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‘KID BUSINESS’ SOUGHT 


HOUSE HERE 
WILL PLAY 
RK0 ‘LEGIT’ 


RKO has taken a lease on 
the Mason Opera House for 
production of legitimate plays. 
The house is scheduled to open 
November 1. 

Metro politan Productions, 
Ltd., a subsidiary of RKO Pro- 
ductions has taken over the 
historic Broadway theatre, and 
will be the first of the motion 
picture concerns to actually 
get into the field here for the 
preservation of the legitimate 
stage. 

Warner Brothers started in New 
York with “Fifty Million French- 
men” last year and followed it with 
“Top Speed,” both of which 
proved phenomenally successful and 
have been made into equally big 
talking pictures. 

Activities of Warner and Para- 
mount for the rebirth of interest in 
the in-person theatre were told in 
Inside Facts a few weeks ago. 

Definite arrangements of RKO 
came sooner however than were ex- 
pected, particularly in regard to lo- 
cal operations. Policy with the 
Ma'son, which may be renamed, is 
to produce strictly original plays, 
which, if they are successful here, 
will be taken to New York and af- 
terwards made into taking pictures. 

LE BARON HEADS 

William Le Baron, general man- 
ager of RKO studios here will su- 
pervise productions at the Mason. 
Le Baron was well known as a suc- 
cessful author and producer, previ- 
ous to his advent into pictures. 
Before coming to Los Angeles, he 
was in charge of Paramount studios 
in New York. 

Fred G. Latham has been ap- 
pointed general stage director and 
Charles Harris will be in charge of 
business management. In all like- 
lihood, Don Eddy will handle pub- 
licity. 

Name of the first production 

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AMOS ’N’ ANDY 
DIVIDE PEN LABOR 


Amos ’n’ Andy, now filming 
their first talkie, “Check and 
Double Check,” at RKO Radio 
Pictures’ Studio, have divided 
the work of autographing “fan” 
pictures in the following man- 
ner: 

Amos writes “Amos ‘n’.” 

Andy writes “Andy” and usu- 
ally swings a line under both 
names. 

Press agent yarn. 



MARTY MAY 

With Anatole FriedlancTs 12 O’Cloek Revue 
“Man oS a Thousand Friends” — “Disaster o£ Ceremonies” 
Now Playing at RKO Theatre, Los Angeles 


HOPE PLAYS FAUST 

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11. 
Hope Hampton will appear at the 
Exposition Auditorium on Septem- 
ber 25 in the role of Marguerite in 
the opera “Faust.” Miss Hampton, 
the wife of Jules Brulatour, East- 
man head on the Coast, has just 
returned from a European operatic 
tour. 


BETTY AT PARAMOUNT 

Betty Grable, former pupil of 
Earl Wallace, just completed a two 
weeks’ engagement at the Par- 
amount theatre as ingenue song and 
dance artiste, and will return to 
Paramount _ studio. She recently 
played an important picture role 
with Eddie Cantor in “Whoopee.” 


BUD MURRAY VAUDE 

Million Dollar is headlining Sid 
Gary in vaudeville this week. Hal 
Reed has announced that he is ne- 
gotiating with Bud Murray to 
supply a line of girls and vaude 
specialties for the house, to be 
billed as Bud Murray Vaudeville. 


YOUNGSTER 
NEEDED TO 
BOOST ‘BIZ’ 


What appears to be a con- 
certed move on the part of 
most of the theatre chains of 
this country is being made to 
woo children back to the show 
places. 

Short screen subjects are 
due for a heavy return, as a 
means of restoring the younger 
generation’s patronage. 

This became apparent here, 
when from numerous sources 
it was learned that youngsters 
had not returned to the movie 
houses, as was expected when 
the infantile paralysis ban in 
Los Angeles was lifted. 

Motion picture heads were not 
reluctant in declaring the feature 
film, mainly designed for the en- 
joyment of the grown-ups, was, to 
some extent, instrumental in keep- 
ing kids away from theatres. 

HERE’S HOPE 

Cartoons, kid pictures and com- 
edy shorts were declared the solu- 
tion. 

Chain theatre executives have to 
admit that if the children of today 
are not educated to attend movie 
houses, there will be no grown-up 
clientele in years to come. Like 
many a big newspaper, the theatres- 
therefore realize they must play to 
the youngsters. 

For the past several months, 
the type of entertainment of- 
fered, other than shorts, has not 
been such as to appeal to the 
kiddies, theatre heads now 
frankly admit. As a result, it 
is noticed there has been a con- 
tinual drop in the kid business, 
mainly at matinees, even before 
the Los Angeles infantile paral- 
ysis ban went on. 

West Coast theatres has a depart- 
ment of public relations, under Miss 
Ryllis S. Hemington, to work with 
women’s clubs, churches and other, 
influences, calculated to have con- 
trol of what the young seeks for 
amusement. 

While this department is admitted 
‘3’ effective, it will take something 
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GREENWOOD NEXT 
EL CAPITAN STAR 


Charlotte Greenwood in 
“Parlor, Bedroom and Bath” 
will follow “The Poor Nut” at 
the El Capitan in Hollywood 
opening September 21. In the 
supporting cast will appear John 
Lytel, Johnny Arthur and Sally 
Starr among others. 


YOU’LL SEE IT IN FACTS 




PAGE TWO 


INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


SEPT. 13, 1930 


THEATRES DEMAND ‘GOLF-SUNDAY’ 


Abramson Tangles Again With Hayes Group 

INDE WANTS 


WILL HAYES 
TO REPORT 


F. & M. EAST-WEST TOURS ARE SET 


Ivan Abramson is at it again, 
this time with an accusation 
that the Motion Picture Pro- 
ducers and Distributors _ of 
America, the Hays organiza- 
tion, is prosperous and has an 
income of a million dollars a 
day, and he, though not a mem- 
ber, wants an accounting. 

Abramson claims it is caus- 
ing his independent producing 
company great losses, putting 
the figure at $400,000. 

The Graphic Film Corporation 
which Abramson controls was a 
producer of allegedly indecent 
sex films which the M.P.P.D.A. 
caused to be suppressed. _ In re- 
venge he brought suit against the 
organization and the present accusa- 
tions are the result. 

Abramson states that in collect- 
ing 5% of the gross business of its 
members, the Hays organization is 
levying a tax, which is a govern- 
ment prerogative, and he demands 
that they open their boqks to the 
courts, and give an accounting of 
expenditures. 

He also accused the Loew inter- 
ests and other members of the or- 
ganization with vastly inflating their 
stock values. 


CAST FOR “ALARM” 

Mary Doran is to play one of the 
feminine roles in Tiffany’s “Third 
Alarm.” Miss Doran is under con- 
tract to M-G-M. 

“The Third Alarm” is under Em- 
ory Johnson’s direction, with Anita 
Louise, James Hall, Mary Doran, 
Paul Hurst, Jean Hersholt, Hobart 
Bosworth, Joseph Girard, Blanche 
Friderici, Georgie Billings and 
Walter Perry. 


ST. DENIS BOOKED 


Ruth St. Denis will appear here 
this winter at the Belasco theatre. 
She was given her first professional 
dancing engagement by Mrs. Alice 
Pike Barney at the Belasco theatre 
in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Barney 
is general director of Theatre Mart. 


GRIFFITH EAST 

Edward PI. Griffith, director of 
“Holiday,” is en route to New York 
to confer with Donald Ogden Stew- 
art on changes to be made in the 
filming of “Rebound.” 

Griffith is to direct the picturiza- 
tion of the stage play which Stew- 
art wrote. The star of “Rebound” 
will be Ann Harding. 


“QUIET ON FRONT” 
TRAILING BIBLE 


“All Quiet on the Western 
Front” has reached a total in 
volumes published and foreign 
translations exceeded only by 
the Bible, reports the Universal 
press department. 


$30 WATCH GOOD 
FOR ONE QUARTER 
PAWN SHOP LOAN 

Hollywood is letting out a, 
squeal that can be heard almost 
the length of film it takes for 19 
features. 

Reason is because hard times 
has hit the pawn brokers. For- 
merly, the Uncles had been won’t 
to see the folks through de- 
pressed seasons with liberal 
allowances on their jewels or 
other negotiable valuables. 

Loaners have cut down 75 per 
cent on advances, but hold out 
for the same rate of interest, 
with 50 cents a month minimum 
on $10. 

One actor, who has been wont 
to raise $30 on his watch and pin, 
was loaned the munificent sum 
of $7.50 on the same collateral. 


WARNER’S ACQUIRE 
EIGHTEEN HOUSES 


Eighteen additional theatres have 
been acquired by Warner Bros., 
Spyros Skouras announces. They 
are: 

Liberty theatre, Bedford, Va.; 
Kenyon theatre, Pittsburgh, Pa.; 
Orpheum and Parthenon, Ham- 
mond, Ind.; Hippodrome, Strand 
and Victor, Pottstown, Pa.; Majes- 
tic, Gettysburg, Pa.; Opera House, 
State and Strand, Hanover, Pa.: 
Seltzer, Palmyra, Pa.; Lion, Red 
Lion, Pa.; Capitol, Rialto, Scenic, 
Strand and York, York, Pa. 

KING MAKES RECORDS 


Charles King, who has a fea- 
tured role in Warner Bros.’ “Oh, 
Sailor, Behave,” has recorded 
“Highway to Heaven” and “Leave 
a Little Smile” for Brunswick. De 
Sylva, Brown and Henderson, pub- 
lishers. 


EXEC’S SON TO CRANK 

Leslie Rowson, son of Simeon 
Rowson, executive of Ideal Films 
of England, has been assigned as 
third cameraman of “Charley’s 
Aunt,” which A1 Christie is direct- 
ing. 

Leslie has been a cinematogra- 
pher for the last year under con- 
tract to RKO. 


KENNETH GIBSON IN WAR 
PICTURE 

Kenneth Gibson, screen leading 
man, and son of Ida McGlone Gib- 
son, nationally known syndicate 
writer, is the latest to get a break 
in Edgar Selwyn’s new Metro- 
Goldwyn-Mayer picture, “War 
Nurse.” 

YOUNG IN “MOON” 

Roland Young, recently in Cecil 
B. De Mille’s “Madam Satan,” has 
been added to the cast of “The 
New Moon,” Metro-Goldwyn-May- 
er’s co-starring picture for Law- 
rence Tibbett and Grace Moore. 


SILVERS FACES LENS 

Louis Silvers, musical director of 
Warner Bros.’ West Coast studios, 
appears in Warner’s “Viennese 
Nights” as a conductor, baton in 
hand, leading an orchestra. 


RKO HAS NEW SALES PLAN 


Exhibitors’ angles and the 
general proposition of selling 
pictures to the public are un- 
dergoing a decided revolution, 
states RKO Radio Pictures 
Press Department. 

“No longer will the old for- 
mula of exploitation pan out 
right. The advent of talking 
pictures has altered this. 

“Now it has been discovered 
there must be practically a 
brand-new kind of showman- 
ship put back of the presenta- 
tion of every major production. 

“Producers should provide 
theatre managers with plenty 
of material, with which to at- 
tract attention.” 

Executives of RKO Radio 
Pictures say they are taking all 
this into consideration in mak- 
ing their features and short 


subjects for the new season. 

One of their answers to the 
problems confronting the ex- 
hibs is a set policy of hitching 
the RKO destinies to outstand- 
ing stars. No cast will be 
minus an abundance of stellar 
appeal. Richard Dix in “Cim- 
arron,” Lowell Sherman in 
“Losing Game,” Bebe Daniels 
and Everett Marshall in “Dix- 
iana,” and Bert Wheeler and 
Robert Woolsey in “Half Shot 
at Sunrise,” are only a few 
examples of how RKO Radio 
Pictures is going to stick to the 
star idea as one- means of meet- 
ing revolutionary conditions. 

Indefinite, but it may pan 
out alright. Anyway, the press 
department gets in its plug con- 
I cerning coming pictures. 


DOC HOWE TO 
BOSS BOOKING 

Marco arrived home in Los An- 
geles unexpectedly last Monday 
from New York. He wasn’t 
looked for until the end of the 
week, but he came by plane and 
saved several days. 

In describing the new line-up of 
his organization he explained that 
the New York corporation, known 
as Fanchon and Marco Corpora- 
tion will book all stage entertain- 
ment, whether vaudeville, presenta- 
tion or road attractions in all of the 
Fox theaters east of the Mississippi. 

The western office will be con- 
ducted under Fanchon and Mar- 
co Incorporated, half owned by Fox 
West Coast Theaters, Inc. This 
branch, will handle all bookings 
west of the Mississippi. 

Ideas will be the main attractions 
to be offered in the form of pre- 
sentations, and will be built, as- 
sembled and routed from Los An- 
geles. Vaudeville will be supplied 
wherever wanted but the “Varieties” 
or vaudeville road shows have been 
definitely discontinued. 

M.D. “Doc” Howe is general 
booking manager for both divi- 
sions and is next to Marco in 
command. Howe is to keep his 
office in the west. Marco is Vice- 
President and General Manager 
of the Fanchon and Marco Cor- 
poration of N. Y.; Oscar S. Old- 
know is president and Harry 
Arthur, general manager of Fox 
Theaters, is secretary and treas- 
urer- 

jack I.oeb, vice-president of Fan- 
chon and Marco, Inc. with offices 
in Los Angeles is in charge of 
purchasing of talent for the Idea 
tour. 

Harold B. Franklin, general man- 
ager of Fox West Coast is Presi- 
dent of Fanchon and Marco, Inc. 
the western division. 

It is expected that when the sea- 
son is fully opened, F. & M. will 
book Ideas in 45 towns in the 
United States. 

It is expected that Billings and 
Helena will be added to the tour in 
Montana, which with Great Falls, 
Missoula and Butte will give the 
tour five dates in Montana. 

Rockford and Joliet, 111. have 
been added as a split week in the 
middle west as have Wichita and 
Topeka, and Springfield and' Joplin. 
These will be played on return trip 
to Coast. 


WOLHEIM ON MEG. 


Two important productions are 
in rehearsal at RKO Pictures. Her- 
bert Brenon began “Beau Ideal,” 
sequel to “Beau Geste,” with Doug. 
Fairbanks, Jr., and Ralph Forbes. 
Louis Wolheim made his start as 
an actor-director with a Keene 
Thompson untitled sea story. 


PROPS UP IN WORLD 


Bill Billings, who was Herbert 
Brenon’s property man for two 
years, has been promoted. He will 
be an assistant director on RKO 
Radio Pictures’ “Beau Ideal,” se- 
quel to “Beau Geste,” which Bren- 
on will direct. 


COP IN NEW ROLE 


Ed Kennedy, “cop” of “Our 
Gang and Charlie Chase and 
Laurel and Hardy comedies, has 
been signed to support Henry Ar- 
metta and Nick Basil in RKO Ra- 
dio Pictures’ latest “Nick and Tony” 
comedy, “Moonlight and Monkey 
Business.” 


Cigaret Moves in 
Lobby Print 

A new one in advertising is 
being done by Warner Broth- 
er’s Down Town, in plugging 
Walter Huston in “The Bad 
Man.” 

It’s a lobster poster showing 
Huston in bandit dress, holding 
a cigarette. Fag moves to his 
mouth intermittently and glows 
at the same time. There is 
always a crowd watching it. 


ROBERT ZIEGLER 
WILL REPRESENT 
I. F. IN EUROPE 


Robert Ziegler, concert pianist, 
left for Holland last week to visit 
his family. While there, he will 
report all current news and re- 
view American plays for Inside 
Facts. 

He also will visit Berlin. 

Ziegler has been active in 
show business for the past six- 
teen years, having played most of 
the west coast vaudeville circuits. 


WALLACE STAGES 

TIFFANY BALLETS 


Earle Wallace will stage an elab- 
orate ballet number as a feature of 
Tiffany’s “Just Like Heaven.” 
While this production had been 
announced by the studios as having 
been completed because of the- tech- 
nical details of the ballet number it 
was necessary to add it after the 
other scenes were finished. Wallace 
will stage a fantastic ballet as one 
of the high lights of the films. Anita 
Louise and David Newell are fea- 
tured. R. Williams Neil directs. 


COMEDY TITLE SET 


“Aunts in the Pants” is the title 
selected for the third of the 
“Broadway Headliners” series of 
two-reel comedies being produced 
by RKO Radio Pictures under the 
supervision of Lou Brock. 


PICHEL IN PICS 


Irving Pichel, one of the pioneers 
of the little theatre movement in 
America, has been cast for the role 
of Caleb Evans in Paramount’s 
production, “The Right to Love,” 
starring Ruth Chatterton. 


HOUSES AND 
PARKS SEEK 
GOLF RIGHT 


VANCOUVER, Sept. 11.— 
Miniature golf courses have 
started a revolt in Vancouver 
between the theatres and the 
authorities. 

Sunday closing for theatres 
and amusement parks has been 
enforced for many years. Ever 
since advent of the golf craze, 
the baby links have been 
operating on Sundays. 

Last week, Happyland, an amuse- 
ment park kicked over the traces 
and deliberately ran wide open with 
all concessions, attracting a vast 
crowd and doing a capacity busi- 
ness. 

Now the theatres have declared 
their intention to follow suit and 
will keep open beginning next Sun- 
day. 

Chief of Police Bingham stated 
he would make a report of the al- 
leged violation of the Lord’s Day 
Act to the attorney-general at Vic- 
toria and ask for instructions. 

He stated the city police will 
take no action until they are so 
directed from the Capitol. 

Quebec is the only province in 
Canada that permits theatres, base- 
ball, amusement parks etc., to oper- 
ate on Sunday. 


HEDDA HOPPER CAST 

Hedda Hopper, noted for her so- 
phisticated characterizations on the 
screen, has been added to the cast 
of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Dark 
Star,” to play the role of “Mrs. 
Cameron,” mother of the romantic 
male lead in the story. 


ANN RESUMES 

Ann Christy resumes playing in 
“The Fourth Alarm,” a Continen- 
tal talking play, production of 
which was postponed pending Miss 
Chrsity’s recovery from a recent 
automobile accident. 



LOUISE SEIDEL 

The only toe tap dancer in the world who does an entire forward 
body twist while remaining standing on one foot. 

Scoring a decisive hit featured in 
ANATOLE FRIEDLAND’S 12 O’CLOCK REVUE 
This Week 

RKO THEATRE LOS ANGELES 


SEPT. 13, 1930 


INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


PAGE THREE 


UNION ‘TROUBLES’ BEING SETTLED 


‘Back Home’ Move for School Boosts ‘Biz’ 


FALL RUSH 
FOR SHOWS 
IS NOTICED 


The fall rush for tickets as 
families came back to town for 
the opening of school boosted 
movie box office takings this 
week. 

Almost all theatres in the 
metropolitan area reported ex- 
ceptional business while in Hol- 
lywood and the neighborhoods, 
a general increase was noted. 
Paramount for the second week 
of “Animal Crackers” with a stage 
show took in $31,270, making a to- 
tal of $73,000 for the two weeks of 
the Marx Brothers classic. 

Loew’s State led the town with 
$35,327 for “Call of the Flesh,” 
starring Ramon Novarro. 

Warner Bros, in Hollywood with 
the first week of George Arliss in 
“Old English” rang up $25,700. At 
the Downtown, the third week of 
John Barrymore in “Moby Dick” 
grossed $14,900. Walter Huston in 
“The Bad Man” now packing them. 

Pantages in Hollywood with 
“Manslaughter” took $17,699. 

United Artists in 9 days with 
“Follow Thru” got $15,000. 

Criterion, with “All’s Quiet on 
the Western Front,” scored $18,- 
249. 

Carthay Circle, playing “Holi- 
day,” took $16,108, and is still go- 
ing strong. 

Grauman’s Chinese with “Hell’s 
Angels” recorded $14,608. 

Egyptian, playing “Wild Com- 
pany,” took in $3350 while, at the 
Boulevard, “Cheer Up and Smile” 
registered $3246. 

‘SKIPPY’ PICTURE 
PLANNED TO GET 
‘KID PATRONAGE’ 


KOLB AND DILL TO END RUN HERE 


MOVIE TO SHOW 
HOW SOUND PICS 
ARE TURNED OUT 


In the belief that motion pic- 
ture audiences throughout the 
world are keenly interested in 
what makes the talkies talk, 
officials of RKO Radio Pictures 
are preparing a film showing 
what goes on behind the scenes 
in a modern talkie studio. 

The “sound track” — that 
mysterious wavy ribbon always 
heard but never seen — will be 
flashed on the screen so that 
the eye may see it in the pro- 
cess of transforming light waves 
into sound. 

Preparation of the reel is 
under supervision of Carl 
Dreher, head of the RKO 
sound department, and is be- 
ing made as the result of an 
idea suggested by Dr. Alfred 
Goldsmith, vice-president of 
the Radio Corporation of 
America. 


RAMOS IS LEADER 
FOR MEX. TALKIES 


Newspaper comic strips enjoyed 
by children everywhere are being 
used as a basis for motion-picture 
stories. “Skippy,” of nation-wide 
fame, is being prepared as a pic- 
ture by Paramount. 

Earry Darmour has for a long 
time found that the Mickey (Him- 
self) McGuire shorts, based on the 
Fontaine Fox Toonerville cartoons, 
are exceedingly popular. 

At present Darmour is planning 
a tie-up with the 400 or more news- 
papers that print the Toonerville 
cartoons daily to aid the campaign 
of the industry to increase chil- 
dren’s patronage in theatres. 


NOAH BEERY TO TOUR 


A six-week’s itinerary is being 
prepared for Noah Beery, Warner 
Bros, player, in Warner theatres 
throughout the country. 

VIRGINIA SALE SIGNS 

Virginia Sale has been signed for 
a character role in “Ex-Mistress” 
for W. B. Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, 
Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead, 
Joan Blondell and Albert Gran 
complete the cast, which Roy del 
Ruth is directing. Charles Kenyon 
did the screen play arid dialogue. 


Carlos Borja Ramos, who plays 
a part in the Walter Huston film, 
“The Bad Man,” is a leader in the 
attempt to get Hollywood talkies to 
go Mexican rather than the nause- 
ating aristocratic Spanish, that is 
ruining the talkie racket for Central 
American, Mexican and South 
American countries. 

He recently purchased hundreds 
of copies of an “Inside Facts’ edi- 
tion, containing a lengthy outline on 
the Spanish talkie subject, and for- 
warded them to his friends in Mex- 
ico, to let all know that their hope 
for true Mexican talkies is being 
supported by at least one publica- 
tion. 


BROWN ON ROAD 


Joe E. Brown, comedian in War- 
ner Bros.’ Vitaphone special, "May- 
be It’s Love,” is making personal 
appearances in Warner theatres in 
the East. 


DE VRIES AT MART 


Henri de Vries opened at the 
Theatre Mart for four nights be- 
ginning Sept. 9 in “A Case of Ar- 
son,” in which he played seven 
characters. 


TWO ON “NORTH 36” 


William Slavens McNutt and 
Grover Jones have drawn the as- 
signment at Paramount to do adap- 
tation and dialogue of “North of 
36” for the talking screen. Para- 
mount made a silent version of this 
Emerson Hough story some years 
ago, immediately following the 
great success of “The Covered 
Wagon.” 


JEAN TAKES REST 


Jean Arthur, featured film play- 
er, left by plane for New York on 
a short vacation following comple- 
tion of her role in “The Silver 
Horde,” RKO Radio picture. 


KID BUSINESS BEING SOUGHT 


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livelier and less sophisticated than 
the big features, to swing kid trade 
to the box office. 

Some of the greatest attractions 
for the kiddies, now in vogue, is the 
Larry Darmour “Mickey (Himself) 
Maguire” series, and other shorts of 
the same type. 

LIKE STRIP 

Darmour realized that “Tooner- 
ville” cartoons in daily papers are 
highly popular with the younger 
element, and rightly guessed their 
pulling power would be equally ef- 
fective on the screen. 

It took a season for them to 
click, but when they did, they 
ranked possibly second only to 
Laurel and Hardy series, as a busi- 
ness builder. 

At present, Darmour is working 


on eight of these, but in addition, 
his studio will have other cartoon 
films as a supplement. 

Many theatres are trying to 
appeal to the kiddies by orzani- 
zation of clubs. As far back as 
1926, Robert A. Hazel, then 
manager of the Tulare theatre, 
Tulare, Calif., conceived the 
idea of organizing what he 
called the Tulare Theatre Ju- 
venile Club. 

Members of this club received a 
button, and when they got to- 
gether on Saturday mornings, sang, 
danced, read and recited. Each kid 
was a walking advertisement for 
the theatre. 

Hazel’s club proved a strong 
force for business building, and the 
idea could be adopted and devel- 
oped by theatres in neighborhoods 
to excellent advantage. 


BUSHMAN TO 
FOLLOW K. D. 

Kolb and Dill will bring their 
engagement of “Good Old 
Days” at the Hollywood Play- 
house to a close this week, com- 
pleting two weeks of only fair 
business. 

It is stated that Francis X. 
Bushman will open at this 
house in a week or so in a new 
play called “Thin Ice.” While 
the arrangements are not com- 
pleted it is believed that 
another day or so will find 
Bushman actively in the pro- 
cess of rehearsals. 

There is a persistent rumor to the 
effect that Alex Carr is preparing to 
open in a play at the Playhouse fol- 
lowing Bushman. Carr hasn’t been 
seen upon the local stage since he 
appeared in “Potash and Perlmutter” 
at the old Morosco theatre several 
years ago. He has a large follow- 
ing here. 


MOSCONI PAIR 
‘STAR’ PUPILS 


Mosconi Brothers in conjunction 
with Harry Gourfain, of Paramount 
production department, conceived, 
staged and produced in entirety the 
stage presentation, with 48 boys and 
girls, which is wowing audiences 
at Paramount theatre. The piece 
co-featured Ted Leary and Auriole 
Craven, and had Earl La Vere and 
other acts. 

Line-up for this piece was taught 
the Mosconi routine, and is now set 
for four weeks of coast time. 
Mosconi Brothers are operating a 
school of their own in Hollywood, 
where they are training pupils for 
this type of work, with many pros- 
pects or bookings in store. The 
Mosconis are producing also for 
Fox studio and two musical come- 
dies soon to open in New York 
City. 


ACTOR MAKES DEBUT 

“Meet the Widow,” a Pathe com- 
edy, marks the screen debut of 
Donald Dillawa 3 q stage actor. 



Ruth Shields, coloratura soprano, 
who recently appeared in “The 
Street Singer,” Shubert comedy on 
Broadway, was previously featured 
singer on Radio Station WOR. She 
is now a feature in Harry Gour- 
fain’s Paramount Publix produc- 
tions. Miss Shields recently played 
a season of six weeks with Paul Ash 
at the Oriental theatre in Chicago. 

She is a beautiful blond, with an 
exceedingly fine voice, and it 
is expected she will be cast for 
some important roles in forthcom- 
ing Paramount picture productions. 
She is booked under the manage- 
ment of William Morris Agency. 


NAMES TO PACK 
LAUGHS IS RULE 
FOR COMEDY PIC 


“Funny titles for funny pic- 
tures,” is the edict of Lou 
Brock in charge of production 
of short subjects for RKO. 

Titles of the first three com- 
edies of the Nick and Tony 
series to be released this fall 
are: 

“Society Goep Spaghetti,” 
“Razored in Old Kentucky,” 
and “Moonlight and Monkey 
Business.” 

Title of Walter Catlett’s star- 
ring vehicle “Aunts in the 
Pants” also supposed to pack a 
laugh. 


MURRAY STUDENTS 
LAND GOOD JOBS 


Bud Murray proteges are begin- 
ning to cash in on their extensive 
training received at the Bud Mur- 
ray School for Stage. This past 
week the Bud Murray California 
Sunbeams left for 40 weeks on a 
Fanchon and Marco tour with 
“Wild and Woolly” Idea. 

Sylvia Shore left for 30 weeks, in 
“Modes” Idea, and Tut Mace, fa- 
mous acrobatic dancer and off- 
rhythin expert, left for Denver to 
Fanchon and Marco. Nelson and 
Thatcher opened last week at Para- 
mount theatre in the Paramount 
Publix stage shows. 

Kathryn Hereford, who has ap- 
peared in many New York stage 
successes, including “Whoopee” and 
“Ripples,” has while visiting in 
California, been studying daily with 
Bud Murray, well-known New 
York and Los Angeles stage and 
dance director, and head of the Bud 
Murray School for Stage at 3636 
Beverly Boulevard, in preparation 
for the new Ziegfield musical 
comedy “Smiles,” written by Will- 
iam Anthony McGuire, and which 
will be produced in New York this 
fall. 

Miss Hereford leaves California 
this week to begin rehearsing im- 
mediately for this new production, 
taking back to New York a “made 
in Los Angeles” Bud Murray rou- 
tine. 


PLUGGER SCORES 

WITH STAR SONG 


A pip of a song plug, that was 
not in the cards, but nevertheless 
got over with a wallop, was heard 
at the Blossom room. 

Sig Bosley, manager for Robbins, 
was there at the opening of Johnny 
Johnson, and was called for a bow. 
The Gang insisted upon a song 
from the well known warbler’s cata- 
logue. The maestro of “Tin pan 
alley” thought fast, looked over the 
social register of the flicker capitol, 
and sang “Singing a Song to the 
Stars.” 


BACK FROM EUROPE 

Leon Schlessinger, motion pic- 
ture executive, returned to Holly- 
wood this week from a business 
and pleasure trip to Europe. 

Schlessinger, producer of “Loo- 
ney Tunes,” which Warner Broth- 
ers release, visted England, France, 
Germany and Holland on his jour- 
ney abroad. He also spent several 
weeks at Bad Nanheim, Germany. 


FAVORABLE 
AGREEMENT 
IS REACHED 


There will not be any trouble 
between the theatres and the 
stagehands despite rumors they 
had reached a deadlock in set- 
tling their differences, accord- 
ing to late reports. 

For the past several weeks, 
matters had seemed to come to 
an impasse between the fronts 
and the backs, but the meeting 
now being held are of such a 
friendly nature that it is be- 
lieved from reports rom both 
sides, that everything will be 
settled O.K. 

Controversy between the musi- 
cians and operators was ironed out 
satisfactorily last week. 

A joint committee of theatrical 
managers, representing" The Big- 
Four,” Warner Bros, Publix, Fox- 
W. C., and RKO, and a committee 
of the Amusement Trades is in con- 
tinuous conference, trying to settle 
differences as to wage scales and 
working conditions. 

Frank Vincent for RKO; J. J. 
Franklin and Bruce Fowler for 
Fox-W. C.; Max Shagrin for War- 
ner Bros.; Stanley Brown, Charles 
Perry and Ed Smith and Frank 
Newman for Publix are represent- 
ing the theatrical interests. 

J- W. Gillette, Ed Smith and 
Harry Baldwin for the musicians; 
Earl Hamilton, Ted Eckerson and 
M. J. Sands for the picture opera- 
tors; W. S. Scott and Roy Hoste.- 
ter for the stage mechanics repre- 
sent the amusement trades. 

Musicians and operators have 
conducted negotiations with the 
managers or some time, and have 
reached agreeable settlements. But 
stage mechanics appeared to have 
arrived at. some unforseen mis- 
understanding, which delayed pro- 
ceedings. 

It is predicted by the diplomats 
of the entire group that the whole 
matter will be ironed out within a 
few days. 


CAPACITY GREETS 
PLAYERS’ OPENING 


VANCOUVER, Sept. 11.— Brit- 
ish Guild Players opened their new 
season at the Empress theater with 
a comedy, “Dear Old England,” to 
capacity business. During the sum- 
mer the house has been redocoratec' 
and presents a nifty front. To add 
to the comfort of its fans two rows 
of seats have been removed and the 
balance spread out, giving more leg 
room on the orchestra floor. 


MacKENNA GETS PART 

Kenneth MacKenna has been as- 
signed a role in “The Man Who 
Came Back,” (Fox) which will 
shortly go into production. 


COWBOYS SMOKE 
WITH FULL TUB 


When Tiffany troupe filming 
Rex Lease’s “The Utah Kid,” 
went on location in foothills 
near Newhall, California, Direc- 
tor Richard Thorpe warned 
company that a $50 fine was a 
cinch for anyone who smoked 
in smokeless territory. 

A cowboy asked a forest 
ranger under what circum- 
stances they could have a 
smoke, and was told only at 
noon, sitting around a tub of 
water on a flat, barren piece of 
ground. 


PARAMOUNT INTO FALL SWING 


Paramount production is get- 
ting into its fall swing. 

Two big features are prepar- 
ing for early production. They 
are “New Morals,” a society 
drama starring William Powell, 
under direction of Victor Schert- 
zinger; and “Fighting Caravans,” 
an out of doors story with Otto 
Brower and David Burton direct- 
ing an all-star cast. 

Six features of a super order 
are in the course of being filmed. 

They are: 

“Tom Sawyer,” the Mark 
Twain opus, with Jackie Coogan, 


Mitzi Green, and an all-star 
cast, and John Cromwell direct- 
ing; “Morocco,” starring Gary 
Cooper and Marlene Dietrich, 
with Josef von Sternberg at the 
meg; “Along Came Youth,” 
Lloyd Corrigan and Norman. Mc- 
Leod directing and Charles 
“Buddy” Rogers starred; “Sea 
Legs,” with Victor Heerman dir- 
ecting and Jack Oakie starred; 
“The Right to Love,” directed by 
Richard Wallace and starring 
Ruth Chatterton; and an untitled 
picture by Rowland V. Lee, star- 
ring George Bancroft. 


PAGE FOUR 


INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


SEPT. 13, 1930 


Pictures — REVIEWS — Legit 

By LOU JACOBS 


“RAIN OR SHINE” 

COLUMBIA PICTURE 
(Reviewed at Orpheum) 

Columbia presents a new star to 
the movies with this offering and 
there is indeed lots of room for a 
man of Joe Cook’s fun making 
ability and versatility. He is an 
evening’s entertainment alone, but 
he is not alone in the picture. He 
has plenty of assistance in Tom 
Howard and Dave Chasen. 

Story is nothing to work up an 
appetite over, but the manner of 
telling it is a banquet. The wise- 
remarking of Cook and Howard is 
a laugh fest. It is about a girl 
who inherits a circus that has met 
a period of bad weather and has 
gone broke. 

Circus comes to home of one of 
the employees, who is in love with 
the girl, and whose Father is affluent. 
Cook, who is manager of the circus, 
is also in love with the girl. Ar- 
rived in town, the boy takes the 
gang to a party given at his house 
in honor of the girl. Here they 
cut up against all rules of etiquette. 
It is hokum pure and unadulterated. 

Back at the circus at the first nice 
day, when the tent is packed, the 
villian calls a strike' of the perform- 
ers, which results, in a ‘hey rube” 
sequence and a burning tent. Quite 
well done and excellently directed. 

EXHIBITOR’S VIEWPOINT. 
This is a natural. It will cause the 
laugh muscles to ache from over- 
exercise and is sure to be a magnet 
for the kids. Fix up your entrance 
like a big top and your box office 
like a circus. Get a couple of joeys 
in the lobby and your fortune is 
made. You will never have to buy 
extra advertising, when you get 
your next Joe Cook picture, that is 
if Ted Howard and Dave Chasen 
are with him. 

PRODUCER’S VIEWPOINT. 
The story is but an excuse for Joe 
Cook, but that’s reason enough. Joe 
does everything, tight rope walk- 
ing, juggling, ball walking and all 
sorts of deeds of heroics together 
with being a comedian de-luxe. 
This picture has been shot from 
many unusual angles, and some dif- 
ficult situations, which had to be 
grabbed on the now or never. The 
rain and mud sequences were very 
well done and lighted also the in- 
teriors. It is another great feather 
in the cap of Frank Capra. 

Dialogue and adaptation was ex- 
cellent. Wise cracking was most 
excellent, and the picture is a cinch 
to gross a million. 

CASTING DIRECTOR’S 
VIEWPOINT. Willie Collier, Jr. 
was all right in the little he had to 
do, as was Joan Peers as the lead- 
ing lady. Both parts, however, 
were innocuous. Louise Fazenda 
also was in the picture, but no use 
was made of her inimitable ability 
for laugh getting. She was kept 
fair and clean. Joe Cook, Tom 
Howard and Dave Chasen along 
with Collier are as potent a quar- 
tette as are the Marx Bros. Given 


another picture like this, and they 
will rate as a star combination. 
Adolph Millar and Albert Roscoe 
divided the heavy honors between 
them. 


“THE BAD MAN” 

FIRST NATIONAL-VITA- 
PHONE 

(Reviewed at Warner Bros.’ 
Downtown) 

The two greatest gifts of the 
stage to the screen have both been 
presented to Warner Brothers. 
They are George Arliss, now play- 
ing in Hollywood, and Walter Hus- 
ton, who struts across the Down- 
town sheet. 

In this well-told tale of Porter 
Emerson Brown, Huston contrib- 
utes a character with much fidelity 
to the swashbuckling Mexican 
bandit of fiction, a merciless, ruth- 
less, cruel, lovable, heroic, generous 
character, loyal to his friends and 
exacting loyalty from his men. 

Pancho Lopez, exiled from his 
own country by virture of a dead or 
alive reward, pursues his raiding 
and marauding on this side of the 
border, living precariously by dodg- 
ing the Texas Rangers. He swoops 
down on a ranch owned by a man 
who at one time saved his life. The 
ranch has been mortgaged and the 
mortgage is about to be foreclosed. 
A man and his wife have been stop- 
ping at the house, the wife proves 
to be an old friend of the owner, 
the husband discovers oil on the 
property and tries to obtain it. He 
treats his wife cruelly and the 
young rancher finds himself in love 
with her. Pancho settles the diffi- 
culty jn his own rather question- 
able but thoroughly satisfactory 
manner. 

The story is very old-fashioned 
in theme and treatment. It smacks 
of the old days of horse opera when 
Tom Mix started and Broncho Billy 
was the rage, vieing with Bill Hart, 
but those were the days when pic- 
tures were pictures, so no one can 
complain at “The Bad Man” for 
being great entertainment. 

EXHIBITOR’S VIEWPOINT: 
Walter Huston is a comparative 
stranger, but he will make friends 
for you and followers for himself. 
Spectacular desert riding and wild 
west Mex. costumes would suggest 
a similar ballyhoo. 

PRODUCER’S VIEWPOINT: 

The best thing in the picture is 
the flawless acting of Walter Hus- 
ton, without which the opus is quite 
ordinary. The direction of Clarence 
Badger was orthodox but showed 
experience and judgment. The pho- 
tography was at times magnificent 
■but uniformly good. The dialogue 
closely followed the play, for which 
our criticism is that the English 
language used by Lopez, admittedly 
a poor peon, contained a selection 
of words not expected from that 
source. Huston’s* dialect, however, 
saved this defection. 


mean, grasping nickel nurser. His 
appearance is excellent for this type 
of character and, his acting leaves 
nothing to be desired. 

Sidney Blaclcmer in the heavy 
gave a really fine performance. He 
looked the character and conveyed 
it with exceptional understanding. 
Jlames Rennie, in the lead, did not 
have enough opportunity to show 
his real worth, but he did as well 
as could be expected with about the 
poorest part for a leading man ever 
written. Gwinn (Big Boy) Wil- 
liams also had a part in wjiich he 
dressed in he-man garb with lounge 
lizard duties so far as opportunity 
was concerned. Arthur Stone and 
Harry Semals played Mex bandits 
in splendid style. They looked the 
part and grinned viciously. 

Of the two women, Marion By- 
ron in the smaller part was the 
best. She got several laughs with 
her baby vamp remarks. Dorothy 
Revier was in the picture, but her 
work, being as her presence led to 
all the fussing, made a very poor 
casus belli. Her masklike face is as 
expressionless as a statue, while 
her acting, though not offensive, is 
nothing to write home about. 


“MAN TROUBLE” 

FOX-MOVIETONE PICTURE 
(Reviewed at Loew’s State) 

This is another gangster number 
whose only excuse is to afford 
Milton Sills a chance to be a hard 
boiled villain. Those who liked Sills 
in the old days of virile he-man 
pictures and who loved him in “The 
Barker” will be disappointed in 
“Man Trouble.” Here, he is but 
a dressed up ruffian who uses his 
strength to beat up small piano 
players and shoot up other gang- 
sters. When he isn’t doing that 
he’s tossing pretty young girls 
around. 

He rants and bellows in places 
and does everything a real bad man 
should do. Even his efforts to be 
nice, are sinister. 

The story tells of a despondent 
girl who has been treated badly 
by all men caught trying to make 
up her mind to jump in the river. 
This she does under a dare from 
Sills while he is about to run a 
line of bootleg. He jumps in and 
saves her then gives her a job in 
his cafe. She answers a newspaper 
article which results in a Christmas 
day spent in an old fashioned farm 
house. Sills comes to bring her 
back and she goes to save the 
young man she is vacationing with. 

Back, she tips off Sills to the 
danger of a frame up. He disre- 
gards this tip and gets himself shot. 
He forgives the girl and allows her 
to go with the man of her choice. 

Particularly effective scene was 
the day and night spent in the 
farmhouse under homely conditions 
where a Xmas tree and exchange 
of presents touch those senti- 
mentally inclined. 

EXHIBITORS VIEWPOINT: 
If your customers still fall for the 
society night club gangsters, they 
will not object to this but there is 
nothing of a novelty to recommend 
it. 

PRDOUCER’S VIEWPOINT: 
When are you going to let up on 
exploiting the underworld. We 
have advanced to the prison cycle 
now, why go backwards? The 
direction of Berthold Viertel was 
prosaic, perhaps there was nothing 
in the story to inspire him to make 
an effort other than get the picture 
shot. The photography was medi- 
ocre and in many places, worse 
than that. The lighting was care- 
lessly done in many important 
scenes and the angles shot from 
were often confusing. 





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back in town. Frankie Rich- 
ardson has a night in his 
home Friday. Eddie Tierney 
bought one of my Schanzas 
for Margie White. Art Varion 
down and looking great.' 
Watch out for Rev. Dave 
Barnum and his Deacons. Ed 
Hanley ruining them at Loews 
State. 

P. S. — The CELLAR is at 
Cosmo Street and Hollywood 
Boulevard . . . between Vine 
and Cahuenga . . . the phone 
numbers are GRanite 3382 and 
HOllywood 9159 . . . Parking 
is free at the lot across from 
the CELLAR ... The CHRYS- 
LER and SAMSON are there. 

Thank You. 



CASTING DIRECTOR’S 
VIEWPOINT: The work of O. P. 
Heggie was delightful. He played 
the fussy old invalid uncle in splen- 
did style and his manipulation of 
the wheel chair was very funny. He 
got most of the laughs and fre- 
quently set the rhythm at a faster 
tempo when it had a tendency to 
lag. E. Alderson as a skinflint also 
gave a sterling performance of a 


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Late of “WHOOPEE” 

Just Completed Two Weeks 
At The Paramount Theatre, Los Angeles 

Thanks to Busby Berkeley 


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However, it was done as well as 
the subject deserves. 

CASTING DIRECTOR’S 
VIEWPOINT. The outstanding 
point of excellence in this picture 
was the remarkable work of Dor- 
othy Mackaill. She shows here an 
ability both emotionally and scen- 
ically to rank with the very best 
of them. By this picture alone, 
she proves her worth to be a star 
in her own name and given a fair 
chance she will be a sensation. 

Harvey Clark and Edythe Chap- 
man as the lovable farmer and his 
wife were excellent, in fact, next to 
Mackaill were easily the best in the 
picture. James Bradbury Jr., as 
the piano player also gave an ex- 
cellent performance. Roscoe Earns 
as a newspaper reporter was very 
effective in his frequent. scenes but 
small opportunities. Sharon Lynn 
was quite alright as a girl in the 
cafe, and scar Apfel completed the 
cast. 


“FOLLOW THRU” 

PARAMOUNT PICTURE 
(Reviewed at United Artists 
Theatre) 

Golf sets the motif for this ouvre 
and it is an excuse but by no means 
an apology. Laurence Swab, one of 
its authors and stage producers, was 
also co-director of the picture with 
Lloyd Corrigan, and a very fine job 
they made of it too. 

Its story is a nice blend of slap- 
stick hokum seasoning a pretty 
love story. The film closely follows 
the play and is really a justification 
for a continuance of musical come- 
dies in pictures. The original mu- 
sic of De Sylva, Brown and Hen- 
derson was kept in the picture, and 
one number, “I Want To Be Bad,” 
was magnificently staged, with 
some effects that were delightfully 
spectacular. The story drags a lot 
in spots and speeds up splendidly 
in others. It is this change of 
rhythm, perhaps, that is the chief 
po ; nt of criticism, if any. 

The picture is entirely in techni- 
color and has some exceedingly 
beautiful shots. Particularly does it 
make Nancy Carroll stand out to 
better advantage than in any other 
picture she has done. It enhances 
her beauty immeasurably and 
brings out new phases of her 


charming personality. 

Its golf motif specializes in a 
putting lesson which is not at all 
bad for the minnie devotees to get 
some pointers on holes in one. 

The love scenes between Buddy 
Rogers and Nancy and Jack Haley 
and Zelma O’Neill surely get under 
your skin if you are the least bit 
sentimentally susceptible. 
EXHIBITOR’S VIEWPOINT: 

Golf here is your tie-up. A put- 
ting contest would turn a lot of the 
little golf enthusiasts back to the 
theatre. The technicolor feature is 
a sure draw and the music of the 
popular musical comedy is another 
thing to play up, as it is sticky and 
easy. It will delight the fans of 
Buddy Rogers and Nancy Carroll, 
anyway. 

PRODUCER’S VIEWPOINT: 
No need to fear the musical come- 
dies when you can present them 
with such a cast. The direction 
should be accredited with no little 
responsibility for the sucess. The 
photography was exceptional and 
the comedy well sustained and han- 
dled in excellent taste. 

EXHIBITOR’S VIEWPOINT: 
Zelma O’Neill, fresh from the stage 
version of this comedy, showed 
herself a decided asset to the 
screen. Her engaging personality 
and understanding of audience re- 
action enabled her to step immedi- 
ately into line with the best of the 
screen comediennes. Another little 
girl, by the name of Margaret Lee, 
also created a most favorable im- 
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SEPT. 13, 1930 


INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


PAGE FIVE 


In Hollywood-~Now 


By BUD MURRAY 



Bud Murray 


Being invited out to two different OPENINGS in one day, and ac- 
complishing this feat of accepting and keeping both appointments is a 
hard thing to do in Hollywood, now, but both were ideal occasions, and 
so we went in the afternoon, to the newLos Angeles 
Press Club quarters atop the American Storage Build 
mg — we had a glorious time, through the kind invi- 
tation of Walter Merrick, President of the L. A 
Press Club, and must congratulate him on the 
I splendid appointments and the very elite class of 
I people we met, including our old friend, Brooks Barnes 

v/ tnir of the News. 

Curtis Mosby and his Boys from the Apex Club, 
played their sizzling Music. The “gals” did their 
rhythm dances,” and our associate director, Lafe 
Page, started to “steam”— Mildred Washington is 
“dream,” and what a “hoofer,” and someone will 
grab her real quick as a “stager of dances,” because 
some of the numbers the girls did at the Press Club 
opening were “mean” — and how! 

Then to our dear friends, Mr. and Mrs. Eduardc 
Cansino, whom we trouped with 15 years ago, in the 
“Doing Our Bit” Winter Garden production — 
Eduardo has opened one of the finest and most practical dancing school: 
in the West, and with his knowledge of practical dancing, should be the 
biggest in Hollywood now or anytime — At the opening which was a veri 
“swanky” affair, Eduardo invited all the Dancing Maestros, and “boxing 
gloves” were given to the different dance teachers as souvenirs. 

Among those present we noticed — Wanda Grazer, Ballet dancer— 
Leon Janney, young Warner Brothers star— “Carmelita,” well-knowi 
Spanish dancer — Wilbert Dunn, adagio and Ball-room dancer wht 
worked with us in “Passing Show of 1916, — we dished dirt of the older 
days — Ernie Grooney, a musical director whom we worked with manj 
moons ago, and who is about to close a long successful two years engage 
ment in this capacity at the Warner Brothers Studio — Several of Casino’: 
star pupils did some dances of Spain, and a couple of these youngster: 
have “IT.” 

The feature, of the evening, however, was when Eduardo himself die 
his original dance — The old boy still has a lot of dancing left in his sys- 
tem — his cute little daughter, Marghuerita, did one of those flirtatior 
dances, which only can be done by a Spaniard (in our minds)— 
Marghuerita, is sure fire for a career, if she does what “Pop Cansino’ 
says — The hostessMrs. Eduardo was as busy as a bee — -answering ques- 
tions and serving the guests and a great time was had by all — even Mrs 
Bud Murray got up and danced. 

We must say a few words about one of the unusual surprises we 
had during the past week in the form of a telephone call from Harland 
Briggs, who is now playing at the Belasco Theater, Los Angeles, in “Its 
a Wise^ Child” — Harland and the writer trouped together about 17 years 
Girl of My Dreams” was the “Opry,” and we were doing straighl 
for Harland’s perfect comedy— In that year we discovered many new 
towns i n Pennsylvania — and just imagine we are in Hollywood now. 

The “influx” seems to be on the wane in Hollywood now, its the “ex- 
odus,” as George Murphy confides he leaves this week for his vaudeville 
tour— A1 Herman, tells us he hits the trail for Eastern vaudeville— as 
does Jack Boyle, formerly of Kramer & Boyle — Tut Mace joined Fan- 
chon pd Marco’s “Hollywood Collegian Idea” in Denver— Sylvia Shore 
left with F. & M. “Modes” Idea — Joe Brown opens in St. Louis for a short 
vaudeville tour, and then a trip to Europe for well earned rest— Redmond 
& Wells, writes he played the London Palladium for a week— Charles 
Foy left last week. 

Our pupil, Mary Brian, from Paramount Pictures goes to N. Y.— 
Olive Borden another of our former pupils, will go to N. Y. for a pro- 
duction yet un-named, and you can bet she will be O. K.— Kathryn 
Hereford who played in “Ripples” N. Y. stage production, leaves this 
week for immediate rehearsals for the new Zeigfield Musical “Smiles ” 
written by Wm. Anthony McGuire, in Hollywood now. 

On the Boulevard met Bill Perlberg, who got us our job with Sid 
Grauman, and Bill very flatteringly said “this column is great” and never 
a Word about our dance direction— We hope dear readers you do not 
take us seriously, in this columning racket” — Please remember our 
business is “Dance direction” and this column is a side line, but we thank 
Bill Perlberg, just the same— On the same Boulevard Lee Wilmot, an 
eccentric dancer and comedian, whom we plaved at the “Chinese Thea- 
ter” last year, and who stopped the show the “Midnight” show he played. 

Then smack into a real Dance Director with so many brilliant 
ideas in his small stature, that we wonder where he stores them all — 
Our boy friend, Larry Ceballos, whom we trouped with about 1912-13 in 
T .he„ Whirl of Society,” when Larry danced a sensational “Acrobatic 
waltz with his sister— Larry just started producing one idea a month 
for Fanchon and Marco, and we look forward to seeing something dif- 
ferent on this circuit, which is just what the doctor ordered 

Later we bumped into Milton M. Golden, Hollywood’s’ favorite at- 
torney, who has just been elected to the Assembly— Milton was with our 
boy friend, Bernard Weinberg, our champ publicity man whom we were 
with in the ate (too late) Harry Carroll Revue — To the Brown Derby 
for a Quick lunch and in a booth, Kity Flynn, who was our pet under- 
study in _ Good News and is immense in pictures in Hollywood— A few 
words with Bobby Woolsey, who bribes us to go to “Caliente” for the 
Week end —Bobby starts a new feature for RKO, “Sherlock at Home” 
and if you don t know it his boy friend, Bert Wheeler is the other half. 

Eddie Buzzell says he just finished a peach of a short, entitled 

wnA VA°w# nd Chan A ty (th ! s IS no gag) BBB - threatens to leave for 
NOO YA v\ K soon— A couple of youngsters in the corner— Johnny 
Hyams (of Hyams and McIntyre), who reminds us of the “G : rl of Mv 
Dreams they starred in. and which we juveniled in— Johnny sitting with 
another youngster, William Collier. Sr. J y g 

Gene Walters, that sterling writer, who reminds us of that party at 
his Studio apartment m Noo Yawk in 1914 (good old days). See Sid 
C1 wl S back in N - Y --r uow writing for RKO— in Hollywood now 
. • Wh y we so to the Olympic Fights is a question— two “flookey” fights 

Mr V °o”n CeSS1Ve J ' V L eek 5 anci business getting worse, and why NOT? 

? a r, d b , rot ber Johnny, were there, wondering who won— 
Ihe Quillan family also leave soon for vaudeville, but leave Eddie here, 
pictures) U d b6 ’ C011tlnue bis activities in his successful field (Pathe 

« B S,^°. t t> bead man of the local Stage hands union, wanting to take 
\ * *° Ck 1 /*, t \ e IL al " e v enters. ,f you dare call it that— and then we notice 
a new kind of 3 Graces — Bennv Berman of Brown DeSylva & Hen- 

tbWw erm T a T n Sch6n S and Jubby Garron-We gabbed a few minutes 
with the two Harrvs— Harry Gourfam, General Production manager of 
the Paramount Publix Stage shows, and Harry Santley, the genera' 
b"° k .f „°f this same orgamzation-We also see our boy friend from 

Rich “ ds ”’ h « » ( th ~ n»n-cracfabk 

*•» sstrj* “as, ■"AS’’ ,™ srsisfss 

pinal and we might add- (our pupil)— Bobby Vernon, in a milk colored 
out’ "being' ' LOUD~ tZ raff dlne ’ 3 ge ? tleman who Erects picture with- 
.h, 

ft “CCE 1 We ,1,led of • NITE *• <">” s»» 

Ike Edwards fobbed with us about “.Timmy Hussey’s Tattle Tales ” 
hoofed with IKE and Jimmy paid us :off in “mmical stories”- 
J hn Sheehan, of Good News’ (Chicago company)—' Wilson MLner he 
who manages and operates the Brown Derby-Joe Frisco immitMlng 
B.B.B. Another newcomer. Roy Cummings, who we were with in manv 
Vinter Garden shows m Hollywood now— Charley Winninger the most 
versatile thespian we know of, musical or Dramatic. S 


WILLS SCHOOL TO 
ADD DEPARTMENT 


Wills trained dancers are in de- 
mand by motion picture studios, the- 
atrical producers and clubs, and it 
has been found necessary to install 
a separate department at the Wills 
school to furnish talent for these 
engagements. 

Students at the Wills school of 
dancing receive the benefit of this 
booking service entirely free. This 
new department was installed by 
Mr. Wills in order to give students 
every advantage to appear profes- 
sionally before an audience. 

The booking department does not 
confine itself to Los Angeles and 
vicinity, but furnishes talent for 
theatrical enterprises in San Fran- 
cisco, New York and other cities. 


Film Row 
Cuttings 

By THE ROUNDER 


Treason is a crime punishable 
by death according to the con- 
stitution, but to aid, abet and 
incite a traitorous act is 
worserer, especially if the poor 
victim was and always had 
been a loyal and ardent adher- 
ent of the Faith. How’re you 
gonna make the punishment fit 
the crime? 

Accusation is hereby aimed, 
pointed and violently hurled 
at F. E. Benson, manager of 
the United Artists exchange. 
All along, we have been trying 
to work a mad up against this 
here golf dingus. We wanted 
to feel ourselves the Defender 
of the Box-office. We had heard 
that Mary Pickford had opened 
the Wilshire Links in Beverly 
Hills and in disgust and ab- 
horence, drove out there for the 
purpose of forging some tell- 
ing shafts anent killing the 
golden egged goose, and hold- 
ing the fair queen up to ridi- 
cule and contumely in this is- 
sue. 

We took a look about the 
bizarre but beautiful layout and 
thought in our virtuous mind 
that “the devil always comes 
in a garb of sugar coating.” 
We were satisfied that Mary 
had committed a crime against 
everything in the book from 
mayhem to arson when she 
undertook to lure her erstwhile 
theatre customers to her lotus 
leafed link of iniquity. 

It was then we ran into Man- 
ager Benson. He, with malice 
aforethought, immediately in- 
troduced us to Link Manager 
Ralph. We accepted the nomi- 
nation cooly. “Hu h, ” we 
thought, “an enemy to our box 
offices.” 

But Captain Ralph, with 
demonlike affability, asked us 
if we played his nefarious 
game. 

“No, never !” we exploded 
vehemently. 

Then came the dirty work. 
“Give him a putter and let him 
go around once.” This from 
Benson. Think of it. And he 
complaining about bad busi- 
ness on the row. 

With sinister intent, Ralph 
placed a ball and stick in our 
hand, fastened a number about 
our wrist and led us to Hole 1. 
Wth much trepidation we teed 
off and — Jiminy crickets, would 
you believe it, I made that first 
hole in one. 

On the next hole, boy, it was 
a pip. I side-stepped the first 
hazzard and sunk it in par. The 
gang gave me a hand on a 10 
foot putt around a little hill. 

Hole 3 had several kinks in 
it, that had me guessing for a 
time, but I managed to bounce- 
into line with the hole and 
made a birdie. I had a little 
tough break on the 16th and 
lost two strokes but did the 
course in 60 and its par 57. Not 
bad for a beginner, eh? 


What the P. A. Says 

By THE OFFICE COPY BOY 


DONN McELWAINE, Pathe. — Adventurer, globe trotter 
and reporter extraordinary — Popular Broadway actor — A re- 
markable knowledge of the habits — According to an announce- 
ment — . 

JOHN LEROY JOHNSON, Universal. — The delectable 
Betty — Must pay five cents into the general treasury — Pity the 
poor.— The increasingly popular comedian — A diplomat’s ser- 
vice in the name of love — the new movie season’s most hilarious 
mirth-quake. 

DON EDDY, RKO. — Miss LaRoy has what Hollywood calls 
a feeding complex — Bought her $1000 Kentucky-bred mare — It 
makes my charity look like a business — Photographing the 
“fish ladders” — There was no faking, no doubling, no pulling 
of punches — Within two hours had caught 100 pounds of trout 
— Sue Carol is starting her first autograph album — Got away 
to a flying start — Rex Beach’s most thrilling story of the -Far 
North — For the first time in his long and illustrious career — 
Has won an even greater success on the screen — Has a feeling 
that it would be terrible. 

VICTOR M. SHAPIRO, Fox — To set a standard in the mat- 
ter of all star casts — Busiest film executive in Hollywood — 
Foremost among feminine screen writers — The brilliant and 
creative genius — Another famous name to the long list of no- 
tables — Exercised options on their contracts — Just won new 
triumphs. 

ARTHUR Q. HAGERMAN, Tiffany. — -Most pretentious 
production — An elaborate special production- — Established box 
office records. — Players of promise in the new talkie season — 
She arrived without fanfare or pomp — Tiffany’s group of sim- 
ian stars — A comely chimpanzee flapper — Eager for her con- 
quest of the talking screen. 

BILLY LEYSER, Metropolitan. — Achieved international 
recognition — The lure of a theatrical career was too much for 
Charlie — Charming personality and a new degree of talent — 

RKO TAKES OVER MASON 


(Continued from Page 1) 

has not been decided upon, but 
it is assumed that stars and 
players under contract to the 
studio will be employed in the 
stage presentations. This means 
that we may see Amos n’ Andy, 
Wheeler and Woolsey, Bebe 
Daniels, Richard Dix, Betty 
Compson, Evelyn Brent, Jack 
Mulhall, Rod La Roque, June 
Clyde and many others of the 
RKO stars in their stage plays. 
Condition of business in the legit 
field has been showing a steady 
strength among the shows now run- 
ning. Dorothy Mackaye at the 
Vine St. in “A Cup of Sugar” 
grossed $7000, initial week. This 
is the biggest business this- house 
has done in a year. 

But now that I’ve thought it 
over, I’m remorseful. I know 
I did wrong and it wasn’t my 
fault. ' Benson enticed me, and 
poor weak creature that I am, 

I fell. 

I wonder if I went out there 
again if F. E. could promote me 
a season pass. 

* * * 

Lola Adams Gentry, man- 
ager of the Film Board of 
Trade, has returned to her desk 
after a period if illness. It’s 
difficult to work up any amount 
of sympathy for the charming 
Miss Gentry, when, from ap- 
pearance she looks so fine and 
chipper. But its good to see 
her back and if she takes our 
advise she’ll keep as well as 
she looks. 

* * * 

The Film Board held a meet- 
ing last Monday and ten minu- 
tes w'orth of conversation was 
discussed in two hours. It’s 
wonderful how these neighbors 
love one another. 

* * * 

Jimmy Shay, formerly with 
Universal has been appointed 
Sales Manager for Akme Re- 
producers. Colonel Early re- 
ports a tremendous demand for 
bis device but has kept off 
making installations until 
thoroughly into production. 
They will begin installing on 
Sept. 15. 

* * * 

Blackburn and Elliott re- 
ported the installing of one of 
their new model Daylight 
Screens in the. Rainbow thea- 
tre on Santa Barbara and Wall. 
All reports express satisfaction. 
* * * 

Hey, are you a Yellow 


CAP TAKE $6500 

El Oapitan took in $6500 for its 
second week of “The Poor Nut,” 
with Elliott Nugent and hung up 
the closing notice. It will be fol- 
lowed in two weeks by Charlotte 
Greenwood in Parlor Bedroom and 
Bath. 

Hollywood Playhouse, with Kolb 
and Dill in “The Good Old Days,” 
registered $4800 and will close this 
week. Nothing is underlined to 
follow. 

Biltmore did a mere $6000 for the 
closing week of “Candlelight.” 
Egan folded, not completing second 
week of “The Missing Witness.” 
Business at the Belasco, with “It’s 
A Wise Child,” is only fair. 

Dog? I am. I was duly in- 
itiated into the honorable 
and sacred Order of the 
Saffron Pups by Jake 
Fogel, Keeper of the Fleas, 
ably assisted by Mongrels 
George Naylor and Harry 
Wineberg. Cliff Brough- 
ton is Chief Mongrel and 
if anybody don’t think 
that the Hounds are a 
great pack, they’re all wet. 

Jji Jjl 

C. H. Griffith, assistant man- 
ager of Universal exchange has 
been given a year’s absence on 
full pay in which to recover his 
health. He has been on the U. 
payroll for the past 13 years. 


WANTED 


A California Corporation 
wants an Executive thor- 
oughly conversant with stage 
and screen personalities. 



SALARY 

$5,000.00 yearly and share 
in profits of growing con- 
cern firmly established. 

© 

Investment Required, 
Secured 

Address Box 403 
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INSIDE FACJS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


SEPT. 13, 1930 



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Vol. XII Saturday, September 13 No. 11 


RIDE PROSPERITY BAND WAGON 

There have been all kinds of weeks tried to stimulate busi- 
ness in the motion pictures. We have had Greater Movie 
Week, Greater Talkie Week and weeks for Greater what-have- 
yous. They have accomplished nothing constructive. Perhaps 
a special feature or so have been exhibited during the advertised 
period, after which the movies dropped back into the same old 
slush channel. 

A Greater Week that marks a definite advance in the indus- 
try that is to be maintained and recognized as the LOW stand- 
ard for the rest of the year might be epochal but has not yet 
come into existence. 

It remained for Jesse L. Lasky of Paramount Publix to 
suggest a week that IS a Week. He has announced a celebra- 
tion of PROSPERITY WEEK. That sounds like something. 
It is to be celebrated throughout the country from Oct. 5 to 11. 
The psychology of Prosperity Week is optimistic, and can be 
made to spread throughout the town so that a general period 
of money circulating can be made a vogue, not limited to a few 
theatres. 

The great barometer of a prosperous era is the theatre. It 
is the first to feel a depression, and the first to s'ense a recovery 
of good times. Prosperity in the theatre reflects throughout 
all business. The reason is because the theatre is not a credit 
institution. It handles and places in circulation vast sums of 
CASH daily. If has no frozen assets. It buys for cash and 
pays in cash. There is no dead stock nor idle capital investment 
waiting for buyers to make a turnover. Its debts are incurred 
and paid weekly. 

Most all lines of endeavor are the beneficiaries of a success- 
ful theatre. At the very announcement that a theatre is to be 
built, real estate immediately takes an advance and brisk trad- 
ing induces other owners to build close by, thus inaugurating 
an era of prosperity for the neighborhood. 

When the theatre is completed, the hardware men, the fur- 
niture dealers, the carpet and drapery firms, electrical fixture 
people, electrical sign men, printers, sign painters, advertising 
firms, paint dealers, plumbers, decorators, newspapers, cloth- 
iers who make uniforms for ushers and attendants, and many 
other lines of business are immediately the recipients of large 
orders of merchandise. When the house is opened, some two 
hundred or more employees are put to work. This means big 
profits for the nearby eating places, candy shops, drug stores 
etc., whose orders to supply this demand are far reaching arms 
of prosperity. 

If a presentation is on the bill, there are the costumers with 
their profits from ornaments and designs and the necessary 
dry goods, the shoes and stockings for stage and street wear, 
the settings for the stage, and goods and lumber for making 
scenery and properties. 

This is a weekly expenditure aud does not take into con- 
sideration the money paid for film rental. A successful theatre 
costs from $10,000 to $15,000 a week to operate, which is a lot of 
money for one institution to keep moving. What other line 
of endeavor can show such a dissemination of cash and currency 
weekly from a single unit? 

It is the duty of every theatre manager to get back of Para- 
mount Publix’ Prosperity Weew, and show these facts to the 
local papers that the merchants might become conversant with 
what their theatre means to their community. A successful 
theatre is a reflection of prosperity. It is a symbol of progres- 
sive sectionalism, and the lay people should be made to realize 
it. There never was a live town whose theatre was a liability ; 
there cannot be a sick theatre in a going community. 

Let’s all get back of Prosperity Week. 


DOUG, REVIVE OLD CLASSICS! 

George Arliss is going to do “The Devil”. This brings up 
the suggestion that a great subject for a talkie would be Goethe’s 
“Faust,” done many years ago very successfully as a stage play 
by the late Louis Morrison. “Faust” is a great drama, with a 
wealth of romantic material and much scenic possibility. The 
brocken scene would offer many possibilities for unique screen 
and color setting. 

And what a role Mephistopheles would be for Douglas 
Fairbanks. What opportunities for his fanciful leaping and 
unique acting. It is a great part for a great actor and would 
afford Fairbanks as much, if not more, chance to add to his 
glory as did “The Thief of Bagdad.” And speaking of “The 
Thief,” why not make a talkie out of that? Its about due for a 
revival anyway, and the success of the synchronized and 
sounded “Birth of a Nation” should lend encouragement to 
renew these old master-pieces. 

Stage plays are perennial, and some motion pictures are 


TEL-APHOI 

JAMES MADISON 



Short Shots 
At the News 


Margaret De Mille, daughter of 
William C. de Mille, and Bernard 
Finemen, M-G-M production exe- 
cutive, will be married within a 
week. The ceremony will be held 
in Arizona. 

* * * 

Paramount-Famous-Lasky Cor- 
poration and David R. Faries, exe- 
cutor of the late Fred Thompson, 
were defendents in a $64,000 breach 
of contract suit in Superior Judge 
K. S. Mahon’s court. The plain- 
tiffs are Jessie Estelle James and 
Jesse E. James, Jr., grand-daugh- 
ter and son, respectively, of the late 
notorious bandit. 

* * * 

Preliminary hearing of Edith Hig- 
gins, Joseph Marsh, and Forrest 
Easley, accused of stealing a script 
of the “Dawn Patrol” from Warner 
Bros., was postponed by Judge 
Dailey Stafford until September 25. 
* * * 

Platt Music Company celebrated 
its twenty-fifth anniversary last 
week. 

Maurice Costello was freed of a 
$100,000 breach of promise suit filed 
by Vivienne Sengler, actress, who 
asked that the charge be dismissed. 
She may file a second suit, however. 
* * * 

HAMILTON, Ont. — Queen’s 
Theatre was wrecked by a bomb 
explosion. 

* * * 

Mary Fabian sued Everett Mar- 
shall and his wife, Carolina Segrera, 
demanding they pay her $300. 

* * * 

GARY, Ind. — William F. Brown, 
music publisher, was killed and 
Georgia Rogers, a dancer, was 
seriously injured when the auto in 
which they were driving was struck 
by a Pennsylvania passenger train. 


ALFRED NEWMAN 
TO TAKE CHARGE 
AT U. A. STUDIO 

Alfred Newman, recognized in the 
musical world as one of America’s 
most talented young conductors, has 
been appointed head of the music de- 
partment at United Artists studios, 
following recent resignation of Dr. 
Hugo Riesenfeld. 

Newman will conduct, score, and 
supervise whatever music is used in 
connection with a number of im- 
portant forthcoming productions. 

Among them will be “Reaching 
For the Moon,” starring Douglas 
Fairbanks, which Irving Berlin 
will produce; “Kiki,” Mary Pick- 
ford’s next starring vehicle; Sol 
Lesser’s production based on “The 
Dove,” co-starring Dolores Del Rio 
and Walter Huston; an A1 Jolson 
production, and a DeSylva-Brown- 
Henderson opus. 

He conducted the music for the 
Florenz Ziegfeld and Samuel Gold- 
wyn production, “Whoopee,” star- 
ring Eddie Cantor, and for Arthur 
Hammerstein’s production, “The 
Lottery Bride.” 


W. B. SUBSTITUTES 

“God’s Gift to Women,” will be 
substituted in place of “The Egg 
Crate Wallop” in the W. B. lineup. 
It is by Frederick Hazelitt Brennan, 
and recently appeared in Liberty 
Magazine. 


GALE IN TWO-REELER 

Roberta Gale, RKO Radio Pic- 
tures’ featured player, has been as- 
signed a part in “Honeymoon Ho- 
tel,” a Nick and Tony two-reeler 
comedy being produced by Louis 
Brock at RKO studio. 


‘DR. KNOCK’ NEXT 

“Doctor Knock” the stage story 
of an ambitious country doctor, who 
by the power of suggestion puts a 
whole village to bed, opened at 
the Pasadena Community Play- 
house Thursday, September 11. 


APPARATUS BURNED 

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11. 
Shortly after new sound apparatus 
had been installed in the Newman 
theatre, fire swept through the 
projection room when film came in 
contact with an exposed wire, and 
caused damage amounting to sev- 
eral thousand dollars. 


Hello, William Randolph 
Hearst. 

Hello, James Madison. 

Have you any regrets at being 
ordered out of France? 

Only that I am unable to say 
to them, “I’ve been thrown out 
of better countries than this.” 


Hello, Harold B. Franklin. 
Hello, James Madison. 

Have you a paradox you’d like 
to get out of your system? 

When a building is being 
razed, it’s being lowered. 


Hello, Bebe Daniels. 

Hello, James Madison. 

My Southern cotton plantation 
was never overrun with bugs till 
•I started worrying about them. 

Weevil to him who weevil 
thinks. 


Vera Marsh, recently in “Good 
News” and other Metro-Goldwyn- 
Mayer pictures, has just been signed 
to again appear with Buster West 
as his leading lady in his present 
assignment with Christie Brothers. 


TO MAKE COMEDIES 


Negotiations between Daphne 
Pollard and Pathe Studios have 
culminated in the signing of the 
comedienne to a contract. 

By the terms of the agreement, 
she will make six two-reel, all- 
talking comedies within six 


BACK FROM VOYAGE 

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11.— 
Betty Frederick, vaude player, has 
returned from a vacation in Hono- 
lulu. She is slated to leave here in 
October for the East. 


Hello, Walter Hiers. 

Hello, James Madison. 
Have you a twin brother? 
Yes, and I’m both of them. 


Hello, Charles Withers. 

Hello, James Madison. ■ 

The other day a flapper asked 
me for a Cremo kiss. 

She wanted one that wasn’t 
spit tipped. 


Hello, Bill Woolfenden. 

Hello, James Madison. 

What side of a ship does the 
Anti-Saloon League object to? 
The port side. 


Hello, Jimfiiie Brockman. 

Hello, James MadisOn. 

What is your definition of 
cognac? 

A delectable variety of spiritus 
frumenti that changes real cof- 
fee into reel coffee. 


Muriel Stryker, Ziegfeld Follies 
girl who has been a feature in a 
half dozen Fanchon and Marco 
units, opens at the State, Los An- 
geles, next week. 

It is still rumored Paul Ash will 
open at the Paramount, Los An- 
geles, and not with the Warner 
Brothers. 


VIKINGS DUE SOON 

Varick Frissell, explorer and pro- 
ducer whose films, “The Great Arc- 
tic Seal Hunt” and “Lure of the 
Labrador,” were seen last year, is 
now arranging a release for “Vik- 
ings of the North,” an all dialogue 
feature which he made in Alaska. 


PHOTO CUSTOMERS 

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11. — 
.\fter giving customers afternoon 
tea, beauty advice, bridge lessons 
and golf demonstrations, Publix’s 
California has instituted a policy of 
photographing each ticket buyer. 


PUPIL IN CHARGE 

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11. — 
Herbert Fredericks, who began six 
years ago as a pupil of Bill Bickett 
is now assistant instructor at Bick- 
ett’s band school, in charge of all 
beginners. 


deserving of lasting life. “The Thief of Bagdad” has sufficient 
of the Arabian Nights classic to warrant it being made immor- 
tal. 

It is difficult for Fairbanks to find material that will hold 
up to his “Robin Hood,” “Black Pirate” — and, by the way, why 
not a talkie of “The Mark of Zorro?” Doug has a gold mine in 
his classics if he will consider modernizing and shooting them 
out again. 


Hello, Ralph Spence. 

Hello, James Madison. 

They tell me your new home is 
beginning to show cracks. 

Yeah; wise cracks. 


Hello, Marty May. 

Hello, James Madison. 

What is a back-seat golfist? 

A woman who lets her hsu- 
band hold the club while she 
tells him how to drive. 



Betty Alden getting herself signed to plav in “Lightnin’ ” 

It’s Will Rogers new vehicle Alma Real playing a mother 

in a Spanish version of the “Big House” . . . ! . The Tiffany 

lot crowded with trucks Sidney Fields being a bad man 

in RKO S Cimarron William LeBaron staying in New 

York with no intentions of going to Europe’ Evelyn 

Brent driving a dog team in the “Silver Horde” The 

Tiller Sunshine Girls on their way to St. Louis Wesley 

Ruggles is a native son Neely Edwards playing with Ber- 
nard Granville’s little girl And Mrs. Bernard Granville 

looking on 

* * 

Sylvia Picker being sophisticated Vera Van writing in 

from New York and sending greetings to all the pals 

Robert Stone thinking up a new story David Graham 

Fischer rushing around Maude Feeley looking unruffled 

and very attractive Isabel Culver' the former “collich 

girl writing for a new golf magazine Gloria Gray 

doing an unbilled tap back stage at the Egan Mil- 
lions of extra players on the RKO lot most of ’em are 

Alaskan salmon ..... Doug Fairbanks Jr., signing to play “Beau 

Ideal” Mary Astor preparing for another picture 

Lowell Sherman being mistaken for either Amos or Andy 

he’s doing black-face for “The Losing Game” and listening 

to people talk about him. 

* * * 

Tired business men on their lunch hours They like the 

Newsreel Theatre Jules Buffano smoking a cigarette 

in the alley back-stage at the Paramount Henry Armetta 

looking “regusted”. 

# & 

If this pecky daylight saving bill goes through, the Breakfast Club 
will have to serve afternoon tea. . . . Wally Berry is back on the job at 
the M-G-M- plant but still can’t talk any louder than a Japanese auction- 
eer. . . . Jim Tully is on his way to New York to lecture about some- 
thing or other. He’s going by Pullman. . . . Burton Homes, who makes 
a living finding strange places has moved into Bob Fairbanks house in 
Laurel^ Canyon. . ., . P. G. Wodehouse bought a new typewriter without 
any H’s to save him the trouble_ of crossing them out. . . . Bob Leonard 
put in a swell tennis court at his place in Malibu so he can play nights 
and keep the neighbors awake. . . . Charley Bickford is mad because 
somebody dug a hole in his yard and found oil. . . . Mister De Mille 
(C. B.) was visited by Gov. Christensen of Minnesota on Wednesday 
and showed him a lot of old guns and things. . . . Mary Doran had a 
birthday and a day off this week. 


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SEPT. 13, 1930 


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FOX ACQUIRES 
HOYT CONTROL 
IN AUSTRALIA 


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11.— 
With Paramount reported negotiat- 
ing for the Union Theatres in Aus- 
tralia, Fox jumped in ahead this 
week and, to protect its own in- 
terests, acquired a controlling inter- 
est in the Hoyt Theatres. 

Hoyt has about a hundred houses, 
scattered throughout Australia. Deal 
will give Fox new film bookings, 
giving that firm a better break than 
other American producers, who have 
been losing ground lately through 
poor quality of some of the pic- 
tures. 

Paramount’s deal with Union in 
the Anzacs has been on for several 
months, and is due to be closed 
soon, according to reports. 


DANCE TEACHERS 
RE-ELECT LUDWIG 
CHIEF EXECUTIVE 


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11. — 
Some three hundred dancing teach- 
ers met here this wee in the tenth 
annua! convention of the California 
Association Teachers of Dancing, 
re-electing Albert Ludwig president, 
and Mrs. Charles Clark and Mabel 
Hasse, vice presidents; Rose Moore, 
secretary; Leo Glines, treasurer; 
George Seigler, trustee and Belle 
Butlar, sergeant at arms. 

A show, in conjunction with the 
convention, was staged by Lew 
Serbin of the Dance Art Shoe Co., 
which company also had on display 
a complete accessory layout. Pupils 
of the McFarland-Joy, William 
O’Rourke, McLane, McGown and 
Errna^ Gage studios, all of San 
Francisco, exhibited new dance 
steps. 


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San Francisco booking agents, 
always the best of friends, joined 
hands in a gala “good times” ban- 
quet at Girard’s French Restaurant 
this week. The program, compiled 
by Musical Walsh, was master-of- 
ceremonied by Sol Krause and in- 
cluded the following offerings: 

Opening address, “How. I Got 
My Start” by Winfield Blake; toe 
dance, Maude Amber; song,»“See 
Me Tomorrow” by Phil Frease; 
banjo solo, “Nothing Today” by 
Bert Catley; song, “I’ll Be Back In 
An Hour” by Lou Emmel; talking 
act, “Phone Us In the Morning” 
by Carlyle and Ellsworth; saxo- 
phone solo, “It’s the Best I Can 
Offer” by J. D. Barnes; hand organ 
solo, “The Good Old Days Are 
Gone” by Bert Levey; recitation, 
“I’ll Try to Squeeze You In” by 
Carl Eber; harmonica solo, “Is 
There Anything New” by Ella 
Weston; finale, “I’ll Send You a 
Wire Collect” by the entire com- 
pany. 

* * * 

SPOTLIGHTS 

Vic Heras of Heras and Wallace 
. . . and Carl Luster, one half of the 
Luster Brothers, used to ride the 
ponies together in the circus . . . 
comes now a pianothon in Sherman, 
Clay’s window . . .Billy Hapek pre- 
siding at the ivories in an effprt to 
outdistance previous record holders 
. . . but that’s nothing compared 
to the double act that’s now in the 
eighth month of breaking in a new 
layoff . . . Don Waite taking on a 
bottle of not-very-near beer . . . 
Perry Silvey scurrying back to his 
Wagnon advertising desk . . .Dick 
Spier and Dutch Reimer stop for a 
chat. 

Bud Gorman, Art Landau and 
Harold Harris have a studio . . . 
where they teach enterprising fid- 
dlers the art of fiddling ... in a big 
way . . . Jack Sprigg among the 
students .. . . Jack Ryan, Vallejo’s 
master publicity artist, in town for 
a day . . . Jean Carroll, from the 
Fox lot, paying a visit. 

Cliff Work chatting with rival 
press reps in the Orph lobby . . . 
Harry Bush’s neck still hurts. 

Herman Schenk up from Los An- 
geles to plug the Red Star catalog 
. . . Lou Emmel has opened a book- 
ing office . . . from song plugger to 
agent . . . Frank Mann promoted 
from head usher to service chief at 
the Fox succeeding John Kimmis 
. . . the Three Blue Blazes eating 
ham and eggs . . . Ken Whitmer 
giving a floor show the double o 
. . . that Sunday night announcer, 
Phillips, on KJBS, is a pip . . . lis- 
ten to his wise-cracking some eve 
. . . Johnnie Victor en route to his 
managerial desk in the Embassy . . . 
Frances Scully, sec. of the Motion 
Picture Guild in Hollywood, was 
here on a vacation this week . . . 
speaking of that organization, Bill 
McCormick, formerly associated 
there, is now company manager of 
“Birth of a Nation” at the Geary 
. . . maybe you’ve heard of the pic- 
ture. 

Famous Lies of Show Business: 

“I wouldn’t give ’em an ad; that’s 
why they panned me.” 


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FEW ‘LEGITS’ 
RUN IN NORTH 

SAN FRANCISCO; Sept. 11. — 
With the Geary temporarily given 
over to t he cinema and the Alca- 
zar and President still dark, San 
Francisco legit was at a minimum 
during the wee just passed. And the 
stage stuff that was running was 
none too successful. However, 
“everything will be all right in the 
Autumn.” 

Pauline Frederick opened Mon- 
day night at the Curran. Critics 
thought her performance great but 
couldn’t hand the vehicle, “The 
Crimson Hour,” so much. Second 
and final week of John Holland’s 
production, “ Young Love” at the 
Columbia did a very poor $6000. 

Sid Goldtree’s Green Street is 
running but four nights a week with 
“H o t ’n‘ Bothered.” Goldtree 
plans to produce “Ex-Mistress” and 
is now seeking a leading woman. 

Authentic . reports indicate that 
Duffy will re-open soon. Other 
plays are to c ome into the Geary 
and Columbia, following the pres- 
ent shows. 

TWO HOUSES 
ARE PLANNED 
IN STOCKTON 

STOCKTON, Sept. 11.— Two 
more theatres will be added soon 
to Stockton’s already lengthy roster 
of picture houses. 

_ National Theatres have adver- 
tised for bids on a new $300,000 
theatre, the site of which has been 
selected. 

Fox West Coast is nearing com- 
pletion of the Fox Stockton, cost- 
ing $400,000 and slated to open 
soon. 


OAKLAND, Sept. 11.— With the 
closing Saturday night of “Lom- 
bardi, Ltd.” Leo Carrillo bows out 
of the 'Dufwin after' a ten-week 
stay. He will return to Los An- 
geles where he will rejoin Duffy, 
who is planning to re-enter the 
coast legit field, pending the settle- 
ment of minor details coincident 
with his recent bankruptcy. 

Richard Marshall and Emil 
Bondeson will continue to operate 
the Dufwin, the new. show to be 
“Two Gun Grandma” with Florence 
Roberts featured. Robert Keith, 
William Lloyd, Leonard Strong and 
Charlote Treadway are included in 
the cast. 

May Robson opens Sunday at the 
Fulton in “Mother’s Millions” fol- 
lowing two weeks of Belle Ben- 
nett. 

Fran R. Newman and Herman 
King, respectively manager and m. 
c. of the Fox Oakland, returned this 
week with their wives from a trip 
to Southern California. During 
their absence Dominic Isabella 
managed the Fox and John Colletti 
directed the orchestra. 

Mildred Susan, secretary to 
George Ebey at the Fulton, has re- 
turned to her desk after an illness 
that kept her away for a number of 
days. 


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Words and Music by 

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(A Fox Trot Sensation) 

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11.— 
Reginald gravers staged the Athe- 
nian Society version of the Greek 
farce, ‘Lysistrata,” at his pee-wee 
theatre in the Fairmont hotel this 
week, drawing good crowds. 

Cast included Beatrice Benaderet, 
John Edwards, Josephine Woolf, 
Rosetta Baker, Olive Folsom, Bea- 
trice Jacoby, Kathleen O'Reily, 
Gertrude Lenahan, Earlda Freitas, 
Peggy Bethers, Wanda Frentrup, 
Madeline Braida, Iris Chamberlain. 

Jean Kramer, Edith Citrino, Vio- 
let Tierney, Dorothy Cannon, 
Helen Eliot, Aileen Lange, Grace 
Rhodin, Marya Karnova, Kay Clay- 
ton, Paloma Williams, Ethel Ham- 
mand, Dixie Hunt, Rosa Mari, 
Frederick Stuart Smith, Henry B. 
Lister, Earl M. Hirschey, John 
Larritzen, King Whyte, Dean 
Kinter. 

Sidney Schlesinger, Lindley Ab- 
bott, Nils Douglass, Thomas Blake, 
Peter Hester, John Rhine, William 
Goodwin, Gilbert Jones, James 
Neill, Dorothy Burdette, Frances 
Jacoby, Grace Newton, Charles 
Hampton, Bertram Symmes, Ru- 
dolph Melesky. 

The Gilbert Seldes version is 
scheduled to come into the Curran 
shortly. 


NEW FOX STENOG. 

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11.— 
Frances Baker has been added to 
the local Fox West Coast offices as 
secretary. She succeeds Ethel 
Seavers, who resigned after seven 
years service. 


RUSH IN VISIT 

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.. 11.— 
George Rush, assistant divisional 
advertising head for Fox West 
Coast, is visiting his parents in 
Colorado during his vacation. He 
is expected back this week. 


SUZETTE FREE 


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11.— 
Suzette Bermudez, dance director 
at the Paramount, was granted a 
divorce this week from Jose Ber- 
mudez, her husband and dance 
partner, when the pair were in 
vaude as Suzette and Jose. She has 
resumed her maiden name of Tobey. 


HOLIDAY PUTS 
S. F. BUSINESS 
IN THE SUNNY 


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 11. — 
While the current week had several 
interesting pictures premiering to 
good business, theater men were on 
the sunny side of the street, but 
when next week’s box office returns 
come in their cloud of joy probably 
will be punctured. Plenty of pa- 
trons downtown for the Admission 
Day celebration helped Tuesday 
business a lot. 

Triangle’s reissue of “Birth of a 
Nation” Uyo-a-daying it at the 
Geary started off the first seven 
days to okay business with $10,000 
said to be the figure. 

Local showmen figure a $1.50 top 
pretty steep for this town, which 
is accustomed to paying 65 cents 
for the best flickers put out. Since 
opening, management has cut down 
expenses wherever possible and that 
may help next week a bit. 

Loew’s Warfield opened John 
McCormack in “Song O’ My 
Heart” and drew the oddest run of 
biz that house has ever seen. Mat- 
inees were great throughout the 
week with plenty of clay pipe trade 
drawing up to the theater in taxis. 
But after 7 p. m. business dropped. 
At any rate receipts for the initial 
week were around $28,000'. Second 
week isn’t expected to be so big. 

Orpheum opened Columbia’s 
“Africa Speaks,” Umbagi, on Sat- 
urdajq starting the run in great 
shape. General opinion was that 
the “Ingagi” knocks might hurt 
“Umbagi” but week end crowds 
were great and continued to hold 
up well throughout the session. 
Week is expected to gross around 

Fox had a local boyj son of t he 
former chief police, George O’Brien 
in Fox’s “Last of the Duanes” with 
Fanchon and Marco’s “Modes” 
Idea and Walt Roesner and concert 
orchestra. Laurel and Hardy’s 
“Murder Case” helped run up a fig- 
ure of $47,000. Buster Keaton in- 
“Dough Boys” follo’wed. 

Wagnon’s Embassy was disap- 
pointing in the first seven days of 
A1 Jolson in “Big Boy:” Best the 
house could do was $10,500' and it 
should have done a lot more. An- 
other week and then it scrams. 



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PAGE EIGHT 


INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


SEPT. 13, 1930 


REVIEWS 

COMMENT 


RADIOLAND 


CHATTER 

NEWS 


Pickups and Viewpoints 


In tuning the dials, especially during the evening, one is 
astonished to find program managers of certain stations allow- 
ing poor imitations of well-known radio artists to go out over 
the air. In more than one instance we have heard male trios, 
who are flagrant offenders, try and fail miserably in their 
imitation of the Biltmore Trio. 

In the days of vaudeville material, style was more or less 
protected, but its not so easy to follow this procedure in radio. 
However, there is no counting the loss of listeners to the sta- 
tions that persist in attempting to capitalize upon the ability 
and showmanship of another station’s talent by foisting upon 
their listeners a rank imitation. 

RAY PAIGE ON THE TELEPHONE 


Telephone of KHJ : B-r-r-r-r- • 

Sweet Operator: (in smile voice) 
Don Leee — K-H-Jayee. 

Voice on line: I want to speak 
to Kay Paige. 

S. O.: One minute, pleeze. 

V. on 1.: (exhibits patience. After 
three minutes he shakes hook vig- 
orously) 

Another operator: (snappily) 

Way-ting? way-ting? (click) 

V. on 1.: Say! Where’s — &@* !???!! 

S. O.: Oh, yes, you’re waiting 
for Ray Paige, excuse me please 
. . . (click) 

V. on 1: (more static), (more 

waiting). 

Young man: Ray Paige’s office. 
His secretary speaking. 

V. on 1.: Is Ray there? 

Y. M.: Who wants him please. 

V. on 1.: President Hoover and 
I’m in a hurry. 

Y. M.: Mr. Paige is very busy, 
he’s just going into rehearsal. 

V. on 1.: This is very important, 
affairs of state depend upon me 
speaking to Mr. Paige at once. 

Y. M.: I’ll tell him, hold the line 
please, (long wait) Sorry, sir, Mr. 
Paige says he’s too busy right now, 
he’s in a conference. Can I take 
the message? 

V. on 1.: There is no message, I 
must ask him a very important 
question that Vill only take a sec- 
ond. The United States govern- 
ment, Leg of Nations and Babe 
Ruth are breathlessly awaiting Mr. 
Paige’s answer. 

Y. M.: I’ll tell him, sir,_ (more 
waiting). Sorry, but Mr. Paige says 
it’s impossible to speak to you now. 
Can you call back later, say at 4:30? 

V. on 1.: Very well, (hangs up). 

4:30 p.m. 

V. on 1.: (after long wait, speak- 
ing to Y.M.) This is President 


Hoover again. Can I speak to Mr. 
Paige ? 

Y.‘ M.: Sorry sir, Mr. Paige is 
still in the rehearsal room, he’ll be 
out at 5. 

5:00 P. M. 

V. on 1.: (after some more long 
waiting, again to Y. M.) Is Ray 
Paige there now, this is President 
Hoover again. 

Y. M.: Sorry sir, Mr. Paige has 
just gone home. He’ll be down at 
9 in the morning. 

9 A. M. (Following day) 

V. on 1.: (usual wait) (usual 

query). 

Y. M.: Sorry sir, Mr. Paige 
hasn't come in yet, we expect him 
any minute. 

9:30 A. M. 

V. on 1.: (after long wait, to 

Y. M.), President Hoover again 
calling Ray Paige. 

Y. M.: Just a moment please. 

Ray Paige: (after a particularly 
long wait) Hello, is that you Herb? 

V. on 1.: Yes, you’re harder to 
speak to than I am. 

Ray: What can I do for you? 

V. on 1.: How do you spell your 
name P-A-G-E or P-A-I-G-E. 

Ray: I spell it with an “I,” but 
the “I” is silent. 

V. on 1.: Well, so are you. Good- 
bye. (Click.) 


MAGDALENE PLAY 

IN SECOND WEEK 

“Wings of Magdalene,” current 
production at the Hollywood Play 
Shop, is in its second week. This 
play, written by Adalbert G. Volck, 
was directed by Nathaniel Frank, 
New York stage director. 

“The Importance of Being Earn- 
est,” a comedy by Oscar Wilde, 
opens Sept. 23. Miami Alvarez will 
play the lead, with Arnold Walsh 
directing. 


VINCENT, HOWARD 
TO WRITESTUFF 
FOR ‘HILLBILLIES’ 


Nat Vincent and Fred Howard 
are leaving KFI on Saturday night. 
They recently signed a year’s con- 
tract with KM PC, the McMillan 
station in Beverly Hills at a salary 
said to be in excess of $20,000. 

Their duties will be to provide 
original material for the Hill Billies 
for five broadcasts weekly. They 
enter into their new duties immedi- 
ately. 



Why don’t you so-called artists 
sit down and think of the future in 
radio? I can see that nine out of 
ten persons on the air today will 
never make any money or build a 
real following unless they present 
or produce a radio act that is 100 
per cent interesting or entertaining. 
You can’t sit down at the “Mike” 
and just sing your songs or tell 
jokes and expect the station to pay 
you real money or to try and sell 
you to their advertisers. Get wise 
to yourself and build a following, 
put some pep into your act, and you 
will make a future for yourself in 
radio. 

* * * 

Don’t think that you will get rich 
in radio, for the best that you can do 
with local stations unless you are 
on the staff is to make enough to 
eat and pay room rent, and this is 
not always possible. I know many 
local singers that have to work at 
a side line to eat. 

* * * 

Do the local station managers 
think that they are the only ones 
that can fill the place of station 
director? ! I have had reports to- 
day that certain managers have the 
“Big Head” and if reports are true 
I think that the best thing to do is 
to write to the station owhers and 
put the thing up to the man or men 
that have to depend on the artists 
for the money that they will make 
in radio today and in the future, 
for many good men are waiting to 
step into the office of the present 
list of NG radio directors of this 
town (with few exceptions) and I 
hope that some of the fine young 
men in radio will take the places of 
some of the present Big Shots. 


BENAY-YENUT 


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Was Held Over For a Second W eek 
“SINGING THE BLUES” 
at the 

San Francisco, Paramount 



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Behind The ‘Mike’ With The 
Microphone Club 

By JACK PARKER 


EN ROUTE TO SAN FRANCISCO— Well, here I am on 
my way to the city of the GOLDEN GATE, and was just think- 
ing of the remark made by Carl Lamont, before I left town 
Su-nday, that I might find the Golden Gate closed when I ar- 
rived. That would be bad ; but on the other hand I am hitch 
hiking ; so I will not have to go through the gate after all. 

* * * 


Before I left town I tuned in on 
Vernon Rickard and the Boswell 
Sisters on KFWB, and I can tell 
the world they were great. This 
type of program will make many 
friends for Warners radio business. 
Here’s hoping that Vernon and the 
girls are spotted often on this sta- 
tion. 

* * * 

I enjoy the “Ranch Hour” on 
KTM very much. This program 
is under the direction of Frank 
Gage, formerly of NBC in 
Frisco, but I can’t understand 
why Frank would leave NBC 
for a local station. 

* * * 

Branch Club Number One has 
been opened in San Francisco by 
local radio stars. Officers will be 
elected next week and headnuarters 
will open at some local hotel soon. 
It looks like the Microphone Club 
will soon be known in all large 
cities from coast to coast. 

* * * 

Oliver M. Hickey, attorney for 
the Microphone Club of America, 
report’s that the interest in the Mic- 
rophone Club is wide spread. 

* * * 

Gertrude Gueselle, for the last 
few months an early morning 
attraction on a local station, is 
taking the rest cure for blues 
singers at the beach home of 
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Cantor. 
Mrs. Cantor, by the way, is 
the former Olive Day of New 
York radio and concert fame. 

* * * 

While in San Francisco I will 
make the rounds of the local sta- 
tions and give Los Angeles radio 
workers the dope on the broadcast- 
ing business up north and just what 
stations are paying well and the 


KHJ-ISMS 


Van C. Newkirk, studio and 
traffic manager of KHJ, was hon- 
orary chairman during the “KHJ 
Day” luncheon at the Kiwanis Club 
Wednesday. Lewis Allen Weiss, 
manager of the station, made the 
principal address of the occasion on 
“Radio’s Place in American Life.” 
* * * 

“Listners-in” heard Herb Marow 
broadcast his impressions of the 
Legion Ascot Speedway Auto 
Races. Marow has been at the 
“mike” since the races were first 
broadcast. 

* * * 

President Hoover will be heard 
over KHJ four times early in Oc- 
tober. The dates are: 

October 2 — American Bankers 
Association at Cleveland, Ohio. 

October 6— Twice at Boston: in 
the morning before the American 
Legion convention; and the same 
afternoorf, before the American 

Federation of Labor. 

October 7 — Sesqui-centennial cel- 
ebratin of the Battle of King’s 

Mountain at King’s Mountain. 


stations that are not. This service 
will be Free, (no foolin’). 

* * * 

“Are the hill billies at KMPC 
slipping? This question is be- 
ing asked fifty times each day, 
and I can’t seem to get the de- 
sired info regarding this radio 
act; but if I do I will give out 
the low down. 

* * * 

Just heard that an actor well 
known in this city shot himself to 
death the other day after broad- 
casting from a San Francisco sta- 
tion. This does not look so good 
for radio if that is the affect it has 
on people. 

* * * 

“ON TO NEW YORK” 
seems to be the cry of many 
former song writers and radio 
stars who have come out to 
Hollywood and Los Angeles to 
get rich. They should have 
gotten the low down first, and 
found out why so many of the 
boys and girls have switched 
to other lines for their meals 
and carfare. If those in the 
far East will watch this and 
other columns in the paper, 
they will save their change. 

* * * 

To a few of those who have 
written to this columnist, I 
DO NOT give advice to 
“Lovelorn” in this department. 

* * * 

Well, have to quit now and hit 
the road to San Francisco where 
you’ll hear from me next week, so, 
until then, so long. 

Yours for more money in 
radio. 


ORME JOINS KTM 

Frank Orme, radio editor, joined 
the KTM staff as director of the 
continuity and publicity depart- 
ment. 


Douglas Fairbanks starts on his 
new picture for United Artists, 
“Reaching for the Moon,” in two 
weeks. Bebe Daniels will play op- 
posite him. 


Charlie Wellman, KHJ’s Prince 
of Pep, recently resigned, tosses his 
highly imported sombrero into the 
field of commercial radio, and an- 
nounces in the future he will be a 
care-free lance serving as many 
masters as are willing to sign on 
the profusely dotted line. 

* * * 

Scott Bradley, for two years di- 
rector of the Houston Symphony 
orchestra, a composer well known to 
local listeners, has been added to 
the KHJ staff in the capacity of 
assistant orchestral director. Mr. 
Bradley’s especial field includes light 
opera and the heavier stuff of which 
serious concert programs are made. 
He comes by way of Chicago. 

* * * 

Carl Omeron, KHJ’s giant 
tenor, sang 27 times last Saturdav 
night and figures that he can make 
more money doing piece work. 


EDWARD J. 
FITZPATRICK 

^ ^ Musical Director 

National Broadcastiifg Co. 

AND 

Hotel St. Francis 

SAN FRANCISCO 

“Starting to work at 6:30 a. m. but could use a good milk route” 


SEPT. 13, 1930 


INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


PAGE NINE 


FRIENDSHIPS 
BOOSTED BY 
RADIO SHOW 

Radio show, just closed, did more 
than any one influence, yet in Los 
Angeles, to put the public in touch 
with the artist. 

Many were the disillusionments, 
when the public saw their favorites 
of the air for the first time. And 
many were the friendships, pre- 
sumably strengthened, from the in- 
timate over-the foots contacts. 
Probably the stampede of the 
show was occasioned Thursday 
night, when Hill Billies, Olsen 
and Johnson and Ben Bernie 
band were on the stage. 

Stampede grew to such propor- 
tions that Billies had to be switched 
into the main auditorium, after 
some champ chair sitters had been 
holding down front row seats in 
the show’s little theater for three or 
four hours. 

Some mishap caused the' audience 
again switched out to the main au- 
ditorium. The rush was like a herd 
of starved cattle running for fodder. 

Olsen and Johnson panicked, as 
this team alwaj^s does. Ben Bernie 
occasioned a throb’. The Billies had 
the audience frantic. 

However, the crowd began eas- 
ing out in ones, twos and threes, 
due to the length of the Billie pro- 
gram. Seemed that the audience 
mainly wanted to get one good look 
at this Beverley outfit, and then 
was willing to fade. 

Business at the show took a 
spurt Friday night, partly attribu- 
table to it being Friday, and part- 
ly because KHJ had its main 
artists on the stage, including 
Raymond Paige swinging the 
baton over KHJ orchestra boys. 

Salvadore Santaella also proved a 
big draw on Saturday night, with 
his classy band. 

Radio artists on Monday, Tues- 
day and Wednesday nights com- 
plained about being spotted early in 
the week. No doubt they could 
have done better as drawing cards if 
they had been given later days. 

Show was declared immense suc- 
cess from entertainment angle. All 
studios stretched themselves in put- 
ting their top notchers on exhibi- 
tion. 


LESSER PROMOTED 

Sol Lesser has replaced John 
Considine, Jr. as general manager 
of United Artists studio. Considine 
goes to Pox. 


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‘ Vaudeville 
Facts 


NEW YORK . . . Grade Fields 
will begin an RKO engagement 
September 27 at Flushing, L. I. 
Billy Carroll and Hilda Mundy open 
at the RKO Kenmore theatre on 
September 27. Zelma O’Neal opens 
in New York shortly. Clyde Cook 
has accepted a tour of dates. James 
P. Harkins of Jim and Marion 
Harkins has assumed the name of 
Doctor Harkins. Chris Charlton, 
arrived in New York from Europe, 
will start an RKO tour. 

Dave Bernie and Bill Lawley 
have teamed and will appear in an 
act called “A Song Laughologue.” 
Joe Besser, with a company of four 
including Harry Lang, has a new 
act called “Get Your Man.” Gus 
Edwards brings out eighty newly 
discovered proteges in “The Tree 
Sitter.” Tommy Wonder, the “Cal- 
ifornia Blue Bird,” has a new act, 
in which he is assisted by Marjorie 
Whitney, Betty Wonder, and the 
La Verne Sisters. 

Ray Bond, Helen Bond, and Dave 
Grisham will appear in a “financial 
farce,” called “Lucky Pike.” E. K. 
Nadel has a new act titled the “Six 
Sax-O-Peal Girls,” which includes 
Olive,. White, Leona Kippen, Vera 
Orrin, Virginia Wallace, and the 
Evans Sisters. Mantell’s Minikins, 
marionettes, have returned to U.S. 
after a world' tour. Miss Patricola 
has reopened for RKO in New 
York. Dave Apollon has started 
a row of dates in New York. Jane 
and Katherine Lee are touring the 
middle west. 

Among new acts recently booked 
by RKO are: Tom Shaw and Paul 
Brunet, the Harmony Salesmen: 
Seven Dancing Personalities, fea- 
turing Rajah, Jack Holland, and 
June Knight; Nick Nazaroff. accen- 
tric; Anido Sisters and Escorts; 
Katheryn Irwin, Norman Horn, and 
Paul Yartin, known as the “Three 
Artists”; Charles Marsh and Lou 
Archer in a hokum comedy act; 
Russell and Johnson, comedy char- 
acter dancers: the Four Kings in a 
singing act: McDonald and Dean in 
a skit called “Introducing Two 
Serious Gentlemen”; and the Six 
Sailorettes in a musical offering. 


M.C.A. NOTES 


Taft Schrieber, Music Corpora- 
tion representative on the Pacific 
coast,, reports much activity for the 
name bands in t his vicinity. 

* * * 

Johnny Johnson, opened his four 
weeks engagement at the Blossom 
Room of the Roosevelt Hotel with 
a smash last Monday night. Schrie- 
ber confirmed the rumor recently 
orinted in “Inside Fact's” that Ted 
Weems will follow Johnson, with 
the latter going to the Casino in 
Denver. 

* * * 

Schrieber recently closed with the 
Westwood Hotel at Phoenix, Ariz. 
for a M.C.A. unit, also with the 
Pioneer Hotel at Tuscon, Ariz. 

both bands, as yet un-named, will 

open December 1. 

* * * 

Everett Hoagland, staff dance 
band at Universal, and now filling 
an indefinate engagement at the 
Rendevous at Balboa, was signed 
this week by Schrieber for M.C.A. 

* * * 

The latter also announced that 
Johnny Hamp, who recently filled 
a successful engagement at the 
Ambassador Hotel here, sailed this 
week for London to open at the 
Kit Kat Club. He will be fol- 
lowed by Abe Lyman who opens 
there January 20. 


Ayers On Radio 
Qives His Talk ; 
Then Kills Self 

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11— 
Forty-five minutes after he had de- 
livered an inspirational talk over 
KYA, Dudley Ayres,- known 
throughout the West as a legit 
player, shot and killed himself in 
the garage near his home. 

In a note left to his wife and four 
year old daughter,' Ayres explained 
that he was afraid he was losing his 
mind so “was taking the coward’s 
way out.” 

The body was taken to Los An- 
geles this week by Thomas Wilkes, 
theatrical producer, and father of 
Ayres’ second wife, who died sev- 
eral years ago. His first wife was 
Isabelle Fletcher, member of the 
old Ye Liberty stock company in 
Oakland, who divorced him in 1923. 


Radio 

Program 

Reviews 


GENERAL ELECTRIC HOUR 

NBC (Over KGO) 

SAN FRANCISCO 
(Reviewed Sept. 6) 

Out of General Electric’s widely 
advertised “House of Magic” came 
this 90-minute transcontinental 
broadcast, starring some of the 
leading radio names of the country. 
A great program, but it could have 
been improved immensely as to lay- 
out, spotting, and selection of num- 
bers. Graham McNamee announc- 
ing, introduced Gatling Gun Gib- 
bons, who brought Gerard Swope, 
G.E. president, to the mike for a 
few lines on radio deelopnient. Nat 
Shilkret’s orchestra, playing Shil- 
kret’s “Riding Club March,” spirited 
number. Revelers, than whom 
there is none other in quartets, in 
Prelude in C Sharp Minor, beauti- 
fully done. Vaughn de Leath, an- 
nounced as original few radio 
crooner, doing “Tin Pan Parade.” 
Okay, but there are a hundred bet- 
ter tunes to sing. 

Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, 
opening with sig. song and dialog. 
Then song, “Let’s Do Something 
Different.” More chatter, closing 
with “My Private Personal Pal.” 
Great combo, these two. Vincent 
Lopez doing nifty piano work in 
“Nola” and “Wedding of the Paint- 
ed Doll.” Clean cut keyboard. 

Cutting in from Cincinnati was 
Little Jack Little, crooning and 
pianoing a medley of three old 
numbers — and well done. A so- 
prano, Olive Palmer, hitting the 
high C’s in “Lq, Hear the Gentle 
Lark.” Beautiful, clear tones. May- 
be sopranos aren’t so bad. 

Program nearly stolen by Phil 
Cook with some of the funniest 
patter we’ve heard over the ether 
waves. Twelve characters, all of 
them excellent, done by Cook, high- 
lighting with the stutterer who 
wanted to become a Floyd Gibbons. 

Gibbons again, this time introduc- 
ing Drs. Alexander, Grinemeir, 
Cooley and Whitney and Chester 
Wright and E. W. Kellog, all of 
the G.E. lab. 

Nat Shilkret and orchestra play- 
ing Victor Herbert’s “Pan Ameri- 
cana.” Paul Oliver tenoring “Little 
Mother o’ Mine” in a sweet voice. 

Trumpet fanfare and announce- 
ment of G.E.’s new receiving set. 

Rudy Vallee and Connecticut 
Yankees. “Wherever You Are” 
with Rudy saxing it up, and chant- 
ing the lyrics. Great piano in this, 
but bass too heavy. Then “Betty 
Co-ed” with more of the Vallee 
singing. No outstanding selections. 
An' original interpretation of “In- 


San Francisco 
Radio Notes 


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11. — 
Lewis Lacey has pasted a question- 
aire on the bulletin’ board of KYA 
asking all announcers if they can 
pronaunce the following words: 
masseuse, fiance, lingerie, decollete, 
porte cochere, maraschino, Sinn 
Fein, Galli Curci, Jadcha Heifetz, 
Puccini, Valasquez, II Trovadore, 
Thais,, Ysaye, Dvorak, Bourgeois 
aviator, penalize, percolator, grim- 
ace, interesting, comparable, xylo- 
phone, conversant and terpsichore- 
an. 

The Westerners, KFRC’s male 
quartet, has undergone a change of 
personnel that has the lineup read- 
ing, from left to right: Cliff Lock- 
wood, Bill Degen, Roy Sutterly and 
Don Libby. Lockwood and Libby 
were formerly with KPO’s Sequo- 
ians, which group also is undergo- 
ing reorganization. 

Sandy Meek, staff artist on 
WFAM, Chicago, is out on the 
Coast for a visit and lies it so well 
here he hopes t o locate. 

Surprising their many friends, 
Easton Kent, NBC tenor, and 
Emelyn Beattie, pianist were mar- 
ried at Del Monte last week. 

NBC’s vice president in charge of 
the Coast, Don Gilman, travels so 
much that it’s a tough job to keep 
in touch with his activities but lat- 
est reports from the National 
studios indicate he has gone to 
Portland with Harry Anderson, Pa- 
cific Division sales manager. 

Call-Bulletin has opened a new 
control studio from which will be 
broadcast news reports and talks 
over KFRC, the Don Lee station. 

Red-headed Bob Nichols, who 
came from Seattle to KFRC as an- 
nouncer several months ago has 
left the Don Lee station to join 
the production department of the 
National Broadcasting Co. 

Fred and Emelie Eilers, oper- 
ators of the control and phone 
boards at KYA, will leave this 
week for Plumas county where they 
will hunt deer and fish for trout. 
Fred has had the rods and gun 
polished for the past two weeks and 
between programs has been prac- 
ticing his casting until he has a 
pretty good swing. 

After a serious illness that kept 
her away from the NBC studios for 
some time, Wilda Wilson Church, 
producer of plays for KGO, has 
left for the East for a short rest. 

So hasty to return to work was 
Don Gilman’s secretary, Sarah 
Hobson, that she flew back to San 
Francisco after a two weeks vaca- 
tion. 


dian Love Call” with Jessica Drago- 
nette, was great. French Indian 
talk in opening episode set* * the 
stage for the number. 

Then Phil Ohman and Victor 
Arden, piano duo, doing great ar- 
rangement of “Woman In the 
Shoe.” First studio applause of the 
night. Should have been deleted 
entirely as studio applause comes 
generally from a crowded room of 
admirers and friends and can’t be 
taken as a barometer of quality. 

S. L. Rothafel, better known as 
Roxy, introducing a member of his 
gang, Gladys Rice, and saying she’ll 
do “Ploddin’ Along.” Miss Rice 
did “My Hero,” but it was okay. 

B. A. Rolfe and orchestra. 
Opening with “Strike Up the 
Band,” then doing “Happy Days.” 
Mixer cut off before number was 
fully completed. 

This program was advertised 
probably more heavily than any 
other one radio broadcast yet on 
the air. Undoubtedly a flock of 
listeners-in throughout the country. 
They heard some great entertain- 
ment. 

Bock. 


‘MIKE CLUB’ 
NOW FORMED 
IN BAY CITY 

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11.— A 
San Francisco Microphone Club is 
being organized here under the di- 
rection of Ted axwell and William 
Foy, the new group to include all 
branches of the radio game from 
executives to employes. Negotia- 
tions are under way for a building 
to use as headquarters. 

Present executives include Max- 
well, president; Foy, secretary, and 
Ralph Brunton, head of KJBS, as 
chairman of the board of directors. 
Maxwell is with NBC. 

In conjunction with organization 
of the club, a radio ball is planned 
for November in the Civic Audi- 
torium. Details of this will be 
worked out at a luncheon this week. 


MAJESTIC MAKES 
“CLASS PICTURES” 
FOR INDEPENDENTS 

Harry Sherman, head of Majestic 
Pictures Co., Ltd., has completed 
his first picture, “Today,” a society 
drama adapted from the successful 
stage play of Abraham Schomer 
and George Broadhurst. William 
Nigh directed the opus, which stars 
Conrad Nagel and Catherine Dale 
Owen. 

The picture was made with the 
idea of bringing back to the inde- 
pendent market a type of high class 
product which has not been recently 
available to the state right market. 

“Today” will mark the first of a 
series of eight, which Sherman 
states Majestic will produce with 
two week intervals. The next, “The 
Trap” by Norman Springer, author 
of “The Bloodship,” an underworld 
story, will start production before 
Oct. 1. William Night will also di- 
rect this picture, cast for which is 
•low being negotiated and will be of 
'he same character, with stars bor- 
rowed from one or more of the 
major producing studios. 


TRUCE IS AGREED 
IN UNION DEADLOCK 

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11. — 
Although no settlement between 
thaters and the union has been 
reached, a gentlemen’s agreement is 
in force between the two to permit 
A1 Green baum, secretary, a short 
vacation along the Klamath River. 
He will return September IS. 
Walter Weber, president, was also 
out of town this week, attending a 
labor convention ’in Marysville. 


KREMER LEAVES 
SEATTLE HOUSE 
FOR ‘ROSE CITY’ 

SEATTLE, Sept. 11. — Curt 
Kremer, who, for the past sev- 
eral months has been pianist and 
director of Cole McElroy’s Col- 
umbia Recording Band in the 
Spanish Ballroom here, this week 
announced that he will return 
shortly to Portland. Kremer is 
making the move, he declares, in 
order to be in a better position 
to look after Kremer’s Chateau, 
class highway spot of Portland, 
which he has owned and operat- 
ed for several years in the Rose 
City. Curt reports that the Cha- 
teau has been clicking great all 
summer. 

Local musicians and dancers 
will be sorry to see Kremer 
leave, as he has made a host of 
friends here with his effervescent 
personality and ability at tickling 
the ivories. 


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INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


SEPT. 13, 1930 



VANCOUVER, B. C. a 

A. K. MacMartin 

REPRESENTATIVE 
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NORTHWEST | 

SEATTLE, WASH. 

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GEO. APPLEBY 
IS APPOINTED 
FOLLIES HEAD 


West Coast Gets 
Seattle Station 
andThree Others 


SEATTLE, Sept. 11.— C. M. 
Dunn, president of the Follies 
Amusement Company, owners and 
operators of the Follies Theater, 
former Pantages house here, last 
week announced appointment . of 
George I. Appleby to the position 
of theater manager. 

Appleby has long been identified 
with vaudeville and stock houses, 
coming here six years ago after 
many years with the Bill Gray Cir- 
cuit in New England. His local 
experience includes two years as 
vice-president and general manager 
of the Sterling Chain theaters here 
and a short stay with the Hamrick 
houses in Portland. 

The appointment of Appleby as 
manager of the Follies obviously 
spikes all rumors, which have been 
floating around town to the effect 
that the house is due for an early 
closing. 

Appleby announces that Franks 
troupe, which has been drawing 
nice biz since it opened the Follies 
in May, will be bolstered and that 
the general run of programs there 
will be built heavily. ___ 


SEATTLE, Sept. 11. — Manage- 
ment of Station KPCB here, for 
years owned by Moritz Thomsen’s 
Pacific Coast Biscuit Company, re- 
cently absorbed by the National, 
has passed from the management 
of Louis W. Greenway, for t he 
past five years at its helm. Green- 
way resigned his position last Sat- 
urday and has announced no new 
affiliations as yet. 

KPCB is now under the banner 
of the West Coast Broadcasting 
-System, of which Rogan Jones is 
president. 

The outfit controls stations in 
Aberdeen, Wenatchee and Belling- 
ham in addition to the local spot. 

Jones announces that programs 
will be built with the idea of using 
more in-the-flesh-talent. Practically 
nothing but records there now. 
KPCB was recently alloted a new 
wave length, now using 650_ Kilo- 
cycles, and gaining steadily with the 
ether fans. 


Third Dimension 
Talk Is Offered 
By Sound Expert 

SEATTLE, Sept. 11.— Members 
of Local 54, Motion Picture Oper- 
ators’ Union, gathered in meeting 
at Publix’s Metropolitan Theater 
here to hear F. M. Richardson, 
well-known sound projection ex- 
pert, give the newest theories and 
developments on projection ma- 
chines. Richardson went into de- 
tail on third dimension and televi- 
sion. 

The union invited all theater man- 
agers to attend the gathering, and 
those in attendance voted it a de- 
cided benefit to both operators and 
managers. Richardson spoke in a 
highly interesting and entertaining, 
as well as educational manner. 

James McNab, business agent of 
the Operators’ Union, was in charge 
of the affair and handled it in neat 
fashion. 


Notes Along 
Avenue 


INAUGURATE SEASON 


VANCOUVER, Sept. 11.— Pub- 
lix-Famous Players Canadian Cor- 
poration have inaugurated their 
1930-31 “New Show World Season 
[in their Canadian chain of theatres. 


NEW FOX IS SWANKY 

A reserved seat section in a con- 
tinuous motion picture house is a 
new innovation for the new Fox 
Wilshire theatre, at Hamilton Drive, 
on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills, 
which will open September 19. The 
reserved section policy was adopted 
after many requests from members 
of the film colony in Beverly Hills 
had been received. 


Pictures - REVIEWS - ‘Legit’ 



(Continued from Page 4) 

pression. She can be entrusted to 
ingenue roles, calling for plenty of 
personality without fear. ,, 

Jack Haley and Eugene Pallette 
handled the comedy of this m fine 
style. They were particularly effec- 
tive as a pair of hoke plumbers m 
the ladies’ locker room. Thelma 
Todd, as the menace, was excel- 
lent. She looked dashing and read 
her lines naturally. Thelma would 
be a menace in any gathering of 
young ladies, both on and off. 
Claude King, Albert Gran and Don 
Tompkins completed the cast. 


“THE SQUEALER” 

COLUMBIA PICTURE 
(Reviewed at RKO) 

Just another gangster yarn made 
distinctive by the cleverness of 
Davey Lee, who took all of the non- 
ors and packed them away in his 
little pocket. There is but little ex- 
cuse for this picture and probably 
less demand for it. Other than the 
remarkable work of the baby actor, 
it is the utmost piffle. ■ 

A gangster master commits a 
murder and both the gangland of 
the dead man’s faction and the 
police are after him. He lives a 
high-toned home life with his wife 
and baby. In making his escape, the 
baby tips his whereabouts off , to 
the other gangsters, and the wife, 
to save him, tells the police, who 
beat the gang in the race to cap- 
ture him. He is convicted, and 
breaks jail when he is led to be- 
lieve that his wife double-crossed 
him in order to foster an affair with 
’ his lawyer. 

He gets home, learns of his mis- 
take, and frames for his own men, 
who expect to kill the attorney 
when he leaves the house, to kill 
him. 

Jack Holt does the chief gang- 
ster. When in doubt what to do 
with your old-time he-men leads, 
make gangsters out of them, seems 
to be the style now. What with 
Milton Sills and possibly others 
turning from good men into rough- 
necks, it at any rate gave Jack Holt 
something to do. 

EXHIBITOR’S VIEWPOINT: 
This picture may drag them in on 
the strength of Davey Lee, which 
put to a better cause would be a 
drag to the kiddies. It seems to be 
the style to offend by using this 
child in stories where a kiddie does 
not belong. This is the second time 
he has been abused; once before, 
Warners used him in a bedroom 
farce, and now Columbia in an un- 
derworld play. There ought to be 
a law against it. However, that’s 
just one man’s opinion. If your cli- 


entele are thrilled by the cheap pulp 
paper tales of the underworld in 
which the gang shoots it out 
among themselves and the police 
and law and order are minimized; 
where the hero is a convict who 
breaks jail and afterwards commits 
suicide as a gesture of magnanim- 
ity, they will like this. Frankly, 
this reviewer did not. 

PRODUCER’S VIEWPOINT: 
The jailbreak was spectacular and 
showed a lot of mob action, but it 
got no place other than stir up a 
fuss. The story was trite and poorly 
told. One knew from the start 
what was going to happen. This is 
the finest example of the type of 
picture play that is killing the 
game. 

CASTING DIRECTOR’S 
VIEWPOINT: Dorothy Revier 

plays the lead. In one scene she is 
called upon to weep in a close-up. 
She makes the gasping noises all 
right, but her face carries no emo- 
tion and her eyes are as dry as a 
three-day desert thirst. In other 
scenes she is equally as inexpres- 
sive. Zazu Pitts, as a maid, was 
excellent. This young lady’s flair 
for comedy lends a zest to her 
every picture; she can read the 
most ordinary lines and give them 


the drollest expression of anyone 
we know. 

Matt Moore played the lawyer 
friend with nothing to do but sit 
around and talk. Robert Ellis 
played the other gangster who was 
killed and made him a suave, gen- 
teel sort of a cutthroat. Mathew 
Betz walked through the role of a 
friend of the convict who effects 
his escape. 

Harry J. Brown directed. 


Legit 


“GOOD OLD DAYS” 

HOLLYWOOD PLAYHOUSE 
(Reviewed Sept. 3) 

We first caught this show by 
Aaron Hoffman when it was origi- 
nally produced by Kolb and Dill 
back in ’22 or ’23, and thought it 
was a classic, so looked forward 
with pleasurable anticipation to its 
local offering. “Now and Then,” its 
original nomenclature, had never 
played here before, and we would 
have been willing to wager any- 


Jimmy McNab telephoning late at 
night. . . . George Goerig minus a 
bunch of teeth. . . . Charley Keating 
reading newspapers in his liesure 
moments. . . . Roy Cooper visiting 
the opposition and getting dunned 
for ducats. . . . Ray Jones looking- 
for press agents to take to lunch. 

. . . Bob Murray in a hurry to Film 
row and back. . . . Dorothy Wood- 
ward and Will Rader buying gro- 
ceries between shows. . . . Gladys 
Warren admitting being a victim of 
false identification. . . . Curt Kre- 
mer, Mel Winstock, Eddie Hudson, 
Charley and Harold Harden, and 
Gene Spear playing pinochle. . _. . 
A1 Rosenburg and A1 Finklestine 
out for fresh air. . . . Business is 
terriffic. . . . Gordon Richardson 
and the misses out for dinner. . . . 
lute fisk on the boards. . . . Wils 
Gaw to the Louisiana on a visit. . . . 
Sammy Seigel conferring on. radio 
pub. . . . Frank Shaw and t he press 
acting as judges in a Trianon dance 
contest. . . . Ted Harris announcing 
over the waves. . . . and being in- 
troduced to the men of the town. 

. Tex Howard wielding his baton 
and getting good results. . . . sweet 
music boys. . . . Meyer Burnett 
having his shoes shined . . . there 
must have been an increase in 
•wages . . . Jim Clemmer threatening 
to visit the opposish . . . also con- 
ceding the honors of the week . . . 
Gus Renstrom paging some of the 
boys . . . Karl Horn looking at some 
new music . . . George Dewey 
Washington being welcomed . . • 
and what a reception . . . Angelo 
Ritchie playing golf at Jackson . . . 
fore . . . Frank Allen and Hermine 
Bowers talking over men’s fashions 
in the “U” district . . . Owen Swee- 
ten rehearsing Irish songs . . . and 
giving good pub over KOL . . . 
Myrtle Strong eating waffles . . . 
or what have you . . . Billie Landers 
singing about her man . . . And so 
far into the night rode Paul Revere. 


PARA. LEADS 
SEATTLE ‘BIZ’ 
DURING WEEK 


SEATTLE, Sept. 11. — “Cheer 
up, good times are coming” was 
in order this week around these 
parts and as a result the theaters 
were doing a nice biz. 

Paramount took an easy lead 
over the theatrical situation and 
grossed a nifty $22,000 with the 
Marx Brothers in “Animal Crack- 
ers” on the screen, to complain 
with shows like this. 

Fifth Avenue didn’t do bad either, 
taking in as much as $19,000 for 
the average picture it presented. 
“The Last of the Duanes” with a 
fine F & M revue on the stage. 

Orpheum came in third, ringing 
the bell for $13,000 which was fair 
for an average bill on the stage 
and “utside the Law” on the screen. 

Music Box did surprising activity 
with “The Office Wife” to the tune 
of $11,000, which makes it a hold- 
over for another week. . 

Fox figured $7,000' with the last 
week of “Good News” and Owen 
Sweeten in the pit presenting a 
novelty program. Fair biz. 

Blue Mouse nibbled a hunk of 
cheese worth $6,000 with the clever 
“Ladies Must Play” film. 

Publix’s Met did a fair biz at 
$4,000 with Paramount’s “Queen 
High” on the boards. One more 
wee and this house expects to close. 

Club Victor is still giving the 
competition a run for their money. 
Nice atmosphere, nice music, and 
good eats, the main reasons. 

Trianon leads the ballrooms of 
the town. Good music by Tex 
Howard’s boys and good manage- 
ment by Ted Harris keeps them 
coming. 

McElroy’s also doing good but 
could stand a little increase. 


thing that it would clean up, even 
with its new name. 

What we saw last night resem- 
bled the original just about as close 
as near beer resembles the. real 
thing — it had the flavor and appear- 
ance, but it lacked the kick. Ex- 
cellent settings gave it the appear- 
ance, and the always clever work of 
Kolb, Dill and Julia Blanc, the fla- 
vor, but the rest of the cast, with 
exceptions — may the Lord forgive 
them. 

This is a play on prohibition. 
We mention it for the sake of those 
who do not know. It advances ar- 
guments, humorously and patrioti- 
cally, both pro and con, before and 
after the fatal day of January 16, 
1920. The plot is immaterial, now 
— it was great when first played — - 


but it is propaganda pure and sim- 
ple and simply pure. Kolb takes 
the side of the reformers_ until he 
discovers they are hypocrites. Dill 
graduates from saloonkeeper to 
bootlegger, and the prohis get them 
all in the end. 

The two stars struggled manfully 
with their lines, the situations get- 
ting many laughs, and were ably 
aided by Julia Blanc, who played 
the wife of Dill. Julia is a splen- 
did artist and rates with the best 
of them in characters of this sort. 
Picture producers should nail her 
before she gets away, for she is use- 
ful to them in many ways. We 
know of her versatility for many 
years. 

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PAGE ELEVEN 


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PAGE TWELVE 


INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


SEPT. 13, 1930 



/ Over The Clefifi S 


By WILL DAVIS 


LEON ROSEBROOK, one been converted into a beauti- 


of our favorite musical sons of 
the Golden West, whose direc- 
torial ability is recognized from 
the Atlantic to the Pacific and 
even far over the seas, has 
been for some time executive 
assistant to Ernie Rapee, First 
National studios. 

Leon has just returned from 
a vacation of three days among 
the tall trees and the seashore. 
For company, he had his wife, 
their dog, a pad of music paper 
and a pencil. Leon is one of 
the fellows of whom nobody 
can say, “I wonder how that 
fellow got that job?” 

Fie got there mostly through 
hard work. 

* * * 

CLAUDE “Bubbles” KENT, 
drummer, tympanist, and xylophon- 
ist, is leaving the new Paramount 
orchestra to accept an offer in San 
Francisco. 

* * * 

ABE F. FRANKENSTEIN, 
for many years orchestra direc- 
tor at the Orpheum and later 
with M-G-M, has resigned 
from his high musical position 
there and will make new con- 
nections. 

* * * 

LOU SMITH will succeed 
“Frank” as contractor of music for 
M-G-M studios. 

* * * 

HANK FRYE and his orchestra 
are closing this "week at the Vir- 
ginia Hotel in Long Beach. This 
marks the end of the sixth season 
of this popular orchestra at the 
Virginia. 

Members of this orchestra are; 
Hank Frye — piano-director; 

Lee Kennedy, sax and violin; 
Bunker Hill, bass and tuba; 
Johnny Winn, drums; 

Don Linder, trumpet; 

Bill Hickok, sax and voice; 

Vic Wessel, trombone and violin. 

* * * 

MAURY PAUL, and his 
jazz band, with BOBBY 
CHRISTENSEN, and his 
dance orchestra furnished the. 
music for the return of dancing 
to the Rainbow Gardens on 
Vermont Avenue. This was 
formerly the El Patio, and has 


ful pleasure palace. Many 
added lighting effects, with an 
attractive golf course occupy- 
ing half the dance floor, and 
free admission with nickel 
dancing have injected new life 
into the old place. 

* * * 



s Staccato Mnsings s 


By BILLY HAMER 


WERNER CALLIES, concert 
master of Loew’s-State orchestra 
for the past year and a half has 
left, The Old Folks at Home and 
gone benedict. 

The happy bride was Miss Alma 
Ortega, solo dancer of Fanchon & 
Marco stage shows at Loews. 

Ceremony took place on August 
27. 

The happy couple celebrated the 
event by making an excursion to 
Indio where Mr. Callies owns a 
large date farm. 

Mr. and Mrs. Callies will be at 
home, 3877 Arlington Avenue, and 
all friends are welcome. 

BILLY HAMILTON, pian- 
ist at Warner Brothers studios 
for the past two years, has 
just returned home from a 
period of quarantine. His son 
contracted a case of infantile 
paralysis, and Bill was not al- 
lowed to enter his own house 
for a period of several weeks. 
Relations have again been re- 
stored and Bill can now assert 
his rights as head of his family. 

* * * 

WALTER DAMROSCH, great 
orchestra director, said last week 
that the musicians are making a 
useless fight against the talkies, and 
sound producing devices. 

Mr. Darmosch compares musi 
cians with hand weavers, who once 
made a fight against the advance of 
machinery. 

It is difficult to understand 
how one held so high in the 
esteem of all music lovers can 
think that the playing of music, 
which requires inspiration and 
emotional expression, can be 
compared to the weaving of 
cloth for overcoats. 

There may be some differ- 
ence of opinion as to the wis- 
dom of the ideas used in the 
musicians advertising cam- 
paign for human music in thea- 
tres, but human music, the 
greatest outlet for human emo 
tions will survive to the end. 


BOB, MONTE SPLIT 

Bob and Monte, harmony team 
of Utah Trail fame, have split up. 
Bob has taken a new partner, Jimmy 
White, and will proceed with record- 
ings and radio appearances at KFI- 
KECA. Monte is master of cere- 
monies at a ballroom in Balboa, 
and doing well. 


SILVERS LEADS BAND 

Louis Silvers, musical director of 
Warner Bros. West Coast studios, 
appears in Warner Bros. Techni- 
color picture, “Viennese Nights” as 
an orchestra conductor. 


ARMSTRONG IN FLAME 

Louis Armstrong recording art- 
ist featured at the Cotton Club, has 
been signed by the Meyer Syn- 
chronizing Service, Ltd., to appear 
in “Ex Flame,” in production at 
the Metropolitan Studios, under the 
Liberty Production’s banner. 


SOUND MAN ASSIGNED 

Hugh MacDowell, sound-record- 
ist, has been assigned the recording 
of Louis Wolheim’s first directorial 
effort for RKO Radio Pictures, an 
untitled sea picture. 


MUSIC CALLS ARTHUR 

George K. Arthur has turned 
song writer and between scenes al 
the studio has written the word; 
and music of a new number en 
titled “Why Leave Me.” 


V. SIGNS CHANDLER 

George Chandler has been signed 
by Universal for the lead in the 
two-reel comedy “Sign Her e,” 
which will go into production this 
week. “Sign Here,” was written by 
Al Boasberg, and is being directed 
by Ralph Cedar. 


WELCOME! 


JOHNNY 

JOHNSON 


AND YOUR 
ORCHESTRA 

To the !. 

Blossom Room — Roosevelt Hotel 

Where You Are Featuring Such 
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Robbins Hits as — 

“JUST A LITTLE CLOSER” “THE MOON IS LOW” 
“SINGING A SONG TO THE STARS” 

“CHEER UP, GOOD TIMES ARE COMING” 

ROBBINS MUSIC CORP. 

799 SEVENTH AVE. NEW YORK CITY 


LOS ANGELES 

According to reports from job- 
bers and retailers, waltz tunes are 
in high favor, with the long slump 
in sheet music sales over. Last 
week saw a decided change in sales, 
many catalogues picking up the 
stride of last spring. 

Litle White Lies” still tops the 
ist, and is away ahead of it’s clos- 
est competitor in sales. The Don- 
aldson hit seems to have readily 
caught the public fancy and, partly 
due to nice spotting throughout the 
city and suburbs. 

“Kiss Waltz” the Witmark hit 
tune, remains second, but is closely 
followed by the next four, although 
only a slight margin of sales holds 
it in duece spot. 

The Berlin catalogue is holding 
very steadily, “Swinging in a Ham- 
mock” outselling “Confessing” two 
to one in some instances. The latter 
number is still going over big. Jack 
and Mrs. Stern, Berlin representa- 
tives here, report new activity on 
the songs, with the former set 
heavy for this week at the Para- 
mount. “You Darling” took on an 
added spurt this week. 

Carl la Mont of Shapiro Bern- 
stein’s has a potential hit “Moon- 
light on the Colorado.” It hit the 
third spot for the second time in 
the past two weeks, and apparently 
is headed for the top. 

Morse Freeman’s “Bloom is on 
the Sage” is one of the steady sell- 
ers around town, getting a great 
play due to the effectual plugging 
of the “Happy Chappies,” Hill 
Billies and others. He reports a 
new waltz to be released immedi- 
ately, that has already created de- 
mands due to “preview” plugging. 
It is entitled “It’s Time to Say 
Alaho to You.” It was written by 
the writers of “Bloom is on the 
Sage,” Howard and Vincent. 

Sig Bosley, Robbins rep here, has 
made some dandy connections for 
Go Home and Tell Your Mother,” 
Just a Little Closer” and “Sing- 
: ng a Song to the Stars.” The for- 
mer immediately stepped into the 
hit class, and will wend its way to 
the top in a very short while. The 
balance of the catalogue is also 
flooding the air and ballroom, keep- 
ing the sales on a par with the best 
sellers. 

Eddie Janis of Famous put two 
’n the best ten this week when his 
new tunes, “It seems to be Spring” 
and “I’m Yours” started selling 
heavily over the counters. 

Benny Berman, of De Sylva, 
Brown, Henderson, still keeps 
When Love Comes In the Moon- 
Vght” up among ’em. “So Beats 
My Heart for You” is still nosing 
around very close to the ten best. 

The line up is as follows: 

1. “Litle White Lies,” Donaldson. 

2. “Kiss Waltz,” Witmark. 

3. “Moonlight on the Colorado,” 
Shapiro, Bernstein. 

4. “Swinging in a Hammock,” 
Berlin. 

“It Seems to be Spring,” 
Famous. 

5. “I’m Yours” Famous. 

“When Love Comes in the 
Moonlight,” De Sylva Brown 
Henderson. 

6. “Down the River of Golden 
Dreams,” Feist. 

7. “Go Home and Tell Your 
Mother,” Robbins. 

8. “Bloom Is on the Sage,” Pree- 
man. 

9. “Just a little Closer,” Robbins. 

10. “Dancing With Tears in My 

Eyes,” Witmark. 


The title “song-plugger,” though we sometimes find it neces- 
sary to use the phrase, is really a crude epithet. Too coarse, in 
fact, for the calibre of boys who have it tagged on them. 

Where can you find a more versatile type of business man? 
They sing, at times dance, don all sorts of makeup to do their 
plug's, entertain, sell, discuss all subjects, and in general show 
every quality of salesmanship and showmanship. On all sides 
we hear reports of business depression, that is, on all sides 
except the direction of the song-plugger. There is always a 
smile there, a cheer, a friendly word, and a choice bit of optim- 
ism not found frequently in other sectors. They even verge 
on the arts of invention. I mean that they are constantly find- 
ing new" ways to keep you interested in their catalogs, new 
ways of assuring and convincing you that each one of them has 
the’ hit of the season. And take it from one who knows, that 
IS an art. For that tired feeling I recommend a trip to Tin 
Pan Alley. 

* * * 

Irving Talbot is now the pit director at Paramount Theatre. Jules 

Buffano is on the stage doing the m.c.ing. 

* * * 

Ran into Eddie Janis of the Famous Music Corp. who of- 
fered great quantities of disapprovals because his songs haven’t 
received mention in this column. So right here and now, we’ll 
try to Jo right by our Eddie. “It Seems to Be Spring” and “I’m 
Yours” are enjoying a nice sale at the present time. He also has 
three tunes from the picture “Monte Carlo” called “Beyond the 
Blue Horizon,” “Always and Always” and “Let Me Have a 
Moment Please.” Also “Peach of a Pair” and “It Must Be You” 
from “Follow Thru.” Eddie has just returned from the north- 
west where he reports business good. Are we forgiven now, 
Eddie? 

* * * 

Myrtle Stolberg, organist at the Boulevard theatre, is also recording 
shorts at the Columbia and RKO studios. 

* * * 

Harry Coe, of Leo Feist, is back from New York, and working on 
“Down the River of Golden Dreams,” “I’ll Be Blue Just Thinking of 
You,” “A Big Bouquet For You” and “What’s the Use.” 

* * * 

Jack Archer has gone to San Francisco for a short time to further 
the sales of Donaldson, Douglas and Gumble catalog. 

* * * 

De Sylva, Brown and Henderson have returned their offices to the 
Majestic Theatre building. “Highway to Heaven” and “When Love 
Comes in the Moonlight” are having a nice sale. 

* * * 

It looks like Carl Lamont has an over-night waltz hit in “By 
All the Stars Above You.” Carl received one copy of it by 
air-mail, sat down and tried it over for the Biltmore Trio, who 
immediately learned it and put it on the air the same night. 
Looks like a prosperous season for Shapiro-Bernstein, with the 
hit song from Will Morrissey’s “Hot Hhythm,” called “Loving 
You the Way I Do,” and the tunes from Lew Leslie’s “Black- 
birds of 1930,” not forgetting “Moonlight on the Colorado,” 
now way up among the ten best. 


7. “Swingin’ in a Hammock” 

— Berlin. 

8. “Dancing With Tears in 

My Eyes” — Wtimark. 

9. “Singing a Song to the 

Stars” — Robbins. 

10. “Anchors A- Weigh” — Rob- 
bins. 


“IMAGINE” TO OPEN 

“Just Imagine,” will open at the 
Fox-Carthay Circle late in Sep- 
tember . 


DISC AWARD FOR 

PROSPERITY SONG 


Mel Riddle, publicity director for 
Loew’s-State, has a contest planned 
to help along observance of “Pros- 
perity Week,” soon to be a big fea- 
ture with Fox and other theaters. 

House will give a prize of 100 
phonograph records for the best 
lyrics on prosperity submitted by 
patrons of the theater, while the 
week is holding forth. 


SAN FRANCISCO 

Although sheet music sales 
ierked up a bit, there was but 
light change in the alignment 
>f leaders. Number of new 
'-.unes are creeping upward, and 
irobably will be in the list 
within the next fortnight. 
Leaders are : 

1. “Little White Lies” — Don- 

aldson. 

2. “Confessin’ ” — Berlin. 

3. “Just a Little Closer” — 

Robbins. 

4. “Betty Co-ed.” 

5. f ‘Song Without a Name” — 

Feist. 

6. “New Kind of Love” — Fa- 

mous. 


PLAYING TO THE LARGEST 
PAID ATTENDANCE IN LOS ANGELES 

OWEN FALLON 

AMD HIS 

CALIFORNIANS 



CALIFORNIA’S GREATEST DANCE BAND 


NOV/ IN THEIR THIRD YEAR 

WILSON’S BALL ROOM Angeles 


SEPT. 13, 1930 


INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


PAGE THIRTEEN 


BERLIN TELEGRAPHS SHEET MUSIC 


SHEET MUSIC 
IN THOUSANDS 
KEPT ON HAND 


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11. — 
One hundred thousand dollars 
worth of music is stored in .a slant- 
ceilinged little room under one of 
the turrets of the Hunter-Dulin 
building where the Pacific division 
of the National Broadway Co. has 
its headquarters. More than 100,- 
000 sheets of music are in this NBC 
music library. 

“The no alibis department,” 
NB Cists call it. Anything from 
the newest boop-a-doop tune to 
grandmother’s favorite old folk 
song, is likely to be asked for there 
— and it has to be produced. 

In addition to the regular musi- 
cal programs, built to offer concert 
or other musical entertainment to 
NBC listeners, almost every other 
program contains music in some 
form or other, as a background, as 
an interlude or as incidental songs 
and melodies. Each producer and 
director takes the list of songs or 
compositions his program is going 
to require. 

Mary Kathleen Moore, who has 
been librarian since the department 
was instituted three years ago, 
looks up each required number or 
arrangement. If it isn’t in the li- 
brary, Russell McNeil, music re- 
search man, or one of his staff of 
six, starts scouting for it. 

One of the interesting develop- 
ments of the last few years has 
been the increasing interest of 
radio listeners in the popular music 
of several decades ago. It takes a 
lot of patient searching to find 
such tunes as “The Oceana Roll.” 

Still earlier songs like “The Gyp- 
sey’s Warning” are in old song 
books or music stores. One of the 
latter, whose owner had a penshant 
for buying bankrupt stocks of 
music a few years ago, and who 
owned shelf after shelf of what 
seemed to be useless sheet music, 
has suddenly started coining money 
by filling orders from stations all 
over the country for almost for- 
gotten music. 


Fourteen Shorts 
To Be Released 


Educational will release fourteen 
shorts during latter part of Sep- 
tember and October. 

“The Freshman Goat,” introduc- 
ing the Educational-Vanity series; 
“Johnny’s Week End,” first of the 
Gayeties with Johnny Hines; “His 
Error,” featuring Monty Collins, T. 
Roy Barnes, and the Mermaids; “Si 
Si Senor,” the first Ideal, with Tom 
Patricola and Joe Phillips; “French 
Fried” and “Dutch Treat.” two 
Terry-Toons; and “A Flying Trip,” 
first of a new Lyman H. Howe 
Hodge-Podge series, are ready for 
this month’s release. 

“Won By a Neck,” Lloyd Hamil- 
ton, and “Irish Stew,” a Terry- 
Toon, will be sent out the first 
week of October. 

On October 12, “Grandma’s Girl,” 
a Mack Sennett comedy with Andy 
Clyde, Nick Stuart, and Marjorie 
“Babe” Kane; “Love Your Neigh- 
bor,” a Tuxedo featuring Charlotte 
Greenwood; and “Over the Air,” a 
Lyman H. Howe Hodge-Podge will 
be released. 

Release of October 19 is “Fried 
Chicken,” another Terry-Toon. Oc- 
tober 26 release is “Divorced Sweet- 
hearts,” a Sennett picture with Anti 
Christy, Charles Irwin, Dahpne 
Pollard, and Marjorie Beebe. 


PATHE SIGNS OWSLEY 

Monroe Owsley has been signed 
for ‘Kid the Kidder,” a Pathe Cam- 
pus Comedy which will go into pro- 
duction this week under the direc- 
tion of Ray McCarey. 

Others in the cast are Don Dilla- 
way, Emerson Tracy, Vera Marsh 
and Ray Cooke. 


LOU HANDMAN IS 

BACK FROM EAST 

Lou Handman, Universal’s writer 
of popular melodies, has returned to 
the studio from New York where 
he has been for two weeks on busi- 
ness for the Universal Music Com- 


FRANKLIN ADOPTS 
PROSPERITY SONG 
BOSLEY SUGGESTS 


Sig Bosley tied in with H. B. 
Franklin and staff in the music 
end of “Prosperity Week,” to be 
observed by Fox theaters. 

All bands, orchestra and music 
on radio, throughout the country, 
will play “Cheer Up Good Times 
Are Coming,” Robbin’s song hit, 
when Fox gets the week going 
strong. 

Bosley, who is manager of 
Robbins Music Corporation out 
here, conferred with Franklin on 
advisability of using the song. 
When Franklin heard its opti- 
mistic tone, he fell, and fell hard, 
for the suggestion. 


Herb Will Lead 
Fulton Pit Band 


pany. 

Handman recently completed a 
catchy Jewish-Irish melody, “When 
They _ Merge Mazeltof With the 
Wearing of the Green” which will 
be used in the new Murray-Sidney 
comedy, “The Cohens and Kellys 
in Africa.” Bernie Grossman wrote 
the lyrics. 


STAGE PLAYERS SIGN 

Five former stage players have 
been cast in Radio Picture’s “Losing 
Game.” They are Lowell Sherman 
who is featured; George Marion 
Robert McWade, Willian Janney 
and Helene Millarde. 


RELEASE RECORDINGS 

The United Record Comany a 
new concern which will manufacture 
disks, features among its early re- 
leases two songs sung by A1 Jolson 
from his forthcoming Warner Bros. 
Vitaphone special, '“Big Boy.” “To- 
morrow’s Another Day,” and “Hoo- 
ray for Baby and Me,” are the 
titles. 


JOHNNY JOHNSON 
GIVEN RECEPTION 
ON OPENING HERE 

With a large number of celebrities 
entertaining in his honor, Johnny 
Johnson, noted band leader and his 
Victor Recording Orchestra made 
their Pacific Coast debut on Mon- 
day evening in the Blossom Room 
of the _ Roosevelt Hotel. Johnson 
and his Orchestra come to the 
Roosevelt following engagements 
at the Pennsylvania Hotel Roof 
Garden and Cherie’s, New York, 
and at the Fleetwood Hotel in Mi- 
ami, Florida. 

Among members of the film col- 
ony who were hosts to parties and 
attended the event were Mr. and 
Mrs. Lou. Anger, Robert Converse, 
Ben Bard, Wilson Mizner, Norman 
Kerry, Denison Clift, Misses Lina 
Basquette, Margaret Ettinger, Ge- 
neva Mitchell, Rita Flynn, Jean 
Green, Elsie Morris, Peggy Hamil- 
ton, Mickey Rainey, Marjorie 
White Isabel Dawn, Pauline Starke 
and Leota Lane. 


CHERNIAVSKY 
HIT IN CANADA 


Joseph Cherniavisky, Los An- 
geles musical director, who scored 
a big success in the recording and 
synchronizing of Universal’s “Show 
Boat” is now registering similar re- 
sults with Famous Players in 
Canada according to a clipping 
just received from “The Gazette” 
>f Montreal. 


OAKLAND, Sept. 11. — Herb 
Meyerinck has been made orchestra 
director at the Fulton, with Chuck 
Thode becoming pianist. 

Present personnel of the Fulton 
musical group, which underwent a 
reorganization with Meyerinck’s 
advent, includes Joe Lievingstone, 
violin; Jack Downie, drums; George 
McGinnis, trombone; Bert Ferri, 
trumpet; Jerry Andrews, sax; 
Thode, piano, and Meyerinck, sax 
and director. 


PAN AMERICAN IN 
MOVE FOR ACTION 


Pan American Pictures corpora- 
tion is going through a period of 
reorgnization. Under the new man- 
agement, Donald Reed will be gen- 
eral manager and Burton King will 
be in charge of production. Ben 
Renfro, retired contractor, will be 
secretary, while George Boles will 
continue as president. 

, H is stated that financial difficul- 
ties have been ironed out, and that 
the overhead has been cut to a 
minimum. They are preparing to 
go into production with a series of 
eight out-of-door films, which will 
be made both in English and Span- 
ish. The Cinephone sound system 
will be used. 


MUSIC SENT 
BY WIRE TO 
MAKE SALE 


Sheet music is the latest thing 
to be sent by wire. 

The first song to be telegraphed 
across the continent, notes and all, 
is Irving Berlin’s new number, 
“Just a Little While.” 

It happened this way: 

Berlin took time off from his 
United Artists production, “Reach- 
ing for the Moon,” to dash off a 
chorus for his song publishing com- 
pany. 

His New York office “put on the 
rave” over the chorus and wired 
him that if he could supply a verse 
the song would be featured on an 
important eastern broadcast pro- 
gram. 

Berlin wrote the verse. Arthur 
Johnson, his musical amanuensis, 
transcribed the music while a mess- 
enger boy waited. The messenger 
boy rode a motorcycle to the 
telegraph office in 16 minutes. The 
music was flashed across the coun- 
try in seven minutes. 

It went on the air that night, 
and Sol Bornstein, Berlin’s business 
associate, wired him the next day 
that it was a new hit. 


Pictures - REVIEWS - ‘Legit’ 


IN WARNER FILM 

Nat Carr and Vera Gordon are 
the latest additions to the cast of 
“Fifty Million Frenchmen” at 
Warner Bros. Studios. 


TED HENKEL 


MUSICAL 

CONDUCTOR 


PRESENTATION 
AND DIRECTOR 
CIVIC THEATRE 

Auckland, New Zealand 

Pit Orchestra of 30 Stage Band of 20 


JESSE STAFFORD 

And His San Francisco 
PALACE HOTEL ORCHESTRA 
Featuring His and Gene Rose’s Somr Hit. “Tonight” 



(Continued from Page 10) 
the half-done performance. They 
are Henry Shumer, as fine a char- 
acter actor as one could find in a 
day’s travel, who has been all too 
much of a stranger in Los Angeles; 
Allyn Lewis, an exceedingly clever 
comedian, and Charles Edler, who 
should have been cast as “Bum.” 
The “Bum” was played by S. 
Arthur Harris, who might have 
given some kind of a performance 
had he known any of his lines, but 
as it was, he muffed one of the best 
acting parts in the show until it 
amounted to less than nothing. We 
recall the marvelous performance 
John Fee gave when we first saw 
it. It stood out like a cameo, but 
the Harris version was nothing 
like it. 

Marguerite De La Motte is very 
pretty to look at— but that is all. 
Her speaking Voice is colorless, 
without either lesonance or charac- 
ter. It is small and barely carries 
across the footights. Her face is as 
expressionless as a Benda mask. 

James Bush, who played the 
juvenile, was also painfully inade- 
quate. He spoke his lines as though 
they were secrets he was afraid the 
audience might overhear and he act- 
ed with such a lack of animation 
that we thought he was sick. 

In his scenes with Miss De La 
Motte, it was such a let-down as 
to practically kill the show. In fact, 
the play died completely every time 
Kolb and Dill left the stage. 

Franklyn Farnum added nothing 
as the heavy. He did not look it 
read it nor act it. In short, it is 
difficult to see how a show could 
be more poorly cast in its principal 
characters. Ben Taggart played a 
revenue officer, and Robert Bowen 
a bit. 

One excellent novelty was a bar 
set up in the patio at which free 
beer and pretzels were dispensd to 
the customers between the acts 
while three girls, Misses Peggy La 
bourse, Mildred Baldwin and Clar- 
ita Hall, sang, with Rolland Becker 
at the piano. The entertainment 
they afforded was thoroughly en- 
joyed by those present, who 
thronged the patio as a matter of 
course. 

The business was light. 

Jacobs. 


GUS GAGEL 

AND HIS TROUBADOURS 

Cinderella Ballroom Long Beach, Calif. 

Featuring a Versatile and Novelty Aggregation 


PRECIOUS JEWELL 

theatre mart ‘ 

Reviewed August 29 
r,r. Ro! ? ert Stone, author of 
Precious Jewell,” has here the 
basis of at least a fairly enter- 
taining play. He has presented 
a problem and solved it in a 
straightforward, logical manner. 


RUDOLPH and CHIQUITA 

NOW PLAYING 

Indefinite 

at 

PARIS INN CAFE 

Friday, August 1 


But two points are bad. First, 
the. author has made too much of 
a situation which one does not be- 
lieve to be as serious as he would 
have it. It is questionable that the 
habit of a young girl staying out 
late, smoking cigarettes, and drink- 
ing just a little gin would create the 
havoc that it did in this case. 

Secondly, Stone has endeavored 
to keep the play at too high a pitch 
throughout, with the result that the 
drama is a continuous anti-climax 
through two acts. 

In the first act, one is stirred 
when the mother swoons because 
the father has slapped their 
daughter. 

This tension is maintained 
throughout the next act, and when 
the mother dies because of shock 
and worry, it fails to rise. 

It is not until the last act that 
there is any change in pitch, and 
then one is let down to an emo- 
tional rating of zero by some silly 
chatter between the father, the I 
daughter, and a young man. 

The plot is built around the 
daughter, played by Sylvia Picker. 
When her mother dies, she leaves 
home, , believing that the family 
hates her. 

Presumably she leaves with 
the villian of the play, but she 
fools ’em, and instead becomes 
a working girl or a year. 
When she returns home, she 
marries the little “feller” who 
has been hanging around her 
troughout the entire opus, 
the ingenue, failed to take full ad- 
over the best performance of the 
evening. Her acting was natural 
and vivacious. 

Carlton King as the father is de- 
lightful, despite a slight tendency 
to overact. Helen C. Hill, as his 
wife, did her work with ease and 
grace. Dorothy West, a member 
of the family, was uncertain of her 
lines. 

Alan Wardell, as the brother of 
the engenue, failed to take full ad- 


vantage of humorous opportunities. 
He also mumbled his words to in- 
comprehensibility. 

Bruce Tilden was a spineless 
lover and made himself disliked 
where he could have met with ap- 
proval. 

Stuart. 


PARAMOUNT 

SEATTLE 
(Reviewed Sept. 5) 

Tack the title of “show-stopper” 
on George Dewey Washington and 
you won’t be wrong. The unit was 
Gourfain’s “Swanee Shore” but 
without Washington there wouldn’t 
be much to rave about. Washington 
leaves the house .clamoring for 
more. His repertoire consists of; 
“Singing a Vagabond Song,” Black 
and Blue,” “At the End of the 
Road,” “St. Louis Blues” and 
“Smile at Trouble.” 

Second honors go to Milt Frank- 
lyn and the new band who have 
showed many signs of improvement. 
They present a novelty on “Spring- 
time in the Rockies” done as a sym- 
phonic waltz, a Salvation. Army 
band offering, as an old phonograph 
record would play it, in illustrated 
song style, and a la Sousa; also a 
banjo quartet offering “Sweetheart 
of Sigma Chi,” 11:30 Saturday 
Night and “By.e Bye Blues” The 
first of this medley was vocalized 
by Chuck Gould and .was fair. 
Gould is not a singer and should 
stick to his saxophone. 

Burt and Hazel Skatelle have 
some hard and smoothly done tricks 
on skates and Tom Queen, old time 
dancer, proves that these 60 year 
young boys can still step fast. 

This is one of the best bills seen 
here since the return of the stage 
shows at this house. 

The screen presented “Anybody’s 
Woman.” 

Oxman. 


Peter Paul Lyons 

CONCERT ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR 

LOEW’S WARFIELD SAN FRANCISCO 


WILL PRIOR “ok 

NEW STATE THEATRE SYDNEY AUSTRALIA 

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PAGE FOURTEEN 


INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


SEPT. 13, 1930 


Vaudeville and Presentations 


AMERICAN BEAUTY IDEA 

FANCHON & MARCO 
(Reviewed at Lowe’s State) 

“Miss Universe,” erstwhile Doro- 
thy Goff, is the star of the presenta- 
tion. This young lady, the raging 
“beauty” of the moment, has other 
things besides pulchritude to recom- 
mend her. She can croon a song in 
excellent style and, taught a bit of 
showmanship, would become a 
valuable acquisition to the profes- 
sion. Nine or ten other beauties, 
who won prizes in the Galveston 
contest, paraded in bathing suits. 
The most beautiful part of the 
American Beauty idea were the 
costumes worn by the F. and M. 
girls. They were dazzling. 

High spot of the presentation was 
a triple tongue solo played on the 
trumpet by Rube Wolf. He showed 
a mastery of his instrument that 
rates him a peer in his line and tops 
all of his other talents. His encore 
was thunderous. 

Toots Novelle did a routine of 
upside down tap dancing on a 
flight of steps that was unusual and 
excellently done. This boy works 
neatly and with ease and seems to 
get pleasure out of his act. He cer- 
tainly afforded the audience satis- 
faction. 

Huff and Huff gave a splendid ex- 
hibition of fast adagio aided and 
abetted by the other girls. 

Eddie Hanley and playboys kept 
the customers in a whirl of good 
humor with their comedy work. 
Hanley made a hit with his funny 
announcing. 

A young girl, whom Rube an- 
nounced as Dorothy Lynn, as close 
as I could catch the name, scored 
a solid hit with her trick dancing. 

Big hit by the orchestra was a 
silent number, in which the band 
went through all the^ motiohs of a 
trick selection, but did not utter a 
sound. 

Jacobs. 


for a hand. A dance imitation of, 
Pat Rooney went nicely. 

Trey spot was Nimz and Kabin, 
man and woman. Man plays the 
violin while his partner makes rag 
pictures. Old stuff that always 
goes. ' 

Jose Mareno and Company, male 
and two ferns, were next, offering 
an assortment of Brazilian dances. 
After a screen introduction, Mareno 
and one of the girls come on and 
do a Spanish castinet number. 
Other girl follows with some Span- 
ish tap work that clicks. AH close 
with an Apache dance, the girls in 
scanty garb and the male dressed as 
a pirate. It’s a good terp act, with 
the man holding up the heaviest 
part of it. 

Davis and McCoy, man and girl, 
are next to shut. Male gags with 
fem foiling nicely. Girl sings well. 

Barto Trio, acrobats, do a clever 
routine of flips for getaway. 

Picture was “Wall Street.” 

Stuart. 


guitar solo. Next did “Hallelujah 
I’m a Bum,” singing and accom- 
panying himself on the guitar and 
mouth organ. Then did an old time 
fiddler number that got over great. 
Closed with “Get Away Old Man, 
Get Away.” Weston is a nice look- 
ing young chap and his Hill Billy 
entertainment brings great returns. 

A film trailer introduced Joe 
Bonomo, the strong man of Holly- 
wood. Opens his turn with several 
feats of strength, and then brings 
on an assistant for a nice exhibi- 
tion of tumbling acrobatics. 

‘Manslaughter” held the screen. 

Billy. 


HIPPODROME 

LOS ANGELES 
(Reviewed Sept. 4) 

Renee and De Villroi, boy and 
girl, the latter opening, with an 
acrobatic dance. Male sings, then 
both into an adagio, .with boy 
swinging the girl over his head for 
finish. Good opener. * 

Vic Allen offered some nifty tap 
work and a good voice in second 
spot. Sang “Bye Bye Blues” and 
“If I Had Only Listened to You” 


MILLION DOLLAR 
THEATRE 

LOS ANGELES 
(Reviewed Sept. 8). 

The orchestra opened the pro- 
ceedings with a nice overture of 
“Anchors Aweigh.” 

First on were “The Darlings, of 
Hollywood,” seven clever kiddies, 
doing a variety of songs, tap 
dances, ballets and toe work seldom 
seen in humans of such tender ages. 

Jean and Grace, boy and girl, 
held the dance spot. Opened with 
“That’s How You Can Tell They’re 
Irish ” Then into a character num- 
ber “We’ll Play House.” Next did 
“When Grandma Was a Girl,” 
which is an old idea about the past 
and present, but got over. Closed 
with another character comic called 
“Maggie,” which brought a nice 
round of applause. 

Next on were “The Kentucky 
Ramblers,” a five piece combination 
band. The band numbers, bits and 
songs were great. The leader of 
the organization, who. is also the 
pianist, does a nice piece of m. c. 
ing. These boys are evidently new 
to this vicinity or we would have 
heard of them before, and if they 
stay, should make their mark in the 
entertainment world. here. 

Jack Weston, voice and guitar, 
followed. Opened with "The Shirt 
Me Mother Made for Me,” and a 


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ORPHEUM 

SAN FRANCISCO 
(Reviewed, Sept. 6) 

On the opening day of Columbia’s 
‘Umbagi” (“Africa Speaks”) this 
upper Market street house was 
packed, the final Saturday night 
show finding a neat gang of. cus- 
tomers downstairs. Immediately 
following the flicker, Buss McClel- 
land came on stage to introduce 
Hoeffler, director of “Umbagi” who 
spoke briefly on the film. Orches- 
tra should have played a chorus or 
two following the picture inasmuch 
as a great deal of McCelland’s in- 
troduction and of Hoeffler’s talk 
was lost in the confusion of the 
spill. 

At the console of the Morton or- 
gan, Buss McCelland opened with 
his idea of domestic sounds, as in- 
terpreted on the organ. Original, 
and a laugh puller. Then gave ’em 
“Swingin’ in a Hammock,” using a 
jungle tom effect for the final 
chorus. Closed to a heavy hand. 

Jack Sprigg and RKOlians con- 
tributed a trio of atmosphere num- 
bers opening with a Riff dance tune 
which featured Arnold Hutto at the 
kettle drums. Sprigg then picked 
up his French horn and did “Kash- 
mir Song” geting nice returns. 

As a novelty closer, the Sprigg 
gang did a two day old composition 
of Lou Martin, band sax. Tune was 
monickered “That Jungle Poop 
Poop Pa Doo” and was good for a 
flock of laughs when Sprigg talked 
the lyrics and was met by an an- 
swering chorus from the male 
Helen Kane imitators on either side 
of the pit. 

A Pathe comedy, “Traffic 
Tangle,” Pathe news, and the Col- 
umbia jungle picture rounded out 
the bill. 

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trotted out. 

Luster Brothers opened the opera, 
dressed in sailor outfits, for some 
plenty clever contortionistic work, 
with comedy interspread, that 
closed with a 13 foot Jackley drop 
by Carl Luster. Took a neat hand 
and a pair of bows. 

Burke and Durkin deuced it, 
Burke pulling a few gags, doing a 
chevalier imitation in “Nobody’s 
Using It Now” following with “Ro- 
Ro-Rollin’ Along” while Miss Dur- 
kin joined him in an interpolation 
of the latter number. As an encore 
Burke did a German dialect song, 
■coming back again for a gag while 
the crew set the stage for Berle. 

Claude Sweeten’s RKOlians put 
over another pip of an overture this 
“Just a Little Closer” with Doc 
Ritter handling the lyrics and a bass 
trio contributing a hot chorus. 
Meat returns. 

Feature was “Last of the Lone 
Wolf” (Col.). 

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FOLLIES THEATRE 

SEATTLE 

(Reviewed September 6) 

“The Girl Question,” obviously a 
changed title, was offered by A1 
Franks musical comedy tab com- 
pany as the seventeenth consecu- 
tive production staged by this 
troupe since they reopened this for- 
mer Pantages. stand. 

The opus is set in three to depict 
a rural grocery store. Setting is 
credited to Jack Donnelly and is 
considerable of an improvement 
over what this house has been 
hanging. The action swings around 
the efforts of the local welfare com- 


mittee to evict a travelling show 
troupe. Action is fast throughout, 
with the characters, in the main, 
well portrayed, 

Franks himself is seen in his 
characteristic role of “Ikey Lesch- 
insky,” and garners the bulk of 
laughs. Dorothy Woodward, a re- 
cent addition to the troupe, handles 
her role of the vamping chorine in 
fine style. This girl has looks, 
ability and voice and is steadily 
building a nice following for her- 
self with local fans. Will Rader, 
as the rube enchant, gets lots of 
laughs and his make-up is perfect. 
Clarence Wurdig, as the village 
sheik, has been seen in better parts, 
makes up for anything his part 
might lack by grapping top song 
honors with “I’m Gonna Let That 
Bumble Bee Be,” a novelty into 
which he interludes several o the 
chorines. Gordon Richardson and 
Rose Smith are funny as the wel- 
fare committee, with Mae Tibbits 
and Jack Jones completing the cast 
in minor roles. 

Song numbers which registered 
heavy were Jack Jones’ “Just This 
Side of Heaven;” Miss Woodward’s 
“I’m a Tiger Lily Now,” and 
Charley Keating, the singing door- 
man, who, actually collects the 
pasteboards at the Follies’ gate, 
with “Am I just a Passing Fancy?” 
A groiyi of bucolic melodies and a 
hoke routine by the quartet, made 
up of Jones, Franks, Wurdig and 
Gordon Richardson, complete the 
musical fare. Ten line girls supply 
the terpsichorean atmosphere. Cos- 
tumes very natty, but routines far 
rom forte. 

Pathe’s “Lucky in Love,” starr- 
ing Morton Downey, completed the 
bill that had the house jammed at 
this show. 

Oxman. 


FOX 

SAN FRANCISCO 
(Reviewed ’Sept. 5) 

Barto and Mann were heavily 
billed all over the town for this 
show — getting probably more ad 
and 24-sheet space than any regu- 
lar F. and M. feature so far. In ad- 
dition to taking the marquee hon- 
ors, the Mutt and Jeff dance pair 
walked off with the gravy inside. 
They were closely followed for 


RKO GOLDEN GATE 

SAN FRANCISCO 
(Reviewed Sept. 3 

This packed Wednesday night 
house went for Milton Berle and 
his comedy in a big Western way. 
His clever comic stuff — as new and 
original as anybody’s material can ' 
be — scored a decisive hit. Payoff 
of the entire turn came when 
Berle’s octette of clever girls were 
featured in a Stoogette number that 
packed a flock of laughs through- 
out. In addition there was a mighty 
funny opening, one o the best topi- 
cal comic songs we’ve heard yet 
and some excellent dancing by 
Dorothy Lull, comprising a turn 
that toop up the time of two acts 
and got a lot more results than 
many a whole bill has gotten. Those 
eight girls deserve a lot of com- 
mendation for their work; they’re 
clever and well trained, look good 
from the front and aren’t afraid to 
work. And Berle was funny 
throughout. ' selling every gag he 


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SEPT. 13, 1930 


INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


Vaude and 
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(Continued from Page 14) 
cleverness by Haline Frances, Syl 
via Shore and Helen Moore, who 
were no slouches when it came to 
copping honors in this “Modes 
Idea.” 

Frolic started with Haline and 
Danny Joy in one, for an opening 
song episode, then dropping back 
to full, stage, where a dozen spiffy 
models came on to display gowns 
that the women went for, and fig- 
ures that made the male customers 
sit up and look closely. Here the 
show looked like it might develop 
into one of those style operas, but 
instead Danny Joy teamed up with 
Helen Moore and Sylvia Shore and 
the trio put over a fast stepping 
sequence. 

Haline, aided by an unbilled male, 
followed with “Ain’tcha,” in some- 
thing of a Helen Kane style, selling 
the number for full comedy returns. 
Then, introducing him as her dad, 
she brought on Harry Smirl, an old 
timer if there ever was one, who 
went through his paces in a series 
of okay acrobatic stunts, closing 
with several comedy tricks with a 
tiny dog. 

. Shore and Moore, again, this time 
singing a number and then going 
into some excellent toe work, clos- 
ing heavily, and followed almost 
instantly by eleven boys in uniform, 
doing tap to Poet and Peasant 


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overture. Not the first time this 
has been done at the Fox but it 
clicked heavily. 

Returning for another number 
Haline put over a pip of a drunk 
bit, the dialog of which was espec- 
ially good. 

Here Walt Roesner, on stage 
with the band, made his first and 
only m. c. announcement of the 
show, bringing on Barto and Mann. 
Tall fellow on first, for a limber 
leg dance, and then the dimutive 
member of the team followed, doing 
a pair of trep. offerings, the second 
being climaxed by a great back 
nip accomplished by running up 
the wall. Pair then got together 
for a comedy offering, with the tall 
fellow doing the bashful fern role 
and drawing big belly laughs with 
his embarrassing moment charac- 
terization. 

Finale had more of the models 
on and then Shore and Moore 
worked with the boys for a number 
that was the exact duplicate of one 
•they did in a previous dea. 

As his concert offering, Walt 

Roesner did a trio of waltzes 

“Valse Trieste,” “Blue Danube” 
and “Merry Widow,” the stage ef- 
fects along with “Trieste’’ building 
up the offering greatly. In his four 
months as featured vocalist and 
growing more popular weekly, Joa- 
quin Garay sang “Little White 
Lie:s and took a neat hand. 

Picture was George O’Brien, lo- 
cal fav, in “Last of the Duanes.” 
(Fox). 

Bock. 


PAGE FIFTEEN 


concluding with a hot chorus of the 
tune. “Song of Spain” has a neat 
melody and rhythm and the entire 
offering was well received by the T. 
and D regulars. 

Paramount’s “Anybody’s War” 
was the film offering. 

—Hal. 


FOX T. & D. 

OAKLAND 
(Reviewed, Sept. 3) 

T. and D. musickers turned li- 
bettists for this week’s offering, tak- 
ing off the shelf one of Baron Hart- 
sough’s tunes, “Song of Spain,” to 
wmch Ellison Ames wrote a set of 
lyrics. Peter Brescia and orchestra, 
with Hartsough at the organ, did 
this number in clean cut, interesting 
style. 

Opened with Hartsought at the 
console, playing the tune, while 
Brescia, Bob Worth and Charlie 
Kushton contributed a.n obligato. 
Brescia then directed the orchestra 
through his own rhapsodic arrange- 
ment, tossing in a fiddle solo and 


EMBASSY 

SAN FRANCISCO 
(Reviewed Sept. 4) 

At this full house in the second 
week of “Office Wife” Libarius 
Hauptmann and his musical crew, 
on stage, found a willing gang of 
customers. Each of the offerings 
was received enthusiastically. 

Program started with selections 
rom “Student Prince” with Haupt- 
mann at the piano and conducting. 
Augmenting the offering were 
Claire Upshur and John Teel who 
sang “Deep In My Heart,” the 
whole netting nice returns. 

Another classical number with a 
harp solo included, and then Haupt- 
mann put his group through a med- 
ley of past and present pop tunes 
including “Rio Rita,” “Cuddle Up a 
Little Closer,” “Rose Marie” and 
Kiss Waltz” with Teel and Up-' 
shur returning to chant the latter 
number. 

Effective arrangements of all 
numbers were done by Earl Sharp. 


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Ideas route schedule, with the opening 
dates, all of the current month, in paren- 
theses beside the name of the town: 

PASADENA (11) 

Colorado Theatre 
“New Yorker” Idea 
LO SANGELES (II) 

Loew’s State 
“Beaux Arts” Idea 
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. (11) 

Fox Theatre 

Hollywood Collegians” Idea 
HOLLYWOOD (11) 

Pantages Hollywood 
„ „ , “Rythm-a-Tic” Idea 

m ahn j r- J ean MacDonald 

Mel Elwood Georgia Lane Dancers 
LONG BEACH (11-14) 

West Coast Theatre 
„ “Southern” Idea 

german Jimmy Lyons 

Helen Warner Jerry Lester 

1 he Sixteen Tinies 


Cerro Chico Apts 

3517 Marathon St. 


OLympia 5983 

2 Blocks East of Corner Melrose & Hoover 

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CAPITOL 

SAN FRANCISCO 
(Reviewed Sept. 5) 

After a couple shiftings in person- 
nel this Warren Irons’ crew of bur- 
lesquers has reached a satisfactory 
line in burle presentation with the 
result that the show is gatting over 
to a pretty consistent, healthy busi- 
ness. . At this matinee downstairs 
was quite well filled, with only 
about a dozen women in view, rest 
of the house going to the stags. 
Chances are that they would have 
liked a little more of the strip stuff 
than they were given but Johnnie 
Goldsmith is taking no chances 
with the blues-nosers and is keep- 
ing the show as dean as possible, 
bhow was staged by James Yoman 
with Lillian Hunt producing chorus 
numbers. 

Top applause honors at this mat- 
inee went to Ann Allison, pretty 
and petite, who out over a large 
part of an Indian sequence with a 
song and a hot dance, and later re- 
turned to chant “I’ve Got a Yen 
For You” closing with a neat toe 
number. Millie Pedro, a recent 
addition and already a big fav, did 
From Now On” and “Am I Blue” 
selling each of the tunes in a big 
way. 

The comics, Charles Fritcher and 
George Murray, worked hard in this 
show, handling a flock of scenes in 
which they drew healthy laughs. 
Male customers went heavily for 
the gags handed out by this pair, 
the payoff coming with a burle- 
saue female impersonation by the 
duo. 

George Grafe landed with a pair 
of tunes which he tenored in a nitty 
voice. Working in a number of the 
blackouts was Harry Kelly, char- 
acters, who scored in each of the 
offerings, especially a dope number 
that had a lot of comedy. Melene 
Charka was featured in two num- 
bers “Time to Fall in Love” and 
an Indian sequence in which she 
took the fem lead displaying a voice 
that pleased ’em. 

Ginger Britten worked in a duo 
of numbers, first of which was 
Around the Corner” and “Doing 
the New Low Down,” getting heavy 
response from the boys. Bee Cun- 
nmgham, putting over “Yours and 
Mine was well received. A girl 
from out of the line, Peggy Hill 
put on a torrid grind for the boys’ 
as the big blowoff, seguing into the 
finale. 


BROOKLYN (12-18) 

Fox Theatre 
„ , “Changes” Idea 
Don Baker and Art Hadley Cofeatured 
Walzer & Dyer Muriel Gardner 
PHILADELPHIA (12-18) 

Fox Theatre 

, __ “Broadway Venuses” Idea 

a ^ f e r, } 6 New Yorfl Beauty Winners 
Aerial Bartletts Wells and Winthrop 
Freda Sulivan 
SALEM, ORE. (6-7) 

Elsinore Theatre 
“Wild & Woolley” Idea 
Hartz Krazy Kats 
Bus Carlell Aussie & Czech 

Roy Augwen . Bud Murray Girls 

Davis and La Rue 
SALEM, ORE. (13-14) 
Broadway Theatre 
“Gems & Jams” Idea 
vr-n r. J oe an 4 Jane McKenna 
Will Cowan Nee w M . 

Maxine Evelyn Jim Penman S 

Beatrice Franklin and Florence AsteU 


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Featured In Fanchon and Marco’s “Southern 


Idea 


FRESNO (11-13) 

Wilson Theatre 
Gobs of Joy” Idea 

Featuring Pat West with Three Jolly Tars. 
Scotty Weston, Dolly Kramer, Mary Treen 
Wanda Allen, Moore & Moore, Curtis 
Coley Johnny Jones, Rena & Rathburn, 
Ken Gatewood, Doyle Quadruplets. 
SAN JOSE (14-17) 

California Theatre 
, Same as cast above. * 

SAN FRANCISCO (12-18) 

Fox Theatre 
, “Busy Bee” Idea 

Cooper and Orren Paul Howard 

Iviana Galen Phil Arnold 

Terry Green 
Sunkist Beauties 
OAKLAND (12-18) 

Oakland Theatre 
„ “Modes” Idea 

Hahne Frances, Sylvia Shore and Helen 
Moore, Danny Joy, Harry Smirl 
ounkist Ensemble Hollywood Models 


TACOMA, WASH. (11) 
^Broadway Theatre 
‘Green Devil” Idea 
_ Reg Leg Bates 
K ov e r , Co-Featured with Bobby 
Ul oJk Karels, Rita Lane 
SEATTLE, WASH. (11-17) 

Fifth Avenue Theatre 
“Victor Herbert” Idea 
Buddy Howe Walter Powell 

Electric Duo 

.X‘?l2U Herbert Quartette 
YAKIMA, WASH. (13-14) 

Capital Theatre 
“In Blue” Idea 

Kenoff and Renova, Co-Featured with 
Mitzi Mayfair, Bob Brandies, 
Webster and Marino 
DENVER, COLO. (11-17) 

Tabor Grand Theatre 
“Cadets” Idea 

_ ... Bora and Lawrence 

, S . lster f , r . Rognan and Trigger 
Mabel and Marcia Johnny Dunn 


WALTER POWELL 

Following My Brother Jack Powells Footsteps 
Featured in Fanchon and Macro’s “Vcitor Herbert” Idea 


DETROIT, MICH. (12-18) 

Fox Theatre 
“Rose Garden” Idea 
TT ' Red Donahue and' Uno 

Harold Stanton Hall and Essley 

Three Jacks and One Queen 
Helen Petch 

NIAGARA FALLS (13-18) 

Strand Theatre 
‘Smiles” Idea 

Eva Mandel Seymour & Corncob 

Dorothy Neville Dave Le Winter 

WORCESTER (13-19) 

Palace Theatre 
“Box O’ Candy” Idea 
Lynn Cowan Jones & Hull 

Reeves & Leu Sunkist Beauties 

SPRINGFIELD (13-19) 

Palace Theatre 
“Good Fellows” Idea 

Lucille Page Bud Averill 

beben & Eliven Helen Burke 


ST. LOUIS (12-18) 

Fox Theatre 
“Country Club” Idea 

Leonora Con Masters and Grayce 

Ray Samuels Louise and Mitchell 
CHICAGO (12-18) 

Capital Theatre 
_ , Seeing Double” Idea 

otoud Twins Flea TwJtic 

Killer, Clute, Falla, Nolay, Holly 
Maltby St. Johns and Parker Twins 
MILWAUKEE (12-18) 

Wisconsin Theatre 
„ , „ , ‘Romance” Idea 

Castleton & Mack Flo & Ollie Wallers 
Robert Cloy Mary Price 

WASHINGTON (12-18) 

Fox Theatre 
“Skirts” Idea 

T Daisy Wonder Horse 

Julia Curtiss Ruth Silver 

Up-m-the-Air Girls 


DOROTHY IPSWITCH LEONA SANDERS 

ELECTRIC DUO 

Acrobatic Dancers Featured in F. & M. “Victor Herbert” Idea 


HARTFORD (13-19) 

Capital Theatre 

, T “Milky Way” Idea 

Nl ? ee , Stone & bee Bert Faye 

Geo. Warde and Reggy Montgomery 
Steve Moroni Joe Clifford 

NEW HAVEN (13-19) 

Palace Theatre 
“Bells & Belles” Idea 
Eddie Hill Eva Thornton 

Dunbar Bell Ringers 

Tommy Harris Frances, Ted and Byron 
Loretta 

BRIDGEPORT (13-19) 

Palace Theatre 
“Singer’s Midgets” 

Featuring Singers Midgets 


OKLAHOMA CITY (13) 
Orpheum Theatre 
“Sunshine” Idea 

Vince Silk Barton and Young 

Helen Denizon Everett Lolan 

Mary Lou Richard Wally 

ATLANTA, GA. (13-19) 

Fox Theatre 
“Marble” Idea 

Roy Smoot Francia 

AI and Jack Rand Hector and His Gang 

Harris Trio Georgene and Henry 


SYLVIA SHORE and HELEN MOORE 

FEATURED IN THE ‘‘MODES" IDEA 



I EDDIE HANLEY 


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AND 


The PERSONALITY BOYS 

SPENCER CHASTTAINE OTTO UHLEN 

Joined Fanchon and Marco’s American “Beauty” Idea. Las, Minute Approved Laughing Sensation. Loews State, 

Los Angeles. Week of September 4th. Entire Route to Follow. 



Representative 

CHAS. YATES 



Personal Manager 

BERT LAWRENCE 






INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN 


PAGE SIXTEEN 


FANCHON and 


PRESENT 

THE INITIAL CREATION OF 


Yorker 


IDEA 


THE 


A Miniature Musical Comedy With 


An ALL-STAR Cast 


Broadway’s 

Play Boys 


WARREN JACKSON 


BOBBY CALLAHAN 


LOEW’S 

STATE 

LOS ANGELES 
THIS WEEK 


MURIEL STRYKER 
Formerly with Ziegfeld 
Follies 


MARJORIE BURKE 
The Personality Girl 









Scanned from the collection of 

Karl Thiede 


Coordinated by the 

Media History Digital Library 
www.mediahistoryproj ect.org