing studied would prohibit, distribu- tion of any literature other than that which recepient pays for. Will put crimp in distributing throw - aways by theatres, Westport, Conn. By Humphrey Roulens DOROTHEA ANTEL M8 W, 18d Stn New York City CARDS ' Is Now Ready. «1 Reaotlful CARDS and FOLDERS, Boxed. Post- paid, for One Dollar Circuses Al. G. Barnes Canary, AUa>, 4: Edmonton, 5; Ver- milion; 6; tforth Battlcrord, Saslc., T; Prince Albert, 8; Saskatoon, 9. m. MIELER .*" INSTITUTION Qjfty INTERN A TIONALB Shoes for the Stage and S^eet $HO VFOL&'S SH 1 OESHOt-lS52 BROADWA.Y OHIO PAEKS OKAY Canton, O,, June 4. Eastern amusement parks after five years of struggle antici- pate their first normal season since 1929. Record throngs were attracted by the 1934 opening on Memorial pay of a dozen eastern Ohio amusement centers, in several instances all- time attendance records being hung up. Without exception all spots be- lieve they are on the road to a comeback. A dozen smaller parks in eastern Ohio are now in full swing, and op- erators are encouraged with early Season attendance and take along the midway.. New Kansas City Park Kansas City, June 4.. Gave Kauffman, sports promoter and ex-manager of Convention Hall and Fred- Spear, publicity man, will open a new amusement spot on the site of old Electric park. 'There will <>e two main attrac tions — an open-air arena with 4,500 seats and a German village pat- terned after the one popular in the Old park. Meals and drinks will be served while the patrons watch vaudeville acts Or listen to big bands or or chestras. A hugh swimming pool and a -dance--pavlllon^alsoi=-7includedT==Old Electric park was partially de- stroyed by fire in 1925. Kauffman was its manager in its last year, N. C. Eodeo Charlotte, N. C, June. 4. Texas Rangers Rodeo Company, under direction Milt D. Htnkle, booked for rodeo at Monroe July 19-21. Will' play at Union County Fair grounds, under auspice? -of frtir association. George McMurphy now on the KGW sales force. Beer a.nd vaude at the Columbia. Beer 1 cents. Vaude free. R. A. Brown in from Seattle. He books for Hamrick. Hal Dalgler, Hamrick's No. 1 man, also here from Seattle checking local -spots. Charlie Plncus here in advance of Olsen & Johnson unit. Charlie was manager of the Paramount when it first opened here five years ago. Gerald Gallagher trying to pro- mote a stage wedding between; the rival pickets outside the Pan house. Mart picket says the house unfair. Femme picket says it's fair. They march up arid down together and it looks like a romance. New Haven By Harold M. . Rihgling-Barnum due 13th. Billy Elder, has a new office. Summer dance spots cropping out Al Home in for quick look around. Eddie O'Shea's orch' .into Club Germain. Premiere of Elihu Tale Players postponed. Barney Hoffman likes to Sing (?) at banquets. Gene Rodney has an attack of manager's feet. Louis Sobol and tribe in for family weekend. George Cruzen gets more dignified looking every day. George Reising's hobby_i 3 colle ct- Irig'lh'eaTirTbaT^ ~" Light Opera Guild conducting drive for 500 new members. Lev/is Milne will direct Branford Players in summer activities. 'II Trovatore' at Shubert (3) flnaled loca\ grand op season. Yale's Stone Age Quartet landed week's run at local film house. ■ Eddie Weaver's ma-in^law iri to pass approval on new offspring. Register managing editor, Roger Connolly, has got himself engaged. Pat Goofle mixes his Poll finan- cial duties with political ambitions. Al' Rabbins, will lay' aside him biz Jessie Rpyce Landis at SHvermine* Vivienne Osborrte is now a vege- tarian. HUgh O'Connell in his third year of house hunting. John Anderson moves his new home at Monroe. It looks like a big season, with Broadway moving out early. Phil Dunning has a new shooting gallery to entertain his visitors.- Porter Emersort Browne also here from the coast with a new play, 'The Bad Woriian/ Claire Windsor, Clarence Nord- strom, Sylvia Shulberg and Jean Dixon visiting.. Frederick Burton here from the coast, after completing role In new !Mae West pic. Harold Franklin has leased the house next door to Arch Selwyn at, Soiith Norwalk. . ;• Maury H. B. Paul, society edi.tor. of N. Y. American, bought a 100- year-old house here this week* ' Llna Abarbinel, veteran light opera prima donna, is staging 'The Chimes of Normandy/; which will open the season at the Country:. Playhouse^ ...... Nikolai ■ Sokoldff and . New York orchestra will have its second sea- son 1 of outdoor symphony concerts in backwoods, Franke LaForge studios open' summer season at Darlen with Bori, Crooks, Tibbett, James Melton, Robert Simmons and Mary Eastman warbling. Seattle By' Dave Trepp Hilda Cole ahead for Kate Smith. Al Baker a visitor from Spokane. Harold Shaffer back from Alaska. Vic^MeWrs^aiid ""bahU barnstorm- - ing theatres , and ballroos. Harper Joy, Spokane banker, again Vacationing with Al G. Barnes, circus as a clown. George and Florence Barclay readying line of fat girls, all over 150 lbs., for unit show of 1890 mode. Earl Whaley band (colored) sail- ing end of July for Shanghai to open at St. Anna's cabnret. Booking by Edward J. Fisher. Nitsa Pantagos, niece of Alexan- der, elected 'Maid of Athens' for convention' in Vancouver. Ti. C. .. June 22-24,' of Order oE Ahepa. Tuesday, Juiie 5,. 19,34, , OUTDOORS VARIETY 63 EXPO OPENS ONLY 75% READY Old Midway Moved Into a Rear Alley— Foreign Re- productions Gobble Ace Spots - — ' Sponsors Tossing Million Dollar Free 3nOws SHOW BIZ PONDERS icago; Basically the second edition- of Chicago's -Century of Progress ' ex- position. Is .a big overgrown carney. But it's.- also possible to label it as a -200-rlng circus, a i.OOO-adt via-- riety show, a musical revue with' a cdst of 60,000. 'Besides, it's pitch men's- paradise. . ■the ' trick . is ' to pick out : the live ones from the dogs. The way thfe' Fair is organized' right now 'it'k gojnig to; be easy money, year, for the Fair' itself, .'.b.yt hp.w '.the .concesslori-r air,es will, make but is. another story, and likely to top. with a sad ending. Especially is it 'Hearts and FloWr> ers' for the boys, of the Midway. Where the Midway was last year is now lined with villages. Visitors strolling down the main stem are up to their gills In villages. They- hop^from 1 Tunis', to : Hawaii to Italy to Germany to Spain to Ireland ;to England to. Colonial days in five minutes mixed, In with detours to Ripley's . Qdditorium and Rogers - DUfOUr 'Life,' the only, two real sideshow concessionaires allowed to remain on the main highway. : For Commuters Only Rest of the rides, red .noise, amusements' and fuhmakers, associ- ated with' the name 'Midway,' has been moved over to what is the suburb of the Fair. Over on North- erly ...Island the 'amusement' con- cessions are hidden by the dead- end of .one. of the sky-ride towers and it takes an ^exploring spirit, a pair, of. strong. .gams and 15 guides to locate them. For, the most part the carn.ey mid- way is still in the process of con- struction and the spot won't really ibe in operation before June 15 at Uts present rate. For that matter, r the Fair itself opened half dressed but wasn't embarrassed by the dis- : > array. Fair generally opened about 75% complete. Not ready for the gong were the Swiss, English, Mexican and 'Streets of Shanghai' villages. Also a flock of exhibits are still bat- tling around trying to get the beaver board' in place. That goes for such big spots" as Sinclair, Armour, Kphle'r, Wilson, much of the Swift exhibit and ' miscellaneous . conces- sions as the. Bowery, Chinese the- atre- Amusement section of the Fair is not .35% complete. General confu- sion in the rush to, get. started.' StlH in "construction 1 are Old Holland, Fran)? ,'Buck'd 'Bring 'Em Back Alive' concession, 'Shanghai,;? Solo mon's. Temple. Blind Spots B.ig success, spot of last year, the Pabst Blue Ribbon Casino, is shut tered and still waiting for somebody with an idea and enough century notes. Hollywood, the big bust of 1933, is also dark but with hopes ; for a better season this year. Streets and general decorations of the amusement park suburb of the Fair are' still torn up. Really big crowds and money op portunlties remain down on the 613 Midway right at 23d street, where the Streets of Paris, Morocco (now named the Oasis) and the Baby In cubators meet. That's the. center of the Fair. Right next door to Paris there's Hawaii, which is not a vil lage but simply two restaurants, one indoors and one outside. Are op crated by Joe Rogers and Lew Du four and they are set to make a heap of coin this summer due, to location. Rogers also managed to keep 'Life' on the main stem, and with 'Ripley's Qdditorium' are the only concessions to remain on the hot spot. Oasis is a flop, already, The best location, in the Fair going to waste. Nothing inside and nothing outside except a long blank wall that means nothing but no biz. 'Paris' is in a tough spot. With a terrific reputation developed from, last year it must surpass, itself. It's got to come through with something really big and headliney. So far they haven't got anything, but the same old ones- holding over from' last year,, such ' as Olympia, the nude model and the life class. In- stead of Sally Rand . they have the Duncan Sisters and some , ball- room dancers. Misses. Thaviu .gives up the county fairs this year to lead the- Streets -of Paris orchestra, .and the concession may gain something from this' bandleader name on air puffing. Otherwise it looks sad. , Midget Village is now Midget. City with a "new set of scenery and really, a good show with Nat Eagle and Ike Rose's midges t The houses are built right opt, on the naain- stem up the-, height- of a normal man's shoulders. . ' • Plenty of Silver All concessions and - Villages, are socking it Jn for two-bits on the gate/ which ' tagged to the 50c. Fair, entrance fee makes it jpVetty steep going. .Fair officials have .figured out, that . it will .cosi'the individual, visitor something more .than $21 to take in every concession. This in- cludes a. ride in every type of con- veyance, even in the aeroplane and the Goodyear blimp at tHree bucks .each. But it doesn't fake iri' those feed-bags , which are necessary at frequent intervals due. to the hoof- ing, exercise and it doesn't take in the various shows on the inside of the villages. As to gaffs and. blow-offs: Every village is ready to go with femme display store shows. It doesn't make any difference what village It is. In the French, village it's 'see the French Venus' while in the Italian village it's 'see : the Italian Venus.' They haven't let' any out-and-out bally on the. main 'stems yet, though Tunisia tried a little of it: But to the boys on the inside it looks like, the Fair will be yipping it up like old times within a ■ week, As soon as competition gets into their blood, and the weaklings get weeded out the whistle' will blow for full steam ahea,d. Duf our- Rogers Flash Biggest bally flash yet on the Fair from the concessions end is Duf our- Rogers Hawaiian restau- rant. Spotted right in the. heart of the Fair in the space formerly oc- cupied by the A&P Carnival, they have built a huge cardboard vol- cano which towers some' 300 feet into the air. This for the T>ance of Death* routine done by Princess Ahi who has been around playing clubs and theatres. At the conclu- sion of, her dance down .on the floor she starts up around the mountain while the volcano fumes arid sput- ters with, plenty; of. red lights. It stops the parade out on the mid- way like a command to halt.. Ahi goes round and round and Anally jumps into the, volcano mouth. It's a swell bally which can be seen from outside of the grounds of 'Hawaii' restaurant and is sure to cause chatter. ,-' i Big attractions on the regular midway remaining from last year are the exhibit buildings. These in- clude Sears-Roebuck, Italian Pavil- ion, Czechoslovakian pavilion, Lama Tern pie, Japanese concession, Hall of Science, Tiriie and Fortune Build- ing, Christian Science Monitor build- ing, Hall of Religion, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Mfg. company, Firestone Building, Sinclair Exhibit, General Cigar dis- plays, Belgian Village, Old Heidle- berg Inn, Fort Dearborn, Lincoln Group, mode r n ..houses, or_„a s they . remodeling so as. to keep up with the Fair slogan, 'everything new arid see more in '1934/ Coney Island Trick* Over on the new midway the island amusement concessions are. trying to get started: Winston racer, shooting galleries, Old Mex- ico, Frank Buck's Zoo, Giant Cone Slide; Bug Ride, Waltzer, Cyclone Coaster, Merry-Go-Rpurid, Trip DoWn'' Lost River, Swanee River Boys, Ballyhoo Beach, , Dutch . Vil- lage, Motordrome, Streets.of Shang- hai, Sblohion's Temple. For kids there are World in Miniature, Buck Rogers, ' Wonder Land, . Enchanted island. Regular exhibits '. include : Wonder Bakery, Brewery Exhibit- orsi. Wilson - company, i : (3oui;t of States," Greek and.. French conces- sion, -Hall of Social Science!. Com- munications Building, Western Union hall, 'Horticultural building. ' ', Really ;big. business Of . the Fair: grounds :, will agajn. be. by the eat- eries.. There were dozens of dining: spots .last year. but. the number -will be tripled this year. It's amazing hbw much -fodder human beings can stuff .into, themselves after. a short hike* down the ^fodwdy. ' Every con cessibji.has so'nie eatery .attached to it beside? the dozens, of, Stores which s^rve. popcorn,' hamburgers and ham sandwiohes. ' Such a- Jspot, for ' in- stance, 11 Paris, will have some eight eating plaees and all doing trade.;'. Hawaiian Village .'seats .2,500 pebplf, .£nd jammed all the , time, Other big spots are the two mam- motjh Thompson joints, Rutledge Taverns, Adobe Restaurant, Old Heidelberg, Victor Vienna Cafe, Crown Food, 1 Mayflower, Canadian Club (which; by,the Way, Apparently- takes the' place of . i&t year's, Pabst. Casino), Sehlits, Miller's. High. Life, Cafe de. Alex, Midway Gardens, Italian and Czechoslovakian res- taurants. ■ But the villages such as O^d England, Italiari, Belgian, all feature mjiriimioth seating capacity r4staurants, , The Sari Carlo res- taurant hidden away , in the. Italian restaurant seats ; over . 1.-5G0 people With a, big band and a large floor show. ' And this goes for all of this village eat?iies. Fair-Minded Sponsors ;Fjghtihg the concessions, are the big , free shows being tossed into the public's * lap by the national sponsors. And they are opening the. purse strings. Henry Ford is bring- ing in the Detroit* Symphony for open-air concerts. Swift has gotten the entire 23rd Btreet bridge, built a huge bandstand but in the lagoon and will present the Chicago Sym- phony orchestra with Frederick Stock conducting, twice daily, to- some 2,500 people at a crack. Stand- ard Oil has brought in Allen King, the animal trainer, to do an animal act with Hons and tigers three times daily just to tie it in with press stunt *and advertising on the power, pep and other animalistic attributes of its gasoline. For power' they are bringing in a big elephant act. Fair itself has tied up Pathe news exclusively a:id will present news- reel free of charge each night to - as many people as can crowd into the 10,000- seater. That Lagoon theatre has an imposing list, of attractions scheduled and those free shows are gding ; to" eat into sbm£ concession- aire's heart. They haven't' found the big item that's going to be the socko of the new fair; nothing to compare yet with the Ferris Wheel of 1893 or the Skyride of 1933. They've built a mammoth fountain which uses a great deal of water, but there's no sock about the fountain. They still need something else. A nd if they don't find that attraction they'll probably get best results out of a general plugging on the foreign villages. No personality in view yet to re- place Sally Rand. But it'll take several pinches to Slake any girl in the Fair grounds at present any genuine yokel attraction. Miss Rand, by the way, is understood ready to return to the Fair sometime in July. She's waiting around to see which concessions are clicks and. which are dead ones before deciding. AIko reported the gal's got a new dance that tops the fan number. Expo Individual Winner to the new streamliners. These It's all down on the books as a have all had some redecoration or $43,000,000 show which taken in 'Frisco Appoints Non-Showmen As Committee for Paris Park Using Chicago Fair Trick Paris, . May 25, : ig attraction of remodelled and reopened Luna Park, Leon Volter- ra's outdoor airiusement spot at pjorte Maillot here, is modeled on that in . Chicago expo cyclone loop, George 3. Baker has been here since April 25 building it. Norman Bart- lett, inventor of the thriller, arrived fpr' the final touches and the opening. i Luna Park is the only fixed amusement park in Paris. Its only competition, are the wandering street fairs, which naturally cannot: carry big apparatus. are listed, 'Homes of Tomorrow,' Pageant of Transportation. And, of course, those huge automobile displays, led off this year by the truly tremendous Ford building which absolutely dominates the south end of the Fair grounds Others are the General Motors, Chrysler, Studebaker, Nash exhibits besides the exhibits of the various trains from the first wood-burner : Fine for the Women Medina:" ; j. Mickey Mouse '' craze has at last ■reached the ^amusement ' parks in tie form 1 of a game which' George yJourig of Cleveland, plans' to' in- troduce ' at Chippewa Lake 1 Park, near here this summer. It consists of a cage With -about 50 numbered mouse holes and a live mouse. Upon being tickled With a fur-tipped wand on its funnybone, this Mickey Mouse promptly pops. into, one of the. holes— probably, to have a: loud laugh at his hecklers — while the customer holding the lucky . num- ber of his temporary refuge wins a prize. everything. Of that sum some %9„- 500,000 was added this year for new concessions and exhibit buildings. Fair itself is in fine shape to come out- into, the money. It has al- ready, paid off 60% of the. original bond issue, which is a Record in it- self. And from every indication .the Fair will take in riipre than enough to pay off .100%. and if .it does so will be the only exposition in the history of the world to accomplish this feat. Only some $3,000,000 re- mains to. be paid off, and, that sum will be garnered from only 6,000,000 admissions at 50c a head. Besides, the Fair has a piece of every con- cession on the grounds, that per- centage having caused rriany con- cessions to. drop out entirely. The Fair is slated to collect percentages running from a minimum of 17% of the gross gate receipts to 40% of the receipts and others in grad- uated scales depending on the gross. The lowest percentage of 17% ap- plies against restaurants with heavy overhead, while the 40% comes from concessions with no nut arid little upkeep. That latter group takes Jn the playtime and amusement tricks and how -those concessionaires howled and are howling about the Fair's .share of the taker [But it was ^take-it-or-leave-it on the part of the Fair officials who weren't so hot fOr the Coney Island at! any time. They feel that the public can get that around at their ainusement park or county fair. But despite the cool attitude on the part of! the Fair, the Coney Island Boys sat up and begged for spots on the grounds, even though they are juggled over into a hide-away, lo- cale. That attendance mark of 22,- 500,000 last year has 'em sold. But the question is: what will be the at- tendance this year, and of that at- tendance how many will take the trouble to hunt out the hiding place of the amusement section? . Show business locally is hopeless- ly divided about the Fair. One-half Of the showmen are mire that this summer will top 1933 by at least 5,000,000 people, while the other half can't see the Fair for dust. Meanwhile the rest of show busi- ness here is taking it On the chin at present, repeating the June disaster of last year. But they are all hold- ing their breath and waiting- for the July-August mobs of 1933 when there were so many people in town the theatres had to take tho roofs off to accommodate the oustomerH. Sari Francisco, June 4. Executive committees for the 1037 world fair slated for this burg have been named by the Chamber of Commerce, and not a showman on the list, result that there are plenty squawks from 'this Industry ori the way in. Execs include the publishers of the four daily papers, top banking men and other business leaders. As a result, local showmen are reluc- tant about getting behind the event, which is slated as a celebration up- on the opening of the two giant bridges, longest' in the world, one across the bay to Oakland,.. the other spanning the Golden Gate. Although they roalizc that, there's a swell chance for the fair .to swell every coffer in the city, as was the . cgae. .in Chicago last year, the, the- atremen also. pojnt to Chi's experi- ence , when the exposition , opened under the aegis of inexperienced. Showmen, and looked like a flopola until men with a show background came- into the picture. : However, this Frisco fair plans are under Way, and as a site the com- mittee has selected the shoals north of Yerba Buena island (formerly' Goat Island) which lies midway between Oakland arid Frisco, and v hi,ch . . the Oakland|Frisco . bridge . Wijl touch. This spot Was chosen because of its accessibility - to all. communities , of the entire. Bay area. Engineers are now. working' on plans for filling in the shoals. \SThe newspapers,. naturally, are al- ready pledged to the hilt to play up the '37 event,' and businessmen of all the towns are also down . on pjiper to get behind the celebration, even to the extent of. kicking in fl- anclally. Frisco, popularly regarded as the city that knows how to put over such an event, housed the Panama Pacific Exposition of 1915, which, up uhtll the '33 Century of Prog- ress Exposition, was the 1 biggest grosser of any of that type of cele- bration. SUTR0 BATHS, 'FRISCO REVIVES OLD GLORIES San Francisco, June 4. Sut-rp family of this city is go- ing into show business in a big Way, pumping some $200,000. into the old Sutro* Baths in an effort to revive the beach spot as an amuse- ment center. Adolph Sutro, stock and bond broker, bought the entire ..amuse- ment, property four mpriths ago from his aunt, and the present .. baths, adjoining the old Cliff House and Seal Rocks,: are currently get- ting a big going over. He's installing a new pool, trop- ical beach with heating and . scenic effects, a midway, barbecue pits, volley ball and ping pong courts, boxing and .wrestlinjg. plat- forms, and has set . -Dr. Robinson's Dramatic Museum as one of '• the shows. He Is planning horse, auto and other shows, and is looking for attractions for the spot. Dr. Robinson's Dramatic Museum Will contain a complete history of the drama done in murals, and will have 250 seats for revivals of the old stage productipris. The opening set for early July. MOVE TO A PAEK Bridgeport. June 4. l^rg^Sr^McCo^ seph R. Barry, owners of Ritz ball- room, will this season operate Pleasure Beach Park dance hall, state's biggest room. Lawrence Chrlsman will continue as manager of the rest of park. McCormack & Barry partnership pasKftd the 24-yc:ar mark Decora- tion ,Dny. They will dose the KHz for tho summer with the ex- ception of openinrc Thursday nights and private rentals. 64 VARIETY Tueadaj, June 5, 1934 Science Reveals Important Mew Facts for Smokers! Camel Smokers can verify these facts! A famous New Yoik research laboratory announces * basic discovery that throws new light on our past knowledge of cigarettes. It embodies an "energizing effect**,, .a quick restoration of the flow of natural body energy... an experience well known to Camel smokers. When you smoke a Camel you feel an almost immediate relief from fatigue. You have released and made available the latent energy- in. your body. 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You'll like Camels —a matchless blend of costlier tobaccos! 66 / Get a Lift wi ilk OowrlgUt 1934, R, J. Reynolds Tob*co» OampoMT a Ca me 1! 99 RADIO SCREEN STAGE Published Weekly at 164 West 46th St., New York. N. I, by Variety, Inc. Annual subscription, $«. Single coplea, 16 centa. Entered aa second-claw matter. December 22, 1*05, at the Poat Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March t. 1879. COPYBIOHT, lWi, BY VAKIETT. INC. ALL. BIGHTS BB8KRVKD. . VoL 114 N o. 13 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1934 64 PAGES 1NDUSTR1 FILM NEW DEAL barred from ^an exhibition outlet through, the regular picture thea- tres, because of an industry ban on iall commercial films, a new and yast audience looms. The new au- dience for industrial Alms is com- posed of the people employed in American industries seeing the pic- tures during their - working hours fr^m an educational slant , pertain- fhg directly to their particular work rather than as entertainment. The whole perspective, however, tor the industrial producers is changing. Two years ago they were making pictures to be squeezed into an otherwise entertainment program offered the public and get- ting a percentage,' as well as a guar- antee In most cases, from the ad- vertiser whose prpduot was .beliSg plugged. Then the bars were drawn. The film industry, with sev- eral of its largest companies going in heavily for such advertising gratuities, received and accepted as law a drastic ultimatum from the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. So completely is that law, being respected that only the smallest and least consequential ttox offices are risking commercial- ised product for their screens. ' A check-up of the field to date Ah'ows some 37 industrial producers ■ ill: the U. S. to be already tasting of their own New Deal. Further- more, not only, do they have none of the political worries as of old but approval of both! newspapers and regular theatre men.' OPPOSISH 'DRUNKARD' IN TWO MIL. HOTELS Mil aukee, .June 11.. Milwaukee got its fill of 'The Drunkard' last week with two downtown. hotels playin irect opposition. The New Pflater roof garden opened with 'The Drunkard.' At the same time the Hotel Schroeder opened its Crystal Ballroom with the same show. Both places charge $1.50, 'plus a^ dinner. Beer and pretzels comeVxtra. The Civic Players are presenting the ancient meller at the New Pflster with all the trimmings, in- cluding kerosene footlights and songs between the acts. No 9 O'Clock Town By Gum -Bet-tendorMafrJ-une-M^ 'I could lie down beside a calliope and go right to sleep,' was the an- swer irate citizens got when they went to the mayor for a 9 p. m. cur- few on the musical effort used by an amusement pntcrprisp to drum up trade. The. mayor gave further voice to the fact that the municipality was no 9 o'clock town' but that the toot- ing hereafter will be soft-pedaled after 11. Licensed to Bounce Port Wayne, June 11. WOWO is taking no chances on undesirables , h a n g i n g around its broadcasting studios or crashing programs without regular authority and has had five members of staff sworn in as deputy sheriffs, which .gives them full power to eject any troublesome strangers from premises. Included in the radio posse are: Medford Maxwell, Percy Bobbins, Gunnar Elliot, Al Becker and Marguerite Hitz- man, staff organist. KID SHILLS FOR ffWOOD FAKE m SCHOOLS Hollywood; June 11. Fake film school operators are now using femme stooges with kids to garner suckers for their racket . New angle Is to hire young women with cute youngsters to work the city parks, on a percentage of the take from the suckers. Femme agents are armed with a phoney • check before starting ■ the day's work. Seeing a likely looking mother with a, youngster, they get Into conversation and casually re- mark that the kid ought to be in pictures. As a come -on, the solicitor shows the check, claiming it was earned by her child in picture work and gives the name and address of the man who can cinch it. At the promoter's office the hope- ful mother learns there is a $5 fee for 'registration,' and as the child is untrained she stands a hetter chance of getting a job if the child takes a course of 10 lessons for another $5. Hundreds of mothers are reported to have fallen for the racket with not one of them known, to have got- ten a film job as a result. Stooges, Work mostly in the down- town and east side parks, among foreign residents. 75 TOWNS, m TIMES ON ROAD Star with 3-Play Repertoire Covered 16,853 Miles Coast-to-Coast— Mostly 1- Niters— Played to 500,000 People — Out for 29 Weeks $65,000 TO GOV'T During the season of 1933-34, whert" again there was no 'road^ .the tour of Katharine Cornell -from Coast to GJoast. stands as the most outstanding, dramatic accomplish- ment in recent years.' .When the star winds up. the journey in. Brook- lyn next Wednesday (20) she will have played 225 performances in 75 cities. Approximate total gross of the tour is $660,000, and it is estimated that 500,000 persons paid admission to see 'Kit' perform. Starting last Nov. 29 in Buffalo, which was her home (although born in Berlin), Miss Cornell's tour was continuous for (Continued :on page 54) PAT McNUTT'S SOFT FILM SPOT Patterson McNutt, former news- paperman and legit producer, goes to Hollywood this week to write for Paramount. He was informed his first as-, signment would be easy — that of 'taking the sex out of 'Sailor Be- ware.' Willi Slavens McNutt, his brother, has been on the Coast for several years, also with Par, 1st H wood Pic (1911) May Reflicker To Provide Headstone for Pioneer '34 Travel A booker who transports his own shows by auto was making the Jump to New Eng- land last week with a flock . of turns. They were crawling up Boston Post road, when one of the -cts in the back; seat yelled: 'Hey, we'll muff the re- hearsal. Step on the gas!' 'I can't go any faster,' said the booker- driver. 'The open- ing, act is following us on a bicycle.' SPECS ASK $75 FOR $25 FTTE TICKETS Demand for tickets for the Battle of Ballyhoo — Camera vs. Baer— dated for Thursday (14) at Madison Square Bowl, Long Isla'nd City, for the heavyweight championship, spurted early this week but agencies complaine'd that the prices were too high. Certain spec Is said to have corralled front locations, and the resale price to other brokers was $60 per ticket within the first 10 rows. "* Box office price is $25. Claimed that the spec is asking $40 each for tickets In back of the 10th row. Specs explained that they figured on charging $5 or $10 over what the ducats cost them and that custom- ers would have to be nicked about $75. to get a close-up of the battle. At the Garden office it was de- clared that the distribution of tickets had been more carefully handled than heretofore to. prevent (Continued on page 56) UNCLE SAM ON WARPATH IN CRUSADE FOR COMPULSORY CLEANUP OF H'WOOD Washington, June 11. ..Uncle. ,Sam is on. the warpath and priming to join the crusade for compulsory cleanup in Hollywood. While plans have not been fully doped out, it was revealed last week that the Justice Department, Labor Department, and the White House are becoming extremely riled by the calibre of entertain- ment and the uncompromising at- titude of industry leaders. Principal Government peeve is the crime and gangster type of pic- ture which the officials contend is a serious menace despite what psy- chologists and psychi may say to the contrary. Heads of the Federal anti-crime war were particularly incensed by recent newsrcel shots of Dillinger which they feel tended to glorify the No. 1 outlaw and were inimical to public interest. Protests were made against contlnuned showing of these scenes, it is reported, but a strong letter telling the Govern- ment to tend to its own knitting was received. Thin infuriated Fed- eral .officials, who , are getting ready to move in much more mill tantly. Labor Department's Interest, ari.sing principally from studies of problem of child delinquency, is not new, but feeling in this agency is growing stronger. Any new move for Federal censorship, con- trol, or supervision is certain to re- ceive enthusiastic support. lioth agencies feel that crime (Continued on page 37) Hollywood, June 11. It plans being formulated by friends are carried to successful conclusion the first picture ever to come out of Hollywood will again flicker on ti e nation's screens and an impoverished widow will receive enough money from its showings to pay for a suitable marker over the grave of the man who pioneered the film movement westward. When David Horsley passed away last year the accumulation of a $2,000,000 fortune had been wiped out through bad Investments. Though his last days were made comfortable by the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Hollywood seems to have forgotten that, it was Horsley who laid the industry's cornerstone on the Coast for his grave is with- out semblance of identification. Domiciled in cramped quarters in the rear of an abandoned film, la- boratory, Mrs. Mary; Horsley, the widow, lives with her two children. She gets a few days' work occa- sionally in "studio wardrobe depart- ments. Widow had hoped to lay aside . enough to erect a headstone over the last resting place of her husband, but it has been a problem to make ends meet. Veterans of the picture business who shared the fruits of Horsley Midas-touch are fostering the move- ment which Is hoped to provide the necessary funds. Their appeals are being directed at film critics, columnists and theatre operators. (Continued on page 57) AUTO FREE SHOWS TOUGH COMPETITION Minneapolis, June 11. Exhibitors here are grumbling plenty at 'the "big automobile manu- facturers * for' coming in with free Show opposition.- With business bad at the , cheats ; . any way General Motors first butted in with a big free show, Iricl'u'dfrig a popular local band and- - vaudeville, for a whole week at the- municipal auditorium. Then Fqr.<5 . p.uUed a similar stunt with a open air show, including six yaudcvllfe" acts/ Some Of Wd 'theatre owners are sarcastica-Hy * threatening to . turn over a portion .of. .their lobbies to G. M. and^ Ford cqmpptltprs for dis- play sales rooms. 1st Television Theatre London, June 11. A Manchester inventor has pro- moted the building of a television theatre at' a Lancashire seaside re- sort.. It is claimed that this will be the first, television theatre in the world. The. programs will Come from Dublin, thereby evading the Eng- lish ban on commercial broadcast- ing. The proposed theatre will seat 2,000. VARIETY PICT E S Tuesday, June 12, 1934 PICTURES' POSSE STORING TALENT FOR THAT RAINY HOLLYWOOD DAY That of 18,000 Extras, Only 200 Are Star Possibili- ties Causes Anxiety-— Crop of Youngsters Held in; Readiness in Event of New Faces Drought Ed. G. Robinson Cuts N. Y. Vacash for Par's 'Mare' Hollywood, June 11. . . Having signed with Paramount to; play in Gene Fowler's ■ 'Shoe the Wild Mare,' through Lester Cowan. Edward G. "Robinson cut short, his New York vacation and started back for the Coast Saturday (9). : Screen i play, .under .supervision of Barney . Glazer, is .being rushed, by Kubec Glasmon and Marjprie Klein. . ■. i ' , Robinson's deal at Paramount is permissible under . Warners con tract provision : pettnitting the: actor to make one .picture off the lot RECORD L A.-N. Y. HOP Morrison's Chartered Plane akes It In 13 Hours le's2G On Personal, Mebbe; Film Salary, $150 Hollywood, June 11. Against a day when the; current run of picture' stars and featured players loses its lure .and theatre ticket rolls develop . . tendency toward slackening' pace, Hollywood is storing up a crop of youngsters to. pour into the breach. There's more than enough to go- around but studios are reaching out for replacements on the theory ad- vanced by casting offices that out of 18,000 extras registered with the Central Casting, agency there aren't 200 remote possibilities. That's a strong 1 indictment at the- $7;50*ers but these men know whereof they speak. Those who know the true \condi tions are heading back' .home in the hope that with further seasoning they may catch the eye of a, talent, scout. Rescue parties arc roaming the land and if these embryos have I Ol • | . T-_.-J anything- on the ball beside grease I ODll ICy IGflipi paint they stand a fair chance of 1 getting a ride back On the Chief, Fox on Hunt Consolation for the home guard may be had in the attitude of the Fox. casting office. Regardless of jwho they are or where they Tiail from, declares Casting Director Phil Friedman, they'll be given a trial.. To prove that the big WeTstwood : plant is not overlooking any local bets it has contracted and placed in the training school on the lot 24 girls and 10 Noys from these here now parts. However, not one of them is without stage training, an indispensable Tequisite , with every l trying to land her, hest' offer from studio. Lord & Thomas, presumably for ine-Combi |. Quaker Oats program. . Away from the home grounds talent scouts in the guise ■ Of ex^ change managers are fine-combing the field. In the matter of place ments at Fox the New Yorkr stage, is more than holding its own as this studio also subscribes to the ac cepted theory that the spawnifig grounds of the f uture Gables and | vember to make 'Marigold; Garbos is centered in Gotham. Radio's. Idea If a plan being nursed along by Fred Schuessler, casting chief at Radio, is adopted it would help thin the ranks Of the Hollywood .over- flow. It is his idea, to post a talent scout in each of the several states, to search the drama offerings of schools, colleges, stock companies and guilds for likely looking young- sters and then and there make the test. Just now Radio scouts are (Continued on page 59) iieo Mojrison, Bob Woolsey, How- ard Strlckllrig and others got in from the Coast yesterday (Monday), arriving by plane in 13 hours, a new record for transport planes from L. A. to N, Y; Actual flying time was 11. hours, 56 minutes. ; Morrison will be here two weeks; Before boarding the plane east, he closed a deal by which Chic Salej makes two more one-reel shorts foi| Metro and spotted Colin Clivie With Universal for one picture; '. — - — ' . 1 — — i JACKIE COOGAN TESTS FOR FILM COMEBACK Hollywood, June 11. Several visits of Jackie Cpogan and his parents to the Metro studio' may mean the return of the former kid star to the lot of his earlier •triumphs. ' ~ , .. . . Coogan was used, in' a recent in- die, 'Love in September/ but litiga- tion has kept tne two-reeler.in the can. WILL MAHONEY . The Milwaukee . Sentinel said: '.'Will Mahoney, a real big name In the- vaudeville business* dances all over the xylophone, muQh to the an>usement of the. audience. Mr. Jifohoney is quite , versatile. He sings character songs, dances and in general keeps things humming in a most entertaining ' manner. He's liked." Direction' WM. MORRIS AGENCY Mayfair Theatre Bldg. New York City Billie Burke East For Legit in Fall Negotiations are virtually com pleted to bring Shirley Temple, kid actress, into the Broadway^ Para mount on a personal .the middle of; July. Salary is $2,000. Her' Fox film salary is $150 a week. First scheduled former legit name Par became interested in the kid player returning from Hollywood to after getting ,a three- Wfeeks run on Broadway for. next season is Billie. 'Little Miss Mr.rker/. Burke; who will be under Arthur Miss Temple is also being offered. Hopkins* management to radio. Eight different agents are | Miss Burke is to be starred in 'The- Old Folks at Home,' London success with Marie Tempest. Play was authored by H. M. Harwood It is slated for autumn at the Plymouth, N. Y tJnderstood that Hopkins wilL have-" 4 the backing of two picture , . -- ■ executives next season, Josepl toy Edwin; Scnenck being mentioned as in terested in •Folks* and Adolph "Wallace will, go to Scotland in No-'.l'25 U ' kor said to be concerned with an ktnhbf **\. makp 'Mfl.ricrold;' ' other * new production called 'La fayette/ Latter show requires a large stage and it may be. berthed [ at the New Amsterdam Hopkins debutted as a picture dl- I'rector-producer • last winter at As- Hollywood, June 11. iftoria, but his legit show schedule New Mae West picture, 'It Ain't, indicates that further of his film No Sin,', has heen given a clean bill' WO rk will also be spotted in the Hollywood, June 11, With 'Marigold' shelved until No- vember, Fox has slated Richard .. nave tne DaC KinB u«- « c6uhtrles sent official delegates to Rome, the firfet time 1 nations have given classrbbhi film such, diplomatic cognizance, is, in the 1 opinion of "Carl Milliken, of the Hays. office, who was one of six U.. S. represen tatty es, the' -most hopeful milepost yet passed. ! Other than ~the - various •govern- ments • recording their sentiments about taxing school- film, little more was accomplished at the Rome con-' vention, U. - - S. delegates; report, than an opportunity for ^handshaking and; acquaintance. :< , JJevelopment of', visualism will .continue to. be. a -niatter for each .liatjipn. within .its-borders for sotye ,tlm,e to corner H.o\v long it will before U. .S,, for, instance, will toe able to make and. sfclp .a stream Of classroom' talker^ .,tp Italy and, Africa, etc., and receive similar batches from . these countries . for its own classrooms — all that, it is con- ceded', is right! now. In that state known' as 'highly nebulous/ PAR-LOMBARD MULL NEW $2,000 WK. PACT Hollywood, June 11. Paramount and Carole Lombard are talking over' a' hew contract. The actress is getting $1,600 a week how. New deal understood l to call for '' $2;000 a Week' on a; fi^ ; year' optional toftsis. ''" " ; ' •'' Cast. Xtras Still Low LINDSEY AN 'AMBERSON' Hollywood, June 11. Margaret Lindsay snags lead op- posite Donald Wood in 'Magnificent Ambersons,' Booth Tarkington tale which Warners 'produces. No other assignments. INDEX Bills 52 61 Editorial. 53 Exploltati 25. Film Reviews... Foreign News. . . ••••••••* 20-21 Hon 24 Inside— Legit 65 Inside— Music 49 Inside — Pictures 53 Inside— Radio 43 Legitimate . . . . ,.» • • .64-56 Literati 57 Music ........... • •••*•••* 4T *■ 4 0 New ActSi . . . . . •*•*#*••• 52 == 7Tews t foTH^the^DalliCBTi^^eO Nite Clubs...... ■f ♦ •-• • • •'• «4.7-40 Obituary 62 Outdoors 63 Pictures 2"37 Radio' ........... • *•»»«••* 3 8 ■ 4 6 • Radio Reports. , . •**••#••* 42 Talking Shorts. . «•«*••«*«• 19 Vaudeville • ««••••«« 50-.51 SPOT ELLIOTT NUGENT Hollywood, June 11., '; Elliott Nugent draws the direct-' ing assignment on 'Ready for Love', at Paramount, which he will han- dle on cbmpleTibii" of the" CWfehT She Loves Me Not.' William Frawley gets a spot in 'Love/ postponing an intended trip to New York. -5> BILLY GILBERT AT SOACH Holiywood, June 11. Billy. Gilbert, former contract co- median at Hal Roach studios, re- turns to that plant today (Monday) for a part in the Laurel and Hardy two-Teeler which ■ Charlie Rogers directs. Mae Busch and Charles Hall also tabbed for spots in the comedy. HULL MOTOBING TO U. Universal City, June 11. Henry Hull reports at Ur.iv^rwul July 1 to play in 'Great Expira- tions.' Actor is clOHir.fe in "Ff,t.nf:cc Road' on Broadway and wii! Oliver H. P. Garrett, Merian C. Cooper, Gene Markey, Joan Bennett, Nor- man Foster, Sam Wood, Zelda Sears, Margaret Sullavan and Sam Cos- low. GARB0 RENEWAL AT MG SEEN IN YARN BUILDUP Hollywood, June 11, Metro is preparing a story based on the life of George Sand, as a starrer for .Garbo. This Is taken as Indication that the" studio will offer Miss Garbo a new deal on completion of 'Painted Veil,' the last on her Current con- tract. The Sand story is being written by Eve Greene and Ethel Borden. MG Borrows James Dunn Hollywood, June 11. James Dunn switches from Fox to Metro on loanout deal for fea- tured spot with Jean Parker in 'Have a Heart.' Picture will be directed by David Butler-.-ahd-wUUbe^the.-first-produc-:. tion the latter has made away from the Fox lot in several years*. VICKI BAUM • JOINS GOLDWYN Hollywood, June 11. V'icki Baum checks in today (Monday; at »Sam Goldwyn's, switching from Metro because writer hold commitment with Gold- wyn prior to joining Metro. Writer was working on a treat- ment of 'Biifilo Sound' ith Joel S <.yre at Metro. Manager Sells Gable's Pact; 1st Deal of Kind Hollywood, June! 11. Managerial contract of Clark Gable, with more than four years to run, has been purchased by Berg, Allenberg, Stebbins & Blum from the Collierr Wallis agency. First deal of its kind in Holly- wood. U Reties Russ Columbo Universal has given "Russ "CO-" lumbo a year extension '-on his six- month contract. ►Studio has set him for thrf* •lures on the new program. Next W. C. Fielder Hollywood, June 11, I'ai amount features W. C. Fields in one of those home town philoso- pher yarns, MJack Porch.' J. P. Mo'Evoy is concocting the .story. Norman Tnurog directs. 4 VARIETY PICTURES Tuesday, June 12, 1934 PARENT-TEACHERS, U.S. MEMBERSHIP OF 1,400,000, Propose Recreational Boards of Approved Cinematic Amusements in All Cities, Specially Designed for Children Minneapolis* June 11, Virtual Government control of all young people's entertainment actiyK ties through establishment in every American town of a municipal com- munity motion picture . theatre for children is contemplated as the principal part of a project being sponsored by the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, nation- wide organization haying a member- ship of 1,400,000 throughout the.' United States. Announcement to that effect was made here by Mrs. Bobbins Gilman, national chairman of motion pic* tures for the Congress, who has started an active campaign to bring the scheme to fulfillment. Under the proposed plan which has been given . the official backing of the Parent-Teachers Association there would be a recreational board In every city in complete control of all amusements for- children. With Mrs; Gilman, long prominent as a social worker and reformer here, in active charge of the. cam- paign, steps will be taken by local Paren t • and Teachers' organizations everywhere to obtain enabling legis- lation which will extend; -echool board powers or provide for newly organized municipal recreation boards to provide and administer all children's entertainment activities. Next fall Mrs. Gilman will make a trip through 27 states to furthei the' project. May Even Produce The children's theatres would be supported by the municipalities. Only such pictures, would be shown as were, deemed suitable for young . people. Producers would be asked , to co-operate in providing film ma- terial*' Eventually the project might be broadened to include Federal production of pictures for young people. Mrs. Gilman points out that in practically every city there, are school auditoriums which could, be , utilized, for the proposed purpose, so that new theatres need not be built. In its earlier stages, she explains, the project calls for visual education to supplement text books' in the schools, with producers commis- sioned to supply educational filmB, and the use of community house auditoriums in cities for the exhibi- tion of films regarded as suitable entertainment for children. 'The local recreational boards would pro- vide and administer leisure time op- portunities for children,' explains Mrs. Gilman. The boards would be publicly sup ported and supervised.' Every state but Nevada now has a State Parent and Teachers' Congress and most towns throughout the country have local congresses, she says. The plan already has been adopted and Is be ing promoted in all states but. five, according to Mrs. Gilman who also Is president of the Federal Motion Picture Council of. America which has been seeking the creation by Congress of a f ederat commission to supervise the selection and treat- ment of all fll material and trade practices. CAPRA'S GANG Director Has Had Same Outfit Jn All His Fix Hollywood, June 11. When 'Broadway Bill' goes into production.: at Columbia as Frank Capra's next the director will have his, good luck gang with him. This group, comprising veterans of the game, have had bit or extra parts in all of the director's pics. They are Bert Starky, Hughey Cummingp, Tammany Young, Al Hill, Herbert Ashley, Eddie Sturgess, Peggy White, Sammy Blum, Jcte Bordeaux, Bobby Dunn. BREEN HURRIES EAST ON CHURCH BOYCOTT Hollywood, Joe Breen. left here Saturday night on a hurry call from New York, To attend a meeting of the board of directors of the Hays asso- ciation Wednesday (13) to discuss the Catholic boycott, Breen is wanted to give first hand information as to what has been done and he Is doing to combat dirt i current and future releases. Hollywood, Juhe 11. Charles Judels was forced to de- cline a part in Metro's 'All Good Americans,' being detained in West Nutley, N. J, to settle the estate pf his Wife. Robbers broke Into Judels' home while he was attending the services and made away with valuables worth $6,000. Bren-Orsatti-Marx 10%'ery Dissolved Hollywood, June 11. ren, Orsatti & Marx agency partrtershi is being dissolved this week. ^^Miiton^Bren.^wh o— founded, th e firm with Frank Orsatti several years ago, continues only with his orig list of clients. Orsatti may .take an exec studio position, while Zeppo Marx, who recently joined the outfit, will align himself with another 10%er. Judels' Losses Ad Libs Over Bib Hollywood, June 11. Baby Le Royjnade his. debut oh the ether yesterday (Sun- day) over the. Columbia net- work. Strictly ad lib with mom prompting the Par prodigy. Protestants Join Catholics m Wash. On Film Boycott Washington, June li. Catholic and Protestant forces were allied in drive to clean up pic- tures here last week when Wash- ington Federation of Churches reached an understanding with head of Catholic women's commit- tee for joint action , in boycotting objectionable films. Alliance was a major surprise to industry representatives who had expected Protestant sects would stand off and conduct their individ- ual' crusades. Details of campaign still are under discussion, but It is expected Protestants will be asked to sign pledges similar to the Catholic League of Decency cards. 'We feel that this move by our .Catholic friends is one of the finest we : have heard of recently and have pledged them our unqualified support/ said Wilbur LaRoe, Jr., spokesman for Protestant group. 'We mean business on this thing, which means that we are deter- mined that the box offices shall feel the result unless they co-operate with us. We have made up bur minds to put an end to disgraceful and indecent motion pictures in the nation's capital and I believe that with such a splendid start made by the Catholics and with the Protes- tants joining hands we shall be able to get results.' Rothaf el or Other Deals For Roxy Remain as Is There have been no new develop- ments, as far as known, in the con- templated reorganization, of the Roxy theatre by the first mortgage bondholders, with certain downtown bankers and the junior security holders on the theatre. Negotiations are still being pursued but not alto- gether completed for S, L. Rothaf el to take .over operating control of the theatrfe bearing his nickname The whole thing will likely await disposition of the Federal Court on the petition of the junior security holders of the theatre to allow reor- ganization under the Corporate .Bankruptcy Act. It is understood that Roxy him- self is set on his deal with 'the bank- ing group that will come into finan- cial control of the property. There is no definite date to be had when operating control can pass, as that depends on negotiations. In the meantime, although Fan- chon & Marco gave notice they would withdraw from the theatre June. ,15, .they are continuing with the house as the Roxy theatre situ- ation demands.. ALEX. AARONS GIVES UP H'WOOBvBACKTOB'WAY Hollywood,- June 11. Having completed six weeks' pro- duction apprenticeship with the Samuel Goldwyn organization on the Eddie Cantor picture, Alex Aarons, former N. Y, legit producer, is heading back to Broadway. With Raymond Griffith handling physical preparation for Goldwyn, Aarons. quits the Aim colony after a seven months stay. Bess Meredyth at Sea Works on Arliss* Next Hollywood, June li. Bess Meredyth, sailing for Eng- land, will work on two scripts while On the high seas. First will be fCr a picture to be made by George Arllss in London and the other 'Richelieu,' which Twentieth Cen- tury puts into production at United Artists next year as ah Arliss starrer. Miss Meredyth will be joined by her husband, Michael Curtiz, as soon as he finishes retakes oh 'Dr. Monica' at Warners. Kohn's Coast Trip Ralph Kohn, former Publix thea- tre head and Paramount company treasurer, planes to the Coast to- day. (Tues.). He may be gone around a. week; The purpose of hip trip Is a combination pleasure and business journey. The business angles aren't de^ tailed, but it is likely that Kohn may shove back with a new busi- ness connection in tow. Roxy, N. Y., Not Closing Unless the court should question anything in the report submitted by Receiver Howard S. Cullman,' of the Roxy theatre, N. T.,. Federal Judge. Caffey Indicated an order would issue extending the Roxy receiver- ship for six months additionally with Cullman as receiver, at a hear- ing held Friday (8). There were no squawks on Cull- man's report which covers Nov. 10, 1933, to May 3, 1934, and shows a net' operating loss of $27,000. At- torney Alfred Rose, of Proskauer, •Rose & Paskus represented the re- ceiver. Other lawyers attending were Ralph Walcott, of Beekman, Bogue & Clark, and Carlos Israels, of the White & Case firm. — No mention., of. any . reorganiza- tion plan was made at this hearing. Extension of Cullman's term, of office would run from June 18, 1934, which is when the present order expires. lANG'S 'UURY Fritz Lang, German director, got in yesterday (Monday) from abroad and heads pronto to Hollywood and the Metro studio. He is under a term contract to M-CJ. Will , work on 'David Cop- DcrJield.'' * SUE GENE RAYMOND Los Angeles, June '11. Charged with having illegally set off fireworks at a beach club in Santa Monica last Juiy 4 and hav- ing Injured a small child with a skyrocket, Gene Raymond is being su d for $30,217 by J. Harvey nark, rathe;-* of the youngster. ^Complainr-says^hild^ nently disfigured when rocket strwk her on the head. Hyams Roles Disliked Hollywood, June 11. Phil Berg is : talking a deal with Universal .whereby he'd buy off the contract of his wife, Leila Hyams, which still has four months, to go, plus options. Agent and actress are of the Opinion that Miss Hyams is not getting the tight parts. Fox Sets Towne-Baker Yarn for Shirley Temple Hollywood, June 11. One of. the starring pictures in- tended for Shirley Temple by Fox Is 'Meal Ticket,' by Gene Towne and Graham Baker. Writing team will script follow- ing their present assignment on a McLaglen-Lowe yarn. Al Rockett will produce 'Ticket.' Four Lilian Harveys Hollywood, June 11. Quartet of Lilian Harvey pictures to be produced by John Stone at Fox must come under the wire Within six and a half months, ac- cording to present schedule. First of. group, 'Serenade,' gets underway today (Monday) with' Paul Martin megging. Additional dialog to. script on which Sully Ssndlln collabed with Martin is be- ing furnished by Lynn Starling. Code Authority Meetings Taking tip Too Much Time; Everybody Squawking EITHER MILES OB RALSTON Hollywood, J tine 11. Lillian Miles and Esther Ralston were still in the balance as to whfeh would get the load in the Sumlcy S. Bergerman picture for TTnivr.? v;il, 'Romance in the Rain.' .«];ited to start today (Monday). June Kn'ght was compelled to withdraw to ..undergo, an operation whirh will keep her in (he hn.«pif;il for two weeks. That decisions today are likely to be the precedents for tomorrow and that especially they may make new sales season revolutionary,, with ex- hibitors from . all over demanding they get their share of major prod- uct, is admitted the great current worry .of .the NBA. in nimdom. Expecting to be swamped with such appeals when . sales get. seri- ously under way this summer, the Code Authority is mJndful that in order to solve overbuying problems it is plunging Itself immediately into rlght-to-buy phases. The clas- sic case in this respect Is yet to be decided. flkouras In Port Chester, N. "Y., has some 170 pictures to play dur- ing the next 11 weeks. According to lt« own testimony they have-n't loom for more than 5f5. A Port lw-U-(l,-Srri all. jhang ed.. Ah e.jian- dlc of 'Transatlantic Showboat' to 'Transatlantic Merry Go Round,' after Universal squawked. U hau 'Showboat 1 ' «et for an early remake. Jiut Small ran into .another valu- able piece of U property when he hitched their carrousel to the titular big pond. For Walter Wanger has just cabled U an offer of $50,000 for 'Merry (Jo Round,' U's Silent mopper-upper back In '23. Wang- er's hid was rejected as being 2r>0'« short of the asking price. VARIETY PICTURES Tuesday, June 12, 1934 Amus. Stocks Move Up With Market's Pep-Op; Par, RKO, Roxy React Well After starting out the way it has. for past two weeks, stock market suddenly came to life on Wednes- day and then rallied strongly, on big volume Friday, with the net result that .week closed . with everybody a lot happier in Wall Street. Friday was noteworthy in that it was the first over.-l, 000,000 shares day since Slay. 17, with total sales running past a million and a half compared with recent day's when tradi dropped below .500,000 transactions. „ Market today - (Monday) appeared to be consolidating its gains of last Friday and Saturday. Whole mar- ket off about a point all around though there were some strong spots. ' One was Eastman Kodak' which, near close, soared to a new 1934 high at 98% which is half a point higher than previous new' high registered last week. Radio Pfd E was off a point at 32 while Lbew's, Fox A, Paramount certificates and Radio .common were down fractionally from close of last Saturday. Loew's showed strength at close and wound up at 32%, Pathe A, strong all day, closed , ; near year's high at 23%. learty rally oil Friday brought most stocks to highs of week, and Yesterday's Prices Sales. 800 400 600 8,400 e;200 3; 200 " 7,700 7,000 l.OOO 2,800 3.400 400 $2,000 8,000 10,000 10; 000 60,000 80,000 ; 30,000 Par. fctfa.. RCA • •.*•« RKO ..... W. B .... tech. 23V4. 23%- 4% 4% ■ 7% 2% 6 2% 6% . High. Low. Last Con. Film. 8% 3% 8% East; K.;.*08'/6 07% 0816 Fox A.... 14% 14% 14% Genl Elec. 21% 20% 20% Loew .... 32% 32 32% Pathe A... 24 li .. 7% .. 2% ... e% CURB 12 Trans-L. . . 1% BONDS Gen. Th.. . 0 0 0 Loew's ...101% 101% 101% F-P-L .» •> 84 03% 54 Do otfs.. 52% 52 52 Par-Pub . ,*5.5% 53% 55% Do dtfs.. 58% 52 02 War. Bros. 00% 00 60 Net +. % -% - % % % Mi - % - 11% 12 1% 1% + % • - % + % +1% - % +1% - % -1% ♦ New 1034 hi Dow- Jones Industrial Averages closed M 98.90 on Saturday com- pared with a . closing level of 91.41 on previous Saturday, or a net gam of 7.49. points. Variety's Amuse- ment Group of 12 representative stocks closed 1.69 points higher than previous Saturday, *>which is largest net gain- registered by group since' early in April. It will be recalled that this group, along with remain- der of list, closed extremely weak on Saturday, of week before. And as a result the Amusement Group more than made up all the ground it lost the previous week, although whole group did not show buoyancy that general list of industrials did. The Amusements came within a fraction of the high mark for last three months, and wound up week near this high level. In fact, the (Continued on page 29) N, Y. to L. A. 'Lloyd Nolan. J. Walter Ruben. George J, Schaefer. .David Q.. Selznick. Hugh Walpole. Adolph Zukor. Fritz Lang. George Cukor. Howard Estabrbok. Peterson McNutt. Bob Gillham. Ed G. Robinson. Ralph A, Kohn. Henry Hull. Bob Ritchie. Eugene Lyons. Thomas Meighan. Felice Greenberg. L. A. to N. Y. Leo Morrison. Bob Woolsey. .Bill Frawley. Carl Brisson. Countess de Frasso. Ben Frank. Thornton Freeland. Alex Aarons. C. M. Nelson. J. B. Warwick. J. J. Sullivan. Paul Lukas. Joe Breen. Ralph Ralnger. Howard Strlckling. American Play Ce. Sues Bayard Veiller For 10G Los Angeles, June 11. American Play Company, through W. A. Stewart, assignee, is suing Bayard Veiller for $10,090, claiming the playwright owes that sum as balance on an agreement . whereby he was io pay 20% of all salary, royalties or literary receipts over a five-year period beginning in' De- cember,. 1922. Plaintiff declares Veiller received upward of $300,000 under the pact up. to Dec. 31, 1927, but that he paid the American Play Co. only $32,910, approximately 10%, instead of- 20%. Complaint specifies receipts from Metro oi $62,500 for picture rights to 'Trial of Mary Dugan,' and further English royalties on the' play of $27,398;' from' Universal, $5,000 for script o. 'So This Is Heaven,' and $3,000 from Paramount for 'Danger.' Meyers RKO Producer Hollywood, June 11. ion Meyers gets his baptism as a Radio associate producer in 'Gay Divorce,' which -will have Fred Astaire in the mate lead. Mark Sandrich directs yarn which ts being scripted by H. W. Hane- man. 1st Runs on Broadway (Subject to Change) Week of June 15 Paramount — 'There Comes the Groom' (Par). Capitol— 'Men White' (MG) (2d wk). Strand — 'Fog Over (WB) (2d wk), Rialto — 'World in Revolt* (Mentone) (2d week). Roxy— 'Let's Talk It Over' (U). Music Hall— 'Virgie Winters' (Radio) (24). Rivqli — 'Are We (Care we) (13). Week of June 22 P a r a m o u n t— 'Shoot Works' (Par); Capitol— 'Operator 13' (MG). Strand— "Dr. Monica' (WB) (20). Rialto— 'Black Moon' (Col). Roxy— 'Affairs of a Gentle- men' (U). Music H a 1 1 — 'Of Human Bondage' (Radio) (21). Rivbli— Are We Civilized?' (Carewe) (2d wk). $2 Pictures 'Rothschild' (UA) Astor (13th week). RKO Corp. Among First to Fde Its * ; Move to Hasten Reorg. JOE KANE PRODUCES Hollywood, June 11. Joe Kane today (Monday) checks in at Mascot Pictures to take charge of production on. the story, 'Water- front Lady'. Transferred from a similar spot with Charles R. Rogers productions at Paramount. Among the first companies to file a petition under the new Bank- ruptcy Act ort . Thursday (7) was Radio-Keith-Orpheum. This de- spite the fact that ho reorganization plan for the. company is at hand. However, \>y- making the. move to come within + he bounds, of the Cor- porate Bankruptcy Bill, RKO ex- pects to be. able to. move speedily and more safely into reorganization at the proper time. Under the new act, companies such as RKO, which is In receiver- ship, and, therefore, not Insolvent, but alleged to- be -unable to meet maturing debts, Is hot known as a bankrupt but as a 'debtor.' It's one of the technical distinctions allowed by the new act. RKO is a Maryland corporation. The company Itself asks for the right to come wltblri th'e "definition of the new ict, find in its petition makes no request' specifically for appointment of trustees, except that in addition tr the right to reor- ganize under the new bill. It asks the- court, for. such other and further relief as the court decides it shall have. This infers that RKO has no aim td shift fro .1 tho Irving Trust, pres- ent receiver for the company. Tech- nically what RKO asks for is an extension of the present receiver- ship but with leave to reorganize from . within, Instead of having to assent to a sale of assets and sub- sequent reorganization under a ne\? holding firm or something. Altogether it may take the couTt about two weeks to act and finally dispose of the RKO petition, but in the meantime, M< H. Aylesworth, president of RKO, has Issued a statement that, while no reorgani- zation plan had as yet been pre* pared, the corporation took action so as to be in a position to reor- ganize as conditions permit. He also stated that neither the receivership .or th© new. proceed- ings aifect. the operations of ; the picture producing and distributing subsidiaries of tiKO or its princi- pal theatre subsidiaries. The RKO petiton which was pre- pared by RKO's downtown legal counsel, Cravath, de Gersdoff, Swaine & Wood,, through Attorneys Leonard Adklns and" Bruce Bromley, of that firm, is one of the most complete petitions filed under -the new act. This peti.icn not only alleges that the company will be unable to meet debts when maturing but. renders a fairly clear history of . the com- pany's receivership action and other actions pending, besides appending a detailed balance sheet of the firm. The petition is a voluntary one, and mentions that RKO has been in receivership since January 27, 1933. It relates how substantially all (Continued on page 62) RKO Corporation's Assets and Liabilities I • • • • ••.< ♦ f • » i » • • t .• • • • > • • • • • < >•»••• Face amount. . ." $86)324.98 9,170.00 3,065,141.29 470,700.89 26,032.17 113,466.32 255,223.87 86,609.79 251,491.43 160,535.00 2,394,655.73 6,156.42 44,000.00 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ASSETS, RADIO- KEITH-ORPHEUM COR- PORATION, DEBTOR, AS AT DECEMBER 31, 1933 1. Assets Pledged to Secure Indebtedness Unsecured notes receivable— . Name>of maker B. F. Keith Columbus Company . . . Keith-AlbeerOrpheum Corporation RKO Midwest Corporation . . . . .. . . . RKO New York Corporation , . . ■Parthenon Realty Corporation. ......... . RKO Penn Corporation • • . y . . i.. . . . Radio. City. Inc. . . . '.. .'•' Radio City Theatres. Corporation. . . k ....... . RKO Rhode Island Corporation . . San' Diego Holding, Company, Ltd Stadium Theatres Corporation Junior 'Orpheum Los Angeles,. Ltd Orpheum Theatre Company, Missouri Cleveland Hippodrome Theatre • Company 221,623.40 Orpheum Theatre Company — Indiana. .»••.;......,.... 18,350.00 RKO Southern Corporation 646,109.98 RKO Theatres Operating Corporation ... ; , . . . 201,925.70 Toledo Theatres and Realty Company. . 591.032.75 Radio-Keith-Orpheum Western Corporation., . : 2,207.476.39 Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Ltd i ..... . 89.380.90 Palace Theatre and Realty Company. .-. . 99.547.33 Pathe News, Inc , . 220,668.69 RKO Radio' Pictures, Inc. . ,\ ; . *. . ..... 64,109.76 RKO Pathe Pictures, Inc 12,600.69 Notes receivable vsecured by mortgages on films — RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 9,699,747.00 RKO Pathe Pictures,. Inc. . „ . . . / 2,697,354.89 Promissory notes secured by mortgages on real estate — RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.. . .... 3,200,000.00 RKO Pathe Pictures, Inc ; . . . 963.869.37 Capital stocks of subsidiary companies — Number of Par value shares Percent. of Name, of company Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation (pref.). _Ke_ith-Albee-jOrpheum Corporation (com.). RKO "'Midwest ' Corporation r. . . , . rrvvr. ~ RKO New York Corporation Pathe News,. Inc. RKO Pathe Pictures, Inc. of stock. 2i,761 1,204,793 ~-25;000- 30 100 100 RKO Radio Pictures, Inc .............. 211,962 i «'• ( i » • • • RKO Penn Corporation. RKO-Proctor Corporation.. Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Ltd .... RKO Rhode Island Corporation . Stadium Theatres Corporation. Union Hill Corporation V . . . . . , RKO Southern Corporation. ,. . . Toledo Theatres and Realty Co • • • • ¥ .» * • • 4 • * • 4 t • • * • • * • * 1,500 10,000 10,000 200 10 528 .100 6.000A 5.000B 100 100 100 2,500 100 owned. 33.84 99.87 100 .100 100 100 100 100 10Q 100 100 100 100 100 stock. $100.00 .01 • 100.00 No par 100,00 100.00 No par No par No par . £1 No par 1*0.00 10;00 100.00 No par No par No par 709.86 RKO Theatres Operating Coi'poratlon . . Radio-K«ith-Orpheum Westefn Corporation Cash on deposit with trustee of secured 6% gold notes. 2. Unpledged Assets (Held by Irving Trust Company as Receiver) Cash on hand and in banks. $47,457.10 Note receivable from tenant, Dr. L. Peterson 90.00 4,886.50 132,483.15 Accounts receivable from tenants. Account receivable from Rockefeller Center, Inc Account receivable from Citizens Bank & Trust Company Notes receivable from affiliated and othfer r-firnpanW-s— >HTi" V}Lt:n amount. .$100,000.00 Name of maker. iRKO Canada, Ltd == T -t«JlS c J>.-New. = Br^nHwick Theatres Co Palace Theatre and R*alty^ompany Accounts receivable fro affiliated stnij o».h*-r ertmiifiniexr Name of company. RKO Canada, Ltd , Sioux City Theatre Corporation Radio City Theatre? Corporatlo Radio City, Inc. , ; . ...... Oapitnl Htfv-kv <,f subHidiary and othr-r f(,rnx,;ir,,'i: — 47.55 Secured or unsecured, Unsecured Unsoruirfid Amount, $28,125.00 73.384.0 1 52,263.14 102.X49.25 Nt'uiu- i»l (.'ojfjpiwiy. Van Bcuifn Corporafion, trust certificates) Van Beurcn (,'orporatfon, Class l'> Palace Theatre and JiWiJty Cornr»ariy Radio-Koith-Oi pheum fCunada; Ltd., pr*f. Radio- Kfltli-Oiphourn (rrannda) Lid., f'l i' Clevoland Ifippodromf- Thnafr** Company Kliitt)tt:t of H\ifi.tt;f i'ftrff-.r.rt (it tttdcM; owned. I'M Vtl\\H- of >'to<-.k. (> f>iir (> par 1 00.00 1 00 06 \(,<) 00 Orpheum Circuiti Ine., preferred. ... Orpheum Circuit, Inc., common... Parthenon Realty Corporation...., Radio City, Inc Radio City . Theatres Corporation. San Diego Holding Co., Ltd -Bonds of affliated companies — 100,00 1.00 100.00 No par No' par 100.00 Principal amount. $80.60'OJOO Name of company. Type. of bond. Trenrex Realty Corporation .... 6% first mortgage bonds ..... RKO Midwest; ; Corporatioh.. ... ..Secured 6% sinking fund bonds Security deposit. ....... Sundry investments and deposits- Participation in mortgage. . . . . . . Interest in film negative. , Contract ......... j .■ Unpaid subscriptions, to sinking fund 6% gold debenture's aiid common stock, including interest to Dec. 31, 1983 (subject to rights, if any! of Chemical Bank & Tnist Company, as •trustee, under supplemental indenture dated as of Jan. 1, 1932) between Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation and Chem- ical Bank & Trust Company, as trustee) ... 303,554.14 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF LIABILITIES OF RADIO-KEITH-ORPHEUM CORPORATION, DEBTOR, AS AT DECEMBER 31, 1933 1. Secured Liabilities Payee or issue. . Amount. Ten year 6% sinking fund gold debentures . . ..$11,600,000.00 Secured 6% gold notes....'. ..'. 1,825,208.76 6% gold notes , 1,118,500;00 2. Unsecured Li Creditor, payee or issue. Amount. 6% gold notes (less in treasury) $1,696,000.00 'V TlTIrTT Francis Building Company New York State Tax Commissioner. ... Collector of Internal Revenue. ..... . ... , Lustrolite Company, j Ad Press, .Ltd Collector of Internal Revenue , Central Hanover Bank and Trust Comp Francis Emery Fitch .' "T^ti"OTal~Cily^Baiilc:-'ot New ....... Chase National Bank ................... Pathe Exchange .........' , . , , Pathe Exchange . Chemical Bank and TiUst Company. J. & W. Seligman & Co ......... ■. ... Commercial Trust Company' of New Jersey..... Charles R. Rogers. City Bank-Farmers Trust. Company. . . ; . Commercial National, 'artk and Trust Company Boyle and; Priest.. .... . .'. '. . . . Kelly arid Malcon. . . ........ w i V. . „. . Beekmah. Bbgue and . Clark RKO Pathe Pictures,. Inc. ......... ....... . .' ..; "UliO Radio Pictures, Inc. . \ . . RKO Service Corporation. Parthenon Realty Corporation Orpheum Theatrieal Company, Ltd. ; . .... ,....].].. ... Deposit iiayable— sale of sites. . . ; .T. T .'. . State of Maryland (franchise tax due Auc;. 31, 1933) for period Jan. 1-Dec 31, 1933),. State of New York (franchise tax for period Nov, 1, 1933, to Nov. 1, 1934)........ Undetermined ■Collector of Internal Revenue, additional assessment of Fed- era] infome tax for years 1929 and 1930. approximately. . .'. 16,000.00 j . $16,608,120.69 3. Guaranteed Mortgages and Notes Payable of Companies in Bankruptcy ^"~~^ = "o^ ReeeiversKip^e^ *ame of maker or IsHuor. Radio- olth -Orpheum <-rn (Corporation . . . , ■ • • .* • • • .1 • •. » •« « r * i • • • 40,000.00 28.13 4.5S 7.980.BB 3,868,65 306.60 748:312 217132 - — 101.15 856.44 998.93 16.48 4,568.80 35.00. 33.00 135.87 105.85 2,'3i2.a6 60.00 100.00 62.57 8,787.09 682.46 13,892.62 86,641.85 144,493.30 50,OOP,QO 5,600.00 ToW-dfi TlioatreH Company , l.)('TV/('I Ol'fifKMJ Orphr-nhi f ndlnna Orphf-urri f ndlanti < >i f/tiMjro and Principal or Description of security. face amount. WesU ... Twenty -year 6% sinking fund .secured convertible gold bonds.$l,860.000.00 Realty Second mortgage )?i ... First mortgage sinki gold bonds. ..'....,... 480*000.00 H\. Ia,»\v, Mo Tlicalro. 'orripany, Dornn oiMRa«c tlcod of trust. 440,000.00 69,430.43 810.000.00 $3,019,430.43 PICTURES VARIETY 1 ROXY THEATRE PETITION HAS The petition under the new Bank- ruptcy Act, filed Thursday (S) against the Roxy theatre by holders of the. $1,600,000 second mortgage bonds, apparently was done , in har- mony with the prior privileged first -mortgage noteholders. This is in- dicated through the fact that the primary purpose of the petition as explained is to allow for a speedy and Inexpensive reorganization of .the property from within, rather than by foreclosure or sale of as T sets, and " a plan Is already under way, having been started by the first mortgage noteholders. Beekman, Bogue & Clark were attorneys who acted-for the junior security holders. Attorney Carlos Israels of White & Case is acting ■ for the first mortgage noteholders. The petition was filed through the second mortgage' noteholders' com- mittee, comprising Frank B. Lisle, Alvin J. Schlosser and Louis A. Ma- honey. Schlosser ana Lisle are un- derstood to ^represent the Halsey, '.Stuart investment firm. • ■ Service already was made on "the Roxy Theatres Corp., and the •company board met Monday (11) to ''discuss the matter formally. The meeting resulted in -the Board > 'voting to make an answer admit- .ting the material allegations of the .petitions involved. The corporation must make an- swer in 10 days; . The petition, as in like- cases, alleges that Roxy Theatres Corp. is unable to meet debts ,when they mature, and ap- pointment of a trustee or trustees appears to be In order. .", ( The move under the new Bank= jt;uptcy Bill, as in similar cases, is chiefly technical for reorganization •purposes. Allowing of the petition 'by the court, as explained, means ^ir.tually an extension of the present receivership, under a new name. ,.■ At the same time looks to Indicate that Halsey, Stuart and the junior security holders are probably jibing with the first mortgage bondholders on any reorganization plan for the theatre and that all will work co- operatively this way. ~ RECEIVER, ATTYS. WANT 225G FEES FROM RKO Because Federal Judge William ondy has taken the matter under advisement, the Irving Trust, re- ceiver, and the law firm of Dono- van, Leisure, ' Newton & Lumbard, are experiencing a postponement in the matter of their requested in- terim fees aggregating $225,000 for services in connection with the RKO receivership. Judge Bondy held a hearing on the question Friday (8), but made no decision. There were objections made both as to the amount of fee and as to manner of payment by different parties. - Morton Or. Bogue, of the- law firm Ot Beekman, Bogue & Clark, at- torneys for the Chemical Bank, was .one of the objectors. He did not attack the amount of fees asked but requested that if such pay- ment be made / it must not be made out of collateral for; the company's 6% gold notes. /The col- lateral mentioned in connection With. RKO's 6 % gold notes actually amount to some, kind of revolving credit fund. Under agreement oyer this collateral Chemical has limited amount of total expenditures in connection with, same to $60,000. In defense of the amount of part payment fees asked, attorney New-, ton, of Col. William Donovan's firm, stated to the Court that his. firm had to put 15 lawyers to work on RKO business, and that Col. Dono- van himself spent much time con- ferring on RKO affairs witfc re- ceivers and company officials. 'i n'reVI 5 P"tn~e H5ono van^nffs^awf^ yers, he stated, are working exclu- sively on RKO business. Newton also explained that the RKO receivership is under the per- sonal supervision of Vice-President Meade, of the Irving Trust, with Messrs. McCausland and Christian- sen, directly in charge, and the bank has done a good job at RKO, and has a large force working on the matter. The Donovan rm's end of the Chas. Rogers to Remake 'M'Faddeit's Flats' as Indie Hollywood,' June 11. Talker, remake of 'McFadden's Flats' which he produced at First National several years ago, will be first Independent production by Charles R. Rogers for next season's releases. Casey Robinson will do the screen play. Producer', winds up at. Paramount In a few weeks and is still negotiat- ing, for outlet. New Bankruptcy Act Forestalls Outside Control for Fox Met There is only an outside chance that any outside bidder will gain control of the Fox Metropolitan the- atres group. While Warners and Loew have been mentioned as like- ly bidders, any feasible chance either may have figured to make a successful bid looks to go astray as a result of the new Corporate Bank- ruptcy Bill. The present bondholders' group of Fox Met, controlling, as it does, around 80% or more of the claims against Fox Met, can go into court any time and and, as a protective move, petition for reorganization under the new Bankruptcy, Bill. Do-, ing this, the Fox Met group avoids the necessity of any foreclosure sale under whlqh. competitive bids for the circuit assets can be made. The Bankruptcy Bill allows for reorganization without foreclosure or sale of assets providing two- thirds of 'all classes, of creditors agree.. There is a curious tangle sur- rounding that Warner intention to bid for Fox Met. That's aside from the generally known - Warner antip- athy to the Skouras brothers ever since the Skourases and Warners spilt. There is the additional fact that the Warner Intention to move into the Fox Met situation, if it can, Is primarily tacked on the Warner difficulty presently to sell Its prod- uct to Loew or RKO,. on expected terms. In such: a predicament Warners are left only that avenue of looking around for theatre buys in the New York area. The Meehan talks on the Warner buy^m of Meehan's pre- ferred s tock hold ings in Keith - Albee-Orpheum are stated to have proved non-feasible. Under the foreclosure proceedings as planned, however, Warners could make a counter-offer for the prop- erties involved as against the one pending. There's this to consider, however, that the bondholders' group can bid to the full amount of their $10,000,000 bond representa- tion, which could force a competi- tive bid to rise above that figure, or possess certain financial emolument elements for creditors not contained or which may be superior to those offered under the current group plan. Insiders figure this unlikely to happen, and, with the final determi- nation up to the y court, anyway, it Is possible that the court may be in- clined to figure that the bondhOld-. ers' likely $10,000,000 bid is pre- eminent. Hearing on the matter is set be- fore Federal Judge Mack for. June 20. TALISMAN READIES 10 Hollywood, June 11. Final okay by Phil Meyer in New York of the story treatment of 'Mom' is all that is holding up pro- duction of the first of 10 Academy pictures, at Talisman studio. First four of the group have been bought outright ; by Meyer. ' State rights distribution of re- maining six to be handled by Bar- ney Goodman, Abe Heller and Pat Clemens. fees asked for on this part payment request amounts to $125,000. Irving Trust asks for $100,000. Aggregately the amount would figure to around half, of RKO's profit for the first quarter this year.. Objections to the fees as such were^-made^-on- behalf j; of— three creditors with alleged claims of $700,000 against RKO, in connection with certain bonds guaranteed by RKO on St. Louis theatre property. Attorneys representing these claim- ants asked the Court to insist oh written proof of the amount of time and extent of labor expended by the. Donovan firm and Irving Trust on the RKO thing, in order that the Court may determine the reasonableness of the request. RKO, PAR AND ROXY QUICK TO FILE UNDER NEW CORPORATE BKPTCY BILL Title Protest Fails Freuler Film Associates won legal right to the title 'Marriage on Ap- proval* when r ustlce Steuer In N. Y; Supreme Court refused . to yield to the application' for an injunction sought by Michael Kallesser, who wrote a play under that title In 1928. Playwright claimed exclusive right, to the title, although .the Frueler picture Is based on a stdry written and published prior to pro- duction of plaintiffs play. FORECLOSURE F- Indications are that the foreclo- sure sale of Fox-West Coast will take place in July or shortly there- after. With the foreclosure Sid Kent comes Into executive ..control of the circuit as president of the holding company that will control F-WC. New name for F-WC so far hasn't T een made known. Actual operations of the circuit may be segregated under a separate operating firm, subsidiary to the top holding firm, and Spyros Skouras will likely head the. operating com- pany, with Charles Skouras under him as v.p. and general manager. Herman Wobber will also be in the new F-WC lineup. MG Personnel Shifts Hollywood, June 11. Gottfried Relnhardt, who had been on the Metro staff as an as- sistant to Walter Wanger, left the organization Saturday (9). Among the writers leaving Metro last week were William C. White and Edwin Williams, who had fin- ished Work on the 'Soviet' story, arid C. N. Nelson, who goes to Eng- land to fulfill contract signed sev- eral months ago. Speed with Which Petitions for Corporate Relief Were Filed Seemingly Awaited President's Sig- nature to New Statute— Roxy Theatre and RKO in Receivership, Par Already in Bankruptcy Courts— New Move Designed to Expedite Reor- ganizations and to Best Preserve Assets Almost simultaneously with Pres- ident Roosevelt's signing of the Corporation Bankruptcy Bill on Thursday (7) in Washington, com- panies In New York either in re- ceivership or bankruptcy directly or Indirectly took steps to have their respective company reorgani- zations come within the meaning of the new act. Petitions Were filed in the Federal District Court of N. T. bri behalf of Paramount-Pub- ilx. Radio -Keith- Orpheum and the Roxy theatre. Roxy theatre and RKO are in re- ceivership. Paramount-Publlx com- pany already was in the bankruptcy ■ courts. The hew Bankruptcy Law is de- signed .to alleviate the financial troubles of industrial firms and municipalities. The bill allows for reorganization of a company from within on the sayrso of the aggre- gate two-thirds total of each class of creditors involved. .Under the new act sale or liquidation of a company's assets is avoided. In the case of all the companies in the industry which are seeking to benefit under the new Bankruptcy Bill, It means that reorganization of each of the firms can be had, if the court allows, without any physical or financial transformation of the company Involved. Companies can retain, thir respective physical iden- tities and reorganize. Thus, were the court to allow any or all of the petitions of the three industry firms involved in the pres- ent, requests, these firms would re- tain their respective names and physical setups as is. Under the old law there had to be a liquidation in the case of bankruptcy and a subsequent sale of assets, and In Reorg . Plan for Par Too Indef Now In View of Co. s Petition Last Week All current estimates as . to when a reorganization plan will be set definitely for Paramount are prema- ture. There are too many problems involved. Additionally the plan Would have to await the Federal Court's disposition of the bondhold- ers' requests to allow reorganization under the Corporate Bankruptcy Bill. This should take In Itself two to three weeks. It is also not. uncertain that more, than one plan, by more than one group may be offered. That some kind of a bond Issue, although a small one, may have to be considered by the reorganization people, is likely because of the pos- sibility that certain bond holdings may be held variously in trust. In the main, the reorganization group as represented principally by Kuhn, Loeb is known to be consid- ering a possible large preferred share Issue in which bondholders, certain creditors and common stock- holders will share on some equitable basis to all. Under such a plan, as was! followed In various other In- dustrial bankruptcies,. common shareholders can have their stock exchanged on some basis for the new. shares. But there's nothing definite except that it's certain for the common shareholders to get a break, in an y Par re organization plan. That's on general principles, and also because there are large blocks of Par shares held by various banks in the Par . picture and without, not to mention Par employes. Then again In the possible consid- eration of a preferred issue there comes the question of the likely status, of the banking group credit- ors of Par in connection with the much discussed negative hocking case. Under the Securities Act, these banks may be unable to ac- cept a stock interest in Paramount That at least a part cash settlement with these banks may be made has been on tap right along. Perhaps in this connection also the various parties to .the reorgan- ization purposes may have to un- dertake a bond issue to satisfy these banker claims additionally. But above and besides all these angles, it may well be that if the banker group claims cannot be ad- justed to suit all sides, that these same banker people may of them- selves offer an alternative plan when the time comes for such action. Then again there " is. some talk that certain stockholder groups may offer a plan also for consideration. There are around 30,000 stockhold- ers of Paramount. In the final analysis it's all up to the court for ultimate determination, and what the creditors will .accept is some- thing nobody presently can tell, even before the matter gets to the court. It is logical to * 'a -me that any reorganization plan offered will in- clude some provision for executive operation of the company and the makeup „6f same to some extent. It appears hardly possible that a slate "b'i^cpeYatfi^ with the plan, tut it can well be that upon acceptance of any plan the flrsjt step will-.be the election of. a board of directors. Quite naturally such a board will get its selection impetus from the group that controls whatever • re- organization plan is accepted. It will be the board which, after its creation, will pick its operating offi- cials. r receivership there had. to be a fore- . closure. The new Bankruptcy Bill elimi- nates this evil and sums up as one of the major achievements of the Roosevelt administration thus far. Par's Two Petiti There were two petitions filed in the Paramount situation. The Fed- eral Court clerk's' clock, however, indicates that the petition of the Vanderllp Debenture Holders' Com- mittee had beeh filed ahead of the second petition which was recorded on behalf of three bondholder cred- itors holding in the aggregate around $15,000 in bonds, par value; The Vanderllp petition repre- sented holdings of around 2,400 bondholder creditors. Allegations In each instance are similar, but the Vanderlip petition comes fully S5 minutes ahead of the presumedly in- dependent petition. Both allege that the debtor company will be unable to pay its debts as they mature, and ask to allow Paramount-Publlx^ to come in under the new Bankruptcy Law for purposes of more economi- cal and more expeditious reorgani- zation of the firm.. Each of the petitions, including that of RKO and the Roxy theatre, ask that a trustee or trustees be appointed for such purpose. These requests do not indicate— and as ex- plained on the Inside In each In- stance— do not mean' that, the trus- tees of Par are aimed to be changed or that the respective receivers of the Roxy theatre and RKO (Howard Cullman and the Irving Trust re-» spectlvely) are to be shifted. As explained, the new Bankruptcy Act' actually means only an extension of the present status of any of the firms involved. -Some significance may be placed on the fact that Instead of the trustees of Paramount or the ref- eree or the Par company Itself ask- ing for leave to come within the new' Bankruptcy Law, it was the Vanderllp committee that did so. Some may , also put an 'involuntary* interpretation on the petition as filed by the three Independent de- benture holder interests, in the case of Paramount. But this is open also, especially since the Vanderllp petition was filed first, according "to the records. Change of Trustee? It would create more than pass- ing interest if ultimate results in- dicated that the Vanderllp petition or the indie bondholder petitions were aimed to change for new Par trustees. It is known that certain creditors have been most dissatis- fied with one of the three trustees over certain claim settlements and deals as approved by. one of tfce trio. One of these is the matter of . the Paramount Building reorganization. Another matter said to have Irked certain creditors is the contem- plated ERPI settlement. Still an- other rub comes, by way of a pro* posed AlHeM deal; With so much dissatisfaction having been ex- pressed over these proposed deals and settlements In some creditor quarters, reports have come that one of the Par trustees may resign voluntarily within the fortnight if not sooner. Such a. report may bear cor- roborative import on the inference that in connection with either the Vanderllp committee petition under the new Bankruptcy Act, or the in- die bondholders' petition, that cer- tain new trustees or a new trustee is sought by creditors. ^In^any"=event^the--8ituatlon«j:fi.^=. garding the aforementioned settle-, mcnt deals is regarded in downtown quarters as likely not to be one that, creditors generally will approve. Thus the relative petitions of the. Vanderllp committee or the indie bondholders may have important, bearing on the future of Paramount, for a change of trustes may mean also a change of policy in the gen- (Contlnued on page 20) VARIETY PICTURE CROSSES Tuesday, June 12, 1934 INFANTILE PARALYSIS FRIGHT RUINS LOS ANGELES GROSSES; ALL DOWN 2,000 Cases of Dread Malady Under Observation— 'Great Flirtation' $9,500 at Paramount; 'Change of Heart/ Loew's State, $8,000 Los Angeles, June 11. Infantile paralysis with more than 2,000 cases . tinder observation . has thrown a big kink into, -the the- atre business, of the community. First run houses are taking the slap as hard and possibly harder than the neighborhood emporiums. Then, of course, a bit of Warm weather puts the folks on the road, too, so that all in all the theatres are cur- rently going through their worst spell during the spring and early summer season. Paramount with 'The Great Flir- tation' is the take leader of the town, though doing disappointing business. Trade at the RKO perked up a bit with the addition of the McLarnin-Ross fight 1 pictures to » bill topped by 'Stingaree.' Warner houses Just fair with *Fog Over Frisco/ while trade mild, at the State where 'Change of Heart' is the attraction. Chinese went dark Sunday after 10 week stay of 'The House , of Rothschild' with the blinds to re- main pulled for some time, before another attraction will be set. Estimates for Thi Week Chinese (Grauman) (2,028; 56- $1.65) — 'The. House of Rothschild'; (20th Century) and stage show (10th, final week). Tuned off to around $12,000 after most success- ful run of a picture house has had In many a moon. Downtown (WB) (1,800; 25-36- 40-66)— 'Fog Oyer Frisco' (WB), Bette Davis, not strong enough t&c- tor to top this picture, with trade hitting toward a $4,300 climax for the stanza. Last week 'He Was Her Man' (WB) Just went through the motions of unwinding to around $4,200. Hollywood (WB) (2,766; 25-35- 40-66)— 'Fog Over Frisco' (WB). Just doing a shade better than at the Downtown house and will sign off around $6,000 which is no hot pumpkins. Last week 'He Was Her Man' ( WB ) ha d tougher going than the other WB house and finished with around $4,000. Los Angeles (Wm. Fox) (2,800; 16-26) — 'Stolen Sweets' (Chester- field) and 'The Black Cat' (U) split. Will have poor week around $3,000. Pantages (Pan) (2,700; 26-40) — 'Springtime for Henry' (Fox) and •Love Captive* (U) split. Going along with trade straggly to tune of $1,800. Last week 'Such Women Are Dangerous' (Fox) and 'Embar- rassing Moments' (U) did a shade better than current week, but lost money for' house at around $2,000. Paramount (Partmar) (3,695; 30- 40-65)— Great Flirtation' (Par) and stage show. Liberal ad campaign might have helped this one into much better take than the $9,500 it will register. Last week 'Many Happy Returns' (Par) on the last r. few days of week as result of word of mouth on stage show jumped heavily to little short of $16,500. RKO (2,960; 26-36-40)— 'Stinga- ree' (Radio). It's the McLarnlh- Ross fight pictures used as b. o bait that will bring around $9,000 mark. Last' week, second and final for '20th Century' (Col) got $6,000. State (Loew-Fox) (2,024; 30-40- 66) — 'Change of Heart* (Fox) start ed off at mild pace but picked up after first couple days and will ring off with around $8,000. Last week With 'Queen Christina' (MG) fair at $7,700. Respite from Heat May le Buffs B.0.VUp Buffalo, June 11. Subsiding , of heat wave may better b,o. returns currently. Tak- ings seem to have leveled off to summer averages. Only house which looks to better last week's business is the Buffalo and that not much. 'Villa' last week stood out nicely. All other grosses In the doldrums elsewhere. Estimates for This Week . Buffalo (Shea) (30-40-66)— 'Thin Man' (MG) and Mary Brian. Indi- i^tejt^aMut^JlijWPj^^though^ even this dependent upon temperature. Last week "Little Miss Marker' (Par) and Georgie Price finished n.s.g. at slightly over $12,000. Hipp (Shea) (2,400; 25-40)— 'Catherine' (UA).~ ^iooks like Just another week for this one; indica- tions pointing to around $7,000. Last week "Viva Villa* (MG) ran nicely and well liked by the males; bettered expectations at $9,000. Century (Shea) (3,400; 25)— 'Bot- toms Up' (Fox) and "Wharf Angel' (Par). Looks like strong program and. should get over $6,000. Last Week 'She Made Her Bed' (Par) and CLOUD OVER TAC0MA It's the Stevedore Strike— 'Not Dressing/ $2,600 Tacoma, June .11. With the . stevedores' strike out- ting in on grosses, although nego- tiations may terminate, it at any time, local showmen are watching the outgo quite carefully. For this reason Kate Smith and her Sw.anee revue are out at the Music Box. Next stage fare there is to be .01- sen and Johnson, funmakers deluxe. Music Box is using 'We're Not Dressing* for full week. Price re- verts, to reg 26-35 While the Roxy still stays at 16-25. Estimates for This Week Music Box (Hamrick) (1,400; 25* 36) — 'We're Not Dressing* (Par). Booked for entire week, indicated to Garner around $2,600. That's in- different. Last week, 'Merry Wives of Reno* (WB) with Ted Lewis unit' show on stage going places for great $4,100 in four days; then 'All of Me' (Par) 3 day's, slow 900, chalking big week of five grand. Roxy. (JtvH) (1,300; 15-25)— 'Hold That Girl* (Fox) and 'Whirl- pool' , (Col) dual. Full, week, ex-' pected to get $2^500. Last week, Laughing Boy' (MG) and 'The Lineup* (Col) dual split with "Wom- en In His Life' (MG) and 'Countess of Monte Cristo' (U), okay $2,600. Blue Mouse (Hamrick) (650; 15- 26)— 'Narcotic' (Ind) for 3 days, then "Very Honorable Guy' (WB) and "Witching Hour* (Par) dual 4 days. Expected to achieve good $1,800. Last week, 'Looking for Trouble' (UA) first half; then 'No More Wdmen' (P,ar) and 'Merry Frinks' (WB) dual last half, up at 1,650. Good. Olsen & Johnson Top Seattle, $10,000, Nice; 'Sweethearts' $6,900 ■ Seattle, June 11. This week Olsen. and Johnson are cutting the box office capers. Set In at the Music Hall these, hilarity builders are expected to go to town. Fifth Avenue is showing Improve- ment with '20,000,000 Sweethearts,' while Paramount has 'Private Scan- dal,' with the main Interest again in Its vaude presentation. Estimates for This .Week Blue Mouse (Hamrick) (1,000; 25)' —•Fog Over Frisco* (WB) and 'Half a Sinner' (U) dual. In sight around $2,700, goo d. Last week, 'Modern Hero' (WB), slow $1,900. Coliseum (Evergreen) (1,800; 15- 26) — 'George White Scandals' (Fox) with Ross-McLarnln championship fight pic, first half; then 'Gambling Lady' (WB) and 'All Men are En emles* (Fox) dual, last half. Ex pected to total about $2,800, deemed poor. Last week, 'Rip Tide' (MG) arid 'Good Daine' (Par) dual clicked for fair, enough $4,100. Fifth Avenue (Evergreen) (2,400; 26-40) — '20,000,000 Sweethearts' (FN). Nice campaign, with pre- view Wednesday midnight giving pix oke start for anticipated $6,900, nice, Last week, 'Sadie McKee' (MG), $6,100, only fair, Liberty (J-vH) (1,900; 10-25) — 'Social Register' (Col) and 'He Couldn't Take It' (Indie) dual. Slow at $3,000. Last week,. 'Mystery Liner' (Mon) and 'Man Trailer' (Col), $3,900, good. Music Box (Hamrick) (950; 26- 35)— 'Black Cat' (U). Expected to hit $2,500, fair. Last week, 'Sorrell and Son' (UA), slow $2,100. ' Music Hall ^Hamrick) (2,300; 25- 36-:60)^*Strictly Dynamite' (Radio). Olsen & Johnson on stage the mag- net, for anticipated $10,000. Last week, 'Glamour' (U) and Kate Smith Revue on stage,, ggt $11,500;, Paramount (Evergreen) (3,1067 25-35)— 'Private Scandal' (Par) and vaude. Indicated around not speedy $6,500. Last week, 'Stand Up and Cheer' (Fox) and stage, $6,300. Good. 'Miss Marker' Marking DpTopB.0.mN.0.,HG New Orleans, June li. 'Little Miss Marker' topping the town currently,- giving the Saeriger its best week in some time. Loew's State quite sdrry with 'Sorrell arid Son,' but. Orpheum is doing a little better with 'He Was Her Man.' Others Just fair. Estimates for This Week Saenger (3,668; 40) — 'Miss Mark-? er* (Par), i Outstander this week, may hit $11,000. Last week 'Little Man* (U)' $8,000, fair. Loew's State (3,218; 40)— 'Sorrell and Son' (UA). Blah, $6,000 will be all. Last week 'Thin Man' (MG) got $9,000. Orpheum (2,400; 35)— 'He Was Her Man' (WB). Cagney-Blondell combo will draw. Just $5,000. Last week 'Stingaree' (Radio), in eight days drew $8,000. Tudor (700; 30)— "Private Scan- dal.' Not much for this one and may graze past $1,800. Last week 'Harold Teen' (WB) garnered $2,- 000. St. Charles (3,200 ; 26)— 'Black Cat' (U). Nicely spotted here and should get $2,000. Last week. 'No Greater Glory' (Fox), $1,900. PROVIDENCE PIX OK, BIZ DITTO 'Murder Trinidad* (Fox)' slipped off to sluggish gross of $4,600. Lafayette (ind.) (3,400; 25)— 'Whirlpool* (Col) and 'Social Reg- ister' (Col). Off here with indica- tions slightly over $5,000. Last week 'I'll Tell the World' (U) and 'Glamour' (U) poor; meagre $4,600., Providence, June 11. With several good pictures lined up this week, and weather okay at the start It looks as though , the ex- hibitor is going to get a break this week. . That is unless the. ther- mometer doesn't start a climb be- fore the stanza is over, and spoil things. 'Marker* on twin bill at the Ma- jestic theatre is the leader so far in the straight picture class'; bill should be in the money class for at least $6,600. Ma'jestic's biz is up due to 'Little Man' and Judging by pres- ent pace will be slightly behind Paramount's figure. Thin Man' has the advantage of stage Support at Loew's, Thurston the attraction. Indications well oyer $10,000. - Fay's has 'Smarty' on the screen,, and Great Lester, another magician, headlining. Lester played here only a short time ago. Looks so-so at $6,100. RKO Albee has switched bills three times, in the last 16 days, 'Murder on the Blackboard* and ■Woman Condemned* now showing. Bill started Saturday quite tepidly, and nothing to Indicate that it will build up. Estimates for This Week Fay's (2,000; 16-26-40)— 'Smarty* (WB) and vaudeville. Great Lester, vaude headllner, played at this house only few weeks ago. Return date mystery since opposish vaude house is playing Thurston; looks like a tepid week at $6,100 If not less. Last week 'Black Cat' (U) and Johnny Marvin on stage so-so at $5,700. Loew's State (3,200; 16-25-40)— 'Thin Man' (MG) and Thurston oh stage. First appearance of magician in these parts in years. Should build up to at least $10,000, nice. Last week 'Hollywood Party' (MG) played second fiddle to Cab Callo- way, who sizzled the. gross to a nice $15,000. ajestic (Fay) (2,200; 15-26-40)— •Little Man* (U) and 'Palooka* (U). Nice bill, best bet house has had in weeks, won't kick at garnering $5,900. Last week 'Change of Heart' (Fox) and 'Springtime for Henry' (Fox) didn't mean a thing, off at $4,300. Paramount (Indie) (2,200; 15-25- 40)— 'Miss Marker* (Par) and 'Monte Carlo Nights' (Mono). No question about the strength of the first pic- ture; with the right breaks the gross should go over $6,600; cricks plenty nice, and street comment swell. Last week *Vanltie3* (Par) and 'Stolen Sweets* (Ches) okay $6,100. RKO Albee (2,000; 16-26-40)— ^Murder on-Blackboard' (Radlo)-and 'Woman Condemned' (Cameo). Looks like won't be able to garner much more than $3,400 for the week; house has been getting some bad breaks in product lately. Last week 'Most Precious Thing* .(Col) and 'LoVe Captive* (U) stayed around for four days only, pretty bad at $1,900. RKO Victory (1,600; 10-15-26)— 'Badge of Hdhor* and 'Orders is Or- ders' (GB), split. Fair at $1,100. Last week *Where Sinners Meet* (Radio) and Til Tell the World' 'BarbIer de Se- ville* with possible gross up to $1,600. Nabes Just so-so. Estimates for This Week Palace (FP) (2,700; 60)— 'Viva Villa' (MG) and 'Sleeping Car* (Brit). Looks like best show in town and should gross up to $10,- 000. Last week this house with 'Sadie McKee* (MG) and 'Countess of Monte Cristo' (U) also took long end of purse with $9,000. Capitol (FP) (2,700; 60)— 'Mur- der at Vanities' (Par) and 'She Made Her Bed' (Par), Will gross around $7,000. Last week '30-Day Princess' (Par) ahd •Witching Hour* (Par), not so good at $6,000. Loew^ (FP) (3,200; 50)— 'Crime Jiofttojr'^jCRa^ioJ^ and „jFlnishing School' (Radio). Best estimate "is" $6,000. Last week 'Such Women Are Dangerous' (Fox) and 'Three On a Honeymoon' (Fox), $5,500. Princess (CT) (1,900; 60)— 'Sor- rell & Son' (UA) and 'Trouble' (UA). British features go well at this house and this program Should gross up to $6,000. Last week 'Looking for » Trouble' (UA) and 'Whirlpool' (Col), $4,500. Cinema de Paris (France-Film) (600; 60)— 'Barbler do " Seville.' $1,500. Last weolc third repeat of 'Liberie Cherie/ $1,000. Tuesday, June 12, 1934 PICTURE GROSSES variety 9 DUAL-TYPE PRODUCT HURTS 4 Out of 5 Have Mystery Angle In Minneapolis; liirder $8,000 Minneapolis, June, 11. ■ They've flooded the loop this week -with crime mystery dramas. Out of the Ave new flrst-run offerings; no less than four fall within the mystery-thriller, category — 'Murder at the Vanities,' -Registered Nurse,' •The Double Door,' and 'Private Scandal.' The plethora of this type of entertainment apparently isn't stimulating the box-offlce because, despite cooler weather and rainfall, which have improved sentiment, grosses are still dragging near rock bottom. Present indications are that $8,000 will be top takings, with •Murder at the Vanities,' at the 4,200-seat Minnesota, copping' the high figures. Houses other than the Minnesota will be . lucky to hit $3,000.. Total takings in the entire loop for all the flrst-run spots probably Won't go above $24,000, which means no-, body is getting rich. Estimates for This Week Minnesota (Publix) (4,200; 26-35- 40) 'Murdetf at the Vanities' (Par). Well-liked by critics and customers and ably sold to public. Hitting pretty good pace and should finish to around $8,000. Last week 'Sadie McKee' (MG),-$9v000. Pretty good. Orpheum (Singer) (2,890; 25-35- 40) 'Registered Nurse' (FN) and •Sisters Under the Skin' (Col), split Will be fortunate to exceed $2,500. House using split week policy occa- sionally for awhile because of sur- plus product. Last week, 'Strictly Dynamite' (Radio) and 'Fog Over Frisco* (FN), $2,000. Poor. Century. (Publix) (1,600; 25*35-40) 'Sorrell and Son' (UA). Well re- ceived, but hasn't much of a box- offlce punch for this house. Maybe $3,000. Light. Last week, 'Nana' (UA), $3,200. Light. State (Publix) (-2;200; 26-35-40) •Double Door' (Par). Lots of praise for this one and it helps. Over- abundance of mystery thrillers a detriment, however. Around $3,500 possible. Light. LaBt week, 'Such Women . Are Dangerous' (Fox), ♦2,600. Light. World (Steffes) (350; . 26-35-50- 75) 'Catherine the Great' (UA). Building all the time and will run anywhere from four to eight weeks Held 'em out many evenings last week. Second week much better than first. Third week looks like around $3,200. Big. Second week, $3,000. Good. . Uptown (Publix) (1,200; 25-35) *20 Million Sweethearts' (FN) and •Henry VIII' (UA), spilt. About $2,600 indicated. Pretty good. Last week, 'We're Not Dressing' (Par), $2,000. Fair. Lyric (Publix) . (1,300; 25-36) •Private Scandal' (Par) and Ross- McLarnin fight pictures, with lat- ter pulling, most of the trade. Should hit $2,500. Fair. Last week, 'The Show Oft' (MC-), $2,000/ Fair. Grand (Publix) (1,100; 15-26) •Death Take a Holiday' (Par). Sec- ond loop run, and 'Smarty' (WB), flrst-run, split. Looks like about $1,200. Fair.- Last week, 'Wharf Angel* (Par) and 'Cross Country Cruise' (U), split, flrst-run. $900. Light. Aster (Publix) (900; 16-26) 'I've Got Your Number' (WB) and 'Good Dame' (Par), second loop runs,, and •Half a Sinner' (U), first-run. Should hit $800. Light. Last week, 'Bolero' (Par), 'Mandalay' (FN) and 'Mur- der in Trinidad' (Fox), $900. Fair, LINCOLN LULLS Pace Generally : Moderate— 'Sadie McKee' Fairish $2,800. B'ham Very Ho-Huni! Birmingham, June 11. . 'Villa' is the newest baby in town; None too healthy but it's the best the town has to offer. Celia Villa, daughter Of Pancho, In person, In connection with the pix. Estimates for This Week labama (Wilby) (2,800; 30-35^40) .-—'Viva Villa* (MG)'""" Moderate $6,500. Last week ' ie McKee' (MG) good, $7,400. Ritz (Wilby) (1,600; 25)— 'Nana' (UA). The half dozen highbrows in Birmingham will attend one each day, leaving the last day a, blank, $2,000. Last week 'Black Cat' (U) $2,400, Empire (BTAU) (1,100; 25) — •Upper World' (WB). Needs a stimulant, $2,400. Last week 'Sis- ters Under Skin' (Col)', $2,900. Strand (Wilby) (800; 25)— 'Lazy River' (MOI Who cares about shrimp flatting, $900. Last week 'Rothschild* (UA), second week $i,a»o. Lincoln, June 11. The theatre front is doing an all quiet '. this week with nothing to look forward to,- but. the big Greater Lincoln celebration on Friday, which is looked to bring about 30,000 potentials to., town. Consequently, billings have expanded into out of town newspapers and billboards and the revenue, chiseled here. There'll need to be a lot of, ballyhoo to get 'em to town with" the Current cinema attractions, anyhow. Summer school,, sporting its usual 1,600 school teaching old maids, opened Monday (11), but the shows won't profit much since the wages in the grasslands where they've been all year weren't very high. Further signs of summer, reductions and slipping biz expected during the next three torrid weeks came with, the . dropping of ads in the daily sheets by the Capitol and Lib- erty, dimers. Rain has raised some hopes In those who were looking with, worry toward the autumn when students come back. However, there's little hope that there'll , be any crop but corn. Wheat is better^ than 60% gohe. Milling companies report all the agricultural areas are laying In as much flour as possible to beat a jack in prices. Estimates for This Week Colonial (LTC) (760; 10-16)— 'Strictly Dynamite' (Radio). Mod- erate $800. Last week 'Lineup' (Col) and 'Smoking Guns' (Radio), did a fair $760. Lincoln (LTC) (1,600; 10-16-26)— 'Bottoms Up' (Fox). Should get a good bit of the play to a pretty fair $2,300. Last, week 'Nana' (UA) proved the star's name of little local value; took a very light $1,650. Orpheum (LTC) (1,200; 10-16-26) —•Wild Cargo' (Radio). Has a du- bious look and Is probably rightly judged for three day calibre; $600 all right. Last week 'Trumpet Blows' (Par) and 'You're Telling Me' (Par) led the. house Into neigh- borhood of $1,000 on last half strength, good enough. Stuart (LTC) (1,900; 10-25-40)— 'Sadie McKee' (MG). Should gather about $2,800, fair figure. Last week '20 Million Sweethearts' (WB) started off with a bang, but dwlnr died until the last two days when it upped again; $2,400 was enough. Booking Loop Houses Has Become Chronic Hard- ship as Product, Okay for Double Bills, Flops Badly and Frequently When Spotted Solo PESSIMISM NITE BALL GAMES, HEAT BUT DENVER NOT BAD Denver, June 11. Ball games at night on lighted fields, three games on each of three locations, still drawing by thou- sands, and continued sunshine and hot weather strongest competitors of Denver- theatres. Aladdin and Paramount running neck, and neck, with last week Orpheum above and Denham and Denver below. . Lee Tracy proves his draw here still strong as ever by snapping Orpheum back to something like normal even without stage show.. Estimates for This Week Aladdin (Huffman) (1,600; 25- 35-50)— 'Springtime Henry' (Fox). Average $3,000. Last week 'Black Cat' (U) pulled most of the Aladd^a regular clientele and numerous mys- tery fans; average $3,000. Denham (Cooper) (1,600; 25-40)— 'Private Scandals' (Par). Strong $6,600. Last week '.Miss Marker' (Par) did bang-up business, close to 50% above normal, closing with $7,500. Denver (Huffman) (2,500; 25-35- 60)— 'Little Man' (U). O.K., too, at $6,500. Last week Crawford in 'Sadie McKee' (MG) gave the house an above-average week, $7,500. Orpheum (Huffman) (2,600; 25- 35-50)— Til Tell World' (U). Up again=Ho^good— pacer^TiOOO;— Last week 'Wild Cargo' (Radio) put the Orpheum on the skids, closing around $5,000. First week house without stage show in months. Den- ver fed up on Buck's last film and has seen enough of wild animals for some time. Tariff at the Or- pheum cut only a. nickel when stage shows were taken out, and kicks about paying 60c for straight pic- tures. Paramount (Huffman) (2,000; 25-40)— 'Modern Hero' (WB) and 'Sorrell and Son* (UA>, .split. Not so hot; meagre $2,000. Last week 'Uncertain Lady" (U) and 'Lot's Bo Ritzy' (IT), split, hume. Chicago, June 11. Loop theatres are howling about a serious product shortage. Turn- over has developed to such an ex- tent that it's about impossible to keep the theatre screens alive. Pic- tures are dropping oft before their time. They are coming in with expectancy of two and three-week stays and are ducking out after seven or 10-day stays. It's the un- usual flick that remains through its normal life expectancy. Even the ace week-stand Chicago has re- cently taken to yanking product after Ave or six days instead of letting the flick finish Its session. Circuits and showmen are" com- plaining that the producers are turning out- pictures of double fea- ture strength only and that such product is not strong enough to remain the full route when brought into a single-feature territory, such as Chicago. Pictures which would formerly be sloughed out of the loop entirely are now. being Bhoved Into ace- spots because of the serious scarcity of product B. & K. Is booking its pictures one or two days before opening date, being in a pinch for pictures and stalling until the 'last minute in the hope of getting a better flicker. Only outstanding picture cur- rently is 'Little Man, What Now?', at the Chicago, which is playing one of its . rare Universal pictures, This la the first year that B. & K. has had the Universal franchise here, the product previously cor- ralled by RKO. At the other houses in the loop it's all 'Party' pictures. At the McVickers it's 'Hollywood Party,' at the State-Lake "Coming Out Party,' while at the Palace the show is 'Party's Over.' 'Thin Man' finished nine days at the Chicago and moved over to the Roosevelt for further looping. Estimates for This Week Chicago- (B&K) (3,940; 35-55-76) —'Little Man, What Now?' (U) and George Raft In person on stage show. Looks set for $32,000 any- how, good gross these days. 'Thin Man' (MG) had a nine-day stay of it and garnered excellent $34,100. McVickers (B&K) (2,200; 26-35- 66} — 'Hollywood Party' (MG). Hardly better -than a one-weeker at $9,000. Names in the cast striv- ing hard against the downpull of the picture itself. Last week, 'Change of Heart' (Fox) was a little sweet for run consumption and wad weak at $9,300. Oriental (B&K) (3,200; 25-35-40) 'Registered Nurse' (WB) and vaude. House continues a. serious money problem. Overhead making it . tough to show any profits/ Con- tinuing at $9,000-$10,000 is still some $4,000 under its actual cost. Last week, Til Tell the World* (U) in the same flabby line at $9,800. Palace (RKO) (2,500; 35-55-83) — 'Party's Over' (Col) and vaude. House slumps off. this week, $13,000, pretty bad; Last week was better at $16,500 for 'Such Women Are Dangerous' (Fox), with Ken Mur- ray and Phil Harris band on stage. Roosevelt (B&K) (1,600; 25-35- 45)— 'Thin Man* (MG). Holds over from a run at the Chicago. Looks okay on extra time and may take $7,000, oka,y. Last week, 'He Was Her ^Mani^( WB)i-,and-vMcLannirii, Ross fight managed $6,900/ fair enough. State- Lake (Jones) (2,700; 20-25- 35)— 'Coming Out Party' (Fox) and vaude. Holding $9,000 this week. Last week, 'Whirlpool' (Col) topped $10,000, United Artists (B&K-UA) CJ,700; 35-45-65) — 'Sadie McKee' (MG) (3d week). Finishes good stay this Wednesday (13), being replaced by 'Now I'll Tell' (Fox). 'McKee' will touch $8,000 currently after oke $13,400 for Second session. UnlR-d Artists house has played a UA re- le'aso for some time, though 'Horn to Be Bad' may hit It bhorlly. Fleet and Heat Throws Bway Biz Off-Beat; 'Men White Okay, Over 506; World Revolt' 14G; 'Sisters NSG, 65G 'Little Man* Biggest Biz In Indianapolis, $4,500 . Indianapolis, June 11. rosses are not especially strong this week with the. exception of the take by 'Little Man' at the Lyric. Sullavan. is still talked about ex- citedly by' the women as a result of her work "in .'Only Yesterday' at the same theatre last fall, and she is responsible for the good gross this week on 'Little Man': which Is expected to reach $4,500. This is In the black for the Lyric in Its second week of its summer policy of Straight Alms minus Its usual vaude. Estimates for This Week Apollo (Fourth Ave) (1,100; 20 25-40)— 'Wild Gold' (Fox). Boles . not strong enough to carry this one higher than a dull $2,600, although he was played up very big In all ads. Last week 'Women Dangerous' (Fox) also slow at $2,600. Circle (Katz-Feld) (2,600; 25-40) —■Many Happy Returns' (Par). Do- ing fairly well with an Indicated gross of $3,800. . Last week 'Stingaree' (Radio) was not so forte at $3,000.. Lyric (Olson) (2,000; 26-40)— 'Little Man' (U). Women going in 'big way "for Margaret Sullavan and the receipts look like $4,600, good. Last week 'Catherine' (UA) proved it was. not solely a class picture by turning in an okay gross of $4,200. Loew's Pa'ace (2,800; 26-40)— 'Sorrell' (UA). It can't seem to overcome the jinx of all re-makes, and it is very gloomy around the box office with the register Indicat- ing no better than a sad $3,000, Last week 'Hollywood Party* (MG) weak $3,800. 'LITTLE MAN/ IcKEE' BOTH OK $18,000, WASH. Washington, June. 11. Only two out of six houses open now. that heat has arrived are doing anything to get excited over this week. Other vaude spot- is hold- ing up satisfactorily, but rest are taking it on the chin. 'Little Man' is giving the Earle best week in long time as result of book rep plus rave notices of crit- ics. Boys showed considerable cour- age by passing out copies of novel to press in advance, but typewriter crowd overlooked alterations in screen version and called It as nearly perfect adaptation as possi- ble. Estimates for This Week Earle (WB) (2,424; 26t36-40-60) — 'Little Man' (U) and vaude. Mats only fair but nights are grand. Grade Barrie in second week as singing m. c. tops vaude and is help, but pic gets credit for big $18,000. Last week 'Merry Wives Reno' (WB) not enough to buck hot spell,, light $11,000. Fox (Loew) (8,434; 25-36-60)— '30 Day Princess'. (Par) and vaude. Benny Davis and Three X Sisters on stage make bill nice entertain- ment. Probably satisfactory $20,- 000.. Last week ♦Vive. Villa' (MG) and knekout Abe Lyman revue shot tO sock6 $25,000; Palace (Loew) (2,363; 26-35-60) —'Sadie McKee' (Par), Crawford getting big $18,000. Last week, sec- ond of "'Manhattan Melodrama' (MG) stood up with oke $8,000. Keith's (RKO) (1,830; 26-36-60) —'Sorrell and Son'- (UA). Getting fans of book and old silent version, but not much else. Won't - stem tide of light grosses house has had recently and looks like weak $4,000 f o r^fl ve=- day s.^~'Where---S i n ners Meet' (Radio) gave house best week in month, but $7,000 wasn't big. Met (WB) (1,583; 25-40)— 'As Earth Turns' (WB). Donald Woods was in stock here helping out, but pic Isn't natural hot weather fare. Probably satisfactory $3,500. Last week 'Keep 'lim Rolling' (Radio) played under original title 'Rodney' on account of being filmed here, took oko $4,500. Columbia '(Loew) (1,203; 25-40)— 'Witching Hour' (i'ar). Not much 1o sol! aiKl looks like light $3,500. La«t week '3 on a Honeymoon' (Fox), same figure. Hot weather and fleet opposition holding down grosses. Sailors are of little help to theatres, mostly avoiding them, and the U. S. Navy is also keeping lots of others away. On Sunday (10) it was. estimated that 150,000 visited the fleet. . The Capitol is taking a long lead, this week over other theatres. 'Men in White 1 (Gable); will still be in big money at a chance to, beat $6C,000. Holds over. Next best, in line with averages, appears to be the Rialto with 'World in Revolt.' Picture is galted to get $14,000 and will stay a second week. Well advertised and exploited, Aim- Is drawing a heavy foreign trade, notably Russians and Germans. Music Hall will be lucky to hit $66,000, with 'Sisters Under the Skin,' weakest, for house in some time. Last week's 'Little Man' also a dlsappolnter. Hopes are for $15,000 on 'Fog Over Frisco' at the Strand, another dlsappolnter, while the Roxy is straining to get $20,000, mild, on 'Such Women Are Dangerous.' After its three good weeks on 'Little Miss Marker,' the Paramount slows up on 'Many Happy Returns,' maybe $24,000. Although the second week started out looking better, the Riv is down to $11,000 on "Born to Be Bad' and picture goes out tonight ( Tuesday)., It got $19,000 the first week and on the fortnight, is still above Riv's advance, expectations. 'Are We Civilized?' opens tomorrow morn- ing (Wednesday). ' Estimates for this Week Astor (1,012; $1.10-$1.66-$2.20)— 'Rothschild' (UA) (13th week). Still holds up okay, taking $13,200 last week (12th). First five days oh the current week $10,400. Picture closes Tuesday (19) because probably go- ing dark. Capitol (5,400; 36-75-86-11.10)— 'Men in White' (MG) and stage show. Town's big draw and may' hurdle a fancy $50,000, staying a second week. Last week "Viva Villa' (MG) pressed its way to. near $35,000, okay. Mayfair (2,200; 35-55-65)— Tx>ve Captive' (U). Hasn't got what it takes and not over $8,000 on week ending today (Tuesday). 'Sorrell and Son' (UA), preceding, got $13,- 500 on nine days, good. , Palace (1,700; 35-50-66-75)— 'Little Man' (U) and vaude. Prob- ably around $10,600, following a dis- appointing week at the Music Hall. Last week 'He Was Her Man' (WB) around $11,000. Paramount (3,664; 36-66-76-99)— 'Many Happy Returns' (Par) and stage show. Lacks b. o. suction and $24,000 looks maximum, n.s.g. Third week of 'Marker* (Par) was $27,000. Radio City Music Hall (5,945; 40- 60-85-99-$1.65)-^Slsters Under Skin* (Col), Not going places and $65,000 looks like the maximum chance. Last week 'Little Man* (U) wasn't up '. to expectations, barely getting over $70,000. Rialto (2,000; 40- 66- 75- 85) — 'World In Revolt' (Mentone). Freak that's attracting fine business, prob- ably $14,000 and holds over. Sold right. Last week, second of 'Holly- wood Party' (MG) not so hot at $9,000i * Rivoli (2,200; 40-65-75-85)— 'Born to Be Bad' (UA) (2nd week); Goes out tonight (Tuesday) on a second week of $11,000 after an initial seven days of $19,000. Run okay for house though light. 'Are We Civil- ized?' (Carewe) opens tomorrow morning (Wednesday). RKO Center (2,626; 26r-40»— '30 Day Princess' (Par), four days and 'Crime Doctor' (Radio); three days. Probably around $5,000 again, bad. Last week doubleton of 'Stingaree' (Radio) and 'Witching Hour* (Par), $6,500. r"R6Ry^(6'200T^5^35^55-65)--!«uc.h-^ Women Are Dangerous' (Fox) and stago show. Unlikely to mount a mild $20,000. Last week, holdover of 'Now I'll Tell' (Fox) $15,000. weak. Strand ,(2,900; 35-55-C5)— 'Fog Over Frisco' (WB). Racketeer film not arousing much attention, maybe $15,000, okay. Holding, over despite this figure. Last week 'The Key' (WB) $12,600. State TCUOO; 36-65-76)— 'Sadie McKee' (M(i) and vaude. Crawford helping house to ".chance for $20,000 or over, good. 'We're Not Dressing' (Par) lust week was around $19,000. 10 VARIETY PICT E GROSSES Tuesday, June 12, 1931 Dynamite/ $14,000, PhiDy; Springtime for Henry HUB'S 2 VAUDFILMERS ALONE GETTING BIZ Philadelphia, June 11. A Wine's closing Saturday night cuts down the competition in cen- tral Philly, but even with that bene- fit this week's batch of pictures ap- pear very weak as far as box office activity is concerned. Two houses with stage entertain- ment, Pox and Earle, got oft to only fair starts despite sudden cool, weather. Fox has 'Springtime for Henry,' which drew fine nptices. from the critics, with a stage revue called 'Manhattan Moods,' long oh ( talent but short , on names. Earle has 'Strictly Dynamite* on the screen and Wesley Eddy and his Joy Gang on the stage. Combination doesn't look any too hot. Estimates for This Week Arcadia (600; 26-40-50)— 'We're Hot Dressing' (Par). Pretty good sta*rt and this second -run should, get $2,100, Last week, 'You're Tell ing Me' (Par). Expected $2,000 reached. Good. Boyd (2,400; 40-65-65)- ; -'Little Man, What Now?' (U). Mebbe $9,- 600, and that's not up to house average. Last week, 'Twentieth .Century' (Col). Great notices; so- so biz. Couldn't reach $12,000. Earle (2,000.; 40-65-65)— 'Strictly Dynamite' . (Radio) and vaude. Wesley Eddy and Gang on stage. Durante films . have been . floppoes here and this combination doesn't look strong.' $14,000 should be top. Last week, 'Many Happy Returns' (Par) and vaude. No names, on stage; $14,600 under expectations. Fox (3,000; 30-40-50)— 'Spring- time for Henry' (Pox), and stage show. No names. on bill; film highly praised. $16,000 if lucky, oh weather. Last week, 'Change of Heart' (Fox) and stage show.- Second week's showing for Farrell-Gaynor film not so forte. $13,000 only. Karlton (1,000; 30-40-50)— 'No Greater Glory' (Col). Looks weak. May hit $2,700. Last week, 'A Very Honorable Guy' (FN). A little bet- ter than some of this theatre's re- cent ones. $3,100. Stanley (3,700; 40-66-66)— 'The Key' (WB). Feeble looking. Be- tween $9,000 and $10,000 indicated. Last week, "Little Miss Marker.' dual. Average bill will be satisfactory at $6,5t>0. Last week 'Thin Man' (MG) with 'Half a Sinner* (U), surprised; dragged them in around $8,000, very good.- Brandeis (Singer) (1,200; 20-25- 35)— *Merry Frinks' (FN) and 'Fin ishing School* (Radio) dual. Cool- ing plant operating, top $4,000. Last week 'Strictly Dynamite* (Radio) and 'Fog Over Frisco' (FN)' yanked on six-day of scheduled nine-day run to' get house back to Friday openings. 'Hell Cat' (Col) and 'Pre clous Thing' (Col) replaced' to help out; nine days close, to $4,800, sat isfactory in face of hot weather. ' Boston, June 11. Met and Orpheum,. only vaude houses, will split most of the cash this week. Former has, 'Many Happy Returns' and the nifty -La Fiesta' revue, featuring Sid Page. Cab Calloway is the whole show at the Orpheum, getting very little help from 'In Love with Life,' indie production. The hi-de-ho maestro IS drawing Very well on his own and should bring in about $15,000, plenty profitable for this house, even with the increased overhead Mediocre double features hurting all other houses. Keith'- trying two features again, giving house a changeable policy; single feature only when picture, is good. Second week of 'Sadie McKee' at State looks fairly good. Should hit $10,000, totaling over $25,000 on the fortnight. Estimates for This Week Keith's (RKO) (2,900; 26-40-66)— 'I Give My Love' (U) and 'Let's Talk It Over' (U). Customers ap- parently hep to varied policy at this house. Double bill won't equal average single-feature earnings. Headed for fair $8,500. Last week Little Man' (U) held up in spite of strong opposition and collected satisfying $10,000. Boston (RKO) (3,200; 25-30-40)— Hell Cat* (Col) and 'Most. Precious Thing in Life' (Col). Not much stirring on this account and prob- ably will get no more than $6,000, very much off. Last week 'Un- known Blonde' (Maj) and 'Half a Sinner' (U) polled only $6,200 over eight-daty stretch. Orpheum (Loew). (3,000; 30-40- 56)— In Love with Life* (Ches) and Cab Calloway on stage. The real magnet is Cab,, and he's appealing heavily to the young folks; expected to gather In $15,000, everybody happy.. Last week' 'Rothschild' (UA) and. vaude made $14,300, very nice.* State (Loew) (3,600; 30-40-65)— r Sadie McKee' (MG) (2d week). Good enough on holdover; should touch $10,000. First week chalked up exceptionally high mark of $16,600. Met (M & P) 04,500; 35-50-65)— 'Many Happy Returns' (Par) and La Fiesta' revue. Good entertain- ment and likely to ease in with, safe margin of $20,000. Last week 'Miss Marker 1 (Par) and revue, although not reaching expectation, wound up with an okay $21,400. . Paramount (M & P) (1,800; 25 35-50)— "He Was Her Man' (WB) and 'Call It Luck* (Fox). Ought to hit average $7,000. Last week Upper World* (WB) and *Lazy River* (MG) skidded to $6,000. Tog Over Frisco' 100% Wrong Title For Fog-Wary San Francisco YALE DEMOBILIZES; NEW HAVEN SLUMPS New Haven, June 11. Local houses will how get a chance to see what difference Yaje makes to their box offices. Studes have scrammed for year and the dent will be noticeable. : What the heat didn't do to the weekend,, the rain did, and it prob- ably won't be made up last half. Ringllng-Barnum circus in town Wednesday (13) will take a slap at film grosses. Estimates for' This Week Paramount (Publlx) (2,348; 35- 50)— 'Many Happy Returns' (Par) and 'Manhattan Love Song' (Mono).. Just">L fair $5,600 in view. Last week 'Murder at Vanities' (Par), as> a single, got oke $6,300. Pbli'e (Loew) (3,040; 36-60)— 'Change of Heart* (Fox) and .'Such Women Are , Dangerous' (Fox). Coasting along to $7,600, satisfac- tory. Last Week 'Manhattan Melo- drama'. (MG) and 'Party's Over* (Col). Took $9,600 of. town's money on good eight days. Roger Sherman (WB) (2,200; 86- 60)— 'The Key' (WB) and 'Merry Frinks' (WB). Summer slump has set in here. Looks like, weak $3,- 600. Last week 'He Was Her Man' (WB) and 'Where Sinners Meet? (Radio). One notch better at $3,- 600. College (Loew) (1,665; 25-40)— 'Stlngaree' (Radio) and 'Social Register' (Col). Not too good at $3,600. Last week 'I'll Tell the World' (U) and 'Ever Since Eve' (Fox). Low spot of several months at $3,100. Newark B.O/s Go Hot And Cold with the Temp. GABY COOPER FUEF YARN Hollywood, June 11. •If You Hunt With Old Don,' orig inal by Thomas F. West, has been purchased by. Paramount as a pos- sible vehicle for Gary_ Cooper. Script of dog yarn goes to Earl J Haley. Albee (RKO) (3,300; 35-44)— 'Lit- tle Man' (U). Swell notices for screen adaptation of Fallada's novel, with raves for Margaret Sulla van, Montgomery and Hale. Heading for $9,000, fait. Last week 'Thin Man' (MG), $11,500. ' * Palace pear to be trying to get the jump on the opposition. . » Estimates for This Week Mainstreet (RKO) (3,200; 25)— '20th Century' (Col), and 'Sisters Under the Skin* (Col). Opened a day and a half in advance and likely, to go for nine days. Holding up just fair for around $7,000. Last week, 'Stlngaree' (Radio), and 'Very Honorable Guy' (FN), $5,000, not so hot. Midland (Loew) (4,000; 26) 'Sorrell artd Son' (UA). Strongly publicised and opened nicely. $8,- 000, light. Last week, Thin Man (MG), held Up nicely for $12,000. . Newman (Par) (1,800; 25)— 'Lit- tle Mies Marker* (Par), and 'The Crime of Helen Stanley' (Col). Nice play over the week end and should return near $4,500. Last week, 'Merry Wives of Reno* (WB), and Witching Hour' (Par), poor at $4,000. Tower . (Rewot) (2,400; 25)-— .'Party's Over* (Col). Stage show Brothers Company, Bernie Green and Bess, Three Singing Sweet- hearts, Wilfrid Dubois and Ray- burn's Dancers. A lot of show for a quarter and the bargain hunters are giving it a play. Week end business fair. Look* like about $5,- 000. .Last week, 'Half a Sinner' OJ) and vaudeville, $5,400. Uptown (Fox) (2,040; 25)— 'Little Man, What Now?' (TJ). Opened strong Friday, boosted by tho finals of a Vacation Girl contest the num- erous Fox houses in this territory have been conducting, and will likely take close to $6,500. Last week, •.Such Women Are Dangerous' (Fox), in for six days, $2,900. Newark,. June 11. With business unusually Sensitive to the weather, things were helped by cold and showers Friday and Saturday to be ruined by a hot Sunday. So the week is anybody's guess dependent upon the run. Anyhow 'Villa' will lead the pro cession at Loew's with' maybe $13,000 with, little hope elsewhere save at the Branford Where 'The Key' and 'Merry Prinks' should beat $8,500. Competition from the Rialto running a grind under fine manage ment and low prices with the Ross McLarniri pictures recently is being felt. . Estimates for This Week Branford (WB) (2,966; 15-66)— 'The Key* (WB) and 'Merry Frinks (FN). Off to a good start and should beat $8,500. Last week 'He Was Her . Man* (WB) and 'Half a Sinner* (U), better than expected with $8,100. Capitol (WB) (1,200; 15-26-35-50) —'Manhattan Melodrama* (MG) and 'Double - Door' (Par). Might get $4,500, Last week on nine days '20 Million Sweethearts' (FN) and 'Looking for Trouble* (UA), okay with $5,400. Little (Franklin) (299; 35-60)— 'Theodor Koerner' and "Wienxer Blut.' Unlikely to top $460. Last week 'In Wien Ich Einmal Eih Madel Geliebt' (Tdbis),. ..'and *Der Storeh Hat Uns Betraut' (General), mild at $400. Loew's State (2,780; 15-76)— "Villa* (MG) and vode. Would have meant coin earlier but now about $13,000. Last week 'Hollywood Party' (MG) and Thurston fizzled to $8,500. Paramount- Newark (Adams-Par). (2,248 ; 16-65)— 'Miss Marker* (Par) . Not meriting long engagement but may do $7,000 on seven days. Last week first four days, nearly $5,000. Proctor's (RKO) (2,300; 35-85)r- 'Strictly Dynamite' (Radio), and 'Cocktail Hour' (Col). Not strong but unit pulling on. merit any may reach $11,000. Last week 'Stlngaree' (Radio), scraped through the heat with nearly $10,000. Terminal (Skouras). (1,900; 15-26- 40)— 'Sinners Meet' (Radio) and 'Call It Luck' (Fox), with 'Change of Heart* (Fox) and 'Now I'll Tell' (Fox), flplit. A better than average bill, and with a little cold air ought to beat a nice $4,700. Last week •II611 Cat'-(C61) affd 'Mystery Liher'- (Mono), with '20th Century* (Col) and 'Beggars, in Ermine* (Mono), split, low at $3,400. ART SIEGEL GOES INDIE Newark, June 11. Arthur J. Sicgel, head booker for Warners here, has resigned to run his own string of theatres. He is succeeded by Samuel Blaskcy, re- cently comptroller. Blaslcey's as- sistant, John A. Flaherty, replaces J him. No one as yet has been as- | signed to Flaherty's place. San Francisco, . June 11. With , tbe waterfront strike still minimizing; all business, including theatres, the' showshops are fighting hard for whatever they get this stanza. Warfield,. however, is . riding atop the crest, with pic'turization of 'Thin Man' that has had headline honors in Hearst papers, mags and . beau- coup publicity releases. With; Har- riett Hoctor on stage Warf is mov- ing right merrily. . Paramount showing ''Pot Over Frisco' and .'Springtime for I-Iehry' and therein lies a. story. First goes against the grains of locals because, fog is taboo, and the mere menti6rt of the word 'Frisco' is like , scratch- ing a fingernail : on a blackboard. Second has Otto Kruger and Nancy Carroll, neither of Whom has. clicked big here. Estimates for This Week Fox (Leo) (5,000; 25-35)^-'Hell Cat' (Col) and 'Stolen Sweets' (Col), split. Waterfront strike striking here, house getting but $6,600. Last week 'Party's Over.' (Col) and 'Hell Bent for Love' (Col), split, grabbed $7,000. Golden Gate (RKO) (2,844; 25-35- 40)— 'Precious Thing' • (Radio) and Ross-McLarnin. fight pix with vaude. Fight pix helping take to $11,000, while fast week saw $12,000 on 'Crime Doctor' (Rddio) and stage show last week. rpheum (F&M) (2,400; 25-40V- Little Man' (U) and stage show with Arthur Tracy. Light $9,000 in- dicated. Eddie Cantor Was a great mop up last week,, building as he went along. -with 'Sing, and Like It* (U) screening, and getting swell $19,500, with Cantor splitting 60-60. Paramount (FWC) (2,400; 25-36- 40)— 'Fog Over Frisco' (WB) and 'Springtime for Henry' (Fox), split. Former's name agin it in this town, and neither carrying any big names, resulting in light $9,600: Last* week -'Hollywood Party' (MG) and 'Prl- > vate Scandals' (Par), split,' came through to tune of $12,000. St. Francis (FWC) (1,600; 25-36- 40)— 'Murder At Vanities* (Par). Moved over from Warfield arid mebbe $4,600. Last week on 'Merry. Wives of Reno* (WB) and 'Double Door' (Par), split, house took bad $3,500. Warfield (FWC) (2,700; 35-45-65) — 'Thin Man' (MG) and stage show with Harriett Hpctbr. Plenty of advance on the film and "heading for a. grand slam, $23,000. 'Murder , at Vanities* (Par) disappointing last week at $17,500, but nonetheless moved to St. Francis in hopes it might perk up a speck. 'Little Man' $16,500, 'Marker' York-King, $19,000 in Brooklyn Brooklyn, June 11. Tolerable picture fare but attend- ance is intolerable. The Met is doing better than the rest of the down- town deluxers. It has "Little Miss Marker' on screen and 'Greenwich Village Follies' as the vaude bill. Floyd Bennett Field is diverting considerable patronage by staging air pageants every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, the first of which were held; this week-end, Coney Island, is another headache durihg the summer months to the^ atre managers. The beaches were dotted with humans on Sunday, cops making a special drive on shirtless pathers. No shirt means a . summons to appear In court on Monday mornings. Estimates for This Week Ibee (RKO) (3,500; 25-35-50)— •Little Man, What Now?' (U) and vaude featuring Eton Boys and Do- Re-Mi, radio acts. Pix is getting fair results, $16,600. Last week 'Crime Doctor (Radio), $15,000, off. Fox (Corteo) (4,000; 26-35-60)— 'Love Captive* (U) and stage show featuring Karyl Norman. Nothing exciting at $11,000. Last week 'Glamour' (U), $11,500. Metropolitan (Loew) (3,000; 25- 36-50)— 'Little Miss Marker* (Par) and 'Greenwich Village Follies' with York and King. Good $19,000. Last week, 'Viva Villa!* (MG), $16,000, fair. St ra nd^.(_W ni_j^onpj 1 j^v-gji - so) — 'Upper World* (WB) and 'Merry - Wives of Reno* (WB), Looks like' slow $6,000. . Last week 'Harold Teen* (WB) and 'Registered Nurse' (FN) did $8,000. TOOMEY, JEWELL IN 'SIN' ...H#llyw.6od, June 11. ItCRis Tobme'y and Isabel Jewel have been signed by Larry Dar- mour for the top spots in 'daily I Sin.* Picture slated for iMu> \ j ill npn 14 VARIETY THE ADVENTURER EVERY MAN WOULD LIKE TO BE THE MAN EVERY WOMAN WOULD LIKE TO LOVE, PICTURED BY THE MOST POPULAR ROMAN- TIC WRITER SINCE DUMAS- THE AUTHOR OF ''THE SEA HAWK" RAFAEL SABATINI EES .:'v..-'-^3 M 1' 1' I Mm IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER "DAWN PATROL"— BY THE SAME All- THOR, JOHN MONK SAUNDERS Tuesday, June 12, 1934 VARIETY 15 A RESPLENDENT MUSICAL ALL THEIR OWN, SCIENTIFI- CALLY DESIGNED TO SHOW OFF THE TREMENDOUSLY POP- ULAR PERSONALITIES OF- 16 VARIETY Tuesday, June 12, 1934 AFTER 63 WEEKS ON BROADWAY, THIS WORLD-FAMOUS MUSICAL BY JEROME KERN AND OTTO H ARB ACH, AUTHORS OF A SCORE OF NIT SHOWS— A HUN- DRED HIT SONGS, WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE SCREEN BY WARNER BROS. AN EXOTIC LOVE STORY SO UNUSUAL THAT IT DEMANDS THIS UNUSUAL STAR TEAM Tuesday, June 12, 1934 VARIETY 17 18 VARIETY Tuesday, June 12, 1934 Improving conditions invite expansion. This industry must get its rightful share of increased consumer expenditures. So in the coming season WARNER BROS. WILL TAKE THE LEAD IN ATTRACTING A DUE PROPORTION OF NEW DEAL DOLLARS TO THE THEATRES OF THE NATION » » » Pictures such as those just presented, produced on a more elaborate scale than has been attempted in the past four years, will enable show business to compete victoriously with all other luxury attractions - not by ruinous price-cutting, but on a sound financial basis of reason- able admission scales » » » We believe that these spectacular shows, and 38 others like them from this company, will lead the industry back to the great days of big-scale showmanship after years of forced economy. We know that only the most reckless of exhibitors will want to run their theatres next year without Tuesday, June 12, 1934 FILM REVIEWS VARIETY 19 ITS A BOY (BRITISH MADE) Gaumont British production and release. Directed by Tim Whelan. Leslie Heneon and Albert Burdon starred; Edward Everett Horton and Heather Thatcher featured. Adapted by Austin Melford from story, by Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach. M, Greeri- baum, photos. At Westminster, New York, week ' June ti Running ' time. . 74' mlns. James Sklppett ........... ; Leslie Hanson Joe Piper Albert Burdon Dudley Leake , . ; . Edward . Everett Horton Anita Gunn Hoather Thatcher Eustace Bogle .......... Alfred Drayton Alllster , ... . . . . ; , , ■'. t .Robertson- Hare Mary Boglo ...... Wendy Barrie Mrs. Bogle .................. Helen Haye Lillian • ..Joyce Kirby Registrar J. H. Roberts Mr. John Bull, London, England. Dear John: •' Please accept this .apology for all past slurs on the English sense of humor. If 'It's A Boy,' Is funny to the English, then England is plenty far ahead of the U. S. A. when it comes to, comedy appreciation. • At least Edward Everett Horton should have known better. He has the biggest part, but is only fea- tured. They gave him an old man's makeup in a young man's role. And a 74-minute running time: with a two- reel part. 'It's a Boy 1 , all right: Boy.oh boy. Respectfully yours, MEN IN WHITE (2d Review) Cosmopolitan -production and Metro re- lease, starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. Directed by Richard Boleslavsky. Monta Bell.', producer. Play by Sidney KIngsloy. adapted by Waldemar Young, George Folsey, camera; Dr. William Axt, music: Cedrlc Gibbons, art. At the Capi- tol. New York, week June 8. Running time, 81 mlns. Dr. Ferguson....,....;.. Clark Gable Laura Myrna Loy Dr. Hochberg. Joan Hershojt Barbara ..Elizabeth Allan Dr. Levlne, ....Otto Kruger Dr. Cunningham...,...,. C. Henry Gordon Dr. Mlchnelaon Russell Hardle Shorty .Wallace Ford Dr. McCabe............. Henry B. Walthall J: et ? « .Russell Hopton Dr. Gordon...... ..Samuel S. Hinds Dr. Vitale.. Frank Puglla Dr. Wren. • l 6 6 Chalzel M 00 ..............Donald Douglas Day before the picture' opened at the Capitol the original legit ver- sion rounded put Its 300th perform- ance. The New York showing of the film had been, deferred to pro^ vide for a New York run, though the Group theatre had small idea that it would be still on in June. Present intention is to keep the stage play on to see whether the screen version will affect its draught.. Picture had been doing well out of town for two previous months. In some few towns, it got extra business on the strength of local stock production, but these spots were few, and in most bookings it will be Gable who does the major drawing, though word-of-mouth is pretty strong on this release. But It is as a vehicle for Gable and not as a New York stage hit that •Men' will do most of its collecting. (Film was once before reviewed in Variety on its Chicago engagement, over a month ago. This is the regu lar on-Broad way review). 'Men' is ne of the outstanding recent releases, a keenly sensitive translation of the stage version to the screen, in which process it gains greatly in pictorial value, though this is at no time played up over the theme. The scenarist has done an excellent bit of writing, sincere, tender and convincing, and in spite of the fact that practically all of the action is held within the hos- pital — and there are bits which are deeply and emotionally moving — the picture still classes as enter- tainment and not in any sense a relative of the horror cycle. It is -sound writing; designed to bring the utmost to the screen, and there is no straining for comedy effect. There are laughs; some strong ones, but they rise out of the story and not from extraneous material. The story is familiar — the surgeon who gives his best energy to his profession and .thus irritates the woman he is to marry and who sug- gests that she is rich enough to permit him to adapt his office hours to their social engagements, in- stead of permitting, his px'actise to upset their social plans. Eventually, she is led to realize the importance of the. work, chiefly through the ef- forts of her fiance's preceptor,, who is eager to have his protege go to Europe to perfect his technique, All of this is told clearly and under- standably. The spectator is never at fault for motives^ It is all clearly defined. There is a side plot in the nurse who in an excess of admiration for his skill virtually seduces him and who dies while seeking to avoid ^the^cjms^ uejace-^o^ very nearly upsets the major love affair. All of this is told in a style singularly free from clumsy devices, and the plot moves swiftly and naturally to its end. It does not Rive, during the showing, a hint of its footage. The story provides .luble with bettor opportunities than he has had in recent plays and permits him to disclose a tenderness wholly for- eign to the rough stuff he has been doing. He dominates the picture, though he has to .share many scones with Jean JTershnlt. Myrna Loy is an excellent choice as Gable's society admirer and reacts perfectly to her assignment, Eliza- beth Allen is excellent as the er- rant nurse, and the scene in 0able's room is played as well as it has been directed. The entire cast has been selected with care, and the re- sult is an ensemble effect seldom attained in pictures. The production is heavy, but ali- ways good taste, .the atmosphere is convincing, and the nice camera touches helpi particularly the death scene in which the' doctor readjusts the hospital bed, which has been angled . for- the greater comfort of the patient. This straightening process takes her face out of the camera field arid leaves only a cross,' the shadows of the window frame, against the white wall. From every angle 'Men' classes as oi>e of the current triumphs. It is cinematography at its best. Chic. Sisters Under the Skin Columbia production and release'.' Stars' Ellssa Land!; Frank Morgan and. • Joseph Schlldkraut featured. Directed by David Burton. Story by S. K. Lauren; screen play. Jo Swerling: camera, Jos. Black: musical director. Louis Silvers. At Music Hall, N. Y;, week June 7. Running time,' «S. mips,- . Blossom Bailey ....... i... . . Ellssa Land! John Hunter Yates ........ Frank Morgan Zukowskl Joseph Schlldkraut Elinor Yates .... Doris Lloyd Miss Gower Clara Blandlck Gllda Gordon .............. Shirley Grey Winters ' . .'. Samuel Hinds Jones ......i...;...,...... Henry Kolker Smith .............. Arthur Stewart Hull Brown .................. Montague Shaw Just so-so. Obvious and ,slow One of those unfortunate type r cast flickers which, . b,y -Virtue of its principal threesome, tips off the Inevitable triangle and cllmatie finale. Film standards and celluloid story values have become so ...cataloged that the average fail must needs recognize the inefflcacy of the Iri- dlari summer mating, of Morgan and Landl; hence when the young bohemian composer, pops up in Paris it must, mean heartaches, for the older man, who has sought to recapture youth through the medium of an unconventional, extra-marital attachment to the young actress. Stripped of all its glamorous in- vestiture, the ulfra-rltz settings, the Continental flair and color, : it's an elementary procedure that offers but a fairish entertainment. Doris Lloyd is the Colonel's lady who, with Judy O'Grady (Landl), are sisters under the skin. Miss Lloyd gives perhaps an even m6re impressive performance as Morgan's wife than does the star, for the reason , that her assignment is more on even keel. Miss Landi's role is only effective when it proceeds in a forthright direction; when the triangular turmoil eventuates . she is torn between the: conflicting emotions which prove, a bit too much for her. As a result her gen- eral effect suffers and is eclipsed by Morgan', -who manages his vacillat- ing emotions superbly. Schild- kraut's general characterization as the pursuer- is effective but never altogether believable nor sympa- thetic. However, this may be said for the sum total. Scrlptlst Swerling has done much, through the medium of some ex- pert dialog, to make the unconvinc- ing proceedings sound contrariwise.- Director Burton's chores likewise have helped through the . medium of expert cutting, motivation and general lavishness of investiture. But the film misses in the main. Abel. Many Happy Returns (WITH SONGS) Paramount production and release. Stars Guy Lombardo orchestra and Burns and Allen. Directed by Norman MqLeod; Orig- inal story by Lady Mary Cameron; treat- ment by J. P. McEvoy and Claude BInyori: adaptation by ' Kerne Thompson arid Ray Harris; camera, Henry Sharp. At Para- mount, New York, -week June '8. Running time, C2 mlns. • Guy Lombardo Guy Lombardo Grade. Grade Allen Burns ...............George Burns Florence Allen..;.* .......Joan Marsh Horatio Allen;........ .....George Barbler Allen's ~ Secretary . . . . . . ; Franklin Pangborn Ted Lambert. . .v.- ;...,. .Ray Milland Dr. Otto von Slrudel. v.Egon Brecher Joe .Stanley Fields Mike ....................... , . . .John Kelly Drinker ..;wiUlam Demarest Davl'es .John Arthur Nathan Silas . '. .... .Morgan " Wallace Motion Picture Director. .Kenneth Thomson Harmonica Player. . ; Larry Adler Dance Team .;...'..... . Veloz and Yolanda Tap Dancers,: John Taylor lark Rutledge 'Many Happy Returns' is pri- marily an excuse for bringing a radio-celebrated vaudeville cross- fire team, Burns and Allen, and a dance orchestra, also radio-cele- brated, Guy LombardO's Royal Ca- nadians to the screen. Upon their -cpjsibinejLJj&nie^ so far as box office draught is con-, cerned. As an entertainment it's spotty; often it's very funny; at other moments it lags. At no time is it plausible. But it will fall into the moderate money class because of the presumed magnetism of the radio reputations. Humor revolves around the man- iacal Grade Allen. In the begin- ning she is wrecking her father's department store. Later, the plot takes her- to Hollywood, where she Wrecks scenes. Her fathef bribes fieorge Burns to marry the dumb dora. At so much per mile it pays Miniature Reviews 'It's a Boy* (G-B). ritish- made and strictly English' type of comedy. Field over here extremely limited. 'Mtn in White' (M-G). Strong cast, headed by Clark Gable, in a nicely written ver- sion of this stage hit spells box office. 'Sisters Under the Skin' (Col). Mild flicker Of obvious triangle story texture.. Ellssa Landl,' Frank Morgan and Joseph Schlldkraut the prin- cipal trio. 'Many Happy Returns' (Par). Money possibilities will have to be according to the local, radio popularity of Burns and Allen and Lombardo band, fear tured. Fair film fare. 'Fog Over r risco' (WB). An- other, racketeering story, mild in entertainment. No markee names of strength. 'World in Revolt' (Mentone). News and other views of world' uprisings, as compiled here, make engrossing feature. Controversial subject matter .should get. attention. 'Such Women Are Danger- ous' (Fox). Just fair screen amusement. Warner Baxter and tiUe principal b.o. assets. 'Sleepers East' (Fox). Mur- der story with a promising theme, but not developed to raise suspense.. Good cast, but not for marquee. •'Merry Wives of Reno (WB). Stylized .farce with excellent cast and considerable humor. Should show fair b.o. results. 'The Love Captive' (17). Story with some good dramatic values rates fair. 'The Lost Jungle' (Mascot). Clyde Beatty , in an action meller which takes the usual liberties, besides being original. TALKING SHORTS HARRY GRIBBON 'Corn on the Cop' Comedy 19 Mins. Strand, N. : Y. Vita. 1658-8 Harry Gribbon and a buddy, Shemp Howard, as a couple hoboes who try to make some money via a fake corn-cure racket, land a fair amount of laughs despite the fami- liarity, of some Qf the situations and comedy construction. Will .serve heed for comedy, filler: adequately. Short's opening sequence gets giggles as the two bums emerge from their hammocks underneath a freight train where modest home facilities such as an alarm clock have been, set up lor the travelers. . Hitting on the idea of a corn salve gag, the boys . somehow or. other, rent a vacant store and go into business. They make their " mis- take when ' from ambush, near the street level, the shlll lays a hammer heavily On a cop's toes, boys later ending in the said cop's home by accident, where " they are royally entertained by the wife, .who mis- takes them for some nephews of her husband's who are slated to ar-' rive. The usual shoot -up finish ob- tains. Shemp Howard, a stooge from vaude, makes a perfect 1 team-mate for Gribbon. They should be kept together; Supporting players include. Mary Doran and Boyd Davis. Char. George to keep traveling. Always away from the father. Along the route a series of comic incidents more or less unrelated occur, a variety of foolishness Is premised on the philosophy of anything for a laugh. Despite the liberties with credi- bility and reality the continuity is rather smooth and slick, and the di- rection of Norman Mcleod 'repre- sents a moral victory over a Vaude- ville formula. To keep a next-to- closing comedy team In motion for 60-odd minutes Is something. Veloz and Yolanda, svelte, ball- room team, Taylor and Rutledge, winged hoofers, ..and Larry Adler, harmonica virtuoso, are spliced into the picture as specialties. And very good. Lombardo plays typically Lombardo music Which is sweet. As . an actor the bandsman handles a fewlines nicely and photographs quite well. Land. 'FOR PETE'S SAKE' Our Gang Comedy 19 Mins. Capitol, N. Y. etro* ..New gangsters in a brief story. Bad small boy spoils a sick child's doll and . refuses replace. The gang seek to buy another, but the price is prohibitive.- They offer to beat rugs, with the usual destruc- tive results. Failing to. get the money in this fashion, swap the dog. for the doll, they have it taken from them because they break a vase, but get" the doll again for taking the dog away. Get the wrong doll, but the' pooch fixes that up. -NOt among the . best of the gang series, but handing out plenty of laughs. 1 Chic. RUTH ETTING 'Song of Fame' Musical 20 in3. Strand, N. V. Vita; No. 1690-1 A lot of production, moving the action around more than usual, aids in making* this two-reel musical subject fairly palatable. Ruth fitting .... -is assisted by .; several others, In* eluding Eddie Bruce, who plays a theatrical agent trying to land her, the ultra dance team of ,Minpr and Root, Arthur Donaldson, and a hill- billy troupe. The, hillbilly bunch scores exceptionally well in an audi- tion scene in ah impresario's of- fice. Miss tting opens on a cabaret set as. a clgaret girl, but before sho does • her first, number the action swings to a legit musical opening for an ensemble dance number on steps, nice. It's here that Bruce, as Miss JEtting's agent,. tries to interest a big shot producer but he returns to the cabaret, alone' to listen to Miss Etting do 'I Cry For You,' later on by an ingenious scheme getting 1 the big impresario . to hear his client. This calls for a barber shop scene, after the agent has learned the producer pan. be reached there. Following a fix with the barber. Miss Etting comes in as manicurist and launches into song -just as the producer is coming In. She lands, doing her final number as part of a big. production scene in a hew show. This isn't the best short the singer has had but it's entertaining enough not to displease the Etting fans. Char. ATTENTION SUCKERS Pete Smith Novelty 9 Mins. Capitol, N. Y. Metro Demonstration of the tricks of card sharpers, with a side excursion into the shell game. 1 Nicely done with the explanation given through working' over a- glass-topped table. Helped along by brisk chatter, but amusing even as -a silent. Trick- dealing, three card monte, arid trick cutting, but, .probably it won't .stop anyone from the next pinochle game. Chic. FOG OVER FRISCO Warner Bros, production and release. Features Bette Davis. Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot. Hush Her- bert. Directed by William Dieterle. Story by George Dyer: adaptation by Robert N. Lee and Eugene Solow. Dialog director, DanleL Reed. Film editor, Harold Mc- Lernon. Photography. .Tony Gaudlo. At Strand. N. T„ week June 6. Running timn, 08 mins. Arlene: Bradford........ Bette Davie Tony .......................Donald Woods Val .....................'Margaret Lindsay Spencer .................... ..Lyle Talbot Xp z y Hugh -Herbert Bradford ........Arthur Byron Thome Robert Byron Porter Henry O'Neill Jake >........... .Irving Plchel Racketeering story of mild inter- est. Likely to be spotty. All that sets picture apart from the routine in . its sphere is that the story builds itself around a rich man's daughter who has gone a little worse than most: From there on it Involves the girl and others in the. operations of a stolen securities ring, bringing out the same Old melodramatics and follow- ing a pattern that is strictly catalog by now. Story, in the way It's brought to the screen, never quite strikes a convincing note. Starting out as it does on a questionable promise by seeking to establish the girl (Bette Davis) as one whose mental makeup arid recklessness lands her naturally into dangerous society and creati ng, an almosfavld desire to .engage in criminal activities for coin she hardly appears to need. The character from the outset is singularly unreal, even though the story makes an effort to plant the fact that the girl Is obviously a pathological case. Her father makes this crack at an early stage in the first reel, otherwise no one could understand why such a palpably rich and pampered young girl should go in for dangerously criminal stuff, Even with the explanation, It's any- thing but plausible.' Another phase of the scenario 'ROUGH - NECKING' Comedy 10 Minn Mayfair, Radio Slapstick, female Impersonator, stuff. Not an original gag' and the kind of short some exhibs book in as emergency filler. . Two daughters seem to have a father who detests drinking places. So the boy-friend of one dresses up as a female detective. Friends of the father visit and the roughhouse, with shooting and crockery break- ing starts, and finally ends. Waly. 4 THI$ LITTLE PIGGIE WENT TO MARKET' With Singing Sam Cartoon and Singi .10 Mins. Paramount, N. Y. . Paramount Outstanding short that should command special attention from exhibs. It'.s got some dandy laughs In the . cartoon section that precede and- follow the singing section ren- dered by the radio headlinery Sing- ing Sam. Cartoon stuff is in the nature of facile lampooning of the newsreels including the trademarks of Metro, Pat.he, Universal' and Paramount. Leo the Lipn at the fadeout starts crowing, while the rooster of Path© is heard in a jungle tremelo. Light touch and a. gay spirit ot satire makes the short an unusually worthy release of its kind. Deep baritone of Singing Sam also will be fancied. Land. 'HALF BAKED RELATI Comedy 20 Mins. Roxy, N. Y. Fox Regulation slapstick centering: again around the annoying relations, of a wife who offers no relief to a browbeaten husband. Gets a few laughs, though the situations are old. , Andy Clyde is the harrassed papa of the household. He is Anally driven to socking his brother-in-law over the bean with a wrench and lands in court, explaining how it hap- pened. Film cuts back to incidents which led up this attempt at Justi- fiable homocide, a routine wild, car ride also figuring once more. Char, that goes' contrary to conviction is the deep interest of a half sister who .seems to make little effort to protect the other from her weak- nesses and from the murder that ultimately befalls her. The father, who could have put his daughter away somewhere, for safe keeping if she was that bad, also does little about it all. He . is made to worry more about the other daughter, in the end nearly losing her when falling into the hands of the. stock- thieving murderers. A veneer of theatricalisim prevails throughout,- in the action of the bond ring, including a trusted higher-iip in a securities house headed by the father of the girls, in the way a butler snoops around as. a secret service agefit, in the actions of a . newspaper man and otherwise. Same old slur against newspapers and newsmen gets into the celluloid, old stuff by now, and Donald Woods is the same type of newshound picked for screen purposes. Hugh Herbert makes an agreeably hu- morous photographer,' but aside from^this=the^comedy^contenr^is ; lpw. In one shot a Richfield oil boat gets, into the negative in big letters.' Supporting company includes Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbbt, Arthur Byron, Robert Barrat and Ir.ving Pichel, all of whom turn in moderately good performances. The cutting, Jpb is commendable, with picture maintaining a pretty good pace by skipping over as much of the usual detail as possible.. In a couple instances the cutting has caused a little disjointedness, but not serious. Char. WORLD IN REVOLT Mentone production and release. Com* piled by. E, M; Glucksman and Dr. Joseph E. Lee. Narrative by Emll Lerigyel: Graham. MacN.amee, narrator. Score and musical direction by MUloh Sohwartzwald. At Rlalto, New Torlt; weeU June 8. Run- ning time, 01) mine. An engrossing picture treating of current topic, is this feature-length compilation of newsreel. library, and heretofore unscreened shots of the world's economic and political, upheavals. The subject with which it deals is page , one news at all times nowadays, and because it has been so adroitly handled the picture rates attention. Being, strictly neutral, in present- ing a highly controversial topic, 'World in Revolt' ' first of all a neat example offscreen reporting. In impartially presenting both sides of the revolt question and covering the whole World picture thoroughly, it has avoided leaving itself open for criticism from any one quarter. Communists, Socialists, Royalists and Republicans are all given square .shake, .and ...an^exi ual .. ,o p=,, portunity to cheer and squawk i turn.' Because nobody's given an edge the picture is bound to bring com- ment from all factions, and that, should moan business. The im- partial treatment adds greatly to the film's exploitation value, and this film is a natural for exploiting anyway through the basic nature of the thought behind 1 it. Revolts and uprisings in Russia, Austria, Italy, Germany, Ireland, India, China, Cuba and France, are vividly shown. Ruwsia leads off and (Continued on page C3) FOREIGN NEW* Belephoiiet *» B »P , «5*L GtUta AddMMi VAIOETX, 1XNNDON Secret Move for French Subsidy To Push Gallic Films in America Paris, June 3". Move to get the French govern- ment to put up.$330,dt>0 to push sale of 25 French Alms in the United States came to light today, despite efforts of sponsors to. keep It sepret. Plan reported to have been drawn up several months ago by Comite de Cirieniatographie of the Comite d'Action Artistique (film branch of the Artistic. Action Committee) out- fit Which from time to time at the Ministry of National Educa- tion. Charles Delac, head of the Chambre Syndicate, Is v.p. and. ac- tive head of this committee. Dplac wants credit of 6,000.600 francs (abbu r $330,000). to be ac- corded to French company for film exports, to be controlled by the Chambre Syndicate. First office to be opened In New York at Initial expense of $3.3,000. Sponsors of the scheme have worked but following estimate of costs of putting a French, film on the market in New York: Advance to. producer ....... $1,300 Shipment, customs, copies... 660 Overhead. 1 • • • 1,300 Dubbing in English ........ 10,000 Freeland Does 'Millions' For U.A. in England Soon Hollywood, June 11. Thornton Freeland directs 'Brew- ster's Millions* for United Artists in England with Jack Buchanan starred. Director left for New Ybrk arid London Friday (8). Deal was set by Edington-Vihcent. BUCHAREST ALL IN THE OPEN $13,260 First 26 films to be sent to. New York would-be chosen- by Chambre Syndicate, and the $330,000 would go Into them. Delac has been trying to . atop dubbing of American films in France but he's trying to organize dubbing of French films in America. French Studio People Protest Foreign Labor Bucharest, May 31. With the three leading theatres, National, Regiria Maria, and Ven- tura, closed for the summer, local entertainments are now offered only by open air summer theatre presentations and talkers. 0 Ventura, formally conducted by M. Scarlat Froda, is in financial difficulties, .and there is talk of a fresh organization being founded under direction of M. Kuzescu to re-open \p lieu of Froda in fall. . Regina Maria also is not in rosy circumstances, with the three part- ners running it now looking for backing for fall. 'S Paris; June 1. Three hundred French film work- ers, members of Artisans Francais • du Film, studio workers* union, pa- raded in demonstration against for- eign competition. Banners proteajt there are too many, foreigners in the local studios and also pan imports. No disorder, but cafe-sitters ap- plauded show ' from time to time. Special kicks are being made against, employment of 20 exiled German Jews by an independent named Nebenzahl at Paramount ( Joinvllle studios for 'La Crlse est Finle* ('Depression Is Over'), ad- vertised as 'masterpiece of the French cinema*. Inspector of Labor Department went out and found that, beside r.Tebenzahl, Lowenberg was director, Baum first assistant, Arnstam decorator; Schuffman cameraman,. Waschmari composer, and flock of similar monickers Union complains that the inspector did nothing about it, reporting to headquarters that law was being obeyed. Said to be only two Frenchman working on film, and that only two of the Germans had working papers. Soph Repeats London, June 2. After one command performance, Sophie Tucker played a return en- gagement for England's Queen. Continuing at the Cafe de Paris, here until July 2, Miss Tucker plays Glasgow following for a week each at Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool. She may also play a couple of dates in Holland in August. David to U. S. Paris, June 2. Charles David, Pathe official, sailing for several months in U. S., bringing with him several Pathe films, among them Rene Clair's newest, *Th3 Last Billionaire,* which has not yet been shown to trade over here, arid Qssep's 'Amok', also unreleased in France as yet David also has a reduced version of 'Les Mlserables'. RKO—Par-Roxy (Continued from page 7) era! operating eltuatloh of Para- mount also. The two petitions Involved in the Par situation were filed t>y different law firms. Indie Bondholders' Action The indie bondholders' action, which does not indicate that it is not a protective move in conjunc- tion with the. Vanderlip committee move, is oh behalf of Harry Herzog and Milton L. Ernst, latter an executor of estate of Augusta L. Ernst, and also on behalf of Rob- ert Wachenheihi. Aggregately they represent slightly over $16,000 in bonds, Including interest claimed due, but iii default. The indie bondholder suit also asks for the privilege of submitting one or more plans for.reorganization of Paramount. This may have sig- nificance as to the attitude in some directions on . the part of certain creditors, if not allied with the Van- derlip-Kuhn, Loeb committee. Appended to the indie petition is a balance sheet of April 18, 1933, of Paramotmt-Publix showing assets of the company to correspond with liabilities at $149,210,921. In each Instance the petition is filed under Sections 77A or 77B or both Of Chapter VIII of the new Bankruptcy Act. The bonds of the indie petitioners are of the $16,000,000 original issue of 6% gold bonds maturing Dec. 1, 1947, and of which amount there are $11,918,000 In bonds outstanding as of June^«r 1933. The Vanderlip committee is act- ing as. attorney In fact for general bondholders on the 20-year 6%% sinking fund gold bonds due Au- gust, 1967, and of which amount there are $13,269,000 outstanding. The Vanderlip committee, which can act on a majority of its own number for the. benefit of ail, com- prises additionally Robert K. Cas- satt, Morris L. Ernst, Duncan G. Harris, Julius Klein and Lawrence Stern. Besidea.the committee peti- tioning bondholders acting in con- cert with the Vanderlip committee are George Link, Jr., and Joseph E. Thors, direct petitioners. Law firm of Davis, Polk, Ward- well, Gardner & Reed acted for the Vanderlip group. Edwin. L, Garvin arid Malcolm Sumner are attorneys on the indie petition. In either instance the company must make answer within 10 days, but fact that no balance sheet was found accompanying the Vanderlip petition while there was a petition accompanying the indie bondholder petition may significantly point that consolidation of the two petitioning causes may be expected. PiaramOunt-Publlz capital stock Is put at 4,000,000 shares of com- mon at $10 per share, of which $3,392,307.85 Is outstanding, and $171,406 is held In the company •treasury. Big Shakeup in Parisian Show Field Has French Managers on the Shift HYLT0N-MAZZ1NA MAY LEASE KIT-CAT JOINTLY London, June. 3. • Negotiations are pending between Jack Hylton and Peter Mazzlna to jointly lease the Kit-Cat from Gaumont-British. Understood there Is $160,000 be- hind the Kit-Cat -venture. Coward's 'Family* Noel Coward's next production in London will be 'The Royal Family,' which he will present in conjunc- tion with John C. Wilson, his part- ner. ,. Coward has written a new play, at present titled 'Point Valalne,' which he will first do in New York with the leading parts handled by Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt; He does not.; anticipate doing the play until next January. raise for 'Pursuit' y Fox for the French version of 'Caravan,' left Saturday (9) for Paris. Expected that on her arrival in Europe she will marry Jean Murnt, French actor, who came to 'the Coast with her just for the ridf TARIETT'S LONDON OFFICE. 3 flt. Martln'a Place, Trafalgar flqaarp FOREIGN NEWS table AridresA: VaKIKTV. LON'DON, Telephone Temple Bar 501! -BO IS 21 Good fix Can't Be Made Cheaply; A Good Film's B.O. Is Intl-Palos To Eltenne Palos this idea of na- tional films is the bunk. Good films an- International. Palos is business , manager of London Films, which ' istrlbutes through United Artists. 'Nobody has so far discovered how to make good pictures, cheaply,' • says Palos, who is on a Visit, to the U.S. With which he begins telling that Henry the VIII' and 'Catherine the Great' cost around $550,000 each. London Films is going to make a picture from an original by H. G. Wells which Palos only 'hopes' will not cost more than $1,000,000.,. " 'Private Life, of Don Juan,' which Douglas Fairbanks is finishing for London Films, he figures may wind up with a cost of around, $700,000. With these figures as bases, Palos finishes off by showing that London Films is primarily purposed to • make good pictures first and, there-" lore, will make :' a few. How- ever, he admitted that none can know what a good , picture is until , it's seen as finished. Palos points out that London ( Films' heaJ men are those with actual Hollywood' experience, like , Alexander Korda and Lajos Biros, jvos, Korda, Palos, Fairbanks and . .Charles Laughton whom the com- pany has under contract are share- holders in *he firm. Palos: and , Korda are the biggest shareholders. . -The bankers for London Films are Jfutro, Bowring & Co., and. Hambro, , , : Palos sails for London Saturday ,(16) in company with Joe Schenck and Maurice Silverstone, United. Artists' European chief! Like Palos, Silverstone has been here for- the U.A. sales meetings. PAR IN PARIS IS OUT OF RED FRANK NEILL SAILS; PTOMAINE RECOVERY Fox's French Flicks manager director of the Tivoli circuit of Australia sailed for London oh a business trip last week. He was in New York for over a week, but confined to his hotel suite with ptomaine poisoning. He returns to Sydney from London. Walter Johnson, who.' has been production director for Fuller's and other Antipodes theatres, follows to meet Neill in London, sailing from N. Y. June 20. Sir Benjamin Fuller, the Aus- tralian showman, is due in -N. Y. shortly. ; , HYAMS' US. TRIP TO PLEAD FOR BRIT. INDIES Paris, June 11. Para mou nt's Joinville studio is out of the red. Thi change has come about since John Hicks was drafted from a major position in the field to head Par's foreign end, by the late Emil E. Shatter.: Par's Joinville laboratory is presently working day and night, and the studio space is leased for weeks ahead. The Par picture program for French distribution is also set with production so far arranged that Par has its program of eight French native-mades already in the mak- 1 ing. One of these is under way at the British & Dominion gtudios in London. Between now and the end of the Bummer, the remaining seven na- tive-made Alms will have , been fin- ished or under way, with two al- ready in the making at the Join- ville plants One is by Caesar .Films. Other is by Abel Gance. Credit for this turnover into a profitable plant must" go to the new •policy which has been worked out ' W^ar^or han^ The native-made pictures which ' will be distributed by Par aire on a unitized basis. Each of the .seven films? to be made at Jolne- .ville are to be independently manu- factured by French producers and financed independently by the makers. AH are for Paramount distribution. The producers pay their respec- tive charges for studio space while Par sits .in in an advisory capacity. The lab work, .financed by the indie unlc producers, is done by Par at the far lab in Joinville. The eight French-mades com- prise the entire native-made pror gram for French distribution by Par. However, Par additionally will distribute around 3.0 American films,"-) 1 - in dub. A number of these dubbed films will also get origlnnl version Showing first. - ; .*-Er.esen tly~ .thef. e-.are- onl y -uro u fteJL , 15 bookings allowed original Amer- ican versions in France. Five of these- runs .are in Paris,. -rest in the provinces. OPTION BLANCA VISCHES Hollywood, June 11. iatica Vlsches, South American actre;.s on the Fox contract list, stays on for another six months oh an option lift. Mish Vlsches currently in 'Cara- van ' London, June 1. Phil Hyams, head of H. & G. Plc- ture : Theatres, quietly slipped off to New York June 2. Understood Hyams' main mission is to confer with most of the : film companies and plead the cause Of the- indie picture house owners. Hyams' idea is that American picture producers do hot attach enough Importance to Individually- owned picture theatres and pri- vately-owned circuits. In reality these are a formidable factor to be reckoned with, as of the 4,000 pic- ture theatres in Great Britain about 600 are owned by the major circuits, with the remainder of 3,400 private- ly owned. After staying in New York for a fortnight, Hyams goes to Holly- wood. Indications are he is going oyer as an official . emissary of ' the Brit- ish independents- GODAL'S PIC COMEBACK AS STUDIO RENTER Paris, June 1. Fox plugging, first section of its 1934-35 French releases, Sept; 7- Feb. 15. Total is 13 dubbed ver- sions and 6 original French talk- ers, including 'Caravane', now mak- ing in Hollywood; 'Liliom,' Pomrher local " opus and four cheaper local makes, 'Cinquieme Empreinte' ('Fifth Imprint'), now nearly ready, 'Prince Jean', 'Vertige', and 'Mile. Captai '. Latter is to be musiker based on Andre Heuze's legit suc- cess, and \<<*a.n' and Vertige' are based on Charles Mere pieces. The 13 dubbed films are selected from the current Fox production, and. most of. them have already been shown here in original ver- sions.. French Exhibs Decry Move to Curb U. S. Imports; They Need All Pix They Can Get for Dual-Billing LAEMMIE'S PERSONAL 0.0. OF U PROD. ABROAD JAPAN PICTURE RECEIPTS JUMP While giving no amounts. De- partment of Commerce reports in- dicate that the motion picture re- ceipts in Japan increased 10 to 15 percent in 1933 over 1932. General economic, improvement in Japan during th6 past two years is given as responsible for this jump. Although the popularity of films is Increasing in Japan, nevertheless, the old-fashioned Jap' legit shows are stated to attract the larger audiences. Figures available for 1932. show that 177,343,000 persons attended film shows, while 220,71 5,- 000 took in the drama offerings. At the close of 1933, there were 1,520 film houses in Japan. That's an increase of 128 as compared with 1930. . It is additionally estimated that there were 723 theatres, equipped with sound, by the close of 1933. That's an increase Of 384 over 1932. See Native Dutch Pic Biz; Talker Clicks Big The Hague, June 1. Success of the. 100% Dutch talker, 'The Sailors,' has given rise to hopes in Holland for a national film industry. Financial press, however, warns the Dutch public against too much enthusiasm, since public funds for such enterprises are necessary. Whether Universal will produce either in England or Fr or both, is to be taken up at length by Carl Laemmle, v- day (16) accompanied, by Joe Weil, his assistant, and Jack Ross. During the past year U didn't pror- duce abroad, but turned , out. eight pictures for the English market. Laemmle will be gone, all summer. At present the U, head is in Chicago, where he attended a. one-day sales meet yesterday (Monday). He stays on ;two or three, days to visit the. Fair, SCHENCK SAILS ON U A FOREIGN HUDDLE Joseph M. Schenck sails. Saturday (16) accompanied by a group of English prbducing-distributing asso- ciates of United Artist ( Including Maurice Silverstone, g.m. for UA in Great Britain; Etiehne Palos, g.m. of London Films; and Herbert Wil- cox, production head "of British & Dominion; Hubert T. Marsh, presi- dent of B. & D., was coming over with Wilcox, but didn't get away.' He'll wait for Schenck's arrival ln London to talk things over , for the 1934-'35 season, when UA starts.re- leasing all B. & D. product through- out the world. On Wilcox's arrival a week ago. he went . into product huddles generally. 'Nell Gwynn' leads off the new B. & D. output. Palos was here, on sales plans, and While in New. York looked over eastern: producing activities, though not expected that London Films will set up a factory on this side. London, June 1. Edward Godal, one of the pion- eers of the film trade in England and former head of British & Co .lonial Films, some 10 years ago biggest film company in England; is staging a come-back. Godal has just acquired a site within a stone's throw of Victoria, which is close to West-End's theatre land, com prising around four acres. Object Is to build up to date film studio with five stages. Company known as Westminister Sound Films Studios, Ltd., has nominal capital, privately subscribed, of $500,000, with similar amount to.: be subscribed during building opera- tions. Howard Partners, builders who constructed British & Dominion studios, start operations immediate- ly. Major Bell, authority on studio and theatre engineering construc- tions, to be consulting engineer. It is intended to cater to Amer- icans who come over to make pic- tures here. W. E. apparatus will be used; also the Plenum air clean- ing and ventilation system. Com pany is not interested in actual production of films, just be- InjEj studio renters. JULIUS FISHER IN N. Y. Julius'S. Fisher, p.a, and manager of the Capitol, Singapore, arrived in New York Saturday (9) for a three weekst-sta y---=l >e-f ore^ie-i-mina t I n g=his ^aeash . Capitol in part of Amalgamated, which operates four .houses in the Straits Setlements. RALPH DOYLE'S CONV, 0. 0. Ralph Doyle, RKO Radio's g. m. in Australia, arrived in New York last week after visiting the studios in Hollywood. He stays in America • until after Radio sales convention in Chicago Thursday (14). South Africa Agog Over Reports Hollywood Plans Producing There By H. HANSON Capetown, May • 16. Reported that Hollywood is seri- ously considering the possibilities of this country as a producing unit, with the intention of putting one over on British companies having the same idea. This is due :to the action of Gaumont-British having given: the country, a look over for a film of 'Rhodes,' the. famous South African pioneer. G-'B sent Geoffrey Barkas to secure information and historical details. Clive Brook was considered for the part of 'Rhodes," but he was. tied up with Paramount, and the production is. at a stands- still. The change in the plans re- sulted in several of the cameramen and sound experts being sent to other parts of the world. Now rumored that Argosy Film Corp., acting for Hollywood inter- ests, would do an American film of 'Rhodes/ RKO Radio proposed to ma1iV"lt"^Rfi611;es >i = plc 1 tWe,; r '"t'6r f ge : F : 'Th" before: G-J3. Picture to, be made in Hollywood, with background pic- tures taken by experts sent oyer here. Fox, representing G-B in Ameri- ca, is in treaty with RKO and. maybe Olive Brook will be released to do the British production. In the meantime the footage of the Amer- ican picture of 'Rhodes' is being, held up pending further orders from Merian C. Cooper. Universal also has the idea for > film , of 'She' by tho late Sir H. Rider Haggard, and reported that director Edward Laemmle, Charles Bickford and Elissa Landi would arrive July 3 at Beira (Portuguese Territory) to start work on a Rho- deslan ranch. Tl^ whole affair is now- held up< due. to. a copyright dispute. It is said that. Paramount will make a film of 'The Life of Baden-Powell,' the Scout originator. Shots will be taken of Mafeking, famous for its defense under Baden-Powell, against the Boers during the Boer War. London, Films intends to make a' picture called ..'Congo Raid,' 'with Leslie Howard as the star, locality in Northern Africa. Ufa cameraman is here, under contract for the American Automo- bile Association, taking pictures of Verneuk Pau, which was designed as the South African Day tona track. The association wants to see what the Pau looks like. Several camera- men are over here taking pictures of wild life and scenery for Ameri- can and Continental conoerhs. Editor Dies Llewellyn Morgan, former - editor of Pictures News, Johannesburg publication; died in Johannesburg,' ngort 40. New Cinema Cafe The Independent Film Distribu- tors' (Rty) Ltd., opposing the Schlesinger Trust, will shortly open the Ritz Bio-Cafe, Capetown, as the first release theatre for their talk- ers. The Ritz is undergoing ex- tensive alterations, and when com- pleted with he one of the finest vinem;i cafes in the country. Freda Godfrey, one. time popular actress o'ver hern, sailed for Eng- land in the Winchester <'-'islU-, ac- companied by her mother. Paris, June Weekend : secret meetings French film, trade reps with Minis- try of Commerce officials, to discuss proposed restrictions on imports ana reorganization of the French indus- try, turned out badly fo:- those who hoped that trade would present united front against U. S. competi- tion. Exhib interests declined to join producers in. backing anti-forei move of Chambre Syndicate, and oil follow! day official protest or Cinema Owners' Association to Minister of ■Commerce against Chambre's arguments was given out. ibits contend that they need more films, not fewer, and want the quota Of imports increased to 325 films annually, beginning July 1. Actual allowance for year ending that date was 242. Growth, of duals will bring national demand up to TOO plx : 'a year, they contend — local makes included— as in silent days Last year's supply and that of yeai before totaled about 400. To prove present film shortage, exhibs told the minister that at their last association . meeting, April 18, manager of the Clichy Palace was still looking for a film to be shown May 18, Saintr Michel Cinema had nothing to run after end of May, half dozen other houses would have no films after June and July, and many more, in Paris and provinces, even using old films, would be stuck for bookings by August. Chains in Same Fix Big chains, such as Pathe and Gaumont, are in the same fix, says the association statement, althougn they supply their houses from their own producing units. In order to determine require- ments for. the 1934-35 season, says the: report to the minister, theatre owners have taken the. following factors Into account: 1. Increasing competition, due to the construction of new cinemas, and particularly the constant in- crease In the number of sound equipped houses. 2. Common practice of showing two feature films, in response to the demand of public. 3. Inability of independent the- atres to get French films from the big producers, who hold them, nat- urally, for their own. chains. 4. Increasing need to pick -and choose among French pictures, which are of irregular value. On this point the exhibs take a good crack at the local production, pointing out tactfully that 'It does not behoove us to criticize the goods which we ourselves offer to the public,' but 'among the 174 French films issued in 1934, only 20 were excellent, commercially speak- ing, and G5 were of medium qual- ity:' This is the real reason for the ex- hibitors' protest, although natural- ly it is soft-pedaled here. . Exhibs deliberately leave aside, from main body of their report the question of non-dubbed foreign films, because they, in general, can only be shown in specialized houses. They however, that 100 such could easily be used in a year, ith- out damage to the French trade. Present regulation forbids foreign language film to be shown In more than five houses in Paris and 15 in provinces, and exhibs ask that thi restriction be removed. M. Nebenzahl, against whor French workers have been. squawk- ing on ground ' that he gives for- eigners the breaks' in making film ■Depression Is Over,- retorted that he. was giving employment to 500 Frenchmen, on his picture, and threatened to take, his business else-, where if the French didn't like it. A^sTT>^lalTnetl~nr?frp^ zen. not German, and says his e ployme'nt list compiles with polk' regulations. Nebenzahl's critic, nay that all they want is for hi tn to use French teelinifians more. They point to Paramount, Metro and Alliance OliK-nialogruphiqUe . u r o p e a n n 6 (['FA ellstribu'ting organization here) as example of Franco- foreign film houses which know how to eo- operatf l>y employing, almost, 100 7i Frene'h si iff. S. AUDIENCES WILL APPLAUD AND CRITICS WILL PRAISE THIS GRAND PICTURE. Seldom has the screen seen such a moving story. . such ftne drama . . such superb acting. Its exalted beauty sweeps away the little world around us and unfolds the divine in woman , , . ? its drama throbs to the heart-beat of one whose only sin was love. I OPENING RADIO CITY THUI AND NEXT NOT BEIN( •5 DAY AND 5 HELD UP WHEN YOU NEED A STRONG E TTR ACTION 30 OTHER KEY CITIES THIS WEEK FOR COOL WEATHER BUT RELEASED RKO RADIO PICTURE 24 VARIETY CAPITOL, N. Y. Smart entertainment has been pro vided at the Capitol this week, prob ably with the idea of livening the hospital atmosphere of the picture, 'Men in White;' Really not necessary, but no complaint from the audience It's a money value bill with Abe Ly- man band topping and Leo Carrillo at the bottom, and Vilma and Buddy Ebsen and Eleanor Powell in be tween, not to forget. Ella Logan, an importation. i Opens with a drop in one, sketch- ily suggesting the nite club center with the Chester Hale girls on. in pink and lemon dresses for a vocal introduction.' for Lyman. The girls were hot picked for their voices. It's, pretty terrible, but it's brief. Then Lyman and his - boys, into a fast number, with the quintet getting laughs on 'Picblb. Pete.* Gets every- one in the mood and it's easy to shove on the rest of the show after that. Eleanor Powell gets in the first and some off. the hardest licks, with a friendly audience. They liked her and Were far from being reluctant to tell her so. She did three bits and then had to hush them with a .speech. Gives place to Ella Logan, a sort of English boop-a-doop girl, with a rapid enunciation and a ra- ther heavily English opening song... Does a second number and then tackled TH Be Glad When You're Dead,' which is a couple of years too late; Makes a nice appearance in long white skirts and does not essay dancing. More bows and due more to her personality than the value of her songs. Line, back in scanties for taps-t© •Dinah/ with' Miss Logan on for. a. verse through the mike. Dancing over well and Lyman into his oper- atic medley, strongly and uniquely scored. Vilma and Buddy Ebsen get more noise from the audience, though they might have done even better, perhaps, up in front of Miss Powell. On strict tapolbgy she smears them, but they win on their Ingenuous youthfulness. For the first time there is a close- in, girls back in line formation against a plains drop In a brief Spanish dance to pave the way for Carrillo in his Mex get-up from •Viva Villa.' He goes into a line of patter evidently written for this trip and none of his old standby s. On a shade too long' for a. single talking act at this stage of the game, but brought back for a flock of bows and a brief mention of 'Villa.' He does not work through a mike,, but the stage sound -grabbers pick him up and the amplification helped, though he got over as .clearly on his final nod, which was away from the mikes. Follows a number with the band- stand converted into a battleship with the usual turret backing and playing the martial airs from 1812 to date. Line on for the finish in white satin naval uniforms to wave signal flags while the turret is taken up to show a profile battleship. Over, but not so strongly as might have been expected. . Show runs 66. minutes without a bad moment.. In addition to 'Men in White' (Metro) film program Included an Our Gang comedy and a Pete Smith expose of gambling tricks, with the newsreel. Entire show runs about three hours. .Cool weather probably helped to pack them in a good hour before the peak. That's news these days. Chic. MUSIC HALL, N. V. Every so often they talk about moving the opera into Radio City- Rockefeller Center. This week they've not only moved in the opera, but Carnegie Hall, the lyceum and the chautaqua platforms as well— they have everything there but i picture house presentation. It's a most lethargic and unln spired cinematic prolog, an all wrong idea of what sort of a stage hors d'oeuvres belongs in the Music Hall. That it comes at this time of the season makes it even: worse The Music Hall, week after week •with the cream of the theatre's •lectro-mechanlcai investiture to work with, a seemingly highly elastic budget for settings, costumes and talent, and a wealth of every other artistic and. material in- gredient to help Its achievement, produces the same trite style of presentation. Only some weeks it's oven 'worse. This week is an ex ample of the ultimate In mediocrity, t. The long *Faust* .overture* . regard Jess of the musical expertness of Erno Rapee's trench crew and the mixed choral ensemble of 36, is still a somewhat too cumbersome vamp oft for an entertainment which featured as its principal attraction such celluloid as Columbia's 'Sisters Under the Skin,' iand a Walt Disney « Sllly_Symphj 'W lse^ Litt le Hen.' _lt just doesn't Jeff. To further retard, what should now be designed as a crisp summer entertainment comes a mlsnomered VJay Divertissement/ which includes more-than-10 minutes of an brth odox concert piano recital, Liszt'; •Concerto in E Flat/ by Henrietta Schumann. The Stelnway artiste has been here before and as before, evidences her virtuosity to tho full, but just the same more than 10 mlns. of Liszt in a picture house, whether lt'fl in Rockefeller's citadel or in the . Idle Hour dime nabe, is all ,wro'ng showmanship. 'Milady's Jewels' which starts this portion of 'Gay Divertissement/ is set against a magnificent 'So- phisticated Lady* background, but somehow the girls' costuming isn't as effective as the inanimate settin~ The line should have been in sleek and slinking black satin gowns in stead of those burleycue-type tights. Sunny Fuller, acro-con tortive steppeuse, is featured. 'Lazy Daisies' Is the finale and a Tin Pan Alley seventh heaven as a plugfest for 'I'm Not Lazy — I'm Just Dreamin.' That carried the plug to the nth degree but still, even if jt did become wearisome, it was something ;more in the popular cinematic tempo. At least it re- tarded those audible yawns of Im- patience which seemed to sway the house. Roy Barnes is the featured vocalist and Jack Lenny the billed specialist on the hoof. Vocal chorus and Rockettes combine in this num- ber. The vocal Intro is set agaihst a street scene which may or miay not have been meant to be Harlem. The pedestrians and the general grouping evidences some good stag- ing along those lines. The more bucolic 'daisies' portion is backed up on the revolving stage for a, quick change into the finale. AoeJ. PENN, PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh, June 8.- First stage show ' here in seven weeks, and it's a corker. Dovetails with 'Thirty Day Princess' (Par) on screen. Topping layout is Phil Spltalny, who used to conduct the pit crew at. the Stanley here years ago and also in brass occasionally as m.c. Spltalny has at the moment what looks like the happiest combination he's yet hit, an all-femme band that should and does overcome usual prejudices against musical aggrega- tions composed of that sex. Working at end of show against white drops, girls make a pretty and cool-looking picture in ,their white outfits, and then proceed to dish out choral and musical ar- rangements that reveal at every turn Spitalny's knowledge of sharps and' flats. Sax and fiddle sections carry the brunt and they'll top- notch with vpcal interlude^ Group- ings are staged with an eye to showmanship and Spltalny handles them all with slippery cunning. Five vocalists, including Spi- talny's featured songstress, Maxine, long on looks, and whirlwind pin- wheel dancer, Mickey Brae.tz, planted in ork's second row and smartly, placed there to make them seem pack and parcel of regular In- strumental crew. Round, jovial Bob Murphy emcees the show, stepping out in 'one' fol- lowing pit orchestra's introduction and goes into high at the start, getting mob in good humor and col- lecting an unusually large hand at his exit following introductin of Lewis and Moore. Standard hoofing act have a neat dancing turn, but at first show ran a trifle overboard and could % be tightened to ad- vantage. Turn now. carries a stooge who appears in a couple of bits for laughs, winding up, as usual, with their sure-fire stair routine. ^ Murphy on again, this time with his two kids, Dick and Dorothy, and the three of them proceed to tie up the show. Rapid cross-fire, mixed with Dick's mugging, piano- thumping and singing, give act Are and zest at outset and it never lets down, crossing finish line in high First show was speeded up due to late rehearsal and only thing in addition to presentation and picture was Hearst newsreel. Business slim, - Cohen PARAMOUNT, N. Y. Publlx flagship uses navy footage from the hewsreels to go into and come out of the stage presentation this week. . In an official nod to the sea forces of Uncle Sam the show is called 'Hello, Navy/ and is dressed nautical both as to back- ground (a battleship) and costumes (middies). " , . Buster West; who always works in gob togs, fits ideally as the i next- to-shut. His nifty leg stuff .and clowning climaxed the presentation; Another prize-winning hoofer is Betty Keen, who is true to her name on the tapping end. Also she makes an attractive personality. Would seem that the xingmaster- ing of the orchestra leader, Charlie Davis, would be more effective « the production department gave a little heed to his destltutionof con- versation. If he 1b to talk, give him something to say. Afto that per-, haps a suggestion of constructive friendliness would be for him to talk in a uniform tone of voice. His diction Is okay, but he is alternately talking loud and soft with the re- sult that part of the time what he s saying gets swallowed in the open spaces. Davis has lots of picture house m c. experience, but dldn t have much to do this week. - Arno Segal stood up from the first fiddler's chair long enough to solo and win himself a slice of audi- ence approval. When the band had moved to the stage Raymond Baird stepped forth disguised as a mem- ber thereof. Baird's two woodwind specialties are too well known to re- quire comment. Suffice that the re- action was strongly complimentary. One of those remarkable teams of acrobats opened the presentation. Nobody quite evoked the response they achieved. They were not men- tioned by name nor in the advertis- ing. Suggesting either a last min- ute booking or an unwarranted slight. They got one gasp after another. t , a Jan Peerce tenored briefly and pleasantly. Finale had the girls di- vided in Ave groups by nationality with a couple of sailors following each. This made for a clever Wind- up with laughs that sequed into the battleship stuff. Exceptionally smart was a Para- mount Fleischer cartoon, 'Little Piggle Went to. Market/ which helped the show a lot. 'Many Happy Returns* (Par) is the screen main dish. But Manhat- tan seemed without appetite for it Friday night. Attendance was meagre, although Times Square was populated with sailors and their gals. Land. PALACE, N, Y. ORPHEUM, 'FRISCO San Francisco, June 4. With Eddie Cantor in-personing, Fanchon & Marco is heading for the top gross of its regime here very close to $20,000, with Cantor getting 60c of every dollar. He's been backed with -one of the best publicity and exploitation : cam paigns accorded any visiting star, and has gotten more newspaper breaks than anyone who has ever hit Frisco. Holding the show to a maximum of 40 minutes, to push the cus tomers but in a hurry. Running five a day over the weekend and four rest of the week with full houses at all shows, and if top of 25c and' 40c was higher, gross would be sky high. Cantor m.c.'s the show, sprinkling here and there, and tossing In few of the familiar songs, all to his usual good- results. With him ojri stage aire Lillian Miles, .' last here with Olsen and Johnson in 'Take a Chance'; Mahon and Rucker, dance team: Frances Northrup, solo dancer. Miss Miles docs a pair of hotcha songs, Mahon and Rucker a waltz and Miss Northrup an aero number before the line of 12 girls The girls, incidentally, were form erly In the Jay C. Fllppen unit which has busted up. Hermie King's stage band handled tho music. Pie, 'Sing and Like If . Bock. The Palace is vaudeville's best alibi. 'Vaudeville's dead/ vaudeville says, 'because the Palace is gone. Vaudeville is just as. glorified at the Circle.' And the latter spot plays shows on around a $1,000 weekly budget. If the current show can be taken as a criterion— and on recent evi dence it can— rail that's left of .the Palace is' the' marquee out front. Certainly, it hasn't the stage en- tertainment, now — and this is more important in its absence — It's strategy in booking the shows at the theatre's anaemic budget. This, former ace house, which has sunk to the level of a family- time break in jump-off, has apparently lost all vestige of vaudeville showmanship.' Present layout of five acts has dancing in the closing three, and a suspicion of dancing in the roller skating opener. The only act not on the hoof is the deucer. And, heavy on dancing it is just as sorely lacking in comedy. Three Slate Brothers, reformed, hoofing trio, now relying mainly on knock about, are holding down the chief laugh spot in next-to-closing, while Reynolds iand White, with a sur prise tramp and musical novelty, are in the deucer. At best they are both claimants to second positions in vaude houses, but on this par- ticular show things might have looked better if Reynolds and White were moved back to somewhat break the terp monotony. Another, angle the booker missed completely this semester is the fleet. Like the old Palace touch, so is sex appeal absent. Twelve Aristocrats containing seven girls, is the only thing in the layout that could pos- sibly attract the tars. Six! of the girls comprise a line working with six male partners in hoofery and slight adagio— and there is nothing so impersonal as an ensemble. So all that's left to make a gob sit up and take notice is Neila Goodclle, a brunet and voluptuous blues solo 1st with the closing flash; There were a few sailors in the sparse audience at the show caught, and maybe the blonde cashier out front had more to do with that- than the show inside. Following the Three Robblns, fairly exciting mixed trio on roller skates, Reynolds and White spring their amusing tramp and musical conglomeration. Their laugh re turns lies in the trick makeup of the male, who lights the tip of his nose, does bends over the pit and shoots fire-crackers from the seat of his pants, hat and homey violin Until she uncovers near the turn's blow-off fbr a violin solo, nobody suspects that the other tramp Is a gobd-looktng femme. The unmask- ing gets applause and a how-off re- ception that probably could not be duplicated without the 'surprise. Jack Whiting, from musical com- edy and now billing himself as from radio/treys almost entirely on his nerve and a bubbling personality that works the same all the way. His singing is never strong, ma. dancing finish is an J™**?**™*' punchless routine, and bis *wo- male piano accompanists, wlwx are given a big opening buildup in a special, hardly live up to the pre- scription in sock. Whiting got a nice hand from the polite Palace customers. ■ ' . „ , . Slate Brothers' hoofery following Whiting is the explanation of why they are next^to-closing instead of Reynolds and White. Whiting dur- ing his act always threatens to break into a dance. Slates really dance, and the audience responds, after the usual mayhem stuff so common today with former hooflng combos. . A . ... Closing '2 Aristocrats dance well, but everything that goes before dulls their edge. The one thing they can count on in this show is. Miss Gbodelle's vocalizing, which Is pleasing. Act is nicely dressed and mounted and should be sureflre in a more favorable position. With It all the Palace has one claim to vaudeville originality this week: There Isn't a mike used in the entire show. Maybe that's why the bill ruhB only 60 minutes. Oh screen, 'Little Man, What Now?' <.m Moines, had 'Change of Heart' graduation week. He took the op- portunity to send out 1,200 card-* to congratulate the students leav- ing the local high school* and parochial schools, calling their, at- tention at tiie same time to the pic- ture and a contest In which cash prizes of ten and fifteen dollars were (o be iiwMnleti the graduate sending n the best 10'0-word review of th»» picture. < VARIETY Tuesday, June 12, 1934 Tuesday, June 12, 1934 PICTURES VARIETY Film-Church Co-operation (Continued from page 5) cency. including Catholics, Protes- tants' and Jews, charges breach of faith, is maintaining dead silence. There seems to be no smokesareen or any secret maneuvers this time, either. Will Hays, according to politicos. may stage a dramatic climax. Some of his immediate disciples would urge him to anticipate the .crusad- ers' demands and present some- thing along such tines to the bishops at the opening of ecclesias- tic council. Veteran picture minds regard any out and out battle with the church as -foolhardy. Educating the cru- saders by letting them sit up nights with Hollywood production prob- lems might, after all, they concede', be the smartest means of realizing a complete and lasting showdown with the public. Chances of the flght becoming three-cornered and involving the P$lue Eagle, while admitted immi- nent by NRA aides because of the still untested status of the morala provisions in the film code, are not regarded likely. tfirHt of all, as 4hey see It, the church's battle with the industry is mainly with the Hays organization. The morals codes have always been un3?r Haya' direct supervision, they maintain; and if crusaders become involved in. the code's moral ..rights the f.ght might widen, until 'it -took in {."ctsiiingtQn. So far as the NRA itself is concerned* aides admit that tl/c t ; morals ' issue has been avoided with obvious" caution by the Code A'Jtihority from inception. During the past few days various of the independent producers, open- ly elated that they did not accede to overtures earlier in the year to voluntarily place themselves under Hnyaian morals, are now capitaliz- ing this fact. Some of them are contacting women's clubs with the advice their own picture morals are higher than Haysites. The security which the Hays organization had to oiler 'from its build-up and relation with "women's club throughout the country over a period of years is now being openly derided by such independents. Industry Bewildered Industry leaders entered the week-end in- an admitted state of fear and complete bewilderment as to what tack to take in combating the Catholic Church drive which they conceded, while only in the skirmish stage, is already taking toll at many U. S. box offices. Of a score or more methods of retalia- tion none could be figured clothed with immunity from adding to the apltation. In national producer and exhibitor headquarters the opinion ot overseers in both camps was to 'take it on the chin' a little longer, and for the industry to remain in silence until the Catholic Bishops deliver theit ultimatum from Cin- cinnati on Tune 21. Three big salvos from Cardinals preceding the convention are ad- mitted t.b have removed whatever skepticism existed among picture strategists. As long as the Church refrained from Federal censorship some of the leaders figured the situation could be handled. Cardi- nal Mundelein reversed this opinion. The Catholics can't win as long as they stick to banning some pic- tures and authorizing others. The lists would only confuse their flocks. Film strategists 'who believed that also went into reverse when Cardi- nal Dougherty last Friday ordered his great Philadelphia army to stay away from all picture houses that do not at all tlni^K sho\ clean pic-' turc#. Political hcnchm.ui of the busi- ness talked of positioning picture lecturers in the field to- addoess con- ventions of citizenry and to get their side of the story before the public. They theorized about pos- sibly capitalizing the crusade — cau.sing it to boomerang — by asking the public to make it a point to go to theatres and report back to the industry what Is wrong with pic- tures. Depreciate Air Rebuttal The air as a weapon of defense was also discussed. Longer heads of the business held up their hands at this, despite radio reports that the Hays organization is arranging time on NHC and last week had auditions for a 15 -minute period six nights per week broadcast. What man or woman, star or ex- tra, in pictures today, they asked, could be pitted against a Father Coughlan on the air? Using the air would simply carry the fight to possibly millions more throughout the U. S., the politicos reasoned. They saw a the' same time that with such aggravation which a picture defensive of this kind would inspire, parties which are now disinterested would be drawn into the fray and that quite likely before the industry knew it there would be censorship in every U. S. town and city. Faced with the direct statement, about the NBC time Haysites in- formally expressed belief that if any part of the industry is intending to use the radio as a part of any de- fense it is without the knowledge of the Hays organization. It was conceded that some picture inter- ests might be doing this on its own. Haysites at the same time, how- ever, refuse; to flatly deny, formally, that the Hays organization is an entirely disinterested party. They denied that their own radio uepart- ment. organized several months ago, has anything to do with an NBC booking which would endeavor to answer specific criticisms of pic- tures. This department debuted with a series of addresses on vari- ous phases of industry activity, mainly by film women. Haysites handled likewise reports subsequently emanating from a ses- sion of distribution and theatre heads last Wednesday in the Hays office that the religious war was a main topic for discussion. The offi- cial response was that religion did not come up formally at this meet- ing; that if it was discussed at all it came about informally and pri- vately in a conversational way. In Catholic circles Saturday (9) satisfaction over the progress of what church people- consider 'just the preliminaries' was much in evi- dence. „ They revealed that 'very con- servatively' 4,539,000 Catholics in 24 dioceses are thoroughly organized. This, they point out, is only a com- parative handful since there are 79 other dioceses yet to be arrayed in battle formation. In the meantime, some 6,000 units of the Holy Name Society, In Canada as weft as the U. S., are reported making headway in lining up more crusaders, Such Catholic spokesmen are con- fident that if the Pope has anything to do with pictures it will be to 'give them not more than a sentence' In some future encyclical. The fight for a clean screen is regarded in such circles as strictly an Ameri can issue, at least for the present. Mundelein Blast Leading political contacts of fllm- *dom are In a state of consternation over the industry's immediate cen- sor status. The blast from Cardinal Mundelein is conceded to put the Catholic Church for the first time on record as reversing its consistent anti-censor attitude and advocating outside cutting machines for purg- ing purposes. With it filmdom is described as losing its strongest free screen ally. Industry contact men at the same time are reminding that months ago they warned the business of the present storm and that for the most part they were turned a deaf ear. , In the estimation of some it is now too late, no matter what the business offers to do, to dodge a serious Issue. Film strategists see the industry as being up against an unprece- dented- situation. All creeds are banded In the current clean-up at- titude so that the old retaliatory methods, such as pitting opposing prelates against each other, are out of the question. Others in major spheres are not taking it so hard, albeit they recog- nize the dangers of the future. There are some who read in between the lines of the Mundelein utter- ances. Purely speculative, they con- cede, they nevertheless feel that the Cardinal's^, declaration _^f or censor^ ship may have certain diplomatic motives and that a more modified form of national attack may be ad- vocated by the bishops. In the maelstrom of conjecture in other departments of the business there is the thought expressed that possibly the Cincinnati decision may resolve Itself into a papal encyclical ruling specifically on Catholic atti- tude toward moving pictures the world over. Karlier last week there were In- dications that Will Hays is remain- ing silent, awaiting the crusaders to make the final move. Hays' position, it was pointed out, is now about the most delicate that it has been in his long picture career. When asked for a reply to Cardi- nal Mundelein, especially those, charges pertaining to the produc- tion code written by the Cardinal's own secretary as just a scrap of paper in the industry's eyes, an im- portant picture executive in a stra- tegic spot and a personal friend of the Cardinal replied: "There is no reply.' Not even a. full reel of film is re- sponsible for whatever trouble there, looms in 1934-35, if Hollywood con- tinues its present practices. To prove this, statisticians of the busi- ness hold that the bulk of smutty scenes and double meaning dialog during the past year comprises less than a single reel when clipped out of yarlous features and pieced to- gether. Cardinal Dougherty's Broadside Philadelphia, June 11. Most vehement church blast against any amusement industry that has been made in years startled Philly last Friday when .Cardinal Dougherty, from his residence here, issued a letter urging Catholics to stay away from all films. This was opening step in a cam- paign being taken by the Legion of Decency, but surprising and im portant factor of the whole matter was the severity and sweeping nature of the. letter. 'To stay aways from them (the films) therefore,' the letter . con- cluded, ?Is not merely a counsel, but a positive .command binding all in conscience' under pain of sin. Action is declared to be a protest against the deluge of sex and crime pictures and as a 'final, step in an attempt to elevate the moral tone of screen productions after other ef- forts to accomplish the purpose had failed.' ' Priests in every parish were re- quested to explain the purposes of the movement to members of their churches and to circulate pledge cards which are to be made part of the parish records. Presbytery Endorses Legion Syracuse, June 11. Seriousness of the drive against allegedly indecent pictures in this area was intensified when the Syra- cuse Presbytery placed the support of the Presbyterian churches squarely behind the Legion of Decency movement inauguarated in Central New York by Bishop John A. Duffy of the Syracuse Catholic Diocese. Neighborhood theatres, particu- larly those in the larger Catholic parishes of this city, are alarmed by the personal boycott weapon im- plied by the Legion of Decency pledge. At least one exhibitor op- erating a large ward theatre at- tributes recent patronage losses to Bishop Duffy's campaign and pub- Ished lists of 'not recommended' pictures. Representatives of the Catholic and Presbyterian churches will be in the audience when Irwin Es- mond, head of the m. p. division of the State Department of Edu- cation, discusses state censorship's part in cleansing the screen before the Cinema Critics Club here to- morrow night. Round- Robining Students Baltimore, June 11. College seniors are making the rounds of the Catholic primary schools, addressing the assemblies of children and defining the Catho- lic drive. Has not been decided to date what plan of action will be exerted to effect coverage of the younger studes through vacash, but it looks as though the names of the kids' parents will be added to the' list of the higher-schooling studes, so the mothers of the younger ones can get official info and be able to direct the picture attendance of their broods. Studes have been asked by the pastors of their churches and by Catholic school teachers to pen let- ters "of "protest totheplxproducers; actors and writers, especially those of Catholic faith. Frisco's Kind Words San Francisco, June 11. In contrast to the many raps taken by the Industry from church and club groups these past weeks, films get a surprise pat on the back here this week, the commendation coming from Mrs. Charlotte Dixon, motion picture chairman of the San Francisco City and County Federa- IATSE Convention Enlists Gov t Aid in Labor Ms; Own Air Station Troubles of operators and stage- hands with indie theatres which are either non-union, refusing to pay official scales, or have ousted I.A.T.S.E. men in favor of indie unions, notably in New York City, have resulted in action by the IA at its Louisville convention. The conclave, winding up Friday (8) adopted a resolution looking toward Government aid In making all in- dies live up to the Code. Resolution proposes* that Senators Nye and Borah, together With Clar- ence Darrow, be designated to con- duct an ■ Investigation into charges that certain Indies are not living up to the labor conditions of the NRA, specifically Section 7A. Whether or not the Government will accede to this request remains to be seen- Among the difficulties that brought this resolution forth have been the efforts of N. Y. Oper- ators (306). to force certain Greater New York indies to live up to the Code, 306 alleging its men were thrown out of many theatres and Operators of a secondary union,'. Al- lied, substituted. Action was also taken by the IA conventlonees urging a final settle ment of the question, of jurisdiction between the IA and IBEW (Elec trical .Workers) following the Hoi •Jywbod studio strike and the wrea tie for control of that Work.' This is up to the A.- F- L „ with which the I A pleads for immediate consul tation on this and minor jurlsdid tiona) disputes. At the same time the IA demands enforcement of decisions of the Nai. tional Labor Board in connection with the. studio strike, charging that up to now those decision's have not been entirely forced. A national radio station in the in- . terests of unionism is also proposed, to be known as 'The Voice of Labor,* ■Vs-ith . the IA locals urged to help finance- it. Among other questions which came came up was whether to con- sider the request of associated assistant directors and script peo- ple in studios for affiliation with the IA. Moved and seconded that this group should put In an application. To militate against double billing.; that the IA publish all decisions concerning it and NRA, plus work- ing conditions in pictures; that the St. Paul local be commended for trying to encourage stage shows; that locals be limited to 20 members in an effort to drive out the permit system, and that the IA take a hand in an offensive against Claude Rob- inson, Clarksburg, W. Va., indie, who is non-union and attempting to swing Warner Bros, in that state to a percentage basis on labor, were also urged in convention resolutions. Elliott's Statement Louisville, June 11. Retiring President William C. El- liott, in parting address at the clos- ing session of the IATSE conven- tion here today, stated responsibil- ity for the calling of last summer's IA strike in Coast studios rested on the shoulders of the five business representatives of the locals in- volved and himself. Elliott took equal blame for the strike order with the business agent. No names of Coast officials were mentioned by Elliott during his talk, and excuse advanced for his part in the issuance of the strike order was based, he said, on letters and wires from the business agents of the tion of Women's Clubs, comprising some 75 feme organizations. Making her occasional report, Mrs. Dixon recounted the co-operation and courtesy extended her by local theatre managers when her com- bined groups sought to and were successful in stopping newsreel prints of the San Jose lynching of some months ago. Rhode Island'c Drive Providence, June 11. Because of Its large Catholic population the local clean film drive will have an element of interest. At least 60% of the total population of Rhode Island is Catholic, and the Providence diocese takes in all of the state. This is the first time that a local concerted effort has been made by Catholic clergy and leading laymen to reform the screen. It Is under- stood that, th > drive will not concern itself with 'flesh' entertainment. five studio locals detailing reasons why he should call the strike. This brief explanation by Elliott regarding the disastrous strike of last summer, and the resultant loss of membership and prestige by the five studio locals involved, was the first and last time that the strike was mentioned on the floor of the convention during the four days. No mention was made as to what plans might be formulated during the next few months looking to- wards a re-establlshment of the IATSE to some of its former power in the Hollywood studios. According to outlook here among delegates, the entire problem of the locals In the studios and their fu- ture is directly in the lap of the incoming president, George Browne. Latter, it is expected, will make a thorough survey of the situation and then formulate a policy which will swing either to an aggressive one for rehabilitation of the studio locals, which would forecast a warm fight; or a decision to take the strike defeat and its .results grace- fully and salvage whatever possible I from the wreckage. Browne wa.- unopposed for the presidency. He is from the Chir cago stagehand's local and is well known in that territory. New presi- dent is regarded as a liberal. Three v.p.'s under. Elliott stepped out with him, William .Hacrer, William Madigan and Joe Campbell. Successors to these are James Bren- nan, of N. Y. stagehands local, who is well thought of in theatre. circles; Richard Walsh, of the Brooklyn lo- cal. No. 4, and 4 Roger Kennedy. Walsh becomes fourth v.p., Brenhan sixth and Kennedy seventh, John P. Nick, first v.p., and Wil- liam Couverr, 2nd v.p., were unop- posed for. election, but Harlan Holmden had opposition in retain- ing his post as third v.p. Floyd Billlngsley, of L. A., remains fifth v.p. Fred J. Dempsey; veteran union official, was re-elected! secretary (Continued on page 54) Kaplan and Greenberg Must Serve 6 Months Unless there's a chance for an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court, Sam Kaplan, . former president of N. Y. Operators (306) and his or- ganizer, Theodore Greenberg, will have to serve six months at Sing Sing. The highest State court, to which Kaplan and Greenberg ap- pealed after conviction, during the past week sustained the decision of lower courts upholding the sentence. Both union men were convicted in General Sessions more than a year ago of coercion, along with other officers of 206 who escaped with fines and paid them. Contracts Option on June Vlasek, Beverly Hills high school girl, taken up at Fox. Ann Sothern termer given lift by Columbia. Warners pact Ross Alexander, as- suming few remaining weeks on his Metro deal. FITZER'S HEW HOUSE Syracuse, June 11. Joseph Fitzer, now out on bail awaiting trial on a malicious -mis- chief charge growing out of the wrecking of the Happy Hour theatre here more than a month ago, is the new manager of the Brighton, south side neighborhood house. Fitzer, former lessee of the Happy Hour, was arrested after police found the theatre unlocked early one morning; and; entering, discov^ ered the interior and equipment badly damaged. Statements by em- ployees led to his arrest. This ter- minated Fitzcr's lease, the house subsequently passing to the Smith interests. O'BRIEN BABY SUCCUMBS Hollywood, June 11. Iirian Olirien, the two weeks old son o£ Cieorge O'Urien and Mar- guerite Churrhill, died here Friday (8>. VARIETY Tuesday, June 12, 3*934' ■so;.'?- y «v ^ SHE LEARNED ABOUT SAILORS with BABY, TAKE A BOW SHIRLEY TEMPLE JAMES DUNN CLAIRE TREVOR Alan Dinehart Produced by John Stone Directed by Harry lachman LEW AYRES ALICE FAYE HARRY GREEN Frank MITCHELL & Jack DURANT/ Produced by John Stone Directed by George Marshall Screen play, by William Conselman and Henry Johnson. Bated on the story by Randall H. Faye WARNER BAXTER in SHE WAS A LADY GRAND CANARY e with MADGE EVANS Marjorie Rambeau Zita Johann Roger Imhof H. B. Warner A Jesse L Lasky Production Directed by Irving Cummings From the novel by A. J. Cronin .Screen play by Ernest Pascal Based on a ploy by James P. Judge Screen play by Philip Klein and. E E. • Paramore, Jr. with CHARLIE CHAN S COURAGE with WARNER OLAND Drue Leyton Donald Woods Based on the novel, "The Chinese Parrot," by Earl Derr Bigger? Produced by John Stone Directed by George Hadden Screen play by Seton I. Miller HELEN TWELYETREES DONALD WOODS RALPH MORGAN Produced by Al Rockett Directed by Hamilton MacFadden Story by Elizabeth Cobb Adaptation by Gertrude Pureed Released July 20th WILL ROGERS in HANDY ANDY I' r •4 that will stand out in your theatre's history! Released July 27th Ik with PEGGY WOOD Conchita Montenegro Mary Carlisle Roger Imhof Robert Taylor Produced by Sol M. Wurtzel Based on "Merry Andrew" by Lewis Beach. Screen play by William Conselman and Henry Johnson. Adaptation by Kubec Gla'smon. Directed by David Butler Rely on Your Most Dependable Profit Source Released June 29th Tuesday, June 12, 1934 PICTURES VARIETY 29 Stock Market (Continued from page 6) Amusement Group never did drop as low as close of previous week. Of the several representative stocks In this group, Warner Brothers oomraon really showed best action. This issue had a nice rebound, and approached critical 6 U- point mark which has formed a resistance level on both the up and down side of stock's activity. For last three weeks this stock ap- peared to have been going through a modest period of accumulation. But until it definitely pieces the BYb -6% level too much cannot be expected. Pox Class A, ■ another issue that seems to be going through period of accumulation, again found the 15-point level difficult to break through. However, it never did drop below 14, and it may in time again climb into IT and 18 dollar bracket. Radio Preferred B looked a little tired,, although it never fell below the 30-point mark during the. week. It was far up from close of preceding week. Volume and stock's movement on the chart points to another rise within a short time. No Extra Loew Divvy Loew's common managed to get past 33, but again found plenty of offerings just above this level. It closed down from the $33. mark, disappointment over failure of di- rectors to increase dividend rate or with this action. Loew's closed vir- tually at the same level it did early in May, with volume almost same as week ending May 5. Shrewd traders feel that their opinion of several weeks ago — that the market was in the stage' of ac- cumulation — was justified by mar- ket's action on Wednesday and more forcibly again on Friday. It is pointed out that minor fluctuations are beginning to look like the present period (two weeks ago) is one of quiet accumulation, and that a continued period of ac- cumulation over the next week or so makes the market look a lot more like a buy than a sell. Action of the market past week seemed to bear out this conclusion, for it re- bounded to that important resist- ance level between 98 and 100 in Dow - Jones Industrial Averages within a period of three days. There may be a period of further accumulation; that is to say, the advance may not be continued as vigorously as on Wednesday and Friday, but trend over the next month or two surely looks upwards. In fact, many smarter traders ex- pect to see the market booming along in much its accustomed fash- ion by July. Church's Attack Relative to Amusement Group, not too much can be expected just now, .what with the summer season just beginning and the broadsides that are being fired at motion pic- tures by Catholic Church activities. And if the drought cuts into purse of the farmer, his income for theatre admissions is likely to be curtailed to a certain extent, as has been in- dicated here, before. Week was noteworthy for the fact that President Roosevelt signed the Stock Exchange control bill. Pro- visslohs of this law do not go into effect until next month, and margin provisions do not become effective until October 1. Many traders and brokers were estimating just how little these would affect actual trad- ing. Many questions will have to be ruled on by the Federal Reserve Board and special commission set up before traders will feel that they know exactly 'what is what.' Some are inclined to think that most reg- ulating will be done by the Federal Reserve Board, just as it has done in the past. Failure of Loew's to increase its dividend is still a mystery to Wall Street. Earnings are reputed to be near '$4 a year and stock is only paying $1 dividend. ' Future expan- sion operations and probably some doubt as to what summer months might produce probably figured in this action. Nevertheless, the Loew stock went up with remainder of market Friday after dividend dec- laration. President signed new bankruptcy bill, and immediately RKO, Para- mount-Publlx and Roxy theatres filed under provisions of this new measure. That Wall Street consid- ered this action favorable was seen in neat rally staged by Paramount- declare an extra having much to do, Publix 6 ^ s - bonds and certificates Both closed on top, with net gains of four points and near the highs of the year. Paramount certificates on the big board got up to 5, and showed a gain of half a point net for week. RKO failed to show any response, but Radio common and Radio preferred B were much stronger. Radio common scored a net gain of nearly a point for the week, and Radio B wound up with 3% points advance. Eastman Kodak displayed re markable strength, and soared to a new 1934 at 98, where it closed for a net advance of 4% points. Only American Seating, which was un- usually inactive; Madison Square Garden and RKO failed to show gains . in the. amusement group on the Stock Exchange. Columbia Pic- tures certificates were up 2% points, Fox A advanced more than a point, Loew's sported a gain of 1% points, Pathe A soared 3% points net, and Loew's preferred was up a point. Other amusement stocks gained fractionally. Westinghouse, aided by short covering and favorable news for this company, climbed to 37%, and closed week nearly five points ahead. Madison Square Gar- den sold down on threats of post- poning the Baer- Camera fight, and had little chance to rally after it was decidedly decided to hold fight on scheduled date. On the Curb Technicolor was the most active of the amusement group. It closed at its high of the igh. 7% 5% 34% iZ w 08 17* 25 K 30V6 0714 7 20% 5% 0V4 4* 30% 8% 4714 Summary for Week Ending Saturday, June 9 STOCK EXCHANGE Sales. Issue and me. 200 American Seat '. 2,300 COnsol. Film 5,800 Columbia P. vtc. (!)♦.., 1,100 Consol. Film pfd. (Dt- 3,400 Eastman Kodak (4) 3,800 Fox, Class A 59,700 Gen. Elec. (00c.).; 23 48,700 Loew (1) 72 300 Do. pref. (CV4) 4% 2,000 Madison Sq. Garden..........;. 21 200 Met-G-M pief. (1.80) 1% 23,400 Paramount ctfs 1% 7,700 Pathe Exchange ; 21% 10,400 Pathe, Class A Wt 33,400 Radio Corp 214 0.500 RKO 13 12,000 Rndlo pfd. B 4% 13.700 Warner Bros... 30V4 20.400 Westinghouse High. Low. Last. 41s 4*4 4*4 3% 3% 3% 34% 31 Vi. 34 ioy* 15V4 10 *08 15 03 w 14 14% 2Ui 10 14 21 33 V4 3114 32% 00 »314 00 014 G 0*6 20',* 2014 20V4 5 4% 4% 3 214 2% 2414 21% 24 7% 7 7% 3 2% 2% 33% 30 33 3% 0% 3711 33 30% Net eng. - % + % +2% + % +4% +1% +1% +1% +1 . - % + % + V4 + % 4-3V4 + % - % +3% + % +4% * Plus stock extras, t Paid this year oh account ot accumulations, t New 1934 high. CURB 0.300 Technicolor 1,000 Trans T,ux (10c.)',-, 3*4 51 S3 83 20 2l)V.k 40% 2S!i 2!> ■i<> $30,000 Gen. Thea. 10n. 3.000 Keith 0's, '40... 03,000 Loew 0'S, '41. 48,000 Pathe 7's, "37.. 30,000 Par-Fam-Lasky 0*s. ' 40,000 Par-Pub 514's. '50 230,000 Warner Hros. C's, "30 42.000 Pnr-Knm-T,nsky 0's, '47, ctfs. HS.OiiO Par-Pub B'.S's, '50, ctfs 4,0 ) Par-I3roadway C'.i's, "51 .9% 08 101'i •100 53 54 G1V. 520i T>'2\ 3% 0*i 08- 101 V4 1)8*3 52*4 51 0114 32-v 4 52% 45'* +1% +1*4 +1V4 + % + % +4 +5 +1% + 4 OVER THE COUNTER, N. Y. Roxy. Class A. . Uo Forest Phono week at 12, a new 1934 high, where it was up 1% points. The greatest ground gainer among the amueement bonds was Warner Brothers 6s. After an early sinking spell, these liens rallied to wind up at the top price of 61%, where they were 6 points ahead of the previous Saturday's close. General Theatre Equipment bonds advanced 1% points after getting up to 9%. They closed at 9^4. Loew 6s again bound- ed above the century mark, and closed at 101%, whflere they showed a gain of 1% points. Paramount- Famous-Lasky 6s made nearly a point gain, and certificates of the same were up 1% points. t Pathe 7s climbed to a new high for the year on considerably in- creased volume. New high was hung up at exactly 100, but the liens finished week at 98% for nearly a point net advance. ' Paramount- Broadway 5%s were inactive, but were. 1 unchanged on week, as were Keith 6s at 68. There are few who expect stocks to continue any rapid advance such as was started during week, but the Street feels a lot better than it did a week ago at this time. That burst of volume on strength Friday seemed to have convinced most of the trading fraternity. But the wise ones were those who got in two weeks ago while most stocks were going begging and the market looked like it would wither away from lack of Interest, if for no other reason. Accumulation of stocks probably will continue during periods of dullness or slight re- lapses, and the shrewd traders fully expect the advance to be continued in the near future. Premature Advertising Protests Swamp Grievance Board in Chi Taylor's Oily Return Hollywood, June 11. Away from scenario departments for a couple of years during which time he .was pumping oil, Rex Tay- lor joins the Jesse Lasky writing force at Par. Taylor is writing a new treat- ment of the yarn, 'Heldorado,' a mining yarn. PRODUCE EXCHANGE, N. Y. Incorporations NEW YORK Albany. N. T. Lew-art Theatrical Enterprises, Inc.; theatricals, pictures, etc.; capital stock, $1,000; Polly Lasky. Bella Kroll and Lew Kroll, all of 299 Broadway, New York. The First Legion, Inc.; plays, mu- sicals, etc.; capital stock, 10 shares, no par value. Juan Miranda and Raymond R. McGee, both of 505 Fifth avenue, and Chester Green, 17 East 42nd street, all of NeW York. Harnth Amusement Corp.; pictures, vaudeville, etc.; capital stock, $10,000. Bertha Blum, Frances Korn and. George D. Araiiow, all of 292 Madison avenue, New York, Charles Parcell, Inc.; theatrical enter- prises of all kinds; capital stock, $20,000. William J. Rapp, 68 Bast 86th street, New York; John A. Crysler, 3320 Bronx boulevard, Bronx, and Richard K, Gregory, 1009 Prospect avenue, New York, Marvin Amusement Corp.; picture bust' ness; capital stock, 5,000. George G Marrow, Pearl Marrow and Harry A. Harris, all of 3496 Broadway, New York. Roawol, Inc., Long Beach; operate pavilions, dance halls, etc.; capital stock, 100 shares, no par value. Philip R. Manse, Jos. Loeb and Hannah Plump, all of 2 Lafayette street, New York. African Dancers, Inc.; pictures, vaude vllle, etc.; capital stock, 200 shares, no par value. Rae Levitt, 1819 Clinton avenue, Bronx; Marcia Lleberman, 614 West 182nd street, New York, and Arthur Bernstein, 1730, East 27th street, Brooklyn, Institutional Cinema Service, Inc.; pic tures; capital stock, 20,0 shares, no par value. ' EdWs Blman, Henry H. Sliver- man and Irving G. Morris, all of .406 Lexington avenue, New York. Monte Brice Productions, Inc.; pic- tures ; capital' stock, 10 shares, no par value, Hannah Fahrer, Howard M. Antevil and Georgette Levy, all of 1250 Sixth avenue, New York. Morner Multlgrove Recordings, Inc.; talking machines of all kinds; capital stock, $13,200. Richard C. Flesch, Jos. M. Cohen and Virginia Walker, all of 444 Madison avenue, New York. Luxor-Bleecker Amusement Corp.; pic- tures, plays, etc.; capital stock, $10,000. Miriam Pollack, Esther Reitman and David Freedman, all of 170 Broadway, New- York. C. & H. Service Corp., Manhattan; operate ticket agencies; capital stock, $6,000. Edw. Cairns, 30 Coolldge ave- nue; Jos. R. Flechaus, 66 Catsklll ave- nue, and Philip Greene, 76 Hawthorne avenue, all of Yonkers. Are You BecentT, Inc.; theatrical en- terprises or all kinds; capital stock, $10,000, Halg Hay goon U 2841 Rocbllng avenue, Bronx; Jeanne B. Slegel and J*annelte Ogus, both of 11 West 4 2nd street, New York. Change of Name From -Realart ^Distributing Corp., to Select Film Distributing Corp.; filed by Fltclsnn & Mayers, 1619 Broadway, New York. New York Evening Post, Inc., to New York Post, Inc.; filed by Gwggonhelmer ,1- I'ntprtnyf-r, 30 Pine strpet, Now York. CALIFORNIA .Sacramento. Permits to Sell Stock Cnlted Artist** Studio, Inc. To hold personal property. To la.iue all of 100 sh.arrs, no par value. Showmen's Productions, Inc. Motion pl'luro producing.' To Issue .all of 20,000 -li.ircs, par $1. I la mm n, Islng Picture*, Inc. Motion picture pr'nl'ji-iruf, To issue Hir««> ihares •>f 7.300 total, par value $10 S. F. Clearance Battle San Francisco, June 11. San Francisco's clearance battle is under way, with first run men staunchly battling to retain and even lengthen the present 56 days' protection,' and indie seoond and subsequent run leaders fighting to shave it measurably. Two zoning and clearance board meetings of the Code Authority al- ready have been held, with the third, and by no means the last, scheduled for Monday (11). At the second the chain leaders, Arch M. Bowles of Fox-West Coast, and Cliff Work of RKO, slung the fighting testimony, with Robert McNeill of Golden State and Al Levin of Levin theatres car- rying the colors of the indies. Code Squawks (Continued from page. 4) mer. This would, in Itself, keep the C.A. open almost daily as a court with- presidents of companies arid exhibitor leaders, as first string members, subject to call despite continuance of the practice of send ing second arid third string men to most of the meetings. At. its best the C.A. to date has proven itself capable of rushing through five cases in a single aft- ernoon. This was last week when J. Robert Rubin in the chair lim- ited representatives to 10 minutes talking time each. Even then there were no imme- diate decisions. Problems like the Skoura s-Rogowsky case, and United Artists contesting the 10% eliminations privilege In the code on the ground that It sells all of its features separately, were conceded to assure the C.A. many other hours of bitter fighting In executive session. To get an advance line on the situation Executive Secretary John C. Flinn this week is sending a questionnaire to all boards secre- taries, demanding that they itemize their own calendars and send In reports to C.A. headquarters. Flinn is hopeful that eventually the boards may be In a position where they can decide as final all charges in the field except those pertaining to clearance and overbuying. Exhibitor complaints of any order, however, cannot be treated lightly, 'Today they are the main support of the NRA in pictures, some 6,000 of them already having paid on the line. NRA aides in observing this also note the change in the last six weeks, before which the code was deriving Its financial sustenance from the donations of major com panies. Code Authority regards itself this week as getting a big weight off its chest in the virtual solution of the Hollywood extra trouble. Some 11 recommendations of the extras committee, reached unanimously, are being officially framed and en- dorsed by "Washington now, aides report. Chicago. June 11. Surprising to the entire industry in this, territory is the manner in which complaints about premature advertising have grown to become the big problem of the grievance boards. Always considered by the exchanges as a minor and insigifi- cant matter, premature plugging comes forward as the ace worry and- howl of the exhibs. Particu- larly is this true of the big houses in the outlying sections, and espe- cially those which are circuit spots. Big protest-maker about competi- tive premature ads is the Balaban & Katz group, which has swamped the board with a long list of adver- tising howls. Grievance group al- ready has 15 ahead-of-time adver- tising squawks under advisement, the majority of which are B.&.K. Cases on the B.&K. side are the Congress vs. Oak, Crystal vs. Vision, State vs. Austin, Manor vs. Warners Symphony, Senate vs. Kedzle and the Kedzie Annex, Crys- tal vs. Harmony. Already decided in favor of the plaintiff are the B.&.K. Berwyn vs. the Villas, An- nette and Palace. Also there's the LaGrange vs. Hindsdale. , t Two Violations Two types of advertising are out- standing in the violations. First Is the issuance of pluggers and pro- grams which have coming pictures listed too far in advance. The other is the posting of paper, particularly one-sheets, in side frames on the front of the house. There is no vio- lation where the house uses paper inside the lobby and in the interior for plugging pictures under the title of 'coming.' All cases so far before the board have been won by the plaintiff. In every case ..sufficient proof of the misdemeanor has been presented, and the board found it easy to come to a verdict, which in all cases was a cease and desist order to the of- fender. Strange thing in the mat- ter is that the defendants didn't de- fend themselves, but all admitted that they were advertising top far in advance. They- simply said that they didn't know that they were breaking any rules, and that in the future they would cleave closer to the release ilne. Consolidated^ Labor Squabble Reaches Wash. Washington, June 11. Labor troubles of Consolidated Film of New York are before the National Labor Board for settle ment following refusal of company to obey mandate of the N. T. Re- gional labor board in- squabble over wages. Conference on differences was held here last week in hope of reaching a settlement without formality of new public hearings and taking of more testimony. Strike involves 50 employees, members of Printing Pressmen's Union who checked out early in April. Principal Issue is wage scales, company contending it cannot arbitrate pay qUestldiis and" refusing to reinstate strikers and participate in bargaining without pay. Minor issue is jurisdicton of graphic arts or motion picture lab- oratory code. PAUL GREENS REUNITING Charlotte, N. C, June 11. Mrs. Paul Green and nor four chil- dren have left for Hollywood to join the playwright, who is scriu lin< for I'V»x. DARROW THING FADES; NEW PIC QUIZ LOOMS Washington, June 11. Momentous NRA-Darrow Board controversy practically died out last Week with announcement National Review outfit will fold up at the end of the month, but new demands for a Senate probe of the film code were registered In Congress. Latest to urge a Congressional in- quisition is Fred J. Herrlngton, sec- retary of Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Western Pennsylvania, who resumed active participation In the attack on Division Administra- tor Sol A. Rosenblatt. Herrlngton urged Senator Davis of Pennsyl- vania to support the promised Nye resolution authorizing the Inquiry. Confusion caused by conflicting statements of Gen. Hugh S. John- son, General Counsel Donald R. Richberg, Rosenblatt, and Darrow group 'makes it Imperative for. a neutral investigation of all the facts,' Pittsburgh exhlbt wrote. Hit Rosy's defense that long, tedious hours were put in writing pact and remarked this is first instance when amount of time spent was a decid- ing factor in favor of the code. 'The independent theatre owners who are members of this association, urgently request that you actively support the move for an investiga- tion by the Senate of the United States Into all phases of the motion picture industry., ^Thls ijiyestigat|pn ^. should thoroughly cover the person- alities and incidents loading to the promulgation of the motion picture code by the XRA arid also the activ- ities of the Darrow Board. With the Senate tak ; n/r a hand in this matter, the facts surrounding the highly controversial issue of the motion pifttire code will bo settled onre, and for .'ill. And in our judgment, it will inevitably l"ad to proper Iogh-d.i- (in/i designed for the ultimate good of Hie Amen- in p"oplo ' FIerriM«ion I.ir.'.l no "I only said ... BO O !" and such excitement in newsreel i * circles! . . Of course with EDWIN C. HILL as news commentator of H E A R S T METROTONE NEWS and further developments to be announced it's not surprising that competitors are urging you to sign up quick . . it's good advice to sign up but you know with whom ! Tuesday, June 12, 1934 PICT E * VARIETY 31 Harold Auten Ofn $o s way, n. v. c. End of the World ('Fin du Monde' (Fr). Scientific dream based on Flammarloh novel. Dir. Abel Garice. 65 mlns. JRel. April 15. Melo (German). .Sensitive study of psychological difficulties. ltsabetu Berg- rier. Dir. Paul Czlnner. 93 mins. Rel. Feb. 1. Rev. . 6. Poll de Carotte (Red Head) (French). A story of adolescehoe. Robert JLynen. Dir. Julien Duvlvler. 96 mins. Rel. Sept. .1 Rev. Dec. 20. Savage Gold. Commander byott's thrilling adventures with savage hunters. Comm. Dyott, Dir. Commander George Dyott. 67 mlns. Rev. Aug.. 8. Chesterfield Sally Blane, Henry B. Walthall. Dir. Ichard rank .1040 Broadway* New York. N. V. Ity Park— 3 Men and a Girl. Thorpe. Rel. May 1. In Love with Life. Llla Lee, Onslow Stevens, Dickie Moore. Strayer. 68 mins. Rel. April 18. . Rev. May 29. • Ifteen Wives. Conway Tearle, Noel Francis, Natalie Moorhead. Raymond Hatton. Dir. Frank Strayer. Rel, May 15. Notorious But- Nice. Marian Marsh has a hectic iqve adventure. Betty Compson. Marian Marsh, ©fr, Rich, Thorpe. 71 rttfnS. Rev. Match 6. Quitter, The. Newspaper business in a small town. Chas. Grapewin, Emma Dunn. Dir. Rich. Thorpe. 67 mlns. Rel.. Feb. 5.j Rev. March 20. Rainbow Over Broadway. Musical romance. Grace Hayek, Joan Marsh, Luclen Llttlefleld. Dir. Richard Thorpe. 72 mins. Rel. Dec. 25. Rev. Dec. 27. Stolen Sweets. Dramatic romance. SaUy Blahe. Charlejs Starrett. lr. Rich- 79 mins. Rel; TOnrch 15. : ard. Thorpe. c Gower at Sunset, Hollywood, Cal. ir. Howard Hig- Ross Lederman.. Dir. Lambert Hillyer. 58 mins. Columbia , "^rt^vSkltv. rime of .HeJen Santley, /The. ; Murder myfettery in a picture studio. Ralph Rel! April 20, y 1>atrlc1t - 'Dir. D. Ross* Lederman '58 wins! Ightlng Ranger, The. Round-up of. killers byi ftxtenliiorary furloughed ranger out for vengeance for^kiulhg his brotHe>.^ x Bu^C Jones, Dorothy Revfer. Dir. George B. Seltz. 60 mins, Rel. March 17, Rev. April 17. Hell Bent for Love. Young state policeman defeats^tiis gang rival. 1m Mc- Coy. Dir. D. Ross Lederman. Rel. May 19. ,- .v Hell Cat, The.: Newspaper 1 mart' tames a sociaiite. u with an underworld angle: Robert Armstrong, Ann Sothem. Dir. Al Rogell. Rel, June 16. It Happened One Night. Girl marries without father's approval and on leaving his yacht meets boy on bus heading for home, developing comedy^ ReT a Feo : £ ^R^v^Feb °27 ud * tte 0o,Dert - Dir. Frank Capra. 105 mins. Line Up, The. Police story. Marlon Nixon* Wra, Gargan gins. 64 mins. Rel, March 31. Rev; May 29. Man's Game. A. Tim McCoy as a fireman. Dir. Ross Lederman. Rel ■ June 16.. an Trailer. -Western story. Buck Jones Rel. May 24. Rev. May 29. t h^f, l ~h S »,L hln9 in T Mfe. Abandoned mother relives her own romance' Srt ifllye?"' Re^May ^ l h 9. U^ • D °^ ld CO ° k * RjChard C *° m ™»- ,nth f G ^ e8 A' 7J? e % Ei F h l peop,e mysteriously invited to dinner after arriving told Death is ninth guest and all will die: Six perish. Donald. Cook, gnevleve Tobln. Dir. Roy William Nelll. 69 mins. Rel. Jan. 3L Rev. No Greater Glory. Ferenc Molnar's Paul Street Boys' with a mostly Juvenile cast. Geo. Breakston, Jimmy Butler, Ralph Morgan, Lois Wilson: Dir. •Frank Borzage. 78 mins. Rel. April. 20. Rev. May 8. One ls_Gullty. Wellrplanned murder mystery. Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey. Dir. Lambert Hillyer... 64 mins. Rel. March 31. Rev. May 29. °" Ce ^o^ 0, 0 H , eavy drarna>of hospital life centering around big operation. Ralph Bellamy and Fay Wray. ©ir. Lambert Hillyer. 70 mins. Rel. Jan. 16. Rev.. March 15. Party's Over, The. Bruce v Blakely ends the party when he -realizes his efforts f° s u pP° rt his parents and brothers and sisters is robbing him of his own Lang-Rei May 16 P - Ann Sother y Ar,in ? Dodge. Dlrl Walter Shadows of Sing Sing. Racketeer's sister In love with 1 detective's son. Both ' *StSr°w 3 5 ctlns i° romance. Boy framed by redhots and saved by father. Rev Frt 27 v * P " Ro3en - f 3 mln8 - Rel. Dec. 3. Isters Under the Skin. ' Tired business man takes a matrimonial vacation and nlr 3 r^ 0 ^! 3 - s y 3t em. Elissa Land], Frank Morgan, Jos. Schildkraut Dir. David Burton. 70 mins. Rel. April 15. Social Register. A chorus girl's adventures in high society. Colleen Moore, W -Jj n i?, Ber ' J^te* Frederick, Alex. Klrkland. Dir. Marshal Nielan. 74 mins. Rel. March 10. 8peed T^o 98, w W ? ster r? wIth airplanes to break monotony of sagebrush. Tim A§tii y i yn Knapp ' Dlr - ot t<> Brower. 61 mins. Rel. Feb. 6. Rev! Twentieth Century. From the stage !hlt. Tempieralmental theatrldal manager and temperamental star on jsame train: John Barrym'ore, Carole* L6m- bard. Dir. Howard Hawks. 91 mins. Rel. May 11. Rev. May 8. ice In the Night. Complications In the telephone business. Tim McCoy. Dir. Chas. C. Coleman. 69 mins. Rel, April 6. Whirlpool. A. self -sacrificing husband meets death to. shield his wife. Jack Holt, ; Jean Arthur. Dir.' R. W. Nelll. 7|4 mjns.V Rel. April 10. Rev; May ;o. ,■ , i \ ' 1 i j ; Wrjom theGods Destroy: A nianVcowardlce exiles hini\ from society. Wal^ ter Connolly, Robert Young, Doris Kenyon. Dir. Walter Lang. Rel. June 28. DuWorld . These tabulations are compiled from information supplied by the Various production companies and checked up as soon as possible after release. Listing is given when re- lease dates are definitely set. Titles are retained for si months. Man- agers who receive service subse- quent to that period should pre- serve a copy of the calendar for reference. The running time as given here is presumably that' of the projection ♦oom showings and can only approx- imate the actual release length in those states or communities' where local or state censorship may result i deleti Running time Eh the reviews as given In 'Variety' carry the actual time clocked in the- the- atre after passage by the New York state censdrshi , since pictures are reviewed only in actual . theatre showings. While every effort is made to, hold this list accurate, the information supplied may not always be correct* even though official. To bbtai the fullest degree of accuracy, 'Variety* will appreciate the co-operation of all managers who may note discrep- anci \ Office:, 729 Seventh Ave., j ^ ' NeW York, N. V. Melodrama and anl John Preston, Mary Stuart 70: 30 mins. Rel. Dir. Cameron McPher- Beast of Borneo. mins. Rel. July 15 ride of Samoa. South lr. Phil. March 1. Dawn to- Dawn. Artistic rural story. Julie Hayden. son. 35 mins. Rel. Jan. 1. Rev. Jan. 9. Fantomas (Fr) (dubbed English). Murder N .Re.l. March :1. Rev. March • 20, ' ,. • Irl In the Case. Comedy In the Contlnentil manner. Jimmy Savo, Eddie ., Lambert,, Dorothy Darling. Dir. Eugene Frenlce. 60 mins. Rel. Aug. 1. Hollywood, City of breams (Sp). Jose Bohr. Spaniard's impression of cinema town. 68 mins. Rel. March 30. Romance «n Budapest (Hung). Franciska Gaal. MuslcaL 70 nilns. Rel. April 15. Rev. May 15. i T? 1 ?' Heart - Edgar Allan Poe! thriller. lr> Desmond Hurst p0 mine. Rel. .July 1. • ! i ' f j ': ., » . - •• First Division 0f,,ces: ^vSS n. Releases Also Allied, Chesterfield and Monogram Beggars In Ermine. Lionel Atwill, Betty Furness. Dir. Phil Rosen. Ins; Rel. May 1. City Limits. A millionaire, ailing and tiring pf wealth, falls in with two hoboes and enjoys life for a time. Frank Craven, Sally Blane, Ray Walker. Dir. Wm, Nigh. 70 mins. Rel. May 1. • Ity Park. Three men voluntarily become the guardians of a destitute young girl. Sally Blane, Henry B. Walthall, Matty Kemp, Johnny Herron. Dir. -^—Richard ^rhorpT^R^ Cross Streets. Young doctor, jilted by the woman he loves, ruins his career, until daughter- of same woman falls in love with him, years later. Rel. Jan; 22. Dir. Frank Strayer. Cat 'Em Alive. Jungle super thriller. 66 mins. Rel. Feb. 1. Forgotten Men. Collection of uncensored war film, taken from government archives of 14 warring nations." Rel. April 1. He Couldn't Take It. Inside story of a process server who makes .good with his summonses and gots his man. Ray Walker, Virginia Cherrill. George E. Stone. Dir. Wm. Nigh. 64 mins. Rel. Jau.. 1. House of Mystery. An archeologist returns to America from the Far East; with a curse on his head for his stolen wealth, Verna Hllle, Ed Lowry. Dir. Wm. Nigh. 01 mins. Rel. May 30. In Love with Life. A hard-hearted millionaire, refusing aid to his starving daughter, takes her young son from her. Lila Lee, Claude GUlingwater, Dickie Moore. Dir. Frank Strayer. 68 mins. Rel. May 1. In the Money. A goofy family, suddenly broke, pin their hopes on a Shake- spearean-minded prize fighting chnmp. Rkeets Gallagher, Lois Wilson, Warren Hymer, Sally Starr. Dir. Frank Strayer. 67 mins.. Rel. Jan. IS. Clarence Marks Given U's 'Weather Permitting Hollywood, June 11. ; First- Universal production, for Clarence Marks .under a deal ele- vating him. from the writers' staff 6t associate producer is 'Weather Permitti .' . . i Kurt Neumann directs the : FerV dinand Schumann-Heink orig which gets a new treatment from H. M. (Beany) Walker. COAST SEO DELEGATION Hollywood, June lfi Studio delegation going to the RKO convention In Chicago: com- prises B. B. Kahane, J. R. Mc- Donough, Eddy Eckles and Lee Marcus. They leave here on the Chief Thursday (14). Ralph Doyle, Australian rep: for RKO, is in New York, and will at- tend the RKO sales confabs in Chi- cago, Doyle will probably head back around June 21. Alsoj here, for tfie RKO meet are Sol Newman and John Trillo, RKO reps in London and Panama, respec. FULTON, PITT, GETS BBEAK Pittsburgh, June 11. Continued delay in opening of Alvln by Harris Amus. Co. will keep Mort 'Shea's Fulton here bpen for several weeks more. Fulton was ready to shutter and call it a season Saturday nite (9) when Fox decided to release .several of Its. 'Af- product to SlxtU street house. Pictures, including 1 'Change/ of Heart' and -Stand Up and Cheer, were to have gone to Alvln in Its split of Fox product. House, first armtfmveed ~ to" 5p"eiT around Thanks giving, lias rur into repeated delays and now looks doubtful if it'll get started before tail-end of summer. In the meantime, Fulton -gets enough product to keep it open be yond Fourth of July at least. Story Boys Hollywood, June 11. Clements Ripley's Cosmopolitan yarn, 'Lady Comes to Town,' has been taken by Metro. I Film rights to 'Heide/ fantasy by Johanna Styri, have been taken by Sol Lesser for September produc- tion. Cosmo mag yarn, 'The Lady Comes To Town,' by Clements Rip ley will be filmed by Metro. Ernest Lubitsch okay of Libbie Block original, 'One Hour Later/ aided' Paramount decision to make the^huy.^;;.^^ ,- Title Changes Hollywood, June 11. 'Born to Be Kissed,' release han- dle for '100 Percent Pure/ at Metro. 'You Belong to Me,' release title for 'Fifty-two Weeks for Fleurette,' at Par. 'Elmer and Elsie/ new cognomen for 'Ladios First/ with George Ban- croft and Frances Fuller, Par. 'Sour Grapes' to 'Let's Try Again', Radio. •Castlos in the Air' to Wake Up and Dream/ U. Lawless Valley. Western horse opera. Lane handier. . Rel. May L Loud Speaker. Corhedy-drama of a radio star. Ray Walker. Jacqueline Well Dir.. Joseph Santley. Rel, May 21. Manhattan Love Sono- Two orphaned Park Avenue society deb sisters, forced . to go to work, change places with their servants who go 'society.' Dixie. Lee* Robert Armstrong.. Dir. Leonard Fields. Rel. May 30. Money 'Means Nothing. Efforts of a poor derk, to make a go of marriage with an heiress wife. Wallace Ford, Gloria Shetu Dir. Christy Cabanne. ReL May 31; Murder on the .Campus. Mystery with college background. Shirley Grey, Charles Starrett. J. Farrel McDonald, -. 69 mins. Rel. Feb. 6. Dir. Rich* ard Thorpe. f Quitter,. The. A father with the wanderlust returns home long enough to straighten out. the affairs of his now grown-up sons. Barbara Weeks, Billy BakewelL Charles Grapewin. Emma Dunn, Glen Boles. Dir. Rich- ard Thorpe. Rel. March 12. ' .. Rainbow Over Broadway. Musical romance of an ex-musical comedy star of twenty years before who makes a sensational, overnight comeback Id a Broadway night, club. Joan Marsh, Grace Hayes, Frank Albertson. Luclen Llttlefleld. Hit. Richard Thorpe. 72 mins. Rel. Jan. .15. Rbad to Ruin. Innocent girl finds shame through Ignorance and neglect ot modern parents. Film on modern youth. Helen Foster, Paul Page, Nell O'Day, Glen Boles. Dir. Mrs. Wallace Reid and Melville Shyer. 58 mins. Rel. Feb. 17. Rev: Feb. 20, Stolen Sweets. High pressure insurance salesman falls for heiress arid wins her via determined, rapid line of .chatter route. Charles Starrett; Sally Blane, Johnny Harrbn, Jameson Thomas. Dir. Richard Thorpe. 73 mins. Bel. May 1. rexas Tornado. ( ent.) Texas Ranger cieaps up the rustlers, Lane Chand- ler. Dir. Oliver Drake. Rev. March 6. Throne of the Gods. Travel in the Himalayas.; 65* mins. Dec. 27. Twin Husbands. Crook comedy drama. John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley. Dir. Frank. Strayer,.; 69 mins, Rel.. May 15. Rev. May 29. Woman's Man. Hollywood inside story. John Hallida'y, Marguerite do I* Mptte, Wallace Ford.- Dir. Edward Luddy. .68 mins. Young Eagles. Boy Scout adventures In wilds of Central America, episode serial. Dir. Harry Hoyt. Rel. May 15. studios: Fir«» Nj^: rtllJI | 3nlcesi Ml VV. 4#th 8t.^ V * New York. N. V. Bedside. Comedy-drama ot% women's doctor. Warren William, Jean Mulr.. Allen Jenkins. -Dir. BoBfert Florey. 65 mins. Re). Jan. 27. Rev .Mar. 1^. Big Shakedown, The, Dramatic expose of the cut-rate drug racket. Bette Davis. Charles Farrell, ^Ricardo Cortez. Dir. John Francis Dillon. 64 mins. Rel. Jan. 6. Re^v. ^eb. 3. Circus Clown, The. Roaring comedy under the big tent with a winsome ro- mance, wound, into hilarious, situations. Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis. Gordon Westcott, Torti Dtjgati. Dir. Ray Enrlght. Rel. June 30. Dark Hazard. Edward G, Rpbinson as a whippet racer. Genevieve Tobln. Glendk Farrell. Dir. Al ^eA. 60 mins. Rel. Feb. 3. Rev. Feb. 27. Fashions of 1934. Story of a/styW stealer set against a lavish background. Wm.jPcwell, Bettfe Davis, VerVee Teasdale. Dir. Wm; Dieterle. 80 mins. Rel. Feb. 17. Rev.. Jan. 23. .'A Fog Over Frisco. Mystery melodrama set in San Francisco. Donald Woods. Bette Davis, Lyle Talbot, Margaret. Lindsay. Dir. William Dieterle. ReL June 2. Journal of a Crime. Drama by the French playwright Jacques Deval, and de- picts the effect of , a murder oh a v woman- of fine instincts and delicate sensibilities who kills an unscrupulous rival. Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd. Dir. William \lteighley. 65 mins. Rel. March 10. . r .:jRev. -\May L ''V:" S: • , y* Man^alay. \Adv.entui l e iii the Indies. Kay Vrancis. Lyle Talbot, RIccardo , Corte2. Dir. Michael Curtte. 65 mins, \Bel. Feb. 10. Rev. Feb. 20. Massacre. Drama of the modernUhdlan and HlV conflicts with the white men. -.' Richard Barthelmess, Anit^Dvorak.- Dir. A^len Crosland. 70 mins. Rel. Jan. 13. Rev. Jan. 23. Merry Frlnka, The. Comedy-drama Of the typical family stepping all . over Ma until she turns and leaves them on their own. Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins, Hugh Herbert. Dir. Al Greeli. Rel. May 26. Registered Nurse. Drama of the romantic side of a nurse's life In a metro- politan hospital. J Bebe Daniels, Lyle Talbot, John HaUiday. > Dir. Rob- ert Fiorey. 73 mdns. Rel. April 7. j Return of the Terror,; The. /Mystery drama with plenty of heart Interest Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot; Jolto Haltlday, Frank McHuffh. Dir. Howard BretWtOh. Rel J July 7. T .1 ■ \ ; • Side Streets/ Love dilama ' based in an\. origins/! story by Ann Garrick and Ethel 'Hill. Aline MacMahonJ Paul Kelly/ Ann Dvorak, Patricia Ellis. Dir. Alfred E. Green. Rel. JUne 30. '- 7 - r Twenty Million Sweethearts, Musical romance taking place behind scenes of a broadcasting studio. Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, Ginger Rogers. Allen Jenkins, the Four Mills Brothers. Ted Fiorlto and Band. Dir. Ray En- right 9.0 mins. Rel. May 26. Rev. May 1. Very Honorable Guy, A. Comedy from the story by Damon Runyon about a guy who always kept his promises. Joe E. Brown, Alice White, Robert Barrat, Alan Dlnehart, Irene Franklin. Dir. Lloyd Bacon. 62 mins. ■Rdl. May T 26. Rev. May 2f f * Wonder Bar.' Dramatic musical spectacje laid amid the gay revelries of a fashionable Parisian night club. Kay Francis, Dick Powell, Dolores Del Rio, Al Jolson, RIcardo Cortess, Hal LeRoy, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Ruth Donnelly, Flfl D'Orsay. Dir. Lloyd Bacon. 84 mins, ReV. March 6. Studio: Fox Hills, p .Offlcest 444 West 66th 8t Hollywood, Cal. r « \ j ; New Yor>. N V. All Men Are Enemies. Hugh Williams, Helen Twelvetrees/ Ir, Geo. Fite- maurice. 79 mins. Rel. April 20. Rev. May 29. Baby Take a Bow. The FoX . child star comes through again. Claire Trevor, James Dunn. Dir. Harry Lachman. Rel. Bottoms Up. Breaking into Hollywood with a fictitious pedigree. Tracy ; , (Miss) Pat Paterson... John Boles., Dir. [ David Butler? Bel.. March 5o. R^v. March 27.'. / v / 1 Call It tluck. Pat Paterson, Herbert Mundln. lip. Jas. . 7 Bel.* Carolina. From Paul Green's stage play of last season. Barryrilbre, Robt. Young. Henrietta Crosman. mins. Rel. Feb. 2. Rev. Feb. 20. Change of Heart. . Firom the story,- Manhattan Love $ong.! Jandti Gaynor. ' qhas;. Farnell, Jaimes Dunn, Glngeri Rogers. Dlr.Uohn Gi BlyAtqne. Rel. May-18. / . J / ' 11 j, 1 Charlie/ Chan's Courage. Anothet episode In i!he lire of! the' Chinese sleuth. Warner Oland, Drue Ley ton. Dir. Geo.. Hadden. Rel. July 29. Coming Out Party. Original done by the Lasky unit. Frances Dee. Gene Raymond, Alison Skipworth. Dir. John Blystone, Rel. March 9. Rev. March 20. 1 ; Constant, Nymph .. (British Gaumont. Brltishnmade version 6f a frustrated love. |3r|tls|i cas^,. ;85 |mlis^- B^l.-fMa^cH 23. JXev; April 10. : ) David Harum. i The old York; State Hojss' tra'det. Will Rogers, Lodlse'Dresser, Evelyn Venable. Dir. Jafl. Cruae. Rel. March 2. Rev. March 6. Devil Tiger. Wild animal yarn made in Asia. Marlon Burns, Kane ' Rich- mond, Harry Woods and natives. Dlr, Clyde E. Elliott. 60 mlns. Rel. Feb. 16. Rev. Feb. i3. Ever Since Eve. Country boy licks New York. George O'Brien. Marshall. 75 mlns. Rel. Feb. 9. Rev. AprU 3. Frontier Marshal, The. Familiar theme of the unknown cleaner-tip. O'Brien. Dir. Lew Seller. 66 mins, Rel. Jan. 19. Rev. Feb. 6. Grand Canary. Warner Baxter, Madge Evans. Dir. Irving Cuminings. July 13. Hahdy~"Andy^ July 27. , Heart Sang. ritiwh made With Lillian Harvey and Marty 6ast. 13rich Pommer production. Dlr, 7 Fre'derlch 'Holh Hold That Girl. Original story. James Dunn, Claire Tn-vor, MacFadden. 65. mins. Rel. Feb. 16. Rev. March 27. I Believed In You. Original story, Rosemary Amc rt , Victor Jory. John Dir. Irving Cummings. 69 mlns. Rel. Fob. 23. Rev. April 11. Murder In Trinidad. Mystery story from Vandon-ook's novel. Niegel ruco. Heather Angel. Dir. Sol Wurtzel. 71'niJnH. ' I». April 6. Rcv.-'May 29. Now I'll Tell. Mrs. Arnold Rothsteln's story lijso'l on her husband's life. Spencer Tracy, Helen Twlevetrecs. Dir. Edwin JSurko. HT miwi. Rel. May 11. Rev. May 29. Orient Express. Mystery on a railroad train. Heather Ang"l. Norm hi Fosfcr. Dir. Taul Martin. Rel. Jan. 12. -Key. March C. Scandals. Staged by George White on the lines of his revue Rudy Vallce, (Continue on p.'W*<* 34) Christians In the laendi'r. Rel. April Dir. Hamilton 32 VARIETY Tuesday, June 12, 1934 i f Tuesday, June 12, 1934 VARIETY 33 THE sfsvJ. >x s vis ^ ft* * .".%••».•. V.V. .W.W.' U ^on f rom °^ f** Winter t£ i. .V.'AV.'.W.*.' " v* ". .v.*/. O" 5 >'<■ - .r ' ' 34 VARIETY PICT II RES Tuesday, June 12, 1934 Studio Placements Hollywood, June 11. Big Boy Williams, 'Flirtation Walk," WB. Zeffie Tillbury, heads,' Radio. Ben Hendricks, Jr., Iind Date,' Col. George Stevens, directs 'Kentucky Kernels,' Radio; Una Merkel, tA.ll Americans,' Metro. Bradley King, scripting 'Mystery of Edwin Drood/ U. David Landau, Paul McAllister, Grace GOodall; Hy .Meyer, Louise Mason, Hattie McDaniels, 'Judge Priest,' Fox,- John Marston, 'Count of. Monte Cristo/ Reliance. Doris Kenyon, untitled Col. Ferdinand Gottschalk; Lucio Vil 7 legas, Agostino. Borgato, 'Notorious Sophie Lang,' Par, William Frawley, Roscoe ; Karris, 'Shoe the Wild Mare/ Par. Sam Hines, David Durahd, 'A H^at, a Coat, and a Glove/ Radio, Baby LeRoy, Sir Guy Standing, 'Ruggles of Red Gap,'. Par. Gene Raymond, 'Sure Fire/ 'Col. Ralph Cedar, directs air pjane se-r quences in Eddie Cantor pic, Gold^ wyn. Howard -A. McDonell, comptroller at Columbia, to succeed N. M.^Ste phenson, Ginger Rogers; Fred Astaire, berta/ Radioi Mai St. ' Claire,. Sin/ Darmouri '•/• CALENDAR OF CURRENT RELEASES (Continued from page 31) Alice Fay. Jimmy Durante. Dir. Geo! White. Harry Lachman. 80 mins. Rel. March 22. Rev. March 20. .. She Learned About Sailors. Alice Faye, Lew' Ayres, MltcheU.and Durant. Geo. Marshall. Rel. July 6 She Was a Lady. Helen Twelvetrees, Rel. July 20. Sleepers East. From the novel by Fredk. Nebel. Wynne Gibson; Preston Foster. Dir. Kenneth MacKenna. 69 mins. Rel. Jan. 26. Springtime for Henry. From Benn Levy's stage play. Otto Kruger, Nsincy Carroll, Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Dir. Frank Tuttle. (Lasky pro- duced). Rel. May 20. ; Stand Up and Cheer. Musical. Warner Baxter, Madge Evans. Sylvia Froos Dir. Hamilton MacFadden. Rel. May 4. Rev, April 24. Such Women Are Dangerous. From the story, 'Odd Thursday/ Warner Bat- ter, Rosemary Ames, Rochel.le Hudson. Dir. Jas. Flood. .7? mlns. Rel. May '4. Three on a Honeymoon. LoVe affairs on an ocean liner. Sally Eilers. John Mack Brown. Dir. Jas. Tlrillng. 70 mlns. Rel. March 23; Rev. May 8. Wild Gold. John Bo! Claire Trevor, Harry Green. Dir. Geo. Marshall, Rel; May 11. Freuler Associates Office: R.K.O. Bldg., New York. N. V. Kiss of Araby. Original. Saraha story of British army and Riff, with love interest. Maria Alba.. Walter Byron. Claire Windsor." Dir. Phil Rosen Rel. April 21 Love Past Thirty. A . woman's struggle against the lure of youth for the man she loved! Aileen Prlngle, Theodor von Eltz, Gertrude Messlnger, Phyl- lis Barry. Dir. Vin Moore. 73 mlns. Rel. Jan. 27. Gaumo;nt-Briti8h 0fl,C9S 229 WMt JK Sof* Drama. Matheson Lang, ConBtance Cummlngs. . Mil- Channel Crossing tori" Rossmer. 68 mlns. Rev. Oct. 81. Gaily! 1 1 Palling for VouJ Comedy drama. Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneldge. Jack Hulbert 71 mlns. RevJ Aug. *- lr Herbert Fields, Dore Schary scrlbt- I Frltlay the 13th. Bus crash ana what led up .to it. Jessie. Matthews. Frank or •A^i ac ioc4r.r.) » p,r I I Lawton, Sonnie Hale. • Dir. Victor Savllle. 70 mlns." Rel. May 16. Rev. ing 'Mississippi/ Par. Carl Buss/ adapting r Wag i on 1 ..May 22.. Wheels/ Paiy- i . [.Ghoul, The. Thriller, Boris kartoff. Dir. . H. Hunter. .73 mlns. Bel Douglass Montgomery. 'Zest/ Uj J ..Jan. 1, . Rev. Jan. 30. ..^7 ,]FS v fy* scrl P tIn ? ' Ho * or Just' Smith. Mystery comedy by Lonsdale, Tom Walls, star and director. Shanghai/ Radio. | I 70 mins! Rel. April 13. Rev. April 24. MadeHne ' RuthveA writer, 'Da,n<-| orders Is Orders. Comedy of American making fllra In British army. James Gleason, Charlotte Greenwood. Dir. Walter Forde. 70 mlns. Rel. May 1, Rev. May 8. Prince of Wales. Newsreel compilation pf British' 60 mlns. Rel. April 15. Rev. April 24. gerous .Corhe'r/> Radio, . Johnny Weissinulter, 'Three Stand AJone/ Radio. \ 'Hudspn I John Twist, River/ ; Radio: . , ,Henry kolker* Mary Forbes. Blllle Seward,- 'Blind Date,' Col. / Ethal Merman; Eddie Cantor pic- / ture, Goldwyn. "J Manny Seff, Peter Milne, script- g 'Golddiggers of 1935/ WB. Boris Xarloff, 'Mystery of Edwin Drood/ U. Dickie Moore. 'Human Side/ U. Phillip Read. 'Romance in the Rain/ U. \ Gulnn WHliams, John Arledge, ' 'Flirtation Walk/ WB. Rafaello' Ottiasio, 'Lost Lady/ WB; James Butler, George Breakston, Majestic 0fflc " 5 Ids., .Radio City New York City Morning After, -The. A merry mlx-up ot international' spy systems. Ben Lyon and Sally Eilers. Dir. Allan Dwan. Rel. Jan. L Scarlet Letter, The. Hawthorne's dramatic classic. First sound filming. Col- leen Moore and Hardie Albright., . Dir. Robert Vignola. Unknown Blonde. From the novel "Collusion." -The divorce racket. Edward Arnold, Helen Jerome Eddy Dir. Hobart Henley. 61 mlns. Rel. March. Rev. May 15. Studio*?* ity, : 1B40 Broadway, Calif. IVICITO Now York, N. Y . Cat and the Fiddle, The. From, the successful musical play by Jerome Kern and. Otto Harbach. - . Ramon Novarro, Jeanette MacDonald, Frank Mor- gan, -Charles Butterworth, Jean' Hersholt. Vivienne. Segal. Dir. Wfl» Edythe Fellows, Carmenclta John- I Mam- K. Howard. Rel. Feb. 16. Rev. Feb. 20. - son, Virginia Weidler,' 'Mrs. Wi&gs I Eskimo. Love and hate In the Iceland*. Native cast. Dir. W. S. Van Dyke, of the Cabbage Patch/ -Pari". ' 'I'' Roadshow length,' 120 mlns. Rel. Jan. '13. Rev. Nov. 21. . ' Mitchel Leisen directs 'Ready tpt'\ Fugitive' Lovers. Robert. Montgomery and Madge Evans -as the lovers In a Love/ Par. .Margaret Hamilton, 'A Hat, a Coat, I a Glove/ Radio ? Osgood Perkins, Lynne Overman,- Margaret Hamilton, 'Broadway Bill ' Col. : ' Judith Kandel adapting 'Orchids and. Onions/ Col. I i u« Dudley Nichols, Lamar TroW ", adapting 'Life Begins at Forty/. Fcjx. story most of whose action takes place bn a transcontinental bus. Nat Pendleton.: C. Henry Gordon, Ruth Selwyn. Dir. H. Boleslavsky. 84 mins. Rel. Jan, -5. Rev. Jan. 16. ' > Hollywood Party.' All star musical fllra. 68 mlns. Rel. June 11. Rev. May 29. Laughing Boy.. .Ramon Noyarro in the title role. Based on the. Pulitzer Prize ' ''VSmth3.Ttf $ •*% p S«v- IjU P e Ve lea Dir. Wv-S, Van Dyke. May '20.' Rev. May 16. Lazy Riyer. Story of the shrimp fisheries among the Cajuns in , the Louisiana baytiu cpiintry'. Jean Parker, Robert Young, C. Henry Gordon. Dir. .... „ > 6 ... l ,»vx U . l ,..rM*,| i .Sejtz. 77;mlns. Rel. March 16. Rev. AprU 10. William Conselman, Henry John- I Manhattan \fyielqdrama. Story of old and new- New • York. Clark Gable, Wm. /son, scripting '866 Nights in Hollir- I Powell, Myrna Loy. ..Dip, W. S. Van Dyke. 93 mlns. ReL May 4. Rev. Paramount : 1801 Broadway. New York, NV Studios: 8881 Marathon St., Hollywood, Calif. All of Mo. From the stage play. 'Chrysalis.' Fredrlc March, Miriam Hopkins, Geo! Raft Dir. Jas. Flood. 70 mlns. Rel. Jan. 20. Rev. . Feb. 6. Bolero. Story of a gigolo who started In Hoboken. Geo. Raft, Carole Lom- bard, Sally Rand. Dir. Wesley Ruggles. 83 mlns. Rel. Feb. 23. Rev. Feb. 20. Come On Marines. . Marine corps^ rescuea i a shipwreoked girls' seminary. Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, Roscoe Karns. Dlr, Henry Hathaway. .64 mins. Rel. March 23. Rev. March 27. Death Takes a Holiday. Doath_ takes a ho"^^ M»yn „«} ^^i'i.l' T P . rom stage play; Fredrlc March, Evalyn Venable. Dir. Mitchell Leisen. ?« mins. Rel. March 30, Rev, Feb. 27. Double Door. Thriller story of a dominant old maid. Mary Morels, Venable, Kent Taylor. Dir. Chas. Vidor. 76 mlns. Rel. May May 8. eight Girls in a Boat. Love In . a glrl'a school. Douglas Montgomery, ttay Johnson. Dir. Rich. Wallace. 85 mlns. Rel, Jan. *. Rev. Jan. 16. Four Frightened People. Mixed quartet lh the Jungle. Claudette Colbert, bert Marshall, Mary Boland, Wm. Gargan. Dir. Cecil de Mllle. Jan. 16. Rev. Jan, 30. Good Dame.. Fredrlc March on a carnival lot. Sylvia Srdney. Gerlng. 72 mlns.. Rel. Feb. 16.. Rev. March 20. . Here Comes the Groom. Escaping burglar Is forced to Impersonate the groom of. a deserted bride; Jack Haley, Patricia Ellis. Dir. Raoul Pagol. ReL June 15. His Double Life. (DbwUng.) Light comedy, Lillian Glsh, Roland Dir. Arthur Hopkins. 63 mlns. Rel. Jan. 12. Rev. Dec. 19. I Married an Actreps; Matinee, idol .loses out to.his Wlfe,Tai.n actress, who takes h}s glory. Adolphe Men jou^ Elissa LandL Dir. Ralph Murray. Rel. : June 22. It Ain't No Sin. Mae West as a burlesque qieen- Brown. Dir. Leo McParey. Rel. June 29. Kiss and Make Up. Beauty doctor marries his model. Gary Grant, Genevieve Tobih, Helen Mack and the Wampas Baby Stars. Dir. Harlan Thomp- son, 'Joaii. Nogulesco. Rel.- July 13.. . Last Roundup, The.. Western. with. a Zarte Gfey'.title and a new story, dolph Scott, Moijte Blue. Barbara Adams; . Fred Kohter. Dir. Hathaway. 60 mln^ , Rel. J/an.. 26.: Rev. ^ay 15. Little Miss Marker. . Damqn.Runyon story of a .child who was pledged with a ■ bookmaker. Adolphe Menjou,- Dorothy Dell, Chas. Blckford, Shirley '-temple. Dir. Ale*. Hall. ,,110 mlns. ReL June 1. Rev. May .22. Many Happy Returns. Burns , and .Allen at the,ir dizziest. With Guy Lom- ' barao, Joan Marsh.,, Dir. Norman McLe'od. M mlns. Rel. June 8, Melody ipr Spring. Radio -singer at home and.' abroad. Lanny - Ross. Chas, Ruggles, Mary Boland, Dir. Norman McLeod. 76 mins. Rel. April 20. Rev, April 3. ' '', ';,• ' . Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen. Farcical play. Dorothea Wleck. Dir. Alex. Halj. 67 mlns. Rel. Jan. 12. Rey. Jan. ,23. Murder, at tne Vanities. From the- Earl Carroll stage production.- , . backstage. - Carl : Brisson^ Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakle. Kitty Dir. Mitchell Loisen. , 96 mlns. Rel. May 11. Rev. May 22, No More Women. FJagg.and Quirt as deep sea divers. Edmund Lowe, Victor MoLaglen, Sally Blane. ,Dlr. Al Rogell. 73 mlns. Rel. Feb. 23. Rev. March 6. Old Fashiond Way, The. W. C. Fields In a road show in the LeRoy, Judith Allen. Dir. -Win. Beaudine. Rel. July 6. Private Scandal. Suicide -tyhlch Is decided to be' -a! murder because none of the witnesses dares' his ! own exposure to scandal. Zaau Pitts, Phillips Holms, Ned Sparks, - Mary Brian. Dir. -Ralph Murphy. 64 'mlns. Rel. • May 11>-. > :•',-'.• • Search for Beauty, The. 'Pseudo-physical training, yarn to display winners in Par's -international beauty contest. Buster . Orabbe, Ida Luptno, Toby Wing. Jas. GleasOn. Sir. Erie Kenton. 77 mlns. Rel. Feb.. 2. Rev. Feb. 13. She Made Her Bed. Show lot story about a brutal animal trainer. Rich. Arlen, Sally Eilers. Robt Armstrong. Dir. Ralph Murphy. Rel. March 9. Rev. May 1. Shoot the Works. A denatured 'The Great Magoo.' Jack Oakle. ..Dorothy Dell. Dir. Wesley Ruggles. Rel, June .29. Six .of a Kind. The humors of a share-expenses trip. . Chas. Ruggles, Mary Boland, W. C. Fields, Geo. Burns, Oracle Allen, Alison Skipworth. Dir. Leo. Carey. .60 mins. Rel. Feb. 9. Rev, March 13. Thirty Days a Princess. Obscure actress plays at being a princess. Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant. Dir. Marlon Soring. 76 mlns. Rel. May 18. Rev. . . .. May 16\ - - Trumpet. Blows, The, George Raft becomes an amateur bull fighter, Geo. Raft, Adolphe Menjou, , Frances Drake. • Dir. Stephen Roberts. 68 mlns. Rel. April 13. Rev. April 17. We're Not Dressing. Comedy of shipwrecked royalty. Blng Crosby, Carole Lombard', Burns and Allen, Ethel AT^rmat , Leon Errol. Dlr- Norman Taurog. 80 mins. Rel; April '27., Rev. May 1. Witching Hour, The.'' Augi*gtMS^'*thbmas play of A murder innocently caused by hypnotism. Sir Guy Standing, John Halliday, Judith Allen. Dir. Henry Hathaway. 'OS mlrts.;. Rel. April 27. . Rev, May 1. Wharf Angel. Romance in San 'Francisco of 1907. Victor McLaglen, Dofothy Dell. Dir. W. C. Menzles. ' 65 mins. Rel. Match 16. Rev. April 24. You're Telling Me. Fields as a 'Smalt town garage man. W. C. Fields, Loan Marsh, Buster. Crabbe, Kenton. 66 mlna. Rel. April 0. Rev.- April 10. wood/ Fox, May ,8 Francis Ford, Vester Peec Ernest r , \ , ,« n m -'White, ■ iPlcturlzatlon of the successful Broadway stage play of 'hos- Shields, 'Judge Priest/ Fox. Bert Roach, James Donlan, 'All Good Americans/ Metro. Fay Mackensie, Bobby Gordon, Mary Loos, Pauline Brooks, Herman Brix, Carlyle Black well, Jr., Dale Van Sickle, Bryant Washburn, Jr, •Stu- dent Tour/ Metro. / Lita Chevret, Betty Francisdo, •Romance in the Rain/ U. 1 Jason Robards, 'Merry Widow/ Metro. r Shirley Grey, 'Transatlantic Showboat/ Reliance. Maureen O'SulUvan, 'Hide-OuL J Metro. ■ Mickey Rooney, Muriel Evans, Louise Henry, 'Hide-Out/ Metro pital life.' Clark Gable, Myrna Loy. Jean Hersholt. 'Dir. R, Boleslavsky; 72 mlns. Rel. April 6. . Rev. May 1 and June 12. Mystery' of Mr. X. Based on the Crime Club nbvel by Philip MacDonald. Robert Montgomery, Elzabeth Allan. Lewis Stone, Dir. Edgar' Selwyn- ReL. Feb. 23. Rev. Feb. 27.. Old Hannibal. May Robson as a Wall Street manipulator, Lewis Stone, Jean Parker. Dir. C. Rlesner. Rel. Jan. 26. i Operator 13. Based on the last novel . of the late Robert W. Chambers. Marlon Davles, Gary Cooper; Dir. Richard Boleslavsky. Rel. June 8. , Queen Christina. Greta Garbo as the seventeenth century queen ' who was brought up as a boy. Lewis Stone, Ian Keith, Elizabeth Young. Dir. Rouben Mamoullan. 90 mins. Rel. Feb. 9. Rev. Jan. 2. ■Rip Tide: (Opposing Forces Within Woman). An American girl marries Into English -nobility and suffers disappointment and disillusionment.' Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Herbert Marshall, . Mrs. Pat Campbell. Dir. Edmund Colliding. Rel. March 23. Rev. April 3. Sadie McKee. Based on the novel by Vina Delmar. Joan Crawford, ranchot Tone. • Dir. Clarence Brown. Rel. May 11. Rev. May 22. Bryant Washburn Tr n»rivi»'l Showbff, The. Old stage play of a conceited man who makes good. Spencer SHELVE TOUB WALLS' Hollywood, June 11. Metro hae called oft, 'Four Walls,' the Clark Gable picture. Player, instead, goes into 'China Seas/ to be made during the sum- mer. Tracy, Madge Evans. Dir. Chas. Riesner. 78 mins. Rel. March 9 Rev. 'March 20- Tarzan and His Mate. Further adventures of the characters created by Ed- gar Rice' Burroughs. ' Johnnie Wetssmuller, Maureen O'SulUvan, .Nell Hamilton. Dir. Cedrlc Gibbons. Rel. March 30. Rev. April 24. this Side of Heaven. Dotnestlc drama from a novel. Lionel Barrymore, Fay ^ Balriter, Mae Clark, 'Una Merkel, Tom Brown. Dlr: Wm, IC .Howard 78 mins. Rel. Feb. 2. Rev. Feb. 13. Viva Villa'. Wallace Beery portrays the famous Mexican character, Pancho Villa. Stuart Erwin, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo. Dir. Jack Conway. 112 mlns. Rel. April 7. : Rev.. April 17. You Can't' Buy Everything; Story of a domineering old woman. May Robson ; -Jean: Parker. Lewis Stone. Dir. C. H. Reisner. 72 mlns. Rel. Jan- 26 Rev. Feb. 6. -I. . '-I .. ■ . ■ • . ■ Studio: 6048 Sunset Blvd., MA*t«tf*a»*«M Office: R. K. O. Building, Hollywood, Cat. Monogram Rockefeller Center, N.Y C. Beggars In Ermine. Bankrupt steel man organizes a mendicants trust. Lionel Atwell, Betty Furncss. Dir. Phil Rosen. 70 mlns. Rel. Feb. 22. Rev. May 1. Blue Steel. John Wayne, Eleanor Hunt. A Lone Star Western. 54 mins. Rel. May 10 . , Frank Craven. Story of breezy news paper reporter who. gets his story— and the girl, 70 mlns. Rel. May 1. House- off Mystery, T^ ^^rna^JUdle,ji^^ ^ "Rel. April 30; Loudspeaker, The. Ray Walker, Jacqueline Wells. 67. mins. Rel. June 1. 'Lucky Texan, The. Western story of a man accused of the murder of his pal John Wayne. Dir. Paul Malvern. 56 mlns. Rel. Jan. 22. Rev. Feb. 13 jMonte Carlo. Mary Brian, John Darrow. 62 mlna. Rel. May 20. Money Means -Nothing. -Wallace Ford, Gloria Shea. 70 mins. Rel. June 15, Mystery Liner. Noah Beery, Astrtd Alwyri. Dir. William Nigh. 62 nilns Rel. March 16. Rev, April 10. Manhattan Love Song. Dixie Lee. Robert Armstrong. Dir. Leonard Fields 72 mlns. Rel. April 30. 6lxteen Fathoms Deep. Sponge diver's romance. Sally O'Neill, Crelghton Chaney, Russell Simpson, Maurice Black. Dir. Ar.mand Schacfcr, mlns. Rel. Jan. 1. Rev. Jan. 23. We*t of the Divide. Lone Star western. John Wayne. Virginia Brown Fa Ire Dir. R. N. Bradbury. 52 mlns. Rev. May 15. Woman** Man. Hollywood In hide story. John Halliday. Wallace Ford, Mar gucrito de la Molte, Dir. Tfrlward Luddy Blackwell, Jr., 'Student Tour/ Metro. i Walter Weems co-directs 'Some- thing Simple/ Roach. ; Preston Sturgis directs 'A Cup of Coffee/ U. >, Ed Churchill scripting 'Rocliy Rhoades/ U. / ,; ■ Charles Grapewin, 'Judge Priest/ FOX, I ';' \ . \ '• I • Charles Ruggles, Charles Laugh ton, Mary Boland, 'Buggies of Red Gap/ Par. i ' Judith Kendal, 'Orchids and Onions/ Col. i Earl Haley, dialog, 'If You Hunt With Old Dan/ Par. Lois Wilson, 'Tomorrow's Youth,' Mono. John Sheehan, Be Kissed/ Metro. . B^rtl in^^%m& n sUt I ° ,ty Vwat'ker. Sa^ly" Sa^i Frank : Crayen. .Story- of breezy ish, pjc. Fox. ^^^]^Jj^ff»^^o.uht=»of«Mortte Cristo/ Reliance. Eugene Solow, scripting 'Just OUt of College/ WB. Willard Mack, 'China Seas/ MG. . Matty Roubert, roadway B11L' Col. Principal : 1270 Sixth Ave., New York, N. V. Ferocious Pal. Kazan,' the dog, Iii a thrilling mystery-melodrama of tho ^sheep-raising country; Ruth -Sullivan and Robert Manning. Dir. Spencer Gordon. 64 mins. Rel, -Feb. 1. Rev. April 24. Fighting to Live. Captain, i the dog, and Lady, his mate, In a story based on a true incident In their lives. Mary Shilling and Gaylord Pendleton. 50 mjns. Rel. .May. Little Damozel, The. Anna Neagle and Janies Ronnie. The story of a 'night club queen' in a. ritzy. London 'hot spot/ 58 mins, Rel. June. Studios: lif. R.K.O. Radio Office: R.K.O. Bldg., Radio City, N.Y.C. Allen Corn. -Talented young musician realizes after a series of disappointing love affairs that love and a career won't mix and chooses career. Ann S^? ln J[' . John Bples,. Margaret Hamilton, Arnold Korff. Edward H. Griffith. Rel. May 26, ,. Cr ' mo .^, Doct P r ' A famous detective, Jealous ot his wife who ho longer lovea him; plans the perfect crime, otto Kruger, Karen Morley. Nils Asther. Judith Wood. Dir. 'John Robertson, Rel. April 27. Rev. May 15. Finishing Sohool. A young boarding school girl becomes Involved with a young doctor. . Ginger Rogers: Frances Dee, Bruce Cabot, Blllle Burke. Dir. Wahda Tiichock and George Nicholls. Jr. 70 mins. Rel. May 4. Rev. May 1. Keep 'Em Rolling. One nian's life-time devotion -to his loyal army horse; Walter Huston, Frances Dee, Robert Sbayne, Frank Conrdy. Dir. George Arohalnbaud, ; Rel. March 2. Hips, Hips, Hooray. Musical girl show. Bert Wheeler, Robert Woofsey, Ruth Ettlng. Dorothy Lee, Thelma Todd,. George Meeker, Phyllis Barry. Dir. Mark Sandrich. Rel. Feb. 2., ReV. Feb. 27. Long -Lost Father. Story, in a Lbndon nlte ,eiiib. John Barrymore. ■■ Chandler.' Dir. Ernest B. Schoedsaek. . 62 ' Ins. ReL Jan. 19. Feb. 27. Lost Patrol, The. A detachment of. British soldiers lost on the Mesopotamian desert are attacked by unseen . Arabs with dramatic results. Boris Kar- loft. Victor McLaglen, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny. Alart Hale. Dir. John Ford. Rel, Feb. 16. Rev. April 3, Man of Two Worlds. An Eskimo, his illusions shattered by a glimpse of LOn- Ki n uio Vl l z » at J on ' retur ™» to his own people and is brought back to reality by his infant son. Francis Lederer, Elissa. Landl, Henry Stephenson, 7wtH^ y n 0 , n K. Stc, 5o Pu . na ' \ P , at ™ n MacDonald, Sarah Padden. Dir. J. Walter Ruben; 92 mlns. Rel. Feb. 9. Rev. Jan. 16. Mean jfli RrltXy°Zri '<}y§ »n.the ( be.auty.parJor. ,Zasu :;Pltts,, = * ?,= Jtel?Ja^^^ R,ch - Schayer - 61 mlns ' 0f Ht l.THH - ^ tnnri S, e Hepburn,* Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy, Martha SkorH-r, Sidney Tolcr, Louis Mason, Sara Haden. Dir. John ( rornwell. Ucl. March 30. Uev. March 30. Stlngaree. NolorlouH AiiMrallnn lmnrtlt of the "Robin flood" type with a flair for the j>«I!h»Uc lhlng« r>t life. Irene Dunne, Richard Dix. Conway ■Iwlft, Mary Itol.'ind. Dir. Wlllliiin Wollmon. 76 -mins. Rel. May 2K. Ufv. May 22. Strictly DynamJte. A pool becomes a g;»g writer for a famous radio comic. Tuesday, June 12, 1934 PICTURES Jimmy Durante, Xiupe Velez, Nor ian Foster, Marian Ni Nugent, Kel. May 11. Ir. Elliott Success at Any Price.. .Ruthless business man finds, lovo at last. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Colleen Moore, Genevieve Tobin. Dir. J. Walter Ruben. Rel. March 16. Rev; May 8. Success Story. The ruthiess rise to power and wealth of a boy of the New York telement district. Douglas Fairbanks. Jr., Colleen Moore, Gener vleve Tobin, Frank organ. Dir. J. Walter Ruben. Rel. March 16. Is Man Is Mine. To preserve her marriage a young wife virtually hurls her husband into the arms of his first love.. JU'ehe. Dunne, Constance Cummltigs, Ralph Bellamy, Kay Johnson. Dir. John Cromwell.. 75 mins; Rel. April 13. Rov. April 17. Two Alone. An orphan girl and a young boy whd escaped from a reformatory fall In love and try to escape the inhuman farmer who keeps them enslaved on his farm. Jean Parker, Zasu Pitts, Tom Brown, Arthur Byron Nydia Westman, Beulah Bondi, WHHard Robertson. Emerson Tracy. Dir. Elliott Nugent. Rel. Jan. 5. 1934: Rev. April 10. Where Sinners Meet, An- eloping couple have a break-down in their car and spend the night in an unusual hotel where the host, a philosopher, shows them the error of their way Cllve Brook, Diana Wynyard, Reginald Owen, Blllle Burke, Alan Mowbray. Gilbert Emery. Dir. J. Walter Ruben. 68 mine. Rel. May 18. Rev. May 29. Wild Cargo. Frank Buck's expedition Into the Asiatic jun capture wild animals. Frank Buck. Dir. Armand Denis. Rel. United Artists 0f "« e " : ^ST^rTs Affairs of Cellini, The. The love life of Benv'enuto, Cellini. Fredric March. Constance Bennett, Frank Morgan, Fay Wray. (No date set.) k Born to Be Bad. Story of a woman apparently destined by circumstances to be always wicked in spite of herself/ .Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Paul Harvey. Dir. Lowell Sherman. Rel. May 18. . Bulldog- Drummond Strikes Back. Further adventures In crime solution. Ron- ald Col.man. Loretta Young, Warner Ola'nd. Charles Butterworth. Una Merkel. (No date 6et.) ' . Catherine the Great. The story of Russials greatest ruler. Douglas Fair- banks, Jr , Elizabeth Bergner, Flora'' Robson, Griffiths Jones. Dm Paul Czlnner; 93 mins. -Rel.' April 13. Rev. Feb. 20. Count of Monte Crlsto, The. The famous romantic old classic of the French nobleman's struggle with his adversaries. Robert Donat. Ellssa Landl, Louis Calhern. Dir. Rowland V. Lee. Gallant Lady. An unwed mother who pays the price of silence in order tp be near her child. Dir. Gregory La Cava. Ann Harding, Clive Brook. Otto. Kruger. Tulllo Carminatl. 82 mins. Rel. Jan; 5. Rev. Jan. 23. House of Rothschild, The (20th Cent.). Strong drama of the great fln^ancial house. George Arllss, Boris Karloft, Loretta Young. Dir. Alfred Werker 94' mins. Rel. April 6. Rev. March 20. Last Gentleman/The. Shrewd and elderly millionaire cleverly ' foils ; the plans of his children to ahlsel. his money away. <3eorge Arllss, Edna May Oliver. Janet Beecher and Ralph Morgan. Dir. Sidney Lanfleld. (J date set.) Looking, ror Trouble. Thrills- in the Jives of telephone linesmen, with a couple rot love stories on the side. Spencer Tracy, Jack Oakie, Constance Cum- mings, Arline Judge. Dir. Wm. Wellman 77 mins. Rel. March 9. Rr April, J 7. , . M Moulin Rouge. A talented wife proves, her ability by a clever Impersonation ruse. Dir. Sidney Lanfleld.: Constance Bennett. Franchof Tone. Tullio Carminatl. 70 mins. Rel. Jan. 19. Rev.. Feb. 13. Nana. ' Adapted from the. Zola novel with Sam Goldwyn'B new star, Anna Sten Phillips Holmes, Mae Clark, Lionel Atwlll. Rich. Bennett. Dir. Dorothy Arzner. 87 mins. Rel Mar. 2. Rev. Feb.. 6. Palooka. The son of a prizefighter follows In his father's footsteps. Dir. Ben- jamin Stoloff. Jlmmle Durante. Stuart Erwln. Lupe Velez. Rel. Jan. Rev. March 6. Private Life of Don Juan. Somebody Insinuates to the great legendary lover that air his conquests really didn't love him— so he gathers them around and puts the question to the test. Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Benlta Hume, Elsa Lanchester. Dir. Alex Korda. 'No date.) Sorrell & Son. An epic of the love between father and son. H. B. Warner, Peter Penrose, Hu Williams. Winifred Shdtter. Dir. Jack Raymond. Rel. April 20. Metro's Regionals Metro's regional sales conventions in Cleveland and Chicago .nre for two days, June 17, and in Chicago for the same period, June 19, respec. Total of 48 pictures for 1934-'35 will be announced. DUBiNSKY-UNION PACT Would Build 4 Houses, Now Want to Abandon Minneapolis; Instead of four ahnoimced new theatres being built in one of the leading local neighborhoods, all construction- plans will be dropped by mutual agreement if a present move engineered by two of the parties concerned succeeds. Publix and Lyndale Amuse. Co. (independent chain) informed the city council that they would aban- don theatre projects if two coni panies planning the. suburban showhoiises would do likewise. Peace Follows NBA Arbitr Wage Costs ion on Universal City, Callt. cea: 730 Fifth Ave., New York. N. V. Universal Affairs ot a Gentleman. Drama. Paul Lukas, Leila Hyams* Patricia .Ellis. Onslow Stevens, Lilian Bond. Dir. Edwin L. Marion. Rel, June 18. Beloved. Musical. John Boles. Gloria Stuart. Dir. V. Schertzlnger. Rel. Jan. 29. Rev. Jan. 30. Bombay Mall. Edmund Lowe Production.. Ir, Ed.. Marin. Rev. Jan: 9. lack Cat, The. Mystery. Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners; ir. Edgar Wilmer. 70 mins. Rel. May 7. Rev, May 22. Countess of Monte Crlsto. Drama. Fay Wray. Paul Lukas, Paul Page, Car- mel Meyers, Reginald Owen. Rel. March 19. Rev. April 3.. Cross' County Cruise. Comedy-drama. . Lew AyreB, June Knight, Alice White. Dir. Eddie Buzzell. 78 mins; Rel. Jan, 16. Rev, Jan. .23. rosby Case, The. Drama. Wynne Gibson. • Onslow Stevens, William Collier. Rel. March 5. Rev. April 3. . Embarrassing Moments. Comedy-drama. Chester Morris, Marlon Nixon. Dir. Ed. Laemmle. Rel May 14. Funny Thing Called Love. Comedy. Charles Morris, Andy Divine, Lois .Tan- nery, Frank Craven. .Dir. Curt Neumann. Rel. June 26. laniour. Comedy-drama. Constance Cummlrtgs. Paul Lukas. Dir. William Wyler. 76 mins. Rel April 9. Rev. May 16. Half a Sinner. Drama. Joel McCrea, Sally Blane, Buster Churchill. Dir. " — Kurt Neumann- Rel. April 30. Honor of the Range. Western. Ken Maynard. Alan James. 60 mins. Rel April 16. Rev. May 1. Her First Mate. Comedy. Summerville-Plttfl.. Dir. Wm. Wyler. Rel Aug. 3. Rev. Sept. 6.. Horsd Play. Comedy. Summerville-Devine. ir. Ed Sedgwick. Rel Nov. 27. Rev. ' March 13. I Like It that Way. Musical. Rodger Pryor. Gloria Stuart. Dir. rry Lach- ' man. 70 mins. Rel. Feb. 12. Rev. April 24. I'll Tell the World. Comedy. Lee Tracy, Gloria Stuart, Roger Pryor. Dir. Edwin Sedgwick. 78 mins. Rel. April 16. Rev. April 24. Let's" Be fifizy; C6medy=dfama.: Lew Ayres. PatriclaEllls. Frank McHugh, Isabelle Jewell, Hedda: Hopper. Dir. Edward Ludwig. Rel. March 26. Little Man, What Now? Drama. Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery Dir. Frank Borzage. Rel. May 21. Love' Captive. rama. Max Marciri. -iRel. June 4 Love Blrd6. Comedy. Slim Summerville, Zasu Pitts, • mins. Rel. March 12. Rev. May 29. Madame Spy. Drama. Fay Wray. Nils Asther. Dir. Karl Kreund. •, Rel. Jan. 8. Rev. Feb. 13. Midnight: Drama. Sidney A .F6x. Henry Hull, - Erskine. Rel. Jan. 22. Rev. March 13. Myrt and Marge. Musical; Myrtle Vail,' Donna bomerll, Healy, Grace Hayes, J. Farrell MacDonald. Dir. Al Rel. Dec. 11. Rev. Jan. 23. Smoking Gurts. Western. Ken. Maynard. Rel June 11. Poor Rich, The. Comed.y. Edna May Oliver, Edward Everett Ed. Sedgwick. 76 mins. Rel. Feb. 26. Rev. May IS. Uncertain Lady. Comedy-drama. Genevieve tobin. Edward E. Horton. Karl Freund. Rel April 23. Wheels of Destiny. Western. Rev. April H ,o. Burfcan^ Warner Broth^S 0f " C " ! V^.N. V. As the Earth Turns. Epic in the romance of American life and a revelation of the character of the New England farmer taken from the story of HsiadyVM^ Sir Alfred E. Green. 73 mins. flel April 14. Rev. April 17. Ea»v to Love A frothy farce. Adolphe Menjou, Genevieve Tobin, Mary V Astor Giiy KlbbVe. Edward Everett Horton. Dir. William Keighley. ,61 mins. Rel Jan. 20. Rev. Jan. 16. Mends of Mr. Sweeney. Comedy-drama of the browbeaten husband who turns the big trick for his newspaper. Charlie Ruggles, Ann Dvorak, Eugene Pallette, Dorothy Tree. Dir. Edward Ludwig. Rel July 7. Gambling Lady. Based on the drama by Doris Malloy of a gambling lady who is such a sport she is willing to sacrifice her r P ve to save her hus- band 'from a murder charge. Barbara .Stanwyck. Joel McCrea,, Pat O'Brien, Claire Dodd. Dir. Archie Mayo. 66 mins. Rel March 31. Kev. April 10. Harold Teen. Hilarious comedy romance which brings to life on the screen " the characters of Carl Ed's comic strip. Hal ^1™,*°°*" le 9 7 ° n « Patricia Ellis, Guy Klbbee. Dir. Murray Roth. 66 mins, Rel April 7. Heat Lightning. Thrilling romance of desert love and hate, baped on the It Never Rains but — Omaha, Thursday last week was calamity day at the town's Blank-Trl- State Theatres, or such was: the unani mous verdict of the paramount pheum and World house managers Don Fuller of the Paramount hid his. scare when his three-year-old son Jervis fell, sustai ing a severe fracture of the arm at the elbow. Jimmy Schlatter of the Orpheum and. Ray Sniith- of the World had Tdupiioate worries. Both Mrs.' Schlat- ter aiid Mrs. Smith were taken to the hospital for emergency • opera t tions. On top of all this advertising, di- rector had to appear In police court to straighten out difficulties which arose over . a. ballyhoo sound truck which one of the chain's- houses was operating wthout permit required by the anti-noise ordinance. • Kansas City, June 1.L Announcement of the settlement of the differences between the mo- tion picture operators union and Dubinsk Brother's theatres, the Liberty and. the Regent, of this city, is expected to pave the way for ending the troubles between the union and some forty Independent theatres in the Kansas City district. Dispute between the. union and the Dubinskys, it is said, w£s the | principal reason for the independ- ents refusal to sign a new agree- ment with the operators, last De- cember: A. W. DeBirney, assistant coun- sel for the NRA and special assist-, 1 ant attorney general, was agreed upon by the union and the Dubin- skys to. arbitrate the dispute and after metings, attended by Clyde A. Weston, International ' repre- : sentative of the Theatre Stage Erh- plpyees and Moving Picture Ma- chine Operators of the United States and Canada, an agreement was reached whereby the. Liberty and Regent theatres" will employ three reguar union, operators in each, theatre; those at, the Liberty to receive a total of $l?9.6;o .< week and those at the Regent $185;60 weekiy. Formerly the two houses 1 1 were required io- employ a total ,6f seven regular operators and a re'-' lief man at a cost of $260 at the Liberty and $196.00 at the Regent. Dubinskys advised DeBirney they had lost $99,000 on the two theatres | in the past three yea£s., - MPLS.' NEWSREELEE Minneapolis, June Translux rear projection and turn- stiles are being installed in Time, new theatre being built in the 4obp I by Art Johnson, and scheduled to | open in mid.- July. First newsreel house west of De- troit. Dir. Wm. Seiter. 60 70 mins. Kr>n* Chester Ted ins. Dir. ir. 19. Broadway stage hit by Leon Abrams and George Abbott. AHhe Mac> Mahon, Ann Dvorak, Llyle Talbot, Preston Foster. Dir. Mervyh LeRo'y. 63 mins. Rel March 3. Rev. March 13. He Was Her Man. Action melodrama of the gal whO double-crossed herself In love when -her past came back. James Cagney, Joan Blondell Frank Craven. Harold Huber. Dir. Lloyd Bacon. 70 mins. Rel June 16. Rev, May 22. HI, Nellie. Comedy-drama of a newspaper 'love' columnlBt. Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Kathryn Sergava. Dir. Mervyn Le Roy. Rel. . Jan. 20. Rev. Feb. 6. Isle of Fury. Fighting for love while the Sinn Fein and the Black and Tan crossfire during the Irish trouble. From .the London stage success. 'The Key.' William Powell, Edna Best. Colin Clive, Henry O'Neill. Dir. Michael Curtiz. Rel. June 6. I've Got Your Number. Rowdy, rollicking story of the telephone trouble hunter who finds it. Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien. Dir. Kay Enright 67 mins. Rel Feb. 4. Rev. Feb. 6. Jimmy the Gent. Hilarious comedy romance based on the story by Laird Doyle and Ray Nazarro, which reveals a new kind of racket, that of digging up' heirs. James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins. Dir. Michael Curtiz. 67 mins. Rel March 17. Rev. March 27,/ Merry Wives of Reno. Comedy-farce of the Reno divorce mill In action. Margaret Lindsay, Donald .Woods, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Hugh •■» Herbert and Frank McHugh. Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone. 64 mins. Rel. May 12. Modern Hero, A. Based on the novel by Louis Bromfleid, opening with the gay romance of circus life and carrying the hero through tremendous •financial battles to a captain of industry. Richard Barthelmess.. 70 mins. Jean Muir, Marjorie Rambeau, Verree Teasdale. Dir. G. W. Pabst. Rel April 21. Rev. April 24. Smarty. Comedy of the wife who wanted to commute between husbands. Joan Blondel), Warren William, Edward E. Horton, Frank McHugh and Claire Dodd. Dir.. Robert Florey. 64 mins. Rel. May 26. Upperworld. Drama by . Ben Hecht dealing, . with a millionaire's adventures with a chorus girl. Warren William, Mary Astor. Ginger Rogers. Dickie Moore. ' Dir. Roy Del"NRuth. 70 mins. Rel. April 28. Rev. May 29. When Tomorrow Comes. Drama of woman who tries to help her hubby's girlfriend! Kay Francis, Warren William, Jean Muir. Verree Teasdale. Dir. William Keighly. .Rel June 23. Miscellaneous Releases Ariane. ( lue Ribbon.).. British made story of a. woman who pretends sophis- tication to win her love. Elizabeth Bergner, Percy Marmont. Dir. Paul Czinner. 80 mins. Rel April 1. Badge of Honor (Mayfair). Buster Crabbe In a original outdoor picture. Dir. Spencer Bennett. 62 mins. Rel. April 15. Rev. May 29i Beyond Bengal (Showmen): Animal picture with narrative. 65 mins. Rel. May 15. Rev. May 22. Big Race, The. (Showmen.) Rape track story. Boots Mallory, John Darrow. Dir. Fred Newmeyer. 62 mins. Rev. March 6. Cheaters,, (Liberty). Paroled, convicts find love, through crookedness. Bill Boyd, June Collyer, Dorothy Mackaill. Dir.. Phil Rosen. 66 mins. Rev. May 18. Drums o' Voodo (International). 11-Negro cast in screen version- of stage play 'Louisiana.' Dir. Arthur oerl. 70 mln$. Rel. May 7. Rev. May 16. Enlighten Thy Daughter. (Exploitation.) Warning to parents. ' Remade from a silent; 75 mins. Rel. Jan. 16. Rev. Feb. 20. Found Alive. (Ideal.) Jungle story. Barbara Bedford; Maurice Murphy. Dir. Chas, Hutchinson. Rel Feb. 10. Rev. April 17.' Guilty Parents. (Jay Dee Kay.) Sex education story. Jean Lacy, Glen Boles. Dir. Jack Townlcy. 63 mins. Rev. April 10. Hired Wife. (Pinnacle.) Man hires a bride to get a fortune and falls in love with her. Greta Niss'en. Weldon Heyburn, Dir. Geo. Melford. 60 mins. Rev. March 13. Love Past Thirty. (Monarch.) Beauty parlor rejuvenation for a faded fianced. Aiieen Pringle, Theodor von Eltz, Phyllis Barry. Dir. Vin. Moore. 60 mins. Rev. March 13. Moth, The. (Showmen's.) Sally O'Neill astray in New Orleans. Dir. red. Newmeyer. 64 mins. Rel Jan. .15. Rev. April 17. Marriage on Approval. (Monarch.) In which a girl gets married In th e first reeraWd^ffM Howard; Hlggin. Rev. Jan. 9. Picture Brides (Allied). Story of the Brazilian diamond minCB. Dorothy Mackaill, Regis Topmey. Dir. Phil Rosen, 60 mins. Rev. May 29. Trapeze. (Protex.) Anna Sten's first German, picture, dubbed in English. 65 mins. Rel. Feb. Rev. Feb. 20. Unknown Soldier Speaks, The (Lincoln). War clips with a new angle. 70 mins. Kev. May 29. What's Your Racket. (Showmen.) Familiar gangster frarrteup, Regis Toomey. Noel Francis. Dir. Fred Guiol. 60 mins. Rel Jan. 1. Rev. March 6. Wine, Women and Sono> (Chadwlck.) Lilyan Tashman's last picture. Back- stage story. Lilyan Tashman, Lew Cody. Dir. Leon D'Usseau. 64 mins. Rev. March 27. Woman Unafraid. (Goldsmith.) Story of a policewoman. Lucille Gleason, Skeots Gallagher. Dir. W. J. Cowen. 68 mins. Rev. April 24. 'I VARIETY Tuesday, June 12, 1934 VV>. 1 i A if I l4 Another great triumph for the glamorous star of "ONLY Carl Laemmle has the Honor to present MARGARET S U L L AVAN in LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? wi A FRANK BORZAGE PRODUCTION DOUGLASS MONTGOMERY Fred Kohlcr, Alan Hale, Mae Marsh, George Meeker, Muriel Kirk- land, De„ Witt Jennings, Hedda Hopper, Catherine Doucet, Bodil Rosing. From the novel by Hans Fallada. Screenplay by William Anthony McGuirc. Directed by Frank Borzagc. TniWay, We 12, 1934 PICTURES VARIETY 3t MONO MAY STAY AT GEN. SERVICE Hollywood, June 11. Deal for Monogram to retain Gen. ©ral Service Studios as production headquarters tor the next year is slated to be signed this week Agreement will allow Monogram to nee any sound system., it selects for recording, although all other cus- tomers Of the Erpi-operated studios are required to use the Western Electric system. _ . Concession being made by Erpi to Monogram the sound appa- ratus is mainly to retain the pro- ducing cqmpany on the lot, as offi- cials of the electric concer figure Monogram is coming along. Giveaways, Lotteries, Etc., Worrying Denver Goring Takes Over N. Y. Criterion for Indie Op. Deal between Paramount and John Goring turns the Criterion, N. Y. over to latter as an independ- ent exhibitor for one year. Goring; was former manager of the Crir terlon for Par for years, but Par states that the company has no further connection with the house except in leasing it , to Goring. Goring will operate the house on his own under a grind policy, but Par. reserves the right to put its' road shows in whe* and if desired during the year's lease. BEN BERNSTEIN AGAIN HEADS SO. CALIF. EXHIBS AGENCY CODE METHODS UP TO PARENT BODY Small Releases Gordon To Script Par 'Outraged' Denver, June 31 Because one of the owners of the theatres talked to the district at- torney about the legality of the giveaways being "used by a group of 13 Denver theatres, the group has dropped the co-operative $600 cash night. The d.a. told the theatre man the plan was illegal and in- timated that if anyone filed a.comr plaint he would have to proceed against them. The state law pro- vides a penalty of not less than $100 fine and n t less than 30 days in jail on conviction. The law ap- parently is worded very carefully and seemingly officers could arrest anyone connected with a giveaway Many theatre men are of the opin- ion nothing will be done. There are plenty of giveaways in opera- tion here. One is being sponsored by the junior chamber of commerce and is backed by lumber and build- ing, supply dealers of the city. The prize is a modernized house, and a chance is given with every $1 pur- chase. Prize drawings are common throughout th ecity. Many of the theatres plan to con tinue drawings. Bank night, which originated in Denver, is claimed to be within any law. When operated according to instructions, which call for the register book being placed where anyone can sign,, and the calling of the number outside the theatre so the winner can claim the money without being forced to buy a ticket. It is understood that Harry Huffman will continue his auto drawings, giving" away one a week among his eight theatres. The group of 13 started giving away an auto a week when Huff- man, was packing all his houses on drawing night. The 13 changed to $600 a week in cash prizes later on Hollywood, Agency code committee has ac- cepted the reports of subcommittees which have been Working several weeks drawing up a code of fair practices for agents to go into the film code and recommendations as to registering the. 10 percenters. These reports are now. i the hands Of the various members of the parent committee which will in- dividually discuss the provisions With their various crafts and re- port back to the larger body as to the' viewpoints of the several facr tions, which include producers, agents, writers, actors and . direc- tors. . ,„ . . First of these meetings will be tonight (Monday) when the agents gather at the Beverly Wilshire to discuss the provisions. Meeting was. called by George Frank, agent- member, on the committee. Plan then is to call a public hear- ing on the suggestions so that all involved can have their day before the recommendations are forwarded to the Administrator for final ac- ceptance as a part of the code. Agency committee ran into a snag on the employment of Major Joseph O. Donovan as part secretary of the committee, a berth he.. has been fill- ing in connection with his job as Code Authority, representative in Hollywood. . Committee formally protested to Divisional Administrator Sol A. Ros- enblatt the Donovan appointment to their unit, stating that they wanted an executive secretary of their own to serve full time. Code Authority, through John C. Flinn, replied that the committee could 'have a full- time official but would have to pay his sal- ary. Committee.answered this with a demand for. such a full time sec- retary and stating that it had no funds for such official, pushed the matter back in the lap of the Code Authority, where it now lays. Los Angeles, June 11. , Independent Theatre Owners of Southern California reelected Ben N, Berinstein president at the anr nual membership meeting, despite his announced determination not to be a candidate to succeed ' himself Harry H. Hicks .Was named v. P with understanding Berinstein will resign in about 60 days, when Hicks completes his duties as a member of the local clearance-zoning, board. Latter will then automatically suc- ceed: to the presidency. Arnold Schaak was reelected treasurer, and P*. D. Whitson, v. p. f was named secretary, succeeding George' BrOmley. . Indie exhibs voted solidly to en- dorse a plan whereby a 65c. gate for all seats would be charged whenever an advertised preview is held, and also took a step nearer to elimination of double feature pro- grams in the territory by coming within 25 signatures of the number necessary to sWing 90 percent of the indie exhibs into line. Irving Carlih was elected to the board of directors, vice Russell Rogers, resigned. Hollywood, June 11 Leon Gordon starts at Paramount today (Monday) to script 'Out- raged,' following the settlement of his contract with Edward Small whereby Gordon was to have super- vised 'Transatlantic Showboat.' Gordon and Small split oh a dis- agreement over the treatment of the Reliance story. 'Outraged' will be the first star^ ring picture for Lloyd Nolan. James Flood will direct it. Ntt OVERBUY SQUAWK IN CHI CHI OBJECTS ON 3-DAY RELEASE PROVISION Heat and Drouth Panics NW Exhibs Into Duals Minneapolis, June 11. In the face of Northwest Allied's opposition, double featuring is spreading again throughout the ter- ritory; and fears are being expressed that if not checked soon it will edge its way once more into the Twin Cities. Serious slump in grosses in wake of abnormal heat and continued drouth, prompted many exhibitors to clutch at the twin billing as a b.o. bypo- , . „ Double featuring broke out re- cently in the Twin City neighbor- hood houses, but Northwest Allied assembled all the parties involved and induced them to desist. Agree- ment has been kept thus far in Min- neapolis and St. Paul. STUDIO LABOR Rosy to Name . Committees to Straighten Out That Phase Free Bus Rides Philadelphia, June 11. Local Grievance Board will have A complicated case to meet when complaint of the Westmar theatre; .-Norrlstown, against the JNprris •Amus. Co. is aired. Complainant allege* free bus rides for patrons by the Norris Co. is tantamount to a reduced admission price. Riant theatre, Conshohocken, has also filed suit against Norris Cp. on same cjharge, but claim has been ithdrawh. 2 Cinemas in 2,200 Pop Town Precipitates Feud "Des Moines, June 11. The little town of Mbnticello, la., population 2,200, is the scene of a theatre fight that is going on under a national spotlight. When R. C. Lambert started to build a new theatre, E. T. Landis, owner of the Princess, established many years ago, felt it was unfair competition and filed a complaint . .wath ..the grlemoce .board . J*pM*[ complaint stated he felt two thea- tres were too many for a tewn of that size anc that competition was unfair. The casf 1 went to tria 1 and Landis won the decision. Owners of the now house, however, appealed and it goos berore tne National (Irievnnco Hoard soon. The townspeople -are strong sup- portci\s,.of the NKA nnd agree with Landis that two theatres are one too many for a town the size of Montk olio. | First Minn. Ruling Vs. Ticket Giveaways Minneapolis, June 11. In the first decision handed down, since its organization, local griev- ance board held that 'merchants' nights,' as conducted by S. F. Heath at his State theatre, Wells, Minn., constituted a violation of the code and ordered Heath to discontinue. Complaint filed by F. E. Rolfe of the Pastime. Mapleton, Minn. The testimony showed that Heath had a tleup .with merchants ifi gix small adjacent towns whereby in return for payment of stipulated amounts by them to him he gave them an xinlimited number of tickets to distribute to their cus- tomers. These coupons were re- deemable at the State theatre box office on payment of 5c by the holder., Rolfe charged that Heath was violating the minimum admis- sion price clauses in the latter's film contracts. . . .' In defending Heath, W. A. Steffes, president of Northwest Allied, con- tended that pro-rating for each ticket redeemed the amount paid, by the merchants and Including the 5c received from each customer netted the exhibitor more per admission than the minimum requirement. The board decided that the scheme actually constituted a re- bate and unfair competition ior Rolfe, who is located 17 miles away from Heath Latter announces ni- tgntiTm^t o-appealr--^ — -• — N. Y. Par Wants Tax Cut Alleging the building is over- assessed, the Paramount Broadway Corp. has brought suit in N; Y. Su- preme Court to lower the figure on the Var building by $3,000,000. Assessment on the land is $6,300,- 000 and $12,500,000 on improve- ments, declared to be $3,000,000 in excess. Washington, June 11. Committees to try and straighten out troublesome questions of studio- professional labor relations will be named by NRA some time in the next fortnight. Divisional Adminis- trator Sol A. Rosenblatt announced last week. Deciding against holding public hearing to determine the need for exercising authority contained in unfair practice sections of picture pact, Rosy last week served notice that he will receive comments and ideas of individuals concerned up to June- 16 and intends soon after the deadline to set up the 5-5 com- mittees to probe matters affecting writers and actors. There is no present Intention to establish committees to look into situation of directors, or technicians, though those groups may be set up in time. . Having delayed" action for dearth of names, ROsy said he now has several dozen nominations which are being looked into and feels an adequate supply of candidates is available to provide a good selec- tion. Committees will have five representatives of employers and five spokesmen for each professional cl&ss. • Recent squabbles between studios ' and writers brought the matter to a head, While NRA felt it would be desirable and facilitate smoother functioning of the code to create actor committee at same time. Both groups will be authorized to make findings and recommend regulations covering fair practices in relations hetween employers and employees. What will be done with any recommendations is problematical. Code specifies that Administrator may approve, reject, or modify sug- g ested rules on c all public hearings on his own account if' there "is dis- pute about the recommendations. If approved, suggested practice reg- ulations would have snme force nnd effect f.f code clauses. Chicago,, June 11. Exception to the motion picture code ruling on release dajek of pic- tures has been made by the local distributors . and releasing ; board. Resolution of exception was drawn up at the zoning and clearance meet- ing last Week and has been for- warded to the Code Authority in New York. Local exchanges and exhibs point out that the code ruling that a pic- ture is available for general release following a three-day run anywhere in the territory cannot apply .to Chi- cago because Chicago has had an entirely individual releasing system and one which is no way similar to the 1 rest of the country. The three- day releasing system would not prove satisfactory in Chicago. Is the contention of the local industry and they have asked that the code authority allow this, territory, to set up a release system which divides this section into two districts, Ch- cago metropolitan area and the downstate district. Resolution stated that the three- day release clause was perfectly ac- ceptable for the downstate section and that it shOuld be allowed to play picture irrespective of the Chicago run. And that if the code ruling was altered to take the problem into consideration that.it would be nec- essary to hold back the entire state until the loop played its pictures. Localities have asked that the three^day clause be changed in Chi- cago to a seven-day period to be-, giri at the termination of the loop, pre-release run. If a picture did not play the loop ace houses that the picture should be considered avail- able for release seven days after the regular meeting "of the release board^. Having Schoenstadt Harper on grounds of unreasonable protection, the south- side Hyde Park tried, to. follow Up its advantage by squawkinr to grievance board that ..the Harper was overbuying and asked that the house be forced to release some, of that product. Board, however, ruled that the. five pictures the Harper is using at, present is not ah unreasonable number. But added that the pic- tures must be selected by th- house by the end of the seconr week of release in order to give the Hyde Park sufficient notice. Appoint Will Mahoney And Gen. Harbord Washington, June 11. The National Labor Board Friday (8) appointed Will Mahoney, vaude- ville actor, and Gen. James 0. HaiS bord,,head of RCA, to the New York regional board. Mahoney will represent and Harbord industry. "THE SUAVE DECEIVER" LOEW'S JERSEY CITY * Week June 15 23rd Week CASINO DE FARES! Tbanka to .Billy. Rose "CardJnl, most elegant and most .dex- terous of conjurors), made one ol_ tne Dig-, geat hits of the evening at the Hoyal Command Performance."— Tlie Dally Tel- egraph, May 23, 1933. 'Catspaw' in August At M. H. or Rivoli Fox's Harold Lloyd picture, 'Cats- paw,' opens in New York , during August either at the Music Hall or the Rivoli. — Lloyd, who returned to the Coast last week after attending the Fox convention, will be back on Broad- way in July preparatory to his film's premiere. Hollywood, June 11. Harold Lloyd plans to get busy early in the fall on his next picture, eliminating the long waits in be- tween .productions. Comedian is back from New York and spent a day in retakes on 'Cat's Paw.' iilf BEN BLUE WARNEB BROS. COMEDIES Dir. JOE HIVKIN LEO MORRISON. Agency WANTED:— Theatre manager, experienced, age between 80 and 40, »« a h-S?r?or aS- references required. Chance for a ceVs and .Distributors of Amer- REPEAT SAME WAX SHOWS FOR YEARS on a segment of the lives of mil Hons of conrv ners. Quotes Ramsdell . 'Appended to the network's coni- 1 ments. on the time habit factor is a quotation from a speech by Sayre 3JL Ramsdell, advertising manager of 'the Phil.o Radio and Television Corp. This excerpt tells of the unique advantage that broadcasting 'offers By way of the time franchise strategy, ' and extols the. effect of having what amounts to a personal appointment in millions of homes at 7:46 (Philco's time on CBS) every evening. Ramsdell is quoted as saying that Philco has garnered double or triple' the returns on every "dollar, invested in radio ad- vertising, first by staying on the air without interruption (over SO weeks to date) and second, without losing ltd franchise on a given hour. Ramsdell refers to the latter as a new concept In advertising, made possible by radio only, and one which is generally underestimated and unappreciated. ! •ican, Inc„ by NBC Jast week was a flrogram composed of a dance com- ibo under Al Goodman, a girl warbler |and Qraham McName.e. -NetworK 'suggested this setup for the cam- paign that the Will Hays Office is launching to sell the public on the habit of visiting picture theatres more often during the summer. Proposition as advanced by NBC woulC have this program released on the basis of five times a week. Stanza framed around Goodman and McNamee runs 15 minutes. Probabil- ity that the Hays organization will also make use of the air series to parry the attack that the picture in- dustry is now being subjected to by the church and other critical sectors. PROOF OF RESULTS istories of Air Advertising Made by CBS CBS's sales promotion depart- ment has a new study in commodity markets which is due off the press for distribution' to the advertising veretn within the next two weeks. In this work the network regiments the actual selling results reaped by several major national merchan- disers who have used both space and radio. Research along thesv lines were carried, on by Columbia over a period of 10 months. Each com- modity quoted .is said to represent an actual opening of the merchan- diser's books to the web's statistics collectors. Kayser Silk Air-Minded : Kayser Silk is being groomed for a flier in radio this fall. Among those auditioned last week at NBC for the account was Lud Gluskln's Continental dance ensemble. Ypung and Rublcam is the agency. One of the curiosities in commer- cial broadcasting' are the same sets of recorded programs which have been making the rounds of hinter- land stations year in and year out. Advertisers behind these stencillings keep circuiting them around, booking them on each outlet for a run of 13 weeks and after an intervals froni 26 to .39 weeks \bringlng the series back for another airin~ on the same station. Several merchandisers have used the same waxed shows continuously for as long as four years. When the .disc became worn' from 1 excessive shipping' and needle grinding all they have to do is order* a new one from the pressing factory where the mas- ters are kept oh file. Only other charge these' advertisers run. 'into Is the music fee "of 25c. for a pop num- ber and 50c. for a restricted tune Which the publisher collects accord- ing to each station usage. Among the accounts that have made a practice of using the same recorded series over a stretch of years, and on the interval circuiting plan are Thin Hand Cream, Outdoor Girl Face Powder and Sapolin enamel. Kitchen Henzer, in Chi Court, Asks $10,000 From Agency on Overcharges What Big Muscles Al Zugsmith, band booker In the CBS Artists Bureau, has had himself added to another payroll, for the summer. Four days, a week he'll work for Col- umbia and the other three, Fri- day, Saturday and Sunday, .he'll serve as a life guard on the. Atlantic City beach. Saturday" is an off day for the CBS personnel, anyway, and the Friday absence Zugsmith contrived by making his vaca- tion 14 Fridays in a row in place of the customary two weeks. SHORTWAVING GOLF JULY Ether Tax Drive Baltimore, June 11. WCAO,. WCBM and WFBR' are Allotting five minutes daily to Thos. G, Young, municipal tax collector, for. civic appeal spiels. Burg past few years has led country for speedy tax garnering, and each spring the city government makes a special heralde4 drive to. corner the coin quickly. Stations are permitting Mr. Young a fortnight each as a meas- ure of civic good-will. &o. Storer, WMCA, Quietly Matures Network; Ultimately in Chicago Kraft After Crosby Kraft-Phenlx is. angling for ing Crosby. Cheese packer would like to have him join its Thursday night whirl on NBC this summer. Another bidder for Crosby's services is ^ Woodbury soap, but this assignment m would not be effective until the fall. W All -air. offers for the warbler will, " ; j^yvever, have to. hold until Tom Rockwell, of RockwelNO-Keefe, Inc., which manages Crosby, returns: from Europe^Kraft-Phenlx may also ln- ^WaeTIftHEnFT^o'p'^^ the Mills Bros. With Crosby and the Mills foursome on the program the mixed chorus now part of the' Thurs- day cast would be dropped. Galli-Gurci for Milk Chicago. June 11. Mme. Galli-Curci will guest on the Carnation show this coming Monday (18). Carnation ts considering going Sato a regular policy of gueaters. George Storer has the nucleus of his proposed basic territory network in operation. From the studios of WMCA, New York, .. which, he. now heads, Storer is feeding sustaining programs daily to WPEN. Phila- delphia; WOL, Washington; WDEL, Wilmington, and WPRO, Providence. He has incorporated his chain project under the title of the American Broadcasti..^ System. The first three were allied with the ill-fated Amalgamated Broadcast- ing System. Storer is proceeding with his net- work proposition slowly and with- out ballyhoo. -His policy here is founded on the lesson gained by the broadcast trade from the methods that led up to the collapse of Ed. Wynn's Amalgamated Broadcasting System. It is Storer's intention . to build up his web on a sustaining basis before • undertaking to sell It as a commercial medium. Board of directors of the AmerU can Broadcasting System have not been designated. This directorate -will -lil?eiy^Inclune^ve1^ = ^^ Wall Street scions interested with Storer in the operation of WMCA, as well as several of his financial associates in Detroit. tprer, who for incorporating purposes named himself president of the' ABS, also operates CKLW, Detroit-Windsor; WSPD, Toledo, arad WWVA, Wheel- ing, W. Va. r Storer expects to extend his sys- tem to Chicago, thereby keeping within the basio area. So far he isn't set on a Chicago outlet. WORLD TO OLD WENR STUDIOS, CHICAGO Chicago, June : .11. Negotiations, on for the switch of the World Broadcasting offices here from the old WMAQ quarters in the Daily News building to the old WENR studios in the Opera Build- ing. It is likely that when World shifts to the former WENR plant that the Columbia lab will take over the Daily News layout. Columbia par- ticularly has. been anxious . to move out of its present setup, and has been dickering with practically every available building for studio space. New Pepsodent Product Chicago, June 11. Pepsodent planning an addition to itsfregular=lim57 this=-falir ih^keep jng with its adopted policy of add- ing a new product every six months or so. If and when issued, radio will be used. PIPER WITH PEPSODENT Chicago, June 11. Lynn Piper comes in as general sales manager for Pepsodent. Piper was formerly with the O'Cedar company. Gulf Oil. starts having its Sunday night shows shortwaved from .Eu- rope July 15. First international everit of the series will include Ger- trude Lawrence. Danny Malone, ballad singer, and Carroll Gibbons' band. O. B. Cochran, British show- man, has been retained to do the production ^supervising for the im- ported series. Will Rogers' current run in the refiner's niche; on NBC takes him up to and including July 8. Gulf has committed itself for four Euro- pean broadcasts, with two of them originating from Paris. If the four go over both from the technical and entertainment angles eight more programs from foreign sources will be added. All these broadcasts wilt be shortwaved from London, with the programs on the: Continent being brought into that point by telephone wire. CAN'T ATTACH RADIO ON DEBT JUDGMENT Berlin, May 26. German minister of law has sub- mitted an o-lnion according to which radio sets, if they are not luxury outfits, can under no cir- cumstances be seized for debt even though they are not used for busi- ness purposes, as for instance, by innkeepers" or farmers, who use their apparatus to get weather re- ports. Opinions about what is necessary and what is not have changed with time. Twenty years ago a bicycle or sewing machine were selzable, but today they may not be attached. Same change has taken place con- cerning tine i 'necessity f6F"a ~radld apparatus. Chi NBC Options Cook Backstage Air Serial Chicago, June 11. Chi NBC has taken an option on Jim Cook's serial, 'Stand-By,' which is a story of back-stage radio, NBC figures that the backstage angle should be as potent in radio as it has been in legit and in pictures. Will start auditioning to clients this week. Serial will run 16-minr ute sessions either three or six times weekly. Cook was formerly with the local NBC publicity der partmeht. Lombardo on Plough Chicago, June 11. Guy Lombardo orchestra has been set for a long-term run for Plough's NBC show, replacing Vincent Lopez band. Lombardo wilt start July 4 on a 26-week contract with options for 2C weeks additional. Plough figures to follow the band on its tours ,if and when Lombardo hits for the road. Show will also utilize guest stars. Chicago, June 11. Client and an agency are going to court here to battle out the question of how much coin the agency should get for services rendered. It started with . a suit filed by the Airways Sales Engineers, Inc., agency against the Fitzpatrlck Bros., Inc., makers of Kitchen Klenzer, for $3,800, which the agency claims the Fitzpatrlck company owes, for the month of March. Fitzpatrlck outfit turned around and entered a counter-claim against the agency, asking for $10,000 dam- ages on the allegation that the agency had consistently over- charged. Fitzpatrick side of the case states that the agency is allowed only its regular 15% com- mission on radio station billing, and claims that the agency got more than its 15%. The agency claims the extras are ..due for additional services in shaping shows, finding talent, traveling and entertainment expenses, according to the agency attorney, DaVid Spector. Claims Listed Statement of claims as drawn up by the Fitzpatrlck lawyer, Howard. Moses, goes, into individual cases. States thpit from Jan. 1. 1933, to March ,20, 1934. station. WJR. De- troit, billed the agency for $4,59.6, but - that the agency listed it aa $7,9i6.16, -and asks that the agency be made- to refund the overchargo of $3,020.16. Affidavit further claims that be-' tween Aug. 28 and Nov. 17-, 1933. the agency placed advertising on WHK in Cleveland, and that the station •charged $347, but that the Fitzpat-' rick company paid the agency on a billing of $660. Other overcharges' are claimed on WMBD, Peoria, for' $59.85; on WHB. Kansas City, for $692.52 in one instance and $1,02?. 52' on a- later campaign. Also asks re- fund of alleged overcharge on WLW, Clncy, for $1,704. and. on WCCO, Minneapolis, for $380: on KST, St. Paul, $12, Fitzpatrick attorney, in his coun- ter-claim, also states that there was advertising placed oh WOWO, Fort Wayne;' WLS, Chicago, and on other stations on which the client was not informed. Fitzpatrick claims that the amount of money due it from Air* ways on back' billing is $7,177.05, but Is asking for an even 10 grand to settle damages. Case will be de- cided in the Municipal Court here. chi NBC Cutting DOWN ON BENEFITS Chicago, June 11. Front office of NBC here has is- sued an order that all requests for benefits appearances of its talent must be okayed by the administra- tion end of the network: This order is an effort to clip on the number of phoney requests that have been pouring into the talent bureau of both NBC and CBS here lately. NBC has taken ttv; stand that if the benefit is worthy and. still can- not afford to pay the talent that the network will reimburse the perform- ers, with NBC feeling that it is not fair to ask the performers to work additional hours gratis On its .side NBC Will check off the additional expense to good- will; Jack Little's In-laws in A Run-in with the Law Albany, June 11. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hellman, owners of the Paramount and Royal theatres ;films) and in-laws of Little Jack Little, face police court charges as. a result. of a run-in with a^trafflc=copf^Mrs; "Hellman^is^ac^ cused of failing to obey the cop' a signal and her husband is charged with third decree nssnult upon the policeman. The cop alleges Mrs. Hellman failed to heed his order to stop, her auto until she was near the Royal theatre. 1U> also reported that Hell- man came o.,t of the theatre, joined in the argument and seized him by the neck. Mrs. Hellman later called on the police chief and fainted. She is suffering from nervous shock. The Hellmans demanded jury trials. RADIO VARIETY 99 RADIO RULERS JULY Seven-Man Commission Will Supplant Old FRC — 100- Watt Stations Exempt from Zone Quotas— Com- mission Will 'Study? Allo- cation of Facilities to Non-Profit Croups COMPROMISE • Washington, June 11, Relatively few changes In the present radio law are required by the new government communica- tions control policy as expressed in the revised Dlll-Rayburn bill agreed upon by Senate and House con- ferees last week. Accepting the House plan of a seven-man commission, , the Senate backed down on the most objections able features of the Dill bill, al- though a number of minor revisions of existing law were written into the final, draft. Law goes into ef- fect July 1. abolishing the present commission. The substitute bill adopts various provisions of the Senate version, but rejects changes which were not contained In the Davis bill, which passed the 72d Congress and was given a pocket-veto by President Hoover. Higher Education ew Haven, June 11. Ed Wynn will go collegiate tor Yale's commencement par rade. Comedian will be made an honorary member of class of 1924 and will head their .sec- tion of parade as fire chief on a white horse. Class costumes will follow suit as- Are chiefs. They've 'already made Wynh ah honorary, fire chief here, in addition to the forthcoming collegiate decoration. SURVEYS OKAY WYNN Comedian Renewed When Texaco ■ Reassured. Restrict Radl rabbinfl One major change was final de- cision to restrict the government's -power to take control of all com- munications in times of emergency. Senate, bill gave this authority in times - of war. or public peril, but the revision grants confiscatory powers only In connection with 'the continuance of a war.* ' The hieasure in final form pro- vides: (1) Territories and posses- sions shall be eliminated from the zones for equality of broadcast dis- tribution; (2) Changes In frequency, power or time mus': be preceded by public hearings; (3) The commission may require painting or illumination of towers; (4) Stations with not more than 100 watts' power may be licensed without regard to quota limitations, providing they do not interfere with efficient service of other stations; (5) The commission shall study the feasibility of allo- cating by statute fixed pei^centages of broadcast facilities to particular types of non-profit groups; (6) Maximum license terms shall not exceed three years. The conference rejected the Senate proposal to fix thtr limit : at one- year; (7) <3ommis s ion may supervise transfer of stock control of license corporations, and must secure full information before approving transfers; (8) Commis- sion may refuse licenses to appli- cants held guilty of violating anti^ trust laws, even though courts have, hot 'ordered revocation of existing license's; (9) Time for protesting re- vocation of ' license is cut from 30 to 15 days, but Senate amendment authorizing suspension is omitted; (10) Lotteries and other schemes shall not be broadcast; (O) Pro- grams originating in this country, but actually broadcast from neigh- boring countries, are under the commisison's jurisdiction; (12) Ap- plications for rehearings must be filed in 20 days; 03) Restrictions oti licensing foreign corporations, or alien applicants, shall be strengthened; (14) Restrictions on foreign licensees shall apply to ^holding^rorn panics Hf— the=public^in~.- torost 'will 1 io -'voil liy withholding- licenses. Anti- Monopoly Amendment Out The objectionable Dill anti-mon- opoly amendment was thrown over- board, as went* Senate changes per- taining to equality of opportunity for political candidates .or persons discussing i-ontrcvorsliil public topic .. Rcwn.-ictinn with a few changes tic provisions of existing law con- cerning allocation of facilities, the new. "law stipulates 'hat in grant- ing a: renewal application, the com- mission shall be governed by. the same considerations which affected the original grant. Conference proposals went through both branches in short order Sat- urday (9) and the bill was sent to the White House for the President's signature. A futile fight to elimi 7 nate the. new radio, clauses was launched in the House by Repre tentative Bland of Virginia, chair man Of the House Merchant Ma rihe, Radio and Fisheries commit- tee, but Speaker Rainey overruled parliamentary objections and the House Voted acceptance of the com promise. Political, backfire to block ap pointment of present Radio Com mission members to the new seven - man communications commish was started blazing here last week as President Roosevelt reputedly pre- pared his slate of new radio, tele phone, telegraph and cable bosses. Compromise on hew communlca tions law was reached Thursday (7) and conferees', recommendations were approved Saturday (9). Bill becomes effective July 1, and Presi dent Roosevelt said Friday (8) no action will be taken until shortly before that time to designate new commish. Scores of names have been put forward for consideration in setting up new communications boss. Ap parently those with best prospects at present are Judge Eugene O Sykes, chairman of existing com- mish; Commissioner Thad Brown. Governor Comstbck of Michigan Representative Aiming. S. Prall of New York, named htst winter to fill vacancy in present set-up; Dr Irving Stewart of State Department, participant in Madrid and Mexico City international conferences; Cant. Stanley Hooper, director of Naval Communications, and Dr. (Conti ued on page 43) Ed "Wynh has ,beeri. given a con- tract by Texaco for the fall, which/ will make it his third season for the petrol distributor. What clinched the re-signaturing was a telephone survey conducted by Hanff-Metzer, agency on the account. Through 50,000 calls the agency proved that the comic had retained his dial pulling power. Check along similar lines was also made by an outside research organization and the results of the two quizzes gibed decisively in Wynn's favor. Tues- day night spoL will be retained on NBC's red (WEAF) link. CKY, WINNIPEG, EYES 15,000-WATT TUT Winnipeg, June 11. After hearing rumbles that the new 100 -watt indie opposlsh, CJRC, was after a power boost, CKY, the provincial government-owned 5,000 watter, came through with an nouncement that it .will be 16,000 watts come next fall. Station will spend about $100,000, the biggest item being construction of entirely new transmitting plant of Northern Electric equipment. Contract for construction work to be awarded Thursday (14). Likely new studios will be built or present layout renovated. James Richardson, millionaire owner of CJRC, is quite frequently do at Ottawa and it is said he's after authority to boost his indie from i00 to 1,000 watts and get. a new wave-length. The 1390 chan nej is too crowded, he says. CRC has publicly stated Its eagerness to assist CKY's new ven- ture, but apparently has given Richardson little encouragement. Expect Labor Battle When Code Is (< Reopened on Technicians June 20 Woodpeckers .Nashville, June "11. . Harry . Stone, general mana- ger of Station WSM, in check- ing bills., submitted for 1 okay by the station transmitter 12 miles outside Nashville found an item for shot gun shells. A quick telephone call demanded how come. Then the story came out. Technical crew at the trans-, mitter have been forced to load their squirrelrartillery and at- tack "woodpeckers who were threatening to demolish the telephone poles that carry the wires from station to transmit- ter. Woodpeckers had done so much damage before target practice started that a couple of poles were bending badly in the breeze. When! not engaged in marks- manship the boys at the trans- mitter fill in the idle hours by cultivating a little corn and vegetables, in their garden. JACK STEWART NEW BOSS OF WCAE, PITT. Owen Young's Speech Lincoln, June 11... Owen D. Young picked up by special NBC wire into Chi for the whole system when he spoke to. the graduation class of the Univer- sity of Nebraska. Besides NBC, speech was broad- cast by KFAB and KFOR, both of them CBS subscribers. This is the only commencement address Young will make, this year. Baltimore, June. .11. Jack Stewart, a front figure in the commercial radio biz in Balti- more for the past eight years, scrammed town last night (Sunday) to assume directorship of WCAE, Pittsburgh, the Hearst-owned Sun- Telly station. Stewart was commercial manager of WCAO and mdre recently of WFBR. Left latter station March 1. Prior to that was with WAIU, Columbus, O., and ' with pair of Cleveland casters, WTAM- • and WHK. Washington, June. 11. Nasty fight over labor relations In broadcast industry is expected to break next week, when NRA re- opens code ; provisions as result of report by codlsts on working, condi- tions of studio engineers. Anticipated heari was. set for June 26 by Deputy William P. Farnsworth, who will preside at sessions to be held in Raleigh hotel. No concrete proposals, have' been put forward, and whole labor ques- tion will be thrown wide open for discussion. : Action follows . reports by C. A. that it is impossible to dope out rigid limitations oh hours and wages of technicians. Row is expected to involve bitter charges and counter-charges be- tween union officials and chain and. station execs, with workers demand- ing recognition of outside organiza- tions and complaining about com- pany unions. Protests that chains and individual stations refuse -to en- gage in collective bargaining, and have violated troublesome ' section 7 A of NRA, are slated by union leaders. Industry is flatly opposed to Idea of cutting down working time of engineers in view of Radio Com- mission requirements governing operation hours. Feel burden on payrolls will be intolerable, and that many little stations will be forced, out of biz. To support .their stand, codlsts, will point out that recent surveys show wages have jumped eonsider- ably, employment is at record peak, and hours generally have been cut, , while business has not improved, commensurate with, added operating ' costs. ' Colleen Moore Shells Hollywood, June 11. Colleen Moore goes on the Shell hour for Coast CBS tonight (Mon- day) in 'The Witch'. Sketch is by Ferenc Molnar. MOOSE JAW RENOVATES Eli inate CJRM Interference with Bismarck KFYR LEHN & FINK'S ELASTIC SALARIES FOR BIG NAMES CREATES PROBLEM Advertising T Circles r%j^e'~Bdlli''''WayS' Radio Program of Fabulous Fees- Results Justify Expenditures on Value to -Plaut Feels Bbokin agents specializing in name dramatic talent are divided in their opinions on what effect the big salaries demanded by the latter ele- ment will have on commercial broadcasting. Some of these agents hold the past season's tendency toward forcing iip prices presages a serious setback for the. advertis- ing end of the industry, while others contend that, budgets or no budgets, the top names even at $5,000 have boon selling themselves cheaply and that the coming broad- quently and substantially bettered. Agents say that the era of con- sistently big talent payoff was started by Lehn & Fink this sea- son for the drug manufacturer's 'Hall of 'Fame' segment on NBC Sunday nights. osponsible here for the salary splurge , policy Is E. N. Plaut, the concern's president;' Plaut has been his own company's showman, operating on the premise that if you want to get the maxi- mum listener percentage yon must give them the best and the biggest in the amusement worid. Plaut started out to. make the maximum figure for a marquee at- traction on this Sunday series $2,500. This budgeting went awry with the initial broadcast when Katharine Hepburn flouted this offer and said it Would have to be double that or else. Brushing aside the advice of his own advertising staff and ad agency reps who pro- tested against yielding to any such demands, Plaut ordered that she be booked regardless of the price. As the series proceeded the $5,000, $4,000 and $3,000 salaries became an almost . every, . week .^.eYen.t.. T ... JpiB: Barrymore asked $5,000 and got it, while ' to Clark Gable went $4,000 for a bit in 'Manhattan Melodrama' which at the same time gained na- tional exploitation for a picture on the Verge of release. Joan Craw- ford drew $3,500 and garnered a similar break for the same producer, Metro, on 'Sadie McKee.' Boosting of the air kitty by I^ehn & Fink has particularly had its affect on the talent expenditures by j^lPicphmirm Ye.i«t for its Rudy Vallee whirligig. .Purse strings here on. several occasions this, sea- son been forced to give beyond what had previously been the maxU mum salary of $1,500 for. a name regardless of status or pulling power. J. Walter Thompson, until Plaut came along had been quite successful In selling the' toplmers of the stage and screen on the Thurs- day night scsion's value as a show window for radio and on the view? point, that this angle should he taken into consideration in the mat- ter of salary adjustment. Example set by Lehn & Fink has resulted In. more flexibility for the talent budget on the Vallee round of the clock as well as a number of other similar variety sho-ws with* network clearances. Booking agents who regard the practice among stage and screen topllners of demanding 'what Hep- burn and Barrymore got' as harm- -ful-to-the=loudspeaker-medlum=base^ their viewpoint on the pfesumptlon that if the advertiser finds that these names are not available at the figures set by his budget he won't go oh the air. And if lie's on the air he won't continue. And since the name guest show bank- roller tries to strike a high average of listener appeal by mixing the top with lesser box-of(lce names his frustration will not only mean a loss of income to facility sellers •hut to talent In the sub hi ar rets. Winnipeg, June 11. Don Copeland, head of James Richardson & Sons radio depart- ment, announces reconstruction of CJRM, its Moose Jaw, Sask. out* let. Work now under way and will be finished about July 1. New transmitter of . 1,000 watts will replace antiquated equipment which created ill will between the Moose Jaw station (on 540 kilos) and KFYR, NBC affiliate at Bis- marck, N. D. on 650 kilos. CJRM'a signals from old transmitter butted in on KF YR frequently. Construction also Includes new studio at Moose Jaw and new one at . Regina, making it a two-city sta- tion after July 1. Vic Nellsoti, Can- adian .Radio. Commission announcer at Regina, named station super- visor, and Brian Elliott program di- rector. They start work Friday (15). WWL Wins 5-Yr. Fight New Orleans, June 11. WWi' will operate over 850 kilo- cycles granted after five-year fight. Station formerly shared with KWKH, Shreveport, with much bickering ensuing. KWKH has been assigned to full time on lilOO kilocycle. Mexico Closes XEC Mexico City, June 7. Radio station XEC, operating at Toluca, capital of Mexico state, has been closed by the ministry of com- mun lGatloiv^and^pjAfcJiJ- W Qr Ka., ■- In particular it would seem that vertiser over WTAM, Cleveland, and have done guest appearances. . So they are not new to broadcasting, although they appear at this' time to be new to Variety's radio re^ ports, v And for' radio they look like a. cinch, bet for network attention. Their comedy formula Is compar- atively uriexploited on the air. They obtain laughs without gags. May- Granville's voice would be ideal for fair accents, exaggerated fluency, the sales plugs on some of the de multi- syllables are combined into a luxe shows where a pursuaslve | patchwork of amusing lunacy. It's writings? The danger of getting reporter. He said that Colombo, the take listeners of WGY and a group I are v musts, them too plose .gether is that lis- favorite, who was beaten, went to 1 «- lkror "" nn an 1 - ■ tenders may wonder where they've the post i ook i ng very cool, 'in fact heard or read that before and pos- j s hould say disdainful.' He thought sibly deduce that it originated with tne fin i sn was close and first be- some other writer. Which, wont do I Heved Colombo won instead of coih- Williams any good. , J ihg in third. However, the an- Spdrts writer launches n Imselc nouhcer declared the race to have with a 'Hello, fellas'— an immediate been entirely fair. Indicative of his tip for. all femmes to twist the dial | oyrn emo tion his one word rating of narrator, and a studio orchestra manner and Ingratiating personality the type pt thing that could very dr concentrate on the stove unless they're particularly interested in 1 the subject of perspiration for glory. Williams kids himself a 'good deal, especially as to his vie-, tory predictions. But maybe he's not .joshing on the level, for most sports writers' correctly heralded wins are as dear to them as a ball- player's 'four for four', or birdies to tfte golf pro when they'll 4o the most good. It's to be presumed that this; commentator will- not stick entire-; \y. to boxirtg, although, with the; coverage desired', it is doubtful If ne can wander too far away from the ring or ball park , or for too *Pl6ng. Which is Just as well for his forte is boxing, racing and base- ball. the contest was , 'terrific,' which he repeated three times before turning of stations In NBC's red web on an aerial hike Into the land of ro- mantic music on this program. Originally, it was an early-evening broadcast; later the shot was fired over the network Friday noon, and now it hits the wave lengths at four p. m. on Monday. The artists' names are not mentioned, for an unexplained reason, Presumably the setting is gypsy Land, the mike over to the BBC man who camp, with Vedder, as chief of the politely said goodbye until next year. Jbee. FLETCHER'S CASTOR I A FROLIC Dan Hornsby, Novelty 8inger, Band, I nlng. bartd, commanding fthat there be music and merriment. Chapman bursts forth In Bohemian ballads, to . .orchestral accompaniment. In- strumentalists also have their ln- Chapman has a resonant voice, of some range, tonal purity, and sweetness in the upper register. Songs 30 Mins. COMMERCIAL WSB, Atlanta This half-hour variety show (.Thursday evenings, 9:30, CST) is I . . ^ aces in this section and represents | camp-fire ballad singing. Chapman handles the melodic theme in easily capture the general fancy and Vaughn de Leath was more | elevate the boys into top bracket's prominent in the earlier epoch of at express speed. Their long stage broadcasting than at present. Just experience is reflected in the .sure- one of ?hose things. She still has ness of their work and Pdise and a lot df what it takes. A 'sweet' I their slick timing, | voice and a professional style ought to put ^r onthe^vai^ble Ust. She s NQRMAN QROKENSHI an alumna of NBC and tuo. I ,, , _ ... Other WORltes did nicely in solo With Helen Daniels assigmehts. Program as a whole is Patter, Band I 30 Mi Sustaining. WOR, Newark WOR has given Norman Broken - shire two half-hours a week, a stur dio dance cdmbo, a girl warbler and ,. ., ..freedom to disport himself ;as he Voice or | willfl aa an . entertainers. Broken- engrossing. an interesting experiment by ha tlonal sponsor to present local flesh broadcast. WSR chosen as one of key stations to be used by Fletcher's This ph^ttflp la easv to listen to| Castor,a to test theory of sponsor ^cauL'william" make? It l^pleas- that # 2S?^^iStKltf*StS ant, and it was bright on the htfa^ic spo^s throughout country first time out. Columnist was a wI » P ro Y| rt ^tive. Wfc stiff bftinff nartlcularlv eon- Dan Hornsby, probably WSBs SWawith^ THE THI Talk Sustaining 15 Mins. WMCA, New York Another twist to the 'Voice of Experience' and 'The Family Cf^f shire makes his pleasing mike per- A , ... _ . . sellor* routines, Elected by WMCA sonallty go a long way oh a session However, a tremolo mars the effect £or a buildup, along these lines is a| that should have no difficulty insin.- slightly at times. Generally, his | lad descr ibed as 'Wynn, the eminent uatlng itself with the WOR clien- American astrblogist and the man tele. . „ ... with millions of friends.' Despite Besides engaging in bits of phi- the astroioglst tae the program is losophizing and reminiscing, Brok- plloted with, extreme cautidh, which enshire batons the band through a. should keep it within the lnjuric- tuneful assortment of stock arrange- tlons laid down by the Federal ments and does the m.c.'ing of the Radio Commissions regarding show as a whole. Lending a voice soothsayers. I to each installment as a guestee is voice and style are well suited to smooth fashion. Vedder makes the swaggering, hearty-voiced chieftain a convlnc ing character, and the orchestra | skillfully pours out atmospheric music. Not a pretentious program, but | I a pleasing one. Jaco. is the star of the Frolics and sells with tension eases it should become eas- ■ ,. , . , , „„„„„ ler, and maybe funnier. Williams novelty and standard songs at least rates a few sessions from network technique. Ho™sby sings fandom to find out. The chances sweet or hot and has deflnlte micror are they'll like him Plug copy rests on the argument that the GIrard cigar is the. best nickel stogies, made and has $10,000 to prove it There's also a contest I phone . personality that places him tops on WSB talent roster. He also doubles as lead in the Lions' Den Quartet, his. own outfit, with Tay- lor Flanagan, top tenor; Perry Two tickets to a Yankee's game for Bechtel, baritone; and Sterling Mel- the best letter giving five reasons vin, basso. This quartet also is why the GIrard is all that the an- worth a listen by network pro- nouncer says it Is. Required with I grammers, Palaver about astrology serves some friend in the mike fraternity, merely as a leaa on for the 'adviser' On last Friday's (8) frame he had thing Announcer in his introduc- Artell Dixon, who went from the tlonto the turn descants on 'man's bluebird to the^down south swamp- relltio^s with the heavens' and lands 'Chloe' for his song reper. waSS? the listeners about trusting toire. Helen Daniels, who formerly embody with a claim to divine billed herself as pien Rpwland haj JS, T inqieht while Wynn him- the regular vocal assignment in the STS^^uSffiS. meStion of Brokerishlre stock i Cdmpa„y. Hers is , a. x ■ MA ■ . the word 'horoscope,' but is clrcum- a soprano and style that does, richly is a real estate promotion. „"®J 9 ™. X„nt To eo Into any of by a heart lyric, sic is used to hold WOR "sten- fPe^fnengh not to go ln^ » any ^ oi y^^^ affalr ^ brought long enough for a couple of sales "a j 1 ^ 1 ' TO t ? ftom Brokenshire heaps of senti- Wynn opens his act witn a par i entalizln& Band's playing of a i tune o£ 1927 vlntag e cued him into WEST POINT Y. A C. CLUB Robert Yapp's Hawaiians (3) Music 16 Mins. COMMERCIAL WOR, Newark This is [Music ors talks. ~ Object is to get listeners anxious for spare time money to able, having for its source visit the office of the company' and I n « tnl " k f l*f e ' ^^fdnesdly I a Hne of reminiscence. He recalled vs. Broadcast is | 4 >»S V ^h* 6 ** i« S w ® 2nd I some of his contacts around Atlantic City and qtiav fr6m resorting to that ttejn ln ihtal ^ learn the big news. the letter are five cigar bands. Con- solation prizes are boxes of the I product itself. . . Webster-Elsenlohr, advertising agency. is the Orchestral music played by Mar cus Bartlett's orchestra which is consistently better than average, Lois Lewis, soprano; and the Calico Kids, juvenile sister trio of singers, complete talent line-up.. .Jimmy Davenport, 1 WSB announcer, handles show. Only criticism of show is too that the invention of .glass doesnt ver [ng rendition of the song's date back that far didn't Prevent ^ BroUen shire's remarks in in- hours are the next day on 42d street, > Wtle- fishes and a New York. Words 'salesmanship' or 'commls sion' never mentioned. Instead 'em narrative. His recital gave Mm an £ thQ personal ab dut them, Dixon, the earmarks of an Uncle Bob I ^ ... programs are built with skill. While Hornsby frequently reaches away back for a tune, the other music is pop and snappy. Bartlett's orches tra has no string section and he JEANETTE CRAMER 15 Mins. COMMERCIAL KGW, Portland Jeanette Cramer's cooking school broadcasts every morning over KGW have plenty of realism. Recipe and instructions for making a custard is followed over the air by the Sound of an egg-beater, a knife as It slices the mixture, and the clatter as the prepared material is placed in the Oven and the oven door closed .'.There is no sound technician on fyand to. assist. Miss Cramer, home | f or broadcast series, economics editor of. The Oregonlan, broadcasts direct from the Oregon ian kitchen, just on floor above' the KGW-KEX studios. With a micro- phone and inter - communication telephone system she has no trouble at all. Microphone sets on a bench and as she talks to the radio audi- ence she actually prepares and cooks the food. Response to this new method o: cooking school broadcasting ha been tremendous. Miss Cramer has maintained a wide listening audi ence ever since she first went on the air, five years ago, and that's about a -ecord for the life of a Single radio cooking school. She gets an airing on the next program. But regardless of what it might For the second and final part df nave been for Brokenshire, he- his act Wynn reads his fan mail. snow g here that he still packs the stated this occupies the former es- tate of J. Pierpont Morgan up the | Hudson. Strictly fill-In music, neither good I nor bad. Obviously no thought | gets good effects from brass and given to production or showman- reeds ° j ship. Whole object of the sponsor Fletcher's Castorla Frolic easily Us to reach as many ears as may is in the first two in point of popu- ordinarily be supposed to be listen- larity of WSB Ipcals. Shows are Ing to WOR, but without attracting built by WSB and all talent local. I any new ones. Land. Hubb§lt Robinson, Jr., of Young & Rubicam, made all arrangements Ernie. One letter recites that the writer | has been offered an astrology serv- ice that will bring him thousands of | dollars in stock market profits and wants to know if this astrological info would be reliable. Other com- munications deal with problems of job getting, domestic relations" and affairs of the lovelorn. With the last Wynn exercises particular care. Ex- patiatlon on sex he avoids, giving mike personally that satisfies. Odec. GUY LOMBARDO SALUTE International, pick-ups, with Marion Harris, Mills Bros* Paul White- man, Gus Arnheim, Charles Dorn. berger, Bern! 55 Mins. ARMAND With Jane Froman, Don Ross, Len- nie Hayton Orch. Disc. 15 mins. COMMERCIAL improvement over the earlier and rather misguided endeavors on be- half of Armand's Symphohie face powder. Most of the palpable mis. takes enumerated four months ago ard now eliminated.. Purely per- sonal angles anent Carl Weeks, the Weeks is still on HARRY SAVOY Comedy , COMMERCIAL WEAF. Now York ■ - , . .... „ - _ i — —■■ Harry Savoy, standard vaude each query shortshrift and a ™ess I ^ comedian and on the boards usually df vague e eneralitles. Wynn ^. c ft 0U °Jf ^"p'" 9 ^ Y . very funny, failed to- command his stuff in straight from ^^.^ side- WEAF, New York much respect as a radio funny man walk verbiage. As an oracle .for the Guy Lombardo's irK^Ugural eve when debuting to the kilocycles (7) mob mind his personality and style ^ ftt Waldorf -Astoria^ New through the medium of the Rudy carry little selling power. He ■ ^ now York, was the occasion for this pub. Vallee Fleischmann show. Perhaps dn two nights a week. If his mall uclty stunj; arranged by NBC to - — it worth while more spots compliment not dnly Ldmbardo but WOR, Newark x . r _ . This program represents a Vast on a second time out he might do makes «,».. e .^ » sponsor, are out. - - attributes the success of her school the show (or his ghost), but he con to the fact that the listening house- I fines himself to a few remarks about wives get . what they want every —day, and that is the planning of r meals. The KGW cooking school does not consist one day of 15 min- utes on how •tb stir mayonnaise and '— the- next-day- on how- to -make.- rock candy. Each day the housewife re- ceives practical suggestions oh plan- ning the meals for the day.. It is Miss Cramer's theoiy that women do not really object to cooking. What they dislike most is. the plan- ning of meals. The Oregonian kitchen, from which the broadcasts originate, is a shdw place of the city in itself, and With the radio publicity tie-up, there is hardly a minute out of each day that visitors are not present in- specting this new gadget or . that new device or admiring the archi- tecture and colors. the nature and values of. his partic- ular brand of pulverized talcstone. It Is a pleasant musical 15 min- utes as now waxed with Froman, Ross and Hayton under the. super Yisioja_Qt tlie Naturally no . of such conventional ing: a dance orchestra and a couple of better. Just what was amiss, or lacking Is hot -easy to say. His stuttering didn't help. Stuttering on the radio is chiefly an annoyance. His visible personality, did hot get itself trans lated Into strictly audible terms. He tended to ramble and his remarks tended to be just conversation in- stead of brain-ticklers. Charley Williams and Marcy will be added to his schedule. Odec. DUFF'S GINGERBREAD MIX 'Minute Manners' with Mrs. Riley Disc. 5 Mine. COMMERCIAL the NBC artists' bureau, which now proudly roosters that Lombardo has joined the RCA family as a royal cousin. Opening nights of orchestras are all alike. But if they must be, this is the way they should be (from the leader's viewpoint), for the public is more impressionable and more worth-while impressing than song WGY, Schenectady. , ■■ • - — - . . m this series of five-minute discs, Plue&ers and other orchestra lead Klauber, film and stage writing plugging Duff's Ginger Bread Mix. ers. »fi rt „ n i team, equipped Savoy with material a Mrs. Riley discusses household Mechanically the international for his radio start. Probably an matters, the handling of children, Part of the broadcast. Including open question whether* the actor. e t c Mrs Riley comes right to the England (Marion. Harris), scouana =Brosf),^and^ArgentIne"Was.= Show ran smoothly endugh. trace of the I Ben Bernie was next to closing. sin^rsVgoingto asTonisnT amazed I seemed, in abstract, not unslmilar I lecturing or teaching tone is notice- There again having the public or otherwise achieve radical reac- *P a B reat deal °* t,.e jesting that able in her remarks, she probably brought in meant something, since * 1ST W Aver acAriev y *"=u iiuconun .wiieuiw mo »tiur. etc. Mrs. Jttiiey comes ngnt to ine ^»b»«.h entional ingredients as terial didn't fit the performer. As task can be efficiently performed, dkay. 'patter the Williams-Klauber stuff Despite the fact a " '" adequately serves other comics on hits home with, the average Women obviously the regular opening night the air. listener. There is an air of author- crowd knows all those Bernie catch - Obviously, what Savoy needs for ity about what she says and the phrases by heart, radio is exactly what all comedians manner in which she says it. All in all, it was an appropriate need in that department, a central Announcer spiels twice, and at salute to a celebrated aggregation , _ „„ comic pattern, some memorable some length, considering the fact by other celebrated dittoes. As powdered isinglass is mixed with phrase, something that identifies the the shot is flred in flve-mlnUtes, an radio showmanship it rates, As a it. Spotlight ad in the dailies the individual as an individual and not offer is attached. Platters are personal compliment to Lombardo night (Monday) of the broadcast just one more In a series of gag- placed on the revolving table at it's genuine, since only the top- on WOR called attention to it. tellers. an early-morning hour, several kicks of the biz could command Land. I Savoy's diction is good. Land. I times weekly, Jaco. I such a stunt." Land. tlons. Suffice that it's nice and will probably hold those tuned in. That's as much probably as any radio. disc can hope for, Armarid states its product is •transparent,' which may mean that Tuesday, June 12, 1934 IU| I o VARIETY 43 Inside Stuff-Radio Ford Prick is doing 15- minutes of sports every evening, over "WOR, New York. It's a commercial, has to do with baseball and he's been doing it for some time. But Monday, June 4, was a day off for both big leagues, there were no scores to report and Frick thought he'd catch up a bit on some diamond gossip for the fans. So he practically repeated, word for •word, a Dan Daniel column on Frankle Frisch. Daniel is a veteran sports writer with a by-line in the Worlds Telegram. The lift was so flagrant, being almost verbatim and broadcast the same evening as printed,, that Frick must have had permission to use. •the material. If not it ranks as one of the most outstanding examples of cribbing yet noted. The way it came over the air Frick might just asr well, have been reading Daniel's copy.. All of which .doesn't figure to improve Frick's. standing to any extent because some of his listeners must also be World -Telegram readers. If they're interested in Frick's nightly comment it's probable that they may also read Daniel, and re- peating a written column on the same , day over the air is so close that followers of both men won't muff the similarity. "Which leaves Frick bundled up for future gossip chants in that a certain percentage of listeners will be wondering over Who's shoulder has he been peeking this time. Inasmuch as there's supposedly a certain esprit de corps among sport commentators the normal -deduction would, be 'that he must have had some soft of an okay or intended to get it later. Yet Frick uttered no word of credit as to the source of the Frisch material. Recently, completed Po,lk!s 1934 Census of Consumers compiled for ..Oregon Journal, operator of KOIN, Portland, Oregon, reveals some interesting information for advertisers. Not the least of which is the fact that in this territory there are now radio sets in 84% of alk homes. Two years' ago the. 1932 Polk survey, showed 1 74% indicating a sub stantial increase during the two worst years of 'the depression. These figures refer to homes only and do. not take into consideration the thousands of car radios that have been sold locally. A nationwide census recently made by the Columbia network showed a national average Of 60% of all homes owning radios. ' By comparison the figure of 84% in the Portland district makes it the "beet radio listening territory in the country. In a suit for $3,000 damages filed at Toronto through alleged default of a broadcasting contract, Joseph Newman of 'Radio Advertising Serv- ice has taken out a writ declaring that the house presented to. George Young by the. city of Toronto following the winning of the Wrigley marathon at Catalina is eligible for seizure under the judgment which Newman has secured from the Supreme Court. Radio program was, to boost an oil company to be formed by the swimmer and F. A. McLean. When the California trust company, . in which Wrigley placed the Catalina prize money until Young becomes 30, refused, to release funds for :he oil venture, the radio deal fell through, with Radio Advertising Service suing successfully. Although contingency deals are supposed to. be out under the code; a Los Angeles advertising company has dug up a wrinkle. In placing straight: announcements for an insurance company, agency buys one spot announcement from a station at the lowest card of the particular station and informs the broadcasters that it will pay 50c a letter for all over three received. Idea behind this is that the letter Of the code is recognized by buying the one announcement but as a fee is promised for all letters above the stated three it is expected 'that the stations will make additional an- nouncements, gratis, hoping to get in ,on the 50c an answer gravy. Probably first instance in east of daily capturinfe rival's radio, editor is the hiring of Bridgeport; Conn., Post of Rocky Clark; hitherto loud- speaker delegate of the opposition afternoon .Times- Star. Clark gets his fan mail at the Post beginning next Monday (18). Post and Times-Star have been at- a circulation tug-of-war for many months. Former daily, like its morning brother, the Telegram, has up to how been without a locally-edited .radio column- Clark has been a newscaster morning and night oh WICC, Bridgeport, until the recent press-radio agreement unwired him. Puzzle San Francisco, June 11. It's the sworn word of Pris- cilla Mitchell, switchboard queen at KFRC, that a fan phoned , in the other day and asked: •How do you spell KFRC?' Spain Fines Station Madrid, May 28.. Union Radio, largest local broad- casting station, was fined 5,000 pesetas (approximately. 700 dollars) yesterday (27) because an an- nouncer made remarks over the air which the minister of interior con- sidered disrepectful .to the govern- ment. It is alleged' that the announcer, name ungiveri, made the alleged re- marks after the police informed the station that it would have to stop its rebroadcast ,6f the Spain-Brazil football match in the Genoa football championships. Police pointed out that news broadcasting on Sundays is prohibited by law, that Union Radio's; play-by-play account, of the match Was news and therefore its broadcast was illegal. New Commission July 1 Calif, Goes Big on Cop Radio Stations in West Los Angeles, June 11. Of 19 radio frequencies allotted to police departments on the Coast, 14 are in California. In addition, con- struction permits for three addi- tional police . frequencies have been issued: by the Federal Radio Com- mission. Spots will be Long Beach, Santa Ana and Whittler, all in Southern California. Pacific Coast cities now utilizing broadcasting for mobile • apparatus are: Aberdeen and Seattle, Wash.; Bakersfield, Berkeley, Fresno, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, San Bernar- dino, San Diego, San Francisco^ Qah Jose, Tulare and VaUejTo, In . Call-' fornia; Las Vegas, Nev. Klamath Falls, Portland; Ore. With practically all those not scheduled to stay on the air for the summer already off NBC finds that its current client setup to around 80% of the maximum number of accounts that it had at any one month during the 1933-34- season. The 20% drop for the warm spell represents the smallest of its sort in the history of the web. In actual income from time the drop during June and July, at least, is not expected to come to 20% under the levels that prevailed for the peak spring months of this year. Gen. Mills* New Special ■'■*. i. General Mills' one-time' shot- on NBC this Saturday ; (16) , night (10:30 EDST) framed around • a cast of older names of the stage will include. Cissy Loftus, Fritzi' Scheff Gus Edwards; Donald Brian and DeWolfe Hopper; Abe Lyman will baton the .musical aggregation. , It's 60 stations on the red (WEAF) link. Champ agency at hiring people to participate in reading the plug and eliminating them at the last minute is Benton and Bowles. Prompting most of the cancellations is the fear that the newcomers might suffer an attack of mike nervousness arid ball up the copy's recitation. Ad reading was turned over to some one in the regular cast of entertainers and the person especially brought in for the former assignment gets the stipulated stipend anyway. Two .vice-presidents of NBC, Edgar Kobak arid Richard C. Patterson, tripped to Omaha on biz last week, kobak fulfilled a last year's promise: to deliver an address on advertising. Talk was given at Chamber of Commerce public affairs luncheon. Speech was Kobak's only biz, and he flew back to Chi same day. Patterson stopped in to talk turkey with John Gilli boss at WOW; Hew San Francisco Jobs San Francisco, June 11. Harold Helvenston, drama direc- tor at Stanford University, has been taken in an advisory niche by pro- duction department of KFRC, effec- tive immediately, and succeeds Rob- ert Bowman, who resigned last week. Same station has taken on Eugene Hawes (Pedro Gonzales) for occa- sional spots, and is using a flock of other occasionals on' Happy Go lucky Hour. , Cliff Nazarro, from vaude, put on the NBC payroll for network's var riety shows. George Storer, WMCA, New York, escaped taking the westbound aero- plane of American Airways ..that later became lost .by a lucky, change of an appointment. (Continued from page 39) Walter M. W. Splawn of Interstate Commerce Committee. Numerous, other names enter into speculation, and leading Democrats are working tooth and nail to grab off patronage when commish gets going.. Ihvestigati With his resolution calling for in- vestigation of fitness of present commissioners stymied in Senate committee. Senator Dickinson of Iowa sounded .off against the pres- ent outfit, complaining that political influences, rather ti,ian Impartial justice, direct decisions, and pro- testing that commish is dominated by the White Xloust and Democratic bosses. Town is filled with yarns, about how commish has swung back and forth on touchy ma - ters as Demo- cratic powers pulled wires on both sides. Dirt received thorough air- ing in the Chicago Trib recently, paper carrying a series of articles by its star correspondent, Arthur Sears Henning, charging that a dozen cases were decided by politi- cal bosses.. Yarns were . linked up With Trib's prolonged ariu militant fight agah'.st government censorship of news and opinions. Fact that commish decides cases and then orders its legal sharks to write decisions upholding their action a used quite a stir in Con gressional circles, though it was ho surprise to persons on the inside. Republican Senators particularly were Incensed at evidences of how the regulatpry body responds to political compulsion. Fearing that President Roosevelt will make recess appointments after Congress goes home and that Senate will have no opportunity to pass on new commissioners until next winter Senator Dickinson called for some White House spokesman to deny truth of Chicago Trib, Washington Post and New York Herald Tribune charges without getting any an swers. Questioning constitutionality of quasi-judicial administrative agen- cies, Dickinson complained ..that commissioners are 'accessible to parties, attorneys, Congressmen and White' House secretaries, who wish to talk to them in chambers about iome pending case,' and declared, 'it is all too easy for them to. wink at a violation in one case and to make it the vehicle for drastic dis- cipline in another.' 'I am hot satisfied that certain of the present members of the Fed- eral Radio Commission possess the necessary qualifications,' Dickinson stated, pointing out the need for a complete investigation of the fit- ness of the Roosevelt appointees. Cloud thrown over present outfit was. not dissipated when another 'final' decision in the Shreveport- New Orleans case was handed down Friday (8). After having wrestled with this matter for near- ly two years, commish finally ruled that both KWKH, 'Hello World' Henderson's station, and WWL, Loyola University transmitter, should have full time and changed their assignments to eliminate con- flict. This case has involved plenty of p^litic^'mahlpuIat'i6nV^itH~Senator' Robinson of Arkansas, White House spokesman, and Senator Huey. Long, of. Louisiana, tangling. in their long-standing feud. Robinson moved in on the White House tC see that WWL, friendly to Long, did not win out, while Huey, out- side, the fold, yelled and Bhrieked to prevent KWKH from coming out on top. Robinson got Col. Louis Howe, F. D.'s number one secretary, to let Herbert L.. Pettey, commish secretary, know Of. Robinson's in- terest, and Acting Chairman Thad Brown was called to . the. White House to get more detailed orders, Another case of much the same character is th« . still-pending Los Angeles mess in which William Randolph Hearst is the leading fig- ure. With decision before local courts on appeal taken by Don -Lee System, political machinations are continuing. In this matter, cOm- mish oven- "«d its examiner, who turned thumbs down on requests ot stations KTM and KELW for li- cense • renewals and permission to sell out to Hearst's Los Angelea evening sheet. oosevclt Involved James Roosevelt, President's son, figures pron-'nently in charges ol political influence • growing : out of a New England scrap in which Yankee netwjrk was seeking new Portland, Me., outlet. Republicans allege : young Roosevelt wired- com- mission to give favorable consider" ation to application of Charles W Phelari. representing Sheparc Stores, for Portland license, bu1 Secretary Pettey denied any com- munication of any kind ever wai received from President's son; Tw< commissioners, however, conflrn reports and say that telegram front •Jimmie' was read in commissloi meeting; Frank Gannett, publishei of Gannett newspaper chain aifii friend of the White House, jumped info the mess along with Gov Brann, of Maine, U. S. Attorney Clifford and former Democratic Na- tional Committer man Bob Jackson of New Hampshire. After grant- ing Phelan application, the decisloi was rescinded, commish examine] reported In favor of Gannett, papei in Portland, and commish ulti- mately granted, facilities to Man- chester, N. H. . Half a dozen other' equally com 1 plicated cases are In the spotlight including a battle royal involvinl several small New York station) seeking more time, a fight betweei stations , in Indiana and Illinois contest involving two Pennsylvania stations, and lesser matters. Charges th?.t Arthur Mulien, for- mer Democratic National Commit- teeman, is the number one lawyei because of his relationship to Com- missioner James H. Hahley, anc former commish examiner Elmei W. Pratt, have added interest to th« gossip. Also figuring In the tall is Paul Spearman, former assistant general co jrsel of the commisrlon Congressmen Sirovlch Of New York, Blanton of Texas, Woodrum of Vir- ginia, Democratic boss Joseph F Guffey of Pennsylvania, and lest important political leaders. Heat Sends Bishop Uorth Denver, June 11. Frank Bishop, with KFEL, Denver for several years as secretary arid sales promotion manager, resigned recently to go to WSGN, Binning* hiam, as manager. Now he has returned to KFEL. Says its entirely too hot down Soutfb 44 VARIETY R A PI O Tuesday, June 12, 1934 COMMERCIALS WEEK OF JUNE 11 This Department . lists (sponsored programs on b arranged alphabetically under the advertiser's' name; All time is p. m. unless otherwise noted. Where one advertiser has two or more programs they are listed consecutively. An asterisk before name. vertisi tig agency handling, account. Abbreviations: . (Su M (Monday); W (Wednesday); Th (Thursday); F (Friday); ACME LEAD 8:30-Su-WABC 1)8:30-W-F-WABC Ed McConnell ♦Henri H-.Mc A. C. SPARK PLUG 9-W-WJZ. 'Cookoos' Ray Knigin Eddie Green Dick Campbell ♦Campbell-a A & P t>:SO-M-WEAF ffarry Hbrllck Robert Simmons ♦ rails & Peort ARMOUR 9:aO-I'~W.|Z Phil Baker tT McN'auerhton Mabel Albertson Irene Beasley Roy Shields Ore •N. W. Ayer 1 EDDIE PEABODY Radio's Most Versatile Entertainer Return Engagement MAXWELL? HOUSE SHOW BOAT HOUR Thnrsday, June 14 NBC Const-to-Coast Network 9-10 P.M. EDST Every Saturday NBC Network — 7:30-8 P.M. EDST PURE OIL PROGRAM Personal Direction HAROLD F. KEMP NBC Artists Service HOTEL PIERRE DENNY AND HIS ORCHESTRA Conoco Oil I Richard Hudnut Wed., 10:30 P.M. WABC WJZ I FrI., 0:30 P.M. WJZ Sat., 18 Midnight Mon., 11:35 P.M. CHARLES TENOR COAST-TO-COAST CBS THAVIU AND HIS ORCHESTRA At "STREETS OF PARIS" Century of Progress WON NIGHTLY Inquiries Solicited CHAUNCEY PARSONS TENOR "Streets of Paris'* World's Fair, Chicago WGN Nightly . T. BABBITT l:»0-.Su->VUAF Mnry ■ Small Ralph Kirbery, Wm. Wlrges •Peck A. BOYLE (Floor Wax) 2:30-Su-lVAliC 'Lazy. Dan' Irving Kaufman 'Blackett BARBASOI, 8:15-M~WABC Rdwln C. Hill ♦Erwln. Wasey BAUER & BLACK (Blue ..Jay Corn Plaster) 4:15-Tii-F-WJZ Wade Booth Dorothy Day •Need ham, L> & B BAYER t»:30-Su-WEAB Prank Munn Virginia Rae Oilman & Arden Bert Hlrach Haenschen Ore •Blackett BISODOL :30-W-WABC Everett Marshall Elizabeth Lennox Ohman & Arden - Victor Arden's Ore ' •Blackett BORDEN 10:30-Su-WABC 46 Min. in H'lyw'd' Mark Warnow 11:45-W-WABC Jane Ellison Young & Rublcam BRISTOL-MYERS 9- W-WEAF (Sal Hepatlcet)' (I pan a) Fred Allen Portland Hoffa Jack Smart Lionel Stander Eileen Douglas' Irwin Delmore Minerva Pious Tpana Troubadours Theodore Webb r.ennle Hayton 'Benton & Bowles CALSODENT CO *-.15-Th-WJZ 'Rhyming Rover' •Thompson CAMPANA 10- F-WEAF First Nlghter' June Meredith Don Ameche Carlton Brlckert Cliff Soubler E Sagerqiiist Ore ♦Aubrey Moore CARNATION MILK 10-M-WEA'F Gene Arnold Lullaby Lady M L Eastman Jean Paul King •Erwln. Wasey CENTAUR (Fletcher's). 10:30-W-WABC Albert Spalding Conrad Thlbault Don Voorhees •Young & Rublcam CHERAMY (Cosmetics') ,. 8- W- WABC Maxlne Lash String Quartet •Gumbinner CITIES SERVICE 8-F-WEAF Olga AT ban I Cavaliers .. •Lord & Thomas CLIMALINE 12-Th- WEAF Harold Stokes Jackie Heller Oil Page King's: Jesters •\V. S. Hill CUT EX . (Odorono) 0-F-WJZ Plill Harris Leah Ray '~ •J. Walt. Thomp. COLGATE-PALM (Colgate Dentifrice) 9:30-M-W15AF 'C'lg'te Ho'se P'rty Joe Cook Donald Novle Frances Langford Don Voorhees Brad Browne •Young & Rublcam 10-Tu-WEAF . (Palmollve Soap.) W, A. Backer. Dlr 'Rio Rita " James' .-Melton John Barclay Nat Shllkret •Benton- B 10.15-dally-W'E Al- (Super Suds). 'Clara Ml & Em' Louise Starkey 'Isabelle Carothpre Helen King *Benton-B CONTINENTAL OIL CO. I0:30-W-WJZ Harry Rich man Jack Denny John B. Kennedy •Tracv-L-D CRAZY CRYSTALS 2i30-M to F r WEAF Gene Arnold Maple City 4 8:30-M-W-F- WJZ Gene' Arnold- Commodores Orch ■ ♦McC-Erlc. CONT.. BAKING 9:15-F WABC Little Jack Little •B., B.. D. & O, CORN PRODUCTS ll:lff-M-W-F- WABC (Kremel. Etc.) Pedro de Cordoba Will Osborne ♦Hellwlg R. B. DAVIS •(Baking Powder) 9 A. M.-W-F-WJZ 9:4a-Tu-Tli-WABC 'Mystery Chef John McPhersori ♦Ruthrauff-R 6-M-Tu-W-Tli- WABC 'Buck Rogers' Curtis Arnall Adele Ronson Edgar Slelhl Joe Gra'nby-. Walter Tetley Allan Devltt Georgia Backeu Elaine Melcholr Adele Klein Bill Shelley Henry . Gurvey Harry ' Swan Lionel 'Stander Emmet ' Gowan Beatrice Allen ♦Ruthrauff & R ELIZABETH ARDEN 9-Tu-WABC Maury H. B. Paul Fray & Bragglotti Freddy Martin •Blaker Agency EX-LAX 0:30-M-WABC "The Big Show' Helen Menken Gertrude Niesen Erno Rapee ♦Katz FIRESTONE 8:30-M-WEAF H. Firestone, Jr. Gladys Swarthout Vocal Ensemble Wm. Daly Orch. •Sweeny-James FITCH 7:45-Su-WEAF Wendell Hall •K. W. Ramsey FORD MOTOR 0:30-Su-WABC 9:30-Th-WABC Fred Waring Ted Pearson •N. W. Ayer . FUNK & WAGN LL (Literary Digest) 7 : 15- W- WJZ Graham McNamee •Badger' & B GEN. BAKING 5;30-Su-WABC Julia Sanderson Frank Crumit •B„ B.. D. & O. GENERAL CIGAR ©:30-W-WABC Guy Lombardo Burns & Allen •J. Walt. Thomp. GENERAL FOODS (La France) (Washing Powder) 9:30-Sa-WEAF "Beatrice Fairfax' Marjorlc Johnson Mc. Stickles Ore. NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY ANNOUNCES RICHARD HIMBER and HIS RITZ- CARLTON ORCHESTRA Featuring JOEY NASH m'.wmSt of NATIONAL BROADCASTING CO.— HAROLD KEMP U:15-Th-WEAF Frances Lee Barton •Young & Rubicon 9- Th-WEAF (Maxwell) Chas Wlnnlnger Lann'y Ross Annette Hanshaw Conrad Thlbault Muriel Wilson 'Molasses 'n' Jan'ry Gus Haenschen S-F-WEAF 'Marin's Certo Lanny Rosa ■ Mary Lou Conrad Thlbault Gus Haenschen Ore •Benton & Bowles 10- iV-WABC 'Byrd Expedition* •Young .'- & Rublcam GENERAL MILLS a:30-l>aliy-WABC Jack Armstrong 1 All American Boy 10:30-So-WEAF (One time only) De Wolfe Hopper Cissle LoftUs Frltzie Scheff Giis Edwards Donald Brian Ethel' Jackson 4-I)nlly-\VJZ ■Betty &. Bob' Betty Churchill- Don Ameche Betty Winkler Art Jacobson Carl Brlckert' Louis Roen •Blackett GENERAL MOTOR (Chevrolet)' 10-Su-WEAF Victor Young Ore ♦Campbell-E GENERAL TIRES 10:30-F-WEAF Jack Benny-. Mary Livingston Jimmy Grler ♦Hays MacFnrland GERBER & CO. 10-Sn-WJZ Mme. Schumarin-H ♦Erwln Wasey GILLETTE (Safety Razor) 7:15-Dally except Sa-Su-WEAF Gene and Glenn •Ruthrauff & R GOODRICH . 7:45-M-W-WJZ •Taxi' Mar Baer Franc Hale' Jean -Southern 10-Th-WEAF Baer-Carnera Bout * Ruthrauff-R GULF 0-Su-WJZ Will Rogers Robert Simmons Revelers Pickens Sis Al Goodman •Cecil Warwick HEALTH PROD'TS (White Cod) 3- Su-WJZ 'Bar X Ranch' Carson Robison John Mitchell Bill Mitchell Pearl Pickens •Wm. Esty I1KCKER II-O 6:15-Dally-WABC H-Bar-O Rangers' Bobby Benson Nell O' Mai ley Florence Hall»n Billy Hallop Jonn Bart he •Erwln-Wasey EDNA HOPPER 2:15-Dnlly-WABC 'Helen Trent' Lester Tremayne Virginia Clark Karl Heube Dolores Glllen Jack Doty •Blackett HOOVER 0:30-Su-WEAF Edward Da vies Chicago a- Capella Joe Koestner *Erwln-Wasey HORLICK 0:45-Su-WJZ Dr H Bundesen •Lord & Thomas HOUSEHOLD 9-Tur.WJZ Edgar A Guest Alice Mock - Jos Koestner's Ore •C. D. Frey INDIVIDUAL CUP CO. (Dixie Cups) 0:45-M-WABC Bob Sherwood. Bradley Barker Frank. Novak's Ore •Young-R- INSTITUTE AM MEAT PACKERS 4- SU-WEAF 'Romance of Meat ♦Direct •JOHNS-MAN VILLE 8:30-StirWEAF Floyd Gibbon? Nat Shllkret Ore •J. Walt Thompson JOHNSON & WON ,. ' (Floor Wax) l:15-Tu-Tli-WABC 5:13-Su-WABC Tony Wbns Kcenan & Phillips •Need ham. L. & B. KELLOGG ..5:30-I>ally WJZ 'T'»c"Hlngin« f^iir* Irene Wicker Allan Grant *N. W. Ayer KICAFT-PIIHMX 10-Th-WKAF P Whltemun Orc lie'cniH- Taylor rtamona I'oggy Mealy .lark Fulton ♦J Walt. Thomp. KOLYNOH 7:1D-I)»lly-WABC Inst l'\!t\/\ Bill Arthur llUtfhff* ♦Hl;iy k<'H LADY ESTHER 10-S-M-WABC 8:30-Tu-W-WKAF Jack Denny Ore Harry Soanlck Ore •Stack-Gobie LAMONT-C0R.LI8S (Nestles) 8-F-WJZ Ethel Shutta Walter O'Keefo Bobby D61nn Ore •j. Walt. Thomp. LARUS nlly-WJZ ■Today's Children' Irma Phillips Walter . Wicker Bess Johnson Irene - Wicker ' Lucy Gillman Fred Von Amon Jean McGregor ♦Hutchinson 11-M-F-WABC • 'Cooking .Close Ups' •Hutchinson PABST 9- Tu-WEAF Ben Bernle Qrc ♦Matt-Fogarty PLOUGH, INC. 10- W- WJZ Vincent Lopez Ed Sullivan . •Lake-Splro-C PUROIL 7:30-Sn-WEAF Eddie reabody De Marco Sisters Joey Nash Richard fllmbor Or rFreitag ' QUAKER OATS 8:45-M-W-r-WdZ Babe Ruth •Flecher & E RALSTON G-F-.WEAF Mme. Sylvia of Hollywood •Gardner REAL SILK 7-Su-WJZ Chas. Prevln Orch Charles Lyons •Erwln-Wasey RED STAR YEAST 11-TU-Th-S-WEAF Edna Odell Phil Porterfield Irma Glen Earl Lawrence- RITCHIE (Eno Salts) 8-Tu-W-WJZ •Eno Crime Club' Spencer Dean •N. W. Ayer SCHLITZ . 10-F-WABC Everett Marshall Victor Young Ore Stoopnagel & Budd Frank Crummit Vivian Ruth . B. B. D. & O. SILVER DUST 7 :SO-Tu-Th-WABC Paul Keast Tlielmu Goodwyn Rollo Hudson's Or^ ♦B.. B., D. & O. SINCLAIR 9-M-WJZ Gene Arnold Bill Chllds Mac ■ McCJotid Joe I'arsOna Cliff Soubler Harry Kogcn •Federal' STAND. BRANDS (Chase & Sanborn) 8-Su-WEAF Jimmy Durante. Rublnoff ^ (Baker's) 7 :30-Su-W.JZ Joe Penner ' Harriet Illlflard O'/.yAe Nelson Qrc 8-W-WEAF J:ick Pt-irl Cliff Hall Peter Van Steoden Kathleen Wells 8-Th- WEAF (Flelschmann) Rudy Vallee and His Conn. Yanks •J. Walt. Thomp. STD. OIL (N. Y.) 8-M-WEAF Socony Sketches Arthur Allen' Parker. Fennelly Kate McComb Isabelle Wlnlocke Ruth Russell Robert Strauss *J. S. Getchell STERLING PROD. 0-F-WEAF (Phillips Mug) ■Waltz Time' Abe Lyman Ore Frank' Munn. Vlvlenhe Segal 5:10 daily ex. Sa-Su- WABC 'Skippy' 8:30-Tu-WABC Abe Lyman- Vlvlenne Segal Oliver Smith •Blackett STUDEBAKER 9:30-Tu-WABC Richard Hlmber * Roche- W-C SUN OIL 6:46-Dolly-WJZ Lowell .Thomas •Roche- Williams TA'STYEAST 7:30-Tu-WEAF Brad Browne Al Llewellyn •Stack'-Gbble TIDEWATER (Tydol) 7 :30-M-W-F-WABC Jimmy Kemper ; Robert Ambruster Hummingbirds •Lehnen Mitch U. S. TOBACCO (Dill's Best) 9:30-F-WEAF . 'One Night Stands' Pic Malone Pat Padgett Josef Bohlme •McC-Erlck. WANDER CO. (Ovaltlne) tt:45-Dally-WJZ 'Little Orphan A' Allan Baruck Henrietta Tedro Ed Sprague Stanley Andrews Shirley Pell •Blackett WARD BAKING 0-Su-WABC •Family Theatre' James Melton Josef Pasternack •Fletcher-E WM. R. WARNER (Non Spl) 9:30-W-WJZ 'Navy Born' Edmund Lowo Mary Brian •Cecil. W. & C. WASEY PROD 12-MrTu-W-Th-F- WABO 3:15-M-WABC 8:1C-M-WABC Voice of Exp'rlence ♦Erwln Wasey R. L. W ATKINS 0-Su-WJZ Tamara Davis Percy . Men About Town Jacques Renard •Blackett WELCH (Grape Juice) 7:30-W-WJZ Irene Rich ♦Kastor WESTERN CO. (Dr. West T'thp'ste) 6 :30-M- W-F- WEAF 'Frank Merrlwell' Donald Brlggs Dolores allien ♦J. Walt. Thompson WYETH CHEM (J ad Salts) B:ir»-W-Th-F- WABC 'IOasy Affes' Goodman_ Ace -Jafie^"Aco " ' ^' ' ' " Mary Hunter •Blackett Tastyeast Juvenile Script Augmented by Adult Show Tastyeast is turning to a dual dramatic :serles for its entertalhn merit on NBC. One show will bo directed to the kids while the other will be framed for adult appeal. For the juves It will be a three- time weekly dramatization of the cartoon strip, 'Dicky Tracy,' with NBC'S red (WEAF) link the release and Sept. 5 the starting date. This one Is scheduled for a minimum of 39 weeks. Tom. Powers! Leona Hogarth and Fred Worlotik haVe been engaged as the nucleus of a stock company to do a group of one-act. plays on the blue (WJZ) loop Sunday evenings (9:30 EDST), starting June 17. Yeast maker has this series sched- uled for seven consecutive weeks during the summer and 27. more in the fall. When it resumes the sketch Idea will fill the 12:15 niche on the blue Sundays. Both dramatic programs placed by Ben Rocke. Variety Says: "Seems no reason why Hope could not do well on a regular commer- cial assignment/ 9 BOB HOPE Comedian COMMERCIAL WEAF, New York Bob Hope has made a number of guest appearances for Rudy .Vallee. . His easy-going, underplayed style is as likeable on the air as upon the rostrum of a variety or legit house. His jokes are aged, but his delivery and general approach to • humor is modern. Seems no reason why Hope could not do well on a regular commer- cial assignment: Perhaps it may be argued he has no catch phrases or distinctive Identification, and this may be valid cause for caution up to a point. But he wears well, his -knack of self-joshing and unabashed realiza- tion of his own daring is calculated, to please where more perspiring methods, of getting laughs exhaust and enervate. Couple of him. "ROBERTA" NEW AMSTERDAM NEW YORK LEO REISMAN PHILIP MORRIS WEAF, Tuesday, 8 P.M. BRUNSWICK RECORDS COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM Present » LEON BE LAS CO Sole Direction HEKMAM B ERNIE. 1010 Broadway.. New VorU Artists Managed For Radio Exclusively WRITE PHONE WIRE - W: T. KIRKEBY^ "~ 1 7 IS Broadway Circle 7-7334 NIELA GOODELLE RK0 PALACE, NEW YORK, Week June 8 Management HARRY BESTRY Tuesday, June 12, 1934 R AD I O VARIETY 45 Radio Chatter New York George Gallup, hag got himself a place in Princeton, N. J.» for the summer. Ira Ashley did his last continuity for the Phil Harris -Cutex show with the Friday, June 8 th broadcast. He had been authoring this series' for seven months. Paul . Whiteman hasn't been on the air yet from the Biltmore roof. He opened a week ago Thursday (31), but preferred to refrain from broadcasting until the balance on the dine and dance spot has been rectified. Aldo Rlcci celebrates June . 24,. the first anniversary of his Phantom Strongs stanza on NBC.** Ed Kirby, of WSM, Nashville, in New Tork last week. Karl Landt doing the guitar strumming for Lahdt Trio and White. Tony Wons in Chicago last week talking with Johnson flobrwax about an evening program in the fall. Joel Dennise on WNEW, New York, Fridays. George D. Lottman has made George Evans, one of his. staff, a partner in the Lottman radio pub- licity business. Marjorle McMullen, author of, and the lead in, 'Ma Fraser's Boarding House' sketch over WGY, is the daughter of a former children's court judge in Schnectady. . Bill Meenam, p«. of WGY and editor of its 'Scissors and Paste/ is back on the job, browned up, after a vacation. The Vagabonds, WGY trio, are now singing over the NBC red web on Friday afternoon and Sunday morning. Andrew Kelly's 'Horse Sense Philosophy* sketch, over WGY, is no longer an all -male affair. A young woman now acts as an 'ex- tinguisher.' WGR, Buffalo, using new Sunday morning show based on comic sup- plements from Buffalo Sunday, Times (Scripps-Howard) Malcolm Barney, announcer, called 'Ole Time Chuckle.' 1 New England 'As I See It,' program of comment on political and other news, which Introduced Dick Grant to the Yankee Network audience in March, 1933, has been resumed as editorial period of. web's . news service. Grant's personalized comments were suspended when he took over the berth of editor-in-chief of the New Service last March. With the news on a smoother running basis, Grant Is taking five minutes at 6:20 p.m. nightly over WNAC for an editorial comment on anything in the news. Jaysnoff Sisters, two-piano team, how have early Sunday evening booking on WBZ-WBZA. Jack Ingersoll and Carl Moore, sports announcer and patter-pian- ist, respectively, at WNAC, are working out once a week with the Shepard Stores team in the Retail Trade golf league. John Shepard 3d and his brother Robert make up the balance of the team. Babe Ruth, in Boston with the Yankees, did his Quaker broadcast from WBZ studios. Charlie Phelan, Yankee web sales manager, has his stable of horses at Rockingham Park in readiness for the opening of the racing season there. . ^JWEEI's Ed Lord is the proud father of a baby girl. ' Vic Whitman and WEEI's boss- man,- Charlie Burton, back from their Ashing trip down Maine. Vic Is telling stories of four-pourtd salmon which were unlucky enough to get on his hook. . Arthur Anderson* accompanist for George Hinkel, is putting the finish- ing touches on an original sym- phony which he will submit to the Paderewski Fund in competition for $1,000 prize. Civic ceremony which took place at Fenway Park Sunday in. observ- ance; of the Golden Jubilee of the Ordination of His Eminence Wil- liam Cardinal • O'Cbnnell was heard over the Yankee - web, as was the big K. of C. observance held several nights previous. After spending $160,000 to fix UP the place, the Bass Point Hofi'se at Nahant is considering the installa- tion of a Yankee web line for dance pick-ups. The haul of 20 miles from the Boston control room would be the longest distance for a regular pick-up. Tristram. Coffin, Utah-ite of the WNAC announcl g staff,- had k former classmate from Salt Lake City in the studios the other day to show him the inside of radio. The visitor was Gordon 'Dusty' Rhodes, Important member of the Red Sox pitching staff. Peoples Symphony Orchestra, with Fablen Sevitzky conducting, starts a series of sustaining broad- casts over Yankee net. Polly Jenkins and her Plow Boys are playing theatres and broadcast- ing over stations in Vermont. Simpson . Fur Store, .Burlington, is a new account on the books of WDEV, Waterbury, Vt, Don DeForest and his National Broadcasters are now touring Ver* raont ballrooms. ;The Winnisquam Farms sponsor- ing the Montpelier Boys, band in a seri es of weekly broadcasts over WDEV, Waterbury, Vt. . Cab Calloway and his Cotton Clubbers dp three New England ohe-nighters next weekend, two for W. C. Cook, of Springfield, Mass., and the third Sunday night at Ro- ton Point Park, South Norwalk, Conn. Etta Donegan, ex-WICC : and WDRC, sighed as vocalist with Vic Vaast's band, all-Connecticut combo. Ferd . Lie" Jeune, Lou Weiss arid Johnny Woods taking over 'Merry- Go-Round' commercial at WICC, Bridgeport. Lucy Warinka Lyman, Stamford pianist, making a WICC comeback in a Friday-eve spot. Musicians' union boycott of WICC, permitting no members to broadcast' unless they get paid, still holding tight at Bridgeport watter. Phail of the McPhail School of Music, Minneapolis, Thursday (7) night warbled over KSTP. in a pro- gram which was fed to the . NBC national network by this station at 10:30 to 11 p.m., C.S.T. Program was. a plug for the national Shrine convention, to be held in Minne- apolis, June 19-21. Western Canada Gladys Gobper, CRCV, Vancouver soprano, sang over network for A! Pearce's NBC show at Strand and may join his unit in a few weeks. Art Chandler, chief technician, C.J OR. Vancouver, holidaying in California. Del Flnlay, son of Billy Finlay, well known Western Canada sports writer, handling Terminal league baseballover CKMO.. CJOR- landed Shell Oil contract for twice-weekly broadcast of box lacrosse. Leo Nicholson — Big, Brother Bill — doing job now at bof,h baseball and lacrosse* Gerry Wilmot, CJOR announcer, doing good job in his side-berth as m. c. at new Coconut Grove, Van- couver; Kentucky Latest personnel shift on WHAS, Louisville, makes Joe Eaton pro- gram director and promotes Pete Monroe to the dual capacity of chief announcer and .studio director. Sanders Sisters are back on WHAS for a daily quarter hour ses sion of harmony. Bob Atcher, ballad warbler, has quit WIND, Gary, Ind:, for his old niche* WHAS» where he's down for a daily stint of his own. Pacific Northwest Illinois Sylvia Clark* besides appearing on NBC Friday and Saturday nights, the former in connection with Hydrox Ice Cream, is doing a routine of French ditties at Harry's New York Bar,- 'Streets of Paris,' on the World's Fair grounds. Bill Hay knocking" off for a spell. Marie Coldevln's .middle moniker is Antoinette. . Grelg-Blair & Spight ensconced in their new fancy headquarters. Henry Selinger back this week from the month's sojourn in Yurrop. French Casino with Carl Hoff and Noble Sissle orchestras on WBBM. Ed Kdbak and Roy Witmer in for the A.N.A. meet and for Midwest NBC buzz-buzz. letter, Jay Brower marked It opened by mistake' and returned it. Helen Troy, half of Cecil and Sally, joins NBS as character co- medienne on Carefree Carnival. Dick Romaine doing the hews broadcasts for- 'Call-Bulleti ' on KPO. Herb Taylor, former arranger with Abe Lyrhan, now in Claude Sweeten's band on KFR. 8. T. WEAF Phillips. Milk of Magnesia .Kri«I;ij. o s e this definition on two grounds; first, that it was unneces- sary, since the dealer is not men- tioned in any other section of the code, and second, that if left un- challenged it might at some future date be used for a code modifica- tion that possibly would work to the detriment of the jobber. Duchin in Congress Chicago, June 11. Eddie Duchin orchestra goes into the Congress hotel for a summer run starting June .14. Will likely go over WBBM-CBS. - ; ..Du.Chin. was or Jgi n n 11 y ; bro ught_out_ to Chi to open the suburban Dells, but the coppers havo kept that spot folded. Connelly Delayed Reg Connelly, British music pub, r again deferred his sailing bark to London. Latest plan has him slated to depart tomorrow (Wednesday). Connelly was delayed in disposing, of a number of British fllmusical Bongs in America. Most Played on Air To familiarize the resit of the Country with the tunes most on the air around New York, the following is the compilation for last week, ~~ Plugs are figured on a. Batur- day-through- Friday week,, ularly. Only the chain stations are listed as indicative of the gen- eral plug popularity. Data 'obtained from Log compiled by 4-ccurate Re- porting. Service. WEAF WJZ WABC 24 . ■ • • • • • Tit! I'll String' long.. Beat O' My Heart. .. I Wish I Were Twins Little Man Busy Day All I Do Is Dream.., I in-t Lazy Sleepy Head...... Cocktails • for Two. .... So Help Me. ••••• Love Thy Neighbor. ... . May I ...... . , True Had My Moments;..... Hat's On Side of Head. Night On the Desert. . Reminds' Me of You. — RiduV ArtTund in Rai 1,000 Goodnights, . . . ... Hold My Hand. . . As I'm Concerned....;.... Practice What Preach. Don't- Let' Love Go Wrong 1 • • * • • 24 23 23 22 21 20 18 18 17 17 17 15 14 14 14 14 13 13 12 12 12 FIVE PUBS OUT OF MPPA FOLIO Permission for the Music Pub- lishers'' Protection Association to include . their works in lyric folios has been withdrawn by Famous Music 1 Corp.,-Ager, Yellen & Born- stein, Inci/ «obbins Music Corp., Sam 'Fox Music Co., and Isham Jones Publishing Co. These firms are- also opposed to the continuance of the songsheet idea from within the. popular industry ^ First edition of the MPPA's song r sheet folio, which .also includes pic- tures, and articles, went on the newsstands last Friday (8)< Thing sells for a . .nickel and the . edition consists of 600,000 copies. POLICE DRIVE AGAINST BLUE SYRACUSE JOINTS Syracuse, June 11. Syracuse police are cracking down on local cafes and night clubs offer- ing floor shows as a result of veri- fied charges that, in many cases, the performances, eclipse anything seen on stock burlesque stages here in the old days. Practically every hole in the wall joint hereabouts is offering some sort of a show to lure patrons. Cooch dancing and tease, stuff have been prevalent. " What stirred the police to action was the discovery that the proprie- tors of some establishments were specializing, in young talent, 'some of the girls being 15, and 16 years old. Albert's N. Y. Ogling Frank Albert, head of J. Frank Albert, Sydney. Australia, publish- ing firm, . spent last week. in. New York. With him was his wife; his son, Lex, and the latter's bride. All four were on the second lap of. a tour of the world. Albert rates is the world's wealthiest music publisher. Can't Open Nite Spot in Chi With- out a Funny Name Chicago, June 11. This town has -broken out with a yen for trick names, with the small cabarets going the full route. All they need is a name, a small room, a couple, of table workers and, on Saturday- nights, ,a kitty orchestra, Some of the. latest f angle in names are; K-9 Club, Wonder Bar, Sloppy Joe's, Club Alabam, Club Leisure, Club Royale, Hi-Hat Club, Boat, Mpulin Rouge, Nut House,' Silver Slipper,. Press Tavern; Harry's New York Cabaret, Mart Club, Shake Hips, Pirate, Iceberg > Cave, Jail,. Grotto, Prison Cafe, . Steamship O lee's, Tin . Pan Alley, Don Blanco, Penny Ante, Two Bit Club, Mirador, Alley Cat, Parody, Golden Pumpkin, The Four Deuces, .100 Club, 200 Club, 226 Club, 400 Club, Paradise, Roman Room, Casa de Alex, Crystal Tap,, Yorkshire Buck, Two-O-Five Club, Club Byron, Oh, Henry,, Club Morocco, Minuet, Stables, Bowery Music Hall, Ballyhoo, Garage Cafe, Limehouse, A Bit O' Paris, Mar- quette, Carioca, Red Grange's 77 Club, The Dells, Samovar', The Drunkard. Mills Loses Attempt To Restrain Hylton's London Court Action Moses May Compromise Claremont Inn No Hoofing Order; Union Eases Rate Union Protection San Francisco, June 11. Harry Barris and his band- were due to bow out of the new Music Box cafe in two weeks, but,, because the boys are buying new tuxedos on credit, local union won't .let 'em go. Barris' boys have the coats paid for now; as soon as the pants are theirs they can leave. P1NSLEY DIES 1 AIR CRASH Motion made . by Irving Mills to stay Jack .Hyltoh, British bandman from suing- him in England over Cab Calloway's recent .tour abroad was denied by Justice Hammer in the New York Supreme Court last week. Move before Justice Ham mer came as a. sequel to an action for an in junction that Hylton brought here just before the Callo way unit was about to sail for Eu- rope three months ago. Band, how- ever, made the trip unmolested by legal red tape. When Calloway reached the other side, Hyltoh filed a similar petition for an injunction with the English courts. Mills last week asked the New York • Supreme Court to stop Hylton from pursuing the. injunc tion proceedings in England on the ground that there is a prior action of -the same sort oh this side. In turning down this .. request, Justice Hammer . remarked that Hylton on this side is suing the Mills Artists Bureau, Inc., while in England the litigation' is directed against Mills personally. J. T. Abeles is attorney for Hyltoh in the U. S.; Samuel Jesse Buzzel reps Mills legally. Continental tour that the Callo- way band made was under the booking management of the Harry Foster office in London. Hylton claims that Mills, by giving this authority to Foster, violated a con tract that he (Hylton) held. This contract, contends Hylton, gave him exclusive booking call on the European tours of all Mills acts. Hylton now wants to collect the commission he declares is due him for this tour, and also obtain an injunction which will prevent Mills from booking, .any of his. attractions abroad unless through Hylton. Leslie Abbott Studies Leslie Abbott, son of John Ab- bott, general manager . and partner in Francis, Day & Hunta is on this side to make a study of Ameri- can methods in conducting the music publishing 'justness. Abbott figures. . on making a stay of six months. Art Strauss^DoTng TtfRay ~ : Winnipeg, June 11. Word comes from London, Eng- land, that Art Strauss, bandleader who went, to England solely on 'spec' a couple of months ago, has already clicked with two London maestros — Lew Stone and Jack Hylton, They are keeping him busy on orchestration' work. Was on stage and radio here. MILLS SIGNS 2 MORE Irving Mills has signed two hew orks; Gloria Hilton and Melodears, all -girl band, and Joe Venutis hot combo, last at Delmonlco's cabaret, N ; Y. Venutis first booking under Mills Artists, Inc., banner is at Loew's Met, Brooklyn, June 22. Hilton femmes are slated for dance dates. Eube Wolf in Frisco San Francisco, June- .11.. ^Rlibe^W oif-h as-organ i zed=a=dancfL. band, and picture house m.c. opens at the Edgewater Beach club here June 26 under a booking made by the Thomas Lee artists bureau, Succeeds Niies Kirfney's crew. Don Lee network will run a line into the beach nitery for Coast- wire broadcasts. Wolf was at the Edgewater about 3 2 years ago, when it was the old Tait's at. the- Beach. Harry P. insley, booker and as- sistant manager In the New York Office of the Music Corporation of America, was among the seven per- sons killed .in the crash thfe Amercan Air liner near Livingston Manor, N.. Y., last Saturday (9). Pinsley, 'who was 25 years- old, had during his threeryeair career in the business gained for himself ' high re-- gard as a booker and personality among bandmen and hotel- opera- tors. Plane was taking him to Buf»r falo, where he was to make a call upon the executive offices of the Statler hotel chain. j Pinsley joined the Chicago office of MCA in June, 1931, after grad- uating from the University of Illi- nois. In October., of the same year he was transferred to New York.. Surviving him are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pinsky, two brothers and a sister. All live in. Chicago. Pinsley was supporting the' older brother, William, through the U. of I. PETRILLO ORDERS DAILY PAY FOR EXPO BANDS Chicago, June - il. J Continued weakness of concesf-; sion business at the World's'. Fair; has caused. Jimmy ' Petrillo, chief ojf the Musicians Union, . to rule thajt every band and. orchestra/appearing at the Fair must be paid daily.' Coin is sent to the Musicians headquar L ters and there distributed. 8 Members of Hurst Ork Hurt in Auto Jam Fort Dodge, la., June 11. Cecil Hurst's orchestra figured in an auto jam near Fort Dodge last week, enroute to a Des Moines, la., engagement. Eight members of the unit were injured, Lyle Haskell suf fering a broken back, and Clinton Hartwick severe hand injuries. Others were gashed and bruised. Accident occurred when the play ers' bus and a baking truck mixed things. Ferry Seeks Writers Felix Ferry is in New York rounding up talent and writers for his next Casino, Monte Carlo, and Dorchester House, London,- shows. Of the six writing teams that Ferry has listened to, the choice has simmered down to Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, and Sammy Stept and Ned Washington. Fink Outdoors Henry Fink, west coast m. c. who has been one of the two sponsors of the Theatre Cafe in the Bond Bldg., N. Y., has shuttered the downstairs restaurant and recoh- Btrueted^the-^Broadway^^nd^eth; street entrance to include a Bide- walk cafe. Fink will reopen the basement in he fall as the Caiiente, featuring a Mexican cuisine and entertainment motif. Jack Mills has taken over the. American rights to 'As Long Ah I Live' from Potor Mamlrr Whatever is behind N. Park" Commissioner Moses' edict against dancing at Claremont Jnn on Riverside prive and 124th Street, N. Y., it brought Roger yVolte Kahn, the dance maestro, into prominence in instances. For oiie thing it may mean kahn's. oust., from the engagement which marks the late banker. Otto Kahn's son's profes- sional comeback. However, while June 18 has teen set as the finale, date, there ' Is some likelihood of Commissioner Moses reversing him- self. The other instance of prominence involving the. Kahn dance combo is that he rightfully figured that since he wa; working on city property, in a pop priced rbadhouse, he was en- titled to B classification with the Musicians Union in N. Y. He was sustained by Ed Canavan and the board' of the N. Y ; local of the AFM, which nieas a - difference o $25 a man less oh the job. It was because of this that Kahn had voluntarily increased his band from 14 to 16 men, in view of the saving per -man on the union scale. When brought before, the union, young Kahn was not only sustained but the union authorities spoke of extending similar cooperation to every musical orgahizatibn employed oh city property. From the union's viewpoint, every time the city okays a contract, for some pop priced eatery on a city park or other municipal property, it throws open more engagements for musicians. This the union wants to encourage. Id Sheep House Unionist Canavan spoke of the Levine brothers (owners of the Brass Rail In Times square) who have been -granted the /Tavern-in- the-.Park concession in Central Park. This is on the site of this old sheephouse near the Central Park West and 65th street gate. This, ui.like the ultra swank Central Park Casino, will ' be gauged for the masses , and scaled accordingly. It is because of the present Casino in- cumbent, s Sidney Solomon's fancy tariffs that he faces ouster proceed- ings by the municipal authorities. The Levines ' also operate the- res- taura.Ht 'concession at Jones Beach, Long, island. Kindred other pop eateries in city parks, etc., for con- venience of the. masses will be thrown . open under Mayor F. H. LaGuardia's new deal for the metro- politan 'population J .Incidentally, ' lii' connection with Moses 1 ouster on the Claremont's dance band, it is not generally known that the park commissioner: is an ( uncle of Roger Kahn 's. Moses' objection to the Claremont is not against 1 dance music but on the principal that a $1 minimum ob- tains whether one orders a beer or a lemonade or more. Moses wants to abandon that minimum which, the city father's interpret as just another means, of a couvert charge, and that's against administrative policies. Perry's Recording San Frahcisco, 'June 11. Joe Perry of Brunswick is in town cutting Arthur Tracy (the Street Singer) in English tunes at the MacGregor-Solli labs. Accom- panist on 'the accordion is Madeline DeMichele. Perry is also testing Charles Mar- Shall, NBC ' prairie balladist, with view of waxing him, Johnson's 2d Degree Toronto, June 11. First singer to be awarded the distinction by the University Of Toronto, Edward Johnson, was given the honorary .degree of Doctor of Music here. Previously, this had only been awarded to com- posers and .musical artists. In 1929, Johnson was made Doc- tor of Laws at London University. WITH . E0GERS-HART Hollywood, June 11: Dick Rogers' and Larry Hart are expected on the Coast July 1 to dp tunes for 'Mississippi.' a musical' to oe produced by Arthur Hornblow at Paramount. They'll be here around eight weeks and then return to New York for a show. f 48 VARIETY music Tuesday, June 12, 19H HAY MUSIC BIZ IN PIT; PK HELP Sheet music business continued through May to sink lower into the doldrums. 7 ' No relief from this state of .affairs " «came apparent with the advent of June. : If anything, the trade looks forward to the worst summer since the depression set In Responsible for keeping the ball rolling in a large measure have been the tunes from picture scores.- Top ping- counter, attention in this sec tor are those songs warbled on the screen by Blng Crosby. For De .Sylva* Brown & Henderson, four tunes out of 'We're Not Dressing' ; have done nicely. They are *Love Thy Neighbor', 'May T. 'She Re minds Me of You' and 'Good Night Lovely Little Lady'. Giving signs of being destined for the top in the eastern area is Til String Along With, You', from Warner Bros. 'Twenty Million Sweethearts'. While the going was good, 'Cock- tails .for Two' ('Murder at. the Van- ities') did a hefty turnover for Fa- mous Music Corp. Sam Fox got a good reaction on 'Nasty Man', . from 'George White's Scandals', and .Robbins garnered a neat call on 'Riptide 1 . Another number that drew sub stantial returns during May was •Don't Let Your Love Go Wrong' (Broadway). Same month also showed Isham Jones' 'I Ain't Lazy' solidly on the upbeat. ' Mechanical field had an equally glum May. la. the east, Ted Fio- Rito did the leading for Brunswick. ^ Duke Ellington was Victor's ace taker, and' Benny Goodman came out tops for .Columbia. Chicago Ali is Chiqago. Industry is looking around for alibis and finding plenty of them. Business is off and is being ex- plained, by the summer heat,, the drought and the lack of an out- standing song. That there is no one big tune, such as 'Springtime, in the Rockies' or .last Round Up', is really af- fecting the trade. The best sellers are there not because they are par- ticularly big, but only because the competition is weak. 'Little Grass Shack', previous list leader, is practically tied with "Little Man' for sixth place, while 'She Reminds Me of You' was also just nudged out of the blue ribbon section for May. Crosby and Lombardo continue to monopolize the Brunswick list, with Ethel Waters only In there for one ace tune. 1_ A. Hits Bottom Los Angeles. Bottom dropped out of the sheet and platter market during May, with sales volume lowest it has been in six months. One bright spot in the disc market was the demand for the new crop of Bkig Crosby Bruns- wick recordings, which led the field handily. Sales of Crosby tunes led MAY MUSIC SURVEY THIS TABLE SHOWS THE LEADING SIX SELLERS IN SHEET MUSIC AND PHQNOGRAPH RECORDS GATHERED FROM THE REPORTS OF SALES MADE DURING MAY BY ING MUSIC JOBBERS AND DISC DISTRIBUTORS IN THE TERRITORIES 6 Best Sellers in Sheet Music Reported by Leading Jobbers NEW YORK CHICAGO LOS ANGELES Song— No. 1 •Little Dutch Mill' 'Little Dutch Miri' 'I'll String Along With You' Son©— No. 2 'Thousand. Goodnight*' 'Love Thy Neighbor' •Little DUteh Mill' Song— No. 3 'Love Thy Neighbor' 'Old Spinning Wheel' 'Old Spinning Wheel* Song— No. 4 'Cook tails for Two'. 'Thousand 'Goodnight*? 'Little Grass Shack' Spng-^-No. 5 'Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day' 'I'll String Along With You' 'Cocktails for Two' Song— No. 6 •J'll String Alona With You' 'Little Man. You've Had a Busy Day' •Good Night. Lovely Little Lady* 3 Leading Phonograph Companies Report 6 Best Sellers Side responsible for the major sales only are reported. Where it is impossible to determine the side responsible for the sales, both sides are mentioned: BRUNSWICK— No. 1 r 'I'll String Along With You/ 'Fair and Warmer' (Ted Fib P*ito Orch. with Dick Powell) •Riptide' (Guy Lombardo Orch.) 'Once in a Blue Moon' (Bing Crosby) BRUNSWICK— No. 2 Three Little Words,' 'My Gal Sal' (Claude Hopkins Orch.) 'Love Thy Neighbor' (Bine Crosby) •Good Night, Lovely Little Lady' (Bing Crosby) BRUNSWICK— No. 3 'Riptide,"How Do 1 Know If a Sunday' (Guy Lombardo Orch.) 'Come Up and See Me Sometime* (Ethel Waters) •Ridin' Around in the Rain' (Bins Crosby) BRUNSWICK— No. 4 'I've Had My Moments/ 'Beat o' My Heart' (Leo Reiaman Orch.) 'May 1?' (Ring Crosby) •May 1?' (Blng Crosby) BRUNSWICK — No. 5 'Fare Thee Well,' 'The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven' (Guy Lombardo Orch.) • 'Fare Thde Well' (Gujr Lombardo Orch.) •■ •Hot Chocolate Soldier' (Ted Fio Rito Qrch.) BRUNSWICK— No. 6 s. 'Come Up and See Me Sometime,' 'You've Seen Harlem at Its Best' (Ethel Waters) 'Good Night, Lovely Little Lady* (Bing Crosby) •Cocktails for Two' (Jphnny Green. Orch.) COLUMBIA— No. 1 '1 Ain' Lazy, I'm Just Dreaming,' 'As Long As 1 Live' (Benny Goodman Orch.) 'Good Night, Lovely Little Lady' (Benny Krueger) 'Beat o' My Heart' (Ben Pollack Orch.) COLUMBIA — No. 2: 'She Reminds Me of You,' 'Neighbors' (Earl Burtnett Orch.) 'Ridin' Around in the Rain' (Earl . Burtnett Orch.) •I've Got It' (Jack Teagarten Orch.) COLUMBIA— No. 3 '1 Can't Dance, 1 Got Ants in My Pants,' •Imagination' (Chick Webb Orch.) : 'She Walks Like You, She Talks Like You' (Earl Burtnett Orch.) 'Basin. Street Blues' (Benny Goodman . Orch.) COLUMBIA— No. 4 'Waitin' at the Gate for Katy/ 'Ridin' Around in the Rain' (Earl Burtnett Orch.) '1 Ain't Lazy, I'm ..Just Dreaming' (Benny Goodman Orch.) • lay to Me, Gypsy' (Henry Hall Orch.) COLUMBIA— No. 5 'Good Night, Lovely Little Lady,' 'Once in- a .Blue Moon' (Benny Krueger Orch.) 'Old Roses' (Little .lack Little) 'Fare Thee Well to. Harlem' (Benny Morton Orch.) COLUMBIA— No. 6 'Passion/ 'Evocacion' (Eduardo Blanco) 'Two Little Flies on a Lump of Sugar' (Little Jack Little) 'Emaline' (Benny Goodman Orch.) VICTOR— No. 1 'Cocktails for Two/- 'Live, and Love To- night' (Duke Ellington Orch.) 'The World Owes Me a Livi r (Ray- mond Paige Orch.) •Tiger Rag' (Ray Noble Orch.) VICTOR— No. 2 •Riptide/ « I've Had My Moments' (Eddy Duchin Orch.) •Cocktails for Two* (Duke Ellington Orch.) 'Nasty Man' (Rudy Vallee Orch.) VICTOR— No. 3 'Neighbors/ 'Over Somebody Else's -Shoulder* (Isham Jones Orch.) 'LoN/e Thy Neighbor' (Raymond Paige Orch.) 'Carioca' (Paramount Studio Orch.) VICTOR— No. 4 •Hold My Man/ 'Nasty Man' (Rudy Vallee Orch.) 'The House Is Haunted' (Paul White- man Orch.) 'Love Thy Neighbor' (Raymond Paige Orch.) VICTOR— No. 5 'Easy Come, Easy Go/ 'When a Woman Loves a' Man' (Eddy Duchin Orch.) 'May 1 ?' (Eddie Duchin Orch.) •Easy Come, Easy Go' (Eddie Duchin Orch.) VICTOR— No. 6 'Flying Trapeze/ Parts 1 and II (Walter O'Keefe) •Ill Wind' (Eddie Duchin Orch.) •Riptide' (Eddie Duchin Orch.) all other sales by a wide mar in, with Ray Noble's -Tiger Rag' jump- ing to the front for Victor, and Ben Pollack's 'Beat of My Heart' perking things up a bit for Columbia. In the sheet . music field, 'I'll String Along With You' topped by big odds, though .'Old Spinning Wheel' and 'Little Dutch Mill'. held strong. Last two weeks, had 'Beat o* My Heart' perking up, and plen- tiful ethering created a consistent demand for 'Cocktails for Two*. 'Waiting at the Gate for katy,' 'A. 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Suite 905, 54 W. Randolph Street Chicago J Music Notes Hughie Barrett opened at the New Barn, roadhouse just outside of Rochester. N. Y. Bobby. Crawford, now fully re- covered from his accident, leaves, for the Coast this week. Clarence Parrish and Harold Lee, both' of Witmark's Chicago Naffice, in New York last week. Sanford Green has been given a term contract by Sam Sax at the Vitaphone studios. Green got & pa- per after several of his tunes in Warner Bros, shorts had clicked. room at Ethan Allen Park, Bur- lington, Vt. Plans this year call for traveling bands. Henry Busae band turned out four pop sides at Columbia recording last week in Chi. Did 'Fool That I am, 'Dreaming of You,' 'Hot Lips' and 'Jealous.' Bernie Lowe and orchestra at the Terrace Park Casino, Lake Oko- bo'ji, la. Band augmented to 13 with addition of Lloyd Hundllng, tenoi, and three Jays, femme trio. George Li. Lampman, ex-KSO pub- licist, now repping Lowe combo. Witmark has taken over the American rights to 'The Very Thought of Y,ou' from Campbell- Connelly. Eddi Davi has added' the Rhythm Boys, once with Paul Whit- man, to his band at the Canoe Place Inn, L. I. Edward Ho watt, formerly ith Pryor's Band, is leader of the new Headquarters ork at Hudson. N. Y. Ray Curley and his Silver King Aces are playing at Lakeview hotel, Averill Park, N. Y. Art Hyde's orch at Forest Park, Uttca, N. Y. ^Lw^Liss^k'r'orch^trarafftirre^ cehtly-at the Club Marco In Boston, Is now playing at the Pine Point Inn on the Albany-Schenectady Road, Jack Robbins will publish 'What About Me,' by Howard I)ietz and Arthur Schwartz. Louis Rothman and Reginald Fennel have takfn over the ball- Joe Ricadela doing the warbling. with the Don Kordel unit at the Florida, Broadway spot. Lola Barbra coming on from the Coast to join Freddie Berrehs' vo- cal interluders at Ben Marden'a Riviera. Fort Lee, N.. J. New York, this Thursday (14) with a floorshow composed of Janet Reade, Pat Rooney, the 3rd, Helen Shaw, Bob Gilbert and Smith, Fields and Smith. George Kestner hea*ds the dance combo! Billy Rose's Music Hall, quartered in the former Manhattan theatre, Broadway, unveils this Friday (15), Enric Madriguera opens June 291 at Vivian Johnson's, Monmouth* N. J. Manfred Gotthelf and Continen- tal Orchestra o"pens a summer sea- son at the Country Club hotel, Nip- persink, Wis. Gotthelf previously played the Opera Club, Chi.. Dell opening at the Castle Farms club in Cincinnati, Now has Bill White as vocal soloist:. Keith Beecher ; 'orchestra set Cor the Sky Room at the Stevens Ho- tel, 'hicaTo. Jess Stafford's ban in out of the Club Tlvoll, Frisco, and Le e C ar^ "fol I "tiflt e^a^Sirf alf er 'llrrotrpri nT a f feT this week. Les Hite's colored band, on a barnstorming tour of West Coast, opens at the Golden Gate this week (13) for seven, days, baiting for Horace Ileldt's band during latter group's week off. Pat Rlyago ooney„ opens his Beau olub at Sheopshead Bay, 1. A. BIZ AGENT OUT Los Angeles, June 11. Fred Why the is out as business agent of . Musicians' Protective Local 47 after two years. Successor will be named July 23, with Dr. Leonard Stallcup filling i temporarily. The Rhythms of LES MEYERS and Ills Orchestra a Buffalo favorite, now appearing at "Alhambra oh the I-iRlco" in Buffalo, and over the Columbia chain, make 'dancing feet tl.nple. Hear them play; "ALL I DO IS DREAM OK YOU" "I'VE HAD MV MOMENTS '■SLEEPY HEAD" "THANK YOU FOR A LOVELY EVENING" "HOT DOGS AND SA3PARELLA" A THOUSAND GOOD NIGHT9- ROBBINS MUSIC CORPORATION llll 199 SEVENTH AVENUE |||| ■III • • • N£W YORK • • ♦ llll NITE CLUB OPERATORS Munrtffer with wide theatrical and restaurant experience available . for class Nlte Club. Can handle entire project. Now employed ns theatre muikager. Write box 88 variety, new york Tuesday, June 12, 1934 MUSIC— NITE CLUBS VARIETY 49 Imported Totes Bergere Smash Hit At Casino, Chi; Apple Dance Tops Fans Chicago, June 9. They've been talking about bring- ing the Folies Bergere oyer to America for some years, but each time cold feet got irtixed up with show business and the deal flop- perooed. Last year a political gfoup of this city had $200,000 in promises pooled to bring the troupe over for the Fair, but the promises weren't negotiable. J. C. Stein, of Music .Corp. of ■ America put up the coin and, with the odds running against him, the show sure' enough opened at the Casino on June 8. Let it be re r corded that this is. the most spec- tacular and sure-fire nite club re- vue ever spotted in this town. French Casino is the new name for Rainbb Gardens, which has had a long and hectic history. Some 10 years it was one of the big money making niter ies in towri and made for the far north side, the heart of the night clubs business. Then it went into a slump with the rest of the biz and finally became a fight arena and a' jai a lai court. This summer there Was ah attempt to rehabilitate It as a niterie, with Prima beer tossing some coin into it. But it was a short-lived afCair and. closed about four week's ago. Jack Huff, who formerly had Lin Coin Tavern, stepped into the pic- ture on a deal with J. C. Stein for the Folies. They've redecorated the spot entirely, despite the fact th.it it was -Jt knockout already as the Ralnbo. At present the place is the last word physically. There is only one objection to the spot, but it's an objection that's going to spell success or failure. And that's the location. In 1924 the class of the city resided on the far northside, and it was a roaring sue cessful part of town.. Today the jnorthside has deteriorated and it doesn't attract the way It used to making the Casino out-of-the-way and a long trip from the loop. This is one thing that's going to militate against it. If. the show and spot can continue to overcome that one ob- jection, the place is in, because it has everything else. Once the cus fqmer is out here he's going to see a floor show that's goimr to send him out raving. Floor show is not a proper tag for this revue. It's more like a legit attraction, running some 135 min- utes, split up into three portions. Folies Bergere has been a name for many years, but In this presentation it becomes an actuality. However, the entire company and show is not purely from the Folies. Other at- tractions have been added, with per- formers in from the Bal Tabarin. Moulin Rouge, Casino de Paris. Col-: ieeum, Cabaret Montmartre.' Ambas- sadeurs and Empire theatres. Ba- sically, however, the show is the Revue- Folies Bergere. Show has been staged by Jacques Charles of the Moulin Rouge and he had done a socking job, while the Komarova ballet is tops for classical routines. Clifford. Fischer is respon- sible for the entire production. Show is presented with a certain verve and intensity which, makes each performer stand out. It is a revelation of genuine entertainment from performers who make it their duty to entertain. After the typical American nite club performer, who thinks it's smart to be careless, shoddy arid . what-the-hell, the in- tense workmanship of these perform- ers is a "heart-sock. .Rmile Boreo.is An "h1s"eleindnt"'h"eVe' ,_ a's.. the fn.c.', or." as the program has it, 'conferen- cler'. Always a standard vaude per- former, Boreo is top-notch . on the floor. It was the first time in any nite club in Chicago that a wise audience actually' shouted sand bra- voed for more. Borep stamps him- self .a surefire entertainer with his work here. He has" one number, 'Dark Eyes', as sung by Greek. Rus alan, French, Italian and American Biijgors, which tears down the roof. Other individual outstander on the evening was Gloria Gilbert, a toe dander, who comes through, with spins which are remarkably fast and unbelievably sustained. There were other individual specialty workers who stood out, such as Olympe Bradhn, who' did an acrobatic dance with excellent showmanship. For the rest, it was the company, the costumes and the presentation. Particularly clever was the manner In which the French nudity was mixed with the most classical num- bers, so that everything was colored -^wit ; h=tho=saving--grapC"-of--elassF-Foi : ' the art work, the Komarova X^allet was a thing of -beauty. They did Russian ballet, French opera ballot and everything with every classical tradition, intact. Yet dovetailed in with those routines was the 'apple dance 3 , in which the fan dance is topped' by eight or nine miles. Tn this apple dance the girl is ahso lutely nude and dances, with, a male partner, The apple is all she has to cover her charms. However, the apple is not of the tree variety. It's as big as a medicine ball. This is due to the mythological story of Helen and Paris, in which the apple was reputedly as large as a man's better recognish -for her piercing sopranoing of 'Wagon Wheels.' The number is a production bit with the line" gals on,' and the warbling ef- fect was 6tunted by the over length of the piece. Line of 12 femmes packs a lot of looks, but not much .ability; yet gets along o.k.. because routines are simple ones. Has three numbers. .The. ork for, the floor show shifts over from the nearby dance pa head. No matter what size the vilion and occupies the stage, with apple, It Is stfll a top s;a. dancs rou- the show entering from wings, but tine; There was no overdose of mainly working from runway; can nudity in the show. Other than the lie ^ better glimmed in that way. dance, the only flashes Came from , Mid-way in shbw a back-stage halt posing scenes in. which the gals, are -is made so that ork might do a Wp to the waist torrid specialty. The outfit's baton - For speliaky acts there was the whirler Billy Bowen, vocalizes this snake dance by Harold and Lola, in a la ■ Cutaway. _ Which tlie girl impersonates a snake, Understood ■ p°t*^* tote toe fVi> mm flhin? a whlch Stephens, through lecal attorney Vincent Hallinan, charges he was set upon by a flock of employees and severely beaten when he ob- jected to an alleged overcharge. Incident reputedly occurred when Mills Brothers; now in England, were playing the Orpheum % early last March.' 3 ASCAP RATING SQUAWK BY the show and did a Job^which^e- , ce the Paradise,. Casino serves more raves in this already . ;^ e nen ^4 P . the Benera vogue !?SS y ^of music S band against couvert chargas-it mai straight dance music, uus Dann ■ ■ .. . ith th <, UC cessive seasons, turned out a production and scor- tains it witn tne successive season*, tng job which was probably largely It's been the top money-maker accountable for the click of this, for years, including this season show. They built each production | (even including the sensational effect to its highest possible point. Gold. SILVER GRILL Casino's pace) and with Vallee out, the new show is geared for prob- ably as attractive an operating net as heretofore. New star is Helen Kane, the original boop-poopra- do'oper, for and about whom Ballard Macdonald and Harry Carroll have built an 'excellent travesty, 'The (LEXINGTON HOTEL) New York, June 6 Refrigerated dine-dance room of Trial- of the Boop-Boop-a-Doops, the Lexington now has Al Kavelin thus capitalizing on the recent wide orchestra in sutstitution for Little publicity accorded an actual Fed- Jack- Little. Kavelin set by CBS and. eral court proceeding. While it goes on the kilocycles through that worked out negatively for Miss network Kane in her proceedings against Kavelin band specializes in slow Paramount-Max .Fleischer, it yield music ItVpbor for dancing. Espe- led enough publicity value to more cially for the older dancers since; admittedlly, the constant steppers can do their stuff to any tenipo; It so happens that the best item in the Kavelin orchestra, a super hot piano, is the chief reason its a.i indifferent dance aggregation Boy who tickles these ivories is plus-everything. His improvisa- tions are slick, his sense of modern music Whitemanesque. At all times he dominates and stands but. This makes for. fine listening, but the or chestra never achieves dancing rhythm in consequence of letting the piano boss' everything. In other words; Kavelin's music than compensate. One manifestation thereof, is her emergence, from a two years' retire- ment, heading - this revue as the piece-de-res.istance. It's a. novelty for a cafe floor and marred perhaps only by coming on too late after a too long show. It would be wise to switch her with Cross and Dunn's spot; Latter combo is another new addition. Allan Cross and Henry Dunn milk 'em With their pops so that after their own 20 mins. or so, and. the bver-an-hour proceedings oT the regular revue, it's much too much. Still the best beauts are around wins the ear but not the feet. Which at the Holly wood ; all fresh and seems an uncertain recommendation peppy. Also a couple of nudes, who for such a room. No cover charge | go Sally Rand much better by at the Grill and table d|hote from $1 to $2 makes It an attractive prop- osition, thanks to the washed air and the silver, pink, and blue tints. Land.. FOREST GARDENS Baltimore,' June 11. This is the opposish to' the more centrally located Mayfair Gardens, and conducted in similar manner, The spot is on the grounds of Car lin's Park, burg's sole amusement plot, and is operated by the Park's prexy, John Carlin. Seeks to off- set its off-track locash by scaling its graduated door tariffs 15c under those prevailing at the Mayfair. Place can seat nearly 2,000 at its picnic tables. Is in grove of oak trees, with naught but star-pow- dered sky for roof. That means no go on rainy nltes, though the dance floor is timber-topped, afad water- proof. Plenty of rustic appurten- ances dFaped around, tanrac under- foot, etc. The likker charges (food list is nil) are stuned to those in force in barrooms. The orchestra, Originally in for fortnight, ,but at present rate, of popularity looks to be season fix- ture, is the' Original Cotton Pick- ers,. 12-mari colored crew. Riffs the hotsy Harlemelddies in approved manner and is scoring a direct hit with, the burg's young, sugar-foot- ing horde, which the Gardens seems to" be drafting exclusively. Floor show surprised. It's good- Beats down, host of natural ob- stacles, too. Rolls twice nitely from/the stagethat formerly served as pan. upon which were cooked summer light operas. Runway has been added, stemming outward from . the rostrum as in burley houses. Le's Sponsler m.c.'s; also staged. The big flash item, and .on c - thati.has-.br.ewed ..a. J_ol . of—t al k. around town, is a gilt dance by Alexianno, gar wearing but a loin strap. Plenty of that has been vaudo-vended through her,e of late, but the mob at the Gardens night caught seemed to think the thing was original. ; Another show-stop was work, of a- witrgly-waisted gal tagged Darlin Lu'ekv. Sold a sizzling squirm and Mae-Wostish chant to high ap- plause bids and had extreme diffi- culty getting away . from 'em. Frankle Price is about oke with a single taps session; Minnie May- more, formerly in vaude, . deserved throwing away the fans almost 100%. Of the specialists thure are two expert terp teams of contrasting types. Moore and Revel', with their hOke hoofing, and Beauvel and Tova, more legit. Miss Moore's clown gondolas are one of the ■. principal assets of the combo, Revel doing excellent foiling. Beauvel-Tova are different in the stral-ht ballroom ology, featuring a semi-exotic motif which blends with their personali- ties. The Climas family's apache finale is still the. same effective topper- offer. They've been here for months, out recently and now back again. Eleanor Tennis, Mathea Merryfleld, Harriette Myrne and Marion Mar- tin, latter the champ beaut, are among the other outstanders. Jerry. Lester :. continues _a.s .m.c. and_ a's "punchy as everV He's perfectly at home on. the floor and paces the show briskly. Charlie Davis, ex- presentation theatre m.c, is the dance maestro with a good com- bination. It's one of the toughest jobs to play in local niteries, work- ing continuously for the' long show and then in the dansapation. With the combo there is Frankie Parrish, a highly pleasing tenor, who war- bles the incidental choruses. He'll he heard from. Abel. Prime Chi Semmer Spots To Stay Dark Chicago, June 11. , Looks like three ace. summer nite spots of Chicago will not open this season. Those skedded to remain without occupants are the . two. north side acers, Dells and Lincoln Tavern, and the Pabst Blue Ribbon Casino at the World's Fair. ,. Coppers have put the finger on- the Dells, stalling the opening of that spot with the Eddie Duchlh band two weeks ago; and it appears that Sam Hare will not get the club started this summer. Jack Huff, has movedaout of the Tavern and is trying with the French Casino and the 'Folies Bergere' Bhow. Plenty of talk about opening the Pabst Casino at the Fair, but so far nothing has Come 6f it. Al Quod- back was scheduled to try the spot, and even dickered with Ben Bernie and band for a return, but this blew up, and Quodback instead took over Tara Club in the Irish Village. Now there's report that Duke Ellington band is slated, for the Casino at the Fair. Sam Fox Publish i Southern Music Co.; protested their ratings to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers last week, Arguments as to why their classifications should be re- vised upwards were submitted by these twp : firms before a meeting Thursday (7> of the publisher fac^ tion of the Society's directorate. Fox's present status is. class C, and Southern Music's EE. MDS STOCKHOLDERS VOTE DISSOLUTION Stockholders of the Music Dealers Service, Inc., last Wednesday (6) voted to : dissolve the corporation: It was also agreed that the opera- ting committee, consisting of Bobby •Crawford, Walter Donaldson and the MDS accountant, continue to function as such, while the concern's assets are being ' liquidated. There is- still several : thousand dollars out-, standing on dealers' accounts. Settlement agreement made by the nine leading publishers, in the MDS with Max Mayer, during the trial of the latter's anti-monopoly suit last April, stipulated that these publishers' vote for a dissolution of the central distributing bureau. MDS lasted a year and nine months. Cotton Club Switch Mills' Blue Ribbon band replaces Jimmy LUnceford's at the Cotton Club, New York, June 23. Lunceford goes out on a dance tour. * Inside Stuff-Music While on the other 8lde„Jack Mills, who sailed with Mrs. Mills Sat- urday (9), will undertake to straighten out with Bert Feidman the Jam on the Waterson, Berlin and Snyder catalog. Also, the tangle involv- ing Editions Saliibert, Parts, and the Duke Ellington numbers in the Gotham catalog. „ v Feidman signatured a contract with the late Henry Waterson, which the English publisher claims entitled him to everything in the W. B. & S« catalog up to 1935 without further payment of royalty. In closing the deal, Feidman at the time gave WateYson $30,000 in cash; Mills, who bought the Waterson catalog from . the receivers, contends that what the contract gave Feidman was exclusive call on all Waterson releases up to 1935,. but did not relieve him of makings royalty payments. The Mills couple will Include Switzerland in itheir itinerary where they will celebrate their 10th anniversary. Pennsylvania Roof, N. Y. One of the. largest and oldest of roof gardens/ in town ( Fennsy's high-iri-the-air night spot is now open for the summer, with repeal to benefit it this year. Hotel is making an extensive and widely- varied liquor and wine list reason- able enough to attract the in- t owners as well as tourists. Cuisine and service; with not too many tables allotted to each waiter, TiTe^al^-lTrt^ I'ilitios this season. Koof is decked out to suggest .coolness, even on nights when its warm, with some tables outside of the roof part itself for folks who want to drop their, cigs something like 20 stories to the streets below. Okav, alfo. to walk around outside the roof. '"if Wanting some fresh air hearer the- jumplng-off jdaces. Ufin Bos-tor's orchestra, one of the s-wcftest to be found around New York, is in attendance, with 'Ducky' Yuntz and Nei) Buckley as featured (Continued on page 54). Lingering diners jazzed up reservations for music publishers and pro* fessionals attending the premieres of Whiteman and Lombardo at the Hotels Biltmore and Waldorf-Astoria last week. As a courtesy, the show bunch attends the supper dahsants as the 'official' openings, although the name maestros debuted for the dinner session. Public dinner bunch is wise to. this and they have seemingly made it a practice of arriving late for dinner and then lingering until past midnight, with result that their tables, for which reservations have ;been made, cannot become available to the supper patrons. Smart hotels are such that they forego any cues or hints to stalling, customers about scramming, with result the all-dressed-up supper bunch must content itself with, makeshift accommodations. Walter Donaldson has rejected a contract offered by Jack Bobbins giv- ing the latter publisher exclusive Call on all songs that Donaldson and his writing partner, Gus Kahn. are doing for the hew Eddie Cantor pic- ture. Through Sam Goldwyn, Robblns has the finger on any number used, in the musical. Supplementary agroement Robbins had his lawyer, Julian Abcles, send on to Donaldson in Hollywood, was to obtain the rights to the songs Donaldson and Kahn write during the run of tlic Goldwyn connection, but which, don't get into the Cantor spc-re. Donaldson wants to be free to place these unused numbers with what- ever publishing firm, he elects. This dispensation is allowed him under the deal he made with Goldwyn. June issue of the Intermezzo, organ of the Chicago Federation of Musicians, carried an editorial signed by Jimmy -'Petri) Jo urging musi- cians to patronize the Swift and Ford companies. Title i's, 'They employ living musicians.' Union haw put up a fight against the overloading^ of recorded, music and talk at the Chicago 1 Fair this year ,-md has won a slight victory by -gftt.t.ihV.thfeJBxTK).^ using the Palmer Clark orchestr. arid the Chicago Symphony, while Ford is utilizing the Detroit Symphony and the. Woman* Symphony of" Chica o. Petition is being circulated among the writois asking that the boar (.t directors of the American Society of Composf-is, Authors and I'iil>-. li.shers make Kmec Russell a mornbor of this; colo/ie. To HnU\ over 10 signatures have boon affixed to this paper. Russell, who has been for years the spokesman for the younger ele- ment of, wi iters in the society, is the author of the .bonus plan in ASCAP, through which $50,000 yearly is distributed, among the writers ot those songs leceivir.g the most performances. Russell is also editor of the Songwriters Protection Association'* quarterly Bulletin.. so VARIETY V AM D EVILLE Tuesday, June 12, 1934 Bckey-Anger Appeal Moss' Sherman Decision; AFA Submitting Contract A writ of certiorari will be ap- plied for in New York Supreme Court by John Hlckey and Harry Anger to set aside the decision of License Commissioner . Paul Moss, which absolved Eddie Sherman, in- die booker, of responsibility in the the 'Words and .Music'' unit by the Hippodrome, -Baltimore. Cancellation of the date, which was scheduled for the cur- rent week, was made at the last minute, the producers claimed, after! they had received assurances that: the house would not close arid cdstj them added expense of J700 besides) losing the $3,150 and percentage the: unit had been guaranteed:' Motion before: the Supreme court will be made by I, Robert Brpder.j attorney for the producers. Com-: 'missior.er' .Moss did a .partial .about-; face yesterday (Monday) on the del-: cision handed down by .him Tues- day , (5). Yesterday.. Hickey, , & Anger received .a new decision from Moss, whiph admits .that Sherman was at fault in issuing a contract not okayed by the mayor, or by' hiijri, . as required by the General Business law. Because of this, . Moss . states;, Sherman is subject to criticism, but that the license department will not invoke revocation of his license dn6 to' the fact that the department fojf a good many years has not strictly abided by the . law giving it, th£ .power to supervise booking office and. employment ' agency , contracts), In the decision, Commissioner Moss orders Sherman to submit to him a hew form of contract within 1ft days, but tells the producers, 'it was not the fault of the agency (Sherman) that the theatre closed PAULINE OOOKE 1074 BROADWAY. TWELVE ARISTOCRATS NOW RKO PALACE, New York; • . This Week, June, 8. . . , i "COOKE & O. L. OZ" SUITABLE FOR CLUB OR RESIDENCE Sacrifice_Sa1e or Lease X9t North. Broadway, Yonkere 12 .rooms,, gorgeous home and furnishings, im- proVoments. large porches overlooking Hudson River. Inquire 'David Pail n iky, . 882 . W- > 13th 8t Telephone UNIverilty 4-2243 and rights between the parties will have to be- disposed of outside of the department. Without losing sight of the necessity of a change in contract as referred to, the com- plaint is dismissed.'.. Two Ways In his first decision Commissioner Moss stated that there was no evi dence presented at the hearing on May 25 to place responsibility on Sherman for causing the producers the monetary damages. Br Oder's move for a writ is based on the. premise that Moss was not Within . his, legal rights in holding back a decision • longer than the •eight days the General Business la*r stipulates. The decision, in being received, by the producers Wednes- day (<6), came ,12 days after the hearing! Bro.der will also .charge that Commissioner Moss exonerated Sherman after admitting, .during the hearing,- for- the record, that Sher-- man was employing an inequitable contract. ; Brqder further charges Commis- sioDer Moss with defeating his own purpo$e of getting. the v .N. Y. boQkV ing; i offices,; to use a .uniform and equitable contract by ...exioneratirig Sherman, who was using a contract admittedly not equitable. .Lawyer points 1 out , that as- a result of the first decision; Commissioner Moss has given' the booking offices a weapon to fight with when he at- tempts : td force the clause in the ,employme(nt iagenoy. law* giving the license department jurisdiction over contracts. Actors Federation of America will submit a draft of a proposed equit- able, booking office contract to Com- missioner Moss on Thursday (14). It.- Is Moss' intention to. first con- sult .with the booking offices, Mau- rice Goodman and Harold Goldblatt, agents' lawyers, and an actors' , rep before deciding on what an equit- able contract should be. Hello, US. A. Seattle, June 11. Sybil t Bursk and Charlotte Sie- grist,' with' the stfahded 'Hello,. China' company, reached Seattle last week from Shanghai. Sompariy of £o .crashed on flnan- rocks and got passage, home fi'om American. Community fund to' Seattle, and travel East from Ac-: tors' Benefit Association of N, T. General Executive Offices LOEW BUILDING A N N EX 160 WEST 46»ST- BRyant 9-7800 NEW YORK CITY J. H. LUBIN QBNBBAL HAMAOKB MARVIN R SCHENCK BOOKING MANAOEB Bernie s 4 Vaude Wks. Before Par Pic Retakes Chicago, June 11. Ben Bernie has received urgent wires from Paramount asking him to return to Hollywood for retakes on 'Shoot the Works' picture, which may be necessary because of the death of two of the prlnlcpals, Lew Cody and Dorothy 'Dell. However, Bernie can't possibly make the jump to the coast before the middle of July since he has con- tracts for four weeks of vaude dates, -starting with the Palace here on June 15. 3 NO-PAYOFF complaints by , ; one against a theatre and ^w.o . against agents; alleging no-payoffs came be- fore License Commissioner Paul Moss last week. ilton and Maceo Thomas; colored hoofing team with Lew 1 Les-; lie's 'Blackbirds of 1934' unit, charged Frank Schiffman, manager of - the Lafayette, • in- Harlem • with withholding the $1,000 -.-they., were supposed to receive for -playing: the theatre the week -ending- ' June • 1. Team held a box-office assignment; for the. amount, but Schiffman, they! claimed,, refused to meet it at the end of the date on the premise that, the theatre had lost money playing; the unit, which, it was brought out at the hearing Friday (&), grossed less than $5,000 on a 60-40 percen- tage arrangement. During the hearing Thomas charged Schiffman with treating a number of. other colored per- formers that way, while Schiffman maintained that in the 12 years he has been .operating, the theatre he' has never . failed to pay performers the f till amount due them. Thomas told Moss that he could bring. about. 20 performers down to substantiate his charges, so Moss . postponed the hearing until Wednesday (13) to' hear ' the added witnesses. It was' admitted by Schiffman during the' hearing that none. of the other prin- cipals in the suit received payment for the week. Reason, he said, was because ' the principals he con- tracted for, with exception of Chil- ton and Thomas, failed to appear with .the unit. Previous. to this matter, Commis T slbner Moss .'ordered Ed. Davidow, agent, to see to it that Harry Her sh- fleld, cartoonist, actor and after- dinner speaker, received $75 within 48 hours on a four-month- old obli- gation. Hershfleld's complaint was directed against Edgar Allen, booker of the banquet at which the car toonist appeared, but Moss ordered Davidow to see that payment was made because the agent had done Allen a favor and opened the nego- tiations with Hershfleld. During the hearing, at which Allen and Dayidow appeared despite the fact that they are not licensed, Hershfleld exonerated Davidow from any responsibility/ with Allen also stating that he, and not Davidow was wholly concerned in the matter, Allen claimed that the reason the payoff has been deferred so long was due to the fact that he had. not received Hershfleld's payment from the sponsors of the affair, a bache- lor dinner at the Ambassador last February for a dress manufacturer Third complaint was filed by Vic tor Chenkin, concert artist, against Adolph Goldberg, an unlicensed booker. Chenkin charged that $300 due him for appearances in a New Haven, Conn., and Brooklyn theatres was never paid him. by Goldberg Latter was out of. town and could VAUDE SCRAMS OUT OF ALBANY, TROY Albany, June 11. Vaudeville has faded out of Al- bany and Troy, with the Capitol, Albany, and the ,P,alace, Troy, clos- ing, . Both houses variously played vaude and units with Alms! Capitol made a spirited bid for business and an expensive one, too, considering the : limited' capacity of the . house compared with the flrst- rmi film theatres. House had an advertising agency arid pfess- agenti and used extra large -newspaper! space. 1 Harry Lazarus, who" operated" tlrei Palace, - has rented the ' Capitol • for a i picture grind. Ed Sherman Injured In Ind. Auto Smash Chicago, i June il. E^d Sherman, producer of the In- genues act,- is in serious condition in a hospital in Rensselaer, Ind., following an auto accident while driving:- towards ".Chi last "week. In a head-on collision, Sherman euf-' fered a fractured skull and arm. His wife Is also reported Injured. It is understood, however, that their child .was thrown clear of the auto arid is entirely unharmed. not, appear for a hearing, resulting in a postponement of the case until some time this week. Comedy Mrt-But Dirt Epidemic of burlesque fan-dancing by male comics in the vaud- film and presentation houses is the roughest yet in this line of lampooing. It's broad and dirty. . Too dirty. Last week at the Paramount, N. T„ Hal Sherman did a fan dance burlesque while Sammy White (ex-Puck and White), breaking in a new single at the Palace, N. T., dittoed. Ray Bolger demonstrated his version at the Friars Frolic three weeks ago. That may, be where the epidemic started. Peg Stanton'* $4,200 Chicago, June 11. Peggy Stanton, of the act of Stan- ton and Dolores, last week was awarded $4,200 damages against the Yellow Cab Co., and the Surface Lines. Award follows an accident .last year in. which she was seriously In- jured about the face and neck when the cab and street car' met In a dead heat. PITT VAUDLESS ittsburgh, June 11.- nttsburgh goes fleshless for jhe summer with the closing of Thursday, iiite (7) after several months of pictures and unit shows. Pitt 'originally started' off* last fail under George Shafer's management as >i a . ivaudfllm house, lost -money, switched) to nameless unit shows and immediately shifted. to profit column. House, a 1,600-seater,. has con- sistently made coin all' season until a ; couple ot weeks ago 1 when' hot weather -kicked bottom out of things, particularly at Pitt, where, no coojr ing pla.nt of any kind has ever been installed. Site will stay : dark until September when. Shaferi plans to reopen. It under same policy. : -Hi' COTTON CLUB SHOW TO PLAY ENGLAND INTACT Whole floor show currently at the, Cotton Club, New York,, goes in- tact to London theatres, and cafes in August Irving" Mills set deaj. through Harry Foster. Show will play four vaude at the start. - , Experienced accompanist avail* - able only . for outside studio work— COACHING, DANCING . and VAUDEVILLE. 35c. per hour and up. Phone Rose MiHer, RHine- lander 4-8309, 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. . RAY and SUNSHINE HUDSON (THE HUDSON WONDERS) , THE INTERNATIONAL DANCING MARVELS ALWAYS WORKING I.oew Circuit WILLIAM MOBRIS AGENCY New York City.. Western TVM. JACOBS-GUY PERKINS AGENCY • Chlcnffo Excliiftlve Reprenentntlve SIMON AGENCY, INC. New York City INITIAL NEW YORK APPEARANCE THREE JACKSON BOYS In Grace and Strength LOEWS PARADISE, New York THIS WEEK (June 8) traction JACK DA VIES— AL GROSSMAN OFFI Hailed as the Last Word in Digital Dexterity! LE "Laughs with Cards** NOW DEMONSTRATING AT SHEA'S HIPPODROME TORONTO^THIS WEEK, JUNE 8 Direction,. Meyer B. North, Joseph. Flaum— RKO, Harry Norwood bob ROBINSON AND MARTIN VIRGINIA V, ( M AH N- ROBIN SON AND MARTIN) Just Completed 15 Weeks Deauville Yacht Club, Hollywood, Florida 5 Weeks for Loew — More to Follow OPENING FRIDAY, JUNE 15, STATE, NEW YORK I Direction, IRVING YATES —(We Hope; Tuesday, June 12, 1934 V4HDEV I LLE VARIETY 51 N. Y. PRODUCERS DEFY CODE Beflit's Stranding of 20 Performers In China Under Investigation American Federation of Actors is investigating the reported stranding ©f 20 American performers in Tient- sin, qhina, April 29 last, by Henry. Bellit. The iatter, a former RKO agent and producer, Is alleged to have left the troupe destitute in the Chinese city and to have embarked lor home May 12 as first-class pas- senger on the liner Asama Maru, ■which landed him in San Francisco May 30. Bellit recruited the show in New Tork and took Orient in February; A total . of 62 days was played' out of the four months and 16 days spent oyer, there by the company. Stranded members claim they were guaranteed more playing time, as well as return transpor- tation to New York. After the alleged stranding in Tientsin, Sari Edwards, dance di- rector with the show, took, charge of the troupe's welfare. He appealed to the American consul at Tientsin and was ' informed by that office, from account, that Bellit had al- ready borrowed $400 ' from the American Legion for the supposed purpose of caring for the company. Consul Helps ix of the stranded company, in- cluding Edwards, then appealed to the' American consul at Shanghai, who made arrangements for them through the American Community Chest Fund. They were sent, home in steerage on the President Mc- Kinley of the Dollar Line, arriv- ing in Seattle June 4. Investigation last week revealed that the six people were still in Seattle without means of transpor- tation to their homes in New York, and vicinity. They are, in addition to Edwards, the team of Mbran and Wiser, Robert Rhodes,- Bobby Dale, Sybil Burst? nvi Charlotte Sie- grist U'oUyo, May 26. Henry Bellit came through here last week after having allegedly stranded his entire company up and down the China coast. On Saturday (19) Earl Edwards, producer: Robert fihode's, baritone; Bobby Dale, dancer; ill Alorari and Al Wiser, comedians; Charlotte Siegri t. singer,, and Sybil Bursk, dancer, camp through on the Presi- dent 'MoKinlcy, steerage. The American Consulate in ShRiv-rlmi- helped them out. Those stranded in .Shanghai are Vera Amazar, prima donna; Misses Grace Cantrele, Kathcrine Apgar -(who was-.. left, in a hospital .after ai: operation fur appendicitis), Louise Taylor, Lavergne Lambert, Christina Crane, Helen Farlahd and Florence Alien, all of the. chorus. Doris Bums and Lee Towne, .two other girls, left Ma- nila for 'Shanghai., where thoy. had friends. Miss Bursk also was. in a hospital after an auto crash, but was sufficiently recovered to sail. Edwards, Rhodes, Mora n and Wiser said Bellit paid all but Ed- wards for the time actually worked, -but defaulted on the number of weeks to be worked and the return tickets. All said they would prefer charges against Bellit upon their return to the United States. EXPO C0MPETISH RUINS CHI CLUB BOOKING BIZ Chicago, June ll. For the second consecutive year the local club bookers are deciding it's just as profitable to spend the season at the seashore rather than try to make any money from .the various conventions. In -the past two years there have been over 3,000 conventions in. this town. but. they have hit a hew low in expen- ditures for shows. Reason is the. World's Fair. As soon as the boys get through with business matters they hike it out to the Expo grounds and get. their shows, both legit and gaff, from the various concessions. NO CWA FUNDS FOR VAUDE AS YET Ass'n Headed by Chas. Mad- dock Says 'There .Is No Vaudeville Code* Far as TheyVe Concerned-— Stung, by Rosenblatt Turn- down — Notifying Gen. Johnson of Militant Stand $180 Hal Sands Paid to NRA Board For Girls Never Did Reach Them; Bd. Head McLaughlin Tells Why Mrs. Raynor Lehr \yants Divorce and Alimony Columbus, O., June 11. . ^"^¥t""Ker""h1asD"ana like water, but not on her, was. the allegation of Bernice P. Lehr, 610 Morrill avenue, in a suit for divorce filed in the county court here, against Raymond. Lehr of vaude.. They were married June 11, 1918, in Charleston, W. Va., and have a son, aged five. Mrs. Lehr' alleges that, although he earned $300 a week through the depression, she has received but $5 from her actor- husband since May 14, last. She asks alimony. So far all efforts of the American Federation of Actors to get Govern ment relief for needy vaudeville performers have come to naught. Last attempt made by. Ralph White- head; executive secretary of the AFA, resulted in a request from Stanley Howe, deputy commissioner of the Department of Public Wel- fare, from where CWA funds are distributed, to line up a show and its probable cost. The lineup Whitehead will submit will serve as the basis of a report by. Howe recommending vaude re- lief, Shows of the type Whitehead will present in his first lineup will be used to play camps of the Civil- ian Conservation Corps. CWA funds in New York are now being "apportioned only to the legit- performer branch of shpw business. Sfrikkdg Usfters Cause Joe Poiier to Mfcs Show Akron, O., June 11. '.iriliing ushens of Lpew's were back at their posts after a tempo- rary agreement had been. reached in the- •strike' which saw 10 pickets in front of the theatre. Union agents and theatre/ officials agreed to abide temporarily by an agreement signed this week, and repudiated by the local union whereby seven out of eight union, ushers returned to .work. Pickets parading in front of the theatre prevented members of the Joe Penner Co., current there, stagehands and musicians from en- tering the house which resulted in the house oeing dark one entire afternoon. There was no violence. C. W. Finney, Loew division man- ager, acted for the theatre at the union, negotiations. Bill Howard's Throat Bill Howard, RKO booker, was stricken with a throat infection Thursday (7) on the eve of his vacashjo. yjr^ljj^.and_ Neyr. Hamp- shire. " __ ' Booker will probably be confined to his N. Y home the rest of this week. WANT OWN CODE ABYSSINIAN SOPRANO Heshla Tamanya, from Abyssinia, has just completed a short for War- ner Bros. " She is a soprano and has done concert work; currently set for Har- rlsburg June 21 and Pittsburgh June 25. Unable to get any satisfaction from Sol Rosenblatt, divisional di- rector of the Motion. Picture Code, the vaudeville producers' associa tipn this week will notify Gen- Hugh Johnson that, in their est! mation, there is ho vaudeville . code and that, they shall revert to pre NRA operation of their business. Letter to; General Johnson, now being drafted by Jack Partington, v.p. of Fanchon & Marco, and Alex Gerber, producer, will submit evi- dence to show that the vaudeville business is separate and apart from the motion picture industry. The producers for months have been petitioning for relief from the clause in the code demanding pay- ment of $3 to chorus girls for each day of layoff; to give them some equitable arrangement whereby they (producers) can pay acts break-ih salaries in the low-bud- geted break-iri houses.. Last an- swer from Rosenblatt refused all of the producers' petitions and stated, in part. 'We will not allow such labor (moaning actors and cho- rines) to be sweated.' Charles B. Maddock, chairman of the producers' group, paved the way for the militant stand at a meet- ing held in his office Thursday (7). He said then that Rpsy's attitude towards the producers has. prac- tically ruined them and, regardless of whether the other producers stick with him - or- not, he wlil op- erate as though there is no code. If necessary, he said, he will move his office out of New York state, where producers, he averred, are seemingly not bothered by NRA regulations, and' call his units tabs. Lattev are exempt from the $35 minimum wage clause, for traveling chorines - an J the claus'e stipulating a $40 weekly minimum salary for actors with more than two years' stage experience. Producers' contention that vaude- ville is. a business apart from mo- tion pictures is based on the claim that fe>v of, the motion picture- controlled theatres are now produc- ing their, own stageshows; that there are more independent theatres playing, vaudeville than there are picture-raffiliated. and that vaude- ville was in existence long hefpre motion pictures. At the meeting Thursday, which was attended by but five producers of the 39 in. the association; Mad- dock stated that the $3 layoff stip- ulation in the code had been ruin- ous to the unit- producers this past season. This, coupled with the en- forcement that they pay acts full salaries when they themselves re- ceive break-in prices for the units, put all but two of the producers, Maddock claimed, in the red. Out of Town Exceptions Chairman cited cases out-of-town w here-P rod uccr.s .are_ ; allege d ly^.P.ay _-_ ing chorines only $18 and $20. week- ly and. are not molested by code 'au- thorities. He then brought up the point of the producers designating their units as tabs to get the code exemptions, citing Gun Sun's defini- tion of a tab as a condensed revue pr musical running from 45 minutes to an hour with pictures. Code au- thorities, however, declared some time ago that a tab comes under the motion picture code as apply- (Contlnued on pr.ge 52) Heat— No Date Chicago, June 11. Weather man is booking Springfield, Illi, for Great States. Dick Bergen, booker, sets an act for Peoria for the first half and takes an option for the last half at Springfield, depending on how the weather turns out. This arrangement, has been going on for' .our weeks. So far no act playing . Peoria has jumped to Springfield for the second ' half. BARNEY ROSS' 3G FROM LOEW Barney Ross, lightweight and wel- terweight boxing champion, is set for one week at Loew's State, N. Y., June 22, at $3,000 net. Deal blew hot and cold for a few days but was settled definitely yesterday (Monday) . Marvin Welt handled the nego- tiations for Ross. 3 Adagio Turns in Court Battle Over Tossing Originality Chicago, June ll. , Suit for injunction has been filed' by Lowe, Surrioff and ' Wenseley, comedy, agio trip, against the rival turns of Gine, DeQuincey and Lew- is, and Dolores, . Ande and Dinitrl Squawk is that the two competish acts are alleged imitations of the L.B.&W. burlesque, with the latter, asking that the courts restrain these acts from aoing the routine Two alleged lifters, have retained Henry A. Kalcheim as the attorney Defense will attempt to prove that routines are not patentable or copy righ table. Will also try to demon- strate that comedy adagio knows no beginning In time. L.B.&W. pre viously had taken the matter up with the NV A arbitration board in New Yorkj but to no avail. Gine* DeQuincey and Lewis open shortly at the College Inn here,Do lores and Dimitri are at the Savoy in London, while Lowe, Burnoff and Wensley re also in England, play ing. vaude. EPA PROTESTS CODE VIOLATIONS IN CHI Chicago, June 11. Organization known as the En- tertainers Protective Ass'n has called a meeting for tonight (11) to protest vaudeville conditions in this territory. Handbills distributed, throughout the theatrical district stress the minimum code provisions laid down by the vaude, burlesque and legit codes, with the blurbs inferring that these wage and working-rhour limitations are not being generally liv^^Trjirtgr 1 • ~- For a time last week it was but- ton, button— who's got the . $180, Hal Sands gave George. W. McLaughlin, head of NRA's Grievance and Labor Compliance Boards in N. Y„ . as set- tlement for a $252 claim to com- pensate chorus girls in 'The First Little Show' unit for laying off? Sands, who gave McLaughlin $150 on April 14, and $30 on May 7, has a receipt for his money; the chorines to .whom the money was coming hadn't received it— ana- Mrs. Dorothy Bryant, head of Chorus Equity, who was supposed to get the cash from McLaughlin for distribution to the choristers, had seen neither' Washington ■ hbr Lincoln of it. Mystery first became evident Thursday (7) when Sands, a pro- ducer, bumped .into two of the cho- rine complainants, Ida Weeks and Bobby Barnett, on Broadway.. Asked whether they had received the pay- ment for idleness, they 'replied m the negative. McLaughlin, wh. _ Jari Renee ft V Allen ft Kent Eton Boys & Co .Garner Wolf & H Russian - Revels Tllyon . 1st half (16-17) Brltt Wood Elton Rich Co (Two to All) 1st bait (9-10) S Speed Demons Helen Honan Honey Boys Senator Murphy Dodge Bros Rev CHICAGO Palace (15) ine of Girls Helen -Honan Jack Whiting > Garner Wolf ft K Lee ft Rafferty -Rev ■ • (8) Rae Samuels Co • NEW BRUNSWICK Keith's 1st half (16-17) Henry Santrey Bd 1st half (9-10) 3 Whippets Beth Miller Co Britt Wood Mona ft Marino TRENTON Capitol 1st half (16;-1») 4 . Pennys. Clifford ft Marlon Ramos ft Amer Ore (Two to fill) 2d half (20-22) Henry: Santrey Bd 1st. half (-13-16) Ben . Beyer Co Morgan ft Stone Roscoe Ates. (One to fill) ELIZABETH Rite 1st half (9-13) Stewart Sis Red. Donahue ft P Gretanos 2d half (13-16) Britt Wood. (Four to come) PHILADELPHIA Earle Sims ft Bailey (Four to come) Wesley Eddy Pat Kennedy Fred Sanborn - CHICAGO . State Lake (10) Rhythmn Girls Delivery. Boys Candreva Bros Barry ft Whltledge ft B Wonder, Pansy NEW YORK CITY Capitol (15) Jane Frohman . Will Mahoney Radio Rogues Boulevard 1st half (16-18) * Renard Girls'. Clark Prince ft C Harry Savoy, Co Vernon Haworth Co 2d half (19-21) Sonia & Vernon Francis Renault ' Harry. Grlbbon Co Gaudschmldt Bros Russian Fantasy Orpheum 1st half (16-18) Zeld Bros Peggy. Calvert Rodney & Could Dance Cycle A l Trahan . 2d half ..(19-21) Lew Duthers Co H ft F Usher Fred Lowry Male Q Katherine Perry Louise Madison Martha Thomas Tom Kills BALTIMORE Century (15) Mayfalr Rev Carl' Shaw Co Baby Rose Marie Larry Rich Co Long Tack Sam BOSTON Orpbeum (15) France ft La Pell Open Waller ft L«e Tito Gulzar Joe Morris . Betty Jane Cooper Lathrop' Bros (CANTON. Loew's 1st half (16-18) Duke Ellington Ore Ivy Atjdorspn. Shake Hips Tucker NEW YORK CITY Boxy (15) The Waltona Wesley Eddy Gae' FoBter .Gtrla (Others to All) LOS ANGELES Paramount (14). Ted Florlto '• ,(7). Yawbut ft Cherrlly Sunkist Ballet Andy Andrews OFFICIAL. DENTIST TO THE N.,V. A DR. JULIAN SIEGEL . PARAMOUNT BUILDING This Week: Jane Williams, Alan Ken* Vera Van Irving Allen ft E Maxellos ' Paradise (15) Joe Penner Rev State (15) ^^Mann Robinson & M ■} Swifts ^RfGoss & Barrows W' Yacht Club Boys p ' George Glvot Blmacs. ' BROOKLYN Gates Ave 1st half (16-18) 'Sonia ft Vernon Anne Greenwny =^HarrjM3-rlbbon^eo— Gaudschmldt Bros .Russian Fantasy 2d half (19-21) 3 Renard Girls Clark Prince ft C Harry Savoy Co Vernon Haworth Co Metropolitan (15) Seller ft Wills 4 Radio Aces Stratford ft Mayb y Bill Robinson Manjeans fnt't'l Valencia, (15) Vincent Lopez. Ore — Green Pastures Co iCarr ft Marti a "JVaaci*. Hunt 1 Brttton -Oro, 3 Miller Bros COLUMBUS Bread (15) Phil iSpitalny Ore JERSEY CITY Loew's (15) Ed Sullivan Harry Rose: Saxon Sis Dolores- Farrls Cackles O'Neill Ge'orgle Tapp's Cardlnl NEWARK State (15) Van Horn & Inert J & KV Lee Mills Kirk & H Shepp'rd C'rlt'n ft P *' PROVIDENCE Loew's (15) Cortelll's Co Zlngone Nord ft. Joannle. Al Norman Grace- DuFaye Co ROCHESTER Loew's (15) Sally Rand U WASHINGTON Fox (15) Dave Jones Co Sheila Barrett Elaine Arden 2 J & 2 K WASHINGTON Earle (15) 3' CosaackB Pat Kennedy- Hollywood Revels Fred Sanborn Owen McGlveney (8) Paul Remos Co H ft F-UBher. Joe -Termini Grade Barrie D & E Barstow Independent LOS ANGELES Orpheum (6) Claude DeCarr BAT Drlnkard Max Lerner The Kltaros Walters, .& Walters MI J ares Co Fanchon & Marco PHILADELPHIA Fox (15) Jay Mills Nash & Fately 4 Trojans Kay Picture . (Others to fill) SAN FRANCISCO Orpheum (14) Student Prince (7) Street Singer Hank Brown ft H STRATFORD Broadway ■Old Time M H* Cb'as Austin.. Tom Leamore Ida Barr Dave O'TopIe Willie Lancet Harry Bedford Arthur Rooce Noll Calvert STREATHAU Palace . . M & H Nesbltt . Fred Llndaay Co Nick & Marie TOTTENHAM Palaeo Geo Betton M Clifton ft Ptnr O'Sltea ft Joan _ WALTHABISTOW Grmnnda Columbia 4 Co as booked WEST HAM Ktnemu 1st half (U-13) Gordon Richards 4 Co as . booked 2d half (14*16) Co as booked Week of June 11 BRADFORD Alhombra Mrs J Hylton Bd Co as booked EDINBUH0 Regent 1st half (H-18) B & A Hayes Co as booked - ; 2d half (14-16) •Tony .Walsh' , Mackenzie ' Reid GLASGOW Empire Jack Hylton. Bd Co as booked LEITH Capitol 1st half (11-18) Tony Walsh Mackenzie Reid 2d half (14-16) B ft A Hayes Co as booked LIVERPOOL Empire Mills Bros Tracey .& Hay Chevalier Bros Low ft Webster Bennett ft Williams Co as booked MANCHESTER Falaee Lay ton ft Johnstone Alma Victoria Max Hoffman Epos Frazere Tex McLeod. Tracy ft Vlitette Cotrlllos Wiere Bros Bower ft Ruther'f'rd NOTTINGHAM . .Empire! .'Let's AH Go Crazy' Dave ft J O'Gorman Nicol ft Martin Do Haven ft Page Ernie Gerrard Syd Rallton Andy ft ^Irving Arohle .Gordon Carson Sis - Olivette ft Carlchatt Damselle ft Boy Jas "Lomae Sherman-Fisher Gls SHEFFIELD Empire Hutch. Geraldlne & Joe Wright ft - Marlon D'Alba ' Connor & Drake Duncan Gray Van Cleefs Claire, - Rowe & C Cabarets NEW YOEK CITY London Week of June 11 Canterbury M. H. 1st halt Ul-13) 4 Smith Bros . Donovan ft Hayes 2d -halt (14*16) . Geo Hurd Halg ft Hagen Dominion . - v Grace Sclkenpk' Co Mona Gray > ; •• pit Kat Rest Grace Schenok Co Girls of' 1934 • Palladium 6th : Crazy Show ■' Trocadero ' Mlchelettl Naunton Wayne Eric Phllmo're Chris Charlton- Elizabeth Maurice . CLAPTON . Rink Geo Betton M Clifton ft P^tnr O'Shea ft Joan EAST HAM Klnema 1st half (11-13) Co as booked 2d half (14-16) Gordon Richards Co as booked Premier Colllnsoh ft Dean 2 Sharpcs Orpwood ft Turner _J5DGKWAREJID. Grand 3 Virginians 3 Emeralds R & B Myles EDMONTON Empire Fay Dawn Andre ft Curtis Co as booked n AMMKR8M ITH PnlACe 3 Auntrallan Boys Elliotts HOT/BORN Emplro Stanford & Taylor E ft D Waters TOm Handler Co Fayre 4 Carlisle ft Brown Co as booked HOLLOWAY Marlborough Harry Taft ' . T'raho ft H'rdwlcke Hintonl Brpa ILFORD Super Colllnson & Dean 2 SharpeB ' Orpwood .& Turner ISLINGTON Bine Hall 1st half (11-18) Halg ft Hagen Geo Hurd 2d half (14-16) 4 Smith Bros Donovan & Hayes KILBURN Grange 3. Virginians 3 Emeralds R ' ft E' Myles LEWI8HAM Palace Pinkie Denton 8 LEYTON Savoy 7 Elliotts LEYTONSTONB Rlalto Columbia . 4 NEW CROSS Klnema ' Penslow Co ^GrACO JIartington_ Shaw & Weston PECKHAM Palace Penslow Co . Grace Hartlngton Shaw ft Weston Tower. M ft H Nesbltt Fred Lindsay CO Nick ft Marie SHKrH'RDS BUSH Pavilion Morris ft Cowloy Ijcviinda STAMFORD HILL Regent Harry Taft T'rano ft H'rdwlcke Hintonl Bros Ambassador. L. I. Jackie .Maye .. John van' Lowe Evalyn . Martin Bubbles Shelby Kathleen Howard Dot & Dash . Earles Bros, ft I* Will Willis Thel Dressier Nell Golden Qro Arrowhead Irving Conn Oro , Bal Musette Millard ft Anita George Marshal Pierrots. Madam Georgette Mine Yvette Leon Bedore Apache Ore Bossert Boot Eddie Lane Oro Casino de Paree Eleanor Powell Jimmy' Savo Cardlnl Carolyn Marsh Leon Friedman. Ore Ben Pollock Orch Casino. . Town Club Breez Fletcher ' Allan Calea .Oro Central Pk. Casino Ernie Hoist Oro Minor -ft Root Claremont Roger W Kahn Ore 3 Marshalls Joan Blane , Evelyn Poe Vincent. Caleiido Club Kentucky Jack Edwards Ada Lee Wllma .Novack Louise Dryden Mabel Russell Ross-Kahan Orch Club BIchman Jaak Mason Roy Lido Girls Oro Commodore; Hotel Isham. Jones Oro Isabel Brown Cotton Club C C Rev Adelaide Hall Pops ft Lance Mears & Mears. Juano Henandez Jimmy Lunceford.'O Croydon Hotel Charles ' Eckels Oro Dubonnet Joe Fejer Oro Four Trees Anh Lopert 3 Blue Chips Oro Glen Island Casino Glen Gray Oro Pee Wee Hunt Gov. Clinton Hotel Enoch. Light Oro' H'lyw'd Restaurant Helen Kane ..Charles Davis Orp Moore ft Revel Beauval ft Tova Malhea^l Merr yfield Marlon Martin Cross ft Dunn 4 Cllmas Eleanor Tennis Harrlette Myrne Jerry Lestor Hotel lltmore Paul Whlteman Ore Goldie Jack Fulton Ramona Robt Laurence Babe Hauser Hotel Edlflon Raglnaky Ens Hotel Gotham P Van Steoden Oro Hotel Lexington At Kavalin Oro Hotel Lincoln Pancho'a Ore Hotel Gt. Northern FerdenandO Orch Hotel McAIpIn Sam Robblns Oro Hotel Hontclalr Harold Stern Oro Mario ft Florla Roslta Ortego Hotel New Yorker Ben Pollack Oro Hotel. Pennsylvania Don Bestor Ore Baron ft Blair Nell Buckley Joe Lynne Ramon Ramos Ore Hotel Pierre'. Jack Denny Ore Hotel Roosevelt Reggie Chllds Ore Hotel Whitehall Don Blgelow Oro Kelly's Chlqulta Venezla Peggy La Plante Jeanne McCauley Evelyn Thawl Claire Osgood Danny Higgens Ira Tarnell Carlos Lopez Billy Plaza Elaine McCoy Carlos ft Marchan Joe Capella ft Oroh Klng'fl Terrace Jack White Jerry Bergen Lillian Fitzgerald Roth-Andrews Ore Leon ft Eddie's Eddie Davis Del Pozo Ore Ron Perry Orch Longue Vne Vic Irwin Ore Evelyn Wilson Towne ft Knott. Mayfalr Yacht Club Walker O'Nell's Oro Dwlght Flske Marden's Riviera Harry Rlchman Carpenter - ft Fonta' Dixie Dunpar Georgle Tappa Pearl Twins ■ Fred Berrehs Oro Mori's Best Nye. Mayhew's Ore Nantalaaa Club .Dave Bernle Ore New Wonder Bar (Union City) Ann Pennington Bernard ft Rich Gale Tracy ft L Lily Ltdo Joe Pape Edith Lowe Ernie Golden Ore Paradise NTO" Rev Peter Higgens J. Johnson Ore Felicia Sorel Ann Lee Patterson Jiftejfla^KinJiald.^^. Bruno ft Maiton Earl, Jfrck & B Johnny Hale Iva Stewart Edith Murray Paradise Duck Inn (Long Island) Mel Kloo Billy Glason Carol Sis Marelyn Seed Caron Sis Betty De Blluo Dorothy Diorio Ray O'Hara Ore Pork Central notel Chas Barbett Oro Plan Hotel B ft J Vernon Marlon Chase Orlando'* Oro Emll Coiman Oro Restanrant La Bne Arthur Warren'e O Rita Tower Nat Harris pro Russian Kretchuna Kuznetzoff ft N Samovar Mine Nloollna Radneff Simon Phlllpoff Mon'negfo ft Dorlta P Zam's Gypsy Bd Savoy-Ploia Freddie Martini Oro Strnet's Pub Gertrude MOody Zora Gray Pat Whalen Billy Calllgan Ann Ross- Chris Meohan Showboat Casino (City Island) Dave Fox Ruth Nagel Helen Davis Castle Sis Gordon ,& Bennett Merrymakers Show Place Burns ft Kissen jaok Waldron Frances Fay Miss Harriett Modesca. ft Mlchels Ben Bernard Slmplon Club Endor ft Farrell King's Jesters Wm Farmer Oro Sherry's Harry Bush Oro' Mario ft. Flo«rio St. orltt Hotel Leor Belaaco Orch Wilklns ft Meyers Sheila Barrett Vercell Sis St. Regis-. Hotel Vincent Lopez Oro Medrano ft Donna S*n * Surl Club Lei Relsman Qro Surf Club Jaok Myers Oro Charlotte Murrle Taft Grill Geo Hall Orch Tavern, B'klyn Jack . Murray Oro Theatre Cafe Chas Strickland Oro Honry Fink Town Casino Charel de Thomee Wanda Naah Musical Rogues Allan Calea Oro Tuscany Hotel. Bela Loblov Ore . Vanderbllt Hotel Joe Moss Oroh Ward ft Hopkins Village Barn Anthony Trlnl Oro Beth Challls Eddie Ray Geo MoGuIre Frances McCoy Josh Medders Sir Jaok Joyce 3 Octaves Ruth Delmar Rose McLean . Waldorf-Astoria Guy Lombardo Ore Zlto's Ore Wash 84. Club Frank Farrell Orch Westchester Club Fray ft. Braglbt'tl Arthur Brown Weylln Hotel Michael Covert Ore Harriett Lee 8 Jays Wlyel Cafe Amy Atinaan Jack Wick Lillian Lorraine Ami Pavo Maidie Du Fresne La Salle Oroh Zelll's Bob Grant' Oro Godoy Bd Milton* Douglas Gloria Grafton CHICAGO Blaokhnwk Seymour Simons Earl Rlckard ^Bowery M. H. Phil Furman Lew King Bd Fry Harry Singer Oro Canadian Club (World's Fair) Frankle Masters. Dorothy Denese Du Mauiln'a Oro Ohes Paree Morton Downey Sammy . Shaw The. Tick Tocks Countess Vn Lossen Maurice ft Cordoba Henry Busse Ore . Clnb Leisure Xiucio Garcia Billy Meagher Joe Mannl'B - 'Orch Betty Chase Jack' Sexton Jr 'Sugar' Harolds Or College Inn 8 Evans Co-eds Jackie Heller Beuvell ft Tova Buddy Rogers ' Congress Hotel (Joe Urban Room) Art Kassel Robert Royce Cherle ft Tomaslta Coloslmp's Julia Lyons Dorothy Henry Deronda ft Barry Enrico D'Alba Eddie Deering Countess Borlska Slgnor Baraonl Att Buckley ■. Bob Tlnsley Oro Clnb Alabam Trudy Davidson Eddie Roth Ore Drake Hotel Slavio Ballet Stanley Hlokman Blltmore 8 Frances Wilier ' Harriet Ltndgren Ruth Lee The Crusaders Earl Burtnett Ore Edgewater Beach Esther Todd . . DeRonda ft Barry Art Carroll Harry Sosnlk Oroh Harry's Bar Joe Buckley , Don Penfleld . Germalne LaPIerre Harry. Harris Al Wagner Billy Meyers, Elmer Schobel Joe Buckley Orch Hl-Hat Clnb Sunny Gaer Jimmy Cassldy Effle Burton Rick & Snyder RUth Barton Dot Meyers K-9 Club Bl 1 1 Bran no n ^ Half-Pint Jaxon Ed Casey Ore Leon La Verde Earl Partello George Oliver Moroni's Rolando ft Verdltta Owen Gordon Neecee -. Shannon Marge ft Marie Virginia Buchanan Bob Wyatt Maurie Motet Orch Club Minuet: Johnny Maloney Dorothy Nortan Adellna Dossena Frank -Sherman Mural Room (Brevort Hotel) Earl Estea Edgar Rice Stan Rlttoff Orch. Jaros Sis Nut Moe Lee Jo- Jo Geo DeGosta Harry Sherman Jlmriy Lane Old Mexico (World's Fair) Hank, the Mule Szlta ft Annie Irwin Lewis Willie Shore Theo Johnson Mickey Cassle Ore "Opera Club" Edwlna Morshon LaWrence Salerno Tom Gentry Orch Jose' Rlvas Orch Pierce ft Harris Palmer House Ted Weema Orch Lydla ft Joresco Stone ft Vernon 4 Calif's ttarry Adlcr Abbott Girls Paramount Faith Bacon Phil White Julia Gerity Edna Rush Miss Harriett Pearl TVIo Paris (World's Fair) Duncan Sis, -Mona Xieslle Oly'plc Diving Star Jane Frantz Thovln'a Oro Ralnbo Gardens Leon' Lavarde Dawn Sis Lyle -Smith Orch Alice Rydner Royal Cotton Clnb Geo D Washington Kathryn Perry Bert Harwell Tate's Ore Terrace Gardens Roma Vincent Atneley Lambert *R Clyde Lucas Oro Tin Pan Alley Al Sandera Eadle . Hayes Crane Sis Vernon Cral Gwen Lorry Barney Gugle Stuart Woodbrldge Floyd ToWnes Ore Via Lago Bobby Graham Crane Russell Orch Zlta ft Marcclle Jack Housh =Wanda~Kay At Handler Bd 885 Club Al Garbeli Edna Leonard Billy Richard Art West Joan LaMarr. Blltmore Howl Jimmy Grlcr 'Oro Blltmore R'decvous Mel Rulck's Oro Cafe De Paree Modle ft I.amaui Mnrle CarlHon Oro LOS ANGELES Cocoauut Grove Downey Sis Gus Arnhelm Oro Cotton Clnb Harlem ' Rev Broomnold ft G'ley AnderMtn ft Taylor New Acts COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BAND (50) 8 Mins.; Full Roxy, N, Y. HJsh cbst of operating a staged would probably- be too high to pro- vide for a band of 60. pieces, but probable that the Col U outfit would be willing to work at apprenttc* saiai'les if interested at all In play- ing dates other than this. An en- tertaining brass band. It is an at- tractlon fc also, that's different. Proves ideal for a picture house like the Roxy, where the large sized staged nnda plenty of room for so many musicians. Band sticks to playing numbers except for a^brief chorus bit. One of the boys is capable of doing solo work. On this engagement he was spotted in an opening production number to throw off vocal steam in- . stead of the finish where the band itself was launched. Music includes Columbia college flavor. Director is a little chap, Howard Simmons. He's in regula- tion brass band black, while the rest of the boys, (49) are in blue and white the Col.TT colors. Char. THREE WHIPPETS Acrobats 6 Mins.; Full Academy, N» V. Three Cuban : imblers in a brief turn that does not move, as fast as their billing implies. Do .the conventional nip-ups, . somersaults and crab-walks without pep and extremely little showmanship.. The three males, working In front of a eye, bowed off "to meager applause In ' the opening, frame at this spot. '. Defy Code (Continued from page 51) ing to units when playing picture houses. Maddock's attitude that, he would not follow the governing rules, on the vaudeville business included in the code was endorsed by the other producers present, Alex Gerber, a representative of Lenora, dance di- rector, Nick Agneta and Murray Rose. Letter to General Johnson by Partington and Gerber, which was to have been ready yesterday (Monday), will reiterate the pro- ducers' cry for a separate code, be- sides stating that the producers will not abide by the present NBA, regulations of their bupiness. 'No Changes'— Rosy Washington, June 11. There will be no easing the vaudeville wage burdens of the pic- ture, code as long as Sol A. Rosen- blatt stays on the job as NRA divi- sional administrator in charge of amusement industries. A flat ulti- matum to that effect was issued last week to complaining New York vaudeville managers. Pointing out that Code Authority has designated a committee to re- view the effect of the code provi- sions, and la . empowered i' suggest any changes necessary to alleviate hardships, Rosy said, in regard to demands of Charles B. MaddOck and VaundeviUe Producers' Association that he be ousted, 'They can wire the President, General Johnson or anybody else as muoh as they want, but there isn't going to be anft .sweating of those girls. The NRA will not permit the codes to be used for people to make a living at the expense of the workers. The suggested* changes have been con- sidered and are regarded as im- practical. When the code, author- ity committee reports, there .may be revisions; but at present we intend to. wait for a reliable report from people who have been instructed f.o study the situation.' The CV -A. grout report had hot reached Rosy's office when the code supervisor left for New York, for the week end and there was no definite indication on this end when doucment might be forthcoming. Non-Payoff Jam San Francisco, June 11.- 1 State Labor Commissioner's office in Sacramento Is out after Sam. Harris, ex^Ackerman & Harris, for asserted failure *to pay off artists and musicians for the one week Harris, operated t- Pla^a-here.— Harris opened the house three weeks "ago and folded after seven days, stage hands allegedly getting part of their dough, but musicians and acts getting the go-by. About $1,000 is due them, they claim. Dudley DIckerson Green Gables Mclntlre's Hawal'ne Paris inn Ship Cafe Geo Redman's Bd The Nineties Will Cowan Rev Pat Harmon Oro Topsy's Dorothy Gilbert Sis Jerry Phillips Bd Pete Pontrelll Oro Rainbow Gardens Gordon Smith Marge Keely Jack Dunn Bd Tuesday, June 12, 1934 EDiioniAL VARIETY 53 Inside Stuff-Pictures Trade Mark Registered FOUNDED BJ BIME SILVERMAN mbllsbed Weekly by V ABUTS.' toe. ) Sid Silverman. President iU west 4 8th Street New York CUy SUBSCRIPTION Annual. ,;.,...;,.»•' .Foreign. . . $1 Single Copies ...v. . ■ . . • ; • > Cents .120 No. 13 15 YEARS AGO (From Variety and Clipper) Richard A. Rowland, press of Metro, made a deal to take the en- tire product of Cinematografiqo, Italian co. Didn't mean a thing. Canadian exhi its were fighting over bookings. Several , after Fa-> mous Players' release. The Aliens got firsts. Talk beginning about an actors', strike. Equity. "White Rats over theirs. Shuberts announced 'Gaieties of 1919.' To be a yearly event, like Ziegfeld, but wasn't. "Walter de Freece, originally American vaudeville agent, and husband of Vesta Tilley, knighted for his war work. That Meehan -RKO truce is slated, to fade in July, when subsequent confabs, as understood, between parties, will determine how both parties are line* up for the future of Keith -Albee - Or pheum. It appears that if the Meehan element had figured K-A-O would be better off away from the rest of the RKO affiliation, that they have been convinced this would riot be a good move. The figuring on this . account seems, to .be that the •Meehan faction has been impressed with the hazardous elements that might. arise front K-A-O going altogether indie without a possible picture; affiliation, now had through RKO: Other elements, are that by staying in the. K-A-O fold; the resultant purchasing power to K-A-6, bn picture buys Is something -tforth con- sidering. Then again, there's the rub that RKO owns all the K-A r O common and any time that the dividends be paid up, RKO. can wipe the Meehan preferred control angle aside, or maybe, as certain trade mi . have been explaining. That couldn't be so hot while, under move peaceful sliding as at pres- ent, the Meehan group has arid can have official executive and operating representation in the particular group of theatres! Haying such repre- sentation, looks to have satisfied the Meehan element. So far, however, the proposed" shift in the theatre advertising position at RKO, as was handed some time ! agb by the Meehan group, hasn't taken place. Feeling is that this is still to come, soon as the Meehan group finds the right man. After each of the four regional sales conventions Warners is holding last at San .'Francisco June 18-19, district managers are to hold indivi- dual meetings at all exchanges with each branch manager arid all field salesmen . in attendance. Purpose of these meetings is to discuss product, policies, etc., accord- ing to each territory. In the eyerit policies set down nationally do not fit for certain exchange zones, the exchanges can then take it up with the some office for exceptions, concessions, if essential. "Warners has hopes of having a substantial number of its 1934-'35 pictures, probably around 15, ready by Sept. 15. At that time company plans holding trade previews, plus shorts, in all its U. S. and Canadian I branches, To this end, with last of the 17. pictures, on this season's schedule out of the cutting room and ready for release, studio is going into high speed immediately. ' 'Dames/ one of the new year's releases, has already been completed and three additional '34-'35 items are in work, 'British Agent,' 'Dragon Murder Case' and 'Lost Lady.' Six new ones are preparing. Trade shows twice yearly, is to be a set policy. statement pointing out why he thought he ought to be out of the Chambre. In substance he observed that French producers ought to improve their product rather than to try to eliminate competition, and he came very near to saying in so many words that the reason French films don't sell is because they are poor,- Rivalry that existed between two bootleggers: for the cream, of the trade bn one of the Coast's, rhajor lots has extended over repeal, now that: both of the former leggers are legitimate and have opened liquor One. of . the two, losing, trade to . the other, who began to be considered the official studio dispenser, took -as a- partner th* uncle of the head of the studio- He is now increasing "his business over the former favored booze peddler by stressing the fact to prospective customers that his partner is the. uncle of the big boss. . Ray Hubbell, who resigned six months ago. as executive secretary of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, has to date not been replaced by the society's board of directors. Hubbell withdrew froin the job so that he could set up a permanent home in Miami ith his wife, who is troubled with sinus. Hubbell, when he quit as secretary, expressed a wish to retain his membership on the board of directors, averring that it would be con- venient for him to comfe up to New York for the latter coterie's meetings. A number 0 f Catholic dibcesah 'Association for Clean Movies' are now using a weekly 'blacklist' review of current pictures by the Rev. Daniel J. Lord, S. J., of St. Louis, author of the Hays Code and editor of the Queen's Work: Feature, captioned 'The Queen's Work Sodality Service', is described in some Catholic weeklies as. an 'official blacklist of offensive pictures'. After each review appears these words ; 'Protest .to (name of producing company and star, with address listed)., Reviews make fre- quent references to violations of 'the code'. Producer at major studio, rioted for his lack of knowledge about music, eritered the . tunesmith department on his lot the other day arid wanted a musical score for a production; They asked him what he wanted and he replied something light arid airy like they have in the 'Mikado'. As the boys looked up arid smiled, the producer burning, said^ 'What s the matter with you guys, haven't you ever heard of Sullivan and Considine?' Cyclorama of Chateau Thierry battle planned to replace the 7th avenue car barns. Didn't happen. Taft hotel and Roxy theatre now there. Figured that circuits would spend from $7,000,000 to twice that putting up theatres in Sheridan Sq. (Vil- lage) • sector. Moe Mark built the Sheridan Sq, Others flopped. George White almost willing. to pay Frank Tinned $1,260 a week for his 'Scandals;' but deal evaporated when Tinney demanded that ^his name replace White's in the lights, There were 31 shows' on B'way the second week in June. 'The] Jest* was holding its own against; the musicals. Although one doubtful situation exists on a case that's going to the Albany Court of Appeals, it's believed in Par circles that the end of troublesome bondholder-creditor suits which have embarrassed the bank- rupt and retarded progress are about over. This follows out-and-out refusal of the U. S. Supreme Court to reverse lower courts on motions to oust the Par trustees on grounds of disqualification and that they were improperly elected. This was brought by Samuel Zirn, representing bondholders, While Zirn is conceded to have a fair chance at Albany, where the Court of Appeals Is permitting argument on another case to make Par officers, directors and banks responsible for various acts, notably the film-hocking deal, this attorney isn't expected to take any other action -just now. He has indicated he will not file any petitions consequent upon the new bankruptcy laws, such as were filed by other bondholders during the past week. Argument will be held on Zirn's Court of Appeals case the end of this month, ith a decision expected by July 16 at the latest. Man -waiting trial for wife murder got an injunction against Eden Musee, Coney Island, ^ preventing showing of a tableau of the alleged murder. Claimed it prejudiced his case. 50. YEARS AGO (From Clipper) B. F. Keith and George H. Batch- •ller took over former. N. Y. muesum In Boston. Had been running store show and sought expansion. Keith 'bought. Batcheller out before long. Italo Campanini's projected im- portation of Italian ballet a bust. Not enough dnncers willing to take a chance. Harry Miner gave up hift touring vaude.show. - Found more money in dramatic attractions. Later had a couple of .burlesque shows.' * . 13awrence Ptarrett closed 'his Lon- don season. Henry Irving gave him the order of St. George worn by Edmund Keene in 'Richard III;' Death of C. Francis Jenkins last week is likely to start all over again the question as to who invented the motion picture projector. Jenkins rested his claim on the allegation that in 1902 he joined strips of ordinary photographio film together, forming a flexible base for a series of pro- gressive drawings. Seller arid others did the same thing in a limited Way with plates back in the middle '7Q's, : and Dr. Marey, in Paris, used actual stop photography and a 'viewing box* in the '80's. Jenkins helped Armat with his initial projector around 1895, which Edison was permitted to claim on the proposition that an invention by Edison would command greater interest than One by Armat and Jenkins. Later Edison improved the model after making the 60 Armat machines called, for under contract. Meantime, the late Jean LeRoy had inverited a projector and rushed out on the road with it, neglecting to take out a patent until about a year later. Robert Paul, in London, and the Lumiere Freres, in Prance, both brought in machines about the same time. Creditor committees who agreed to the designation of Kuhn, Loeb and Sir William Wiseman as originators of a reorganization plan for Par hope for speedier action as result of the changed bankruptcy laws and" will try to force that but say that no word is. yet forthcoming as to when a plan may be ready. Attorneys for one of the large commit- tees in close touch with Kuhn, Loeb, are anticipating an early meeting "at which all creditor groups ill sit down to discuss steps, leading to tentative draft of a plan, giving* K-L. any guidance and suggestions pos- sible, but thus far no meeting dates have been set. It is pointed out as not unlikely that several drafts of a plan will be necessary before one is reached that's acceptable to all sides. None of the various creditor committees are obligated to accept any plan worked out by Sir Wise- man and Kuhn-Loeb, and they make this clear in advance. Current;setup of Fox West Coast has the 115 circuit houses divided Into six classes for operating purposes. Class A (deluxers) number five. They are the State, Los Angeles; Fox and Paramount, Oakland; Para- mount and Warfleld, San Francisco. There are nine houses classified under the B rating. Class C has 11; D, 24; E, 24 ; F» 42.. Latter .play to lowest grosses, and consequent profit. Trustee in bankruptcy of a Coast writer 1s having a merry time trying to get a check from an independent producer who bought film rights of a story listed as. an asset by the writer in the bankruptcy action. The * producer has another writer working on the screen play of the property, and has been paying off the scribbler regularly each , week, but not to the original author. No previews of Mae West's 'It Ain't No Sin* or 'Shoot the Works,' the Ben Bernie opus, will be held until after the Paramount salesmen have had a look-see during their convention which gets under way in Los Angeles June 18. Emanuel Cohen wants the field crew to, catch the pictures cold arid, without having read trade reports. Excessive income' tax payments is the reason that Ronald Colman turned down $150,000 to play opposite Helen Hayes in *Vahessa' for Metro. Studio was anxious to get Colman and made an offer of $126,000 for the picture. When he refused by saying he preferred to loaf on a yacht, the ante was increased to. $150,000 and still Colman prefers to loaf. Chicago was very surprised to see Cardinal Mundelein come out flat- footed and back the drive against films. In the past there has always been a smooth harmony between all show business and the Cardinal Mundelein regime. Time and time again he has come through, not only with expressions of friendship, ,but with co-operative action. I While Universal was getting around to looking at a test which had been made two weeks previously of Astrid Allwyn for possible stock con- tract, Fox had the girl up for a picture— borrowed the test from .Uni- versal, and signed the player to a contract carrying options for seven years. Fox intends to limit Shirley Temple to four pictures a year and will refuse hereafter any loans of her services to other studios. Fox execs' opinion is that more than four a year might overcrowd the child player's present popularity.- ! Between the Nazis nixing Max.Baer and the Italians not liking the spectacle of Primo Camera being on the losing end, at Baer's expense, Metro's 'Prizefighter and the Lady' has been having boxoffice difficulties in both fascistic countries. Lillian Russell's opera co. strand- ed in Switzerland. Clipper referred to E. H. Sothern as 'a bright young mwi of whom we are. likely to hear more some day/ De Wolf Hopper went Into 'May | Blo.ssom' at the Madison Square. Ad Neuendorff, German critic, 'wrote' a play for Barry and Fay. Merely put Irish dialect to a German farce. Touring attraction was based on a couple of scenic models, a tabic composed of 200,000 pieces, of wood and six acts. Models too small for stage showing, and the tabic a total loss. Philadelphia had 'Plasar, Queen of the Miners,' written by an English- woman. ROmola Nijtnsky; who . rote the best, seller, 'Life of Nijinsky , and sold the.plcture rights to Alexander Forda for $100,000. is well known I in Hollywood. She was brought to America by Morris Gest for oi^of the candle-bearers in his production of Reinhardt's 'The Miracle*. When the show enoed here she got a job on the Metro payroll and was a mem- ber of the stock company for six months at $76 a week, She never faced a camera and shortly after her contract was dropped- sbe. returned to Europe. She returned some years later as companion to the- late Lya de Putti, remaining until the latter yVent east. Hungarian and Russian colonies on the Coast are jubilant oyer her I good fortune, knowing that out of her earnings she was supporting her husband in a lunatic asylum. Indications' point to probability of. an increase in Production .of ^ pic- tures ih England by American majors, aside from the means ouch ^duatic^pjayj^ United Artists abroad thrqugh -distvlDution of^ndon^hns anti BTitisn & Dominion, product, latter for entire world Warner Bros, plans in- creased British output and Universal is ready to study the situation ^MoSiixing the- Teddington studio near London taken over by War- ners, this company is setting 30 English-made pictures .as its goal. Last season WB turned out 24 in London. U's interest is partly n the thought of turning out pictures in England that will be pointed to the. world market. Resignation of American firms iiom Chambre Syndkale of Frenoh film trade over attempt to bar U, S. iilms. has raised considerable odor many French houses reproaching Americans for drawing the line plainly, Henri Klarsfeld, Frenchman, director of local Paramount, made a Two weeks ago NIRA circles in New York were reporting, the shelf for Rosey's brief on Hollywood salaries^ This week, when Washington is re-echoing the pigeon-hole, New York now understands the Divisional Administrator may make the report public after all; in fact, quite soon. Garrison Film Distributors, not Amkino, is the owner and distributor of the film variously called '1906' and 'Mother'. Former title is official, but latter was used on New York showings. Recent Variety review mentioned Amkino as the distrib. Metro sent the sound track of 'Merry Widow' to Franz Lehar ia~ Vienna for his . approval and cohiment. Lyrics of the operetta have been modern! but the music written by Lehd.r 30 years ago is un- changed. 1 According to info (collected by the. Music Publishers Protective Asso- ciation, chain stores have closed down 37 music counters, and three dealers have gone into bankruptcy, since the Music Dealers Service, Jnc. ? ceased functioning. Latter publishers' distributing channel folded May 1. irst sourid newsreel has finally hit the town of Jolo, Philippine Islands, showing Hoover as president and Franklin D. Roosevelt as governor of New York. Natives accepted the clip as authentic news of = twlay, ^ In the picturizatio of Tolstoy's 'Father Sergei,' Universal is said to be the first to photograph the Russian Easter service around which the story will revolve. Eugene Frenke, Russian born, is working on the script with 1 James Hogan and will direct. Warner Bros, is planning a few three rcelei'8 during 3D34-'35 as a feeler on 30-35-mintite shorts, This 5 " idea ««» inated some lime back- as one waj to combat double-billing,. Muiray Roth, Universal director, was Kt-t to offer Walter Wincholl a day's work in Larnon Runyan's 'Million Dollai Ransom'. When Win- chcJl's column took a rib {it Cail Laeiumlo, Jr., the deal yhllled. 54 VARIETY L EG IT I M 4 T C Tue^dajr, June 12,. 1934 Plays Abroad VINTAGE WINE London. May 30; Play In three acts, by Seymour Hlcka and Ashley Dukes, from original of Alex -(inder Engcl, presented by Seymour JIlcUs at Daly's, May 2fc ' - ■ ■ : v. , Stanley. vnv*ri romley Davenport Gemma' Fagan . .'.' .... /.Patrick . Baring Madeline Seymour ...... Jtnthleen' Weston ; . ; ... .Julia -Nellson . . . . ; . . . Seymour Hlclca Clnlre Luce . .Jtomvld Waters . . .Oli ver Gordon Henri .Popinot Pierre Suzanne Fa vert...- Benedict Popinot. . Stephanie Popinot Babette Pa vert.... Josephine ' Popinot;' Charles Popinot. .. Nina'. Popinot Leonardo Volpe .. Hon. Richard Emsley A charming evening's entertain ment. for the. intelligentsia-— barring a tendency toward lack, of speed, by the introduction of extraneous mat ter. In addition, the nifty wise- cracks *are of an . American vintage of Ave years ago A grandfather of 62 has been secretly married for two years to a woman les3 than half his. age. and is the father of the :■ girl's three months' old child. When his sons discover he is. spending cShsider- able sums of money r on the; woman and, believing her to. be his .mis- tress,, they decide to bring him back from Rome to their ancestral hoirie in France, having jiim placed in the care of a guardian and thus control his 'expenditures. _ Originally a continental farce; It was adapted by the' serious-riiin'ded erudite Ashley Duke* and. when the* manuscript- came Into the hands of Hicks, he. began injecting hokum and' what he regarded, as' up-tp- date slang. But Hicks hasn't been ■to •America'- in- a numbeiv of "years arid v . therefoi\e, -.' .-..not. .acquainted with... the newest, expressipns . an,d bits ,of comedy .business, ( . For in- : stance, the constant' Use' ** A ' tom. lSettjs >.;:,....:. Page .Boy-.,..,, f.ola Smith.., Bragg. »<.uf<.vw — — i- Of the I qiiui x-risuyy word 'oke'ahd ; t?ve J shuftillrig of 'toast 1 'mim .Biytt-#ratt at'the breakfast- table to indicate I agitation, will. : give an- idea- of hoW. 'Chapman far'ibehind the procession the pro-* ductiori, is in the matter of yintag,e r . Despite all this. Hicks is a good farceur and the best imitator ex- tant of the Sacha Guitry school of pantomime — so much so, when he resorted to it. too continuously, a voice from the gallery shouted: 'Speak up,' whereupon the comedian smiled . approvingly and spoke up. The aforesaid intelligentsia would be Interested In the mental attitude of a man of 60 with a heart younger than his sons who- are in: the. forties and who: is still capable- of 'think- ; irig young' and therefore living as a young man. The large majority will not grasp the psychology Of the story and therefore inisia the point' entirely. What a good pair of Hollywood script writera could do to this book would be plenty. One of the members of the libraries (local ' ticket speculating syndicate) hazarded the prediction i after the. second act of the first performance) it wouldn't run more than a fortnight. Jolo. Show. was. originally tried out for single Sunday performance some time ago. - An. erstwhile cavalry officer, now a trusty, employed clerically in the orderly room f after 13 years of plot ting, has his. plans of. mutiny brought to a head through the im- minent execution of one of his ablest supporters. He obtains control and plans to set himself up as a dlctar tor, while the idea in mind of turn- ing the colony into a happy, busy nation of liberated citizens. He figures Froinee-won't waste an expeditionary force to quell the re- bellion, with the swamps and jungle and all strategic points, in their favor. His triumph is short-lived, fora wireless message secretly, sent by the young doctor brings a cruiser within firing -distance, and they are compelled to surrender. • Of course, the hero loves, .the daughter of the Commandant;, but the other, did not take advantage of this fact and allow a happy ending. Papa performs. emorgecy mar- riage service, fearing for his daugh- ter's- honor, but: the prisoner is im- mediately" taken out and shot before the ' girl realizes what is happening. ; Some very srood character acting makes this show good entertain- ment; I HAPPY WEEK-END! !.*!•.... London, -May 31. • Musical ploy Jn three acts from the Hun- garian . 'Katz Jn .Sack' by , Ladlslaus Szlfagyl: English adaptation- by Dion tlthemilge; -music by -Michael Elsemann: presei'.'etV. by Mackey. & Vearsley. Ltd., at Iftiike' of YorK'is; May 80. Bogei-B .■ d'hajll?:. Edward' >P6ttg. Iflltzi Prlslcy* OUT-OF-TOWN REVIEW CAVALCADE Pasadena, Cal., June 6. Pageant-drama in three acts and . .'-0 scenes by Noel Cowftrd. Directed by Morris Ankrum. Presented by the Community Players at the Pnsadena Community Play- house tor Its American premiere, June 0. $1.50 top. Cast: . . . _ - .. , . .Dorle Lloyd ...... Ralph Freud .. Shnrjey Simpson ....... .Eric Snowdpn ...... tchard Ritchie ...... ^ Alex . Courtney ...... . *. ". .Alma Lloyd .Barbara Sheldon ...... '.. Judith Evelyn :Jhnet Murdock Dora May Held ;. ,-Cybe) Hnllam .lano Marryot. , . . Robert Mcuryot. . Ellen. >. Bridges. . ,.-.'-.. Edward Mrirryot. Joe Marryot Ed'th Harris. . Fanny. Brldgos. Margaret Hnrrjs;. Cook. .-.'■, ...... . ; . , Mrs. Snapper.... Annie. .'. . ..Mr. Dernard Dudley , . . . Mr.' Steve ' Geray, r. Arthur 'Chesney .Mr, Claud - Allister . . .Miss • Magda Kun lss Mildred Cottell r. DaVld Hutcheson' lss Ijovlse Browne- . ,~.Mr. , Alex Morphy ..-..Mr. Paul Blake ..Miss Monti Ryan- .Mr. Douglas Allen, , Miss Stella Marls . ; .Mr. ' Arthur Stanley- Buddy •• raciley's Happy Weekenders: Honor Blair, Jill Clayton. Dorothy King,-. Given Beddoes, Edna Earl, Vera Rlc-Iiard- son. THE PRIVATE ROAD .London, June 1. Comedy In three acts by. John Carlton, presented by Cieoftrey' Gwyther at the Comedy. 'May 81. Produced by Campbell Gillian. _ , _„, . Alexander Beckett .....John TUley George Augustus Waynenete. .Edwin Styles Palmer , Ernest Graham Sylvia AMnvln ......Dorothy' Dickson Robert Balntree Anthony £>haw This musical play has just passed its 250th . performance in Budapest and is said to be running success-, fully in. Vienna, Berlin, Rome, etc. The original ' producer, Steve ' Geray,. is also the principal comedian here, while the 'female Of the species* is tylagda Kun. Both, are apparently Hungarian and created the roles in which they are now; appearing in the Viennese presentation. They are badly han- dicapped through inability to speak much English, but appear to be musical comedy folk of talent. They sing and dance and prance and romp and generally keep going, but it would be unfair to judge them at present, Louise Browne makes a bold bid for singing and acting honors, in addition to her surefire terpsichorean efforts. There are half-a-dozen more stereotyped characters; music not too catchy; half-a-dozen chorus girls who dance neatly— -in fact everything a conventional, musical play demands, excepting a suitable tempo, which stamps the whole presentation as amateurish. Jolo. Five minutes after the curtain rose on the opening performance it was apparent the humor of the plot would be manifest; in the form of Rabelaisian wisecracks. These were very much relished by a contingent of masculine females arid. effeminate males who were, plentifully sprln-- kled throughout the audltorluni. The. plot is nil, but there are a number of absurdly farcical situ- ations. . , ^ The wise folk of the West End were interested . in the daring ex- periment of. entrusting the two principal tttai'e. roles to a pair . of vaudevUHans who, so.' far as they, were aware, had never before ap- peared in a legit show.! They are Jo"hn Tilley and Edwin 'Styles, who acquitted themselves, excellently Their- vaudeville training was ap- ^ parent in the incisiyeness. in which they projected their speeches. Then there is Dorothy, Dickson as the chased, chaste, young widow. . . This, is the type of show that will be visited by all the gigolos accom panied by their patronesses,, and when these have been exhausted, the curtain will fall. Jolo, King of the Damned =Loridori rf =J.u.ne=U Drama In three acts by John Chancellor, Presented by Walter and .Frederick el- vllle at . Lyceum. May 31. . . Mocha. .... Moo(ihe. ........ Captain Ro^et. Convict Q93.., Angustura. . . . Latour Major Boise.. Anna Courvlp Commandant Coui-vln iKennelh Carlisle B^ufTard. George Hutler ......... .... i ....,.*• Percy Pa rsons .George Tlelmore ,.;C.uy Mlddleton . . . . .Gyles Ii>hnm .Iris- Darbvshlre .. ..r.rlnn Oiilton Henry Thompson .Mir1"rlp Mnra Pennsylvania Roof, N. Y. (Continued from page 49) soloists. Orchestra also carries Joy Lynfte, exotic Turkish singer, a sis- ter of Neva, the Follies looker, i The Continental dance team, paron and Blair, and Ed Lowry are. "other entertainers." Xatter. V well-known m.c. in vaude and pic ture houses, is doing a routine that should bring hi added admirers fop here- i Baron-Blair team offer some iiltra-ballroom work in addition to frivirig' their conception of a pair of. fi.nale-hoppers,. a routine that is both clever, and. amusing. Opening night Monday (4) was given. little different touch by having as the guests of honor, Capt Frank H. Sadler, captain of the flagship Penrisyivania, arid 24 com tnanding officers and their fraus and belles. NBC has a wire from the roof .for broadcasting five times, weeklv. Char, Villa Chagrin, Paris After a miscellany of attractions at .popular prices, this oM meller house reverted to type May 31 with a full-blooded drama of a French penal settlement- in South America. Paris, June .1. nine of this spot is a Stavisky gaT. Villa Chagrin is what the newspaper boys named the jail at ^Ba^yonrieT-town^near^Biari^itZT^where Stavinsky did his pawnshop swln dling. The jug housed everybody who was pinched in the early days of the scandal. Place must have A good drag for another uitery with the same name not long ago w.as ordered to drop it. Jt was renamed Villa Sans Nom — -Naineless House. That one was in Montmartre. This new spot is in Montparnasse, iri premises of the old Cigogne.' and ia an American hangout because the .master of cere monies is Gary from California, the barman who put over the Dome's American bar. Cary runs the O.K. 1 tlon, however. Cornell's $280,000 Tour Community Players assumed a Herculean task when they essayed to produce Noel Convard's 'Caval- cade' at their local playhouse for its first Amerloan presentation. Aside from the fact, that the drama* is in three acts arid 20 scenes,, a cast of 192, many of them stage beginners, was deemed necessary to give it an interpretation that/would come up to the requirements of the Coward script and at the same time con- tain entertainment value for ah American audience that might un-. der ordinary presentation conditions become, restless at the strong pro- Britisii theme. That American producers nave fought shy Of .presenting 'Cavalcade' in this country becomes less a mys- tery, after consideration is taken of the production 'difficulties necessary to overcome in staging- a play of, this tvne. Only a sponsored organ- ization" such as the. Community flayers, which; does not take the commercial possibilities into consid- eration, could . reasonably be expect- ed to essay the attempt. 1 'Cavalcade* is a cross-mixture, of Intense dramatic situations coupled with moments- of- light comedy; . The author has deftly interwoven these trends to provide an episodical chronihclizatiori of the constant tur-- moil of the people of a progressive nation, the patriotism and heart- pangs incidental, to war arid other disaster, and the parariiount thought that one's duty is first to his coun- try, and personal feelings or con- siderations must be relegated to the background, no matter what hard- ships or sufferings they produce. Principals mostly are well cast, particularly Doris Lloyd as Jane Marryot, the mother, around whose sufferings much~ of the story is based Ralph Freud giVes a spotty performance as Marryot, his best efforts coining during the more modern sequences, when his dom-. inant. personality stands out ex- pertly. Sharley. Simpson as Ellen Bridges, and Eric Snowden as her husband, the one-time servants of the Marryots, and later rising to affluency through acquisition of a liquor pub, give excellent character- izations. Alex Courtney is well suited for the part of Joe Marryot, the younger of the two sons of the family. Barbara Sheldon makes an accept- able Fannie Bridges, but her blues vocalization does n'6't come up to. entertainment requirements. Rich- ard Ritchie is oke as the elder Mar- ryot brother. Comedy characteriza- tions by Janet MUrdock. Dora May- field and Cybel Hallem are well done, and Judith Evelyn is demurely sweet as Margaret Harris, one of the Titanic victims. Male and femme ensembles, ire made up mostly of beginners and youngsters new to the theatre. Dance routines are generally well done, although there were evidences tonight of ragged direction of these numbers in some spots, which, how ever, is easily overcome by work. Production is somewhat more pre- tentious than the Ordinary Com- munity House presentations, arid Morris Ankrum's direction shows painstaking work. Commercial possibilities of .'Caval- cade' as a stage venture are prob lematioal. The year's run in Lon don, plus the widespread national advertising, of the Fox film version, might create sufficient interest, par- ticularly in spots where spectacle is wanted, to. make it worth, while if some venturesome producer can be persuaded to assume the undertak ing. Edwd. bar. too, next door to Villa Cha grin, for the same proprietor,, and passes from one joint to the other by a back door. Inside decorations are among the most fantastic in Paris. "Walls are painted to represent barred cells and behind bars are all the people who were arrested in the case. Only to avoid libel, the faces of the por traits are plastered over with ch ocksp^epr eson t-i n g^=t he-=-f amou a Checks whose stubs were found after Stavlsky's death. This also Is getting away with murder, for it Is supposed to be against the law in France to fake anything resembling a check. Moreover, features? of portraits are well enough drawn so that picking them is becoming a favorite Left Bank pastime. Entertainment provided by Edith Davis, American hoofer and' singer personable and a good draw for here. Couple weeks ago she doubled at A.B.C.. boulevard variety house Decorations were the real attrac (Continued from page 1) 29 weeks and one day, numbor of miles - traveled being" 16,853. Miss Cornell's leading success, 'The Barretts of Wimpoie Street," never failed . of capacity in the 144 tlirios. it was presented on the road. It was necessary for the star to ap- pear in repertory, however, because of the strain of the part of 'Elizar beth Barrett.' 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Candida' were also played, that the actress could have some change of pace. ostly One -Niters Feature of the tour was the fact that most stands were one-high ters, that applying particularly through* Out the spring. After leaving Cin- cinnati early in April f6r southern territory, 'Juliet* was dropped from the repertory. It was deemed too difficult to present thfe: play in orie- nighters because of its 20 scenes, which requlre inore than eight hours to set. Nor was 'Candida' played In pne T nighters. Wherever 'Juliet' was given a sec- ond performance, attendance ap- proximated capacity,: That, the star outdrew the play was .indicated when, the first performance of •Juliet' got but $940, then grossed $1,770 the following night. It was proven in" San Francisco when the first showing drew > -$1,711, arid the final 'Juliet' got $3,227.50, which was $300 over capacity. ,.In /.the same stand 'Candida* went, over, "capacity with takings of $3,209. . rretts' was jthe, top. draw. High gross for. a single performance was registered at. Des, Moines, '.fa',', where 4,251 people, attended "the ' Shrine, auditorium and paid $7.79'5.70, in- cluding tax, or a. net 'of $7,087! At Toledo ch'e ' gross was $8,i'66'.90 for the slrigle showing, of 'Barretts,' but that sum included a 10% state and' 10% federal tax, so the net was $6,- 804.50. Tour gave the government Over $65,000 in admissions taxes.. As to states* Texas was' the big- gest coin producer, gross in nine performances there being $42,436.90. Largest single week was $29,821.25,. drawn in six One -night stands- Waco,: Fort Worth, Oklahoma City. Tulsa, Emporia and Wichita. None Of the stands had been visited by a Broadway attraction or star for years! Holy Week, made -little, dif- ference in attendance, and the tak^ ings for Columbus, Toledo and In- dianapolis topped $27,000. Standout single performance gross.es 'drawn by 'Barretts': Tulsa, $6,301.35; Bir- mingham, $5,393; San Antonio* $5,- 366.35: Louisville, $4,867.60; Nash- ville, $4,73i.65; Sacramento, $4,549. Lowest gross and worst stand was- Emporia, Kas. ( where the gross for 'Barretts' was $1,124.75. A Long Part Miss Cornell's 'Elizabeth' is one of the longest parts in modern drama, requiring the . star to be on stage three hours, save for curtain inter- missions. There' are more lines for the lead fn the first act than In all. of 'Juliet.' When the 'Barretts' played B.madway (Empire) the run. which started. Jan. 29, .1931, and ended in October, was interrupted for six weeks, Miss Cornell going to Bermuda to rest. During the fol- lowing spring M key cities out to San Francisco, and when closing there she thought she could not stand the strain of the 'Barretts' again. For that reason the repertory plan was adopted.' That not only saved the star's strength - but was a break for the author. Rudolph Besier. When she completes the tour next week Miss Cornell will have played 'Barretts' 685 times. . 'Barret':.' opened in Boston (Opera House) Thursday (7). to $3*994.62. Four performances there' topped $15,000, most of the tickets having been sold by mail order lh advance. Although she may appear out of town in the. late fall, Miss Cornell Is dated to open in New York..at the Martin Reck, Dec. 20, opening attraction, to be 'Juliet,' to be fol- lowed by the 'Barretts,* -'Candida' and, for the first time, "Rosmers^- hj^hnV (Jhsen) . „ _ Each_sho_ w._.wIl l_be. irmlteTto four weeks. She will" sail for Europe, late this month, with her husband. Guthrie McCllntlc. Latter, will return during the sum- mer, the star planning to remain abroad until November. Of the 2i'5 performances given In the 715 cities played. 'Barretts' was donr. 144 times. 'Candida,' 42, nnd 'Komoo and Juiie^t,' 3D. The tour as played, follows* Katharine Cornell's Route Nov. 29— Erlanger, Buffalo. Dec. 4— Davidson, Milwaukee. 11- 12— Parkway, Madison. 13-16— Metropolitan, Minneapolis, 18 - 20— Metropolitan, St. Paul 21- 22— Orpheum, Duluth. 23 — Travel. 26— Metrop.olitari, Jan. 1 — Temple, Tacoma. 2— Playhouse, Portland, re. 8 — Columbia, San Francisco. 22- ^Biltmore, Los Angeles. Feb. 5-6— Auditorium, Oakland. 7— Auditorium, Sacramento. 8 — Travel. 9— 10 — Paramount, Salt Lake City. 12 - Lincoln, Cheyenne. 13- 16 — Auditorium, Denver. , 16— Auditorium, Colorado Springs. 17— Auditorium, Amarlllo. 19- 20— Melba, Dallas. 21 — Paramount, Austin. : 22 — Texas, San Antonio. 23- 24-T-Majestlc, Houston. 26 — Baylor Auditorium, Wac>>. 27— Majestic, Ft; Worth. 28— Shrine Auditorium, Oklahoma City. ,- ., ' . Mar. 1 — Convention Hall, Tulsa. 2 — State Teachers College, Audi- torium, Emporia. • 3^ Arcadia, Wichita. 6— Shubert, Kansas City. Mo. 12^-Liberty, LiricOln. 13 i.l4— Technical H. S. Auditor- lurn, Omaha. ' 16— Coliseum, i'ou'x Falls. 18 — Auditorium, Sioux City. ' 17" ~ Shrine Auditorium, Des Moines. 1 19— American, St. Louis. 26r-^Par'amount > Toledo!- 2Y-28— Hartman,, Colurnbus. 2^-31^-Engiish. .Indianapolis. Apr. 2— Shubert, Cincinnati. 9— Auditorium, . Louisville. • 10— Coliseum, Evansvillei . 11-12— Auditorium, NashVille. ' 13-14— Auditorium, Memphis. 16- 17^Tulane, New Orleans. 18— Auditorium, Montgomery. 19— Temple, Birmingham. 20— 21— -Erlanger, Atlanta. 23— Auditorium. Savannah. 24 — Academy, Charleston. 26 — Carolina, Spartanbur 26— Plaza, Asheyille. 27 — Carolina, Charlotte. 28— State, Raleigh. 30- 31— National, Richmond. May 2 — Carolina, Durham. 8.—: National, Greensboro. 4 — -Academy, Roanoke. 6— McCarter, Princeton. 7— Playhouse, Wilmington. 8— r-ZembO Mosque, Harrisburg. 9 — Majestic, Willlamsport. 10— Strand, Ithaca. 11— 12 — Lyceum, Rochester, N. T. 14- 16 — Erlanger, Buffalo. 17- 19 — Alexandra, Toronto. 21— Majestic Utica. 22^23— Capitol, Albany. 24-26— Shubert, New Heaven. 28-30 — Parsons. Hartford. 31 — Carlton, Providence. June 2 — Carlton, Providence. 4-5 — Court Square, Springfield, Mass. 6 — Plymouth, Worcester. 7- 9 — Boston Opera House. 11 — Shubert, Newark. 18- 20 — Academy of Music, Brook- lyn. IA Convention (Continued from page- 27) and treasurer after a stiff fight had been made by the opposition to take this spot f'-nm him. Browne goes Into office with full- est co-operation of other officers and leaders of the organization. Elec- tion resulted in moving the full Brown, ticket into office, with the exception of James Brennan, Who beat out James McGrath for sixth v.p The clean sweep of Brown's administration into office indicates a general reorganization of the en- tire setup for the coming year.- with a good chance that the organi- zation will tak an aggressive stand on issues that preyiously have been straddled. The present administration of the IATSE, headed by President El- liott, was torn apart on the floor of the annual convention. Dissat- isf aot ion-wi th^the^-ma n neiHn=wh-ioh- heads of the IA had handled mat- ters during, the past year was ex- pressed after Elliott stated at the start of the second day's session that lie would not be a randidale for re-election. Hollywood, June 11. Action of Presldont Elljott In de- j2llning to run for re-election at the IATSE convention confirms his con- fidential statement to that effect in an exclusive interview when he was on the Coast early this year. f iisday,' June 12, 1934 LEGITIME TE VAJttETt 55 'SAILOR' CAST IS UNITED Cast members. 'Sailor Beware' re banded together again, reelng to stick to the show with the idea of prolonging the engagement at the Lyceum, New York, as long as possible. Playing strength of the original cast is regarded the para- mount feature of the comedy's suc- cess, the flop of the Chicago com- pany being blamed on miscasting. Several leads in 'Sailor* had run of the play contracts which expired June 2, and at. least one of the. latter is under contract for pictures in Hollywood, if and when the show closes. Instead of walking, they huddled with the others last week: and. all agreed to continue so that the lesser players would have as much employment in 'Sailor' as possible. 'Stick together* spirit of the com- pany came to notice first when the show management announced salary cut. When several notices were given those who objected, the cast handed in a blanket, notice to the management. Result was prompt revision of the. slicing plans. Sub- sequently at company meetings dif- ferences of opinion arose and the actors declared they were on their own. When the ca6t agreed to a per- centage deal two weeks ago, the original group spirit was revived. To the banding of the 'Sailor' people is credited the origin of the younger group of liberals which has become a power with Equity. Last week 'Sailor'' went into Leblang's cut rates, and attendance jumped away up, cool weather the last half also helping. Audrey Christie is laying off this week to rest, Joan Castle subbing. Ralph Sanford has replaced Don . Rowan. Musical Shows on A. C, Garden Pier Atlantic City< June 11. Charles Purcell, actor-manager, has leased the Garden Pier: theatre for a series of musical plays and operettas. He will open June 25 with Oscar Strauss' 'Chocolate Soldier:' The Pier property has been leased for 20 years by Klein & tVogei; operating as the Atlantic City Amusement Co. Plant is being renovated' and. Will include exhibits and amusement features; 'Crook' Revival Cold; Producer Dropped $11,000 After rehearsing three weeks, the proposed revival of 'The lack Crook,' aimed for Bowery presenta- tion with a name cast, was abruptly abandoned. Donald Gilpatric, young newcomer, was supposed to be solidly backed, a Wall Street broker being named. But he suddenly ran out of coin, after going, for "511,000. Curious angle is the dinner party tendered the players by Gilpatric in a swanky East Side hotel. Usually such good-timing is dated for the opening night, but the new boy wanted to be different. Gilpatric formed the Bowery As- sociates for the 'Crook' revival, Cleon Throckmorton, Harry Wag- staff Grlbble and Tony .Sarg also being, concerned. The old People's theatre was engaged and sets were being made. House was to have tables in the front, lower floor, and was to be renamed Bowery Gar- dens. Of the red money $5,000 went to the players, paid out by Equity, where the usual two weeks' salary guarantee was on deposit- Inside Shut-Legit Real Russian caviar is used in ^Caviar,' operetta, at the Forrest, N. Y. Julius Stone, manager of the house, and Charles Washburn, show's p.a., arranged that the tid-bit be served gratis to first nighters at intermis- sion in the bar adjoining the theatre. Estimating that 30 pounds of caviar would be required they asked F. G. Hansen-Sturm, the importer, if that was not too much to get. oh the cuff. • He replied: 'No, we once backed a musical comedy.' Show was 'The Little Cafe,* produced by Klaw Ai Erlanger in 1912. Real champagne was served actors during performance. Bottle of Piper Heidsick was opened on 'Cavlar's' premiere, several in the cast drinking a toast, it was a short bit, however, and they got little more than a sip. Not generally known that Moss Hart's original finale for the Rocke- feller birthday scene in 'As Thousands Cheer' had John D. Sr., shown reading "Variety. But just about the time of the opening, the New Yorker's cartoon showing the 611 emir with a Variety was published, which caused Hart and Irving Berlin to rule that piece of business out of the revue, although it was one of those coincidences as both had been away in Bermuda writing the show at the time. ARREARS AMENDMENT GOES OUT TO EQUITY MEMBERS FOR VOTE BY MAIL Which Came First, Chicken or Egg? Mt. "Vernon, la., June 11. There will be plenty of theatrical entertainment Here this summer, in fact 10 weeks of it. A play a week goes on the boardi In the little theatre, Sylvan Gardens, and the little theatre studio. All a part of Albert Franklin Johnson's school for comedy In the Cornell college summer theatre. Plan Is to trace the development of comedy from the earliest days of the theatre and will be culminated in a carnival of comedy during a week, in August. Most on roster rolls are preparing for professional and community theatre careers. Beatrice Kaufmah~and Peggy" Pulitzer, mates of former newspapermen, stepped out, wrote a first play and left the 'only our wives club'. Play, which has the tentative title of 'Three Loves', ,was accepted by Guthrie McCiintic, first manager to see the script, and it Is slated for early fall production on Broadway, Mrs. Kaufman is the wife of playwright George S. Kaufman. Her collaborator is the wife of. Ralph Pulitzer. Mrs. . Pulitzer has authored several books, one' in collaboration with Heywood Broun. DUCAT ISSUE JAMS LEGIT CODE Washington. June 11. Latest hitch in revising NBA legit theatre code is conflict over tax laws and pact's ticket provisions, but signs, of an early compromise are encouraging. Lawyers of NRA and Internal Revenue Bureau have been confer- ring for the' past week trying* to straighten out the code so it will harmonize with the revenue statutes concerning admission taxes and make possible the desired tle-rup for enforcement purposes between code authority and Treasury Depart- ment. Revenue laws provide that 10% must' be paid when tickets are re- sold at higher prices, but when sold by the theatre at more than stamped amount, government share is 50%. Status. Of brokers in this situation is uncertain, and lawyers are try- ing to dope out whether they are agents of theatres or dealers in their own right; Other provisions, are pretty well set, Deputy William P. Farnsworth said today. Final revision of labor arbitration section will be submitted to unions as soon as conventions are over, and it is hoped complete agreement will be reached. Whether revision will be submit- ted for signatures this week re- mains doubtful, but the next fort- night should see some final action. Tie in N. Y. Balloting Requires Referendum- Entire Membership Can Vote on Disputed Issue —First Council Meeting with New Liberal Members Held RACE QUESTION KILLS LYNCHB'G TASTURES' Lyncmmrg, June 11. . So much objection met a proposal to play 'Green Pastures' at the Paramount theatre here next Oc- tober, that Manager Willis Grist, Jr., has decided to give up the idea, for the present, anyway. When word got . around that the Negro troupe was dickering for the Paramount, Lynchburg business men raised a strenuous objection. They pointed out that since the Paramount has no gallery for Ne- groes, it might cause racial friction to stage the show there. First time known that the race question has been raised over 'Green Pastures' in the South. Hun- ter Perry, operator of a string of Paramounts in Virginia, has booked the play for his Charlottesville house. If it goes over there, Lynch- burg theatre may play it when It returns north in February. Before definitely saying 'no,' Grist ran a slide with his film shows tell- ing patrons the house could get the play in October at $2.20 top if Para- mount customers would support it. Applause was very sparse. Macloon Scouts Spots On Coast for 'Bay tree' Los Angeles, June 11. Louis O. Macloon Is trying to get back into legit production. He is shopping around for a house. Wants to produce 'Green Bay Tree/ Scenarist's Play 'Mating Season,' a play by Halsey Raines of Metro, is being tried out at the Band Box, Hempstead, L. I., opening Friday .(15) for a run of eight days. Mary Forrest is producing the show on the tryout, Richmond Cooper directing. BEILEN-DELSON PLAT Hollywood, June 11. Al Beilen and Abner Delson have completed a play 'The Right to Live.' Authors have picture offers, but want it to get a crack on the stage previous to disposition of screen rights. n ill i iking as Per Booze Times (N. ¥.) issue of last Wednesday (6) carried the legit show list ads in usual directory form but without the shows in the Shubert block of houses. That shortened the actual list by seven attractions. It was an error of omission. Daily's ad department claimed copy was not received. The agency handling the Shubert copy; was equally in- sistent that delivery was made. Ads reappeared thereafter. Closing of 'Jig Saw' at the Barrymore, N. Y-, last Saturday, after play- ing six weeks, was abrupt. Show made money from operation, but last week's business was not profitable for the house. Shuberts. sought a change in the sharing terms, but the Theatre Guild refused to accede. House share was not enough, it was contended, because 15 stagehands were required! Wife of John Anderson, the N. Y. Journal's dramatic critic, was in- IuTe 7-$2.75). Just about^ getting by; $4,000 last week; should improve with insertion of 1 Mae Murray into cast Monday (11). 'Tobacco Road/ 48th St. (28th Week) (D-969-$3.30). Approximated =^7 T 000=last^wec^and^iade^goo.dly, profit; James Barton replaces Henry Hull next Monday (18). 'While Parents Sleep/ Playhouse (2d week) (C-S69-$2.75). English farce drew mild notices; first weel about $4,000, which is claimed to be okay with rent period over. Other; Attractions 'Kykunkor,' Little; African 'opera'; mov.ed here from Ch^nin Auditori- um. 'Stevedore/ - Civic Rep. thatre; 14th street's success, 'The Drunkard'; revival in former east side church (55th street). Grand Opera, Hippodrome; 99 cents top. Nagel, Homing Spotted In Coast 'Always Juliet* Hollywood, June 11. Henry, Duffy will co-feature Con- rad Nagel and. Violet Heming in 'There's Always Juliet' at 1 Capl- tan following the four weeks' run. of Will Rogers in 'Ah, Wilderness,' winding up next Saturday night (16). Later in the summer he Will feature Nagel in 'Good-Bye,' in which the actor played in New York. Duffy, in association'wlth Homer Gurran, will present . Jane Cowl in 'One Shining Hour' at the Curran, San Francisco; June. 25, with El Capltan, oily wood "to fol- low. St. Louis, : June 11. St. Louis Municipal Opera started its 16th season at the open air theatre, , Forest Park, last week wjth -Sweet Adeline*, and current attraction is 'Sweethearts'. Other shows listed for the 12-week sea- son are: 'Cyrano de Bergerac' (mu- sical)* June 18; 'The Last Waltz'. 25; 'East Wind', July 2; 'M'lle Mo- diste', 9; 'Music, in the Air', 16; 'Rose of Algeria', 23 ; 'Sally', 30; 'The New Moon', Aug, 6; 'Show Boat', 13, and another show to be an- nounced for the final week of Aug. 20. Ticket prices range from 26 cents to $2, tax exempt! Latter price goes for boxes, first 13 rows being $1,60. Cook's Stock Baltimore, June 11. Cfcarles Emerson Cook,, who shrouded his stock, at Ford's, fort- night back after 22 weeks on local boards, left town Wednesday (6)- to reopen his perennial summer stock at Rice Playhouse, Martha's Vine- yard, Mass. Cook has been operating spot past two summers. Plans to unveil first show around first of July. Yale's 49'rs New Haven, June 11. Fourteen, players from Yale Uni- versity Theatre, calling' themselves the. Forty-Niners, will put on a summer program of revivals at Whitefield, N..H. Troupe appeared last year at the Notchland in the White Mts. Season will run from July 13 through Labor Day, offering eight productions. $75 Fife Ducats (Continued from page 1) heavy scalping and that when cer- tain agencies asked, for an allot ment they were refused. The leak which sent choice ducats into the agency is probably, explained by the fact that the managers of both boxers demanded allotments. Estimated that nearly 1,000 front tickets were obtained by the fight managers, arid it is believed such ducats reached the specs.. Philly's $6,000 Sob Philadelphia, June 11. Broad, Philly's one legit house ■Mill open, will keep lighted at least until July 1 and may possibly get another booking around that time; Current attraction, *Blg-Hoarted Herbert' now in fourth week and still doing nicely, although nightly grosses flluctuate a lot due to heat spells. Average weekly- gross is qyite okay at $6,000. LA W Held Over; 'Harvest' $4,000, 2 and Out Hollywood, June 11. Continuing to break all house rec- ords/Henry Duffy's production, of 'Ah, Wilderness,' featuring Wul Rogers, stays for a fifth week at El Capltan and may go a. sixth. With two* extra mats spotted, for the fifth week, indications are for close to another 21 grand take, with the ruii garnering close to $75,000, mighty big. At a $2 top nites and $1,50 mats its a big gross in any man's theatre at the prices. Third week, with three mats for total of 10 performances, hit an easy $18,600,, with virtual capacity at every showing. Only opposition was 'Bitter Har- vesl/_in second and final week at the Playhouse. Management early in the week resorted to use of ser- vice charge passes; but the extra 40c. which these ducats brought failed to bring the take to the $4,000 mark, and piece folded last night. Estimates for Last Week 'Ah, Wilderness/ El Capltan (3d week) (C-l,571-$l:65). Engagement, originally limited to three weeks because of picture assignments for Rogers, has been extended another seven days and may continue. Third week an easy $21,000, helped by two extra mats, in addition to the regu- lar scheduled Satusday afternoon performance. 'Bitter Harvest/ Hollywood Play- house (2d. final week) (CD-1,152- $1.65). Picture mob failed to take to this romance of the .life .of. Lord Byron, and, despite its salacious- ness and skillful Interpretation, sec- ond and final week dived to around $4,000, which put venture slightly in the red. Probably will be re-cast and sent to San. Francisco later. Current Road Shows Plays on Broadway CAVIAR Operetta in two aots presented at the For- rest. N. Y., June 7, by Patrick A, Leonard. Score by Harden Church; book by Leo Randolo; lyrics by Edward Heyman. Nanette Guilford and George Huston featured. Dances staged by John H. Lonergan ; book staged by Clifford Brooke. Jcannlne ... , . . . ,.. . Violet Carlson Elena .-. • Nanette Guilford Jack Blllle Leonard Helen ..,.<...,...... . Don Connolly Count ChlpoIIta .......... Walter Annln Wallace Hugh Cameron Carol: Franklin Fox Maid ........... Alice Dudley Sailor Jack Cole Organ Grinder , > ... Walter Annln Carablnlert Joseph Olney Dlhrltrl ................. George Houston: ravel Dudley , Clements WqssIU .. , . John J. Walsh Reporter Frank Colettl English Sailor Tully. Millet French. Sailor ............ George Hunter Amerloan Sailor ,. Gene Ashley Turkish Detectjve ..... ....... Ed Loud Moofty ..Joseph Long T.enotcha Diina HUI Ray Ray Miller Week of June 11 ''All' ing's Horses/ Grand, Chi- cago. Katharine Cornell, Shubert, New- 'Big-Hearted Herbert/ Cort, Chi- cago. Gilbert & Sullivan ('Iolanthe'), Cort, Boston. 'I Loved You Wednesday/ tude- baker, Chicago. Three Blind Mice' (stock), Cass, Detroit. $30,000 Catskill Fire. Albany, June 11. Smoke, fire and water caused damage of $30,000 to the Community theatre, Catskill. When, notified of .the fire, Mrs.' Charles " Gl "Abratmsbn, wife of the manager, was injured as she attempted to enter the theatre. Fire was the second in three days, but the loss from the first one was slight. House is owned by W. W. Farley, owner, of the Capitol, Albany, and operator for' RKO In several Schenectady theatres. Despite' its good . setup manager- ially and otherwise, first musical this summer , doeisn't look like coin. Weak on book, with little- pro- vision for humor', the authbr con- centrated on romance to the degr.ee it leaves the imprint of being old-, fashioned. Russian peasant girl becomes a prima and marries a Russian prince. But i only thing really Russe about the show is the caviar used (and . also set ved in the bar next door). Harden Church, who composed the score previously specialized in concert music. Several tunes stand but, with others toned. for the vocal heights, that are Nanette Guilford's. More popular should be 'One in a Million,' 'My Heart's an Open Book,' and perhaps 'Cavachok,' an ensemble number'. With few musi- cals on Broadway and the horizon sparse, the melodies of 'Caviar* supply its best chance to, survive. While the composer did not stick to the classical type of music, it leans towards the platform In choosing the principal leads. For George Huston like Miss Guilford has an . operatic background. It is the songbird's debut in musical comedy; but Huston has been In several such attractions. They teamed well enough in duetting the finales which included 'Night Wind,' 'Prince Charming,' and 'Dream. Kingdom.' Show's start is lively with the antics of "Violet Carlson as ' maid, and the teaming of Billie Leonard and Don Connolly's s. & d. with 'One in a Million.' Latter pair sub- sequently handled 'Haywire.' Those ditties with 'Tarts and Flowers/ which was Miss Carlson's best bid, supplied the livelier interludes. One line in Edward Hayman's 'Flowers' lyric was the nearest thing to spice in the show. Surprise dance interpolation in a Russian cabaret scene (located in Istanbul) came With Alice Dudley and Jack Cole. Exotic is the word for it,- billing calling- the number 'Apposslonette.' Looked Villagy, but sexy and certainly unusual. En- semble dance direction by , John Lonergan had some novelty, and the line of eight girls and eight boys drew down several hands. Although much improved for its Broadway premiere since breaking in in Newark, authors still have some work to do • on 'Caviar.' Finale dialog is too routine. With the show list low, it is pos- sible the operetta will make the grade on the. strength of its new- ness. Ibee. Loop Legit Gets the Weeps Again; Trio Down to $11,000 Total Take Chicago, June 11. Legit business is crying, arid how. Three shows in. town and all ready to call it quits: Horace Sistare at the Studebaker is about set to give up the struggle with ,his third stock = 8lToT^ , I^~LoTe"a^YolT^ Equity went into the sock on Satur- day (9) to pay oast salaries out of the bond, and If Sistare wants to Continue he'll have to pay -salaries nightly. That's only, one heartache. The other two shows in the loop have their worries also and it's strictly week to. week. They may fold any day now. It may happen that for the first time in the town Chicago will be without a single legit show. Shuberts have promised some at- tractions, particularly talking about a musical show for the Great North- ern, but so far nothing concrete. They are also talking about Sep- tember and the new season, (but that's three months away. "All the King's Horses,' the town's single musical, is in on week- to-week and down to low figures, and the same goes for the third showr'Big'-Hearted'ilOTBePt." - : ^ 1 Estimates for Last Week 'All the King's Horses/ Grand (M- 1,207; $2.7(3) (5th week). Under $X,- 000 now and still sinking. Holding on by teeth and with hopes. W"ek to week now. 'Big- Hearted Herbert/ Cort (('.- 1.100-$1.D0) (7th wof.'lc). Under $2 000 how and beginning to wirry. Can't last mueh longer. 'I Loved You Wednesday/ Slu-I baker (C-l,2!i0; $1 .50) (4th week). May open tonight (11) and niayh»* not. Depends if there's money u> pay the night's salaries. At $1,00') Inst week it w-'is brutal. While Parents Sleep Farce comedy In three acts.- Presented at- the Playhouse June 4 by William A. llrady in association with Leon M. Lion. Written by Anthony Krlmmlns. Mrs. Hammond Winifred' Harris 'Nanny' '. Jane Corcoran Col. Hammond. Lionel Papa Vlntront ; ....May Marshall Neville Hammond Alan' Marshal Lady Ofttterlnp .lka Chase Jerry Ilnmmotvl . . . . , , Chnrles Romano Rubbles. Thompson. Jane Bramley colonies. Two sons, Neville, whe is entering the diplomatic service, and Jerry, a junior officer in the navy; have been virtually brought up by Nanny, father one of the family. Colonel's wife thinks that the boys are not what they should be, having missed a mother's guid- ance. , .But they are normal young men. although- Neville is inclined to be snobbish. Jerry goes for the merry cup and barmads and such. Curi- ous that Neville should have Lady Diana Catterlng to dinner, then theatre and back to . the Hammond home to spend the night. Even more unusual that Jerry should bring home vixenish Bubbles Thomson of Brixton, a town identi- fied by Its Jail. Jerry only knew Bubbles one day, but she, too, spends the night. Lord Catterlng is 26 years . older than, his wife Diana. She is bored by the successive social .affairs she must attend, and hungers for ro- mance. She selects Neville as her paramour.. Hot scene comes in the second ^act, when Diana gets into negligee after showing a sllnr, allur- ing figure. She leads the lad into embraces, arid they plan romantic intimacies in the .tropic islands where Lord Catterlng is assigned. Hearing Jerry and his minx in the hall at 2: 30 in the morning, the lady and her prospective loyer turn the lounge about and snuggle , into it. But they are discovered, Bubbles being indignant because she felt, Diana had snubbed her. Jerry, however, admires his brother for selecting a titled, mistress. Situation is alibied by the boys and Diana. Yet Nanny forces Diana to give up Neville, which is satisfactory to the. colonel. Bubbles pertly announces' she is going back .to her young man in Brixton. So it -would appear that the young men are finessed from brash affairs, and the Hammond home, is quite placid again. Play is explanatory, 1 perhaps too much so, but the playing partly counters such material. Especially is Ilka Chase attractive as Lady Diana, Alan Marshall is Neville, whose opposite in brothers is played by Charles Romano, who seemed a better choice. Jane Bram- ley as Bubbles, Lionel Pape as the Colonel and Jane Corcoran aa Nanny play well enough. London rated the play naughty, doubtless because of the British slang expression rawly indicating an affair. Looks like audiences here will want more than that- for a run. Ibee. HUB LEGITIMATE SEASON ENDS Boston, June 11, Shubert will ring down Hub's legit curtain this week (11), with Gilbert and Sullivan revival Iolan- the.' Last week the G. & S. troupe went split-week, offering 'Pirates of Penzance' first half, and the double-header, 'Trial by Jury' and 'Pinafore/ last three days. Grossed nearly $8,000, oke considering La Cornell's opp6sltion. Katharine Cornell set the town awhlrl during her three-day (7-9) 'Barretts Of Wimpole Street' en- gagement at Boston Opera House. With each of the four performances practically sold out; this 3,000- seater, scaled to $2.75. top, grossed about $15,000, sensational. Rather mild diversion, this im- portation. It is quite. British and aroused much .laughter over there during an extended run. Some gig- gles at the premiere, but not enough to indicate clicking. William A. Brady, the elder, listed ^he^liow^to^start^hls^reylved^pro-- duclng actlvties in the fall, but de- cided to take an early flier with it on the theory that biz is going to be better this summer, The previous week's lieat wave moderated for the' premiere, hut that break didn't soften up the. critic' who pointed out the difference in taste here an.d on the other side of the Atlantic. London aired ;she Loves Me Not,' ni'l ihi-y predlefd. a like reaction ln-re towards the omin'ousilv titled While Parents Sleep.' K.ire l.s supposed to have a dash of rlarimr. Col. Hommand and wife it 1 " l>;icl< limno in ]>lr< legion Si|ii;ir<' U'r.'i- 'ipendin ' cars iu the JWtiyliab. LITTLE THEATRE ORG. Los Angeles, June 11. tate Federation of Little Thea- tres, to embrace. 40 California cities, has been organized on plans formu- lated by Elizabeth Clauss, ■v.. Angeles, and Clinton C. Clark, of Pasadena. Organization was per- fected at Santa Barbara. State has been divided into four districts, with headquarters desig- nated as ..San Francisco, Oakland, Palo Alto, Sacramento and Los Angeles. -SIMON-BTJRE- Utlca, N. Y., June U. The Players, local amateur grou which owns its own theatre, has ref- lected a proposal to operate a summer stock company. J. Kent. Thurber, dramatic coach, had broached the subject of stock, With the hope of having as his associate Maurice Holland, Now York pro- ducer. After the Players said no, Thur- l>er declared he would attempt to ;"t the Oneida theatre, films, for d\a summer stock. Tuesday, June 12, 1934 Story Mafl Winners Story magazine's college short story contest ends up with James Laughlin, IV, winner ot the $100 first prize for 'Melody with Fugue'. It pictures the difficulties of a Ger- man middle class family under the Nazi rule. Laughllh; i$ associate editor of the Harvard Advocate. Second prize goes to Madelene Cole, School of Journalism, N, Y. XL, for her 'Bus to Biarritz'; Alfred Grlmwood, U. of Colo,, is third with •Fall of Lucifer'. Seven other stu- dents won honorary mention out of entries from 140 colleges and uni- versities. Southern Pubs' Supplement Group of Southern newspaper publishers will get out a co-opera- tive supplement called The South- ern, Weekly. Patterned after the Hearst newspaper supplement, American Weekly, except that Southern Weekly will be localized as per its title. Number of publishers underwrit- ing the project is 16, each with a dally in a key city of the South. Editorial and business ends for the feature section will be handled by an organization now being formed for that purpose. Unmasking Legit Those articles by Morton Eustis on various aspects of the theatre, from footlights to box office, which have been appearing in Theatre Arts Monthly, Will be gathered in book form by Dodd, Mead. Eustis ^111 add a few pieces to the book, which will bear the title of /The Business Side of the Theatre.' Book will contain such informa- tion as playwrights' royalties, stage; hands' regulations, actors' salaries, • ticket selling, etc. Bangtail Monthly irst mag on horses and horse - racing, other than tip sheets, makes its initial appearance this month, published out of Chicago. Title Is PoBt Time,, and it will appear monthly. "Gotten but. by Turf Pub- lications, with William R. Hamilton editing. Legalization of betting in New •York, as well as a spurt of general interest In the turf and paddook, prompted • the new mag. Catholic Press Officers At the 24th annual meeting, of the ; Catholic Press Association, held in Cleveland, Joe Q.uinn, editor of the Southwest Courier, Oklahoma City, was elected president for coming | year.. The Rt. Rev. James P. O'Brien, editor and gen. mgr. of The . Providence Visitor, was made v.p. Others ballotted in were J. H Meier, publisher of The Catholic Press Directory, sec'y; treasurer, [Charles H. Bidder, *he Catholic News, New York City; general counsel, Benedict Elder, editor of I The Record, Louisville. Best Sellers est Sellers for the week ending June 9, American News Co., Inc. icti Lamb in His Bosom' ($2.60) . , -By Caroline Miller AiitbPny Adverse' ( $3.00) ... . : . . . ......... By Herve> Allen -'Seven Men Came Back* ($2.60) .............. .By Warwick Deeping •Seven Gothic Tales', ($2.60) ;■. . . • • • • • -By Isak Dinesen 'Tender Is the Ni ' ($2.50) Scott Fitzgerald 'Bachelor of Arts' ($2.50) John Erskine Non-Fi ife Begins, at Forty' ($1.60). . • .By Walter B. Pitkin •100,000,000 Guinea Pigs' ($2.00) By Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink •While Rome Burns' ($2.76) .By Alexa-ider Woollcott •Nijirisky' ($3v75) By Romola Nijinsky •Native's Return' ($2.75) ...... . -By Louis Adamic •Men in White 1 ($2.00) .... ........ By Sidney Kingsley Book Reviews U. S. Dirt Chase Newspaperman' Reli . Unemployed newspaper men in LOS Angeles will get a break if a | plan sponsored by Frank MeLaugh lin, State Emergency Relief Ass'n j director, is approved in Sari Fran- 1 cisco. Reporters, city editors and re write men' will register and be called on basis of need and profes siorial qualifications. Workers would be given 24' . hours employment at 1 60c an hour. Just what kind of [work they will be called on to per hform not divulged. New Travel Threwaway Mil tori Kraeirier, managing direc- tor of the Edison hotel, .N. . Y., en- tering the publishing biz in asso- ciation with Paul Schleissner, who publishes the Tobacco Record; They will get out a mag called Flashes, for free distribution from leading hotels throughout the country. It will be a travel and recreation guide, edited by Paul Schleissner, and publication will be monthly, out of the offices of the Tobacco Record. Paris Reporters Sue. Jean Vertex and Jean Goujon, of | the Jour arid the Intransigeant, , Paris dailies, are suing for damages resulting from injuries they re ceived when socked by cops during | rioting January 10 and February 6 Vertex, a photog, lost an eye and lis deaf in one ear. Can no longer work, and claims to be 80 percent disabled. Goujon, reporter, got back on the job after a month, but claims | he no longer can move around as he used to. Beth Brown to H'wood creenland's assignment of a series of 12 articles to Beth Brown is sending the authoress to Holly- wood. They are all on the film capital and the fan magazine wants Its special writer on the Coast for local color. Miss Brown has Just .finished her- tenth novel, 'Lady Hobo/ and hies to the Coast as soon as publication arrangements are all set. Goes to Harvard Loeb Classical Library, which had been handled by Putnam since its Inception, passes to the Harvard University Press next month. Trans- fer Is a friendly one, as it's felt by Putnam that the selling and dis- tribution of books like those con- tained in the Loeb Library can be better handled by a university press than by a general publishing house. Blue Pencil's Growth Thomas H. Uzzell'e Blue Pencil magazine has so increased in paid | •circulation,, he is able to discard photo lithography for printing Orlglrially started as a. sort of news letter to his friends, the mag grew in . response to demand until it has at last achieved &. self-sustain- ing basis. 'Boop-a-Doop' Cartoon Helen Kane, bop-boop-a-dopper at the Hpllywooi. restaurant, N. Y., Will be a comic strip character, syndicated by King. Features and the N. Y. Daily Mirror. Work has started immediately on the series, which will be titled 'Boo Boop a Doop,' by Helen Kane, and will start as a Sunday feature in the Mirror, and later as a daily in the same paper. Miss Kane will get 50% of syndication profits John Day's Prizes . John Day Company, the latest of the . book publishing houses to tie up in a prize novel contest. In as- sociation with the New Masses, Day will give a prize of $750 for the best novel on *an American pro- letarian theme' delivered before next [April, Manuscripts must be signed with l a pen name t or consideration. Prize money will be exclusive of royalties. New Blw Hills on Liberty Michael Jackson has taken over picture .reviewing for Liberty, catching films in final previews on the Coast and working under the established by-line of Beverly Hills. Jackson formerly was in the Metro publicity office in New York He succeeds Noel Busch. ray son Around World Charles Grayson, who varies his writing efforts by lengthy trips, started on a Jaunt around the world fast week. Young novelist and film scribe will pay the ex- penses of his trip by writing a series of four travel articles for Esquire magazine. Grayson is to be away four months. Cole Gets Sports Mag Outdoor Life, sports mag, has been acquired by A. L. Cole, who publishes Popular Science Monthly. Cole will transfer the mag to New York from Mt. Morris, 111., Where it has always been published, housing it with his Popular Science Monthly, Understood that J. A. McGuire, editor Of Outdoor Life, will go along. MelcherJs H'wood Trek deS. Melcher, dramatic and picture editor of the Washington yi Vanguard three weeks ago, has completed another novel, 'Dime a Dozen.' Kaleidoscopic Blaze •Fire in the Night,* by Raymond Otis (Farrar & Rinehart, $2), does not mean what some people might think. It's about an actual fire, which serves as the axis on which the stpry revolves in Hotel" fashion, the incidents radiat- ing from the focal point of a W blaze in a small western which might be, and probably is, in- : tended to be Taos. It's a cross sectiori of the. town; chiefly concerning a young Ahier- ican wife' who is expecting the ar- rival of a child, the offspring of her Spanish admirer tp whom she. gave herself when they were snowed in up in the hills. But there's also the tragedy of a Mexican peon, who is shot on suspicion of being a firebug when he has only turned incendiary to vent a personal spite. Story is a bit wordy at , times, and the interrupted movement does not make for smooth reading, but it's a graphic picture of life keenly analyzed and will make consider- able talk. Most of the men belong to the volunteer fire department. Which accounts for centering the yarn about a fire which otherwise has nothing to do with the plot. . Hardly picture material, but something tp read; iss Landi Matures Hollywood has broadened Eljssa Landi's literary horizon. 'The An* cestor' (Doubleday, Doran, $2.60), bears scant family resemblance to her 'House for Sale,' with its Vic- torian tangle of introspection and speculation. Now and then she dips into the old style and has her mo- ments of Mrs. Glyn, but mostly it'6 the forthright story of an.' opera singer who plays hookey from her boy friend to indulge in a delight-, ful romp with a handsome young violinist, only to tire and come back to the more stable compaionship of the elderly milltonah-e whom she has repeatedly refused to marry lest she lose her Individuality. Now, about to become a mother as the result of her vacation, she is glad to accept matrimony and permit him to assume knowingly the paternity of the child. Book will make for greater inter* est than her earlier works and promises still better things to come -rif she remains in Hollywood. Wordy and Wandering Announced as the niece of Som'* erset Maugham, and described by a London commentator as 'a mod-* ern Jane Austen,' Mrs. Kate Mary Bruce more nearly lives up to the latter lri her 'Duck's Back' (John Day, $2.50). It is old-fashioned in style, but In rather good style for those who like wandering romances that meander about without getting anywhere in particular. Chiefly about an English family, two members pf which marry -an American brother md sister. The latter is as close as the author gets to a heroine; a headstrong, push- ing woman* who rides her own gait to her desires. Story works to no particular goal, a biography rather than a novel, but probably interesting to those who like to readi stories without running a temperature. Hardly suited to the American literary; palate. 1911 Flicker An Angel Sought If Benjamin de Casseres can find a printer willing to gamble with [him, he will get out a mag by and about Benjamin de CaH.sercfl. Idea will be a one-man organ of opinion and fact. (Continued from page i) With the promise of sufficient book- ings they hope to get the necessary advance for a laboratory turnout of a 4ozen or more , prints. Horsiey prpduced the first Holly* wood pictures in 1911; a three-rreeler called 'Her Indian Hero' with a csist which included such favorites of the day as Harold Lockwood and Dorothy Davenport, Jack Conway, , a Metro director, was one of the numerous redskins. When the majors began to swariri over Hollywood, Horsiey sold out to Universal and branched into the 'anima^buslnoss^^r^tJLDS^liojlSj^ tigers and other jungle beasties to producers. This venture folded as did subsequent Dnes. Horsiey produced his first picture, a cowboy thriller, on. Staten Island in 1909. The last vestige of the fortune slipped from the widow's grasp when, u bio to raise $500, she was forced to relinquish a $75,000 In* vestment. 58 VARIETY THE LADIES Tuesday* June 12, 1934 Going Places By Cecelia Ager Bette (Tigress) Davi Bette Davis, says Over Frisco/ is thrill-huntress. She must have illicit excitement, she's a case — pathological. Men are just tools to her, just pawns. She bends them to her will; this is how: irst she tones down her make up, cbiffs. her hair in a presentable fashion, looks— compared to her last ..fllm-Hluite human. She must be careful not to scare her unwitting accomplices away. They think, of course, that she loves them: they do riot know that she loves .only ex- citement. She tricks them into believing she loves' them by looking them straight In the eye,' then slowly drawing closer, sort of hypnotizing them, until her lips mee': theirs! in an ar- dent kiss, finished off in the break away whh a little light nose-rub' bing. A taste of this treatment, -and they?re putty. audience . knows, . that she only, excitement, however, can tell from the way she's i. hurrying, rushing, breath- from the way .her large round eyes, heavy with studio lashes, gleam; from the way she smokes, cigaret right in the center of her soft mouth, deep inhalation, violent exhalation; from the way she wears he'r hat, perched , crazily on the side ,top of her head. - The way her frocks outline her figure through the, waist -and hips, her mass of blonde puff curls swept back off her ears, her ; becoming soft bangs— these latter -details are designed to ensnare the audience and the men, her tools, alike. Margaret Lindsay, cast as Miss "Davis, splendid step-sister, repre- sents, in contrast, normalcy, sweet- ness, and a good heart, Miss Lind- say's 'Usual picture assignment." But in ; 'FogwOver Frisco' she en- larges her scope with a new, softly 'waved, full coiffure which indicates that though normalcy may prove ' something of a bore, It need , not be .unattractive. to look at. Miss Lind? say reads her lines in the thought- ful tones of a trained stock com- pany actress, and sleeps in white , satin pyjamas patterned quaintly after overalls. She also tears about in' an open roadster, wearing a white sports suit with a long coat and white hat; white, no doubt, for -purity.' Because ' he Love Captive' is real ly a hypnosis captive, the story points out, she's not really in love with her Svertgali and Miss Stuart, in pictures, always behaves, like she's open to suggestion; like she'd rather someone else did the think ing for her. Miss Stuart is defi- nitely not one of your dominating women.; She leans.' But so gracefully, she leans. A fulsomely curved, artistically pro- portioned piece; her destiny is to decorate. Passively she accepts it, a peaceful fate. And it has its ad- vantages; one can riot be accused of affectation, of bad acting, when one does nothing, Miss Stuart enhances the love- liness of. her sculptured face with a bobbed coiffure that arranges its curls and bangs in nostalgic old fashioned silhouette, sets off her fashioned silhouette, sets off her fig- ure In filmy evening dresses that want to be pretty, that's all. Reriee Gadd contributes n English accent to the proceedings, but hasn't the right to wear clinging gowns. Vir- ginia Kami, supposed to be a tragic example of a hypnotist's cast-off, Is made up with sunken eyes, a gaunt white face, and goes about timid, bewildered, establishing the fact that once under a hypnotist's spell, always a little off. Adrian! , The Career of Myrna Loy, which has lately taken on promise and scope, pauses in its advance for 'Men in White,' r£ets a spell, finds In 'Men in White' scant opportunity to foster its development. Granted here a strictly conven- tional role, -Miss Loy brings to it >her own qualities of understanding and regularness, expands it with her own personality, makes a stock characterization something more than, that, hut it is still routine work • done by an actress who rates more interesting material. - It doesn't tap. • Miss Loy's capabilities. Mfss-' Loy looks and acts in it like a gal who really would inspire the -love of a good guy, wears some star- tling hats, some arresting costumes, and that's that. First hat; a shal- low felt coal scuttle tririimed with a ribbon cockard. A mad hat, amus- ing. Second, black velvet .cap with a shallow triangle of velvet poised in front pointing down her fore head, its other two points zooming off like, wings. Clipped at the base •with a large triangular rhlnestone • clip. Worn with a long black velvet . fitted coat, collared severely, briefly, .Chinese fashion, fastened with three .huge rhlnestone clips. But they • don't match the hat clip; and, stand ing out so brilliantly front their black velvet background, they should. Adrian! Elizabeth Allen as the student nurse has a better chance at mak ing her part a stand-out, does it .with gentleness, fragile appeal evolved from a basically sympathetic rplel . Margaret _ Petersen appears briefly renT§c^ pital detail, the nurses in 'Men in White' wear low-heeled shoes, even the gay. ones. Youth at the Cap Youth serves in the Capitol stage show this week, brisk, blatant, healthy youth. Ella Logan, Eleanor Powell, Vilma Ebsen vibrate with it, hearty, straightforward performers bounding with vitality schooled to sell their ' expert specialties. Miss Powell first, one-piece py- jama-clad for her deft, delicate footwork. Miss. Logan next, singing with Abe Lyman's orchestra, a spir- ited young woman in white cross- bar organdy and white taffeta jacket, her short, straight bob held back child-like with a rhlnestone star barette. Babyface with a voice like Mildred Bailey, Sophie Tucker de- livery. Mike-free, she hits it, she lets go. Sophisticated rhythm, smart harmony, with joyful zest. Sings hot in a pleasingly husky voice al- ways equal to her attack. Should get places,, newcomer Miss Logan. "Vilma Ebsen, In long, beautifully cut white crepe skirt arid puff- sleeved white mess jacket, buttoned with rhlnestones, pale blue 'scarf looped at her throat, dances with brother . Buddy. Likeable smile, nice-girl' personality, youthful chic, graceful carriage, good to watch. Chester Hale Girls catch the mood generated by these three, skip about happy and gay themselves, now tap- ping in short blue all-over sequin skirts with flesh net bodices and bright red band marking their waistlines and ascending up the front to the collar-bones; now rhumbaing in sweeping white or- gandy ruffled skirts, orange velvet boleros, black Spanish brimmed hats, their. bare*arms thrust through stiff white organdy disks at their elbows; now drilling as white satin, silver-booted and silver cartridge- belted Marines, Waving satin sema- phore flags. Waving flags wUdly while high on- the gun turret of the Capitol's bat- tleship— riianned with Abe Lyman sailors— a miniature set reveals the Hudson River .with the fleet steam- ing by, dirigibles overhead, air- planes, too, until at last the curtains close as the American flag descends. Fortissimo finish. The fleet, it seems, is in. Did You Know That— Reglna Crewe and Julia. Shawell motored to . Atlantic City over the week-end to visit the Bert Lytells... The Meyer Gersons celebrated their 27th anniversary June 7 . . ;The girls want to go to the Baer-Car- nera . set-to because they know the tickets cost $25, and they figure if they get there, he cares . . .Alice Hughes and Mabel Sehlrmer, a> Russia Via the Orient, plan to take only, one suitcase apiece. It's a trick to. help Alice catch the trains on time... Hilda Sonnenberg's beautiful new Gramercy Park house is done in Chocolate brown, white and copper... Mrs. Edward G. Robinson likes California better... The Fash- ion Group was terribly im- pressed with the 'Cleopatra' and 'The Scarlet Empress' cos- tumes, shown by. Paramount at its tea In the Waldorf ball- room, ..Gladys Glad in tweeds arid natural lynx, Millie Ahlert in dark blue with lighter blue checked collar, ' dining at Moore's. . .Ruth. Morris drove up to Saranac Lake over the week-end to .uace O'Brien, her distinguished Irish terrier, In his -summer quarters. . .Percy , Elkeles has taken the Jack Norton house at Stony Brook. dresses with halter neckline and long green satin gloves, presses not thoughtfully designed to. do best by the figure-vagaries of lady musicians clinging where it were better, far they casually slid by. Eight girl line-up long to be Spices . them- selves, coyly stripping off their white organdy, ruffles, stepping forth In black lace step-ins. Get nearer their wish later, posing in rose 1 ' lights as living fountains, posing as slaves of a huge papier mache Buddha that resembles the contemplative face of a punch drunk hippopotamus. Opening, upper platform supports two gold statues standing still , a nervously long time. Relief and ap- plause when they come to life, can bend. Good ribs, those statues have.. Slinky, hungry-for-love, slitherings In Oriental skirts, orange velvet boleros, by the line-up while the lady bands drums and toots Ravel's 'Bolero.' 'Spices of 1934' ends with '1812' and the Burning of Moscow, a very cute little, ros -ylittle Moscow. House Reviews Hypnoti'zin' Papa There's a look about Gloria Stu- art's beautiful eyes, a melancholy, haunting look,, a not awfully re- sourceful lookr- that makes, her pe- culiarly .suitable for playing the Spice— What Li I re Made of Chief spice of 'Spices of 1934,' stage show at the State, might be said to be Mme. Caroline, fan dancer. Mme. Caroline thinks so the tease. ' Mme. Caroline is un usually well set up, for a. fan dancer. Hers is a noble, neatly proportioned derriere., Mme. Caro line swished white ostrich feather fans with radium painted spokes, wears a long, blue wig. White of Mme. Caroline to do a fan dance on the level, and so give foundation =for-=ail=the--bui>lesque-=fan =daneei's lately sprung up in vaude. Harriet Cruise, The Girl With the Tear In Her Voice, could be consld ered a Spice too. In a white fitted frock with ruffled decolletage, and an appropriately sad expression. No question about Mary, knockabout dancer of Mary and Bob. Ginger, pepper, in white satin brevities" and golliwog coiffure. Femme orchestra for the unit en- Among the Women By Tue Skirl Best Pressed Woman of the Week GRACIE ALLEN (PARAMOUNT— Film) The Paramount has gone Fleet this week. Sailors all over the place. Jan Peerce and his band in sailor outfits are backed by a destroyer and even the Danny pare girls are in the white pants, but not the regula- tion blouses. Their waists are bare but picturesque if a bit irregular. A three-foot miss called Miss Jackie sings three songs like a veteran. The girls are in a fast number costumed In the countries of Spain, South America, Japan, New York and Hawaii. Very colorful; New York In chartreuse skirts with blue tops, always a perfect combination. Japan, kimonos, of course; Hawaii, the native hemp skirts, and South America, colorful ruffled dresses. Betty Keane does her taps in black satin trousers and white blouse. •Many Happy Returns' (Par) is the picture, with Gracie Alien come into her own at last. Careful photography and a new coiffure has done lots for this girl. The audiences greet every Allen line . with shouts of laughter. And Miss* Allen is showing a lovely wardrobe. A black .dress carried a double collar "of white arid was button trimmed, A bridal outfit was of white satin with lace yoke and cuffs. Orange blossoms trimmed the lace veil. Grey fox trimmed a goirig-away suit' Dotted material was outlined at the throat with a white riich. On a picture set Miss Allen was in a white satiri, tightly fitted gown. The hem carried several net ruffles, as also did the cuffs. The neck and front of the bodice was outlined in a banding of sequins.. Miss Allen did some cooking in a black organza frock and tiny white apron. The girl of Veloz and Yolanda was beautifully gowned in a solid black sequin gown with het ruffles. Extraordinary Show With that superb picture, 'Little Man> What Now?' the Palace should attract many customers and the stage^show is out of the ordinary, also. Jack Whiting heads the show this time, with no girl. The girl is missed. The Aristocrats are again with us and the dressing Is as spic and span as ever. This 1 act is noticeable for the fact that it has remained intact through the years. Robbins Trio, opening, has the girl in white chiffon pants with the bodice heayily embroidered in brilliants. The two men are in black satin trousers', white blouse and wiOe diamond belts. Reynolds and White, apparently two soldier hoboes, at the finish dis- close one of the tramps as a woman. With the pulling of but a string a white satin gown has been concealed all the time under* the uniform. Black fur edged the . armholes. ttftine role In 'The Love- Captive.'.cased in bright green satin evening NEWSREELS (Continued from page 24) where a Los Angeles woman makes a plea for women generally to unite for a war on crime. Mussolini again poses for the cameras watching a parade in Rome and a huge gymnastic exhibition. Presented as news but it doesn't dif- fer an iota from hundreds of previ- ous Mussolini clips for years. King Boris of Bulgaria is glimpsed for an Instant itt connection with the es- tablishment of Facist Government at Sofia. .There's a clip, of . an American street parade of sailors and soldiers in connection with the . U. S. fleet's visit to New York. Grandstand- re- viewers are also shown. Pathe clip on the American Derby is a thrilling piece of sports photog- raphy, excellently handled. An off- screen lecturer enhances the thrill- ing qualities of the picture, in this case a tough job but expertly done because Clem McCarthy knows his business. ',. For the first time, it is claimed, Metrotone shows the Oberammergau Passion Play on the screen. It's a brief flash but rates. But the same company has a most unworthy clip showing Nils Granlund and some girls publicising Palisades Park The same reel plugged the park be- fore only a couple of Weeks ago. The thrill rides at the Chicago Fair get a plug, but mean little, but one about the kids and their mutts at a Jersey resort is okay. One on Mrs. Frederick McLaughlin (Irene Castle) looks like a needlesB plug i thatsUjb.een = ^o.veEdone^rilonR=^ago,, When" the air mall comes to Pendle- ton, Ore., the celebration in connec- tion with the event -rates- tnorr footage. Flashing glimpse" of, the Mllleh •Brothers and .Faber, youthful Masschusetts police killers, is' timely. Okay also is the clip on the quintuplets born, in Ontario. That crack made by the husband Is funny. Someone mentions the unique feat, and he answered: 'Aw, It was nothing.' War memories are recalled b o y Where Necklaces Come to Life Radio City dashes into its program with a weekly, followed by one of Walt Disney's best, 'The Wise Little ..Hen', which should prove popular with not only kiddies but grownups. Then comes a symphony : with ErnO Rapee conducting. This week's . choice is selections from Faust, with 18 woriien and the same number of men. The women are in white satin, as they usually are, and recline on davenports of gold wood up- holstered in white satin, The davenports could easily seat 10 people, which is some seating for one piece of furniture. A Russell Markert item called 'Milady's Jewels' is an ingenious produc- tion. The backdrop is the huge head of a lady with a diamond necklace. The necklace comes to life in the form of eight girls With diamond hats. Black tights are encrusted with the stones, as are the bodices. The huge chorus joins the eight girls, all dressed the same, making a mem-: orable picture. Henrietta Schumann at the baby grand is In a white gowri flowered in red with a green velvet sash. •Lazy Daisies' .is another outstanding number by the Rockettes. The long, full skirts are of green, dotted with huge daisies, while the large round hats are also daisies. Elissa Laridl is the star of the / current picture, 'Sisters Under the Skin'. Columbia has a scheme by which it buys titles and then writes stories around them. This must have been the case here, but the story went awry, for the title, 'Sisters Under the Skin',, is in no way suggestive of the picture. Miss Landl wears some nice clothes, so does Doris Lloyd. They must to be iri keeping with the picture, which is superbly mounted. The Btar is discovered in a garden, dressed in tulle, arid looks too lovely. In bed she is in the regulation Hollywood satin and lace. A cloth dress is fash- ioned with a metallic top and a three-quarter coat has fur cuffs. There is a tailored suit with silver fox and a black velvet dress had venise lace collar. Only one evening gown is shown, made solidly of white crystals. Some cunning little hats are shown. Miss Lloyd's gowns are of the hostess type, all with flowing ends and\ running to black. One street outfit is smothered in sliver fox. four vessels anchored somewhere along the Maryland coast, which were seized from the Germans dur- ing the war. Photo shows boats deteriorating, one of them being the George Washington which brought President Wilson back from the League of Nations confab. One of the most thrilling clips is that by Universal, taken in. France. During the camerlng of some workmen putting new steel trusses in line on a Paris railroad .right of way, the 100 -ton truss breaks, away from the crarie and crashes. One oif the workmen who was killed in the crash is briefly flashed at the finish. Another good one from U is the subject covering the western drought and its effects. European reli ious celebration on St. Vitus day and a Mexican, re=i Uglbus festival is also shown. Law- son Little. Johnny Goodman and Weston are closeupped on their re-, turn _from the Waikor_ matches: makes a capital filler. Norman Davis speaking before the Geneva Confer- ence Ik in an historical piece. Another oil field fire somewhere on the Coast, but looks like all others. A Japaneso clip also shown in connection with some kind of Japanese event. There's a good action, clip of the British warships firing their guns off the Coast of Portland, England, in w.ar practice. Shan. ' STATE, N. Y. Looks i ess than an ordinary week's biz ahead for Loew's State. Friday (change day) biz was off. Harry Rogers' unit, 'Spices Of. 1934,' built around Count Berni Vici, is the attraction. Vici and his girl, band, Joe Besser, Sam Critcherson, Bobby •Uke* Hen- shaw, Harriet Crusle, Mme. Caro- line, Bobby and Mary and an un- named adagio duo are*, billed be- sides a line of hip shakers who when they're not shaking do nude pose flashes. Besser . is the top man of this crew with his effeminate comedy stuff and Critcherson proves a most able foil for the lad. Neither Miss Crusie rior Mme. Caroline offer much iri the way of exceptional en- tertainment and Henshaw is only meagerly used. * Usual double-decker stage effect for the Vici combo and usual music a nd, rni jxed up, llgh tlng _but_.all- ln-all has some okay flash rriorrients. Runs around an hour but looks overextended, 'Sadie McTvee' (MG) the feature. Shan. SKETCHING HOLLYWOOD Hollywood, June 11. Sam Berman, caricaturist for Vanity Fair and Esquire, is en route to the Coast. He will sketch picture celebs and Hollywood backgrounds for the two publications. Tuesday* Jurtc 12 4 1934 I I M E I SQUARE VARIETY 59 SHOWBOAT REVIEWS NRA on Duals Sanford's Showboat -When It shoved off Tuesday night <6) from 4"2d street for Tarrytowh- and -return, Bobby Sanford's" Show- boat, operated by the Hudson River Day Line, commenced its. third Sea- son of nightly (except Sunday) ex- cursions up to the Zuyder Zee. This showboat venture has the customary selling points of a moon- light water trip, i.e v professional entertainment, continuous dancing, a smooth, boat ride and .plenty of shadowy, deck space for as much necking as one can get away with. Besides which the show,, staged, by Sanford, and performed by 26 people, is more pretentious .. than the average deck affair. Also, a novelty angle in the fact that the show itself is given on another ves- sel, anchored off Tarrytown. The audience embarks from .the boat which brought it there, sees the show on the stationary boat, then retraces its steps up the .gangplank for the return ride. You can get a bottle of beer, but no liquor or wine on the Showboats The Day Line heads, it is explained, haven't yet applied for a hard stuff, license, and may not do so at all. As described, it's this way: thfey're. an extremely conservative family that doesn't believe in imbibing for themselves or others. Another thing they object to is Working dh Sun- day. Hence, the Sanford Showboat has no Sunday sailings. Somehow the % moral . motivation for banning drinking, but at the same time' providing spacious decks for unlimited necking opportunities, appears about as clearly as would the Palisades from the deck of San- ford's Showboat on a foggy night. The conflicting attitudes just don't jell, but this is the Day Line's 6howboat and its own . business. Anyway, the fact that booze isn't openly for sale aboard ship didn't deter a large section of the passen- ger list from getting delightfully cockeyed. The boys and girls, but mostly, the boys, of course, were doing plenty of broken rhythm horn-piping, and it wasn't from sea- sickness. In the dining room a waiter ex- plained that cocktails were not ob- tainable, but that 'the hall boys up- stairs may be able to get you some- thing, to drink.' . A statement ,that had a very familiar ring. . Entire trip lasts four hours,, from 8:30 p.m. to half past midnight. Rides takes an hour and a half each way and the show ■ consumes the other hour. Show is given on the S. S. Buccaneer, an old scow that has been scooped out and con- verted into a theatre, apparently seating around 750. There's a fairly good-sized stage at the business end, but ho special settings. Scenery is confined to a few travelers and eyes. Actors makeup on their way up the river, utilizing the Day Line boat's limited number of staterooms for dressing room purposes (pas- sengers can't rent a room for that reason). The costumes are on. the Euccaneer, so by a quick change by the actors into their stage garb the show is ready to go on by the time the audience is seated. Starring on the Showboat's open Ing bill is Lester Allen, with Peggy Hoover featured. Allen is first re- quired to get rid of an opening sper cial lyric, in which he is forced to impersonate*- George: "Bernard Shaw, for some unknown reason, and then is' free to go into his act, meanwhile running., through the show as m. c. An unorthodox 'theatre', audience, that was considerably noisier' than the worst kind of a nite club crowd, failed to deter Allen. . The: short comic, who knows all the ,» F answers'- (ask Pulaski), topped all the would- be hecklers, then proceeded to go about his business and chalk up a good-sized hit.. Miss Hoover. In the role of all- around ingenue; singing and danc- ing, is the class of the • show. 1 - Not easy to explain how production has passed up this blonde looker; she has all the necessary requirements. Beyond Allen and Miss Hoover, who are fortunately on quite often, the talent is mostly mediocre. Chorus line of 16 is. comely on the whole and smartly costumed be- sides, but ordinary in the stepping department. Bernard Bros, and DuVal Sisters are pair of twins that work together and alone. The boys ^^are=by-far=the^best.^GirJs^ce^clbiJ^y coochers. and not strong coochers at that. Coley and Worth, mixed team, whose chief asset is .the cqmedienne's ciiteness, is badly in need of/material. The girl also needs a more aggressive straight than her partner now provides. Donald Burr, juve, is limited to singing sloppy love songs to. at and with Miss Hoover, find may have possibilities that aren't being brought out in the river air. Production not pretentious, being held down by the non-scenery limi- tations, hut Sanford's has 'ideas,' und these are nicely interpreted by ihe. principals and his chorus, On so briefly as to be almost forgotten is Katherlne" Spector, ho won the Queen Esther beauty contest .last spring. She sings a short chorus put in 'one,' and then, isn't seen agajn until the company round-up at the finale. Boat which , carts , them up . to the Buccaneer is a regular Day liner, recruited for the showboat service. There are two restaurants, one a dining room'. and the other a cafe- teria. .Latter was patronized mostly on the return trip right after the show. The attendants herded the passengers in like pattle and . then tossed the grubby food at them as though they were doing everybody a big favor. ' In the dining room the service is better, but the food is terrible. That probably explains the few people who patronized it during the trip. Admish of $2. per head takes in no refreshments. One advantage that the Showboat won't have very long is the presence of the U. Sv fleet in the Hudson. It's an enthralling sight at present, but when it blows the passengers will have to.be content with the scenery only. Music 1 for the dancing and the show, is . provided by a Meyer Davis combo directed, by Milt' Merrill. Davis, In addition, to having the orchestra, is understood also to have a hunk of the. • shootin' match. Bi (Continued from page 5) c'ies in theatres cannot be curbed. Considerable stress is being laid on the outcome of the Philadelphia, case brought by independents and testing distributors' rights to proV hibit doubling through the contract. Until this matter is settled, and the decision is expected to be wide- ly precedential, distribs will not be: positive as. to. whether their plan of restricting . various star features from projection on double programs will really hold water. The Philly case does not go tp trial until an- other week. Should the restrictions plan fail spokesmen for the majors are cer- tain Hollywood production ill be expanded to accommodate the quickie, variety of features neces- sary in double deals. Such addi- tional, output would- be sold sep- arately and present budgets would likely have to b« refigured to make accommodation for the additions without over-bolstering * current financial outlays of the majors* Gov't Investigates Md's Quickie Hitching Post; Elkton Under Fare Wise Yokels Chicago, June 11. Repeal doesn't mean any- thing to most of the liquor spots at, the. World's Fair* with the public learning how to get around the high prices for likker. Most parties are. .fortifying themselves against the stiff take by toting thei- own flasks. SAIL HUDSON Hunting Talent COTTON BLOSSOM On a hot, sultry night it may be worth $1 to take a four hours' sail tip the Hudson from Battery Park and back, but outside, of that the one seed doesn't Insure much. Not ;ust yet, anyway. Later on, those who imbibe may be able to get more than poorly cooled beer (just one brand avail- able first trip), but It's not certain, since under the admiralty laws, the owner of the boat, Capt. Dan Mc- Allister, has to go to Washington to get the permit. He's working oh it. On the initial trip up the Hud- son, the Cotton Blossom started off with two strikes against it. i>Iot only were the facilities for handling people inconsistent with good man- agement, but all that one could get to eat on the boat, if making it in time for supper as some did, were some mushy hot-dogs and sand- wiches an epicure wouldn't relish. The inadequate counter at which the suds and sandwiches are served is anything but inviting, but still some . people f ouna it preferrable to upstairs where dancing and a show was going on. Before the boat pulled out com- fortable arm chairs were lined, up on the edge of the dance, floor. There was ho one in attendance to handle seating anci some folk held extra chairs for friends "who were boarding the tub at 125th street. Although members of the press and some name celebrities Were invited to make the first voyage, nobody thought of reserving any chairs anywhere for these folk. So people walked around until they found less comfortable folding chairs and set them up wherever they could, still without getting them onto the dance floor. Then when the show was about to go on, a lot of people who. had been dancing, walking around, drinking beer or . something else, scrambled for remaining folding chairs and formed a close circle, around the bandi As a result, people in orig- inal chairs nearer the gunwales either had to do the same or stand "iCathryn Parsons and Many Han- cock are running the show on the boat, actually the S. S. Bear Moun- tain. They have ' for every, night throughout the summer.^ • Initial sail' up and down the Hud- son was amplified somewhat in in- terest by the fact that the trip af- forded a good view of the fleet, show itself being pretty spotty on entertainment but okay, perhaps, for the regular trade that would go for something of this kind and ^get a buck's worth out of the dancing, necking, beer-drinking, makes, etc., that go along with it. ■ On the first trip Joan Clifford, an interesting entertainer who sings songs in good floor show fashion, acted as guest mistress of cere- monies, a job regularly handled by Miss Parsons. Another guest artist Ws^AhWl^sferrWraard^^vauder (Continued from page 2) concentrating on . summer shows in New England where are to : be found youths just out of school working without wage on the bare possi- bility that their histrionic display will not go unnoticed. f The practice of grooming young aspirants in classrooms has proven effective enough for Paramount and Metro but Radio cottons to its own idea of giving the tyros practical training before the camera in the making of shorts. Metro's Plan Enlarging on the idea, Metro hereafter will show off- its young- sters to the public rather than re- strict the audience to studio execu- tives and are negotiating for one of the legit houses. Oliver Hinsdale, studio coach, now has a class of 2.2, the" ratio favoring the gals by 2-1. A working arrangement with every college in the country, whereby the Culver City factory gets first call oh all promising talent, has been in ef- fect for some time. When the word goes out that a young 'un is ' des- tined for the' heights, he or she. is tested, by a riewsreel cameraman dispatched to area. Par's Seven from 'Search*. While the contest idea seems to have run its string, Paramount feels it fared especially well in the recent 'Search for . Beauty.' Of the 30 that were brought to Hollywood, seven are staying on under contract. These, along with a few others, are being groomed in the studio school by Phyllis Laughton. Notwith- standing this success. Paramount is drawing most of its young bipod from the New York stage, it being the set opinion of Joe Egli of the casting office that it is a waste of time to play along with novices who lack stage apprenticeship. Here also are the newsreel men being drawn into the talent hunt. Little to Cheer About Results of a recent talent excur- sion to the eastern seaboard by Wil- ilaVn Ferlberg." Colufnbir-eamWdi- rector,' gives the Hollywood mob little to cheer about. Eight con tractees were brought back, all re cruited from the Broadway foot- lights. An Interesting sidelight to this pursuit of the elusive starlets is the deal that brought Charles Sabln to the Gower street row. Tipped off to an up-and-coming femme, Perlberg asked an agent friend to send over a chap to stooge for the gal in her test. Sabln sb completely dominated the rehearsal that he was given pact instead of the girl. Although Columbia hopes to get most of its replacements from Broadway Jt isn't exactly turning a blind eye to these diggings. Just the other day a Columbia supervisor strolled into a playhouse at Laguna Beach and the following day Bar- bara Reed, 16, was sent for and pacted. Hudson will have opposition show boats this summer, the 'Cotton Blossom', renamed from. 'Bear Mountain', going out nightly . instead of once weekly, while the IBuc- caneer', which is anchored near Yonkers, started operating last week. Audiences are taken up to latter boat from the pier at 42nd street, 'Blossom', however, will not transfer Its passengers. Tickets for the latter will be one dollar, as against $1.65 for the 'Buccaneer' Katharine Parsons, who with drew from the revived 'Drunkard', heads the revue on TBlossom' which will have gag nights, wrestling and boxing, as features on certain even- ings. Waitresses will be billed as singTng yeomanettesi There will be a bar and buffet aboard the 'Blos- som', which went Into action start ing last ^Thursday (7). Baltimore, June 11., Federal Government is investigat- ing the marriage, mill racket as practised at Elkton, Md., the east coast's Gretna Green. Spot has come in for some heated lambasting of late from women's circles, re- ligious sects and organizations op-" posed to divorce. These groups argue that hasty meet 'n' marry, touch-and-go hook- ups are basically ill-iidvised and in majority of Instances; result in sub- sequent marital wrangling and con- sequent divorce cases. GroupB charge conditions at lkton foster quickie weddings. The town is studded with deacons who have billed their monickers all over as practioners of the fine art of two-minute knotftyings. One angle that the Fed men have un- covered that has' heretofore escape*! regard in any medium is the fact that the deacons as a whole have been wont to tap the groom, in the case of. an elopment, three bucks for a state witness to the ceremony, with the deacon supplying the wit- ness. Yet by law no state witness is required. Travel Agency Biz as Holds 'Em to Chi Banned Coast Bean Game Carried to Middle West Los Angeles; June 11. Zemansky Brothers, promoters who had a financial Interest in the tango games in Los Angeles and beach towns, are planning to open tango spots in middle western towns. First city to be introduced Uo the game of chance will probably be Kansas City. Tango' was recently banned in Los Angeles county. BaU Park Nitery Ft. Wayne, Ind., June 11 Ralph Miller's novel, night club, The Last Round Up, established outside the baseball park here dur ing the winter, stays where it Is. Although directly in front of one of the gates, this was solved by having the entrance pass right through the premises. Those going into the games use the night club as a lobby. Show includes Bozo Mack,, singer; George Lovett, mentalist; dance team of Heather and Blackstone; Pat Moran, acrobatic dancer and slow-motion artist; trio of Day and. Roberts. None. of . this tal- ent is bigtime, but in some respects efforts of each act pass muster. One of the girls in the trio act does a smart enough single dance; Moran's acrobatic number stands out, and Mack!s song may please the boat customers. On Whole, show suffers" from content as well as from punch. A line of girls, even though Short, would help. Char. U 's Negative Stance Universal has nixed the school idea after a rather painful experi- ence. Froth 3,600 applicants the Laemmles enrolled 72 in class . last June. By September this number dwindled to 30. Threw out three of the five that remained In October, and left are Lois January and D can Benton. Casting chief Dave Werner is now out in the field doing a one- man posse job. Universal is more determined than ever that its new faces : must come from the ptage Chicago, June 11'. Travel bureaus of this town are howling again this year, but louder. Business was brutal for the local agencies last year and It's worse In .1934. Despite the fact that travel has picked up throughout the coun- try," there's ho such animal around these parts. People of Chicago are once 'more sticking in town throughout the summer ahd fofegoing vacations In order tb profit from the World's Fair visitpos- Everybody's got a job, or attending to their own store; and nobody's thinking of going else- where' for amusement; Though it Is estimated that na- tional travel has picked up some 60% since 1932, this town shows a slight decrease from- the 1933 sum- mer, when travel business hit bot- tom. As a means of getting some rev- enue, local agencies are considering getting together for a co-operative advertising splurge this winter ad- vocating cold-season vacations. Copy will stress the fact that since the public has been busy working all summer, they should yacash on the off -season. FRISCO REVUE Hollywood, June 11. Moe Morton will produce a 12- girl floor show for Bal Taibarin; San Francisco, following closing of his 'Shim Sham Revue' at Music Box, New unit, also to include several, vaude acts, skeded to open June 28. CORPUS' BEAUTY CONTEST Galveston, June 11. Corpus Christ! has taken up beauty pageant idea, where Galves- ton left off. . Mary Lou Durrlngton of Corpus Christl was chosen 'Miss South Texas' from 36 gals at pageant I and given a free trip to the Chicagp fair. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Louis Berkhoff, son May 7, in Hollywood. Father for merly of the Dancing Berkhoffs, now opera-ting couple of indie pic tiire houses in Los Angeles. Mr. arid Mrs. Hughie Barrett, daughter, June 3, in Rochester, N. Y. Father Is orchestra leader Mr., and Mrs. Chris Hethering ton, son, June 5, in St. Louis. Father is with sales department of KMOX. WgW'cTub " ^iso^r^in^frcru-- tinized. Warners has discovered atent talent in the Bus Berkeley li , but hot in sufficient numbers to call off the theatre scouts. While no legit opening around Hollywood is passed up, Pasadena Playhouse gets the heaviest play. Independents and shoe-ftringers take them as they come, for the most part utilizing the b.o. pull of names that lighted up marquees n " - innummiinwW.uiM, , ■ £mimimflhiliiil(i»iilJMijiiHHiltl|itt|«|i IMIHMtMHllHHillliHtliHifli I |jNeu> York Theatres! RKD THEATRES 86™ ST. AT lamer Wea. to Frl. .Tunc 13 to 15 81" ST. M . M0MHMV nn<|. "3 On a Honeymoon" "Crime Doctor" mul ' "Uncertain Lady" BWAY On .Screen CLARK GABLE In "men in White" ^S.tuse^ABE^LY.MAN^ and Orchestra rot Vilma & Buddy Ebsdn -OUkts DWAYt45 : 'ST. if MON.^FRI. ^ (O AW t.NOONI m JOAN F CRAWFORD Franchot Tone in "SADIE McKEE" Stage — "8PICKS OF 1934" Cost of 50 Wm, S. Coffey, who's administrator of the estate of the late Florehz Zlegfeld. suing in White Plains for an accounting from the Shuberts on the 'Follies' title. Claims creditors of the. estate are entitled to a'roy alty. which he estimates at a third of the current, show's gross and ask ing that sum of the Shuberts. Woodbury Soap announces that it's back in the newspaper ad col- umns after six years of exclusively radio effort. Gable from Honolulu tells of the Dollar liner, President Lincoln, ar riving there with cargo afire. Pas sengers danced, wearing- lifebelts While band played 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,' City testing light radio reception equipment for motorcycle police. Bronx swimming pool has a. stage show annex on. the rOof so patrons can dunk and watch a show at the same time. ^ International Brotherhood of Ma- gicians held a convention .last week in Batavia. N. Y: Thursday the rooklyn Federal court ruled against the application of Johh.Ringling, circus tycoon, for permission to sue the N. Y. In-, vestors, Inc., for the return of his assets. He pledged his entire cir- cus property as security for a loan of $1,700,000 in July, 1932. They seek to dispose of property in New Jersey. New ruling by State, board per- mits addition of lists of stores handling • branded liquors in whole- saler ads if the names are not fea- tured, Any mention had been taboo. .Lily Pons to marry Dr; Fritz von der Becke, ship's doctor on the Cap- arcona. Met him three years. ago on trip to South America. Hitch sched- uled for July 9, 1935. Ethel Barrymore paid $5 on a parking charge in N. Yv traffic court. Her car,, but she says it was her son, Russell Colt, who parked his Ford too long on West 58th street. The chauffer answered the ticket: She says it's worth the fine to be described as 22 years old. - 'Tony the Barber,' dope peddler, picked up by G men. They declare book found in his pocket contains the names of many stage and screen stars here and in Hollywood. Noth- ing to show they were customers! Courtney Burr announces he'll keep 'Sailor Beware' open until, mid- ; summer, at least. Unity theatre group which, launched that African opera, now casting for a Soviet production. Jim Barton made formal pres- entation of i00,O00 tickets, to the Federal Portable Theatres to Com- missioner Corsi, of the Home Re- lief, last Friday. Five portable the- atres giving performances in the public parks. 'No More Ladies,' which Was closed Saturday, will reopen Au- gust 6 as a preamble to a road tour. Solomon Tapper, musician at the Governor Clinton, held in Essex Market court for injuring Willis Charney, of New Mllford, Conn., in Village Nut club. Grace George to play Barrie's 'Legend of Lenora' with the Cape Cod players July 30. Berkshire theatre, Stockbridge, Mass., to go repertory. Instead of a week of each play it will juggle. . Mayor orders dancing discon- tinued at newly reopened Clare- mont Inn. Floor to be given over to tables. ~ '' ^~ ' Rockefeller Centre the scene of the 10th annual exhibition of soap sculptures last week. There were nearly 4,000 entries, Yale and Smith players defer their N. Y. presentation of . 'Ten Nights in a Barroom.' And it will not be at the Venice, they announce, when it finally does come in. Beatrice Lillie due this week. Tom Senna in charge of the Bos-, ton branch of the American Feder- ation of Actors, Beethoven Assn., musical organi- zation, opens a new clubhouse in the former home of Henry Seligmari. State liquor commission thumbs- down plea for theatre bars, so the managers plan to take an appeal to the legislature for an enabling act. Elofse Whitehead, former chorus girl, tried suicide last Monday (4) but Was taken to Post-Graduate after she Had refused to go to Belle- vuo. Her c.ondtion is not serious- Mrs. Maude Kimbell denied a di- vorce from Grant Kimbell. .stage J-.! 1 rn i 1 ' Pi^ Ji&yQP^M us-- I0dna._Sc- voryrHifs -partner,' but "jury refused to lind her suspicions correct. Oponrair dancing in the parks given a tryout at the Mall, Central park, last week; May be spread to city's recreation piers. Harry Iio- derman's orchestra officiates. While 500 Couples dancer, some 8,000 looked on. Hal Skolly will take an appoal on 'Conic What May' in the fall. TC they still won't take IX, he Iris others in reserve. Irving Kaye I>a»vls will sponsor his 'Naked Woman" on lirondwny next fall put of options to pay the. produce tion costs Chorus Equity reports a drop In income, of $12,238 and a deficit of $10,000 for the-.year. This includes a loss of $4,000 oh deposit hi the Harriman bank, Dorothy Bryant again: executive sec George Jessel elected Abbot of the Friars at the annual meeting last week. Rudy Vallee is Dean, Jack Benny the Prior and Ben Pier- mont and; Pat Rooney the sees Ch F. Pope remains evecutive sec. and William D. Weinberger, treas Actors Dinner Club, now reaches a total of 287,529 meals served, of which 204,770 were to the needy William Holland has .taken the Public theatre for "next season. Yid- dish productions. Actors Emergency Ass'n. formed last week as a relief organization: Will chiefly work for extension of P.W.A. plays. Cornelia Otis Skinner to Italy for a vacation. Husband goes, along; Jean Bflggs but of 'New Faces' for a Cleveland stock engagement. Chores split between Peggy Hoven- den. Frances Dewey and Mildred Todd. . Hippodrome was closed Tuesday. Variously announced as for extra rehearsals on 'Lohengrin' and for repairs to. cooling plant. Department of Public Welfare trying out free puppet shows in parks. Terry Wessling, 22, champion par- achute jumper, died Saturday (9) at the air circus at Bennett Field. L; I. His jump was the final event of the day. Made a perfect landing, but the strong wind caught his 'chute, dragging him about 100 feet. His skull was fractured. Jenny Dolly fined $757,025 for evading customs duties in France. Failed to declare a diamond ring which she. subsequently sold. Fine was four times purchase price of ring plus seven and a half tithes the profit. Betty Doyle, who came to the States in the hope of a picture en- gagement, but who was knocked out by an auto accident, returned home last week. Wants to try again when she regains her strength. Mulrponey rules it's all right to lean up against the bar, but swing- ing doors are still out. "Victor Noonan, brother of Sally O'Neill and Molly. O'Day, arrested in jersey City Saturday on charges of swindling women in a stock deal. Held for the N. Y. police. Police say . he was indicted here two years ago for the sale of $82,000 worth, of stock in the. Collar Sales. Corp. Germany bars Lilian Harvey's film, 'My Weakness.' No reason of- fered.' Antonio Scottl, retired Met op vet, goes to Italy, but says he'll be back in the fall. Independent wholesale liquor dealers attack the validity of the state alcohol control board. Harlem Opera house to be sold at auction under foreclosure Thursday (14). Second theatre to be built by the late Qscar Hammersteln, the first being the Columbus, now the 125th Street. Built the theatres to increase the value of his residential holdings in the then growing Har- lem. Betty Cbmpton (Mrs. Jimmy Walker) will star in one of Warner Bros, quota pictures at Tedding- 'Kamf England. "Was to' have start-" ed work yesterday., Bill in Congress would bar trans- port of dirt films in interstate ship- ments... Too late for action this session. 'Black Crook' on the Bowery is off . Financial troubles. . Eight men arrested at Coney for doing the hula and otherwise mak- ing whoopee. Might have been sprung, but cops told the magistrate they had . their shoulder straps off, which let their shirts down. Back to jail for sentence tomorrow (Wednesday). New Tavern, in Central Park, plans an all-you-can-eat-for-a- . dollar policy. Drinks two bits a copy. Forme* fclioepfold. Maggie nine Fur iously 111 at her home in Fair TTaven, N. J. Famous for 'Throw Him Down McCloskey.' Gilbert Miller has . purchased the American, rights to- 'Musical Chairs,' London success. N. Y. police requested Poughkeep- sle cops to query Rlngling circus .Piviplft-.ahon t a.,b oy-nowuin..BcIlevue who says he was adopted by a clr> cus man, but offers no other infor- mation. Name given is Frank Michaels. Thamara Swirsky, dancer, who was to have married F. G. Fisher, placed in an asylum by his . rela- tives, gave up her fight and has gone to Canada, Coney's Sunday enlivened by a riot by pickets of cafeteria strikers to protest alleged torture of one of their number by dctectivea. Thursday may be a double win or dual knockout for Max Baer. Has made almost enough Prirno Camera will hand down one decision while Justice Cohen of the Supreme Court will deliver the other judgment. . Latter is in the Shirley La Belle assault case* in which the fighter asks a bill for particulars Libby. Holman. to blossom as a dramatic actress -at the Hedgerow theatre,. Rose Valley; Pa., next Sat- urday (16). Has been studying dra- matic work with Jasper Deeter for several months. Roxy theatre and Par-Publix fol- low RKO lead in seeking to re organize tinder the new law just signed by the President.. United Cigar Stores and Associated Tele phone Utilities also make applica tion. .' Having opened his Hudson river, showboat, Bobby. Sanford's giving his time to the revue : for the Sun and Surf club, Atlantic Beach. Washington reports a probable rise in . the price' of lipstick and other cosmetics, due to: NRA., Robert Ritchie gets off , the boat and asked if he and Jeanette Macr Donald are married and separated. Answer was they're separated be- cause they're not married, but he hopes to be. Frances Williams, actress, picked a wild .flower at Jones' Beach. Sen- tenced to one day in jail, but sen- tence suspended. Arrest on com- plaint of Long Island Park Com- mission; Joan Bennett and Gene Markey, her husband, back from Italy.. She says she was asked $3 for a candy bar, but no, sale. License Commissioner Moss gave Edgar Allen and Edward Davidow, agents, 48 hours in which to pay $75 claimed by Harry Her sh field for a date- Announces he'll have all agents licensed by the end of the month. Lawrence Langner back with two scripts. One is 'Sleeping Clergy- man,' which the Theatre Guild is considering. St. John Er vine's 'People of Our Class' will also be offered, the Guild. Now he'll settle down with his .Westppr.t summer theatre. . 'Ticket of Leave . Man,' which gave vaudeville actors the Hawk- shaw-the-detective gag, will be the first in a series of revivals at the Palm Gardens, opening June 24. Cardinal Dougherty, of Philadel- phia,, orders a film boycott by all members of his diocese. Part of the general. movement, but more drastic Leopold Stokowski dropped off at Princeton on his way from Phila- delphia to N. Y* Found Dr. John F. Williamson unable to lead his Westminster Choir . because of the illness of his son, so he went to bat and batoned the singers. Margaret Sullavan coming east to play with Westchester summer the- atre July 2. Olga. Victoria Ingel tells the world she'll be in tl.e production biz next season. To do a revue, 'Musi* cal Moments.' Coast Katharine Alexander, wife of Wil- liam A.. Brady, Jr., in L..A. working in pictures, spiked reports that she will seek a divorce. Mady Christians, German actress, and Albert Hubert German artist, are in Mexlcali, across the border, .awaiting a. quota number to-. re- enter this country. Florence Rice flew in from New York to start work at- Columbia. Danny Dowling, dancer, who is charged with kidnaping Marjorle Crawford, whom he later married, had his trial set over to July 9. Parents of Mary Astor, who lost court fight to force film actress to maintain them, have settled down in modest quarters. Mrs. Alexander Pantages won L. A- court judgment for $378 against interior decorator. Misconduct charged in divorce suit filed in L. A. by Paul Kain r orchestra leader. Trade agreement between U. S. and Russia will open up new mar- ket for American films, M. G. Gal- kovitch, Sovie't consul-general, as- sured Hollywood studio execs. Patricia Lee v actress, denied L. divorce from Janies Carnal, former m. c. She is asserted to have told friends she will marry .Tames Dunn .when freed. Mary Pickfo'rd laughed olt cur- x»iii.tLaiumor=th a t=«h e=w *>ul d=r u ir-f or- Congress from California with crack that she is in different kind of amusement business. Stephen Ames, N. Y. broker, and actress bride, Raquel Torres, back m Hollywood from Hawaiian honeymoon en route to New York for stage, engagement. First in- timation of groom's thespic yen. Tholma Alley, actress, asseftedly intoxicated at wheel of her tsar when it ploughed into stalled ma- chine and killed a man In L, A. mu*t face trial for manslaughter, reduced from miJrder. Charles Over, Jr., broker, for- feited his legal rights to a final de- cree of divorce from Betty Boml film player, when he agreed to raZ conciliation which took them an world tour too soon after granting Of an interlocutory, L. A. court ruled. Two hew buildings on Paramount lot to house execs, publicity and foreign departments completed with two more for title printing lab and process stage under way. Production of C. B. De Mllle'a 'Cleopatra' held up when knite thrown (n fight scene imbedded iu self In leg of Harry Wilcoxon, Eng- lish actor, causing paralysis frohi knee down. Sam Starr, Hollywood film lab employee, suffered cuts and bruise* when, his car sideswiped one driven by Kenneth Cooper, film stunt man, George McManus and Gene Ahearn, comic strip artists, regaled University Clubbers In L. A. with chalk talks.' Superior Judge Crail in L. A. an. proved petition allowing. Jackie Cooper to pay $5,000 on a $16,000 loan secured, by trust deed on hla Bevhills home. Ted Healy ordered by L. A. judge to pay $360 for damage to house he rented in West L. A. . Irene Rich appointed guardian of iTryear-old daughter so that legal transfer . of insurance policies can be effected^ Attempt by Mexican suitor to ab* duct pajama-clad Virginia Costellcv dancer, in, L. Ai, thwarted by po- lice when snatcher stopped at beer parlor to slake his thirst. Protest against 'misleading titles, false and vicious advertising of mo- tion pictures to lure and increase, attendance, was lodged with Gen- eral Federation of Women's Clubs, in a telegram dispatched by a group of L. A. clubwomen following heat- ed discussion. Back "from personal appearance tour to work in pictures, Evelyn Brent admitted she had parted from her husband, Harry Edwards, ' but no divorce contemplated. Emerald Littlefield, cowboy mu- sician, sentenced in L. A. to serve 1-50 years in San Quentln for at- tacking 18-year-bld housewife in automobile. Circuit court of appeals at Sail Francisco refused Alexander Pan- tages refund of $21,831 on his 1930 income return, ruling that money used in defending attack charge by Eunice Pringle, dancer, a personal matter, and not related to corpora-* tion'. Seven year contract of Barbara Read, minor, with Columbia; ap- proved by L. . A, court. Salary starts at $40 and reaches peak at $400, John Gilbert lost court fight to have his Metro contract, with sal- ary range of $20,000 to $50,000 a year; tossed out, claiming that ho was put In cold storage and given no work. L. A. judge cited role in 'Queen Christina' as making pact binding. Eleanor Douglas, film, extra, granted divorce in L. A. Annual Memorial Day. visit of mysterious woman to crypt of Ru- dolph. Valentino where she deposit- ed wreath of purple flowers' made front pages of L. A. dailies. Elderly woman killed in L. A* crash occupant of car registered to George Brent. Discovered by Eddie Cantor la his dentist's office, Gail Goodson, 18, given contract by Samuel Gold- Wyn. Hollywood Players being audi- tioned for stage and screen by G. Dallas . Streeter, author-actof-oll man Who will, appear in plays of his own authorship. Hollywood domicile of George Bancroft pillaged of $500. Fearing loss of his voice, Herman Cline, Jr., nltery warbler, leaped to his death down, air shaft of Denver hostelry. - ^ In an auto collision which killed his wife. Lawrence Babcock, L. A. advertising man, was seriously In- jured and Martin Peppie, studio musician, driver of the other car, suffered a fractured skull. Hal Roach., returned to L. A. from, hunting trip in Alaska with skins of two grizzlies and four black, bears. Wife of Austin J. Smith, pub- licist, died in L. A. after lingering illness, Richard Ulm, studio painter, vic- tim in L. A. of brass knuckle bandit. His fish-hooked, finger completely mended, John Barrymore discharged from Good Samaritan hospital In L. A. A. 35-foot down Scenic studios in L. A. night watchman. Intention to wed tiled in L. A. hy Reginald Owen. English actor, and Billio. Austin, actress and former wife of Harold Austin, fllrn pro- ducer^ Ajsp^ _seconA. Jor grooj"*. In reporting loss of diamond en- gagement ring, Virginia Daimoy, film actress, revealed forthcoming marriage to Bill Rav, mdln an- nouncer, in L. A. Judgment of $71 .280 against Tom Mix In favor of Western Show com- pany and Francis B. uinn entered by L. A. county clerk. Dance floors with less than a minimum coverage of 400 feet would be prohibited if L. A. city council ratifies ordinance. Orlando TC. Millo;-, 7'.', film syndl- (Continued on page <>3) Tuesday, June 12, 1934 TIMES SQUARE VARIETY 61 Broadway Silly Halligan making book at the tracks. Harry Arthur to St. Louis, Mon- day (11). Jack Klotz has given up worrying about units. Ed Olmstead back from one peek's vacash. Herschel Stuart -lip to Schenec- tady last week. George Leffler back after Med- iterranean, cruise. Felice Grecnberg to spend vaca- tion in California. Frank C. Walker an honorary LL.D. from Notre Dame. Sid Page given a Metro test last •week. Jury if still out. Frazee Sisters replacing Loomis Twins at Casino de Paree. New Hotel Astor off -the-street . cafe, as the old days, just opened, Luise Squire (Lang' and Squire) ©ut of the hosp; ditto Velma For- rest. Peg Mahoney and Lil Fox are establishing a summer luncheon club. Sidnah Hayes doing, secretarial work for 'Frank Merlin at the. Little theatre. Build-up for that Marvin' Schenck-Charlle Yates . golf match getting hot. Morris Green brojke a finger play- ing ball at Joe Cook's 'Sleepless Hol- low' Sunday. I. Robert Broder leaves for Hawaii ■shortly on long vacash away from legal matters. Lew Brown checked In Q.t. at Medical Arts hospitPl to get over some 'nerVes.' Velma Cornell (Mrs. Marc Lach r mann) in from the Coast arifc Marc has reformed. Joe Furnas, biographer of George C. Tyler, will camp in Italy from June 28 to Sept. 10. Grace Menken An Atlantic City with hubby. Bert Lytell, and may Tcvive 'Brothers' there. Jack Weiner's efforts In collecting $3,000 due him from "'pals' resulted in garnering exactly $30. Peggy Joyce is a fiend for the hamburgers in a beanery at 50th street and Third avenue. Kay Francis Is due east on vaca- tion in a couple of weeks, leaving Hollywood about June 20. Since the American Bar at the ■Times Square put out that flashy canopy, biz has increased. A member of. the Lambs was sus- pended last week for bringing in Prince Mike Romanoff as . a .guest. Ann Grosvenor Ayres (Red) will agn-1 , operate Guild Hall theatre. East Hampton, L. I., this summer. Will Hays is not letting clean-up troubles interfere with that summer trip to Hollywood. He goes in July. Phil Reisman, Jr., front, paged in ■ New Rochelle for his good acting in school play version of 'Journey's End/ Louis Lotito, of. the New Amster- dam, made hole-in-one: at : North Hempstead C. C. and got bunch of gifts. Frank Wheeler, Hughle .Clark and Jimmy Morgan click at Casino de Paree in Bowery outfits and elides. A lot of film stenoes are squawk- ing about the 6-day week. They claim it makes Monday just that tougher. Broderlck Crawford, back from the London company of 'She Loves Me Not,' to Cohassett, Mass., to play in summer stock. W. Ray Johnson's banquet party Saturday (9). at the Park Central followed a one -day wind-up sales p>eet on Monogram. In Simon Agency's removal ad last week from Palace Theatre to the RKO Bldg. in Radio City, their "new -suite; 803, was inadvertently omitted. Charley Williams and Marcy ■klauber finished the shooting script of 'Woman in the Dark' in : seven days. It'll be made at the Biograph studio uptown. Three prominent Broadway bars have ;as many prices for a shot of one of the better whiskey brands. It starts below 42nd street at 40c and •hits a top of 65c at 44th street. Mexico City By D, L. Grahame New occupation for lines: guarding parked cars. Cops on que vive for Dlllinprer. who's reportedly heading for Mexico. Government tourist department officials chasing hotel runners and public porters who annOy visitors at rail stations. El Tecolote gambling casino at Mexican, popular with American J tourlsts, -destroyed- by^ fire believed to have been of incendiary origin. Local, brewery reports sales ln- increase of 78% in May over April. Biz boost is attributed to intensive newspaper and magazine advertis- ing. Government has established an open-air theatre irr the shade of the world's biggest tree, a sprig With a circumference of 165 feet, in Oaxaca stated Cock fighting here officially socked with taxes of .$140 to $280 per month of season, and 35%. to 40% of each performance's gross. Heav- iest amusement levy in those part*. National Railways of Mexco figure CHATTE that ' it will bring 10,000 American tourists here annually as a result of agreements reached with U. S. rail- roads at the recent rail and tourist agencies execs meet in New York.' Twelve thousand two hundred and seventy- three American are perma- manent residents of Mexico, §,819 of them living here, says state depart- ment,. Ratio is five men to three, fenimes. Mexico has 161,794 foreign residents. Move afoot to make each Nov. 18 .'Convicts Day,' .featuring fiestas for pur friends behind the bars, a nar tional celebration. Anniversary of the date pioneer of campaign for spiritual regeneration of criminals died violently. Government urging bakers to use yeast . in all bread they make, having discovered that urtlevened bread promotes indigestion and other ills among consumers in high altitudes, such as Mexico City, which is. 7,500 feet above the sea. Paris By Bob Stern Yvette Gullbert at Alcazar. Lacy Kastners giving cocktail party • Jim. Witteried out as Ambassa- deurs p.a. Suzy Solidor booked at Bobino this- week. 'Arsene. Lupin' revived at .Sarah Bernhardt. George C. Coogan landing .from Manhattan. Charpinin and Brancato in Olym- pia stage show. Potinjere to put on Andre Mery's 'Vacations' in June. 'Fifth Print/ newest Bacos film for Fox, now In cutting room. Arthur Shattuck staying with friends at Villa des Ternes. Colette Darville back : on He de France Friday (1) from New York trip. Pathe Natan. circuit showing '3 Percent' a second time in. same houses. ' Harry Leasim to London. Paris Herald running his photo during his absence. . Darryl Zanuck due here in about six weeks. Joe Schenck coming to meet him.' Edith Mera, recovered from sui- cide attempt, back in 'Hortensia Sisters' cast. New Henri. Rabaud opera, 'Ro- lando and the Bad BOy,' .getting good notices. Dubbing actors coming to aid of American film men fighting for im- port freedom. Marianne Oswald to sing in hew Boeuf sur le Toit niterie, opening: Friday, June 1. Maurice Perez fighting critics tor their 'nastiness' about his opera, 'Tutankahmen.' George White over from -London for just one day to see Max Weldy about costumes. Michael Farmer off on world tour, hoping fo catch up with Gloria at the end of it, he says. Gaumont deciding to send 'At- lantis,' 'Bouboule I' and 'Cathed- rals' to Venice -film show, Metropa Film to make musiker of 'Trois de la Marine' ('Three Sailors') legit music comedy success. Benny Rubin, here on pleasure, trip, says he may make pic in Lon- don for British International. Open air film show on Esplanade des Invalldes planned June 2, as part of Big Paris Weeks program. 'Moulin Rouge' (UA) opening Sat- urday (2) at Lord Byron, 'Sorrell and Son,' British 'mf&e'rdiaft't" do. Irv Schwerke, Chi Trib music critic, reviewing Glgli's recital at Palais des Sports in sports page style. j. J. Shubert, chaperoned, by Wil- liam Klein, off to Vichy Sunday (3) for the cure, after week or so in Paris. . Philippe Roy, Canadian Minister, seeing rushes of Jullen Duvlver winter exteriors for Maria Chapp- delaine. , Louise Jouvet acting as witness at marriage of his business ' man- ager, Andre Mpreau, to Andree Ser- viianges. . Hank Wales threatenting In Paris Herald that Hollywood gang won't come back to Paris until prices cohie down. Artists' Union (local Equity) to benefit by exhibition of pastels by late Nijihsky, Russian . dancer, at Galerle ; Georges Petit. Billy Selwyn passing through on way to Mediterranean trip from London, where he looked Over plays -Aroh=is^king,toJBxoii,drefty, Monte Carlo Russian ballets, run by Rene Blum and W. de Basil, giving four shows . weekly at Champs Elysees until June 16. 'Un Coeur . . . Deux poings' ('One Heart . . . Two Fists') is name chosen by French spectators for 'Prizefighter and Lady' (MGM). Marcel. Vandal replying in Eng- lish language press to charges of anti-Americanism in Chambre Syn- dical film import control program. Julien Duvlvier promoting scheme for establishment of Board of In- tellectual Censorship to give semi- official approval to worthy French films. London Dewey Bloom here with his bride. David Selznick ordering new Eng- lish wardrobe. Eleven legit premieres week of May 28 in West End. Hannen Swaffer off for a couple of days' rest at Blackpool. 'Indoor Fireworks' closing at the Aldwyeh, June 2 after two months. Helen Wills Moody to write the Daily Mail tennis news of Wimble- don. Ex -ray reveals several ligaments torn in Ralph Ince's leg, but no frac- tures. Leon Leonidoff just in.. Looking around for novelties, and off to Paris. Ralph Ince breaking a leg wh,ile directing a Will Fyffe picture at Sound City. Seynour. Hicks admiring Daly's theatre newly painted front, first time in years. George Arliss and missus taking a look round at the Chelsea Flower ShOw, May 31. Max Weldy, French dress' de- signer, looking for. London offices in .Leicester Square. David Selznick giving farewell party for new and old friends at Claridge's hotel'. Check-up on dance acts reveals 74 dance trios, of which 60. are com- edy, or alleged. "■ Alice Delysia off to Australia to play in a string of musicals for the Frank Thring circuit. Wilsbn, Keppell and Betty off to Oslo, Norway and Denmark, to ful- fill long' postponed dates. Tom Walls sponsoring appeal to sportsmen for $126,000 for British Empire Cancer Campaign. : Bradbury Pratt trying to get Jack Hylton and band for month at New Prince's restaurant lor $7,600. Hetty King off on world tour again. This time it's Australia, India, China and New Zealand. Benny Rubin likely to replace Jans and Whalen in Palladium 'Crazy' season after four weeks. • Tilly Losch-Edward James divorce suit .down. for hearing June 12. Wit- nesses coming over from the U. S. Princess Louise to attend premiere opening of British International's latest, 'Those Were the Days,- at the Regal. Lawrence Langner has acquired James Bridie's 'A Bleeping Clergy- man' for production by the Theatre Guild. Dolly Haes, German, to star In. British International Pictures 'Girls will be BOys.' Marcel Varnel di- recting. Adele Astalre appearing In the Pageant of Parliament being held at Albert Hall from- June 29 to July 21. Animal Defence Society still chas- ing Tex Austin and his Rodeo. Holding protest meetings all over the place. New Gallery picture house, with the presentation of 'Ever Green' June 7, will show no more American films in future. Stanley Luplno has written new musical titled 'Sunny Love,' which might follow 'Sporting Love,' cur- rently at Gaiety. J. Lyons & Co. caterers and res- taurant proprietors announce iri-> crease of profits to record figure of around $5,000,000. Mascot Pictures' 'The. Lost Jun- gle,' going through censorial process, and then will be sold by Morris Goodman for England. ' Leon Volterra, Casino de Paris (Paris) chief, has honse entered in English Derby. Named Admiral Drake, but not a chance. Harry Blu-, of the Three Sailors, just married Virginia Lawsoh, former show girl from Palais Royal and Earl Carrol *Vanitles.* Arc lamps caused elephants, to become restive during filming of circus scenes at Blackpool.. Panic averted with dimming lights. Rowland Brown's next Is 'Twelve Chairs* from the Russian by Eugene Perlov and Elle Df. to be done by Associated Talking Pictures. Parnell-rZeitiln versus Cochran- Drury Lane Suit over 'Cavalcade* down for hearing June 15. Expected to be a three days' attraction; George Foster tipping a winner to Teddy Ehrenthal at Paris races, with Eherenthal winning $4,000 and Foster waiving his commission, •Three- Sailors- to\ star— in-Julian. Wylie. pantomime- next Christmas. Not set whether , at Drury Lane or Manchester,, but former most likely. Leon M. Lion has acquired D. H. Lawrence's 'The Daughter-in-Law* for West End production with Sybil Thomdike and Lewis Casspn starred. Contrary to rumors. Basil Dean will definitely direct Tiorna Doone,' for Associated Talking Pictures, With Victoria Hopper (Mrs. Dean) in title role. 'DodKworth' is considered to be beat play on Broadway by Brad- bury I'-iatt* just back from trip to New Yor . Thinks as big chance for London. Arthur Rlscoe has acquired rights to 'Jack and Jill' musical from Howard & Wyndhams. : . Will tour for three, weeks in August, then comes to. West-End... Mat. McKiegue Offering James Wallace— Lawson Little's . opponent in Anglo-American golf champion- ship — to play Cossack's restaurant for month at $100 per week. Ted Shapiro being initiated into the Water Rats. Proposed by Georgie Wood and supported by Win Fyffe. Only Americans mem- bers are Dave Apollon.'Vhic York ajid Herb Williams. Gilbert Miller bur. ing up over Lynne Fontanne and Alfred Lunt contract to play in new Coward .Show. Has verbal contract with stars, tor. two more shows. Berlin Breusing Sound System has sued Ufa for Infringement of a 'several- camera, patent.' . Wemcr Krauss to play Mephisto in the 'Faust' performances at the Salzburger Festival Plays. German Fox Convention to take place on May 30. P. J. Brinch will preside, together With Mr. Schmiedt. Geza Bolvary to start Boston pic, 'Chopins Abschiedswalzer' ..('Cho- pin's Last Waltz') beginning, of July. 'Parsifal*, will be shown at Bay- reuth this summer with new scen- ery, by the Viennese . artist, . Alfred Roller. F. .D. L. Strengholt, general man- ager of the Berlin Metro company, married: Miss Marianne Huld- gchinsky. Berlin censors prohibited a pic called 'Wolga in Flammen,' which was made in Prague by French and Russians. Franz Duelberg, well known writer and chairman of the Ger- man Translator's Organization,, died at the age of 61. An Icelandic film is " being pre- pared by Ufa and the title is 'Mit- ternachtsonne' ('Midnight Sun 1 ). The story involves the fate of Nordic, races. New Terra film, by Frank Wysbar to be 'Das Ewlge Lachelh* ('The Eternal Smile') for his hovel, 'Die Blassblaue Hyazinthe' ('The Pale Blue Hyaeinthe'). Hugo Thimlg, who is just 80 years old, and' his three children, Helen, Hermann and Hans, will appear to- gether In a film to be done in Vienna of 'The Royal ..Family.' Itala Film, together with Mol- davia Film are producing, a new pic called '1st das ein Leben!' ('What a Life!') starring Fritz Kampers, Lien Deyers and Jacob Tledtke. Mac Eric directs. The most popular sensation actor in German films, Harry Plel, to make his 100th pic. The title will be 'Herrscher der Welt' ('Rule of the World'). Harry Piel will play main role and direct this film. Bernhard, Graf Solms, former stage manager at Dessau, made manager of the Berliner Volksbuhne to replace Heinz Hilpert, who will take over Relnhardt's former 'Deutsches Theatre.' 'Schlosser die lm Monde Llegen' ('Castles In the Moon') is latest film comedy. The story involves Paul Lincke's song hit, which was sung by all. Berlin before the war. Terra is using B. E. Luthge's manu- script. — ' V- Architect Ro'chus Gllese, 'with Warner Bros. In Hollywood for sev- eral years, has been . engaged by the Berlin Staatstheatre as art di- rector. The opera composer, Mark Lothar, was appointed Chef de Mu- slque. The balance sheet oi .Emelka Con- cern (Munchener Lichtspielkunst A. G.) the largest German film con- cern outside of Berlin shows a gain had through, loans of R.M. 1,454 and a loss of RM. 5,000,000— which was carried forward. Renate " Muller> who • for years played large role's in Ufa pics, dis- continued her contract with, them to play for Europa Film for a year. Her first pic will be 'Die Gottliche Jette* ('The Divine Jette'), a well known stage play. Svend Gade, director in Holly- wood for many years, also stage decorator in Berlin, was engaged by Palladium Film, Copenhagen, as director. Gade is to manage the whole Palladium Production, to- gether^with^.^W^Siuldbfir£ l= ^ = ii= A bomb concealed in. one of the. fountains in the vestibule of the Salzburger theatre exploded, de- stroying marble pillars and valuable mosaic windows. Loss Is large.. Several people who were at work In the ofrice were Injured. Culprit arrested. . 'Munchhausens Letzte Luge' ('Munchausen's Last Lie') Is the name of a comic opera written by a former bandmaster in a cinema, Hans Helnrich ' Drahsman, which will be shown for the fuft time at Frankfort- on -thp- Main Capfrl and Dortmund. Hollywood Lynn Farnol keeps his S^oK h m a safe. Diana AVynyard leaves' for ISngp- land July l. Manny Seff has. gone for ;a home in Bevhills. . Charlie Hanip is back' for a onei nlghter on KMTR. Wallace Beery will pi a it to the Shrine Council, . Al Lichtman extolling United Artists pix. San Francisco- returned. Jerry King safe and sound, Adrienne Ames hosted Lady Fitzherbert several days, Rupert Franklin, celebrating hte golden wedding anniversary. Fred Keating and his handy man, Aubrey, motored iii from N. Y. Bernie Praeger, Robbins sales chief, in for a round of huddles. 'The Drunkard' ent.erjs its.Mecond year at the Theatre. Mart July 1. Milton BrOaddus, Fox player, changed name' to Richard Brodus. . Ann Renova joins Billy Joy agency to handle stories and writers. Alison Skip worth leaving soon for Europe to make a 30-day auto tour. Gene Mann, Mitchell and Durant leaving soon for the Baer-Carnera fight. James K. McGuinness guesting Stephen Warrenton, English jour- nalist. George Bancroft joins film hijera to the Minneapolis Shrine Imperial Council. WB will show off Jean Mulr m 20 different frocks in 'A Lady Sur- renders.' Evelyn Pierce, one time Wampas star, returns as Columbia Con- tracte'e. Frank Orsatti and'- Lew Werth- elmer. trekking to Europe, this, month. Donald Woods forgot to duck and got a shiner* on the 'Charlie Chan* set at Fox; Vernon Parton joins Paramount publicity as . Neville Reay and Jim Lundy depart. Six days in Honolulu sufficed for Arthur Johnson, Who planned to stay six weeks.. . Clarence Brown is changing from his plane for the salty air of a," schooner yachts, John Lyons, vet stage actor, to the Los Angeles County hospital with a broken hip. It will mark the 31st crossing, for Kalloch, Columbia designer, who* he offs for Paris in July. Joe Marks will take in the Baer- Carnera scrap and then , proceed to Youngstown, O., for three weeks) vacash. Sam and Burt Marx are guesting their dad, Max Marx, on vacatioft from his Broadway tailoring estab* Ushment. . Felicitations were received by th«i Leon Schlesingers Sunday (10) on the occasion of their 26th wedding anniversary. Leo Morrison, Bob Woolsey, B1U Frawley, Carl Brlsson, Countess De Frasso and Ben Frank hopped off for the big fight. W. C. Fields, Wearing a cane to help him navigate on a sprung tendon, the result of a tennis duel with Sam Hardy. Helen "Wood, Clarksvllle, Tenri., high school girl, mailed contract by Sam Goldwyn to work in the Eddie Cantor pic after her graduation; Charlie Murray to see America first via auto, thence shipping the chariot to Central America for an- other jaunt, which will keep him away ■ from his Hollywood haunts for several months. IrVIn Cobb told Writers Club he had to come to Hollywood to learn that the 33 years he spent In the news game didn't make him a writer, and to discover in three dfiys that he wasn't a» actor. Bucharest Mari-Lise Emili Trianon pic palace .scoring with •Rain/ Philharmonic concerts, closed down for summer. Paula Sibille's Trancing Girls giv- ing successful performance. Neagu Radulescu debuting as writer with 'Our Dally Love.' National theatre, the Reglna Maria and Ventura theatre, dark. 150 bucks prize to Gib. Michatesou for his novel 'The Russian Woman. Local management planning pro- duction of Sir A. Pinero's 'A Cold June.' 'Incense and Poison,' is title of a new series of novels by' Al. O. The- doreanu. New open air cinema the Selwrt Pic Gardens to open with 'Private Lives,' talker. Lucia Burada and Lydia Degen debuting at home after winning prizes- abroad.-^^^--- r -~* ^=--^.-.-==^ National Literary prize, 1934, awarded to Tudor Argheri and George Bacovia. Members of Rumanian P.E.N, club entertained at Queen Marlf' in Cotroceni Castle. Eugen Josencu publishing volume Of Theater and Book reviews uml*r unique title 'No.' Public eays 'Yes. 'The Walls of Dawn,' by Tudor iVIuHliiitr-sc-u and S. Alexandrescu to Inaugurate season of local summer Theatre Marconi. Before closing down the Hft-nui fOm-MniHWl on punt 6?) <>2 VARIETY Tuesday, June 12, 1934 O B I T U A R I E S ILLY LA HIFF William La Hiff, 51. proprietor :the Tavern; chop , house on West street, New York, died June , -.about- . weeks after being operated on for a.h intestinal- affile-: -tion.'' Thrc- weeks after entering the Medical .Arts hospital he was pronounced out of danger, but thereafter peritonitis caused ulcers of the liver and the intestinal tract. Unable to assimilate food, seven blood transfusions were given the patient; He rallied after each but early last week last resource qperatio-i wa; performed, arid Dr, John rdman stated there was no hope. Last rites were given, yet he battled on for three days. La Hi started . in the original Churchill's, northwest corner of 46th and roadway (now Childs) With - the late Frank Gerrety he opened the bar at the southwest cornier; the place becoming known for the miniature' welch rarebits dispensed. They separated and La Hiff opened - the Strand cafe on Broadway near the theatre entrance of that name;. After ups . and downs he made over into, a chophouse ' the building on- 47th. street formerly., occupied by, Shapiro, Bernstein & • Co., music; publishers. The Hanover bank, now on. the site, bought l^a Hiff's long-term lease and that provided cash for the- Tavern^ •< Tavern became a rendezvous for Broadway professionals and picture players in from the Coast. As he became affluent, La Hiff aided any .number of financially distressed: actors. It was- said several years 1 ago that the pile of rubber checks In his desk totaled $64,500. .Billy ' La Hiff, Jr., who has-been at the Tavern for the past year and did the buying, will be in charge of the establishment. Three nephews, John and Martin La Hiff, and John Collins are also employed there." First two. named are broth- ers of Nancy Carroll, of pictures. A widow and two "daughters also survive. the shows, 'Hotcha/ 'Subway' and had a lead in the road company of 'Take a Chance.' She was known then as Gloria Kelly. Going to Hollywood recently,, she changed her last name to Warner, and started working in shorts for Columbia. ;. Her : last Col short was 'School for Romance/ She had been cast for a part. In the coming Eddie Cantor picture when taken sick. .Deceased's only relative, her step rhother, Nancy Warner, is bringing the body to New York for burial in Woodlawn cemetery. MARIE PIE RAT Marie Therese Pierat, oldest actress of the Comedie ; Francalse, who joined the troupe in 1902, died of heart disease Tuesday (29), • at her home, . 9, Place Malesherbes, She .played Sunday (27), for the last time in 'Aimer' and was re- hearsing a new piece. ,MH6; Pierat was the daughter of an actress of the ' Odcon troupe, Mme. Panot, who herself was the daughter of a comedian who made a . name in the provinces, Alexandre Panot. After three years of work at the Comedie Francalse, she was made a partnership member of the com- pany in 1905, and had a full part in 1908. She wa i made a member of the board of directors Feb. 10,. 1931, replacing,- Cecile Sorel. . Since then she was made a chevalier bf the Legion , of "onor. She was the wife of Guira: - :'! de Scevola, painter. DOROTHY DELL Dorothy Dell,, 19, Paramount film player, >was killed. in an automobile accident i n Pasadena, June 8. She was being driven from a party in' Altadena to her home in Beverly Hills by Dr. Carl Wagner, promi- nent Pasadena physician, who also died in the .wreck. Miss Dell was born in Hatties- burg, Miss., Jan. 30,.. 1915, as Doro- thy Goff. Having been chosen both 'Miss America' and 'Miss Universe,' she toured with a Fanchon and Marco unit and then went into Ziegfeld'* 'Follies/ She also ap- peared in the 'musicals,* 'Tattle Tales* and 'Making Mary.' After appearing In three musical shorts at the Vitaphone studios in N. T., she was contracted by Para- mount and came to- the Coast. Her Paramount pictures were 'Wharf Angel,' 'Little Miss Marker' and 'Shoot the Works.' Funeral was held in. Los Angeles. Body was shipped to Hattlesburg, Miss. GEORGE O. DARLING George Otto Darling, 40, Wells- boro, Pa., former trouper and circus advance man, died June 1 of World War injuries at U. S. Veterans* Hospital, Aspinwall, Pa. One-time union billposter and member of IATSE, he was employed by Rlngllng Brothers, Johnny. J. 1 Jones, Hagen beck- Wallace, Sparkes, Downey Brothers, La Tena's, and other circuses. Was assistant stage manager with several road shows. For several years past' was proprie- tor of poster and commercial art . studio in Wellsboro. Awarded cita- ' tion by French government for gal- lantry in action; Mother, Mrs. Sarah' Darling, 79, survives. Interment at Wellsboro. SAMUEL S. (SIM) ALLEN Samuel Simons (Sim) Allen, vet- eran exhibitor and theatre man- ager, was f ound dead . June 8 by a, janitor in the Orpheum, Utlca, which he had supervised since September. Allen, 55, was a native of Illinois and gained his first experience in the circus field. Later he was advance man for repertory companies and company manager for Erlanger and the Shuberts. Allen's advent at Utica was as representative for Wilmer and Vin- cent. He continued his . connections there through Bobbins Enterprises, Schine and Fox regimes. Survivors include his Widow, the former Rosabella Leslie, stage ac- tress. was also a winner. He had also done a. number of novels. His wife, Claire Kumraer, dra matist, and a daughter survive. HARRY P. PINSLEY Harry P. pinsley, 25, booker for the Music Corporation of America, was killed June 9 when an American Air liner bound from Newark to Chicago, via Buffalo, crashed hear Livingston Manor, N. Y. Pinsley ■ is survived by his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Plnsky, two brothers and sister, all of whom live in Chicago. (Detailed stbry pn paee 47.) J. L.. MARKS L. Marks, formerly a 42nd street theatre ticket broker, died of heart failure in New York June 6. More recently his agency was ad- jacent to the Casino, when it was the Carroll and played revues. Da- vid Marks; also a ticket agent, was a brother. ANION DAVIS Amon Davis, 51, negro comedian, died in Seattle June 1 from pneu- monia. Was well known comedian, singer and dancer, and lately with Harlem on Parade.' FREDERICK DELIUS Frederick Delius, 72, English com- poser, died in Grez Sur Loing, France, June 10, following a long illness. other, 65, of Bobby Lopez died of heart attack at Rock Island, IU.» June 5. Burial at Rock Island. Infant son of George O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill died in Holly- wood June 8, aged two weeks. Mother' of Will Osborne, orches- tra leader, died at Toronto, June- 5. RKO's Petition C FRANCIS JENKI .' Francis Jenkins, 67, often wrongly announced as the inventor of. the motion picture projector, died in Washington June 6. His claim to the projector rests upon a small projector which used ordinary pho^ tographlc film and which was roughly an adaptation of similar machine developed some' ten years previously, but using glass plate's.. Later he assisted Armat in ; some technical details- of the machine they sold to Thomas A. Edison, and which formed the basis of the so- called Edison projector. For a time his early apparatus was on display in the National museum in Wash- ington, but was removed when he refused to modify the claims made on his descriptive cards. ' =^He i was-one=of=the=efti , ly=, of heart trouble. His own 'Time' enjoyed a Broadway run ant BelcVed Vagabond* on which ho tftllaborated with Mary Ward, ATTE (Continued from page 61) Maria theatre scored worst flop for years with 'Fin de Flavils/ three act comedy. ?Thou Shall Not Be Familiar,' translated by Victor Rodan. Pialgy singing, in honor of Smetaria. Songs only by composers of Little Entente and Frenchmen, Members of Rumanian government and representatives of Little En- tente present. '- M. C, Tanase, director of Sum- mer Theatre Carabush preparing season after buying up costumes, of the London . Coliseum, arid the Parisian Folies Bergere and the Casinova de Paris. (Continued from page 6) of the tangible assets of the com- pany, other than cash on hand, cer- tain securities of relatively small value, are pledged . with Chemical Bank as security. First, . for the Se- cured 6% golvl notes of RKO out- standing in the aggregate principal amount of $1,825,208.76; then, 'pari passu,' for the sinking fund 6% gold ^debentures of the company out-, standing in the aggregate principal amount of $11,600,000 and for $1,- 118,500 of the $2,814,500 aggregate prlncpal amount of the 6% gold notes of RKO now outstanding. 80% Claims on Leases The petition cites that over $23,- 000,000 in . claims have been .filed against the company in receivership, but that over $2,000,000 of this amount has been withdrawn. Also cites a Rockefeller Center claim, bUt doesn't mention the amount. This was generally considered in the trade to run around $10,000^000 or more. States that over 80% of certain claims now pending before a Spe cial Master are based on leases and rent guarantees. These are known to include the Hoblitzelle claim, among others. Authorized capital stock of RKO is put at 4i500,000 common shares without par value, of^which SV59j$ L - 991.75 shares were outstanding Dec. 31, 1933.. Figure dpes. not include treasury shares. This stock is held by around 30,000 shareholders. In January, 1933, RKO defaulted in the payment of interest then due on the 6% gold notes, which ag- gregated $2,814,500. principal amount was in public hands, $1,118;500 ag- gregate principal amount of Which are secured, pari passu, with $11, 600,000 aa-gregate principal amount of sinking fund 6% gold debentures On same date RKO defaulted in payment of $731,500 of principal then, due and payable on such 6% gold notes; On March 8, 1933, the then out- standing $11,600,000 aggregate prin- cipal amount of the sinking fund 6% gold debentures of RKO were declared due and payable in. accord ance with terms and provisions of indenture under which the deben ^ures^wero-^issued^^Io^Trart^uf^he"- principal or interest, it is alleged, has been paid since Dec. 1, 1932 On Aug, ,24, 1933, the $2,S14,500 C% gold notes then outstanding went into default, no part of the principal rtor if interest being al- leged to have been i aid. That RKO was. expecting to file this petition is indicated by the petition itself citing that the RKO board okayed the move as far back as May 18, 1934. Balance sheo'ts of RKO appear elsewhere in this Issue. The Hague By M. W. Etty- Leal Buziau- review 'Go on Now' a bad flop at Hague. Holland, to get a new stage- trade paper Stage Review, Other papers such type have ndver flourished; Max Takj musical director of Tuschinsky concern, the 'Amsterdam correspondent for Variety — will look after musical end of Dutch films to be produced by Mr. Barnsteyn, dis- tributor in Holland for U-A. As novelty for Holland Cinetone: Company, Which makes Dutch films, instituting a college for flim pro- ducing, which comprises camera- work, handling sound reception ma- chinery, etc. . Idea is to get expert Dutch film-technicians. Three German filmstars in Hol- land this week: Emil Jannings paid short; visit to Holland to pave tyay for personal tour this fall; Renate Mueller, who just recovered from too strenuous slimming stunt, sang for AVRO microphone while Llane Hald here for personal appearance in Rembrandt Theatre Hague. Amsterdam Stage Company shut gate this winter season , with 50th performance of Unruh's play 'Phaea.' On June 1 a new company *at Amsterdam headed by Kerckhoven gives . premiere for Holland in Cen- tral Theatre of 'Night of 13th No- vamber.' In Municipal. Theatre, this week 200th performance of 'Summer M- ness,* Dutch play by Cissy van Marxveldt. Chicago Riley handling Huyler a parlay on Charlie publicity. Al Borde made Ross and Baer. Show biz making business ''dates at the- race track. Lita Gray Chaplin dxie for a per- sonal at Chez Paree. Anne Gould again smiles in Thomas Sacco's office. Children's Day at the Fair looked like a valley full of sheep. Gar rick theatre front is making many people stop and look. Frank Dare flipped to St. Louis for the municipal opera getaway. Much excitement at Radio Pic- tures here anticipating the conven- tion. Al Bachman, manager of B. & K Terminal, vacationing at Lake Geneva. Press may finally get passes for Fair if they consent to being mugged. Film men's tournament will be at Olympia Fields, with" golf "liifich, dinner , and bridge, Bernarr„ MacFadden opened profit sharing cafteria ' Woods Theatre Building, There are no custard machine at the Fair this year, the lake air mak- ing the . custard disappear too fast. It. took the Century of Progress officials- a whole year to find the gimlck on the 'Guess Your Weight/ Tickets for the wrestling match between LondoS and Jagot Simgh, the Hindu, had a heavy drain by the press. Joe Dugah, who did three pages on Hollywood divorces for the Tribune, worked on a theatrical trade paper. Max .Halperin made an offer to bring the quintets and mother in from Canada for the Fair, which broke all the papers. Billy and Grace Carmen bought themselves a new. gas buggy for tho trip to Victoria, B. C, where they have a vaude date. Harry Potter,, manager of State theatre, ^.bja^k^on^.JpjL^.af ter^two weeks in overalls watching con- struction of the Garrick front. Race track commissioner Leo Spitz walks among the common people at the race track instead of sitting in the commissioner's stand. Vienna H. Hr Munro's stories filched right and left. Professor R. F, Arnold lecturing and how! oh Faust. Austria represented exhibition in Venice. H. F, Schell's 'The Burgomaster of Zurich,' due at Burg. Alexander Bissori's 'Strange Woman,' forthcoming at the Aka- damie. Ernst Kranek elected president of Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers. Reinhardt muggs . presenting Moliere's 'The Learned Woman/ at the Schonbrurin. Austro- French Film . Co., started work with 'Dance Rush/ depicting life of dancer Fanny Essler. Werner Krauss airplaning to Paris for wedding of. son Egon Alexander Krauss to Ruth Mueller a native of Scliwerlri. Ivan Petrovich contracting flu . and wife Friedl Schuster meets with accident leaving 'Yellow Lily/ operetta without stars ort day be- fore opening. 'The Firt Mrs. Fraser/ revived here at the Akadamie theatre. June 7, With Lily Marberg starring in part originally created by Fritzl Massary. German adaptation by Erich Glass. San Francisco By Harold Boisk-^- Bill Gaxton ad libblng around his native heath for. a while. Lloyd Campbell is hospitalizing it after opening his night club. Charlie Moran vacationing from his Golden Gate asst. mgr/s job. Louise Landis is vacationing from the National press office ' in Los Angeles. Marjorle Haller's dotter, Sally, doing okay as the youngster In 'The Drunkard.'. Benny Holzman blew In to meet and. chin with Eddie Cantor, Ida and Marjorie. Harriett Cameron, long a Sec'y with. Fox- West Coast, now dittoing at. the OrphTeum. Claude Sweeten busted Earl Smith's fav putter the other day* and how they're not golfing any- more. Don Renfrew bought himself a cantering plug yclept 'Sherry/ and is looking for a mate he can call 'Egg,' Joe Palange is putting his own band Into his -own Oakland cafe, doubling between his Frisco musU clans' job.* Claude LaBelle wins the News circulation Contest, so he and tho fra.a will head for Mexico City on the "proceeds. Tom Coakley hung out . his shingle as a lawyer this week, doubling as maestro of the Palace) Hotel's dance band. Herb Taylor, ex- trombonist-ar- ranger with Abe Lyman, going with' Rube Wolf's band when latter opens at Edgewater Beach , club the 26th. BURLEY IN IT. WAYNE Fort Wayne, June.- 11. Strand theatre dark for two years opens under direction of J. L.. Lucas presenting weekly flesh shows. Jack White, former Minsky wheel per- ifornrer; prodnci'ns "'"flashes"/ N6"p"lc- tures included in program. Mid- night performances also scheduled' for Saturday nights, which should mean something as film houses recently called off. their late shows: for summer months. LETTERS ■ WJ',£ n ScndlnR for Mull to VARIETY Address Mnil Clerk. ,.?5II9 AK1,Ss - ADVERTISING or CIRCDLAR LETTERS WWJ. NOT IfE ADVERTISED LETTERS ADVERTISED IN ONE ISSI'E ONI/Y Aloma Harold Compton Helen PU Walter TjOO Chaser Zfttkln Nathan DOROTHEA ANTEL = = = i28^W«.7!{diSt»,=N«w= ; «ork- i Clty= = ^ ; My New Ansortmont of GREETING CARDS Is Now Rcndy. 21 Reftntifill CARDS rind VOT.DF.ItS Roxed. Post- onld. for One Dollar I N 3 T I T U T I O N qJ^ INTERNATIONALS Shoes for the £tage and Street fcwSHOWFOLK'S §«01SSI10P^15S2' BROADWAY 1 Tuesday, June 12, 1934 O II f DO OKI VARIETY 63 WORLD IN REVOLT (Continued on page 19) gets the longest footage, for obvious reasons. In Russia the revolution is traced from its beginning, during ■ the "World War, up to date. Treat- ment of the other countries is kept tip to date, confining itself to politi- cal developments of the past couple of years. Emil Lengyel's narrative: is- in- formative and easily understand- able as . delivered offscreen by. Graham MacNamee. The newsree} reporter and radio , announcer keeps; things keyed up with his custbmary air of constant excitement.' Adding, •as .much as anything else 'to' the net result is the technical end— re- plete with 'wipes,' dissolves and other processing that takes the age. curse off the musty negatives— and •the musical score. Latter is con- ducted by Milton Schwartzwald. .•■who did an . excellent job of it; Contrasting the scenes abroad are ••views of the United States which comprise the closing sequence.! Am- erica's recent internal changes are! called New Deal, not revolt. The, hopeful and .patriotic note- sounded) for the U. S. is the only definite: stand taken by the picture, which; ends with President. Roosevelt de-! llverlng his inaugural address. -The 1 Communists Who had their inning- j^arly in the picture, were fan .out-! numbered when ' the Rialto audi- ■ ( ence's appjause came for the closing' sequence. Film was produced by Mentone Productions, of which E. M. Glucks- man, formerly of RKO, is head man The exploiter is Doc Joe . Lee, who went to town and made the Square sit up for his house front and. bally- hoo oh the. Broadway date. Given the handling it received, at the TRialto, 'Revolt' should draw most anywhere as a novelty entertain- 'ment and something for 'em to talk about. Bige. Merry Wives of Reno '-■Warner production and release. Directed by H, . Bruce Huniberstone.': Story and screen play. Robert Lord: additional dlnloR. 'Joe Trattb;' Ernest Hnller. carhern.- At •Strand,- Brooklyn. conimenciriK June 7> ° n double bill. Running, time. .(II mlnst' Mn'dco ....... 'J Mhrfraret Lindsay Trank ................... ...Donald Woods Torn Guy Klbbee Bpnny ' Glerida Pnr'rell Colonel Fitch Hugh Herbert Al ...,.-. T . ......... Frank McHugh •The. Roacoe . Ates. .Lois ,. Ruth JJonnelly .Derwent ; Hobart Cavanaugh' throwing wife, and Ruth Donnelly attractive as the cheater. Hugh. Herbert and . Frank McHugh, carry things, along and Roscoe Ates shows briefly In the hope he might hold up the comedy.. Someone thought a- sheep would be funny, so there's a prize ewe. Amusing the first time, but rapidly grows boresome. The cast is much better than the .material. They do. much to save the conventional bits; ' ' Chic. . EXPO STRESSING Such Women Dangerous 1 Fox production and' release. . Stars War- ner Baxter. . Directed by JameS Flood, Associate producer, Al- Rockett. • From story. 'Odd Thursday,' "by Vera Caspary; adaptation, ■ ■ Jane Storm and Oscar M. Sheridan; additional dialOB. Lenoro Coffee. At.Roxy, N. "Y. week June 8. Running time, .81 mine. Amusements Playing Sec- ond Fiddle to Educa- tional Features^— sCohces- siohaires Fret and Some Close ^as Biz Fades Michael Shawn.:... Helen Hallock Vernie Little.:..... Wanda Paris. ..... Wilson Aunt Sophie Trover Ellison Stanley. ; . . . Nancy . Ryan i ... ; . . . .Warner Baxter ... .-Rosemary Ames . . '.Rochelle. Hudson . .'.Mona Ba'rrle ...Herbert Mundln . Henrietta Crosman Lily D. Stuart ...... IrvinR Pfchel .Jane. Barnes • While this production was going through the works the reports we're to the effect that another -'Con- ventibn City* was in the making Not as overconfident as it sounds, for many of the scenes are really funny, taken by themselves. Trouble is they do not assemble into a uni- fied fast farce. Tempo is a trifle too slow, the humor a bit too forced, and some of the comedy is labored. The re- sult is not another 'Convention City,' though the eventual product proves to be a useful comedy for the lesser stands; one which draws the guffaws through the bulk of its action, though the laughs are spaced a trifle too far apart. Away from the show windows it's rolling 'lap" mtis"fa;«ory,'trl.ou"gK HSt afe'Wffisfi ing grosses. It gets by. Chief trouble is that everyone •seems: to be trying too hard ' to make it funnier than its, predeces- sor, with the result that it is lack •ing in spontenaiety. It does not ■flow smoothly but moves jerkily Under the insistent whip of the i rector. Three couples arc involved in. .the .plot; a young married pair, a more :experlenced couple and a cheating wife whose husband does not sus pect until he comes homo, suddenly to find the overcoats of the other two husbands in hisr anteroom. For a time his wife persuades him that the coats, are his, but eventually he tumbles. Growth and ..allaying of suspicions are the chief comedy ingredients. In addition there's a fretful Reno attorney, a wise bell hop. Much of the action takes place in a Reno hotel where the couples have gone to obtain thci splits. Dialog is brisk and often funny, with one or two questionable ^g^s"'iin^^vc{i^l^W€^€Qi^ " out Nice production expensively staged Clean story in the main. • Margaret Lindsay is thrown aw;iy as the young wife, but .she takes her assignment as seriously as something more within her scope and turns in- an agreeable per formancc. Donald Woods, as her husband, is a trifle Jerky, the male honors going to Guy Kibbce, who holds his end up at all times, Glenda Favrell suffers from an over stressed assignment as the crockery George Ryan.i .Matt Moore T* — > Such Women Are Dangerous' tries to point a moral* but it makes but a weak case. As entertainment it's barely fairish. The title and the Baxter draw, combine as the film's best business possibilities, The length,. 81 minutes, has left considerable room for stretches Where the action becomes, uninter- esting, notably that long courtroom scene, where the pace slackens badly as justice goes through a laborious procedure of swearing in witnesses, questioning, objections, etc. All. that, this yields is. one laugh from- a butler,. The only other at- tack on the .risibilities also comes from the butler earlier. Scenario strives unnecessarily hard to demonstrate how easily an innocent man-about-town can get into serious .trouble, including a jury's pronouncement of guilt for murder. All along the story is planting, circumstances which in the end n.akc it appear logical to a d.a. and others that the hero is a mur- derer. Dialog and Some .of the situations! are refreshing,' but on the whole if; misses. ''■'.'. Not the best production care is' evidenced. The D.A. looks like an, afternoon - go ^ to - coc'ctaH- party chap; at the opening the author' speaks. -of his' following and 9,000,000 women, etc. In support 1 of Baxter, the three, girls in love with him, Rosemary Ames, Rochelle Hudson and Mona Barrie, are adequate. Last men tloned is a type that should register. Herbert Mundin's' usually .excellent comedy personality has nothing to get the laughs with in this one. Char. SEE W.C.T.U. ANGLE Der Springer yon Fontresina (The Champion of Pontresina) (GERMAN-MADE) (With Songs) Berlin, May 25. Terra production and release. Directed by Herbert Selpin. Hans Rlchter, novel; music, Willi Melsl; camera,' Sepp All- BeJer. Featuring Sepp Rlst, Walter Rllla, Vlvl&enz Eocltstedt, All Ghito, Annio Markert,.. Hedy. Heyasl_ng,._ Running tijjre, ffB "mlris." OjpehTng" at .Atrium". " ' Swiss mountain locale. Winter sports a.e always inexhaustible for European filmgoers. A ski team is the composite hero and the hard -training of the team shows up well against the high life- of. the neighboring large, hotels in St. Moritz. The favorite of the team neglects his training because of his romance with a young American, endangering his chances to win ana almost the life of the team leader. Sepp Rist is oke.as the team lead? er. He is a high ranking sports- man who has been successful in mountain films. Others also register. icago, June 11. Jt. seems to be education or else at the World's Fair, this year. All publicity and exploitation from ad- ministration offices stress the. super- educational features of the Fair. Every yarn tells of .a new mechani- cal marvel, a scientific conquest. It's burning the concessionaires. The big shots of the Fair\have ap-; parently fWgotten that the public comes to a -Fair for relaxation, to have -some fun, a couple of laughs, and maybe learn a thing Or two, the amusement men maintain; Feeling among the concessionaires is that the oyerstressihg of the edu- cational and blue-nose angles is. hurting attendance. There, is no doubt that edu- cational faction has gotten the up^ per hand at the Fair this summer, Concessionaires are howling, and evidently in vain, that the only way the public' can be educated is to bring them in first for amusement and then offer the Hall of Science, art displays, tips on electrical prog- ress and new mechanical perfec- tions. Attendance Drops To many' the' educational policy has a Women's Christian Temper- ance ion and political angle. W. C. U. headquarters, are in Evanstpn, 111. Meanwhile, concessionaires are badly in the red, with some fail- ing to pay Off a** all. Attendance last week started to drop quickly, with many of the_cpnce.ssiOns be ginning to fade because of lack of: attendance. It's a fact that only a small per centage of Fair visitors are going into the concessions. Last year the percentage of concession ticket- buyers was very high; this year it is low. From all angles it is cur- rently figured that if 'the Fair itself and the concessionaires make any coin this year it will be a miracle. And now the liquor question has come up with the Hiram Wal.ker company closing its Doodlebug con- cession because of an alleged breach of verbal contract on the part of Fair officials. Walker com- pany claims it was given permis- sion" to -"-sell miniature bottles of liquor* but that the Fair revoked this verbal okay. Company threat- ens suit against the Fair for darn- ages. Wow! Coast Shouts for More Carney Troupers .Los Angeles, June 11. Shortage of all types of outdoor, acts is making it tough for promo- ters of fresh air shows to line up adequate bills. In the past few years, there had always been plenty of carnival and circus, performers lying idle around here at this sea-, son. Flock of aniall motorized circuses, car hey s and other outdoor shows •hitting the trails recently have drained all available acts ' from this vicinity, and the shows' owners are shouting for more. Aerial acts are specially scarce. Several, big civic events, such as the Pasadena -RosO Bowl show July 4, for firemen's beho.it, are having Jean pickings locating spectacular stuff. Only thing there's, plenty of is acrobats, but most of them have no routines, and must be trained. ADMITS ARE FIXE! CHI PARK'S 2c DAY TO BUCK EXPO icago, June 11. Lowest price in the Tiistory of outdoors amusement parks goes into effect at Riverview Park here on June 19, When all rides and attrac- tions, will sell tickets for two cents This two-cent price tag will be the rule every Tuesday and is the amusement park's last-stand at tempt to drag some patronage aWay from the World's Fair. Memphis,. been on suit of Margaret Brogdon against V-.' H. Hottum and Guy Swartz for money claimed to be due her in... a walk-, athon conducted here two years ago by the two men. Miss Brogdon claimed there was money still due her. Hottum, on the stand, testified thjit the event had been fixed and that the dancer got the money promised her, but not what had been reported to have been won by her, explaining that the '.event was fixed for the four survivors to split the purse. She was included be- cause it would not do not to. have a local girl in the mpney, and he knew her brothers and felt- she would, be amenable. Further testi- fied that he had to hire a man liter- ally to carry her around the hall while she was asleep. Regarded as good ammunition by Howard Waugh, Warner theatres district manager, who has been making a fight against marathons in this territory. He recently pre- vented one opening in Owensboro, Ky„ and has spoiled a number of. others on the grounds that they defraud the public. JUNGE LIEBE . COPYRIGHT, 1»S«, BT VABIBTV. INC. ALL BIGHTS BBSBBVED. Vol. 115 No. 1 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1934 80 PAGES HITLEMZED SHOW BEDSIDE STUFF BY FAKERY STOOGES Hollywood, June 18. Chap with that bedside manner Is the newest type of stooge to be used by the promoters of a fake Holly- wood acting school. Oily talker calls on people in hos- pitals and tells relatives that it's a shame that the patient is ill as he or she is such a good prospect for pictures. Before the stooge loaves he exacts a promise that when the patient gets well he or she will call to sec him so that the prospect can get started on the road to a film career. Beer on Tap With Toronto Symphony; Tooters in Profits Toronto. Juno 18. ;ile of Imti- is planned at a new series of open-air symphony con- certs, which gets under way at the University of Toronto stadium June t6. Project is unique in that It is sponsored by the Musicians' Protec- tee Association and Is strictly a musicians' undertaking, with play- ers working on a share-plan basis. Stadium seats 7.000 and plan is to tariff musle-lovers at 25-50 cents. Weekly concert series will run throughout summer months. Reginald Stewart has been select- ed by the musicians as conductor. Stewart is popular with the hi-hat tnuslc-lovers and also has a radio following. Back from London, he looks with favor on the prospect of Informal concerts of the British type, with smoking permitted, fresh air assured, liquid and solid re- freshments available, and tariffs kept low. Orchestra will number 100, and several guest -arl ists are scheduled. Just a Wife London, June 18. Hollywood J tar and his wife were recently in a party with the Prince oii Wales. Actor suggested adjourning to a night club, but the Prince said he doubted whether they would be able to get in. 'Oh, it'll be all right,' said the wife, 'my husband can get in anywhere.' By 'Phone Probably the first instance of a rehearsal by remote control oc- curred last week in a series of long distance telephone calls between New York and Detroit, with Lew Leslie on one enrl and Martha Ray on the other. Miss Ray had been set in the new Vincent Lopez band act, produced by Leslie, which was booked to open .Friday (15) at Loew's Valencia, Jamaica. An engagement kept her at the Penthouse Cafe. Detroit, un- til Thursday. The girl sang and Leslie directed her over the phone and when Miss Ray arrived in New York she was ready to open AFM FROWNS ON FREE BDCASTS According to an authentic source within the union itnelf, N. Y. Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians will shortly take steps to stifle free broadcasts In front of au- diences by prohibiting its members from appearing at these shows. Reason for this step is that the free radio shows are keeping the public away from ^eatres. and thereby hurting the employment of musicians. A notable Instance of this, according to union officials, is the decline of vaudeville and the subsequent unemployment of mu- sicians, which could have been avoided in part were it not for the radio variety shows which the pub- lic can witness without charge. Agitation against the free broad- casts has been virulent for some time among theatre owners and managers in New York City, where the National Broadcasting Company operates four studios in which such shows are given, and Columbia Broadcasting System two. Recent- ly an investigation into the free shows, and the number of people they play to, was begun In Wash- ington by the Federal Radio Com- mission. Insult to Injury St. John, N. P... June 18. Since being counted out in a street combat with a teamster, Stan- ley l'axton, a warbler attached to station CHS.J, has been deluged with annoying requests by tele- phone and mail. These involve in- vitations to sing such melodies as. 'Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.' etc. In all missives it i \ claimed the request Is from ihe slugging team- ster. DESPERATION ACT Oklahoma City. June 1 Billie Mace, sisler of Bonnie Par- ker, and Artie Barrow, sister of Clyde Barrow, notorious outlaw killed with the Parker woman, be- gan a series of appearances at the Texas theatre, Wichita Falls. Tex. The young women answer a series of questions from the stage, the general theme of which tends to prove that crime always leads to prison or death, I MUCH LEFT OF IT IN REICH Nazis Are Spending in Frenzy, Not Knowing What Tomorrow's Value of the Mark Will Be— Amusement Industry Is a Shell of Its Former Self 'JEWS ONLY' THEATRE By Wolfe Kaufman (Of Variety's. New York staff who returned from Berlin last week). The last German Jew is out of the film business in Berlin. The Nazi regime has made a clean sweep and, by slow stages, has turned the entire stage and screen over to departmental functionaries of Hitlerdom. There is not a strong star left in German films as one result. Last was Hins Albers, biggest male draw in Germany for many years. He was i n important cog in the still tottering Ufa machine, but broke his contract several weeks ago and walked out because his wife is a Jewess. There is still Kaethe von Nagy, an Hungarian. Much excitement is engendered by the thought that Dorothea Wiecke is coming back from Hollywood, and there is some speculation on Lilian Harvey's re- turn. Miss Harvey Is part English and considered not too favorable to the Nazi regime, so that top honors seem to be a cinch for Miss Wiecke. Willy Fritsch's popularity has fallen of late, but is figured due for a build-up again, especially with the droppir.s out of Albers. The new regime has failed to de- (Continued on page 45) Take Your Pick Monticello, N. Y„ June 18. The Monticello Employment Agency of this city, which is the 'life of the party* capitot of the U. S., displays the follow-* ing sign on Its callboard: 'Reasonably supplied: cooks, dish washers, social directors.' HUSTNT RUSH PARK CRITICS A Paris, June 18. Paris newspapers, never have been in a hurry to run criticisms of legit performances the morning after opening nights. A day or two later always has been time enough. But recently some papers started asking their critics to do their pieces immediately after the show. The Association of Musical and Dramatic Critics, at its last meet- ing, formally said that this is going too far. It asked its executive com- mittee to get busy and 'abolish criticisms written immediately after first performances, a practice which is not only incompatible with the dignity of a critic and a profound study of the work presented, but also contrary * to the interests of authors, actors, theatre managers and even readers.' MAKING BOOK, ODDS UP TO 1,000-1 ON A.&A. Minneapolis, June 18. A bookmaker's spot here is giving bets on the Amos and Andy pro- gram. The odds are two to one against Amos speaking first; even that Andy speaks first; Ave to one against the Kingfish; ten to one against Lightnin,' and 1,000 to one against Madame Queen speaking at all in 1934. There have been quite a few takers. Here It Is Summer, but Where Is the Mob? Broadway Puzzled LEGIT SHOW Max Gordon's deal for the RKO Center in Radio City Is under a partnership arrangement with i RKO and the Rockefellers. Smaller Radio City house in the fall Will probably house 'Waltzes from Vienna' as the initial show. Proposed agreement calls for a three-way split between' Gordon, RKO and the Rockefellers on opera- tion of the theatre, and a corre- sponding share in profits from shows produced by Gordon. Covers, a period of one year. -Rockefeller b.r. is said to be elastic for Gordon^ use up to $250,000. Gordon expects to have 'Waltzes' ready for the Center some time, in September. House for some time has been' playing second run pictures, chang- ing twice weekly, and losing an av- erage of $5,000 upward right along. Negotiations are still on for the theatre by other legit interests. With Metro interested. Gilbert Mlller K B. Ray Goetz and Bob Ritchie are after the house for 'The Spell,' from the Hungarian, musicalized by Guy Bolton and Cole Porter. Jeanette MacDonald is mentioned for the lead. London, June 11. Marie Burke has been signed for her original-role of the. Countess in 'Waltzes from Vienna,' which Has- sard Short will stage in New York in the fall for Max Gordon, This musical had a healthy run' at the Alhambra. .last year, Short staged it here for Sir Oswald. Stoll^ Pix for the Prez Expectation was that the summer of 1934 would be boomii.g for busi- ness along Broadway, but indica- tions ar *still not - clear that this will prove correct. Wrong figuring that the horde of visitors drawn by the naval armada in the Hudson would prove a boom resulted In downward revision. Crowds did come, but they went nhoard the boats, with theatres getting little benefit, although there was an up- ward turn In attendance last week. Fleet sailed Sunday (17). Real : nfluK Is still to come, if it does come, \\ith the dollar worth less abroad tit r. ever before In mod- ern times, economists feel that the annual trend to Europe will de- ei me. if not - be ^nsvermfK-^ltrnhv face of sich reasoning comes the startling figure that 15,000 Ameri- cans boarded boats for Europe within a limited* period recently. Countering that, however, is the report that bookings to America are heavier than in any summer on rec- ord. There have been several ex- cursions from Europe but not enough to be of material benefit to (Continued on page 47) President' Roosevelt will have a chance to review some of fllmdom's new product on his summer cruise. Enough' ' pre-re'leased pictures' to occupy most " pi his idle moments are now' being rounded up by the Hays Office fr6m its company mem- bers. Warners Rtish Topical Prod; on 'Maggie Cline* By today. (Tuesday) Warner Bros, will have .in its hands at the homo office an original story by Lou Gold- berg (Lewis Graham) and Ed Olm- steadi entitled 'Maggie Cline.' It's a hastllyTWjrl .ten scenario around the life of late famous actress whose 'Throw Him Down, McCloa- key' was her greatest claim to fame. Same authors are also conferring with the late actress* widower td do her bioeraphy. VARIETY PICT E S Tuesday, June 19, 193* Chi Fair Opens Newsreel Theatre To All Co. s After Many Squawks Chicago, World's Fair has rescinded its ex- clusive newsreel agreement with RKO for the. Pa the reels following the avalanche of protests from the rival newsreel companies. Instead of - using only -Pathe News for the Lagoon theatre for nightly free news displays to the Fair visitors, the tffkials have decided to rotate the news service among various companies. This follows the howls of the pic- ture companies that it's their news- reels which are giving the Fair much of the ubliclty throughout the world and* that it isn't, fair to restrict the use of the news to any one company. Ail other companies threatened to cut down on the amount of news publicity for the; Fair unless - that- exclusive agree- ment was adjusted v Under, the new setup each news- reel will get a run of five weeks. First Pathe, ' followed in order by Paramount, •*Jri.\ersal, Fox an6 MeUotone. '--o is understood tc be set at $75 weekly. All produc- ing companies Are agreed that the Fair will, oe eferved . only newsreels and that no features, will be per* .nitted on. the .grounds to compete with the- year-rouna exhibs outside of the Fair. Bee Iillie— Metro? Beatrice Lillie got in from Lon- don last Sunday (17) and huddled with Leo Morrison, her Hollywood agent, now in New York, all. day yesterday (Monday) oh a film cop- tract. Morrison has a Metro termer up for the English comedienne. WANT STELLAS FOR ADS Gamut in Seeking Mexican Pic Okay Hollywood, June 18. Remembering past experiences in. trying to- keep Hollywood film" com'*' panies within censor and other bounds, ' Mexican . government of- ficials held for three weeks the nec- essary permits for Phil Goldstone's •20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' troupe to look for locations in Mex- ico. 1 - .. . ' Goldstone's outfit, headed by Otis Garrett, finally got away Saturday morning (16), hut must first fly to Mexico City to get additional okays from Don Narciso Bassols, Secre- tary of the interior. They will also* pick up . a government official, to be with them at all times, and then fly back tb Maztalan and other nearby points where . Garrett , will look for "undersea terrain suitable for the picture. ... Mexico is believed .to still hav* a sore spot for Hollywood as a' Je- suit of the. 'Viva. Villa* escapades, and over previous troubles with the Sergei Eienstein arid other secret and indie film expeditions'. LOWELL SHERMAN'S FIRST Hollywood, 1 June! 18. Lowell Sherman directs > 'Night Life of the Gods' as his first assign ment for Universal Instead of a modern copy of 'School for Scan dal,' which follows.' Director has been drawing his .pay check for several months while front office mulled his initialer. Honywood, June 18. Despite stand of major studios against allowing any contract per- sonnel to be used in tie-Ins with liquor advertising, a representative of one of the biggest advertising distilleries Is in town, trying to get film celeb endorsements for a half, dozen brands of whisky. Booze rep; a sormer Montreal newspaperman, contacted several of the major companies for coopera- tion in the proposed tie, which would involve the. spending of sev era! hundred's of thousands of dol lara in, newspapers and magazines Plan Is to show photographs of fllmites smacking their lips In en ;byment. Tieup rep has been turned down by all the majors, who called his attention ta. the recent agreement among the Hays office members to ljiy' off on this type , of advertising. He Is reported endeavoring to get freelance .players for the scheme, offering a heavy piece of dough and Several cases, of the booze. Meanwhile, Claudette. Colbert is said have attorneys preparing sjiit against a' liquor distrib for us ihg her picture in liquor, ads. Eugene Lyons on Eusse Yarn for Anna Sten WILL MAHONEY The Buffalo Times said: "The joyous Will Mahoney wears so well — as a matter of fact bis best tricks and mannerisms get better and fun- nier with each repetition— that I think a musical comedy entrepeheur would be smart to build a musical comedy around him; Unquestionably he belongs with the stars." Direction WM. MORRIS AGENCY Mayfair Theatre Bldg. New York City Goldwyn's a Changed Han Efforts to Make Scribes Happy Makes Him a Grand Guy to Former Squawkers No Wield, MG Won'! Wacki Hollywood, j unC j 18, Technicolor - twio r re'el "production by Metro In Hawaiian >lelahds has been held' up until proraijeed co-op- eration by Honolulu business group materializes.' Unit was to have sailed June 17, but when Harry Rapf found out Friday (IB) it haa not been set, he told John'Parrow, wh<^ headed par- ty, to call off the trip, rs 5 OR OVER FILMS INDEX — 1 ills Chatter 77 ' Editor! «8 Exploitation . . . ... » ... . • * t'V 37 Film Reviews ......... • • • 27 Foreign Film News. . . ... 28* ■29 Foreign Show News... . • . 71 House Itevicws ....... . • • 31 68 Inside— Music ........ ... • 68 Inside— Pictures ...... ... • 68 Inside — Radio -. • • 62 Legitimate ........... ...60 -70 .Li tcrati a..^. ....... .. • • • 72 -61 New Acts....... • • • • 66. K..i;T.ew.s*fEom=-the^J3ail i JUL. Nite Clubs • • . .03 -64 Obituary ............ ■ • « • 78 Outdoors ............ ■ .-• • • 79 Pictures » • • a • 2 -51 Radio ................ .,..52 -62 Radio Reports..,..,., t • * • ■ 54 Sports ............... • • • • 75 Talking Shorts, • • • t 27 75 Unit Reviews. . ( ».. . >" 66 * -G7 53 Hollywood, June 18. An original story with ■ a Russian motif, now being "prepared by Eu gene Lyons, .former II, S. corre- spondent at. Moscow, . will " be Anna Sten's next for Samuel Goldwyn. Publication of Lyons* hook : on Soviet impressions, 'Moscow Car- rousel/now being assembled, is be- ing awaited with a .view' to con- vieptlng . it to screen use. PENNER'S LAB WORK Par's Scientific" O.O. of ,^ir Comic. ' . . Prior to . Coast Lubitscfa Ambitions, Does 1Vidow'4 Ways; Uses Two Languages Hollywood, June 18 Four versions of the 'Merry Widow' are -being made simul- taneously by Ernst Lubitsch at Metro, the most ambitious effort of siny - director to -date. Film is in- tended for domestic, English, French and Belgium markets with but two languages being dialoged. Certain scenes in the picture are being emphasized for the English speaking audiences and others played down for foreign consump- tion. Few substitutes being used on account of lingual difficulties. Dorothy Del Buried in N. 0,, Not Home Town New. Orleans, June 18. While en route here, the mother I of Dorothy Dell changed her mind about the final resting place of her daughter and decided New Orleans was more befiting than Hattiesburg, I Miss. . Funeral was held here .Friday (15) after lying in state for a day, when thousands milled in and out to view the former Paramount player. ! paramount, studio .professors are giving . Joe Periner the once-over on his week at Loew's Paradise,. Bronx, N. in order tq'flnd'dut the basis of the comediari's audience reaction The idea' is to pass oh this lab stuff tb 'the. Par planters oh the^ Coast jso that they may. inject it into the comedian's coming feature for Par. ijoe Pehner sails July 6 for. HoL lywood for a six weeks' stay. Para- mount is paying him $75,000 for the Imonth-and-a-haif period of picture making, and additionally, are send' ing along Penner's own air script ers, Hal Raynor and Parke Levy, under, separate contracts. Gordon and Revel, it is under stood, will do the songsmithing. One year ago Penner's vaude sal-r avy was $750. Joe Rivkin Splits with Morrison; On His Own Splitting with Leo. Morrison • as his. New York representative, Joe [ Rivkin is going on his own as an | agent. In making this move, Riv- kin chills a pending deal with RKO to, become its eastern talent scout, Rivkin's association with Mor- rison, who has his main office on the "Coast, has been , of two and one half years' duration. Hollywood, June 18, Paramount made a hew deal with C,. Bl DeMille for two pictures a year instead of three as heretofore. His pictures are to be in the $500,000 class anjd upwards, with DeMille, besides' his flat salary, get-' | ting a percentage/. METRO SETS TWO PLAYS FOR EMBRYOS' TRY0UT Hollywood, June 18. Metro's laboratory theatre plan,- intended to give practical experience^ to young group, of- stock players and? prospects, will present 'All Good Americans' at. the Holly Wttbd -Musi©; | Box June 25; Performance will W exclusively for studio execs, writerg and directors. Second play "to be presented will be 'The Wind, and- the Rain,' by, Merton Hodgei- This, goes oh late in July with- George WalcotfanA Agnes Anderson In the leads. Cast of 'All Good Americans' in- clude Martha' Sleeper, Betty Fit- ness, Mary Carlisle, Linda Parker, Pauline Brooks, Leo Chalzel, Poppy Wilde, Margd Early, Robert Taylpn, Robert Livingston, Ruth Renick, Hal Le Seue.r, Claudell Kaye, B«)Ie Donovan and Jay Lloyd. 'Sin' Is Kicker in West Title; but Par Watches Hollywood, June X6. Paramount is looking for a new title for Mae West's current pier tiire, 'It Ain't No Sin,' No strenu- ous objections have been raised; hut : studio wants to have a new handle I ready just in case.. I • Kicks aren't over use of the/word | 'sin,' but over possible doubly en- tendre in the title depending, upon what the word 'it' means. Hollywood, June 18. Sam Goldwyn, once One of Holly- wood's toughest producers on the writing fraternity, has changed. He' is now going to the other ex- treme to- make .his scribblers men- tally, physically' and emotionally happy. ~ Some' iof Goldwyn's recent good deeds are revolutionary, claim -writers, and .marvels of tact in how to cater to a typewrltter pounder's aesthetic side. Producer's scrib- bling staff, both contract and week to week, have altered their feel- ings so much, they are now brag- ging he's' a: swell boss; and telling ' as many stories in hip favor as they used, to the other way. Refraining from injuring the ego of his writers is one of the most- marked signs of the new Goldwyn era. It used to be. just the popite. When more than usual number of creators are on a story, which is frequent, Goldwyn tries to keep each from finding out how many others are working on. the script. , This is a point of much Importance. Writers have always been touchy jabout having more, than one group on the same yarn, so the producer can compare results later. One of Goldwyn's big name .scrib- blers became ill. but turned in his script before leaving. Goldwyn didn't like the script, and put an- other writer on It. He sent word ,to all executives and to the pub- licity office that no mention of the new writer should be made, since it might retard the return to health of the first writer if he should find out his labors had been for naught. Goldwyn still believes in. having plenty of writers on an idea, but his new ego flattering psychology^ Is to keep them happy. John Mack Brown Set To Top Eight at Cot Hollywood, June 18. Intended by Columbi to fill thel spot long occupied by Jack Holt as star of its action melodramas, John Mack Brown has been signed to top eight pictures oh the new season's sked. Irving Briskin will supervise, and the first, now being prepared by Harold Shumate, but as yet untitled, will go into work around July L Deal was closed by Hallam Cooleyv Holt has been moved up for more pretentious product. Mare Connelly West Hollywood, June 18. Marc Connelly is coming, to the tracer" t6^^nry"Xe"e^ singer and dancer. Pact, will be I legal after a .court okay. !Kid will first be spotted in 'Wagon J Wheels,* to be directed by Arthur I Ja'cobson \nd Charles Barton, MURPHY HALTS FILM Hollywood, June 18. Production oh 'Notorious Sophie | Lang' at Paramount halted today (Monday), due' to Illness director [Ralph Murphy. He will resume, 'SERENADE' SUBSTITUTIONS Hollywood, June 18. James Tinling has taken oyer, the I direction of 'Serenade' at Fox, fol- lowing withdrawal of Paul Martin ironx_the jjj^s^ story' deletions. Picture, was origi- nally slated for Lilian Harvey, but Pat Patterson probably goes in in- I stead. John Stone will produce. U SIGNS CLOlK Harry Clork, co-author of .'The Milky Way,' current Broadway legit, has been given a term, contract by Universal. He in to report on tbjj Coast about [July Mack Directs Haley Hollywood, June 18. Directing assignment for 'The Girl Friend,' William Rowland pro- duction for Columbia, goes to Rus*- sell Mack. . Jack Haley will be starred. Col's Four Comics — Hollywood",' June 18, Columbia has closed deals with. Leon Errol, Harry Langdon; Andy Clyde and Walter Catlett. Each will be used in a serieB of six two-reel comedies, SAILINGS July 28 (New, York to London), Lucien Hubbard' (He de France). ' June 30 (New York to Monte Car- . lo) Ray Kavanaugh and band." (Roma). , June 23 (New York to Italy), George Burns and Gracie Allen, Kay Francis (Rex), June 20 (New York to London), Mr. a -.d Mrs. Leslie Howard (Ma- jestic). June 19 (New York to Lbndon), Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Howard, Mrs. William Gargan (Europa). June 1(5 (New York to Los An- geles), Al Altman, ..F.lo...an.d_.Phy.Ui«. Daab (Pennsylvania), June 16 (New York to Lbndon) Joseph M. Schenck, Maurice Silver- stone, Carl Laemmle, Joe Weil, Ste- phen Pallos, J. H.. Seidelman, Frances Alda," Nat Goldstone, Sam Wood, Lou Brock, Dave Bader, A. J. Kobier, Walter Duranty, Mrs. Marc Connelly, Jacques Charles (He de France). June 15 (Los Angeles to London) Mr. and Mrs. Bnstcr Koaton (Cali- fornia Express). Tuesday, June 19, 1934 PICT E $ VARIETY HOLLYWOOD'S LANE OF SUD With Pic Yen Tilt Horn Of Plenty for Blurb Buildups . Holly wood, June 18. debutantes with an itch for pic- ture fame are using up plenty of the olfa, man's scratch in an effort to make the 'grade. It used to be that a blue blood rated a studio au- dience the minute she checked in with her duffel. That's over and the flossy dames know it. The new order makes it an expensive pro- cedure, but the gals seem to have a , .sufficiency of what it takes and that 1 makas it hunky-dory all around. ■Those who have smarted up to the new riffle are starting from taws. They probably got their edu- cation from the sire who laid out plenty for ' what is politely called public relation counsel so that no mug book went to. press without his : physiog. No sooner does the. chief debouch them than they hunt up ai agent. At high powered space grabber is then .taken aboard .the payroll spe- cial, and the mill starts grinding, It's the publlcit's job to see that the heiress— oh, they're all that — gets lenged for the dailies and spotted In gay places with the merry merries. The buildup is now on in earnest. Atmosphere Bits The g«l plays along as best she can and the first thing she knows she gets a call from her 10 -percent- er to show up at such-and-such a studio for a test. If this proves a floppo she is salved with an at- mosphere bit. Reglsterites are still persona grata in the best film fami- lies for social climbing Is not yet outmoded. Thus far those who claim to have stemmed from the Mayflower mob have suffered no dizzy spells in their climb. They Just can't catch up with, that Hepburn gal and after a few. starts bow out. They stick (Cpntinued on page 36)' SLOW MOTION TRIP Buster Keaton to France for Films and Personals Hollywood, June 18. 1 Buster Keaton sailed from here on a slow' freighter last Wednes- day (13), going, around South America to Glasgow, where he ar- rives July 10. Prom there the comedian hops to Paris. Keaton is set for one film with the French company, Les Films Margot, in 'The King of the Champs Elysees,' getting $20,000 for four- weeks' work in English and French versions. Latter will be chiefly in panto, with dubbed dialog. Keaton follows with personal -aps. pearances abroad, returning here to resume for Educational in four two- reelers. Leo Morrison, handling Keaton, sails July 7 to meet him in Paris. Section, Just a Skip from Film Center, Lies in County, and County's Too Poor to Turn Loose Taxes Reaped on Spots HARVEY. WIECKE BACK TO REICH BAER'S PERSONALS Offered $5,000, Wants $7,500— RKO and Par Both Interested Max Baer almost opened Thurs- day (21) at the Paramount, New York, excepting for a difference of $2,600. Par offered $5,000 and 50-50 over $40,000, but was. undecided whether to set back its regular Fri- day, opening one day. Later, Par wanting to open Baer a week from next Friday. Meantime, RKO is interested and wants him at the same figure, to open this Friday at the Academy, N. T. Leo Morrison, champ's theatrical manager, is still. battling for. $T,500. Morrison has sent for Vince Barnett,! the. Hollywood ribber, to come east and foil for Baer on future bookings, although Benny Rubin' was to have worked with Baer at the Par. Previously George Givot was the heavyweight's col- laborator. Baer at ■ the Par would have op posed' Barney Ross' personal app at Locw's State, diagonally across Times Sq. Ross, holder of two ring championships, is payrolled at $2,500 for his personal. Los Angeles, June 18. Metro exchange here was unable to supply endugh prints of 'The Prizefighter and the Lady' to take care of local exhib demands for cashing in on the Max Baer victory^ over Prlmo Camera over the week end! *\y.elvc prints, laying idle on the shefa fbf over -30-aays,- weTtr-in-use Saturday- Sunday, with as many more' requests for bookings having been placed. Dust Off Old Reid Pic Hollywood, June 18. , 'Charm School,' film in which Paramount starred Wallace Rcid in the old silent days, is up again at that studio for new treatment. Claude Blnyon Is writing the script. Lilian Harvey's dropping from the STox star contract list is by mutual agreement. She goes back to Ger many pronto to re- enter German Alms for Ufa.' It's the best break in some time for German Aimers, since they alsa get back for film use Dorothea Wiecke, who was over here for Paramount. Both Miss Wiecke and Miss Harvey are fig ured big. draw names abroad. Miss Harvey's trouble with Fox comes as a result- of mutual dis agreement oh salary. She came oyer here as the biggest draw name on the Continent and with that reputation was signatured at $2,500 a week. She made three films for Fox. Several weeks ago 'My Weakness' was banned in Germany because of an alleged slur by Miss Harvey on her country, but the misunderstand ing is understood to have been patched up since. Fox wanted to retain Miss Har vey at a cut salary, with her next film tentatively set, but the com pletlbn of the German deal, on i percentage basis, determined her decision to go back to Germany. Hollywood, June 18. Although Paramount recently an nounced it had taken up its option on Dorothea Wiecke, the German actress is off the payroll. Hollywood, June 18. Paul Martin, who .was to direct Miss Harvey in 'Serenade,' has also lfjft the studio. Martin had directed Miss Harvey for UFA. Martin has made only one picture for Fox, 'Orient Express,' in the year he has been here. , James Tinllng is replacing him and P&t Patterson Is taking Miss Harvey's spot. Picture starts to day (Monday). Florence Rice's Debut Hollywood, June 18 Film debut for Florence Rice daughter of Grantland Rice, In Hoi lywood, will be in Columbia's 'The Captain Hates the Sea.' Girl came here last week under contract Col, = ^Wynner^Gtb^onMs~ a v late^acdditlon to. the film, which stars Victor Mc L&glen. De Mille's Next Hollywood, June .18 C. B. DeMille's next for Para mount will be a Soviet story he bought two years ago and for which he sold film rights to Paramount. Jeanie MoPhe'r'gon making screen treatment. Acad Accepts Musicians; Ready Plans for '35 Meritorious DRESSED UP TONICS Hollywood, June 18. Hollywood's gay wet way, a three- mile strip along Santa Monica boulevard, is the 1934 model of the old-time honky-tonk dressed in new- toggery but still a honky at heart. If Los Angeles wasn't laid out . so screwy this headache would have been spared. Although the strip is surrounded on all sides by the City of Angels it is , outside the cor- porate limits of the town, which is the rub. Along the street are 105 beer joints, varying in size and appoint- ments from a hole in the wall to gaily caparisoned storerooms. Here one buys: 26 ounces of the amber fluid for a dime and wraps his lip around a schooner that weighs four pounds. Tax That Counts Among the entrepreneurs of these deadfalls is the feeling that there must be eventually a survival of the fittest There's far too many, they moan, and nobody's making a dime^ That's true of any. going en terprise in this man's town. Anyone (Continued On page 46) Censorship Nips Sales of Novels, Sex the Reason Hollywood, June 18. Storm clouds of censorship threatening Hollywood are holding up the sale to studios of many books, plays and originals. Any thing that looks shady from a sex or crime standpoint is being laid aside for consideration later, when outcome of the industry's difficulties over picture morals has been set- tled. Stories which once seemed mild now bring criticism from producers, The agents no longer know just what to consider dirty any more. One story chief turned down a book because the leading woman char acter was divorced tbo many times. , All material goes to the Hays of flee now before studio considers buying. Formerly, studios bought first and sought a Hays morals visa later. ; In contrast to the slow market for spicy stuff, there is a boom in interest in. outdoor plots and other yarns that are spotless from a cen- sor's view. to Gordon— the Winnah for 2d Time in MG Golf Joust Hollywood, June 18 Metro studio golf tournament Sunday (17) at Rancho had 404 contestants, with Fred Gordon, of construction .department, for second successive time winning with low gross of 73. Ho won, over Lester Colman after playing an extra ni^ie hole playoff. Low net of 64 went to Stan Lam bert, who shot an 84 with 20 handl cap. OK for HVood Peter Trent, new Metro im- port from England, worked his way up to the finale of the ping-pong tournament aboard, the lie de France on .his way in last week but had to meet David Selznlck in the .finals. Seiznick had signed him and was bringing him to America. Trent lost the match. Immediately afterward My- ron Selznlck rushed up to Trent and sai 'Looks like you've got the essentials for stardom. Let's sign a Con- tract.' SELZNKK'S NEW METRO Long list of talent was gobbled up by David O. Selznlck, Metro as- sociate producer, just back from a two-month European stop. Seiznick went over with the intention of pos sibly producing 'David Copperfleld* In England, but found that sufficient studio facilities were not available, at present. He believes, however, that pro- duction in England for all U. S companies will be' a must in. the near future because there are a lot of stories that adapt themselves easiest to handling in their .own European background. Hugh Walpole, British author, ; was signed to dialog 'Copperfleld .Howard Estabrdok adapts and George Cukor will direct. Coming over for the picture is Peter Trent, youngster with no film experience, discovered by Selznlck in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and who is figured as a pos- sibility for the title role. Fritz Lang, German director, was signed 6n a one-picture basis. He went directly to the Coast with no assignment set. Leontine Sagan, director of 'Maedchen In Uniform/ was signed by Seiznick, to come over toward the end of July. She is a native Britisher, despite having worked mostly in Germany. While abroad, Selznlck made a deal with Louis Brom field to come to the Coast in September for Met- ro. He also signed Mrs. William Bolltho to open a London office Im- mediately and become the regular Metro talent and story. ' contact there. Biggest name deal was with David Lloyd-George, but it. is only a tentative proposition, to arrange a version- of his war memoirs for fllmization. Hollywood, June 18. A section of the Academy of Mo- tion Picture Arts and Soiences is being formed for music writers and heads , of music departments work- ing at the studios. Initial organization meeting, held Friday (15), was attended by a dozen of the foremost film musical directors and writers. At the next meeting it wilt be decided which of the present five branches of the Academy the tunesters will affiliate with. Officers also . will be elected then. One feature of the music men joining the Academy is the fact that the tunesters will .figure in the an- nual awards of each year. Plans already are under way for awards on best, musical contribution of the year to pictures; best lyrics and best scoring. Among those at the .meeting and formed into an unofficial committee to plug the idea were Lou Silvers, : Columbia; Louis be Francesco, Ed- ward Kilenyi, Fox; Jack Chertok, Metro; Nat Finston, Paramount; Max Steiner, Murray Spivak, RKO- Radio; James Dietrich, U. A'., and Leo Forbstein, Warners-First Na- tional. Several months ago the Screen Writers' Guild threw open its mem- bership to music writers but few affiliated. AGENTS OPPOSE SCREEN S0NGSMITHS WANT PROTECTION Hollywood, June 18. A code of protection, for song- writers will be sought by the Screen Writers Guild, which organization has included them in their member- ship. Committee headed by Edward Eliscu, and including Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart, Kalmar and Ruby and William Kernell, will seek to"^eT"tKe^proa^ them for that purpose. Peggy Fears Acts Hollywood. June 18* Peggy Fears draws a featured .spot in 'Lottery Lover,' Fox fLlmusi- cal, which Hans Schwarz direots. Assignment . is first under her writing - directing - acting contract, with Fox Film which was signed several months ago. Hollywood, June 18; Hollywood film agents are op- posed to any code clause that' would provide for registering or .licensing, the 10 percenters. Agents expressed. themselves, thusly at. a meeting called by George Frank, member of the Code agency committee, in order thai he might get the managers' viewpoint on the issues under debate by the. committee of 10, which la working on the suggested code clauses. The 35 attending also raised pro- test against any regulations that would affect an agent's rights to full representation on all studio matters effecting his clients. Rowland Plucks Corn Fed Beauts from 48 States for Cot Pic Hollywood, June 18. Passing up the slick city lipstick queens, Bill Rowland popped a new angle In, beauty contests when he dispatched, ah airplane envoy to cop 48 cornfed beauts— one from each state-rfor spots, in a special, num- ber he is plotting for his Columbia pic, 'The Girl Friend/ . Carter Lud- low, of the Col publicity brigade is flitting hither and thither among the alfalfa and squash spying but apple- cheek. Nellies for BUI to do right by In the matter of a chance at Hollywood. Air trek, just getting under way, will positively prowl every state, 'tis' announced, and selector Ludlow will be smelling hay — where it isn't cindered— for three to four weeks to come. Divorcing Leo Meehan Hollywood, June 18. A divorce is being sought in Su- perior Court by Jeannette Meehan, daughter of the late Gene Stratton- Porter, from Leo Meehan, film pro- ducer, . director and- editor, on grounds of abuse through use of sarcastic language. Couple have two sons, 10 and 6, whose custody she asks. Tuesday, June 19, 1934 EXH1BS DUCK 7-Point Saenger Reorg. Plan Names Richards Pres.-Gen. Mgr.; Expect Favorable Fed. Ruling LEE FILM M TO $5,000,000 To WanKfs From ERPI As Wtaphone Royalty Is Settled Anticipating a ; favorable ruling by* the Federal Trade Commission ©Twiyi'ng. the. Saenger reorganization plan, the most comprehensive step yet taken in straightening out an. involved bankruptcy, .the Para- mount trustees have set Thursday (21) as the date on which a creditor meeting will be held on the matter. If the Federal Trade body falls to pass on the plan by this date, meet- ing will, be set back. Under the plan, E; ' . Richards is to become president and general manager of. Saenger. at. a salary, in- cluding that, for an assistant, that Is not to exceed $600 a week. The salary of a secretary- treasurer for the combined reorganized Saenger and. reorganized Saenger Realty is lihiited to $100 . a week. 'Par trustees, . representing that they feel the" proposed agreement with Richards Is to their benefit and that of the creditors, they hint at the possibility Richards might go but to compete with Par if not written, into the reorganization. Under ah agreement of Nov, 3, 1930, Richards agreed not to compete In Saenger towns for 25 years. The trustees have been Informed that. the numerous bond committees in Saenger would be unwilling to recommend 'the plan if Richards is not named president and general manager. '., Exchange of Stock Proposed new agreement .with Richards calls .for the organization of a holding company, in Delaware to control the Saenger Theatres and Saenger Realty Companies. Par trustees are to sell ia.ll the Class (Continued on page 36) Every Friday Every Friday is cocktail day at Radio City Music Hall. W. G. Van Schmus, head of Hadio City for the Rocke- fellers, has set aside the hours 6 to 7 with all his staff heads and: occasional outsiders his guests. .At least one film critic is invited every Friday. Midwest Circuits Order Em- ployees to Keep Out of Picture CENSORS TIGHTEN 10EW - McNEM MONO MOVE TO RKO-PATHELOT C0MPET1SH Hollywood, June 18. Monogram will move production headquarters from the Metropolitan lot of General Service Studios to the RKO-Pathe plant in Culver City around July 1. Decision to. change studios was made by Trem Carr after he had been in. negotiation with General Service execs for several weeks. Apparently getting nowhere with the Erpi lot oh a deal, Carr -re- ceived an offer from RKO-Pathe for office and stage space, and signed a contract while GSS execs figured he was all set to remain in their 6t '(li.OS. Monogram's program for the 1933-34 season is about cleaned up, wii;h only one more picture regain- ing on the schedule. This will be made at Metropolitan prior to the moving day. Xew.deal provides Mono continue to ' use Balsley and Phillips, inde- pendent sound system for record- ing,, but RC \. will endeavor to reach ah agreement with Carr for his production unit to -swing over to RCA Photophone apparatus later in the year. San Francisco, June 18. ■" The first chain program of the atre building since 1929 appears to be moving forward rapidly here, as Loew's, Inc., is going ahead with plans to build five houses in north- ern California key spots in opposi tlon to the indie Golden State cir- cuit. Col. Ed Schiller, operating head of Loew's, Is still in town,, and so is Tom "Sorrlero, who recently re signed, as. division manager for Fox- West Coast in Arizona, and is re ported slated as general manager of the new circuit when It gets going Both Schiller and Sorrlero are headr quartering at the Metro exchange Houses probably will be built in such nearby towns as Monterey and Santa Cruz, with Watsonville, Merced and Hanford other possi bilities. In all five places, Golden State has been strongly entrenched for years with but little competition The Loew building program, is re ported an. outgrowth of a fight be tween Metro and Bob McNeill of Golden State over picture product, with Loew choosing to build instead of selling film. Only Loew activity on the Coast for the past 10 years has been confined to. Loew's "War- field here and Loew's State, Los Angeles; both operated by Fox- West Coast as de luxe houses With- Col. Schiller and Sorrlero laying the ground work here, Mc- Neill is currently in New York; .whence he flew last/week, ostensibly to see the Baer-Ca'rnera fight and to try a buy of the fight pic for this state. But' it is authoritatively re . ported that one of the principal rea ; sons for his hasty trip there was to ; intercede with Loew execs in an effort to stop the proposed building program. McNeill has also reput- edly contacted Louis B.- Mayer in an attempt to put a halt to the plan. Chicago, June 18. Exhibitors throughout the country are apparently taking the attitude that the present church problem in regard to pictures and censorship is strictly the problem of the west coast producers. They are refusing to get into the picture in any way and are doing the hands -off routine. They can't see what they can do to help the situation in any way t>y butting in. As they figure they would merely succeed in getting the theatres tarred with the same brush which is now being applied on the picture' producers. In some . cities, especially around this territory, there have been sev era! excitable exhibitors who have attempted to stir up some sort of exhibitor resolution to combat, the church drive on ♦unclean' pictures. There has Ween much talk of -going in a body td, the church heads, talk of running institutional advertising in the newspapers, talk of general exhibitor action on this problem. But all this has been purely sporadic chatter and nothing more. The .more quiet leaders among the exhibs have won out in every discussion of the problem and are. being, successful In their desires to keep the theatre (Continued on page 46) File Pix w Coast Hollywood, June 18. Baer- Camera iniht films got In late Saturday ajternoon (16) and put on the RKOt Hillstreet screen exclusively at sly that night to hold for an 11-day st*V« Likely that Fpx-West Coast will get them for a tecbnd-run for their neighborhood houses. Kansas City, June 18. Baer- Camera pictures probably will be shown in Kansas. Roland Boynton, attorney general of the state, has advised the State Board of 'censors tlftre is no law to ban the pictures ijiroviding they are not brutal, immoral or obscene, and that their sowing 1b entirely with- in the judgment of the .board of re- viewers, 22 MILLIONS IN Acad Would Tint True Portrait of Hollywood Films Hollywood, June 18. Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences will call a board of " gov ernors' meeting within the next week to decide whether or hot to get into the anti-off-color campaign officially. A group of the Academy leaders are of the opinion that much could be done to combat the growing cru- sade against films if the employer- employee organization lent , its aid toward the insistence of making only non-offensive films and by painting a. true picture of HoDyr- wood to the outside world. Just what lines the Academy could take in the matter is as; yet Indefinite. ELECTRICS Seven suits alleging damages to the total of $22,0^0,000 were filed against ERPI, Western Electric and A. T, & T. in the N. Y. Federal Court* and summonses simultane- ously ;were served on the defend- ants yesterday (Monday) afternoon. With other actions filed against the Electrics during the past few weeitii Attorney ' David Garrison Berger now ; represents a variety of independent sound equipment en- terprises asking slightly over $40,- 000,000 in all. Standard Sound Recording Corp. asks $9,000,000 in the latest batch, alt seven pointing to the Sherman lav and Clayton act in their com- plaints. Standard in its complaint is reported to go Into considerable detail, alleging that because of the BRPI hold on sound it was unable to do business with the U. S. Navy as well as large picture interests. Servlce-on-Sound - Corp.. asks for $4,500,000, Macy Mfg. Corp. wants $3,000,000. Tb.6 others seek $1,600,- 000 each, Including Standard Sound Service, Sound Pictures Engineers, Audio: Equipment Maintenance Corp., Grainger Mfg. Corp. G0WTH0RPE MOVES UP IN PAR HOME 0RGANII England Slaps Ban On 'Men in White' Despite Show Okay /"'Men liv White" (Metro) has been turned, down by the British film censors. Story was found to be too roufth' in spite of the fact that the play from which the film was' made lifts been sanctioned and is in re- hearsal for Gilbert Miller at the A del phi theatre. ' * T50 tabbed Tor the novelty. Kaplan Must Serve The highest state, courts, uphold- ing their conviction on charges, of coercion, Sam Kaplan and his or- ganizer, Theodore Greenberg, were to surrender themselves yesterday (Monday) to begin sentence of from six months to three years, the max lmum_that could be imposed. There was ho possibility of appeal from the decision two weeks ago of the Court of Appeals, Albany, N. T. Early trial of the monopoly charges against Erpl and Western [ Electric by Warners as presently pending In the Wilmington Federal Court Is expected. The case .has, been on the calendar for some time, I It was held up owing to negotia.-. I tlons between Warners and Eriil for settlement of the Vltaphone roy.i alty claims. This settlement" was finally decided ;the past.weelt, with Warner's getting around $5,000, from; Erpl* That sum is outside of conces- sions believed to have been made In favor of Warners granting to the film company an . unconditional re- lease from payment of service charges. That's one of the outside angles as the present monopoly case pending lh Wilmington .. , t based' on the allegations "that comp pulsory service, charges are unlaw- ful. A prelim Injunction to this effect is pending. The coming trial will determine whether this injunction is to be made permanent. Warners is plain- tiff in the pending monopoly suit, associated in the case with Gen- eral Talking Pictures (DeForest) and the Duvoac Radio Corp. Vitaphone royalty settlement means a complete victory foi; War- ners in its arbitration fight against Erpi. In all likelihood' this settlement has no bearing oh the Intention of Warners to go through wtih its monopoly suit.' But that's not certain, although it is be- lieved that in settling its Vltaphone case Warners was under agree- ment with General Talking Pictures (DeForest) and Duovac not to haz- ard the monopoly suit as such. There has been some talk' about Erpl settling with General Talking Pictures (DeForest) on the mon- opoly issues involved, but so far nothing definite as to an agreement seems to have been reached, which practically assures'that the pending trial will go on, and maybe in the early fall at the latest. Next step In the Warner-Erpi Vitaphone settlement looks to be to present the deal for an okay to the respective boards of the two com* panles, after which, if approved, It will be subject to a consent decree which will be entered by the parties in the courts, Attorney George Quigley handled the negotiations for Warners, with downtown counsel assisting. Harry Warner, however, and Ma- jor Albert Warner .had personal su- pervision of the settlement. War* ner was summoned hack from Fu* rope in order to conclude the deal 1 . • One of the angles when details are finally revealed is whether I Warners will collect future royal- i ties. Jaffe's Europe^Vacash Before Divulging Plans Hollywood, June 18. Sam Jaff e Is packing hlg bags for a vacation in. Europe after handing in his resignation as producer and .aide to. Sam Briskln at Columbia, : Expects to. be gone about, three months. Jaffe served as production executive; at Paramount and. Radio ; before 'joining Columbia. ' , "'Ahribuhcdment .of 'his future' plans Will be hia'de' upon his return. M. F. Gowthorpe will in charge hereafter, of all financial ac- counting in connection with £he 1 home office auditing of the. Para- mount Theatre. Service Corp. -Gow- thorpe is assistant treasurer of same, but hitherto this work has been done by others under the su- pervision of William Cokell, Par treasurer. Official notifications to all departmental heads to this effect were signed by Cokell. -Elevation of Gowthorpe who, hereafter, will also contact on the financial end of Par's, decentralized partnerships, together with Cokell, was reported ordered by George Schaeffer, Par general manager. Mentone's 'Spice' Series Mentone will produce and Colum- bia distribute a new series of one- reelers, to be known as 'Spice of Life.' This will bring back to the screen a serias sponsored by the originators and 'producers of the former 'Topics of. the' Day' and 'Fun From the Press," canned ' from. The Literary 'Digest.' ( ' Wilton E". 'Schwar v zwaid wi)I score the rtew series, which Will' 'feature Dr.'Rockw^U «u commentator." ENGLISH DUB First test of dubbing for the. U.S. market on an impoi tant scale is be- ing readied by Fox, which will dub; its 'Liliom' into English in Holly- Wood. 'Lillom,' from the Molnar stage play of that name, was filmed in Paris by Eric JPommer, Fritz Lang "directrng - ! ahel "' CTfarTes~Boyerr'BtaS'i; ;= ring. Boyer and Pommer are now on the Fox lot on the Coast and will do most of the work of tranSJ lating the film into English, with Boyer re- acting, a- few scenes. Although dubbing of pictures into foreign languages Is now a conwribn prbcedure no big films have previ^ . ;ously been dubbed into English,; ■only orte or two English and Frcnclr feature's "being treated that 'way 1 here and m>T»e previously for fecir-i' eral release b> a national' com piinyi' Tuesday, June 19, 1934 P It T E * VARIETY BISHOPS MEET THIS WEEK Catholics Don t Want a Federal Censorship, hut If So It Cost Industry $500,000,0011 Yearly federal censorship: as the r iual fruit of the current crusader agitation is an Industry worry to- day.. Industry statisticians, with picture facta In all departments at their finger tips; predict If the Gov- ernment starts shearing films to the satisfaction of all warring groups, it could cost the business $600,000,- 000 yearly. This Is half the normal American b.o. annual take. The bulk of this loss would be represented in a fal-off . in fan Interest due to Pollyanized features. , While, the Catholic Church is known in picture ranks ; to have al- ways opposed censorship, and to have fought against It side by side with filmdom in the past, some of the major leaders who have given the morals plight considerable thought during, the past week are fearful that the public may be aroused to the point where it will be beyond restraint and will auto- matically sweep shearing onto the Government books before the C6n gressional year is over. Other than- the censorship, ele- ment, industry spokesmen, even at the close of the past hectic week were not inclined to regard boycott and banning policies of crusaders asc devastating to the box office. Overseers of r the entire theatre field joined in the opinion, conft dently prophesying that " this sum- mer will witness only normal hot weather box office closings* See No Dire Effects, However As an illustration an industry study ■ of the situation in Detroit, first American^ city to list- pictures as black and white, is being offered for exhibitor consolation. Those familiar with it maintain, 'There is no noticeable effect at the De- troit box office directly traceable to the church, drive.' ' Fall-off in business for a period of the first two weeks of the De- troit Catholic mandate is now be- ing, attributed by industry over- seers to the heat wave. In what they term substantiation of this olalm they point to Detroit busi riess during il.e past week claiming that the receipts from banned pic tures were proportionately as nor- mal as those from approved fea- tures. • The big boycott barrage in Bos- ton, according to other major (Continued on page 36) MRS. SID KENT'S INJURY DEFERS RETURN Hays 'Could^lf-He -Wauld' Allegation May Figure at Cincinnati Meeting in Fix- ing R e s p o n s i b i 1 ity— MPPDA Hopes Breen Will Assauge Hierarchy NEWS APPEAL BOARD Hollywood, June 18. Mrs. Sidney R. Kent was badly shaken up and slightly injured Fri- day (16) in an auto accident in Los Angeles. She was treated at home by the family physician Mrs. Kent, who has been on the i Conceding that it is too late to Coast for six weeks' treatment of a brl the" American church agita- slnus ailment, was to have returned : .. . ■ to New York this week with her «on against moving pictures to husband, but the accident probably -an-, abrupt halt, the Hays Organiza will delay their departure. tion is hoping that its own volun tary clean-up program, featuring When Sid Kent arrives In Wew I the ousting of the producers ap York he will be given the ribbon of peals board and timed a week in the Legion of Honor from the I advance of a bishopric conclave, French. Government Pansh-by-Parish Boycott System Unde r Tight Discipline S et in Bay State With Cardinal's Okay hays renews on McCarthy's ad dept. Hays office directorate has voted to continue its appropriation - for the advertising censorial depart- ment conducted by, J. J. McCarthy. Extension is for a minimum of another six months during which all ad Copy of the major companies will continue to pass through Mc- Carthy's hands. Clayton Sheehan accepted the official decoration for Kent while in France a couple of weeks ago .'and brought It over with him. EXECS FLOCK IN FOR LA. PAR CONFAB Hollywood, June 18. will have at least the immediate ef feet of inducing Catholic leaders to modify more drastic maneuvers at their meeting in Cincinnati this week. This meeting is due Thurs- day (21). In doing away with the producers' appeal board the idea is that in future, when any dispute arises be- tween. Joe Breen (Hays rep) and a studio over film subject matter, the . argument will be transferred to New York for final decision by the Hays directorate. Latter body consists of picture company presi- dents and is a means of transplant- ing final decision on questioned film material from, west to east. Inas- much as churchmen have evidently lost faith in Hollywood executives, » • » > * j ~p T>„„„^ rt „„f i tne thought is that they may re- Spec al trainload of Paramount i t havinff actual chieftains including 12 executives - heads rendering final de- from foreign territory, arrived in clsions ^ - Los Angeles yesterday morning (17) for opening of the Paramount con ventioh at the Ambassador. . Around 300 representatives from Disclosures within the industry itself that the crusaders are in pos- session of a knowledge that Will Hays has actual czarlstic powers in £!. 00 ™£«£t V ?J^ contract with the major com- panies and that at no time has he used such authority to cleanse the screen, comprised the Iiighlight (Continued oh page 47) Chief Under His New Unit System Hollywood, June 18. Radio studio installs the unit system of production, with Presi- dent B. 15.. Kahane becoming plant chief, with nil producers responsible, to him. Post of executive producer was vacated by Pandro Berman last week, and left the way clear for .Kahane to' promulgate the unit idea Of production which he has had in mind since David Selznick left the organization more than a year ago. ■ BeiThfl TT-relinqu i55h ed^th e-=execu 1 1 ve producer spot to devote all his energy to supervising the produc- tion of 10 or more pictures for the •1W4-35 program: Studio currently has seven asso- ciate producers on the staff, in ad- dition to Merian C. Cooper, who returns in the fail to make at least two features yearly for Pioneer Productions. It Is understood Kahane will bring in one or two more production execs during the next month. here to atterfd the four-day meet- ing, Arrivals were Adolph Zukor, Geo. J.. Schaefer, Nell Agnew, John Hicks, Jr., v.p. of Paramount Inter national Corp.; Frank Freeman and Sam Dembow, Jr., v.p.'s of Famous Theatrea Co., and others Foreign contingent, beside Hicks, included Eugene . Zukor, George Weltner and Albert Deane, his as slstants; John Cecil Graham, gen- eral manager for Great Britain; Earl St. John, director of Great Britain theatres; Montague Gold- man, sales director of Great Bri- tain; John 1j. Day, general director for South America; .Carl York, gen dir. for Scandinavia; M. J. Messeri, gen. dir. for Spain; and Sam Per kins, sales director in the Orient, j New Orleans, June 18. Around 300 attended opening Saenger Theatres has divorced session at the Ambassador hotel. Paramount nouses in Georgia and Sessions for attendees, Who arrived Florida from its string and reduced on special train Sunday, will run h^g circuit to 56 theatres, which E until Thursday night (21), after v. Richards states is plenty for him which they will be privileged to to watch 56 THEATRES ENUF TO WATCH SEZ RICHARDS stay over Friday and Saturday to look at the sights. George J. Schaefer and Neil Agnew are run- ning the proceedings. After C. B. DeMiild gave the wel- coming address, Schaefer and Agnew spoke, as did Zukor and the Heads of Paramount hewsreel and the cartoon comedy makers. To- night the delegates got first flash at the new Mae West picture and | 'Shoot the Works' (Ben Bernie). Session Tuesday is devoted to an analysis of. the new season's prod- uct, which will be announced at that time. On Wednesday advertis- ing and theatre problems will be taken _ up, .an d _ Thursday^ s ales L and. Richards is receiver for. the Saen. ger Theatres, which are coming along finely undes his guidance. . NO-DUAL SHOWS BEST UPTREND Although it is claimed that busi- ness is better in some spots because of double featuring, distributors point to the dualless south as hope of an uprising, against the practice, With at least 60% of the coun- try's theatres doubling them up, a wave of opposition has suddenly risen against the policy, in most cases accompanied by bargaining between theatre operators? In Cleve- land, where the war between rival circuits is bitter, M. B. Horwltz, indie, flew to New York over the Weekend to discuss an armistice with Loew and Warners. In Kansas City, a key that de- graded badly during" the past year to a maximum admission of 25c, including downtowners, a truce is also declared in prospect: A sim- ilar move may be expected in St Louis, another dual-infested, key. Kansas City .havoc was first wrought when Loew sent its Mid land to a 25c top and Publlx, on top of that, put in a double policy down- town. At the Orpheum, where vaude goes with pictures, the ad mission has been no more. San Francisco is another low- admissioned town, but it hasn't fallen as low as Kansas City as once important first run key. The distribs view the South as one of their best arguments against dualing. Down in Dixie, where double featuring has always been heresy, the healthiest increase in business for both theatres and dist- ributors has occurred since the first of .the year: In the middle west- and on the Coast, Including L. A., busi-, ness has been the slowest to pick up. New England has seen a marked upswing in grosses but despite that this territory is the cradle of double featuring. Boston, Cardinal O'Connell, of Boston, has formally endorsed a plan of specific boycott of objec- tionable films developed by the state council of the Knights of Columbus. Thorough-going scheme or organi- zation for boycotts is set up by the K. of C, and its indorsement by the Cardinal, has. given wide publicity and impetus. Under the. Massachusetts will be divided . into three regions each headed by a director who be- tween them will organize 158 K.' of C. councils of the state, in Operating the boycott: One or more parishes will be assigned to each council, and' committees of three or more will be formed to make ar- rangements for a quick contact with every Catholic family in the parish Whenever the need should arise. The pastor of each parish, will be honorary Chairman of the. parish committee. Nub of the business is that the parish committees will distribute to. the Catholic families a printed' form announcing release of an objection- able picture, the name of which will not be given. Producer's name will be. given and family reminded that concerted action should be taken against the producer and against the theatre showing the film. Students of all Catholic' colleges, schools and academies will ' bo pledged to help In carrying out the plan. Also all Catholic organiza- tions.: Concerted action referred to will be to boycott theatres showing any film, good, bad or indifferent, of a Hayes producer cited for a period of a month or more. If for threo months or more the producer is good, his picti res will advertised . through the same agencies which set up the boycotts. If a producer has been boycotted fc:' a month or more, his pictures will not be recommended by the central committee, to sit In Boston, until six months have elapsed from the conclusion, of the boycott. Indies showing quickies will be boycotted for three months, K. of C. figuring, that lonsrer boycott is only way to make itself felt with pro- ducers who haven't as much to lose as the majors. Theatres Talk Revival of Coupon Books as Chi Expo Stunt Chicago, June 18. heatre men through the mid- west are serious about' making an other exhibition problems. Besides the sales group, 40 the- atre operating partners of Para- mount are in attendance as guests of the company. | other attempt with theatre ti bargain coupon books. The coupon book, allowing a 10% reduction for a number of ducats bought in ad- vance, has been tried several times in the past throughout the country but has never gotten across. Only exception to this floppo has been Altman'a Coast Confabs Al Altman, of Metro eastern pro ductlon department, sailed for the I the coupon books Issued by Fox Coast Saturday (16) via tho Canal. West Coast. He's scheduled to arrive in t». A. What's given the theatre men an June 30 for conferences at the idea that the scheme m^y click now studio. I la the success of the World's Fair coupon books. Fair has. already sold some 5,000 books at $7.50 which gives the buyer a number of_gate aa^mWsWns alfia^concession^ ducats. Feeling is that the Fair has made the public, especially In this terri- tory, coupon-book minded/ and that a follow-up of the Fair campaign could be made without a great ex- penditure for advertising or build- up. Figure that it's an easy angle in which to combat the competition of the Fair itself during the com ing summer months when business Is expected to go into the seasonal dip. At Par for 10; Studio Finances Hollywood, June 18. Charles R. Rogers remains v/iih Paramount another year to make 10 pictures, new deal calling for par to finance Instead of. himself. Rogers gets a salary and percentage on each pic.' In making the contract Rogers sold all his yarn material to the studio, including ^McFaddeh's Flats.' Which he'll make as his ini.tialer on the 1934-35 program, starting in the^ f alpwhen "h^returha"? roniTBurope.- " He also turned over his contract with Jack Haley to Par, stipulating the actor's use in any of Rogers' films. This agreement is for the pe- riod Rogers remains with Par, as the Haley ticket has five years to. With Rogers, an outside financed producer: for two years comirtg into the fold, no such financed producer will operate in the Hollywood plant. VARIETY PICT E S Tuesday, June 19, 1934 PARAMOUNT TRUSTEES SHOW PROGRESS Hilfc-Uake-RicbrdsoD Stick Report Covering Sept 30, 1933-June 9, 1934, De- Catfiolic Campaign ID . tails Numerous Adjustments Preparatory to Re- ceivership Wash-Up Pending a reorganization plan, which in any 'but a very tentative form cannot be expected quickly because so many matters are up in the , the Paramount trustees have prepared their fourth report, among other things recommending that .the business, of Par be con- tinued under their guidance as at present. The report covers the pe T rlod from Sept. 30, 1033, to June 9, a -week ago, and was to have been filed not later than yesterday (Mon- day), - Gash receipts and disbursements during the more than eight months embraced ai'e listed, showing an Im- provement in the cash position of Par on trustee accounts of more than 60%. While cash in the banks as of Sept. 29, 1933, was $2,074,480 as of June 9 last it was $3,226,836. This is funds of Para- mount-Pubiix and has nothing to do with subsidiaries, such as Par Pictures Distributing, which is ie- ported to have more than $7,000,000 in reserve. -Receipts of ■ the trustees from Sept. 30, 1933, to June 9 this year amounted to $2,244,747, while dis- bursements for. that period were $1,092,391. . The receipts include collection of receivables from , subsidiaries of $2,061,984, dividends of subsidiaries; cash from miscellaneous operations, (Continued on page 46), Radio's 50 for '35 Agreed on a program of 60 pic- tures for 1934-'35, not as many as this year when: 52 were promised (of which only 46 or 47 will be de-r livered) an RKO radio home . office contingent of around 30 left Friday (15) for Chicago. Convention yes- terday (Monday) started a three- day session. On .the final day of the meet to- morrow (Wednesday), company will reveal Its total of 60 pictures, list- ing 30 that are definitely set; FOX'S TRI-ERGON Baito Strong; Exhibs Haven't Felt Pressure OCHS GOES SPANISH, RADIO PIX DISTRIB Lee' A. Ochs is going to Spain with ., a franchise to distribute all Radio product on the .territory. Un ' derstood he ia going on his own, rather than' as a Radio representa ■tive and is paying Radio a 'flat sum x guarantee for the film on. a per oentage deal which gives him first choice of all Radio product in Spain and Portugal. He will line up a staff in New* York before leaving. Ochs, a N. Y. exhibitor, completed the sale of his N. Y. theatre chain Saturday (16) by turning over his four upper Broadway theatres, the Midtown, Uptown, Yorktown arid Costello, to RKO. It's an operating deal on a five year basis, with Ochs retaining an interest' in the- the- atres. Skouras and RKO pooling ar rangement on the. uptown Audubon and the Coliseum will most likely go by -the .boards in the expected completion of the present Ochs deal Whether the RKO takeover will interfere with the Skouras-RKO pool on the RKO Jefferson and the Skouras-operated Academy, on 14th street, ia problematical. It Is under stood tha* on this particular end of - the ' Skouras-RKO' affiliation things may be left as .is, as the pool has proved advantageous, par tictilarly. to Skouras. The Academy under that pool arranged around a year, .ago*; sent the Jefferson into straight films arid the Academy into combo vaudfllm. N. Y. to 1* A. Harry Clo'rk. Charles David.* Albert. Deane. Henri Diamant- Benhy Fields; John W. Hicks, Jr. Dr. Harry W> Martin. M. J. Messeri. Bernard Natan. John O'Hara. Bob Ritchie. Blossom Seeley. Clayton Sheehan. .^P-etekJTrent. ^- -.- • Mrs. ; Apf el Waxmari . George Weltner, Carl York. Validity of Williams-Fox's Tri Ergon flywheel patents have been upheld by the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals of the Middle District of Pennsylvania, in a unanimous decision handed down Wednesday (13). This decision is calculated to have far reaching repercussions on the talker art throughout the in- dustry as it affects both exhibition and. production where 'the flywheel process is utilized in making or screening films. The Circuit Court by its decision confirmed the lower court's ruling that the patent was valid and in- fringed upon. The suit was brought against the Altoona Publix Corp., and also the Wilmer and Vincent circuit. The actual defendant, how- ever, was Erpl, which*undertook de- fense of the action; . By its victory, Tri- rgon most likely will now enter into plans for -a trial for damages involved and likely as not institute similar ac- tions against other alleged violators of these patents. This is the second victory for Tri Ergon in the last fortnight. Re cently Tri-Ergon got a two-to-one decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, relative to the validity of the Tri-Ergon double print talker patents. In that de cision the Circuit Court reversed the decision of- Justice Campbell of the Federal District Court in Brooklyn. . Patents of Tri-Ergon, however, are in controversy as to ownership with Fox Film as against William ^ox. Fox Film in suits brought against William Fox and expected to come up soon in the State courts of. Nassau county alleges, that the TrlrErgon patents which- William Fox bought for himself should be long to :?ox "Film, "as lie "Bought same as president of Fox Film; Fox FiLi, of all flim companies, cannot be Involved in any Tri-Er gon patent litigation, as it holds a license under these patents as granted through William Fox! when these, were first bought or some thing; Baltimore, June 18. Local Catholic campaign against smut in films, as a unit, is swelling both in feeling and in stature; The powerful indie newspaper, the Sun; has aligned self Oh side of church and is pounding the tomtoms in dally editorials, plus itemizing on its front pages the growth of the campaign on a national scopes Vir- tually every columnist in town has devoted a- stick, or more in favor of the church, arid the sheets' pix crlx have spoken in favor of the church's aims. According to Catholic sources of info, local campaign has increased in intensity with each passing week, and though majority of exhibs de- clare pressure hasn't as yet been felt at the b. o's, many of theiri are ap' prehensive of the future. Also, though other faiths and sects "haven't Joined the Catholic crusade, it has been declared that some will do so within ..the next fortnight. Local state branch of the MPTOA held a special session on , Thursday (14), at which the organization came out openly oh. the side of the church. In some of the local film circles it was - . hinted . that the MPTOA is' merely using the 'clean- up* campaign as a wedge to renew Its old — and losing — battle against block booking. • Frank A. Hornlg, prez of the Maryland organization, stated for. publication after the ex- hibs' powpow last Thursday that his group was unanimously behind any measures adopted by the meeting of the Hierchy of Bishops which con- venes in- Cincinnati Thursday (21) He also rapped the Hays set-up and said his group's Baltimore assembly was prompted, by reception of a two-page bulletin from the national headquarters of the MPTOA, which was directly concerned .with the Catholic church's drive. In spite of efforts to shove a temporary trustee or trustees Into Paramount under the provisions of the new corporation bankruptcy bill, at a hearing on petitions of bondholders Saturday (16) before Judge Coxe, the present trio in Par, Charles D. Hilles, Eugene W. Leake and Charles E. Richardson were chosen. Under the new law it became necessary to appoint trustees to administer to the bankrupt under the provisions of 77B, the section Of the. Bankruptcy Act involved. - m On Friday night (16), Paramount Publix filed its answer to the two new bankruptcy law petitions inaugurated June 7 by the Van- derllp committee arid another group of three bondholder creditors. It has been a mistaken notion that Par itself filed the June 7 peti- tions, although RKO took that step. Those petitions were filed against Par instead, urging a qulok reorganization and submitting recommendations for appointment of trustees under Section 77B. Vanderllp committee urged continuance of the Hilles-Leake- Rlchardson. trio; with powers to rule under all rights of the new bankruptcy measure, while the other petition requested the appoint- ment of someone else on grounds, in effect, that the present trus- tees were stalling, spending too much money, etc. Deal for Rothafels Return to Roxy Cold; Paucity of Product Figures FRISCO K.0/S ALL GIVEAWAY NIGHTS Fox-Lesser Tie Hollywood, June 18. Sol Lesser has closed with Fox for release of his 'Peck's. Bad Boy,' with a cast including Jackie Cooper, Jackie Searl, Thomas Meighan, Dor othy Peterson and O. P. Heggie Picture, which gets started this week, is budgeted to major propor tions. Fox also istributes George O'Brien pictures being produced by ^Lessei^and^J.olin^anfl.^^_^^.^ L. A. to N. Y. Michael Curtlz. Kay Francis, Mrs. William Gargari. Russell Gleasori. George Goldsmith. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Howard. Dick Powell. Hal Roach. 1935 'Scandals' George White will make a second •Scandals' for Fox, going to the Coast to start in mid- September Picture, will not be a Robert Kane production, as was the first 'White Scandals,' but will be produced by W. R. Shechaw as one of the first. by that producer on his return from Europe, AUDBOIT GETS 'FOUR WALLS' Hollywood, June 18. Luclan Androit set by Metro to photograph "Four Walls,' which Paul Sloane is directing. He replaces Hal Rosson, who was forced to pass up the post the first day of shooting due to illness. San Francisco,' June 18. Scoring gift nights, whoopeie par- ties, country store nights and pre- mature advertising as flagrant vio- lations of the code, local grievance board cracked down in four cases heard at last Tuesday's meeting. The following day, after a poll of exhibs, all theatres in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties were or- dered to stop gift nights on and after Sept. 13, terming gifts as 'ac- tually rebates in admission prices.' With these steps taken to squash such practices, the grievance board ruled against Aaron Wagnon of the 16c RIalto, Oakland; for advertising films in his house programs two months before they played the 20c Plaza, operated by Cooney & Feeley. Board also ordered Waenon to stop gift nights. Morris Klein of the Victory, Sari Jose, was ordered to stop 'Eddie's Whoopee Party,' where gifts are given, and Legion, Grass Valley, was. ordered to cease Coun- try Store Nights. Klein, meanwhile has filed an ap- peal of the recent cease order on Bank Nights, while Gerald Hardy, of the, Fresnoj Fresno, has -appealed the case in which his previous squawk against Fox-West Coast for overbuying there, was dismissed. Net Gains Marked for All Active Stocks, but Amusements Still Slow After consolidating its gains, market was in splendid position to stage an- advance Friday and Sat- urday on good news from several frontSr As a result, nearly all most active, stocks, showed net gains ,at close on Saturday. Dow -Jones In- dustrial Averages got , through the 100-point level and closed at, 99.85,. or 0.95 point- ahead of close on pre- ceding Saturday. Since the 98-100 Yesterday's Prices Sales. 200 Con; Film. 200 Bast. K 200 Fox A... 0.600 Gen. Elec 1.000 Loew . i . 400 Pathe A. (100 Par ctte. 2.800 RCA . . 300 RKO .... 1,300 W. B. '...'. High 3% 100% ir.% 21% • 32% .. 23% .. 4% .. 7% ... 2%' . - o% CURB Net Low. Last. chge. . 8% 3% . . 00% 100% + % 15% 1514'- % — 21% + % 32% + .% 23% - % 4% + % 7% + % 2% 6 - % 20% 82% 23% 4% 7% l % 8,000 Tech. . .. .»14% 14% - 14% + % 200 Traris-L .-. 1% 1% 1% + % BONDS $4,000 Loew .... 102% 102 102% + % 20.000 P-F-L .... 05% 64 . 55% + % ...8,000 . Bfi Qtf9 tl »54: .,63% ; .53% : . 15,000 Pnr-Pub... 65% 54% 55%+% 2,000 Do ctfB. . 68% 53% 53%.+ % 20,000 Wax. B... 01% 00% 01 ► New 1084 high. level is the next one to bejieclslvely penetrated, those favoring the for- ward movement. were pleased to see this strong action in the Saturday two-hour session. Many amusements failed to fol- low the general trend, but the aftYUs^ment grqup as a whole, ac- cording to Variety's table of 12 rep- resentative issues, showed a net gain of 0.112 as compared with previous Saturday's close. Traders expect the amusements soon to . fol- low, the general trend Upwards,, al^ though they may be considerably behind market as a whole bedause the group has- not fully discounted expected summer decline In box-of- fice receipts. However, a corttinuar tlon' of; comparatively . mild weather on Atlantic seaboard may ,go far tjowards cutting . down any expected or : customary ■ big decline in busi ness. Amusement group has had a steady climb, for the last five weeks, and during' P. a s.t week hit a point sjightly higher than that reached the middle of April. Close of this group, while not very strong, was ahead of previous week. Of the four or five representative issues in group, Fox Class A acted best dur ing week. After about five weeks of what appeared to be steady ac- cumulation, this stock followed ex- pected move on chart, and showed a neat advance at close Of week. Chart formation would indicate, that it might go up further during next few weeks. Radio B looked like it was still in the stage of accumulation dur- ing Week, but that it soon' may be ready for another upturn. Loew's common sagged off a bit after two successive weeks of advancing tendencies. Warner Brothers com- mon also dropped back, but the fall- ing off in volume would Indicate that it, too, was- being further ac- cumulated. For this stock the. big (Continued on page 48) Proposed refinancing of the Rosy theatre, whereby S, L. Rothafel wag' to have returned to the theatre, has gone cold. The downtown brokers who were talking things with Roxy (Rothafel) have withdrawn from the " deal. Fenner & Bearie were the brokers involved. Interested with them was Hayden, Stone. Latter was to have participated in the proposed $1,200,* 0Q0 financing deal to an extent ot 50%. F.&B, are understood to have' offered their Interest in the deal to. other downtow brokers but appaM. ently none would take it. The brokers are understood td. have had the stated observation of ohe of the present three Paramount trustees, that certain Paramount films; could be made available to thel : Roxy theatre. After surveying th» proposition, the brokers apparently, figured that the viewpoint of the,. Par bankruptcy official, couldn't have been fulfilled. At the time, it was believed that the Paramount on Broadway would require orily 40 Par filmB for th«|. year. Thus, it was stated, the bal- ance of the Par picture program, could just as well be handed oven to the Roxy theatre. However, this, proposal apparently was never eub«* : mitted to the Par management Itself. The view that' certain Par pic«. tures would go to the Roxy cam*' before Par and Loew began to con* elude their many months' old pool* lng proposition for the Capitol and the Broadway Paramount theatres^". This deal Concluded the past week 1 ' gives the Capitol first pick of Par," films. Par keeps the stage showty the Cap going straight films. Antedates Par-Cap Pact Fenner & Beane withdrawal was determined upon, according to in- side, before the Par-Capitol' deal was finished. Under the Fenner if'Beane and Hayden, Stone proposition, the first mortgage bondholders, were to get , stock for their presently defaulted" bonds, while the Tarokers' would get ,J a first mortgage on the property*. The new stock issue proposed would,, also have provided for participation of the second mortgage noteholders^', in same. Rothafel to operate at aJ.I. salary of $750, with a slice of stoclf^ as a bonus. Herbert L. Lubin, promoter of ' ' the scheme for Roxy, personally^ would also have received certal'j' t pay in the deal. Lubin was the pror, a moter of the original construction .ofj.' the building, with Roxy, Charles J^!-' Richardson, cne of the present Par, trustees, also was among those con* cerned in the ori inal Roxy theatre stock deal, some years ago. With the Rothafel deal cold, the\ Roxy theatre will continue as is, with. Howard S. Cullman, hitherto receiver, how trustee of same. The , change in office is technical having come about through appointment 'thieE^prat^^eelT^^'^hB-^PBtition^o^j-^ the junior security holders' comn lu mittee of the theatre under the new ( u Corporate Bankruptcy Bill. i«i Fanchon & Marco continue to pro*. duce the stage shows here, and the< and a good window play over the ■ three days, indicated policy may be Continued for better part of the- summer. Grauman. feels that: through the new policy he will be able to live tip fo the widely published state- ment that the picture would riot be shown elsewhere In Southern California during the current year. F-WC Monopoly Charges Tossed Out by L A. Bd. Los Angeles, June 18. Charges • of a film buy monopoly by F6x-West Coast and affiliates in Pasadena, brought by Lou Bard, on behalf of his Colorado theatre there, were thrown out by the local griev- ance board when the case came up before it for decision, after testi- mony had previously been sent on to the Code Authority for deter- mination. Bard had complained that when F-WC. had dumped • the Colorado back into his lap after several years of operation, it failed to turn over one-third of the major feature prod- uct which it had contracted for Pasadena, partially for the Colo- rado, which it was at that time operating. Case was heard here several weeks ago, but lwcal grlefers ducked the issue by shunting the evidence to the CA. Latter tribunal sent* the proceedings back here and in- structed the local board to render an. award. Orily other case heard and deter mined last week by the local grief ers was a complaint riled by Vita graph, Inc. (Warners) against the Baldwin Park theatre, which charged an attempted contract vio* lation through evasion. Board found for the cornplainantr", and ordered the respondent, A. R, Miller, to comply with all contracts. Loew May Take Fox Product If RKO Drops Fox; 30 WB Films for RKO Chain Coincident with a deal under which Warner Bros, gives RKO half of its 1934-'35 product, the RKO circuit is displaying coolness to- wards renewing with Fox for an- other year. The 30 from WB under the deal, plus ito.own.(Radio), ojoa- half of the Par' product and the pick from the Universal and Columbia programs will carry RKO through without the necessity of Fox, it Is suggested. As this new twist comes up, it's reported Loew may go for the Fox program this year, although that circuit is not altogether cramped by losing half of the Warner pic- tures. Loew has its own Metro, all of United Artists and one-half of both the Par and WB programs. The split of WB insures that cir- cuit of fewer pictures by 30 for the coming season, however, arid a deal with Foxi may be entered with a View to playing safe on quantity supply. RKO. is said to have been dis- satisfied with the sales policy of Fox and that company's re- luctance to make adjustments. While RKO may not play Fox product, on a circuit buy, in New York the Music Hall '' Is ex- pected to renew its deal. Music Hall this year had choice of the Fox pictures for first run In New York, picking what it wanted under a commitment for a certain num- ber. A crisi$ looms for the NRA In fllmdom. arid threatens to spark out through the Code Authority long before the code is formally sched- uled tp be reopene'd next fall. Un- der the surface many of the high codists are already rebelling at the demand upon their time. In major circles It is estimated at the pres- ent rate., the administration of the formula will cost big picture inter- ests over $2,000,006 In executive and lawyer salaries represented In the time commodity before the Eagle's first year is oyer. Some codists de- scribe as conservative an estimate that the first six months of Author- ity's life have already cost the ma* jors $1,000,000. Suh-Group* Idea Splitting tiiie Authority into three' parts is being discussed in high circles as orie means of healing time trouble. This would necessitate In- creasing the total voting codists from 10 to 12 members -and dividing them into groups of four. Then In- stead of the entire membership hav- ing to listen to every case on ap- peal, as Jls now must under NRA picture law, cases coming in front all over the country could be segre- ■ gated under three classifications of (1) Industrial (labor cases); (2);. public relations; (3) trade practices; TheY only , occasion for an assem- blage of. the entire C.A. would then be brought about by any 'problem or situation affecting all;' branches of the business. Such a plan, it is: now reyealedV was .privately offered at the' Incep- tion of the Authority, but for some reason was rejected. That it • is- being revived now from some of the many secret sessions iri Washington last fall speaks partly of Industry recognition of the seriousness of the' present situation. Unless pome means is realized within a few weeks to stem the flow of appeals under the existing code, the present smoke Is bound tp flare up. That is, if codists who state flatly they will not . serve more than one day a week .find that ap- peals compel ' them to do so and t carry out ' their . current private^ threats of resigning. For many a codlst, not only oi. the C.A., but on field boards, judg- ing from numerous replacements throughout • the country during the past few weeks, the title has lost " most of its former glory. The CA. is getting to the point where reserves in the fourth arid fifth lines In several instances are being drafted. One body of men, mostly alternates, appear at the executive sessions, while another detachment reports for duty in the afternoon to listen to appeals- . . . This is riling to other codists, in* eluding major as well as iridepend* ent, since the indies, are generally not overlooking, a bet. Several of the . more faithful codists stated, during the past few days that a showdown on absentees will also take place shortly; that if a codlst deliberately dodges meetings it is about time Washington knows about it and takes action. Grumblings are also arising oyer some of Divisional Administrator Rosenblatt's government overseer* for grievance and zoning boards throughout the field. This time in- dustry observers, rather than active Codists, are. hinting at a need for some, changes among the Govern- • ment's own selection. Shorts Go Hollywood Holly w6odr"Jurie" f I8T"" ; Except for the Medbury Travelaffs all of Columbia's shorts for the new season will be concentrated in Holly- wood. In this group are the come- dies, Minute Mysteries and possibly tuners,, although no decision yet on the latter. Peal with Leon Errol for eight brlefies is nearlng com- pletion; Harry Langdon is set for two, and the studio is on the prowl for other comics. « VARIETY PICT E CR SSES Tuesday, June 19, 1934 Baer-Carnera Broadcast Hurts LAJ.O;s#to60%;IcKeel3y 2 G, 'Groom $13,000; little Sock W If so, thla'll probably be the sixth dimer. Estimates for This Week Colonial (LTC) (750: 10-15) - 'Smarty* (WB) and 'Man's Game' (Col) split. Average $750. Last week, 'Strictly. Dynamite* (Radio) and 'Santa Fe* (Col) Split, all right $800. Lincoln (LTC) (1,600; 10-15-26)— Earth Turns' (WB). Looks slim, $1,700 expected. Last week, 'Bot* toms Up' (Fox) looked strong for a couple of days, but dwindled to $1,950, fair. ' . m . Orpheum (LTC) (1,200; 10-16-26) iniomnnr' <"i"n anil 'Stlneraree — 'Glamour' (U) and 'Sttngaree' (Radio), split. • Will get a good $1,100. Last week, 'Wild Cargo' (Radio) rated as first Orpheum pic- ture in about six months to go a full week and picked up $1,000. 8tuart (LTC) , (1,900; 10-25-40)— •Vanities' (Par). Out for a nice $3,000, oke enough. Last week, Sadie McKee' , (MG) took it. in the neck with a- midweek slump: and ended a little above $2,300. Man- agement learned a lesson on this deluxer when they gave out the flight returns after each round on Thursday (14) during the show, Helps Portland; Races Hart; Tarty' Gets 56 Lbs Angeles, June 18, There's an everlasting headache from one source or another for local theatre operators. Having the in- fantile paralysis fright to deal, with on one hand and numerous obstacles oh the other the boys took slow poison Thursday (14), as folks were more interested in listening to radios on the Baer-Carnera bout than to screen romance. The wal- lop they took was a bird, with trade oft from 40 to 60%. For while it was only £. p.m. when the broad- cast hit here,, the excitement had 'em sitting around all night with the usual post-mortems. " 'Chinese, under, its new three-day a week policy, reopened Friday (16) with 'House of Rothschild' and looks as . though the hew Grauman opera- tion idea will -work over the sum- mer. Both mat and night shows from Friday to Sunday night were almost capacity. 'Sadie Mckee' got off to a good start at the State; but slipped a bit -second day with attraction in for the single week. Paramount got a so-so start with 'Here Comes the Groom' on screen and Ted Fib Rito the stage bait, but picked up as it went along. Biggest Surprise is the Pantages, where 'Little Man, What Now 7' got I p 1 r «• Off to a $1;200 start oh its opening fftStlVdl. tOllVentlOD, day, which Is almost as much as I * VWM ¥ vv ' the house has been doing lately in a full week. Trade at the Warner houses with 'The Merry Frinks' just so-so, and the RKO with 'Stln- garee' in second week pretty good, fite pic helping. Estimates for This Week Chinese (Grauman) (2,028; 55- $1.66)— House of Rothschild' (20th Century) and stage show (11th week). That three-day, six-perform' ance week juiced up matters a bit with a total take of around. $8,000 for the new idea, which more than covers the nut. Downtown (WB) (1,800; 25-35-40 B5)_"j>he Merry Frinks' (FN). Trade bit better than previous week, and will Vuh around $4,800. Last week "Fog Over Frisco' (WB) came in with little stronger finish than calculated on to tune: of $4,600. Hollywood (WB) (2,756; 26-35-40- 55)^«The Merry Frinks' _ (FN) Opened bit stronger than down town and will wind up with around $5,600. Last week: "Fog Over Frisco' (WB) performed as calculated, winding up with $5,200. , Los Angeles (Wm. Fox) (2,800; lfi-25) — 'I Hate Women* (Goldsmith) and (Monte Carlo Nights' (Mono- gram) split. Still feeling the loss df transient shoppers so has to be content with little less than $3,000. Last week 'Stolen Sweets' (Chester field) and 'Black Cat' (U) had a tough session that wound up with a little over $2,900. Pantages (Pan) (2,700; 26-40)— •Little Man, What Now?' (U). Na- tives were pretty keen about seeing this one and house will do about a month's regular business this week with a take of around $8,600. Paramount (Partmar) (3,696; 30 40-66)— 'Here Comes the Groom' (Par) and stage show. More spent in papers bn exploitation would have brought this combination to a. take far in excess of the $13,000 it is headed for. Last week 'Great Flir tatiorf (Par) had next to worst week in years, getting almost as low a take with Its $8,300 as it did with 'The Cradle Song' starring Dorothea ^/•/ieck RKO (2,960; 25-35.-40)— 'Stinga- lat Runs on Broadway (Subject to Change) Week of June 22 Paramount — 'Great Flirta- tion' (Par). Capitol— 'Operator 13' (MG). Strand— 'Dr. Monica' (WB) (20). Rialto — 'Murder board' (Radio) (19), Roxy— 'Affairs of man' (U). Music Hall — 'Let's Try Again' (Radio) (21), Week of June 29 Paramount — 'Murder in Pri- vate Car' (MG). Capitol— 'The Man' (MG). Strand — 'Midnight Alibi' (WB) (27). Rialto— 'Black Moon' (Col). Roxy — 'Baby Take a Bow' (Fox). Night-flubbing Shiners Little Aid to Drooping Minneapolis to get much more than $6,600 on 'Remorse' and 'Come On, Marines,' | and Princess about same gross with 'HI, Nellie' and 'Convention City/ Minneapolis,. June 18. Like the baseball team that's far behind in the third Inning, local imperial starts up again with 10 I showhouses are praying hard for acts of vaude and couple of plx, raln this week. The more preolpl* •Wine, Women and Song' and Col- . ... th h i ther that isrossefl are lege Coach,' and may go as high as tatlon the nigner tnat grosses ^are $6,000. Cinema de Paris has repeat [sure to- soar* Clear and sunshiny of 'Barbier de Seville* liable to| weather almost certainly spells FITE PIC MEANS ALMOST 300% up in no. ree' (RKO) (2nd-final week). Sec- ond stanza with Baer-Carnara fight pictures as an aid with $7,600. Fite pic to be held over. First stanza with the fight film came home with a healthy $8,700. State (Loew-Fox) (2,024 ; 30-40 66)— 'Sadie Mckee* (MG). Off to good start, then slump day, with week-end pickup headed for around $13,600. Last week 'Change of Heart' (Fox) wound up bit better than an- ticipated with shade over $9,100. Lincoln Sluffin' It Off 'til July; 'Vanities' OK 3G Portland, Ore., June 18. Rose Festival week and conven- tion of Canadian Legion in this burg created enough excitement to boost grosses in the downtown spots. But most of this b. o. gain offset by dog races which grab a huge slice of available entertainment money. •Hollywood Party' (MG) at the Broadway, and 'Thirty Day Prin- cess' (Par) at the Paramount vied for No. 1 gross this week. All other plx getting what's left; Last week's disappointment was "Little Man, What Now?' at the UA. Pic .reg- istered. In a big way and collected raves from critics and customers, but hard to sell, and the b. 6. didn't respond to the raves. Closed slightly above average. . Estimates for This. Week Broadway (Parker) (2,000; 26-40) — 'Hollywood Party' (MG). Well ex- ploited and answering for possible okay $5,000. Last week, 'Thin Man' (MG) registered well, combo with *Love Captive' (U) average fare, and together collected fair $3,900. United Artists (Parker) (1,000; 25-40)— T.ooklng for Trouble' (UA). Clicking for fairish returns around $4,000. Last week, 'Little Man, What Now?' (U) registered big with critics' raves but failed to get over at the b. o. for mor e than $3,700. Paramount (FWC) (3,000; 26-40) — 'Thirty Day Princess' (Par), and Crime of Helen Stanley' iCol) Strong combo in line for results, pushing this house up to $4,600 Last week, 'Twentieth Century' (Col), and 'Call It Luck' . (Fox), rather under expectations at aver age $3,800. Music Box (Hamrlck) (1,400; 26- 36)— 'Strictly Dynamite' (Radio) Getting along for $2,000, fair. Last week, 'Black Cat' (U); thriller, got attention and some extra biz for good -enough $2,700. Oriental (Hamrick) (2,600; 25-35) — 'Upper World' (WB), and 'Uncer tain. Lady' (U). Keeping this house on a fair keel for $2,000. Last week, -He Was Her Man' (WB), and •Keep 'Em Rolling': (Radio) ,. a bit under par at $1,800.' Detroit Just Mild New Orleans, June 18. Carnera-Baer light pictures at Orpheum dwarfing everything in town. Showing probably estab- lished American* record for speed Pictures opened Saturday (16) after being planed from New York. Per haps the best fight pictures ever made, holding, every thing, will draw : 13,000 into Orpheum, which prob- ably would have gotten only about $5,000 with The Key.' Fight . pictures cutting in on Loew's State, playing 'Operator 13,' and Saenger,. with '30 Day Prln cess.' Other houses trying and hop incr Estimates for This Week Saenger (3,668; 40)— '30 Day Prln cess' (Par). Rather mild at wicket and $7,000 about all. Last week Miss Marker' (Par) did smash $13; 000. Loew's State (3,218; 40)— 'Opera tor 13' (MG). Not much for this and $6,000 is tops. Last week 'Sor rell' (UA) to new low of $4,000. Orpheum (2,400; 35)— 'The Key' (WB) and Carnera-Baer fight pic, Lines outside continuously, but •Key* merely incidental; $13,000 eas lly. Last week 'He Was Her Man' (WB). $6,000c Tudor (700; 80)— ^Trumpet Blows' (Par). Raft means something here and house may get $2,000. Last week 'Private Scandal* (Par), $1, 600, poor. _ St. Charles (2,200; 25) — ■•Big Shakedown' (WB). Will do fair $1,800., Last week • lack Cat' (U) got $1,900. ^ SEASONAL B.0. SLUMP NOT AFFECTING MONTI Montreal, June 18. Summer slump, not so much in evidence so far is about due al though some snappy plx are show ing currently. Further draw on at tendances furnished by reopening of Imperial as vaude film house at low prices. Palace which has been tbpplng 'Holly gross $1,200. „ Nabes are doing fairly well. Estimates for This Week Palace (FP) (2,700; 60)— 'Holly- wood Party' (MG) and 'Mandalay' (WB). Fair estimate is $9,000. Last week -Viva Villa' (MG) and 'Sleeping Car* (Brit) best in town at $10,000. Capitol (FP) (2,700; 60) 'Manhat- tan Melodrama' (MG) and 'Harold Teen' (WB), Should run ahead of the main stems with $9,500. Last week 'Vanities' (Par) and 'She Made Her Bed* (Par), $7,000. Loew's (FP) (S;20Q; 60)— 'Re morse* (WB) and 'Come On, Marines' (Par), Should gross about $«,000. Last week . 'Crime Doctor' (Radio) and 'Finishing School' (Radio) $6,500. Princess (CT) (1,900; 60)— Hi Nellie' (WB) and 'Convention City' (WB). Good- for $6,000. Last week Sorrell' (UA) and 'Trouble (UA) picked up>$6,000. Imperial (Ind) (1,975; 40)— *Wine, Women and Song' (Fed) and 'Col- lege COach* (WB) and 10 acts of vaude, First week under new man- agement. Perhaps $6,000. Cinema de Paris (France-Film) (600; 50)— 'Barbier de Seville' (2nd Week). About $1,200 after $1,600 last week. Buffalo's Summer; little Man/ $7,500, Okay; Returns, 14G Buffalo, June 18. Business Is subsiding currently, with grosses easing off to real sum mer appearances. Buffalo bill Is light and will prob ably fail short of last week by at least $2,000. Lafayette looks for a good week, considering the time of the year. Isewhere everything is gloomy. Estimates for This Week Buffalo (Shea) (3,600; 30-40-66) 'Many Happy Returns' (Par). Gus Van. Fair start only, but may pull up to $14,000; Last week 'The Thin Man' (MG) and Mary Brian. Did very, nicely. Stage, show was excel lent, with picture comment divided Over expectations at $16,500. Hipp (Shea) (2,400; 26-40)— 'Man dalay* (WB) and 'Oliver the Eighth* (MG). Appearances are for another average week at around $6,000. Last week 'Catherine the Great" (UA). Failed to hold up and dipped sharply to $6,400. Century (Shea) (3,400; 26)— 'The Merry Frinks' (WB) and 'Sorrell & Son" (UA). Strong double bill, and should go for at least $6,000. Last week 'Bottoms Up' (Fox) and 'Wharf Angel' (Par); Developed nice business and sent the gross up to a strong $7,000. Lafayette (Ind.) (3,400; 25)— 'Lit- tle Man, What Now,' (U). Single town past few weeks has 'Holly- I feature for this week only. Opened wood Party* and 'Mandalay' which big and is holding up for what looks should gross $9,000 While Capitol like over $7,500. Last week •Whirl- looks i like slightly best bet on 'Man- pbol* (Col) and 'Social Register hattan Melodrama' And 'Harold (Col). Slow business here and was Teen' for $9,500. Loew's hot likely 1 lucky to get Just under $5,000. Detroit, June 18 Michigan has 'The Thin Man' on screen' and Mary Brian in person The picture being a detective mys tery isn't expected to get many of the women, but that angle is being wOrketl pn nicely in the bally. Estimates' for This Week Fox (Inde) (6,100; 15-56)— 'Baby, Take a Bow'. (Fox) and stage Show* Around $16,000, mild. Las.t week 'Where Sinners Meet' (Fox) and Denver likes '20th HoUywood Party/ $4,500. Not Hot Lincoln, June 18. ^nother^slumi^WAe^ but 'Vanities' gets ace. spotting in the Stuart. Biz down to a lower ebb in most houses than last year at the worst of the summer, but the management of all houses Is throwing in all the sluffi on the present three weeks, which were thought to be bad anyhow. The first of July promises' an upswing. The State, now closed, with sign posted that equipment will be sold at constable's sale,- June 25. State supposed to be reopened July 2 by Cal Bard, trustee, which ho will run in conjunction with his Rialto. Michigan (Par) (4,045; 15-66)— 'Thin Man* (MG) and Mary Brian, Maybe $20,000, not big. Last week 'Little Miss Marker' (U) and stage, $19,000. United Artists (Par) (2,018; 16- ?J5-35-40)— 'Little :Man, What Now' (U). Headed for $14,000, good. Last week 'Born to Be Bad' (Par) mild and- good for only one week at $7,000.. Fisher (Par) (2,750; 15-25-35-40) — 'Merry Frinks' (WB). Expect $3,000, low. Last week 'Thirty Day Princess' (Par) fair $6,000. Denver, June 18. Denver seemingly fed up On pic- tures billed as all -stars and is turning thumbs down on 'Holly- wood Party' at Orpheum. Evident none of stars mean much to Den- verites. - —Tabor- boosted- to. first-run ..from subsequent for week doing great on 'Ninth Guest' and stage show. For the week Tabor becomes cheapest first run in Denver with 20c-25c tariff. Estimates for This Week Aladdin (Huffman) (1,500; 25-36- 50)— 'Half a Sinner' (U). Anticipate around $2,000. Last week 'Spring- time for Henry' (Fox) kept the Aladdin up to average in spite of summer sports and fine weather competition, closing with $3,000. The picture had strong appeal for the regular clientele, of this deluxer and pulled evenly all week. Denham (Cooper) (1,600; 16-26 40)— 'Many Happy Returns' (Par) Nice takings should accumulate $7,000. Last week 'Little Miss Mar- ker* (Par) was held for two days following line week the previous stanza. "--'Private ' Scandal*-- (Par)', booked for the week, ran 5 days to put the house back on a Wednes- day opening day, arid together the films took in $5,000, nicely above average. Denver (Huffman) (2,500; 25-35- 50)— 'Twentieth Century* (Col). This one caught on here and $8,000 sighted. Last week 'Little Man, What Now?' (U) ran clase to aver- age, closing with $6,600, but didn't do what was expected of it. Orpheum (Huffman) (2,600; 25- 35_50)_ "Hollywood. Party' (MG). rock-bottom takings for the enter* tatnmeht emporiums — something, however, that they've grown entirely accustomed to during recent weeks. It's all because of the big Shrink convention that adverse element* are essential to drive people in*, doors for their amusement. With fair weather the Shrine parades an# outdoor, entertainment features, such as the Hollywood electrical pageant and All- American Rodeo, not to mention the Wampas*. start ball, are certain to prove too. mucin opposition for the showhouses, lur- ing even the home folks away from the film theatres. This phase will more than offset the advantage which should accrue through the in- flux of from 50,000 to 100,000 visi- tors. The transients, however, are giving the night clubs their first swell break lh many a moon. As a matter of fact, there isn't much in the way of screen offerings to tempt home towners or visitors. The Orpheum alone of all the loop houses has a bang-up attraction* the Carnera-Baer fight films. Other- wise there's nary a thing that would, excite natives or others, And the week-end found the sun shining? brightly with no indication of tain in sight, making, estimates difficult to arrive at. Estimates for This Week Minnesota (Publix) (4,200; 26-35- 40)— 'Change of Heart' (Fox). With school out; opened more slowly than expected of a Gaynor-Farrell picture, stars' reunion apparently not meaning so much as anticipated. Critics rapped film, but customers seem to like it and it may -build. If weather stays good, around $6,500. indicated. Light. Last week, 'Mur- der at the Follies' (Par), $7,600, Pretty good. Orpheum (Singer) (2,890; 26-35- 40) — Baer-Carnera -fight pictures plus 'Circus Clown' (FN). Great family program with especial appeal for kids and their dads and all males. Baer's success In 'Prize* fighter and Lady' also making fight film a magnet for feminine fans. Looks like more than $10,000. Big. Last week, 'Registered Nurse* (FN), and 'Sisters Under the Skin' (Col), $3,500, with former accounting for most of it. Fair. World (Steffes) (360; 26-35-60-76) — 'Catherine the Great*"tUA). Fourth week and still clicking. Should reach $2,800. Good. Third week, $3,000. Big. State (Publix) (2,200; 26-35-40)— •Manhattan Melodrama' (MG). Strong box office combination of stars, but' not registering overly strong at box office. However* should roll up $4,500. Fair. Last week, 'Double Door' (Par), $8,000. Light. Century (Publix) ■■? (1,600; 25-86- 40)— 'All Men Are Enemies' (FoxW Fine selling job by' Manager Daniel; but picture Isn't clicking. Mild re- ception from critics no help. About $3,000 Indicated. Light. Last week, 'Sorrell and Son' (UA), $3,600. Light. Uptown (Publix) (1,200; 25-36)-j •Henry VHT (UA), and 'Men in White' (MG), split, should garner around $2,500. -Fair. Last week, '20 Million Sweethearts' (FN), and 'Henry VIII' (UA), spilt, $3,000, Pretty good. Lyrie (Publix) (1,300; 20-25)-* 'Looking for Trouble' (UA). Tracy- Oakie combination' nice for this house and picture well suited, too. About $2,800 Indicated* Pretty , good. Last week, Ross-McLarnin fighf pictures and 'Private Scandal' (Par),,; $3,000. Good. Grand (Publix) (1,100; 15-26)— •Wonder Bar* (FN), and 'Spring^ time for Henry' (Fox); Former sec-, ond loop run,' latter first run, split. About $3,600 indicated. Fair; Last week, 'Death Takes a Holiday' second . run; and 'Smarty' first run,, split. $1;800., (Par), (WB.), Okeh. Disappointing around $4,500. Last week Til Tell the World* (U) did very nicely arid upped the house from the former week, closing with $7,000. Grosses have dropped con- oid crably^sinc6~the--.canning^o^ shows. l; Paramount (Huffman) (2,000; 25- 40)— 'Social Register' (Col.) and 'Crime of 'Helen Stanley (Col.), double bill, and 'Now I'll Teli* (Fox), split. Likely $2,600. Last week; 'Modern Hero* (WB) and' 'Sorrell and Son' (UA), split, did We usual thing to the Paramount, the sluft house of the Huffman group* 'Hero* did poorly on its three days and •Sorrell' a little better, but still let-, ting tho house down below average,. $2,000 for the week. Tuesday, June 19, 1934 PICT ecu O S S E $ variety Loop Perking Up; Darker Heads for Nifty $31,000; Bernie-XavaBers Zoom Palace, little Man 10C on H.O. ■<3 100% Dual New Haven Below Par, "Thin' $8,000 New Haven, June 18. T1 , Mm Town took a financial nap laBt n? hft7.«fflM latharev there week and looks to repeat currently. 22 ? honerul indSatlonrS^eturn! The plcnic-in-the-woods season has ^MSSd-fhe-S S|«J^Sp?T1S^? tSSSr^tA Chicago, June 18. Loop is feeling somewhat better this week though its tongue is still a bit furry. Couple of ace spots are. coming out of the ether and start- ing to eat heartily. After about a will have to count on a variety of cliques for its trade; around $6,60A, fairish- Last week, 'Such Women Dangerous' (Fox), twinned with Double Door* (Par), just another program with appropriate returns; : 6,600 average. World (Blank) (2,100; 25-35) *r Now I'll Tell' (Pox) arid Bert Smith players on the stage in 'Naughty, Naughty/ Second week of policy not expected to equal first week, but will top average of past double feature policy, Take around $5,000. Last week opening of this, new pol- icy with 'Smarty' (WB) well enough * 5,800. . ■ „ Brandeis (Blank) (1,200; 20-25 35) ~. 'Circus Clown* (FN), dual. A sum mery program, and with the cooling plant in full force may do better than $4,000. Last week break in the weather helped the house when - 'those visitors are starting to spend coin In the downtown spots. * Outstanding currently are the Estimates for This Week Paramount (Publix) (2,348; 35-50) tealaban and Katz and the RKO .—'Great Flirtation' (Par) and Baer acers, Chicago and Palace. The Carnera fight films, replacing co- fe.&K. flagship is depending on its feature 'Mystery Liner' on bill, will {.tcture, 'Little Miss Marker' (Par), do well to pull. $5,40.0, slightly sub- t started off to excellent trade on normal. Last week, 'Many Happy Friday and is continuing its pace | Returns' (Par) and fnl $S£?i2^_M$& I starting pa^V tlikt~looks~ just right 1 ^SS^&y which Vercie "Win- better than anything to plav there J on ■ wbrd-6f -mouth buildup. B.&K la playing Shirley Temple above the title but also using the name ojt Dorothy Dell, though " smaller type. Palace has a new Wheeler-Wool sey flick but is backing it up with Ben Bernie on stage and on Satur- day (16) added the Baer-Carnera Manhattan Love Song'" (Mono), . . .... of drouth areas. Several spots still stage show. Its the picture this dryf but ou ti 0 ok in general getting week, though with some support Dack to normal.-. Theatre men from Molly Picon on the rostrum. I brightening, as were beginning to Started right and^ building on no- feel the town was an oasis in the tices and talk, of which . -there is middle of the desert, with little plenty on the right side. Looks 1 hope of trade from surrounding ter ready to gallop for a winning ritory. $31,000. Last week, 'Little Man, In current attractions it's the What Now' (U) touched the best Paramount, with 'Operator 13' first mark the house has seen since It l an a tne world by virtue of its stage Happened One Night' (Col) for a stock company moving into third peven-day stay, ticking off a power- p i ace . Orpheum and Brandeis both ful $33,800 and shifted to the se t for average weeks. Roosevelt for additional loop time. Paramount :n line to take gross McVickers (B&K) (2,200; 25-35- I somewhat in excess of average due 65)— 'Key* (WB). Came in Friday to the playing of the. Metro product (15) but never got started. Looks [and the kindred heavy billing in bad- right' down the line arid doesn't, the Hearst daily. .. Glance at the figure to stick more than seven theatre page throughout week days, if that. William Powell just makes it appear 'Operator 13' is scrammed the loop the day before drily show in town.. It all adds up in 'Thin Man' (MG). May- touch I to good biz and house take around $8,000 for the week, but it will be $7,800, very good, a struggle to get even that low World, with its Bert Smith stock mark. 'Hollywood Party' (MG) company and single feature topping managed a 10-day stay to flabby the" twin feature system, but riot $11,900. House is a problem, fair holding to expectations. . Started or no fair, particularly with the bullish but light toward end of B&K United Artists and Chicago week. howling for first-choice pictures, Estimates for This Week leaving this house the weaker stuff. Paramount (Blarik) (2,765; 25-40) Oriental (B&K) (3,200; 25-35-40) -^-'Operator 13' (MGM). Exceptional *— 'Merry. Wives of Reno' (WB) and play, given -'by the Bee-News. Single vaude. House continuing along at feature and a magnet, near $7,760 an even gait, but it's not enough to good. Last week, .'Vanities' (Par) make a profit, Overhead at $16,000 nothing exceptional, but held its hasn't been touched - since the first own around average, $7,000, two weeks of operation under the Orpheum -(Blank) (2,976; 25-40) — r new. policy.. Running along at 'Black Cat' (U) and 'Hollywood $10,000-$11,000 again this week, and | Party' (MG), dual. Varied bill and that won't do. Last week 'Reg- istered Nurse' (WB) topped $11,000, Palace (RKO) (2,500; 36-55-83) •Cockeyed Cavaliers' (Radio), and vaude. Ben Bernie band headlining and. dynamiting business into the house. Theatre this week. is blasted from its long residence in the car- mine arid takes on a prosperous air. Being wowed to $23,000 on the Bernie sock. This is a terrific figure when corhpared with, previous 13 to 16 grand marks. Last, week, 'Party's Over' (Col) and .Boswell Sisters sat right down in the mud to starve at $12;300. Roosevelt (B&K) (1,500; 25-35- 45)— 'Little Man, What Now?' (U). Second week In the loop and still a powerful magnet for the matrons arid inoney. Looks easily for hearty $10,000 on the holdover. Last week, 'Thin Man' (MG) managed a neat $71400 for its second session in the downtown sector. _ Fight Films Boost Palace and Center to $18,000 and $14,000; B way Happier as Fleet Moves on 'Thin Man' $5,000, 'Baby' — °s?nnwrMir x < tuaio)" ana I $3,100, Take Bows, Indpls. Indianapolis, June 18. •Thin . Man' at Loew's Palace Is the heavyweight champ of the week at downtown boxbfnces with a The fleet pulled out yesterday (Monday) and along Broadway there's a sigh of relief. Uncle Sam's salties took in everything but the theatres on their visit here and in [ addition kept the public, away from pictures. Business isn't as bad as it might be this week but fine weather toward end of week on strength of | a g<>oa $5 00ff ; Thls lsn . t start- ^8^^ the Music Hall Ser^^rin^TFN)'^ 0 T h 2 | ling business for the hou*e. but it's | h hit ^00 on 'Verg feature; $4,100, good enough. DIXIE BALLY ON 'OPERATOR 13' 27G, WASH. during the recent hot weather.; Na- | tional ad assistance and beautiful now makes money; The Baer-Carnera .fight pictures notices from the critics definitely are pepping up the only two down- bolstered the business. Estimates for This Week town houses, both RKO, at which they went on exhibition Friday (15), Palace and RKO Center. Pal- Apollo (Fourth Ave.) (1,100; 20- ace , which also has 'Vanities', ought 25-40), 'Baby, Take a Bow* (Fox), to soar to a fancy $18,00Q or so. Child star featured big in ads while Capitol on holdover or 'Men in adult players cast are given rather whit^ ia dropping further than ex- small billing; fair at $3,100,. Last pec t e d to probibly not more than week 'Wild Gold' (Fox) weak $2,600. $30,006 after a first seven days of Circle (Katz-Feld) (2,600; 25-40), $54,000, excellent. Paramount is 20th Century' (Col). Nifty teaser 'way, off with 'Here Comes the ad campaign in advance served as Groom' and it may go out after six slight hypo, but only for an open- days. Washington, June 18. h n g day spurt; $3,760 pace just fair. I Having given picture little ad* Orily one first-run . ia satisfying Last week 'Many . Happy Returns' vance ballyhoo, spending far under the lads this week and that is a nat- j (par) hit about the same figure. average on campaign, Rivoli will ural. Fox, Loew's vaude house, fig- |_ yP ; c (Olson) (2,000; 26-40), Be get considerably more . from 'Are ured on Capital being on Mason- He v r Man . (WB ), Cagney, We Civilized?' than expected, may- Dixon line and gave 'Operator 13 a usually sUr efire here, but he is not be $17,000, okay. Picture created heavy Civil War build-up. ^Draped to par this time with business interest and but for weather, fleet, lobby with flags and offered ducats j ingeI w around $3,400, so-so. Last etc., may have been okay, for a to those lending house Confederate we | k 'Little Man' (U) finished couple weeks. Riv instead is clos- banners for ballyhoo gags. That atron ger t han anticipated with the ing down tonight, (Tuesday) for a angle was smart, as Is shown by ° t hi g $5 100 good f ew weeks, reopening after redeco- storms of applause which greet Gen. ^ 8 ^° u p"f * ' ^ . 25 . 40) ration with either 'Rothschild' or Lee, 'Dixie' and flashes of Stars and (fp L .°?"» Palace <2.800 26 40) . BuUdog prummorid Strikes Back*, Bars on screen. ^ 1^ Ma nC M-( G). Lota J m J n |y both UA. 'Rothschild* closes a With rank and file of ^ and s^t on a^ to put^^^^^^ dance joints opened up since repeal and ^it _ | 'fjgffi w^K run « the Asto L * onIght all going in for codling systems, ^ a || 9( ^ eelc &orreu ^' f >" J — & 1? wifhnnf their I brutal at $2,300, film palaces are left without their best pull on hot nights. Estimates for This Week Foex (Loew) (3,434; 26-35-60) Operator. 13* (MG) and vaude. Civil war background plus Davles-Cooper team pulling beautifully. Brltton Band on stage helping through word of mouth. Looks like big $27,000. Last week '30 Day Princess* (Par) to satisfactory $20,000. FISTICUFFS FIX SENDS 'SISTERS' TO $15,000 (Tuesday). House goeB dark. On June 28 Fox makes a roadshow try with "World Moves On' at the Criterion, with John Goririg, who has house on lease from Par, to handle the run; World in Revolt', well sold, goes out of the Rialto tonight (Tuesday) after 12 days to $18,000. Picture drew a heavy foreign patronage. Estimates for This Week A s t or (1,012; $1.10-$1.65-$2)— Church Pressure Felt in Philly; "Stingaree; fiMOO, Is Poor-Best State Lake (Jones) (2,700; 20-25- 35) — 'Three on Honeymoon' (Fox)' and vaude. 'Harlem Scandals' unit taking one-half of the vaude show and accounting for an upbeat in the gross to good $13,000. Last week, 'Coming Out Party' (Fox), managed fair $9,200. United Artists (B&K-UA) (1,700; 35-45-65)— 'Now I'll Tell' (Fox). Spencer Tracy In Arnold Rothstcin life yarn will make the house over- head, anyway, but not figured for much .ioi'p. WlikMi moans it should touch $13,000 oil the first week* Philadelphia, June 18. Catholic church anti-film ban has already dealt film business a terrific jolt here, and the worst hasn't been reached. Naturally, the downtown picture houses not quite as heavily affected as some of the" neighbor- hoods,, but even in the big ones down on Market and Chestnut grosses are a. gjrand or two below. normal. Estimates for This Week ~-Apcadia=(-600 ^-25^0-50)«=.'-Wjtch~ ing Ho.ur' (Par);. Looks like a bust. Flopped on first showing at. Stan- tori; $1,700 indicated. Last week 'We're Not Dressing' (Par) $2,200 in seven days. Boyd (2,400; 40-55-65)— 'Stingaree' Newark, Jurie 18. Blah for show business but. great I EarTe"(WB)""( 2,424; 26-35-40-60)— I for the parks and shore. However, 'Rothschild'" "(UA) (14th" week) / Ar- Many Happy Returns' (Par) and proof that they will always come for llsg st arrer closes tonight (Tues- vaUde. Owen MCGivney and Pat a hit is attested by the opening of Lj ay ) after 14 good weeks. Got $12> Kennedy big help on stage, but riot the Carnera-Baer fight pictures at 500 13th week and on the windup enough to offset unmerciful panning proctor's. -which opening cold -vvith- had $9,300 the first five days; pic got from critics. Getting rabid but a line of publicity Friday, had Capitol (5,400; 35-75-86-$1.10)— Burns-Allen fans arid that's, all. them standing up oji Saturday aind >y[ en m White* (MG) and stage Probably light $12,000. Last week w ith 'Sisters Under the Skin' may show (2nd week). Gable picture. Little Mari' (U) took nice $18,000. sweep to a fine $15,000, r wlth Abe Lyman band and Leo Car- Keith's (RKO); (1,830; 26-35-60)— The Branford with "Little Man' rnlo on stage a holdoVer for prbb- Crime Doctor* (Radio). Returned and 'Harold Teen' should do com- ably riot over $30,000. First week a house to Friday opening, but falling paratively well with over $8,500. flne $5,4,000. to last out week. Will be yanked Loew's and the Paramount- Newark Mayfair (2,200; 35-65^65)— 'Pri- Wednesday (20) with light $4,000. 1 are headed nowhere. A swing to va te Scandal' (Par). Weak but bet- Lase* week 'Sorrel' (UA) hurt when co id weather would up all grosses, ter than some have been here. May- fans confused it with revival of old Proctor's drops vode next week De $10,000. Last week 'Love Cap- silent. Got light $4,000 for five days, arid runs double features. So far tive » (u), $6,400. Met (WB) (1,683; 25-40WDouble Loew's is holding vode and is bill- Palace (1,700; 35-50-66-76)— Door' (Par). Legit version was h rt g nex t week's show. 'Vanities' (Par), Baer-Carnera popular here, and Mary Morris p ttt : ma » e - f or This Week fight, and vaude. Fistic film brlng- dragging 'em back to screen edition. Estimates for Tn.s Week £ » n cugtomerg for possible $18.- Not much to sell pic fans, however, Branford (WB) (2,966; 15-05)— 000 wee t big. Last week 'Little and won't better fair $3,800. Last 'Little Man' (U) and 'Harold Teen* Man , (U) ' « 10 ,000. week 'Earth Turns' (WB) fair with (WB). Despite heat should reach Paramount (3,664; 35-56-75-99)— $3,500. ^ ^ $8,500. Last week 'The Key' (WB) . Here Comes Groom' (Par) and Palace (Loew) (2,363; 26-35-60)— and 'Merry Frinks' (FN) not hot sta ge show. Hasn't got What it 'Sadie McKee' (MG). Second week w ith $7,000. takes and around $17,000 indicated, slipping following lukewarm ^ word | Cap jt 0 | (WB) (1,200; 16-25-36-60) bad. Last week 'Many Happy Re- — '30-Day Princess' (Par) and turns' (Par) $18,000. 'Black Cat' (U). Too close to the Radio City Music Hall (5,945; 40- flghf picture's competition and 4 60-86-99-$1.65) — 'Vergle Winters' probably aiming for a feeble $3,000. (Radio) arid stage show. Better Last week 'Manhattan Melodrama' than average here and maybe $76,- (MG) and *D6ubl6 Door' (Par) .fairrOOO.- Last week, 'Sisters - Under enough at $4,000. Skin' (Col), just fair, slightly over Little (Franklin) (299; 35-50)— f2ftftft . 40 «« 7 K 85Y— 'Troika' and 'Mother-in-Law* (Qual- , J* ' *° n ^,000' ,J^*JA 8 S"J Ity). Jewish picture instead of Li^S tnniSS- German films. Went to Thursday \ l'.° n J* toys run tonight opening last Week; looks like $300. < T ^sday) will have dragged In Last week 'Theodor Koerner' and ^} v J^, 0 %.^ u l^ a J^ the 'TXri^lr, uii'if nn flwo r?nv2 oo; 40-56-75-86)— 'Are Loew's State (2,730; 15-75).— We Civilized?' (Carewe-.Raspin). 'Born to Be Bad' (UA) and vode, At $17,000 on seven days. consider- Not catching on arid maybe a weak h n g meagre campaign,, all right. $9,000. Vode holding here at pres- House closes tonight (Tuesday) for ent. Last week 'Viva Villa' UU, ,„„ p . 1 /p flP -k nnd 'Crime • isters Under Skin' (Col) and vode W an ™r ,^^"£^^£^5; I Blue Mouse (Hamrick) (650; 15 last half this theatre is reviving the 25-35)— 'Hollywood Party' (MGM) ng all indications to date, foesnt 25) _ . With the Warner western sales half the customer tugging. Appears A little child is leading them thia ^ story, Opening pace i lookS f like $8,- , gt F ^ , h 600, not bad. Last week 'Little | ^i uv T„ v ' Man' (tJ), $7,600, poor tviiii wio „ Mtm „ „ „„„ ~ . „ „ . nnn Palace (RKO) (2,600; ,_36-44)— convention in town during fore part to be the poorest canto jogged out week to the box office at the Am- " V V ari anni o£ . the . week> pbx-West Coast is I here in three months, at $16,600. bassador, at least in sufficient num- 1 l,n,e - playing up that. firm's product, using I Last week 'Thin Man' (MG) and bers to mean a little profit for the ... . 'Dr. Monica' at the Warfleld, and five acts roped in the rainbow, picture featuring the screen's new rooters and boxing bugs assembling cagney-Blondell in 'He Was Her $20,000. — . for $9,000. okay. Last week Miss MaL n' at the Paramount, double bill- Keith's (Schanberger) (2,500; 26- Marker* (Par), $8,200. fair. ing latter with 'Call It Luck.' 55)— 'Half a Sinner' (U). No names Keith's (Libson) (1.600: 30-40)-- wlth . M ohica' the Warf is hold- nullifying It largely; opened Sat. •Merry Wives of Reno' (WE), Feel? inff over Harriett Hoctor for a deuce (16) 'evening at 6 p.m.; will be want for names. Maybe $3,500, same wee fc following exceptional comment jerked Wed. (20) nite and replaced as last week on 'Smarty' (WB).. land reception for the dancer during with TDouble Door' ' ~" Otherwise, however, it's a so-so session all around, except perhaps at Fulton where h.b. for three days of 'Change of Heart' together with Carnera-Baer fight picture ought to result in some coin. First week of Heart' at $6,000 best here in some time, putting house right back on its feet just when it needed, some sustenance most. •' Critical raves apparently little help for 'Little Man, What Now?' at Stanley, where second Sullavan flicker started out in desultory fashion and probably-, won't better $7,600, which is disappointing. War- ner, too, slipping to $6,600 with 'Merry Frinks' and 'Glamour* after. excellent previous session while Re- 1 gent continues to amble along at its regular . pace. Around . $1,6.69 in prospect for 'Party's Over' and 'Af- fairs of a Gentleman.' Estimates for this Week Fulton (Shea-Hyde) (l;850; 15- 25-40)— 'Change of Heart' (Fox)* Held over for three etxra days starting today (18) with Carnera- Baer fight pictures opening: at same time to give it extra boost. First (dimpled darling, Shirley Temple. The take will be no greater, though, I than at Loew's State, where Marlon Davies and Gary Copper are getting a few of them, too. With the exception of those two s-r>-r,-s-wv o»i. i-.AAi i — - — — v v ~ , .. — — ~ — W (Par). During theatres, there's not a great deal of u i ar D ace with, little variation •Double Doo? (Par)! ? Etelyn vin^ 1^°^ at&nZ& ' 6 S I ^5°^ r ^- m .^ 'Sinner- aoesn't | activity 'around the box ofnces.^For | W ee U P ^ 0 e ' week!: Abo?t *i,6B Pepn (Loew's-UA) (3,300; 25-35- 50) — 'Operator 13' (MG). Looks like $16,000, which is tops these days. Last week ' 'Thirty-Day Princess* (Par) with Phil Spitalny's girls' band on stage about the same. Regent (WB) (900; 25-35)-^- 'Party's OVer' (Col) and 'Affairs of a Gentleman' (U). Continuing reg- from 650 for Uncer- -. , , „ ^ , . look to budge $2,000. Last week, in the other three, it "will be mostly nr|1 . An i soocion" Last week '■ able, home towner and locally pop- Golden Gate has light fare, but its h 0 days, -Little Man, What Now ?' just another week, with an even ?'f n Xf v ' ?U) arid ^fn 01 ular, blgged over titlfc Mystery |.ad S ma ke it look : like a . great show i | (U) B co 0 ped shining $9,500. 1 ■ - -• - - '■" ^ - ' taln ■ L,afl y *V> ana bin o; . . „ v _, Of Nora trade reading with ^00. good. I wlth^Let's Talk It Over' "the pic and I -New^Mectenic) 0 (I«i7 25-50-1 maSgemen^Theffi Last week 'Thin Man' (MG). trans- Q n stage a colored show, along- with . Baby Take Bow' (Fox). Has one entering its third week tomorrow h L 5tle ' Ma^ Whit kow" (U) f erred from Albee for second week, varied vaude. Arrival Baer-Carnera appreciable asset in cast presence of night, is having its usual rather 1 SuiSil rav4s but apnareh'tly not $6,000, excellent, after $11,500 on nght film later Saturday (16) imme- Shirley Temple, but that is stunted disastrous effect on the films. For [gffiSs mSSs inL^nr^Auc^y to first week. ■ diately shot biz up. Orpheum show- D y fact the lil gal's bigger pick click, the most part they just mark time ■ wind un with $7 B00 a cry Ins shame Capitol (RKO) (2,000V 36-44)- in g 'Where Sinners Meet', while tab < Miaa Marker . (Pa r), is currently during the 12 weeks of opera. YortMa tvoe of hiffh clas? flicker! •Miss Marker' (Par). Switched -here version of 'Student . Prince' is the ri va ii n g at pair ot Loew's loop sub- 1 tnis tyDe 01 nign ciass niCKer - from Palace for second week, $3,000, stage offering, and biz light. ' | S equenters. But maybe this one can mild. Last week ^Private Scandal | Estimates for This Week_ ge t up to $4,000, which will be good ,25-35)— Stand' (Liberty) and 'Loud Speaker' Meet '* (Radio), good at $4,30a (Par), $3,500, so-so. Grand (RKO) (1,026; •All Men Are. Eijemles' (Fox) and (Mono), split. Average at $6,600, five-act bill topped by Ben Yost's low prices at other showshops hurt California Varsity 8. $3,000, fair, ing here. Last week 'Hell Cat' (Col) Last week 'Success at Any Price' and 'Stolen Sweets' (Col), split, got (Radio) and Harry Kahne the vode $6,300. header, $3,300. . • Golden Gate (RKO) (2,844; 25-35 Family (RKO) (1,000; 15-26)— 'A 40--*Talk It Over' (Radio) and vaude Man's Game' (Col) and 'Fighter and Reads like a big show and $14,000 the'Xiady* (MG) revived on account high, aided by Baer-Carnera flte of Baer-Carnera bout, split* $1,600, film rushed in late Saturday (16), Estimates for This Week Ambassador (Skouras) (3,000; Fox (Leo) (6,000; 25-35)— Take grOBS . Last week 'Where Sinners 25-35-55)— 'Little Miss Marker' (Par). May get $13,000, good. Last Last week 'Murder - at the. Vanities' (Par) way out of the dough, too, at even less. $6,250,' Warner (WB) (2,000; 25-40)— 'Merry Frinks* (WB) and 'Glamour* (U). Opening killed when every- body listened to. fight returns via Stanley (WB) (3,460; 15-25-40)— week 'Many Happy Returns' (Par) !McKee* (WB). Looks about $6,000, poor at $9,000. under expectations. Last : week Fox (F & M) (5,000; 25-35-66) — [radio and unlikely to pick up^ 'Merry Wives of- Reno' (WB) .'Strictly Dynamite' Radio and 'Hell enough to better $5,500: Last week weren't merry, but sad at same. | Cat' (Col). So-so $9,000. Last week <20th Century' (Col) arid 'Fog Over 'Twentieth Century' (Col) and Frisco' (WB) at $7,000 best takings TAC0MA 100% DUAL - |-'Whirlpoor (Col) neat at $12,000. so far under double feature policy. fair. Last week 'Blue Steel' (Mon) and 'Badge of- Honor' (Mon), divld ed. $1,400, slow. . •• Strand (Ind) (1,200; 15-20-26) •Lost Jungle* (Mon) and 'Money Means Nothing* (Mon), combined, House dropped vaude arid went into n t • * B u I 'Operator 13* (MG) Grosses Fair to Middling — Beaches worth $14,000, good. Opposish while last week 'Most Previous Thing in Life' (Radio) and stage show bolstered by McLarnin-Ross i Tacoma, June 18. fight pix to get $10,500 No week stand at present. Single- Qrpheum (F&M) (2.400 : M;*©)-: tons at the Blue. Mouse with duals SENSES ^ JSftPl.'ga Ut Roxy. ' Heat has been driving dmihie feature nix Pit ork retained I but still low. House shifts to duals 'to V fulfil ^ reduced scale contract, Friday (22). Last week. 'Little Man' which has coupla weeks to run. (U) with Arthur Tracy on stage for Might get |l^d^olntln» . I** |six p days of^we^k got |air $9,600. 40)— 'Her Man' (WB) and 'Call It Luck' (Fox), split. Cagney and Blondell drawing, $12,600. Last week 'Fog Over Frisco' (WB) and 'Spring- time for Henry' (Fox), split, got light $9,500, natives resenting that intimation- of .fog, and .above all, calling it' 'Frisco.' " St. Francis (F-WC) (1,500; 25-36- 40)^'Thin Man' (MG). Moved over from Warfleld and going well at $6,000. 'Vanities' (Par), similarly moved last week, got but $3,600. Warfleld (F-WC) (2,700; 35-45- 66)— 'Dr.» Monica' (WB). and stage show, with Harriett Hoctor staying Student Prince' tab. May be W.B00 ?^^; tt f ^^"^""^l o+m i~~r tj^,,o^ Q v,)f+a in Rimini 101118 *o me mountains, laices ana sound, with the beaches getting ma- week 'Big Bluff' .(Ind) and vaude, $1,700. 'MELODRAMA' $6,500; SEATTLE ADVERSE Seattle, June 18. Beaches and resorts proving ter- rific opposition for the theatres. Whole town in a tailspin, which got into full motion last week, resulting in Olsen and Johnson in 'Take , a Chance' proving a poor chance for I for a' second week after a big build the Hamrick ace spot, Music Hall, flopping at weak $7,000. where ten grand was looked for. . ■ Estimates for This Week Blue Mouse (Hahirick) (1,000; 15-25)— 'Trumpet Blows' (Par) and 'Affairs of a Gentleman' (U) dual. With new low price at mats, 16 cents, a real help, should get around $2,500, fair. Last week 'Fog Over Frisco' (WB) and 'Half a Sinner' (U) dual, fair, $2,350, Coliseum (Evergreen) (1,800; 15 2&)_'Cat and Fiddle' (MG) and 'Come on Marines' (Par) dual. Anticipated to touch $3,000. Last week 'Geo. White Scandals' (Fox) and 'Ross-McLarniri' flte, split with ^Gambling— Lady^— (WB) -and^AlK Men Are Enemies' (Fox) dual, slow $2,700, first half getting only $1,200. Fifth Avenue (Evergreen) (2,400; 25-40) — 'Manhattan Melodrama' (MG) with Gable and Loy in big type, expected to see $6,500, deemed good - at present. Last week '20,- 000,000. Sweethearts*- (FN) eight days, slow $6,500. Liberty (J-vH) (1,900; 10-25)— •Shadows of Sing Sing' (Col) and •Dynamite Ranch' (Fox) dual. Looks On way to $3,600, so-so. Music Box (Hamrick) (950; 25- 36)— 'Where Sinners Meet' (Radio) up. Kay Francis well liked ; biz fair at $17,500. Last week 'Thin Man' (MG) and Hoctor sock $23,000. BROOKLYN SAME Bill Robinson With 'Men in White' $18,000— 'Now I'll Tell' $16,000 Brooklyn, June 18. Attendance at the downtown de- luxers has picked up little. Picture fare is better than average and so is vaude, for a change.. Loew's Met with 'Men in White' and Albee with 'Now I'll. Tell' doing okay . _ " "EstTmates"^ Albee (RKO) (3,500; 26-35-50)— 'Now I'll Tell' (Fox) and vaude fea turing Art Jarrett and Eleanor Holm, both Brooklynites. Picture Sot good notices and Carnera-Baer fight flicker helped to increase biz. Around $16,000. Last week 'Little Man' (U) $16,500, fair. Fox (Conco) (4,000; 25-35-50) 'Such Women Dangerous' (Fox) and stage showing. In region of $10,000, mild. Last week 'Love Captive' (U), $11,000. Metropolitan (Loew) (3.000; 25 or play. Estimates for This Week Music Box (Hamrick) (1,400; 25- State (Loew's (3,000; 25-36-66)— Davies film XiELSt WGCk 'Thin Man* (MG) got $16,000. Missouri (Skouras) (3,500; 25- 40)— 'Great Flirtation' (Par) and 'Affairs of a Gentleman' (U), About $7,000. Shubert (Warners) (2,000; 25-40) —'He Was Her Man' (WB) and 'Fog Over Frisco' (WB). Maybe $7,000. Last week 'Modern Hero' (WB) and 'Merry Frinks' (WB) around, same figure. Whether Boycott's Hurting in Catholic Prov. Not Yet Certain Kansas City 100% Friday Opening Ted Lewis on Stage, Mainstreet $12,000; 'Operator 13/ Midland, Also $12,000 Kansas City, June 18. For the first time itt several years every first run house, in the downtown district, opened the cur- rent bill on Friday, and are fight- ing it out on an even basis from the getaway. Loew's Midland, which has been opening on Saturday has changed to the Friday starter as a regular policy, and is showing 'Operator 13' .and featuring 'Big Bad Wolf.' All of the new bills opened well and as the spring racing season closed Saturday the managers are anticipating some extra matinee business, for while the racing meet was not a financial success it drew many women, especially on the ladies free days. ^ ^{irt^tes-f or - THis^Week^^ . Mainstreet (RKO) (3,200) 25-36- 60)— 'Glamour' (U), and Ted Lewis and his Happiness Follies of 1934. Opened well and enjoyed a heavy play over the week end which gave it a nice start for a respectable gross.' Close to $12,000. Last week '20th Century' (Col) and 'Sisters Under the Skin' (Col), not so sporty, only $5,000. Midland (Loew) (4,000; 26)— 'Op- erator 13' (MG). First Friday open- ing for months and business good Picture nicely publicized and had em coming. Looks like $12,000 Last week 'Sorrell and Son' opened fair but slipped badly after Sun- day for $7,000. Newman. (Par) (1,800; 25)— Many Happy Returns' (Par) and 'I Be Heved in You' (Fox). Its birthday week, 15 years, for the house arid several extra features are on the bill in addition to the .double fea tures. Nice week end trade' and week should return 'dose to $7,000. Last week 'Little Miss Marker' (Par) and 'The Crime of Helen Stanley' (Col). Papers gave show great notices and business held strong for better than the advance estimates. $7,500. Tower (Rewot) (2,400; 25)— 'Up- per World' (WB), and 'Beach Brev-^ ltics' with. Barney Grant and,com- pa'ny, Rena' & Rathburrf, Roberta Nesbitt, Rayburn Girls and Bathing Beauties and the following acts of vaudeville: Edison & Louise, Villy Gibson,' Stanley & Kaplan and Tracy-Brown's band. Got away strong and looks like a big week. Likely around . $6,000. Last week 'Party's Over' (Col) and stage show. $5,700. Uptown (Fox) (2,040; 25)— 'Little Man, What Now?' (U). Now in its second week arid going strong. Ex- pected to get $4,000. After a big $5,500 for the first seven days. Providence; June. 18. Plenty of names for drawing power, but natives riot buying. Many contributory factors towards downward trend in box office other than seasonable drop; principal items the Ringling circus, the Catholic campaign against films, and unusually bad bills. Exhibitors .divided whether :re- cently .launched Catholic drive in hurting biz, but in the main opinion seems to be that box office is getting terrific wallop since 60%. of draw- ing population is Catholic. . Every stand making heroic effort to keep open during the summer but at least two. hoiises arc bound v to fold soon; Estimates for This Week Fay's (2,000; 15-26-40) — 'Wild Gold' (Fox) and vaud. Stage show not much help this week; gross will not be much bver $6,600; fair. Last week 'Smarty' (WB) and vaude with Great Lester headlining man- aged to garner .around $5,800. Loew's State (3,200; 15-25-40)— 'Operator 13" (MG) and Vaude. House anticipates $10,000, almost double of what any of the opposish will garner. Last week 'Thin Man' (MG) and Thurston, nice at $12,600. . Majestic (Fay) (2,200; 15-25-40)— 'He fras Her Man' (WB) and 'Merry Wives o£ Reno' (WB). About best thing in straight pictures but this^docs^t^Tncan^anything^^ter^ rifle; won't be much over $5,0'00, low considering «what it grosses normally. Last week 'Little Man' (U) and 'Palooka' (UA) got the praise but didn't get the money; off at $4,200. Paramount (Indie) (2,200; 15-26- 40) — 'Double Door' (Par) and 'Loud: Speaker' (Mono). Lack of names ,in cast responsible for poor biz; $3,800, off. Last week 'Miss Marker' (Par) and 'Monte Carlo Nights' (Mono) didn't size up as (Continued on page 72) Tuesday, Juue 19, 1934 VARIETY 11 ajtfi, PICTURES Set your dates from the pages of the BIG Fox BOOK for A AUGUST! SEPTEMBER! OCTOBER ! 1mm '<. EXTRA gltmoimtndiip Neros I EXTRA SEASON 1934-35 STAR POWER GREATEST IN FOX HISTORY SAYS S. R. KENT M KEYNOTE MESSAGE! AV1NG put its own financial house in order, Fox Film Corporation faces the coming season with every ounce of manpower and all its resources free to devote themselves, to the sole task of producing out- standing motion pictures. We have recognized that one of the grave problems in present day exhibition is the scarcity of box office personalities. To solve this problem, the production department of this company during the last year has literally scoured the world for talent. From the legiti- mate stage, from Europe and from the ranks of the most promising of the younger players, we have re- cruited a large and growing company of talented artists. Already some of these newcomers have registered heavily with the public. Others, in whose talent and personalities we have equal confidence, will be intro- duced on the screens of the world during the coming season. The development of new personalities is not alone a problem of Fox Film Corporation. It is a problem of every producing company and every exhibitor. The exhibitor has just as big a stake in the discovery and nurturing of talent as the produce/, and he should advertise and exploit these new people for his own benefit and the benefit of the industry at large. In our Annual Announcement Book, which is now in the hands of the world's leading exhibitors, we have displayed the pictures of Fox personalities and also have outlined some of the productions which we will release next season. We have purposely refrained from ^al3verti^ forth in this book only those pictures that are definitely formulated and which it is our intention to make. Thus, exhibitors can place more reliance on the productions we have announced, whilje at the same time, our studio will not have its hands tied but will have ample op- portunity to enlarge its plans as the season progresses. In addition to the pictures that we do list in the book, we have several other very important ones which we shall announce later. In the following pages we show you the pictures which we will release in August, September . and October. These pictures are either already con> pleted or are actually in production. Our production department, under the direction of Mr. Winfield Sheehan, is functioning better than it ever has in the history of this company. Around him Mr. Sheehan has- gathered a notable staff of writers, and also has assembled a group of directors whose records prove their ability to make pictures that will suit the public taste. With this program and with these producing re- sources at hand we are extremely confident that Fox Film Corporation, during the coming year, will deliver to the screens of the world a product that will bring prestige and profit to every exhibitor playing it. President , Fox Film Corporation / L •• ...» s «... « '■•'■s O'^'^^B iiiiiiti f - t S S S S S *■ V t|plttill Big is fight! #2 showing. Big enough for a road show . . . big enough for a That's exactly what "The World Moves On" is. A special" in every sense of the word. No doubt you've heard about it . . . and are wondering when you can date it in. We don't blame you! It will be a Big Day when you do! 111 i\*»'»W.V.'.V. til ■•.v.-.sv.v.v. III -V. NEWS pub etui 1 v to,* lillitll ir: You'll cheer this . 1 1 'Sty 7~ Tf and will i"* >* MoAuct of FOX WW l-:wx';w.v.vA'/«w> f^HCHOT TONE j bv John ford ° , ! by Re9">•" , VP * w f •:'>:-:*:-:-:- , - - -:>\^:';-:^:':':-:'^-:-:-:v 14 Smart showman that he is... and your top-draw comedy star...Harold Lloyd has done it again! Stepped put and got the Clarence Budington Kelland Saturday Evening Post serial (and best -seller). Gathered together a swell supporting cast {Look at them!) And made a corking laugh-and-suspense knockout.. .with plenty of love interest. Not only different, but his best...ahd that's SOMETHING! O fOX SHOWMANSHIP N£ws i-s S v.' si Iplittil mi 1-4 vv 1 1 Pw" TV r..?i Cr.ixW, I 'I'M- Pi,', ,k « MUtn'i lU Statement of Fact | "11 TMr. hi, nl^nL 1 * ""• I PAW • for rf,. ftn, „ m , HortU thl. madly . nhrt0 ? nl ! o , f h,m """J wh*n he 9 ' °" *• wlrh him. • TW. drama l„ ,ht.... ond wniM % . moM of all areaMa-Ji,,,. J, Wmqnt# • ' ■ «"»P«ni.. Bui k'3»>^U';, , s % ; 'V , ^ ^ V^-C ''''^' s , UNA MERKE/ VARIETY .S } .•'X Mere's the kind of a show that hits women where they live the heart . . . how they'll sympathize with this girl . ., . who didn't think she was good enough for an unspoiled love... hut was big enough to risk her life for the youth whose affection she refused. A great role for Rosemary Ames . . . and she makes the most of it* „,, ••>\i * IpSwvpMv.v.'.sv " * '''VI 7» 1 Lert go on v.v.w-S.o:-: L AVW.Vi P >^ <■ xxx-ilii::!; ' > i .■.V.V.V.W.V. MVS.WSf S* ' •? r 't ' Tuesday* June 19, 1934 VARIETY 17 sup Charlie Chan is a movie habit with millions of people. When those Chan fans see Warner Oland snooping around London's Limehouse . • . dodging death . . . and showing Scotland Yard how to track a murderer . . . they'll get a dozen new kinds of shivers. And every shiver means money in your bank account. Now let's meet the people's friend. . . >°""- 6oH D -» f amout _^^/*aalnl Far and awax, «oying. have •* unfailing \Q in Londoi >ous«Md W ord«. < , hii FOX hrouc WARNER OUND Produced by i9hh st S erMooI \ ' rtC, - b ^-9.Hadd.n 18 VARIETY Tuesday, June 19 , 1934 w " When George O'Brien and Zane Grey get together. . .it' s time to think about preferred playing time. Saturday nights and Sundays • . ... with the house packed full of kids 7 . . of alt ages, WJte telling YOU! This is the first of a series witn George . . . your box office reliable! Just the beginning of a lot of good news. consistency George uo ft ih Or Tuesday, June 19, 1934 VARIETY 19 m ft H - A \ X 9v- ^ JoTCobk! Another staFscoop for FOX.v; i ; \s « \ NEWS 1 Ot 6 J ^^^^ JC^'LCDk. a— IN A* Here'* /tin . . . &£7 pr wa '>' 20 VARIETY \ Tuesday, June 19, 1934 Janet Gaynor! ' That would be~plenty7 Btttfshe's teamed with, heir "State Fair" boy friend. Lew Ayres^And that's more than enough for your lights. With a peach of ^supporting cast. The story? Another new role for Janet .different .. . that makes her more lovable than ever. She starts out as a kitchen slavey. .. and how your heart aches for. her., Which is just what your crowds pay for. FOX 8883 Marque* The name in Shotv » svfeeth eartw S3» is Believe it or not there's more . . . IS** mm ' : * i ending tow*** office bonW>» fat every 'V WNMyyiv.w,>ww?ffl'>;vKW>: ' * S ? : * ts t . J - ys'' s*« ''>V/ ; I wst w * w tf t «* '% Y't ','// '<> , I I M't/s V'/ t ' /f f t j. t ■ x ' " , / ms.:-.: 1 • "* t, f j t W ' \ t f 22 VARIETY Tuesday, June 19, 1934 you some of your greatest money picture: FOX got Erik Charell . . . Europe's prize long-run producer (his Kits run for years!) .... . backed him to the limit ... and that's " Caravan.'' Call it monumental , . .colossal ... or what have you! One of the swellest entertainments you ever treated your tomers to. And, boy, it's geared for RECORDS! > Keep %ovng this is BIG. Tuesday, June 19, 1934 VARIETY 23 IP pilflll V How would you like" another "David Harum" from Will Rogers? This is it! A character as famous as "David" himself . . . Irvin S. CobbV'Judge Priest", . . loved by every Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan reader (there's millions of them!) Imagine our Will as the mellow, popular, smart-as-a-whip Judge. . And think of the business he'll do! EV S ,/>J m Still going strong . . . Saturday 5v en * h ™ - *s* - . . . & o,c p 6w • sr*..... 0 "* v-?s its" ' V-"' '-vj WS'J"/$ ''4$ X/ ,- >?', v A 24 VARIETY Tuesday, June 19, 1934 i Who arc your ten best box office authors? Right ! v . .. the first time... Mary Roberts Rinehartt Here at her best .... meaning a super-super best-seller. The story of a woman who tried many adventures... but almost missed the greatest ... love. Told with that gripping vitality that excites every sympathy! A 1 "St rij tone" ca'$ \\\ Heal s polite autM'- ^ ■> v- J tiro w» MM* HO* of the year. Not _ ab . « .^ ft -btttUie»n le0seiy jUtanaiogWt* ?WXi'XvXW;vJ:tK:K'X>0:w^ •X'XyX'XXvXvX;VvX;X\v^^^ Tuesday, June 19, 1934 VARIETY 25 '.w.v, 1 . -'vs.. , < "Baxter is box office V\T. sounds like a song . . . and many's the time you've sung it! Big he always is . . . especially in those he-man parts. Witness "In Old Arizona" and "The Cisco Kid!" This is another with plenty of wallop . . «>■ the those he-man parts. Witness "In Old Arizona" and " Cisco Kid!" This is another with plenty of wallop Warner Baxter as an aerial daredevil • . . who roma around between flights. A great dish for the men, ^ ' '/-> , v \ W ■>,-"f 1 x *1 - * ""5 Cotton, »t„ . . 00 "»'ine, 5° ."""«ie»I.A n„7T 0,Sce ' * ""SfSS* 1, * SON. ^e^S^^r — ' — - :» S3* i ■I IfS - i P "V* ■ [:■»>:«■;■.■:■:■. .-i-X* i'-W.v.;/.;.v.; p / /. 1 V /,/ ^ ^-/ove dr CyeS ^e Aeart. ^ dma tfl at will . c«> w , U b ° at *ftfc U,i u ""^ ^^^to^;' H ° W *«* Joe m.wc. Cm ( If 1 V"' 's-fy'-A ' r t * ^ ' V W/ ' ' " '' , Ms'/'' '' '''/' ' , \", «,/ ' /*•< >/',»■>,: r 'i t ' KM «r m* m =~ " M '" c """"«« w ». ( , HAVENS >', '\ n ■:•:'•> > ' > I'' ■SxSS-:" "■:¥>;":■;■ SviwX I'W^X'ivwX'J^XxSxi:' ■ 'ft v w. ■ ■ ■■.:-».\w^v/. , .v«//. ■:-:::::i¥;!i;:;:y:¥x : : / > Aw. .■.■•v«uHv'' • 26 'ftiesclay, June Release Date Aug. 10 Aug. 17 Aug. 24 Production WANTED THE CAT'S-PAW SERENADE Aug. 31 THE WORLD MOVES ON Sept. 7 THE DUDE RANGER Cast Rosemary Ames, Pert Kelton, Henry B. Walthall Harold Lloyd, Una Merkel Lilian Harvey Madeleine Carroll, Franchot Tone George O'Brien Sept. 7 CHARLIE CHAN IN LONDON Warner Oland Sept. 14 Sept. 21 Sept. 28 SERVANTS' ENTRANCE Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres Oct. 5 Oct. 12 • Oct. 19 Oct. 26 THE STATE VERSUS ELINOR NORTON CARAVAN HELL IN THE HEAVENS JUDGE PRIEST FUN ON THE AIR CAPTIVE BRIDE (tentative title) A brilliant cast now being selected Charles Boyer, Loretta Young, Jean Parker Warner Baxter Will Rogers Joe Cook, James Dunn, Alice Faye Charles Boyer Tuesday, June 19, 1934 Fll m E VIEWS VARIETY 27 Life of Vergie Winter. I a ts M * <> i. t ». U,e Radio production and release. Ann Hard- 1 Story is illogically told, with no Ins and John Boles starred. Directed by e ff or t to make the Situations Cbn- Alfred Santell. Story by Louis Bromfleld, « ZT Kl , J* iV, tt rUrPPMnn is eood adapted by Jane Murfln. Luclen Andrlol. vinclng, but the direction IB BOO* photog. At Music Hall. N. Y.. week June at times and the impression is left 14. Kumiuiff time, n mlns. that something might have been L&ra Sbidweil. ............ .Helen Vinson thors been, less intent upon their Joan (10 years)..... .Betty Furnoss ] pattern. Banny Trueddalo ^/"l. Alb , e . rtBOn Aline MacMahon manages to act. Hugo McQueen.. Crolghton Chaney ■ ■ r lw *™~7 „„i Kiit this is Wlnnte Belle......... ..Sara Haden human now *nd -then,, put tms is. Sadie.. ...Moity O'Day seldom. Guy Kibbee breezes along Barry Preston,.,.. .... .Bon Alexander as the visiting brother, and almost Herbert Somerby. .Wesley Barry others are licked before tney Start. They seem to feel as hopeless as th»v lnnk- (7/lfC, The unwed mother - unrequited iney 1 °" love theme, so constructed, directed , r , _^^.«— and Performed as shine once Here Comes the UrOOm jnbre. 'The Iiife of Vergle Winters' paramount release °* &\J?° S ^ \ is one of those sobbers with the dis- ^«^ na *$Sg& ^dwarf* Se'dT tinctive knack of drawing tears I story, Richard Fiournoy; screen easily, naturally, and not forcing 1 piay," Leonard Prasklns and 9 a rt ejr « m^lX"* them. The women will go for it, son: camera, Henry Sharp. At ^amwnt, and that's bound to mean touslnessl^.^^ ^^.^ft-fti* Story, in development and by na- ^Jflg -Mary Poland ture, is strongly remindful of those Patricia Randolph.. •'-•'••■•v-'v?^f r iS ^.mim lady-had-a-baby themes that Con- Jim,-.., . . .-.».•. . , ..... . . • ••>- N ^ b 5 ft j e ? weit nle Bennett used to like so" well,' and I • ' \V.V; .'.VCI'.'iiwrence Gray not a little unlike 'Back Street* To dKivc Weaver • Sidney, Toler the latter It bears particular resem- George Randolph, .......... H - ^rX-Ha blance, not only in form but also in First Cop. . . . .... ....... — ^ward Bbnd the reminiscent performance ,, by a d c ^;;;;;;;;:::::;:::::jam" Farley John Boles, who plays an almost Porter...;.,.... identical role in this one. Butler. ,,. v-'»;---*S/ r S Ann Harding goes through the ^ G ^^ -^^mVs^Sie customary pangs, pain and torture sewn? , gunman.. ■which the part always calls for; her ; Tw0 _ ree i er str etched into 66 mlns. love and loyalty for a married man ^ w °. l £ 7^ r jaffs, but not enough, are the source of not too unpleasant pu r S th e rr nJre its paucity of marquee Borrow for 70 minutes of film foot- Attest a sat rs ws meanwhile making Vergle's life as more of a. pity tha^they were not easy as Prlmo Camera's in the Long more sturdily ou *g"«*- w ££S a Island City bowl. Until at last the has gained in 8""°* g man tells his wife, who vehgefully nullified here, despite all sporadic shoots, him— for which Vergle takes opportunities of unusual achieve- the rap. ment. And as for Mary Boland, one It ends as happily as it can in the day they're,going to wake up to the sombre surroundings of a penlteri- fact she's surefire cinematic star tiary. But from the very beginning timber if properly handled. Hers is the picture tips off the audience to an artistry that can be capitalized prepare for a sad time, since it as much on screen as .it 1 ' has in the commences with the man's funeral; past on stage. The balance is a flashback. . '. Basic story idea is against the Nothing " else than first - grade wn ole words'. It's far-fetched, silly, adaptation, dialog writing, acting ra ther stupid: in the main, and and production could have made it a p re( ji C ated on an unsound founda- eucccss. Fortunately, 'Vergle' re- tion- which permits for little or no ceived all of Chose, plus the dtrec- sympathy for anybody, tion of Alfred Santell, who obvi- rpiu: idea of a capricious heiress pusly understood his subject.. falling in with a larceny guy Miss Harding and Boles play their (Haley), after being jilted by a parts with much understanding also, ma3ked crooner , is as silly as the Miss Harding gaining sympathy 1 initfa.1 premise that -Haley, in order immediately and retaining it all the 1 1 click witn Iga b e i Jewell, must way, while Boles avoids bringing Miniature Reviews 'The Life of Vergie Winters' (Radio). Well done version of a. standard theme. Should at-r tract the women mostly. Ann Harding- John BoleS. 'The Merry Ffinks' (FN). Poor comedy and lacks names. ... 'Pr ivate Scandal' (Par). Murder mystery that follows tried channels in construction, action, etc. Just a picture. 'Here Comes* the Groom' (Par). Too slight and light* weight for important boxofflce attention despite Haley-Bo- : land's yeoman comedy antics. •Along Came Sally' (G-B). Another from England built to suffice for the singing come- dienne talents, of Cicely Court- neidge. "Disappointing enter- tainment On whole for Amer- ica! Music and dances best Aim contains. 'Are We Civilized ?'(Carewe). "World peace preachment com- posed of. original production and newsreel or stock . shots. Has little value as commercial entertainment. 'Let's Talk It Over' (U.). Male Cinderella theme with a raft of good comedy moments, but a story that never moves out of the regulation groove. 'Wh:te Heat' (South Sea). Big sugar plantation fire the. outst;ander in this, Which otherwise is in the regular melodrama school. WHITE HEAT Seven Seas' Corp. production, -distributed by J. D. Trop (states right). Directed by Lois Weber, who collaborated,, with' James Bodrero. in story arid dialog. At - Gaiety, N. Y., beginning' June 15.. Running time, 00 mlns. Lucille Cheney , .Virginia Cherrlll. Lellanl Mona Maris Chandler Morris ardle Albright William Hawks. .David Newell Armla , .- /.Arthur Clayton Mac ....'Robert Stevenson Hale. ;.. ....Whitney de Rahm Mrs. .Naomi Chtlders Adam Nanl Palsa Lono .Kollmau Kamai ■ Mrs.- .Kamaunanl Achl Soong , Peter Lee Hyuri Lei lan I' s Father ;.,Nohill Naumu American audience satisfaction, the story Includes New York racketeers who have followed a night club op- erator over to London whence he has scrammed to escape paying protection. Sam Hardy is the •King' Kelly from the States who's setting up shop in. old London, the only' member of the cast known at all to American patrons. The racketeers are. woven Into the story to provide a reason, for kidnapping' the star of the floor show and to provide her With comr edy material in", effecting an escape. Except for the Apache dance, other prpvisions for laughs from Miss Courtrieidge rate ;ih the main riretty weak. Early action plants the star on efforts to crash the show the American night ..club king, is putting on. She eventually poses ., as a French star when that's what Kelly is looking for but oh the opening hight reveals her identity and the nitery chief loves her just the same, for. the happy fade. Before this occurs, the gang of New York rodmen have been rounded up under circumstances that are little more than a waste of film footage. A couple production numbers are well staged, one worked Into the rehearsal sequence, the other for opening night. Effective grouping of the girls, clever photography and some camera trickery figure in raising this ingredient of the pic- ture above everything else it con tains. Several songs are Included, best of which comes out of one of the production sequences, 'Riding On A Rainbow.' 'Napoleon's Hat', .is novelty of fair melodic swing, while 'You Ought to See Sally on Sunday' also sounds okay. Doubted, how- ever, that any of these are destined to become hits over here. Phyllis Clare, does the original star of the floor show who's de- moted in favor of a Continental name, while Billy- Milton plays the singing lead. .He has a solo bit on one occasion, that's sold Agreeably well. Char. Talking Shorts any resentment down on his two- timing head. Since the story covers liming neaa. »mce cne story covers .i K 0 ».ri»r a span of more than 20 .years, the tn ® J"? "v-q to click with Isabel Jewell, must prove himself ah accomplished | crook. That's a faise start from Best shot of the proceedings is Haley's simulation of crooning at a dead Steinway while the real crooner is giving out from the radio behind him. Even for the silly summer season Abel. aging make-up process is necessary £>ut neatly done. When Miss Hard ing is dissolved from a young ma iron to a middle-aged lady with circles under her eyes in a split becond, it's accomplished very well, ■ ... - . . . indeed. The same abrupt time " 3 to ° ll ? nt changes were necessary in the script I as well, but these, too, were man- . TRLL TALE HEART aged by smooth continuity.. All in all, 'Vergle Winters' is an (BRITISH- MADE) excellent example of how the proper cilfton-Hurst^production and DuWorld re trlmmlnca p*n nnlinh iin nn nnln- 1 lease. Directed by Desmund Hurst. Story trimmings can polish up an unin- ftda ptatlon and art direction by David spired Story and make it Stand up] piunkett Greene, from a short atory by as picture entertainment. Bige. Edgar Allen Poe. At the 55th St. Play- house. N. T„ week June 14. Running, time, , 51 mlns. „ ' ' _ THE MERRY FRINKS S2 ^■iu.:;:::::::;::::^^S » »»»»«»« The Girl.. Tolande Terrell First National production and Warner First Investigator .Thomaa Shenton release. Directed by. AlCred E. Green. I Second Investigator ..James FlecK Btory and screen play by Gene Markey The Doctor. . . . ColoneV Cameron and Kathryn Scola. Arthur Edeaon, Asylum Superintendent ;H. Vasher camera. At Strand, Brooklyn, commenc- I •■ .. ing June 14, on double bill. Running time, This is one that can be carded Mom Fdnk AUno MacMahon Uuickly and easily enough is an Uncle Newt Guy Kibbee artistic flop. That doesn t do the Joe. Hugh Herbert film justice, however. It has suffl- ^^a^„ u'ifil J t "I^'Pn cient importance from a technical L^r.:::::::::::::::::::^^ ^ 01 " 1 to command attention- *.uvii ia ...... t tl UHII t> liccm Norman ' Frankle Darro Ramon Ivati T^ebedefl and serious attention — from the trade. In transmitting this Edgar Allan Poe yarn to the screen, Desmund | Hurst, an adventurous, and young Englishman, attempted to capture all the yarn's mystery and grue -Although there are a- number of laughs in this — from such bits of humor as a fresh kid telling his grandmother to shut-up, this prod- i all tne yarn s mysiery ana grue- uct does not fully class as comedy 1 someness. He got them in ah over. . for the laughs are too few. It's dose. It's so. mysterious that half ALONG CAME SALLY If a major company had produced 'White Heat' it would probably have developed the sugar plantation possibilities. Seven Seas concen- trates on melodramatic aspects of the ordinary sort for the most part, although it uses the sugar fields for a big fire climax. Picture has dark photography and : recording that blurs here and there: Film has all the earmarks of authenticity. The camera, however, lacked the vision, of the average travelogue.br newsreel clip for which this locale is old territory. While, lending itself to a sex bal- lyhoo there is nothing in the action, scenically at least, which Could causa offense. Story boils out of that pot wherein faithful island mistresses win over treacherous wives, etc. Moha Maris of Hollywood does her best to be Lellanl of the S. S. At least, she is pretty in the native costume. William Hawks, the sugar planter who is confused by Worn eh, is shown in almost every frame in the feature, and most of the time with a bottle in his hand. Virginia Cherrill, the bored so ciety girl wife, is signalized by starting the cane fire to divert her husband, and runaway with a boy friend she deserted earlier in the footage. Hawaiian music, and familiar singing, etc., are dragged into the action intermittently. Waty. strictly a machine-made product, offering the most disagreeable fami- ly group since 'Three Cornered Moon.' 'Frinks' carries to an illogicai con elusion. As usual, it's the mother who carries the burden of a disor the time the ' audience Won't know what's going on at all. Importance of the film is two fold. First it is photographically a gem, some of the shots being reminiscent of Harry Lachman and . . RUeben Mamoulian at their best. The wnu carrier me ouraen or a aisor- M amoulian at their best. The ganlzed family. In this instance she g ha*V I use of dialog. The husband is a sports .writer ence as though there were barely a with a_ thirst. Most of the^time he do2fen or ao speeches in. the entire loses his job faster than his wife fll m and aU of them clipped. Hurst ul m,™,!™^ his dialog in such fash- is a querulous old lush, h slaughter i n t employ an absolute mini- ■5t.-- 8iU i y ^ Ue , f 001 ^ h °. fl i irt fK Wi i h a mum, using pantomime and silent married booking agent in the hope e ' n technique to manage it. It's he'll get her a radio job. Of the f terestingh effective and, on the twb sons, the elder is a Communist m no ^f l a ? t ,stically successful. If f£nW ? 0 Srf. rn fh« 0 h^th^o? film in toto were a better tighter. Added is the brother or +u« fv, a ^tairk<» wrmid -thB-hra a ^f-^rie-mrase,^h^settles+ himself down on them. - When he be ai J lntte ^5 t! "? , te ^V Swinn dies of acute indigestion brought iect for ■ world-wide ^ distribution be- on by Indulgence in his own Orien- cause the language barrier dlsap- tal cookery, he leaves the mother nea ,"l k-,,-.^!. «i m f nr /nqtrthii- half a million dollars on condition Lj ox ,£°. u ?^^^ that she leave the others. She does, tion right ir ^ England indicating Its but comes back to them, abandon- value over there. But it won t get ing the fortune because they need very far In the local market. h er ° ne important thing, from the These, unlovely characters are mm industry standpoint Is to watch given free rein to prove their un- for Hursfs. future, work. H this is Worthiness. At times they do com- a sample of his first effort he con- mand hycrlis, there are a few good celvably can become one of the Comedy situations, but a couple of I cinematographio magicians. Kauf. (BRITISH-MADE) (With Songs) : CalnsboroUgh production and Gaumont British release. Stars Cicely Courtneldge Directed by Tim. Whelan. Based on story by Tim Whelan, with adaptation by Guy Bolton. Additional dialog by. Austin Melford and A, R. Rawllnson, Music by Harry Woods; Dances by Bd ward Royce. At' Criterion, N. "SC., week starting Thursday, June 14. Running tlme^ 70 mlns. Sally Bird I Mademoiselle Zazaf. . .Cicely Courtheldge Michael 'King' Kelly Sam Hardy Queenie Billy...... 'Gloves' Caslon .... Little Joe. Joan ...... Madison. . , Percy... Tubby..... .Phyllis Clare .Billy Milton .......... Hartley Power . .Ben Weldon ..Enrico Naldi .... Ann Hope .Ivor McLaren . . .Rex Evans .Tubby CI pen ==^ery=d u llT^Yamkee=fll m-=a iidiences won't have much to feed on here. Built obviously around Cicely Courtneidge, with an eye to suit ing the talents of the vaude-type singing comedienne, 'Along Came Sally' tries hard to entertain, but misses pretty steadily, in some re spects its passes' muster, notably In the dances staged and particularly the comical Apache in which Miss Courtneidge has a gunman mas querading with a loaded gun as her partner. Palpably in an effort to shoot for PRIVATE SCANDAL Charles RJ Rogers production and Para- mount release,- Features ZaSu Pitts,'. Phil- lips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks, Lew Cody. Directed by Ralph Murphy. , From, original by Vera Caspary and Qruce Man- ning. Adaptation, Garrett Fort. Photog- raphy, .Milton Krasner. At Mayfalr, N. T., week .June 13. Running time, 02 mlns. Miss Coates.. ; ZaSu Pitta Cliff Barry Phillips Holmes- Fran Somers.. .......' Mary- Brian Rlordan w. ........... .Ned Sparks B. J. Somers .' Lew Cody Adele Smith..... ......June Brewster Jerome Harold Waldrldge H. R. Bobbins. ................ .Jed Prouty Mr. Terwll.llger. ...Charles Sellon Insurance Agent....... ...... ...Rollo Lloyd' Deborah Lane........... ..'..Olive Tell A rather obvious murder mystery with' a tinge of suicide possibilities in, this case has provided sufficient laughs to make moderately fair en- tertainment. Any draw will come frpm the title and perhaps some. so-, so word of mouth, cast names not being enough to make much di ence. ZaSu Pitts as an office secretary; Ned Sparks doing a loudjrjnjyith.ed cop; Phillips Holmes in the : shoes of ah ,all 'too-young office execu- tive; Mary Brian as his girl; Lew Cody, the murdered real estate operator, and others, not the least of them. an office boy, all fit'- in well with requirements and partly keep a weak story from sinking alto gether. An actor who isn't even billed provides a few high moments as a coroner who sings as he performs his gruesome task. He ought to be heard from. Story of 'Private Scandal* Is based on a phony real estate home building development, the boss of. which plans suicide as belligerent buyers crowd in upon- him for a;c tion. Although seriously intending to commit suicide, he's shot out of the camera's view in Ms office just before his right hand man, Phillips Holmes, gets there. Lew Cody Is the murdered man, Circumstances make . it appear that Holmes may be guilty, though the audience realizes he figures it was suicide and Is covering up this angle so that insurance may be col- lected to. pay. off prospective home buyers who are hollering for the return, of their investments; Audi ence fully knows that Holmes is innocent, but also that he doesnt know it actually was murder. A married woman comes into Cody's office at about the time the Bhooting occurs, • quickly tipping she- had something . to do with .- it and that it was either by her Own hand or that of an irate husband It turns out to be the latter. I Majorit y of the actiqn concerns itself with 'VIot oFques Honing T>y Ned Sparks, aided by a dumb dick. Spares proves effective in this kind Of an assignment, but frequently speaks too loud, so much so that the recording becomes a little an- noying. At all times, obvious In his ac- tions, Holmes also is more, or less theatrical throughout and, as in most all murder mysteries, avoiding every effort to make It appear he Isn't guilty. Mary Brian passcH. Char. CARNFRA-BAER FIGHT Novelty 31 Mins. RKO Center, New Oliver As good as the Dempsey-Plrpo iight film. It should attract more than ordinary interest,- and • draw the femme trade, the Baer . person-: ality and name being. What it isi Will top programs in. many localU ties. Shots are clear. Certain of the more important rounds, as the be- ginning three, and the 11th, are ad- ditionally shown in slow motion. They are highly int- resting. These trace the blows and action from in- ception to conclusion. Even most of Baer's clowning moments can be glimpsed. The numerous . falls of the early rounds are . dle~ rly. photo- graphed. Throughout picture Baer moves confidently, waiting, meas- • uring and plaguing his opponent. Camera moves ponderously and un- certainly. . Only his left, is in action whereas Baer time and time again strikes • with both .fists. Camera's blows appear slow, pushing jabs. Baer's blows are fast, furious full' body swings. From the first gong, the victor is apparent. . Nothing in the film to indicate Camera turned or si rained his an- kle, as claimed, . In an earlv round,, but it could have happened unseen when the huge bulk of Camera toppled in those early rounds; There is, .of course, the additional angle that Baer is an American, winning from a foreign holder of the heavyweight title. In that 11th round, Baer flings a right- to the middle 6f Camera's stomach. It lands squarely and the Italian is scissored in pain, Imme- diately Baer crosses with a left to the head. The finish of the masto- donic Fascist; is in sight. Camera begins mumbling to him- self, visibly. Baer punches from the hip and fairly hurls himself, as his arms swing like two. human pendu- lums on a gyrating windlass, strike ing Camera at will. Baer throws punch after punch at the bulky for- eigner. Camera is gb^fy from the blows. The man is on his big feet only through sheer human instinct to stand upright. But the referee calls the bout. In. slow motion it's a bit humorous as the referee pats Baer's dome shoving him to his corner, indicting the Californian as the new world's heavyweight, champion. ' Experts have said Baer isn't much of a fighter. The picture proves he is unless it's because Cernera is such a slow moving animal. Baer looks a thousand times superior. Physically, Baer's form looks all a, man can desire as against the lum-> bering heap that is Camera. The picture is a cinch. Shan. 'STABLE MATES' Charlie Murray, George Si Comedy ' 18 Mins. Mayfair, N. Y. Columbia . This is the . moderately amusing story of a couple of tenderfeet who go to work on a ranch and ex- perience a rather disheartening time of it. Secondary in comedy two- reeler entertainment. Charlie Murray and George Sid- ney are the greenhorns who don't know how to harness a horse, let alone do other things around, a ranch. After they've been out in the wide open spaces for a year they've become real Westerners and just as they'fe about to be named the bosses, get in *Dutch again. This arrives by the none too original means. of using glue for varnish in polishing a dinner table, plus some glue that gets into the soup. Big. scene is where everything .stick* to the. table. Char* ARE WE CIVILIZED? Edwin Carewe production' and Rasi>ln re- lease! Directed by Carewe.. Original story and dialog by. Harold Sherman. At Rlvoli, N. Y.,' commencing June 0. Running time, 70 mlns. Paul Franklin, ....... .William Farnum Norma Bockner, .... . ... ..... .Anita - Lou I no- • Abraham Lincoln X Felix Bockner )-........... rank McOlynn ' Paul Franklin. Jr ............. Leroy Mafion Dr. Leonard Gear. .......... .. .Oscar Apfel Col, Salter.. ...... ... ;...i.'. Stunrt Holmes' Moses .Alln Covin Buddha. .Conrad Slderman Confucius i... .. .Sidney .T. Pink Caesar .Harry Burkhart Christ '.'. .......... . Charles Requa Mohammed.. ................. J, C, Fowler Christopher Columbus. ... . . . . .Bert Llndley Oeorge Washington. ...... .'.Aaron Edwards Napoleon William Humhprles . It's seldom, that propaganda be- comes entertainment, and this Is no .exception. . JAie .WfiLCixillzeil?/ ja .a, morally high preachment for world peace that loses its. point through having selected' the wrong medium of expression. As a picture the commendable argument will hardly convince more than a few, because it's not likely that more than a few will see it. Being light on original produc- tion, the film goes in extravagantly for old film — newsreel clips and s.ome stock shots from /the shrtlf, such 'in a few recogniswiliJe .scenes (Continued on page 44J 28 ( ' i«* AnraW0* ' London omcis • St. Martin's' Place. Trafalgar Square FOREIGN FILM NEWS CaM« Addreoi VABIBTS, LONDON Paris Hears Tough Quota Rej Shelved by Commerce Present Contingent Law to >rt Paris* June 18. Understood from authorita- tive sources here that the Min- istry of Commerce has decided to reject the Delac Chambre Syndicate report asking for a ban and heavy restriction of U. S. films and continue the old. quota system for the time being. This would be a victory for the campaign of the Ameri* cans, backed by the exhi iters' organizations and the inde- pendents in the local mart. No telling how much; of a quota the government will de- cide on, however. New quota law must.be framed within the next two weeks. Paris, June 10. Rejection of the Chambre Syndi- cate's, plan for a 3-month ban and a Subsequent prohibitive import duty on foreign films is urged on the French Government by the new, but already powerful, National Fed- eration of the French Cinema, inde- pendent organization promoted by author-deputy Henri Clerc, \ New outfit's committee sent an . alternative plan . for . reorganization . of the French him industry to the Ministry of Commerce last week. Scheme has been kept strictly secret up to now but was explained to Variety by Paul Charlies Biver, com- mittee's general secretary and' ac- tive chief. •Nucleus of this group .is formed by. distributors and producers; so that its addition to the Lussiz exhib syndicate, already fighting the Chambre scheme, means that pow- erful elements in all three main branches of the trade' are lined up against the Delac scheme, which seeks to practically exclude Ameri- can films from the market. Want the Americans Move also may he considered a bid on the part of the new group, for an alliance with the powerful Ameri can. distributors, some of whom are also distributors of French Alms, and who quit the Chambre Syndi cale when, they learned of the. enir bargo plan. Leading members of National Federation are the Inde- pendent Producers and Independent Distributors Association. Biver said ^ that the American distribs would be ■ welcome in the latter outfit, . whose ■ membership would be divided into " two groups: Those who distribute more French films that f oreign, and those who distribute more foreign films than French. Position" of the latter, into which American con cerns would fall, would be equal with others except that they .would not be allowed on the board of di rectors. Federation committee's plan, as submitted last week, is above all a prospectus for study of the situation before drastic action is taken. In stead of a three- month embargo supposedly to let the French film trade get on its feet, committee pro poses a continuation of the present quota system for several months, "until a new plan is worked out Quota figure would be tentatively fixed by the Ministry^ Then all the organizations, of the industry/ including the • Chambre Syndicate, the Independent associa tions, the exhibs' union, the direc tors' and technicians' associations find all other groups, would get to jpether and study out a plan to clean tip the, film trade, and above all to protect it from fly-by-nights and fctiysters. Quota vs. Contingents Regulation of foreign films would be an important part of this plan The debaters would chose hetween & quota on imports, as at present, Or requiring exhibitors to show certain proportion of French film Oferc-Blver outfit is inclined^ to "nifiink* iflTat^the^Tmport "quo'taT^fiT worthless, and would like to see the latter plan go into effect. Biver thinks the English system of mak- ing theatres show a proportion of local, mades has worked well, and he believes that in France the per- centage will be set below that Which exhibs now use, anyway, as is the case in England. To set a percentage like that would. «eem superfluous, for if the theatres now show 70% of French films,' for instance^ what's the use of passing a law requiring them to show a minimum of B0%? Biver replies to this that the percentage requirement would be a guaranty against dumping of foreign films, either by powerful interests or by irresponsible importers, in the fu- ture- Such a guaranty will be nec- essary, he says, for the protection of. bankers who are expected to put money into the business arid whose co-operation is essential to put French films back on their feet. Film credit bank is part of the out- fit's general program. Debaters also Would choose be- tween a tariff on foreign films and a tax on dubbing. Clerc-Biver out- fit prefers a dubbing tax, deeming tariffs, like import quotas, useless. American Interests may differ from them on this. Biver points to Italy, where dub- bing tax is in effect, as an example of its success. He won't commit himself as to how much the tax Contract Budapest, June .8. Zlta Percel, rapidly rising young stage and screen star, Is playing lead in 'Nevr Rela^ tive,' all-Hungarian picture now under way at Hunriia studio. Her contract called for one- tenth of an inch being filed off her front teeth before starting shots. Educational Film Congress Agrees (m Int. Newsreel; More Censorship MORE ON FRENCH Paris, June 10. Three thousand Frenchmen em- ployed by American film houses in French provinces are sending tele- grams protest to Ministry of Commerce against the Chambre Syndicate embargo and high tariff plan, One wire says: ighty-seven French employees of Paramount, Metro, Universal, Fox, United Art- ists, Warner agencies in Marseilles New Brit. Fibers London, June 10. Fraser Foulshen and .Ton! Gil* kison, both formerly with Sound City Studios, former as production manager and latter as assistant director, have formed their own film unit, Cosmopolitan Films. Concern Is private, with $26,000 own capital subscribed. Object is to make quota films, with first to be 'Lady of Pen- dower,* original by Foulshen, and dealing with the life of Cornish fishermen. Company has been given special facilities by the Board of Agricul- ture and Fisheries, Duchy of Corn- wall, Royal National Lifeboat In- stitute and other prominent bodies GOVT REORG. FOR G.F.F A? should be, but it is thought that a figure as high ad 100,000 francs Americans, who sometimes do not project for foreign films, and, fear- pay a great deal more than that for ing eventual unemployment which the total cost of dubbing a film. I wou ia result from its adoption, ap Better Dubbing peal to sentiments of justice and Biver's argument is "that if you humanity to reject, proposed meas make a distributor pay a lot before I ure.' he can start dubbing, he will hesl- Union of Artists, many of whose tate before he undertakes that 1 job I members— sometimes estimated at on a film of doubtful value for 40%— live on dubbing, Is also protest France, and once he decides to go ing, in fear that the number of out ahead he'll make sure he does a of -work actors will be greatly aug- good job. Says cheese dubbing jobs mented if the scheme goes through are the pest of the market at pres- Dubbing plants are geting ready ent, and thinks a stiff tax will help to fold in 48 hours if the scheme eliminate them. eoes through. On belief that it m . , , . „. . A won't, however, a new outfit called Tax particular y would be aimed ^ Polypnonie) backed by a blg at shoestring film importers who bankf Credit Foncler Agrlcole. du now get hold of an independent MaroC( has ju8t opene d a new dub- American picture, persuade some | blng studlo ln heart o£ Paria> sucker to buy it for France and angel its dubbing, and then get out with a few thousand dollars' profit, while the market and the reputation of the American producer suffer be cause the film was not properly se lected or prepared for France. Program also involves control of the number of houses authorized to show foreign language films in the Paris, June 10. Ministry of Finance has appointed committee to study methods of putting Gaumortt-Franco-Fllm-Au jert, second of France's big film concerns, back on its feet. Commit tee is Louis Aubert, film pioneer; General Targe, . State Councillor Berger and M: ..Raynaud, who has been acting as liquidator of the company. Daniel Dreyfus has submitted a financial reorganiaztion plan and a scheme for remaking the business and production Sides has been turned in by the Thomson -Huston Company and M. Fasquelle. Delib erations are secret. BERLIN TRADE PAPER BOWS OUT ALMOST Berlin, June 10. 'Kinematograph,' old and re- B ". u 7 ^ 4 '"■•«=. -".t, - '«i,7II I spected German .film trade paper, original, as at present. Clerc-Biver J ^ c1ob6 d(jwn on ^ ± _ federation believes that showcases ana almost snoum pay a special tax nigner paper took j with an ex than that paid brother theatres on lanation that tnere nc _ longer was the ground that they are luxury in- bar . ls for fflm preg£J , n Qer stitutions and get higher than nor- many> ft8 tne mogt important pr0 b- mal prices for seats. lems dlscussed ln it had been dis The boys will now fight it out, but pensed with by the new film law, with the new opposition it looks as Proposed suicide of this old paper if the Pathe-Delac scheme were I caused great excitement, inasmuch doomed. Exhibs from all over the as the 'Kinematograph* appears at country are wiring and writing pro- I the Scherl's publishing house, tests against it. very extensive firm, to which Ufa Both the Chambre Syndicate and belongs. Next day, however, every the new Federation have ambitious one "was astonished to see that the plans for the exportation of French Paper had decided to go on exist films, but the new crowd says it | in e, with no further explanation isn't logical to want to put the French product on foreign markets and at the same time try to stop im- ports. Coupan Oyer to Posh French Films in U. S Brit. Footage Up London, June 10. Total footage of British films ex- hibited in England for the year ending September 30 was over 23% of the pictures shown here This is an increase of 2% over I American universities, having had the previous year's British releases. Inquiries from them for ^French Quota requirements are 12%%. . film to help out in language and French civilization classes and for general educational purposes. Be lieves this may be a wedge to break I In. . Besides his film work, Cpupan is There are 174 talking, picture \ v ^_^ & iXiot^ J^wJi^mi& Paris, June 10 Jean Coupan,. ybUng French film man who is in part responsible for the showing of French pix. in. New York on French Line steamers, will leave for America- toward the end of. the month to see what can be done for the development of the market, He plans particularly to visit Yugoslav Cinemas Belgrade, June 8. Metro's Hardwicke Houses- and 145" BTlem ciranrnas lw Jugoslavia. Belgrade, as the capi tal, alone has 16 cinemas, all of them sound equipped. Total num- 1 London, June 10 bcr of seats in these 3 6 cinemas At i ne conclusion of the running Is 9,688. of 'The Late Christopher Bean,' in Of the total number of picture which he "is featured here, Cedric houses in Jugoslavia only 62 are Hardwicke will go to Hollywood to open every day, 7 are working from appear in a picture for Metro time to time and the rest once, This is not likely to be in the twice' or thrice every week. Immediate future, for the 'Bean Total number of seats in the play is holding up to a remarkable whole of Jugoslavia is 89,151, jdegree. S. African Musikers Wail When Theatre Uses Municipal Orch. By H. HANSON Capetown, May 20. African Theatres Is in bad with the Capetown Musicians' Associa- tion, due to engaging the Capetown Municipal Orchestra for the Rus-: sian Ballet season. Association contends that the municipal orchestra is a subsidized outfit, paid out of the rates, and should not be permitted to compete with unemployed musicians. Asso- ciation submitted to African The- atres a list of 32 musicians to com- prise the orchestra for the Russian Ballet, but arrangements were fixed with the municipal orchestra. Agreement between African The- atres and the Association In 1929 says 'the company shall only em- ploy musicians who are members of the Association.' Out-of-work players claim being capable of .sup- plying .the orchestra ^required __for_ the music. Secretary of the Federation of Trades has taken, up the matter with the mayor and town, council. New Pic House The'Rltz Bio-Cafe, controlled by independent Film Distributors, re- opened • May 14 as a talker non- stop from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. First picture screened was 'Going Gay,' featuring Magda Schiieider, Arthur Rlscoe and Naunton Wayne. Film is considered one of the best seen in Capetown for some time, prov- ing a winner for the Ritz. Show secured excellent write- ups. First venture of this com- pany shows cheerful promise. If the rest of its programs equal the 'Going Gay' standard the L F. D. will prove a hard nut for the Schlesinger combine to crack. Washington, June 18. Investigation of censorship eys< terns, standardization of film sizes, development of an international newsreel, and greater use of cul- tural and educational pictures were recommended at the first Interna* tlonal Congress on Educational Cinematography, in Rome, according' to reports received from the League of Nations. Attended by representatives from 40 nations, including the United States, the Conference went oh rec- ord as desiring wider use of pic- tures for educational work of all. varieties, and for protection of chil- dren from -improper screen enter- tainment. ..Picture censorship was. debated from the viewpoint of children and young people, and a final recom- mendation was. made that the Rome Institute ' study methods now in force in. various countries and pre- pare model regulations which, coul be generally adopted. Noting, that in many countries "double censorship" has been found expedient in handling this problem, the conference registered the opin- ion that' where no special censor- ship' is in effect, efforts should be made to " arrange programs for youthful audiences, and special showings should be given in sepa- rate theatres and auditoriums. Development of "a cinema gazette of international news" was urged in the intereets of better mutual un- derstanding between nations. The conference called upon the institute to talk over the possibilities of this sort of action with principal picture producers ln all nations. Improvement of film technic in educational work was suggested, the conference approving resolu- tions endorsing use of films in pub- lic health campaigns, accident pre- vention movements, economic in- struction and allied fields. Pictures , should be produced with a view to aiding young pople In selecting pro- fessions and encouraging appren- ticeship to various arts and crafts", conferees declared, and films should be used to curb exodus from rural districts by showing how country life can be improved and agricul- tural methods perfected, Emphasizing the advantage of films over other methods in health discussion, International delegates recommended that public health and social hygiene, agencies Central- ize and co-ordinate efforts to avoid overlapping production, consider promotion of film production by government subsidies, encourage production of films prepared by per- sons with expert knowledge and use pictures to stimulate interest in sports. Adoption of a uniform film of re- duced size would promote instruc- tion by means of pictures, the con- ference decided, asking the Rome Institute to take steps in this di- rection and expressing a hope .that recent negotiations on this issue wM... r * su lL in a satisfactory agree- ment.' The Rome Institute was asked to consult various governments about the feasibility of developing na- tional educational cinematographic centers and bring about speedy ratification of the convention on free circulation of educational 1ms. RoiiidePs^Lilbrary^^^ Paris, June. 10. "What is supposed to be the world's finest theatrical library was left by Auguste Rondel, Marseilles theatrical angel, Who died Tuesday (6) at 71, following a skull fracture. Always interested in show busi- ness, he ran the Marseilles Gymnase when he was young, and theatre got the reputation of a second The- atre Francaise. "Was considered one of the Maecenas of French theatre, Serious Nazi Youths Riot When German Pic Joshes Student Life Berlin, June 9. All was quiet here, «ts far as demonstrations against films are concerned, until a few nights ago when a flock of sophomore cheek whlttlcrs staged a demonstration againBtr'WithHhe-Blminrl^attterinc^^ local-made. Sophomores claimed it 'insulted student life.' There is nothing in the pic showing- a student studying, all being in fun. Last previous demonstration staged was. against lOlizabeth. Bergnor's film and it furnished Dr. Paul Joseph Gbebbels with an ex- cuse to prohibit the showing of the film because it was 'likely to incite the populace to 'disorder's.' FOREIGN !flLM ifNiWS Q«M* Andrew: , TARVBVf!.: EQM>OK, .. .Telephone .Temple Bar 0041-5*43 29 UP ON UNCLE Bernard Natan Here Viewing U. S. Film Methods Some mystery surrounds the movements of Bernard Natan, Pathe-Natan mogul, power behind the Chambre Syndicate fight against American Aimers in Paris, and prob- ably the most powerful single show- man In Europe today. Natan, with a party, left for Hollywood Friday (15) after three days in New York. Natan says it's just a vacation — nothing more. But with him are Charles David, the Pathe-Natan studio, manager, and Henri Dla- mant-Berger, Pathe associate pro- ducer and head of the company's foreign activities. In New York, they spent all their time visiting what* ever ■ studios- arid laboratories were open, including an afternoon spent in Rochester, N. Y. (Eastman Kodak), and a day in Camden, N. J.. at the RCA-Victor lots: Also the group has several of the most recent films completed by Pathe-Natan for showing and possible sale in the U. S. Among these films are 'Amok,' claimed to be an example of new talking film technique, and -Los Mlserables.' Rene Clair's new film, 'The" Last Billionaire,' was also to come ove?, but was not quite out of the cutting room. Not Going, But— — In Paris, just, before ; sailing, Na tan denied he was going. Asked whether he didn't consider it curious that he was trying to sell French films to the U. S. at the same time as his outfit is trying Los Angeles, June 18. Sir Benjamin Fuller, head of the Fuller circuit , in Australia, arrives here today (Monday), aboard the Mariposa. He is en route' to New York and thence to London, to. line up vaude and stage attractions for his string of film houses in the Antipodes. Fuller expects to head east within the next two or three days. the French market, he replied that the tjvo had nothing to do with each other. 'There are too many American films in France,' he said. 'As a re eult, neither the French nor the Americans are making any money There isn't an American company in France paying its overhead today, so why keep us local merchants from getting an even break?' As to his own French films for the tT. S. — why shouldn't the U. S give them a break? French films have never been given sufficient playing time in the U. S. It's a sort of test, he feels. Maybe Americans don't dislike the French after all He'll see. He'll be able to tell by the reaction to his films from U. S, film buyers. Sir Fuller on Coast Although Suspicious of Each Other, Get Together to Sock U. S. Films — Ger- man Trade Offers Factor POLISH QUOTA SURE CLAYTON SHEEHAN WEST ON FOX FOREIGN SKED Fox distribution in Germany and eight in France. He also laid the hard t& Hush American films out oftbaSe for extended production ac Central Europe so ..panic- stricken, from a film., standpoint, that the United States is facing a more or less solid front of opposi- tion from the European powers Poland, Czeeho- Slovakia and Ger- many, all quite distinct in their dis- like and suspicion of each other, are . . .nevertheless Working hand in hand Clayton Sheehan, foreign depart- in an . 4ttempt to force the Ameri ment head of Fox/leaves for Hoi y- cans , Into a corner , ^ keep them wood today (26) for confabs wltn there. studio execs on product for next Attention at the moment Is centred season. He returned last week. 'from 1^ Polandt Po i and will' put through a four months' tour of ' Europe aur- a . st rong new film law before July ing which he visited all the Fox 31 Boih Germany and Czecho foreign offices. Slovakia are carefully watching the In about two weeks he expects to framln ot that law> wlth the idea return from the Coast with his .„ mind that lt wm pro bably help brother, W. R. Sheehan, Fox studio of them both oyer thelr per head, who will continue to Europe gonal objectives, for a summer vacation and foreign Pro blem is more acute with the story and talent hunt. realization* that the three countries. While abroad- Sheehan arranged l er be£ore a j lBned> are together for the Production of^slx Alms for | witfa th(J one idea of maklng Amer- (Continued on page 73) tlvitles in Great Britain, on the theory that more costly films are | heeded there. Fuller details on the British production activities will not be made until after conferences between Sheehan and Sid Kent. After these conferences and some work in the home office on general I matters, Sheehan will return to | Europe in November and "will at that time concentrate on the Brit- ish angle alone. CRISIS IN B. A.; ONLY 2 GOOD FILMS Anzac Film Probe Sees No Distrib Monopoly, Asks Drop of Building Restrictions Passion Film Sydney, June 18. American fllmdorn. won all points in the governmental film inquiry „ ... . which just ended here. Official- re* - rifV port states that it could find no Catholic producing company, Ich- trace of a monopoly by distributors thys Films, will make a picture and goes on* to recommend that the based on. the Passion, titled 'Gol gotha.' Jullen Duvivler will direct Script Is by Canon Joseph Reymond Priest's idea is not to show the suffering, of Jesus, but to make a drama— almost a detective story — building of theatres be unrestricted, no matter what the. source- of • the capital— whether British, American or Australian. While there is still a possibility, of government action of some sort, Calvary as climax. ED. GOURDEAU'S NEW BRITISH PIC STUDIO out <■ !. the betrayal by Judas and the it is believed that tjhe report by ,the arrest of Jesus by the Romans, with Film Probe Commissioner, Walter M. Marks, will close the matter.. Commissioner Marks was asked" by the government to investigate all facts of .' the 'film biz in Australia thoroughly and recommend ' action. He called everyone " in the bUslneBfcf"' for' hearings which lasted- several months and has been preparing his report during the past couple ••of • weeks. One of the most interesting and highly: exciting facets of the inquiry was the matter of theatre construe* t\om Metro's anxiety to build, a theatre of its own in Sydney brought on the difficulty* General Theatres telling the government that there., is no need- of. another theatre and that "Metro's move, would mean, , over-seating the city.. Commissioner Marks, . after look-, London, June 1,0. Edward R. GoUrdeau, for years London .representative of Austra- lasian Films of Australia, and now controlling import and export of- fices, and representing J. H. Hoff- berg, of New York, is developing his recently formed Inter- World Films Company, Warton Hall Studios, Islesworth, which he recently purchased,, will ] be entirely reconstructed to conform I j ng a t it from all standpoints,, de- with modern methods. Studios 6c- I C ided that building wouldn't hurt' cupy seven acres and three- new and ought not to be restricted. In Stages will be built with extensive I doing this he had in mind the rec- offlces, totalling approximately 24,- ommendations of builders and local MAKING UP A GYP Lensers and Powder -Puffers Com- bine Against Actors in London French Also Wondering Paris, June 8. Local sp.culators on what Ber nard- Natan went to America have dug up the question of the width of film used in educational pictures for private projection, which was the subject of a Franco-American con- troversy at the recent Rome educa- tional pictures , convention. ^ Some American, companies make these plx on 16 mm., whereas Natan sells machines for the projection of 17% -millimeter film; or just one-half of standard. He is reported to have put a lbt of his own money into this business.' Sale 6f these machines depends on ability to supply large quantities of cheap film, and the American pro- duction is ideal. But if made on 16 mm., it's no good to Natan. This accounts for the scrap of the French reps at the Rome Congress to have the French width adopted, and local wise boys say one of the reasons for Natan's trip is. to try to make a deal on the subject. Also said he wants to look oyer the results obtained by the money, that has bet i spent on pushing French films in America, Although most film men here opine there can never be any real money in the ^Mle^dfT^^ the chap who pushes, it rots the rep over here of doing big things for French industry. He's a patriot and can ask favors of the government. Buenos Aires, May 28. Cinema business is passing | through a most critical and confus- ing period here. One picture follows another without arousing the least London, June 10. I flicker in the public's estimation. New form of gypping is rampant During the month of May nine re in one of the largest film studios leases were Bhown for the first time in London. It takes the form of a in one day. combine between the cameramen So far only two pictures have and the make-up men, against the J been considered worth while this actors.. It is industriously worked season. These are ?'The Private against newcomers — not ' necessarily Life of Henry VIII" and "Roman amateurs, but important recruits Scandals." Apart from these two, from the legit with many years' ex- the films shown have not merited perience in the art of painting their much praise or comment. . own features. .In order t.o draw the public to the These people come upon the lot theatres, the leasers and the exhib ready to. work;, the earner^ looks* through the lens and Informs tiations in. ah endeavor to" come to a them their make-up is wrong. Here better understanding. One fact alone the offtc'lal make-up man puts in stands out— lt is considered Imper an appearance and labors heroically ative that a reduction should be foir quite a while to remedy the de- | made In the price of the tickets, as LESLIE HOWABD'S DEAL Hollywood, June 18. Deal for Leslie Howard to make a picture for Warners In England will .not be consummated until the actor arrives in London. 000 square feet. Diesel engines will be installed with two supplies of electrlcty, giving 10,000 amps. Construction will be ready early in August* Entire venture is pri- vately subscribed, and studios will be available for. general use. labor. SPIEGEL'S TROUBLES First Illness, Then Nazi-itis Post- pone Picture London, June 11. Sam Spiegel, head of the $500,000 British & Continental Film Produc- tions, Limited, is encountering plenty of trouble in his first film venture. Originally scheduled to do 'Le Gentleman,' from the French of Yves Miranda, with Emil Jannlngs, Penelope Ward, society girl, and newcomer to films, and Edmund Gwenn, he had to postpone due to Metro's Position Now that Metro has won* its vic- tory in Sydney it's not as anxious to build as it was several month?' ago, although company may yet erect a theatre in Sydney. Metro recently closed a deal with Sir -Ben- jamin Fuller for the St. James the- atre in Sydney, which will give the company a good outlet for about 12 pictures. After that the deal may be renewed or extended, although Arthur Loew, .Metro's foreign head, says he doesn't know yet. Sir Ben Fuller is due in New York towards the end of the current week and a get-together between him and Loew is indicated after which the. Loew future procedure may be more certain. Loew says that his company 1 is ready to build and has already ap- propriated the money for the pur"' pose. If he, in the next two weeks, decides lt is necessary, he will start proceedings immediately, since the- feet. The player Is expected to 'show his gratitude.'' Producing company doesn't seem to realize that over three hours was wasted thus one morning recently, at considerable studio expensei. Union for 16 Mex. Picture Producers Mexico City, June 18. National film producers are or- ganizing a union, object of which is to improve conditions in their field by concerted efforts. Country's 16 native producers will belong to the organization, head- quarters of which are to be here. Fox's Spanish Imports Fox has signatured Rosita Diaz, Spanish actress, and A. Poncella, Spanish playwright, and is bringing them both to the-, coast for Fox Spanishers. Miss Diaz reports in September. Poncella, who has three plays cur- rent on Madrid stages, is expected on the coast Aug. 1. these are regarded as far too high in relation to the hard times now prevailing. Both leasers and exhibitors are of one opinion: that the reason- why the business is being so hard hit is because, besides the money crisis, there Is an acute crisis in the at- tendance of the public. Secondly, there is a shortage of really good films, which are urgently required in order to save the situation, and the production of these does not come up to expectations. Carstairs to M-G London, June 10. On completion of his script work : on^the" ; "~C^^ 'Beauty Ball,' John Paddy Car- stairs, young director-writer, will leave to join the scenario depart- ment at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in California. Carstairs was recently on the Gaumont scribbling staff, leaving that concern to direct for Sound City. If M-G okay's it, he will meg a motor racing story, 'Lightning Lady,' prior to Bailing. Lubitech, De Mille To Vienna Pic Fesf Miss Ward contracting appendicl ^ ^ tis. She Is not yet well enough to I Loew theatre department already work. owns land for the proposed .con- The Jannings date , is now | struction down under, through, management claiming he is committed to other work in Ger- many, But understood . real rea- son is actor is a. pronounced Nazi, with bookers in America and Eng- land boycotting him. ■Picture was to be made in April, but understood deal, is settled for Cilve Brook to replace .Jannings, With script and title to be altered. Brook' due here around June 22, With Spiegel looking for. femroe lead. Megging likely to start early in July, with British International Pictures studios • leased. No 'Enthusiasm* Berlin, June 9, Although it didnt get to the stage where the 'public demonstrated against the film' a barrage of bad publicity caused the Atrium here to put 'Springtime Enthusiasm' back in the little tln'boxes. Lead by Der Deutsche, a dally, and a weekly edited by one of the left wingers of the party, the press jumped all over the theatre management for having the nerve to show the pic- ture. Vienna, , June 9.. Ernst .Lubitsch . and .Cecil de Mille. are . .expected here between June, 16 and July .2 to attend the Film. Festival week sponsored by the Austrian government. Parliament building, dark since the deputies were driven but, .will be the location for the flicker makers. Other Americans, and most of the footloose European film actors and directors will be on* hand. 10 Pathes Ready Paris, June 10. Pathe announces that 10 of its 26 ncw=soason^rcleases-aEe^alEeady^iln- ished. i Outstanding are 'Sapho,' based on the Daudet novel, which already has been shown on the Champs Elysees but is being held for general re- lease; Rene Clair's 'Last Billion- Reason: Two Jews starred in the alr C; 'Anna Karenina,' based on the film, Szoeke Szakair and Oskar Tolstoi novel; "Fartarin of Taras- Karlwelss, con '' staring Raimu and with dialog A substitute flicker was found for by Marcel Pasnol, and 'Hungarian the program. I Kapsodle,' with Marcelle Chantal. VARIETY Tuesday, June 19, 1934 ID WE TELL YOU -QUALITY SHOWS FROM ;ROS THIS SUMMER! And Coming Right Up! KAY FRANCIS in "DR. MONICA JOE E. BROWN in "CIRCUS CLOWN DEL RIO in "MADAME DU BARRY HERE COMES THE NAVY" with JAMES CAGNEY and PAT O'BRIEN* CHARLIE RUGGLES V'FRIENDS OF MR. SWEENEY" * Ann Dvorak* ROBINSON .„ "MAN WITH TWO FACES "DAMES*!* KEELER,POWELL,BLONDELL* FRANCIS-HOWARD ^"BRITISH AGENT* KEELER-POWELL ../'FLIRTATION WALK"* *A Warner itagraph, inc.; Distributors Tuesday, June 19, 1934 VARIETY HOWE REVIEW! VARIETY SI MUSIC HALL, N. Y. . A mixed comedy dance team from the nite club field attracted the fancy of Friday night's audience (including the $1.05 loge customers) as did nothing else, on the current bill. Which should be informative enough to the production crew. Al- though maybe it won't, for specialty acts have stopped shows at the Mtt- sic Hall before, yet the Music Hall remains aloof from such bookings, as does no other presentation house In- the country. , Otherwise the Music Hall pre- sentment this week, runs to form. Produced by Russell Markert, who is the' house ' stager in Leonldoff's absence, it chances no radical de- partures from the theatre's safety- first stage show policy, excepting when it briefly offers the aforesaid comedy dance team. But Markert doesn't seem to have been given the .productional scope which Leonidoff appeared to enjoy* The scenery this week is rather skimpy for the Music Hall, although probably in any other spot it would impress as being a darn good Zlegfeld extrava- ganza. The important item in the. three- ply stage show is a ballet with a story.. Title is 'So What?' It's about a ; barmaid named RKO Pre- ferred Who's in love with a fellow in tight and purple panties named Orpheum Bonds. There's also a vilUan, RKO Common, and another woman "in the case who has little more than nuisance value; Orpheum Bond's spurns. RKO Preferred for the : unlisted lady, which makes 'RKO Common think he'll get RKO Preferred for himself. But RKO Preferred double crosses the vil;; grabs an innocent bystander's "sword and cuts herself up two for ;6ne. The rest takes place in- a 1 cemetery, with the hero dreaming .his RKO Preferred is coming back, ; but, of course, it's only a dream. Nina Whitney and Nicholas Daks, latter wearing the piirple pants, are •the interpretive dancing leads^ Production , item No. 2, also en- titled 'So What?' is more in the modern vein. It does include the •hit of the bill, Moore and Revel, .who open seriously as a ballroom team and then really go into their dance, They burlesque a double ;waltz and then satirize the strictly "up-to-date 'Carioca.' They could 'have taken an encore on applause •if the symphony orchestra under Erno Rapee's direction hadn't played so loud. In this same number the house .singing corps turns modern to sing Tm Telling You,' at the finish of .which the staff singing ladies, al ways the personlflicatioh of good breeding and class, turn' coyly to ■their' male singing partners and yell, in Unison. 'You Nasty Man!' The Rockettes also ..have their. Inning in the second 'So What? The Florence Rogge ballet girls had previously romped in the first 'So What?' Up ahead, Rapee' conducts the or chestra through a medley of Frlml airs, with vocal accompaniment from the singing chorus on the ..stage. In 'this number the chorus folk are their usual reserved and dignified selves. 'Life of Vergle Winters' (Radio), picture, appeared to be attracting business Friday night. Bige. PARAMOUNT, N. Y. A lightweight feature, 'Here Comes the Groom' (Par), and a sp.-so stage show raises mental con cern over the future Capitol-Para mount policy (as detailed in a news story . in this issue) about giving this house the secondary product, plus presentations, while the Cap gets the pick of the pix and no stage shows. While the stage show isn't com parable with the more high-pow- ered rostrum specialists which the ■new policy will call forth; this" Is an average example.of inferior celluloid product, mated with ordinary pres- entation bolstering — and how little it seems to accomplish. Friday (opening) night biz was plenty blah Considering, the heat, the cooling plant alone should have been an attraction. , Proceedings .vamp off with 01 shanetsky ••' conducting 'Pai'amount Hits, of 1.934.' It was a sprightly entr'acte, .'brightly orchestrated and conducted in a personality manner by Maestro Olshanetsky .who has a lank, syncopated style that places him right for the baton-wielding in overtures of this type. Little Jack Little short and Par newsreel split It up before the 'Souvenirs of Yes terday' presentation. As 'Souvenirs' indicates it's one of those Tony Pastor motifs with the cast in early Al Smith getups . It permits for a succession of surefire acts who have proved their sure'firodncsa in the past by re- p eated ^eng age ments :in^these .p a rts. Stan Kavahagh was easily the k.o of the proceedings with his highly developed style of plain, fancy and comedy Jugglery. Cherry and June Preisser are also one out of the files with their stepology^ The Aliens and Kents foursome, youth ful and a.k. family on 'the hoof, are likewise standard, and recipients of heaucoup hnnrl-lo-mouth music for their'inten.sive legmania. Bob Alton line completes excepting for Shea ■^>nd Raymond. This two- man combo is relatively new in these parts. Taller of the two is a rubberlegs, limber type of stepper. Both have an acute ..com- edy sense of values, and milk it With their hoke adagio, the novelty La Cumparsita' tango and the rest of their hoofing libretto. That 'Old New York* finale is very a la the current incumbent of the Music Box theatre. House is delicately perfumed is part of the regular ventilation, -and' a pleasant atmospheric aura it is.. Or was; it the paucity of numbers that .made it all smell so sweet? Abel ROXY, N. Y. For. the background to. f the stage portion of the week's diversion the Roxy has turned to a sidewalk cafe concept. Element of the impressive may be lacking in the scenic in- vestiture given the idea but this quality is easily made up by two of the acts incorporated into the bill. One is Eddie. Peabody and the other is Buster Shaver and his Lilliputian - prides; Olive and George. Friday's early evening audience snapped out of its sultry drowsiness long enough to shower the Shaver entourage with a hefty, send-off and make it a show stop- ping occasion for Peabody. Neatly spliced into the proceeds ings are a couple of novelty turns, the , Three Waltons . in a .drunk knockabout routine that brought a steady flow -»f giggles and Duke Art,- who. slaps the putty around and models a set of heads that tickle both the funnybbne and the minor sense of- the artistic. With the Gae Foster girl's it's two numbers this week. They'.re in for interlude.-fol lowing the clay tosser with a fast bit of romping and can -can routine at the .finish. Shaver's mites get their initial inning prior to the curtain parting with a song pro- duction thing down on the pit elevator. This item, though cute, could be omitted without . doing damage to the tempo of the show. Peabody proves himself again a deft and showmanly struirimer of the steely strings. . There is, as usual, an air . of freshness about his bag of musical, tricks, with the flair for selling himself contributing much to the swell applause buildup he scores for his act. This congregation forced him back for an encore and he could have made it a second without im- posing on it in the least. Screen bill combines 'Let's Talk It Over' (U) with a Lou Holtz short, a Mickey Mouse and. some news-. clips. Gob theme of the feature drew quite a cluster of sailormen from the fleet anchored in the New York waters, during the Friday evening showing.- Otherwise, busi- ness was just fair. Odec. EMBASSY FOX, BROOKLYN Besides taking on' the air of a small-time neighborhood emporium this down town deluxer. has devel- oped a rare knack for scrambling a group of Vaude acts so that they look 'steen times worse than they actually, are. Current week's stage mixture is tagged Flo Kelly's 'Sugar Babies.' Way the thing runs over and around the edge the title 'Cheese Omelet' might have been more appropriate. Following a mess of tap dancing by the house line, with. solos of a like classification by a lass who specializes in the toe variety and a pair of lads inclined" "to eccentric stomping, the blackfaced Tyler Ma- son heads . off the bill, first to retail his- 'my girl' chestnuts and then , to warble 'Roses' of Picardy' from the upper recesses of his nostrils. Cus- tomers at the initial Saturday mati- ness passed up the quips, but re- acted nicely enough to the .ditty; With Bert Frohmah doing the in- troductory -honors, Al Bergen and Thelma Lee took the next inning for a bit of funny facemaklng and stroking of the cello and violin. Moderate as were the returns here, it was an. almost complete washout' for Barbara and Frederico, acro- batic ballroomists, who followed. Production idea, with the line par-, ticipatlng,. which the' house framed around the gliding twosome; Was. not only an amateurish piece of staging, but it would hurt the team evfen if. it were good. For the big production flash they swung around to the strains of Ravel's 'Bolero,' while the finale gave them opportunity to show what they could do- with the 'Carioca.' Latter number was some- what of an improvement over the early impression. Next 10 minutes were taken out to allow Frohman to warble a couple and to turn the mike over to a couple of' singing amateurs. Both of the. latter had a lot of friends out in front, and the upshot of their ef- forts . was hunkydory for all con- cerned These drought and hurricane and flood newsreel views all look pretty much the same, as last year's, and those of the year before. Maybe Paramount did not. dig. too deeply into the vault. Even so, the off- screen reporter, who has been called upon to revive more than one library situation, provides the new lead.;. With the Baer-Carnera fight; in full detail all over Broadways it seems strange that an all-newsreel house, with nothing more on the fight than studio poses of the win- nah, should, have figured this clip the most important on the program. Call it an industrial, a plug for Ford and Chicago or what-not, Pathe's special on the World's Fair is so complete it's liable to save some fans the trip costs. After an audience sits through this offering it's convinced there wouldn't be much ' more for it to see if it bundled to Chicago. Subject is well edited;' ' Pathe muffed the climax in the New York parachute jumping last week. It f ollowed, the boys through the air and had them landing, but nothing about the 1 crack-up and fatal injury . to one of them. Universal couldn't pass, up the gory details of. an explosion of part of a ship in drydock. . • It had to show a big smudge on the wall of a " near-by building,- -with McNamee explaining that was the vjm'pression left by one of the bodies . After viewing quadruplets, in 'Towa, and getting a flash of the Norwegians who crossed the At-, lantic in a small boat, U took in another California rodeo show. There was also the regular ma jority of mag ahd annual stuff in the program. Paramount used its reel to plug Baby Le Roy," albeit the subject is worthy entertainment in . any program. King George's birthday, . Par's favorite magster, Milwaukee monkeys, and* Pathe's friendly bird and cat. were among the familiars, Plane crack-ups in the Catskills and the West were covered by Par, Accident-proof cabin " of the west- ern plane would ' hardly afford potential fliers comfort since, ac cording to the pictures, and despite assurances of safety from the reel reporter, it was fairly well dented . Some day some reel editor, is going to use a little originality and get excellent human interest ' ma terial on the fleet. Paramount fol- lows the - least resistance course, after threatening tc do differently, letting the boys ' frolic aimlessly about. Coney. Republicans used Par to get over Some party propaganda when com mitteemen announced their ' latest policy. Same reel also- covered Tugwell long enough to let' him deny on the red matter.' Interesting engineering subject was the moving of . a 1,200-ton bridge, without breaking a span Pathe crew lingered outside the courthouse window to record guilty pronouncement of the Milled broth ers in a police slaying. What Pathe labeled a special and something that had all the hall marks of being different turned out to be just one of those built-up in terviews. Mary Roberts Rinehart wants the U. S. clea ed of criminals. After calling upon the women, and getting the audience in a state of expectancy, she terminates by urg Ing women to unite in secret so- cieties: and watch courts and .cops, Waly. PALACE, CHICAGO Chicago, June 16. For the first time in • some 10 weeks if is possible to sit in this house and not feel' lonely. For weeks it was a gruelling job to review this house, to sit all by oneself in the darkness while what-the-hell per- formers went through their paces because it was their job. Nobody was happy; the cashier grew out of practice, the musicians didn't care ahd the three people in the audi ence went backstage to dig up i stagehand, to make a fourth at bridge - The box-office wallowed in red ink. Grosses of $11,000. or so were common. And New York headquar- ters continued to wonder why things were so bad; This week they become great showmen with Ben Bernie, Ken Murray and a Wheeler and Woolsey picture, 'Cockeyed Cavaliers' (RKO). Curious thing about this guy Murray. He's been here. four weeks already and at no time was the gross anywhere near a healthy fig ure. The shows were generally putrid, as was Murray's material Most of his stuff antedated Joe Mil ler. Business was so bad that Mur ray held over his material, using it weeX. ji fter_ week. ^ U^didnlt , , ma ke whole show himself; He is respon- sible for the house's first indication of life in several months. They ac- tually used the balcony oh Friday night during the last show. In the past the balcony was the haunt of loving couples who wanted to be alone. Two. singles on the show besides the band and Murray. Edna Sedg- wick, who has two specialty dance spots with the line of girls, one a tap which, was okay and' an eccen- tric toe dance which was a sock, is a neat little dancer, who can fin an y spot. The: Other single was Bob. Ripa; who was forced to work in one, but even under, this handicap was tops, on his intricate , juggling tricks* But it was Bernie thy him as a -great forward step, approved by Johnson. A servant of the govern merit holding one of the second highest offices in NRA, refusing to testify before a Presidential Board and then attacking that board as seeking evidence only from the 'dis- gruntled.' I think in view of this it is quite proper to ask whether Mr. Rosenblatt is working for the gov- ernment or- for the movie trust, whether his task is furthering the program of President Roosevelt or the panderings of spokesmen for monopoly.' Steve Roberts' Quartet Hollywood, June 18. Stephen Roberts is closing with Radio for a four picture directorial contract. First of the quartet will be ^Romanccr-^of=Manliattanr ! --staiTing; Francis L>eiTby "sixTfarge- motl5n^lcf.ure' companies to create a monopoly." Golder was in U. S. District Court before Judge George A. Welsh seek- ing a preliminary injunction against the slx'companies (Parariiount, Fox, Metro, RKO, Warners and Univer- sal) on behalf of Harry Pearlman, owner of two small uptown theatres, to keep the aforesaid large compa- nies from carrying out a clause In •their contract preventing the show- ing of double-feature programe. San Francisco, June 18. A two day Warner western sales convention opens here today (18) with some 75 execs and salesmen in attendance. On the attendance list are Harry M., Jack and Major Albert War- ner; Gradwell Sears, Carl Leser- man, Norman Moray, A. W- Schwal- berg, Harold Bareford and press agents Charles Einfeld, Eddie Sel- zer, George Bilson and Harry Maiz- lish. Maizlish and Frisco exchange manager Charles .Muehlmnn are hosts. 'SIN' CAST SET Hollywood, June 18. Buster Crabbe and Sally Blane have the leads in 'Gaily I Sin,' going into production today (Monday) for Majestic, produced by Larry Dar- mour. Isabel Jewel, Regis Tpomoy arid Fuzzy Knight also in the cast. Ralph Cedar directs. Tuesday, June 19, 1934 VARIETY 34 VARIETY Tuesday, June 19, 1934 in "It Nlrattlir m ....,,,?S^A. - :::::i, HI Hi m Takes Two Morel Mae West has two new leading men in this picture . . . John Mack Brown and Roger Pryor. When you witness Mae's reaction to John Mack Brown's soft Southern love-making. ..you'll know that "Love is the sweetest thing I" Hot Bandl Duke Ellington and his band in tunes both blue and hot . . .> their rendition of "Memphis Blues" will sway your audiences. tSBSi mm P I C T U R E a Tuesday, June 19, 1931 VARIETY 35 Ain ||§£f$fffr of Shoj^onsbSpi Ntooty m$w vofces Ornish o: ichorof bock IfS&ftd teTi&i WWV sirens of thaV W troubled Wolers, |»^,to^e* Down lo New Orleans, "Memphis Btees, V^My OJo* should bo one of ftie l*»t song* of Jlieyoar* 0 s o w i n town Tuesday, June 19, 1934 HoHywood Productions Week of June 18 (Pictures now filming, or about to start, are listed below alphabetically by studios. Symbols are: D— Director; A— Author, C^-Cameraman) COLUMBIA •By Persons Unkno^m' .(1st week) Th—T>. Ross Lederman A — Harold Shumate ' C — BenJ. Kline C&st t Ralph Bellamy Shirley Grey Charles Sabin Arthur Hohl J. Carroll Nalsh Ward Bond Vincent Sher 'Caravan' (8 th week) D — Erik Charrell A — Melchlor Lengyel Robert Xlebmann Samson Kaphaelsori C — Ernest. Palmer Ted Sparkubl Cast: Charles Boyer Loretta Young Jean Parker Phillips . Holmes Louise Fazenda C. Aubrey Smith Eugene Pallette Dudley Dlgges Charles Grapewln Noah Beery Richard Carle 9 Billy Bevan Armand Kaliz Harry C. Bradley 'She Was a Lady' (6th week) D— Hamilton MacFadden A— Elisabeth Cobb Gertrude Furcell C — Bert Glennon Cast: -Helen Twelyetrees Donald Woods Ralph Morgan Doris Lloyd Barbara Weeks MOnroe Owsley Jackie Sear 1 Carol Ka% Paul Harvey Ann Howard Harold Goodwin 'Servant's Entrance' (3rd week) D — Frank Lloyd A — Sigred Boo Samson Rafaelson C— Hal Mohi Cast: Janet Gaynor Lew Ayres Ned Sparks Walter Connolly Louise Dresser G. P. Huntley, Jr. Siegfried Rumann Katherlne Doucet •Judge Priest' (2nd week) D — John Ford A — Irvln S. Cobb Lamar Trottl Dudley Nichols C — Geo. Schn'eiderman Cast: Will Rogers Brenda Fowler Rochelle Hudson Roger Iirihof Tom Brown Anita Louise David Landau Henry B. Walthall Paul McAllister Berton Churchill Frank Melton Paul McVey Stepin Fetchlt 'Marie Galante' (1st week) D — Henry King A — Jacques Deval Reginald Berkeley C — John Seltz Cast: Spencer. Tracy Kettl Gallian Leslie Fenton Stepin Fetchlt PARAMOUNT 'She Loves Me Mot' (Oth week) D — Elliott Nugent A — Howard Lindsay Edward Hope C — Chas. Lang Cast: Bing Crosby Miriam Hopkins Kitty Carlisle Edward Nugent Henry Stephenson Warren Hymer Lyhne Overman Judith Allen George Barbier. Henry Kilker . Maude Turner Gordon Margaret . Armstrong Half Harolde Matt McHugh Franklyn . Ardell Vlnce Barnett 'Now and Forever* (4th week) D — Henry Hathaway A — Jack Kirkland Melville Baker Sylvia Thalborg Vincent Lawrence C — Harry Flschbeck Cast: Gary Cooper Carole Lombard Shirley Temple Sir Guy Standing Charlotte Granville Tetsu Komai Jamison Thomas 'Notorious Sophie' Lang* --(4tK*WeekH" ' J D-^Wm. Cameron Menzles A — Frederick I. Anderson Anthony Veiller C— Al Gilks Cast : Gertrude Michael Paul Cavanagh Arthur Byron Ben Taggart Alison Skip-worth Leon Errol • Norman Ainsley Arthur Hoyt Edward McWade Ferdinand Gottschalk Del Henderson Luclo Villegas Agostino Borgato •Ladles Should* (3rd week) D — Frank Tuttle A — Alfred Savoir Guy Bolton Claude. Binyon Frank Butler C-r-Henry Sharp Cast: Cary Grant Frances Drake Ed. Everett HortOtt Charles B. Arnt Nydla Westman George Barbier Rafael Corlo •Elmer * Elsie' (3rd week) D— Gilbert . Pratt A — George S. Kaufman Marc Connelly ' Humphrey Pearson C — Wni. Mellor Cast: George Bancroft- Frances Fuller Roscoe Karns 'George Barbier Nella Walker Charles. Sellon Helena Phillips •Mrs. Wlggs of the Cab- bage Patch' (1st week) D— Norman Taurog A— Alice Hegan Rice Wm. Slavena McNutt Jane Storm Cast: Pauline Lord W. C. Fields ZaSu Pitts Evelyn Venable Kent Taylor METRO 'Barretts of Wlmpole Street' (Mtk week) D— Sidney Franklin A— Rudolf Besler Claudine West Ernst Vajda , /Donald Ogden Stewart C— Wm. Daniels Cast: Norma Shearer Charles Laughton Fredrlc March Maureen O'Sullivan Ferdinand Munier Katharine Alexander Marlon Clayton Ian Wolfe Una O'Connor' Ralph Forbes Leo G. Carroll •Merry Widow' (10th week) D— Ernst Lubltsch A— Franz Lehar Ernst Vajda Samuel Raphaelsoh CJ^-Ollver Marsh Cast: Maurice Chevalier * Jeanette MacDonala Una Merkel Ed. B. Horton George Barbier Sterling Holloway Minna Gombell 'Barbara Leonard Joan Gale Sheila- Maners Leona Walters Edna Walden Barbara Baroridess Shirley Ross Jean Hart. Elinor Hunt Dorothy Wilson Jill Dennett Maria Troubetzkoy Tyler Brooke Cosmo Kyrle Bellew George Lewis John Merkyl Charles RSqua Fill D'Orsay •Born To Be Kissed' (7th week) D— Jack Conway D — Anita LoOs John Emerson C — Ray June Cast: Jean Harlow Lionel Barrymore Franchot Tone Lewis Stone Patsy Kelly Hale Hamilton Clara Blandlck Allan Mowbray Henry Kolker Russell. Hopton Gary Owen ' Ben Bard •Student Tour* (3rd week) D— -Charles F. Relsner A — Arthur Block George Seaton . C— -Joseph Valentine Cast: Charles Butterworth Jimmy Durante Maxina Doyle Florlne McKlnney Monte Blue Phil Regan Doug Fowley • 'Sacred and Profane Love' (4th week) D — Clarence Brown A— Edgar Selwyn John Lee Mdhln C — George FOlpey Cast: Joan Crawford Clark Gable Otto Kruger' Stuart Erwih Una O'Connor Marjorlo Gatesoh . 'All Good Americans' A— Wllkle Collins Adele Bufflngton C-r-Archie Stout David Manners Phyllis Barry Jamison Thomas Joseph von Seyffertlts Charles Irwin Elspeth Dudgeon Evelyn Bostock John Davidson RADIO •Hat> Goat and Glove' (3rd week) D — Worthington Minor A— Wllhelm Speyer Francis Faragoh C— Roy Hunt. CttBt i '■ Rlcardo. Cortez Barbara Bobbins John Beal Sarah Hadden Samuel Hinds Murray Klnnell Margaret Hamilton 'The Fountain' (1st week) D — John Cromwell A— Charles Morgan Jane Murfln C — Tjnasstgned C&st I Ann Harding Brian Aherne Violet Kemble-Cooper (1st week) "•D — Edwin Marin A — 8. J.Perlman Laura' Perlman C — Milton Krasner Cast: Otto Kruger Robert Young Madge Evans Una Merkel Mary. Karllsle Ted Healy Edward Brophy MONOGRAM (General Service) •Moon Stone* i(2ny purchasing from the Par trustees one-halt of the. three-year % notes of what is now referred to as Reorganized Saenger. Rich- ards is to be president of the hold- ing and president and g. m. of the Reorganized Saenger Theatre and Reorganized Saenger Realty com- panies. Under certain conditions, Rloh- ards is obligated to either sell his A stock to the Par trustees or to i»uy the B stock from them. The two companies Involved in the reorganization are Saenger Theatres iand Saenger Realty Co., both of which have been In equity receivership, with Richards as re- ceiver. When going into receiver- ship Saenger was operating 160 the- atres in Florida, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas, exclusive of houses in Texas and New Mexico operated by Dent ill which Saenger owns a 25% interest. Par owns 18,000 shares- preferred of $100 par value, 100,000 Class A and 12,380 shares Class B common, this being all of the stock of Saenger excepting 20 shares held by a New Yorker,. Leonard S. Wolff, [n turn, Saenger owns all of the stock of the Saenger Realty Co, Difficult Situation In addition to large general claims, the Saenger situation has been a' difficult one due to the large number of different bond Issues Outstanding on which company is in default. Paramount itself has a claim against Saenger, according to its books as of Dec. 30, 1933, of $646,464, while Saenger Theatres has a claim against Saenger Realty of $319,397. According to the Saenger books as of Dec. 30, 1933, the company owed subsidiaries $667,093 and gen- eral creditors $168,366. SJtock of subsidiaries is mort gaged or pledged to secure two bdnd issues, one. amounting to $962,600, the other $697,600. Additionally, Saenger is obligated as guarantor of principal and Interest on bonds of Saenger Realty Co. of several is sues, totaling $964,000. Because of the manner, in which the many bond obligations com plicated the situation, a Saenger bondholders committee was formed under a deposit agreement, Com- mittees include Saenger, New Orleans, Mobile and Clarksdale, Miss., units. Under reorganization, the Par trustees propose to form a corpora- tion of whloh Par will own all the capital stock and purpose of which will b-a to acquire claims of certain lessors whose leases have been dis- affirmed by Richards, plus claims of other creditors. Accordingly, trustees have set up Arklamiss Theatres, Inc., a Delaware corporar tion, which will pay $28,432 in sat- isfying claims of $641,965 on leases of the Crescent and Liberty, New Orleans^ the saenger, Biloxi, Miss;,' an office building in New Orleans; three theatres in Meridian, Miss., and in settlement of a claim of Publix Theatres Corp., Par's home office operating company. Plan is to pay $4,834 to Par in settlement of a Publix claim of $16,587. The Par trustees will advance the $28,000 to buy up the claims, taking 6% notes in return and if making additional advances in compromis- ing other claims, will get new notes to balance the outlay. Seven Points Reorganization steps, if approved by court and creditors, propose the following: 1. That Saenger be assigned the Par-Publix claim without any warranty. 2. Assignment of the capital stock of Arklamiss to a Reor* ganized Saenger corporation. 8. Advance to Saenger com* mlttee, not exoeeding $200,000, the money loar ed Arklamiss. by thti Par trustees and the cost to Par of organizing the Arklamiss subsidiary. 4. Par to enter into a film franchise for all Saenger theatres for 10 years on terms to be okayed by the Saenger committee. 6, Pay. to Reorganized Saenger all indebtedness of Central Florida Theatres, Inc., not exceeding $10,000, and now owed to E. V, Richards as receiver, plus interest at 6%. 6. Par trustees to. hold three- year 6% notes of the new . Saenger company to cover advances , on re- organization, plus interest, 7. Trustees to get all of the capital stock of the new company, all of the capital stock of Publlx- Saenger (Delaware corporation);' 1,400 shares of the B stock, or 26% Interest of outstanding Saenger stock control in Dent; 600 shares of preferred and 50 ehares of Class A, being 60% of common of Central Florida The- atres subsidiary and anything on account from Peninsular The- atres, Inc., another subsidiary, plus 8,760 shares (60% of Jefferi son Amusement Co. of Texas), subject to lien of indenture securing new bonds to be issued by Saenger. $60,705 Required flan provides that each bond-i holder committee can advance in cash amounts which were payable on bonds, plus Interest, up to May 1 last and are. authorized . to borrow funds to do this, pledging bonds therefor. Exclusive of Clarksdale, Miss., the total amount required to do this if all bonds are deposited would be $60,706. Amount for Clarksdale not given, in the papers. The committee agreements set forth how the plan is to be carried out, what provisions are to be made for financing and whether or not any foreclosure or receiver sales are to be made. It is agreed un« der the reorg that the new holding company controlling the proposed new Saenger companies may take out a life insurance policy on Rich- ards up to $260,000 for a term not to exceed three years. Papers in the Saenger. reorgan- ization setting forth the plan bulk nearly three Inches thick. It's by. far . the biggest document on any individual matter the trustees have So far handled and took a boy all of 16 minutes to bind. Alphonse Ethler Tenen Holtz Boris Lloyd George Pearce Gregory Gaye Addison Richards Walter Armitftge Phillip Reed •Dragon Murder Case' (6th week) D — H. Bruce Humb erst one A— S. S. Van Dine P. Hugh Herbert Robert Lee Rlan JameB C — Tony Oaudlo Cast: Warren William Margaret Lindsay C— Sid Hlckox ^^Xyle^Talbot-^r^-- Robert Barrat Eugene Pallette Robert McWade Helen Lowell Wm. Davidson Robert . Warwick Dorothy Tree George B. Stone George Meeker Arthur Aylesworth. Charles Wilson Btlenne Glrardot 'A Lost lady' (2nd week) D — Alfred B. Green A— Willa Cather Gene Markey Xathryn Scola John Arledge ^Gast: Barbara Stanwyck Rlcardo Cortez Phillip Reed •Flirtation Walk' (1st week) D — Frank Borzage A — Delmar Daves Lou Bdelman C — Sol Pollto Cast: Dick Powell Ruby Keeler Pat O'Brien John Eldredge Robs Alexander Gulnn Williams Henry O'Neill " Glenn Boles Deb's Pic Yen (Continued from page 3) around the village for a while and put on a few shindys that cost plenty before they kiss the game a bon cheerio. If studio press agentB are to be believed, every studio is a-clutter with the progency of the first families of Virginia, The bona fide moneyed gals number not more than a scant half dozen. There was much ado about the Fahrney- Pickering social bud's- storming* of the citadel, a neat piece' of bally and the p.a. was most cer- tainly entitled to her wage but she didn't collect, according to a suit on file In court. The complaint re- cites that the $460 due was for a picture buildup. Bill Gill's Action Janet Snowden, Whom the dallies tell us will grab off a heavy load of sugar when her pappy passes on, retained Bill Gill, a Hollywood agent, to advance her talents. Re- cently they were married So Bill will now have to work harder than ever to get her over. However, the bride said h.g. on pictures on re- turn from honeymoon. Flacks at Radio studio will tell you that Hazel Forbes has so many potatoes that her weekly stipend is. donated to worthy charities. And that's what sizzles the Hollywood mob. They feel that she's taking some=pbor-^kld ! s^job-away— frOm-her=, arid that it ain't right. Grand Barnes from" the pickle- fork set have been pounding at the gates for as many years as the game is old and what's the score? Samuels Joins Morrison I. R. Samuels has joined Leo Mor- rison's agency in New York. Joe Rlvkin is leaving Morrission as eastern rep. Morrison, east from Hollywood, is also- increasing his staff. Tuesday, June 19, 1934 PICTURES VARIETY 3? EXPLOITATION By Epes W* Sargent After Walkathons Howard Waugh, zone manager for Warner theatres in and around Memphis, is* making Ms territory plenty hot for marathon dances, and has just added another scaip to his belt by stopping one at Owens- boro, Ky., George Blotch's old home town. If you do not recall Bleich, he was the first manager to adver- tise that a picture was not worth- while. Several others have since used the same stunt, but it was honesty with Bleich. Anyhow, promoters got a permit from the mayor for a marathon in Owensboro, and Waugh went to work. He pointed out that the marathon was as a rule a fake from start to finish, told the mayor what he knew definitely about this and that angle, and made such a good case that the permit was. revoked and the -promoters had to move on. Waugh offers the dual objection that it is not show business and that it's taking money away from organized and established business. It is tough, enough to have a circus, happen along for a day, and hot nice to have to let a carney take the coin for a week, but when a long distance show comes along, and sticks it out as long as the suckers fall for' it, it is doing real harm to established business and does the town no good. Waugh is against anything which detracts from the. established the- atres. It's strictly - business with him from one angle, but he has a personal reaction against a gyp as well, ..and he . knows all the gim- micks in the marathon dance. He expects, his managers to plug these Intruders, but if they cannot, he'll take his own gun and do a little shooting. The result is that he keeps his territory clean. It's a good idea for others to follow. Many do. Black Gats Sever managers have had trouble with 'The Black Cat' through offering a free admission to all. who presented a black cat, animal to be . returned after the show. Not only made trouble for the kids but owners have com plained that their pets have been stolen and in some Instances there has been police trouble. One exhib • solved the problem by making his bid for inanimate cats. They could be wood, chin'a, cloth or plaster, which gave plenty of leeway, and formed the basis of a neat exhlbi tion. To hold' down the number of free admissions, the cats were entered for prizes, the collection being on .display in the mezzanine, with prizes for the largest, smallest, most unique and the handsomest with a special prize for the largest num- ber turned in by any one entrant. Each entry was provided with a card naming* the lender, and a sur- prisingly interesting collection re- sulted, for almost any household can turn up at least one black cat Stunt can be laid off to a store window, if this will give a better display, and can even be used to coax some free space in the mer chant ad. Any gag involving the use of live animals must be. carefully handled if. there is to be no backfire. In one of these cat assemblies several years ago an exhib had some 30 unclaimed cats on his Hands after the stunt and had to supply liver and milk for several days before he got rid of 'em. Missionary Work One of the big assets of one thea tre is a manager who. takes a real interest in his job and. who doesn't feel he has done that job until he has worked every angle. Every two or three weeks, he go.es to the single newspaper in his town and talks over coming pictures with the editor. He does not bear down on the adjectives. He's willing to admit that some pictures are not as good as others. He'll even admit that now and then there's some thing in a picture which should not bo there, but by and large he man ages to leave the impression with the editor that perhaps pictures are not all that's said about them. He doesn't merely talk. He takes over clips from the trade papers, stills, pressbooks, almost anything which "will permit him to press his point That paper's attitude toward the picture is intelligent and sympathe- tic, and the paper helps shape the readers' mode of thought. In the Ha me way he contacts the __hcads_of the-women's. clubs-a rgues with them nicely, and often con vinces Madame I resident that per haps she's just a trifle cockeyed in her slant on pics. This angle has to be handled with gloves, but he is tactful and has succeeded in keep- ing down • the yowls which are so fashionable now. And when he has a really good picture, the women go out and work for him, to prove that good pictures are profitable box; of- fice. All on the argument that they're doing too much about poor picture.! and not enough about the good ones. Hooking to Hearst Baltimore correspondent reports that the local Hearst sheet is open minded toward contests and willing to tie into any good Idea. Probably other Hearst sheets are in the same frame of mind, which may be a tip- off to other managers. In Baltimore the News Post gives a quarter col- umn daily to the current stunt and adds a cut of some player. All the exhibitor does is supply . the prizes and write the stories. Time was when most papers were glad to tie up, through their circu- lation manager, with:' contests, but like all good things the Idea was. run into the ground. Good stunts were overworked and the news- papers grew tired of following, one contest with another. Idea can probabiy be revived with a little effort, but the stunts must be varied if they are to be con- tinued. They cannot all be cut from the same piece of cloth,, There must be difference and reader appeal. That's what, pays the newspaper — reader appeal, If a gag can in- terest the readers and even, make new subscribers, then the exhibitor is paying for his space. If it doesn't, he's just a grafter and liable to be tossed out. Most newspapers right now are trying to win. back circulation. They'll welcome help. But it must be helpful to the paper as well as the theatre. Mull that thought over and then go and see the circulation man. Picnic Ads Smalltowner with a flock of pic- nics on' his hands through the sum- mer makes the best of it by doing a little advertising. He had a trailer made, on an old buckboard founda- tion, and mounted a paipted oak barrel provided with two taps. Bar- rel is gayly painted and lettered for the theatre, with a space for a one sheet of the current show. Whenever a school or other civic organization holds a picnic — and there's one almost . every week— the trailer is run out to the grounds in the morning and parked in a shady spot. Cake of ice is put in and the barrel filled. No, cups provided, since this is the .second year of the stunt and everyone knows it's nec- essary- to bring their own. One of the house porters is sent along to keep the tank filled with both water and ice, the latter being contributed by the local Ice company, which used filtered water in making., the blocks. This saved the use of an interior cooler. Idea has done a great deal to make friends for the house. " Several exhibs hold to the use of aprons for the helpers, who serve refreshments. Stout cloths with the name of the house on the bib. Aprons are collected after the do- ings and laundered for reuse. One house uses old cloth, without sal- vaging, but the idea is not well re- ceived. Of course, paper napkins printed up up, are always welcome, and some- thing can be done with paper towels. The latter, however, are a bit exr pensive. Big idea in all cases is that they can't be cbaxed to stay away from the picnic. Next best thing is to get them after it's over. METRO DANCE EXPLOIT ACTUALLY MADE COIN Paris. Metro, working from Paris, has just completed for 'Dancing Lady' what it claims to be the biggest ex- ploitation stunt yet pulled; on the Continent for a picture. Stunt was an international ama- teur dancing contest, run in 10 countries, with a trip to Hollywood as the prize. Cost was almost nil— in some spots Metro even made money on the stunt, charging ad- mission to the run- off of the con- test—and bushels of newspaper clippings have resulted. Picture has got off to a good start in most of the countries involved. - Winners are a couple of Danes, Nils Rasmussen and Lisa Pierson, who sail June 23 on the Berengaria for United States, chaperoned by a Danish newspaper reporter. Trans- portation is among things that Metro wangled free. Also got cut rates on airplane trips on Continent, bringing Couples to Amsterdam for finals of contest, and on hotels Newspaper co-operated as a circu- lation stunt, contributing valuable space. Countries are Norway, Sweden Denmark, Holland, Spain, Poland. Belgium, Roumania, Hungary and France. France was relatively weak, time being limited and public more sophisticated. But in. other coun- tries reported to have gone big. Contest in Barcelona, made 1,500 pesetas in admission over the cost of the hall. Sam Wagenaar, MGM p. a. and exploitation man for the Continent except France, with h'.q-i here, did the trick. Put to the Test Outstanding job of Charley Schlaifer in his new position as advertising director for the A. H. Blank Omaha houses was to tie in with -the .. , Hearst, daily, BeerNews, on several of its most attractive features and promotional schemes. In addition, Schlaifer has finally, arranged with both city dailies for the printing of time schedules of all downtown theatre attractions. The- atres have long desired this, and papers are printing as a convent-! ence to subscribers. Latest direct exploitation gag is in connection with Bill Miskel of the Orpheum and his showing of 'The Black Cat.' Contest arranged to find 'Bravest Man in Omaha,' winner receiving ten bucks for de- fying all superstitions and luck curses. Winner had. to walk under ladder with black cat in each hand, burn rabbits foot, .break looking- glass, and witness screening of the scary film alone at midnight with ■a casket as a seat and not a house light aglow. Rode in a Celebration Lincoln. 'Murder , at the Vanities' got a nice plug this week after some long distance , work by E. A. Patchen, of the LTC interests. Planning, a big all. day celebration of the reopening of the local main drag, the cham- ber of commerce here is putting on a street show and all business houses are collaborating in hopes of keeping cash register wheels spin- ning all day. Patchen promoted himself into a job on the exploitation committee, and drew down the spot which calls for writing all the ads and thinking up r the plugs. In order to put the day over with a smash, a motorcade headed by Patchen and Monte Meyer, a radio promoter, with five carloads of femmes made a 500-mile ballyhoo trip to all towns in the local trade territory, throwing, out handbills and carrying a personal letter from the mayor to the mayor of the towns visited. Patchen came in by seeing that all copy had prominently slugged at the bottom' See the middle west ern premiere of 'Murder at the Vanities' at the Stuart/ It was too late to object, so there were no ob jections, although it was a slicker stunt. It's estimated that the 'miir der' copy got into at least 20,000 hands, so an appropriate sendoff. Capsules Again Paramount is passing out cap sules on 'Little Miss Marker,' along We^familiar^ word 'Dope' showing through the gelatine. That's printed on a sheet of thin paper with a plug for the story. Apparently intended for an advertising accessory. The gag has been working for the past 20 years, having been originated for the pic- ture on narcotics with that title, Means a lot of bother folding the sheets, but it seems always to get attention. Paramount makes it simpler by using a small-sized horse capsule instead of the usual No. 8. Looks Like Something \ This seems to be the year the in- dependent producers are stepping out. Year books are far more im- portant looking, and are better pre^ pared, ■ Ed Finney kicks in with an important looking book for Mono- gram, with' the pictures smartly presented both in type and art work. It ranks with the toppers. San ; Diego, Cal. Airdome at. Coronado Tent City opens Its summer season June 28. Eska Wilson in charge again, fourth straight season. Canton, O. G. B. Odium, Until recently man- ager of. the Palace here, has been named business manager of the Mile- Royal, Akron neighborhood vaude- film house. Valentine, here, owned by the Botzum Theatres Corp Akron, com- pletely, renovated, reopened after, being dark a week. Marshall Taylor, district manager for Warner Bros, in the West Vir- ginia territory, has moved with his family from Wheeling to Pitts- burgh. Fire originating when a film became ignited resulted in consid- erable damage to the interior of the Columbiana theatre at Columbiana. Patrons left the house without in- jury. House is operated by Willis Anthony of Toungstown. First deviation from the uniform admission scale adopted several months ago by three major theatres here, Loews, Alhambra and Palace, was made this week when the Pal- ace announced reduction to 25 cents top for the summer months. Mati- nees are 15 cents and balcony the same plus tax. Charlotte, N. C. Call for bids on new theatre at Hickory, beinig built by Carl Klein, with J; F. Miller cts lessee. One story, 60 by 135 feet. Cost approxi- mately $50,000. M. R. Marsh, Charlotte, architect. Tide Water Power Company, op- erators of the Lumina pavilion, Wrightsville Beach, near Wilming- ton, has converted the old Harbor Island auditorium, into a : modern picture and vaudeville house. Opened June 10. San Francisco. Joe Blumcnfeld and Joe Huff opened the Sierra, Stockton, this week with straight pictures. Huff was formerly a Universal salesman here. San Francisco. Fox- West Coast talking with D. B. Levin to buy his Baywood, Sari Mateo. First cropped up after Fox's San Mateo burned down three weeks ago, leaving the chain with no thea- tre in that city, and giving Levin all ^e^bj&aj^witliJijteJB&xw he bought several months ago.' .Up until now. his biz hasn't been so hot, but is tops now. Utica. Rental of Majestic basis of court action here, resulting in large judg- ment. Suing for 15 months' rent, $1,400 a month, and costs, Louis J. Kempany obtained a judgment of $21,006.85 against the Tri-City The- atre Circuit, Inc., which closed , an unsuccessful run of burlesque at Majestic recently. Denver. Manager changes, made . in Inter- mountain division Fox wesco: Dan. McAuliffe, managing the Mayan, Denver, retired to spend several months oh father's ranch on doc- tor's orders; Gerald Whitney comes back to the. Mayan after subbing for Fred Bezold, ill, at Sheridan, Wyo,; ' Wm. Powers goes from Trinidad, Colo-, to Sheridan; Don Sheedy from the Rio Grande at Las Cruces, N. M.; and Henry Wester-, feld, formerly with, the company, re- turns to manage at Las Cruces. Ewart Boyd, manager at Sidney, Neb., resigns and is replaced by Harold' Jones, recently assistant city manager at Boulder, Colo. Fox has renamed the Luna, at North Platte, ,Neb., the State, and reopened it. R, E. Griffith Theatre Corporation, opens new Cactus theatre at Carls- bad, N. M., June 26. Closing old Crawford. Isis, Denver, a Fox house, closes last of June for $10,000 to $12,000 remodeling, redecorating and new equipment job. Sterling at Greeley, Colo., Pubiix, spending $7,000 to $10,000 on a face lift. Wheeling, W. Va. Tony Stern until recently man- ager of the Court here, has been returned to Pittsburgh and assigned to the Cameraphone, East Liberty. He replaces George Daransoll, re- signed. Acting manager Edward Segal has been sent back to his old post at the Harris-Etna as as- sistant. W-B Offers Prizes Feeling that Joe E. Brown's 'Cir- cus Clown' offers unusual possU bill ties, Warner Bros, announces a prize contest for the best theatre campaigns on the picture; $250 will be hung up in cash prizes, with $100 top money, with others at $60, $26, four at $10 and eight of $5 each; Idea is to encourage hustlers to sell more as a circus than a picture, since there is always a strong circus reaction. Plenty of opportunity here and Warners seeks to cash in on the opportunities. No details as to the rules an- nounced yet, but the full layout will be given by June 30, when the picture Is released. Shouldn't be necessary to urge managers to take advantage of such obvious poten- tialities as can be found in that title, but the offer won't hurt any. Sprucing Up For a couple, of years all Loew theatres have used a full size litho- graphic cutout of fat man tell- ing his wife he likes the> cool Loew theatres. It is standard lobby stuff from the middle of June until the last of September. This year the State, N. T>, decided to jazz it up a bit. Man was given a: real Panama, hung, over the printed hat and a real handkerchief was tucked Into his hand. . First few days had them stopping dead. Now the regulars still look to see if the hat will be sent to the cleaners if it gets dirty. Probably will attract attention all summer. Not so long ago the Palace, had a real fabric skirt just loose enough to flap in the wind, and that got attention, too. That was on a Clara Bow picture, but it can be worked on plenty of other cutouts, Crepe paper can be used , if the cutout is sheltered, but a yard of china silk is a small price to pay for a real eye-getter. Dressing up the paper in real cloth always has been a winner, yet very little of it is being done these days when every ounce of. extra effort counts. The idea is chiefly useful in giv- ing a new appeal to an old stunt which has stood around so long it has lost its Initial smash. It's dif- ferent and so it gets attention ail over again. Lorain, O. Ben Wall'ersteln. who ; has been managing the Palace here for sev- eral years, has been transferred to Sah Pedro, Cal., by Warner Bros. Akron, 6.. . Harvey - Cocks, managers of the Harris, Findlay, O., has been moved up to the managership of the Strand here. He replaces Dick Wright, re- cently promoted to district manager for Warner Bros, in Northeastern Ohio. Chicago Academy theatre will be dark all week except Saturdays and Sun- days, when 'five acts of vaude will go with the pic for 15-cerit admish Halstead closes permanently, Vendome, Essaness operated, Is closing for the summer, John Toffel, Jr., sold the Grandale to James Costos, who now operates 4hr ee-th cat res,: Harry Balaban Is taking over the E A R theatre. Lancaster, Pa. Ray O'Connol, manager of Warner Bros.' Grand theatre, Lancaster, Pa., will leave June 18 to spend- a two weeks' vacation in Minenapolis and £3t. Paul. Bronx, N. Y. Belmont, darjc ior some time, re- opens shortly with a straight pic- ture policy. Fan Mirror Baltimore. Sam Gelman, manager of Loew's Parkway, . a subsequent- week-run house, thought out a neat one which he has planted In his lobby in an- ticipation of Metro's 'Thin Man.' Hired a mirror, the type that is frequently used in the Fun House in an amusement park, planted it in the lobby , and placarded it, 'See the. Thin Man,' Of course, every mugg glancing at his reflection sees, his figure distorted perpendicularly, and the thing gives a laugh to all entering the theatre. Played with Eastman Baltimore. There's an open door to a pub- licity tie-up with Eastman Kodak stores facing any exhib showing Universale 'Little Man, What Now.' In towns where no direct branches of the Eastman concern exist, same tie-up is possible with any firm handling the. Eastman line of goods. In Balto., Larry Schan- berger, of Keith's, snagged a win- dow display. Liberally permitted, to sprinkle it with stills from the flick. Eastman got in its lick with a placard centered, in the display; copy of which read: 'Little Man' was filmed by a standard studio camera using Eastman film, The same effect can be gained using a 16 mm. cine-Kodak/ New Sales Idea Rochester. Family theatre, Rochester grind house, is conducting a farm auction as a Thursday night stage feature. Pigs, chickens, seeds and imple- ments are knocked down to the highest bidders, often for as little as a dime, but lots of furi for the audience, especially when a cus- tomer has to escort a squealing porker out of the auditorium. Man- agement has threatened to auction a horse or cow some Thursday night. — -For Thin^Men— - - - - Metro's 'The Thin Man' is going to offer some useful tie-in ideas, and with names and a story to back it they should help business. In smaller spots or nabes a good, gag will be to hang up a prize, for the thinnest man in town. Put a plat- form scales in the lobby, preferably one with a height attachment. If the latter Is not Included, make one from a piece of builder's lath and a try .square. Latter is laid along .(Continued on page 39) 38 VARIETY Tuesday, June .19, 1934 ITS FUN TO BE FOOLED- CAbowta Reynolds Tobacco Co.) but it's more fun (and better business) to KNOW! and when he WOKE UP! He realized it was THE SAME OLD BULL! Goodness gracious! There can't really be any more exhib- itors who BUY pictures on the basis of what they see in those dear, antiquated, so-called Announcement Books! VS YOU CAN'T BLAME THE BOYS FOR WANTING TO MAKE THEIR PRODUCT SOUND GOOD! BUT at the end of the year there's only ONE thing that counts! (you know the answerl) METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STOPPED THESE! Pretty books! Very expensive! But we don't consider them necessary -and here's the reason! Exhibitors say: IT'S VERY IMPRACTICAL to put those Announcement Books up into your Marquee but — ITS VERY PRACTICAL (and Profitable!) TO PUT THESE NAMES IN YOUR MARQUEE! MARIE DRESSLER WALLAC E BEERY MARION DAVIES DO C »VO « e -J " n i' " 1 8 • r» o • W *» n o v vi . ** NORMA SHEARER CLARK GABLE ROBT.MONTGOMERY JEAN PARKER ■—WW »» « ■» « •#-*»» »• •» i# *j *j r> Q w* V ' v* T> • w RAMON NOVARRO *s , 'o' , v^'«^*v»? v i>' , 6".*'V7'' , 5^ GRETA GARBO JOAN CRAWf ORD "P w o n l v n -•-» u v «» «» * a »» .» t> «a rt •» •> O O 9 © « LIONEL BARRYMORE •yg^fr^'^n'*^^'R^s^^y " JEAN HARLOW HELEN H AY E S JIMMY DURANTE LAUREL- HARDY GLORIA SWANSON JACKIE COOPER J. WEISSMULLER iM. CHEVALIER! MYRNA LOY ^•Why not show the above to Hie first film sales* man who shows you a book with pretty pictures* And while he's thinking it over, here's a thought for YOU! "Uop grout* ta pte-falr Jump . . .■Manhattan Mekgdraau'le the bit tumble In the Loop end it ***** «h«»ee Chicago to a nifty Spire", v "De- ,epta week-end hot Newark a-roties wen imlTorroly Titan thin eatimated'. . Heading of should be "Manhattan Melodrama' ". "Capital coin top- per k "Muhattin MjWrim.V .^rafting. 'cro in *o ve^ Otblt i§MSMjM^^*g' u -° ^ ^^^^ ^D ^ ^^^ ^ ^^j^o^J^ udJbKVtPriit week'WvaVuibr itrtie - top fofthc year." (S»n F»jndseo)..."Dbptte toirld trmrxretiirt*, -Crurford opu« formed line* at the Stare; other. Mod. Terrific advance campaign ebouid push .ilong exception.]." (Baton) \T " Tana' holding up pact of 'Manhattan Melo' hat week. Pic total over." (Portland, Ore.) . . " Thin Man' topa Chi on May date, mystery, coaaedy fc) doing well.'' (On ."Heat wllrlng Htn only apoc to withstand heat rhlt week b Itam, where the b. o. pull of Crawford U more •vkknt than ever before In 'Sadie McKee'." (Pin) ■ • ■If"*'' Metropolitan doing the beat with "Vlra VUUr." (BroolJm) . "Loew'a State out an front once agalni 'Hollywood Patty' on the torerL'' (PnwkW, B. /.) ; . "ana Hett-Dopeyi Thin Man' fatte»lnb.c,".>.^'.Thln Man' get. ting fat trade In New Orlearu." . "Top trade by the downtown fnat-nin contingent goea to hold* «rm "Viva VUlal'." (Lot Anrfa) V7' 'McKee* e«ongei«livOmaha. A " -Viva VTlUr craihed Ae puna. Extraordinary." (Boaon) . . " 'Sadie McKee' beat, Crawford being drawing power." Pmtimt) . ." 'Sadie McKee' hefty." (sTtadi)- . . ."Loew i leading with 'Sadie McKee'." (Newark) • "jyi!* Vulil ' ewnKtlon at Mlhneaoia." . -" 'Vhn VUlal' tufty." (Sonic) ... " 'McKee' owned heavy and going arrong." (Kmuu CM ••$adk< amacko." (BoWmere)..." 'Villi 1 •rfftanaaL" (Omaha) . "'Sadie McKee' lead* dull Brooklrn.". . ." 'Manhattan Mek>' atrong." Viva In rWlr.im.inl" . . ." -Villa' brlghtena duU Pitt, only Ug nolle thU •jet".. ^yivaVUUI'. very Lvely.'^Bwoii) . Toan Crawford'a 'Sadie McKee' b cailly topping the town." (New Orleans) . . " 'Viva VlUaT csuab record held by 'Dancing Lady." (L A.)... "TrUprtdc' aock -3-w^ek." (London) . 1 'VUU' topaStUrub.". f 'Sadie' bke, Crawford at the •op of the town." (Frucs) ■< "Gable rrieani ■wm-to 'Men In White' In Blum than Pulltta Prbet trry good." ■; 'Manhattan Me)o' lock: town . leader.'.' (Boaon) . "Deaplte norm and atop ahorttge,. 'Men In While' aocVo MpUi 1^?" * n)o '* d ^ loc » 1 thowhouae PARDON ME for REPEATING THIS ADVT.! —but the TRUTH bears re|petition— , 'Viva Vlllal" at Loew'. Sure awarded jnafot Isuke." (New Orkoiu)-" 'Vlllal' IWto'l big one: topplngihc town by corulderaUc ■"»»«•"■.. ."Summer heat aocka Broadway but C^wkh*Mel«ir«iiia'blg."(N. V. ) „ .'"Tanan* caeeDent." (Bpmn) . ."Tarun' b Lincoln . raw eaej^lnt^dougt , 'f^Wrraj«a) ."'Tanan' la Indbnartlb, nice." . .«• 'Men In White' a topper and looka bke amaah." (Boaon) 'VUbl'So «npitln'.' , .(0;nn.) . ."Big nobe for the week look* ttoTarajJffid hh» Mefe'i hooy totay." (Prwt- •Jfjet) . . .¥ Tarun' outitandlng: fit and Juicy." (CW)_ ."Socko 'Men In Wrutji topping the town." (Frisco) . "Tartan'Tlg In nT-0.| turning them •way." ..'"Men In WhhV in Seattle; Hi- . ,- x T.r«n' tope In Baltimore Jtagk ifctt1e.' , ,.. u ' i M*n In White*. leading town." (Ctauo) " 'Men In Whlte' leada the town." (New Hotvn) " 'Men In WMte' beat figure In eeveral month.." (ann.) . " 'Men In^Whlte' front with nifty grou." (PMIa.) " 'Men In White' very big total;" (Sr. JLwld . ".'Men in, white! towering fof Balio.". . "Sharer wowi in heat wave great." (L A) " 'Riptide' ray of •umhtne." 7 (Puulwrh) " 'Ripriae^acklnr them; look, act for four-week gallop. (Chicofo) . ." Hlptlde' In two Boston houtei -and aocko at each.".. V!"Rlorlde' powerfuL" (PUti);-" 'Rip, tide' dominate. Newark," . "Gloom chaKd br ' •Riptide'. Hefty." (Ballimore) . "'Riptide' beal thing house ha. had In tome time.* (PMIa.) , t ""Rjprkle' rlp-snortlnj to wow." (Chicmrj) . . * "Riptide' IndbnapoV bat.'' . "Tllptide' ■tfty. big. hold, over Jrd week." (New Vork) . . . * 'Ripdde' Qncy rmacko, such a fast pace that other entries arc completely outdistanced." (This could go on forever) -and so, while the head* lines continue to tell the story of M-G-M suprenv i*cy at-the te^ffice READ BETWEEN THE LIONS! There is nothing unusual about the amazing run of hits that M-G-M to AlOI OaVVTI, QaMf, delivering. It has always happened and you can always depend en It! VERY CODLING WHEN IT'S HO" YOU'LL BE GETTING PLENTY OF PRETTY BOOKS FULLOP «34.'35 PROMISES! READ THEM ALL CAREFULLY BECAUSE"— ft will be such fun to COMPARE WHEN— THE LION IS ON THE LOOSE ■ Soon the ROARS OF 1934-35 will be'heard 'round the worldl Tuesday, June 19, 1934 PICTURES VARIETY 39 CALENDAR OF CURRENT RELEASES Harold Auten orn i!io e'way. n. y. d. e n lr. Erie Kenton. 77 mins. Rel.. Feb. 2. Rev. Feb. 13. She Made Her Bed. Show lot story about a brutal animal trainer Rich. Arlen, Sally Ellers. Robt. Armstrong. Dir. Ralph Murphy, Rel. March 9. Rev. May l; Shoot the Works. A denatured The Great Magoo.' Jack Oakie.- Ben Bernle, Dorothy Dell. Dir. Wesley Ruggles. Rel. June 29. Six of. a Kind. The humors of a Bhare-expenses trip. Chas. Ruggles. Mary Boland, W. C. Fields, Geo. Burns., Grade Allen, Alison Skipworth. Dir. Leo. Carey. 60 mins. Rel. Feb. 9. Rev. March 13. Thirty Days a Princess. Obscure actress plays at being a princess. . Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant. Dir. Marlon Goring. 76 mins. Rel. May 18. Rev. May 16\ Trumpet Blows, The. George Raft becomes an amateur bull, fighter. Geo. Raft, Adolphe Menjou, Frances Drake; Dir. Stephen Roberts. CS mins. Rel. April 13. Rev. April 17. We're Not Dressing. Comedy of shipwrecked royalty. Blng Crosby, . Carole Lombard, Burns and Allen, Ethel Merman, Leon Errol, Dir. Norman Taurog. 80 mins. Rel. April 27. Rev. May 1. Witching Hour, The. Augustus Thomas play of a murder Innocently caused by hypnotism. Sir Guy Standing, John Halllday. Judith Allen. Dir. Henry Hathaway. 65 mins. Rel. April 27. Rev. May I. Wharf Angel. Romance in San Francisco of 1907. Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Del.1. Dir. W.- ,C. Menzles. .65 mins. Re|. March 16. Rev. April 24. You Belong to Me. State story with Helen Mack, Lee Tracy. Dir. L. Worker. Rel. July 27. You're Telling Me. Fields as a small town garage man. W. C. Fields* Loan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrlenne Ames. Dir. Erie KentOn. 66 ins. Rel. April 6. Rev. April 10; Prinrinnl 1270 6,xth Aw «-» rnncipai New York. n. v. Ferocious Pal. Kazan, the dog, In a thrilling mystery-melodrama of the sheep : ra.lsing country. Ruth Sullivan and Robert Manning. Dir. Spencer Gordon. 54 mins. Rel. Feb. t. Rev. April 24. Fighting to Live. Captain, the. dog. and Lady, his. mate, in a story based on a true incident In their lives. Mary Shilling and Gaylord Pendleton. 60 mins. Rel. May. Little Damozel, The. Anna Neagle and James Ren nfe Club queen' In a ritzy London 'hot spot/ 58 mi Studio: 6048 Sufrwt Blvd. , MAnABFom OBICt; w * K » °- BOIldlrttf, Hollywood. Cal. monogram Rockefeller Center, N.Y.C. Beggars In Ermine. Bankrupt steel man organizes a mendicants trust. Lionel Atwell, Betty Furness. • Dir. Phil Rosen. 70 mins. Rel. Feb. 22. Rev, May 1. Blue Steel. John Wayne, Eleanor Hunt Dir. R, N. Bradbury. A Lone Star Western, 64. mins. Rel. May 10. City Limits. Ray Walker. Sally Blane, Frank Craven. Story of breezy news paper reporter who gets his story— and the girl. 70 mins. Rel. May 1. House of Mystery, The. Verna Hlllle, Ed Lowry. Dir. William Nigh. 62 mine Rel. April . 30. Loudspeaker, The. Ray Walker, Jacqueline Wells. 67 mins. Rel. June 1. Lucky Texan, The. Western story of a man accused of the murder of his pat. John Wayne. Dir. Paul Malvern. 6G mins. Rel. Jan. 22. Rev. Feb, 13, The story of a 'night Rel.. June. R.K.O. Radio Ice: R.K.O. Bldg., Radio City, N.Y.C. Studios: Hollywood, Calif. Allen Corn. Talented young musician realizes after a series of disappointing lo.ve affairs that love and a career won't mix and chooses career. Ann Harding, John Boles, Margaret Hamilton. Arnold Korff. Dir. Edward H. Griffith. Rel. May 25. Crime Doctor. A famous detective, jealous ot his wife who no longer loves him, plans the perfect crime. Otto Kruger, Karen Morley. Nils Asther, .Judith Wood. Dir. John Robertson. Rel. April 27. Rev. May 15. Finishing School. A young toardlng school girl becomes Involved with a young doctor. Ginger Rogers, Frances' Dee, Bruce Cabot, Blllle Burke. P Ir - Wahda Tuchock and George Nicholls. Jr. 70 mins. Rel. May 4, ^^^ReVr^May^l.-— ^=^--^ - ■ r ^-^- n -- . - r >=-- - -r-r-.— r.- -- Keep 'Em Rolling. One man's life-time devotion to his loyal army horse.. Walter Huston, Frances Dee, Robert Shayne, Frank COnroy. Dir. George Archalnbaud. ReL March 2. , Hips, Hips, Hooray. Musical girl show. Bert Wheeler^ Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Dorothy Lee, Thelma Todd, George Meeker, Phyllis Barry. Dir. Mark Sandrlch. Rel. Feb. 2. Rev. Feb. 27. Long Lost Father. Story in a London nlte club. John Barrymore, Helen Chandler. Dir. Ernest B. Sohoedsack. 62 mins. Rel. Jan. 19. Rev. Feb. 27. Lost Patrol, The. A detachment of British soldiers lost on the Me.«r>i>otamran desert are attacked by unseen Arabs with dramatic results. Boris Kar- loff, Victor McLaglen, Wallace Ford. Reginald Denny, Alan Hale. Dir. John Ford. Rel. Feb. 16. Rev. April 3. Tuesday, June 19; 1934 PICTURES VARIETY 43 Man of Two Worlds. An Eskimo, his Illusions shattered by a glimpse of .Lon- don civilization, returns to his own people and Is brought back to reality by his infant son. Francis ' Lederer, Ellssa Landl, Henry Stephenson, Walter Byron, Steffi Duna, J. Farrell MacDonald, Sarah Padden. Dir. J. Walter Ruben. 92 mine. Rel. Feb. 9. Rev. Jan. 16. Meanest Gal in Town. Farce comedy love in the beauty parlor. Zasu Pitts, El Brendel, Pert Kelton, James. Gleason, Dir. Rich. Schayer. 61 mins. Rcl. Jan. 12, Rev. Feb. 20. Of Human Bondage. A poignant story of a man who faces life as a partial cripple,' Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Reginald Denny. Reginald Shef- field, Alan Hale. Dir. John Cromwell. Rel. June 1. Ing and Like It. Gangster backs a Broadway show and makes sure of good reviews by furnishing special 'escorts' for each reviewer. Zasu Pitts, Pert Kelton, Edward Everett Horton, Nat Pendleton, Ned Sparks. Dir, . .William Setter. 69 mins. Rel. April 20. Rev. April 17. Spitfire. A powerful story which, deals with a beautiful mountain "witch" whose naivete, temperament, and personality combine wickedness and Immaculateness. Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young. Ralph Bellamy, Martha Sleeper. Sidney Toler, . Louis Mason. Sara Haden, Dir. John Cromwell. Rel. March 30. Rev. March 30. Stlngaree. Notorious Australian bandit of the "Robin Hood" type with a flair for the esthetic things of life. Irene Dunne, Richard Dlx. Conway Tearle, Mary Bolahd. Dir. William Wellman. 7G .mins. Rel. May 26. Rev. May 22. Strictly Dynamite.. A poet becomes a gag writer for -a famous radio comic. Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Norman Foster. Marian Nixon. Dir. Elliott Nugent. Rel. May 11. Success at Any Price. Ruthless business man finds love at last. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Colleen Moore, Genevieve Tobln.. Dir. J. Walter Ruben. Rel. March 16. Rev. May 8. Success Story. The ruthless rise to power and wealth of a boy of the New York telement district. Douglas Fairbanks. Jr., Colleen Moore, Gene- vieve Tobin. Frank Morgan. Dir. J. Walter Ruben. Rel. March 16. la Man la Mine. To preserve her marriage a young wife virtually hurts her husband Into the . arms of his first love. Irene Dunne, Constance Cummlngs, Ralph Bellamy, Kay Johnson. Dir. John Cromwell. 75 mins. Rel. April 13. Rev. April 17. two Alone. An orphan girl and a young boy who escaped from a reformatory fall in love and try to escape the inhuman farmer who keeps them enslaved on his farm. Jean Parker, Zasu Pitts, Tom Brown, Arthur Byron. Nydia Westman, Beulah Bondl, Willlard Robertson. Emerson Tracy. Dir. Elliott Nugent. Rel. Jan. 6. 1934. , Rev, April 10. Where Sinners Meet; An eloping couple have a break-down In their, car and spend the night in an unusual hotel where the host, a philosopher, shows them the error of their way. Clive Brook. Diana Wynyard, Reginald Owen, Blllie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Gilbert Emery. Dir. J. Walter Ruben, 68 mins. Rel. May 18. Rev. May 29. Wild Cargo. Frank Buck's expedition into the Asiatic jungles to capture wild animals. Frank Buck. Dir. Armand Denis. Rel. April 6. United Artiits ot """ ' m *SPV&?%\. Affairs of Cellini, The. The love life of Benvenuto Cellini. Fredrlc March, Constance JBennett, Frank Morgan, Fay Wray. Rel. Aug. 3. Born to Be Bad. Story of a woman apparently destined by circumstances to • be always wicked in spite of herself. Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Paul Harvey; Dir. Lowell Sherman. Rel. May 18. Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back. Further adventures in crime solution. Ron- ald Colman, Loretta Young, Warner. Oland. Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel. July 20, Catherine the Great. The story of Russia's greatest ruler. Douglas Fair- banks, Jr., Elizabeth Bergner, Flora Robson, Griffiths Jones. Dir. Paul Czlnner. 93 mins. Rel. April 13. Rev. Feb. .20. Count of Monte Crlsto, The. The famous -romantic old classic of the French nobleman's struggle with his adversaries. Robert Donat, Ellssa Landl, Louis Calhern. Dir.; Rowland V. Lee. Gallant Lady. An unwed mother who pays the price of silence in order, to be near her child. . Dir. Gregory La Cava. Ann Harding, CHye Brook, Otto Kruger, Tulllo Carmlnati. 82 mins. Rel. Jan. 5. Rev. Jan. 23. House of Rothschild, The (20th Cent.). Strong drama of the great financial house. George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young. Dir. Alfred Werker. 94 mins. Rel. April 6. Rev. March 20. Last Gentleman, The. Shrewd and elderly millionaire cleverly, foils the plans of his children to chisel his money away. George Arliss, Edna May Oliver* Janet Beecher and Ralph Morgan. Dir. Sidney Lanneld. (No date set.) Looking for Trouble. Thrills in the lives of telephone linesmen, with a couple of love stories on the side. Spencer Tracy, Jack Oakie, Constance Cum- mlngs, Arline Judge. Dir. Wm. Wellman. 77 mins. Rel. March 9. Rev. April 17. Moulin Rouge, A talented wife proves her ability by a clever impersonation ruse. Dir. Sidney Lanfleld. Constance Bennett. Franchot Tone. Tulllo Carmlnati. 70 mins. Rel. Jan. 19. Rev. Feb. 13. Nana. Adapted from the Zola novel. with Sam Goldwyn's new star, Anna Sten. Phillips Holmes, Mae Clark, Lionel Atwlll. Rich. Bennett. Dir. Dorothy Arzner. 87 mins. Rel. Mar. 2. Rev. Feb. 6, Our Dally Bread. Disinherited folks from all walks of life begin all over on an abandoned farm. Karen Morley, Tom Keene, and Barbara Pepper. Produced and directed by King Vidor. Palooka. The son of a prizefighter follows in his father's footsteps. Dir. Ben- jamin Stoloff. Jlmmle Durante, Stuart Erwln, Lupe Velez. Rel. Jan. 26. Rev. March 6. Private Life of Don Juan. Somebody insinuates to the great legendary lover that all his conquests really didn't love him— so he gathers them around and puts the question to the test. Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Benita Hume, Elsa Lanchester. Dir. Alex Korda. (No date.) Sorrell and Son. An epic -of the love between father and son. H; B. Warner,. Peter Penrose, Hugh Williams. Winifred Shotter. Dir. Jack Raymond. Rel. April 20. •tudloi Universal City, Calif. Affairs of a Gentleman. Drama. Paul Lukas, Leila Hyaras, Patricia Ellis, Onslow Stevens, Lilian Bond. Dir. Edwin L. Marlon. Rel. May 14. Beloved. Musical. John Boles, Gloria Stuart. Dir. V. Schertzlnger. Rel. Jan. 29. Rev. Jan. 30. Bombay Mall. Edmund Lowe Production. lr. Ed. Marin. Rel. Jan. Rev. Jan. 9. " , * lack Cat, The. Mystery. Karloff, Bela' Lugosl, David Manners,. Dir. Edgar Wllmer. 70 mins. Rel. May 7. Rev. May 22. Countess of Monte Crlsto. Drama. Fay Wray, Paul Lukas, Paul Page, Car- mel Meyers, Reginald Owen. Rel« March 19. Rev.. April 3. Cross County Cruise. Comedy-drama. Lew Ayres, June Knight, Alice White. "Dir. Eddie Buzzeli. 78 mins. Ret. Jan. 16. Rev. Jan. 23. rosby Case, The. Drama. Wynne Gibson. Onslow Stevens, William Collier. Rel. March 5. Rev. April .3. , . Embarrassing Moments. Comedy-drama. Chester Morris. Marlon Nixon. Dir. Ed. Laemmle. Rel. July 9: Glamour. Comedy-drama. Constance Cummlngs. Paul Lukas. Dir. William Wyler. 75 mins. Rel. April 9, Rev.- May 16. Half a Sinner. Drama. Joel McCrea, Sally Blan.e, Kurt Neumann. Rel. April 30. Honor of the Range. Western. Ken Maynard. Rel. April 16. Rev. May i; First Mate. Comedy. Summervllle-Pitts. Wm. Wyler, Rev. Sept. 6. Horse Play. Comedy. Summervllie-Devlne. Rev. March 13. 'I. Give My Love.' Drama. Wynne Gi 67 mins. Rel. June 25. I Like It That Way. Musical. Rodger Pryor. Gloria Stuart. lr. Harry Lach- man. 70 mins. Rel. Feb. 12. Rev. April 24. I'll Tell the World. Comedy. Lee Tracy, Gloria Stuart, Roger Pryor. Edwin Sedgwick. 78 mins. Rel. April 16. Rev. April 24. Let's Be Ritzy. Comedy-drama. Lew Ayres, Patricia Ellis. Frank McHugh, Isabelle Jewell, Hedda Hopper. Dir. Edward Ludwig. Re), March 26. Let's Talk Is Over; Comedy-drama. Chester Morris, Mae Clarke, Frank Craven, Andy Divine. Dir. Kurt Neumann. 67 mins. Rel. June 11. ^lttle=Man^What=Now7^DramaT^-Margaret---Sullavart;=Douglass=Montgomery^ Dir. Frank Borzage. 97 mins. Rel. June 4, Love Captive. Drama. Nils Astlier, Gloria Stuart. lr, Max Marcin. 61 mins. Rel. May 21. Love Birds. Comedy. Slim Summervllle, Zasu Pitts. Dir. Wm. Seiter. 60 mine. Rel. March 12. Rev. May 29. Madame Spy. Drama. Fay Wray. Nils Asther. Dir. Karl reund. 70 mins. Rel. Jan. 8. Rev. Feb. 13. Idnlght. Drama. Sidney Fox. Henry Hull, Chester Efsklne. Rel. Jan; 22. Rev. March 13. Myrt and Marge. Musical. Myrtle Vail, Donna Domerll, Eddie Foy. Jr.. Ted ilcaly, Grace Hayes, J. Farrell MacDonald. Dir. Al Boasberg. 66 mins. Rel. Dec. 11. Rev/ Jan. 23. ne More River. Drama Rel. July 23. I L;».«.) Offices: 30 Rockefeller Center, Universal New York, N. Y. mins. Nov. 27. reund. Diana Wynyard, Coli ir. James Whale, Romance In the Rain. Comedy-drama. Roger Pryor, ictor. Moore and Heather Angel. Dir. Stuart Walker. Smoking Guns. Western. Ken' Maynard. Rel. June 11. Poor Rich, The. Comedy. Edna May OHver u Edward Everett Horton. Dir. Ed. Sedgwick. 76 mins. Rel. Feb. 26. Rev. May 16. Uncertain Lady. Comedy-drama. Genevieve Tobin. Edward E; Horton. Dir. Karl Freund. Rel. April 23j> Wheels of Destiny. Western. Ken Maynard. Dir. Feb. 19. Rev. April 3. Warner Brothers : 321 W. 44th St , i New York. N. V. Studios: Burbank. Calif. AS the Earth Turns. TEpic In the romance of American life and a revelation of the character of the New England farmer taken from the story of Gladys Hasty Carroll. Jean Mulr, .Donald Woods, Dorothy Peterson. Dir. Alfred E. Green. 73 mins. Rel. April 14. Rev. Ap. 11. 17. Dr. Monica. Drama of woman who tries to help her hubby's girl friend. Kay Francis, Warren. William. Jeati Mulr, Verree Teasdale. Dir. Wil- liam Kelghly. Rel. June 23. Easy to Love. A frothy farce. Adolphe Menjou, Genevieve Tobin, Mary Astor, Guy Kibbee, Edward Everett Horton, Dir. William Keighley - 61 rains, Rel. Jan; 20. Rev. Jan. 16. Friends of Mr. Sweeney. Comedy-drama of the browbeaten husband who turns the big trick for his newspaper. Charlie Ruggles. Ann Dvorak. Eugene Pallette, Dorothy Tree. Dir. Edward Ludwig. Rel. July 7. Gambling Lady. Based on the drama by Doris Malloy of a gambling- lady who is such a sport she is willing to sacrifice her love to save her hus- band from a murder charge. Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O'Brien, Claire Dodd. Dir. Archie Mayo. 66 mins. . Rel. March 31. Rev. T Aprti 10. Harold Teen. Hilarious comedy romance which brings to life on the screen the characters of Carl EcUs comlo strip, Hal LeRoy, Rochelle Hudson, Patricia Ellis, Guy Kibbee. Dir. Murray Roth. 66 mins. Rel. April 7. Heat. Lightning. Thrilling romance of desert, love and hate, based on the Broadway, stage hit by Leon Ab'rams and George Abbott. Aline Mac- Mahon, Ann Dvorak, Llyle Talbot, Preston Foster. Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. 43 mins. Rel. March 8. Rev. March 13. Here Comes the Navy. Comedy-drama of a gob that tried to buck the fleet. James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Dorothy Tree, Frank Mo- Hugh. Dir. Lloyd Bacon. Rel. July 21. He Was Her Man. Action melodrama of the gal who double-crossed herself in love when her past came back. James Cagney,- Joan Blondell, Frank Craven. Harold Huber. Dir. Lloyd Bacon. 70 mins. Rel. June 16. Rev. May 22. HI, Nellie. Comedy-drama of a newspaper 'love' columnist. Paul. Muni, Glenda Farrell, Kathryn Sergava. Dir. Mervyn Le Roy. Ret Jan. 20; Rev. Feb. 6. I've Got Your Number. Rowdy, rollicking story of the telephone trouble hunter who finds It. Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien. Dir; Kay EnrJghL 67 mine. Rel. Feb. 4. Rev. Feb. €. Jimmy the Gent. Hilarious comedy romance based on the story by Laird Doyle and Ray Nacarro, which reveals a new kind of racket, that of digging up heirs. James Cagney, Bette . Davis, Allen Jenkins. Dir. Michael Curtis, Vt mins. ReL March 17. Rev. March 27. Key, The. Fighting for love while the Sinn Fein and the Black and, Tan crossfire during the Irish trouble. From 'the London* stage success, 'The Key.' William Powell; Edna Best,. Colin Clive, Henry O'Neill. Dir. Michael Curtiz. Rel. June 6, Madame Du Barry. Drama of the lady who made history sit .up and take notice, with Comedy twists. Dolores Del Rio, Reginald Owen, Osgood Perkins, Verree Teasdale, Victor Jory, Dorothy Tree, Helen Lowell. Dir. William Dleterle. Rel. July 14. Merry Wives of Reno. Comedy-farce of the Reno divorce mill In action, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, Guy. Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert and Frank McHugh. Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone. 64 mins. Rel. May 12. Rev. June 12. Modern Hero, A. Based on the novel by Louis Bromfleld, opening with the gay romance of circus life and carrying the hero through tremendous financial battles to a captain of Industry. Richard Barthelmess. 70 mins. Jean Mulr, Marjorie Rambeau, Verree Teasdale. Dir. G. W. Pabst. Rel. April 21. Rev. April 24. Personality Kid, The. Fast moving, melodrama of the ham and beaner that turns into a real champ thanks to wlfey. Pat O'Brien, Glenda Farrell, Claire Dodd, Henry O'Neill. Dir. Alan Crosland. 68 mins. Rel. July 14. Smarty. Comedy of the wife who wanted to commute' between husbands. Joan Blondell, Warren William, Edward E. Horton, Frank McHugh and Claire Dodd. Dir. Robert Florey, 64 mins. Rel. May 26. Upperworld. Drama by Ben Hecht dealing With a millionaire's adventures with a chorus girl. Warren William, Mary Astor. Ginger Rogers. Dickie Moore. Dir. Roy Del Ruth. 70 mins. Rel. April 28. Rev. May 29; Miscellaneous Releases Arlane. ( lue Ribbon.) British made story of a woman who pretends sophis- tication to win her love. Elizabeth Bergner, Percy Marmont. Dir. Paul Czlnner. 80 mins. Rel. April 1. Badge of Honor (Mayfair). Buster Crabbe in a original outdoor picture. lr. Spencer Bennett. 62 mins. Rel. April 16. Rev. May 29. " Beyond Bengal (Showmen). Animal picture with narrative. 65 mins. Rel. May 16. Rev. May 22. Big Race, The. (Showmen.) Race track story. Boots Mallory, John Darrow. Dir. Fred Newmeyer. 62 mins. Rev. March 6. Cheaters (Liberty). Paroled convicts And love through crookedness. Bill Boyd, June Collyer, Dorothy Mackalll. Dlr, Phil Rosen; 66 mins. Rev. May 18. Drums o' Voodo (International). All-Negro cast in screen version, of stage play 'Louisiana.' Dir. Arthur Hoerl. 70 mins. Rel. May 7. Rev. May 16. Enlighten Thy Daughter. (Exploitation.) Warning to parents. Remade from a silent. 75 mins. Rel. Jan. 16. Rev. Feb. 20. Found Alive. (Ideal.) Jungle story. Barbara Bedford, Maurice Murphy. Dir. Chas. Hutchinson. Rel. Feb. 10. Rev. April 17. Guilty Parents. (Jay Dee Kay.) Sex education story. Jean Lacy, Glen Boles. Dir. Jajok Townley. ' 63 mins. Rev. April 10. Hired Wife. (Pinnacle.) Man hires a bride to get a fortune and falls in love with her. Greta Nlssen, Weldon Heyburn. ir: Geo. Melford. 60 mins. Rev. March 13. Love Past Thirty. (Monarch.) Beauty parlor rejuvenation for a faded fiancee. Alleen Prlngle, Theodor von Eltz. Phyllis Barry. Dir. Vin. Moore. 60 mins; Rev. March 13. Moth, This. (Showmen's.) Sally O'Neill astray in New Orleans. Dir. Fred. Newmeyer. 64 mins. Rel. Jan. 16. Rev. April 17. Marriage on Approval. (Monarch.) In which a girl gets married in the first reel and finds it out In the last. Barbara Kent, Donald Dillaway. Dir. Howard Higgln. Rev. Jan. 9. Picture Brides (Allied). Story of the Brazilian diamond mines. Dorothy Mackalll, Regis Toomey. Dir. Phil Rosen* 60 mins. Rev. May 29. Trapeze. (Protex.) Anna Sten's first German picture, dubbed In English. 66. mins. Rel. Feb. Rev. Feb. 20. Unknown Soldier Speaks, The (Lincoln). War clips 70 mins. Rev. May 29. ... What's Your Racket. (Showmen.) Familiar gangster frameup. Regis Toomey, Noel Francis.. Dir. Fred Gulol. 50 mins. Rel; Jan. 1. Rev. March 6. Wine, Women and Song. (Chadwlck.) Lily an Tashman's last picture. Back- stage story. Lilyan Tashman, Lew Cody. Dir. Leon D'Usseau. 64 mins. Rev. March 27. Woman Unafraid. (Goldsmith.) Story of a policewoman. Lucille Gleason, Skeets Gallagher. Dir. W. J. Cowen. 68 mins. Rev. April 24. World In Revolt (Mehtone). News clips with comment by Graham McNamee. 69 mins. Rel. June. Rev. June 12. Foreign Language Films (Note: slow movement of foreign ill year of releases.) (Most of these available with English titles.) this list covers one Adieu Les Beaux Jours (Fr) (Ufa). Greek romance. rlgltte Helm. Dir. Andre Beucler and Johannes Meyer. 90 mins. Rel. April 16. Rev. May 1. Alraune (Ger)~lC'apTtoTyr = ^^ ICttaYd^OS^ wald. 70 mins. Rel. May 1. Bettelstudent, Der. (General:) ( fiO mins. Rel. Oct. 16. Blonde Chrlstl, Die (Ger) (Bavaria). Musical. Karln Hardt. Dir. Franz Seltz. 76 mins. Rel. Feb. 16. Broken Shoes (Russ) (Amklno). Child reaction to politics. Anti-Hitler. Margarita Barskaya. 80 mins. Rel. March . 15. Rev: April 3. Chalutzlm (Hebrew) (Acme). First talker made in Palestine. Dir. Alexander Ford. 70 mins. Rel. March 15. CiUdad. de Carton, La (Sp) (Fox). Drama of marital relations. Antonio Mo- reno, Catallna Barcena. Dir. Louis King. 70 mins. Rel. Feb. 16. (Continued on page 44) Important Decision On Finding a Seat In a Dark Theatre Borne, N. Persons who take a fall when reaching for a seat in a darkened theatre are negligent because they do not. ascertain definitely that the seat is down and not turned up, according to a decision, given by County Judge Frederick H. Hazard. The ruling came in the suit of a .75 -year-old woman against Warners Stanley, Utica. She charged the theatr- with negligence because no usher escorted her and she fell in the. aisle after feeling for a vacant seat. She said she had felt the back of a seat and sat down, but no seat was there. The woman contended she had suffered: Injuries, which caused her confinement for several .weeks. V c The judge said his sympathies were with the aged woman, but ad- ded that the case 'wouH not have a. chance with the Appellate Division if this jury did grant a verdict in favor of the plaintiff.' judge Hazard declared people who attend a, film theatre know It Is. difficult to see after coming in from the light of outdoors and he pointed out that extra precautions must be exercised in locating a place In which to sit. HANDLESMAN ALIMONY Chicago, June. 18. Phil Davis, attorney, suing Jack Handlesman, former builder .of the- atres, for $15,000 back alimony claimed by former wife. Handlesman , formerly headed Kimball Theatre organ department and last construction was the Fal-ty ace at South Bend, Indiana. GALVESTON'S DBIVE-IN PLX Galveston, June 18. A. H. Emenheiser opens 'drive, in' open air theatre on Gulf Beach, first venture of kind here. Shows short subjects, comedies and newsreel plus ads. Studio Placements (Continued from page 42) Sidney FOxe, Paul Kelly, 'School for Girls/ Liberty. Henry Wadsworth, Nat Pendle- ton, C, Henry Gordon, Karen Mor- ley, 'Four Walls,' Metro. Charles Boyer, 'The Captive Bride,' Fox. Sam Hellman, Sonya Levlen, scripting 'The Captive Bride,* Fox. Wallace McDonald, John Rath* mel, script, western yarn, Mascot. Ted FioRIto band, 'Young and Beautiful,' Mascot. : Harry Ru/skin, adaptation, un» titled, Goldwyn. ■ Lpretta Young, 'Hideout,' Metro. Sam Kahanamoku; color short, Metro. Sally McKee, 'Strikes and Spares,' Metro short. Richard Abbott, Betty Alden L Barbara' Barondess, Ralph Forbes, Sara Haden, 'The Fountain,' Radio. Jacques Lory, 'Caravan,' Fox, Laura Hope Crews, Lionel At- will, Leonard Carey,. 'Age of In- nocence,' Radio. : • •: Alice Brady, 'Gay Divorce,' Radio. Marcia Rerny, 'Romance in the Rain,' U. Marjorie Gateson, Edgar Norton, 'Million Dollar Ransom,' U. . Tom Hanlon, David Worth, Russ Brown, Lita Chevret, Betty Fran- cisco; Georgia Cain, Lloyd Whit- lock, Baxter Gamble, Big Boy Wil- liams, 'Romance ih the Rain,' U. Stuart Holmes, Grace Cunardi Harry Northrup, Hayden Steven- son, Luke Cosgrave, Colin Kenny, Bobby Bolder,. Mary Gordon, Wil- liam Welsh, 'One More River,' U. . Aline McMahon, 'Big Hearted Herbert.' WB. Ethelreda Leopold, Mary Russell, •Lost Lady,' WB. Bette Davis, Dorothy Tree, Helen Lowell, Harry Tyler, Allen Jenkins, 'Case of the Howling Dog,' WB. Charles Starrett, 'Lost Lady,' WB, Leonard Carey, 'Age of Inno- cence,' Radio. Sol Walter Anthony, Lesser. ^=Marlo--DominIci r ^3?Jie^Fountain,? = Radio Ethel Hill, Harvey Gates, untitled pic, Col. Dudley Nichols, Lamar TrottI, adaptation, '24 Hours a Day,' Fox. Paul kaye, 'Romance In the Rain,* V. Patsy Kelly, 'Transatlantic Merry- Go-Round,' Reliance. Sterling Holioway,. 'Broadway Bill,' Col. Walter , 'College Rhythm,* Par. Felix Young, 'Hello Big Boy,' 44 VARIETY PICTURES Tuesday, Jun© 19, 1934 Film Reviews ARE WE CIVILIZED? (Continued from page 27) from ancient DeMUle specials. To make the stock stuff stand up, pro-, ducers called upon all the dissolves, wipes and other processing tricks known to cinematography, even glv-r ing the Dunning process credit on the title sheet. But while the tech- nical end is apparently of high order, the story oh which the in- troduction of these shots is founded is so dull that no amount of lab- oratory sleight-of-hand could have helped. Although the European country in which the. action is set is hot mentioned by name, the things that take place and the uniforms worn by the soldiers don't try very hard to conceal the probability that it's Germany. . The nation's right to throttle human freedom and free speech is challenged by an inter- national news syndicate head, played with extravagant gestures and old- fashioned trembling of the hands by William Farnum. Following the burning of his books and other humiliations, the pacifist seeks to show, the head of the nation the error of his 1 policies. Thus the newsreel shelf and picture morgue shots are dusted off to trace the world from its beginning while Farnum makes his plea by way of reading an offscreen., narrative. Every now and . .then Farnum Is close-upped talking so that it can't be forgotten he's telling the story. :T6 denote the various ages . of civ- ilization, outstanding figures of their "respective; eras are imperso- nated by various . -actors. They -range from Christ to Moses, Napo- leon,- Buddha, Confucius, Caesar, Mohammed, Columbus and . Wash- ington. The plea for peace is made more impressively by the wording of the narrative itself than through the scenes depicted. Farnum did. not have an exclusive on the had acting rights, for every- one else in the. Cast is with him. Perhaps their shallow roles had a lot to do with it. Bige. veals a deeply ingrained knowledge of all the regulation clinches that go with the. Cinderella idea, the di- rection . gives evidence . of a deft hand at. keeping things moving along lively and credulously, while the cast does, an acceptable job. Making a nicely balanced pair of leads are Chester Morris, as. the flip, bragging gob, and Mae Clark, the bored society dame, who, oh a bet; sets out to instruct him In the right cutlery habits and how to feel at ease in an English saddle. As part, of the -process she gets him, after he quits the fleet; a job in her uncle's brokerage business. Eventually he finds out that she had. been playing him for a goof and therewith results the usual his- trionic pyrotechnics. With this re- sentment out . of his system the sailor, goes further .berserk in a car and the cracked arm and head he suffers' in the smashup serve to con- vince the jOclety playgirl that after than newsreel shots inside the Gar- den usually are. Later on, in the jungles. Beatty cows a lion killer,, eventually cap- turing him with a lasso as well as snaring a big tiger, which he has hypnotized when In danger as the two fall into an animal pit. A little unreasonable, though the scenes are not obviously faked. Tamest of the Hageribeck* Wallace animals must have been used, this show being creditd with supplying the wild stock. In an effort to inject some addi- tional action, lions and tigers stage fights on two different occasions. They are moderately thrilling but short. Story provided for Beatty and his, fearless domination- of Hons, tigers and bears is both conventional and trite. It first spots Beatty with the circus , and then takes his girl on a cruise with her captain father. They're shipwrecked on an island Infested with wild animals, and Beatty, ' at the • end of the season, when . a message Comes through from the marooned cruising party, sets Out to find them. Dirigible, with himself and others, . also wrecks, landing the men under thoroughly implausible circumstances . on the same island. Beatty gets his girl, a all love will tell Morris piques the attention solid- ly while there with the slang and iwisecrack tossing, bait the heavy couple wild animal trophies and a acting moments find him stretching buried city with much treasure is hard on the emotions.. With Mae discovered. Clarke it's registering the reactions Some laughs supplied, mostly by mapped out by the director and the circus press agent, who goes asking no questions. As the girl's along with the searching party, uncle, Frank Craven fills in capably Heavy is a patterned type, Warner enough, with the lines giving him | Richmond,; while the girl, who al- no opportunity for lipservice of the more diverting sort. OdeC. SLEEPERS EAST Pox production and- release; Directed by Kenneth MacKehna. From novel by Frederick Nebel. Lester Cole, . screen play; Ernest Palmer, camera; Samuel Kaylio. music. At Loew's New York, an double bill. Running time, 69 mlns. Lena Karelson Wynne Gibson Jason Everett .. .Pf eston Foster Ada ROblllard... ...... ona Barrle Martin Knort ..Harvey Stephens .Carl Izzard. J. Carroll Nalsh Jack Wentwbrth . . . ... .... Howard Lally ways looks her best ,even in the jungle with its' restricted conveni- ences, is Cecilia -Parker. Beatty conducts himself pretty well in front of cameras, doing okay on the love interest.. Char, THE LOVE CAPTIVE Universal production and release. Story and direction by Mar Marcin. Continuity,' , Karen de Wolf. At MayfMr. N. T. Run- Preston Foster | nlng, time. C3 mlns. Dr. Collender. .............. .. . .Nils Asther Alice Trask. ............... .. .Gloria Stuart Dr. Norman Ware Paul Kelly Roger Loft.... ....... .......Alan Dlnehart Valerie Loft......... ..Rence Gadd Mary Williams.,.....;...... Irglnia Kami Larry Chapman . ,.. .' .Russ Brown Dr. Collins.,.. ,.. ...Addison Richards L'OR ('Gold') (GERMAN MADE) (French Talker) Paris. June 8. UFA production distributed by Alliance Cincmatographlque Europeehne. ' Story by E. Vanloo: Directed by Charles Hartl arid Serge de Pollgny (for the French). French adaptation - by Jacques -Thery; supervised by Raul Ploquln; camera, G. "Rlttau: mu- sic. H. O. Borgmann. Starring, Pierre Blanchar and Brlgltte Helm. Presented at Pat he Na tan's Marlgnan, Paris, Running time, 10~> minutes. Francois Ber.thler .Pierre Blanchar. Fronce Wills Brlgltte Helm Nurse. .'.Line Noro Mnlee.ot ......Jacques Dumernll Harris .Marc Valbel Pitt i Duard flls Secretaries ......... ........Maurice Remy Georges Tourell Zorloft ... .Malklne Wills ................ Roger Karl Helene Roslne Derean oLefevre ,., Louis Gauthier Guerln •. .Henry Rose Journnlist .Gouptl Servant Pierre Plerade O' Kelly . . Raoul Marco This is the UFA's big bid for this year in Its attempt to crash the French market, and is likely to be used on New York if the Germans continue their policy of. showing French, versions there minus the German label. Film is getting a big publicity send-off. with especi- ally heavy trade paper space and fan copy pushing it as the event of the film year. Was made in German and French simultaneous ly. No English version. Picture depends, for its effect on sensational machinery— a Franken- stein electric machine to make syn v thet-lc gold— and as such makes a certain impression. That is one of the things the Germans know how to do. When the electric sparks go roaring at what the customers are told is 20,000,000 volts, with the whole machine likely to blow up. the crowd sits on the edge of the scats. Aside, from that* pic is com- monplace. Another illustration of the tough- ness of making two versions simul- taneously. Film gives evidence of having got cold in the French ver- sion; The changes necessary seem to have taken the real spirit out of It. Stern. Clumsy script development pre- vents . the arousing of story sus- . _ , pense and sinks this feature to the Butter 89 ' " sub-level. Won't annoy much, but Mrs. Forndyce.V.'.' it will not exert box office draft, j Annie Npian Jerky continuity and slow tempo are the Chief faults, though it's not helped any by overuse of a comedy engineer for attempted relief, arid there is also a comedy detective in Pete Noland. . John Wrny ..Robert Grelg .Jane Merldlth . . . .Ellnlee Ruby .Franklyn Ardell Universal blends Svertgali and the perfect crime. Under the title of 'The Love Captive,' the merger is jected'fo'rThe ^T*urpc«e7*aYof | sufficiently satisfactory to rate the which helps to run the footage from I finished product as fair. 10 to IB minutes over the story val- uation. Plot is of the pattern in which the mutfder is shown and the excite- ment is supposed to arise from the question as to whether or not the killer , gets his punishment. Objec- tive is to spring the innocent man, who had planned to murder the same man, but was beaten to his prey. Latter is a gangster- politi- cian. Shown to be no-account, and Nils Asther makes an attractive modern Sven. Instead of the. old sorcerer's tricks, this Dr. Collender is as kindly as he is bad. He has such quantities of hypnotic acumen that drug addicts snort derisively at the needle after one of his treat- ments, drunkards throw away their bottle, etc, But Sven Collender has some evil traits. He seems to be attracted only to women who are already promised or married. Whenever he the average spectator cannot lather I appears in feminine 'society* never up over the chances of his being fried, so the interest is deadened Killer is the mayor's son, which helps the chances for the introduc- tion of the political note, but little is done about that. Girl is an ex- Convict, out on parole and liable to be returned, so she skips. Part .fs written to. give her little sympathy and no appeal, so there is nothing anywhere to get steamed up about Plenty of physical action, but it doesn't mean anything to the plot or the audience, Much 'of the action takes place on theless, there are gasps and a. will- ingness of aspirant victims is ex- pressed. There is nothing in the action against which crusaders can reg- ister a. meritorious squawk, unless It is that the picture might inspire some young sons to delve Into arts of hypnosis. In other words, no bedroom scenes and no double meaning dialog. The story is well directed and cast. Asther is easily its main as- set. His smooth performance cov- ers over every situation. Paul the train on which the girl witness I Kelly stages an excellent comeback is being taken back to the trial, in the character, part of Dr. Ware, and the train sets are convincing, He plays with -restraint or tension LET'S TALK IT OVER . F. Zeldman production . and Universal release. Directed by Kurt ' Neumann. Origi- nal story, Dora Senary and Lewis. Foster; screen play, . John MeehahV Jr.; Charles Stumar, cameraman. Cast Includes Chester ■r Morris. Mae Clarke, Frank Craven. John Warb'urtori, Irene Ware, Andy Devlne, RU68 Brown, Anderson Lawlcr, Goodee Montgomery, Douglas . Fowley. Tom Du- gan. Herbert Corthell. At Roxy, New Yor k ._ week June - .15. Ru nning, tlm e ,;..08 qrilnsi " : As long as the script keeps the verbal crossfire and the action di- rected along comedy lines there's enough substance and punch about this narrative with a Cinderella theme to make a fairly absorbing time, of it. But when the plot turns to drama the yarn lapses into a well-traveled groove and weaves to- gether a set of situations that most fans will be able to anticipate with- out any strain on the imagination. General thread of the story re- with a nice outdoor bit in which the engine smashes an oil truck and takes fire. More noise, but once more it doesn't help the plot ad- vancement. Wynne Gibson has her moments as the girl, but not many of them, her best chance coming in the final court room sequence-. Preston Fos- ter does not even get that much and Mona Barrle shows dominant personality without being permitted to put it to any use. Chic. THE LOST JUNGLE Mascot production and release.-. Stars Clyde Beatty. Directed by Armand Schfte- fer arid Dave Howard. Story' by Sherman Lowe and Al Martin. At. Criterion', N. T. Running time, 53 mlns. Clyde Beatty. . .. Clyde Beatty Ruth. Robinson. Cecilia Parker Larry Henderson, , . . . .Syd Saylor Sharkey Warner Richmond XCIrby. . . .Wheeler Onkman Capt. Robinson ..Edward Le paint as his role, a somewhat difficult one. progresses. Suspense builds well, the climax being delayed almost to the finis situation.' Gloria Stuart is sus- pected to be under hypnotic in- fluence all thV time by heV~flancei Dr. Ware, but proof is lacking until a lawyer witnesses his own wife undergoing Collender's frozen com- mand. When the attorney volunteers to submit to a demonstration which Sven is staging, before a medical society it is left to the audience's judgment . whether Loft was really hypnotized' when he shot the charlatan. Waly. IMPOUND 'ROCK' IN SUIT Los Angeles, June 18. Court battle between Screencraft Productions and Showmen's Pro- ductions regarding rights to the picture. 'Within the Rock,' for which Screencraft is suing, is to be braced by further depositions Not above average for indies Clyde Beatty name is the principal attraction. When the animal trainer I on both sides, authorized by Su is sparring with Hons and tigers the perior Judge Frank C. Collier picture packs a fairly good punch, Meantime court plaster of $14,- .but aside from these few sequences 1 — — - ' i t Is the same old action melodrama 1ia"se^^h'nraBiny^Imi)Voba181'e'^BttuU ,: 000 will impound the film in the Roy=Davldge=-Laboratory.=Avhei , e=-it is held pending eventual decision of the case on merit. 'Rock' wan made by Al Alt and Abe Prell; CALENDAR OF CURRENT RELEASES (Continued from page 4S) Crown of Thorns (Kineraatrade) (Qer) (Dubbed Eng.). Biblical drama. Robert Wlene. 70 mlns. Ret March 16. Cruz Y La Eapada, La (Sp) (Fox). Historical romance. Jose Mojlca, Dir. Frank Strayer. " 76 mine. ReL Feb. 1. Deux Orpheltne, Le» (Fr) (Blue Ribbon). Costume melodrama. Yvette Gullbort Dir. Maurice Tourheur. 90 mlns. Rel. Feb. 1. Rev. Feb. 16. Dream of My People/ the (Jewish) (Palestine). Silent travelog of Palestine with records by Cantor Rosenblatt Dir. Jos. Fox. 60 mlns. ReL Feb. 15. Ein Gewisser Herr Gran (Qer) (Capital). Spy drama. Hans Albers. Gerhard Lamprecht, 70 mlns. ReL Feb. 16. Elh 'Toiler Elhfall (Ger) (Ufa), Farce comedy. Willy Frltsch, Wlecke. Dir Kurt Gerron.. 70 mlns. ReL May 15. Eine Stadt 8feht Kopf (Ger) (Capital). Farce. ir. Gustav Gruendgers. 70 mine. Rel, Jan. IB. Elne* Prlnzen Junge Liebe (Ger.) JVi. Max Relchmann. 85 mlns. Rel. June 16. Rev. June 20. Llebe Muss Verstanden Sein (Ger,) (Ufa). Comedy drama with music. Dir. Hans Stelnhoff.. Rel. March 15. Luegen auf Ruegen (Ger) (General). Otto Wallburg. Jansen. 80 mlns. Rel. Dec. 15, Meisterdetektlv, Der (Ger) (Bavaria). Mystery satire. Weiss Ferdl. Frank Seltz. .76 mlns. Rel. Feb. 1. u Melodla Prohiblda (Sp) (Fox). Musical fantasy. Jose Mojlca. Dir. Frank Strayer. 70 mlns. Rel. March 16. Milady (General) (French). Sequel to Three Musketeers. Dir. Henri mant-Berger. 120 mins. ReL Sept. 1. Rev. Sept 12. Mile.- Nltouche (French) (Protex). Charming love story. Raimu. Dir. Chas.. David. 90 mlns Rel, Nov. 15. } Moj Wujaazek z Ameryki (Polish) (Capital). Musical comedy. 120 .mine. Rel. Oct. 16. Mutter Der Kompagnle, Die (Ger) (Bavaria). Military farce, Welss-Ferdl. Betty Bird.. 70 mlns. Dir. Franz Seltz. Rel. March 1. Oded the Wanderer (Palestine) (Hebrew). Life in Palestine. Dir. C. HalahmL 65 mlns. Rel. May 15. Parada Rezerwlstow (Polish) (Capital). -Military musical. Ir. Michael Was» zynski. 75 mins. Rel. May 1. V Patriots, ' The (Russ) (Amklno). Dir. B. Barnett. 80 mlnB. Rel. Sept. lb. Pltterson & Bendel (Swedish) (Scandinavian). Comedy-drama with muslo. Dir. Perl-Axel Branner. 80 mlns. Rel. Feb. 16; Quick, Kcenlg der Clowns (Ufa) (Ger). Comedy. Lilian Harvey. Hans Albers. Dir. Robert Slodmak. 80 mlns. Rel. Dec. 1. Salson In Kairo (German) (Ufa). Musical comedy. Renate Mueller. Willy Frltsch. Dir. Reinhold Schunzel. 80 mins. Re!. Dec. 16. Rev. Dec. 25. Sang d'un Poete (Fr) (Ricci). Jean'Cocteau's Idea of modern Alms. 60 mine. Rel. Nov. 1. ReV; Nov. 7. Schlcksal der Renate Langen (Ger) (Geperal). Domestic drama. Mady Chris- tians. Franz Lederer; Dir. Felix Guenther. 70 mins. Rel. Oct 16. Simple Tallpr (Russ) (Amklno. Drama of Jewish life. Silent with sound • track. Dir. V. Vilner. 70 mlns. Rel. Feb. 15. Sobre Las Olas (Mex.) (Latino). Historical romance, mlns. Rel March 16. Serment, Le (Fr.) (Protex). Heavy drama of love. Dir. Abel Rel. March 1. Rev. March 20. Sohn Der Welssen Berge (Capital) (Ger.). Alpine drama. Luis Trenker. Re- nate Mueller. Dir. Mario Bonnard. 75 mlns. Rel. Oct. 16. Sombra de Pancho Villa (Sp) (Col). Life of the Mexican bandit chief. M. C. Torres. 70 mlns. Rel. March 1. Spy, The (Polish) (Capital); Drama. 80 mins. March 1. Stern von Valencia, Der (Ger) (Ufa). White slave "traffic in Europe. Hald. Dir. Alfred Zeisler. Rel; April 16. Storch Hat Uns Getraut, Der (Ger.) (General). Lll Kosterlltz. 80 mlns. Rel. Nov. 15. Tannenbur (Ger) (European). Military drama. Hans Stuwe. Dir. Paul. 85 mlns. Rel. March 15. Tante Gustl Kommandiert (Ger). Romantic comedy. Hansl Max Adalbert. Dir. Carl Heinz Wolff. 70 mlns. Rel. May 1. Tausend fur Eine Nacht (Ger) (Capital). Farce. Trude Berliner. Meek. 70 mins. Rel. Feb. 1. Tochter Der Regiments, Die (Ger) (General). Military Dir. Kavi Lamac. 70 mins. Rel. April 1. Trenck (Ger) (General). Military drama. Dorothea Wieck. Dir. and Ernst NeubaclV. 80 mlns. Rel. April 1. Und es Leuchtet die Puszta (Ger) (Ufa). Musical romance. Wolf Albach- .-■ Retty . _Dlr. ..He lnz:, Hll]e._ 8Q: m in s._. Re l. .Jan. .15- — _ 1 ._ tlons Opens with the circus from which Beatty comes, and has the intrepid trainer putting his fierce charges I named among defendants through their routines, This por ■tion of the. picture arouses some ex- citement even though the way in which the act is photographed leaves much to be desired. Not one FOB 'HORSES' . Hollywood, June 18. Paramount will bracket Carl Bris tithe of the thrill of seeing Beatty son and Kitty Carlisle in its newest perform in person is experienced in musi cal buv . AH tKA Kln ~. s HnPSM . seeing it as pictured here. Some of mu j"eai Duy, aii tne King s ijorses. the scenes are pretty dark and in- Horses was New York stage distinct, making them look poorer ' musical last season. Verkaufte Braut (Ger) (Kinematr&de). Smetana's operetta diluted. Jamil Novotna. Dir. Max Ophuls. 80 mins. Rel. April 15. Rev. May 1. Vi Som Gar Koksvagen (Swedish) (Scandinavian). Musical. Rel. April 16. Volga Volga (Fr.) (dubbed English) (Klnematrade). Adventure ol a Cossack Robin Hood. 70 mins. Rel. Dec. 15. Rev. Dec. 26. Wandering Jew (Jewish Amerloan) (Yiddish). Terror ol Hitler regime. Ami. Dir. George Holland. 70 mins. Rel. Oct 16. Rev. Oct. 24. Wle Mann Maenner Feaselt (Ger). Franzlska Gaal. Musical comedy. Dir. Carl Boese. 76 mins. Rel. May 16. - Wle Sag lch»s Metnen Man? (Ger) (Uta). Farce. Renate Mueller. Dir. Rein- hold Schuenzel. 70 mlns. Rel, Jan. 16. Wenn Die Lirebe Mode Macht (Ufa) (Ger). Comedy with music. Renate- Mueller. Dir. Frank Wenzler 80 mlns. Rel, Nov. 1. Zwel Gute Kameraden (Ger.) (General). Military musical. Fritz Kampera- - Dir. Max Obal. 76 mlns. ReL Nov. 16. Tuesday* June 19, 1934 PICT E S VARIETY 45 F-WC CONQUERS INSURANCE Hitlerized Show Biz (Continued from page 1) velop any strong film or stage per- sonalities. Otto Wallburg con- tinued popular until Just a few months ago when his Jewish ances- try was discovered and did for him. Martha Eggert was building strong- ly until it was learned she was part Jewess. The tragedy of the film business Js the tragedy of all Germany. Prior to the Hitler regime there were only 600,000 Jews In the land. Today there are several million be- cause many who were not so classed now rate as Jewish, Ufa's Battle ilm business still continues some what along usual lines. Many small companies were forced out and eome were reorganized. Ufa is still standing on its own feet and trying to light it out. Ufa is not Nazi controlled and, because of its strength and importance, has been allowed to continue pretty much un- touched. Except, of course, that all stories and all production Is watched over and censored very . carefully by .the government, and that the . com- pany had to replace its Jews. Neubabelsberg, once the finest film studio center In all Europe, is sad today. There is still activity, still excitement. But Eric Pommer Is gone; Fritz* Lang is nowhere to be seen; the finest talent, the finest technicians and cameramen have flown. There Is a current belief in the outside, world that all German Alms today are propaganda. That is not true. There are very few films made that are propaganda per se. But most all the film made are bad sim ply because they have been predi- gested and precensored so much All the vitality and originality Is out of them. The same thing holds true of life in general in Berlin. There is no spice, no spontaneity. Once the gayest European capital has become today . an overgrown hick town. There is practically no night life Pine clothes are not considered in good taste, so women, even, if hav lng the wherewithal, dress plainly. Hitler has cleaned Berlin up— and how! Nazis Are Gents without other Two weeks ago the Hotel Adlon ordered all the pretty latlies that have for years graced the tables in the bar and halls to vamoose. The top laugh of this particular slice of life In Berlin Is that the ladies of the evening have all become blondes Nazis are gents — they not only prefer, they insist, on blondes. Pur thermore, a brunet lady might be mistaken for a Jewess, thus auto matically ceasing to be a lady. In the offices of the American companies, also, there has been con siderable havoc. All the "Jews have been eased out of all the companies Several American Aimers tried to Continue business with men of their own choosing, not caring about the religious angle. It couldn't work. They were pressed too hard by the kiddit j with the brown shirts. None oi it -was' official; the gov ernment told Americans they could employ whom they wished, but somehow the Americans of Jewish origin lost all desire to. remain there after several weeks or months of fighting. There is a wide difference of opin Ion among Americans in Berlin film biz today. Almost all of them think It might be advisable to pack up and leave. But will the other fellow leave? And should the money in the market' be lost? , Germans are spending money to- -.day-as-they=haven^t spent4n=yearsr= It's claimed to be a sort of frenzy to get ride of the marks should they lose their value. But it's being spent, and Americans are getting a good deal of It. Only, most of the Yankee companies 'can't get rid of the money after getting It, the law forbidding export of cash. There are several ways of getting around that, as some of the companies have learned, but Is it worth the bother and headaches involved? Nobody knows and nobody has courage enough fellow. . Legit The havoc In legit Is just as bad, although not affecting as many Americans. Most of the directors, actors 'and dramatists, as it hap- pened, of import, were Jewish. Tbey are now out of the picture,, with the talent rating down to near minus. Prom a new play standpoint there is serious difficulty. None of the new playwrights has managed to de- velop anything* Here again it is believed to be just as much a mat* ter of too much .pre- digestion as anything. At first . there was a flurry of fasclstic themes in plays. That died out but the new writers, or those few of. the old men that remain, can't seem to find a happy means. There, have been more new plays in Germany this year than in a number jof years but none of them were good enough or strong enough to last more than a few weeks, de- spite the official governmental ap- proval which passage by the cen- sor and propaganda, boards Would seem, to indicate. There are no outstanding actors or producers left, either. Max Relnhardt is touring the world but the many quite good men who were just beneath him in importance have equally disappeared or wan- dered to Prague, Vienna or London. For 'Jews Only' Most exclusive and toughest-to- crash theatre in the World is situ- ated in Berlin. It's the house (un- named as far as the general public is concerned) operated by the'Jud- lsche Kulturbund (Jewish Culture Society) for, of and by Jews in Germany. Organization is permitted to func- tion by special dispensation of the Hitler regime on the promise, sol- emnly given and rigidly adhered to, that no non -Aryans will attend per- formances. In order to attend a performance a bona fide stamped, checked and double-checked membership card of the Kulturebuhd must be exhib- ited. To further guard against crashing, each card carries the pho- tograph of the bona fide bearer. Out-bf-towners find it almost im- possible to attend, although the guarantee and endorsement of three prominent Berlin Jews obtained an entry for a Variety reporter.. Performances are : switched around. Several nights a^week it's a drama, some performances are symphony concerts, opera is Wedged in, and all the dramatic and mu slcal arts are given Showings. For the dramatic performances the casts are made up of some of the Unest actors in Europe. Per- formances are so good that the fame of the troupe has passed around Berlin's non- Jewish quarter, with several embarrassing results. Be- quests for entry and admissions are coming more and more frequently from Aryans, but the troupe and its management' is : as adamant as it dares, since infraction, of the rules might result in their being barred There are similar Judische Kul- tur bunds in several other big cities in Germany. In Nuremberg, with no theatres available, three nights a week are. given over to theatrical performances in a synagogue. In several other of the smaller German cities attempts to organize and operate a Yiddish theatre by and for Jews have been made un- successfully, the. Germans being more rabid on the anti- Jewish feel- ing in smaller cities and in the provinces. "5$ Rigid Daily Inspections, Plus Twice Monthly Fire Drills, M i. n i m i z e Hazards — Policy Companies Now Seek Circuit Biz 9,053 DEFECTS B.&K. s 'Commitment System' in Film Jung Draws Pro and Con Views n Kill In Midwest; Play Date Flexibility HOFFMAN FINISHES 8 Los Angeles, June 18. Reduction of around 66% in com- pensation - liability loss rates, and a saving of thousands of dol- lars to insurance companies, has been effected over the Fox- West Coast circuit, a survey of the first six months of a safety campaign inaugurated last October reveals Compilation has just been made of results attained for the six months ended March 31 last, with circuit execs satisfied the proportion of re- duction will be maintained for the balance of the year. Under the safety campaign, every theatre in the circuit is given a complete daily inspection by an employee; panic or fire drills are held twice each month, and every possible precaution taken to mini- mize even the most trivial acci- dents to patrons. At start of campaign the compen- sation loss rate for Pox-West Coast was 170%. At the end of three months this had been rduced to 98.9%, and at the expiration of the sixth month it was down to 58%. As a result insurance companies which in . the past have been chary about writing compensation and lia- bility coverage for the circuit be- cause of the excess of losses are now making overtures for the biz. Report 9,053 Defects A monthly report, covering the daily inspection, is prepared by each theatre, with each detail of inspection carefully noted. As an indication of the thoroughness with which this work is being handled, the six months' summary shows that 9,053 defects,, mostly of a minor nature, were discovered and repaired. A tear in a piece of carpet, which under ordinai*y circum- stances might be glossed over for weeks or months,, is now Immedi- ately noted and repaired at once. The same applies to guard rails, door knobs, Beats, and, as a matter of fact, every appurtenance with which a patron comes in contact on a visit to the house. Theatres included in the P-WC circuit are now prepared for almost any emergency. As witness the in- stallation of automobile lights to be switched on in case of a break or defect in the main power line. Details of the circuit safety cam- paign were Worked out by Irving Epstein, head of the insurance de partment; under the general super vision of Charles P. Skouras. CANTOR'S EXPO SHOTS Holly wood, June 18. Sam Goldwyn is sending Walter Mayo, his production manager, with a camera crew to Chicago this week for scenes of the Pair. They' are for the opening se quences of the Eddie Cantor pic ture. BEFORE ANY RELEASE Hollywood, June 18, Figuring to make better deals if able to show finished pictures to ex- hibitors, M. H t . Hoffman will com- plete his yearly program of eight Liberty features before offering any for release. Indie producer already has his bankroll tied up in six pictures in the vaults, and intends doing, the re- maining two before starting his selling campaign. A few of the. films have shown In several key spots on pre-release bookings. Hoffman feels that the indie ex- hlbs and exchange men will be will lng to pay a. -little more for pro- grams if they can seen the actual product, instead of contracting for films beforehand and then having the indie producer fail to deliver, as frequently happens. Hoffman, working at Pathe stu- dio, starts 'School for Girls,' his seventh, Friday, and then does •Without Children,' his eighth. In the vaults, awaiting general re^ lease, are prints of 'Cheaters,' 'Take the Stand,' 'When Strangers Meet,* 'No Ransom,' 'Once to Every Bache- lor* and 'Two Heads on a Pillow.' LITTLE, BAITY. FOLDS Baltimore, June 18. Herman Blum shrouded his midget lo^p arty, Little, Saturday (16) for the summer. Will reopen around Labor Day. Closing came early, spot usually hanging on till mid July. Lack of foreign product chiefly halted . house. Blum and his house mgr., Her- man Weinberg, left for New York, where* they'll camp for a month, rounding up product for next sea- 0Olk MASCOT TAKES CUSTEK Hollywood, June 18. Mascot has signed Bob Custer to star in a 12 chapter serial, 'Law of the Wild.' CONTRACTS Hollywood, June 18 Reb Russell, former all-American football player, three-year term> Willis Kent. Hazel Hayes, Lucille Lund and Dorothy Drake, Wampas baby, stars, seven-year optional, pact, Para- mount. Hugh O'Connell, N. Y. stage play er ('Milky Way'), term deal, Uni vcrsal. Shirley Ross, six-month termer, Metro. John WexJey, writer, termer, Col. FOOD WITH PIX AS SABBATH LAW OUT Memphis, June 18 Two theatres took the lead today in a fight Which may end the blue laws and bring S.unday films to Memphis. The weapons to be used in this fight probably will be sand- wiches. Retaliatory steps against . the Memphis Country Club and Hotel Peabody were announced today by Charles Menslng, manager of the Orpheum theatre, and Howard Waugh, zone manager for Warner Bros. The Country Club and the Pea- body show Sunday night films with dinner. Mensing wants' to know 'why the Peabody can show pictures with out an amusement license.' Calls it unfair. If Memphis is to be a closed town, it should be closed to all; places that sell food shouldn't have extra privileges. 'If they do, we'll sell food our selves. We're planning to open up Sunday at the Orpheum and sell beer and sandwiches, probably, for 25c. A regular program will be shown and those who buy food can see the show. New Orleans, June 18 Whole South was watching Mem phis* Sunday when Manager Charles Mensing of the Orpheum, Mem phis, determined to battle the Clos- ing law on the Sabbath edict even at the possibility of arrest. In his Sunday advertisement of the Or- pheum show, Mensing billed his pic i turer^ t Murder--on=^the i =Blaekboardj'- with the additional announcement that for the admission price of 45c every patron would be presented ab solutely free a drink and a sand wlch before entering the theatre Peabody Hotel, Memphis, has been presenting its orchestra and ontertalriment without molestation and announced that Sunday it would, in addition, show the 'film, 'It Happonod On*; N'lght.' Orpheum theatre ailorneys in Change in buying tactics by Bala- ban & Katz this coming season threatens a general upheaval among theatres throughout the midwest and may result in an entirely new selling and releasing setup for this- territory. It is based upon a plan called by exchanges- and Balaban & Katz the 'commitment system,' In which there is no set number of play dates and no set run for any picture. Commitment plan as devised by B. & K. gives the exchange a lump sum for the year's deal, but .with the play dates flexible to the wishes Of the circuit. Some describe as the 'selling of play dates by the circuit.' General; scheme Is based on the ordinary three-day run for a pic- ture. B. & K. has made, offers to exchanges to play all pictures con- tracted for, rather than slough off the bad ones, If a picture is deemed playable for only one day the rate of revenue, for the exchange is fig- ured at an average 60% of the ordi- nary cost of the picture; 80% for two days and about 120% for three days. This is the general plan spread for the remaining months of this season. Paramount has ac- cepted commitment plan of Balaban & Katz. Complete Coverage In this manner it would be pos- sible for the circuit -to _ get full 'bene- fit of. all pictures released for its' theatres, instead of tossing money away and then not playing the pic- ture because it won't hold up for the ' necessary three or four-day booking. The contention of the cir- cuit Is that it will give the ex- changes the greatest amount of play 'dates, even the weakest getting one- day play dates Instead of being passed up entirely., On the other h«.ad, the exhibitors that follow the circuit houses are putting up a howl already. They are yelling that this, commitment plan of B. & K. will merely result in the circuit taking the . cream oft all the pictures. Under the old sys- tem B. & K. necessarily had to pass up a number of pictures, which meant that the subsequent run ex- hibs got these pictures clear. - Exhlbs now claim that B. & K. under the new plan will milk all the top coin off of every flick and leave nothing for the subsequent run, since the circuit house could run a hit a week or more and the weak picture only one or two days, but enough to take the best coin of the neighborhood! These exhibs are- going to' the exchanges and telling them that the distribs won't get any more money from the B. & K. com- mitment plan, since it's based on the lump sum arrangement. B. & K. argument on the claim of milking is that it's impossible to milk, a good picture; . that a hit can make money no matte v\ how many previous houses have played it. And, besides that, the B. & K. pre- vious run makes a picture in the neighborhood, due to the additional advertising. Exchanges are on the fence in the matter. They can't see hoyf they will, make any more money out of the arrangement, since if B. & K. signatured, say, a $100,000 lump sum contract with the exchange, the ' circuit doesn't give any more than that sum in the end, merely arranging its play dates to fit in with t.ha.t. -grand total. -„ Memphis have advised Mensing he is well within his rights and the worst that can happen to him after arrest Is a $25 fine, with a grant of an appeal to a higher court Memphis district attorney con- tends Mensing is employing a sub- terfuge and that he would be in- carcerated in the hoosegow of America's worst show town. 46 VARIETY PICTURES Tuesday, June 19, 1934 Par Trustees Progress (Continued from page 6) F-WC rental account, U. S. treas- ury refunds, liability insurance premium refunds, refund of part of tdvances for purchase of bonds of Tennessee Enterprises, etc. One of the items is collection of $27»237 an stock purchases by Par em-, ployees, who bought It in *29 at $52 a share and are still paying off through the- Chemical Bank, i Trustees'. Expenses Disbursements are in minor amounts except for $979,504, listed as advances in money made by the trustees to subsidiaries, of Par. Operating expenses of the trustees, including payroll, court fees, ste^ riographers, , office supplies, tele- that all requests will be in writing, and that copies of all information given out to reorganization forces will be retained by the trustees. Dispute $33,375,578 In addition to listing various moves by the trustees themselves toward reorganization from within, a total of $33,375,578 in .important claims are being fought, it is, re- vealed, Of the greatest importance are two claims ol Allied Owners Corp., one direct from Allied of $6,095,425, the other from the trustees of Al- lied, itself in bankruptcy, amount- ing to $23,354,726. Trustees' report states objections are being made to . these claims, alleging breach of .phone, .etc., is put down at $39,200. contract to purchase realty. The report is devoted in part to the reorganization' plan on which- ituhn, Xioeb and committees are. at work; The. Hilles-Leake-RlchardsOn trio report they have agreed, to make available to reorganization interests Referee decisions on objections to the following claims are pending: Citizens National Trust and Sav- ings Bank, $18,025; St. Louis Prop- erties Corporation, for past rent, $43,333, and Kombi Geselschaft m. Beschrankter, Haftung, Berlin, against the bankrupt and Olympla Theatres, Inc, is now awaiting ap- proval of O.B. bondholders. Down in Tennessee, by order of the courts, the trustees were given authority to buy up bonds and re- port that $415,000 worth have been purchased from many parties through Holston Enterprises, a Tennessee corporation set up by the trustees for the purpose. The bonds are on Tennessee Enterprises, a former subsidiary of Publlx Enter- prises. T. E. has been in receiver- ship for some time; the bond pur- chases being the major step toward its reorg. New York Realty In connection with Seneca Hold- ing Co., Par subsld in control of the Criterion-New York property, parcels of real estate behind these theatres and the Long Island As- toria studio, arrangements have been made calling for mortgage and interest reductions, plus agreement that no foreclosure proceedings will be brought prior to July 1. Oh the Astoria studio, the trustees are ne- gotiating with the Prudence Bond Co., holding a $930,000 mortgage, information on earnings and assets, p r0 o£ of which is unknown, $25,000. I ft reorgan | Za {i on 0 f tills Hen, status of claims; obligations and other commitments, plus any simi- lar matters as might be reasonably required to prepare a plan, 'with- out commitment to accept such plans when submitted.' Also, the trustees are furnishing this data •without prejudice to the conduct of the operations of the trustees,' Arrangements have been made moscoiu THEQTER FESTIVAL to/ft b'?. theater, mark Septem- ber 1 to 10 in Moscow. The brilliant program an- nounced ranges from Boro- din,- Rossini and Shakes- peare to "Intervention" and "The Negro *Boy and the Ape.'* Every one of the productions . . drama, opera or ballet ... is of outstanding importance and compelling interest. Oliver M; Sayler of New York and H. W. L. Dana of Boston, both outstanding authorities on the Soviet theater, will lead separate groups of American visi- tors to the Festival. Ar-" rangemerits are being made for those who attend to substitute other current performances -in Moscow theatres for those on the official program, if they wish. All-inclusive costs are very low, the : entire Festival may be visited for as little as $77 for ten days in Moscow — ' including tickets. For .detailed Information and complete official pro- ^sram^JverXt SL-^tSL- Theajcr ^ Festival Booklet V-6 to Objection has also been filed against allowing the $28,000 claim as" a broker's commission to Clar- ence L. Calhoun and Harold T. Dil- lon, arid against the Manufacturers Trust Coi under an undetermined amount as. security for issuance of Also, Par is working out a lease of the plant to Eastern Service Stu- dios. On the reorganization plan of Paramount Broadway Corp., on bonds and mortgage covering the Par building, N. Y„ the plan is ex Allied Owners mortgage bonds.. , . - . „v,~_n,, +rt A puzzling claim on which the | Pected to be_ s^bmitted^ shorUy , to trustees have asked a bill of par' ticulars is 'that of the Boston Metropolitan Buildings, Inc., based on a stockholders' action , for al leged tortious acts of the bankrupt, amounting to $2,300,000. Boston Met theatre is involved. In connection with unfiled bonds of Par-Pub on which the Chase bank got an order for representa creditors of P-P for their approval. Meanwhile, the Par trustees have received a reduction in assessed valuation of the Par building by the City of New York of $625,000. Trus tees also report they are making efforts to obtain cuts in rentals un der existing leases. Plan of trustee control over main subsidiaries of P-P formed a few Hollywood Suds (Continued from page 3) with enough pocket money to cover the tax can open up a suds parlor. The state takes 60 bucks, the gov- ernment $26 and the county one seed a month. The beer parlor thing is a by- product of the deprestu Were it not that all cities are in the red these licensed would not be passed out with such a free hand. Plenty peo- ple are putting up a lusty squawk but the county is top poor to cut loose from suoh revenue. The old-time saloon, was a pinkie compared to this new craze. While it lacks the swinging doors and dis pensing of hard likker it offers tip- jof the crowd. It needs but some tion and collection of dividends as months before bankruptcy, leaving trustees under indenture of the l p.p as merely a holding company, bond issues, the Par trustees reveal may be modified for practical opera- an appeal, soon to be heard, against tion. The trustees took, it upon payment of dividends to the bank themselves, armed by a court or- on debentures, filed by or on behalf der, to exercise sharp control of assets, and disbursements of the producing, distributing, foreign and other branches and instead of re- linquishing this watch may in- crease it. Exhibs Duck of it. No Dividends Trustees, at the same time in their report, recommend that no dividends of any kind be paid now because, it would deplete the cash on. hand required tp carry on the business. Numerous other suits involving Par trustees are reported on, in- eluding the $12,237,000 action to re- . (Continued bom page 4) cover on stock repurchase deals. \vwu"«m«>» " *~s > AH directors arid former Par of- end of the business strictly outside ficials fried have asked extension to of the picture. They can't see where the last of June in which to make anything would be gained by push answer, excepting Jesse L. Lasky, ing the theatres into the melee, who has not yet been served. Trus- Circuits such as Balaban & Katz, tees are continuing investigation of I Great States, Mort H. Singer, the liability of any persons from whom heading operating groups in the Par bought back its stock, includ- midwest, are keeping silent. They ing Great States, William Morris are refusing Interviews cn the mat agency and Columbia Broadcasting, ter, making no statement either officials of which may be. brought! way for the press, into the action. When Cardinal Mundelein broke On the suit against 12, banks to acr oss the Chlcago Tribune in a set aside credit preferences under front page banner Unef the exhibit the famous film-pawning deal, trus- \ Qtg came running to B.&K. with tees declare that all the defendant idfta£J of gomg tQ aee tne Cardinal> banks have put in their answer to K the circult refused t o mix in the bill of complaint but that Para- | 0rdera haVe gone out to all employ piers more privacy in booths and. if that doesn't serve the desired end shutters may e held this week The Catholics say films which. new company to acquire the G.B, theatres, plus the deficiency claims | meet with their approval will be mentioned as suitable in the dlo cese paper. Baseball, beer and dance spots have upped in money ever since the drive on films started in this ter ritory. There is a marked feeling in varl ous exhibitor headquarters that the producers got the Industry into dis repute with church folk and that it is up to. them to 'pull the industry out. Motion Picture Theatre Own- ers of America, and the Theatre Owners Chamber of Commerce, New York, latter strongest city' unit of exhibs in the U.S., are remaining silent evidently following that pol- icy and letting Will Hays dp the ex plaining and setting up of the main breastworks. , Major circuits av the same time are reported being approached by a Los Angeles advertising agency with a scheme to use the air- for a Greater Movie Season this summer, Hays office had originally been associated with this movement in the radio field, seeing in it a chance to possibly answer picture critics, Plan is to encourage the public to write essays on the film Indus try and to offer prizes, with broad casts being conducted over the NBC network. No opening date as yet has been set and no circuit so tar is reported to have endorsed the air campaign. Allied's Broadside Of the national independent ex hibitor organizations, Allied States Association so far has been the only one to hold Hays responsible for the trouble. In a current broadcast It states: 'Heretofore trouble has broken out only in spots and by throwing the reserves into the- trouble zones Hays has always ihanaged to come out on top. It has been easy to beat down the opposition of an occa- sional religious or civic organiza- tion, or to control the action of a legislative, committee, but the pub- lic is hard to lick — there are too darned many of them. 'If Hays sought to curb the pres- ent activities of the Catholic Church, the League of Decency, the Motion Picture Research. Council, the Federal Motion Picture Council -i n_ A merica .and others, toqj numer- ous to "mention, he would not know where to start. Not only is there not enough money in the war chest to cope with such opposition, but it wouldn't do any good.. Charlie. Pet- tijohn and Governor Millikcn and Mrs. Winter can not bore from within because, for once, they are oh the outside looking in.' Haysites commenting ori the Al- lied broadside said: 'Allied has never yet failed to leap In and support any attack on the film in- dustry.' of the celebrants are bogged down by too many helpings of hops the pianist gets her cue from the boss and starts banging away at 'Man on the Flying Trapeze,' This is sure- fire to electrify the gang to fresh merriment and the mass bellowing starts anew with pitchers being filled up all around. Over the bar of one ddn printed legend: Hoover blew the whistle,; Mellon rang the bell, Wall Bireet gave the signal And the country went to heU. Hooray for Roosevelt I This one always gets a rise out one to start the thing arid the gang joins in. Another valuable adjunct to this beer business is the marble, ma- chine. Every spot has five to 10 and in most cases they take care of the nut. No Attempt at Class . Trick names are absent from the layouts. Such as 'Ace of Spades,' •Annie Ropney's,' 'Little Brown Jug* and '7-4-11 Club' beckon from splattered signs, not unlike the old Greenwich Village stables. Cheap make of red and, white damask cover the tables. Walls are plas- tered with film star stills and post- ers showing silken gams arid heavy necking. No attempt is made to give the joints class, The establishments get their heaviest play, on Saturday night. Sunday is only fait to middlln', The take is slim pn weekday nights when they do mostly a sandwich business. Not for these latitudes are the beer garden effects of the middle west and' warmer summer climes. Southern Cal. nights* are chilly and not conducive to the bodily heat needed to keep the spigots flowing. Few spots have both the outdoor patio and indoor setup but the mat- inee play is negligible. Here and there can be found a dame ori the loose, grabbing off a mug of beer or a body rub whenever some good- time Charlie ankles In. Some cut in on the take but with brew at a dime a shell or 60c a pitcher and wine at 16c a gulp there can't be much velvet. However, those signs on the wall advising of the likker store next door brings them Into service as runners and this helps to sweeten their meager cut. Hardest hit by the beer biz are the night clubs, picture houses and dance halls. Solomon's downtown race track is trying to offset this invasion by offering for 26c a full evening of dancing, a plate of sand- wiches and a glass of beer. While It is everywhere evident that the ^heaviest play comes from collegians and the younger folk in general, there is to be found a gen- erous smattering of the type form- erly found in the- couvert charge dens. It's a motley crowd that seems to smack over the suds its approval of the new deal. "THE SUAVE DECEIVER" LOEWS JERSEY CITY This Week June 15 y 24th Week CASINO DE PARKE Thanks to Billy ..Rose.. '■fThe charm of this act la due to an originality beyond peer. He creates at tthe end of his agile fingers the most enchanting- fantasies. Cardlnl ls either a virtuoso of manipulation or else he. is a sorcerer." — Paris, Jan. 4, 1933. A as**"'"- BEN WARNER lilt OS. COMEDIES Dir. JOE R1VKIN LEO MORRISON. Agency SOUND-EUl'lPPED HOUSES WANTED (Ulent Interested in leasing houses lti western Pa., West "Va., and northern Ohio. Seating capacity 1,000 or more. Write full particulars to: DAVID R. T,EVIN, Attorney 1415-21 Bcrger Building, Pittsburgh, Tm. Tuesday, Jirnc 19, 1934 PICT VARIETY 47 All Major Distrib Co. s Involved In Chi Test Case on Double Bills Chicago, June 18.. AH eight major distributors have teen named in a complaint before the grievance board here by the Rosewood theatre which is asking for the ight to buy and. exhibit double feature bills* Companies named are Paramount, Radio, "War- ners, Metro, Fox,. Universal; Colum- bia and United Artists. Rosewood theatre, which is George Gehrlhg, states that it has pre- viously bought double features from these companies, but that these dia- tribe got together last year and de- cided not to sell double feature houses. Gehring states that there is nothing in the fllnv code;whlch pro- hibits double bills 'in any way and that the ban here is purely a local agreement without standing with the national Code. Authority. This case may be the one which contains the crux of the double fea- ture problem throughout the coun- try, since it is evident that this case wiir surely go to -the New York appeal board. The case comes be- fore the local board this week and the odds are ,a cinch that the board will decide against the Rosewood despite the fact that the code does not mention twin bills as an unfair trade practice'. It is then predicted on film row that this case will go to New York as the first appeal to the highest authority on the double feature problem. The appeal board will re- verse the local decision, it Is pre-r dieted, which will throw open the large Chicago film . territory to double bills. Only then will na- tional action be taken on the twin bill mess with a likelihood that the producers will , finally step into the picture with an agreement to cut the amount of production down by at least 26% since, the large Chicago territory will be intolerable in a twin bill battle royal. As long as the 12% Chicago territory remains single bills it is bslieved that no action will be taken to can twinners nationally. Summer on B'way FRISCO WOULD TABOO SMOKING IN THEATRES San Francisco, June. 18. A concentrated movement is un- der way to abolish ciggle smoking In theatres of this area, following a series of fires that have burned houses, damaged patron b, and run up carpet and chair bills to thou- sands of dollars.. Smoking Is al- lowed upstairs in theatres around here. Move was brought to a head by the recent razing of the Fox, San Mateo, as result of a cig which smouldered in the loges and during the night started a conflagration which .completely destroyed, the the- atre and all equipment.' (Continued from page 1) business here. Understood that liners coming over from Australia are booked to capacity. Perhaps most such visitors will land on the west coast* with not many likely to journey all J, ie way to New York. Still Waiting New York is still waiting for the expected flock of visitors from other parts of the country, people who in the, past have gone overseas but who do hot feel like tossing off coin in foreign, lands at the present rate of exchange. Usually the an- nual influx of buyers starts at mid - June. Depression greatly reduced the number ot bach visitors, but the reported upturn in business gener- ally should soon be reflected in the volume of hotel business and thea- tres. It is known that some of the moat popular hosteltries are heavily booked for the balance of the sum- mer. Many reservations are for mid-western residents, regardless of the resumed Chicago 'World's Fair. That more than the usual number of Southerners will come to New York is expected, but not as cer- tain. However, to date, the 'big summer* in the country's greatest playground is running well behind schedule. New T »rk this year -las not the varied amusements to Offer the visi- tor of oth T. Intercontinental Broadcasting Corp.f operate broadcasting stations; capital stock, ' $20,000; R. J. Gorman, David H. Jnckman and C. N. Caldwell, Jr., all of 160 Broadway, New Yorlc, ... TlanoMm Leon Garganoff, .Ltd., mo- tion picture flints, etc.; capital Btock. 100 shares, no par value; Leon Qargan- off. Evelyn Rablnowlta and Saul Entln, all of 10 East 40th street, New. York. Woodrldge Lyceum Theatre, Ino.j op- erate theatres of all kinds; capital stock, 100 shares, no par value: Sidney F. Cohen, Woodrldge and Sarah Cohen and Annie Cohen, both of South Fallsburg. Iiuhseford Artists,. Inc.; booking agents; capital stock, $20,000; Jlmmle Lunseford, 180 West 135th street; Harold Oxley, 60 East 77th street, and Jerome Harris, 11 West 42nd street, all of New York. Vinton Freedley, Ino,; theatrical busi- ness of all kinds; Vinton Freedley, 260 West G 2nd street; Jos. P. Bicker ton, Jr., and Mary M. Nicosia of . 220 West 42nd street, all of .New York, Salute Enterprise, Inc.; pictures, plays, etc.;. capital stock, 100 shares, no par value; Theresa Blumberg, Jas. S. Llnburn and Alice I. WlnBton, all of 646 Fifth avenue, New York. Surf Avenue Enterprises, Inc.; picture theatres; capital stock, 200 shares, no par value; David N. Goldman, Bernard R. Gogol and Florence S. Epstyne, all of 285' Madison avenue, New York. Fcnrex Theatre Corp., Rochester; . pic- tures, plays, etc.; capital stock, $10,000; William Ebpr, Ely Bber and Dorothy Breary, all of 6 State street, Abatay. Guided Radio Corp.; operate radio' sets, etc; capital Btock, 10.000 shares, no. par value;. Michael Gerome, 46 Christopher street; Robert Pulleyn, 40 East 62n'd street, and Oto T. Hess, 160 East -6rd street, all of New York. Lee-Rex, Inc., White Plains; musical Instruments; capital Btock,- 100 shares, no par value; -Harold Gold, Florence A. Bressler and Lee Slegel, all of 122 Bast 42nd street, New York. . Avon Music Corp.; phonograph records, muslb rolls, etc.; capital stock, $626 { Julian T. Abeles, Leopold Blelsh and William Lieber, all of 2a East 40th street. New York. May hern Productions, Inc.; pictures, vaudeville, etc.;' capital stock, 100 shares, no par value; John C. Mayer, 285 Central Park West; Arthur A. Segall and Irving L. Schanzer, 160 Broadway, all of New. York. • V Film Laboratories, Inc.; general photographlo business; capital stock, $i;000; Hannah Fahrer, Howard M. Antevll . and Georgette Levy, all of Rockefeller Center, New York. Falcon Pictures Corp.; pictures, vaude- ville, etc.;. capital stock, 100 Bhares, no par value; - David M. and Alfred A. Thomas, Hotel Ansohla, and Harry M. Wllner, 2109 Broadway, all of New York. Kosh Amusement Corp.; conduct sport- ing events', etc.; capital stock, -100 shares, no par value; William Koch, 15 East 68th street. New York; George Polakoff, 201 Linden boulevard, Brooklyn, and Leonard Hayman, 4 Narwood court, Nor- wood court. Merrick,. L. I. - Change of Name From Warner Bros. Industrial Films, inc., to Warner Bros. Cellulose Products, Inc.; filed by Thomas & Friedman, 321 West 44th street, New .York. Texas Galveston. Sullivan and Moore Theatres, Ino., Beaumont, Texas; capital stock, $10,000; operation of playhouses and operas. In- corporators: .Otis U. Sullivan, A. 8. Moore, Jr., ' and Sol B. Gordon. Oklahoma ' •Oklahoma City. Cimarron Opera Co., Bnld, Okla.; capital' Btock, none; incorporators, Nellie M. Hill; Henry. M; Hobart and Ellen H. Hobart. al. of Bnid. Sky Line Advertising,. Inc., Oklahoma City, Okla. ;. capital stock, $60,000; • In- corporators, Marlon H. Parry, Almeda C. Parry and John B. Bender, all of Okla- homa City. CALIFORNIA • Sacramento. Edwards-Perkins Theatre Corp. Capital stock, $24,000; Subscribed, $3'. Directors: James - Edwards,'. Jr., Bernlce Edwards, Ralph .E. Perkins.. California Six Day Bicycle Racing Assn. Capital ' stock, 2,500 shares. 'None sub- scribed. Directors: Arthur S. Guerln, Joseph* Clor.etay, Edna 'L. May. . Permits to Sell Stock Star Theatre Corp. Theatrical enter- tainments. -To 'issue -three .shares of 2,500 total, no. par. value. . SLN Theatre, Ine. Theatre operation. To issue 50 shares of 100, at $100 par. JUDGMENTS (First name tor that of debtor j creditor follows.) ■ Fox Theatres .Corp.; A. lum- enthal; $430,941. Rudholan Amua. Corp.; Edjomac Amusement Corp., Max Rudnick, Edward ' Madden and! Joseph Quittner; Harry Sherman, pres. Local 306, IATSB; costs, $142, ThomasheVsky Music Hall, Inc.; S. 1 Si Pariser; $275. Frank E. Graves and King Jazz and his Orchestra, Inc.; Paul White- man; $10,607. Mirror Am us. Enterprises, Inc., and John Fordon; Stanley-Mark- Strand Corp.; $4,542. Bofah Amus. Corp.; L. Klrsh and Others; $1,060. ■■ John Ringli et al.; $79,452. Stock Market BRESLOW'S 'GIFT OF GAB' Hollywood, June 18. Lou Breslow has been engaged by Universal to collaborate on 'Gift of .Ga^^vith^iaa^J^mes,-__wiip^ = wilL supervise its production. Karl Freund will direct it, Ed- mund Lowe and Gloria Stuart In the leads. (Continued from page 6) resistance has been around 6%. During past week it remained in an extremely narrow range from 6 to 6%, where it wound up week. Vol- ume was approximately half what it was in previous week. Trade news of week' was remark- ably and. Uniformly favorable. Power output showed a healthy gain over the previous week, and also as compared with 1933, steel output went to a 61% operating rate, which was reached only once before this year, and carloadlngs were up compared ^o previous week, and ahead of 1*933 again.. Further indications of improvement were seen in Increase of building permits to 49.6% higher than April, and 39% ahead of May, 1933. Business fail- ures rose slightly to 239, but were far below the comparable week 0% 1933, when 401- were registered. Best that could be said of market during^ past week was that it spent most of time consolidating its gains of preceding week, when industrials definitely got into next resistance level of 98>100. There was a little reaction. from the highs of last Fri- day and Saturday on .Monday of the past week,' followed by a rally on higher" volume on Tuesday. A big seli-off in grains on Wednesday thrust prices back after they seemed to be headed for the region imme- diately above the 100-mark in Dow- Jones, industrial averages. Further dips in grain on Thursday and the German situation Anally forced stock prices lower on Thursday. Feeling - that steel strike would be settled brought a nice rally Friday, and ' news of its postponement fur- ther enhanced prices on good vol- ume on Saturday, with many issues closing at or near highs of the week. Stocks seem to be slowly but surely reflecting the almost in- evitable upturn in business expected this fall. This tendency of the stock market to discount upwards the Im- provement in business by four to six months appears to be starting this, month in 1934. Market began to reflect anticipated slack in trade expected for the summer as early as February this year, the low ebb being reached last month. Then for three or four weeks this boU torn was thoroughly tested, during which time smart traders began ac- cumulating: stocks. Last three weeks gave every evidence that the main trend had been reversed, and that prices soon would be on their Way upwards again. But too much of an upsurge in price values cannot be expected un- til. the 98-100 level has been definite- ly pierced. And even then, the most optimistic do not expect any roar- ing ahead of shocks for several weeks. However,- market shows all signs of being in excellent hands, and in hands of those who will not permit prices to drop. back, far on any reaction. Part of this inclina- tion is. undoubtedly due to the fact that it looks as though a nice short interest is locked in, and there cer- tainly will be no move that will per- mit this interest to get out at any very low levels. Two distinct signs that Indicate a bullish trend were noticed by the shrewd traders during the past two weeks. One was the smart pick-up in volume oh any big upswing, and the other was the tendency to go from group to group and build up the prices. In the latter case, this always gave strength to the market in some section except on days when there is, a genuine lull in the upward trend or a reaction. Traders in the amusement group looked to the Curb Exchange for the most startling performance. Technicolor, in which there has been 'good buying* over a period of several N weeks, again went to new highs on four successive days,' and finally established a new 1934 high mark at 14% on Friday. It closed the week at 14 for a net gain of 2 points/ ' Eastman Kodak, which was pointed to in many brokerage houses as Indicating the high type of buying going into the present market, surged past, the century mark "on Tuesday and hung up a new 1934 high at 100%. It sold down Thursday but came back to close on Saturday at 99%. for. a net advance of 1%. Keith Preferred, which is not often active, soared 5. points higher to a new top for the year at 35 on a few transactions. , Loew Preferred equalled its 1934 high at 97%, clos- ing with a net gain of nearly a point. Madison Square Garden re- flected the large gate receipts at the Baer-Carnera fight and. .got up to 6% at the close, for a net of three- quarters of a point. Fox A did well at the finish and sported a' half 7 point gain at 16%, the week's top, Where it closed. Majority of other amusement Issues wound up .behind minus signs. Most of them showed only ' small fractional losses. And an en- couraging sign was the fact that few of them sold off on volume. Weakest spot was Columbia Picture certificates on the big board, which after its recent strong advance, might have been expected. It was down a point at tho close at 33. M'etro-Goldwyn-Mayer was off three-quarters of a point at 25%. Amusement liens were not par- ticularly strong, and whole bond market was hit slightly by German moratorium, However, one out- standing bright spot was Para- mount- Famous-Lasky 6s, which showed a 2% point advance at 66. Paramount-Publix 6%s also were strong and climbed to a new top at 55%, and a net gain of a poinJL. Pathe 7s nearly got into the $10.0 class but dropped back after hit- ting 99%, for a point advance; Keith 6s also gained a point at 69, where they .closed. " Other amusement, bonds showed minor gains excepting Paramount- Broadway 6%s, Which dropped oft nearly a point, and ■» Warner 6s, which were off fractionally. Summary for Week Ending Saturday, June 16 STOCK EXCHANGE HARVEY GATES TO MG . Hollywood, June 18. Harvey Gates has returned to the Metro writing staff after a loan- out to Columbia. Gates is collaborating with Rich- ard Schayer on 'Any Port in a Storm.' High. Low. Sales. 7% 3% -i;ooo 6% 2% 1,000 84% 23 1,300 17% 10% 700 100% 70 5,000 17% 12% 4,100 25% 48,500, 85 20 100 35ft 25% 21,800 97% 72 400 7 2,400- 20% 21 800 . a 1% 32,200 24%. 1% 7,800 21Vi 20,800 m 0V6 20.000 35% 15 0,200 2% 4,000 4m 10% 120 8% 4%- 7,500 47% 80% 43,300 Issue and rate. 'American Seat. . * Coneol. Film......*... Columbia P, vtc. (!)♦. Coneol, Film pfd. . Paramount . ; t ....... . Pathe Excha nge .»...* Pathe,. Class A .<.«,... Radio Cort> Radio, pfd RKO • . ; Universal pref Warner Bros.. 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O's, '39 01% 00 5$ S2* 20,000 Par-Fam-Lask^O's, '47, ctfs.. 53V U% 54^' 20 08,000 Par-Pub 5%'s, '00, ctfs.. r.2 47 JO 3,000 Par-^ Broadway 5^'s, *51 40 " % OVER THE COUNTER, N. Y. ma. % Roxy, Class A De Forest Phono. , . . . PRODUCE EXCHANGE. N. Y. _" 7,700 Par-Pub • Plus stock extras, f New 1034 high. $ Pai 0% .101% 01)% 55 55 01 53% n:t 41% 4A t." +2% ±Nt H- % + % - % In advance of the opening in Chicago yesterday of the RKO-Radio Sales Convention, prior to Pro- gram Announcements for 1934-35, and BASED O N PROVEN PERFORMANCE, more than a cross-section of the exhibition field repre- senting the largest circuits, great de luxe theatres and small neighborhood houses HAVE ALREADY CONTRACTED FOR RKO-RADIO'S NEW SEASON'S PRODUCT These showmen are an the dotted line because they want PRODUCTIONS .. NOT PREDICTIONS! XHIBITO VARIETY 'TJitsdSy, June 19; 1934 This Week you will learn about RKO - RADIO S plans for next sea- son but, TODAY we want to remind you that RKO -RADIO knows that there are 12 months in the year and some are hot months . . when your box-office needs PRODUCTIONS . . . NOT PREDICTIONS 1 . FOR SUMMER RELEASE! £5 LESLIE HOWARD in "OF HUMAN BONDAGE" with BETTE DAVIS, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny From the great, novel by W. Somerset Maugham, Directed by John Cromwe BERT WHEELER ROBERT WOOLSEY in COCKEYED CAVALIERS with Thelma Todd, Dorothy Lee, Noah Beery • Directed by Mark Sandrich THE BIG SUMMER LAUGH SHOW CRAMMED WITH SONG HITS! The Successor to "Flying Down to Rio" by the same producer DOWN TO THEIR LAST YACHT Lou Brock's Glorious New Music Show with song hits that are beginning to crowd the air... with beautiful girls, avish settings, laughter and romance* RKO-RADIO WILL DELIVER BIG SHOWS NOW PLAYING TO THE BIG- GEST BUSINESS IN MONTHS AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL ANN HARDING JOHN BOLES in "THE LIFE OF VERGIE WINTERS'' with HELEN VINSON Directed by ALFRED SANTELL WHEN YOU NEED THEM MOST... AND NOT WAIT TILL THE SNOW FLIES! 52 K4VIO Tuoaday* June 19, 1934 ON-THE-SPOT TELEPHONE INTERVIEW IS Air line News By Nellie Revell Manager of WTMJ, Milwaukee, Tells NAB Other Types of Fact-Finding Are Open to Doubt— r Helping the Time-Buyer Walter J- Damm, manager of Sta- tion WTMJ, Milwaukee/ believes that, the only dependable '.and useful survey of radio circulation, or lis- tening habits, is the type based on at-the-i lent questionln This technique consists in putting to set- two direct, ., simple questions to which straightforward, unequivocal and instantaneous re- sponses can be made. Questions asked either by telephone or. by. per- sonal call (not by mail) afe: ■■ (1.5 i 'Is your radio turned on right now? : (2) -To what station is it tuned-in? Serious doubts weaken the value of any other system of gathering in- formation In Damm's opinion, which he expounded recently for the: commercial committee > .of the .Na- tional; Association of Broadcasters. Damm's idea is t hat 'the radio in- dustry Is suffering from top. .inany surveys and research studies rather than too. few. Too many people are attempting to do the work along too many lines, with the result that many,, of the studies are of .little, value to prospective buyers of radio time. This is no reflection on. the integrity 6f any of the 'stations' or research • organizations that naive published their findings. Ignorance and ..erroneous deductions are nd ^gjgubt to blame rather than down right' dishonesty.' Field strength measurements are tabbed by the Milwaukee broadcas- ter as simply technical Confirmation of power arid of little help to adVer Using agencies and sponsors. Simi larly, the other convention guide to circulation, fan mail, is pretty well discredited by now. Finally, there is the 'listeners' opinion or memory test as a means of compiling au thentic - data. While this throws light ' on circulation, ' it is open, in Damm's opinion, to many, errors arid to the vagaries, of the human mind when functioning retrospectively. Don't Jibe WTMJ conducted two surveys si- multaneously. One by the memory technique (postcard) and one by tel- ephone calls. On the question of listening habits 'between 7 and 9 hi the morning, the survey based - on conditions as existing at the mo- ment showed only 10% ; of the radios in operation, while the other tech- nique developed a ratio of 38% lis- tening during the same hours. Other discrepancies were developed that tended to establish the conservative value of the at-the-nioment'ovcrtlie remembering quiz so far as trust- worthy facts are concerned. Circulation claims for a station when based upon ah extensive com- munity 7 survey, by the telephone two-question method have' the re- spect of executives In advertising agencies and among . sponsors, Damm believes, while, reversely," these same', men tend increasingly if) chal- lenge or pooh-pooh more involved surveys. Folly of trying to suppress unfa- vorable statistics is s,trjjss'ed by the WTMJ boss. lt..hbonier.angs.. Ele- ment of showmanship, , or , program popularity, as a consideration in radio circulation is recognized. Analysis of the WTMJ: surveys tended to prove that the program's especially built to please Mllwau- keeans- and based on the station's shownianly knowledge of the town and its inhabitants tended to over- shadow, all other programs. Damm admits that 13% of all per- sons quizzed did not know the name o£ the station they were listening to. WTBO Wants Tilt GIRLS TAKE VACATION 60 Program Shifts When Arion Trio Scrams San Francisco, June 18, With the ■- femme instrumental Arion Trio ' leaving. On a seven weeks' South Seas cruise, program department of NBC has put through some 60 program shifts per week as a. result/- Gals, Joyce Barthelson, Frances Wei.ner. and Margaret Avery have :been on the network, since 1924. Their vacash' is bringing about the revival of several programs, and the rehiring of Pair of Pianosrr- Grace Frankel and Gertrude Lyric. Reborn ; shbws are Ted Maxwell's sketch, 'Life of the Reillys'; Gypsy's interview of NBC performers and Louis Ford's -vipliii recitals. Meanwhile^ RusBlan Troubadours, recently ' acquired Soviet ork and singers, isr being dropped, effective June 23. Nellie Relaxes Nellie Revell is on vacation, going upstate for about six weeks. During that time her column, ^Air Line News,' will not . appear, but will resume ■ early in August. . Miss Revell'S bi-weekly broadcasts for NBC will also temporarily suspend, and will resume upon her return to .the city. WBBM SETS UP AS OWN MUSIC Both Hartford, Conn., stations are enlarging their plants, WDR<2, the CBS outlet, was recently stopped up to 2,600 watts, ayem only, has taken double the floor space arid Installed another studio. Also erecting a new transmitter at Bloomflold, Conn. Warren Munson, announcer at WGY, in Schenectady and Perry Brumfleld of WCAC also added to staff. WTIC, NBC member, recently advanced to fulljtlme on air, is increasing its plant arid staff. Brought James Moore front CBS and is erecting a 400-seat. | studio for audience shows. Station is also going, for. production of pro- grams-^-the executive opinion is 'sell a good show and they'll buy a lot of time'. Town papers are Courant and Times, both , very conservative. Stu- dios get rib space outside of daily listing. Funny angle is that Frank E. Gannett, owner oit Times, controls three stations in other parts of country, despite which he will not give Hartford plants a break in-. the press. Vacation Notes Adeie Rorison to Loori Lake ih Adirondacks for the suinmer. Roger's author, E. R. Johnstone, to California on 28th. Tony Wons to. his Wisconsin cabin in August. Kate Smith resting at Banff, Canada.- Sally Balcox will vacation at Malletts Bay in Vermont during July and August! Biirns and Allen will tour Europe arid make expenses playing a week at the Palladium in London. Freddie Warlock to Bermuda for two weeks. Albert Spaulding at Great Barrington, Mass." Ardls Ackei> man of J. Walter Thompson publicity to visit the George C preys of Thompson Chicago office. H. V. Kaltenborn to Russia. Alex Wodllcott visits his island retreat in Vermont. Frank Singhiser Is vacationing. 12 All members of the . studio, orches- tra of CBS-WBBM are on n otlco and will shift but of the studio dur- ing the first week in July. This includes the. leader, and .contractor, Clarence Wheeler arid Eddie Cope- SUED BY NRA land. They will be replaced by Bitty Mills as contractor for the J. Walt Thompson to handle the Phil Harris show. . . .Wallington always station. Mills is ah employee of goes out of his way to warm a seat next to Alice Faye. .. .Colgate and. WBBM, and in this manner WBBM Paimollve shows will go on a week to week basis. Both, shows are spon-. becomes a contractor. . I sored by the same client but Toting and Rublcam Agency handles Colgate Reason . behind . the., move is , the | and Benton &. Bowles look after Paimollve. desire of the station of more flexl- Washington, June 18. Turning heat on radio code vio- lators, Deputy Administrator Wil- liam P. Farnsworth Friday (16) cited dozen small local stations to the NRA compliance board for punitive . action. Step followed persistent refusal of handful of stations to comply with clauses requiring filing of rate cards ' with Code Authority. Al though codlsts agreed in some cases holdouts were justified by competl tive conditions in refusing to post rates, no exceptions could be made, and consequently sent all names to the NRA for legal action. Compliance board will ,'nvestigate each case, and if it feels punishment is . called for, Will ask Justice De partment through Federal district attorneys and regional compliance officials to seek injunctions, against stations to force them to respect code provisions. Six more non-commercial stations : were exempted from broadcast code provisions Friday (15) by Divisional Administrator Sol Rosenblatt. They are WDAH, El Paso; WCAL, N6rthfleld, Minn.; WOS, Jefferson City, Mo.; WNAD, Okla.; KFCG, Bdone, la., and WCAC, Storrs, Conn. Stand By. Chesterfield show leaves air on July 14, but will return in fall..., Harriet Lee is back with 'The Leaders' at WTIC. . . .Centaur goes to half hour at CBS on Mondays at 8:30 ctartlng Sept, 3.... Peter Van Steedeh ork renewed for 13 weeks. .. .Jimmy Moher, WOR publicity, ill, ; . .Nelson Case is new announcer at NBC. Gomes from KGO, NBC station in Frisco, . . Don Bestor renewed for 26 weeks, on Jack Benny show;, effec- tive when Benny returns. . . .Yacht. Club Boys are set for Vallee show on June 28.... Elizabeth Lennox troupes . down" from Westport, Conn., for her CBS show on Wednesdays Tom Luckenbill to Asbury Park for bility in Its band setup. Under; the | Musicians. Union ruling a contrac- tor and orchestra must be hired or l fired in toto. Not even one man | from a band may be replaced un Scrambled Notes Carlo de Angelo and Blackman Agency declare there Is no friction between them, that everything is Jake.... Paul Keast renewed at CBS until December in 1936. .. .Donald Opflriger, formerly studio manager of Ss^ne^S^ now assistant to Louis Reld ; the program director. .. .Bertha less tne. enure orcnesira, ia eiven | ^ , ' ^ v ^ ^ mw k«»* hirthrinva nn Sat and the notice. Under the new setup, how- ever, WBBM is contractor and as such has the right to shift individual members of the orchestra at will. Baseball Boss Raps Too Gimi Strouse Relays Quips On N. Y. Races Via Air Hollywood, June' 18; ' Irving S, Strouse 4 now on the Coast, .is conducting the- publicity campaign for the I. J. Fox AlirGirl air races, to be staged in New York Ju,ne\25» by sending a nightly shbrt w$ve : message to his eastern offices, from ' where it. is being circulated among, the' New. York dallies. Messages are. sent but over an anjiateur broadcast plant located in the Hollywood Hills. Believed this is first Instance of relaying ' public ity by short wave. Bajtlmore, June .18. WTBO, Cumberland, Md.'s sole station^ has petitioned the Federal Radio Commish to tilt its power from present 100 watts to 2C0. Station has Interested Maryland's senior senator, Millard E. Tydirtgs, in the matter, and the congressman is personally going before the com- mish' to ask approval of . the appli- cati6n. 1 WOWO-WWVA Still Hitched Ft. Wayne, Jurie. 18. Federal radio commission has re newed license of WOWO with wave length, power and time unchanged. The station will continue to operate simultaneously with WWVA, Wheel- in g,, W.,,ya.,._in_ daylight, ho urs and to share time with - that station at night. Scheduled hearing on ap plication for full time was canceled when the commission was notified that an amicable adjustment of dif- ficulties had been reached. Local station's attorneys in Wash lug-ton are making another attempt lo get. a full' time license, operating with a Portland, Ore., station, and that work on the new petition is now before the radio commission. i Hay-by-FTay Minneapolis, June 18. Mike J. Kelly, president of the Minneapolis American Association baseball club, has complained to station WCCO that the baseball game radio broadcasts by Halsey Hall, Journal, baseball writer, are 'too good.' Because they're so good ..and so entertaining, he says, they're hurt ing attendance at the ball park. He has asked that Hall take some of the color out of his descriptions or that he be. replaced by a less com- petent announcer, so . that potential customers won't be content to. . sit at home or elsewhere'' in' front of. a receiving, set, Station officials, who have found the broadcasts a source of consld erable rental and who want to be permitted to broadcast from the ball park again next season, ; are trying to placate Kelly by having the 'announcer's urge llsteners-in to cqme out to the baseball park and 'see the games first hand.' Brainard and Hal Kemp of NBC both had birthdays on Sat and the Peter de Roses party'd them at New Rochelle. . . .NBC went on the .nut for $150 for six ducats to the Carnera-Baer f racas .... Tiny . Ruff ner bounced a loud-mouthed, youngster at the Maxwell show on Thursday The Phil Harris show will drop 'Melody Cruise' title and switch to 'Summer Party' On June 22; show will be broadcast from Asbury Park during summer where Harris is playing at the West End Casino; new set-up calls for local announcer and Marley Sherris to break in from New York with the commercial spiel. .. .Joseph Bier replaced Don Opflnger as studio manager of WOR Bier is one of radio's old timers and has been filling the early morhing spots with his baritone. . . .Tom Rockwell of Rockwell-O'Keefe returned from Europe. ...Harry Leddy, manager of Boswell Sisters carried from train at Chicago suffering with appendicitis. Ice packs were applied and he spent the week in hospital getting out without an operation. .. .NBC and Maxwell Coffee invited the audience and cast to remain in studio 8H and listen to the Carnera- Baer fight over the public address system. .. .Phillip Morris show will rebroadcast for the coast on July 3. .... .Ralph Wonders, CBS artist bureau chief, to Hollywood for three weeks on business... .Georgette Cohan, daughter of George M., auditioned show at NBC titled Tm a Tankee Doodle's Daughter'.... Bill Thomas, night press/agent at NBC, returned from his honeymoon yesterday— the frau is a home town gal, While away Ben Pratt handled the desk. HUB SPENDING COIN; HIRES RUTH ETTING San Francisco, June 18. That MJB Coffee is stepping put as a money spender is Indicated by' the signing in Los Angeles this week of Ruth Ettlrig to take top spot on the Monday night MJB half hour, with Gus Arnheim's band. Same outfit auditioned Arthur Tracy, ' treet Singer' from, up here before signing !Miss Etting. Account is handled locally by Lor-d & Thom- as . agency. JAN. SAVITT JOBLESS 52 Wks. in Lancaster Lancaster, Pa., June 18. Emmy and Ezra, ; B & ,T Penn- sylvania Dutch skit : was signed by WGAL, Lancaster, Pa., for GUnzen- hauser Bakery for 62 weekly quar- ter-hour programs. Unique feature is that the pro- gram carries no plugs and no ad- vertising. All plugs are in twice daily spots, six days a week, signed as^ an .additlpjaaj^cjjatr.act.,.....^ Emmy and Ezra, handled by Grace Bowman, and Cliff Thor- bahn is an old local feature. Had a turn about a year ago on WCAU, Philadelphia. 'Trail of Mystery,' 6 mln. thrills and gltters, with script by Barnie Miller, is also signed by WGAL, WCAU Band Loses Summer Fill-In Job Recently Obtai Philadelphia, June 18. Jan Savltt's WCAU house band, recently organized, will, vacate for the summer June 29. Unit, which studio is anxious to hold together until fall, was offered at scale price to Pehn AC, swanky private club. Leon Levy threw in free network remote wire and guar- antee of full chain revue spot; one "night T"aT week "if " PennTAC^wouid sign band for the summer. How- ever, another ork crew was ten- dered the spot on Wednesday. Romeo Cella reported that all pay checks of other orchestras would be held by the . union, pending Investi- gation. Situation here is that Cella Lancaster, for 62 weekly splashes must justify his victory over WCAU for Fields Clothing Company. I when he forced the studio to meet Thrills come quick for 2 mih. union scale and necessitated hiring of program is plug* | of new band. Doodle Socker' Title on WCKY Despite 'Mustn't' Hint from NBC, WLW Cincinnati, June 18. Claiming 'Doodle Sockers' as a name of his own origin, Sidney Ten Eyck is again using It on a new sustaining program for WCKY. Ten Eyck bowed in radio at that, station as an announcer and later Joined WLW in the same capacity, but branched but as. a semi -comic It was with the.Crosiey etherizer that, he first made lise ■ of ,tfie Doodle Socker title arid later carried it to NBC In N. Y. for a short period. Recently Ten Eyck returned ta WCKY and was spotted as m.c. on the Dixie Days weekly sustalner originating at WCKY and linking an NBC wave. Word reached WCKY from NBC that Ten EyCk was not to use the name 'Doodle Socker' on a chain program, there being some question about its own- ership. WLW, also an NBC af- flllate, is repor to use of the name. The new Doodle Socker program at WCKY is a local broadcast on Monday nights from 9 to 9:3 d, Working in it with Ten Eyck are Dixie Dale, blues singer; Yoedllng Twins, hiUbilly; Richard Chann, baritone; the Collegiates, male trio; Dick Anthony, eccentric guitarist; Murdoek Williams, piano, and Lola Bruce Smith and Lowell Baxter, double piano. Tuce&y, JiW W, 1934 RAD I VARIETY 53 PHONE LINE FEES IRK AIR Hollywoodesque Radio Publicity Demand upon the network press departments by put of town newspapers for exclusively written stories has been on the heavy upbuild in recent weeks. Two notable examples in this category are the Detroit Free Press and the Philadelphia Sunday Record, . with, each developing a screen-radio supplement which they have hopes of eventually syndicating. In requisitioning the special the outside New York sheets specify that It deal with mike personalities of current top standing and that material about them be new, colorful and, if possible, romantic. Hint here is that in fashioning the personality twists . and backgrounds a leaf or two be borrowed from the film industry's way of doing things. Increased' demand for this line of. fan pabluum has served, to take up the summer slack around the. web publicity offices that comes with vanishing commercials. /Enough of these assignments pour in steadily enough to keep the typewriters In exercise. Publishers liberalize Radio News Policy; Allow 6:30 PJM. Release; Aimed to Meet Indie Competish Without any solicitation from the broadcasters, the Publishers' Na- tional Radio Committee last week advanced by' almost. Ave hours the release time for the Press -Radio Bureau's evening 'quota of news dispatches. Instead of waiting until 11:15 the outlets which takes the bureau's service may now air the day's rehash of news at 6:30 p.m. local, station time. Hour of broad- casting the previous night's news resume in the morning stands, as originally designated by the PNRC, namely 9:30 a.m. local station time. Publishers' move came as a sur- prise to the bureau's clients. No pressure for a change in release time had- developed from the latter quarter at any time since the net- works entered Into their newscast- ing past with the press. If there has been any pressure it has de- rived inadvertently from the broad- casters who have elected to get their news from sources other than the Press-Radio. Bureau. These broadcasters have 'not 'had to con- fine their, newscastirig to"" any spe- cified hours.' This lack of restriction gave the insurgent element of broadcaster ah advantage over competitive outlets in the same area which were allied with the bureau. By the time the latter released the PRB's stuff It was anywhere from four to eight hours old as far as the local listen- er was concerned. By moving the evening release time up to 6:30 the publishers figure that they will not only 'put the bureau's client on an approximately even keel with his non-PRB competitor but by virtue of this evening up cut effectively into the business operations of indie news associations catering exclusively to radio • stations. Publishers have recently made -> two other significant concessions to the Press-Radio Bureau's clients. Bureau is no longer limiting its in- dividual bulletins to 30 words, nor are the broadcasters compelled to restrict their newscastlng sessions to five minutes. It is predicted in the trade that the time isn't far off when the dispensation wili be extended to a full 16 minutes. Ask Program Listing Another move by the • publishers' committee last week that excited comment among the broadcasters was the request sent out by the bu- rciui to . radio editors asking them to list uniformly the two daily newscasting sessions of Hie. local stations.. This listing, as requested, Is to read 'Press-Radio News.' Through these listing the publish- ers committee expects to find out ^haT^slaiToh^ it and which are getting, their news from indie sources. Committee has on several occa- sions recently expressed itself as dissatisfied with the way NBC,, it alleges, has openly violated the agreement. Particularly singled out by. the committee has been the ■nightly airings of the Richfield (Oil) Reporter on the westcoast under the NBC banner. Network's fcxpl.'i nation for this One is that the BURNS & ALLEN'S $2,750 Get $500 Boost When Resuming on Sept. 17. Burns and Allen resume on CBS for General Cigar Sept. 19; New series will be tagged 'The Adven- tures .of Grade* and will .include Booby Dolan's band and' the Song- smiths quartet. Commercial retains the old Wednesday . night half hour. Team's contract extension is for 39 weeks with the latest termer bringing them a $500 boost over the previous $2,250, per. program. SPEEDING UP REPORTS Returns on the weekly check-up of relative program popularity as conducted by the Crossley Reports have been speeded' up. Ad agency and sponsor clients of the service will now be able to get their copies o- the weekly reports within five days of the period's closing. Previ- ously they had to wait'from two to three weeks. Under the expedited method of compiling these weekly surveys cor- respondents are due to make their recapitulations as quickly, as pos- sible and airmail them, special de- livery into New York. Final and national compilation? are done here by a staff comhv under the super- vision of the Association of Nar tional Advertisers and the Ariieri- can Association Advertising Agencies. Committee,. composed of reps from these two organizations, which di- rects the operation of the Crossley Reports, has decided to make no changes, in the latter's methods: Most of the subscriLers seem per- fectly satisfied with the system now in use, and as long .-s the majority is inclined tha; way the committee feels |hat the less tampering with a system that has been assailed by its critics as antiquated the less trouble will there be in store for it. rRichfieId^ne\vseasters-is=functiohing= under an old contract. Committee has also demanded to know whether NBC is renewing the Jergens-Wal-. ter Wlnchell contract for the fall, since the publisher coterie has tabbed Winchell as a spot news- caster. NBC answer to this query has been that Winchell'a connec- tion with Jergens for the coming season will not be okayed unless the columnist agrees to change his air 'tactics.' Pinch of Tolls Particularly Tough on Smaller Broad- casters — New Communi- cations Commission Will Tackle Question of Light- ening. Cost Burden NBC SILENT Amohg the major problems, that Will face seven-man com- munications commission, when ap- pointed as provided for in the en- acted Dlll-Rayburn Bill, is that of finding ways and means of adjust- ing the line charge burden of com- mercial broadcasting. Indie sta- tion operators have been particu- larly strident in Voicing their de- mands in this direction and they look to Senator C. C. Dill, co- author of the communications act, to press for action against the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., when the commission gets go- ing. As the hookup situation now stands it la with negligible excep- tions' a monopoly for the A.T.&T: Broadcasting has contributed from $5,000,000 to $12,000,000. a year. Indie broadcasters, though respon- sible for a minor share of these accumulations, declare It Is they who; feel the pinch most. Fees charged them by the telephone company for lines to the trans- mitter and remote pickups, they say,, are arbitrarily determined, bring a high percentage of profit to the service owners and cut deeply into the station's revenue. Of the networks the one that has to some extent been articulate about the matter has been Colum- bia. That web. has expressed it- self as perfectly satisfied with the service It receives from the A.T.&T. and opined that the monopoly the latter entertains would be an ideal one if its scale . of prices were prop- erly regulated. NBC, because of inter-corporated affiliation, has been silent on the issue. Broadcasters in various parts of the cduntry have been trying to evade doing business with the A.T.&T. by making use of Western Union or Postal wires. In such in- stances the Indie station operators haVe had to install their own re- peater systems. Use of these peater setups has been with the si- lent indulgence of the telephone combine, Which .through one of its subsidiaries, owns the repeater patents. As long as the resort to the telegraph companies' lines is confined to isolated cases the A.T.&T.. is not expected to shut down on outside utilization of the repeater device. But ,. should too many stations or regional networks, say the broadcasters, take to the W. U. and Postal lines., the pressure from the T/T.&T.. would be Imme-. diate and conclusive. CHESTERFIELD DROPS CONCERT SINGERS Chesterfield cigarets (Liggett & Myers) retires its present three half -hour shows on CBS the week of July 9. This series with Rosa Ponselle, Greta Stueckgold and Nino Martini will have completed a run Of 13 weeks. ^ AccQuntls^nxeseiit^nlaiia -cal 1 - f or .a return to the web in October but with a different type of program! CONWAY TEABLE SHELLS Hollywood, June 18. Conway Tearle will be the guest artist on the Shell Show tonight (Monday) over the NBC western network. He'll appear in a tabloi 'amille' with Mary N.nsh. Canadian Musicians Back Montreal Local's Fight (or Recognition; Strike Hits CM. Will Tells 'Em During his. broadcast for Gulf Oil on NBC last Sunday night (17) Will Rogers took time put to comment on what he. thought , of the listener's penchant for remembering the product identified with pro-: gram. • Rogers said he agreed with, the results of a survey along that line that Vaiuetx recently conducted. Deduction made by the monologlst from this' inquiry was that the average listener could only tag a half of 1% of the programs he listened to when It came to naming the- sponsors. Following these remarks Rogers proceeded to conduct a course in sponsor identifica- tion,, reeling off the names of radio's outstanding attractions and the commercials signing each one's check. Rogers also took the occasion to make note of what he thought of Variety's standing: in the amusement field. Variety, he said, is read all' over the world by show people and that 'it knows a . lot more about radio and show business than those column- ists think they do.' Variety's canvass to which Rogers refers, was conducted in 15 representative cities to try to ascertain the percentage of radio listeners who know the sponsors of the programs to which they listen. The questionnaire listed 25 pro- grams and left a blank space which was to be filled in with the sponsor's name. CBS ENGINEERS IN COMPANY UNION Meff R. Runyan, CBS treasurer, has organized the web's engineers into a. company union. Association of Columbia Broadcasting Techni- cians is the. tag given the group. Harry Spears of WABC was named president; John Palmquist, WCCO, Minneapolis, v.p;, and Harry Ferr, WJSV, Washington, D. sect.- treats. Organization's national committee consists of Spears, Ferry and G. Godfrey, WPG, Atlantic City. NBC has a similar company outfit, the National Broadcasting Associa- tion of Technical Employees. G.M. 100% Silent Auto division of General Motors Corp. will be totally without repre- sentation on the networks after. July 1. Chevrolet program with Victor Young winds up on this date a 13- week run over NBC. Last July and August G. M.. sup- ported a Buick session, on NBC and Wd^in^oTTtirrc^a^eoixnTTbliraflegatrf Seagram Auditions Chicago, June 18. Local NBC auditioning for Sea- gram's whiskey company. It's a series of sea stories, which is figured a cinch anglo for tlc-in with that 'hot tip of rum.' Carroll Denn Murphy agency on th'" rurount Musicians' Union roughout Canada pulled a q. t.. coast-to-coast strike Saturday (16) and withdrew the ir services from all Canadian Radio Commission stations and those which ' were fed commission, programs. Those which were not cancelled in entirety were consid- erably deleted. So secretive were the union's preparations that, operating staffs 'of C.R.C; stations knew nothing bf the impending, strike until the mid- night walkout. This, involving over 5,000 musicians, followed the gen- eral order of Walter Murdoch, pres- ident of the Toronto. Musicians' Protective Association and chair- man of the Musicians' io- Com- . mittee in Canada. In Toronto some 1,500 musicians are affected,, this including members of militia bands. Murdoch stated today that 'the withdrawal of services' was'.the result of a dispute in Montreal be tween the musicians- local there and the C.R.C. stations in that city. The Montreal local went on strike when stations refused to meet de- mands for a 30% increase in waged, and when the commission' refused recognition of the union, which is affiliated with the American Feder- ation of Musicians. Sequel is the Dominionrwide rally to the support of the Montreal local- resulting in the national boycott of the com- mission. It was also pointed out by Mur- doch that the. C.R.C. stations in Montreal refused to pay the fees set by the' musicians' association and refused to pay anything for remote control broadcasting. Murdoch was also advised here by C.R.C/ spokes- men that they proposed to operate open shop and 'to employ non-union or union musicians as they pleased.' Unanimous decision of musicians' locals throughout Canada to sup- port Montreal followed^ Sympathetic Toronto walkout affecting 1,500 musicians is not the result of any dispute between the C.R.C. stations here and the musicians over fees. In Toronto the commission has al- ways paid the fees set by the Musicians' Radio Committee. The demand in Toronto, however, does include recognition of the interna- tional union as well as the endorse- ment of the claims of the Montreal local. Until the dispute is settled members of the union • throughout Canada will refuse to play any- where if the music is. to be broad- cast over. C.R.C. network's or over a local C.R.C. outlet.' This, of course, affects orchestras and soloists in hotel and night spots, as well as symphony, and band concerts.. Howard Dietz Serial Auditioned for Air Original musical comedy serial by Howard Dietz, Metro publicity head, and Arthur Schwartz, song writer, is slated for auditioning by the ■ ^ Blackman agency next. Monday (25). Authors are figuring oh an hour's weekly frame and a run of 40 weeks. New Oregon Chain Portland, June 18. Formation of a new broadcasting chain to comprise six of the smaller stations in Oregon and Washington is under way. Tentatively called the Cascade (iroup its setup i.s exposed to be finnounfod shortly. VARIETY A D I © REP ORIS Tuesday, June 19, 1934 CARNERA-8AER Fight With Graham McNamea 55 Mins. COMMERCIAL NBC .Network It's nice to catch a heflty weight championship fight by radio. And easy and inexpensive, too. Only ex- penditure . of "energy reriulred is in the twisting of a dial. While the cost of a few squirts of electric -cur- rent isn't so great; For these rea- sons, perhaps, it might Appear quite thoughtless for those who do their fight fanni.rig; : hv remote control to squawk, considering those less for- tunate who have to brittle their way over to Long Island City in the sub- way and then bay $25 or more to get in. Yet those thoughtless; lazy, miser- ly stayers-at-home beef, regardless. Getting something for practically nothing, but still they squawk.- And •what 1 do they squawk about? .Al- ways the same thing. Always squawk about Graham MacN'nm'e'e's announcing. . And why do they squawk about Graham MaeNnmee's announcing? Have they got a per- sonal grudge against Graham? Or is it just that they don't like his Announcing? In the first round of the Baer- Carnera fight Graham announced very excitedly that. 'Qh, Camera landed three left jabs in Carnera r s face!' WeUr the newspapers had predicted that in the Ba'er-Carnera fight, anything might happen, so Camera jabbins himself in the face CASTORIA'S MUSICAL FESTIVAL With. Albert Spalding, Conrad Thibault; Don Voorhees, con* ducting Violin, Songs, Orchestra 30 Mins. COMMERCIAL W ABC, New, York Fletcher's ^aatoria has moved this weekly affair up to a later Wednesday evening hour, but left the cast stand intact. For the mood that this frame originally set but to. project any revisions Jn the lat- ter regard . would . have done any- thing but good.. In the .production, that has been woven around Albert Spalding, Conrad, Thibault. and the Don Voorhees symphonic ensemble the laxative' has a smoothly con- trived sample of entertainment for its type, while the merchandising interpolations continue to stack up as slick contributions. Task that the product had *aid put for. the program was to take the advertising off the barn and bring it into -the drawing room, and the v job done in this direction has been highly, creditable. With 'the. mothers of babes and youngsters in their minor teens the. focus of appeal, the program fa3h>- ions a musical fare that blends the homey and the sentimental with the more popular excerpts from the classics. For his solos Spalding confines -himself to the latter phase of the program's repertoire, while to Thibault falls the. assignment, of giving vobal interpretation to the American- tandards. with Ethelbert J^S. n ° ^ f ^!?i^^i 110 Nevins^ 'Little Boy" Blue' making anapt case in point. Frequently weaving in as a background to Thi- j uut nwm. L '"_f*"-"' "I bault's baritone is a neatly balanced Now that sounded | male quartet. Plug mixes straight announce- ments with occasional bits of novel- ty, Some of the dialog conceits models of their Qdec. mpment,. sounded fairly plausible. Later on Graham screamed, .'Baer landed a terrific left hook to Baer's mid-section!' possible also, although it did cause some doubt; ' In fact if caused enough - doubt to. prompt many peo- ple to look at the newspapers *nd|heVe "nVake nifty run downtown to see the fight pie- ltmd tures next morning just to. see if' Baer really did left-hook , himself into his yery own, mid-section. Of "course, it wasn't -mentioned, in the newspapers nor showfi in the fight pictures. So they ."squawked about 'Graham's announcing. •That's, the height of Ingratitude. Here is a fight announcer with a, vivid imagination/ who goes beyond • merely tellng what happened, to HENRY resell what didn't happen, to make it ^mo're exciting for. the non-cash cus- tomers. It requires, a delicate sense of fiction, that sort of announcing LUCIENNE BOYER and HALL ORCHESTRA International Broadcast' 15 M>ns. . Sustaining WJZ, New York There is considerable interest in Lucienne Boyer at the moment, since she's coming' to America in the Fall. For several years rated France's most -colorful warbler; she recently won world, attention by a Imagine Max Baer and Prlmo Car- Phonograph record of 'Parlez Moi nera standing alone in. opposite cor- <* Amour. She s currently appear- ners trying to knock themselves out J"g at the Monseigneur Restaurant With left hooks to the mid-section I m London, and left jabs to the kisser, respec- tively. That would be exciting. Graham gives theni a, rare oppor- tunity to imagine it, and still they squawk! What they squawk about mostly. Is that Graham's errors are of cimls- Harold Franklin and Arch Sel- wyn, who are bringing Miss Boyer over; are reported not knowing what to do with her when they get her here. This broadcast should have provided with an answer. She has an attractive radio voice that WALTER HUSTON With Robert Middlemass, Ruth Easton, Reginald Carrington 'The Valiant' COMMERCIAL WEAF; New York This is a repeat on the Flelsoh- marin program for Walter Huston. For his second guesting Huston chose 'The Valiant,' a sketch by Robert Middlemass. that has been frayed from frequent usage on. stage, screen and air. Remarkable how long the playlet has endured and that Huston should select it at this late date. Still it served well enough to give Huston and the others a chance for some stock com- pany theatrics. Huston's voice, of course, is splendid. Others assist competent-i ly. Chances are. the : sketch pleased the general public. Land. HEADLINE HIGHLIGHTS With Irma Lehmke, Gene O' 15 Mina. Sustaining WGY, Schenectady Streamer-line news stories of the week are dramatized, in 'March of Time' style* on this program, which snaps over WGY's wavelength at seven p. m.. on Thursday. Feature has been on .the station's log for about six weeks, filling a spbt for- |>. merly occupied by a commercial. 'Headline Highlights' is shrewdly timed to catch the dialing attention of enthusiasts of the 'March of. Time' shot, which ceased firing over CBS, and WGY's Albany rival. WOKO, with the advent of warm weather. Basic idea of local feature' the same as that of the net- worker; the narrator talks in- the staccato fashion familiar to 'March' listeners, and the type of numbers used in the musical continuity is similar. Highlights' differs from the better-known program in that local (Capital District) news events are included. Naturally, too,' It is less pretentious.. Despite the fact this feature fol- lows rather than blazes radio trails, is an Interesting .one, well pro- duced and well acted, Irma Lehmke, who has enjoyed some stage expe- rience, directs acts in the program. Her co-worker is Gene O'Hare. also the possessor of footlight train-* ing. The pair, who ; until recently did 'Mr. & Mrs.' sketch on a com- mercial, turn in a fine job here.' Other members of WGY's staff col laborate in making this a taut, fast moving broadcast.. Newsboys' cries of 'Extra, Extra', Heard in the background, emphasize the fact that 'Headline Highlights' would be a 'natural' for a tie-up with a Schenectady or an Albany daily. Jqco sion, not commission. ' He misses is outside the regular pale and ought half the fight, they complain. Dur- ing the . 10th and 11th rounds at Long Island. City Thursday night. ' they had to guess what was going on, for Graham was hardly informa s tlye.' He was excited but reticent. Yet even that shouldn't be so im- portant,, considering' the word pic- ture Graham gave 'em earlier in the to command real patronage. It's .a throaty sort of voice, with a sob quality that is not duplicated by any Of the American warblers, nearest to it being Fannie Brice at her throat ieBt. Henry Hall's orchestra, which backed Miss Boyer. played four, numbers. Was difficult to tell much fight of Baer and Camera giving .[about the lads' musical calibre, what themselves a licking. with either interference and other Goodrich tire company paid . $25.- handicaps of short wave broadcast- 00Q for the privilege of having Us j ing. Of the four numbers 'Wagon name connected. With -the fight wheels' was handled with the most broadcast, which went out over both | interesting arrangement, and there NBC New York stations (WEAF- | was a new item, 'At the Level WJZ> and practically the entire net- work all over the land. Goodrich paid $25,000 and the ether listeners paid nothing, yet all the squawking emanates from the latter. As far as coverage and the deft insertion of commercial mention are concerned; Goodrich probably got its money's 30 Mins, worth. As did- the listeners, who Sustaining Crossing,' which may be interesting for bandsmen in the U. S. because of its novelty quality. Kauf. NORSE BAND Music- paid nothing and then squawked But they always squawk after a Graham MacNamee sports broad cast, including MacNaniee's per- formance two days later on that varsity boat race,. When he aft nounced Navy as winner, only to be KALE, Portland Norse band is a. recent feature | added to KALE and is bringing fine response from listeners throughout j the Pacific .Northwest. The band, | a group" ^t^\mg^WTA¥-iSlfSC'K&a6, Washington, about 60 miles from officially straightened out that Navy Portland, drive to the studio each came in third Just don't .'pay any attention to those free listeners, the ingrates! Bi Monday evening to broadcast for a half hour period Type of musio is of the Old World and- early . America, such as the schpttisches, waltzes, polkas and ■hamboes and quite an audience has THE TATTLER been created. This Norse Band is And His Four Little Gossips truly something different in radio With George Bowles, Paul Henning I entertainment and has an appeal and Those McCarty Girls, Franki.e, j for all, but more especially the Nor Jewel and Pot. . wegians, Swedish and Danish peo 15 Mi . . pie, who form a large part of the Sustaining | Pacific Northwest population KM BC, Kansas. City A novelty on a local program is this quarter hour of interesting in formation and advance news about well khbwn names: both local and national, which has not reached the papers; and some of it never will; The. Tattler uses full ten minutes of the time, divided into two parts and tells his stuff in a rapid flow of words, with hardly a pause be- ^twMh^.3ub3ecta ^_.He._has.,the__lowjr. CHICAGO PANORAMA Dramatic Sustai ing 30 Mins. WIND, GARY . Written and produced by Hank Richards and Dave Nowinson, strikes at a metropolitan sweep and flavor. General idea is a group of fastrmovlng sketches depicting intl rmate^glimpses-of-city=: lif e-as^cu rreht- events. A small but competent cast works with this now sus talner, and only needs more rehear sal to capture that certain smooth dpwn oh news from, the picture studios but peps the talk up with many references to those purely local not hesitating to take sly digs at the police and city officials or to | ness. make pleas for auto drivers, .to Routine opened with a commence watch out for the safety of the ment address of the regulation high children. The authenticity of his school order, and then followed with patter is convincing. bits of humor, burlesque, semi Gossip Is interspersed with clever tragedy and satire. 'Headlines' re Vocalizing by a soft- voiced tenor vealed the high spots of the front and a hMrmoniv.ing girls trio, who page, with the oast getting its big also til the opening and closing 'test workout in this .sequences Ap numbers. ' -'peal directed to Chicago area., NON-3PI DRAMAS With Edmund Lowe, Helen Mack, jimmy Fiddler 30 Mins. COMMERCIAL WJZ, New York Coincidental with the present at- tention focused on the United States Navy, the Non-Spi program Wednesday (13) offered a playlet by Mildred Cram entitled 'Navy Born.' It fitted the medium of radio very nicely and had the additional show- manly advantage of being topical. Beyond that, . the production both as. to scenario and tempo in direction was jfirst rate. Edmund Lowe and Helen Mack are legit-trained, so they know their emotional tricks. A lot of. the spirit of the service was captured and both sides of the personal equation nicely stated. As a theme, it was unusual for radio and most Americans would stay tuned in out of curiosity. Which is by way of stating the thing has sus- pense, Non-Spi is quite, discreet and deli- cate in the wording of .the com- mercial ; plugs for the deodorant. While, the nature of the product isn't precisely table talk, the ad- vertiser uses some common sense and avoids the glaring bad taste so bfteh heard on patent medicine pro- grams. Jimmy Fiddler, Hollywood chat- ter writer, carries out' the film col- ony idea, That the stars use Non- Spi is the thought the sponsor wants to engrave upon the . con- sciousness of the ladies. There is a booklet that's free for' the asking when the request is written upon a carton- top. 'Land. AVION ETTES Ensemble 15 Mins. Sustaining WGAL, Lancaster, Virginia Davis, out in. vaude a few years back with RKO doing an accordion single, is the pressure back of the Avionettes, new 15- minute sustaining feature of WGAL, Lancaster Group, composed of three girls, playing accordion, piano and xylo phone, are doing a very nice piece of work, and the unusual selection of instruments adds a tone of color to their musical interpretations which smacks of the Unique. They offer everything from opera to the latest populars in a fast, light, rippling manner. This un usual local program was born of someone else's adversity. The someone was playing host to a lot of radio people and the music failed to show up. . The three lassies, Davis, Opal Petters and Mary Elizabeth Evans rallied around and saved the day. Their impromptu program went over so well, they decided to try it out on the air. It stayed.. Barnie Miller announces the pro- gram. GAL TINNEY'S SHINDY With Tex FJetcher, Roger. Bower Comedy, Songs 15 Mins. Sustaining WOR, Newark Cal Tinney and Will Rogers still have one thing in common. They both originated in Oklahoma. Tin- ney continues to work hard at mak- ing himself a carbon copy of the jaw-wagging wit, but so far Tin- ney's efforts on the air have shown anything but promise. That is, even promise of making himself a passable carbon copy. Tinney had his big chance the past season on an extensive CBS hookup backed by Underwood. He lasted several weeks. .Oh W-OR- :Mo nda y _and,:iFrida:y . night's he's doing his routine . of comment on the day's hews, with Roger Bower helping out now and then on the feeding. Between Tin ney's tries at wit, Tex Fletcher lifts his prairie larynx in ditties o£ 'Just a Lonely Cowboy' and 'Around the Mountain' genre. TInney's main topic of joshing here is his 'Matrimonial Club on the Air,' Out in the oil and cow country it might have tickled them. In th metropolitan area the most it will likely do is raise a yawn. Odeo. CRAZY WATER CRYSTALLIZERS With Jack . Long Orchestra, Stiles Family, Marshal Poke, Hal Col- lins nstru mental and Vocal 15 Mins. COMMERCIAL WGY, Schenectady Crazy Water Company has added another to its long list of spon- sored programs with this flve- afternoon-weekly shot. It is bul- lpted over NBS's network from the lobby of corporation's hotel in Mln eral Wells, Texas, as a triple plug for hotel and town, Crazy Water and Crazy Water • Crystals. Program has some of the small- town atmospheric appeal which Is characteristic of Crazy W'&ter broadcasts, but it also aims to mag net the attention of big- town lis' teners through the medium of pop vocals and current dance tunes/ Jack M. Long's orchestra mixes an occasional old-time number with the modern stuff; producing a rather smooth blend. Stiles Family of four have an in ning at both types of music (in eluding hill-billy). The boys team In harmony duets, warbled In youthful Voices, and join with the parents for instrumental bits. A femme singer of pops and an en- semble! also sing. The various groups handle their assignments rather capably. Numbers are shor£, the sponsor aiming to cover a lot of territory, musically and otherwise, in a 16 minute pei'iod. Marshal Poke, who Speaks with a Southern drawl and a folksy manner, announces the program, Interviews patients brought befcre the mike to give testimonials, and handles the ad- vertising. Hal E Collins, president of the company, delivers a spiel, too. Plenty of plugging— this some- times includes the listing of guests names and home towns. Station announcer cuts in near the end of program to call off district stores. Java. SAVE A LIFE CLUB Bob and Dolly, Cecil Teague 15 Mh . Sustaining KOIN, Portland KOlN Save a Life Club Is rapidly, becoming one of the leading juve- nile broadcasts on the Pacific Coast. Headed by Bob and Dolly, favorites in the Northwest, the membership Of young listeners has "eached 6,000. Station has made a tie-up with the Portland Police department and the Parent-Teachers Associations. . Rules and regulations have been Included in the charter and each member receives an attractive mem bership certificate and bronze but ton. The Save a Life Club stages a theatre party regularly at which only club members are allowed to attend. Safety rules are stressed by the officers In the club. YOUR MOTHER and MINE Joseph Sampietro Orchestra 30 M i .' Sustaining < KOIN, Portland ..Title iYou r-Mo ther- a rid Mine'- was selected for a series of programs to be released through KOIN to the Columbia Don Lee Network, begin- ning June 3. Choral work unusually good, with instrumental backing okay. Orchestral spots appropriate. . Very brief address by Father A. M. Mayer, reetor of the Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother, to the point and effective. Broadcast was presented from the Orottd of the Sanctu.'iry of Our- Soi'mwrul Mother, ;t perfect out broadcasting studio. SEELEY and FIELDS Song " Stories COMMERCIAL WEAF, New York In October, 1931, VARiHrr* predicted big radio things for Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields. Variety's bat- ting average as a prophet was not precisely improved by subsequent developments. Team has hafl spotty and intermittent success on the air, . but has not attracted regular spon- sorship on a network basis. But what was written three years ago about these vaudeville and mu- sical comedy graduates and what they offer radio still holds. They still merit and deserve the kind of attention the sponsors haven't given them. They still have something which is pretty, unique and Individ, ualistic. : Arid if radlb doesn't heed new ideas and new types, of pro- grams then the radio public is im- mune from the ravages of monotony. Blossom Seely and Benny Fields have a combination singing-croon- ing- talking style. They, enact little dramas in music, weave strains of different songs into a continuity, create suspense,, achieve -climaxes, all in lyrics punctured and modu- lated by crooning, humming and harmonics. It's something. And that, it is something was strongly confirmed anew oh the pair's latest (7) guest appearance with the Rudy Vallee hour. Bond.- DOT and JERRY" Stephanie Diamond and Tom Wilmot 15 Mins. COMMERCIAL WCAE. Pittsburgh Two-people sketch, sponsored by. Hallcr Baking Co., that has definite possibilities. Human, .down-to- earth and altogether natural, -it's an everyday strip that features a boy who's a clerk in a brokerage office and a gal with stage ambi- tions who slings sodas at a drug- store counter, ,. There's no effort to inject comedy for comedy's sake but: laughs are little laughs that flow naturally from type of conversation expected of two such individuals. First in- stallment merely introduced char- acters in offhand way, ending on a note of suspense and .indicating nature of weekly serialization. Principals, Stephanie Diamond and Tom Wilmot, of station's regu- lar dramatic staff, fit into the script like a glove; perfectly natural as couple of New York kids trans? planted from the sticks .-r-' Gal Is a pretty, likable youngster with a ready tongue and flip repartee, and boy shy, retiring and ambitious. Nothing strained about either voice and wh6ie thing is a relaxing, pleasant and homey quarter hour. In addition, Wilmot is the author of the script and it represents a thorough, workmanlike job. Program goes on every Wednes- day morning at 10:30 and should eventually graduate beyond weekly stage. Cohen. HENRI GORDON'S ORCHESTRA Dance Musio Sustaining WGY, Schenectady Unit, playing on the Paradise Ship at Troy, pours into the mike a sweet brand of music. It has been dishing up this standard menu on several 30-minute, late-evening programs and on one' 15 -minute, supper-hoiir broadcast, for several weeks. Gordon's music is easy, on the ear, and it probably Is itching to the feet of terpslchbreans aboard the floating night boat. The strings, especially a violin, sound sweet, and the piano sparkles; In fact, all the instrumentalists do well. The cpm- blnatlon may not boast quite as large and as versatile a personnel as one or two others which recently have broadcast from the Paradise Ship, but it turns out a good bra.nd -of -muslc^ nonetheless. Dorothy Fox, a rather pleasing- voiced soprano, and a tenor, pre- sumably drawn from, the orchestra's ranks, handle the vocals. Jaco. DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Danny .Dee Talk 15 Mins. Sustaining WOR, Newark Aware of the fact that the warm spell is no time to belabor the listeners with things of a heavy or erudite nature, WOR has slipped into the schedule twice weekly Danny Dee, an obvious nome do mike, to help give it that light touch. And this fellow makes it plenty light. His routine floats around in so many directions that it's no easy matter to bring the act under classification. The 'little known fact* retailing is a minor part of the turn. This consists of a miscellany of mofttly useles s amy _ u,n 1 n t I 'lgu 1 n g. info.;,. Deb also recites poetry of tear- jerk ing conspiracy and for the piece de resistance of his turn he resorts to the old dodge of disillusioning the customers of the tricks of. I ho studio. With the aid' of 'a techni- cian Dee runs through the most frequently used sound effects and tips off the listeners on what the contraptions ased really arc and how they're worked. It's got so that the fans no longer have to come lo the stiulio to have the me- XContinued on Page 72) Tuesday, June '1% 1934 RADIO VARIETY 55 KIDS LIKE ADULT SHOWS BEST A ' . +■ !_. ! ' i ! ' '• ' 1 — — ' — * 'Buy Only Radio-Advertised Goods' Promotional Slogan in Nebraska To Slap Back at Newspapers Space Buyers and Circulation Circulation, the credo and the mania for advertising agencies, has a habit of, seeming a pretty dull boy when put to work in the radio depart- ment. As a matter of fact the smarter advertising agencies already are wise to radio, circulation and those big charts, with masses of figures, pur- porting to prove something. Elsewhere the booking of spot air pro-, grams Is simply added to the regular duties of the publication space- buyer who, without further ado, proceeds to have his secretary file all the available radio statistics and sworn statements. But the missing element In radio broadcasting, whether considered from the utility (network) or the advertising media • viewpoint, or a 1 combination of both viewpoints, Is showmanship. 1 Fifteen minutes on station XYZ does not necessarily sell goods. Its the program occupying that 16 minutes. But more than that, and a lot •, more, is what' precedes the 15 minutes — what the station habitually offers the listening public. Station showmanship, local popularity, local listening habits as ascer- tained by investigation but. seldom from official charts, is the key to smart time buying by advertising agencies. And already the boys are tending more and more to travel around the country and find but for themselves and to stop talking in terms of imaginary circulation. Field strength tests, number of sets owned in a given area, the kilo- watts,, the number of broadcast hours, the financial or industrial condi- tions of the community all may be important auxiliary .facts. But pro- gram and entertainment average is what counts. Seems pretty . short-sighted for some advertising agencies to fancy that effective handling of spot broadcasting campaigns is such a casual and perfunctory chore that any publication space buyer can simply add it to his usual duties. KMBC Names Dr. Wilbur Cramer as Its Own Tugwell on Medical Copy Kansas City, June 18. Even though the Tugwell-Cope- ■land measure failed to receive pas- sage during the- recent session of Congress, KMBC has anticipated the purposes of the bill by ap- pointing a medico to censor and edit all drug, food and cosmetic ad- vertising . copy handled by the sta- tion. Filling this assignment is Dr. Wilbur R. Cramer, rated as . an au- thority on public health in the mid- west. -It's the first arrangement of its kind in radio. If a piece of copy isn't satisfac- tory, Drl Cramer, Instead of can- • celling it outright, undertakes to rewrite it so that it conforms to present day scientific standards. In line With his function with KMBC Dr. Cramer maintains an extensive library consisting of the latest and approved textbooks on medicine, food and cosmetics as well as re- cently Issued authoritative bro- chures on these subjects. File Is kept up to date by actual tests con-r ducted by a local laboratory or in co-operation with national medical and scientific authorities. Dr. Cramer, also conducts a daily •Health Chat' for the KMBC 11s- GET OFF THE AIR! FRC Thumbs' Down WOQ, Kansa6 City Kansas City, June 18. After fifteen years on the air WOQ, the radio station of the Unity School of Christianity, this city, ceased broadcasting the 14th, by order of the Federal radio com- mission. WOQ has been sharing the 1,300 kilocycle frequently with KFH, Wichita, Kansas, the latter station having five-fifths of the time. The Wichita station had applied to the radio commission for full time, which had been granted, but litiga tion and court appeals had stayed the order. Unity School of Christianity has controlled the station since 1924 It originally was licensed in 1922 and for three years before that was an experimental station, owned privately. The Radio Commission ruled Kansas City was over-supplied with broadcasting service. Old Maestro Beer Suit New Haven, June 18. Ben Bernle was almost brought on as a witness In connection with suit of Premier Pabst Corp; of Pe- oria, 111., to restrain looal Elm City .Brewing Co. from using name 'Old •Maestro' on Its beer. Plaintiff claimed prior use of title on its products dating from con- tracting with Bernle to advertise firm's wares in his broadcasts. The 'Old Maestro' himself was saved the trip by submitting evi- dence that the title was all his and that the public referred to the products of plaintiff by this title. OFFICE BOY MAKES GOOD San Francisco, June 18. NBC has handed a break to young Murdo MacKenzie, who has been an office boy in the daytime while studying engineering at a night school, He has landed an appointment to the technical staff of the NBC studios on the RKO lot, Hollywood, Whore he started this week. John Gillin's Travels Omaha, June 18. John Glllin, Jr., manager of radio station WOW, tripped to New York Saturday (16) to attend National Association Broadcasters Commer- cial section meeting with American Federation of Advertisers June it 21; He went also as a delegate of the Omaha Advertising club. From the meetings at Hotel Pennsylvania Gillln travels to Miami, Fla., to at tend national convention of Junior -Chamber of Commerce, June 20-23 He attends this in his capacity as president of the Omaha Junior Chamber, office to which he was re cently elected after serving year as chairman of board. Following th?s meeting Gillin returns to New York and then to Chicago on contact biz for radio station, and gets back at his desk early in July- Trip is annual trade and conven tion- route he takes each., su mmer and is. in lieu, of a vacation. Harry Burke of the announcing staff will be at Gillin's desk at his absence.. WIND Boosts Power Chicago, June 18 WIND, Ralph Atlass station, in Gary, has been granted an increase in power. Hops to. 2,500 watts for the day light ride. Youngsters 8-1 5 Years Sur- veyed in Jersey Area-^- Lukewarm to Stuff Built for Them NO CLASS Judging from a survey conducted recently by ail advertising, agency ■■ among 2,372 children in Newark and Englewood, New Jersey, the juve listeners don't care for the program framed for their especial appeal as much as they do for adult shows. Inquiry also developed the informa- tion that the youngsters prefer that their air entertainment be chock full of blood and thunder, and if the routine be comedy they would rather it be of the lowdown ' slap- stick , variety. Conclusion drawn from the data collected that a kid show, as such, ; doesn't get from the young element consistent listening attention. Covered by the questionnaire were youngsters living in areas in which all programs emanating from the New York keys of NBC and Co- lumbia are heard. Age range was from eight to 13 years. Results of the inquiry may only reflect the preferences as found in a metropoli- tan section, yet the principal find- ings might apply to the country as a whole. Programs receiving .first choice as to popularity from the kids quizzed ranked as follows: *l-^-Bobby Benson (H-Bar-O). .294 2 — Joe Penner .......260 *3— Buck Rogers 240 4- — Erio Crime Clues ............ 174 . 5— Just Plain Bill .155 6— Myrt 'n* Marge. 136 7 — Eddie Cantor .129 ♦8— Skippy 122 *9 — Little Orphan Annie. .119 10 — Amos 'n' Andy 76 ♦11 — Jack Armstrong 69 12—20,000 Years in Sing Sing. 36 •13— Uncle Don (WOR). 35 14— Maverick Jim (WOR) 30 15— Witches' Tale (WOR)..... 24 16 — Death Valley Days 23 17— Red Davis 22 18— Bing Crosby 22 19— Lone Ranger (WOR) 15 20 — Burns and Allen 14 21— Father Coughlin (WOR).. 12 ♦22 — Tom Mix (Ralston Purina) 9 23— Jack Pearl 7 24— Baby Rose Marie 6 ♦26— Wizard of Oz (Jello) 5 27— First-Nighter 4 28— Maxwell House Showboat. 4 29— Harmonica Rascals (WOR) 3 All Other programs. 324 Two Out San Francisco, June 18. It's a tough break for Bert Horton of the cast of NBC's serial, 'One Man's Family', be- cause Bernice Berwin, wife of Attorney Brooks Berlin, and 1 ife' of Horton in the show, is expecting a. domestic event, and Is being written put of the cast by Carlton E. Morse. Although Horton is only Miss Berwin's 'play' husband, he's being written out of the cast too. STATION CAN T CENSOR TALKS -JUDGE ♦Programs designed primarily for children. Tampa, Fla., June 18. Station WFLA Is barred from censoring or editing the campaign speeches of Morris Givens, candi- date for state attorney, as the result of an injunction issued last week by Judge Alexander Akerman in the U. S. District Court. Injunction orders the station to permit Givens or any one designated by him to talk four nights prior to the pri- mary election, June 26, without sub- jecting their speeches to' bluepen- ciling. Station had advised Givens that it would not allow him or his spokesmen over WFLA to make any remarks regarding political oppon- ents. Signed injunction included a find- ing to the effect that the censoring would bring irreparable injury to the plaintiff's political campaign and probably his loss of political office. KFAB is starting a radio promo- tion gag for its three units (KFAB. Lincoln and Omaha; KFOR, Lin- coln, and KOIL, Omaha), which will in turn be made the. policy of the Missouri Valley Broadcasters' Asso- ciation in competition to bitter newspaper feeling. The Missouri Valley section has generally given the icicles, to anything that might be termed radio co-operation or pub- licity, printing only the unfortunate legal entanglements and slam ma- terial In the columns. The KFAB plan, fathered by Dee Dirks, is to make the listener con- scious of his. responsibility to. the advertiser for the entertainment, and to "insure that " entertainment must, buy the advertiser's product. At present KFAB has a series "of announcements throughout the day which read: 'Buy radio advertised goods,' 'When you buy, say - you heard it on the radio,' 'Support the radio advertiser with your pur- chases,' and 'Buy only radio-adver^ Used merchandise.' A series of speeches has also been arranged X(£l acquaint the listener with the su-" ; periority of U. S. broadcasting as .compared with foreign and the cheapness of the amusement. If the Missouri Valley goes for this plan it'll be experimentally tried on about 15 stations. And, if successful, Dirk's hopes > the plan will be supported and absorbed into the NAB system. Buck Sogers' layoff R. B. Davis (baking powder) with- draws the 'Buck Rogers' serial from Columbia July 6. Program will re- sume for the same account in the fall. Davis assumed the obligations for the adventure series after, it had been dropped by Kellogg's cereal. Support from Davis amounted to 26 weeksj LUD GLUSKIN DEBUT JUNE 25 ON EX-LAX Lud Gluskln's orchestra replaces the vaude policy of the Ex-Lax spot on CBS starting with this Monday's (25) broadcast. It's the first commercial connec- tion for Gluskin on this side since his return from Europe several months ago. Contract with the laxative carries ..him up. until Sep-, tember. Gluskin had been slated as one of the three combos that the Stand- ard Oil combine figured to use in a three-hour show over NBC Sat-* urday nights' but the web's Inability to furnish the requisitioned facili- ties after weeks of. negotiation re- sulted in the whole project, being called off. Gluskin, an American, spent many years in Europe providing musical synchronization for foreign motion pictures, etc. Raising Radio Salaries in France But There Are Squawks— News Commen- tators $2.75 to $6.60 Per Broadcast Paris, June 6. Timid attempt on the part of those who are trying to improve broadcasting in this country to give better pay to. entertainers, mu- sicians, ahnouncers, etc., has started grand squeal that the taxpayer's money is being too lavishly spent. Loudest squawk has gone up against^ salary of $8,000 a year (and cheap "dollars, at {hat) which 13 be-- ing paid to D. E. Ingelbrecht for directing newly created National Radio ^orchestra. Ingelbrecht is supposed to give all his time build- ing up a band, training it and put- ting it on the air. Old timers point out that Musical Director Gaubcrt of the Paris Opera gets only $5,300^ Announcers who broadcast radio news in the state-owned stations here are on about the lowest wage scale imaginable. They write thoir own news stories, which they read into the mike, and get anywhere from $2.75 to $6.60 a broadcast. And the fans wonder why the job is. so badly done! At Radio Paris, formerly a pri- vate station, the Government has held over the old higher rates that the commercial company paid, but this is not likely to last. Aver- ag^between ^he^woscales is'likely to be struck. Advocates of better radio hold that a minimum of $13 a broadcast should be paid in order to attract high-class Frenchmen. Fees paid for radio sketches and for broadcast rights to stage plays just about cover the cost of making copies. Newly formed Union of "Radio Authors is starting fight to change this, and expects to be able to stop all play broadcast I n t? if something itfn't done. Pettey Reported Set Kansas City, June 18. It Is. understood here that Herbert L. Pettey, of this city, secretary of the Federal Radio Commission, Is to be appointed by President Roose- velt to the same position with the new communications commission, which the President is expected to name before he leaves on his Hawaiian trip. The position pays $7,500, an increase of $1,000 a year over the present position. Pettey had charge of radio for the Democratic, national committee dur^a ing the last campaign and has held his present position since April, 1933. The new commission will also have control over telephone and .telegraph Jine s.l ^ Al Kellert's Job Albany, June 18. Harold E. Smith, gen. mgr. WOKO, Albany, has appointed Al Kellert, account executive,, as sales manager. He succeeds George De- Witt Robinson, who Is going into business on the West. Coast.. Robinson formerly was with WMAQ, Chicago. 56 VARIETY KADI O Tuesday, June 19, 1934 COMMERCIALS WEEK OF JUNE 18 Department lists sponsored programs both .networks, liged alphabetically under the advertiser's name. 11 time is p. m. unless otherwise noted. ..Where one ad vortisor has two or more, programs they are listed consecutively. An asterisk before name indicates, advertising agency handling account. Abbreviations: Su (Sunday); M. (Monday); Tut (Tuesday); W (Wednesday); Th (Thursday); F (Friday); &• (Saturday), DIVORCES IMPEND Husi Aaronson Set Adrift By | Spouses RADIO SHOWMANSHIP (Merchandizing and Program Tieups) ACME LEAD 18i30-W-FrWABC Hd McDonnell • •Henri- H-Mc A. C. SPARK PtVG W-Sh-WKAF ''GooHobs r . Ray Knight Eddie Green Dick Campbell *Campbell-B A ft P 0:30-M-WEAF Harry Horllck Robert Simmons ♦Paris & Peart ARMOUR 9:30-F-WJZ Phil Baker H McNaughton Mabel Alberteon Irene Beasley Roy Shields. Oro •N: W. Ayejr T. BABBITT :80Su^WKAF Mary Small Belle .Blanche Wm. Wlrges •Peck BARBASOL 8:15-M-WABO Edwin C. HUI •Erwln Wapey BAUER & BLACK (Blue Jay Corn Plaster) 4;US-Tu-F-WJZ Wade Booth Dorothy Day . •Need ham, L & B BISODOX 8:30-W-WABO Everett Marshall . Elizabeth Lennox ^Dhman & Arden Victor Arden's Ore •Blackett BORDEN 10:30-Sa-WABO ♦46 Mln, In H'lyw'd' Mark Warnow U:45-W-WABC Jane Ellison •Young & Rublcam BBI8TOL-MTER9 8-W-WEAF (Sal He pat lea) (Ipana) ' Fred.. Allen Portland Hoffa Jack Smart Lionel Stander Eileen Douglas Irwin Delmore Minerva Pious Ipana Troubadours Theodore Webb Lennle Hayton •Benton & Bowles ' CALSODENT CO 4:l{MTh-WJZ •Rhyming Rover* •Thompson CAMP ANA 10-F-WEAF •First Nlghter" June Meredith Don Ameche Carlton Brlckert Clin Soubler B Sdgerqulst . Oro •Aubrey Moore CARNATION MTLK 10-M-WEAF Gene Arnold Lullaby 'Lady M L Eastman Jean Paul' King •Erwln, Wasey CENTAUR (Fletcher's) 10:3{>-W-WABC Albert Spalding Conrad Thlbault Don Voorhees •Young & Rublcam CHERAMY (Cosmetics) 8-W-WABC Maxlne Lash String Quartet •Gumblnner CITIES SERVICE 8-F-WEAF Olga Albani Revelers •Lord & Thomas. CLIMALINE 12-Th- WEAF Harold Stokes Jackie Heller' Gale Page King's jesters •W. ' S; HUI CUTEX (Odorono) 9-F-WJZ Phil Harris Leah Ray. ♦J. Walt. Thomp, COLGATE-PALM •^"(Colgate Dentifrice) 0:30-M-WEAF •C'lg'te Ho'se P'rty Joe Cook Donald Novls - Frances I-angford ^=DW=ViroTlreBS=^ n Brad Browne •Young & Rublcam 10-Tu-WEAF (Palmollve Soap). W, A. Backer, Dir. 'Bitter Sweet' James Melton John Barclay Nat Shllkret •Benton-B 10:lG-rtnily-WEAF (Super Suds) 'Clat-a Lu & Em' Louise StarUcy Isabella Carothcrs Helen ICIn/j *Bent<»u-B CONTINENTAL OIL CO. 10:30-W-WJZ Harry Rlchman Jack Denny " •' John B. Kennedy Tracy-L-D CRAZV CRYSTALS 2:30-31 to F-WEAF Bob & Nellie Skllos Dude & Jack Jack Amlung. Oro 2:30-M-WJZ Norman Ross Commodores S:30-W-F-WJZ Gene Arnold Commodores Orch. McC-Erlc. CONT. BAKING 9:18-F-WABO Little Jack Little: B„ B.. D. & O. CORN PRODUCTS 11:1C-M-W-F- WABC (Krcmel, Etc.) Pedro de Cordoba Will Osborne Hell wig R. . DAVIS (Baking Powder) 9 A. M.-W-F-WJZ 9 :45-Tu-Th- W ABC Mystery Cher , John McPheraon Ruthrauft-R 6-M-Tu-W-Th- WABO •Buck Rogers' Curtis Arnall Adele Ronsoa Edgar Stelhi Joe Granby Walter Tetley Allan Devltt Georgia Backeu Blaine' Mel choir Adele Klein Bill Shelley Henry Gurvey Harry Swan Lionel Stander Emmet Cowan Beatrice Allen •Ruthrauff & R EX-LAX 9:30-M-WABO The Big ShoW Helen Menken Gertrude Nlesen Brno Rapes •Katz FIRESTONE 8:30-M-WEAF H. . Firestone, Jr. Gladys Swarthout Vocal Ensemble Wm. Daly Orch. •Sweeny- James FITCH 7:45-Su-WEAF Irene Beasley •K. W. Ramsey FORD MOTOR 9:30-Sn-WABO 9:30-Th-WABC Fred Waring Ted Pearson' •N. W. Ayer FUNK & WAGN'LL (Literary Digest) 7:15-W-WJZ Graham McNamee •Badger &• B GEN. BAKING 5:30-Su-WABC Julia Sanderson Frank Crumit •B-. B., D. & O. GENERAL FOODS (La France) (Washing Powder) 9:30-Sa-WEAF 'Beatrice. Fairfax* Marjorle Johnson Mc. Stlckl.es Ore. I1:1G-Tli-WEAF Frances Lee Barton •Young & Rublcan 9- Th-WEAF (Maxwell) Chas Winnlnger Lanny Ross Annette: Hanshaw Conrad Thlbault Muriel Wilson •Molasses 'n* Jan'ry Gus Haenschen 3-F-WEAF 'Maria's Certo' Lanny Ross Mary Lou Conrad Thlbault Frances .Lee Barton Gus Haenschen Ore •Benton. & Bowles 10- W-WABO •Byrd Expedition' *Y6ung & Rublcam GENERAL MILLS 6:30-Daily-WABC Jack Armstrong All American Boy 4-Dnlly-WJZ "Betty & Bob' JlcLty =J J^uic£hlJL^ == Don. Ameche Betty Winkler Art Jacobson' Carl Brlclcort Louis Itocn •Blackett GENERAL MOTOR (Chevrolet) 10-Su-WKAF Victor Young Ore ♦Campbell-El- GENERAL TIRES I0:30-F-WEAF Jack Bonny Mary Livingston Jimmy Grlor *Hays MacFarland GERBER & CO. 10-Su-WJZ Mme. Schumann-H Erwln Wasey GILLETTE (Safety Razor) 7:15-Dnlly except Sa-Su-WEAF Gene and Glenn RuthraufI & R Gulf 9-Su-WJZ Will Rogers: Robert SI Revelers Pickens Sis Al Goodman • :.. Cecil Warwick . HEALTH PRODTS (White Cod) 3- Su-WJZ Bat X Ranch' Carsob R obi son John Mitchell BUI Mitchell Pearl Pickens Wm. Esty HECKKR H-O 6:15-Dolly-WABC H-Bar-O Rangers' Bobby ' Benson Nell O'Malley . Florence Hallan Billy Hallop Jotm Barthe Erwln-Wasey EDNA HOPPER 2:1C-Dally-WABC Helen Trent' Lester Tremayne Virginia Clark Karl Heube Dolores Gillen Jack Doty •Blackett HOOVER 5;30-Su-WEAF Edward Davles . Chicago a Capella Joe Koestner ♦ErwlnrWasey HOUSEHOLD 9- Tu-WJZ Edgar A Guest Alice Mock ' Jos Koestner's Ore •C. D. Frey INDIVIDUAL CUP CO. (Dixie Cups) 6:45-M-WABC Bob. Sherwood Bradley Barker. Frank Novak's . Ore ♦Young-R INSTITUTE AM MEAT PACKERS 4- Su-WEAF Romance of Meat' •Direct JOnNS-MANVILLE 8:30-Sn-WEAF Floyd Gibbons Nat Shllkret Oro •J. Walt Thompson JOHNSON & SON (Floor Wax) t:45-Tu*Th-WABC 5:15-Su-WABO Tony Wons . Keenan & Phillips •Needham, L. & B. KELLOGG 5:30-Dally WJZ The Singing Lady Irene Wicker Allan Grant •N. W. Ayer KRAFT-PIIENIX 10- Th- WEAF P Whiteman Oro Deems Taylor Ramona Peggy Healy Jack Fulton •J. Walt. Thomp. KOLVNOS 7:15-Bally-WABC Just Plain BUI ArthUr Hughes •Blackett LADY F WABC 'Bill & Ginger* Virginia Baker Lyn. Murray •Hellwlg NAT'L SUGAR 9:30-M-WJZ Joseph Pasternack- •Gotham NORTHWESTERN YEA ST 8- M-WJZ Hal Kemp Orch •Hays McFarland . OX0L 5:45-M-W-WABC DaVe, Bunny & G Bunny Coughlin Dave Grant Gordon Graham »B., B... D. & O. OXYDOL (Proct'r & Gamble) 2:46-Dolly Except Sa . & Sn-WEAF *Ma Perkins' . Virginia Dayne .Margery Hannon Karl Hubel Will Fbrnum Chas. : Eggleaton •Blackett PACIFIC BORAX 9- Th- WJZ "Death Vall'y Days' Tim 'Frawley . Joseph Bell . Edwin W. Whitney Lonesome Cowboy 'Joseph Bonlme Ore ♦McC. Brick PALMER HOUSE 9:30-Tu-WEAF Ray Perkins Betty Brown Gale. Page Harold Stokes Ore PEPSODENT 7-Dully, Except Sa & Su-WJZ Amos 'n' Andy Charles Cortel Freeman Gosdon ('Rise of Gold') 7:45-Dnlly, Except Sa & So-.WEAF Gertrude Berg | JamcSi-Waters- 0:30-Tu-Tll-SO- WJZ (JUnls Cream) Eddie Duchln Edward Davles •Lord & Thomas PHILCO 7:45 dully ex. Sa- Su-WABC .Iloako Carter •F. W. Armstrong PHILIP MORRIS B-Tu-WKAF Leo Relsman's Oro Phil Buoy ♦Itlow PILLSBURY 10:30-Dally-WJZ •Today's Children' Irma Phillips Walter Wicker Bess Johnson' Irene Wicker. Lucy Glllman Fred Von Amon Jean McGregor •Hutchinson 11-M-F-WABC 'Cooking Close UpB" • Hutchinson PABST 9-Tu-WEAF Ben Bernle Oro •Matt-Fogarty PLOUGH, INC. 10-W-WJZ Vincent Lopez Ed Sullivan •Lake-Splro-C PUROIL 7:30-Sa-WEAF Eddie Feabody De Marco Sisters Joey Nash Richard Hlmber Or •Freltag QUAKER OATS 8-.45-M-W-F-WJZ Babe Ruth •Flecher- & D RALSTON 6- F-WEAF Mme. Sylvia of Hollywood •Gardner ' REAL SILK 7- Su-WJZ Chas. Previn Orch Charles Lyons •Erwln-Woaey RED STAR. YEAST 11-TU-Th-S-WEAF Edna Qdell Phil Portorfleld Irma Glen Earl Lawrence RITCHIE (Eno Salts) 8-Tu-W-WJZ Eno Crime Club' Spencer Dean N. W. Ayer SCHLITZ 10-F-WABC Everett Marshall Victor Young Oro Stoopnagle & Budd Frank Crumit Vivian Ruth Parker Fennelly" B. B. D. & O. SILVER DUST 7:30-Tn-Th-WABC Paul Keast Thelniu Goodwyn Rollo Hudson's Or •B., B„ D. & O. SINCLAIR 9-M-WJZ Gene Arnold Bill Chllds Mac McCloud Joe Parsons Cliff Soubler Harry Kogen •Federal STAND. BRANDS (Chase & .- Sanborn) 8- Su-WEAF Jimmy Durante Rublnoft (Baker's) 7:30-Su,WJZ Joe Penner Harriet Hilltard Ozzle Nolson Oro 8-^W-WEAF (C & S Tea) Jack Pearl CliXtJIall. Peter Van Stoeden Kathleen Wells 8-Th-WEAF (Fleischmann) Rudy Vallee and . His Conn. Yanks ♦J. .Walt Thomp STD. OIL (N. Y.) 8-M-WEAF Socony Sketches Arthur Allen Parker Fennelly Kate McComb Isabolle Wlnlocke Ruth Russell Robert Strauss •J. S. Getchell STERLING PROD 8-Tu-WABC (Bayer's Aspirin) Frank Munn Muriel Wilson Gus Haenschen Ore 9:30-Su-WEAF Frank Munn' Virginia Rea Ohman & Arden Bert Hlrsch Gus Haenschen Ore 9-F-WEAF (Phillips Mag) Waltz Time' Abe Lyman ' Oro Frank Munn Vlvlenne Segal :15 dally ex: Sa-Su-. WABC Sklppy' 8:30-To-WABC Abe Lyman Vlvlenne Segal Oliver Smith •Blackett STUDEBAJKER 9:30-Tu-WABC Rlphard Hlmber • Roche- W-C SUN OIL 6:46-Polly-WJZ Lowell Thomas' •Roche- Williams TA8TYEA9T 7:80-Tu-WEAF Brad Browne Al Llewellyn •Stack-Goble TIDEWATER (Tydol) 7 :30-M-W-F-WABC Jimmy. Kemper Robert Ambruster Hummingbirds •Lennen Mitch U. S. TOBACCO (Dill's Best) 9:30-F-WEAF One Night Stands' Pic Malone Pat Padgett Josef Bonlme •McC.-Erlck.' WANDER CO. (Oval tine) 5:45-Dnlly-WJZ 'Little Orphan A' Allan Baruck Henrietta Tedro Ed Sprague Stanley Andrews Shirley Pell •Blackett WARD BAKING 9-Su-WABC 'Family 'Theatre'- James Melton Josef Pasternack ♦Fletcher-E WM. R. WARNER (Non Spl). 9:30-W-WJZ •What a Haircut' James Dunn Mary- Brian •Cecil, W. & C. WASEY PROl> 18-M-Tu-W-Tli-F WABC 3:15-M-WABC 8:15-M-WABC Voice of Exp'rlence ♦Erwln Wasey b..l. w atkins o-su-wjz Tamara Davis Tercy Men About Town Jacques Renard ♦Blackett WELCH (Grape Juice) 7:30-W-WJZ Irerie-Jtlcli _ — , ♦Kastor WESTERN CO. (Dr. West T'thD'stel 5:30-M-tV-F-WEAF 'Frank Morrlwoll Donald Brlggs Dolores Gillen •J. Walt. Thompson WYETU CHEM (Jad Sails) B:15-W-Tli-F WABC 'Easy. Aces' Goodman Ace Jane Ace Mary Hunter •BlackeU WNEW Pulls a Sneak Station WNEJW put in its own bid for listeners against the WEAF- WJZ broadcast of the Max Baer- Carnera championship flghJt spon- sored from the ringside by Qood- rich Tires. V7NEW sold Adler shoes (local) on a blow-by-blow de- scription to be broadcast from the windows of a sixth-floor apartment on 36th Avenue overlooking the in I Long Island bowl. Bill Farren and Ted Webb alternating for WNEW covered the. fisticuffs with powerful military binoculars. Stunt held special problems for the station crew which, with the cooperation of the telephone . com- pany, had -only a few hours, to in- stall equipment. At the last minute a man had to rush to. Manhattan for missing equipment and . no sooner had this anxiety been allevi- ated than the owner of. the apart- ment decided that $25 wasn't enough, and demanded $1,000 for the rent of the apartment for ono hour. Lengthy argument over the phone Anally brought a WNEW ex- ecutive on the run. Landlord settled 10 minutes bef ore the broad- cast for $100. Max Welner handled the controls. WNEW'S idea is that despite the Graham McNamee-Ford Bond ring side broadcast WNEW could get and hold a substantial listening audience among that element of the radio fans who are indifferent to ind largely unaware of NBC. Some question - arises as to the 'ethics' of the stunt. That it repre sents ingenuity; initiative, and showmanship' is unquestioned. But the fine points of eavesdropping commercially have yet to be weighed and decided. In Birmlng ham, Alabama, recently Station WSGN, Steve Clsler's 250-watter, tried eavesdropping on professional baseball games from a convenient tree-top. Ball club went to court and 'obtained an injunction. Goodrich Tires paid $25,000 to the Madison Square Corp. for the broadcast rights. WNEW was the only station to compete with the 'official' program. Other local sta-: tions contended themselves with resumes after the fight was finished But the very controversy which WNEW's deed may arouse will bring publicity and attention to the station. Since it's a new broad- casting unit, WNEW seeks that very, thing. Conservative stations would, of course, take no part of an eavesdropping broadcast but WNEW presumably is capitalizing all opportunities.. Aggressive show- manship doesn't Indulge over-much in philosophical hair-slitting. for its entry, Milton Ikler, former Columbia announcer, now 'announc- ing' the circus was all set to go. The, big horns over , the band stand carried the story of the big parade opening the show and the day was pulled out of the hole. Ikler made his thanks substantial by aiding in WGAL's two hour, broadcast, the first time so much of the show has ever been de- scribed from the bigrtop. VVMT's Fast Work Waterloo, Iowa. A dramatization of the killing of Tommy Carroll, Dillinger gangster, in Waterloo, Iowa, May 7, went on the air over WMT in Waterloo eight hours . after Carroll was shot and three hours after he died in a local hospital. Presentation, checked and ap- proved by law. enforcement officers in Waterloo, told the complete story of CarrolPs. end, Including the re- port turned in by a filling station attendant; the activities of Carroll' and Jean DeLaney, who accom- panied him while in Waterloo; the actual shooting; Carroll's state- ments while in the. hospital, and the first authentic report of an inter- view with his girl companion. WMT was the first media to give out the news of the shooting, and put on police bulletins while the search for possible, accomplices was carried on. Free Theatre Passes Waterbury, Vt. Free theatre passes were used to spur, request numbers by Polly Jenkins and Her plow Boys while doing, a series of broadcasts over WDEV, First ten song requests, received each day were rewarded with passew to whatever theatre the act happenel to be playing at. the time. , Stunt resulted in a. flood of re- quests. Horses and Beer Seattle. Horse racing goes on the air in the Pacific Northwest for ttte first time ever this month, under the sponsorship of the Century Brew- ing Co. over KJR. The tie-up is a ■natural. It is a good departure from the usual musical program plug for. beer.- Races at Longacres '{rack, its sec- ond season, will be broadcast, six days a week, from 4 to 4:15 p.m.* the time of the feature race. Cen* tury is buying three of these broad- casts a week during the 60 daj's of racing. Another pony feature,. 'Radio Ralph' race dope, 15 minutes, six times a weeki will be handled over KJR, with Century using half of them also to plug the suds. Swi ing Pool Fashions Baltimore. At one of the burg's swankiest of private swimming pools, Nancy Turner, WFBR style-spleler. offi- ciated at a swim -suit model parade the pool's p.a. promoted for last Sunday afternoon. The spieler, upon hearing of the contest, con- tacted the pub man and volun- teered to do the chore of M. C. at the pageant. Only demand she made was that she receive plenty plugging, which was accorded her. She made sure of it, however, when she went off the amplifying system at the affair by inserting a mention of her week- ly WFBR program and inviting the ladies present to lend an ear to. her stints. Develop Negro Market Philadelphia, June 18. New program by WDAS, calcu- lated to add negro audience to pres- ent foreign, language listening crew, is termed 'Negro Achievement Hour,' an ail-sepia broadcast. Show uses leading negro lights of the city, prominent doctors, lawyers, etc., and ties up with Pearl theatre, Colored house, to assure class au- dience on Sundays. Station claims Philly negroes de- serve some recognition, since they are a large silent minority— with plenty of dough but nowhere to spend it Via radio. Pearl theatre handles broadcasts in subdued, but homey, making colored folks feel that the house, is theirs, run for them, and so forth. Meanwhile sta- tion is reaping in sold time, 2 Hours of Circus Lancaster, Pa. Eddie JJundaker^^chief^ of jthe rre^rinical staTt~of Station WG'AL ..saved officials of Ringling Brothers and liarnum and Bailey Circus sev eral bad moments when the show made Lancaster recently. Just before the afternoon per formance it was discovered that the very essential public address system had gone dead. Eddie was busy setting Up WGAL's remote control equipment for a broadcast of the circus and was promptly drafted to give the electrical ringmaster back his voice. Iiy the time the band was ready KJR Aids Cupid Seattle, Couple here last week wanting to get married with musical trimmings conveyed their wish on the sched- uled day to the Rev. Dr; J. D. O. Powers, who in turn telephoned sta- tion KJR with a request for the wedding, march. That evening, with the radio dial on KJR, the couple were married to the strains of the Bridal Chorus from 'Lohengrin,' 'I Love You Truly,' and Mendelssohn's 'Wedding March;' played by Harry Reed, staff organist. WGAR'S Talent Hunt Cleveland. Station WGAR is inaugurating a 'radio school' as a flnkshing place for the winners of a series of audi- tiofig' it has imaged' out for the summer.- Under the methods of picking 'cm' that- -the outlet has de- vised for itself at least two out of every candlate heard will bo asked to come back for a second hearing. Latter event will be staged once a month, with each person given an opportunity to put on rv minimum of two numbers. Final tabbing of possibilities, will b« left to a committee composed of the station manager, reps from the sales staff, program depart- ment, studio orchestra, office staff, engineering department . and the listening public. 'Radio school' will have for its teaching . staff "the members ■ of the WGAR program department and open early In July on a basis of an hour's Instruction n week for each pupil. Window Display Baltimore. Wli'BH. which airs local weekly program for Crazy Water Crystals, a Sunday afternoon waxer of Gene "ArnW'rT^iti-^ dow of the local store selling the Crystals with a couple of Insignae.a mikes and a couple of stills of the Arnold crow. Covered the front portion' of the show-window with green sawdust, upon which was placed a miniature of the station's transmitting bldg ; . plus miniature antennae and o thor characteristic appurtenances. Silk- en ribbons were drawn from tn<> midget equipment to the mikes atul thence to % display of Crystal paclc- ages. Tuesday, June 19, 1934 RADIO VARIETY 57 REVAMPING PHILADELPHIA Amateurs, Sets, ing Up Coast Los Angeles, June 18. What is regarded by the owners of all-wave radio receiving sets on the Coast, as drivel and nonsensi- cal chatter is looked upon by Fed- eral Radio execs as fine business oh the part of the 4.60C or more ama- teur radio operators, licensed to work the air channels in the Elev- enth district, comprising Southern California, a' 1 , of Arizona, and a small portion of Nevada. Out of. approximately 46,00.0 amateurs in the United States a good 10% are located in the Elev- enth district. With few exceptions they stick religiously to their al- lotted wave band, and, according • to James M. Chappie, radio inspect tor in charge here, little trouble is caused by ' this small army of tele-? phone transmitters and key ^pound- ers. uut of the national crop of ama- teurs the Army and Navy depart- ments have organized potential armies of operators, who, as auxil- iary members U. S. Signal Corps, would be of inestimable benefit In case of war. Own Language Listeriers-in on amateur short wave broadcasting, unfamiliar with the jargon of the 'hams,' are gener ally at a loss to understand what the chatter Is all about Particu- larly the 'Q-S' and the numerous other letter combinations starting with 'Q'; the taE: about 'junk,' 'fine business,' 'dope,' 'Y-L,' as referring to femme chatterers, and '73,' which In the language of the ama- teur operator corresponds to re- gards.. But this is all regarded as con- structive work by the Federal Ra- dio Commission, without a license from which no amateur is permit- ted to operate. Before getting a federal license, the applicant must correctly answer 10 questions per- taining to radio, and he must be able to send and receive at least 10 words a minute of . International code. Radio commission keeps a strict supervision on the ethering of the 'hams/ with Inspectors constantly on the listen -in' Ayer : contacting acce nt; St. John, N. B., June 18. Government of Newfoundland is sponsoring a survey of radio broad casting possibilities, and the estab- lishment of a government operated Btatlon at or near the city of St. John. Arrangements have been com- pleted for an experimental broadcast from St. John, under the auspice of the Canadian Radio Commission The broadcast will be handled by Thomas Maher, of Ottawa. Ont, a member of the commission and who will be accompanied to the island colony from Ottawa, by several of the commission's technicians. Since taking over the control of Newfoundland, several months ago, the British government has been investigating the possibilities of radio broadcasting, and there is a likelihood that two stations will be started. One report of the radio situation is that a linking will be made be- tween the proposed Newfoundland stations and those of the CRC. Nickson Niched San Francisco,. June 18. George Nickson, tenor previously with KYA and KTAB, added to the staff of KFRC here, getting fea ture spots on the Blue Monday Jamboree, Happy Go Lucky and other shows, with possibly solo niches coming up. Samo station has Eugenie Hawes, character comic,, back after a so jourh in Los Angeles. WCAU Exploits Local Artists After Theatre Dates — Odd Situation of CBS Deluxer's Talent Philadelphia, WCAU's first attempt to exploit artists occurs week of June 29, when station staff takes oyer vaude-. ▼ill© of first-run Fox theatre. Unit called 'Made in Philly.' . Show, booked by H. Bart Mc- Hugh, station artist bureau head, includes Four Showmen, Canadian Trio, Carlile and London, Warwick Sisters with Helen Barrett, Pete Woolery, Larry Tate, Dorothy Hall, Barr Sisters, announcers Scott, West, Begley and Walton. All tal- ent are Columbia sustainers. Philly stations have been notice- ably lacking in artist promotion, with outlets claiming too much proximity with New Yorlt Buga boo has always been proven errone bus when talent was given fair chance to click. Unusual factor is that -WC AU, , piping more Co lu mbi a spots than any other of the net work's affiliates, . hasn't one artist who could draw in a local theatre as an Individual. Station has al ways been town's top- alrcaster, but carried so much chain commercial that little time was devoted to build talent for personal appearances. Gradually station garnered a bad program rep locally. Yet, ironically, WCAU has sent plenty of names to New York headlights. FOB FIRST TIME Advent of KYW in Fall Agitates Quaker Town with Plenty of Rumors — Realignments Probable Goodrich Not Sponsoring Max Baer; Champ Peddled by Both Webs MERGERS Philadelphia, Junt 18. Philadelphia right now has more radio rumors than NBC has vice- presidents. Leading all the whis- pering in piquancy is whether the Levy Brothers,' kingpins of WCAU, WIP and the Columbia network, hiave or have hot acquired the oper- ating control of Station KYW, the present Chicago Westinghouse out let which moves into Philly Novem ber 1. Levys admit bidding for station and coveting it. But. can they get it, and if they get it, what happens to the pretty picture of competition that was visualized as awakening Philadelphia from the general slug gishness engendered, by six years of complete subservience to the rank of WCAU' as numbev one sta tlon. Meanwhile, the two present NBC affiliates, WLIT and WFI, are prob able candidates for a merger to handle the blue NBC programs if, as officially carded, KYW bobs up as the NBC red champion. Albert M. Greenfield, prominent in Phlla delphia realty, seems the keyholder to the WLIT-WFI situation through the receivership of Lit Brothers' de- partment store, which controls in turn Station WLIT. Greenfield re- portedly wished to create a station powerful enough to compete com merclally with WCAU. A Novelty for Philly Philadelphia has traditionally been a poor town from the radio performer's vle^olnt. Only place a break could be had was WCAU. Accepted standard fee has been about $7.60 a broadcast in Philadel- phia. Musicians' Union seemingly has ample grounds for the allega tlons of under-scaling. Hence, although the talent is, of course, a minor consideration In the various realignments that seem in progress more or less under cover this ele- ment naturally enough roots for a condition of affairs in which a little competitive bidding might emerge out of the Jungle of former hope- lessness. Some keen observers believe that Philadelphia radio will be hypoed Into a healthier state if real rivalry materializes. But meanwhile WCAU naturally may not be of that opinion. There are odd pieces to the puz zle, WPEN goes to 500 watts and 920 kilocycles, a better strategic position than station has ever en joyed, and meanwhile becoming a cog in the wheel - which. George Storer is coopering. WRAX comes into the picture on art arrangement to handle all foreign language pro grams (important locally). Which still leaves the secondary Levy out let, WIP, to be fitted into the new set-up that the next few months will work out. Business and Fish Harold Smith Seeks Own Station in Rensselaer Albany, June 18. Operation of a new radio station in Rensselaer, just across the Hud- son River from Albany, is planned by Harold E. . Smith, general mana- ger "of WOKO, Albany, an affiliate of CBS. An application for a per- mit has been received by the Fed- eral Radio Commission. New station project is a private enterprise of Smith and is not as- sociated with WOKO. It is re- ported the . new station would use the facilities of WGLC, Hudson Falls, also a CBS link. Smith for- merly operated a station at Pough- keepsie and came to Albany four years ago when. WOKO was opened here. RAIN HURTS FAN MAIL ATWBT Charlotte, N. C, June 18. W. A. Schudt, manager of WBT, has been watching the mail and has decided that listeners write fewer letters about programs and enter- tainers when it is rainy weather than when it is clear. Discovery was a surprise, it being the popular conception that people are outdoors more when the sun Is shining and are more assiduous radio listeners when the weather is bad. Schudt cites the 10 days of rain In North Carolina, fixing a new wet weather record, when WBT fan mail dropped to 60% as compared to the period before and after the wet weather. When the rain stopped the mail went immediately back to normal, he said. With Columbia and NBC bidding to continue the 'Taxi' serial while each looked around for a sponsor, Max Baer's ciareer In radio was in an unsettled state up to late yester- day afternoon. (Monday). Goodrich Tire, surprised NBC and the advert tising trade in general by advising all concerned Friday (15) morning that it had no intention of taking up the seven- week option* it had on the champ's services. Tire maker's de- cision brought the aerial to an ab- rupt halt the same night, complet- ing the first half of the deal, which gave Baer $6,500. a week for six weeks. Reason Goodrich gave for its dropping of the Baer alliance was that the expense Involved wasn't warranted by the potential sales of the product. As it was, explained the rubber concern, it was away overboard on radio expenditures, what with the daily baseball re- sumes it was bankrolling on WEAF, New York; WBZ. Boston; WTAM, Cleveland; WMAL, Washington; KDKA, Pittsburgh; WJR, Detroit; WENR, Chicago, and KMOX, St.. Louis. Also that with the Baer serial it would be merely covering the same listener attention garnered^ by its baseball programs, which are* under all. summer obligation. Baer's contract with Goodrich called for a boost to $7,500 a week In the event the seven weeks' option was taken up. Bid made Baer for his services as a sustaining attraction by Columbia was the highest it has ever offered for anyone on a non-commercial basis. Patsy Darling at WDAS Philadelphia, June 18. New WDAS" addition Is Patsy Darling, former WCAU- CBS singer, who comes In to handle women's program activities. Gal replaces Phyllis Foster, who resigned last week. Miss Darling will specialize In home economics shows, bringing in an ork crew and guest artists for audience draw. WGAL, Mason-Dixon Key, On Air 13 Hours Daily Lancaster, Pa., June 18. Station WGAL, of. Lancaster, key-station of the Mason-Dixon Radio Group, is being- heard on a new frequency of 1,500 kilocycles. Change from the station's pre- vious place- on the dial at 1,310 kilocycles took place when WGAL began using the channel vacated by WPEN of Philadelphia. Moving out of a more or less congested band, the chajige was made chiefly to give WGAL unlim- ited time on the air. A staff of 20 people keep programs moving thir- teen , hours out of every twenty- four. Transfer to the new frequency required the addition of approxi- mately $6,000 worth of additional equipment in the WGAL transmit- ter. Right Size Cheltenham in Spotlight Ads Agitates Actors, Adv. Agencies Boston, June 18. New England Network (NBC), at a meeting at Sebago Lake, Maine, =voted^to-open-,a^Chlcago, i offlce^Jnly_ 1. Joe Weed, who for one. year has managed the web's New York office, will also have charge of the Chi- cago branch. Those attending, the meeting were George Kelley, WCSH, Portland; James Clancy, WTIC, Hartford; Joe Weed, John Boyle, WJAR; Provi- dence; John Storey, WTA.G, Worcester, and Charles^Burtbn and Harold Fellows of WEBl, Boston. The fishing was terrible. Like the other branches of show business, radio is now subject to headaches from performers over billing demands! Bearing most of the controversial brunt on this topic are the ad agencies which in addi- tion to supervising the publicity on the show do the copy writing for the spotlight ads on the program that appear in the newspapers. Relative position and typography given their names in these ads have become a common' source of conten- tion^from^ mike" ""WtTst^'^say^iHe" agency men. ' This vieing for top billing In the spotlight ads has got to the point that performers before signaturing for a commercial program demand that the contract include a clause clarifying the subject. So far there have been few sponsors that have consented to this • written stipula- tion. Usual retort by the commer- cial Is that regardless as to how the performer may feel about his im- portance and standing with the public there will be no dictating on this score from any quarter other than its own. One of the major agencies last week was forced to have reset three sets of stereotyped plates because of an "argument over tilling. Pro- gram had only three episodes to go, but the complaining actor insisted that the remaining series of spot- light ads be so revised that his name WbuTd^be^'aTHIhe Be^d^f ^EKe^IlsleS" cast. His ultimatum waj that either the agency change the ad copy or he would walk. Agency exec upon whom the actor made his demands remarked during the courso of the verbal ex- change: 'I suppose you'd like to havo your name over that of the client?' 'It wouldn't be a bad Idea, at that,' was the actor's rejoinder. 58 VARIETY RADIO Tuesday, June 19, 1934 Radio Chatter Cuba Alma Mater radio station burned completely. CMC looks as If it will never again hit the air on account of the telephone strike. Although there is no censorship of the air here, here is an example of how things are treated. Some- body in CMCD said something over the mike which somebody else didn't like. Next day six armed men walked into the studio .and black- jacked everyone there, including the musicians. Luis Casas, Jr., has won the medal for hard luck. He was chief engi- neer at station CMC of the Cuban telephone and had to go on strike,, now in its fourth month, to pass the time he came on the aiF with his shortwaver COC, which was getting plenty of mail from all over South America and Spain, then one night his station burned on account of a short circuit. Next day he borrowed the car of a friend to do some er- rands and some one took it away and wrecked it, so he had to pay for it, and now manager of station CMC charges him with theft of a portable amplifier which somebody else took on account of the strike. But, anyway, he is again working on a new shortwaver, which he expects to have ready soon. New York NBC's interpretation of the Princeton track meet was deplor- able, particularly the description of the quarter- mile romp. It helped make It a cinch for Huslng, and CBS, who Invariably does a swell job on the foot racers. Jim Healey, aircaster for an Al- bany paper over WGT, composed and recited on the air a poem about the new wrist watch worn by An- .nouncer' Chet Vedder. Healey said We understood the ticker was a gift, but from whom he could not learn —-and Vedder remained silent on this point, in signing off the pro- gram. Clyde Morse, WHAM program director, resigns June 22 to devote his time to concerts and teaching. Birdsall Holly, WHAM field en- gineer, plays .his own grandfather in a radio drama sponsored by Rochester Gas & Electric Corpora- tion. The elder Holly in 1877 dis- covered possibility of transporting steam heat to remote points. WHAM and WHEC combined fa- cilities to observe the passing of "Rochester's first hundred years as a city. Frank Kelly, WHAM publicity manager, Is doing sound track comment for Hearst Rochester newsreel. 'Woman's Radio Review,' m.c.'d over the NBC red web by Mrs. Claudine McDonald, is now on a four instead of a five -afternoons weekly basis. Crowded off the Fri- day schedule by Standard Brands' hour -long 'Maria's Matinee.' Baby Marie and her mother, Mrs. Mary Polizzito of Brooklyn, have been visiting friends in Albany. Miss Mircile Esmond was special soloist with Herb Gordon's orch at the General Motors in the Albany armory. Hygelans are back in their usual place with a song program on WESG, Elmira. The singers are Raymond A. Perry, Edward L. Monroe and William W. Osborne. Their piano accompanied is How- ard H. Clute. Bee Scott, pioneer WESG enter- tainer, is continuing her popular piano programs. Louis DeBernardls has' been ap- pointed announcer for Italian Echoes, a new musical program on WIBX, Utica. Featured are Lucy Carlino, dramatic soprano, and the Spina eight-piece orch. Harold E. Smith, gen. mgr.,. of WOKO, Albany, won't stand for any dead air in between broadcasts. Therefore he imported from Paris, a Celeste, whose belMike tones tinkle at each break. The Celeste resembles a small reed organ. Elizabeth Bacon is entering her ninth consecutive month with her piano solo broadcasts over WESG, Elmira. Alexander Alexe, accompanist for singers over the NBC web, off on another jaunt. Early in the spring, he played the piano on a concert trip through the South. Jap Gude found the World's Fair edifying. ♦ Irving (Champ) Ashkenazy is au- thoring the continuities for the Odorono show. NBC is cogitating over a comedy show to slip into the spot Joe Pen- ner makes vacant July 1. Charles O'Connor, NBC an- nouncer, had a birthday recently. In honor of the occasion, J. Alden Elkins, the Boston bass-baritone, for whose red network program O'Connor is usually at the mike, sang a group of Charley's favorite numbers. NBC Press now operating with a skeleton staff Saturday. Vivienne Segal has received an additional 13 weeks from Phillips Dental Magnesia. Doug Coulter (N, W. Ayer) is treking up to New Hampshire this weekend to look, around for a va- cationing spot. It's 13 more weeks for everybody, effective July 5, on Maxwell House Show Boat Variety failed to credit Charles Wakeman's 46 minutes of ad lib an- nouncing for WMCA's fire-reporting stunt. Mrs. Leopold Spitalny, homesick for Chicago, will spend a month there. Percy Bobbins new head of WO WO Artists Bureau. Dorothy Gordon new contralto over WIND, replacing Helen Black Who was picked a short time ago by Jan Garber for vocal assistance. WIND'S new mystery teaser is Irene of the Ivories.' So far sta- tion has not announced her last name. Hilda Woehmeyer, WOWO secre- tary, scanning those attractive Yellowstone National Park folders, and thinking of going there in July. The World's Most Powerful Broadcasting Station presents COUSIN BOB AND HIS KINSFOLK This recent feature added to the schedule of WLW, is unquestionably the most outstanding radio attraction of its type now on the air. The wide variety of talent included in the cast of this production is amply suffi- cient to afford several consecutive hours of thrilling entertainment. Cousin Bob and his Kinsfolk is available for commercial broadcasting. £ From the sound of footsteps to a symphony orchestra • • • ^^nmnnMkk^'/,. 500,000 Watts ^<4f CINCINNATI talent and production facilities cover the gamut of radio entertainment • * • Indiana Pure Oil's WSM Show Nashville, June 18. Pure Oil Company has signed a 26 weeks contract with WSM to present a half-hour variety show each Thursday night at 8:30 be- ginning July 5th. Line-up will change somewhat as the weeks roll by but for the present a summer- time revue, 'Pure Oil Revels' is the ticket. Cast includes Marjorle Cooney and Bobby Tucker, known as 'Twenty Flying Fingers,' playing two pianos; strong ensemble headed by Alvln Masten; John Lewis, con- cert baritone; Margaret Ackerman, soprano; Claude Sharpe, tenor; Christine .Lamb, contralto, Velma Dean, blues singer; June Moody, popular singer; the Tlolene Trio, composed of Jack Shook, Nap and Dee. Illinois Station WHBF at Dubuque has taken the initiative to have Western league baseball officials rescind or- ders placing a ban on the broad- casting of games in Davenport, la., and Rock Island. Block and Sully Set Block and Sully go on the Ex-Lax show permanently commencing Sept. 24. Fleischmann-Vallee had the. team booked for Thursday (21) but released them from the one-time date at the long commercial's re- quest. Before starting on the ether Job, Block and Sully go to Hollywood for Radio Pictures' 'Treasure Hunt.' They're due to report on the Coast July 15 for the picture, but will play a week (29) at the Fox, Detroit, on the way out. New England Lillian 'Buddy' Perrin, who Is one of the DeMarco Sisters, took advan- tage of the first two days off she's had in six m onths to visit her old pals at WEEI, where the trio was organized. The girls have been busy with programs on NBC and at WOlt and WTIC, and with theatre en- gagements in and around New York. They recently made a movie short with Phil Spitalney. Charlie Phelan, Yankee net sales manager, was a delegate to the Democratic Pre-Primary Conven- tion at Worcester last week. The web had quite a delegation in the convention city for the .meeting, which they aired in its entirety. Dick Grant, editor-in-chief of the net's news service, and Linus Travers covered the microphones. Joe McElllott, State House Re- porter for the service, covered on that angle, and William McMasters, conductor of the daily. 'Municipal Forum' period, also observed. WEEI figures that by the end of June the station's business for the first six months of 1934 will be 40.6% ahead of that in the first six months of 1933. Andy Jacobson and his orchestra opened at the Somerset's new Ter- race Garden. Andy expects WNAC-WAAB line soon. Two announcers and one produc- tion ' man at WEEI are out with ear trouble, and wondering which local radio editor will be the first to make the obvious wisecrack. ' Ted Hanson's music at Nantasket this summer. Ben Bickford, WNAC control op erator, back from an 18 -day vaca tion. He drove nearly 7,000 miles, with Denver and Yellowstone park the objectives. Maurice 'Red' Dower,' popular with Vermont radio listeners, has joined Don DeForest's orchestra as vocalist. Montgomery Ward & Co., and the First National Stores are two chain organizations now using WDEV, Waterbury, Vt., for adver tlsing. Joe Cirali and his orchestra are being sponsored on WSYB, Rut- land, Vt., by the Anes & Braves Co. Summer advertisements on Ver- mont stations include such thing as overalls, second hand automobiles and speedboats. Morning broadcasts at WDEV, Waterbury, Vt., are now using t variety of bird songs. Fred Thorns, hitherto city staff- man, new radio ed of Bridgeport 'Times-Star' to succeed Rocky Clark, who today (18) premiered as official listener of opposition 'Post.' Bridgeport public school music broadcasts, now ended for season, brought 800 children to WICC microphone since January. Cath- erine E. Russell, supervisor, staged the programs. Minerva Pious of Fred Allen' NB Commercial visiting the landts leute in Bridgeport Jay Ray and Eddie Begley, mem bers of the disbanded WTIC Play- house, are assisting in WTIC pro •luction work. Now vacationing at his Maine lodge, Rudy Vallee will do a single >ne-night stand with the Connecti (Continued on page 61) San Jose Take-Over San Francisco, June 18. Ralph Brunton has made several new appointments at KQW, San Jose, which he bought a fortnight ago and made a link of his two- staMon Northern California Broad- casting System. Joy Storm, previously with KEX and KJR in the northwest, has been named production manager, and Lena May Leland musical di- rector. Dudcl Williamson, ex- Tom and Dudd, NBC harmony team, spotted as announcer, all three to function in San Jose. Other staff and exec appointments are expected at KJBS, Frisco, where Brunton has returned Sam Melnlcoe after previously putting him in charge of KQW. Pick KDKA Boss? Managers of the NBC owned and operated stations gathered yester- day (Monday) in the web's Radio City quarters for their monthly meeting. New manager for KDKA, Pitts- burgh, may be named during this meet. William Hedges, who for- merly headed this station, is now on NBC's stations relations staff. WIRED WIRELESS IN HOLLAND BY GOVT. -The Hague, June 10. Postmaster General's Department in Holland intends to supply radio- fans with wired wireless. Neither municipalities nor private enter- prises do this. Subscribers to get choice between four programs which they can choose by turning switch. Distribu- tion via telephone wires. 'Fofies,' $22,500 Chicago, June 18. Take for the Folles Bergere at the French Casino last week tallied $22,- 500. It was the show's initial stanza here. Spot housing the French extrava- ganza was formerly tagged the Rainbo Gardens. Regular Politician Beats John Henry for Congress Omaha, June 18. John Henry, manager of Omaha studios of KOIL-KFAB and candi- date for congressman in the recent Iowa primaries, is back at his desk as voting returns eased him out in favor of the political stand-by. Henry now confines his speaking to microphone, and with growing pop- ularity of his 'More About Radio* daily talks, has had a- mike installed In his executive office and now broad- casts daily from his desk. Will Aubrey Thrice Weekly San Francisco, June 18. On July 1 NBC will give the scis- sors to its nightly variety show, Night Court, on KPO with Will Au- brey m.c.'ing as 'Judge/ Frolic will be trimmed from five to three nights weekly, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, with every producer on the staff getting one crack at the show. KHJ ADDS MARSHALL S0HL Los Angeles, June 18. Marshall Sohl, tenor, formerly with KJR and KOMO, Seattle, has been put on staff by KHJ. He has been spotted on several of the stations and the Don Lee coast chain programs under his own name and on the "Bank of America broadcast as 'Donald Shannon.' Wade Lane is off the station's tenoring staff. Mexican Govt. Uses Air Mexico City, June 13. Government has inaugurated half- hour semi-weekly broadcasts of national and states statistics through station XEFO here. First time Mexico has used the air to distribute official data. Cop Announcer's Suicide Kansas City, June 18. Kenneth W. RItter, police radio, announcer and dispatcher, ended his own life with a pistol shot through the heart, Thursday. A quarrel With his wife and mother-in-law preceded his action, it is reported. RItter had been radio announcer for KGPE, the Kansas City police radio station, for two years. Bradley Kincaid, WGY singer, is now peddling, over the air, the sixth song book of Kentucky Mountain ballads which he has completed since he started broadcasting over WLS, Chicago. New tome — he has sold more than 100,000 booklets — carries pictures^ of Bradley, his family and scenes of his native state, in addition to a group of old- time numbers. 'Variety' Says: "STILL IS A FINE PER- FORMER HE IS ESPECIALLY BLESSED IN THE MAT- TER OF A VOICE" BERNARD GRANVILLE With Lou Kaplan orchestra, Al- fred Gigi, Patricia Leeds, Vaughn de Leath 30 Mins. Sustaining WOR, Newark < Artist bureau of WOR uses this half hour interlude to show- case its talent and solicit club, banquet, party and other book- ings. Bernard Granville officiates as m.c. and chief personality of the half-hour. Granville has been, and still is, a fine performer. He is especi- ally blessed in the matter of a voice. It's a fine,, deep, mascu- line larynx. Nature improved through years in musical com- edy and upon -the legitimate stage. Granville was a star not many semesters ago. His salary was at or near four figures. So he had to be good. And that poise and authority he now brings to radio where seemingly, if he can find a salable program idea to use as a vehicle, he ought to find a niche. . In particular it would seem that Granville's voice would be Ideal for the sales plugs on some of the deluxe shows where a pursuasive manner and ingra- tiating personality are musts. Land. GRANVILLE RADIO WOR ARTISTS BUREAU Production MAX HART Tuesday, June 19, 1934 VARIETY 59 AND HIS CONTINENTAL ORCHESTRA mi ;■:^^v.■^.■^.•^.^^x.:■■■'<■?^>>^:■:•;c^:':■:■:->:^■^^ i-i- \ * h, ' . 4 >X ' :<■¥ ^ : WITH HIS SUBTLE. DIS- TINCTIVE DANCE MUSIC THAT MADE HIM FAMOUS ... AS THE PET OF ALL THE SMART PLACES IN EUROPE COLUMBIA NETWORK EX-LAX HOUR- Monday Nights. 9:30 to 1 0 p.m., E. D. S. T. '^yR-y.-.-jy.-. 69 VARIETY RADIO Tuesday, June 19, 1934 New Business HARTFORD Noxon, Inc., fifty-two daytime an- nouncements NBC local salea. Placed direct. WTIC, Wise Smith and Company, depart ment ytore, Hartford, four evening announcements. Placed direct. WTIC. Ben Hawthorne, three hours weekly for 13 weeks. Placed direct. WTIC. Garter Brothers, furniture store, three one-quarter hour musical- pro- grams. Placed by Gross -Agency. WTIC. Allyn theatre, Hartford, Connecti- cut, Hollywood gossip,, advance pub- licity and promotion on forthcoming Alms and music. Plac ed by M. H: Hammer Agency. WTIC. Capitol Motor Car Company, series of day and evening announcements. Placed by Gross Advertising Agency.; WTIC. M. Blumenthal and Company, spe- cialty stores in Connecticut and. The Original Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl HELEN KANE Will be the Guest Star of RUDY VAIXEE . on* the BXEISCHMAyN Program (Than. Eve, June 21 8 to ft P.M.) Station WEAF-NBC Massachusetts, 13 times on Women's Bazaar, Placed direct. WTIC. fif. D. Chamberlain and Bona, pack- ers, eight quarter-hour musical pro grams. Placed direct. WTIC. * Highland Ice Company, 13 times on Women's Bazaar.. Placed direct. WTIC; Manchester Chamber of Com- merce, six daytime announcements. Placed direct. WTIC. Southern' New England Ice Com- pany, 13 daytime announcements on Women's • Radio Bhzaar. Placed di- rect. WTIC. AND. HIS CALIFORNIA ORCHESTRA COAST-TO-COAST W ABC— Tuesday, 8:30 to 9 P.M., DST (Phillips Dental) WEAF— Friday, 9 to 9:30 P.M., DST (Phillips Milk) BARRIE "The Sweetheart of the Blues" DELUXE theatres; Sole Direction HERMAN BERNIE 1619 Broadway, New York HOTEL PIERRE JACK AND HIS ORCHESTRA Conoco OH | Bichhrd Hudnut Wed., 10:30 P.M. WABC WJZ I Frl.. 9:30 P.M. WJZ Sat., 18 Midnight Mon., 11:35 P.M. HOY POX AND HIS BAND ON TOUR nCTTCTNETWORlC JOSEF CHERN (AVSKY Personality Conductor icago Theatre Orchestra Now on Second : Year WON, Tuesday*, 9:30 P.M. CST BOSTON /. «T. Fox" Co., 62 half-hour pro- grama, starting July Iff. Through Alfred Rooriey Co., Boston. WEEI. Gold Redeeming Corp., 52 five- mlnute programs, started June 12. Through David- Maikiel, Boston.. WEEI. General Baking Co., 20 announce- ments : in Current Events Periods, started June 11. Through Batten, Barton; Durstirie & Osborne, Bos- ton. WEEI. Dodge 'Brothers-; six announce- ments in After Dinner Revue,- start- ed June 11, Through Ruthrauff & Ryan, New York. WEEI. . Oakite Products, Inc., nine an- nouncements in Evening ' Tatler, started June - 18. Through Radio Broadcasting Co., -Boston. WEEI. W. • L. Thompson Co., 166 flve- miriute programs,- starting June .26. Through The Doremus Co.; Boston. WEEI. 'A . Cape Cod Steamship Co.; 48, an- nouncements " in ' Evening TatlSr, started June 7. Through Kenyon Advertising, Inc.,- Boston. WEEI. H. Traiser & Company (Pippin Cigars), 166 participations in daily Yankee Network Ne^vs Service broadcasts, - started June 6. Through The. Doremus Co., Boston. . WNAC.^ Gold Redeeming Corp., 92 broad casts of late baseball scores, starting July . 1. . Through David Maikiel, Boston. WNAC. Big Bear Mavket, 36 daily r tem- perature reports, started June 18 Through The Greenleaf - Agency, Boston, WNAC. Albert K. Sheldon C0» 52 time signals, started June. 18. Through David Maikiel, Boston, WAAB, Chrysler Motors. Corp., six an nouncements on Merry-Go-Round, started June 11, and 5 temperature reports, started June 12. Through,. Ruthrauff & Ryan, New York WNAC. Renewals General Foods (Maxwell House Coffee), 'Capt'n Henry's Show Bdat," 13 weeks, effec- tive July 5, 66 stations on NBC's red (WEAF), Benton & Bowles, agency. Pillsbury Flour Mills, 'To- day's Children,' 13 weeks, ef- fective. June 11, 27 stations on NBC's blue (WJZ), every morning but Sat. and Sun. Ward Baking Co., 13 weeks, show with Josef Pasternack, James Melton and guest art- ists Sunday nights, 26 sta- tions on CVS, effective Aus. 12. Fletcher & Ellis,' agency. Pillsbury; Flour Mills, 13 weeks, effective June 13, 'Cook- ing Closeups,' Wednesday and Friday mornings oh 19 CBS station. Through Hutchinson Advertising Co. PORTLAND, OREGON Meier & Frarilc, department store, thru ; station, 15-niin. program daily; also 25 special announcements.- KGW, Southern Pacific Ry., thru McWil- kins & Cole, six announcements. KGW. Western Dairy Products Co., thru Barnes Campbell, nine announce ments. KGW, KEX. Esbenscott Laboratories, thru Kirk'patrick, 15 min. daily, one year. KGW, KEX. General Motors National ExMbit, thru Campbell Ewald, three an- nouncements, 30 min. KGW, KEX Gilmore Oil Co., thru Botsfbrd, Constantino & Gardner, announce ments. KGW. Columbian Optical Co., thru Gerber & Crossley, 30 announcements. KGW, General Motors Corp., 27 daily an nouncements thru Campbell Ewald, KGW. Paul Riggs Wine Shop, thru sta- tion, 30 daily announcements. KGW, Bernards d Hadwen, tea room, thru Mason, daily announcements on cooking school program. KGW. Eastern Outfitting Co., thru Rob ert Smith, 5-min. programs. KGW J. A. Kraft, thru Mason, one month, announcements on cooking school program. KGW. Ziegler Drug Stores, thru station three months, announcements on cooking school program. KGW. Wentworth & Irwin, Nash dealers, thru station, 28 daily announce- ments. KGW. Portland Pay Tour Tax; Campaign thru station, three S^mlix. programs KGW. Portland General Electric Co, thru Gerber & Crossley, 13 daily an- nouncements. KGW. Hayden Island Amusement Co thru William Norvell, 21 daily an nouncements. KGW. Oregon City Woolen Mills, thru William Norvell. three daily ah nouncements. KGW. OMAHA, NEBRASKA Kerr Glass Mfg. Corp., canning jars. Began June 14, announce ments twice per week for 13 weeks Placed through Rogers-Gano agency Tulsa, Okia. WAAW. Hazel Atlas Glass Co.,. canning ^ars.^An^ouiiaejoaejnLta.-daily- for-one month, beginning June 18. Through Modern Advertising Co., Wheeling W. Va. WAAW. Natural Crystals Co, Began June 17 for 13 weeks, 5 min. six days per week and 15 min. Sundays; Talent on Sundays broadcasts Walter Dinan, bass, with special announcer Placed through Murrel Crump Ad vertising Co., Kansas City, Mo WAAW. Brandeis Dept. Store. Announce ments daily except Sunday, began June 5 for three months. WAAW, Dream Gardens, beer parlor. An nouncement daily except Sunday; began May 28 . for one month. WAAW. Bapos, corn remedy, Omaha. An- nouncement daily except Sunday; began . June 7 for one month. WAAW. Associated Sales Co., Yeasties breakfast food and Omar flour prod- ucts. Announcement daily except Saturday and Sunday, June 4 to July 13. Through Ernest Bader & Co., Omaha. WOW. C. B, Brown Co., jewelers; Gold- stein-Chapman, women's furnishings store; Gordon Storage Warehouse; Kimball Laundry; Rock Island Rail- road. All daily announcements on Luella Cannam's program of the Nightingale and the Serenaders. WOW. Luzianne Ice Cream Co.. An- nouncement daily except Sunday on Bea . Baxter's program. Through Bozell & Jacobs, Inc. WOW.- • Perkins Products Co., cosmetics. Flve-min. transcriptions, 13 times, June 18 to July 24, Tues. and Thurs. Through Scott-Howe-BOWen, Inc. CHICAGO Mantho-Keamo Co., Clinton, III:, for < M-K Cold Remedy, renewed daily 50- word announcement at 11:65 a. m. for four weeks (Wade agency, Chicago). WLS. Ex Lax, series of three 50-word announcements three times weekly for 26 weeks (Joseph Katz agency, New York). WLS. United States School of Music, New York, series of 38 5-min. discs to start in Sept. . (Rose-Martin agency, New York). WLS. Ball Brothers Co., Muncle, Ind., series of 25, 5-min. talks during the Homemakers- Hour (Applegate agency, Muncle). WLS^ Illinois Central Railroad, renewed for nine 1-min. announcements; three times -weekly (Caples Co.). WLS. Ington, four announcements weekly on Ashing. WOWO. Michigan Tourists Association, spot announcements. WOWO. Deuels Company, of Centervllle, Mich., daily announcements. WOWO. Weno Remedies, of Pandora, O., three announcements weekly, WOWO. Battle Creek Health Foods, three announcements weekly. WOWO. Kerr Glass Company, of Sand; springs, WOWO. Okla., 26 announcements. LOS ANGELES Fox West Coast, 4:45-5, daily -ex- cept Saturday and Sunday, . organ music from Carthay Circle theatre. KFAC. Fishman Motors, night baseball games. KFAC. . • Pioneer Maple Product Co. and Glo-More Soap, every day 3:30-4, ex- cept ■ Saturday and Sunday, The Chuck Wagon.' KTM. Meglin Dance Studios, Monday, Wednesday, Friday* 2:30-3, Dick Nelson," reader, Bartley Sims organ- ist. KTM. NEWARK, N. J. Yasco Sales Corp.. (Tarrant's Selt- zer Asperient), 13 weeks, Tuesdays, 15 minutes at night, Michael Bart- lett and trio, WOR. Carbond Products -Co.. (Carbona Shoe Whitener), 10 weeks, Tuesday and - Thursday noons, Ave minutes, ■Style Tips by -Christine Ray. WOR. King's Brewery,- 26 announce- ments, 13 weeks, during 'WNEW Dance Parade,' WNEW, NASHVILLE Pathfinder Publishing Co., one half hour per week oh Grand. Ol Opry, beginning Oct. 6 for 26 weeks (Rhodes & Leisenring Co., ■ Chicago) . WSM. Dodge Bros. Corp., 12 1-min. an- nouncements, beginning June 11 to June 16, Inclusive (Ruthrauff & Ryan, New York). WSM. DENVER Bender'^ Bakery, one announce ment dally, two weeks. KLZ. Tom Botterill, one daily announce ment, one month. KLZ. Sportland Beach Club, two dally announcements, one month. KLZ. Mountain States Association of Ice Dealers, 15-mJnute transcription, two a week. 45 days. KLZ. Kerr Glass. Co., two announce- ments . weekly, three" months." KLZ Morey Mercantile Co., six 15-min- ute programs weekly, one month KLZ. May Company, 500 run' of sched- ule announcements. KFEL. Firestone Tire Company, ve an- nouncements. KFEL. General Motors Dealers, 500. run of schedule announcements. KFEL. B. K. Sweeney Electrical Co., three announcements daily, one month KFEL. Golden Eagle Dry Goods Co., 500 run of schedule announcements KFEL. FORT WAYNE Ice Delivery, quarter houf four times weekly. WGL. Die Schniizlebank, daily record- ings. WGL. Fort Wayne Motor dally road reports. WGL. Peter Eckrich Meat Company, daily announcements. WOWO. Franks' Dry Goods, three an- nouncements weekly, for 26 weeks WOWO. " • ~^ ; Warner Beauty College, weekly beauty talk. WOWO. Saranac Hotel, Chicago, ice weekly. WOWO. Del Prado Hotel, Chicago, twice weekly. WOWO. Centlivre Brewery, daily tempera ture reports. WOWO. Mowrey Studebaker Company, three announcements weekly. WOWO. Shakespeare Tackle Company, one announcement weekly. WOWO. Triggs-Michacl Company, of Hunt- . SEATTLE Crazy Wells Water Co., six quar- ter hour discs a week. KOL. Union Pacific Stages, five-minute skit each Thursday eve for five weeks. KOL. Chamberlain Laboratories, three one-minute and three 30-word an- nouncements and two five-minute programs per week; started June 12. KOMO. '■> Seattle, Citizens Emergency Relief Committee, eight five-minute talks. KOMO. "* ' Crazy Wells, five 15-minute pro- grams on, KOMO and two. on KJR per week; started June 17. Century Brewing Co., feature horse race rempte from Longacres tracks .three times a week; 'Radio Ralph,' 15-minute .race dope talk three times a week; June 28 to La- bor Day. KJR. John Quinn, 'Vacation Land Re- view,' 26 half-hour programs. KOL. Kenneth C. Davis, 'The Public Bench,' 13 quarter-hour talks. KOL. MdcDougall dV Southwick, depart- ment store, one quarter-hour •pro- gram. KOL. Seattle Citizens' Emergency Com- mission, three' five-minute talks. KOL. Calirox, cookies, 52 announce ments. KOL. Clawson, Inc., furs, five announce- ments. KOL., Barnett , Auction Co., an- nouncements. KOL. Alaska Steamship Co., two an- nouncements. KOL. NEIGHBORLY CHI NBC Saves WGN $15 Daily by Sharing Press- Radio News Chicago, June 18. NBC has agreed to cooperate with WGN, the Chicago* Tribune station, in order to save the Tribune soma $15 a day for wire charges on the PresB Radio bureau news dis- patchers. Thus the coin which daily goes to Western Union for transmitting the national hews reports to WGN, But the station has an Idea that since. NBC gets the same reports that the network, could save the station money by giving WGN a copy of these: dispatches. NBC said okay, which, was expected in light of the. constantly growing friendship between the network and WGN. Station went over to the^ Merchandize Mart some 10 blocks away rather than going across the street to CBS-WBBM for the ser- viceV Jack Robbins has publishing rights to 'Tip Toes,' the Oscar Hammerstein-Slg Romberg musical being prepared at Metro on the Coast. Robbins took the deal away from Harms, for whom Romberg had been writing. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C Dr. Pepper, daily announcement for two months. Placed locally. WSJS. % . 1 Ideal Dry Goods Company, daily announcement for one month. Placed locally. WSJS. Motor Sales Company, series of twelve announcements on price re- duction on Plymouth Automobile. Placed locally. WSJS. Modern Chevrolet Company and C. C. Disher Chevrolet Company, series of 18 announcements on reduction in price of Chevrolet. Placed local- ly. WSJS. NASHVILLE General Motors Corp., 27 100-huh dred word announcements, dally ex cept Sunday." three each day." Placed by Campbell- Ewald Company, De trolt, . Michigan. Beginning May 31. WSM. Chevrolet Motor Car Company, 12 100-word announcements, 3 daily, beginning June 2. Placed by Camp bell-Ewald. Company, Detroit, Mlchl gan. WSM. A. H. Lewis Medicine Company, five one-minute electrical transcrip- tions; beginning June 2 ; June 2, 4, 5, 9 and 11. Ruthrauff & Ryan, Chi- cago, Illinois. WSM. Princess theatre, with three quar ter-hour vaudeville periods weekly, at 8 p. m. Mondays, 7:45 Wednes days, and 7:30 Fridays. WLAC. ' Jim- Reed Chevrolet Company, nightly announcements 7 p. m., fol- lowing Sports Review. WLAC. Cascade Plunge, daily announce- ments, 10:15 a. m. WLAC. . Norge Rollator Refrigerator, week ly quarter hour, 7:15 Sunday eve- ninsg. WLAC. Lovcman, Berger <£ Teitlebaum, one jif Nashvilles lar gest depart- ment stores, ]g~ using - WLAC each; month in the promotion of sales events. The plan is to literally 'sew up' the air with announcements im mediately preceding and during the -salea days. NEW YORK Modern Food Process Co. (Thrive, dog. food), starting June 11, 13 weeks, 'Dog Stories,' with Harry Swari, narrator, and Charles Sorce, tenor, Monday afternoons. Through the Clements Co., Philadelphia, WJZ. MGM STUDIOS CULVER CITY. CALIF. CHARLES CARLILE TENOR • COAST-TO-COAST CBS THE GREEK AMBASSADOR OF GOOD WILL GEORGE GIVOT CBS EVERY TUESDAY 9 P.M. Coast-to-Coast Sole Direction HERMAN BERNIE 1019 Broadway. New York FRANK PARKER GENERAL TIRES NOW ON THE COAST NBC STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD VIVIAN JANIS ST. MORITZ, NEW YORK NIGHTLY Sole Direction - HERMAN BER NIE — 1619 Broadway New York City VERNON CRAIG Baritone 7TH WEEK B&K ORIENTAL, CHICAGO NBC— WJZ, Thursday!), 8:30 P.M. CST Tuesday, June 19, 1934 RADIO VARIETY 61 Radio Chatter (Continued from page 68) cut Yankees, June 27, two nights before the Pavilion Royale opening, at Roton Point -park, South . Nor- jimmy Lunceford combo, winding tip this week at Cotton club, opens tour Sunday at Pleasure beach, Bridgeport. Fred Warlng's Fennsylvanians due June 29 at W. J. Cook's River- side park room. Springfield,. Mass. Charles Richards; has accepted a teh-week engagement with summer stock company at Sharon, Conn, Richards was with the "WTIC : Travelers Insurance Company Play- house Players. .< > Phil Becker, WTIC announcer, i has been transferred to the sales ,., department. Ozzie Schuman, trombonist of ...WTlC concert orchestra, has turned .comedian and is featured with EDITH MURRAY The Dramatist of Song STAR of RADIO, STAGE and SOBEKN Friday. 10:45 P.M.; Sunday, 2 P.M., OBS. Coast to Coast, WABO Sxolnslve Management CBS ARTISTS' BUREAU Personal Representative IRVIN Z. GRAYSON 1610 Broadway, Mew .York City Harry Tlghe and Milt Francis on their full hour WTIC Fun Parade. Benn Bonnell, WTIC, music ar- ranger, formerly of New York, is commuting: from cottage ..in Win- sted. Mu;%ay O'Neill and Ben Haw- thorne, the latter a grandson of Mark Twain, are collaborating in the building of a full hour program, being transmitted thrice Weekly from WTIC, Hartford. Florrle Bishop Bowering, WTIC domestic science expert, is operate i rig her 'Mixing Bowl* program on an independent basis* Travelilla MacNabb has been made assistant to Marjorle Water in the preparation of the WTIC, Hartford, morning program, 'Wom- en's Bazaa/.' Norman Cloutier and his Merry Madcaps orchestra, heard on a na- tional hookup through NBC for three hours a week, will be heard for five hours a week, starting next month. OBOESOE30 f red. alien's u o i HOUR OF SMILES With PORTLAND HOFFA JACK SMART IRWIN DFXMORE LIONEL STANDER MINERVA PIOUS EILEEN DOUGLAS LENNIE IIATTON'S IPANA TROUBADOURS O Material by Fred Allen and Harry^fc . . Tngend ^# Management Walter Batcnelor Wednesdays, 9-10 P. M.. D. &, T. WEAF 5 II o n LEO REISMAN PHILIP MORRIS WEAF, Tuesday, 8 P.M. BRUNSWICK RECORDS At THAVIU AND HIS ORCHESTRA "STREETS OF PARIS" Century of Progress WGN NIGHTLY Inquiries Solicited The Singing Lady 9 ' IREENE WICKER 4th Year for W. K. Kellogg Co. AH Material by Ireone Wicker Muslo by ALLAN GRANT N.B.C.— WJZ 6:30 Daily it Pennsylvania Marty Gregor and his Gay Paree band have switched from KDKA, Pittsburgh, to WWSW. Howard Price, WCAE, Pitts- burgh, tenor, had a double celebra- tion last week. Went on the NBC network day after he married,, Gene Llewelyn, WCAE staff pianist and member of So-and-So trio. Bee Jordan has replaced Alyce Martin as staff cellist at WCAE, Pittsburgh. Brldgeman Family Sextet is back on WWSW, Pittsburgh, after, a long absence. Freddy Mack for two weeks and then Paul Pendarvis on KDKA, Pittsburgh, from William Penn hotel, following Dick Fidler^ Mrs. Libby Heller back home in Pittsburgh after a Chicago visit with her son, Little Jackie Heller. There's a report about Pittsburgh that Claude Morris, former program director at KDKA, Pittsburgh, has set himself for dramatic roles at NBC. Paul Mason, ex-WCAU maestro, into Walton Roof with 16-piece band and CBS wire. Philly radioites to take an early altar march are Pete Woolery with Helen Barrett, and Don Pearson with Carlotta Dale. Quartet' are all warbling on same station. * Conrad Thibault in Philly for the golf matches. Bob Mack signing for a summer mmstrel show at the Steel Pier, Atlantic City. Larry Tate Is having manager trouble. Arthur Bryan skimming the as' phalts with a new car. Wa yne Cody in his 40th Week at WFTas the kiddies' pal. WDAS signed Florence Welner, comely 'Miss Philadelphia/ for .cosmetic show. John Crego, vet radio commercial man, has returned to WKJC, Lan caster, to take another pass at -spot announcements with 'The Old Schoolmaster and His Radio Class room.' It's an old dodge — a half hour program with assorted spon sors, but It pays its own freight and keeps the station's schedule fairly clear of spots. Viking Tenor, mystery man of WGAL, Lancaster, Pa„ continues to keep his Identity in the dark, de spite his long radio experience. Ro mantle ballads are his meat, and his audience is well filled out with ladies. He's good for a score of let- ters a week asking no more than 'Who are you?' He has a fair voice but it's the mystery business which helps him hold his 8 p. m. Spot on WGAL. WGAL's dramatic laboratory Is back on the air after a spring lay off of a couple of months. Func- tioning under title of 'Studio Play ers,' the group pulls ambitious tal ent and gives them a chance in* front of the mike in half-hour plays Leads are alternated so all get plenty of lines. CI If Grey of WGAL, Lancaster, is doing a three-way since station changed wave-length. He's handling control panel in. addition to an nouncing and Warbling. Mike ,-ln stalled in control room so he can do all three at once: Ray Harrison, community sing leader, last with the Hollywood studio of Warner Bros, again on the air at KSO, Des Moines, Iowa, heading 'Singing Under the Stars' Sunday night community sing at Sylvan theatre under sponsorship of the Ungle Baking company; KSO, Des Moines, has a new studio orchestra. Under direction of Willard Moore, formerly general musical director for A. :H. Blank theaters. Personnel Includes many formerly with the Paramount stage band, as follows: Ray Lawson, Don HOvey, Fred Llbrera, Harry Pros- perl. Porter Melton, Marlon Rice, Ernie Mitchell, Oliver Leonard and Harold Morgan. Ray Harrison, formerly with War- ner Bros.* directing the 'Singing Under the Stars/ Sylvan theatre, Greenwood park, for KSO. Gltta Gradova, guest artist, Real- silk Silken Strings program over KSO and KWCR. KSO perfected statewide organi- zation for primary election returns. Sponsored by Colonial Baking Co. George Lampman, former KSO continuity head, now manager and publicity mart for Bernie Lowe's orchestra at Terrace Park Casino, Lake Okoboji. Hal Sheridan, manager, KSO, took a big radio , show out to the hew veterans' hospital; Jas. Hanrahan and Craig Law- rence' flew to Omaha to escort Ed- ward Kobak to Des Moines, where he was guest of honor at a dinner attended by KSO and KWCR exec- Charlie Flagler, KSO, operated for throat aliment and to vacation this summer via automobile. WSUI, Iowa City, la., University ether outlet, will broadcast daily, 9, il and 2, three classroom lec- tures on the short story, music and child development. Not scheduled Saturday or Sunday. There'll be no broadcasting of Western ' league baseball • games under rules in force among the membership of the Organization Hits Davenport and Rock Island stations, tentative plans having been made to broadcast details of the games on schedule. On the Air On the Road PURE — OIL Every Saturday, 7.30 P. M. — WEAF STARRING RICHARD HIMBER AND , HIS RITZ-CARLTON ORCHESTRA With Joey Nash Iowa Tennessee Jimmie Gallagher Joins the staff of WSM, Nashville, with 13-piece band. Jimmie and his boys will be heard several times each week on dance programs and special produc- tions. Al Stanland la vocalist, while Neill Owen and Buddy Gray are novelty singers. . Peitro Breslca, formerly with KFI, Los Angeles, and Fox theatre, 'Frisco, Is arranger and violinist. Gallagher replaces Francis Craig orchestra for the summer. Lasses White has written a num- ber of parodies on popular songs among them being his 'Frankle and Johnnie/ which he has turned tato a patriotic song featuring President Roosevelt arid Vice-President Gar- ner. Lasses and Honey now at Chi cago World's Fair having a short vacation from station WSM. ; Jack Shook with WSM and sched uled five times each week, twice In solos and three times with Zeke Clements and his Broncho Bustetfs He hails from Joplln, Mo., and has been in radio a little more than Ave years. Vaudeville on the Air, now heard three times weekly over WLAC, Nashville, carries the listener back stage of the Princess theatre for IB minutes. A WLAC listener took upon him- self the task of testing the relative popularity of programs heard over this station through the placing of more than 2,000 ballots in the hands of Nashville radio owners. Results of the pool showed the Sports Re- view to lead the entire field, a fact which isn't at iJl surprising Inas- much as the Vols are. far out ahead In the Southern League pennant race. - Harold Culver has returned to the WLAC Nashville staff, appearing each morning at. 9 o'clock on a pro- gram sponsored by Sears, Roebuck & Co., singing from this store's own studios. Lasses White and Honey Wild returned to WSM, Nashville, from a trip to the Chicago World's Fair. Lasses said that the only thing he did not see while at the Chicago fair was a nudist camp. iotte Junior Chamber of Commerce, and presented Kid Elberfleld, old time baseball star, and Jake Wade, Charlotte Observer sports writer. Grady Cole, radio columnist, for WBT, Charlotte, N. C, take his politics seriously and has a hand in plaster cast to vouch for the fact. He broke It In a fistic defense of his favorite candidate In the North Carolina primaries. Sear's Sport Chat is a new pro- gram on WWNC, Asheyille, N. C, sponsored by Sears Roebuck Com- pany. It goes on each Friday at 5:46 p. m. with 16 minutes of facts about fishing,, hunting, camping, hiking and sports. The concern's sporting goods are plugged. There Is a 'best fish story' each week- Lee EVerett, program director for WBT, Charlotte, N. C, has just completed a survey modulation and intensity for the station's new 60,000-watt transmission equipment. Tests were made at various . points in ;the territory and Lee . says he knows all about back yards— where, he set up his Instruments In most instances. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Van Scplk, of Albany, Ind., are visiting Harold D. (Old Wayside) Brown, who con- ducts a variety show for shut-ins over WBT, Charlotte, N. C. Mrs. Van Scoik is Wayside's daughter. She and her husband are on their honeymoon. The father and daugh- ter had not seen each other since Mrs. Van Scoik was -a baby. WBT, Charlotte, N. C, presented the music of Tommy Tucker and his Calif orriians each night that the orchestra played for an automobile show here. John Frazee, skipper for the Early Risers club, WSOC, Charlotte, N. C, couldn't depend on alarm clocks and telephone bells . to get him to the studio at 7 o'clock a. m., so recently he's been sleeping a Iounge at the . studio. Winners In the Georgia School of the Air music contest, sponsored by the Georgian . American, Atlanta newspaper, stopped at Charlotte, N. C. f Junfe 16 for -a, program over WBT. The party was en- route for Washington and a week's stay there. The musicians and: singers were chosen from the public schools of G-eorgia. Carl Zomar, who conducts an ad vice program similar to .The Voice of Experience, has gone commer- cial on WBT, Charlotte. M. C. Cleln. company, Atlanta, Ga., signed him for a series plugging Papodine, a stomach remedy. Crazy Crystal company of the Carolinas, using a two-and-a-half hour Saturday night barn dance has cut this to a one-hour- show f° r the summer months arid has rented a local auditorium in which to originate the program -for WBT, Lightning struck the antenna at the transmission plant of WBT dur- ing a furious electrical storm, re cently, smashing the Insulation- and letting the antenna fall to the ground. clnnati, had to find a blind person to read a fan letter written in braille. Arthur Church, mgr. of KMBC, Kansas CJity, put in a day at WCKY, Cincinnati, last week with Li B. Wilson, prez. Jack Berch and Joe Emerson, plugging . Fels soaps and Mueller macaroni via the 'nation's star tioh,' Cincinnati, to entertain at grocers' outing' in Olentangy Park, Columbus, O., June 27. Ethel Ponce, harmonizing with sister, Dorothea, on WLW, Cincin- nati; tickeled with word that Fred Waring will soon air her novelty tune, 'Wrestling with Rosie.' Th. Pehnsylvanians* pilot . was among the first to use Ethel's 'Holiday' number. Dixie Dale reindigoing at WOKT, Cincinnati, following Southern tour of one-nightersi with Ralph Ben- nett and His 11 Aces. Wanda Ed- wards, styled the 'So-Tired Song- bird/ is warbling blues on the same station. Alabama North Carolina T. B. Laney, Monroe, N. C, news- uaper^^an.^pisss^^ Wingate college quartet, M e l° d y Mates, is booking the group for a full show of music and comedy In their homo state, The group, com- posed of M. S. Morgan, A, B. Mc- Crosky, W. L. Cates and W. H. Redwine, made its debut over WBT, Charlotte, N. C, some time ago; Charles Crutch/Held, announcer for WBT, Charlotte, N. C:, has gone to Spartanburg, S. C, on bis vaca- tion. John Frazee, sportscaster for WSQC, Charlotte, N. C, had charge of the weekly program for the Char- ' Empire and Paramount theatres, owned by R. B. Wilby, advertising on WSFA. Walter Graham, from WSFA, Montgomery, making good With Columbus, Georgia, station. Political . campaign in this state brought nice business to all radio stations, Montgomery owners re- porting the best business along this line since the station was opened. Vernon Cox, Who has done quite a bit of radio work for Montgomery station has resigned. Howard Pill, one of the v owners of the Montgomery station a few years ago, was sports editor of the Montgomery Advertiser. Meader Lowery, former Chief an- nouncer at the Montgomery station, with local automobile dealer ad salesman. EDDIE The Instrumental Stylist Now Playing RO XY NEW YORK very Saturday 7:30-8:00 P.M. WJEAF-NBO Network pure on. PROGRAM Personal Direction HAROLD XV KEMP NBC Artist* Servloe Always a Little Ahead- of the Rest THE LERS For FurthM Intoriiatl.M; HAROLD KEMP, NBC Artltt Burto Poraonal Olrwtloa, CHARLES A. BAY MA COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM Present* LEON Ohio Nick floss, jr., son of Hink of the Hink and Dink blackface team on WLW, Cihcy, under the eyes of big league scouts for his first basing with Miami University team ' in Buckeye Conference. Margaret Carlisle, sopranoing on Crosley's 600.000-watt WLW, Cln- BE LAS CO MOM., FBI., WABC, 12 MIDN1TB Coast-to-Coast St. Moritz Hotel, Sole Direction HERMAN BERN IB 1610 Broadway. Mew. York ° HAROLD STOKES Directing Climalene and Palmer House NBC, CHICAGO EMERSON GILL ORCHESTRA EN ROUTE MCA DIRECTION STUDEBAKER PRESENTS THE CHAMPIONS WITH RICHARD HIMBER AND HIS RITZ-CARLTON ORCHESTRA With Joey Nash WABC COAST TO COAST— TUESDAY, 9.30 P. M. 62 Mtl«IC~R/tDIO Tuesday* June 19, 1?34 OUTLAW Inside Stuff-Radio OgdemReld, editor of the New York Herald Tribune, generally regarded as the leading Republican daily in the United States, has refused to submit any facts or proof to the Federal Radio Commission which 'requested' such evidence following a Herald Trib editorial that the Democratic, administration has converted the radio into an organ of propaganda for the NRA and that the licensing power held over stations has, in effect, been used as a weapon to suppress antl-NRA comment. Simultaneously with the publication on page one of Monday's (18) Herald Tribune of Reid's letter refusing to furnish facts; the paper, also on page one, began the first of four articles attacking the workings of the FRC and the set-up of the new communications commission. Chicago Tribune, also Republican, has also been lambasting the FRC, Some months , ago the NRA threatened to embroil the entire broad- casting-advertising business In a quarrel with the Federal; government Most of the maneuvering on both sides never came out. That a group of big industrialists and. financiers were putting NBC and CBS in an embarrassing position was undeniable, through the possibility of the net- works having, in a pitched battle, to choose between the government, with its licensing power, and the radio advertisers, with their big budgets. It gave some of the- more imaginative radio executives cold chills. WMCA and WNEW, both in New Yorkp^are by way of being rivals. The latter station, since going on the air some months ago, is competing for about the same type of aeooUnts that WMCA. goes after. In this connection a girl assistant to an official at WNEW found herself unwit tingly the cause of a half-serious protest from George Storer, WMCA head, to Milton Blow, WNEW boss. Through, the innocent agency of a friend the girl, Betty Glenn, was Offered and accepted a better job at WMCA than she had at WNEW. Former station denied any raiding of personnel, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first notable to use WGAL's hew crystal microphone. When the President stopped in Lancaster after hid Memorial Day address in- Gettysburg, staff men of the Lancaster station battled Secret Service men for the right to board the train and pick: up the address.' It was a short argument, with the radio boys coming but on top. , _ . " Broadcast was handled by Eddie Gundaker, Posey and John Bowers. " $1,000, $2,000 Fines on Plujr Payoffs and Free Arrange- ments — Agreement Ban- ishes Employee Violators — FTC's Investigation Brings Matter to Head SINGLE OPPOSITION Teeth in Alleys Anti-Bribery Pact (This {a the verbatim pledge which music, publishers agreed to sign, in a concerted move . to eliminate all Tin Pan Alley subsidization.) Music industry ..last week took a stiff swipe at the free special ar rangements and plug - payoff evils by adopting a pact with plenty of teeth in it. For the first time In the history of the business, the music men have set put to enforce sup pression of these practices through the tipoff and arbitrary fine sys items. When arid If found guilty, a pubr Usher, under this pact, will be pe- nalized $1,000 for the. first offense and $2,000 for .the second, with the fine money collectible from his roy- alty divvies in the American So- ciety of. Composers, Authors and Publishers. Pledge further agrees that the. informers of such viola- tions will receive a third of the fines imposed. With few exceptions the promul- CKY, Winnipeg, earned ill will, by a recent mystifying stunt. Couple gatlon of the anti-bribery and free of weeks ago there, appeared in the local dailies an ad calling for tenders arrangements agreement got an- eri- for 'a new Radio Transmitting Station at the Manitoba Agricultural thusiastic reception from the trade. College rounds, Winnipeg, for the Manitoba Telephone System.'. The By the end of last week the ma- name Of John EL Lowry, commissioner of 'phones, appeared at the bot- jority of the leading publishers had torn of the ad. Tenders were to be received until last Thursday (1.4), put their signatures to the pact, and then, it was said, someone would receive .a nice fat contract for Only One publisher had declared about $100,000 worth of construction work, for the new 15,000- watt trans- himself as opposed to committing mltter of CKY. ~' I himself, on paper, and that is Joel Came the day for opening of tenders. Lowry was out of town so it Davis. Whether Jack Robbiris will J was postponed to Friday (15). He arrived and told /the newspapers, who become a subscriber is problematl- =had been giving CKT- good news space for a couple, of weeks on the report cal. His general manager, that CKY would be the most powerful station in Canada, that it's: all Bregman/ has forwarded a copy of off Lowry got quite peeved at the idea that lie had anything to do with the pledge to Robblns, sojourning I the calling of tenders, etc' Says that reports they were planning new temporarily on the Coast, transmitter in the immediate future Were all wrong, v - " Bregman last Friday (15) voiced 'It may come in the near future/ he says, 'but nothing has been decided the opinion that he would prefer to officially. The information was never given out through bur department' wait until he saw how the agree- Lowry. however, did not deny that he had issued instruction for news- ment worked out before committing paper ad calling for tenders, but said that' Alex. Melville, architect, was the ROhbins Music Corp. to the the man who had called for tenders. 'He might have been partially covenant. ; His firm, averred Breg- instructed by me,' Lowry admitted feebly, man, had for six months maintained The architect was the lad who tipped 'off the newspapers a couple of a firm resistance to the free special •We, the undersigned, in consideration of the needs of the industry of Which we are. a part and which we hereby acknowledge, and in consideration of similar promises arid, agreements arid pledges being made by other members of the same industry, do hereby for our- selves pledge and agree as follows: 'We will not on and after 6 p. m, of .the 11th day of June, 1934 pay, give, furnish, bestow, directly or indirectly, or in any other manner present to any performer, singer, musician, arranger, or orchestra leader, employed by another, or to their' agents or repre- sentatives/any sum of money, gift* bonus, refund,- cut-ins, rebate, royalty, service, favor, or any other thing or act of value in Order to induce such person to sing, play, or perform, or to have sung, played, or performed any works published, copyrights or owned by us, directly or indirectly. 'We further pledge ourselves and agreed hot to furnish any special arrangements to any performer, singer, musician, or orchestra leader, or to anyone designated by, representing or associated with the same, nor shall we make any such special arrangements, nor shall we pay 'directly or Indirectly to such performer, singer, ar- ranger,, musician, or orchestra leader, nor to his agents or repre- sentatives, nor. to anyone designated by him Or eiriployed directly or indirectly by hlin for the making of such special arrangements, nor shall we extract parts or otherwise copy such special arrange- ments if made, either in whole or in part, for ariy performer, singer, musician, or orchestra leader, or for their agents or representatives, or pay for such extractions or copies. But nothing herein contained shall be deemed to limit the right to transpose any vocal arrange- ment of a musical composition from one key to another. 'We further pledge and agree' not to attempt in any manner or form to evade the provisions o? the pledge ahd agreements herein- above expressed, nor to use any subterfuge Of any kind or descrip- tion to subvert e'.ther the letter or the spirit of the above agreement. 'In order to make effective this pledge and agreement we hereby appoint John G. Paine our representative with full authority to investigate any violations or alleged violations of this pledge or agreement, and instruct him to appoint any judge or ex-judge of the Supreme Court, or of any lower oourt in the State of New York or the City of New York who may be approved by the New York City Bar Association. The said John G. Paine shall thereupon lay. before such appointee all evidence which he may - then have in his possession and shall proceed to gather such other .evidence as in the • discretion of the said judge may be necessary, and the said judge when appointed shall have the sole authority to punish any viola-- tions of this pledge or this agreement. And the isaid judge shall, upon any finding of guilt, Impose a fine of $1,000' for the first viola-" tlon of the pledge or agreement aforesaid, arid of $2,000 for each' additional violation thereof, and we agree that' there shall be no 1 appeal from the decision of the said judge. 'In order to assure the payment of any such fine imposed or as- sessed, we further agree to and do hereby assign to the said John G. Paine any payments that may be due to us from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, or from the use of our music in synchronism or timed- relation with motion pictures, or from the use of bur music in . connection with electrical transcrip- tions, up to the amount of-ihe fine. We agree that the disposition of all fines assessed and collected shall be as follows: One-third to the person or persons furnishing the inforriiatlon upon which the conviction of violation has been based, arid the balance to be paid into the treasury of the Music Publishers' Protective Association to defray the expense of any administration, investigation, or ad- judication arising out of this pledge.' as mon^s-ag^ellmg^hemlt was .straight' and that they should give it [ J™^^ ™»f> \ an Thad only I of the mualc industry, which in- big play- ♦^vioro fnr th« ir»K with accompanying yielded when the company found its ciuded the MPPA, the Music Deal All firms ^^^^tJ^JjLgy che^W bS in new releases being frozen off the ers Service, Inc., and ASCAP, had cheques for five per cent, of their estimates, got the cheques back ini ^ that mo£jt o£ the pub - unea rthed the fact that the same their mail Saturday Ushers are faced with, depleted re- group of men were dominating the . . .... serves, said Bregman, they are trade's activities as directors of Most Unusual pub and ad backing up of a commercial radio artist ^ is ru8nln g into the non-free special each of the three organizations, the Hearns department store in New York devoting a sizeable portion arrangements compact. If after a K i e i n declared that . the commls- of its daily display .ads, to Harry Hershfleld whom Hearns has signatured wnile the pledge idea prOVes to be slon had recently received com for a thrice weekly radio spiel on WOR. These highlight spot ads. on the McCoy> and the trade as a p i a ints of an informal nature to the the raaio humorist probably are the largest yet accorded an ether artist, : whole abides by.it, added Bregman, effect that bribery was rampant in ' " Odd part "of Hearns bally; Is that Hershfleld, while continuing via WOR, he wou y d urge that- the RobbiriS t ht music "industry. 'In light of first built his radio rep on that station as a sustaining artist and station I concern become a co-signer ? 1 everything else as found about the Is owned by a department store, Bamberger's, Newark, which operates Declaration against any form of music business -by the commission,' WOR. plug bribery and the penalty sys- Paine quote a Klein as remarklrig, tern contrived for the enforcement. but that as he to the blue (WJZ) loop. fam re citing its terms w a« aj: (Kle , n) aw j^.co-pperatioji meant Compared to May, 1933, the red link figures represents a boost of 75.8% dressed to some 50 Jaiidm^n^of. ma- j h ic lndustry WO uld have while the upward margin for the bUoe^rie: to jor to do something ^or itself. indication of public's acceptance Of radio as a= news medium ^ the ^e suppr^ growing number of tips phoned into Coast stations by listeners. kl ndred forms of bribery wUl secve indust ^ Crash of a plane near Los Angeles is cited as. an instance. Only a to curb a ^ u J^» * h ^ r Jf™ un - tll the roof came crashing down few mfnutes after the plane fell in a hillside residence section a woman J^lon J^^^^^Jf on - ltf and clean house immediately, eye-witness phoned KNX. Station had reporter on the spot immediately or ^5^^^^^^ hi. Kleln resulted in and complete story was on the air shortly after. DANCERS At the Stevens, Chicago, World's Greatest Hotel, for the Summer "Artists of the dance in every sense of the Word."— Ncio Orleans. '"' "The last word in grace, beauty and rhythm."— Detroit. "Dancers superb and supreme." , -^I/0«d6n. •'Fascinating, .marvelous, as a dancing team.: -^Paris. "The virtuosos of' the = dance."— 'pertin.- to take jobs paying considerably the calling of a meeting of the pub- under union scale. These same lead- lishlng trade, and It was at this ers affirmed that the plug end of meeting, Tuesday (12), that the pact the business will be returned to the as contained in an adjoining box basis it belongs, and that a number was unanimously approved, .will ..belAacep.te.cLonly, because.. of its. L ...-Publishers who made f ree-si>eclal- musical worth and its fitness for the arrangements commitments prior to particular band's standing and the meeting date are permitted to Style. go through with them. It was stip FTC's Investigation ulated, however, that lists of these What brought the payoff and free commitments be filed "with Paine special arrangements to a head, ex- and that payment to orchestra plained John G. Paine, chairman of headers or singers for such arrange the Musie Publishers Protective As- ] ments be made through the chair sociation, was . a conversation he had I man of the MPPA . board. . with C. E. Klein, New York rep for Another drastic .angle ,of the the Federal Trade Commission/ pledge is the provision that -de Klein, said Palne, had Informed him mands the arbitrary .dismissal of , a that the FTC, in Its investigation- 1 publisher's employee, .who, on;. his own, attempts to anything that would constitute a violation of the terms of the anti-bribery agreement. This proviso also declares that it an employee, is. found . guilty his punishment is. to be made a mattejr of public record, and that the pen- alty would be respected by every publisher . signing the pledge, even though the punishment should con- sists merely of his discharge. Im? plication is that" the employee is ti» considered as banned from the .in- dustry. Included in the province of the pledge are. special arrangements made for vocal quartets or trios. Publishers are. .also barred from making extractiqiis gratis, Trans- positions, however, are okay. Publishers look to broadcasters ,tO support them in their move agams.t performancer payoff, and free special arrangements. In the rules of both the National Association of Broad* casters and the radio Industry's code, there is a provision prohibit- ing the employment of leaders and other entertainers who accept gra- tuities for song performances from publishers. Life of Jack Robbins , . ■■-•-^^H 0ll y WTO a,-June^%— Jerry Wald .la, writing a story tiased on the lite of Jack Robbins for Warners. With Warren William in mind to emote Robblns, Wald is building a yarn that encompasses the history of Tin Pan Alley and the music halls for 25 years. Jimmy Lunceford^ now booked by Harold Oxley. Tuesday, Juiie 19, 1934 MUSIC— NITE CLUBS VARIETY 63 IATSE NIGHT CLUB CAMPAIGN NEW CONTRACT New form of contract between the American Society of Composers, Authors Publishers and its members has been ratified by the ASCAP board of directors. Re- vised agreement is dated to run for 10 years beyond the expiration of the present contract, Dec. 31, 1936. New membership contracts are ex- pected to be in the hands of the {■Society's .members by the end of June. Among .the ASCAP directors who did not attend the ratification meet- ing-was Saul Bornstein, of Irving Berlin, Inc., who jis strongly opposed to the new contract's provisions. R H. (Buddy) Morris, representing Witmark and Remick, was present, but declined to commit; himself for the Warner Bros, publishing group. PLAN 140-PIECE ORCH FOR CLEVELAND SPOT . Cleveland, June 18. Max Faetkenheuer, opera backer, theatre builder and former man- ager for Max Reinhardt, is coming out of a retirement of a dozen years to launch a 140-piece symphony- vocal orchestra in a series of butr door musicals at Wlldwood. Experiment to consist of 75 mu- sicians and 65 vocalists in split- week programs of . opera and. class- ical music, at a 60-ceht top, with Carl Peroni as conductor. Faetkenheuer, .. who managed stock at the. old Euclid and Halt- north Gardens some years ago, was first to take Caruso on tour. He is now associated with Harley L. Clarke, , utilities magnate, handling the Shakespearean society and opera for Clarke in Chicago. London Disc Companies Ask Capital Reduction London, June 10. The High Court here has been asked to sanction the reduction of ' capital of Electrical and Musical Industries, Inc., the Columbia Gram ophone Company, Ltd., and the Gramophone Company, Ltd. The amount of the proposed reduction is over $3,600,000, with this to be ef fected by cancelling that amount of )6 ordinary shares. Electrical and Musical Industries, Ltd., recently entered into. 'an alli- ance with Marconi Company for a ...^huge development, scheme in; per fecting television apparatus. Meye r Davis and Sanford Together in Westchester Meyer Davis, who is in with Bobby Sanford on his Hudson River Day Line show boat, will- operate the Westchester County Centre;, for trier Civic Auditorium, White Plains N. Y. Davis will install one of his band units in the converted outdoor beer garden and Sanford may put on. a small floor show. Davis and Sanford may also be in .on the Sam Salvin-Irving Sher man Sun and Surf club, I bea^ *» ln *the year and liked, although curtain ^ as usual. But it wasn t Tok audiences have seen better the right answer. Still they pelted Nu mbers seem a little stiff along, to the relief of the whers. an(J would be i mpr0 ved If re-rou- who were able to temper the break. , d tQ cut ou ^ a ll unnecessary run Trouble is that it is '.t h f/J e \ n °i nine around. duologues between Timberg and • various girls^ Along, about the third he should have changed pace, but he. rode along, making a" hole that needs plugging badly* Timberg is funny, and he is will- ing to share his time with his stooges, but there's still a chance pratfall is nothing but a stage movement, not a sure-fire bit of business. And since this team has a repertoire which consists largely of sitting down suddenly and often, it is just too had. , Dora Tanova, Attillo Morelli and Nicolas Knlazeff are also suspected . m . ... „ of having tried to be funny, but Worst drop comes in the Hotel | there , s n * direct evidence, unless you count the dancing : . sbra, which the Japanese have, done for years and done much better. Miss Yanova arid Kniazeft alsd ; combine in Po-. TED FIO-RITO BAND New Acts DANCE CYCLES Oanoing Flash , 11 Mint.; Full (Special) Orphoum, N. Y. Fast little dance flash in. which the hoofing has nothing in the way of dressing up, but in itself has the punch to get by adequately without it. No song bits, no primaa, no talk, nothing but straight routines, in which the toes and heels go to work with a vengeance, No stalling at any point, either, no bowing to slow proceedings up, nothing, in fact, to detract from a solid 11 min- utes of snappy dancing. Two men in French soldiers' uni- forms arid two women open things smartly, splitting, later into teams, then reuniting for a challenge at the finish. In between a fifth member, ah acrobatic single, is seen in two specialties. First is an acrobatic dance, ' the second a straight! 'un- adulterated exhibition of tumbling except for a couple rolling splits, and both good. Next to closing, here when Caught, with Al Trahan ending up the bill — an odd spot for both the flash and Trahan. Char. " 'ffiiesday, June Ifr, 1934 Cashier Gets $2,750 Schenectady, June 18. Marie Irene Grace, former cashier at the RKO Proctor here, who sued the corporation in Supreme Court for $75,000, charging slander, waa awarded a verdict of $2,750 by a jury. Miss Grace contended that she had been publicly accused of theft and; discharged from her posi- tion as cashier. She claimed her reputation had been ruined and her chances . of securing other ' employ- ment damaged. RKO. denied that, she had been discharged as a result of an alleged shortage of $20, over which all. the- trouble hinged. ' They also denied she had been accused, either public- ly or privately, of any theft of the money, Company also claimed sh had - been offered another position with the company at- the same sal- ary. RODNEY and GOULD Comedy, Dancing 9 Mihs.; Qne Qrpheum, N. Y. Two men in brown derbies, one much taller than, the other, and. both (PARAMOUNT, L. A.) . Los Angeles, June 14. Unquestionably the Coast's ace band for ballroom or radio, Ted Fio- they'll grow tired of brie pattern I ri to and his 17-piece combo, on their after the , half hour. - second .stage appearance in about a Best line number is the opener, a year, are still {«*£ne i [ n t^»Jg»- u, r 10 wiric whA in th'o Vort of tlals to, make them an outstanding l l *l s ™,f a „3mium on name draw for Picture . houses. In- ?hf S row seats discard long : auguratinff a Pacific Coast and mid- n W n« at all Strlkinf -west, tour -here -today, under, auspices skirts for uone at aii._ st^ riking th ^ Mus j c , corporation of .America number, and well done but it does- ^ ' ^ Qhon ^ $ for the slopet ■tf 1 ^J^^J^lrSr-n!L with. RKO bookings, to follow, band, doing gawks. ... They .deal out enter w ? 0 Jf°J s L m m J ?5££ Lnw^ while clicking on individual talent, tainment that assays No. 2 Value, might better have been employed to ^ oe8 not stack up m showmanship but up here were third on an oddly- break the long routine which tol- wm SO me of the other musical out-, arranged bill t and Saturday after lows. Second line is also a tap, fltg ^1^. have playe< j ^ roU nd here noon hit nicely. longj and then they're in the. Hotel U m Internationale and^on for the j^Jv to be done. - Particularly is this true fl0 or and some acrobatics- to top, ish;. a golf dance by Timberg ( and; of the tempo,. Which, on initial un- m ° ake U p the rest of the routine his son, Herman, Jr. It is finished I foldingr today, seemed much more | Clia work but rather too slow for a finale gaited for dancing than for delihea- nUmber, and the show is over be- 1 tion/'to" a see ' and hear " audihece . . „ ._ v fore anyone realizes that it's the giu ed to theatre seats.' JIMMY SHAFER and GIRLS (2) blowoff. Speed is needed here. ■ Routining is bad. and mpre atteh-1 Xylophones Timberg V has a fine feeder in t i 0 n will have to be paid to stage 7 Mins.; Two Audrey Parker, and they Work to- delivery, if unit expects to register Academy, . New York gether smoothly, to bring a change., after leaving the .California key Shafer and his girl assistants are from the stooges, but she is not on spots where - it - is so heavily en- a carload of personality. The'xylo- enough. There's a Japanese 1 girl, trenched. Once these angles have phone stuff Is minor compared to Toya. Sasabe, who should not be been ironed out, the Flo-Rita- outfit Who s.a. the trio radiate collectively, permitted to sing. Don Tannen. does should 'have little trouble clicking one's an energetic brunet, other a so well with a few bits, that the | for solid wallops. placid blonde. Th«.y contrast smart- Opening has the band playing an ly and effectively, working for the introduction, partially concealed by mQ st time side by side, an ornamental ' Bcrim which, when ^ v „ lrta • ,, f K c hafo . „ toC cMtte B . This coma be- dope | movable pljtform. are^otte^ Fto- V^all a*^^! audience could stand more on the | tines of his Arliss imitation.' ■JPimberg has a show here, with plenty of comedy and flash, but it | heeds to be broken up more with Europe or U. S. A. SHE'S BOX OFFICE t GENE DENNIS "the World. Famous Psychic" Opened April 20, rnllndliint, London: AND HELD OVER Now Booked 20 Weeks in Ensrllnh rtovliices Direction MILES INOALI-S CURTIS & ; AELEN OlfEICE RKO Dldsr., Kockefeller Center without adding to the entourage by Rito m. varying the acts, through the. simple does a piano solo half-way through prooess of. developing the specialty that Is expert. . and Cutting out the talk. Miss Debutantes (three femme harrhon- Parker. might be run in for a Song ists) are utilized to vocalize 'Nasty routine, with the tap dancer also Man,' and then Ray Hendricks war- getting a spot between two conver- bles 'Moonlight Madonna,' uncork-, sations. and another spot for Tan- ing a pleasing voice, but .beat suited nen. It would materially smarten for radio. He follows. with '1 11 String | the routine without adding to the Along With You/ both numbers be - overhead, lighting and trio all in white, which is okay, but a more dressy setting would enhance. Shan. PAULINE COOKE 1074 BROADWAY BOB RIPA Now (This Week, June 15) PALACE, CHICAGO COOKE A O. L. OZ expense. Chic, INT'L ALL-STAR SHOW ing nicely rendered* Debutantes and Muzzy Marcellirto do a comedy number, -'The Crass- hopper and the Three Ants," which is good for. laughs, and then band is Tokyo, May 31. I sent into a medly of pop tunes with This is a unit thrown together Hendricks -warbling, and individual hastily in Shanghai by an adagio bandmen getting a chance to reveal dancer, allowed to cool off in the their solo ability. Imperial hotel for three weeks by Band next plays 'What's Good for four agents and a couple of pro- the Goose,* after which Pio-Rito moters, and then tossed at the does his piano routine. A Carioca, Tokyo public as a 'show.' There is with Marcellino and the Debs feat double irony in that, first, because ured, is cleverly done, the Marcus Show was the first Fio-Rito. next Introduces June show' the Japanese ever . saw and Mario w, hew addition to the combo, they took the word into the lan- who does a torch number that is guage when it clicked; second, be- particularly well rendered. Gal, , a cause the current attraction -isn't platinum blonde with a deep, husky much of a show after all. Opened voice, reveals possibilities, and. if May 27 for three weeks— maybe, properly handled, ought to get During the 80-minute. yawn 11 places. persons do 17 scenes, 15 of which 1^ After a routine by a qumtet from are dances. Except for the finale, the band, Candy, of ^andy and Coco in which the whole Crowd, bumps ?ets busy and for the next 10 or 15 foreheads in what is supposed to be m ^ u ^PJ° ce « d ,f n ^:£° fl p U £„ w gg a Carioca, there are never more his . vl comedy 4 delineations, and his than three performers on the big ?ouble ,^ i ^ple vo^ sin^ng ^d Marcus Loew ARENA and Broadway's Latest •Sensational Ballroom Dancers — Recently completed a very suc - ce/ssful engagement at Radio City Music ' Hall, iS T «w' York. Exclusive ,Munugcinent B. Bernaidi, 85 -Rixrerside Dr. Now York— ICn. a-SSJi General Executive Offices LOEW BUI1DINC AN N E X ISO WEST 46* BRyant 9-7800 NEW YORK CITY 1 stage at any one time. Sets are provided for only three numbers, all the rest alternating between a sil- ver drop in one and a black drop in- about twO.-and'-a-half. In other words, just a talent pitchforked into. a loose va riety show without the slightest re gard for what makes entertainment Lots of dancing, but most of it is just dancing. Foreign specialty peo^ pie generally stand out in the Orient because the Japanese can do so little individually. But this crowd has an assortment of mild tricks which the Japanese can do better. Best of the crowd is the team of Dorothy Kilgore and Vicky Lauren, beautifully costumed and well rou- tined. But their stuff is just run of the mine floor show material, all pleasant and decorative, but without ^rral'BOclcr^Miss^Kilgore-takes-t-wo^ solos and Miss Lauren one and they are together twice, once in a Har- lem strut and once in a so-called Javanese dance which doesn't jell. Gladys Verney does the only sing- ing, which is jiist as well.- Comedy burden falls on the Aus- tralian trio of Mae Bairfl. Archie Thompson and Harry Simmons. Trouping visitors to these shores may eventually become convinced Mi.it th'o Japanese can see nothing Cunny in a sudden descent uooh the pygal ponderosities. To them, ft talking. Closing has band doing 'The Big, Bad Wolf - Is Dead,' with. | vocalists all participating. Screen -feature, 'Here Comes the | Groom' (Par), augmented by News, flnr.ii- of I sportlight, cartoon and a colored hock 01 1 scenIC( 'wonderland of California.' Trade not so. forte a.t opening to- day, lower floor just, about filled, with small sprinkling above. Edwa. Radio Act Tours N. W. Seattle, June 18. Gilmore Circus, from, radio, booked by.Keighley & Roscoe for; the Hamrick string in Northwest. Open in Tacoma for five days, June 23, at • Music Box; week 29th in I Portland: week 7th at Music Hall, In Seattle- - ^ — v^^,^. Ted Fio Rita band at Music Hall opening July 14, for one week. H. LUBIN OBNERAL MANAGES MARVIN H. SCHENCK BOOKING HANAHBB B. & J. Brown Split Betty and Jerry Brown were di- vorced • in Chicago last week in , a suit brought by the former. She charged desertion, •The Browns married nine years ago. Until their recent separation they were a standard vaude team during that- entire period. AND THEIR CARIOCA-RHUMBA ORCHESTRA PLAYING LOEWS STATE, New York This Week (June 15) PARADISE, New York Next Wejek (June 22) : : IHrertioh HARRY ftOMRf, Tariiihbiint tttil(dln(t Tuesday, June 19» 1934 VARIETY 67 Variety Bills NEXT WEEK (June 22) THIS WEEK (June 15) Numerals in conriection. with bills below indicate opening day ot show, whether full or split week Week of June 18 NEW YORK CITY Palace <22) Herman . Timberg (IB) Steve EvanB Jarret & Holm Marty May Artier & Bradford. (One to All) Academy let half (22-25) Johnny Pnstlne Rv Bolco & Marsh Tito Gulzar Carl Shaw Jack Pepper 2d half .(20-28) 4 Oyrals Roy Rogers Bar! La Vere D & Bar stow Harry Howard Co 2d half (19-21) Zelcla Bros I & N Steevens Bouthernalres • Zalftya Rita Delano BROOKLYN Albee (22) 6 Elglns F & J Hubert Elton Rich: Co CHICAGO Palace (22) Wilbur Hall Lorotta Dennlgon Chaney & Fox Lupe Velez Murr'y & Ch'rl'st'n tidw Kearn (15) Edna Sedgwick Bob Rlpa . '• Murr'y & Ch'rl'st'n Ben Bernle Bd DETROIT Fox (22) Edna Sedgwick lien Bernle Bd ■<16) Anette Ames Rose & Edwards J & E Torrence Alex Morrison NEWARK Proctor's (22) 3 Whippets Helen Honan Jack Whiting Garner Wo'f & H Lee & Rafferty Rv NEW HR'NSWICK Keith's BUFFALO Buffalo (28) Betty Kean . Oracle Barrle Pappy Zeke. & B Lowe. Burnoff & W CHICAGO Chicago (22) Popeyo Diifftn & Draper ' Wamp'a Baby Stars (15) Molly Picon Peggy Taylor Dorlng Sis Stanley Morner Berry Bros Marbro (15) Merry : Ma.c's " Bellett & Lamb Roy ' S.meck The DuPonts 4% Arleys Oriental (15) Betty Boop Collins & Peterson Olvlda Perez. Edgar Bergen Co Hayes Halg & H Lou Duthers Carroll Sis Ted Cook Vernon Craig Regan (22) Lamb & Bellet DETROIT Michigan (22) Cab Calloway Bd BRADFORD Albambra 'Hutch* Full Variety Co EDINBOBG Regent . 1st half (18r20) Co. aB. booked , 2nd half (21-23) Horsburgh Bros. Co. as booked. LEITH Capitol 1st half (18-20) Horsburgh Bros. Co. as booked. 2nd half (21-23) Co. as booked.' MANCHESTER Palace Mills Bros Chevalier Bros Clair Rowe & Clair Low & Webster Shaw & Weston Co as booked NOTTINGHAM Empire L Armstrong Bd Geraldlne & Joe Power & Page Jack Wynne Co Delfont & Toko David Poole Jack Le Dalr Stanford & Taylor SHEFFIELD Empire Jack Hylton Bd Co as booked Waldorf-Astoria Guy Lombardo Ore Zlto's Ore Westchester Club I Fray & Braglottl I Arthur Brown Wlvel Cafe Amy Atlnsan Jack Wick Lillian Lorraine Ami Pdvo Maldle Du Fresne La Salle Orch Zelll's Bob Grant Ore Godoy Bd Milton Douglas Gloria Grafton IMOSS FAVORS A UNIFORM CHICAGO Cabarets NEW YORK CITY Warner PARAMOUNT, NEW YORK ALLEN and KENT AND FOX'S BROOKLYN AL VERDI TYLER MASON Placed by LEDDY & SMITH ELIZABETH Rltz _ 1st half (16-19) 3 Jackson Bros Kirk & Lawrence Daphne Pollard Bob Hall Cocktail Rev PHILADELPHIA Earle (22) | Wesley Eddy Sibyl Bowan (Others to fill) (15) Wosley Eddy Sims & Bailey Bobby Gilbert . Muriel Gardner Frank Conyille WASHINGTON Earle (22) Words St Music (16) 3 Cossacks Pat Kennedy Hollywood Rev Fred Sanborn Owen McGlveney Independent Jack Whiting Hal Sherman Nltza Vcrnllle Co (16) Gyrals Steve Evans Jarrett & Holm Lewis St Ames Louise. Gay Co Tllyou let half (23-24) Cargo of Dance (Two to fill) 1st half (16-17) Willie Mail sb Jordan & Lee - Raynor Lehr Brltt Wood 1st half (23-24) .Dixie Land Mine 1st half (16-17) Henry Santrey Bd TRENTON Capitol 1st half (22-25) Mona & Marino Mlchon Bros Nelson's Elephants (One to nil) 1st half (15-18) 5 Saltles 4 Pennys Clifford & Marlon Ramos & America! . 2d half (19-21) Henry Santrey Bd CHICAGO State Lake (17) Aubrey Wycoff Fields & Georgle Pablo I Harlem Scandals LOS ANGELES Orpheum (IS) 3 Headleys George Greene Max '. Lerner 3 Fonzels Ted Leary Ourlole Craven More to come ? Angeles 3 Fanchon & Marco Loew I NEW YORK CITY Boxy (22) I Betty Jane Cooper Lathrop Bros Rose Sis 1 Arkansas Travelers Eddie Peabody Mills & Shea Bill Thorn LOS ANGELES Paramount (14) | Ted; Flo Rlto PHILADELPHIA Fox (22) Samuel Bros Harriet ' Hayes Madeline White Serge Flash Roxy Ens De Pace SAN FRANCISCO Orpheum (21) H'ppy-Go-Lucky Co (14) Student Prince NEW YORK CITY Capitol (22) Jane Frbhman Will Mahoney Radio Rogues Boulevard 1st half (22-26) 8 DcLong Sis Helen Honan Co Frances & Wally Bob Hall Gulran & Marg Rev 2d hRlf <26-28> Kam Tal 3 4 Step Bros Stratford & M'yb'ry Billy Glason Pent House Rev Orpheum . 1st halt (22-26) Mlacahua Brent & Kay Howard Marsh Co Leo Carlllo Verna Haworth Co 2d half (26-28) Tito Gulzar Herbert Faye Co Al' Norman George Glvot Joe Venutl Ore Valencia (22) Abe Lyman. Ore . Vllma & B Ebsen Eleanor Powell Gene Marvey Ella Logan BALTIMORE Century (22) Enrico & Nov'ilo CO Ann . Qrcenway .Toe Morris Co Lewis & Moore Brltton Ore BOSTON Orpheum (22) Cortelll's Stars Zlngonl Nord & Jeannle Bob Murphy Dorothy Martin Co (One to fill) CLEVELAND Loow's (22) Phil Spitdlny Ore London Week of June 18 OFFICIAL DENTIST TO THE N. V. A. DR. JULIAN SI EG EL PARAMOUNT BUILDING This Week: Cliff Edwards; Louis Shan' Bob Hall Colleano Farri (One to AH) Paradise (22) Lee, Rafferty Co - Gertrude Nlessen Carr «; Martin Rimnca . .State (22) A Cards Vox & Walters Alcx'nder Santos Co Saxon Sis Barney Ross BROOKLYN . Gates Ave 1st . half (22-26) Kam Tal 3 A Step Bros Str'tf'rd & M'yberry Bob Carney Co Pent House Revels . 2d half (26-28) 8 DeLong Sis Helen Honan Co Frances & Wally Leo Carlllo Gulran & Marg Rev Metropolitan (22) J & C Leo JERSEY CITY Locw's (22) Loyals Dogs Murray & Maddox Larry Rich Co Sh'pp'rd C'rlfn & P (One to fill) NEWARK State (22) Rector & Doreen Andrea. Marsh Harlan & St John 3 Swifts Leo . 2 Rio & E PITTSBURGH 1'cnn (22) Duke Ellington. Oro Joy Anderson Snake Hips Tucker 3 Miller Bros PROVIDENCE Loew's (22) Paul Nolan Co Bill Telaak Co Benny Davie Co SYRACUSE State (22) Sally Rand U WASHINGTON Fbx^(22) Joe Penner Show Paramount NEW YORK CITY Paramount (22) Cossacks Radcliff & Rogers Aaren & Broderlck Horton Spurr Jan Peerce BOSTON Metropolitan (22) Jack Major Stan Kavanagh ProskayB Tigers C & J Prelsser Astoria D. H. Ford & Seagrave Canterbury' M. H. 1st half (19-20) Ford & Seagrave Al and Bob Harvey 2nd half (21-23) Michel & Nan Eddie Bayes Dominion . Ellotts 3 Australian Boys Klt-Kat Rest. Tracey & May Co. as 'booked Palladium 6th Crazy Momt New Victoria Carol & Brown 3 Trocadero Mlchelletl . A. & B. Harvey Prof. Mulso Elizabeth MaUrice CLAPTON Rink 3 Emeralds Wensley & Dale Lillian Burgles EAST HAM Premier M;. & H. Nesbitt Florette Geddos Bros. EDGEWARE ROAD Grand Youhkman's Bd. FINSBURY PARK Empire Alexander &' Mose Billy Bennett. : Charladies Trlx Sis Co as booked HAMMERSMITH Palace 7 Elliotts HOLB0RN Empire' Marlon Harris Lucan McShane Archie GTeri & Co ' 3 Wlere Bros Syd Seymour Bd Max Miller Robins Bll & Bll Lloyd Fam HOLLOWAY Marlborough Collnson & Dean Flack & Lucas Valliere & Page ILFORD Super M. ft H, Nesbitt Florette Geddes Bros. ISLINGTON Blue Hall 1st half (18-20) Eddie Bayes Michel & Nan 2nd half (21-23) Ford & Seagrave Al & Bob Harvey KILBURN Grange Ypunkman's Bd. LEWI SHAM Palace Karlna, V. & H LEYTON Savoy Geo. Hurd Lester & Andre B'way B'ys & Br'da LEYTONSTONE Rlnlto Walford Hayden 'Cafe Colette' NEW CROSS Klnema Hillcrest 4 PoWell & Brett Orpwood Sc. Turner PECK HAN Palace Hillcrest 4 Powell & Brett Orpwood & Turner SHEPH'RDS BUSH Pavilion 7 Elliotts 3 Australian 1 Boys STAMFORD BULL Regent Colllnson & Dean Flack & Lucas Valierlo St Page STRATFORD Broad-way Geo. Hurd Lester & Andre B'way B'ys & Br'da TOTTENHAM Palace 3 Emeralds Wensley & Dale LUUan BUrglBS_ " WliLflwAM STOW Granada Welford Hayden 'Colette' WOOD GREEN Palace 'Old Time M. H Chas. Austin Tom Leamore Dave O'Toole Ida Barr Willie Lancot Arthur Reece Harry Hedford Nell Calvert Ambassador, L. I. I Jackie Maye , John van Lowe EValyn Martin bubbles Shelby Kathleen Howard Dot ft Dash Earles Bros, ft L Will Willis I Thel Dressier Nell Golden Orb Arrowhead | Irving Conn Oro Bossert Boot | Eddie Lane Ore Casino de Paree I Eleanor Powell Jimmy Savo Cardini Carolyn Marsh Leon Friedman Ore Ben Pollock Orch I Casino Town Club' Bruz Fletcher i Allan Cales Ore Central rk. Casino Ernie Hoist Oro [Minor & Root Claremont I Roger W Kahn Ore 3 Marshalls Joan Blane Evelyn Poe I Vincent Calendo Club Kentucky Jack Edwards Ada Lee Wilma Novack Louise Dryden Mabel Russell Ross-Kahan Orch CInb BJchman Jack. Mason Rev Lido Girls Oro Commodore Hotel Isham Jones Oro Isabel Brown Cotton Club C C ReV Adelaide Hall Pops & Lance : Mears & Mears Juano Henandez Jimmy Lunceford O Croydon Hotel Charles Eckels Ore Dubonnet Joe Fejer Oro Four Trees Ann Lopert 3 Blue Chips Oro Glen Island Casino Glen Gray Oro Pee • Wee Hunt Gov. Clinton Hotel Enoch Light Oro H'lyw'd Restaurant Helen Kane Charles Davis Oro Moore & Revel Heauval & Tova Mathea Merryfleld Marlon Martin Cross & Dunn, 4 Cllmas Eleanor Tennis Harrlette Myrne Jerry Lester Hotel tltmore Paul Whlteman" Ore Gotare Jack Fulton Ramona ; Robt Laurence I Danny Iggens Ira' Yarnell Carlos Lopez Billy Plaza Elaine McCoy . | Joe Capella ft Orch King's Terrace Joe LeWls. ' Jerry Bergen Lillian Fitzgerald Leon & Eddie's Eddie Davis Del Pozo Ore . Ron Perry Orch Longue Vue Vic Irwin Ore. Evelyn Wilson Towne & Knott Mayfalr Yacht Club Walker O'Nell's Ore Dwight Flske Marden's Riviera Harry RIchman Carpenter ft Fonta' Dixie Dunbar Georgle Tapps Pearl . Twins. Fred Berrens Ore Mori's Rest Nye Maylhew's Ore FaradlBe NTG Rev Peter Hlggens J Johnson Oro Felicia Sorel Ann Lee Patterson Needa Kinkald Bruno ft Manon Earl, Jack ft B Johnny Hale Iva Stewart Edith Murray Paradise Dock Inn (Long Island). Ray O'Hara Oro Arnold's Rev Park Central Hotel Chas Barnett Oro Plaza Hotel E & J Vernon Marlon Chase Orlando's Oro Emit Colman Oro Restaurant La Rne Arthur Warren's O Bite Tower Nat Harris Oro Boss-Fenton Farm. Ramon & RoBlta Henry King Lillian Carmen Aleer Twins Chas Murray Bob Hallday Walter Phelkamp Russian Kretchuna Kuznetzoff ft N Savoy-Plaza Freddie Martin Ore Showboat Casino (City island) Dave Fox Ruth Nagel Helen Davis 1 Castle Sis I Gordon & Bennett Joyce & Smallwpod Sam Grief Wagner Ore Blackhawk .Seymour Simons Earl Rickard Bowery M. H. Phil Furman Lew King Ed Fry Harry Singer Ore Canadian Club (World's Fair) [Frankle Masters Dorothy. Dcnese Du Maulin's Ore Chez Faroe j Morton powney Sammy Shaw The Tick Tocks I Countess' V'n Lossen ] Maurice St Cordoba Henry Busse ore Club Leisure Luolo Garcia . Billy Meagher | Joe Mannl's Orcb Betty Chase I Jack' Sexton' Jr 'Sugar' Harolds Or College Inn 8 Evans Co-eds Jackie Heller Beuvell. & Tova Buddy Rogers Congress Hotel (Joe Urban- Room) Art . Kassei Robert Royce Cherle & Tomaslta Coloslmo's Julia Lyons Dorothy Henry Deronda & Barry Enrico D'Alba Eddie Peering Countess Borlska. Slgnor Barsoni Art Buckley Bob Tlnsley Oro Club Alabam Trudy Davidson Eddie Roth Ore Drake Hotel Slavic Ballet Stanley Hickman BUtmore 3 Frances Wilier Harriet Llndgren Ruth Lee The Crusaders Earl Burtnett Ore Edgewater Beacb Esther Todd DeRonda ft Barry Art Carroll Harry Sosnlk Orch Harry's N. Y. Bar Joe Buckley Don Penfleld Germalne LaPIerre Harry Harris Al Wagner Billy Meyers Elmer Schobel Joe : Buckley Orcb Hi-Hat Club Sunny Gaer. ■ Jimmy Cassidy Effle Burton . Rick . & Snyder Ruth Barton Dot Meyers K-9 Club Billy Brannon Half -Pint Jaxon Ed Casey. Ore Leon La Verde Earl Partello George Oliver Moroni's Rolando & Verdltta | Gwen Gordon Neecee Shannon Marge & Marie Virginia Buchanan Bob Wyatt | Maurle Morei Orch Club Minuet Johnny Maloney Dorothy Nortan Adcllna DoSseria Frank Sherman Mural Room (Brevort Hotel) Earl- Estes Edgar Rice Stnn, Rlttoff Orch JaroB Sis Nut. House Moe Lee Jo- Jo. Geo DeCosta Harry Sherman Jirnrhy- . Lane Old Mexico EWorld's Fair) Hank, the MuJ6 Szita & Annie Irwin Lewis Willie Shore Theo. Johnson Mickey Cassle Ore "Opera Club" Edwlha Mershon Lawrence Salerno Tom Gentry Orch Jose Rlvas Orch Pierce & Harrl9 Palmer HouBe. Ted Weems Orch ,Lydla St Joreeco Stone .ft Vefhpn 4 Calif's Larry Adler Abbott Girla Paramount Faith Bacon Phil White Julia Gerity Edna Rush Miss. Harriett Pearl. TVio Paris (World's Fair)' Duncttn Sis Mona Leslie Oly'plc Diving Star Jane Frantz Thovin's Ore Ratnbo Gardens Leon Lavarde Dawn Sis Lyle Smith Orcb Alice Rydner Royal Cotton Club | Geo D Washington Kathryn Perry Bert Harwell Tate's Ore ' Terrace Gardens I Roma Vincent Alnsley Lambert B | Clyde Lucas Oro Tin Pan Alley Al Sanders Eadle Hayes Crane Sis Vernon Craig Gwen' Lorry " Barney '■ Gugle Stuart Woodbridge Floyd Townes Ore Via Lago Bobby Graham Crane Russell' Orcb Zlta & Marcelle Jack Housh Wanda Kay Al Handler Bd 226 Club Al Garbell Edna Leonard Billy Richard Art West Jean LaMarr 'Babe Hauser Hotel Edison Raglnsky Ens' Hotel Gotham P Van- Steeden Ore Hotel Lexington Al Kavalin Ore Hotel Lincoln Pancho's Ore Hotel Gt. Northern Ferdenando Orcb Hotel McAIpln Sam Robblns 6ro Hotel Montclnlr Harold Stern Oro Mario ft Florla Roslta Ortego Hotel New Yorker Ben Pollack Ore Hotel Pennsylvania Don Bestor Ore Baron ft Blnlr Nell Buckley ..T.oe.^Lynn,e , 'Ramon Ramos Ore Hotel Pierre Jack Denny Ore Hotel Roosevelt Reggie Chllds Ore Hotel Whitehall Don BlgeloW Ore Kelly's Rita Renaud Pierre ft Blanca Grelsha Jeanne McCauley Evelyn Thawl Show Place '•' Burns & Klssen Jack Waldron Frances Fay Miss Harriett Modesca ft Mlchels Ben Bernard Slmplon Club Endor. ft Farrell King's Jesters Wm Farmer Ore Sherry's Harry Bush Ore Mario ft Flair lo St Morltz Hotel Leor- Belasco Orch Vivian Jan Is Nate Lelpzl St. Regis Hotel Vincent Lopez Ore Medrano ft Donna. Surf Club. Jack Myers Ore Charlotte Murrle Taft Grill Geo Hall Orch Tuscany Hotel Bela JiOblov Ore Vdnderblli " ttoie! Joe Moss Orch Ward ft Hopkins Village Barn Anthony Trlnl Ore Beth Chains Eddie Ray Geo McGulte | Frances McCoy Josh Medders Sir Jack Joyce 3 Octaves Ruth Delmar Rose McLean BUtmore Bowl Jimmy Grlei- Ore BUtmore R'dezvous Mel Rulck's Ore Cafe De Paree Modle ft Lamaux Merle Carlson Ore Cpcoahut Grove Florence & Alvarez Downey Sis Gus Arnheim Ore Cotton Club Harlem Rev Broomfleld & G'ley Dudley DIckeFsdh' Anderson ft Taylor LOS ANGELES Green Gables Mcintlre's Hawal'na Paris- Inn Ship Cafe Geo Redman's Bd The Nineties Will Cowan Rev Pat Harmon Ore Topsy's Dorothy Gilbert SIp Jerry Phillips Bd Pete Pbntrelll Ore Rainbow Gardens Gordon Smith M&rg~e Kecly Jack • Dunn Bd Doyle; Donnelly's Vacash Uoyle and. Donnelly, one o£ the standard vaude turns going for the summer resort biz. this year,, open July 1 at the Lake Shore, White Lake, N. Y. They're taking a 13 -people show up with them for a 10 weeks' run. Mary Dowling of the D. & D. act goes along. Levine's Worcester Burly Worcester, June 18. Globe Amus. Co. (Benjamin A. Levine) has taken, over the Worces- ter theatre from Spencer Savings Bank. Price said to be $23,000. Levine managed the house during season of burlesque and understood will reopen in September with a similar-policy.- - — — ■— : GAMBAREIXI FRISCO'S Hollywood, June 18. Maria Gambarelli, dancer In the Grauman's Chinese stage show, goes into the Warfleld, San Francisco, following the run of 'House of Rothschild' at tho Chinese. She also has a date at the Holly- wood Bowl on Aug. 31. Preliminary steps will be taken within the next couple of weeks by Paul Moss, License Commis- sioner of New York City, towards drawing up a uniform and equitable [contract to be used by all vaude booking Offices, circuit and indies. Moss has inviteC Maurice Goodr I man, Harold M. Goldblatt and L Robert Broder, attorneys; reps, of the various booking offices, Actors' Equity and the American Federa- tion of Actors to aid him in this project. General business law; as I it applies to employment agencies, jives the License Department juris- | diction over contracts. According to Moss the majority of the contracts now uspd by vaude booking offices are Inequitable aiyi don't give the actor a 60-50 brea^k. Saranac Lake , Happy Benway Some of the nicer things that de- serve special- mention are; Jerry Vogel, remembering every patient weekly with candy and needy things; the way that Leonard Grotte and his frau entertain the showfolk patients between resting periods; the interest that Marinle Lowy, ex-Rudy Vallee violinist, shows to the curing gang; the good deeds of Danny Murphy, a patient helping out patients; the everlast- ing smile -and good fellowship of Jack Eskin, the san's steward.. Mrs. William Morris, Saranac's 'Mother,' is here and every patient received flowers. ' Season of 1926-27 it was Happy Benway and Dick Flournoy, *A n Ace and a Jack of Spades,* touring the Pan time. Now it's Richard Flournoy, the author of .'Come What May/ and Happy Ben-Way, the Time-Marker* of the Adirondacks. Ruth Morris, week-ending at Camp Intermission, passed up golf and backgammon and went flshihg. Her Ashing ranks at par with her golf and backgammon, terrible. Miss Evelyn Langfaldt, Rudy Val- lee's secretary, shot in to ogle the s lodge and placed her okay on same, Dolph Singer, writer of 'Just Around the Corner' and other hits, Is Saranacing for a look-over. His frau is with him. Fire drills are held at the san weekly.- Ben Schaffer has been ap- pointed fire .Chief a,nd it's worth one's life to ask him why a fire- man wears red . suspenders. Louis Cohen (Warner Bros.) gets the okay report on general condi- tion, that is, all but his bread basket, Which is giving him a lot of trouble. Louis leaves for the big street after a two-month siege of ozone up here. Bert Schwlmmer is on the list for pneumo-thorax. Medicos are ogling the boy and report that a short stay up here will put him in pink of good condition. * Salome Parks,, a new arrival up here, is getting set to the cure rou- tine. This is her second trip to our ozoning. sanatorium. Dri Edgar -Mayer, an ex.-medico- in-chlef of the N.V.A. San, renewed hello's at the lodge. . Raymond Ketcham joined .the pneumo-thorax squad and made the needle grade 100%. , Sister Mary Patricia Craven, su- perintendent of sanatorium Gabriels* wants to thank Jerr.- Vogel and Mr. S.- Kalson for v the skill games of- fered to patients 'there. Jack Nicoll ups to a talker, first in many months. Tommy Vicks got a load of good reports from the medicos and he is. now ogling Beantown. George Harmon, . the san's wit, cracks that he is now the 'Thin Man' and, if successful, he will soon bo the 'Invisible Man.' Boy is hold- ing up with a fighting weight of around 90 pounds.. Chris Hagedorn, who saw about a year's ozoning downtown and also an ex-N.V. A. jnttient^ return s to the Tiodge^for aTness^of "alrihgi " ~ Latest reports oh Harry and Charlie Barrett, world's oldest jugglers, are that those two old war horses are holding up nicely. For the first time in m$.ny moons the patients were gathered in the lounge room at the lodge and the new medico-in-ch'ef, Dr. Karl Fischel, had a heart to heart talk with them. VARIETY EDITOttlAi hi Trade Me.rU' Reglsterea POONDEP BT SINE SILVERMAN Published Weekly . VARIETY Inc Sid Silverman. President IB* West <6th Street New torlt City. SUBSCRIPTION Annual. $6 Forel : *T Slnele Copies. „.><.... ,16 Cents No. 1 15 YEARS AGO (From .Variett Famous Players-Lasky took oyer the B. S/ Moss theatres in . New York. Gave it 3Q wanted ;to mak stock. Producing Managers' passing up the Equity plan. but Zukor Paying in Assn. was arbitration Gus Hill was readying for thp coming" season., two minstrel troupes. 12 shows Ineiuded Florehz iegfeld made buys w t lth six brokers .. and put . each under $10,000 bonds' not to shoot the premium beyond 50c. tickets still commanded $7 to $10 each, There were 15 musicals set for the summer , oh B*way, not counting the 'Follies/ just , about to open. There were 13 other shows, a total of 28. Inside Stuff-Pictures The Par-Capitol pool on Broadway will affect the entire Broadway film map. Neither the Capitol nor the Paramount has been such a sunny b.o. spot lately 1 . Comparatively, the Paramount has been the worse off of the twdi That the quality of films have had much to do with the sit- uation, of course, is a natural conclusion, but that the R. C. Music Hall has dented the gross expectancies of the Broadway picture palaces is just as certain. Par was willing to let the Radio City Music Hall have the entire Par program for around $600,000 on the year; It might have been compro- mised at $500,000. ' Under such a deal the Paramount would have gone, second choice anyway. With the Capitol and the Paramount both suffering, LoeW's even talked about entering the Roxy theatre picture and maybe thereafter, pooling that spot with the Capitol, or running it alone. Loew looks to benefit also at its State on Broadway* Loew's principal vaude spot, with first choice' of Par, Metro and Warner product after first-run showing on Broadway. While Warners owns several music publishing, subsidiaries, notably Harms and Witmarks, which would give WB first call on the cream of the musical comedy and operetta composers and authors, and also a certain 'in' on the film purchases to any successful Broadway musicals, the picture company has steered clear for some reason. Thus, Otto Harbach and Sigmuhd Romberg are slated: for several Fox fllmuslcal originals and Romberg, with Oscar Hammersteln, II, has just signatured to author .'Tip Toes' (from Yield Baum's story) for Metro. The authors otherwise are under contract to Harms, a WB subsid, and Was 'presumed to have been one: of the major factors in the Warners' first acquiring these music publishing holdings. WB statement on this is that the high-powered composers and librettists are beyond the nor? mal WB film production budgets. Incidentally, because of the Romberg angle,- Robbins Music Corp., publisher to- Metro, figures on the publishing rights. This is disputed by Harms which claims aiti exclusive w.rlting contract with Romberg and hence wants to publish the score of Metro's 'Tip Toes*. Major studio head recently desired his office fixed oyer. Wanted classy woods for walls and other smart appliances installed.:' , An estimate Was ordered, by] the studio manager and a price of $12,000. was set for the job. But nobody wanted to okay the estimate for fear they would put them- selves on the spot. The big boss Was waiting for the fixing up work in the meantime and asked questions. No one' .told him why, the 'holdup. Filially the cold feet boys- decided, to put, the. problem un to the' head himself. They had. •a replica model made -of the: ney? layout in miniature which qpst $1,60,0. '.They set "it \ip pn "the desk of the boss. He played and toyed around with , it picking it apart for several hours. Then his *ape beamed, and said get it done quickly. Some one shoved the $12,00p,.estimate in front of him and, without a blink of the eye he signed'. ,it> remarking-, 'That's dirt cheap*. Certain amount of anti-German feeling is manifesting itself in the music trade. One current tune which started out big suddenly died when radio maestros ascertained from the original copyright line that it was of German origin. Ej. B. Marks was all set' to take oyer another tune, from Campbell- Connelly (of London) when Herb Marks discovered it was originally German and published by Albertl pf Berlin and so turned It down. Camp- bell-Connelly didn't care \orie way or the other as all it had were the British rights and would have to clear the American-Canadian rights fdr Marks from the original Berlin source. Alberti's music business is ho longer operated by its founder or his staff, having been Hitler 'co- ordinated' and Alberti himself is now in Prague as a refugee. An NBC commercial orchestra leader recently balked at conducting a German ditty which was plotted Into the program and the advertiser switched the selection. Rapid Pictures' national advertising scheriie with exhibitors, on a 50-60 .basis> will be continued the coming season. During, the . 1933 r,'34 film .year/ the producer-distributor > has been spotting advertising, into the Peorias and >Bridgeports Of the country in an effort to increase the box- office! gait; £]ach side has been standing half the cost and during the Season 'just ending this form- of ^ cot operative advertising .went into : 600 towns, on .'Little Women', 375 on 'Frying "Down to Rio', and .300 each on •Spitfire' and. [Wild Cargo.' Radio dogs not force the ad ; sharing, ^proposition oh ,its accounts, leaving it up to the exhibitor whether he wants: to go in on it or- not. Several indie picture producers were all ready to go to work, but could, find no New York studio with vacant space. Major production still in the East. Sam Goldwyn had an Idea to cor- ral B' way -plays for the screen. To torm a $10,000,000 co. Each - big producer to get a bonus of $50,000 in stock for selling his plays only to Goldwyn. Bright idea, but it tarnished. A fight long threatening in the Hays organization over title registra- tion broke last week while major heads were in session. H. M. Warner, l ater credited by other directors with being magnanimous, said h«. didn't want Columbia to pay Warners a cent or lose u cent. Col could keep its 'Hell Bent for Love' title,, even though WB for a long time has had right to |HeJl Bent for Heaven.' All Warners wanted to establish was a precedent recognized by the entire Hays organization that any one who owns a copyright is entitled ;o.it and. every thing that goes with it — even something that might sound or read similar. B'way wise crowd was heading for Toledo and . the Willard-Demp-. Bey .fight. Train trouble because government needed the trains for demobilized soldiers. So many road shows planning to go out, there was a shortage of advance men. Agents were upping to $100 a week. Later went to' $150 50 YEARS AGO (.From Clipper) Middle of June and the New York houses were shuttering. Mostly - light musicals continued. Actors' Fund held its third an- nual meeting and elected Harry Miner prez. Reported 161 persons aided, And had to sell some of Its reserve government bonds to meet the demands. Had paid out more than $1 0,500.' Modjeska sailed for a vacation to be followed by a tour of Europe Out of town house managers flocking to N. Y. to make their bookings • for. the hew season. No exchanges then. Each manager acted on. his own. Franklin H. Sargent, dramatic director of the Madison Sq. theatre, appointed to a similar post at the new Lyceum. Idea - then was to maintain school for players Later he started the American Academy. Rumors- that the motor car smash up which caused the death of Dor othy Dell and Dr. Carl Wagner came as the result of the latter's over- indulgence in. liquor during the evening are discounted; He was an asso- ciate of Dr. Harry W. -Martin (Hollywood), who states he never saw the young physician intoxicated. Dr. Wagner was regarded as one of the. best. sUrgeons on .the Coast and operated on Miss Dell's mother. Understood that Miss Dell was engaged to wed Nat Karson, New York scenic designer and magazine artist. Latter was to leave for the Coast upon his return from abroad, where he was when the, tragedy happened Because Of . the- new bankruptcy bill for corporations, changing- bank- rupts to. debtors and embracing, many other legal differences,- current papers in , the administration, pf . estates by trustees, and receivers will probably have to be changed. As a result, some scheduled creditor and other meetings, as well as litigation, may have to be postponed until attorneys can whip things around to conform with the new regulations There is also; a. possibility, according to attorneys, that matters in bank ruptcy may now go before a Special Master appointed by the courts instead of before referees in. bankruptcy. With both RKO and Paramount executives away for the greater par of this: week, and part of. last week, and Warner execs just about getting back • to their home office desks the beginning' of the current week, the industry' looked like one of those business .moratoriums. Trading was practically at a standstill for days and will continue) that way in Par and RKO, : at least, for. the greater part of the week". RKO declared a one-day holiday for half* of the employees remaining in the RKO hoipe. office on. jMpnday (18) ; and_ when the sales conferees return,' "RK"6. Will .have another One-day holiday for the Other half, in- cluding, the execs, Inside Stuff-Music Further spread of the moving picture", type Of press book for dance bands is evidenced by Ted Flo Rito's, elaborate lithography job of eight l^rge size gloss paper pages. Two pages are devoted to scissor and paste stories about FlO-Rito for ballroom and cafe managers to plant with local editors. Entire campaign book closely approximates in content the matter used ' by film companies. Hlilman-Shane ad' agency, book, Morris Press, former head of the Paramouht-Publix. music department and previously general' manager of Famous Music Corp., has been in retirement for three years, having associated with his brother in the Press Bros. Dress Corp., with factories at Hummelstown, Pa., and Middletown, Pa. The former music man, who resides in Hummelstown, on April 24 last married Mary Kopp, of Harrisburg, Pa. Inside Stuff-Legit 'Life Starts at 8:30', revue first titled 'The Family Album*, due into the Winter Garden early in August, is the next major musical for Broadway. As the new season generally gets into* action with advance attractions about that time, 'Life' will arrive too late to be classed as a summer show. Reported the Shubert office is again angling for Bert Lahr to top the 'Life' revue. Comic is under contract to George White for latter's pro- posed 'Scandals', but that revue is again in the doubtful . division. Man? ager is slated for another musical picture on the Coast (Fox) Sept. 1, and appears to .have changed his mind again about a stage 'Scandals*. There is a count of 17 musicals timed between • August and Thanksgiv- ing, according to announcements, but . some may;- never go beyond . that stage. Max Gordon is slated to do two— 'Waltzes from Vienna', and a musical comedy which may go into the Hollywood. Plans to revise that house for legit will probably go through, 'Scandals' having been reported for that spot previously. The Franklyn group (Selwyn, Franklyn and Cochran) propose 'Nymph Errant' and a revue for Lucienne Boyer. A Brown, DeSylva and Henderson musical is men- tioned, and more definite are Vinton Freedley's musical comedy and the Guild's musical version of 'Porgy'. While Phillip Kinsley of the Chicago ;Trlb Was on the Coast gathering notes for , a .series . of articles he did plenty .of listening. He discussed the sex and off-cOlor angles with studio execs, but was sidetracked- by Louis Mayer, Irving Thalberg, Winfleld Sheehart .and Jack Warner. Mayer referred the scribe to the Hays office. In contrast, Adohih .Zukor.' left a production staff confab to' talk with Kinsfey for tWo hours. Sam Goldwyn spent nearly a day with the- Trib ma,n,i even screening 'Nana' for him. According to. Kinsley's 'first yarn, he' also interviewed Carl Laemmle. George E. Wallert, then treas- urer of an Albany theatre, got married. Long .the right hand man of F. F. Proctor. ^^j^E^-F^^^^or^clto^ ' tine when he formed a partnership as Jacobs & Proctor. William Kahmveiler was inferred to in the Philadelphia correspond- ence as : 'the only theatrical man- ager in this city who owns his own theatre,' the National, Buffalo Bill shows was playing ittsbUrgh. Moat of the croWd (Continued on page 75) Mae West took advantage of a period clause in her Paramount contract and during? the greater part of hte filming "of 'It Ain't No. Sin' collected $10,000 for each week's work, or double .her pact figure. Deal with studio palls, for two pictures each six months on a three- year basis. When film overlapped into time allotted for the next, Miss West demanded a double fee .on pain of negotiating for an outside film, which is provided in her covenant. To prevent recurrence of such a difficulty, Paramount is overturing the star on a new. deal providing for a flat salary on a 40-week basis and a percentage of the profits. Certain waning popular authors who accepted soft and lucrative con tracts, allowing producers to use their names and titles, y/hile studio scriyener s: suppU e'd_tne._pl goose in this field and have also made unpopular this vicarious product Recent poll of exhibitors by several studios which have used the once gilt-edged names shows conclusive preference for originals over the syn thctic product of the literati in question, with the comment that the public in many spots regards the once magic names as now hinting a definitely. Inferior grade of entertainment. Party crashers found themselves outsmarted at a recent sliver wedding celebration of a Hollywood producer. Location of the festivities was kept secret and not until a few days before it transpired did the 70 guests know where it would be held. Publication notices were withheld and Invitations were trentod as confidential, Happy result was that there Vinton Freedley, after being inactive for a season or so, has reestab- lished offices in New York. Book for his as yet. untitled musical show due in the fall is being written in France by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse who have not been represented on Broadway for some time". Cole Porter is supplying the score. Howard Lindsay will stage with dance numbers -assigned to Robert Alton. When 'Sailor Beware', Lyceum, N. Y., went into cut rates the ticket sale was. jacked up to $3.30. That was the top for most of the run but when business started easing . off early in the, spring extra space ads, announced Tthat pickets were reduced to $2.75 and $2,.20. ' Those prices applied to the rear half of the lower floor, front locations holding to the original top. 'High Jinks' is electric lighted on the marquee Of the. Play house. N./Y- where the English tfarce 'While Parents Sleep' opened two weeks ago, show title b^ing regularly bulbed on the house sign above. The 'Jinks' lettering is "W. A. Brady's billing for the play, although It; looked like a title ,too. 'High Ji was a musical comedy presented by ami in 1913.' was plenty, of provender . to go around and a seat at. for every guest, a record of some kind for film shindys. Reports from the Coast that Ed Schiller is prospecting the Pacific slope for Loew theatre sites tend to refute the belief that the. colonel has quietly but definitely withdrawn froni active duty with that organi- zation due to doctors' orders. Schiller is currently on vacation from his New York office,. Hawaii being his destination, bUt his California, activity is now taken to mean that upon returning from this trip he will continue to exercise his au- thority in the Loew theatre department. Universal wants to round up a flock of Ziegfeld Follies alumni for the William Anthony McGuire story on 'The Great Glorlfler'. Talent scouts east will signature as many as possible. In loaning Binnle Barnes tO Universal Alexander Korda, who has the actress .under contract, is paying her hfilf the salary overage. It's a voluntary gesture on Korda's part and one he uses on all talent ho loans out. Important in the case of Miss Barnes and would be in the case of Merle Oberon for Whom several U. S. offers have been made. Korda had (Continued on page 72) Tuesday, June 19; Mpls. Six-Week Drama Festival With Broadway Plays and Talent Minneapolis, June 18. A group of Minneapolis residents, flesh-and-blood drama lovers, bead- ed by Albert E. Killeen of the Uni- versity of Minnesota, have hit upon a scheme which they believe "will golve the problem of how to bring the spoken drama back to life and which, they believe, if it succeeds locally, may be extended through- out the country and result in a big revival of the speaking stage. If New York wonlt send drama to Minneapolis, they'll bring it here, these Minneapolitans assert. And they, have suited action to words. They've arranged to sponsor a subscription season of six consecu- ■ „ ■ t . . . . tive weeks of drama by Broadway Be »' housekeeper, went to invest HAL SKELLY KILLED IN TRAIN-CAR CRASH Hal Skelly, One of Broadway's best known comedians, was killed in a grade crossing accident near West- Cornwall, Conn., jVne 16. Actor and his wife were week- end guests of Major M. K. Lee, army aviator, retired. Maj, Lee went. to. Williams' college class re- union Saturday. In his absence it was reported by telephone that a valuable dog belonging to him had been found. Skelly, with Miss Helert gate, using a light truck. While still within the grounds of the riWer^Tta'VVumb^ the ■? T '.?Wte)My stalled ' 'on the tracks of the New Haven casts at the Shubert theatre here, starting next Nov. 6. As far as pos- Broadway successes will be played by those who created them. <, Eugene G. Weber of New York, former leading man with Helen | railroad and was struck by a pas- senger train. Actor died in the ambulance on Hayes, will come her, to complete ^* ^W?^ ™? 22 was less severely Injured and may. recover C OF t ANGELING MAX REINHARDT • arrangements for the 'Drama Fes- tival,' it is announced. ' . Subscribers .'will be asked to vote on - the plays which they wish to have* presented and' also on the casts, Mr. Killeen says. The budget , for the six plays, he says, is suf- ficient to insure engaging the high- est class actors and actresses. J- Among the plays from which the choices will be made are 'Men in White/ 'The Good Fairy,' 'She Loves Me Not,' 'Tobacco Road,* 'Biog- raphy,' 'The Shining Hour,* 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' 'No More Ladies,' 'The Green Bay Tree,' 'Criminal at Large,' 'Men Must Fight,' 'The Milky Way' and 'Her Master's Voice/ None of these ever has been seen here. Casts Will be selected from among Cecelia Loftus, Irene Purcell, Dor ©thy Hall, Violet Kemble- Cooper, Mary Phillips, Helen Ray, Madge Kennedy, Judith Anderson, Violet •u 'w 2"; „.°?,°"° el 'i.?.^™r| Hear S t Greek theatre to Berkeley. and in Hollywood Bowl, ffpth out of doors and mammoth spots. Robert Subley, exec manager of the Uni- San Francisco, June 18. State Chamber of Commerce is taking a plunge into the legit field acting as impresario for Max Reln- hardt's production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream,* which Will be done here and . in Holly wood during Sep- £1™^'^^™^'"^°""' I tember and October, with prominent Heming, Ruth Weston, Laura Hope I ■ ' tha Truax. No local persons will be . engaged I for parts, as only professional | Broadway talent is desired for even the minor roles, Killeen announces. leavy, Rex O'Mallex Melyyn Doug- las,. Conrad Nagel, Ralph Belmont, James Rennie, Guy Bates Post, Ro- rv" Hun Un S'nS a, l C if Com P t f ,n - Hen - I verslty of California at Berkeley, ry Hull, Rollo Peters, and Ernest | knd whose dau&ht er, Catharine, was in the Reinhardt productions at Salzburg, Austria, sold the college on the idea. College in turn sold the C. of C. on backing the show Idea of the show is to inaugurate an annual summer festival season out here, similar to those of Salz burg, Florence, and Malvern, Eng- land. Nini Theilade, dancer^ and Phillip , Arnold, actor, and both Reinhardt proteges, will be in the cast. Reinhardt* s technical director, Felix Weissberger of Austria, is due First suburban summer theatre to I nere ln a few days to set the pro " open and fold was that at St. James, Auction Started, a.nd Einar Nilson, Long Island, where the venture musical director, is calendared for lasted but one week. On stock basis, | Jul y 15 - Beinhardt is due Sept. 1 the St. James Players were under the management of Jack Livingston, i 1 ■ V* J 1* heretofore engaged in eastern pic- | JUSl KlQQIIl£ L I. St James Summer Theatre Folds; Coin Paid Off by Equity principally extra Boston, June 18. ture casting, people. House is believed to have opened ■^.^p.J^^.Mj^M..^P.J>m^±. Femme , registering as Katharine Wo high, business being nil. Instead Cornell m a downtown hotel had ©f establishing the spot with some the management and the newspa- former Broadway favorite, 'That pe rs in a momentary lather this certein Business,' a new play, Was week unt ii the management, having tried , out but could not draw. It listened to her buzz-saw voice Was authored by Homer B. Mason through the closed door of her room, and Kenneth Keith. decided the guest wasn't the real -Flayers, were paid off by Equity. Cornell and ordered her to stop rep- Livingston having planned to use | resenting herself as the actress. An Appreciation To my many friends, my ad- mirers and well wishers who came to give me help, courage and honor on. the occasion of the Testimonial Performance June 10th; My spirit, my whole being, desires to stand before them and. speak; to them; to see^and feel once more their great love for me. But I must postpone this one great moment -for I dare not ••' incur the' stress of emotion I would : suffer, at that hour. I send my heartfelt gratitude and appreciation therefore,, to all the commit- tee who have valiantly con- tributed for my welfare on Sunday evening; my g/ateful thanks' to Mr. Lee Shubert Who has donated the theatre; my Leartfelt thanks and apprecia- tion to the press of New York City; my gratitude to Mr. Shubert's whole staff for their cooperation. To ali my players wno have taken part in the evening's performance: James Barton, Leo Carillo, Mary Nolan, Alien Corelli, Regina Senz, Harry Hiirshfleld, Gus Edwards, Bill Robinson, Tamara, Bob Hope, Lola Monti Gorsi, Donald and Doyle, Adelaide Hail, Dave Vine, Cecil Mack's Choir, Maria Alberta, Helen Kane, and Alexander Kirkland, Lu- ther Adler and the 'Men in White' Co. To my brothers and .sisters in the theatre, I send my love and gratitude for their service to me ; all the singers, dancers, radio artists; to all musicians, to the leader of the orchestra; to the stage hands, the treas- urers and the management of the Vanderbllt theatre; to all who have , taken part and who have worked to accomplish that evening foi; me I say: thank you, I love you and bless you. Bertha Ealich. Free CCC Slow Project on Again; Now Thought Available CHARLEY MORRISON A LEGIT PRODUCER Charles Morrison/ vaude and cast- ing agent, is turning legit producer, having taken over 'Saluta,' which Harry Cort and Charles Abramsoh announced they would present this nmer. Book of the musical com- edy was written by Will Morrissey, plot having racketeers muscling into grand opera in Italy; Morrison has the personal repr resentatiye form of Equity permit for legit casting. Rules limit the relationship between agents and managers, designed so that, the lat- ter may not participate in agents' commissions. No Equity bar against an agent producing shows, but he is not permitted to collect commis- sions from players in any show which he . presents. wash. taboos bailor; then rescinds ALL PHILLY OUT FOR HOLM AN Philadelphia, June 18 Libby Holman staged her come- back to the stage and also her dra- matic debut last Saturday night in Mbylan-Rose Valley when she ap- peared with the Hedgerow Theatre Players in Sierra's 'Spring in Au tumn/ Spanish comedy in which Blanche Turka was seen last win ter in New York Miss Holman's role was that of a maid, but it was one of the. most interesting characters in the play. Her performance was' generally Washington, National Theatre Players' pro duction of 'Sailor Beware,* now in third week and only legit show to beat seven' days this season in the capital, stayed on front pages of local sheets for two days, last week when cops ordered the play closed. Receiving complaints on im- morality of. show, Police Chief Ernest W. Brown asked ruling from District Attorney's office. Two 9 as- sistant d. a/s viewed performance last Monday (11) and recommended it be canned. Steve Cochrane, man ager of theatre, appealed personally to Dist. Atty. Leslie G. Garnett to pass' on next night's performance; which was considerably sweetened I up. With . heavier profanity but and "attack" of Dynamite Jones on Stonewall Jackson in last act de- void of most of its wrestling atmos- phere, Garnett o.k.'d continuance of playi After being tabled for a month, the plan to present free shows the Civilian Concentration Camps throughout the country, came to life early this week and expectations are for : the- projeqt to go through, al- though probably curtailed from the original, suggested schedule. Shows would be under' the direction of the Civil. Works Administration^ which operating a dozen companies in New York city and upstate CCC camps. Hope that money would be made available for the. show' purposes broke last 'Friday (15) when the Senate passed the deficiency bill, calling for the expenditure of oyer !i5,Q00,00Q,000 for drought and. other relief issues. It Is . now expected that a comparatively, moderate ap- propriation for the proposed shows will be made from that fund. That was the indication when Frank Gill- more and Paul.N. Turner of Equity Went to Washington , and conferred With CCC. administrators. Instead of the original, prospect of forming 100 shows for the camps, Equity heads say that 50 such troupes would be top, if the money, can be. secured. Salaries would be $24 weekly. While salaries paid present CWA players is slightly more, it is believed that the camp, players will be .given beds and food at the' camps without deductions from the salaries. Matter, however, has not been worked out to finality because of the delay in figuring out how to ge* funds. Transportation to the camps will probably be handled by the army, as is done in taking CWA companies Upstate. Plan for touring the shows -to -the camps in many states would be ad- ' hered to' in modified form,, it now being virtually certain that there will be no attempt to cover the more than 1,700 CCC spots. However, (Continued on page 78) DINNER CLUB MAY FOLD SAT. BECK GANDERS 'FOLKS'; TALKS NEW YORK DATE Chicago, . June 18. Martin Beck was in ' town last Week for a general look-around, but liked. Not only one, but all the particularly for an o.b. of the Folies Bergere show at the French Casino. Has . been talking to Clifford Fischer over the possibility of taking the show into New York at Beck's own theatre as a legit attraction,. Company has been dickering with. Phil Baker to go into the cast as head comic, if and when the pro- duction goes legit. drama reviewers out at Hedgerow to catch the event, Miss Holman is slated for roles in 'Winesburg, Ohio,' dramatization of. Sherwood Anderson's book, and in 'Six Characters- in Search of an Author,' Pirandello's fantasy, which are scheduled for production at Hedgerow this summer. the house for a series of. tryouts, and therefore required to post one week's salaries with Equity. Other I rural show shops are on the basis, of Meanwhile dame had called up all newspapers, asking that the scribes come Over. Reporters were met by managers, who tOld theni about the stock and few come within Equity £ake . Management told the femme rules during the summer, although she could stay, but would have to there are frequently tryouts by such qult misrepresenting herself, so the companies, also. . girl left iri a huff. She was reported w^ ye v S *T 6re ^ U t rte ^ ¥ * he to be an ex-domestic having herself Freide hotel, and the bill of $200 - a time was unpaid. Something of a mix- up over the hotel's claim brought in tolJ£ tQ . * °°pf«- Matter was | Kaufman-Hart Show squared when Livingston signed a note for the bill. Next at Music Box in the cast were Beverly Bayne. . . Nana "Bryant, Homer B. MofenT ~ WWrtly ' We Roll Along-Will be Margaret Keeler, Laura Lull, Jack tne £al1 attraction at the Music Box, Arnold, Anthony Frey, Jeanette New York « Show was authored by Foxhill, Alice Carroll and George L. George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart Spalding. Chi G.&S. Maybe Chicago, June 18. k . M. Cli rtok of Boston, who re- vived Gilbert and Sullivan in the east, is in town negotiating for dales. It will be presented by Sam H. Harris. House was slated to get a new musical by Irving Berlin arid Hart, but that show will not be ready until winter. 'As Thousands Cheer,' currently at the Music Box, will move when 'Merrily' is ready. Rustic Summer Drama Starts; 65 Hideaway Theatres Ready Season of the show shops in the sticks gets under way next week and from then on in many rural spots, rustic summer drama may be observed in between 65 to 70 hider aways. Last summer there. Was a total of B8 such 'houses' scattered through the Eastern area from Vir- ginia to Maine and nearly 100 new : pTa^F"were-"tFie"d^oTItr— .--.^-^.^ Indicated increase in the number of country theatres is paralleled by the added number of new plays listed for performance. It is ex- pected that the plans for some places will be changed, but more spots which stuck to stock are am- bitious and want to experiment with new scripts. Country show shops will, there- fore, afford subsistence to as many professionals as last season. Board and lodging is about all most play- ers expect, but it is a way. out dur- ing the heated period, and there is always the chance that a new play will click, with the original players being cast for Broadway. Some try-out showmen are insistent that players engaged for the try-outs sign^optionsr^for^thelf-=-ser-vlce»7 Doubtful if such contracts would be recognized by Equity. Next week at least eight new plays are carded for the woods, which means that the picture and drama scouts will get into action. Hideaways which started in ad vancc of the 'season' have already tried out half a dozen plays, none of which were reported having chance.- Actors' Dinner Club has issued an appeal for funds and will fold Sat- urday (23) unless financial aid is* obtained. It has. been operating in the red for some time and the few small donations received last week were insufficient. Club has been quartered at the .Woodstock hotel; N. Y., for the past year and nightly there are volunteer entertainers. Number of diners recently has been around 200 as against more than 400 average during the winter. Free meal tickets have been dis- tributed continuously, but the number of paid guests dropped Way off. Club is regarded as one of the most welcome depression aids to professionals. STAGE RETURN FOR ASTAIRE OFF 'TILL '35 Hollywood, June 18. Fred Astaire's studio, sojourn will be such that it's doubtful if . New will again see him prance across a stage before: fc, year from fall. Broadway is then apt to see . him in 'Band W&gon of 35,' intimation being that Max Gordon will resume that series of ■ revues. Astaire is currently out here for Radio and his picture schedule at that plant will tie him up to the Coast until next summer. His dis- inclination to do a hot. weather New York show is the reason any statge return appears off until the autumn of '35. - - LUGOSI'S STAGE -RETURN- - Hollywood, June 18. Bela Lugosi will be cast for the lead in the "stage production of 'Fiarri,' to open in New York in August, if his agent, Al. Kingston, can negotiate his release from Uni- versal, where he is under pact to make three pictures. Ernest Cortffl, who authoied the lenit piece, nlso produces. 70 VARIETY LEGITIMATE Tuesday, June 19, 1934 lary' Scrams, Dodsworth' Suspends Jiine 30; Only 12 Shows by July 4 Broadway now sets the second week in July for the expected influx of visitors. Indications point to that date as the start of ' a - six- weeks' .business spurt, and, if present sur-' vlvors are able to hold on Until. then, they should span the summer. Last week daw Improvement among the few leaders. July 4 will not see more than a' dozen shows on the list, and there may be less. ' In addition to with- drawals, the dramatic standout, 'Dodsworth,* suspends June 30 and is not dated to resume until the middle of August. . New production, is; virtually nil in New York, atten- tion now being diverted to the sum- mer show places in the country* .'While Parents Sleep' was sud- denly withdrawn from the Play- house Saturday. ritish farce was tossed aside after . two weeks, its long run In a small English theatre carrying no weight. London, how- ever, is one- play',up' on New York, this summer, having sluffed off 'She Loves Me Not' arid 'Biography' re- cently..' Another sudden -withdrawal Was- •Mary of Scotland.' Guild. . Show's great run at the. Alvin didn't figure when the original leads went out and, the show., moved; Attendance ived - toward the vanishing point. ., '\TheTe are 15 attractions on the boards this. week. Added are such t novelties as 'The Drunkard', , and •African Opera' ('Kykunkpr'). More, freak shows are; due in— "They Done Wrong by Our Nell' and the . "Golden Gate' showboat, hailing from the Mississippi. , Estimates for Last Week: 'Are You Decent?' Ambassador (10th week) (C-1.166-$3.30). One ' of several shows on • list which can operate at small money and net like' profits;' around $3,000; June. Clayworth replaced Claudia Mor- gan. 'As Thousands Cheer,' Music Box (38th week) (R-l;000-$4.4b). Only two other , iusicals playing': better by $2,000 last week, which- was as imich as some one -setters grossed; takings $22,000. . 'Caviar,' 1 Forrest (3d week) (O- l,d75-$3,30). Very little coin for musical; last week estimated under $4,000; Nanette Guilford withdrew from. cast. 'Dodsworth,' Shubert (17th week) (GD-l,387-$3.30). Looks like sure holdover Into next season but .lays off after next week until middle- of August; very big $21,000 last 'Her Majesty the Queen,' Ritz (1st week) (C-916-$2.75). Had been on road all season (Pauline Freder- ick) ; presented by^Wee and Leven- thal; written by John Charles Brownell; opened Monday. . 'Every Thursday/ Royale (7th weeik) (C-.900-$3;30). Another W, and L, show.; deal for another month with house guaranteed; around $2,000, which gets it by. 'Invitation to Murder,' Masque (fith Week) . P. & c - f r0 " auctions. Ltd., at the Savoy theare, Juno 6. Production by Gabriel Toyne. Anne, Lady Garr Mtss Isobol Elsom Michael Mlchaeloft. , . . . .Mr. Anton Dolln Cavalcantl. ; Mr. Hay Petrie Charles Paton Mr. William FoX JLydJa Deihurska. Brigitta Boris Hohlakov. .Mr. Francis L. Sullivan Maria Taliaferro. . .... .Miss Kate Cutler Luclcnne du Marigny. . Miss Psyche Altham Jaqucs .Mr. Ivor Barnard Jules. Mr. Robert Helpman Doctor Forsythe Mr. Matthew Boulton Morgan Mr. William H, Gregory Eleana... Miss Pamela Winstanley At the close of this play on the first night, Anton Dolin, in his cur- tain speech, said he. had three am- ^bitions~to-danGe^=-vivJ.th^Karjsa.vinii;, J to appear. in the Diaghileff Ballot, and to act competently in a legiti- mate role. Long before he reached the age of 30, he had achieved the first two and hoped this, his second effort in a speaking role, would bring to a realization the third of his ambitions. It probably won't, and yet it" comes very near doing so. Piece is supposed to have been inspired by the life of Nijinsky, the famous Russian dancer, who, ac- cording . to legend, was dominated, Budapest, June .8.* Just before closing, the National theatre, after a long list of dull and uninteresting flops throughout the season, staged a refreshing, talented play by a new man, young novelist, Alex Torok. Joseph Lengyel anony- mously helped Torok to dramatize his hovel, 'Strange City,' dealing with the fortunes of half a dozen poor provincial boys working their way through . the university amid the hardships and humors of stu dent life. Main plot- is the story of one Of these boys, his affections divided between- a smart society girl who stands for the failings of the idle rich, and a sweet seen -better- days girl who keeps up her spirits and her ladylike bearing, in spite of run- ning a laundry, . Needless to say, boy lands at the laundry and buries his ambition of becoming, a famous musician in piles of dirty linen. Despite being too wordy and novelistic in places, the play strikes a fresh, sincere and human note. It was Very convincingly , played by a set of young actors; particularly re- freshing In this theatre, which Is usually the haunt of obsolete con- servatism. Zita Percel, only 16, arid very pretty, showed much promise in the part of the. vampish society girl. She may become important if she will discard certain affectations and self-conscious over-playing of her part. Timar, in the part of a stormy petrel among the students, was particularly good, and Abonyl, acting the youth tossing between two girls, did well. Play has- definite screen ppsibilities, JacoM. NESBITT AND WALKER PLOT NEW 'BALLYHOO' London, June 10. Bobby Nesbitt and Billy Walker are shortly to do. another 'Ballyhoo' version. Will be .titled 'Ballyhoo of 1934.' Those already * engaged are Hermione Baddeley and Frances Day. Negotiations also for Rellly and Comfort or Deslys and Clark. . Understood boys are anxious to get Douglas Byng, but he is already under contract to Charles B. Coch ran for his hew revue in the fall Backer for show is the Honorable David Tenriant, who is the husband of Baddeley. Show is likely to go to the Comedy theatre early Sep tember. Paris, June Biggest attempt in years to make Paris popular again started Satur- day (9) when the Grande Semaine (big week) began, Minister of Com- merce Lucien Lamoureux is taking liberties with the calendar and mak- ing this week last a whole month, until July 8. Even greater liberties are being taken With French railways, which are unprecedentedly offering a free return trip to anyone from the sticks or a foreign country w^o will buy a ticket to Paris during the official whoopee period. Paris hotel keep- ers are doing their bit, no matter how hard It hurts, by offering a day free for anyone who stays five days. Show business is expected to benefit largely by this promotion, which is being circused with the aid of .newsreel propaganda speeches by the Minister, and 'heavy newspaper and outdoor advertising. Cut rates in legit and film houses will be of- fered. Main attractions will be outdoor, however. Month-long Week will start with international aeronautic acrobatic conference at Vincennes airfield today and tomorrow (9-10). Following Sunday (17) a nautical fete, including international regat- tas, will be held on the Seine. On the afternoon of June 20, fol- lowing the Auteuil races, a the- atrical group calle V 'Escholiers' will give a garden party and entertain- ment at the Pre Catelan in the Bois de Boulogne. At Vincennes the same evening a gala military band concert will take place, followed by a presentation by the Comedie Francaise troupe, outdoors, of its hit . of the year, Shakespeare's 'Cori- olarius.' Biggest splash will take place in the last week of the big month, which is the real traditional Grande Semaine. Feature of the week is al ways racing, climaxed by the Prix des Drags at Auteuil and the Grand Prix at the Longchamp, and a spe- cial effort will be made to make the events .dressier than ever. More concerts, sporting events, nautical fetes, fireworks displays, outdoor film shows and dances will complete the program. Somlo's Chnace Budapest, June ,7. Isthan (Stephen) Somlo of the current 'Men In White* show, which has. clicked big locally, is going to Hollywood. Robert Ritchie, special scout, for Metro and Jeanette MacDonald's manager, has signed him for a Hol- lywood film try. Marie Bell Goe s Impresario; Film, Stage Work Extra Paris, June 10 Not busy enough as a member of the Comedie Francaise troupe and a screen actress In constant demand, MaVie Bell has taken over the management of the Ambassa deurs theatre, to begin next sea Son. Edmond Savay, the conces- sionaire, has engaged her to pick shows, cast them and put them dri This is the first time a member of France's ace troupe has turned impresario at a big Parisian house Miss Bell says her new Job will en- able her to play more often than ever before at the Comedie, because it will keep her in Paris. 'Being just an actress has never been enough for me,' she says. Tye always wanted to be able to give jobs to my friends.' Ambassadeurs, in the same build ing with Ambassadeurs restaurant on- lower Champs Elysees, is off the beaten track and hard to fill. Has had a series of clucks this season, even including 'Pranzinf,' opener, which was an artistic success but didn't pack 'em in. Another player, Felix Oudart, has been named by the Isolas to man age the Sarah Bernhardt next year. WAGE TROUBLES FOLD SOUTHERN'S GARRICK Carroll's Ruse Sydney Carroll, once a critic him- self but now reformed, has discov- ered a way of keeping the theatrical journalists from escaping before the end of a production. On June 4 he presented the first of a series of ballets at the. Inner Circle Gardens, Regent's Park. This is the first time in many years a ballet -was j :=pei'formed= i in^this---cb.uritpy- : in= the open air. It was a delightful scene with the grass stage and a background of shrubbery and trees, and the birds twittered away. After the first half a number of the reviewers attempted to leave. Park ordinances call for the closing of the Inner Circle gates at 9 p. m. There was fully half an hour before the custodian of the keys could be located to release the newspaper lads. London, June 10. Garrick theatre, last of John Southern ventures, running musical revivals, folded suddenly. First revival, 'The Geisha,' lasted five weeks, with business fair. Sec- ond of series, 'The Quaker Girl' blew after 10 'days, terminating on June 8 without preliminary notice Understood cast encountered salary troubles last week, with promises to get their money not be- Juag^ulflJUfija.^-^^^ to quit in a body* Equity stepped in. MAUDE'S IDEA London, June 10. Cyril Maude, saw Seymour Hicks in "Vintage Wine' at Daly's and is anxious to secure the play for the U. S. Wants it as a vehicle for him- self. London,^ June 10. Notice has been posted for the closing of 'The Golden Toy' at the Coliseum, June 16! Sir Oswald Stoll says the production is too costly to be continu' -* under the existing • transport facilities into West End of London. With most of his big musicals, Sir Oswald catered to large parties from outlying cities, which were or- ganized to pay a day's visit to Lon- don on sightseeing expeditions Included attendance at the Coliseum. The London Passenger Transport Board has banned the entrance Into the West End of London by these charabancs on the ground of traf- fic congestion.. Sir Oswald said these coach parties are essential to the success of such a costly production as 'The Golden Toy.' Closure of 'Golden Toy' came sud- denly and unexpectedly, even to the theatre staff Stoll has maintained since the show opened', some -months ago, that it would run well into August whether it made money or not. With the last weeks averag- ing a loss of $5,000 per week, de- spite cast being on a 25% cut, Stoll became panicky, however. Nothing is set to follow 'Toy,' with Stoll through with spectacular* mu- sicals for good, unless comi angel comes along with a- bankroll ready to finance. Management is anxious to hook up with- an American film concern to stage West End* pre-releases. Some American pre-releases have not fared badly here, notably 'King Kong.' Stoll figures that showing films would at least; give him some money, even if his arrangement is on a 50-50 basis. CRAZY SHOW'S 10 WK. RUN; AGAIN IN SEPT. DERVAL SQUAWKS AT CHI FOLIES BERGERE Paris, June 10. Paul Derval, owner of the Folies Bergere, . is squawking at Chicago dispatches stating that J. C, Stein and Clifford Fischer are putting on a 'French Folies Bergere revue' at the Chicago Fair. Derval ' says Fischer offered to buy the name Folies Bergere for America and he refused to sell. Plans to take a show over himself some day, and wants to keep his own title. Protests vigorously against use of title. Fischer- Charles floor show, when it left Paris, was called 'Ca, e'est London, June 10 Palladium 'Crazy' season closes July 28, meaning it will have run for 10 weeks! Most of the gang Jeit raxiB, was caiiea <_a, c is due to play seyer^ [ dates Ljn the Pa rls . f , wh ich is OK. with Derval. provinces. 1 ' Next 'Crazy' is definitely sched uled for Oct. 22, with George Black already negotiating with the gang to sign. Salaries gang are collect- ing are very varied. Nervo and Knox top with $1,500, with Naugh- ton and Gold next at $876. Billy Caryll and Hilda Mundy (not in current 'Crazy' show, and missed) jointly get $650.. Cheapest buy are Flanagan and Allen, getting only $450 under an old contract; while Eddie Gray is also a good buy at $150, Most of the gang is willing to sign new contracts, figuring they have about reached limit, with some even ready to take slight re- duction. Only ones holding out for more coin are Flanagan and Allen, who want more than double their salary, and are likely to get it. Gray is asking for $.250, and will -probably^=be^given,=$20.0 r ==.-^.^^= PARIS LEGITS FOLD FAST; 17 NOW DARK Paris, June 10. Large scale closing of legit houses for the summer' is already commenc- ing, although the big Paris sea-, son won't be over for another month. Comedei des Champs Elysees, where Jouvet just had his last pro- duction, and Dejaze.t, farce house, are latest victims. Total now dark is 17, including two circuses (Medrano and Hiver). 'Carioca' Scores Mexico City, June 15. Teatro Principal, America's oldest theatre, which .recently went cinema, is the only local picture house pre- senting stage shows. Troupe Is featuring Carioca, and a smash. First time dance seen on stage here. Diana Sanger's Chance — = - r yfenna^June^9r^^ Miss Diana Sanger, New York, [got a break just as she was finish- ing her course here at the Rein- hardt Dramatic Seminary. She re* ceived a bid from the London com- pany of Sybil Thorndyke and Ben I Greet. She was introduced to Reinhardt I by the late Otto H. Kahn. She has not yet made up her mind about the proffered London ' season. 72 VARIETY LITERATI Tuesday, June 19, 1934 Correspondent's Club Nos. .14 I Puftizer Boosts There are now 14 out-of-town That the Pulitzer prize has a lot | newspaper correspondents who more significance than is at first maintain wire service out of New realized is. definitely proven by cur- Best Sellers York. They'rs members. 6f the Cor- respondents* Club, which is restrict- ed only to those having a daily wire. Members are: Richard Summer, of Baltimore Sun; Rodger .Batchelder, of- the Boston Globe;. L. 13. Fanning, of the Boston Her-- aid;. Ir < rench, of. the Buffalo News; Pcrley Boone, of the, Chicago Tribune;, J. C. Muni a, of the Cincin^- nati Inquirer; L. L. Stevenson, of rent best-seller lists. In spite of | the fuss and. argument evolving oyer the novel and drama choices, the winners have benefited healthily in sales since, the. choices were an- nounced. Most sensational rise in sales Jis ' being enjoyed by Caroline Miller's 'Lamb in His Bosom' (Harpers), which has jumped to the head of I the best-seller lists. This is partly the Detroit News; A. p. Gannon, of QU e to the fact that the book* when the Milwaukee Journal; R. H,.Hair^ fi rg t published, was. given the go-by ston, of the Montreal Gazette; C. by most readers. . Also on the best- Langford- Baker, of . the Montreal seller lists this week is Sidney Star; Marion X Pike,' of the New Kihgsley's play, 'Men in White' Orleans Times^PIcayune; R. P. (Covici-Frlede). Book ..hadn't been Lowry, of the: Philadelphia Inquir- selling any' too strongly prior to be- fer; Neal W. Hopkins, of the Spring- i ng named by the Pulitzer commit- . field Republican, and J. R, Trever- tee, but now is. outselling 'Mary'of ton, of. Globe-Demo- [Scotland,* which had been the best crat. Perley Boone is chairman of the I years. Laurence Stagings' play, Best Sellers for the week ending June 16, as reported by the American News Co.» Inc. •Lamb in His Bosom' ($2.60) . . , , » By Caroline Miller •Anthony Adverse* ($3.00) By HerVey Allen •Bachelor of Arts' ($2.50) ....J..,. .. v ... ...... .By John Ersklne. •Seven Gothic Tales' ($2.60) .....By Isak DInesen 'Unfinished Cathedral' ($2.60) .................. .By T. S. Strlbllng •Joseph and His Brothers' ($2.60) ....... By Thomas Mann Non^Ficti Alexander Woollcott ......By Walter B. Pitkin Edmund Jacobson, M. D. ...By Tatiann Tshernavln Kallet and F. J. Schlink .By Sidney Kingsley » • • • •-• • • • • < 'While Rome Burns' ($2.76) •Life Begins at Forty* ($1.60) ...... •You Must Relax' ($1.60) •Escape From the Soviets' ($2.60) •100,000,600 Guinea Pigs' ($2.00) •Men in White* ($2.00) CHATTER Library of Kay Cleaver Strahan ! doesn't contain a single book of her | selllhg play in book form in some own; Book Reviews group. however, is still selling strongly. Sex Mags Wane in N. Y. Sexy mags, which were among the biggest things in pulps last year, now a negligible factor in the peri ionel White, former mag pub- | Usher and editor, putting the finish- ing touches to his first novel. With four books to his credit, Dennis Wheatley has given up the Radio Reports (Continued from page 54) [ dlum stripped of Its mystery and | glamor I Dee also has guest support. Last I Thursday night (14) a Lt. John, | Thompson of the .U. S. Navy con- tributed «a few of the 'did. you know that's' with his inside stuff having to do with battleships. Odec. KAY KYSER'S. ORCHESTRA Dance Music Sustaining KFWB, Hollywood This combination is ph twice I nightly on remote from the Miramar hotel, Santa Monica. , ' Early eve- ning program is of the seml-clas Mrs. Neagoe, . m g at deductions in manners down on the headquarters of the with those of the Victor Herbert ^ Hartmari. editor of Harper's which no one else would. Result is publications, immediately halted a operettas. flia Magazine, has gone abroad. that H. C. Bailey's newest book Is majority of the mags. Others were Bassuk was formerly the rJS^S^Pal^ anoth6r sea D ne of his best. Obliged to tone down, and, censored, Brooklyn Eagle a ?J* ' J;?j[^ story Alice Campbell's latest mystery ^of^for^fl^^ You h. siuthers Burt In town for a brief yarn Is 'Desire to Kill' (Farrar & I ^tn thTr*Sse VeceTved Trom most of the former flourishing sex J a mag called youtn. spell before leaving for bis ranch Rfnehart; $2). Miss Campbell's listeners. Persohs participating are Another Cartoon Mag Try in Wyoming. yarns are always good sellers and listed for possible future commer Another attempt to put across a Willoughby Sharp in from Ber- no reason why this one shouldn't clal use. 4i .- . . Anoiner auempi w p Ul «. | =. .. . ■ . ^ . — ^— ' follow suit. I Launching the spot, Eyerett said: singer who had never? been on the air before. They gave creditable programs. Everett and Smith explain that the talent is new in the field and that entertainers will be given fur- ther opportunities in accordance mags are now down and out, while the few remaining Ones are gasping for breath While they lasted, the sex mags mag comprised solely of cartoon muda to correct the proofs on his proved a bonanza for their publish- strips is to be made by the Eastern new mystery story, ers. Fetched high prices on the Color Printing Co. That outfit is Donald Henderson Clarke finish- stands, and paid the lowest prices getting . out a. monthly bearing the Ing a novel In his home town, Holy for material and for their manufac- J title of Famous Funnies, utilizing | oke, Mass. . ture. ' For her thesis, Miss Campbell 'This program is for young artists gets fourteen people together for a who th h auditions . held i in our ° . . Ze ii " j.„i^v j studios, seem to possess something dinner party, all of them take dope tnat either through proper devel- wlthout knowing It and^ while opme nt or exploitation, in pur opln- Film Scripts in Book Form Since plays are frequently pub- lished, it's the opinion of Covici, the second Dubllcation rights of such Virginia 'Hersch has again gone they're sleeping it off, one of them i on , may make real artists of the established strips as Joe Palooka, : to Mexldo, motoring there with: her is killed, Who killed the lady? The future.' esiamianeu. auiiMs ap uuc ,| .__„■- Unem^i. to m. a ff v nhvimig hn> t»iftl Each newcomer Is Introduced with Mutt and Jeff, Reg'lar Fellers, etc. I husband. I answer Is pretty obvious, but the Will sell for a dime. Memorial tablet set up in Garden] why and how are amazingly Intri Previously, a similar mag was City, L, L, to F. N. Doubleday, I cate points Friede that there" may be reading J tried by the Dell chain. Lasted but founder of what is now. Doubleday, interest in Aim synopses, too. As a couple of issues. Doran an experiment, that concern is to — I James Remington McCarthy back publish in book form the complete I Ghost Combo working script of 'The Mighty Bar- num,' as prepared by Gene Fowler I De en functioning in New York for and Bess Meredyth. some time, and doing a big business and such Even should the volumo fail to on omn ibus writing of speeches, George popularize a new literary form, the and a i so for publication. I Editions Club, back from Europe a sketch' of his or her life and train- ing; In. New Ydrk with a lot. of hill-billy Satire in Rhyme For some years now bits of poetry by Eveiyne Love Cooper have been STUDIO SINGING PARTY Sustaining 15 Mins. WEEI, Boston If it does nothing, else, this p"ro- publlshers believe a sufficient num- ber of would-be scenario writers would-be interested to make the combo a highly lucrative proposi- publicatioii of the book successful. ti{m A ghost-authoring syndicate has \ Bt "? ^ f or a new book. popping up in Judge, Life, New gram at least gives those aspirants Mich Kralke doing translations Torker and aimllar maga . They » r e Of radio fame a chance to sins their id such. u ht bit of fluff f sa tiric nature lungs out. in a Studio and liaye It George Macy, head of the Limited JJ°*JJ "iS^S ?Z<*J*l fr* broadcast. Nevertheless, there Is m Europe * lrn ost always amus Ing and fre- gome ent ertainment value attached fancv vol . quently annoylngly close to home. to the i d e a< Several of the rega- * 'Now collected into a small book h a r station staff start the song oft titled 'Slightly Sour Grapes' (James and on the second verse the studio Collins; $1), which is worthwhile audience songsters Join in. There for what it is has heen a lot worse On the air Miss Cooper used to be assistant hl^useT are of tt^Opu- editor of Life and at one time was lar a generation ago. on the editorial staff of Judge. She The rltz clients with literary with contracts for some yearns have made this ghosting u ™ es ; , ■ , • ^ .1 Taking advantage of the limited play activity, Gilbert Gabriel, N. Y Jewish Writer's Who's Who An Index of contemporary au- Lucky Newsman Carl vaii Wlegand, one of the best I t hors of Jewish descent in every known American correspondents in i an g Ua ge is in preparation by Abba I Cisco American's drama critic, Is writing a new novel. Joseph. Henry Jackson, San Fran Chronicle's book oracle, knows what readers of humor mags GUS ARNHEIM'S ORCHESTRA London, drew Colombo in the Derby L Krlm, who publishes the Jewish [lunched by Stanley RInehart while | llke Her pieces are all short and [Dance Music Irish Sweep, and stood to wihmiaggjcai an <| philosophical Maga- $150,000. He wanted to keep it all and risk the horse winning, but was per- suaded by friends to sell three- 1 quarters of the ticket. As the horse placed, he received an additional | bonus, and all told, cleared $60,000 ' on. the transaction. ' ztne. Title is Lexicon of Jewish Au- thors. Buys Stephani Tome John Long," Ltd., of London, has bought the English publishing rights its Dog Star Evenings, with varl to 'My Candle Burns,' by Frederick D Us litterateurs on hand. here - , , [to the point. They're a sort of Sustaining Baroness Blixen, whose Seven complnatlon ^ ln h and i ln B of Dorothy K^ 1 ' ^os A "9« les . .t«i«- > *ha noBiiHnnvm l _ ■ x„a«v, -nto „vT „v,i n i, Arnheim is one of the Coast's Parker and Ogden Nash, which isn 1 1 outstanding favs. For a . half hour, starting at 11 p.m., his combo sends forth a. classy program oh remote from, the Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador hotel, His dance numbers are smoothly Gothic Tales,' under the pseudonym of Isak Dinesen, got so much atten- tion here, coming over for a visit | 1 early next month. Gotham Book Mart has resumed ! such a- bad combo. Good Western. Another smart western story Is I _ _ •Montana Outlaw/ by Tom Roan r hytbmic,""min'us" thV faVt sTe'ppinB Keyes Expanding Homer Eaton Keyes, who has for some time presided over the month- ly. Antiques, will extend his mag activities. With a number of asso- Jfephani. Thinking it over, Robert Benchleyj (King, $2), which gets away enough stuff. Arnheim has enhanced his Book, published here by Macaulay, has changed the title of; his forth- from the formula to supply Holly^ band stuff with some fine vocal- is in its third edition, coming book from 'The Milkman wood with a new cowland .pic. lats, which are nicely interpolated TTonoiiv Wnre-PtQ' in "From Bed to Plenty of Scrapping, hard riding and throughout. . Cantor's *WW-V , I SS? T^^"^ ^^t^^ZX^^s ~ ^rKw^ SSA •Ziegfeld: The Great Glorifier' will About the Bison.' J" 11 ^ J™ 1 * , lnt f ° a that moves (t £ o) c * on trlbute the oral numbers be authored by Eddie Cantor and | The octavus Roy Cohens in from tro ™ 4 tn ® f^ art ana keeDS moving. and together round Out a program elates, Keyes has formed the Edito- David Freedman for Alfred H. King. Bumm'ln'ham. rial Publication and is now engaged contracts sighed and publication Lewi a Browne back home in in lining up a group of periodicals. s i a ted for October. Santa Monica, Cal., after a Ceh- Keys expects to get his . enlarged . — : . . ■ • - tral American trip organization set by the fall. | DDA\nr\CMrC James Boyd in towrt to show hla new novel to Scribner. Funny Film Pans I (Continued from page 10) Canadian Authors' Association Frank Campbell, former Mickey [ well , as lt should but all right at will hold its annual convention June Mouse animator who has become [ $M00. ' 27-30. Convention site will be the recognized on the Coast for carica- I y RKO Albee <^ 2 - 000 ; TT1i 15 - 2 ^ 4 4 ?>-- Devil's Gap Bungalow Camp, near tures of film, personalities, has an K^n'^londe^^WaY) MaySe" ^" 0 ^ . assignment frbm Farrar & ^ RInehart $3 500/ so^so. Last week 'Murder Prowling the Hollywood scene is to draw 24 caricatures of film names pn the Blackboard' (RKO) and Dr; F. H. Hooper, of the editorial as illustrations for a book by CJelia | •Woman Condemned' another flop at board of Encyclopedia Brltannlca Cerdow, to be published by F. & R. I $2,300. Film studios getting an ogling RKO Victory (1,600; 10-15-40)— 'Ridin' Thru* and 'Fighting Rookie.' Should be oke at $1,100 for the spilt. Last week '20th Century' (Col) and 'Sisters Under the Skin' (Radio) Out of the rut, and good summer that's the best in its class from this reading. neck: of the woods, - Stan.- Inside Stuff-Pictures (Continued froi both players signatured on long terms before their value to films became apparent to Hollywood. Y. Times inslee's Ainslee's Magazine will be re- vived late in October by Street & Smith. Popular fiction mag, which | not a ° eood at $850 on split week, passed out in 1928, will be edited by Daisy Brown. Miss Brown at present is on Love Story S&S's biggest money-maker. Akron's Grind Tabs k^- Akron, O., Juno 18. Miles Royal, vaudfllm deluxer, dark several months:, has been re- Pari ian Plugs, Mebbe Grace Williams is pn the Coast to interview Louis B. Mayer, Cecil B! De Mille and Samuel Goldwyn for L'lilustration, Paris. News Week Adds Radi News Week has added a radio de- partment to its layout, with Lester Gottlieb assigned to handle it. Gottlieb previously free-lanced for Radio Stars and Radioland. opened with continuous musical comedy tab and films at 25c. top. Verga and Lee company has been installed for indef summer run, Don Bundy. production manager.. In the. company are Nick Verga and Marie Lee, recently with the Olson and Johnson unit, Dea and Dion, adagio, McGrath and Deeds, comedy, Gertrude ,Mottell, blues, Orphia Tuwell, Salt and Pepper Twins and line. Billy Knox, cow- boy rifle shot, added feature. ';om Hazel' Felleman, N book reviewer; Florence Kilpatriek has sold her latest book, *Oh! Joy!,' to George Smith Productions, London, for screen use." It's her third book for pictures. She's over here presently to confab with her agents Ellen Glasgow is in New York with .the first draft of a new novel. - -J--Brooks -Atkinson-^to the, coun-- try for the summer. Eleventh edition for Thome Smith's 'The Bishop's Jaegers.' Compton Mackenzie off on a three-month visit to South Amer- ica. V. Sackville-Wcst has sent her publishers, Doubleday-Doran, the first half of a new novel, 'The Dark Island.'. . Price of Story mag up to 35 cents with the July Issue. Went from 50/ cents to a quarter last October. Hollywood studio friends of Max Baer were aroUnd $100,000 richer as result of the Californian's victory. Most of the wagers were sent in at 5 to 8 with a flock of last minute bets laid at 7 to 5 with the challenger on the long end. Studio mob knocked off work around 4 o'clock with nothing but fight talk in the air and then repaired to their homes to listen. Academy will change its system this year In picking the best sound picture worthy of award. Under the new plan eaoh. studio will be asked to nominate the picture it oonsiders the best for sound. Academy tech- nicians will then narrow these suggestions down to three and from, these, will be picked Jhe best Heretofore, the systenT~waT15ohiriueTed _ cumb"ersome r inasmuch as thlT whole membership was expected to sit in judgment on at least 40 pictures. Meyer Davis' Magna Pictures did a q.t. fadcout after being on the map for three shorts. Magna had a deal with RKO-Van Beuren for a series, and possibly a full length feature eventually, but the' terms were too much against the indie producer and he decided that he w«is on surer ground with bands, etc. Damon Runyon is reported to have been given a $25,000 bonus by Fox' for affixing his signature to a contract which gives that studio first call on the writer's next year's literary oulput.- Amount to bo paid for each yarn bought reputed to be $20,000. Tuesday, June 19, 1934 TO THE LADIES VARIETY 73 NVA Dispute (Continued from page 66) from representing to the public In any drives that it Is In any way .'connected, affiliated or associated with or fostered or countenanced by the plaintiff Suit was flled on behalf of the NVA, InCi, by Henry Chesterfield, secretary and director of NVAv Ihp., and Charles H. O'Donnell, vice- president of the NVA, Inc., two joint actions. Suit Is directed against 15 indi- viduals as well as the NVA Fund Itself and the Spipn and 229 West Forty-sixth Street realty corpora- tions, the operating companies for the New York clubhouse and the Saranac Lake sanatorium. The 15 individual, defendants, all present and former members and directors of the NVA Fund,_are: Pat Casey, William J: Sullivan; Harold Rodner, Edward Alperson, Leslie Thompson, William J. Lee, Mbe Silver, Sam Scribner, Sam Dembow, Jr., Sam Katz, Harry M. Warner, Hiram S. Browh, Charles C. Mbskowitz, Ed- ward A. Schiller, Nicholas Schenck. Committee Calls Last w6eki following the posting of a closing notice on the NVA Club bulletin board, a committee from the club called on Harold Rodner, of Warner Bros., who has been in charge of the NVA reorganizing for the NVA Fund. Most of the talk ing for the committee was done by Sam Liebert, actor, who protested the clubhouse closing and demanded that the people living at the. club and without means for residing else Where, be provided with shelter there or elsewhere. Rodner reiterated the NVA Fund's declaration to close down the club, but advised Liebert and the com mittee that food and $5! a week for rooms would be provided for those who need it. During the course of that discus- sion, Liebert. threatened that if the committee's demands were not sat isfled, several hundred members of the NVA, plus members of the NVA's American Legion post, would picket the Warners' Strand theatre on Broadway in protest. Rodner arranged for delivery of food to the NVA club, and between then and the clubhouse's . closing yesterday an average of 100 people were fed at the club nightly; Last night (Monday), with the -clubhouse closed, the meals were transferred to Meyer Gerson's restaurant on West . 47th street. On Wednesday night (13) a mass meeting was conducted by Chester- field In the clubhouse with more than 600 attending. The dally press was invited. Attendees voiced ap- proval of the suit, of which Ches- terfield informed .them, and which was filed yesterday. 1 Specific purpose of the suit, as given In Chesterfield's affidavit. Is to 'restrain the waste by the de fendant, NVA Fund, and by cer tain of the individual defendants who" are its present officers and di- rectors, of moneys and assets, in Its possession held by it in trust for the plaintiff.' In challenging the claim of the NVA Fund that no moneys are available to maintain all the New Tork functions of the NVA, Ches- terfield presents figures of the pro- ceeds from the annual NVA theatre collection " drives for the six years from 192a to 1933 as evidence in re- buttal.. According to the .figures, Which Chesterfield says were sup- plied by William J. Lee, the NVA's receipts during those years were: 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 • • • • ■• < $760,301.66 .578,089.57 728,610.98 814,409.34 333,246.12 141,369.83 Total ........ $3,355,757.37 Chesterfield charges that accord- ing to his own computation of ex- penditures ■ during the six years, there should be on hand an approxi- mate balance of over $560,000. Plus the $200,000 anticipated from this year's (1934) drive, the NVA Fund's moneys on hand, according to Ches- terfield's estimates, should amount In addition, asserts Chesterfield7 the late F. F. Proctor left a bequest of $60,000 to the NVA, Inc., three or four years ago, that the check was endorsed and turned over to the NVA Fund by Pat Casey, and that the Fund has *had the benefit and use of these moneys all of this time.' Previous Settlement This suit, in asking^ for an ac- counting and in the nature of the charges made, is similar to another one contemplated and announced by Chesterfield In the spring of 1931, when practically the same situation, arose; Then, as how, the club house was ordered closed by the NVA Fund, and for the same reasons. Negotiations by both sides following the filing of the . suit led to a com- promise and settlement out of court. Settlement was In form of an agree- ment, signed by Sam Katz, then president of the NVA Fund, and Henry Chesterfield for the NVA Club. By this agreement the NVA Fund was obliged to care for the NVA Club and its activities for the fol- lowing five years, with the NVA, Inc., promising in the meanwhile to seek a sub-tenant for the costly West 46 th street clubhouse with a view to moving to less expensive quarters. No move ever was made, the NVA Club contending the 46th street building .could not be satis- factorily disposed of. During the term of the agree- ment's effectiveness, from Decem- ber, 1931, to October, 1933, the NVA Fund continued to support the NVA Club in all Its activities. These in- cluded the weekly New York chari- ties which by' the summer of '33 had reached a total of $3,600 month- ly. In October, 1933, the NVA Fund again notified Chesterfield that, re- gardless of the agreement, the NVA Fund could not possibly maintain the NVA Club any longer. Since; then, according to the. present suit, the charity list has been reduced to an infrequent $150 weekly, and the total supplied the NVA, Inc., by the NVA Fund has been about $1,120. In entering Into the now : broken agreement, says Chesterfield, the NVA Fund , members 'were offering to buy their peace solely to be rid of an alleged nuisance.' Regarding the recent replacement of the NVA Fund board of directors of William J. Lee and Moe Silver, respectively, by Harold Rodner and Edward Alperson, at which time the NVA reorganization, including cor rectlng .of conditions at Saranac Lake, commenced, Chesterfield has this to say: With these two substitutions, those men constitute the present board of directors and officers -of the defendant fund. This change in the board of directors of the fund has completely changed the complexion and entire picture of the situation. Instead of the di- rectorate and officers of the fund ■ consisting, of men who were ex- ecutives, and heads of the separate concerns, which operated these vast circuits throughout the coun- try, men capable of thinking in- dependently and acting for them- selves and not subject to intimi- dation, men who could be and were generally trusted by the pro- fession, there was and has been constituted at the present time a board of directors which, with the exception of. Henry Chesterfield, consists of dummies acting for Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Al- though Harry M. Warner, presi- dent of Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., does not appear upon the di- rectorate of the defendant fund, his assistant, Harold "Rodner, is now the executive vice-president. He is Warner's mouthpiece. . He receives orders from Warner and transmits them to the entire board, which- gives blanket ap- proval, over the objection of Mr. Chesterfield, to everything that Warner suggests. Tho board is. now under the sole and complete direction of tho said Warner/ His henchmen have been substituted in place of trusted employees of long service at the Sanitarium at- Saranac Lake, and, in fact, his organization envelops the entire network of fund's activities. Because of the recently curtailed supply of coin from the NVA Fund, the club ■ under Chesterfield has lately been using what little it re- ceived, it claims, for food for needy members.. For this reason the 30 employees or thereabouts of the club were not. paid for the past 11 weeks. On Friday (16) they com- plained • to the Labor Commission against - the N VA Fund -and a -hear- ing was held. It was agreed that the NVA Fund will pay them as much of their back salaries as itf-can afford by this Thursday (21). Owes $13,000 The club house closed down through the dispossess notice route because the NVA Club owes $10,000 in taxes and two months' rent, or about $13,000 in all. The Mount Estate, which owns the ground upon which the club stands, served the dispossess, refusing to permit members on the property from .yes- terday (Monday) on but allowing Chesterfield to maintain offices there for a few days, or until he finds other quarters. NVA Club was in on a 21- year lease, signed two years ago. . Attorneys representing Cheste'r- fleld, O'Donnell and the NVA, Inc., in the suits against the NVA Fund and Its members are Hirsch, New- man, Reas & Becker. Suits are brought in New York Supreme Court SamG law firm, represented Chesterfield in the suit he started in 1931, receiving $5,062 for its labor. This was paid by the; NVA Fund under the terms of the agreement Although Chesterfield is a mem- ber of the NVA Fund board, ali of whose members are defendants, he is not, of course, named in his own suit, nor in O'Donnell's, Latter states, 'Chesterfield Is not joined as. a defendant since plaintiff has no complaint against him.' Gauging Up (Continued from page 29) leans pay. All have, different rea- sons for doing this, which isn't making the outcome more pleasant. . ;• . Problem conies down basically to the realization . that all Europe is broke. Film production all over- the Continent is practically, bankrupt, Local producers are hollering all down the line for* subsidies.- Gov- ernments can't afford subsidies, for films' but think that perhaps Amer- icans can be stampeded Into paying them via taxes or contingents. Germany's interest is somewhat perplexing at first. Germany doesn't want any new or tougher quotas. But Germany is desperately in need of export markets. If Czechoslovakia and Poland can be put into a position of completely opposing Americans, Germany figures to have found itself an opening.. Czechoslovakia problem Is .an old one. Two years ago the Czechs de- cided they wanted a heavy con- tingent and the Americans walked out en masse. With the exception of Radio the Americans have stuck to their guns throughout and are still not selling films in or out of Prague. Now the. Czechs are getting panicky and. almost ready to talk turkey. Several months ago a deal was practically lined up for the Amer- icans to return. * Basis of the . deal was 12-1 quota law with' $6,000 as an alternate price of admission and an unlimited market. That would allow the Czechs under current conditions, to use the American money for almost half of the local production needs.. Germany Im- mediately stepped in and off ered the Czechs a better deal, however, side- tracking the Issue. Germany's offer to the Czechs Is a 6-1 quota or $8,000 per picture and a limit of 180 pictures per year, or 15 per month. This Americans feel is too costly and dangerous since it would mean a rush for registration without guaranty of entree. Germans, however, are sat- isfied since it doesn't worry them too much to come In and make a picture now and then inasmuch as they're so near anyway. With the opening of the Polish headache Czechoslovakia is letting the thing slide figuring to still get to the U. S. men if. Poland, carries through a tough law. Czechs, basically, do not want to do busi- ness with -Germany nor do they want German films, but they do not dare throw over the German deal if they see no hope of a better one with the New York reps. In Poland the situation Is actually acute. Law. is being framed and must be ready by the .end of July. Best Americans can hope for Is a straight tax sock which will likely be about a 18c a meter, of film over and above the current fairly stiff tax rates. . That would be a blow but wouldn't, make business Impos- sible. The Germans and Czechs are in Warsaw, how.ever, talking quota laws since that would give ' both an edge. They can easily produce and Americans can't and don't want to'. Among the Women By The Skirt Curtis Test -Case (Continued from page 65) both sides: would co-operate in get- ting an authoritative ruling on the law in the higher court. Last Thursday (14), when Brod- sky originally was due to hand down his decision, he scored the Corpora^ tion Counsel assistants for turning in an Inadequate brief that 'insults Best Dressed Woman of the Week MARY BO-LAND •Here Comes Groom' (Film) Jack Haley's. Best 'Here Comes the Groom*, at the Paramount", is by far Jack Haley's best film to- date. Mary Boland, as ah aunt, is too gorgeous. She be- comes mOrc beautiful in every picture. Her interpretation of lines is her success. Miss Boland's hair is done by no less than an artist. Worn plain acress the top, the back is a wealth of curls.. A sable trimmed suit is worn at. the start of the picture and. at a party she is in white chiffon striped in crystal. The gown carries long full sleeves. A morn- ing Costume consisted of a boucle three-piece suit. Patricia Ellis is seen first in a traveling coat with a huge fox collar. Her dinner gown is of solid jet. The stage show is an odd mixture of the . old days. An Amazon com- bination march and time step is done by the chorus in purple bodices with green sashes around the hips. There were gold epaulets and gold braid. Cherry and June Prelsser, always a hit, are in pajamas. Shea and Raymond, seen around so often this season, show the younger woman in short white dancing frock while the mother is neatly dressed in black. A ballet is done with the girls in white dresses flowered ' ink and green with large black dots. Better Dressed Stage Than Screen Poor Ann Harding is full of the miseries again at the Music Hall. In the picture 'The Life of Vergie Winters' she is an unwe^d mother. John Boles also Is doing what he Has done - S 6 often in, pictures, being married to the wrong woman. Picture shows Miss Harding in the clothes of the '90s, and she" couldn't have picked a , dowdier outfit. But you don't asso- ciate clothes with this star. Her acting compensates. Josephine Whltell, Molly O'Day, Sara Haden, Helen Vinson and Betty Furness are the other women, with little to -do. and costumes fitting ,the times, but uninter- esting. The stage show at the Music Hall this week is above ordinary. Open- ing with 'Melodies of Friml, Josepha Chekova sings from 'Rose Marie' in a pale pink frock with black velvet belt and long ends. A fantasy called 'The Romance of Giselle' is artistically done. Giselie is Nina Winters on her toes. The ballet dresa is of many colors, the skirt being a deep pink edged with lavender, and the bodice is cerise velvet with green 'kerchief. The chorus, as peasants, are in shades of yellow and orange. One . miss is a princess in a pale blue taffeta hooped gown sparkling with gems; A large hat was feathered. There have been many white ballets, but none so beautiful as the one this week here. Bursts of applause came many times. . Another number by the Rockettes was done' In ail the green shades. The costumes were tunic fashion with formations of four, shading from the deepest green to the palest and finally white. Black bows were at the rear and at the neck, while the caps were trimmed with one high uncurled feather. The singing chorus Was in black satin with diamond tiaras, and once again in evening frocks of different colors. At the Roxy The Roxy has taken advantage of the fad for sidewalk cafes arid has the stage set as such. The girls are seated at tables in mauve satin gdwns with large hats matching. Their escorts are girls in swallowtail and high hats. A real can-can is done, in black lace undies and white frocks with a flowered design. Buster Shaver with Olive and George open with a sort of a sketch with the tiny miss in a pink negligee. She shows black Bteplns and then dons a black evening dress with white fur trimming. For -her dance with Mr. Shaver she appears in a blue ruffled cape under which Is a gown of the same shade. The Mae West number created a small furor as it always does. The picture, a silly trifle called 'Let's Talk It Over', has Chester Morris as a gum chewing gob, and very annoying. Mae Clarke is the girl and with no . special material tries to be human. Miss Clarke shows a lovely figure In a bathing suit and then is seen in an evening dress of white, made severely plain but for pearl chains hanging from , the shoulders. An aviator and a riding suit prove becoming. A dark cloth suit had a white jabot and a boa was of silver fox.' A dinner dress was of a' sheer black material with a lace collar bordering the throat and extending down the low V shaped back. There was a plaid skirt mountain costume worn with a cardigan and also good looking pajamas and robe. Herman Timberg's Unit Herman Timberg walked out on the Palace, stage -frith the remark, 'Don't I -draw them in?.' -But he knew it was the Baer-Carnera fight picture. At noon on Saturday the house was packed. 'Murder at the. Vanities' was the main film* Stage show mattered little. It was Timberg's unit called 'Tempta* tlons' and could have been called anything'. A line of girls appeared in full skirts of pale blue chiffon with sequin bands at the hips. The bras- siere tops were feather trimmed. Discarding the skirts they were in scantles. While Mr. - Timberg fiddled a girl sang in a weak voice, and a. long white -organdie dress. The unit finishes In a cabaret scene of inter- national costuming with, the girls in dresses of the countries; A back- stage scene finds the girls in stepins of different coloring. A girl, did a butterfly number in a peach and blue kimono.' Taps were done by a young miss in a silver sequin costume trimmed with blue feathers. Dancing- Act Mann, Robinson and Martin, a. dancing, act, opens the State show this week. Two boys in white mess jackets dance with a girl in a pale green frock with brown ribbons. A girl at the piano is In white pants and eton jacket with a frilly jabot. A girl dancer makes her second appearance in a white kimono with black embroideries. Underneath is a blue costume consisting of only trunks and brassiere. Act finishes with the girl in a white satin skirt, arid blue jacket. The only other woman on the bill Is in the' Goss arid Barrows act. She wears a shimmery green frock trimmed with colored petals. my intelligence.' He held the case over until yesterday to further study the law, at the same time giving. Curtis permission to sail. License department's drive to 11- cense'thg^thilal^ral^eps^as^start^ ed about four months ago, after the Wald bill to license artists' repre- sentatives was killed in the State Legislature, in Albany. Moss at that time got the assurance of the de- funct Theatrical Artists' Represent- atives Association, of which Arthur S. Lyons was the head, that the agents would submit to, licensing by New York Gity. When this organ- ization went on the rocks, however, and the RKO, Loew and indie reps branched out into separate associa- tions, the agents retained Goodman and Goldblatt to fight the license department's move. ^Agents'^content-ion^ls^that^they^ are personal representatives who give actors special and unique serv- ice, with securing employment for the artists only incidental. Commis- sioner Moss, however, claims that the theatrical reps are employment agencies, pure and simple, who se- cure work for actors the same as a Sixth avenue employment agency secures work for a cook or a por- ter. 74 VARIETY times square Tuesday, June 19, 1934 East Thornton Freeland, director, sailed Saturday (16) for England to meg •Brewster's Millions' for British & Dominion. Jack Buchanan and L>lly •Damlta Will head cast. Jane Baxter, English actress, ar- rived in New York Friday (15) from Europe enroute to Hollywood for United Artists. Outdoor terrace of the Donny- brdok Lodge, Scarsdale, N, Y., opened Saturday night (16). Johnny Strouss orchestra, M M-W-W-W W PJ'HI M W III MM M 1:1 I- M I 1 1 1 I Mil l l I I I I I I 111 I I 11 H I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I .1 I M I I I M I I I I I I I I I M I I II I I I I News From the Dailies This department contains rewritten theatrical news items as published during the week in the daily papers of Nep> York, Chicago, San Francisco, Hollywood and London. Variety takes no credit for these news items; each has been rewritten from a daily paper. abandon this nbiicy by District At- leal by Nonlta James opened two- Trivin N Edwards. night showing at The Pleasant E?wa^^ < 16 >V . New *ork Friday (15) for Holly- | Glglio Italian flayers, having Casino, theatre, .Newport, - wood. „ nounces an eight- week season, - Evelyn H er p ert ;?^^r^i!roneln ginning July .10. York Wednesday (13) for European Carl Laemmle sailed for England vacation. . . / Saturday (16) from New York. Reported that John W, Hugh O'Connell, currently with | father of outlaw, has received an •The Milky 3 [day (17), Both taken to Englewood hospital with possible skill! frac- tures. Rothwell also suffered a broken nose. Sidney Hayes, formerly with B. F. Keith office and Sidney Phillips has Joined staff of Frank . Merlin at the Little theatre in secretarial capacity. Stlckup of Blue Bird Inn, Lake Ronkonkomo, Sunday (17), resulted In arrest of three men at Islip, L, I., later in day. day (16). Medal presented for his Matinee opposlsh for theatres services in composing and titling closed with departure of fleet club's march, 'Pride o' the Land/ (yesterday). Navy feted during. Her Majesty the Widow* given three-week stay, a preview try-out at Governor's Is- Sidney Ross has bought 'Black land. Commanding officer of post Sabbath,' by S. Ansky. Fall pro- is husband of Pauline Fredericks, Auction planned after try-out at Westchester theatre, Aug. 27. Perry prof eg- I En zo Fiermonte, fighter, and hus- completed their . season at the Venice, started a tour of New Eng- land cities. _ Fay Marbe and Tulllo Carminati star of show, Will appear In "'Julie,' new comedy. Mra Geraldlne by Frederick Arnold Kummet t q ,* n n v w nftW „ a- Tftrl ofth«va«d« band of Mrs. Astor Dick, socialite, ■The Milky Way ' SSd" 5? I Si^wS^ "at "a%onc7ssion at I slated for Aug ll* ; the John^H. tStJ%F$SZ. ^V^^ommmed ffiffi* match wlth Maxle Ro SersaTLd^lil d^art fo? tnl CoTey Island. It is also said that Hessel Memorial Hall, Woodmere, sulcld b ls0nl , her hotel "^{J- pHm mer prl6at onco an Coast later this summer. | he has b *n_ o«ere^^ for Hollywood. fiance Arthur Kav Hani in also 0 f fore congregation Of friends at St. Black Appel Players at Loch : JJSgL mr %ey were fo hkve been Sunday (17). Father ieldrake, N. Y y open their season n?£^ I PHmmer ^assigned to faculty of Actor's Dinner Club reported ah unnamed vaudeville agency for broke. Will be forced to discontinue appearances. service unless aided by outside Sophie Tucker s»glw L n3u 'wi n charity. saving child's life, which she pushed Leonard Siliman has taken over] out of path of automobile in Lon- the Deal Conservatoire at Deal, | don, N. J. Opening? in July. with . Six hew plays and three revivals. . Wharf theatre, Provincetown* Mass., opens its season July 2. A. C. Blumenthai entered a $430, Dixie DeLatte, charged with glv- Donald . MacDonald and Ruth wxl 5 a ^Xl' Uifl lh $1 000 bail Hammond joining the South Shore ing a fan dance held ■■ n Jh?™ "» p , ■ ■ fc fthftg * et Mass.. for four I in" Philadelphia, Thursday (14) Alexander Granik and Alexander Henry, owners of gr}U Where police Apartment houses as well as hotels and restaurants will be per- mitted to have curbstone eateries under an amendment sponsored in Catholic University at Washington. At Catholic, rally in Cleveland 50,000 pledged bah on indecent Aims.. Coast 941 judgment against Fox Theatres charge dance was attempted, were Corp. in the County Clerk's office, also held. . ■ . Thursday (14), at direction of Su- I A young girl was clawed .W * preme Court Justice E. L. Hammer, bear at Gangler's Circus in BropK- Siim represents balance due on note lyn, Monday (11). Bear, chained to made by defendant in December, a stake, broke loose. Companion or - M.i.u ii. u 4k. n.. I ik. Knot nff the animal with a Victim Players at Cohasset, Mass., for four weeks beginning July 2. „ , M , , „ .-Boris' Aronson, scenic designer the Board of Aldermen by Bernard has returned to America after a S. Deutsoh, Friday (IB). Atnend- lyear abroad, Iment adopted at request of house Red Barn theatre, Locust Valley, managers seeking slice of. profits L. I. will open June 26 with 'True to in operating sidewalk diners. I the Marines/ . N. R. A. celebrated its first birth Stony Creek theatre, formerly day Friday (15). moTon^hlclTit is VliegeFthe**Fox I th^ girl beat Vff the animal with * | Pjrlah Playe i% o£ 25 S J° ny 10 C w 2[ New. proposal before Congress to company defaulted. . U«ck until keepers arrived. Victim liqWr control away . Charles JTrohman, Inc., vacating treated for superficial wounds and JgJJJ* unaer OI Alien states to .invest Congress wlthau. its offices ot 40 years In the Empire returned home. NVA Club threatened with * ho £ ty to restrlct or prohibit liquor. | m »f sl ° n theatre. June 30, will move into the I As result of ^an as^ closing because oi unpaid taxes of ' trlimc ' Paramount building, ~ j tweert the Corporation Coun se l W « ^ re ^ m »«.«-„ -pinv«rq|of Abingdon. Group accepts far- Apprentice Repertory ^ .Players | mer . B oroduce . rang i n g from scal- |worK * Hedgerow players and maybe press- Nine-day-old infant of George O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill the lyrics and his wife the music to what they called ' 'An Arizona | Home,' copyrighted In 1905. tthey assert that 'Home on the Range' j Apprentice xwiioiwi* v " 1 mer's produce, ranging from seal- |'"^"* ,„ „ •■ , I CT,,"iV^" iJr"^>^'^'^"f^n,^'^*''YJi Is identical in melody and words, opened series of summer revivals lat ; ™£ 8 to-nortea Itf 1^ rtEcoin tor-l English wife of Ronald Colman, buried in O'Brien family plot in Am6ng ^fendants are 1 Haviland ' T T rT,v,0 ™* , * 0 ti««/1m I »9 na . 5° potkots, in ueu 01 coin yyv ] f ^ °_ ^ r m<...^a I Snn ^ranr-lsoo. Publishing .Col, Carl Fischer, Inc., Educational Films, CBS, NBC and Amsco Music Co. Richard Harrison, of 'Green • Pastures/ will be starred by Row- the 'LWx Little Theatre Tuesday I """". J" ^S" 1 J2 0 '1 s U cA e safui fornier Mrs. Thelma Victoria Maude San Francisco. (12) with 'Captain Applejack^ | season ' last year p 0 rtersfleld de- r Da w aon '. suing for a London divorce | Damages of $50,305 asked in L. A, land Stebblns when the play goes opens June v 24 at Palni Garden Mu afield, again in September, starting I sic Hall. Douglas Gerard will manage axid'X ^Sed* to"rVttirn Vl^'baras^mera I which the player will not defend. I suit by ^ean Robinson, actress, for direct. , • - for a second helDin^. I They have been separated for nine injuries received in traffic accident. Walter Wilson engaged to direct IO Wn^ Xinni^Pri' •Hawkshaw the Detective/ which f at Norfolk. Libby Holman attempting. a come- back at the Hedgerow theatre, Rose Valley, Pa., in a revival of | Hugh Walpole arrived from Eng- years. 1 l os Angeles court denied Jean land enroute to Hollywood to assist I Mulrooney appeals to drinkers to Hoover, former, tap dancer and par Aiming of 'David Copperfleld/ This smash empty llkker bottles; would achute jumper, $150,000 sought for Vt"*u« t»»^« t~ an A waiter I ^ s initial effort of novelist in film make it tough for the bootleggers, asserted alienation of husband's af- .^ a !l„ B „ e fI S '„^,^ | production Also in party were Senator Nye took a swat at the fectiohs. P^ 1 !^; ^S 1 ^' ae0r§fe Cukor Picture code on the floor of the Los Angeles court takes under ad KZrJfLT ^L,. n « Senate, Saturday (16). Denounced vlsement petition of former wife of Lawrence Tlbbett received an it as favoring picture trusts and 1 honorary degree of doctor of music ru inlng indies, dlers.. Crowd station house with 350 outdoor salesmen. Advertising Federation of Amer iCa in convention at Pennsylvania hotel Ash to manage and direct, respec tively, for William C. Jackson, op ! erator of • Grlswold. theatre New 'Spring in Autumn/ which opened ( London. .■ '' _ ' Saturday night (16)., Miss Holman UnltyTheatre has Aflno^Genez s at the commencement exercises at, „ Q ., Crt0 «,„^ m „„ att0 fnr nr playing a straight dramatic role 'Queer Duck' scheduled for fall pro-J ^ ew ^ T ork U ., Wednesday (13). police discard summonses for ar -that of a servant in the play, duction. ■• Because the picture 'Nana' has Kf sts m^rive on Coney Island ped PhUadelphia Orchestra Associa- 1 Westchester Playhouse at Law- been withdrawn" from the French 1 "^"" ^-"" r " wU1 tlon announces engagement of Dr. rence Farms opened it s nfth season mar k e t , the heirs of Emlle Zola have Herbert Qraf to direct a series of Tuesday (12) with June Walker in dr0 pped their suit against United 10 operas, to be included in the 'The Late Christopher Bean. Artists in Paris, orchestra's 35th season. Methodist ministers of Philadel- Opening of Billy Rose's Music Ray Kavanough will direct music phia commended Cardinal Dougher- Hall delayed until June 21. Was for Felix Ferry for latter's 'Monte ty on his appeal to members of his scheduled to open Friday (15). Carlo Follies/ opening at Monte (Archdiocese to boycott Alms. At Frank J. Gould settled his suit Carlo, Julv 28. Kr.vanaugh and his meeting of clerics adopted resolu-: against French and English lnsur Crew sailing for France, June 30. | tion urging all local Protestants to ance companies for $231,350 in-Nice likewise ban pictures. Suit arose from burning of Gould's Meyer Goldberg of Trenton, N. J., casino, Palais de la Medlterranee, has petitioned Gov.- Harry Moore to h as t Nov. 24. With awarded funds assist him in getting a permit to ^ e w m rebuild and reopen it as a operate a dbg racing track in Long chance den next December. Days' Grace/ comedy, as a summer I Branch. Reported city had sold Evelyn Jocelyn, showgirl, married . offering. property to track men prior to law to Lester Landau in civil ceremony, ed in with the new season; Phldelah Rice opening 10th season granting State Racing Commission Tuesday (12) in New York. ~ ™ Joseph von Sternberg to have di- rector adjudged. In contempt for failure to pay alimony installment of $1,200 due June 1. Two dance halls were destroyed by a- Are that swept the pier at Long Beach, Cal. Objection by parents of Dorothy Granger, film, actress, caused can* Margaret . Curtiss of Met. opera 1 collation in L. A. of her wedding to ballet school to give a summer George Lolller, screen actor, course in ^classical ballet work at Loulae Swlft> one -tlme New Or- Hunter college. First time. | leans soc i e ty belle, discovered in the Pat Mahn directing Young's Gap Players, ' who open at Parlsville, N. Y., July 1. Nick Kenny, radio columnist,, planning to produce his 'Thirty Chic Sale due on B'way- in the fall in 'The Elephant Shepherd/ in Which he will, take the part of a bull trainer. Has had several west ern tries. Seventeen musical shows expect supervision over sport. Commission I Emelia Tersinl put a legal clamp 'West End Avenue/ comedy drama recently rejected all applications to 0 n Prima Camera's purse for his by Sarah Dandberg, at the Sutton conduct tracks except at Atlantic cut of the Baer fight. Girl is the theatre yesterday evening (Mon- City. Goldberg crying because of wa i tress who was awarded $14,646 day) a 75G nut incurred in erecting a verdict against Primo in a suit for Peggy Joyce arrived in Paris track before ban. a supposed jilting. | Sunday (17) to see what recent at Work of razing the bungalows at Carmela Ponselle will go to Lake Orchard Beach, Pelham, began Placid to recuperate from her recent script of picture She is writing for I under orders, of Park Commissioner illness, United Artists. Moses. ~ Jacob Kalich scouting for new Joseph M. Schertck, Maurice SU- | Kathryn Parsons m.c/ing on Cot* | faces for the chorus of Molly Picon's of Vineyard Players, Rice Play- house, Oak .Bluff, Mass., July 2. Troupe headed by Betty Hanna and Robert. Wallsten. Bess Meredyth, authoress, arrived in New York from Hollywood Fri- day (15). Sails shortly for England to . confer with George Arllss oh extra shuffle at Paramount Charging that- skyrocket set oft by George Raymond injured four- year-old girl, damages for $30,000 sought. In L. A. suit against actor. Baby Marie Osborne, former child Sutton 1 GunrpiaylousTpVesented I ^S' n "^ led Stand ' ln f ° r tempt to auction off furnishings in her Riviera Villa was all about. Reported place was being stripped to satisfy creditors. Ginger Rogers. Rupert Franklin, character actor, and wife. . celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Satisfying L. A. court that he is without funds to meet alimony pay- ments, H. H. Van Loan, playwright, freed of contempt citation. Frahk Bayes, film cutter, arrested in L. A. . _ Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, I charge ' when his eff craILd head verstone. European manager for I ton Blossom Showboat plying the I new musical, planned for September I of Marble Collegiate Church, N. Y., on w ith a bus inlurine- his wif« UA, and Etienne Pallos of London ^ Hudson : one ^ night: weekly, under a t the Second; Av«hw sermon delivered S""^-- ' - uuo ' ^'"'B.n^ w«e. Films, sailed from New York Sat- urday (16) for England. George B, Storer, president of WMCA, announced .Wednesday (13) the formation of. a new unit, planned to exchange programs un- der the name of . The American Broadcasting System. Group Will include seven' key cities of the At- lantic . coast, WMCA being the key station. sponsorship, of Mary Hancock. Palisades Park host to 60 com- manding officers of the fleet at a I shor,e dinner. Rudy Vallee will give daily free I planning to replace the beef trust grannies, common to Yiddish musi- cals, with line of young, shapely girls. 'The Eye/ a mystery-comedy by concerts for patrons at Manhattan I Halsey Raines and Rainess Cope Beach July 1 to 14. land, Will have a tryout this summer I stressed heed for co-operation with Commencing Friday (16.) the at the Bandbox, Hempstead, L. L Catholic Church, in boyeptting film Rdxy reduced admissions. Mary Forrest and Richmond Cooper houses for 30 days. Mayor LaGuardla announced he directing. Dirty work on Lexington avenue is not opposed to dancing kt park Mounted police invaded the un- this week when 'They Done Wrong Sunday (17) urged American Protestants to Estate of Slgrun Solvason Hes- unite with Roman Catholics in their ?" ert ' known In Hollywood as Greta demand for a higher standard In | Garbos double, estimated at $500 r pictures.. Similar plea made by Rev. C. Everett Wagner of Union Methodist Episcopal Church, who Mrs. William Barclay Parsons, Jr., cafes, but objects to any minimum I dergrourtd Dixie Hotel Bus terminal by Our Nell' opens Thursday night and Arthur Butler Graham elected to inembership in The National Board, of the Motion Picture Re search Council. Alessandro Granda, tenor, has withdrawn from the Hippodrome Opera Co 'All These Years/ by Benson Inge, will be given week's tryout at Cliff theatre, Sea. Cliff, L. I., June 26. Commissioner Moss subpoenaed Frank Schiffman and Lillian Brad ley, agents, to appear before him charge such as is being considered I in pursuit of a man accused of (21) at Jaeger's. Music Hall for. the Claremont Inn. I stabbing another in the Astor Hotel I Joseph Ornato sweeping cobwebs City fireman verbally spanked ip bus terjminal, . from which he fled, from Westchester theatre, Mt. Ver order Issued by the commissioner Saturday. (16). Inon, plans fall opening under new resulting from, mass gate crashing | Elisha Cook, Jr., last seen in 'Ah, name. Wilderness/ has been signed by 'When the Crash Comes/ by Bev- Paramount to appear in 'Ready for | erly Nichols, beingj. rehearsed by Ensemble theatre. and misbehavior at recent Ross- McLarnin flight at the Garden I Bowl. Smoke-eaters are hot to at- tend public places in uniform un I less detailed on official duty, will be administered by her hus- band. Alvin Weingand, resident man- ager of the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel, married in San Mateo, to Bev- erly Hollister. Charged With causing the death in Los Angeles of Edward SpUlane, 53, former circus- acrobat; Patrolman" Felix Rice went to. trial. Reunion of old timers who played the Tlvoll theatre, in San Francisco planned by Joseph Mills, veteran comedian. Those already contacted' are Walter Catlett, Walter De Leon, Arthur Cunningham, George Kun- kel, Ester King, Tom Guise, Harry Actor's and Jewish Theatrical plan not yet selected, Philip Johnson, musician, 'denied I Guilds joining in a monster benefit Harry Clark, club entertainer, petition to be named administrator to be given late this Fall. I confessed to 15 robberies at Albany, of Victoria Morosini estate by Sur- Howard S. Cullman appointed Sunday (17). Being held by police today (Tuesday) to be questioned I rogate Albert H. Henderson. John- equity receiver for Roxy Theatres .there, who are garnering loot oh actor's complaints of percenters' | son claimed to be Miss Moroslni's | Corp. by Federal Judge Coxe, Frl- | hocked in local pawn shops, IiOVe -' I Ensemble theatre. Two other plays „ aw ^u.^ -T-he Catholic Actor's, Episcopal in three-play season on- subscription I praseT^ave"AdleT M *T^m^ and Fred Kavanaugh Doris Kenyon postponed her con cert tout; until fall to check in for a part at Universal. Buddy Kennedy rode Into Holly ,-v==fef usals^to^.pay^off*= Lawrence Tibbett elected to presi- dency of the National Association of American. Composers and Con ductors. Bryant Hall, old auditorium at Sixth avenue and 42nd street, is being junked to allow for expan- sion of a cafeteria. Place famous in show circles as rehearsal hall, Alma Gluck landed in New York Thursday (14) from Europe. Long Island nlte club operators .employing female Impersonators in floor shows have been warned to .common Jaw- husband. _= •The Bohemian Girl' title of 'Gypsy Blonde' wood on a mule frbm Tempe, Ariz., = 4yrmifelW^yT^the^K6T5SlJf^^ ting a film tryout. Rubinoff sees rebirth Of fllmusi- cals and predicts cycle of operattas to include works of Herbert, Rom- berg and Lehar, but holds out little Lday ^(15.) ,^to=^ct^as^tempora^^ under new- trustee under $50,000 bond. Court Irving Ascher flew from London to with new also granted corporation permis- Paris Sunday (17) to be wed today libretto by Kenneth Johns, opens slon to reorganize under new bank- (Tuesday). Ascher, director of June 25 at the Lyric. Rehearsals ruptcy law. , .. I Warner Bros. London studio. Pair started Thursday (14) under dlrec- Arch Selwyn, a bankrupt, petition accompanied by Jimmy Walker and tion of Dmitri Ostrov. John Gur- filed Friday (15) in U. S; District wife. - . . ney will play the lead, Court. His liabilities are listed as Mr* Beatrice Feinstein, former h 9P e ^ grand opera as screen fare. Theatre Guild purchased 'Native $312,910 and assets at $6,689. Among dancer, suing Mrs. Leona Deutsch „ E ! T i 111 , 0 \ Stalne, singer, sustained Ground* by Virgil Geddes and will assets are a $20 deposit in the Na- for $200,000 for lifting of former's slight injuries when struck by an include it on next season's schedule, tional City Bank and $6,019 uncol- husband's affections. automobile In L. A. John C. Wilson has taken an lected' debts. Frank Rothwell, secretary to Bob Kathleen Norris rushed into a option on 'Invitation to a Murder" Edwin Franko Goldman, com- Hope, and his chauffeur, Andrew burning cottage near San Francisco for England. poser, honored with medal given by Bell, seriously injured in automo- to rescue her maid's child, but atter 'Porto Rico Moon/ two-act musl- the 4-H Club at Washington, Frl- I bile accident at Alpine, N. J„ Sun- • (Continued on page 78) Tuesday, June 19, 1934 TIMES SQUARE -SPORTS VARIETY 75 Peggy's Century of Progress By PAN GOLDBERG Chicago, June 14. I just got back from my first Visit to the Fair and this Is this first chariot I've had to write you. First . of ail Adamae Vaughn to Valentine r'Auvray, June 15, in Giendale, Calif. Bride is screen player, groom Los Angeles business man. Dorothy Parker to Ala.i Campbell; last October, secretly in LOhg. Is- land. .Second marital trek for poet- ess. Groom is an actor-author, Mary Helen Miller to I'rahk Re- gan at Huntington Park, Cal. June 13. Groom is the manager of. the Warner theatre at Huntington Park. Bride is nonrprofesh. Geraldine .May Jessup Timmons to Don Lee, in Agua Caliente, Mex„ June 15. Groom is a Coast radio chain operator. Theodore L. Smalley, pa. for the M. &P. theatres in Worcester, Mass., td Jeanette M. Goodman, June 17, irt Brookline, Mass. ^^ess^GilbeEt^^scEipUgiELat^Golum^ bla studios, to Maurice A. Primock, non-pro, June 18, in Los Angeles. Ora Nichols to Lou Dorbugh, in New York, June 14. Bride is in charge of sound effects at CBS;, groom is a musician. R. H. E. RKO ..... 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 0—5 8 2 ERPI ..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0—5 8 6 Tie game, played last Wednesday (13), will , be replayed later in the season. I ■■ BIRTHS Downey-Wons Paired? .International Silver, may pair Morton Downey and Tony Wons for a half -hour weekly, series start- ing in the fall. In the event the idea goes through the release will be Columbia. Account supported a Sunday program on that web two seasons ago. Johnson floorwax'e 30-minute frame with Wons and a 32-piece combo, debuts on NBC the second week in September. 50 YEARS AGO (Continued from page 65) gathered on a hill outside the park and took the show in free. Only two houses open in Phila., and one of these was to close the following week. Woods Museum, Chicago, closing for the summer. To reopen in the fall as the Olympic variety theatre. St. Paul manager quit the the- atrical business because he found his pawnbroklng shop more profit- able. i '-'Mi. and Mrs, Gene Haynes, son, Jline, 17., Hollywood. . Father .on Variety Hollywood staff. Remodeled variety theatre in St. Louis had the dressing rooms across an alleyway. No room back- stage. Cook tent on Hunters' Circus, at Augusta, Kans., accidently used horse medicine in the coffee. Knocked out 23 performers. None seriously ill. Fight Notes Slump in ticket demand late in the afternoon resulted In 25-buck ducats going down to $20 near the Garden. • One guy got a bargain by get- ting a ticket in the second row for half a C at 8:10. Harry Laird, Coast sports expert, won a good bet, but lost one wager, which was a kayo of Camera in first round — nearly copped that, too. Harry Smith of the San Francisco Chronicle had a heart" attack to- wards the ejrid of the fight. Dr. Walker of New York's Athletic Commission and Dr. Harry Martin, the Coast, doc, climbed over work- ing press to attend him. Postal' Tely's shack, within the Bowl, completely equipped and ca- pably handled. It was a battle pf lady killers. One dame almost passed out when Baer removed his bathrobe. Baer's trunks carried the Jewish star or shield of David for the first time. Back to his hotel after the weigh- ing in, Max pulled one of his best gags — 'Call me champ; I want to get used to it.' Regardless of what Deropsey had jtcusa y. about Baer, the latter adores the Manassa Mauler. ""'Jack - torS"me to keep punching as long as the* other guy was standing, and that's what I tried to do,' Max says. Success of the fight is expected to keep . James Johnson on the Gar- den staff. Dempsey was named to succeed him, but Jack says that's cold, Johnson antagonized the New York. newspapermen, as usual, and .gave- the. breaks to. the out-ofw tdwners. By JACK PULASKI Most thrilling comedy -melodrama of the decade was • staged in the open air Madison Square. Garden Bowl Thursday (14) when Califor- nia's Max Baer dethroned the world's heavyweight champ, that glandular monstrosity known, as Primo Camera. .The event virtu- ally eclipsed, the Dempsey-Firpo knock down and drag out affahV Before walyou Preemo 'queet'" in the 11th round, there was high ex- citement, and comedy in a mixture of pace that Only pertains to s a stage smash. Drama of the radio, account was tepid comment on the encoun-. ter, which will give sports, screen and stage -writers plenty of copy. Essentially Baer is an actor. He proved that he. is of the profession of thespis in 'The Prize Fighter and the Lady/ was okay in Vaudeville and now is well rated, as, a micro- phone artist. Max is an actor,; the hardest hitting actor in the world. Principal witnesses to his. prowess are Camera and Max Schnieling. •Don't Say Spit' Baer is also boastful and to a greater degree than the average professional. He declared he would surely knock out Camera and he did so just five rounds later than he promised. He spat upon the cham- pion, hi error, :he toyed with him, he actually bullied the giant. Throughout the bout Baer was con- fident, leisurely , but at times re- lentless. He developed the habit -of waiting until late in the round be- fore opening an attack, otherwise the first Italian champ might have been put out earlier. New heavyweight king resembled Adonis, leaving the ring unmarked despite the many left jabs to his kisser. TWat he was not in condi- tion was a libel. Never did his sense of humor lapse. At one time he. yawned in Primo's .face. Another time he gave an imitation of wab bling on his feet. He jabbered at his huge opponent. Perhaps the funniest bit of the performance came in the eighth round, "when Max swung a semi-backhand to Primo's neck and the ex-champ went down. The excitement of tlie first two rounds was the highlight of the bout. When the session -was two thirds over, Baer reached his right from the floor and tagged Camera on the lug. Down. . He got up only to ge two more wallops which twice again felled him. Seemed ridiculous that the enormous fellow should start' running away like a bunted animal.. He wanted to get .away from Baer and actually started to climb through the ropes. Eye Lays an Egg Irt the second round the action was even more, sensational. Three times did Primo kiss the canvas and each time he . pulled Max down- with him. Looked like the man with the. huge feet grabbed Baer's. right mauler as it descended; from a sook and he held on. In the third round Primo again went down, but it was in his corner and he prob- ably slipped, although an egg rose over his left eye. Camera was tilted over 11 times and at least five horizontals were clean knock downs. He exhibited no ringmanship and never took a count, clamering up on every .oc- casion. After the third session Car- nera did better merely because Baer eased up. . : Primo earned the fourth, sixth, seventh and ninth rounds on points. At moments he socked it in with both hands— Baer prefers to take rather than step- aside; Usually, however, it was the left hand that scored the points for the fallen man. He only pawed! with the big mit, there being. no- snap to his blows. During the rounds that Primo won, Baer backed away. Later he said he Was merely "rasting,' as they say. in the Catskills; Once Baer feinted and the crowd roared as the Preem jumped back- wardi Foreigner was hot without his moment of comedy, either^ As late as the .lOth round, when .Max socked it into the. body with both hands without apparently hurting Primo, the latter extended both arms and in, Italian said to Max; 'So .what?' Break for Primo Later in the same round Max again landed his slaying right on Primo's button and the foreigner was wandering around in Baer's. corner. Arthur Donovan, the ref- eree, stepped ' In between them and wanted to stop it. But Camera jsaarmfid .o ut- of the, daze .and. put_uj> his props. As they were about to slug the hell rang. It ceitainly was a break for the. big fellow, and the referee by his indecision gave Primo a breathing spelj of perhaps 10 sec- onds. Protest of Mike Cantwell, Eaer's trainer, that the bout had been stopped, was disregarded by Donovan Baer went to work in earnest caVly in the 11th; Camera appar- ently recovered during the rest pe- riod, as he • did when in trouble earlier. But Baer bounced one off his chin and Primp almost went, through the ropes. He scrambled to his, feet again without taking count, with, the hew champion after hiitt. Finally .Camera dropped his arms and told the .referee, that he had enough.- Donovan said that is "the way he interpreted it and added the man; could hardly talk. Beaten boxer was given smelling salts, doused with water and he went to his dressing room, getting scant atten- tion. , Ai* eyes were On Baen In the fifth round, after taking a s>teadj tapping of Primo's left to the face Baer tore in and 'almost sunk the giant, with body blows. At the. bell he patted Primp oh the back and the crowd laughed again. Sixth round saw both men slugging hea'd to head. It was the fiercest change.' but toward; the end.Carnera was staggering. As a matter of fact, after the first bell -ringing punch to tti'e chin /Primo was wobbly on .his legs at some time in every round. The Odds Shifted When one boxing commissioner, saw Baer in training and dubbed him as awful, the- betting odds were 8 to 5, with Camera fayorfi.d- On day of the match the feeling, that Max would come through forced the price down steadily and, as' pre- dicted by Variety, the challenger entered the ring 13 to 10 favorite. The way the odds . changed wias dra- matic In itself. Paging Sharkey Reaction to Camera's perform- ance was to hark back to last sum- mer' when- he knocked out Jack Sharkey. Plenty of observers di- rectly at ringside, failed to see the punch that felled Sharkey. There, was 'bag' talk before and after, the, match, and yet only a few experts-, failed to predict that Primo would, beat -Baer. That Camera cannot snap - hie punches- has been evident all along regardless of the Sharkey thing. His record Is a succession of set-ups until he was figured an improved > boxer. Maybe he Is, but up against, such a socker as. Baer be was plain sucker. Camera came from a Euro- pean, circus where he was strong man and wrestler, and . that's where he belongs. Fight managers were all pleased at 'the result They pointed out that Primo is too big and too" colorless'.. They wanted him out of the picture and contended that the gate at thfc Bowl was drawn 'by Baer, not th*. champion. Unable to make xnone^, .- with the big mugg legitimately,: there should be added interest in the heavyweight ' division for Max. • His ego Is not arrogant and he has. plenty of color.. Another point is the alleged par- tial 'ownership' of Camera by a- New- York *mob.' His elimination therefore takes that , element out, of • big . boxing, if that is true. Dempsey's Piece . Dempsey, who has a piece of Baer, was not so pleased with his man because Max doesn't like to* take advice. In training he delib- erately took it from sparring mates to toughen up, while Dempsey wanted him to step aside. .That made Jack think that Max is some- what screwy, but 'screwy enough to probably win.' Actually Dempsey knew' that Baer can hit hard and elected to 'string along with a socker.' Mentally Baer had all the best of It, He was confident and appeared unworried. .Camera came from his camp jittery. He' told admirers that fie was afraid they might slip some- thing into Baer's gloves. From that time on the betting odds started switching. . Fight was attended by surprising ballyhoo, which was heightened by' the claims that Baer was not In good condition. Before he left the ring Max walked over to the press and . laughingly said: 'It's just too bad I'm not in condition.' • :By that*' time Primo' was in his dressing:., quarters, from whence it was stated he had hurt his ankle- in the first round. X-rays showed the ankle bone chipped off but a fracture of the sort merely meant an alibi. Imperato Bankrupt San Francisco, June 18. Mimi Imperato, one time opera singer who has 6ince met and sold drinks to nearly every theatrical namejwho has been. here, in the past quarter "of a century, took the bank- ruptcy .bath this week, listing as his sole assets the autographs of such celebs as Paderewski, Mildred Harris Chaplin, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and scores of others. Mimi, famous for his winged col^ lars and wines, was personally pad- locked by the government coupla years ago after repeated pinches, for • 'legging. He , has since opened : a legit cafe, but to no success. 16 VARIETY TIMES SQUARE Tuesday, Juno 1% 1934 Broadway rown finished her new book. Fowler Tamara back on Broadway, John Flinn regularly weekends at his spot Jn Brewster. Prettiest girl at Baer- Camera ringside— Gladys Glad. Hal Fimberg spotted van Beureri as staff writer. ■ John O'Hara to the Coast and the f»ar lot on a short- termer. The Al Trahans (Yukoria Cam- Oron) celebrating their first, Lawyer Joe Allentuck got hitched Sunday (17). She's a non-pro. Billy K. Wells opened up the Long Reach estate over the weekend. .; Nan B. Ray p. a.'ing the Stony fcreek, Conn., summer theatre. Henry Bergman okay after hori- zontal three weeks with rheuma- tism. Ray Henderson, p. . for Kath- arine Cornell, sailed for Europe last Dick Watts, HeraldrTrib film re- Viewer, back from Balkans this Week. Larry Co wen has received a senior lieutenant's commission irk the U. S. Navy. Broadway bunch all pulling for Dene Geiger, who. got jammed up In Pennsy.. ; Alt's four shills for every customer .hi those Broadway auction joints these days, ... Evelyn (Mrs. Lep) Solomon bet- ter at Park West hospital after ner- fous attack. If Charlie Einfeld doesn't break a 02 at Pebble Beach he'll be all the ■ad young men.. Judge Fred Goldsmith better after straining side. Slipped on waxed floor at home. Sam Roth, the ticket mugg, and Harold Scadron,. who manages Bob OUn. on way to coast. .When Cheese Club resumes lunch- eons next fall, spot will be new Steuben Tavern, 42d street. . Milton Berle a Tin Pan Alley Ite how; Writing songs with Dave Oppehheim and Ira Shuster. Bert Lytell moves up to White Plains, the end of this month for a treek .at the head of a stock. , . Damon Runyon to build house 'in Florida, Patricia (Mrs.) going there this week to make arrangements. Although getting a divorce, Mary and Bobby, dance team in the •Spices of 1934* unit, w!dl continue til © €t.ct» Al (Armand) Weill stages next tournament fight— Canzonerl and Frankie Klick— at Ebbetts Field June .27. - . • Addle Llverlght, of the Llverlght book shop, sails June 30 for Italy with Beulah Hyman for vacation and business. 4 Walter Jordori, who formerly had his own literary agency (Sanger & Jordon), . now in charge of script dept. in: Simon office. Howard S. Cullman, receiver for the Roxy, won the Lawyers* County Trust Co. golf tournament at Ma maroneck last Wednesday. Billy Rose's Music Hall opening again postponed from last Friday to Thursday (21). Harold Arlen's brother, Jerry, is maestroing. Ramon and Rosita, Henry King band, Lillian Carmen and Aber Twins in Ross -Fen ton Farm show, Asbury. which opened June IB. Middle name of Joe Breen, last •week made Hollywood's 'King of Morals' by the Hays' Office, is Isaac. . Breen is of Irish extraction Nick and John, of the Simplon opening their Simplon -Casino on the ; Hommocks-Larchmont Harbor Links, Orlenta Point,. Mamaroneck June 28. v -The odds have shifted to 3 to 1 on the cjtddie ih that Marvin Schenck Charlie Yates golf match, in which the .groens are bound to get the worst of it. Dr. Harry W. .da: tin joined wife' (Louella Parsons) here last week Came east for the -. Baer-Carnera rumpus. He's boxing commissioner In Hollywood. Max Fuchs. of the Lobster, to Chicago to gander the Fair before going on ..to . Minneapolis for the. Shrine ' Imperial Council. He's ty coon of the local fezzers. Greatest of summer's sports weeks around New York had Baer-Car nera bout, new mile and. half-mile track records, made at Princeton and. POughkeepsie regatta. Regiha Carewe was going to Dub Hn, called it off; then London, called tt off ; finally compromised on At lahtic City, called that off, too-,, and settled for a. ride around the fleet. Morris Mackenzie's (Hays office) flowers . 'are— the pride of .that sec tion back of Stamford. The argu ments besih \when Joe PlUnke-tt starts -talking about his in Westport . Janet of France gave a benefit show last week at her restaurant for Jack Ingliss^ whose, act was ~ TRShdar^ Went a log. amputation recently. Of all Ingliss' 'pals' who were asked to appear, only two showed up. Af- fair grossed $100. Height of something or other was a phone . call by somebody who Wanted to know where he could buy a. due bill for nite clubs. He buys due bills for hotels steamship lines, etc., he explained, so he figured there's some way he can chisel on his nocturnal whoopee. Gus Eysell, of the Music Hall, had a chance last week to person- rntiTE ally check the business the Navy drew. He dined aboard the New Mexico, Gus opines that the sailors are great boys and, from a box office standpoint, Hampton Roads is a swell place for the fleet. Paris By Bob Stern MacDonalds back from naturalized at Ritz new Ambassa- Carlisle Igor French. Lac aux Dames' in third week at Colisee. Lotti Bar newest swank downtown drinkery. Louis Bromfleld to London for a short 'trip. Opera giving 1,987th performance of 'Faust.' Dreria Beach Thursday gala. Abbott Girls in deurs floor show. Roger Ferreol taking a singing troupe on tour this summer. City of Nice killing temporarily its municipal tax on film theatres. Cecll.e Sorel visiting : husband, Cbmpte de Segur, in Polntolse jail. Anita Soler to play in Edouard Violet's 'Not Up to Date' next sea- son. Paris Zoo serving porcupine salad and porpoise steaks at annual dinner. : Pltoeffs hot yet signed at Com- edie des Champs Elysees .for next season, " . Lots of French money- went on Leon ' Volterra's Admiral . Drake in the Derby. Sacha Guitry and Mrs. Jjucy Kast-^ ner present at opening -gala tea at Pre Catalan. Georges and .Pascal Bastia an- nouncing project for operetta thea- tre next year. Gaston Baty reported agreeing to put on 'Two Orphans' at Odeon next season. Marian Oswald, hoarse, Interrupt ing appearances at reopened Boeuf sur le Toit nitery, Yvonne Printemps due in from London. early in July to start shoot- ing 'Dame aux Camellas.' Gaston Baty denying intention, to put on 'Two . Orphans* ' at Odeon. Will stick to his own theatre. Mrs. Albert LebrUn,.wIfe of Presi dent, agreeing to watch Paul Swan dance at Albert Ire Sunday (17). 'Ecran,' exhibs' trade organ, citing U, S. film, code as example for French industry to follow in reor ganizing. Charlie Kurzman and his sister, Mrs. William W. Mayer, having for given France for. defaulting, back at the Ritz • Fifteen -year- old daughter of U. P.'s Ralph . Heinzen . tp America for her first visit.. Her grandmother with her. City of Paris founding its own operetta prize of $700. for the' piece and $1;700 subsidy to the theatre that puts it on Cecilia Navarre returning to 'Land of Smiles' cast at Gaite Lyrlque, which is reopening after short shutdown. Josephine . Baker, playing the Champagne country, getting mugg ed near a statute of Dom Perpig- non, inventor of fizz. Monte Carlo Russian Ballet put ting on 'Union Pacific' with sets by Albert Johnson and libretto by Archibald . MacLeish ? at Champs Elysees. „ ' ' Gilbert Miller buying 'Liberte Provisoire' ('Out on Bail'), Michel Durari's legit succes now at the Saint Georges here, for Broadway and London. Marcel Pagnol, long conceh trated. on his particular kind of film, announcing -he's coming back, to legit , next year with, a piece at the Varietes. Margaretta Holder, 26, step- daughter of former Dorothy Caruso, pulling surprise wedding with father's former lawyer, Joseph S. Kandelafte, 52. M. Lincoln Schuster and Carlo Bavetta crashing social columns by going to reception of Comte and Comtease Hughes de Martimprey in honor, of I'anny Holtzmann. M. Kornicer, director of Folle de la Butte, nitery, formerly Lys Gauty's place, shot, and killed him- self after his fiancee's parents had refused consent to. marriage. . Fifty actors and actresses entered in Artist's Automobile Championship ^eleganecF^contest=in^^Bois^=de Boulogne Friday (8); This is cur- tain-raiser for Grande Semaine. Ci*egory Ratoff telling how the first time his mother saw him in a picture it. was in' Paris, and the pic was dubbed in French. She got a shock when she heard the voice supposed to be his, French film directors' union com- plaining to Minister of .Labor that Robert Siodmak, Richard Eichberg, Anatole Litvak and Auguste Genlna, foreign directors, are working, while French meggers have no jobs. London Helen Chandler around town. Zazu Pitts here for couple of days and off to Paris. Ted Ray in car smash, but escapes with minor injuries. Talk of Russian. Ballet season at the London Coliseum. . Gordon Bostock here, and threat- ens to go to Australia. Charles B. Cochran writing to his staff from Chekoslovakia. Louise Fazenda • .visiting Oxford Street Fun Fair, unrecognized. Rellly and Comfort favorite en- tertainers for debutante parties, Oracle Fields getting a civic wel- come on heir arrival in Blackpool. 'Abie's Irish Rose' again playing the sticks. This tiirie it's pretzel time. Gordon Wellesley under contract to script for Associated talking Pictures. De Wolfe, Metcalf and. Ford at the Parisian Grill, Budapest, month of June. Billy 'Last Round Up' Hill around Charing Cross Road, looking for in- spirations. Despite various rumors, no the- atrical titles in King's Birthday Honors List. Tommy Drew, Western Electric general manager, just oyer a bout of laryngitis. Sir John Simon insisting on Gio- vanni playing for special banquet he Is giving at the Dorchester. Jimmy Brysori, former Universal Chief, in hospital after being hit by a lorry "ihile driving his car- British International using Sir Phillip Sasoon'a country house: for shots for 'Girls Will Be Boys.' Debroy Somers latest to fall for one night stands around Devon and Cornwall. Taking 75% for his, bit. Victoria Hopper out of 'The Three Sisters' June 4, telegraphing from Blackpool she was Indisposed. Col. Fred . Lindsay, Australian whip manipulator, appearing at Olympia in International Horse Show. Gaston Micheletti, 'tenor .from the Opera Comique, Paris, to make cabaret debut at Trocadero week of June 11. Leslie Henson holding auditions for 'Nice Goings On' touring, com- pany, with John E. Coyle to play the Henson role. 'Biography*, closed at the Globe June' 2 • after five weeks ; House re opens; June 14 with 'Meeting at Night', by Margery Sharp. Dolores, Ande and Dmitri off to Paris, to play the Rex and Gau- mont Palace, with Ambassadeurs restaurant likely to follow. . Following two postponements, production of 'The Red Domino,' slated for Kingsway, abandoned. Drama by Percival Sykes. Memorial fountain to Pavlowa to be erected jn Regent's Park by voluntary subscription. Carl Milles, ■Swedish sculptor commissioned. Owen Nares, third male lead in 'Sixteen,* now current at the Cri- terion, replacing Godfrey Tearle who goes into 'Living Dangerously.' Seymour Hicks presented-, women members of audience with bottle of hamp'agne. on Derby night at Daly's, where he appeal's in -^Vintage Wine.' Bernard Shaw to stage his one- act play. 'Village Wooing,' at the Little theatre, June 19, featuring Sybil Thorndike and Arthur Wpnt- ner. Gene Dennis predicted Windsor Lad would win the English Derby; also that Jack Petersen would win British Heavyweight championship from Len Harvey. Jeff Dlelcson suing British Broad"- casting Co. alleging infringing of copyright in broadcasting result of Harvey-Peterson fight after he had refused permission. here two years ago. Her role in It is that, of a boy-^a dirty little street Arab. Craze for open-air performances sweeping the country. 'Hary Janos/ national opera, to go on an open-air stage with 600 performers at De- breczan. 'Tragedy of Man* to be performed in Cathedral Square at Szeged. Operas and recitals given at^ Budapest ' Zoological Gardens every week. •Antohia,* Melchlor Lengyel's stage play, huge success here some years ago, which was played on, Broadway with Marjorie Rambeau in the lead, to go on the screen in English and French at Joinvllle (France) shortly. Name part, which calls for slight foreign accent, will, probably be played by Yvohne Printemps. Vienna Walter Hacketfs 'Roadhouse* set for Stadt Theater in Troppau. Talk of C. L. Anthony's new play, 'Touch Wood,' forthcoming here. 'Richard of Bordeaux' . turned down by. every -management in town. Frederick Lonsdale's 'Never Come Back* likely to open in Prague this month. , Arthur Loeweenstein in charge of newly founded patriotic, symphony orchestra. Mystery as to authorship of new brilliant comedy, 'The " Hoffman Scandal.' J. B. Priestley's laburnum Grove; all ready in German, with title 'Goldregen.' Jed Harris contemplating Broad- way and West End production of Hans Jaray's 'Christlano.' Walter Ellis interested In adapt- ing the 'Case of Jadin Grandais' for England and America. St. John Ervine's 'Anthony and Anna' now being adapted for Ger- man language production. Talk of Remhardt presenting 'Der Charmeur von London,' adap- tation of 'Avalanche,' by Richard Duschinsky. Despite London frost, 'The Dark Tower* attracts attention of Czechish regisseur- manager who is planning to present this Kaufman -Woollcott piece in Prague in the fall. Shanghai Berlin Budapest E. P. Jacobi Maurice Dekobra expected. .Ferehc Mplnar to Karlsbad. Albert Sirmay due for a long stay in his home town. Gaby Morlay here, sojourning at St. Margaret Island. Sari Fedak convalescing from grave trouble with her eyes, Erich Klemperer guest conducting the Philharmonic orchestra here; Provincial authors of every de- scription here -for Writers' Week. Book Week, with authors selling and autographing their own books in street boths, is going well; Henrle "Bernstein getting local color _for_his new play, one act of wKieh^isr-tSr^h^W^udapesf^ba^k^ ground. • Lily Gyenes' Gipsy Girl Orchestra, attraction that is a great hit on the Continent, to tour England' and United States. Vigszlnhaz prolonged its season for a fortnight after projected clos- ing day, on account of great success of 'Men in White' and 'Ah Wilder- ness,' playing on alternate nights. Francy Gaal's next picture for Universal will be 'Peter,' adapted from 'Little Boy in Big Shoes,' one- acter in which she had a big success Hamilton Mills had the grippe for a week. Romeros St Cas Nova still here and fine. * Fay Courtney at the Canldrome Gardens a riot. 'Flying Down to Rio* big pic • hit in this locality. Alexander and Swanson report rough passage on Hainan Maru from Seattle. Marcus show with fan dances and plenty of spice getting big kale in theatres hereabouts. Murray and Harris going for fads; former has a ^gl thing bulldog and latter a stable, or whatever it's called, of rame cocks. Lillian Weaver, of Three Weaver Sisters, recovered from a two-month illness, and now the act Is again a trio at the New Paramount. Bernhart & Bailey on the Hiyo Maru. which lands in Seattle June 19. after one year at local cafes. Three months' vacation and then back again. New Paramount hotel builds a roof garden, capacity 1,000, for sum- mer. Will run big floor show all summer, as the reg cafe halts its entertainment. Canldrome Gardens alsoldpef&tiBg; "• ~ " Carl Opltz Is doing a swell Job «r| Ufa's press boss. Fox is bringing back 'Cavalcade at the Mozartsail. Kathe von Nagy may bob up la Hollywood any day how. Techow of Paramount is in Amer* ica looking things over; Jan Kiepura, Polish tenor, got everything fixed up here. Die Dietrich is- a question-mark here even after that check. German idea of the 'Four Mus- keteers'* Is getting plenty of coin. Renate Mueller is pretty sick from that slimming diet, but will pull through. Ufa's cashing in with 'Palo's Brautfahrt/ Knud Rastnlssen's Greenland opus. Gus Schafer of Paramount stole a march on the boys and got mar- ried in Warsaw. Shubert's 'Unfinished' is having a good run at the Atrium; with Marta. Eggerth, Luise and Hans Moser. Terra is having a scrap with some of the trade papers concerning the ancestry of its Vienna manager." After some squawks in the big theatres, Lilian Harvey's 'I Am Su- .zanne' is drawing squawks from the provinces. 'Sous ies Tolts de Paris' prepar- ing for a revival here in view of the tremendous success Annabelie had In 'The Battle.* Inge Conradi, fresh from 'Joan of Arc! in Vienna, will get the call for the lead In 'Hans on the Moon,' co- starring Hans Ruehmann. ~ The 'Springer from Pontresina,' a winter sports theme thing, soon to be released. .Previews disclose some .marvelous mountain skiing shots. Marianne Hoppe and Paul Hart- mann got the call for the. leads In 'Schwarzer Jaeger Johanna,' Which Terra will put into production soon. Oskar Wallek, boss of the Braun- schweig theatres, has been named president of the German Stage Union, Germany's Equity without teeth. Burg Castle, near Wuppertal, has been selected as. the site .for the summer stage school, men starting the course, to . be followed by tne aspiring gals. Fritz Slemund, .veteran director of Ufa, . has been signed to' a year's contract by the Badal-Filmproduc- tion outfit. His first will be 'Luck in the House.' Not yet cast. Doc Arnold Fanck, accompanied by Hermann Freyberg, is off again, this time to trace the elusive gorilla king to his nest, or wherever he roosts. Terra has the film rights. Franz Seitz did a neat job for Bavaria film with 'Mit DIr Durch Dick und Duenn' ('With You Through Thick and Thin'). Joe Stoeckel.and Lisl Karlstadt take, the bows. 'The Lost Valley,' with Werra Liessem (arrested recently. In a gi- gantic spy roundup) has received the Propaganda Ministry's benedic-" tion as 'culturally worthwhile/ Terra filmed it. Terra took a leaf from Holly- wood's book recently when it had - 100,000 toy balloons released on the' occasion of a giant German air dis- play. Several of the balloons car- ried free tickets for the opening of Terra's next big film. With the advent of the New Deal there are hew faces appearing in the films, , most of whom would be knockouts in a harem scene — with veils. Exception Is Carsta Loeck, who takes the lead in' the Europa film, 'Fight Over Jolanthe.' Pretty.. Montreal Bill Little resigning from Star July 1 after 35 years. ■ Howard Conover baclt at Imperial with 10 acts of vaude arid a couple of pix. Anka Meyer-Stromfeldt leaves Canadian air for NBC .under good contract. Tom Dowblggin made member Paramount 100% Club for 1934 and mugged in Star. Villa Maurice fetes first birthday Wednesday (13) and gets snappy local press notices. Sid Flood orch, only Canadian colored aggregation, touring eastern Ontario and Quebeo. ' Don Farman and Commanders to Eastern townships on circuit of pavilions booked by Harold Moon. Knights Modern Melody orch now travelln^ Ontarlo _suing to protect TfaTher^how claimed " being" "pirated here. Musicians' Union calls general strike against Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission on ques tion of open shop orchs. Results has been win for CRBC so far, with all hotels letting out orchs who re fuse to play on radio. Question of interference of A. F. oil L.» with > Canadian radio liable to come up in Dominion Parliament. Mean time plenty of radio acts getting breaks with gaps caused by absence of orches from programs. Mexico City By D. L. Grahame Several towns have banned Sun- day likker sales. Central' and South America and Spain like Mexican-made pix, gov- ernment says. Michio . Ito, Japanese dancer, performing at the Hidalgo here v Violet Clement, cowgirl, heading an American rodeo unit exhibiting at a local., bull ring. Mexican fll'< oroducers arranging a national union for mutual benefit by co-ordinating activities. Teat.ro Lirico/ where Lupe Velez made her start, embargoed by revue company players,, suing for wages. Sonla Verbltzky, Russian song- stress, doing a si.age-r.adlo combo of. Freri.cn; Russian and Spanish clas- sical numbers. Official tourist .bureau burned at stories in U. S. press that Mexico swelters year routvd; points Out vast highlands are sunny but cool all of 12 months. Government has established an open-air theatres in the shade of the world's biggest tree, a sprig with a circumferance of 165 feet, in paxaca ^tate. 5 ~ = One^persb°ri^ Injured when the grand stand of a. bull-ring collapsed during a per- formance in a town near Merida. Yucatan state. Bee Powell and Fanny FirioJI, Americans, and Rose Rhing, Jap- anese, all dancers, playing In a revue at the Teatro Politeama here. They' were booked in Los Angeles. Federal district supreme court, nixed proposish of a local film com- pany to make~~Bcene of a divorce case. Company wanted t~ incorpo- rate sequence ih a production. Tuesday* Julie 19., 1934 TIMES SQUARE VARIETY Hollywood Myron C. Fagan in New York for .% month. Prank Bice motored back from New York. Picture offers bring Gilda Gray back to town. Harry Hammon Beal. to Honolulu for a rest. . Sun-scorched stems has Charles Butterworth. on a limp. Joan Bennett and Gene Markey back from a European jaunt. Camera valued at $50 thefted from parked car of William Gargan. Universal to auspice film bow of Reginald Denny's dotter, Barbara. Frank Lawtbn to vacation in England on completing his chore at Universal. Richard Boleslavsky Itching to get back. to work; floored by poison oak. Warners want Patricia Ellis . to stay, ft blonde so. a blonde shq'H stay. ■ Metro sales convention, draws Hal Roach to Chicago from New York visit. „ Eddirigton- Vincent's eastern rep, George Goldsmith, here for a fort- night. Bill Riter back at Columbia after a trip to Chi. and the Canadian Rockies. Former Bel Air home of Colleen Moore now tenanted by Marlene Dietrich. Joan Blondell presented with bassinet by cast of 'Kansas City. Princess/ Missus joins Irv-ih Cobb and .later departs for Santa Barbara sanitarium. . • Robert Barrat spurned . a double to do his own diving in Warner aquatic scene. ? Sonia Wolf son, former, sec. to Frank Perrett in Fox publicity, to p.a. Spanish units. Cutters go to work on Al Rock- ett at Good Samaritan hosp to cor- rect minor ailment." Judith Allen sued for asserted un- paid commish on $4,760 by Frank and Dunlap agency. Wife of Ted Huslng, radio an- nouncer, establishes residence in Reno to secure divorce. George Dell, Jr., actor, is asking $10,000 as balm for facial scars In- curred, in auto crackup. Hobart Bosworth started, work On his 533d picture since coming to Hollywood 25 years ago. Confab with Edward Small brings Harry M. Goetz, prez of Reliance, winging from New York. Jeanne de Casalis, actress-wife of Colin Olive, coming from England to fulfill a Warner contract; ' Jack Gross and other RKO the- atre: attaches' here elated at first vacation with pay in . three years. . Archie Josephson is piloting Mar- tin Flnklestein, city manager for Fox in K, C, around the fay spots. Eye strain, resulting, in temporary .blindness, has forced George Ban- croft Into drydock for several days. Floored by flu, E. E; Paramore gives way to Milton Krlms on script of 'Young and Beautiful' for Mas- cot. George Hlckey, Jake Mllsteln, Bill Callahan and Francis Bateman off to Metro's Chicago sales conven- tion. • Bernard Shubert, member of Guild, named to publicize Screen Writer's Guild without compensa- tion. Alumni Association of Pasadena Community Playhouse, recently formed, has Onslow Stevens as its first prez. Henrietta Burnslde, New York socialite daughter of millionaire paint manufacturer, contracted by Paramount. F-WC abandoning twice-weekly film. screenings at Carthay Circle in favor of a more intimate projection room at headquarters. Wally Ford suing Charles R. Rogers Productions for $3,750 for three weeks' salary on a. job he was signed for but never worked. Harry J. (nee Joe) Brown and the frail, Sally Eilcrs, back from lei land. Starts his new stint at War- ners as associate producer July i. Rendered unconscious by a fall from the running board of a car, Ray Flinni Pox assistant director, reported next day oh 'Caravan- set. After appearing in fllmusicals for a year, it leaked out that Dolly Jar- vis is daughter of late English baronet, Sir William Pepperal Jar- vis. Garl Laemmle, Jr., who is quite adept at smacking tennis balls, probably will supe *At Your Ser- vice,' U's tennister, penciled as a special. Stage productions of 'Big Hearted Herbert* at Chicago and Philly be- ing double O'd by William Kelgh- ley, who directs the movie version at Warners. ^^Father-=of.-June^Robles r .^7-yjearr i old Arizona kidnap victim, has left California, emphatically denying any intent to have the child appear in theatricals,. ,So the big ones won't get away, ,lng Crosby and Richard Arlen are taking along a couple of expert anglers on their pursuit of sword- fish off Mexico. . .Henry Wilcpxon. calls for time out 'from 'Cleopatra' retakes when his hand is slashed in battle' scene. Actor had just returned after tak- ing rt spear in the leg in the same scene. - • • • C H ATT E The Hague By M. W. Etty-Lcal Legit season of Hofstadtooheel at Hague closed with performance of 'Men in White.' Premiere in Amsterdam of the play 'Rubber,' based on. novel by Mrs. Sgekely . Lulof s, big success. . Soap , statistics, gathered by a German, prove Americans are cleans est people on earth with Holland a good second. French Film, *La Materhelle,' in 17th. week at same cinema .at Am- sterdam, beating all records for a film in Holland. Central Legit Co.. In Amsterdam obtained rights for Holland of Har- wood's: 'The Old Folks at Home' and of French play, *Les Temps Dlf- flciles' by Bourdet. New company under auspices of. Verkade formed, for winter, season, named Hagespelers- Another new company calls itself Combine 1934. At The Hague there's a new revue company also. Roland Varno, Dutch film artist who appeared in a small role In 'As You Desire Me'* (M-G), arrived here from Hollywood with his American wife to take a part in a Dutch film, 'Malle Gevallen* fSilJy. Situations) based on the novel by Hans -Martin Cuba By Rene Canizares Nothing new oh bull-fights. Picture tunes popular here. Auditorium still installing sound system. Amusement, tax voided by gov- ernment. Basilio de Rdca .now mgr. of Warners. " ' Bathing at La P"laya now reduced to two bits. George Pineiro doing good art work in trailers. Eugenia Zuffoll and Rep Co. out for a tour of the island. Havana Post got out of first bomb but was caught in midst of second one. . Treasury Dept. starting invest.iga tlon into films imported during 1932, as it smells big fraud. Pietro Colli, former WB manager I here, now in Panama as Central ' American rep for FN-WB. . Ernesto Vilches came back to town after a tour of provinces and sailed with his stock company for Colombia. Canon City and Florence,- Colo., theatres, was framed while on trip to California, Was elected presi- dent of the Canon . City chamber of commerce. Half a dozen out-of-town, exhib- itors were spotted on the row: D. S. Ashman, Idaho Springs, Colo.; S. L. Hessbeck, Chappell, Neb.; P. K. Carson, Dawson, N. M.; Geo. Mc- Cormiek, Canon City, Colo.; J. K, Powell, Wray, Colo., and A. W. Wil- kinson; Broadwater, Neb. Montreal A. C. Morton selling advertising on Herald. Stan Woods etherizing orch from Corona cafe. Art Levasseur back as m.c. at Krausmann's. Biggest tourist Beason in years 1b present local outlook. Agitation for opening park to motors exciting, hot controversy. George Rot'sky cleaning up at Blue Bonnets, just misses double. Gertrude Beaucage singing in French and Italian at Naples nitery. N. Y. Hippodrome Circus doing nice biz at St. Laurent, ten miles out. Miml Parks, blues singer of Bos- ton, back for third engagement at Mount .Royal Hotel. 'Canadian critics are blot oh Canadian Journalism,' says Raymond Massey, social registerite and ac- tor on leaving, for overseas trip. - Every nite • club east of Main re- fused dancing license - if beer and wine license given, latest ukase city council. Will close them all if persisted in. First • court cases have already resulted in fines. Montreal's most picturesque fea- ture, Victorias of mauve decade vintage, 1 for .use in trips tp the Mountain Park and much patronized by tourists, disappearing after four years of depression. Only 70 left. Denver By Jack Rose Duke Dunbar, code .secretary, elected exalted ruler Denver Elks. Cheyenrte, Wyo., dodges daylight saving because of kicks from the- atre and other business men. Small daughter of Wayne Ball, Columbia exchange manager, fell from swing, and broke both arms. Geo, Paper, Fox manager, at Longmont, is taking a month's va- cation., L^ F. Fletcher subbing for him. ~" ~" Al Poulten, Columbia booker, re- signs, succeeded by Sam Dare, poster clerk. Russell Guild gets Dare's job. ' Exhibitors getting leary of give- aways since district -attorney told one same were, illegal. Many drop- ping them fast as they can, , Universal held sales meet, with JW. J. Heineman, western division manager, in charge. Salesmen from Salt Lake, Denver, and Barriey Rose, manager at Frisco, present. ' B. P. McCormick, owner of thei Pittsburgh By Hal Cohen Marshall Taylors moving Into town from Wheeling. Harold Lund has been named sec- retary of National Variety -Clubs: • ^Bob Senft's wife' and dotter back in town after several months in Florida. George Otte going to Baltimore soon for observation at Johns Hop- kins hospital. Lucille (Mrs;' Johnny) Harris ■back from three months' on Coast, with four dachshund pups. ' Variety Club has picked October 14, day after Pitt-USC grid game here, for annual banquet. Jill Stern, daughter of Dave Stern, ' publisher., here for stage experience with J?g}\. Civic.Playhpu.se., Diane King, featured blues war- bler at Villa Royale, wife of Paul Reider, ex-Pitt grid captain. Rosemary Casey, _ local gal, to have 'new play, 'Glass Houses,' tried but this summer at Sea Cliff, L. I. Oscar Levant, Pittsburgh boy who made good as an insulter along Broadway, home visiting the folks, Bert Steam to- Chicago, Charlie Rich to Atlantic City, and Al Bar ne'tt to New York for picture sales meets. New arrival at Johnny Morin's household christened in same gown .16 Morins have worn for similar ceremony. B. Iden Payne's new play, 'Shin- ing Armor,' getting ah August try- out at Red Barn theatre. Locust Valley. Arthur Marlowe, former stock player here, back directing 'Cur- tain Rises,' Civic Playhouse's first production. Ear] Baileys have named their new arrival Richard Powell Bailey after Dick Powell, the movie star and an old friend. Sid Dickler's band, with Virginia Briggs as soloist, has landed dance spot at Melwood Gardens in nearby New Kensington. Jimmy Balmar, named to succeed Senator Frank Harris on movie code grievance board. Latter re- signed because of health. 'Anthony Adverse* gets Hervey Allen honorary Doctor of .Letters from his Alma Mater, University of Pittsburgh. Kenny Kenfield has deserted the- atrical field temporarily to become business manager of McKeesport minor league baseball club, farm for Pittsburgh Pirates. By Les. Rees Frank Gordon's orchestra .playing at Excelsior Amusement park. Maud Scheerer, N. Y. play reader, added to University of Minnesota faculty. General Motors' free show at mu nlcipal auditorium drew big-xrowds all week. John J. Friedl, Publix division manager," back from New York business trip. More rainfall and cooler weather helping sentiment and show and other businesses. Casper Choinard, MG booker, now a 'gentleman farmer' at his lake cottage during., spare .moments. . Cable 1 from London informed Charlie . Jackson, Paramount sales- man, of -death of mother-in-law. D. A. Williams' column, "Off. a Reporter's. .Cuff;?, .in . Journal, sub ject" of much favorable comment. Eugene. .G. Webber coming .- here from New York to .direct drama festival at Shubert theatre next fall. Park board ' has . cut rental ' on bathing suits and loci-era at beaches 6.0 percent. to 10 and 5 cents, re- spectively.- . , After.. 17. weeks' absence due. to illness , A. G. .Bainbrldge, showman mayor, .again a'jle to visit, his . office in the city. .hall. Al Stern from Seattle replacing Fay Dressel as RKO' office manager, with latter becoming city salesman, a newly created position. Two aldermen broke first ground for new.7p0-seat neighborhood the- atre being built by. s Harry DJckef- irian, who has tw,o other houses.,. Mary Plckford's personal engage ment at Minnesota theatre, can celed and present plans are to close 4,200-seat deluxe house for summer July.l, Harold Kaplan, Minnesota man- ager, has it doped out. that change in Japanese current is causing local drouth and predicts northwest will •wind up a desert'. . Number of visitors here . for Shrine convention estimated at be tween 50,000. . and 100,000. . All American Radio, and. Hollywood Electrical Pageant among principal attractions.. Party headed by W. A. Steffes, president of Northwest Allied States and local , exhibitor, and Including Theodore. Hays, of Publix;. Merle Potter,. Journal movie, editor, end Beanie' Berger and Harry- Dryer, theatre owners,, attended. Baer-Car- nera fight in New York! Des Moines By R. W. Moorhead Raymond Blank -going to Europe again this summer.. The Des Moines the only house not double-featuring. . Myron Blank taking the Cali- fornia trip with' his dad. Lou Patz, manager' Universal exchange, in New York. The Stanley Brbwrts trip to Cali- for nia postponed to June 27. White Derby interspersing dog races with •wrestling matches. Tri- States closing the State, in Omaha, and Columbia in Davenport. Iowa state fair making big plans for second annual rodeo and stam- pede. Jack Musgrove Went to see a friend graduate from the University of Mexico. G. Ralph Bran ton to the Para- mount convention in Holly wood with A. H. Blank. Willard Moore, counsel for local musicians' union, now heads KSO's new studio orchestra. ' Frances Herriott visiting her parents, then back to Newport and the Repertory theatre. Jack Lynch back to New York, "sd^'HUSty';— OwenH r =take3-=oyer--the- Grand, Ottumwa, for Tri-States. Eight-year record for marriage licenses in the county broken dur- ing the first five months of the year. With the close of the State, Omaha, Wm. B. Beckley returns to Des Moines to operate the Strand and Garden for Tri-States. The 'heat* is on the honky-tonk dance halls. New" ordinance enables the city to' ban the 'postage stamp' dance.' halls in. residence districts because . of unsafe and unsanitary condition^. - ' ' Chicago New Haven By Harold M. Bone West • Haven's Cameo "has folded for summer. The lUre of the ■ fishing rod has got Z. R. Poll. Harry Daniels recalls appearing with George Arliss, Bill Barry knows local' theatrical history from A to Z.' . Dave Eldrldge will shortly go dark for the summer. Anthony Kussac badly Injured On Savin Ro.ck. roller, coaster. Film' news, space shrinking like a $12 suit in a thunderstorm. Local film audiences breathing easier since boisterous Yale .studes quit town! With a hood on that new white Suit, Ben Cohen could pass for a Ku Kluxer.' -Roy . Phelps . has blossomed .into a. lecturer : following camera work with Frank' Buck. For ,' 20 ' years' service 'with "Uni- versal, state exhibitors presented' Morris Joseph with Bilver service/ Philadelphia By Arthur B. Waters Tommy "Labrum handling Million Dollar Pier publicity. Mark Wilson vacationing for the summer in Atlantic City. Charlie Cartwright, former conr tact man and p.a.. at the Warwick, connected at the Walton. Morton Schwartz, advertising man, now head of his own agency, married Dorothy Molden. Four of the Public Ledger men taken on by the Inquirer when the P. L. blew up, have been let out. Eric Knight, film critic on the Evening Ledger to New York to watch the shooting of 'Crime With* outfPassion.'- Decision by Judge McLevitt promises sale of beer at Shibe Park, Athletics' home grounds. First time for. beer in a local baseball park. Bob Sullivan, local newspaperman and former. Aviation Editor of the Ledger, now p.a.!ing for Willow Grove (amusement pork) .and the Boulevard Pool. . , Adelphia Hotel opening, a swanky bar right alongside - its Chestnut Street ' .entrance.. So far , Philly's hotels admit keen " disappointment' with their bar biz. Helen Shiveley is a Phi Beta Kappa. Quin Ryan had a couple of molars primed. John Gottlieb walks the lake front o* nights. Mark Fisher gone suburban for the summer. Lou Goodkind becoming a tented commuter. Babe- Buchanan entertaining rela- tives from out of town. Johnny Jones is the golf champ Of the Woods building. Phil Davis still maneuvering to revive stock presentation. Art Linick sometimes forgets and thinks he's Schlagenhauer. Ashton Stevens, vet drama critic, did a siege at the hospital. Henry Shapiro's 1 hopeful skedded to arrive on Independence Day. Joe Sherman going for the. three for. a quarter movie photographs. Italian Village trying to pull a Sally Rand in their Carioca number. Max. Halperin is a clubless golfer, playing by the walk around method. Allan Doone and his wife, Edna Keeley, Irish actors, visiting the Fair. Fair made a hit with Baron Mau- rice de Rothschild, who took in all shows. . Shirley Brenner rounding Into business, form again after a layoff in Asheyllle. A . John and Barney Balaban headed for California and the Paramount convention^ Henry Kalcheim first nlghting at the French' Casino, for which he is the attorney. Grad Sears visiting old haunts' while here for the Warners Re- gional. Convention. Archie Herzoff, B. & K. p. a., f» practicing up on the blessed event smile for. next month. L. E. Ruth and W. T. Spaeth bought out Chase & Lister tent show and are reorganizing. . I»hilip Dakin signatured with Uni- versal to start June 18. Contract was handled by Ethel Bennett. Lou Cowan has been made a member of the Chiselers Club, ex- clusive advertising organization. Eddie Pierce brought the Century of Progress Revue safely to port, and is negotiating for a Fair con- cession. L. M. Rubens and f rau had their 35th wedding anniversary, "with a special, train from Chi to carry the Homer Drake, Herman Lewis and Robert H. Breen are with the Ox- ford Players doing Shakespeareans through the Midwest and South. Harry Rice is going to make Major Lohr a present of . the six Chinese junks he had to buy. They set Rice back 6 G just for atmos- phere. San Francisco By Harold Bock Jack Reed, ex-Berlin plugger, in town again. Fred Dempsey in town with. Feist catalog. Havry Anderson back from a New York safes jaunt. " Frank Blount, the Warner real estater, up from Hollywood. Enez Canata passed her pooch along to, the Chester Smiths. George Rand, vet stock actor now gone radio, has remarried his former frau. Peter de Lima and frau banged up in an auto crash en route to Los . Irving Kennedy will leave NBC middle of July, returning to Man* hat'tan. Charles Skouras and Charles Buckley in to o.b. the Paramount operating setup. Emmett Thurmoh, Denver thea- tre attorney, here, in connection with picture code cases. Harriett Hoctor holding over for a deuce-week at the Warfield, after a smash first stanza. Lloyd, Yoder strikes out for an eastern vacation this week, taking in N. Y. and Pittsburgh. P. J. Hennessey, Jr., of NBC's New York law department, out here chinning with Don Gilman. Frank Capra up with a flock of players and technicians to shoot 'Broadway Bill' : at Tanforan. Mitzi Rush singing with Leonard Mojica's band, which opened, at re- decorated ET Patio ballroom this week, Helen Morgan, Edmund Lowe, jGgorge O'Brien jind Anita. Page up to participate Tn Comniufiity Chest week. Joe Perry 1$ spending a month here, looking over band and radio names for possible Brunswick re- cording. Florl Gough Shorr off to New York, where she'll, do cello recitals, while hubby, Lev Shorr, continued piano! ng hero. Virginia Stivers Bartlett, Stuart White and Charles Caldwell Doble given literary medals by astute Commonwealth Club. 78 VARIETY Tuesday; June 19, 1934 O B I TU A R I E S j_ MAGGIE CLINE Maggie Cline (Mrs. John P. Ryan), 77, died June 11 at her home in Fair Haven* NY J., from a general break- down. Several weeks ago she was not expected to live, but grew better arid hopes, were entertained for her recovery. She suffered a relapse' arid the. end cahie quickly, Follow- :irig a. funeral service at her home Thursday morning a requiem riiass was celebrated at St. Janies Catho- lic church, Red Bank, and the body brought to Brooklyn for interment in Holy Cross cemetery. She was. born in Haverhill, Mass., and for five, years .worked in a shoe factory there,, running aiyay from horhe to join a burlesque troupe in Boston. For a time she. made a fair success with, the sentimental songs of the day, but found her forte when she ran across 'Mary Ann'Ke- hbe,' a rough Irish ballad, which al- most immediately brought her into the front rank. She held the song in her repertory for 14 years, change ing to 'Throw Him Down, McClos- key,' -which she bought froiri J. W. Keliy/'the Rolling Mill Man.' This was even more of a success than her original hit: She is reputed to have paid Kelly $2 for the number. It was still her main number when she retired many years later, and riot to have included 'McCloskey' in her. program would have meant a cer- tain riot. It. was a rough Irish num- ber, and during the chorus the stage hands made; a terrific racket off- stage, the.y-Toriy Pastor stage crew in .particular excelling at the noise making through, long practiced . She played a number of .extended en- gagements at Pastor's theatre in the old Tammany Hall v When she. came into important money she. spent: a' large part of her salary for costumes, and her dresses were a vaudeville sensation. She fascinated the late James Huneker, then on; the Musical Courier, and it ■was' hV" who nicknamed her .'The Brunhilde of. the Bowery,' because of her 'ample proportions' arid pow- erful vbicey Her official billing was 'The Irish Queen.'. Before vaude- ville was considered proper ■ enter- tainment she brought 'society to Pastors in droves, largely through the attention given her by -the news papers. She was one of the most important headliners of her day. Sha retired father mdre than 25 years ago to -her home in Red Bank, ■N..J., arid played only, a few Isolated engagements following. Probably her last public appearance was at the. opening night of the new Proc tor's '58th St. theatre, about five years ago, wh€n she rose from her seat in the audience in response to an' Introduction, but declined to go to the stage or to sing where she Btobd. Six years ago she acquired an estate '.at Fair Haven; removing from her Red Bank home', and it was. there she died. She was mar tied in 1888 to John Ryan, a cafe owner, but this, fact was little known, though it 'was.* no secret Her husband survives her. version of, 'Burlesque,' 'Behind the Make-up/ 'Men Are Like that' and 'The Struggle' among other screen plays. The body was brought to New York, the funeral being today (Tuesday). Interment in Daven- port, la. He is survived by his widow. servatory of Music In Philadelphia, died at his home there, June 14, of injuries received in an automo- bile accident two weeks ago. He was also founder and president of the Slrifonla national musical fra- ternity and for several years was president of the Musical Fund So- ciety in Philadelphia. Survived by his widow. STANLEY B. WAITE tanley B. Waite, .44, divisional sales manager for Paramount, dropped dead in his office, in Para- iriount June 13, Victim of acute in- digestion. He was to have left that evening with other Paramount of- ficials for the sales convention in Los Angeles and his death threw a cloud over the travelers; Mr. Walte, following his gradu- ation from college, went to South America where he managed a fiber plantation for two years. He quit to become a machinery salesman, giv- ing. that up to enlist for the World War, serving three years as\ first lieutenant in the. Second Division. . Following the war he .turned his attention to . film salesmanship, starting with Pathe, working up to heading the Boston office and later becoming division manager and eventually home office sales repre- sentative. He changed over to Paramount on. 1927, when he took over sales managership of the shorts and the Sound News. With the realignment of the Paramount sales organization Into' its present • three-divisional form, he .was made • head of ■ the second division, which includes the New England and South Atlantic states. He leaves his widow and a nine- year-old daughter. Funeral was from* his home Friday; WILLIAM Hi WOODRUFF William H. (Burt) Woodruff, 78, veteran trouper and picture player, died June 14 in Lob Angeles. After long stage career he came to Hollywood and . appeared in many of the Charles Ray pictures. Two daughters survive. Funeral -serv- ices were held in Hollywood. CLIFF CARL Cliff Carl, comedian with the Ward Hatcher players for several seasons, was killed when his auto- mobile overturned while driving .in Kansas last week. Mrs. Carl, known as Helen McClure with the: Hatcher players', was critically in- ;ured. The accident happened near their home in Council Grove, Karis. SO LOME SCHILLING Solome 'Parks' Schilling, 40, died at the N. V. A. lodge, Saranac. She was well known iri ; the dra- matic field having been a feature with, the Parks Stock Co. for years. She also did dramatic skits in vaudeville: Her husband Walter. Schilling, survives. CHARLES B. CROCKETT Charles B. Crockett, 62, stage and screen actor; died June 12 in . Los Angeles after, a year's. Illness. He was a native of Maryland and was one time vice-president of the 233 Club in Hollywood. Surviving are his widow and two sons. Body cremated June ■ 16 In Hollywood. GERALDINE FERRY Geraldine ! Perry, 27, the JarJ of Jarl, Rene and Vic, team of girl aerlalists, committed suicide by taking poison in her New York hotel room June 16. She died short- ly after' her admission to Flower Hospital. Her team partners told of a seeming ' slip .during the act while in Boston In . which she Injured her hip, and believe this, too, may have been a suicide attempt. ■■ Mrs. Perry, a divorcee, was en- gaged to Arthur Kay Hamlin, also an aerlallst, who was killed in a theatre in Jamaica, L. I., in Jariu ary when he crashed into a grand piano while making .his exit and sustained internal iri juries. The two acts Were due to play New York the past week, but at differ ent houses. Believed that this ac centuated her grief and' led her to self destruction. HAL SKELLY Joseph .Harold Skeljy, 42, was illed in a grade crossing accident near. West Cornwall, Conn., June 16. Details will be found in the Legitimate section. > About . two . weeks, ago Skelly closed 'Come What May,' which he had : produced, interidijig-. to reopen in the fall. The . show was at the Plymouth theatre .where, seven years .earlier, he had scored per- haps his greatest success In 'Burr les'que.' When he. was, but IS lie left home to join the circus,- two years later shifting to comedy in 'The Time, The Place, The Girl.' He returned to the tanbark, joining the Bar- num-Bailey show, but was off again, this, time to tour China and Japan with the Teale light opera company. On his return from the Orient he joined Dockstader's min- strels. He made his first metropoli- tan appearance iri 1918, In -Fid- dlers Three.' This was followed by - J T-he^Rose^in^China^^he=Nlghfr Boat/ 'Girl iri the Spotlight, 1 Orange Blossoms/ .'Mary Jane Mc-. Kane/. 'Betty Lee/ 'The Circus Princess'" and a road tour in 'No, No, Nanette-.' Then canie 'Burlesque/ punfler Ar- thur Hopkins. This had one season in New York arid another on the road^ He went to England to ap- pear ln : ' ifty Million Frenchmen' and on his return divided his time between, the stage and' screen, do- ing 'The Dance of Life/ the screen ALFRED. BRUNEAU Alfred Bruneau, 77, French com poser, and musician, died after an operation- in Paris, June 15. Bru- rieau's.works. chiefly. opera based on works of Emlle Zola, included 'At tack on the. Mill,' 'Gardens of Para dise/ and 'The Dream.' In 1881 he won - second prize iri ,the competi tion for the Prix de Rome. .': His first opera was ^Kerim' and his greatest success was Tia R~eve.' Kwo of his other works are 'L'At- tique du Moulin* and 'L'Enfant Bjoi/ He was also music critic for Gil- las, Figaro and Le Matin and authored several books on music He was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1895. DOROTHY WILSON Dorothy Wilsbn, 27, professionally known "as Dorothy Milber'n, died at the N. V. Ai sari, Saranac, after a lingering illness. She wa$ admitted into the N. V. A. san about three years ago, Before her general breakdown she played Youth in 'Every "vtfoman' and in Eiriily Whelman's 'Little Annie Wood.' In vaudeville she was with Weillng'ton 'Duke' Cross.. . In Saranac she was known as the ,'Sunsftine girl of the Adlrondacks' Her mother, . father and brother ^ur«-tee»y^-=^*=p -■ v-.=l-=^,- ■•.-•'•.- - .Interment, Saranac iLake. CELESTIN JOUBERT Cejestin Joubert, author,, and hon- orary president of the International Confederation of Authors. and Com posers died at . an hotel In Warsaw June 11, He was there to attend the ninth congress of the Confederation DR. GILBERT COMBS Dr. Gilbert Combs, 71/"muslcian and founder of the Combs. Con June 15. Mr. Twambley was active in local minstrels. Survived by a son; ~ EARL CLINT GORD Earl Clint Ford died in. New York June 6 of acute bronchial pneumo- nia. Survived by his widow, mother and sister. Husband of Isabel Randolph, died in . a Chicago hospital May 22 of a cerebral hemmorhage. Survived by his widow and two daughters. Over the line Omaha, June 18.' Reuse of the Nations Walkathon which opened two weeks past at Lakeview Park, which is in Iowa territory on the Nebraska side of the Missouri, still functioning de- spite combined efforts of city offi- cials to ban it Went so far as to be closed a day, but reopened next day because of no objections from Iowa officials. Walkathon is hold- ing forth in same spot, as last year's which ran four months. BADIO PLAYERS IN OPElff Newark, O,, June 18. Summerland : Beach Park, near here has fallen in line with several other Ohio parks in presenting summer, repertoire. Peerless Play- ers have been Installed and will offer two bills weekly. In- the troupe which, has as its leads Ruth DeWleght and . Jack Marlon are Jack Everett,. Clarice DeWleght, George. Mackey,- Fred Washburn, Bernice Rodgers, Verne De Wight, and the well known radio characters from station WBNS, 'MaV 'Amaryllis', 'Sally', 'Hiram' and 'Josh'. HARRY SMOOTS Harry Srrioots, 51,- Mt. Vernon 6. theater operator died of heart at- tack June 12 while fishing on Lake O'Dell; O., in company with his wife. He had beea identified with the operation of theaters in Mt. Vernon for many years. His widow, Alice, survives. L MICHAEL CORES Michael Cores, 49, for many years first viola player with the Philhar monic Orchestra, died June 12 at Mount Sinai Hospital. He joined the .Philharmonic in 1923 arid was also a member of the Strlngwood Ensemble.. He Is survived by his widow and a daughter. WARD H. JOHNSON Ward H. Johnson, 47, operator of three Ohio theaters died June 9, at his home in Conneaut O, following a. lingering illness of heart disease. He was; co-owner and manager of the State theaters at Conneaut, Pal ace at Ashtabula and Shea's play house at Geneva. ISABEL BATEMAN Isabel Bateman, 79, former ac- tress, who became a nun and mother superior of St, Mary's Convent at Wantage, England, died at the con vent June 10. She was leading lady with ' her father's Hezeklah Bate- man's stock company* in -London playing opposite -Henry Irving. BANOVARS GOLDKETTE Banovars. Goldkette, 68, profes slonally known as Theresses, died at his house In Plymouth, Ind., June 8. He retired from the 'stage in 1914. Survived by four, sisters, two brothers and four nephews. ITZ W. GRA3HOF Body of Moritz H. Grashof, 66 former theatre manager, later In- surance executive, who died aboard ship In the Canal Zone, June 11 arrived In Newark, June Death caused by heart attack. ILDA CATHERINE LEHR Hilda Catherine Lehr, 18, daugh- ter of Abe Lehr, v/.p. and gerieral manager of Sam Goldwyn Produc- tions, succumbed June 16 to spinal meningitis, at the family home In Los Angeles, CCC Shows (Continued from page 69) idea to spread the shows oyer as much territory as possible will be carried out. Originally it was pro- posed to form 40 shows in New York, 30 from a Chicago base and 16 each from San Francisco and Los Angeles. In approximate ratio that schedule is expecetd to be fol lowed ' on the basis of 60 shows. Cost of sending but 100 shows was estimated at around $600,000. Ex- pectation isf that the appropriation, if made, will not exceed • 4300,000 GWA shows . in New-: York will con- tinue through the summer and are shortly due to . give performances in the public parks, using portable stages. News of the Dailies (Continued from page 74) groping around in the smoke learned that . the child had been, carried, to safety, Mrs. Richard Bennett has filed an amended complaint., for separate maintenance iri L. A. asking for a reasonable allowance as against the $3,000 a month she has been accus- tomed to receiving from the actor. Seattle judge sentenced James Ashe, self-styled literary agent,! to five, to 15 years for defrauding wo- man of several thousand dollars in fake .story deal. Drunken driving charge lodged in L. A. against William C. Walsh, ac- tdr,. following auto crash in which two were Injured. Teddy Hayes, former. Jack. Derrip- sey trainer and husband of Lina Basquette, hailed into L. A. court on complaint of former wife who' charges alimony arrears of $7,000.--. Estate of Lilyan Tashman .goes tp her hiisband, Edmund .Lowe, . when L. A. court terminates joint tenancy agreement, which provided that surviving member Inherit the property. Value not given consists in Los Angeles property and stocks. Los Angeles city council ratifies appointment of Howard J. Sheehan picture show operator and brother of Winfleld Sheehan, to fire conimis- sion. . ' ■ Maureen O'Sulllvan has moved up her sailing date, to Ireland, due to illness, of her father«_ Virginia Reld, "" Alhambra high school graduate, had her contract with Radio approved by L. A. court. Fllrti rights to 'The Great Apostle/ written by Hi O. Stechan, Holly- wood, being sought by Catholic Film company of Austria. Manager artd two employes of Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador He tel.' L. A., arrested iri' raid by vice squad on charge of violating state hard liquor law. , 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' will be produced by Max Reinhardt in Hollywood Bowl and the Greek theatre at Berkeley between Sept. 19 -Oct. 19, with European' .'cast of 21 augmented by Coast artists. Father of 14-year-old Leonore Ge- Iardo, trapeze performer with John Gutrlerrez- circus, given 90-day sus- • pended sentence for violating child labor law. Los Angeles woman sues John McCormack ' for $10,260, claiming singer's dog bit her hand. Luis Diaz Rlvero, who claims' to be interested' In development of three - dimension - film device, . divorced in L. A. by Mexican so- ciety woman. Harry L. Lipman, radio player, granted divorce In L. A. Separate maintenance suit filed iri L. A. by wife of Slim Summer vllle; asks $3,000 a month for support of herself and son. MRS. JOAN BRADY Mrs. Joan Brady, 25, died as the •re$'ult^bff i burns;=a^Aubttrnr7Nr=^ ; June 13. Letails in the outdoors department. HINT GRIFFIN Hint Griffin, 30, Washington, D. C, theatre employee, was killed in an automobile crash near Lexing- ton, N. C, June 9. Griffin was riding alone and headed for Washington. Federal View Washington, June 18. While endorsing the idea, Federal relief agencies are taking no direct steps to put into operation the pro- gram of furnishing jobs to unem- ployed actors and providing free en- tertainment to the Civilian Con- servation Corps boys this summer. Final decisions about the feasi- bility of carrying on this sort of unemployment aid have been left up to State Relief Administrators by the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration, the War Department, and the Emergency Conservation, Director. Scheme- has received pats on the back from all officials concerned, but no gerieral policy has been laid down nor have' efforts been made to dope .out a broad program for all. of the 1,000 tree-manicuring camps. Suggestions that three, circuits be developed, with New York, .Chicago and San Francisco as the bases, have been okayed hy the C.C.C. and War Department, which, have prom- ised to co-operate by way of pro- viding transportation and subsist-; ence. Educational directors of the forestry outfit are all for the pro- gram but have no funds available to start work of this nature on their own. The War ^Department has agreed to furnish truck transportation for the companies arid their equipment from camp to camp where distances are not too great, but has no money available for railroad fares in cases Where. c^pg,^e..wid^y .aep^rated. Consequently State Relief agencies will have to scrape up dough for railroad tickets whenever neces sary. SHRINE CIRCUS DRAWS Cumberland, Md., June 18. Shrine circus staged by Frank Wirth at the ball park drew ex- cellent 'business here, averaging arouiid 5,000 persons per perform- ance. Parade through the business section included floats made by local merchants. Fifteen bands from various parts of the state enlivened the proces- sion. IN FIRST; GETS COIN Burlington! Vt., June 18. Russell Bros, circus, by a series of long jumps, managed to beat all opposition Into this territory and as a result did heavy business at . the Ave stands In Vermont. A five, cent concert, something new for shows iri Vermont, drew, heavily; Circus went into New Hampshire from Vermont with stands in Maine ; to follow. LETTERS When Sending for Moll to VARIETY Address Mall Clerk;: POSTCARDS, ADVERTISING or CIRCULAR LETTERS WILL NOT BE ADVERTISED LETTERS ADVERTISED ONE ISSFK ONLY Ahrons Mr Brown Lillian Canter Lynne Mlerrfe Walter M ay liar d H Mohammed H B lna Pennington Ann DOROTHEA ANTEL 226 W. 92d St.. New York City My New . Assortment of GREETING CARDS. Is J>Iow^Ready.^2LB«aatIful= CARDS and FOLDERS. Boxed. Tost*, paid, for One Dollar ISAAC TWAMBLEY. Isaac. Twambley, 84, magician, died at his home In Baltimore, I N S T I T V T 1 Q iff INTERNATIONALS Shoes for the Steg* and Street WSHO.WFQLS'S. SHg.iEaHQt=ilS52 BRQADWA.Y Tuesday, June 19» 1934 TDOOKI VARIETY 79 CM Fair looming Known as The Battle of the Villages' Chicago, June 18. .Lite of the Fait this year is the (Street of Villages; It's • on the old Midway and the natural thorough- far^ "for. the' crowds. By force of habit the visitor regularly turns down the Village lane. Competi- tion is tough and- already the weed- ing process is underway. While most of -the villages at the Fair.. are . out hustling for trade 'in every, manner conceivable; at least two villages have gone exclusive and are trying to: see how few people they can play to in any; one week. It's the great Fold-Up Derby with the entries being the Spanish Vil- lage and the Oasis, formerly known as Morocco. From present appear- ances It looks like Spain is going to prove the winner by at least a $150,000 loss but basis Is coming 'into the stretch and jinay Win by blowing any day. now. Oasis has been rehearsing for the -final -blow* up by forgetting occa- sionally. From Hunger Yet these two spots have the hest locations on K the street. But they are Just- going .to waste: . Spain has probably the biggest area of any of the villages . but it doesn't help That gag about being able to shoot deer in the balcony of the Palace here is topped in Spain. Those deer would die of loneliness - in Spain. Night the Variety mugg visited this place it looked like he was the only paying customerr— and he got in on a pass. Everybody in the place , was on the payroll and they sat around the tables listening to the orchestra which was playing a bit wistfully There' were a couple of Spanishers walking 'a couple of little mules around for atmosphere. To them it didn't matter if anybody was there to watch their act. They remem- bered they were in .show business and that the show must go on". It is. understood that the Spanish government has a heavy subsidy on this Village, figuring it as good ex ploitation. They should have paid the joint not to. open because people are going to get an impression, that Spain is wrapped in blankets. This is a swell village for people .who want to get away from everybody, Black Forest Coupons Oh the opposite side of the street is Black Forest and" at present the top attendance getter of the Fair Boys Who operate ,this spot are smart. They got the Village put in the regular Worldls i Fair coupon book which sells for $7.50. There are 6,000,000' books out. already. The Black Forest only collects five cents for its share of the. coupon but it's Worth it In word-of -mouth and the natural shills. Place . is laid out shrewdly, People walking along the street get a short but vivid flash of the interior which- appears loaded with people. This, is also due to the arrangement which forces the mobs into the center of the village. People seeing the mobs inside are certain it must be worthwhile seeing.. Spain, on the other hand, has built' high imposing walls so that it's impossi ble to get any squint of the interior. Maybe they did thaL on purpose, Black Forest .is ajgweet .spot from, all angles. It really is. something dif- ferent and architecturally it does transport the visitor to ' Europe Everything is done in the quaint manner. In the center of the square is a skating' and; dancing rlhk. Fake ice around the sides, gives the im pression of ice-skating but the acts on the show are on rollers. Same thing goes for the tobaggari slide in the Village. Arranged like an ice fllide, it's really the regular hard* wood slide made popular in the Til- you Steeplechase amusement piers in Coney Island and Atlantic City ooching eights . In all the villages there's restau- rant concessions, flower concessions show concessions, store concessions and others of that nature. Bu't the Tunis Village tops 'em all With the panhandling and mooching conces ^^Qn.^As^soon^as^he^visitor^alks^ into the spot he gets that Oriental atmosphere and a dozen kids are Pulling at his pants and yelling for 'money, money, money'. Fair , has received a number of beefs on this respect, but the mooching is Btill going on. Besides the kids actually demand- ing coin, there, are a number of women huddled on blankets' in cor- ners, nursing babies in public and holding out saucers for gratuities. '•Thia is no ' doubt authenticity, but authenticity that doesn't belong at a World's Fair in Chicago, The local police have conducted a wide-spread campaign to clear the loop of pah- handlers and pickpockets. They ought to start another campaign in- side the grounds. Midgets Click Midget Village of last year is toV day Midget City with Nate Eagle replacing Jack Fine as - impresario. As a City the spot has fire depart- ment, coppers, mayor, jail, etc. It's a neat idea and a perfect setup for the kids who swamp the spot. It's a money -maker from the ■bell with Eagle having thought of every angle for the coin. He's even sold the Standard Oil company space for a trio of midget, gas pumps and with the company .paying for a midget attendant. Understood that Eagle drew five g's for that gag. In the show aire midgets from the ace -acts of vaudeville, from Ike Rose, Singer, Hitter and Thies. Some 146 midgets are working, though most of them are in just for atmos- phere. .Capt. : Werner is here. as the smallest man in^the World and get- ting an extra 5c. admish for -his act Figured that Werner plays - to $500 weekly. Visitors ar© getting entertainment for their two-bits, especially the youngsters. But Eagle has not .for gotten the carney and the cbm- petish at the other villages. Has installed a midget cooch show for those who go for that, and lie claims that it's doing okay, though that lis hard to believe since most of the^ customers here are kids and their parents. Cuts Out Lithos Alliance, O., June 18. Rice Bros motorized, piloted by the veteran Howard Kink is playing thru Ohio without, advance billing,, depending entirely upon local news- papers for their buildup. Show came here Tuesday without a sheet of paper up ii. advance* us- ing a three, inch add daily 'in the one local newspaper. Trick billed for a week in the local paper for Monday date, then suddenly switched to Tuesday* without any explanation. Only fair biz resulted. CLIPPED A CARNEY Chopped a Permit 50% Citizens Objected When Utica, June 18. After Utica's administration of- ficials had granted a permit for the showing of the Kaus United Shows in co-operation with a local organ- ization, indignant citizens' pointed to an ordinance prohibiting carni- vals. ' * Officials compromised by per- mitting carnival to run for one week instead of two as stated on the permit, and gave assurance that strict compliance with the ordi- nance will be met in the future. Pa. Fair Reopens Lancaster, Pa., June 18. County lair pulls a come-back here after a silence first invoked in 1931 by bankruptcy. This year's showing under management of Allen Lewis Company, Philadelphia, and John H. Meyers and several other locals. Schedule calls for 'Clean Midway,' rodeo, daily horse races and ex- hibits. Several free attractions. Dates-* announced- as August 27-31. Carnie boys wrecked last fair when law and order gang cracked- down. Gettin' Hunk Joe Cook was the honor guest at the New York tent Circus Saints and Sinners club last week and, as usual, it was a ride 'em cowboy affair. Also, as usual, ,the ,boys, tore the shirt off the honored guest, Then came Cook's turn. Asked to address the gather- ing, -the 'comedian obtained a promise that nobody would in- terrupt hitn. Cook opened the ' 1,200-page /Anthony Adverse' and started reading it. He con- tinued .until ^they pleaded for mercy. ' * Outdoors, Parks Walk on Code, With NRA Okay; Times Too Tuff DIES OF BURNS Loui rady Accidentally Tosses laming Mass on. Wife. BIZ BEST IN Auburn,. N. ., Jurii 18. Mts. Joan Brady, 25, wife of Louis 'Red* Brady, of Chicago, Who Was .badly burned at Enna Jettlck Park ;late Monday afternoon, died June 13. The body was forwarded to Chi- cago for interment. Mrs; rady and her" husband headed a high-diving act. Monday afternoon Brady was. heating paraf- fin over a gasoline stove in his trailer car. It boiled oyer: and caught fire.. He tossed the container from the car, the blazing mass set- ting fire to Mrs, Brady's clothing as she was about to enter. Early summer finds the major circuses running ahead of. last sea- son. In industrial cities the^imr provement is regarded , as a; definite indication of the upturn in busi r ness. generally. The Ringling-Bar-' num & Bailey outfit, has swung into one-nighters along ^the Atlantic Sea- board, playing to 'straw'' . houses, w h 1 c h means overflow Is spotted on the traek. Reported , that the big top got around $10,000 more .on each day in Reading, Lancaster and W.il- liamsport, all in Pennsylvania. Rlngling show, too, grossed . heayy. money in other, stands in New. Jer- sey and. New York. .Elmira proved the weakest ,one-nlghter to date, but even, there the shpw made a profit of $7,000. That was claimed a rec- ord for the town. Show touched New England points last week, and is turning into upper New York this week, with business pointing to heavy attendance ail- along the line, Warm and generally clear weather has been the break in favor of the tents. Particularly en- couraging is the increase in 'down- town' ticket sales. The Al .G Barnes and Hagenbeck- Wallace shows are also reported running ahead of last summer. Latter, after a mid western start, has now reached Pennsylvania, While the Barnes outfit has swung into .the Canadian Northwest. Ringli.ng-Barnum and Bailey outfit is. due in Chicago almost a month ahead pf schedule. To hit Chicago during, the second week in July, the 13th being figured as the opening date at present. In the past the Rlngling show has usually, gotten into the loop some time in August. Understood the big show will again .have the use of the lake- front Grant Park lot despite the nearby World's Fair. Tom Mix - Sam Dill show has also departed 'from . the eastern territory an.d lias headed west. An other angle of the Mix westward- ho was the . Pennsylvania ruling on the Mix-101 Ranch case which will keep WITH THE MAYOR AWAY STOOGE MAKES MISPLAY Pittsfield, Mass., June 18 Mayor Allen, H. Baggs was em- barrassed- when . he returned to the city .after a few days', absence and found ' that a permit had been issued for a tent showi Bagg has decreed that carnivals and other tent shows* not including circuses, shall not be permitted in Pittsfield. But he forgot to remind Denis ,T. T. Noonan, president of the City Coun- cil, who served as acting mayor dur- ing Bagg's absence. Noonan issued a permit to -Hank Keene. to present his radio show *n his tent theatre for three days. And Noonan dug into his own pocket for the>$l to pay for the license because the application was made by the Disabled War Veterans' Chapter. Bagg hauled Noonan on the car- pet, but the latter declared he un- derstood the radio troupe offered a respectable show and he was, anx- ious to help the veterans. The mayor permitted the Keene show, to go on, but Insisted there wouldn't be any further permits for tent shows, exr cepf circuses. COURT SAYS 'GO !' Independence, la., June 18. The ' Buchanan . county fair is in hands of a receiver, but the 1934 fair will be held Aug. 29; 30 and 31. j. M. Rowland, as receiver, has Just secured a court order in district court authorizing him to conduct the county fair o- dates' set. Will seek .to raise funds with earlier outdoor events. the Mix show out of the Quaker state. Ringling will share the West with its sister Al G.' Barnest show which has been doing exceeding wc '. Com^- pany Will leave the eastern terri- tory to the Hagenbeck- Wallace show which will watch its route to pick only the. cream towns. "Washington, June 18- Asserting the impossibility bearing financial burdens, National Association of Amusement Parks Thursday (14) withdrew their NRA code and prepared to struggle along without aid of the Blue Eagle, Move was agreeable to the NRA, which recently reached conclusion, that an agreement for narks, pools, beaches and piers could be. adminis- tered only with 100% voluntary co- operation. Explanation given, by Frank W. Darling. NAAP prez. was : that while code sounded 'okay in confer- ences subsequent analysis disclosed it would be impossible for operators to "comply with drastic hbur-sh.ort.r enihg and wage-boosting, clauses. Informed Deputy William P. Farns- worth investigation had shown an increase of 35% in . pavrolls Would be necessary and pointed put that anticipated increase ' business, looked for as result of general recovery movement and . pickup in economic conditions, so far has not materialized. Latest development leaves this branch of amusements entirely out- side NRA pale, since few, if any, park .operators signed the Presi- dent's Re-employment Agreement la,st summer on account of the dras- tic reduction in- hours which would have followed: 1 Association will make every effort to put into effect principles pf NRA and .bring about Voluntary co-oper-. ation in stamping out Unfair com- petitive methods, Darling promised, and wil? see. what can be done to- ward getting, agreements. on. a series of simple regional codes In areas where NRA enthusiasm is highest. If NRA keeps going, the NAAP will, come in at the end of the : sea- son with cold statistics and try to talk turkey again about a pact for next season^ basing discussion in actual showing for 1934 operations* Competition from municipal amusement enterprises was one of the major stumbling blocks WhicH the NRA could not - overcomie and which ■impelled association to with- draw Its proposed pact. Blue Eagle realized it woul be impossible to bring publicly-owned amusements^ under the code, and that competi- tion, in many metropolitan areas- would be so hot that private oper- ators-could not be expected .to com- ply with rigid NRA provisions and still make , a go of their businesses. While nothing concrete has been doped out in NRA front offices yet/ it . is possible that park operators eventually will be asked tq come in : under the .new blanket code being planned for all uncodified industries. Another possibility, though, not very- strong, is that park managers can sign modified PRA and get lue Eagle in that way. STAGE HANDS KILL OPERA Geauga Lake, O., June 18. Opera has been abandoned by -^eauga ^Jd^Ef L ?-3£& -j"- J tB_ open jair theatre as the result of its recent wage battle with stagehands. Vaudeville will take the place of opera singers, with a new bill of five . acts . opening each Sunday. It was originally planned to present 14 weeks of light opera. Spar key Rudolph and Mike Sotto- santi will stage boxing shows start- ing June 18, in the ring that Geauga park built for the late young Strlb- llng when he was training for his titular bout. Expo Finally Okays Fan Dancers Out as Attractions Chicago, June. 18. World's Fair officials haye finally decided they need showmanship at the fair again this year. For three weeks they, tried to get along on education and science, but the pub- lic broke the officials' hearts by staying away in. droves. Last week the fair leaders got together with the various village Owners and gave them a proposition, asking them . to forget about the rules on shows and . to go out and get some attractions that will bring people to the fair. Officials told the village conces- TSionalres^that^thoHer^illages^-which^ earnestly go out and get attractions of the dynamite sort would get some adjustment on their terms to make up for the expenditure on the shows. Terms now run a sharing arrangement on a sliding scale from 17 to 50% of the gross for the fair. Fanners Cold Several of the villages started oft by wiring to the Coast for picture names, offering top money, but not likely to connect on any of those angles due to the squawk of local exhibs against producers allowing talent to show at the fair .in com-, petition with in-town theatres. Of all attractions it looks like the deadest is the fan dancer. The fanners are apparently strictly out. Not because of the moral aspect, but because of the lack of interest on the part of the public. For an entire year now the country has been glutted with fan dancers, and today they mean nothing at the box oflice. They are a particular drug on the market in this town, and all the villages are turning down the fanners, J!ven_though some have ofjv hope of getting returns in publicity. NAB CHAIN GANG FUGITIVE New Ha ,r en, June 18. Claudi.s Jewell, 26, employee of Ringling- liarnum circus, was held by local police for Durham, N. C, authorities hero last week (13). Jewell, alias Nat rn aylor, was sought for several mon hs an a fu--, gltive from a Carolina rhain gang. Mix Hits in Central West; Puts Off Easterns Good business encountered in mid- western towns by. the Tom. Mix Round-up-rSam B. Dill .Three Ring Circus has decided the saw- dusters to postpone their , eastern bookings until late in the summer, or put them off altogether. Circus is being re-routed to in- clude every production dot In In- diana and Illinois , and stay where the pickings are. good. Paper has already been put . up in eastern towns, but this is circus's loss. .Troupe is traveling "by motor. 10-Yr. Old Lion tamer Headed for Chi Expo Chicago, June 18, Manuel King, 10-y*ar-old son of Rattlesnake Bill of Brownsville, Texas, is being brought into the World's Fair to dq a trainer act with 10 lions. Boy is billed as the young Amer- ican Tarzan. WILL TftY BEVTIES Elmira, N. Y. r June 18. A musical revue with : a cast of 40 will be the feature free attrac- tion at the Chemung County Fair, opening September 10. CIRCUS ROUTES Al. 0. Hftrnefi Ooour <)e Alone, Idaho, 18; Wallace, 10; tfpolfnno, Wash.. 20; MIhhouIsi, Mont., 21: H<-li,- 187f. ' COPYBIGHT, 1PM, BY VABIETY, INC. AIA BIGHTS RESERVED. ]M, U5 No. 2 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1934 64 PAGES 42D ST. CLEANUP The battle of 42nd street church and business men against turning the former leading show' stem into a honky-tonk thoroughfare will be resumed today (Tuesday) when, a hearing is held at the License de- partment on the> application of the Okay Bud Corporation, operators, of the 14th street Irving Place, for a license to play burlesque in the Apolio. f License Commissioner Paul Moss has withheld the granting of a li- cense for a number of weeks, pend- ing his roundup of the various 42d business and church factions, as well as the burly, group,, for a hear- ing. Last time the 42d Street Busi- nessmen's association and the churches organized to fight the turning of the street into a grifters' alley they received a cleanup of the (Continued on page 51) Paris Has New Peeve; Says H wood Setting The Pace for Style Parrs is kicking that Hollywood is giving it lessons in style. American Alms, say critics, are showing up. the Rue de la Paix. Hollywood practice .of paying real attention to costuming in. Alms, as contrasted with French Aimers' neg- ligence, is given as reason. Pics are now important enough here to «et styles, and French couturiers fire losing out by passing them up. Gals are following in the steps of American stars insofar as clothes are concerned., French actresses pick their own dresses ad lib and according to their pocketbo.oks. Result is obvious in most pics. No French star has ever popularized a form of hairdressing, a hat or a silhouette, Is the com- plaint; Covering Territory Nashville, June 25. Beginning today (Monday) 3,000 J.rfipresentatives==olU-WSM, .^National Life & Accident Insurance company of Nashville station, will call on 1,000,000 In 21 states to find out what they listen to — what stations, What programs— what they want on the air. This will be the most compre- hensive house-to-house radio sur- vey ever conducted by a single in- dependent radio station in Amer- ica. Whether the canvassers will double as insurance salesmen, not given. What Price Noise? „ Effective July 1, NBC will have a scale of rates .for Its sound effects service to apply to commercial programs,; Charge per man for an hour, , using standard' library equip- ment, will be $5 and $1.26 for each quarter hour after the first hour. • If a client wants special con- struction and experimental' sound effects, special prices will, have to be negotiated. Rates for electrical transcrip- tion will be the same as charged for live broadcasts. In any event the minimum fee for each sound effect mechanic used will be $5. WANTED - 5,000 CARTOONISTS; NO KMT Audition Institutional Radio Show tor Benefit of all Box Offices. METRO'S SOLO ADS Hollywood, June 25, Wanted: 5,000 animated cartoon- ists. Salary, $100 to $300 a week. Ap- ply to Ma* Fleischer. Sounds like a gag but it's gospel according to the film creator of Bet- ty Boop, Popeye etc.- Fleischer would hire 5,000 men to- morrow if he could lay hands on them. In his words, 'there ain't no such animal.' Meaning, of course, outside of the 3,000 artists now em* (Continued oh page 51) STOCK CO. REUNION FOR BALTIMORE WEEK Baltimore, June 25. Group, of actors who .formerly comprised a stock outfit tagged University Players, and who put in a season at the legit Maryland two year/ago are planning to round up the original roster that trouped tor gether in stock and present 'Co- quette' for a week at Mt. Kisco, summer stock spot, in August. . Among group will be . Margaret Sullavan, TJ pic contractee, who is east on vacash, and who will essay top part in the Abbott-Bridgers opus; Kent Smith, current in Now York in 'Dodsworth'; Mildred Nat- wick, a local socialite who was on Broadway last seasbn in 'Wind and Rain';. Myr on:Mc .Cormick..of the rer cently folded 'Yellow Jack*; Henry Fonda, Withdrawing from 'New Faces,' Fulton, N. Y., former hus- band of Miss Sullavan. Usher Holds Over Buddy Alda has been held over for a. third week at the Paradise ball- room on Broadway. He's the former singing usher at Loew's Orpheum and the Paradise engagement is his first pro Job. Proposition to bring the picture theatres of the country in on ah attendance-boosting campaign over the air, with the stunt involving an expenditure of around $500,000 has been submitted to the five major circuits by Paul Moorehead, wes^ coast advertising man. If by Fri- day (29) he hasn't received enough commitments to make the project worthwhile, it is Moorehead's in- tention to drop the thing altogether. Moorehead says that he has re- ceived for his promotional idea the okay of the Hays organization but with the understanding the finan- cing would have to come directly from the theatremeti. Idea is pre- dicated' on the current church agi- tation and intended as good-will counter- propaganda. ^ For . the past six weeks Moore- head has been working with NBC oh a program to carry the film at- tendance ballyhoo. It's his idea to use a cross-country link of 58 sta- tions five days a week for 10 weeks with each of these quarter hour periods framed, around a 35-plece orchestra directed by AT Goodman, Martha Mears and Ray Heatherton, and with Graham McNamee hold- ing down the plug retailing assign- ment Bill for time and. talent here would come to around $250,006. Another $250,000, explains Moore- head, would be required for a series of prizes he proposes giving to fans for letters on their likes and dislikes in film fare. Applications for entry into this contest could only be obtained from picture thea- (Continued on page 58) As Operated by N. Y. C, It's a New Kind of Show Biz Since License Commissioner Moss and the Park Dept. of the City of New York have started in show business and are running the works at the Claremont Inn, Roger Wolfe- Kahn decided- to -bow- out' as the dance attraction. Figures it's too new a kind of show business to have the Park Dept. dictate to a roadhouse what to charge, and to cater to tho pce-pul at pop prices (Moses had tabooed the $1 mini- mum check idea, interpreting that as a couvort). So Kahn has taken his band else- where. He opened Saturday (23) at the Sun and Surf club, Long Beach, with the Ritz Bros, and a Bobby Sanford revue* Here's a 6-Day Kke Race in LJL But Riders Only Ones That Know It New Femme Angle Hollywood, June 25. Universal changed the han- dle on ?What Women .Dream* - t© 'What Ladies' Dream,' fea- turing Bihnie. Barnes. Presumption, as expressed by U execs, is that ladies are more interesting than women. LITERACY VIA PIX IS IMTL CAMPAIGN Hollywood, June 25. A program of visual education through the use of motion pictures intended for illiterates is being un- dertaken by the International Insti- tute of Educational Cinematog- raphy, an affiliate of the League of Nations located at Rome. S. Balbont, American delegate, is centering his activities here, and contacting producers with a view to securing their co-operation. It is said 45 nations are combined in the (Continued on page 56) ' Los Angeles, June 25. Promotion,, or rather lack of it, behind the six-day bicycle tace at Gilmore Stadium la so far behind the brand put but by the New. York Garden crowd that the pedalers are beginning to. think the thing may develop into a free wheeling affair. Outside of Reggie McNamara and a' few others who are in on a guar- antee, the wheelmen are. gambling — with the management on the prfc£< boodle and so far the exchequer is bulging with emptiness. It's the old story over and over, but the smart boys just won't learn. Summer nights on the west Coast are colder than a barber's clippers and that means that outdoor shots are headed for a chill. Natives go for all manner of freak attractions, but not when they have to park their posteriors on pine boards and sit around like Eskimos wrapped up in heaters. ...... Gravy Etiquette The big name riders are down for a daily flat payoff, ranging from $25 ; to $100, which only applies to the days they ride. Should they drop out after a spill they're off the (Continued on page 51) KIT SPURNS $5,000, SO BAER GRABS $2,500 Katharine Cornell turned down $5,000 to broadcast from a private room with no witnesses and about everything but the kitchen stove, all of which she would have rer ceived if going on the 'Hall of Fame' show on NBC Sunday night (24) % Miss Cornell explained that she doesn't work Sundays. It was arranged for Miss Cornell to do a scene from 'Barretts of Wim- pole Street' and the deal waB set when the actress brought up the Sunday point. For a substitute the 'Fame' spon- sors booked Max Baer at $2,500. IPs 3-Yr-Old Contractee . ... : Holl ywood. Ju ne. 25, ..... In line with the cradle-snatching trend of the studios, Universal has tabbed three-year-old Juanita Qulg- ley on a long term contract as its entry in the list of child prodigies. Deal was arranged through Sol Sol- inger who spotted the child on the street . with her mother and signed through the guardian pronto. Little Miss Quigley, youngest of the talking babes, gets her first assignment in the John M. Stall 1 picture, 'Imitation, of Life.' Publicity Angle on Libby Holroan Debut Annoys Newspapers Philadelphia, June 25. Local reviewers are all burned ui> over circumstances of Libby Hoi- man's debut at the Hedgerow The- atre last Saturday. . Echoes of the occasion have been heard in all the columns during the week. Squawk wasn't against Libby her- self. Press boys all said the ex- torch -singer ' acquitted' herself ad- mirably" in 'the wife (that of a maid) in the Spanish • comedy, '^Spring in Autumn.' . Complaint came on the ballyhoo that surrounded the affair and which included the presence of three State Troopers- at the little theatre in Rose Vailey- • Worst o£ all, how- ever, was. .the. .fact that in the ef- fort to surround Miss Holman wit utter secrecy and privacy, audience was not" allowed " to leave the audi- torium during the intermissions. It was a hot. night. and the reviewers were burpe.d up twp. ways. No ex- ceptions were made, even for the Broadway. '. crowd l.thaJL.^ame. .J>y.er L .. Theatre," "which holds less than 200 and is made oyer from an old mill, was hot .and, . everybody steamed plenty during the overlong Inter- missions. All the' reviews made mention of the fact and Hedgerow made a lot of trouble for itself. It's hardly likely order will be continued in the case of Miss Holman's forthcoming appc.irnnops in 'Winofiburgh, Ohio* and \ Characters in Search of an Author.' Tuesday, Junto 26* 1934 Fed! Office of Education Would Establish National Film Institute Washngton, Federal . Office of Education last week " called for improvement of non-theatrical pictures to further educational work. Pointing out that - educators must aid arid work with the film industry in order to en- courage- Use of pictures in education, report was prepared by Dr. Cline M. Koon, specialist in radio and ylsual education. Report brings out that 190,000 non-theatrical projectors, including home sets, are in use; 32 states have, film libraries, and 16mm films are being used in classrooms more widely, showings haying increased, over 47% from 1931 to 1933. •In comparison, with the theatrical motion picture,' the report says, 'the non- theatrical .picture in the past usually lacked technical excellence, was used comparatively little and with varying regularity. Many, agencies have pioneered in the .de- velopment of the educational film but the result . in. the United States today is chaotic and disorganized. 'The principal ' reason's '■ . for this condition seem to be the past policy of the Federal Government to leave to. private and voluntary endeaVor many activities that; the typical- Eu- ropean government would assume and the educational system of the country which is not centralized in the Federal government, 'but in; the main is left to each of the 48 states. Private industry is deadlocked over the fact that producers' cannot af- ford to make fllmsuntlla sufficient number of projectors are sold: to make the work profitable .and = the projector concerns' cannot 'gel! their apparatus because there is no com- prehensive library of suitable films available for their use: 'Commendable • efforts are. being 1 'made in many 'places to' overcome these' difficulties, but there is «reat need for a national films: institute to assemble, edit;, classify, publicize and catalog non -'theatrical film .ma- terial and to set up a convenient and economical distribution system, and to produce' and stliriUlate: the production and effective utilization of- 'educational films. Preparedness Hollywood, June 26. Long distance championship on story preparation, goes to Sam Goldwyh. Producer has engaged Brian Marlow to start writing a story tot the Eddie Cantor picture to be tnade in July, 1935. The cur- . rent Cantor, film, 'Kid Mil- lions,* won't start for three weeks,. Shriners Take It on Chin for Plenty With Wampas Babes in Minneapolis STANLEY SMITH MAY LAND BACK IN FILMS ... Stanley Smith, given a test by Metro,* may land on that company's lot after. . concluding in summer stock at the Elverhob theatre, Mil- tqn-ori-the-Hudson, N. Y., for which he', has just been engaged to play leads in, several productions on tap. , First show, 'G Ram,' by Adelyn Bushnell, opened yesterday (Mon- Recently Smith has been on the Joe Peliner knd. Erio Cririie Cities SBC air" programs, among others. He .was in pictures for Fox .for. a spell.. JHanreen Reassnmes MG Role, Her_Sub Still III Hollywood, June 26.' Maureen. O'SUllivan , has . post- poned an intended trip to Ireland to take the f e'mme le'ad' Vih Itfetfo's 'Hideout;* a part she - had previdUsly been excused from.. jfkiss 'O'Suiiivan stays here on ac- count of ^illness of LoVet'ta Young 1 , who was. named! replacement;. Miss Young 'is expected' j,6 ; l^a've <$ueen of Angels' hospital tomorrow (Tuesday) following a minor oper- ation.- ' :'. WILL MAHONEY The Detroit Free Press said: 'fThis comedian is so widely known and established as an entertainer par . excellence that he needs no new encomiums. His songs, agile legs, Ind his remarkable ability to play he xylophone with his feet never Weary an audience." ...Direction ! WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY j ir Theatre Buildi I New York Minneapolis, V Shriners ; and Mlnneapolltans may 1 •enjoy feminine beauty and close-ups ;i Hollywood^ June £6. of screen celebrities in porson, but. Lee Crowe arid Phillip Dakin fr.qm if attendance at the Wampas Frolic New York legit are here .under trial and Ball at the municipal audi* contracts to. Universal. tbrluni here is any criterion they're These are the first, two. picked, up unwilling to shell across $2.60 per, by Dave Werher, on a taleh|t flfpout- ticket for such indulgence, even ing expedition, in the east.". ..,','. when, for good measure, there's the Merwln Light and Dor.p.thy Dare, .additional' privilege (advertised but young players from the Broadway hacking) of dancing vith such look- v s,tage, are here ; under "' contract, to erg as the Wampas Baby Starst ■ "fVarhers. They are part of the Jegit pGeorge Raft,; Dorothy Burgess, -.etc;-"- Contingent being assembled at that ji The ' natierial' Shriner body in^- studio for build-ups. NO $4,000 PERSONALS FOR SHIRLEY TEMPLE duccd - the Wampas to bring its ari^ ; niial Frolic arid Ball, introducing - its new selection 'of baby stars, to Minneapolis and stage it as one of- the . national .conclave's entertain- ment features: The arrangement called, fpr the .'Shrine to underwrite alt expenses, estimated, at $15,000, RADIO ACTS SET FOR U'S 'GIFT GAB' MUSICAL! Hollywood, June. 25. Universal has spotted Phil Baker, Ruth Etting, Downey isters and the Beale Street Boy's in thfe radio sequences of 'Gift of. Gab, 1 which Karl Freund directs. Col. Spots Gwili Andfe Hollywood, June 26. Gwili Andre has. been signed' by Columbia for a spot opposite John Gilbert in 'The Captain Hates the Sea,' which Lewis Milestone is pro ducing. Other additions to the cast in elude Waiter. \Catlett,. Andre . Ber ; anger, Frank Conroy and the three stooges, Howard, Fine and Howard Shirley Temple's -scheduled four ^^10,0^00 of that ^he^hovr vaude weeks for RKO were called What happened was that the off by Fox studio, which' has ithe )cld jvont drew a .e^ot $2 700, so thaj star under contract. She was to the .notional Shrine ^body^ ^ it m have opened late next month at the the^ chin for plenty coveri n&Jhe Palace. Chicago, at.$4,000 weekly. cost of advertising, ^^...and trans- pvp ' - "■ 1 exploitation,. dead-heads in the au- dience,, numbering nearly, 1,500, ex? , qeeded the paying customers.. In a hall capable of accommodating nearly .10,000, not nfiore than 3.0QO foregathered. .i The difficulty' encountered with the Frolic here was to get an im- pressive array of luminaries such a long, distance., from the studios Riowlfciid SloWs Start i . . Hollywood, June 25. ! W^h Lupe Vele^ east on per sjonals, * Bill,. jftowiaMd . has set back the starting ' date of ; his Cbluinbia *i^ucit?%'.]'irilibilena/ to jUly 7£ , Russell' $ack directs^ " with' A'hri Sothern and Jack Haley in' toppers, along with* Velez. I.' '"' John Halliday's WB Duo Burbank, June 25,- .Warners has given a two7picture I deal, to John Haliiday. ; Actor goes' into 'The Lady Sur- renders' and 'Gentlemen Are Born:' WERNER RETURNS WEST Dave Werner, Universalis, .story and talent , scout, hies ; back > to U j City this. week. _ 4S _ ' Has been east o.o.'ing things and three weeks'.- i. Hollywood, JUne 25. I How much of a stooge's person- ality he- can .call his own, when it:| comes to professional performances, arid how much belongs to. the . man who made him what. he is, will re- ceive some sort of legal interpreta- tion in the case of Ted Healy against his former foils, Larry Fine, Moe and Jerome Howard. ; Healy demands an Injunction pre- venting the trio, of stooges from ub- lhg ga^s, effects and material which He . claims as his own peculiar pf op r . e'r'ty in! pictures, being made for Col- umbia.' Studio is. named, as, co.-de.-; fendeiit in the Superior Court action, and an accounting )s demanded, I peajy'e' complaint rccities that the- antics and abilities of i ^Howard; Fine and . Hpward, formerly known , as. •Ted Healy and His Stooges/ are due entirely to his coaching and be- long exclusively to him. His squawk IS tha,V Columbia has advertised the domic trio as 'Ted Healy's Stooges' and that they have used much of his material. j Pictures will probably be shown at the forthcoming^ trial to demonstrate Just what constitutes the defendents* dtboge characteristics 'and what may be considered' their own native en- tertainment' traits. . . . Nig igel Bruce Quits Fox Early for Brit Stage! Hollywood, June 25. Eager to. get back to his family in ig ne. uiayan.^ — England and to- the British stage, w hlch could not spare them the s Nigel Bruce has .washed up his pic- weelt or . mpre that would be: con>-' ture . . contract -with- Fox .^nd.- left s ! umBC ?. Many '-'of • those willing, toi. Hollywood 'for; iNewi . York .to make jjarticipate, 'found themselves enn connections with the Aquitania ga ge< j .\ n production or about to d<^ Wednesday (27), He has announced so wampas realized f ull well that'- that he -will .not return. Ithe baby «tars in themselves would; • : Contract still had a short time to nQt be enou&h jbox- office to attra Radio Reports'. ..... .«*» Talking Shorts ....... Times Square ........ Vaudeville Women •••»*•»*•< • ••«*•• 4 • * * % « ; 51 , 61 62 27 . 16 .21-81 . 66 22 65. 52 62 .63-55 67 ...47-48 , 60 48 . 62 . 63 7-39 .40-47. . 42 » 16 . 59 .49-56 58 SAILINGS July 7 ss picture. Accompanied by his \jrife, LeMaire plans to be abroad four months. • Plans to negotiate a second deal f'or Arliss while abroad. Also likely LeMaire will handle interests of other Americans. McClure the name Phyllis Johnson it was Harlan's fourth splicing. I Harlan stated they never lived to^ iether as man 1 tend Wife, but sep- arated after the ceremony.- He tes- Sified he has not. seen his wife since nd believes she. is in Hollywood..- Annulment papers- were .'filed 1 in Baltimore Circuit Court last Satur- day (23). Par's Runy on Yarns Hollywood, June 25. Film rights to "BrCadway Finan- cier* and 'Idyh of Miss Sarah Brown,' hoth by Damon Runyon, acquired by Paramount. Another Runyon duet, 'Hold 'Em ¥ale' and 'Dark Dolores' optioned by same company. Al Shean Hits Coast Hollywood, June 25. Al Shean arrived here today (Monday) under contract to Fox. "''"StepT^inro^^^ the part he had on, the stage. ' WILDBERG'S COAST TEIP John J. Wlldberg, film attorney, left for the Coast S; turday (23) to contact- some of his clients, Just before leaving he negotiated a contract for Noel Pierce, writer, with Fox and closed the negotia- tions on 'All the King's Horses,* legit musical, which Paramount will do. - Gaitft Dance Hollywood, June 26; ■ JUne Knight, oUt of the hospital Saturday (23) from an appendix aftermath operation, has been or-^ dered not to do any dancing for the i^ext three weeks. This will prob- ably neqessi tat e . m ailin g the step - ping sequences in. the' Ben. F. Zeld- man picture, 'Wake Up and Dream,' ljafct'. instead, of flr^t, . as slated. Second operation was necessitated oy .Miss Knight's dancing bef ore she had completely convalesced from the first, nearly a year ago. She is fea- tured with Russ Columbo' and Roger Pryor in the Zeldman produc- tion for Universal. As for the. 'entertainment itself*; it i.was pretty tame, but in giving the Customers . a close-up of the young atars-to-be arid the other; , screen celebrities in the flesh it un- doubtedly fully: satisfied most of those present. The talents of those) individu -Is who contributed, turns] made for pleasing entertainment aa well. But the show partook more- of the. nature of a beauty and style display and, as such, surely fur* nished a treat for the optics; First, they, exhibited 13 peachy University of Minnesota co-eds, chosen because of outstanding looks as Wampas hostesses. Then came, the 13 Wampas, each a looker. And, for a finale, they paraded more than 100 -.of. the best lookers that they; could find in the Twin Cities) to pose in the. electrical pageant floats. Baby stars who appeared were Judith Arlen, Betty Bryson, Jean Carmen, Jean Chatburn, Dorothy Drake, Jeane Gale, Hazel Hayes, Ann Hpvey, Lucille Lund, Lu Anne Meredith, Gi Gi Parrish, Jacqueline Wells and Katherine Williams. Regan's Opportunity Hollywood, June .25. Warners will star Phil Regan in 'Sweety Muslc.^ §tqry, _by^ Jerry Wald, is based oh the life of Fred Waring. Company originally wanted Rudy Pallee for the part. WB Borrows Colbert Hollywood, June 25. Claudette Cdlbert will go to War hers on a loan from- Paramount to- be starred in one at the Burbank plant some time later in the sum mer. Picture not set. TONE DOWN 'HAT' AND CHANGE 'LOVE' TITLE Hollywood, June 2tf. Robert Leonard started retakes on 'The Green Hat" at Metro, Sat-, urday (23). Added scenes beihff. shot to tone down angles of the original script. Metro will also tag a different title on 'Sacred and Profane Love,' now -being directed by Clarence Brown. Joan Crawford and Clark Gable head cast. Chniifto due to proHont church .agitation. Tuesday, June 26, 1934 PICTIIES s How Can N. Y. Public Decipher Its Film Reviews, Asks Louella Parsons Honeymooners Flocking to Coast With Mexico City Making Strong Bid Nobody's judgment is infallible, Lpuella Parsons Is the first to ad- mit, but if a. reyiewer columnist has : been In the business a good many years, hef suggestions to producers should prove beneficial. She her- self has been In. the picture busi- ness for more than 20 years— why, ehe was in it before Adolph Zukor — and most of the producers are her friends. What is more natural then that she should want to help them, to •advise them,- even to scold them Should she think they need it. If she does it in her column, it's be- cause advice in print immediately carries authority; the printed word has weight, A critic who's been writing about pictures say for a year hasn't the right nor the. ex- perience to offer suggestions. But Miss Parsons does believe that years of devotion to. the film industry, years of study of its problems, years of hard work in its cause, equips her to advise now. and then, Sometimes Miss Parsons advice is sought— as, for instance, when a producer asks her to ask her readers for their suggestions for casting^-and some- times Miss Parsons just gives. it< She, perhaps, will have a better perspective On a certain situation, •because she deals with the whole industry, surveys th& entire . scene, whereas an individual producer may be so close to his own problems that he can't see the forest for the-- trees. Those Titles There are times when Miss Par- sons feels the whole industry should, be taken, to task. On this matter of buying successful plays and books, paying a lot of rmoni&y for their titles/ and then changing the titled-throwing away the thing they, paid so much for. Worse, using such old-fashioned titles. Really, in the matter of titles, Miss Parsons thinks the industry is right where it. was: 15 years ago-r-the Laura Jean Libbey school. She has to dp a: lot of scolding about changing titles. , ',"_'' Or this, importing of expensive playwrights, ' costly novelists to write for pictures. Miss Parsons regards that a parasitical practice. She always advises the film indus- try, to develop Its own people, to groom, its own writers. ■ As to what a Hollywood column should be, Miss Parsons says that depends where it's published. If in a trade paper,' it should carry trade stuff; if in a daily, it makes its ap- peal . to people not -interested in the. trade angle, but rather in what Jean Harlow had for breakfast, whore Mamoullan took Garbo for lunch. Readers of the daily papers' Hollywood columns are not inter-! ested in indecent things, says Miss Parsons. They like to believe their favorites are as they visualize them. They idealize picture people. Miss Parsons receives on the average of 1;000 letters a week from her read- ers, and don't they get mad if she criticizes 1 picture people. That's why she believes that the columnists- who print Innuendo, who are hot concerned with purveying decency, are short lived,' Oht they may 'have, a vogue for a while, but it won't last. •■ In the long run the- public pre- fers docency. • But a Hollywood column, must have some trade news, too. Col- umnists tend to underestimate the .intelligence of the. public, maintains Miss Parsons! Tlie public wants to know about ictures, what's going to. be made, what Clark . Gable's next .film is apt to be. Trade news but with discretion. It is unfair, for instance, to criticize a preview in a column. After all, a preview is a preview. It is not the finished picture always, the picture as the public will soe it. Miss Parsons says a column should' lie fair. On Reviewing Miss Parsons, vacationing in New York, is rather interested in the New York picture critics' reviews. They are not always what she thinks a picture review should be. -'They-s^mom -raention^the airejstoT- (Continucd on page &1) Zeppo Still 10%'ing Hollywood, June 25. Zeppo Marx, who stepped out of the.Brcn-Orsatti-Marx agency, get- ting his money back when the three- way partnership split occurred, will loin the Small & Landau agency. Scared? Hollywood, June 25. Gene Towhe and C. Graham Baker, writing team, have- taken out life Insurance of $100,000 each, beneficiary on each policy being the other member' of the duo. *" Since taking out the policies a few days ago, the boys are afraid to dine at each others' homes, and how lunch sepa- rately. WB- ROBINSON TIFF ENDS IN COMPROMISE Hollywood, June 25. Warners has made a compromise with Edward G. Robinson, who wanted a release from his Contract when they did not have, stories ac- ceptable to .him for his next three pictures that ' were to be made in six- months, by giving him a fur- lough to make outside pictures for other companies for a six months period, following which he returns to the Bur bank lot to finish the three he owes Warners. Warner trouble with Robinson is that he wants final say on all stories, writers, etc. His present contract with Columbia for one pic- ture gives, him the right to okay story, writers and directors, also cast. Understood , that when Robinson finishes the three, Warners will , not pick up his option. CBS OFFERS POWELL AS 1-NlGHT MAESTRO Band booking division of the Co- lumbia Artists Bureau is offering Dick Powell around to dance pro- moters. Network figures on sending the picture name on tour 'as a batonist of a dance combo, if the response from the one-nighter field' warrants such routing. Want Harriett Hoctor Hollywood, June 25. Metro is negotiating with Har- riett Hoctor for one picture. Dancer has been at Loew's. Warfleld, San Francisco, for a month, and con- tinues at least another week. Deal has been set by Walter Kane of the Harry Weber office for Miss Hoctor to appear in Sid Grauman's stage show for his next attraction-, which is slated to open at the Chi- nese around Aug. 1. Dust Off 'Border Town* Hollywood, June 25. After being in the copier for sev- eral weeks, 'Border Town,' the Carr roll Graham novel, is again on the Warners' slate as the next for Paul Muni. Graham probably will be. recalled to the studio to revamp his adapta- tion. Immediate production not planned. 'Lily' for Miss Colbert Hollywood, June 25. Claudette Colbert will be . starred in 'Golden Lily' for Paramount. Pro- duction won't start until October. - Yam is -an original-by- Jack-Kirk- land and Melville Baker. Al Lewis will produce. Lee Tracy Buys Play Hollywood, June 25. Le.e Tracy has acquired all rights to 'Meadow Lark,' play by Clanery N. Bay, originally produced in New York 20 years agoi He is holding piece for possible revival or pictures. Bernie Will Do Another for Par Hollywood, June ' 25. Paramount has closed with Ben Bernie to return In October for 'One Night Stand,' based on a yarn by Vera Caspary, He recently com- pleted 'Shoot the Works.' Story is /a murder mystery sur- rounding- a name band's tour, of qne-nlghters. Jack Oakle will have the lead. Production will be han- dled by Al Lewis, ALEC FRANCIS KIDNAPPING STYMIED Hollywood, June 25. Attempted kidnapping of Alec Francis on Saturday (23) in down- town Los Angeles, was thwarted. When the cops were tipped of the actor's tryst with thugs they caught two suspects. Later another was picked up and all were being, ques- tioned today (Monday). Sixty- five-year-old actor talked with one hoodlum and' proposed a meeting after advising the coppers. With cops tipped, the trio at- tempted to push the actor Into, an auto but he struck one with his cane and the cops rushed in. Hearst, Davies Fete HG Producer Abroad Culver City, June 25. A conference with William Ran- dolph Hearst and Marlon Davies in England will be one of the stop- overs for Luclen Hubbard, Metro, producer,- leaving July 15 for a two months' vacation abroad. Hubbard, who handled Miss Davies' 'Operator 13/ is to discuss the actress' next picture. Hubbard has assigned Wells Root to adapt 'The Transgressor,' story of a French prison camp by An- thony Richardson, so filming can start after the vacation. $7,629 MOLAR AWARD TO CHADWICK ON COAST Los Angeles, June 26. I. B. Chadwick has been awarded $7,629 compensation for pain,, ex- pense and professional loss occa- sioned by a dental bridge having lodged in his lung during a teeth extracting operation while he was under anesthetic. Decision was by Judge Isaac Pacht.. Judgment is against Dr. W. T. Stover, xUntist, on charges of mal- practice. Complaint recited that the picture producer had been. In- capacitated for nine months, had suffered three surgical operations and had lost some $6,000 in picture deals. Chadwick' asked for $100,000. Cavalcade, New Indie Hollywood, Cavalcade Film Corp. is entering indie production, with Jerry Mandyt comic, prexy and chief player. Harry S. Marks is production ex- ecutive and others identified . with the concern are John Castagno and Darby Compton. First production untitled, is set to go. John Gilbert's Col Pic Hollywood, June 25. John Gilbert gets lead in Co- lumbia's 'Captain Hates the Sea' which went into production Wednes- day. (20). j_, . . Lewis Milestone directing with Arthur Edson at the camera. MITCHEIX-DUKAin: UNHURT Hollywood, June 25. Mitchell and Durant are back in town, following an auto accident near Kearney, Neb., in which both comics were severely shaken up, Pair were returning from the Baer-Carncra fight. They flew in from Omaha. Stumped Hollywood, June 26. Trying to top many writers who have failed to find an end- ing for Dickens' 'Mystery of Edwin Drood' is a job for Unlr versai's Writers. Leopold Atlas and Bradley King created at least a half \ dozen denouements, but studio ' nixed all of 'em with reply they hadn't accomplished what stumped H. G. Wells, Gilbert K. Chesterton and students of Dickens. ETHER HOT ON SIGNING UP FILM NAMES Hollywood, June 25. .. Film studios' embargo on picture names working in commercial radio broadcasts hasn't stopped the sign- ing of stars for radio. Ad agencies are concentrating on the name free-lancers.. Miriam Hopkins, ex-Paramount player, and Herbert Marshall, under two-picture contract -to Metro, were set Saturday (23) to appear on the Hall of Fame NBC program Sun- day (1). Both are without the. ban, .since Miss Hopkins ' is not tied up anywhere and Marshall's type of contract does not include a radio clause. Miss Hopkins and Marshall Will do a radio sketch adapted from 'Michael Arlen's short story, 'The Romantic Lady.' Allan Simpson,. of Joyce-Selznick, closed the deal. HAL R0SS0N-IDA LUPIN0 HIT BY PARALYSIS Louis Gasnier, who has Just finished a Spanish talker for Para- mount in Astoria, Long Island, and starts on a second next week, goes to the Par lot on the Coast im- mediately afterward for one film. Subject undecided as yet. Trlni has been signed by Par for "the" ^secottd^CaTlOs GaTdelXSpaniaHr picture to be made, in Astoria. She gets the lead. Gasnier, directing and picture Into work end of the week. Wilcoxoit's 'Buccaneer' Hollywood, June 25. Henry Wilcoxon will hav« the lead in Paramount'^ 'Buccaneer.' Thin is the DeMMe splash which will bo based on the exploits of -Sir Henry Morgan, the pirate. Los Angeles, June .25. The Coast is getting its heaviest honeymoon play in years. Class hotels report, a heavy influx of new- ly weds. Bonifaces out this way be- lieve that the Niagara Falls legend has petered out. Coast hostelrles .can really thank Hawaii for. their improved business. That island seems to get first call from the post-nuptial travelers. Steamship officials report heavy trade to the island and those who can spot a newly wed without the. aid of binoculars say there has been a profusion of them. Santa Barbara with its swanky- suburb, Montecito, cuts In for a healthy share of the newlyweds* dlnero. Farther to the north is Del Monte . and Pebble Beach, These draw from the six-figure set so those wallops to the check book are easily shaken off. Coronado Slips Coronado, just around the corner from San Diego, gets its heaviest play from those who like to slip across the border and inhale a bit of Mex atmosphere. It has slipped in recent years but still boards quite a few of the benedicts who look for full moons and secluded nooks. Los: Angeles is a stopping off place rather than a honeymoon retreat. Mexican Spurt £Iotel, steamship, rail and air pro- moters are turning their attention to the interior of old Mexico. Where that republic's '.capital is making -a strong bid for. the tourist trade. Film players - are giving Mexico City the stimulus It has needed and with a proper follow up the south- ern neighbor 'should cut in on biz. Another factor' in the Coast's favor is the fluctuating money mar- ket, which is keeping many a trav- eler off the Atlantic. . Oh the other 'hand, gadabouts, particularly to the Pacific side, are • taking advantage, of the acrobatic currencies. Many Oriental' brides and -grooms have , been noticed at Los Angeles "hos- telrles. ^ Smart promotion' is putting over the Coast spots and Hawaii. '. ' Paris Reporters Think George Is Doing a Blushing Lily Paris, June 16. Some lucky gent with a . face like George Raft's is fooling the local press. Newspapers have been parrying pieces. afeoiLt. how .Baft. .was. recognized fit the audience at the Empire,; whex-e .'Bolero' is showing, and forced to withdraw, in modesty, from plaudits of crowd. Another reporter tells how he trailed Raft to a hitery and over- heard him telling- a blonde how much he liked thiEiffo! Tower. Re- porter then -said he forced his way" to star'.s table and extracted an in- terview, despite Raft's incog. Local Paramount organization dis- claims responsibility for stories. Hollywood, June 26. . With an infantile paralysis epi- demic in* Los Angeles county, two picture people have been, reported suffering from the disease. Ida Luplno, Paramount contract player, recently imported from Eng- land, Is said to have - passed the crisis and . is not expected to suffer future effects. Hal Rossoh, cameraman and hus- band of Jean Harlow, Is also on the mend with indications of a full re- covery, i RUBY KEELER DOES DUET FOR 2 YRS. AT WARNERS $5,000 FOR BAER AT B'WAY PARAMOUNT Burbank; June 25. Warners has given a new contract to Ruby Keeler calllng'for two pic- tures during each of the next two years. Old contract, calling for one more film, was torn up. Miss Keeler returns, here July i0 for 'Flirtation Walk/ Gasnier Will Make One For Par on the Coast Max Baer opens his first personal app as the' heavyweight champ at the Broadway Paramount' Thursday (28) for eight days at 1*5,000 on the week, plus a 50-50 split over $40,000. Current feature, 'Great Flirtation', stays only six days to laccommddate the eight-day' engagement. Benny Rubin . will foil for' the champ, as Vince Barnett, whom Leo Morrison, agenting Baers theatrical engagements, wanted to bring, east is still tied up in a Coast film. Benny Rubin, with. Baer, also booked by Morrison, is payrolled at $1,500 , for^the week and does, not figure in the $6,000 salary and spilt, for the fighter." Set for the Earle, Philadelphia, for Warner Bros., July .6, Baer will Ihen probably play three additional weeks for Paramount' in Boston, Detroit and Chicago. Earle date is at $6,000 and split. Boris Morros for the three out-of- town Par weeks is discussing a flat ' salary basis instead of a. gross split,; Probably will be around $6,000, when settled. TWO OTHER RAFTS VARIETY PICTURES 1W%, Jane Mi, 1964 Par Confabists Promise Qean Pix, but No Curb for Dual Bills; Cheap Films for 15c Houses Up Hollywood, June 26. Paramount's International sales convention adjourned Thursday (21) after four, days of business sessions. With more than 300 delegates lh at- tendance, Including the foreign the- atre contingent which came, from all oyer; the world, the conclave was hailed as the most constructive lieid In years. Convention was highlighted toy promise of Adolph Zukor and pro- duction executives that no salacious films.' would be made. Problems confronting the industry were analyzed and antidotes prescribed •but no set program to combat double features, was devised. This trouble- some phase was sidestepped by the theatre group which confabbed be- , hind closed doors and- had little to say what ransplred at ' Its powwows. Barney Bala-ban, head of the exeoutlve- committee of the . Paramount partners In theatre ope- ration,, declared that their meetings will result in> much constructive -progress. .- Enthusiastic response to the hew lineup of pictures was given by the .exchange managers .and . when .quotas were- distributed by Neil F. .Agnew* general . sales, manager, .smiling faces told the story of A de- termined- crew. " 4 Conclave., got under .way .Monday . <18) and litUe time, was wasted in getting down to cases. . Previews fit the new .pictures .were sandwiched in between business, meets. Films -screened were, 'Cleopatra,' 'It Ain't iio Sin,' 'Shoot, the Works,' 'She Loves Me Not* and 'Scarlet E m- bjfe_s,s.' r . , .Banquet the final day was y fore- gone in fayqr of reception to the visitors by : Emanuel' Cohen at his hillside home. , „ Most .important of many suggps- Bootleg Fight Films? Portland, ., June 25. Alleged stolen print of. Baer-Car- riera fight picture , created local the- atre battle. Andrew SasO, manager of Hamrlck's Music Boxi. was ar- rested twice by police for exhibit- ing an alleged bobtieg print, un- passed by city censors, Sam Fried, distributor, wired from Seattle to the Better Business Bureau here; saying the print was copied in Se- attle and that a court injunction against John Harhrlck Is pending in Seattle and Portland courts. Bootleg print eliminates word copyright In title, but still reads 'Benefit of New York .Milk Fund." Genuine, original print at Parker's Broadway is doubling usual gross. Music Box still exhibiting alleged bootleg pririt in defiance of censor, police arrests and newspaper stories. ...(Continued on page 67). : 30 ,100 SHORTS PROD. East Is looking forward to a Sum 1 m'er, unparalleled by any other for production-' activity.- For the first time five studios are busy currently, at least four of which with enough on their schedules to tide them well bver Into the. fall. . '"' Thirty features Is the total so. fax for eastern production,,, while the shorts should number over 100.. \ ERPI's Astoria plant, after a red Winter,, is. now scheduling.. 14 fea tures,. including: Par's i Spanish pix, and, the . others . in, the' Hecht-rMac-. Arthur group for Par. In additlor there are. 40 Christie shorts for Fox .distribution. '• „ -The first of -a promised 12 fea-j tures from Saal-Kelly is under way In Blograph,' while up in IrvlrigtOn •N; .Y.>: Falcon 'Pictures, 'new- lndi« company, - has. started, 'grinding oh the first of 1 an intended six.' Para-< mount is using the old Fox lot for it flock ' of musical shorts, while Warners is gaitlng ltB Brooklyn property for -an output of two shorts' weekly during the warm weather. NO VERDICT YET Par Delays On Proposed Martin Luther Film Kansas City, June 25. Paramount has under coneldera tion the making of a picture based upon the. life of Martin Luther, but ^no. Jmal_decislon_has. .be.en:made, .ac- cording to telephonic advises re celved by * Dr. Andres Bard, pastor: of St. Mark's English' Lutheran church, of this city. When in Kansas. City recently Adolpr Zukor asked Dr. Bard to make a preliminary outline of •suggested life of the Protestant leader. Dr. Bard is ready to submit such an outline, but stated that Par had to' be Sure- the' subject icOuld be treatod without controversy' be f Ore. final action. JAZZING UP Alley Hops to Europe For Hearst Newsreel Chicago, June 26. Norman Alley, lately, with, the Hearst Herald-Examiner as picture editor, shifts to Europe to handle old country newsreels' for Hearst. Previous to his H-B job Alley was in charge of midwest newsreels for the Fox-Hearst combine. WB-ERPI Settlement Forerunner to A.T.&T. s 100% Bow-Out from M; Sam Untermyers Fee 500G or Up HOLDING UP INDIES Hollywood, June 26, Survey, qt the' Independent fea- ture field shows that production for next season will be cut to the bone pending their ability to gauge what will be needed, especially M ' dual bills are eliminated. Several Indie producers, formerly in major ranks, are holding back plans entirely un- til they can ascertain if they will get major release for product they can finance wholly themselves and are willing to release on a plan of percentage from first dollar. State rights men are also «n- settled and it is figured they will turn out 86% of, indie product^ with the following companies, Monogram, Liberty, Chesterfield, Invincible, Mascot and Majestic, taking the task, but at the same time cutting down the number of features, they will make for new' season/ NOT MUCH RFC Instead of hastening' a reorganiza tion of Par, the new bankruptcy laws are most likely, to. delay it in view of the almost -certain expect- ancy by the trustees and their at- torneys^ that hundreds - of' claims against the. .company which have been; tossed out will have to tie fought all over ' again. This is particularly true of rent claims which form the bulk of the approximate $14,000,000 in claims that - have been expunged tb date, The new bankruptcy provisions make all rent claims provable for three years and goes contrary to the recent IT. • S. Supreme Court de cision which ruled against the right of lessors to collect 'future rent or damages under' bankruptcy. On the • strength of that decision, trus- tees in bankruptcy have been rail reading a mass of , future rent claims through, knocking them but in amounts running' to 'millions. While none of the landlords who lost out on their claims under broken., or disaffirmed leases have filed new. claims for three years of rent, they are expected to come in any minute. Until they are again fought and Par has some idea of how {much In future rents may have to be satisfied because of the new- bankruptcy laws, a reorganization plan Is made more difficult. - Attorneys are closely studying the provisions' of the new [ laws which deal with rent claims. The clause covering tbid says that' rent is' prbv able for three .years from the date of surrender. One 'angle that's wor-i ryliig" thb attorneys is' whether sur- render means turning over the keys,, 'date of 're-entry ' of .the landlord or; what. ; '' : ' RKO OFFICES General exodus of RKO and Its subslds from Radio City' back to the Palace and ' Bond buildings on Broadway. wiU ' probibly take place iate. In Augus^, when the leases of the parent company and its affili- ates in the RKO building in Rocke- feller Center are up. RKQ's leases in the Rockefeller development have been on a year-to-year basis einee thb company went into receivership and the original long-term leases werp nullified. . . AH efforts by RKO and KAO to get a large slice in the Radio City rentals these past two weeks have been fruitless and now the back to-Broadway movement seems -a certainty. RKO has been paying rent fot three now empty floors in the Bond building, and half of one floor In the Palace building, since Radio City was opened 18 months ago. The RKO; vaude booklngr offic< will probably take over the hall empty sixth floor _ of the Palace building, while the film and theatre operating departments will go Into the SeVenth and 10th floors of the Bond building. BOnd 'building rent charges are so much . lower than what the company is paying in Radio. City' that the' removal will be a - heavy saving, unless the Rocke fellers decide to make' the adjust -) ments RKO Is asking for. ? Film Bills Hold for Next Congress; Kill Medal Proposal for Geo. Cohan Washington," June 25. Seven bills pertair.ing to the film industry, and two other, proposals regarding amusements, died when Congress adjourned last week. Most of the. measures, however, are cer- isinnirra^infl^ or Senate next winter when the 74th Congress convenes. Chief among the dead legislation were two bills sponsored by Repre- sentative Patman (Texas) to outlaw block booking and provide for strict Government control of film produc- tion- and two counterparts- which were introduced in r the Senate by' Senator Nye in V* n . closing minutesi of the hectic session. Other equally ' drastic 'censorship or regulatory measures which ex- pired were the Cannon bill, pro hibiting employment of persons guilty of moral turpitude or the production of suggestive films, and the Culkln bill establishing a cen- "s^Ki^coTninlssioTK-^^"^"-" A measure sponsored by Senator Barbour (New Jersey) to permit distribution of prize fight films never received consideration, nor did a. bill proposed by Repre'senta tive Truaix (Ohio) to repeal the ad missions tax on circus tickets. Another proposal killed in the closing hours was a bill to present a gold medal to George Cohan; This was laid aside after - objection was made to consideration. ERP1V Angle Saying that *ERPI knows what it's doing* and •people who think they are going to chisel ERPI will find they axe ml*s> taken,' executives for the elec- tric hold that its settlement of the Warner suit establishes no precedents of encouragement for other litigants. That the $4,000,000 transfer Involved is Strictly in settle- ment of a royalty claim and does not Involve patents, is one interpretation;, also that if Warners had won all It claimed,: the electric would.be paying near $40,00,000 now and another $40,000,000 within a. . comparatively- tew. years. -JF ANY Washington, June 26. While Uncle Sam last week ex- panded his banking activities to make direct loans, to industries, chances that the film business will be able^to benefit from the new polioy appeared slim in view of re- strictions Imposed by the Recon- struction Finance. Corporation and the eligibility requirements demand- ed of borrowers. Equipped .With. $600,000,000 bankroll, RJ-.C. will seek to ott the wheels of Industry, but it appears ar though - the only ellgibles in the picture field will be those companies in the throes of reorganization. Regulations specify that loans will be made 'primarily to supply needed working capital (such as tor the payment - of labor and the purchase of materials).' . Only In certain (Continued on page 61) J. J. FRANKLIN'S HULA THEATRE CHAIN IDEA Washington* June 25. Government may become. indU rectly involved in the talker, patent situation through , the newjy pro* posed U. 8. Communications OonW mission. This commission Is to regn ulate the telephonic, broadcasting arid ; telegraphic industries. For the American Telephone A Telegraph Co. to be properly and clearly en- compassed within the proposed regulatory . supervision 1 of the Com- " municat.io^a .Commission, the Gqv- erriment, it is felt* may be disposed to require that A, Ti & f . sever any affiliation it may have, with the motion picture field in a patent or equipment way. . , , . In settling with Warners,, the : A. T. &. T. pubsid ERPI, look* to, have the flrst : . step in this direction to- wards clearing the situation, pre- paratory to the parent A, T. & T. company .stepping but . altogether from the ; film patent fields. Official announcement of the set- tlement of the long standing con- troversies between ERPI arid War- ners, was only: made last .week,.. al- though It has been Irhown.'to' haye been In progress by the trade gen- erally for. several weeks\ No' definite appraisal of .what Warriers'V payoff, will actually amount to, can be had at .the.' pres- ent* It . is ? estimated, however^ ;.to eventually, ngure from $9,090,000^*0 10,000,000. Actually, 1 in tangible : orm'. Warners has received . $4,-. 000,000. The balance figures . from license charges, and service charges which Warriers owed to ERPI over several years and which are. Jeft unpaid; Warners being released from paying, same under terriis, ,bf settlement. The $4,000,000 in tangible forjm, (Continued on page 86) I«6s Angeles, June 26.' J. J, Franklin, has Just returned from Honolulu, #here he has' been making a survey of cond,itions with a view to launching a small chain of picture houses, arid with possible production angle In view! jPrarikllri had numerous, realty people , show lng Iflm locations, and upon, hie re turn announced ambitious, plans, Brother of Harold B. , Franklin has an Idea that Hollywood pro- ducers rieed. additional production facilities on the Island, and he would like very much to build a rental studio there. As a forerunner of his pontem plated circuit, Franklin has ac quired one house which he is open lng Sept. 1, under the name of the Roosevelt Not known here what J. J.'s finan cial connections are. Argument Is to be held Friday (29) in' New York Federal court relative to getting deposition from John J. Franklin, brother of Harold B. Franklin/ and presently on the Coast, in connection with Franklin's suit agalst RKO. Latter sues for $6,000 on alleged breach of contract against the theatre outfit. Attorneys for RKO may object to the depositions unless Franklin un "derwrltes the 1 cost "of 'such " a'-'prS- cedure. RKO's downtown counsel, Cra- vath, de Gersdprff & Swaine is handling the RKO end Of the case Franklin is being represented by MS brother. Attorney Charles Franklin. The contract allegedly breached is one stated ' to have been made through H. , - B. ' Franklin, John Franklin's brother, when latter was J running the RKO theatres. PAR-TRENDLE RENEW INDET. Detroit, June 26'. — Paramo urit trustees have, "renewed on George ,W. Treridle krid wiliard Patterson for an 1 additional year ex- piring m July,' 1936. From' al'i ac- counts this is the first of the field partnership deals to be renewed by the. Par. bankruptcy overlords. Re- newal oii Trendle and Patterson means., virtually that John jBalaban stepping into the Par Detroit sit- uation, ; through the Par manage- ment. Is cold. At the same time and along the same lines this renewal amounts to a confirmation of trade opinion that the Detroit theatre situation of paramount- is. one situation entirely within the hands of the Par trustees only. The' old Trendle partnership- operating deal for Detroit was to have i expired the middle, of , July. Because of .its. expiring in the mid- dle of the picture-buying season, and the - necessity that the .theatres here; should keep in consistent oper- ating' order*, that the trustees fig- ured to ,act forthwith on renewing with Trundle. So far. as indicated locally, no new . conditions or changes are made, in the Trendle-Patterson setup. Trendle .continues as president , ot the United Detroit Theatres Corp., Par subsid, and WiUard Patterson is general manager in charge of operation. Apparently the deal stands as worked out originally by the trustees' advisory committee oh reorganization of Publix .theatres as headed by S. A. Lynch. THEN IN 8 CHAPTERS Hollywood, June 25. Bela Lugosi has . been signed by Sol Lesser for lead in 'Return of Chandu,' which Principal will re- lease,' after which he appears in serialized continuation of the fea- ture for eight twb-reeiers. Lesser ijias ah option on Lugoyl for two more features. Tuesday, June 26, 1934 PICTURES VARIETY NRA OR HAYS ON MORALS Pix Execs View Church Drive as Worst Over; New Product Already Being Sapolioed for B. 0. OK In face of official pronouncements jfrpm the Catholics and the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, that they will continue their, screen, clean-up drive in their own way, developing to full national strength the Legion of Decency, the Hays office is more or less jubilant. Haysites charge ' the Church with having laid down on the job until now*; that 'we have gone out asking the churches to do. just what they are doing, now, and swing their support to good pictures.* Exhibitors can't see It that way and influential Catholic prelates over the week-end declared they did not grasp its full significance. As for exhibitors, they have what Haysites believe will be consoling, pews. Hollywood Is now credited. yrlth having awakened to the slt'u'a- 'itlon and to be marching the narrow ''lane. 'Some 40 pictures reported to have been put into release the past; six weeks have had the benefit of extra careful scrutiny. Between now and August 15 an- other 40 pictures will be released. With the exception of about "10 of these,' how in the positive print "stage, all will go through the new 1 'all-Breen cleaning process. The worst is over, Haysites , be- 'lieve, because pictures which were entered in distribution six months ago have already been seen by 80% of the American fans. These statistics are being ad- vanced to assuage exhib apprehen- sions that the Hays voluntary clean- up cannot become effective before the new season, and that box offices • Vrlll be at the ipercy of the Church during normally needy summer months.' Blame Exhibs So far as the past has been, Hays- ites hold exhibs equally guilty with others in the industry. They are accused of having ' 'harassed' film (Continued on page 57) Whtgate Bears Down on Films As Hays Censor Hollywood, June 25. Dr. James Wingate, of the Hays office here, and who has had censor- ship studio problems on his shoul- ders during the absence of Joe Breen" in the east, has been giving the producers what for. and sleep- less nights in the past two weeks. Wingate took issue with Metro on the Jean Harlow picture, 'Born to Be Kissed.* He ordered out varl- 'bus lines and situations, and studio Is now slicing ah x-etaking to con- form. Wingate has made it known to the studio heads that he is the' last word with Breen gone and that , any precedent that may have been established by Breen in cases simi- lar to the ones coming to his atten- tion would not necessarily be ac- ceptable to him. Paramount also 'felt the same sort of going over. ■ scripts clean Is also causing grieC for scenarists working on recent buys. With high money expended on newly acquired stuff, particularly plays, studios are trying to get something out of them. Case in point is a recent play buy which, after deletions, left only tho title. Several sets of writers have boon used in trying to got a yarn that will somewhat resemble, the" nJay ,-mhI yet get by the present campaigners. Warner Conferees Quit West for East Offices Burbank, June 25. Coast regional convention over, a flock of Warner executives departed last night (Sunday) for New York. Major Albert Warner and Grad Sears stay- here for 10 days to hold additional - confabs with Harry M. Warner who leaves New York for here . tomorrow (Tuesday). Rattling away were S. C- Einfeld, Carl Leserman, Harold Bareford, Norman H. Moray, and AI Schwarl- berg. Moray and Bareford stop off in Chicago for a few days.. Fred M. Jack, southern; division manager, returned to his Dallas headquar- ters. OFF W ON AGAIN PAMAP POOL STILL ON Some trouble with the N. Y. cen- sors over Mae West's 'It Ain't No Sin' is temporarily holding up the order to go forward on the Para- mount-Capitol Broadway pooling deal, but reported around Par that there, is little doubt the Par-Loew agreement will go Into effect. Censors are regarded within Par as a little more sensitive as .a result of the. current church crusade but it's said that in all probability the original 'It Ain't No Sin' title will stick. Par-Cap pool on which agreement was reached more than a week ago, was to have become effective Fri- day (29), with the West picture to start the Cap off on a straight film policy. House does not want to change Into this policy except with a strong picture resulting In the present deferment. 'Rear • Car* is also off for the Par, meanwhile. That was the first Metro to have gone in on Friday (29). One of the results of the Par- Cap pool and division of Metro and Paramount pictures between the two houses is that the • Mayfalr, operated by Walter Reade, is to" be- come third choice 6n product of both companies. Cap has first pick and will prob- ably take around 40 pictures on the year. Par will then pick from what's left and after it has its 52, the bal- ance will be available to ,the May- fair on first run. Between Metro and Par, a total of 116 pictures are scheduled for ' this year, Cap's 40 and Par's 52 will leave approxl mately 24 for the Mayfalr. Deal with Reade is not closed but is expected to be set shortly after George J. Schaefer's return from the Coast, probably the end of this week. Wallis Rushes to Coast For Prod. Powwows Hal Wallis, WB production exec and his wife, Louise Fazenda, reached New York Thursday (21) and left immediately f tr the Coast for conferences with Major Albert Vv'nrner before th200 population. In a lengthy opinion the CAv observed: We feel that without a specific pro- vision in the code directed to the problem '.ot the prevention of over- seating In a particular commuritty Or area, and granting us power and ■defining the limits bf such power we cannot j make a valid determination binding upon the respondents in this proceeding.' ' The famous Port Chester, N. T.i case (Sawplrs, an indie, against the SRourases) resulted in exoneration of the' circuit ! of unfair competition, but an affirmation of the N. Y, Grievance Board ruling- that Skou- ras* turn over' 22 pictures ot the ihdie. . ..In a case with non-theatrical -col oring the. C.A. sustained the ruling of . the New Orleans board- that, • by charging" admission and admitting the general public,: the Sanatorium theatre ■was . in unfair, competition ^ith\the-'Magee theatre. Prizes; such as are being used by .the Jay-Ben Corp., are rebates and in violation of the code, the C.A. ruled, thereby, affirming the Los An geles Grievance Board, which" de- cided, in favor of the complainant. Pacific National Theatres. C. A. accepted Des Moines dis missal of the .complaint of the Ipwa theatre against Fox- West Coast ruling. that. evidence shows respond ent has not overbought. Yesterday's Prices Sales. 100 500 400 000 7.000 '7,600 22.300 4,200 000 4,500 $20,000 2,000 8,000 1,000 0.000 27,000 200 8,300 100 Hlgh.Low Col. Plot,, 80% 3

- ,T%+* ■'2%. 102 54 53. G4 53 -i —1 60% -2 80 -1% 18% + % 1% San Francisco, June 25. A: vigorous war against 10 and 15c houses, and .an equally stiff cam- paign against duals were planned by. Warner rps. chieftains and sales -execs convening here t) last week' (18 and 19)' for the Western sales convention, At the same time, the lack of dirt from the : '34.-'35 product was strong-, ly pointed Put. Major Albert Warner and Grad- well Searsr sales manager, told the assembled Warnerites that their Outfit would lead the fight against tjhe dime-l5c houses by refusing to sell product to any theatres with an Admission less'.thah 15c for matinees and 20c at night. Major Warner disclosed tliiat WB has just closed a deal in metropoli tan New . York, where the Warner product that has been bought solely by Loew's in past years, will be split between Loew's and RKO, in a deal involving more than $2,000,000. The 1935. convention will be inter- national in scope, and will- be held in Los Angeles, probably in June. Coming into town for the last day of .the pow-wow with Bill Koenig, Jack? Warned warmed up the boys With a pep tallc in which he also tjbok a crack at' independently -made trailers. 'Our ; studio-ihade trailers ai'e au- thentic and the best/ declared War- ner} *because we have, the- -people arid know which scenes are staying in, which going out. .Trailers aro top important for a theatre to fool around "with/ Major 1 Warner told the conven- tioneers that Warner Bros, is in the best financial shape of its history, With not a penny owed the banks. Carl Lesserman, assistant to Sears, Outlined the pix ori 'this year's, program that are not yet re- leased, and Norman Lioray, Bhort subjects chief, gave the boys the lowdowii on his product which Will include 78 single reels arid 52 double reels. . The convention was saddened at the opening when Arthur Flanders, Denver salesman, died of a sudden heart attack just after breakfast His body was sent home Tuesday night (19). Merry Widow' Next Into Astor, N. ¥4 loew Renews Loew's has renewed its lease, ori the Astor, N. . Y., " with Walter Reade for 10 years, startlrig Janu- ary, 1935. Theatre /darkened a week ago after a 14 weeks' run of 'Roths- child' and is not expected to re- open for a month or more. Metro is planning to put 'Merry Widow' into the Astor when ready. LOEW'S PLAN FOR GAL. CONSTRUCTIONS San Francisco, June 25. Loew's plan for a theatre build- ing campaign in Northern California has been augrnerited to include dis- trict houses in 'Frisco 1n a construc- tion program,- it is' admitted by Col* -Ed. Schiller, theatre head bf Loew's, who .is now here on the project. Continuing -the- war against' Gold-: eh State' Theatre's followirig' a ' re- potted disagreerhent • between Ck'-fL and * Metro oyer 1 - product, Loew's Wlit •- build " sizeable ' houses in ' the Mission, Richmond and I*illriiore districts here, it was learned. AH arp neighbbrhp'ods where G. S. Is strongly, entrenched. • iCol. Schiller was closeted during the week with Tom' Sorriero'; slated as general manager of the new cir- cuit; Grbver C. Parsons, Metro ex- change manager here, arid district property pw'riers, in a. reputed effort to iron out deals. ' However, there are 'many stumbling blocks, arid Col Schiller said he' expects to remain here from one to three months. Houses In Santa Cruz, Monterey, Petaluma and Reilo are due under the plan. ! Bob McNeill, G: S. chief, is still in" New York,'" where !he went riot only to' view the Baer-Carherk fight '' and buy pix of it; but also' reputedly to ask Loew arid Metro execs to lay Off- t^hS theatre plan." ' '' KEN O'BRIEN'S BERTH Kenneth O'Brien, son of Capt Dennis F. O'Brien (O'Brien, Dris- coll & Raftery) succeeds Al Gottlieb as assistant to Hal Home at United Artists. / . Gottlieb elevated to advertising manager, of U. A. Compromise Offer Only Would Give to Although a compromise is possi- ble, indications yesterday (Monday) afternoon were that the bondholders'; committee acting on advice, of counsel would nix the Joint offer of $4,000,000 cash as made by Loew's, in association with Warners, for the. 80 Fox Metroppli- ton theatres in Greater New York and. New Jersey. Decision of the conference held yesterday will be made known tomorrow (Wednes- day) before Federal Judge Julian Mack. Compromise may be a higher bid -by'^the^Warner-Loew^combor'-with^ out certain conditions which the two attach presently to their offer. Judge Mack, previously^ at a hearing indicated that the decision of the bondholders' group! as repre- senting around 86% Pf the secured indebtedness of the Fox Met circuit, would have great weight with the .CourL Were the Warner-Loew bid to be successful, it would mean that Skoura>«? Brothers would be eased out of eastern theatre, operation- al- together, Under th sions within the past two months. Stock volume on Saturday .was) ■ the smallest in 10 years, but many stocks wound up the day with' healthy gains. After selling ofC A badly most of the week, grain priceii came back Friday and gained even.' more substantially on Saturday?. (Continued on page 34) N. Y. to L. A. Sigmund Romber Louise Fazenda. Paul Keston. Lew Lipton. William S. Paley. Noel Pierce. =Hal"Wailis;^=^«-===-===^ Dave Werner. John J. Wildberg. L. A. to N. Y. Fi. H. Allen. Carrie Jacobs- Bond. Nigel Bruce. Louis Cohen. George Goldsmith, j MrT"aft-d Mrs. Kufus LeMaire. 1 Morris Schlesinger. Ttusday, June 26, 1934 PICTURES VARIETY MANY '35 SALES OBSTACLES • — , . '' i . — • • — ■ — ■ — — . 4 — ; ♦ — — — — : 1 — ■ ' ' ' . ■ — r-» Saenger Reorganization Plan Still Up in die Air; FXC. Nixes It The Saenger reorganization plan, a .monumental legal task that has occupied months of st , Work and planning, may be thrown out al- together so far as the Paramount trustees are concerned, leaving the fate of the southern theatre chain almost strictly up the Saenger crowd Itself and Saenger . re- ceivers. This possibility arises following the unfavorable impression of the Federal Trade Commission In 'Wash- ington during the past week after scanning the plan. The commission disagreed on several points in- volved in the plan, notably the is- suance of securities of a new com- pany, and strongly felt that the Par trustees should file financial state- ments of such a new company. Saenger reorg .plan proposes the setup of a new company following agreement of creditors and others oh the plan Itself,, but cannot very well file statements on such a pro* posed company and securities until then. Normally, attorneys point put, such filing is not made until after - the new .corporation is organ- ized. One of the questions Par trustees are reported mulling, following this unexpected hitch with the Federal T. 'C., is whether or not Saenger should be reorganized under the new bankruptcy laws. A peti- tion, nevertheless, is ico be filed some time this week, changing Par aB a bankrupt, to a 'debtor corpor- ation' so far as the Saenger plan is concerned, plus other largely tech- nical and legal changes essential under the new bankruptcy, act. Surp*ri •While this is mostly a legal step to keep the papers correct,' It is said that if matters aren't straightened out in Washington with the Fed- eral Trade group, action of which came as a surprise, the reorganiza- tion plan may be dropped entirely. Then It would be up to the Saenger theatre and realty companies to work out something as equity re- ceiverships. Both are In this classi- fication, with E. V. Richards as re- ceiver. Another step may be a follow- through by Par trustees on getting creditor approval to the' Saenger plan as worke.1 out a few weeks ago, then seeing what can -be done in Washington. In any event, -it's pointed out, creditor approval would have to be established. Chester B, Wolff, attorney for B..V, Richards and Saenger,. Is ex- pected In New York some time- this week,, prior to sailing for a Euro- pean . vacation Saturday (30).. He Will then check into the situation ..The Saenger reorganization plan is the most, comprehensive of any worked out by the trustees of Par among subsidiary companies in its empire. Started more than six months ago by the S. A. Lynch re- organization committee, the program leading up to the plan has entailed Weeks of work bath here and In. New Orleans, headquarters of Saenger Heavy bonded and other creditor indebtednesses of the Saenger com panles has made the reorganization plan a difficult one. Creditors' meeting scheduled for approval of the Saenger plan, Thurs day (2i), has ben postponed to July 13, pending final determination, In eluding whether _ the Par trustees will be permanently appointed to ^disinj^.er^to.j^ the new bankruptcy act. FINALLY GET SET Minneapolis, June 25.. After three unsuccessful at tempts, film code board finally got an unaffiliated exhib to serve as a member of the local zoning and clearance board and thus complete Its personnel. He is Gus Baer, owner of the Bemidji theatre, Be midji, Minn. See 10% Case Dismissal From indications Monday. (26) the Code Authority on • Thursday will announce dismissal of the first case brought under the NRA to test out an Important phase of the code's 10% elimination provision. Reason for delaying until the last minute decision on United Artists' contention that it cannot be a party to the percent clause because it sells each picture on. an Individual con- tractual basis, is laid to a complete investigation of the status of the DeKalb, III., exhibitor who filed the complaint. Code Rulings Speed Up 1st Run Bookings Chicago, June 25, One unfair practice which has been In effect since the business be- gan is being cleared up by the code boards. That practice is the habit of first run exhibs to forget to book in pictures, which forces subsequent run exhibs to wait around for' weeks and months before they are able to get their hands on any product. All decisions on this squawk are being handed down in favor of. the subse- quent run exhibs with the board ruling that the first run exhibs must make early decisions on pic- ture booking in order to give the subsequents a chance to get. set, Exchanges all admit that they have been lax in this respect and have permitted the first-run houses to delay naming their dates, often leaving the subsequents : without product. Under the . code decisions, however, the first runs must - name their dates within specified periods after notice of availability. Last week two such decisions were won hy the subsequent exhib. First case was that of the Mon- mouth vs. the Galesburg house, with the Galesburg spot ordered to designate pictures within 42 days of the loop run or else relinquish the picture to Monmouth. Garden the- atre In Peoria won a similar case against the Princess in. Columbia.. EXHIB VS. EXHIB c. .'s Battle of the Century — Beaucoup Charges Exhibitor was pitted against ex- hibitor in the final big card of the Code Authority which, this week, is adopting a single feature' policy, each appeal now to be heard by an individual codlst rather than the entire personnel. , J. Meyer Schine had to go through three rounds. A bevy of upstate New York exhibs tried hard for the k. o. but Schine was there with all of the answers parrying overbuying jabs and In a few in- stances delivering a couple of smarting hooks on zoning. To Schine the longer an indie has to wait for a picture the better it is because exploitation and advertis- ing increase all the time. Strange stories from tiny oil •towns^-Gome^-aU^thc— way— up= from Texas. With populations of 7,000 and less they occupied most of the afternoon. That all contracts in one such town, Victoria,. 'be torn up and that distribs share and share alike with the town's four houses was the odd- est decision brought to the atten- tion of the Authority In a drag- out, verbal sloughing contest. 'Is there any right to force a distributor to sell films to Inde- pendents?', the lawyer for houses NRA AMONG 'EM Exhibs Don't Know Whether to Book Broadly or Risk Overbuying — Long Clearances Must Also Be First Cleared Up LATEST START YET Besides getting off to its latest start the sales Season for 1934-35 is confronted With more obstacles to further its delay than film lead- ers can recall for any year In the past. Mindful that if they sign con- tracts how they will in • many In- stances not benefit by any terri- torial changes subsequently made by the. NRA, exhibitors are reported from the field to be making deals for new product only on work sheets and withholding formal sig- naturing of contracts until the -Blue Eagle has chirped official bound- aries. Religious agitation is also con- ceded to have a retarding effect on sales, especially in Catholic com- munities where box office men are sufficiently concerned to be await- ing a test of the national offensive planned by bishops in Cincinnati last week. Double feature future, finally and importantly, is a moot item In every lesser exhlb's mind— to know whether to book broadly, aa in the past, or to narrow down the amount of product for the new year, in fear of overbuying only to find that duals are passe. Certain indie exhib leaders, as well as small producers, are piling up ammunition to meet new major moves to curb or finish doubling. These men are especially in- continued on page 68) NEW LA. LABOR ARBITER HAS 30 CASES Repaint Job on Open Up Film Pact Again as Football for Autumn Hollywood, June 25. Bernard P. Calhoun has been named NRA state labor compliance officer succeeding Judge Ben B. Llndsey, who resigned recently, , by Charles' H. Cunningham,' local head of NRA office. A mode of procedure has not been worked out for han- dling studio labor complaints, Cal- houn Said, but the kicks will receive protection of secrecy and the setup will be businesslike and minus the spectacular. Calhoun, previously attorney for the NRA here, has some 30 cases ot labor and extras squawks to ad- judicate. These were kept when Cunningham recently turned over bulk of the film code violation com- plaints to the Studio .Labor com- mittee and the Standing committee for extras on orders from Washing- ton after long dispute as to Juris- diction. All picture code complaints in which kickers objected to the for- warding of their names to the Code committees were retained, with identities kept secret. ^JE^cj^e^ojnap^ phase of many duties Calhoun's, job embraces. in which Paramount has a 50% In terest asked the codlsts. 'Out In our part of the coun^ try,' a Jerseyville, Jll., exhib com- menced, 'Publix seems to think the zoning boards were set up for them. We never had any trouble before. Now Publix wants protection for 22 miles.' B'way Stenching Again Heretofore confining attention mostly to the cheaper grinds on Broadway and in the neighbor- hoods, bomb sterichers are begin- ning to attack on first run fronts. During, the past week considerable havoc was created in major theatre operating circles when two bombs were deposited in the Mayfair, N. Y., operated by Walter Reade. Reade has had no trouble with unions, but lays the stenching . to Intra-unlon troubles. Hollywood Guilds Sweep Places on Labor Comm. Washington* June. 25. Jolting the Academy, " Divisional Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt last Week gave the . Screen Actors and Screen Writers' . Guilds a big break in parcelling out posts on the writers' and. actors' labor relations committees. Producer representa- tives to work out regulations .cover- ing employment of the two profes- sional groups will be named by the Code Authority. With all of the actor positions going to Individuals nominated by the Guild, Academy got only one appointment the writer group. No explanation forthcoming for the throwing out of more* than 25 actor nominations submitted by the. Academy. Appointments: Actors — Kenneth Thompson, Ann Harding alternate; Ralph Morgan, Chester Morris alternate; Richard Tucker* Pat O'Brien alternate; Rob- ert .Montgomery,. Paul Muni alter- nate; Claude King, Mary Astor alternate. Writers— Ralph Block, Gladys Lehman alternate; John Emerson, Rupert Hughes alternate; James Gleason, John P. Natteford alter- nate; Dudley Nichols, Sea ton Miller alternate; Waldemar Young, Court- ney Terrett alternate. Not only, did the Actors' Guild make a clean sweep on the first committee, but Rosenblatt withheld announcement of the appointments until a telegram: had been dis- patched to Eddie. Cantor announcing' his selections. ' ' VERDICT THIS WEEK ON CF1-LAB0R DISPUTE Washington, June; 25. ispute between Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., and New York Printing Pressmen's Union came before the National Labor Board for final decision, last week after company refused to abide by rul- ings of New York regional board. Involving wage dispute and charges of discrimination, grievances of union were aired and case taken under advisement. Decision ex- pected some time this week. Ruling, of ., regional, board, .that strike be called off, workers rein- stated, and wage questions arbi- trated, and finding of New York compliance board that company had violated graphic arts code by cut- ting wages, should be sustained by NLB, Edward Neway, union spokes- man, said. Company made no formal pres- entation, H. A. Huebner, public re- lations rep, declining to testify, arid appearing only in the role of an official observer. Washington, June 25. Transformation of the National' Recovery Administration was ac- tively under way last week as es-? sential policy changes were an*. - nounced and preparations were made for summer overhauling of virtually every code. Determined to reduce the number of pacts by working out new codes for each major division of industry, . Federal officials set up new machin- ery for handling complaints and certainly, if quietly,, went about meeting criticism of the Darrow board. First inkling of the change came ■ from a story in the NRA office pub- lication, 'The Blue Eagle,' which said that arbitrary, provisions for code enforcement must.be dropped and that trend toward industrial dicta- torship in some .fields must Tied in directly with this inten- tion was the setting up of a new method of reviewing complaints from little enterprises and for hand- ling the hot monopoly : Issue. Fed- eral Trade Commission, which has been at war with Gen. Hugh John- son for months, was designated of- ficial appeal tribunal. Although no- definite steps had been taken by Saturday (23) it was believed inevitable that in time the ' film code will * become a political football again as a result of these modifications of the NRA system. Some observers • expect that inde- pendent exhibitors will, take advan- tage of the new set-up and try to hale the Code Authorty and major producer-exhibitors before the Trade Commlsh on monopoly com- plaints. Outcome of Darrow The Trade Commlsh will hear, ap- peals from code authorities, com- plaints by codlsts against individ- uals, and charges by NRA, backing up its decisions with cease-and-de- sist orders and, whenever necessary^ court proceedings to enforce, its rul- ings. This move is a direct conse- quence of the Darrow. board reports which stressed the. need for an ade* quate review machine with complete powers to rectify conditions not in the public Interest, J President Roosevelt was prime mover in working out this procedure, ac- cording to report. Consumer Advisory Board has eagerly joined the free-for-all that is developing as a result of adjourn- ment of Congress, which leaves NRA with a free hand to proceed With its changes of policy, and of the two- Darrow reports which con-, tained blistering charges against the film - code well as several other major agreements. CAB de- manded remedial action to ease te- ll Continued on page, 58) 35 PREMATURE Chicago^ June 25. Grievance board locally is going premature advertising slug-nutty. Every case last week concerned the complaint of ahead-of-tlme ads and every , one of the 10 cases was de- cided in favor of the complainant. "Th^^ftSHdin^^mbT^ their guilt and most of them didn't even bother to show for the hearing. It brings the number of premature ad cases to 35 and there ate 14. more waiting for hearing this week. It looks like these decisions Will clear up. the practice in this terri- tory since all subsequent violations of the code will mean a fine rather than a mere cease and desist order. About 80% of the squawks came from Balaban & Katz theatres. VARIETY PICTURE GROSSES Tuesday, June 26, 1934 Finishing Schoof Much Aided By Fight Kx, Big $10,000 in Li; Works' Fair 15G; State Good 13G Los Angeles, June 25. Current week in some of the houses a bit on the upgrade, but In inost it's Just too bad. Paramount, ■with Ben 'Shoot the Works/ and State, with 'Manhat- tan Melodrama,' Pantages 'Little Man What Now' for. second stanza and doing twice the business it usually does with a single week attraction. RKO is holding over the Baer-Car- nera pictures with "Finishing School' and doing an outstanding biz. In general kids are still remaining away from the theatres due to the infantile paralysis epidemic. Estimates for This Week Chinese (Grauman) (2,028; 65- $1.66)— 'Rothschild' (20th Century) and stage show (12th week). Three- day week novelty wore off after first try so take down to around $5,900 for the six performance session. Last week around $7,200. Downtown (WB) (1,800; -36-40- 56)— 'Modern Hero' (WB). Will be lucky to hit poor $3,500 mark. Last week 'The Merry brinks' (WB) $3,600. Hollywood (WB) (2,756; 26-35-40- 56)— 'Modern Hero' (WB). ' Barthel- me'ss does not seem to be a magnet here. Doesn't look over $4,3 00. Last week 'Merry Prinks* (WB) pretty tough going after a fair start, $4,200. Los Angeles (Win. Fox) (2,800; 15-26) — 'I Can't Escape' (Alexander- Beacon) and 'Affairs of a Gentleman' (IT) split. A hard pull and will slip a bit over $3,000. Last week 1 Hate Women' (Goldsmith) and "Monte Carlo Nights* (Monogram), were not b.o. sizzlers, as! house was shade under $2,900. Pantages (Pan) (2,700; 26-40)— "Little Man' (U) (2nd week). Best bet house has had since going straight pix. Will hit an easy $4,200 for second /stanza. Last week a healthy $8,000, due to BtUdio help- ing plenty on exploitation. Paramount (Partmar) (3,696; 30- 40-56)— 'Shoot the Works' (Par) and stage show. Well sold and will show house around $16,000, mild. Last week 'Here Comes the Groom' (Par), minus exploitation aid, a bit . shy of $13,000. ' RKO (2,960; 26-86-40)— •Finish- ing School' (Radio). Greatly aided by fight pictures. Will run up big $10,000. Last week 'Staingaree' (Radio), started off negligibly, but when fight picture came in soared to $9>400. State (Loew-Fox) (2,024; 30-40- 66) — "Manhattan Melodrama' (MG). Should hit around good $13,000. Last week 'Sadie McKee' (MG) ended up with $14,200. Calloway ys. Bernie, Smarty' vs. 'Vergip/ 26G and 24G/0K, Del. Detroit, June 26. Houses are perking up a little, the Fox with Ben Bernie and "Life of Vergie Winters,' and the Michigan with Cab Calloway and 'Smarty.' The United Artists with 'Gambling' Lady* also follows several one week stands at that house, while the Fisher takes, a second week of 'The Thin Man.' Last week. The Thin Man' at the Michigan was out in, front but not by too far, with a nice enough $21, O00. The Fox was a mild second with $16,000 for 'Baby Take a Bow Even Shirley Temple couldn't make them go for it. Estimates for This Week ichigan (Pat) (4,045; 16-25-36 40-55)— 'Smarty' (WB) and Cab Calloway. Looks $26,000, good Last week,. 'The Thin Man' (MG) and stage show, good at $21,000. Fox (Inde) (6,100; 15-26-35-40-56) —'Life of Vergie Winters,' (Radio) - and Ben 'Bernie.- About $24,000 In dicated, . okay. Laet^ week 'Baby Takes a Bow' (Fox) arid stage, mild $16,000'. United Artists (Par) (2,018; 15* 25-35-40-55) — 'Gambling Lady" (WB). Maybe $10,000, fair. Last week, "Little Man, What Now?' (U), fair at $11,000. Fisher (Par) (2,760; 15-25-35-40) —'The Thin Man* (MGM), 2d week, Not' bad, $5,000. Last week, "The Merry Frinks' (WB) mild at $3,500. State (Par) (3,000; .15-26-35-40- B5-) — Fight pictures (inde). Look to &UK}0« oke. FIGHT PIX SOCK 1ND. FOR 11G, NEAR-RECORD Indianapolis, 25;. The Baer-Carnera fight pictures are doing sensational business this week at the Lyric, with a figure of $11,000 in sight. This is tremen- dous lor the house, which has never been able to hit more than $8,000 under a straight film policy pre- viously. That nine grand mark was touched by 'College Humor' a year ago, and the all-time high for the house was only 16 grand, with a stage show headed by Peaches Browning at the height of herno^ toriety. The Baer-Carnera pictures are playing at a. lower price scale than the aforementioned attraction, incidentally. Unprecedented .pub- licity from the sports writers on the fight helped a great deal to stimu- late the interest of fans. Theatre staff reports a lot of repeat, business from argumentative fight bugs, and it is said that there were plenty of women in all audiences. Estmatea .for This Week Apollo (Fourth Ave.) (1,100; 20- 26-40)— 'Baby Take a Bow' (Fox) (2d wk). Holdover forced because, of lack of product. Gross will bare- ly touch $2,000, slim. Last week, in Its opening stanza, the take, was $3»- 100, moderate. Circle (Katz-Feld) (2,600; 25-40) — 'Dr. Monica' (FN). Sexy ad copy in the extreme didn't help this one, in view of the present agitation lo- cally by church groups for clean films. Total for week, if it lasts that ong, won't be above $2,750, poor. Last, week 'Twentieth Century' (Col) was fair at .$3,800. Lyric (Olson) (2.000; 25-40)— Baer and Camera fight pictures plus 'Affairs of Gentleman' (U). Colos- sal, socko. and record-breaking, with a great $11,000 in the bag. Last week 'He -was Her Man' (WB) was only fair at $3,400, Loew's Palace (Loew's (2,800 ; 26- 40)— 'Operator 13' (MG). Only thing holding up against the Lyric, gross- ing a fairly good $4,000. Last week The Thin Man* ,(MG), very good ftt $6,000. 'VERGIE'-PRIMO-MAX PIX, BIG $10,000 IN N.0. New Orleans, June 26. Carriera-Baer fight pictures still leading town in second week at Or- phdum. Coupled with 'Vergie Win- ters' will give theatre over $10,- 000. - ^ _,. Loew's State, with 'Born to Be Bad,' arid Saenger, sponsoring 'Bot- toms Up,' in moderate mien, box- officially speaking. Estimates for this Week Saenger (3,668; 40)— 'Bottoms Up' (Fox). Not so forte, $6,000 will be all. Last week '30-Day Princess' (Par), mild $8,000. .. ' Loew's State (3,218; 40)— TBorn to Be Bad* (UA). Little stir for this, will get $6,000. Last week 'Opera- tor 13' (MG) garnered fair $7,000. Orpheum (2,400; 36) — "Vergie Winters' (Radio) and Carnera-Baer fight pic* Doing well and $10,000 evident: Last week The Key* cause of torrid weather. Tempera- ture cooled down a bit Saturday, ] rapping biz, but mercury climbed again Sunday, not giving stands much of a chance to catch their breath. Fay's has quit vaudeville for the summer and Is now showing twin bills. How long policy will last is matter for speculation. Chances are house will close in couple of weeks for the summer rather than risk staying open with pictures. Loew's is now the only' combo stand in town, but not benefiting much from fadeout at Fay's because of weather.. However, house figures to be in the lead once more. In the straight picture class biz seems to be up a peg all around, but the edge seems to be With the RKO Albee and Majestic. Albee* should come through for at least $6,000 on the week with 'Life of Vergie Winter.' and 'Let's Try Again.' Although *Vergie' is on blacklist of the Legion of Decency, leaders in the local Catholic drive, have Ignored fllni, preferring to wait until engagement is over before something is said about the moral tone of production. Estimates for This; Week Fay's (2,000; 15-26-40) — 'Harold Teen' (WB) and 'I Give My Love* (U), without vaude house appears lost as tag of stage shows has been on this stand for years. Not much more than $3,000, if that Last week, "Wild Gold' (Fox) and vaude was poor at $4,000. Loew's State (3,200; 16-26-40) :— - •Born to Be Bad' (UA) and vaude. Though there's all kinds of opinion on the pic, the vaude show seems to be so well liked that house will very likely come near $9,000 without difficulty, and better if the weather Improves. Last week, "Operator 13* (MG) was oke, around $9,600. Majestic (Fay) (2,200; 16-25-40)-** 'Fog Over Frisco' (WB) arid "Circus: Clown* (WB). This bill has the cricks guessing; though pictures not really hot the notices shaped up In such a manner that no fan will stay away; things look like at least $4,500, best gross in weeks. Last week Be Was Her Man' (WB) and 'Merry Wives of Reno' (WB) couldn't mooch * anything over $3,600; low. Paramount (Indie) (2,200; 1-5 -26V 40) — 'Many Happy Returns' (Par)! and '16 Wives* (Chest)". Hard to figure this one; Thursday opening seemed oke, but things petered down, over the week; whether it's, the heat or the fans don't like the combo is oohjectural. Anyway, gross looks like $4,000; so-so. Last week, Double Door' (Par) and 'Loudspeaker* (Mono) off at $3,200. RKO Albee (2,000; 16-26-40) — « •Vergie Winters' (Radio) and "Let's Try Again' (Radio). House riding on comeback wave, and looks as though this bill should bring in at least $6,000. Last week, "Let's Talk It Over' (U) and 'The Unknown Blonde' (Mono) made an unex* pected Jump on the strength . of pictures of Baer-Carnera fight; film came in cold, but whipped up enough interest to pep things up to a nice $5,200; more than double of what Was anticipated. RKO Victory (1,600; 10-16-26) — 'Mystery. Liner' (Col) . and 'Blue Steel.' Possibly $1,060 on split week, so-so. Last week,- *Whirlpbol' (Col) and 'Finishing School' (Radio) was so-so, too, at $950 on split week, 'Dynamite/ 'Marker' Strong 17G and 22G In Frisco Despite All San Francisco, June 25. Waterfront strike and infantile paralysis scare are among the buga- boos of this week, but despite the seriousness of those two business- destroyers, RKO's Golden Gate and Loew's Warfield are on the higher road and traveling fast. 'Thin Man' has caught on heavily around town, and after socko week at the Warfield after which it was sent over to the St. Francis, it's staylng^on=loE^a=flecond-=.week= ; atl the latter house, giving it three' stanzas on Market St.. Estimates for This Week Fox (Leo) (5,000; 25-36)— 'Black Moon' (Col) and 'Big Time or Bust,' split. Holt drawing in former and house getting fairish $6,000. Last week 'Take Stand' (Lib) and 'Loud Speaker* (Mono), split, $6,000. Golden Gate (RKO) (2,844; 25-36- 40)— 'Strictly Dynamite' (Radio) 1 and stage show with. Baer-Carnera fight pix. Latter helping to jam ^. ^Continued on page 51) Tuesday* June 26, 1954 PICT E GROSSES VARIETY. 'Pink' Pictures Add to Chi Worries as Product Slumps Off; 'Dynamite Tops, 23C; 'Operator' 18G Chicago,. June 25. % That prodaot question Is no joke. for. the part, three months the B. A JR.' and other first runs have been worrying about getting product Strong enough to hold up for a week or more. But now the bookers have a heart- {kohe on top of the headache. That a the newly excited censor board .Which Is out chopping pictures to pieces. And the picture people are not letting out a peep. Before the Church wrangle the dlstrlbs didn't hesitate to go Into the censor «board and argue .for what they thought was right; and If the censor board refused to listen to reason the dls- trlbs went into court for legal aid. But all that argumentation is out at present. Dlstrlbs and exhibs are leery, of any censor battle. They are taking the licking from the censors and keeping mum. But it's causing plenty of havoc to the loop and the screens. Pic- tures counted on to open on Friday . are . yanked on Wednesday and •Thursday, leaving the houses with zeros. . Right noyr B. & K. doesn't know about two pictures which are scheduled and trallerlzed to open this Friday, «Dr. Monica' (WB) and *It Ain't No Sin' (Par). 'Monica' is plastered all over the ace Chicago but even B. & K. officials are doubt- ful of its opening this week. It has been held up twice by the censor board completed, then sliced to rib- bons and socked with a 'pink' ducat and: the industry locally is not warm for any 'adults only' pictures at this time. It is likely that even if the picture does get through the censors that Balaban & Katz will not play it, if it comes through labeled with a 'pink' plaster. Not only because of the 'pink' but because the cuts may ruin it. i ; Same story in a higher key Is the tale of 'It Ain't No Sin/ scheduled for B. 8c K. McVlckers this Friday, Censors are still doubtful and getting ready to warm up the shears and heat the 'adults only' '0 t)i elf 6 1* » • • And if those pictures aren't avail- able, what shall the theatres play? Product is scarce at present and pictures that figure as box office are dreams, just cfreams. B. & K. has been talking about It Ain't No Sin' for six months now, figuring that it'll be the picture which will Anally get the McVlckers on the right side of the ledger. Loop grosses take a little dive this week and slide off in comparison to last week. But there are a couple of satisfying figures. . 'Operator 13' Is a pleasure at the United Artists and should stick around awhile. And for the second week the Palace Is going to show a profit, which Is a miracle In Itself. 'Strictly Dyna- mite* is pulling on the screen and Lupe Velez in person is helping. Estimates for This Week Chicago (B&K) (3,940; 35-55-75) —•'Many Happy Returns' (Par) and stage show. Wampas gals are on the stage and figured on for some trade on terrific publicity tie-ups. but the only figures that, count are those you can hear. And the coin is going to jingle to only some $28, 000 this week, which means the house goes Into a short slump. Last week 'Little Miss Marker' (Par) de- livered a lusty $30,900 and moved over to the Roosevelt for another bit of looping. McCickera (B&K) (2,200; 25-35 85)-— 'Fog Over Frisco' (WB) . Just a one-weeker. House is in a bad pinch for product. This picture, for instance, hasn't more than $7,000 in the offing, wobbly. And last Week was hardly better with the 'Key' (WB) at $8,100. Oriental (B&K) (3,200; 25r35-40) — :'You're Telling Mo' (Par), and vaude. Sing a song of red ink again this week. Losses are consistent when grosses "range under. $10,000, as they have been here. This week is around the same gross level, and It's going to take plenty of World's Fair visitors to make it a winner Last week was mired under at $9,- 200 for 'Merry Wives of Reno' (WB), Palace (RICO) (2,500; 35-55-83)— 'Strictly Dynamtie' (Radio) and vaudoi Lupe Valez in the . self is helping trade, and the. picture is getting excellent comments. Which makes it a second week that the house is going to do okay. Figures for $23,000 • this week— heigh-ho Last week ■ jra.a a walloping, . sock- ing, terrific $2$,400 for a line-up of Wow attractions that brought 'em begging to pay at the box office. On the list were Ben Ber'hle band, Baer- Carnera pictures and 'Cockeyed Cavaliers' (Radio), with Bornie fig urod as the piece de resistance. Roosevelt (B&K) (1,600; 26-35 45)— 'Little Miss Marker' (Par), Second week on the main alley for this one. and going ahead to another good -vvoek at $6,600. House has de veloped into a good holdover spot, Tacoma Takings Fair Tacoma, June 25. Muslo Box is playing '20,000,000 Sweethearts' for six days, with split weeks ruling at both opposition spots. Blue Mouse, also a Hamrick theatre, will try 'Sorrell and Son* alone for the week end change, with Roxy having 'Stand Up and Cheer* for a solitary first part of its week. Estimates for This Week Music Box (Hamrick) (1,400; 26- 35)— '20,000,000 Sweethearts' (FN,). Well exploited, radio helping, $3,000 indicated *for six days. Last week, •Black Cat' (U), and 'Murder at Vanities' (Par), split for okay $2,900. Roxy (J-vH) (1,300; 16-26)— 'Stand Up and Cheer* (Fox), for five days, then. 'Coming Out Party* (Fox), and 'One Is Guilty* (Col)., dual, two days, $3,200, fair, antici- pated. Last week, 'Lazy River' (MG), and 'Sea Killers' (Indie), dual, held strong for five days, surprising with big $3,600. Blue Mouse (Hamrick)— 'Murder on Blackboard' (Radio), and 'Glam- our* (U), dual, split with 'Sorrell and Son' (UA), around $1,600, fair, Indicated. Last week, 'He Was Her Man' (WB), and 'Catharine the Great* (UA), split, got nice coin, around $2,100.- WEATHER HELPS B'HAM WINTERS' FAIR AT 512.000. ST. LOUIS St. Louis, June 25. A heat wave that is sending folks to the country, added to the usual effect of the Municipal Opera at this time of year, Is doing film houses no good. Things around the box office are> quiet. No records will be broken this week, but biz is generally fair. Fox is doing a little better than usual, though, with 'Vergie Winters' and the sad story of her life. With a single picture, 'Dr. Monica,' Shu- bert is no more than hitting its stride for two. Weather can be blamed for both conditions, as films would have drawn otherwise. Although business hardly war- ranted it, Ambassador; not being too well blessed, with pictures, to play, is- holding 'Marker* over for a second week and may about break even. Missouri Is getting some patrons with Baer-Carnera fight pictures, but for no other reason. Estimates for This Week Ambassador (Skouras) (3,000; 25-36-66)^'Little Miss Marker' (Par), 2d week. Forced holdover means a poor $8,000 as compared with last week's neat $14,000. Fox (F & M) (5.000; 26-36-65)— 'Life of Vergie Winters* (Radio) and 'Party's Over* (Col). Ann Harding means a fair $12,000. Last week 'Strictly Dynamite' (Radio) and •Hell Cat' (Col), just about in at $8,000. Loew's State (Loew's) (3,000; 25- 35-65)— 'Hollywood Party' (MG). Not so bad at $10,000. Last week 'Operator 13' (MG) was better with $11,000. Missouri (Skouras) (3,500; 25-40) —'Let's Talk It Over' ,CU) and Baer- Carnero fight pictures. Only fair at $7,000. Last week ''Affairs of - a Gentleman' (U) arid 'Great Flirta- tion' (Par) so-so $6,000. Shubert (Warners) (2,000; 25-40) •^-'Dr. Monica' . (WB). . Weather hurts here but maybe $9,000, fair. Last week 'He Was Her Man' (WB) and 'Fog Over Frisco' (WB) got the same figure between 'em. last week getting fine $8,600 with the holdover on 'Little Man' (U). State Lake (Jones) (2,700; 20-26- 35) — 'Such Men Are Dangerous* (Fox) arid vaude. House Is picking up nicely and starting real profits. This week, with Frisco on the stage to help, figured to touch $11,000, ex cellent. Last week was a splaBhing wow at $13,400 ^for |Three _ on a HOrieymoori r (Fox) " and 'Harlem Scandals' unit on the stage. United Artists (B&K — UA) (1,- 700; 35-45-65)— 'Operator 13' (MG) Marion Davies-Gary Cooper picture is in the money and should stick around. One of the best Hearst campaigns in some time has helped the opening pace and should touch whacking $18,000 for the opener. 'Now I'll Tell' (Fox) stayed one week and left a stream of macaroni at the sad figure of $10,200. 'TareM' Okay $7,700j 'Bottoms Up' Neat $2,500 Birmingham* June 25. Old Sol is trying himself and driving folks to theatres to cool themselves. Business is picking up daily. Estimates for This Week Alabama (Wllby) (2,800; 30-35- 40)— 'Tarzan* (MG). Dependable entertainment $7,700. Last week 'Murder at Vanities' (Par). Fair $7,000, Rita (Wilby) (1,600; 26)— 'Bot- toms Up* (Fox). Off to a nice start, $2,500. Last week Til Tell the World* (U), $2,200. Empire (BTAC) (1,100; 25)— I've Got Your Number* (WB)* Should click, $2,500. Last week 'Gambling Lady* (WB), $2,100. Strand (Wilby) (800; 26)— •Laughing Boy* (MG). Not so good, $900 maybe. Last week "Coming Out Party' (Fox), $1,000, not much bet- ter. BABY' LEADS 'EM TO BIG $12,000 1NCINCY B way Biz Down with 'Monica $17,000 and 13' Near Comparative Leaders; SToo Hot WEATHER SOCKS B'KLYN 'Operator 13* Best, $16,000, Others All Off Cincinnati, June 25. Take a Bow* is romping home with the biggest take for the first-run v houses currently. Its figure is $12,000, town's best for sevr eral weeks. Shirley Temple b. o. triumph is more significant for rea- son that plx. began with only one- day advance notice, taking place of 'Vergie Winters* which state censors are holding up. Opening was day and date with closing of her 'Little Miss Marker* at CapltoL Latter film was transferred from Palace for extended run and the Shirley babe's popularity helped for a sweet $3,800, following $8,200 on the first seven days. Capitol closed until latter part of August. RKO darkens another house here at end of this week, when its pop vodefllm Grand goes In for summer Idleness. At same time RKO will shut its Colonial in Dayton, O., which has been getting . five-act bills from the unohilled Grand. Colonial slated to reopen Aug. 17 With same policy. Lyric having big week from Baer- Carnera fight picture and 'Party's Over.' Scrap film was a biz builder for Palace last, week on initial showing. House now droopy with 'Here Comes the Groom.* Estimates for This Week Albee (RKO) (3,300; 85-44) — 'Baby, Take a- Bow* (Fox). Heroine of 'Little Miss Marker* makes quick return with all the wallop of an old trouper to do the 'and a little child shall lead them* routine In this week's b. o. march. Current plx was shoved up. on account of Ohio board of film censors delaying release on the scheduled attraction, 'Life of Vergie Winters,' which step allowed only single day's advance notice of 'Baby* opening. Cricks ga-ga about Shirley, but only luke- warm on story of hokemeller. No question, in minds of paying cus- tomers, who are lining up for $12,- 000, a big figure these days. Last week 'Operator IS' (MG), $8,500, Ly'rio (RKO) (1.894; 35-44)— 'Party's Over* (Col) and second week of Baer-Carnera fight film, which was switched from Palace. Scrap shots are town .talk. Head- In for $6';600, dear money at this stand. Last week 'Double Door' (Par) swung $4,600, fair. Palace (RKO) (2,600; 36-44)— 'Here Comes the Groom* (Par). Opened slower than an invitational wedding and will be divorced after five, daya for quickie start 6n 'Shoot the Works'; maybe $3,500, cold. Last week 'Many Happy Returns' (Par) and Baer-Carnera tussle climbed to a socko $11,600. Keith's (Llbson) (1,600; 80-40)— •Circus Clown' (WB). Began Wednesday (20) on account of dull draw by 'Merry Wives of Reno* (WB) and will have eight-day showing with take of $5,000, lots a smiles. 'Merry Wives' got $2,200 in five days, a bottom scraper for this Grand (RKO) (1,025; .26-35)^ 'Strictly Dynamite' (Radio) and five-act bill. Looks like $3,500, good, but summer idleness com- mences with end of week. Last week 'A\\ Men Are Enemies' (Fox) and vode, $3,000, fair. "Tam iry"lRkby^(^ 'Smoking Guns' (U) and 'Hell Cat' (Col), split. Ideal product. Fetch- ing $1,500, same as last week on 'A Maa'a Game' (Col) arid 'Fighter and the Lady,' latter a return, divided. Strand (Ind) (1,200; 15-20-25J— 'Manhattan Lpve Song* (Mon) and 'I Hate" Women* (Mon). Combo, $1,000, no dice. Last week 'Lost Jungle' (Mon) and 'Money Means Nothing' (Mon), first week of twin features policy, $1,100. Brooklyn, June 21. Good old fashioned hot weather has hit this burg and the meroury is going higher. Picture houses, de- spite alluring ads to the effect that it's much cooler Inside, don't seem to be capturing the. customers whose eyes are cast only In the di- rection of Coney Island, Floyd Ben- nett Field (where the air carnival holds sway week ends) and Pros.-, pect Park. Loew's Metropolitan appears to be doing the best biz of the down- town houses. Estimates for This Week Albee (RKO) (3,600; 26-35-50)— 'Murder at the Vanities' (Radio) and vaude. Mild $14,000. Last week 'Now I'll Tell' (Fox) satisfactory $16,000. Fox (ConcO) (4,000; 26-36-60)— •Let's Talk It Over (Col) and stage showing headed by Blanche Sweet. Weak $10,000. Last week 'Such Women Dangerous' (Fox) same. Metropolitan (Loew) (3,000; 25- 36-50)— 'Operator 13* (MG) and Vaude. Maybe $16,000, slow. Last Week 'Meii in White* (MG) oke at same figure. Strand (WB) (2,000; 26-36-50)— 'Fog Over Frisco* (WB) and •Smarty' (WB), double feature, $6,000, weak. Last week 'Merry Frihks* (WB) and 'The Key* (WB) $3,000. bad. ' PHILLY FILMS MEDIOCRE, BIZWTTO Philadelphia, June 26. A very dull week is forecast in the downtown picture houses. Pos- sible exception to the mediocrity is 'Thin Man' at the Stanley and this one won't set any records; $11,000 indicated. Fox looks very weak with 'She Learned About Sailors' on the screen and a stage bill lacking names; $14,000 should be top while the Earle with 'Personality Kid' arid Wesley Eddy again heading 'the stage show won't get over $13,000, 'Sinners Meet' looks very wobbly at the Boyd and $8,500 will be maxi- mum. 'Black Cat' is something of a question-mark at the Stanton, which has been nose-diving consist- ently for several months; maybe $6,600. Last week's only solid hit was the Fox and that wasn't due to the film feature or .Btage show; Carnera- Baer fight pictures turned the trick with $22,000 gross. Picture was 'Call It Luck' with stage show of- fering no names. Earle faltered badly with 'Return of the Terror* on the screen and a so-so vaudeville line-up. Just hit $12,000. 'Stlngaree' got a scant $9,- 500 at the Boyd with 'Operator 13' Just over that figure at the" Stanr ley. Estimates for This Week Arcadia (600; 26-40-60)— '30-Day Princess* (Par). Should do quite well, $2,000 or better figured. 'Witching Hour* (Par) fared badly. $1,200 in five days. Boyd (2,400; 40-55-66)— "Where Sinners Meet' (Radio)*, Looks weak, hot over $8,500. Last week 'Stln- garee* .(Radio), fine notices, but Just fair biz, $9,500. Earle (2,000:. 40-55-65)— 'Person- ality Kid' (WB) and vaude. Third week for Wesley Eddy on stage. Poor week forecast; $13,000 and ho more. Last week 'Return of the Ter- ror' (WB) and vaude, dismal $12,000. Fox (3,000; 40-50-60) — 'She Learned About Sailors' (Fox) and stage show. Nothing hot indicated, $14,000— if lucky. Last week 'Call It Luck* (Fox) and stage show; ~Car- nera-Baer fight films upset all the dope, $22,000 which was top-notch. Karlton (1,000; 30-40-50)^'Private Scaliattl^ (POT)^ NotKihg^mTich^in^ dlcated. Maybe $2,500. Last week, 'Finishing School' (Radio); again fine notices, no trade; $2,300. Stanley (3,700; 40-55-65)— 'Thin Man* (MG). Fairly good $11,000 figured. Last week 'Operator 13* (MG) only $9,500, n.s.g, Stanton (1,700; 30-40-55)— 'Black Cat* (U). Might do a little some- thing; figures $6,500, $7,0.00. Last week 'Born to Be Bad* (UA) was bad, $4,800. Business on New York's first run front Is disappointing this week. The Strand alone seems, to be. beard- ing up with 'Dr. Monica' but at $17,000 it's under hopes of house. Attractions may . not be anything to write home about, but the cur- rent drop is mainly attributed to the heat. . High temperatures started to roll up Thursday (21) and over the week-end thousands' left town. Although a second run on pic- tures, State will be in better , shape . than most others as; a result of Barney Ross, lightweight-welter champ, there on a personal.; House may ride itself over $16*000. 'Viva Villa' is on the, screen. Music Hall is riot at all sanguine of getting $60,000 with 'Let's Try Again.' It may be nearer $55,000 after the week's over. 'Great Flirtation,' at the Par on six days, will be fortunate to 'hurdle a poor $15,000. . Max Baer comes in this Thursday (28) for eight days with •Kiss And Make Up.' He's booked at $6,000 and a split over $40,000. Capitol's 'Operator 13* started slowly and hasn't quickened . its pace. Odds are against it getting a mod- erate $30,000. This house was to get the Mae West picture, 'It Ain't No Sin' Friday (29), while Par that date was to play a Metro item, 'Rear Car* through a pooling ar- rangement set a couple weeks ago under which stage shows would drop from the Ca*v Censor trouble with the West picture, which may even result in a new title for it, is temporarily holding up the pooling plan. A couple other hitches may also stall it J Rlalto is striving for $10;000 On 'Murder on the Blackboard,* which Isn't swank but fair enough. 'Black Moon' comes lit tonight (Tuesday). Walter Reade's Mayfair was stench-bombed during the past week and that isn't helping there. Odor is still so strong It nearly knocks 'em off the sidewalk in pass- ing the theatre. New low of $3,200 is In prospect on 'Half a Sinner* Estimates for This Week Capitol (6,400; 35-76-85-$l.i0)— • 'Operator 18' (MG) and stage show*. Just looks a mild $30,000. Last week, second of 'Men in White* (MG), tinder $30,000. Mayfair (2,200; 35-65-66)— "Halt a Sinner* (U). Opened Just in time to suffer from stench-bombing of house. New low of $3,200 the an- swer. Last week, 'Private Scandal* (Par), $10,000, okay. Palace (1,700; 36-60-66-75)— *Ver- gie Winters' (Radio) and vaude. On second run doing satisfactorily. Maybe $11,600. Last week, Baer- Carnera fight films, with 'Vanities* (Par), raised take to big $17,000. Paramount (3,664; 36-66-76-99)— 'Great Flirtation' (Par) and stage show.' A bad $16,000 on six days threatens. Max Baer on personal with 'Kiss and Make Up' (Par), opens Thursday (28)/ Last week, 'Here Comes Groom' (Par), only $17,000. Radio City Music Hall (5,946; 40- 60-86-99-$1.66)— 'Let's Try Again* (Radio) and stage show. Not doing anything and very lucky if reaching weak $55,000. Last week, "Vergie Winters' (Radio) held up well, a lit- tle over $76,000. Rialto (2,000; 40-66-75-86)— 'Mur- der on Blackboard' (Radio). A lit- tle disappointing but on six days $10,000, not bad. 'Black Moon* (Col) comes in tonight (Tuesday): 'World in Revolt' (Mentone) on its 12 days, drew $18,000. RKO Center (2,525; 26-40)— 'Mur- der at Vanities' (Par), and 'Such Women Are. Dangerous' (Fox). Splitting the week, likelihood is for only around $6,000. Last week, 'Now I'll Tell' (Fox) and 'Where Sinners Meet' (Radio), helped by Baer-Carnera fight film, arid $14,000 fine. . ! ; Roxy (6,200; 25-36-56-65)— 'Af- fairs of a Gentleman' (U) and stage show. Looks $16,200, poor.. Last week, $16,200 on 'Let's Talk It Over* (U). 8trand (2,900; 36-66-66)— 'Dr. Mo- nica' (WB). Around $17,000, fair enough and will hold over even at this figure. 'Fog Over Frisco* (WB) only $12,200 on its eecond final seven days. State (2,300; 85-55-76)— 'Viva villa' (MG) and vaude. Barney Ross, fistic champ, on the stage and helping for chance to top $16,000. Last week, 'Little Miss Marker* (Par) ovep $17,000. - ■ - - - - - Life of Judge Crater 'Ex-Judge,' novel, has been bought by George Kann and Harry Takiff, and they'll make a picture for the Indie market. Story is said to be based on life and disappearance of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Crater in New York. VARIETY PICTURE CI SSES Tuesday, June 26, 1934 Mum. Houses Cheer Shrine Departure Minneapolis, June 25. ♦Little Miss Marker* is running; away from fellow contenders in the box office T>r." Monica' ana •Vergle' Winters* axe being far out- distanced. With the Shrlners* convention and destructive opposition of its conflicting entertainment ended, the theatre sky has taken on a rosier hue; At that, everything isnt peaches and cream by a long shot. Another scorching heat wave is the present box-offlce pest. However, a Stronger line-up of attractions is helping to bring grosses back near- er to normalcy. As expected,- the Shrine conclave hurt theatre trade, the parades and other special events being harmful, luring, honiefolks as well as visitors away from the showhouses. The. conclave did hot attract more than 20,000, instead of the 50,000 to. 100,000 predicted. While detrlmen- trl to' the theatres, it proved a boon for night clubs; hotels and bars, which did a land-Office biz sprinkle spirits of ammonia on this oiriking sister, this is it. Opening looks like $4*500. Last week '30-Day Princess' (Par) and 'Black Cat' (U) New Haven, June 25. Noticeable effect locally of the Catholic boycott action. Business lethargic, but credited entirely to summer fading. Estimates for This Week Baltimore Perking All Over 'Operator 13' Smash at $20,000— 'Monica' Also Getting Attention and His Mate' (MG) and Harold Teen* (WB) were held but two days Paramount (Publix) (2,348; 36-60) I for slow $900. Carnera-Baer five nickered to a pale $3,000. j ^J££L" Cornea "the 'Groom*' (Par) I days looks to hit around $3,900, fine. "I -. -r l . XTI^A T ««* h.ulr 'flat and liMridlA' IMGY Little (Franklin) (26-36-50) — and •Mystery Liner* (Mono). Nice Last week, 'Cat and Fiddle* (MG) them in. Opening an hour earlier I fl - t ^ most of credit. (Par). Fair $6,200 indicated. Last (noon) at cut price. Looks like well "p 0 |j» a (Loew) (8,040; 35-60)— *Lit- week, 'Manhattan Melodrioma' (MG) " '~ tie Man* (U) and 'Call It Luck* Picked up right along, With Clark (Fox). Only a fair opening, and | Gable proving real pull. Big at over $900, biggest gross in weeks. Last week, 'Troika' and 'Mother-in- Law' (Quality) bad at $300. Loew's State (2,780; 15-75)— 'Men in White' (MG) and vode. Hospital will probably be below expectations, $8,300 on eight days. /■■ ' around $7,0Q0. Last week 'Thin Man' Liberty (J-vH) (1,900; 10-25) -r- (MG) and 'No Greater Glory' (Col), hNb Greater Glory* (Col). Giving it pi«ce'7uyi^ big campaign, with street banhers. have been grand earlier. Jammed ° Roflep Sherman (WB) (2,200; 36r drugstore tleups, and other stunts; Saturday. Ought to smash 60)— 'Love Captive' (U) and 'Per- expecting around $4,060, goods Last nnvhow. and with a temp. dr °P I sona nty Kid' (WB). House billing week, 'Shadows or Sing Sing* (Col) an outsider above one of its own and 'Dynamite Ranch' (Fox) dual, WB product. . Outlook light at $3,- I good $3,600. ' 600. Last week 'Smarty* (WB) and I Music Box (Hamrlck) «(950; anyhow, and with a temp more. Last week, 'Born, to Be Bad (UA) was just that at barely $10,000. _ , Paramount- Newark (Adams-Par) (2,248; 16-65) — 'Many Happy Re- turns' (Par) and . 'Dancing .. Man (Col). They no like. Will be. sad at about $4,500. Last week, *Mur- 25- •Unknown Blonde* (Maj), also 'light, I 36)— 'Born to Be Bad' (UA). About $3,700. $2,200. Last week, 'Where Sinners College (Loew) (1,666; 26-40)— Meet' (Radio) on eight days, $2,800, 'Born to Be Bad* (UA) and 'Affaire good. ' , v , n „ „ r ' of Gentleman' (U). Good pace, in- | Music Hall (Hamrick) (2,300 . ^6- ~m~waui a mna-on.ce i»* »»u , d6r .^ * he Variitles (Pa *° n0t "° dicatesoke. $4,300. Last week 'Hoi. 40)—'LitUe Man, What Nowf (U). ■SSiSi 2 bonanza Of the ^Shrine at $6,800. ft> BB >_ lywood Party* (MG) and 'All Men Giving Margaret Sullavan plenty of reaped a *onan?a. wi*^m™« Proctor's (RKO) (2,3.00, 15-56)— / ■x* nKm foZ YtfoxYi At $4,000. a Lxnloitine arid advance plugs, with and events, the parades and electrical ■ -7Sp^ 'wM^KaT 7ml7* I ture picture - ■■ — -• - - ...... cat' ?uT aid ^*Uncertain ^d^'Juf standard vaude acts brought in for cat (U) .and uncertain Lady (U). | tfce wegk anQ remalnder are routine acts regularly .with the musical ONLY ONE DUAL LEFT IN OMAHA Omaha, June 25. Stellar attractions all along the row omens better biz In toto. Par and Margaret Sullavan should lead Little Man' follows a heavy Week on 'Operator 13,* and not a task foif the house to keep them coining. Penned at Fox arriving ori a record ^^^^ is ju S i t7pe for this uptown de WaV ^°L^!; y arietst% 0 5oTa^ e^cta^ns^^OO^ and should come in around a $ il°k°. *bS? . .Capitol JFP) (2,700; 60)-'Miss $7^00 cQntent ^ ^ the fMeri iri White*. (MG), Hitting mild J m0 nd in addition to flock of local $2,000 pace. Last week., 'Henry 1 tie-ups. Result was all time high VHT (UA), $2,600. Pretty good. for paid admissions first two hours Lyric (Publix) (1,300; 20-26)— cashing in on the heavy plugs in the Hearst daily. Week totaled $8,000. Brandeis (Singer) (1,200; 20-25 36)— 'Vergie Winters' (Radio). Re sumeg the-single feature policy here after weeks of struggling with double features, messed up dates and Installing cooling plant. Pic ture strong enough to stand on its. own, and' should prove to tune of $4,760. Last week after just another opening on Friday with 'Where Sin ners Meet' (Radio) and 'Circus Clown' (FN), Baer-Carnera fight pictures added to the bill Saturday and cause for three cheers.. House realized ' its heaviest week of the SEATTLE'S P1X BETTER AND BIZ REFLECTS IT Seattle, June. 26. Better ; attractions at ace houses this week spell . a better b.o, outr x, »■ x- .-.ocaa- t P 10 "]? Prices to 15c. froitt the two-bits see satisfactory _$12,500. Last week straight, and this is helping the 'Many Happy Return^ (Par) was Upot^Muslc Hall is making a lot poison to all but rabid Burns and ovep Hniversal's 'L.ittl« Man what . ^^n^ft^Fh**™ N^W^ thUS ^ Fox (Loew) (3,434; 25-35-60)— ove thl It nas fo Columbia's h W y iy it ?»f£°£?' „.. u w^ yP . VS 0ll ^rn 0 in^i M ^ advertising' /x " a ^ Proctor's got a queer deal last Joe K P u nn i r on « S /^«f nno Inf „1™ stressln e 14 48 ' a Picture for the week on the .fight pics, which were Er°^ le at b t !^^"L $ S5 S entlre ^mily; no increase in prices.' released to the .Lyric, downtown n ^ h S w C win T i Expectation is to hold, Just one grind house, on Thursday. Friday Q tf *±,}2£ «r^n^2lny Jmp^ week ' but »ay-Jell longer.. Coliseum they went everywhere into th% Slf^^p i vf i w ?rhnfiv tnrnS^n has Baer-Carnera fight pix for five habes, which kills any chance the 4"%«°™ C W y In |days, at 36c. all the way, and open Terminal has of a break on thehij, — ■ — Estimates for This-Week. Branford (WB) (2.96G; 15-65) •Fog Oyer Frisco' (WI3) and *Pri vate Scandal' (Par). Ought to be a Mecca, for murder farts but there I pull Hollywood-minded mob; $3,800 are not enough of them here to was acceptable big $26,500. Met (WB) (1,683; 25-40)— 'Little Man*-=(=tJ)-T=Repettt^aCter=nice-week : at Earle headed for satisfactory $3,300. Last week 'Double Door' (Par) got legit fans but couldn't make the walls bulge. Maybe $7,000. Last week, ' 'Little Man' (U) and | •Harold Teen' (WB) nice at $9,000. Capitol >>>x«:«N>>:«:">:o o:-X':wi«:wi';".'i»^. w.w.v/av.v.' •;■.•.•.■.•.«>.■:■:•:•:•:•:•:■.•:• :•;•:■:•:•:■;•>>:•:•]■»»:■ »!•»■•:•■ -v.-.v. ■■■■■■ v.v^ ■.■■■«■• v.* i\v.v 'w.v.v.'.v,wc>w • .■.■.■.■■■.■.*.•.■. v. wi- .W . 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Stars Marlon Davies and Gary Cooper. Director, Richard. Boleelavsky; producer, liuclen Hubbard; From . Cosmo- polltan Magazine stories by Robert W. Chambers. Screen play, Harvey Thew, Zelda Sears, Eve Greene, Songs, "Walter Donaldson and Qua Kahn; synchronisa- tion, Dr. "Wm. Axt: camera, George Fol- sey. At Capitol, N. Y., week June 22. Running time, 83 mine. Gall Loveless Marlon Davles Captain Jack Gallliard , .Gary Cooper Eleanor Jean Parker Pauline Katharine Alexander Doctor Hitchcock Ted Healy LKtledale... Russell Hardle Jtjhn Pelham Henry Wndsworth General Stuart Douglas Dumbrllle Captain Channing Wlllard Robertson Sweeney Fuzsy. Knight Major Allen Sidney Toler Colonel Sharpe .Robert McWndo Mrs. Shacklerord Marjorie Gateson Gnston "Wade Boteler Operator 55 Walter Long 4 Mills Brothers • One of Davies' best. Holds a lot for popular appeal and will dp much to reestablish the star, De- spite that it's one of those north and south Civil "War romances, it's so well done that it grips through- out, and is wisely sold away from the Grant and Lee angle, and more on the mystery romance stance. Miss Davies is the titular Union spy; Gary Cooper, ditto, but in the Confederacy's secret service. The inevitable eventuates, but skillful production and scenarizatlon does much to make the familiar and the .obvious take on. nuance. The three- ply collaboration of Harvey Thew, SSelda Sears and Eve Greene hasn't proved one of those too-mariy- eooks complications. Against the spy stuff there is much charm of locale of the old south, being chiefly backgrounded below the Masori-Dixon line There's also some skillful support in Jean Parker, Katharine Alexander, Ted Healy and the Four Mills Bros., the latter chiefly handling the Donald- eon-Kahn song burdens. 'Sleepy Head,' 'Jungle Fever' and 'Once in a Lifetime' are the vocal outstanders. These are nicely dovetailed into the action through the medium of the Mills Bros, being the vocal bally for an itinerant medicine show pre- sided over by Doc Ted Healy, other- wise also in the Yankee secret service. The femme half of the co-stars eelipses Cooper throughout. Miss Davies is particularly effective as a colored wench, a disguise she simu- lates in one major chapter as the maid to Katherlne Alexander. Her dialect and mannerisms are decid- edly effective. Cast on the whole is well-bal- anced, Fuzzy Knight, (the same Fuzzy of the old poBt-Volstead Broadway honky-tonks) showing something as a slightly air-brained orderly. Healy, sans his stooges, Is likewise more legit. Jean Parker again registers with her ingenue charm and augurs much cinematic- ally. Miss Alexander is excellent. The other men are convincing in the main, with Cooper chiefly lookr ing heroic and acting ditto. Pic will please generally. Abel. DOCTOR MONICA Warner Bros, production and releases. Directed by "William Kelghley. Kay Francis starred; Warren William, Jean Mulr, Veree Teasdale featured. - Story, Charles Kenyon. Adapted by Laura Walker Mayer from Polish play by Marja Morozowicz Szczcpkowsko. Sol Pollto, phetog. At Strand, New York, starting June 20. Running time, 75 mine. Doctor Monica Kay Francis John ..Warren William Mary Jean. Muir Anna Verree Teasdale Burton Phillip Reed Mrs. Monahan .Emma Dunn Pettinghll! Herbert Bunston Mrs. Haslltt Ann Shoemaker Mrs. Ohandor Virginia Hammond Dr. Brent Hale Hamilton Louise Virginia Pine The " women will make or break this picture and it's not definite that a majority of the girls are go- ing to go for it. The Kay Francis name should help, but it may not be enough in this case. ' Moderate rating* seems the niche into which it will fall. In 'Dr. Monica,' the baby has a mother and father, but only the lather happens to be married, and happens to be married to a lady doctor who happens to be the obstetrician called in for the other woman. Some of the events are sufficiently stretched to prompt the audience to laugh in the wrong spots, as did the one at the New York Strand. For all audiences it will require considerable guesswork to determine whether Kay Francis, as Dr. Monica, is a doctor,,which the picture por- trays her to be, or just a clothes model, which the picture also por- trays her to be. Even In her best moments Miss'Francis in this Aim is mostly a well-dressed lady who is acting; always acting. Jean Mulr 1 , as the unwed lady who has the baby rf does a very nice job -of-her-hlghly-emotlonai^partT^natu rally getting most of the sympathy and causing regret that she must fade out so abruptly and violently towards the finish. Warren Wil Ham, minus the mustache, with the loss not marking an improvement, bears up pretty well fOr a guy with so many easy-crying women on his neck. He plays a second rate sap in first class style. Anyway,. Dr.' Monica goes through with the obstetrics, bring into this world the girl baby whom she ab- hors. When the mother destroys herself, the baby reverts to Dr. Monica and her husband, who is never to know that the adopted babe is really his own.' Veree Teasdale helps brighten it up. Bi 0 e ' The Great Flirtation Charles R, Rogers production and . Par- amount release; Directed . by Ralph Murphy. Original story by Gregory Ratr oft' screen play by Humphrey Pearson. Milton Krasner, photos. At Paramount, N. Y.. week June 22. Running time, 71 mins, ,. Zlta arlahka .Elissa Lai»ai Karpath... . . . ..: ; . ■ Adolphe Menjou Larry Kenyon ; David Manners Joe Lang. Lynne Overman Henry Morgan Raymond Walburn Mikos. ... Adrian JRosley Herr Dlrektor. ; «■ . < ; .Paul Pcrcasl Arpad . . ...... . ........... George Baxter Queen. • .Judith VosseUl Paul : Wengler. Aklm Tarn I roil BigeloW. . ...... . . v . , .... . .Vernon Steele Probabilities are that the direc- tion of this one must have brought Ralph Murphy, down with a malady that can only be described as 'mul- tiple enditis,' 'The Great Flirtation' is subject 'to - more second winds and renewed spurts than a 100-yarder taking his first crack at a cross- country marathon. It's an in and . outer on the screen and will likely be that at the boxpfflce. There are -so many logical endings in. this narrative, devised by. Greg- ory Ratoff in the continental man- ner, that the average fan is likely to - suffer more from bewilderment than from strain on the; patience. No sooner does the plot approach one logical denoument, than off it starts through another meandering, groove. After this has happened several times it ceases to bo cricket and becomes an endurance contest. 'The Great Flirtation' had all the elements, of behind the scenes story that is manna to the actor's /ticket. It's the sort of stuff that gives the mummer a chance to wear his heart on his sleeve and show his public the heartbreak that the members of his profession really suffers/, it's an actor's picture, intact frbm . be- ginning to end, but to the regula- tion fan all this emotional gyrating will, have neither meaning nor per- sonal enjoyment. Being an ■ actor's picture, 'The Great Flirtation* allows wide op- portunity for both Adolphe Menjou and Elissa Land! to strut hand*- somely and tear the woof -and weave of their emotional talents to tatters.. But when it conies to reading into the character the finer touches of understanding and restraint the joust is Menjou's by a wide margin. Loaded down* with a cumbersome fable and a set of characters hardly likely to arouse sympathy from the mob viewpoint. Murphy has turned out a work that is pretty much tp his credit. Distinguishing the di- rector's efforts, are some genuinely keen quirks of comedy, even though the satiric intent of the yarn is handled with none -too deft a hand. Clash of personalities and tem- peraments between the two leading protagonists of the story is remi- niscent of Eugene O'Neill's 'Welded.' Menjou . is the star who, addicted to an exaggerated- ego, refuses to see a fellow player, Elissa Landi, as worthy of anything but being his wife. Eventually they marry and the story takes them from Budapest to New York where both, after a slide down the economic bannister, manage to get into the play. Men- jou steals the performance, but when he finds out his. wife has fallen for the play's author (David Man ners) he walks out. The wife . gets Into another play by the same writer, scores a hit and from this develops a situation that contains a strange combination of self-sacrifice, renunciation and whatnot. Others in" the cast do well enough b ' the scissor and paste characteri- zations allotted them. Lynn Over man unlimbers his usual brand of nasal wisecracks, Raymond Wal- burn functions capably as the screen regulation theatrical manager and Adrian Rosely contributes a neatly drawn bit as the faithful servitor. Mystifying about the whole proced ure are the mixed dialects that Men- jou and Miss Landi are forced to carry throughout. All the others in the .cast do their lines reading straight. Odec. Miniature Reviews LET'S TRY AGAIN Radio production- and release. Stars Dlanna Wynyard and Cllve Brook. Di- rected by Worthington Miner. Play by Vlncertt Lawrence; adaptation. Worthing- ton Miner and Allen Scott; My lee Cbnolly, associate producer: Pandro S. Berman, executive producer; J. Roy Hunt, cam- era; Max Stelner, music. At R» C. Music Hall, week June 21. Running time, 84 mins, Alice Overton............ lanna Wynyard Dr. Jack Overton..........: ...Cllve Brook Marge .Irene Hervcy Nan Duval.,..; .......Helen Vinson Paul . . . . ... .■ .Theodore Newton Phillips ..................... ..Arthur Hoyt _ Using. , , the . agedrJn^the-.w.ood theme of the husband and wife who discover. that after all there's some thing enduring to love, in spite of side excursions/ this story does not get very far. It's tnlky, tedious and far from original. Any success it may rate will be due wholly to the players' names and not to the play or the playing. Where the cast doesn't mean anything the picture will have plenty of worries.- Dr. Overton, a.biifiy physician t ne- glects hid wife. She gets an idea 'Operator jjS* (MG). Davies- Cooper In Yankee-Confed ro- mance against a war espionage background which combines into okay boxbfflce fodder. 'Dr. Monica' (WB). If women go for It will be okay, but that seems' doubtful. Kay Francis starred. 'The Great Flirtation' (Par). Meandering plot with: a back- stage locale that allows Adolphe Menjou and • Elissa Landi to let loose with the emotions, but hardly a picture of strong audience appeal. 'Let's Try Again' (Radio). All the draft is in the mild names and probably will not. get very far. 'Affairs of a Gentleman' (U). Detective story, with a soft spot in the middle that hurts. Title is a handicap, but some names for the marquee. Prob- ably light grosser. 'Murder on the Blackboard' (Radio). Sequel mystery to the 'Penguin Pool Murder,' with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason again paired for comedy. Moderate entertain ment in its class. 'Half a 8inner' (U). With- out marquee strength, but suf- ficient punch to please 'em once they're in. ••' 'Smarty* (WB). Edward Everett Horton, Warren Wil- liam and Joan Blondell work a light farce comedy into fairly pleasing divertissement. Far from big time, but gets by on situations and laughs. 'Keep 'em Rolling' (Radio). With names like Walter Hus- ton and Frances Dee this is still only filler material.. she loves his niece's fiance. The niece .overlooks their one impas- sioned bit of love making and tells the doctor! He is surprised to find he does not care, arranges to di- vorce his wife and let her marry the other man. But it seems that the niece Is knitting socks, so her sweetie sticks and in the long run the ■ Overtons find there is a cer- tain satisfaction in marriage after the romance has passed. It's a good leBson, but not played with a touch to get most people . suffici- ently interested to care about what happens. Running slightly more than an hour, the last 60, minutes Is largely given to the married pair. Directed in. stage rather than screen technique, with more atten- tion paid stage pictures than real- ism; and with a boring comedy re- lief In the shape of a butler, it only needs a maid and a . parlor set in the first scene to relive again the old fashioned type of society drama. Sumptuously staged for back- grounds and given every attention except that a real punch is lack- ing. The story never comes to life, and it is not helped any by the stiff playing of Clive Brook. Miss Wynyard, too, seems ill at. ease. She emotes gracefully but without being able to convey the impression that her emotion is real. Irene Har yey and Theodore Newton are better suited, but their parts are. too small to carry weight. Too much re* course to drinking and cigarets in an effort to convey first smartness and later - recklessness. It is over done. Chic. Affairs of a Gentleman Universal production and release, star' ring' Paul Lucas. Directed by Edward L. Marin. From play by Edith and Edward Bills. Cyril Hume, Peter Ruric, adaptation and screen play; John Mescal, camera.. At Roxy, N. Y,, ' starting June 22. Running time. 70 mins, Gresham Paul Lulars Gladys Dufland Leila Hyams Jean Sinclair. Patricia Ellis Carter Vaughn. Phillip Reed Lyn Durland...... ...Onslow Stevens Nan Fitzgerald...... ......Dorothy Burgess Carlotta. .Lilian Bond Foxey. .. Joyce Compton Fletcher. . ................ ; .Murray Klnnell Gail Melville............ ..Dorothy Libel re Bindar . . Richard Carle Sato Wilfred Hari Graham's Secretary... ........Sara Hadon Inspector. Charles Wilson Bela Gregory Gaye Good, If conventional, opener with a surprise finish, but not good enough to atone for a dreary waste of words in between. Title is a ball and chain in that It suggests a sprightly romance, where in real- ity it's a detective story. All but one of the affairs in the past tense and .t helncw date^not ho.t._JWor ks out to a. poor average Opens with the hero, an : author dead at his desk, then the police, with suspicion fastened , on a half dozen of the exes and their current boy friends under suspicion along with the butler, cook, secretary and the dead man's publisher. Looks like anybody's guess in spite of the fact that there is a letter from the dead man stating no one is to blame but himself. Most of the action oc curs at a party the night before and the morning, cut in as the party Is referred to. ' Lukas is supposed to be an au- thor of hot fiction who puts his dis- carded flames in his next book. For what he regards as a joke, Richard Carle, his publisher, stages a party of all of the former flames and the girl who seems to be spotted next. Latter is Patricia Ellis, who wants to draw the il- lustration for the next Lucas book. She's engaged to Phillip Reed, pub- licity man for the publishing house. There is a scene with each of the left-behlnds, and one of them, Dor- othy Burgess, stays all night, being too drunk to be removed. Miss Ellis calls the next morning. So does Leila Hyams, and Onslow Stevens, her husband, who has spotted her in one of Lukas' books. Their visits are not made together. Miss Burgess scares off Miss Ellis, and later leaves herself. That pro- vides about a dozen suspects, but the real killer is the valet, who's really the husband of an offscreen character who has killed herself In Paris. Lukas, in an effort to get a .finish for his story talks over suicide with his valet. Latter suggests leaving the exonerating note, which Lukas. writes. He shoots Into the floor, to get the butler's reaction, and the latter picks up the gun; tells who he is and plugs the .author, which provides so good a climax that what followed is moved up to the opening action to end the story, on the high note. This is good literary device,, but there. Is" too. much footage in between that does not match the two ends.. That's, what is going to. cost money at the pay box,. Idea appears to- have been that all of these attractive, women, will be interesting. They are not, because the interest has been -spread too thin. Sceharlsts sought to over- come this handicap and do a good technical job,- but the plot was against them. Lukas does a finished job in the artificial part of the author. He makes him as human as possible. More natural assignments fall to Richard Carle and Onslow Stevens; the latter catching exactly the right note. Miss Hyams. does heat work in the number two spot and Miss Ellis does nicely by . the prospective victim; She photographs well only in full face. Murray Kirtnell. han- dles the valet acceptably. The others are just in for the ride. ' Chic. Murder on Blackboard Radio production and release. Features Edna May. Oliver and James Gleason. As- sociate producer, Kerinet MacGowan. Di- rected by ' George Archalnbaud. Story by Stuart Palmer; adaptation, Willis Gold- ■beck; photography, Nick Mneuroca; film editor, Archie Marshek. At Rlalto, N. Y„ Week June 20. Running time, 71 mins. HUdegarde Withers.. 1 Edna May Oliver Inspector Piper ...'..James Gleason Ad Stevens. ...Bruce Cabot Miss Davis. Gertrude Michael Smiley .*. Hegls Toomey Donahue. , . ..Edgar Kennedy MacFarland . ; , . .Tully Marshall Leland. , . .Jackie Searl Olaf .Frcdrlk Vogedlng Louise. , . .Barbara Fritchle This is a sequel to the 'Penguin Pool Murder,' and again has "Edna May Oliver and James Gleason teamed, for comedy. Mixture of murder mysteVy in the .setting of a school, and the laughs that flavor, make for nice entertainment of the kind. Miss Oliver plays the sleuthing schoolmarm; Gleason the cocky police inspector, who is constantly being ribbed by the crime-solving teacher. They are an interesting combination for screen purposes as here used. It's a perfect cut for Miss Oliver and she overshadows everyone else in the footage. Regulation mystery story ma- terial figures, but the suspense is well maintained. Meanwhile,: Jaughs. make it agreeable : entertainment. They aren't heavyweight, but enough to bring chuckles and hold the interest. Victim of the murder is the. music teacher of the school where Miss Oliver is a colleague. She's late at school, making a bad pupil stay, after hours and discovers thfe body. But later the corpse disappears. Shot of the body is a little grue- some, but the camera doesn't linger long enough to make it much of a shock. Solution to the murder Is arrived at logically after collection of evidence, mostly by Miss Oliver, and a trap laid for the killer, with Edgar Kennedy, a cop, Used as bait. Bruce Cabot plays the murderer creditably. He's the assistant prin r clpal of the school whose name is spelled out by apparently meaning- less music notes on the teacher's blackboard, written there by the murdered woman before she died. It provides a novel clue, Tylly Marshall. Edgar Kennedy; Regis =-ToomcvT"=Gfrtrude"=MicKael7 Fredrik Vogeding, Barbara Fritchie and Jackie Searl are In support and all okay. Char. Talking Shorts 'WRONG DIRECTION' Edgar Kennedy 21 Mint. Musio Hall, N. Y. Radio Rough farce which will go better In the smaller houses. Not many laughs at the Hall» where it is used as filler between the afternoon and evening schedr'es. This time Edgar , Kennedy is a picture director,' mar- rled to Florence Lake, .who has her mother and brother visiting her. They want to see the studio and crash the stage r/here Kennedy is trying to do a rush job. Various interruptions which .run the num- ber of takes beyond, the 50 mark, and ends In a free-for-all when the goofy brother-in-law falls out of the light gallery and Into the scene. Lacks buoyancy and conviction, and too determined to be funny. Chio. 'WALKING SACK HOME' Comedy 18 Mins. Ideal, N. Radio Stands to get some favorable re- action- for. a filler. Mostly unin- telligent slapstick material. Two dumb girl hashers are on the make for rich lads, and in their adven- tures get pushed from an automo- bile. That's the_ only reason for the title and it happens in . the middle of the flimsy, plot; Rest of the time it's uncovering mystery identities, and milk -bottle heading by various members of the cast. For the final : punch Some Of the cast, are forced to take a ducking./ Photography Is the simple kind and okay. Dialog rates no mention. Shan. HALF A SINNER Universal production . and release. ■ Fea- tures Joel McCrea, Salllo Blane. Burton Churchill. Directed by Kurt Neumann. From play. 'Alias the Deacon,' by John B. Hymor and LeRoy Clemens; screen play, Earle Snell and Clarenco Marks: additional dialog, Ralph Spence: camera, George Rob- inson. At Mayrair, N. Y., week June 21. Running timo, 70 mins. Phyllis Sallle Blane John: Adams...;.. -Joel McCrea Deacon Berton Churchill Mrs. Clark A lexandrla Carlisle • Louella. > - Gay Senbrook Willie Mickey Rooney Jim Cunningham ...Spencer Charter* Slim ;8ulllvan. .Russell Hopton Bull Moran. .Gulnn Williams Mrs. Gregory. Theresa Maxwell Conover Sheriff , i Reginald Barlow Rumplemeyer Bert Roach Rad4o Announcer .....Walter rennan Gertrude Orr's 'Children' Hollywood,. June 25. Gertrude On- is scripting 'Without Children' for M. H. Hoffman's Lib- erty Pictures at'Pathe. Screen play will be based on 'Eyes of Youth,' by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow. Could have been a peach of a pic- ture here. As is, it has little mar- quee strength. Play, 'Alias the Deacon,* that It was taken from is followed pretty closely. Title change is none too good, the new tag possibly giving the film the wrong shading. It's a story, about a kindly old card sharp Who masquerades as a deacon. As played by Burton Churchill, he's & lovable rascal trimming only those who deserve to be trimmed. He saves the pieces for all the other characters . in . the film for a fade- out. Churchill's acting of the lead, which he played on the stage, Is almost letter perfect and ought to do a lot to get him front line at- tention. Dialog is crisp ahd smart and situations well handled. Where the film fails, down is in the cutting and the romance angles. Joel Mc- Crea plays the juve part a bit too testily and Sallle Blane is constantly over-tensioned. Possibly that's be- cause it's all Churchill's picture and the other characters were forgotten. Although Alexandra Carlisle man- ages to hold her own in a neat character portrayal. In the cutting the film lost con- siderable motivation and explana- tion. In minor parts, Mickey Rooney, Russell Hopton and Gulnn Williams Stand out. Eauf. SMARTY Warner Bros, production, and release. Features Joan Blondell, Warren William, Edward ICvereic Horton. Frank M<:llugh, Claire. Dodd; Directed by Robort Floiey. Based on play by F. Hugh Herbert. Adaptation, Herbert and .CaTl Erlcltson. Film editor, Howard Brotherton. Photog- raphy, George Barnes. At Strang, Brook- lyn, on double bill week Juno 21; Run- ning time, 04 mins, Vlckl ..Joan Blondell Tony Warren William Vernon . , .Ifid Ward JOvcivtt Hoi-ton George Frank McHugh Anita Claire Dodd. Bonnie Joan Wheeler' Edna ....... ..Virginia Sale Tllford Leonard Carey Brightness of dialog and the ample opportunities afforded Joan Blondell, Warren William and Ed- ward Everett Horton for flashes of comedy, are the principal touches a series of quasi-farcical situations jl f jer__i n_ma king _ ' Si nar tyj qf mod - = erate amusement value. Picture IIT not the kind, that won't be for- gotten quickly, but while it's around it also won't invite, serious com- plaints. The story is light In texture and has no really high moments,'- never, delivering any -sock punches, nor in- volving any. great emotional or dra- matic conflict. It is, rathci\ a bunch of situations wliu-'i Lio to- gether for air hour's IKrlil v . .. usso* (Continued on page 38) Tuesday, June 26, 1934 VARIETY 17 Particularly bright with personalities is the STAR-SPANGLED BANNER of Metro -Goldwyn - Mayer for 1934' 1935. Not even M-G-M in all its past glorious years has ever unfurled a banner so brilliant with the stars whom your public eagerly awaits on your screen. Comforting thought to exhibitors in these times is the sturdy record of the Star-Company, whose stability over the years is based on an unswerving policy of giving idols to an idol-worshipping nation ; . . in pictures that are BIG! These are the times to play safe . . , and there is only one safety in film business, Metro-GoldwynrMayer. ^ ^ please) VARIETY Tuesday, June 26, 1934 tf% ■■■ ■ M ■ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 8 SPECIALS ^gleefully unfurls its i THE MERRY WIDOW Waltz down your aisles and vision your packed theatre spell-bound as MAURICE CHEVALlER-with delicious 'gayety flirts, sings, conquers the rich and merry widow, , exquisitely portrayed by JEANETTE MacDONALD. ERNST LUBITSCH,* sly maestro of love's magic, make* a glorious screen holiday of this beloved romance; now at last on the talking screen. Its viva* cious Franz Lehar melodies are brought to audiences by six different symphony Orchestras. Additional cast names are: Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Minna Gombell. And the genius of Thalberg guides it to glory! ♦Ernst Lubitsch, courtesy Paramount Pictures DAVID COPPERFIELD 1934-35 will be known as "The year of David Copperfield!" The heart of humanity beat faster when the news was flashed that M-G-M would bring its unlimited resources of talent and physical equipment to the production of Charles Dickens' beautiful soul-stirring novel. A special trip abroad was made by Producer David O. Selznick with director George Cukor (he made "Little Women!") and Howard Estabrook, scenarist. Thousands of testsN. ^ were made of characters, architecturai details copied and research such as no ^> picture ever enjoyed has been under way for months here and abroad. A cast**, of sixty-eight characters will bristle with big names! A final master stroke was the signing of Hugh Walpole, noted author, and Dickens authority, to Und*"*" counsel duririg the filming; ' A' monumental enterprise is under way. Only M-G-M could attempt it! THE GOOD EARTH No other story property, whether a novel or stage play, was ever so desired by all producers! M-G-M is honored to be the means whereby Pearl S. Buck's thrilling novel is to be brought to the screen. .It is an honor because "The Good Earth" is the most widely read book of our times , .. an obligation to far-flung millions whose heart-throbs, smiles and tears were showered on its unforgettable pages. Such humanity-in-fiction requires the unmatchable pro* ducrion genius of a TTialberg, the. screen-writing talents of a Frances Marion, the directorial flair of a George Hill (a combination that gave you "The Big Jiouse" and "Min and Bill"). For four months Director Hill and a huge staff traveled in little known parts of China, accumulating materials, backgrounds, facts . . . to make this heart-drama real, vibrant, true! CHAINED It is an occasion for dancing in the streets when JOAN CRAWFORD and CLARK GABLE unite their magnetic personalities to tell a screen story of glamor and allure! Picture audiences recalling with delight the romantic sweep ■ of '.'Dancing. Lady" vS'iH be there when you announce their new co- starring love story.; The director is Clarence Brown who guided these two stars to triumph in "Pbssessecl." He also directed "Sadie MclfCee" and "Letty Lynton" among many others. In the cast. are Otto. Kruger and Stuart Erwin. HuntStromberg is the showmah-prcklucer! THE BARRETTS OF WIM POLE STREET NORMA SHEARER'S popularity, heightened by absence, flamed into box- office brilliance in "Riptide". . . but that was just the beginning! A vehicle that most heariy^a'pproxim'ates the tenderness of ^Smilin' Tnrough^ is that' romance which has;given Broadway its most glorious stage thrill of the" decade "The, Barretts of Wimpole Street;" ;NORMA SHEARER and EREDIUC MARCH* ; (weren't ttjey incomparable, in "Smilin* Through"!) are the Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning of the stage hit. CHARLES LAUGHTON, Academy Prize Winner, star of "Henry, the VIII" has come from abroad especially for this picture! Sidney Franklin of "Smilin' Through" fame is the director. . Thalberg is producer! What a screen audience awaits this biggest stage hit of .15 years which played Broadway for two solid seasons, and presold America with two unbroken years on the Toad! *Fredric March, courtesy 26th Century Pictures MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY CLARK GABLE, WALLACE, BEERY, ROBERT MONTGOMERY head the pageant of box-office stars who are making an entertainment that will Tank at the very top of next season's amusement calendar! The popular appeal of "Mutiny on the Bounty" is reflected in its long listing as best-seller j and its subsequent serial story fame in the Hearst newspapers. Frank Lloyd iA will direct this mighty romantic spectacle. Thalberg is producer. Ik' MARIE SPANGLED BANNE Be tkere wken tke fire-' works begin i Why did M-G-M purchase this many-editioned best-seller by Stefan Zweig as a starring vehicle for NORMA SHEARER? Because no book of recent years gave its public such a soul-thrill! Because this book tells Marie's queenly story with new sympathy ,. . not that of the. baby doll queen,but the youthful beauty starved of her rightful heritage of love ... . seeking in profligate grandeur an outlet for heart-hunger . . . finding romance in one of the deathless devo- tions of history! Because this book gives CHARLES LAUGHTON a role equal to his brilliant "Henry the VIII" . . because this book gives HERBERT MARSHALL* opportunity for his most appealing charms. Three big stars! A production of magnificence unparalleled in talkies! Thalberg is producer. *herbert Marshall, courtesy Paramount Pictures NAUGHTY MARIETTA Clark Gable Jean Harlow Lionel Barry more Jeanette MacDonald Maurice Chevalier Myrna Loy It has Been the privilege of M-G-M to immortalize famed musical comedies and operettas . . . most recently "Cat and the Fiddle". . . and notably next season's "The Merry Widow." How fitting that M-G-M selects Victor Herbert's deathless love songs in "Naughty Marietta" for the singing star {EANETTE MacDONALD who with handsome operatic-favorite NELSON IDDY brings this drama of Old, New Orleans to the screen. "Ah-^-Sweet Mystery of Life" and "J'm Falling In love With Some One". . . typical songs of infinite heart-thrill! Robert Z. Leonard is director. Hunt Stromberg is producer. Loretta Young Gloria jSwarison Ann Harding in 1 picture, courtesy R. K. Q Tuesday* June 26, 1934 VARIETY 19 STAR PICTURES ONE JOAN CRAWFORD TWO JEAN HARLOW TWO WALLACE BEERY ONE CLARK GABLE ONE ROBT. MONTGOMERY ONE JEAN PARKER ONE CONSTANCE BENNETT* in Michael Aden's famed novel of the strange love life of Iris March. (Tide to come.) As a best-seller, as a Katharine Cornell stage triumph, as a road* show ... it fascinated millions. What a cast for its luxury-laden talkie pro- duction: CONSTANCE BENNETT, HERBERT MARSHALL fresh from his "Riptide" acclaim, Elizabeth Allan, exquisite in "Men in White," Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Henry Stephenson and many more. Directed by Robert, Z. Leonard. 'Constance Bennett, courtesy 20th Century Pictures ONE ANN HARDING* & ROBT. MONTGOMERY ' V ■■■»,■ in "Biography of a Bachelor" based on the stage hit "Biography" by S. N. Behrman. Modern showmanship knows of its sensational success on Broad* way and on the road , . . its intriguing story of a woman artist and her loves is what your public wants! Cast so happily before in "When Ladies Meet" Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery perfectly fit their roles, and that splendid pair of screen writers Anita Loos and John Emerson again flash brilliant writing for the screen. E. H. Griffith is director. * Ann Harding, courtesy R. FC. O. Pictures TWO LAUREL- HARDY FEATURE LENGTH COMEDIES TWO WILLIAM POWELL ONE WARNER BAXTER- MYRN A LOY ONE RAMON NOVARRO ONE GLORIA SWANSON TWO MARION DAVlES ONE JEANETTE MacDONALD ONE MARIE DRESSLER— WALLACE BEERY ONE HELEN HAYES TWO LIONEL BARRYMORE Joan Crawford Wallace-Beery Robt. Montgomery m Helen Hayes William Powell Jackie Cooper Constance Bennett in 1 picture, courtesy 20th Ccntur** Jean Parker Garbo Ramon Novarro Laurel & Hardy Complete list of STARS, FEATURED PLAYERS,. DIRECTORS, AUTHORS on next page. TWO ALL- STAR COMEDIES M-G-M unites the two most successful comedy producers of today, Charles Reisner and Jack Cummings to make these special comedy attractions. And here are the top laugh names that will conspire in fun films to challenge the hilarity records of "Caught Short" and "Politics" (both directed by Reisner!) . . . Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Louise Fazenda, Stuart Efwin, Ted Healy, Una Merkel and others! FOUR COSMOPOLITAN PRODUCTIONS Just an idea of the Cosmopolitan hits of past months "Penthouse," "Man- hattan Melodrama" and "Thin Man." Cosmopolitan Productions get nationwide advertising and publicity through the Hearst chain of newspapers. FOURTEEN MARQUEE PICTURES Showmanship, ideas, new slants in production, with casts of top-notch names . . . Marquee Pictures over a period of several years have won a high rating for consistent entertainment delivery! M-G-M PROPERTIES Listing just a few out of Leo's vast resources of stage plays, novels and original stories— "MARIE ANTOINETTllLby Stefan Zweig-, best-seller; "BIOGRAPHY" by S. N. Behrman, stage hit; "THE GOOD EARTH" by Pearl S; Buck, biggest book success of years; "THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET" by Ruclolf Besier, stage triumph; "MUTINY ON THE BdUNTY" by.Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, best-selling novel; MICHAEL ARLEN'S story of Iris' March, book and play sensation; "CHINA SEAS" by Crosbie Garstin, romantic book hit; "SOVIET" by Jules Furthman; dating screen original; "WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS" by Sir James M. Barrie, inter- national stage classic; "TISH" by Mary Roberts Rhinehart, magazine and book favorite for years; "THE MERRY WIDOW" by Victor Leon fit Leo Stein, Music by Franz Lehar, famed operetta; "DAVID COPPERFIELD" by Charles Dickens, one of the world's eternal books; "TIMBERLINE" by Gene Fowler, current best-selling book; "VANESSA" by Hugh Walpole, celebrated international novel triumph; "THE WIND AND THE RAIN" by Merton Hodge, stage success; ^'NAUGHTY MARIETTA" by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young, immortal operetta; "NO MORE LADIES" by A. E. Thomas, New York's- great current play success; "FORSAKING ALL OTHERS" by Edward Roberts and Frank Morgan Carett, stage hit; "HER EXCELLENCY'S TOBACCO SHOP" by Lezlo Bus Fekete, notable European stage triumph; ''THE CASINO MURDER CASE" by S, S. Van Dine, his lastest mystery novel success; "WICKED WOMAN" by Anne Austin, popu- lar novel; "EVELYN PRENTICE" by W. E. Woodward, successful novel; "MALIBU" by Vance Hoyt, unusual current book; "THE GRAVY GAME" by Harry Stuhldreher (Notre Dame star) arid W. Thornton Martin, Saturday Evening Post story; "ANY PORT IN A STORM" by Guy Gilpatric, popular story series; "THE BUGLE SOUNDS" by Major Zinovi Pechkoff, novel of the Foreign Legion; "JUNGLE RED MAN" by Harold Noice, adventure novel; "REPEAL" by Charles Francis Coe, Saturday Evening Post serial; "LIVING IN A BIG WAY" by Louis Bromfield, popular novelette; "MAN CRAZY" by Vina Delmar, Liberty Magazine novel; "PAMELA THORN- DYKE" by Moss Hart, author of "As Thousands Cheer"; **DEATH ON THE DIAMOND" by Courtland Firzsimmons, popular hovel, A few out of a group of original stories include "THE WINNING TICKET" by Robert Hopkins; "HIS BROTHER'S WIFE" by George Auerbach; "LADY COMES TO TOWN" by Clements Ripley; "MOVIE QUEEN" by Sidney Skolsky; "INDO-CHINA" by Arthur Richman; "WEST POINT OF THE AIR'* by Phillip Dunne; "IN OLD VIENNA'* by Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd, and Sig- mund Romberg; "BLACK CHAMBER" by Herbert Yardley and many mora (over please] to VARIETY Toetday, Idtfe 26, 1934 Among those who are making M*Q*M's Star-Spangled Banner of 1934*35 (Listed Alphabetically) STARS— LIONEL BARRYMORE WALLACE BEERY MAURICE CHEVALIER • JACKIE COOPER JOAN CRAWFORD • MARION DAVIES • MARIE DRESSLER CLARK GABLE • GRETA GARBO • JEAN HARLOW HELEN HAYES LAUREL- HARDY • MYRNA LOY JEANETTE MacDONALD • ROBERT MONTGOMERY RAMON NOVARRO • JEAN PARKER • WILLIAM POWELL • NORMA SHEARER • GLORIA SWANSON LORETTA YOUNG FEATURED PLAYERS — Brian Aherne Katharine Alexander Ross Alexander Tad Alexander Elizabeth Allan Virginia Bruce Ralph Bushman Charles Butterworth Mrs. Patrick Campbell Leo Carrillo Ruth Channing Mady Christians Mae Clarke Jimmy Durante Stuart Erwin Maidge Evans Muriel Evans Louise Fazenda Preston Foster Gladys George C. Henry Gordon Russell Hardie Ted Healy Louise Henry Irene Hervey Jean Howard Isabel Jewell Otto Kruger Evelyn Laye Una Merkei Frank Morgan Karen Motley Maureen O'SulUvan Rosamond Pinchot Esther Ralston Donald Reed May Robson Maurice Schwartz Martha Sleeper Mona Smith Lewis Stone Franchdt Tone Mary Carlisle Nelson pddy Betty Furness Jean Hersholt Willard Mack Nat Pendleton Ross Henry WadswottK Lucile Watson Johnny Weissmuller Diana Wynyard Robert Young DIRECTORS — Harry Beaumont Monta BeQ Richard Boleslavsfcy Charles Brabin Clarence Brown Jack Conway George Cukor Victor Heming Tay Gamett Edmund Goulding George Hill William K. Howard Gregory La Cava Fritz Lang Robert Z; Leonard E Lubitsch Richard Rosson Rouben Mamoulian Edgar Selwyn Edwin L Marin W. a Van Dyke Harry Pollard William Wellman Charles Riesner Sam Wobd LINE-UP OF 1934-35 in (Two Reels) HAL ROACH M-G-M COMEDIES 3 LAUREL-HARDY 8 CHARLEY CHASE 7 IRVIN S. COBB 8 TODD-KELLY 6 OUR GANG (One Reel) 12 PETE SMITH ODDITIES 6 PETE SMITH GOOFY MOVIES 13 M-G-M MUSICAL CAR. TOONS IN COLOR 6 M-G-M MUSICAL REVUES IN TECHNICOLOR 6 FITZPATRICK TRAVEL- TALKS taTECHNICOLOR 104 ISSUES HEARST METRO- TONE NEWS WITH EDWIN C. HILL AS THE GLOBETROTTER i "Rodi-a-bye Junior, You're like your pop Strong as a feature Always on top! Pride of the Program You sell the show . . . Leave it to Junior— *T UBIETY'S LONDON OPTICS. • St. Martin's l*lace. Trafalgar Square FOREIGN FILM NEWS Telephone Temple. Iter B041-5OIB Cable Adclrewt; VARIETY. LONDON 21 GERMAN FIX ON COIN French Deputies Join Exhibs In Against U.S. Quota Paris, June 16. Present rumored dope oh how film quota controversy will be settled has it that Delac-Chambre Syndir cale plan will be rejected by Minis- try of Commerce but that the American picture industry here will be handicapped by a two-point pro- gram: First point Is setting a quota for six months only, instead of a year. Heads of local distributing offices figure they're going to have a tough time doing business if they can only tell how many films they can bring into France for six month periods, with the fight to wage all over again every half year Instead of annually. Quota for six months beginning July 1 probably 1 is to be half of last yearns 140; that Is, 70 films, plus 23 that are left over from the previous contingent. : Second point is an Increase in ouBtoms duties. Present tariff is 1 franc (nearly seven cents) a metre. New tariff is expected to be' any- where from twice to. five times , as much. This, of . course, is nothing compared to the - 300% boost the Chambre asked for, but it would nevertheless be a blow.' French Deputies this week joined hand with provincial exhibs in a last ditch fight, against the Chambre Syndicate's fight to put prohibitive import restrictions on foreign, films. Getting the lawmakers lined up against the Chambre is a grand vic- tory for the American Interests, Usually deputies, like Congress- men, dare not oppose any measure put forward on patriotic grounds, but the Americans, by lining up the exhibs, got French opinion on their Bide and are turning out to be bet- ter French patriots than lots of the French themselves. Their cause is also aided by the fact that the In- terests behind the Chambre Syndi- cate, notably Pathe, have lots of enemies In the French trade. At the same time representatives of provincial exhibitors' associa- tions flocked to Paris and prepared for the final offensive against the embargo scheme. A group from Lyons, including employees of dis- tributing concerns, said in a strong- ly worded resolution, that the ban would not only mean the closing of distributing .firms but would be re- sponsible for 76% of the country's film houses going out of business. They pledged themselves 'to. pursue by ;all means In their power the right to work, which is the due of French citizens working for Freneh firms distributing foreign films.' Groups from all over the. country got on the band wagon, a telegram .from; Lille; stating that, the ban would rob 50 families In the neigh- borhood of their means of llvelU hood. Strasbourg said that 39 would 90 to the poor house, whereas Mar- seilles asked for pity on 87. In a letter to the Minister of Commerce the Syndicate of Cinema Owners in the Departments., of the Nord and the Pas -de-r Calais, repre- senting more than 200 theatres, said: 'The excess of films, the big argument of the Chambre Syndi- cate, has never existed, and during the. past year , we have had the greatest difficulty in securing inter- esting films. With the energy of dispair we urge you to reject plt- lessly any proposal of a quota sys- tem, which could only mean a death blow to our already anemic busi- ness.' Actors employed In dubbing stu- dios joined in, Henry James, presl- - dent - of theii- iraiSH, - stating that- dubbing last year gave between 25,- ,000 to 30,000 working days to tfcench players. Even the Parisian printing traded protested that the ban would hit it* A number of paper manufacturers, lithographers and Ink makers wrote to the. Minister of Commerce that if (he American distributors here are forced to shut down they will lose an important, part of the buslr n."K:; w.lii -u them alive. 'M asquerader* 5th Wk. At Regent in Sydney Sydney, May 29. 'The Masquerader' '(UA) goes into Its fifth week of solid business at Regent, Sydney. Talk now that pic Will stay around seven or eight weeks. First half has been changed with 'Three oh a Honeymoon' (WB) replacing 'A Perfect Understanding' (UA). Another to gross . 'Only Yesterday' (U), which goes into its ninth, week at the Liberty, Sydney. AN FILM QUOTA, MAYBE Reich Producers Plan 145 Films for Next Year — Nazi Government Helping on Financing — 25 to Be Made Abroad USE FROZEN CREDITS Sidney, June 25. An Australian film quota, along general lines of the British quota, has" been recommended to the gov- ernment by Walter M. Marks, Film Probe Commissioner. Commissioner Marks spent several ftjonths in a thorough investigation of. -the film business and his recommendations are likely to be taken seriously by the government. Marks' suggestion on a quota Is two-fold: distributors, 5% on the first year, V/ 2 <% second year, 10% third year, 12 , / 2 % fourth year and 15% fifth year; exhibitors, 4% first year, 5% second year, 7%% . third year, 10% fourth year and 12%% fifth year. That follows: the Brit- ish quota not only in general pro- cedure but in ratio, the exhib quota being one year behind that of. pro- ducers as is also true in England. Marks goes on to suggest that the quota apply to features only, excluding . scehics and ■ newsreels. An early portion of Marks' re- port, released a few days ago, asked the government not to. limit, build- ing of theatres or theatre manage- ment in any way, also going on to tell the government that Marks could find- no sign of a conspiracy or monopoly on the part of distrib- utors. That was considered a healthy victory for Americans who have been fighting the G-T theatre combine on rentals.. G-T insisting that the dlstrlbs had combined to get together and make their rental prices unreasonable. PROTESTS BRING TAX RELIEF IN FR. TOWNS Paris, June 16 Vigorous protests, in some, cases accompanied by threats to shut down, are winning for the small town film theatres of this country abolition of municipal taxes on grosses which In some cases brought the sums paid to various govern- mental agencies up as high as 40% At Rouen the municipality, under a strike threat, called off all .taxes during June, July, August and Sep tember. Theatre owners in Nice have also been successful in their protests. Ivry, small Paris suburb, has called off taxes for the summer, The Theatre Owners' Syndicate' of Nantes, Important. Breton seaport, has addressed an appeal to the joaayjMtJCojtxeJJ^^asse^ local houses are playing to losses every week, and the central organ lzation of theatre owners' assocla tlons .ftf urging those ofothe*-towro to follow 'suit. Berlin, June 16. Preparatory to taking some American film markets in Europe away from Hollywood, the German film industry plans 145 feature length films for the year beginning this month. This is an increase of nine fea- tures over the output for the pre- ceding year. ' In addition to the private re- sources of such outfits as Ufa, Gov- ernment. help will be given the in- dustry and credits are available . at the FUmkreditbank g.ra.b.g. (Film Credit Bank, Ltd.). for making flick- ers. It financed 22 features and a host of shorts last year for the In- dustry. Strangely enough, German films are being made with money due New York banks. This is accomplished by the use of Sperrgelder, or credits frozen in Germany. Number of . foreign banks, including some American, are in on German films. Government' re- leases the money tied up here with the proviso that It be Invested In Germany. Films are 'Investments' under the meaning of the law. It has been estimated that in the fiscal year just closed no less than 25% of the feature length films made , here .'were financed in whole, or In part by these 'frozen credits.' Included In the coming year's program are plans to film several scripts abroad. This is done to get around contingent regulations in some of - the countries and is a means of securing Valuable propa- ganda for use among, the German populations in territories whittled out of Germany when she guessed wrong in 1914. Therefore the Ger- man industry can offer a ratio (Continued on page 31) Paris Grosses Down, but Still Lots of U.S. Pies Around; 'Women I; lilicm' 7 Weeks More Foreign Additional forei l.m news will be found on page 31. PAR SWED EXEC TELLS ABOUT HIS UTOPIA Hollywood, June 26. A common sense attitude toward motion pictures has made the Scan- dinavian countries a veritable Utopia for exhibitors. Censors are eminently fair, American films are abundant and professional .propa- gandists are non-existent. That was the word brought to the Paramount convention by Carl York, delegate from Stockholm. Holier-than-thou's do hot hound sexy pictures for the reason that the sons and. , daughters of the Vikings have taken a strong liking to this type of film fare. High grossers are all dramas and come- dies, a ccor< ling to York. Little attention is paid to re- formers because the church is con- sidered a staunch friend of the the- atre. Double feature evil' is un- known to Finland, Norway, Sweden or Denmark. Admissions' run from 25 to 80c for a. feature, comedy and newsreel. Stage shows are rare novelties. Against the flood of home and foreign product, U. S. made films have not been affected. Of 267 plc r tures shown last year, 160 came from the states. Children's attend- ance was 'restricted to 10% of the American output. Overseating is not a problem with Scandinavian exhibitors. Indicative of the general situation is Stock- holm with 56 theatres for a half million inhabitants. Paris,, June 16. Fine weather for weeks on end, coupled -with the normal tapering oft: of the season, has sent film grosses toward the cellar here. Not: only is the intake per film dwin- dling, but the proportion of Ameri- can films In Paris houses is on its seasonal decline. It is generally conceded that the summer is going to be tough. Hope is that the fall will see things smoothed out, With the bottom of the depression reached and activity ready to start again. Much depends on result of the quota fight. 'Little Women' (Radio) continues to hold up, aa well as any at the' COO-seater Edouard VlL doing an estimated satisfactory $9,000 this week after a slight slump for a cou- ple of days when it was hottest out- side* Pic seems set. for the rest of season. The RKO local release pro- gram, for films in English, is being pushed, 'Crime Doctor* opening this week at Club d'Artois, and 'Where Sinners Meet' taking the screen at the Washington Palace, both of these small showcases with good American steady publics. Fox at the moment has nothing in English In Paris. Release of dubbed films and local mades is being continued at a reduced tempo through the summer, to nurse along the theatres, and if everything goes well this distributor will open up at full clip In the fall. As precau- tionary measure', however, rate of dubbing at St. Ouen studio has been reduced, in case a quota measure, embargo or dubbing tax should go through in a form which would hurt business. Estimates 'Coming Out Party*, and 'Smoky/ the last Fox original version re- (Continued on page 31) Warners Into French Production; Financing and Suplng Six Indies MCDONALD'S S. A. 0.0. Carl McDonald, division, sales manager of Latin America for WB, stationed at the home office, sails Friday for Buenos Aires on foreign distribution mattes** Paris; June lfr. With Warner Brothers now an- nouncing a program of French pro- duction, Paris is slowly working its way back to something resembling its old position as a center of Amer- ican-sponsored film manufacturing. Paramount and Fox are the other majors who are interested in local mades at present, and Universal Is still In the ofilng. Warner is following the same sys- tem as the other two getting hold of French producers and backing their productions, at the same time Signing exclusive distribution con- tracts. In the case of Warners the financial backing element seems to be more complete than In that of Paramount, which is putting up as little cash as possible, and Is also more complete than in that of Fox. Warner's producer hookup is a concern known as Des Fontaines. -Present-plans,^subJect-to-change-as the market situation shifts, call for the production of at least six local mades for release next season, one (% of them, is already well under way. That one; is based on a Georges Courtellne play, *Le Comlssaire est Bonne Enfant* ('The Police Cap- tain's a Good Guy'), starring a lit- tle-known actor named Pallau. Warner has its own production manager, a young man named Wogg, formerly of Braunberger- Richebe, watching the Job; and it intends to see that the production Is done cheaply. Late Courtellne Is stage author of proved success here. His. plays are mostly cracks about the French legal system, and depend largely on dialogue for effect. Warner hope's to keep this piece from being too talky by ringing a few changes on tK'e script, but realizes that it will be a film largely of the conversa- tion type* Rest of local made program Is not decided on, but if this Courte- line "looks good more may be done by the same author. Pathe stu- dios arc being used.. Warner is picking carefully the Hollywood product with which it will form the backbone of its next year's releases, on the theory that a few good commercial pictures make more money than a lot of mediocre ^releases.-^^Total— for— the^ year may not be more than 16 in France, French pix included. Idea of the French production is actually to make money on them, not merely to sweeten the Holly- wood product. Local Warner out- fit does not think it pays to lose on a local made In order to put over American films, although it recognizes that bulk of its money must nec^s:;:\rily come through Un- imported stuff. M-G, Par, Warners Still Fighting G-T; Nabe Idea Sticks Sydney, May 30. John Kennebeck of Paramount and Charles Munro of Greater The- atres could not quite get together on terms, so Par will play attrac- tions at the Tivoll, Sydney. Ar- rangements were completed to this end with Frank Nell-Connors-Paul organization. Policy will be to play pix mati- nee and. night in .conjunction with, revue. First to try will be 'The Last Round Up.' Morning sessions will carry a full pic bill. Idea is Just' an experiment. As F, ,W. Thrmg has booked the Tivoll for a season with musicals, the try by par can; only be for a short pe- riod. If: successful, the pic-revuV policy may go back after th« Thring season closes. Warners will not give up its nab* idea to meet the terms of G. T. Says it will continue to first-release out in the sticks and in the semi-city" indie theatres, indefinitely. Holdouts amongst the major com- panies against the combine, such as M-G, Par, and Warners, all say they are. perfectly satisfied with their indie stand. 'Henry' to G-T 1, Sydney, May 30. G. T. has bought the Australian rights of United Artists' 'Henry Eighth.' Pic Has been chosen to open at- the new Embassy, Sydney, June 1. Charles Munro put over the deal with Arthur Kelly, U. A, foreign head, who is here on a visit. Bo- lifvi-d tiro price paid for 'Henry* >p. i record for a single film 2fc VARIETY VARIETY HOUSE REVIEWS MUSIC HALL, N. Y. Short show this week, with tW presentations running only 45 min- utes, including the ballet, 'The Bomance of Giselle,' held over from last week. Announced as by popular request, and petting sufficient ap- plause to make the line seem reasonable. Americans never have taken very strongly to ballet and pantomime; which: is part of most written ballets. They'll stand for them at the opera because, like the opera, that's the proper thing. But here there seemed to be : apprecia- tion of the production, though the pantomime is. stilted and a bit oldr fashioned. Answer is that Florence Bogge has done a swell job of stag- ing and Nina Whitney is an engag- ing dancer. Nick Daks is also in the pjcture, along with the regulars Boxy brought over from his former Seventh avenue stand. But it's still in; and that's piano playing. Florrie Forde is an oldtimer that can still sing a song with the best of them. Her diction and deport- ment might be a lesson to some of the new 'ung. Bene and Godfrey, latter an elon- gated youth that soft-shoo dances, while playing a violin, with Bene an adept at Bussian pirouettes. Have been doing same act for years, and a change, would be welcomed. Ted Bay, also doing fiddle 'scrap- ing, follows. Bad spotting, but Bay can do lots of other things besides Addling; His gagging is excellent, and 1 well sold, Nothing perturbs him and when, someone in the.au-: dlence sneezed,' Bay said 'Bless you', and got a big laugh. Following everything, on the bill are Forsythe, Seamon and Farrell. Ordinarily a tough spot; but did not matter much to this team.. They, soon got them interested, and de- more the -spectacle than the story, parted to a reception which proved or the dancing Somebody around the Music Hall is letting the idea seep in that maybe the audience would like vaudeville, so there are a couple of acts this week, 'with George Pren- tice and his Punch and Judy show clicking along at a fast pace. For the Hall he has dropped the actual Punch, but the rest is pretty much the same act he has shown at the variety houses, and it's still Punch. Got a flock of laughs from the this is about the best blended combo now in vaudeville. Two feature films : are 'Female' (WB) and 'Midnight' (Col).. NEWSREELS (EMBASSY, Y.) Not much of consequence has happened during the past week or adults. For dignity's sake, Prentice | so that the newsreels have missed,- excepting^ the Krist-Prince d'Har- Is announced as a puppeteer,- which, strictly, speaking* he is not, but. it listened all right and he can call himself what he pleases when he can collect the chuckles. Another drlftover is Hal Menken, count thing, that has Its humorous, side if nothing else. The Tufyer- son mystery is. another front < page who does his step dance just ahead froth the reels here have nothng on, of the Bockettes,' who do the stair arrangement with which Menken was. seen lately at another presenta- tion house. Steps and props are Identical, so perhaps he- brought them over, too. Unusual for the Music Hall to take over a presenta- tion from some other house. Men- ken was a nice cleanup and makes One wonder what the agile Bill Bob- inson would do to then*. Might be interesting to find out. Bockettes, on their end, get a but this would have been difficult to cover for anything worthwhile. About all that, could have been done was to talk about it. The reels have done that before lots of time's when unable to get subjects, .before cameras. .. One of the most interesting com- pilations of the current show Is Pathe's record week of sports CAPITOL, NEW YORK Cap should fare well on the whole this week, including some consid- eration to that cooling plant these days.. Screen holds 'Operator 13' (Metro), and stage show is punchy and punctuated by such standards as Jane Froman, Three Badio Bogues and "Will. Mahoney, with Eddie Miller (billed but camouflaged somewheres Friday "night) and Bryant, Bains and Young, with the Chester Hale Girls in the smaller type. Miss Froman and Mahoney, re- spectively,- top — and bottom — lining Whammed 'em, both going to ex- tended stays. Miss Froman, just out of the Shuberts' 'Ziegfeld Fol- lies,' Sockded them with her distin- guished rendition of 'House Is Haunted,* after two rather conven- tional mikealogs with 'Love Thy Neighbor' and 'All I Do.* 'Haunted,' having had the benefit of elght- tlmes-a-week grooming in the legit musical, was treated with lyrical and orchestral distinction and like- wise interpreted., Songstress looks as nice as ever, although too heavy on the 'rouge cheek makeup. Mahoney made it a. week-end, even going back into the files for •Lilly.' He was very much to the customers' liking — and .there was more than an averagely decent turnout opening , night. When they start sittliig on the stairs of the re- served Ioge section that's the tipoff Tuesday, June 26,- 1934 PALACE, CHICAGO j Chicago, June 28, It looks like 1 another record week for the Palace. Not that Lupe Veles and her show will do more business than . Ben Bernie, but it does mean to-closer. Having comedy, it would have suited better there instead of the Saxon Sisters, a singing act that's more strictly of No. 2 weight and type. , . Saxons did only eight minutes Friday night, which meant three songs. They're torchers who now] that this week will show black flgw stick strictly to song doubles irt utes against the steady run of ten front of a mike. . Becently their act weeks in the red. There's no ques- had some trimmings, including a Hon that starting off with Ben Ber- piano and a tail-light take-off .to nie was r ,tho smart and logical thing suggest a departing train. for this house to rehabilitate itself Vox and Walters have given I with the theatregoers of Chicago, themselves a hew drop, that of a Palace remains Chicago's highest- dirigible to replace the western J priced loop vaudeville and picture scene formerly backgrounding for house, and, up to the Ben Bernlo them Also Vox is now in a naval booking, did the poorest business of uniform and Miss Walters has ais- I almost any loop house, carded her cowgirl outfit. I This week's show is an .all- - The Cards, four agile young fel- } around, well balanced, perfect-run- • lows in brown, is a fast five-minute ning vaudeville show. Ken Murray, affair of tumbling, teeter-board who has been having a run as m. o* work, combinations, etc, Alexander looked swell. m . . and Santos team also provides an L Show propqr opens with an Ains- acrobatic touch in a slick hand-to- ley Lambert line of .girls In a fast hand exhibition closing; but since f routine number. Then Chaney and they have something very original Fox, one .«f the few dance teams, and funny in the comedy adagio that are still tops in vaudeville, and number, this might prove more ad- I who know how to present and de- vantageous for the finish. Business fair Friday night at the first show. . ' Char. liver. Ken Murray came in with a few stories and gags,, followed, by Wilbur Hall; his invitations and long ^shoes, a tromhono and fiddle. He. tied the audience up and was fol- lowed by Lew Hearn with his com- edy sketch, and Ken Hurray, work- ing throughout the Hearn act. Lupe Velcz Is one of the few pic- ture stars that. not only draws but delivers. AH the adjectives that are PARAMOUNT, N. Y. For a house, of the status that Loew's Orpheum in Yorkyille repre- sents, the vaude melange at the on the ticket numbers going over I Paramount this week would rate as [ used to spell 'hit' can be used on the top for the day. a smart little bill. Outside of a her. She was an expert swinging The Hale girls opened with a ra- nice flash that marks; the opening into her imitations of other Holly dlumed . rhythmic • hand routine. C f the stage event here there isn't wood stars. Done before but well executed here, anything that should induce the de- [ Ken Murray scored again in the Then Bryant, Bains and Young, votees of flesh entertainment to closing finale. Girls came on again man with two. girls, latter looking heave their neighborhoods for the with Chaney and Fox, closing the very much like sisters despite the purlieus of Times Square. Show, at | show, with big applause for billing. It's a smooth threesome; not t he ea rly Friday evening, occasion one of those hectic adagio combos. ran 40 minutes and left a fairly dull Especially in the finale it shows impression. Turnout for this event some even ballrooniology, the man ma Bh .f™t a song and. almost dances, and Mar- mile, very thrilling and. well done; Saret Baum and George Meyer lead- America cup yacht races off £ew- ins the choral ensemble. In thtajport, and Cavalcades speediest the girls look better than usual in showing yet in winning the Detroit em-arc black and white frocks, but derby. This race is one of the best the men are gawky in tails. Some- ever photographed, one should teach them how to In the field of invention, the new stand. show is more than adequately rep* All of this, with the exception of resentative. There's the auto guard the ballet, is titled a revue and rail on roads being tried out out in monikered 'Knick Knacks.' It's a. California;, motorcycle radios of , the chorus, , three . specialists, and the New York \ police, with a catch dance line, and not a revue., .but it's staged; new rocket .motor for a satisfying t>ort of s''ow and prob- strathosphere ascension; ah ont- ably costs a lot less foe both talent board- one-man submarine, and a and scenery than some of the three- wheel automobile which looks heavy winter bills; like it might. go places. Plus which, In addition. to "Let's Try Again' CoL Lindbergh tries out a new type (Badio), -there is the Pathe news plane. and a couple of shorts, which- may Official Washington is- also well or may not be on other than around covered. Perhaps the . biggest news supper time. Overture is 'Pagli- m t h a t sphere that's still fresh is acci,' with fine color and swing, and 1 the demand for the removal of Party,' and '20,000*000 Sweethearts' (films) have been around. It's one of those -three-man combos with humorous radio impression's. Dark- ened studio presentation is such that they show up negatively on front; when lights up the three look personable in their gray and tan sports outfits with suede sport shoes to match. Under the doused/ glims it was a PARAMOUNT, L. A. Los Angeles, June 21. Current stage show Is labelled hig the airing of . a cocktail hymn 1 'Paramount Follies' and- is typically by the Tegular double quartet and Fanchon & Marco. Three ensemble a bit of tootsie kicking by the house routines by the line girls; aug- line, the Three Cossacks go berserk mented from, 16 to 24 for the oe- with their roller skates. Adding to I caslon, and four variety acts, only the excitement of their pirouetting one of which— Kirby and Duvol- ahd body swinging routine is the rate special mention, fact that it aH takes place on a Happy, Tom and Jerry, femme platform several fe.et high. With [and two male roller skaters, open Hbrton Spurr oh next the pace | with an assortment of routines. onethine thTcenter ^ c£S seeihed slows up, but that didn't stop his supported by the 24 house gals also tobe%rt£ too hatd aSwSr^nd ^and of jumping-jack stepping and on rollers It's just, ordinary al- crouching over the mike made his flow-motion clowning from collect- though trio does have a few spins loose trousers hang over his heels, ing handsomely. that click, especially the finish. The one at the piano under that un- Mood of good humor that Spurr Hank Brown and Pal are a couple, favorable spotlighting appeared churned Mp eased things somewhat of hoke comics, whose ^dancing is much more rotund than he actually 'or the subsequent inning by Aaron considerably better than their brand is Incidentally the piano-mike and Broderick. Although this lat- of humor. Next brings David Lor- worker's impression seemed best, ter act fared nicely enough, it enze, youthful basso, whose 'Old. The Vallee-Gracie Allen didn't click wtfuld hav« done much better were (Man Biver' is hls best effort* Girls so weil, and the third, at the desk, not . for the element of distance, [come back for a- show Storm' effect, likewise was lightweight on Al Beal punch that the comedienne in I manipulating, large fans' made of' Smith and other takeoff s. In the | the. duo. packs is her flair for mug- I ostrich feathers, to excellent re*! ting. By those hitting away back I suits. While girls are maneuver* , most of this was naturally missed, ling through a sort of fan dance rou- ; Other ingredients in the current! tine Lorenze warbles a bit, but week's stage casserole are a fast [mostly indistinguishable. - the incoming 'Thin Man' next week I tap by Miriam Marsh, which she 1 Kirby and Duval .follow, for IS Is .a bit too informative. Herald of I calls the rumbalero, and the multi- [minutes of corking good hoke, man* next week's flicker gives away too syllable crossfire by Badcllffe and I supplying the comedy and - attract without vocalists, which helps a lot on a hot night. Attendance good, | but nothing extra. Chic. TROCADERO, LONDON Major Foulols, army air chief, Bea sons for. asking his ousting are recorded, together with a brief de- fense of the Major. End of Con gress, with a goodbye word or two from Speaker Bainey; Johnson's defense of the - NBA at a worker's rally, in which he reminds much of a small town preacher, and Presl dent Boosevelt's presence at Tale's commencement . exercises are in- cluded. The. prez is a~ Harvard grad. Show leads off with Paramount's excellent Contribution of . the Ha- London, June 11. This is part of the H. 4b G. Kihe mas, Limited, owned by the Hyarris Brothers, and the biggest ot ' them all. Capacity;,' although claimed to be around -6,000, is really- over 4,000, which still makes it biggest in Eng land. Located.; In... the. artisan ..district, J V ana massacre, in which -nearly a. and one of- the' poorest, neighbdr-r I score . of paraders 'were killed. The hoods in London, it- is surprising to j p a f cameras" got. the actual shoot- Bee it flourish. "'But' the I Hyams boys] ing, the -.'falling -.'victims', and .others have solved the /problem; give 'e'ni who scurried for cover, but failed the biggest .shdw in town-. ■ Two fea- to . find • the auto of the machine ture films* newsreel and .• eight gunners ! which ; was , feurned after vaudeville acts. Program lasts - f our the attack hour and' -the customers won't ■ Under 'Par 'New# Flashes, there walk. : Some; are wn gluttons and J are closeups' of Norma Millehj the stay, for another round. New' England gun' girl who's on Most of. the acts are standard, trial, in Mass. Same company takes With some being big names in the credit for some more on > the' navy, West-End; 'With the sufT in f ull j thip time its departure from *N«w blast and everybody, sweltering,.' it j York and ' the induction of Admiral Beeves as the new commander rin was amazing to see queues lining Up to pay for admission. . Prices range from 16 to 66c, aiid .it's best value in town. ' chief Nothing of particular foreign in- terest on view this week. Hitler is main, however, it's good audience ] stuff, if by now rather familiarized. Only the newsreel plus the fea- ture, excepting that the trailer for i much. STATE, N. Y. The surprise , champ of the Boss- McLarnin setto, - Chicago's contrlbu tion to fistic renown, Barney Boss (New Acts), Is. headlining the stage. | ture. bill here on his first personal. He's ill for £2,500. House has the fighter in with •Viva Villa' (MG), the Wallace Beery starrer -which has been stum bling. around a little due to its ob vious lack of feminine appeal. Boss may possess something or other to Abel.- | Bogers. Chuckle reaction for this tive femme working straight. Male team was far beneath their usual lis somewhat elongated In size and level.. For -the fadeout there's the this antics are amusing, line in a mild bit of hip swinging Finale has girls on for .a novelty and the' double quartet giving spectacle. All are prone on their choral interpretation to *Beat.o' My. backs in a circle formation atop a Heart.' circular platform with steps lead- 'The Great Flirtation' (Par), fea- ing to stage. Arm and leg routine Odec. I that . follows Is reflected in a huge mirror hung on back : drop, giving a sort of shadow replica of the rou-» ( I tine. It's well done and' reflect* • credit oh Fanchon, who staged. Usual, oldtimers' jamboree at the , Screen pic, 'Shoot the Works* Palace gets a slight setback this ' Palpably, 'twas Metro's 'Operator . Vaude Section, folldws the organ conspicuous by hia absence,' and so recital, with Quentin Maclean house is von Papen, who tossed a hornet's organist and a favorite with cus- nest into ttte Nazi camp a week ago tomers. Callenta and' Lolita, de- J Only laugh is derived from a Lon scribed as 'Spanish kids on the don clip furnished by Par In which wire,' are. really English, with Ca- funny types show hew male fash- llenta being a brother of Jlrnmy ions; including the loose leaf shirt Nervo and. a member of the Hollo- J front. . way family of wire-walkers. . Boy I Pasadena monks performing on a ,Is;Lan, Adep t Jin thej w i re, jiv lth_ ; fee ; | wire; ^ _y_ienha"^z^o. ca pers; latest Spanish trimmings giving flash to offering. Beed, Wayne and Dix,- two women and man dance offering, with a little bit of everything, best being, a bra- zen . pinch oh Wilson, Keppell and Betty, even to the music. Austra- lian Cleveres; "five youthful - acro- bats in good Bisley work. Kids, three girls and two boys, work nat- ural; no stalling, and would make ideal opener for America. Bale Da Costa* expert pianist with radio and. .recording rep, handles the piano showmanllke. Should not •ing but stick to what she excels French- styles in hats', a girl and, her mocking-bird pets; a frog rade; burial . of, Japan's Ad- miral Togb; convention of aged married couples in Kansas City; •Pennsylvania flood; celebration^ of Harvard grads; Iowa- quadruplets, and life guards at Jones' Beach, N. Y., are among clips that provide novelty flavor, Two travelog type of shorts end the bill, 'Sentinels of the Sea' (Fox) and 'The Imperial City' (Fltz- patrick-Metro). Patronage Saturday afternoon just fair. Char, doing complete revolutions on a pugilistic, wonder, holding I bike inside of a giant, wheel. Fol- x knaa 0 the lightweight . and-, welter- lowing his Ave minutes' come the 1S . that brought 'em banging by - weight., titles, isn't altogether . at new acts, and then. Marty May arid t he wickets, but the Loew, bookingi home, oh the hard oak of a theatre Jean Carroll next-to-closirtg. fathers 7 have' sent in a flesh ' array . stage, but he mentions the 'nervous- This team, splitting after the Pal- that uniformly pleases, though it! ness, s6 it's okay and almost a part ace week, are offering the same possesses ho especial marquee mag^ 1 of the act. Works with a straight routine they've been doing for the net. mart, who, after introducing him, past • four years. Miss Carroll's Enrico and Nbvello's class ball*, asks questions or otherwise pro- long-winded auto flirtation monolog [ roomology signal the start. Pair vides leads fpr Boss in talking about and May's nonchalant foiling and last here in December, but using his recent victory over McLarnin, hoke. fiddle playing aria hot getting hew routines and have bolstered act the welcome back to Chicago, much in the major position, two since that time. Open with stand*' mother, Canzoneri, Benny Leonard, good and original gags saving it ard waltz, then give the closest ap^j etc. Act Winds up with fighter all from a complete floppo. They're proximation to the original 'Carioca* going through some conditioning also getting a bit blue in spots, this as, intro'd in the flick, 'Flying to routines, including shadow boxing, going double for the nudist- tweezer, Bib,' by Astaire and Bogers, that. rope _skipp_ing_ and bag ^punching. gag.^ 1 • . ' thia burg has gandered. ^They then; It's - the type^oT^tufS ~ ohe^xpects T ""Closlng^lhe "shbw""are Adler artd |chase for" a~garb change aridTIKLVey^ from a fighter, serving its purpose Bradford, adagio act entailing- two [Kraft docs an aero stair dance; Lad.- suitably, boys besides the billed mixed team. J was formerly a specialist In. Benny,! The Other full-stagers .are . Alex- One of. these delivers solo hoof r Davis act • and his brief bit here ander and Santos, comedy dance ology and -twirling in between the' scored with a detonation, equal to •flash, in 1 the middle, and the Four little blonde's, dress change that al- the combinod' efforts -of- the name Cards, ra"pid-flre acrobats, who open.' most hits a Palace record for awk- -team". . One. - of the 'team's pair of -T_ ^aAA*\^ +v« Jl^o^Jc, I urarj-lnooo". At tlmob Via "fhrontanb Stein WftVers.- Bill Tip.erar. ttined al In addition to the Alexander- 1 wardness> . At tlme^ he "threatens Santos act, which delivers on to dislodge his arms fhto the ork laughs, the No. 2 selection, Vox and pit. Act as a whole is a fair cur- Walters, ventriloquists, supply a tainer, although it bowed Off her6 comedy note. A sturdy little en- Friday' evening to but a fair hand, tertainer, standard for. many years, 'Life of Vergie Winters' (Badio) the Vox- Walters turn might have on the screen after a week at the been considered better spotted for Music Hall. Biz bad at the show general show effect if in the next- 1 caught. Stein way ers,- BUI Tiegar, piped pop into the mike after Kraft's chore, but was just mildly effective. Team closed with an exotic maxlxe that, though tops terply, was over- stretched. Ann Greonway deuced. Her 'single' act is a fav with local vaud (Continued on page 38) Tuesday, June 26, 1934 VARIETY variety 23 RKO M FOR 1934-1935 IN V WORD A T RT I M AK ? R E CTU A T VARIETY Tuw&vj, June 26, 1934 24 it Si THE LITTLE MINISTER KATHARINE HEPBURN WILL STAR in the most popular play in Theaf- rial History by Sir James. M. Born . Mode immortal by Maude Adonis. RO B E RTA The ■q ueen of musical romances , . , the outstanding success of the 1934 New York theatrical season, A love story in lavish settings, gay and sparingly told to the lilting melodies of JEROME KERN. F R E C*K L E S GENE STRATTON PORTER'S enduring classic of courageous youth and tender romance. Over two million volumes in America's homes. THE AGE OF* INNOCENCE Edith Wharton s Pulitzer Prize Novel Co-starring for the first time si "back Street" IRENE DUNNE JOHN BOLES RADIO CITY REVELS Only RKO in association with NBC, its great brother of the amusement world, could create this pro- duction which unites for the first time the entire resources of screen and radio to bring in splendor a dazzling cavalcade of stars in one mighty show. WEDNESDAY'S CHILD From this year's notable stage production of whkh Gilbert W. Gabriel in the N. Y. American wrote, ''/ honor if and greet it with affection as a play well worth the tears that will spring to your eyes.** it Mi WHEELER & WOOLSEY LONG MAY THEY RAVEl in TWO SHOWS THE FIRST OF WHICH IS "KENTUCKY KERNELS" FALSE DREAMS FAREWELL From this year's powerful melodramatic stage production by Hugh Stange. "HO! FOR SHANGHAI The first of two music shows produced by LOU BROCK, maker of "Flying Down to Rio'* and "Down to Their Last Yacht." BY YOUR LEAVE Scintillating comedy from the Broadway stage success. L A D D I E GENE STRATTON PORTER'S MOST BELOVED BOOK Standing at the head of the list as one of the most popular books published in America during tke past fifty years. Tuesday. June 26, 1934 VARIETY 25 THE FOUNTAIN ,t.„i», ANN HARDING with Brian Aherne and. Jean Hefsholt Charles Morgans novel brought to the screen at the peak of its overwhelming popularity. Now in its 22nd printing. MERIAN C COOPER, Creator of "King Kong" Gives You THE ENCHANTRESS S H E from H. Rider Haggard's world thrilling book that is devoured by increasing millions, young and old, each year. One of the most astounding spectacle presentations ever conceived for the screen. THREE STAND ALONE starring J OHNN Y WEISSMU LLER The primitive man who disturbs the sleep of fifty milli civilized girls . . . from the novel by £ Arnot Robertson. THE GAY DIVORCE with FRED ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS The "Carioca" Stars of "Flying Down to Ri " in jubilant musical stage triumph of, the two continents. 248 performances jn New York. 6 months in London, # ANNE OF GREEN GABLES From L M Montgomery's classic novel treasured by three generations of America's millions. Destined to be the "Little Women" of this new season. FRANK BUCK'S JUNGLE The greatest living hero name that ever Bashed from your marquee will blaze agqi . , . with all the pyramided power of those two mighty shows "Bring 'Em Back Alive" and "Wild Cargo". HIDE IN THE DARK ss By Frances Noyes Hart, the best mystery thriller since "The Bellamy Trial" by the same author Published serially in Ladies* Home Journal, a "Crime Club" selection and a national best-seller in book form. EL DORADO ,,.„;», FRANCIS LEDERER The great lover of "Autumn Crocus" in a blazing romance of California's Golden Days. THE WORLD BY THE TAIL from the Continental triumph "Ringslrasse, No. 3" Co-starring FRED ASTAIRE * Q - pensed where there is a floor that will: not be hurt by slopped fluid. All of which goes double in spades for juvenile patronage. No matter how careful the pa- trons, it is almost impossible to keep the cream from running, arid people who come later dislike the feel of sticky seats and resent dam- age to clothing from candy soaked upholstery. Just as easy to hand it out properly and a better advertise- ment, since it is then where the public can see it. Keep an eye out for new brands of ice .cream and soft drinks. If there are no new ones, go after the concern doing the most newspaper and window advertising. If it is blind to opportunity, set after the opposition and point out the ad- vertising value. It make3. a good talking point and the co-operating company will help boost up the ad- vertising through window work and distribution .wagon signs. Fighting the Beaches Seattle. With a dozen popular beaches near here, Seattle, noted for its World champ swimmers and miles of waterfront, gives the showmen plenty to worry about when the warm . weather comes along. Vic Gauntiett, adv. mgr of Evergreen, -has-flgured a way to profit some by going to the beaches with bally for attractions at Evergreen theatres. To do so a sound truck is being used, to go\out on Sundays to the beaches hither and yon, thus con- tacting about 100,000 people. Usually there is no music at the beaches. The, truck brings music and also plugs for whatever attract- ions are current. Records are Played of sound plctu es and results are noted, in that . Monday and Tuesday biz has upped perceptibly. Cost of the truck is only $25, with two men to man it. Thus it is cheap advertising to reach 100,000 circulation. Other dav when truck played 'Flying Trapeze' at Alkl beach some 400 joined In the chorus and made a song fest of it. Interests trying, to got> signatures for legalization of dog rac> betting using attention-getting stunts of having one of the greyhounds 6n : leash with attendant in uniform, and gal spielers asking for the sign- era Qn the streets. . j during the last 12 months has built: the kids party .to where it now has a membership of around 4/006. Dur- ing the last . 62 weeks a total of 78,107 10-cent tickets have been sold to kids. .No record . of adult. . tickets sold was kept, but on the basis of. this kids total it shows ah increase of an average of 862 a week during the 52 -week period. During the anniversary program. Nealans secured - merchandise, from merchants, as prizes and had the merchants in person 'o give the goods away* The city commissioner was also present! Walt Disney wired Nealans his congratulations and sent .three autographed draw- ings of Mickey Mouse.. Two local papers the day bef' e the celebra- tion carried a page add with space divided up among, merchants. The lobby was filled with displays from commercial houses, and cakes, drinks, gum and candy: were given each kid. Overflow Meeting Itirmingham. The Mickey Mouse Club of the Alabama theatre last week cele- brated its first anniversary, and so many kids attended the morning matinee that the Alabama was packed, and about 400 had to be carried to the Ritz, a block away, where makeshift entertainment was Provided for theni. George Nealans. assistant manager of the Alabama, Used the Idea Some weeks ago a comedian asked for. jokes for his act. The Joke had to be told a cigar dealer ;in • the theatrical district. , if he liked it, he handed out a cigar, but he seldom laughed, "and a lot of the joke offerers bought their, own cigars... Small towner ran across, the item the other day and worked it over for his' own benefit. Announced that anyone making a certain* cigar dealer laugh got the cigar. Man has good -control of . his facial muscles and seldom has to shovel out a smoke, but it has helped busi- ness a lot;, and he pays for the cigars he dbes lose. Makes plenty of talk around, town, and seems to be good for a run of Several weeks. Now the headacher . i3 considering the' same gag for the girls, with a soda fountain dishing out- drinks. Trouble is to find a soda jerker who won't laugh too ; much. Several have used much the same gag, offering tickets' for each joke - used In the program, but the cooperative stunt seems to-., find greater favor. Probably it would be a buildup if the names of all the Winners were posted in the win- dow. Frequently these purely local gags do the house more good than more ambitious plans. Batoff Will ffelp Gregory Ratoff has been fn enough pictures to enjoy some reputation in that hinterland which knows nothing pf his Broadway reputation- and cares . less. You . can get some extra prfess work for 'The Great Flirtation' out of the fact that he wrote the original play. Actors who can also Write are more or less scarce and most picture editors will fall for a story about the picture actor who has turned out a ra.tt.ling comedy. Plenty to talk about In 'Flirta- tion' and probably it will need the chatter, for the title is non-commit- tal. It might be any sort of a story, but it happens to be a smart turning of the tables with a famous foreign star out .of the running in New York while his wife, whom he has. always looked upon as a the- atrical nonentity, blazes into the stellar flrrattment. Play it up as a. different sort of stage story from the usual, tell enough to get interest aroused, but do not carry the synopsis to the point where the reader feels he knows all about it. Hook into the scarcity of equally illustrious theatrical couples with Lunt and . Fontanne the outstand- ing ;pair, Offer prizes for the long- est list of theatrical, pairs, working, if . possible, through the dramatic page • of the newspaper. There's material here for some interesting stories, not forgetting . the recent split between Sacha Gultry and Yvonne Printemps. If you can get them in, they'll 'like tbe picture. Gets Aussie Kids Sydney. Plaza. Sydney, .put over the big- 1 gest' kiddie trade ever experienced since the talkers first hit these shores. The Walt Disney Silly Sym- phonys and \Mickey Mouse shorts did the trick. Charles Munro, together with Jack Musgrove. decided to run a series of five shorts together with 'Flying Down to Rio' over the school vacation. To boost the show a miriiatuz*e revue and lobby novel- ties were thrown In for good meas- ure. But the kids just raved about J;hQ = J^iifiy^shoi^-s^.and^essionfHiad= ■ to . be. given.; each morning at 9 o'clock. To Help a Symphony Exhibitors who have yet to play 'The Flying Mouse,', a Silly Sym- phony, should get hold of a couple of copies of the July Good House- keeping, which has a page, in color, devoted to a jingle ba?ed on this release. Good for the lobby when it comes along. Pretty Poor Idea One Brooklyn theatre's latest stunt is as- wet as a cloudburst. It not only violates the.URA conven- tions and the lottery law, but it of- fends many possible patrons, Recently the neighborhood has been flooded with cards, serially numbered and with a detachable coupon which is to be dropped into a box in. the theatre lobby. Each Saturday night 15. bottles of. wine and liquor .are allotted the custom- ers whose numbers, are spotted* and who are in the theatre at the time. Requiring, the presence of the winners . clinches the lottery angle, since this is held to be the 'valu- able consideration.' Probably the method pf determining the winners also is. a lottery. And it does not help that the liquor dealers who supply the stuff are given half the card space for an advertisement and the . stunt . is announced as theirs, rather than that of the the- atre; which seems to be an effort to beat the NRA ruling against giveaways. There is a* statement that chil- dren under 18 are not eligible to receive prizes, but no mother wants to see her son who may be over that age come home with a bottle pf liquor. .. '.j.. Several schemes tying in' to ciga- rettes have flopped elaborately in the past, but this seems to be even more offensive, .It- will leave a bad impression even with those who do not, per se, object to repeal. Lucky 13 United Artists' foreign publicity, department got an unusual . hook- up .for 'Roman Scandals* through 11 advertisers in a special 12 page ad section in - Cine Mundial, Spanish language fan* mag. There was a page contributed by the magazine to knit the rest together, so it made excellent publicity, since the Mun- dial is widely circulated in the Latin countries. Inside' gag is that advertisers' want snappy girl pictures for at- tractdrs in their ads. Plenty of material in 'Scandals/ so by merely lumping the various- ads a present- able section was arrived at, which hot only sells the beauty products advertised, but helps to interest in the picture. Beauty products were hooked in to the song 'Keep Young and Beau- tiful.' " Neatly Done With so. many year books float ■? irig around; Lou GuimbnoV of Gau- mont- British worked out an an- nouncement for the attractions which have recently been released or are about .to be uncovered. Makes a sightly product, mostly in blue and silver,, but -with a few pages in brown instead. Plenty of art work and a temperate plug; for the pic- tures which permits the 1 exhibitor; reader to put. the book down with> out the feeling that '.'another .at- tempt has been made to high-pres- sure him. : " Sound and creditable work. Explaining the Preem William Leggiero, of Warner's Ritz-, San Bernardino, Call, adapted the see -inside idea to the recent argument between. Baer and Car- nera. .= T ; he fight occurred on a Thursday, and Friday he' was out .with a four-pager with 'Sensational Expose-^ v/hy Camera Lost' on the front cover, with directions to look inside. Every one knew it was a phoney, but it was current , talk and the y all looked, to discover that Garnera Jhiad seert 'The Merry Frinks' on the eve: of battle and had laughed himself weak. Of course, that was the next picture at the Ritz:. Old idea, but smartly handled to get in on all the talk. Switched the Barker LoeWs New York theatre had 'The Prizefighter and the Lady' to cash in on the Baer publicity, using an elongated barker in training togs to bally the show. When Barney Ross opened at the State, on the block above, barker Went up there to help along. Soap Babbles Hustler who prides himself oh Die novelty of his displays wanted a soap bubble fountain. He. tried a soap solution, blowing a small stream of air ^through a small pipe in the bottom of the basin of a small fountai It worked after a fashion, but. either made too many bubbles or too few. It seemed impossible to control the flow of air to an exact point. At the suggestion of . the property man, he sent over to .a grocery for a package of ready gelatine dessert and dissolved that according to di- rections, but using just a trifle less water. When almost cool this was placed in. the fountain basin and the air turned on* The result was.- a cascade of bubbles which hard- ened when the liquid was reduced to a thin film, arid piled high in the. pari; Has to be done over each morn- ing because, the. bubbles get dusty, but the -display looks fine when spotlighted,; and the youngsters ar$ all demanding a- similar result from their clay , pipes at ; home. : Bubbles were not germane to the title. Just ,a gag to get attention for the back of the lobby, arid now the ' manager is trying to figure out a way to use gas, blow single bub- bles from a clap pipe, toss them, oft the marquee and. offer prizes to the . kids who can catch them and return them to the lobby before they burst. Wants to try it out first and . see if they will burst easily enough; BEHIND m KEYS New York. > Bob Rosen, manager of Lo.ew's Orpheum, started on a vacatiori- relief swing of Loew's New York deluxers last week. Will replace the managers at the Paradise, Va- lencia, etc., who are on vacash, re- turning to the Orph in about eight Weeks. Hamilton, O. Marc J. Wolf, general manager Taft circuit, operating the Para- mount, Palace and Rialto here and the Paramount and Strand, Middle- town, O.,- has resigned to become managing director of Theatrical Managers, Inc., Indianapolis, of which V. U. Young is executive head. Wolf succeeded here by George Fettig, formerly assistant manager Paramount, Middletown. ■ Chicago. Myles Concannon returns to the Balaban & Katz fold to manage the loop McVlckers. He was previously at the United Artists. Ben . Bloomfleld takes over the new Garrick for B.&K. ' -. ^ : , - Seattle. Joseph Rosenfleld, manager of Music Hall (Hamrlck), is new ad- vertising manager for the Hamrlck circuit, replacing Ted Champion. Rosenfleld has on his staff : Chester Cobb, ad artist; Sammy Selgel and Jack Sampson, publicity men, and Stanley Gottstein, legger.. Boh Moore is assistant manager to Harry Woodln at Paramount (Evergreen), while Morrle Nimmer is in southj vacationing. Vic Gauntiett, ad. mgr. of Ever- green circuit, back on job, after ap- pendix op. Feeling great. Spokane. H. D. McBride is city manager for Evergreen, operating all first runs here. Ernest Rose handles Orpheum, stage and pix; Al Baker, the Fox, ace spot; Russell Brown, the State, and Chuck Charles, Lib- erty, second-run spot. Frank L. Newman has resigned, going to the Coast. i ^ =i= a»== J ==«=i=w===== CharIotte;=N^Gr— Criterion' Amusement Company, operating movie houses here, at Durham, Greensboro, and Mount Holly, has negotiated lease with Hickory city aldermen for muni- cipal auditorium. Sound equipment to be installed and stage altered to care for road shows. Paul Covington, Paul Kersey and W. E. White, all of Greensboro; are back from Louisville, Ky., arid the annual convention of the IATSE, where they were delegates. M. B. Smith and John A. Barn- well, constructing' new theatre building in Burlington. Plan .to open' the' house late in the summer. Will seat 600. Washington, Pa. Chalmer Cupler, son of the late B. E.; Cupler, is now managing the Court theatre here. He succeeds Bob Higglns. who recently resigned- Lorain, O. Ben Wallerstein, who has been managing the Palace here for sev- eral years, has been transferred- to San Pedro, Cal. Oklahoma City, Okla, With financial backing of ari un- disclosed group of. Texas movie house arid Oklahoma capitalists, the Western . States Theatres, Inc., , has been incorporated in Delaware to build and operate a $1,OQO,000 .the- atre in Oklahoma City, -with 8,000 seating capacity. Incorpo rato rs are Foster McSwain. Ada, as president; W. T. Spears, secretary- treasurer, Altus; A. R. Powell, vice-president, Guthrie, and directors composed of Harry M. Lowenstcih, Ardmore, and _M.. _(-Ish). Clark, Oklahoma. City, general manager for Griffith Amuse- ment Co. '-" .Albany.. Alcide LaFlam me, manager of the Madison, Albany, won first place in the. Managers' Popularity Contest coirducted . in . Warners' theatres in Albany, Troy and Utica. under di- rection of Charles Smakwitz, div.' mgr. Ben Stern, manager of the Albany 'theatre, Albany, was second, and Garry Lassman, mgr. pf the Avon, Utica, was third. Harry! Black, city mgr. of Schine^ theatres in Glens Falls, Was head man in the chain's recent promo- tion drive. Al Grasgrin, mgr. of the Olympic, Watertown, was sec- ond. Winners were decided on the increase of gross biz. Victor Burns, mgr. of the' Casino theatre, Watervliet,. won a cash prize as a star bowler and donated the money to a cnildreri's milk fund. Moe Grassgreen, from Boston, has succeeded Tony Ryrtn as. mgr. of .the . Fox E xchange. u:. Fort Wayne.' Strand, originally a vaude house, and later turned into a flicker grind, now relights after three years' dark- ness for hurley. Both Emboyd and Paramount discard those long Saturday mid- night shows for the summer. Plugging the Cooler Anticipating a hot summer, a theatre has arranged with the local hospital * to. receive as guests , those who are. brought in by the ambu- lances suffering from heat stroke.' Idea is to keep the patients where it is cool until they recuperate. Can . watch, the- show or lounge in the mezzanine as they elect/ Meantime the. theatre has built qp a lot. of press work and is using a standing reference in all ads, . Another theatre has a sign In all butcher shops announcing that meat can be bought and taken to the theatre without danger of sp6il- lng. No reason why anyone should want to sit through, a show with a pound of pork chops in the lap, but ■it gets some attention. Third house is distributing fans through • the business . district. Stated in the text that the fan can be checked with the doorman if the theatre is visited. In another house a lobby display offers a bunch of fans and several overcoats with', the statement that neither are neces- sary when the theatre is visited. That , is a particularly good Idea since it blanks the idea the the- atre may be too cold. Another good line recently worked was a sale of, summer suits, with •as cool as the Criterion theatre' the selling line. Merchant liked it so well that he paid for all the space he took, and also gave a large window display. Just as gootf for summer dresses If you cater to the softer sex. Mellowed the Boar Al Sherman, of Mascot pictures, reports that the State, Youngstown, used an old pickle barrel for its lion roar and got a mellower tone than can be collected, from a pail. Care should be taken to obtain a tight barrel. Loose staves will de- feat the aim. State used this on a perambulator with a boy dressed as Clyde Beatty, who shot off a toy pistol while he brandished, a chair. Pistol . was the: sort that uses a tape of caps arid will shoot 100 times without a. re- load. For the lobby the theatre had a mechanical elephant with rolling eyes, movable trunk and wagging tail. Los Angeles. ■Saero & Mc-tzger Saturday (23) sold the Wll.shlre theatre, Santa (Continued on page 38) Cheap Tie-In Red stars in a food market's hand bills provide. Ray O'Connell, man-, ager of Warner Bros.' Grand the- atre with a very efficient, and very inexpensive piece of advertising. The market runs out 30,000 pieces: of paper/ size of newspaper double truck, each week, covering the city 100 per cent. Each week the flyer carries a large ad for O'Connell, occupying the top center of the In- side. All this costs the theatre is 50 passes, for 50 of the circulars are stamped with. little red stars. People getting a circular -with a star bring it to the iriarket and get one free pass to the Grand.. Better Than a Circus Hartford. Harry Watts, of the Poll theatre, scored a scoop on the rest of the town when ushers toted a huge banner displaying the showing of 'The Thin Man' in the annual con- vention parade of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of New England, held in this city. It Is believed that more than 300,000 saw the parade, which held more than 15,000 march- ers, and the Poll banner was the only piece of advertising permitted. RKO-RADIO PICTURES Galls the attention of ike entire motion picture industry to the Coast 'to* Coast broadcast on THURSDAY, JUNE 28 at 10 P. M. Eastern Daylight Saving Time over WEAF and ENTIRE NBC RED NETWORK of PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS KRAFT MUSIC HALL PROGRAM WHICH WILL BE DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO THE GLORIOUS MUSIC OF DOWN TO THEIR LAST YACHT RKO-RADIO Picture produced by LOU BROCK, Maker of 'Tlying Down to Rio" INTRODUCING TO THE NATION THE COMING SONG HITS OF THE YEAR "BEACH BOY" "FUNNY LITTLE WORLD". ."THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO IN MALAKAMOKALU" . . "SOUTH SEA BOLERO" and "THE TINY LITTLE FINGER ON YOUR HAND" PAUL WHITEMAN will be assisted not only by his famous orchestra but by DEEMS TAYLOR and these notable artistst LEE WILEY, RAMONA, JACK FULTON, BOB LAWRENCE, BOB HAUSER, PEGGY MEALEY, ROY BARGY, and a mixed ensemble of 25 voices* Continuity by Herb Poles ie. Arrangements by Adolph Deutsch, WEAF— New York, N. Y. KGO—San Francisco KSD — St, Louis, Mo: WBEN — Huff ah', • N. Y. WEEl — Boston, Mass. WJARt- Providence, R. I WRC - Washington, D. C. CFCF— Montreal, Canada KGW — Portland, Ore. KSTP — Minneapolis, Minn. WCAE— Pittsburgh, Pa. WFBR — Baltimore, Md. . WKY — Oklahoma City, Okla. • WTAG — Worcester, Mass. RKO RKO-RADIO PICTURES acknowledges with gratitude the honor of having the score of its newest screen musical production presented to the world by PAUL WHITEMAN, a musician of gen- uine attainments whose vision of what popular music might be has rewritten the modern musi- cal history of America* CRCT— Toronto, Canada • KHQ — Spokane, Wash. KTAR — Phoenix, Ark. WCSH— Portland, Me. WFI — Philadelphia, Pa. WLW — Cincinnati, Ohio WTAM - Cleveland, Ohio PICTU RES KDYL — Salt Lake City KOA — Denver, Colo. KTBS — Shrevcport, La. WDAF— Kansas Cii>, Mo. WGY — Schenectady, N. Y. ' WMAQ — Chicago, HI. WTMJ — Milwaukee, Miss. KFI — Los Angeles KOMO — Seattle, Wash. KTHS — Hot Springs, Ark. WDAY — Fargo, N. Dakota • WOC - WHO — Dcs Moines, la. WOAI — San Antonio,' Tex. • WWJ - Detroit, Mich. KFYR-Bismarcfe, N. Dak. KPRC — Houston, Tex. WBAP — Ft. Worth, Tex. WEBC — Dwluth, Minn. WIBA Madison, Wis. WOW — Omaha. Heb PICTIBES VARIETY 29 FILM SCHEDULES The following is as nearly complete a symposium of the major companies' production plans for 1984-1985. All mafor producer-distributors this year have en- deavored to set as much as possible, both in stellar and directorial assignments for 1984-1985 selling season. There is perforce a proviso made on each new program for the unnanounced and undetected scripts and stars. An analysis of the film production schedules appears , on page 5 of thie issue. Among other things indicated is the paucity of action, gangster and metier scripts and the additional relative preponderance of fUmusicals, some 84 of the** being listed. Titio ♦World Moves On* 'Judge Priest* •The Cat's Paw* •Music In the All* •Work of Art* . 'Nymph Errant* •One More Spring* 'Angel Pace* first World War* •State vs.. Elinor Norton' •Marie Galante* •Wife for Sale' •Pox Follies' •Servants' Entrance' 'Life Begins At 40* •Casanova' •Scandals' •County Chairman* •Caravan' •Charlie Chan In London' •Charlie Chan In Paris' 'Fun on the Air' •Hell in the Heavens' •What Am I Bid? •Young Ladles in White' •Dante's Inferno' •Redheads on Pa- rade' Damon Runyon Original . "Serenade* •Wanted' •Heldorado* •24 Hours a Dngp* •Captive Bride* •Lovetlme' '366 Nights In Holly- wood' •First Baby* •Lottery Lover* •Woman Lies* Damea Is Dyna- mite' •Cisco Kid Story* . 'Impersonation of a Lady 'Meal Ticket' The Dice "Woman* Six George O'Brien Features (Nirte unannounced) Title •Merry Widow* •David Copperfleld* 'Good Earth' ■Chained' •Barretts of Wtm- pole Street' 'Mutiny on the Bounty' 'Naughty Marietta' 'Marie Antoinette' 'Biography of a Bachelor* 'In Old Vienna* Tndo-Ghlna' •West Point of the Air' His Brother's Wife* Movie Queen' •Sequoia' - *A Lady Comes to Town' Iris March' 'China Seas' 'Soviet* "What Every Wo- man Knows' 'Tlsh' •Timberline* [Vanessa' [Wind and the Rain* No More Ladies' Tweaking All Others' jHer Excellency's Tobacco Shop' Casino Murder Case' Wicked Woman' fivelyn Prentice' The Gravy Game' Any p ort In Storm' 1. FOX Cast Madeleine Car- roll-Tone Will Rogers Lloyd Spencer Tracy Patterson- Wil- liams-Mundln- Fetchlt WMRogers- Gaynor-Baxter • Temple-Dunn " Spencer Tracy Twelvetrees Gaynor-Ayres Rogers Charles Boyer- Loretta Young Oland Oland Joe Cook Baxter Rogers Bolea Lowe-McLaglen Rosemary Ames- Kelton-Asther- Walthall-Hardle Spencer Tracy Trevor John Boles James Dunn ^ Dunn-Trevor Ayres-Pattersoa Lowe-McLaglen Baxter Tracy-Temple Trevor-Foster Director John Ford Ford Taylor King King Wallace MacFadden King Cummlngs Lloyd Cruze George Haddea Hadden Sutherland Blystone Tuttle Louis Kins; Cummlngs Cummlngs Arzner Tinling Tlnlthg H, Schwarts Raoul Walsh Butler METRO Cast Chevalier-Mac- Donald Gable-Crawford Kruger-Erwln- Una O'Connor Shearer- March- Laughton Gable-Beery- Montgomery MacDonald-Eddy Shearer-Laugh- ton-Marshall Harding- Mont- gomery Novarro-EVelyn Laye Cr awf ord Beery-Robert Young Harlow Davies Parker-Hardie Gable-Mac- Donald Director Lubltsch Cukor George Hill Franklin Lloyd Leonard Franklin Griffith _lexnlng, Rosson ' Buele Sounds' Jungle Red Man' Repeal' ^inginaBiar )Man Crazy' £.amela Tliorndyko' •L>eathon the Dia- mond* 'Black Chamber* * A1 unannounced). PARAMOUNT Title 'Gentlemen's Choice* •Me and the King* •Scarlet Empress' •Cleopatra'. 'Bengal Lancer* •College Rhythm' *R» U R»' 'She Loves Me Nof •Glided Lily* •Llmehouse Nights* •Desire' •20 Hours by Air* "'Sailor, Beware' •Pursuit of Happl- •Mississippi' 'Love Thy Neighbor* •Her Master's Voice' •People Will Talk* •Ladles Should Lis- ten* 'Mrs. Wlggs of Cab- bage Patch' •Now and Forever* Tthumba* •Are Men Worth Itr Target* •Glory of the Damned* •Here Is My Heart* •Ruggles of Red Gap* •Big Broadcast of 1935' •Case Against Mrs. Ames' •One Night Stand* •Wagon Wheels' •Home on the Range* •Crime Without Passion* Untitled Russian story. •Buccaneer* Untitled. •You Belong to Me* •Ready for Love* •Enter Madame* •Back Porch* •Lemon Drop Kid* •Yellow Bargain* •McFadden's Flat* •Lovers In Quaran- tine* •Evening Star* •Eyes of Eagle* •All Kings' Horses* The Milky Way* •Shoe the Wild Mare* (15 unannounced) Cast Mae West West Dietrich -Colbert- William Cooper Penrier- Arlen- Ross-Robertl Crosby-Hopkins Colbert- Grant Sidney-Raft Sidney Co oper-Lombar4 . Crosby Lederer-Boland- Ruggles Fields-Ross Ruggles-Boland- Flelds-Burns and Allen-Skipworth Ruggles-Boland Ruggles-Boland- Luplno-Taylor Grant-Drake ' Pauline Lord- W. CFields- Pltta-Venabl* Cooper-Loin- bard-Shirley Temple Raft-Lombard Colbert Arlen-Venable- Oakle Crosby-Kitty Carlisle Ruggles-Boland- . Standing LannyRoas- Oakie-Paul Ger- rlts. Lee Tracy-Lom- bard Oakle-Ben Ber> nie-Sklpworth R. Scott Scott Rains Jimmy Savo WUcoxsoa Dietrich Lee Tracy- Helen Mack-Helen Morgan-Lynn* Overman Lupino-Arlen Grant-Howard Wilson Fields Tracy-Helen Mack Lloyd Nolan- Venable Lupino-Arlen- ' Gertrude Mi- chael-Randolph Scott Grant-Mack-MV> chael-Standinc Grant-Drake Carl Brlsson- Kitty Carlisle Oakle Wilcoxon Director •von Sternber DeMllle Hathaway Taurog Leisen Nugent Hall Goring Murphy Goring TnttW Taurog Hathaway Ruggles Nugent McCarey Hall Hecht-Mao- Arthur Hecht-Mao- Arthur DeMllle von Sternberg Worker Gerlng Nugent MoLeod Roggles Flood. RKO-RADIO Title •Joan of Arc* •Last Days of Pom- peii* •She' The Forsyte Saga* •Little Minister* •Radio City Revels* The Fountain* 'Alien Corn*- •Roberta' •Age of Innocence* Two untitled. Thnee Musketeers* •Romance In Man- hattan' •El Dorado* 'Gay Divorce* •Kentucky Kernels* Untitled. Two untitled. 'Ho to Shanghai* •Jungle' •Adventure Girl' Three Stand Alone* 'Anne of Green Gables' "By Your Leave* Cast Hepburn Hepburn Hepburn Ginger Rogers- Fred Astalre Harding-Brian Aherne" Harding Irene Dunne- Astalre-Glnger Rogers Dunne- Boles- Crews- AtwlH Irene Donna Lederer Lederer J, Cromwell Philip lfoeUer JohnFord Stephen Rob- 'Freckles' 'Laddie' 'Hide in the Dark* •The World by the Tail' 'Richest Girl in World' 'The Sea Girl' •Wednesday's Child' •False Dreams Fare- well' •Hudson River* (17 uannounced). Lederer Astaire-Ginger Rogers-Alice Brady-Horton Wheeler- WooW sey Wheeler- Woot- sey William PoweH Frank Buek Weissmuller Mary Astor- Frank Morgan- Skeets^Gallagher^ Book Setter Hopkins Bruce Cabot UNITED ARTISTS Title •Affairs of Cellini* •Bulldog Dfummond Strikes Back' 'Count of Monte Cristo' Trans -Atlantic Showboat' (tent) •Catalina' •Don. Juan' •100 Years to Come* 'Scarlet Pimpernel' 'Our Daily Bread' •Last Gentleman' •Mighty Barnum* 'Red Cat* •Richelieu* •Clive of India* It Had to Happen' •Forward March* 'Call of the Wild' *We Live Again' Treasure Hunt' •Barbary Coast' (Two unannounced) . Cast Bennett -March Colman Jack Benny- Nancy Carroll Doug Fairbanks Leslie Howard Keene-Morley Arliss Beery-March Bennett-March Arlisa Colman Gable-Bennett S ten- March Cantor Steh-Cooper Director March LaCava Roy Del Ruth Korda Milestone Vidor Lanneld Mamoullan Del Ruth UNIVERSAL Title •Show Boat' •Sutter's Gold* Two Untitled Pic- tures •Good Fairy* •Within This Pres- ent* •Great Ziegf eld* •Great Expectations* •Mystery of Edwin Drood' 'Princess O'Hara* •Ransom. $1,000,000* •Night Life of the Gods'- •Magnificent Obses- sion' •Bride of Franken- stein' 'Strange Wives* •Raven* •Zest' •Man Who Re- claimed His Head* Transient Lady* •Happened in New York' •Fanny' 'Cheating Cheaters' "Cup of Coffee* •Moon Mulllns* •Castles in the Air* •Confessions of Modern Woman' • •At Your Service' "What Women Dream' •Keep on Dancing* T ve Been Around'- •Joy of Living' •Gift of Gab' The Human Side* (10 unannounced) Cast Margaret Sulla- van Wm. Powell Director Murray Roth L. Sherman Colombo Wm. Wyler Edw. Buzzell Rich. Thorpe Wm, Wyler Kurt Neumann Lowe- Stuart Menjou-Kenyon WARNER BROS. Title •Firebird* .•Golddlggersof 1MB* •Roadhouse* •Magnificent Am- bersons' •Sweet Muslo' 'I'm Back In Chain Gang' •Ride 'Em Jockey* •War Lord' The Cinch* •Six-Day Bible Race* •Halfway to Heaven* •Babbitt' •Little Big Shot* 'Anthony Adverse* 'Sweet Adeline' •Border Town* •Farewell to Shang- hai' •Earthworm Trac- tors' •Air Devils' 'Go Into Your Dance* Til Sell Anything* •Story of a Country Boy' Traveling Sales- lady' •Present From Mar- gate' •Skipper of the Ispahan* •Kansas City Prin- cess' 'Lafayette Esca- drille' •King of the Rita* •Window Panes' •Glorious' The Perfect Week- end' 'Lady Surrenders' 'Big Hearted Her- bert' •Black Hell' 'Captain Blood* •A Lost Lady •Applesauce' 'Case of Howling Dog* •Case of Curious Bride' •Concealment' 'Just Out of College* 'Lost Beauty 'Oil for. the Lamps of China' 'Casino cic Puree' 'School Days' (13 unannounced) Cast. Director Joe EL Brown MacMahon- Klbbee Muni Del Rio-Tone Joe B. Brown Cagney Jolson Blondell-Farrell Jean Mulr Cagney Mulr-Brent MacMahon- Kibbee Muni ~S tan wyck- Cortes Perry Mason Perry Mason VARIETY Tuesday, June 26, 1934 BIG in Boston, Trenton, Washington, Syracuse, Rochester, Detroit, Providence, Cincinnati, Des Moines, Kansas City, Grand Rapids, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Omaha, Sioux City, Best At- tendance in Eight Weeks at Radio City. R KO - RADIO PICTURE Directed by ALFRED SANTELL From the story by LOUIS BROMFIELD Pandro*^ S Bermonj' Executive Producer . 'VARIETY'S'. LONDON OFFMJB 8: St.- Martin's Place,- Trafalgar Square FOREIGN FILM NEWS Telephone! Temple Bar 5041-5048 CnUle Address: VARIETY, LONDON 31 UA INSISTS ON CONTINUING NANA' SUIT 'Nana'- -United - flam Goldwyn lawsuit finally dame up in court Tuesday (12) and got itself twisted into reverse English. irst oft the novelist's heirs, Dr. J, Emlle-Zola and Mme. Denise Le- Iond-Zola, through their counsel, Maitre Alexandre Zevaes, told the court that as far as they were con- cerned the case could be closed. They characterized as a settlement but of court the fact that 'Nana; •was no longer being shown In Paris, and said that this ira.8, to them, a satisfactory answer to their charges that the film version did hot respect the original work arid was 'idiotic and' naive.' But this wouldn't do for United Artists, which represented Gbldwyn, as his distributor.. ; Through its woman lawyer, Maitre Suzanne- ^Blum,. it asserted that taking 'Nana' off was no admission ■ that any rights had been Violated, and that -the pi-' had been removed merely to make room, for other Alms. The suit must go on, said UA, until it was proved that the Zolas had' sold their rights and the producer could use tho title, as it desired; Me. Blum said she had sent the heirs a summons in which she in- formed them that if they wanted to halt the shoeing of 'Nana' they would have to return the $13,300 which they had received for the film rights, |with the privilege of mak- ing any necessary modifications.' The Zolas had nbt replied, the lawyer said. UA told the court it didn't want the case stopped until, it had proved its point, and the Judge again post- poned a decision. Sez Louella (Continued from page 3) or the writer, almost never the photographer. Miss Parsons thinks $hey should. Maybe the public (doesn't know about directors, writ- ers, cameramen— but they can be taught. They'd really like to know About them. • Reading many of the New York >eviews r Miss Parsons wonders how the public can get any Idea of what the. picture's about. A review, Miss Parsons believes, should tell the Btory briefly; say whether the act- ing is good or bad, discuss the direction, the story, the photog- raphy. 'Reviews should not be •written merely to amuse the read- ing public/ she says. 'There are other departments Whose function it is to amuse. There are the funny papers. It's not fair to ridicule a picture-r-when a producer has spent a lot of money on it. They can say whether it's bad,, whether it's worth the price of admission— but why try to out-do each other in being f uririy ? Thai's writing for "each" other, instead of for their public. 'Picture reviewers — I've. been, in this game a long time — must not try to imitate dramatic critics and be .clever. They have a different class of readers.. They should not treat pictures as wOrks of art. Re- views should bo written to tell the public whether they want to see the picture,- whether it will interest them, whether it's worth their money. Often it looks .like the pub- lic, doesn't pay much attention to the reviewers. 'But the reviewers, should write so that the. public will pay atten- tion. Here they seem to be bitter toward the pictures that the people like. They must remember that the public Is not sophisticated, they're not intellectuals. hey want to laugh and cry and imagine them- selves in the place of the hero or J hgroine . Thpy^_r_espond_jto.._ sim ple. honest emotions. Yet the high* brows ridicule honest emotions. I'm not ashamed to cry at pictures,' Miss Parsons said. As to the star system of grading pictures, Miss Parsons herself asked in turn, 'Doesn't that entail pretty much responsibility — to know so much about pictures that one feels qualified to mark them with stars?' Miss Parsons feels that that's really being too omniscient. Paris Grosses (Continued from page- 21) leases, which ran aa a dual bill In the Queyrel showcases, just man- aged to squeeze by without losing coin for the exhib, They showed in the Agricultures and Bonaparte si- multaneously for two weeks, : and then went into the third Queyrel house, Cine Opera for two . more weeks, grossing around $11,300 on total runs. Queyrel's .costs are so low that he can get by with this. He had previously taken the Pomm e r'. production, 'Llllom/ which ran for five weeks in 'all three houses and for another two weeks In Cine Opera alone,, for a grand total of $37,500. Fox cut 'Llltom' drastically after, the Paris run, reducing the original twelve reels to nine, and taking a lot . of , the fantasy but of the. dream sequences which the lowbrow pub-. 11c. could not be expected,, to get. In spite of this, orders from the provinces are spotty. Certain amount of cancellation, after news 6t the noisy reception . received by the. film in the Queyrel houses got out. : Is also reported to have come in, Fox, in any case, is not push- ing : the flirt out. of town, for the summer. Figures there may be more to be done with it next sea- son.' TeHing Me' 'You r re Telling. Me' (Par), shown under the title " of 'Dollars and Whisky/ has proved a socko at the tiny. Studio 28 up on the Mont- martre hill. Place is so small that the ; dally gross, does, not indicate hbyv well the film is going,.- but house is. jammed nightly, despite high gate fees. Since '$1,000,000 Legs'. W. C r . Fields has been, a draw here with a .certain crowd that likes to pretend it gets American humor, although the dialog is certainly be- yond, them; 'Duck Soup' Marx Bros, opus, preceded the Fields pic- ture In this house and ran fOr months. Same public supported it, attracted, ,if bewildered, by the speed of the. clowning. Fields' pic should stay well into the summer- Par's 'Bolero' opened fairly, well at the Pathe-Natan Empire. Re- lease was timed to coincide with big Paris season, in which all amusement interests; backed by the Government, are uniting to give biz a shot in the arm, and will certain- ly be held over until the end of June, during which month the spe- cial festivities are on. Picture in- terests hope that, although the spe- cial attractions ' are mostly out- doors, they will bring enough peo- ple to town to fill the theatres in the evenings during lulls in the other attractions. Par Theatre At the Paramount theatre cur- rent offerings is a French produc- tion, 'Coralle et Cle./ which is not setting the Seine on fire. Matinees are low, but certain amount of biz is being done at night, bringing daily average In the neighborhood of $2,500, which is just fair for this spot. United Artists had two bad breaks at its Lord Byron showcase with 'Nana/ which petered badly after .a fair start, and 'Sorrell and Son/ British made, which never got a start at all, despite a gala open- ing at which the British .Ambassa- dor and lots of other big shots were present. 'Sorrell' went right out again, Tepiaced by 'Mbulin ~ RbugV current and. weakish. . 'Wonder Bar' (WB) after a de- cent run at the Apollo, is replaced today by a double bill, 'The House on 66th Street' and 'Convention City/ Metro has closed up 'Danc- ing Lady' at the Madeline, after business which totaled not so ter- rible, substituting Laurel and Hardy's 'Sons of . the Desert.' These boys are sure-fire In this town. -'The Prizefighter and the Lady' is still struggling against the, weather at the Miracles. 'Cat and Fiddle/ picked up by Marbeuf to open the remodeled house,, is getting along all ' right. London 10%'er on Coast Hollywood, June 25. S. is. Linnit of the O'Bryen and Linnit ^agency in London is. in Hollywood. •■ - — .— — ^=^.-=.-^ Percenter. is confabbing with his company's local representatives, Hawks-Volck agency. McCordy's Tour Sydney. May SO, Joe McCurdy of. Columbia is see- ing all of Australia on a current tour. He is seeking dates for "Dam- aged Lives' throughout the Com- monwealth, in co-operation with the various hygiene societies, G, T. took the entire Columbia output for the circuit. Los Angeles, June 26. Mystery of Bernard Natan's visit to this country is still a mystery. The mogul of European fllmdom, through h|s spokesman, Henri Diamant-Berger, spoke effusively of the beauties of the country but on. the subject of pictures emulated the well known clam. What brings him here? Say, can't a feller take a vacation, with- out being linked with every big deal that's in the fire? . How come he checked in at the Ambassador the same time the Paramount execs moved in for their convention? A coincidence, mebbe? For artful sidestepping ..these' monsieurs are' the last word. How's picture business on -.the continent? Improving, thank you. Are American pictures doing bet- ter? Much worse. If you send over the few good ones and burn up the others we'll all be better off. Are U. S. films discriminated against? Only the bad ones. French pic- tures are the only ones that make money. What U. S. films made money? Our losses with 'Cavalcade' and 'Eskimo' were not so bad. How about Mae West? Just so-so. Doing any business at all. on .this trip? Verree Revealing Yes, in Montreal where we have theatre interests. What's the nature of itT Your California climate is delight- ful and we hope to come back again soon to enjoy it. How abbut dual bills? No one who shows double features can get a foot of film from us. - Why do you say American pic- tures are not popular abroad? Because your -Alms have been out of the foreign market so long that your talker stars are practically un- known. Isn't that being overcome? Bad pictures overcome nothing. Where do you go from Montreal? To New York, from where we sail for home July 7. AnV business deals awaiting your return to New; York? One doesn't do business deals on a vacation. So the vacationists have departed and the great Natan mystery goes on. Richardson (Continued from page 5) • in the P-P case or which already has been completed by the trustees. In effect, by filing under the new bankruptcy laws, the t»-P case practically becomes a new thing to all intents and purposes and the Court Is privileged to appoint new trustees If deeming it advisable or necessary. Oh the face of things it appears that Charles D. Hilles and Eugene W. Leake may continue as the Par trustees permanently until reorganization. However, if the Court decides it can shift them. At a recent hearing in Court Leake, Richardson and Hilles were named temporary trustees, until the scheduled hearing of July 10, when the question of their permanency comes-up..- BRASSEUR QUITS COAST Hbliywood, June 25. Pierre Brdsseur, juvenile, brought here by Fox for the French version of 'Caravan/ left last, night (Sun- day), for New York. He'll sail to France next week. Richardson has been a Par trus- tee for around a year. He is stated to have been sponsored by the Elec- trical. Products, Inc., (Erpi). ahd Allied Owners mostly. When he ac- cepted the Par appointment, he ai-: ready had resigned as treasurer of Fox Film. He was a former Chase IJank official and prior to this con- nection was concerned with the or.lginal promotion of the Roxy the- atre. Par Returns to French Language Mart, but Only as Indie Distrib Mangan Back to Rex? Local, representatives bit Francis A. Mangan interests say he's nearer than ever. to getting management of Rex, boulevard 6,000-seater. . Cables are now buzzing back and forth to clean up details, they say. Mangan is in the U. S. After leaving the Paramount, Mangan put on the Rex stage shows frith which the house' was opened. Present negotiations are being con- ducted by receviers of Jacques Haik interests, which built arid launched the theatre, WB POLISH HEADACHE WORSE; FRENCH ANGLE Local Warner Bros, office Is get- ting more and more, annoyed over the ban on WB films in Poland and accompanying campaign of socks in Polish press, and may send a major European exec to Warsaw to try to' straighten the situation out. Latest headache is the result : of distorted quoting in a Polish paper of an ariclejn a French trade sheet, citing one of Al Jolson's songs in 'Wonder Bar' as an insult to the French. French paper's article is attributed to special interests, since there was no general protest over the song and In general it was con- sidered harmless and amusing. Pol- ish paper greatly exaggerated the French article, and said: 'This proves that Warner Bros, pictures not only Insult us, but all other na- tions.' Polish ban, which started several months ago, was based on insult to the national dignity in several WB films ^ in which prizefighter and gangster characters were called by names of Polish national heroes. Warners made amends "by changing the names and cutting dialogue, but. ban continued nevertheless. Wouldn't be so bad if just this picture were outlawed, for this hap- pens often in one country or another in the case of Individual .films which might hurt someone's feelings, but no Warner product can get into the country, and the newspapers get rougher and rougher. . Sock came just at time when Warner was thinking of opening Polish branch. 'Wonder Bar' kickback, a surprise to all, is attributed to monkey busi- ness ' by someone in Paris. German Pix (Continued from page 21) twice as good as the American in- dustry, for America hasn't 14,000,- 000 Americans living outside the frontiers who have to be bottle-fed on propaganda constantly.--.; About 26 features will be filmed abroad, which should , give Germans an ace in. the hole when matters of contingents come - up.- Here, too f . will frozen assets be utilized to finance the films, Germany having millions'' of relchmarks tied- up In neighboring, countries which cannot^ be paid, but can be used in the lands whero the money is frozen. At < present there Is no indication that Germany will do any tamper- ing with the. contingent agreements reached with foreign lands. Ameri* can films, in the main, draw well here and the more money ah ex- hibitor gets the more he will be able to pay for local product. German government will,, how- ever, continue to scrutinize care- fully the casts of the American pic- tures and knock oft those with prominent Jews. Because they draw so well for- eign films may get some breaks In the matter of import restrictions. How the foreign industry is going .t0 -go.t, its,mo ney^.o.ut- of .Germa ny is; another question. A warm April splashed lots of red ink around, but a cool May and a cool month this far in June have the' boys thinking about uncorking tho blue ink again. ►Some of the recent German films appear to be costing somewhat more than they previously did; but no falling what kind of money they are working with,' so production ligures here are guess work. Paris, June 16. .-■ Paramount, with renewed pep in this market, has laid out a pro- gram of eight local mades to re- lease with its dubbed American pro- duction next season arid* under sell- ing leadership of Herirl Klarsfeld, looks forward to a revival of busi- ness. American and French -«made pro- grams will be "presented together to the sales force at a convention to.be held this week-end, timed with the Paramount convention in Amer- ica. Boys will go through three days of pepping up. All .Par's local mades, while" dis- tributed by . Par, are produced by independents, following the formula Inaugurated by the company with 'Fedora' this year, when concern started back into thj local-made' business. In some cases the pro- ducer may have a little' Paramount money to help him out, but even that is not imperative. Concern is using this back door .method of get- ting into the- local trade as a much safer system than that of making its own at '.ts own studios. Since in many cases the Indies rent the Paramount Joinville lot to make the pics, besides . paying Par a per- centage as distributor, the Ameri- can concern thus makes coin on both ends without risk, and gains a sweetener for the. Hollywood out- put. .. Klarsfeld has put a lot of time and energy into picking the right ones out of the Hollywood output, with the idea of getting a release program that will not only appeal to Paris and France but also to the outlying countries in Europe, such as Egypt, Roumanla, etc. His idea is universal appeal, not Pari- sian. American Dubs With this in mind Par has de- cided to dub 'Scarlet Empress/ 'Cleopatra/ 'Bolero/ 'Matador/ and 'Murder in the Vanities'; the two Wiecke pix, two Wests, a Garry Cooper, a Grant-Sydney, a Charles Laugh'ton and Lubitsch. Local-made program opens .With 'La Crlse est FInie/ ('Depression la Over') musical megged by Siodmak for Nero Films, starring Albert Pre- jean. This, is the picture over which the French technicians have been raising a row on the ground that foreigners have been getting all the breaks In making it. Pic is ready now. Then comes 'Dede/ another musi- cal, also with Prejean, based on a Willemetz operetta, with music by Christine. Producer is Henri Ven- dresse and it is directed by Guls- sard. Same combination Is making film version of current Louis Ver- neull legit success at the Marigny, 'L'Ecole des Contrlbuables/ ('School for Taxpayers'). Much Is expected of this one. Included in the list as a local- made -is one actually done in Eng- land by British and Continental, in two Versions, English and French: 'The Gentleman/ with Jean Murat and Meg Lemonnler starring In the French version. Cllve Brook has the English lead. Film starring "Victor Boucher, big legit draw, Is planned by an outfit called' Compagnie Nbuveile Com- merclale; No title yet. Gallimard will produce a: gangster pic called .'Marseilles Nights/ directed by Aron, and also will do an original story by Louis Verneull, as yet un- determined. BRIT. LION'S U. S. HOPES WITH SOPH TUCKER PIC London, June IS. Sam Smith, head of British Lion Films; has. signed Sophie Tucker for 'Gay Love/ plcturizatibn of Audrey artd Waveney Garten's play, being produced by Leslie Hiscott. Picture was originally scheduled to star Florence Desmond, but English mimic will now co-star with Tucker. Idea of putting Miss Tucker into picture is to crash American market, and it's figured with both stars in, it has good chance to make the grade. B.L.K. is also ready to start shoot- ing 'The Green Pack,' last of JMgar Wallace's plays. Wires now burn- ing up to get Hollyy-o'xl f^mmo name, wllh nothing set. T. Hayes Hunter to mo VARIETY GREAT ZIEGFELD By WILLIAM ANTHONY McGUIRE and BILLIE BURKE * AN epic of the American Theatre!... A i glamorous glorification of the glori- fier of American beauty! The intimate life story of the man who contributed to the modern age a new world of entertain- ment; of beauty, music, gayety, drama — and who introduced to the world the greatest succession of star personalities it had ever known! Topping Ziegfeld at his best, the picture promises to become to the screen what the "daddy of 'em all" was to the theatre! i::!i!: iiii M i :t:::::::::::: 11 ,t i - [■ n t in i, t ' , , ",i i lowell sherman product ion ::;;;:;:: : i;;;;::;i:n:;!HiHM!i;!;M : ii!;l:!: J^L 1 I I I rt:::t:: i ii i iii _ i i i hi :|;p;=:...| il:n::::ii:it:i::j l ll i 1L>] 'n'l I'l.i! I '''I'" The much-talked about novel 'by' THORNE 1 SMITH offers file; most unique p^iire; Idea in years ! A man who finds ph«p m via; for changing people into ste»ne meets a woman possessed of the power to bring .s^wes'bffd^'tolifel; , ^eyfaciNeW^ift accompanied by Bacchus, Neptune, Venus, Mercury, Diana and the rest -in modem liiliiii! 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LLOYD C DOUGLAS' FAMOUS NOVEL MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN ::!tiii:U 1 J ill liiil Eu-ii t"i- 1 'l^J', _ 1 ' 'i»'.L i hIS'iji!" *i! liSpR success— EDNA FERBEIcS biggest noSM llpiiii mance ■ — — - ■'in .Hi I'M i ihr ':IH % III •■•liiiju! F. ii L i!i!!ni!li:;i!li production, such rich exploj^pn ids ak to sf adder th& inrtfciain^il4lon^ WW i::ii;:i!:p!!{i! i ::i:i:n i.-l iniii: Tie-ups as to stagger me imaginmion^'v Watch Universal bust the industrywide ,(' LliVi i H,| llTrT'il^l'FPi.lt 1 Iily-i 1 > ments* ' Yessiiv ' Show Boat sails th6 r Wen f eas ofioy ag«,ib r i^^f«»Kf gunwales with , ' Its precious ciorgo m ::it:::il ill liihii: 'ij !!ii!!l!!i!H In ; $ang$, voitirng to part with a> cargo af gold for YOU! f.ti -i > ui t — ■ntnfcni*ni£Uiiii I 1 'l 1 1 ,1 ,i ii I: ! :"i„"1i mMi>nuMii'Mniitiirtmiit«iiinhiiMi>lii 34 Y^RIETY PICTURES Tuesday, June 26, 1934 Bishops Hope on Films (Continued from page 5) ture Producers and Distributors of America, Jnci (Hays organization), to be represented at the meeting of the bishops who form the Catholic committee on pictures. Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas of the Cincinnati diocese is chairman of the committee. Serving with him are Bishops John J. Cantwell, Los Angeles; Hugh C. Boyle, Pitts- burgh; John F. Noll, Fort Wayne, Ind. Their conference with Brc.en. on Thursday (21) was at the res.l-. dence of Archbishop McNicholas. At the close of the pow-wow a formal statement for the press was: released by the committee. The statement's explanation of the new machinery set-up for the picture in- dustry follows the plan as exclu-. sively predicted by Variety in last week's issue. Up to the Execs Now The method calls for the invest- ment of additional local authority In the Code Administration, which is to be given an emplifled per- sonnel and supplant the pro- ducers* jury in Hollywood. Final responsibility for the character of pictures to be issued under the new system rests upon the board of di- rectors of the organized industry; the board to be the* last resort in settlement of disputes between' studies and the Code Administra- tion. While audiencing the newspaper boys, Archbishop McNicholas sup- 1 plemented - the written' statement with- verbal expressions. He opined, 'The Catholic Church has always : been known for its liberality on en- tertainment. The campaign how under way for cleaner motion pic- tures has not come about from an overnight decision. For years we havo recognized the constant addi^ ^tion of bold and bolder liberties on the screen. It is not the purpose of the Church to be fussy, nor to med- dle in business affairs. However, we recognize the present need for a crusade for improvement in pic- tures, which are a .cjomnfth form of entertainment for adults and chil- dren. 'TO let the makers .of pictures go along unchecked would be to allow a still deeper drop of morals.' Archbishop McNicholas stated that conduct of the Legion of De c^ncy membership drive Is up to the head of each Catholic diocese, the campaign being a recommenda tion of the Bishops' committee on pictures. A meeting of Catholic bishops is slated for the fall in Washington, D. C. By then the new control machinery of the film indus- try will have had opportunity to prove its good intentions, and it is probable that the meeting will de .clde whether to lessen or step up the battle for decency and morality In pictures. Bishops' Statement The formal statement: 'Following a meeting of the Cath olic Bishops' Committee on Motion Pictures, members of which lire Archbishop John T. McNicholas; Bishop John J. Cantwell, Di I>„ of Los Angeles; Bishop. . Hugh. C, Boyle, D. D., of Pittsburgh, and. Bishop John F. Noll, t>. D., of Fort Wayne, held at the residence, in Norwood, of the Archbshop of Cin^ cinnatl, the following statement was issued: 'During the past several months the Catholic Bishops' Committee on Motion Pictures, in co-operation, with the authorities of all. the dioceses of the country, has been waging a campaign of protest against the destructive moral in- fluence of evil motion pictures. There has been no wish to harm nor destroy the motion ' picture: business.. But the evil character of portions of many motion pic- tures, and the low standards of some motion pictures, have forced the Bishops to take direct and ag- gressive action in safeguarding the moral well being of their people. These recent activities against mo- tion pictures which offend decency and morality were launched only after years of vain hope that. the producers of these pictures would realize the harm being done and — take=positive-=steps=to=correQt— the= trend. The Committee is not hos- tile to the entertainment business; in fact, it recognizes entertainment as a virtual necessity in modern life. But such entertainment must be of a wholesome character, and to that objective the' Committee has earnestly addressed its efforts. 'The Legion of Decency, whoso members pledge themselves not to. patronize theatres showing offen- sive films, has gathered to its ban nor many, thousands of adherents wherever it has been -introduced. Plans are being developed to ex- tend its membership to every town and city . in the United States and to invite all persons in sympathy with its purposes to lend U'olr sup- port. 'The Committee has been in- formed that, through the loyal co- operation of our. Catholic- people, together, with widespread re- sponse on the part of marry others who 1 believe that a purification of the cinema is an outstanding moral, issue of the day, the motion pic- ture theatres have suffered, a se- vere curtailment of patronage* This curtailment has prompted the Mo- tion Picture Producers and.Dlstri - u tors of America, Inc., to send Mr! Martin Qiiigley, of New York City, and Mr. Joseph I. Breen, of Holly- wood, to the meeting of the Epis- copal Committee today. The com- panies which are members of the above named organization are re^- puted to be responsible for approxi- mately 90%' of the films produced In the United States. 'The representatives of the asso- . ciatlon, submitted a proposal cover- ing certain specific revisions of the industry's ' plan" of self regulation. 'The Committee has been pleased to receive these representatives and 1 to learn from them of the renewed efforts toward enforcement of the industry's plan of self- regulation! effective as ,of JUly; 1, 1934, which has been decided upon. The Com- mittee is Informed that the Pro-, ducers' Jury in Hollywood, a part of the , original machinery enforce- ment of the Production Code, which was Adopted in April; 1930, has been abandoned and that : additional local authority has been assigned to the Code .Administration', which Administration is to be given an amplified personnel. In the past the Producers' Jury has functioned in- effectively.'. 'The final responsibility for the character of the motion pictures; to be Issued' by" the 'organized indus- try has been accepted by the Board of Directors of the organized in dus'try. The>c!ourt of last resort* in the settlement of any disputes Which may arise 'between' the studios and the Code Administra- tion "will be this 'Board of .Direc- tors; ° : 1 'The Episcopal,. Committee views with' favor' .the' renewed efforts' of th'e : organized industry to discharge Its responsibility of issuing only Such motion pictures as may con- fdrnv with reasonable' moral stand- ards. The Committee believes that the Production Code if given en forcement will, materially and con structlvely influence the character of screen entertainment. Hence, it is disposed to render, encourage- ment and co-operation to these ef- forts which it hopes will achieve the promised results; 'Our Catholic people, however, are counselled that in the long run the desired results of a wholesome screen can be assured only through unfailing opposition to evil motion pictures. The .widespread interest in and loyal support of. our, campaign Of protest must he maintained in order that the producers of motion pictures may constantly be aware of the demand for clean entertain- ment The salacious and otherwise objectionable type of. motion pic- ture must be avoided. 'The Episcopal Committee hopes that the results of the organized industry's renewed efforts looking . toward adequate self-regulation will be followed by an adequate moral Improvement in the pictures shown. And thus it .Is hoped that 'the- Catholic ;i Bishops- may be re- lieved of what otherwise will be the imperative necessity of continuing indefinitely and of extending -the campaign of •protest. '.The Episcopal Committee ap- proved of a National Committee of priests^ members of which are as follows: Bt. Rev. Msgr, Hugh L Lamb, D. D., Chancellor, Arch- diocese of Philadelphia; Rev. Ed- ward Roberts • Moore, Ph.. By Head of Division of Social Action, Cath Olic Charities of the Archdiocese ■rof ^New=^orltr^RovH"G eorger^F Johnson, Ph. D„ Associate Pro- fessor of Education, Catholic Uni- versity of America, Washington, D C, and Executive Secretary, De r partmeht of Education, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Rev. F. 0. pineon, S. J., Rector of St. Ignatius Church, Chicago, Illinois; Rev. John J. Devlin, St. Victor's Church, West Hollywood, Call fornia. Suggestion Baltimore, June 25. Auditorium, being under sta- tus of a legit house, is union- ized and must pay two stand- by stagehands when pictures are present. Howard Burman, who had the Baer- Camera flte films there last Week, was com- plaining to his partner in the venture, Max Cohen, that he 'had to pay $120 for two pin- ochle plays to hang around backstage.' To. Which Cohen suggested 'Sit me in and I'll win it back.' _ y Stock Market MUCH THEATRE BLDG. IN MINN, St Paul, June 25, This year is a banner one for thpatre construction in Minnesota, with $1,070,000 being spent or con- tracted for in the building of new show houses throughout the state. Towns represented in this outlay are St, Paul (with two new nabes in the silk-stocking district, con- tracts for which were approved by the city council last week), .Minne- apolis, : Edin%, Stillwater, Winona, New Prague and. Fergus Falls., DISMISS FITZEB CHARGES . Syracuse, N. Y., June 26. Insufficient evidence resulted in the dismissal of charges of ..- ma- licious mischief preferred against Joseph Fitzer, former Happy Hour theatre lessee and now manager of the Brighton. It's the outcome of the Wrecking of the former house two months ago. Employees' statements .had im- plicated Fitzer. Incorporations NEW YORK Albany. leff-Myers Corp.j pictures, plays etc. ; capital stock, 100 shares, no par value MUtpn H. Fox, Harold D. Scuarf - and Herman Young, all of 1170 Broadway, New York, Bex Beel Col, Inc.; projecting ma- chines; capital' stock* % 10,000; Louis Walker and Louise Schaub. 75-39 Fur manvllle avenue, Middle Village, L. I., and Helen Levlne, 135.7 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. High Frequency Specialties, Inc.; gen- eral' radio business; capital stook, 1100,- 000; Prltchard H. Strong, Rochester; John; M. High, Rlverdale, and Leonore M. High, 3$ West 44tU'%trejet, New York. Two Keel Productions, Inc. t pictures; capital stock, 100 shares,, no par value; Susanne Groves, Harriet Kerr and George Blake, all of 1501 Broadway, New York. Brunjes, Carlo and Sanders, Inc.; print' lng and publishing of songs, lyrics, etc.; capital stock, $5,000; Adam Cbrlstman, Jr., 80-61 Tryon road, Jamaica; BUz. F. Tennis, 104-11 Mist street, Queens Vil- lage, and Arnella M. Reckner, 89-05 75th avenue, Glendale.. Times Pictures, Inc.; pictures, etc.; capital stock, $1,000; Freda' Jaret and Miriam Rosenbluni, 19 Court street, Brooklyn. Police Radio Corp,; radio and wireless telegraph instruments; capital stock, $10,000; William A. Campbell, 110 Bast 42nd street; Sol J. Levy, 37 West 72nd street, and Gordon S. P. Kleeberg, 285 Madison avenue, all of New York. Super-Serial Productions, Inc.; pic- tures, plays, etc.; capital stock, $20,000; Alfred 9: Krellberg, Hilda Geler and Arthur J. .Homans, all. pt 342 Madison avenue, New York. . Powerfohe ~ ISfecfrlo Corp.; general radio- broadcasting business; .capital stock, ,200.- shares, no par ' value; Max Haspiel, Jacob Wenafsky and Edw. L. Kalne, all of 291 Broadway, New York. . Clne-Ampll-Tone, Inc.; picture busi- ness; capital' stock,.-. $150,000; Lillian M. Chamber's; 860. Bronx Park South, Bronx; Robert T, Curran, 1160 Bryant avenue, Bronx, and Jas. A. Hamilton, Jr., .2090 Washington avenue, Bronx. Masoey-Howard, Inc., Mlllbrook; mu- sical compositions, etc. ; capital stock; 200 shares) ho par value; Charles S. Howard; 27 West 44th street, New ..York; Edw. Massey, 983 Memorial drive, Cambridge, .Mass., and John B. Howard, 205 Mt. Auburn street, Cambridge, Mass. Joe Itlvkln, Inc.; pictures, vaudeville, etc.; capital stock, 100. shares, no par value;. Joe Rlvkln, William Males and Natalie NaPP, all of 1776 Broadway, New York, Statement and Designation Theatre Equipment Contracts Corp., 7 West 10th street, Wilmington, Del.; securities, New York office, 3 Ferry street; W. B. Green, president; 16,000 shares, no par value; Med by Hughes,' Schurman & D wight, 100 Broadway, Now York. Dissolutions —AUled--Productlon8, Inc.; filed by -Field ,& Field, 1 Bast 42nd street, New York. CALIFORNIA Sacramento. Buck Jonen Productions. Capital stock, 10 shares. No stock subscribed. Di- rectors: Buck Jones, Dell Jones, Allen •K. Wood. OKLAHOMA ' Oklahoma City. Sulllynn & Moore Theatres, Inc., lieau- mont, Texas; capital stock, $10,000. In- corporators, Oils U. Sullivan. A. H. Moore, Jr., and Solemun E. Gordon, all of Beaumont. (Continued from page 9) . The cotton market also was better on Saturday, Declining grain prices' did not add to bullish enthusiasm: durinff the past week, although. It will be . recalled that stock prices failed to follow recent upturn in Wheat and' other grains. Therefore,] decline* became more of a reason for selling than any actual cause of selling down stocks. Business indices continued favor- able. Outstanding were power out- put figures which, were substantially' above production of past three years. They were near 1934 peak and 55% ahead of 1933. Power out- put also showed an increase over previous week. Utility experts are, hopeful that relative, steadiness at- these high . levels may prevent a; repetition of the big dip of July last year. Steel operating rate also was! most promising since it only dipped. 1% to 60%, according to iron Age •'■ estimates. This small decline indl-- cates that fear of strike was of little influence in recent steady increase, in rate over -past .hree or four' weeks, and that other, and more- important Influences, had increased; production. Increase 'in price of heavy steel scrap was a bright spbt in the steel picture since there had ' been eight consecutive "• cuts in price , previous to this increase. Carloadirigs again, showed an in-'j crease, but it was. fractional com- pared to preceding week and ' the smallest gain over 1933 to be re- corded this year. Vast improve- ment oyer 1933, however, can be: seen In figures for this year which show loadings to be more than two; million cars ahead of last year and also in excess of a. million more than were' loaded in 1932. Employment figures showed May fractionally ahead of April and* nearly 20% greater than in May, 1933. Payrolls also increased in May as compared with April, and were 25% greater than May of the preceding year. Bank clearings for week ending June 20 showed a 21.1% increase over previous week, and- were 0,5% higher than a year ago. There also was a further spec- tacular gain in net demand deposits amounting to $162,000,000 . and brought such, deposits to a hew high for the year. Blow to Broker* Process of consolidating its gains of previous week placed the mar- ket in a position to hover between 98 and 1Q0 for first two days of past week. Then it climbed to 101.11 on Tuesday only to close down at 99.02. Then on Wednesday and Thursday it idly drifted between 99 and 97, finishing at 97.50 of the Dow- Jones industrial averages on Thursday. Last hour on Friday , witnessed a sell-off on volume which carried the industrial averages down to nearly the 95 level. This Friday sell-off was disheart- ening to brokers who had been pre- dicting a rally or at least a fur- ther advance In the near future. However, , , perhaps really strengthened the inner position bf the market as a whole and prepared it for _a. further slow increase in stock prices. Amusements of. late have had plenty to contend with along With usual summer decline in business. Then, . too, the picture, companies generally have not had many hit films to give the pubfto right now. But, as the market as a whole picks up, amusements may be expected to follow the general trend and to begin reflecting an an- ticipated pick-up in business for the fall months. And a favorable sign is the fact, that now It would -appear that the purse of the vast grain- producing region would not be ma- terially reduced as many at first predicted. 'Virtually all amusement stocks wound up the week With declines. Of the most active stocks, Loew's common suffered the greatest with a net loss of 2% points. It closed at 30% after getting down to 29% during the week. Other large losses included Pathe A, down 2% points; Radio B, down 2%; Columbia Pic- tures certificates, down 3; Eastman Kodak, down 2%, and. Fox A, down %. Other amusements showed losses .of less than a point except- ing American' Seat, which was un- changed at f% and. Universal Pic- tures preferred, also unchanged at; 38. Bonds Amusement bonds were irregular With many, showing losses for tho week. In this, category were Gen- eral Theatre Equipment bonds,. Keith 6s, . Paramount-Broadway 5^s,. Parambunt-Famous-Iiasky ' 6s, and certificates, of . same issue, Patho 7s, and Warner Brothers 6s. Para- mount-Broadway bonds declined 1% points while Warner Brothers ' Hens slipped 2% points. Other losses were confined to less than a point. RKO .debentures advanced 2% points to 33%. .Loew's 6s gained fractionally and Paramount-Publlx '59 certificates advanced a point. Despite this rather driab perform- ance, four bonds and certificates climbed to new 1934 highs. Para- mount-Famous-Lasky 6s estabr llshed 'a new top at 65%,. and cer- tificates of same went to a new high at ' 54%. Paramount-Publlx 6%b made, a new year's high at 66% and certificates of the same went to 5.4%> .also a, new 1934 top. Viewed from a general standpoint market' as 'a whole looks to point upwards. . As has been stated here before, it is doubtful if the climb will be sensational or if it will bo immediate. But shrewd traders ex- pect the- upward trend to be re- sumed shortly. Market gave every appearance during last 30 to 46 days of having established a triple bot- tom. Based on that alone, there ap-. pears no reason for thinking that the trend will be downwards. And the amusements , may be expected to follow suit, although as has been said before, this group may be a little backward in following market as a whole. Summary for Week Ending Saturday, June 23 ' STOCK EXCHANGE High. Low. _» .,2%. 34% 28 17% 10% 101 79 17% 12% 23% 18% 35% 25%. 97% 72 .7 4% 20% 21 5% 1% 4% 24% 21% ,9> 6% 4% 2% 30% 15 40% 10% 8% 4% 47% 30% Sales. 809 -809 •1.700 1.400 4,000 2,300 04,809 23)200 299 1,000 . 100 14,700 2,300 11,499. 49,199 0,300 0,600 §40 18.009 27,409 Issue and rata. .:'•■ American Seat....... Consol, Film, , .. .. . .'■-. ...... 4 Columbia P. vtc. (1)* ' Consol, Film pfd. h)f, ™ ' ~ " (4)... • . . ««*-. . , ......... * Plus ' 9 10-ahare Eastman Kodak Fox, Class A , Gen. Elec. (09c.),., ,.. LOOW ■ (1) . • , . r .«•••' ft a* -Do pref. (0%)...'. Madison Sq. Garden.. ...>w.: Met-Q-M pref. (1.89). ....... Paramount ctfs. ... . . . . . Pathe Exchange . . \ ; . . . . . . , , . Pathe, ' Class A.-..'. «|dlp Corp, . .> .'. , . £*t^-*-; •......•••». ••«•'. .......... Radio, prd. 1 B., M .t;...... Universal pref.,.. i i..... Warner Bros... .4.. Westlnehouse High. 4% -.3% 33 . 16% *191 . ! 10% : . . 21% . .32% .90% r 0%. . 20% 2.. 23% 7% 2% 33% 38 w, ■ 54% 47" 41 05% 1 01 15*000 Technicolor »i4a? 700 Trans Lux <10e.)t..-;,v"!""v 1%' BONDS 3V6 51 85 85 28% ii0% 29 30 18% 40% $38,000 1.090 30,000 7,909 — 43,090 37,000 100,000 33,000 8,000 1.000 109,000 Gon. Thea. En. Keith 0*8, '40. Loew 0's, '41 , Pathe 7's, '37..... , »PariFam=Liisk7"C , ^'4'i'7T7fT; Par-Fam-Lft8ky 0's, '47, ctfs'. Par-Pub 5%'n, 'CO.'... Par-Pub 5%'s, '31), ictrs. Par-Broadwny . 5%"Bi '51...... KKO debs C f s.... ; Warner Hros. 0's, '.'{i» OVER THE COUNTER. Roxy. Class A I. Do Forest Phono . . ; PRODUCE EXCHANGE. N. Y. .. »% .. 08% . . . 102% .. 91) =«5%^ . . *54% . . ir»r>% . . J54y» .. 44% .. 33% fi. V. 8% 8% - % »8% 08% - % 101% 102 f % 98 08 -1% - ~ m~ 53 C3 - % r.4% 55 53% 54 -t-1% 43 43 33% 33% ■4-2% 2.000 Par-ipub I "Plus stock exd;' . ' t Paid Vhm year-' fcltaw ,o 3 .( „, Coast Engagements N. Y. OPERATORS' UNION RAID; IMPOUND RECORDS WB Hollywood, June 26. Kitty Kelly, 'She Was a Lady,' . Fox- William Gilbert, writes original, Mascot. > Julie Kingdon, 'Romance In the Bain,' U. Junior Durkln; Mickey Rooney, •Big Hearted Herbert,'' WB. Rochelle Hudson, 'Imitation of ife,» U. Edward Arnold, 'Hideout,' Metro. Dewey Robinson, 'Student Tour,' M Jack Klrkland, adapts 'Sand Hog,* Fox. Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson, music, 'The Great Ziegfeld,' U. Lane and Adamsoh, music, 'Hello Big Boy/ Col. Ethel Hill, Col. Alison Skipworth, 'Captain Hates the Sea,' Col. Hans Kraly, adapts the King's Horses,' Par. Albert Conti, Floyce Brown, mer and Elsie,' Par. George Reed, 'Mrs. Wlggs of the Cabbage Patch,' Par. Andre Cheron, Richard Loo, Lock Chan, 'Now and Forever,' Par. Beulah Bond!, 'Ready for Love,' Par. Rev. Neal Dodd, Lqu Cass, Max Mack, Mary Owen, 'You Belong, to Me,' Par. Arthur Housman, untitled short, Arthur Kober, scripts 'Moon Mul- 11ns,' U; Joan Bennett ■, 'Pursuit of Happi ness,' Par. Charles Starrett, 'A Lady Sur- renders,' WB. Louis Friedlander, directs 'Tall epln Tommy,' U 'serial..-. 'James Horne, directing vaude Short, U. Helen Trenholme, 'Case of the Howling Dog/ WB. Frank Huntley, scripting 'Work of Art/ Fox. r Elizabeth Patterson, Mickey Rooney* C. Henry Gordon, Muriel Evans, 'Hideout/ Metro. Dore Schary, adapts untitled yarn, Metro.' Lynn Cowan, 'Student Tour/ MG. Virginia Verrill, 'Hideout/ MG. Andre Beranger, 'Captain Hates the Sea/ Col. Lucille Brown, 'Law of the Wild/ Mascot. Gouveneur Morris, writing orlg Anything Once/ Mascot. '. Edwin H. Knopf, adapting TParls to New York/ orlg. by Edgar Selwyn and Sam Marx, MG. Nick Stuart, 'Demon for Trouble/ Supreme. Russell Hopton, 'Lady Surren- ders/ WB. Ja mison Thomas, 'Lost Lady/ WB. William Frawley, 'Ready for Love/ Par. Adrian Morris, 'Pursuit of Hap- piness/ Par. Irving Bacon, 'You Belong to Me/ Phillip Reed, ^Big-Hearted Her- l>ert/ WB. Jack Natteford, scripting western, Col. Hans Kraley, scripting 'Carlo Rocco' In collaboration with Seena Owen, Par. Gene Markey, Kathfyn Scola, tecripting 'One Hour Late/ Par- Earl Foxe, 'Serenade/ Fox. . Dell Henderson, 'Captain Hates the Sea/ Col. Robert Graves, comedy, RKO- Radio. ' Herbert Mundin, 'Nymph Errant/ '24 Hours a Day,' 'What Am I Bid?' and 'Hell in the Heavens/ Fox. Wini Shaw, 'Million Dollar Ran- som/ U. Jimmy Dime, Goudh, 'Wanted/ Fox. Josephine Whittell, Ruth Marion, Jerry Stewart, Buster. Phelps, Jevero Anne Gibbons, 'Servants' Entrance/ . Fox. Russell Hopton, Maynard Holmes, 'A Lady Surrenders/ WB. Vincent Sherman, Addison Rich ards, 'Case of Howling Dog/ WB. Francis Faragoh, adapttingr 'Three Musketeers/ RKO-Radio., Mario Alvarez, 'Tropical Mad- ness/ Col. Lorraine Bridges, 'Romance in the Rain/ U. Junior Durkin, ig Hearted Her bert/ WB. Tut Nace, 'She Was a Lady/ Fox Walter McGraiJ, 'Hideout/ MG. Meglln Kiddies, 'Have a Heart/ MG. Arthur MacRae, adapting .untitled yarn, Par. Leon Errol, 'Captain, Hates the Sea/ Col. , . Ramon Novarro, Laye, 'Tip Toes/ MG. Judith Kandel, treatment ty-five Dollars an Hour/ Col. Carol TevlS, Zeffle Tilbury, 'Blondes and Redheads/ RKO-Ra dio. Fred Kohler, 'Man From Hell, Willis Kent. / Lorin Raker, Sid Saylor, 'Trans- atlantic Showboat/ Small-Reliance Lee Moran, headliner .comedy, Ra did. Charles Coleman, Andy Devine, 'Million Dollar Ransom/ U. Adrian Morris, 'Pursuit of Happi- ness/ Par. Russell Hicks, 'Case of Howling Dog/ WB. » Joe Cawthofne, 'Human Side/ U. Downey Sisters, Georgia Bark, Scotty Beckett, 'Romance in the Rain/ U. Kubec Glasmon, writing an orig, 'Police Headquarters/ Col. . Mitchell Lewis, 'Count of Monte Crlsto/ Small-Reliance. George Barringer, 'Captain Hates the Sea/ Col. WARNING TO THEATRES -Do not deal or- negotiate.- for Screeno except directly with the . Screeno Company of Chicago. .Screeno is patented and the name ''Screeno" is registered as a trade mark ih. the patent office. We have no other agents and close all deals direct! THE SCREENO COMPANY 201 North Wells Street CHICAGO, ILL. Yesterday (Monday) 19 detectives arid .their representatives of the District Attorney's office raided simultaneously the. headquarters of the Empire State M. P. Operators' union, 423 Fulton street, Brooklyn, and the New York and Brooklyn of- fices of Local 306, the A.F. of L. operators' organifcatio,n. Books and papers were impounded and taken to the Grand Jury room in Kings County (Brooklyn), which is hear- ing testimony on the activities of the opposing union. It is asserted that $200,000 were spent last year by 306 on rehabilita- tion work and the name of Dutch Schultz has been brought into the matter; , Warfare also has resulted, acr cording to the ' charges, in . a mur- der, numerous assaults and many stench, bombings. Several union men were taken along with the ..records, but their names were not given out. Bowles' New SF District San Francisco, June 25. Arch M. Bowles has created a new district in his northern Cali- fornia division of Fox -West Coast, and has taken supervision of the first . run theatres in Frisco under his own wing. New district includes the Frisco secpnd runs, and all houses on the Sah Mateo peninsula, with Art Mil- ler made prexy in charge. Miller has been at the Fox Orpheum, Oak- land. Dick Spier continues in charge of all houses in the Oakland-East Bay section, including Vallejo, while Nick Turner remains in supervision of interior California towns. Morals 9 Body (Continued from page 6) high moral standards, the issue of rules can probably be raised. The Hays organization, such codists re- mihd, fought against incorporation of it's own . codes into the NRA docu ment when the entire original ex hibitor representation sought to have the same formally ac knowledged by the NRA. The Hays office won and as the result, C.A. members aver, only members of the Hays organization have their own rule while the independents, can, without violating the code, rely upon their own consciences. Several times in the past the Hays, office has been on the verge of asking the Code Authority to recognize it as the official dispenser of morals under the NRA and to let its present machinery be the churning plant for all -industry pro ductlon and advertising.. Independ ents now charge the H.O. with hav- ing feared the consequences of such a step, especially in view Of church charges against mainly major in- terests. According to their leaders, they want NRA morals with no Hays strings. BEN BLUE WARNER BROS. COMEDIES Direction I«EO MORRISON Agency Balto. Spat Over Baer-Carnera Film Baltimore, June 25. Max Cohen, local nitery op, and Howard Burman, pub man, who took the local first-run rights to Baer- Carnera flick, threatened to refuse the percentage split due Harry Kauf man, who owns the state rights, when. Kaufman released the prints to ,siibsequent-run nabes before the orignal first-run seven days had elapsed. Film was opened by Cohen and Burman at the Auditorium Saturday (16), and according to contract Cohen and Burman were to have I the sole exhibiting rights seven days. Following Thursday four nabes used ads"anriouhcing film following day, final day of the contracted first- run week. Compromise effected that gave the exhibiting combo the film free for a day, Saturday. Burman then print- ed 10,000 cut-rate stubs and spotted men to hand 'em out in Vicinity of nabes grinding the flick concurrent with final two days showing at the Auditorium. Nabes are standard 15c mats, 25c eye houses. Burman's cut- rates admitted person for dime plus coupon. (Continued from page 4) includes $2,500,000 cash; $1,300,000 in promissory, notes; and $200,000 on contingency matters. Warners agrees to remain a .11 censee of ERPI Dut £ ive . U P any right to future participation in roy alties from ERPI. Warners also agrees, to desist from any and. all litlgatiqn presently pending against ERPI by Warners or any W« • B. subsid. Among such suits which Warners, will call off is the present monopoly action against ERPI and Western Electric in Wilmington, arid in which Warners is associated as a co-plaintiff with General Talk ing Pictures (DeForest) ; and the Duovac Radio Corp., of Brooklyn. Does Not Affect G. T. P, Warners' agreement to call off its own litigation does hot affect Gen eral Talking Pictures, or the Duo vac position as plaintiffs in the same case. I The $1,300,000 ih promissory notes which ERPI hands to Warners as part of the settlement payoff is believed to figure as a guaranty for ERPI that Warners will live up to its license arrangements with ERPI in the future. Fact that Warners has given up the right to participate in future royalties, leaves, ERPI * n the clear to make any kind of settlement with other parties presently fighting the electric, and in the eventual washup of the ERPI as an A. T. & T. subsid, if occuring. ERPI is free to make any kind of trade, without its rights [jeopardized by posBible royalty claims by others fronr ERPI. Thus ERPI is now left in the clear to proceed with settlement -talks be lieved already begun with General Talking Pictures (DeForest) in con- nection with the pending Wilming ton monopoly case. 1 The battle between rpl and Warners began' in. 1928 on account of royalty claims made by a War ner subsid, the Vltaphone Corp The battie was waged on various fronts in courts and out of courts; and in various forms of litigation, including arbitration proceedings. . It is held more than likely that ERPI will now pursue vigorously a settlement deal with,. General Talk- ing Pictures. Duovac may follow, and after this the Tri-Ergon group. On the question of settling with Tri-Ergon, ERPI may move cau tiously because of the controversy now raging between William Fox and the Fox Film company , as to ownership of the Tri-Ergon patents involved, namely, the fly-wheel and the double print patents. Tri-Ergon Patents on. a claimed basic double print pat- ent which General Talking Pictures (DeForest) owns. In such a situation, if General Talking Pictures proves its. claims It may be entitled to part of the royalties which Tri-Ergon may coK lect. on its double prjnt process, patent. In the meantime it appears that since Warner and ERPI have an- nounced their settlement that the- deal has been okayed by the respec- tive boards of the two_ companies* Also, that in the impending trial on the monopoly suits . against ERPI by Warners, General Talk- ing Pictures and the Duovac Corp.,. that a consent decree may be en- tered on behalf of Warners as plantiff with Erpl as defendants. Such a . consent decree looks to have favorable effect on the plain- ti position of General Talking Pictures and Duovac as against ERPI, allied in the same suit on the similar grounds! This trial of the monopoly case is on the calendar In the meantime pending possible settlement of the whole situation. The Warner settlement was han- dled by Guggenheimer & Unter- meyer, with George Quigley, War- ner patent lawyer acting as inside company counsel. No mention fees in connection with the settle- ment has been made. Lawyers fa- miliar with (such deals believe that the fee for Samuel Untermeyer arid his partner may be from $500,000 and upwards. Some figure $1,000^- 000. This fee would stand in the same record category with Samuel Uh- termeyer's fee of $1,000,000 for set- tling the difficulties of William Fox with Fox Film and the Wall Street bankers, some three years ago, when Untermeyer got something like $18,600,000 for William Fox for the"* latter's stock holdings in the film company. Story Boys Hollywood, June 25. Universal has taken 'Silver Fox,* stage play by Gaetano Frazlo. Film rights to 'Hawk of the Desert,' novel by Albert Treynor, purchased by Fox Film and handed to Sol Wurtzel to produce. Option on 'Aces Down,' by Thompson Burtis taken , "by Jesse Harold B. Franklin has bought the screen rights to 'Love of Julia Barrel,' novel by Kathleen Norris. BINYON'S 'BACK PORCH' Hollywood, June. 25. Claude Binyon Is scripting , Para- mount's "Back Porch.' Norman McLeod directs with Wil- liam Le Baron producing. TETHER GEO. BROOKS Hqllywobd, June 25., Paramount has taken up its op- tion on George S. Brooks for an- other four weeks. Brooks is scripting 'Shoe the Wild Mare,' in collaboration- with Wanda Tuchock. Contracts Race Night Originator Suing for Back Pay Los Angeled JUH6 26. Andrew L. Stone, who conceived the idea of Race Nights and copy- righted it, is suing- the General Film Products, Inc., to which he assigned, certain rights, for $i,925 asserted delinquent wages. Deal between Stone and the cor- poration, according to the com- plaint filed by attorney Gordon W. Levoy, was that General Film was to pay him "a minimum of $100 per week for one year's employment be- ginning July 1, 1933. Since Jan. 29, 1934, 20 weeks' salary has accrued, with only $75 paid, the .charges state. Legalltes who. should know con 7 slder the double print, patent the more important, as the fly-wheel patent is a mechanical patent which in some spots has "been circum- vented in talker equipment manu- facture. However, even on the Trf-Ergon double print patent there is a likely controversy aS between Tri-Ergon and General Talking Pictures (DeForest). Does not mean that the Tri-Er. gon double print patent is not valid, but according to claims the Tri- Ergon patent is an Improved patent CARDINI "THE SUAVE DECEIVER" 26th Week CASINO DE PARSE Thanks to Billy Rose O. O. Mcintyre in the New York American (June tt) said'. "I saw the Immaculate Cardinl tot per- haps the 20th time a recent evening. Hla performance la a glossy study In superb finish. Every gesture a poem and triumph of facial expression." Hollywood, June 25, Eddie Cllne, six-picture directo- rial ticket, Sol Lesser. Blanca Fisher option. 1 ted for year at Fox. Lou Edelman option taken, up by Warners. Charles Powell, Robert Pirech, John HigglnB, Katherine Lans" and Edgar F. Goad pacted as Metro writers for five years. Roger Imhof had option picked at Fox. Vignola Directs Indie Hollywood, June 25. Robert Vignola directs 'Night Alarm for Larry Darmour at Ma- Yarn ,1s.. being .Bcriptfid. by.-Earle Snell from an original by Jack Stanley. HAL ELIAS JOINS MG Hollywood, June 26. Hal Elias is the latest member of the Metro studio advertising and ex- ploitation department. He has been attached to Metro Coast exchanges for several - years handling theatro exploitation. Experience • Service • Organization 1560 Broadway New York City A Subsidiary of FANCHON & MARCO, Inc. m Tueed«jr, Jus* 26, 1934. WHO'S THE MODERN BARNUM OF Warner Bros, will pay 14 CASH PRIZES FOR One of these 14 CASH PRIZES can be yours! 1st PRIZE 2nd PRIZE 3rd PRIZE 4th to 7th PRIZES . 8th to 14th PRIZES .$100.00 50.00 25.00 10. OO 5,00 1 J I? FOLLOW THESE EASY RULES , $250.00 in prizes will be awarded by Warner Bros. ; Pictures, Inc., to the Theatre Owners or Managers 'submitting the best all-around promotion campaigns on Joe E. Brown in "The Circus Clown." All phases of the campaign, including newspaper advertising, publicity, lobby display, exploitation stunts, etc., will 'be considered in determining the awards. Proofs of advertising, tear sheets of publicity, photos 'of lobby, and photos or samples of exploitation stunts must be submitted by each contestant. These should be accompanied by a brief typewritten description of the campaign as a whole. Campaigns based on Warner Bros.' Merchandising i Plan for this picture are as eligible for the awards as 'are original ideas. Contest begins immediately and all entries must be in the mails not later than midnight. Saturday. Sept. 1st. The judges will be A- Mike Vogel, Chairman Mana- ger's Round Table Club of the Motion Picture Herald; Major Albert W. Warner, Vice-President of Warner .Bros. Pictures, Inc.; and Charles B. (Chick) Lewis, .h* Editor of Showmen's Round Table. Their decision will be final. ^This contest is open to everyone except employees ;ol Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., and members of their families. ' . S* Warner Bros, cannot be responsible for the return [of any material submitted. B» In case of a tie, each contestant will receive the full (amount of the prize tied for. p- Address all entries to "Circus Clown" Campaign [Contest, Warner Bros., 321 West 44th Street,. N.Y.C Vitograph, Inc., Distributor* ? Here's your chance to match your skill with history's greatest showman— because you're in the CIRCUS busi- ness the minute you book "Circus Clown' 9 ! Packed with a tent-full of real big-top attractions, it gives you the wherewithal for one of the classic circus cam- paigns of all times! So many extra values that a little HERE'S WHAT YOU HAVE JOE E. BROWN as a Circus Clown "POODLES" H ANNE- FORD'S Astounding Eques- trian Troupe THE FLYING CODONAS— World'Famous Aerialists 40 PONDEROUS PACHY- DERMS and other marvels of the menagerie Ready-made imprinted balloons - — one of scores of helpful suggestions in the press sheet ■6. -\<. \^-5 > <.$> y ?y- % ^ * 3& Tu<*eo%, June 26, 1934 VAmtY 37 SHOW BUSINESS? 250 BEST CAMPAIGNS extra effort selling them will put you well over aver- age Brown grosses. Just to point out it's exceptional possibilities, WARNER BROS. OFFER $250.00 IN CASH PRIZES for the best all- around campaigns — but that's a mere fraction of the extra dough that good promotion will bring into your till! TO SELL... THE PICCHIANI FAMILY — Tumblers Extraordinary FIRST NATIONAL STARS like Patricia Ellis, Dorothy Burgess ( — Donald Dilloway— Gordon West- ' cott, under Ray Enright's direction. Use This Tip From M. P. Herald '•The circus comes to town .... in this latest Joe E. Brown picture . ... The whole melange— big tents , clowns,ff eaks, acrobats, barkers and roustabouts, ani- mals and parades^. . Sell it with all the color and excitement utilized by the cir- cus advance men— circus music, clowns i special fronts. "-McCarthy, M. P. Herald Effective use of press sheet material will count just as strongly in this contest ^ as original ideas. Get your copy today and start making your selection from the wealth of accessory and exploitation suggestions such as : — 'A Kiddie Kiown Par.de T,i<* Pe.nu. Giv.-. W .y 40-inch Clown Cire„ s Front Inexpensive Imprinted Balloon. On. Lobby A^"~ neifcu* Ticket*— — Posed^Fie-np StilU ^And Alaeg^^-Mte He's lathe CIRCUS Right this way, folks, for bur biggest attraction in months! TWO BIG SHOWS IN ONE! A whole tent-full of ac- tual world-famed circus stars plus— Headin* For The Laugh RoiimMJp in Fint National's CLOWN CT?"!? *k e ^P roar when he outroars ^ Kj Hi the lion! ♦ ♦ See him as the easy mark for abull'throwingknife thrower! With those pulchritudinous favorites of the talking screen- PATRICIA ELLIS DOROTHY BURGESS A 1C?A THE FLYING JhMMV CODONAS in their astounding act on the fly- ing trapeze . • • POODLES HANNEFORD and troupe in death* defying equestrian featt THE PICCHIANI FAMILY .... in the most sensa- tional tumbling act on earth . 40-PONDEROUS PACHYOERMS-40 1,000 FLABBERGASTING GAGS THEN START MM*™^* W W 3ft VARIETY PICTURES Tuesday, June 26* .1934 Variety Mouse Reviews CENTURY, BALTO. (Continued from page 22) addicts. She's got the personality and the adept touch that enables her to goal 'em without resorting to pop songs. She can give 'em special material and character chants veined with humor to warm 'em, then, when she. finales with a pop, it's show- stopping. Joe Morris cached a lot of cackles In the trey slot. Must be all of a score of years he's been trouping the same act, yet it still tickles .'em. ■And that's a tribute to Morris. Uses Dot Ryan and unbilled boy and woman as foils. Latter pair but moderately capable. In the fancied frame come Sammy .Lewis 'and PattI Moore. ' Really a trey-spot act, but for staging facili- tation, was inserted here. The chat- ter half of the turn conflicted to an extent with the juxtaposed Morris act, but. the lad and .lass sprinkle enough first-rate limberlegging pre- oisionary throughout to- erase most of the repetitive suggestion. Scored. Prank and Milt Britton's band close. Outfit has been perennially paraded across this rostrum, but to mob present at show gllmmed, their mayhem-to-music maniatics seemed fresh, and smackoed. Ap- parently, the satiric bit at opening, wherein all hands are be-wigged as. personalities of music immortality and a snatch of each one's creations Is played, sailed completely over audience's head. Not till final sub- ject, Sousa, is reached, did mob rec- ognize meaning of the endeavor. FOX, BROOKLYN It's called Flo Kelly's 'Big League Revue' this week, although it plays a good deal more like anybody's sandlot - scrimmage. There are a couple of fair acts' but routining, staging and almost everything else is ho-hummish. Maybe it's the hot weather. Opens with a quickie overture and girls pop on in what i& hoped are ^•athletic outfits for some varsity hurrahing. That brings Bert Frohman on. He's the house m.c. and he introes a boy and girl dance act that's just about the best act on the bill. But he doesn't bother telling anybody their name or anything about them. 1 Boy is especially good, his acro- batic flips being something to see. Lee Paul comes in for some card work. He's pretty good with the pasteboards but someone ought to use a stop watch on him. Had he gone, off about, halfway through would have been a sock. As was he dropped away cold. Frohman sings himself a couple of songs at this point, both better in lyrical construction than his voice, and the lyrics were pretty bad. A very amateurish and cheap production number follows in which one of those rose-covered and col- ored electric light swings carries a girl and all the others spin parasols that are over-ornate. Wlona Storey solos in this with some toe work. That calls for the headliner, Blanche Sweet. Miss Sweet knows how to wear a dress, has a good accompanist and tried to earn her salary. She sings two numbers and acts a scene from 'Anna Christie,' her best film in silent days. Maybe she doesn't sing well and maybe the silent 'Anna Christie' is pretty far back for people to remember but the Saturday matinee mob didn't expect more than they got and were sufficiently grateful in the way of applause returns. Fred Lightner has the clean-up spot and his clowning didn't do badly at all. Finish, has the girls on skates as background for the three Olympics and okay enough for that kind of number, although somewhat dragged out. ' Kauf: PAR, SEATTLE Seattle, June 20. This week is further proof that without vaude the Paramount would take more on the chin than did Camera. The film Is "Hollywood Party' (MG). At same time they rave about the stage show. Still it is just good vaude, with novelty and variety spicing it. Paramount has been getting a lot of good acts re- cently and 75% of the box office is accounted for by the stage and band. Jules Buffano wields the baton and Jules has his friends. For added interest for eight weeks is a local band contest, with eight club, lodge, community and military bands vieing for honors. Sound pix is being made of high spot of each band, this to be run closing week of contest in a 10- minute reel, with each band" alloted one minute. Balloting selects the winner. Tonight the North End band, about 45 pieces, got nice hand. Last week the Elks' band did its stuff. Fort Lewis and Fort Lawton bands coming up. This week winners of recent kids' show are also on stage, making creditable appear- ances, and helping to hold v;i in- terest and draw. Two hits on the bill, Lorraine and Digby, and Monroe Brothers. Monroes are old-time act* one with red nose and both in tramp clothes, doing swell jumps on the trampoline. Lorraine and Digby were on Orpheum two years ago. Spjcy chatter over car ride starts them off, with novelty dance following, Miss Lorraine featuring with her free and loose movements. Both score heavily in a fast-firing adagio takeoff. Paul Klrkland does de luxe bal- ancing oh a ladder and with a pa- per cone. Harry Copeland is smooth with his uke and gags, while Nel- son's Catland makes the folks talk. The boxing cats always go over big, while the gal's handling of the kit- tens and mice is accompanied *by snappy chatter. This act hops to Atlantic City pier for the summer after closing here. Trepp. CHICAGO Chicago, June 23. It's specialty week at this Bala- ban & Katz theatre and the special- ties are adding up to good enter- tainment for this type of audience. Theatre has Wisely cut out all talk- ing comedy acts and is relying pri- marily on sight , turns. House has tried talking acts off-and-on, but the . large arena here has always militated against. Headlining on this show are the Wampas Baby Stars (New Acts). They came in here, 13 strong, with announcements to the audience to be lenient, on the grounds that this is their first, appearance before the public. Fact is that the troupe played the Shrine convention in Minneapolis before hitting Chi, but maybe that doesn't count. »uF^ bl i clt ^ ls the sav *ns erace of this act. Without it the turn would be just another group of Hollywood people who think that audiences are satisfied with a gander at some- body from the sunshine slope. But walloping tie-ups with Hearst pa- pers, with department stores and turn'™ 8 ' 58 ' 2 ' 1168 make lfc a Payable Girls are strictly amateurish, even those with stage background. For Instance, Jean .Gale is' from vaude and musical comedy. Yet on her specialty here she meant nothing as a performer. Only real talent in pair of tonsils. She sang one num- ber and drew an encore,> the only Ai? ea u on . , the lon ff 20-minute act. All the girls did something, except Kathleen Williams who rates ^ as a fSn^ C Tv a ' t4st - u Shfe could "cite .V ng £ D JL n maybe and get away W il£ lt : J* est * f the Sirls got away ih^l S A U ,f/ lmost as bad - But that thing called glamour, spelled 'p-u-b- im",^ : y ,'' wra PP ed this act in sound sales paper. Question is whether or not the house will hold up and whether reports on the quality of the routines may not hurt the attendance at the close of the week. *u Tv *2 sock specialty turns opened nZj£l\£%? r stanle y Morner and Rowene Williams got through with the vocalizing. Duffln and Draper have developed their rag-doll eccen- tric dance to sensational propor- tions. On this one routine the act can play anywhere. It is punchy awL.* * SU fu" flre applause-getter. Almost in the same surefire cate- gory is the Dormonde Bros, mono- cycle turn. It's strictly a novelty specialty routine but the boys have injected novel and comical bits into the act, which brings the audience up laughmg. One of the brothers has a peculiar drunken wobble to hia. cycling which is the basis of the laughs. Strange thing is that he can keep repeating it throughout the turn without wearing the effect ou i:,., It ' s a sweet vaude turn. Billy Costello, voice of the Popeye cartoons, is here for a short six- minute turn. After singing 'I'm Popeye, the Sailor Man' Costello gets stuck. He 4hen turns into a second Ukelele Ike and does Cliff Edwards better than Edwards. He's the Ukelele Ike of five years ago. Besides that Costello goes bass voice like Poley McClintock of Fred Waring's band, for some laughs. But there was no 'Asleep in the Deep.' The 'asleep' part of the show came from Ted Claire, who finds himself out here In the Midwest in- stead of his favorite eastern haunts and he's doing as badly here as he ever did in the East. He's still trying to be an m.c, as he did during the m.c. fad, but the audi- ence couldn't see it. Claire is also Insisting on making the audience sit through the gruesome rendition of 'It All Depends on You,' as sung by a dope fiend. Somebody should tip Claire off on that. Other ttian this bad routine Claire makes him- self useful around the house by holding Costello's nose while Costel- lo----sinBs--'*St; :: -Loxils-"--BlueS , -'"- 1 wltri-''""a : falsetto twang. Business was fair last show, Fri- day. Outside of the picture, 'Many Happy Returns' (Par), Paramount news, and the Popeye cartoon there was the rousing Josef Cherniavsky overture, which is also a delight to listen to and surefire satisfaction for this audience. Cherniavsky has developed into boxofllce' here, as demonstrated by the receptions he is always sure of on entrance. Gold. ALHAMBRA, LONDON London, June 16. Sir Oswald Stoll is still flirting with vaudeville at this house. Flirt- ing is the word, as he does not seem to take the situatlpn seriously. He has a great chance., to make it the popular rendezvous it once was; but the bills of late have been very discouraging. Understood he is marking time to get over the heat spell and Is Intending to launch a real vaude- ville comeback in the fall. If that Is the case, there is no sign of him having approached any American bookers to stand by. .This week's bill looks much bet- ter on paper than in action. Very little comedy, and too many singing acts. Opener is Boy Foy, clever kid juggler with pleasing .personality. Performs most of his stunts on unl- cycle, which makes offering novel. Helen Blnnle, specializing in bur- lesque singing, has been doing same stuff for a decade. Her ventrilo- quist doll impression has also seen yeoman service. Bransby Williams, the doyen of all facial expressionists, is still good. His impressions of political personages and Dickens characters very good. Should leave George Arllss and negro characterizations alone. Raphael and his players, pre- sented by Alfred G. Henderson, for- merly director of Henderson Play- ers, Aeolian Hall, New York, have been quite a feature at the Sport- ing Club, Monte Carlo. It is one of those Russian chanson things, a la Chauve Souris, only , much milder. Best part is Raphael's concertina ■playing. National costumes add luster to offering, but builds into nothing. Yet the talent seemingly is there; just a bad arrangement. Douglas Byng, here second week, and very popular. Pretty, sugges- tive, which he overcomes by clever lyrics. His pantomime burlesque is a gem. Cabaret section has Omar open- ing. Still the best rhythmical step- per around, but should abstain from talking. George Doonan and Elsie Prince, here third- week, have about ex- hausted their material. Some of their comedy is much too old, Ray Vaughn, American, played here some five years ago. Good xylophonist, with best number 'Pagan Love Song', as played by representatives of various nation- alities. Reilly and Comfort, here on re- turn visit, In practically new pro- gram, were forced to encore, despite stage hands in readiness to remove piano. Closing number is Scottish High- land skit by Douglas Byng and house girls. ROXY, N. Y. Just a so-so bill at the Roxy this week, but it's well knit and with Eddie Peabody in for m.c. it looks like a lot more than it really is. Runs a fast working 53 minutes. Turns all clicked, more because they were well assembled than be- cause of intrinsic value. Opens with a train shed and the Gae Foster girls as redcaps. Only 20, though the program announces 24, but 20 are enough. Betty Jane Cooper and the Lathrop Brothers do a brief dance, then a close- in for the old train imitation, which has been done before, but has not worn out its welcome^ apparently. Then Peabody comes on with the band backstage and introduces Melva and Bennie Rose, two girl singers, who have more voice than technique but volume seemed to count. Three Arkansas Travelers, young boy and two young girls do a hillbilly. Girls are comely and look as though they might have come from the Ozarks. Kid doesn't try for comedy, which helps a lot. Mills and Shea cleaned with the familiar acrobatic work,' with a number of good tricks and the Cooper-Lathrop combo for their regular act, precision duo and trio dancing, with a solo by the girl hurt by her black velvet pyjames. Lighter cloth would give better ef- fect to the steps. She also does a bit of acrobatics in the well worked up finish. Peabody opened with 'Rhapsody in Blue' and a fast 'St. Louis Blues,' blending into the 'Carloca> 'with a man out of the band for a dual stunt, each fingering the strings plucked by the other. Always good for a smack. Then Bill Thome, also out of the band, does 'Old Man River' (in 1934) and into a choral number with the line girls in long mauve chiffon . dresses and pink garlands. All of the others take a whack at the song, which is worked up to - a - nice production- number that pulled applause, three times before the finale at the' show caught. Can't do much better than that for a rough and ready. Feature is 'Affairs of a Gentle- man' (U), with the newsreel, an old Silly Symphony, 'Grasshopper and the Ant,' and 'Glory of the Kill,' a hunt. Pretty raw in spots, proving that even an African hunt can be smutty. Hunting scenes just the usual stuff, with poor photography in most spots. Chic. Film Reviews SMARTY (Continued from page 16) ment, and depend largeiy on the farce plot angles, the laughs by way of action or words and the novelty of some of the twists taken by the yarn. While the story Itself cries for no renown, its adaptation for the screen, plus the smooth comedy di- rection of Robert Florey, glvoo it sufficient backbone to avoid bor- ing. Everything starts out on the birthday anniversary of a young wife who is somewhat, inadquately developed as a person any husband would be driven to slug. She's Joan Blondell, but she's not quite as impossible as painted by the action and dialog. When her husband, Warren Wil- liam, himself a tempered type, slaps her face at. the birthday bridge party, a friend of the couple, Ed- ward Everett Horton, comes to her defense, suggesting divorce. Hor- ton, a lawyer, is the sort, who de- cries anything so crude as hitting a woman, , ^regardless of circum- stances, but after he's married the girl (Blondell) himself, he ends up slapping her, too. For Horton it's a jiiicy part. He's either straight-laced and worried or so jealous of his wife and her possible resumed attentions to the first husband, that he's in a con- stant lather throughout. In Wil- liam's hand, also, is a side of the script that's right up his alloy, but he runs Second to Horton who steals the picture. Picture ends on reunion of Wil- liam and Blondell despite Horton's efforts to prevent this, and it's a novel finish for a near-farce oom- edy of domestic relations that's without much substance but has the wherewithal to keep an audi- ence at least amused. Frank McHugh isn't much in this comedy assignment, but a lesser in the cast, Joan Wheeler, comes for- ward with an even, richly toned contribution as the married woman William plays around with for a while. She ought to be heard from. Char. Silence of Dean Maitland (AUSTRALIAN -MADE) Sydney, May 29. Clneuound production released through British Empire Films. Directed by Ken O. Hall;, adaptation by Qayne Dexter. Caet: John Longden, George Lloyd, John Warwick, Charlotte Francis, Jocelyn Howarth, Les Wharton. Captain Frank Hurley, photog. At State. Sydney. Run- ning time 95 mlns. This is the finest locally made pic to date. Will do smashing business in Australia, and maybe will break into the overseas' market. While stated to be Australian-made, 'Mait- land' carries two English leads and an American dialog director. If pic fans can be gotten inside either English or American the- atres screening 'Maitland,' they will see a very fair piece of screen en- tentainment. In Australia the pic can stand up in any theatre and do real business, It is solid dramatic fare. 'Maitland' has been read in book form by countless thousands, and has been produced on the stage in every city and tank town in Austra- lia. A silent version was done some years ago. It is purely old-fash- ioned melodrama,, but Ken Hall has turned out an entirely modern ver- sion. Hall has done a fine piece of directing work. Story tells of the seduction of a village vamp by a minister. Later, girl is going to have a baby. Her father learns the truth and follows the girl's .seducer to their trysting place. Fight follows, in which the father Is accidentia killed. A doc- tor, minister's pal, is accused of the crime because the minister was wearing his clothes at time of the fight. Doctor is arrested and charged with murder. He refuses to confess truth because he is engaged to the sister of minister. Filled wit^ re- morse, minister decides to save his pal but. is stricken with a heart at- tack. Doctor is sent to jail for 20 years. Years pass and minister is now a dean. He has married his pal's sister and a blind son is- born. Dean maintains a silence and allows the doctor to remain in jail for a crime he never committed. Girl Dean betrayed years before sends a note with her daughter telling him she is dying, and the messenger is his own child. Follows another heart attack. By this timethe doctor .has been released from jail and comes to the Dean's house to kill him. Changes his mind and allows his betrayer to live. Dean Maitland finally decides to tell the truth, and from the pulpit of his church tells the huge congregation of his dread- ful sin. Finishes his story and col- lapses. Fadeout has Dean dying in the arms of his wife. Hokum if you like, but splendidly done. Only pic made here to have an appeal for the ferns. Comedy is very weak, being really just a poor attempt to relieve the somber at- mosphere. John Longden as the Dean gives a realistic study and clicks strong- ly. False note ls struck by Char- lotte Francis. Her portrayal of the village vamp" is the weak link in the pic. John Warwick gives a sound portrayal as the doctor, and the other characters fit in nicely. Gayhe Dexter has done by far his best work in adaptation; and George D Parker handled the dialog direction cleverly. Settings, sound, and photography are all . equal to the' world's best. Rick. KEEP 'EM ROLLING Radio production and release. Directed by George Archnlnbaud. Baaed on Leonard Nasoh's story, "Rodney, t adaptod by Albert Stielby Levlno ami F. McGrew Willis. Fea- turing Walter Huston and Frances Deo Cast Includes Minna Gombell' Frank Con- voy, G. J>at Collins, Robert Shayne, Ralph Hemley and officers and men of the 10th Field Artillery, If. S. A. At Stanley, N. Y„ on bill June 22. Running time. 05 mlns. Inferior adaptation and direction make this miss for the better thea- tres. But it is better material than the average feature usually relegat- ed to the double bills. As brought to the screen it estab- lishes Huston 'in one of those put- and-take roles.- As a soldier who starts out with a flair for fast women and drink, he registers early with the audience that he can't lcise. Considerable of the footage ls what the . newsrecls might call library. There are those familiar artillery drills,, and quite often, even when dealing with the main charac- ters, a certain hum-drum what-to- do-next flavor in the running time. Although the credits list a lot of army names, none is identified, and most of the time seem in evidence during the mob scenes. Maybe a soldier can threaten, his superior officer during wartime with a revolver If his pet horse is put out of pain, and maybe a soldier can go on a 10-months drunk when his horse is assigned to another com- missioned officer. Anyhow, in 'Rolling' there's a way of explaining everything. Huston is completely obsessed with his horse pal. He is understood by at least one of his superior officers, who ls continuously demoting and pro- moting him. Whether he comes out a sergeant, corporal or buck private is hard to tell at finis. Huston does his best with the part, which does not ring true at all times. He succeeds, however, .in whipping up the emotions when he takes the horse, after it has been condemned a third time, to a grave- yard and meditates over bringing its life to an honorable end. Frances Dee has a minor part : in which she does not appear until tho last few reels. She is the means of saving both the soldier and his mount from disgrace. Her boy friend is still a higher officer and he get3 the Secretary of War to straighten matters out and provide the happy ending. Waly. Behind the Keys (Continued from page 27) Monica, to Ray Duscerne, agent who was formerly manager of Loew'a State. House, 1,200-seater, has first-run in Santa Monica of War- ner, Columbia and Universal prod- uct. Ashovllle, N. C. Fire caused damage estimated at several hundred dollars early Satur- day night to films and equipment in the projection room of the Eagle. Moro than 100 persons in the the- atre when the fire was discovered, left without confusion. None in- jured. Firemen soon extinguished the blaze. Theatre was forced to close. Projection machine so badly damaged it cannot be used until re- paired. Lincoln. Return of Martin Coopersmith from Milfprd, Del. finds him with the house managerial duties at tho Sun and Colonial. Ike Hoig, moved there temporarily, is now back at the Orph. George Monroe, late State manager, is now vacationing in Minnesota. Baltimore. Izzy Rappaport, owner-operator of the indie vaudfilm Hipp, has signed as Radio Pictures' first-run outlet here for next season. Hipp, as through last season, also has first-run Columbia rights. San Francisco. Bryan Foy has taken Jack Allcn- dcr to handlo sales in_the Frisco territory; succeeding "Hugo" "Strick- land. Allcnder loaves Universal to join Foy for the second time. Los Angeles. Mark IIannen sold the Marquis, nabe pix, to 10. M. Price, local book- ing agent. Palace, Long Beach, reopens July 1. Principal Theatres-»has closed tho President, downtown subsequent run, nftor tryinjr varloun policies ja attempt to keep house open. Tuesday, June '26, 1934 VARIETY 39 mm V * '>'/> ' mm*, ■ r « Ul ^ '"I ' i - > ; i'A 7 <<# '' HERE'S WHY (ftom'Variety Daily"): Fast step- ping entertainment which is bound to please the populace. Thewhole- somencss of the piece provides one of the strong selling points for family trade. Alice Faye carries herself with seductive appeal. Lew Ayres does his stuff with amusing swagger. Mitchell and Durant are hilarious. HERE'S WHY (from "Motion Picture Daily*): "Comedy and romance hornpipe together with laughter holding both its sides. Miss Faye is tailor-made with her song number, a honey. Ayres makes a decided dent in a rollicking romantic part. Mitchell and Durant groove into the plot with hilarious hokum. Because it is clean, smart entertainment with laughs and kisses, this should hit." another hit- -frnm 40 VARIETY RADIO Tuesday, June 26, 1934 NAB WOULD HAVE NBC-CBS ESTABLISH TRADE PRACTICES WITH AFFILIATES Patt Report Steams Up Convention Resolution- — Radical Changes Asked— * At Least an Even Break' Requested by Indies Commercial section of the Na- tional Association of Broadcasters last week called upon NBC and CBS to get together with their affl- iated stations and work out a set of trade practices that will give , the Indie operators at least an even break when competing for business.. Request was made in the form of a resolution during a meeting of the NAB in New fork. Passage of the resolution followed the reading of a report' on network- station relations by John F. Patt of WGAR, Cleveland. Patt declared that the stations want from their,: network a sufficiently proportionate share of the money taken in by the web for time on these stations. Sta- tion operators, he said, are also of the belief that the webs have jio business trying to represent them In the sale of spot broadcasting time, .and that they should be content to function as . purveyors of hook-up facilities. Patt averred he had found that the station men were strongly in favor' of obtaining from the net- works guarantees as to what por- tion of their time Is to be available for web customers and which- hours- the outlets could dispose of them- selves without having later to give tip these hours to network clients. Practice of the networks in -selling split links in basic or. group terri- £3 lories, declared Patt, was not fair, since this arrangement drew to the webs many commercials which were formerly rich sources of spotbrdad- casting revenue. Want to Be Consulted Indie station operators, reported Patt, were also of the opinion that the networks should charge the same- rate for a station that this outlet demands on a local basis. Other things that affiliated outlets sought, said Patt, were that they be consulted before the webs adopted commercial program and public re- lations policies affecting these sta- tions, that they (associated sta- tions) be allowed extra money for merchandising of web programs, that the networks assume full legal and financial responsibility for copyright, libel and other causes of litigation In connection with web (Continued on page 60) NBC TO REVIVE TELE TESTS ON CHI WMAQ Chicago, June. Understood that NBC locally Is planning a revival of television test- ing. This follows the. scheduled move of. Ivyorld Broadcasting offices here from the old WMAQ studios in the Daily News building to the former WENR spot in the Opera loft NBC will take over the WMAQ spot again for the television test- ing, with WMAQ also haying a tele band on allotment for .experimental purposes. NBC In the past has run occasional tele experiments on no fixed schedule, but whenever getting around to It. But It's expected that NBC will now set a regular daily routine for deliberate experimenta- tion: on the picture broadcasts.. MORE LIVE PERFORMERS LESS DISCS ON KJR Seattle, June 25. Putting more musicians on the payroll, KJR last week added four new programs to Its weekly sched ule, three of them sustaining. The move was effected to cut' down on the time used for recordings. KJR. is owned, along with KOMO, by. Toten Broadcasters. Both are NBC outlets, with KOMO handling mainly the commercial network programs and KJR the sustalners, The four new KJR shows are made up . of string groups and vocalists. Coast Guild Names Secret on Free Air Buildup for Talent Los Angeles, June 25. Radio Players Guild, recently formed organization of ether actors, directors and writers, will air 'Ivan- hoe' in four acts as a. gratis con- tribution to Coast dial turners over the CBS western network, June 30. Expected this will be the first of a series of similar material to be given by the Guild free in their stated move to show. that, the Coast has talent capable of worthwhile stuff. Adaptation, directing and cast work will be done by members of the Guild, but all names will be kept secret. It's Out Benton & Bowles agency was leery about offending some- body in the client's (Bristol- Myers) family and so at the last minute It cut out of the Fred Allen script of Wednes- day (20) the following gag: Stooge: I have something to sell you that every advertising . man should have. .Allen: You don't mean a rel- ative who's In a legitimate business? > McCarthy switches TO NEW COAST WEB MINN. 'JOURNAL' POTS PROGRAM ON WCCO WJJD's Move Okayed Chicago, June 26. Ralph Atlass has been awarded a permit by the Federal Radio Com mission to move the WJJD studios from Mooseheart, 111., to Chicago, The studios have been In Chi terri- tory for years now, but under the new ruling the programs can be an nounced as from the loop. Commish gave Its permission some months ago but the award was stalled by a list of protests filed by NBC and WGN, claiming unfair competition. Minneapolis, June 25. Journal, most conservative of lo- cal newspapers, has .finally given recognition to the value of radio advertising in a big way. Paper has taken time on WCCO, ocal Columbia chain station, for a series of programs comprising dra- matizations of its comic and other features and Is advertising the ra- dio programs In boxes on Its front page. Journal is following in the foot- steps of three other Twin City newspapers, the Star, Tribune and Dispatch. The Star baa a tie-up with WCCO on news announce- ments, and on broadcast of election returns. The Tribune and Dispatch reoently acquired WRHM, local; in- dependent station. San Francisco, June 25. C. L. McCarthy has resigned as assistant station relations manager of NBC in New York, and will" start out here July 1 as manager of KQW, San Jose, recently acquired by. Ralph Brunton as the, second link in his new Northern California Broadcasting System. Brunton is currently In University of California hospital with an In- fected, foot, but expects to be up and around by the time McCarthy arrives^ to begin his duties. McCarthy was previously at NBC here as assistant to Don Gilman, vice president* resigning to go with KFI, Los Angeles, as aide to Arthur Kahles, He left the latter, spot after six weeks, going then to NBC in New York. Brunton Is going ahead with a build-up policy for his NCBS, hav- ing named Joy Storm production manager and Lena May Leland music director at KQW. Both sta- tions get a power Increase, too. He is starting a Sunday afternoon variety show on KJBS with Frank Calvin. Fred Weston Back to DepL Store Ad Job Pittsburgh, June 26. Fred A. Weston, until recently manager of WCAB, has returned to department store advertising again as advertising manager for the Rosenbaum store here. Weston came to Pittsburgh from Chicago several years ago as advertising head of Kaufmann's and later went Into newspaper work for the Sun- Telegraph, Hearst paper. When Jesse L. Kaufman was pro- moted to the Hearst radio service In New York, Weston took his place as WCAB manager, leaving there after a couple of months. Jack Stewart, of Baltimore, has suc- ceeded him at WCAB. ADDS RADIO DEPT. Hollywood, June 26. Llohtlg and England agency has added a radio department, with L, Scott Perkins in charge/ to sell film names for etherlng. Perkins formerly a radio writer 1 and producer. Storer Contract Gives Stations Right To Set ABS Snstainers locally Jolson Puts Off Air Return Until July 19 Al Jolson has put off his return to the kraft-Phenlx show on NBC un- til the July 19 broadcast, at least. Original arrangement had been for him to go into this Thursday's (28) ■how. Jolson advised the agency on the account, J. Walter Thompson, that he'd like take it easy for awhile at his Scarsdale, N. Y., home, before stepping back into the grind. Mableline's Film Names Hollywood, June 26. Gloria. Stuart and Mario Alvarez, singer at Lucca's Italian restaurant here, have been auditioned by NBC for a probable Holly Wood NBC show" for Mabellne. If deal goes over, program will be a weekly with a different film name each week. Likely will use Hary Jackson's orchestra. Contract that George Storer has devised' for the affiliates of his American Broadcasting System stipulates that these associated stations may tie in a local sponsor on any sustaining program origi- nating from the web's studios. Agreement also seeks to specify Which Of the allied station's hours will be available to network com- mercial and which will not Under the arrangement Storer has in mind. If the web requires additional time it can only be obtained from the affiliate on 60 days' notice. Set of rates " tKat Storer has workea" "out" Tor - tfie'AB'S "Involves "a" hookup Of 12 key cities, extending as. far west as Chicago. For $900 a quarter hour,. $1,500 a half hour and $2,400 an hour of the network's eve- ning time a client will get a re- lease in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Buf- falo, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, and Washington. This rate setup is merely tentative arid subject to revision when the web gets going commercially. Storer avers that he -will not strive to compete with NBC and Co lumbla. His lineup may cover close to 80% of the baslo territory, but he will be content to have it re f erred to as a 'junior network' and go after that, business that the crosscountry webs can't handle be cause" of the considerably higher rates asked by them. Because of this policy, says Storer, he has gained the co-operation of William S. Paley in mapping out .the tech nlcal details of the ABS. Storer asserts that this association Is mere ly a consultant one and that there is nothing to the report that he is acting' as a CBS decoy In keeping uth^mtereatr trem^ewblaTKmEroTT a third network project Fred Weber last week left the NBC station relations staff to join the ABS as v.p. in charge of oper ations and station relations. Storer last week also brought Mrs. Leah Rule in from WSPD, Toledo, to head the network's traffic depart ment. Hers was a similar assign- ment with the Toledo station which Storer own*. Old Non-Advertising Remedy Maker Goes Ad?.— On Radio Only Ft. Wayne, June 25. Radio gets an exclusive: break over any other form of, advertising by Celery-Vess company of Indian- apolis. It is an old remedy probably from grandma's day, and for the past six years has operated minus any aid from exploitation or news- paper copy. Now, since beer is using the air so heavily, the Indianapolis execu- tives feel the time ripe for expan- sion and have signed for a year With WOWO for spot announce- ments three times daily. Ad agencies have been after the deal, but have been turned down. Health Prod. Switches Health Products Corp. has signa- tured contracts with Columbia which will give that network the Bar X Days and Nights stanza, now oh NBC, and another half hour in the fall. Cowboy affair makes its bow in behalf of Feen-a-mlnt on CBS July 26. Second half hour will plug the commercial's brand of Cod LIVer Oil Wafers. This show, which has yet to be picked, is to start Septem- ber 30. Release calls for 37 sta- tions. GRACE BROWN SETTLES Accepts $1,200 from Young" & Rubi- cam in Contract Suit Grace Z. Brown has settled her suit, against Young & Rublcam for $1,200. In a complaint she filed In Municipal court, New York, three months ago she claimed the agency owed her $2,200 as the' balance on 26-week writing contract. Latter assignment had to do with the Bor- den Co.'s '45 Minutes in Hollywood' on CBS. Papers In the action declared that after Miss Brown had helped create the program arid authored the first two continuities, the agency let her out. Understanding had been that the Job. was for 26 weeks, at $100 a week.. When dropped by the agency she had collected altogether $400. Young & Rublcam decided' to set- tle the case after Miss Brown's at- torneys, Korn & Salkin, had gone through the procedure of an examl nation before trial. New Station Pittsburgh, June 26. Federal Radio Commission has granted Hugh J. Brennen and Rob GW^rTKSmpson^^ and KQV hero, permission to oper ate a station in Greensburg, 25 miles from Pitt. Daytime only on 620 kilocycles and 250 watts. Station will be located in the Penn Albert hotel. Call letters not yet picked, but will start operation within next 60 days. License will be in name of Pittsburgh Radio Supply House, present owners' of two Pittsburgh broadcasting outfits. AFA Votes as In Favor of Advance Bally Advertising experts preponderant opinion that a pro- gram shouldn't be launched oh .the networks without an advance tom- toming, NBC found this out when it installed automatio votings machine at the convention of the Advertising Federation of America in New York last week arid asked the attendees to pull the 'yes' or 'no* levers on a set of questions propounded for them.. 6f those who voted on the query, Do y*ou favor the promoting of a program advance of its. going on the air,' 93.2% answered in the affirma- tive. Corrollary to this qulzz was, *Do you believe broadcast advertis- ing programs should be promoted in newspapers," magazines, trade papers, . house organs, direct mail, etc.', and the count on the lever pulling showed that 95.8% thought the idea okay. Questionnaire disclosed that minor percentage of the ad agen- cies have radio sets in their offices. Answer was 31.6% 'yes.' It was also revealed that only 60.8% of the ad- vertising experts who gave the au- tomatic voting contraption a play knew which stations near them were allied with the two NBC links and Which were affiliated with CBS. Conventioneers were asked whethar they thought the . presence of a studio audience added or de- tracted from their enjoyment 6f a program and 64.8%. noted an affirm- ative. Only 48.3% favored having a radio set in their offices, 23.6% claimed they had auto receiving ap- paratus, 77.6% said they carried a set with them to summer camp or hangout, and 33% allowed they had mdre than one set In their home. On the poser, 'Do you believe the New Deal program has aided busi- ness recovery,' 76.7% of the adver- tising men and broadcasters voting made it a hod. ST. LOUIS DEPT. STORES GETTING RADIO-MINDED St. Louis, June 26. Looks like the long-awaited blow- up of the department stores alliance against radio advertising' is at hand.. For three years the St. Louis de- partment stores have stuck together in an agreement not . tj . use ether plugging In any way. But accord- ing to rumbles it noW appears that three leading stores are ready to crash into the air by the start of the fall season. Among insiders locally it is figured that the order in which the department stores will come to the ether will be Famous-Barr store first, followed by Greenfield's, and then Garland's. One department store has made a move in that di- rection by -putting a book reviewer on station KSD, though at no time during the book review program is there any mention of the store. It rates strictly as a sustaining pro- gram. Swift Pipes Romberg, Phelps Audish from N.Y. Chicago, June 25, Swift company had a show piped, in from Radio City,. New York, last week. On the show was Sigmund Romberg, directing a large orches- tra, and William Lyon Phelps as commentator. It's an hour program laid out at present. Will Aubrey's Commersh ^ San Francisco, June 25. ^ISirilrenaWP^ Langendorf Pictorial with Rush Hughes off NBC at end of this yreelx. (29), when Will Aubrey's commer- cial for Alpine Milk Will succeed to the 3 p.m. spot. Hughes will, return Aug. 20. when KOMO, Seattle, is added to the present KGO, 'Frisco, and KFI, Los Angeles. Meanwhile he'll continue m'.c.'lng the Monday night Shell Show, also. .NBC. Tuesday, June 26, 1994 VARIETY 41 CO-OPPING ON WAX NBC Successfully Sidetracks NAB Plan for Exclusive Station Reps NBC won out last week In Ms light to prevent the National Asso- ciation of Broadcasters, in commer- cial convention in New fork, from giving official sanction to the ex- clusive Idea in station representa- tion. Chiefly responsible for side- tracking the NAB commercial com- mittee's recommendation, that the general station representative he condemned as antiquated and inimical to the indie outlet's best interests, was William B. Hedges, managing head of the NBC oper- ated stations. Had the meeting approved the commercial committee's stand, NBC's recent move In extending its operations into the field of spot broadcasting would have been seri- ously stymied. As a retailer of spot time for its affiliated stations /the network Alls the status of general station representative. Most of these associated outlets are tied up under exclusive representation con tracts with such organizations as Edward Petry ft Co., and Free ft Slelnlnger. With the NAB officially sanctioning such exclusive rela tlons, there Would be little left for NBC to do with its spot broadcast- ing enterprise but fold it up. Wants Own Reps NBC is in favor of the exclusive representation method as far as its own operated stations are con- cerned. Network several months ago advised the trade that it would no longer recognise from the com- mission angle any time placing go- between other than its own local service department. If an agency wanted to book spot time on the outlets controlled by NBC, business would have to be' done direct with the local service bureau. When the committee reported favorably on .the issue of exclu- sive representation, Hedges at- tacked the measure as discrimina- tory and tending to put the repre- sentative business into the hands of a small group of men. Proposi- tion came up again at a later ses- sion of the association and it was decided that the resolution be tabled until the general convention of the NAB In October, with the commer- cial committee In the meantime continuing its study of the subject Also suggested was that the com- mittee try to phrase Its recommen- dation In a way that the bars wouldn't be brought down so dras- tically on such an outfit as NBC. How Doe* It Feel? OFF MR, ONTO STAGE FOR THE GOLDBERGS v The same day, July 13, that Ger- trude Berg and her 'Rise of the Goldbergs' go off the air for Pepso- dent, after five uninterrupted years, the act opens for'B&K at the Chi- cago theatre, ChL, as the first stop on a vaudfllm Itinerary. This pioneering script act, one of the most successful of radio 'book* turns, Is having special: scenery built by John Wenger and is routed for several weeks before returning to the air m the fall. Mrs. Berg will return under new auspices. NBC's New Coast Talent San Francisco, June 25. NBC went out on a talent buying spree this week, re-hiring a flock ©f artists who were previously- on the network but had been off for some tune. Returning prodigals are Tom Mitchell, who gets five afternoon solo spots weekly; Refa Miller, soprano, and Pair of Pianos (Grace Frankel and Gertrude Lyne). Pinkie Lee, monologist, Who started a month ago and was im- mediately called East by the death of a parent, goes back on the pay-, roll this week. Bristol-Myers and the Ben- ton Bowles agency made in of their Wednesday night whirl on NBC last week to entertain from the studio sidelines a flock of delegates .to the. con- vention of the Advertising Fed- eration of America. Through given its usual crosB-country release, the comedy portion of the program, with Fred Allen and his stooges, was strictly of an inside flavor. It was ah all burlesque swat at the . ad agency business, With yesmen, ldeameh, reactlonmen- and the craft's penchant for conferences, multiple vice- presidents and exaggerated promises for the product's users each subjected to a line of ribbing. CHI CBS RUN LIKE GROCERY Chicago, June 26. Switch in policy by the local CBS artists' bureau brings a sudden halt to the rush of stations and network talent -managers to signature all likely performers to long term con tracts. New program head for CBS WBBM, Holland Engle, can't see tying up the network or station with a performer who is okay In the audition room but may ' not be on the air. Engle puts it that the station is to be run like a grocery store, *we buy apples when we can sell apples.' Which In radio and show business language means that CBS-WBBM will signature only that talent which has passed the sponsor and public tests. CYGI TIES WITH WCFL IN NEW WEB PLANS Chicago, June 26. Ota Gygl has made an alliance with WCFL, Chicago Federation of Labor station, as the key outlet for his Affiliated Network. Gygl is establishing affiliations with other midwest Indie stations with WCFL. to serve as the feed station until a New York base is established. Plan Is to divide the network in state regional webs. CI DIRECTORS CUE Hollywood Interference Jams Up Tame' Bookings; Par Puns Boland Vote A f a in* t Merging Grouping Broadcasters with World Broadcasting Sy»t«m— CB.'itea to Fi- nance Own Transcription Making SOLVE W.E. PROBLEM Oakley Angle Straightened; Foxx On for Bakery Philadelphia, June 26. Jimmy Foxx, the Athletics' home- run slugger, goes commercial on WCAU Wednesday (27) for a Philly bakery. Series, which was to have com- menced last week, became snarled on the deal for free admissions to local ball games. Client desired 200 oakleys. Difficulty was Ironed when the player, proved that he really didn't own the ball. club. From Night City Ed ^To ^Man About Town' Philadelphia, June 26. Charlie P. Martyn, former night editor of the defunct Public Ledger, becomes the 'Man About Town' for WTBG, with weekly chatter column. Though tied in with Phllly's small- est station, contract calls for larger salary than most commercial artlst6 In town. Ledger papers were the strong- est sheets m the town against radio. Directors of Group Broadcasters, Inc, during a series of 'meetings held in New York last week voted against the proposed merger with the World Broadcasting System, Inc. As an alternative to this merger the O. B. coterie have de- cided to finance their own tran- scription making facilities. Under this arrangement indie station op- erators will for the first time in the history, of the business be engaged in a co-operative waxed program building venture. After rejecting the World Broad- casting- proposition, the G.B. direc- torate agreed to subscribe among themselves $100,000 for the tech nlcal Improvement of the Byer Stu- dios, Inc., which Scott-Howe Bowen tossed into the pot when he allied himself with the Group Broadcasters project. Most of the subscribed eapital will -be used to buy recording equipment from Western Electric. Through this W.E. franchise the O.B. affiliates be- lieve they will be a major barrier to the development of their spot time booking combine when It came to furnishing commercials with the facilities for recording programs. W.E. Amenable What had mainly actuated the O.B. members , in considering a consolidation with World Broad casting was the fact that the latter firm held from Western Electric an exclusive franchise for the hill and dale method of stencilling. De clslon to drop the merger idea came after It was found that W.E. was amenable to equipping the Byers studios with a recording layout similar World Broadcasting's. A banking group interested in World Broadcasting had offered aa part of the merger proposition to finance the expansion of the Group Broad- casters, Ino, enterprise. Proposed amalgamation would have taken In Group Broadcasters, Scott-Howe-Bowen, Inc^ Byers Studios, Inc., and World Broadcast ing. Under this plan the Byers plant would have, been practically junked and all recording for G.B. clients, done in the World Broad-, casting studios. Members have 10 days within which to put up their shares of the $100,000. At last week's meeting it was also agreed that the Group Broad- casters organization function in two distinct capacities; as a re- taller of spot broadcasting on com- bination rate basis with the adver- tiser obligated to take a minimum of 10 stations and units of 16 min- utes or more, and as the booking representative of members in . the GJ. combine when the call from commercials Is for less than 10 sta- tions. Each division will have its own sales staff and general per- sonnel. G.B. organization now embraces 38 stations. Scott-Howe-Bowen is in charge of sales, while Chester Dunham as general' manager heads the administrative phase of the en- terprise. " Station operators' allied with the G.B. combine were gathered in New York yesterday (Monday)' to have the eo-operative program proposi- tion explained to them. RUBBING IT IK Scott's Emulsion Is due back in the fall for a 13-week ride on NBC. Program will be of the script classification. Digging 'Em Up Des Moines, June '26. James Hanrahan, general manager of KSO, went to the University of Iowa at the in- vitation of Prof. Clay Harsh- barger, to hear a class in radio, a branch of the speech depart- ment created this year. After listening to the class and to auditions later; he gave jobs at KSQ to Ave members of that class, as follows: Edmund Linehan and Gerald Morrison, continuity; Virgil Tacy and Raymand Cox, announcers, and . Phyllis Michael will add the femme touch to the sales de- partment of the station. Baltimore, June 26. Juvenilia got a bow on Balto ether last week. WBAL took on a new announcer, Philip Franklin, 20 years old and two years out of a local high school. WFBR picked up Wil- liam Seth, prep, school alum- nus of '33. He hails from WEHC, Charlottesville, Va., and comes into new post, as sub -announcer and warbler. 48 FREE HOURS WKLY. TO FAR Chicago, June 26. Radio broadcasting industry has been busy with , pencil and paper figuring out how much free airing It Is delivering to the Chicago World's Fair. It has totaled the average time at 48 hours per week, the largest amount ever given free to any one attraction on a few acres of ground. Radloltes are beginning to Use these figures as an.argument when- ever the usual squabbles arise at the Fair administration building One network had to threaten to pull out its wires in order to get a couple extra press ducats. Average, weekly distribution on Fair pick-ups Is NBC, 10 hours; CBS, nine hours; WGN, 10 hours; WCFL> four hours; WJJtJ, three hours. IHANNIE SACKS WCAU'S NEW BOOKING HEAD Interference from picture produ- cers on the Coast has jammed as- Lehn ft Fink on Its future bookings for the 'Hall of Fame* on NBC Sunday nights. Drug manufacturer got its' stiff- est blow last week when Paramount advised Mary Boland that the anti- radio appearance clause in her pic- ture contract would be enforced and that the series she was slated t© do with Charles Buggies for Lehn ft Fink, starting Sunday (8) was but. Same commercial had Mae West scheduled to go on this week- end (1), but this date also has been called off: from Hollywood. With CBS the source of difficulty over Lionel Barrymore is Metro. Network had Campbell Soup lined up to frame an hour's show around Barrymore when studio stepped in with a demurrer. This contract in- volves around $760,000 In time and talent for Columbia. Baer a Life Saver Booking of Max Baer on last Sun- day's (24) show took the agency on the Lehn ft Fink account out of an embarrassing situation. Miriam Hopkins had originally been set for the program, but because of her work at Paramount Bhe found It Inconvenient to pipe to New York an audition of her bit for E. N. Plaut, president of L & F„ who has made it his policy to give each name a personal hearing before okaying the booking. Miss Hopkins will do her bit this Sunday (1) In- stead. Series embracing Buggies and Mary Boland was to have been, for eight weeks. With this setup elimi- nated it Is now up to the agency to scout around for that number of names to carry the program over the months of July and August. Philadelphia, June 26. Staff changes at WCAU have Mannie Sacks moving from pub- licity to artist bureau as head,- after retirement of H. Bart McHugh. Replacing Backs on publicity is Powers GoUraud, who ankles up from the continuity depot, also re- taining active Interest in program- ming. McHugh has been the artist bu- reau head since the Levy's took over WCAU more than six years ago. Retirement, though listed as /temporary/ Will remain in statu qUo because of McHugh's' failing health. Myrt and Marge Back For Wrigley Oct. 1 Chicago, June 26. Any doubts concerning the pos- sible fade -put - of. the Myrt and Marge aet from the ether are now in the alley. Wrigley company last week signatured, with Columbia here for a return of the gal chatter serial on Oct. 1. Will run five times weekly with 16-mlnute scripts, as In the past. Will again ride opposite Amos *n Andy period, both for the early eastern and later western nightly runs. Wil also use Us largest CBS hook-up, about 60 stations. 2 Major Accounts Off ; Clara, Loa, Em, Ben Bernie Vacashing Chicago, June 26. More accounts are starting to take vacations from the ether this sum- mer in order to give their talent a rest and prepare for a fresh start In the fall. Ben Bernie band will slide off NBC for Pabst beer July IT, with the program remaining silent until Bernie's return, Sept. 18. Clara, Lu and Em drop off the Super- Suds program on NBC on Aug. 3 for a month, to return Sept. This year Super- Suds will, re- main silent during the layoff ..and not . use any replacement show for the Interim. « 7 Amos 'n' Andy return to the Pep- sodent show Sept.. 17. 2D 50,000-PLUS WAITER FOR NBC; KOA, DENVER KOA, Denver, Jumps from 60,000 to 100,000 watts July 7. NBC, which manages and operates the outlet under a lease arrangement with General Electrlo, will celebrate the event with an inaugural program the same night. KOA makes the second station on the NBC list that Is licensed to gen- erate better than 60,000 watts* WLW, Cincinnati, moved up to 600*» 000 watts a couple of months ago. NBC has compounded for Ate water-Kent a program by which It hopec to bring the set manufacturer back to the air. Network piped the 1 show last week to the concern'* Philadelphia offices. Atwater-Kent, rated as radios pioneer in class entertainment* hasn't had a network connection to four years. 42 VARIETY A D I [PORTS Tuesday, June 26, 1934 8CHLITZ BEER I DICK HIMBER ORCH. Everett Marshall Frank Crumit, With Joey N ash Alice Remsen, Harry V6n Zell, 30 Mine. Stoopnagle and Budd, Parker Fen. I COMMERCIAL nelly, Octet, Victor Young's Orcb. Variety Show 45 Mins. COMMERCIAL WABC, Now York This, started out to be an uhpre EDITH JEAN ME88NER With Ethel Levey, Jimmy Rogers' Oroh. 30 Mi • WABC, Mew York I Sustaining Studebaker Champions have had WINS, New York Richard Himber and his Ritz-Carl- Whatever illusions Ethel Levey ton orchestra on the air for soveral may have Imparted' on that portion S£ s affiSSS .58 <* «-« ** „ i series with an occasional biff show name of the first Mrs. George i M, tentious advertising affair of strictly as tonight (Tuesday), when- Morton Cohan miffht have i meant something Iao-1 fChieaeoV proportions, and Downey, Jane. Frohman and Fray were totally shattered by her vary local (Chicago) proporuona, Braggl ^ t l augment David Ross, the inept performance on WINS' sus- after considerable Juggling, in which announcer, Joey Nash, Him- taining afternoon half-hour series two agencies participated, it wound Der . s vocalist, and the Himber com- titled the Women's Round Table, uo as a major 45-mlnute network bo, in a full hour show. This is a This variety show is m.c. d . by w ™ one-shotter. Edith Jean Messner, presumably of show on CBS. As a regular thing, the Himber the N, T. Hearst station's pernuv • There is such a thlng.as too mucn, brand of a ansa ptioh is smooth and nerit staff, and includes at least one even on radio, and the.Schlltz snow ultra - with ; its un ique harp inter- staff member, Herman Mahr, In the has too much of everything out lu(Jeg breaking up the succession of proceedings. Ballyod as designed as quality. Plentiful in star perform- I numberg but maintaining an other- a help and an inspiration to women, ers but it failed when caught W to wis0 ext ended flow of rhythms de- through the. achievements of the cash in on . the obviously n ,® a yj , spite the shifting tempos. honored guest artists each week, the vestment. Everett Marshall. Frank Himber thus goes from a foxtrot idea is good, but seldom material Crumit,, Alice Remsen, Stoopnagle tQ rum ba with ease and finesse lzes. and Budd, Victor Young's^orchestra and tne half hour In thla wlse at _ Ethel Levey, unfortunately, be and a good supply of utility talent, £or(ls a ma ximum of music and a longs to that page of theatrical In one lump, sounds like a fasclnat- minlmum of t it u iar announcements, history that can only Interest those ing line-up. And they should be. excep tihg for the I discreet and \spiels. of a couple or three generations But tossed, in as in this instance, These, David Ross retails with usual back. Now, as Mrs. Claude Gra- they're a mumble- jumble Of dls- gU avity, enhanced by ^a basic script ham-White, she would be wise to connected artistry. that keeps the ad bally well within remain an historical figment rather Crumit is practically, wasted in bounds. Abel. than essay that awful rendition of the role of straight man for a rube 1 comic called Uncle Abner, Crumit A Thousarid Goodnlghts.' It was done in qhe of those , now almost obsolete radio tremolos, culminating iri the slurring of the higher pitches, and a complete vocal rout when her voice wavered and . then cracked. In her self -read autobiography of her European theatrical conquests one could almost hear the rustle of and Unk handle most . 6f the ad 'DOCTORS COURAGEOUS' copy Producer also failed to make Dramatic Episodes the most of Everett Marshall, who COMMERCIAL was in excellent voice when caught KFAC, Los Angeles and who might have been used An ideally suited program for Its more, even at the risk of being ac- type of sponsorship. With a local cused of overdoing it. Marshall drug concern paying the. bill, pro- WU1U would have been far more effective gram consists Of weekly half hour >he-1nss. from which she read her in consuming running time than a dramatic playlets, based on 8< > m © a Vuff lot of extraneous matter included in true Incident in the experiences of 1 " " the program. doctors and nurses; Comedy department, filled by Playlets are written and directed Stoopnagle and Budd, had surpris- by Tom 'Gibson and are well irigly little on the ball at the Friday handled for their entertainment and night catching. Their material was suspensive elements. Cast work is enough to drive the listeners to good. . _ 5 , drink, and when a listener is driven There is a particular listener ap- i super i atiV e builder - upperlng^ ac drink he usually does it with peal in this section as most of the ^ofSed thw Jimmy Rogers and his Music Men, latter including Si Walters and Herman. Mahr, was another of those hotcha trios, distinguished only by the '30 flying fingers' bally- hoo, but the triple keyboard ar- rangements never quite parred the likker "" 'And this" is a beer show. I episodes are built on incidents of Alice 'Remsen, doing so little she's the . West. An added Incentive hardly noticeable; Eight Gentlemen toward interest is in the gag of from Milwaukee, and Victor Young's call for true medical experiences, orchestra comprise the balance of. sent in by listeners, which are x verl- the show. |, fled and then turned into dramatic There's" fine music, class singing 'shape by Gibson. Among the radio fl^nd, With Stoopnagle and Budd in Play fiends the program Is grow form, there should be satisfactory \ ln S popular. Stan. comedy. The ingredients are there, — - - What the corded them. WINS Is one of the lesser sta- tions in New York which could, through judicious. showmanship; ar- rest some sort of audience atten- tion. But it never takes advantage of this, seemingly faced, with the same problem that besets many of the lesser stations around New York and elsewhere^-the problem of talent and the hunger therefor, which prompts the station to put on b.ut might as well' not be. VYUa1 ' I HELEN KANE Schlltz show needs, and iri a hurry, with Tom Howard, Cross and Dunn I almost anything as a stopgap; This J» some expert staging. .. m | S« "snflT^^H" ' I is evidenced a-plenty from the reg~ ular programs sent out with re peated substitutions through disap- t some expert singing, o- j„ Another phase. In which too much gSa'^^.TL^ generosity is shown is in the ad w E AF New York copy. Cast does everything from | F1 ^ lachmann Teaat on lta Besfllon I polntments. and invariably It is the JS? £ b ^HnS Ch how W it's <* Thursday (21) put the hZ same succession or staff' vocalists sound effects to teUing Jow it s Kane boop _£_doop through a merry and. pianologlsts which plnch-hlts, made, meanwhile -"^"O™})*}"^ whirl. With the aid of a sprightly with the. result every program name nine times, thrice for lengthy conceived script the cage of Helen sounds, alike, through sameness of dfscourses. There s fo^^ Kane versus Max Flelschman and people and vocal or Instrumental Abek rather unappetizing to the beer- . Paramoun ^ was re . en acted in | style., making ess ay, too. rhyme, Tom Howard officiated as It's mentioned several times dur- the jud ^ lh exchange of fun- . ^ a _. Ing the 46 ■»nta^^*2?fJfi^ P° Um 5 at the . judicial Ivent was Q-S-J. mostly by little things called l eiwr- ;. smoo th, sly and in no way often mea. Now, .enzymes are . helpful s j ve • bacteria that decompose' the sugar Qnly fault with the concelt was in the brewing process. And the t hat it didn't allow for-at least one common name for bacteria is bugs. full chorUs of a song from Miss Aa the copy is Written and read it Kane Rhymed dialog could have,- seems as through Schlltz beer is the been s0 f ramed that the inclusion SVS*?'"""? w . only beer that enjoys the benefit of 0 f a song from the girl with. whom WEAF, New York enzymes. Beer with bugs in it. and the boop-a.-doop Style is associated [ Through this weekly segment they re bragging! mge. wpuld not have lnter fered with the NBC und © rt akes to bestow a posie llht ?empo a orthTthinS r as 1 a W wlolf "Pon that fraternity of ether play KRAUSMEYER and COHEN ^s^e^^gghfg^^ who affectionately refer^ to Comedy Serial - elties of this sort that has been £ em f el Y e8 M . ^ 15 Mint., -: largely responsible for the act rat- thls lnstanc ?' 18 a " amateur short lhg that this variety show has Wn l ave operator, and the vereln that With Warren Hull, William John stone, William Adams. Albert Phillips, Florence Gerald, Allen Bunce, Jere'Delaney Dramatic Sketch 15 Mins. WQljVO;^ Vyjayne able to maintain year in and year General -thread of story working L out. As a pioneer In radio enter tjii^iipT&^this beer commercial uti- Aainment It's still top leader. Odec lj^ejsvthe comedy characters as an "rittUnccd in. the title. Between the I DIXIE CIRCUS -two moves the Widow Bender, (2d • Series) V whose antics charm one of the part- 30 Mins, ners and frighten the other. A COMMERCIAL tavern is the setting and the only WBBM, Chicago piiSlnt which both parties agree upon Tbis is a repeat of the Dixie ii^ that Centlivre Beer is served IClrcua^ show for the. Dixie paper there. Thus the breaks for the cup .company. Previously had been brewery. ... on platters for 15 -minute spots and Recorded in^ the -east,, this wax authored by Courtney Riley Cooper, program is oh for a period of 26 Cooper also scribbled' some radio these lads of the attics have or ganized for themselves is the Amer lean Radio Relay League. From the ARRL's files the network has obtained a stack of memoirs re- tailing heroic deeds performed by amateur operators and It Is these deeds that the 'Q.S.T.' series glori- fies in dramatic form. 'Q.S.T.' la the international code for 'stand by all stations, we are about to broadcast a bulletin For-- last"" Week's (19) : episode the series took the story of a Seattle 'ham' who helped save the life of a child 1,500 miles away and into weeks, arid is now hearing the mid- scripts labelled 'Circus Days' for ^L^u^H?,}^ wealth of suspense and excitement. It wasn't an expert piece of con tinuity construction, but the hu man interest of the story plus* the neat direction' of the cast overcame the script's shortcomings. Odec, die of its run. Comes oh twice . a Scott's Emulsion week during the early r evening This show is- on for the sum hours and is gaining fans steadily, mer plug of Dixie cups as ice Tl^e . program has be.eri constructed cream containers..- The .manufac more solidly than most beer com- turers are not content to garner niericals through this, part of the the children's plug, but also sling country and with the additional in a line of sales copy for the placard advertising , in dealers housefrau on the use of the paper I PALMER CLARK ORCHESTRA windows, the comedians are now cups for parties. With Arthur Beddoes quite well known. > Diversification of audience here is Copy at present time is directed difficult to accomplish. First It's to the sportsman. When caught, the aimed at kids and later at grown refreshing elements of the brew U ps. That can't be. Likely result were impressed on the fisherman. Music absent from program. SAM CI RON E BACKYARD -m FOLLIES Musical Novelty 16 Miris. Sustaining WIND, GARY ""^No^elty^o^iratid^orchestral^susr will be disinterest of both parties. For kids there's not enough excite ment and chattering teeth in 'Dixie Circus' to compare with other radio thrillers. . This is si 30-miriute affair, hitting the air rather late for a kid show. Is divided into two episodes, each of which contains a circus narra- tive as re lated by Uncle Bob Shejr- wooS, who has been publicized tainer, with Sam Cirone surrounded plenty as the big top's oldest clown, by a gang of energetic players. Jt -* s evident that the attempt here Boys play harmonicas and clarinets M 3 to make one episode a tear- mostly and inject extra tricks like jerker, the other something of. a shaking sand in tin-cans or employ- breath-stopper. ing. kitchen utensils for sounds. In the previous series the only Outstanding iJ tlie singing. Last musical background was a cal- show had Little Rusty, seven-year- Hope which did not have the proper older. bulk of real circus sock. Here they Once in awhile the group leaves have brought in Frank Novak to the backyard atmosphere for a more build a real ciVcusy band and it's current hit. Unity could be better a hearty improvement. Band itself achieved by smoother transition takes about one-quarter of the ne- from one number to another. 'rlod. Gold. Sustaining WGN, Chicago . Clark orchestra Is sharing the Swift free music exhibit at the World's Fair with the Chicago Sym phony and has started the Swift season in a heart-warming fashion, Clark is now bucking the Detroit symphony at the Ford exhibit at the Fair and is managing to hold his own. Clark has an aggregation of some 26 men In the big band shell on the .Fair_lagoon r and i is „ playing^, every style of music from" popular stuff- to semi-classical and classical, and is covering the field of music excellent ly. . Particularly is he coming over the air in clean-cut fashion, despite the obvious handicaps of outdoor', playing and the Fair's interference through airplanes and blimps flying overhead. Clark band may go on the new Swift program this fall. Arthur Bed does Is doing the -solo singing here with a pair of tenor pipes, and de veloping into something of a local fav. Gold. LAFF CLINIC With Bill Goodwin, Qino Severi, Qrenardiers, Frank Brown, Min- erva Urecal, Brown and . Lavell; Jane Jones, Archer and Jackson, Linda Lee, Hi H attar a Trio, COMMERCIAL KHJ, Los Angeles Except for a couplo of spots this s a snappy half hour vaude pro- gram, hilights being vocal. Local stations are clogged, ' with this type of fare and./ all seem to laye the sarixe routine— band operi- ng, comics, vocal number, comics, vocal number, and so on. Trouble- some . feature for L. A. listeners, is the doubling on the several stations of the same comics and a. peddling of the same gags week after, week. While Brown and Lavell, malo and fomme, are constant repeaters, their, routine of b.ack and forth is jake with some gags, if not new, at least dressed up a bit. Archer and. Jack- son, male team, don't worry about modernization, going, back at least 25 years to tell about the chap so cr,oss-eyed every tirne he cried the tears rolled down his back. Minerva Urecal, who did Italian dialect When on KFWB, is now mortikered Aunt Carrie .Bodkin with .sarne~gags, but in rural array. Program is saved by the music with someone evidently getting wise that the mediocre comedy can be salved with good tune work. . Conr tributlons from this end, all better than average, comprise Grenardletfs' quartet, Frank.' Brown, tenor; Jane Jones, blulst; Linda Lee,, torcher, and Hi Haters, male trio. Bill Good- win m.c.'s. Gino Severi's orchestra backgrounds. Stan. Arthur ruhl Talk Sustaining 0 Mins. WGY, Schenectady. Dramatic editor of the Herald Tribune talked about boys' club dramatics as guest on the 'Woman's Radio Review' over the NBC red chain. Mike appearance Was the outgrowth of RuhFs service as a ;udge in the finals of a tournament recently staged In New York. The previous yeai- he had played the role' of a spectator at a similar affair. Subject Of the address bordered on the unimportant for a man of Ruhl's obvious erudition In theatri cal matters,, but he made it as in teresting as possible. Chat prob ably appealed mainly to the 'club women' type of listeners, carrying as it did that note of 'uplift' which is sounded iri many talks heard on the 'Review.' Ruhl detailed the contest in which five groups, survivors of 21 en trants, competed for the prize, dls cussed, the playlets presented and the acting done in them, spoke of the -problems faced in boys' club dramatics, and listed the - benefits derived from, such Work. In an- alyzing a prize-winning- prison sketch,- 'Release,' he remarked that 'unfortunately some newspapers and movies glorify gangsters/ Ruhl displayed a clear voice and cultured accent. He was Introduced as 'the able critic' of the. T-H and as a former war correspondent. Jaco. CRC BROADCAST STYMIED BY WALKOUTS MITCHELL 8CHUSTER GENE KARDOS ORCHESTRAS 15 Minsk Each Sustaining WHN, New York Two very danceable combos from Roseland ballroom, on Broadway, catering to a bunch that knows its dansapation. Which means that Messrs. Mitchell Schuster and Gene Kardos with their respective dance orchestras must know their: rhyth mics, or else. They evidence that they do by their .matinee' dansants via WHN Schuster's . is the rumba-tango combo and Kardos alternates with him for 15 minutes of straight fox trotblogy. Between the two it's a bright interlude in the midday ether programs and well sustain the WHN institutional rep that there's always music on tap by merely twirling a dial. WHN has been going hot 'n' heavy after its slogan, 'Dial 10-10, WHN,' a euphonious herald that music of some sort is to be had from that ethereal fountainhead, always. Abel. SALT AND PEANUTS 15 Mins. COMMERCIAL WBT, Charlotte, N. C. This radio boy and girl harmony team has vaudeville experience be- hind it. Byrd's hair tonic has the team under contract for two- late afternoon spots a day. They go on at 5:15 and again at 6:45. Handy with musical instruments .possessed^of jcatch y_sln gin g,._volces and ready with the comedy patter t the team delivers in showmanlike fashion. The couple came here several weeks ago and offered their services for a sustaining program. A spon sor showed up soon thereafter. PAUL CURTIS Songs Sustaining 15 Mins. WGY, Schenectady Under the above nom de radio, Raymond Dederick presents a 1C Toronto, June 25. v Canada strike involving over 5,000 union musicians through- out the dominion today caused the decision by the Canadian Radio Commission to abandon the Domin- ion Day program scheduled for Sun- day next, which was to have been broadcast to the British Isles as Canada's contribution to an empire- wide broadcast Involving all units of the British commonwealth. Dr. H. A. Fricker, conductor of the. Mendelssohn choir, of 2,009 voices and himself a member , of the Toronto Musical Protective Asso- ciation, was notified today by Wal- ter Murdoch, president of that body, that no part must be taken in the Empire broadcast by union artists. Joseph N-. Weber, head of the Ainer- ican Federation of Musicians, also, notified Murdoch that the Canadian union musicians " 'will have all the. assistance We can give.' Strike was called in Canada In support of the demands of the Montreal local for a 30% Increased rates and recognition of the union* Statement issued here today by Hector Charlesworth, chairman of the Canadian Radio Commission, says, 'There can be no basis for ne- gotiation of settlement of the boy- cott of C. R. C. stations by union musicians until spokesmen .recede from their, demand for recognition of the union to the exclusion of other groups and individuals.' Summer Theatre on Air Pittsburgh, June 26. Pittsburgh Civic Playhouse, sum- mer theatre group presenting a series of six subscription plays this season, is going on WWSW oncs> weekly to plug current productions. Each Sunday night a . cast from Playhouse will present short scenes from play to open the following night Some of the burg's: critics and playwrights are also to be intro- duced on the weekly programs. Faggen's Bankruptcy I. Jay Faggeri, . a. for radio artists, bands arid niteries, took his financial worries to the Federal Court last week. Schedule that Faggen attached to his petition in voluntary bankruptcy gave his liabilities at $28,729, and no assets. NBC's Yeast Audition Ironized Yeast yesterday (Mon- day) gave an ear to a program put together for it by NBC. Show was a combination of Whis- pering Jack Smith and a string and woodwind aggregation under Arnold Johnson's direction. GUTTLE TO CHI KASTOR Chicago, June 25. Nell Cuttle goes to the Kastor agency to handle the radio depart- rrierit. Replaces Read Wight, who moved to the World Broadcasting force locally. Cuttle was formerly with WBBM and KYW stations here. Kapa Refrigerator has placed' through the Bess & Schillin agency a series of announcements on the following outlets in the New York area, WHOM, WAAT, WFAB and WFAS. minute program one afternoon weekly. Originally he teamed over WGY with Floyd Haber, a birltone, but in recent months has been so- loing. ^Curtls-has=a^tenor"Voiee=-which---is- high, clear and sweet. He displays evidence of careful coaching, and, obviously, is still tutoring. Has not yet achieved the maturity, poise and the individualistic style of an 'arrived' singer, but he appears to bo 1 moving along the road to this goal. Curtis warbles standard numbers and opera'tlc arias. On tho program caught, he did one grand opera bit rather well, although his voice lacked some of the robustness needed in that type of selection. Jaco. Tuesday, June 26, 1934 A D I O VARIETY 43 HEARING FIREWORKS Scrappy 2 Days— ^Equity Chafe* at Delay on Per- formers' Protect ion — IBEW Demands 35-Hour ' Week Webs' Income Much Argued Point UNIONIZATION FURORE Washington, June 25 Militant demands of union leaders for drastic hotir- shortening and for fixing of salaries of artists and per- formers' turned the hearings on re- vision of the radio broadcasting "icode into a stubborn tug of war last Wednesday and Thursday (20-21). facing voluminous record, Deputy Administrator William P. Farns- worth announced sessions to under take compromises will begin latter part of this week. Revision nego tiatlons are expected to require sev- eral days in view of the apparent unwillingness of unions to . com- promise and dissension within the Code Authority Principal demands were. IBEW insistence on a 35 -hour week and Baldwin's Points Washington, June 26. Opposing changes in labor clauses of the broadcast code the radio Code Authority, through James W. Baldwin, executive officer, informed NRA last week that a survey of technicians' wages shows that , raises during the latter part of 1933 occurred at a faster rate than the rise in living costs. Stating that codlsts believe further reduction in hours or added increase in pay 'will op- press and may eliminate small radio broadcasting enterprises and will tend to promote mo- nopolies/ Baldwin called NRA attention to Labor Department figures showing that from June to December, . cost of living climbed 6.2%, while average increase in weekly, wages of engineers has aggregated 8.26%. Code Authority said that em- ployment of technicians in- creased 11.9%, hours were cut 9.8%, weekly payrolls increased 21.1%; licensed operators with few exceptions enjoy better protection against accident than is generally the case in similar professions in other fields, classification of en- gineers is impractical Since duties and responsibilities vary greatly, and all but four of 516 commercial stations are com- plying with wage provisions. Equity requests that NRA proceed jected . , to taking up proposals ex- to protect professionals without C cpt those relative to technicians, waiting longer for codlsts to make He was Joined by Phillip Loucks, their required survey of working managing director of National As- condltions. soclatlbn of Broadcasters; who pro- But a minor issue, and one which fessed surprise at the scope of .the threatens to cause * much. • future ! • hearing. , trouble, was the matter of union*- ' : Equity. Contention* ization. Electrical Brother hood irat barrage on labor's behalf fired several bombshells in the form ^ :• y ^ y . j ( . Equlty aS - cf' charges that contpany- unions ^ who testified in faavtt been set up to block Federa- . q£ adminlstratlon mem per tlon organizers ^"^^Vttii of the' CA, and who blasted fellow cians retorted that the IBEW is not. fl ifl , fdcts qualified to ™f^*W™*™ nt *»>out working- conditions of enter Sessions got off to a belliger ent tainers> : RecallIn g that the invest! startjtfhen Edward N. Nockles, CA tl as otdered N 6v. 27 and that member and operator .of WCFL : c0dl ; t3 . we re expected to expedite bitterly criticized rival broadcasters factTfindmg ^ ork> Mr8 . H olt and demanded that stations face the 1 • 6 r> * situation . and observe labor pro visions of both the-;.code and the Recovery law. This , spirit of ani mosity was fanned frequently by charged the CA with stalling, and said codlsts deliberately were using dilatory tactics. Demands that artists' wages and Charles Wood, Farnsworth's labor working conditions be covered ltn- advlser and highly theoretical brain mediately in the code, and .tha^ truster, who badgered witnesses modifications be made later .if and fired numerous highly embar- necessary on. basis, of survey, rassing and hypbthetica 1 questions, prefaced Mrs. Holt's presentation of ' L h r» K*v detailed .amendments intended to ■ or y • , - limit, rehearsals, regulate commls-' Key to the entire .labor situation sion ^ and flx fees on basis of sta- ts ,the. financial position of the two tion reY enues. jn^jor networks, , although .little in- , Backe d by the Labor Advisory formation was placed . into the rec ", Board; Mrs. Holt called for schedule ord on this point. Labor spokesmen Q £ Salaries' ra nging'from $35 tq, $7.50 contended that trade statistics show for j 3 _ m m'ute periods in 'three dlf- 1934 is a boom year for,. Columbia feren t station categories, standard One Happy Note and National Broadcasting w el)S fees for . auditions and transcrip- and jthat industry as a whole is in tlons, strict limitation on rehearsal position to .stand heavy increases in.. per i 0) j S| an d outlawing of commls- payjjqll burden. Taking ijp the ' s J onj 3 to artists bureaus affiliated labor challenge without hesitation, l.ytfth ' any 'broadcast station Janies W. Baldwin, executive dl- 1 ; Extremely. : disgruntled . about the "reCjtor of CA,. called on NRA to ac-r f questionnaire. matter, Equity lawyer, cept codlsts' recommendations that l sa i d the. question . form devised by no changes be made at the present tb.e CA was entirely inadequate to time in labor clauses, With* a minor ' bring but pertinent ihfoi'matibn and exception to which Farnsworth as- | recommended that the Labor Advis- seftted.; Financial phase of the problem came up when Farnsworth threw j before the industry statistics show- ing increase in gross, revenue of 38.5% during December-May period this year.. Labor groups harped on this matter continuously in protest- ing that broadcasters are able, to take on more workers without cut- ting pay. there has been an increase i com- mercial revenues during the early portion of 1934, Baldwin made futile objections to acceptance of this in- formation as a measuring stick. Said use of gross revenue figure's as criterion for decision on hour-cuts would .be 'most unfair* and warned that early estimates show a 'sharp decrease' in May business. Warned by presence . of Equity representatives that talent question would come up, Baldwin also ob- Washington, June 25. The radio hearings last week ended- on one harmonious note when Deputy Administrator Farnsworth paid high tribute to James W. Baldwin, Code Authority .e^cj^iye...:Ofllc..er.. ..... Saying he felt confident, that even labor would subscribe to his remarks, Farnsworth said Baldwin had been 'fearless and fair* in carrying out his duties. Following adjournment, the labor men crowded around Baldwin to pat him on the • back and asure him there were : no hard feelings toward him I despite his firmness in oppbe- ; rng -their proposals. ♦ ory Board take over the survey to* ' insure accurate, study. Answering two of broadcasters' principal objections before they could be registered, Mrs. Holt de- rided the argument that talent is not directly in the employ of broad- casters, in. commercial programs and announced Equity has no desire to fix scale of salaries for artists in stations charging less than $J,00 an hour. Demanding that big stations quit hiding behind little members of the industry! she said Equity rec- ognizes that local broadcasters ordi- narily use semi-professional or amateur talent and declared that Equity does not want to lower standards of artists in metropolitan areas by taking lower rates of small stations. . Asked by Farnsworth "How about people' who beg for a chance to broadcast for nothing or offer to pay for the privilege?" Mrs. Holt quickly retorted that NRA must protect labor from itself, Objections, to. consideration of Equity proposals came immediately from Baldwin, who said Mrs. : Holt had made "ex parte presentation" and denied the CA had been negli- gent or dilatory. Code Authority dissension cropped out .when Nockles shouted that Baldwin can not speak for the entire Code Au thority. Company Unions First ..squabble over company unions and technicians came up Wednesday afternoon (20). after Ed- ward D. Bierltz (IBEW) had read a lengthy brief supporting the union's demand for shortening of work week and upping. of salary minlmums for engineers. Hitting all industry for thinking- the economic emergency is over, Bierltz requested 'proper changes'; and referred to Indications that the air industry is enjoying big ,boom. Said broadcasters, aire chief, bene- ficiaries of Recovery movement; and workers , are v entitled to more" con- sideration. 1 Brbthethood' demanded minimuttis for technicians : be' raised from $40 to $44,.$3Q to $33, and $20 tb $22 and hours be chopped to 35 with provision for exemption from maximum time limit for small sta- tions , upon adequate , proof of hard- ship. Wage changes would require. 42 stations employing 439 technicians to raise workers $4 weekly, 182 em- ploying 813 to add $3, and* 262 em- ploying. 564 tb add $2, Bierltz said. • Other Brotherhood demands' were for -, classification ..of ; engineers and fixing Of minimums- on basis, of groupings according' to- nature of work," two weeks' vacations, pay- ment in. cash or checks, elimination of apprentice provisions- Engineer Surplus siamining : radio schools w.hich have created' a surplus of engineers, IBEW spokesman said 4,000 men are licensed for '2,000 jobs and that his amendments would . create only 460 new posts.'. Also said industry eas- ily can stand 40% raise on basis, of increased incomes and pointed out that radio requires rigid govern^ merit regulation' - td prevent - mo.- nopblles. Starting in to relate specific in- stances where broadcasters ..have violated labor guarantees in NIRA, Thomas R. McLean, of radio divi- sion of 'Brotherhood, precipitated .furious debate which ended" when Farnsworth ruled but mention of any particular' station and Baldwin, objected to any unsworn testimony alleging violations. Union was told by Farnsworth to take its complaints -immediately to the National Labor Board for in- vestigatibh and 'heartily recomr mended' this action. Inquiring 'Does Section 7A mean anything?' McLean charged that flaunting of provision guaranteeing right to unionize is general in the industry and that 'considerable trickery' has been used to circum- ^ent--requirement=.^that^exnpioiiej^ keep hands off organization efforts of their employees. Asserted that in New York, Chicago, and Cleve- land company unions have been set up and notices given technicians not to join the Brotherhood. Repeated demands by Baldwin that McLean's testimony be stricken from the record wece overruled by Farnsworth,. who said he did not consider that any 'indictment' had been nw.de by' the union, official. Complaints that many engineers Amendments Washington, June 26. Concrete amendments to the broadcast code proposed Equity and the NRA Labor Advisory Board provide: 1. Thirty -five hour and five day week, seven hour day; time and a half for all overtime, which is limited tb five hours except in emergency. 2. Minimum for technicians of $44, $33, $22, according to code sta- tion groupings; $22 for announcers; $16 for all except learners, Who may work for 60 days at 80% of the applicable minimum. 3. Readjustment of all salaries .to preserve the di existence June 16, 1931. 4. No hold back of. pay; employees must be pai in cash or checks. Transportation for business purposes to be paid by employers. 6. No artist required to pay a commission to a program bureau or agency affiliated in any way with broadcaster nor to agency paid a lump sum to arrange broadcasts. 6. NO discharge without notice of 1% . days for each month em- ployed. Vacations to be calculated the same basis of employ- ment. • 7. Following salaries for performers: lass A stations (charging $400 or more an hour for time), $15 for 15 minutes day and $35 night, $25 day and $50 night for 30 minutes; $30 day and $50 night for 45 minutes; $40 day and $60 night for one hour; : rehearsals, for daytime programs to be held on same day as. broadcast except that for an hour program rehearsals may be held On two days; rehearsals for night programs may cover two days except that only one re- hearsal' shall be required for IS minute program. Class B stations (charging $280 to $400 an hour); $10. day and $25 night for 15 min- utes! $15 day and $35 night for 30 minutes, $20 day and $35 night for 45 minutes, and $28 day and* $42 night for an hour, same re- hearsal provisions. Claw C stations ($100 to $280 an hour), mini- mum of $12.50 day and^is night for commercial programs of not more than ah hour and $7.50 and $10 for sustaining features: 8. Extra rehearsals to be paid for at half rates for three hours. Rebroadcasts one-half extra on the same „day and full rate, on an- other day. Recorded programs one-half extra. 9. Auditions one-half rate of the highest class of the station expected to use the program with a $15 minimum for an hour. / 10. Rehearsals for programs not performed, one-half check for single rehearsal, full check for two rehearsals. ; 11. Recordings; $15 for one 15-minute program; $50 for One-half day; $75 for full day. Maximum of five iff-minute records in one-. day. Pro rata pay for, retakes. No resale of. audition records. No use of recordings, by outside stations unless performers receive one- half pay ■ for all other, stations. : 12. No studios in the A and B classifications to permit own em.-, ! ployees tb play parts in any program. ih the south are working seven days a : week without 1 'vacation's, J. V. Fltzhiigh, of San Antonio locg.1, pre- sented hew '.demands for, transpbrta- - tibn expenses for engineers em- ployed on remotb jobs, 'limitation' of the time during which specific hours are worked, and extensibn of code to municipal and state stations, . Texan was particularly insistent that code require payment of wages ih- cash or check, eomplafnihg that broadcasters are chiseling by use of merchandise accepted in payment for v station accounts or are using scrip ' which is .overvalued ' and re- stricts freedom of workers. Labor and employers were told by Farnsworth to get together on. the matter of municipal and state owned stations and urge legisla tiires to enact measures requiring publicly owned enterprises compet ing with private industry to;observe codes. Said NRA is without "power to intervene in this situation, erryman's 3 Houri Feeling over unionism, reached- its height' with appearance. the stand of Phillip L Merryman, Vice president, of Association of Technl-r cal Employees of NBC, and con- tlnUed through teStiniony ot Harry Spears of the 'Associated' Columbia Broadcasting' Technicians. Clearly expecting a. bitter attack, Merryman described the NBC or- ganization as 'a non-company doml nated union' and was quizzed inten sively by Farnsworth, Wood and Nockles concerning the history of the association. Admitting that the first national association meeting Out Clause Washington, June 25. Hminatlon of ah objection- able clause in Article 6 of the radio code was agreed to by NRA-laST*WeeK. — / — Deputy Administrator Farns- worth recognized Code Au- thority ' claim that hardship has resulted from provision re- quiring broadcasters to observe - as minimum and maximum the existing wages and hours of labor In. effect on Nov. 1, 1933, whenever the minimum pay was above the code level or the hours wore loss. was held on NBC property and that employees', expenses we're -paid, iby the web, Merryman denied company officials had any part in drafting of;, constitution or inspiring thVunion-' ization movement. Stressed th'e;' fact, that no employee' with power,' to hire or fire, is eligible for memy / bershlp. 'There' was 'theh in existence no- other labor organization qualified to Intelligently represent "the eniV ployees of NBC/ Merryman shot back at Njockles and Wood when, they asked why a company 'union was formed. Keeping Merryman on the 'stand three hours, Wood' and Nockles forced reading of lengthy constittt^ tlon and wage/ agreement. Hlgh.^ light of Merrymah's appearance woo announcement that NBC employees opp'bse reduction of technicians* work time below 48 ' hours on the ground there Is. no . unemployment among qualified technicians,' pperj-, ating requirements- make- such re-» adjustment impractical; and waeeS' would be reduced, This -Staid' 1 ' angered both Wood and ^Nockles, . former bitterly inquiring 1 want^ib^ find out why you are npt .flghtiris;.'. for a 35-hour week?' '*y-\ Nockles also was irritated by the fact that NBC employees*, who are * discharged 'no longer; reialii' ' iactlye ' . membership and that the.- assoeia* tjon makes ho provision, for -eick} , benefits, unemployment or old age.; insurance, or other fbrtns of aid' fo 1 members. After Farnsworth had brought opt that the NBC union is interested primarily m employed technician's and desires to raise salaries of en- gineers already at work rather than bring about increase of technical staff, Merryman was quizzed at • length on feasibility of establishing classifications for engineers. De- sorbing classifications set up to NBC wage agreement, Merryman "Sllid^h^t^ : raising^:of-=code^minlmum^= for small stations would drive locals ,aind part-time transmitters, out of business. Merryman's frequent discussion of economic, matters caused the labor advisor, Wood, to object' strenuously to admission of such'- testimony, on the ground the NB.(S cnginet-r was not qx:allfied to dis>< cuss financial phases of the situaN ilon or to speak for the industry ai„ (Continued on page 00) 44 VARIETY RADIO Tuesday, June 26, 1934 New Business DENVER Faultless Starch, 1.3 15-mlnute transcriptions, three weekly. .KOA. Hamm -Brewing Co., 13 15-minute transcriptions, one weekly.' KOA. Perkins Products, 26 Ave-mlnute programs, two weekly. KOA. Cottrell Clothing Co., seven minute announcements.. KOA.. Kellogg : Products,- 28 one-minute announcements, four daily. KOA. . Doran Coffee, 28 one-minute an- nouncements, four daily. KOA. Gump Glass d Paint. Co;, three an- nouncements Hy, two weeks. KPEL. Colomont Distributin five announcements. KFEL. Model Furniture Co*, 15-mlnute daily programs, one month. KFEL.. Shanghai Tea Room and /Pagoda Inn, one announcement da'.ly, one month. KFEL. . Smart Dress Shop, five announce- ments. KPEL. Frumcss Jewelry. an- nouncements Sundays, weeks. KPEL, Dupont Race Track, one 15-mln- ute program, four flve-mlnute pro- grams and 12 announcements. KLZ.. Colorado Motor Association, three dally announcements; one week. KLZ. Hazel Atlas Glass Co., five an-, nouncements daily, 10 weeks. KLZ. Cramer Tire Co., one announce- ment dally, one month. KLZ; Robert Collier, Jr., World Fair tours, four announcements. KLZ, Robert flvaris, one 15-minute pro- gram. KLZ. v NASHVILLE Stcphetts-Ruff tries Mfg; company ; beginning June 23d for indefinite period, 7:46-&:0O p. m., Saturdays, the Plcknrd Family. Direct. Love Charm Co:, beginning Oc» tober 20 for 26 weeks, 7:15-7:30 p. m. Saturdays. Hilmer- V* Swen^ son Co. Pure Oil Co., beginning July 5 for 26 weeks, 8:30-9:00 p. m. Thursdays, Freltag Agency. Palmer Match Co.,. 10:45-10:5.0 p. m. Saturdays, increased from 13- week contract, which began March IT to 26. Edward M. Power, Pitts- burgh. LINCOLN Floyd Bawling s, candidate for con- gressional election, 10-mlnute talk, KFOR. Montgomery Ward, daily an- nouncements. KFOR. G r a s m i c k s Soft Drinkorium, month of daily announcements, KFOR. Gran Grocer dally announce- ments, KFOR. Van. Sickle$ Glass d Paint, 15- mlnute noon ■ time program, Tues- days and Fridays, for month, KFOR. Also two announcements daily' on KPAB 'Time -and Tunes* broadcast, and several spot announcements. ' South Street Fruit Market, an- nouncements, one month. KFOR. Fred Hays Bar.-B-Q, 100 , an- nouncements, twice weekly, for year. KFOR. Willard Tablet Co., announcement daily, 26 days. KFAB. * . F. W. Fitch, dally announcements, one week. KFAB. Hospitalization Corp., dally par- ticipation KFAB's 'Times and Tunes* for year. .Kcllog . Sales Co., dally announce- ments, one month, KFAB. ALBANY Northwestern flitting Co., 13 an- nouncements,, twice daily. Placed by Scott, Howe, Bowen, Inc. WOKO. Rumford Baking Co., 16 15-mlhute transcriptions, twice weekly. Placfed by Scott, Howe, Bowen, Inc. Exteri-. slon of present contract. WOKO. Buick Motor Co., 30 announce- ments three morning and afternoon and two evening daily. Placed by Campbell-Ewald Co. WOKO. General Motors, 18 announcements, One morning and one afternoon daily. Placed by:Campbell-Ewald Co; WOKO.' '' Chevrolet ' Motor Co., > eight an- nouncements, one morning and one afternoon daily. Placed by - Camp- bell-Ewald Co. WOKO. • ■ Procter d Gamble Co. (Drene), 28 announcements, one mbrnjhg daily. Placed bjr .H. W. Kastor & Sons, Chicago. WOKO. . Reo Motor Co.), 13 announcements, daily. Placed by - Maxon, Inc., De- troit. WOKO. Seminole Paper Co., 13 15-minute Recently you conducted a survey of the radio preferences of 2 t 372 youngsters in New Jersey. Your survey revealed that the. Bobbie Benson program (CBS — 6:1 5 P.M.) was by far the most popular air offering among the juvenile listeners. The Bobbie Benson program is written and directed by Peter Dixon, who has other ideas and program series that will stand up under the acid test of juvenile interest. Which is why you might make a note of the address below, because s6me day you may heed an exceptionally good raplio program. PETER DIXON and ASSOCIATES Hotel St. Moritz New York City Renewals Northwestern Yeast Co., .13 weeks, effective July 2, 26 sta- tions on NBC's blue (WJZ) link, Monday evenings. Through Hays MacFarland & Co. A. S. Boyle Oo. (Old English Floor Wax), effective) Sept 30, 13 weeks, 47 stations on CBS, 'Lazy Dan, the Minstrel Man.' Through Blackett » Sample- Hummert, Inc. transcriptions, morning once weekly. Placed by Radio Broadcasting Co., Boston. Renewal of present eon* tract. WOKO. Chrysler Motors Corp. (Dodge), 12 announcements,- twice dally in eve- ning. Placed by Ruthrauff & Ryan, Inc. WOKO. HARTFORD General Baking Co., two daytime and one evening announcement, one week. Placed by Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne. WDRC. Chrysler, Dodge Division, two an- nouncements daily, one week. Placed by Ruthrauf & Ryan. WDRC. Eintex Clothes, 14 announcements for two weeks. Placed by Florence Griffin Agency, Cleveland. WDRC. Noxcmd Chemical Co., local cam- paign, flve-mlnute transcriptions, three times weekly/ Placed by Ruth- rauf & Ryan. WDRC. Ortosan Arpul Co., one announce-' ment daily for four weeks. Placed by Metropolitan Agency, WDRC. Ex-Lax, 78 evening and : 52 day- time announcements ending Novem- ber 24. Placed by Joseph Katz Agency. WDRC. Colonial Auto Co., one announce- ment daily; Direct . WDRC. Eagle Dye Works, switch to Shop- pers hour, starting July 2. Plslced by Gross Agency. Dally announcer ment. WDRC. Clark Wright Co., three spot an- nouncements, four weeks. Direct. WDRC. Imperial Cleaning A Dyeing Co., Shoppers hour, starting July 2. Placed by Randall Agency. WDRC. Milk Producers Dealers Ass*n of Conn;, one 15-minute program, in- definite contract. Placed by Gross Agency. WDRC. Scott Furriers, 26 weeks, 15- minute- electrical transcriptions of Donald Novlp program. Placed by Aaron Blum Agency. WDRC. Wonder Bar, four announcements weekly. Placed direct. WDRC. Gruber Furniture Co., ad liner, one announcement daily. Placed direct. WDRC. Aetna Exterminating Co., two an- nouncements weekly, four weeks. Placed direct. WDRC. Iaake Amston 'Development Corp., ad liner daily for indef period Placed direct. WDRC. program, direction Sherman Bain- bridge. KNX (Elwood J. Robinson). Blatz Brewing Co., 100-word spot announcements, Ave nights a week, June 25 to Sept. 29. KNX (Klau- Van Pleterson-Dunlap). H. Jevne Co., Jel Sert Co., 7:00 to 9:00 a.m,, seven days a week, BUI Sharpies and gang on breakfast pro- gram. KNX, Crazy Water Co., Monday-Thurs- day, 7:15 to 7:30 p.m., discs. KNX (Tom Wallace Agency). Great States Life Ass'n, Monday- Wednesday-Friday, 8:45 to 9:00 p.m., discs. KNX (Tom Wallace Agency). PITTSBURGH Perkins Products, sketch on disc, two afternobns weekly 13 tlnies. Placed by Scott Howe Bowen. WCAE. , Wcstgote Sea Products Corp., six announcements weekly 26 times. Placed, by Barnes Campbell Co. WCAE. Reliance Mfg. Co., six announce- ments weekly six times. Placed by Carroll Dean Murphy. WCAE. Fintex Corp., one announcement weekly Ave times. Placed by Flor- ene Griffin. WCAE. Perfect Laundries, two' ■announce- ments weekly 13 times. Placed by Ketchum, MacLeod and Grave*. W.CAE. LANCASTER Fulton theatre, hot less than 10 and not- more, than 18 spot an- nouncements dally,' 52 ' weeks. WGAT-j. . Du-Enamel (local store), daily an- nouncement, six days a week, 52 weeks. WGAL, . Fasteeth, three .125- word an- nouncements weekly, 13 weeks. WGAL. Herb Doctor Compound,, two an- nouncements da'ly. six days a week, 52 weeks. WGAL. 'LOS ANGELES - ■ Associated Oil, 8:15 to 8:30 p. m Six day bicycle races. KMTR. Coast Line Co., 1:30 to 2:00 p.m White Horse Rangers, cowboy vocal and Instrumentalists. KMTR. Consolidated Mining Co., 5:45 to 6:00 p.m. Wednesday. Continuity WINSTON -SALEM, Hucrlch Beer, Ave minutes dally, baseball scores. WSJS. Stanbackt Ave minutes dally, ex- cept Sunday, with disc, 'Stanback Melody Man.' J. Carson Brantley Agency. WSJS. Pyroll, spot announcement daily, one month, except Sunday. WSJS. Dr. Pepper, one minute announce- ment daily, .two months, discs. Tracey Locke Dawson Agency. WSJS. PORTLAND, ORE. Star Radio company, 15-mlnute programs. KGW. M cElroy's Palm Garden, dance hall, announcement service, dally for one month. KEX. Schlitz Happy Land, announce- ments, dally six months. KEX. Neskowin- Beach, resort, 15 daily announcements. KEX, BOSTON Joseph Breck & Sons Corp., Bos- ton, 52 20-mlnute programs, con- tract renewed June 10. Through G. E. Clark, Boston. WEEI. E. E. Dickinson Co., New Haven, four Ave*minute programs, started June 20. WEEI. Cherry Hill Nurseries, Boston, seven announcements in 'Evening Tatler,' started June 15. Through Ingalls Advertis'ng. WEEL STUDE BAKER WEAP Monday 8:3,0 P.M. E. D. T. £oast-to~Coast PRESENTS WABC Tuesday 9:30 P.M. E.D. T. Coast-to-Coast NBC ENFORCING 69-DAY START Chicago, NBC this year is making an earnest effort to, enforce its ruling that no contract- for time on the network will be accepted more than 60 days, in advance of the. starting date. NBC feels that acceptance of a starting date too far in advance prevents the" network from selling the intervening time, since ho ad- vertiser will go-on.-und«r the stipu- lation that he will have to go off within a month _or . sb because the time has been " sold to another sponsor. There have been a few squabbles on this score from big advertisers Who' want to Bet time' on NBC with starting dates in September arid October, particularly those adver- tisers with' purely winter products. CBS, on its hand, admits no such clause ■ in its contract and has been okaying deals far beyond the CO -day period, only last week signaturing with Wrlgley for the resumption of the Myrt and Marge show on Oct. 1. NBC has been accepting such con- tracts oh a tentative basis, putting; them in the drawer and giving them the Anal okay when calendar -reaches within 60 days of the start- ing gun. RICHARD HIMBER AMD HIS R I T Z - CARL TON ORCHESTRA with JOEY NASH KFRC Lands $20,000 Cal. State Fair Job San Francisco, June 25. Ellis Levy of the Thomas Lee art- ists bureau at KFRC has landed the contract for selling, producing and staging all entertainment for the California State Fair at Sacra- mento, Sept. 1-11. Levy will book the S&W Merry- makers from KHJ, Los Angeles, for the Arst two days? Jay Brower and the KFRC Happy Go Lucky Gang for the next six. days, and Harrison Holliway and the KFRC Blue Mon- day Jamboree for the. Anal two days, the Merrymakers and Jamboree do- ing one broadcast each, and the^ Happy Go Lucky Ave fr° m the, fair' grounds via the Doii Lee network. An entertainment budget of $20,- 000 has been set up for this year'a fair, to include the cost of acts, bands; Arewotks, a line of , girls and novelties. Last year's fair, running eight days, played to 350,000 people. Committee hopes for a half million on this year's 10 days. , ' . . - Short on Talent Minneapolis, June 25. Minneapolis Tribune and St. Paul Dispatch, Twin City newspapers, new owners of local, independent station WRHM, are experiencing difficulty In obtaining. Arst-rate tal- ent to raise the station's entertain- ment standard. WCCO and KSTP have the Columbia and NBC pro- grams respectively. Effort being made to put,.tKrough a deal which would ,giVe WRHM some 6f the progra'ms not being, used by the twer chain outlets or to effect a .t,le-up with some Chicago Independent station.. WAAF Moves Chicago, June 25: Station WAAF is moving to the Palmer .House arid will occupy the studios formerly used by WJJD. WAAF was burned, put "of its quarters in the Drovers building by the recent stockyards Are. Graham A. Robertson named east- ern rep for WLS, Chicago. He will operate out of an office- in New York. Previously Robertson repre- sented in the same area the Prairie Farmer, which operated WLS. JANE FROMAN SINGING STAR "1934 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES" HEADLINING CAPITOL, NEW YORK, This Week (June 22) Personal Rep., WILLIAM MURRAY, WM. MORRIS OFFICE, New York r a Hi • Variety 45 RADIO SHOWMANSHIP (Merchandizing anjd Program Tieupa) Paraded Fred Waring Philadelphia. Most Impressive stunt ever staged around an ether show In Philly brought Warlng's Pennsylvanians and Ford dealers a gigantic show- '"sand arriving In town; swung into a Ford car parade through the city, winding up .at City Hall for hand- shakes by the Mayor, marking one of the few times Quakertown's chief 'executive consented to come out of hiding. . Dealers' banquet followed at the Bellevue Stratf ord_f or ork crew and press. Seated over iOO and occupied the entire ballroom floor. Fleet of Fords carried banquet attenders to .Convention hall, which was jammed to the rafters. By , approximate count, 13,000 heard the orchestra. N. Wi Ayer, handling the show, olaimed requests for passes topped the 60,000 mark. Program was preceded by an in- dustrial motion picture, titled 'Rhapsody in Steel/ Local dealers Wound up With 13,000 names of prospective buyers, signed, ad- dressed, and dropped at the doors. Admission was refused without this info. : -r Waripg'a band sang at. dinner banquet after, rehearsing all day, played a 46-minute' show for the audience after the broadcast, and back to a buffet supper for the press and Ford execs before ; taking the New York train. .Entire' stunt, reveals how. neatly a, .sponsor can take . advantage of the' draw of his artist. But' although every opportunity to ' benefit wasn't overlooked, neither did the dealers spare any expense to make the com- posite picture look like something. The idea that a radio , program could draw so many' people Opened up the Philly .-newspapers for the best legitimate air publicity ever snared here. Enterprising Indies New York. At least two stations'" fp the New York area are striving" for novelty, and some sort of audience distinc- tion which will prompt a certain type of; auditor to tune In, as. op- posed to the network or other big league, .stations. ' These are WNEW and WHN. The former is Adman Milton Biowte en- terprise, occupying^ the 1 elaborate Madison and 63d street offices out- fitted by the, ill-fajte.d. Ed Wynn- ABS; chain, and W[HN, of course, is. the Loew station. ' '. . Both aim for . the dance-hounds and/ feature that the. greater ma- jority of their on-thc-air 'time Is filled' with music of .some sort. ' It It's not the dance bands around the popular niterles„ restaurants and hotels, it's dinner ' or. light concert music of some sort. With, result that both: have folloWlngfl of that calibre pretty well established. WHN is by far the older station. But WNEW went right after the music thing via consistent spot ads ballyhooing at least four and one- half hours of marathon dansapa- tlon from 10:30 p.m. to 2 a,m. Now WNEW is on the air until 4 a.m. eome nights, with late terp music, and sandwiching in a plug. -'for Philip x Morris or some other open account in- between. (Blow's ad agency handles . the ; Morris account Which has previously, . utilized . chain .and local station time). ' WHN doesn't make' the mistake of "some smaller stations by indis- criminately performing dance rec- ords; it uses speeial electrical tran- scriptions for broadcasting purposes exclusively . and manages to" . ease some good -occasional bally for the Loew theatres, or ' the current Metro featured and where exhibit- ing, etc. Just One More Chief Troy, N. Y. A crowd estimated at 10,000 per- sons waited on the streets in a broiling sun to get a peek at Ed Wynn on his arrival here last Fri- day afternoon to receive a gold badge (his eighty-third) as hon- orary chief of the Troy Fire De- partment and to appear as the chief, attraction at the annual card party; of St. Mary's Catholic Church, held in Washington Park. The radio comedian was almost mobbed when the crowd swarmed around the big red car of Chief C. J. Casey, in which Wynn Was riding. Mayor Burns received Wynn at City Hall, attended a dinner in his honor at the Hendrick Hudson hotel ; (where the parade broke up) and' pinned the badge on him- at the card party in the evening, when state : police were called oh to assist police and firemen, in handling the crowd. . The cpmedian, his vest loaded down with badges, made a humor-, pus speech. Nick Kenny acted as master of ceremonies for. the broad-, cast, on which some of Kenny's 'gang' were heard. ' laying Luncheons Portland, Ore. Dramatic players of KGW-KEX Invaded the Portland Ad club noon luncheon recently and put' on a 'Homicide Squad' program in tab- loid form. Sound effects and ' at- mosphere were complete. AH the lights in the hall flashed off, a siren sang ' out from the dark, accom- panied by appropriate mood music. A terrified scream, shots. The lights on again and an announcer before the public address 1 system micro- phone saying, 'ladles and gentle- men, murder has been committed, and the 'Homicide Squad' swings into action.' So popular has this weekly KEX crime story feature become that other requests for outside perform- ances have been received. It is sponsored by the Community Cre- dit company and handled by Mac- Wilkins & Cole agency.. Consistent showmanship has been . responsible for increased business, reports the sponsor. ZVz Hours of 'Billies' _ Lancaster. Pa. *Good Old . Mountain Music' "still 'holds vast, appeal for . rural radio audiences, WGAL, Lancaster, Pa., finds. This station, which, has a vast crop of Jug-and-flddle talent free for the. taking and. no small percentage of its listeners crying for more, has had a problem, on its hands. The question has been how to satisfy this demand, using , the free talent, which Is' usually accept- able, yet keep out of the .classifica- tion of hill billy stations. ...Satisfactory, solution reached.. In the creation of. the 'Hlckorytown Hoe-Down/ inaugurated recently. Cliff Grey. acts, as master ..of cere- monies oh this program, which goes strong for. two .hours and a half every Saturday afternoon. As many, as a dozen jug bands, some' of. which travel 60 miles, do a gratis serial strut. 8unday in Philly Philadelphia, Competition' among the various kiddie shows in Philly is driving the stations to novelties to hold the audience, with WPEN going in for separation of these shows un- der the heading of nationalities. Two new programs which started Sunday (24) bring the colored chil- dren oh for * an -hour in the early afternoon, with proteges of. Musso- lini taking an ether bow a few hours later. First show has garnered & full ork accompaniment, with the 60 minutes one emulation of Ethel Waters and BUI Robinson alter an- other. The Italian youngsters, not to be outdone, hare received the of- ficial stamp of approval of their country's local consul and civic Italian leaders. All stations are branching out the Sunday children's programming, with the outlets not equipped for visual aircaating tying in with irniuy neighborhood theatres. Most programs are sponsored,' and tickets remain at a constant premium. Re- calling Philly's rep for church-go- ing, this sudden surge toward radio on the Sabbath is causing plenty of religious headaches, and several denominations contemplate action to prevent theatres from showing, even though no admission is charged, on the ground that the commercialism makes it a violation of the Sunday Blue Laws. Revived Old Bouts Portland; Ore. Seven. . .eight. . . . .nine, . .and he's out! Fighting Jim Jeffries Is the new world's. champion. Cheers, ap- plause and shouting. That's a sample of what the listeners heard June 14, just before the Baer-Car- hera engagement. A 15 -minute program recreating all the heavyweight bouts from John L. Sullivan's time to the pres- ent was broadcast, sponsored toy the Star Radio company over KEX. Broadcast was complete with sound effects, crowds; shouts, yells, boos, time bell and referee's Whistle and the material was historically accurate. One announcer would give a resume of each champion- Ship fight up to the deciding round, then a ' sports announcer would come on With a blow-by-blow ver- sion of the ; fatal ninth, 19th or 49th round, whichever it happened to be. Reviving the Parade • , Seattle. Using circus tactics — a fancy dress parade along the downtown sidewalks before staging the real show — -KJR last week . ballyhooed the Kent, Wash., lettuce festival. The festival's queen, two attend- ants, and six maids of honor, the latter Japanese, girls dressed in bril- liant kimonos, were invited to Seattle for a broadcast by Al Balch, KOMO-KJR publicity head. The 'royal court' accepted, came, met the mayor, and was paraded, fancy duds and all,* up. to the studio., The mob which gathered behind the procession, pushed with it right' into the studio, where for 16 min- utes the girls rehearsed, and then for another- 16 minutes gave little speeches on . the air. Pays, to Advertise Lancaster, Pa. Radio as a medium of direct mer- chandising is proving its merit to advertisers in . this locality.- In a hew contract signed by WGAL the Giant-Monarchy recently opened grocery and produce) market, uses; spot announcements- * te - tell -the shoppers of specials and bargains in everything, from prunes to poultry.' ... While some, large -Advertisers are inclined to believe radio lacks punch in . this particular type of adver- tising, actual cheeks on specials ad- vertised only in radio spots demon- strated thar it has real pulling power,- v -'. Results from first spots on radio specials influenced market's signing a 62 -week contract for several an? nouncements a day. Getting Good Will Baltimore. WFBR is giving free spot an- nouncements plugging a drive cur- rently being made "by the. Baltimore Pharmaceutical Ass'n. Organiza- tion, composed of indie drug stores, is striving to level retail prices of standard products, thereby circum- venting throat-slashing competish. WFBR is awarding the free ether time as 'good-will gesture 'toward Bristol -Meyers and Gillette, station advertisers, whose, goods are among (Continued on page 60) A Record .Minneapolis, June 26, Breaking all local records, for continuous announcing through the mike, Al Sheehan, of WCCO, talked for three hours at the Shrine Electrical Pageant at the University of Minnesota stadium. He was m.c, a new. kind of unseen one, presiding at the mike and an- nouncing the entire proceed- ings through the loud speaker System and over the ether. Studebaker on Both Nets; Himber for NBC Chicago, June 25. Roche, Williams & Cunnyhgham agency here has oked a contract with NBC for another Studebaker show with the Richard Himber or- chestra starting July 2. Himber program is now running on CBS, with the new shot giving Studebaker a double network plug v Lombardo Goes Plough Guy' Lombardo' replaces Vincent Lopez on the Plough (NBC) stanza July 11. With the Lombardo unit's entry the medicine show' shifts from the blue (WJZ) to the red (WEAF) link and takes a later release, 10:30 p. m. EDST. Ed Sullivan exits along with Lopez. FIZDALE QUITS Chicago, June 26. Tom Fizdale has, resigned, from the NBC press, department here/ moving out on August 1. Fizdale has been with the organi- zation for three years, having handled special publicity besides be- ing night editor. He has been do- ing exploitation work on the Phil Baker-Armour program. He may shift to an agency- post. < This is the second split in the NBC press ranks in the past month v Jim Cook having left previously. TWISTER HITS'' WKEC Cincinnati, June 26. WKRC, 1,000-Tvatt' CBS outlet, is operating with- a- temporary antenna pending replacement. of its- twO 1.64- foot vertical radiators, atop ,,the nine-story Alms ' hotel, which were demolished by a 50 -mile gale during a thunderstorm Friday (22). ,. Damage to the towers placed at $50,000 by Eugene S. Mittendorf, manager, and Frank Dlerlnger, chief engineer, of the station. KNX STAFF WOBKOUTS ; Hollywood, June -25": KNX wilj put on a series of week- ly dramatic tabloids, written' and enacted by staff members, with Stuart Buchanan producing and di- recting. v Initlalter is 'Burned Out,' written by Lee Cooley, to be aired Tuesday (26). Horace Mitchell of Kittery Point, Maine, called at WEEI, Boston, to discuss a proposed broadcast, by his. famed talking bird, whose mother, was a duck and whose father was a parrot. It .was the same Horace who . made page one. o% all the papers- last fall with a yarn about a down-easter who rode . 'through Kittery at 90 miles per hour on the back. of a moose. Landis Bans Sponsor for A1-N.L. Game Chicago, June 26. There will be no commercial hook- up on the second annual charity baseball game between, the National and American leagues, which will be played in New York July 10. Last year the first such charity game was held in Chicago and was sponsored on WGN and Columbia, with the Baseball Benefit getting 50% of the coin. It was run as a sustaining feature on NBC. At a meeting held at Judge Lan- dis' office here last Week it was de- cided that the games will be non- commercial as to radio and deliv- ered to: both networks, but that the chains will have to feed the game to any stations that want it, WGN, Chicago Tribune station, and an in- die transmitter, will pick the broad- cast up for NBC. Judge Landis again stated that neither Graham McNamee nor Ted Husing will be. permitted to broad- cast the play-by-play account of the game. They will merely be per- mitted to do the feature and color description, .relinquishing the mikes to - others for the direct play- ac- count. WHB's WOQ Shows . Kansas City, June 25.' With WO,Q off the" air,, owing. tQ • ruling of the Federal Radio Com- mission, several Of the features of the Unity School's features have been taken over' bjr WHB. ' The Sunday morning Unity ..ser- vice from 11 to 12 each Sunday will be given., and also a. dally religious service at 11 o'clock each morning. Carl Franghiser, former WOQ man- ager ..Will lead his 14- piece band in •> half-hour program Friday morn- ings. Mfrs. Giving In Indications are that the fall wIB see a concerted move 'among radio set 'and tube manufacturers to get on the network bandwagon. Showf Were auditioned by NBC last week for RCA Radiotron, Atwater-Kent and United 'American Bosch.. ■•' Radiotron- stanza ' was ' framed around Tom Howard, while for the latter two. receiver brands the en- tertainment idea was musicals. Chi Collision < Chicago, June 26. Three Grle'g-Blair-Spight partners are getting together here next month for a round-table confab. . Humbolt Grieg will hop In from one 'coast and Lindsay Spight from the other, while John Blair will do the hosting. Mex HoUKs Stati Mexico City/ June 20. American technicians installing radio station XEAA at' /MexIcalL Station will be operated .by a as * tourist siren. . - : : Will start late this month. FtVt'THOUtAND WATT* • CLtAfUD AMIMCA'i FAITUT GROWING RADIO STATIO N 46 VARIETY RADIO Tuesday, June 26, 1934 COMMERCIALS WEEK OF JUNE 25 This Department lists sponsored programs oh both networks, arranged alphabetically tinder the advertiser's name. All time is p. m. unless otherwise noted. Where one advertiser has two or more programs they are listed consecutively. An asterisk before name Indicates advertising agency handling account. Abbreviations: Su (Sunday); M (Monday); Tu (Tuesday); W (Wednesday); Th (Thursday); P (Friday); &\ (Saturday). ACME LEAD K:30-W-F-\VABC Ed McCo'nnell •Henri H-Mo A. O. SPARK PLUG 10-Sa-WEAF ■Cookoos* Ray Knight " Eddie Green Dick Campbell •Campbell-B A & P D:30-M-WEAF Harry Horllck Robert Simmons •Paris & . Peart ARMOUR 9:30-F-\V.IZ Phil Baker H McNaughton Mattel Albertsoo Irene Beasley Roy Shields Ore •N, W. Alter . B. T.. BABBITT l:30-9u-WKAF Mary Small Landt Trio— White \Vrii. Wlrges ♦Peck BARBASOL 8:15-M-WABO Edwin C. Hill. ♦Erwln Wasey BAUER & BLACK (Blue Jay Corn Plaster) 4:15-Tu-F-tVJZ Wade Booth Dorothy Day •Needham, L, & B BISODOL •30-W-WABO Everett Marshall Elizabeth Lennox '- Oilman & Arden Victor Arden'S Ore •Blacketc The Instrumental Stylist Featured "STAGE SHOW REVUE" HELD OVER 2ND WEEK ROXY NEW YORK Tues., June 26 8-8;30 P.M., WOB Every Saturday 7 :30-8:00 P.M. WEAF-NBC NetWork . PURE OIL PROGRAM ' ' pW'muQ Dinettes HAROLD F. KEMP NBC ArUtU Senrl Always a Little Ahead of the Rest THE For Further Interaction , ■ HAROLD KEMP; NBO Artlrt Bureau Perwul Dlrectles. CHARLES A. BAYHA COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM Presents LEON .. FRI.. WABC, 18 MIDNITE Const-to-Coast St. Horitc Hotel. New York, Nightly Sole Direction HERMAN BEBNIE lOlfr Broadway^ New York ABE LYMAN AND HIS CALIFORNIA ORCHESTRA COAST-TO-COAST WABC— Tuesday, 8:30 'to 9 P.M., DST (Phillips Dental) =^WEAF^-Frlday,-»=to-9 :30-P.Mn-DST^ (Phillips Milk) HAROLD STOKES Irecting Climalene and Palmer House NBC, CHICAGO BORDEN 10:30-Su-WABO 45 Mln. In H'lyw'd' Mark Warnow 1I:45-W-WAB0 Jane Ellison ♦Young & Rublcam BRISTOL-MYERS U-W-WEAF (Sal Hepatica). (Ipana) Fred Allen Portland Hoffa Jack . Smart Lionel Stander Eileen' Douglas, trwjn Delrriore Minerva Pious Ipana Troubadours Theodore Webb Lenrile Hayto'n •Bentota & Bowles OALSODENT CO 4:15-Th-WJ»Z Rhyming Rover* •Thompson CAMPANA 10-F-WEAF First Nlghter' June Meredith Don Ameche Carlton . Brlckert Cliff Soubler . E Sagerqulst Oro •Aubrey Moore CARNATION MILK 10-M-WEAF Qene Arnold. Lullaby Lady M L Eastman Jean Paul King ♦Erwln, Wasey CENTAUR ( Fletcher's V 10:S0-W-WABC. Albert Spalding Conrad Thlbault Don Voorhees •Young & Rublcam CHERAMY (Cosmetics) 8-W-WABC Maxlne Lash String Quartet . •Gumblnner CITIES SERVICE 8-F-WEAF Olga Albanl Quartet,' •Lord & Thomas CLIMALINE 18-Th-WEAF Harold Stokes Jackie Heller Oale Page King's Jesteri. .... •W. S., Hill ■ (Odoro**) . . Mr-ywz Pali Harris' Leah Ray •J. Walt, Thomp. COLGATE-PALM (Colgate Dentifrice) 9:30-M-WEAF •CMg'te Ho'se P'rty*. Joe Cook Donald Novls Frances Langtord Don' Voorhees Brad' Browne •Young & Rublcam 10-Tu-WEAF (Palmollve Soap) W. A. Backer. Dlr, 'Countess Marltz* James Melton ' John Barclay Nat Shllkret •Benton-B 10:15-dally-WEAF (Super Suds) 'Clara Lu & Dm' Louise Starkey Isabelle Carothers Helen King •Bentbn-B CONTINENTAL OIL CO. 10;30-W-WJZ Harry Rlchman Jack Denny John B. Kennedy •Tracy-L-D CRAZY CRYSTALS 2:30-M toF-WEAF Bob & Nellie Sklles Dude & Jack Jack Anilung Oro 55:30-M-WJZ Norman Ross Commodores «:30-W^F-WJZ Gene Arnold Commodores Orch ♦McC-Brlc. CONT. BAKING »:15-F-WABC Little Jack LHtle ♦B., B., D. & O. CORN PRODUCTS 11:15-M-W-E- WABO (Kremel, Etc.) Pedro de Cordoba Will Osborne ♦Hellwlg .-_ B. B. DAVIS (Baking Powder) D:45-Ta-Th-WABC 'Mystery Cher John .McPherson •Ruthrauft-R fl-MrTu-W-Tk- WABC 'Buck Rogers' Curtis Arhall Adele Ronson Edgar Stelhl Joe Grnnby Walter Tetlcy Allan Devltt Georgia Baekeu Elaine Mel choir Adele Klein Bill Shelley Henry Gurvey Harry Swan Lionel Stander Emmet Gowan Beatrice Allen •Ruthrauff 8c R EX-LAX 9:30-M-WABC Lud Gluskln Henrietta Schuman •Katz FIRESTONE 8:30-M-WEAF H. Firestone, Jr.. Gladys Swarthout Vocal' Ensemble Wm. Daly Orch. •Sweeny -James FITCH 7:45-Su-WEAF Irene . Beasley ♦Kv W. Ramsey FORD MOTOR 0:30-Su-WABC 9:30-Th-WABC Fred Waring Ted Pearson N. W. Aycr FUNK, & WAGN'LL (Literary Digest) 7U5-W-WJZ Graham McNamee •Badger. & B GEN. BAKING 5:30-Su-WABC Julia Sanderson Frank Crumlt B„ B., D. Se O. GENERAL FOODS . (La France) (Washing Powder) 9:30-Sa-WEAF Beatrice Fairfax' Marjorle Johnson Mc. Stickles Oro. ll:15-Th-WEAF Frances Lee Barton •Young & Rublc'an 9-Th-WEAF (Maxwell) Chas , Wlnnlnger Lariny . Boss ' Annette Hahsh£w Conrad Thlbault Muriel Wilson 'Molasses 'n' .Jan'ry Gus Haenschen S-F-WEAF 'Maria's Certo* Lanny . Ross Mary Lou , Conrad Thlbault . Frances. Leo. Barton Qui Haenacfafen . Ore •Benton AT BowluT. ■ iO-W-WABO tfByrd Expedition' •Young & Rublcam GENERAL MILLS 5:30-Dally-WABO Jack ; Armstrong. , , .■ 'All American Boy ' 4-Dally-WJZ •Betty & Bob' Betty . Churchill Don Ameche ' - Betty' Winkler Art' Jatobson' Carl Brlckert Louis Roen •Blackett GENERAL MOTOR (Chevrolet) 10-Sa-WEAF Victor Young Oro Grace Hayes •Qampbell-.B GENERAL TIRES 10:30-F-WEAF Jack Benny Mary Livingston Jimmy Grler •Hays MacFarland GERBER & CO. 10-Su-WJZ Mme.' Schumann-H ♦Erwini Wasey GILLETTE (Safety Razor) 7 US-Dally 7 except Sa-Su-WEAF Gene and Glenn •Ruthrauff & R GULF 9-Su-WJZ Will Roger's Robert Simmons. Revelers Pickens Sis At Goodman ♦Cecil Warwick HEALTH PRODIS (White Cod) 3-Su-WJZ 'Bar X Ranch' Carson. Roblson John Mitchell 'BUI Mitchell Pearl Pickens •Wm. Bsty IIECKER H-O 0:15-Datly-WABC 'H-Bar-O Rangers' Bobby Benson Nell O'Malley Florence Hallan Billy Haltop ^iohn=^Barthe=^ ♦Erwln-Wasey EDNA HOPPER 2:1G-Dally-WABC 'Helen Trent' Lester Tremayne Virginia Clark Karl Heube Dolores Gllleh Jack Doty •Blackett HOOVER 0:30-Su-WEAF Edward Da v lea Chicago a Capella Joe Koeatncr. 'Erwln-Wasey HOUSEHOLD B-Tu-WJZ Edgar A Guest Alice Mook Jos Koeatner's Oro . •C. D» Frey INDIVIDUAX CUP CO. (Dixie Cups) 6:45-M-WABO Bob Sherwood Bradley Barker Frank Novak's Oro •Young-R JOHNSON * SON (Floor Wax) 1:40-Tu-Th-WABO 5:l5-Su-WABO Tony "Wons Keenan & Phillips •Needham. L. A B. KELLOGG 6:30-Da!ly WJZ The Singing: Lady Irene Wloker Allan Grant •N. "W. Ayer KRAFT-PIIENIX 10-Th-WEAF P Whlteman .Oro Deems Taylor Ramona Peggy Hpaly Jack Fulton •J. Walt. Thomp.. KOLYNOS :15-Dnlly-WABC Just Plain BUI Arthur Hughes •Blackett LADY ESTHER 10-S-M-WABC 8:30-Tu-W-WEAF Wayne King YStack-Goble LAMONT-CORLISS (Nestles) 8-F-WJZ Ethel Shutta. Walter O'Keefe Bobby Dolan Oro •J. Walt. Thomp, LA RUB ■ (Edgeworth) 10-W-WEAF Corn Cob Pipe Club of Virginia •BBD&O LEHN & FINK (Lysol) ■' 10:30-Su-WEAF Miriam Hopkins Herbert Marshall ♦Ruthraurt'flS: R LIGGETT-BIYERS (Chesterfield) 9-M-W-S-WABO (Monday) Rosa. Ponselle Andre KoBtelanett (Wednesday) Nino Martini Andre ' Koste(anett (Saturday). . Creta Stueckgold Andre Kostelanets Mixed Chorus' Ford' Frlclt •Newell-Emmett LUXOR -(Armour) 8-Su-WEAF 'Talkie Pip Time' June Morcdlth John Goldaworthy John - Stanford Gilbert' Douglas Murray Forbes •N. W. Ayer MANHATTAN SOAP CO.' 11:15-W-WEAF ll:30-Th-WJZ Jack Arthur » - DeMarco SIS' ' •Peck JT. W. M ABBOW -.(Oil- Shampoo) ll:45-M-F-WABO Joan, .Marrow Bob Kp]an Eddie' House •Placed direct . MACFADDEN (Liberty Magazine) 10-F-wjrz 'Stories. That Should Be Told' Fulton Ourcder 8:30-F-WABO (True Story) 'Court of Human Relations' Percy Herhus Arnold Johnson's Or Elsie Hltz Ned Weaver Lucille Walt Altyn Joslyn Paul Stewart ♦Stack-Goble . Met. life oo; 0:45-Dnlly WEAF Arthur Bagley DR. MILES LAB'S (Alka 7 Seltzer) 10:30-Sa-WJZ WLS Barn Dance Ridge Runners Mac & Bob Clarence Wheeler •Wade MOHAWK MILLS (Carpets) 10:30-Tu-Th- WEAF Orch & Slngera •B., B„ D. & O, MOLLE CO. 7:30->t-Th-WEAF WEAF Shirley Howard . Guy Bonham Wamp Carlson Dwlght Latham Milt Rettenberg Tony Calluccl •Stack-Goble BEN J. MOORE 11:30-W-WEAF Betty Moore Lew White ^MUELLER^ O. — 10:15-M-W-F . WABC 'Bill & Ginger* Virginia Baker Lyh Murray •Hellwlg NORTHWESTERN YEAST 8-M-WJZ Hal Kemp Orch •Hays McFarland OXOL C:4B-M-\V-WAB0 Dave,- Bunny & G Bunny Coughlln Dave Grant Gordon Graham •B„ B., D. Ac O. OXYDOL I Proot'r as Gamble) 2:4tf-DaUy Except Sav * Su-WEAF Ma Perkins* Virginia Dayne Margery Hannon Karl Hubet Will Fornum Chas. Eggleston •Blackett PACIFIC BORAX 9- Th-WJZ Death Vall'y Days* Tim Frawle'y Joseph Belt Edwin W. Whitney Lonesome Cowboy Joseph Bonlme Ore •MoC.Brlck rALMER HOUSE 9:30-Tu-WEAF Ray Perkins Betty Brown Gale. Page Harold Stokes Ore PEPSODENT 7-Dally, Eveept 8a A Su-WJZ Amos 'n* . Andy Charles Correl Freeman GCsden (•Rise of Gold') 7:4S-Dally, Except Ss * Su-WEAF Gertrude Berg James Waters PHILCO 7:45 dally ex. Sa- Su-WABC Boake Carter •F. W. Armstrong PHILIP MORRIS. 8- Tu-WEAF Leo Relsman's Ore Phil Duey •Blow PILLSBURY 10:30-Dally-WJIZ •Today's Children' Irma Phillips Walter Wicker Bess Johnson Irene Wicker Lucy GUlman Fred Von Amon Jean McGregor •Hutchinson 11-M-F-WABC 'Cooking Close Ups' •Hutchinson PABST 9- Tu-WEAF Ben Bernle. Ore ♦Matt-Fogarty PLOUGH, INC. lO^W-WJZ Vincent Lopez Ed Sullivan* •Lake-Splro-C . PUROIL . 7:30-Sa-WEAF Ed.dle reabody De Marco Sisters Joey Nash Richard Hlmbor Or •Freltag QUAKER OATS 8:45-M-W-F-WJfZ Babe Ruth : •Flecher & B . SEAL SILK 7- Sn-WJZ Chas. Prevln Orch Charles Lyons' •Erwln-Wasey BED STAR YEAST 11-Tu-Th-S-WEAF Edna Odell . Phil Porterfleld frmaGlen Earl Lawrence RITCHIE . (Eno Salts) .■ 8-Tu-W-WJZ JEno .Crime Club' Spencer- Dean •N. W. Ayer SCHLITZ 10- F-WABC Everett Marshall Victor Young Ore Stobpnagle & Budd Frank Crumlt Vivian Riith '. Parker Fennelly B. B. D. & O. SILVER DUST 7:30-Tu-Th-WABC Paul Keast . TUelnia Gobdwyn Rollo Hudson's Ore •B.. B.. D. & O. SINCLAIR 9-M-WJZ Gene Arnold BUI Chllds Mac McCloud Joe Parsons Cliff Soubler Harry Kogen •Federal STAND. BRANDS (Chase & Sanborn) 8- Su-WEAF Jimmy Durante Rublnoff (Baker's) 7:30-S.u-WJZ Joe Penner Harriet Hltllard Ozzle Nelson Oro 8-W-WEAF (C & S Tea) Jack Pearl Cliff Hall Peter Van Steedon Kathleon Wells 8-Th-WEAF (Flelschmann) Rudy Vdllee and His Conn. Yanks •J. Walt lliotnp. STD. OIL ( , Y.) 8-M-WEAF Socony Sketches Arthur Allen Parker Fennelly Ilatft.McCojCDb ^ ^ Isabelle Winlocke Ruth Russell Robert Strauss *J. S. Gotchcll STERLING PROD, 8-Tu-WABC (Bayer's Aspirin) Frank Munn Muriel Wilson. Gus Haensclten Ore 0:30-Su-WEAF Frank Munn Virginia Re;>. Oilman & Ardi»n. Bert Hlrseh Gus Haensohen Ore LESS BILLING KOMO-KJR Announcers Were Men- tioning Own Names Too Much Seattle, June 26. Silencing announcers and enter- tainers determined upon cracking the microphones with constant repe- tition of their own . names, Birt Fisher, KOMO-KJR general man- ager, recently passed an edict pro- hibiting all mention of entertainers' names in local programs except where a sponsor speoifles. Even or- chestras go unannounced. Move followed alleged over- use of the 'personal touch,' Announcers were inserting their monikers two or three times in every 15-mlnute program and bandying words In a' familiar Way. They Knew What They Wanted— Now Not Sure What to Do with It BRUNSWKK'S cm rowings: St. Paul, June 25. ■There's a perplexing, question con- fronting the new publ'isher^owners (St. Paul Dispatch and Minneapolis Tribune) of 1,000-Watt WHRM; ac- cording to W. F. Johns, gen. mgr. of the Dispatch, who has completed a survey of newspaper-operated ra- dio stations. Johns states that the two papers bought the station cold, having no idea what for and what they'd do with it Now that they have it — and the Johns tour of inspection has been completed-^they're still not certain what they're going to do With their hew baby. There'H be no immediate spread- ing on talent; no changes In per- sonnel are imminent, Johns declares. Newscasting — what's that? asks Johns-— why, they haven't given a thought to it. The news owners haven't even thought of upplng the wattage; in fact, they may keep it right where it is, since integrity, not power, is the prime thing, says Johns. One of the evils connected with the lridle stations hereabouts has been the pay-off to announcers and, other studio help. It has been part cash, part trade, with the former representing a. pittance at bestl- There hay© been Instances of an- nouncera peddling, goods' to friends in efforts to stave off malnutrition." With the Dispatch and Tribune now in the field through their purchase of WRHM, and in view of Johns' aim to refine their new acquisition, it Is assumed all around that the former prevailing evils are the first slated for elimination. Chicago, June 25. Radio la taking another cue. from, show business and Is going to try the standard vaudeville gag of showing nights for talent. Bruns- wick recording studio here has set aside each Wednesday night for the showing off .of new ether talent to radio bookers from agencies advertisers; Idea as schemed by Jerry Ellis, of Brunswick will bring, agency radio department heads. and clients to the. studio .for. a .general hearing' and, showing of break-In .talent. On the show Wednesday (27) are soprano Ceclle Sherman, pianist Herb Lenz, double piano team of Ead and Cowan, Tic Toe trio, Bob r o-Llnk male trip, Melody Twins*. Murray Hill With* a comedy script, Josef Bergen with a violin. Also break- ing in for showing are hew. an- nouncers and oh hand Wednesday will be Gene Jostyn, in from the Coast. CBS WBiBM Nixes NBC Armour Show Plug Chicago, .June 25. Lord & Thomas agency wanted WBBM, the local Columbia outlet, to allow its announcer on the Ar- mour daily morning program to state that Armour also had the Phil Baker show on NBC. But WBBM refused permission. After much argument it was de elded to okay the'Phil Baker men tibn, but that there mustn't be a hint that there's such a thing as NBC. , D-F-WEAF (Phillips Mae) 'Waltz Time' Abe Lyman Oro Frank Munn Vlvlenne Segal 5:15 dally ex. So-Su- WABO •Sklppy' 8:30-Tu-WABC Abe Lyman Vlvlenne Segal Oliver Smith •Blackett STUDEBAKER 9:30-Tu-WA.BC Richard Hlmber >Roche-W-C 8UN OIL 6:45-I>ally-WJZ Lowell Thomas •Roche-WUllams TASTYEAST 7 :30-Tu- WEAF Brad Browne Al Llewellyn •Stack-Goble TIDEWATEB (Tydol) ^7 :30-M=W=F=WABC Jimmy Kemper Robert Ambruster Hummingbirds •Lennon Mitch U. 8. TOBACCO (Dill's Best) »:80-F-WEAF •One Night Stands' Pic Malone Pat Padgett Josef Bohtme ♦MoC.-.Erlcl:. WANUEK CO. (Ovaltlnei 5:45-Bnlly-WJ7i 'Little Orphan A* Allan Baruck- Henrietta Tedro Ed Spragruo Stanley Andrews Shirley Pell ♦Blackett WARD BAKING 9-Su-WABO 'Family Theatre' James Melton. Joaof Pasternaok ^Fletcher-E WM. R. WARMER (Non S'pl) 0:3O-W-W,JZ 'Cavalier of the Sts Adolph Menjou Mary Brian •Cecil, W. & C. WASEY PROD 12-M-Tu-W-Th-F- WABO 3:1R-M-WAB0 8:15-M-WABO Voice ot Exp'rlcnce ♦Erwln Wasey R. 1m WATKIN8 0-Su-WJZ Tamara OavJs JPorcy . _ . , Men About Town Jacques Renard ♦Blackett WELCH (Grape Juice) 7:30-W-WJZ Irene Rich ♦Kastor WYETH CIIEH (Jad Salts) 8:15-W-Th-F- . WABO 'Easy Aces' Goodman Ace Jane Ace Mary Hunter ♦Blackett EDITH MURRAY The Dramatist of Song STAR; of RADIO. STAGE ana SCREEN : . . Friday, 10:45 P.M.; Sunday. 8 P.M., • OBS, Coast to Coast, WABC Exclusive Manarcmont OBS ARTISTS' BUREAU ■'> Persoaal- Representative IRVIN Z. GRAYSON leife Broadway, New York City f red alien's HOUR OF SMILES u O With PORTLAND HOFFA JACK SMART IRWIN DELMORK LIONEL STANDER MINERVA PIOCS EILEEN DOUGLAS LBNNIE HAYTON'S IPANA TROUBADOURS O Material by Fred Allen and Harrygf*. Tugend !»▼ Management Walter . Batcbelor .Wednesdays, 9-10. P. M„ D. & T. WEAF D u o D n fl :o LEO REISMAN PHILIP MORRIS WEAF, Tuesday, 8 P.M. BRUNSWICK RECORDS The Original Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl KANE HEADLINING at the HOLLYWOOD RESTAURANT- new YORK NIGnTT/Y THAVIU AND HIS ORCHESTRA At "STREETS OF PARIS' Century of Progress WGN NIGHTLY Inquiries Solicited Tuesday, June 26/1934 RADIO — MUSIC VARIETY 47 Radio Chatter New York Station WHEC, Roohester. in co* operation with the Democrat & Chronicle broadcast an entertain- ment by patients at ' : Iola : ' Tuber- culosis Sanatorium in appreciation, lor gifts from the public to the in- Htitution and individual patients. Mary and Johnny Lee, Miss Billy Vincent and the Berkshire Hillbil- Ues, from the Artists Bureau of WOKO, Albany, staged a program in a Trpy .department store, put- tto£f on an aisle show. Herb Gordon's orch -has resumed broadcasting qver WOKO from the Ten Byck hotel roof garden, Albany. Assisted by Glen Pope, Wharton and Sally Winston. After an absence of several weeks, Betty Mahaney, the singing stenog, has returned to WESG, Elmira. ' Operators of WHAZ, owned by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, don't believe in -working all during the summer vacation period* Hence, the Federal Radio Commis- sion has given them permission to -remain silent three nights in Au- gust and two in September. . Nelson Murphy, Albany amateur play director; his joined the Colon- ial Players of Schnectady,. who are BARRIE "The Sweetheart of the Blues'' DELUXE THEATRES Sole, direction HERMAN BERN IE 1619 Broadway, New York HOTEL PIERRE JACK , AND HIS ORCHESTRA Copoco OH | Richard Hndnut Wed., 10:30 P.M. WA'BC WJZ I Frl., 0:30 P.M. WJZ. . • Sat., 12 Midnight Mon., ll:3£t P.M. presenting a. series over WHAZ, Troy., First was '.The Colonel's Lady,' by Winter F,. Swanker, Schenectady lawyer, who won the playwritihg prize in a contest con- ducted by the Junior Film Guild Of Albany. Cast included, besides Murphy, Marjorie : Mayo, Marie U.r* ban, Esther Stfitter, Joseph Stritter and Anthony Stritter, . Marjorie Charlotte InglestOn, an entertainer on WGLC, Hudson Falls, was married June 13 to Earl A. Hudson at Hudson Falls. ' WOKO> Albany, has increased its power from 600 to 1,000 watts. WGY, Schenectady, has been try- ing to guage, via response to rer quests to listeners for letters, . the popularity of a series of sketches, written by Frank Oliver and acted tyy the Matinee PlayerB, on reinr carnation, mental telepathy, etc. ...If It' has' clicked,' program will resume In the fall. It goes Off the air. for the summer this. week. Hank Keene, now touring in up- per J^ew York State and in New England with his tent show, after broadcasting over WGY dally for months with his hill-billy troupe, is golfiiig in a big way. Roland Bradley, continuity writer, and announcer, has moved over from WEYD to WINS, John A. Holman, original manager of WEAF for A.T. & T„, and later, manager in an upstate (N.Y.) ter- ritory for the New York Telephone company (a position from which he resigned some months ago to join George McClelland. ,in the latter' s effort to launch a. third network)*, has moved, with his wife, from Del - mar, N". Y;, to Boston, where he. will direct WBZ and its Springfield af- filiate, „WBZA. . Katherine .Cuff, publicity - ad. rep for . Paramount in Syracuse, has re- signed to join commercial staff of WFBLt (Columbia). : ." ... Paul-'Keston ( ' CBS v sales promo- tion chief, .left last- week for a si:; weeks' : stay on the Coast. William S. Paley is making a similar jaunt this week. Si Steinhauser, radio ed of the Pittsburgh Press, feuding with other ether columnists In the Scrlpps-Howard chain. :D.qn. Bestor claims the exclusive radio and', recording.. rights to. ; the vibro'harp for the next eight months, even though Buddy Rogers is using the contraptions in his broadcasts from 'Chicago. .JUand.t ,Trio and iWhlte vacation- ing froriv their NBC sustaining con - riection,' .but ' Will be' back Sunday (1)' for 'a' guest "shot on Bab-O. : Fveti Wile, Jr.', 'leave's' CBS pub- licity.' next week 'and after a va- cation-joins the- Young . & Rubicam a^enpy JTuly . 23, as radio, p.: a.. .Gene and Glenn may. wind up their'' series for .G'illet'te July 20. . : INew i&ihg 'Crosby' contract with Woodbury 11 soapy 'if 1 bh& when okayed by the '.wai'Wefi will be -for 39; : ivyeeks at $3,00u..a broadcast. I ,. ! Sunday afternoon Variety show for shut-ins over WBT, Charlotte, was With her father on Father's day and Appeared on the- program* It was. the first time, that father find daugh- ter had seen each: other since 'the daughter was less than one year of ?.ge. ; ..When she Was. born, Brown S'as playing in a stock. His wife ivorced him and took charge of the baby^ . 1 • Beth JtidSon, former assistant di- rector of radio for the Blackman Agency, New York ;City, spending, a vacation at. Charlotte, N. C, with W. A. Schudt, Jr., manager of WBT, and Mrs. Schudt. Ballard Chef's Jug Band, one WHAS, Louisville, for the past three years, .now in North Carolina on tour. They have local tie-ups With Ballard's flour, with the distributors underwriting. Earl J. Gluck, general manager of WSOCY Charlotte, N. C, is the father of a baby girl. ' Doris " Terry Andrews, . WSOC. Charlotte, N. C, torch singer, was one of Ave girls selected from the contestants -. from • all parts of the Caroiinas In a beauty contest. Earl Carroll judged the 16 girls selected in preliminaries. Due to the, virtual impossibility of cooping from 500 to 800 children up in a studio during jthe hot. summer months, WSOC, Charlotte, N. C., has temporarily. , abandoned, the King Cole kiddie Club. Instead, it' is suing Aunt, Sally (Mrs. Pasco Pow- ell), of that club spot,- and some of her kid. entertainers. on oh«£ 15-min- ute program a week, and 'The Voice pf Exposure' on another 15-minute spot a week. Lynn ; Gearhart, formerly with WFLA, . Clearwater^ Fla., is with WWNC, Asheville, npw writing continuity 'and doing, some local shows. G. O. Shepherd, director of WWNC for seven years, has retired and Don Elias is. noW managing di-. rector in charge. California ROY FOX AND HIS BAND ON TOUR B.B.C. NETWORK New England MGM STUDIOS CULVER CITY. CALlF. JOSEF CHERNIAVSKY Personality Conductor -** icago=Theatre^Orche8tra- Now on Second Year WON, Tuesdays, 0:30 P.M. OST VIVIAN JAMS ST. MORITZ, NEW YORK NIGHTLY Sole Direction HERMAN BERN I 1619 Broadway New York City Larry Pierce had to stop his car and change tires twice on. the Way to the. WDEV, Waterbury, Vt., stu- dio the other morning, Marshall Mlltimore is new chief announcer at WCAX, Burlington," Vt; Paramount and Magent theaters, Barre, Vt., now using WDEV, Water- bury, an. advertising- medium. fartha and Hal the latest WGY to play Vermont theaters. WDEV, - Waterbufcy, Vt., now us- ing at least 23 programs daily. Sunday .(1) marks the 650th pro- gram presented over WDRC by Scott Furriers of New England. Program, a new one starting this week calls for a series of transcriptions by Donald Novis and Jan Rubini. . WTIC; Travelers Insurance, com- pany station,, which went from half tinjie to full time, will in the near future occupy more tpan four times its' present space.- Rob Burlen of W^EI's staff was called on a few hours'; notice to take the featured part of; 'Sailor Riley' in I the Naritasket Steamboat com- pany's programs. Character was created by John Phllbrick, who died th£ day of the broadcast. Outdoor concerts presented at the Dean Road Playgrounds in Brook- line will again be aired over the Yankee network this summer. South Hiram Higsby, WSGN, Birming- ham, going With WSB, Atlanta, Aug. 1. Henry Hornsbuckle, former part- ner,, wilL jpjnjhjm.in^ Atla.n_ta.__ _ = a _ ^ Lasses White hag'gonetb the Chi Fair in' search of material for his series of minstrel shows over WSM, Nashville. JImmie Gallagher has joined WSM Nashville with his 13 piece band. Re- places, the Francis Craig band, for the summer. Jack Shook has also joined WSM. Earl Gluck, manager of WSOC, back from a business trip to New York. , Mrs. Franklin Van Scolk of Al- bany, Ind/; daughter of Harold D. (Wayside) Brown, Who conducts a Dbre Schary and' D.oh Hartman writing for Jimmie Durahte's Chase & Sanborn programs; Otto K. Qlesen discing the 'Lone Indian' programs that have been on KFWB for. three years. ; Hal D. Brown's Orchestra being remoted" from Iyaker Arrowhead .in the San Bernardino [Mountains over the Southern California network^ Paul Brown . and ' Bill Leslie. Were a one -.timer over;KMTR, Holly wfco.d, while on a Coast visit to the form- er's brother, . Joe E. •Brown. ] '.Salvatore Santaell^, back, batoning at KMTR, HoHywopd,'' 'aifter three weeks in the east;' j . .. v.. 'John SwalloW, Southern , Cal chief for NBC. is pointing out tHe homes of Picture; 'stars to Eldon Ba 'Stevenson and. $JdW in .W-' Craiff, owners 'of NBC's ^O.OO^O.-Watt ' at-, ilillate at Nashyilie. jTerih.l'' here _on vacation. .. , ... j '['] , ; '_ '' With, : a. can iof'. worms arid' 1 what else it -take*,* Bert 1 Bennett, .pro- duction- and program manager ;bf KFAC-KFVD. has hied away to the banks . of the. Kern \ river. .for s hi§ annual loafing spell, i Organist J. .Newton Yates moves over from a local: mortuary to KFAC. ; KTM has eight religious airers, all commercials. Dick License has resigned as chief announcer at KTM, and will take a sajes position in .Chicago. Ray Jackson from Fresno succeeds. Midwest FTC Gets MPPA Anti-Bribery Pact Signatory 5 Pubs Still Out List .of . the publisher . eignators to the pledge against 1 free special ar- rangements and other forms of per- formance bribery have been turned over to the . Federal Trade Commis- sion by JOhh G. Paine, chairman of the Music Publishers Protective Association. Government bureau has also been apprised of the pub- lishing firms who, up to Saturday (23), had not committed themselves to the agreement. These Tatter con- cerns are Robbins Music Corp., Tj B. Harms. Inc., Sam Fox Publishing Co., Joe Davis Music Co., and Joe Morris Music Co. Paine, averred last week that the stand taken by the T. B. Harms Outfit was that it wouldn't come, in iinless Jack Robbins became one of the signators. From Fox, said Paine, he has heard ; neither way Both Morris .and Davis have de- clared themselves as opposed to joining the pact! ! Professional managers of the firms in the agreement Were as sembled in his office yester.da;y (Monday) by Paine io discuss ques- tipns of interpretations arising on the agi^ement, and also clarify the miatter of transpositions. How FTC Figures ■For those firms ;who refuse to ally themselves With the anti-brib- ery covenant; said Paine,' complaints of violations will: become the con- cern of agencies outside the indus- try. Such complaints, he explained, will be turned over to *he Federal Trade Comihissipn. If, after. a hear- ing, the FTC upholds the complaint ; and . issues a desist order against' the guilty publisher, and this latter warning is ignored, the case them comes within the province of the Department of Justice. Publishers who. previous to the consummation of the pact commit- ted themselves for arrangements to band leaders are making their pay- ments for these, through Paine. Such reimbursements made without his okay will be considered a viola- tion, of the agreement and the pub- lishers involved subject to fines of $1,000 each. It was reported in the trade last Week that: several rms anticipat- > ipg the pact had issued to bandmen checks covering in advance any- where from three to eight orches- trations. Paine opined that such evasions were possible, but. up to yjesterday (Monday)' no .instance pf them has been brought to his at- tention. CHARLES 4- WITWARK VS. FOX HIM ! SUIT IN DEAD HEAT Personnel additions^ at KSO, Des Moines, include: H.' M. Bennett, en gineer; Lansing Liridquist, singer and continuity, formerly at WOC 7 WHO; Paul Huntsinger, chief en- gineer, formerly at WOI, . Ames; Edmund Linehan, continuity; Gei> aid Morrison, continuity; Phyllis Michael, -"sales; Virgil Tacy, an-, nouncer. and Raymond Cox, an- nouncer. . Violet Johnson, former continuity writer at KSO, has jqiried Brown & Co., advertising agency, Des Moines, in. charge of radip program prpduc- tion. Peter MacArthur, , program di- rector for WOC-WHO, recovering from an appendectomy at Iowa Methodist hospital, Des Moines. With the folding pf the Des Moines baseball club, Irving Gross- man, publicity director, returns to WOC-WHO, full time, in charge of publicity for WHO. Mid-Continent Rocking Chair program, oldest account on WHO, having run six consecutive years, is now being fed to WMT, Waterloo, from-the Des Moines station. = k KTrocked=-downr=in'— the- £ =&2 i 'mile= wind and rain storm Wednesday (20), power cables for WTMJ, Mil- waukee, snapped and threw the station off the air for three hours. Mildred Gibson entertaining friends from- outside before em- barking for Chi musical scholar- ship. WAAW staff working longer hours with the station's increased summer time on the air. Ifarry Burke at boss Johnny Gll- lin's desk at WOW while later to (Continued on page 62) iTrial ' 1 , Jay ; ' Witmark's, 'suit against the Red '.Star jMuslc- Co., .', 'arid. Fox Film' borp.,! went '"^o . a, .hoV. a^c^o^>e,fbi;6'>u^tice McLoughliih inl the New York I Supreme COurt' laijtjveek. "After four days.pf.l - teiing; .to evidence land argument, and 12- -hours of ' deliberation,' ' .th.A jury on the case fpund .Saturday (26) that there was; no - chance of iti coming to an agreement. .Jus-^. tice .McIipughlin- dismissed the jury and Witmark's -liftwyers filed a ndtice of! re-trial for the fall. , , Witma'rk claimed 'that his con-< tract as general manager' of Red Star had six months to go. Red Star about three years ago went out of i business, with its catalbg being absorbed by a later Fox subsid, Movietone Music Corp. RAJPUT BACK FOE TATTOO Chicago, June 25.. Rajput is returning to the ether. This time will ride f,or TattQO lip- stick oh WBBMwlth a series labeled 'SHadows of the Suez^' . .-, ...... ^Vijl start July 2 t\yice' weekly at ' 15 minutes a. clip. Phelps agented. TENOR COAST-TO-QOAST CBS THE GREEK AMBASSADOR OP GOOD WILL GEORGE CBS ERY TUESDAY'S' PIML Ppast-tp -iCpast Sole OlrectlflD HERMAN BERN IE 1619 Broadway. New Torb Phelps, tengl.e jfe . C. Sustainer Lands Charlotte, N> . C, June 25.' Hollyi. Smith's . sustainer over WBT, 'Sing, It's GoOd for You,' has been sold to General; Mills for the promotion of Wheaties. lackett, Sample & Hummert: agented. Smith is assisted by Bo Bufort and Thorpe Westerfield. A. Cameron Steele, assistant man- ager of the Yankee Network Artists Bureau, sailed from. Boston for a three months' vacation abroad. He will first go to Glasgow, his birth- place; for a short visit with rel- atives. He then plans a motor tour of the British Isles, ajnd a leisurely visit - to ^- J>oint s. of -I nte rest ,on __ the Continent. Radio will occupy -much of his attention OeSoto Motors, through its local dealer, Kempton Motors, has placed a 13-wcek campaign with WRC, Washington, using the Sidney dance combo three nights the first Week, two the second and once weekly for the balance of contract. Placement through the J. Stirling Getchell agency. FRANK PARKER Featured Soloist GENERAL TIRES NOW ON THE COAST NBC STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD TENOfli "Streets of Paris" World's Fair, Chicago WGN Nightly VERNON CRAIG Baritone 8th WEEK B&K ORIENTAL. CHICAGO NBC— WJZ, Thursday)), 3:30 P.M. CST EMERSON GILL ORCHESTRA EN ROUTE MCA DIRECTION The Singing Lady" IREENE WICKER 4th Year for W. K.. Kellogg Co. AH Material by Ireeoe Wicker Music by A IX AN GRANT N.B.C.— WJZ 5:30 Daily 48 VARIETY MUSIC— NITE CLUBS Tuesday, June 26, 1934 SPA Reopens MPPA Folio Matter After Giving 3-Month Extension At the instigation of Benee Rus- b&U the directorate of the Song- writers Protective Association last week reopened the resolution, passed the week previous, giving the Music Publishers Protective Asso- ciation, a three months' extension on the writers' permission to in- clude their Jyrics in the - MPPA a nickel folio. Russell charges that the SPA board renewed its approval of the project without making a thorough analysis of data bearing on tl>e folio situation which had been submitted by John G. Paine, MPPA chairman. During last week's meeting of the SPA directors. Paine was sum- moned and asked to explain the basis of the data. He admitted, that he wasn't sure whether the folios backed by his organization had helped or injured the sale of sheet music, and: that he had no records or correspondence to sup- port his statement that a large per- centage of the music dealers queried had expressed themselves as fa- voring the MPPA's lyric folio. He Also admitted he could not prove that the distribution of contraband songsheets had. been suppressed to a major degree as the result of com- petition from the MPPA. His assertion oh this subject; said Paine, had been .based oh a'percent- age figure • turned over to hinv by the law. firm, Engels & Van Wise- man which has been handling the folio proposition for the MPPA. MRS. AARONSON GETS A QUICKIE DIVORCE Cleveland,' June 25, Christina M&rson, Hungarian dancer, was granted. a divorce from;] Irving Aarohson within 10 minutes when she appeared in court June 21 to fight his counter-suit. Aaronson, who filed his divorce papers when playing at. Carter Ho- tel's Rainbow Room . in January, claimed, in his petition that, his wife refused to establish a residence in Cleveland. Wife's counter-complaint was kept secret, but judge granted her walking papers, a lump sum of .$3,000, bonds valued . at " $6,000 and $50 a month alimony, besides all household furniture. Aaronson was not present, being hi California on a vacation. Romberg to Coast As Operetta Supe Sigmond Romberg left Saturday (23) for Hollywood, to sit in on the production of an especially com-; posed operetta for Fox. He figures on remaining on the Coast through. July and August. ASCAP Royalty For 2d Quarter Royalty plum the American Society of Composers, Authors? and Publishers, for the second quarter of 1934 may come to, over $700,000, making the distribution among the ASCAP members twice what it was for the April-May-June period of 1933, Collections from radio during the past three months have beeh' over 100% better than for the. parallel stretch last year. Board meets this Thursday (28) to allocate the coin. Publishers' division of th j ASCAP board at this meeting will pass on the applications for upplng made by Sam Fox and Southern Music Co. Hot Staff' Diary Unties Hubby From Performer UA Nicked for $1,000 On 'City lights' Song Paris, May 16. United Artists did not come out so well In a legal action it defended in a' Paris court. This, was brought by Jose Padilla, author of 'La Violeterra,' song, used by Raquel Meller, who. asked compensation for the use of the number in Chaplin's 'City Lights.' UA was ordered to pay the au thor $1,000. Padilla had asked $33,300, but court said he didn't rate that much because he 'had been largely compensated by the publicity given to the composition.' Song was beard four times in full during film. Program bore note: 'Scenario and music by Charlie Chaplin.' Court handed down no judgment against Chaplin personally. • Baltimore, June 25. Robert Kennedy was granted ab- solute divorce from wife, Mae Ken- nedy, nitery warbler, in Circuit Court last Thursday (21). The evi- dence, read out in courtroom and which effected the knot-cutting, was from the diary the performer] kept. Judge granted the decree after such accounts were admitted . as true as: 'Went to a roadhouse] with the boy friend and passed out. Had a good time, though.* 'Stayed at home for a change, but was with box friend; He is hot stuff;' 'Went to Deputy Sheriffs Club and got tanked up.' When questioned by the Judge, the woman said she didn't know) what she meant when she entered in her diary the phrase 'hot stuff.' Most Played on Air Kahn, Donaldson Nabbed By Metro on Year's Pact Hollywood, June 25, Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson go to Metro for a year on a deal closed by Jack Bobbins. Latter has "also sold the team's 'Blue White Moonlight' to Universal as theme song for the picture to be based on the life of Flo . Ziegf eld. Jack Bobbins, who has been here more than a month, expects to pull stakes for New York July 14. Jack Stearns and Bernard Gross- man have sold a song, 'Come Back to the Mountains,' to Mascot films. An Old Favorite In New Surroundings EDDIE DUCHIN and nifi Orchestra thrilling Chicago like he. did New York, and cur- ■ rently at the Congress Ho- . I., .tei:; .with ...aa, NJBC- wire. I Good luck Eddie. We en- 1 Joy hearing you play "ALL I DO IS DREAM OF YOU" "SLEEPY HEAD" "I'VE HAD MY MOMENTS" "THANK YOU FOR A LOVELY EVENING" "HOT DOCS AND 8A8PAR- ELLA" "A THOUSAND G00DNIGHT8" BLOB BINS MUSIC CORPORATION lllim SEVENTH AVENUE nil • • • NEW YORK Van Ornam's Alimony Syracuse, N. Y., June 25. ited to -show cause why he should not be punished for con- tempt of court in. failing to pay all mony to his wife, Mrs. Gertrude C Van Ornam, who claims he owes her $3,120, John K. Van Ornam, or chestra leader, ignored the sum mons and failed to appear before Supreme Court Justice Francis D McCurn. Mrs! Van' Ornam claims the mu sician has absented himself from the .state, and,, jurisdiction- of -the court most of the time for the past three years. Justice McCurn reserved decision Edward M. Hyland and Donald J Waldron have opened offices in [TJtica, N. Y., for Continental Or- chestras, a booking outfit owning | Dewey's Pennsyjvanlans, Redman' Bell Hops, Jan Campbell and Wash ington & Lee orch, and Teddy i Brewer's band. To familiarize* the rest of the country with the tune* moat on the air ardund New York, the following is the compilation for last week. Plugs are figured on a Bafur- day-through-Friday week, reg- ularly. Only the chain stations are fisted as indicative of the gen- eral plug popularity. Data obtained from . Radio Log compiled by Accurate Re- porting Service, WEAF WJZ Title WABC Beat o' My Heart....' 23 AU I Po Is Dream. ....... 22 Love Go Wrong. ... ........ 20 Dames ....»*«..• It Sleepyhead . ...........«••• 19 Wish I Were Twins . ....... IS I'll String Along ........ 18 Had My Moments .......... 18 Rollln' Home > • 18 Hat on Side of Head IT Spell Bound ....... . :t . . .... . IT Let Me Call You ............ 16 May I . . , .; .. ....... 16 Than* for Lovely Eve. . > . . 16 Cocktails for Two. ... . . . .. .. 16 Little Man, Busy Day. . .... 14 The Breeze ................ 14 With Eyes -Wide Open...... 14 » I've Got a Warm Spbt.>.». 1* Sunday Is Daddy's Day. . . . 13 Steak and Potatoes........ 13 True. >•••*»•••«* BOly Rose s Music HaD Is Another New Phase of Show Biz Boswdls' 4 dab Wfe. In Galveston at $2,500 Bos well Sisters open today (26) for a four-week stay at the Holly- wood Dinner Club* Galveston. Sam Maceo effected the booking through Rockwell-O'Keefe. Deal is for $2,500 .net per week plus all transportation expenses. Fischer Snubs Chi Newspaper Tie-Ups For Bergere Revue Chicago, June 18. Clifford Fischer doesn't need show business or its methods. Fischer, who has the Folles Bergere ..nlte club revue at the French Casino, has decided, his show is too high class for newspaper publicity, or ex- ploitation. Fischer has barred the show, in which J. C. Stein of the* Music Corporation has poured a young fortune, from all pubficity tie-ups. Fischer told the papers that If they want to print straight newsless pictures, it's okay; otherwise, the papers can't have anything at all. Dailies are following his suggestion and neglecting to mention the Folies. Daily News Is particularly dead on the show, while it looks like the two Hearst papers, Herald-Ex- aminer and the American will fol- low suit due to Fischer's refusal to work with Norman Alley, picture editor. Alley thought up— a tie-up for a mannequin parade at the Washington Park race track, but Fischer said, 'No, my girls are too tender for such stuff.' N. Y. NIGHT LIFE BIG; JERSEY OFF Niterles are all doing big. That goes for hotels, restaurants, roofs and roadhouses, and including the in-town Broadway and Park .ave- nue class drinking restaurants. Whether It's conditions or what, all are enjoying nice grosses. Jersey shore resorts, with one ex- ception, are on: the. nut unexpected- ly through the taboo on gambling. Several went overboard On name bands, etc.,' in the Saratoga man- ner, because the word had gone out that the casinos were okay, but matters have switched. Usual pre-August bally going out that Saratoga won't go berserk on expensive floor shows and content" itself with name bands, but that's a seasonal occurence. All four big 1 spots at the , spa usually wind ' up with elaborate entertainment.- Music Notes Don "3igelow's orchestra set In the new Palyrma Club, Schenectady, N. Y. Bigelow's unit will go on the air over WGY. New Ace Music Publishers, Inc., formed, Harry Carney, g, m, and a catalog authored by George Brooks, Billy Sears and Jack Zlehler. Dayside Ballroom, Burlington,. Vt., largest in State, has been leased to Shribman Brothers, of Boston. Blanche: Calloway's ork will be first to play under new management. Moe Jaffe's orch Is' playing at Hulett's New Casino on Lake George, N. Y. Cab Calloway's band staged a concert and dance at the State Ar mory in Albany. r Eddie Williamson's or oh Is at Hollywood Hills, N. Y. Ray Nichols' WOR orch, the Mur ray Trio, Frank Swanee, Spanish E61a^1affd^the"~C6rnell = Glrls^areTat Charlie's Inn on Burden Lake, near Albany, N. Y. Keith Kerby, formerly, program director for WKBB, East, Dubuque, III., now On the announcing and production staff of KFXF, Denver. Freddy Martin replaces Vincent Lopez at the St. Regis, New York July 9. Lopez is slated for a berth on the Coast. Olsen Follows Detroit Philharmonic Orchestra Detroit, June 26. George Olsen replaces the Detroit Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Sam Benavle, at the Westwood Gardens here for four weeks start- ing July 1. Olsen gets $5,000 net with a four- week guarantee: Spot is an open air garden ad- joining the Westwood Otto Inn run by Otto. Huck. Last year the De- troit Symphony Orchestra played there all . summer on a percentage basis. This year the D.S.O. Is at the World's Fair playing on the Ford exhibit. The Detroit Philharmonic opened the season and will continue after Olsen closes. v Two other orchestras are used, Buddy Fields and his Aristocrats and Harker Thomas and his music. Noble Coming Oyer Tom Rockwell,' of Rockwell- O'Keefe, is bringing Ray Noble, British maestro and arranger, to America. Deal was closed during Rockwell's recent visit on the - other side. Details of Noble's placement here will be discussed between Rockwell and Harry Foster. English agent, when the latter arrives from Eng- land this week. Noble's current as- signment Is that of general musical director of His Master's Voice, Ltd., the British Victor alliance. Albert Sails Francois Albert, head of the Aus- tralian music publishing firm of J, Frank Albert', sails for England to- morrow (Wednesday). Accompany- ing him is his wife, his son, Alexis,; and the latter's bride. Elder Albert will return to New York in a couple months While the newly weds will continue, on their circling of the globe. Chi Dells to Reopen Chicago, June 25. Dells figured to reopen this Fri- day (29) under new management. Tom Gerun band slated to furnish dansapatlon. Ozzis Nelson, on tour, established season record at Rocky Springs, Lancaster, Pa. Firemen closed box office when safe capaoity mark was reached. By ABEL GREEN For the annals it must be re- corded that Billy Rose's Music Hall, Inc., at Broadway and 53rd street. New York, again establishes a. new phase ' in the evolution' of post-re- peal, show business. Just, as Rose, Yermle Stern, Sam *Ros6ff, John Steinberg, et al., wrote an unques- tionably Indelible chapter In show history with their Casino de Pareo — America's first successful cabaret- theatre — so wIU the Music Hall bearing Rose's name indubitably stand forth as some -sort of a land- mark In the evolution of the the- atre. It might be termed the small time of the Casino de Paree type of Fol- les Bergere enteralnment— the con- verted theatre with a nlte club at- mosphere. Yet its pop unpreten- tiousness may make the Music Hall a bigger commercial success than C. de P. It goes the cabaret- theatre a few better by incorporating a cinematic angle, and is designed primarily to patch the popular purse. It's' printed for the picture house fan; ' the boy and girl strolling down Broadway looking for something to see or a place to drop in. And so, for practically the same admlsh, the Music Hall offers a lavish cabaret entertainment, a dance band, a socko atmosphere which will cause: talk in no time; shorts and news- reels, nudes, five tiptop acts of vaude (changes, weekly or fortnight- ly) worked into a reviiesque aura; 100 hostesses for lonesome stags, 100 singing waiters who, to their credit, wait on the tables equally as well as they warble (and that's no mean accomplishment)— and a corking $1 dinner. It's a big bargain. That it'll do landofflce biz depends solely, so far as the- present temperatures are" concerned, on the functioning of that cooling plant. It didn't quite, funcsh the opening night. It's a far cry from Oscar Ham- mersteln to Billy Rose, but the answer is that Rose now has hi$. name In letters taller than himself outside of the former Hammersteln (later the Manhattan), which Ar- thur Hammersteln built and named for his eminent father, Oscar. The Broadway and 63rd street auditor- ium, designed for musicals and operettas, has had its seats ripped out and odd-shaped tabled, which can dovetail to increase capacities, Installed in its place. The organ is retained and motion picture ma- chines and sound equipment in- stalled for the cinematic interludes. It's primed for an 11 a.m. to 4 a.m. grind. Luncheon 60c, including dance band, show and food. The regular afternoon newsreel perform- ance at 76c plus any liquid service charges while viewing the shorts, and newsreels. Dinner SI plus show, band, etc. Supper $1.25 and $1.50 minimum, etc. It's all designed on a three-hour turnover basis, with the minimum charges antelng two- bits or four bits as the hour grows older. Capacity 1,000, about 60-60 up and downstairs and better van- tage above. While it's a grand bargain [super* flclally,. a party of course ban spend a few bucks with, little effort. The house is designed plenty to induce unloosening of the ; purse-strings. There's a terrific nut, greater than at the Casino, which means that the pace must be hot 'n' heavy. ; Drinks are 75c; beer~30c; cham- pagne $10 for imported vintages, which is where the gravy figures. But it's all done on a consum- (Continued on page 69) FRISCO HOTELS BAN NON-UNION MUSICIANS San Francisco, June 25. Musicians' Union has made a deal with the first-rate hotels of Frisco under which the hostelrles won't rent their ballrooms for any affairs with musjc^ unless the flatters and sharpers" carry" an" "A~.F".M~r~ card. Deal was worked out With the managers by Karl Dietrich, who landed the signatures -of the St. Francis, Palace, Mark Hopkins, Fairmont, Whitoomb and William Taylor hotels on the agreement . Jimmy Lunceford and his orches- tra are set for 14 weeks of one- nlghters through the south and mid- west, booked by Harold Oxley# band's personal rep. Tuesday, June 26, 1934 VAUDEVILLE VARIETY 49 Who Canceled Sally Rand? Syracuse Churchmen Force Issue on Fanner Syracuse, N; Y., June 2B. ♦Who canceled Sally Band's Syra- cuse engagement ?' ; is a controversy raging In the wake. of the rioh-ap- fan dancer on Mrs. Heller Sues Jackie In N. Y. for Separation pearance Loew's State stage this week. Published announcement that the lioew Circuit had canceled Miss Band's Engagement as a result of a denunciation of the dancer and the theatre management by the Most Bey. John A. Duffy, Bishop of Syra- cuse, and subsequent united stand by Catholic and Protestant clerics, drew an indignant denial from the dancer, telegraphed to the local newspapers. In her wire from Bochester Miss Band 'vigorously denied' that she had been canceled by the Loew Cir- cuit and insisted she broke the date to fill « prior call upon her services by the Italian Village at the Century of Progress. Miss Rand declared that she had Informed the management of Loew's here on Monday that she would not appear. Bishop Duffy's arraign ment of 'the Band woman' was pub lished on the following day. Loew's continued to advertise her appear- ance until Thursday (21) "Whether Bishop Duffy's stand was actuated by the fact that the Knights of S.t; John are meeting in state and international conclave here this week is not known, but it in believed in Catholic circles to at least have been a factor in. the vitri- olic arraignment, which said •I must regard, the presence of the Band woman on the stage of Loew's theatre as an act ,of public defiance of the moral sehtimeits of the Catholic people of Syracuse. The dancer has been : an object of criti- cism in many cities of the United States. Her act, by all accounts, has nothing to recommend it but its appeal to the senses. - 1 want every Catholic to know that attendance at her performance is an act for which they are morally responsible. The theatre that en- gages this kind of performance Is in a fair way to be regarded as a pub- lic enemy. The welcoming commit- tee is a worthy object of contempt.' . Stand by the Catholic bishop quickly received Protestant support, as had his earlier attack upon film ♦dirt,' the Syracuse prelate being in the forefront of the * arrent crusade by the Legion of Decency. • Syracuse Council of Churches (Protestant) met and sent the Bev. Archie B. Bedford, president, and Tracy K. Jones, Y. M. C. A. secre- tary, to coll on Edward McBrlde, Loew manager, who advised that Its membership' would follow the bishop's leadership. McBrlde was Informed that the ministers pro- posed to buy radio time for an anti- Band blast oh Thursday night and to follow through with militant ser- mons on Sunday. Moreover, it was disclosed that the Council, through Us welfare committee, proposed to scrutinize all films closely, a resolution adopt- ed providing for co-operation with ishop Duffy. Loew Circuit then ordered the cancellation against, it is said, Miss Band's wishes! Fan dancer is said to haye wanted to fill the en age- ment and force the issue. Bishop Duffy was as quick to commend as to condemn, issuing this -statement: 'The with rawal of the Rand act calls for a word of commendation and approval. The management of the theatre was quick to see how legitimate was the request to free Its stage of such a performance and promptly withdrew the offensive act. I feel it is my duty to recog- nize publicly their evidence of good- will and co-opcratlon in the inter- est of a clean stage. 'Loew's theatre will suffer nothing in loss of patronage or prestige by aligning itself with the forces of decency. The management deserves ^reGOg-nition^for^this-wor-thy--action»= McBride himself is a Catholic. Grace Heller; under 21 and hence a legal minor, through her father as guardian, Vincent J. Orlando, is suing Jackie Heller, radio and vaude singer, and member of Ben Bernie's outfit, for separation al- leging desertion. Suit is brought in New York and asks for $1,500 coun- sel fees, $500 disbursements and suitable alimony for support of herself , and their infant son. Heller, 'through -his Ju- lius . Kendler, claims he's a resident of Chicago, .that he secured a di-. vorce in Chi against the present plaintiff, and that he has been con- tributing $20 a week for the support of the child, which he has been willing to do all along, EMMA LITTLEFIELD DIES Succumbs to Lingering Illness— Victor Moore Flies East Emma Llttlefleld (Mrs. Victor Moore) died Saturday • (23) in a Long Island hospital. She had been ill the past year or more. Hollywood, ..June 26. • Victor Moore, here for Universal, left by plane Friday (22), called back by the serious illness of his wife, Emma Littlefleld. .Moore came out here only a few 1 weeks ago and had just completed his first picture, and was slated to start another at the same studio. NVA Fund Drops William Lee; N. Y. Overhead and Moving Offices Allen to Bat For Curtis in Agency Test Charles Allen will bat for Jack Curtis, his agency partner, when the complaint against him by the N. Y. License Department of operating an employment agency without a license reaches Special Sessions Curtis, who was originally chosen for the test case against all un- licensed theatrical reps in New York, is in Europe and not expect- ed to return in time for the trial. Allen was picked by License Com- missioner Paul Moss to substitute for Curtis with the consent of Maurice Goodman and Harold Gold ' blatt, counsel for the BKO, Loew and iridic agents in their fight against the employment agency classification and licensing by Moss. ' Trial in Special Sessions is ex r pected to come up in three or four weeks. Shuherts Trince' Folds in Frisco ; FM Pays Off San Francisco, June 26. Shuberfs vaude tab of 'Student Prince,' booked . for eight weeks on the Coast Fanchon & Marco, disbanded at Marco's Or pheum after the second week and cast is returning to' Chicago with Marco-paid railroad tickets, two weeks salary and hotel expenses. When Marco handed notice to the performers to take effect at end of their second week,, some 15 cast members went before the State La- bor Commissioner, hoping to collect their entire six weeks salaries. At that time Marco offered them one week's pay, transportation and hotel expenses, but many refused. Labor Commissioner's office, with power to act in state employment matters, called' a meeting on the matter at wheh Marco's attorneys offered to pay the fortnight's wages, along with other expenses. J0NAHUE WINNER $150 ON SHORT PAYOFF SUIT Bed Donahue (and Mule)., was given a verdict by. Judge Prince in N. Y. for $150, as the difference in his contracted $360 weekly salary arid the $200 which Manhattan Playhouses, Inc., had paid him for his engagement at the Harlem Opera House; N. Y., March 3 last. Theatre chain's defense, for the short payoff . was that it wanted to switch Donahue into the Lafayette theatre in Harlem In order not to minimize, his week's salary but that Donahue refused. George Godfrey books/ the . Harlem. Court 'ruled for the actor upon Julius Kendler' s representations in his behalf. RKO AT CONEY PAYS OFF IN AIR N* TAFFY N. Y. City Would License Rose's Music Hall as a Theatre Steps are being taken by the N. Y. License Department to force a vaude theatre license on Billy Bose' Music Hall, which opened Thursday (21) in the former Man- hattan (legit), which was originally built as the Hammerstein. Music Hall, presently holds a 'common show' license, which applies to grind picture houses, night clubs arid dance halls, at a yearly fee of $150. Theatre license Commissioner Moss is asking costs $500 yearly. Fact that Bose's Music Hall is playing vaude and pictures, besides serving as a cabaret and restaurant, is the reason for Moss* move. Bose's Casino de Payee, which is on the order of. the Music Hall, Holds a 'common show* license.. JEAN CARROLL ON OWN Jean Carroll leaves Marty May after the current week at the Pal- ace, N. Y. Has been foiling for the light comedian for the last four years. 3\lins Carroll will essay a comedy *ct of her own. Grauman Vaudists Abroad For Ferry Casino Opener Hollywood, June 25. Cass, Mack and Owen leave here for Europe as soon as they finish iri Grauirian's stage show with 'House of Bothschild' at the Chinese. Trio is slated to. open early in August at the Monte Carlo Casino in show Felix Ferry is producing there. Walter Kane of the Weber office handled the deal. VAUDERS' SHORT Universal City, June 25. Six acts arid an m.c. were used by Universal for a Warren Doane Brevity just completed. Lynn Cowan m.c.'d the ttirns, in eluding Florence Hin Low, Chinese contortionist; King's Men Quartet KFWB radio act; Chapellc arid Ray- nors, acrobats; The Crocketts, hill- billies; Ward arid "Van; Cook and Lankton. James Home directed. AFA Brings Blanket Code Charges Against 4 N. Y. Indie Theatres Four Indie vaudfllmers in New York City are under Investigation by the Labor Compliance Board of the NBA as the result of a general complaint filed by Balph Whitehead, executive secretary of .the Actors Federation of America. Names of the "theatres and their bookers are withheld pending results of the sleuthing. Basis of Whitehead's charges Is under-code minimum salaries being paid actors. This is the first time since the AFA . received its Ameri- can Federation of Labor charter as union that it filed a complaint against a theatre with the NBA as an organization. Heretofore it has acted only in behalf of a member. Down at Coney Island actors are being paid off ..with sea breezes, hot dogs and salt water taffy. Latter is a prop BKO places on the THyou manager's ' linger on Sunday, the payoff day for the weekend stand. Tilyou is a record budget-low for the BKO books, playing five acts at a total of $250 for Saturday and Sunday;, Amount of shows may also be a record for BKO, the acts playing five on each day. On the basis of 13 and 14 people in each show, and at times even higher, the budget amounts to less than $20 per performer and just over the Motion Picture Code mini mum tor vaude actors, which is $7.60 daily. Weiner with Morris Jack Weiner, currently .in Chi cago, joins the William Morris office on the Coast July 9. Weiner here spent the past year as a theatre operator in Cincinnati BAERWITZ RETURNS EAST Hollywood, June 25. Sam Baerwitz, who left Metro some months ago, intending to con nect elsewhere, has abandoned his plans- to remain on the Coast, and will remove his family to New York where he will resume agentirig for Loew's. Baerwitz did musical shorts while at Metro. Reorganization of the NVA in all its phases becomes a 100% job this week with resignation of Williairi J. Lee, last survivor rot the .old NVA administrative regime. Lee's de- parture, as a salaried employee re- duces the New York overhead of the NVA fund to a point nearer the ! ilO.000 a year mark, which the new fund heads have set as the maxi- mum for operation.. NVA Fund, which administers all the NVA's affairs, has been' costing 1 ! 130,600 a year to operate. At $20,000 less in the future, it will, run with ho more than three employees. At present the only salaried NVA Fund workers' are Herman Levins, ac- countant, and a stenographer. A permanent New York NVA Fund office manager, who will . have charge of the business end of the Saranac Lake sanatorium and the. New York charitable work, will be installed within the next week or so. Another economy effort- the NVA Fund will be its removal shortly from its present offices .at 160-0 Broadway to cheaper quarters. At 1600 the NVA. Fund shares offices with the. Variety Managers? Associa- tion. Board of Two Lee was formerly executive vice- president of the NVA Fund, and in that capacity had complete charge of the sanatorium. Lee and. Henry Chesterfield, latter conducting the NVA Club phase, coihprised a board of two, which handled disbursement of the charitable funds without su- pervision. Lee's leaving completes - departure of the former NVA ad- ministrative triumvirate— Lee, Ches- terfield arid Mrs.; Katherlrie Murphyi . Past arid present members of the NVA Fund, who have.been sued for receivership and an accounting by Chesterfield and Charles H. O'Don- nell on behalf of the .NVA Club, have retained Nathan Burkan as counsel. Their answer to the 'show cause' order obtained by Chester- field and O'Donneli through, the law firm of HirBch, Newman, Beass '& Becker, is returnable in New' Y*brK Supreme court tomorrow (Wednes* day). Chesterfield, in the suit, challenges the NVA Fund's claim that it la broke, and contends it should have. $750,000 on hand by his own ac- counting. Defendants, along with, the NVA Fund itself, are Pat Casey, William Lee, William J. Sullivan, Harold Bodner, Eddie Alperson, Leslie. Thompson, Sam Dembow, Moe Sil- ver, Sam Scribner, Sam Katz, Harry Warner, Hiram S. Brown, Charlie Moskowitz, Edward A. Schiller and Nick Schenck. With the NVA clubhouse on West 46th street closed to the ..actors through a dispossess notice from the landlord, the nightly meals Were transferred all last week to Meyer Gerson's restaurant on 47th street. Between 75 and 10p were fed there nightly at a cost of 40 cents per meal. N. Y. License Dept On China-Stranding Charges Labor Commission .and the N. Y. •License Department are both seek- ing Henry Bellit on the. charge of stranding 19 performers in Tient- sin, China, April 29, last. Charges against Bellit were filed last week by Earl Edwards, dance director, in behalf of himself and the other members of the unit .which the former BKO agent and producer allegedly left high arid dry in the Orient. License Department figures in the complaint only through the. pos- r si bil ity^that-"-] I censin g-of ^t h eatri e al= reps, as employment agencies by N.Y.C. may become a fact after a test-case in Special Sessions in the next three or four weeks. If found guilty on Edwards' charge Bellit would find it impossible to get a license and operate legally as an agent. American Federation of Actors is also investigating the alleged stranding of the troupe that Bellit recruited in N.Y. to play a total of 62 days out of the four months and 16 days spent over there by the company. Bellit, who is now in N.Y., is reported to have returned here as a first-class passenger on the liner Asama Maru, which sailed from the Chinese city May 12, while it is .claimed the destitute per- formers had to seek aid from the American consuls in Tientsin and Shanghai. The Tientsin U. S. offi- cial told Edwards that. Bellit bor- rowed $400 from the American Le- gion supposedly to care for the 4rouper^EcrformcKs^W-ere=sliipi).c.d^-to, Seattle from Shanghai via steerage. The one member of the 20 per- formers' Bellit took to the Orient who was not stranded was Sybil Etirskc. She hurt her leg in. Tient- sin in an auto accident and passage honie was sent by her mother. Hearing before the Labor Com- inision and at the License Depart- ment will take place this week if BcUlt is located. NO PAYOFF CHARGES VS. SIAMESE DUO'S UNIT Although a Philadelphia ' sheri last week seized their property, val- ued at $300 on the. complaint of James Campbell, a member: of the troupe, Daisy and Violet Hilton; Si- amese twins, deny they left their 37-pebple unit stranded in Philadel- phia after a six-day. date at Fay's two weeks ago. The Hiltons state that the action is unwarranted. According to Campbell, the Hil- tons did not pay off any of. the unit's performers, leaving for New York June 15 and" not returning after promising to do so. Meanwhile the parents of Betty Kent (Allen and Kent), who oper- ate a restaurant in L Albanjvare pre- paring to~liu ethe Hi ft oris~on "aF1^3 note they hold for feeding the troupe when it played at the Capitol, Albany, three weeks ago. Perform- ers had no money then and the res- taurant fed them all week, the Hil- tons paying but $1.5 of a $103 bill and signing a note for the re- mainder. Allen -'ind Kfiit, dance team, were I not with the Hiltons' unit 50 VARIETY VAUDEVILLE Tuesday, June 26, 1934 NEW ACTS WAMPAS BABY STARS (13) Singing and Dancing 18 Mins.; Full Chicago Chicago For the record let's eet. the names Of these Waropas cuties: Gygi Par- rish, Jacqueline Wells, Judith Arlen, Betty Brysbn, Lu Ann Meredith,: Katherine Williams, Halzel Hayes, Jean Gale, Helen Cohan, Jean Car- men, Dorothy Drake, Lucille Lund and Ann Hovey. is act is good publicity for the Wampas,' but it's pretty bad pub- licity for Holly wobd. Many cus- tomers arc going to be surprised that any group of 13 girls can be so lacking, in stage personality and talent. As it stands, act must be consid- ered solely on an exploitative angle. It can't be show business or even good entertainment. The only thing that will sell this act is publicity, and plenty of it. On the stage the girls must be protected "With long alibis about having no time for re- hearsals, etc. It's ail up to the press huild- up, and with enough of it the gals might mean .something at the front gate. The trick was turned in Chi- cago with full .page, splashes in the Hearst morning Herald-and-Exam- iner ; and in all the .dailies on de- partment, store angles. But once inr side the theatre it's a sadder story. . For the opener there is a trailer flash of the girls on a paper screen with the girls breaking through , the. paper at the finish. They are in : evening dress for the announce- . ments and the parade, doing their walk-around modeling here on the runway circling the orchestra pit. Then they go off .to. change to ' costumes for their specialties. Hazel Hayes tops on straight vocalizing; • Betty Bryson manages with a neat ■ hula, while Jean Gale comes through . with an acrobatic dance specialty. Rest of the gals vibrate their ton-' sils and call it singing, or stomp their /feet and label it dancing. It 'takes a .lenient audience,, and due to, build-up they were plenty lenient here. Girls should also get bigger and better explanation on the screen as to tho meaning and purposes of, WAMPAS. They left it up to the m. c. here, but it really belongs on the screen. Gold. VERA VAN Songs 8 Mins.; Two Orpheum, N. Aside from a few snatches of dancing, .which she can snatch right out of the act, Vera Van presents plenty that's okay for vaude or legit. She has the type of voice, a mellow contralto, suitable for both ballads and the hotter rhythmic, tunes. Although Miss Van has had much stage experience, she has not been altogether happy on the air, despite a buildup- by NBC. That's hard to understand. Besides the vocal ability, Miss Van is above average in appear- ance, looking extremely well here in a close-fitting chartreuse gown. The grace she displays in song de- livery, howeverj is sluffed when she essays to dance. There is a male pianist in accompaniment. PENTHOUSE REVELS (5) Songs and Dancing 10 Mine.; Full (Special) Orpheum, N. Y. This act has little in its favor. Shapes up on talent and staging lik£ countless other flashes produced for low.-budgeted houses. Two of the three girls do fast and slow aero, respectively, while the boys and re- maining girl solo, duo and trio soft- shoe.. Billing of the act refers to a rather dull and badly lighted roof setting and a curtain song by four evenly mixed members of the cast. One favorable item is that the act - is on for but 10 minutes. But even in that time all the dancers begin , to look alike and all are cos- tumed cheaply. In the opener here. Marcus Loew General Executive Offices LOEW BUILDING AN N EX 160 WEST 46™ ST* BRyant 9-7800 NEW YORK CITY J. H. LUBIN ORNHBAL MANAGER MARVIN H. SCHENCK BOOKING MANAGER BARNEY ROB* Pugilism 14 Miha.; One, FuH State Barney Boss is the little Chl- cagoan who came Hast to take the welterweight qrown from Jimmy McLarnin. Additionally, Ross holds' the lightweight title. He is in here at $2,600 net and works with a straight man, an ac- torish type, who asks him questions or otherwise leads the fighter to talking about himself, his scrapping, etc. There is the usual dialog about mother, a return match, other fighters and, in Ross' case, the big welcome Chicago gave him on top- pling McLarnin, Appearing first in sports togs that give him a nice appearance, Ross later gets Into trunks for shadow boxing, jumping rope and bag punching. He's pretty agile on his feet, particularly in the rope Jump- ing, but there isn't much of this conditioning-training routine. And no big punches on the' bag, either, to show what a sock is behind, those palms. After going to fullstage for the training bits, Ross comes back to 'one' in his bathrobe, the one some- one gave him years ago and which ho treasures as a good luck charm. It looks to be in pretty good condi- tion. Fighter closed show here, a flve- acter. Char. IVY and NEECIE STEVENS I impersonation* '4 Mins.; One Academy, N» Y.: Couple of nelghb typers doing a sister, act but doing too much. Ma- neuver an opening monotone rhythm into animal sound simulations at a circus. The sounds are mostly okay but the blonde twists bodily too much. Other, a brunet, mostly f6r. the straight intrb and bumper, as the' blonde gives her a reverse knee lift towards the finish. - Anytime girls have to pull the knee stuff for a laugh it's the tipoff on the act— lardly class material. Again just for accentuating thlslklnd of humor the girls don baby bonnets and the blonde pulls a fit. The animal simulations top with a cooch number by the brunet, a fetch- ing girl in pink gown with blue shoulder wrap trimmings. Blonde wears the reverse outfit. . After 8 minutes, a bow. Then back on under a spot and darkened stage, with piano, so the blonde, pan simulate Joe penner, Gajrbo and Mae West. Her voice is neat oh the Penner k s angle but Garbo, n.s.h. and Penner's overlong. Routining of material and cuts would help*. Over here okay on five-act layout. 1 Shan. • Cleve. Agents Snub Chi Mobsters Attempt to 'Protect' Their Biz Radio Showmanship (Continued from page *4tf) the products being price-Stabilized by the druggists' group. Also, sta-; tlon sees an opportunity to gain additional advertisers through co-> operation with the association. Partying In the Park . Seattle. Capitalizing on the sunny weather, KOMO staged Sunday outdoor party and broadcast for kids (and grown- ups) recently in Seattle's Volunteer Park. Affair was sponsored by Proctor's, department store, featur- ing Mary (the lady goes only by her trade name) of, the regular 'Mary and. Her Friendly Garden' program. Broadcast, remote to the station, was an hour; party, longer, with fireworks, refreshments, travel talk, Scottish music, and entertainment by the whole KOMO^-KJR staff of performers.. Advance build-up over the air. glven 'the party; City . cooperated with loan of its law and order. Tells 'Em in French Burlington, Vt. CFRC, Montreal, owned by Le Presse, French language newspaper, has a heavy following In this sea- tlon of Vermont. Popularity seems to be due to the fact .that station announcers specie mainly in French. All towns and cities in this territory have a large percentage of. French- Canadian population, many of whom are unable to speak English. ven Stephen Lancaster, Pa. , Warner rosV three houses here needed a little radio advertisings Station WGAL needed an organ. The boys got together, with the Capitol furnishing the organ and the station getting Ernie Stanziola to play It. Result: .'Organ Varieties,', heard daily over Station WGAL at 11 a.m. Every one haippy and no money changes hands. , STEVE EVANS Mimic 15 Mins.; One Palace, N. Y. Steve Evans is new to the Palace as a single. Too bad he wasn't around in the old two-a-days, when a click such as he registered when caught would Ihave meant some- thing. Toung and $t good appearance, Evans is delivering a series of five impersonations of personalities most everybody has seen, or heard of, and each - is a clicker. Opens with a takeoff on Joe E. Brown and closes with a strong impression of the late Lon Chaney. In between he does El Brendel, Will Rogers and James Barton. Got strong applause for each and at the bows. Art JARRETT and Eleanor HOLM Singing 15 Mine.; Two Palace, N. Y. From the air and stage originally, Art Jarrett returns from Hollywood to do a typical Hollywood person- ality act with his frau, Eleanor Holm, the champ swimmer, who for a time held a stock contract with Warner Bros. General presentation, construction arid delivery are awk ward, or bad, or both. The one new thing the act uncovers 53,000 Photos Chicago. Alka-Seltzer which has the WLS Barn Dance on NBC took a test program on WLS at one o'clock in the afternoon;. After five programs they offered listeners a picture of Uncle Ezra, the program talent, in one week it received 53,00;o requests. Cleveland, June ,25. Three strong-arm promoters, who blew lii from Chicago and tried to force this . burg's 11 agents into a 'protection* racTcet, got only a nose- ful of Bronx cheers. Trio conceived the idea of also organizing all night club entertain- ers and strip dancers into an asso- ciation. Agents were told that they would have to pay an initiation fee of $16, and dues of. $3 per month. Nitery performers wejk-e to kick in $5 each per year, and the racketeers also planned to shake down each nitery for $2fi annually. Stooges for the racketeer's started campaign with phone calls to agents threatening to. have them put - on spot if they didn't come across. This began after reps, merely laughed at shdke-dbwners, asking what thoy would be protected against.. Only two or three . bookers joined after considerable-pressure. Several strip dancers who are. pinched reg- ularly In raids also were bulldozed in signing up to memberships In the 'protective association', al- though not given any assurance that they would be protected from $25 fines for indecent dancing if pinched agai FAR TAKES B.&B. Buck and Babbles' 'Harlem on Parade' unit is set for a swing around the- Par time. Open, at Shea's Hippodrome, Toronto, July 6. Colored mlnnie revue produced by Jack Klotz. BACK— WITH EXPERIENCE Olive Olsen IS back in N0w York preparing a new act for vaude. For the past! 10 weeks she has been guest-starring in mldweBt stock companies. It was her first time in legit, Is the pleasing singing voice of Miss Holm. It gets across mainly due to its throaty quality over the mike. How strong it really is can't be said, however, for she never lets It out. But her voice is as far as Miss Holm goes, and Jarrett's tenor as far as he goes. ; Once famed for her striking beauty, Miss Holm has taken on considerable weight, this being entirely too noticeable in the couple of gowns. Jarrett sings a medley • of the , songs he's done in pictures, with Miss Holm's big vocal moment coming in a special, set to a pop tune, anent her appetitie. They're behind the mike all the way,- with a male- accompanist ojn the piano. Capacity Business English Music Halls GENE DENNIS "World Famous Psychic Now Touring Europe Watch for Further Announcements Direction MILES INGALLS CURTIS & ALLEN OFFICE BKO Bid*., Rockefeller Center PAULINE COOKE 1674 BROADWAY ANDERSON and ALLEN 7th, Month LONDON, ENGLAND FIRST BROADWAY APPEARANCE ITA (Guitar) CELIA MAE (Mandolin) BUDDY (Fiddler) "HILLBILLYS THAT ARE DIFFERENT" this Week (June 22), ROXY, NEW YORK Management JOHNNY MARVIN, C/O NBC FIRST NEW YORK APPEARANCE MELVA ROSE THE RHYTHM REDHEADS BONNIE ROSE This Week (June 22), ROXY, New York MODERN SONGSTERS Booked by EDWARD RILEY— Personal Rep., AL KNIGHT Tuesday, June 26, 1934 Variety 51 Variety Bills NEXT WEEK (June 29) THIS WEEK (June 22) Numerals in connection with bills below indicate opening day pt show, whether full or split week NEWCASTLE Empire Tallulah Bankhead Coram Addison A Sylvia Low A Webster Maml Soutter Georgia Kitchen Topsy . Turvy Taro Nalto Lloyd A Hill PORTSMOUTH. Hippodrome Hutch Wright A Marion D'Alba O'Connor A Drake Van Cleofs Michaelson Co as booked Cabarets NEW YOBK CITY RKO MBW YORK GITS Palace (20) t X Sis Oliver Wakefield Russian Revels (22) ■ Capt Willie Mauss Steve Evans Jarrett A Hoi Marty May, Adler A Bradford. Demurest A Sibley Cargo of Dance CHICAGO Palace (20) Rosemary Deerlng Paul Gerrits Baby Rose Marie Al Trahan Barl Hlnes Orch Valyda A Barry. NOW APPEARING RADIO CIT* MUSIC HALL NEW YORK CITY GEORGE PRENTICE HAL MENKEN Placed by LEDDY & SMITH Mao Questel Olvldo Perez Edgar Bergen Co Plcchldni Tr Mack Jack A A' Oriental (22) Jack Powell. '■ Ju Fong Howe Leonard A; A 4 'A Arleys Young Worth A W Ross A Maxlne , Vernon Craig. Ted Cook DETROIT Michigan (20) Duffln A Draper Jack Powell Llazeed Arabs Block A .Bull/ 3 DonnlB Sis ELIZABETH Rltz 1st half Radio Aces Lang A Squires Shuron Du Vrles Co PHILADELPHIA Earle (20) 'Words and Music' <22) Wesley Eddy Sybil Bowah Lee Galls Al Verdi Co Goss A Barrow's- WASHINGTON Eorle (20) .Maldle A Ray Sybil Bowan Walter Dahl Wahl James Molton (22) •Words and" Music* Academy 1st half (29- Elton Rich . Co Morgan A Stone Devlto A Denny- Senator Murphy Long Tack Sam 2d half (3-5). Henry Santrey Rev 2d half (26-28) 4 Gyrals " Roy Rogers ; Earl La Vere DAE Barstow Harry Howard Co BROOKLYN Albee (20) 4 Ortonn Bonny Ross Oracle Barrle Jack Pepper Adler A Bradford (22) 5 Elglns J*. & J Hubert Jack Whiting Hal Shorman Vernllle A Rocky 2 Tllyou 1st half (23-24) 4 Robcyfl Barry Green A W 3 Midnlto Steppers Herble Jeffrey (22) Wilbur Hall Loretta Dennlson Chaney A Fox Lupe Volesi M'r'y A Ch'rl"st'n Lew Hearn DETROIT Fox (20) 3 Cossacks Carter A Hoi Brodel Sis Lupe Velez (22) Edna Sedgwick Bon Berate "Bd N»W BRUNSWICK Keith's 1st half (30-1) Mimic Whirl 1st half (23-24) Dixieland Minstrels TRENTON Capitol . 1st half (23.-26) Moria A Marino Both Miller Michon Bros Nelson's Elephants nt CHICAGO State Lake (24) Tucker A Smith Edith Griffin Joe Frisco Harris 2 A It Jed Dooley LOS ANGELES Orpheum (20) Nolly Tate Jimmy Hadreas Max Lerner Primrose Semon Milt Douglass Page Bros A C Fanchon & Marco NEW YORK CITY Roxy (20) Lewis A Moore Ted A Al Waldman Dawn A Darrqw Dorothy Johnson 3 Jackson Boys Marie Le Flohic LOS ANGELES Paramount (28) , Cotton Club Rev I Les Hlte Ore (21) Max Bradfleld Ore- David Lorenzo Happy Tom A H Klrby' A Duval . . PHILADELPHIA Fox (20) Johnson A Moore Pettet. A Kaye Teree A. Harris Theo Johnson Mickey' C.asslo Ore "Opera Club" Edwlna Morshon Lawrence Salerno Tom . Gentry Orch Jose Rivas Orch. Art Kassel Robert Rpyce Cherle A Tomaslta Coloslmo's Julia Lyons Dorothy Henry Oeronda A Barry Enrico D'Alba Eddie Deerlng Countess Borlska Slgnor Barsonl Art Buckley Bob. Tlnsley Oro Club Alabam Trudy • Davidson Eddie Roth Ore Drake Hotel Slavic Ballet . . Stanley Hickman Biltmore 3 Frances Wilier Harriet LIndgren Ruth Lee The Crusaders Earl. Burtnett Ore Edgewater Bcacti Palmer House Ted Weems Orch Lydla A Joresco Stone A Vernon 4 Calif's Larry Adler Abbott Girls Paramount Faith Bacon Phil White Julia Gerlty Edna- Rush Miss Harriett Pearl Itio Paris (World's Fair) Duncan Sis Moha Leslie Oly'plc Diving Star Jane Frontz Thoyin'e Ore Rain bo Gardens Leon Lavarde Dawn Sis Lyie Smith Orch Alice Rydner Royal Cotton. Club Geo D -Washington Kathryn Perry Esther Todd DeRoiida A Barry Art Carroll i Harry Sosnik Orcb | ^. B » 0 r r we11 Harry's N. X. Bar Joe Buckley Don Penfleld Terrace Gardens Roma Vincent Alnsley Lambert B Germaine LaPlerre Clyde Lucas Ore EDINBURG Empire Roy Fox Bd Stewart A Olive Ivor Vlntor Co as booked Regent Earle A Ascot LEITII Capitol 3 Royccs LIVERPOOL Empire Mrs J Hylton Bd Docampo A Dodge Victor Moreton 3 Loose Screws Rhodes A Stevens Bashful Boys Hugh French MANCHESTER Palace Jack Hylton Bd Huntings Williams A.Lotinga Phyllis Robins Hooper A Farrell Coleman Hawkins 'America Calling* Joe Lewie Jerry Bergen union Fitzgerald La Cabana Eddie Jackson Jackson N A S Kd A A Klnlcy Carlos A Marchan Jackie Beekmnn Chas Strong Ore Leon Si Eddie's Eddie Davis Del Pozo Oro Ron Perry Orch Kuznetzoff A N Savoy-Plaza Freddie. Martin Ore Showboat Casino . (City Island) Ray Goss Castle S1b . Blllle Wolfe Mazone A Keene Ballnda Ransome Joyce A Smallwood Gibson-Wood Ore Show Place Burns A Klssen Jack Waldron. Frances Fay MIsb Harriett Modesca A Mlchels Ben Bernard Slmplon Casino Peppe de Albrew Dick Gasparre Ore Sherry's Harry Bush Ore Mario A Flarlo St. Morltz Hotel Leon Belasco . Orch Vivian Janis Nate Leipzig St. Regis Hotel Vincent Lopesi Ore Medranp A Donna . Sun. &. Surf _ Roger W Kahn Ore Rltz Bros Bobby Sanford Rev Tdft Grill Geo Hall Orch Thwaltes Havana Jockey Ore ... Tuscany Hotel" Bela Lobloy Ore Vonderbllt Hotei Joe Moss Orch Ward A Hopkins Village Barn Anthony Trlnl Ore Beth Challis Eddie Ray Geo McGulre Frances McCoy Josh Medders Sir Jack Joyce 3 Octaves Ruth Delmar Rose McLean Waldorf-Astoria Guy Lombardo Ore Zito'B Ore W'st'ch'Et'r Gardens Meyer Davis Ore -parl o-A.-L-~B.roo.kS ',. WcHtchcfltor Club .Kray A Braglottl Arthur Brown Wlvcl Chfe Amy Atinsan Jack Wick Lillian Lorraine Ami Pavo Maldle Du Frcsne La Salle Orch Zelll's Bob Grant Ore Gbdoy Bd Milton Drjuglas Gloria Grafton Harry Harris Al Wagner Billy Meyers Elmer Schobel Joe Buckley Orch Hi-Hat Club | Sunny Gaer Jimmy Cassldy Effle Burton Rick A Snyder Ruth Barton Dot Meyers' | K-0 Club Billy Brannop Half-Pint Jaxon Ed Casey Ore Leon La Verde Earl Partello' | George Oliver Moroni's Tin Pan Alley Al Sanders Eadle Hayes Crane Sis Vernon Craig Gwen Lorry Barney Gugle. Stuart Wood bridge Floyd TowneB Ore Via Logo Bobby Graham Crane Russell Orch Zlta A Marcelle Jack HOush Wanda Kay Al Handler Bd 225 Club Al Gar bell Edna Leonard Billy Richard Art West (Continued from page 1) gravy list. Eats and flop are pro- vided, also bus fare. With a nut of $18,000 for the race, the promoters, Ed Saunders and George Blakely, can't quite under- stand why the take here is so slim when up north . it proved a socko. The Frisco shot was an indoor af- fair and that's where the differ- ential-figures. Last year a bike race was held at the Winter Gar- den here tinder coyer and didn't do' so badly. Advertising for the stadium event is limited to two-inch ads in the dailies and a few tack cards. It's, the closet thing to being kept the biggest secret hereabouta in some time. Copy puts emphasis on orig- inal Garden cast. Tari runs from 60c general adr mish to saucer-side boxes at $2.20, The latter figure is said- to be doing the fastest turnover. jn. building the saucer, outdoors the boys forgot all about Mother Nature. And what , heck ; she's raising. . Along about midnight the fpg rolls in and the riders are barely discernible to the nude optic. Arid to make matters worse the boards get warped from the wetting and the -bikers slow down to a safe grind. rowd Ploppi Lap prizes for sprints that were hoped for from the picture crowd have not been forthcoming and the; boys have had to dig into their own jeans to turpentine the plodders. The old rassling trick of plopping into the. customers after a spill has even- been invoked but the sport eds have yet to become unduly excited about the cycle act. There was some talk that ' the event is being underwritten . against loss by Warners, who believed the spectacle could be used as a build- up for the next Joe E. Brown pic- ture/ Exclusive shooting rights were taken by the producers, but so far not a scene has been lensed. At that it will save the Warner freres the expense of "building - a track of their own so the invest- ment is not a dead loss. Rolando A Verditta Joan LaMarr LOS ANGELES Biltmore Bowl Renee Villon Crocl A Allen Collins A Wanda Clarke, Gratis A G Virginia Karns Joaquin Gray . Jimmy Grler Ore Biltmore R'dezvous Mel. Ruick's Orb Cafe De Fares Modle A Lamaux Merle Carlson Oro Oocoanut Grove Florence A Alvarez Downey Sis Gus Am helm Ore Cotton Club Harlem Rev Broomfleld A G'ley Dudley Dlckerson Anderson A Taylor Green Gables ' Mclntlre's Hawal'ns. Paris Inn Ship Cafe Geo Redman's Bd The Nineties Will Cowan Rev Pat Harmon Ore Topsy's Dorothy Gilbert Sis Jerry Phillips Bd Pete Pontrclli Ore Rainbow Gardens Gordon. Smith Marge Keely Jack Dunn Bd FRISCO (Continued from page 8) 5,000 Cartoonists (Continued from page 1) l-.loyed at cartooning in the film busi- ness. « Film cartooning is a, highly spe- cialized art and to be entrusted only to those few .Who understand motion and timing. A man may be an excel- lent artist but unless he has the knack .of those requisities he'd be useless to the studio, Fleischer, who represents the car- toon industry on the NRA, is one of the few who made General Johnson reverse a ruling. The keeper of the Blue Eagle, ordered shorter hours for the cartoon men so that more artists would get employment. Fleis- cher -was willing but when it was pointed out that animated cartoon- ists were scarcer than biondes in Africa the general reneged. With double bills being battled, the demand, for short .product, es- pecially cartoons, Is growing but nothing can be done about it until a new crop of animators is har- vested. This is the only known business- where an actual -shortage of man-power is holding back pro- duction. house even though they played four days last week. Biz smash $17,000. Last week's 'Talk It Over' (Radio) with vaude, got. started slowly, but when fight pix came in Saturday blossomed out to good $14,000. Orpheum (F&M) (2,400; 26-40) — 'Affairs of Gentleman' (tT) and 'Orders Is Orders' (U), split* with KFRC's Happy Go Lucky gang on stage. Gross away down to $5,500, with show so long under this new double bill- stage ahoW policy that customers can't be dumped quickly. 'Where Sinners Meet* (Radio) and stage show 'Student Prince,' last week got under $9,000, riot enough Paramount (FWC) (2,400; 25-35- 40)_'Many Happy Returns' (Par) and 'Side Street' (WB), split. Lom- bardo-Burns and Allen in former, helping to average $10,000. Last week 'He Was Her Man 1 (WB) and ^Call^I'tri^ky^^oxOr^Fli'tr^rew $12,000. St. Francis (FWC) (1,600; 25-35- 40)— 'Thin Man' (MG). (2d week) After good $G,000 last week follow- ing big week at the War/ield it's headed for $4,600 thts'n, and okay Warfield (FWC) (2,700; 35-45-65) —'Miss Marker' U'ar) and stage show'. UoJflliiK for l>te $1'2.000. La.st woek 'Dr. Monica" (WB), $17,50.0* 42d St. Cleanup (Continued from page 1) burly shows from the -past city ad- ministration. Apollo has been dark since the musical, 'Take a Chanqe,' played there last summer, and the oper- ators of the Irving Place have been after it since then to go into com- petition with the Republic and El- tinge. Hearing on th conversion of the Apollo into a burlesque thea- tre is not based , on a complaint, according to Moss, the invitation he extended, to the business men and church . group coming only be- cause of his desire to avert trouble affer"Wriic75hW , rs gTametlr^'^"^- J = i Of the 11 theatres on 42d street once devoted' to legit, but one is now operating with that type of entertainment. This is the New Amsterdam, playing 'Roberta,' Wal- lacks, Liberty, Lyric and Harris are playing, grind, pictures and, with the exceptions of the Republic arid I'jltingo, both burlesque, the others are dark, 52 VARIETY \ V • R I At. Tuesday, June 26, 1934 Trade Marie Registered FOUNDED BY SIMK SILVERMAN Published Weekly by YA3IETY, too. Sid Silverman, Prosldent 164 West 46th Street Now York City SUBSCRIPTION Annual, ...... .16 Foreign. ...... .17 Single Copies • 16 Cents Vol. 115 120 No. 2 15 YEARS AGO (From Vabiety and Clipper) Leo Feist given a decision he could collect royalties on Canadian phonograph royalties, suing Graph- ophone. Glen island, Sound amusement re- port, quit trying. To be cut- up for homes. Couldn't buck. Coney. •There were 24 .shows, on B'way and only 6ix put of Leblang's. Inside Stuff-Pictures At the present rate the Code Authority will have to pass upon as many as 40 appeal cases in a single day under new policy which goes into effect next Monday when 10 codlsts will sit as individual chairman four days every week. Through the break-up of appeals hearings the CA expects to complete the records and prepare recommendations for its general body at the rate of 20 a week.. The C. A. is meeting every other week In. general session during the summer. The fact that the NRA holds the CA. as a body responsible for its acts and. those of its appointees would indicate that the short cut on appeals to save time nevertheless will have to be handled seriously. The 10-CoUrt plan was conceded Monday (26) to be' Just a trial propo- sition; failing, something else Will be: tried until a satisfactory time- saver is discovered. To allow themselves plenty of time for deliberation the C. A. will seek a change in code procedure whereby the 15 days now allowed to hand down a decision will date only from the time the Individual committee recommendation has been submitted, rather than from the date on which the appeal is filed with the C. A. The change in handling appeals, which n eared a total of 100 Monday and which weekly are on a marked increase instead of what was orig- inally hoped would be a decrease, restores the CA. as a group to its star chamber status. Press, however, will be admitted at committee hearings four days each week.' Plans made for an early season on the argument that prohibition would drive people into the theatre. Guessed that one wrong< Method of handling labor differences for the film Industry brought praise last week from NRA moguls who commended arbitration work In the office organ, the 'Blue Eagle*. ' Story stressed that every labor controversy has- been successfully ad- justed since pact went into operation but. overlooks -the Elkhart, Ind., theatres dispute which went to the national .labor board for settlement after rulings of Indianapolis regional board were defied. Blue Eagle pointed out that nearly every -agreement negotiated --by arbitration has involved pay boosts and created more jobs: Cases settled affected over 120 theatres, record shows, including- peaceful conclusion of scraps in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York, Houston, San Antonio, and 15 smaller cities. Houston (Tex.) Chronicle editorially attacks the address by a Canadian professor in Columbus, Ohio, who declared: 'Canada's publicly- owned radio system with its planned broadcasting is doing much to unite the far-flung provinces of the Dominion in a national consciousness and a common understanding.' '"' The editorial, with the caption: SOMETHING} ELSE WE DON'T WANT, questions the need of any stimulation of national consciousness, recalling the amount of it already In existence, as demonstrated par- ticularly In 1914-18. 'But the significant thing about the Canadian professor's -view is that the publicly-owned system unites the provinces in 'common understand- ing\ 'Common understanding' of what? We need small imagination to give the. answer: Of those things which the central radio SAithorlty^ named by the central government, conceives to be good' and proper. 'That is to say that a single body will decide the taste of the nation la music and literature, and will go far toward deciding it in ethics and politics: 'We see the process at work in the European countries, in Germany, prior to the triumph of the Nazis, the government speakers were given almost unlimited time on the radio, while the opposition was given very- little time; under nazllsm all show of dividing time with an opposition has vanished. In France the records show much .the same, situation as In pre- Hitler' Germany... And even in Great Britain a heavy weight of radio favorit- ism has been shown In government spokesmen. 'Now It may be that a publicly-owned and governmentally controlled system In the United States could escape, these evils; perhaps our offi- cials would, be so fair and broadminded and far vlsloned.that they could 'be trusted to give ho authoritative slant to .the radio .programs. But the individual American, is. still permitted to doubt that. 'Just incidentally it may be pointed out that American radio probably, has done, more to put great artists on the air than has the radio of any other country; and 'it has done vastly more to put governmental' issues before the people by opposing groups, rather than by any one dominant' group.' Howard Thurston's ' success on .the road brought a glut of two-hour magic shows. England developing a peeve against Victor Herbert's music be- cause he was Irish. Hot tip on a horse, Who Cares, owned by Fred Goldsmith, theatrical lawyer. Ran second and B'way was busted, Everyone bet. A Dr. Benjamin H, Markson' who has been passing 1 bad checks in Clarksburg, W. Va., by claiming he is Ben Markson, the writer. Is still untaught Latest exploit, before police got on his trail, was to give a lecture on films at a college near the town. College invited him. He told residents he was doing a scenario based on life of Thomas J. -'Stone- wall' Jackson, born In Clarkesburg, and another, scenario of the Blue- beard (Harry Powers) case. Clarkesburg newspaper says:. 'Assuring his many admirers he was here in . the imprests- of the RKO studios In New York city, he visited in the best homes of the city and in adjoining towns.' Overseas Theatrical League, to supply entertainment to the A. E. F., folded up. Did a great job, but it was over. Agents hurrying to turn pro> ducers; shortage of acts. Fox wanted to keep Annabella, French star. In Hollywood, but couldn't get a contract release for her from Pathe-Natan. Annabella, generally considered the best b.o. name 'in Europe at the moment, came over here for the' French version of 'Gypsy Caravan', which Eric Charell Is pro- ducing in French and English for Fox. She sailed for France last week. No chance of Howard S. Cullman going into Radio City for the Rocke fellers, according to Rockefeller higher-ups. Unofficial angle is that If there are any jobs around Radio City, the Rockefellers have plenty of people to spot there. Estimated* that $12;000,000 worth of films stolen within a. year, most of them sent to South America. Hot tip that Zukor was to get the Stanley houses. Not so good. Plans In the making for Actors' Memorial Day, Dec. 5. Special mats all over the country for ihe Actors', Fund, A tribute, to the. actors' aid in Liberty Loans and overseas. Under an junusual arrangement the. contract Universal has signed with Polly Walters, currently in 'She Loves i Me Not,' Broadway hit play, the film company has to give the star two Weeks' notice when it wants to have her services. Then she has to notify U as to when she can make it, giving two- weeks' notice. Miss Walters, as a result, may or may not remain with- the' play until the end of its run. Her U con- tract also gives her the option of appearing on the stage during the win- ter season.. 50 YEARS AGO (From piipper) Recent rule at some studios- of keeping agents from roaming the lots, except- when called on appointment, has casting directors and story editors beefing' that the new scheme is costing tho studio*. Added Jack They reason that when agents were allowed carte blanchJ'they offered their lists of available clients with the execs having a wide choice to pick from and thus enabled them to make bargains to the advantage of the film companies. Now, they say, when agents are called, a sale is Immediately sensed and the price goes up. Hagenbeck had a herd of 22 ele- phants at his Hamburg menagerie. Big group for those days. Two very | large bulls. St Louis, variety theatre had a one-hand pianist . He could strike one note in the bass with the stump of his other hand. Newspaper men were invited by Warners in New York to a preview of 'Doctor Monica' last week prior to its opening at the Strand. Sat around waiting awhile; and then a secretary showed up with a worried look. Mordaunt Hall of the Times had phoned, she said, explaining that he was delayed 10 minutes or. so because he couldn't find his rubbers. Publicity department asked the scribes whether they wanted to wait a few minutes longer for Hall. One of the lads chirped, 'No. Let's ad jburn and help Freddie find 'em.' So the picture was started without the Times' man's presence. Six-day walking match In Chicago offered 40%- of the gate to the first five. Others Just got the exercise.] But $1,000 if the record was beaten. A. H. Sheldon, who managed a Bowery theatre, had 384 manu- scripts of plays he had written in his spare time; tudlo publicity chiefs are again pruning their lists of news and mag writers admitted to Coast previews. Follows a meeting of the publicity Hays office group at which a check showed' too many are getting m under the giilse of working scribes. It was agreed that no formal list will be assembled applicable to all studios but that each individual publicity head Will cull his own list Lillian Russell, whose show bust- ed in Switzerland, got a job at the London Alhambra to play in a bur- lesque. Legit femme star recently taken to the Coast by a major company balked on her first call from the studio to be on the lot at 4:30 a. m for make-up tests. Player stated she would never appear at the studio before 8:30 telling the execs, *You pay me so much money that I don't have to get up so early/ Clipper Was beginning to speak of Gus Frohman as Daniel's brother instead of the other way around. Atlantic City hotel was angling for a comic opera troupe to give performances in the hotel. Howard Estabrook, who has been in England working on Metro's 'David Copperfleld,' is profuse in laudation of the Charles Dickens fel- lowship, which headquarters in the author's last abode and keeps up contact with Dickens' admirers throughout the world. He said the or ganizatlon was very helpful in supplying him with data for the script. . . Billy. (Krausmey.er) Watson was | billed as 'The German Dude* in those days. Music festival in' Minneapolis witn a chorus of 1,000 children at the] matinbes. One afternoon the flag- pole above the theatre was strucK | by lightning during a storm. Peo- ple rushed out to avoid fire and back into the theatre to' avoid the rain. Several children were nearly suffo- cated. Due to. a couple of bodyguards and Busby Berkeley's eluslveness, process servers have been unable in two months' time to catch up with him. The Warner dance director is being sued in Los Angeles for $60, .00.0 by Larry jCeballos over use of mirror, sequences, but, Berkeley , has evaded the process men to date. Several days ago Ceballos moved his address to the same apartment where Berkeley resides. While the Wampas contingent was in the Twin Cities (St Paul-Minne- apolis) one of the male members appeared at the. University of Minne- sota Memorial stadium for the electrical pageant Called before the WCCO mike by announcer Al Sheehan to greet the payees assembled, actor merely burped and that Was all. Sheehan came to the rescue with 'I am very sorry to announce that Mr. So-and-So has ptomaine poisoning. RKO's deal for the San Francisco-Los Angeles first run on the Baer- Inside Staff-Radio George Storer, WMCA, New York, operator and head of the American Broadcasting System,' has withdrawn his bid for a half ownership in WIP, Philadelphia. Share that Storer sought to buy was the 60% that the Levy Bros., of WCAU; controlled in the. latter outlet Deal now on is for Gimbel Bros., owner of the other 60% and In whose department, store the WIP studios are located, to buy out the Levy's Interest. To obtain complete control of WIP the Gimbei's are offering the Levya $100,000. Storer elected to duck the proposition after Ben Gimbel insisted that he continue as head of the station and that a Gimbel designee be in charge of WIP's commercial operations. Storer's bid Was $100,000 in cash and $126,000, If the deal were on a time payoff basis. Eddie Cantor explains his Chase & Sanborn contract by stating that C&S has no option on his air services, his deal being with the J. Walter Thompson agency signed in November, 1033, and calling for 13 weeks In 1934, beginning some time in September and no later than Oct. 7. Instead, the Thompson agency last spring, when Cantor's old contract expired, asked the comedian to stay on an extra five weeks with the understanding these five would be deducted from the 13 In the fall. So on Feb. 21, 1934, a modified contract was issued with the understanding that only eight more weeks would be left in the fall on JfTBC following which Cantor shifts to Pebeco on the CBS network at the Same Sunday night 8-9 p.m. hour. * Although the newspaper publisher (St Paul Dispatch and. Minneapolis. Tribune) buyers of WRHM profess they don't know- what they'll do with it, report Is that news beats scored by KSTP and WCCO (St Paul-Mini neapolls) during the recent Minneapolis truck drivers' strike were largely responsible for the purchase. Other angle Is that the publishers were tired of losing want ad lineage to the indie. WRHM had been gobbling everything in sight, running especially heavy on used car ad announcements and similar stuff which in the summer months means heavy gravy for the rags. Once the pur- chase Was made, the new owners wanted no announcement of it until September, but, the hews leaked out. Continuity for Paul Whiteman's Saturday night sustaining pickup at the Blltmore hotel, N. Y., Is being authored through the J. Walter Thomp- son agency. Writer of the sustaining script is Herb Polesle, of the agency's staff, who also handles the continuity, assignment for the Kraft- Phenix program, the Whiteman stanza on NBC Thursday nights. For Polesle's work on the Saturday night affair, which gets a 66- station hookup on NBC and a cross-Canadian link, Whiteman makes his payment direct to the Thompson office. It's the first arrangement of ita kind in network, broadcasting. Understanding within the Hearst organization is that contracts have been closed by Westinghouse for NBC to operate KYW .(Chicago) when this station moves to. Philadelphia. The Westinghouse-NBC agreement presumably eliminates the Levy -Bros. -from- the KYW picture. First request for colored photos of mike personalities came to the net- works from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Paper wants to use them on the first page of ita Sunday supplement Colored photo idea is part of the intense competition current between the Inquirer and the Philadelphia Record over their Sunday screen-radio supplements, NBC ran off on the adding machine: the business it already had con- tracted tor June, July and August, and. found that it was 60% better than the tally prevailing the same, week In 193S. In making a . similar comparison, Columbia estimated a margin at around 80%. Camera fight picture is for $2,600 with the. gross of the houses going over double normal proportions. Circuit decided to hold the film a second week and paid bat $760 for the privilege. 'Through an arrangement with the Lennen A Mitchell advertising agency Mort MUlman is collecting $600 apiece for the Old Gold testi- monials he obtained on his recent visit to Hollywood. Ad series, how running in some -400^ newspapers^^may^have lO- .plcture^names -putting^ their okay to the clg brand. Columbia has grabbed 'Spring $100* as title on a police story previously called 'Police Headquarters'. This was the title of an English play which got a handle change When brought to this country because the play had no police angle and it was deemed might have been confusing to playgoers In New York. Hays office has quietly moved one of its departments into Radio City on the floor directly below Code Authority headquarters. This is the copyright bureau. Gab© Hess, Hays attorney, is now dividing his time between the two offices. ""•■' Tuesday, June 26, 1934 LEGITIMATE VARIETY 53 POP OPERA BIZ TRICKY Actors Miner Club, Teetering, Criticized; Hurts Actors Fund Teetering Actors Dinner Club, which continues this week at Hotel Woodstock, N. T., but Is not certain thereafter, uncovered considerable Criticism against this form of stage charity. It is charged that a minor- ity of recent diners were recognized as legitimately entitled to the gratis meals. .Identity of the others is not given and, although it is presumed that some may belong to show busi- ness, claimed that . others are not qualified at all or have been off the stage for some' time. Decrease in number of paying diners and , shrinkage of cash donations has " placed the Club on the brink of -eclipse. .inner'-Club started as an emer gency measure, and was • lauded for aiding many professionals }n dls- ' tress. It Is now in its third year While there has been no question as to the way the project has been conducted, It appears that abuses have crept, in, blamed on persons habitually on the cuff. , Criticism comes from among those who have supported the pin ner- Club and who continue to hate. They say the club „ cannot continue indefinitely and that pro- fessionals still needy can be more effectively and efficiently taken care of. Reputed plan to commercialize the club as a place, where the pub- lic can see hungry actors eat. is especially decried. Club and other emergency, stage relief projects are claimed to have shaded the original, logical relief agency — the Actors Fund. A move- ment is expected to. be started whereby the Fund would. take. oyer the bulk; if not all, tho relief work. Fund continues to operate, helping professionals here and even sending considerable money to coast indi- gents, but financial support from the public is reported to have been hampered by the emergency agencies. It is pointed out that pros living in outlying districts, such as the Bronx, must expend carfare to reach the Dinner Club. If the stage charity movement is concentrated, It is proposed that such persons be given meal tickets good in their lo- cality, arrangements being made with cafes in various sections of the city. Charged that people coming back to New York after touring in unit shows have immediately sought the free Club dinners. Such applica- tions come principally from chorus boys and, although they have been turned down by Chorus Equity, they somehow And their, way to the tree feed. Equity people explained they did not endorse such applications because it was felt that members who have freshly come in from the road should be able to take care of themselves for a while at least. Also a portion of those getting club meals are no longer eligible for stage' jobs, it is charged. Stage Relief Fund is still func- tioning along constricted lines. Commissary department is also operating, with eatables donated by chain stores and wholesale, grocers. Tent in N.C. Charlotte, N. C. June 25 Bert Bertram Players, stock com- pany spending the summer here last year, is back with tent on location five blocks from center of business section, Will play until cold weather With two bills a week. Opened with 'Mr. Jim Bailey.' American Legion is sponsoring, Gar Austin and his Charlottean Orches tra, local, playing. Admission on par with local pic houses. " IN N. I, 1 6. ON r — : ■ Mope Dimming for Federal Legit Grant on CWA Basis; N. Y. Cuts Down M. B. THl Rifled Box office of the Music Box, N. T., was rifled over the week-end and about $2,600 stolen. • Coin was placed in the steel ticket racks which the thieves opened with hand drills. Money represented the admis- sions tax for Saturday's perform- ances of 'As Thousands Cheer,' also two salaries which had not been paid Saturday. Indications are that the Job was pulled by someone in the know. Tickets were not dis- turbed. 150 Trie* Past Year in U. S. —Most Lost Money — - Hipp.» N. Y., Outstanding Success with $138,000 Profit Morrison's Out COLORFUL SALMAGGI 7 NEW MUSICALS Although Earl Carroll and George White, two of the ever-present names of the past, probably will be among the missing, indications now are that there won't be a dearth of major legit musical producers and productions during the '34-'35 sea- son. If everything now planned iriaterializes, it will be a boom sea son for musicals. Seven musicals of both the'revue and book type, by first line pro ducers, are now . in the works. This is a heavy total for this time of the year, especially Without men- tion of the customary 'Vanities' and 'Scandals.' Max Gordon has a pair of 'em in view, "Waltzes in Vienna' and an untitled revue. Lee Shubert is do- ing 'Life Starts at 8:30,* formerly The Family Album.' Vinton Freed - ley has Billy Gaxton and Victor Moore for a book show by Cole Porter and P. G-. Wodehouse. Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva • and Arch Selwyn have one a piece on the advance schedule. George White last week severed the last tie that bound him to legit (for this season anyway) by turn ing over his Bert Lahr contract to the Shuberts. Lahr, who had been signed by White for a 1934 'Scan dais,* goes into the Shuberts' 'Life Starts at 8:45' instead. He will' make a 1935 edition of Scandals' for Fox Film. HODGSON CLOSES STOCK Hollywood, June 25. Leland Hodgson has closed his Vancouver, B. C, stock company for the summer and is back in Holly ■wood lor picture work. Actor has started in 'The Human Side' at Universal TAKEOVER BY SILLMAN OF DEAL HOUSE COLD Deal for the Deal Conservatoire (New Jersey) was called off last week when its owner-operator, Mrs Dorothy Unterman-Goldberg, de clined to commit the spot for a 10-year period. Idea' of the long term arrangement eame from Leon ard Slliman of 'New Faces,' Fulton, N. T., revue. Spot was formerly famous along Jersey's 'gold coast.' Mrs. Goldberg took it over last year and conducts classes In dancing, fencing and other arts. A resident group of players appeared in the 200-seater last season, but it is now proposed to use the little theatre for . try- outs, Before deal fell through for this season a dozen spacious master bed- rooms were completely refurnished and^were-to-be=used-by==the~aGtor.s On a plot of about five acres the Conservatoire was originally the Horgan estate, designed by. Stam- ford White. Present theatre was formerly the ballroom. When the place changed ownership it became a cafe, first known as the De Lisle and later the Braxton Club. It is about midway between Long Branch and Asbury Park. From June to June (33-34) there were approximately 160 pop opera tries around, the country, the at- tempts averaging three per week. Very few are reported having been successful, but there were two standout money makers— the Hip podrome, N. Y., under- the direction of Alfredo Saimaggi, and the recent coast operatic tour, conducted by his 42nd cousin, Fortune Gallo. : During nearly ' one solid year of 99c top opera the Hipp netted a profit of $138,000. Gallo's jaunt to the west made $63,000 in li weeks but he spent' $23,000 in railroad fares and came back to Broadway with a neat 20 G's in his kick Saimaggi, % whom they call maes tro, has been in and out of the Hipp and all those excursions into other territory were costly he virtually lost his 'shirt in each of them. He started at the Hipp on. a tor rid June 3 last year and continued, well into December. It was during that time that the house made most of its profit. Teaming of Saimaggi, who is careless with money, and Cecil Mayberry, former picture dis- tributor who operates the house, is a winning combination. When Saimaggi went to other parts there was a continuous stream of aspir- ing impressarips going in and out of Mayberry^s office. One was Humberto Fugazy, former fight pro moter who tried opera at the Hipp this spring and lost $21,000. It is clear as a result of Sal- maggi's experiences that pop opera can only be operated successfully where, there is considerable foreign element in the population, espec- ially Italian. But the presenter must have something on the ball. How pop opera can fiiv out of town and how Saimaggi repeatediy flopped — nine times — may be seen from the record: Five times in Hart- ford; four times in Boston; three times in Providence; twice in Rich mond, and twice in Atlanta. Ex cept for the first time in the latter spot, all the other tries were more or less in the red. Prior to coming to New York last summer Saimaggi had an ex- citing time at Soldier's Field. His pop opera there grossed over $100, 000 but he couldn't pay off. Passes The Salmaggl-May berry combo, which started operating again Sat- urday (23) at the Hipp, announced that the lower floor tickets would be 60c, lowest price yet for opera. However, there arc some, rows at 99c— as many rows as the demand calls for. Something like 30,000 passes were distributed in outlying sections. Different colors are used for each locality. Last June at the debut about 11,000 ducats were similarly distributed, several small riots around the box office result- ing, there being capacity inside. Same thing is expected this week, the ducats not being good the first three days. Showmen paid little attention to the opera thing at the Hipp when it started but later perked up upon learning— how— the^coln=wa»v- coming in. It was figured that the popular- ity here of pop opera was based on the fact that it offered lower floor scats to people who could only af- ford the gallery at the Met. How- ever, the Hipp has a class clicn- telle, too, the gallerltes sticking to the habit of going upstairs— for two bits. House claims a mailing list (Continued on page 64) Charles Morrison, legit and vaude agent; has changed his mind about putting in 'Saluta,' which Will Mor- rissey has been trying to plant for •some- time. * Claims the b.r. was in sight okay, but that he decided to stick to his own field. It's bad enough being an agent, much less going producer,' Morrison explained. BOWLING GETS ST. JAMES THEATRE Actor-manager Eddie Dowling taken over the St. James, N. Y., un der rental for. a three T year period and has a starting production list of half a dozen plays. House, which was originally Erlanger's, reverted to Vincent Astor about two years ago when taxes were unpaid and Interest on bonds with a par total of around $760,000,. was not paid. Last year the estate of A. L. Er- langer requested that the house change its name, so that there be no confusion with Erlanger interests, also to shadow the totality of the venture's redness. House, built at a time when it looked like Erlanger would lose the New Amsterdam, cost more than $1,000,000. Bonds were mostly floated in the South. Because of the high, cost of con- struction, house had to gross big money to be profitable. Few at- tractions there operated In the black. Same building program in which Erlanger was concerned at about the same time included legit houses in Buffalo, Atlanta, Phila- delphia and Chicago. MarcUs Hel- man bought in on the string when lie left the vaudeville field. In depression times, with plenty of theatres available, the St. James was regarded as one of the best houses on Broadway, from an op erating standpoint, because the fixed charges had virtually been eliminated when the property went back to young Astor. Its capacity of over 1,500, including a gallery, allows for flexibility in booking, house being adaptable for musicals or straight plays; one reason why Dowling took it oyer as a produc- tion base. He has established of- fices in the theatre. Dowling has hot dropped his po- litical plans and is a candidate for the U. S. Senate from Rhode Island oh the Democratic ticket. He is opposed by Peter Geery, reputed to be worth $20,000,000. But that doesn't worry Dowling,- he says. Deal for the theatre lease was handled through Lpdewick Vroom, who has been representing the As- tor interests. Vroom is taking over the operation of another Broadway theatre: Revived hopes that federal coin will be forthcoming so that the Civil Works Administration drama project giving free shows operating in New York can be expanded to 50 units for appearances in Civilian Concentration Camps in many parts of the country, appeared somewhat dimmed during the week. From Washington it was indicated that ear t marking of money set aside for other relief purposes, particularly that designed especially to mitigate the drought in the middle west, could not be readily assured. - In New York the number of shows , under CWA direction may be de- creased so that the outlook is for less summer federal employment for show people, rather than any material increase,, unless there: is a change at the capital. The Company of actors which played school auditoriums mostly in Nassau County, Long Island, has suspended after playing for more than one year. Proposed similar outfit for Westchester never eventu- ated. Nassau troupe was under the State Recreational and Belief bu- reaus, under the general head of the Board of Education. Understood the state, deoided that direct home relief" was more eco- nomic than furnishing employment, Nassau players, most of whom re- side in Freeport, started on the basis of $18.50 weekly wages, which were later slightly tilted. Project, however; was regarded as having aided relief Work. Admission was charged and the takings in total turned over to local relief funds in the communities .played. Continued" CWA shows during the summer, which are transferring to portable stages for presentation in New York's public parks, is, how- ever, participated in by the state recreational and educational agencies. Understood the state pays one-third of the. expense. 'Divided by Three,' as Written by Two Wives Title chosen for the first play, collaboration by Beatrice Kaufman (Mrs. George S.) and Margaret =be'ech— £Mrsr--=Ra-lph= ^Pulitzer) —-Is. 'Divided by Three.' Play is a com edy drama and first on the produc tion schedule of Guthrie McClintic for the new season. Feminine lead for 'Three' has not been decided on. Play Is 'due for re- hearsal late in August when the man- ager rf- turns from Europe. Sails today (25) with his wife, Katharine Cornell. EQUITY AMENDMENT BATTLE CONTINUES Referendum ballots on the closely contested proposed amendment to Equity's constitution whereby mem- bers in arrears, of dues for not more than one year would be ellgble to vote on all proposals at general meetings, will not be sent out to members until late next month. Equity leaders expect the ballots to' be returned and the result decided by the middle of August. There is no. special hurry to send but the ballots, since there will be no gen- eral meeting until autumn. Vote On the amendment, proposed by the younger or liberal group that recently sprang up in Equity, was a highlight of the association's annual meeting. Chair first announced that the amendment was rejected by a vote of 116 to 114. • There were im- mediate demands for a recount, so ballots: were drawn up and distrib- uted, the vote being counted at Equity's offices the next day. It was first announced the amendment was adopted 121 to 120, but the vote was later declared a tie, because over the week-end It was discovered that one vote . against, which was voided, was ruled to be valid. Referendum method, whereby the entire paid-up membership votes on the proposal rather than the com- paratively few members at the meeting,., was then decided on by Council. Peggy Wood Try erout Hollywood, June 25. 'The Closed Room' gets a tryout at Ogunquit, Maine for two weeks starting July 23 with Peggy Wood in the lead. Author is Patterson Greene, bno time L. A. Examiner music critic* Miss Wood will take tho show to New York in the fall if it proves okay. 54 irAkiETY LEGITIMATE Ttiesdaj, Jane 26, 1934 Boston Sets Dp Five-Month Grant For Free Legit; 142 Proffesh Jobs At liberty worries will be oyer for at least five months for 142 legit actors* directors, dance, costume, make-up and scenery people under a' new community drama program here financed by an ERA grant; Members of the. group, who are eligible for the jobs only if profes- sionals, residents of' Boston and jobless, . will be divided, into .two .professional companies of 50 mem 7 bers each, and the balance. will-' or-' ganlze "and direct 15 amateur, com- munity drama groups in suburbs. Pay . is not announced, but it is ex- pected to he . about $20 and $30 weekly, the. same scale paid to art-' ists under, the PWA programs throughout the country. General direction - will be under Miss Clara . 13. Wagner, Tiead of the dramatic department of Community Service, a co-operative charitable and public service outfit, .which for a year has" operated recreational programs for unemployed of all sorts. City .paric department. Will co-operate. Two pro companies, will - make two-night stands; free to the public, in olosed • theatres, .municipal audi- toriums, and other spots in various suburbs, on a repertory basis. ERA did not incliide any . coin for royal- ties in its grant, so modern plays' are out, and stuff produced will be Wilde, Ibsen;; Mollere, etc: Miss Wagner, /however; is dickering with some playwrights for gratis use Of their modern stuff 'on ..the basis It would be a fine charity and a serv- ice to the profession. ■Community Service also will . set up a play-reading committee which will- Invite submission of works of Boston authors. If the scripts, pass the board, they will be tried out by the ..two pro groups. How a scribe will be paid if his opus is produced is not announced. Local suburban committees al- ready set up for other phases of recreational programs, will drum up trade for. the nabe- dramas. . *•' Call is for 100 actors and actresses, 15 community, director-organizers, 2 directors of the pro groups, 9 dance directors, 6 costume design ers, 2 scenery makers, 2 costume Makers, 2 lighting experts, 2 make up experts, 2 research workers and 2 stenos. Office space and services of Miss Wagner are donated. 'Bay Tree* Has Its Grief, but It Opens San Francisco, June 25. Louis Macloon -Lucille Ryman's production of 'Green Bay Tree' ran into housing as well as casting diffi- culties, and show finally Opened at the Columbia last Friday night (22) after a previous June 19 schedule for the Kamokila theatre* Fire department, turned Miss.Ry- ihan down on a permit for the Ka- mokila, saying it.cquld be okayed., only as a non-commercial theatre, as. which it : was previously operated. Macloon made a hurried deal ylth' Ralph Pincus and opened it at the Columbia then.. . Macloon is on Equity's 'mustn't tough'- 'list, as a, result of which sev- eral' Equity people , dropped out, al- though other members still are in the' cast. ATLANTIC CITY LOOKS FOR A TOP SUMMER Equity Softens Muir's Exile; Summer Work OK Pinal chapter in the serial de- velopments of the case of Gavin Muir, who Was suspended by Equity for six months for holding the cur tain at the last road performance of 'Dangerous. Corner' in Washing ton last February.' Council at last week's session somewhat mitigated the ban, permitting the. actor to ap pear in summer try -. outs. Understood that the several new councillors who are of the younger group in Equity went to bat for Muir. They .contended , that' the penalty was severe' in view of ,the actor's belief that he, was doing the right thing in demanding an extra week's salary (amount was $200 which he refunded). That he did not transgress the proprieties in the matter' of sobriety w.as also stressed, although suspended as long as an other actor -who. was .intoxicated on the job. It was also stated , that if Muir Were denied the try-out rights his chances of securing an engager ment for the next season might be impaired. Muir's suspension otherwise ex tends to August 27. He was also fined $100, which he is permitted to pay at the rate of . $5 weekly next season, when working. He is re- hearsing with a play tentatively called 'Gangway,' -being tried out next week at SufCern, N. Y„ by Bela Blau. Miller for Congress Hollywood, June 25, Charles Miller, Equity rep on the Coast, will be a candidate for Con gress from the Fifteenth (Holly wood) .district. Miller, who' is also Coast repre sentatlve for the Actors' Fund of America, will make the ran on the Democratic ticket. Atlantic City; June 25. ' With all three legit theatres lighted for the. first time in years, with dog racing coming June -2S in :he Municipal. Auditorium, and every pier with bigger shows than ever, this resort is looking forward to a revival of its. old-time popu- larity. The Chamberlain Brown Players are occupying the Earle wltlv guest stars each- week and,, while dollar top prevails, All- 1.&00 seats are filled nightly on 'advertising' passes' plus 25c. At the Garden Pier, which Charles Purcell has leased for the Season, 'The (jhocolate Soldier', with De Wolf Hopper .and Ruth Altman, will open tomorrow (Wednesday). Joe Qultner is running, burlesque at the Globe. Ralph Wonders is staging the Poor shows at the Carlton Terrace, adjoining, the. Ritz,. where he has Stoqpnagle. and Budd, William O'Neal, Gypsy Nina and Isham Jones' orchestra. Ethel Waters is making a stand at the Atlantic City Casino. Town lias taken on a new lease of life with repeal, The Ambassador has set a horse shoe bar, while the Ritz is featuring a 'merry-go- round' bar, where the bartenders do their stuff inside a . circle ringed with hobby horses. Patrons sip their drinks while they ride round and round to the tunes of a hurdy- gurdy. Shortened O'Neill Story about a week-end hotel booking upstate (N. Y.) tells of a 35-mlnute version of "Strange Interlude,' the drama, that ... consumes five hours in performance. When the- curtain dropped the proprietor yelled for more. Leading man replied that couldn't be. done. because drama required much memorization and no 'business' could be In- terpolated, Mill-Type Artie Newark, June 25. Frank Carrlngton won over the Millburn township board- to allow him to turn the old paper mill on Brookside Drive Into ah art theatre and center: It will be built by the Essex Repertory Theatre, successor of the Newark Art Theatre. Joseph P. Day, realtor, has .. off ered land near the new theatre for parking. The stage will be housed In a fireproof building simulating a grist mill while the theatre;, offices, etc., will occupy the present mill. 12 CWA Shows Slated for N Y.; Call Off Tatsy esplte reports of cutting down on- the number of gratis legit shows under, the. direction of the Civil Works Administration, CWA head-? quarters in New York states that 12 companies are slated to go .through the summer in N. Y. Yet ''The, Pasty,' regarded as : the prize play Of the group, was suddenly ordered off and will be. replaced by 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' There are two, reasons given for the yanking of 'The Patsy,' which was selected as the best example of CWA shows proposed for the. Civilian Concentration C a m p s throughout the country. 'Patsy* players were sent to Washington last month for one performance - at the National Press Club before ,CCC administrators. When the fleet was in it was presented aboard the Langiey, air-craft carrier that was anchored at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. During the performance It was reported that George Junkln, head of the. CWA drama department, came aboard with newspaper photographers, but when the latter started to snap flashlights officers protested. It was state that cans of gasoline were on the deck and, particular, care was exercised to avoid igniting them. It seems that Chandos Sweet, director, of the show, also protested to Junkln, say- ing that the flashlight work should be done at Intermission so as not to interrupt the performance. CWA explained that the 'Patsy/ had played out Its time, ^ going . off for that reason. However, it dropped out of the bookings im- mediately after the reputed Lang- ley incident, Junkln was not in the city this week and those lrt the CWA office appeared to know noth- ing about the flashlight dispute. ' Shows were slated to start out-, door performances in New York parks this week, but the opening date is not definite. Reason is that the portable stages have not been completed because requisitions for required Hardware had not been productive. No explanation for the delay, except red tape. Net Opera Condemned by Fire Dept, Some Talk of Moving Next Season Singer Gets $29,445 In Accident Suit Syracuse, N. Y., June 25. Deane H. Spaullng, roadway tenor, and professor In the departs ment' of music, Long island Uni- versity, wjm a $29.445.1,0 verdict against Earl E. Simpson, owner of. the Simpson Transport Linos of this city, , at the trial of his $150,000 damage suit growing out of an auto accident two years ago. Spauling :was struck;. by a. Simp- son truck while cleaning snow from, the windshield of his parked car at 3 a.m. on Nov. 25, 1932, near Mycenae. Singer was hurled 20 feet. He suffered 12 rib fractures, punctured lung, concussion- of the brain and a heart displacement. Actor appeared both in musical comedy and vaudeville 'until th;e ac-' cident. PIC RIGHTS ON FIRST FRANKWYN PLAY SOLD Picture rights for 'The Old Folks at Home* which is the first play on the production schedule of the newly formed Frankwyh company (Arch Selwyn, Harold B. Frankln, and C. B. Cochran) have been sold In Eng- land. Purchase price was $46;000, with. Frankwyn in for'one-third. ' • Moss -S toll who presented the play in London are not participants in the picture money, author H. M. Har- wood having retained total film lights/ That is at variance with the American custom, where the produce er gets 50% of the picture coin if. the show runs three weeks or niore. Deal between Harwood and Selwyn accounts for the American producers being declared in. Arthur Hopkins will have one- third Interest in the' stage presenta- tion of 'Old Folks' over here and. he with the author, will direct, rehears- als starting Aug. 6 and show due in- to the Plymouth early in September. Frances Starr is. the probable . lead, deal with Blllie Burke having virtu-, ally fallen through. Miss Burke was offered 10% of the gross, producers balking when she held out for a guarantee of $1,500 weekly. Frankwyn's plans, for a recital form of revue for Lucienne Boyer are taking form. Her part of the performance will .consume about, an hour, solo. Escudero, Spanish dancer, will also be a specialist, with several Parisian novelties. Future Plays ! The Voice Within/ dramatiza- tion by A. W. Pezet of C. T. Revere's novel, 'Hands as Bands,' Will be produced by Franklin and Stoner early in September after an out-of-town tryout. 'La Voie Lactee,' under new title, not announced, will be tried at the Red Barn Theatre, Locust Valley, L. I., by Arthur Hanna and James Nellson. Play Is John Van Druten's adaption, of Alfred Savotr's play about Sacha. Gultry an ert at the Davidson in Milwaukee shortly after July 4. Will have Edna Hlbbard for his name attraction. Irst play scheduled Is ' ilor Be- ware.' Pop Qpera Biz (Continued from page 53) of 24,000 opera fans- who generally attend at least , once -weekly. Salmaggl showed his ..personal stuff recently, the incident being a reaction to the flop at Hartford, whore some alleged mobsters went for $5,000. They swore. they would give the Imprcssarlo 'the works* and five of them came to the Hipp, asking for 'that long haired so and so/ House management tried to have Salmaffgl 'scoot. Instead he replied: 'Send them in, I'll take, dare of. this business.' One hour later the visitors came out with their arms around Sajmaggi. de- claring him "a" great guy and ex- pressing willingness to go for an- other chunk, of coin 'with him. There is as much temperament back stage .at the Hipp as at tho Met, perhaps more so with the or- chestra mostly Italian and liable to kick 1 up : a rumpus at unexpected moments.. Two strong arm stage cjobrmeri are on the job to keep qut' crashers and It Is a trick to control the ' back stage people, there- being- -200 for some shows, mostly extras. The pitmen nearly broke up one matinee recently. Each had bet a quarter in a pool on the Kentucky- Derby and demanded 1 ' to be paid off' at Intermission time. Hipp has scenic settings for 31 operas and can chose from some 10,000 costumes. With costs pared awaydown, the presentations are feasible despite the cheap admission prices. But the cost of transporta- =tion5=to^out=of-=town--polnt.s-is^the.= reason . why such dates were un- profitable. Gallo took the biggest gamble, jumping a company of 60 warblers' from New York to San Francisco. He discontinued in Colorado and brought the outfit back. Gallo opera dates were, gen- erally at $2.20 top. Salmagcri-Maybei-ry duo also has 'Moses.' described ns an opera- pasoant, which is dated for the Coliseum. K. Y, July 14-15. Tuesday, June 26, 1934 LEGITIMATE VARIETY 55 CHI CLEAR OF ALL LEGIT Inside Stuff-Legit Equity's 'financial, statement shows Improvement. Not In Increased revenues, however, but In reduced operating loss. .• For the year ending March 31, 1933, the association operated at a loss of $9,000. Income was $116,729 while expenses totaled $125,787. Loss for. the year ending March 81, 1934, was less than $1,000. Revenue totaled $104,366, while expenses were $106,187, During that fiscal year Equity's paid up membership dropped about 26% and the present total in. good standing is 2,100. Slicing of salaries amounted to $12,000 in the past year, and during the last four years $54,974 has been lopped off the salary account. Frank Gillmore, in giving out the figured, said: If anyone asks why these econ- omies were not effected earlier, I can only say that you cannot run an organization "of 12,000 members for the same amount* of money or with the same number of employees as you can an organization of 4,000, half of whom are not paid . up. We reduced expenses to keep pace with our falling membership/ Back in. 1632 There Was Only One Legit Show in Chi — Nothing in Prospect Until September The late Hal Skelly was a licensed airplane pilot; During the run of 'Burlesque' (1927) Skelly was on salary and percentage and garnered a b.r., show averaging $31,000 for months. He took up flying and bought a plane, making week-end flights as far as St, Louis. When friends feared hie might not return In time for the Monday curtain he always replied he|d make It and did. Skelly never had a plane crack-up. Obituaries mentioned 'Burlesque,' the show, but failed to state that Skelly's stage start was acting in burlesque. He played Columbia Wheel shows for. at least six years, appearing in the late Bert Baker's 'Bon Tons' and in Max Spiegel attractions. In the Columbia shows Skelly was a juve, second comic and hoofer. James Reilly, in charge of Charles Frohman, Ihci for Paramount since the withdrawal of Gilbert Miller several years ago, will move his quar- ters from the Empire, New York, to th^ Par building. House was under rental to Par, but last year the picture, firm's receivers disafflrme'd the lease, and the Frohman offices continued . in . the. former Frohman strong- hold. Frohman, owns the rights in whole or part to .^60 plays, there being some, revenue from the scripts almost continuously, with the film rights occasionally disposed of. Frohman entity will not be discontinued, although Reilly may receive other assignments in the Par home office. LEGIT ERRORS 1 went into, this show to avoid going into summer stock,' said an actor in the cast of 'Caviar,' Forrest, N. T., 'but they put on a new ver- sion here, too, every night. Forrest hotel bar, which connects with this theatre lobby, got an excellent play from 'Caviar' audiences and the players also spent coin there nightly after the performance. Because Of the bar adjunct, attraction received 86% of the gross. But show closed Saturday (23). James Barton added weight to the theory that a good comedian is often a good dramatic actor when he stepped into 'Tobacco Road' in New York last week, succeeding Henry Hull, Comic's enactment of the back country cracker appeared fully comparable to Hull's performance, rated among the best of the season. Barton's performance opens up the field of legit for him, as did Wal- ter C. Kelly's first show appearance last season in 'Both Your Houses.' Alfredo Salmaggl, the pop Opera impresario at the Hippodrome, N. Y„ has 306 cousins, all living in Brooklyn. He makes them all put it on the line for tickets but gives free ducats to strangers. Last fall when he was at the Hipp he bought 13 raincoats on a cold rainy afternoon and gave them away. Several went to house employees, the others to unknowns who looked like they needed the coats. Broadway legit ads list three 'prize' plays. 'Men -In White' heralds itself as the Pulitzer prize winner, 'She Loves Me Not' is the Dramatist Guild Prize Comedy of 1934, according to the ads, &nd 'Are You Decent?' asserts itself as 'the public's prize play'. BROADWAY REVIEW Her Majesty the Widow Comedy In three nct.s, presented at the JUtz June 18 by Paxillne Frederick and Wee and Leventhal; -written 'by John Charles Brownell;' staged by Mlra Frederick, who 1b starred. Snrah Grayce Hampton Jnne Seymour Pauline Frederick Judge Coolldge ....Alexander Campbell - Kobert-Sey.mour. . . . .Thomas Beck 'Bunny* Williams .......Frederick Bell Veronica Day. .Isobel Withers Elsie Reynolds.. ........ Lauretta Bulllvant Potor Stuyvesant... Charles Mitchell Harris 'Her Majesty' has been traipsing around the country since May of last year, when it was presented in Lbs Angeles by and with Pauline Frederick. Never a show for met-, ropolitan fare, it nevertheless served the former stage -film star well enough to satisfy her ^propensities for trouping. Coming to Broadway on the eve of summer, it figures to register light grosses, but is geared to operate that way; On her own most of the way, booking Independent theatres and UBO houses, Miss Frederick Origi- nally had another play called 'Amber,' which alternated with •Majesty.' She evidently" liked the latter better, or it best suited her. Coming East she finally made ar- ^JCangements-Jwith=JffieA^jm4 -JLjSV-I&l thai to operate the show in their rotary stock spots. That means that with the system of 'passes' and other reduced fare tickets, sizable, although distinctly middle class, au- diences are drawn. Original cast had several, male Players better known than those how appearing, but tlio feminine contin- gent is intact — Lauretto Bulllvant, Isolicl Withers and Grayce Hamp- ton. As a matter of fact the girls distinctly outplay the boys in 'Her Majesty.' John Charles -Brownell, who au- thored it, has done better work. Play has that a.k. atmosphere, that rules it out for real coin. ' Box office doesn't even have the usual admis- sion price schedule posted, so that the customers presenting 55c Oak- leys won't be confused. Story is that of a middle-aged widow who aims to protect her son from a designing female, planning to wed " the lad", latter ditching the nice girl to. whom he Is engaged. Both are invited for a visit and into the picture, too, is the now famous fiddler, her real love of 23 years back. Of course, =the widow wins, son turning back to the right lass and mother getting the guy she never should, have permitted to walk. Miss Frederick has chosen a part that fits this stage of her career. She didn't look so well In black, a frock of red being much more be- coming. Itee. &F. 'Juliet' Opens Well; 7th Week for 'Drunkard' San Francisco. June 25. Conrad Nagel and Violet Heming In 'There's Always Juliet* opened quite Well for Henry Duffy at the Curran. Will do two weeks before heading for Los Angeles. Show Jtowing^goj^ccjmnent,^la^ ences and good business, consider- ing it was opened on very short notice. 'Green Bay Tree,' which Louis Macloon was to have opened at the Kamokila on June 19, was put back to the 22d at the Columbia when fire department nixed the tiny Kamo- kila as. a commercial theatre. 'Drunkard' is into Its seventh ■week at the Palace hotel and going groat guns. Chicago, June 26. For the first time in the history of Chicago as an incorporate, ' town is to be entirely clear of any and all legitimate attractions. For sev- eral weeks now It has been struggling along with two shows, 'All the King's Horses' and 'Big Hearted Herbert.' 'Horses' folded on Saturday. (23) -after a. long at- tempt to struggle through, and 'Herbert' will fade this coining Sat- urday <30). Back in 1832 there , was only one show In town, and that was because there was only one house, the Sau- ganash Opera. House and the pro- duction in the theatre ran all sum- mer. ' In 1930 there was- a hulla- balloo in Chicago because there was only one production in town, 'Sis- ters of the Chorus/ Condition of only one show lasted from July .23 to August 3, with Mae West arriv- ing in 'Sex' on the latter date. It appears that the loop will; be legitiess this year for at least two months; next attraction being fig- ured on is 'Ziegfeld Follies,' due some time in September.. Margaret Anglin is being discussed as a like- lihood with 'Fresh Fields/ but that's largely discussion. Transition Meanwhile the loop legit pos- sibilities have steadily decreased as the picture Interests moved into one legit house after another. They have cleared Randolph street of all legit houses, taking the Colonial, Apollo, Woods- and Garrlck in suc- cession. They have taken the Adel- phi and the Princess. Those left are the Grand, Erlanger, Black- stone, Harris and Selwyn, five legit houses for the whole of the Chi- cago metropolitan area. Legit actors and, managers are now going to rise up and howl that the picture companies ruined legit by taking their houses. That's just an alibi. Picture people moved In only .after the houses had been dark for months. . Garrlck, for Instance, as a legit house, was old, with bad seats, poor ventilation and no cool- ing system. Legit did nothing to make customers comfortable. Pic- ture people moved in, put In new seats, new decorations, cooling plants and a flash marquee. That all comes' under the head of show business, but legit managers seem to have the 1890 type of showman- ship. They have' been putting on their shows with a take-it-or- leave-lt attitude, messing up their business with cut-rates and two- for-ones so that the public lost all respect for them. Competish Essential Besides that It is now accepted by better showmen that it's im-. possible for one or two legit shows to operate alone In a town as large as Chicago. It is accepted that com- petition is the life blood of any business catering to the public. When there are eight or nine, or a dozen, shows in town people get legit-minded and. go downtown to select their evening's show. If they don't like one they like another, but every show benefits. With only a couple of shows in town if the pub- lic doesn't care for those two there is no other show they can go to; so they go around to the corner pic- ture house. Estimates for Last Week 'All the King's Horses,' Grand (M-1,207; $2.75). Closed on Satur- day after six weeks of struggle, los- ing coin most of the way. Finished Under $7,000. . 'Big Hearted Herbert/ Cort n every admission ticket. How They Collect Taxes in France; Niteries 33% June 16. collector, who" takes more than 33% of nitery grosses, came close to forcing Ambassadeurs to shut down recently. After fast opening receipts dropped, and place started running, behind in tax payments. Collector sent a blacksuited gent looking like an undertaker to stand nightly at the. cash drawer and pull in the French Government's share first. Clement Hobsbn, proprietor, figured that if this went on he'd have to close Up as a protest, if for no other reason. Then receipts picked up, and things looked rosier. Ambassadeurs figures cashing in on Paris season, now beginning with extensive ballyhoo, and has arranged a series of galas, including Grand Steeplechase dinner, air gala, fashion teas and the like. Floor show will go on to June .30, when present bookings end, and spot will thereafter go on showless. Dr. Graf to Phffl r Prague, June 14. Dr. Herbert Graf, chief director of opera of the new German the- atre here, has been called to Phila- delphia to hold a similar position In the opera Of the Quaker City, which in the next season will be under the musical direction of Fritz Reiner. Dr. Graf ends his connection with the Prague New German theatre with the musical management of a star and scenic presentation of Handel's oratorio, 'Joaua,' in which 700 persons participated. PARIS LIT UP INH0TCHA Paris, June 16, They want to make this town one blaze of light all night long during the Paris ballyhoo season which commences today. . To make this easier the electric light company is giving a 60% reduction on all cur- rent consumed by cafes, restaurants and theatres during the ballyhoo period until July 8. Everybody will be supposed to keep his place ait tip until dawn and his . customers, as well. Special illumination will be used on the Champs Ely sees to light up each tree Individually. Lamps will be hidden among the leaves. Fireworks and illuminated foun- tains at Versailles Sunday (17) will be one of the big opening numbers of the fetes. A'he Lole Fuller dancers will go on in the open air in the evening, with a background of pinwheel and floodlights. SYDNEY LEGIT BIZ IS OKAY 'Maloiies' Okay Melbourne, June 25. Sir Benjamin Fuller's production of 'Merry Malones,' with Polly Walker re-creating her original Broadway role opened here Satur- day (23) to good success at the Pal- ace. Other Americans in the cast are Florenz Ames and his wife and Bob Caperon/ Fullers are to do 'Billie' next. Sydney, May 29. Legit trade remains at a very nice level here. 'Ten- Minute Alibi' came In for W-T and looks. like de- veloping. Production has been given a very lavish mounting, and the acting is very high class. Cast includes George Thlrlwell, Thelma Scott, and Arundel Nixon. 'White Horse. Inn' Is still a smash hit, and TKi Barry' continues a good run. "Fresh Fields' Is currently playing in Melbourne with 'Colllt's Inn.' Early In July F. W. Thring will produce 'Mother of Pearl' with De- lysla in the leading role. Thring will also produce The Beloved Vagabond' and 'Colllt's Inn' in Sydney next June. Activities in the legit field haven't been 00 bright in many years. Cowboys Talking German Circuses in Hitlerland Advertise Owning 'Genuine Negroes' Nazi Government Trying to Breathe New Life Into Rapidly-Dying Legit Reinhardt's Production Plans for Europe-UA Paris. June 16. Before Max Bernhardt goes to Hollywood to put on a legit version of Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream' for the benefit of the coasters, he will do several shows here. His immediate European plans are an open-air production of 'The Mer- chant of Venice' In Venice. Then 'Faust' and 'Everyman' at Salzburg. That will clean up the summer, after which he goes to Hollywood. Reinhardt wants to put on "Mid- summer Night's Dream' here In French, at the Plgalle, when he gets back from America. LONDON GOES BALLET; THREE TROUPES DATED Literacy Via Pix (Continued from page 1) movement to increase the literate population of the participating countries. Subsidies are said to, have been promised by the govern- ments. It is pianned to have projection facilities jnounted on^ trucks and "WoVe^onT"tbwltn^ where pictures have never been shown before. Acting on the theory that .it is less difficult for illiterate minds to' absorb and retain what they see in contrast to scholastic order of . schooling, the various na- tions are concentrating on films to be made especially for the purpose; The organization has been func- tioning for four years. London, June 16. London has suddenly become Russian ballet conscious. More ballets' will be running here simul- taneously, than ever before in the near future. , Biggest is the Monte Carlo ballet, which opens at Covent Garden June 16. Since their last American visit ballet has been elaborated, with several Americans added. Now a company of 108, which is biggest aggregation-^ever ^assembled. — Sev-= eral new features will be introduced, while the best of the Diaghileff cre- ations are being retained. Sir Oswald Stoll Is also bringing over a ballet for the London Coli- seum. This is a much smaller affair now playing Paris, and assembled by La Nljinska, sister of the Rus- sian dancer. Opening date likely about last week in June. Hamburg, JUne . 15. You 'haven't really lived until 3 Du've heard a cowboy speaking Ger man!. Anything with a big hat and hairy chaps is a cowboy in this man's circus world and they're a sad lot, Sharpshooters, trick riders and fancy ropers, all would make an honest cowboy die of laughter. Circus business got off to a good start here early, but the. ralrt and the cool nights of May and June didn't drive 'em in droves to buy the pasteboards. Hence it is a little dull pickingr~=^ ™=™=— ^ One. of the biggest outfits on the German road 1b the Zirkus Krone It is a representative outfit and thus far has succeeded in getting moving money together. Outfit carries 160 artists and roustabouts and some 600 animals and travels in its own train. It boasts of a couple- of -'genuine Ne groes,' Fifteenth Month For 'Chris Bean And Still Good London,. The Late Christopher Bean' is now In its 15th month at the St. James. No immediate . likelihood of the run ending, so Gilbert Miller is re- cruiting a touring company to send out. Coliseum Mortgage Coliseum Syndicate. Ltd., operat- ing Sir Oswald Stall's ace .house, has secured a second mortgage of $220,000 on its properties, present and future, Including capital. Mortgage has been taken by the Westminster Bank. Miss Sharp's Play Margery Sharp, well -known nov- elist here, had her first play pro- duced at the Globe, June 14, titled 'Meeting at Night.' Taking an excellent idea, Miss Sharp develops the plot in narrative form on the lines of a novel, rather, than making .use of dramatic dialog* with which she Is obviously un- familiar. As a result, there would seem to be very little hope for the venture. 'Goodbye' Flop S. F. L., Ltd., a new theatrical producing corporation, made its ini- tial bow at the Shaftesbury, June 13, presenting Ralph Lynn in 'Hello Again' (known In NeW York as 'Goodbye Again'). New corporation is composed of Charles Q. Steel, who was the partner with Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn in their Ald- wych f arce 1 ventures 1 ; Harry Foster and Lynn. The only recruit from the original cast is Sally Bates. Piece toured for seven weeks be- fore coming to London, did nicely in most spots, and by the time It reached the West End the promot- ers' figured they were on a winner. Billed as a comedy, It struck most people as a farcical idea played, in a tragic tempo. Occupants of the better seats received it politely, and the galleryltes waited patiently un- til well into the third act before they began to cut loose. This is hot a review of the show — merely an obituary notice. Undaunted Undaunted by the failure of her last play, 'The Laxighing Woman,' Gordon Daviot (nom-de-plume of a Scottish spinster) tried to emulate the success ofjier ^Richard of Bor-, cTeaux/ "with the production of 'Queen of Scots' at the New the- atre, June 8, with a notable cast. First night audience acclaimed this new effort, which differs but slightly from various historians' conception of the tragic queen. Mary is a timid, rather than a courageous' figure, but is at all times pathetic and dignified in the Jhands of Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. Berlin, June 10. It the German theatre doesn't experience a fillip during the coram lng fall and winter, It won't be the fault of the government, which la making Its plans to breathe lite back Into a slowly dying venture. All manner of theatres have been started anew after having been dark for months. Most of the Nazi party organization Is , behind the movement to repopularlze the the- atre, but this far the public has- stifled a few yawns and let. it go at that . The Jugend Buehne (stage of youth) Is struggling valiantly to produce, some worthwhile offerings, but mostly with inexperienced casts and the results haven't been so hot. Most of the big stars, particu- larly the Jewish actors and ac- tresses, are on the outside (of the frontier) looking in. Many have hit out for Vienna and Prague, several are hi France and Die Bergner is In England. Without the big names to group a cast around the spring theatre here has been, pretty awful. Outstanding of the few plays which weathered the storm, of Nazi hate were 'Dr. Med. Hiob Praetorl- ous,' a smartly Written, well-acted Ironic hit It ran about 130 nights, which 1s an amazingly long run. 'Crach' um Jolanthe' (Tight oyer Jolanthe) was another which en- joyed considerable popularity. It told of the farmer's efforts to keep the sheriff from seizing Jolanthe for back taxes, Jolanthe was. a 1 soW. But most of the things offered hardly had time to heat the houses this spring when they folded up and went to the Berlin equivalent of Cain's. Most of the hoofing crooners, like Max Hansen, have lit out, Max re- turning to his native Denmark. Ralph Roberts is still producing. His present piece, 'Fragen Sle Frau Elfrlede' ('Ask Mrs. Elfrlede') isn't bursting many box office rec- ords, but he Is managing to pay the light bill. At the Koemedle, Eblnger, Schaeft 0 rs and Fischer are still holding out in 'Fresh Wind Out of Canada,' which has passed the 50 mark. Louis Graveure Is just getting his pipes warmed up in the 'Duke of Westminister* and maybe hell get some kind of a break. . Dietrich Eckart's 'Der Kerl der Spekuliert* ('The Guy Who Takes a Chance') is still trying but prob- ably will go back to the moths. SIR BEN IN NEW YORK FOR OPERA TROUPE Sir Benjamin Fuller, veteran Australian showman, is In New York lining iip American talent, and production material for his pro- posed grand opera season opening In Melbourne during Centennial week, Australia's Century of Prog- ress exposition. Fuller plans mak- ing the opera season a permanent Anzac institution, with a season of six months. Sir Ben Is after some American people and also grand opera ward- robes, and will do some more tal- ent scouting in London. This will mark Sir Ben's first visit, to the British capital In lo years. Lady Fuller accompanies him. So far set is the native Australian soprano, Florence. Austral, whose name is borrowed from the country. She Is currently winding up an Australian concert tour. Walter Widdop, tenor; Norman Allln, basso; Muriel JBrunskll, contralto}; Charles Moor, producer! Curt Prer- auer, coach; Harold Barrett, assist- ant stage manager; Maudie Stevens, ballet mistress; Browning- Mum- mory, Ben Williams, tenor ; Maurice Dabravanel, first conductor; Octave Dua, tenor; Fred Collier, baritone;: Robert . Ainsworth, chorus master- conductor; Francesca Duret, colora- tura, soprano; Thea Phillips, so,- prano; Booth Hitchen, baritone; Ap- ple tori. Mooro, baritone; Gladys Gar- side,, contralto; Bernard Ross, bari- tone; Ethel Earl, Ruth Portrate, Freda Chacko, sopranoes, are others signed. It Sir Ben winds up his business ftvt enough he, plans to sail tomor- row (Wednesday), for London. Tuesday, June 26, 1934 Tabloid Epidemic That publishing urge, responsible for the appearance .of a flood of week-end tabloids during the last few months at Syracuse, N. T., petted the first kickback last week when police arrested Frailer N. James, 26, editor, and Roland E. Burdlck, 20, assistant editor of the Syracuse Bounder. Arrests resulted from the appear- ance of the second issue of the tabloid Journal on the news stands. Police claimed the Issue "rotten and Indecent' and seized approximately 1*000 copies of the publication. The Syracuse Bugle started the parade of tabs, and Is flourishing at a dime a copy. Syracuse Life was started as the first opposition sheet, The Syracuse Sun is taking shape, and a new string of five or six tabs is in prospect. Bogardus 8el|ing Milk T. Elmer Bogardus, for the last five years a member of the Syra- cuse Post-Standard's staff, has been appointed director of the publicity bureau In the N. T. State Division of Milk Control. As such, he will handle publicity In connection with the $500,000 advertising campaign to Increase the consumption of milk. This was launched last week, with the N. W. Ayer Agency in charge of the advertising end. Bogardus' Job is one of the few p.a. positions in the State service which a Republican commissioner has filled. Most of the publicity posts are under control of the Dem- ocrats, the Jobs being non-civil service. Fast Fictioneer Norman Klein, ace rewrite man of the New York Post and author of several novels, started work on a new tome May 1. To date 60,000 Words of it are on Johnny Farrar's desk and the last quarter has been promised Farrar & Rlnehart by Jul y 4 - t. , Klein had to whack the book out on Sundays and his NRA days off. Title is 'Terror by Night' and is another in the tough dick series; of which Klein Is one of the leaders, with Dashiell Hammett and Rapul Whitfield. Donoghue'a Waltz Terry Donpghue, former reporter with the N^w York Journal, has gone into show business as the en- trepreneur of Terry Donoghue's Moulin Rouge, an old-time dance hall at Beach Channel Drive, Rock- away Beach. DonoghUd left the Journal last November and hid away on his wife's plantation in Madison Sta- tion, Miss. He returned three weeks ago to see What was doing. No newspaper Jobs around, so he took over, the dance hall. H. & B.'a Music Anthologies Harcourt, Brace, establishing a new department for the publication of muslo anthologies. Albert E. Weir will be the head. First of the new Harcourt, Brace books in this classification will be •Pieces for Two Pianos,' edited by Weir. The. Weir book, as well as succeeding volumes In the series, Will be low-priced, to compete with those gotten out ^ by the regular music houses. Levine's Comeback William Levine, the infrequent mag publisher, who is also Murray Leinster, the prolific fictioneer, plan- ning to make another try at pub- lishing. Likely that Levine will revive. Mb former mag, Great Detective Sto- ries, which flourished for a time. Rodin's Radio Angle West brothers, three, embarking in the publishing business with a series of books on various- aspects of radio broadcasting. Call their firm the Rodin Publishing Com- ' pany. First book ief 'So-o-o-o You're Going On the Air!' Author is Rob- ert West, one of the brothers. Amer. Spec. Goes Mag American Spectator, which emu- _lated_its ...London. _counterpart_.when Chatter A son for John Strachey. Constance Rourke in N. Y. Monica McCall vacationing. French edition for 'Nijlnsky.' Adrian Huffman publishing his own verse. Isaac Marcosson to Europe for a stack of interviews. Newest Kentucky Colonel is Al- bert Paysdn Terhune. L. A. G. Strong's new novel is titled 'Corporal Tone.' Denis Mackail's new novel to be titled 'Summer Leaves.' Channing Pollock has written an- other novel, about an actor. Booth Tarklngton working on the manuscript of 'Little Orvle.' John Cowper Powys back to Eng- land.. This time permanently. Charles Brackett has finished hew one, 'Entirely Surrounded/ M. J. Farrell, author of 'Devoted Ladles,' is really Mary L. Skrlne. Jos. V. Connolly president of I. .N S. and King Features, to o.b. Europe James Norman Hall in from Ta- hiti with the manuscript of another hovel. Branch Cabell debunking a lot of historical characters in his next book. Knopf has signed Bruce Marshall for the latter's next half dozen books. 'Book Business,' trade paper of the publishing industry, has sus pehded. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, French scribbler, here for another look around. John Mason Brown has written another book on the theatre for Viking Press Fourth edition for 'The. Lord's Anointed," a first novel by Ruth Eleanor McKee. Howard V. Bloomfleld has sue? ceeded William Corcoran as. editor of Adventure mag. Valentine Williams back to Lon don to regain his British accent. Returns here next winter. , William Wister Haines, the new novelist, used to be a telephone linesman not so long ago. Mrs. Anna Steese Richardson, of the Woman's .Home Companion, sailing for Europe July 28. Having set himself as a poet, Jesse Lasky, Jr., trying to make another mark as a fictioneer. Irlna Skariatina goes abroad soon to gather material for a new book. Will stay away until the fall. John Cuchan, novelist, is also Lord High Commissioner in Scotland. He just finished 'The Free Fishers.' Houghton, Mifflin has added an- other ace scribbler to its list in the person of Gertrude Atherton. Evelyn Faile, who took her car with her to Europe, likes Venice, where they get around only in boats. Compton Mackenzie's next book 'Prince Charlie and his Girls' will be published in the U. S. by Knopf next Fall. E. . Joa Ford will be associate editor :to Daisy Bacon when Ains- lee's is revived by Street & Smith next October Last book written by the late G. D. Eaton, editor of Plain Talk, will get publication by Carlyle. Hojise Titled 'John Drakin.' Forthcoming novel, 'My Shadow as I Pass,' by Sybil. Bolltho, widow of William Bolltho, based on the facts of their life together. First thing Herbert Agar, Pulitzer Prize winner for the 'People's Choice,? did- on arriving from Eng- land last week was to buy a Ford Book rights oh Charles Dickens' 'Life of Our. Lord' sold to Germany, Sweden, France, Canada*, Italy, Hol- land, Denmark, Hungary, Norway and Japan. George Jean Nathan picking put the best pieces from past Issues of Smart Set; the mag he used to co edit with H. L. Mencken, for com- pilation in book form. Two Herald-Tribune staff mem bers will have books published this summer. One will be Stanley Walker's 'City Editor,' and the other by Wilbur Forrest, titled 'Behind the Front Page.' James J. Geller, of the William Morris story department, has finally whipped " his anthology of old-time plays into shape. Macauley will publish the book under the title of •Grandfather's Follies.' Best Sellers est Sellers for the week ending June 23, as reported by the American News Co., Inc. Fiction •Lamb In His Bosom' ($2.50) .....By Caroline Mi •Bachelor of Arts' ($2.60) By John Ersktne •Anthony Adverse* ($3.00) ".. .....By Hervej, Allen ♦Joseph and His Brothers' ($2.50) By Thomas Mann 'Seven Gothic Tales' ($2,50) ....By Isak Dlnesen Unfinished Cathedral' ($2.60) . ........... .By T. S. Strlbling -Non-Ficti 'While Rome Burns' ($2.76) .......... By Alexander Woollcott •You Must Relax* ($1.60) ...By Edmund Jacobseri, M. D.. •Life Begins at Forty* ($1.60) i ............. . . .By Walter B. Pitkin •100,000,000 Guinea Pigs* ($2.00) By Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink •Men in White' ($2.00) ... • . , By Sidney Kingsley 'Escape From the Soviets' ($2.50) ... By Tatianri Tshernavin Execs View Cartoonist Loses N. Y. Supreme Court Justice Mil- ler on Friday <22) dismissed the. $290,000 jBuit for breach of contract brought against the, Chicago Trib- une and its allied Ni Y. Daily News, brought by Thomas McNamara, cartoonist Attorney Arthur F. Drlscoll of O'Brien, Drlscoll & Raftery represented McNamara. The newspaper defendants were represented by Attorney Bruce Bromley or Cravath, de Gersdorff & Swaine. McNamara is a former Hearst cartoonist and while- working for the Chi Trib and the NeWs furn- ished editorial cartoons besides a strip at various times during his employment with these papers. He was to have received, according to his complaint; $200 weekly plus 60% of syndicate rights. The contract was made in March, 1929, and was "to have continued for five years, but the deal blew up for various causes In May* 1931. Fol- lowing several tiffs, McNamara was given set office hours, etc., which he resented. Suit followed. it came into being and apeared In newspaper form, turns mag in an- other issue or two. Change sug- gested by its new publisher, Cath- erine McNeills, who , acquired the publication recently from Richard Smith. Spectator started out with a ho- advertising edict. Recently It weak- ened and took on an advertising manager, Amy Vanderbilt. Belief of the publisher Is that the mag for mat will Induce more business. Mark Helliwger's 'The 'Ten Mil I lion' to be published this summer When O. Henry got out a collec- I tion of similar pieces he labeled it 'The Six Million.' Which illustrates | New York's growth since. After all these years, F. Marion Crawford, one of America's leading novelists of his time, coming in for biographical mention. His cousin, Maud Howell Ellott, and his sis [ter, Margaret Chanler, have both books about Mm. Mounties Protest U. 6. Strip Royal Canadian Mounted Police don't like the way they're depicted in the comic strips, so the Free Press, Winnipeg, decided last week to discontinue "Dan Dunn, Secret Operative 48,' distributed by" a U. S syndicate. La3t Thursday (21) strip showed Dunn, a R. C M. P. man, using •third degree' in attempt to make a Chinaman prisoner squeal on his pals. Local R. C. M. P. men sought out Frank Williams, feature editor, and made an official squawk. Next day F. P. was without Dan Dunn and ran an apology, which ended: It is well known that Ca- nadian police and the Royal Cana dlan Mounted Police do not and have never used third degree meth ods, although such methods may be n use In the United States, and therefore would cause no shock to American readers." Weak Book Buildup Three employees of Alfred A, Knopf trying out a new Wea tn book merchandising on their own. Trio have formed the Selected Books Corp., through which they will push whatever books they be lieve meritorious, but which are not selling well. Plan of the trio Is to get mall order recognition from the particu lar publisher whose book they in- tend merchandising. Thus, there Is no- cutting in on either the pub Usher or the retail bookseller; Trio behind the firm are Joseph C, Lesser, Bernard Smith and Sid- ney R. Jacobs. Undertaking Is with the consent of Knopf, by whom all three have been employed for some time. Book Reviews Indictment I. Wylie, of the more capable novelists, has picked her-: self a tough subject in 'To the Van- quished' (Doubleday-Doran; $2). Nazi Germany is no easy play- ground for the novelist's imagina- tion, nor is it likely — in most cases — to be a profitable one. Neverthe- less" she has managed .to turn out a book with so much strength arid conviction that the Saturday Even- ing Post was banned in Germany for serializing it, according : to report. •To the Vanquished' has the same faults as most Nazi plays and books; it's both bitter and senti- mental in overdoses. It deviates in several important points: it deals not With Jews primarily i but with intelligent, pacifist gentiles (whose problem, in New Germany, is after all the same as that of Jews); It portrays Hitler and Goebbels, both of whom are ordinarily skirted around by novelists, and play- wrights. -, It's a strong book, well written and with much haunting distinction. One wishes Miss Wylie had taken a bit more time with it- and not al- lowed herself to be carried away by the subject so much. It is weak, for instance, in comparison with the searing simplicity arid strength of a book like 'The Oppermans.' But it should nevertheless find a market. Gold Writing Again Mike Gold has taken a three] months' vacation from the Daily Worker, of which he is one of the editors, in order to Write a new novel, his first in three years. Covici-Friede will publish it early in 1935. 'Passion Play Of Interest to theatrical Teaders is the reissue, with additions, of the text of the 'Passion Play of Qber- ammergau by Moritross J. Moses (Dpdd, Mead & Co., $2.50). This text was prepared for the 1930" per- formances and brought up to date for the 1934 anniversary presenta- tions. There Is a brief advertisement of. the current production, a foreword, an historical story of the play and the complete text. The latter com- prises 201 pages, giving practically the full text, though here and there Involved chants are done into con^ tinuity because of the repetitious- ness of the original. Apparently It is assumed that the book will be purchased only by those who have seen the perform- ance, for which reason the arrange- ment of the stage is dismissed with the. remark that the guide books fully cover this point, while those who would study the technical han- dling are given no scene plots or stage direction, which reduces the value' of the book, to the student, On the other hand Mr. Moses has | made an excellent translation, scho- larly and retaining the flavor of the Original. .(Continued from page 5) salesmen for more material of t hotcha vogue. Among some- of the major spokes- men suggestions of special moral j philanthropy for theatre owners during the anti-agitation are being made. One of these is that an exhib be allowed to cancel any. major ..fear, ture from which 150 feet or moire has been deleted by his censor I board; But sex' can't be taken out of films altogether, such spokesmen Insisted, ■ expressing a preference [even for the much-feared national censorship rather than a committee, of clerics which could cut film, at rand oiri. While on the Federal angle protagonists took to task other pic-- ture theorists who. during the past week: publicly endorsed Washington shearing as the best means of regu- lating industry cutting. A lot of people in this business don't even know today, the critics stated, that Federal censorship would just mean another censor board and that every state, city and town Would still re- tain the right to set up a board of its own which could clip that which the Federals authorized for the nation. .On the Church agitation, Haysites express little fear that the crusade from how on will be carried to the extreme that it has been in the past few w eek s in various parts of the country. But Will Hays' board of directors Is not yet fully settled oh the moral problem, as lis -witnessed by the fact they are re-convening, again this • Week for further study of the re- ligious matter. The events of the past week, including the partial turn-down of the directorate's first truce to crusaders, Is on the calen- dar for discussion. Joe Breen, who was skyrocketed into moral promi- nence as the result of the board's action two weeks ago, will report on the Cincinnati situation. An additional appropriation to finance Breen's moral machinery, enabling him to' take on some help, is ex- pected to be made. Will Hays' announcement of the producer appeals board demise issued Friday also noted': 'There is but one answer, and one answer only, to reasonable objec- tions to pictures, and that is the pictures theihselves. It is recog- nized that the solution of the prob- lem of the right kind of screen en- tertainment rests solely with the quality of the product, and these strengthened arrangements are di- rected to discharging that responsi- bility more effectively.' William Lippran's Tome Under contract to Ives Wash- burn, for one more hovel, William Lipman, on the Coast as scenarist for Paramount, is writing 'Sleep Walkers in Valhalla".' iii Tt B ^iio^WTla:^Ji^ Now It's 'Tender Cheeks' » itle- of Wolfe Kaufman's novel has been changed from 'Sidewalk Comedian' to 'Tender Cheeks.' Scheduled for publication by Covici-Friede in mid-September. Screen Mirror Suspends Screen Mirror, film fan mag pub- lished out of Holly woodi has passed. •PertodteaVB end was sudden. HartGwick's New Puzzle F. Gregory Hartswick is one of the fellows responsible for the cross-word puzzle rage, so probably deserves no sympathy on any score. Nevertheless a bit of compassion ought to go his way for having, at- tempted to satirize the great Ameri- can boobery in 'The Winning Line* (Covici-Friede; $2). He almost got away with it. Hartswick's particular concern in this book is contests. An advertis- ing— man^Btar-ts-a^liriierick-contest- with a $1,000,000 prize for the best last line. Almost all American humor in the past few years has been built along this pattern. Take some ridiculous supposition and build from there on, with situations that are more and more ridiculous as the book goes on. A good deal of it very funny. In toto, as usual with this kind of book, it's just a bit too thin and impossibly, in apite of being a good idea. Par Confab (Continued from page 4) tions offered for advancement of the" picture business came from M. A. Llghtman of Memphis. . it was hi* plan to have quality pictures pro- duced for de luxe and first runs and cheaper films for the cheaper houses. No big picture would be given a subsequent run In a 166 house, Also he suggested that pic- tures for family trade be; thus la-, beled and. certain nights set aside for their showing. What action was taken on these departures^ was not divulged. Campaign book distributed among conventioneers . drew much praise for art work. Special train carrying the dele- gates back , home pulled out Satur- day night (23); No announcement was: made of next year's Conven- tion city. Attendees Among those atending were: Bar- ney Balabah, Chicago v A. H. Blank, Des MoineB; Carl Hoblitzelle, Dal- las; Lou Marcus, Salt Lake; N. L. Nathansoh, Toronto; E. V. Richards, New Orleans; Ed Beatty, Detroit; M. S. Comerford, Scrahton; Jules Rubens, Chicago; H. Robb, Ed Row- ley, Little Rock; Col. W. S. Butter- field, Detroit; Edward Sparks, Jacksonville; N. Goldstein, Springs field, Mass., and Joseph Cooper, New J Y/ork ^_ In the foreign contingent were:- John Hicks, Eugene Zukor, John Cecil Graham, Great Britain ; N LuigL Lui-ashi, Carl York, Stockholhi; M. J. Messeri, Spain; Montagues-Gold- man, Englam". and Albert Dcane. Executives Included Adolph Zukor, Emanuel Cohen, George J. Schaeffer, Neil Agnew, Lou Diamond, Robert Gillham, Max Fleischer, G. B. J. Frawlcy, Louis Phillips and Russell Holman. 58 VARIETY TO THE .LADIES Tuesday, June 26, 1934 Going Places By Cecelia Ager Beauty Sans Glamour. Elissa Land!, casting's problem child, turng up in Great Flirtation* radiantly beautiful — by virtue of deeply appreciative make- up and coiffure. She cannot, of course, go always striding about as •The Warrior's Husband,' wherein her problem attained solution, but she cannot give out intoxicating glamour either. Sho is hearty and hardy and has a sense of humor, and these are not glamorous quali- ties. In 'The Great Flirtation* the pro- vocative slant of her eyes has been stressed, and she's been equipped with a fetching Golliwog coiffure, but she remains a big gal, inept at style— more like a. pal than a temp- tation.. The costume department has loyally disregarded Miss Landi's seeming preference for the more worthwhile things in life, fitted her out with lots of glitter, put rows of buttons everywhere, given her frequent negligees-r-which Miss Land! straightway turns into utili- tarian bathrobes. They might be made of towelling for all she bothers about them. But she does right by her headgear, wears a gaiyak tur- ban with a. Russian-Egyptian out- lirie, a black cap with a mink roll, a large black picture hat^-wlth great distinction; She wears her hats exactly as the costume depart- ment puts them on her. The ensemble, however, suggests' that there is no full-length mirror lit her- dressing, room, or if .there is she apparently doesn't knbw what it tells her, that simplicity is her milieu. silly open mouths, cheapening the class and showmanship so shrewdly built up. Almost/ Perfection Just around the. corner, In sight when freed of honky- tonk mannerism/3. Vox and Walters; Lady-ventrilo- quist, Miss Walters accurately mimics baby -crying, little ^glrl talk. Crepe pumps exactly match head- gear. Cool white dresses, light blue! nurse's -cape, col , flatter blonde bob. Pays attention to costume details, gets smart results. Alexander and Santos. Present three young ; ladies. Saxophone player, in white, satin, rhinestone chain supports her sax. Toe waltzer in glistening chiffon ruffle tiers. Burlesque adagio young lady stum- bles in black satin prlncesse, white fox encircling the armholes. Sings Into a mike, too,, while one young lady plays now the piano, another the sax, as Alexander and Santos go through slow impressive acro- batic balancing, their rhinestone trunks and Roman headbands glit- tering in the spot. ■ A Hollywood Bevy ,■ fn.'AffairB of a Gentleman', several good-looking picture actresses are kept riot very busy professing ardor for ' Paul Lukas. Each young lady has her 'own way about it— one does it with a saucy glance, one with a merry quip, one tells , it with Her fetching stance, one with a rolling hip. Lillian bond, by not taking no. for an answer; Leila .'Hyams, by taking' no for an answer. Dorothy Burgess takes to drink; Patricia Ellis wants to be taken. Mr. Lukas plays a novelist, and the variety , he encounters makes his books fasci hating. He, wears, for writing, beautiful black satin dressing gowns marked with handsome monograms. It doesn't seem quite fair to Mr. Lukas — who . lives in a fancy and spacious "apartment full of doors, butlers and things — that none of the gals crazy for him. has clothes worthy of his elegant suavity. Miss Bond— she plays the brazen one, always coming back' from Paris — undulates not too unforgettably in a white satin evening dress .hanging limp around, the shoulders in spite of Its brave banding of mirror ap- plique. She does, it is true, make a sweeping exit in a long fitted ermine wrap, but, alas, she pauses just as she. reaches one of the doors whereupon anyone . interested in these points may study the amplifl cation that, white fur yields to the derrlere. If a lady's, got to drape her white fur cloak close about her to, express poised allure, let her pull it close to her shoulders, the student mutters. Miss stakes her all on a sheer black dinner dress topped with- white pique . crossing over her bare back and buttoning,, square neck decolletage, in front. A tai lored costume, for Miss Ellis is a nice young 1 glri^-inqulsitlve, but nice. Miss Burgess has lived, so there are rhumba ruffles on her .White satin dress. Miss Hyams looking, very, very pretty, wears .black and ruffles. She cannot quite make up her mind. Who Cares? After quite a good while of 'Let's Try Agai ,' and no . end of . civilized discussion, the audience Is assured that Cllve Brook and Diana Wyn- yard really love each other best. It's possible, . though, that • by the tinie they're convinced of the fact, the' audience no longer cares/ Maybe the audience never did care. That's possible, too. It wouldn't be Miss Wynyard's fault, however— the apathy that greets the. ultimate resolving of ler domestic difficulties. She's every ounce a lady, wholesome, like- able, with a winsome expression and an exquisite accent, just the. per- son to live in. the suburbs in a mod- ern Victorian house and go putter ing about a garden In utilitarian garden smocks. She might well be In more .interesting situations, than contemplating the dissolution of her marriage to Mr. Brook, she's the sort that inspires more exciting things happening to her, she has the force to sustain them. But in 'Let's Try Again' Miss Wynyard must talk about how she captured Mr. Brook In the first place by wearing a crinoline costume, how she hopes to rekindle his .love by wearing the same costume ten years later, and then she must come forth in the costume and, so . doing, make, every- body think that if that's the cos tume that got her Mr. Brook, she deserves him for wearing it. With' it she wears a little cock-eyed wreath of flowers on her head which makes her look like Ophelia. Helen Vinson plays The Other Woman and proves that The Other Woman can be even more of a threat by not acting like a threat Miss Vinson, too, is terribly civi- lized, even though she's a dancer arid - wears kind of Greenwich Vil- lagey peasant costumes in her stu dlo apartment. Irene Hervey watches her - fiance with a number of. stricken gazes arid healthy heaves of the chest, as he succumbs to Miss Wynyard's more temperate and poised charms, but since Miss Hervey believes that in her skin tight black cire sheath with shaded chiffon flounces at the hem she is utterly irresistible, scant sympathy is accorded her. The audience; has grown used to civilization by now. Did You Know That— Almost— Not Quite The Saxon Sisters at the State. JTw_o . wr ig gling. _blondes ln_ grce r satin Dlrectolre- dresses. Dress? willing,, eager to show the aesthett young curves of the' Saxon figure* Dresses convinced that Parisian rumors of deep low front decolletage should be made a certainty at the State. Carefully rehearsed voices backgrounded by thrilling hot ar- rangements, swelling to the attack, hitting it Excitement of sophisti- cated xhythm, super-modern har- mony. Shining, crisply waved blonde heads, shaking for the vamp with Paradox When 'Half a Sinner' opens, SaJ&E. Blane discovered - dressed as a boy sneaking into a box car. She must be, one supposes, pretty strapped. But soon there's a fade out and then a fade-in, and .Miss Blone is discovered behind the cigar counter in a small town hotel dressed in simple and smart cos tumeg which suggest that the re soiirces . of the entire town would be insufficient to provide them. She' &ot a shallow crowned black ■x and wears it at the Big City Iler . black_ sjttln. two-pi ece ■•s» with the broad flat collar un tfd with white, fits bo well it d ' mVe been made, to her meas in Paris. At any rate, Miss ■>£•■' is decorative and. tenderly •■oaphed throughout, ndra Carlisle's performance a;-- widow hotelkeeper is an amu. well rounded charaoterlza tlon, registering squarely and ef fortlessly. It Indicates a busy and successful career for her In pic tures. Lillian Kober had a birth- day and now her wrist, is heavy with diamonds set in a crystal chain... .When Alice Hughes, the lone gal In the game, cleaned the boys at poker on the press junket to the Chicago fair, Percy Ham- mond muttered, 'And she's got the face of a saint*... .Bea- trice Mathieu back from studying the styles In the middle, west. ■-. . .Fannie Brioe attributes her school girl com- plexion to the use of mineral oil on her face....Reglha Crewe is crazy about the deuces wild,... Lee Gershwin teaches cribbage In one easy lesson .... George Kaufman's special white kid croquet shoes. too gorgeous. . ..So are Ira Gershwin's taupe buckskin apartment-pacing numb e r s ....Harold Arlen can shut each eye independent of the other. . . .When Fred Ahlert goes fishing, nothing can stop him from distributing his catch to his friends. . . .Aunt. Ua Berlinghoff was seen strolling along the Avenue in a smart print costume and gaily-tilted black hat.... She says watch out . for the Anda- luslari influence in the early fall styles. . . l . Many well-known actors were in that recent gambling raid.... Maria Kerns (Kerns Sisters) is- recovering froth a .major operation. .' . .the Harry Romms have taken a place in Asbury Park for the . summer. .. .Harry. Delmar is now agentlrig. . . Dave" Vine's straight irian, on the radio, is his 1.7 -year-old son. Code Open Again? (Continued from page 7) strlctlons which have upped prices and which' either directly or indi- rectly result in sticking of cus- tomers.-* With price fixing, dropped and service codes scrapped, as result of Darrow criticism, .reviewers chalked up' more victories over NBA last week and put .finishing touches on sweeping concluding document which it is said will contain more fireworks than either of its prede- cessors. Sale Obstacles (Continued from page 7) censed over what they charge is a major movement 'to give doubles the works through the code.' Long clearances, like the Cali- fornia board's ruling of 180 days; are not legal, ..they contend, unless all houses with spilt policies, in- cluding vaudeville arid presentation, are similarly penalized. Local boards that are making such rulings are. exceeding their au- thority, according to some of high Codists who state they will demand a showdown and reversal of such decisions when they come up be- fore .the C.A. on appeal. -Indie producers also attack the use of the rubber stamp, whereby a major subsequently restricts cer- tain pictures from doubling; Among the Women By the Skirt Beet Dressed Woman of the Week JANE FRO MAN (Capitol) Good Looking Entertainment •Operator 13', with Marlon Davies, is a North and South war picture arid always picturesque. . Hoopskirts worn by all' the women were, ruf- fled and berlbboned arid pleasantly effective. Miss Davies looked beau- tiful even when she disguised as a mulatto. Katherlne Alexander shares honors with the star as far as beauty is concerned; ' Miss . Davies* full skirted costumes were elaborate In design, one party frock made entirely of white ruffling, arid a dotted mellne must have taken yards and yards of material. The stage show at the Capitol got. off to. a good start with the girls In riavy blue tights and velvet coats made double breased. Scarfs and gloves wore, orange while soft hats .were blue. The- threes Radio Rogues were excellent as also was Will Mahoney. Two adagio girls did their stuff in silver trunks and brassiers. The male member of the team was in blue velvet trousers. Jane Fromari was beautifully gowned In a shiny lace sprinkled with crystals. The low corsage was caped at the shoul- ders while the back of the skirt was made with a flare. The grand finale had the girls In trailing cloth Of silver, gowns made with long sleeves and the skirts silt up the front. Close fitting caps of silver were worn. The adagio girls wore. long, white satin gowns with a blue full ruche around the neck. Well Dressed Doctor Kay Francis is in 'Dr. Monica' at the Strand. Women physicians are usually more interested in their profession than clothes but in this picture Miss 'Francis seems to concentrate on her wardrobe. Never has she appeared better gowned. No evenlrig dresses are shown but the street and^ sport Costumes are the last word in smartness. There are several dark dresses all simply made but up to the minute. Linen sport suits are worn with the latest dark blouses and a riding habit Is of the same combination. A checked cotton frock had' white frlllings at the hem arid at the sides of the bodice. A hostess gown of two tones was lovely. The high front and low back carried a dark scarf bordering the neck lines crossing at the back and drawn down both sides of the skirt. A checked coat was worn over a dark dress trimmed with square buttons. A white dress had a print front with, a white cowl neck and was wide belted. Verree Teasdale doesn't team well with Miss Francis. Playing a small part Miss Teasdale wears a . simple wardrobe and Jean Mulr is rather sad in an unsympathetic role, One dress worn by the latter was beauti- fully modeled. A black dress cut low waji covered by a three-quarter length tunic of Very sheer white material. Large and small rings were embroidered thereon. A sleeveless coat made three-quarter length was worn, hiding the blouse and a large hat completed this stunning creation. The settings of the picture will delight the women. Disappointing Palace. Vaudeville at the Palace this week isn't very strong. Disappointment is Art Jarret and Eleanor Holm. Miss Holm eats, throughout the act arid few people can eat attractively. Was It Bernard Shaw who said a woman should never eat in public? In a bluish purple, satin frock, with a long bob held In place by a dia- dem, Miss Holm munches a sandwich and again in a white print frock an apple is nibbled. Mr. Jarret -was not in voice at this performance. Capt. Mauss, in his daredevil cycle act, has a woman assistant in a rose satin frock. The young miss of Jean Carrol and Marty May is a veritable American flag in red, white and blue. A white skirt of the wrap around variety has red and blue lines edging. A short jacket of blue has a white sailor dollar with the same edging and a square hat is blue. The adagio dancer of "Adler arid Bradford wears two dresses with no linings. The first is a black lace with mellne hat and the other is flame chiffon which is discarded showing a close fitting tunic, of satin, in the same shade. Murder and Love The Rialto is' showing a picture: called 'Murder on the Blackboard'. The best that can be said about it is that at last some love Interest has been written around Edna May Oliver and James Gleason. Miss Oliver is a school teacher and Gleason a detective. A crime is committed in a school and Miss Oliver is dressed as a teacher should be dressed in heavy cloth materials. Gertrude Michael, in a minor role, wears a black dress with white jabot and a tan tailored suit. i Sees August Start Chicago, June 25. Code trials are figured to hold up the 1934-1935 selling season this summer and it's- not likely that any xjsal picture selling will be done before August at least In the past the salesmen were busy hounding exhlbs by July 1; But the dlstrlbs are holding their men in the offices until many diffi- culties such as admissions, double' features and .protection are settled one way or the other. In the past the dlstrlbs were able to set up their own selling policy. But this year it's no use in doing so since the Code Authority in New York may come through with a decision . en- tirely; . . invalidating th e dis.trib's. sales policy. According to present setup it ap- pears that these major policy de- cisions will be settled by the code board by the middle of July. In the first place the Code Authority has already ruled that all protests to present zoning and clearance schedules must be filed by June 80. And then it will take a month to c^ear up these eases listed on the docket. In regard to the 10c admission problem which Is dally growing more important in this territory it Is the idea of the dlstrlbs and code board that it can be settled by a general mass meeting of the Indus- try. Protests against the present 16c minimum are now being re- ceived by the local code board and it's, likely that the mass meeting to decide- . the matter for the coming sales season, rill -be held the first or, second week In July. Counter-Bally (Continued from page. 1) tres and it. is Moorehead's idea to apportion the cost of the ballyhoo according to the seating capacity of each house subscribing to the ap- plication blank giveaway. Five circuits that have been asked to Underwrite the bills for radio time and entertainment are Paramount-Publlx, Loew, RKO, Warner Bros., and Fox West Coast. During the Metro film convention in Chicago last week M-G-M and =Loew-exeos-voted-to^budget-fl>000^ 000 for counter-censorship propa- ganda during the Coming year. The money will be used In a high pressure advertising campaign waged on a national basis. Spe- cifically mentioned as media for the copy are 19 national magazines and 19 fan periodicals, both categories including weeklies and monthlies. Donahue & Coe agency placing the copy. That radio will share in the campaign money was also men- tioned in the account. MARRIAGES Josephine Chlppo to Hugh Mc- Cullom, in ,L6s Angeles June 17. Groom Is biz manager of Columbia's, short department and bride has been Frank Capra's sec for years, Dorothea McCoy to Craig Brooks' in Yuma, Ariz., April 29. Bride is a niece of Chic Sale, and groom ia a picture writer on the Coast. Harrlette Mathews to Lawrence W. Steers, In Las Vegas,' Nev., June 18. Steers is a film actor.. Edna . Dodd to, James K. Mont- gomery in Denver. Bride is organ- ist iri the Denver theatre, groom is a Pathe Newsreel cameraman. . Laura LaPlante to Irving Ascher, in Paris, June 1.9. Bride is Screen actress, groom is London represen- tative for Warner Bros. J. Howard Ackley, chief announcer over WOWO, Ft. Wayne, to Miss Voncile Mosley, dramatic teacher, in Ft. Wayne. Will Hoffert to Elsie Goodman on June 24 in Chicago. Groom is owner, of Chicago theatrical, shoe company. Bride Js non.-pYo. ^Georgia=W,h6eler^t6^alf=Harolde^._ at Yuma, Ariz., June 21. Harolde is a picture actor and bride is a Holly- wood astrologist. ., Bert H. VOorheis, press agent for World's. Exposition Shows, to Miss Mary Hatfield of Williamson, W. Va. His bride is accompanying him on tour this season. Alice Apfel to Franz Waxman, June 23 at Hollywood. Groom is a German composer employed at Fox studio on 'Music in the Air'. Bride, German, is non-profesh. ftacribjv hm9 16, 1994 TIMES SQUARE VARIETY 99 Night Club Reviews (Continued from page 48) mately showmanly basts. The Bar- bary Coast downstairs saloon is 'the frontier of Broadway* in the. wild west manner. Not the least of the smart tricks was getting old Mike Bernard, perhaps the greatest rag- time pianist ever, to preside at the ivories. There's Hughle Clark and a couple of other former vaude stand- ards dressed up in late 19th cen- tury duds warbling pops and,, inci- dentally, not doing at all badly for themselves with throw-money on the. opening night. There's a roccoy silver dollar bar. There's a waterfalls effect on the stage from whence the entertain- ment is readily viewed, by all, and where also the customers dance,... as at the Casino. There's the nifty Albert Davis collection of American Theatrlcana, concededly the most complete col- lection of theatrical, photographs extant— the program notes modest- ly read, 'From P. T, Barrium to. Billy Rose. There's a boob (and' quarter) catching 'wishing well/' ToU can't resist a 26c investment for some nondescript pink mixture which nobody drinks but throws into the Well which, by a prearranged buz- zer from, the bar keep (who makes no pretense at fooling you), dis- closes a trio of nymph's at the bot- tom in the altogether. It's . another version of the Casino's 'lady In- the fish bowl' effect— strictly . done with mirrors. Then George. Botsford's 100 sing- ing "waiters, who sound swell in the old-time manner and yet manage to dish up a fair brand of service. That everything within runs as smoothly, from the kitchen (cuisine is plenty okay) to the. actual serv- icing, Is a credit to General Man- ager John Steinberg. John (nee of John & Chrlsto) is probably the . best known bonlface In these 'parts and points west, . and the ' smooth manner in which he eased the self- important flrst-nighters"into accept- ing their locations, besides accomo- dating the last, minute; rush, was a credit to his charm and. p'bjse. . Only casualty was a Wilted' .collar.'-' '". Everybody wilted at' the 'premierey however. The cooling plant will be- come a big asset when it operates, although it went berserk -at; the opening; Show itself is a pip. It only holds four, standard acts which cost about $1,600, but has been embellished in- to Ziegfeld production] proportions. Ben' Blue with his' stooged head- lines. Blue was on too late after a Wealth of talent and should, speed up the forepart of his business. The same slow, start figured' ion -.Chilton; and Thomas, ' personable mixed colored dancing team, wh"• ■'/■■' .Have a new costume for-my aofr. J They've '.changed the JBcreeri in front. 1 ' ' ... I' Things are - still kinda ' slow f or art, Benny, and it's eating into my 40 bucks pretty fast.' Mr. Marlin says any day now I'll be. in the big money. ' ' Meanwhile he^ been pay-, ing me off in genuine notes for which he's going to give me money soon. Have been meeting a lot of big people in show business.. I met one fellow who we once saw at the Cozy one Sunday in Danville. You remember, the guy that fell Into the orchestra pit when another guy socked him with a violin. . So many of these show • business stars work so hard, Benny. They were telling me that they had to do as many as four, and five shows a day. It must be tough for these: little stars. I must be a bigger star than- they are, Benny. I only do one show a day; seven to mid- night. And all I do is He on a pink pillow. Very -pretty. -,The .after-- noons are all mine and I have been to. a lot of those villages. , Have been around looking at the competition. I. don't., want to brag but at one village I was let in for , nothing. When. I went to buy a ticket the man In front asked me if I wasn't the girl from, the Streets of Morocco and he. let me in. for nothing. Ybu see, Benny,' my art 1b being recognized, though I can't understand how he knew without my pink; pillow. ... '; The Fair Is really a big improve^' ment over last, year, everybody saysj especially those people who come in on those all-expense: tours. Last, year there were . lots of complaints because , .those all-expense , tickets. . didn't , t^ke . care of .all . riecesSltlef inside the! Fiaiuy .', This yeair it's fre;e. . t>ear Benny, please don't act thft^ way ab^but, Sam Jenkins and. Mr.. Marlin, They .'are only' business fpiepds and ^besides, it , is iirt as Mr 'M^iin . says. .'.'He , sa^s that'' there rtrijfs^be &! niutual feeling betwee'n a|rtls.tb, • Vn" 'brder.. to b'ririjj out''' the* 1 most' expressive' -worte •' ' '"' ' " '" Lovingitf 'Peggy. SHOW BIZ LABELS i * — ■■ ■ ,. '" i '.*■'■. 3 v ' Distillers. Turn to Theatre for New Booze Titles Due to the present generation be- ipg unfamiliar with the old bbbze names, some of the distilleries are wandering into the amusement- biz for liquor titles. This rings espe- cially 'true with' the Cuban rurii manufacturers, who. so far- have'- made, their selections fi'bm the dance field. New rum titles' bri bottle labels are Carloca,' Rhumba and Bolero. '' Hard liquor biz has hit' the usual summer sluhip, with gin about the only commodity' moving' .over . the counters to any great extent. .'Ask- ing prices for the 'booze 'is still ve^y high In New, Yofkryifh the debark merit' stores; llkkeries' about tfie\ pnfy. o.nes dblrig any price-cutting.. ' ' M.P. League tanding of Motion Picture Base- ball league as of. June -21: Won. Lost. Pcft. Erpf 2 0 1;000 Nat'l Eroadcast'g Co. 1 1.000 Columbia Pictures... 1 .600 Radio-Keith-Orph 0 .000 Warner Club M0 Rockefeller Cent, .000 R.H.B. Warners .00102 01 1— 6 8 7 ERPI ... 2 0 0 0 4 3 1 x— 10 10 3 ERPI ...... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0— 1 7 6 Columbia ".. 1 0 9 6 0 0 x— 16 12 1 Kramer Sues Nitery Baltimore, June 26. Ted Kramer, perforrher, is insti- tuting suit against Sam Lampe, owner of The Gay Nineties,- loop nite spot, for two weoks' back salary which is allegedly owed him. Fortnight Ago . Kramer closed a 12-week run as m.c. at the club. Liqnor Commit Tries To Oust ^tertaiiuneot From Cqp, Taveni$ New Haveri, June UB. 'Looks' 'like a definite; move is pa foot to ous.t, taverns, from .the enter- , talnment field in. this state* Liquoj . commission 1s drafting regulations tj»" ?!roKiblt; ' sihifiif/' ^aneing[ ! ..an^ music in taverns '.on the ground tha|i'.' .disorderly conditions . in several , such , spots -haye., been traced direct- ly to the fact that entertainment of 'this type" is provided.' ' ' . Ruling, 'which looks to become^ effective shortly, will swing 'taverns baster„ Creek last week. Touring yacht clubs on sound. Noel Coward's 'Conversation Piece' will be heard this fall at the 44th Street theatre. Arch Selwyn and Harold Franklin producing. Joseph E. Shea will return to pro- ducing in fall With David Sturgis' .•Vengeance.' His second offering will be 'Civilization/ also by David. Sturgis In ' collaboration . with John Colton. Lee Strasberg, director- of 'Men In. White/ returned' from a two- months' European vacation. Peggy Hopkins Joyce paid $600 to ah interior decorator, in Paris to halt threatened auction of fur- nishings of her villa. Fire department pinching all vio- lators of city ordinance against sale of fireworks. Drive launched to- prevent usual July 4th damage. Hebert Gottlieb" and Shepard Chartoc start on 'The Crystal Gazer/ musical by Sydney Kuller with" lyrics by Samuel 'Pokrass. Walter Johnson, director, sailed for Europe Wednesday (20) to sign for- eign talent. 'Gazer* will be tried out in Philadelphia August. 20. Distillers have devised method of curbing bootleggers. Name and sym- bol of both the liquor and bottle maker will be blown into every glass bottle. . Edward F. Gardner opening a summer stock season at Vivian the atre, Whltestone, L. I. Becchwood theatre opens- its sea Bon at Scarborough-6n-the-Hudson today (Tuesday). Examiner Walker of Federal Ra dio Commlsh has filed recommenda g ii i»iMi i ii» iiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii»iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiHitiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiniiiiiiiii ni News From the Dailies This department contains rewritten theatrical nen>s items as published during the week in ihe daily papers of Nep> York, Chicago, San Francisco, Hollywood and London. Variety takes no credit for these ncn>s items; each has been rewritten from a daily paper. m'tit ; tt« i i Mi:tLi'MM w-W'W.w ei i.t.ei-w-H h-.m h i-i \ York Theatres] Ii '■ = '^UMItUIIHWOtMUIIUIUlOIIIIMWMIIimmmiHIIUIHMmHItiM^UtllUnwmHIUlMMIIiriliK : ltmim«m«hmHIMIt1IIMU|Uttll*IHmtylMMII^^ RKD THEATRES 86" ST. a uxncTon 81" ST. M . Wed. to Frl. I June 27, to 29 / "Such Women ' Are Dangerous" with Warner Baxter and The Black Cat" . Bela Lugosl Boris Karloft Screen— MARION DAVIES Gary Cooper, "Operator 13" IDWAY Stage — Jane Froman _Extoa ^WJjll LMahon ey, |5l'St A Ckk. Others— Coming Frl., THIN T MAN" CTATE WALLACE BEERY in "VIVA VILLA" On the Stage in Person BARNEY ROSS — Others tion with commission against re- newal; of Henry- Ford's licenses for his three radio stations. The Brook, night club at Sara- toga, sold to Max Kallk. Trans -Lux Corp., has. purchased a building at 561 Fulton St., Brook- lyn. Lux has taken a ' long term lease at an aggregate minimum rental of $350,000 plus a percentage of receipts, and will construct a theatre simillar to those operated in Manhattan: Harry Irvine will open his Thea- tre-in-.the-Woods at Boothbay Har- bor, Me;, July 1. Two-month season planned. Sam H. Harris sold his Italian villa at Great Neck, L. I., to J. G. White & Co: . American Bacai'dl Rum Corp. re- strained from using name Bacardi in injunction granted Companla Ron Bacardi by Supreme Court Justice Walsh. Jack Dempsey admitted' to Poly- clinic hospital with . an infected right mitt; an operation may be necessary on ex-champ's led. duke. First production in . the U. S. of Rossini's opera, 'Moses/ will be given at the N. Y. Coliseum July 14-15 by Alfredo. Salmaggl. Coney Island judges tough on shirtless, sun and "surfers; $1 fines being passed out wholesale for vio- lators, with an average of 20 a day. William A. Brady with his wife, Grace George, left' New York for Skowhegan, ,Me„ td 'tour summer theatres, looking for. worthwhile plays to produce. At Skowhegan Brady will* do 'The Wildcatters,' by John F - Mitchell, Jr., some time in July. Gattl-Casazza; Met opera man- ager, sailed for Europe Saturday (24). Leslie Howard sailed for England, in company with. Mr. , and Mrs. Wil- liam Gargan, also of the screen. Arthur Hanha and James Neilson have taken- John van Druten's adaptation of Alfred Savoir's play, 'La Vole Lactee.' Play will be re- titled and stabled at Red Barn the- atre, Locust Valley, L. I., -this sum- mer. 'Men in White* first attraction of Castle theatre, Long Beach, when season -opens July 2. Rowland G. Edwards rounding up cast. Daniel Frohman ' reported barred at Lido Country Club, Long Beach, Friday (22), because he was a Jew. Frohman was guest of Mrs. Reyneir Prall, who was up for . membership and who after the alleged ban with- drew her application. Hilton Edwards and Michael Mac- Liammoir, director, and art director of the Dublin Gate theatre, arrived last week enroute to Woodstock, 111., where they will act in the Todd the- atre festival there. Then back home. Capt. Jefferson Davis Cohn, Brit^ ish racehorse owner, hurt by a steer at Tex Austin's rodeo in London Saturday. Capt Cohn is a godson as Well as namesake of the Confed erate leader. Tulio Seraflh, Met conductor, leaves to go to Opera Real, Rome Ettore Panizza, from the Milan Scala, replaces next season. George Gershwin going to Charleston, S. C, to work on the musical score of 'Porgy.' Uproar in "Venice when Whitney Museum of Art threatened to pull its entire exhibit out of the Biennial Aft Exhibit because of a painting of Marion Davies slipped in without its consent. "T Met opera will slap a $600,000 mortgage on the building to cover cost of repairs, including $232,000 for new wiring, will do the elec- trical work at bnce, but will wait a year to put in air conditioner and orchestra eleviator. Katharine Hepburn to act for Ar- thur Hopkins next season. Probably in a version of Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' done by Helen Jerome. Willard Kfeefe working with Chas. Grayson on 'The Public Pulse.' Hol- lywood . story. Something new in newspaper ads: Herald-Tribune rotogravure, section last Sunday carried actual samples of . two cloths advertised fn Macy's announcement. Glued to the paper. Eddie Dowling opens an office in New York to house his various en- terprises. Lodewick Vroom planning to re- turn to production when the season opens. Will do a pair of his own and another duo \yith Tom Wilkes. John Lloyd, play reader" for Court- ney Burr, has sold a play to Jed Harris. ' Tagged 'To the End.' John Golden theatre, on '58th street, sold at auction Friday (22) by Joseph P. Day, auctioneer, to Central Savings Bank as ' plaintiff for , $5,000.: Defendant . In foreclosure was West 58th St. Playhouse, Inc. 'Tarzan' (M-G) barred from exhi- bition in Germany. No reason given for ban. Operator's. Local 306 has chopped £18,000 from Rf>l,ivv of it ^ president Harry Sherman.. Post of chief or- ganizer, held by Sherman, abolished by unanimous vote of membership. He will continue as prez with $1,800 per year. Harry Keitler, collapsed In foyer of R.C. Music . Hall Friday night (22). He died before a doctor ar- riverd. Assistant. Medical Examiner gave cause, of death as heat: pros- tration. . . Francine Larrimore arrived from Europe Friday (22); Roscbe Ates will bo In Lew Brown's new musical, 'Yokel Boy Makes Good..' Also signed for east are Mary Brian, Pola Negri and Abe Lyman's band. Joe Periher, who was to be in, will not . be included.' I Zlmballst arrived in New York from the Soviet, where he completed a concert tour. Forced to open bank, accounts in Russia because govern- ment would not let him take the dough he earned out of country. Hal Wallls of Warners and his wife, 'Louise Fazenda, returned from European vacation and left imme- diately for the Coast. : Coast Duncan Renaldo, picture actor, must serve a two-year term ki Mc- Neil Island, In California, for falsi- fying an application for a passport. Hal Rosson, cameraman-husband of Jean Harlow, reported recovering from attack of infantile paralysis in L. A. Disease gripped Rosson's arms and shoulders. Mrs. Virginia Corbln, mother of Virginia Lee Corbln Krol, former kid picture actress,- asserts in Los Angeles that her daughter and grandchild may be 'lost' somewhere in Europe, as she hasn't heard from them since last November. * William F. Crouch, former picture critic on the Coast, Is leaving soon for the Orient to make a two-reel novelty. John Barrymore, wife and two children, have arrived in Ketchikan, Alaska, on their yacht tour arid will remain in ^southeastern waters for six weeks. Stepin Fetchit ordered . to appear in L: A. Municipal Court on charges of disturbing the peace and calling a. woman names. Universal City Club host to. 1,600 delegates of the National . Credit Men's Association during conven- tion on the U. lot on the Coast.'. ' When she married Harry Eding- ton, agent, Barbara Kent actress, lost her English citizenshio, and is returning to the U. S, from Canada under a quota number to apply for American citizenship.' She. has re- sided in the U. S. for 14 years. Reconciliation between Phyllis Barry, stage and screen player, and Al Nordlund disclosed on Coast when a dismissal of the former's divorce action Was filed. Faith Allen, picture actress, filed suit for divorce from Nat Feinstein. Nita . Cavalier, stage and screen player, allegedly received a black- ened optic in a fight with the wife of a wealthy Los Angeles yachtman and is suing for $10,000 damages. The day Ronald Colman's wife, Thelma Ray, filed divorce suit in London the actor left L. A. on an extended yachting trip and refused to comment on the action. Three weeks after the holdup of the Pantages, Hollywood, the thief was sentenced to serve 10 years in San Quentin. Ceclle Cote, half-sister of the late Lew Cody, given first orders, in the L. A. probate court establishing her heirship to Cody's estate. According to petition, filed by Cody's step- mother, listed his California prop* erty in $1,300 in cash, $4,450 in jew-^ els and personal property and $42. i 000 in realty. Ruth Moody applied for Job with Samuel Goldwyn carrying an honor certificate from the domestic de- partment of the University of Colo- rao and got it. Wheeler C akmah, picture player silehts, for divorce By caterers in the: Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles were fined $460. George Hill, 39, Metro director, injured slightly when his car crashed Into a telephone pole in L.A> Enrollment fee dropped by Fan- chon and Marco School of Theatre in Los .Angeles. .Effort to build up summer classes. Court contempt citation against Joseph Von Stornberg postponed in- definitely in L. A. . when process servers failed to reach him. Ali- mony arrears charged by. ex-wlfe. Juanita Hansen, former film actress, plans tp open sanitarium in Los Angeles fo> treatment of drug addicts. Patricia Dukes,, actress, awarded $600- damages in L. A. court as re- sult of crash involving her $13 flivver and . a limousine driven by Mrs. Thelma Erickson. Francis Edward Fa'ragoh sued in L. A. for $7,600; by Dr. ' Edmond PaUker. Suit in Los Angeles of Joan Blon- dell against William Morris agency charging unethical conduct and asking release from her contract stricken from calendar. : Secret marriage . last November of Waldo Logan, L. A. sportsman, and Ruthelma Stevens, actress, revealed in formal announcement. Asserted spite, marriage of Elinor Fair, film:, actress, to Thomas Daniels, stunt filer, dissolved In L. A. court. 1 1 y Suit of Norma Rut ledge, screen employment agent, 'against Los An- geles beauty operator for $5,000 alleges she wanted a' permanent wave and got a permanent scar. All rights to 'The Meadow Lark," produced 20 years ago in N. Y., have been bought by Lee Tracy for pos- sible revival or as screen material. Eugenie Leontovlch will try out 'Encore' at Newport, R. I., In Au^ gust. Play Is by Sheridan Glbney and Victor Wittgenstein. Radio Code in Frances I. Oaknian In Los Angeles Fire damaged Harry Rapf's Mai - lbu Beach (Cal.) home $5,000. Jack L. Warner place next door not damaged. George Dallas Streeter, 28, has arrived in Hollywood from Waco, Tex., to make his own films. He carried nine originals, a flock of sjnox it^torj^.^aniUgalley^pEoof s=6f- a hovel. Plans- to work at- RKO- Pathe in Culver City. Mary Loos, niece of Anita Loos, signed with Metro.. Recently re- turned from an archaeological ex- pedition in New Mexico. George Brent sued for $30,635 fn L. A, by owner of an auto involved in a crash with Brent's machine. Contract between Virginia Reid, Alhambra, Cal., high school student, . and RKO- Radio approved by Su- perior court judge in L. A. Pleading guilty to charges of sell- ing hard likker by the drink, . two (Continued from page 43) a whole. Wood also protested that Merry man has no broad knowledge Of the history of labor relations and frequently condemned acceptance of information about, unemployment or qualifications of engineers from a company union spokesman'. Relating how wages had been boosted after .the company, organ- ization was formed, Merryman- ulti- mately remarked that when he' was satisfied that NBC is , in condition to ' stand futther increases' he 'would be. foolish' riot to ask for raises, but explained 'our future is tied up with that of the company. If we do any- thing to Jeopardize the company, we jeopardize our future. We are not going after shorter hours until we are convinced there is an adequate supply pf technicians,' Challenging Merryman's conten- tion tHat the NBC wage scale is higher than any other In the in- dustry r Nockles tartly asserted that WCFL had paid engineers $60 for a 48 -hour week for years,, and angrily charged; 'Your company union is making a front for the company instead of -making a front for the men.' Spears Speaks , .Similar .testimony about working conditions came from Harry Spears, president of Columbia technicians' organization; who insisted the CBS labor group was voluntarily organ- ized without, coercion or. assistance from employer^. CBS . agreement, providing for a 48-hour week, .minimum .salary of $40 a week, automatic- increases, arbitration of disputes, and right of members to affiliate with other labor organizations, was presented 1 by Spears, who joined Merryman in opposing reduction pf hours wlthr out a definite guarantee that wages would not be curtailed. CBS provided funds for delegates to convention, Spoars admitted, but the union intends to repay this ad- vance. Said that collective agree- ment stipulates that employees shall . h .ave ; pfipprtunlty Xor v .nieatlngs .on company time and property and that .officers shall be permitted to mak6 necessary business trips. Spears firmly declared, however, that Columbia is not contributing a penny to his organization's upkeep. In Rebuttal . Bringing out rebuttal testimony, Wood and Nockles drew from IPEW Officials unqualified statements that there .is an adequate supply of un- employed technicians and that wage agreements negotiated by the Brotherhood are higher than bot^ of the company union scales. When MoLean stated that |G* |» the minimum at KMOX, unionized by IBEW, Baldwin objected to ae* ceptance of this testimony as a ge», eral example of union scales an^ said the St. Louis minimum greatly exceeds other olties. Farnsworth requested Marlon Hedges to supply copies of all IBBW wage agree* ments to provide fair comparison with NBC and CBS contracts. Hypothetical questions about uaq .of labor-saving devices, rate of ex* panslon of the Industry, arid oon*« paratlve revenues, and employment were fired throughout, the- proceed* ings by Wood, whose contention that the industry has improved financially faster than employees have been benefited, provoked fre- quent arguments. Admitting difficulty of supplying exact information without consider- able research, Baldwin conceded that the sale of time / Increased sharply from 1027 to 1929, but as- serted that the number of units ia the. Industry , has decreased consid- erably during the past four years. Collective agreements Were de- nounced by Hoyt Haddock, presi- dent of the American Radio Teleg- raphers' Association, who said, 'I have yet to see any agreement in the interest of the; employee,' and who opposed classification of tech- nicians for wage purposes. Trade Practices- (Continued from page 1 40) programs and that the networks eliminate daylight saving time front., the plotting of their schedules. Incorporated in Patt's report were, a list of items that the net- works wanted from their affiliates. Most important of these was the demand for an equitable return on their sustaining programs. Idea, said Patt, impressed him as okay, since, if these costs were properly apportioned among the stations taking this syndicated material, the webs would be relieved consider- ably of their sustaining loads arid there would be. no argument left them as to, why they can't pay the stations more for commercial pro- grams; Networks, asserted Patt, also Want the stations to cut out all an- nouncements between hookup pro- grams together with an under- standing as to what' kind of local advertising shall be permitted be- fore and after a network show. These :local ads, the webs complain, have often proved embarrassing to both them and the network adver- tisers. Appended to .Patt's report was also a, string of regulation and im- provement that advertisers sought in radio. Above all, commercials wanted 'to be assured that their spot broadcasting programs would not be kicked around on a station just because the network put in a subsequent requisition of the same niche on the schedule. Advertisers, like the webs, insist • that- spot an- nouncements between two commer- cial programs be eliminated by the stations' and that the broadcaster^ devote" as much time to enlarging their audiences as they do to pub- licity, promotion and dealer and customer contacting. ..Money Going Elsewhere Commercials, have advised- him, declared Patt, that the broadcast- ing industry would agree to accept non-cancellable orders for six "months in advance to help them in planning and allocating future ad- vertising, , appropriations. Bepause they can't; figure inore than 60 days in advance as far. as radio is con- cerned, since the practice among the industry' is • not to take orders with starting 'dates beyond this pe- riod, the -advertiser's money is'go'- ing to other media. Advertisers, added Patt, have also suggested that broadcasting set up a policy- making organization such as the American Association of Advertis- ing Agencies, and the Outdoor Ad- vertising Association. Among other resolutions passed by the NAB session was one hav- ing to do with standardization of rate card practices and!" the ... other. "with^field^strcmgtlT^mcasurcmenlfle Convcntioners agreed that the units of time sale be one hour, a half hour, a quarter hour, five minutes, one minute transcriptions of 100. Words, half -minute' transcriptions of 50 words or less. Resolution on the field strength angle held, that the Federal Radio Commission's standards for measuring a station's primary and secondary coverage be r.ccopted ns official for NAB mom * boivin v;$\v of the fact that no bet- ter methods existed. JVafoy, tone $6, f JVH Broadway Louto Cohen due In town Wednes- day- ■ Steuben Tavern chain to Invade irther cities. Dick Krakeur In Leo Morrison agency east, .Nat Karson sending gag cards! Jrom London. ' .Alex Woollcott has taken a sum- mer place in Vermont.; ... Bert Wheeler mousing back to Hollywood by motor car. Val Irving, yaude comic, under- going a tonsil extraction. Pat Casey laid up at homo for JhO past week with lumbago. Julius (Blutch) Stone claims to ..be the playboy ef 49th street. Harry Stockwell of 'As Thousands Cheer,' also ni. c, warbler at Zelli's. •Warren O'Hara' now in man- agerial set-up of Casino de Paree. Mrs. Sidney Plermont oil to Sara- ■jia.c tor the summer.: Can't take the NV Y. heat. Ned Brown is p. a.'ing thekCan- loherl-Klick light, Ebbets Field, Wednesday (27). Maurice Golden'e bridge lessons are not. only free, but most times he jpays to give them. "• Benjamin Sonnenberg previewed his new 19 Grarhercy Park manse With a cocktailery. . Barbara Newberry back in New i York after a couple Of . months of ' England and the Riviera. Cliff (Sharlie) Hall took a. bang- ing in ah auto smash in that storm' on the Island, Friday night. Sid Solomon won't lose his Cen- tral Park Casino until fall—if then. Trial postponed by Comm. Moses. Dorothy Lee, Paradise blonde, suffered, a sprained ankle doing her dance specialty Friday " (22). 'Cracker, dialects' pronounced * along Main Stem. ' It's ' the time when' Southern parties- Invade the '•North. «. Billy LaHiff, Jr., very much on .(the, premises,, running ; the Tavern with % the same personality front as his popular dad. ' ■ Sullivan and Wihchell are now, making .' bets • with each other in their , columns on priority of news ' and alleged scoops. . . j. Janet Falk has taken her colitis ..to Long, Beach for the . duration of the swelter season, leaving Jack . Klotz a bachelor. "'.'Although he took, .eight to five, Joey Keith' was first guy Oh Broad ■ way to predict Baer would enter ring ; favore'd over Camera,- Daily News giving Sid Skolsky a ; big builder- upper with .institutional full-page office ads plugging Mickey house's Hollywood column. . , J 'Yacht Club Boys'' to Saratoga again this August at the Piping Bock: Incidentally, the Brook at the ! spa has' changed' ownership-. • Billy. Rose Music Hall's Barbary Coast saloon has a *wanted' gag .placard with a likeness, that looks qecldcdly like Milton Berle. Great Inside gag, Velma Forrest out , and about again after that nasty auto acci- dent with former Health Commls s/loner Shirley W. Wynne's daughter at the wheel.' Frances Williams outted her ap peridix at Medical. Arts hosp Bun- day. Walked out on a similar op at Park West hosp about a month ago. Mrs. O; Monte (Helen) Samuels of New Orleans painted full length portrait of herself, posing by means of a mirror, and how thin Bhe looks John; J, Murdock, . Jr., departed .last week fpr the Coast,, where .they'll await the arrival of a sec ond child. They'll be = with the senior .Murdocks out there. ''Rudy Vallee into : the Pavilion Royal Thursday (28). Joe Moss and Jacob Amron still in. with John Steinberg on the Pavilion, the deal for Louis Fischer (old Reisen- .weber's) buying. 'em - out .not having materialized. . Ramon and ROsita may go into t^e new Slmplon Casino in West- chester after ' their Ross-Ferit'on 'Farm' engagement. Peppy, de Al- brew and Dlok Gasparre band from Peppy*s Chapeaii Rouge, mldtown •nltery, set for the Slmplon. . ...Darlo arid his new partner, Louise Brooks, former silent film star, as a. dance team, show professionally for the first time at Meyer Davis' Westchester Center Gardens, White Plains, opening Friday (.29). Davis Will personally maestro the dansa patlon. Since the Paul Galileos' matri monial split, Daily News' fashion plate byline reads Al Taylor, nee (Mrs.) A. T. Galileo, probably the sole femme authority on male ap- pajel. She's Alicia Taylor, cut down to Al for columnar purposes. Marc Lachmann and Monte ■^Froser,^p;a7!ing=the^new^Suh^aritl Surf club, Long Beach, couldn't get along, with the management oh how the press should be treated for the inaugural festivities. Boys wound up lifting the drink checks for the press-cuff Os. The o.ffscreen kid who yells, "Come on, Camera' in the fight pic tures, Is Avis Rosen, eight-year-old daughter of Al Rosen, manager of Loew's State. Camera promised her a pair- of tickets to: his next fight when he played her daddy's theatre eight' months ago, and didn't forget TIMES SQUARE VARIETY 61 Paris By Bob Stern Argentina back, giving dance gala. Andre Berley back from Holly- wood, Max Hoffman carrying his finger in a sling. Gabriel Chevallier getting Courte- Iine prize. ' 'Waltz Dream' revived at Porte St. Martin. Anderson and Allen playing Gau- mont Palace. lerre FerroUd winning Blumen- thal music prize. Paramount holding 4 day sales convention here. Jim Witteried back oh Job as Ambassadeura p.a* \. Henry Garat singing at Ambas- sadeurs in Bordeaux. Igor Stravinsky recovering from appendicitis operation. Odeon reviving Barriere version of 'La Vie de Boherae.' TLac aux Dames' held over for fourth week, at Colisee. Gleo de M erode opening Friday (16) at Alcazar in '1900 revue. Now Palais Royal farce, -'Hole In the Wall,* opening Tuesday (12). Russian ballet In last week of Its season, sending but cutrate tickets. Gertrude Hoffman ■ girls la Art- ists' Union swim gala.: at Molltor pool; ; '.} , ■'. '"■ ; Marie Leconte of Comedie Fran- caise lecturing on TToung Girls and the Theatre.' French Chamber of Deputies ap- proves 1937 exposition project unanimously. Nadja (Beatrice Wanger) giving dance, recital June. 27 with Komori, Japanese dancer, Uday Shan-Kar*s Hindu danc ers making good in series of spe- cial performances. . Pierre, de Guingahd, stage and screen actor, showing two v paintings at Tuileries Salon. Paramount reported in deal with Nordisk to build studios for pro duction iri. Sweden. ' • Louis . Lumiere presiding oyer committee to award prize for pest French film of year. Leon Volterra taking first and third places' in French Derby With Duplex and Admiral Drake. Annette Kellermart and Jimmy Sullivan .here' from Australia; where they, shot underwater films, .Roger Vitrac'-s 'Coup de Trafal- gar,' 3-acter, getting special .per' formance by 'Rideau' group. Georges Thll, opera tenor, seri- ously hurt in auto crash near. AJx- eni-Province, south of France. .Dubonnet family^ .Maurice. Deko bra and Gaby Morlay joining the social lights at. tha.Ambassadeura. Buster Keaton reported coming here to' make French films. TClng of Champs Blysees' given as title. Clement Hobson to Utrecht for another eye operation. Doctors be HeVe this time they'll save bis sight. Maurice Rostand's, Trial of Os car Wilde,' with Harry Baur in lead, to be played at Oeuvre next season . Ganna . Walska buying copy ol! Vera Mazzuchl's- book *My Body Is Bankrupt' and having author auto-i graph it.. . - Film exhiDit. with sets and stages on show to the public, plan -Mil in PortiQues des Champs Blysees dur lng Paris season. Opera Comique company to; give at Gaite Lyrique operas, of its repertory for which, no dates are open at the Comique. ' • Claude Andre Puget adapting; 'Reunion In Vienna' for legit pres- entation hero next season. Jules Berry probable - male lead. Simorie Renant replacing Hugette DuflOs. in femme lead of Verneuil's 'Boole des Contribuables' ('School for Taxpayers') at Marigny. ' Paramount : theatre to show 'Chansons de Paris' jt'S ongs of Paris'), first pic mad«l^ Georges Thill, tenor of the Paris opera. Comedie Francalse authorities thinking better, of idea of suing Marie Bell to prevent her from tak- ing over management of Ambassa- deurs. Chateau des Brouillards (Fog Castle) latest Montmartre nite'rie, 'run by Lina Poldes. Spot is in Marie Blanche alley, Just off Rue Lepic. Aspiring cornetlsts opening the annual sessions of public examina- tions which- are Inflicted on all- students of music and acting at the -ParisM3onser-vatoryT — ~ Ohel, Palestinian theatre, giving series of special performances at the Madeleine of 'Jeremiah,' 'Jacob and Rachel' and 'Esther' during Paris season bally. Max Dearly, and Mistinguett, who together first put over the Apache CHATTE literary awards. Fellowships worth about $1,800 each. Ruth Allen's International Play Service selling an Italian play for Vienna, and dickering for regular London, production of her transla- tion from the Polish of 'Lawyer and Roses' by Jersy SzaniawskL Shanghai By Cal Hirsh Romeros still at Casanova. Shanghai a good cinema town. Bromleigh House back to Detroit about July 6. . Faye "Courtney opened well' at Canidrome ballroom. Al Uhles and band going back to Tsingtao's Strand hotel. 'Rasputin' (M-G) banned in Straits Settlements; but big here. Tola and Paul (BlrOt) returned to Japan after success at Paramount ballroom. - Beverly Griffiths, Fox Shanghai manager, arriving in Hollywood about' July 10. ' "«„-, Whltey Smith and gang opening Edgewater Mansions, Tsingtao's fa- mous: hotel, June 15.. Little Club closes for summer In three days, . and Mont Berg, .man- ager, to U. S. for talent. Success of 'Anina* brought Ru- dolph Frlml back to Shanghai to. work on another operetta. He made most of 'Anina' here;' Two Sisters' (Chinese made) broke, all Shanghai: records with 60-day run, 186,000. In 1,200-seat Strand, three shows dally, and 51 consecutive full houses. ' Lilian and Virginia . Worth, tourf ing Orient 18 months, three sepa- rate stops at Cathay Hotel (Shang- hai's* Biltmore); arriving in Frisco soon to rest three months. 1 Am a Fugitive' (WB) just re- leased by Chinese censors, . biggest first run . in history— In a Chinese theatre.. Thirty-three days,., four shows a day. Previous record 'All Quiet' ' Honohh By Mabel Thomas. J. J. Franklin here for four weeks, oh business. ' MO.ther of Louise . Fazehda here for a tour of the Islands. ; , . John .J. Gaiiv.FQX Film exec, and Mrs. Gain here ' for ' three weeks. Y. Bermo'nte, former musical di-j- rebtor' at the Hawaii, theatre, ref turned for. a vacation. William Goetz arrived on the Malo)o, after bidding farewell, to the Zariuck party In New -York. Harry Green- and his wife spent a. busy eight days at;the Royal,, and returned to L A. oh the Marlposal William .Dover, general, manager of .Twentieth. Century, -with Mrs. Dover and epmpanion, here for a stay; Polly. Moran . returned to Califor- nia with one of, the grandest fare- wells- given: a film star here. in. many years. ■ , Harry .Brand, , Mrs. Brand, and their son here for a three weeks' va cation. Brand Is publicity director for Twentieth Century Films. . Twenty-three film ..people can- celed reservations: to Honolulu from L. A. because of the -.strike situa- tion.. .Dolores Del Bio and her hus- band, also Fay Wray and' her hus- band, John- M. i Saunders, were oh the expectant sailing. London Sooth Africa By H. : H«n«on . Wintry weather. Business below average. : Silence, of l W. Schleslnger in London arousing, curiosity over here. Don McCorkindaie, South African boxer, may not go Into the ring again tf London specialist says so. Spinal trouble. ;•. " ' ' i African Theatres perturbed, at number of outside einema owners signing contracts with Independent Film Distributors. Wrestling getting popular here. Several overseas men looking to South Africa for opportunities of scooping in some dollars, C. Morrell Stinson, former pub- licity manager African Theatres' Cape Town office, gets decree nisi against wife. -She is In England and refuses to return. Dr. Harbin; a young South Afri- can who has won a reputation in England as a magician, Is paying a visit to his home town, Kokstad, Cape Province, where he is known as.Ned.Willlamst^-,^^ ^ M. Vorster, manager, of the Pal- ladium cinema, Paarl, 'Cape Prov- ince, has been transferred to a cin- ema In Bulawayo (Rhodesia). Mr. Vorster hails from the States, where he , was interested In show business some years ago. dance In 1908, meeting by accident! Alexandre Kitchine, conductor of at Tabarin and doing one for. the benefit of the other customers. . Christian Caillard and Leon TOu-i blanc winning Blumenthal painting fellowships. Raymond Millet, Andre Berry , and Jean Blanzat get the. Russian Ballet performing at' the Cape Town. opera house,, follows the example of, Sir Thomas Beecham at. Co vent Garden, by re- buking chatterers in tho audience during . playing of the overture. Roy Royston to crash into British films. Epstein doing a bust of Bernard Shaw C. B. Cochran back from, vacation In Jugoslavia. Hannen Swaffer .enrbute to Can- ada and the U. S/ David Buynaby to try his luck in Hollywood shortly. Gaumont-Brltish closing studios for month of August, Backers of "Richard of Bordeaux' American tour lost $30,000. Daughter born to Angela. Bad- deley and Glefn Byam Shaw, June 4. Mitche.ll and Durant may be In Charles Cochran's new revue in. the fall/. . ; Bobby May getting ready for fam- ily reunion; mother and sister due here in July. Frances Day's sliver colored, pe cullarly shaped car attracting big West End crowds. Sophie' Tucker In charge of per- fume stall at annual Theatrical Gar den Party, June 18. Claude Grahame r White entertain- ing several film celebrities at .Cowes on bis:, private yacht... Tex Austin and party being en tertained by the Honorable David Tennant at, his' Gargoyle Club. Gene Dennis likely to land a reg ular weekly column in the Sunday Dispatch, with 2,000,000 readers. T0ni„ Geraghy adapting 'Funny Face,' ;the Aarbns-Freedly musical, for a British' International film.; Elizabeth JBergner making her first public charity' appearance v at Theatrical Garden party June '26. ., ' E^d^ Dolly staging . show .aV Hun- garla Club. Maidenhead, with' man- agement loosening purse strings. Morton Downey considering do- ing Dowllng's 'Honeymoon Lane' for England, with himself as star. Few; London' news hounds are aware that Emelia Tersini, Came ra's former 'girt friend, is a barmaid at the Cafe "Anglais. ' Billy Stewart, ; former 1 manager tot Universalis RiAlto; ih' a similar capacity - at Astoria, Brighton,'' for the E. E.' L'yoiis group. " < Homer Holcomb and his comedy mule, one of the attractions in Tex Austin'* Rodeo; is being, dickered for vaudeville ' for -England. , ; Geraldihe and Joe travel their own. Engltotti teacher'; and - have to have an Hnglish lesson daily to last four hours; otherwise they are not permitted to -work:' MoKiegue & Elliott being visited by thieves; departed with two type writers and $1,000 worth of French undies. Eddie Seamon (Forty the, Seamon •and- Farrell) having- swell ease of California hives. All through drink lng champagne: Lucienne Boyer' getting" $2,000 < -week: at the Monselgneur Restau- rant; - with contract calling for six .weeks', minimum. WhipsnadO 1 Zoo reports- record Sunday crowd,' June 10, - following fatality when man mauled to death In lion's den few days -earlier. Tallulah Bankhead ■ doing short .provincial tour with vaudeville 'sketch, before rehearsing .'Serena Blandish,' headed for West End, British international nearly, eot John. Boles for a feature/ but star changed his mind and signed for two native flickers at the last mln Ut'e. Mag-da Kim and Steve Geray, Hungarian stars of 'Happy Week End' at the Duke. of. York's, decided to wed June 13, more or less se- cretly. _, ■ .i. :-. ' John Paddy Garstairs will not waif ttf ^irect. ^Lightning Lady,' motor racing store, here. He sails pronto to do a script in Hollywood for Metro. Gilbert Miller owns rights of To- varich,' by Jacques D.eval, current hit &% the Theatre de Par^s, Wants Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontahne to play, leads; . 'Path of Glory,' a Triumph Flln j quickie, given general razzing at Metro's Empire on its West-End pre-release, with audience shouting 'take it off.' Cyril Maude just completed his .first play, 'County,' in collaboration with Peter Garland, Players Theatre Club .presenting it July 1, starring Marie LOhr. Helen Chandler signed up shortly after her arrival here to appear in English version of 'Unfinished Sym- phony/ which Anthony Asquith is supervising In Vienna. Mcrlyn Binney," son of Lady Bln- nie and nephew of the Marquis of ^yJ^b,urj^cj;ashing Lin to ^howjbusi- ness. Promoting musical show, arid will act under name of Jack RIvler. Clarence Derwent having trouble With, immigration authorities and not allowed to land In Alexandria, Egypt. Just because he is an actor, although had not Intention of work-, ing there. Arthur Klein to do musical ver-j son of. 'Fair, and Warmer.' Avery 1 Hopwood's executors want with Jay Laurler to finance show and play lead. Title likely to be changed to "Getting Warmer.' Westport, Conn. By Humphrey Doulens Theresa Helburn planting crops. John Gloetzner opens Bell Island club. Mayor LaGuardia moves in this Wiiliam O'Neal visiting Artie Wrighte. Lawrence Tibbett visiting Mario Geraldihe Farrar attending local affairs now. Sokoloff summer symphony series opens July 6. Charles Hanson Towne returns to South NOrwalk. Lucrezia Bori sings at Darien Thursday night (28). Wood Cowan again the hit of thie •Fireman's Frolics.' Eva LeGallienne spending the season at her farm. Tight Britches' will be tried out here week of July 16. The Broadway set flocked to Bridgeport for the circus. J., Edward Bromberg spendlhaT - summer at South Norwalk. ' Georgie Jessel a sucker for cro- quet, the game that slays them out Agnes Grant and Kathryn Walsh return to Country Playhouse busi- ness staff. Porter Emerson Brown, play* wright, in Norwalk hospital with, broken hip. Walter Huston and Nan Sunder- land (Mrs. HustOn) visiting Rich- ard Connell. Anne Whelan handling publicity for the Country playhouse. Edward Runkel new manager. . Richardson . . Wright, editor . et House and Garden* new head of Sil- veraight Guild of Artists. . Anne. Nlphols has sold lier West Norwalk. • home to Helen ' Grace Carlisle, author , of 'Mother's Cry/ •Love on an Island,' a new comedy by Helen Deutsch, Guthrie McClin- tlc's press agent, opens here July, 28* Lawrence Langner may offer Shaw's 'On the Rocks.' Playhouse will also present. 'Love on an; Island? by; Helen. Deutsch, p, a. A guaranty fund of $16,000 baa been gathered by John Orr Young, of Young &. Rublcam, for Sokoloff summer symphony series. Warren Munsell, Jr n son of The- atre Guild's business manager, an4 a student at Princeton,, learning the Jbusiness- at,. Languor's '■ Country Playhouse. DaVe Snell is from Marihattari.' Marc' Connelly in to work'at Par- Mae West's sister and her hubby In town; ' Ben Silvey .back from a trek to- Denver. ' 'J: ' Helen Fergu'sph and Glenda Far- rell in Gotham. Francla Wh^te recovering, from appendix lifting. Nick Foran/neing led around, by a pup oh a string. • . ; . ' ' ; William Goetz has called. oft his vacash to Honolulu. > Buck Jones airing a sequence of one of. his U serials. . Enrico Caruso, Jr, has clipped the hirsute adornment* ■ William Dover back at his 20th Cent, spot from Honolulu. Regina Care we enroute to Coast on N. Y, Amer. film stuff. Fred Keating tied Into a shower faucet and cut his hand* . . Ed Mills, the ahoe manufacturer, opening a shop in Hollywood. Frltz^ Tidden entertaining 80 at his LagUna Beach splashadorlum: Edward Muhl, business manager at U, is. in New York on business. Warner Oland sunning On ''the beach of his Santa 1 Barbara ' home. Father and " brother' of Helen Twelvetrees to spend the summer here. , . .. Harry Tobias awd "Nell —Moret have finished lyrics for a Mascot pioture. Eddie Melcher, Washington Star, drama ed, hopping * around . 'the studios. P ,. Victory Jory:three. months late In learning that he Ohlpped, a bone in his foot. :' ■'. . ' Clara Kimball Young .and. .King Baggott nicked couple parts last week at. U. Felix Basch, UFA director,' has arrived in Hollywood with his fam- ily from Germany. On completion of 'All Good Amer- icans,' Otto Krueger will rest up at Ellzabethtown, N. J. Roberts Fairbanks flying to Salt Lake City celebrating parents- in- law's golden wedding. There are quite a few workers at Metro who have never seen hide nor hair Of Greta Garbo. Bernard Natan and Henri Dia- mant-Berger, of Pathe Cinema, so- journing in Paris for pleasure. . .If.Xieslie. Howard .eyor jra$es as. a 10 -goal man in polo he can thank Hollywood ,for the Inspiration. Waldemar ..Young on a boat trip to South Seas before returning to his new contract duties at Par. Sam Schwartz, member of New York grievance board, here visiting his son, Marty, mgr. F-WC Mesa. 1 ' Phil Regan's recordings spin oh the Joan Crawford set while- singl- ing cop cavorts on adjoining stage. Frank Newman -came down from (Continued on page 68) ' ■ 62 VARIETY Tuesday, June 26, 1934 OBITUARIES EMMA LITTLE FIELD MOORE Emma Littlefleia Moore, 63, wife of Victor Moore and his partner in. his vaudeville sketches, died in Nassau County sanitarium June . 25, following a ling Illness culminating in ah attack of pneumonia. Her husband, who wis in Hollywood for Universal, came east by plane. The Moore-Iiittlefleld duo was formed about 30 years ago when both were in vaudeville, Moore do- ing a sketch, 'Change Tour Act.' He was. playing the old Brighton Beach music hall while she was filling a date at Henderson's, Coney island. They were .married a few weeks later and. she went into the sketch, making a tour of the Orpheum cir- cuit their honeymoon. They were vaudeville headliners for many years until . Moore was Bought, for musical comedy and she ■was also included in the engage- ment. She Was with him in *45. Mljuts from Broadway,' 'The Talk of New York' and other comedies. She retired about 1927, s Two sons and a, daughter survive. Had been in the theatrical -business for 50 years and was known pro- fessionally as Little Tom Maguire. Mrs. Lou Maguire, the widow, survives. GEORGE LEON George Leon, 43, 'formerly in vaudeville, was killed at Freeport, L. I., June 23 when he. was struck by an automobile and run over by one following. Survived by his yfidow f . Alice, who was his partner in their vaudeville act. ARTHUR FLANDERS Arthur Flanders, 3], film sales- man for Warner Bros., Denver, dropped dead in' his. room In San Francisco while attending the com- pany convention. He is survived by hits wife, Irma, and their daughter; Lila, 11. Funeral services were in Denver. J. A. CURTIS J, A. 'Archie' Curtis, 50, died iri Maplewood, N. J;, June 17 of an. ill- ness contracted last season while on- tour with J Green Pastures.' He is -the second white member of the show's entourage to have passed on, the other- having been Howard Smith, manager. Mr. Curtis was stage manager from the. opening in New. York until illness compelled him to leave .the company last Jan- uary. > He was a. sort of father-con- fessor ' to the Negro • players in the organization and saw to it that the boys who had promised to send money home to their, families each pay day exhibited their money order stubs. He kept them out of trouble and helped them when they did be come involved. Prior to his association with 'Pas- tures* he had stage-managed prac tlca'lly every George Kelly play, in eluding 'The " Showoff,' 'Tbrchbear- ers/ 'Craig's Wife,' 'Behold the Bridegroom' and 'Daisy Mayme/ He is survived by. his wife and a little daughter. MAUREEN KEEGAN. Maureen Keegan, 25, dramatic art teacher, actress and producer, died in Capetown, May 2i. She had been JOHN E. JOYCE John' Edward (Jack) Joyce, 58 died June 16, in Albany, N. Y., where he had lived since 1926, own lng . stable of horses, which he had exhibited at. fairs and circuses until two years' ago. His parents sought' to educate, him for the priesthood, but at the age of 16 he joined ' Buffalo Bill's Show. He won the World rodeo championship in 1905; and the following year he ap peared with Will Rogers in va'ude ville; In 1906 Joyce and Tom Mix together in'' the Buffalo Bill Show, reccive.d $56 a week film offers^ Mix accepted, but Joyce flipped a coin to decide whether to .enter the films or go to Europe; The fall of the coin' headed him abroad, where ' he won fame with his circus and horse show.' He returned to the United States in .1925 and played in vaude- ville.. Joyce was twice married His daughter; Evelyn, equestrienne is married to Frank A. • Cook, legal advisor of the Rlngllng Circus. A son, John, is trainer In the Hagen- beck -Wallace show. Two other children survive. EDWARD L. J|LLSON~ Edward L. Jllson, former theatre manager in New York City, where he was assistant to Roxy, and in White Plains,. Brooklyn, Richmond Va., ' and' Petersburg, Va., died in Tulsa, Okla,, last week, according to word received by Syraouse, N. Y. relatives. Jillson, former Syracusan, and graduate of Syracuse University, where he was active in undergradu ate theatricals, quit show business to become an oil operator in the Southwest. Widow, four children survive. ICHARD B. MALCHI Richard B; Malchlen, 67, retired actor and former coach of the West Point fencing team, died in Middle = ^w1rOCY^r^nT^' s '"'He^^' playe? heavy roles, chiefly employing his Skill with the rapier, with Richard Mansfield, Robert B. Mantell anc others. He suffered a nervous breakdown in 1927. Westwood, CaL died June 15. He came to California In 1914 and lived in San Francisco until eight years ago. Survived by his widow and a daughter. WALTER FULLER Veteran Australian showman, one of the four . Fuller brothers promi- nent in- Anzac Show business; died in Wellington at the age of . 63, An obese, condition proved fatal. A widower, he is survived by two daughters and his three brothers, Sir Benjamin Fuller, John and Ray Fuller. IN MEMORY Of My Late Pal JOSEPH t. SCHENCK Died June 28, 1930 GUS VAN hard at work oh the production of. John Van. Druten's play, 'London Wall.' Had a fine reputation amongst amateur theatrical socie- ties, and produced 'From Nine Till Six' and 'A Bill of Divorcement, Father survives. JOHN A. PHILBRICK John A.. Philbrlck, 47, comedian, died of heart disease In Boston, June 20. Mr. Philbrlck trained for the stage in Tuft's College and later with Castle Square stock In Beston. He began his stage career In blackface and later teamed With his wife as Philbrlck. and De Veau in 'Samples.' Later he was with 'Vagabond King,' . 'Cameo Girl, 'Capt. Jinks' and 'Follow^ Tru.' Had spent the last three years -in radio Survived by his widow, a son and brother. HERMAN P. BRINKMAN Herman P. Brinkman, 73, former cellist with the Metropolitan opera for 20 years, died at Englewood Hospital June 21. At ; one time he played with Victor Herbert's or chestra and. for some time was in the New York Symphony Orchestra under Walter Damrosch. He has been 'retired for the past ten years Survived by his. widow, two daughters and a brother; CHARLES COLWAY Basil Kalmakoff, known on the stage as Charles. Colway, .singer, Was drowned at Cupsaw Lake, Ringwobd L. I., June 20; when bis canoe over turned as he reached for. his dropped paddle. His body was recovered and taken to his home in S.unnysfde, L. I. CHARLES YOUNG Charles Young; 86, drummer in the. Rutland (Vt.) City Band, oldest municipal musical organization In the country, died in that- city, June .15. He .^wM^the y pun ge_st ,C ivil W ar veteran Verm"oh"t7^ GEORGE W. TAFT George W. Taft, 67, died June 6 at the Strong Memorial hospital, Rochester. For many years a musi- cian with the Al Fields, minstrels and the Barnum circus. Survived by his widow and a daughter. WALTER SULLIVAN Walter Sullivan, well-known mu- sician and for several years pianist with Claude Sweeten at. the Golden Gate theatre, San Francisco, died suddenly June 21 at his home there. Radio Chatter (Continued from page 47) New York, Chi and Washington on biz and Miami with the Jaysees. Iaabelle Dickaaon. KGIL, and Ernie StoWe. Council luffs newly- weds delaying their honeymoon till late in summer. . Barney Oldfteld in town visiting old friends at KFAB. John Henry back at his KOIL- KFAB desk full time after barely losing, out In the Western Iowa Congressional race. . Studios at WAAW jammed with spectators for the Sunday DeMolay variety shows. WOW picking up a new remote at the Sixty club for Its nightly dancing party. Austin Bevans and band being remoted front Krug Park over KOIL nightly except Mondays. Maryland JACOB BOTH WELL Jacob Bothwell, 79, who from 1900 \o 1927 was manager of the Steel Pier at Atlantic City, died at his home in Ventnor, N. J., June 24. A widow survives. Wife of Frederic Gerke, motion picture: producer, Mrs. Mary Brown Gerke, 67, died at. her home, in NeW York, June 18. Surviving are her husband and a sister. Father of Jacques Plunkett, pub- licity manager e made to contractors. The R.F.C. emphasized that it has no Intention of financing consumer purchases, installment sales, imports or exports, promo tional purposes, bf expansion^ into new fields. Adequate, security must be pro vided, while concerns now burdened by 'substantial outstanding iridebt edness' or with encumbered proper- ties must effect an arrangement with existing creditors which will give ; the Government a prior claim Terms will not exceed five years and applicants must demonstrate their inability to obtain, credit at prevail lng bank rates. R.F.C. also prescribes that bor rowers must not pay salaries which it does not deem 'reasonable' and requires all applicants to present a certificate demonstrating compli- ance with the NRA code. Further more, all loan seekers must promise that they, will not use the advance for purchase of materials or equip men t from any npn- signer or varl ous codes. ^Possibility^that^major "film" firms' may benefit from this provision de pends largely on the solvency of the corporation. Regulations stipulate that R.F.C. does not Intend to make loans 'to provide for the operation of business in receivership,* but the huge' lending agency said it will consider requests for loans contin gent upon termination of the re- ceivership by a settlement with creditors to restore the corporation to a solvent condition. Chicago Ben Paley changing trains on his flip to the. Coast. Les Athiss entered" his hoss In the Ontwentsia meet. Getting ready to make some more studios out of Holland Engle's desk space at WBBM. Jack Pegler broke his hop to the Coast by visiting the RKO picture convention at the Drake. M. H. Ayles worth doubled from the RKO convention to the NBC rooms at . Merchandise Mart. Sid Strotz lolling beside the James river down in ol' Virginny, Ray Linton has a clockstand made out of an old Duryea auto radiator cap. Getting ready to shift the NBC salesmen into the west end of the 20th floor. Pacific Northwest Ken Stuart, KOL, Seattle, an- nouncer, fishing in the wilds of the Olympic Peninsula; for a few days. KOL's Carnival Hour program through with its daily broadcast from the stage of the Coliseum the- atre, Seattle, for the summer months. Williams Sisters, vocal trio, hold- ing a spot with Al Pearce and his Gang in Seattle. Mayor Carson .was panned plenty on his talk over KOIN, Port- land, on the longshoremen's strike situation. KOIN's antenna fell June 9th, causing the station to go off the. air during the morning period.. Sam Herman and his band are now playing at the Mohtmartre, succeeding Bart Woodyard's ork, 1 which^has=goTie=^^SettHide7^0fS; Herman over the Columbia Don Lee network through KOIN. Nikola Zan, baritone, is now heard over KOIN, Portland, In his second series of song recitals. Jeffery Gill booked to star on the 'Hop Gold Blue Star Revue,' over KOIN. He will also be heard on the program "Oreigon on :Parade.' Roy C. Witmer, NBC vice-presi- dent in charge of sales, visiting Seattle and gadding about the Northwest and British Columbia with Birt Fischer, KOMO-KJR gen- eral manager. Al Scnuss, leaving his job as a KOMO-KJR, Seattle, announcer for a government post in Washington, D. C, getting a farewell surprise party, which went on the air over KJR. R. H. Carey of the* Coolldge Adver- tising agency of DesMolnes, visitor at the KGW-KEX studios of the Oregonian, Portland, in the interest of the Chamberlain's lotion account. Journal Juniors have embarked on a summer schedule of entertainment over KFJR. Setup calls for a pro- gram each Tuesday and Thursday, Joy Storm, formerly with KGW- KEX, now production manager at KQW, San Jose. Cal. Jeffery Gill left last week to join Henry Busse's ork in Chicago. While here Gill Warbled over KOIN. Nate Cohn's 'Window Theatre of the Air,' regular feature of KEX, ap- peared on the stage of the Pantages last week. Act Is making a tour of northwest theatres for eight weeks. Charlie Myers, president bf KOIN, was host, to members of the retail merchants committee of the C. of C. at a party gven'at tb» studo. Texas When Harry Grier, program di- rector of KTRH, Houston, was mar- ried to Mary .Louise Souter of San Antonio recently, the studio Was the scene of the wedding, and the ceremonies were broadcast. . Changes In broadcasting equip- ment at KTRH, Houston, are under way, following Federal Radio Com- mission's grant of increase of power, to 2,600 watts. Herbie Kay, orchestra leader, is holding auditions for aspiring en- tertainers- to appear with the band at the Rice Roof Garden in Houston, ahd In broadcasts through KTRH and KXYZ. Lecta Rider, -radio editor of the Houston Chronicle, who broadcasts fllm news twice weekly as 'Polly of Hollywood' on KTRH, has re- turned with her reporter-husband* Ed Rider, from a three weeks' vaca- tion voyage to the West Indies, Panama and South America. Minnesota Ford Billings, KSTP sales mgr., headln' North from Florida after a six weeks' vacash with wife, and baby dotter. Trio is. traveling in Chrysler and due back in St. Paul July 1. Gertrude Donovan's is that new contralto voice you've been hearing, in those blue numbers over KSTP three times weekly for Red Star Yeast. John Wald, KSTP's red-headed announcer, for the first time in hif golfing career broke 90— and with' a vengeance. On Tuesday (19) afternoon John smacked out an 85 — and is he proud! St. Paul Dispatch and Minneap- olis Tribune, newspapers which recently bought the 1,000 - watt WRHM, didn't want the yarn to. break till September, but local scribblers employed part-time by Twin Cities stations got the story, and the jig was up. LETTERS . When Sending -for Mall to VARIETY Address Hall Clerk. POSTCARDS, ADVERTISING or CIRCULAR LETTERS WILL NOT BE ADVERTISED LETTERS ADVERTISED ONE ISSVE ON LI A,dams T Alden J Belrs W J Born J Contra/ Miss Dexter H Dugan Ed Gillette J Harpet W Kay mo re H M Shpppard B Taylor P DOROTHEA ANTEL 826 W. 72d St.. New fork City My New Assortment ot GREETING CARDS Is Now Ready. 21 Beautiful CARDS qnd_ FOLDER S. Boied. rpst- pnld, Tor "~ '* ""' One Dollar * M. MILLER 1 INSTITUTION INTERNATIONALS Shoes for the and S^eet •V SHO VfFOLC'3 SHOESHQT- 15,52 BROADWAY Tuesday, June' : 26, 1934 OUT DO ORS VARIETY 63 Hollywood (Continued from page 61)' Seattle to discuss Northwest the- atre ■operations with Fox- West Louis N. Cohen, F&M realty head, really going to N. Y. Had to turn [v-back recently at Denver on a. mo- tor trek. >,.; Arthur Lyons .cooking .up. a deal ' .with Berg, , Stebbins, Allenberg and Blum agency to represent firm in Henry' Myers' play 'Halloween' t will be opened in August , by . the West Falmouth, Mass., summer atopic outfit. Leonar d Splgejglass, . recently made, 'a supervisor at . Universal, will recoup in Honolulu from a ton- nil snatching. French . newspaper, Candide. awarded first prize to .Werner Hey- "man of Fox- for his rftusicalcdm- . position 'Amusez Vous.' •• Sidney Harmon back. to.. Gotham without any contractees.ifor his •Waltz in Fire,' play' which he and James R< UHman are producing, in Fall. '.- Morris Schlesinger, Newark the- atro operator who was visiting his brother Leon here for more than a month,, sailed back via the canal for New York. Summer school of cinematography at University of Southern Cali- fornia will have Frank Capra and Irving Akers, cameraman, as In- structors on the advisory staff. ' John. . Leroy Johnson. Universal publicity boss, knows how it' feels to , be at the other end of a '.we J - come* home shindy. Two-man band' arid a vegetable' shower, greeted his return' from the east. Two wire-haired terriers ' belong- ing' to Warren Williams massacred two dozen chickens on. adjoining r.ancho and were impounded ■ by owners, -Actor paid for their release and turned cook loose on the fry- ers. Technicolor has. been haled into Federal Court by Frank L. Ba'uhi to answer charges of having .infringed the copyright oh the book 'Wizard of Oz,' by producing, it as ".a animated cartoon, labeled .. 'Wizard oUOz? with ' Stanley Maxtedj regional'di- rector. •< '•■!■' ... • Since arrival of the Billy Bissett tunesters eight months 'ago/ Royal Yortt Roof "biz is. up ' 98%; hotel management claims. Hub's only' speak doing very well. Town dead on its feet from the heat. Hagenbeck -Wallace hetfe for six days. F r E. Liberman has taken .over th$ jinx. ' Tremont as 'a, cphtihuous double feature house. , ' . ' ' J3dith Barr.ett;' with Hapipden , In 'Caporisacchl,' back home, in (jiohas- set to appear with South Shore players. , • T. F. . Murphy, .olid-time ticket broker, moved his place from, Boyl- ston to packaged liquor store, . figur- ing to do better. Opening of new club the Riviera at Old Silver Beach, West Fal- mouth, postponed a ; week.. Jack Brown and ork to play. Clara Boole, old-time : 'Iplanthe' turned up at the - Shubert . when the Chartock company was herp r a, help to, Al Duffy. for pictures and stories. Travis. Ingham, roving reporter of the Herald, saw his story, 'Biddy* oh the screen here as 'The Most Pre- cious Thing in Life,' but. didn't go for. it. Friars heard fornier Mayor Curley tell them at their, weekly luncheon, that the censorship threat was se-~ rious. Said it was a question of cleaning up or being ' cleaned. Bill Grady, casting director of M-G, invited trouble by announcing he'd :see any. doting mothers with children they believed could handle part in 'David Copperfield.' Toronto Burton Till to Lote Angeles. • Andrew Allan Europe-bound.. John Ford's real tag is Fprdham. Al Leary back after that opera- tion. Fiddling John Adaskln takes up .flying. Jimmie Fry and his band to the Hanlan Roof. Attractive Ann (Sunday Mirror) Lord in town. Ran Daly to Montreal to solo for George Sims' band. Kathleen Stokes, organist, organ- izing a girls' Jjand. 15aTry"^ay;~— really Sarah Kaplon. Phil Sherman, UA's western dis- trict manager, holidaying here. John Hazza replacing Harry Dahn as western territory manager for FP-Can. CRC contract renewals will go to Jean Haig, Billy Bell and Wishart Campbell.' Kay Kamen up to open a Cana- dian office here for exploitation of Walt Disnoy novelties. If you want a CRC audition this tell, file your name Immediately The Abe Lastfogels were here; 1 Shirley Brenner .twisted a gam. Still trying to mug the press at the Fair. Paramount Club ■ seating 90 and turning them away. Promotion of showboat 'Dixiand' is warming up again. Lou Lipstone singing 'California; Here I Come' for a fortnight. Film boys' golf tournament now carrying a gallery for laughs. Number of Chi boys hied to the Shrine convention in Minneapolis. Phil Davis whirling around Fair with Fay'Wray and Irene BPrdoni. Don Carlos marimba hand never, uses, music,- playing from memory, Heidelberg .bells on . Randolph 'street make you think it's a vil- lage. . ■ Hen Youngman m.c.'ihg -Para-, mount Club, nite spot, for the sum- mer. "' Morris Jacobs ,of , Bozal-Jacobs agency cojhmutlng' between Chi and Omaha. ' Molly . Goldstein knowing show biz and hasn't seen, a play in a pair oif .years. . . ", , . , .,. . ! Sid Strotz ducking NBC for a fortnight at the family hacienda in Virginia,; >'•' , 1 Raymond Wiley^ up . from south, caught piece of steel in. eye . but recovered. Phil Baker and Harry ' McNaugh ton still battling it out on Bunker Hill greens.' Gardner Wilson's idea for the Folies ■ Bergere . stationery was a chorine in the ' bottPm right hand corner. Ben Berriie at Palace looked like old home week. Added attraction battle of cigars between Bernie and Murray. ',' '' . Though tightening ub on all ceh sorship they've let down" on regula lions at. beach; letting' inen swim shirtless for first time.. Izzy Rap'paport of Baltimore, Jack Peeler, Bert 'Wheeler* and Robert Woolsey hanging, - arourtd RICO, convention at. Drake.. New Haven ; Billy Phelps off- to the Wisconsin summer hideout. ; Gene Rodney .wearSfhome-grown flowers in his car windshield. Arena, local sports palace, goes imder , auctioneer's, hammer in ! Sept There'll be ah auction! in< B. T Barnum's fprmer Bridgeport home. . Harry Shaw made ,a hit .with -his hirelings ■ with that, weekly, holiday rule. Halstead Welles directed Yale Dramat's. finale,, 'Two Gentlemen of Verona', Ed Wynn, as' an honorary mem ber of class . ',24, panicked 'em at Yale commencement. • Robert R. Arnold, Albany , news pfaperman, killed ' In. plung"e from \Vlndow at. Yale reunion. : Lew Sehaefer has moved the wife, hjiddies and family cat from Hart ford to a local bungalow. - 1 N. Y.-Guilford Players and Stony Creek theatre first two summer troupes under the wire hereabouts San Francisco By Harold Bock ', It's quieter, now that the Warner- ites have gone home. ' Ellis Levy has scrammed for Reno, for booking,, hot divorce busi- ness., . Ray C. Witmer is In from New York .and headquartering around NBC. Kay Thompson, up from Los An geles, si ing with Tom Coakley's band. Jim Wahl, announcer from KGU, Honolulu, is vacationing here for a while. Ralph Brunton is In the Uhiver slty of California hospital with an infected foot. Bruno Lessing blew in and looked over the best eating places and the Hearst papers. Henry Maas .is taking his vacash *y=lazlng^arpund^Lake ; ZCahae^-witlL- out a radio' set. i'Hary Barris is recuperating -at Boyes Hot Springs from a ncr vous breakdown. Ann Welcome is back at her Call-Bulletin home economics desk after that blessed event. Jack Brower claims the champion- ship, as the. best ping pong player this side of the Hudson. Cal Pearee in from the North- west for a few days, leaving the Al Pearcc gong behind him. Jack Allender leaves the Univer- sal exchange to sell for Bryan Foy,. replacing Hugo Strickland, j Tiger Thompson's Wife is in' the Stanford hospital ' after a serious operation, which she watched' throughout . Blanche. ud- show opposition in New ■york State. Paul M." ; Le,wls t .whose activities until recent years were confined to indopr and fraternal cir- cus promotions, has a, motorized shPw' this season' that : ranks with the best of the smaller ones. The big top is 'a 110 wtth three'' 50's; Outfit is mdvihg. on 45 trucks, semiv trailers and private <:ars. Perform - ance Is presented in three rings, carries approximately 200 . people and about. 35 head of ring and ex- hibition stock. Veterans of. the big tops are found in various executive capacities, particularly from . the former 101 Ranch show. Daily parade Is a feature, none having been missed since the opening'. Big show performance; .which runs slightly better than an hour and 20 minutes; offers many stand- ard circus acts, including Don Clark troupe, aeriallsts; Ben Abidiziz troupe, tumblers; Capt. John Smith and his lion act, Buck Preston's elephants,- Mickey and Sammy Lewis aerial cradle, Will Scho field and Mr. Murry, ponies and Liberty horses; Mae Lewis' dogs; "'Slivers' Johnson and his Funny Ford, Rus- sell Sisters rearing horse act, Jerry Burrel and company offer the con- cert. Pete Ruth is producing clown. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Hill, the latter riding menage and jumps, the fprmer. an executive. Sideshow is under the manage- ment of L. F- Stoltz, with Bill Brahdybe'rry making first openings. Tom Oliver works second openings and does magic and Punch. Princess Zelda, sword ladder and mental act; Sig. Arcarls, impalement- and flageo- let, player; Floyd Sampson, tatoo; Goldie Steel, contortionist and dancer; Mae Williams and Gladys O'Connor, dancers, and Little Eva, midget. Executive personnel includes Paul M. Lewis, general manager; Fred Seymout*, superintendent; Jim Swafford, contracting agent;. Martin Gardner and. George Van Nest, in charge of advance cars and 11th Or graphing; Leo Ehert and George "MCn^GlOThw^^press :==-Edd ie==-Vale r boss hostler; R. C. Wade, chief elec- trician; A. E. Harriger, assistant; Ed Hartmann, boss canvass; Sam Leslie, assistant; Frank Carl, stew- ard. Francis Fisher of Fisher Bros.' circus is handling, rcseryo seats. Ernie Tucker and Harry Zimmer, concessions. Charles Seigri.st troupe of aerial- lsts which have boon with the flhow since the opening, left recently to open their free aet at enstern Ohio and western Pennsylvania parks. Chicago, June: 2B. Concessionaires Ass'n of the sec- ond World's Fair has been holding meeting after meeting. But they don't know, what they're meeti about or what they're supposed to decide. The only thing they know is that business- is brutal and there's nothing they can decide about, that They sit around and each one "gets a chance to spill his own particular tale of red ink. They weep on each' other's shoulders and then they ad- journ. This has been going on for weeks npw. and still it doesn't help. The air is full of alibis— rit's been raining,, school isn't but yet, the drought is keeping . 'em home, the chinch bug epidemic is worrying the farmers, the amebic dysentery scare of last year is hurting, people, ain't got the money,- ide-away One the street of villages are some pretty good wailers; can tell, a pretty weepy stpry. for. real honest-to-goodness tear jerking it takes .one of the amuse-., ment concessionaires over on the deserted island which is now called the Midway. It has -been estimated that only one out or every 50 ' visi- tors to. the Fair: ever get around to the island hideaway and that one ; always thinks he's lost and hurries back to the main stem. They never stay long enough to drop any coin. ' Two villages are over there, ^Streets of Shanghai* and 'Holland.' Shanghai has. ' iven up trying to'.; get anybody, to drop two-bits for' the entrance fee and has thrown open the gates; Holland. is starving to death. Holland Is looking around for a great attraction to pull theih in. They have approached all thea- trical agents in the loop asking for a wotfian who ' has three geese on a string. The only act with a goose in it that the agents tknow ' is the act known as the Four Qrtoni* But the agents can't book that aot» because the Ortons get more^coin playing 1 a last ..half' thari the whple Holland village grosses /in a month of Tuesdays. . . ' Frank. Buck's joint isn't getting, enough ..to feed the- :baby monks which have the center spot, in the., cpncesslon. ;PJenty'.pf squawks com- ing through. on_the ^bad layout of the. Frank .Buck zoo. The rides and noise -joints are .also brutal, .the motordrome doing , about /the best- biz. It is. understood that a nudist cult has asked for a permit. to or- ganize a colony over on the Island. *They claim that's the • only place where they can . have . real privacy. Mass. May OK Beano Boston,. June 25. Bill making the game beano legal ip Massachusetts if pitches are lPcally licensed and proceeds go 'to charitable, civic, educational, fra- ternal and religious purposes, has been reported favorably . by a leg- islative committee considering it. .; BUI now goes to the House of" Representatives for action. ANOTHER TEXAS AIBEB Galvestpn, Junp 25. ■ Charles Raymond building $150,000 beach resort .eight miles south of Corpus Christi. Opens Carolina Office Chario.tte, N. C, -Jim George Hami , of New Yorlc City, and Norman Y. Chambliss, of Rocky Mount, who have become the big fair moguls of North Carolina, have arranged to open a. permanent headquarters at Raleigh next month. Fpr this year they haVe acquired, in addition to the state fair, the Cent- ral Carolinas Fair, at Greensboro, the Rocky Mount Fair, and the Wilson Fair. A contract has been .sigTicoT^with"" the World of Mirth Shows for the'' midways. Carolina Date Set Charlotte, N. C, June 25. 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