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VOL. 145 No. 13

NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1942

PRICE 25 CENTS

NEWSREE15 SUGARCOAT WAR

lOc-a-Dance Hostesses Do Better On
Defense Jobs; Creep Joints' B O. NSG

Broadway's dime-a-danceries are
getting hit from" two sidea by the
war. Not only has their patronage
dwindled, but they're finding it
tough to get a sufficient number o{
the Little Miss Twinkletoes needed
for gam-oscillating with romanti-
cally-Inclined yokels.

Business in the creep joints (as the
ballrooms are labeled) has been par-
ticularly slow since Pearl Harbor
Day. Increased tempo ol the draft
has taken the young fellows who
were always the best customers,
while the soldiers and sailors who
used to traipse up and down the
glittering glen in abundance before
the U. S. called it quits with Hi-
Tohito aren't around In such great
number anymore.

Servicemen, incidentally, have
never been the ready suckers for
the time-clocked terping that they
would seem. For one thing, it's a
pretty expensive brand of indoor
sport and the lads in khaki and
blue just don't have the moolah.
Malls have it figured that a solid
(Continued on page 64)

War Makes Folks
Turn to Religion;
See Lent Biz Drop

Minneapolis, March 8.

Following a sharp drop in busi-
ness at the start of Lent, after nine
record-breaking weeks at his local
burlesque house, Harry Hirsch has
completed a survey which, he says,
Indicates that for the first time in
several decades the holy period is
likely to be an adverse b'oxoffice
Influence. The war apparently has
caused people to turn more to re-
ligion again.

Hirsch checked up on his mailing
list to try to learn why many fa-
miliar faces suddenly were missing
and was told in a number of in-
stances that the patrons were laying
off shows and going to church serv-
ices.

FBI SEIZES JAFS FILMS
OF CALIF. COAST LINE

Houston, March 3.

FBI agents were checking here
on the source of 15 reels of motion
picture film showing parts of the
California coastline and scenes of
California cities.

The film was seized here Sunday
(1) from a Japanese alien who said
It had been sent to him by another
Jap in the east

Air-Raid Nitery

Philadelphia, March 3.
Bomb-proof nightclub is under
construction - in - Andalusia,- just-
across the city line of Northeast
Philly.

Operator is W. H. Hansell, who
is in the Insurance business.
The club will be underground
and will be lin°d with concrete.

'SONG WRITING'
DISC JOCKEYS
APAIN

Executives of phonograph record
companies have come to look on the
disc jockey who makes 'songwriting'
a sideline as one of the prime
nuisances of the business. A similar
opinion, though not quite as open, is
held by recording bandleaders.

The mode of operation of the plat-
ter-juggling gentry is about the same
whether the Jockey works on a key
city station or on some hinterland
100-watter. After either writing or
cutting himself in on a song, the
jockey goes all out in highpressuring
(Continued on page 52)

Name Composers, Aotliors
Among Free Contributors
To Patriotic Revne m N.Y.

What is expected to be one of the
theatre's outstanding patriotic ven-
tures will be a revue due this spring
in New York, proceeds to be devoted
to Army and Navy relief. Name
authors are contributing sketches
and songs gratis and the manage-
ment will act without pay. Only
the actors, crew and musicians will
(Continued on page 52)

'Swing Shift' A.M. Dance

Seattle, March 3.

Boeing Airplane workers held
this city's first 'swing shift' dance
Sunday morning (1) from 1 a.m. to
5 a.m. at the Trianon ballroom.
Dance was held after the boys that
make the- planes had petitioned the
city council for an easing of the old
city ordinance that banned public
dancing after 1 a.m.

The shindig got under way after
the Trianon's regular Saturday
night dance session, and because of
the large number of Boeing work-
ers the first swing-shifter was lim-
ited to Boeing card holders.

E

TOO POLLYAiA'

Washington Propaganda Ex-
pert* Want News Clips to
Depict War's Harsher As-
pects as Well as the
Brighter Side

•LET'S FACE IT'

Various Washington agencies con'
cerned with domestic propaganda
are Irate over the 'happy' slant
ne\vsreels continue to give the pub-
lic. They feel that the reds are dis-
torting the 'eal situation toi the sake
of commeivialism and against the
best Interests of the country. Un-
less there's a toning down, It's said,
a bebind-the-barn paddling may be
expected.

Should tha newsreel chiefs be
called to Washington for such a
(Continued on page 22)

Res'd Seat Sales Drop
As War's Uncertainties
Cause Late Window Bays

Phenomenon apparently brought
on by uncertainties accompanying
the war is tendency of the public to
wait until the last minute to buy
tickets to leglters, opera, concerts,
sports events and all other amuse-
ments for which reserved seats are
sold. The last few months have seen
audiences in increasing numbers re-
fuse to get ducats in advance, as they
formerly did.

Wait-till-the-last-minute trend has
undoubtedly been created by day-to-
day changes in world events that
(Continued on page 51)

CAREFUL, REVERENT USE
OF U.S. ANTHEM URGED

Washington, March 3.

Over - zealous broadcasters have
been asked by the Office of Facts
and Figures to restrain themselves
when tempted to inject the 'Star
Spangled Banner' into their program
structures. The country is in danger
of getting fed up with the national
anthem. Federal authorities fear, and
the tune should not be worn out in
a misguided feeling of patriotism,

■Through both the Broadcaster^
Victory Council and National Asso-
ciation of Broadcasters, the OFF has
advised stations to use the hymn
only on 'most important programs'
and for opening and shutting down
the broadcast day. Steps should be
taken to counteract over-emphasis
that will nullify the effort to gener-
ate public morale, OFF cautioned.

London in Heaviest Scramble

For Legit Theatres Since 1921

Pacifying Anthem

Those in charge of the Amer>
lean Theatre Wing's Canteen on
-44th street, N, Y,, -were con-
cerned about policing measures.
Army Morale Division was
asked what to do if the boys
grew too ambitious with the
hostesses or got rough.

Advisei^ replied, 'Just put on
a disc of The Star Spangled
Banner.' The boys in uniform
must stand at attention or get
thrown into the clink.'

TO FINGERPRINT
ALL H'WOOD
PERSONNEL

' Hollywood, March 8.
Everybody who enters a studio
gate. Including executives, laborers
and visitors, must file fingerprints
and birth certificates, under a new
ruling adoiMed by the film indus-
try.

New procedure, designed to pre-
vent sabotage, follows the require-
ments in effect at aviation plants and
(Continued on page Bl)

Clowns (Literally) Warm
Up Raktoii Air Audience
For Elsa Maxw«ll Show

Ex-circus clowns and magicians
are used by the Balston account to
warm up its studio audiences Fr^ay
nights before the Elsa Maxwell show
goes on the air (Blue). The clowns
and magicians perform for 20 min-
utes, and then 10 minutes, before the
opening of the broadcast Miss Max-
well and Graham McNamee do a
special routine which includes the
Introduction of the program's guest.

A regu]ar among the clowns is
Oscar Lowande, former equestrian
star.

Jivin' the Carillon

■ ^ Detroit, March 3.

Students rushed out on the
campus and college professors
turned pale when they heard the
Burton Memorial Carillon at the
University of Michigan rock out
with swing.

It turned out to be Alec Temple-
ton, blind pianist in Ann Arbor for
a concert, who decided to give the
students a little jam session on a
carillon as a surprise.

/

London, March 3.
London, especially the West End,
is undergoing the biggest scramble
for legit theatres since the big boom
In 1921, when rentals for houses
jumped skyhigh. Heavy production
schedules are the major factor in the
upbeat.

Less than a year ago, theatres
could have been leased or purchased
for practically next to nothing, with
numerous managements ready to
lose thousands of pounds to get out
of their leases. But houses are at a
premium now.

It's true there are several new-
comers in the field, one of the most
Important being Jack Hylton. He
has given up music maestroshlp and
Is now a producer in a big way. Not
satisfied with three plays, which he
has running at present' in the West
End, Hylton is dickering for more
theatres. At present he is joint
lessee, with Associated llieatres
Properties, of His Majesty's and
Adelphl (latter, by the way, was
deemed a white elephant as recently
(Continued on page S3)

'Requests Anent
Radio Have Force
OfaU.S.Order

Washington, March 3.

How it can be done admittedly Is
a problem nobody yet has solved,
but really seriotis study Is being
given drastic additional censorship
control over broadcasting. The fed-
eral supervisors actually would like
some means of chopping off signals
from domestic transmitters at the
Mexican and Canadian borders and
the ocean shorelines.

In response to yelps of newspaper
publishers whose" sheets have been
(Continued on page 26)

TOT PRICE GLORY'
NOW our OF LINE

A series of conferences has been
held between NBC, the Russel Seeds
agency and the U. S. Marine Corps
over the radio extension of the old
stage play 'What Price Glory?'
under the radio title 'Capt. Flagg
and Sergeant Quirt.' The Marines
don't like it, questioning that the
script Is in the national interest.

Especially Impolitic to the Ma-
rines Is the fictional situation of a
sergeant bawling o.ut a captain. It
ain't done. And also in the story
the two Marines have only one thing
on their minds — dames. Marinej
think of other things, too.

S MISCELLANY

Wednesdby, March 4, 1942

Accents, Coming And Going

Hollywood, March 3.

While foreign-born film players are spending money on vocal
coaches to cultivate the American lingo, a lot of natlve-borp character
players are going out of their way to whip up alien accents. Studios
are filming so many stories of war, espionage and international intrigue
that lingual acrobatics are at a premium.

Hollywood is the easiest place in the world to get away with a for-
eign aicceht, according to lingo teachers. To the average American
picture fan, Russian, Turkish, Portuguese, Egyptian and Persian
heavies all sound alike. To the folks in the midwest an alien Is an
alien, and generally a villain.

Chevalier's Xollaborationism'

Star's Idealistic Franco-German Accord Not Con-
demned by Free French

London Is perturbed over a 'Va-
riety' headline (Issue Nov. 5) sut-
Ing 'Chevalier Preaches Frencli Col-
laboration with Nazi Germany.'
Question, which is creating wide-
spread speculation, in order to be
properly analyzed should determine
whether Maurice Chevalier Is a col-
laborationist in the odious meaning
of the term, as commonly associated
with Quisling, Laval, Darlan, or in
Its broader aspects.

Franco-German collaboration, as
sn idealistic formula for wiping out
differences between the two nations
for all time, had distinguished spon-
sorship long before the war started.
Fed up with centuries of quarreling
and strife between Mibse two races
there was a school of thought in
France which held the view that the
differences could be Ironed out so
that both peoples could live happily
ever after. Aristide Briand, for one,
thought it feasible. Clemenceau did
.not _

in his address o^e'r a Paris i-adio
itation, which was later repeated in
(Continued on page 55)

Plastic Surgeon Wins
Lon Clayton's Bobbed
Schnoz Suit for 79G

Hollywood, March 3.

Lou Clayton lost his $79,500 dam-
age suit against Dr. Josef Ginsberg,
plastic surgeon,' who was charged
wila having failed to beautify Clay-
ton's schnoz to his satisfaction

Color films were shown in court
to - illustrate the plastic surgeon's
skill in performing delicate skin-
graft operations.

USO Deeds in Pix

Hollywood, March 3.

First picture based on activities of
United Service Organizations is the
forthcoming 'Sweetheart of the
Fleet' at Columbia. Film will show
the types of entertainment given to
thr. armed forces.

Roles of USO entertainers will be
played by Joan Davis, Jinx Falken-
burg and Joan Woodbury.

ENGLAND TAIKS 'DRAH'
FOR SOLDIERS' SHOWS

London, March 3.

Theatre people virtually would be
drafted to entertain troops under a
proposal submitted to the Minister of
Labor— here— yesterday — (Monday);-
Idea, hatched by a committee repre-
senting all branches of show busi-
ness, would make it mandatory for
all performers to tour camps for
three months out of each year.

Major advantage Is seen Jiot in
forcing actors to entertain soldiers —
they need very little forcing— but in
releasing them from contracts, the
provisions of which allow them no
time for camp tours. Most per-
formers, exempted by law from three
months of their contracts, would
gladly go out under the banner of
Entertainment National Service As-
sociation.

Bonds cost a's little as $18.76,
stamps come aa low as 10
cents. Defense bonds and
stamps can be bought at all
banks and postoffices, and
stamps can also be purchased
at retaU stores.

HARPO'S ARMY CHORE

USO Tour Set — Ann Katberford En
Route, Martha B»ye Later

Harpo Marx next Monday (9) be-
gins touring the camp circuit under
auspices of USO-Camp Shows, Inc.
He debuts at the San Diego Naval
Training Station and winds up on
March 26 at Ford Ord, confining
himself during the 18-day tour to
posts in and around California. He'll
be with "the Ada Leonard All-Girl
unit.

Only name performers now out
for CSI are Ann Rutherford, who
started with the 'Razzle-Dazzle'
troupe at Fort Meade, Md., last
Thursday (26) and finishes at Camp
Lee, Va., next Wednesday (11), and
Chester Morris, who teed off at
Gardner Field, Cal., Feb. (23) and
ends tomorrow (Thursday) at Fort
Baker, Cal.

Set to tour, although dates aren't
definite yet^is Martha Jlaye. _Tejtita-
tive slied" calls for~fier'T6 'begin "at
Fort Knox, Ky., on March 23 and
finishes in Cleveland on April 3.

Heckling the HecUers

'Shut up or I'll throw a Jap on you.'

'Pardon me, didn't I see you under a r.lcroscope somewhere?'— Joe
E. Lewis.

'Pardon me, but I just booked passage for you on' a sinking ship.'

T,ady, even a train stops once in a while.' . (To squelch constantly
chattering femmes).

'Let's play horsey; I'll be the head and shoulders and you stay just
as sweet as you. are.' — Jack Waldron.

'Ladies and Gentlemen— If I'm not exaggefatlng.'— Jackie Miles.
. 'Ladies and gentlemen, please pardon my friends (pointing to the
noisy group) but I haven't seen them in a long while. (Pause.) Now
you understand why.'

'It's better to keep your mouth shut and have 'em think you'i-e a
Uol, or open It and remove all suspicion. (Pause.) Unless, of
course, you get paid for it'

THE BERLE-EVG POINT

By Milton Berle

ST. LOO MUNY HIRNS TO
H'WOOD FOR FlUH SCORE

Hollywood, March 3.
St Louis Municipal theatre, pur-
veyor of musical classics for the mul-
titude, is turning from Europe to
. Hollywood for melody.

For its light opera, the Missouri
outfit has borrowed the score of The
Wizard of Oz," written by E. Y.
Harburg and Harold Arlen for the
Metro picture. It is the first time
the Municipal opera has ever used a
film libretto.

A.&C. Take Off May 1

Hollywood, March 3.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello hop
off about May 1 on their cross-coun-
try bomber (not bombing) tour and
will continue their , flight until they
have shot down $300,000 to buy a
fighting plane for the Army.

Trip is figured to last about 10
weeks, with the theatres also con-
tributing everything above operating
costs to the fund.

W.K.S on PJLs Claim
Defense Bond Sales
Being Kept on Q.T.

Headline acts coming into New
York and Hollywood on vaude and
presentation theatres itineraries dep-
recate the slipshod manner In which
Defense Stamps and Bonds are
handled by the local communities
in a great number of instances.
'The stars agree to appear at ihis
or that central place, usually a big
department store, but the adver-
tising of the cuflo personals — for
Uncle Sam — are being slufled off.

What's worse, some stores act as if
they're trying to gumshoe the whole
thing, possible fearing extra-heavy
traffic, whereas the names — whether
they're the topflight maestros or
picture, stage or recording per-
(Continued on page 55)

Offering Jane Withers

In a Radio Package

Jane Withers, 14-year-old screen
comedienne, has been packaged for
radio offering with a script called
'Lucky Penny.' She has done only
guest dates heretofore.

National Concert ts Artists Corp.
(the former NBC Artists Bureau) has
her under option and is offering the
program to radio advertisers.

Miami's 1st Casoahy

Miami, March 3.

The Frolics nitery has folded here
because of poor biz.

It'j the- first local nltety casualty
of the season.

Regulate Child Labor

Albany, March 3.
The Assembly Education Commit-
tee today (Tuesday) favorably re-
ported the Ehrlich Bill establishing
ui^lform state-wide system regulat-
ing employmenl of children under
16 in all branches of show busine^.

Child performers in this state can
thus perform under less stringent
regulations;

ABBOTT and COSTELLO

Currently on national release In 'Rida 'Em Cowboy' (Universal);
just completed 'Rio Rita' for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and now back
at work at Universal In 'Pardon My Sarong.' It tlmi'a not enough to
mention, there's also our stint tor Chate A Sanborn Sunday evenings
on NBC-Red.

Universal Picturet Chase A Sanborn Hour, NBC-Red

Under Perianal Managameot .of,: > EQWAflO SHERMAN. .. <.

Hollywood, March 3.

Went to the Academy Award dinner and was thrilled when they called
me to the dais and gave me an Oscar — to give to Gary Cooper.

Didn't mind when Cooper won -an award. I didn't even mind when Joan
Fontaine got it, but when Mickey Mouse walked up and got an 'Oscar,'
and then thumbed his nose at me, that was too muchi

I sat next to a very swanky actress. Sh was so swanky, even the per-
fume she wore, wore perfume.

Little BUly Curtis, tKe midgut went to his local blood bank and did his
bit He contributed a thimble of blood.

Some visitors watching the making of my latest picture recognized
both John Carradine and myself because I heard one excitedly say,
'There's Hamlet — and Omelet!'

Drivers in Hollywood are getting more polite every day. Now they only
chase you up to the sidewalk and call it quits.

Everything went swell this year, I signed a new contract for radio,
pictures — and, my. barber.

While I was in Florida the early part of '41, went to the races at Hialeah
and I didn't mind losing all my money on a nag, but when that same
horse walked over to me after the race and showed me a $2 ticket he'd
bet on the horse that won — that was too much.'

Broadway Dept.

Billy Rose knows an actor who is so wealthy he uses Defense Stamp*
Instead of the regular ones for his mail.

Grossingers wUtl feature a new novelty. come Social Director time this
summer. For the piece-d e-resistan ce, ptt er the eve ning meal, they will
serve borscht iii demi-tasse cups. "

Jack Waldron says he worked in a night club that was so fashionable
they served two-tone mickeys.

Hoilywoodlana

Arthur Cesar says: 'The Japs may get to California, but let them try to
get into a studio — without a Guild cardl'

MdsIc Department

Met a songwriter who Is so diligent about his composing every time he
sits down to write a 'Boogie-Woogle' number he dons blackface.

Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen are so pleased with the success of
their 'Blues In the Night' they're writing a sequel called 'Reds in the
AfternoonI'

Observation Dept.

Went to the Palladium for the opening of Claude Thornhill's orchestra
and tlie place was so crowded the waiters dropped from the ceiling in
parachutes to deliver your order.

Nowadays, when a couple breaks up, instead of dividing community
property they divide all the sugar in the house!

My brother, the one with the double-breasted hangnails, has turned
artist. He is now painting rosy futures for dreamers!

Went to a delicatessen for a late bite the other evening and discovered
the only place in town that cuts the tea.

Whatever Became of ? ? 7 T

Dolly Sisters D. D. H.

Harry Carroll & Co. McLaughlin & Evans

Bennett Twins Dolly Kay

Hangnail Descriptions
Witch: Hex-appeal . . . Lawyer: Little Boy Sue . . . Rhumba Dancer:
Hip-Happy . . . Marleiie Dietrich: El-Leg-ant.

Afterpiece

Each time you buy a Defense Stamp you do your bit towards making
us the Champ!

BLED FOR U. S. A.

WB Leads Plasma Derby With
604 Oonon

Hollywood, March 3.

Warners leads the film studios in
the Arterial Derby with 604 volun-
teers, male and female, who can
tell their grandchildren that they
bled for their country in the Big
War. Red Cross Blood Donor Serv-
ice reports a total of 2,759 pledges
from the picture industry, with more
coming in at the rate of 70 per day.

Second to Warners thus far is
Metro, with 420, and Paramount
third with 419. Next comes 20th-
Fox, with' 225, RKO 106, Techni-
color 162, Columbia 144, Walt Disney
64, Republic 47, Leon Schlesinger
42, Monogram 28, Edward Small 22,
and 110 from Screen Actors Guild,
not registered with any studio. An-
other 110 donors in as members of
the radio industry.

Mex Star Ordained

Mexico City, March 3.

Intimate friends here of Jose
Mojlca, one of Mexico's leading
stage-plc-radio actors and singers,
confirm reports from Arequipa, Peru,
that he's taken his vows as a Fran-
ciscan friar and the name Brother
Crescenlano.

Actor disposed of his considerable
fortune In Mexico and went to Peru
to become a friar owing to difficul-
ties in Mexico for him to take the
cloth because', at, the religious laws.

Margie Hart to Drama
School but U. of Minn.
Nixes Frat Dinner Dates

Minneapolis, March 3.
University of Minnesota authorities
clamped down on several fraternity
dinner appearances that had been ar-
ranged for Margie Hart, strip teaser,
during her Hlrsch-Katz Alvin theatre
engagement here. Power{-to-be were
were said to be fearful of displeasure -
of rural legislators who appropriate
funds for the Institution's mainten-
ance.

However, Miss Hart, who makes
her speaking stage debut in a revival
of 'Alias, The Deacon' in June, at-
tended Prof. Held Erlckson's Univer-
sity of Minnesota class on acting and
the drama to obtain histrionic point-
ers—and, perhaps, the, attendant
newspaper publicity.

In return for the instruction on
acting. Miss Hart gave her co-ed
classmates tips on how to acquire
glamour and make a -success in the
theatre.

N. Y. to Miami

Ann Corlo.
Harry Cohn.
Nate Spingold.
Mort Blumenstock.
Jack Lewis.
BUI Scully.
Toni Spitzec

Wednesdajf March 4, 1942

lasGELLAinr

HOLLYWOOD'S JIVE HYPO

CENSORSHIP THREAT

Is it possible that Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia and
his political appointee, License Commissioner Paul Moss, ere
giving 'freedom' a slight twist and including arbitrary censorship
as part of the diet of a people at war? This question is im-
portant to all of the show business, for New York burlesque is
only a stepping stone. Commissioner Moss has always looked
hungrily upon legit as a fertile field for his censorial bent, so.
the legitimate theatre may well be next on the schedule of the
bluenose timetable. Or perhaps it will be pictures,, or perhaps
pictures and legit both at the same time?

Closing three burlesque theatres without a police complaint
and a court hearing, thus impairing valuable real estate proper-
ties and causing unemployment for a couple of hundred persons,
are only the first manifestations of a more serious menace. The
greater danger lies in the obviously growing strength of some
narrow-minded, church and laymen alike, who have evidently
found the combination to the City Hall's back door.

Undoubtedly the bluenoses have wrapped themselves in the
cloak of false patriotism and thus gained the Mayor's and Moss"
attentive ears. How else could the officials have ignored the
Mayor's own burlesque censorship committee, which recom-
mended continuance of licenses for the Eltinge, Republic and
.Gaiety? Burlesque isn't lily-white, true, but it had its place
and clientele which found it necessary to their, own peculiar
psychoses.

While some may argue that the elimination of burlesque is
no stark menace to civilian life, none can dispute the danger
Ipf arbitrary censojship, especially in the control of the narrow-
minded. All one need do is to remember Prohibition. The dry
era was also an offshoot of what certain culturally destructive
elements considered moral for men in uniform.

Theatre Wing s Canteen B way s
1st Winter Hit; Show Biz Hosts
Mob of U.S., Alfied Servicemen

The American Theatre Wing Stage
Door Canteen, which preemed Mon
day evening (2), is one winter open-
ing that is a hit. That's the word along
Broadway and among the many peo
pie of the theatre who participated in
accomplishing the novel recreation
centre for men in the armed services.
It is spotted under the 44th Street
theatre, N. Y., in what was the pro
hibltion era's Little Club. Canteen
has the atmosphere ot a cabaret, but
is informal and cordial.

Men in uniform said they never
saw anything like it, some of them
arriving before the announced five
p.m. opening. By nine o'clock
over 800 boys had visited the
canteen and many made a repeat ap-
pearance before the midnight clos'
Ing." The count was lost after 500
sandwiches had been served, some of
(Continued on page 55)

Colored Band s
Late Rehearsals
JamLibbyHohnan

Boston, March 3.
A dispute with the management of
the Hotel Somerset, in whose Balln-
ese Room she was the headliner, al-
most caused Llbby Holman to quit
the spot last week before the end of
her engagement.
There are a couple of versions of
(Continued on page 52)

U Signs Joe E. Lewis

Hollywood, March 3.

Joe E. Lewis, currently at the
Copacabana, New York, has been
signed to a term contract by Univer-
sal. Understood he's to maWe two
pictures a year.

Lewis is scheduled to leave New
York for the Coflst in April

BOl Wilder as Par Director

Hollywood, March 3.

Billy Wilder makes his debut as
a director at Paramount in. the
Ginger Rogers-Ray Milland co-
starrer, "The Major and the Minor,'
starting late in March.

Formerly teamed with Charles
Brackett as a writer, Wilder col-
laborated on the screenplay of 'Hold
Back the Dawn,' 'Ball of Fire' and
'Ninotchka.'

Dinah Shore May Introduce
ToDche for Bristol-Myers;
Cantor Sobstitnte Uncertain

Dinah Shore may be given her
own variety program by Bristol-
Myers when she winds up the season
with the Eddie Cantor show. Prod-
uct' would be Touche, a new cos-
metic, and the series would start
this summer, though probably not as
a replacement for the Cantor pro-
gram. Final decision, to be made
by' the client and the Yoiing &
Rubicam agency in the next couple
of weeks, will depend on several
uncertain factors, such as Mirs
(Continued on page 54)

MAESTROS IN PIX

Film Industry Finding a Res-
ervoir of New Faces and
Nationally Exploited Tal-
ent in the Recording Field
— Name Bandmen, on
Wax, Potent Film Draws

MUSIC AT THE B. O.

Film industry is finding a reser-
voir of new faces and nationally ex-
ploited talent in the recording Held.
In the past six months picture mak-
ers have devoted ever-increasing at-
tention to' orchestra leaders and sing-
ers who helped make 1941 the re-
cording industry's heaviest sales
year In history. They hqve found
a wealth of already established
names capable of drawing b.o. ad-
missions without a long buildup.

One of the latest to be signed by
studios is Harry James and his band,
which begins work April 3 on an
untitled Universal feature with the
Andrews Sisters. James was as-
sertedly unknown to producers and
others who were concerned with
contracting him for picture work,
but he was signed when his status
as a best-selling recording band was
outlined.

Sammy Kaye is another, set with
20th-Fox for the Sonjc Henie film,
'Iceland.' Kaye begins work April 13,
spending six weeks at the studio.
Xavier Cugat is also heading coast-
ward to work with Fred Astaire and
Rita Hayworth for Cdlumbia.

The use of name bands and other
recording personalities in films isn't
new. It's been going on sporadically
for several years. Kay Kyser, Gene
Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, et al., made
films prior to the recent rush for
top ranking record names. But the
surge of the recording field has been
so great that the film people have
awakened to the fact that it is a
fount of already tailqred b.o. talent.

Most bands seek a film contract as
eagerly as some studios are now
(Continued on page 55)

Big Push For Gabin

Hollywood, March 3.

Archie Mayo, originally assigned
to direct 'The Pied Piper' at 20th-
Fox, has been shifted to pilot the
Jean Gabin picture, 'The Night the
World Shook."

Directorial switch was made be-
cause the Gabin film has been moved
up from August to April start on the
production schedule as result of the
response to the French star's first
American picture, 'Moontide.'

Fear Closing of Burley Theatres
Is Opening Gun in Wider Censoring
or N. Y. Legit Shows, Nite aubs

S-S-S-8-S-S

Hollywood, March 3.
In Its 'Remember Pearl Har-
bor,' Republic Is allotting two
minutes instead of one to a news-
reel clip showing Kurusu, the
special Japanese envoy, who was
shaking hands in Washington
while the Jap planes were shak-
ing loose a flock of boml>s in
Hawaii.

Idea is that the customers will
hiss for at least a- minute when
they see Kurusu.

'FIBBER McGEE'
HITS 42.8 IN
C.A.B.

'Fibber McGee and Molly' pro-
gram (NBC), according to the latest
Co-Operative Analysis bf Broadcast-
ing report, has set a new high for it-
self, namely, 42.8. Latter represents
the highest rating yet received by a
week-night program. Needham,
Louis & Brorby, agency on the John-
son Floorwax account, announced
Monday (2) that the comedy team
has been renewed for next season.

Latest C. A. B. gives second place
to Edgar Bergen (39.4) and rates
Jack Benny third (38.9). Both of
these shows have In the past had
ratings as high as 44%. Bergen's
show got there as a full hour unit.
The Benny program has always
operated on the basis of.a half-hour.

Marvin Schenck Quite
Dl in New York Home

Marvin Schenck, eastern talent
representative for Metro, is quite ill
in his New York home.

He developed a heavy grippe, and
Sunday (1) suffered a relapse, with
nurses and a doctor now in almost
constant attendance. His work as
chairman of the entertainment com-
mittee for the big Navy Relief Show
al Madison Square Garden, N. Y..
March 10, is now being handled by
Sidney Piermont, booking head for
Loew's.

Eddie Cantor Visions Danger of Too
Many Benefits, Urges Cash Donations

REVERTING TO TYPE

Winchell Bao' to Old Vaade Days,
Trouping for Navy Relief

'I'm back in show business,' says
Walter Wincheli, in connection with
a proposed saries of Navy Relief
benefit shows he has in mind after
the gala Madison Sq. Garden fete
next ■'uesday (3). April 22 will see
Winchell with an eight-act bill
traveling to the Eastman, Rochester,
N. Y.,. >yhich was the first to offer
its facilities.

A big benefit In Chicago is next
planned. Some newspaper,' possibly
(Continued on page •

Eddie Cantor echoes the bellet of
showmen and stars that the multi-
plicity of benefits, despite the fact
that they're all worthwhile efforts,
especially with the ever mounting
wartime demands, will soon begin to
pall. Recent weeks have seen many
such shows. The sundry theatrical
organizations have their own show;
then there are the orphanages and
the like; and of course the peak ben-
efit will be the Navy Relief gala at
Madison Square Garden, N. Y., next
Tuesday (10).

But since the same unselfish, tire-
less talent turns out for this or that
show, Cantor is of the opinion (1)
many a star would rather dig into
his own pocket and give some sort
of a cash contribution, in order not
to be burdened anew; and (2) he
feels that many a patron of these un^
denlably worthy causes would like-
wise prefer to Just pay for the

ducats and not bother showing up.
In fact, judging by some polyglot au-
diences at~rccent Sunday night ben-
efits, that's just what is happening,
said the star — the payees are just
turning the tickets over to poor rel-
atives, etc. . - -

Putting the theory into practice
(Continued on page 15)

The Gal Grows Older

Hollywood, March 3.

Edward Small is having a tough
time keeping up with Shirley Tem-
ple's growth. When 'Little Annie
Rooney' was bought, first word had
to be dropped because she was no
longer little.

Now since she's 'Junior Miss' on
the radio, Small's film title has
been changed again' to 'Miss Annie
Roone^.'

Actors, managers, writers and
nitiry operators last week expressed'
fears that shuttering of burlesque
theatres in the Times Square sector.
New York, due to refusal of License
Commissioner Paul Moss to grant
license renewals to the Gaiety, Re-
public and Eltinge theatres, was the
opening gun in a campaign to im-
pose censorship on legit and hltery
shows as well as burlesque.

According to Morris L. Ernst, at-
torney representing the burlesque
theatres. Commissioner Moss had de-
clared in course of arguments over
license renewals that he (Moss)-
wanted the 'right to read scripts In
advance of production.' Since bur-
lesque performers do their stuff o9
the cuff. Moss was ostensibly re-
fer'. Ing to shows other than bur-
lesque.

Ernst's Warning

Ernst warned yesterday (Tuesday)
In a statement to 'Variety' that 'the
legitimate theatre and the night
clubs had better watch out. There Is
a strong possibility that the same
forces, which are fighting against
Sunday baseball and for Prohibition
may become powerful enough shortly
to Impose an early curfew on night
clubs.'

Ernst stated that if there was in-
decency, irregularity or obscenity in
((Continued on page 45)

Andrews Sisters Hit
Their Top Vande Pay,
$7,750, for Chi Week

Andrews Sisters last week came
up with their biggest vaude salary.
Played the Balaban & l^atz Chicago,
on a deal calling for a guarantee of
$4,000 and a split over $40,000, com-
ing up with a gross of $47,500, or
$7,750 for their bit. Deal set through
their personalNmanager, Lou Ijevy.

Girls are currently holding in the
house for a second week.

TrnOo Mar!' llefclntered
FOUNDED ny KI.MK HILVlinf;AN
rubllKlK-d IVcrkly by VAHIKTV, Inr.

SitI Hllvcnnoti. iTcnlilcnl
1G4 Weal 4lllh Street. .Noiv York. N. Y

SUD.SCnll'TION

Annual tlO Foreign Ill

Sln^lo CopteH 25 ContB

Vol. 14D

No. 13

INDEX

Advance Production Chart.. 18

Bills 48

Chatter 53

Concert-Opera 37

Exploitation 16

Film Booking Chart.. 18

Film Reviews. 8

House Reviews 46

Inside — Legit 50

Inside — Music 41

Inside — OrchestrdS 39

Inside — Pictures 20

Inside — Radio 31

International 15

Legitimate 49

Literati 52

Music 41

New Acts 47

Night Club Reviews 47

Obituary 54

Orchestras 38

Pictures '4

Radio .■ .'.'." 25

Radio Reviews 36

Unit Re.views 46

Vaudeville 44

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PICTURES

Orson WeUes Near-Washout Rated
Biggest Upset in Academy Stakes;
T^ey , Cooper, Fontaine, Ford Cop

Hollywood, March 3.

Academy -dinner Thursday (26),
like many another before it,- ran"
as true to form " as was guessed in
many quarters, but the usual num-
ber of surprises paraded by with
the sure things. The biggest en-
igma of Ihe voting and Oscar-
Ing was the near washout of Orson
Welles. Nominated in nearly all
divisions for this or that, the best
he or his picture, 'Citizen Kane,"
could do was one winner, which
Welles shared for the best origiiial
screenplay with Herman J. Mankie-
wicz. That most of the 6,000 extras
who voted scuttled his chances is
foregone. The mob prefers a regu-
lar guy to a genius.

Only other upset, about which
there's more elsewhere in thLs issue,
was the Oscaring of O.scar Hammer-
stein Il-Jerome Kern's 'Last Time 1
fiaw Paris' os the best picture tune of

Celestial Gesture

Hollywood, March 3.

In keeping with war condi-
tions, the Academy awards din-
ner last week was more serious
than usual, although tliere were
lome laughs. Greatest guffaw,
mixed with some embarrass-
ment, came when Cecil B. De-
Mille introduced one of the
guests of honor. Dr. Hu Shih,
as the Japanese Ambassador.

Chinese envoy smiled with
customary Oriental courtesy and
passed up the opportunity to
call oft diplomatic relations with
Hollywood- Instead he spoke in
praise of the industry.

the year. It seemed a to.'ss-up be-
tween 'Chattanooga Cho'o Choo' and
'Blues in the Night.'

The best picture of the past year
was acknowledged to be 20th-
Fox's 'How Green Was My Valley,'
which also gathered in for its crea-
tors Fcver.-l other statuettes. Top
actor was Gary Cooper for his work
In 'iSergeant York' and Joan Fon-
taine polled the heaviest vote among
the actresses for her performance in
'Suspicion.' John Ford's direction of
'Valley' was top-hole with the vot-
ers. The guessers in tJ'esc divisions
had their chance to gloat 'I told you
■o.'

'How Green Was My Valley' won
■ix of the seven points registered by
20th-Fox and placed that studio on
top in the boxscore. In . addition to
production and direction, the film
scored with Donald. Ciisp as best
cupporting actor; Thomas Little lor
Interior decorations in black and
white; Arthur Miller In black and
white photography, and Richard Day
and Nathan Jrran in black and
white art direction. The seventh
20th-Fox award was for color cine-
matography by Ernest Palmer and
Bay Rennahan in 'Blood atid Sand.'
Thalberg Special to nisney-
Rest of the boxscore discloses
. Metro with six winners. Walt Dis-
ney." RKO and Metro with three
each, Columbia with two and Korda-

PVfy and Fcrr-Tiount with one apiece-
One of the Disney awards was a
special, the Irving Thalberg bust,
for the most consistent high quality
production achievement by an in-
dividual producer.

For the first time in the history
of the Academy, two sisters conv-
peted for the best actress award.
Joan Fontsfine won a photo finish
from Olivia deHavilland, who is one
year older and has been in films
several years longer.

In the supporting cast. Donald
Crisp finished ahead of a last field
as a result of his work in 'How
Green Was My Valley.' Femme
honors went to Mary Astor. playing
with Bette Davis in 'The Great Lie'
■foi Warners.

Columbia won two literary firsts
Iji its 'Here Comes Mr. Jordan,' with
Harry Segall drawing the nod for
the best original motion picture
•toiy and Sidney Buchman cutting
up the accolade with Seton I. Miller
tor the best written screen play.

Id addition to be.<:t actress' and
original screenplay, HKO v.-on a mu-
sical decision through the work of

Bernard Herrmann, who turned in
the leading score for a dramatic
picture, 'AH That Money Can Buy.'

Metro drew its five guerdons from
the best song; a one-reel short, 'Of
Pups and Puzzles;' a two-rccler,
'Main Street on the March;' best in-
terior decorations in color by Edwin
B. Willis in 'Blossoms in the' Dust;'
and and best color art direction in
the same picture by Ccdric Gibbons
and Urie McCleary.

Winners at Warners, in addition
to Gary Cooper and Mary Astor, was
William Holmes, who turned in the
best film editing job on 'Sergeant
York.' Holmes took the good news
in bed where he has been laid up
for three months.

Alexander Korda's winning entry
was Jack Whitney, of the General
Service Studios, who recorded the
best sound for "That Hamilton
Woman.' Paramount drew a statuette
for 'I Wanted Wings' for special ef-
fects by Farciot Edouart and Gordon
Jennings, including photographic ef-
fects by Louis Mesenkop.

Overflow Id MaftI

Dinner was the first Academy
Award function ever held in war-
time and the first time in 14 years
that formal dress was not essential.
Result was the biggest attendance in
its history, mostly in workaday
clothes, with a sprinkling of soldiers
and sailors and part time military-
naval-fllm execs in their resplendent
uniforms. Tops at $10, instead of the
customary $25, drew approximately
1,600 customers, an overflow crowd
Honor guest was Wendell L. Will-
kie, who had announced previously
that he was heading westward to at
tend the 'Okie Dinner,' a slight mis
understanding between Oklahoma
dust and gold dust. WiUkie paid
tribute to the Americanism of the
leaders of the film industry and com
mended their showmanship In pro-
ducing pictures that the people want
One of the occasional periods of
lightness during the banquet was an
Oscarine awarded to Jack Benny as
the best sweater girl on the screen
a throwback to his performance as a
female impersonator in 'Charley's
Aunt' Accepting the statuette, which
vvas adorned with a girdle and a
cigar, Benny broke down and ad
mitted: 'I'm caught with my gags
down.'

Special awards were given Leopold
Stokowski and associates for the
creation of a new form of visualized
music in Walt Disney's 'Fantasia
and to WiUlam E. Garrity, John N,
A. Hawkins and RCA for their con-
tributions to sound improvement In
the same picture.

Plaques were presented to the
Western Electric Co, and RCA for
technical achievements. Honorable
mention in mechanical Improvements
went to Ray Wilkinson and Para
mount Laboratory; Charles Lootens
and Republic sound department
Wilbur • Silvcrtooth and Paramount
engineering department; Douglas
Shearer and Metro sound depart
ment, and Loren Ryder and Para
mount sound department.

Extras Scuttled
WeDes; Ad Splash
Big Aid to W

Hollywood, March 3.
Filmdom's counterpart of baseball's
hot-stove leaguers and football's

Sunday -morning quarterbacks are, . ^1.1.1

busy punting and batting around the ^"S/^V on how much was included

Ex-Mufti

Hollywood, March 3.

Next Academy dinner wQl
be a formal affair as far as
gals -are concerned. If the non-
dressed-up femmes who suf-
fered during the 1942 cere-
monies have anything to say
about it. There were com-
plaints of olT-slde plays, voiced
by envious guests who followed
the rule ' book and wore In-
formal garmenture.

Harsh feminine glances were
shot at Linda Darnell, Dorothy
Lamour, Ginger Rogers and
Hedda Hopper^ who flashed
their best evening finery while
their sister guests sat around
and gnashed their teeth.

Wednesdaj, March 4, 1942

Fdm Cos. Turn to Ra^ Anew For
Script Ideas, Also New Scenarists

Frozen British Coin
May SweU 20tfa-Fox's
Earnings Statement

Financial statement of 20th-Fox
for 1941, due to go to stockholders
late this month or early in April,
will include the company's share of
formerly frozen currency in Great
Britain that was made remlttable
last October under the new coin
pact. Besides this coin, there' is the
likelihood that the payment due In
April, representing the other half
of the money unfrozen by agree-
ment, also will be Included. This is
expected to increase the earnings
total by around $1,500,000, or pos-
sibly more.

No estimate has been made by the
company regarding Its probable net
profit for 1041 because of the taxa-
tion factor and manner In which late
foreign reports may alter the result.
Last estimate made in Wall Street
was that 20th-Fox would show
around $4,1)00,000 net, dependent

payoffs in Oscars at the Academy of formerly frozen British funds,
dinner last Thursday (26). The run- Company's annual stockholders'
away by 'How Green Was My Val- meeting is scheduled for New York,
ley' and its creators and the brush- 1 April 21
off given the boy wonder, Orson
Welles, Is naturally the chief topic of
conversation around the gin rummy
tables and just off the long ma-
hogany at the clubs.

Just why 'VaUey* accounted for six
statuettes, or 'Okies' as Wendell
WiUkie described them, was not as
difficult to explain as the biz to
Welles. First off, It Is agreed that the
20th-Fox production is a flrst-rate
picture. Into the voting picture, as
in other divisions, must be drawn the
,000 extras, who held the balance of
power. These supes must have been
influenced, it is generally agreed, by
the terrific advertising and publicity
campaign given the film by
studio,

and fresher in the minds of the ballot

""Y"^'."' nr 11 ,iicc.„f I by J. Henry Walters, of HKO, chair

As for Welles, there is no dissent] j^^^jt^g ^^ich

THEATRES'A.R.P.
CONFAB IN N.Y.
ATRKOFRI.

Coordination of the various air
the I ^^^^ precaution plans In use by New
Also lt WM a iate release York theatre operators is to be
started at a meeting at the RKO h.o.
Friday (6). Kuddle has been called

to the prevailing opinion that the
extra vote scuttled him. It was
patent that the mob didn't like the
guy personally and took it out on

handles general coqtects with build
ing, police and Are departments.
'WalTbrs pointed out that house

fii^ aTthe polls. The toppers among managers have been deluged with all

writers, directors, actors and pro-
ducers strung along with Welles, as
was attested in his nomination in

sorts of conflicting advice, which
must be cleared up. -Committee
probably will be named, he said, to

multiple of brackets, more or less as I to coordinate all these suggestions
a direct slap at the way he was*^ into a single, universal handbook
treated and maligned by the Hearst Arthur J. Benllne, acting deputy
papers. Nor did they especially like commissioner in the N.Y. City De-
the way he was sloughed off by the partment. of Housing Sc . Buildings,
big theatre circuits. The strength in will outline best procedure so far
numbers overwhelmed him. Maybe established. Meeting is at 2:30 p.m
it will make him a better guy or | on 12th floor,
maybe he doesn't give a rap. Pos-
sibly he saw it coming and hied off
to deep South America,

It is figured that ot the 10,000 bal
lots mailed out, around 80% were
marked and returned. Extras were
eligible to vote for the best picture.

M-G Biog Prez Johnson

Hollywood, March 3.
Andrew Johnson, who escaped im

the four actor and actress classes and Pf chment as President of the United

the best song. Technical awards States by one vote. Is the subject of

were voted by a special jury of the the forthcoming Metro biographical

Academy versed in those develop- picture, "The Man on America's Con

ments. Board of 65, represented by science.'

the various Guilds and 40. qualified Van Heflin plays the title role cov

Academy members.^ast votes on the ering 50 years as a child, a tailor and

short subjects.

Selling Sunsets to H'wood Newest
Trick to Drum Up Location Biz

a president. Part of Thaddeus Stev-
ens, rlp-roarlng orator and Johnson'
fiercest political enemy, will be
played by Lionel Barrymore.

Gone is the oldtime drummer with
his bag of samples, but his soul goes
marching on. ITie newtime drummer
carries a trunkful of 16 mm. color
spools, peddling skies, clouds, sun-
sets, sunrises, mountain peaks, val-
leys and forests in all the varied
hues of spring, summer, autumn and
winter. He travels a small area—
the studios of Hollywood,

jChauncey Parry, of Cedar City,
Utah, became a background drummer
when he sold his home .state to 20th-
Fox as a location for 'Drums Along
the Mohawk.' The script called for
the Mohawk Valley, in New York
State, which has. changed no little in
200 years, with the Erie Canal, dairy
farms, goU links, filling stations, hot
dog stands and State Troopers. With
a few spools of film. Parry convinced
the studio that the wilds of modem
Utah looked like the wrds at fit-

Revolutionary New York, when an 1
Indian's idea of an autograph was a {
scalplock. ' '

Since the Mohawk sale, Parry has I
peddled more than 20 locations in |
Utah, aided by chambers of com-
merce and public-spirited villagers!
who are not averse to a combination
of civic pride and business. Unlike
the circus days ot old, a film troupe
fetehes money Into town and leaves |
it there.

N. Y. to L. A.

Edward Arnold.
Sam Bischoff.
Hendrik Booraem.
William Dietcrle.
Walter Huston,
Edward G. Robiniion.
Leiih. Stevens.
Bob f npUnget.

L. A. to N. Y.

Harry Ackerman.
Edward Alperson.
Constance Bennett.
Edna Best
George Bruce.
Harfy Cohn.
Ned Depinet.
Louis Frohlich,
John Garfield.
Kirby Hawkes.
Will H. Hays.
Edward Hyman.
Robert T. Kane.
Betty Kean,
Abe liastfogel.
Keith McCloud.
Earl McGlll.
Jack Oakie.
John O'Connor,
Tyrone Power.
Gregor Rabinovitsch.
William Ramsey.
Leonard Sues,
Estelle Taylor.
Gene Taylor.
Gene Tlerney. .
Ed WoU.
Nat WoU.

Film companies recently have been
Intensifying the attention they give
radio as a source of script material
and writers. Eastern story depart-
ments, such as Metro's, which have
for a long time maintained radio
scouting staffs, are strengthening
them. And other story departments
which have more or less brushed off
radio as -not worth the time and
trouble have been busily setting up
steffs and surveying the field.

Reason for the new interest in the
etherizers is evident. Literary ma-
terial, which studios depend on for
t least part of their programs, has
been of very low grade so far this
season and very little good stuff is
in prospect. War has undoubtedly
caused the downbeat. In addition,
la guerre has cut off almost all the
British output of fiction, which has
also always been counted on for
part of Hollywood's script needs.

And the Broadway legit situation
Is even worse. Only two plays have
been purchased (or films this sea-
son. Result is the Interest in radio.
Studios figure that popular radio
shows are heard by many more peo-
ple than read even the biggest of
best-sellers and should be good from
that standpoint. Difficulty Is that
there's not.enough meat In a single
half-hour radio story, or even a
serial, for Alms.

What Hollywood Is more inter-
ested in is air writers, majority of
whom can make an easy transition
from ether to celluloid, being fa-
miliar with the writing of dialog and
the drawing of situations. There's
trouble there, however, for the big
names In radio are already making
$700 a week or more and so aren't
willing to accept the $200 top that
studios feel they are worth until
they have mastered screen tech-
nique. It's hoped now to produce
some likely prospects from among
lower-paid scripters.

AU-Indnsiye bdostry
Campaign for Defense
Savings Ultimate Aim

War Activities Committee meets
today (4) in N.Y. to discuss plans on
purchase of War Savings Stamps
and Bonds by all employees in every
branch -of the film Industry. Ex-
haustive survey of potential capacity
of industry employees to absorb cer-
tificates will be made, with object of
tnaking it all-incluslve.

Government expects every wage-
earner in the country io subscribe to
the stamps and bonds. All of the
major film companies and Para-
mount's theatre circuit headquar-
tered in Minneapolis have already
instituted payroll deduction plans.
Majority of circuits and independent
theatre operators are now expected
to line up behind the drive.

Major objective is not for single
contributions, naturally acceptnble,
but for the creation of a regular
weekly savings plans.

'JACKASS MAIL,' EIGHT
OTHERS CROWD METRO

Hollywood, March -3.

Wallace Beery returned from a
sickbed and straddled 'Jackass Mail.'
making a total of nine pictures in
work on the Metro lot, which is close
to capacity production.

Eight other films before the lenses
are 'Her Cardboard Lover,' 'Some-
where rU^Find Yolrt 'Crossroads,'
'Grand Central Murder,' 'Once Upon
a Thursday,' a hew 'Dr. Kildarc' pic-
ture, an untitled spy drama and an-
other 'Malsle.'

Acad's 'Sis And Y Pic

Hollywood, March 3.
Sister act, with an Academy Aw;ird
winner and a runner-up, is penciled
in at Warners for the top femma
roles In the forthcoming picture, 'De-
votion.'

Joan Fontaine and Olivia de
Havllland are slated in the respec-
tive parts of Charlotte and Emily
Bronte, British novelists of the Vic-
torian era, If Joan Is available at
shooting time. Meanwhile Theodore
Reeves Is adapting the story to
filming.

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

PICTURES

FILM DEALS ZOOMED IN FEB.

DONT T AX SER VICEMEN

Instead of meddling with an impractical and what appears to
be an unconstitutional measure to compel exhibitors to admit
soldiers and sailors free to all performances, the New York
State Assembly might well be spending its time on a more
realistic method of aiding the servicemen. ITie Assembly — as
well as other groups throughout the country — might send a
resolution to Congress asking that some speed be put behind
the Congressional promise to eliminate the Federal tax soldiers
and sailors now pay every time they attend a theatre.

Strangest part of the tax is that it not only is being collected
on the reduced admissions many film and legit houses now
offer servicemen, but on shows presented on the Army and
Navy's own reservations. Every time a soldier lays his 20c on
the sill to attend a film at his camp theatre, 2c of that money is
going to the Treasury in taxes.

When it was pointed out months ago that servicemen were
included in the all-encompassing theatre tax measure that went
into effect last October, the word in Washington was that the
bill would be amended at once. But Congress has apparently
been too busy voting itself pensions.

The situation is incongruous and calls for immediate rectifi-
cation.

See Nelson Report
On Priorities for
Films By March 15

Decision on motion picture InduS'
try priorities is experted from office
of Donald Nelson, head of the War
Production Board, around March 10-
15. Understood that report compiled
by the War Activities Committee
will be ready in completed form
prior to that time.

Theatre requirements listed in the
report have reportedly been calcu-
lated on minimum basis compatible
with continued operation. Needs are
substantially the same as last year,
exhibitors having been keeping op-
erating costs and theatre require-
ments in low gear since the
depression.

Contention among exhib leaders is
that most theatres could not stay in
business during past few years unless
- replacements and other costs had
been cut to a fine point.

Regardless of favorable action
from the War Production Board,
however, some commodities such as
cork (mostly from Spain) and rubber
will not be available to theatres
•ven in limited quantities. Operators
will be obliged to And substitute
materials or other means of making
up for shortage of supplies of this
type.

MURRAY SHVERSTONE
MAY JOIN DIETERLE

Murray Silvcrstone, who has been
talking a production unit via United
Artists, of which company he was
formerly the head in its worldwide
operations, now looks set to align
with William Dieterle.

Latter -has a four-picture deal
with RKO, of which his forthcom-
ing 'Syncopation' is the Second.
Bill Frank, Minneapolis theatre cir-
cuit owner, is Dieterle's financier,
and Silverstone will look after the
sales and distribution.

WiU Hays Back in N.Y.

WiU Hays, head of the Motion
Picture Producers & Distributors
Assn., arrived in N. Y. from the
Coast yesterday (Tuesday), follow-
ing his usual flrst-of-year. trek to
Hollywood. He will stay in the east
ur.tU thfe annual MPPr . meeting is
held the last of this month.

Hays had no comment to make re-
garding an early session of the asso-
ciation's directorate or regarding
stiffening of the PCA code.

20TH COMES OUT OF
SLUMP, TWO PK ROLL

Hollywood, March 3.

Two pictures went into work
yesterday (Mon.) at 20th-Fox to al-
leviate the worst production slump
on that lot in more than a year.
Early in February there was only
one production in work at the
studio. New starters are 'Them
Lovely Bums' and "Thunder Birds,'
an aviation yarn in Technicolor.

Speed picks up next Monday (9)
with two more starters, 'Strictly
Dynamite' and 'The Loves of Edgar
Allan Poe.'

Pars $10,125,000
Net Profit Best
Year Snce Reorg

Paramount Pictures earnings for
the year ending last Jan. 3 hit
$10,125,000, according to company es-
timate issued last week, representing
the greatest net profit for the cor-
poration since it was reorganized un-
der the present management in 1935,
and exceeding 1940 by approximate-
ly $2,491,000. Par earnings in 1S40
totaled $7,633,130, best year up to
that lime under current manage-
ment.

Earnings are equivalent to $3.36
per common share as against $2.64
In the year ending Jan. 4, 1941.

Paramount's earnings for the past
year make it second only to Loew's
(Metro) in the industry on the mat-
ter of net profit. Loew's showed
$11,134,593 in its fiscal year con-
cluded last Aug. 31.
Paramount Annual Earnings, 1935-11

1935 $3,153,167

1936 3,889,020

1937 6,045,103

1938 2,533,279

1939 2,737,533

1940 7,633,130

(1940 by Quarters)

First quarter $1,060,000

Second quarter 1,478,000

Third quarter 1,726,000

Fourth quarter 2,823,130

1941 10,125,000

(1941 by Quarters)

First quarter $2,475,000

Second quarter 1,904,000

Third quarter 3,071,000

Fourth quarter 2,675,000

Dave Lewis' Par Deal

Hollywood, March 3.

Paramount closed a deal with
David Lewis, formerly a producer on
the Warner lot.

He checks into the production de-
partment March 1.

T

Holdout Exhibs Hastened
Into Closing Product Deals
by Excellent B.O. Per-
formance of Quality Pic-
tures Thus Lessening Re-
sistance Over Terms

MANY BLOCKS

Sales picked up markedly during
the month of February, sixth month
of the consent decree for the five
biggest companies, with the number
of contracts in some instances reach-
ing as high as 2,000 a week and over.
This has resulted from late .deals,
with available blocks piling up and
deals being made for three or four
at one time, or 15-20 pictures. For
the final week of February Para-
mount hit a new high under the de-
cree with 2,550 contracts brought in
by its domestic sales force. This in-
cluded the company's first block of
five westerns.

Exhibitors have been holding out
as long as they possibly could against
the decree companies, due to the ad-
vanced terms sought, and many have
felt that the demands, on which dis-
tributors have been equally stub-
born, have been too stiff. However,
where It has became virtually im-
possible to go any further without
certain products, such exhibs have
given up in order to maintain opera-
tion and an even %eel of business.

Selling has also been spurred by
the knowledge that pictures of some
of the distributors nave been doing
extremely well generally and prove
some justification for the terms that
have been asked. Two companies
under the decree which were not in
the standout column on the 1940-41
season but under consent with this
season's (1941-42) product have been
delivering strongly are 20th-Fox and
Paramount.

'Strong Product

Many customers held out against
these distribs, more notably Par than
20th, because of the prior season's
deliveries against rentals quoted this
year, but with a representative
number of . the new pictures having
been seen — and proved worthy in
other theatres — they have come
around, yielding to the stiff term.';
they originally resisted. Contracts
have also poured in heavily for
Metro, Warners and RKO during
February.

While under the decree distribs
can sell In blocks-of-flve only, there
is nothing to stop deals at one time
for four or five groups as long as
separate terms and contracts cover
each bunch. That is occurring now,
with accounts also taking any extras
that are sold singly. Where exhibs
had bought United Artists. Columbia,
Universal or independents full-line
and were not quickly forced into
taking stiff terms of the decree dis-
tributors, they felt in many Instances
that they might as well wait until
several blocks had been screened
and were ready for sale. Among
other things, not the least of which
was resistance of early terms, of
course, exhibs also felt that time
would be saved in closing for more
than one block at a time when per-
haps 10, 15 or 20 pictures had been
tradeshown and were ready.

A major deal closed during the
past week involved the signing by
the I''anchon &' Marco circuit and
the St. Louis Amusement Co. for
four Par blocks, or 20 pictures, plus
a separate contract to cover 'Louisi-
ana Purchase' which Is being mar-
keted singly.

RKO May Copy Universal in Culling
Studio Production Manpower From
Theatre Execs; Charlie Koemer Up

Angelic Credit

Hollywood, March 3.

One way to achieve producer
credit on a film Is to lay the
chips on the line, even though
your business is 3,000 miles from
Hollywood. Indie p"iducer, who
had been leaning financially on a
non-artistic backer, was told
that he bad to share co-producer
credit with his bankroller on his
next two pictures, or else.

You can't talk back to an
angel.

RKO Offers 3-Yr.
Pact, Schaefer
Wants 5-Yr. Deal

Renewed negotiations are under
way for a new contract for George
J. Schaefer as prexy of RKO.
Schaefer has t>een holding out for
a five-year pact, from accounts, with
t>oard of directors reportedly oBcr-
ing three-year ticket.

Richard C. Patterson, Jr:, chair-
man of the RKO board, is taking
up matter of inking the deal. He
plans to leave for the Coast within
the week.

RKO executive committee meet-
ing Monday (2) afternoon was re-
portedly routine.

Believed that Floyd Odium inter-
ests in RKO, in support of Schaefer,
have advised Patterson to bring the
deal to a quick close if possible. In-
dications are that differences over
term and conditions of a new con-
tract may be ironed out shortly.

Hollywood, Marcli 3.

Charles. W. Koerner will lake
over as general manager ol RKO
stodlos on next Monday (9) until
April 6, during the absence ot
Joe Breen. George J. Schaefer
has placed Koemer In charge at ,
tbe stndio, while Breen to on
vacation.

Upon return ot Breen, Koemer
will go back to New York to
operate BKO theatres as here-
tofore.

Koemer appointment as studio
head Is onrrently regarded ss
experimental. He has expressed
definite velws on production
which may be carried out.

Breen's Vacation

Hollywood, March 3.
George J. Schaefer plans to re-
main at the studio about three more
weeks. Joe Breen checks out over
the weekend for a vacation.

EXPEQ REPUBUC TO
JOIN HAYS ORG. SOON

PAmiESS PICKUP

Hollywood, March '3.

Betty Field, currently in New
York, signed a new player contract
with Paramount.

First assignment under the pact is
a co-starring role with Joel McCrea
in 'Triumph Over Pain,' a tale of the
early experiments in painless den-
tistry.

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While only belonging to the Mo-
tion Picture Producers Assn., Coast
affiliate of the Hays organization.
Republic Pictures will probably be
the next to join the Motion Picture
Producers & Distributors Assn. Mat-
ter has been up before, but Republic
never joined.

Fact that Republic won its battle
to retain the title, 'Remember Pearl
Harbor,' for a forthcoming feature,
is reported to have convinced com-
pany executives that it is being
given a square shake by the MPPA
on the Coast. Also Republic has
been cooperating in the east on va-
rious committee work which other-
wise has included strictly major
company reps. Charles Reed Jones,
company's ad-publicity chief. Is on
several such committees including
the sub-committee of the ad-pub-
licity group which is part of the
War Activities committee and the
Public Relations Committee of the
Film Industry,

RogeH's Eight-a-Year

Hollywood, March 3.
Paramount signed Albert S. Rogell
as director of its forthcoming musi-
cal, 'Priorities of 1942.'

It win be the eighth plc'ure RogcU
has piloted, within 12 months.
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RKO may draw upon its theatr*
operating affiliate for additional top
manpower in shaping studio produc-
tion policies, having as guide success-
ful operations at Universal following
drafting ot Nate Blumberg, Cliff
Work and John O'Connor from ex-
hibitioi^distrlbutloii ranks.

Charley W. Koerner, chief ot RKO
theatre operations, currently on the
Coast, is reportedly making himself
acquainted with studio details.
Though originally scheduled to re-
main in Hollywood for around six
week he may stay longer. Possibility
is that he may take a hand in pro-
duction, following return of Joe
Breen, either actively associated with
Breen or in advisory capacity giving
reaction on production schedules
from exhibition .angle.

Weight of opinion from sales and
exhibition fields has been making It-
self Increasingly felt in production
during past year at other studios
also, notably 20th-Fox and Universal
At Warners, Metro and Paramount
frequent commuting ot sales and
theatre department heads between
N. Y. and L. A. has been more pro-
nounced than in previous years. Pro-
duction policy at 20th - Fox was
largely influenced .this, season .by.
advance' reports and suggestions from
the distribution department which
were fully discussed at the 20th con-
vention in Hollywood last summer.

Matter-of-fact b.o. reaction from
execs with first hand theatre or field
experience appears likely to influ-
ence RKO studio operations during
coming year, from accounts having
been given close study.

Reports that Breen would leave
RKO currently remain unsubstanti-
ated. Breen has expressed disin-
clination to rejoin the Hays ofllcs
as Production Code authority.

Meantime Reginald Armour, form-
erly assistant to George J. Schaefer
at the studios, has been appointed
assistant to Breen and placed in
charge of the back lot.

Schaefer had been expected back
in New York this week for an. RKO
board meeting, but is stopping on the
Coast for a few more weeks.

COLUMBIA EXECS' N.Y.
POWWOW ON 1942-3 PDC

Columbia's top execs are huddling
in New York this week on a numt)er
of topics, most Important of which
is product lineup for next season.
Program, it Is understood, will be In
line with those projected by other
studios, calling for a decrease in the
number of Alms, but for more big -
product.

Harry Cohn, who arrived east on
Monday (2), leaves New York Satur-
day (7) for Miami. He'll be accom-
panied south by Nate Spingold. Pull-
ing out Friday (6) for the Coast will
be producer Sam BischofI and Rob-
ert Taplinger, special assistant to
Cohn,

PIGTUBES

Wednefldaj, March 4, 1942

Distribs Stand Pat on Percentage
Pix; Deny Any Belligerency in N.W.

Mlnneapolls, March 3.

With Rud Lohrenz, Wamer Bros,
district manager, in town, Northwest
Allied leaders made anather uD'
successful effort to induce the com-
pany to eliminate its three percent-
age pictures from the Twin City In'
dependents' deal. Lohrenz told a
Northwest Allied emissary that the
company, wasn't interested in a pro-
posal to 'save face' by shaping the
deals in such a way that the ex-
hibitors actually could get out of the
percentage while signing contracts
containing the objectionable clause.

Paramount, too, is standing pat on
Its demand for four percentage pic-
tures. Even though there's a virtual
individual boycott against both of
the two companies ky the T^win City
independeiit exhibitor members of
Northwest Allied, with practically
no buying of these products, it's de-
clared there'll be no backing water.
Lohrenz asserted Warners will sell
percentage the ensuing years as well
as this one, whether or not a single
contract is signed.

It has been charged that some of
the Independents have been trying to
play one company against the other
in the light to shake them loose
from the percentage demands. Up to
this year, - both Waners and .Para-
mount always have sold flat to Twin
City independents who have charged
that the present change is prompted
in part, at least, by the film com-
panies' determination to retaliate be-
ccuse Northwest Allied sponsored
the Minnesota anti-consent decree
law requiring distributors to sell
their entire season's product subject
to a 20% cancellation, ffhis, how-
ever, is denied by company repre-
sentatives who point out that Metro
always has been obtaining percent-
age in these situations and declare
there Is no reason why any dis-
crimination should be practiced.

The belligerence Isn't entirely on
one side here. Film compan} repre-
sentatives,, for the most part, are
antagonistic toward many exhibitors
who have been in the fore of the
fighting against distributors and who
are accused of always 'stirring up
trouble,' 'unreasonablessness in deal-
ings' and 'unfairness.*

As an instance to prove the
lustlce' of percent£ge in the Twin
Cities, one company cites the alleged
Instance of a Twin City independent
theatre— not one of the largest and
most profitable houses, either, it's
declared. During one week, it's
claimed, {his company happened to
furnish all three of the feature
changes at this theatre at a total
cost of ?135 to the exhibitor owner.
During the seven-day week when
the three films were played, the
gross receipU at this theatre, ac-
cording .to a blind check and making
^ull allowances' for likely pass-ins,
■ were approximately *1,100, the com-
pany claims. Thus, the feature film
cost to the exhibitor was less than
12% of the gross.

When the exhibitor in question
was confronted with these figures.
It's alleged, he turned white' and
cursed the film company representa'
tlve and called him vile names.

20th-Fox and De Luxe Lab
Settle GN Film Fire Loss

Suit of Grand National Pictures,
Inc., through Harry G. Fromberg,
trustee in bankruptcy, against 20th
Century-Fox and De Luxe Labora-
tories for loss of films, was settled
Monday (2) out of the N. Y. supreme
court Action had asked $500,000
damages claiming the film was lost
through carelessness in a fire at 20th-
Fox's plant on "July 9, 1937, in Little
Perry, N. J.

Action was settled for $22,500.
Joseph Dannenberg was attorney
for Fromberg in the action.

Processors at Mono

, Hollywood, March 3.

Tecbniprocess and Special Effects
Corp. closed a deal for process and
background work at the Monogram
studio. Including Indle producers on
the lot as well as Mono.

Company was originally organized
ti make pictures for slot machines
but changed its policy to service
indie films.

Writers Not Going West,
But Kaye Pic Deal Pends

AlthouA Sylvia Fine (Mrs. Danny
Kaye) and Max Llebman, authors for
Kaye, can't go to the Coast after all,
because of other commitments, there
are negotiations' for Danny Kaye into
pictures. Sam Goldwyn anji RKO
are both interested.

Meantime, Miss Fine and Llebman
have written 114-hour revue for
USO-Camp Shows, Inc., titled 'At
Ease,' and designed for self-produc-
tion by soldier talent Llebman, too,
is essaying a legit production venture
with a meller by Norma Mitchell
and John Harms, titled 'Autumn
Hell.'

FEB. SNIFFLES
MENACED B.O.

A nationwide epidemic of colds in
one form or another, affecting old as
well as young, and not varying much
as to percentage of population when
broken down for the various sections
of the country, is believed to be
menacing the boxofTlce although
some operators say that February, in
spite of sickness, held up well.

However, while the month just
ended ran about even generally with
January after discounting the first
week of the latter when a post-holi-
day lull was felt, it may be that b.o.
receipts would have jumped ahead
hadn't it been for colds. Other fac-
tors also figured as a February deter-
rent, Incttidlng the fall of Malaya, the
draft, added car conservation and
the new wartime.

According to figures of the Ameri-
can Institute of Public Opinion,
popularly known as the Gallup Poll,
as many as 23,000,000 persons were
afflicted with colds the week ending
Feb. 24. This is more than one-sixth
the population of tiie entire U. S. and
represents an Increase over the week
of Dec. '24 of S,000,000 who were at-
tacked by colds.

The AIPO found colds existent in
nearly two fifths of American homes,'
bringing the high total of 23,000,000
suffering from the commonest of all
afflictions.

^ Percentage of persons allected in
various areas, as reported by the
AIPO for the week ending Feb. 24,
showed the south suffering the most
at 20%, while other territories and
percentages were west central, 19%;
far west, 18%; east central, 17% and
New England-middle Atlantic states,
15%.

According to New York doctors,
they have been over-rushed with
colds during February, particularly
cases of sore throat and laryngitis,
while during the past week the N.Y.
Department of Health warned
against a rise In pneumonia cases
during March, worst colds month of
the year.

FILM EXHIB SUED FOR
DAMAGE TO PRINTS

Detroit, March 3,
In the first suit of that nature
filed here in many years, the Allied
Film Exchange is seeking damages
for prints.

Harry V. Gilbert, manager of the
exchange, has brought the court ac-
tion against the Carmen, which re-
cently opened Its ovm suit against
Co-Operative Theatres, for alleged
damage done to more than 2,000 feet
of '2314 Hours Leave.' It Is charged
that the theatre is responsible since
the film ran off the projector and
was ruined, destroying the value of
the entire print —

Can't Mug Yoo That Way

Hollywood, March 3.
Claudette Colbert pulls a counter-
attack in "No Time for Love* by play-
ing the role of ■ news photographer,
working on the rear end of the cam-
era.

Co-starring is Fred MacMurray In
the Paramount picture, slated to
start early in April with Mitchell
Lelsen directing.

Louis B. Mayer s
$704,425 Again
Tops U.S. Execs

Louis B. Mayer, head of produc-
tion for Loew's (Metro), received
$704,423 in the fiscal year ended last
Aug. 31, it was revealed yesterday
(Tuesday) in a corporation report to
the Securities & Exchange Commis-
sion. This makes Mayer again the
highest paid executive In the U. S.
In 1940 he received $697,048, and
only a few thousand dollars less in
1930.

Of the total paid Mayer last year,
$548,429 was a bonus under a profit-
sharing pact he had with the cor-
poration, remainder representing his
flat salary. Next highest salaried
person working for Metro was Clark
Gable, who earned $357,500 during
the company's fiscal year. Nicholas
M.' Schenck, president of Loew's,
In.., was paid $334,204 but $204,204
o* that amount was secured via a
t>onus.

Other bonuses under the profit-
sharing plan paid employees, ac-
cording to filing with the SEC,. were
David Bernstein, treasurer, $122,522;
J. Robert Rubin, vice-president and
counsel, $100,308; E. J. Mannix and
Sam Katz, $121,979 each; Hunt
Stromberg, $77,409; Alexander Llcht-
man, $01,484; Benjamin Thau and
Bernard H. Hymar., $60,989 each.

Charles Boyer was the top sal-
aried person on Unlversal's payroll,
a:cprdlng to the report fUed by the
company covering the fiscal year
ended last Oct 31. He was paid
$220,833. Edi« Mae (Deanna) Dur-
bin received $203,166, while WllUam
Seiter, a producer, was paid $183,230
bj U.

Universal bonuses awarded be-
sides salaries included: J. Cheever
Cowdin, chairman of the board, $56,-
042, of which $36,907 was paid in the
fiscal year, and Nate J. Blumberg,
president, $56,042, of which $36,907
was paid in th > past fiscal year.

TamoDS Jury Trials'
From Radio to Shorts

RKO Is launchmg a new series of
shorts next season based on 'Famous
Jury Trials' radio show that Is used
each Tuesday night on the Blue net-
work (WJZ). Jean Lenauer, for-
merly a picture producer in France
and best known in New York for his
distribution and exhibition of first'
run French features, will direct the
two-reelers, based on John Lay's
program.

Tentatively cjlled 'What's Your
Verdict?', they will be produced by
Frederic Ullman, Pathe newsreel
chief and RKO shorts producer in
the east.

Jost Matter of Season

Hollywood, March 3.

HepubUc shifts from winter to
summer In "Water Carnival,' en ex-
travaganza with an aquatic back-
ground, as result of bioxofflce re-
turns on its 'Ice-Capades.'

Watery musical will be produced
by Albert J. Cohen, who Is lining up
a number of name swimmers on the
streamlined side.

1

Harris' Pitt Newsreeler
Clicks, Trying Another

Pittsburgh. March 3.

As a result of biz boom for Its
downtown Newsreel theatre since
war, Harris company here Is con-
verting another house. Family, in
East Liberty sector, into a news-
reel site. It'll be second time that's
been tried with the Family. Pre-
vious conversion lasted less than a
month, house ' returning to sub-
sequent-run double features in
short order.

Price and other policies will be
same as at downtown site, where
tleup was recently' made with
WCAE whereby station broadcasts
five minutes of news every hour to
patrons. In addition, war maps fol-
lowing programs of hostilities have
been installed In lobby and. screen
programs are always Interrupted
for broadcast of any Important
speech.

Iliis Is One Year Lefty Doesn t Mind
Income Taxes-Anything to Win War

By Joe Laurie, Jr.

Coolacres, Cel., March 3.

Dear Joe:

Well, here it la Income tax time and that always kinda gives me an
arithmetic headache. All year we beef about not making any dough and
talk how tough business Is and then, it comes time to figure out the income
tax and you get surprised to know you've made plenty of dough and, in
fact, try to cut It down. The tough part of It all is that you just haven't
got the dough around to pay oS with. When me and Aggie was in vaude-
ville we had a great system. All the dough we'd make would go into
Aggie's grouch bag. At the end of the season we looked In the grouch
bag and knew exactly how we'd eat during the layoff period. It had
keeping books beat a mile. Now I keep books and It tells me I've made
dough but It don't tell me where the dough is, but I guess the government
alnt worried. They'll get theirs and the funny part of it is I don't mind
payin' it this yeai}— anything to win the war.

I guess you've read about the Japs out here being sent inland. They
are searching their homes and have found shortwave sets, cameras, fire-
arms and a lot of stuff, but I haven't read where they found any of the
hand^embroldered cydoramas the Japs used to use In their acts. And
they didn't find any of the barrels they used to juggle with their feet.
Aggie asked me if I thought they were sending code messages when
they'd tap the barrels with their toes when they were juggling 'em. I
don't think they had much time to spy around because they were in the
theatre all day doing four and five shows a day. If we could get the old
bookers to route them now through the Death Trail for Ackerman &
Harris and make 'em play the old Western Vaudeville time, we'd get
plenty of revenge on 'em. And make 'em pay their own fares.

Have also read In the papers that some folks suggested naming that little
park opposite Duffy Sq, the General MacArthur park. The guy su|e
deserves anything we can do for him, but I always figured that that par-
ticular spot should be named after George M. Cohan, because he sure did
plenty for Broadway. He's our No. 1 man of show business and it would
be a great brother act right there on Times Sq. — Father Duffy and George
M. Cohan. And we can name a National Park for General MacArthur.

I guess the draft has made plenty of changes on the Big Street this time
as it did In the last war. It must be easier to get a seat at Llndy's. It
sure burned me and Aggie up when we read about what some of those
fellows in Congress said about the show folks. I guess they don't
remember what the show folks .djd in the last war when thousands of
'em served in the army and navy; when the boys and girls entertained
the soldiers in France, when showfolks gave benefits almost daily for
the wounded and for ambulances, when the girls did canteen work, when
,the music writers wrote songs that helped us all carry on, when the man-
agers and actors gave up their theatres and time and talent to sell Liberty
Bonds, when the theatrical clubs entertained the boys on leave and kept
them in good spirits. And now in this war the picture, radio, legitimate,
vaudeville and cabaret stars are doing their work, trying to put a little
sunshine In the lives of the boys who are going Into the Big Act. Show
business Is giving up Its time, talent and money every hour of the day
and night for the love of America and these Congressional guys belittle
'em. And don't forget, showfolks are doing all this without voting them-
selves a pension. Aggie sez that those Conjgressmen talkln' means as much
as the Sowerguy manager In some tank town reporting that Joe Jackson
can't ride a bicycle.

ni bet you'll remember the name of Melvyn Douglas long after this
election, which is more than those Congressmen will be able to say about
their names. Beat to the gang, sez

Your pal,

Leftu.

P. S.— Nick Keesely sez: 'The main Ingredient of ignorance Is the desire
to prove it'

Studio Contracts

Hollywood, March 3.

Walter Reed's player option picked
up by RKO.

Sol Kaplan Inked new composer
ticket at Metro.

Martin Lament's actor option lifted
by RKO.

Bill Roberts, band leader and
singer, inked actor contract at Metro.

Felix Jackson, writer, renewed by
Metro.

Fay Baluter's option picked up by
Metro.

Gene Kelly drew acting ticket at
Metro.

Billy De Wolfe inked player pact
at Paramount

Charlie Smith drew an acUng
ticket at Paramount

Manager's Fop Hort In
$75,000 Theatre Fire

liynchburg, Va., March 3.

Colony theatre, Portsmouth, Va.,
was gutted by fire- Saturday (27)
witii resulting' loss of $75,000. Rob-
ert Levlne, secretary-treasurer of
the Levlne Theatre Corp., said that
the house would be rebuilt at once.

Harry Grlssom, father of Thomas
Grissom, manager of the Colony,
received severe Injury when struck
by a door blown from its hinges
by one of the heavy explosions dur-
ing the blaze. Several firemen were
slightly injured.

COLOBED HOUSE STUCE UP

New Orleans, March''*3.~
A Negro stuck up the cashier of
the Mecca theatre here Friday (27)
and escaped with $100.22, proceeds
for the night at the Negro cashier's
entrance cage.

Ha escaped after firing a wild
shot

Tranlde and Johnny'
Test Suit for $200,000
Won hy Repablic Pics

St Louis, March 3.

Republic Pictures Corp., last week
won the nod from a jury In Circuit
Judge William H. Kllloren's court
where a $200,000 defamation suit
brought by Frankie BaWer, a Seattle
Negress, was tried. She alleged her
character was defamed by the Rep
flicker,' Frankie and Johnny,' which,
she asserted was based on an episode
in her life when she shot and killed
her sweetheart.

In addition to losing the case the
plaintiff, now 66 years old and en-
gaged In the shoe shining business in
Seattle, is stuck with court costs
which approximate $250. This is ex-
clusive of expenses of expert defense
witnesses for which no claim is ex-
pected to be filed.

The trial lasted six days and a
parade of witnesses testified pro and
con on the fact that the "Frankie .and
Johnny' song which the defendant
said was the basis of the flicker was
in existence before and after the
shooting here in 1''99.

Hugo Monnig, defense counsel In
his final spiel to the jury, said a
verdict favorable to the plaintiff
might establish a precedent whereby
she might collect damages from any- '
one who sang the ballad. He said
the shooting was 'so miserable and
sordid' It could not possibly have in-
spired the song. One of the chief de-
fense witnesses was Dr. Sigmund
Spaeth, composer and music his-
torian, who declared the ballad was
sung before the Civil War.

The suit was flled in 1938, two
years after the flicker was shown. It
took the jury just a few minutes over
an hour ^ reach its verdict

TITLE CHANGES

Hollywood, March 3.

"Marshal of Sundance' is new tag
on 'The Mesqulte Kid' at Monogram.

"The Big Shot' Is release handle
on 'Escape Prom Crime* at Warners.

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

PIGTUBES

PAY TILTS VIA U. S. BONDS

Proposed Pix Ciiffos for All Men
In Uniform Worries N.Y. Exhibs

4r-

Legislation being proposed in the
New York State Assembly providing
that theatres admit men in uniform
free of charge is regarded' in indus-
try circles as a grave threat to ex-
istence of picture houses it passed.

With possibility that 25% or more
of U. S. male population will be in
some service branch before long,
business could be affected to an ex-
tent that would result in shuttering
of many theatres.

No coordinated effort has yet been
made by theatre operators to oppose
proposed bill. Independent Theatre
Owners Association has protested to
Assemblyman Fred Hammer on
grounds that New York theatre own-
ers have thus far given over 600,000
free passes away and 'resent bill
being introduced that at one time
would impugn our patriotic motives
and at the same time give our busi-
ness away. There is no other in-
dustry in America doing as many
things for free as the motion picture,
industry.'

Theatre operators point but they
have already cut admission scales for
service men by as much as 50% in
addition to . giving passes. Small
house such as the Rialto, New York
(000 seats) gives away as many as 50
passes a day to service men and
sometimes more.

Senator J. Henry Walters, genieral
counsel for RKO theatres, plans to
examine the Hammer measure more
fully sometime next week. To date,
however, no organized resistence to
the proposal from national theatre
groups has been manifested.

Tulips for the Graysons

Hollywood, March 3.
Shift in the Metro production
schedule tosses Kathryn Grayson
into the femme lead in Tulip Time'
and cancels her proposed tour of
army camps with her husband, John
Shelton.

Joe Pasternak production starts
March 1, about the time of the pro-
jected tour. Actress' brother and
sister, Michael Butler and Frances
Raeburn, make their film debuts in
Tulip.'

BaCralo Favors Free Meals, Too

Buffalo, March 3.

Theatre owners here have regis-
tered objection, to the proposed Ham-
mer bill, but have expressed them-
selves in favor of free tickets for
servicemen in limited number each
week, pro -rated among various
houses. About 2,000 free tickets are
already being distributed.

Some theatre ops in letters to legis-
lators have demanded that if the
Hammer bill is enacted it Include
provision for free bus, street car and
taxi rides and for free meals in all
restaurants.

NEWSREEL EPISODE IN
25G METROTONE SUIT

Barbara Hutton, wife of Douglas
Hutton, relative of the more famous
Barbara, filed a $25,000 suit in N. Y.
supreme court Friday (27) against
Hearst Metrotone News, Inc., Ariel
Vargas, an employee of Hearst's,
Loew's, Inc., and Laudy Lawrence,
former foreign manager of Loew's,
claiming conspiracy. Plaintiff claims
defendants tried to make her an in-
nocent party In bringing an Axis-
made newsreel into the country in
October, 1941.

She asserts in that month she was
approached by the individual de-
fendants and asked to take some lug-
gage and furs belonging to the wife
of a Hearst executive into the coun-
try. She sailed from Europe on the
Excambion and was picked up in
Bermuda by the British authorities,
who discovered the newsreel among
the lurs.

Plaintiff claims she was detained
and cross-examined, suffered bodilv
injury and the film was seized. Film
was 'highly offensive and injuriou."!
to the Allies and liable for seizure
by the British or the IJ. S.', she as
serted.

PAB Fmi ED DIBTTCTED

Camp Upton, N. Y., March 3.
Among recruits inducted here last
week was Alpha Reino Maddaugh
31, film editor for Paramount He is
the stepson' of Arthur Pratchett,
Par's general manager for Central
America and part of South America.
His father was killed while serving
with the Canadian army in World
War I.

Another inductee was Eugene Ber
nabo, captain of waiters at the 21
Club.

Survey Shows
Average N.Y. er
Sees a Pic a Wk

NIlTUHtllTllES'
IDEA FOR STAFF

Salary Increases in the Form
of Defense Bonds and
Stamps, Also Serve as a
Brake on Any Inflationary
Tendencies

EXTEND DRIVE

The average New Yorker, Includ-
ing non-habitual filmgoers, goes to
a- picture show 3V4 to four times
per month but more than 22% missed
attending for 30 days, according to a
research study made' recently to
check habits of cinema patrons in
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and
the Bronx. More than 500 were per-
sonally interviewed during this sur-
vey of the Motion Picture Research
Bureau, operating under Dr. Leo
Handel's direction. It was sponsored
by the Office of Radio Research at
Columbia U, which is headed by Dr.
Paul F. Lazarsfeld.

Of those who attend a picture
show at least once a month in New
York, 36% had a particular show in
mind. Survey developed the highly
pertinent fact that most potential
film patrons ordinarily have little
free time and admit attending be-
cause able to get away at that par-
ticular time. Survey also showed
tl-at 41% were attracted to-particular
films because of the star-s.
- The .research .study, included an
equal number of men and women,
with special care being exercised to
obtain a good age, income and oc-
cupational cross-section. Of those
interviewed 22.6% had not gone to
a picture show within the month
preceding the interview — 24.7% men
and 20.6% women. Only 19.3% at-
tended one to two times in a month
while 30.7% went to the cinema
three to five times. Six to 9-time
attendance ran 17.7%. Only 9.7%
saw a screen peirformance more than
nine times monthly.

Survey developed that there are
two types of film patrons: Those
who plan to go to a show and have
a particular picture in mind, and
those who attend partly of their own
volition and partially because some-
one else suggested it. Those with a
specific show in mind represented
30% of the total while 50% went be-
cause they just felt like seeing any
film. Only 11% attended because
someone else suggested, and 3% had
other reasons for theatre-going.

To obtain a picture of the extent
to which radio programs compete
with motion picture attendance, those
interviewed were asked if they had
to choose between going to see a pic
ture and listening to a radio pro-
gram. About 25% admitted such
was the case, but not shown whether
they picked the free radio show in
preference to a screen attraction.

' 'Hard Way' for Joan

Hollywood, March 3.

Joan Leslie stepped into the cast
of 'The Hard Way at War ners, sub-
stituting for Olivia de Havilland,
who was reported dissatisfied with
the role. Studio said the departure
was due to illness.

Another change in the lineup is
Jack Carson in plact of John Gar-
field.

Higher cost of living, especially in
defense areas, has brought about pay
increases lor personnel in theatres
which National Theatres execs are
planning to cover in future by giv-
ing their employees V. S. Defense
Stamps and Bonds for the difference.
Living cost and upped tax factors,
which It is anticipated may bring
about further salary increases, may
result in similar action being taken
by other circuit operators if the NT
experiment is satisfactory.

Spyros Skouras, NT prexy who
came east from the circuit's annual
meeting in Hollywood, was in Wash-
ington Monday (2) and is slated to
return to the Coast this week, after
a few days in New York, to leave
final instructions with division man-
agers gathered there:

Paying off salary raises in bonds
is regarded as good anti-infiationary
means of hiking salaries, serving dual
purpose of satisfying employees
without spiralling inflation which
the Government is anxious to keep
at a minimum.

Entire U. S. bond selling problem
was one of the most important items
on the NT convention schedule. At-
titude of Spyros Skouras is that the
theatre is a semi-institutional pub-
lic service and that sale of bonds and
stamps should be pushed even to the
detriment of theatres.

Reported that Skouras has ex-
pressed view that every boxoff'ce
should be open not only for sale
of stamps but for the sale of bonds
of all denominations. Possibility is
that NT houses, around SIS, may
shortly create desk space in theatre
lobbies to handle bond sales to the
public.

Pushiifg sale of bonds And stamps
in theatres is recognized 3s a mat-
ter which must be handled smoothly
to avoid cutting theatre patronage.

Predict Acceptance by Exhibs,
D. of J. of UMPIs Selhng Plan
Calhng for Groups of 12 Pix

-4-

Mono's 1st for '42-43

Hollywood, March 3.

First picture on Monogram's 1942-
43 program will be a tale of the
French Foreign Legion, 'Battalion of
the Doomed,' to be produced by the
■King Bros, in time for the company's
annual sales convention in May.

Mono's new slate calls for the same
number as the current • season, 34
features and 24 westerns.

War Hasn t Scared
Biz Away Any On
Coast, NaT. Fmds

Survey of boxoffice conditions on
-th*! Coast, based— on reports from
National Theatre division heads,
shows that war scares, partial black-
outs and inauguration of daylight
saving time for the first time, have
failed to dent picture house grosses.
Business in most Fox-West Coast
situations, particularly in defense
towns, is repo ted better than before
the war.

Replacement of manpower by
women was among matters discussed
last week by NT convention dele-
gates. So far replacements have
largely been limit to ranks of
ushers and other minor employees,
but circuit operators believe that
women will be needed before long to
fill managerial ranks also.

Local buying, now considered an
established phase of operation, single
billing and extended run policies
uerc among other routine matters
discussed.

PAR MAKING FIRST
OF 8 GOODWULERS

Paramount is making the first in
the group of eight Pan-American
goodwill shorts which the Inter-
American Affairs group will dis-
tribute in the Latin-American mar-
ket. Idea is for each major com-
■pany to produce at least one of these
two-reelers especially designed for
the Latin-Americas, with actual
handling to be left in the hands of
the Inter-American (Rockefeller)
group.

Paramount's Latin-American good-
will subject, to be done in typical
March of Time fashion, will stress
the gigantic war effort of the U. S.
Other majors are lining up their in-
itial two-reelers in this seiies.

Edsel Ford's Motorized
Canteens for Pix Shows

San Francisco, March 3.

Six of 10 motorized canteens
equipped for motion picture exhibi-
tion, which have been donated by
Edsel Ford for USO use, will be
placed oh service on the Coast,
probably this week, according to
Charles A. Hogan. USO regional rep.
Hogan said he didn't know what
booking arrangements had or would
be made but assumed standard prod-
uct will be played in remote spots
not service by other means.

Service for the service men also
includes a p. a. system with music,
snack bar, .games postal facilities,
etc.

Frisco. Ditto

San Francisco, March 3.
Preliminary check reveals little
impact on show biz as result of the
new 9 o'clock curfew for enemy
aliens. Palace, Golden State house
in the he£.rt of the Italian district
and most likely to be affected,
passed through the first night with
no b.o. dip whatever, according to
city manager Hal Neides. Particular
night was above average, in fact, he
said, due to fact kids were out of
schools which closed so teachers
could attend a convention here.
House has been opening at S:30 p.m,
for .some time. Nearby Verdi, also
Golden State, which opens at 1 p.m.,
noticed a few evening patrons who
came in the daytime for the first
time.

Only other instance cited so far is
Star, minor Oakland grind in a poor
Italian area, which reportedly was
hard hit.

Red Shadow at Large

Hollywood, March 3
Robert Florcy draws the director

chore on 'The Desert Song,' long dc

layod musical film at Warners.
Producer is Robert Buckner, with

Dennis Morgan and Irene Manning

in llie top roles.

'Glass Key' for Lake

Hollywood, March 3
Veronica Lake lakes over' the
femme lead, originally slated for
Patricia Morlson, in 'The Class
Key' at Paramount. Pastponement
of 'I Married a Witch' made Miss
Lake available.

Meanwhile Mi.ss Mori.son Ls .slated
for the top femme role in 'Wake
L-iland' or 'Tlie Major - and the
Minor.'

The sales plan worked out by tha
United Motion Picture Industry sub-
committee following two weeks of
meetings in New York and Wash-
ington, will be acceptable to the vast
majority of the country's exhibitors,
in the opinion of informed industry
spokesmen. It will also receive the •
approval of the Department of Jus-
tice, it is believed.

Plan worked out by the Unity
subcommittee at sessions Thursday
and Friday (26-27) calls for the
offering to exhibitors of blocks rep-
resenting 25% of the coippany's an-
ticipated annual output up to 12 pic-
tures per group, or four groups that
sizu per year.

Five of the 12 pictures are to be
tradeshown, with no cancellation
permitted, while the remainder (or
seven) are to be identified in a man-
ner to be worked out jointly by the
distrib and exhib representatives of
the UMPI committee.

Cancellation rights applying on
the seven films not tradescreened
out of blocks of 12 arc to be two
out of the seven for exhibs' paying
ai average irentarup to and includ-
ing $100, this taking in vast ma-
jority of accounts; while for those
paying from $101 to $200 rental only:
one out of the seven may be re-.'
jected. Average rental to apply will
be determined on price per picture
paid by t^t exhib during the 1939-40
season.

Exception tor RKO

Any distrib may give the exhib a
higher cancellation if desiring to do
so of his own accord. Companies
will also retain the right to road-
show pictures and sell them singly
rather than include them in groups.

Since RKO may reduce its yearly
output to 30 pictures this coming
season, an exception has been made
In its case under which 25% of the
product would be Sold same as the
others under consent, although this
would bring each of their four
groups down to seven or eight pic-
tures. The general cancellation plan
thus also woul<: not apply' to RKO
because of its likely smaller groups,
but agreed that exhib." would have
a 20% cancellation wher^ average
rental is up to. $100, the exhibs over
that figure getting 10%.

For the protection of unaffiliated
exhibs from salej away to circuits,
a clause concerning regular custom-
ers has been incorporated into the
UMPI plan.

While the plan worked out by the
UMPI, including expansion Of arbi-
tration and other matters which are
yet to be put into shape by the
various committees, is subject to
modification either at the instance of
exhibs or the Dept. of Justice, any
possible changes are something that
the next few weeks would decide.
No Jokers

Noted that the sales formula worked
out is simple as it stands and that
there arc no jokers, this leading to
the strong conviction that the D. of |
J. will be agreeable to the plan U
the exhibitors are. When eight
exhib-leadcr members of the UMPI
subcommittee were in Washington
10 days ago to discuss a new selling
plan, both Thurman Arnold and
Robert L. Wright of the D. of J.
were very receptive and instead of
giving them a brushoff as exhibs got
before, they encouraged the submis-
sion of a definite plan. Arnold and
Wright were willing to give the ex-
hib group all the time it wanted at
the Washington conference, indicat-
ing a sympathetic attitude. It is
said. While there are nine members
on the exhib subcommittee, Joe
Vogd. Loesv's circuit operator who
is one of them, did not accompany
the others to Washington.

Following the UMPI meetings In
N. Y., a coinmitleo starts work this
I week on reducing the program to

I writing, including Ihe sales formula,
(Continued on page 52)

8

FILM 1IEVIEW8

Wedneeday, March 4, 1942

THE GOLD RUSH

(ADDED NABBATIVE, MUSIC)

XJnlt0d Artists relwiss of Charles Chaplin
production. Relesuo with narrative written
' And spoken by and music by Chaplin added
to original silent version (ie2!i). Stnn
Chaplin, written nnd illrected by Chaplin:
camera, Rollle Tottaeroh; editor, Harold Mc-
Gnhnnn, Previewed at "VVeetwood VlIlnRO
theatre, March 2, 1W3. Running time, 71
M1NS.

The Lone Prospector Charles Chaplin

BIr Jim Mack Swain

Black Larson Tom Hurray

Hnnk Curtis Henry Benrman

Jack Malcolm Walle

GoofRla Georgia Hale

With mtisic and narrative dialog
added, Charlie Chaplin's 'The Gold
Rushi'-Wlginally produced 17 years
ago, stands the test of time and Is
good for profitable biz through all
bookings. ChaiJin's inimitable cane,
derby, hobble and moustache of
early days sUll retain solid comedy
for both the younger generation and
older folks.

Chaplin did a remarkable job in
-the editing, background, music and
narrative for the new version of his
greatest grosser, and even the most
critical win forget the picture was
originally made back in the silent
day!!. Original two hours of running
time has now been edited down to 71
minutes. Figuring titles end speedup
from the 60 feet per minute to the
90 feet required to accommodate
sound addition, there's only about 15
minutes «dited out of original. Re-
sult is . a technical achievement in
speeding up action of a silent- pic-
ture to the requirements of sound,
and still not making apparent the
increased speed In prpjection, Chap-
lin and associates claim no engineer-
Ins trickg wer<j resorted to in order
provide sound for faster tmreellng.
but slow action of original allowed
for satisfactory new version.

All the episodes of 'Gold Rush' are
retained to provide strong comedy
reaction of original. There's the
prospector's cabin marooned in the
storm with Chaplin stewing the shoe
when food runs out; meeting with
Georgia Hale in the dance hall;
Chaplin's New Year's Eve party at
the cabin and the brief but hig^ily ef-
fective dance of the rolls and the
howling slapstick wlndup of the
cabin blown to the edge of the cliff,
with Chaplin and Mack Swain as
principals in the teetering sequence.

Narrative dialog by Chaplin is
deftly inserted at intervals for maxi-
mum iattention. Same goes for the
music background which was com-
I>osed and arranged by Chaplin and
musical director Ma^ Terr. Stretches
of silent unreeling, with' neither nar-
rative nor music, makes no apparent
difference to audiences acctistomed so
many years to dialog and sound with
their film fare. Photography and set-
tings are not out-of-date and only in
a few places is the negative sligntly
spotty. Chaplin's own narrative is
crisply delivered, and \e refers to
his screen character as 'The Little
Fellow* throughout Picture will be
released by United Artists as a new
attraction, and will catch key runs
In an spots. It rates topbilling atten-
tion; and not by any means a re-
Issue, as generally known. Walt

Ing Fonda considerable anguish.
Double dish of trouble coming all at
once leads the young prof to turn to
a bottle-session which brings him
unsuspected physical courage — he's
'thn male animal' out to hold his
mate— and the resultant battle with
tough-guy Carson makes one of the
funniest scenes of the season. Story
builds up suspense nicely to Fonda s
reading of the letter to his class for
a punchy finale.

Fonda, in hom-rlmmed specs, Is
pretty close to perfectly cast Miss
lie Havilland is not quite so fortu-
nate, running into difficulty with a
number of the lines, many of which
lack naturalness In the writing. Eu-
gene Pallette waddles nice as pie into
the satirically-humorous role of the
trustee who knows nothing of aca>-
demic freedom but wants to get the
football stadium paid for. And
there's nothing Jack Carson lacks as
the ex-foofball hero. Herbert Ander-
son Is also tops as the intellectual
stude who wrote the newspaper story
which started all the rumpus.

Number of other characters are
played by the same pconle who did
them in the leglter. Incidentally,
Nugent who directed the picture,
clayed the Fonda role In the play.
Those who duplicated their parts are
Don De Fore. Ivan SImoson, Minna
Phillips and Regina Wallace.

Nugent's direction— plthough . his
experience as a film director goes
back some 10 years— has been too
affected bv his closeness to the leg-
Iter. Technloue is often that of the
stage, not of films. He seems to for-
get the ability of his camera to. flit
about with freouently static renilts.

Picture should be particularly
strong in college territories, where
the pleasing combination of comedy
and more-or-less familiar Incidents
win be best appreciated— ex-^n* by
the trustees. Hero.

Always in My Heart

(WITH SONGS)

Hollywood, March 3.
Wanier Bros, nroduotlon snd release.
Stars Kay Prnncla. Walter Huston: fea-
tures Gloria Warren. Patty Hnle. Prankle
Thomas. Bornih Mlnovllch and His Rascals.
Directed hy Jo Gmhsrr.. Screenplay. Adelo
Comnndlnl: surewted hv play hy Dorothy
nennett and Ir\'lng White; camera. Sid
HIckoi: editor, Thomas Pratt: music. Holm
Boemheld: arrancements. Dudley Cham-
hen". Prank Perklna; muMcal'dlreolor. Loo
F. Forbsteln. Tradoahown In T,. A. March
8. '42. Running time. 98 HTNB.

Marjnrie Scott Kay Francis

MacKenrle Scott Waller Huaton

Victoria Scott Gloria Warren

Booley " Patty Hale

Martin Scott Fmnkle Thomas

Anrle ^* Una O'Connor

Philip Ames Sidney Blackmer

Ix>1lta Armlda

Joe BoVelll Frank Pujclla

Red BUBsell Arms

Frank Anthony Caniso

Roslta TClvIra Corel

Wanlen John Hamilton

fiteve HalYy Lewis

Dick Herhort nunn

Bomh Mlnevltch and His Rascols

Miniatare Reviews

•The Qold Bull' (Chaplin-
UA). Chaplin re.' ue, with
narrative and music, will do
smash biz everywhere.

•The Mate Animal' CWB).
Henry Fonda- Olivia de Havil-
land in an entertaining serio-
comedy that will do okay biz.

'Always In My Heart* (WB).
Musical introduces Gloria War-
ren attractively, with strong
supporting cast

'Larceny, Ine.*" (WB). Frenzied
but unfunny gangster farce-
melodrama, with Edward G.
Robinson.

'Baltct Scars' (WB). A box-
office blank cartridge.

The Ghost of Frankenstein*
(U). Drab attempt at a horrific
adventure of the Frankenstein
monster. Strictly lower duals.

'Man Who Returned To Lite*
(Col). Mediocre programmer
about small-town romance and
southern die-hards; for dualers.

'A Hlssonri OntUw' (Rep).
Don Barry in fast western.

Tragedy at Midnight' (Rep)..
Fairly amusing whodunit for
supporting slots In tiie dual
houses.

'Western Mall* (Mono), Tom
Keene faction anecdote which
never strays from, tested west-
ern formula. Light biz.

'Mr. Celebrity* (PRC). Mild
racetrack meller, suited as sec-
ondary fodder.

'Thunder Blver Feud* (Mono)
Another in Range Busters
westerns; will ^et by.

LARCENY, INC.

Warner Bros, reloaao of JacU Sap«r and
Jerry "Wnld production (Hal B. Wallla.
executive producer). Stam Edward O. Rob-
inson : features Jane Wyman, Broderick
Cniwrord. Jack Carson. Directed, by IJoyd
Bacon. Scmenplay, Everett Freeman and
BdvJn Gilbert, based on play by Xiuura and
S. J, Perelmant camera. Tony Qaudlo: edi-
tor. Ralph Dawson: music. Adolph Deutsrh;
mtulcal direction, Leo P. Forbsleln. Re-
viewed In projection room. N. Y., Feb. 27,
'42. Ronnlng time, M M1NS.
Trossure' Maxwell. . . .Edward G. Robinson

Denny Coatello. . . ,

Juff Martin

Jeff Randolph....

Leo Dexter

Weepy Davis

Homer Blicelow...,
8am Bnchntcb.,..

Mile. Gloria ,

Mr. Asplnwall . . , <
Hobart.

THE MALE ANIMAL

Warner Bros, release of Hal Wallls (Wolf-
mDK Relhbaxdt) productlop. Stara Henry
Fonda and Olivia de Havilland: teaturea
Jack Carson, Joan Lealle Euxene Pallette,
Hattle McDanlel. Directed by Elliott Nu-
sent, BereenpUy by Julius and Philip Ep-
stein Olid Stephen Morehouse Avery, from
•taieploy by Jamca Thurber and Elliott Nu-
rent; camera, Arthur Edeson; editor,
Thomas Rlcharda. Tredoshown In New Tork
March 2. 1M2. Bunnlna time. 126 MIN8.

Tommy Turner Henry Fonda

Ellen Turner Olivia de Havilland

Joe Ferguson Jock Corson

Patricia Stanley Joan Leslie

Ed Keller Bosene Pallette

Michael Barnes Herbert Anderson

Dean Frederick Damon Ivan Simpson

■Wally Uyon Don DeFore

Mts, Blanche Damon Minna Phillips

Mrs. Myrtle Keller Reslna Wallace

•Hot Qarters- Jean Amu

Cleota Hattle McDanlel

^ L«lt version of The Male Animal'
a (on Broadway two years ago) never
■ quite achieved top hit proportions.
W Nevertheless Herman Shumlln pro
ductlon piled up a good run and
showed a moderate profit. And that,
or a little better, Is exactly what
Warner Bros.* ifllm edition of the
James Tliurber-Elliott Nugent may
be expected to do.

WB has been completely faithful to
the original story of the college pro-
fessor who risks his job enS his wife
to make a stand for acailemic free-
dom against - a fascistically-minded
board of trustees. Yarn is fortunately
wrapped Jn plenty of comedy. Those
who are looking only for the laughs
'will find it an entertaining two hoiurs.
Those who recognize its deeper
meaning will 'recommend it to their
friends as a must-see.

Julius and Philip Epstein and
Stephen Morehouse' Avery have fash-
ioned the screenplay, which pictures
a midw'estern college on the eve of a
major football game. Story gets into
the school paper that on the follow-
ing Monday Prof. Turner (Henry
Fonda) will read to his English elate
a letter written by Bartolomeo ($ac-
co and) VanzettI a few days after he
was convicted to death in Boston.
Trustees threaten Fonda with loss of
his job If he Insists on reading the
. wtitlngs of this radical.

Coinddentally, Jack Cterson. an old
football-star friend .of Fonda's wife,
Olivia de Havilland. arrives in town
for the frame. Miss de Havilland does
• . gome^taiUiix for thef'Old cbarm, caus-

Thls one is a showcase for Gloria
Warren, Warner's young singing dis-
covery, and advantageously intro-
duces her to film audiences for fu-
ture buildup. Story, woven around
the girl's vocal abilities, is neatly
contrived for general audiences, and
picture will catch nominal biz In the
regular runs as billtopper with strong
support, but will hit better gait in
the family houses.

In addition to her singing abilities,
which run to the line of classics,
familiarized on the screen by Deanna
Durbin, Miss Warren displays both
screen presence and personality in
her film debut. She's aided consider-
ably by strong and able support from
Kay Francis, Walter Huston, Una
O'Connor and Sidney Blackmer; and
good direction by Jo Graham. Ijitter
launches his film direction after be
Ing on the Warner lot some time as
a dialog director, and reacts credit-
ably to screen procedure.

Walter Huston, outstanding musi-
cian. Is wrongly convicted and sen-
tenced to life ImprLionment. Wife
Kay Francis brings up the two chll
dren — Miss Warren and Frankle
Thomas— and although divorced, on
account of the husband's life stretch,
she still loves him. Rich Sidney
Blackmer appears, makes court, and
endeavors to swing children into line
with showers of luxuries. Huston
gets pardon upon establishment of
his innocence and follows the fam-
ily to a coastal town, seeking out
daughter Gloria, who displays sing-
ing talents. Following familiar epi-
sodes, tale discloses his Identity, and
reunites him with family for nappy
ending.

Borrah Minevltch and his harmon-
ica aggregation are displayed prom
inently with a group of numbers
from swing to classical, and does
much to lighten the proceedings. A
strong plug is given ttie title tune by
Ernesto Lecuona via several play-
ings, and the song .looks headed for
pop attention. Graham iniects sus-
tained 'tempo to the stor^ in his di-
rection. Technical contributions are
okay, Walt.

.Jane Wyman
.BrodCTlck Crawford

Jack Carson

Anthony Quinn

Edward Brophy

. . . .Harry Davenport

John Qualen

. . . .Barbara Jo Allen

Grant Mitchell

.Jaokle C. Olesson

something like that he bad in 'Brother
OrchldTlin't nearly as funny. Brod-
Sck trawford isn't able to ignite
laughs as a thick-skull punk, nor is
Edward Brophy as Robinson's other
stooge. Jane Wyman and Jack Car-
son are passable as the Innocuous
tove Interest, while Anthony Quhin
and Joseph Downing are sinister
mobsters, and such standards players
as Harry Davenpor^ John Qualen
Barbara Jo Allen and Grant Mitchell
are merely acceptable In pale sup-
porting parts.

Lloyd Bacon's direction does little
to give the performance needed pace
and from a producUon viewpoint the
picture is only ordinary. Hooe.

BULLET SCARS

Worner Bros, production and reloane. Fea-
tures BfKls Toomoy, Allele ^^•^^"'•.^Z'
ard da Sllva. Directed hy D. Ross Lcder-
man. Screenplay ."-.Kent 'rom

story by Charles Beldon and Sy Bnrtlett,
camera. Tod McCord: editor. James Olbbon.
music. Howard Jackson. Previewed In pro-
jection room. N. T., March 2, '42. Run-
nine time. «» WNB. .

Dr. Steven Dlabop Reals Tooraey

Norn SIndlson

Frank Dillon Howard <la 8'1«

Pills DoTls V^"" JfJ'*^n

Hank O'Connor ;Joh'; ^S*^^

jjllj, .7 Frank Wlkox

Joe s'tndl'son \ Michael Aines

Dr. Corter Hobart Bosworth

julte Roland Drew

Learr'.'. Walter Brooke

Jess , CrelKhton Halo

GUly Hank Mann

Dude Sol Oorss

Mitch D"" Turner

This gangster script must have
been- dug up fttim the rejection flies
of IWl, it's that dated. It Is also a
very unpleasant film, full of ruthless
and brutal acts. The mystery is that
the Warner studio found any justifi-
cation for making it

Mere fact that it is a low budget
production, without benefit of major
case names, does not lessen the dis-
agreeable impact of its coarseness.

■Plot c<)ncems the action of a young
country surgeon who is compelled,
under threat of his life, to operate
on a ganster who has been shot dur-
ing a bank robbery. Alleged romance
is introduced by the appearance of
the wounded man's sister, a trained
nurse, who is blackmailed and forced
to act as the surgeon's assistant. By
a ruse, the couple get a message to
the police and the gang is rounded
up and killed in a pitched battle.

Script writer and director escaped.

Flin.

Oscar Bnselhart Andrew Tombes

Smltty ; Joseph Downlns

Mr. Jackson Oeorxe Meeker

Anton Copoulos Fortunio Bonanova

Warden Joseph Creban

Florence Jean Ames

McCarthy WUIIam R. Davidson

Mr. Buchanan Chester Clute

Mr. Cormlchael Crelghton Bale

When the Laura and S. J. Perel-
man farce, 'Nlftht Before Christmas,'
was done oir Broadway last season
even its ludicrous basic Idea and
considerable comic plot Inventive-
ness somehow failed to click. And
In this Warner screen adaptation,
titled 'Larceny, Inc.,' it's even less
funny. In fact, it's downright te-
dious. Even Edward G. Robinson
won't get it better than lesser book-
ings in duals.

Yarn deals with a gang of crooks
who buy a Sixth avenue luggage
shop so they can tunnel from the
cellar Into the vault of the bank next
door. But what with a deluge of un-
welcome customers, various friendly
neighbor storekeepers, a romance be-
tween the gang chiefs adopted daugh-
ter and an enterprising luggage sales-
man, plus coimtless complications be-
tween the lame-brain hoodlums, the
robbery scheme Is continually a
shambles.

Edward G. Robinson, In a part

The Ghost of Frankenstein

Hollywood, Feb. 28.
Unlveraal release of Georee Wairnner pro-
duction. Features Lon Chaney. Sir Codrle
Hardwlcke, •Ralph Bellamy. Lionel Atwlll,
Bela Luaosl. Evelyn Ankers, Janet Ann
Oallow. DIrooted by Erie C. Kenton.
Screenplay by Scott Darllnir: orlKlnal by
Eric Tavlor: camera, Milton Krosner and
Woody Bredell; editor. Ted Kent: osst. di-
rector, Charles B. Gotlld. Previewed In
studio projection room, Feb. 27. '42. Run-
ning time, SS MINS.

Monster Lon Chaney

Frankenstein Sir Cedric Hardwlcke

Erik Ralph Bellamy

Doctor Bohmer Lionel Atwlll

"teoT Bela Lugosl

Else Evelyn Ankers

Cloeetlne Janet Ann Gnllow

Dr. Ketterlnff Barton TarborouRh

Martha Doris LtOyd

Chief Constable Leyland HndRson

Russman Olaf Hytten

Magistrate Holmes Herbert

Cotten's O. Henry Role

. Hollywood, Mai^ch 3.
Joseph Ctetten, on loan from Alex-
ander .Korda, gets the biographical
role in Columbia's "The Life of O.
Henry.*

Before checking In for the picture
job Cotten Is due for two weeks of
Defense Bond selling in New York
and vicinity.

Current Short Subjects

(Prints In Exehanges)

(Compiled by Besa Short)

'ClinrchlU's Island* (UA) 21Vi
mlns. Britain in wartime with
comment by Lorne Greene.

Thta and Now* (WB) 10 mins.
The evolution of transportation
from the pony express to the
modern airplane.

■Wacky Wigwams' (Col) 8%
mlns. Housing conditions -of the
North American Indian,

■Kltohen Quiz' No. 3 (Col) S
mins. Hints On sweets to be
shipped to the boys In the army.

'Screen Snapshots' No. 7 (Col)
10 mlns. Edgar Bergen,' Charlie
McCarthy and James Stewart in
some fun at Stockton Field,
Calif.

'Too Boo General' (Col) 18
mins. Filmuslcal with Grade
Barrie and Billy Vine.

'The Great American Divide'
(Col) 11 min& Travel through
the Rockies.

'Colorfnl No, Carolina* (M-G)
mins, Fitzpatrick and color.

Man Who Returned to
Life

Columbia release of Wallace McDonald
production. Features John Howard. Ruth'
Fonl. Blloobeth RIsdon. Directed by I.ew
Laniler*. Story by Samuel W. Taylor;
scn'enplny. Gordon Rlgby: editor, Arthur
Sold ; -camera, Philip Tannura. At Strand,
Brooklyn, week Feb. 27, '42. -Running time -
<1 DUNS. '

David Jameson John Howard

Jano Blahop .Lucllo Fairbanks

Beth Beebe -..Ruth Ford

Daphne Turner Marcelle Martin

Harland Walker \ RoKer Clark

Minerva Sunday. Elfsal>ctli Rlsdoa

Clyde neebe ; Paul aulifoyie

Clem DeetM Clancy Cooper

Ma Beebe Helen MarKellar

Constable Foster Kenneth MarDonald

Marjorle Blahop Carol Coombs

Insignificant program picture hard-
ly strong enough for even second,
slot of minor twln-biU theatre. It's
a hodge-podge of rustic romance, in>
volved mystery and courtroom trials.

John Howard Is prosperous and
happily married In a small California
town until he reads that a man out
of his past Is about to be hung for
slaying him. Tliis drags in the flash-
backs, nearly all the rest of story
being about his romance and troubles
in a southern town. Because he's
from Pennsylvania and a bank teller
he is called that Yankee' in this
small Maryland village. Plot figures
around the anti-Yank feeling of this
community, Ms supposed jilting of a
southern belle, his being nabbed for
murder and cbased out of town.
How the brother Of this Dixie lass
comes to be sentenced for killing
Yankee is a lulu — and about the only
surprise in an extremely tedious pic-
ture.

No sympathy is developed for any
character, comedy is almost com-
pletely lacking, and the whole thing
simmers down to small chit-chat by
and about remarkably dull people.

John Howard as the 'man who re-
turned to life' gives a forthright
portrayal. Marcella Martin is the
girl down south he really loves while
Ruth Ford plays the southern belle
infatuated with him who wrecks his
life. Looks like a screen test for these
two girls. Elisabeth Risdon is handed
an insignificant role as bonk owner,
but comes closest to being real. Sup-
port is a little below par for a rou-
tine programmer. Wear.

Latest episode of the monster cre-
ated by the long-deceased Franken-
stein is a morbid and drab horror
tale, with the cast apparently more
frightened than any of the custom-
ers that mi|^ came through the
wickets. All the tricks of chnier-
dillers are employed and tossed on
with emphasis, but the strain on the
perpetrators is apparent throughout
Far from current film requirements,
picture may catch dual filler spots
In the lower bracket houses, but only
has a faint resemblance to the former
issues of the Frankenstein series.

In the monster's last film appear-
ance he was tossed Into a boiling
sulphur pit; and this episode con-
veniently resurrects him from an ex-
cursion Into the not-too-entertainiilg
fleld of brain transference. The clin-
ical and surgical passages dip to the
gruesome side, and are particularly
untimely for audience consumption.
After reviving from the sulphur
chamber, the monster goes abroad
to scare the local populace, and
makes his way to the castle of Sir
Cedric Hardwlcke, second son of ibe
original Dr. Frankenstein. From
there on it's a stolid- and unentertain-
Ing narrative of Hardwicke's plan
and consummation of brain transfer
to provide the monster with an edu-
cated cranium to replace the crim-
inal one inserted originally by his
father. Switeh is successful, but
complications arise, and the monster
Is conveniently left In a blazing in-
ferno while the rest of the cast — and
audience — sighs with relief.

Lon Chaney goes into heavy and
grotesque makeup to handle the
monster role, while Hardwlcke,
Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwlll, Bela
LugosI, Evelyn Ankers and Janet
Ann Gallow provide the support.

WolL

WHITE SHEETS DT THE WIBD

Hollywood, March 3.

John Shelton and Brenda Joyce go
ghosting romantically together in the
top roles of 'A-Huntlng We Will Go,'
a fright-wig love tele at 20th-Fox.

Shadowy action starts March IS,
with Al Werker directing.

' A Missouri Outlaw

Republic release of George Sherman pro-
duction, stara Don 'Red' Barry; features •
Noah Beery. Lynn Mecrlck. Paul Fix. Di-
rected by George Sherman. Screenplay,-
Doris Schroeder. Ja(k Lalt, Jr. ; editor,
William Thompson; camera. Jack Marta.
At New Tork, N. T., week Feb. 21, '42,
dual. Running lime, SO MINS.

ClUt Dixon Don 'Red* Barry

Virginia RandaJl Lynn Merrick

Sheriff Dixon Noah Berry

Mark Roberta Paul Fix

Wllloughby Al St. John

Randell Frank La Ruo

Chandler '. . . . . Ken Duncan

Bancroft John Morton

Allen Carleton Young

Jensen Frank Brownlee

SnowSake Snowflake

Typical w^tern made slightly re-
fre^ing by Don 'Red' Barry's trim
performance in the title role. Ex-
pert production- manages to over-
come plot pltfalb. Okay for twin
bills and where horse operas are in
demand.

Story varies btUe from predeces-
sors, concerning gangster methods
employed by a group of cowhands
in the guise -of a 'protective associa-
tion' that milks ranchers and store-
keepers. "The outlaw,* however, a
mi.'^udged youth, brings the gang-
sters to justice.

Barry continues to develop as an
actor while Noah Beery makes a
life-like sheriff and Lynn Merrick

E leases as the heroine. Support is
eaded by Al St. John, in a straight
role for a change; Frank La Rue
and John Merton. Camera and
editing are above par for a western.

Weor.

A Tragedy at Midnight

Hollywood, Feb, 26.
Republic release of Robert North produc-
tion. Features John Howard. Margaret
Lindsay. Directed by Joseph Sojilley.
Screenplay by Isabel Dawn; original story
by Hal Hudson and Sam Duncan; -camera,
Bmeat Miller; supervMog editor, Murray
Seldeen; editor. Bdwoi-d Mann. At Or-
pheum, L. A., Feb. 2S, '42. Running time,
es MINS.

Greg Sherman -. John Howard

Beth Sherman Margaret Lindsay

Cassldy Roscoe Kama

Mrs. Wilton „.Mona Barrie

Ah Foo Keye Luke

Mr. Miller Hobart Cavanough

Landeck Paul Harvey

Lola Lilian Bond

Dr. Wlltbn Miles Mander

Swanson Wllllom Newell

Announcer Wendell Nlles

Henry Carney Arable TwItcheU

This is a typical whodunit with at-
tempt to lighten up the trail with
good-natured tnarltel bickerings of
a. couple that ride together through
the murders until the eventual de-
ductive finish. Keyed for po^ atten-
tion. It will provide Interesting en-
tertainhient of Its type as program
supporter in the family duals.

Looks like they tried to produce
a close carbon copy to "^Tiin Man
formula, with results far removed
from the original. Despite this, pic-
ture holds sufficient drama and zip
in pace to carry through okay with
not-too-critical audiences.

Story revolves around an amateur
sleuth whose solutions of current
murder mysteries provide material
for a network broadcast, to discomn-
(Contlnued on page 22)

Wednesdaj, March 4, 1942

UAriety

PICTURE GROSSES

Mostly a 0^ But Good Kzio Chi:
W-Mews-Breese Big $45,000,
W 3i 12a Not Hurt by Murder

Chicago, March 3.
This week figures to be one of the
brighter coin periods of the year.
Weather has been fine and the films
all Indicate pretty good boxoSlce
ability.

Leading the town conUnues to be
the big Chicago, where the Andrews
Sisters, who rocked 'em last Week,
are now supplemented by the Lou
Breese orch, Chi fave as a result of
long runs at the Cheg Paree and a
radio ride over NBC.

Oriental, the vaude competlsh, has
the Count Basle orch and Is going

okay. 1

Murder in the balcony of the Pal-
ace did not ruin the business as had
been expected Despite shrieking
headlines about the youth who killed
his sweetie, trade for 'Hellzapoppin'
held up well In Its third week. There
was a slackening oft, however,. of the
youngster biz, ho doubt due to
parental prohibitions.

Woods is doing well with Its new
dual flrst-nm policy and continues
to hold "playmates.'

Estimates for This Week

Apollo (B&K) (UOO; 35-55-65-75)
_'Bahama Passage' (Par) and 'Glam-
our Boy' (Par) (3d wk). Got good
$4,800 last week and holding to in-
dicated (4,000 currently.

Chleaco (B&K) (4,000; 35-55-75)—
'All Thru Night' (WB) and stage
show. Lou Breese orch and An-
drews Sisters headlining. This is the
second week for the Andrews Trio
and they are still -powerful boxoftice.
Breese, CHil favorite, and with pic-
ture total look like fine $45,000. Last
week, 'Remember Day* (20th) with
Andrews Sisters and Johnny Long
orch, solid $47,500.

Garrlok (B&K) (900; 35-55-65-75)
— 'Sullivan's Travels' '(Par) and 'No
Hands CJock' (Par) (2d wk). Going
along well in hold-over, looking for
$4,000 currently after fine $4,600 last
week.

Oriental (Iroquois) (3,200; 28-33
44-50)— 'Honolulu Lu' (RKO) and
Count Basic orch. Looks for good
$18,000. Last week, 'Moon Over
Shoulder* (20th) and Don Pedro orch
and Ramon Navarro, good $18,500.

Palace (RKO) (2,500; 33-44-66-75)
— 'Hellzapoppin' (U) and 'Sealed
Lips' (U) (3d wk). Murder-in-bal-
cony publicity not harmful at box-
office, with house tuminf in $13,600
for bright second week and looks
for $12,000 currently.

Boosevelt (B&K) (1,500; 35-55-65
75)— 'Burma Road' (M-G) and 'KU.
dare Victory (M-G) (2d wk). After
fine $11,800 last week, looks for okay
$8,500 this session.

Stete-Lake (B&K) (2,700; 35-55-65

75) — 'Green Was Valley' (20th) (7th
wk). Will just at)Out wind up great
run for this flicker, getting excellent
$10,000 currently, after strong $10,700
last week.

United Artists (B&K-M-G) (1,700
36-55-65-75)— 'Pulham' (M-G) (2d
wk). Got. away neatly on initial
stanza at $16,400, and will hold well
despite meek notices to $11,000 this
session.

Woods (Essaness) (1,200; 35-55-85

76) — 'Playmates' (RKO) and 'Jacks
and Jlir (RKO) (2d wk). Holding
up excellently in this well-exploite<l
house to $7,000 currently, following
fine opening at $8,500.

'Dinner,' $3,800, Tops

Very Slow Lincoln

Lincoln, Neb., March 3.

Man Who Came to Dinner' in the
money. Rest of the town is in step
behind it at varying distances.
Estimates tor This Week

Colonial (Monroe-Noble-Federer)
(750; 10-15-20)— 'Western Mail'
(Mono) and 'Scattergood Strings'
(RKO), split with 'Nurses Secret'
(WB) and 'South Sante Fe' (Rep).
Poor $500. Last week. 'Affectionately
Yours" (WB) and 'Thunder River
Feud' (Mono), split with 'Singapore
Woman' (WB) arid 'Roaring Fron-
tiers' (Col), so-so $600.

Lincoln (J. H. Cooper-Par) (1.503;
10-30-44)— 'Man to Dinner' (WB).
Might do $3,800, excellent. Last week.
Bugle Sounds' (M-G). fair $3,000.

Nebraska (J. H. Cooper-Par) (1,-
236; 10-20-28)— 'Blues in Night' (WB)
and 'Riders Purple Sage' (20th).
Started weekly amateur show, first
of series of 10 here, and It helped.
Pair $1,800, but better than usual.
Last week, 'Marry Boas' Daughter'
(20th) and 'Body Disappears' (WB),
poor $1,600.

Slate (Noble-Federer) (98«; 10-20-
28)— 'Shut Big Mouth' (Col) and 'All
American Coed' (Col). Alright $1,-
500, Last week, -Lady for Night'
(Rep) and *Repent at Leisure' (RKO),
fair $1,300.

^Stuart (J. K Cooper-Par) (1.884;
10-30-44)— 'Son of Fury* (20lh). May
set $3,600, not bad. Last week, 'Dr.

KUdare'i Victory* (M-Q), five days,
slim $2,100.

Vardty (Noble-Federer) (1,100; 10-
30-44) — 'Dangerously They Live'
(WB). Average $2,000. Last week,
■Bedtim* Stoiy (Col), $2,300, fairish.

A. & C-POWELL
BIG $35,000
IN HUB

Boston, March 3,

Whoop-de-do biz up'and downtown
this week. RKO Boston with Ab-
bott and Costello's 'Ride 'Em Cow-
boy' on the screen and Dick Powell
on the stage Is the heftiest taker.
Estimates for This Week

Boston (RKO) (3,200; 30-44-95-65-
75)— 'Ride 'Em Cowboy* (U) and
stage show starring Dick Powell.
Whizzing towards socko $36,000 at
tUted scale. Last week, 'What's
Cookln' ' (U) and stage show topped
by Dave Apollon, hit $21,000, good.

Fenway (M&P) (1,373; 30-40-44-69-
60)— 'Man to Dinner' (WB) and 'Steal
Against Sky' (WB), continued from
one week at the Met. FUrtlng with
$7,500, big. Last week, <Loulslana
Purchase' (Par) end 'Pacific Black'
out' (Par), continued from two weeks
at the Met, $6,600.

Keith MemorUI (RKO) (3,000; 3»>
44-85)- 'Green Was Valley* (20th)
and 'Niagara Falls' (UiO (Sd wk).
Continuing at big $21,000 pace and
fourth frame. Second stanza, $26,'
200, smash.

MetropoUton (M&P) (4,367; 30-44-
55-60)— 'Song of Islands' (Par) and
'No Hands Clock' (Par). WIU gat
around $24,000, great. Last week,
'Man to Dinner* (WB) and 'Steel
Against Sky' (WB), $22,500, fine.

Orpheom (Loew) (2,900; 30-40-44-
55)— 'Johnny Eager" (M-G) and 'Hay
Foot' (UA) (2d wk). Socko $19,000.
First week, $26,500, terrific.

Paramonnt (M&P) (1,800; 30-40-44-
55-60)- 'Man to Dinner' (WB) and
'Steel Against Sky* (WB), continued
from one week at Met Around
$13,000, very good. Last week, liOu
islana Purchase' (Par) and 'Pacific
Blackout' (Far), continued from two
weeks at the Met, $14,000, socko.

SUte (Loew) (3,600; 30-40-44-96>—
'Johnny Eager* (M-G) and 'Hay
Foot* (UA) (2d wk). Around $14,'
000, very big. First week, $17,400,
smash.

Tranalnx (Translux) (000; 17-39
44)— 'Shut Big Mouth* (Col) and
'Man Headquarters' (Mono). In tha
chips for around $9,000. Last week,
'Mr. Wise Guy* (Mono) and 'Sub-
marine Patrol' (20th), $4,200.

FIERY $9,700 IN
PORT^TURY'HUGESiG

Portland, Ore., March 3.
'Ball of Firs' living up to Its til

at the Paramount and pacing

Ue
the

town. 'Son of Fury' is only a step
behind at the smaller Orpheum. In
its second week, 'Captains of the
Clouds' still is running strong. at the
Broadway, after smashing records
opening week.

Estimates for This Week
Broadway (Parker) (2.000; 36-40
50)— 'Captains Clouds' (WB) and
'Miss Polly' (UA). Running up
strong $7,900 on second stanza. First
week, terrific $11,500.

M a y t a I r (Parker - Evergreen)
(1.500; 35-40-50)— 'Woman of Year'
(M-G). Movcover from United Art-
IsU. taking high $3,000. Last week
(nine days), 'Bedtime Story' (Col)
with 'Gentleman Heart' (20th), four-
day holdover for $i;800 and 'Pulham'
(M-G) with 'Fiesta' (UA), average
$2,800 on five days.

Orpheum (Hamrick-Evergreen)
(1,800: 35-40-50)— 'Son Fury' (20Ui)
and 'Obliging Young Lady* (RKO).
Unexpectedly high, snappy JW.500
near best in town. Last week.
Through Night* (WB) and 'Body
Disappears' (WB) (2d wk), satis
factory $5 100

Pcrsmoont (H-E) (3,000; 35-40-50)
—'Ball Fire' (RKO) and "Weekend
Three' (RKO). Gigantic $9,700, and
town's topper. Last week, 'Bedtime
Story' (Col) and 'Gentleman Heart
(20th) strong $7,400.

United Artists (Parker) (1,000; 35-^
40-50) — 'Design Scandal' (M-G) and
'Joe Smith, American' (M-G). Great
$8 000. liBSt week, 'Woman of Year
(M-G), snappy $7,500 for second
session, and moved to the Mayfalr.

First Rons on Broadway

CSubieet to Change)

Week of Bfaioh 5
Astar— 'Kings Row* (WB) (Sth
week).

Utetrieued in 'Variety,* Dec. 21, 1941)
Capitol— "The Invaders' (CoU.
CrHerien— 'Ride "Em Oiwboy*

(U) (4).
Hnsle Halt— "Woman of the

Year' (M-G) (9th week),
(RetHeuxd in 'Varied,' Jan. 14)
ParsmooBt— The Lady Has

Plans* (Par) (4).
(Reolatoed in "Variety,* Jon. 21)
Blalt4>— 'Mr. Wise Guy' (Mono)

(4).

BlyoU— To Be or Not to Be'
(UA) (6).

(Herteieed In "Variety,* Jfeb. 18)
Boxy- 'Roxle Hart' (20th) (3d
week).

(Retrieued in "Variety," Feb. 4)
State— "The Remarkable An-
drew* (Par).
(ReiHeutd in "Variety," Jon, 21)
Ptrand — 'Captains of tha
Clouds' (WB) (4th week).
(Retrieuied in 'Variety,' Jan. 31)

Week of March 12
Aster— 'Kings Row* (WB) (Otb
week).

Capitol— The Invaders' (Col)
(2d week).

Criterion — 'Ride "Em Cowboy'
(U) (2d week).

Hasle Hall— 'Bed Time Story'
(Ool).

(R«of«up«d in "Varletv ' ->te. 10, 1941)
Paramonnt — ^Th' ' ady Has

PlaniT (Par) (2d w^ /.
BlTOll— To Bo or Not to Bo'

(UA) (2d week).
Boxy- 'Song of the Islands^

(20th> (13).
{Rvrinotd in "Variety,' r«b. 4)
Strand— "Always In My Hearts

(WB).

(RnHeusd in current <uu«)

DUCHIN-DNCLE'
S11lONG$15,000
IN BUFF.

U& Glut N.Y.; loman.' $85,000,
In 4tli Big Wt 'Rose' Good $40,000
In 2d, Ual'-Auer Okay $22,500

Buffalo, March 3

Downtown show houses, by hang-
ing out choice films, continue to
snaro good tallies. Following a big
holiday round last week, grosses are
still In high, with even the holdovers
hitting creditable levels.

Edmn Duchin's orch, with "Unex-
pected Uncle,' is punching out a fine
canto at the Century for the best
munerals In town. "Sullivan's Trav-
eb," dualed at the Lakesi also hefty.
Estimates for This Week

Boffalo (Shea) (3,500; 35-55)—
"Woman of Year' (M-G) and ''Young
America' (20th) (2d wk). Repeat
doing nicely, over $10,000. Last
week, great $17,500.

Orest Lakes (Shea) (3,000; 35-55)
— "Sullivan's Travels' (Par) and
"Pacific Blackout' (Par). Heading for
tidy $12,000. Last week, "Gone With
Wind' (M-G) (reissue), tall $14,500.

Hipp Shea) (2,100; 30-45)— 'Gone'
(M-G) (reissue). Still bullish, around
$7,000. Last week, 'Bugle Sounds:
(M-G) and 'Kathleen' (M-G), dandy
$11,000.

Lafayette (Hayman) (3,300; 30-
44)— 'Paris Calling' (U) and 'Bad-
lands Dakota' (U). Plenty backbone,
$8,500. Last week, "Lady WilUng
(Col) and 'SecreU of Lone WolT
(Col), substantial $8,000.

TwenUeih Centory (Ind.) (3.000;
30-55)— 'Unexpected Uncle' (RKO).
and Eddy Duchin orch. Riding for
better than $15,000, good. Last week,
'Blues In Niglif (WB) and Martha
Raye on stage, smash $18,000.

Cagney. $11,000, Day,'
7G, Mont'l Winners

Montreal, March 3.

'Captains of the (nouds* got gala
opening Friday (27) at Loew's and
will top town at $11,000. 'Remem-
ber the Day' also setting hot pace for
good $7,000.

Estimates for This Week

Palace (CT) (2,700; 30-45-62)—
'Remember Day'. (20th). Pacing for
good $7,000. Last week, 'Green Val-
ley* (20th) h.o., nice $6,000.

Capitol (CT) (2,700; 30-45-62)—
'Bahama Passage' (Par) and 'No
Hands Clock' (Par) (2d wk). Fair
$4,000, after very good $7,500.

Loews (CT) (2,800; 35-53-67)—
'Captains Clouds'' (WB). Cagney
starrer prime $11,000. Last week's
h.o., 'Babes Broadway' (M-G), good
$6,000.

Frinoess (CT) (2,300: 30-40-52)—
'Kathleen' (M-G) and 'Dr. Kildare's
Victory' (M-G). Pointing to fair $4,.
500. Last week, 'Call Marines' (RKO)
and 'Playmates' (RKO), $4,000.
■ Orpheum (Ind) (1,100; 30-40-60)—
'Give My Life' (Regent) and 'One

In all probability a new record
number of holdovers was set in
downtown New York's leading film
houses this weeic, with the boxoftice
total on the lighter side as a result
Only the combination State, playing
pictures second-run, and the Crite-
rion, winding up a one-week date last
night (Wed.) with 'What's Cookln,'
are outside of the holdover column.

One picture, 'Woman of the Year,*
Is in its fourth smash semester at
the Music Hall and will go a fifth,
while another, 'Kings Row,' started
Its fourth week yesterday (Tues.).
Three films are on third weelcs and
five are on second weelis, latter
group including 'Bahama Pa.<tsage,*
which closed Its holdover stanza last
night (Tues.), however, at the Par.

Outstander among the holdies Is
'Woman,' steadiness of which means
about $85,000, strong, for the fourth
stanza. ITiis will be the fourth pic-
ture to go five weeks or more at the
Hell, other three having been, "Re-
becca," 'Philadelphia Story" and
'Snow White.*

"Roxie Hart,' which got $63,000
last weeic, its first, with the aid nf
WashIngton*s birthday, is coming
down to around $40,000, still good,
and holds over another session at
the Roxy.

Surprise business-getter has lieen
"Bahama Passage' and the Alvino
Ray band at the Par, which held very
firmly to $42,000, fine, on the second
week, comparing with $55,000 the
first seven days. House ushen In
"Lady Has Plans' today (Wed.), with
Ina Ray Hutton band, Joan Edwards,
Hal IjeRoy and Jack Haley on the
stage.

'Captains of Clouds' at the Strand,
with Blue Barron's orchestra on the
pit lift, should top- $30,000, fair
enough, on the thted '(final) week.
Holds another stanza, becoming the
fourth picture to do so in four years
of the pitband policy at the house.

"Kings Row," which continues to do
a very strong weekend business, fin-
ished Its fourth week Monday night
(2) at $19,000, good. It win remain
here until at least March 29, possibly
longer.

nie State show of 'Design For
Scandal' and Ulscha Auer In person
Is doing a pre^ good business at
$22,500, or a bit better.

"Johnny Eager,' which exits from
the Capitol tonight (Wed),' has weak-
ened somewhat on the holdover to
end at less than $20,000, mild, while
also tapering off considerably Is "Mr.
V,' now In its third week at the
Rivoll, where it will be only about
$18,000. To Be or Not to Be' opens
at the RIv Friday (6).

Estimates for This Week

Astor (Loew's) (1.012; 35-55-05-
$1.10)— 'Kings Row* (WB) (5th wk).
Holding up well, with main play
nights and on weekends; fourth
week ended Monday night (2) was
$19,000, whUe third over Washing-
ton's birthday was over $20,000.

Broadway (Disney) (1,895; 35-55-;
75) — 'Fantasia' (RKO-Disney). closed
a seven-weelcs' nm at pop scales
Saturday night (28). with finale
counting to over $15,000, good. The
sixth week was $11,000. House Is in
darkness awaiting a date on 'Bambl'
(RKO-Disney), which may be held
up for some time fn m reoorts.

Capitol (Loew's) (4,620 : 35-55-85-
$1.10-$1.25)— 'Johnny Eager' (M-G)
(2d-final -wk). Went over $30,000 on
the first seven days, satisfactory, but
on holdover will end at less than
$20,000, not so good. 'Invaders' (Col)
opens tomorrow (Thurs.).

Criterion (Loew's) (1,062 : 35-44-
55-75)— 'Ride 'Em Cowboy' (U). New
Abbott-Costello comedy comes in
here this morning (Wed.), succeed-
ing 'What's Cookln* (U) which did
fairly well at around $8,5Q0. Behind
that 'Bom to Sing* (M-G) proved
weak at $6,000.

' Globe (Brandt) (1.250: 28-35-55)-:-
'Gentleman at Heart' (20th) (2d-final
wk). This one is okay at $6,500 or
better on the holdover, following
first seven days' take of $10,500, very
good. Revivil of 'EmUe Zola' (WB)
opens Satui-day (7).

Palace (RKO) (1.700; 28-35-44-55-
65-75)— 'Ball of Fire' (RKO) (2d-
final wk). Looks a sturdy $9,500 this
week (2d), while first was a rousing
$15,200. House goes back to double
bills tomorrow (Thurs.).

Paramount (Par) (3,664; 35-55-85-

Night Paris* (Regent). Fair $3,500
in sight. Last week h-o., 'Shanghai
Gesture,' good $3,500.

St Denis (France-Film) (2,500; 30-
40)— 'Les Yeux Noirs" and 'Barbjer
dc Seville.'. Sighting gor,' $5,300.
Last week, 'Charette Fantome' and
'Vieille d'Armcs," good $5,000.

99)— "Lady Has Plans' (Par) and, on
stage, Ina Ray Hutton, Joan Edwards,
Hal LeRoy and Jack Heley comprise
the new show opening here this
morning (Wed.). ^Eahama Passage'
(Par) and the Alvino Rey band, plus
the King Sisters, Gil Lamb and other
acts wound up a highly-profitable
14-day run last nign' (Tues.), first
- 3ek being $55,000, the second
$42,000.

Radio City Music Hall (Rocke-
fellers) (5 §45; 44-55-85-99-$1.65)—
"Woman of Year' (M-G) and stage-
show (4th wk). Such a sound b.o.
investment at ■ia5,00P this week (4th)
that it will be held a fifth. Last week
(3d), was a smash $101,000.

Bialto (Mayer) (594; 28-44-55 >—
Our Russian Front' (Artkino) and
'Frisco Lil' (U) (3d wk). Good $7,-
000 is seen this week (3d) and, as
result, 'Russian Front,' which is ac-
counting for the business done, will
be held a fourth week, with 'Mr. Wise
Guy' (Mono) replacing 'I|il.' Last
week for 'Front* and 'Lil,' Ine second,
was $9,500, excellent

BlvoU (UA) (2,002; 35-55-75-85-99)
—'Mr. V (UA) (3d-final week).
Losing earlier strength for about
$18,000 this week (3d), while second
was close to $27,000, good. To Be or
Not to Be' CIA) opens Friday (6).

Boxy (20th) (5,886; 35-55-65-75-85)
— 'Roxie Hart' (20th) and stageshow
(2d wk). Down somewhat to $40,000
or bit better this stanza (2d), but
good enough to be held a third. Ini-
tial seven days went to whopper
$63,000.

SUte (Loew's) (3,450 28-44-55-75-
00-$1.10)— 'Design for Scandal' (M-
G) (2d run) and, on vaude bill,
Mlscha Auer, Golden Gate Quartet
others. At $22,500 or more indicated
will be entirely satisfactory. Last
week, Jimmy Durante in person pro-
vided very worthwhile support for
'Mr. Bug Goes to Town*' (Par) (1st
run) for a gross that topped $22,000.

Strand (WB) (2,758; 35-S5-75-89-
00)— 'Captains of Clouds' (WB) and
Blue Barron (3d wk). This show
should top $30,000, okay, this round
(3) and will go another. Last week
(2d) for 'Clouded and Barron was
$40,000, good.

MplSoHasAlilHS/
Taxes, Lent Etc.,
Dinner , $10,000

Minneapolis, March i.
Lent and income tax time un-
doubtedly are taking a boxoflico
toll, but trade nevertheless holds up
fairly well. Entertainment seekers
currently have a wider choice, Inas-
much as there are only two hold-
over, 'How Green Was My Valley*
and 'Corslcan Brothers," Instead of
last week's three, and (he lli)e-up In-
cludes an Orpheum stage show
headed by Jan Savltt's orchestra.
'Of the newcomers, 'Man 'Who
Came to Dinner" has the lead.

Estlnulea for This Week

Aster (Par-Singer) . (900; 17-28)
—'No Hands Clock* (Par) and 'North
to Klondike' (U), dual first-runs.
In for five days and okay $1,300 looks
set Last week, 'Blondle College'
(Col) and 'Body Disappears' (WB),
split with 'Marry Boss* (20th) and
'Riding Wind* (RKO) all first-runs,
fine $2,500 In nine days.

Centory (P-S) (1,600; 30-40-50)—
'Green Valey' (20th). Here after
two terrific weeks at Stale and still
delivering impressively. Reaching
for dandy $5,000. last week, "York*
(WB) (4th wk.), magnificent $5,700
on top of $30,000 initial three weeks.

Gopher (P-S) (996; 28-30)—
'Swamp Water' (20tlr). Well and
heavily exploited. Smash $5,200 in
prospect Last week, "Rise and
Shine' (20th), pretty good $3^00.

Orpheom (P-S) (2,800; 39-44-55)—
'Bahama Passage" (Par) and stage
show with Jan Savitt orch, Buddy
Clark, etc. Pleasing show, with big
$17,000 in sight Last week, 'Corsl-
can Brothers' (UA), good $8,000.

SUte (P-S) (2,300; 30-40-50)—
'Man to Dinner' (WB). They're
lauding this one. Zooming toward
big $10,000. Last week, 'Green Val-
ley' (20th) (2d wk.). great $9,600 on
heels of hefty $12,700.

Uptown (Par) (1,100; 30-40>^
'Died with Boots* (WB). First nabe
showing satisfactory $2,600. Last
week. 'Yank R.A.F.' (20th), big
$3,600.

World (Par-Steffes) (350: 30-40-50-
60)— 'Corsican Bros.' (UA). Moved
here from Orpheum: fair $1,500.
Last week, 'One Foot Heaven'
(WB), fine $1,800, making nearly
$13,500 for entire run.

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PICTUBE GROSSES 11

Weather Man Throws the Book At
Pitt; 'Captains Settles Down to 9G

■fr

Pittsburgh, March 3,
Goldea Triangle had rain, sleat
and snow over the. weekend de-
veloping Into city's worst snow
storm Monday nigtit. City was com-
pletely paralzyed with no trans-
portation whatever. Only 'Captains
ot the Clouds/ at Fenn, laughed at
the elements, but gross won't be
commensurate with mash opening.

'Ride "Em Cowboy' is doing nothing
like past Abbott and Costello fea-
tures.

Estlmatei for Thli Week

Fulton (Shea) (1,700: 30-SO)—
■Hellzapoppin' (U) (2d wk). No
complaints with around $4,000 on
h.o. for screwball picture. House
will bring in long-awaited 'Citken
Kane' (RKO) tomorrow (Wednes-
day). Ads on 'Kane' got started late,
management waiting until last
minute in hopes that Welles film
would cop Academy award. In first
week, 'Hellz' grabbed swell $9,500.

Fenn (Loew's-UA) <3,300; 30-40-
50)- 'Captains Clouds' (WB). Got
away like ball ot fire, but the early
rain and Monday's blizzard wrecked
its initial prospects. Only $9,000, with
the storm blamed. Last week, second
of 'Woman of Year* (M-G) pretty
good $13,000.

fUtz (WB) (800; 30-40-50)—
'Dumbu' (RKO). Moved here after
twu surprise sessions - at Warner,
Should be around $2,000, not as good
as expected. Last week, 'Man to
Dinner' (WB), 'In fourth week, fine
$2,500.

Senator (Harris) (1,750; 30-40-50)
—'Ride 'Em Cowboy' (U). Shooting
house back into big coin again, with
business up to past Abbott and
Costello grosses. Geared to $1,000,
and will hold over. Opening hurt by
house's decision to switch opening to
Friday, thereby putting it in inaugu-
ral competition with bigger houses.
Last week, 'Gentleman Heart' (20th)
and 'Men ih Life' (Col), live days,
around $3,000, poor.

SUnley (WB) (3,800; 30-44-60-66)
—'Skylark' (Par) and Charlie Spivak
orch. Picture rapped, band praised,
but Spi* ak unknown locally and
therefore not pulling as well as some
o( the better-established bands
which have played here of late. In
line for mild $11,000, bliz taking its
toll. Last week, Lawrence Welk and
•Blues in Nifhf (Wp), strong $20,000,
bettering original estimate.

Warner (WB) (2,000 ; 30-40-50)—
'Woman of Year" (M-(J) (3d wk).
Showing, difference it makes when
film comes here after two weeks at
another house (Penn) instead of
customary one. Average gross tor
Warner h.o. is $6,000 or better.
'Woman,' which was Just about ex-
hausted during Penn run, won't do
$3,500. Last week, second ot 'Dumbo'
(RKO) fine $6,000.

'BUGLE.' $11.01)0,
NICEINCLEVE.

Cleveland. March 3.

Weather if clear and wickets rac-
ing up to nab some Juicy coin. Con-
ditions so favorable in general that
even 'What's Cookin?' supported by
'Meet the People' unit on stage, is
cooking up attendance tar stronger
than expectations.

Pull ot 'Bugle Sounds' at State is
not as robust as 'Captains ot Clouds,'
which is walloping out powerful sec-
ond stanza tor Hipp. 'Woman ot
Yeai-* also a lush h.o. at Stillman.
Estimates for This Week

Allen (RKO) (3,000; 30-35-42-55)—
'Dangerously Live' (WB). Lusty
$6,000. Last round 'Son Fury' (20th)
(3d wk), swell $5,000.

Hipp (Warners) (3,700; 30-35-42-
55)— 'Captains Clouds' (WB) (2d wk).
Made to order tor this deluxer and
grabbing $12,000, otter snagging tip-
top $19,000 last week.

Lake (Warners) (800; 30-35-42-55)
—'Son Fury' (20th) (4th wk). Hold-
ing up for sweet $2,400 on shiftover.
Last week, 'Look Who's Laughing'
iRKO) (2d wk), fairish $1,500.

Palace (RKO) (3,700; 30-35-42-55-
60)— 'What's Cookin?' (U) plus 'Meet
the People' unit Looks close to $20,-
000, line. Last lap 'Bedtime Story'
(Col.), with Woody Herman's orch
and Connie Boswell, strong $22,400.

Stale (Loew's) (3,450; 30-35-42-55)
—'Bugle Sounds' (M-G). Shade above
$11,000, okay. Last week, 'Woman of
Year' (M-G), $18,000, smart.

Stillman (Loew's) (1,872; 30-35-12-
55)— 'Woman of Year' (M-G) (2d
wk). Moveover set tor $7,500, nifly.
Last week, 'Gone With Wind' (M-G)
(2d wk), great $9,000.

Key City Grosses

Estimated Total Grosr

This Week , .$1,»22,1«»

(Based on 27 citiet, 185 thea-
tres, cMe/tv frst runs, Includtni;
N. y.j

Total Gross Same Week
Last Year $l,75T,4t(

(Based on 29 cities, ITS theatres)

'Biinna-'VanitiesV
$23m JeU In
D.C.; H.O.S Good

Washington, March 3.

Only new arrival on the main stem
this week, 'Yank on Buriha Road,'
at Capitol, is doing handsomely, but
probably owes most of it to Earl
Carroll's 'Vanities' on stage.
Estimates tut This Week

Capitol (Loew) (3,434; 28-39-44-66)
— 'Yank Burma Road' (M-G), plus
Earl Carroll's 'Vanities' on stage.
Latter the draw tor topnotch $23,000.
Last week, 'Vanishing Virginian''
(M-G) and George Murphy personal,
excellent $22,500.

ColnmbU (Loew) (1,234 ; 28-44)—
'Remember Day' (Par) (moveover).
Average $5,000. Last week, 'Johnny
Eager' (M-G) (moveover), ditto.

Earle (WB) (2,216; 28-39-44-66)—
'Captains Clouds' (WB) and vaude
(2d wk). Holding its altitude, good
$16,500. Last week, solid $20,000.

Metropolitan (WB) (1,600; 28-44)
—'All Through Night' (WB) (move-
over). Rushed in to replace ailing
'Bedtime Story' (Col). Heading tor
okay $9,000 in 11 days. Last week,
'Story' (Col) (moveover), thin $2,000
in three-day weekend.

Polaoe (Loew) (2,242; 28-55)—
'Woman ot Year' (M-G) (3d wk).
Plenty healthy Avith $12,000. Last
week (2d), sweet $17,500.

CAGNEY, $24,000, HEFTY
IN B'KLYN; H.O^ GOOD

Brooklyn, March 3.

Air-conscious community flocking
to Fabian Fox to catch Cagney in
'Captains of Clouds' and 'Blondie
Goes to College.'

Estimates tor This Week

Albee (RKO) (3,274 ; 30-40-50-55)
—'Ball of Fire" (RKO) (2d wk) and
'Obliging Young Lady' (RKO). At-
tractive $19,000. Last week, great
$22,000.

Fax (Fabian) (4,023 ; 30-40-50-55)—
'Captains Clouds' (WB) and 'Blondie
to College' (Col), Hefty $24,000.
Last wedc 'BUI Hlckok' (WB) end
'Kildare's Victory' (M-O) (2d wk),
okay $15,000.

Met (Loew's) (3,618; 30-40-S0-55 )—
'Design for Scandal' (M-G) and
'Swing It. Soldier" (U). Nice $17,000.
Last week, 'Babes Broadway' (M-G)

and 'Burma Road' (M-G) (3d wk),
hefty $17,000.

Paramount (Fabian) (4,126; 30-40-
50-55)— 'Sullivan's Travels' (Par)
and 'Pacific Blackout' (Par) (2d wk).
Fairish $12,000. Last week, okay
$17,000.

Strand (WB) (2,800 ; 30-40-50-55)-
'Man Returned to Lite' (Col) and
stage show with Gene Krupa or-
chestra. Nice $12,000 in four days.
Last week, 'Hurricane Smith' (Rep)
and Ina Ray Hutton's orch, quiet
$6,000 for same period.

Tury,' $21,000 in 10
Days, Great in J.C.

Jersey City, March 3.

'Son of Fury,' only new fir.sl-run
picture in town, is doing tremendous
business at the Stnle. 'B!>bcs on
Broadwa;-,' at Loew's, and 'Captains
of the Clouds,' at the Stanley, are
both drawing fine b. o. attendance.
Estimates for This Week

Loew's (Loew's) (3,205: 30-35-55)
—'Babes Broadway' (M-G) and
'Miss Polly' (UA) (2d wk). Should
get neat $13,500. Last wock. boom-
ing $20,000.

Stanley (WB) (4.500 ; 30-35-55)—-
'Captains Clouds' (WB) and 'Mexican
Spitfire' (RKO) (2d wk). Swell $13,-
500. Last week, huge $18,500.

State (Skouras) (2,200 ; 30-35-55)—
'Son ot Fury' (20th) and 'Perfect
Snob' (20tb). SUrted the day after
Washington's birthday and running
for 10 days. Expects great $21,000.
Last week, 'Ball of Fire' (RKO) (2d
wk, 4 days), good $6,000.

m. STRETCHES
PIX; 'BAHAMA'
OK $17,1

Detroit, March 3.

Only one fresh bill in the loop
here, evidence that biz, despite un-
employment, can be stretched out
without getting too thin. Although
the Michigan offers a new duo in
'Bahama Passage' and 'Blues in the
Night,' it probably will run slightly
behind the Fox, which has 'Son of
Fiiry' and a new teammate in strong
second week.

Estimates for This Week

Adams (Balaban) (1,700; 40-55-65)
— 'Hellzapoppii\' (U) and 'South of
Tahiti' (U) (3d wk). Good $5,000,
after nice $6,700 last week.

Fox (Fox-Michigan) (5,000; 40-55-
65)— 'Son Fury' (20th) (2d wk) and
'Sing Worries Away' (RKO). With
a new couplet, this looks for choice
$18,000. Last week, with 'Night Di-
vorce' (20th). great $30,000.

MIchiran (United Detroit) (4,000;
40-55-65)— 'Bahama Passage' (Par)
and 'Blues Night' (WB). Okay $17,-
000). Last week, 'Louisiana Pur-
chase' (Par) and 'No Hands' (Par),
(2J wk), neat $15,000, after big $23,/
000 in first stanza. '

Palms-State (United Detroit) (3,-
000; 40-55-65) — 'Louisiana Purchase'
(Par) (3d wk) and 'Steel Against
Sky' (WB). Fair $8,000. Last week,
'Died with BoqJs' (WB) (3d wk) and
'Father Takes Wife' (RKO), good
$9,000.

United ArtlsU (United Detroit)
(2,000 ; 40-55-65)— 'Johnny Eager' (M-
G) and 'Yank Burma Road' (M-G)
(2d wk). strong $12,000 after $16,000
last week.

Post-Blackout Jitters Blast LA
But 'Roxie' Trim $27,500; 'Captains'
on H.O., lady Plans' 14G Solo

Broadway Grosses

Estimated Total Grost

This Week $337,0et

(Based on 13 theatres;
Total Cross Same Week

Lost Year $329,400

(Based on 13 theatres;

Veronica-McCrea
Torrid $10,000
In Lush L'ville

Louisville, March 3.

Main stem b.o.'s are chalking up
some nice grosses currently, and biz
is pretty well distributed all around.
Two big houses, State and Rialto, are
catchino bulk of the coin, with 'Sul-
livan's Travels' at Rialto in lead,
'Shanghai Gesture' at Loew's State,
received mixed reviews from critics,
but is garnering enough to land in
second place.

'Skating Vanities of 1942' opened
at the Jefferson County Armory
Monday (2) for seven nights, no
matinees. Roller skating show is
playing to $1 top, and Monday nicht
performance was well papered, with
.soldiers in uniform invited r.o
charge.

Estimates for This Week

Brown (Fourth Avenue) (1,400:
15-30-40)— 'Son Fury' (RKO) and
'CZastle in Desert' (20th). On move-
over from Rialto, pacing for excel-
lent $2,800. Last week. 'Ride 'Em
Cowboy' (U) and 'Bombay Clipper'
(U), moved along at better than
average clip to round up fine $3,500.

Kentncky (Switow) (1,200; 15-25)
— 'Corsican Bros.' (UA) and 'Men in
Life' .(Col). Fair $1,400. Last week
'Little Foxes' (RKO) and 'Wake Up
Screaming' (20th), solid $1,600.

Loew's State (Loew's) (3,300; 15'
.30-40)— 'Shanghai Gesture' (UA) and
'Blondie to College' (Col). Got mixed
reviews, but results are plenty satis-
factory at $9,000. Last week, 'Woman
ot Year' (M-G) and 'Hay Foot'
(UA), very good $8,500.

Mary Anderson (Libson) (1,000;
15-30-40) — 'Man to Dinner' (WB)
(3d wk). Pace consistently strong
and current stanza should wind up
with dandy $3,400. C^ood $5,000 last
week.

Blalto (Fourth Avenue) (1,000: 15-
30-40) — 'Sullivan's Travels' (Par)
and Torpedo Boat' (Par), Combo ot
Veronica Lake and Joel McCrea
bringing robust $10,000. Last week,
'Son Fury' (RKO) and "Valley Sun'
(RKO), swel' $11,000 and moveover.

Strand (Fourth Avenue) (1,400;
15-30-40) — 'Mr. Bug' (Par) and 'Road
Happiness' (Mono). Maintaining
profitable pace, eight-day run point-
ing to fine $3,800. Last week, 'Call
Out Marines' (RKO) and 'Castle in
Desert' (20th) (2nd wk), medium
$3,000.

NATIONAL BOXOFFI CE SURVEY

Ginger Rogers, Robert Taylor and James Cagney Vie With
Tracy-Hepburn for First-Run Recognition

Amusement buying is maintaining the swift pace
which has characterized the boxoffice since the turn
ot the year. Soma individual figures ot the past week
are indicative.. In Providence, 'Woman of the Year'
(M-G) grossed $12,000 In a holdover, after an opening
ot $19,500. Same film at the Music Hall, New York,
grossed $85,000 on its fourth week, and is holding.

'Captains ot the Clouds' (WB) in Cleveland held two
weeks tor $19,000 and $12,000 respectively, only slight-
ly under the Philadelphia figures of $20,000 and $13,000.
'Johnny Eager' (M-G) Is showing strength everywhere.
It has held over hi Detroit, Seattle and Bosto'i.

Other recent release which is in the upper income
brackets is 'Roxie Hart* (20th) starring Ginger Rogers.
It is above average in Omaha, 'Frisco and at the
Roxy, N. Y.

Scanning the telegraphic reports from 'Variety cor-
respondents in key cities, it is the inevitable conclu-
sion that the public is finding surcease from the
world's troubles in screen entertainment. The particu-
lar category of-fllm story that Is leading the pack at
the moment is comedy.

Three out ot tour films currently leading at the box-
office are laugh stimulators. They are 'Captaii^ of the
Clouds.' starring Jimmy Cagney, which, for all its
documentary passages ot R.C.A.F. pilot training, never-
Ihelei^s ha? its con^edy angles; 'Woman of the Year.'

with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and
'Roxie Hart.' 'Johnny Eager,' which Is an outright
gangster film of a by-gone period, is grim and grip-
ping. Also, in contrast to the leaders, 'Shanghai Ges-
ture' (UA) is finding favor, holding two weeks in
'Frisco, and is strong elsewhere.
. Crowned with the Academy award, 'How Green Was
My Valley' (20th) must take its bows chieQy in the
subsequent runs, having played nearly all key spots.
It is finishing its seventh week at the State Lake,
Chicago, and its third each in Minneapolis, Seattle
and Boston.

'To Be or Not To Be' (UA), Carole Lombard's last
picture, in which she's co-starred with Jack Benny,
was something less than sensational at its opening in
Hollywood, an unfortunate choice of locale consider-
ing last week's air raid scare, blackout and ack ack.

By teletype: -'Gone with the Wind' (Selznick-M-G)
finishing three weeks on second return engagement in
Cincinnati, a total of 17 stanzas in one theatre over a
period of three years. 'Ride 'Em Cowboy' (U) hold-
ing over in Baltimore to the best or A. & C. grosses.
'H. M. Pulham' (M-G) off to good start at the U.A.
theatre, Chicago.

Most majors out with new groups of five within the
next few weeks. Circuit bookers are returning from
Miami.

Los Antelcs, March 3.
Lull at tlic wickets currently Is
attributed to- post-blackout jitters
combined with public saving to meet
the U, S. income tax, March 15. Busi-
ness is off generally in both first-
runs and sub.<:cqucnts up to 25*^,
and operators look for little im-
provement until end of March.

The blackout and anti-aircraft
barrnpc over the Los AnReles area
early last Wednesday (25) morning
bla.ttod the.nlre biz. Virtually all the-
atre.-! were deserted the two days fol-
lowing the air raid exhibition, but
folks started drifting back over the
weekend. Wednesday was the worst '
h.o. day in many years for this area.'
Result is the. Wednesday anti-aircraft
display and scare naturally is re-
flected in last week's business total,
with some improvement noted in
current session. Anything would b»
an improvement over the last week.
Estimates for. This Week
Carthay Circle (F-WC) (1,516: 33-
41-55-75)— 'To Be or Not Be' (UA)
and 'Night Divorce' (20th) (2d wk).
Teamed showing with United Artists
downtown this week for likely
$5,000, good. Last week, closed to
fairly satisfactory $5,500 on simul-
taneous run with Chinese and State.

Chlnenc (Grauman-WC) (2,034;
33-44-55-75) — 'Roxie Hart' (20th)
and 'Castle Desert' (20th). Big week-
end play lifting to okay $11,000. La.st
week 'To Be' (UA) and 'Night Di-
vorce' (20th). hit by blackout on final
day but turned in good $11,000.

Downtown (WLj (1.800; 33-44-55)
—'Captains Clouds' (WB) (2d wk).
On profit side with $10,000 indicated
and strong enough to stay another
week. First week hit a whopping
SI 4.500. *
Four Star (UA-F-WC) (900: 33-
44-55)— 'Mr. V (UA) (3d wk). SllEht
profit with $3,000. Last week (2d)
hit by blackout only $3,700.

Hawaii (G&S) (1,100; 33-44-55-75)
— 'Hellzapoppin' (U) (3d wk). Hold-
ing up strong tor $8,200. Last week
(2d), suffered from blackout only
sliehtly to Jiil excellent $9,000.

HollywiM^JlWB) (2.756; 33-44-55)
—'Captains- Cftuds' (WB) (2d wk).
Continues wicket-spinning for good
$10,500 on holdover. Last week,
closed (o fine $15.<a)0, despite black-
out repercussions.

Orpheum (B'way) (2,200; 33-44-55)
—'Tragedy Midnite' (Rep) and
'Never Give Sucker Break' (U) .with
vaude. Weak at $7,500 and hit hard
by blackout scare. Last week, 'Play-
mates' (RKO), 'Bombay Clioper' (U)
and vaude, moderate $9,000.

Pantages (Pan) (2.812; 33-44-55)—
'Bedtinje Story' (Col) (2d wk) and
'Blondie Colleze' (Col). Overstaying
and blah $5,500 on six days. Lasl
week, 'Bedtime' and 'Date Falcon"
(RKO). moderate $10,600.

Pararaoont (Par) (3.596; 33-44-55)
—'Lady Has Plans' (Par) and 'Re-
markable Andrew' (Par). Good com-
bo tor $14,000, but not holding a>
planned. Last week, 'Queen Murder
Ring' (Col) and 'Man Returned Life*
(Col), blackout at $8,200, low level
for house.

BKO nillslreet (RKO) (2,872; 33-
44-55) — 'Bedtime Story' (Col) '(21
wk) and 'Blondie College' (Col).
Weekend biz only reason tor unwar-
ranted holdover, meagre $5,200 in
six days. Last week, 'Bedtime' and
'Date Falcon' (RKO), fair $10,000.

Slate (Loew-F-WC) (2^04; 33-44-
55-75) — 'Roxie Hart' (20th) and
'Castle. Desert' (20th). Swinging
along for merry $16,500. Last week.

To

(UA) and 'Night Divorce'

(20th), hit by blackout jitters but
stiU good $13,000.

United Ardsta (UA-F-WC) (2.100;
33-44-55)— 'To Be' (UA) and "Iliaht
Divorce' (20th). Just short of $5,000
on moveover to downtown first-run.
Last week, 'Son Fury' (20th) and
'Gentleman at Heart' (20th), so-so
with $4,500.

Vogue (Vogue) (920; 33-44-55)—
Flying Cadets' (U) and 'Sealed Lips'
(U). Sure-seater getting only a thin
$2,400. Last week, 'North Klondike'
(U) and 'Melody Lane' (U), failed
to catch on and yanked with weak
$2,000.

Wllsblre (F-WC) (2,296; 33-44-55)
— 'Son Fury' (20th) and 'Gentleman
Heart' (20th) (2d wk). Held over
here on account of To Be' holding
at nearby Carthay Circle, with $3,-
500 indicated tor stanza. First week,
clipped by blackout aftermath,
finishing with $5,300.

1st Fein. Cleve. P. A.

Cleveland, March 3.

Scarcity of men who know theatri-
cal exploitation so acute here that
Clem Pope, division manager of RKO
theatres, established a precedent b7
hiring Ruth Jet as publicizer.

She's the first femme press agent
any downtown theatre has ever had.
She succeeds George Mitchell, who
Is ill at St. Alexis ho-spltnl.

12 ADVERTISEMENT

Wednesdaf, March 4, 1942

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News and Gossip About f fie Production' and Distribution of th* Show In Townf

FIFTH BLOCK PACKS SOCK

Present as Govt Biggies Helped Par Launch New Exchange

GoTeromeot <^oIals Joined with Panunonnt
cxect whI exhiblton Uat week end In partiM
epenlny the new Wiuhtnilon Esc1imc« mt 806
H Bt, N.W. Sx«haiic« oOlcUUr op«iied for
biulneM Uot TnewlAT, following » Bfttofdaj
hmcheon and ooektall vmHj tor exhiblton and
•xecntlvev, and a Sondaj party, bovted hj
Faramoant Newi and attended hj D.O. official!.

ABOVB: JjcH to rffht, as Adolph Zvkor onte the Thirtieth An-
Blvenary oake are J.. J* Cnfer, Ohariee Beavaa, Znkor, Nelion
B. Bell of the Wathiacton Postt BameT Bolaban and J. E.
Fontaine, Kanch Hanoffer.

LEITt Wa«1ilngion official*
dom on hood Included
thoM : Marvin Mclnty.re,
Pretldentlal eeoretary;
Branch Manager and host
Fontalnei RF.C.*a Jesee
Jones; John Pelly, Preel-
dent Amer.^Ass'B of Ball-
roads t AnstSn Keoo^h.
Pava T.p. and general
eoimselt Postmaster Gen-
eral Frank C. Walker, and
E. W. SwelKert, Phlla. and
Wash. Dlstrtot Manacer.

BRISTLES B.O.

L^fFt, Love, Lyrics Blended
Again for 'Balanced
Block' — Something for
Everybody

'REAP' SCREENS, TOO

PK AND PUYERS

Farunonnt has six pictures Toll-
ing now, and will roll six more dur-
ing March. . .now shooting are 'Road
to Morocco' (Crosby-Hope-La-
mour), The Forest Rangers,' Technl
biggie with MacMurray, Goddard
and Susan Hayward; The Glass
Key,' a Dashiell Hammett teaming
Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd and Ver-
onica L^e; 'Mrs. Wlggs of the Cab-
bage Patch,' with Fay Bainter and
"Carolyn Lee; 'Henry Aldrich, Edi-
tor,' and a Sherman Hoppy, 'Under-
cover Man'... To roll lu March are
TThe Major end the Minor,' with
Ginger Rogers end Ray MiUand;
•Weke Island,' with Donlevy, Pres-
ton, Macdonald Carey; 'Happy Go
Lucky,' Techni musical with Mary
Martin, Diclc Powell and Rudy Val
lee; 'Merton ot the Movies,' with
Eddie Albert and Susanna Foster;
'Silver Queen,' a Sherman produc-
tion, and 'Wrecking Crew,' a Pine-
Thomas ' actipner . . . Frank Loesser
•nd Jnlcs Styne have signed to
write the music for 'Priorities of
1942'; the pair wrote those 'Sweater
Girl* hiti), 'I Don't Want to Walk
Without You' and 'I Said l^o'. ..
Baoul Dn Bols, B'way set and cos-
tume designer, has arrived in Hol-
lywood to do sets and garb for
'Happy Go Lucky'. . .he has inked a
term contract... Bob Hope will
emcee a testimonial luncheon for
C. B. DeMiUe March 10 in the old
bam where DeMiUe filmed The
Squaw Man'; the affair will be a
part of the huge Hollywood 'De-
MiUe Week' festivities leading up
to the. premiere of 'Reap the Wild
Wind,' March 19. . .Victor Voang,
Paramount composer, has received
a v. S. Treasury citation for. musi-
cal supervision of a Defense Bond
broadcast . . . broadcast used back-
ground from 'The Remarkable An-
drew' , . . Blng Crosby and Bob
Bope wiU guesstar on the Gulf Oil-
Screen GuUd air show this coming
Suhday, plugging 'Road to Morocco'
...Johnny Johnston, radio singing
guitarist, will team with Kilen Drew
In 'Priorities of 1942'... Al Rogell
will direct

Hollywood Blvd. a Tia (jnemaiiia'
For DelUe Week' By C of C Edict

4r

Main twelve blocks of Hollywood's
famous Hollywood Boulevard will
be bannered and marked with
store-window DeMille displays as a
feature of the film capital's observ-
ance of 'DeMiUe Week,' under plans
tied up last weekend.

The period of March 15 to March
21 was proclaimed DeMille Week
by John B. Kingsley, president of
the Hollywood Chamber of Com-
merce. Celebration of DeMiUe's
thirtieth anniversary as a showman
leads into the world premiere at
the HoUywood Theatre March 19
at Paramount's 30th Anniversary
Picture, C. B.'s Technicolor 'Reap
the WUd Wind.'

DeMiUe's MemorabUia wUl be
placed on display in store windows
throughout the twelve block
stretch. Already gathered for pub-
lic exhibit arc the crown of thorns
used in 'Kings of Kings'; the tablets
of Moses used in 'The Ten Com-
mandments'; armor from 'The Cru-
sades,' 'Cleopatra' and 'Signs of the
Cross,' and costumes from 'Joan the
Woman,' 'Male and Female,' 'The
Volga Boatman,' 'Union Pacific,'
'The Plainsman,' and 'North West
Mounted Police.'

Several hundred items of costume,
sets, and props from 'Reap the Wild
Wind' wUl of course be included.
An additional activity of the week
will be the merking with plaques
of memorable spots in Hollywood
that are considered milestones of
the industry.

Chief of these will be the barn—
now a gym— where DeMiUe filmed
his .first picture, 'The Squaw.' The
building, at Sunset and Vine, will be
-scene of a March 10 luncheon for
three generations of film 'greats.'

Clinches Crown

Last week it was announced in
this page that Chris-Pin Martin
had won the Hollywood Nepo-
tism crown by putting his six
grandchildren in Harry Sher-
man's latest Hopalong CaSuidy
film, "Undercover Man." Kids
play roles as his chUdren.

Since this announcement,
Chris-Pin has arranged a role for
his wife.

WiUiam Allen White Asks
For Andy and Par Replies
WithllemarkableAndrew'

Just in the nick of time, the New
York Herald Tribune and William
.White's Emporia Gazette broke out
last week with editorials expressing
the fervent wish that "Old Boots and
Whiskers" Andy Jackson could re-
turn and lend his spirit to America.

Return of Andy JacI:son to play a
part in modem problems is the
theme of Paramount's "The Remark-
able Andrew,' fourth block -release.

Whites editorial says "Good Ixirdl
How we need Old Andy Jackson —
boots and whiskers, courage and wis-
dom combined — that rare amalgama-
tion that makes for common sense,
the horse sense that has guided the
destiny of this nation for 150 years!
Come bade. Old Andy Jackson; come
back to your country!"

Herald Tribune echoes these senti-
ments, pointing out that the rough
and ready, spoiling-for-a-flght spirit
of old "Han<^ Andy" seems to have
gone a little thin in recent years in
America, and averring that it's
sorely needed right now.

He's coming. Arrives April 17, re-
lease date of "The Remarkable
Aijdrew"!

Paramount's grabbed the field
again with its fifth successive
'Balanced Block,' it became ap-
parent this week w<th announce-
ment of the company's newest
block of five, to be trade-screened
March 10 end 17.

The new block repeets the suc-
cessful formula of the fourth block,
mixing with consummate skill aU
the ingredients of boxoffice ... in-
cluding something for everybody.

Gamut runs like this: 'My Favor-
ite Blonde,' Bob Hope-Madeleine
CarroU co-starrer (fast farce-
comedy); 'The Great Man's Lady'
co-starring Barbara Stanwyck and
Joel McCrea (romance-spectacle-
drama); This Gun for Hire,' co-
starring Veronica Lake and Robert
Preston, with Alan Ladd, (thriUs-
action-meller); 'True to the Army'
with Judy Cenova, Allan Jones,
Ann Miller and Jerry Colonna
(gags-g els-tune E-hoopla) , and
'Henry end Dizzy,' new Aldrich
comedy with Jimmy Lydon and
Mary Anderson (family fun).

'This Gun,' 'Henry and Dizzy'
and 'The Great Man's Lady' wUl
screen March 16 in key city ex-
changes. 'True- to the Army' and
'My Favorite Blonde' wiU unveil
on March 17.

Announcement of the fifth block
screenings was accompanied by an
announcement that Paramount's
big 30th Anniversary special, CecU
B. DeMiUe's 'Reap the Wild Wnid,'
v/ill be trade-screened March 18 at
key points; this is the evening be-
fore the gala World Premiere in
HoUywood, '

Also announced at the same
time was a screening for a new
Harry Sherman 'Hopalong Cassidy'
western, 'Undercover Man,' gtar-

Supennan's a Sucker

Suckers made suckers of plenty
of kids in an upstate town, Para-
mount short subjects department
reports, when a slick exhib used
ads urging the young hopefuls to
'Come early and lick Superman.'
Early arrivals at the Saturday kid
matinee got 'Superman suckers,'
made in Uie shape of the Man of
Steel. They licked him.

Big AMPA Feed To
Tie In to Par Hoopla
For Keap' and DeMille-

AMPA will sponsor a big testi-
monial luncheon honoring Cecil B.
DeMiUe's Thirtieth Anniversary in
the show world April 2, Vincent
Trotta, prexy, has announced.
Luncheon is tentatively set for the
Waldorf-Astoria, and will follow by
one day the New York Peremount
otiening of 'Reap the Wild Wind,'
Paramount's 30th an.'^ivcrsary pic-
ture. 'Reap' has also been desig-
nated DeMUle's 30th anniversary
film, and super sendoff plans are
lined up tor both East and West
Coasts.

DeMille is expected to visit New
York for the Paramount opening,
and will be guest of honor at the
AMPA affair.

ring WiUiam Boyd. The Sherman
will screen Marcii 17 with the
second two pix of the block.

The trade's quick acceptance of
Paramount's fourth was seen to
have been the guiding influence In
setting up the company's fifth, ina.<:-
much .as the same style of enter-
tainment balance holds for l>oth.

Alan Ladd's role in 'This Gun for
Hire' started a real furor on the
Paramount lot, with studio execs
whispering that he was the big
male find of the year. Immediately
following first screenings of 'Gun,'
Ladd was scheduled for first one,
then two, new roles.

Ladd is already at work in the
Dashiell Hammett picture, The
Glass Key,' with Veronica Lake
and Brian Donlevy. Following this
he is to mount to top billing in -
The Man in HaU Moon Street,'
Barre Lyndon play bought with
Lqdd in mind. Albert Mantz ii
writing a screen adeptatlon of this,
latter story; the locale wlU be'
changed from London to America.

"Den't yon think tbat^s going a bit too far for a sireei
ballyhoo V

Wednesdajt March 4, 1942

PICTURE GROSSES 13

110X16 Hearty $17,500, Ace New Film
In Frisco; Talcon'-T. Dorsey Fme 27G

San FrancUco, March 3.

Bright spot of the week Is the
Golden Gate, with Tommy Dorsey's
first Frisco visit responsible. Sup-
plementing the campaign on Dorsey,
manager Cliff Giesseman also plas-
tered the town with 200 flashy in-
stitutional six-sheets, which are giv-
ing cn added'litt

%oxie Hart' is okay at the Fox.
'Man Who Came to Dinner' earned
a holdover at the Warfleld as a solo
and 'Son of Fury' Is grabbing third
profitable week at the Paramount.
Estimates for This Week

Fox (F-WC) (5.000: 35-40-55)—
'Roxie Hart' (20th) and 'C^tle In
Desert' (20th). Fine $17,500. Last
week, 'Woman of Year' (M-G) and
'Paciflc Blackout' (Par), $22,000,
socko.

Golden Gate (RKO) (2,850; 40-44-
85)— 'Date With Falcon' (RKO) and
Tommy Dorsey orch. Great $27,000
pouring through the wicket. Last
(3d) week, 'Suspicion' (RKO) and
vaude. good $13,500.

Orpheiun (Blumenfeld) (2,440; 35
40-55)— 'Lady Willing' (Col) and
Treat 'Em Rough* (Col). Over
$9,000, nice. Last (2d) week, 'Bed-
time Story* (Col) and 'Go West'
(Col), took $7,000.

Paramonnt (F-WC) (2,470; 35-40-
55)— 'Son Fury* (20th) and 'Perfect
Snob' (20th) (3d wk). First three-
weeker here In some time getting
^,500 on 4nal stauza. Last week,
excellent $14,000.

St. Pnuela (F-WC) (1,475; 35-40
55)— 'Woman of Year* (M-G) and
■Paciilc Blackout' (Par) (moveover).
Healthy entry looks good for $6,500.
Last (moveover) week, 'Sullivan's
Travels' (Par) and "Road to Happl.
ne!i<:' (Rep), mild $4,500.

United AHIstt (UA-Blumenfeld)
(1.100; 35-40-55)— 'Shanghai (gesture'
(UA) and 'MUe PoUy' (UA) (2d
-wk). May get $8,500, okay. House
claims $12,100 last week, terrific.

Warfleld (F-WC) (2.650; 35-40-55)
—'Man to Dinner* (WB) end Ballet
Russe short (2d wk). Not as big as
expected, but still > will get around
$12,000. Last (1st) week, excellent
$18,000, although also under expec.
tations.

'Scandal' Nice $8 JOO,
Seatde; Hay Foot' 7G,
'Dinner/ Tory' Big H.O.

Seattle, March 3.

Local showmen scurried about to
see how their bookings stood as to
'Oscar' awards. Coliseum is playing
the top opus, 'How Green My Val-
ley,' second run, while Sterling
Chain's third-run Colonial has Gary
Cooper in 'Sergeant York.' Both got
big play in the ads and press. Award
to Cooper helped the Music Box in
holding 'Ball of Fire' for six days of
the fourth session, with profit even
for the extended run.

"Man Who Came to Dlimer,* at Or-
pheum, and 'Son of Fury,' at Para-
mount, are doing well on holdover
sessions.

Estimates for This Week

Blue Manse (Hamrick-Evergreen)
(800; 30-40-58) — "Johnny Eager'
(M-G) and 'Mr, Mrs. North* (M-G)
(2d wk). Hot release from Fifth,
after sock week there. Great $4,000.
Last week, Tarzan's Treasure' (M-G)
and 'Kathleen' (M-G) (2d wk), nice
enough $3,200.

CollscDm (H-E) (1,900: 23-40)—
'Green VaUey" (20th)" and 'Belong to
Me' (Col) (2d run). Oscar award Is
helping. Big $3,600. Last week, '2-
Faced Woman' (M-G) and Unholy
Partners' (M-G) (2d, run), weak $2,-
400.

Fifth Avenue (H-E) (2.349; 30-40-
58)— 'Design Scandal' (M-G) and
Kildare's Victory' (M-G). Nifty $8.-
700. Last week, 'Johnny Eager'
(M-G) and 'Mr.. Mrs. North' (M-G).
grand enough $10,000.

Liberty (J-vH) (1.650 ; 30-40-58)—
Hay Foot' (UA) and 'Call EUery
Qpeen' (Col). Paced for big $7,000.
Last week, 'Lady Willing' ((Tol) and
Confessions Boston Blackie' (Col),
$5,900, good.

Mnslo Box (H-E-) (850; 30-40-58)—
'Ball Fire' (RKO) (4th wk). Took
a hefty $3,200 in six days, with Acad-
emy award to Gary Cooper undoubt-
tdly helping. Last week, great $4.-
700 on third .stanza.

Orpehnm (H-E) (2,600; 30-40-58)—
Man to Dinner' (WB) and 'Treat
Em Rough' (U) (2d wk). Wonder-
ful $7,500. Last week led the town
with a marvelous $12,000.

Palommr (Sterling) (1,350: 23-35-
50-58)— 'Sing for Supper' (Col) and
Tragedy Midnight' (Rep) plus vaude.
Good $7,000. Last week, 'Cowboy
Serenade' (Rep) and 'Man at Large'
(20th) plus vaude, rounded 'em up
for big $7,800.

Paramonnt (H-E) (3,039; 30-40-58)
Son Fury' (20th) and 'Blue, White.
Perfect' (20th) (2d wk). Solid $6,500

on second stanza. Last week, magl-
flcent $12,800 for same pair.

Boosevelt (Sterling) (800; 23-40)—
'Hellzapoppin' (U) and 'Married
Bachelors' . (M-G) (2d run). Ex-
cellent $3,500. Last week, (30-40-56)
'Through Night' (WB), alone got $4,-
200 in its third weel., after two at the
Orpheum.

Winter Garden (Sterling) (800; 20-
30)— 'Started With Eve' (U) end
•South Tahiti' (U) (2d run). Okay
$3,000. Last week, 'Shadow Thin
Man' (M-G) and 'Great Guns' (20th)
(2d run), big $3,600.

lOMAN* JUICY
$17D0 IN CINCY

Cincinnati, March 3.

Topheavy by smash draw of
'Woman of Year' at the Albee, gen-
eral biz Is far below last week,
niere are only three fresh releases
currently and the Shubert has
dropped stage shows for the season,
which figure In the b.o. ttunble.

Other new product Is 'Sullivan's
Travels,* Palace, and 'Paris Calling,*
Shubert

Estimates for This Week

Albee (RKO) (3,300; 33-40-50)—
'Woman of Year' (M-G). Smash
$17,000. Last week, 'Captains of
Qouds' (WB), very good $13,500.

Capitol (RKO) (2,000; 45-55)—
'Gone With Wind' (M-G) (3d wk).
Winding up second revival stretch
and total run of 17 weeks In this
house with hefty $5,000. Last week,
swell $6,500.

Family (RKO) (1,000; 15-28)—
'Harvard Come' (Col) and 'Riding
Wind' (RKO), spUt with 'Enlisted
Man' (Pop) and Today I Hang'
(PRC). Normal $2,100. Same last
week for 'Four Jacks' (RKO) and
'No Hands Clock' (Par), divided with
'Man Returned' (Col) and 'Law
Timber' (PRC).

Grand (RKO) (1,430 ; 30-40-50)—
'Ride 'Em Cowboy' (U). Moveover
from Palace for second week on
front stem. Okay $4,500. Ditto last
week on 'Son Fury' (20th) (2d run)

Keith's (Libson) (1.500; 33-40-50)-
'Captains Clouds' (WB). Switched
from Albee for second stanza. Fairly
good $4,000. Last week, 'Louisiana
Purchase' (Par), second week ..of
moveover, big $5,000.

Lyric (RKO) (1,400: 28-33-42)—
'Louisiana Purchase' (Par). Second
transfer and fourth week in cinema
center. Good $3,200. Last week,
Eilery Queen' (Col) and 'Blondie to
College' (Col), terrible $2,000.

Palace (RKO) (2,600; 33-40-50)—
'Sullivan's Travels' (Par). Not going
far, $7,000. Last week, 'Ride 'Em
Cowboy' (U), fine $12,000.

SliDbert (RKO) (2.150; 33-40-50)—
'Paris CaUing' (U). Fair $5,500. Last
week, 'Body Disappears' (WB) and
Sammy Kaye's orch, final combo
policy of season, dandy $14,500.

'CAPTAINS,' $16,000,
RIES HIGH IN PROY.

mSlTBSa My B.O^ Spotty Against Opposish;

'Ball of Fire,' $20,000, Best Grosser

Baltimore, March 3.

With most of town in h.o., and a
blackout test Friday (27) night, down-
town b.o.'s took a slight dip this
week. Still way above the average
of last year, though, when populous
weekend weren't quite the blessings
they are proving themselves cur-
rently.

Estimates for This Week

Centnry (Loew's-UA) (3,000; 17-28-
44-55)— 'Woman of Year' (M-G) (2d
wk). Holding up very nicely to $12,-
000, after chalking up resounding
$16,300 last week.

Hippodrome (Rappaport) (2,240; 17-
25-28-39-44-55-66) — 'Lady Willing'
(Col) and George Olsen orch. New
entry In town of h.o.s attracting
fairish $14,000. Last week, second of
'Ball of Fire' (RKO) plus vaude,
nice $12,400, after strong $16,200 on
Initial sesh.

Keith's (Schanberger) (2,406; 17-
28-33-39-44-55)— 'Ride 'Em Cowboy'
(U) (2d wk). Maintaining very
steady pace to good $11,000, after
ringing bell lustily at $13,300 In first
heat.

Hayfair (Hicks) (980; 20-40)—
'Gentlemen Heart' (20th). Some ac-
tion on weekend indicating alright
$4,500. Last week, 'Mr. and Mrs.
North' (M-G), mild $3,200.

New (Mechanic) (1,581; 17-28-35-
44)— 'Son Fury' (20th) (2dwk). Okay
$6,000 after rousing $7,900 on opener;
good figures for this small theatre.

Boilyn (Levin) (800; 17-23-40-55)—
Target for Tonight' (WB). Attract-
ing surprisingly good $5,500. Last
week, windup of six-week run of
moveover of 'Sgt. York" (WB),
brought the grand total up to
very rosy $24,400 for date.

SUnley (WB) (3.280; 17-28-40-55)—
'Captains Clouds' (WB) (2d wk).
Holding very nicely to $13,000, after
mopping up great $17,200 first time.

the Fox and not more than fair
$5,000. Last week 'Hellzapoppin' (U)
and 'Man to Dinner' (WB) (2d wk),
nice $6,000.

St. Louis (F&M) (4,000: 30-40)—
'AH Through Night' (WB) and
'Playmates' XRKO) (3d run). Won't
better $3,000. Last week, 'Mad
Doctor' (U) and 'Road Agent' (U),
fair $2,800.

ThroDgh Night' Trim
,000, Paces Denver;
'SdI Travels' $7,300

$11,

Providence, March 3.

'Captains of the Clouds,' at Majes-
tic is riding high and packing them
in. 'Fantasia,' at RKCj Albee, was
given steady and varied plugs around
town and is growing nicely.

Estimates tor This Week

Aibee (RKO) (2,200; 28-39-50)—
'Fantasia' (RKO) and 'Mexican Spit-
fire' (RKO). Headed for nifty $9,500.
Last week, 'Hellzapoppin' (U) and
'Father Takes Wife' (RKO) (2d wk),
good $8,300.

Carlton (Fay-Locw) (1,400; 28-39-
50)— 'Roxie Hart' (20th) and 'Sunny
Side' (20th) (2d run). Attracting
plenty of attention for good $3,500.
Last week. 'Son Fury' (20th) and
Young America' (20th) (2d run),
nice $3,000.

Fay's (Indie) (1,400; 28-39-50)—
'Cowboy Serenade' (Rep) and vaude.
Nice $6,800. Last week; 'Castle In
Desert' (20th) and vaude. good $5,800.

Majestic (Fay) (2.200; 28-39-50)—
'Captains Clouds' (WB) and 'Jail
House Blues' (U). Cagncy popular
hereabouts and spot is packing them
in for zowie $16,000. Last week.
'Roxie Hart' (20th) and 'Sunny Side"
(20th), good $10,000.

Metropollian (Indie) (3,200: 44-55-
65) — Frankie Masters orch and 'Pub-
lic Enemies' (Rep). Nice $8,500 over
weekend.

Slate (Loew) ' (3.200 : 28-39-50)—
'Woman of Year' (M-G) and 'Kath-
leen' (M-G) (2d wk). Still moving
and headed for good $12,000. Last
week, big $19,500.

Strand (Indie) (2.000: 28-39-50)—
'Mr. Bug' (Par) and 'Glamour Boy'
(Par(. Paced for good S6.000. Last
week, 'Loul.'slana Purchase' (Par) (3d
wk), knockout $4,500.

Denver, March 3.
With theatre business generally
benefiting from defense activities
here, all first-runs currently are
above average. 'All Through the
Night' and 'Body Disappears' at the
Denver is leading this week.
EsUmate* tor TbU Week
Aladdin (Fox) (1,400; 25-40)— 'Son
Fury" (20th), after week at Denver.
Good $4,000. Last week, 'Died With
Boots On' (WB), after Denver week,
good $4,500.

Broadway (Fox) (1,040; 25-35-40)
— 'Pulham' (M-G) and 'Kildare's
Victory' (M-G), after week at . Or-
pheum. Fair $2,700. Last week,
'Look Laughing' (RKO) and 'Kath-
leen' (M-(i), after Orpheum week,
okay $3,000.

Denham (Cockrill) (1,750; 25-35-
40) — 'Sullivan's Travels' (Par). First-
rate $7,300 for single feature. Last
week, 'No Hands Clock' (Par) plus
Ted Lewis band and stage show,
sock $11,500.

Denver (Fox) (2,525; 25-35-40)—
'All Through Night' (WB) and 'Body
Disappears^ (WB). Nifty $11,000, and
best takings in Denver. Last week,
'Son Fury' ■(20th) and 'Perfect Snob'
(20th), fine $10,500.

Orphenm (RKO) (2,600; 25-35-40)
—'Call Marines' (RKO) and 'All
Money Buy' (RKO). Fair $8,800.
Last week, 'Pulham' (M-G) and 'Kil-
dare's Victory' (M-G), fine $10,600.

Paramount (Fox) (2,200: 25-40)—
'Adventures Martin Eden' (Col) and
Wise Guy' (Mono). Good $6,000.
Last week, 'Gentleman at Heart'
(20th-, and 'North Klondike' (U),
$6,500, also forte.

EUllo (Fox)- (878: 25-40)— 'Died
With Boots On' (WB), after a week
at Denver and also Aladdin, and
'Melody Lane' (U). Oke $2,000. Last
week, 'Belong to Mc' (Col), after
Denver and Aladdin weeks, and
Men in Life' (Col), after Denver
week, same at $2,000.

m V FAIR
$7,500 IN K.C.

Kansas City, March 3. .

Town's total for current week Is
okay, but not up to last week's
buxom biz. 'Roxie. Hart,' day and
date In the Esquire and Uptown, Is
getting major attention of the first-
runs. Long awaited 'All That Money
Can Buy' is at the Orpheum on dual
but take is mild.

Esttmalas for This Week

Esquire-Uptown (Fox Midwest)
(820 and 2,043; 11-30-44)— 'Roxie
Hart' (20th), single In both spots.
Looks for solid combo of $10,000.
Last week, 'Ride 'Em Cowboy' (U),
nine days with bad weather on end
of run, got $6,800 combo, gcjd.

Midland (Loew's) (4,000; 11-30-44)
—'Mister V (UA) and 'Miss PoUy'
(UA). Fair $7,500, mosUy on
strength of weekend trade. Last
week, 'Woman Year' (M-G) and
'Kathleen' (M-G), big $16,000.

Newman (Paramount) (1,900; 11-
30-44)-^'Man to Dinner' (WB) (2d
wk). Okay $5,200 currently, on top
of last week's grand $10,500.

Orphenm (RKO) (1.600; 11-30-44)
—'Call Out Marines' (RKO) and 'AH
Money Can Buy' (RKO). Mild
$5,500. Last week, "Blues in Night'
(WB) and 'Forty Thousand Horse-
men' (Mono), same.

Tower (Joftee) (2,110; 11-30)—
'Paris Calling' (U) and vaude. Film
has a little more strength than usual
here and $6,500 will be good. Last
week, 'Melody Lane' (U) and vaude,
$6,000.

Schnoz-Norvo Orch Fine
$17,000, Pace Newark

'I Wake
'Swamp Water'

Newark, March
Up Screaming'

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'Roxie', Good $16,000,
Only New St. Louis Pic

St. Louis, March 3.

New screen fare is on tap cur-
rently at only the Fox. Mild bliz-
zard on getaway day will hold down
grosses.

Estimates for This Week

Loew's (Loew) (3.172; 30-40-44)—
'Johnny Eager' (MG) and 'Main
Street March' (M-G) (2d wk.).
Should grab $13,000, neat, after
swell $18,000 for first stanza.

Ambassador (F&M) (3,000: 30-40-
50)— 'Captains Clouds' (WB) and
Tough as Come' (U) (2d wk.). An-
other $10,000 -in sight after fine
$13,500 last week.

Fox (F&M) (5.000; 30-40-.')0)—
Roxie Hart' (20th) and 'What's
Cookin" (U). Fine $10,000 for this
one. Last week. 'Bombay Clipper'
(U) and 'Ride 'Em Cowboy' (U).
$14,500. neat.

Missouri (FiM) (3.570: 30-40-50)—
Ride 'Em Cowboy' (U> and 'Bom'
bay Clipper' (U).

are bringing
town's best-business to Proctors this
week. 'Captains of the Clouds' and
'Babes on Broadway,' being held for
a second week at the Branford and
State, respectively, continue to at-
tract strong attendance.

Estimates for Tbla Week
Adams (Indie) (2,000; 25-35-50-60)
—'Mr. Wise Guy' (Mono) plus
Jimmy Durante 'and Red Norvo's
band on the stage. Stage end chiefly
responsible for good $17,000. Last
week. 'Small Town Deb' (20th) plus
Juliette's AU-Amerlcan Girl orch.
and Hal LeRoy and Georgie Price,
weak $12,000.

Branford (WB) (2,800; 28-33-44-
55)— 'Captains Clouds' (WB) (2d
wk). Neat $13,000. Last week, dandy
$17,000.

Capitol (WB) (1,200 ; 20-28-30-44)
—'Keep 'Em Flying' (U) and 'Wolf
Man' (WB). Second-run dual will
probably get fair $4. '0. Last week.
'Birth Blues' (Par) and 'Kathleen'
(M-G) (2d run), moderate $4,800.

Paramount. (Par- Adams) (2,000;
30-35-44-55) — 'Joan Paris' (RKO)
and 'Four' Jacks' (RKO). Okay
$13,000. Last week, 'Bahama Passage'
(Par) and 'No Hands Clock" (Par),
fine $16,000.

Proctor's (RKO) (2.400 ; 28-44-60)
— 'Wake Up Screaming' (20th) and
■Swamp Water' (20th) (11 days).
This dual and five acts of vaude
Monday and Tuesday evenings, will
earn walloping $28,000. Last week.
'Remember Day' (20th) and 'Con."
firm or Deny' (20th) (2d wk, 4 days),
nice $9,000.

State (Loew's) (2,600; 2e-33-44-.55)
—'Babes Broadway' (M-G) and 'Miss
Polly' (UA) (2d wk). Fine $13,000.
Last week, thundering $20,000.

2:30 A.M. Swing-Shift
Matinees Need Plugging

San Francisco. March 3.
Esquire, Blumenfleld house on
Market, letting swing-shift matinees
which follow the weekly Saturday
night owl show, going on about 2:30
a.m. Sunday. First sesh made a
small profit, indicating an audience
but need for exploitation.

Major plugging has been on
KSAN's new swing-shift matinee
Moveover from I conducted by Les Malloy after 1:15

Phikdelphla. March 3.

Lent Is having some effect in de-
pressing b.o. grosses this week, but
the dip isn't as noticeable as in past
seasons. Heavy-hitting product like
'Ball of Fire' stilly is good for hefty
gate, while the lij^hter stuff is suffer-
ing from box-office anemia.

Opposition to fihns this week in-
cludes three legiters (one of the few
times this season that three are run-
nira simultaneously) and the latest
edition of 'Ice-Capades' at the West
Phllly Arena.

Estimates tor This Week

Aldlne (WB) (1,303; 35-46-57-68)—
'Vanishing Virginian' (M-G). Not
exciting at $9,000 for single sesh. Will
go out tomorrow (Wed.) to make
room for long-awaited showing of
'Citizen Kane' (RKO). Last week,
'Dumbo' .(RKO), fair $8,500 for sv-
ond try.

Aroadto (WB) (Sablosky) (6U0:
35-46-57)— Through the Night' (WB)
(Sd run). Meller hardly the type of
film for this class house, poor $2,300.
Last week, 'Bugle Sounds'^ (M-G) (2d
run) and Tarzan Treasure' (M-G)
(2d run) , poo r $1,800 In split week.

Boyd (WB) (2.SS3; 39-46-57-08)—
'BaU Fire' (RKO). Plenty hot at
sock $20,000. Last week. 'Woman of
Year' (M-G), neat $12,000 for third
chucker,

Earle (WB) (2,768; 35-46-57-68-75)
— 'Kildare Victory' (M-G) with Mar-
tha Raye personaling and Clyde Lu-
cas orch on stage. Combo chalking
up satisfactory $19,000. Last week,
'Lady WlUlng* (Col) and Tommy
Tucker orch, fair $18,000.

Fox (WB) (2,425: 35-48-67-68)—
'Roxie Hart' (20th) (2d wk). SUimp-
Ing In h,'>ldover to mediocre $10,500.
Initleler bright $18,000.

Karlton (WB) (1.066; 35-46-57-63)
—'Hellzapoppin' (U) (2d run). Just
barely reaching par with $4,000. Last
week, 'Son Fury^ (20th), fared little
better at $4,900 for second run.

Keith's (WB) (2,220; 35-46-S7-68>
— Woman of Year' (M-G) (2d run).
StiU getting heavy play; $6,000 this
semester. Last week, 'Green Valley'
(UA), good $5,500 for second week
of second run.

Stanley (WB) (2,916; 36-46-97-68)—
'Captains Clouds' (WB) VtA wk).
Plenty of zing with $13,000 for h.o.
sesh. Inltialer bright $21,000 on
strength of punchy exploitation.

Slanl«B (WB) (1,457; 35-46-57-68)
—Taciflc Blackout* (Par). Mediocre
$4,500. Lost week; 'BiU BIckock'
(■WB). nice $5,500 for second week.

'ROXIE,' lOG, 'WOMAN,'
$9,300, OK IN OMAHA

Omaha, March 3.
Cold, snow at beginning of week
held down grosses for only two days,
after which normal attendance reg-
istered, with 'Roxie Hart,' at Or-
pheum, and 'Woman of the Year,' at
Omaha, pacing the field.

Eitimatei for This Week
Omaha (Trlstatcs) (2.000; 11-30-44)
—■Woman of Year' (M-G) and "Never
Give Sucker Break' (U). Very good
$9,300. Last week, 'Bugle Sounds'
(M-G) and 'Kildare's Victory' (M-
G). fair $8,100.

Orpheum (Trlstatei) (3.000; 11-30-
44)— 'Roxie Hart' (20th) and 'South
Tahiti' (U). Healthy $10,000. Last
week, 'Son Fury' (20th) and 'Blue,
White' (20th), fine $10,600.

Brandels (Mort Singer) (1.500; 10-
25-35-40)— 'Blues in Night' (WB) and
'40,000 Horsemen' (Prlnc). Slight re-
cession to $3,800, sHm. Last week.
Call Marines' (RKO) and 'Four
Jacks' (RKO), $4,000, poor.

Paramonnt (Tristates) (3,000; 11-
30-44 )_'Sor F-ury' (20lh). moveover
from Orpheum, and 'No Hands Click*
(Par), first-run. Light $7,100. Last
week. 'Paris Calling' (U) and 'Bad-
lands' (U), $7,000, off.

Stale (Goldberg) (900; 25-35)—
'Ball Fire' (RKO) and 'Kathleen*
(M-G), split with 'Beast Berlin
(PRC), 'Burma Convoy' (U), r \
Swing It, Soldier' (U). Fair $900.
Last week, 'Keep Flying' (U) and
'International Lady' (UA), split with
Go West' (Col) and 'Broadway Lim-
ited' (UA), fair $800. Amateurs on
stage once a week helps.

Town (Goldberg) (1,500; 10-20-25)
—'Last Duanes' (20th), 'Army Girl'
(Rep), and 'Niagara Falls' (UA),
triple, split with 'Roaring Frontier'
(Col). -Take This Oath' (PRC), and
'Raiders West' (PRC), and 'Inter- '
national Lady' (UA). and 'Date with
Falcon' (RKO). Pretty good $1,000.
Last week, 'Man Cheyenne' (Rep).
Eilery Queen' (Col), and 'Cockeyed
Sailors' (U). triple, split with 'Riders
Badlands' (Col). 'New Wine* (UA).
and 'Arizona Terror' (Rep), and 'All
Money Buy' (RKO). and 'Girl Fri-
day' (Col), good $1,100, Two stage
shows every Saturday night with
extra fllrtis help grosses" here.

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PtARIETY

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

THIS BECAUSE OF THIS!

MONEY TALK!

"Hits the box'office bullseye . . .
Another romp for the sure-fire
Mickey Ropney."

—HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"Another sure-fire box-office
success. Audience howled with
delight." —DAILY VARIETY

"Chock full of wide audience
appeal . . . All elements which
have made series populkr en-
tertainment are included."

—FILM DAILY

"Great audience picture, ranks
with the best of its predecessors.
Mickey Rooney, Number One
star turns in line portrayal."
—SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW

" Best of the series released in
two years . . . Strong box-office
attraction to spread happiness."

—VARIETY

" A sure winner at the ticket
window," — BOXpFFICE

Your next hilarious hold-over
will he M^GM's

THE

COURTSHIP
OF ANDY
HARDY

Lewis STONE * Mickey ROONEY

Cecilia PARKER • Fay HOLDEN

Ann RUTHERFORD • Sara HADEN and Donna REED

Screen Play by Agnes Christine Johnston • A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

Directed by GEORGE B.SEITZ

I

TARiEirr LONixm omen

« U. Martln't PUc«. Tr»f»l«mr Bifam

mTERMATIONAI. IS

TradiDg-With-the-Enemy Formula
Likely ToBe Set Up In N.Y. This Wk

Major company foreign sales chiefs
will huddle tomorrow (Thursday) at
the Hays ollco In New York and
likely rece'.vc fine; word on the for-
mula' to be employed on pictjres
under the Trading- Wlth-Enemy Act
Carl Milliken, who handles foreign
' affairs for the Motion Picture Pro-
ducers ti distributors Assti., was in
Washington -ast week to assist in
setting a working plan so that films
destined for the foreign market
would be expedited through inspec-
tion by the U. S. customs department.
Custom passes on imports and ex-
ports under this act wHich has been
placed in active operation.

Industry is hopeful that two small
committees will be established to
speed pictures through customs and
that these will collaborate to cuU out
objectionable material at the source,
and well in advance of the com-
pleted version.

Foreign sales managers also may
have some new word about frozen
money in New Zealand and Austra-
lia. While seeking 100% free flow of
rental coin collected from distribut-
ing films in these countries, the U. S.
picture industry has not been press-
ing .'^Tew Zealand frozen coin pact be-
cause appreciating that national de-
fense in Australia just now takes
precedent.

Hays office has taken up the coin
question directly with N. Z. repre-
sentatives in Washington.

Peppennao Accounted
For, 3 Still Missing

Lewis Pepperman, Japanese rep
for United Artists for the past five
years, is safe at the American Em'
bassy In Tokyo, UA was informed by
the State Department last week

Unheard from by UA are Charles
Core, Manila; Alfred Katz, Shang-
hai, and Harry Odell, Hong Kong.

Britain's Salvage

London, Feb. 1.

Admission by contributions of
waste paper has beea accepted for
children's matinees of pantomimes
In various parts of the country.

This is part of the salvage drive.

Cantor-Benefits

^Continued from page 3^

twofold, Cantor will stage a 'no ben-
efit' benefit for his annual Summer
Boys' Camp this May; he's asking
his usual patrons 'what will you pay
for tickets not to attend any benefit
at all,' and he feels the net gross
will be as large — or larger — than if
he went- through the motions and
labor of .<staf;ing a big show.
Personal Glory Angle

For one thing. Cantor recalls a
story he once wrote for the Satur-
day Evening Post on benefits; that
'more benefits happen just because
some clubwoman likes to see her
name on a letterhead.'

He feels that some of these bene-
fits have degenerated into rackets;
that after all expenses are paid, a
show grossing several thousands of
dollars winds up with $500 net; and
he's sure some of the headlincrs
would like to insure that small net
by just paying out of pocket and
not find themselves needlessly taxed
and harassed for services.
. As for the Navy Relief show at the
Garden, Cantor, who has sold over
$20,000 worth of tickets personally
to important peoplel is proceeding
on this premise: buy 250 or 500 $1
and $2 tickets and then distribute
them to servicemen, boys and girls
In patriotic organizations, etc.
The $1,000. boxes have gone; -so
have the top $16.50 tickets. The sales
are slower in the middle bracket $7
and $11 tickets, but good on the $1.
$2 and $3 pasteboards — and .these
have been bought in bulk by pa-
trons for giveaways along the lines
that Cantor has outlined.

Hollywood stars from the Coast
have also phoned Cantor, likewise
Walter WincheU, and others, and
they're doing their bit by buyinp
'em In quantities for local distrlbu
tlon gratis.

Newsreels Into 16 MM
For So. American Markets

Arrangements are being completed
to make 16 mm. reproductions . of
U. S. newsreel available for distribu-
tion in South America. Sub-titles
will be In Spanish and Portuguese.
Majority of the studios are also pro-
ducing series of shorts for 16 mm.
projection in S. A.

Project, under wing of the Motion
Picture Division of the Coordinator
of Inter-American Affairs (Whitney),
is aimed at achieving maximum cov
erage, via non-theatrical channels
for American news slant, which is
currently attainable only in part
through some 5,000 regular theatres
in Latin America.

Move is naturally regarded as im-
portant due to preponderance of war
material in newsreels. Clips for 16
mm. production will be collated from
all the U. S. reels twice monthly.

BRAZIL STILL
CAUnOUS ON
NAZI PIX

Despite the swing over to the
Allied side, as outlined at the Rio
de Janeiro conference, Brazil is re-
ported still opposed to allowing any
pictures on theatre screens which
show Nazis in a bad light. 'How-
ever, no outright ban on anti-Nazi
features is reported Excepting in the
case of Metro's 'Mortal Storm' and
'Escape.' N. Y. office of the com-
pany said this week that neither
had been approved for showing in
Brazil.

Other U. S. major distributors re-
ported running into no difficulties
although some changes had to be
madt in several features where the
Nazi side was too freely lambasted.
Evin Paramount had to make some
alterations in 'World in Flames,'
documentary type feature compiled
from Par newsreel material. Brazil
recently gave the green light to a
group of shorts the American com-
panies wanted to distribute there
for some time.

Hope Bevlves

Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 17.

The strong anti-Axis stand taken
by ' Brazilian government officials
since the entry of the U. S. into the
war has revived hopes of American
film officials here that permission
will be secured .for the showing of
several films which were banned in
1939 and 1940.

'The Great Dictator' Is among
those banned.

JOHN A. GROVES, SON
KILLED AT SINGAPORE

John A. Groves, until last Dec. 1
Paramount general manager for Sin-
gapore and Java, and his son were
killed during the Japanese attack on
Singapore, according to' word re-
ceived last week by the Paramount
homeoffice.

Paul Verdayne, new Par manager
for this territory, has not been heard
from for weeks, although mail sent
from Singapore early in December
has been received in N. Y. within the
last two weeks.

Rose Having Trouble
Flying Back to Eng.

David Rose, Paramount's manag-
ing director in Great Britain, planes
to Toronto today (Wednesday) to at-
tend a special screening of 'Hatter's
Castle,' Par quota film made in Eng-
land under Rose's supervision. He
wants to get an audience reaction in
a Canadian theatre.

Rose will return to New York this
weekend preparatory to returning to
London. He is experiencing diffi-
culty in securing passage , back to
England, although originally sup-
posed to have booking on a Clipper
plane.

JAP HORRORS

Even Id Peace Time* the Nipponese
Nlpnpi Irked Tanks

-Arrival of film company sales
managers from the Far East and
Orient recalls to the trade the tough
experiences salesmen have In set-
ting deals with Japanese exhibitors.
Sales boys in N. Y. who've been in
the Orient claim that setting a prod-
uct pact with Japs is virtually a
career, with the buck-passing until
finally signatured a matter of
months. Every time a deal is held
up for another approval, -terms are
knocked down, these - men' aver.

"Then when the last executive has
been passed,' said one official, 'the
contract has to be approved by a
distant relative— or so It seems. I'd
rather deal with any other nation-
ality in the foreign field than a Jap.'

20 FRENCH PIX
IN PRODUCTION

Vichy, Feb. 1.
Six new French films are cur-
rently being shown in France and
approximately 20 more are now In
production, thus emphasizing the
comeback attempt of the Gallic in-
dustry.

In schedule of 10 films presently
being completed is 'La Duchesse de
I'Anvers' ('Duchess of Antwerp'),
for Which Jean Girauloux is writ-
ing dialog, while Sacha Gultry has
started to film 'Le Destin Fabuleux
de Desire Eclaire' ('Strange Fate of
Desire "Eclaire').

Censorship board has okayed 17
pictures, one with Maurice Chevalier
in the lead. Another of these, 'La
Grande Esperance' ('Great Hope'V
will be megged by Leon Poirier.
Among films curently in release is
'Blind 'Venus,' with 'Viviane Ro
n<ance, directed by Abel Gance.

The industry in 1941 .completed 21
features.

ACTION DEFERRED ON
BRAZILIAN PIC CONTROL

Following a New York huddle of
Lawyers Advisory Committee of
Foreign Managers last Thursday
(26), it was decided thJt the Ameri-
can film companies take no further
action, at least temporarily, on
Brazil's new decree setting up con-
trols on the film industry in that
country. The legal representatives
want to study the new Brizilian edict
first.

Decree is regarded in N. Y. as a
means to force Brazil exhibitors to
show native screen product more
than in the past.

Graham Returning

To U.S. from Aussie

Sydney, March 3.

Having completed the reorganiza-
tion of the Hoyts circuit's managerial
setup here, J. Cecil Graham is re-
turning to the U. S. to confer with
Sidney R. Kent, president of 20th-
Fox, regarding future Hoyts plans,
Graham has given up the chairman-
ship of the Hoyts directorate, a post
held during the reorganization.

Place will not be filled, with the
circuit operating . under Ernest Turn-
bull, managing director. National
Theatres, subsidiary of 20th-Fox, con-
trols Hoyts.

Sydney Switch Sought

Sydpey, March 3.
Acute shortage of newsreel clips
has forced independent newsreel the-
atre operators here to press the gov-
ernment to grant them new licenses
permitting them to become second-
release feature and revival houses.
Present act here only permits the
newsreel houses to play news clips,
propaganda films and educational
fare.

Major U.S. and British distributors
currently are forced to rehash old
library material and previously cast-
aside clips in an effort to keep news-
reel cinemas open.

Few Pic Shipment Losses

Only 3-5% of American film ship-
ments abroad have been lost by boat
sinkings in the period from Sep-
tember, 1939, to the end of 1041.

London Pic Theatres Do Big Trade;
Two-Faced Woman' 26G in Isl Wk.,
Toxesl3G,'SeaWoiminld

London, Feb. 8.

West End picture theatres are do-
ing roaring trade, despite climatic
condition being far from conducive
to traveling.

Film sit-uation is so much on the
upgrade that Arthur Jarrat, Gau-
mont-British boqker, is seriously
contemplating reopening the "Tivoli,
which has been shuttered since the
war, and a couple of years prior to
that had bfen looked upon as a white
elephant Only holdup is defining of
new policy for reopening.

Accelerated pace of production in
America to meet the Consent Decree
has caused product to get here in
larger quantities, resulting in plenti-
ful supply, with quality 'well main-
tained. — As-.fRr -as- local-product -is
concerned, there Is no slacking in
production, with improvement in
quality well maintained. Those go-
ing full steam ahead are Michael Bal-
con, Gainsborough Films, Prltlsh-Na-
tional, British Lion, Metro, Michael
Powell and Columbia.

Trade is now confident there is no
danger of any picture shortage this
year.

Approiimote ffrosses, rated at $4 to
{he £.

Carlton (Par) — 'Mr. Bug Goes to
Town' (Par), retitled here 'Hoppity
(Joes to Town' (2d week). First
stanza around $7,000, fair. Looks like
picking up with word of mouth ad-
vertising, but unlikely to duplicate
18 weeks' run of 'Gulliver's Travels'
at this house last year.

Empire (Metro)— "Two- Ftced Wom-
an' (M-G). Causing plenty of con-
troversy, with quite a few knockers.
But despite that clicked for $26,000
on its A.-st wee't's showing, with sec-
ond week assured of over $22,00u. In
for third stanza, and could have
stayed another two weeks, but big
accumulation of product on hand
awaiting release.

Ganmoni (GB) — The Little Foxes'
(RKO). In second week, with flcst
week topping $13,000, In for four
weeks, and likely to atay even longer.
'Hot Spot' (20th) due to succeed.

Leicester Square (WooH) — 'Ap-
pointment for Love' (U). In fifth
and last week. First week did click
eroo at over $14,000, with second
stanza above $10,000. Finishing to
$8,000, with 'Hold 'Em Cowboy' re-
placing and good • for two weeks.
Hellzapoppin' succeeding, introduc-
ing Alsen and Johnson to British
filmgoers.

London Pavilion (United Artists)
—The Big Blockade' (UA-Balcon)
(3d week). First time picture has
stayed herp for three weeks, but this
one warranted the; holdover, as first
week's . intake topped $11,000, with
second likely to exceed $10,000. With
these returns pic easily good for an-
other two weeks, but previous com-
mitments necessitate pullout.

Marble Arch Pavilion (GB)— 'Ser-
geant York' (WB) (1st week). After
six smashing weeks at Warner's own
house, where first three weeks'
grosses averaged over $16,000, epic
here likely to exceed $8,000 , in first
stanza, excellent for 1}iis second-
prerelease spot in West End. Good
for three weeks easily, but not likely
to stay that long due to general re-
lease imminent.

New Gallery (GB ) — 'D u m b o'
(RKO-Disney) (6th week). Copped
all kids' Christmas trade, wUh first
few weeks topping $12,000 per, hefty
for this spot, which has been shut-
tered for some time. Now nearer
$8,D00, still plenty black. Staying on
indefinitely.

Odeon (Deutsch)— 'Blood and Sand'
(20th) (2d week). First week did not
eifceed $12,000, with second likely to
touch $10,000. In for four weeks, and
may retire after third, although man-
agement likely to force full-time
agreement.

Plaza (Par)— 'Sulllvatt's Travels'
(Par) (4th week). Got away to
smash returns in first week, topping
$14,000, second stanza nearer $12,000.
Running final week concurrently
with general release, not helping any.
Will barely touch $8,000. 'American
Glamor Boy,' titled here 'Hearts in
Springtime' (Par) succeeding for one
week, with 'Bahama Passage' (Par)
following for run.

Begal (ABPC-WB)— 'Neve^ Get
Rich' (Col) (with stage name band
in support) (2d week). Change of
policy, which consists of picture plus
name band, introduced by Max Mil-
der, has undoubtedly helped to stir
up biz here; House was becoming
regular losing proposition, with this
change of policy as last throw of
dice. First week's intake exceeded
$14,000, with second week likely to
be around $12,000, Picture holding
over on legitimate merit.

Warner— 'The Sea Wolf (WB) (1st
week). Seems assured of $13,000 in
its first week, and looks assured for
three weeks, and may even stay full
month.

Tatler (GB)— Soviet Picture Sea-
son (Anglo-American). House,' with
seating capacity not exceeding 500,-

used to opera'.e as News Reel theatri
Has recently reopened as Soviet fill
spot, and seems to have gotten awacj
Takings average around $2,000, wlb
little overhead. Is gradually build
ing up hew clientele and, with Sovic
product being plentiful and qualit
fair, with some even above tha't, lool
like house can continue nev/ polic
indefinitely. ' •

UWSON PLAY^
ME ROLE IN
'HANDEL'

London, Feb. 8.
First Technicolor feature to b
made here since the war is 'Handd
now shooting at Deiinam. Norma
Walker is directing and Wilfre<
Lawson is starring as the compose)
In support are Elizabeth Alien, Mai
colm Keen, Morris Harvey and Ha:
Petrie. The London Philharmoni
Orchestra will supply the musica
scenes.

Alex Shaw, dqcumentary film pro
ducer, is back from India, wher6 h
has been adviser to the Indian Got
pv..ment on films for the past year.

Gainsborough's production of 'W<
Shall Rise .Again' has started a
Shepherd's Bush under direction o:
-Anthony Asquith, with Maurio
Ostrer In charge of production
Story, first titled 'La Libre Belgique,
iS' an adaptation by Wolfgang WU-
helm from a novel by Oscar E. Wll
lard called ITncensored.' Cast in-
cludes Phyllis Calvert, Eric Port-
man, Walter Hudd, Peter Glerivlll«
Frederic Culley, Irene Handl enc
Raymond Lovell.

A new Edgar Wallace feature is li
full swing at Riverside Studios, be
ing made by Signet Fllma for Asso-
ciated British Film Distributors. Ii
has a Scotland Yard background, li
titled The Missing Million' and ll
directed by Phil Brandon. John
Stuart plays the detective herb.

MEX MUSICIANS FIND
AUY IN JUKES CURB

Mexico City, March 3.

Union musicians who have kicked
against the jukeboxes have now ■
champion so strong that it has peti-
tioned Congress to enact a .special
law to curb the mechanical music
-makers. This aide of the musicians
is the National Graphic Arts Wotlc*
ers union. It is demanding a . law
that will only permit the jukes to
function from 8 a.m. to noon and
from 4 to 8 p.m. Bap of jukes for
public entertainments Is demanded,
as well as in cinemas, theatres, etc.,
and as' publicity vehicles.^ License
rates of the jukes must be upped,
the union declares.

The graphic workers figure that
these regulations will relieve a lot
of unemployment among the mu-
sicians.

Letter Written As Joke (
Nabbed by Brazil As Code

■ Mexico City. March 3.
Jose Maria Davila, Mexican am-
bassador to Brazil, who likes to have
his little joke, recently wrote from
Rio to 'Cantlnflas' (Mario Moreno),
top local tramp comic, a letter en-
tirely in Portuguese. Actor knows
not a word of the official idiom of
Brazil, but, being a keen humorist,
he secured a Portuguese dictionary
and wrote a reply with the highest-
sounding words he could find in the
book.

After a time, Davila Inquired, In
Spanish, if 'Clantlnflas' had received
his missive. Comic answered, In
Spanish, that he had, and that ha
had answered It forthwith in the
same language In which the diplo-
mat's messag^xwas written.

Investigation revealed that the-
Brazilian censors had nixed- the
'Cantinflas' letter because they were
certain- it was in- code.

14

EXPLOITATION

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

12^ Indie Exhibs in PhiDy Zone
In Buying Strike; Beef on Rentals

Philadelphia, March 3.
" . Approximately 125 exhibs, repre-
intine bulk of indies In.. this district,
..eld a mass meeting at the Broad-
j'ood hotel here today (Tues.) to
Protest against high film rentals be-
:ig charged in what was described
-•3 the 'biggest sucker territory' in
:.ie U. S. Upshot of the war council
las that exhibs, by a show of hands,
.idlvidually pledged themselves not
i3 buy certain product for two weeks
nd plan to close all houses for one
ay as evidence of their inability to
leet the high rentals as well as flle
; protest with the Office of Price Ad-
ninistrator Leon Henderson against
illeged profiteering,
j Current action, aimed at Warners,
is planned as the first of a series,
iimilar buying strikes against other
'naior distrlbs are to follow, accord-
\nz to threats voiced at the meeting.
I The current buying strike is to re-
[nain in effect until the exhibs meet
igain next Monday <16), when fur-
her plans will be discussed. Among
. hose present at the meeting today
1 .3) were members of the Allied In-
I'lependent Theatre Owners of East-
I 'irn Pennsylvania and of the United
./litotion Picture Theatre Owners of
I J^asterri Pennsylvania, Southern New
' fersey and Delaware, as well as non-
hiembers. Lewen Pizor, president of
::he UMPTOi pledged support of his
itroup'to the exhibs In session who
.net as individuals and not as any or-
. Iianized group.

I Discussion also centered aroimd
'10% rental demand for 'Captains of
;he Clouds,' exhibs pointing out that
, (7B was getting. 30% in midwestern
:erritory. One of the speakers stated
that 35% 'shotdd be the maximum
:|rental for this film.'
.'f Another exhib said, 'We win no
■;jlonger commit suicide with our foun-
jtain pens.' It was also claimed that
jirtificial jealousies are stimulated
jamqng exhibs bj^ exchanges in order
,|to' create competitive bidding for
:'t>roduct . » .

I One proposal on tap for further
Idiscussion is that a committee oi
.'leading Independents be formed to
■valuate pictures for this territory.

IILOU SMITH NOW LOOKS
COLD FOR PRESS SECY

Eskimo's Mush on. B'way

Columbia wins an air-con-
ditioned igloo for the screwiest
press stunt of the'Season. It has
an Eskimo — named Abe Broom-
field— mushing by dogsled to
New York from northern Can-
ada for the preem of The In-
vaders' at the Capitol tomorrow
(Thursday).

Abe is said to have acquired
the un-Eskimo moniker from a
packing crate on which his
family happened to see it sten-
ciled.

15 MAGS TIE UP WITH
COL'S 'COVER GIRL'

Columbia has lined up about 15
mags to participate In selecting
femmes for 'Cover Girl,' which it
will send into production next sum-
mer. Mags, with a total circulation
of almost 25.000,000, will hold a con-
test or otherwise select their favor--
ite 'cover girl,' who will appear in
the film. Blowups of the publications
with the gal's pictures on the front
will also be used in the film.

^Bob Taplinger, who has arranged
the tieups, is also planning a mer-
chandising setup so mags will be
able to work with their advertisers
in using the girls for promotion and
in ads. Sam Bischoff will produce the
film from script now being worked
out by Andor DeSoos and John
Kafka. Rita Hayworth probably will
be starred.

Mags participating Include Har-
per's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Collier's,
Ladies Home Journal, Vogue,
W6man's Home Companion, Ameri-
can, Liberty, Life, Look, Esquire,
Coronet, Redbook and Mademoiselle.

LEGISLATIVE HIATUS

Films Get Bcsplte From Proposed
Laws, What With Defense, Eto

Lou Smith, reported as likely to
jassume post of paid secretary of Pub-
I lie Relations Conunlttee of Motion
Picture Industry, will not go into the
lob, it Is understood. He has been
•ttaclied to the publicity department
of the Columbia studio for several
years, but when recently east dis-
cussed the secretary job In the
PHCMPL

Committee, which met during the
past week and wiU huddle again to
morrow (Thurs.) In New York, is
understood to be up in the an: on
■election of a paid secretary from
among the list of those who are pos-
sible candidates, but In view of the
delays that have occurred so far as
,1 action is concerned, someone may be
idecided upon tomorrow.

Bob Gillham is chairman of the
eastern committee and Howard
Etricklin^of the studio group.

lOc Defense. Stamp Hypos
arris' $1 Adintsh Books

Picture business is getting a
breathing spell thus far from the few
state legislatures meeting this year.
While the off-year (one In which lew
state solons hold regular sessions),
most legislators are so occupied In
matters pertaining to national de-
fense they have not lined up any
fresh measures directed at the film
Industry.

Present indications are that only
eight or nine state leglislatures will
meet thia year. Yen to save the tax-
payers' money, with so much going
into the national defense effort. Is re-
ported as being reflected not only in
a desire to hold new legislation and
tax outlays to a minimum, but also
in an urge for short sessions.

Pittsburgh, March 3.
rris theatres in Pittsburgh and
also out-of-town are giving 'away a
10c defense stamp to purchasers of
every $1 book of admission tickets.

They're labeled 'Happiness Books*
and sales of strip tix have Increased
ceveral hundred percent since idea'
was launched.

Big Briefie Bally

Dallas, March 3.
Paramount will use a modern pony
express caravan tomorrow (Wednes-
day) to transp6rt a print of its "Un-
usual Occupation No. 3' short, from
here to' Denton, Tex., where It will
be preemed the following day. Part
:< of the film was lensed at the William
|.' Pony Farm in Denton.- '

Gov^nor Coke Stevenson of Texas
j and an escort of 500 men, women and
I children on horses will meet the
' Pony Express bearing the print on
the outskirts of Denton. Schools will
be closed for what amounts to a
civic event It will be preemed at,
the Texas theatre. I

TANTASIA' IN mi
EDUCATIONAL TIEUP

When the Disney-RKO picture,
"Fantasia,' goes out on its first pre-
release engagements at popular
prices next month, the distributing
company ha.<i framed numerous tie-
ups for special bally. Perhaps out-
standing is the RCA 'Victor arrange-
ment, with RCA dealers in on a cam-
paign stressing the musical angles of
the film.

In this connection, some 50,000
souvenir 'Fantasia' programs have
been mailed to music supervisors In
institutions of higher learning, wom-
en's clubs. Film Councils, school
heads, librarians and executives of
the National Federation of Music
Clubs. Also Maurice Teshnor is
booking slide lectures pertaining to
the Disney cartoon feature into hun-
dreds of colleges and highschools.

The Group Discussion Guide of the
Motion Picture Committee in the De-
partment of Secondary Teachers,
NEA, has devoted eight pages to
Fantasia.' This reaches 11,000 edu-
cators. Additionally, special radio
transcriptions and a tieup with the
United China Relief is offered ex-
hibitors playing the picture.

Commercial's Big Bafly
Includes Stage Show

Bridgeport, March 3.

C^neral Electric industrial, *Beat-
ing Time,' teed off last week (25)
at Loew-Poli Majestic after biggest
campaign ever given short subject
in Bridgeport Local GE plant em-
ployees put on half -hour stage show.
Let Freedom, Sing,' and company
took half page space in dailies. Tie-
up was promoted by theatre man-
ager Morris Rosenthal.

'Beating Time' shows work being
done by . eight G. E. factories In
American war effort

Good Audience

Fort Worth, March 3.

Lowell Bodiford, operator of the Parkway theatre, Is bylng some-
thing new— 'bookhig' his audience to give proper support, for his film
lelectiona.

In a recent report to Interstate home office, be wrote:
'At tk« first evening show we bad one man who thought these three
■Illy stooges were the funniest cartooia characters he ever saw and he
had such a boisterous contagious laugh that it wasn't long until the
entire audience was having the time of their lives. Personally I
thought the cartoon smelled, but what does my reaction matter when
the cash customers have so much tun. W* played Hollywood' at 9
o'clock that evening, and I asked the patron If he -wouldn't like to
stay and see the cartoon again after 'HoOywood.* which he did. The
result was the same. They rolled In the aisles at the man and the
cartoon. I think m put him on my stooge pass list to give weak
programs, a lift now that 'what this country needs Is a good laugh*.'

A. M . EDis Adds 3 More Theatres
To His Philiy Qiain; Oilier Briefs

First of Series of Nabe
Defense Shows in Bronx

First of a series of neighborhood
defense rallies were held Sunday (1)
morning in seven Bronx theatres.
One-hour show of civilian defense
films was given. Admish was tree.
Similar programs in all of Greater
New York's 696 theatres are eventu-
ally planned.

Scheme of using the theatres was
originated by Nick John Matsoukas,
manager of the Tuxedo, one of the
Bronx houses. It gained support of
George P. Skouras, who is laying
plans for immediate repetitions of
the shows in the 68 Skouras houses
In New York. American Legion,
Boy and Girl Scouts and American
Women's 'Voluntary Services mem-
bers in uniform attended the screen-
ings.

Participating theatres, in addition
to the Tuxedo, were the Interboro,
Ward, Crotona, Blenheim, Ogden, all
operated by Skouras, and the Ford
ham, RKO.

Wise-Mich. Indies Discover How
To Save Plenty on lleatre hsurance

. PhUadelphla, March 3.

A. M. Ellis. Indie exhib, baa added
the Breeze, Pastime, and Dixie, all
in South Phllly, to his chain.

Ben Blumberg named manager of
the State, Stanley-Warner key name
in West Philly, replacing Marty
Goldenberg, resigned. Jim McHugh
moved from S-W Lane to the Frank-
ford, and Nat Warshaw, former as-
sistant of the Keystone, moVed to
the Frankford slot

Latest additions to the ranks of
draftees from the S-W organization
are Dick Parks, Harrowgate, and
Al Blumberg, Midway.

The Warner Club-office division
will hold a 'defense bond' dance at
the Cedarbrook Country Club May B,
it was announced by Al Zlmbalist
club president.

The Jerry and New Penn are get-
ting a complete refurbishing.

Herb Weiner, son of Columbia
branch manager Harry Weiner, is in
the Army.

Dick Mayer, manager of the Stu-
dio, has announced his engagement
to Gertrude Schaffer, fashion co-
ordinator for Gimbel's.

Parks, Bcadlnr, Sold

Reading, Pa., iMarch 3.
The Berks County Court approved
the sale of the Park llieatre BIdg.
to Jamefi P. Gilliland, of Philadel-
phia, for $150,000, the sale wiping
out all encumbrances. J. Douglas
Kaufman and the Berks County
Trust Co., trustees for the bonvihold-
ers, made the sale, after adjustment
of taxes and other claims.
. The building includes, outside of
the lodge hall and a large bar and
restaurant for the lodge, the Park
theatre and the Daniel Boone ho-
teL The theatre is operated by Jay
Emanuel, Philadelphia, and C. G.
Keeney, Reading. Gilliland, pur-
chaser, is reported to be the repre-
sentative of theatre interests.

New Homac Opens

'Middlefield, O., March 3.
New Mumac opened here. James
Mazzucho, of Newton Falls, O., is
manager. The name of the house is a
contraction of the names of the
builders^ G. H. Mumaw and G. W.
McElroy. Latter is mayor of Char-
don, O.

Milwaukee, March 3.'

After obtaining official sanction
for a 11,000,000 blanket imbUc lia-
bility Insurance policy in a recent
con^rence with Insurance Commis-
sioner Marvin Duel — a move which
will save the theatre mei) a tre-
mendous aggregate amount in pre-
miums-the Independent Theatre
Protective Assn. of Wisconsin and
Upper Michigan has been delving
further Into insurance matters, with
profitable results.

Figuring their fire Insurance rates
were way too high, the indies dele-
gated a rate expert, D. S. McKinnon,
to make an exhaustive investigation
c6vering all ' association houses, and
what he discovered has already
brought about substantial reductions
in rates in practically all the houses
so far inspected.

McKinnon found automatic closing
of projection room port holes was
absolutely Impossible In many in-
stances because weights to close
sliding blinds had been removed and
used for other purposes. Doors to
booths had been wedged open by
projectionists so they could not close,
even in case of fire. Unapproved
sound heads were used In many the^
atres. Faulty installations of sound

equipment made by Inexperienced
help, to save money, were another
hazard that had boosted insurance
rates.

Theatre owners in most Instances
had been entirely unaware that
these conditions were responsible
for the huge premiums they were
paying the insurance, companies, and
were amazed, when upon correct-
ing them, they obtained rate reduc
tlons running into several hundreds
of dollars annually. Aggregate sav.
Ings achieved so far run to upwards
of $20,000. Not only were theatre
structures themselves re-rated, but
where the theatre was part of an
office and store building the owners
obtained a profitable re-rating upon
the entire building.

'Conditions such as we found here
probably prevail in many other
states,' said Harry Perlewitz, bust-
ness manager of the indie orgunlza-
tlon, 'and exhibitors everywhere can
very likely save themselves a lot of
money if they will take the trouble
to go into the Insurance situation as
we did here. Many of them are un.
knowingly being penalized in high
rates for conditions that can readily
be corrected at no great flnancl^
outlay.'

Gilbert Out of Retirement In Pitt.

Pittsburgh, March 3.

Thomas A. Gilbert, veteran exhib
who 'retired' from show biz a year
ago when he sold bis New Oakland
house to Warners,, has returned to
his first love again as manager of
Fineman-Shapiro circuit's Temple,
Sheraden. He replaces Ed Horner,
who resigned,

Yaro Miller, head cashier in 'WB's
Cincinnati office, transferred to
Pittsburgh end promoted to post of
office manager at local Warner
branch. He succeeds Joe Mln^,
who was recalled to the army sev-
eral weeks ago after having been
mustered out in the over-28 exodus.
Berth has been vacant since then,
with MiUer taking over on Monday
(2).

Leo Cantor, U salesman here,
transferred to company's Buffalo ex-
change where he will serve as Roch-
ester city and district salesman.
Coming on to take his place in the
local office Is Otto Siegel, veteran U
salesman from Buffalo.

Jack Judd, who operates a poster
display here, and Jack Klein have
sold their Interest in Theatre Poster
Co., of Cleveland, to George Lefko,
former RKO exchange manager here
and In Cleveland. More recently
XfSco has been in L. A, seUUig for
(JniversaL Judd will continue to do
business, however, In local territory.

Morton Maglll, new UA exchange
manager here, who recently replaced
Nat Beier, has taken a home on
Becchwood Blvd., and is bringing his

wife and two children on from Phil>
adellphia, where he was formerly •
salesman for UA.

Mrs. Dorothy Brown has returned
to her old duties at ttie Orpheum,
Ftanklin, in charge of booking and
advertising. She succeeds Dorothy
Raye, resigned.

Lou Kileger. veteran indie distrib-
utor, was back in harness on Film
Row again last week after beins hos-
pitalized since the day before Christ-
mas. Underwent a serious operation
few weeks ago, and recovery has
been slow.

Neb. House Based by Fire

Lincoln, Neb., March 3.

Star, In Imperial, Neb., completely
'destroyed by fire.

Ted Butterfleld, late of the Ute,
Colorado Springs, will replace Har-
vey Traylor, who left the helm of the
Lincoln here to go Into the army last
week.

Bob Huffman, city manager for
•J. H. Cooper Enterprises, Greeley,
Colo., and onetime cm. here, a father
tor the fifth time.

Took the draft board to find out
what had hitherto been Ted Tod's
personal secret Warner exploiter
dates hUnself by having for a full
moniker, Theodore Roosevelt Tod.

Joe EMtzgerald, reporter on the
Journal, has taken the berth of film
editor vacated by Barnev Oldfleld,
who has been called t>ack into the
army for the diuration.

Schlnes' JUtest Addition

Schenectady, N. Y., March 3.
Schlnes have added the Ritz in
Scotia, a suburb of Schenectady, to
their chain. This'Is the farthest east
in the Mohawk Valley the circuit
has extended operations.

Watson Reopens Bex
Reglna, Sa^., March 3.
Closed for alterations. Rex, Reglna,
reopened recently under manage-
fnent of its owner. Jack Watson.
House was i>reviously managed by
H. A. Bfrcovicii, who opens his own
theatre, the Broadway, soon. Rex,
operating as an independent, has a
booking arrangement with Famous
Players. Broadway will have a
booking arrangement with Odeon.

Dodley Hale's New Pathe Berth

Dudley Hale, from Pathe commer-
cial department has been assigned to
publicity for Pathe news and shorts.

Doris Monarch, formerly handUng
publicity, remains with Pathe In
commercial department.

Reverting to Type

jContlnaed from pai» 3;

the Chi Sun, will tie in with It.

An entirely new version of the
'Florodora Sextette' will be one of
the highlights of the Navy ReUef
Show. It's being authored by Sylvia
Fine (Mrs. Danny Kaye), and Bob
Alton may stage the dance.

In the 'Florodora' routine, Sophie
Tucker will do a male impersona-
tion,, while Ed Wynn, Clifton Webb,
Daniiy Kaye, Boris Karloff, Eddie
Cantor and 'Vincent Price will play
the damea

The Navy Relief talent lineup Is
now completely set with the timing
so scheduled as to carry the enter-
tainment through to at least 2 a.m.

M.cj will be Walter WincheU,
Lou Holtz, Henny Youngman, Jack
Haley, Bert Lytell, George Jessel,
Tyrone Power and George S. Kauf-
man and Moss Hart working as a
team.

According to the near-sellout
ticket sale and heavy program ad-
vertlshig, the gross may go as high
as $150,000, an all-time top for any
single performance, regular or
benefit

Wedqesday, March 4, 1942

7

9 # f *

I

When it comei to hits
the daddy of 'em all if . . ^

WARNER RROS. ^

18

PICTURES

Wednesday, Murch 4, 1942

Advance Production Chart

Hotlvwood, March 3.

Studios ill Holluioood ore rnpidly approaclilnfl tlie
end of the 1941 -'42 trnti and uiithin tlif next 30 <o 80
dai/s totU liare eicher delioered. Imue in the c\Mmg
rooms or auxiiling release the iiccessan; number of /llms
to supplement those olread.i oiwcn distnbtttors and thus
close their oblifinttons for the fiscal uear.

Paromounl either h<fs in Prod'":''""; «° f'

hibitors. trndcshoini. or oicaitino release 'jf .n^o^
the post l/eor. ll haa cUUer tradeshoum. delivered, or

prcvleuied 30 fi\ms; hos nine loorfcino; 13 in editors'

'"20th-Centuri; Foi has bnt two to po on its '41-'42
schedule, hrtwino aiready released, traflcshpuni or coin-
pletcd 40 pictures u)ith /our shoolino and six m the cut-
(ino rooms out o/ a total of 52 promised. Metro fnd
Monoorajii have but six and seuen P ctures. respec-
"uclu. to go on their schedule. Repub'^ "".IH"^!!:
sal httue tlie lonncst uncompleted sclicdulc with /ormcr
needing 28 pictures to (lO and the latter 24.

Cohunbia

Fealum .
Westerm
Scrlkis .

I*rflnil<^ <'tim-

4I-I-: |>l.-ir<l

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..16 12

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Toials «« *• • *

Picluies in culling room or swaiting relase:
NOT A LADIES' MAN. comedy-dramti: prod., Leon
Barsha- dir Lew Landers; no writing credits; camera,
^to Slumar cast: Paul' Kelly. Fay Wray. Douglas
Croft, Don Bcddoe, Eileen O'Hearn, Mf
Larry Dickson, Hal Price, Jimmy Dakan, Dorothy

^^LONDIE'S BLESSED EVENT, <:on'?.<ly; P™?;.'
Robert Sparks; dir., Frank Straycr; no wrltu^ "<h1i<5.
JSnera, Henry Freulich. Cast. Penny Singleton.
Arthur Lake, Larry Simms. _
CAPTAIN IwroNIGHT. mystery drama; prod., wrry
Darmour: dir., James W. Hornc; screenpUy. BasJ
Dickey. George Plympton, Wyndham Gittens. jacK
Stanl/y: based upon the serial -Captoin Midn'ght ;
ramera, James S. Brown. Cast: Dave OjBrien^ Wrothy
Short. James Craven, Sam Ed wards,, Guy Wilkerson
Bryant Washburn. Luana WaUers Joe G.rard Bay
Teal, George Pembroke, Charles Hamilton. Ai

^ DOWN BIO GRANDE WAI, fonnerly AFTEB THE
ALAMO, western; piod. Jack Fier; dir., William
Berke- original screenplay, Paul Franklin; camera,
&an. Cast: '^■Charles SUrret^ R"'^'J?nf;
den, Britt Wood, Rose Anne Stevci^, Noi-man Willis.
Da^^dson Clark. Edmund Cobb, Budd Buster, Joseph
Eegenton, Jim Corey. , , ^ ^ o.,.*..,.

PBAIBIE GUNSMOKE. western; prod., Leon Barsha,
dir. Lambert Hillyer; screenplay, Fred Myton; stoiy.
Jack Ganzhom: camera, Benjamin KJme. Cast: Biu
SUlott, Tex Hitter, Frank MitcheU. Virginia Carroll.
Hal Price, Tristram Coffin, Joe McGuinn, Frosty Hoyce.
Ride And^rsoii*

ALIAS BOSTON BLACKI£, drama; prod., Wallace
MacDonald; dir., Lew Landers; no writing tredits;
ramera. Phil Tannura. Cast: Chester Morris, Adelc
Mara, George E. Stone, Richard Lane. Walter Sande.
Paul Fix, Floyd Bridges. John Tyrrell, Ed Laughton,
Larry Parks, George McKay.

CoInmbU Fix In ProdocUon
BIGHLT IBBEGULAB, comedy; prod., B. P. Schul-
berg- dir.. Lew Landers; no writing credits; camera.
Franz Planer. Cast: Joan Bennett, ^anchot 'Tone.
AUyn Joslyn. Georgia Caine, Lloyd Corrigan Cecil
Cunningham, Barbara Brown, Ersklne Sanford, Lyle
LateU, Aubrey Mather. , ™ „

HELLO ANNAPOLIS, meller; prod., Wallace Mac-
Donald; dir.. Charles Barton: no writing crediU; no
camera credit. Cast: Tom Brown, Jean Parker.
' THREE'S A CROWD, comedy-drama; prod.
George Stevens: no writing credits; camera, Ted TeU-
lair. Cast: Gary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman,

Edgar Buchanan, Lloyd Bridges. „ . .

BIEET THE BTEWABXS, drama; prod., Robert
Sparks; dir., Alfred E. Green; no writing cred ts; cam-
era, Henry FreuUch. Cast: Frances Dee, WiUlam Hol-
den. Grant Mitchell. Marjonc Gateson, Ann GUl^,
Damny Mummert,. Emma Dunn. Edward Gargan Tom
Dugan, Roger Clark, WlUiam Wright, Marguerite Chap-
man, Don Beddoe. • .j t<j
Bt KISSED THE BBIDE. comedy-drama: prod., Ed-
ward Kaufman; dir., Alexander Hall; no writing credite;
aSner^TJoseDh Walker. Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn
■ Dougtos, BUUe Burki, Roland Young, Roger Clark,

i ^SWEETHEAKT OF THE FLEET, comedy with music;

' prod . Jack Fier: dir., Charles Barton; no writing cred-
its: camera, Phil Tannura. Cast: Joan Davis, Kinx
Falkenburg, Joan Woodbury, Brenda and Cobina, Rod-

; ert Stevens, William Wright, Don Bcddoe.

credits; camera, Hal Rosson. Cast: . Clark Gable. I^na
Turner, Lee Patrick.

TAR7.AN AGAINST THE WORLD, action drama;
prod.. Frederick Stephani: dir., Richard Thorpe; no
writing credits; camera. Sid Wagner. Cast: Johnny
Wcissmullcr. Maureen O'Sullivon, Johnny Shcilieia,
Charles Bickford. _ ■ . „_

UEB CARDBOARD LOVEB, formerly LOVE ME
NOT, formerly HEE CARDBOARD LOVER, comedy
drama- prod., J. Walter Ruben; dir., George Cukor; no
writing credits; camera. Harry Strading. Cast: Norma
Shearer. Robert Taylor, George Sanders. ,

DR. KILDABE (untitled); melodrama; prod.. Gen-
eral Office: dir., Harold Bucquet; no writing credits;
camera, Ray June. Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barry-
more, Ann Ayars. ,_..„. j.

CROSSROADS, drama; prod., Edwm Knopf; dir.
Jack Conway; no writing credits; camera, Joseph Rut-
tenbcrg. Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr.

GRAND CENTRAL MURDER, mystery; prod., Ben-
jamin Zeldman; dir, S. Sylvan Simon; no writing
credits; camera, George Folsey. Cast: Van Hcflin, Vir-
ginia Grey, Pat Dane.

Monogram

FILM BOOKING CHART

(For In/ormafion of theotre and film exchotioe bookers ViiaiEtv presciuj
a complete chart of /eoture releases of all the Amertoin distributino com-
panie» for the current quarurly period. Dote of review a$ given in

VARiErv ond the running lime of print* are included.)
Keu lo Type Abbret»lotions: M— Melodrama; C— Comedy; CD— Comedy
Drama- W— Weatem; D— Drama; KD— Roinonti* Dramo; JVfU— Musical.
Fiffures hereuiith indicate dale of Vamot's re«l€U> ond ninnino time.

WEEK OF RELEASE— 1/9/42

Confessions Boston Blackle (Col) 12/

Arizona Terrors (Rep)

Ball of Fire (RKO) IZ/3

Lady for a Mcht (Rep) 12/11

Blue, White and Perfect (20ili) 9.24

Jail Boase Blaes (U>

AU Throngb the Nltbt' (WB) 12/1

M
W
D
D
M
MU
M

la c. Horrli-H. miilud

S» D. Bany-L. Merrick

llD B. 8taBwyck-0. Cooper

a i. Blondell-J. Wayne

74 U Nolaa-H. Bejmolds

S N. Peadleton-A.' Wyna

107 n. Bogati-C. Veldt

WEEK Of RELEASE— 1/16/4S

West of TomkstOBt (Col) W

Hr. and Mrs. North (M-4i) 12/17 C IB

Private Snnffy Smith 2/2} C «7

Pardon My Stripes (Bep) C C7

Man From CbeycBse (Rep) I/2< W M

Date With The Falcon (BKO) II '12 M <0

GenUeman at Heart (2Mli) 1/7 D *7

Paris Callinc (U) IZ/IS D M

Shangal Gestnre (DA) 12/M D 91

C. Stanet-B. OaydoD
C. AUCB-W. Post

B. KdUiedy-B. Duncan
U. BciiTy-S. Ryan

R. Becerc-B. Hayes
O. Banders-W. BarrU

C. Bomero-C. Landls
B. Seott-B. BCfgner
O. Tieniey>W. Huston

WBBK OF RELKASB 1/9/42

Cadets on Parade (Col)

Man From Headqnutcn (Mono)

Deslcn for Scandal (M-G) 11/11

Snlllvan's Travels (Tar) 12/10

Wemaa of the Tear (M-G) 1/ 14

Cowboy Serenade (Bep)

Four Jacks and a Jill (RKO) 11/11

Right to the Heart <2nh) 1/14

North of the Klondike (V)

Man Who Came to Dinner (WB) 1/7

M F. BaitholomewV. Lydon

D a F. Albeitnin^. Woedbnry

CD K R. Bnas«U-W. Pldceon

CD 99 t. Mccrea-V. Lake

C liz s. Ttacy-K. Hepburn

W CC G. Antiy-8. Bnmette

C C7 R. Boiser-A. Shirley

D 71 B. Joyc«-C. WU^e

M a. Crawford-L. Clianey

C lU B. Davts-M. Wooley

rruaiMid Tom- Shoot- Now

41-42 pirtrd Inc CuI(Ib( To (•

Features ., 26 U • 3 «

Westerns 1« 13 • 2 1

Wayne re-Usnes. . f 9 • • 9

TeUls 59 18 9 5 T

Pictures in cutting room or awaiting release:
ARIZONA ROUNDUP, western; prod., dir., Robert
Tansey; original screenplay, Robert Emmett and
Frances Kavanaugh; camera. Marcel Le Picard. Cast:
Tom Kcene, Frank Ycconelli, Sugar Dawn, Jack
Ingram, Hope Blackwood, Steve Clark, Tom Seidel,
Nick Moro, Hal Price, \. Stanford JoUe^.

GHOST TOWN LAW, western; -prod., Scott R. Dun-
la^; dir., Howard Brethrton; screenplay. Jess Bowers;
camera, Harry Neumann. Cast: Buck Jones, Tim Mc-
Coy, Raymond Hatton, Virginia Carpenter, ' Murdock
McQuairie, Charles King. Tom London, Howard
Masters. Red Corbett

KLONDIKE 'VIC^TORT, drama; prod., Maurice King;
asso. prod., Franklin King; dir., William K. Howard;
screenplay, Henry Blankfort, from the story by Tris-
tram Tupper, 'Klondike'; camera, L. William O'Con-
nell. Cast: E<lmund Lowe, Lucile Fairbanks, Bill
Henry, Ralph Morgan, Mary Forbes. Jean Brook, Vince
Barnett. Clyde Cook. Robert Middlemass, Monte Blue,
Kenneth Harlan, John Roche.

MAN WITH TWO LIVES, drama; prod., A. W.
Hackel; dir., Phil Rosen; original story and screen-
play by Joseph Hoffman; camera, Harry Neumaim.
Cast: Edward Norris, Frederick Burton, Addison Rich-
.'ardi; Edward Keane, Hugh Southern, Eleanor I,aws0D,
Wilma Francis, Tom Scidel, Elliott Sullivan, Anthony
Warde. Ernie .^dams, Kenneth Duncan.

DEATH CELL, drama; prod., John Argyle; dir., Law-
rence Huntington; screenplay, Edward Dryhurst and
John Argyle; camera, Bryan Langley. Cast: James
Mason, Mary Clare, Margaret Vyner, Gordon McLeod,
Frederick Valk, Barbara Everest, Barbara James, G. K,
Mulcaster, Eric Clavering, Terry Conlin, Anthony
Shaw, Brefni O'Rdrkel Viola Lyel.

WEEK OF RELEASE— 1/39/42

A Close Call for BUeiy. Queen (Col) M

Below the Boader (Mono) 2/25 W S«

Vank On the Burma Road (M-C) 1/14 BD 1,5

ObUclnc Tonne Lady (BKO) 11/S D M

Son or Fnry (29th) 1/7 D SB

Treat •Em Boueh (U> 1/14 C 74

Twin Beds (UA) C

Wild BIU Ulckock Bides (WB) 2/11 W §2

W. Garcan-kL Lindsay
B. Jones^T. McCoy
L. Day-B. NeLwn
1. CarroU-K O'Brien
T. Power-G. Tlemey

B. Albert

C. Brcnt-J. Bennett
G. Bennett-B. Cabot

WEEK OR RELEASi;— 2/S/42

Or. KlldarCi Victory (M-C) 12/1
Law of the Juncle (Mono)
VaUey of the Sun (RKO) 1/14
Yoone America (2«th) 1/7
Bombay CUpper (U) 1/14
Sons of the Sea (WB)
The Prime Minister (WB) 9.17
A Tragedy at Mldnlfht (Bep) 1/4

O !I2 L. Ayers-L. Barrymorc

^M. Moreland

D 79 L. BaU-J. Cralc

c 72 t. withers-W. Tracy

M H ' V/. C^rgan-L Hcrvey
M M. Redgrave-V. Hobson

RD 94 J. Glelgnd-D. Wynward

U tS t. Roward-M. Lindsay

WEEK OF RELEASE 2/12/42

2/l»

2/11

Our Russian Front (Artklno)
The Lady Is waUng (Col) 1/21
Blondle Goes to CoUece (Col)
Bom to Sine (M-G) 1/21
Western Mall (Mono) 1/4
Mr. Bug Goes to Town (Par) 12/14
Bahama Passage (Par) U/IO
On the Sonny Side (29th) 2/4
Staeecoarh Bucharoo (U)
Call Out the Marines (RKO) 1/14
Riding the Wind (BKO) 9/I«
Lady In Distress (Times) 2/18
Dangerously They Lived (WB)

Paramoiiot

FromlMcd Com- Shoot- Now

4I-4X pintcd Ins Cuttlof To f •

Stadia 42 23 8 11 •

H. Sherman 9 9 12 9

FlclKher 1 1

Totals 52

39

9

13

Metro

rromlwd fom- Rlioot- Sow .
41-4! plrtMl Ini Cnltloc Toco
Features 59 3« « 8 6

( Pictures in cutting room or awaiting release:

PANAMA HATTIE, musical; prod.. Arthur Freed;
dir„ Noman McLeod; no writing credits; camera
' credits not set. Cast: Ann Sothern, George Murphy,
i Red Skelton, Rags Raglond. Ben Blue. . ' „ ,
* I HARRIED AN ANGEL, musical; prod.. Hunt
■ Stromberg; dir., Roy Del Ruth; original, Richard
Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; camera, L?n Smith. Cast:
■Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mona Jlaris, Ed-
ward Everett Horton, Reginald Owen, Binnle Barnes.
Veda Ann Borg, Inez Cooper, Carol Hughes.

SIRS. MINIVER, drama; prod., Sidney Franklm;
dir, William Wyler; story, Jan Struthers; camera,
Joseph Ruttenbcrg.. Cast: Greer Garspn, Walter
Pldgeon, Teresa Wright. Dame May Whltty. Henry
Wilcoxon. Henry Travers.

SHIP AHOT, formerly I'LL TAKE MANILA, mu-
sical-comedy; prod., Jack Cummjngs; dir. Eddie Buz-
"■ zell- no writing credits; camera, Robert Planck. Cast:
Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr, Virginia
O'Brien. ■ • , „ ^ „

RIO RIT.4, musical-comedy; prod., Pandro Bcrinan;
dir.. Sylvan Simon; no writing credits; camera George
Folsey.- Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou CosteUo, Kathryn
Grayson, John Carroll. „, u ,- . j-

TORTILLA FLAT, drama: prod.. Sam Zlmbalist; dir
Victor Fleming; story, John Steinbeck; camera, Karl
Freund. Cast: Spencer Tracy, John Garfield, Hedy
LaMarr. Akim Tamiroff. . , , j-,

~ SUNDAY. POKCH, drama; prod., Irving Starr; dir.,
DSVid Miller; no writing credits: camera. Paul Vogel.
Cast: WUliam Lundigan, Dan Dailey. -If.. Jea" Hof.*"' .

MOKET DELANO, drama; prod., J. Walter Ruben,
41r., Wells Root; no -writing credits; camera, Charles
La^on. Cast: Dan Dailey, Jr., Donna Heed, Cordell
Hickman, Bobby Blake. „ ^ ^,

Sletro PIS In Production
SOSIEWHEBE I'LL FIND VOU, drama; prod
Pandro Berman; dir., Wesley Huggles; no wilting

Pictures in cutting room or awaiting release:

THE GREAT MAN'S LADT, formerly PIONEER
WOMAN, drama; asso. prod-dir., William A. Well-
man; screenplay, W. L. River; camera, William
Mellor. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian
Donlevy, Lloyd Corrigan, Etta McDanie], Thurston
Hall, Katherine Stevens, Helen Lynd. Mary Trien.
Lucien Littlefleld. Anna Q. Nilsson.

TOMBSTONE— THE TOWN TOO TOUGH TO DIE,
formerly THE TOWN TOO TOUGH TO DIE, formerly
TOMBSTONE, western; prod., Harry Sherman; dir.,
William McGann; no writing credits; camera, Russell
Harlan. Cast: Richard Dix, Don Castle, Frances Gif-
ford, Edgar Buchanan, Clem Beyans, Kent Taylor, Rex
Bell, Victor Jory, Chris-Piri' Martin.

SWEATER GIRL, drama; prod., Sol C. Siegel; asso.

Srod., Joseph Sistrom; dir., William Clemens; story,
eulah Marie Dix. Bertram Milhauser; screenplay. Eve
Greene: camera, John Mescall. Cast: Eddie Bracken,
June Preisser, Betty Jane Rhodes, Phil Terry, Nils
Asther, Don Castle, William Henry, Ella Neal, Kenneth
Howell, Johnny Johnston, William Cabanne, Frieda
Inescourt, Charles D. Brown.

HENRY AND DIZZY, formerly MR. ALDRICH'S BOY,
comedy-drama; asso. prod., Joseph Sistrom; dir., Hugh
Bennett; original screenplay, Val Burton; camera, Don
Fapp. Cast: Jimmy Lydon Charles Smith, Mary An-
derson, John Lite], Olive Blakeney.

BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON, formerly MA-
LAYA, formevly HER JUNGLE MATE, drama; asso.

grod., Monte Bell: dir., Al Santell; screenplay, Frank
lutler and Harry Tugend; story, E. Lloyd Sheldon,
Jack Do Witt;, camera, William Mellor. Cast: Dorothy
Lamour. Richard Denning, Helen Gilbert.

REAP THE WILD WIND, drama; Cecil B. DeMllle
prod.; asso. prod., William H Pine; dir., CeciL B. De-
Mille; screenplay, Alan Le May, Charles Burnett, Jesse
Lasky, Jr.; story, Thelma Strabel; camera, Victor Mil-
ner. Cast: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Pauletta Goddard,
Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Susan Haywaid:
Lynne Overman, Walter Hampden, Louise Beavers,
Martha O'Driscoll, Richard Denning, Lane Chandler,
J. Farrcll MacDonald, Joseph Crehan, John St. Polis
Tom Ti'ler. Harry Woods.

A NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS, formerly THE
MORNING AFTER, drama: prod., Sol C. Slcgel; ns.<io,
prod., Joseph Sistrom; dir.. William Clemens; story
(Continued on page IB)

49 (Documentary)

D 91 M. Dletrich-F. MacMurray

C 74 p. Slngleton-A. Lake

MU 82 V. Weldler-B. McDonald

W ' 54 Tom Kecne

81 (Cartoon)

ID 82 »L Carroll-S. Haydcn

M C9 J. Daniell-R. MacDowcll

W J. Mack Brown-F. Knicht

C «« V. McLailen-E. Lowe

W S4 T. H olt-R. Whitney

M SZ M. Bcdsrave-S. Gray

M J. GarHeld-B. Bussey

WEEK OF BELEASE— 2/19/42

Shut My Big Mouth (Col) 2/23 C 71

Johnny Eager (M-G) 12/14 M 19C

Hr. Wise Guy (Mono) ' M 74

Joan of ParU (BKO) 1/7 D 91

Boxy Bart (2*th) 2/4 D 72

Wlut'i Coo kin' • (I)) 2/21 MU C9

Brooklyn Orchid (UA) C

Captains of the Clauds (WB 1/21 M 111

J. B. Brown-A. Mara
R. Tayor-L. Turner
East Side Kids
M Morgan-P. Henreld
G. BogersrA. Menjon
6. Jean-Andrews Sis
M. Woodworth-W. Bendix
J. Cagncy-D. Morgan

WEEK OF RELEASE— 2/2C/4I

Adventures ef SUrtia Eden (Col) 2/21 M

Man Who Retained to Life (Col) 1/4 ' M

Bock Blver Banegades (Mono) W

Castle In the Deiert-(29U>-Fox) t/4 M

The Mad Dr. of Btaiket St (U) M

CI

G. F«rd-C. Trevor

J. Howard-L. Fairbanki

(Rancebusters)

8. Toler-A. Whelan

U. Mcrkel-C. Dodd

WEEK OF RELEASE— 3/5/42

Arizona Konndup (Mono) W

The Lady Has Plans (Par) 1/21 M
BIng Tour Worries Away (BKO) 1/7 MU

Night Before the Divorce (29th-Fos) 2/11 M

Ghost of Frankenstein (U) 1/4 M

To Be or Not to Be (UA) 2/18 C

BuUet Scar* (WB) 3/4 M

Sleepy Time Gal (Rep) C

Stagecoach Express (Bep) W

T. Kcene
71 P. Goddard-R. MlUand
71 B. Lahrc-J. Havoc
97 L. Bairi-M. Hnghei
<S L. Chaney-B. Anker*
99 J. Bcnny-C. Lombard
59 B. Taomey>A. Longmlr*
J. Canova-T. Brown
D. Bariy-L. MeiTlck

WEEK OF RELEASE— 3/12/42

Lawless Plainsman (Col)

Man With Two Uvea (Mono)

Song of the Islands (2«th-Fox)

Frisco Ul (D) 2/18

Beart of the Bio Grande (Rep)

Tohcl Boy (Rep)

Dudes Are Pretty People (UA)

W C. Starrett-K. flayden

M E. Norrls-E. Lawson

2/4 MU 71 B. GnUe-V. Matnre

M M I. Hervey-K. Taylor
. W o. Antry

C A. Dekk«r-J. Davis

C M. Woodworth-J. Roger*

WEEK OF RELEASE— 3/19/42

Canal Zone (Col)
Klondike Victory (Mono)
Bashful Bachelor (RKO)
Balder* of the Bange (Rep)
Ring* on Rer Finger (20th)
Saboteur (U)
Mr. V (UA) 7/9
Murder In the Big House (WB)

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C. Morrls-J. Hubbard
E; Lowe-L. Fairbanks
Lnm ft Abner
B. Steel-T. Tyler
H. Fonda-O. Tlemey
R, cnmmlngs-P. Lane
L. Hotvard-M. Morris
P. Bmenon-N. Johnson

WEEK OF RELEASE— 3/26/42

Two Yanks In Trinidad (Col) C

Affairs of J. ValeBtluc (Rep) . M

Sunset on the Desert (Bep) w

Magninccnt Ambersons (RKO) D

Remarkable Mr. Klpps (2«th) M

You're Telling Me (U) C

P. O'Brlcn-B. Donlevy
D. O'Keefe-R. Terry
R. Bogers-G. Hayes
J. Cotton-D. Costello
M. Redgrave-D. Wynward
H. Ilerbert-R. Paige

TRADESHOWN AND FOR FUTURE RELEASE

Cadet Girl (20th) 11/12 v -.RD

Vanishlpc Virginian (M-0) 12/1 I)
Sealed IJpa (U) 12/3 M
The Dui:1c Sounds (M-G) 12/17 D
Land of the Open Range (RKO) 12/24 W

12/11
12/31

1/21
1/21

Thnndering Boots (RKO)
Come on Danger (RKO)
Kings Bow (WB) 12/24
We Were Dancing (M-G)
Salute to Courage (M-G)
Torpedo Boat (Par) 1/21
The Fleets In (Par) 1/21
Fly by Night (Pari 1/21
This Time for Keeps (M-G) 2/11
rhe Courtship of Andy Rardy (M-G)
I,arceny, Inc. (WB) 3/4
The Male Animal (WB) 1/4

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4!) c. Landls-G. Montgomciy

101 F.Morgan-K. Grayson

62 w. Gargan-J. Clyde

101 W. Beery-M. Main

41) T. Holt-R. Whltey

SO T. Holt-R. Whltey

58 T. Holt-F. Neal

127 A. Sherldan-R. Curomlngi

93 N. Shearer-N. Coward
81 G. Vcldt-A, Ayers

49 R. Arlcn-J. Parker

89 D, Lamonr-W. Holden

74 N. Kelly-R. Carlson

71 A. Rutherlord-B, Sterlinc

M M. Roonoy-A. Rutherford

94 E. Robinson- J. Wyman

128 H. Fonda-O. deHavllland

Wednesday, March 4, 1942 P'SRiSTf' '9

20 PICTUBES

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

Advance Production Chart

(Continued Irom page 18)

Jamea R. Lanehom: (creenplay, Jonathan Latliner;
camera, John MescalL Cast: Preston Foster, Patricia
Morison, Albert Dekker. Charles Butterwortti. Jean
PhllUps, Dooley Wilson, Paul Hurst, Charles Wflllamj
Noble Johnson, Joseph Pope, George Chandler, Cecil
KeUaway, WiUJam Wri«ht, Harry Hayden, Lee Phelps,
Lynda Grey, Leon Belasco, Yola D'Avril, Emonr Pwr-
nell. Bud McColllster, Louise La Planche, Dorjjny
Dandridge, Keith Richards,. Klchard Webb, Al Hill,
Jack Stoney, Henry Brandon, Arthur Loft, Ottola
Nesmlth, Rex Robinson, Helen Lynd, Betty Farrlngton,
Walter Penner, Fred Carpenter, AliceWard, Nell Craig,
Lowell B. Drew. Herbert Vigran^^^n Brodie, John
Sheehan. James Flavin. /

DB. BBOADWAT, drama; prod., Sol C. Siegel; dir.,
Anton Mann; no writing credits; camera, Theodor
Sparkuhl; story, Borden Chase; screenplay. Art
Arthur. Cast: Macdonald Carey, Jean Phillips, J. .
Carroll Naish, Edward Ciannelli, Richard Lane, War-
ren Hymer, Frank Bruno, Sidney Melton, Olin How-
land, Joan Woodbury, Abe Dinovitch.

OVT OF THE FRYING PAN, comedy; prod., Edward
H. "Griffith; dir., E. H. Griffith; no writing credits;
camera, Leo Tover. Cast: William Holden Susan Hay-
ward, Eddie Brecken. Martha O'DriscoU, Jimmy Lydon,
Ro"bert Benchley, Barbara Britton, Florence Mac-
Michael, Mabel Paige, Jay Fassett

HOLIDAY INN (ftving Berlin) musical comedy;
prod, dir., Mark Sandrich; screenplay, Claude Blnyonj
based on original Idea by Irving Berlin; camera, David
Abel. ' Cast Binfi Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale,
Marjorie Reynolds, Walter Abet

TRUE TO THE ABMT, comedy; prod. Sol C.
Siegel; dlr, Al Rogell; screenplay, Art Arthur, Brad-
ford Ropes; adaptation, Edmund Hartmann, Val Bur-
ton; based on novel by Edward Hope and a play by
Howard Lindsay; camera, Daniel Fapp. Cast; Judy
Canbva, Allan Jones, Ann Miller, Jerry Colonna, Wil-
liam Demarest, William Wright, Clarence Kolb, Max
Wagner, Gordon Jones, Rod Cameron, Joseph Crehan,
Frank' Sully, Harry Harris, Russell Mercer, James Mer-
cer, Eddie Acuff, Dean Collins, Walter Fenner, Gladden
James, Reed Porter, Edgar Dearing, Conrad Wiedell,
Stanley Blystone, Syd Saylor.

MB. AND MRS. CUGAT, comedy; asso. prod., Fred
Kohlmar; dir., Noman Taurog; screenplay, Tess
Schleslnger and Frank Davis; adapted from novel by
Isabel Rorick; camera, Charles Lang. Cast: Ray Mil-
land, Betty Field, Patricia Morison, Phil Terr^. JLett
Erickson, Cecil Kellaway, Kathaleen Lockhart, MikhaQ
Rasumny.

MT FAYOBITB BLONDE, comedv; asso. prod., Paul
Jones; dir., Sidney Lanfield; screenplay, Tess Sleslngeij
Frank Davis; adapted Irom novel by Isabel Scott
Rorick; camera,- William Mellor. Cast: Bob Hope,
Madeleine Carroll, Lionel Royce.

AMEBICAN SMFIBE, western; prod., Hanr Sher-
man- dir., William McGann; screenplay, Don- Hartman,
Frank Butler; story by Melvin Frank, Norman BMma;
camera, Russell Harlan. Cast: Richard Dlx, Prwton
Foster; Frances GIflord, Leo CarrlUo, Jack La Rue,
Chris-Pin Martin, Ian llacDonald.

I LIVE ON DANGEB, drama: prods., William Mne-
WllUam Ttomas; dir., Sam White: no wiitingcredw,
cameia. Fred Jackman, Jr. Cast: Cbester Moirto, jMn.
T^KtF. Roger Pryor, Elisabeth Rlrfon^ Doi«I»8
Fowlcy; Edward Norxls. Wck PurcelL Bem«dene
Hayes, Alice White, Charlotte Henry, EUa Soros.

TBX PALM BEACH STOBT, comedy; a«»_nrod.,
Paul .Jones; dir. Preston Sturges; screenpla^r Pr«Jon
Sturger, camer^i, Vittor Milner. Cast Claudctte Col-
bert, -Joel McCrea, William Demarest

WILDCAT, (adventure); prod., Wm. Pine and Wm,
Thomas: dir- Frank McDonald; no writing credits:
fcSnSS^Fre<f Jackman. Jr. Cast Richard Aliens A^Ilne
Judge, Wlliam Frawley, Buster Crabbe, Arttunr Hunnl-
cuSfillsha Cook, Jr., KUph Sanford, Alec Craig, John
SifioiEdKeanfe Will Wrl^t, Jessica Newcpiibe, BUly
Benemct, BUly Nelson, Tom Kennedy, Fred Sherman,
mUam Halt John Ilsher, AbduBah Abbas*, Don
Barclay, Dick. Elliott , ^ .

TAKE A LETTEB, DABUNO, (comedy drama); uso.
-prod, Fred Kohlmar; dir., MItcheU Leisen; icreengay,
Claude Blnyon; story, George Beck; camera, John Meg-
caU. Cast: Rosalind RusselL Fred Jtocl^^
«tance Moore, Macdonald Carey, R<*ert BeneUey,
Charles E. Arat DooUy Wilson, CecU Kellaway, John
Holland, Florlne McKhmey, Amo Ingraham,' Dorothy
Grainger, Katharine Booto, Lynto Grey, SUm Gaut,

ti Brady, Sonny Boy Williams. Keith Rlciards, Jack
ice, Lorin Raker, Jean Del Val, Douglas Dean, Janet
Graves, Francis Sayles, Arthur Loft James A. MlUlcan
George Daley, Isabel Randtilph, Gen Backus, Reginald
Sheffield, Reginald Simpson, James A. Mllllcan, Stanley.
Mack, Virginia Brlssac, Pat West. Eddie Acuff, Bethr
Harrington. Nell Craig, Robert Winkler, jniomas W.
Ross, Harry Lamont Sldeny D'Albrook, Mrs. Wilfred
I North, Dave Willock, George H. Held, Margaret Hayw,
Marta Downs, Florence Wix, Jacques yanalre, .H.
^RondelL ^

. Farsmoamt Fix In FrodacUon
H MT HEART BELONGS TO DADDT, comed;^ drama;
iFprod, Sol C. Siegel: asso. prod, E. D. Lesbin; dir.
^ Robert Slodmak; original screenplay, F. Hugh Her.
bert; camera, Daniel Fapp. Cast: Richard Carlson,
Martha O'Dilscoll, Frances Oifford, Cecil Kellaway,
Florence Bates, Mabel Paige, Velma Berg ' Francis
Fierlot, Fern Emmett BeCty. Farrlngton, Milton Kib-
bee. ■ . '

MBS. 'IfriGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH, comedy
drama; prod., Sol C. Siegel; asso. prod, Ralph Murphy;
dir., Ralph Murphy; no writing credits; camera, Leo
Tover. Cast: Fay Bainter, Caroljpn l*e, Hu^ Herbert
Vera Vague, Berbara Britton, Betty Brewer, Mary
Thomas, BUly Lee, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer.

THE FOBEST BANGERS, technicolor adventure;
asso. prod, Robert SIsk: dlr, George Marshall: no
writing credits: camera, Charles liang. Cast: Fred Mac-
Muray, Pauleite' Goddard, Susan' Hayward, Albert
Derker Lynne Ov erma n. Phillip Terry, Jim Brown.

I .MABBIED A WITCH, drama; #sso. prod, Preston
Eturges; dir., Rene Clair: no writing credits; camera,
John Seltz. Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake,
Patricia Morison, Robert Benchley, Walter AbeL

THE GLASS KSY,- mystery; asso. prod, Fred Kohl-
mar; dir., Stuart Helsler; no writing credits: camera,
Theodor Sparkilnl. - Cast:' Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd,
Patricia Morison, Bonlta Granville, Joseph Callela. .

HENBT ALDBICH, EDITOR, comedy-drama; prod,
Sol C. Siegel; asso. prod, Jules Schermer; dir., Hugh
Bennett; ' no wrltiiig credits: camera, Daniel Fapp.
Cast: Jimmy Lydon, Charles Smith, John LiteL

DNDEBCOVEB MAN, western; prod,, Harry Sher
man: dir.; Lesley Selander; no writing credits; camera,
RilsseU Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, Bill George,
Andy Clyde, Chris-Pin Martin, Esther Estrella, An-
. tqnlo. Moreno. . , '

THE BOAD TO VOBOOCO, comedy-drama; asso.
prod., PatU Jones; dir, David Butler; no wrlUng
credits; no camera credit set Cart; Blng Crosby, Bob
' Eope^ Dorothy Lamour, Dona Drake.

Totals W 28 ' '

Pictures in cutting room or awaiting release:.

CODE OF THE OCIIAW, formerly , RIDERS OF
THE SUNSET TRAIL, western; prod., liou Gray; dir,
John English; original screenplay, Barry Shipman;
based on characters by William Colt MacDonald;
camera, Reggie Lanning. Cast: Bob Steele, Tom Tyler,
Rufe Davis Weldon Hayburn, Bennle Bartlett, Melinda
liCighton, Donald Curtis, John Ince, Ken Duncan, Phil
Dunham, Max. Waizman, Chuck Morrison, Carleton
Young.

TOKEL BOY, comedy; prod, Robert North; dir.,
Joseph Santley; no writing credits; camera, Ernest
Miller. Cast: Albert Dekker, Joan Davis, Alan Mow-
bray, Eddie Foy, Jr.

SPY SMASHER, serial; prod., William Sullivan, dir.,
William Whitney; no writing credits; camera, Reggie
Lanning. Cast: Kane Richmond, Sam Flint Marguerite
Chapman, Franco Corsaro, Hans Sehumm, Tristram
Coffin, Tom Lindon, Paul Bryar, John James, Crane
■Whitley, Richard Bond, Bob Stevenson, Ken Terrel.

AFFAIRS OF JIMMY VALENTINE, mystery; pvod.,
Leonard Fields; dir., Bernard Vorhaus; no writing
credits; camera, John Alton. Cast: Dennis O'Keefe,
Gloria Dickson, Ruth Terry, Roman Bohnen.

STAGECOACH EXPRESS, western; prod, dir.,
George Sherman; no writing credits; camera, John Mc-
Burnle. Cast: Don Red Barry, Lynn Merrick.

HEART OF THE BIO GBANDE, ' formerly DUSK
ON THE PAINTED DESEBT, western; asso. prod.,
Harry Grey; dir., William Morgan; no writing
credits; camera, Harry Neumann. Cast: Gene Autry,
Smiley Bumette, Fay McKenzle. Edith Fellows. Sarah
Padden, Joe Strauch, Jr., William Haede, Pierre Watkin.

SLEEP'YTIME GAL, comedy with music; prod, Al-
bert J. Cohen; dir., Al Rogell; no writing credits; cam-
era. Jack Marta. Cast: Judy Canova, Tom Brown,
Sklnnay~Ennis, Jerry Lester Billy Gilbert.

GIBL FBOM ALASKA, adventure; prod., Armand
Schaefer; dir., Nick Grinde; no writing credits; cam-
era. Jack Marta. Cast: Ray Mlddleton, Jean Parker,
Jerome Cowan, Robert Barrat, Ray Mala, Francis Mc-
Donald.

SUNSET ON THE DESEBT, western; prod., dir., Jo-
seph Kane; no writing credits; camera, Reggie Lan-
ning. Cast: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Lynne
Carver, Frank M. Thomas, Fred Burns, Douglas Fow-
ley,' Berle Wallace, Glenn Strange, Roy Barcroft Sons
of the Pioneers.

HOBIE IN WYOnilN', western; prod., Harry Grey;
dir.. Bill Morgan; no writing credits; camera, Ernest
Miller. Cast Gene Autiy, SmUey Bumette, Fay Mc-
Kenzle.

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Inside Staf-Pictinres

•Paramount's declaration of ZBc carii dividend on its common last week,
covering first quarter, indicates at least $1 annual bails lor tha present
Company paid 90c on th« common .ast year, hlghat amount ever paid
comulbn shareholdet« undei the present management Becaiua Par nearly
covered the lull divvy distribution in the final quarter last year, when It
earned 89c on the common, and Is reported operating at least on a prof-
itable basis currently, extra payments are In prospect this year.

Par no longer has to maintain 60c annual payment on Its second pre-
ferred (532,000 shares outstanding when redemption plan was announced)
because the full second preferred issue has been converted into common
or redeemed. Because there are around 2,901,000 common shares outstand-
Int, the first dlwy distribution of the year represents a melon cutting of
approximately $725,500.

Recent continued strength in Universal common certificates, listed on the
N. Y. Curb Exchange, called attention to the way the corporation had
broken down its earnings for the fiscal year ending Nov. 1, 1941. That re-
port shows $4.45 per share for these certlflcates, which ultimately will be-
come the common stock of Universal Corp., the holding company. Market
traders figure this unusually strong for the $8 figure at which the stock has
been selling in recent sessions.

Universal common certificates are virtually the only common stock in
the public hands today because 92.37% of all Universal, Pictures common,
shares outstanding are held by Universal Corp., the holding company,
leaving less than 8% In the hands of the publlCi

Breaking a precedent of many years standing. Paramount newsreel gave
Mervyn Freeman and Pathe News full credit for getting pictures of the
V. S. Navy Raids on the Marshall Islands on Its continuity-publicity
sheets last week. Both Preemah and Joe Rucker, Paramount camera ace,
were with the fieet and photographed the spectacular attack, with all clips
going to the five U. S. newsreels.

Idea of an opposition reel given a rival newsreel a break indicates a
fresh spirit of cooperation in the newsreel business. Previously, the reels
have been fiercely competitive and never given a rival newsreel any pub-
licity break whatsoever.

Universal Is cashing in on the burning of the Normandie for inserted
footage In the current picture, 'Saboteur,' even though Navy officials have
declared there was no sabotage in the burning of the French luxury
liner at Its Hudson river pier. To make the burning more dramatic,
Alfred Hitchcock, director, has ordered a plaster duplication of the Statue
of Liberty as background. Footage ordered at the time of the fire failed
to show the statue on Bedloe's Island, which was too far south of the
scene of action to be photographed through the smoke.

'Hidden Hunger,' short made by the Federal Security. Agency for the ■
Office of Defense and Welfare Services, under Federal Security Adminis-
trator Paul V. McNutt win be shown to Government officials In Washing-
ton Feb. 16. This Is the picture in which Samuel (Soldwyn evidenced such
interest that he agreed to loan Walter Brennan for the lead. Lloyd Corri-
gan, writer-cllrector-screen player, Is cast' In^ a dual characterization in the
film. Picture relates how to win the war on the food front. It Ib being
offered the industry as a typical wair effort production.

RKO-Radio

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Pictures In cutting room or awaiting release:

SYNCOPATION, drama; prod, dir., William Dleterle;
asso. prod, Charles L. Glett; original, Valentine Davles;
screenplur, Valentine Davles and John O'Hara; cam-
era, X Roy Himt Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Jackie
Cooper, Bonlta Granville,Jtobert Benchley, Ted North
Peggy Mclntyre, Lindy wade.

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, drama; prod,
dir., Orson Welles; novel. Booth Tarklngtbn: screen-
play, Orson Welles, Karl Stniss. Cast; Joseph Gotten,
Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Richard
Benn ett Agnes Modrehead, Ray Collins.

TUmJES OF TAHITI, comedy; prod., Islln Auster;
dir., Charles VIdor; story, CHiarles Nordhoff and James
Norman Hall; screenplay, I,ewls Meltzer anc| Charles
VIdor; camera, Nick Musuraca. Cast: Charles
Laughton, Jon Hall, Margaret Drake, Gene Reynolds,
Joady Gilbert Florence Bates, Robin Raymond.

LUM 'N' ABNER, comedy; prod.. Jack VoUon; dir.,
Mai St. Clair; no writing credits; camera, Paul Ivana.
.Cast: Chester Lauck, Norrls Goff, ZaSu Pitts, Louise
Currle, Irving Bacon, Oscar O'Shea, Grady Sutton.
Carl Hodgins.

POWDER ;rOWN, drama; prod.,. Cnifl Held; dir.,
Rowland V. Lee; story, Vlcki Baum; camera, Frank
Redman. Cast: Victor McLaglen, Edmond O'Brien,
June Havoc, Ruth Warrick, Eddie Foy, Jr, J'reddy
Martin and orchestra.

JOURNEY INTO FEAR, meller; prod, Orson Welles:
dir., Norman Foster: no 'writing credits: camera, Karl
Struss. Cast: Joseph Gotten, Dolores Del Wo, Agnes
Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Jack Durani, Eustace
.Wy^tt Edgar Barrier, Everett Sloane, Frank Readick,
Richard Bennett Bob Meltzer.

THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES, drama; pre
Samuel Goldwyn; dir., Sam Wood; no writing credits;
no camera credit. Cast: Gary (Jooper, Babe Ruth,
Teresa Wright Virginia Gllmore, Dan Duiyea, Walter
Brennan, BUI Dickey, Babe Herman.

To give Impetus to the drive for reclamation' of steel film containers,
Eastman Kodak Co. has announced a schedule ol cash allowances for cans
of its own manufacture;

Price list, ranges from |10 per thousand for 200-foot Smm containers to
$35 per thousand for the standard 2,000-foot cans. I,esser allowances are
made for lOmm cans. Further slight reduction is made for shipments from
west of the Hockles. Normally, the company uses about 2,600,(>00 contain-
ers annually.

Leading downtown New York picture h'buses have sent 60 passes each
to Mayor F.'H. LaGnardia for the use of members of the Wages and Hours
Administration whose offices have been transferred from Washington to
N.T. Pass donations were made as a gestoTs of good will to the W. &
H. A, with all theatres having employees subject to the. wage and hour
law. George A. Sloan, commissioner of the. Dept of Commerce, NiY.,
has acknowledged receipt of the Oakleys.

Drama and patriotism go hand-ln-hand In the mechanical preparations
tor the Warners picture, 'Desperate Journey.' Script calls for a bomber
runway 3,000 feet long and 200 feet wide. With all the airports In- the
Los Angeles area restricted to military use, the studio Is building its own
take-olt. Including an underground hangar, which wlU be turned over to
the (jovemment for war use' when the picture Is completed. Location
is somewhere In C^allfomia.

Paramount's purchase recently of 'Let's Face It' did not Include rights
to &e two top novelty tunes done by Danny Kaye In ttie hit Broadway
musical. Tunes, "Fairy Tale' and 'Melody In Four F,' were specially written
for Kaye by his wife, Sylvia Fine, and Max Llebman, Inasmuch as numbers
are figured suitable exclusively for KLjre'a style and Par Intends using Bob
Hope in the picture, studio made no move to acquire the pair of ditties.

20lli Century-Fox

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Pictures In cutting room or awaiting release:

UOONTIDE, drama; prod, Mark Helllnger: dir:,
Archie Mayo; no writing credits; camera, Charles
Clarke. Cast Jean Gabln, Ida Luplno,- Cllaude Rains.

NOT FOB CHILDBEN, drama; prod., Walter Mo-
rosco; dir., Al Werner; no writing credits; camera,
Luclen Andrlot Cast- Jane Withers, Maijorle
Weaver, Jimmy Lydon, Alan Mowbray, Kathleen
H oward .

WmSPEBING GHOSTS, mystery comedy; prod, Sol.
M. Wurtzel; dir., Alfred ffiQerker; no writing credits;
(Continued- on page 22) -

Quentin Reynolds drew $7,500 for his stint recently for Walter Wanger's
forthcoming 'Eagle Squadron' (U). Collier's war correspondent appears In
300 feet of Introductory comment to the picture on the activities of Ameri-
can flyers in England.

Reynolds Is the g. of h. at a British War Ambulance dinner this Saturday
(7) at the Hotel Roosevelt N. Y. It's a $10 a plate affair.

No matter how bad a film Is, It's sure of one booking In Frisco, accord-
ing to Roland Lloyd, booker for Aaron Goldberg's Indle circuit. One
house, the south-of-Market Peerless, Is the only dally change situation
In this area, burning up 14 features per week or' 730 annually, which
means Lloyd has to scrape the bottom of the bin to keep the situation lit
'We play some awful stuff,' he admits cheerfully.

As followup to the Y. Frank Freeman drive in the Par theatres for
which prizes were awarded, a committed of Par partners headed by E. V.
Richards, A. K Blank and K J. O'Donnell has contributed a fund for
building of the Y. Frank Freeman Library as an addition to the Motion
Picture Relief Fund Country House In Woodland Hills, Calif. W. L.
Pereira, architect has drawn plans for the building.

Chicago and London did a burn at the same time on the 20th-Fox lot
In the bombing raid for 'This Above AIL' There was not enough London
scenery for. an 'A' conflagration, so the imaginary bombers dropped their
incendiary missiles on the Chicago street set which had escaped destruc-
tion In the big Are of 1870. Tyrone Power lived through both flres.

' With studios and 'film stars reportedly determined to avoid both coin and
prestige accruing from national service work, numerous offers from pic-
ture arid vaude houses for film names' appearing In camp shows were last
week turned down. Understanding Is that publicity on stars in connec-
tion with their -army shows Is also being soft-pedaled.

Individual distributing companies wUl handle defense slU'ris In future,
under a new arrangement made last week by the War Activities Commit-
tee, Instead of by several companies a^revlously. Warners will distribute
the new group of three shorts to be approved by the WAC, with other
dlstrtbs- following alternately.

Wednesday, Morcli 4, 1942

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PICTURES

.Wedneaday, March 4, 1942

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camera. Luclen Ballard. Cast: Milton Berle, Brenda
Joyce, John Shelton. John Carradine.

THE MILUON DOLLAB GHOST, drama; prod,
Sol M. Wurtzel: dir., Heibert I. I«eds; no wlttag
credits; camera, Joseph MacDonald- Cast; Lloyd Nolan,
Mariorie Weaver, Helene Reynolds, Paul Harvey.

TALES OF MANHATTAN, drama; prod., Boris

Morros and S. P. Eagle: d"., '^'ii^*.'!!. °"^'^'®J5'
Ing credits; camera, Joseph Walker. Cast: Charles
Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell Ginger
Rogers. Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lan-
?heste?, EdWSd G. RSjinson, W. C. R^lds. Paul Robe-
Boa Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester Anderson, Hau

^"rms* ABOVE ALL, drama; prod., Darryl Zanuck;
dir., Anatole Litvak; no writing creditsj camera Arthur
Miller. Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Phillip

Merivale, Queenie Smith.

2«h Cent«ry-Fox PU In Frodaotlon

TEN GENTLEMEN FBOM WEST POINT, drama;
prod., William Periberg; dlr^ Irving Cum^Sff: "°
writing credits: camara, Leon Shamroy. Cast. Maureen
O'Hara, Victor Mature. George Montgomery, Laird
Cregar, O. Z. Whitehead. . , , j

MY GAL SAL, musical in technicolor; prod, Robert
Bassler; dir, Irving Cummlngs; no S^iSf^S nS,'
camera, Ernest Pafiner. Cast: •Rita Hayworth, Don
Ameche. Carole Landis. John Sutton. . „^

THE MAGNIFICENT JBBK, comedy-drama; prod,
WiUiam Periberg; dir, Walter Lang; screenplay, George
Seaton. based cn original by Joseph Schrank; camera,
Peverell Marley. Cast Heniy Fonda, Don Ameche,
Lynn Bari.

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Pictures in cutting room or awaiting release:

DVDES ABE PBBTTT PEOPLE, western; prod, Hal
Roach; dlr_ Hal Roach, Jr.; original, Donald Hough;
no can.ora credit. Cast: Marjorle Woodworth, Jimmy
Rogers, Noah Beery, Jr, Russell Gleason, Paul Hurst,
Mariorie Gateson. '

A GENTLEMAN AFTEB DABS, formerly BEUO-
TBOPE HABBT, drama; prod., Edward Small; dir,
Edwin L. Marin; original, Richard Washburn Child;
screenplay, George Bruce; camera, Milton Krasner.
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Miriam HopUns, Preston Foster,
PhiUp Reed, Harold Huber. i ^,

TWIN BEDS, drama; Edward Small production; dir,
Tim Whelnn; screenplay, CurUss Kenyon, Kenneth
Earl; camera, Hal Mohr. Cast: George Brent^oan
Bennett, Miacha Auer, Blnnie Barnes, Ernest Truez,
UnaMerkel.

U. A. PlK In ProdnetloB

FBIENDLT ENEBOES, drama; prod., Edward Small;
dir, Allan Dwan; screenplay, Adelaide Hellbron;
camera. Edward Cronjager. Cast Charles Wlnnlnger,
CiarUe Buggies, James Craig, Nancy Kelly, Otto
Kruger, Ike Grunlng.

ANNIE BOONET, drama; prod., Edward Small; dir.,
Edwin L. MaHn; screenplay. George Bruce; camera,
Les White. Cast: Shirley Temple, William Gargan,
Dickie Moore, Roland DuPree.

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camera. Woody BredeU. Cast: Patric Knowles, Maria
Moutez, Maria Ouspenskaya, John Lltel, Nell OX)«^,
Edward Norris, Lloyd Corrlgan. Clyde imnore.
Norma Drury, Reed Hadley, William Ruhl, Beatrice
Roberts.

GANG BVSTEBS, thriller; asso. prod.. Ford Beebe;
co-dirs., Ray Taylor and Noel Smith; original acreen-
play, Morgan Cox, Al Martin, Vic McLeod, George
Plymton; based on radio program by Phillips H. Lord;
camera, William Sickner and John W. Boyle. Cast-
Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey, Robert Armstrong, Ralph
Morgan, Richard Davles, Grace Cunard, John Gal-
laudet, William Haade. George Lewis, Victor Zimmer-
man, Ralf Harolde, Clarence Straight, Paul Scott, Jack
Mulhall, Frank Bruno, Keman Cripps, Stanley Price,
Don Murphy, Stanley Blystone, Joe Crehan, George
Watts, Johnnie Berkes, Pat O'Malley, Milton Klbbee.
Henry Sylvester, Phil Warren, Alan Gregg, Carl
Hackett, Mickey Simpson, Ethan Laldlaw, Eddie
Emerson, Francis Sayles, Carleton Young and ISaine
Morey.

SABOTEDB, drama; Frank Lloyd Productions; prod..
Jack SklrbaU; dir., Alfred Hitchcock; no writing
credits; camera, Joseph Valentine. Cast: PriscUla
Lane, Robert Cummlngs, Murray Alper, Anne Shoe-
maker, Norman Lloyd, Margaret Moffat, Will Lee,
Dick MIdgley, Will Wright, Lee Phelps, George Offer-
man, Jr., Gene Garrick, Harry Strang, Uatt Willis,
OUver Prickett, Hardie Albright, Byron Shores,
Vaughan Glaser, Duke York, Marl» McDonald, Pedro
J>e Cordoba, Anita Bolster, Billy Curtis. Marie Le-
Deauz, Romer Sisters, Paul E. Bums, Marjorle Wood,
Clem Bevans, Alan Baxter, WalWr Miller and Mary
Curtis.

Universal Fix In Frodaetloa >

THE SPOILEBS, drama; Frank Lloyd Productions;
asso, prod, Lee Marcus; dir, Ray Enricht; no writing
credits: camera, Milton Krasner. Cast: Marlene
Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret
Lindsay, Harry Carey, Richard Barthelmess, WiDlam
Farnum, Russell Simpson, Marietta Canty, Jack Norton,
George Cleveland^ Harry Strang, Jack Voglin.

EAGLE SQUADRON, drama; prod., Walter Wanger;
dir., Arthur Lubin; no writing credits; camera. Stanley
Cortez Cast: Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, Jon
Hall Eddie Albert, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, LeU
Erlckson, John Loder, Richard Davies, Frank Kelly,
Edgar Barrier, Gavin Muir, Don Porter, Alan Hale,
Jr, Howard Banks, Ed Glover, Clarence Straight, Har-
old Landon, Todd Kams, Charles King, Jr, Ben Erway,
Tom Stevenson, Donald Stewart, Fred Warlock, Isobel
Elsom, Jill Esmond, Leslie Dennlsdn, Olaf Hytten,
James Seay.

LADT IN A JAM, romantic comedy; prod, dir,
Gregory La Cava; no writing credlta; camera, Hal
Mohr. Cast: Irene Dunne, Ralph BeUamy, Eugene
Pallette, Queenie Vassar, Charles Coleman, Russell
Hicks, Emmett Vogan, Hardie Albright, Mona Barrle,
Lester Dorr, Charles Cane, John .Maurice Sullivan.
Robert Emmett Keane, Eddie Fetherston, Beatrice
Roberts, Theodore Von Eltz, Kathleen Howard, Claire
Whitney, Josephine WhltteU, Eddie Gargan.

BBOADWAT, drama; prod, Bruce Manning; asso.
prodL, Frank Shaw; dir., William A. Setter; no wrltlnig
credits; camera, George Barnes.' Cast: George Raft,
Pat O'Brien, Janet Blair, bod Crawford, Anne
Gwynne. S. Z. Sakall. Edward Brophy, Marjorle Ram-
beau. Marie Wilson, Gus SehUling/Iris Adrian, Elaine
Morey, Dolrothy Moore, Damian OTlynn, Ralf Harolde.

Totals 7B - 3« 7 9

Pictures in cutting room or awaiting release:
JUKE BOX ■ JENNT, formerly. FIFTT MILLION
NICBELS, comedy-drama;' 'asso. prod., Joseph G. San-
ford; no writing credits; camera, John- B^le. Cast:
Ken Murray, Harriet Hilllard, Iris Adrian^ Don
Douglas, Marjorle Gateson, Joe Brown, Jr, Charles
Barnet orchestra. Milt Berth trio, Wingy Manone
orchestra, Sig Amo, Don DiUaway, WilUam Ruhl,
Claire DuBrey, Reed Hadley, Jack Arnold.

FBISCO LUi, drama: asso. prod., Paul Malvern: dir...
Erie Kenton; no writing credits; camera, Charles Van
£nger. Cast: Irene Hervey, Kent Taylor, Jerome
Cowan, Minor Watson, Samuel S. Hinds. Matty Fain,
Milbum Stone, Tony Paton, Harry Strang, Eddie
Chandler, Keman Cripps, Rex Lease, Paul McVey,
Harry C. Bradley, Selmer Jackson, Qua Glassmlre,
Emmett Lynn, Edgar Edwards.

DESTDTT, 4rama; asso; prod.-dlr., George Waggner:
no .wrltinj credits; no camera credits. Cast: ' Claude
Rains, Maria Ouspenskaya, Dick Foran, Lon Chaney,
Jr., Bela Lugosi.

ALMOST KABBIED formerly TEMPOBABT-BBIDE:
drama; asso pto^ Ken Goldantth; dir, Charles La-
jnont; no writing credits. Cast: Robert Paige, Jane
Frazee, Eugene Pallette. Elizabeth Patterson, Charles
Coleman, Jan Wiley. Will Lee, Maude Ebume, Olln
Howland, SUm- and Slam, Lionel Pape, Herbert Hay-
wood, Ferris Taylor, Minerva Urecal, Uoyd Ingraham,
Walter Tetley, Bay Walker.

MISSISSIPPI GAMBLES, drama; asso. prod, Paul
.'Malvern; dir, Saba Rawlins; no writing credits;
Camecs, John Boyle. .Cast:.. Kent Taylor, Frances
Langford, John Lltel, Claire -Dodd, Shemp Howard,
Douglas Fowley. Paul Bryar, Charles wagenhelm,
Eddie Acufl, Paul Phillips, Richard Terry, Boyd Davis,
George Aldrlch Bowker.

TOCBE TELLING HE, comedy: asso. prod.. Ken
Goldsmith; ~dir, Charles Lamoni; original story,
Charles O'Neill, Duane Decker; screenplay, Frances
Hyiand, Brenda Weisberg; camera, Jerome Ash. Cast:
Hugh Herbert, Anne Gwynne, Robert Paige, Edward
Ashley, Ernest Truex, Esther Dale, Elaine Morey,
'Susan Miller, Marie McDonald, Nell O'Day, Kathryn
Adams, Linda Brent, Romaine Callender, Boyd Davis,
Olaf Hytten, Charles Smith, Vlckl Lester, Helen Lynd,
Heinle Co'nklln, EUy Malyon.

ItnrSTEBT OF HABIE BOGET, mystery; asso. prod..
Paul Malvern; dir, FhU Rosen; no writing credits;

A Tragedy at Midnight

ture of the police. When Howard,
the radio sleuth, and wife Margaret
Lindsay, accept loan of friends
apartment, the air hawkshaw finds
himself in the middle of a swell mur-
der when a girl is found stabbed to
death In the apartment Couple es-
cape the clutches of the poUce, and
then swing through the regulation
chase around the town -ta-gradualIy_
piece things together so that, when
he copis finally catch up with How-
ard and Miss Lindsay, he's on the
air giving a last minute solution and
history of the crime.

Despite the looseness of the script
fast pace generated through direction
of Joseph Santley covers up much
of the inconsistency apparent under
close analysis. Intended smart dialog
for laughs fail to dick to any ex-
tent, and ifs Just another whodunit
Cast la well set up, with both How-
ard and Miss Lindsay okay in tibe
leads. Keye Luke Is rather broadly
drawn as the pair's Chinese servant
who pops up conveniently all over
town to spirit, them away from the
law. Plc&re carries okay produc-
tion mounting for a program sop-
porter. Wfolfc

WESTERN MAIL

Sonogram releao* of Rob«rt Tonwy pro-
duction. 8t»r» Tom K««,n«-_. J2
Robort T«na«y. Ori«ln«l • rtory, Robert
Emmett. Prtnclo C«v«n«u)th: c»mor«,
Utreel Lo Blnrd: uslitont dlnetpr. Son
Vttk: odltor, Frod B«ln; mmlo direction.
Fnnk Banaccl. ' Reviewed et Colonltl,
Uncoln, Neb.. Feb. 28, '42, 4u«t. Runnlns
time. U MINB. _^ _

Tom Tom Eeeno

Lopes rronk Teconelll

Oordon ^nr Mmod

I,uekr Fred Kohler

Collin* Olenn ^tnnse

Rod Oene Aliace

Cberenne ^-J""" '£"1?'^

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Pictures in cutting room or awaiting release:
JUKE GIBL, drama; asso. prods, Jerry Wald, Jack
Sapier; dir., Curtis Bernhardt; no writing credits; cam-
era, £ert Glennon. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Ronald Rea:

ian. Richard Whorf. Alan Hale, George Tobias, Gene
lOckhart, Donald MacBride, Betty Brewer, Faye Em'
arson, Fiizzy Knight, Willie Best

ABSENIC AND OLD LACE, drama; asso. prod, and
dlr„ Frank Capra: no writing credits; camera, Sol Po-
lito. Cast Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Mas-
scy, Peter Lorre, Jack Carson, Josephine Hull, Jean
Adair, John Alexander.

IN THIS OUB LIFE, drama; asso. prod., David Lewis;
dir, -John Huston; story, Ellen Glasgow; camera, Er-
nest Haller. Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de HavUland,
George Brent, Deimls Morgan. Charles Cobum, Billle
Burke, Donald Crisp, Mary Servoss.

LABCENT, INC, drama; asso. prods., Jerry Wald
. and Jack Saper; dir, Lloyd Bacon; play, Laura and
S. J. Perelman; icreenplay, Everett Freeman, Edwin
Gilbert; camera, Tony Gaudio. Cast: Edward G.
Robinson. Jane Wyman. Jack Carson, Broderick Craw-
ford, John Qualen, Harry Davenport, Andrew TOmbes.
Warner Piz Now In PredaoUoa
YANKEE 'DOODLE DANDT. drama; asso. jprod
William Cagn^y: dir, Michael Curtiz; Robert Bu&imer;
camera, James Wong Howe.- Cast; James Cagney, Joan
LesUe, Richard Whoit, Jean Cagney, Irene Manning,
R osema ry De Camp.

THE BIG SHOT, formerly ESCAPE FBOM CBIHE,
melodrama; asso. prod, Walter MacEwen; dir.. Lew
Seller; original, Daniel Fuchs; camera, Sid Hickox.
- Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Richard Travis, Donald Cri£i>,
Stanley Ridges.

THE GAT SISTERS, drama; asso., prod, Henry
Blanke; dir, Irving Rapper; screenplay, Lenore Coffee
story froin novel Dy Stephen Longstreet; camera. So
Follto. Cast: Barbara St anwy ck, George Brent

SHADOW OF THEIB WINGS, drama; asso, prod.
Jack Saper; dir.; Raoul Walsh; original screnplay,
Byron Morgan, Harrison Orkow; camera, Tony Gaudio.
Cast: Aim Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Dennis Morgan,
George Tobias.

THE HABD WAT, drama; prod, Jerry Wald; dir:,
Vincent Sherman; original, Irwin Shaw; screenplay,
Daniel Fuchs and Peter Vlertel; camera, James 'Wong
Howe. Cast: Ida Lupino, John Garfield.

ACBOS3 THE PACIFIC, drama; prod., Jerry Wald
and Jack Saper; dir, John Huston; screenplay, Richard
Macaulay, based on Satevepost story 'Alolia Means
Goodbye'; camera, Arthur Edison, Cast: Humphrey
Bogart

THE CONSTANT NTHPH, drama; prod., Henry
Blanke; dir~ Edmund Goulding; no writing credlta;
camera, Emle Haller. Cast: Charles Boyer, Joan Fon
talne, Alexis Smith, Jean Muir, Peter Lorre,

DESPERATE JOUBNET, drama; asso. prod., Jack
Saper; dir, Raoul Walsh; no writing credus; camera,
Bert Blennon.' Cast: Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan,
Kaaren Verne, Raymond Massey, Arthur Kennedy,
Alan Hale.

Film Reviews

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Thunder River Feud

(ONE 60NG)
Monognin nieua ot Georse . W, Weeki
roductlon. Stan Bange Biuten (Rey
OorrlRon, John Kins, Mox Terbune), Di-
rected by S. Roy Luby; itory, Earl Bnall;
acnenplay, Bar! Bnoll. Jobn Vlanoa; cnm« -
en, Robert Cllne; editor, Roy. Cllne; flong,
Jean Qeorgo. Reviewed at Colonial, Lin-
coln, Neb.. Feb. 29,- '43, dual. Runnlrtr
time, S« MOB.

CntAi .....Ray Corrlcan

Duaty Jobn King

'Alibi Max Terhune

MaytMlle Jan Wiley

Pembroke Jack B, Holmei

Colonel ^...Rlck Andomon

Orover Carleton Toung

Taggart i Oeonte Cbesobro

•tm Carl Mattbewg

Sheritt Budd Biulor

Buck Ted Mapee

Shorty Steve Clark

■Western Mail,' for a western, has
plenty of action. Turns spectacular
couple of times, but the rest of it Is
the run-ot-mill fighting with guns
and fists, mostly to save a gal's faith
In a no-good bother. It will do the
usually light Tom Keene biz.

Story is shouldered by Tom Keene,
who poses as a crook to win favor
and influence his enemies. He's
really a stiff arm of the 'law. Joins
to befriend Fred Kohler, -who Is
leading lady Jean Trent's broHier
gone wrong. Kohler is conveniently
shot late in the running time.

Frank Yaconelll Is Keene's saddle'
mate, doing a Mex character, and
getting comedy by a hodgepodge of
corny routines involving both guitar
and a trained monkey — something
new in western livestock. Miss
Trent is the only doll around the
premises, and she's no queen, dra-
matically or otherwise. Art

MR. CELEBRITY

Producen Releaelng Corp. releaeo of Mar-
tin Mooney prodactlon. ' Features Buzsy
Henry, Jamea Sear. Doria J>ay. Directed
by WUllam Baaudlne, Screenplay, Mar-
tin Mooney, from atoi^ by Cbarlea Sam.
uela and Mooney; editor. Robert Crandall:
camera. Artbur Martlnelll, At New Tork,
N. T., week Feb. 24, '42, dual. Running
time, SS TOSa.

Danny Mason BU227 Henty

Jim Kane James Beay

Carol Carter Doris Day

Mr, Mason «... William Halllgan

Tnven Gavin Gordon

Jobnny Martin Jobnny Berkes

Judge Cnlpepper Jack Baxley

Cardo, the Great..... Larry Grey

Joe Farrell Jobn £. Ince

Dugan Frank Hsgney

Geragbty Jack Rlcbardson

Scanlon Alfred Hall

Smokey Smokey Baunden

This is the old^arn about the race-
htfrse carefully nursed along by a
veterinarian to cop a championship
race. This furnishes the opportunity
to rlnj in Clara Kimball Yoimg and
Francis X. Bushman, as ex-picture
stars, and Jim Jeffries, as a former
heavyweight fight champ. They
lend a touch of nostalgia, with the
first two still indicating plenty of
ability. Aside from this, 'Mi. Celeb-
rity' is a ' Light-budget programmer
suited only as a secondary feature
on dualsV Plot resembles too many
other racetrack yams.

Considerable footage is used in de-
picting the hardships of a youthful
veterinary and his kid nephew, both
of whom love racetrack life. The
two always manage to thwart efforta
of rich grandparents to gain custody
of the lad. Pair finally winds up at
'Celebrity Farm,' pictured as a safe
haven for former personalities in
the public eye. Kane conditions a
racing horse owned by the farm, and
'Mr. Celebrity,' the nag, of course,
wins the crucial race. This puts
Kane in the money and he wins
permanent custody of the youngster.

James Seay Is satisfactory as Kane
while Buzzy Henry is likeable as the
youngster. Doris Day, as a' writer
doing stories on the 'Farm' celebs,
lends looks to the slight romance.
Support is mild excepting Jack Bax-
ley, who makes an unusually comical
Kentucky Judge. Wear.

'Thunder River Feud' will cause
no particular boxoSlce flurry. It's
a little better stocked with comedy
than many of the westerns which get
fimny in their own seriousness, al-
though all the tried' and thoroughly
tested Ingredlenta are used

Whole story la hung on the Range
Busters trlo--John King, the singer;
Ray Corrigan, the muscle man, and
Max Terhune, an Edgar Bergen of
the badlands with a dummy. The
immediate problem ot all three, as
the pic opens, is to get to Jan Wiley,
the only woman of the flilm, but upon
arriving, they find themselves in the
midst ot h range war. Fracas, it
seems, has been started by a band of .
riffraff yrhose mission is to create
suspicion between the men of the
two leading spreadsi Their idea is to
have each liquidate the other in san-
guinary gunflghtlng, the outlaws
harping about the fringes to pick
up the combined land left after the
battling.

There's only one song, sung by
John King. It's 'What a Wonderful
Day,' Jean George authored and Is
a light Uttle. ditty, forced in rather
than needed.

Wisely kept at a minimum is Ter-
hune's labor with the dummy, be-
cause, as always has been the case,
the material is cateh-as-cateh-can.
With a little writing, the dummy
might have become an Interesting
western experiment, but to date, the
scoring has been slight and seldom.
Corrlgan does the most versatile
work in this offerbig and gets most
of the laughs.

S. Roy Luby managed to keep up
a pret^ fair pace throughout,' but
there were a couple of bogdowns
midway. Most ot.the technical sec-
tion hita the western par. Art

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jspanklng, it would be a mere repe'>
tition of the dressing down Brendan
Bracken, British Minister of In-
formation, was forced to administer^
to the English companies only about'
three weeks ago. They, too, had
persisted in giving in pictures and
commentary an idea that every-
thlng's-right-wlth-the-world.

Battle, it appears. Is more of one
between film company homeofflces
and the newsreel editors than be-
tween the newsreela themselves and
the Government. - Editors of the
news film are said to be well aware
of the distorting they're doing, and
resentful about it, but forced by h.o.
toppers to continue.

Sales departmenta claim that ex-
hlbs don't want depressing news-
reels. They say they dip 'em or
don't play 'em at all, and thus the
chances of aeUlng the reels to them
next season are hurt. Audiences
come to theatres for escape and don't
want to be burdened with world
troubles is the attitude exhlbs are
said to adopt

Paramount is thought by Washing-
ton's propaganda men— Archibald
Macl^lsfa's Office of Facta and Fig-
ures' and Lowell Mellett's Office of
Government Film Coordinator— to
be the closest of the five reels to
realism, but far from satisfactory.

Objection Is to .films which show
a few planes -or tanks coming off a
line and then have a comme'ntator
indicate we are far outatripping the
.Axis In plane and tank production.
Or pictures of unita of the fieet, ac-
companied by words indicating that
it is invincible and no one need
worry. This kind of talk is felt to
have led to the present inability of
Americans to realize tiiat they must
wake up or a distinct possibility
exists of thd.U. S. losing this war.

On the other hand, MacLeish,
Mellett and War and Navy depart-
menta are highly pleased at the reels'
quick acceptance and working out ot
a pooling system to get the best
possible war coverage. _They readily
gave up a number of individual ad-
vantages, It is said, to coordinate
their efforta for best overall resulta.

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

Kent and Connors Head 73 Distrib
Execs in 20th-Fox Chi Sales Powwow

■fi-

Chlcago, March 3.

Three-day meeting here of 73
distributing executives of 20th Cen-
tury-Fox, called by Tom Connors,
assistant to president Sidney Kent,
was for the basic purpose of a get-
together between the men In the
field and Connors.. He had never
met some of the branch managers,
end knew some of the others only
slightly. Figured that It would be
almost Impossible to' make the
rounds of the various branches in
person and still attend to duties at
the home office.

In addition, the meeting served as
a means of putting over to the disr
trlct and branch managers the
strength of the coming product, and
to discuss advertising and sales pro-
motion. A. M. Botsford, ad and
publicity director, was In for one
day to tell the assemblage about the
drive being readied for This Above
All,' which will be started off with a
$50,000 magazine advertising cam-
paign, leading into direct exhibitor
tleups. Botsford headed back to the
home office before the conclusion of
the meeting, and Rodney Bush, ex-
ploitation chief, took over along
with Ed- Solomon, Ward Farrar,
Tommy Thompson and Cliff GilL

William Clark gave the managers
a quick once-over on the short sub-
jects situation and expressed satis-
faction the newsreel was holding up
well In the war crisis. Three dis-
trict managers, William Sussman of
the east, William Gehring of the
central and William Kupper of the
western division, mirrored the
views of the company on the new
sales effort.

Herman Wobber, distribution head,
gave a summary of the coming prod-
uct, and the meeting climaxed with
a talk by president Kent who ar-
rived in Chicago yesterday (Monday)
for the final session. He drove
home to the assembled managers the
facts' of present-day selling, in view
of the world and national war sit-
uation, and again emphasized that
Connors was his spokesman on sales
and general distribution matters.

Double-Uppers Warned

Hollywood, March 3.
Two -timing by extras was
threatened with fines by the Screen
Actors Guild as result of complaints
about repeaters on the same pictures
In various studios.

SAG sent out a general order that
repeating Is classified as a foul and
will be penalized as such except In
the case of call-backs, when the
studio specifically asks for certain
extras who have already appeared in
the same film.

Friorltles BUU Hable

Lynchburg, March 3.
Priorities have slapped the lid on
plans for a new theatre at Winches-
ter, Va. Herman Hable, Shenandoah
Valley string operator, has an-
nounced he's givinr up plans for a
house, there because of inability to
get materials. Due to revive idea
after war.

METRO'S lOSG
FOR DRAGOir

Metro's purchase last week of
Pearl. Buck.i 'Dragon Seed' moved
the new novel Into the select com'
pany of books which have brought
more than $100,000 for film rights,
Metro paid $105,000 for the story of
the effect of the Chinese-Japanese
war on one family.

'Seed' is Metro's first big purchase
In months and was evidently ac-
quired to glv6 it footing with com'
petltors who have three books on
next season's sked which cost them
more than lOOG apiece. They are
'For Whom The Bell Tolls,' by Ernest
Hemingway, and 'Frenchman's Creek,'
by Daphne du Maurier, for which
Paramount gave $150,000 and $125,000,
respectively, and 'Saratoga Trunk,' by
Edna Ferber, for which Warner Bros,
paid $185,000. .

Metro has also closed a deal for
'The Sun Is My Undoing,' by Mar
guerlte Steen, price $45,000. It's for
Clark Gable, Pandro Berman prO'
duces.

Other Story Bays '

Holiyvood, March 3.

Metro bought the old A.S.M.
Hutchinson noveL 'If Winter Comes.'

Rouben Mamouiian acquired rlghte
to Marian Caddy's mag yarn, 'Part-
ners In Love.'

Twentieth-Fox purchased Death
from the Sanskrit,' t>y I,awrence G.
Blochman.

Ed Cross bought Humphrey
Stewart's novel, 'Spinning Wheel in
the Sun,' for independent produc
tlon.

Scott Littleton sold, his story of
sabotage, Time .Bomb,' to Monogram.

'New York Theatres

GINGER ROGERS
as "ROXIE HART"

with Adolph Menjeu
and Geo. Montgomery

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BAYHOMD HASSET

'The INVADERS

PARAMDUNT

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Ooddard

thI'lady
has plans'

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Plcluro '

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InaBar Hntl-
and Band
Joan Edwar.
Hal L«B^
Eitra
' Jack HalfT

4TH WEEK

JAMES CAGNEY

In a Now Warnor Broa Hit

"CAPTAINS of tho CLOTTOS"

wUh' tlM Boral Canadian Ate Fora
— In Poraon—

BLUE BARRON ^i,^
STRAND B'way & 47th St

MUSIC HALL

HELD OVEB

"WOMAN OF
THE YEAR"

Spectacular SUg* Productlo.ni

B WAY &
47th SI.

PALACE

GARY COOPER
BARBARA STANWYCK

'BALL OF FffiE'

"A ORBAI SHOW."— Herald TrUrano

50e.S1&S1.50 H'o'"ViSt,

2ND TEAR— 2ND EDITION of tho
SoDftatlonbl Mualcal Icotravaffanxa

IT HAPPENS ON ICE

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■ 'TO BE OR NOT TO BE"

"MISTER V"

with XXSLIE HOWARD

a^rtIsts rivoliiw

DMnOpin 1:30 A.M. MIDNITE SHOWS

Under the Wire

Loi Angeles, March 3.
Last film house to be built in
this area until priorities are re-
laxed Is the San Gabriel theatre,
opened Feb. 18 In the town of
that name by O. W. Lewis, who
also operates the Mission Flay'-
house In the same district

PIGTURES

2S

New Army Camp
Ups Bmldmg Of
Texas Theatres

Bastrop, Texas, March 3.

The erection here by the Gov-
ernment of a $23,000,000 army camp,
to be opened around April 1, has re-
sulted in Increased theatre building
interest hereabouts.

Eddie Joseph, of Austin, operator
of the Austin Drive-In, is surveyiiig
the city f9r a site on which to build.
H. Ford Taylor of the Rltz, Ballln-
ger, and Harley Sadler, tent show-
man, have arranged with a bus line
whereby the latter will build a bus
station and theatre building here
which the two will operate.

J. G. Long, of Bay City, Is re-
modeling the Strand there and has
plans for a new theatre to be built
there soon.

B. C Gibson, former manager fur
United Artists, Dallas, is remodeling
a building at Bay City.

In Elgin, Dale Wilson owns and
operates the new Eltex and has
opened the V ... —. H. A. Daniels
plans the erection of a new house
here. Daniels operates the Palace
at Seguln, Texas.

The army itself will possibly have
three theatres in the Bastrop' camp
area.

Blveraide, Texas, Opening

Fort Worth, March 3.
The Tower, In Riverside, suburb of
Fort Worth, opened Friday (20). It
is jointly operated by Interstate Cir-
cuit and Dennis and James High-
tower of the Texas theatre. Fort
Worth.

Another Near-Camp ClnemA

Paris, Texas, March 3.
Interstate plans to build a new
house here, following completion of
a new army camp near here. Cir-
cuit has four houses here at present
and one that the group has never
opened.

Roy Pamell will soon complete
building of a house in Malakoff,
Texas, which he expects to have in
oj^ration here by March 15. Parnell
has operated here until 1939 when it
wag destroyed by fire. He is now
\^lth the Jones theatre in Brown-

fleld Tex. •

More Western -Pa. Bldg.

Reading, Pa., March 3.

Henry Sork, owner and operator
of the Rio here, and .a house in
Schuylkill Haven, 22 miles north of
Reading, plans three-story brick
theatre and business building, to
cost $75,000, to be erected in Schuyl-
kill Haven.

Samuel J. Moskowilz, Wilkes-
Barre, Pa., architect, is preparing
plans for a brick theatre building in
Hazleton for Hazleton Theatres, Inc.
Cost wlU be about $50,000. Bids will
be received in a few weeks.

Tonngstown's Newest
Youngstown, 0., March 3.
Youngstown's newest, the Schen-
ley, is expected to be finished and
ready for operation about April 15,
George and John Gran, owners, an-
nounced.

The owners operate a restaurant
In suburban Campbell.

Femme Projectionist

-Charlotte, N. C, March 3.

One of the few female motion
picture machine operators in the
United States rolls the reels out in
perfect manner in a Statesville
theatre. She is Virginia Warren,
pretty blue-eyed brunet, who has
been operating the machines in this
theatre for a month and rates with
the best, according to Major J.- C.
Holloway, manager of the theatre.
The major has been in the business
for 21 years and has never seen a
girl attempt the job before.

Miss Warren's ambition is not
only to be an operator, but to be-
come a theatre manager. ,.

SHOW BUSINESS
fiOES ALL OUT FOR
NAVY RELIEF FUND

Fred Men

Kenny Baker

Tollulah Bankhead

Jim Botrton

Constance Bennett

Edgar Bergen

'Best Foot Forward'
Chorus

Ray Bolger

Connie Boswell

Betty Bruce

Eddie Cantor

John Cairadine

Madeline Carroll

Diosa Costello

Bette Davis

BiUy De WoUe

Paul Drioper /

^mmy Durante

Gae Foster Girls

Ed Gardner

Reggie Gardner

Janet Gaynor

Jack Haley

The Hortmans

Lou Holtz

George Jessel

Al Jolson

Boris Karloif

George S. Kaufman
and Moss Hart

Danny Kaye

Andre Kostelanetz

Gertrude Lawrence
and Chorus

Joe E. Lewis

Hal Le Roy

Bert Lahr

Ella Logon

Myma Loy

Bert Lytell

Lucy Monroe

Merle Oberon

Olson and Johnson

Gormen Miranda

Dick Powell

Walter Pidgeon

Tyrone Power

Vincent Price

Bill Robinson

Music Holl Rockettes

Rosorio and Antonio
and Chorus

Hazel Scott'

Randolph Scott

Dinah Shore

Kate Sfmith

The Ink Spots ^

Sophie Tucker

Benay Venuto

' Mary Jane Walsh and
liet's Face It' Chonui

Fred Waring &
Glee Club

Clifton Webb

Walter WincheU

Ed Wynn

Henny Youngman

Loretta Young

NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT
MARCH 10

AT

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
NEW YORK

24 PICTURES

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

'Off Limits Edict by Navy Socks
Charleston Theatres and Niteries

Chaiieston, S. C, March 3.

Theatres and niteries here are
wringing the crying towel because
of the recent 'off limits' edict against
Charleston, Itsued to seamen of the
Charleston navy yard by Rear
Admiral William H. Allen, the com-
mandant. The latter issued the rul-
ing after several servicemen had
been involved in local nitery brawls,
Iwo of which resulted in slayings.
The town's servicemen had been the
main support of the local theatres
and cafes, among other businesses.

Eugene C. Hayes, proprietor of the
Plaza. Charleston restaurant and
nitery, has been arrested on war-
rant charging nuisance law viola-
tion. LeRoy Wilson Escoffier, taxi-
cab driver, was recently shot to
death in the place. Immediately
afterwards, the commandant de-
clared Charleston off bounds for
seamen. An unidentified navy yard
worker is sought.

James N. Carratt, owner of the
Ambassador, another Charleston
cafe, is under $300 bond, charged
with nuisance law violation.

B. C. Rivers, operator of the Kozy

restaurant, has voluntarily closed.
Thomas Quinn Slattery, 22, a marine,
was recently shot to death there.
Oscar Edward Zealy drew two years
for manslaughter in Slattery slay-
ing. He pleaded guilty.

Angered by attitude of Admiral
Allen, Mayor Henry W. Lockwood
has taken action to remove what he
considers a 'blot on city's reputation
for moral cleanliness and order.'
Merchants are also advised to 'look
into situation,' mayor said.

San Antonio Squawks

San Antonio, March 3.

The curfew will ring for soldiers
in one section of the city according
to Maj. H. H. Spoede, head of the
downtown military police. A certain
area embracing about 10 square
blocks a little off the city business
district will be banned to soldiers
every evening after 11 o'clock and
on Saturday after midnight.

The area contains many night spots
and one theatre. Night club and
tavern owners bemoan the edict Ban
was caused by the fact that many
disturbances were caused In the area
after those hours. •

JOHNSON AND HARTMAN
LOSE ANTI-TRUST SUIT

Minneapolis, March 3.

Ruling that Art Johnson and J. P.
Hartman had no claim for damages
in his $523,500 anti-trust suit
against film- distributors here, the
Minnesota Amusement Co. (Para-
mount) and Welworlh circuits,
Federal Judge A. Lee Wyman di-
rected the Jury to bring in a ver-
dict for the defendants.

Johnson and Hartman alleged that
the ^Im companies and theatre
chains had conspired to prevent his
two theatres from obtaining prod-
uct, causing him considerable
monetary loss. Johnson himself was
only witness called by the defense
which sought to bring Out by his
examination that he had not made
proper boxoffice reports on per-
centage pictures and allegedly had
resorted to other practices that
made him and his partner an un-
desirable account

Inkers Yield to Metro

Hollywood, March 3.

Screen Cartoonists GuiM agreed,
except for a few minor details, to
Metros counter -proposal on wages
and working conditions.

William Pomerance, business
agent, was instructed by the Metro
unit to accept the company's terms,
with certain reservations..

1930-1941

■

'Siu WOMAN"

Votear's CoL Suit K.O.d

The appellate division of the N. Y.
supreme court BVIday (27) upheld a
decision of Justice Aaron J. Levy
di^mJsslng an action by Ferdinand
Voteur against Columbia Pictures.
Suit had claimed plagiarism and
asked $250,000 damages.

Voteur had claimed his play, 'Rcs-
surrection Morning,' was used by
Columbia as a basis for 'The Man
Who Lived Twice."

60 DAYS' CLEARANCE
IN N.O. cur TO 10 DAYS

New Orleans, March 3.

In his first major decision, Philip
E. James, arbitrator of the New
Orleans district of the Arbitration
council, issued an award decreasing
the clearance between the Poplar
and Ashton from 60 days to 10 days.

Parties in the arbitration were W.
A. Fonseca & Sons, owners of the
Ashton, and the United Theatres,
Inc., operators of the Poplar, with
Metro, Paramount, RKO and WB.

EXHI6 DEFENDS
OVERBUYING AS
'NECESSARr

Rosecan's Clearance Claim

St Louis, March 3. |
Olga Theatre Corp., headed by
Edward J. Rosecan, former native,
operator of the Rialto, Hannibal, Mo.,
last week beefed to the local AAA
office asserting that the clearance
between it and two other houses in
the same town are 'unreasonable and
indetlnite.' Named as defendants are
Vitagraph, Inc., 20th-Fox, and Para-
mount. The petition asks that relief
of the clearance between the Rialto
and the Orpheum and Star, the latter
two owned and operated by the Price
Theatres, Inc., ol which H. A.
Scheldker is general manager, he
settled as soon as possible.

While Price was not named as de-
fendant It is believed it will inter-
vene in the suit as an interested
party. This is the first case to be
filed since Jan. 1 and makes the
seventh to be docketed" in the local
AAA tribunal.

Smaltey Vs. Scblne
Albany, N. Y., March 3.
Testimony by Mrs. Helen John-
son; secretary of Bill' Smalley, of
the Smalley circuit, and Steve Tar-
bell, Its booker, marked the first
hearings in the arbitration com-
plaint filed by the Smalley theatre
in the village of Sidney against
Metro', Paramount, Warners, 20th-
Fox, RKO and Warners, over the
clearance for Schine's Colonia in the
city of Norwich. The two situa-
tions are 26 miles apart and the
Schine house has 14 days' clearance.
Smalley seeks a slash in the clear-
ance, claiming the theatres are not
competitive.

Minneapolis, March 3.

Overbuying was defended as •
proper and necessary trade practice
on exhibitors' part by Stan Donnelly,
counsel for Mrs. Jessie Jensen; owner
of the Avalon, White Bear, Minn.,
independent house, in the hearing of
the Arbitration complaint brought by
Dave Ratner, who has the opposition
theatre in the town and who leeks
some run of Warner Bros, and 20th-
Fox at a reasonable cost,

Mrs. Jensen entered the case as an
intervener when it was charged that
distributors here oversold her in
order to keep product away from
Ratner.

'The extent to which overbuying
should go is a matter of the oppo-
sition," argued Donnelly. 'But there
can be no gainsaying that it fre-
quently is necessary for an exhibitor
to buy many more pictures than he
can use in order to obtain the best
ones from the various companies,
which he must have so that he can
operate efficiently."

L. B. Schwartz, counsel for the
complainant, argued that the Jensen
overbuying was excessive. David
Shearer, the film compiinies' lawyer,
brought out that Warners had offered
Ratner a second runj but that it was
rejected by Ratner as 'unsatisfactory.'
He also showed that 20th-Fox had re-
fused to sell a second-run in the town
on the grounds that it was too small
for such a policy and would affect
its total revenue in the situation ad-
versely and injure its position with
the first-run account.

White Bear is a summer resort and
it was contended, among other
things, that motoring restrictions
would injure business at its theatres.

A. A. Karlens, the arbitrator, re-
jected the defendants' plea for a dis-
missal and requested the lawyers to
submit briefs. Ratner Is appealing
from a directed verdict against him
in a $25,000 civil damage suit against
Mrs. Jensen, charging conspiracy to
force him out of business by over-
buying and other devices.

Bert Popkin Resigns
At 306 Due to Health

Bert Popkin, for eight years busi-
ness agent of Local 306, Moving Pic-
ture Machine Operators of New
York, has resigned due to ill health
and will take a long rest. Resig-
nation is effective Immediately.

A special election will be held
within a month to determine on a
successor, with no likely candidates
reported at the moment

Popkin was elected to a two-year
term as biz agent of 306, covering
N. Y., last December. Union has a
separate business agent for Brooklyn.

SOPEG (CIO) to Rep CoL
And Metro CoDarites

Pagettes in Home-Offices

Calling of so many men to the
colors, with the resultant heavy
turnover of young men, is prompting
numerous film companies to replace
office messengers and pages in N. Y.
homeoffices with femmes. Warner
Bros^ and RKO already have be-
gun such replacements on tlieir
messenger staffs, after experiencing
several weeks of operations with de-
pleted staffs.

Same procedure is being followed
by most other companies excepting
where youngsters not likely to be
called into service for several years
are used. Not only have homeof-
fice staffs suffered from draft calls
and youths volunteering for service,
but many have shifted to more
profitable jobs in other business va-
cated by men entering military
service.

Employes of Loew's-Metro h.o.
voted last week 324-137 for the
Screen Office & Professional Em-
ployes Guild, CIO, to represent them
as collective bargaining agent. Vote
was held the same day at Columbia,
but technicality over absentee ballot-
ing has delayed a count.

Loew's and Col elections were the
first NLRB v6tcs taken in the film
industry in which a CIO union has
been on the ballot Similar Labor
Board-supervised elections are
scheduled shortly at RKO and 20th-
Fox.

Loew's theatre p.a.s last week
voted 8 to 5 for the Screen Publi-
cists Guild of New York as their
bargaining agent SPG declared
it woul4_press for immediate nego-
tiations.

Uniforms to Shoot At

Hollywood, March 3.

Republic is up against a shortage
of Japanese uniforms as result of the
roundup of alien enemies in the
Southern California area. Wardrobe
scouts have been able to find only
50 Nipponese military outfits for
'Remember Pearl Harbor," and the
script calls for a lot more.

Government authorities are not
letting out the many Jap sailor and
soldier suits they found in the evacu-
ated homes, and priorities on cos-
tume material prevents their manu-
facture for film use.

Wo thrp yoa •vcrythlnr, motion
plcturo ptwioctor. sound owilpnwnt,
talhloo. ouarantoo you to maho
■ood. Show you how to lino up cir-
cuit from tho B.OOO thoatrvloia
towns In U.S.A. Make up to SBO.OO
wsah. Wrilv Souttiom visual. —

Dspt. V-a-4, Msmphll, Tsni.

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

RADIO 23

NEW WAYS FOR HARD DAYS

BiyEliDOPTSn

T

' The Blue Network's new rate card,
scheduled for release during the
coming week, will provide lor a 2%
cash discount on bills paid within
10 days. It will make the first time
that any network has sanctioned
such an allowance.

It i; understood that NBC-Red and
Columbia will also adopt a cash
discount provision, but in the final
analysis will operate more as a pen-
alty than an actual discount. Ac-
counts whose billings earn them a
10% discount will be permitted to

Another Rule Eased

WJZ, New York key lor the
Blue Network, has shelved an-
other long-held taboo. The sta-
tion from now on will accept
one-minute announcements at
any time of the day, providing
they can be inserted properly.
It will lake the announcement
it the spot falls between two
sustaining* programs or between
a sustainer and a commercial.

The element of good program-
ing will prevail in another way.
The announcement will not be
put on following a serial or talk
program. WJZ's night - time
schedule will continue devoid of
such one-minute announcements.

retain this full 10% deduction if they
pay their bills within 10 days, but
accounts paying after 10 days will
And themselves eligible only to an
8% discount.

Under the new Blue discount
structure an account using all the
network's groups on a year's basis
may earn as much as 45% on each
$I0O of hookup business. At present
the major discounts figure as 20%
plus 25%, or a net of 40% on $100.

The networks have been under
strong pressure for the past year to
finally accept a 2% cash discount,
the absence of which in network ra-
dio jeopardized its collection, admen
claimed, from powerful publishers.
The discount for cash is a relic of
earlier days and problems in adver-
tising being a complex and moot
subject always.

Spot Bit Steady

Spot end of the broadcasting
business continues to hold up well
and the belief among ad agencies
is that the fiexibllity of spot will
likely prove an advantageous factor
as advertisers feel the pressure of
war conditions and problems. Top
money account that became avail-
able during the past week was
Swan which, starting March 10,
will use 10 to 15 announcements
a week on 193 stations.

In many cases Young & Rubicaij
Is picking up the periods previously
held by Lever Bros, in behalf of
Lifebuoy, which is on the Ruth-
rauff Si Ryan list

Dorsey for Skdton In
Jmie, Voids Cantor Deal

Hollywood, March 3.

Tommy Dorsey has been set for the
summer stanza after Red Skelton
drops oft June 16 for 13-week layoff.
That kills the deal for the band to go
on the Eddie Cantor program, which
has-been in negotiation.

Understood that another Brown &
Williamson tobacco product will be
made available for Dorsey after he
concludes the Raleigh hitch. Al-
though it is reported that Skelton
has been tiffing with the agency
(Russell Seeds), it is not likely that
he'll make a new association despite
persistent rumors. .Seeds has him
lied to a long contract.

How Goes The Radio Business

All network rajlio did a gross of
$10,300,000 in January, 1942, which is 12%
better than the total which prevailed for the
like month in 1941. The NBC-Red figured
$3,860,000; the Blue Network, $1,451,000;
CBS, $3,930,000, and Mutual, $1,025,000.

The January, '42, figures represent the

bv network: NBC-Red,
CBS, 2%, and Mutual,

following boosts
8%; Blue, 24%;
102%.-

Compared to the parallel month of '41,
magazine lineage in January, 1942, was up
16%, while newspapers showed an increase
of 4% in national business.

22cSINGERS
SHOCK LABOR
IN MEXICO

Mexico City, March I.

The Party of the Mexican Revolu-
tion has expressed ItseU as much
shocked and embarrassed at learn-
ing that some of the flll-lh aingeri,
mostly temmes, at station XEFO
here, its mouthpiece, get as low as
$1 (Mex) — 22c — per program. Thla
was called a 'minimum wage'
and got XZFO much razzing from
labor units, particularly the national
electricians union, which has charged
that this station Is so cluttered up
with useless employees that It can
not function efficiently.

Party announces that as part of Its
overhauling of XEFO It will up the
wages of everybody Eer\'ing It who
deserve such a raise. Flll-ln war
biers are to receive each a minimum
of $5 (Mex)— ($1.0S)— per sUnt

XEFO has had a monthly subsidl
ary of $4,000 (Mex)— or about $816.

Eddie Dowling WiU Not
Be Part of W Show
If Latter Is Picked Up

Young & Rubicara has recom-
mended 'We, the People' to General
Foods for Grape Nuts sponsorship,' so
the show may be returned to the air
soon. It is being dropped by Sanka
coffee (General Foods) after next
Tuesday night's (10) broadcast. De
cision as to whether the other Y. <c
R. client will take up the show Is
due late this week. Sanka Is re
placing it with 'Duffy's Tavern,'
which Schick razor drops with the
March 12 stanza.

Because of the illness of Eddie
Dowling, Y. & R. was trying yester-
day (Tuesday) to get Robert Mont-
gomery as substitute m.c. for last
night's broadcast If he couldn't be
obtained Harry Von Zell was to
double as announcer and m.c. If the
series returns to the air after next
week's foldup, Dowling wiU not be
on the show.

C. Aubrey. Smith, currently co-
starring In 'Spring Again,' at the
Playhouse, N. Y., guested on last
night's 'We, the People.' His agent-
wife appeared with him, making It
he- acting debut.

Council for Democracy
Retains Own Identity

The Council for Democracy is re-
taining its separate identity and not
merging, after two months of talk-
ing about it, with the Citizens Vic-
tory Committee. Latter Is the suc-
cessor to the former Committee to
Defend America by Aiding th«
Allies and has some 800 organized
local chapters.

Difficulties in absorbing the two
organizations' personnel and conflict
of viewpoint on best procedure
chilled the get-together.

Albert N. Williams Is radio di-
rector of the council.

Bill Henry's Coast Switch

Hollywood, Rtarch 3.
Bill Henry, commentating for
Dentyne over CBS. swings over to
NBC March 18 with his sponsor.
"He'll air on the Coast network four
nights a week.

NILES TRAMMELL UP

Sbonld Qnlt HospiUl In Fortnight
Far Florida Best

Niles Tranunell, NBC prez, who
was operated on for intestinal
trouble several weeks ago, has re-
covered sufficiently to get up and
walk around his room at the Roose-
velt hospital, N. Y. He wiU likely
b* discharged in another two
weeks.

Tranunell will go to Florida or
Arizona for hli final recuperation.

Last Minute
Revamp for
Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple's 'Junior Miss'
show for Procter tt Gambia is un
dergoing a complete revamp tha day
before inaugurating new aeries.
After record was played it was de
elded to recast supporting players
and relieve producer' Gordon
Hughes. Until a new producer Is
set Mann Holiner, who piloted the
Maxwell House show, takes over.

Jim Rogers, v.p. of Benton Sc
Bowles in charge of the P&G ac
count, and Klrby Hawkes, radio
agency production head, are here
for tha takeoff tomorrow (Wednes
day) night.

Frantic last minuta changes are
being made to whip first program
into shape.

SWAP RADIO PAGE

Detroit's First Printed Dope
Radio In Five Tears

Detroit, March- 3.
- Tha Detroit Free Press carried a
radio column on Sunday — first in any
Detroit paper in about five years.
The column was inserted by WJR
as a part of a reciprocal agreement,
entered into with the Free Press
several weeks ago, by which tha
station takes space in the sheet in
exchange for blurbs on the air.

The first column includes items
about WWJ, CKLW and WXYZ, as
well as about WJR and differed little
from columns run In metropolitan
papers throughout the country. No
attempt was mad* to disguise the
fact that the column was a WJR
promotion.

The Free Press is owned by John
3. Knight, whos* sheets in Akron
and Miami both carry radio pages.

CURFEW HELPS
RADIO IN
HAWAII

Honolulu stations, according to
their sales reps in the States, are
continuing to receive strong support
from national advertisers. Since
Jan. 1 new business has outbalanced
cancellations by a wide margin. The
reps state that the biggest difficulty
they experience in dealing for the
Hawaii stations Is finding out from
them just what periods they have
available.

Letters from the stations advise
that because of the curfew law the
percentage of steady listeners has
increased tremendously and that the
islanders are avid for any radio en-
tertainment that they can get.

Sterling-American Home
Renewing Daytime Serials;
Forget Spot Campaip

Although actual orders haven't
been issued as yet, it was evident
yesterday (Tuesday) that the Ster-
ling-American Home Products group
will not go forward with their con-
templated spot broadcasting cam-
paign but will instead renew prac-
tically all their daytime commit-
ments on the Blue and Mutual net-
works. The new network commit-
ments become effective the week of
March 23.

Mutual loses 'Front Page Farrell'
but retains the Rush Hughes news
series, which clears Ave days a
week. The Blue Network will keep
all four Sterling serials, which fall
within the dally 4-S p.m. period.
Latter are 'Backstage Wife,' 'Stella
Dallas,' 'Lorenz Jones* and 'Young
Widder Brown.'

The spot campaign was to involve
over 150 stations and a schedule of
five half-hours a week. Blackett-
Sample-Hummert, agency on the ac-
count, indicated that it had not been
able to get what It considered good
periods on all the stations and that
this was one of the reasons that had
militated against adoption of the
spot proposal.

Emory Lawrence to WFBB

Baltimore, March 3.
Emory Lawrence has joined the
national sales staff of WFBR. For-
merly assistant merchandising and
sales manager for Weatinghouse
Electric, he will maintain his office
lii Baltlmor*.

War DepL Lines Up Entertainment
(By Discs) for Overseas Outposts

Radio division of the War Depart-
ment will debut, via shortwave, a
weekly series this Sunday (8) of
recorded programs tagged 'Command
Performance.' . The shows will b«
unlimited In their scope of entertain-
ment and personalities. Men in the
armed service who are on duty in
various parts of the globe will be
asked to express their preferences
for future participants in this series,
regardless of whether the per-
sonalities are in or out of show busi-
ness, and the performances or in-
terviews with, the designated per-

sonalities will be incorporated in
subsequent recordings.

The Initial disc will feature Eddie
Cantor and his troupe, with the cut-
ting taking place following the close
of tonight's (Wednesday) Cantor
program (NBC). Fred Allen is set
to make Uie next record. The green
light for the series has been ob-
tained from the American Federa-
tion of ' Musicians, the American
Federation of Radio Actors and
other unions. Vic Knight will col-
laborate with other producers in the
preparation of the DX shows.

N.II.6. mum

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Omaha. March 3.

Apparently in anticipation of dif-
ficult days ahead (or advertisers, the
Nebraska .section of the National
Association ot- Broadcasters, voted
at its Monday (2) scs.sion to favor
the adoption of a national rate pro-
tection policy that would make it
easier for accounts to cancel their
radio commitments because of war
conditions. This recommendation
is to be passed along to (he N. A. B.
directors for approval.

The easement as suggested by the
Nebraska broadcasters would have
broadcasters 'reserve the right to re-
vise advertising rates at any time
upon 13 weeks notice in writing and
contracts would be accepted on that
basis.' Also the advertisers would
be 'given the right to cancel with-
out a short rate charge on the date
on which the new rate became ef--
fective.

War dominated the local district's
meeting in more than one way. In
addition to starting the move for
a liberal interpretation of contracts
to lessen the penalties of wpr can-
cellations, the Nebra.skan broadcast-
ers also discussed the matter of right
programing in aid of the country's
war effort. Among Government reps
that spoke on the subject were Jack
Harris, of the radio public relations
section o( the War Department;
Lieut. Holman Faust, of the public
relations depai-tment of the Ninth
Naval District, and Major Frank
DeYoung, of the local Seventh Corps
Army area.

John J. Gillen, Jr., of WOW,
Omaha, was re-elected 10th district
director on the N. A. B. board. Nc
braska district trade association
elected Judd Woods, KFAB, Llijcoln,
president; L. L, Hilliard, Scotts
Bluff, v.p.; Arthur Thomas, WJAG,
Norfolk, secretary-treasurer, and L.
J. LeBarron, KGNF, North Platte,
a director.

The district meeting also voted to
leave it to individual stations to de-
cide whether they want to join
WOW in its back payment refund
suit against ASCAP. WOW is ask-
ing triple damages under a state
law for fees that it alleges it unlaw-
fully paid the Society.

New York Bcactlon
Commenting on the action of the
Nebraska section of the N. A. B. in
urging the adoption of a more liberal
interpretation ot contract cancella-
tions because of war conditions, the
station relations head of one of the
three most important radio agencies
In the business declared yesterday
(Tuesday) that the Nebraskans had
exercised good judgment in prepar-
ing for the inevitable. Even though,
he said, radio was now riding on the
crest, it ought to adopt policies that
wUI make it possible for advertisers
to stay on as long as possible.

Radio, pointed out this agency exec,
has the advantage ot flexibility over
other media and it ought to make
the most of this advantage by stress- |
Ing the fact that advertisers can
change their copy at the last minute
to meet sudden conditions and also
to withdraw at quick notice if cir-
cumstances make it mandatory.

As for network reaction to the
Nebraska proposal, one web official
remarked yesterday (Tuesday) that
he didn't think that it would be
necessary for the networks to adopt
any particular policy since it would
be just as effective for them to deal
with each case separately as it comes
along. If circumstances justify the
cancellation in the midst of a 13-
week commitment, then the web
would have no choice but to recog-
nize the advertiser's dilemma and
grant the cancellation. The question
of rebating, he added, would be
something that also would be a mat-
ter of individual consideration.

Houston Prlntlnc Co., owners of
KTRH, has filed with the Federal
Communications Commission for a
commercial FM station.

i 'J6

BADIO

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

[lodges Restrain FCC Until May,
I See No Injury to Public If
Status Quo Awaits Final Appeal

': The Federal Communications Com-
:inlssion has been barred from en-

torcliig Its new -ules on chain broad-
i castlng until the U. S. supreme court
! has passed on an appeal by NBC and
"CBS. The same federal statutory
leourt In New York, which had the
' week before refused by a two-to-
''«ne decision to issue a restraining

drder, last Monday (2) granted the
' networks' application for a stay.
' This stay is effective until May 1.

• Imposition of any further term of
' restraint will be up to the supreme

court

Under Monday's (2) order of the
'^etatutory court NBC artd C8S are
!: required to file the record in appeal
; within 40 days and post the usual
i^bond of $750 each. In issuing the
I delay the court agreed with, the net-
' works' contention that irreparable

• damage could accrue If the FCC ien-
'■ forced its rules Immediately and the

i highest tribunal later found that the
I statutory court did have jurisdiction
i; over the case.

j' The special court also held that a
1^ delay of two months would not
create Injury to the public com-
jnensurate with the harm to the
I; broadcasting companies and that It

ii could not see where a delay in-
l] volved the public interest. The court
~. further remarked that, 'We must as-
l| sume that we may be mistaken,
I certainly a not unreasonable assump-
I tion In view of Judge Bright's dis-
j sent We should use our discretion
I in the plaintiff's ^favor to stay en-
I forcement of tjie ^regulations.'

The three-man court involved con-
; sists of Justice Learned Hand, of the
: t7. S. circuit court of appeals, and
I Federal judges Henry W. Goddard
I and John Bright During last Frl-
' day's (27) hearing Justice Hand re-
i narked that he could not xmderstand
: why FCC counsel should oppose the
I petitioned stay. The impression left
j by Justice Hand was that he favored
I granting a stay through the spring
I term of the U. S. supreme court and
that it would be up to the Itater
tribunal to decide whether a longer
Stay should be forthcoming.

Bnghes' Views
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., attor-
ney for CBS, was the first to speak,
(Continued on page 33)

Rockefellers Use Tact,
Drop Radio Program
In Deference to British

The Rockefellers have dropped
their plans for sponsoring a radio
series to ballyhoo their WilliamS'
burg, Va., development. Intention
Is to revive the Idea after the war,
Beason for dropping the scheme at
this time is that most of Williams
burg's early history deals with
•vents of the {{evolutionary War
period and it's felt that raking of
such material would be tactless in-
view of America's present alliance
with Great Britain.
' Heiiry Fisk Carlton spent several
months gathering material and out
lining scripts for the series. He
was on full ^salary during the pre-
liminary period.

64 Serials Per Day

Cleveland, March 3.
A survey of afternoon enter-
tainment over Cleveland's four
stations showed 64 . soap opera
programs between O' a.m. 'and 6
p.m.

WTAM leads with 30; WGAp
22; WHK, nine and WCLE, three.

BENNY-SMITH
SWAP PRODUCTS

When Jtick Benny returns to his
Sunday night inning in NBC next
fall he will be associated with a
different product General Foods, bis
sponsor for the past seven -years, will
substltue Grape-Nuts for Jell-O.
Kate Smith will be involved in the
switch. In place of Grape-Nuts her
program will plug Jell-O.
. Reason for the exchange is that by
the fall Jell-O's output will be so
limited as to make the cost of Beiiny
too heavy. The limitation will
be due to sugar priorities. The com-
position of Jell-O is 60% . sugar.
There is no limit to the amount of
Grape-Nuts that can be produced.
The Benny show will cost General
Foods $22,000 a week, whereas the
talent budget on the Smith program
will be $10,000 a week.

Helen Replogle Producer
For KDKA's F-M Annex

Pittsburgh, March 3.

Mrs. Helen Replogle, radio and lit-
tle theatre producer, has been named
production director for KDKA's new
FM affiliate, Westinghouse station
W75P, which is scheduled to make
its debut March 15. Transmitter has
already been installed in same build-
ing which houses KDKA's 50,000 watt
e^ipment

Station will be on the air 14 hours
daily.

Ufarch of Tnne' Heard on
WTAM, CMand Because
Of WHK (Bhe) Refusal

•MaKh of Time' is being cleared
over WTAM, NBC's Cleveland re-
lease, as a delayed broadcast Friday
nights as the Tesult of the- refusal of
WHK, the Blue's local outlet, to take
the show. The airing to Cleveland
listening comes at 10:30 p.m., an hour
after the original, and from a re-
cording.

Reason that WHK gave for turn-
ing down the oTder was that the
show ran but 25 minutes. Same
station has Mutual's 'Spotlight Bands'
(Coco-Cola) at 9:30-45 p.m.

"Time* is also without broadcast
representation In the Providence and
Bridgeport, Clonn., areas because of
like circumstances.

Series of Facts-Figures Conferences
Seeks Harmony Between Bureaus
And Radio For War Stimulus

The Holiday Spirit

Milwaukee, March 3.

All good station men put a ring
around holidays as occasions for
special events. This Is the per-
sonal holiday record of C. G.
Lanphier, mianager of WEMP:

July 4, 1939— Father of a son.

St Patrick's Day, 1940— Anoth-
er son bom.

St Valentine's Day, 1941—
Daughter bom.

WILL THOSE REEFER
PEDDLERS miHElRS!

KDKA House Orchestra
Sold For Twice Nighdy
Broadcasts By Armstrong

Pittsburgh, March 3.
Big local pact between KDKA and
Duquesne Brewing Co. is a 26-week
deal calling for staff orchestra. With
Bernie Armstrong as director. It'll
be a twice-nightly broadcast on a
six-day per week schedul e, us ing
both local station and WWVA,
Wheeling, W. Va. A quarter-hour
show at 7:30 p.m. will be fed to
WWVA, same program being re-
peated for KDKA at 11:05. Buzz
Aston will be the vocalist

Every Friday, a half-hour show
will be carried by KDKA at 7:30,
the first half of which will be fed to
WWVA. For this program, orches-
tra will be enlarged t,o 20 men and
will, use singers Reed Kennedy,
Madelyn Ward and Howard Price.
Pierre Paulln will announce.

'Judy and Jane' serial on WOR,
New York (via recordings for Heck-
er's) has been plotted lately around
a gang of peddlers of marajuana.
Reference to dream-weeds have
usually been verboten on the webs,
Program auspices guarantees that the
gangsters will meet a terrible end in
the serial and that it is made
abundantly clear that those who sell
reefers are bad, bad fellows and
those who smoke 'em are sad, sad
cases.

A telephone call was reported re-
cently to WOR from an Interested
listener who inquired what chain of
drug stores sold, marajuana.

|1UNT0UL TALKS TO BLUE
r FOR WSRR, STAMFORD

WSRR, Stamford, Conn, Is being
considered by the Blue network as
an optional station with WJ.*^, N. Y.

The Stamford outlet is owned and
operated by Steve RintouL

Sponsor 'EonBewiTf;s Kews'
San Antonio, March 8.
The 'Housewives' News Parade,'
daily quarter hour at 8:30 ajn. over
KTSA, is sponsored by Falr-Mald
Bread and Handy-Andy Food Stores
on alternate days.

Both accounts handled by Pitluk
agency.

Peter PanI, Inc., has taken over
the 6:30 p.nL news three days a week
on WHO, Des Moines, Iowa, starting
March 3. The company recently re-
newed its contract for the B pjn.
newscasts on the same days,.

McNaughton-WUson Show
With Larry Binyon Orch

Harry McNaughton and Ward Wil'
son have made a wax audition of a
new 'Teatime Revue' which the Na,
tlonal Concert & Artists Corp. is
representing. It's proposed for after
noon' spotting as a quarter-hour.

Also Includes Kay Lorraine and
orchestra directed by Larry Binyon,
brother of screen vrriter Claude Bin
yon.

Max Ehrlloh'a Afslgnments

Max S. Ehrllch has joined the
writing staff for Bill Stem's sports
show Saturday nights on NBC-Red,
(WEAF) for Colgate shave cream.

He is also the auHior of "The Story
of Tommy Donovan,' tomorrow
night's (Thursday) stanza on 'Big
Town' on CBS for Rinso (Lever
Bros.).

TBEO'NEIILS'
OFF FOR P&G

•The O'Neills,' late-afternoon serial
on CBS for Ivory soap, is being
dropped by Procter t Gamble as of
the March 27 broadcast It has been
sponsored by the account since
October, 1039.

Show is produced by Ed Wolf
Associates. Jane West is the regular
author, but Herbert Little, Jr., and
David Victor have been scripting
during her illness. Chick Vincent is
director. Compton Is the agency.

P. & G. Is not retaining the time.

McKay Sends Pobficity
Staffers on Road Calls
To Meet NBC Affiliates

Beginning April 1 N. Y. members
of the NBC publicity department un
der John McKay will make road
trips at the rate of two a week. Idea
is to familiarize the web's press
agents with the problems of NBC's
local affiliates' own publicists and
to meet radio columnists around the
country. Each journey will be of
one week's duration and upon return
the traveller will meet his coUeaguts
at .a staff breakfast to pass on im-
pressions.

Plan, as okayed by Frank Mullen,
will send New Yorkers west as far
as Ohio, also south. Bill Ray's staff
in Chicago will scout the midwestern
zone, and Hal Bock will reconnoiter
the Pacific area.

This plan differs from CBS system
of having one traveller, George Cran
dall, continuously on tour.

NBC is especially Interested In ob
talning angles for publicity breaks
on wartime morale programs pro
duced by the network.

Another McKay innovation is a $10
weekly bonus for beist publicity re-
lease written by pny staffer.^

Bill Norrls left the NeWT^k staff
last week. Phoebe Mink will prob'
ably transfer to the Blue web.

How NBC's ^Assembly Line' Picks Up
Actors, Music, Scripts and Sanctions

Washington, March 3.
Ideas about more effective and
profitable use of radio for the war
effort particularly, and for govern-
ment purposes in general, will be
jelled at a series of huddles where
agency and network production peo-
ple and representative broadcasters
will talk things out with officials of
miscellaneous Federal units under
uspices of the Office of Facts and
Figures.

Nothing has crystallized yet — It's
three or four weeks too soon — re-
garding closer links between com-
mercial programs and the ideas the
Roosevelt Administration wants to
get "STer to the American people.
Such as the need for greater indus-
trial production, inevitability of per-
sonal sacrifices, what we're fighting
for, etc. Or about curtailing Federal
microphoned information and prop-
aganda that has no direct relation to
beating the Axis.

First I'lSssions were held in Wash-
ington when the two advisory groups
put heads together at separate ses-
sion with the O.F.F. and the War
Production Board. Subsequent par-
leys were with Army, Navy, and
Treasury people. Then with Office
of Civilian Defense, General Securi-
ty Agency, and Department of Agri-
culture. All others— Interior, hous-
ing units, wage-hour division, etc. —
will be in for a concluding jamboree.

Industry people and government
people are getting a better under-
standing of each other's desires and
problems, with distrust and petty
animosities dissolving, as a result of
the liaison established via O.F.F., in
the eyes of William B. Lewis, former
CBS exec now directing the agency's
operations division and steering the
radio bookings. Talking things out
inevitably will lend to more profit-
able use of radio for all concerned,
Lewis is convinced after the initial
confabs, at which practical problems,
such as use of transcriptions, time
available, reaching the right segment
of the audience, and so forth, were
weighed and described.

It's too early to frame any concrete
plans for rescheduling Federal pro-
grams or changing their tone and
character, Lewis commented this
week, but eventual result should be
less muttering on both, sides and
more sympathetic relations.

Bambean Beppiog WHIN
WMIN, St Paul, has named the
WHliam G. Rambeau Co. as its na-
tional sales rep.

Appointment becomes effective im-
Baedlately.

Workmen are busily disentangling
the production departments of the
Blue network from NBC proper at
Radio City, New York. Under the
reorganizations, the second floor
will divide at the elevators, the Blue
program staff being strewn to the
left and NBC to the right, or south.

Clarence L. Menser, program chief
of NBC, has had one over-all Idea
in mind with regard to the layout of
NBC. It Is to concentrate offices in
their proper sequence so that,
theoretically, the 'draw material' of
broadcasts flows along a l>elt-llne
loosely comparable to a factory as-
sembly line. .This begins quite
naturally with an outer waiting room
for actors, the pool from which NBC
draws talent

_Next comes two big offices, one
headqqarters for nine producers, or
unit foremen, the next containing
six more. These 15 NBC producers
are: Lester O'Keefe, Anton Leader,

Lester Vail, Daniel Sutter, llieodore
Corday, William WUgus, Jack
Meakin, Bruce Kamman, Lee Jopes,
William Sweets, Edward L. Dunham,
Van Fleming, Joe Daly, Paul Du-
mont, James Haupt

The flrst production process Is in
the next office, where the NBC
script editor and director, Lewis
Titterton, Is situated with a series
of succeeding offices (again the as-
sembly line analogy) dealing with
material for broadcast. First his
two secretaries. Misses Lane and
Kern, then script routing super-
visors Frederick Heider and Doro-
thy McBrlde, then checking for
'rights' by Stockton Helfrich and
Marlon Noyes.

As a prospective radio script,
whether originated Inside or outside
NBC, goes down the line It Is ex-
amined for flaws, Imperfections or
indigo by a series of literary In-
spectors. Arthur Zipser, as 'idea
man,', searches primarily for qual-
ity. Barbara Frank reads plays.

Eileen Donahue personifies the cor-
poration policies and scans for de-
partures from specifications.

The writers, or designers, are In
two sections. They include Edward
Bhrnbryer, Ronald MacDougall,
Richard MacDonagh, Neal Hopkins,
David Hall.

Two music researchers also are
stationed along the line, which then
passes into the music section, where
H. Leopold Spltalriy and his as-
sistant, Frank VagnonI, add their
part and have their own staffs.
There, too, the sound effects are
welded by Ray Kelley and the pro-
gram, with its script checked for a
dozen considerations, and with ac-
tors, directors, writers, music, time,
musicians, studio and budget set,
leaves the assembly line to be pack-
aged; I. e., broadcast

The finale is, of course, the scrijpt
'file room, where all little radio pro-
grams, good or bad, eventually go.

New setup should be functioning
some time In April,

Nichols, Agency Owner,
Head of KEVR, Seattle;
Stays KOMO, KJR, KHIO

Seattle, March 3.

Robert S. Nichols has taken over
the management of KEVR, 250 wet-
ter at 1090 kc, having been named
manager after Bob McCaw and Dick
Downey, co-managers, entered the
Navy. Nichols thereby completed a
22-year cycle from 250 watts back to
250 watts, as he first started In radio
In February, 1922, singing over KFC,
old Seattle P. I. sUtlon.

KEVR is a member of the Ever-
green Broadcasting System, a web
of seven small stations In Washing-
ton and Oregon, and it also has a
reciprocal agreement for. the use of
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
programs which are fed througji
CPR, Vancouver. ^S*^

The Robert S. Nichols advertising
agency will continue under the same
name. He will also retain his 'Radio
Parade,' for Bartell Drugs which
airs five times a week over KOMO,
KJR and KIRO.

Coleman Quits MCA,
Returns to CBS, N. Y.

Merritt Coleman has resigned
from the Music Corp. of America
to rejoin CBS as assistant to Law-
rence W. Lowman, v.p. in charge of
operations. He was legal advisor in
MCA's N. Y. office.
.J Coleman left CBS at the time the
Columbia Artists Bureau was sold
to MCA.

Dorothy Boberts to Blackett
Chicago, March 3.
Dorothy Roberts leaving the J.
Walter Thompson agency to Join
Blackett - Sample - Hummert agency
here on research.
Was assistant time buyer at JWT.

Wednesday, March 4, 194^

BADIO 27

ARMY ASKS A.T. &T. BREAK

iD-Advised Self Glorification

Washington, March 3.

Trying to gain competitive advantage by shouting about designation
as the 'Icey station' to carry orders for the Army's interceptor command
— speciflcally, to be the official mouthpiece for blackout instructions
and radio silences — is frowned on by the FCC and War Department.
Stations wblch attempt to plug themselves may be woodshedded for
giving away secrets.

Identity of picked stations in various areas is supposed to be con-
fidential but the Army has received complaints that some of the select
transmitters have ballyhooed their obligation in -an-, attempt to im-
press listeners and advertisers with alleged superior standing. The
FCC policy says "no station will be permitted to make use of these
instructions or of its station designation as a 'key station' or otherwise
for its own uses. In other words, no advertising, announcement or
sales representations shall <lnclude any reference to the instructions
or to a station's activities in carrying out the Instructions.'

Producers Balked by Rapid Turnover
Of Engineers, Caused by Inductions

Agency producers say they are be-
ginning to feel the effect on their
nervous system of the constant turn-
over of engineer! around the net-
works as the result of enlistments or
the draft.

Whereat there was a time when a
producer could depend on the same
technician each week and know that
the latter would operate the show
, according to the producer's previous
Instnictions, tha producer now has
(ha added tadc of breaking In an en-
^eer with 'Jmost each broadcast

ARMY AND NAVY
PRAISE RADIO
AID

Wichita, Kans-, March S.

William B. Way, KVOO, Tulsa,
was elected director of 12th district
of N. A. B., at meeting here Friday
attended by 42, including represent-
(atives of 14 stations in Kansas and
Oklahoma. He succeeds Herb Hol-
lister in May for two-year term.

Major Harold Kent, of radio branch
of public relations division of war
department; Lieut Holman Faust,
navy radio public relations officer.
Ninth Naval District; and Bob Rich-
ards, assistant to Harold Ryan, radio
director of censorship, were speakers
end commended radio for its coop
eration censoring the news.

Carl Haverlin, vice president of
BMl and Leonard CaUahan, general
counsel SESAC, spoke in regard to
new music- licenses. Convention
adopted resolution commenaing EMI
for putting competition into field and
pledged that all stations represented
would sign renewal licenses.

C. E. Amey, of N. A. B., reviewed
war-time activity of trade associa-
tion. Convention also passed resolu-
tion pledging whole-hearted support
to government

Visiting Wichita were Frank E.
Chizzini of NBC Thesaurus, Ralph
Wentworth of Lang-Worth, and Mil-
ton Blink, of Standard Radio.

At meeting were: Burt Adams,
NBC, New York; EUis Atteberry,
KCKN, Kansas City; Owen Balch,
KSAL, Salina; Gustav Brandberg,
Ken Brown, Edward C. Coontz, Walt
Dennis, KVOO, Tulsa; Adelaide L.
CarreU, WBBZ, Ponca City, Okla.;
Plet & Clark, M. M. Murdock, Frank
Mathews, Fred Scraper and Vernon
E. Reed. KFH. Wichita; Don Davis
and John Schilling, WHB, Kansas
City; BiU Gillespie, KTUL, Tulsa;
Gus Haggenah, SESAC, New York
City; Leo M. Howard, Ray Linton,
Kay Pyle, Ralph Varnum, KFBI,
Wichita; Jack Howell, KOMA, Okla-
homa City; Ben Ludy, WIBW; To-
peka; Clem Morgan, KVGB, Great
Bend, Kas.; Nelson Rupard and Larry
Sims, KTSW, Emporia: Russell Shaf-
fer, Harold Smith and ' Jack Todd,
KANS, Wichita.

Stoctdiolder Alleges Better
Terms Were Offered NBC;
RCA Asks for Dismissal

A stockholder suit by Samuel
Alster, holder of 150 shares of com'
mon of RCA, against RCA, NBC
Civic Concert Service, Inc., the Na
tional Concert St Artists Corp., Al-
fred H. Morton, Daniel T. Tuthill.
Marks Levine and O. O. BottorS.
Suit seeks to enjoin the sale of the
NBC Artists bureau to the four In-
dividual defendants.

PUlntia says that when NBC dls'
posed of the Artists Bureau it had
on hand an offer of $130,000 from
John T. Adams not contingent on
any future earning power. Thid of-
fer was declined, and the Bureau
sold to the four defendants, for-
merly executive employees of NBC
Artists Service tor no cash and only
a promise to pay <I50,000 if future
earnings warranted. Such an offer
is not as good as the one made by
Adams, says the plaintiff, in asking
an injunction against the sale and
also requesting that a public auction
be held.

Adams also brought suit immedi-
ately after the sale for $1,000,000
claiming a conspiracy to rob him of
the deal.

COST OF tIES
TO

Radio Program Auspices
Have No Budget for Hook-
Ups with Remote Soldier
Cantonments — Often
Over $1,000 for Single
Pickup

ARMY ANXIOUS

Max Wylie Heads Chicago
Air Writers' War Effort

Chicago, March 3.
Max Wylie. script editor of the
Chicago office of Blackett-Sample-
Hummert, has been named the local
head of the Radio Writers War Effort
Committee, succeeding Mel William-
son, of the Russel M. Seeds agency,
who was recently transferred to the
Coast.

RWWEC acts as a clearing house
for script assignments on Govern-
ment and war shows.

Radio public relation men within
the War and Navy departments In
Washington are attempting to prevail
upon the American Telephone &
Telegraph Co. to grant reduced line
charges for network commercials
originating from service camps so
that the number of such program
originations can be increased sub-
stantiaUy. So far the efforts to get
special consideration from the tele-
phone company have proved fruit-
less.

Mike stars who operate on a pack-
age basis with their spoiGors declare
that the line charge factor looms as
the biggest obstacle to a wider circu-
lation of network programs among
the camps. They and their casts,
say these stars, are anxious to bring
tha entertainment to the recruits;
sponsors and ad agencies eq'courage
the Idea, but then comes the financial
snag. Since the show has been
bou^t as a package and no provision
had t>.:en made in the advertiser's
budget for incidentals, it is up to the
star to pay for the line charges. It
may cost only a few hundred dollars
for a pickup that is adjacent to the
network's roundrobin, or loop, but
when the camp, as happens in most
cases, is hundreds of miles from such
a circuit then the AT&T bill may
run anywhere from $1,200 to $2,000,
including a rebroadcast.

Because of the line burdens the
stars of package shows have so far as
a rule confined their camp stands to
spots that are not very far from the
network's AT&T circuit The
morale staffs in the Army and Navy
departments feel that these stars
would penetrate more deeply into
the hinterland and ke^ their pro-
grams on tour If a way were found to
ease the lines obligation.

More Closed Circuit Talks to Fdl In
Radio Newsmen But Non-Quotable

83% Audience for F.D.R.

President Roosevelt matched
his previous high listening rat-
ing (83%) when he spoke to the
nation a week ago Monday (23),
according to the Co-operative
Analysis of Broadcasting.

The President established the
all-time high tn his fireside chat
of Dec. 9, or two days after Pearl
Harbor.

BELL PHONE
SUMMERING

The Bell Telephone program will
be changed for the summer period,
with weekly guests replacing the
regular leads, James Melton and
Francia White. However, Don Vor-
hees' orchestra and the chorus will
be retained. It will be the first time
the show has been altered for the
season.

Series is spotted 8-8:30 Monday
nights on NBC-Red- (WEAF). N. W.
Ayer is the agency.

JOHN LAIR TOURS HIS
RENFRO CO. IN A TENT

'Cnidiog Light' Retoras

f: Chicago, March 3.

'Guiding Light' serial returns to
the ether for General Mills, set
through the Knox Reeves agency,
starting on March, 17 for a flve-a-
week daytime ride on NBC. Show
went off the air last Dec .Tiber.

'Guiding Light' goes into the regu-
lar Gold Medal Hour and takes over
the second quarter-hour session In
the 60-minute spread, with its as-
sociate programs to be 'Light of the
World,' 'Valiant Lady' and 'Arnold
Grimm's Daughter.'

Program will have same cast as
previously, Arthur Peterson, Sey-
mour Young, Ed Prentiss, Eloise
Kumnver. Ruth Bailey, Gladys Keen,
Reese Taylor, Marvin Mueller,
Mignon Schreiber, Sarajane Wells.

Guilbert Gibbons is directing the
ii-na Phillips script.

William Formao, former announcer
at WGAR, Cleveland, has been ap-
pointed program director and as-
sistant manager of KNPC, Beverly
Hills, Cal., by G. A. Richards. ,

TO SPEAK WELL
OF OUR ALUES

'Salute to Our Allies,' series of
half-hour dramatic programs aimed
to show what the little people of the
United Nations are fighting for,
starts Sunday (8) on WNYC, New
York. It will be spotted at S p.m.
and run for 13 weeks.

Mitchell Grayson Is producing,
with Paul Monash writing the first
two scripts. First show will salute
China, with England, ^the Nether-
lands, Russia and the various un-
derground movements in the con-
quered countries to follow. Chester
Stratton and Ed Jerome have the
leads on the opener.

G. W. Norton Into Army

Louisville, March 3.

George W. Norton, Jr., owner of
WAVE, was commissioned last week
as a captain in the Army Air Forces
and placed in the procurement and
assignment division of general head-
quarters at ICnoxville.

Norton is a lawyer, and director in
several banks and industrial con-
cerns.

Louisville, Marctt 3.
Renfro Valley Bam Dance, man'
aged by John Lair, which has aired
daily programs over WHAS from
Renfro Valley, Ky., for the past year,
will open under canvas near Minmi
this week. Will play two weeks un-
der canvas in Florida before return-
ing. ,

Troupe will then work a string of
theatre dates out of there imtil
weather becomes suitable for out-
door presentations in the midwestern
territory.

Washington, March 3.

Semi-confidential background in'
formation may be furnished news in^
terpreters and analysts via closed
circuit seminars under plans beingj
framed by the Office of Facts andf
Figures. Last week's private talk by|
Congressional Library chief Archl4l
bald MacLeish was only a starter.

Formal arrangementa haven't beea'
made yet, but the Army and Navy':
have reacted encouragingly to feelV
ers by OFF and the high commands;
seem disposed to help explain just
what Is going on in a way that should',
prove of great help to local talkers.'
Most of the national network com-
mentators already have the benefitj]
of off-the-record and partly-secret |
info, but hosts of station men hav«|
been kept in the dark.

MacLeish's heart-to-heart ezplana«
tion Saturday (28) was but the first^
of a contemplated series that prob-
ably will include the bosses of vari-
ous aq>ects of the war program. Be-
sides Army and Navy people, it is
likely chiefs of different industrial
production unita will be asked to fur-
nish inside information to broadcast-
ers at Irregular intervals. Tht series
probably won't be scheduled regu-
larly, though a sort of land-line press
conference scheme has been talked
about

Chief desire Is to give the inter-
preters some background against
which they can evaluate the daily-
happenings on far-flung war frontjL
Not expected that the closed-circuit
huddles will provide much quotabla
information, but the contact should
keep analyste from getting off od tfa*
wrong foot and enable them to pill
more correct explanations on the air.

'Red, White and Blue Web'
Now Has 241 Stations

Washington, March 3.
Eagerness of U. S. broadcasting
stations to patty-cake with the War
Department and other defense agen-
cies distributing official radio infor-
mation connected with the war ef-
fort was seen in the list of 241 trans-
mitters which have Joined the "Red,
White and Blue Network' and
pledged themselves to bring their
listeners Washington-arranged pro-
grams.

With the Southern states leading
and with many of the smaller sta-
tioQS.;sIgned up, 35 states, the District
of Columbia and U. S. territories and
possessions — including Alaska, Ha-
waii, the Philippine Islands and
Puerto Rico— appeared oB the ros-
ter.

Ironic touch was supplied by a
foot-note In the report, announcing
'mailing services temporarily sus-
pended' with regard to the two Mar
nils (P. I.) stations, KZHR and
KZRC.

SAME AS USUAL

San Antonio Baseball ^Gamcs At-
tract Wheatles and 7-l)p

San Antonio, March 3.
For the Uth consecutive season,
station KABC will broadcast all
home and road games of the San
Antonio Missions in the Texas
league. As in the past several years
games will be sponsored on alternate
days by Wheaties (General Mills)
and by the San Antonio Seven-Up
Bottling Co., bottlers of 7-Up, a
five-cent drink. Knox Reeves
placed the Wheaties account, while
Coulter-Mueller-Grinsted the 7-Up
account.

Bill Michaels will handle the an-
nouncing chore.'; on the broadcasts.

MYSTERY MAN
TALKS OF NAZI
POLICY

"Volet of Freedom,' new IS-mlnut*
weekly stanza starting over WMCA,
N. Y., next Wednesday (11), wUl
hide Identity of its speaker. WHl
deal with underground movement*
In various countries overrun by tli«
Nazis. Broadcast Is to emanate from
Freedom' House, N. Y.- Sanctuary,
for democracy-expounding groups.

Object Is to acquaint listener*
with facts on conditions facing
peoples under Nazi domination and
also to spike totalitarian propaganda
in America as It arises week, by
week.

Will also shortwave via WRUL^
Boston, In several languages.

McKesson & Robbins
Sponsors A. Van Horn

McKesson & Robbins has con-
tracted for sponsorship of the 11-
11:15 a.m. news period Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, starting
yesterday (Tuesday), on WOR, New
York.' Arthur Van Horn is the an-
nouncer on the series.

Show will plug Caiox tooth
powder, '^archer is the agency.

Writers Gniid Dickering

Radio Writers Guild contract
covering script and continuity
writers at NBC has been extended to
the Blue network. Original pact,
which formerly applied to all script-
ers in the combined department,
now covers the NBC-Red staff. Guild
is currently negotiating with NBC
for a contract for news writers in
New York and Chicago.

Organization signed a deal last
week for news writers at CBS and
expects to ink one for shortwava
news writers this week.

t8 RADIO

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

|epL Store Quiz Salutes Other People's
Businesses and Winning-the-War

Milwaukee, March 3.
; A rfi'any angled new program un-
:l:er Gimbel department store spon-
' orshlp was Inaugurated Sunday (1)
:' in WTMJ, the contract calling for a
:ialf-hour show every Sunday. It is
Itled 'Quiz Battle of the Century.'
f Cach week will salute a Milwaukee
'hdustiy.

The show plugs no merchandise,
'ihe commercial consisting of insti-
' :utlonal copy with a selling America
' lieme. Each week Gimbel Bros, will
put in a big window display of the
-products made by the firm to be
honored in the following Sunday's
; broadcast. Quiz participants, se-
lected by the firm, will compete for
defense stamps, each contestant be-
ing given 12 25c stamps at the be-
ginning of the program, the con-
testatit missing questions forfeiting
,one of his stamps.

Every ninth program will consist
lot a quiz battle involving the win-
ning contestants from the eight pre-
ceding programs.

Don Stanley is announcing the pro-
grams, with Johnnie Olson acting as
quiz master.

BIBLE DISCS
ON MARKET

Recorded bible readings, by pro-
fessional radio- actors, are being pro-
duced and marketed by Bibletone
Records, a new ixm. Several Psalms
and the Sermon on the Mount have
already been recorded. Discs will
cell for $1 each.

Sale of the records is being
plugged via a series of daily spot an-
nouncements on WWRL, New York.

i Stewart's Cafeterias'
Disc Jockey on WMCA

■ Stewart's Cafeterias, New York,
; dispensers of tray-borne hash, has

signed with WMCA to sponsor two
; hours, less five minutes of New York
- Times News.

; Art Green will disc jockey from
I 8:05 to 10 p.m., breaking in with
i guest interviewees now and again.

■ H. W. Fairfax agency set deal.

Vera Barton oh CBS

Vera Barton, vocalist, has been set
as a .sustainer over the CBS net by
Music Corp. She's due for an RCA-
Victor recording buildup, too.

On three times weekly in quarter-
hour .stanza with Walter Gross or-
chestra.

That Good

Minneapolis, March 3.

Emmett Heerdt, WCCO office
manager, replied to a letter of
application for a Job: 'I feel that
I should advise you that your
experiences seem to qualify you
more for the job that I hold, and
naturally you will have a hard
tlhie convincing me that you
should have it'

The applicant came, anyway.

RADIO RECEIVES
TIRE PRIORITY

Washington, March 3.

Danger that radio might be se-
verely hampered by the tight limi-
tation on tires has been eased by the
latest rationing regulations concern-
ing recapping and retreading. Policy
becomes effective this week. '

No general loosening up is pro-
vided by the latest War Production
Board order but broadcasters will
get at least a chance to argue their
needs for remade tires before the
rationing boards. Placed in the 'B'
eligibility list. Tires and tubes may
be parceled. . out — after numerous
other needs have been filled — for ve-
hicles lised to transport 'executives,
engineers, technicians or workers to
and from' communications facilities.

This will enable station managers
to press their claims for rubber on
company-owned machines used ex-
clusively to ferry employees to dis-
tant transmitter sites, for instance,
and probably will be construed
broadly enough to include mobile
transmitters and vehicles used to
transport pick-up equipment and
personnel. Just how far the boards
will go in holding that radio indus-
try autos are used to maintain neces-
sary contact with vital 'communica-
tion facilities' hinges largely on con-
ditions in each community — the vol-
ume of tires and tubes available artd
the demand from persons and groups
higher on the ellglbilUy list

WCKYOpensatSAJM.

Cincinnati, March 3.

WCKY has moved up its, starting
time an hour to 5 a.m. and is airing
music and news up to 7:10 a.m.

Due to censorship i^estrictions, the
station has discontinued its Midnight
Club request recordings and is car-
rying programs of bands via CBS
from midnight to a news summary
sign-oS at 1 aJn,

DimceCreates Some Embarrassments

Radio Censorship

^Continued from pate Is

Clients Grumble at Lack of Year's Notice If Losing
Red (NBC) Supplementaries

While assurances have come from
Blue Network sales execs that the
proposed policy on the subject of
NBC supplementaries will prove en-
; tirely satisfactory to Blue accoXints,
. rumbles of discontent and resent-
ment - were heard among agencies
during the past week. Even before
the Blue has put in writlog just
what NBC supplementaries will be
declared no longer available to Blue
. customers, agencies are charging that
the Blue's procedure is "unfair' since
the deprivations do not entail' the
customary notice of 52 weeks.

Several agencies have been de-
manding to know of the Blue for
some time what affect the recent
divorcement of that network from
NBC would have on their inclusion
of NBC affiliated stations. Though
tome agencies have already been
given their answers orally, NBC sales
execs disclosed Monday (2) that
formal announcement of the policy
wHI not be made until the end of
this week.

One agency that was particularly
wroth at the turn of affairs had been
apprised that one of its Blue Net-
work accounts would -have to give
up,' effective the week of March 22,
the. NBC southwest, . southeast and
aouttacentral supplementaries, It°,wa8

informed, however, thait the account
would be permitted to retain the
NBC Pacific link;

The agency declared that it had
been under the impression that the
Blue would continue to buy all these
supps from NBC and sell them to the
account and that if the policy had to
be changed the account would re-
ceive at least a year's notification,
as Is the arrangement that prevails
for changes in rates and discounts.
The agency also commented- on the
circumstance that nothing was said,
by the .Blue about the deprivation
of the NBC supplementaries until
after the account had, as requested,
assigned its contract from NBC to
the Blue Network Co., Inc.

recently scissored before going out
of the country, suggestions have
come from Federal authorities that
a way will be found to keep radio
stations from spraying into foreign
territory the same information that
is deleted from the public press.

In view of the undeniable technical
impossibility of fencing in all sig-
nals, there is growing alarm that
the Federal authorltits will resort
to far more stringent censorship at
the source. Even that the present
pc<tver limits may be cut in various
instances, no matter how much the
FCC objected to reduction of service.
Conceivably, stations using 'maxi-
mum wattage along the coasts and
borders could be made to return
volume and Install additional direc-
tional antennas to fan their signals
back over, the mainland, but ob-
viously this will not solve the puz-
zle.

More DIsorlmlnatlon?

That means there is even stronger
likelihood of more discrimination
between radio and the press. Al-
ready Federal censors are drawing
lines of this sort, as well as treat-
ing different classes of newspapers
differently (such as allowing only
'local publication' of stories about
new war Industry plants, forbidding
sheets with state-wide circulation to
use items approved for rags that
sell only in a small area).

In the 10 weeks since Pearl Har-
bor, several instances have occurred
where communiques and statements
were given out with a blunt order
that they be. kept off the air. More
of this is threatened, while some
sporadic talk has been heard about
stationing blue-pencilers , in each
transmitter and network origination
point to m'bnitor the copy.

Censorship has gone farther al-
ready than many who* were called
calamity howlers forecast. Between
the Office of Censorship, the Army-
Navy-Marltime Commission, and the
Office of Facts and Figures, broad-
casters are hemmed in by 'requests'
and sets of 'approved practices.'
One Bright Bay
One bright ray gleamed last week,
however, when J. H. Ryan, assistant
censorship director who handles
radio matters, decided. that man-in-
the-street - pickups don't have to be
abandoned entirely. Though the
code said these should be ended .for
the duration, Ryan gave one station
permission to put on such a show
with added safeguards against fifth-
columnists or agitators. Ryan ex-
plained that other broadcasters may
get consent to resume such fea-
tures if they take precautions which
receive official approval.

'Virtually every program of this
general type varies in some degree
from the others. For this reason,
no blanket approval of substitutes
can be given in advance,' Ryan com-
mented. 'Broadcasters who feel
they could make use of such pro
grams can still fulfill obligations of
self-censorship should submit their
specific program structures to the
Office of Censorship for review and
interpretation.'

Meanwhile, the Army has laid
down more rigid controls, inter-
preting the provisions in the ap
proved practice code dealing with
withholding of information having
military value. Six-page circular
goes into great detail in telling what
can and cannot be said regarding
industrial production, new factories
and defense installations, contract
awards, and related phases of the
war program.

New St. Loals Beoordlng Firm

St. Louis, March 3.

Disco Recording Co. has been or-
ganized by three persons who have
been long identified with St Louis
radio. They are Harry 'Pappy' Che-
shire, who has a hillbilly act on
KMOX; Gordon Sherman, who has
had charge of KMOX's recording,
and Bob Relchenbech, formerly pro-
motion manager at KMOX.

Among Disco's initial Jobs was
Cbeshlre's "The Old Corral' series.

NBCSAGRONSKY
DRAWS BLAST
FROM NAVY

Washington, March 3.
Navy department officials diS'
cussed with network officials yes-
terday (Monday) the need for closer
coordination with Washington au-
thorities in handling the broadcasts
of the webs' foreign staff corre'
spondents. The networks were
asked to bear In mind that while
the correspondents might get clear-
ance from censors at the originat-
ing points the contents of the broad-
cast might at the same time be con-

Gassical Music Through Wee Hours
Draws Favorable Reaction For CBS

Hams' Ray of Cheer

Washington, March 3.

Amateur radio was released
from the official doghouse last
week when the FCC, at urging
of the Army and Navy, resumed
granting licenses for amateur
operators— but not for additional
ham transmitters— In order to
facilitate recruiting.

Approximately 1,500 appli-
cants who passed the examina-
tions -since Pearl Harbor now
can expect their tickets.

RCA TAXES AT
$1.18 PER SHARE

Although gross Income rose 31%,
Radio Corporation of America net
profit increased only 12% in 1941 or
$1,079,560 over 1940, according to the
annual report mailed stockholders
last Friday (27). RCA net profit was
$10,102,716 against $9,113,156 in previ-
ous year. Gross income from all
sources totalled $158,695,722, which is
an increase of $37,256,215 over the
$121,439,507 reported in 1040.

Company report shows provision
for Federal Income taxes as $16,373,-
600, a bike of. $12,1^,302 or 285%
over the preceding year. These taxes
are equal to $1.18 per common share
compared to 31c in 1040.

RCA reported fractionally better
than 50c per coinmon share earnings
as against 42%c in 1040, making it
the best showing for common share-
holders in several years. After pro-
viding for all dividends and other
deductions from surplus account
the total earned surplus of the cor-
poration on Dec. 31, 1941, amounted
to $27,963,975 or an increase of
$4,310,961 over that at the end of
1940.

Corporation cash on hand and in
banks together with U. S. govern-
ment securities totalled $28,424,444
or more than $ll,t)0O,opp : greater
than at the close . of 1840. RCA
working capital at the close of the
year was $37,714,839 or an increase
of $11,019,834 over that at the close
of the preceding year.

Besides Federal -taxes, the com-
pany listed $3,417,250 as total state,
local, social security and other
taxes paid accrued during 1941, or
about $731,300 higher than the pre-
ceding year.

Lon Brook, vaudevlllian and night
club performer, has joined -WCCO,
Minneapolis, 'Sunrlsers' program as
emcee.

WABC, CBS' New York key, Is
getting a favorable fan-letter reac-
tion to Its present policy of all-nlcht
programming. Several hundreds of
letters come int6 the station weekly
commending the station for the em-
phasis on classical music which
characterizes this 1 a.m. to 6 a.m.
stretch of broadcasting, and the
WABC management reports that ad-
vertisers have begun to show an In-
terest in buying into some of these
periods. WJZ, the Blue Network's
N. Y. outlet Is working on a new
programming plan for the same span
of time and it expects to be able
to announce the lineup within
the next week.

Following is WABC's programming
setup for the all-night trick:

1- 1:30, Columbia Masterworks.
1:30-2, Semi-classical music.

2- 2:05, News.

2:05-3, Symphony concert with
comment

3- 3:15, News.

3:15-3:45, Show production music.
3:45-4, Musical Americana.

4- 4:05, News.

4:05-4:30, Brass band mu&ic with
inclusion of Government announce-
ments.

4:30-5; Columbia Masterworks.

5- 5:05, News.

5:05-5:16, Pan-American music.

5:15-5:30, Organ music and hymns
for ruralltes.

5:30-6, Old American standard
tunes.

ANNOUNCER'S SALUTE
TO HIS 4-YEAR JOB

Detroit, March 3. ■■
Following the final broadcast of
the Ford Symphony Hour, WJR's
announcer, Ron Gamble, . who has
been announcer on the show for four
years, threw a parly for Ford men,
agency executives and others con-
nected with the production.

It was a double-headed farewell
for Gamble, a civilian pilot due to be
called into the Arm;.

Networi[ Renewals

Bob Becker dog talks, NBC-Red,
renewed by John Morrell, but the
hookup cut from 54 to 32 stations, ef-
fective March 1, Henri, Hurst &
McDonald agency.

Thin Man,' program, 78-statlon
NBC-Red hookup, Woodbury,- effec-
tive Feb. 25, Lennen & Mitchell
agency.

- Ralston has picked up options on
Elsa Maxwell show on Blue network
Friday nights. Second 13-week cycle
takes effect April 3.

Dorothy Kllgallen, OSrStation CBS
hookup, Johnson & Johnson, effective'
March 31, Young & Rublcam.

Proposes Miami Acquire City Station

Discussion in Municipal Commission Hints Gamblers
Are Behind One Private Petition

Miami, Marc^.3.:
Establishment of a municipally-
owned and operated radio station as
a publicity vehicle for the City of
Miami was proposed Wednesday (25)
by City Coihmissk)ner R.'-C. Gard-
ner. Resolution would authorize the
city manager to apply to the Federal
Communications Commission for a
permit.

Gardner said. he and three other
interests had sought such a permit,
and had been assured of affiliation
with the Mutual network, but he
had withdrawn from the competi-
tion because he believed that the
FCC would look with more favof
upon a city application.

Gamblers, said Gardner, were in-
terested in one of three Miami appli-
cations to the FCC. Upon question-
ing by Commissioner James A. Dunn

trary to the requirements of the
U. S. censor.

What instigated the meettag was
a recent broadcast by Martin Agron-
sky, NBC staff man now in Austra-
lia. During the broadcast In ques-
tion Agronsky quoted a U. S. navy
officer as beUttling some antl-alr-
^jjift ammunition.

he modified to state those involved
'were not exactly gamblers, but they
r^resented gamblers.' Dunn said
Gardner was mistaken, but made no
further statement

Cost of the proposed station, ac-^
cording to Gardherj'wbuld be aroiin^
$35,000, and construction would be
paid for out of the return on the
regular publicity levy -without any
additional cost to taxpayers.

Mutual . executives expressed
amazement at Gardner's proposal
for a MBS tie-up with bis proposed
city owned station. A telegram read:
"The Mutual Broadcasting System
has an affiliation contract with radio
station WFTL In Fort Lauderdale'.
This station will soon Increase its
power to 10,000 watts and will give
primary Intensive coverage to Miami
Beach, Fort Lauderdale and all of
South Florida. Accordingly Fort
Lauderdale will be the sole outlet
for full time in Miami area for
Mutual network program service. We
are at a loss to understand any ref-
erence to any other an-angements
for service in that area.'

Gardner said he will press pro-
posal word that MBS is not inter-
ested.

Vednesday. March 4, 1942

RADIO 29

STUDY VIA MUSIC

NBC LURES YANKS
WITH MELODIES

Stimulation of U. S. Interest
in Languaffo of Hemia-
pherie Co-Tenants Is Mo-
tive Behind New 'Down
Mexico Way' Series— Vice
President Wallace An En-
thusiast for Plan

•USTENING PARTIES'

P&G's 'Family Life' ^
On Canadian Stations

Montreal, March 3.
Procter & Gamble has bought
time on French language station
CKAC for •Vie de FamlUe* ('Fam-
ily Lite') rebroadcast daily 6-6:15
p.m. Paul Emile Corbeil super-
vising.

Program Is also heard daily from
10-10:15 a.m. on CBF and French
language network of CBC.

FRAITK FEXIZ AT KGO

San Francisco, March 3.
Frank Feliz has been named Blue
network publicity director for KGO,
San Francisco. Comes over from
the War Production Board office.

Will work under Gil Paltridge,
sales promotion manager.

The Chider Chided

Montreal, March 3.
Several times weekly' the
Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
warns its listeners to pay their
annual license tax or face ar-
rest and fines.

last week Lt. Col. Rene P.
Landry, secretary of the cor-
poration, was arrested and paid
a fine of $3 for not having a li-
cense for his own home re-
ceiver.

Enrique Contel, manager of station
XEQ, Mexico City, of the Azcarraga
syndicate that also operates station
X£W, is to be banqueted soon by a
group of air artis's and newspaper
people.

Right of Government to Regulate
Radio Fully Sustained in Mexico

Mexico City, March 3.
Government's right to regulate
radio as a wartime jneasure was up-
held by the supreme court here in
rejecting the suit of local station
XENT (10,000 watts), owned by the
Compania Industrial y Universal de
Mexico, for an order to set aside the
$1,000 (Mex) line imposed by the
Ministry of Communications and
Public Works, ruler of Mexico's air
affairs, and its accompanying man-

date that XENT change Its fre-
quency.

XENT contended that it was
privileged to function on a 1115-kc.
frequency because its original fed-
eral concession allowed that Court
held that the Ministry was right In
ordering the station to go on an 810-
kc. frequency because it had found
that XENT was causing much public
annoyance by interfering with U.
and Canadian broadcasters, 'nibunal
remarked that-^e government Is
well within Its^rights to control
radio.

Music with Spanish lyrics will be
used on the program called 'Down
Mexico Way* over 80 NBC stations
(and more to be added probably in
four weeks when the Metropolitan |
Opera season ends) In order to en-
tice Yankees to study the language {
of our fellow-tenants of this hemi-
spre. Series is the result of a pet I
idea of Henry Wallace, vice-pres-
ident of the United States, who habla {
Espagnols himself and is a warm ad-
mirer of the Mexicans.

Unique tieup of the series, which I
is heard Saturday afternoons from j
4-4:30, are listening - parties' to be
set up locally by 1,700 clubs of I
the National Federation of Music [
''Clubs and by many groups of the
Business and Professional Women's
Clubs. Irene Kuhn, of NBC, worked
out this aspect and has just spent
a month in Mexico City sopping up {
color, background. Ideas and gen-
erally familiarizing herself with I
Mexico. She will work with the
series permanently to obtain maxi- |
mum audience.

All music used on the radio pro- I
grams will already have been re-
corded by Victor, Columbia or Dec-
ca. Basic idea (s that the Amer- I
leans will be able to buy anything
they take a fancy to. On each pro-
gram one Spanish pop tune will be
woven through the whole program [
as a reprise. Other music will sup-
plement with guitars muchjn evi-
dence. Ted Corday will' direct "theT
series for NBC.

First program last Saturday had I
v.p. Wallace and the wife of the
Mexican Ambassador to Wa'shington,
Senora Francisco Castello Najera, |
herself a student of music,
. As sketched out by Clarence Men- |
ser, NBC program chief, an Amerl- {
can visiting in Mexico will success-
. ively meet Mexicans of various age I
groups, and songs apropos that age
will be used. By installment, four
the Yank will be in love with a [
senorlta.

Considerable Interest throughout I
the U. S. A. has already been
aroused, Texas being 'positively ex-
cited,' according to comment. In |
the latter state various local sta-
' tlons have in the past broadcast I
Spanish instruction. NBC, however.
Is merely leading the Yanquis to I
the hard work of grammar through |
the sugar of sweet music.

Sterling Fisher is now lining up I
window-dressing committees for |
NBC's, new Inter-American Univer-
sity of the Air, another gesture of |
the web to Latin slmpatico.

TABASCO (THE STATE)
A RADIO SPONSOR I

Mexico City, March 3.

The State of Tabasco, torrid south- 1
em zone famous for bananas and hot |
sauce, Is the latest Mexican (Com-
monwealth to be sold on radio as b|
publicity medium.

Tabasco has bought an hour and I
a half a week of time of Mexico]
City's XEW (180,000 watts).

Haddoz Now a V J.

Rufus C. Maddux, director of sales
of WOR,. New York, haa been
elected vice-president In charge of
sales for the station.

He has been with WOR since De-
cember, 1940.

ElsiassiSai,..,., I

Are yott interested in
what your dealers tbink?

Of course you ore, for your dealers make or break your
campaigns — at the point of safe.

' This WLW representative knows what your declers
think . . . about your advertising . . ond the forces
that move merchandise in modem day retailing.

He reports on this oil-important subject in a new study
just off the press . - . "28,037 calls on the Men Who
Move Your Merchandise."

If you haven't received your copy, write WLW or call
one of our Sales Offices.

hJew .York — Transomerican Broadcasting

& Television Corp.
Chicago— WLW, 360 No. Michigan Avenue
San Francisco — International Radio Sales

THI 'NATION'S M

WLW

OST MIliCHANOISI-ABlE STATION

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RADIO

Wednesdaj, March 4, 1942

IN NEW YORK CITY . . .

The Radio Trade js Discussing: The rash of John J. Anthonti stories
a la Little Audrey going the rounds — The satherino omens of a knock-
dou;7i stru0ple betuieen rodio, v\agazines and neicspopers /or the u:ar-
»inie accounts— Charley Vonda's 'They Live Forever' morale series on
CBS— The engaoement of Esme O'Brien, NBC's debutonte-receptiontst
(siith floor) to David Samoa's son— Those busy carpenters at Radio
City— Con Gabriel Heallcr defeat Mussolini?

George Hamilton Combs of WHN has new book out, 'Himmler-Nazi
Spider Man'.... Bill Bacher headquanering at the Essex House turnmg
out transcriptions for the treasury under title, 'Star Parade'. .. .Fred Bate,
NBC's London man, due in New York from his second trip to Mexico,
wheie his wife and children now reside. .. .Allan Finn, radio editor of

Newsweek, back at desk after three weeks' illness Edgar Kobak, Jr.,

stationed at Ft. Knox doing a Saturday radio program over WAVE, Louis-
ville

Elizabeth M. McLaughlin shifted from a clerk's job to be an assistant

In the Blue production department No longer at NBC are Richmond

Eddy and L H. Gardner, engineers; Theodore Gray and Warren Palmatier,
of the music department, and Eileen O'Leary, from program supervision.

Dr. Clement Dorra, Egyptian physician and publicist, has joined the CBS
ihortwave staff as Arabic broadcaster. . .Jose Crespo, Latin-American legit
and film actor, has joined the company's shortwave staff as a Spanish lan-
guage announcer... Emaline Lyman, formerly secretary for scripters Edith
Meiser and Tom McKnight, new to publicity at WOR, replacing Marjone
Kent... Warner Hall left WOR sales for Blue network ... Jeff Smith, from
EtAvin-Wasey agency; Phillip Monaghan, 'ormerly NBC, and Paul Lohsc,
Arthur Simpson and Theodora Morgan new at WOR engineering de-
partment.

Since Hendrik Booraem has gone to the Coast to direct the Gulf-Screen
Guild show, Sandy Stronach is now sole director of "March of Time,' foi;

Young & Riibicam Scripter Max Ehrlich due for fatherhood in July. . . .

Joe Daly directing Thrilling Stories of America,' 'Music for Neighbors' and

several other musical shows on NBC-Red Bruce Kamman directs 'Vi

and Vilma' on the same network Jack Runyon, who recently joined the

Inter- American Affairs committee, goes to the Coast in a couple of weeks.

to set up local office there for the outfit Charles Henry, assistant to

Dave Levy; director of "We, the People," has enlisted in the navy and leaves
in about a month.

Frank Shinn directs "Living Literature,' "What Can I Do?' on the Blue

network Robert Sannmon engineers 'Meet Mr. Meek' and llBUdie's

Diary' on CBS. .-. .Paul Wittlig is technician on the Fred Allen and Andre
Kostelanetz ^ows on the same network. . . .E. W. Person has the panel on.
the Celanese and liOmbardo programs, while John McCartney does the
same stint on the Kate Smith and 'Kate Smith Speaks' stanzas, also on

CBS Harmon Nelson, assistant to Bob Welch on the direction ot the

Cantor show, goes into the army in a couple of weeks Jaime Julia has

not resigned trom NBC; as reported, but takes a Washington assignment
for the company, . , .Edwin Dunham directing Treedom's People' and Stella
Unger series on NisC-Red. . . .Ted Corday has the same assignment on
■World Is Youi'S' and 'Catholic Hour,' also on the Red.

Raymond Gram Swing, leaving April 6 for a three-week vacation, will
be replaced by John Gunther. . . .Norman DIcken directmg 'Prescott Pre-
sents,' 'Radio Magic' and shares direction of several other shows on the
Blue.... Davidson Vorhes engineers 'Hobby Lobby,' with Frank Protzman
dittoing "Hit Parade' and F. E. Rider same on 'School ot the Air,' all on

CBS Jack Arthur ]oined cast ot 'Gay Nineties'. .. .Albert Morgan, m.c.

of "How Well Do You Listen?' on WNYC, Is writing-producing a series of

experimental shows for the office of physical fitness of the OCD

Gretchen Reller subbing as the Quaker Girl on Armstrong's Theatre of
Toduy* during the Arizona vacation of her sister Elizabeth Reller.

Don Roberts, formerly with NBC, Free tc Peters, has joined the CBS net-
work sales force.... Oscar Katz, supervisor of statistical records for CBS,
has resigned to do research work for the OfHce of Facts and Figures.

Fay Schulman, assistant to Leon Goldstein, WMCA publicist, for past
few years, joined staff of PM Monday (2> as promotion assistant. She is
to work under Edwin Levin M. S. Szymzak, formerly of Federal Re-
serve, doing Polish-language discs for Treasury.

Estimated profit of |6,SOO-$7,000 was made on^hc recent AFRA Ball. . . .
It will be divided between the American "nieatra Wing War Service and
the AFRA Sick Fimd ... .Vivian Smolen subbing in the 'Our Gal Sunday'

title part tor Dorothy Lowell, who became a mother Saturday (28)

Remo Bolognini. violinist, added to regular cast of 'American Melody

Hour* Bette Davis guests Sunday (8) on Arthur Kurlan's 'Keep 'Em

Rolling* show Rolphe Sedan and Rupert LaBelle joined 'Orphans of

Divorce' troupe. . . .Billy Riley, ot the WNEW mail room, into the army ....

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James McCalllon and Vera Allen newcomers to 'Our Gal Sunday* cast. ,
Skippy Homeier added to 'We. the Abbotts'. . . .Ruth Russell, George Ward

and Spencer Bentley joined 'Mr. Keen' show Johnny Flora, assistant

announcer on 'Milkman's Matinee,' via WNEW, entered air corps and
stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.

Dick Willard, Bessie Beatty's announcer on WO.^l, to be a da'-dy soon. . . .
Sydney Moseley, wearing his medals again, renewed on WMCA by S'^rauss

Stores, took his sponsor to the Overseas Press Club Friday Mutual had

a table for the press on that occasion radio-wise crowd giggled loudly

at Joe E. Lewis, singing "I Got Those H. V. Kaltenborn Blues' and later de-
ploring Jack Benny's interruptions to Don Wilson's wonderful commercials.

IN HOLLYWOOD . . .

The Radio Trade Is Discussing: The lack of things to discuss except
of course the Nipponese and the Nazis, taxes and conscription, black-
outs and priorities.

Joe ParUcr, recently displaced I'j Tom McAvlty as producer of the
Ransom Sherman program, transferrtct to NBC's .rroduclion staff in Frisco.
. . . Harry Flannery, who followed William L. Shiver into Berlin for CBS,
will base at KNX as chief war analyst for the network on the Coast . . .
Jack Benny makes his last camp pitch March 8 at the Marine base in San
Diego befdre starting his next picture at Warners . . . Hal Berger now pro-
ducing Signal Carnival, replacing Herb Polesie . . . Everybody at NBC
going through the mugging and flngerpfinting process as a war measure.
. . . Keith McCloud, whose tenure as producer ol the Red Skelton was
brief, trained east on an agency deal . . . Joe Bigelow flying east with
Edgar Bergen after March 8 broadcast for the letter's appearcnce at the
Navy Relief show in Madison Square Garden . . . Frank Goss, KNX an-
nouncer, drafted . . . Other departers for service with Uncle Sam are Leon-
ard Finch and Bob Guggenheim of KNX, and Ben Byers, NBC publicist,
who joined up with the RAF for training near here . . . Jennings Pierce
appointed western division station relations manager for NBC . , . It's
Frances Scully's idea at NBC that of an all-temme program with an all-
male audience made up ot uniformed men. Chrin will broadcast it along
this seacoast under the logging of 'Your Blind Date.' . . . Tom McKnight
skipped to N. Y. for a 10-day visit with the missui ... Ed Cashman making
a tour of camps to ascertain which has been overlooked in entertainment
and helping Kay Kyser lay out a route.

m SAN FRANCISCO . . .

The Radio Tsade Is Discitssiiic: KGEfs good publicity breaks since
at stepped into the loar spotUpht — KSFO'm stlf-jnopaganda offensive in
planting voord that CBS's abandonment of efforts to oust the station
from CBS sudios 'obviated' the need for a counter suit.

Dick Wynne moves into the KFRC annoimce-booth to replace Norman
Paige, who has gone Into govt, service .... froii) Drips, KFRC's Breakfast
Club moves to prunes and apric-its . . . California Growers thereof have
bou^t weekly quarter-hour chunks of the Jack Kirkwood comedy stint
via Long Advertising . . . Palm Springs' Hotel del Tahquitz after biz from
this area, using spots placed through Hixon-ODonnell. LA. . . . KFRC
gets two daily . . . NBC will make a new udueational transcription service
available April 1, Thomas D. Rlshworth .of NBC public service, N. Y., told
the American Association for Education by Radio here . . . waxings of
news, speeches, literature, e tc, w ill ba issued for schools and colleges, he
sez . . . not to be outdone by lOUC's weekly origination from San Quentln
prison, KQW waxed a half-hour show at Folsom State pen for delayed
release . . . CBS outlet went for a case-history drama in contrast to the
Don Lee web's preference for inmate music . . . leaves only Alcatraz in
this area . . . Milt Samuel has gone to Hollywood, but his work lives on-
to benefit a competitor . . . idea he generated years ago to offset loss of
radio columns in newsirapers, a radio gossip column of the air, has picked
up a sponsor on KQW, CBS outlet ... Ira Blue, who handles it, was with
NBC at the time Idea was originated . . . when NBC axed Blue ... he took
praiser Samuel's Idea with him and peddled it to peddle Philcos for Sher-
man-Clay . . . KFRC's new studios are now considered modem: a shower
has been added to the executive suite for visiting firemen . . . Ralph Scott
named by CBS to handle all network production originating here . . .

3 Stage Plays,
Now Writing,
Deal With Radio

Three legit plays about the radio
business, all by radio scripters, are
in various degrees of completion.
First, by Knowles Entrikin and
Howard Breslln, was tested last sum-
mer at Scarborough, N. Y., but is
said to need third-act revision. Sec-
ond one, by Addy Richton and Lynn
Stone, Is being rewritten according
to Harold Freedman, play agent.
Third is being written by Ann Louise
Barley.

There have been several plays
based on the radio business, mostly
with burlesque Intent, produced on
Broadway In recent years. None was
successful.

WON'T PAY WAGE CLAIM,
SO STATION IS CLOSED

Mexico City, March 3.

XEHR, a 10,000-watter, located at
Pueblo City, has been shut down be-
cause ot Its refusal to pay a claim
for wages. It's the first case of Its
kind in Mexico. Manuel R. Canale
Is the owner.

The shuttering was decreed by the
Pueblo Boiird of Conciliation and
Arbitration after listening to but one
ot several wage claims against th*
station.

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London Calling

London, Feb. 8. ..
ScqacI to 'Crooks Tour,' with Basil
Radford and Naunton Wayne in their
original characters of Charters and
Caldlcott, begins its serial run Feb.
9. It Is titied 'Secret Mission 609.'

IN CHICAGO ...

The Radio Tbade Is Oiscdssinc: T7i« hoped-for influx of e^lvertisino
'tsar babies' to replace the war cstuoltiet . . . What sort of radio war
ini U de velop when th« Marshall Field group pets into actioe operation
of WHIP in competition urith the Chicago Tribune's WGN .

Penr Aahsrolt starring In radio
version of J. M, Barrie's 'Quabty
Street* Feb. 8.

Sid Strotz in town on his way back to the Coast after NY confabs . . .
Don Elder comes In .WDAY, Fargo (Ind.), to join NBC spieler gang. . .Bill
Ray back from visit to the south in time for talk on 'Radio Relations' at a
meeting of YMCA secretaries... W59C will present the first FM pick-up
of the Chicago Symphoiiy Orchestra this week, during its regular broad-
cast over Mutual... E A. Stockmair becomes NBC sales traffic chief, re-
placing Floyd Van Etten, who joins the Navy; and EL C. Cunningham, night
traffic maqager, becomes Stocbnar's assistant. : .

. Pat Flanagan going on six-week tour of baseball training camps to make
some recorded broadcasts for WBBM prior to the start ot the season. ..
Billy Evenson of 'Scattergood Baines* doubling to Jie stage for a part in
Charlie Freeman's local legit production, 'American Sideshow,' in the
Civic theatre. ..Les Tremayne has bought a South Dakota ranch in part-
nersliip with Lincoln Borglum. . .Wauhilla LaHay, radio ed of Chicago Sun,
guesting on thfe Harriet Hester program over WLS...WLS Bam Dance
vmit doing special show for World War vets at North Chicago hospital in
cooperation with Red Cross. . .

Scottlali Half-Hour Feb. 10 lias a
playlet adapted from Neil Mimroe's
'Ayrshire Idylls' being aired in thre«
episodes, imder the title 'The Demo-
crat.' It depicts varying phases of
Robert Bums' character.

Hie Lady from Texss,' meant the
life Etoiy c4 Mary Martin over BBC.
Radio version written by Roy Plom-
ley with Joan Miller playing the
role ut the singer.

Pradcnco NeOI, Public Relations
Officer of the A.T.S. (women's army
corps), now a BBC spieler.

199 Stations on Mntoal

station WISE, AsheviHe, N. C,
joined the Mutuid network last week,
bringing the number of affiliates to
199. Outlet operates on 1230 kc. and
250 watts.

KFXJ, Mutual affiliate in Grand
Junction, CoL, has upped Its power
trom 250 to 1,000 watts and shified
frequency trom 920 kc. to 1230 kc.

Katharine Seymonr Off
light of the World'

Katharine Seymour, stripter of
the Biblical rewrite, 'Light of the
World,' did not renew her contract
with Transamerican and Is no longer
writing the NBC-Red serial Mr Gen-
eral Mills (Wheaties). Don Becker
has taken over the assignment tem-
porarily. He Is also billed as author
of 'As the Twig is Bent' and co-
author with Carl Bixby of "Life Can
Be Beautiful' and The Man I Mar-
ried.'

Having written the show since It
went on the air more than two
years ago. Miss Seymour got a raise
when her contract was renewed last
year, but refused to sign again this
year without an additional increase.
She has never received air billing.
Most recent rating on the serial was
7.3%. Agency Is Blackett-Sample-
Hummert, Chicago division.

Miss Seymour is now readying a
presentation script for a new serial,
which she hopes to have completed
for submission to au agency within
a week or bo. She Is New York re-
gional vice-president of the Radio
Writers Guild.

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someone hBdthnore
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WedneBday. March 4, 1942

RADIO

SI

hside Stuff-Radio

Not His News Source

Recently the 'Judy and Jane' show from Chicago celebrated Its 11th
year on the air as the oldest daytime script show, the oldest daytime net-
work show.

It started for Folger Coffee and It continues on that sponsorship. Folger
CoffPtf 'i'^'"' ow* show completely, but it Is handled through the Lord
& Tliori"S agency.

Sht v jLsrted (or Blackett-Sample-Hummert agency, <or which It was
the first radio serial show and began the entire daytime serial policy of
that Bije-ncy.

It was originally written by Ireene and Walter Wicker, and Irna Phillips
also worked on the show as scripter. None of these people now associated
with the program.

CBS has yielded to the demand of WNBF, Binghamton, N. Y., and the
new contract which that station has signatured with the network does not
stipulate exclusivity. WNBF will continue to take Mutual as well as
Columbia programs.

When the renewal discussion came up between the Binghamton station
and CBS, the latter made an issue of the exclusive clause. WNBF retorted
that rather than accept such a clause it would make a deal with NBC,
which the station figured would readily consent to a non-exclusive ar-
rangement.

Maurice Drelccr, New York City's independently-incomed, non-stop,
freelance broadcaster and idea man (he has 26 programs going at the
moment on WINS. WBYN, WOV, WHOM, WWRL. WEVD, WBNX), has
done the unusual as a patriotic gesture by making available, without roy-
alty, a series of outlines, synopses and ideas for wartime morale programs.
Purpose behind Dreicer is to provide local stations with simple production
slants which will enable them, in terms of local, indie station limited
facilities, to do for our war effort wjjat the networks are able to do on an
elaborate, costly basis.

'Sounding Board,' local quiz-record show Thursday nights on WEAF,
New York, lor RCA- Victor records, was the subject of a recent communi-
cation from R. L. Hutton, Jr., of the NBC spot sales department, to all the
company's spot salesmen. Memo cited the program's mail increase from
71 letters the first week to 3,122 the 14th week, after the Jan. 15 broadcast,
as evidence of the WEAF listening audience for a late-evening show. Pro-
gram air at- 11:15-11:30 p.m. Since Button's letter, the mail has risen to
5,492 returns a week.

Frank Morgan switched from his Baron Munchausen comedy role on
'Good News' over NBC to do a dramatic and rather gruesome sketch,
'Whom the Gods Would Destroy,' by Phil Rapp, one of the show's wr'ters.
Skit, spotted next to closing, told of a Nazi, spy who ordered himself
strapped in a dentist's chair to have an ulcerated tooth yanked without
any painkiller. As the operation was oeing performed, the dentist fell
dead on liim, in the deserted twelfth story of an office building.

Account by CoL R. R. McCormick over WGN-Mutual on the campaign
and battle of Gettysburg will become part of regular military history
course at the United States Military Academy.

Talk by Col. McCormick was later expanded into a full article in the
Chicago Tribune, and following publication, additional copies of the article
were requested by West .Point professors to be used as supplemental
material on the battle.

Sir John Wardlaw Milne, Conservative M. P., has attacked the British
Broadcasting Corp. in House of Commons for bad news service. Said dust
storms In Libya seemed only to happen to British troops, according to
BBC, which is more and more irking listeners by devoting several minutes
of news bulletins to long-winded description of trivial incidents and dis
missing headline news, especially if not favorable, in seconds.

Joe E. Ijev/is has 'been getting radio 'guest-shot offers and did his first
on ihe Schaefer-AUen Roth show, clicking with 'ri. y. Kaltenborn Blues'
and his zany gypsy routine. Lewis Is also making good capital of his
quickly flopped show, 'Lady Comes Across,' which lasted three days at
the 44th St. theatre. Lewis observss, "That would make a good bomb shel-
ter; it hasn't had a hit in years.'

'KWID is progressing ahead of schedule and probably will be on the air
early in April,' Lincoln Cellar, manager of KSFO, San Francisco, told
'Variety' in scouting reports from eastern shortwave sources that the
100,000-watt shortwave job commandeered from General ilectric was en-
. countering delays which will keep it off the ether until August.

Last Wednesday, after the re-broadcast, Eddie Cantor conducted an al
fresco comedy session that's still the talk of the trade. Dannjr Kaye, Jimmy
Durante, George Jessel supplemented guester Edward Arnold In cutting up
and clowning with Cantor that was a comedy treat for NBC personnel and
the studio audience alike.

Some 32 midwestemers with a special interest in hockey broadcasts have
jnet In Omaha and formed the American Hockey Broadcasters Association
with Cy Casper, KMOX, St. Louis as president; Tom Dailey, WOW, Omaha,
first vice-president; Tom Casper, KGKO, Ft. Worth, Tex., second vice-
president; BUI Durney, WIL, treasurer, and Frank Eschen, KSD, secretary.

Seattle, March 3.

Dick Keplinger, KJR, Seattle,
ne\yscaster, was on the air, tell-
ing the public all the latest
news, when a newsboy busted
Into the studio shouting, 'Paper,
mister? Latest news, paper?'

The newsy, new on the beat,
had gotten his signals crossed
up. Keplinger spent some time
assuring listeners that it wasn't
a gag.

CANADA COPY
NOT URGING
TRAVEL

Some Radio Lawyers Still Clamor
For Revised Radio bw ThisTear
But Prospect RenHuns Shaded

When the Ontario Travel Bureau
starts its series on NBC next month
the plug will l>e strictly institutional
and stress the 'hands-across-the-
border* routine. TTie U. S. state de-
partment has assured the Ontario
government that it would l>e alright
to do a straight job of selling Ameri-
cans on the Idea of spending their
vacations In Canada but the Do-
minion authorities have elected to
refrain from tourist commercials.

The series will run for 17 weeks.

Washington, March 3.
Difference of opinion between the
radio barristers and station and web
managements over the desirability of
seeking Communications Act amend-
ments this year has cropped up with
the legalites still trying to egg the
House Interstate Commerce Com-
mittee into holding hearings on the
Sanders bill to remake the FCC. As
previously reported in 'Variety,' the
House group is not In a frame of
mind to take up any communica-
tions legislation for some time, but
an industry committee sought to
make sure there will be no boat-
rocking by making a personal ap-
peal to Chairman Clarence F. Lea to
let sleeping dogs keep snoozing.
Four-man delegation — Neville Miller,
John Shepard, Harry C. Butcher, and
Frank M. Russell— has told the
House leader that the operating
brains feel this is no time to go Into
such serious and highly controversial
matters as rewriting of the outmoded
statute.

The Industry group called on Lea
after considerable commotion stirred

up by the Federal Communicatlonj
Bar Association. Primarily respon-
sible for getting the White-Sanders
proposals dropped in the Congres-
sional hopper, the barristers have
kept Insisting the hot Issue Should
not be evaded longer. Despite th*
feeling of network and station
executives, former Commissioner
Eugene O. Sykes, in his capacity as
head of the FCBA, recently tried to
prod the House committee, and th«
legalites' special committee on radio
legislation has been tugging at the
legislators' sleeves, chiefly because
of their resentment over the Com-
mission's crack-down philosophy nnd
the series of trouncings in wrangling
over the reform regulations.

Any measures rushed through
Congress while it . is preoccupied
with problems related to the war
are liable to be half-baked, the In-
dustry group felt , Instead of actinf
In haste and rep'enting for a long
time. It Is much better to struggle
along under the present handicaps
until the problem can be weighed
deliberately, the delegation advised
Lea.

THIS SUNDAY NIGHT

and

EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT

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FORM CORPORATION
FOR BROOKLYN, N.Y.

Albany, March 3.

WKEY, Inc., has been chartered
to conduct a radio broadcasting
business In Kings County (Brook-
lyn). Capital stock Is 100 shares,
no par value. DireStors, each hold-
ing one share, are: Arthur Faske,
Louis Berne and Ellas Godofsky,
Brooklyn.

Willtam Weisman, New York City,
was filing attorney.

B R. for Basketball Special

Fort Worth, March 8.

Magnolia Petroleum Co. will spon-
sor four-hour broadcast of the Texas
High School Championship basket-
ball game from Austin over station
KGKO and the Lone Star Chain and
five supplementary stations on Satur-
day, March 7. _ ,

Announcers are Jim Crocker, Ves
Box, Charlie jordon and Tee Casper.

{and the beer is doing very well with Dempsey, thank you)

We refer, of course, to the purchaie
by Piel's Beer of that WOR^ireated
stopper, "Jack Dempsey's All Sports
Quiz", on WOR every Saturday eve-
ning at 8:30.

Once again the WOR Show Shop
has turned out a winner — for a
sponsor and its audience. For, no
sooner had the "Jack Dempsey's All
Sports Quiz" hit the air on WOR
than 1110 listeners sat down, wrote

letters, sent them to Jack Dempsey
-andWOR.

Quietly, without fanfare (up until
now), WOR has been building, spot-
ting, accumulating top audiences on
an increasing Ust of low-priced, but
highly entertaining shows.

Now, when those extra dollars count
so much; when you just can't afford
to take '^'lances, why not call In
WOR on your show problem?

where showmanship sells—

NOTE: Spomormf WOR-«r«if«l thow$ now on WOR;

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Wetlncnday, March 4, 1942

Payroll Traffic

Dallas— Hai^eld Weedin ha!< joined
WFAA KGKO announcers.

Resliia, Saek.— New announcer at
CJRM is Lloyd Wray.

Moose Jaw, Sask.— New announcer
with CHAB, Moose Jaw, is Norm
McBain, of Winnipeg. Everctl
Small wood has been added to the
transmitter staff.

.serve Captain) called to active duty.
Fred Taylor, KSL studio supcrvi.sor,
also enlisted recently.

Bud Manwaring, for 14 yeius with
the Salt Lake Tribune, recently
joined stall of KSL as sales execu-
tive.

Toledo. O.— Bill Hightowcr, for-
merly with WIOD, Miami, has
Joined WSPD, Toledo, as an an-
nouncer.

Dolores Sick, formerly with
WTOL. has a new post in Detroit,
and Mary Berthold. of Butte, Mont.,
is a newcomer at WTOL.

Mason City, la.— Jim Woods.
KGLO sports announcer, )ias joined
the U.S. Marine' Corps. Ilcplacemcnt
is Damon Ecklcs, from KFJB, Mar-
shalUown, la.

Commercial manager George Arn-
old, Jr., was caught in the draft, and
his job is being handled by his as-
sistant. Herb Ohrt.

Norman Jolley leaves his announc-
ing job with KGLO for a similar one
at KSO. DCS Moines.

Special to Stenos

Boston, March 3.

Evelyn Scott, secretary to
WEEI's program director Del
Castillo, felt she could sing, but
decided she didn't want any
sympathy from iicr colleagues.

As 'Eve Sothern,' she au-
ditioned at WBZ and passed,
receiving a weekly Saturday
morning spot. She broadcast
for several weeks and then
asked for leave of absence. She
explained that she couldn't read
miusic and felt that with some
study she could better herself,
and would tlien return.

Caldwell, now of the U. S. Army Air
Corps and Dick Purccll, back to
music business, Boston.

. Radio Daffodils -

.4hron, O.— Frank Groiijcan. of i San Antonio. — Herb Dahlcti. tor
WHBC. Canl/m. C, has joined ll-c ,noilv announcer at station WKY

Btart of WJW, Akron.

Duluth.— Leo Fremont, promotion
director at WEBC, Into the army.

Seaitle.— Pat Hayes now announc-
ing at KIHO, Seattle. Formerly with
KPQ. Wenatchce.

Detroll.^Ken Manuel, of Detroit
News, now WWJ newscaster.

Boston. — Stuart Novins, recently
upped from announcer to WEEI
news editor, has enlisted in the
Army.

John Kiley, WMEX musical di-
rector, is also handling program di-
rector's duties, since John Riley
joined the Navy as lieutenant In
radio division.

Asheville, N. C— Lewis Elias. of
'the engineering staff of WWNC,
Asheville, has resigned to join the
Navy.

Oklahonu City, has Joined the »ri.
nouncing staff of station WOAI.

Pat Hanna, new to WOAI ncw.---
room. likewise Theron Hoff.

Wichita, Kan. — Additions to an-
nouncing staff at radio station KKBI
are John Dixon, formerly of KFNF.
Shenandoah, la., and Ted Compton
frcim KCRC, Enid, Okla.

John B. Adams. Jr.. formerly with
KTSW, Emporia. Knn.. is new sales-
man.

St. Paul— A daffodil at 'Variety's' expense:

Editor, 'Variety'— (quote)— 'It has become a habit for me to de^iend on
'Variety' for news of what is happening in radio, but every once In t

wliile I get quite a jolt Today as I picked up my copy, on page 28 I

found a story saying that WCCO had helped to stop a strike and telling
how WCCO had given 15 minutes over to the controversy with repre-

scntatives of both sides debating their differences For your information

both KSTP and WCCO were to be Used for this particular program, but
inasmuch as the Governor of Minnesota stepped in, the broadcast waj
never made over either station.* (Signed) Stanley E. Hubbard.

Des Moines.— During its annual Golden Glove boxing tournament, sta-
tion WHO is the recipient of some odd communications. Like the' lady
who wrote: 'Please let me know what your gloves are like and what sizes
you have. Also prices.'

Minneapolis — Florence Lehman on VtfLOL interviewed Capt. Bob Bart-
lett. Arctic explorer, and regretted not preparing a script first. Befors
Miss Lehman could stop him the gruff captain started hitting out at 'career
women.'

Pittsburgh— Station WCAE, which
has already been hit pretty hard by
draft and enlistments, lost three
more men to the colors recently.
Chet Clark, announcer, received an
appointment in the army air corps;
Jim Greenwood, assistant chief en-
gineer who has been with Hearst
broadcasting outfit since 1932, en-
rolled in the navy, and Nelson Nich-
ols, engineer, joined navy air corps.

Engineers so scarce around here
that Nichols doubled between WCAE
and WWSW with permission of both
stations.

Watertown, N. T.— Harry Adams,
formerly with WWRL, New York,
lias joined the staff of WATN, Water-
town, as annoimcer and salesman.

Portland, Ore. — Bob Tomlinson
lenior announcer at KGW, has l>een
called tor active duty as lieutenant,
junior grade, in the Navy.

Minneapolis.- Arthur Lodge, Jr.
of newsroom at KSTP, has joined
the U.S. Coast Guard.

Anderson, S, C. — Roger Skelton.
former WAIM announcer, has re-
signed for special radio training at
Norton. Conn. Goes to San Fran-
cisco later.

Columbus, Ga. — Ralph Williams,
former public relations director,
WSB, Atlanta, in the marine corps.

Mll«-ankee. —Johnny Olson, re-
cently headquartering at KMPC.
Beverly Hills, coming back to
WTMJ. Milwaukee.

Seattle. — Joan Sherman is the new
publicity aide at KIRO. Once with
NBC and CBS in Chicago and Los
Angeles.

" Cleveland. — William Pettepicce,
WGAR engineer, has joined the
r.rmy and is now with the Radio
School at Wichita Falls, Texas.

Washington.— Newcomer to WJSV
is Robert Ehrman, to handle produc-
tion under Director Richard
Linkroum.

San Francisco. — Clarence Stevens,
KQW engineer, has resigned to Join
the KPO staff.

Hugh Turner, announcer, has
shitted from KLS, Oakland, to KPO,
Red outlet here.

Scranten, Fa, — Art Marth,- trans-
mitter and control engineer of
WARM, local Mutual ouUet, left last
w^ek to join the army. Other staff
members of the station slated to go
soon are Francis M. McKernon end
Roswell J. Parker, also engineers,
who will join the navy.

Joseph Dobbei formerly dramatic
director at WARM, Is now a cor-
poral with the lOSth Infantry, sta-
tioned in Louisiana.

Boston — Relta Brown has been
placed In charge of WEEI music
clearance department, replacing
Dorothy Mitchell, who resigned. Mrs.
Jane Pennell joins the department
as Miss Brown's assistant.

Salt Lake City.— KSL loses Chief
Engineer Eddie Groves (Army He-

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Montreal — Gordon Yoimj, CBM
announcer, now second llteutenant
at Camp Borden.

Ivar Francis, CBM announcer,
Icit recently to take Air Corps
Radio-location courst.

Salt Lake City.— Dick Evans has
been promoted to KSL'i Assistant
Chief Engineer, Chief Eddie Groves
is in the service. Curtis Nielson.
technician, also Into Army.

St. Loots. — Jim- Hennessey, gabber
at KXOK, has been oalled to active
duty with the U.S.N.

SprlngBeld, Mass. — ^Naw announ-
cers at WMA9, Columbia outlet, are
Qlenn Saxton, former spieler at
WJrTL, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and
Roland Dumas. They replace Terry

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KDYL programs are
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Memphis — ^Fred Carder, publicity
official for station WMC here, has
entered the Army, leaving last week
for camp. No replacement as yet.

Beanmont, Texas — Ernest Stanton
joins the control room staff ol sta-
tion KRIC. He replaces Winston
Chilton, gone to KTOK, Oklahoma
City.

San Antonio — Bertha Womack new
to KTSA.

New Tork City— Betsy Hatch, for
merly a copywriter with .William
Esty & Co., has joined the Compton
agency.

William B. Lodge, of CBS, given a
leave of absence to do research, work
for the National Defense Council.
Warrent White, his assistant, will
substitute during his absence.

Raif Erisken, formerly with the
Turkish consulate in New York, has
joined the CBS shortwave staff as a
Turkish announcer, bringing to 11
the number of languages used on the
company's shortwave broadcasts.

Lewlston, Me. — Ramsay Williams,
formerly a stock actor here and pre-
viously in radio In Mexico and San
Francisco, has joined the staff of
WCOU, Lewlston, as an announcer.

Plttsbnrgh — Roland Gray, for-
merly with KQV, and John Olt, one-
time navy operator, have joined the
engineering .. staff of Hearst station
WCAE.

Lester E. Hoyt is KDKA's new as-
sistant auditor. He replaces Joseph
O. Schertler, who recently enlisted
in the navy.

Atlantic City Harold Stephens
joined WBAB staff as announcer.

Succeeds George B. Hunter, now at
Fort XM. Niles Silvers Is also new
comer at WBAB staff.

■ Longvlew, Texas.— Frank Hatt has
Joined KFRO as assistant to Thomas
R. Putnam, Commercial manager.

Wendell Oliphant of KSAM, Hunts
villa, replaces Spieler Jess D. Stan-
ton, called Into service. Marion
Bosel ditto for Jaok D. Colp, gone to
KFJZ, Forth Wbrth, Bosel oomes
from WEVD, New York City,

Saa'AtLiMtlsee.— J. Milton Seropan
added to Kp^sales staff by new
salesmanager AUred Crapsey.

Oreenvllle, S. 0.— Joel Lawhon,
WFBC sportscaster, off to army as

Philadelphia — The Carpenters' Union here liired Sammy Kaye to swing
and sway at party celebrating union's 60th birthday. Big Bill Hutchinson,
the boss unioncer, had » few words to say over NBC, but when he got up
ti- .lay them the younger generation started to whistle and holler 'We
want Kaye.' There were 14,000 in tlie Convention Hal. and the whole
racket came through very clearly. Including the cussing around the mike
of the outraged leadership of the union.

Washington— Surprised officials at the Federal Communications Com-
mission have been ponderiiig the superman complex of an unnamed
Brooklynite who ordered the Government agency to 'cease and desist*
from its activities ot allpcating wave lengths to network and independent
stations and for 'other purposes.'

Claiming he held a patent 'covering the use of electrical potential
sources, together with all advantages,' the' one-man threat to the nation's
broadcasting industry imperiou.sly demanded that the commish quit its
operations immediately — or else.

enlisted man. Ltfren Watson, Jr.,
succeeds.

New York 'city— Joseph Fleming,
Norbert O'Leary, Leon Oxman and
Frank Schwedhelm added to NBC
engineering staff.

Cleveland.— Two WTAM engi-
neers, Louis P. West and G. E.
Makinson, have resigned from the
station to take civilian positions, \yith
the anti-submarine imit ot the
National Defense Laboratory at New
London, Conn.

Jersey City— Cy Newman, sports
announcer of WWRL, New York, has
also Joined the announcing staff of
WAAT, Jersey City, but will con-
tinue his 'Last Word on Sports' series
on the former station.

. Cleveland — WGAR has added
Ralph Quay, formerly with the Ohio
State police radio, and Rowland
Courtad of WAKR, Akron, , to its
engineering stalT. The men replace
Waite Widler, William Jacobs, and
Robert Fox who have joined the
Government's Research Radio Coun-
cil at Columbia, New York.

Weslaco, Texas.— WiUard Lane on
anouncing staff of KRGV. From
KGNC, AmarUlo.

Dallas.- Patsy Peck replaced Bert-
rand Heflin on publicity at KGKO.
Heflin into Navy.

Troy N. Y.— Alan Parker has left
WTRY announcing staff.

Bridgeport — Larry Gruza, off to
Army, replaced on WICC news staff
by John Kelly.

Harry Osborne, chief announcer at
WNAB, Joined Army. Joseph Falco
replaces.

Marlon Hylei, formerly with Mc-
Cann-Erickson, joined NBC sales
promotion.

Damm Succeeds Shepard
As President of F-M, Inc.

Walter J. Damm, of W55M and
WTMJ, Milwaukee, was elected
president of FM Broadcasters, Inc.,
succeeding John Shepard, of the
Yankee network, at the trade or-
ganization's third annual meeting
yesterday (Tuesday) at the Waldorf-
Astoria hotel, N. Y. Theodore C
Streibert,~"vice-president and general
manager of W71NY and WOR, New
York, was named vice-president, and
Robert T. Hartley, of the Yankee
network, was re-elected secretary
and treasurer.

Jack DeWitt, of WSM, Nashville,
was. elected a director, succeeding
C. M. Jansky, Jr., Washington con-
sulting engineer, who has taken a
War Production Board assignment.
Reelected directors were Slreibert,
Dr. Ray H. Manson, ot Stromberg-
Carlson, and John V. L. Hogan,
president of W<aXR, New York.

Elected' to the executive engineer-
ing committee were F. M. Doolittle,
WDRC, Hartford, chairman; Hogan,
DeWitt, J. R. Poppele, chief engi-
neer of WOR, and D. W. Gellerup,
of WTMJ.

General membership session was
held In the morning and roundtablc
discussions following luncheon.

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Wednesday, March 4, 1942

RADIO

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Packages, Commissions and Chiz

Several recent examples of package program ' producers doubling,
or attempting to double, as commission-collecting agents has aroused
a strong reaction among some members of the American Federation
of Radio Artistes. Present rules forbid deduction of percentage
where a program is sold as a package but the question of nimble-
witted agents being now a package merchant, not a peddler, but
always the same guy, has come up.

Other types of agent chiseling lately taken note of by AFRA with
a view to possible action in the future is the trick of 'poisoning' a
performer against a radio director ,aDd vice versa, in order to pro-
mote a vacancy of a good part which the agent then hopes to All
with somebody else.

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Shoe Chain Expands Radio

and he stated that CBS would be in-
evitably subjected to irreparable
damage if the stay was not granted.
Hughes said that a block of 128 li-
censes of its affiliates expire on April
1, and 19 more on June 1, and he
asked that the FCC be barred from
applying the footrule of the May 2
'orders' when passing on these li-
censes. He pointed out that the
standard CBS contract provides that
these contracts are subject to FCC
regulations and if the .stay is not
granted it would automatically re-
write the contracts. He said that al-
ready an avalanche of letters have
been received from affiliates, and the
only thing that has staved off ac-
tion by the affiliates was the tem-
porary stay of Nov. 12.

Justice Hand expressed the view
that he did not see how the Court
could grant NBC and CBS a stay
pending appeal to the Supreme Bench
since the appeal for injunction had
been adjudicated on the basis that
the networks should await an 'injury'
through enforcement of the FCC
orders when next affiliates come up
for relicenslng and should then come
into court with a speciflc rather than
a theoretical grievance. If the New
York special court refuses the im
mediate stay Hughes must go before
Justice Robert Jacoson of the U. S.
Supreme Court to get a stay.

Essence of nettworks position is
that the enforcement of the orders
to create 'test' issues will damage
them beyond the reach of subsequent
legal relief.

John T. Cahill representing NBC
repeated much of what Hughes had
said and added that failure to grant
a stay might destroy the business of
both companies.

Linger Longer Tactics
Telford "faylor representing the
FCC said that the networks were
asking for protection to linger in
what the court has already termed a
wrong tribunal. He declared that
the FCC was anxious to proceed
without further delay and he denied
that any irreparable damage might
take place since CBS and NBC could
test the regulations by having license
hearings and taking the FCC hear-
ing to the District of Columbia courts,
Taylor was supported in his con
tention by Donald C. Beelar repre-
senting Mutual, who opposed the
stay on the grounds that the new
rules were passed a year ago and
BtUl not put into effect. Hughes
then declared that he and Cahill had
spoken to Taylor and had recom'
mended to him that in order to avoid
an appeal they frame test cases for
license hearings and then go to the
courts, provldecl the FCC suspend
operations of the rules till then.

He said that Taylor had turned this
proposition down. Justice Hand
then turned to Taylor and s^d, 'Why
not? I think that is eminently fair.'
Taylor declared he had turned 1
down because It would not be in the
best interests of the public or the
many radio stations to further sus
pend the rules. The court then re.
served decision.
Herb Ackerberg, CBS station re-
.lations v.p., wired all affiliates as
follows:

•The statutory court this a/-
femoon (Mondny) granted stow
of FCC rules until May 1 unless
our appeal is heard by V. S.
Supreme Court before that date.
This in no \oay precludes our ap-
plication to, the Supreme Court
for suspension of rules if neces-
sary. Stay was granted as you
probablu -know, after FCC re-,
fused to suspend rules until test
case could' be tried in District
Court of Appeals. This stay is
most constructive news to date in
our \ fight ogatnst Tegulations
lohicft would not only be dis-
ostroiis in themselves to the
statulards of American broad-
casting, but uihich would eslab-

^ Wh most dangerous precedent.

We are filing our appeal with
Supreme Court this week and
tuill keep you advised.

National Shoe Stores, Inc., dou
bling Its radio ad budget for the
forthcoming season. Has chain of 70
retail stores.

Last season participations in-
cluded Martin Block over WNEW,
Uncle Don on WOR, and spot an-
nouncements in Italian on WOV, all
N. Y. stations. To these will be
added Mary Margaret McBride,
WEAF, N, Y.; and three 15-minute
periods weekly on Alan Courtney's
show over WOV, N. Y.
Emil Mogul is agency.

Girl in News Room

Cleveland, March 3.
Tillie Jane Reed has been added
to the news department of WHK-
WCLE, first girl to be employed in
the station's new bureau.

Two other newcomers at WHK-
WCLE are Dorothy Ann Rohan and
Kay Davis, in the continuity de
partment

Adam Hats' Coast Fights

Hollywood, March 3.

For the first time in 19 years the
local fights at Legion Stadium will
be bankrolled on a regional net.
Adam hats has signed for from 13
to 28 scraps this year on the Coast
Blue web.

Clinton 'Buddy' Twlss, onetime
amateur pug, will call the blows.

Chides Unctions News Announcers;
Asks 'Not Tears, But Fewer Smiles'

CAL MILK CO. SPONSORS
DAVE LANE AT CONSOLE

San Francisco, March 3.

Golden State Dairy Products Co.
has signed for 13 thrice-weekly
quarters on the Columbia California
web, via Ruthrauff & Ryan's Frisco
office, according to assistant CBS
sales manager Charles Morin.

Milk outfit will use Dave Lane
songs and organ, out of Hollywood
at 3 p.m. starting (9) on KQW,
KNX, KARM and KROY.

Roma Wine Buys More

Roma wine has greatly increased
its purchase of time on WNEW, New
York, starting this week. Account
has taken an aditional 12 weekly 15-
minute programs, three five-minute
shows and 30 announcements.

Among the sponsored series will
be Kathryn Cravens' femme com.
ment one morning a week, four 15.
minute Zeke Manners stanzas, plus
the recorded 'Music Hall' quarter
hour three times a week and IS min
utes of 'Milkman's Matinee' seven
days a week.

Mexican Singing Bee

Mexico City, March 3.

Experiment with radio com-
munity singing, a novelty for
Mexico, made by local station
XEQ and Wampole's has clicked.
There was .some doubt that
Mexicans would take to this
kind of singing the way Amer-
icans do. ,

It proved a needless worry.

miNG LESSONS IS
NEWEST AIR FORMULA

Philadelphia, March 3.

The Strawbridge & Clothier de-
partment store yesterday (Mon.)
signed a 26-week contract with WFIL
for the airing of the 'Singing Ma.ster,'
an audience participation show of-
fering singing lessons. Program will
be handled by Clyde Dcnglcr, local
voice teacher.

This makes the first time this de-
partment store has ever bought reg-
ular radio time. Odd feature is that
the store ' was once co-owner of
WFIL, and seldom used the outlet
for advertising. Strawbridge Sc
Clothier relinquished its shares in
the station about three months ago.

Milwaukee, March 3.
Milwaukee Journal, which rune
WTMJ and WS5M, permitted lU
columnist, Richard S. Davis, to take
the newscasters severely to task re-
cently in a plea for a little more
heart and considerably less unction
in their interpretation of the war
news. Headlined 'Not Tears, but
Fewer Smiles,' the columnist ob-
served;

'A lamentable technique has de-
veloped (among the spielers— a habit
of disclosing the deaths of 10,000 sol-
diers in precisely the same oily tone
that is lent to praise of toilet soaps,
or candy bars, or chewing gum, or
ways and' means of fighting dandruff
to the death. The simple truth li
that it makes a body sick. . . .

'Surely there can be some differ-
ence between the tone for the loss of
a regiment or a battleship' and all
the glad news about a lather and a
sweeter breath. ...

'Gentlemen who advertise know
their own business, and there's no
wish in this quarter to butt in, but
isn't it possible that the fabulous re-
trns from commercial news broad-
casts would be even greater if ao
many listeners didn't get so damn
mad at the sweetness and light an-
nouncers?'

Beanmont, Texas. — Jess Neil hai
joined the continuity department of
KRIC replacing Mrs, Carla Trum.

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Wednesday, March 4, 1942

More About Sir James M. Barrie

JVho Was Artitt Enough to Gel Away with Murder
—And the N.A. B. ChUdren's Code

B7 BOBEBT MAXWELL

CSuperTTUin, Inc.)

New York.

£dttor, "Variety':

This Is an open letter to Mrs. Dor-
othy Gordon, of the Radio Council
on Children's Programs:

Dear Mrs. Gordon: I read with a
great deal of Interest your letter in
•Variety," talcing Miss Josettc Frank
to task for her contention that Sir
James Barrie would ' never have
■written 'Peter Pan' if he had been
forced to abide by the N.A.B. code
for children's programs.

Your personal acquaintance with
Barrie naturally would give you a
belter Insight into his thinking, but
a careful examinalion ot 'Peter Pan'
tends to uphold Miss Frank's con-
tention.

The NJV.B. code, as you must re-
call, specifically states that chil-
dren's programs 'must not contain
sequences involving horror or tor-
ture or use of the supernatural or
. superstitious.' Certainly, 'Peter Pan'
leans heavily on superstition. I am
sure you will remember Captain
Hook's lines 'The snip's bewitched.
Never was luck on pirate ship with
a woman aboard — throw the girl
overboard.' There Is again another

line, to wit: 'Every time a child says
'I don't believe in fairies' there is a
fairy somewhere that falls down
dead.'

Now, as for horror and torture, I
cerUlnly feel that Captain Hook
with his claw hand is embodiment of
both. A great deal of criticism has
lately been leveled at certain comic
magazine publications which make
use of characters with such mal-
formities. While it is quite true that
Captain Hook meets his Just deserts,
what villain does not, on radio or
elsewhere. You remember, I am
sure. Captain Hook's sing-song greet-
ing 'Naught's left upon your bones
when you have shaken hands with
Hook.' Imagine, Mrs. Gordon, what
would happen If the 'Superman' pro-
gram, for instance, made use of a
viUainous character with a clawed
hand who threatened to strip the
flesh from the children's bones. Fur-
ther examples of horror and at least
implied torture exist in the lines
'Now then, you boys, six of you walk
the plank tonight. Do you want a
touch of the cat before you walk the
plank?' Under no circumstances
would any producer of a children's
radio program dare to present an
episode cliff-hanger revolving about
six children ostensibly going to their

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deathj In the briny deep. Neither
would any conscientious radio pro-
ducer suggest torture or corporal
punishment via the use of a cat-of-
nlne-talls.

BIoodtblTsiy

At one point In the play, there Is a
stage direction that reads 'From the
dark cabin comes a curdling screech
which walls through the ship.' A
little later a pirate, terrified, reports
that 'Bill Jukes is dead-stabbed.'
The presumption here is that Peter
himself has done the stabbing— a
thing no current radio hero would-
ever do, even to a pirate. So much
for horror, torture and blood-thirsti-
ness.

You know, of Course, that the kid-
naping or abduction of children on
radio programs Is strictly taboo.
However, in 'Peter Pan' we, the
audience, look on as three children
are kidnaped from the cozy safety
of their own nursery and. In Act 3,
we are treated to the sad scene of
their empty beds and their desolate
parents yearning for their return.

In rereading 'Peter Pan' in the
light of Miss Frank's comments and
your own rebuttal, I came across a
rather curious device that, although
it has little or no relation to the
N.A.B. code, per se, I feel quite cer-
tain it would earn immediate con-
demnation (as it once did) If it were
used on the air. I refer to the in-
cident wherein Captain Hook puts
poison in Peter's- medicine (a- very
unpretty thought at best, and liable
to imitation). Tinker Be\l drinks the
medicine to save Peter's lif^. As
Tinker is dying, the statement is
made that 'she says she thinks she
could get well again If all the chil-
dren believed In fairies. Say quick
that you believe. Clap your hands.'
This clever but decidedly unfair ap-
peal to the audience's sympathy was
used on a children's radio program
some years ago when children were
begged to send box tons to save the
life of one of the characters who was
lU. I recall the storm of. angry pro-
tests from parents, and rightly so.

Javenlle Classics

Admittedly, Mrs. Gordon, Sir
James Barrie's artistry expiates any
manner of sin. He got away with
miv^er — literally — because he wrote
In a spirit of make-believe and his
young audience completely under-
stood him. I am quite sure Miss
Frank did not, for one moment, mean
to sugge^ that 'Peter Fan,' despite
Its moments ot superstition and hor-
ror, was not an acceptable dramatic
work for children. On the contrary,
I am sure both Miss Frank and the
Child Study Association thoroughly
approve of the moments of excite-
ment and suspense contained in the
play. Her meijor point, and In this I
concur, Is that any set of criteria as
restrictive as the N.A.B. code, tends
unquestionably to stifle creation.
You, as a writer, must agree that the
bald, cold pronouncement 'such pro-
grams must not contain . sequences
Imrolvlng horror or torture or use
of the supernatural or superstitious'
would automatically rule out some
of the best of our Imaginative
Juvenile classics. I agree, and any
producer and writer of children's
radio programs possessed ot the
sllghtesT Integrltr must agree, that
there Is "horror and horror' — 'torture
and torture' — 'superstition and su-
perstition.' Treatment is of such
vast Importance that to attempt to
make the writer create by rote or
rule is an impossibility. It would be
Just as unwise to teach our children
that all Japanese or. Germans are
bad. The greatest shame our coun-
try has to bear is the white man's
treatment of the Indian— and the
treatment can be symbolized in a
phrase that was current before the
turn of the century — The only good
Indian is a dead Indian.'

I believe sincerely that you and
Miss Frank, Mrs. Singer and myseU,
are all interested in only one thing.'
Our difficulty seems to be that we
are attacking the problem without
unification.. I have personally given
ample evidence of my own sincerity
and desire to Improve th'e quality of
juvenile radio entertainment. Un-
questionably H would inure to all
oiir benefits If the literary level of
Juvenile radio .programs could be
raised. Believe me, I stand ready to
do anything within my power to
achieve that.

John Egan Runs KWJJ,
Carey Jennings Out

Portland, Ore., March 3.

John Egan, secretary-treasurer of
KWJJ, Is assuming active manager-
ship of the station, since Carey Jen-
nings, manager, hat left the staff.
(Jennings was former commercial
manager of KGW-KEX here.)

Ray Ovlngton, formerly of KOIN,
has Joined the staff of KWJJ as
announcer.

STORE BACK ON AIR

StIU tlses Society Gossip Over
WDSM, boloth

Duluth, March 3.

After an absence from the radio
advertising field for two years, Al-
benberg's store, has piu'chased a
weekly 15-mlnute Friday morning
spot over WDSM. Program provides
chatter about social events In area
by Patrlda Hodgson, society editor
of Duluth Herald and News-Tribune
and her associate, Margaret Boyle.

Albenberg's last radio program
also used social chatter by Jane Al-
worth, now Mrs. Bobby Parks, wife
of the band leader.

Storer Under Carlin

Douglas F, Storer was last week
appointed manager of the Blue net-
work (WJZ) commercial program
department, reporting to Phillips
Carlin, vice-president In charge of
programs. He will handle new
shows for possible sponsorship.
Some will be created by the network
and others will be accepted from
independent producers.

Idea Is to give some of the
stanzas sustalner showcastlng.

CBC in Munitions Works

Montreal, March 3.

Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
haa been given 13 broadcasts from
March 13 to June S Inclusive of
'Voices of People' which will be
a tour of munitions plants and In-
terviews with munitions workers.
It's for the Department of Mu-
nitions and Supply. Producer Is
T. W. WicMund.

Broadcast wlU be on CBM and
across Canada.

MEXICO CITY'S
LABOR PEACE

Mexico City, March 3.

All the 31 radio stations In Mexico
City are enjoying complete freedom
from labor troubles for the first time
In a long while. Operators have
high hopes that this happy condition
will obtain tor some time, perhaps
even for the duration.

Radio workers, members of the
Confederation . of Mexican Workers,
this country's strongest work or-
ganization, have Joined In the co-
operation of labor with the govern-
ment to keep things going smoothly
In war emergency. The government
has asserted that radio must be kept
In service, for Its entertainment and
publicity value, and that this Is no
time for strikes or any labor trouble
Involving the stations.

CONSPICUOUS NAMES
BEHIND NEW XEOY

Mexico City, March 3.

Mexico City commercial stations
will be Increased in number to 3D
with the Inauguration in March ot
XEOY, to begin with 10,000 watts.
It's backed by a syndicate of men
from prominent Mexican families,

They are F. H. Branifl, A. Liman-
tour and C. Iturbe.

WHK's 20tb Birthday

Cleveland, March 3,
Station WHK, Cleveland, will
reach its 20th birthday Thursiifiy
(S). Only out-of-the-usual broad-
cast procedure was Ohio's governor,
John W. Brlcker, commenting on
the station's outstanding service
record during the 'Mutual Goes Call-
ing' program by sister station
WCUE.

Employees of WHK-WCLE with
the station for five years or longer
were given service pins at birth-
day banquet at Hotel Cleveland,

KBON'S DELAYED STAET

'Omaha, March 3.

KBON, new radio station scheduled
to go on air March I, has been de-
layed by testing difficulties but ex-
pects to be on this week sometime.
Also, station's downtown transmitter
has final okay after order to take
it down because of being In con-
gested district

KBON Is set with Mutual.

THANKS....

TO

P&G

(Procter and Gamble)
Makers of 'DRENE'

H. W. KASTOR AND SONS

THE

National Broadcasting Co.

And All My Friends

For Their Help in Launching
. The Radio Version

'ABIE'S IRISH ROSE'

Sincerely

Vedneaday, March 4, 1942

RADIO S5

New York Transcription Companies
Desire Trade Association of Own

— : H

Economy Strikes Dept. of Justice
Radio Series Off the Schedules

Some ot the smaller New York
transcription companies have started
conversations among themselves on
the subject ot organizing a trade as-
sociation. Trend of these talks has
been to the effect that It was time
that the manufacturers got together
to eliminate both flagrant and annoy-
ing abuses.

A trade association, it was pointed
out, might succeed In curbing price
cut-throating and In establishing
some sort of credit rating for cus-
tomers.

Cliff Taton Cuts In

Brownsville, Texas, March S.
Cliff Tatom, former manager of
station KNOW, Austin, Texas, has
purchased a half interest In station
KEEW, here, and has taken over du-
ties here. KEEW was formerly
known as KGFL Partner Is K E.
(Jack) Wilson. Operates with a
power of 250 watts on 1,490 kilocycles.

TED ECEMAirS SIOHBOB

San Antonio, March 3.

The Mission Provision Co., a new-
comer to local radio, has been signed
for a series of three quarter-hour
newscasts per week ovec station
KABC.

Will employ Ted Eckmen.

Tom Maniiing'g Sponsor

Cleveland, March 3.
Tom Manning, sports announcer,
has new six-day-a-week show for
P. Lorlllard ti Co. over WTAM.

Manning has been with NBC for
14 years and has never been without
a sponsor.

AasUn Orant'i Sponiors

Detroit, March 8.

Au stin Grant, senior newscaster at
WWJ, went under sponsorship of
the Manhattan Soap Co. March 3 on
for Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day mornings.

Thomas McAn Shoes retained the
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
newscasts.

CHARLOTTE DAILIES
DROP RADIO COLUMNS

Charlotte, March 3.
Both Charlotte newspapers. The Ob-
server and uie News, liave dropped
their radio pages. Although no rea-
son was given, it was believed to
have come about as a result of fric-
tion between press and radio which
has blown hot and cold here for
several years.

Move came as shock to radio since
it was thought relations had finally
improved.

WSPA-WORD Expands

Spartanburg, S. C, March 3.
SpartanbuiK Advertising Com-
pany is erecting $30,000 uptown
structure for its two stations, WSPA
and WORD, with $5t„0C0 transmitter
station recently completed. Plant
will have 8,000 square feet of floor
space.

Walter Brown Is general manager.

BBEWEKT OK WFH, PHUXT

Philadelphia, March 3.

Jacob Hornung Brewing Co. has
signed a contract for broadcasting
three 15-mlnute programs a week
for 26 weeks over WFIL. Will use
the Korn Kobblers.

Business was placed by Alice Lake,
radio director of John Falkner Amdt
agency.

Tommy Thom*s_Back for TIpp

Seattle, March 3.

After being oft the air for some
time, Ben Tipp's 'Romance Time'
with Tommy Thomas, is back In the
Sunday 7:30-8 p.m. spot on KIRO.

Program will use same format as
before, with orchestra and live
talent, plus the addition of new
talent from this locality.

George Grim Into Arniy,
Can't Take NBC Position

Minneapolis, March 3.

George Grim, Star Journal and
Tribune Radio editor, got telephone
offer from WiUred Roberts, NBC
production manager in New York,
to dash east and take a NBC pro-
duction post.

Grim held off NBC pending -fals
physical exam for the army. The
army won.

In consequence of the war a
woman has been named to succeed
Grim. Newspapers perhaps do
more radio promotion than any
other_sheets in the U. S. (on both
WCCO and KSTP). Florence Mur-
phy, who was a tftage actress be-
fore Joining WCCO, gets Job. The
Star Journal ^ will discontinue its
Sunday radio page which Grim
edited.

*********************** * f

IN ARGENTINA ii

' *******»**»**t**t***** i-

By BAT JOSEPHS

Buenos Aires, Feb. 24.
Gillette Basors, currently Snip-
ing Its firs.t. plant 'here, opens series
on Radio Mundo (LR 1) to hypo in-
terest. Carlos A. Taquinl comment-
ing on current events. Angel
D'Agostino's orchestra with Ferreyra
and Zelada provide interludes.

Badlo HItre (LR 6) took the lead
in broadcasting South American
football championship from Monte-
video. Contest which had teams
from Uruguay, Brazil, U. S. and
Chile, was passed up by some local
stations because no Argentine team
was participating. But Mitre sent
Lalo Pellicciari to handle assign-
ment

Francisco Canaro, composer and
*ango leader, returns to Radio Bel-
grano (LR 8) with singers Carlltos
Roldan and Eduardo Adrian.

PhUUps BUlk of HEfoesla, now

handled by Sydney Ross agency.
Inaugurates new campaign witli
symphonic vocal ' concert on Radio
Mundo. Program, arranged by Bal-
lester Mir, includes orchestra of
Jean Gtlbert.

Delbene Brothers (Federal Soap)
set year's program on Belgrano.
During February Mexican composer
Gonzalo Curlel and singer Adelina
Garcia plus pianist Argentino Valle
singer Abd Fleury will take over.
Comedian Enrique Datilo will
handle 'Room for Rent to Bachelor"
skit series. In March Berta Singer-
inan, poetry reciter, will take over
together with Flamenco Singer An-
gelllllo, and Oscar Aleman and
swing quintet. Comedian Tlno Tori
will be central figure in series called
'Championship Boarding House' with
the Lopez Brothers.

Splendid (LR 4) signs new singer
Raul Lavalle with guitarist brothers
Cucano and Zapico after strong pub-
licity buildup.

' Badlo del Estado (L R A) Gov-
ernment-owned transmitter begins
new series for the Ministry of Pub-
lic Works with Dr. Salvador Oria
discoursing daily on Government
projects. Show is initial attempt to
put showmanship behind Govern-
ment efforts requiring public rela-
tions job.

Badlo Slcntor (L S 8) grabbing
several exclusives on the 'Gran
Premio del Sur,' international stock
car race, despite fact it's one of the
smaller outlets. Burgos Santillan,
vet writer, handling broadcast with
'Comentarista X,' Altor Ara'mburu,
and 'W* on remote pickups. Ten in-
terior stations and stations in Uru-
guay and Chile using the specially
arranged web.

WHK's 20th Anni Mar. 20

Cleveland, March 3.

Cleveland's oldest station, WHK,
plans to celebrate its 20th anniver-
sary on March 20 in a quiet manner.
A special feature announcement,
however, is being planned for the
dally papers.

Only person with the station today,
also present at its inception, is
Charles Cantor, drummer in . Wil-
liard's orchestra, house ensemble.

AraLnfES' keve periods

Seattle, March 3.
■ ■' United Airlines has bought the
5-5:15 evening spot on KEVR for
a five times weekly 'Skyways Re-
porter.'

Jim Nutter, airlines publicity man,
is handling the mike.

1+.

Mighty Fine Town, Suhl

El Paso, Texas, March 3.

'Alamogordo Cavalcade' series
over station KROD is being
Jointly sponsored by a group of
merchants in behalf of the com-
munity of that name.

Written by George Amberg,
continuity editor of KROD, and
produced by Ted Gates, program
director.

SARATOGA VICHY USES
ERNST VADEBONCOEUR

Syracuse, N. Y., March 3.

As part of a campaign In the
Syracuse area, Saratoga Vichy
(q>rlng water) began the sponsor-
ship March 1 on WSYR of a half-
hour review of the week's news by
Ernest Vadeboncoeur. Program,
spotted between the Benny and
McCarthy network shows, will run
for 13 weeks.

Lelghton St Nelson, agency for
account, used a similar format on a
series by CoL Jim Healey over WGY,
Schenectady, for Knox Cielatln 18
months ago. A SO-second 'Victory
Message' by a Syracuse personality
and a Mailbag Forum, with one of
the $5 defense stamp payoffs going
to a member of the armed service,
are Included.

Suds In 12 Tongues

Detroit, March 8.

Station WJBK here will continue
to sell beer In 12 languages.

Howard Colby, president of the
Altes Brewing Company, recently
tossed a party for stall members of
the 12 langiiage groups and station
executives and announced the re-
newal of a year's (ontraet for 37
■pots weekly In polyglot selling.

Washington, March 3.

Economy move, due chiefly to the
war, has sounded death knell for
the Immigration Service's 'I Am An
American' feature. At the end ot
the present fiscal year (June 30),
the Justice Department will with-
draw co-operation for this weekly
program, according to information
given the House - Appropriations
Committee.

Without giving detailed explana-
tion, Attorney General Francis
Biddle recently said he doesn't feel
the program 'is quite warranted with
the war going on' and will be
dropped, saving the taxpayers $30,000
annually. He agreed the feature In
the past has been "very valuable'
but implied the radio unit is to b«
washed out as a means of cutting
expenses.

Lights, Fence
And Rifleman
Guard Station

Cliicago, March 8.

Indicative of the precautions being
taken by radio stations to guard
their equipment Is the system being
Installed by Ralph Atlass for the
WIND transmittej^ plant Entir*
layout will be floddlighted by 22 In-
dividual lights of 1,000 watts power
each. System /will illuminate every ■
part of the S6-acre plant.

Plant itself will be enclosed in 10-
foot steel fence, and a watch tower
has been built above the transmitter
house, which has complete vision ot
the entire grounds for a watchman
who Is armed with high-powered
rifle.

Presenting * • * •

ANNE NICHOLS

Newest Radio Program

"THE RADIO
YOUNGSTERS

WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY
New York : Chicago : Hollywood

GEHSORSHIP?

X ODAY It's an ugly word.
Ufloge has changed U to
mean an odious mlxhiro ol
piopagandlatic half-tcuQis
and Infamous lies. It radn
of Fascism and smells of
• Nazism.

Yet there are some who mar
American radio has been
. censored.

Heaven iorbid iti

Better fliat every single
American station be bumed
and every., receiving set
smashed tifan to hov^ the
fiLhy hand of Nazi censor-
'ship at the controls of Amer-
ican radio.
. No, censorship, as applied
to dictators' radios, has not
tainted fhe American net-
worlcs.

Instead, the great Fifih Es-
tate has Imposed upon Usell
the "Blue Pencil of « Expe-
diency" which In no way
infringes upon
our freedom of
speech or the re-
porting of news,
but which pre-
vents znililary se-
crets and infor-
mation, danger-

ous to our national welfare,
from falling iq>on enemy
ears.

Nothing more.

Any representative group

can be for anything or

against anything and Hi

voice wUl be carried Into

55JXH)X)00 Americoa cadto

homes.

Is this censorship?

Hardlyl

Rather, fhe slight dumges
made so fliat military se-
crets and pertinent Infoimo-
tldn helpful to the enemy,
will not be reveoded< Is
war time '31ue Pencil of
Expediency."

And die Fifth Estate win us*
it only for the benefit of the
Allies and the destruction of
the enemy.

WSM is proud diat os a
part of flie great TiiHh Estate,
it is serving America by In-
didously and
wisely u^g the
"Blue Pencil of
Expediency"
when — and only
when— it is nec-
essary to our na-
tional security.

96 RADIO REVIEWS

Wednesday, March 4, I942

•DOWN MEXICO WAT>

Wit . MItxl Gonid, Lools Van Booten,

Richard Kollmar, Bryna Racborn,

Honey MacKemle, Dave Qrupp

Ensemble
80 Mlns.
Saturday, 4 p.m.
WEAF-NBC, New York

The vice-president o' the United
States, Henry Wallace, has a pet
theory that phonograph records of
Mexican songs constitute an easy
way to 'i^ainlessly increase' one's
Spanish vocabulary, if one is a stu-
dent (as who is not today?) of the
language. He told about this in intro-
ducing the NBC Saturday afternoon
series, 'Down Mexico Way,' which
. began last week (2A) credited to the
v.p. and dedicated to' easing more
Yanquis into an Interest in our near-
est neighbor.

The program uses a story line
written by Richard McDonagh, plus
native Mexican musi guitared by
the Dave Grupp' Ensemble. An
American in search of musical in-
formation visits Mexico. He (Richard
Kollmar) begins in Jalisco, where he
meets a Mexican who sings and
plays a guitar at the crib-side of his
child. While the uodmother, an at-
tractive senorita (Mitzi Gould), who
speaks English, too. Joins in the
smging and. most of all, translates
the lyrics. The American starts from
scratch and needs plenty of repe-
tition of woids and phrases and
what tliey mean. He does rather
better than most Yanks in getting
the accent and memorizing the
words fast, although at times it ap-
pears that what he is learning Is not
so much Spanish as broken English.

The American, it quickly is hinted.
Is rapidly developmg a romantic
Interest in the Mexican cutie. who is
travelling about Mexico herself do-
ing a survey for the Ministry of
Education. "This will be most con-
venient for successive Saturday
plots. Toward the end of episode
one he was actually suRgcstinir' that
sl'.3 call him by his first name. Biit
die', she put him in his place about
etiquette! A little less in a hurry,
mister. 'In my country a senorita
always refers to a senor as a senor.'
she smartens him- up. He could
stand some improvement as a repre-
sentative of us fellows. He's just a
mite gushy. What a polite guy he is.
And what a pushover for a Mexican
schoolmam. He needs a little more
salt with his plunk-plunk.

On the. whole it's an affable half
hour as directed by Theodore Cor-
day. devoted to the cause of inter-
national politeness. Nice. people meet
nice people and like each other.
They struggle with the barrier of.
language and patiently overcome it.
The guitars and the Mexican tunes
and the whole merger of melody and
boy-meets-girl with geography and
grammar thrown in is entirely dis-
arming to anybody willing to be
slmpatico as a preliminary condition.

This is the program for which
Irene Kuhn of NBC is now organ-
izing 'listening parties' around the
U.S.A.,.and in tieup with r/hich the
American phonograph companies are
to issue two-language versions of
the lyrics of all the Mexican tunes
played on the broadcasts.

The daughter of the Mexican am-
bassador to Washington Ibllowed. the
vice-president on the Inaugural pro-
gram with a few gracious observa-
tions. Land.

'U. S. ABMT COMMUNIQUE No^'
Drama

8 Mlns. .
GENERAL FOODS
Friday, 8 p.m.
WABC-CBS, New York

(Young & Rubicam)

The inclusion of this dramatic bit
within the Kate Smith show involves
the establishment of a precedent as
far as the War Department is con-
cerned. For the first time the de-
partment has consented to waive
one of its stiffest rules, namely, the
dramatization of an actual official
communique. George Corey, who
does the scripting, under the super-
vision of the War Department, in-
vests his narrative with a wealth of
excitement and human interest. There
are expansive strokes of color, the
dialog rings true and the item can't
help but produce the intended eflect,
pride in a task well done by an
American boy, particularly where
initiativeness and resourcefulness
had been pitted against overwhelm-
ing odds.

The series does not single out post-
humous heroes for its talcs of der-
ringdo. In each case the story Is of
a .<:oldier or sailor who tackled the
foe and'^Wwed to receive the award.
Last Friday night's (27) ancedote re-
volved around Sergt. LeRoy Ander-
son, who was given the Distinguished
Service Cross at General Douglas
MacArthur's recommendation. Sergt.
Anderson's exploit occurred on Ba-
taan penninsula. Witt, the aid of a
tank and several comrades the ser-
geant got behind the Jap lines and
cleaned out one machinegun nest
after another. A benzine bomb put
the tank out of operation and a hand-
to-hand encounter followed. Ander-
son returned to his commanding offi-
cer intact. Odec.

VICTORY BEGINS AT HOME'
With Arthur Godfrey
Talk, Songs
15 Mins.
Sustaining
M-W-F, H a.m.
WABC-CBS, New York

It apparehtly took a war to get
Arthur Godfrey a network hookup.
After years of service as an early
morning vocalizing huckster on
WJSV. Washington. Godfrey was
brought mto New York last season
to do a similar routine over WABC,
CBS key station. The assignment
that finds, him on the network is
allied with civilian morale. Between
ditties of 'Keep-the-Home-Fires
Burning' complexion Godfrey tells
the housewife''why she must forego
certain . articles and why she will
have to accept certain others as sub-
stitutes. ~..It's all done in a chatty
style that Is neither over-Ingratiat-
ing nor condescending.

Godfrey's main theme of mtelll-
gence on last Wednesday's (12) In-
ning had to do with wool and refrig-
erators. With the Office of Emer-
gency Management cited as the
source, Godfrey explained why civil-
ian clothing won't be as woolen as
it used to be and why the embargo
oh new refrigerators and how house-
wives can make their present coolers
last longer. Odec.

MILTON BERLE

With Shirley Ross, Bob Crosby Or-

ohestra, Charles Judoll, BIlUe Burke
30 Mlns. . .

BALLANTINE ALE
Friday, 8:30 p.m.
WJZ-Blue, New York

(J. Vfalter Thompson)

Now minus Charles Laughton. who
hardly fit the program pattern, this
trouble-beset revue seems to have
lots of good standard entertainment
items. Its indifferent C.A.B. rating
has classified the half hour as an
agency paln-above-the-ears. But on
this listening the flaws were minor
and not of a kind to prevent the
show clicking,. Good results came
from the guester, Billie Burke, doing
her patter of familiar design.

Program was loaded with . gags
which, at times, were shot across In
perhaps too rapid tempo to permit
full values to be realized. For the
most part, however, nifties registered
easily, a house redecorating bit with
Berle wrapped up in a carpet being
built into a high spot. (Miss Burke
was the expert called in to redec-
orate Berle's house to match a vase.)

Miss Ross made vocals such as
'Day Dreams' and 'Happy in Love'
(former duet with Crosby) easy lis-
tening, while the Crosby orch func-
tioned smoothly in the melody de-
partment. JWori.

THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND'
With John Wayne, Helga Moray, Tay

Oarnett
SO Mlns.
Sustaining
Sunday, 11:30 p.m,
WEAF-NBC, New York

There isn't :nuch about this mys-
tery serial to excite the late evening
listener, particularly it he had re-
ceived an earful of 'The Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes,' which precedes
the Tay Garrett production by a
half hour ovv the same network.
Carnett, the fllm producer, is linked
to Three Sheets to the Wind' as
writer, director and ijarrator. As far
as modern radio standards are con-
cerned, Garnett just about passes
muster In the fttst two tasks.

.During most of the half hour a
pall of murkiness seems to spread
over the clash of dialog and sound
effects. It's hard to make out what
the whole ado is about. There's talk
about the curse of tfie Sultan of
Natuana's famous black diamond.
After a 'while the listener gets an
. Inkling of the adventure's locale. It's
' aboard a luxury liner, bound on a
world cruise. Sinister happenings
are suggested by frequent screams,
shouts <and death gurgles. If sudden
death doesn't arrive by. way of a
knife, it's the sting of a cobra.

Out of this crisscross of windy
speeches and blurred behavior
emerges but two fairly clear charac-
ters: One is a member of the'British
Intelligence Service, as nlayed by
Helga Moray in off-the-elbow fash-
Ion, and*the other is a young Amer-
ican who seeks to cover up his in-
famous intentions by posing as a
habitual drunk.- John- Wayne fills
the latter role. He does the best under
the circumstances. :

Following the close of the epi-
sode Garnett returns to- the mike to
tell the listeners that he would like
to get their reactions. He's offering
them what he describes as the pre-
view of a picture before it's even
made. Garnett spvs that he hasn't
decided which of the episodes ought
to be included in the celluloid prod-
uct and so he'd like the, help, of the
loudjtpeaker fans. Odec.

CAPTAIN TIM HEALY

Transcriptions

10 Mlns.

HECKEB'S FORCE
Dally, 5 p.n .
WTBY, Troy

(Maxon)

Captain Healy, long a network
spinner of stamp stories and action
tales, dittoes on these clatters. It's a
program which kids should like and
which Parent-TeacV.er groups can
endorse. Healy also does com-
mercials, handling both assignments
with crisp authority. '

Healy unwound a yarn about the
heroism which he had seen a 13-
year-old girl display in Texas. Then
he began a to-be-completed-later
scalp tingler' set in the jungles.
Stories are skillfully sketched.

Rather long spiel after the sign-on
deals with the merits of Force.

Jaco,

^ES ELSA MAXWELL

Boger White CUlms 20% of Her
. $1,000 Weekly From Ralston

Suit by Roger White against Elsa
Maxwell, the Gardner Agency, and
the Ralston Purina Co. for $10,400
commission has been filed in the
N. Y. supreme court. Action claims
a 20% commission belongs to the
plaintiff on ^iss Maxwell's radio
program. 'Miss Maxwell's Parly
Line.'

The complainant alleges the fol-
lowing:

Plaintiff and Miss Maxwell en-
tered into a contract Sept. li, 1941,
to produce a radio program bearing
the same title, and for' White. tO'pro-
mote a sponsor. He was to receive
20% of the gross of this or any
other program in which she acted as
commentator for the period ot .a
year of the making of the contract,
it is alleged. On Dec. I, 1041, she
started her^ current broadcasts and
White Is seeking .20% of $1,000 a
week.

THE BLACK CAP'
With Leon M. Lion
Play

50 Minutes
BBC, London

Dramatic and entertaining plot
written specially for the air by nov-
elist Eden Phillpotts. An eminent
Judge, brooding over his cigar, con-
fides to his sister he is quite certain
a woman whom he is try mg for mur-
der of her husband will be convicted
the following day. The evidence pre-
cludes any other verdict, yet he is
convinced of her innocence.

Trial proceeds, he dons the 'black
cap' denoting the death sentence,
then the ex-bar maid prisoner calls
to her husband to come from the
back of the court and, declare his
identity. Consternation' reigns, then
couple are summoned to the Judge's
private chambers, where they explain
it was hoaxed up for a wager — thus
explaining the girl's puzzling perki-
ness throughout. Hubby on Stock Ex-
ch3nge had overheard one man bet-
ting another there would not be a
woman convicted for. murder within
a certain period. Being keen to get
money, he muscles in on one side of
the bet, Axes it with the wife that
they .shall stay at various places, es-
tablish reputation for violent quar-
reling and be overheard u^ng dire
threats.

In certain cases in English law no
corpse need be necessary to estab-
lish a murder charge, and the two
most damning witnesses for the pros-
ecution, one a coastguard, the other
a seashore - visitor, actually see
through their glasses the woman
push the man over the cliff edge. His
hat is found floating, his watch hangs
on part of the undergrowth, the body
is presumed drowned, and his wife
arrested. Actually he has dropped
on to a ledge, thrown down various
clues and escaped from a neighbor-
ing country station, disguising him-
-.self until the crucial moment at the
conclusion of the trial.

Leon M. Lion has the burden of
the playlet on his shoulders, as most
of the story is told vla his summing-
up to the jury, and makes a convinc-
ing picture of the majesty of the law
with minor roles glvIAg good sup-
port. Production by Howard Rose
all that could be desired, and offer-
ing Is one more proof that items spe-
cially written for radio are much
more convincing and easier to follow
than any adaptations of either books
or plays.

'INTO THE FUTURE WITH BIFF

BAKER'
15 Mlns.
Sustaining
Dally, 5:15 p.m.
WOR-Mutnal, New York

Mutual's Louisville affiliate,
WGRC, is originating this juve cliff-
clinger for the network. It's called
'Into, the Future with Biff Baker'
aiid is supposed to take the young
dialer into the rip-snortin' action of
the year 2042, as he-man Biff and
his urchin side-kick, Jimmy Garfield,
slam their way through ailventure to
save Dr. Boru and thwart the demon
Jogo on the planet Mars. It doesn't
jell

As usual with these thrillers for
the moppet trade, there's lavish use
of sound effects, with echo cham-
bers, filter mikes, whistle, sirens,,
roars, buzzes, grating iron doors,
swelling roars, fades and cross-
fades and the catalog of technician
creations. That's all to the good.
So is the frank fantasy of the plot.
But where the- show sprawls is in its
lack of action. Too little happens
too slowly. The characters talk
and talk and talk. Instead ot scorn-
ing words and blazing frantically
from one inferno of .excitement afld
impossible deeds to the next.

Production loads the kilocycles
with kid-convincing noises, but the
action should be speiddd Srasticolly
and the dialog not only greatly re-
duced, but considerably clarified in
delivery. There might also be more
inventiveness regarding such crea-
tions as Jogo's guards, the terrible
Gopp, etc. As it is, 'Into the Future'
is much too tame. It wouldn't even
frighten the club-women reformers.

Hobe.

Impressions of BBC Broadcasts

London, Feb. 5.

These are the impressions ot a regular listener to wartime pro-
grams of the British Broadcasting Corp:

Tempo: Still ultra-slow, notably news commentators. Sporting
events, too, are called as leisurely as teatime Interruption at a pre-
war cricket game, (Some Canadians heard here covering hockey
games In the Dominion make the contrast stand out.)

Women Annonnoera: Oh. how they dote upon phoney upstage fake-
.elegant accents! ' \-

Big News: The BBC exasperates its listeners by giving almost no
detail when Its vital and excessive explanation of trivia.

Sohednling ot Shows: There is too much repetition, too little adjust-
rhent between one program and another. Songplugging Is seemingly
little controlled resulting in listeners getting same tunes on contiguous
broadcasts.

Mysterious Origins:' The public wonders why the continued hush-
hush over where remotes are coming from. This is to confuse the
enemy. But is the enemy confused, or just the BBC.

THEY LIVE FOBEVER'
With Barry Kroeger
Morale

Sunday, 10:.VI p.m, -
WABC-CBS, New York

One thing appears true of all
morale programs to date: no one of
them has, no olie of them can expect,
a unanimous verdict. "They Live
Forever' has been criticized on the
grounds that its heroes are too often
dead heroes and that this will make
people melancholy. But against this
type of reaction there is the reply:
how better than in ter^. of the final
price being paid by fighters can the
stark seriousness of 'war be brought
home to the people? The critic, like
the producer, must acknowledge that
these fundamental disagreements,
springing from basic attitudes toward
'pessimism' and 'optimism,' will al-
ways be present. ■

What "They Live Forever' did have
last Sunday night (1) was an angry,
passionate, Ihese-Japs-are-bees qual-
ity. It used short, quick dramatic
jabs. It snarled a little, it used a
little sarcasm about people who
might not . want to be bothered about
the war. For them the program
snapped 'Here it is, in 30 seconds, in
capsule form.' Then it sledge-ham-
mered a point across.
. The program dealt pretty much
with actual heroes, case histories
from the Army and Navy and Ma-
rine Corps that are already seml-
familiar through newspaper accounts.
Brave men under fire. What they
said, what they did, how they felt.
It's not gay. The men have a habit
of being dead at the end of their ex-
ploits.

The program is not only angry, but
it obviously wants its listeners to -be
that way. It wants them to tighten
their jaws as they hear, tor example,
about the 31st Regiment from the
Philippines that went. to Japan in
1923., on an errand of charity to the
nasty Nioponese who had grief from
earthquakes. The 31st left with polite
Jap assurances of gratitude. The
next time they met the yollow-smel-
lics was in Bataan peninsula. Listen
to that, if you can, and not be sore.
If you're not sore, you're an ap-
pcaser at heart.

Barry Kroeger, a dependable
trouper, headed the professional par-
ticipants, others^ being Eddie Maye-
hoff, Ted Osborne, Guy Repp, Ann
Eden. Actual persons commenting
upon actual incidents were Hendrik
Van Loon. Col. H. Clay Suoplee,
Sergt. Howard Smith. Henry Vorm-
stein.

Director Charles Vanda and his
authors. Howard Teichmann and
Jerome Lawrence, talk like ordinary
Americans. They use the red cor-
jiuscles of sharp-voiced temper.
Theirs is one of the promising con-
tributions to a pugnacity ot spirit
suitable to going to town — meaning
Tokio. Land.

'MISS MEADE'S CHILDBEN'

With Margaret Ryan, Arlene Brock,

John Barrett, Leonard Scherer,

Dave Cheskin Music
Drama -
15 Mlns.
SnslainlDg
Dally, 9:45 p.m.
WGR-Mutual, Buffalo

Second daily drama-strip put ot
WGR's studios to Mutual hookup is
built around a trio of motherless
children sent to live with an aunt
(Miss Meade). To pull it out of soap-
opera class and build It Into com-
petition with nighttime shows, pro-
duction staff is making full use of
house band batoned by Dave Cheskin.
Outfit is spliced into episodes tor fre-
quent scene changes and soVind
effects, worked out neatly by means
of musical bridges wherever possible.

Apart from frequent interlarding
of music, which easily catches the
ear. drama is regular run of heart-
throb stuff. Margaret Ryan, veteran
stock actress, is a capable Miss
Meade. Arlene Brock, 'teen-aged
emoter, works well into role child ot
Hilda. John Barrett and Leonard
Scherer are other main voices in cast
that turns out handy job on its lines,
which packed a lot ot action into
opening week's episodes. Scripted
by Joe MacDougal of Montreal,
drama is centered about Buffalo and
apparently will ring in heavily on
history hereabouts.

Martin Tobin was a mellow spieler
in announcement*; which didn't
spread too thickly the what-will-
nappen-next stuff. Betz.

THIS IS WAR— NO. 3'

With Douglas Fairbanks, Fredrle

March, Don Vorhees Orchestra
30 Mlns

Saturday, 7 p.m.
All Stallona

The third In t'he 'This Is War' se-
ries directed by Norman Corwin was
'Your Navy' by Maxwell Anderson.
It proved fair to draggy in quality.
A certain commendable freedom
from heroics that is probably good
morale and good sense just now was
streaked -here and there, with fine
lines like calling the civilians of the
United States '130,000,000 shipowners'
and -Navy life 'romantic and grim, a
little ot both.' Of the seafighters'
own morale, Fairbanks reported
them 'ready for anything-r-dcath' or
a fight or cold water.'

It was a slow-going but realistic-
seeming program. Especially effec-
tive was the dramatization of how
battle stations are taken on a ship at
sea.

The weakness ot the program as a
probable audience-getter and audi-
ence-holder was its subdued quality.
It v)9S not easy listening. It expected
patience. The script unfolded like
an album of snapshots, some clear,
some blurred, with pages left blank.
The program did gradually succeed,
if that was the purpose, in giving the
idea that the Navy job was collossal,
the outlook grim, immediate expecta-
tions of anything pleasant wholly
naive. The broadcast might well
have succeeded in laying the ground-
work in many minds for long suffer-
ing. It promised no occasions for
cheeriiu.

Lavishly supplied with a fine col-
lection of sound effects 'Your Navy'
was a coUobration between Itaxwell
Anderson and the vice-president in
charge ot noise. It was a sound-
effectsman's dream come true.'-
Everythlng from boatswain's whistles
to depth charges. Kurt Weill's musi-
cal score got the billing but the
racket department did more to fill in
the total effect and fnood.

The program was the simplest ot
the three thus tar broadcast in this
series. Some of the simplicity was
telling. But the total ot artistry, and
presumably of message-delivery, was
marred by murky moments of what's
going-on-now puzzlement. What
finally emerged was a dramatized
and musicalized interview between a
civilian, Frcdric March, and a naval
officer, Douglas Fairbanks. Only
now and then did they remind listen-
ers that they were actors on the side.

Land. -

THEATRE CANTEEN
With Radle Harris, Tallubh Bank-
head, Johnny Green, Reginald
Gardner, Lee Sbubert, Aline Bern-,
slein
30 Mlns.
Sustaining
Monday, 10:30 p.m.
WOR, Ne«r York

For the opening ot the American
Theatre Wing's Canteen in the base-
ment ot the 44th St theatre housed
in the former Little Club, WOR put
on a half hour sustaining whiQh
Radie Harris, who Is chairman ot the
entertainment committee, neatly
paced. She established the motif in
short order.

This is the iliroject wholly financed
and contributed by showfolk, from
talent to union labor, in order to
give service men a midtown Man-
hattan canteen where they can con-
gregate, get free sandwiches, coffee,
soda, cigarettes, etc.; meet and dance
with glamour gals (chorines), etc.

Miss Harris in sequence intro-
duced Johnny Green, Whose appro-
piate enough 'I Cover the Water-
front' piano solo disclosed a key-
board badly out of tune; Reginald
Gardner with good chitchat; ditto
Tallulah Bankhead; Lee Shubert who
was kudosed as b landlord who col-,
lects no rent and thi'ows in the heat
free;. Aline Bernstein, scenic de-
signer, who mildly ribbed the
brotherly love ot the sundry unions
in refurbishing the interior 100%
free.

Service men contributed enthu*
siasm. There were quizzes on home-
towns and soldier reaction' plus a
fore and aft 'Beer Barrel Polka
chorus.

Withal a good institutional stunt
by the special features department
of WOR and good house-copy for still
another show biz contribution to
the Great Cause. Abel.

-Wtinfduft Mfch 4, 1942

COMGEBT-OmU

Records, Radio for Marj. Lawrence

Voice Unimpaired But Met Sopi^o Hatn't Re-
covered From Mexican lUncM

Future of Marjorle Lawrence, 34-
jear-old dramatic soprano of the
Hetropolltan who wa« strtcken with
paralysis months ago In Mexico, re-
gains uncertain. The Met soprano,
«rbo was groomed tor several years
gs Klrsten Flagstad's successor. Is
vocally unaffected but cannot move
her legs.

Her manager, J. J. Vincent, can-
celled all her concert dates for this
season, running over $35,000, and
win accept none for next year.
Plana for her to attempt a Venus in
Tannhauser* while lying on a couch
at the Met have been rejected by the
management which docs not want
her to be placed In the postlon of
being an object of pity.

Vincent is at the present time
dickering with several prospective
sponsors of radio programs, for the
Australian soprano Is among the
greatest in the world and if unable
to appear in opera or Jn concert it
is felt she can easily sing from a
chair to a listening audience on the
air. Recordings will probably be
made the same way.

Miss Lawrence was one of the
most popular artists at the Met, and
equally at home in four languages in
operatic roles.

N. Y. Concert Reviews

JOSEPH SZIGETI
Violinist

CamcKle Hall, Feb. 25, 1942

Joseph Szigeti's recital was an un-
usual one, not only because of the
new and unhackneyed material
played, but because he saw fit to
share his recital with a pianist and
horn player in order to play Brahms
trio. Opus 40. The violinist was in
excellent form. His tone was rich
and pure, his pitch certain and his
bowing and staccati work of the
highest possible ordet

Musically speaking the program
was ok, but for the lay listener it
was likely to be dull. Both Mason
Jones, horn player, and Andor
Foldes, piano player, performed in
excellent taste and with expert
musicianship. Eddy. .

The N. Y. Daily Critics Said;

Tribune (Perkins) 'Recital did not
fully realize advance expectations.
Mr. Szigeti's tone not at its best
early in Mozart sonata. Performance
did not quite come off.'

Times (Strauss) 'In flne form.
Want of balance In program. Per-
formed with marked brilliance and
bravura.'

ROBERT GOLD6AND
PUnlst

Town BaU, N. T., Feb. 25, 1942.

Robert Goldsand, winner of the
Town Hall Endowment Fund award
as the best recitalist of 1940, was not
in top form for his 1942 appearance.
Pianist was overcautious and his lack
of abandon in many of his works
slowed them to a walk. His playing
as a result emphasized wrong notes
out of ordinary proportions, and the
dragging tempi and lustreless rendi-
tions made for a disappointing even-
ing, iddy.

The N. Y. Daily CriiUs Said:
Trlbime (Boehm) 'Not in best form.
Seemed ill at ease marred by a fln-
idcy approach, dragged pacing"

Son (Kolodin) 'Study in compel-
ling musicianship. Vibrant piano
tone.

STLVIA SBIITH
Pianist

. Town Hall, N. T., Feb. 17, 1942

Excelleftt technical mastery, a
singing tone and expert dynamic
control were the attributes of Sylvia
Smith. The youthful pianist, how-
ever seemed to feel her way; her
playing lacked spontaneity and free-
dom of expression. Eddy.

What the N. Y: Daily Critics Soid
J "''''"ne (Lawrence): 'Tone lacked
aepth at beginning. . . . musical in-
teUlgence and mechanical abiUty.'
»Jf?'*' 'Interpretative flair coupled
with certain technical limitations.
• . . rich, full-bodied tone . , . play-
ing expressive.'

DOES AN OFF-TO-OMAHA

Ballet'a Bsggafe Goea ta Wrnif
Town — Ferfonnance Lost

Milwaukee, March 3.

S. Hurok's BtCUet Theatre was
scheduled for a single performance
at the Pabst on Tuesday night
(24), but the baggage cara through
some faux pas went out of the Chi-
cago railroad yards to Omaha in-
stead of to Milwaukee. The big
troupe, approximately 100. people,
couldn't ballet in street clothes, so
bad to mark time.

Performance was postponed until
last night (Monday, 2). Grossed
only an estimated $1,700 at $2.75
top.

MET HAS WORST

MARIA KDBENKO
Soprano

HaU, N. T_ March 1, 1942

veteran coloratura retains gorgeous
lualj^ and brilliant interpretative
anuity of her younger days, and
while a top 'D' may be a bit of a
strain, under that tone she is, the
equal to and surpasses any of the
Mets bravura voices. She displayed
exquisite dicUon In French, Italian
and Russian, flne breath control and

OF'41-'42

The Metropolitan Opera has con-
cluded seven-eighths of its season
with its 14th week, representing a
probable estimated loss of $20,000,
taking in $60,500 (approximate) out
of a presumed possible $103,000.
This was the Met's worst financial
week of the season and the worst In
some years, as 'Variety' estimates.

Estimates for the week on a $7.70
top' on 3,500 seats with a total gross
on a sell-out of $15,500 and $12,400
probably needed to break even are;

Wednesday (25), "Tosca,' $7,000;
loss, $5,000.

Thursday (26), 'The Bartered
Bride,' $7,500; loss, $4,500.

Friday afternoon (27), 'Parsifal,'
$8,000; loss, $4,000.

Friday evening (27), 'Boheme,'
$10,000; loss, $2,000.

Saturday afternoon (28), 'Ballo in
Maachera,' $11,000; loss, $1,000.

Saturday evening (28), 'Carmen,'
$10,000; proflt, $1,000. (At $4.40 top).

Monday (2), 'PagliaccI' and 'Island
Ciod,* $7,000; loss, $5,000.

EUGENE LIST, U.S.A.'

Conoert Pianist Into Army — Com-
pleted Road Dates °

Riverside, C^l., March 3.

Eugene List, among the top young
American pianists, was Inducted into
the army here Monday (3). Pianist
had been given permiksion to finish
his concert season and had played
over the past weekend with the San
Francisco Orchestra and then drove
all night to join up.

List had approximately 30 dates
this past season, including some with
major orchestras such as the N. Y.
Philharmonic and Minneapolis Sym-
phonies.

legato effects, and her ability at pia-
nissimo effects is still tops.

Best of her selections was the Mo-
zart 'Alleluja,' ia which the clear
cut staccati, extraordinary phrasing
and ringing top 'C were of the high-
est order. Her voice has grown in
size. Eddy.

The N. Y. daily critics said:
Times (Straus): 'Highly distin-
guished singing. In 'ronl rank of
contemporary singers. Richness of
textwe ... superb control . . iextraor-
dinary expressiveness and emotional
warmth.'

Tribnne (Boehm): 'One of high-
lights of present concert season. Tonal
beauty and artistic maturity. Shim-
mering full bodied tones' followed by
equally ravishing pianlsvmi.'

ALEXANDER BOROVSKT
Pianist

Carnegie Hall, N. T, Feb. 20, 1942

Recflal by Alexander Borovsky
proved the pianist to be among the
best artists of his instrument. Rapid
digital and bravura work. He plays
compositions of the romantic and
post-romantic {leriod with a reck-
less abandon and speed that is
breathtaking, while the intensity and
dramatic feeling he propounds is
equally as brilliant.

In music of the classic period he
has a tendency to drap nls tempi
this biecoming monotonous . as be
(Continued on page 64)

Met Opera Reviews

'Boheme' on Friday evening (27)
was a fair performance with excel-
lently sung Miml of Uda Albanese
who tied up the proceedings with
'Addlo' of. the third act Soprano's
voice was clear and powerful, espe-
cially in the ut>per register, all eve-
ning. Charles KuUman as Rudolfo
was barely adequate to the needs of
the character, and his characteriza-
tion was felt rather than heard.
Francesco Valentino made a strong
voiced but stereotyped Marcello.
Norman Cordon okay as Colline.

Gerhard Pechner .was excellent in
his comedy bits but Annamary Dickey
was short vocally and dramatically
as Musetta. Paul Brelsach continued
his record of battling with composers.

'Parsifal' at Friday matinee (for
the first time this season) was hard
going. Its naturU length, together
with conducting of not too inspira-
tional an order, and some so-so sing-
ing by principals, made for a dull
afternoon. In the title role Lauritz
Melchior just went through his paces.
So great is the tenor's voice that he
can do this and still deliver a super-
lative performance. But he seemed
bored.

Kerstin Thorborg took over Kundry
for the first time in the U. S., and
while she lacked the top tones of a
dramatic soprano, the contralto sang
with ease, surety and care, and de-
livered a workmanlike job; -Julius
Huehn acted well as Amfortas but
vocally left a margin for desire, be-
ing covered by the music. Best of
the principals was Alexander Kipnis
whose Gurnemanz was a superlatively
sung and acted job. The bass's pow-
erful tones were flooded with color
and his diction covered text with
meaning. His acting was sincere.

Erich Leinsdorf failed to draw
much from the music, with the per-
formance lagging at times and lack-
ing for spontaneity It needs to carry
It throu^.

The Bartered Bride' Thursday (26)
was pretty much of a replica of pre-
vious performances. Cliarles KuU-
man took over the role of Jenlki and
while not as successful vocally as his
predecessor, Armand Tokatyan, did
an adequate job. Kullman's main
trouble is the smallness of his voice
which is simply not sufficiently res-
onant by nature to endow a high 'B'
flat with a carrying ring. In a smaller
theatre he would probably be ter-
rific. Jarmila Novotna, In good voice,
lent her charm and personality to
Marie, while Norman Cordon was a
towering Kezal with excellent dic-
tion. Karl Laufkoetter was barely
adequate as Vashek vocally, but good
In his acting.

Dn Ballo in Maachera' Saturday
afternoon (28) was perhaps most
satisfactory performance of an Ital-
ian opera during the season. In the
lead Giovanni Martlnelli (ending his
29th season at the Met) was in bril-
liant voice.

Richard Bonelli, taking over Re-
nato for the first time, stopped the
show with 'Eri tu," which was su-
perbly phrased and excellently sung.
The veteran baritone's acting ran
Martinelli a close second.

Bruna Castagna as Ulrica was very
satisfactory in the role and sang with
an intensity and brilliance in 'Re
dell* ablso,' which woq her an ovar
tion. Josephine Antoine sparked the
entire production with her brilliant
bravura in 'Volta la terra' and 'Saper
vorreste,' and Stella Roman made
quite an Improvement in her sing-
ing of Amelia. Both Norman Cor-
don and Nicholas Moscona were ex-
cellent in bit roles, while Ettore Pan-
Izza conducted brilliantly.

'Carmen' at Saturday evening (28)
performance was featured by the
brilliantly sung and acted Don Jose
of Raoul Jobin. Tenor.'s French, flne
figure and excellent acting was com-
bined, with tremendous resonant
singing, especially in the 'La Fleur.'
Lily Djanel- repeated her 'Carmen'
which remains second grade, and
Licia Albanese again drew a round
orapplause for the 'Je Dls che rien'
of act three. She should improve
her costuming. Leonard Warren and
Louis D'Angelo were just adequate
as Escamlllo and Zuniga, respec-
tively, and Wilfred Pelletier con-
ducted without much life.

Tosca' last Wednesday (25) got an
indifferent performance.

Assuming the title role for the first
time In this country, Stella Roman
was lovely to look at and beautifully
gowned, but some of her notes were
ragged. Her best work came in the
hackneyed 'Vissi d'Arte." which was
sung well but this did not compen-
sate for considerable pushing, forcing
and flattening elsewhere. JanKlepura
also was heard in his first Mario
Cavaradossi. • The tenor's top tones
were exceptionally brilliant and he
tossed A's and B's around with ease.
His school of acting, however, isn't
even succota^i. It's plain corn. Why
such an artist persists In mugging and
charging all over the stage as if to
catch Indian Clubi only he can tell.
Alexander Sved's Scarpia continues
to be ineffective. Ettore Panizza con-
ducted brilliantly.

Theatrical Unions Urge Frisco
Municipality Pay Opera Deficit;
War Forces 4 PJH Performances

Opera Gag

A chorus girl, seeing Jan Kie-
pura passing resplendent In the -
costume of the Duke in 'Rlgo-
letto,' turned to a friend and said,
'Who is that?' She recalled his
face, having seen him in films,
but did not know his name.

The friend looked and de-
clared. That's Jan ' Kiepura.'
The chorus girl looked her dis-
belief. 'Don't try to kid me,' she
said. 'Jan Kiepura is a Jewish
Holiday.'

LEWISOHN. N. Y.,
CONCERTS IN
JUNE 7 BOW

The concerts of the N. Y. Philhar-
monic Orchestra which have been
given at Lewisohp Stadium, N. Y.,
every summer since 1018 will con-
tinue this year and begin on June
17. They will run the customary
eight weeks.

Funds to cover the annual deficit
are being raised and are well ahead
of schedule and. some provision will
be made to take care of crowds in
case of air raid alarms or actual
raids.

MILWAUKEE'S DIFFICULTIES

Opcratio Talent Holds Off— Hay Ga
to ISoatb America

Milwaukee, March 3.

Although nine concerts have been
tentatively planned for this city's
annual summer 'Music Under the
Stars' series in Washington Park,
difficulty Is being experienced in
lining up the talent Many of the
artists who were wanted here are
expecting to sing.. In the Buenos
Aires and Rio de Janeiro operas In
July and August and are unable to
give Don Griffin, the local program
director, any definite information as
to just when they will be available.

John Charles Thomas, Lily Pons,
Andre Kostelanetz and Richard
Crooks probably «rlU be heard here
again.

All theatrical and eorelated imions
of San Francisco have appealed to
the City Government to ^underwrita
the San Francisco Opera jCo. for
$25,000, the amount of the annual
deflcit Both the Mayor and City
Council reportedly look on the sug-
gestion sympathetically.

The San Francisco Opera Co. Is the
third oldest company in the U. S. and
is now in its 21st year. It wai
founded in 1022 by Gaetano Merola,
Metropolitan Opera conductor in the
late 1890's. The opera, has been sup-
ported heretofore by guarantors and
contributors whose numbers run In-
to the hundreds and who comprise
the bulk of the business men In the
city. At the end of each season the
deficit is figured out and then di-
vided pro-rata among these guaran-
tors with the amount seldom ex-
ceeding $100 for each one. With the
war in progress and blackouts start-
ing the operas at four o'clock In the
afternoon, and a general uncertainty
among the guarantors, the unions de-
cided to take no chances. The San
Francisco season runs five weeks, a
week in Los Angeles, and then the
company tours the Northwest visit-
ing Portland, Seattle, etc, and work-
ing its way down to Santa Barbara.

Rather than risk losing jobs which
lasted 10 weeks at lucrative salaries
the unions appealed to the city for
aid. A decade ago the city had
erected a $6,000,0tel opera house, the
world's finest as tlife-ijermanent home
of the company, so the request being
njade now was not considered exor-
bitant The company uses only the
best Metropolitan Opera stars and
pays excellent salaries. Singers who
receive $200-$500 a performance at
the Met secure from $l,00<)-$3,000
from the San Francisco company.
This past year In 31 performances
the company grossed $550,000 and
had a loss of less than $20,000, both
being peak^ figures.

Merola's productions run as high
as $I5,000-$17,000 apiece against
$12,000 at the Met, but he cdn take,
in $20,000 In gross against the Met's
$15,500. '

Friedberg Adds Four

Annie Friedberg has added Kerstin
Thorborg, contralto; Herbert Jans-
sen, baritone; Harriet Henders, so-
prano, and Ralph Kilpatrick, harpsi-
chordist, to her list of artists. Con-
tralto and baritone are members of
the Met, and the soprano is a former
Met singer.

Miss Thorborg and Janssen were
formerly with NBC and Miss Hen-
ders was with Columbia Concerts
Corp.

Koussevitzky in D.C.

Boston, March 3.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, under
the baton of Serge Koussevitzky,
will make its first appearance in
Washington in several years, March
31, playing a special concert for the
benefit of the Russian War Re-
Uef.

Trustees of the orchestra offered
the services free for the affair.

MOHTBEAL SEE-STUFH STAATS

Montreal, March 3.

The Montreal Women's Symphony
orchestra with Ethel Stark conduct-
ing opens its season tomorrow
(Thursday >^ at Plateau Hall.

Soloists are Ellen Ballon, Mont-
real pianist, and later Rose Bamp-
ton. Met soprano.

Sympli Men In Army

Cleveland, March 3.
Three members of the Cleveland
Symphony Orchestra have enlisted
in the armed forces. They are:

Nathan Stutch, 'cello; Ernest Kas-
dos, first violin; and Ferdlnaod
Maresh, double bass.

Englisb Maestro Batons
German Refugee's First
Symph at Philharmonic

Richard Mohaupt, refugee German
composer, will have his first sym-
phony presented tomorrow and Fri-
day (5-6) by the New York Phll-
harmonic at Carnegie Hall, directed
by Eugene Godssens, who Is English.

Mohaupt Is a Christian- who re-
fused to divorce hi: Jewish wife, as
per Nazi decree. He has done con-
siderable special composing and ar-
ranging for Emo Rapee at the Radio
City Music HaU.

Mohaupt also expects to launch -
himself shortly as a concert pianist

BLUE NETWORK MAY
GET CHI SYMPHONY

The Blue Network Is considering'
a weekly pickup of the Chicago sym-
phony orchestra The time would be
Saturday night.

Frederick Stock, the symph's con-
ductor, discussed the tieup with Blue
execs durlpg a recent visit to New
York.

Plan Opera for FL Worth

Fort Worth, March 3.

Amelio Colantoni, director of the
National La Scala Opera Co. of Los
Angeles, and Dorothy Sigler, one of
the principal singers, have returned
to thQ Coast after conferring with
city officials here in regard to a
proposed summer opera season. The
officials expect that a contract will
be signed this week.

Colantoni, who has been producing
opera for 15 years on the West Coast,
reported that authorities^: there (IjOS
Angeles) had warned him that a ban
on crowds is to be expected becausa
of Pacific Coast air raidjrasslbilitles.

88 ORCHESTRA GROSSES

Wednesday, March 4, 19<I2

T.Dwsey Kg $27,000 in l$tS.F.
Theatre Date; Dacliiii Good 15G
kBuff., Pitt Snow Hits Spivak,llG

Top Discr This Week

^Estimates /or This Week;
Blae Barron, New York (Strand;
' 2,758; 35-55-85-99), with 'Captains of
Clouds' (WB) on screen. This show
Is Id its third week, looking better
than $30,000, good enough for it to be
held over a fourth stanza, fourth time
this will , have occurred here since
the pitband policy was inaugurated
four years back. The second week
for 'Clouds' and Barron, which
seemingly has been a good b.o. com-
bination, was $40,000.

Connt Basle, Chicago (Oriental; 3,-
200; 28-33-44-50), with 'Honolulu Lu'
(RKO). Count Basic band does well
currently at $18,000.

Lon Breese, Chicago (Chicago; 4,-
000; 35-55-75), with 'AH Through the
Night' (WB). Andrews Sisters in
person. Powerful business in the
offing at $45,000.

Del Conrlney, Milwaukee (River-
side; 2,800; 30-40-50), with 'Blondie
Goes to ^College' (Col). Business
continues to improve with name
band on stage each week. Courtney
'on first time here, following long
Chicago stay and frequent radio
hearings, credited with surprisingly
good $13,000.

Tommy Dorscy, San Francisco
(Golden Gate; 2,850; 40-44-65) with
•Date with a Falcon' (RKO). Film of
little consequence, so booming $27,-
000 in view will be due almost en-
tirely to Dorsey's crew. It's band's
first Frisco stage appearance.

Eddy DDchin, Buffalo (20th Cen-
tury; 3,000; 30-55) with 'Unexpected
Uncle' (RKO) on screen. Duc|iin
getting little help from the screen
end, so it's the band that's account-
ing for good $15,000.

Gene Kropa, Brooklyn (Strand;
2,800; 30-40-50-65), with 'Man Who
■Retu-ned to Life' (Col). Krupa is
the It. "(net and $12,000 in four-day
stand will spell nice profit for house.

Clyde Lucas, Philadelphia (Earle;
2,768; 35-46-57-68-75), with Martha
Raye for strong stage support and
•Dr. Kildare's ^Victory' (M-G) on
screen. Miss Raye gets good share of
the credit for the draw here. Head-
ing for satisfactory $19,000.

Bed NoTvo, Newark (Adams; 2,000
25-35-50-60) with 'Mr. Wise Guy
(Mono) and Jimmy Durante headlin-
ing. The Great Schnozzola consid-
ered- chiefly responsible for good
$17,000 coming up. Nnrvo ?.lsu help-
ing, but the screen fare is nil at b.o.

George Olsen, Baltimore (Hippo-
drome; 2,240; 17-25-28-39-44-55-66),
with 'Lady Is Willing' (Col). Com-
bining to inch out slightly better than
average $14,000.

Alvlno Bey, New York (Para-
mount; 3,664; 35-55-85-99). With
King Sisters, Gil Lamb and Lane
Bros. In person, 'Bahama Passage'
(Par) on screen. Wound up very
profitable fortnight's engagement last
night (Tues), with first seven days'
take being $55,000 and the second
week $42,000. The stageshow headed
by the Rey band is credited with
much of this business.

Jan Savltt, Minneapolis (Orpheum;
2,800; 39-«4-55), with Buddy Clark
and vaude acts plus 'Baham:: Pas-
sage' (Par). Playing first local en-
gagement, band is making favorable
impression. Buddy Clark helping
some. Gross will be very strong
$17,000.

Charlie Splvak, Pittsburgh (Stan-
ley; 3,800; 30-44-60-66) with 'Skylark'
(Par). Film not getting much, so
burden's on Spivak, and he's not
well-enough known locally. Severe
snow storm that tied up transporta
tlon, however, sliced total to thin
$11,000.

Decca's Extra 10c

Directors of Decca Records, Inc.,
yesterday (Tues.) declared an extra
dividend of 10c a share on the com-
pany's capital stock, in addition to
the regular quarterly rtividend of
15c a share.

Both are payable March 31 to
stockholders of record March 17.

Sammy Kaye Mgr. Denies
Promising Girls a Job

Sammy Koye is being sUed in Cin-
cinnati by Marjorie and Billy De-
vore, -sister singers, who ask that
Kaye pay them expenses incurred
in New York while preparing to join
Kaye's band. According to their affi-
davit they came to N. Y. late last
November to hold auditions for a
third singer to make up a trlb on
the promise that Kaye would employ
them with his orchestra. They aver
that a third singer was secured, sat-
isfactory to all concerned, but that
Kaye then reneged on his promises.
They want to Be reimbursed for a
10-week stay in New York.

According to Jim Peppe, Kaye's
m,inager. the charees are 'ridiculous.'
The plaintiffs' affidavit states that
Kaye met and spoke to the girls in
Cincinnati when they approached
him for a job. They then were a trio,
but a third sister declined to leave
Cincinnati, the complainants contin-
ued, whereupon Kaye advised them
to dig up a third member and he
then would listen to overtures. Peppe
says Kaye made no promises whatso-
ever and his reason for not hiring
them was that they were inadequate
for his purposes.

Charles Christians Dies

Charles Christians, 26, rated one
of the niost outstandinjg modern gui-
tarists, died Monday (2) at Sea View
hospital, Staten Island, N. Y., after
a. long illness. In the spollfght a
comparatively short while. Chris-
tians, who was colored, became a
member of Benny Goodman's band
In August, 1939, and left that group
early last -summer because of his
poor health. He had been at Sea
'View since.

Christians was discovered In Okla-
homa City, where he was leading a
small "baud of his own, by John Ham-
mond, formerly of (Columbia Rec-
m&, and Mary IjOU Williams, pianist
with Andy' Kirk's band.

Ban d Bookings

Sbep Fields, Maich 8, Holyoke
theatre, Holyoke, Mass.; 11, Empire

B. , Allentown, Pa.; 12, week , Ada ms
theatre, Newark; 17, MdHDSttan
Center, New York; 20, Alfred U.,
Alfred, N. Y.; 21, Brookline C.C
Philadelphia; 27, two weeks. Strand
theatre, New York.

McFarland Twins, March 6, Aud,
Gait, Ont., Can.; 7, IMA Aud, Flint,
Mich.; 9, New Bradford theatre,
Bradford, Pa.; 10, Aragon B., Pitts,
11, Washington theatre, Washington,
Pa.; 13, U. of Pittsburgh; Grove City

C, Grove .City, Pa.
Alvlns Bey, April 5, County

Center, White Plains, N. Y.; 8, Geo.F,
Pavillion, Johnson City, N. Y.; 7, St.
Joseph Academy, Philadelphia; 10,
v/eek, Shea'.', theatre, Buffalo.

Bob Chester, March 14, Castle
Farms, Cincinnati; 15, Myer's Lake
Park, Canton; 18, Arena, 'Toronto,
Can.; 18, Aud., Gait, Ont., Can.; 19,
Aragon B., Toledo> 21, Sunnybrook
B., Pottstown, Pa.; 27, MIT, Boston.

Will Bradley, Mar;:h 5, Venetian
theatre, Racine, Wis.; 8, Paramount
theatre, Hammond, Ind.; 27, Statler
hotel, Detroit.

Henry Bosse, March 15, Indiana
Roof, Indianapolis; 20-26, Oriental
theatre, Chicago; April 3-9, Colonial
theatre, Dayton, O.

^el Courtne.', March 8-8, Palace
theatre. Fort Wayne; 11, Capitol
ti.eatre, Manitowoc, Wis.; 12, Venetian
theatre, Racine, Wis.; 13, Capitol
ti.eatre, Madison, Wis.; 14-15, Strat
ford theatre, Chicago; 17, Bay thea
trc, Green Bay, Wis,; 18, Oshkosh
theatre, Oshk .sh.

Hank D'amico, Marc?i 7, Palisades

B. , McKeesport, Pa.; 8, Rainbow
Gardens, Freemont, O.

Kay Heattaerton, March 12-18,

C. 'ntral theatre, Passaic.

Earl HInes, March 13, Lincoln B.,
Columbus; 16, Coliseum, Cleveland;
20, Stranc: B., Philadelphia; 21,
Royal-Windsor B., New York; 22,
Turner's Arena, Washington, D. C;
23, Armory, Fairmont, W. Va.

Chico Marx, March 13-10, Stanley
theatre, Pittsburgh; 27-April 2,
Palace theatre, Cleveland.

Bed Norro, March 0, Bardavon
tl eatre, Poughkeepsie; 13, Michigan
U., Ann Arbor; 15, Trianon B.,
Toledo; 20-23, Strand theatre, Brook-
lya

BIng Crosby: 'Deep In Heart
Texas'— 'Let's AU Meet At My
House' (Decca 4162). Texas' side is
infectiously done, with good rhythm
backing by Woody Herman's band,

Kate Smith: 'When Roses Bloom
Again' — 'She'll Always Remember"
(Col. 36514). Singer commercially
interprets, two good pops, first the
stronger.

Tony Pastor: 'Mirines Hymn' —
'Good Morning Mr. Zip' (Bluebird
11542). Marines' fighting song is
rousing, ope of Pastor's best.

Jimmy Dorsey: 'When Roses
Bloom Again" — 'Drop Me a Line'
(Decca 4165). 'Roses' interpretation
is best yet, by orchestra. 'Line'
is good, too.

Vaughn Monroe: 'Somebody Else
Taking My Place' — 'Honey Dear'
(Bluebird 11454). Monroe band
greatly Improved. His first vocal,
slow, is commercial.

Tommy Dorsey: 'What !s This
Thing Called Love' — 'Love Sends
Gift of Roses' (Victor 27782).
Rhythmic interpretation of first is
solid juke possibility.

MiHer Gets $16,994
In 3 One-Niters;
Berigan s $8,845

(Estinutes)
George Anld (Roseland-State B.;
Boston, Feb. 28). Auld's first date
with new band proved good one;
drew 900 at 55-650 for $540. Well
liked.

Charlie Barnet (Ritz B., Bridge-
port, Conn., March 1). Barnet did
well here, rounding up 1,504 dancers
at 99c.

Bonny Berigan (Totem Pole B.,
Aubumdale, Mass., F«b. 23-28). Al-
ways fave here Berigan drew 12,200
dt^ncers at usual $1.45 pair for fine
gross of $8,845 in six days. Turned
in heaviest Saturday (3,000) in
weeks.

Will Bradley-Stan Kcnion-Les Hllc

(Raymor-Playmor B., Boston, Feb.
27). Bradley (new band) and Ken-
ton and Hite alternated to break
spot's mark with 2,450 at 75-650 for
$1,715. Next night Bradley and Ken-
ton went it alone . and got 1,600 at
same prices.

Cab Calloway (Coliseum, Cleve-
land, O., Feb. 25). Calloway made
good showing initial visit, pulling 21,-
000 at 95c. in 3,000 capacity spot .

Eddy Dachln (Lyric T., Bridge-
port, Conn., Feb. 23-25). House's
season peak was reached with
Duchin, who drew $6,000 in three
days at 50c top.

Dake Ellington (Memorial Aud
Buffalo, Feb. 25). 'Swell' gate of
1,500 admissions at $1 turned out for
Ellington.

. Woody Herman (Brookline C. C,
Philadelphia, Feb. 28). Getting some
help from overflow of Glenn Miller
at Pottstown, Herman cracked this
spot's high mark with 2,332 at $1.10.
Next day (1) at Arena, Trenton, N.J.,
band played to approximately 4,000
in three shows at 45c to $1.

Carl Hoff (Lakeside Park, Dayton,
0., Feb. 28). Hoff's hewL band did
well here, playing to 1,100 at 75c for
$825.

ount^theati
ch DrvKa

Toledo, O., Feb. 27-March D.^aye
cracked this house's mark with ter-
rific 33,242 admissions for about $16,-
900 in three days. Did five shows
Sunday (1) instead of four.

Plmmle Luncetord (Aud., Wichita,
March 1). Dance for colored hop-
pers drew 'terrific' $1,126 at 75c to
$1.35; 940 couples.

Glenn Miller (Sunnybrook B.,
Pbttstown, Pa., Feb. 28.). Miller
drew out state troopers and blocked
traffic for miles in cracking Ray
Hartenstein's record by over 2,000
dancers. He played to 7,125" at $1.10.
Next day (1) he played to 4,700 at
Masonic Temple, Scranton, at $1.05
advance, $1.35 door. .Monday (2)
band drew record 4,222 at $1 at Geo.
F. Pavillion, Johnson City, N. Y.,
making three straight high marks
broken.

Ted Weems (Orpheum thoatre,
Madison, Wis., Feb, 25-26). In two
days Weems turned up great coin;
$3,187.

Paul Whiteman (Sweet's Ballroom.
Oakland, Cal., Feb. 22). 'Whiteman
drew good 2,495' for gross of $1,735.

I. .1' 'i.ic 1 1 n-i . ; 1 1 I

Bands at Hotel B.O.'s

CPrMcnted htrtvAih, <u a uxefcly tobuUitton, b the estlm^ited cover '
eharga bui<n«M bttng don« by tu>m« bands In various Neto Vorh hotels.
Dinner business (7-10 PJf J not rated. Figures a/ter name o/ hotel gi\M
room capacity and cover charpt. Larger amount desipnates weekend and
hoUdav price.)

™ CoTeri ■ Tot,i

WMlM^,.faat CoTen

Bond Hot*l 'lajTsd^Wecb On Dait

Freddy Martln*,..Waldorf (400; $1-$1.50).,.. 6 2,275\ 13,750

Benny Goodman*_New Yorker (400; 7Sc-$1.50) 20 1,850 38,350

EnrlcMadriguera..BUtmor« (300; $1-^1.60).... 9 1,125 5,650

LanlMcIntIre....XejcIngton (300; 75c-$l.S0). 3 1,375 4,775

Jimmy Dorsey.,., Penn^lvanla (500; 75c-$1.50).,,.,,. 3 2,300 7,500
Vaughn Monro**. Commodora (400; 75c-$l). ... ,. 20 1,800 30,825

*Asterlstcf indicate a supporttfip floor show, alt/iouph (he band is the
major draw. •

Chicago

Chook Foster (Continental Room, Stevens ^otel; 400; $1.50-$2 min.).
Foster Is new In town but doing all right here; 2,600 people last week.

XaTler Cagat (Empire Room, Palmer House; 600; $3-$3.50 minj. In
seventh week th* Cugat band continues to be powerful attraction with
3,500 patrons.

Bad Freeman (Panther Room, Sherman Hotel; 700; $1.2S-$2.50 min.).
Freeman band in for one week between Jan Savltt and Gene Krupa whea
latter was held up In east For short stay not much at 2,200.

Art Kaaacl (Walnut Room, Bismarck Hotel; 300; $l-$2 min.). Kassel band
nearing end of stay and doing okay in this small room with 1,500 people
last week.

EntU Coleman (Mayfair Room, Blackstone Hotel; 350; $2.50 min. Sat).
Hildegarda remains th* wow, in this new room and setting the spot solidly.
Again nifty at 2,500 customers.

Los Angeles

Sklnnay Ennb (Ambassador; 900; $1-$1.50). Blackout jitters toppled trade
here to arotmd 1,000 on the two nights (Frl., Sat.).

Phil Biarria (BUtmore; 1,200; $1-$1.50 min.). Biz booming and then came
Tuesday night's blackout which let down the following nights. Call it 5,000,

Boston

Charles Barnet (Bermuda Terrace, BrunswIclTSotel; 550; 55c-$l cover).
Barnet held up well on second week with 2,375 covers. Bulk of trade
Friday-Saturday when cover is $1. Two weeks to go.

Lelghton Noble (Terrace Room, Hotel Statler; 450; $1 cover) , In seventh
week Noble showed fine power Friday-Saturday with 800 at $1 cover. No
other late nl^ts.

Baby Newman (Oval Room, Copley Plaza; 300; $1 cover). Newman aided
by Dorothy Lewls-St, Regis Hotel Ice Show garnered good business with
1,400 cqvers.

Minneapolis

Jimmy Joy (Hotel Nicollet Minnesota Terrace; 500; $1-$1.50 min.).
Finished four weeks with little variation from approximate 600 customers
attracted previous week. Lent and income tax payments undoubtedly hurt-
ing. Robberts and Whits, Ben Yost's 'White Guards,' were In floor show.
Mel Marvin orchestra, Coleman Clark and Lathrop and Lee are current

San Francisco

PanI Baron (Ros* Room, Palace Hotel; 500; 50c-$1.25). Aided by Ray*
and Naldl, danc* team, convention which packed every hotel room in town,
fourth chapter reads 2,000 covers, okay. Baron held over.

Philadelphia

Henry King (Garden Terrace, Benjamin Franklin Hotel; 500; $l.S0-$2
minimum). Continuing excellent biz in seventh week, playing to 1,365
diners in six days. Pancho's Latin rhythms open next Thurs. (ID.

Baltimore

Don Bestor (Charles Room, Belvedere Hotel; 500; $l-$2 min.). Attracting
a more mature clientele to this spot which does not open on Sunday nights.
Played to estimated 2,200 on his first week of this; a return engagement

LOCATION JOBS, NOT IN HOTELS

(Chicago)

Orrin Tacker (Blackhawk; 400; $1.25 min.). Tucker band stays here untH
early AprlL Doing terrific job in this spot socking 'em with 4,000 patrons
l&st wcdc

Boyd Baebnrn (Chez Paree; 500; $3-$3.50 min.). Willie Shore and Kitty
Carlisle headlining; business fair enough with 3,000 tabs again last week.

(Loa Anpeles)

Clande Thornhlll (Palladium B., Hollywood, first week). After big open-
ing (Tues.) hit skids with town too blackout-conscious. About 11,000 stubs.

Al Donahne (Trianon N., South Gate, Cal., second week). Caught around
4,000 customers who fear not submarines, air raids or blackouts. Spot hns
been solid for some time now and with any kind of breaks Donahue should
keep pace with his predecessors."

Jack Teagarden (Casa Manana B., Culver City, Cat), Pitching for 4,000
on the week and should make it barring enemy scares.

Oxzle Nelson (Florentine Gardens N., Hollywood). Just as vulnerable
to blackout jitters as any of the Spots and showed it with the ^week's count
just over 5,000.

(Baltimore)

DIok Sogers (Chanticleer; 400; $l-$1.50-$2 min.). Followed profltabls
stay of Joe Relchman and holding fairish pace. Playing for dinner and
nocturnal trade afid may reach 3,400 n initial week.'

On the Upbeat

Benny Carter organizing new band,

Betty Barrett rejoined Art Jar-
rett's band at Chase hotel, St Louis,
last week. Imogen* L^nn dropped
out because of bad throat

Blark Wlodlnger.'drummer, Charles
Morris, tenor sax, and Lige McKelvy,
arranger, all of Tommy Tucker's
band, set to be drafted.

Art Jarrct slated to leave Hotel
Cleveland's Bronz* Room, Cleve-
land, April 10, going directly to the

Peabody Hotel, Memphis. AUO
dated for a 10-week stat.d in Den-
ver, returning to Blackhawk hotel m
Chicago July 1,

Jean SUrr Joined trumpet section
of 'Sweethearts of Rhythm,' alUgl"
colored band. < '

Bob McCoy, Irohr West Coast
joined McFarland Twins orchestra
whUe at Totem Pole, over weekend,
replacing Don Cornell, slngm8-
gultarist going to Sammy Kaye in
(Continued on page 52)

^edaesdayt MmA 4, 1942

ORCHESTRAS

:J9

hside Stu0-Orche$tra$

John Klrby's band celebrates Its fifth anniversary tonight (Wed.) with a
oarty at Cafe Society Uptown, N. Y., where it's playing. Except for one
short interval when ' drummer O'Neill Spencer quit to go over to Louis
Armstrong, then returned »lter recovering from an illness, the band's per-
mnnel has remained intact. Besides Kirby .and Spencer there's Charlie
Shavers, trumpe t; Bus ter Bailey, clarinet; Russell Procope, alto sax, and
oianist BUly Kyle.

Klrby's is the only small band in the 'name field capable of playing one-
nighters on its own. It has a week of them to play soon before replacing
C^lie Barnet at the Brunswick hotel, Boston, next month, .

Gene Krupa, Charlie Barnet, Joe Venuti, Benny Goodman, Harry James,
Jack Jenny and Alvino Rey are among some of the all-star, ail-American
selectees in the Satevepost poll, tied in with the RKO (William Dieterle)
Dim, 'Syncopation.' They have been shot solo, as part of the general finale
montage. The pri2e musikers get about tlie same fee as they would for
■ solo date on the air.

Dieterle's special publicist, David E. Green, is cooking up a ;<Iew Orleans
world premiere for the film as the city where jazz was cradled.

Connie Boswell and Woody Herman played the Palace, Cleveland, last
week to a disheartening teeolT, with opening day weather around two
above zero. This kept biz down and partially accounts for 'Variety's'
Initial estimate of $18,000 on the week, but built towards to the end, wind-
ing up with a $22,500 take.

Eddy Duchin states he played a new kind of date at the Shuberl, New
Haven, a week ago Sunday, doing 110 minutes of stage show, interspersed
with 10 minutes of newsreels for the turnover. Thus, in 10 hours flat he
did five complete bandsho\vr presentations, clocking $2,800 on that one day
at 65c top.

North Carolina s Wartime Top of

But Bookers Think Class C Bands Won't Satisfy
Dance-Discl-iminating Campus

School Council of University of
North Carolina, composed of faculty
and students, passed a rule last week
setting a ceiling of $500 as the
amount that can be spent for mii.<!ical
entertainment for any school alTalr
for the duration of the war.

Whether lowered budgets reported
from other colleges will hold, is
problematical, particularly as grad-
uation and Its important jjroms.. etc.,
rolls nearer. The $500 top set by
North Carolina won't provide better
than a Class C band, or even a local
outfit. Last year the collcsc paid
Jimmy Dorsey $3,800 for two days.

Isham Jone;' Side In
Taps' Commish Ciaim

Michaud's New Action
Against Bob Chester

Another offensive in the Arthur
Michaud-Bob Chester battle was
launched Friday (27) when Chester
was served with papers in a breach
of contract suit begun by Michaud.
Suit accuses the bandleader of
breaking a management contract be-
tween the two and asks for $50,000
damage.';. Chester's lawyer acqeptcd
service since the leader is out of
to'wn.

Michaud hns nnother suit against
Chester awa;*ing hearing. In that he
; asks for $10,000 which Ls the amount
' Michaud claims the leader owe.<: him
in cash advances and back com
missions.

Miami Beach!

£ditor, 'Variety':

I sincerely hope^ the following will
give you a better Idea of Taps'
charges freferring to a previous
story of N. Y. talent agent. Taps'
complaint to the A.F.M. for unpaid
commissions. — Ed.]

To begin with, last fall Taps oU
fered me ,the Terrace Restaurant
here. The salary was $1,100. This
was refused. Then MCA came
along with a job in Minneapolis at
$1,250 which I accepted. Almost the
same day .Taps raised the Terrace
salary to $1,500. I conUctcd MCA
and after much dickering aiid my of-
fering them 5% of the Terrace job
they released me from the Minneap-
olis engagement. '

The very first day on the Terrace
lob, Mr. Amron [the owner- of Ter-
race] came to me and said on ac-
count of the war and not having a
license to run late he would be un-
able to live up to his contract and
would I accept $1,100 and it I didn't
he would have to close the place. I
said I would if he would lake care of
Ti.ps and extend my contract for the
whole .reason. He agreed to this and
Immediately wrote Taps a letter, or
rather he said he would write Taps
immediately. I found out later that
he did not write Taps for a week or
so. But he did write Taps and Taps
refused to take his money from
Amron. I have a copy here of Mr.
Amron's letter.

Not including me, there are 10 peo-
ple connected with my band that has
to be paid; IS are musicians and
manager.

It cost a young fortune to get my
band down here as we came straight
from New York. I also had. to pay
their way back. The scale here is
almost $1,000 including the unions'
10%.

I played only four weeks at $1,100.
The other two weeks the band played
without me and received just scale.
Paying Taps 10% would have put me
under scale, but with very little effort
Taps would have got his money from
Amron. This he refu.sed to do. .

Is)iam Jonis.

35c Sale of Goodman
Discs Raises Question
Of Price Meaning Again

Sharp increase in sales of Benny
Goodman's recordings since he
dropped from the Columbia 50c
label to S5c. Okeh discs will probably
be added fuel for argument over the
oft-discussed universal price of 35c.
for recordings by major orchestras.
Since shifting to the lower priced
Okeh label Goodman's sales in units
have jumped approximately 50% be-
yond his former Columbia circula-
tion.

However, it's also pointed out that
since making the change he has
probably enjoyed benefit of better
tunes and at least one distinct click
'Somebody Else is Taking my Place

DUCHOW ARRESTED

Admits Threats to Man Who Flashed
G-Notes In IVIsconsIn

McKinley Stalks Talent

Ray McKinley, recsnQy divorced '
from a co-leader spot with the Will
Bradley orchestra, is ciurrently on
a swing .around the country gather-
ing musicians for his new band,
which goes, into rehearsal March 15.
It is to open a series of one-nighters
in New England about April 10.
Merritt Wetzler, former secretary to
Willard Alexander of the William
Morris agency band department,
will road manage. Morris, of course,
vtriU book.

Bradley, who rebuilt his band
after McKinley's exit, unveiled his
new group in New England last
week also.

ALL MUSICAL
EQUIPMENT

Mai Marvin band at Green's, Pitts-
burgh, supplanting Brad Hunt ore,
which goes back to Green's again In
• few weeks.

Milwaukee. March 3.

Lawrence Duchow, a band leader
well kn^wn in this area, has been
arrested by FBI agents on a federal
warrant charging extortion and
using the United Stales mails to send
a threat to kill. At a' preliminary
hearing before Court Commissioner
Floyd E. Jenkins on Wednesday (25)
he expressed a wish to plead guilty.

Recipient of the alleged threat
was Charles Packard. Chilton (Wis.)
real estate man. who. Duchow said,
had a habit of llashing $1,000 bills.
This angered the band Icoder, who
said he only intended to throw a
scare into the realty dealer by de-
manding $5,000 under throat of death,
and never even went to the specified
rendezvous to sec if the demand was
met.

Duchow. besides leading the Red
Ravens, a dance orchestra which
played in many cities throughout the
slate, ran the Red Raven Inn at
Hilbert, Wis.

Washington, March 3.

Tooters have only a short time to
slock up, with the Federal Govern-
ment ordering curtailment of critical
materials in manufacture of all types
of musical instnmicnts. Even such
things as music stands, piano- slool.s,
instrument cases, picks and violin
bows must be restricted - to make
more ingredients available for war
production.

Sharp cuts must be made in op-
erations by June 1, and complete
cessation of manufacture may be or-
dered later if the need (or alumi-
num, nickel, chromium, rubber, tin,
lead, zinc, plastics, etc., for war sup-
plies grows more serious. During
the three-month period, manufac-
turers will get from 50% to 75%
of Ihe amount of raw materials cun-
.sumed in the corresponding period
last year, but there is no guaranty.
War Production Board noted, that
even the.<:e amounts svill be available.

Another Version By Another Judge
Places Social Tax on the Leader

SAXIE MANSFIELD DEPARTS

Was 'Stockholder' A> Well As Tenor
Sax With Woody Herman

Saxie Mansfield, one of the orig-
inal members of and a stockholder
in the co-operative Woody Herman
band, is leaving that outfit shortly.
His tenor sax position is to be taken
by Mickey Folus ' when Herman's
group replaces Beony Goodman at
the New Yorker hotel. New York.
March 12.

He was with the band when it
was under Isham Jones' baton years
ago.

Albany, March 3.
Woody Herman Orchestras, Inc.,
with offices in New York, has been
dissolved. Papen to this elTect have
been filed with the Secretary of
Slate by Goldfarb, .Mirenburg &
Vallon, New York City.

Men In Alvino Rey Band
Have Week of Grief

Alvino Rey and' his band and King
Sisters took a week's rest before be-
.Cinning the two-week date at the
Paramount theatre. New York, which
ended last night (Tu6S:). During
the second week of the stand the
outfit's dressing rooms resembled a
hospital.

Bill Schallen, trombonist-singer,
.suflered a heart attack while onstage
last Wednesday (25); he's okay
though temporarily out of the band.
Both Yvonne and Donna King de-
veloped laryngitis, ruining the quar-
tet; Ed Julian, drummer, had hemor-
rhages after tonsil op during layoff:
Jofinny Fallslich, trumpet, got a
strep throat; Paul Fredrichs. trum-
pet, was drafted. Jack Egan, man-
ager, couldn't talk because of a
heavy cold.

Schallen's condition kept him out
of the band but didn't keep him off
Rey's first Saturday, prize-winning
Coca-Cola 'Spotlight Bands' show
on Mutual (28). His doctor allowed
him two choruses of "Deep In Heart
of Texas,' which recording's sales
earned the broadcast. Side is backed
with '1 Said No,' another host-seller
for Rey, but one that cannot be
played on networks.

Paul Schwarz, in D.
Chides Dick Stabile
For 'Ignormg Union'

Dick Stabile, bandleader, and Paul
Schwarz, president of Washington.
D. C, local of the American Fed-
eration of Musicians, clashed bitterly
recently because Stabile took his
band to Camp Meade, Maryland, for
a , free Camp Shows, Inc.. perform-
ance 'without permission.' Schwarz
hauled Stabile onto the carpet on
charges of violating union rules for
playing without pay and branded the
leader 'a publicity seeker' who
played the date for the news men-
tions to be gotten out of it. Charges
were dropped when both Army and
Navy officials got wind of case and
daily papers took Stabile's side.

James C. Petrltfo, head of AFM.
recently gave all bands permission
to play for CSI without pay, but
warned that all dates were subject
to will of AFM locals in each area,
which had jurisdiction. Stabile was
at Del Rio Club, at Capital then.
He's at Tbp Hat, Union, N. J., now.

Chicago, March 3.

United States Circuit Coiut of Ap-
peals here last week ruled that the
band leader is really the employer
of the members of the orchestra and
as such is liable for the payment of
the social security tax of the band
members. This decision was a re-
versal of a former ruling by Federal
Court Judge Charles E. Woodward
in test' case brought against CrilT
Williams.

In that case Judge Woodward
ruled that Williams was not the em-
ployer of his band members and
that the Palmer Hcuse, Ihe total
employer, was responsible for the
complete tax.

Appellate decision now states that
the band leader is an independent
contractor and is personally respon-
sible to the band members not only
for their salaries but also their
Sax. The hotel, theatre, cafe, or
other place of amusement is held not
to be employer, since the hotel, etc.,
does not have the right to designate
who should make up the orchestra,
and thercfoire, has no jurisdiction or
rights over the band members. The-
hotel, etc., makes its deal .lolely
with the band leader as an inde-
pendent tontractor who then- goes
out and hires musicians to work
under his direction.

If the hotel had the right to name
and hire the individual musicians
who make up the total orchestra,
then, the hotel would be considered
the employer.

wingers Pat Up Ticket
In Philly Local 77

Philadelphia, March 3.

Johnny Arthurs, local bandleader,
is getting together a ticket com-
posed of swing musicians for the
forthcoming elections at Local 77,
AFM. Arthurs will be candi-
date for president, opposing Frank
Liuzzi, incumbent, who is expected
to run again. The election will be
held in April.

Arthurs is expected to support A:
Rex Riccardi, present secretary, who
will also be slated by the admin-
istration group.

Francis Craig Auditions
New York Booking Agcy.

Francis Craig, leader of a band at
the Hermitage, Na.shville. for past
16 years, has given .wruiaih Morris
agency a 60-day option on a booking
contract with him. continceni, on
work it can find for him within that
period. Craic has been on NBC net-
work each Sunday night at 11:30
p.m. for years and is widely known
hcc.nu.fc of it.

Leader's job at the Hermitage Is
similar to TafI hotel stand in New
York, currently played by Vinceni
Lopez. It lets him out at 9 p.m.
each evening, consequently he can
play one-night dance dales within
a reasonable diftancc. If Morris digs
up suitable Ijookings. it's probable
that Ihe Hermitape job will have to
be ended.

Vollmer Dahlstrand Gets
In Where Others Failed

Milwaukee, March 3.

Although the Milwaukee Mu-
sicians association. Local No. 8,
AFM, is one ol the oldest labor or-
•;ani/.ations here, none of its mem-
bers svas ever accorded a place on
the executive board of the Federated
Trades council.

But last week precedent was shat-
tered by electing Vollmer Dahl-
.sliand. chief of the city and state
musicians, as one of the nine men
who rule MiWaukec unions.

NATL. CONCERTS
JOININGDANCE
BAND HELD

National Conceit and Artiste Co.
(former NBC Artists Bureau) pro-
po.'^s to develop a dance band man-
agement division in addition to han-
dling popular talent for theatre and
club dates. The agency at present
has no bands on Its list, but it fig-
ures <9n building some. Several
leaders have been talked to about
taking over this band department
but up to yesterday (Tuesday) no
deal had been made.

The NCAC moves from its pres-
ent quarters in the RCA building to
711 Fifth avenue March 15.

Par Short Dramatizes
Glen Island Casino as
Orchestra Bdldnp Spot

Paramount shorts department Is
to begin work March 16 on a two-
reel fi1~i built around the reputa-
tion of Glen Island Casino, New
Rochclle. N. Y.. as a cradle of crack
, orchestras. Hal Mclntyrc's new
i band, now at the Casino, is to be
starred,, reenectlng for the camera
the initial steps in the formation
and buildup of a new outfit. I.e., hir-
ing musicians, rehearsals, broadcast-
ing, recording dates (at RCA-Vic-
tor studios). Story will wind up at
' Glen Island on a Saturday night
j with the band playing to a packed
house and reaping acclaim as nn-
1 other 'sensation' launched by Glen

Paul Fredericks, trumpeter with
Alvino Rey band and a licensed
"ham' radio operator, into Army at
Fort Monmouth, N. J.

Jerry Johnson's Accident

Jerry Johnson, road manager with
Will Osborne's orchestra, and Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Schneider, latter a
sj.\ player with the band, were in-
jured reccntlj when a station wagon
they were riding in crashed into
another car near Wichlti, Kansas,
Johnson received a broken arm and
was taken to St. Francis hospital at
Wichita and his companions were
bruised and cut.

Band, scheduled to open that night
at the Blue Moon, got underway on
schedule, using banged up inslru-
menls. Latter w«r« in the car, too.

Isle.

Mclntyre's band is being paid by
Paramount for its scenes in the film.
Numerous bands have gotten their
start at Glen Island, notably Glen
Gray's Casa Lomas, Larry Clinton,
Glenn Miller.

Ua'iler Steps Up in Beading

Reading, Pa., March 3.

George S. Haller, Jr.. vice presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Musicians' Reading Local, has been
elected president to succeed the late
Frank L, Diefendcrfer, who died
last week.

Paul S. Allhouse, former Metro-
politan Opera tenor; Paul Specht,
orchestra leader, and others cam*
here from New York, Philadelphia,
'Wilmington to attend Diefenderfer'i
funeral.

40 ORCHESTRAS

Wednesday; March 4, 1942

Band Reviews

MOBT DENNIS Orch (7)
6 o'clock Clnb, Miami Beach

Mof t DennU has a strong septet at
this Miami Beach spot, playing the
floor show well but scintillating even
better on the dansapation with
smooth, compelling rhythms. Among
the group is Eddie Singer, drummer-
Einger, who came to attention at the
swank St. Regis hotel (N. Y.) a cou-
ple of summers ago when with Joe
Rines. He has unusual ballad voice.
Lenny Rogers, , trumpet, and Sal
Noble, reeds-doubllng fiddle, are
other vocalists with this iombo, as is
Pete Ippolito, bass. Maestro Dennis
Is at the helm with his violin; Frank
FrusUn, sax and accordion, and Sol
Strauss, keyboard, round out the
team.

Compact unit was brought south
from New York and evidences good
seasoning. It's a smooth combo lor
any class room. Abel.

HAL MoINTTBE OBCH (15)
With CmI Denny, Penny Parker
Glen Is. Casino, New BoohelI^ Nw T.

Hal Mcln tyre's new band has an
exceptionally good chance of suc-
ceeding with additional work. It's
a clean, well-re"hearsed combo of
three trumpets, three trombones,
five sax (Including Mclntyre) and
four rhythm, equipped with some of
the tastiest ballad arrangements any
new band hc« ever projected. It
has its faults, but for such a young
outfit It's further advanced than
many better known contemporaries.

Mclntyre formerly played sax in
Glenn Miller's: band and the latter
is supposed to be one of the backers
In this venture; frequently, a Miller
method of using brass mutes can be
detected, but more often a taste of
Duke Ellington ideas bases the bal-
lads on which the band's slowly
growing library Is founded. The
faults are a direct result of too much
attention to ballads; there's nothing
exciting in the band's books of a
drive nature, which Is needed to
round out any modem outfit. When
they are attempted the playing lacks
cohesion and consequently Is consid-
erably less effective than, the ballads.

When in a middle, • rhyt>>m)c
groove, however, the combo Is effect-
ive. Indicating that time and better
arranging will straighten out the
warmer stuff. When caught, the
light rhythm groove was exempli-
fied by 'Margie' and 'Honeysuckle
Rose,' two, guaranteed . tunes, .an'',
they were well played with smooth
lift Mclntyre's alto sax fits iiito the
latter and clicks cleanly on ballads;
ditto for Dave Matthews' tenor work,
^ere are also igood Hake-ofT* men
In trumpet and trombone sections.

Carl Denny, ballad vocqlist. Is okay
and should improve. Penny Parker

isn't used too often currently be-
cause hers Is a rhythm style and
there are not many arrangements in
that tempo. Wood.

PEE-WEE ERWIN OBCH. (15)
With Pegtry Stevens, Bill Vsher
Turnpike Caaino, Llnoolp Neb.

Variously reported reorganizing,
disbanding, and reassembling in the
last few weeks, George 'Pee-Wee
Erwin's orchestra is very much a
going concern with minor changes,
ff any, noticeable. It's a chameleon
outfit, part of the time lending the
all-out Impression of being a sweet
outfit, then teetering over Into pure
dixieland.

Brass is present in sheer power of
numbers, because, in addition to
Erwin himself on trumpet, there are
two trombones and three trumpets
on regular sUtus. When it's a salvo
he wants in volume, he can get It
without even joining up personally.

To be worked out yet before the
band can amount to much either
one-nighting or stands will have to
be some novelties to lend relief from
■the straight music. As It is, he does
manage to keep the crowd dancing
in large numbers, but there's no
reason for them to cluster around
the bandstand, where, a" ?r aU, most
organizations are sold.

This may be partially due to the
wide separation Ijetween the quality
of his vocal department and the

auality of the band instrumentally.
[either . Peggy Stevens, nor Billy
Usher, the two lyric specialists, have
much in the way of pipes, or per-
sonality. Girl, especially, has a bad
time making her voice match the
key behind her,

InstruriVentally, Erwin Is strong.
Greg Phillips plays a sweet horn for
a slide. Erwin, who tried his wings
only after being well grounded fn
such organizations as Benny Good-
man, Raymond Scott and others of
the same calibre, can trumpet with
anybody. For a rhythm novelty, he
has one of the few left-handed bass
pickers in the country In Mort Stul-
maker.

Man-poweri sectlonally, consists of
Jess Marino. Bamev Marino, Harry
Poole, and Will Greenawald, saxes;
Jack Thompson, Do:i McDonald, Phil
Belzer, trumpets; Greg Phillips and
Herb Winfleld, Jr., trombones; David
McClain, piano; Cody Standifer,
drums, and Stulmaker, bass. 'Red'
Bone and Dean Kincaid are the ar-
rangers.

Erwin is well-foundatloned tor
building purposes, ' but more things
have to be done before he can step
out. Art.

PHONOGRAPH CONTEST

Badio, Dept. Store and Anutenr
Show Have BCA ""'e-Up

Cleveland, March 3.
WHK-WCLE, Clevelnnd, through
Burt's Department Store and the
Phonograph Merchants' Association,
is conducting auditions to determine
the outstanding amateur vocalist in
northeastern Ohio.

Vocalist selected by a board of
Judges during Burt's regular ama-
teur show, Sunday, March 0, will be
given a trip to New ..o^k City with
all expenses paid and will make a
recording with a top dance band-
Tommy Dorsey or Glenn Miller— at
the RCA-Vlctor New Jersey piant.
The recording will be distributed
through regular channels of the
ccmpany with a minimum nation-
wide distribution of 50,000 copies.

The recording will b" placed also
ii. the. 'Hit of the Week' position
(No. 1) on all of the 4,000 coin-oper-
ated phonographs in Cuyahojin
County, f'inally, the winning vocal-
ist will have a coast-to-coast hookup
on WCLE's 'Mutual Goes Calling'
variety program.

Inkspots' Fortnight Toar
Of Soldier Theatres

Inkspots quartet has set aside two
weeks before they open the Para-
mount theatre, New York, May 21,
during which they will tour Army
camps for Camp Shows, Inc. Moe
Gale,_ manager of the group, is en-
deavoring to arrange a schedule
whereby the 'Spots' will be part of a
unit composed of talent under his
direction, but falling that the quartet
will tour by itself.

So far the work being done in
Army .camps without pay has been
confined to name bands.

10 Best Seflers on Coin-Machines

(Records beloto are grabbing most nlcfcets ' this veek in tukeTmui
throughout the country, as reported by operators to "Variety.' NomZ
01 mttre than one band or nocallst after the title indicates, <n order ^
popularltv. tnhose recordlnoj are being plaued. ' Figures and namei h .
parenthesis indicate the number of weeks each song has been in the liithiM
and respectiwe publishers.) ^

1. Blues in Night (8) Remick.. { STb'^anowr.V.'.-.V.-.OkS

] BIng Crosby ..Decca

3. I Said No (5) Paramount ' Bluebird

(Jimmy Dorsey Decca

2. Deep Heart Texas (3) Melodylane.

4. Rose O'Day (5) Tobias \ 'S?'?. ^m'th . I . . , .ColumbU

) Woody Herman Xiecet

5. Moonlight Cocktails (2) -ewel \ - Bluebird

1 Tommy Tucker okeh

6. String of Pearls (2) Mutual T'" Bluebird

I Woody Herman Decca

7. I Don't Want Walk (2) Paramount \ S""''? Columbia

•" ( Vaughn Monroe Bluebird

8. White Cliffs Dover (9) Shapiro \ Sammy Kay< victor

I Jimmy Domey Decca

( Charlie Splvak ....Okeh

) Sammy Kay- Victor

9. This No Laughing Matter (4) Block . .

10. Somebody Else Taking Place

Shapiro \ Behn^ Goodman okeh

( Russ Morgan Decca

OTHER FAVORITES

(These records are directlv belotv first 10 in popularity. Tunes urith
number of weeks in parenthesis are fading, others saining.)
You Made Me Love You (21) Broadway Harry James Columbia

Dear Mom (Republic) | &^^r::;:::6olS:

Jis Autumn (10) Wltmark.

UNION CANCELS RIGHT

I Les Brown Okeh

(Woody Herman Decca

Madelalne (Santly) ) ^J^!^^^ ■. V.V.-^^'i^lSS

) Glenn Miller Bluebird

■ • • ■ ) Jimmy Dorsey Decca

( Vaughn Monroe . .Bluebird
( Sammy Kaye Victor

1 Johnny Long Decca
Glenn Miller Bluebird

I Dick Robertson Decca

" " ( Eddy Howard . . . .Columbia

Ev'rything I Love (Chappell).

- \X
On Street of Regret (Loeb)..

We're Couple In Castle (Famous).

We Did It Before (Witmark).

Protest Ends Theatre Orchestra
Pick-up Over WCAE, PItlsborfh

The Most PabllolMd Record
Of The Tear ...

COUNT BASIE

And Bis Orohesirs
WITH

'Coming Out Party*
'Harvard Blues'

On OKEH Records

Per. MgL: MILTON EBBINS

Panoram Machines For Sale

Eight slightly used Panoramt in
good condition. Write or wire
Tri-State Amusement Co., John-
son City, Tennessee.

CHABLES MUBBAT OBCH (8)
Hotel Versailles, Miami Bcaoh

Charles Murray's team is .a good
class spot orchestra — suave, soouiing
and insinuating with Its productiony
style of dance sets. Ideal for the
Stork Club and El Morocco type of
boltes: Last seen at the Stork In
New York, Murray .now has three
reeds, bass, piano, drums and trum-
pet augmentmg the maestro's violin.
The saxes double strings as occasion
warrants. '

The result is all to the good. No
vocal Interludes, just forthright hoof-
ology that gets them up on the floor
of the GuUstream Room, as the Ver-
sailles' dinery is billed. Set here for
the winter. . . Abel.

BILLT BISHOP OBCH (8)
With Alice Uann
Southern Mansion, K. C.

This dinner spot of Al Defeo's has
recently made one of its periodic
bandstand changes, bringing in crew
headed by BiUy Bishop. Leader,
under his own moniker of Billy Bis-
set, had a considerable rep from
long dates and air shows in London
and Monte Carlo, but the European
cataclysm of 1939 dispersed his Lon-
don group. Present group was or-
ganized on the West Coast under
Music Corp. of America aegb in
(Continued on page 42)

Pittsburgh, March 3.
Following protests by undisclosed
parties to Local 60 of Musicians
Union, Max Adklns' weekly half-
hour musicals faded from WCAE
last week after just one month. Ad-
kins, conductor of house orchestra
at WB Stanley had been doing radio
shew as part of his regular theatre
stint, in line with WB policy to pub
licize Its theatre talent. Was using
Stanley band, minus only the violin
section and plus Blanche Mason,
vocalist.

When Warners and WCAE put the
question to Local 60 of allowing Ad.
kins to broadcast every Thursday
night without additional pay, other
than theatre salary, union agreed
providing there was no protest from
other bands.

Last week, after he had done four
shows, Adklns was notified he'd
either have' to be paid extra or else,
since a charge of unfairness had been
lodged against him from the outside.

"Champagne Music'*

of

LAWRENCE WELK

NOW ON RECORD BREAKING TOUR

• Third Successive • Third Successive

Engagement " Engagement

CHICAGO
THEATRE

RIVERSIDE
MILWAUKEE

• Outstanding
Engagement

STANLlV
PITTSBURGH

Currently TOTEM POLE, BOSTON, March 4-5-6-7

Direction: FREDERICK BR08^(/IU8IC CORP., New York, Chlcaflo

Reading's New Demands

Reading, Pa., March 3.

American Federation of Musicians
Local' and officials of the Reading
Berks County Clubmen's Association
are in negotiations here over new
wage scales for union musicians. De-
mands include a closed shop clause
for all establishments, clubs with
liquor and beer licenses that main-
tain dance floors, stage floor shows
and offer other professional enter-
tainment accompanied by orchestral
or dance band music.

Present contracts are in three
classes, $1.50 per man per hour, $3
per hour for the leader, in Class A;
$1.25 per man per hour, $2.50 for
leader, in Class B, and $1 per man
per hour, $2 for leader, in Class C

Only a few local spots have non-
union men. The new rate. If con
tracted for by the clubs and dance
hall owners, will be for one class
only, $5 per man for three hours,
leader double that amount, All non-
union musicians are barred, in the
new proposed pact

In addition, the clubs must pay
unemployment taxes and social se-
curity charges.

Barnet-Decca Dicker

Negotiations are under way to put
Charlie Barnet's rebuilt orchestra on
Decca Records' new 50c discs. Deal
will go through or fall through this
week. Lionel Hampton's first sides
for Decca are to debut the higher
priced label about March 15.

Barnet split with RCA-Victor's
•BhMblrd Jabal.aev*Eal'.'waak««go<

. eo« iw, To« rM:ii,.\ i Dick Robertson Decca

You re a Sap. Mr. Jap (Mills). | ^.^^j

Someone's Rockin' Dreamboat (Advance).

( Inkspota Decca

(Woody Herman. Decca

c^^^n^^, i-a^^u^i (Vaughn Monroe. . .Bluebird
Sometunes (Berhn) {Tommy Tucker Okeh

MORE ON FITNESS

Vie Schroeder Agenoy Plogging Idea
Through Leaders

Omaha, March 3.

Taking cue from 'Variety's'^ story
of Feb. 12, in which band leaders
were urged to help CCD's physical
fitness campaign, the Vic Schroeder
agency here went ail out in co-
operation. Not only were his 12
bandleaders instructed to. l>lug
physical fitness from their band-
stands and on radio as per suggestion
of Director John S. Kelly, but
Schr.oeder's weekly bulletin to ball-
room operators in 11 midwestern
states urges the boosting of fitness
campaign in their advertising. In
addition, Schroeder offered services
of his whole organization to Kelly
and Manie Sacks, coordinator of
music for O.C.D. Schroeder says as
an example, that too many simply
stand; and listen to the bands: He
wants them to get out and dance.

Schroeder has just added Cliff
Kyes as his 12th band starting March.
1, the third new organization in six
months. Kyes, who has built band
as one of the best territory outfits
in midwest, expects to be drafted
in April., Last week, Don- Gatrelle
moved from Ralph Slade's band to
Kyes outfit and will front and man-
age for Cliff when the army call
comes. Gatrelle has spent most of
his time in radio with the Tune Tos-
sers (WHO, ^Des Moines; WBEN,
Buffalo, and WW J, Detroit).

Tommy Jones, Kay Kyser trumpet-
er, into Army; replaced by Bob
Fleming. First change in Kyser
lineup in about three years.

Ben Bemie Reorganize* '

Ben Bernic is returning to activity
after long layoff. He has advised
Music Corp. of America, he's in a
mood to labor as of April 4. Mean-
time he is organizing a band.

Bernie broke up his last combina-
tion after radio program run for
Wrigley's Gum out of Chicago. He'(
been in Florida since.

The Song Everyone It
Talking Ahoutl

WE'LL
MEET
AGAIN

DASH - CONNELLY, Inc.

■1619 Broadway, New York
SOLLY COMN, Qtrx. Pro. Mfr.

STAN KENTON

and His Orchestrti
ON TOUR
Soon to open at Frank Daly's
Valley Dale and Meadowbropk

Soon lo bo releoHed

on Decca records
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REED RAPTURE, LAMENTO
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Give YoD Their Mew No. I Sons

CANCEL THE FLOWERS

Recorded by

TOMMY TUCKER (Okeh) 6466 TONY MARTIN (Decca) 4101

GUV LOMBARDO (Docca) 4109 CHARIOTEERS (Okeh) OBOO

MITCHELL AYBES (Bloeblrd) B119Bi

— and Presenta for Yoar Approval the Sonc That Explains It«e1(

STRICTLY INSTRUMENTAL

Booorded by HARRY JAMES on Columbia Records and Many Mora to Follow

WedneflJay, March 4, 1942

MUSIC

41

Inside Stuff-Musk

Jaiib Bregman, orBregman-Vocco-Coim, stated last week that there was
n conflict between his firm and E. B. Marks over the reproduction of a
flim still on Marks' latest publication ot 'Song of the Islands.' The stiU
^ from the 20th Century-Fox production, 'Song of the Islands.* Bregman

olained that while the Harks melody Is used at the opening ot the film
the Mack Gordon-Harry Owens number, .which B-V-C publishes, that

rves as the theme source throughout the picture. Maries had obtained
Scission to use a still of Betty Grable from the film company's press
Seoutment Price paid Mtarks by 20th Century for the title and un-
Ji^ltted use of the number was $3iS0O.

1 'tunesmith of I

IPtlBLISHER GROUP MAKES PROGRESS ON
NEW PAYOFF FORMEA WITHIN ASCAP

Harold Arlen's 'Blues in the Nlghf makes him the No.
»h»dBy and reminds of his now classic 'Stormy Weather." The new
Sfues in Night' is rated as destined to take Its place with 'St Louis Blues'
ond kindred indigo classics. Incidentally, despite his Academy prlzewin-
IM 'Over the Rainbow* from 'Wizard of Oz' three seasons ago, Arlen lias
Si^ nuite intctive untU "Blues,* a minor Warner Bros, entry. Now, on
giength of the song, the lesser exhibs playing the film on flat rental are
doing better than they bargained for.

Death of Hobert-Katscher at 45 in Hollywood recaHs that the Viennese 1
comooser of 'When Day Is Done' languished in a Nazi Jail for months
because he was mistaken for another Katscher, whose first name was not
Robert Tlie songsmith flnaUy convinced the Gestapo they interned the
wong Katscher, but his ill treatment in the concentration camp had al-
ready hastened a liver ailment

'How Do I Know It's Real?', published by ChappeU (ASCAP). is licensed
via BMI due to acquisition of performing rights before ChappeU took over
the tune.

Acad Mosk Branch to Revise Ruling
So Pop hterpolations Don t Qualify

15 Best Sheet Mosic Sellers

(Week ending Feb. 28)

White CUfls Shapiro

Deep Heart Texas. . . .Melodylane

Blues in Night Remick

.Rose O'Day Tobias

Don't Want Walk Paramount

Moonlight Cocktails Jewd

Shrine of St Cecelia Braun

How Aljout You? Feist

Dear Mom Republic

Somebody Taking Place. Shapiro
This No Laughing Matter. .Block
Remember P. Harbor. .Rep\iblic

We Did It Before Witmark

Elmer's Tune ; Robbins

Miss Vou Santly

Hollywood, March 8.
They found ■ gimmick In the
Academy's ruling on nominations
for the best film time of the year
and the masterminds of phraseology
ire knuckling down with quill In
hand to make It read diffCTenUy
next year. Demands tor the revise
came thick and fast after the rank
and file of songwriters let go with
; i big and raucous 'how come?' when
Oscar Hammerstein n and Jerome
Kern's 'Last Time I Saw Paris' was
Oscared. One could have gotten
bets at his own odds that either
'Blues in the Night' or 'Chattanooga
Choo Choo' would win hands down.

Academy officials had a ready an-
swer for the protestants. The Music
Branch of the Acadony did It with
Its own wording and no one's to
blame but those 54 worthies com-
prising the board for "Paris' being
listed in the 10,000 ballots mailed
out 'This is how the official ruling
reads:

'Each studio music department
■ball be invited to nominate its best
' original song used tor the flrst time
: In a motion picture within the award
' year.' The gimmick lies in ^e
1 Used for the flrst time in a motion
: picture.' That made Kern's 'Paris'
, eligible in the literal sense, although
the tune was published in late 1940
•by ChappeU after the collapse of
) I^ance and liought by Metro tor
! $10,000 for interpolation. into O-ady
Be (jcod.' It is pointed out tl^at it
I was plugged for nearly a year before
j Metro took it It is emphatically pro-
I tested that the song had no right on
I the ballot because 'it was a pop that
! was picked up' while 'Blues' and
■ Choo Choo' were written In the
studio especially tor a picture.

Friends of Kem quote -him as
stating that he didn't think the tune
was eligible and thought that 'Blues'
rated the encomium.

Academy officials ducked out
from under with the statement they
were powerless to act atter Nat Fin-
stpn's music branch unanimously ap-
proved the eligibility of 'Paris' at
tlie nomination ceremonies. Since
then they also have imanimously
agreed that comethhig should be

done about wording of the ruling
so only directly written-for-the-
screen songs may win again.

Just why the extras with tiieir
6,000 votes went down the line tor
'Paris' Is one of those inexplicable
phenomenons of Hollywood. It has
been advancedl that the name of
Kem is held in reverence tor his con-
tributions over the years, and here
was a chance to pay him trS)ute.
Teams that wrote 'Blues' (Harold
Arlen, Johnny Mu'cer) and 'Choo
Choo' (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren)
to<^ It all in good grace and feli-
citated Kern on his irst Hollywood
decoration.

In Re: Phoney Mort Dixon

Wellsboro, Pa.
Editor, •Variety':

For the benefit of the record
would like to furnish you with some
corrections for your news article in
the issue of Feb. 11 about 'Pseudo
Mort Dixon, in St Loo Dope Jam.'

■Call Me Back, Pal of Mine' was
written by Lawrence Ferrlcone, a
St Louis shoe worker. The music
was composec* by Harold Dixon, not
Mort Dixon. It was published by
the Dixon-Lane Publishing Co., St
Louis, in 1022.

Noting that the pseudo Mort
Dixon's name is Harold Alex Simon,
It Is interesting to note that the
manager of Dixon-Lane at that time
was named Simon-^Walter B.

Len Fleminj,

But Writers Are Stalled in Effort to Achieve New
Method — Pubs May Eliminate Emphasis Upon
Seniority

Unlike the static situation prevail-
ing in the writer sector, considerable
progress has been made by a com-
mittee of ASCAP publishers toward
evolving an improved system of
classification. Two meetings have
been held by the publisher group
during the past week and the indica-
tions are that as soon as agreement
has been reached on two principles,
namely, the relative point values to
be ascribed to commercial and sus-
taining performances and the re-
duced evaluation to be placed on
special arrangements of public do-
main compositions, the other factors
under discussion will be quickly
settled.

There is a strong disposition within
the publisher committee assigned to
readjust the classification system to
eliminate tho element of senionlty
altogether and to Increase the per-
formance quotient from 50% to 60%.
If that recommendation should pre-
vail the segment credited to avail-
ability would go from 30% to 40%,
so that a publisher would be paid
off by the Society on the basis of the
plugs he accumulated and the rela-
tive value of his catalog to the
ASCAP repertoire.

Dominant opinion on the classifica-
tion revision, committee Is that a
greater credit value should be given
to...standard numbers over current
tunes anB also that the point ratio
for copyrighted numbers used on a
commercial program should be

higher than for those played on a
sustaining program. Only thing
about this new approach to deter-
mining performance values that has
yet to be settled Is the scale of ratios.
It has been suggested that a com-
mercial performance be considered
as twice as valuable as a sustaining
performance and that a standard
number be treated as three times as
valuable a.': a current release.

Practically every member of this
special publishers committee has
agreed that under the present sys-
tem special arrangements of public
domain music are rated far al>ove
their relative value and that their
point allocation should be reduced to
as low as 1/lOth the value of an orig,
inal copyright It has been suggested,
however, a certain type of specially
arranged p.d._ should be exempt from
the 1/lOth of a' point allotment and
be accorded a higher value. Just
which orxangements are to be ex- .
empt would have to be determined
by a committee of pubs created for
that particular task.

Writers Get Nowhere
The progress made by the writer
committee assigned to carjy out a
similar revision project has been
practically nil Various plans have
been submitted but none of them
have been given serious and ex-
.tended deliberation. It has been In-
timated by publishers on the ASCAP
board that as.soon as the latter has
worked out its own classification re-
(Contlnued on page 42)

ASCAP Adjusts
Fees for Boston
Cafes Per Gross

Boston, March 3.

Amrrican Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers has settled
with Boston night clubs that had re-
fused to pay during the lime the |
ASCAP- BMI-radlo fight was on.

Sam Berkett regional manager,
arranged new contracts with upped
figures, judged according to the
business each club was doing. Lou
Walter's Latin Quarter received the
highest assessment of the major
clubs with $1,800 as the annual fee,
followed by Club Mayfair, $1,500;
Cocoanut Grove, $1,320; Rio Casino,
$),200; Beachcomber, $900. .

. In the hotel room department
Copley Plaza's rate varies between
$1,500 and $1,200, depending on the
length of time the room remains
open during the year; comparable
rates were set for the Sutler, Ritz-
Carlton. Bermuda Terrace, Hotel |
Brunswick, rate is $900.

One row continues with the Fox
and Hounds Club, which may go to

The 4 Inkspote

Newest Decca Sensations

^'IT ISNT A DREAM AIVYMORE"

■^^jsBDlBcejaK^ ^^^^ ^

iTOWNHALL,

AMONO THI 15 FKST CHAI« JAUMEM
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No. 4194

court

Lawrence Gellert Suit Is
Settled Without Trial |

Suit of Lawrence Gellert against
the Columbia Recording Corp., John
Hammond and Joshua White was
settled and discontinued Thursday
(28) out of the N. Y. federal court
AcUon was dismissed with prejudice
to a renewal by agreement of both

''"piaintlH wrote a book in 1939
called 'Me and My CapUin' conUin-
ing a song entlUed 'I Hear Danger
Singing,' which it is claimed the
defendants used in recording with-
out permission. An injunction, ac-
counting of profits and damages had
been asked.

Johnny Borke and Jimmy Van
Heusen clcffed 'Ho Hum' and 'Moon-
light Becomes You,' to be sung In
'R09!} tP-M-OlfiQCpl JlarSQi^HDt^.j

Leaving Mar. 19 to make their
second film . . . Featm'ed with
ABBOTT and COSTELLO m
Universal's Tardon My Sarong'

• • 9 •

FIFTH RETURN ENGAGEMENT !--Four more
weeks at the New York Paramount in May

Personal Management

GALE, Inc., 48 West 48th Street, New York

42 MUSIC

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

ftrazilian Composers Would Refuse
Royalty Payments to Deadbeat Axis

Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 24.

The recent meeting of American
Foreign Ministers here and subse-
quent break of diplomatic relations
between the majority of Western
Hemisphere countries and the
Axis had immediate repercussions
throughout Latin-American musical
centers with a project to make all
music of. German and Italian com-
posers public domain and the forma-
tion of a Pan-American Confedera-
tion of Music Composers.

Oswaldo Santiago, president of the
Brazilian Association of Composers
and Authors and ASCAP representa-
^ tive here, in a recent press interview
said that Brazilian musicians be-
lieved there was no necessity for the
payment of author's rights in the
Western Hemisphere to Axis com-
posers. He recalled that when Italy
entered the war, the Rome govern-
ment ordered the suspension of such
payments to American composers,
while more drastic measures were
taken in Germany where American
music was banned completely.

Santiago also expressed the opinion
that the International Confederation
of Author's Societies, with site in
Berlin, was obsolete and therefore
American societies afliliated thereto
should break off and form an inde-
pendent confederation. He proposed
that the leadership of such action be
taken by the ASCAP in New York.

Meanwhile, however, Brazilian
broadcasting stations continue using
in their programs about 50% Axis
Diusic, especially Italian or sung and
played by Axis musicians. So far no
government action has been taken
thereon, but the possibility of a ban
Is held possible by informed quarters
here.

Santiago's plan has the support of
many musical quarters in other
liatin-Aiherican countries.

LOMBARDO PAYS SUB SO
HE CAN SALUTE NAVY

British Best SeUers

London, Feb. 15.

•Yours' P. Maurice

'Lovely Week End' B. Wood

'Rose O'Day Chappell

'Wrap Yourself F & D

'You and I' Sun

•St. Mary's in Twilight'. .. .C & C
'Do This More Often', .Cavendish
'Starlight Serenade'. .K. Prowse

'Land of Begin Again' Dash

'World on Fire' B. Wood

'Ma Ma Marie' Chappell

'Russian Rose' Dash

Music Notes

Jack Spina, formerly Miller Music
rep in Boston, in the army.

Jimmy Dodd writing a song for
'Lady in a Jam' at Universal,

Eoy Webb scoring 'My Favorite
Spy' at RKO.

Lennle'Hayton scoring 'Doin' Their
Bit,' Our Gang Comedy, at Metro.

Harry Revel and Mort Greene re;
maining at RKO under a new con-
tract.

Band Reviews

:CDntinned from pace *0-

V

Bronlslan Kaper composing the
score for 'Once Upon a Thursday'
at Metro.

Arthur Schwartz and Yip Harburg
are clefllng songs for 'Shadow of a
Lady' at Metro, while Herbert
Stothart and George Stall are doing
the score.

Guy Lombardo pulls his banr out
of the Roosevelt hotel, New York, ior
one -night March 12 to play a Camp
Shows, Inc., dance at the Naval Re-
cruiting Station, Yorktown, Va. He's
paying the as-y^t-undisclosed re-
placement at the Roosevelt himself.

Date is unusual in that virtually
all free CSI work done by name
' bands is played on a night off or, in
the case of a band on the road, on
the way to a distant stand.

Chattanooga Choo-Choos
On the Steps of Capitol

Glenn Miller's orchestra will play
en the steps of the Capitol at Wash-
ington Friday (6) afternoon to help
along the campaign for the pur-
chase of Defense Bonds and Stamps.
Outfit opens the Earle theatre there
same day.

Miller has pushed Defense Stamps
end Bonds on a weekly Saturday
afternoon broadcast since last Oc-
tober. Program, now on Mutual,
«rill b« done thl« week from th«
Earle's stage, '

'Giman' Title Stays

Olman DlusIc Co. title, recently
bought froni Guy Lombardo by Lou
Levy, is not being discarded as first
thought. Levy has placed the tunes
from the Andrews Sisters-Woody
Herman 'What's Cookin' film for
Universal in that catalog. Mickey
Goldsen is firm's general manager.

^evy also operates Leeds and
Kaycee catalogs.

Publisher Group

Continued from pa(e 41;

adjustments pressure would be ex-
erted upon the writer faction on the
board' to gef ahead with its task.
These pubs feel that the derelictions
and delinquencies of the writer di-
rectors reflect equally on the pub-
lisher directors. They point out that
whenever a disgruntled writer brings
suit against the Society he doesn't
confine his naming of defendants to
writer directors but, .to the contrary,
he also sees thi^t service is also made
on publisher members of - the board.

These pubs state that it has become
too evident that the old line wrlterb
on the board are principally con-
cerned with preserving the big cuts
In the .'iSCAP royalty plum which
they have been accustomed to for
many years.

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1910, but is. now under the mana-
gerial banner of Fredrlchs Bros. .

Beginning at this spot leader goes
henceforth as Billy Bishop.

Band is in the sweet, conventional
style. Justomary rhythms called
for here are embellished somewhat
by a portfolio spanning nearly the
entire era of popular music, fre-
quent medleys from this generous
book and specialty work by Bishop
on the piano and Doug Ball on
trumpet. Vocals feature Alice Mann,
with Bishop adding a frequent pat-
ter to his m.c.lng. Harry Bell steps
from the piano to f'.rnish an occa-
sional ballad. Both Miss Mann and
Bishop add some personality to their
lyric work and have frequent duos
of song patters and novelties.

Personnel lists Byron Dalrymple,
Norton Schook and Ulrich Berger,
reeds; Jerry Levy, drums; Harry
Bell, regular pianist; Bob Ohlmetz,
string bass; Doug Ball, trumptt, and
Bishop sometimes fingers a second
piano. Group is comnact, fitting
nicely a stand such as this. It's
equipped to furnish the congns and
rhumbas occasionally called for here,
but main job is the rhythms for the
standard type of dancers who are
chief frequenters of the Mansion.

Quin.

)IMMT GRIER ORCH (11)
With Ed Morley, Jean Taylor
Hotel Ktuehlebach, K, C. ■

Booking of this band into the Ter-
race Grill o' the Muehlebach is evi-
dence of a policy recently adopted
by Manager Barney Joftee of brmg-
ing in bands with somewhat nlbre
name power than has been the con-
sistent practice over past several
months. Following Russ Morgan,
Will Osborne, Pinky Tomlin and
Matfy Malneck, Grier's crew Is up-
holding the trend.

Strictly a Los Angeles group,
Grier's band has gained its repute
mostly via the alrlanes and has
played few spots east of Chicago.
Long stands in the Cocoanut Grove,
the Blltmore Bowl, N'TG's Floren-
tine Gardens and film work have
been the major assignments for this
orch since 19^1, will, occasional
tours includlr. '. as this one does,
ballroom and hotel dates.

In this engagement Grler Is show-
ing a modern band leaning toward
the sweet. Voluminous portfolio is
given considerable diversity, as
three different styles of orchestra-
tions are carried, one by Grler him-
self on the sweet and' sentimental
ballads, another by trumpeter Frank
Wylle on the hotter modern tunes
and a third by Fred Stoddard,
Hollywood defter, tor more variable
requirements.

Besides his own frequent solo bits
on sax and clarinet. G^ler featuircs
a pair of singers, Ed Morley, who
tenors ballads and pops, and Jean
Taylor (Mrs. Grler), who contraltos
numbers with a heavier beat. Mor-
ley, a three-year man with Grler,
supplies first-rate vocals.

Instrumentation of four reeds,
three brass and three rhythm is
manned by Ethmer Roten, Norman
Micha, Ray Lavers and John Gruey
on sax-clarinets; Frankle Stan and
Wylie, trumpets; Leo Nelbaur, trom
bone; Jimmy Simonin, piano; Har
I- -. Kewlsh, string bass, and Dan
Gardner, drums. Quin.

EDDIE NOVELLI ORCHESTRA (6)
Hotel Continental, Kansas City

In line with the revised entertain-
ment policy at the Hotel Continental
this compact ensemble has been
brought in as the musical providers
In the downstairs, intimate, Penguin
Room. Ensemble furnishes custom-
ary tunes for dancing, requests, and
fulfills standard commercial require-
ments. It shows a degree of versatil-
ity, is adequate for the present, and
has some developmeQt possibilities.

Basically the group is combination
of rhythm and reeds, three men
doubling on clai^lnets and saxes and
three on rhythm ahd tympani. Center
of the reeds Is Novelll, with George
Cornish and Elmer Erickson filling
the department. Sparky Thurman
thumps the piano, Lee Gilbert strums
string bass, and Frank Folz beats
drums. Versatility is added by Folz,
who doubles on trumpet and likewise
on. vibes, and by Gilbert, who takes
the vocal assignments In his baritone.
Reed section also sounds oft as a
vocal trio on. novelty numbers. No-
velll makes his own bid largely on
his rep as an arranger. Quin.

Tin Fanners Share Net

Chicago, March S.

Tin Pan Alley ball, annual shindig
tosSed by the Professional -Music
Men of Chicago, will give 25% of Its
proceeds to the ■ Amusement and
Recreation Division of the Chicago
Commission on National Defense.

Ball will be held in the Terrace
Casino on April 6.

Writers Slap to Be Appealed

An-appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court wlU be taken shortly in the
case of 'When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.' It is understood that the 'appli-
cation for writ of certiorari will be filed by John Schulman, who, as
counsel for the Songwriters' Protective Association and George Graff
Jr., fought th« case in the Federal court end the U. S. circuit court of
appeals. The decision whent against him In each tribunal.

The ruling of the appeals court was regarded by the music industry
as the toughest legal blow that writers had received In many years.
The court adjudicated for the first time the Question as to whether a
writer could assign his renewal rights before such rights came due,
which is at the end of the 27th year of the original copyright term!
The court's finding was in the affirmative and it confirmed the prin-
cipal that the conveyance of a copyright was the same as any other
property right and that a publisher could enforce the assignment of a
renewal right so long as the writer was alive at the time that the
renewal became due.

NBC, CBS, Blue, Mutual Plugs

FoIIowincr tabulation oi popular music per/ormances embraces alt three
networks— NBC, CBS, Blue, and Mutual— as represented by WEAF—WJZ,
WABC and WOR N. Y. Compilation herewith covers week beginnitij
Mondav through Sundav (Feb. 23-MarcIi 1) from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. and is
based on data provided by Accurate Reporting Service regular checking
source /or the music publishing tiidustrv.

TITLE PUBLISHER TOTAL

Sometimes Berlin 32

•I Think of You Embassy 28

•Deep in Heart of Texas Melodylani 28

Blues In the Night. .t'Blues in Night' Remick 24

Don't Want Walk Without You— t'Sweater Girl' Paramount 23

We're Couple in Castle — t'Mr. Bug Goes to Town'. . . . Famous .■. 23

When Roses Bloom Again.. Shapiro 23

Everything I Love^t'Let's Face It' Chappell 21

Miss You Santly ; 19

Always in My Heart. .t'Always in My Heart' Remick 17

Wherever You Are. Miller le

White Cliffs of Dover Shapiro 16

How About You — t'Babes on Broadway' Feist 15

Somebody Else Taking My Place. Shapiro

•How Do I Know It's Real? Chappell

Happy in Love — t'Sons 0' Fun' Feist

I'll Pray for You— t' What's Cookin' Harms . .

•Lamp of Memory Markj . . ,

Somebody Nobody Loves Robblns

... 15
.... 14
... 12
.... 12
... 12
.... 12

•Angeline J. Campbell 11

I Got If Bad Robblns

Jersey Bounce Lewis

Rose O'Day Tobias

•Marines' Hymn Marks

Anchors Aweigh Robblns

••Shrine of St. Cecelia Braun

•A Zoot Suit Greene ,

All for Love Pioneer 9

Chattanooga Choo-Choo — t'Sun Valley Serenade' Feist 9

Elmer's Tune , Robblns 9

Humpty Dumpty Hearts — t.'Playmiites' Southern 9

I'll Remember April— t'Ride 'Em Cowboy' Leeds 9

Mandy Is Two BVC 9

We'll Meet Again ...Dash ., 9

Anniversary Waltz Mayfair 8

Build a Better Mouse Trap — t'Fleet's In' . . : Famous 8

Caissons Go Rollln' Shapiro 8

Someone's Rockin' My Dreamboat Advance 8

•This Is No Laughing Matter Block 8

Tlca 'I'i TIca Ta Witmark 8

Day Dreaming T. B. Harma 7

'Tis Autumn Witmark 7

We Did It Before— t'Banjo Eyes' Witmark 7

You Made Me Love You Broadway 7

•Autumn Nocturne Advance 6

•Dear Mom Republic 6

Dear Old Pal BVC 6

I'll Never Forget r. ■ Mayfair 8

•Livin' Lovin' Laughin' Radiotunes 6

•Memory of This Dance BMI 6

On the Street of Regret .Loeb 8

She'll Always Remember..;- Witmark ; 6

String of Pearls Mutual 6

Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing. . t'Fleet's In'. . . . Famous .... 1 5

•As We Walk Into Sunset CLP 5

Blue Skies .'Berlin ' 5

Buckle Down Winsockl— t'Best Foot Forward' Chappell 5

Embraceable You Harms 5

fop'ed .'.'aBC V 5

I Remember You— t'Fleet's In' Famous 5

Moonlight Cocktails ,.. Jewel 5

Sing Me Song of the Islands . . t'Song of the Islands' ' BVC 5

•There I've Said It Again Radiotunes 5

J c/i!l D*^"'** liccniinj; •• indicates SESAC licensing; others are via
ASCAP. tFilmusical. tLegitimofe.

. E. H. Morris Mnalo CO. has ob-
tained the rights to the score of 'My
Favorite Spy' from RKO. The film
stars Kay Kyser.

'The Fastest Selling Record in America Today'

Bluebird No. B-11414-B, sung by Caraon Robiaon.,

WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO SLAP

THE DIRTY LITTLE JAP
(And Uncle San's the Buy Who Can Do It)

Orchestration hy Graham Prince

Without a major plugl

Without an angle!

Without tjromotion !

People (you know— PEOPLE) who buy recordi and
iheet muaic— ilnce Jan. , 0th paid money for over

200,000 RECORDS— 52,000 SHEET

BOB MILLER, INC. 1619 Broadway, New York

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

MUSIC

43

Everyone Palsy-Walsy at Coast ASCAP
Meet Members All-Out for Buck, Et Al

PAINEm DEFMnON
OF REMARKS ON BMl

Hollywood, March 3.
The immortal Gershwin's 'Em-
braceable" You' might well have been
the theme song ot the meeting oi
ASCAP biggies with the Coast mem-
bership in Beverly Hills last Wednes-
day (25). Everyone seemed to have
hoijeyed words . for everyone else.
Xhe top men from. New York — Gene
Buck, John O'Connor, John' G. Paine,
Herman Greenberg, Louis Frohllch—
thought the Coast gang of song-
writers a swell bunch ot boys and
said so in so many words. The com-
. pllment was returned, with palms,
as the - tuncmiths, better than 200
of them, pledged loyalty to their
leaders and promised to go down the
line for them as a unlHed group.

No pyrotechnics were anticipated
and none was set off. There was a
slight flurry on the Arthur Schwartz
upped classification but it passed
without acrimony. Barring that, It
was a love feast right through till the
midnight breakup. Reports were read
and progress under the Government's
consent decree discussed by. the
speakers.

By-Play

Bit of by-play between Buck and
O'Connor when the prexy beamed
'we're now operating with an adding
machine.' O'Connor corrected him
with, 'Gene means a subtracting
machine.'

It was disclosed in the hallways
that O'Connor's executive committee
clipped operating costs last year at
a saving of $569,600 to the Society.
Affected were salaries and expense
vouchers. Retrenchment enabled
AfCAP to distribute $950,000 for the
first quarter ot 1941, which was only
5% off the payoff for a corresponding
period in 1939, juiciest melon in the
. Society's history. On the committee
chairmaned by O'Connor are Max
Dreyfus, and George W. Meyer.

Buck remained over for the Acad-
emy awards dinner the next night
and following day attended a shindy
tossed by Hedda Hopper for Wendell
Willkie. He will pass a few days on
'Bud' Kelland's ranch near Phoenix
before reluming to New York.
O'Connor and Frohlich pulled out
' Friday for the east, while Paine and
Greenberg accompanied Richard
Powers, western district manager, to
Frisco for a two-day session with
ASCAP's field reps.

Word-ConKiout

Apart from the fact that the
coin-machine operators don't like
the word jukebox, as the present-
day contactmen resent the word
songplugger, the word 'Jukebox,'
itself is tabu in song lyrics.

It keeps songs out of the ma-
chines, especially In - the vast
Dixie belt, where *jook joint' —
as originally spelled — has a dis-
orderly house connotation.

JOE MALEC'S MEETING

Jules Slyne and Frank Loesser
writing the music for 'Priorities of
1942' at Paramount.

Serbs to Balse War Fond Against
ASCAP

Lincoln, March 3.

Representatives of the Nebraska
Music Users association, the anti-
ASCAP front, met here to raise
money to fight and mutually pro-
tect each other in settlement of mu-
sical affairs in the state. Headed
by Joe Malec, Omaha ballroom op
(Peony Terrace), who was elected
temporary president a month ago
He is holding out a hand to the
other uSers, theatres, hotels and
radio stations, but interest has been
slight— except in the case of WOW,
Omaha,'which'already has a $298,319
suit to recover money paid the so-
ciety during the four-year test of
the Nebraska antl-ASCAP law.

Malec had plenty of trouble with
ASCAP in the days when the so-
ciety was legal In Nebraska and is
punishment-minded toward the so-
ciety.

If ASCAP would indicate willing-
ness to arrive at a fair schedule of
licensing, based fairly on business
gross and graduated accordingly,
many of the ballroom men would
probably agree to go before the next
session of the legislature asking for
repeal of the 1937 enactment which
caused all the trouble. One of them
said the principal ballroom operator
complaint was that no attention was
paid to the type of business, or prob-
able annual gross, but that it was
all strictly up to the rep of ASCAP
who was inclined to let friendship,
or whatever the traffic would bear,
be the controlling factor. Most the-
atres would have no objection to re-
turning to the 5-10-20C per seat grad-
uated tax, and some radio station
men have said 3%% and 4% of the
gross on programs using music
would be acceptable,

Hollywood.

Editor, 'Variety':

I have just read '(Variety's* report
of a talk that I gave before tHe
Broadcasters' meeting In Los Angeles
and from the headlines and the
quotations, you would think I was
a B.M.I, representative.

I would like to have you correct
an error of interpretation. What I
sSald was this: That when B.M.I, was
organized, it was organized for the
purpose of competing with ASCAP.
Unfortunately, that competition was
started on a dollar basis, that is
to say, B.M.I, tried to see how
cheaply they could supply music to
the Radio Broadcasting Industry.
That kind of competition, in the long
run, will be bad competition for the
radio industry— not good competi-
tion.

If the radio industry desires to
continue B.M.I, as a competitqr of
ASCAP, then the competition must
be on the basis of material, and not
on the basis of dollars. Who has the
best material? Which organization
will the broadcasters turn to to get
that *hich is finest In the entertain-
ment world?

A repertoire of a performing
rights group can be enriched only
when that performing rights group
is interested in the welfare of au
thors and composers and publish-
ers; that is proven daily by the ap-
plications for membership which are
constantly coming to ASCAP from
those who were former B.M.I,
writers and those who j/ere former
B.M.I, publishers. Because our out-
look is the outlook of the author and
the outlook of the composer and the
outlook of the publisher and so long
as we can preserve that outlook,
ASCAP will be able to give to radio
for the entertainment of its listeners
the finest in musical creations. It Is
an assured and lasting source of mu-
sic that can be made parts of radio
programs without any worry or
without any disturbance by the t>ro-
gram directors because its enter-
tainment value has been tested over
many years of success.

If it is radio's intention to keep
BfJi.l. alive and to retain it as a
competing medium to ASCAP, then
radio must insist that its outlook be
changed and that it become an or-
ganization in which the interests of
authors and composers and publish-
ers become paramount to those of
radio stations; and this they can-
not do, in my opinion, with the in-
come that they now have,

John G. Paine.

Publishers Reject Writers Request
For Joint Entry in Nebraska Suits

ASCAP publii(hers have cold-
shouldered the efforts of ASCAP
writers to get themselves tied in
as co-phintlffs in any Infringement
suits that the publishers might elect
to bring in Nebraska. The theory
that Is Implied In these refusals is
that the publishers consider them-
selves the administrators of the per-
forming rights once such function is
surrendered by ASCAP, as has hap-
pened in the case of Nebraska, and
that the writer has nothing to say
as to how the reassignments from
ASCAP should be handled.

Through their Individual channels
in Nebraska several major ASCAP
pubs have gathered considerable
evidence of Infringements. As coun-
sel for these publishers prepare to
file the Nebraska actions they are
confronted with a demand of some
of their writers that they (the
writers) be made parties to the
litigation. 'The pubs see no legal
reason why the writers should be
named as co-plaintiffs since they
(the publishers) have undertaken to
protect the rights. In. rejecting the
writers' approach on the subject the
publishers point to the provision In
the standard writers' contract which
exempts the publisher from the own-
ership of the performing rights only
as long as such rights are under
ASCAP's control,

ASCAP itself is in a delicate po-
sition on the issue. It is composed
of both writer and publisher mem-
bers and thereby the Society can
not take any sides. After it found
that the Nebraska statute on per-
forming rights make it impossible
for the organization to do business
in that state, ASCAP announced
that it had turned back all rights
affecting that state to those mem-
bers 'from whence the rights came
originally.' In making this general
release ASCAP did not specify just
which parties became the recipients
of these rights.

The question ' that is bound up In
the rebuff accorded writers in the
Nebraska situation finds much sym-
pathy in the position that E, B.
Marks and Broadcast Music, Inc.,
have taken in their test suit against
ASCAP now pending In the N. Y,
supreme court. Marks and BMI are
seeking to have the courts rule that
in the case of a publisher walking
out of the Society the publisher, by
virture of his contract with the
writer, has the exclusive right to
administer the performing rights

and that even If thp writers Jn-
volved remain members of the So.
ciety the latter must refrain from
licensing these rights. WhUe th«
facts in the Nebraska and Marks
matters are not Inter-related the
underlying principle Is the same.
The publisher in both instance*
makes the contention that he Is the
contractural owner of the pertorm*
ing rights.

LENT NO BRAKE
ONSONGSHEE'T
SALES

Despite the advent of the Lenten
season, the distribution of sheet
music last week continued with
boom proportions. Two war songs
of sentimental Import, 'White Cliffs
of Dover' and 'Dear Mom,' were stlU
holding nicely, while the more
spirited type of songs In the same
category, 'Remember Pearl Harbor*
and 'We Did It Before and We Can
Do It Again,' appeared to be rapidly
on the sales decline.

The leaders in the best seller list
the past week had an overturn of
from 15,000 to 30,000 copies, 'Deep
in the Heart of Texas' gives every
evidence ci displacing 'White Cliffs'
as top seller by the end of the cur-
rent week.

425 BMI Fobs Now

. Affiliated publishers, with BMI
now number over 425. Ranging all
over the country, the greater part
of them liad sprung into being dur-
ing the ASCAP fight,

ASCAP publisher-members num-
ber The foreign affiliates run
Into many hundreds more.

BOOEBS CHEW SOUITDS OFF

Hollywood, March 3.
Buddy Rogers and bis band started
off a series of 14 soundles, to be pro-
duced by Sam Coslow on the Fine
Arts lot.

First picture Is Tangerine,' with
Josef Berne as directbr and associate
producer. •

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I Never Such Overwhelming Response fe RobUns' Hits / |

All Tin Pan Alley Is AccUiming This Song — Hoagy Carmichael's Greatest Since "Stardust"

THE LAMPLIGHTER'S SERENADE

Lyric by Paul Francis Webster

Musjc by. Hoagy Carmichael

LOn/y • truly gnat tong could bo»tt of such « powtrfut ricofJing lint-up, which incluJtt Bing Crosby, Horace i

DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE

WITH ANYONE ELSE BUT N'.E

By Lev/ Brown, Charlie Tobias and Sam H, Slept

Gctt/AO off »0 « fly/ny ttart with rtcorJhgt by Andrews Sitttrs Bob Crosby Kli,g Snttrs Ksy Kystr, J ; '

FrankU Masttrs G/enn M Ikr and othtrsi mmmm^^^^^

|. ltOI»fjM$ MUSIC CORPORATION 799 5«v«nth Avalnu* N»w Y«rk, N Y iWMAf MlW^iy^Mfrr ^

44

VAUDETILLE

Wednesdajt March 4, 1942

Henry Dunn Resigns AGVA Posts,
Putting Qriffin Probe Up in the Air

Henry Dunn (Cross &), currently
appearing in Miami at tlie Beach-
comber nltery, has again resigned
^ national treasurer and member of
the board of the American 'Guild of
Variety Artists. This time Dunn In-
sists that the resignation be eltec-
tive immediately.

A few months ago Dunn tendered
his first resignation. He was not too
sure about it, however, and the na-
tional board tabled it indeflniteb'.

Resignation of Dunn putr the in-
vestigation of Gerald GriiTin up in
the air again. Dunn was chairman
of a special committee thKt probed
the national executive secretary's
part in a brawl early last fall in
Tommy Dorsey's music publishing
offices in N. Y. Others on the com-
mittee are Walter Greaza, assistant
executive secretary of Equity; Mrs.
Florence Marston, eastern rep of
Screen Actors Guild, and Joe Smith
(& Dale), AGVA national board
member. Latter three liave been
awaiting a report from Dunn, who
reputedly has much evidence that's
necessary before a full report can be
filed.

As is, however, AGVA has called a
■peclal board meeting for next Mon-
day (B) that will 'positively' dispose
of the GriiTin matter once and for all.
Griffin has told Intimates that the
matter has been 'whitewashed.'

Danny Fltz, from Boston, proposed
■t an AGVA national board meeting

last week that a 'vote of confidence'
be given Griffin. This was seconded
by Hal Sherman, but the Idea was
quickly howled down by other board
members present. Chief and winning
argument against the proposal was
that no 'vote of confidence' could be
afforded Griffin before the special
committee's report Is completed and
presented to all the national board
members.

At this same board meeting, Mor-
ton Downey was questioned about his
part in the recent Callahan Slsters-
Chei Paro-» Chicago mess. Downey
was asked in wliut official position
he acted when !ie rulet? >.Ht the Cal-
lahan Sisters (2) should stick al the
Chez Paree and not fulfill « prior
contract with the Club Bali, Miami.
It was pointed out to him that, as
president of AGVA, he had no
authority to make a ruling of that
kind; and that if he sat as a national
board member, he was out of order
without a quorum present.

Jonas T. Silverstone, counsel for
AGVA, returned Friday (27) from
the Coast, stopping off in Chicago,
where he received from Jack Irving,
local executive secretary, the com-
missions in the Eugene Douvan-Sans
Souci Dancers matter. Irving had
held out the commissloni on the
claim that Douvaa wai collecting
more Ihan AGVA'« 10% maximum,
and the Chi exec bad refused up
until last week to follow ordan to
send the coin into th« national office.

MAXINE

Currently Appearing at

FLATBUSH, Brooklyn

Following With fhe.

WINDSOR, New York

Return Engagement
March 10

IE REUBAN BLEU

FOR 4 WEEKS

Exclusive
Deeca

Recording
Artist

Management
MCA Artiitt,
Ltd.

UNBILLED ACT

Bobby Bnmt Wounded By Belated
Exploiton of Gnn

Pittsburgh, March S.

Bobby Burns, burley comic In
Georgia So.them - Murray Briscoe
wheel show, nearly lost a couple of
fingers when gun, which he uses In
a scene, accidentally went off back-
stage. Accident happened In Roan-
oke, Va., week before unit played
Casino here and took place when,
after cartridge had failed to go off
during the sketch. Burns began to
examine revolver and it exploded
without warning.

Hasty hospitalization, In which
many stitches were required, per-
mitted Burns to accompany troupe
from Roanoke to Pittsburgh and he
worked here all week carrying
heavily bandaged hand in his
pocket.

Adelphia, Philly,
Wins Test Case
On JoUess Tax

Phtlada^hla, March i.

Tha Dauphin County Court (Har-
rlsburg) last week ruled that the
Adelptala hotel, Philadelphia, was
not liable for th» payment of
$a,eS9 In tmempIoTmeit compensa-
tion taxes for entertainers and mun
■Iclana. Thi stat« had claimed that
tfa* hotel had owed thai sum on
wagti amounting to $383,819 paid
to actors and bandsmen during the
years of 193« to 1940.

Judge William M. Hargest, who
presided at tha test case, ruled that
the stat* had not proven the mu-
ilcUna and entertalneri were em-
ployees of the hotel; that thera were
no records ai to who, the alleged
'•mployeca' were and that any of
th« wages "ware paid directly to them
by tha hotel.

Tlia hotel haa claimed that the
musicians and oitertalnert were
bought through contractors and were
]>ald for In • lump sum, Tha con-
tractor!, Um hotel declared, were
th* Teal 'employen.'

NHery Cokmin Leads
To Actor's Del Arrest

Detroit, March 8.

A nl^t «lub column resulted In
tha arrest her* of David J. Barnum,
4S-ycar>ald nltery «ntertalner, on a
aaven-year-old , ^orge of negligent
homlelda.

A. detectlva reading th« column
noted Bamum'a namfe and recalled
that a performar of iha same name
was aoughl in' IMS on charges
growing out of a traffic accident. He
went* out and caught the show, de-
olded tt was tha same performer
and arrested Barntmi.

1h» latter"* plea was that he had
.paid over $300 to a lawyer who he
believed had settled tha o:<] charge
He was placed tmder $2,000 bond to
await trial.

Club Booker BiU Wolfe,
Others Dropped by MCA

Further eliminations from the
staff of Muslo Corp. of America head-
quarters in New York include BUI
Wolfe, who booked club dates, and
Charles Bush, who worked on locS'
tion bookings." Several glrU were
pruned from the steno and reception
staff, too. They want Friday (27).

Slices are in addition to those of
several weeks ago, which let out
Dave Jonas from tha act department
and girl clerks.

Pass Red Cross Quota

Chicago, March 8.

Amiuement and Recreation Divi-
sion of the Red Cross drive in Dll-
nols has gone far beyon<| iti quota,
having $48,00U In pledge* as against
quota of $30,000.

Cafe o\men' group gave $10,000
alone, as did tha Bowling Alley Pro-
prietors. Balaban Sc Eatz circuit
haa pledged oVar $9,000, with more
yat to com*. Essaneas circuit 1*
down for almost $2,000 and th*
Wamar chain is over $2,000. Chi-
cago Federation of Musicians ha*
contributed $1,000. ■ - ^

A Step Forward

Portland, Or*., March I.

Hotel* won anotbar. sklrmtth in
their fight for llcensa* which wiU
permit some r -rht Ufa. The city
councU passed a third reading a
measure which will permit hotels
with over 100 rooms, and which
have operated for mora than three
years, to have dancing In connec-
tion with the hotels' restaurants.

If the measure is finally passed,
hotels will be exempt frum some of
th* restrlction.s of dancehalls here.
Tha measure does not effect night
clubs, which isgally are beyond the
pale anyway.

Philiy AGVA Aide Prefers
A Nervous Breakdown
While Taking Rest Cure

Philadelphia, March 3.

Richard Mayo, executive secretary
of th* American GullC of Variety
Artists, last week waj ordered to
the hospital for a rest.

A few hours after he moved Into
the Jefferson hospital, a moving man
appeared with a desk, a private tele-
phone was installed, his secretary
appeared with a load of mail — and
complaints began coming in from
actors and agents. So Mayo began
tha same old routine of straightening
out th* multitudinous problems that
com* over an AGVA secretary's
desk. '

Saranac Lake

By Happy Benwr.;-

Saranac, N. Y., March 3.
Alexis Thompson winter sporting
here,

Ed Thorgersen, newsreel commen-
tator, took time out from the Lake
Placid bobsled races to hello some
of tha local gang.

Orlin Wltcraft, Eleanor Norton
and Basha Maxwell, of the San
Francisco Opera Co., and Rolph Sun-
den, of the San Francisco Symphony'
Orchestra, entertained tha colony
via a Buprisa treat at the local Elks
Club.

Henry Hudson, ex-straightman,
and Monty Fisber, ex-burlesquer,
entertaining local patients. Both
hav* seen over 10 years of the cure
themselves.

'Victor Saumier, musician formerly
with Bryce LaVigne's orch, back to
Rochester, N.. Y., after a check-up
that proved he's okay.

Actors colony will experience it's
first blackout March 10.

Sid Freedman of th* Randforce
Am us. Co., weekending here.

Among those who received the
medico's okay to attend th* ski and
bob-sled race* at Lake Placid were
Harry Martin, Jack Mulvaney, Jerry
Sager, Colin Tracy, Stanley Raush
and Don Qulnn. All are staging a
fin* comeback.

Th* John, Orrs, of Rockaway
Beach, N. Y., Into WUI Rogers un-
annoimced to bedside their daughter,
who i* on th* pert aid* of good
health.

(Write te thoae wh* ara ill.

Odd Hue Law
Interpretation
On PhiDy Shows

Philadelphia, March 3.
Phllarielphia's blue laws took an
odd 'wist last week wl.en 'Ice-
Capades* was okayed for one show
on Sunday (1) but turned down on
another.

The permit was granted for a
benefit performance for the Milk
Fund, under the sponsorship of '.he
Golden Slipper Square Club, a Ma-
sonic organization, but m afternoon
showing for the employes of the
RCA-Victor Mfg. Co. was turned
down by the powers-that-bc despite
the fact that no tickets would be
sold at the gate for the perform-
ance.

■ RCA employes group, the Victor
A. A., had bought out the house to
give a show to Its employes, who
work six-days-a-week on war orders
and can scarcely get any entertain-
ment except on Sunday. The asso-
ciation had sold 5,600 tickets at spe-
cial rates to its employes and all
the money was refunded.

James Francis Ryan, Assistant
City Solicitor, said there was no ob-
jection to the show except that the
performers were getting paid— a
violation of th* Blue Sunday laws.

The Milk Fund show was given
an olcay because charity was the
beaefidary. _

Mayor Bernard Samuel, who is
also Defense Co-ordlnator for the
Metropolitan Philiy District, was
severely criticized by 'his ban of
the RCA show. Critics pointed out
that entertainment was necessary to
keep up morale of workers.

Royale Frolics, Ctil,

To Reopen Shortly

Chicago, March 3.

Royal* FrollcB, th* late Dennis
Cooney'a cafe, dork for several years,
is due to reopen shortly.

Will b* operated by owner group,
headed by Eddi* Franks, that for-
merly operated the near-northslde
Playhouse, which bufned down a
couple of months ago. .

PHIL
REGAN

CURRENTLY AT THE

LOOKOUT HOUSE

COVINQTON, KY.

Personal R*pr*s*ntatlv*i

FRANK VINCENT
Bevtrly Hills, CalH.

LOEW

BOOKING
AGENCY

0INIM1 ixfcuffvf orrieii
lOEW BUILbiNO ANNEX
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Wednesday, March 4, 1942

VAUDEVILLE 45

arl Carrofl-AGVA Dispute Over
Doc Rockwell Unit Nears Washup

Los Angeles, March 3.

Washup of the dispute between
Earl Carroll and AGVA Is in the
offing following a n.eellng Monday
(2) of the Guild board. Both parties
practically agreed ti arbitration of
the four major points which stymied
the contract signing. Attorneys for
both AGVA and Carroll, I. B. Korn-
blum and Judge Julian Hazard, re-
spectively, were delegated to draw
up a new contract to embody the
arbitration clause.

Findings of the arbiters would be
lncorpoi»ted into a contract ap-
plicable to Carroll's 'Doc' Roclcwell
unit Carroll was given permission
by AGVA to send out this unit pend-
ing arb.'trction, but he claims no
bool<ings are avallrble due to can-
cellations and uncertainty of future
moves.

Previously Lucile Gleason, board
member, Issued this statement:
'AGVA local is adamant on one
■point 'Vanities' or any other road
show unit organized by Carroll will
not be sanctioned until he signs a.
standard A.F.L. contract.' Mrs.
Gleason was riled at the demonstra-
tion put on by Carroll chorines out-
side the AGVA office Saturday, call-
ing them 'amateurs who do not un-
derstand the problems of profes-
sional entertainers.' . She said this
was ill advised, but that Carroll
never was averse to any form of
publicity.

mADO' DE-JAPPED
IN CLEVELAND NITERY

Cleveland, March 3.

Afraid that cafe audiences might
take 'Mil<ado' too literally, Myron
Ryan and WiUie Matthias, band-
master of Alpine Village, thor-
oughly de-Japped it before doing a
novel capsuled version of the Gil-
bert and Sullivan operetta.

They had planned to do it the first
weeli in-December but project was
shelved for three months by the
Japs' attack on Pearl Harbor.
Original Nipponese costumes were
dumped and new ones designed in
an 'Arabian Nights' pattern substi-
tuted in the current revamped pro-
duction.

'Mikado' himself is called 'Mister
Dope' by Ryan's light operetta
troupe, which makes the show a
travesty on dictators. As another
rib, role of Koko is played by Bob
Copfer in a typical Groucho Marx
makeup complete even to a huge
stogie shoved in his mouth as he
sings. The Gilbert and Sullivan
brainchild has been retagged 'Land
cf Pitty Poo.^

Police Nab Jack Ulmer

Cleveland, March 3.
' Jack Ulmer, emcee at the Hot Spot,
one of the' night clubs put 'out of
bounds' by the Army earlier this
month, was charged with drunken
driving (27) by poUce when he
tailed to stop after his auto struck a
girl as she was to board a street car.

Passing motorist followed Ulmer
to hie house and reported to police.

Snspend Barley's License

Portland, Ore., March 3.
The Star, burlesque, was forced
to surrender its license Thursday
(27) to the city council. lieo Pal-
ley, owner of the building, obtained
permission to apply for another li-
cense.

Two other Portland theatres are
under surveillance, and the council
warns that no indecent shows or
acts wiU be allowed here.

Wife of Calgary
Brother Leaps
17 Stories, Lives

Mrs. Maria Lovas, wife of Stephen
Lovas (of Calgary Jros., standard
act for years), attempted suicide
Sunday (1) by leaping fron, the St.
Moritz hotel, New York, biit miracu-
lously survived a fall of 17 stories.
Jumping from her room on the 16th
floor, she landed on a one-story ex-
tension, suffering multiple fractures.
Doctor's at Roosevelt hospital, where
she was taken, say she has a chance
to live.

Mrs. Lovas had been brooding tor
some time over the recent death in
Hungary of hor daughter by a
former marriage. Prior to that cams
nows of the death of her daughter's
husband while serving in the Hun-
garian Army. She finally became so
melancholy she was hospitalized for
a time. - w

Lovas ha'd left his wife's room only
a few minutes before she jumped- to
go to his own room. She phoned
him, saying she was going to take
th leap, and he rushed back to her
room, but she was gone. He' called
his brother, Ai.dre, also living in the
hotel, and the latter descended to the
extension where he found his sister-
in-law still conscious.

The Lovas brothers, billed as Cal-
gary, came to the' U. S. around 12
years ago from Europe, their first
appearance being with Sir Harry
Lauder. Plus the stage, the dancing
team has appeared in a couple ot-
films.

Miles Straigiitens Out
Miami Nite Chb Row

Miami Beach, March 3.

Charging that Mickey (Gordon
operator of the Paddo. Club, struck
him, Jackie Miles failed to show for
his regular appearance Wednesday
(25) at the nitery, where he had
been featured for a month.

Miles was back at the club the
following night, however, when he
and Gordon straightened out their
row. Disagreement grew out of
difference of opinion as to length
of shows. Miles continues until his
pact expires March 15.

lEAN SABLON

'Sablon's repertoire Is Bureflr<
the staid Persian Room resounded
time and again with Insistent re-
quests for oncorcs.' — Abet, Variety,
Opening March 6
Palace Hotel, San Francisco

New Decca Recordings
loon avail able

Direction:
WILLIAM MORRIS AQENCY

Burlesk Closing

: Continued from page 3s

a show the case should be taken to
the courts for a decision. He said he
would file suit in Supreme Court for
a writ ot mandamus to force Com-
missioner Moss to show cause why a
license renewal should not be
granted the burlesque operators.

Meantime, at the Gaiety, a poster
was planted in the lobby with names
of stars who once played in bur-
lesque, such as Abbott and Costello,
Al Jolson, Bert Lahr, Red Skelton,
Fannie Brlce, James Barton, Ethel
Shutta and many others.

John MacCormick, ot the Variety
Revue Theatres Association, bur-
lesque censorship committee ap-
pointed by Mayor LaGuardia in 1937,
stood pat throughout all delibera-
tions with view that no member of
his committee had found the bur-
lesque shows obscene. MacCormick
is active in Knights of Columhus_atr.
fairs.

Laborltes Meet With Moss
Representatives of 14 labor unions
met vijlth Moss several tirfies last
week and suggested a compromise
arrangement whereby burlesque op-
erators would cut down number of
strips, to two In each, show and alsp_
providing that strippers' breasts
should be covered. La1>or men were
concerned largely with status of
some 1,000 employees who have been
thrown out ot work with closing of
the theatres.

Burlesque operators refused to
agree on proposed changes while up-
lift circles, whose pressure brou^t
about closing ot the houses, said they
would insist on the theatres remain-
ing closed regardless of any minor
modiflcatlons in stage routines. «

Open letter to the Mayor, sccus-
ii.g him of 'adopting the methods of
Hitler and Mussolini' and voicing a
'demand that you rescind' Moss'
order refusing the burlesque theatre
licenses, was sent yesterday by rep-
resentatives of the Authors League
of America and Its affiliate groups,

N. Y. Cops Open Drive Against Cafes
Permitting Mixing with Customers;
Havana-Madrid Particularly Jammed

New York City's Police Depart-
ment has opened a drive against
niteries permitting the temme mem-
bers of their casts to mix with
customers between shows. Those
spots also toleratnig questionable
attaches at the bars are likewise
getting a grilling from police
officials, who have jurisdiction over
cabaret licenses.

Drive reached its peak last week,
when operators of the Hurri-
cane, Leon St Eddie's, the Havana-
Madrid and Ubangl were called for
hearings before Fourth Deputy
Police Commissioner Cornelius
O'Leary. The Hav.-na-Madrid was
especially in hot water, the nitery
itself having made it possible for
tfeo detectives to get conclusive evi-
dence. Coppers picked up two girls
at the bar and, while they were
having a drink, the club photog-
rapher walked over and asked it
they'd like to have their ricture
taken. The cops quickly accepted
and the photo, costing $1, became
Important evidence. Later, the de-
tectives testified, the girls solicited
them for $25 apiece in a hotel room.

There is ,an anti-mixing law in
New York City, but the niteries have
never taken it seriously. Some of
the spots employing choruses have
made furnishing companions for
stags an Integral part ot their busi-
ness.

Old Romanian Citation

Motivation of the police drive is
believed to have been the citation of
the Old Roumanian, on the lower
east side, last month, with the spot
getting a suspension ot five days
early in February. In that instance,
three patrolmen in plain clothes
walked in as guests and were hardly
seated when Sadie Banks, enter-
tainer, walked over' and asked if
they'd like' to have gl^ sit with
them. The coppers accepted and Miss
Banks waltzed over with a couple of
gals named Violet and Joy. The de-
tectives testified that they also saw
Miss Banks solicit other lonesome
males.

Shuttering of the Old Roumanian
for five days subsequently resulted
in a one-day strike call by the
Amerloan Guild of Variety Artists,
which insisted that the cast should
have been paid for the closing
period.

Strike was called off when Jack
Silverman, proprietor, agreed to
place the coin in escrow pending
arbitration by the State Mediation
Board, Joseph W. Landes, arbiter,
handed down a decision last week
v.'hlch awarded the cast only one
day's pay. (|74,79) after It had been
established that, the cast did not
show up at the cabaret during the
closing despite SilvemiLan'i order to
do so. One |day seven girls appeared
and sat around but AGVA told them
that they .didn't have to continue
doin^ that In hli decision, Landes
said:

'It might be that the employer
desired that the pulchritude and
charm of these artistes b visibly In
esse during this tlva-day period for
the general multation of the various
officers of the corporation so that

pe.-haps they might forget '"the
misery ot ■> closed business during
the five-day period^'

AGVA is attempting to appeal the
decision, and point-! to that one
passage as being extraordinarily
facetious in a serious labor matter.

Chi FBI Probe

Chic, ro, March 3.

There has been considerable in-
vestigation by the FBI into the
sundry booking activities ot severr.I
agents and agencies around Chicago,
particularly with a view towards
uncovering the facts relevant to
sending chorus girls and girl per-
formers into disreputabll cafes
throughout the territory.

Several stories, have made their
way to the FBI offices about agents
sending girls to Joints surrounding
midwest training camps and cafes
where the iirls are forced tp mix

Other angle under Investigation Is
the close collaboration between some
agents and several actors who hav*
b>>en under surveillance for several
years by the FBI for possible
espionage.

Detroit Police Censor
Defines Strip Tease As
Aid to Nitery Cleanup

Detroit, March 8.

Latest dope relevant to cleaning
up amusement spots in defense areas
was revealed here when the State
Liquor Control Commission attended
a' lecture on the evils ot the strip
tease, given by Joseph Koehler, De-
troit police censor. The State com-
mission is trying to untangle the set-
up for clubs throughout the State,
particularly in such war industry
centers as Detroit, Flint, Lansing
and Grand Rapids, and took Koehler
as the authority on what they called
'exotic dancing.' '■

'Vigorous movement is not Im-
moral or vulgar when performed by
finished dancers and is a'feature ot
Oriental dancers,' Koehler declared
in giving an exhibition ot what he
meant. 'However, in the hands of
the novice the dance can be de-
graded into mere exposure of the
body. These dances are effective
only In scant attire which permits
the spectator to see the movements
of the muscles, A cheap dancer Is
only selling sex not art

A blanket ruling for the entire
State was sought as the outgrowth
of a State case against Ben Chestnut,
owner of the Forty-One Club, based
on the performance of Virginia del
Roy.

ASDEBSOS WITH CIAItK

Coleman Clark, table tennister,
has a new partner. Bob Anderson,
California stat« champion and former
member of the U.S, Olympic table
tennis team.

Act currently at tiie Hotel Nicollet,
Minneapolis, goes Into the Fubllo
Auditorium, Cleveland, March 21-29.

"Most brilliant of all NSght Club-Vaudeville Stars!

TERRIFIC WITH A CAPITAL T!!''~St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Adorable^ Glamorous^ Excitingly Gowned
NAUGHTY WM M- WT ^ ^ ^ — ^ ^

America ns No. 1 Sophisticated Song Star!

— ias just cracked every record ever eBtablished there during her four weeks' slay at the CHASE HOTEL, St Louis I A holdover offered, of
course— but due to prior commitment nan U currendy headlining at the tmart new CAFE ESQUIRE, Montreal, Canada.

Address Direct, care i MTC CARLTON HOTEL, Montreal— or— care : MORRIS BERNSTEIN, Atly., 134 No. LaSalle, Chicago

A Ronald Gerard Attraction — ^Avattable Thrn' Any Reputable Agency

46 HOUSE REVIEWS

Wednesday, March 4, 1912

STATE, N. Y.

Mhcha Alter with Joyce Hunter; 6
Aristocrats; Golden Gate Qiinnelle;
Jail & Lou Seller; Adrianna tc Charly;
'School /or Scandal' (M-GJ.

Mischa Auer may be a funny mnii
of the screen but he certainly isn't
hilarious in making a ^lirsonal ap-
pearance. He tops the bill because
of his Hollywood rep. Here was a
real chance for him to cop the
honors, for the rest of the show isn't
much to get excited about.

Auer's chief asset currently is
Joyce Hunter, his comely wife, who
sings the tuncly "How About You'
and 'I Know Everything." The ma-
terial is chiefly lacking, for Auer is
an amiable comic. He's better at the
piano than with talk, the grapefruit
stunt on the black keys being dif-
ferent, although the Russian nut at
the music box, for the finale, is just
fair.

Six Aristocrats close the show well.
It's a diversified routine that starts
with four hoofers in a Spanish tap
number and ends with adagio. In
between is Birdie Dean, a high-kick-
ing damsel who works plenty neatly
and who surprises with contortionist
stunts. Miss Dean is a likely pros-
pect for a musical; she's exceptional.
Tom Paige Is the other specialist, a
fairlv good tenor who gives out with
an Irish number and then 'Falling in
Love With Sojneone.'

The colored Golden Gate Quartette
Is really a quintet, all five warblers.
Including the guitarist, being huddled
around the microphone throughout
the routine. Same type of singing
goes for all numbers but it Is effec-
tive. Boys get a lot out of 'Summer-
time.' one of the standout melodies
of George Gershwin's • 'Porgy ■ and
Bess.' House liked it so much that
they had to come back to give 'Little
Brown Jug.' Train number given
by the immaculately garbed Harlem-
Ites is another cllckbr.

Jay and Lou Seller are supposed to
be funny, but only to some people.
Their material seems corny, espe-
cially, a Spanish bit, and yet the duo
exudes confidence in their per-
formance. The stunts on semi-cir-
cular skis is the turn's major value.
In the opening spot are Adrianna and
Charly, trampoline act highlighted
by the equilibrlstic catches of the
woman. Ibce.

EARLE, PHILLY

Novack and Fay present a eom«dy
knockabout act in which the twto be-
come hopelessly entangled in at-
tempting' handstands. For encore
tliey go legit and present some ex-
cellent stunts along that line.

Hap Hazard is up to his old tricks,
juggling first on the stage floor and
then, seated on a chair balanced by
two legs on a high apparatus, repeat-
ing the Item, all accompanied by a
profuse amount of verbiage and the
assistance of a good-looking assistant
billed as Mnry. ...

John Gallus begins with clarinet
playing but soon uses the instrument
for catching balls thrown from the
audience. But his best bet is when
he brings out a 'line' of a dozen
marioncts that dance in unison, and
next another line of eight darkles
that are manipulated with one hand
while Gallus uses the other to play
the clarinet and balance a ball
thereon. ,. , ,„ „„j

The show carries a line of 12 good-
looking girls, well trained in mili-
ary, topTiat and batontwlrlmg ro.i-
ines A profuse amount of si k
irapes aids in setting on the acts to

drapes

good advantage,

Kau[i.

ORPHEUM, MPLS.

Minneapolis, Feb. 28.
Jnri Snuilt Orch (16). toUli Jot
Martin, Jeanne Blanche; Dc Va .
Merle tc Lee; Bob Evans; Bnddi/
Clork; 'Bahonui Passage* (Par).

FLATBUSH, B'KLYN

Philadelphia, Feb. 28.
Clyde Lucas Orch with Lynn
Lucas; Eve Knight: Teddy Martin;
HoIIvuiood Co-£ds (2) ; Martha Raye:
tr. Ktldare'j Victorv" (M-G).

Martha Raye's formula for pleasing
an audience remains plenty of
mugging, a lew salty wisecracks,
posturing around the mike and a
couple of songs like 'Mr. Paganini'
and '5 O'clock Whistle." It must be
the winning ticket, for Miss Raye

gave "em this routine when she was
ere some months ago. They begged
for more at this catching. Mickey
Freeman accompanies on the Stein-
•wav.

Clyde Lucas' crew, which had a
long stay recently at the local Benja-
iriln Fraiiklin hotel, clicks handily.
The outfit proves itself versatile and
^as developed a flair for showman-
ship which makes it a good bet for
theatre dates. Three vocalists with
the crew are pleasing to eye and ear.

Band opens with tJongo Rhythm,"
then swings into a medley of surefire
pops, 'Chattanooga Choo Choo,"
mite ClllTs" and 'Heart df Texas."
Handling vocals in fine style is Clyde
Lucas' brother, Lynn, abetted by Eve
Knight and Teddy Martin. Martin
scores on his o^ with 'Beguine,
'Song of India' and 'Minnetonka,'
while Miss Knight, a brunet looker,
■cores with 'I Said No.'

Band also features a couple of
Spanish tunes as well as a novelty
bit, 'When the Circus Comes to
Town," with members pf the crew
taking the part of different circus
figures, the popcorn vender, strong-
man, tight-rope walker, etc. It's
qtilte entertaining. ' '

Only other act on the bill Is the
Hollywood Co-eds, who combine
acrobatics with taps. Both are adroit
at this type ol terps and were well
received.

When reviewed (Saturday after-
noon, house was almost capacity.

Shat.

Making its initial Minneapolis ap-
pearance, this Savitt orchestra im-
presses for its workmanlike job on
both swing and sweet Outfit devotes
itself entirely to tunemaking, eschew-
ing the novelty fare which most suc-
cessful stage bands include lor stage
purposes. A bit of attenUon to this
phase would enhance the bands
boxoffice value. On the music, how-
ever, no fault can be found.
■ Band comprises five brass, the same
number of saxes and four rhythms,
and it gets plenty hot much uf the
time. Arrangements are okay, and
Savitt himself is a first-rate emcee
and conductor.

Each of the three acts completing
the show is socko. It's a sufticiently
diversified bill, too, and holds enough
laughs. „, ,

A lively 'Chattanooga Choo Choo
makes for a fast and effective get-
away. Joe Martin, band vocalist, has
the necessary zest and pipes to thrill
the temmes, while the males also find
his rendition of 'Everything I Love'
and 'You Made Me Love You" ex-
tremely listenable. Jeanne Blanche,
young Minneapolis looker, warbles
briefly and, then settles down to her
real task of taps, high kicking and
handsprings.

Savitt and the lads score with a
new number, 'Jersey Bounce,' hot
enough to suit the Jivers but melodic,
too. De Val, Merle and Lee, . two
men and a gfrl, get In plenty of laugh
licks with their comedy adagio busi-
ness and scatter enough thrilling
feats along the way. "ftie abandon
with whicn the two men toss their
partner spells heart thumps.

Harold Cook, from the band, bass
fiddles, solo, 'Darktown Strutters
Ball," an unusual contribution that
tied up this show. Bob Evans, ven-
triloquist, also is a showstopper. His
voice manipulations are highly skill-
ful and he has amusing patter and
good gags for bis smart-aleck kid
dummy. A falsetto permits him to
engage in a vocal duet with the
dummy, and it's a knockout.

'Kansas City Moods' Is another
band excursion Into the more torrid
musical realm, affording opportunity
for brief individual and group solo-
ing. Then comes Buddy Clark. He
sells the day's hits expertly. Audi
ence begged tor more. A stirring
finale by the band, "When Johnny
Comes Marching Home,' is appro-
priately patriotic as well as timely.

Lower floor fairly well filled at
second matinee opening day. Rees.

Hot Lips' Page Orch (15) toith
Romaine Jackson; King Johmon; Tip,
Tap and Toe; Maxine Sullivan; Bucfc
and Bubbles; 'West of Rockies'
(Mono) .

'Hot Lips' Page, who got a name-
start during a six-month stay as
trumpeter for Artie Shaw's -recently
disbanded band, is attempting to cash
in on the connection with another
band of his own. In rehearsal only
a short while, combo of three trum-
pets, three trombones, five sax, three
rhythm was rushed in here before it
was ready. It's much too new and
inexperienced for a house of this
calibre, but since itk backed by
standard, strong colored acts like
Tip, Tap and Toe,' plus Buck and
Bubbles, the show, in toto, isn't too
bad.

Page handles himself nicely
enough in announcements, etc., and
employs a good teaser gag by fre-
quently (Slaying snatches of 'Blues in
Night' (which he first recorded with
Shaw), building up to iis finale spot-
ting, but the group behind him is so
rough, so raucous that it's hard to
take. In only one instance docs it
show possibilities, and that's on a
wol^thwhile Kansas City blues bit
with a gag title. Band hits a
rhythm groove on the nurnber that
rocks. Othcrwi.se. the outstanding
arrangement, the best one because
it's recognizable amid the din, is
'Blues.' Romaine Jackson, vocalist,
is n.s.g.

King Johnson, roUerskatcr . and
tapper, is lust a fair opener. He ruhs
through unimaginative routines on
rollers and in a short soft .shoe. Max-
ine Sullivan, too, isn't satisfying. She
begins with 'Some Changes Made,
w'-ich is too old. Next is too fast.
•Rose O'Day,' then 'Loch Lomond,
standard with her and done lethar-
gically, and "St. Louis Blues,' okay.

Show actually begins from an en-
tertainment sUndpoint, with "Tip.
Tap and Toe. Trio of hard-working
Upsters Is equipped with slick
routines, no different, however, from
those they've been doing for some
time. They click strongly. In unison
or challenge, aboard their oval plat-
form or on, it's solid stuff.

Buck and Bubbles act is un^
changed, too; it's the usual plana
song -dance stuff they've emplojred to
advantage for a long whde, mter-
spersed with the bits of nonsense that
lighten the act as a whole. Good
Uste they left wlth_ the audience^
however, was immediately dispelled
by an alto sax solo by one of Page s
men. He slaughtered 'Sentimental
Over You.'
Biz good.

that final «xlt of Jili^ wben h* aoti
out Spirit of "76, It • great plec« of
business. EncorM wltn imitation of
bagpipes, also okay. Th« Flranks—
two boys ana ti^o girls— continue to
knock themialves out with some of
the wlldmt acrobatici and tb« most
rapid-fire dancing on record. Show-
stoppers of the first order here, un-
derstandably so. Cohen.

TOWER, K. C.

Kansas City, Feb. 28.
Masters tc Scheer, Raymond WU-
bert, Gale Sister* Trio, Rich & Adair,
Corkey Watkins, Jimmy Bunn, Herb
Six House Orch; 'Parts Callinj' (U).

COLONIAL, DAYTON

Dayton. O., Feb. 27.
'On Dr&s Parade' unit with Hud'
ton Wonders; Nan Roe & Mrs. Water-
fall; Novack & Fay: Hap Hazard &
Mary; John Callus; 'Men in Her Life'
(Col).

Nan Rae and Mrs. Waterfall
(Maude. Davis) return to head the
'On Dress Parade' unit at the
Colonial with practically the same
scrlpt-as they used here before going
on the Kate Smith program. It's a
good' act for liughs as acts go, Mrs.
Waterfall with her woe -begone ex-
pression and' verbal thrusts being
geared for the maximum of fun, and
the two do know bow to time their
material for best effects.

Sensation of the bill Is the act
given by the Hudson Wonders, two
girls who do high kicks, cartwheels
and generally ooimce around like
rubber baUSi Following them,

STRAND, BROOKLYN

Gene Krupa Orch (16) with Anita
O'Day, Roy Eldredge, Johnny Des-
mond; Lewis & l^on; Pat Henntno;
•Mon Who Returned to Life' (CoO,
Tcwieuied in current issue of 'Variety.'

Gene Krupa's outfit is still getting
the jitterbugs. House was crammec
for the weekend date with jive ad-
dicts, who ate up the outfit's brass
blasting and the maestro's skin
pounding.

Johnny Desmond, youthful vocalist
with Krupa, was a solid click with
This Love Is Mine' and 'Keep 'Em
Flying.' But the kiddies liked best
the orchestral 'Let Me Off Uptown'
and "Blue Rhythm Fantasy," latter
with all crew members chiming in on
individual drums as Krupa went to
town on his own instruments. Roy
Eldredge was spotted in several
trumpet solos which failed to high-
light the ace trumpeter sufficiently.
Anita 0"Day was another vocal
clicker.

Pat Hennlng had trouble on his
familiar imitations, clowning and
tumbles due to downfront- hecklers.
It gbt so bad at this show that Hen-
ning implored the juveniles to keep
quiet, Hennlng clicked neatly with
the -non-jitterbug part of house.
Lewis and 'Van, male tapsters, reglS'
tered trimly with their unison and
single tapping.ji_

Biz on upbeat at last show Friday
(27) night, with no help from fea-
ture film. - Weor. .

Variety bill at the Tower this week
combines quartet of standard acts,
amateur contest winner, end the
house standbys. Forty-two minutes
have an acceptable pace, and total is
a stage bill in the usual vein here.

Opening has a little more sock than
usual, with the Herb Six house band
beating out 'Heart of Texas' and the
young m.c, Jimmy Bunn, vocalling.
It all sums up to one of the bill's bet-
ter numbers. With the customers'
mood thus heightened, show is un-
der way with dance twosome of
Masters and Scheer (New Acts) In a
trio of modern routines, and they are
followed by Gale Sisters" singing.
Trio's sweet style is not at its best
on their opening, 'Ma, He's Making
Eyes," but number more in their line
is closing 'Gianlna Mia.'

Center of the show Is turned over
to Raymond Wilbcrt and he holds up
solidly. His long standard turn of
juggling bicycle rims and rolling
them around the stage is properly
seasoned with light chatter. He
earned the biggest nod on the bill.
Corkey Watkins, am winner, 12-
year-old violinist, turns his bow and
fiddle on a creditable 'Rosary.' As
his own song solo, Bunn has 'Blues
in the Night, not particularly suited
to his own romantic style, but by last
show Friday he had better mastery
of it and was getting the hand the
current popularity of the song war-
rants. Closing is handled by Rich
and Adair, winding up show on time-
ly notBi with' Phil Rich as the Ciyil
War vet and his femme partner In
modern-day war worker's uniform'.

Tower's screen has a little more
than the usual fare in 'Paris Calling,'
and boxoffice tug is better thereby.

Quin.

KEITH'S BOSTON

Wood.

STANLEY, PITT

Pittsburgh, Feb. 27.
Charlie Spivak Orch (15) tuith
Gory Stevens, Stardusters , (4) ; Four
Fronfcs, Brttt Wood; 'Skylark' (Par).

First time for Charlie Spivak, one
of the newer band clicks, in /Pitts
burgh, and the trumpet wiz definite
ly impresses. He has a cra;!K swing
outfit, one that can also sweeten up.
And when Spivak makes with the
horn, everybody listens.

With Spivak out front, emphasis
his" crew is naturally on the brass,
but not too overwhelmingly so, per
sonnel .consisting of three trombones,
five saxes, four trumpets (including
the maestro's), -piano, drums, bass
and guitar. Although Spivak is just
getting his bearings in the deluxe
spots, he's already plenty show-wise
and mixes up his repertoire shrewd
ly and Judiciously.
* Leader carries some crack vocal-
ists, too. Gary Stevens is a ' first
rate baritone who knows how to sell
his personality and get the most out
of his pipes. The Stardusters, three
men and a girl, Jtme Hutton, with
the latter taking over a couple of
solo spots, are a good-looking, pleas-
ant-sounding quartet who have some
swell arrangements on 'Chattanooga
Choo Choo,' with Spivak giving out
a corker of an obligato, 'I Surrender,
Dear,'. "This Is No Laughing Matter'
and 'Remember Pearl Harbor.'

Splvak's only mistake is that flag-
waving finale of his, which doesn'i
seem to be in very good taste. In
middle of 'Remember Pearl Harbor,
scrim curtain comes down and screen
flashes an enlarged film of Old Glory
waving in the breeze. Something
strangely out of place in such an en-
tertainment and Spivak would be
smart in scissoring the bit.
' For one of her solos. Miss Hutton
sister of Ina Ray Hutton and a red
headed cutie, does 'Arthur Murray
Taught Me Dancing' and she gives
it a nice treatment, doing better,
though, when she steps out for a solo
stretch on several of the Stardusters'
numbers. In their last couple, quar-
tet is joined by Stevens and his ad
dition gives them an even better
stance.

Show carries only two other acts.
Four Franks and Britt Wood. Lat
ter, the vet corn-fed comic and har-
monica player who lately has been
acting for Par in the 'Hopalong Cas-
sidy' series. Is still doing the old
monolog of a hick going to New York
for the first time, but It's not the
laughing matter it was score of years
ago. His bucolic lament on 'The
eovered Wagon Kept Rolling Along'
is much too long, with Wood's best
bet being the mouth organ. 'When
he sticks to that, he's a cinch, and

APOLLO, N. Y.

Erslclne Houilctiis Orch (18) toith
Ida James, Jirnrnv Mitchell, Aven

^^r"'J''J'^l * Acromaniau
(3); Bobby Evans; Dorothy Tanney-
Johm,v Lee t, Monte Hawley; House

mth.Foi)^'"" ^"^^ ^"'O'

Ersklne Hawkins bund and Its
specialists are, of course, core and
substance of the stage lineup here
this week. Orchestrations are
chiefly jive, and apart from swell
musical interpolations, the band's ex-
clUng rhythms help point up mild
routines of several supporting turns
whose reception would otherwise be
doubtful.

Boston, Feb. 27.
Dicfc Powell; Fred Sanborn; 3 Hol-
lywood Blondes; Jean Carroll &
Buddy Howe; Martels & Mignon (4);
Larry Flint House Orch; 'Ride 'Em
Cowboy' (U).

Avery . Parrlsh, pianist,
orch's outstander. He's under the

is the

spot for a tinkling 'Blackout' and
'After Hours' combo of potent appeal
Parrish's languid delivery and mug-^
ging are distinct assets. '

Hawkins' other two specialists, Ida
James and Jimmy Mitchell, In the
vocal department, could be better.
Miss James essays a baby-voice stvls
which docs not listen harmoniou.sly.
She drew moderately good returns at
show caught with 'Hotchkiss Cor-
ners.' 'EmBraceable You" and 'Don't
Wanna Walk Without You.' Mitchell,
sax, does 'Rockin' My Dreamboat,'
not very melodious.

Other bandmen, not announced,
are alternately spotted in front of the
mike for excellent results. Hawkins
also scoring with trumpet bits on oc-
casion. Couple of jam sessions are
solid and orchs recorded version of
Nona' Is a standout.

For the rest, outside the band unit,
there are Dorothy Tonney; conven-
tional tapper; the mixed ensemble
with several indifferent song-terp
routines; Pops and Louie, nifty buck
and wing dancers with sock aero
finish; Bobby Evans, combining
poor vocals with a smart novelty tap
routine; Lee and Hawley, stock
comics, and the Acromaniacs (3)
(New Acts), hoofers, only-white act
on the bill. Mori.

GOLDEN GATE, S. F.

Dick Powell with Abbott and
Costello in their latest film, the cur-
rent 'Ride 'Em Cowboy,' Is' pacUng
the Keith stand this week — and at
75c. tops, a dime higher than usual
Just where the drawing power of
the film ends and the Powell pull
begins is difficult to calculate, but
the combo is surefire.

Powell makes an old time p.a.,
rushing out to bask in the spotlight
and the plaudits. However, he
shows off a good assortment of talent
in singing a medley of his film tunes,
demonstrating some ability on a sax
and clarinet and for his finish he
clowns with the house band. Does a
trumpet bit for an encore. Vocals
'Rose O'Day' and 'He's My Uncle,'
plus a very unfortunate one built
around a special lyric about himself.
Idea is that a Hollywood sightseer
did not recognize him. This is ex-
treniely thin ice for a glamour boy to
skate on, and the film player Is flirt,
ing with hoots when he sings that
one around here. Got by okay on
the opening show.

Fred Sanborn, next-to-shut pave^
the way for Powell by warming up
the customers with his standard
comic xylophone deadpan turn. An
important comic asset to the bill,
Sanborn reaped an ovation for his
straight musical talent. Assisted
capably by Charles Lawrence,
straight man, and a guy with the
cymbals.

Three -Hollywood Blondes, roller-
skaters, open in a cohventional rou-
tine, offering a bit more s.a. than the
mixed teams but fewer sensations
than most. Carroll and Howe, deuce,
get over smoothly with a line of chat-
ter featuring Miss Carroll as come-
dienne, . followed by some challenge
taps and a jitterbug finish. Martels
and Mignon, trey, are -standout in
their constantly exciting adagio. The
encore bit is a breath -taker. The
girl is tossed across the stage by two
men to a one-hand catch by the third
male partner.

Playing flve-a-day on openihg day,
this bin had piled up a lobby holdout
before the first overture. Fox.

SITES TEXAS OBOUF
Fort Worth, Texas, March 3.

Martin R. Carpenter, of Cleveland,
has filed suit in federal district court
here against the Texas Ice Events,
Inc., for purported violation of let-
ter of patent rights in the construc-
tion of the ice rink at Will Rogers
Memorial Coliseum.

The petition charges that Carpen-
ter has held the letter of patent since
July -11, 1933. •

San Francisco, Feb. 2S.
Tommy Dorsey Orch (16) with
Fronfc SinatTo; Pled. Pipers (4);
Buddy Rich; Ziggy Elman; Dick, Don
and Dinah; 'Date with a Falcon'
(RKO).

Tommy Dorsey is playing his first
Frisco date this week and will leave
with a flock of new friends. With
jivey juves hanging from chandelien,
mere mention of Dorsey's name in a
screen trailer started a demonstra-
tion at the opener. As curtains
parted with the leader tromboning
the theme, hepsters split the joint
wide open. Dorsey took it with
quiet dignity.

Orch goes from theme right inlo a
hot •Haflelujah' plus 'When It Hits
You' with hot breaks and vocal stuff
by Jo Stafford and Chuck Peterson,
Ziggy Elman trumpet solos along the
route for returns second only to
Dorsey.

' 'Song of India,' as per a past
Dorsey recording, winds up the first
(Continued on page 53)

Unit Review

Revue Magnificent

(BROADWAT, CHARLOTTE, N. C.)

Charlotte, N. C, Feb 27.
Moreen Troupe (4); Fronccs and -
Her Pets; Morris Nelson: Kristone;
Tommy Mullaly; Brent Hayes; Lin-
gerie Girls (8); Rhythm-Makers (5);
'Honolulu Lu' (Cot).

Best act In Morris Nelson's 'Revue
Magnificent' is the Moreen Troupe,
.teeterboard acrobats, who drew
heavy plaudits. Act consisting of
three men and a girl, moves fast
using two boards.

Opening act Frances and Her.
Pets, drew plenty of Uughs and
handclaps for the nifty antics of six
mutts and a monk. Nelson emcees
also straighting for Tommy Mullaly,
comic. He also provides offstage
vocaling for line numbers. Mullaly
is tin twice and Is so-so in two black-
out skits. Although he has pleasing
style and keeps act short, his ma-
terial is mediocre and he doesn't put
enough punch into performance.
Kris'tene is pleasing in a semi -nude
turn. Abetted by a smart drop and
soft atmospheric music, she begins
dance in a full, Swedish costume,
shedding gracefully and interpolat-
ing an impressive terp routine into
the disrobing process. Executed
with showmanship, dance drew
plaudits. . , ,

If Brent Hayes, banjoist had <:ut
his act in half, it would . have
doubled his reception. He opens
with an unimpressive number ana
follows with an equally unimpres-
sive one. When the audience was
beginning to wonder why somebody
didn't come out and drag him off, he
warmed up. Going Into 'Beer Barrel
Polka' with the band backing him
up, Hayes turns in some deft strum-
ming and winds up with a stimng
patriotic medley that's plenty soua. -

Bond backs up show passably from
stage. / -

Good house on show caught. Jtis'

Wednesday, March 4, 1942

Too Ultra Policy in N.Y.Nitery Held
False Wartime Note; Other Reviews

Present formal policy of the swank
Hotel St Regis Iridium Room, New
' York, poses a wartime question of
general Interest to class hotels, cafes,
etc. Judging by the modest business
being doiie now at this hotel. Isn't
the emphasis on the ultra the wrong
idea? For one thing, the strictly for-
mal policy is a false note under ,war-
tiiTi. conditions when, for one reason
or another, other class- spots have
modifled the formal keynote. For
another it's considered, basically, to
be the wrong thing.

War has created many modiflca-
tlons. The general attitude is to re
lax stiff formality. Even the social
ite lenshounds now view it comme il
faut not to get themselves mugged;
and certainly they're noi wearing the
ice and' glad rags as heretofore.

It's all right for the Iridium Room
to want to enjoy some sort of dubi
ous distinction as the last outpost of
a sartorial glory and dignity in keep
log with a fine tradition. But why
flght the trend and the times?
Nothing will minimize its ultimate
In service and charm if Gaston
'-Laurrysen, managing director of Vin
cent Astor's hostelry, ordains that a
less stiff attitude might be in order.
Why not the Rainbow Room com
prSmlse, where they dress the ring-
side with folks in black ties and din-
ner dresses, but everybody can dance.
This doesn't chase them a^yay, as at
the Iridium Room, where some come
In mufti, of course, but cannot dance
if not in evening aCtire.

That economics must be the domi-
nant keynote is evidenced by the
hooyerized entertainment The Dor-
othy Lewis ice show was ruled out
for budgetitus, and Maurice aud
Cordoba, plus the Paul Sparr and
Gus Martel orchestras, hold forth.
The ballroomologists, as ever, ultra
with their suave terps, and both
bands dish up compelling orthodox
and Latin tempos. But the ' main
thing is to draw population, and
while the regular customers of the
SL Regis are in the Lenten, Florida
season or pre-March 15 income tax
groove, that's true all over town.

True, business has been very spotty
In the N. Y. cafes,. The Hotel Plaza's
Persian Room has totally relaxed its
formal dress policy and the $1.50-$2
couvert is no more. There have been
other compromises — and casualties —
elsewhere. The St Regis should take
lis cue accordingly. Abel.

Is a Congo dance routine by two
Negro girls and a guy that looks as
if U stepped right out of Loew's
Africa.

Lou Martin's orch plays the show
and customer dancing welk Nafca.

BOWERY, DETROIT

LEON & EDDIE'S, N. Y.

Jon MuTray; Martin Bros. & Fovne
(3); 2 Tops; Chinita; flarbora Long:
Mirth & Macfc; Clem flellinss Co. (3);
Bimini's Jungle,' Lou Martin's Orch;
$2.50 and $3.50 mintmums.

Commercial is the word for this
show. Nothing here to indicate a
possibility for one- of the flrst-rate
niteries, but at least the quantity
and quality should satisfy the type
of clientele that frequents this spot.
Which means the provincial and
suburban crowd.

Topping the bill is the personable,
elongated Jan Murray, who emcees
and has "a monolog spot on his own
towards the end of the setup. Mur-
ray reminds somewhat in appear-
ance and style of Henny Young-
man and indicates plenty of innate
talent though some of his gags have
been through the mill.

Martin Bros, and Fayne are a trio,
with the girl, a redheaded beaut the
focal point of the turn from the s.a.
standpoint. All three acquit them-
selves creditably in challenge and
precision taps. The males are in
tails and the girl is In a scanty cos-
tume that shows off her chassis to
excellent advantage.

The Two Tops are a mixed team
of roller-skaters who perform on a
small mat, and some of their stunts'
are terrific in view of the small
space In which they have to work.
They got the best applause at show
caught Chinita is the South Ameri-
can equivalent of a cooch, though
she does interpolate some south-of-
the-border tunes. Nothing exciting.

Barbara Long is a nice-looking
warbler who specializes in the jivier
numbers. She went over well
enough with the moderate attend-
ance. Her big fault is an apparently
copied style.

Mirth and Mack have been around.
They're among the highllghU with
their versatile turn that includes
songs. Impersonations and hoofing.
J-lem Belling's dog act, assisted by
JJ'°, girls, has a Continental touch
inats somewhat out of place in this
spot, but gets by regardless, partic-
ularly because of the well-trained
£*f"=h poodles. Belling had best
modernize the patter and improve
»h! v"^.** costuming if he hopes for
me bigger time. Bimini's Jungle

Detroit, Feb. 27.
Cynda Glenn; Rio Bros.; Yolinff
Sisters; Shandor & Margot; Johnny
King; Paddy Cliff; Patino & Ross;
Charlie Carlisle; Marjorie Simmons;
Don Arden Line (16); Benny Resh
Orch (7); 55c toeefc nights; Satur-
days, Sundays and holidays, 75c.

Frank Barbaro's 1,200-seat spot
here, life-buoyed after the recent
State closing aimed at 'clean' .shows
for defen.se worker arcis. continues
to pour out between $4,000 and $5,000
a week on its marathon floor .shows
with good results. Despite current
lull in work due to the conversion of
the automobile plants into full war
time arsenals, the Bowery Is continu
ing to pack them in with the Detroit
idea of mass production.

Aimed at the idea that 1,200 people
spending a buck apiece is the same
as foiir guys spending $300 apleci
only you get a better crowd — the
Bowery still is running out what
amounts to a continuou.s floor show,
First show starts at 9:30 and goes
until practically midnight and after
a deep breath the performers lire
back for another session. Entertain
ers really- work here, but it is to
terrlflc response and not too critical
audience. On the show caught,
Paddy Cliff had to sUy on for 10
numbers, eclipsed-only by the head
lining Cynda Glenn and Rio Bros,
specialties. *

No slight factor in the good biz Is
the backbone of familiars. The Benny
Resh orch is an old settler, six years
in the spot; Johnny King, a tenor
who solos pleasantly and with the
production numbefs, Is a graduate of
the band, and Charlie Carlisle, the
amazing m.c. comic, has been in the
Bq\very more than five years.

Current show lacks the usual old-
timer name Barbaro usually features,
but few shows fail to click here. Dull
acts -are out swift. Line Is splendid'
ly dressed, opening this show with
an Indian number to Raymond Scott's
'War Dance for Wooden Indians,'
followed by Shandor and Margot do
ing nice pirouettes In the softer style
and then a livelier spin turn, with
King coming after with a set of Irish
tunes and 'White Cliffs' before an-
other line number featuring a com
petcnt but novice Marjorie Simmons.

Carlisle, who was particularly
belted by the State censors. Is sur
}rising and kidding himself by work-'
ng clean to good results, being spot-
ted between every act. His cadging
cigars, plugging anything and every-
thing, and pat quipping are ideal ior
the spot and account for- half the
show's running time.

Margot's Castanet number with the
line goes 'well; Cliff, a fine-voiced
Irish tenor — and you need lungs and
Imperishable tonsils in the Bowery-
was terrific for 10 numbers, with
everything from arias to pop tunes;
Patino and Ross vary the pace with
pleasant acrobatics; the dance team
comes back with a morbid waltz to
Sibelius; the Rio brothers' horseplay
was slick for the Bowery crowd, and
they had to beg off after punching

themselves through four turns.

Cynda Glenn, with her slick rough-
housing on the piano, and her un-
controllable hands business was
grooved, too, for the crowds, who
yelled for more. The Young Sisters,
cute appearing and doing their bal-
ancing wo;-k on a platform, were
spotted between the two top acts.

Pool.

LYNCH'S, PHILLY

(WALTON HOTEL)

Phtlodelphlo, Feb. 20.
Gus Van, Frntl Duke,, Castaine &
Barry. Hollywood Blonds (3), ilfad-
lyn White, Line (14), Helcne Heath,
Rose Gallo, Eddie DeLuca Orch (9),
Olga Mendez rhumba band (5).

It's a field day for nostalgic
Philadelphians, this return of Gus
Van to the local nitery scene. It's
the first cafe appearance here for
the vet since the day when he was
fixture with his partner Joe
Schenck at the old Piccadilly during
Prohibition.

He's still the same old Van, a
master of dialects and delivery. It'i
great stuff for the oldtimers. Es-
pecially Van's resume of old Broad-
way numbers, which reach way
back to the early part of the cen-
tury. His modem ditties include:
'Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith,' 'Joe Di-
Maggio,' 'From Wrong Side of
Tracks,' and 'Rose O'Day,' among
others.

Paul Duke still is clicko with his
amazing magic feats of pulling in-
numerable cigars, cigarels and pipes
from .the air.

The Hollywood Blonds have a
difficult aero turn on rollcrskatcs

which needs a little more space
than Lynch's floor to do it justice
As it is, half of the ringsiders ap-
pear in danger of winding up with
a blond in their manhattans.

Castaine and Barry, holdovers
here, continue to please in their
ballroom routine. Madlyn White is
also familiar~in these parts. She's
a personable blonde w,ho can do
almost any kind of dance routine
from soft shoe to ballet

The Glamour Girls, togged out in
new costumes, give out in two pro-
duction nimbers that are up to the
Jatck Lynch standard. They are
routined by Midge Fielding, who
does the same chore at New York's
Versailles.

Wanding the band is Eddie De-
Luca, pianist who has taken over
vice Sonny Fontaine, who is Holly
wood-bound for a screen test. De-
Luca handles this chore neatly,
carrying through during the show
and the dancing. Olga Mendez and
her maracca boys take charge dur-
ing the lulls. Helene Heath Snd
Rose Gallo tickle the keys and give
out with pop tunes in the cocktail
bar.

House was near-flllcd when re
viewed. Shot.

NIGHT CS.UB REVIEW^ 47

ing the music department in hands
or Jose Cortez, who batons both
rhuinba |ind show aggregation. The
Kendis pianlstics are being missed,
but unit carries on in capable fash-
ion regardless. Leslie.

CASINO RUSSE, N. Y.

Latin Quarter, Miaipi

Miotni, Feb. 20.
Hnrry Richman, Bob Fuller Sex
tet, Stuart Morgan Dancers, Carol
King, Diamond Bros., Senor Wences,
Helen Reynolds Skaters («), Les Mid-
tnctfes (15), Jose Cortez Grch (12);
Ensembles by Madame Komarova; $3
minimum.

Lew Walters can chalk up another
solid click with the second edition
of the Latin Quarter's 'Follies de
L'Americana.'

Vet showman has brought Harry
Richman out of what has amounted
to semi-retirement to top b bill that
remains the best, buy ($3 minimum)
in the local nitery picture. Rich-
man is right at home in a produc-
tion and room such as this. He's
on stage for nearly an hour with his
tunes, coming back after the finale
to gag with the customers. Yet it
isn't too long. He merits the time.

Production numbers are un-
changed, and the Diamond Bros.,
Senor Wences and the Helen Rey-
nolds Skaters remain as holdovers.
Stuart Morgan Dancers, .Bob Fuller
and his sextet and Carol King are
the newcomers.

Since first caught the Diamond
Brothers have geared their routines
to a much faster pace, and now rate
bows as an ace knockabout turn.
Senor Wences' ventriloquism and
Helen Reynolds' skating octet con-
tinue to provide standout ehtertain-
ment.

• Miss King is a lovely, graceful bal-
lerina, and her modern toe-stepping
is a welcome addition. Bob Fuller
and his sextet (five males and a
femme) ■ are likewise dicky with
their ballads and collegiate songs.
While a standard now, the Stuart
Morgan Dancers remain one of best
aidag'io teams in the biz. Boys are
now garbed in slacks rather than
customary tails, which makes for
more'freedom in tossing their petite
partner through the air.
Sonny Kendis has bowed out leav-

Sasha Poltnoff, Nndia & Sasha, Di-
mttn Mottiienko. Nicholas Maflheu
Gypsies (3), Kris Kay Orch (7)' $2
ond $3 minimum (Sot.).

The Hotel St Regis' Maisonette
Russe being now no more (a fire
casualty last month), the Casino
Russe takes its place a.s the No. 1
vodka nitery in Gotham, approach-
ing only the 14th street Kretchma
for class. With the Russo- American
amity a dominant world factor in
this day and age, business reflects
it. although, basically, boniface
Sasha Maeef runs a pretty cla.ssy
boite.

The talent Is the best in Its field,
Nina Tarasova heading the show
with Continental songalogs. Michel

llst°"poIinoff*rtheTalalaika-ex: MARTINIQUE, N.Y.

pert; Nadia and Sasha n.ntive Hiinrers:

th^^„'fv,'i";,- Meert? orch playi
the authentic music for her. Ed

wfnJ^in'"?.'"*"?'^''?,'* from Uie

Winchell-Bernle film, 'Love and
Hisses, puts across a neat turn of
sleight-of-hand and patters his way
f?^,?^"'"^'!-''"^' stooging with lemm*

T-sJnir^V.l'f""^*..'"! "'e "'■'^h leader.
Esquirtfttes and show girls follow,
again in smarUy dressed rouUnes.
and Belasco turns on the heat in
buildup for the star turn.

Nan Blakstone could bring a Mon-
U-eal audience to an unheafed barn.
The hardest part of her act every
night is begging off. "Her program is
the well known variant on marriage,
divorce and their by-products, but
she is an artist in that genre. There
is no particular originality but her
personality turns tricks that would
otherwise go unnoticed. There's a
thumbnail sketch of baby treatment
by oldfashloned.and modern mothers
that is the gem of her repertoire.

With Alice Kovan tapping out a
neat trick in white top hat and tails,
and Belasco putting on an amusing
drunk turn, the line and showgirls
bring down the curtain.

They're turning 'em away week-
ends. Other times good. . -Lane.

Dimitri Matvienko does all right
with his fianilng dagger dancing!
the toute ensemble does Chauve
Souris sketches: Nichola.s Matlhey
who used to be at the Maisonette
Russe is the somnolent gypsy violin
1st and okay for sound: . which ap-
plies also to Kris Kgy, heading the
dance seotet and also doing a good
emcee job.
■ The Casino Russe is the old Club
Richman. and backs into the Rus
sian Art Tea Room on the 57th
street side. This, in turn, makes
possible the Bagdad Room, an ad-
jacent morning club, with intimate
entertainment culled from this re-
Odette Athos. songsfre.ss.
Both the Casino and Bagdad rooms
are unusually well decored. Abel.

ESQUIRE, MONTREAL

»r r,, , Montreal, March 4.
..•^"^ Blakstone; Frankie Belasco
*o{5°'"'"'.^<* Ricord; House Line
ni.V^.^S"'.'* ^i^'- Armand Meerte
S^}.'- Barry Rhumba Band
with Julio Reyes (4) ; minimum, $1.50
Saturdays; $1 other Tllghts.

Rounding out a month's stay at this
house, which rates in the big three
of Montreal's night spots; Nan Blak-
stone has lost none of the salty
humor and sophistication that put
her among the tops here in her last
visit three years ago. She has
broadened her material since then
and a natty little French song
dropped into the program doesn't do
her any harm with the fans either.

Show tees off with Frankie Belasco
emceelng with quite a play of his
own and a few over-ripe stories that
i!0t him a hand. He sets too fast a
lempo for the show. Belasco intros
the line, clad in brlefies for a Chi-
nese routine, and these bring in the
show girls, an eye-filling bunch with
nifty color and shape contrasts.

Alice Kovan takes the floor in sec-
ond stanza. She has a neat Spanish
daiice with all the fixings, castanets,
yards of crinoline, mantilla and rib

New Acts

CHRIS'nNA PAULLT
Singer
10 Mlna.

Russian Tar, N.T.

Possessor of an excellent lyric so-
prano of operatic timber, combined
with looks and personality, Christina
PauUy is out of place in a night club
but, if .properly handled, should go
far in concert and opera.

At show caught she - sang two
Russian songs and 'II Bacio, con-
cluding the last with a ringing top
D' natural. The quality of her voice
luscious and warm, she uses it
with distinct artistry, and the scale
even from bottom to the top of a
more than two-octave range. She's
young and sounds much better than
many of the Metropolitan Opera Co.
lyric sopranos heard in recent
months. She has an operatic reper-
toire and should be given the chance
to use it Eddy. .

MASTERS and SCHEER

Dancing

8 Mins.

Tower "Theatre, Kansas City

This pair is standard terp team,
though commendable and somewhat
ndividualistie. Begin with a patty-
cake stomp, the'n turn to a fast
rhumba tap, and wind up tapping
out snappy clicks on a pair of
pedestals.

Okay for family-time vaude and
lesser niteries. Quin.

WALLY BO AG

Balloon Artist

Le Ruban Bleu, New York

Wally Boag is from the Coa.st He
has a cute novelty, inexpensive for
the average boite but a neat flash
for almost all spots. His forte Is
making toy dogs, animals, etc. out of
all sorts of gaily colored balloons.
, These balloons are of sundry sizes

and shapes — long, oval, round, and
the like. Boag skillfully ties them
all together to simulate torso, head,
limbs, etc., and of course the femmes
in the audience become recipients of
the finished products. It's a switch
on cutting paper dolls and quick-
sketch artists. Boag keeps each chore
down to some six or severt minutes.
The banknite result of something
free to the customers is
lure.

an added
Abel.

OLGA COELHO
Songs With Goltar
C Mina.

Le Rnban Bieo, New York

Olga Coeiho, Brazilian concert and
radio soprano, does her stuff in the
Helen Morgan manner (on the piano)
to self-guitar accompaniment. She
chirps in Portuguese, doing nature
folk songs chiefly, opening with a
'My Little Lemon' excerpt and then
a- French macumbo lyric.

An interesting brunet personality
.she's a neat filler for Intimate rooms
of the type such as Le Ruban Bleu.
Miss Coeiho has had radio experi-
ence via CBS buildup. Abel,

ACROMANIACS (3)
Acrobatics .
7 MIn.s.

Apollo, New York

Very fa.st aero and tumbling turn.
Though none of the stunts is excep-
tional, most of them are good, bal-
ancing and lifts by the understandcr
registering strongly. 'Only white act
on colored stage lineup, at show
caught Acrpmaniacs bowed off to
heavier applause than any other turn
on the bill. ' ,

Boys are young, neatly dressed in
brown pants and short-sleeved shirts.
They look okay for. vaude, as bill-
openei's, and lesser niteries. Mori.

Georgle Price, Mata & Hari, Delle
Norclla, Line (Adele Jergena,
Audrey Westphal, Jerry Lowe, Iris
Marshall, Norma Richler, Charlotte
Lorraine, Vera Devine and Betty Ap-
ple), Vol Olman and Herbert Cur-
belo Orchs; minimum, $2.50 week-
days; $3.50 Saturdays.

New La Martinique show is sub-
stantially the same as the one It's
had for the past few weeks except
for the substitution of Georgie Price
for Romo Vincent and Delle Norella
for Roslta Rlos. Nat Karson-pro-
duced presentation was tops as nitery
entertainment before, but now is
even better.

Price is a nifty fillip as a comic
and personality attraction to round
out the pleasantness of the rest of
the shew. There are the line of.elght
beauts in unbeatable costumes de-
signed by Karson, ok satirical acro-
batics and dance mimicry of Mata
and Harl and the warbling of Miss
Norella.

Price has a flock of special lyric
material; most of it parodies and
some mildly blue, which he sells
handily. What he really socks 'em
vi^th, however, is the biting satires
of Cantor, Jolson, Cohan, et aL And
he could make a very successful
career out of Jessel alone. There are
plenty of mimics around who can do
better jobs on takeoffs of show biz
figures, but few who catch the spirit
as Price does , • '

Miss Norella is no great-shakes as
a vocalist her sultry voice being
slightly hard, but she has a pleasant
personality and makes a nfce picture
In the spotlight Val Olman's orch
continues to provide dance apd." .
show tunes, with Herbert Curbelo's
rhumba crew filling in.

Line gals continue to sell defense
bonds and stamps at the end of the
show. Improvement has been made
in lyrics preceding this, with Price
using the occasion for his George M.
Cohan copying. - ^ -Herb. ■

EL CHld6, N.Y.

..Rita Bahia, Maria Morales, Trio
Mixteco, Maria Louisa Lopez, 01-
ivera del Duca (7) tiilth Carlos Liigo
and Florita Mejia, $2 disner, 50c.
cower.

Benito Collado's El Chlco In
Greenwich Village remains the
class iL,atin nitery In town — this
after shifting series of trends in all
forms of Hispanic boites. They've
come and gone, some have remained,
but into the classy El Chlco on
Grove Street Is crowded a wealth
of native atmosphere, supported by '
authentic decor, plus a tight bright
and right little revuette for its dis-
criminating customers, Norris at
the tape knows his Latinophlles,
many of them of the diplomatique
and the expora-lmpora crowd, and
the show mu.st be properly authen-
tic as well as diverting to satisfy.

El Chlco has cradled some im-
portant show names, especially In
the years when international travel
from the Iberian countries was un-
restricted, plus a flock of Imports
from the Latln-Amerlcas — and this
was long before good-nelghborllness
be.came a diplomatic 'as well as a
social grace. Some of them have
traveled into faster coinpany, but
boniface CoUada still makes fre-
quent trips to Mexico, . Central and-
South America for new faces, al-
though 'his present 'Very Good,
Neighbor!' revue reprises two stand-
ard acts that previously clicked here.
They are the Trio Mixtecos, with
their native Mexican song and dance
(two men and a girl, a la ranch-
eros)' and the ebullient Maria
Louisa Lopez with her ingratiat- '
nely clubby Rio Grande manner,
Rita Bahia is a Brazilian singer
and Maria Morales, Spanish dancer,
one-two position; okay if imt
ocko. but neat tecoff soociallsts. Thi
band, succeeding Don Alberto is also -
new. batoned by Ollvera del Ducca,
who was pianist with Xavier Cugat
Florita Mejia, songstress with the
band, also does the emcee chores.
Carlos Lugo, pianist-singer, plugs the
wails deftly between dance sessions.

Abel.

48

Vcdaesday, Marcli 4, 1942

Variety Bills

WEEK OF MARCH 6

Numerals Id ooiinectioD with bills below Indicate opening day of
diow. whether full or epUt week.

KEir TORK CITY
*FaLnuaoiuit (4)
Ina Ray Button Bd
Jack Haley
Hal L«Rpy
Joan Edwnrds
BCFFAT^
BofTnlo (5)
Andrews. SIb
Johnny Lonir Bd
Froddia Snnborn
Bouttiorn 81a
ClIICACO
Cblnico (ft)
Phyllis Colt
Stadlers
3 Wiles
Walter Nllsfton
MINNEAPOfJS
Orpbenm <fi}

Sammy Kaye Bd
Sue Ryan
3 Smart Qls

OMAUA -
Orph«um (S)
Jan Snvltt nd
Duval, Merle & Lee
Buddy' Clark
Johnny Wobds

HAVEN
Faromoant (T-11)
InkHpotn

Sunset noy.ll Ore
Dl'LVTJI ■
Oarrlck <e-H)
Major UnwoH T*
SUF£HIOR
rnlnce (10-12)
Major fiowca 1'

Loew

NEW YORR CITY

StAte <B)
Dick HlmVr Oro
Olssn Se Shirley
Janf ?lckens

Cliff Knzarro
WASHINGTON
Capitol <e)
Qlenn Miller Ore
Lorraine A* RoiniaD

Warner

NB^ TOBK CITS-

8(md (6)
Blue Barron Ore
Carole b Sherod
WeaaoD Bros
on & B MolaoD
BBOOKLSN
Stnad (•-»)
Clyda McCoy Ore
M Auer & J Hunter
MaUy & Br&ch
Chick ft Lee
(«-t)
Gene Krup& Om
Pat Henning
LewU de Van

Earle (6)
Oh '.CO HaxT Oro
The Hnxelloa
4 Fruika
Alan ^Carney

mi

Martha Rare

Clyde Lucaa Oro

H'wood Co-Ede
UTTSBL'BOH
Bhuilcy (8>
Bob Chester Ore
Lewli tc Vaa
Cheeter Dolphin Co
Arnaut B & S Nolly
<*'>

Chaa Splvak Ore
i Franka
Britt Wood

WASniNGTOM
Barie <«).
The Willys
Kim Loo Sla
Jean. Jack & Judy
Mario ft Plorta
<t7)

Roxyeltea -
Don Arres
Waller 'Dare* Wahl
Peplta ft Luda
Towne ft Knott
Pancho ft Boberla

RKO

BOSTON
Boston (fl)
Woody Herman Ore
Belett & Bns Bros
Fat Hennlns Co
(27)

H'wood Blondes
Carroll ft How*
MarteJla ft Sllffnop
Fred Sanborn
Dick Powell

OliETJCLANB
Palace <«)
Count Basle Oro

Baby I«awrenre
Qonlon ft Rogera
Bthel Walters
<W)

ITee^ the People*
DAYTON
€«Ioalal («)
Gray Cava Loma O
Rutble Barnes
Anita Boyer
Little Toush Guys

^ <">
On Breas Parade*

NEW YOBit CITY

Haalo Hall (ff)
Wynn Murray
Berry Bros
John Tlebor
Robt Bhanley
Eleanor Tennla
Nicholas Daka
Qleo Club-
Rockottes
• Corps de Ballet
Erno Rapes Symph

, ^ Bo»r <«)

Johnny Burke
Jeanne Brldson
Bob Hannon
Jere UcMahon
Rae ft Rudolls
Murray T^onard

Apollo <D)
Fats Waller Oro
Ira Johnson
8 Shades ot Rhytbni
Evelyn ft Ann
Vernbam. Harris, 3
Fred Football Dogs

4eUi St (11)
Trlorltles of ItiV
Reynold's Skaters
Joan Merrill
Harol Scott
Gene Sheldon
The Barry s
Mastors ft Rollins
Diane Denlse
. Larl ft Concblta
Beverly Lane.
Voraallles BeanUes

WlBdaor (e-S>
Hot Xlps* Faffo Oro
Majclne SnIllTnn
Buck ft Bubbles
KInr Johnson
Tip, Tap ft Toe
ASTOBTA
SIttlnwar <a-8)
Howard-Paysee D
Sully ft Thomas
Olivette ft Uurray
Danny & L 'Chanffe
(One to fill)

BBOOHXYN '

B Carroll 'Vanities'

Rldcowood <4)
Fin Olson
Brennan ft Butter
Bernard ft Ferris
Z<ane ft Small
(Two to nil)

Marine (• only)
Hank ft Lake
A I Ferguson
Wayne ft Murray
(Two to flU)

■Ij)

(4 only)
Al ft Jean Johnston
Lewis ft Lorraine
Ruasell ft Farrar
Tim Herbert
(One to All)
Maytolr (4 t
Hank ft Luke
Al Fersuson
Wayne ft Murray
(Two to fill)
BALTIMORE
BlpMdrome (0)
Dick Robertson
Gil Lamb
Adrian Rolllnl a
(Ono to fill)

State (8-ll>
Milton Frome
Lya Lys

Bill Maion's Rev

(tt-7)
Dnde Ranch Fol

. Boynl <«)
Duke BUInffton Ore
lyy Anderson
Herb Jefferles
Mario -Bryant
Al Ouster
Pot, Pan ft SkJllst
CAMDFN
Towen (•"■)
Wallace's Puppota
Roy Smeck
Monroe Bros
Johnny , Leonard
Olive ft Lou Caltes
BRIDOEPORT
Irrio (2-<)
Fninkle Masters Ore
Be nay Vennta
Roy Davis
Biirna 2 ft Evelyn
FALL RIYBB
Empire (8-3)
Tommy Tucker Ore
Troy ft Lynne
WaTly Brown

FBEEPOBT
VrttpcH (6 only)
Al ft Jean Joboeton
Lewis ft Lorraine
Russell ft Farrar
Tim Herbprl

(Onn to nm

HABRIRnrRG
SUte (»-ll>

Tommy Tucker Orr
Slo'b Dunoht
Burns t ft B\'elyn

Lquis Armstrong O
2 Zephrs
Ford, Bowie, ft D

HARTt'OKD
State (0-8)
Jimmy Durante
Red Norvo Oro
Connie Boswell
H'wood Plondos
JAMAICA
Jamaica <C)
Sylvia ft Clemence
Carol Manners
Gloria Parker
YounfT ft Kayo
Don Scott Dane
(»-3)

Elizabeth's Canines
Danny ft Chang
Cappft Tlnrrn Doys
i>irar Dnvls

f.YNnnooK

Lynbrook (T only)
At ft Joan JoIin8:on
I.ewl^ ft T.orrHino
TtunR^II ft Fnrrar
Tim Hprbort
(One lo fill) f
NEWARK

AdnmH (ti)
Alvlno Roy Ore
King Sis
T^ne Bros
Ppenror A TJ^^-man

PATRR80N
^Cnjeetlc (lO-lS)
Bobby Long
Thf Wallabies
4 Warnem
(Two to nil)
(6^9)
Sketch nnok Rev

-FASSAir

Central (5)
Frnnkle Mnfaters O
D TAhr ft R Brpwn
Cart Dawn Co
Wilk<*y ft Dare
PUn,.U>ET.PIIIA
Fny's (O;
Marlon Miller
I<*w. Parker
Carroll ft Dietrich
Elalno Ardon
Prilchftrd ft Lord

Carman (6)
< Aristocrats
Jim Penman

Canfleld Smith
PITMAN

B*way (7 only)
Bill Matons* Rev
(Three to Oil)

FBOVIDBNCB
Metrepolltnn (6-8)
Ray Kinney Oro
Dick Powell
Will ft O Altearn
(One to nil)

SOl'TH RIYKR
Capitol («-7)
Rio ft Rita
Stuart ft Taylor Co
Hob Howard
3 JadoH

Paul LePaul Co

woonsiDR

Snnnyslde (7-8)
t Mardhaiiy
Joil Dooloy Co
Lenny Kent
(Two to nil)

WATTKBrRY

Poll's (n-6)

Toddy Powell Ore
Bonnie Bnker
Bob Baston Co

Maria Moralea
Maria Lopei
Rita Bahla
Carlos Lugo
Del Duca Oro

El Moroece
Cbauncey Grey Ore
Chlqulto Oro
Fefe*s Monte Carle
Bill Rbb)ns<)n
Ted Straeter Oro
l>ob Knight Oro
Ctemons Door
benlEO Mavlty
Dorothy Calahan
Willie Bryant
Winnie Johnson
Audrey ft Phil
WllUe Dukes
Beonr Carter Oro

ffl Clob
Carolyn Diddle
Marlon Joyce
Iris Karyl
Wanneta Bntee
FrancoJ Leslie
Wllma Novak
Irene Kaye
Grooverneers
Bobby Bernard
Dirk Lewis Ore

aSd Swing Chib
Delmar 3
Fninkle Meadows
Al Oreen

Grcrawlch' THTage
Inn

Henry Arthur
Vera Nova
Carroll Chnppoll
Patricia Porker
T^orna Rhode
Gene Monet Ore
Harlem RendecTnns
Bdnri Mno Harris
Princess Vnlda

The Three Doha
Hotel Penxuylvaala

(Cn/e Binvo)
Jimmy Doreey Oro
Bob Bberly
Helen O'Connall
Phil Washburn
Hotel Plecadllly
(Georgian Boom)
Kerry Ens

Hotel T;lcrT«
(CotUllon Boon)

Ella Logan

SUnley Melba Oro
Hotel Plata
(Permian Room)

DIok Oaoparre Ore

Eleanor French

The Barrys .
Hotel Booaevelt

Guy Lombardo Ore

Kenny Gardner
Hotel Sheraton ,
(Mnrmy B4M>m)

Ruth Lowe

Salr Leo

Francis King

Henry Noble

Hotel BnToy-Plaaa

John Hoysrodt

Ernie Hoist Ore

Harold Cooke Oro
Hotel St. UoriU
(Cote de la rolx)

Paul Le Paul

Jack ft Jill

Poggy Normao

Mack Porrin

Ford Harrison Oro
llntrl St. Regis
(Irldlam Boom)

Mnurlce ft Cordoba
Hal Snundcrn Orr

llntrl Taft
Vincent Lopez Oro

Holt OU

Annt Jemima
Store M array
Gerrl White
Storey Sis
Johnny ft George
Angel Velei On
Snub Moseir Ore

Nat aob
Belle Sloans
Lamour Z
Jack Reynolds
Uttla Joe Little

Old RoamanloB ■
Sandle Banks
Freddie Bernard
Ada Lublna
GIngor Layne
Joe La Porte Oro
riaco Blegaata
Phil Dante
William Ron
Cliff Conrad
Martin .Locke
Manya Borodkln
Jeannetto Garretle
Ernest Frans Oro

Qooen Mary ''
Shadrach Boys
Ann Franclne
Sonny TuCts
Chlqulta Venesia
Joan Ellis
I.fp Reynolds
Bill Glass Ore

Qoeens Trrrafo
Phil Forstcr
Rpple Rrurfr
Ht-aly ft Evans
Agnes. Dwyer
Jack Allyn
Ned Harvey Oro
Oroovcrneqrs ■

Rainbow Grill
Rqss Smitb Ore
Ash burns

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NEW YORK

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1V0RCKSTER
Plymouth (£-4)
Woody Herman Ore
Dave AiMllon Co
Danxl Goddelle
Wllkey ft Dare

Cabaret Bills

.NEW XOBKCITT

Armundo's
Geo Morrla Ore
Beverly Paterno

Bcadtcomber «
Gain Sis
Larry Blake
John Rllty
Various ft Vlda
Salazar Oro
Cordoba Ore
Ben Marden's
Winter Boom
Gypsy Morkoff
Yvonne Bonvler
MarJe Atkinson
Guy Howard
Freshmen
Harry Stevens

BlU Bertolottt's
Lynn ft Marianne
ClaLra WIlUs
Betty Black
Virginia Gibson
Moy& Gifford ,
Don Sylvio On

DlU*e Gmw MK»
Rose Perfect
Lulu Bat£a
Btbel Gilbert
Spike Harrison
Harry Donelly
Billy Lorraine
Chafrles Strickland
Benny Orauer
Lulu Bates
Gay 90'8 Quartette
Bntler's New Boim
Steve Murray Rev
Happy Lewis

Cafe MadlsoB
Allan Colo On
Gypsy Markoff
Marly no Mlcbael Co
Les Parker
Cafe Moatpanaage
AUeen Cook i
Jean Brunseco '
Cafe Society
(Mid town)
John KIrby On
Hazel Scott^
Golden Gate 4
Eddlo South Ens
Cafe Soelety
(Village)
Teddy Wilson On
Albert Ammons
Pote Johnson
Rose Dexter
Zero Mostel
]^by Hines
*- ' Cafe Vlenaa
Ruth Barr
Wllllom Hoffman -
Morray Miller
Doify Margens
Leo Pleskow Uro

Caaa Marta
Antoinette Soverln
Tony ft Batrella
Hector Del Vlllar
Monallto

Juan DImltrl Oro

<^sIno BasM
Nina Tarasova
Sasha Pollnoff
Michel MIohon
Nadia ft Sasha
Dmitri Matvlenko
Kilr.Kay Ore
NIcholaa Metthey O

CeratU's
Mae Barnes
Haywood ft Allan
i Chanticleers
Dan Parrish

Chalean Modeme
Cfaarlee Francis
John Llvlo 0
Ira Specter Ore
Cilia Lce*s
Sandra ft Stanley

Mary Rowloy
Darling Sia
Ct&;i%^»ette Laffoee
Helen Gla«ser
Evelyn Johnson
Georgie Trotter
Bay Worth Oro

Cltrhy
Ann GaJo
Walter Lynch
Clob U
O Andrews On
Erio Oro
RolMrta Welch
Jack White
Irene Carroll
Frank le Hyera
Vince Curran
Roy Sedley
Hazel McNolty
Lillian Fitzgerald
Susan Lang

Clab Frisco
Leila Gaynes
Diane Fontaine
Helena Arthur
Frankle Fnba Ore
Patricia Joyce
Vlckl Goorge

Club Maxim's
Phil Foster
Juno Sayres
Eunice Jason
White (2)
The Dwyers

club Midnight
Ramona
VI Bradley

Clnb 181
Connio Harris
Billy ft Ann
Jack Goldle
Muriel Asche Co
Club Samoa
Mabelle Ruoseli
Linda Castro'
Denise Mavity
Ruth Le Drun
Hnclel Taylor
Joy Umlamaka
Ruth Mnrtln
Ann Reeve
Evelyn. Hunnoiis
Snowden Ore

CiDb Whitnker
Maxino
Roily Rolls
Lorna ft Mario
Arthur Kaoller
Alex Batkin Ore

Copacabana
Joe E Lewis
Loper ft Barrat
Fernando Alvaret
EstellU
Samba Sirens
Walter Long
Betty Jane Smith
Clorol Dexter
N Brandwynne Ore
Frank MarU Ore
Clob Frisco
Patricia Brent
Vlckl George
Miss Victoria

C04- Bongo
DIek Wilson On
Bola BIzony On
piamood Honesbae
Nlta Naldl -
Betty Compson
Carlyle Blackwell .
Joe B Howard
Roas Wyse, Jr
June Mann
Delia Llnd
•Geo Fontana
Gllda Gny
Charles King
Maiigean 61s
Clyde Hager
Noble BIssle Orr

n Cbico
Trio Meztlco

Columbos Ore
Dobbe Caston
Phil ft Audrey
Johnny Taylor
Savannah Churchill
Reeve Sis
Spprdop<0-De

Uavattn-Uadrld
Julio Richards
Don Casanova
Corrlto ft Coral
Klkl

Felipe de Blons
Sector del Vlllar
Eleanor Gncco

KlOVltM

Maya Ore
Don Gilborto Oro
lllekory ilonse
Norma Sliepard
Hoot Howley
Larry Bennett I
Menedea
Garni Boyd
RolUn Smith
Ginger Wayne
^rry Bennett 8
Hotel Ambnsaadiw
(Trianon RcKmi)
Jules Lands Oro
Claln ft Arena
Brie Victor
Richard Lane

Uo<«l Astor
Dick Knhn Ore
Hotel Belmont

FUza
. (Glass Hat)
Covert ft Reed
Bar ban Perry
Margant Scott
Belmont Balladoen
Howard Lally Ore
Joe Patumy Oro
Hotel BIKmon
(Bowman Boom)
Heaaley 2
Hazel Franklin
Maureon Holmes
4 Little De-Icers
Madrlguen Ore
Hotel Bossert
(Brooklyn)
Greco Vaughn
Nye Mayhew Oro
Hotel CommiKlon
(Century Room)
Vaughn Monroe Ore
Peter Rotundo Oro
B ft R Ambrose
Charlo Carrer
Mar>'lln Duke

Hotel Edison ■
Blue Barron On
Hotel Esaez Uoase
Rosalie Grant
Bvalyn TynoiLpro
Hotel Mb Ave
(Salon aUdrld)
Cass FVanklln '
DeMarlos
Guy Rodlan
Fay Mardo
Penny Bancroft
Burton GroBs Ore
Hotel Lexington
Ray Kinney On
Meymo Holt
Napna
Lellanl laea
NanI Todd
Lehua Paulson

Hotel IJncoln
Llncolnalros

Hotel »|cAlpln
Johnny Mossner Ore
Hotel .New Yorker
Benny Goodman O
Peggy Leo
Tommy Taylor
Adele Inge
B ft B Wade
Ronny Roberts
Ice Ballet
Grace Harvey
Lynn Clan

Hotel Nnrarn
(JUdnlffbt Clnb)
Margo ft Mann
Midnight Gypsies ^,
Hotel Park Centnii

(Cocoanut Orove)
Elalno Jordan
Dora Maugham
Robert Raymon
Geoffrey Bale
R«ebelle ft Beebe
(Bhomba. Boom)
Juan Donrigues Ore
Julia Gerrlty
FJsb ft Gold

Sonny Skyler
Hotel Walilorl-
Astoria
Hartmnns
Dlnnh Shore

Sreddy Martin On
Iscba Dorr Ore
Hotel Warwirk
(Balrigh Boom)
Vlckl George
Sande Williams Orr

II orr Icq no
CatMt ft Dnsdon
Jimmy Ames
Chester Dolphin Co
Jane Matthews
Kay Vernon
Dave Dennis Ore
Lollta Cardoba On
Ipeland Bestaavaat
Danny White
8 Grays
Les Hunt
Nola Day
Ted Eddy On
Angelo On
•lack Dempsey's
B'way Restaaraal
Milt Berth S
Linda Lai'k
Irv Carroll On

Jbnmy Kelly'e
Marlowes
MoDtmario Boys
Joe ft George
Raymond ft Joan
Helen Holmea
Danlta Rivera
Margaret Gray
Faith Arlen
Reno

Ann 'Jung
Jeannle Walton
Olenda Hope
Menya Del Ray
GwlU Ardmora
Isabel Brown
Rose Wlthum
Peggy La Plant
Joe Capello Oro

■ Kern's
Joan Clalro
Cornel Tannssy Oro

Kelly's Stable
King Cole' a
Frances Wayne
Bruce Wendell
Nick Jarret Oro

La Ceoga
Luba Mallna
Cbac Chatta
Ray English
Nltza ft Rnvell
Noro Morales Oro
Jack Harris Ore
La Hnr^olse
Ruth Wineheil
Dorothy Tanner
Conauelo Flowerion
Francos Connolly
Al Carr Ore

La Mnrtlalacj*

Georgie Price
Vlckl George
Delia Nbrella
Klau ft Harl
Martlniqucens
Herbert Curbolln o
Val Olman Ore

Le Fc(U Pabils
Mme C Alphand
Oscar Karlwol.i
Sascha Taehoff
Julian Fuhs
Sula Lester "

Leon ft Eddied
Lionel Ray
Jan Murray
Mirth ft Mack ,
2. Tops

Martin Bros ft F
Barbara' Ix>ng •
Clomena Belling
Chlnlta

Lou Martin Oro
Norida Ore

Jdalson Lenls
Bin Drye
Carrie M Bovllle
Uatsoa Flem
Tommy Lyman
Gaston'a Monte Carlo
Pierre Beaucaira
Nona Montcs
LeCarlos ft Granada-
Magda Loy
fi Madcaps
Chans To Wha
t Can-Can Gla
Gaston

Sylvle St Clair

Haliibow
Henry Scott
Linda Ware
Monna Mdntes

Alexis Dolinoir
Carmen Cavallaro O
Clenunta Oro

James Copp III
Olga Ooelho
Wally Boag
Mnbal Mercer
Heimaa Cblttlsoa
BtBotaa KretcluBa
Bll Splvaok
Gypsy Norma
Norma Lucen
ArcadI StoyanoTBky
AdIa Ktitnetxoff
Nostla Pollakova
Marusla Bava
Mlsoha VtanolX
Cornelia Cedolbaa O

Stork Clab
Grace Rellly
Bob Grant On
Frank Curbello On

The Place
Irene Barkley
Pat Ring
Evelyn Bnch
Skeots Tolbert

CbangI Clab
Jackie Habley
Savannah Chunblll
Smiles ft Smiles
Hardin Bros Co
Joan Eldridgo
Habo Wallace
Dimes ft Berlin
Rosetta Le Noln
Helena Smith '
Pauline Bryont
Soearas On

Wlve^
Helen Arthur
Connie Joyce «
Haron ft Bemay

Verwilllea
Bergen Ore
Panchlto Oro
Billy de Wolf* —
Donna Devel
Harold Barnes
Kirk Alyn
Paul Bartels
Six Ver-Sighs

' Village Bara
Al Robinson
June Bontley
Music Hall Bovs
Virginia Vaughan
Zoke Loekwood
Coustn Lem
riaytona
Edward ft Diane
Palmer Ore
Trlnl Ore

VII Inge Vangaari
Burl Ives
Lendtielly Non
Josh White-
Debhy TXpst
Anii Robinson

MiAaa

Bar of Unalc

Bill Jordan
ens Souze
Mlcbael Doyle
Rex Owen
Ann Soutborland
Mario Stanley

Bearhcambcr
Cnss ft Donn
Dr Giovanni
Raul ft Eva Reys
Del Casino Ore
Canay Oro

CavTonsel
Faith Bacon
Patricio Hall "
I.eo Bartell
De Lamarra
Danny Tates On
Ca.wn<>Ta Clob
John Boles
Emil Boreo
Junnlta Rios
The Warnera
Merlon Co
Ralph. Rotgera Ore

Clover Chib
Guni-Gnin
Five O'clock Clnb
Arthur Bonn
Rnth - Wayne
Margie Green*
Alblns
Fleetwood Hottf

(Jewel Box)
Arthur Blake
Consuela Flowerton
Renfey Curtis
Joe Martin

FVolk Clnb
Jerry Cooper
Billy Vine
Suzanne ft ChrftUne
NIrma Cordova
DeCastro Co

Csinl Vance
Nano Rodrlgo

jlmmle's '
Ray Vaughn
Red TborntOD-
Martln gales
Rovell ft Jeanetta
iJes Robinson On
Mother Kelly's
Owen ft Parker
Jerry Kniger
Mylea Bell
S Guesses

Nnt Clnb
Tubby Rives
Nick Sett ■
George Gregg
Ted Blake
Chuck Wilson
Foddock
Jackie Miles
3 Heat Waves
Jerry ft Turk
Tony Lopes Ore
Boyal Palm Clab
Jane Froman
Dean Murphy
Jack Cole Dane
Stan Cavanaogh
Rose Blaine
Nonchalants
Billy Sherman
Palmettos (SO)
Abe Lyman Oro
The Dram
Antonio Alvarea
Eddie Shephard
Pat Paree
Coren

Wayne, Shelton
VersalUee
(Golf stream Bm)
Rnasell Swann
Batelle ft Leroy
Rnth Clayton
Charles Murray Ore

CHICAGO

Ambassador Hotol
(Punp Boon)
Emilo Fettl

Bottety

Ray Benson On
Bismarck Botel
(Walnut Room)
Art Kaasol Oro
Gloria Hart
Staples ft Corny
Gaynor ft Roas
Hadley Gls

(To vera Boom)
Dave Prltch»rd Ore
Dick Ware •*
Bob Marshall
Annette Shields
Ulackfrawk
Orrin Tucker Ore
iHirralne Benson
Whitey Roberts
Bob Haynes
Doris Dupont '
Jose Rosado Oro
Blackstone Hotel
(Dallneoe Bm.)
ken Thompson Ore
,Mary Jane Howard

Bran Ball
Mike Riley Oro
Marlon Miller
BrcToort Hotel
(Ctystal Roomj-
Tony ft George
Verna Ray
Bob Billings .
Eddie Roth On

BrawD Derby *
Throe Ryaus .
Sonia Czar
Sherry Dsrlane
Hoffman Sis
Cookie Seldol
Antoinette Ens
Beth Farnll
Ted Smfth
Duke zeilman Orr

Capitol Lonnge
Maurice Bocco
Joe de Salvo
Louts Jordan Ore

Ohea Paree
wnile Shon

Kitty CaH|sle
The Biningstons
The Smoothies
Carmen Antonio
Cbandra-Kaly Dane
Boyd Raebnrn Ore
Bobby Ramos On
Evans Gls

Clnb AJabam
Bernio Adler
Jane. Jordan
Sid Schapps
Paulette LaPlerre
Harriot Norrls
Ginger Wood
Del Estes
Allan Coe
Dave Unell Ore
Eddie Roth Ore
ColoKlaios
Dolly Kay
San Sued Dane
Rubyat ft Don
Kay Boley
Olga Ward
Jack midron
NIU T>lndAll
Don Lang Oro
Congress Hotel
(Glam.Uat Bm)
Barry WInton Or6
Rod Duncan
Jc Anno Hubbard

Drake Holef
(Camlllln Honse)
Betty Allen
Ramon Ramos Ore'
Edgewater Beacb
Uotd

(Marine Bm)
Rubs Morgan Oro
Phyliss Lynno
Jana

Knight Sis
Goorge Henry
Claroncff Meltor"
NIghthawks
Dorben Gls

S80 Clob '
Janice Dale
Doana Berry
Vie Arteso
Julio Ganla Oro
Jobfiny Honnort

Eltal'e
Heidelberg Octet

nana Mueaaer Bag

0100 Otob
Daaay Tfaomaa
Bob O Un Gla
Mark Flohar Oro
OarrtcB Btagebar
Ascot Boye
Jimmy Noone I
Jnne Price

V Dawabeat Bm

Staff Smith
i Sharps ft Flat*
Oraemen Hetal
(Glaa Uaaea Ba)

Cnuadern On
Mary Sinclair . '
Dorothy Tlmmlos
Grand Taxaea
Cootie Williams O
Loose Nnts
Billy Nightingale
Loula Bacon
Basle Bros
Mltsle Mitcbetl
Lovely. Lake
Helslnipi
(Vodvll Lounge)
'Nick Lncaa
Ullian Clarke
Bob Ballcntlne
Jack Hertrart
Chet Roblo

111 But
Danny Rogers
Dorothy Wahl
Antnndn Kolletle
Betty Hill
Kny Perry
Mary Delb Sires
Eddy Fens Oro
H Martinez Oro
Winnie Hoveler Gls

IrnMioe
Florence Schutwrl
Al Trace Ore
Holly Swaoson
Vlerra Hawallana
Helen Sumner
L'Algloa
Splrofl Staraos Oro
Gwendolyn Veausell
Murray ft Gumming
George Deveron
Isobel de Marco
la Snlle Hotel
(Paa-Aro. Boom)
Rio ft Rita
Conchlta

Ambaasadon On
New Yorker

Jackie Groen
Noll ft Nolan

Dalton Boys
Jack lAVler *
Starlats

A«je Bamstt Ore

.tt'T'

Billy Meyers ■
Jin lUrrln
Rooky EUworth

IM Clab
DIok Bauer Ore
Billy Carr
Walter ft J Brown
Sophia Parker
Inea Oamble
The Monteroa
Fernando ft Fair
Mario Wade
Tvonne Nova
Olorla Knicht
Col Berbert.

^^hnef Roue •

(npin Boon)
Xavler Cunt On
Cardial
IX Qatanos
Una Romay
Maleuellto
Abbott Dancers

Sh'tmao Hotel
(Celtle Cafe)
Gene Kerwin Ore
Jaros Sts

(Putbrr Bnoai)
Oene Krupc Ore
Nllah Brooks Rer
Cnrl Mnn ■

Rhnnba Caalne

Tito Oulzar
r>on Tannon
I*hll Levant Ore
Pierce ft Roland
Don Orlando Oro
Jack RodroRUea O

«M Club
Don Harris
Alyfe Cert
Janoen
Oeorslana
Aloha

Xdllle Wayne
Olniter Orliton -
Jerl Vance
Mldire Fellowa
Marlon Miller
Maxln'e DeShon'
S06 Ols
Dolly Sterllni
Sol T.ake Ore
Tripoli i

B<«T»s Botel
(ContlBcntal Rooia)
Chuck Foster Oro
Don DIFlavIo
Tar Beat
Geo Scherban Ore
Iiorraina WeatTall
Peter Mllnlkoft

ATLAimC CITT

Ambuuatlor Qotel
Bert Eslloxr Ore '

Chela«a Hotel
BUly Van S
Cbuldce Hotel
(Magrfnlr Itoom)
Marty Masee Oro

asb Namii
Helene Francia
Kent Bdwarda
Wanda De Muth
Tiny Kaye
Manny. Davis Oro
Coamopollun Hotel
Al Miller

raddeefe Ian
Sob Bell
Paddookeera Oro

Taan AUantlo Hotel

(Palm RooiD) '
aiUott Russell Ore

PnaMeat Hotd
Ramon Rio Co
Marjurle Maxwell
Pedro Atbaiti Oro
Kta CwIloD Hotel
(Menr Oo Boaai
Roon)
Eddy Morgan Ore
Xtmynm - Hotel
Wm Madden Ore

Oablea Ian
(BiMb HMM nhe)
Kan DeMar
Stanley Rich
Joan Clark

LOS AHQELK

Bud Box

Pat Patrick
Pete Snyder
Billy Snyder
Pepgy Goodwin
George TIbblea Ore
Al Stone .
BUly Lankln

Bar of Mnale
Ann Triola
Fetlx de Cola
Roger Roland
Xen Stevens
Dick Wlnalow On
Biltaure Bowl ,
Ruth Craven
Hurley ft Radford
Larry Stewart
Petch ft Deauvllle
Paul WInchell
Phil Harris Ore
Onaa Mamma
Kitty Kallen
Clint Garvin
Jimmy McPartland
Paul Collins
Jack Taagarden Oro

Coeeannt arovo
Sklnnay Bnnta Oro
Carmene

Earl Carroll
The Debonairs
W West ft McQInty
Dick ft Dotty Reroy
Gall Gall
Willis West. Jr
Aleo Morlson
La Vonn Mbyec
Rue Willie
Morlne Howell
Beryl Wallace
.<<t Clair ft Day
Marc Dallero
mil Brady
Michel Ortl> Bd
Manny Strand Ore
Florentine Garden
N.T.O.

Prof Lambertle
Murtah Sis
Vera dloalie
Frad Scott
Kay Maydeld
Sugar Gelae
Ozzle Nelson Oro.
Charlie Foys Clab
Charley Foy
Dick Buckley -
I'M Burnett
Phil Sllvera
Margaret Whiting
Red Stanley Ore
Gmee Uayea Lodge
George Lloyd
Peter Llnd Haye* '
Mary Hcaly
Jack Ualone

Ineclto

Tex Jim Lewla
Loitb Star Cowbeya
Uollywood Tropica
Maolne Lewia

Burton- 2

Panl Neighbors Ore
Dick Thomaa
Bovso or Marpby
Bob Murphy
Martin Welsaner
Beth Reynolds
Frankle Gallagher

UMIe Troo
Katharine Danhaia
Lena Home
Phil Moore (4)
Nick Draper Ore
Macambo Cafe
Phil Obman'a On

Palladlam
Claude ThornhlU Or

Plmtee Dea
Henry Ornnt
Jack Gardner
Helen Golden
Matthew Ooldlne
Betty Mayahall
'Nick Cochrane Oro

Seven Scai
Benny Kaha
PuananI Mathewa
Princess Luana
Chief Saatlnl
Stanley Wheeler
Malua

Charlie Openol
Bddle Bosh Oro
CUapsy Uaxlee

Allegra
Ben Clue
Johnny Morgan
Maxine Mamball
Benny Leasy
PattI Moore
Sam Lewla
Jorry Dorfen
Joe Plumer Oro

SIxeeta of Paris
Lola Bright
Charlotte Morey
Ruth 'Reynolds
WIngy Manone Oro

Swannee Inn i
Shelton Brooks, Jr
Loumel ■ Morgan I

Trianon
Al Donahue Ore
Harris ft Jones Rev

Troavllle
Jack Beekraan
Dorothy Dandrldge
Hoger ft Accordion
Lm, Relna
Art Crlppcn Oro

PHIIADIUPHIA

' Clob BnU
Loa Caballeros
RoBslllanos
Blaine B Barrymore
Joie OoouJea
Penny {.Davis
Peters) Sis (I)
Ballloolles
Alan Fielding Ore
Val Irving

Bea Fianblla

Helene. Standleh
Dorese MIdglev
Galente ft' Leonnrdn

- (Continued

Tommy Smith
Mae Allen
Henry King's Ore
Benny, tbe, Bnai'a
Patey O-Neil
The Filipino i
Dolohes Gomez
• CaiToU'a
Gaines Oro
Wilbur Raiice
Joan Williams
Judy Cummloi:*
Renee Andrco.
Harry Hose

on page 55)

Wednesdaj, BfArch 4, 1942

LEGITIMATE 49

STRAWHATS-DESPHE WAR

Anti-Ism Law StiD An Argumentative
Factor in Equity; Clear Lytell s Stance

La£t week Equity't council once
again spent most of the lesslon argu-
ing over ihi antl-lam amendment,
an Issue supposedly tempoiarUr
quiet while awaiting the referen-
dum vote, with, the jesult that re-
consideration of the casting agents
application for a basic agreement
was not reached. Faction opposed
to the amendment criticized the
ballots being mailed out with an-
other enclosure, although, the latter
had nothing to do with the matter
^at issuer

It was explained that an appeal
for funds to defray cost of mailing
'Variety' and Equity's mag to'mSn-
bers in the armed forces was the
gue^^ioned enclosure, and It was be-
lieved to be okay for in that way
extra postage was not necessary.
Opponents, led by Mervln Williams,
~~said nothing had been said about an
appeal tor funds accompanying the
referendum and therefore the stunt
was irregular.

Demand that Equity's mailing list
be made available so that a state-
ment opposed to the amendment be
sent was assented to. The plan failed
the previous week because It was
not properly proposed. Despite fact
that a number of ballots had already
been mailed back to Equity, the op-
position statement was sent out any-
how. It was figured that some mem-
bers would await the approach of
the 3d-day voting limit (March 20)
before onriing in their ballots; also
that some might change their vote.

The dispute was decried by some
officers, who mentioned that it might
lead to the public viewing the 'wash-
ing of Equity's dirty linen.' They
would have liked to see the mem-
ber^p decide the vexing Issue with-
out further suggestions from either
those who worked for the amend-
ment or those opposed. As the situ-
ation now stands, that portion of the
membership which has not voted
may have a one-sided argument to
consider, council having previously
decided to let the members decide
without additional argument. At
least part of the membership was
mailed postcards by proponents of
anti-Ism, upon which were printed:
The sole Isue is, do you want Com-
munists, Nazis and Fascists pn the
council? Everything else is imma-
terial.'

Orlglhal opposition statement was
revised, reference to Bert Lytell be-
ing deleted. Williams had claimed
that the Equity leader voiced tiie
opinion that the amendment might
Just as well be tabled fbr the pres--
ent. Lytell declared he never
changed his position, that of favor-
ing the amendment

PARTIAL PROGRAM OF
5c MATINEES FOR KIDS

Full program of .6e matinees at
legit plays tor New York highschool
children will not be caroled out this
season, but three sudi showings
have been given to date and another
Is scheduled. "My Sister Eileen'
(BUtmore), 'Life WithTather.' (Em-
pire) and 'Arsenic and Old Lace'
(Fulton) were played for th« kids,
and 'Junior Miss' (Lyceum) ' is to
follow. Should the school board se-
lect other plays, they will likely be
played during spring.

The Rivals' was to be given at a
special matinee, but Mary Boland's
health was given as the reason for
cancellation. Show closed at the
Shubert Saturday (28).

Position of the musicians stymied
plans for musipal shows to go on for
the school kids, principal idea for
stage performances being to develop
future audiences. Union would not
permit* pit men working through a
musical show performance gratis.

Plans to have children's matinees
In other cities have not materialized,
Chicago ■ being the stumbling block.
When the Idea was broached to the
stagehands there,- the local said no.

Goodbye Legree

With Carl Fisher, general
manager for Howard Lindsay
and Russcl Crouse, due to be
Inducted Into the army yes-
terday (Tuesday), the entire
cast of 'Arsenic and Old Lace,'
at the Fulton, N. Y., cent wires
Saturday (28) to the producers.

Identical messages read, 'Now
can I have a raise?'

Ames Bros. Continue
'Goest' Under Unosoal
Wage-Cat Arrangement

• Stephen and Paul Ames, who
walked out on Wall Street for Broads
way and say they are in show busi-
ness to stay, were on the verge of
closing their maiden effort, 'Guest
In The House,' which opened at the
Plymouth last week, in disappoint-
ment over the notices. Business was
better than indicated by the doubt-
ful press and the brothers followed
the advice of Louis (Eppy) Epstein,
their general manager, by arranging
a salary cut and the play can con-
tinue to moderate grosses.

Cast salaries total nearly $3,000,
which Is heavy for' a drama. Players
agreed to a 33 1-3% reduction, to
apply starling this week if the gross
is under $8,000. Agreed by the man-
agement that In the event the picture
rights are sold, the difference be-
tween the amounts possibly deducted
will be paid the cast,, which is un-
usual. Takings the first seven per-
formances were claimed to have
been around $10,000, so the sUce may
not be necessary.

The Ames did not stint, ordering
the best materials for the produc-
tion. Some exceptional expense was
encountered and, because the play
rehearsed at the New Yorker which_
Is closed, bill for heat from the city
steam corporation wasj(800. Setting
was put up in the theatre and re-
hearsal expense amounted to around
$2,800, with the consequence "Guest'
totals an - Investment of around
$30,000.

CHI TRUCKER TAKES
OVER TAPA IS ALL'

■Papa Is All,' which closed a modest
eight-week engagement at the Guild
theatre, N. Y., Saturday (28), has
been taken over by Israel Slavin,
who will spot it in the Blackstone,
Chicago, which he bought last year.
It opens there- Monday (9) for an
Indefinite date. 'Papa' played the
Loop in January, Jiut It is claimed
the successful date at the Harris
was shortened because of a prior
booking. Comedy fared much bet-
ter out of town than in N. Y.

Slavin saw 'Papa' when it was in
Chicago and entered into a deal to
take over when the closing was an-
nounced. Theatre Guild merely an-
nounced an 'arrangement' with the
Blackstone management to explain
the play's resumiitlon. Cast will be
virtually Intact, only one withdrawal
being slated, Royal Beal being re-
placed by Otto Hulett.
. Slavin acquired , the Blackstone
before the end of Oie 'Life With
Father" run there. He is in the
trucking business. Plans to book
the house independently with thea-
tres in Detroit and Milwaukee fell
through.

Stage Again Lures Tilden

Los Angeles, March 3.
Bill Tllden, once tops on' the in-
ternational tennis courts, returns to
California as an actor In the legit
comedy.' "The Nice Harmons,' .open-
ing March 17 at the Assistance
League Playhouse.
* In featured roles are Bill Henry
and -Tala Bircll. Show is produced
by the Associated players.

CRIMPING SKEDS

Daylight Savings, Tire Ra'
tioning and Draft Expected
to A£Fect B.O.S, However
S ee Alfresco Spots Hurt
Most

MAKING THE BEST OF IT

Despite the threat of super-day-
light saving time, curtailed motoring
due to tire and gasoline rationing
and the uncertainty of actor status
under the draft, summer theatre
managements are planning a regu-
lar schedule. Outlook is admittedly
questionable, but the strawhatters
generally figure they'll Just make
the best of things and hope to get
by. So far, none Is known to have
called off plans for the season.

Outdoor spots, such as the St
Louis Municipal Opera, would be
most severely hit by an added hour
of daylight saving. Whether the
venture would be able to continue
In that case is a question. Even with
the added hour of daylight under the
present War Time the> curtain will
have to be delayed and the perform-
ances wiU have to be somewhat
shortened. St. Louis has never be-
fore had daylight savthg^ and, if an
extra hour were to be added else-
where, the city might not go alon^
with^the arrangement However, an
added hour of daylight would al-
most certainly be fatal for the al
fresco shows.

.Although no announcement has
been made, it's understood the Shu-
berts are going ahead with plans for
operetta seasons in the outdoor spots
In Louisville end Memphis, where
they presented shows of a similar
nature last season. Believed the plan
(Continued on page 51)

Carnegie Institute Prez Again Goes
Gunning Against Those VOe Critics'

'POT-POURRI' OFF

Cole Porter Bits Not Enough for
FnU-Length Shew

Cole Porter's Tot-Pourrl' is off as
a Shubert musical venture under
Harry Kaufman's aegis. One, diffi-
culty In getting people and, second)^,
because of a more recent attitude
that bits from past Porter shows
didn't consUtute a full legit show.
Edward Duryea Dowllng, who was
to stage it, was of that opinion,
among others in the Shubert organi-
zation.

Beatrice Lillie was wanted for the
'Pot-Pourri.' A few people had been
signed.

SLUMP PASSES
OP BlAY B.O,S

Broadway expected business to
slump directly after Washington's
Birthday last week, but attendance
held up and showmen were agree-
ably surprised. Managers have their
fingers crossed that any drop now
won't be too sharp up to March 19,
income tax time, but some of the
weaker shows will likely be forced
off. '

Because all but two shows gave
holiday matinees (23), most skipping
the midweek afternoons, those that
held to schedule' benefited and what
may be the final big grosses this
season for them were registered.
There were seven matinees on Wed-
nesday and only three on Thursday
(26). Shows playing Sundays usual-
ly lay off weekday afternoons.

Skepticism over the chances of
serious plays during dire war days
was borne out by three such dramas
lately: 'Plan M,f a- spy play, was a
fast casualty at the Belasco. Under
This Roof is doubtful, at the Wind-
sor, -but ■'Guest In The House' fared
better at the Plymouth than Siat
indicated. AU Qiree are trouble
plays and only exceptional dramas
of that type have been able to make
the grade in the past several seasons.

'Claudia' is the sole withdra\yal
announced for this week, play going
to the road after art excellent run
at the Booth, where It is to be fol-
lowed next week by 'Love, Laugl^ter
and Tears.' A revival- of 'A Kiss For
Cinderella' relights the Music Box,
after many dark weeks. Gilbert and
SuUivan operettas at the St. James
were slated to move out, but at least
two more weeks are now scheduled.

PAs and Mgrs. Now
Also Figuring on Pay
Flit From Producers

While N. Y. legit producers and
theatre operators are considering a
new pact with stagehands which
calls for pay Increases, other unions
also want a tilt the Assn. of
Theatrical Agents and Managers fig-
uring on an upward revision of sal-
aries. As yet they have not pre-
sented their proposals, agents and
managers not having arrived at the
upped figures they think they are
entitled to.

ATAM hinges Its contentions for
higher remuneration on the higher
cost of living index, which, in a gen-
eral way. Is similar to the argument
of other theatre groups. Further
claim is based on the heavier income
tax levies. Showmen -view the de-
mands of employees with some alarm
and. predict tiiat if the costs continue
to advance much further the number
of theatres able to operate will de-
crease.

Press agents get the highest pay
in ATAM, rate in New York being
$150 per show, with assistants re-
quired If the same management op-
erates more than one attraction.
House and company managers are
paid $100. It Is that part of the
organization that figures on higher
pay, but ATAM Is not expected to
seek an Increase for them without a
boost for the p.a.'s.- Understood tiiat
a number of members in ATAM are
receiving more than the scale and
are not particularly concerned with
the planned lifts.

PENNER'S ESTATE WINS
TOKE' WAGE DECISION

Salary claim for the final week's
appearance of the late Joe Fenner
in 'Yokel Boy' was arbitrated last
week, award being in favor of the
comedian's estate. Defending the
action was Ray Henderson and the
show's corporation, claim having
been .filed' by the widow and a Cali-
fornia bank as administrator, Penner
having died Intestate. ■ Lou Brown,
who originally produced 'Yokel' and
was Interested in the road presenta-
tion, was not a party ta the pro-
ceedings.

Penner died last year in Phila-
delphia, where "Yokel' had not com-
pleted the week's engagement As
three performances were cancelled,
the claim was for fiv^.eighths of the
contracted salary of $2,500, or ap-
proximately $1,600. Management
claimed that Penner had agreed to
a cut in salary because of weak
business and gave that as the reason
the money was not paid the wldpw
in full. Equity, which pressed the
claim, was not advised of any cut
arangement, as required.

It was shown that Mrs. Penner
received $625 from the management
and the award of $737 was for the
difference between that amount and
the prorata salary as set forth in
the actor's contract,

Pittsburgh, March S.

Or. Samud Harden Church, pres>
ident cf Carnegie Institute, play-
wright author, the man v/bo, as
spokesman for a group of wealthy
Pittsbiu-gbers, some time ago o^
fered $1,000,000 for the capture of
Hitler, dead or alive, and the coun-
try's No. 1 critic-baiter, U harping
on his favorite subject again, the
drama critics. In his column,
"Through the' Editor's Window,' in
the current Issue of the Carnegie
Magazine, Dr. Church leads off
with 'why must the world have
dramatic critics?' and then goes on
from there through three and a
half columns.

Dr. Church's latest effusion was
touched off bv the critical recep-
tion here of 'Candle In the Wind.'
Unfavorable reviews for either
Helen Hayes or Maxwell Ander-
son seem to do things to the 'I
can't -stand critics' educator. Last
year, when Twelfth Night' was
labeled 'a museum piece,' Dr.
Church flooded the local dailies
with letters to the editors about
the stupidity of its play-callers.
Several years ago, when Ander-
son's 'Star Wagon' opened at Nixon
prior to Broadway, and Harold
Cohen, crlUc for Post-Gazette,
labeled it a 'sappy, sugar-coated
pill,' Dr. Church flew into a rage
and composed a six-page letter to
the paper's publisher holding up
'Wagon' as one of the most beauti-
ful plays of all time.

In his Carnegie Magazine article.
Dr. Church stated that the au-
dacious Intrusion of critical opin-
ion (for 'Candle In Wind')' caused
the loss of several thousand dollars
In patronage In the week's ticket
sale and helped to shorten the life
of a play that had won universal
favor, the night before.' 'Candle'
did $20,000 here, one of Its best
weekly on the road, and booking
was for one week only.

Dr. Church is all for a return to
James ' Gordon Bennett's experi-
ment on the old N. Y. Herald, when
plays weren't reviewed, but were
covered by reporters who merely
wrote a brief description of Uie ex-
hibit the actors who took part in it
etc., and devoted most of the space
to the names of prominent people
who were in -the audience.

Article winds up with 'masses
who love the stage, both in New -
York and here, continue to ask why
must the world ttave dramatic
critics? For Pittsburg wants ■
good play every week. Instead of
one every six weeks (Ed: Pitts-
burgh- wlU have its first 40-week
.season In history this year). But
this happy ending cannot ensue as
long as plays are reviewed by men
whose sensibilities sleep throu^. sa
evening of popular entertainment
and charm.'

ACTORS FUND'S OWN
BENEFIT GOT $1U33

Total gross of the Actors Fund's
'own annual benefit at the Imperial,
N. Y, last W2ek (22) was $11,333.
That sum Included revenue from the
program, and "most of it is profit

Boxes were sold for - ^50 each., '
while the lower floor was scaled at
$25, $15 and $10, plus admiiQions
tax. A few rear row locations were
chopped at the boxoffice and there
were S4- standees.

i

Tbn N' Entirely Off

'Plan M;''the spy meller by James
Edward Grant which stopped after
six performances at the Belasco^
N. Y., failed to relight last week as
planned. The' war play is not nsf/r ,
expected to reappear.

Marion Gering, who staged It
tried to arrange tor the play resum-
ing, but failed to raise the necessary
backing. '

50 LEGITIMATE

small town drudge Inspired by love.
John Farrell and Peg Mayo In the
O'Casey play are outstanding.

Schuyler WatU' direction and
Oliver Smith's setUngs are all uiat
could be desired. '

[TrllooM voas to houe opened in
Boston Monday niakt (.2), but post-
poned until tonipht (Wed.) .due to
illness of Eddie DouiUne.l

Good Night Ladies

'San Francisco, March 2.
P(.rci> In llireo nctii >»■ CyruB Wooil. l'>n-
lureii lIuiMy SUafn nnU Skocta OnllnBhrr.
ProsenlPd by Howonl I-nnil ami Al Koiwii:
«lnBf.l by K.l»l<r<l Olnrko Llllcy: «te by
KrneBl niovpj-: RdBPtod from 'LriIIm NIrIii
liy Avert' llnpwomd nnd Thnrllon AmlrfwB.
At Curmn. Krlx-o, Mnirh.a. N2: *'.'.20 top.

Dndit T«rlet<m Vlvlnr Aumln

Kitty rtonnor Dirnnilcnr H.iyM

Mrs. ThiTjiin T«rlelon Dom Clement

Alk(n Blnlt' M"''" Dwyer

Kroil Itlnke Iftnlolph rRmcron

Mike Ilnnnrr Skcctn OnllnRllcr

Prof. 3nhn Mnlhewii lluilily Ebuen

,Mr». H!nnrhe O'ltrlcn r.«tlle Unrrlson

Jonnn? Dllvnl PccKy .SlPwnit

Annn .fwll Blllott

Mvrlle Itliukiilniie (Inyle .MolloU

llnliMlo... Mnrj"- KHen Piipel

Kve Itniii'lio l-Vnnc'Ofi KniBht

Vnllf-ewnmnn Itoutrlrr Newport

Klremiiii John McAvoy

New York is the goal of this hope-
ful experiment, tryinp out here after
a Santn Barbara break-in. but it's a
lightweight comedy with emphasis
strictly on sex. It won't get by on
Broadway, nor enhance Buddy Eb-
scii's career.

Inspired by Hopwood-Andrews' 'La-
dies Night,' this version is about a
prof (Ebsen) who is allergic to un-
draped females, a condition from
which friends seek to cure him. It's
the same basic formula which made
'Easy for Zee Zee.' also filmed by
the French under the title 'Have You
Nothing to Declare?' In that case
llie' guy was bothered by visions of
a customs inspector who interrupted
him at just the wrong moment on
a honeymopn train.

First act is laid in the living room
of the Bonner apartment. New. York,
to which action reverts in the third
act. Second act has Ebson trapped
in a ladies Turkish bath. This scene
even include; a burly strip.

There's a bevy of lookers in the
cas;. Production is good. Wern.

Wednesday, March 4, 1942 '

Lindsay-Crouse Quit Producing
For Playwrighting Exclusively
As Means to End 'Headaches

By KOBE MORRISON

While other authors are stamped-
ing to become producers of their
own work, Howard Lindsay -nnd
Russel Crouse are reversing the
procedure. Having shifted from
playwriting to producing with the
highly successful 'Arsenic and Old
Lace,' they're now going back to
being playwrights. Not producpr-
playwrights— Just playwrights.

The reason is simple, according to
•Buck' Crouse. It's just that having
tried being producers, Ihey prefer
being playwrights.

•Writing is more fun than produc-
ing' Grouse explains. 'If.'! more tun
to sec something you've written
come to life on the ^tage than it is
to watch a play you've produced.

But what about the other authors
who havfe made a well-developed
trend toward taking over production
in the ti.eatre, pictures apH radio
in recent years?

'I don't know about others, an-
swered Crouse. 'But Howard aitd
I discovered that being producers
takes too much time and energy.
When you write a play, your work is
over when the show opens, whether
iVs a hit or a flop. But when you
produce a play, your work is just
starting when it opens successfully.
Then the phone starts to ring and
you're burled with problems and
details. ■ ^, ,"

'Everyboily Wants Something'
•Everybody wants something. The
cast wants raises, all your Irielld^
want house seats and hundreds o/
people want passes. Then there are
the road companies and the picture
. sale, replacements for people leav-
ing the cast, plus endless matters to
take up with your backers. It
doesn't allow any time for anything
else— like writing new plays, for m-
stance. And in Howard's case it's
even worse, as he also has to act
in 'Life With Father.'

'Of course, we're not necessarily
through with producing perma-
nently,' the one-time newspaperman
and legit press agent added. 'If we
read a play that promises to be fun
to do, we'd doubtless produce it our-
selves. We'd probably not produce
one of our own plays, as we both
think an outside viewpoint is es-
sential to gej a proper perspective
on the & ript and production. That's
why we're giving our new one,
•Strip for Action,' to Oscar Serlin
to do.'

Did the statement about an . out-
sider's perspective on a script mean
an experienced producer could help
the author in production? Does a
producer have a legitimate func-
tion?

Cites Astute Showmen
■ "Very decidedly," Crouac responded
'A competent producer has a vital
function. But there are f^w com-
petent producers remaining in the
theatre today."" Prohibition brought
about changed conditions on Broad-
way. It used to be that producers
were men of 'great experience and
Judgment about scripts and produc-
,.tioa Then during prohibition aiiy-
" body could get money from his boot-
legger to put on a play, so all any-
one had to do .to become a producer
was to get some backing. Incom-
petent producers, as much as incom-
petent playwrights, are responsible
lor the dearth of hit plays. '
• 'Men . like Belasco, Charles Froh
man and Sam Harris supplied some
, thing vital besides Bnancing. . They
' had Judgment about scripts and
patience not to throw a half-written
play on the stage just because it
had a promising idea or they had
sufficient ' backing. But nowadays
-' there are few prodiicers — mostly
Jiist promoters.'

.Crouse disagrees with those who
argue that playwrights should con
centrate* on timely issues — particu
lariy by writing palys about the war.
The public doesn't want to see seri-
ous war plays,' he thinks. 'If any-
one wants war plays to be -done let
him put up the financing for them.'

He revealed that Lindsay and he
have an idea for a serious play—
■tlieir first. But he won't tell what
It Is.

Shows in Rehearsal

2 X 4'— Rowland

'The Moon Is Down' — Oscar
Serlin.

'Johnny
Brown.

'A Kiss For CIndereUa'—

Cheryl Crawford, Richard Kra-.
kuer.

Plays Out of Town

Life^ Laughter and Tears

Princeton. Feb". 28.
Fdillc Duwtlni; presents n melnniio of
Wltllnm Snroynn and Sonn O'Casoy. wlih
D.nvtiDK* mill Julie Ilnydon «torr«l. t
rcctcd by Schuyler Wntts. with scltlnRS by
Oliver Smith. Pronenied nt MrCnrler Ihe-
.iln*. Trinrplon. N. J.. Feb. 28. '-12.
'COMING THROUGH THE'RYE'
By William Saroyan

Butch fiene Rom

Mr. Curroll Farrell Pelly

Steve ■. Eddie Dowllni;

MfH. QuU-kly Mildred Dunnock

Hoosevelt Mervyr Tnylor

Alk-e Hoiie LiiiiKe

Ijirry MKfinel ArtUt

I'odro Vinnle Vincent

Mnrv Jonn Shepherd

Hen'ileiiA Patrlcl:i Hoe

nnlph HRflllngfi Ocorjie Blackwood

I'eKgy. ..." Julio Ilnydon

•THE END OF THE BEGINNING'
■By Sean O'Casey

Dnrry Eddie Dowllnfc

Biirry John l-'nrrell

l,lT,ilc Peg Mnyo

'HELLO OUT THERE'
By William Saroyan

Phnin Finish Bddle DowUnp

the! Julie Ilnydon

The M:in Grover Buifieiw

Another .Mnn (.leorRC Blackwood

The \Vom:tn Ann RrlFcoll

Third Man Farroll Telly

Play on Broadway

Inside Stulf-Legit

Cheryl Crawford and John Wildberg, et al., who revived 'Porgy and'
Bess,' Majestic, N. Y., will possibly be declared in on the picture rights, If
and when sold, but have no legal claim to such participation despite' reports
emanating from them. The revival has stimulated picture interes* and bids
have been made, a percentage plan included.

Rights are owned by the Theatre Guild, which produced 'Porgy' and
'Porgy and Bess.' When the latter, in operatic form, was put on, the late
George Gershwin, who wrote the score, desired all rights be cleared up
It was discovered that the film rights had been bought on 'Porgy' as a book
so for protection were bought back by the Guild and the authors (George
and Ira Gershwin, Du Bose and Dorothy Heyward). A few others are
Interested, but the present management and coterie of backers are re-
stricted to the revival's stage profits. ' ' '

Hearings before a special master In New York ha ve been conducted for
some weeks to Ax the amount of damages in the court action in the
case of the pirated play 'Oscar Wilde.' Plaintiff Is the widow (Ndlie) of
Frank Harris, she being upheld in the contention that the English authors,
Sewell and Leslie Stokes, had lifted considerable material from- her hus-
band's book on Wilde and used It in the play.

'Wilde' was presented hMe at the Fulton, N. Y., in 1938 by Normnn
Marshall, British showman, who is abroad, as are the authors. Gilbert
Miller was interested in the production and is Included among the defend-
ants. Each and all are responsible in the eyes ol the court and with the '
others being absent. Miller may have to stand the full brunt of-the award.

After next week, William Fields, who hrs been publicizing Helen Hayes
in 'Candle in the Wind' on tour, will be succeeded by Francis Robinson,'
who takes over in Chicago. Replacement is being made at Fields' request,
he planning to spend a month's vacation at his home in Connecticut
Robinson is -currently agenting 'Rose Burke,' but the Katharine Cornell
play is closing ' shortly instead of coming to Btroadway, leaving him free
to accept the ' Wirid' . assignment. ^

'Wind' will cover much territory, being routed through the southwest
following the Loop date. Show has beeii flourishing on the road since
leaving New York. In the past eight weeks the gross dipped under $20,000
only twice.

Lead cartoon in the current New Yorker is. strictly for Broadway, where
i; provoked laughs. From a hand truck, familiar ih the garment district,
a fellow iS| alighting in front of a theatre. The caption has another man
in evening dress saying to his consort: 'It must be the critic for Women's
Wear.'

Couple are figured to depict Hope Hampton and Jules Brulatour, champ
first-nighters, while the critic is conceded to be Kelcey Allen, long the
show-coverer for the garment trade daily. In the picture the reviewer
sports a coat with a fur collar, w.hich caused Allen to say that maybe it
isn't intended to be him, because he don't Own such a thing. However,
he might borrow one from George Jean Nathan.

' Engagements

otto Kruger,- Ralph Morgan, Alan
Hewitt, Maria Palmer, Carl Gose,
William Eythe, 'The Moon Is Down.'

The combination of Eddie Dowling,
jLlie Haydon, William Saroyan and
Sean O'Casey, although Intriguing
in prospect, fails to jell. Appearing
in the dual role of producer-actor,
Dowling has taken two short plays
by Saroyan, one a typical excursion
into the abstract,' the other a wistful
tragedy, has added on> of the lesser
O'Casey efforts and defines It as
'Life, Laughter and Tears.' Actually,
what he has is three one-act plays,
none of which are able to stand
alone and none of them benefiting
bv the combination. As Broadway
fare the venture is doubtful.

^'Casey's contribution, 'Coming
Through the Rye,' representing the
'Laughter' portion of the trilogy, is
mild indeed when compared with
other O'Casey comedies and defi-
nitely poor when stacked up against
his moving tragedies. The script
makes good material for an amateur
skit, but has teen drained of every
laugh afforded in the wite-donning-
the-pants situation by slapstic'-. films
and animated cartoons. Not even
the superlative acting of Dowling
and John Farrell can conceal the
fact that O'Casey's venture into
slapstick fails to click.

Saroyan's one-acters will tend to
add fuel to the unsettled controversy
as to his stature as a playwright.
Sprinkled throughout are live coals
that bring you to the edge of your
seat in expectancy, then splutter
into ashen abstractions. Here is the
Saroyan who sees hope for the living
and desires life, yet again is made
bitter and distrustful of people. He
spits on them and loves them. Thus
in 'Hello Out There' (the 'Tears'
sequence) his conclusion is 'Look
for human, people; they're decent.'
But in 'The End of the Beginning'
(the 'Life' sequence) he rationalizes
that life stinks. Perhaps more so
than in any other .of his plays, the
key to the 'Saroyan tragedy' can be
found here.. He proves unmistakably
that the spark of a very rare talent
is there. He kindles It each time
with an idea and then suddenly is
frightened at what he might find if
he follows through.

Of the two Saroyan plays, 'Hello'
is far the superior. The tale is of
a hobo Jailed In a small Texas town
on a trumped ud rape charge. The
End' finds Saroyan returning to the
sphere of the 'unknown,' wYiere he
cannot' be .challenged. As the title
implies, his characters start at the
end, but it is really the beginning.
For in this land, where they wait
to begin life, they are shown as they
ite at the time of death, knowing
everything thai, life holds for them.

-Dowling Is at all times a superb
actor, injecting into the Saroyan
lines more than the author may
have Intended and .drawing from the
O'Casey roltf every ounce ofhjimor.
Julie Haydon gives a sensittVe por-
trayal of a colorless and obscure

GUEST IN THE HOUSE

Dmina In three arlM (8lx wenCB) liy ITngnr
Wllilf nnil Dale l::un»on, from ittory by
■Kalhcrlnc Albert. Directed by nexlnnld
Dcnhuin; netllng by Raymond Sovry; pre-
sented bv Stephen & Paul Aineu, at Plym-
outh theatre. N. Y.. Feb. 2t, ■42; »3.80 top
(%IAO opening).

Ann Proctor Loulao Campbell

Lee Proctor Joan Spencor

Hilda ; Hlldred Price

Rei". Dr. Shnw .-r Walter Beck

Aunl Martha Proctor.... Kuthorlne Kmmct

MIrlnm Blake Port Kelton

Dan I'roelor Wllllom Prince

DnuRlos Proctor T-eon Amos

.Tohn OwHr Storllng

Kvelyn Henth Mory Anderson

i<YRnk Dow ' Hichnrd Barbee

Mm. D(»w Helen fltewnrl

MliiH Rhodes Krleda Altmnn

Cain Tmcy.' Robert Brotoh

For pute malevolence, the girl in
'Guest in the House' is about the
most fiendish stage character since
the brat in 'Children's Hour.' Thanks
to her there's a shuddery second act,
but the first act is mild and the third
act is too pat.- Tne jhow as a whole
doesn't generate enough chills, and
although it may get a few weeks' run,
it seems unlikely to pay oft the nut.

Until the arrival of the whining
young she-horror, the Connecticut
household is a sunny place. But in a-
short time papa begins hitting the
booze and doing no work; mama gets
the jitters from hearing 'Llebes-
t'raum' played incessantly on the
phonograph; the normally healthy
daughter is on the way to becoming
a hypochondriac, and even the cook
files into a dudgeon and stamps out
of the house. But finally the authors
dispose of the young hellion by
means of a transparently planted and
over-convenient contrivance.

f'lZy starts quietly, establishing the
basic situation of the cheery couple,
iiieir lively daughter and contented
home. Some of the plot threads are
rather obviously set and the way the
other characters accept the sinister
guest so gullli>ly is a bit hard to
take. But if that vital premise is ac-
cepted, the violence of the second act
is intensely absorbing. Fact that the
show was so highly touted, out of
town probably hurt its chances on
Broadway, as first-nighters not only
expected too much, but also spotted
the girl as the play's menace. Another
factor- against the play is that it will
inevitably be compared unfavorably
with 'Children's Hou •.'

Part of the fiendish girl is one of
the best in some time and Mary
Anderson, making her Broadway
debut, should acquire a rep if the
show gets a run. Hollywood actress
is obviously inexperienced and
doesn't make th'e girL believable in
the early scenes; Her playing im-
prove!;, however, and her emotional
scenes are quite stirring. Leon Ames
IS artfully natural as the good-na-
tured, obtutse artist-husband of the
household, his playing of a difficult
drunk scene b»ing particularly good.

Louise Campbell, biso known in
pictures, gives an expert perform
ance as the distraught wife. Her
bantering opening scene is attrac-
tively played, while the tough sub-
sequent scenes, in which she straights

Jules J. Leventhal is now guaranteeing salaries of the players in 'Under
This Roof,' which opened at the Windsor N Y., last week. Stock impresario
had an interest in the play, which the 'critics well-regarded as a literary
work, but short on its drama content. It was written by Herbert B. Ehr-
mann, Boston attorney. 'Roof was the latest show to emanate from the
summer theatres, first tried out there in 1940. "

Play was presented by Russell Lewis, who came from the Coast, and
Rita Hassan. Latter was secretary to Burgess Meredith when he tempo-
rarily hea'.ed Equity. With Leventhal guaranteeing the players; around
$3,500 deposited with Equity for that purpose was made available for
pressing obligations.

Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse have rejoined the League of New
York Theatres, being the first of several auihor-managers to do so among
those who resigned during the argument between the League and Drama-
tists Guild over the letter's extended basic agreement a year or so ago.
Duo who made 'Life with Father' into a play are producers of 'Arsenic
and Old Lace," running at the Fulton, N. Y., with another company touring.

Understood that George' Abbott will also rejoin. Playwrights Co. indi-
cated they would also rejoin, putting that move aside when it was decided
to close 'There Shall Be No Night.' The Playwrights are inactive as man-
agers at this time, thpugh co-producers of 'Candle in the Wind.'

Plan of Shepard Traube, producer, to alternate leading jnen in his two
companies of 'Angel Street' for a short time has been dropped. Touring
company next week goes to St. Louis, 'Vincent Price': home town, and actor
on Broadway had expressed a desire io play 'Street' there, with Victor
Jory coming in from road to lake over at Golden, N. Y. However, drama
goes direct from St, Louis to Chicago for a run, and it was felt that Jory,
stepping out of No. 2 company for the week immediately preceding play's
No. 1 road stand and then rushing right back Into it for Chi engagement
might be harmful, and so Traube ha. shelved the idea.

Legit theatres on Broadway are helping the sale of Defense Stamps and
Bonds. Girls, assigned by the American l^eatre Wing, are supplied with
a table and chair spotted in the lobby and have metal cash boxes for re-
ceipts and federal saving securities.

Defense Stamp purchases are being made weekly by casts, stage crews
and others of a number of run shows. Some houses claim the entire staffs
front and back have agreed to .salary deductlons^for that purpose, first to
report that rating being the Ethel Barrymore, where 'Best Foot Forward'
is current.

American Academy Guild, which presented a production of 'Out of the
Frying Pan' at the Carnegie Lyceum, N. Y., Monday night (2), is composed
of former students at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, N. Y.
2r!^"^ William Shcehan, chairman; Sumner George, vice-chairman;
William Tregoe, treasurer; Mabel Ogelsby, secretary. Advisory board In-
cludes Tom Powers, Hume Cronyn, Martin Gabel, Alexander Kirkland,
Maurice McRae and Carter Blake. Among the organization's aims are per-
formancesno showcase talent and a permanent stock company in N. Y.

for the other characters, are skill-
fully handled. She uses her voice
and body expressively and has a nice
sense of timing.

Joan Spencer properly contrasts
the gaiety and- moroseness of the
daughter and is agreeably lacking in
precociousness. Katherine Emmet is
rightly sardonic as a realistic aunt,
and Pert Kelton scores as a flip
artist's model. Hildred Price is aif-
mirably rigid as the maid, while
Walter Beck William Prince, Oscar
Sterling, Richard Barbee, Helen
Steward, Frieda Altman and Robert
Breton are varyingly satisfactory in
minor parts.

Reginald Denham, who co-auth-
ored and directed 'Ladies in Retire-
ment,-' ■ has staged 'Guest in the
House' with the same uncanny' feel-
ing for melodrama, Raymond Sovey's
single setting handsomely -projects
the play's Connecticut locale and pro-
vides ample playing space. Although
Stephen and Paul Ames, the play's

presenters, are a new producing
team, the opening night perform-
ance was proficiently handled.

'Guest' was adapted by Hagar
Wilde and Dale Eunson, screen writ-
ers, from a story by Katherine Al-
bert. Because of its dire subject
matter it's doubtful- film material,
particularly at the present time. .

'Johnny Doo.dle' Co-op

'Johnny Doodle,' a play with mu-
sic but no orchestra, will open March
11 at the PopuUr theatre on West
57lh street .(old Y.M.C.A.) in the
hope of getting a run at $1.65. "S
cooperative.

Written, by Alfred Saxe, former
Group Theatre member, and Jane
McLeod, it uses American folk music
'from Boston Harbor to Pearl Ifer-
bor.'

Wednesday, Marcb 4, 1942

ubgithiats ii

'Spirit' $15M Lo(d[$ Good For
RuDindii'Com'SlSMStiDBig

Chicago, March 3.

Chicago drew another show last
night (Monday), when Tlie Rlvalt*
came into the Grand for a two-week
stay, tocal non-Equity ahow tagged
'American SldeAow,' produced by
Cliarles'K. Freeman, opened In the
Civic on Sunday (1).

EsUmatei for Last Week

•BUthe Spirit,' Selwyn (2nd week)
(1,000; $2.75), Doing well and looks
for bright run, collecting $15,000 on
first full week.

•Panama Battle,' Erlanger .(6th
week) (1,400; $3.30). Two more
weeks and then calls it a run. though
money will still be In the high profits
upon its departure. House goes tf
Helen Hayes in 'Candle in the Wind'
on March 16. Last week, 'Hattle*
fairly good at $20,000.

The Com Is Green,' Harris ,(6tfa
week) (1,000; . $2.75). Two more
weeks for this one and will be re-
placed March 15 by 'Angel Street'
Last week also a big winner at
$15,000.

Carrent Road Shows

(March 4-14)

'Angel Street' (2d Co.) — Cox, Cincy
(4-7); American, St. Louis (9-14).

'Aracnio and Old Lace' (2d Co.)
— Aud., Memphis (4-5); City Aud.,
'Jackson, Miss. (6); Munic. Aud.,
New Orleans (7); Temple, Birming-
ham (9); Erlanger, Atlanta (10-11);
Bijou, (Chattanooga (12); Ryman
Aud., Nashville (13); Mem. Aud.,
Louisville (14).

'BUthe Spirit' (2d Co.)— Selwyn,
Chi. (4-14).

' ^eaiom Time' — Metropolitan, Se-
attle (4-7); Mayfair. Portland, Ore.
(9-12); Capitol, Salt Lake City (14).

'Candle In the Wind' — Cass, De-
troit, (4-7); Paramount, Toledo (9);
Shrine, Ft. Wayne (10); Victory,
Dayton (11); Taft Aud., Cincy (12-
14).

'CUndU' (N. Y. Co.)— NixOT, Pitt.
(9-14).

<Claadla' (2d Co.) — Slate, Eau
Claire, Wis. (4); Chateau, Rochester,
Minn. (S); Aud, St Paul (6-7);
Coliseum, Sioux Falls, S. D. (8);
Orpheum, Sioux City (9); Para-
mount Omaha (10); Shrine Aud.,
Des Moines (11); Orpheum, Daven-
port (12); Parkway, Madison, Wis.
(U-14).

"Com la Green' ' — Harris, Chi.
(4-14).

<Pellwpappln' (N. Y. Co.)— For-
rest, Philly (4-7); Majestic, Boston
(10-14). ^

•Bellupoppin' (2d Co.) — Amer-
ican, St Louis (4-7); Cass, Detroit
(9-14).

. 'Junior Ulas' 0350)— Caia? Shel-
by. M^ (4-7); Camp Polk, La. (9-
10); Camp Claiborne, La. (12-14).

.'Life, Langhter and Tears'—
Plymouth, Boston (4*7).

'Ufe wUh Father* (2d Co.>-^Wil-
ma, Missoula, Mont (4); Fox, Spo-
kane (6); Capitol, YaUma, Wash.
nii Metropolitan, SeatUe (9-14).

'Ufe with . Father* (3d Co.)—
Broadway, Dehver (4-8); Chief,
Colorado Springs (9); Aud., Pueblo,
CoL (10); Plaza, Ei Paso (12); Rlalto,
Ti oson, Ariz. (14).

'Louisiana Pnrohase' — Shubert
Boston (4-14).

lUacbelb* — Erlanger, Buffalo
(4); Masonic Aud, Rochester, N. Y.
~(5); BushneU Aud., Hartford (7);
Locust, PhUly (9-14).

•My Dear PnbUo' — Shubert New
Haven (5-7); Colonial, Boston (9-14).

•My Slsfer EUeen' (2d Co.)— Bilt-
fflore, L. A. (4-14).

■My Slaler EUeen' (3d Co.)— Na-
tional, Washington (4-7).

'NaUve Bon' — Walnut, PhUly
(4-14).

'Panama BaiUe' — Erlanger, Chi.
(4-14). ■

(•"l')** ^ AH' — Blackstone, CM.

•Hlvals' — Grand Opera House,
Chi. (4-14). •

•Boae Borke' — Hartman, Colum-
bus (4); Hanni. Cleve. (5-7);
erlanger, Buffalo (9-11); Royal
Alexandra, Toronto (12-14).

San Carlo Opera — Philharmonic
rpi ' ' Mem. Aud., Fresno

(J^^^Mem. Opera House, S. ,F.

m'^?*^'* — Nixon, Pitt

"Ji'/iy^ou*. Boston (9-14).
Dhm — Locust,

rtir^ /^-T); MetropoUtan, Provi-
dence (9); BushneU Aud., Hartford
Iroui' Shubert, New Haven (12-14).
W'thont Love — McCarter. Prince-

W 15G in Del

Detroit. March S.

"Pal Joey' wound up here follow-
ing Ita week at the Casa, In which
it picked up estimated $15,000 hi
eight performances at « $3J0 top.
Musical had come In after six weeks
in Chicago and folded here after
local orb; sounded their verdict that
its dialog was both dull and dirty.

It was followed Monday (2) by
Helen Haves in 'Candle in the Wind'
for six days, wliich, however, In-
cludes three matinees, one on Thurs-
day being a benefit for the Actors
Fund.

'EILEEN' BUEDS UP
TO $17^00 IN BALTO

Balthnore, March 3.

Utilizing Washington's Birthday for
an extra matinee, 'My Sister Eileen'
built to estimated solid $17,200 in
nine performances at Ford's last
week. Was third of ATS six-week
subscription season.

Nothing listed currently. Kath-
arine Hepburn, in Phillip Barry's
'Without Love,' will open at Ford's
March 9.

Los Angeles, March 3.
Despite blackout and air raid jit-
ters of the local populace, 'My Sister
Eileen' clipped off estimated $11,000
for the second stanza of four-week
session at the Biltmore. First week
hit around $12,000, with plenty of
action from the Hollywood film
crowd.

Intimate revue, 'Rally Round the
Girls,' opened at the Hollywood Play-
house Saturday night (28), moving
up from the Assistance League lim-
ited seater. Will have to carry
through on wediend biz to hold in
the house for more than brief speU.

Tather*, $2,900 in 2-Day
Duluth Date, 1st Dive

Duluth, March S.

■Life with Father' finally had Its
first poor engagement No one has
been ahle to figure out why, but
three evening and one matinee per-
formance (23-24) brought only esti-
mated $2,900.

Company with Percy Waram and
Margalo Cillmore came In on deal
whereby it showed at all Minh.
Amus. Co. houses. Income tax wor-
ries, and fact that localites have got-
ten out of habit of going to the the-
atre, given as reasons for dive.

Fingerprints

:Cantlnn«a from p«fe Is

other defense Industries in Southern
California.

Board of directors of the Produ-
cers Ass'n Monday approved alien
identification and fingerprinting for
the entha motkin picture industry.
Industry-wide program will be or-
ganized by Fred Beetson exec v.p. of
the producers. First move will be a
meeting of reps of aH Guilds and
unions to draft a questionnahre broad
enough to provide the necessary In-
formation to facilitate movement pic-
ture workers, in conformity, with
Government regulations. That Guilds
and unions favor a uniform identi-
fication card, carrying photo, finger-
prints and essential information rel-
ative to citizenship. It is indicated in
the prelimhiary survey.

Reserved Seats

sContinued from page Is

bring about uncertainty as to what
activity anyone- will be engaged in
a month, or even a week hence. In
addition large part of the population
is now working odd shifts, instead of
the usual 9-to-5. Hours are continu-
ally behig changed and people appar-
ently don't buy tlx in advanc.e for,
fear they may be working that night
There are also, on both coastsr Red
Cross classes, civilian defense meet-
ings, air raid warden watches and
other such activities that call for at-
tendance at short notice. Showmen
are hoping that when the war effort
becomes better routined prospective
audiences again will be planning
ahead and .won't rush ticket agencies

/Chodia' 6iG m Mpls.

Minneapolis, March 3.
Hurt by luke-warm reviews. Lent
and income tax time, 'Claudia'
wobbled through to estimated ll^t
|6,S0O in six nights and two mati-
nees at $2.75 top at the 2.100-seat
Lyceum.

House has only one other tenta-
tive booking, the Maurice Evans
producUon of 'Macbeth.'

'RK STRONG
$20,000. PHEY

Philadelphia, March 3.
Sensational bis done by 'Watch on
the Rhine' in its Urst stanza at the
Locust Street featured last week's
legit biz. Another surprise came
yesterday (Monday) with announce-
ment that 'Hellzappppin' would wind
up local stay at the Forrest Satur-
day (7). Ads had announced March
14 as windup.

Estimates for Last Week
'Watch on the Bhlne,' Locust (1st
week) (1,500; $3.42). Sensation of
y*,!"^' capacity ruling latter
half. Close to $20,000. This is final
week, however. 'Macbeth' rext Mon-
day (9).

'Hellzapoppln,' For-est (10th week)
(1,800; $3.42). Sudden announcement
of ending of local run Saturday (7)
came as surprise, although edge was
admittedly off. Got $20,000 last
week. House has no bookings so far
until 'Panama Hattie' middle of
April.

,.'Na«ve Son,' Wahiut (1st week)
(1,700; $2.50). Opened Monday mati-
nee so as not to conflict with 'Rhine.'
Notices okay and biz regarded bs
fair with lust under $8,000.

'ANGE;- $9,000, FAILS
TOLANDlNPnT

Pittsburgh, March 3,
'Angel Street' was a disappoint-
ment last week at Nixon, Chi com-
pany, headed by Sylvia Sidney, Vic
tor Jory and Ernest Cossart getting
only estimated $9,000 at $2.75 top.
This, too, despite raves from all three
crlx.

'Street' under tiUe of •Gaslight'
was done here year by local 'com-
munity theatre, the Playhouse, and
wasn't received very well then.
Script has since been considerably
revised and bettered, which local
newspapers were careful to point
out out even so knowledge that it
was once an amateur production here
hurt play a lot Indmerent gross at
Nixon also represented nine per-
formances, extra one coming In form
of Washington's Birthday matinee.
Nixon has Tobacco Road' cmrrent for
eighth time.

Hayes Nifty $16,000
In 4-Day Milw. Date

Milwaukee, March 3.

Sold out before opening here for
four nights and two matinees,' Helen
Hayes in 'Candle in the Wind' fin-
ished the date of the Pabst (Ind)
Saturday night (28) with an esti-
mat- ..at $16,500 at $3.30 top.

A two-night stand in Madison
started the week; total take esti-
mated over $20,500.

Extra seats placed in the orchestra
pit forced the musicians out so they
did their 'Star Spangled Banner'
overture from the apron of the stage.

Flora Robson to Guest
In Community Theatre

Pittsburgh, March 3.
Pittsburgh Playhouse, local com-
munity theatre, will have an extra
guest-star production this spring
for first time in its five-year his-
tory. Signed is Flora Robson, who
will do 'Suspect,' which Pauline
Lord acted on Broadv/ay last sea-
son, for- three weeks beginning
March 21. She'll be supported by
a group of local amateurs.
• Playhouse is directed by Fred
Burleigh, who during summer op-
erates South Short Players at Co-
hasset, Mass., with Mrs. Alexander
Dean.

B\rayBiz€oiiimiiesBig;'Banj^^^
SSSmTacelt'SSi/zailestFoof
$21,000, 'Arsenk' ISa AH (%nb

Broadway expected a sharp decline
Immediately after Washington's
Birthday, but business remamed ex-
ceptionally strong through the week
and some new highs were registered.
Reviews of two new dramas unfavor-
able, but one, 'Guest in the House,'
Plymouth, may make the grade re-
gardless.

Estimates for Last Week

Keyr. C. (.Comedy), D (Drama),
CD (Comedy-Drama), R (Hemie),
M (Musical), 6 (.Operetta).

'Angel Street' Golden (12th week)
(D-78g; $3.30). With fine start at extra
holida^ matinee, thriller coasted
well over the $14,000 mark.

'Arsenlo and Old l4u;e,' Fulton
(59th week) (CD-838; $3.30). Held to
eight performances, but big business
on Washington's Birthday helped in-
crease to nearly $15,000.

'Banjo Eyes,' Hollywood (10th
week) (M-1,S63; $4.4Q). Also gave
regulation eight shows, but also
climbed, takings being quoted around
$33,000; counting on summer stay.

'Best Foot Forward,' Barrymore
(22d.. week) (M-1,104; $4.40). No
added performance here either, but
some pickup. Gross rated around
$21,000; very good for musical with-
out names.

'Blithe Spirit' Morosco (17th week)

Strawhats

Continued from pace 4S;

'Blossom' 14C» in S. F.

San Francisco, March 3.
Second-final week of 'Blossom
Tinie.' with Everett Marshall, got es-

ic to delay curtains and curtail per-
formances, as at St Louis.

William Miles, operator of the
Berkshire playhouse, , Stockbridge,
Mass., is going ahead with plans for
a regular season of 10 weelcs, open-
ing June 29. Admitting possible
difficulties because of curtailed
motoring, he figures grosses may be
less than previous years, particu-
larly last season's record figures, but
that by careful handling the stunmer
should show a profit He has al-
ready tentatively scheduled one try-
out, 'Off the Record,' a eoniedy about
the radio business, by Knowles
Entrikln and Howard Breslin. Miles
is currently In the cast of 'Jason,'
kt the Hudson, N. Y.

Karen Morley is looking for a
summer theatre to lease, but so far
has not seen any that Aiits her. If
she finds s satisfactory spot she will
operate the venture on her own,
being production and business man-
ager and acting in occasional shows,
but not directing. However, her
plans aren't definite, due to possible
picture plans.

Already announced as returning to
the regular stands are Cheryl Craw-
ford and John Wildberg, at Maple-
wood, N. J.; Kenyon Nicholson and
Theron Bamberger, at New Hope,
Pa.; Arthur Sircom (for Richard
Aldrich), at Dennis, Mass.; the Jones
family at Pawling, N. Y., and Edna
Holstrom (for Alan Gray Holmes),
at Westboro, Mass.

Bt L. Bcltooks Old Faces

St Louis, March 3.

The opening and closing pieces,
'Glamorous Night' and 'Show Boat'
have been skedded by the Municipal
Theatre Assn. for presentation at
the al fresco playhouse in Forest
Park during the 1942 season: 'Glam-
orous,' which tees off the season, will
June 4. Of London origin, piece was
given American preem here in 1936.

'Jhow Boat' will be making its
run 11 consecutive nights starting
fourth appearance in the open air
theatre, having been presented in
1930, 1034 and 1938.

Texas Operettas Again

Dallas, March 3.
'Opera Under The Stars,' which
was so successful here last year at
the Fair Park Casino, will reopen
again this year at the same site for
a 10-week engagement starting June
20 and running through A,ug. 30. A
new operetta will be presented each
week.

Productions are under the direc-
tion of J. J. Schubert

•Lost Colony* Bcpcat

Charlotte, N. C, March 3.
Despite war worries and U-boat
threats to the coast of North Caro-
lina, people at Manteo are going
ahead with plans tor operation of
Paul Greens 'Lost Colony,' accord-

(Cp-936; $3J0). Played nine tfanes
and, while not a sellout, went to
around $18,000; real coin-getter for
straight play.

'Cafe Crown,' Cort (5th week)
(CD-l,0e4; $3.30). Qos* to $10,000
again last week and if pace can be
held at that approximate level will
run through spring.

'ClandU,' Booth (CD-712; $3.30).
Final and 56th week; has scored ex-
cellent run and played much longer
than originally expected; nine times
last week to nearly $11,000.

'Guest In the House,' Plymouth
(1st week) (CD-1,057; $3.30). With
one or two exceptions, drew doubt-
ful press, but quoted over $10,000 in
seven times, indicating good chance.

'Heart of a City,' Miller (3d week)
(p-940; $3.30). Novel war play gets
good word-of-mouth, but not enough
people are beinir drawn to the the-
atre: under $6,000. .
• 'HIeh K'ckers.' Broadhursf- (17th
week) (M-1.142; $4.40).' Sunday and
holiday buflness again the strength
of the draw: gross went up, claimed
to have topped $17.000..

It Happens on Ice.' Center (re-
sumed engagement) (66th week) (R-
3,026; $1.65). Holds position among
best grossers in town. wiUi weekend
and holiday trade holding it- up;
played 10 times; $27,600, quoted.

'Jason.' Haitian (6th week) (CD-
1.094: $3.30). Finally oerked up; last
week's takings In eieht performances
quoted around S7.500. - which meant
an operatlni; profit

'Junior Mimi.' Lyceum (ISth week)
(Cn-1.004: $3.30). Has been running
neck and neck ' for s'a-alght show
leadership and toooed the field last
week by getting $18,700 In nine per-
formances.

■Lady fai the Dark,*^ Alvin (re-
sumed) (46th week) rM-1,387: J4.40).
May go to road during spring, btit
istlll making coin; no extra matinee,
but better because of standee holi-
day matinee; around $24,000.

■Let'ii Face It' Imnerlal (18th week)
(M-1.450: S4.40). Like most.muskals
held to eight performances, but went
up somewhat the count being $38,-
500: also, looks -sure for summer.

Ufe wUh Father.' Empire (120fh
week) (CD-1,082: $3.30). Got some
benefit of the holiday, but nd eirtra
matinee and la eieht times the iap
holdover got $13,000.

■My Sister Eileen.' Bntmore (tU
week) (CD-t»l; SSJO). What with
limited number of midweek matinees,
that afternoon performance here sold
out; played nine times and sported
to around fl2.0Vk

VUu M,' Belasco. Plan to relight
did not materialize; played six per-
formances.

'Sans o' Fan,' Winter Garden (13fh
week) (R-1.519: $4.40). Soared to
more than $43,000 last week; big Sun-
day and Monday provided the lift; .
two performances were at $5.50 top.

'Sorlns Anin,' -Playhouse (16ih
week) (CD-865; $3.30). Further im- •
proved and should make run of it;
takings last week quoted around $9,-
500: no extra nerformance.

Dnder This Boef,' Windsor (D-873;
$3.30). Indicated chancy not so
good; some change in managerial set-
up made ofter opening; estimated
takings $3,500.

Bevtvala

Vergy and Bess,' Majestic (Sth
week) (M.>1,175; $2.75). Holiday ac-
counted for revival topper to reach
another new high, takings being
$24,000; boxofflce reaction ^like with
a new show and is likely to play
through summer or longer.

Gilbert and SoUlvan, St James
(6th week) (1,520; $2.20). Was listed
to tour after this week, but at least
two more weeks have been an-
nounced; rated around $11,000, which
was improvement

THE MAM WHO CAME TO DINNER-
"YOU'IE IN THE ARMY NOW
WARNER BROS.
Mat. U>0 OLATTON

SAMUEL FRENCH

SINCE l>M
AUTHORr REPRESENTATIVE

Play* Ut StaM SfTtM ud riatflf '
IS Wat 4Jlh Stmt, Nn Vift
• II Wart nb SlrMl. Ui Aaialaa

52

LITERATI

Wednesday, March 4, 1942.

■ r

PM's S<M>k Month <

February was probably^ the top
news month for PM since 'it started.

This New York afternoon tab at-
tracted plenty of attention, and un-
doubtedly some added circulation, on
three stories it broke In rapid suc-
cession. First came its yarn on the
Normandie (the ease with which one
of Its reporters found employme;it
. on that ship), after which the paper
sent reporters wandcrinc through
defense factories with little or no
interruption. Finally Uie paper raised
a howl about George Deatherage.
suspected of Fascist leanings and
previously called before the Dies
Committee. The publicity concluded
in Deathnragc being classed ns 'un-
desirable' by the Navy Department
and dropped from the Norfolk naval
project on which he held an execu-
tive post.

Wlien the Navy decision became
known the other N. Y. papers hopped
on the Deatherage story, but none
that this department saw gave credit
to PM for digging it.

Circulation of PM has been
climbing since the start of the war
and execs are viewing its chances
with more optimism than at almost
any time since the New York daily's
Inception. Average daily circulation
last week was around 115.000, while
the Sunday hit around 123,000. Daily
average was fluctuating between
90,000 and 100,000,' occasionally
fluttering below or above those
figures before the war.

Hyman Goldberg, formerly on the
New York Post, has been added to
PM's staff as local feature writer.
Loren Disney, of AP and later City
News, is also a newcomer. Paul Ross,
one of the PM staffers recently given
leaves of absence with pay until
they found new jobs, has been re-
stored to active duty. Newspaper
Guild is flghtir.g cases of Ave others
given similar leaves and since then
fired outright.

umn where the newsman chided
Hollywood for Jumping into fancy
officershlps, allegedly lodging- the-
draft, etc.

Rising to the Attack

Unusual rising-to-the:Occasion oc-
curred twice in one week when Cor-
poral Jimmy Cannon, who writes
for PM from Fort DIx. and N. V.
Journal - American's Louis Sobol
both jumped to Lieut. Commander
(USNR) Walter Winchell's defense
against Wsshington attacks on his
'patriotism.' Winchell has re-
peatedly stressed his comparative
vcteranship in the Naval Reserve
(1934); his willingntss for active
duty;v the suggestion from superiors
he'd be move valuable in the morale
work he's doing, the official ap-
proval from the Navy to continue
hi<: columnar and radio activities.
Seemingly the Congressional attack-
ers pot-shotting at Winchell blind
themselves to that for their own
reasons.

From the newspaperrhan's view-
point, it's been no secret that fellow
Henrstmcn Sobol and Winchell
haven't been exactly clubby— al-
though in recent months there has
been a greater entente cordialc — and
Sobol made point of that in his
well - phrased piece last week,
wherein ho academically reiterated
some of his (and the ■ newspaper
clan's) rea.sons for' being milfed
with Winchell. He stressed, how-
ever, that he (nor anybody else)
could not see the logic or sincerity
in scoring Winchell for his patriot-
ism. Cannon said the same thing
In effect, excerpts of which Winchell
reprinted.

department for six years, was elected
shop chairman on. Feb. 20 and fired
by the management on Feb. 21-. Few
weeks previously. Guild officers
state, when wind of Telegraph-Rac-
ing Form organizing drive by the
Guild got around, virtually all mem-
bers of the stiitl were suddenly given
raises and then called In and asked
if they were satisfied or still Intended
joining the Guild. ANG maintains
the two actions were in violation of
the Wagner act and applied to the
National Labor Relations Board for
a hearing, skedded for March 9.

Annenberg.is serving a three-year
sentence in Federal Penitentiary, at
Lewisburg, Pa., tor non-payment of
income taxes.

Droopy Drawers Ball. Players

About twice a week Dan Parker
(Mirror) has been placing his new
version of the squeeze play on ex-
hibition via putting Larry McPhail
through his typewriter roller. But
Jimmy Powers (News) spends more
days than that using one hand
with wjiich to blow a bugle for
the Dodgers' boss while pound-
ing Ed 'Barrow, of the' Yankees, on
the -head with the other. Anyway,
the boys are feuding It up because,
no doubt. It also helps to fill those
late winter paragra'phs.

But the wish of this department
Is that some one of the New York
sports writers would explain the
reason for those droopy drawers
(the pants down to the ankles) af-
fected by some of the modern ball
players. - Joe DiMaggio and Carl
Hubbell are the silliest, looking
pair we've- seen. '

Way back in the days when the
speed boys were stealing from 40 to
90 bases a season, you'll remember
they us^d to roll their pants just
" below the knee. Now they've ^got
'em almost to their shoes. The
theory here is that the constriction
Inherent in this new style can slow
up a player a full stride getting
to flrst.

It would be nice to get an au-
thoritative opinion in the matter
because It bothers the hell out of
us every time we see a picture of
DiMaggio or Hubl>ell. You can say,
of course, that if all the players
could play ball like those two they
could run out there without any
pants at all as far as you're con-
cerned. But you also know they'd
have a tough time getting to the
plate, liave alQne flrst, that way.

UP Gels N. Y. C. Coverage Plan

United Press has under considera-
tion a plan for establishing a New
York City news organization to com-
pete with the Associated Press,
which is offering local dailies a sub-
stitute service for the recently dis-
banded City News Association. Plan
UP is considering was presented to
it by the New York Newspaper
Guild in i long confab Saturday (28).
It had been worked out by aH the
New York public building and dis-
trict reporters. Guild and non-Guild
who had met at Guild headquarters
Thursday (26).

UP is interested in the idea inas-
much as it is now in the peculiar
position' of depending on the com-
petitive AP for its coverage of the
city. UP has only a minor local staff,
getting most of its city news from
the World-Telegram, which In turn
gets it from the new AP setup.

More of a worry to UP execs, how'
ever, than competition, over news Is
competition between its picture ser.
vice. Acme, and .AP's Wide World.
Acme had been dependent on City
News for picture tips, but must now
depend on AP.

Snillvan Kicks Back

Ed Sullivan rebuttaled to the
Hollywood Reporter's blast on the
columnist by columnlng, 'I (Sulli-
van) turned down a proffered com
mission that would have released
me from the draft and would have
permitted me to write ' this col-
umn daily, on the grounds, (a),
that I. had no more right to evade
.the draft than John Doe'; (b), that
I had no military experience to
qualify me as an officer'; (c), 'that
Inasmuch as this country had given
me a very delightful life for
years, I'd be very proud to serve
In any job assigned by the draft
board officials. , .So don't-a-give-a
me-a that-a routine, WUkerson, old
boy'..,.'

Last year, when Sullivan and the
N. Y. News-Chl Tribune syndicate
were reported parting, the column-
ist had a deal on with the Reporter
to assume Its editorship under WU-
kerson. Latter'sl:rap at Sullivan Is'
one of those defeuse-of-the-industry
stories, which concluded, 'By the
• way what branch of any war Service
Is. .Mr. Sullivan enlisted In?', and
was In refutation of a previous col-

Nlx Three Plays In. One Edition

Bennett Cerf wanted to medley
Cafe Crown,' 'Jason,' 'Angel Street'
and 'Thunder Rock' Into one book,
but H. S.: Kraft and Samson
Raphaelson, authors of the first two
plays, respectively, held out for in-
dividual editons as Cerfs firm.
Random - House, does on most
Broadway plays. Besides, Samuel
French published 'Angel Street'
under its original 'Gaslight' title
two years back^|^_^

RH. inciden'tAITy, is rushing books
by Cecil Brown,' CBS newscaster
from Australia, and C^rus L.
Sulzberger, N. Y. Timesman in the
Near, East. "They were two of the
three war correspondents kudosed
in absentia by the Overseas Press
Club at its annual dinner last week.
The other. Otto D. Tolischus, also
of the Times, is in Jap custody.

Oit the Upbeat

;Contlnned from page 3Ss

3

spot left vacant wlien Alan Foster
entered Army,

Shop Fields' brass-less band Is set
;tor indefinite stay at Edison hotel,
New York, opening March 16 in
place of current Blue Barron.

Lincoln still hasn't a band. Has
been dark tor supper since Jan. 3
when Harry James pulled out,

Tony GranaU, string bass and
member of the Cleveland mtisldans'
union board of directors, rerlacing
thil Nelson In Sal Gummlngs' band
at Green Darby, Cleveland,

Ted Straeler band Is to cut en
album of dance numbers for Decca
this week In waltz, fox-trot, conga,
rhumba' tempo.

Honor ytt N. T. Beportcr

Arthur J (Major) Taylor, veteran
court reporter, who has been cover-
ing the N. Y. state and Federal
tribunals . for 35 years, will be guest
of honor March 26 at a testimonial
dinner at the Hotel New Yorker,
N. Y.

Jack Hearst Moved East

Jack Hearst Ls being pgimanently
shifted east by his father, W. R.

Young Hearst will now concern
himself with- the American Weekly.

Bay Noble makes his tbird visit to
the Palace Rose room, Frisco, March
10. In for eight weeks with Al
Donahue following.

Cbico Marx into Stanley theatre,
Pittsburgh, week uf March 13.

Dave v')lftord has reorganized his
Pittsburgh musical- outfit, the Swing-
ing Strings, and opened there with
group Monday (2) at 7th Avenue
Hotel. <

Clyde Knight orchestra into
Green's, Pittsburgh, replacing Baron
Elliott Latter opens at O'Henry
Ballroom, Chicago, March 13.

Al Fremont now member of regi-
mental band at Fort Meade, Md.

Tommy Dorsey's orchestra doing a
series of one nighters in California
prior to a cross-cbuntry tour ending
at the Paramount, New York, April 1,

■Al Donohne ' and - his band were
signed to play In a musical picture,
still untitled, at Universal.

Scribes Nix Determent

Majority of newspapermen do not
want their profession placed in
draft exempt category, although Se-
lective Service has had such a move
under consideration. At a recent
press conference of Brig. General
Lewis B. Hershey, SS director, sub-
ject of exemptions for newsmen was
brought up and Hershey stated that
he would await ' receipt of editorial
and personal opinion from reporters
and writers before making a de-
cision.

Comment and editorial opinion re-
ceived so far, it has been learned, is
that there should be no special con-
sideration, despite necessary part
newspapers play in keeping public
informed. It Is figured '^unlikely,
therefore, that Gen. Hershey will
take any steps.

LITEBATI OBITS
iam- W. -Vldler, 82, newspaper
editor and reporter, died in Flag-
staff, Ariz., Feb. 23. He edited the
Victor Record at Cripple Creek, Col.,
during the days of the gold rush.

Annie Vlvantl, 74, British bom
Italian authoress, died in Milan, Feb.
25. She was the writer of works
which were translated into several
languages.

Frank Crosssn Schell, 85, artist
and correspondent fqr Leslie's
Weekly, during the Spanish-
American War, dieJ Feb. 24 in a
North Philadelphia nursing home.

Herbert Muhlker, 50, In charge of
advertising makeup tor the N. Y.
Times, died"March 1 in Lynbrook,
L. I. He had been with the Times
22 years.

Pool War Pictorial Coverage

Three major photo syndicates and
Life mag have' entered into a pool-
ing arrangement for reciprocal cov-
erage of the war. Plan was suggested
by the Army and Navy and is
similar to the pooling agreement
which newsreels have had in effect
for some weeks. Four services will
alternate in sending out photogs to
the various war fronts. Syndicates
are Associated Press, International
News Photos and Acme. .

Cameramen and reporters are be
Vap provided by the Army and Navy
.with uniforms similar to those worn
by commissioned officers, but with'
out rank insignia. Instead they will
have a special brassard indicating
whether they are reporter or pho
tog. -They have same privileges as
a commissioned officer.

Gnlld vs. Annenberg Papers

Ainerican Newspaper Guild is riled
at the moment by -the situation on M.
H. Annenberg's N.Y, Morning Tele-
graph and Dally Racing Form. Guild
maintains 4hat Walter Mulllgain
member of Racing Form's ''tryout'

Libby Holman

sContlnned -from page 3s

ager. Bob Lewis, claiming that the
singer became angry when the
brother of Joshua White, her colored
guitarist-accompanist, was barred ad-
mission to the latter's room in the
hotel. Management is also said to
have objected to Miss Holman using
the colored accompanist and insisted
that she use Harry Marshard's band,
standby band at th; hotel. She's said
the affair, with Miss Holman's man-
to have explained that White, who
has played at the White House and
had taught her to sing the blues, was
vital to her performance.

R. A. Cheseboro, resident manager,
of the hotel, has another version of
the affair. He claims that hotel
guests complained when White and
others rehearsed in Miss Holman's
room until 3 a.m. Cheseboro says
there Is no objection to colored
people in the hotel, a number of
them working throughout the hotel.

Disc Jockeys

sContlnued from page 1=

some bandleader into recording the
number. If he won't r«cord it, how
about making a special arrangement
of it for the leader's book. The
jockey .has his implied way of get-
ting back at the leader. It the b:hd
won't cooperate, the Jockey will just
overlook including that orchestra's
latest recording when It comes' to
making up the station's disc sched
ules, . Both leaders and recording
execs exempt those jockeys who dig
up worthwhile melodies, but they're
too rare.

Del-Conrtney has added a temme
warbler, Mary Jane Dodd.

Ted Wcemi changes: Joe Stenger
replacing Parker Gibbs on sax
George Hosfeld and l}an PerrI com-
ing in irom the Jan Savitt orchestra
on trumpet and guitar, replacing
Jack Frenston and Al Ruess, the
latter joining the Jimmy Dorsey
orch.

Goes into the Blackhawk nitery,
Chicago, April 8 for an eight-week
stay with options.

Connie Balnea forced out of the
Tommy Dorsey band by lUness,
She may rejoin the band later.

Sonny. Donham booked for stay
at Palladium Ballroom, Hollywood,
opening April 7, between Claude
ThornhlU and Har/y James.

Henry Oknra, former publicist
fgr Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook,
Cedar Grove, N. J., to become road
manager with Stan Kenton band.

Benny Goodman takes three-week
vacation following current New
Yorker hotel, New York, Job. Re-
sumes April 2 at Central theatre,
Passaic, N. J.

Horace Heldt has been signed for
return date at Casa Manana nitery.
Culver City, Cel., by virtue of
business during recent stand. Goes
back in September.

SarrafI succeeds Ralph Schlbim
who left Carlyn to join Clyda
Knight, ^ ^

duties Fowler. Youngstown, hai'
reduced his ll-ple'ce musical com<
blnation to an octet, because ifi
too hard to keep men.' Melo^
Mp.lds trio remains with combing,
tlon.

Nick Bevel Trio in Plantalloa
Room of Stone's Grill, Youngstown.

iBSbella Barge Is the new vocalist
%rlth Tee Ross and his orchestra,
Youngstown.

Ed Lolly's band will play Port
Worth Police Benevolent Associa>
tlon's dance March 7.

IVayne King began a Texas tour
in Houston Friday (27). Will ba In
Dallas March 14 and Furt Worth
March 21.

Jimmy Baxter, 18, Dallas bariton«
of WFAA, has be^ signed with
Ted Flo Rlto's band.

'Cats and the.iFlddle,' Chicago jlv-"
iiig qu<<rtet, which opened FrMay
(27) at Lindsay's Sky-Bar, Clevc'
lahd. Is the flrst club booking madf
In this territory by new Cleveland
branch of WilUem Morris agency.

Parker Oibbs has quit the Ted
Weems orchestra and the band busl<
ness tor a new writing Job with NB(!
in Chicago.

UMPrs Selling Plan

j^^^ Continued from page Ts^si

expansion of arbitration, control
over the forcing of shorts and means
of adjusting Individual as well as
territorial complaints. This commit-
tee Is composed ot Col. H. A. Cole,
former president ot Allied States
Assn.; Felix E. Jenkins, counsel for
20th-Fox; Howard Levinson, Warner
Bros, attorney; and Max A. Cohen,
president of Allied Theatre Owners
ot New York. While the modified,
sales plan, permitting ther buying of
12 fictures at a time unless changed,
is of flrst Importance to both exbibs
and distribs, the other angles, in-
cluding arbitration ot wider scope,
are regarded as vital contrlbuthig
factors In making the' decree more"^
workable.

Before submission to the D, of J.
for its approval or revision to suit
Washington demands, the UMPIplan
will go before the main committee
ot the UMPI ot which WilUam F.
Rodgers Is chairman as well as be-
fore the boards ot around 35 or 40
exhib organizations throughout the
country, including units In Allied
States and the Motion Picture
Theatre Owners of America.

It is possible that some changes
may be demanded by exhIb asso-
ciations. In which event these
changes might be made l)efore any
plan is taken to the D. of J. When
the final plan is ready, distrib and
exhIb committees of UMPI wiU
go to Washington torf the purpose
ot submitting and discussing it

' Les Brown starts one-nlghters In
east in April following March' 11>-
three week stay at Paramount thea-
tre. New York.

John KIrby follows Charlie Bar-
net at Brunswick hotel, ■ Boston,
opening March 16 for two weeks.

Charlie -Sptvak made honorary
Lt. Col. of Cadet Corps at Clemson
College, Clemson, S. C, during last
week's date there.

Fred Welsmantel now arranging
for Carl Hoff's band.

Larry AdIer plays harmonica with
St Louis Symph March 10 before
starting two weeks at Chase Hotel
.there.

Don McGrana at Commodore
Perry hotel, Toledo. Michael Lor-
Ing will open Easter Monday.

Patriotic Revue

:Contlnned from page Is

be paid and concessions are due from
each group. ''

Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Ira
Gershwin and Harold Rome wm
contribute new songs; George S.
Kaufman and Moss Hart, Howard
Lindsay and Russel Crouse, Beii.
Hecht and Charles MacArthur wUl
deliver material. Hassard Short will
do the staging, scenery to come from
Harry Horner. Louis Shaffer, of
Labor Stage, EmU Friedlander, cos-
turner (Dazian's) and Morris Jacobs,
general manager of Sam H. Hams'
office, will team in the management
It is proposed to rent a theatre, the
Adelphl on 54th sUeet being men-
Uoned, while the ticket scale wiU be
$2.75 or $3J0 top. Idea stems from
'Fun to Be Free,' which show busi-
ness staged at Madison Square Gar-
den for Fight tor Freedom, Inc., and,
while along similar lines, another
Utle wIU be chosen. Stage, Screen
and Radio Division ot Fight for
Freedom, with Rose Keane secre-
pun Gobbele, trombonist, and Billy tary, is actively participating.
Sarraff, trumpeter, new additions to Financing Is said to have been «•
■Tommy Carlyn's band at Sky Vue, ranged from John Hay Whitney.
Pittsburgh. Gobbela replaces Billy Harry F. Guggenheim, Mrs. Marsnau
Douglas, now with Baron EUlott, and Field HI and Howard S. CullmaD-

^^ednesday, March 4, 1942

Broadway

■ Tony Sarg setloudy Ul.

Nat Dorlman back from Miami

Matty Zimmerman taking siesta at
Miami Beacb.

Mort Blumcnstock Miami Beach-
ing; ditto Billy Stein, MCA v.p.

If that 'eastern wartime on the
radio doesn't pound it home nothing
will.

Eddie Karrell, former legit box-
olllce man, doing promotion work
for Look. mag. „ ,

Peggy Gould, Broadway actress,
has gone to the Coast on a Metro
contract dicker.

FPA 'profiles' his Information
Please associate, John Kleran, in the
current Esquire.

After transf\islon last week at
Hospital for Joint Diseases, Joey
Keith per.'-.ed up.

Irene Skok is Harry Frazee s sec-
retary at NBC, not another girl, as
previously reported. . ,

Irvin Mark.1, repatriated play and
talenf'agent, is known as The Tiger
for his Kin-n\mmy kills.

Mike Todd's \Nrife recuperating in
Polyclinic hospital following a two
stage operation last week."

Benito CoIIaaa, El Chico boniface.
Into Medical Arts for a few days'
checkup. Everything voted OK.

Bert Bloch, 20th-Fox's eastern
story ed, leaves New' York shortly
for couple weeks of studio huddles.

Hotel St. llegB "publicist, Jane
Hunter, went to the blood bank to
donate for the cause and the medicos
—in all seriousness— wanted to know
who was that anemic person, and
. could they help her condition.
' Theatre cocktoll party for the ben-
efit of the American- Theatre Wing
will be held Sunday (a^ at the No.
10 Gallery.

Clifford C. Fischer will ballyhoo
his two-a-day vaudeville at the 44th
St that 'vaude always has been the
. cradle of talent.*
. Ted Deglin temporarily trans-
ferred from- Madison Square Garden
to Polyclinic hospital for delicate
but minor operation.

. Newest gag why the fcmmes are
going In for so much war relief
knitting: it gives 'em something to
think about while-talking.

Georgle Price's four-week deal at
the Martiniqt^e is percentage above
^,800 gross, and the management
already wants to extend him fur-
ther.

Jack Ellis, among songwriters who
have just been admitted to member-
ship in ASCAP, is a film salesman
for RKO who 'Writes tunes on the
side.

George Thornton, lower case legit
actor (height 49 inches), is working
In a shipbuilding yard at Keyport,
N. Jm making life boats and rafts
(or the Navy.

Variable policy of 'Fe(e'$ Monte
Carlo— first couvert, then no cover,
minimum, no minimum, upped prices
ot drinks, etc. — blamed (or this class
' boite's tough going.

Friends of Carl Fisher, g.m. for
Lindsay-Crouse and George Abbott,
tossed him a beefsteak dinner last
week. He was. Inducted into the
army yesterday (Tuesday).

Tomorrow (Thur.<!.) is Sardi's ilSth
anniversary as a Broadway restau-
rateur and. simultaneously, Jt marks
hatchecker Renee Carroll s 15th. She
started with Vincent Sardi.

Ken MacGowan, former 20th-Fox

E reducer now v/ith Coordinator ot
iter-Amerlcan Affairs in New York,
lectured Monday (2) on fibns at Uni-
versity o( CalKomia at Berkeley.

Louis .Sbbol's daughter, Natalie,
senior at Smith, was engaged to
Ueut. Dr. Charles Reiter, ship's
surgeon on the S. S. Truxton, which
went down off Newfoundland last
V eek.

Finale o( Charles C. Pettijohn's
20-year tenure as counsel (or the
Hays office will be marked by a
luncheon in his honor by the AMPAS
tomorrow (Thursday) at the Hotel
Edison.

Influx of soldier population to the
. American Theatre Wing Canteen
underneath the 44th St. theatre is
figured to generally hypo that' street

. • because of th'e flow of traffic from

1 servicemeh and others.

1 ^Arthur Heineman. of Pa'rarhount's
New York story *Epsrtment, won
JlOO bonus from Liberty mag when
his short short, 'Blackberry Pie for
''essert,' which appeared lost year,
»ras named one o( mag's best stories
of the year.

I Robert Broder was the first ar-
yval back In New York from the
Abbott St Costello-Morris agency
arbitration on the Coast last week.
J.ase wound up in a setUement. Abe
Wstfogel, Morris office v.p.. returns
at Ihe end of this week.

hotel may soon reopen the Cafe
Marguery, ihuttered for the past
four years.

Three more KYW staffers Joining
up soon. They are Jim McCann,
Frank Davis, auditing department,
and Joe Duniln, mail room.

H<^rb Ringgold, radio director for
the Philip Klein agency, resigned to
take a public relations post with the
War Department. His spot will be
nUed by Henry Klein.

Miami

at

Marjorle Knapp set (or spot
Clover Club.

Jimmy Kelly doing the town with
Danny Healy.

Jack Robblns back on the rhumba
circuit locally.

Gower and Jeanne new Brook
Club headllncrs.

Renee and Root due to open at
Pago Pago room.

Gene Snyder vacationing with his
(rau Dixie Dunbar. .
""Isham Jones lins purchased a
Miami Beach manse.'

Bob Musel giving his lyrics a once-
over at the Royal Palm.

Charley Hoover new manager-in-
charge o( Lew Walter's Casanova.

Gilbert Russell due (or short en-
gagement at Hollywood Beach hotel.

Leslie Charteris at the Lord Tarle-
ton, finishing his new opus, 'The
Saint in Miai i.'

JReported Mother Kelly Is dicker-
ing with Ben Marden's (or use o( his
local Colonial Inn.

Henri Therrien will fill Harry
Richman's boots at Latin Quarter
v. hen Richman leaves.

Lily Pons and husband Andre
Kostelanetz commuting between
New York and the beach.

Eleanor Holm and Billy Rose will
be two o( Judges to select 'Miss
Florida' this week at the Biltmore.

Wini Shaw, back (rom USO tour to
New(oundland, b'owed into Frolic
Club tonight (3) (or brief engage-
ment. .-.

Kitty Davis presented with set of
gold wings by Op.a-Looka Navy- base
personnel in appreciation of enter-
tainment she has staged for them.

Gypsy Rose Lee, who says she may
hang up her G-string after this en-
gagement to give her all to literature,
top-billing Club Casanova show since
Saturday (28).

Paddy Labato, Casanova trouba-
dor, called to colors. Ditto Wes Mc-
Cravy, nephew of Art Childers and
Royal Palm Club greeter for several
seasons, postponing scheduled mar-
riage to Tierriel Abbott dancer Betty
Olds until Suneay (6) in Louisville.

London

T

CHATTER

53

London Legit

^Contlnaed from pace 1;

Pililadelpllia

t Dean Is headlining the new

ahow at the Embassy.
: ^wler opened his new Swing

• (27) Southwest Philly last Friday

aem»^ Sdhlegei resigned as press
agMt (or WPEN las', week to go into
'"'"paper work.

Arvt *?ay«> executive secretary o(
with ^ *e Jefferson hospital-

mi?u ""^Sni^ ailment,
ce^in "ioF^' ^""TL, staffer, re-
fer JL" ^ ^^'^ prior *o leaving

i,?™^ taductlon center last week.

reports are current that Adclphia

as a year ago); he is bidding (or the
Palace and the Coliseum.

Ostreri Dabbllnr

Ostrer Bros., who have recently
disposed o( their holdings in the
Gaumont-British circuit, have not
given up dabbling in theatres. But
their yen is for legits in preference
to cinemas. They are trying to ac-
quire the Sloll circuit and also '.he
Prince of Wales from the Charles
Clore-Alfred Esdailegroup, the Lei-
cester Square theatre, owned by Jack
Buchanan and Charles Woolf,- and
the New Victoria, which is part of
th'4 GB circuit. They want to oper-
ate the latter as a legit house, instead
o( film spot, its pre.-icnt policy. Un-
derstood, i( deal goes Ihrough, Ceor.ue
Black, although under contract with
GB and Mo.ss Empires, will be per-
mitted to stage .shows (or Ihc Ostrer
Bros.

' Tom Arnold, conceded the biggest
provincial producer in England, is
also ready to extend his activities in
the West End. Has already leased
the. Prince of Wales theatre and is
dickering (or Ihe Stoll's. Kingsway
and Phoenix theatre.

Instance, (urther proving .icule
shortage o( theatres in tlje West End,
is United Artists' position witl> the
London Pavilion, which it has on
lease from A. E. Abrahams. I^ase
has eight more wsSrs to run. Twelve
months ago UA would have willingly
handed back its lease to AEA and
given him $40,000 on top to take it.
But now. AEA would gladly take it
back without any reimbursement
but \SK is" asking for $40,000 to get
out.

Par's Offers

- Paramount, which had been trying
to gel rid of iU Carlton Uu-atrc, be-
ing quite satisfied to operate one
pre-release house, the P\\\7», is iii-
undated with offers (or the former.
Only snag with hotise is it is Crown
propo;-ty, with the Crown not anx-
ious to permit sublets. Even the
Regal, leased (rom Abrahams by As-
sociated British Picture Corp., which
is now partly owned by Warners,
could easily be sublet (or a legiter
although it is located in Marble Arch,
somewhat off the beaten track. But
Max Milder has introduced a band-
wlth-pjcture policy here, which is
showing improved re.«ult3. •

Jack Hylton is now a memt>er of
the Production Executive Council of
ENSA.

Archie A. Shenbourn has leased
the Granville, Walham Green, (rom
AKred Esdaile.

Fully discharged (rom the Army,
Anthony Vivian has gone back to
his theatre publicity activities.

Jacques Levy, who has just joined
the Royal Arnij; Service Corps, wed
Gwen Bright, sister o( Geraldo. the
band leader.

After two years on the outs, Al
Burnet has been booked (or toiir
on the Moss Empires and General
Theatres' tour.

Michael Redgrave just got release
fiom the Navy to star in Thunder
Rock,' which Boulting Bros, are di-
recting for Metro.

Max Miller sent Tommy Trinder
a solicitor's letter, claiming he will
sue him for kidding him from the
stage at the Palladium.

Joe Loss, due to open . at the
Regal. Marble Arch, first week in
March, suddenly cancelled and ret
pieced by Harry Roy band.

W. Foster Horsfield has disposed
of his interest in St. Martin's and
Ambassadors theatres and will de-
vote himself to his agency business.

Teddy Carr, head of United
Artists, taking, one of his periodical,
treks to UA's provincial exchanges,
to confer with branch managers and
sales force.

Marcel Hellman to make a pic-
ture (or Metro. Epic Is adaptation
from the French, titled 'Jacqueline,'
and will star Hugh Williams and
Carla liehmann.

Metronome Music Corp., managed
by Dave Toff, which looks after
Geraldo's interests, has signatured
Harry Parry's Radio Rhythm Club
Sextet (or three years.

New manager at Covent Garden
Opera House, now being run as a
dancehall by Mecca syndicate, is
Reg Morgan, (rom syndicate's
Brighton house. Sherry's.

New film (or which Michael
Powell has written the scenario is
based on submarine incidcit. Powell
is directing (or Archer Films, o(
which he's one o( the directors.

Sydney Caplin.'(or 10 years stick-
wiclder at Holborn Empire, now
permanently with Hyams Bros., at
the State. Kilbum, and also circuit
musical director (or same concern. -
Firth Shephard's new show (or
the Saville. (or which Manning
Sherwin is writing the, music, is
likely to be staged sometime In
March.-^placing 'Up and Doing.'V
Cast iftill include Leslie Henson.
Stanley HoUoway. Alice Delysia and
Douglas Byng.

Lou Prager, West End band
leader, has received a permanent
discharge (rom the Army. His right
arm was disabled when a truck
overturned last June. He's had sJx
operations. . He can no longer play
the piano or accordion, but expects
to be able to conduct, his own
orchestra again. ■<

producing first picture there (or PRC
i-elease. \

Fred Kelly, actor-dancer and
brother o( Gene Kelly, assigned to
army medical corps at Camp Slow-
art, Ga.

Shirley Heller will become" Mrs.
Hai ry Cordon, wi(e o( a N. Y. mami-
(acturer, when, hfr divorce from
Dick Mills becomes final.

Mary Ellen Nicholson named Pills-
burgh 'Queen o( Ice' and goes lo
Hollywood in May 4° compete in
■Icc-capa^es' national finals.

Marjorie Davis, o( WWSW Way-
side Players, has • replaced Pol'ly
Rowlcs on 'News o( Day" piogi am od
WCAE. Miss Rowles retiring to have
a baby.

HoDywood

By Les Sees

University of Minnesota Playhouse
presenting 'Macbeth.'

Beverly Bayne back in home town
with 'Claudia' last week.

Maurice Evans' production o( 'Mac-
beth' a March booking for Lyceum.

Bill Robinson underlined for Or-
Dheum March 13 with Ernie Field's
bond. . U. ,

Bill Crystal and Lowell Kaplan, o(
local film crowd, entering the U. S.
armed (orces.

Roy Slentz. veteran Gopher theatre
manager, quittlne show business to
ta'te defense job here.

Bill Sears, Jr.. son ot Oipheum
manager, gave up theatre position
to enlist in U. S. Navy.

Coleman-Clark, table tennis champ,
into Hotel Nicollet Minnesota Ter-
race along with Mel Marvin orches-
tra.

Sam Shirley. Metro district man-
accr. running local exchange while
W. H. Workman is recovering from
illncs.s.

Alvin Anderson resigned as Or-
pheum- treasurer to take similar as-
signment with Minneapolis American
Association baseball club. Lcs
Stevens replacing at the theatre.
. , tf>

Pittsburgh

By nal Cohen

Amv Forig. Ihe Chinese stripleusc,
npnciiled into Casino week of March
23.

John Finlcy. cx-a.<:sistant to Alvin
manager Bill Zcilor. has enlisted In
Ihe Marines. ._ „

Flo Parker, former Club Pctile
vocr.list, no.w with Nelson Maples'
KQV staff band.

(jharlie Gaynor. author oj three
Playhousej revues, added to Fred
Waring's staff in N. Y.

Bill. Evthe. Tech drama school grad
o( la.st June, signed (or role in John
Steinijeck plav. "Moon Is Down.'

Lawrence Welk made honorary
member of Tampa Ring i3, Interna-
tional Brotherhood o( Magicians.

Peg-Leg Bates booked Into Stan-
ley week ot March 20 with Ethel

House Reviews

^sContinucd from pase 46^^

GOLDEN GATE, S. F.

Dick,
Two

set. Only outside specially.
Don and Dinah, moves in next,
boys and a looker do screwball
knockabout that's new here and suc-
ces.<>(ully sustains the pace.

Pied Pipers resume with 'Embrace -
able You." after which Elman takes
over on 'When Angels Sing.' Lad
figuratively blows his brains out
Elman and drummer_Buddy Rich
then monopolize 'JIawaiian War
Chant' with their duet interlude. For
no particular reason Elman then
takes the sticks while Rich does a
tap routine which gets by only be-
cause he can do no -wrong.

Frank Sinatre then baritones
'Without a SOng' (or smash returns.
During' his second, This Love ot
Mine,' the Dorsey trombone quartet
moves in (or some nice stuff. Fol-
lowing "Beguine,' Dorsey's trombone
works again in "Never Smile Again'
together with Sinatre and the Pipers.
Sinatra finishes his stint with a dead-
pan version o( 'South o( the Border'
which pleased the mob although
corny.

Biz excellent. Weni.

CHICAGO, CHI

CMcaffo, Feb. 2B.
Lou Breese Orch (6) milh Nita
Noi-mon; Evelyn Famey. Al Carney,
Andrews Sister) (3); "All Thru Ihe
Niolif (WB). .

Another fine show currcnlly.'toppcd
by two terrific local (avoritcs, the
Andrews Sisters, who take off (or a
holdover week, and the Lou Brcc,se
orchestra.

The sisters had 'em standing up all
over vthe place at the last show Fri-
day (27), and it looks like they will
have 'em that way all week. And
for vocalizing, they are the tops for
that kind of singing. Had this house
rocking and weaving w their infec-
tious rhythm and they had to speech
to get away.

Breese orchestra continues a fine
job of playing a show. Also parades
some excellent musical entertain-
ment on its own. Vocalist Nita Nor-
man, with the band, does well on a
couple of pops. Stepping down from
the instruments is Barry Warren for
some good baritoning.

Evelyn Famey Is a standard nitcry
and vaude dancer and comes through
neatly on toe and tap work. Al Car-
ney is at home with his comedy im-
personations, which were eaten up
by this audience. Carney is develop-
ing outstandingly, and If he continues
to progress, he should . click in the
big coin soon. Cold.

EMBASSY, N. Y.

(NEWSREELS)

President Roosevelt's speech lo
the world lasl week tops the list of
new.-reel items which came in
Thur.?day night (26). Paramounfs
coverage is used. A lot of the
speech, due to its importance, has
been used.

The sudden .shelling of a Pacific
Coa.st refinery by an enemy .subma-
rine, first instance where the war
was brought actually to our .shores,
).s told, in part, by the slight damage
infiicted. An attack -in the Carib-
bean, which includes a burning .ship,
is provided by Pathe.

A different note on war news is
.struck by the willingne.ss of pri.son-
ers in the Cook county jail. Chicago,
to volunteer for .service, while other
items include U. S. troops on the
wav to Iceland, the Garand rific in

evacuation of fa milies from trimon
Honolulu: — American Cummamto.sr TThy Kny,
training ot Chine.se pilots, pictures
of Rnngoon. and the French 'war
guilt' trial at Riom.

This week'.s. Emba-ssy special with
Tex McCrnry has the editorial
wi iler of the New York Mirror dis-
cussing Australia, while another,
featuring H. V. Kaltenborn, bears
on several matters, includin? wis-
dom of helping Ru.ssia in view of
the far ea.stern situation; the role of
India in the war and forsaking of
profits by Industrialists.

Miscellaneous contributions of U -■•
five newsreel outfits include ice
boating, girls keeping fit. Florida
railroad tfrash. Victory tires, mens
fashions, baseball training, bob-
.°ledding and various others, includ-

AVilliain Hawks laid up with flu.

Whitney Bolton lild up with
laiyngitis.

Richard, Arlen banged a holc-ln-
onc at Lakeside.

Joe E. Brown to Alaska lo eiiler-
lain the .soldiers.

WalUic" Bicry back to work at
Metro after illness.

Rita Hayworth suing Edward C.
Judson for divorce,

Eva Gabor. film actress, divorced
Dr. Eric V. Drimmer.

Oliver Hardy confined with throat
trouble after a stage tour.

Robei-t Taylor turned over his alr-
; plane tor civilian defen.^c.
I Harpo Marx and his harp on a
toi'r :)f c'"'i' Army camps.
I Henry Cinzberg returned from
Paianioiint home office huddles.

Lili Damita (ell down stairs and
required 12 stitches in her scalp.

Frank Pone joined Warners studio
publicity staff as trade paper contact.

Michael Powell In town lininf! up
talent for another Canadian nicture.

Diana Barrymore leased the old
Jack. Dcmpsey home (rom Estelle
Jsylor,

Robert Dolan resumed his musical
director chores at Paramount a(ter
surgery.

• Clifford Odets In (rom New York
to write George Gershwin's liic (or
Warners.

Ring Crosby, Bob Hope and Babe
Ruth to Sacramento (or a Red Crosi
goK match.

Private Carl Laemmle. Jr.. was
.shi(ted (rom Fort McArthur; Cal., to
Camp Crowder, Mo.

Jeffrey Lynn inducted into the
Army, causing changes'-in two plc^
lure casts at Warners.

Dr. George Gallup, poll jockey,
paused lone enough to take lunch
with the • Warner brothers.

Nils T. Granlund sued (or $&.0UO as
result ' o( an auto crash at the
World's Fair in -New York. ■

Eu.gene John Zukor. son <ft Lieut.
Comman °er Ei gene J. Zukor, Joined
the Navy as apprentice seaman.

Maxie. Rosenbloom back (rom his
eastern tour to help promote charity
boxing show at Legion Stadium.

Joan Bennett and Franchot Tone
hosted a birthday "arty (or them-
selves and 25 soldiers and sailors.

Allan Scott apnolnted to represent
Screen Writers Guild on United Ser-
vice Organizations board o( directors.

W. S. Van Dyke awarded honorary
membershlo In Screen Actors Chiild
in recognition of his $10,000 gift to
the Relief Fund.

Joseph MeDonough back from
New York after story con(erences
with Fanny Hurst on her (orthcom-
ing Satcvepost yarn.

SL Louis

By Sam X. Hurst

Nick Stuart orch current at Club
Continental, Hotel Jefferson.

'The Enchanted April' will be pre-
sented at the Little Theatre starting
Thursday (19). •>

Larry Adler, harmonica virtuosb,
will p.a. with the St. Louis symph
orch Tuesday (10). '■'

Variety Club has opened a lunch-
eon club in the Coronado hotel, ■
:Short distance (rom film row.
,Rex Williams, manager ot Loew'i,
^cted to the directorate o( MPTOA.
o( Eastern Missouri and Southern
Illinois.

Entertainment, Inc., has booked
Jascha IleKetz for yecital in opera
house of Municipal Auditorium Tucs'
day (24).

Pete Nepote, former nunager of
ihe Grand and Lincoln thesucs. Rob-
inson. III., now a lieutenant in the
U. S. A. He's stationed at Fort Sill,
Okla.

Burlc.sk, Izzy Hir.st wheel, is back
at the Grand, downtown. Moved to
Ihe Garrick when 'LKe With Father'
moved to the Grand (or two and a
half week.s.

Mexico City

By Douglas L. Gralume

Felipe Mier, pic producer, to Cuba
on biz. Star*.\ his 1042 production
program here In May.

Tap Room, nitery of the swanky
Hotel Reforma. reopened under
management of Francisco Palacio.

Ramon and Florene, ballroom
dance team, feature the new fioor
show of the Cocoanut Grove nitery.

Carlos Lopez Moctcruma and
-Joseflna.Escobedo, stage-screen and
trjmonlal partners, . parents of ■

Waters and Duke Ellington's band. „

Lester Cutler, Pitt.shurgh business ing a kids' fight that is amusing
man with oil interests on the Coast,

Char.

Clifford Carr, pic player, back
from a visit to Hollywood. He is
the only American actor in Mexican
pix. He has played in 26 of them.

Asuncion Casals. Spanish stage-
actress, debuted in pix with a promi-
nent role in 'Regalo de Reye.i'^ ('Gift
of Kings'), which is (eaturing Sara
Garcia. • . . ,

Composer Gabriel Ruiz dedicatfd
his latest song. 'EI Listen' CThe Rib-
bon"), to Guadalajara, Mexico's sec-
ond largest city, on the occasion of
its. 400th birthday fiesta, a six-week
show.

Andres Falgas, Argentinian tango
singer who has become a standard
act here, featured in the pic, Dos
Corazones y un Tango' (Two Hearts
and a Tango'), which Arzos Films Is
making.

54

Wednesday, March 4', 1942

OBITUARIES

SIDNEY D. MITCHELIi

Sidney D. Mitchell, 53, lyric writer
tor more than 20 years, died Feb. 25
In Los Angeles after a long Illness.
Surviving are two children. Teamed
•with many of the leading tunesmlths,
Mitchell wrote the verses for a num-
ber of- musical pictures, among them
the first Fox Movietone 'Follies,'
'Captain January," 'Sing, Baby, Sing,
•Pigskin Parsde,' 'One in a Million.'
•Seventh Heaven,' Thin Ice,* 'Life
Begins in College,' 'Kentucky
Moonshine,' 'Three Blind Mice' and
'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.'

Prominent among his lyrics were
Twilight on the Trail,' 'Melody From
the Sky,' 'You Turned the Tables on
Me; 'I've Taken a Fancy to You' and
numerous film theme songs. He had
teamed up at various times with
Archie Cottier, Con Conrad and Lew
Pollack.

Services, undei^ASCAP auspices,
were held Feb. 27.

LEO ASCHEB

Leo Ascher, 61, Viennese operetta
composer who fled Austria four years
ago to escape the Nazis,* died Feb.
29 in New York following a brain
hemorrhage. His first work, 'Ver-
gelt's Gott,' was produced in Vienna
when he was 25.

Among some of his works pro-'
duced In this country were 'Hoheit
Tanzt Walzer,' in 1916, and 'What
Girls Dream,' In 1918. Some of his
operettas were filmed, and he had
also written music for other pictures,
with one of his latest being 'Rain-
bow Rendezvous.' He had been
working on an American version of
an operetta of bis to be called 'For
th« Love of Pete' at the time of his
death.

He la survived by widow and
daughter. .

of the Walter Melville dramas. The
Worst Woman in IjOndon,* 'A Girl's
Cross Roads' etc.

She later took out her own com-
panies and produced many mellers
in the provinces.

HAKBT TOBBANTE

Harry Torrahte, 34, manager of the
SUnley-Warner Boyd, Philadelphia,
died Feb. 24 at the Mt. Sinai hospi-
Ul In that city, following an opera-
tion for acute appendicitis. Funeral
services were held Feb. 27 at Our
Lady of Victory Church, with fellow
theatre managers acting as pall-
bearers.

He was connected with the Warner
organization for 12 years and is
survived by his widow and two
children.

FBANK ABENA

Frank Arena, 43, former vaude-
ville, radio and nitery singer, who
died in Charity hospital. New Or-
leans, Feb. 26 following an operation
for a brain tumor, was buried the
following day in New Orleans. He
operated the Arena and the Valencia
night clubs h<>re at one time and was
also the composer of a number of
songs, one of them 'Every Man a
King' the Huey P. Long song.

His widow, two children, his
mother and a brother survive.

ALLAN POLLOCK

Allan Pollack, English actor, died
Jan. 18 in England. Word of his
death was received by The Players
In N. Y.

He was known in U. S. for his
work in 'A Bill of Divorcement,' in
which Katharine Cornell scored her
first success in 1921. He bad also
appeared in 'Hawthorne of the
U. S. A.' with the late Douglas
Fairbanks nine years earlier. Pol-
lack began his stage career at 22
in London music halls and appeared
in Shakespearean plays and other
works before coming to the U. S.

He was last seen in N. Y. in 'Jerry'
with BilUe Burke.

CABLOS LOPEZ

Carlos (Chaflan)^I.opez, 54, one of
Mexico's . top stage-screen comlci,
was drowned (13) while bathing hi
the river at Tapachula, on the Gua'
temalan border, where he was play-
ing with his road company. Body
was brought to Moxico City by plane
and burled with great ceremony by
the National Actors union. His
widow survives.

.Iidt>ez, a veteran of the Mexican
stage, became one of that country's
No. 1 pic stars. He specialized in
old soak roles. His last pic was 'Ay,
Jalisco no te Rajes' COh, Jalisco,
Don't Backslide').

HOBACE FBT

Horace Fry, 67, died Jan. 30 in
Surbiton hospital, Ijondon, from
I^ronchial pneumonia. He was for
many years in charge of the bars
and publicity of Associated Theatre
I'ropertles, which were formerly
owned by the Shubert group. Before
that he was general manager of all
the William Gaunt theatre interests,

Fry served in three wars, the Boer
war, last war and was Sergeant
Major in- the Home Guards In the
present one. Is survived by wife, son
and daughter.

ALVIN B. BCBAEFEB

Alvin R. Schaefer, 64, of vaude-
ville and for the past 25 years gen-
eral manager of the anniial Orange
Blossom Festival in Winter Haven,
Fla., died Feb. 27 in New York of a
heart ailment

During the World's Fair in New
York, Schaefer managed George Jes-
sel's . 'Little Old New York' (1939)
«nd,- in 1040, 'Winter Wonderland.'
His widow survives.

executive, died in Philadelphia Feb,
24. He had been associated with
three Philadelphia i>apers and had
held every post from printer's devil
to executive.

He is survived by a sister, Mrs.
Ernest Lowengrund.

Loew ch-cuit Joseph Moskowltz is
eastern production representative for
20lh-Fox, with which company Mar-
tin is also associated. Arthur Mos-
kowlU is in the carpet business.

In addition to the five brothers
and Alexander Abramowitz, the
husband, deceased is survived by her
mother and three sisters.

BICHABD C. AABONS

Richard Cartwright Aarons, 60,
screen writer, died Feb. 22 in Holly-
wood after a short illness. Deceased
had been scripting films for 15 years.

Surviving are his widow, Thelma
Aarons, writer for Warners, and his
parents.

CHABLES CHBISTIANS

Charles Christians, 26; former
guitarist with Benny Goodman's or-'
hestra, died in New York, March 2.

Further details In orchestras sec-
tion.

Gounod Bomandy, 48, first violinist
at the Walt Disney studio, died Feb.
22 in Los Angeles.

MARRIAGES

Elizabeth Jane Kern to Artie Shaw
in Yuma, Ariz., March 3. She's the
daughter of Jerome Kern; he's the
band leader.

Margaret Waller to Robert Hen-
derson, Feb. 23, in New York. Bride
Is actress currently in 'Cafe Crown,'
he's on The New Yorker mag 'staff.

Patricia Ann O'ftourke to Ensign
Wayne Morris, in Los Angeles, Feb.
25. Groom is film actor, now in the
Navy.

Fay Fogel to Jack Saper, in Ven-
tura, Cal., Feb. 27. Groom Is a pro-
ducer at Warners.

Beverly Best to John Dunham, in
St. Louis, Feb. 24. Groom is an-
nouncer at KMOX, St. Louis, known
as John Scott.

Sarah A. Gibbs to Kent Cooper,
March 1, in New York. He's general
manager of The Associated Press;
she's his former secretary.

EUen De Outo to Russell Briggs,
at Agoura, Cal., Feb. 27. He's a film
writer.

KABL BLOOHINGDALE
Charlet (Karl) Bloomingdale, 73, „ BIRTHS

formerly one of the natlbns' leading- . „ _. „ .

drama critics and an advertising ' ^nd Mrs. Ed Mann, daughter,

" ENSLET BABBOHB

Ensley Barbour, 52, one-time
owner of a midwest chain of 30 film
theatres, manager of 35 stock com-
panies and developer of stars, died
Feb: 25 in his home near Joplin, Mo.

Among those he was credited with
starting on the road to success was
BiUle House.

It is said Barbour earned and
spent two fortunes each of $1,000,000.

BEGINALD UIGHLET

Reginald Highley, 57, British the
■trlcal manager, died Jan. 24 in i
Surrey, England, hospital following
an internal operation. He was re
sponsible, in collaboration -with Tom
Walls, for the series of successful
farces at the Aldwych, London, over
a period of nearly ID years, ~ best
Imown of which was Tons of Money,
which ran for two years. Of recent
years he had managed a hotel in
Byfleet, Surray. Survived by widow
and son now serving in the British
' navy.

HILDA BEVEBLT

Hilda Beverly, vaudeville and legit
actress, died in London Jan. 24,
Starting her career doing a sister act
wlUi banjo and dancing, she turned

melodrama and appeared in many

HABUN B. CAMPBELL

Martin R. Campbell, 47, actor and
songwriter, died Feb. 25 in his Dallas
hotel room.

He and his wife appeared In vaude
together. On retiring from the
stage he entered the sound equip-
ment business.

LIONEL WALLACE

Lionel Wallace, 70, variety agent
died in London Jan. 26. Spent 50
years in the .theatrical agency busi-
ness, having been for many years
with Herbert 'Blackmore, then start-
ing on his own in 1924.

WaUitce had handled many of the
biggest vaudeville stars.

In Hollywood, Feb. 22. Father Is film
cutter at Republic.

Mr. and Mrs. James Brlgham, sou,
in Hollywood, Feb. 22. Father la
president of Studio Projectionists,
Local 165.

Mr. and Mrs. George A. Putnam,
son, Feb. 22 In New York. Father is
free-lance announcer, not to be
confused with the NBC staffer,
(Seorge Putnam; mother Is Ruth
Carhart singer.

Mr. and Mrs. Nunnally Johnsjn,
daughter, in Hollywoodi Feb. 27.
Father Is 20th-Fox producer; mother
was Doris Bowden, stage and film
actress.

Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Schenck, sod,
in New York, Feb. 19. Father is Na-
tional Theatres exec and nephew of
Joseph and Nick Schenck.

Mr. and Mrs. Frederic UUman, son.
In New York, Feb. 25. Father is
head of Pathe newsreel and RKO
shorts producer.

Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Hait,
daughter, Feb. 25, in New York.
Father is announcer at WNEW, New
York.

Mr. and Mrs. William Mundo Spire,
son, Feb. 28, in New York. Father
is radio director of McCann-Erlck-
son advertising agency; mother is
Dorothy Lowell, radio actress.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ames,
daughter, in Hollywood, Feb. 28.
Father is film actor, formerly
Christopher Curtis of Broadway
stage:

Icemeo, as theatres and other places
of entertainment are doing.

Difficulty In getting the 'beautiful
dancing partners' that the spots ad-
vertise started almost a year ago
and is being Increasingly, ielt, al-
though it is by no means acute yet
Influx of gals from all over the
country, always a New Y*rk-" phe-
nomenon, has practically ceased.
They're apparently finding profitable
jobs in their hometowns. In addi-
tion, comparatively well-paying In-
dustrial Jobs in Ne%. York,- Connecti-
cut and Jersey have siphoned off a
number of the femmes who used to
find a prpcarlous living in the 'two-
mlnutes-and-that's-all, bud' spots.

Fewer gals doesn't mean there's
ever an actual shortage of partners
avapable at any one time. Places
have discovered, however, that the
more potential terp-mates for the
clientele to choose from, the better
business is. So they try to get as
many as passible.

Shortage is being felt to the ex-
tent that some of the danceries are
offering guarantees of $10 or $12 a
week against the usual 5c-a-dance
commlsh to Induce new gals to stay
with them. Newcomers as a rule
suffer from bashfulness and lack of
knowledge of the tricks of the
racket. They don't make nearly so
much as the experienced toe-twlrlers
and the guarantees keep them from
becoming discouraged and quitting.
Sbottle From Spot to Spot

Otherwise the hoofery queens are
under no contract or obligation to
any one spot and shuttle from one
to another on succeeding nights' un-
til they find the hall that seems most
profitable.

There's considerable variance in
fees at the half-dozen or so Broad-
way joints, although they work out
pretty much the same. Those that
charge more give longer dances.
Better-class parlors sell eight tickets
for $1, which includes admission.
Honeymoon Lane, at 48th street, on
the other hand, charges 35c admish
but has a guy standing at the street
door handing out free passes to
eliminate the 35c. Dreamland, at
53d street, charges 20c admish, but
has a man at the door giving out
tickets that cut the tap in half. It
sells eight dances for 90c. Most ol
the others get a straight lOc-a-dance
.with a 20c door levy ari lOc addi-
tional for checkLig.

Commercial hoof biz reached its
peak during prohibition and has
never been the saime since. It's too-
easy now to find a partner at a
bar.

There can be no new dance Joints
set up. New York City license com-
missloner for the past five years has
refused approval' tor additional
spots.

PALHEB HALL STILSON

Palmer Hall Stilson, 59, who re-
tired eight years ago as traffic exec-
utive of Paramount Publix C^rp-,
now Paramount Pictures, Inc., died
Feb. 28 In Yonkers, N. Y.

He Is survived by widow, daughter
and sister.

ENSLET BABBODB

Ensley ' Barbour, 52, long-time
Ozarks theatre operator, died in Jop-
Un, Mo., last Week.

He owned and operated the Land-
ers theatre in Springfield, Mo., and
the Orpbeum and Electric in Joplin
He had been 111 for two years.

HB3. A. ABBAHOWITZ

Mrs. Augusta Abramowitz, 50,
sister of Charles C, Joe, Harry,
Arthur and Martin Moskowitz, four
of whom are In show business, died
March 2, after a comparatively short
ilhiess at ber Forest Hills, ^. I.,
home. Charles Moskowitz Is v.p. of
Loe^V's over theatre operation, while
another brtttiler, Harry, is head of
the construttion department, of the

Dance Hostesses

Continued from page 1:

hour of hoofing runs around $4. Each
dance usually lasts about two min-
utes.

Of course it's not necessary to hit
the floor for every number and most
guys don't, thereby stretching oui
the session so that a dollar's worth
of tickets might last all evening.
However, there's not much fun in
making it take too long as New York
State law Is strict against 'mixing'
—gals sitting with the customers be-
tween dances. Femmes back into
pens after each number, while guys
take seats along the walls.

Fast Buck

Usual ballroom lothario doesn't
come In to make an evening of it,
but runs through, his tickets in halT-
ho. or an hour and scrams. Soldiers
often have a tendency to hang around
longer, usually because they have no
place' else to -go, and managements
make no effort to hurry them out.
They offer no reduced prices to sery-

Dinah Shore

^Continued from page 3;

Shore's tentative plans for a Holly-
wood picture this summer.

Singer is under personal contract
to Cantor,, but an arrangement could
probably be made on that. Her own
Sunday night song series on the
Blue network (WJZ) is also a Bris-
tol-Myers show, so there would be
no difficulty about that interfering
with the tentative new program. But
neither the account nor Y. & R. has
yet gotten to the point of discussing
terms with Miss Shore or lining up
other talent for the projected se-
ries. However, It has been tenta-
tively agreed that if- the singer
makes a picture this summer, her
variety show would originate from
Hollywood during the fUm shooting
period.

Matter of a summer replacement
for Cantor is still uncertain, depend-
ing to some extent on what kind of
a deal is reached with the comedian
for next season. However, Y. & R,
is already looking for fill-in pro-
grams. ' '• ^

, Hometown Guji Sells Bonds
Nashville, March 3.

Dinah Shore comes to Nashville, her
hometown, March 12 for Dinah Shore
Day, as a defense bond^elling stunt
for the Treasury Department. She'll
appear at rallies here with the gov-
ernor, members of the state legisla-
ture and the mayor of Nashville.

When the Treasury Department
first broached the idea, it was
chilled by Music Corp. of America,
which booked the singer's current
engagement at the Wedgwood roopri
Df -the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, N, V,
But when she threatened to give the
facts to the papers the okay for the
trip wa^ given.

ssContlnned from pace 37^^

proceeds. At times he varies with
a brilliant display of technique but
his forte seems to lie in the Schu-<
mann-Llszt and Chopin school.

■ -'Eddy.

N. y. Do«u Critics Said:"
Snn (Kolodin) Taste, tendemessi
full of a kind of mature artistry
robust playing.' j •••

Times (Strauss) 'Life and sparkle
... dry and dull. Tone hard aiid
metallic except in softer passages.
Utmost in bravura playing.'^

STANLEY NEED
PUnlst

Town Hall, N. T., Feb. 16. 1942

Stanley Nee l plays with a cold,
sure, calculating technique that is
equal to all the demands he makes
on himself. But the playing lacks
warmth.

His Interpretative abilities are ex-
celle..^ Eddy.

The N. Y. Daily Critics Said
Times (Parmenter): 'Clarity most

notable feature. Bell-like tone. •

Wanting In temperament'
TrIbnne (Lawrence): 'Good tone;

adequate technique. Could have

profited b., more expressive power.'

OBA HYDE

Dramatlo Soprano

Town Hall, N. T., Feb. 8, 1942

Ora Hyde possesses the makings of
a good voice, but It Is badly trained
and erroneously produced.

She has a neat platform manner^
but her tones are unpleasant above
the staff, where they become shrieks;
below, she sits heavily on her chest
voice, spreading tonei and making
the sdund hollow. 'Fldello' aria was
so poorly phrased as to break the
meaning' of the words completely.

Eddy.

Concert Reviews

The W. Y. DaUy Critics Said:
Times (Straus): 'Possessed dra-
matic temperament. . .voice of am-
ple volume. . .voice production and
vocal technique not equal to demands
on her.'

Tribune (liSwr.ence): 'Naturally
good voice. Insecure technically.,,
forte passages .tpread and shriU.
Pleasing quality. . .native tempera-
ment'

OEBALD TBACET
Pianist

Town Hall, N. T., Feb. 1, 1942

An expert technique more suited
to modernistic music, with not EC
greaf an affinity for the romantic
school, was exhibited by Gerald
Tracw((^ln his Town Hall recital. His ,
CholHn lacked the fire necessary' to
put It across, but the same void was.
not present in more mcdem compo-'
sltions.

The pianist has all the attributes
of a great artist but should learn to
play aU music with the rame in-
tensity,

The N. y. Daily Critics Said:

Tlmea (Parmenter): 'Sure,' Well-
schooled technique. . .interpretations
thoughtful and carefully planned.'

TrIbnne (Lawrence): 'Good musi-
cianship, excellent tone, imaginative
insight.^

MAUDE BVNYAN
Mexzo-Soprano

Town Hall, N. Feb. 16, 1842

Maude Runyan, British mezzo, pos-
sesses a big voice best suited for
opera. The natural quality and
largeness of her . tones are mostly at
ease in the upper middle registers.
Her chest tones below middle 'C are
produced in hollow fashion and
marred by a bad vibrato.

Her diction in any of the languages
in which "she sang was good, but her
coloratut-a passages in operatic ex-
cerpts was slurred.

The N. Y. doily critics sotd;

Times (Parmenter): 'Natural voice
of considerable range and volume.
Would be more at lease on an oper-
atic stage. Marked dramatic sense.

Tribune (Boehm): 'Wide range,
flexibility. Tones edgy, meUllic.
Technical fa ults?^

CAMILLA WEEKS
Violinist

Town Hall, N. T., Feb. 20, 1942

A recital which hinted a steUar
future. Camilla Wicks is a IS-year-
old vloUhist with a small but cryst^
clear tone and the warm feeling so
necessary to a great artist Has ade-
quate bravura to handle most any
of the requiremenU she is likely W
be called on to meet, and a, poise
and self assurance that many an
older artist would -like to have. .

On the debit side she slid occasion-
ally from pitch and her Wterpre-
tations while good, showed little ani-
mation of feeling of her own, but
rather the careful selection of an
excellent teacher, Carefully coacnea
and not rushed she could develop
into a first rate artist, EaiV-

N. Y. Daily Critics Said:
Times (Taubman) 'Sensitive phras-
ing .. . sweet pure quality of tone.
Evidence of vTrtuosfty; work not
always Impeccable.' ,

Snn 'Unusually talented. Tonf
pure. If of little color or warinw.
her intonation and fingering assureo,
and her playing exhibited a certain
youtlitul dash/, . . - <

Wednesdar* March 4. 1942

35

BiHs Next Week

iCoatUined from pac« Ms

OniM Oorflon
Eddio Innoa

Carrollovllsft (11)

C«Uc*e In
Bbella Starr
scary Oevin
suth Templfltoa
Uwio Hall au
jjrry D©lmar Oro

Bmbaiay
Geo CIlfTonl
Arlyno CUanler
Soora Cort«i
Carol Dean
Etoanor Toomao
pat Sherllo Oro
<B ITaltOD B«of>
OUB Van ■
jud«lyn WhlU
Paul Uuke
}I*wood Ulondea (S)
Cofltano & Dairy
Glamour Gla
Helen lloatb
Eddio Do Luca Ore

Jam .9MAlea
Lilly Krotchmer
Oeorso Lutz
Bopklna'KiitliakelJM

Or White
t>avo Vanfleld
Pot Garcv
Franklo I^ler
Pav« Uolil Oro
Tool Sorrell
Cleo Volentlna
Lloyd Afann
Uarglo Drutnmond
Babn Itotli.
Janice Rlece
.Lawler'H Swins Bar
Uen of Hhytbm (4)
LexlBicton Caalno

Linda Uef
Franhle 1>A'.*row
Hale Hamilton
Drancea Carroll
Jackie Whalen
Tronne Tork
De L'.oyd McKay
Oarvln Dunchall O

Udo Venica
Cleo Valentine
Rhythm Vondora
Bin Joy
BUly Kelly
Thelmaa

Uttlo ftatfaakellv

Hal & Honey Bee
Fetera 81a
Renee Villon
Leon Flelda
Elaine B Barrymora
Vlotor Huso'a Oro
Loi'a Chnncallor Bar
Bonnie Thomoon
DoD Renolda 14)

Mnyrn
Mayo SwihRelera
Horry McKay
Muriel Brooka
Jorett«H

Mlartrcl Tarero
Dumont MlnatrejA
Ed AUQoldricbT Jr.
Joe LoncKan
Anlla

Marcle March
Bally Poy

8Iuy Glonla Loftoa
Ed McGoldrIck, Br

MomrliiD Bar
The Sercnadera
Dick Wnde
Cnrt,Welicr (4)
Hurray Rhythm Bar
Fay Ray
Lillian Blahop
Lee Warwick
Freddy Thompaon
Betty Bchrle
Mickey De Luca
Perry Panlpn
Roniiy Carr
Mnr^ Love
Edna Roblnaon
Vemle IfCe
Dotty Klnff Oro
Pred Thompaon (8)

Nell Ulccbafl'a
Halo Hamilton
Leonard CooMo
Mora & Karr
Warren Boden
Rhythm Manlnra
Gaanlemen -^ Mnr'n
Geo MarchottI Ore
Old E^lla TaverB
Anita Jamcfi
Al Klrkbrlde
Voider & Peffgy
Ray O'Day
Billy Hayes* Oro
Open Door Cafe
Joan Martlno
Jeannotten (lO)
Grace O^Hara

Liord -St JanJca ^
Johnny CahUl
Viola Kialsa Ora

Palmabo'a
Tvonettea
Eaya ft Oroya
Cordello'a Canlnea
Henry Patrick
UcMalUo 81a
Franky Scblatli
8 Peppera
PhUadalpbIa Hotel
Harcin Lloyd
Cliff & Carroody
laaballa Johnwon
Dick Wharton Oro

Blta Carlton
Howard Lanln Ore

Roman QrOla
Al Capron Oro
Joan Maurle
Sammy Woaton
Gloria Dale

RcndCKvona
<Uot«l t^onutor)
Intornat'lonals i(3)
'Bob Davis
Bill Bamea
Bealo St Boys

Sam'a Caf a
Btora

Froda Herman
^Dobby UoClung
Joe Mcradden
Black-Byed Peon
3 Klnr's llhythm
BUTAf E^e Inn
Col Oeo Reed
Arietta Adalro
Alice Luotfy l~
Duclieaa & Herman
Carlos & Comendta
Frank Haasel Urc

Stamp's
Chang I«e
Jack Spangler
Dolly Raoul Ola
bonnle Vale
Helen Jerrlco
8na Bay Qardaaa
Dorothy ft Beatrice
Ad Lib
Bond Broa
Agnes WUIIa
Don Anton Oro
6etb St. Bathakellw
Ray Stevens
Billy Adama
Victoria Splvely
Billy Atklnsun
Helen Olcott
Blwod Jester
Lillian

Clair Phlllpis
Blton Brown
Victoria Spevy
Tony Bennett Oro

Swan Club
Chlok MuUery
8 Keya
Mltrl Oroff
Marty Bohn
Murphy Sla

SOtb Centnry
8 Pepperd
Kenny Shnffer (8)
Sally La Mar
Blanche Saunders
A Btrobman (3)
Venice OrlU
Nick. Vorallo Oro
J Robfnson
Oscar O'Neill
Eddia Golbretb
Zola Gray
Dolores Laurell
Peggy Hon vena

Warwiok Hotel
Roy Morton Ore
\Veber's Uof llrao

Camden
Jack Mo88
Tonl

Jock ft Mascot
Loa - Oltanoa
Aocordlonalrca
Norma Racine
Templo City (4)
D^ve Plor8on
Pen Dnnnermon .
Jules FIacco's Oro
9yd Golden
Raths'r Gldorodlan*

Wilson's
Joo Bough
Art Matbuea
Betty. Ream
Oorard Beam
Carol Joyce
Bert Lyn

Catherine Wolff GIh
Goo Baquet Ore
Tacht Clob
Harry Holly
Jean Wore
Jonn Coraz .
Diane Collier
Victor Nelson Oro
Al Gold

Jackie Heller
Gartrude Nl^sen-
F ft B Roberta
Ballard ft Rae
LaVarne Upton
Shirley Heller
Sky-Voa
Tommy Carlyn Oro
Botta Smiley

Dnion Grill
Sammy Walters

Prank Natala
Mlk* Sandratto

Villa Madrid
Btsl Covato Oro
Mark Lans
Michael Strange

Landra ft Verna

Mortoll Sla

Netha DeCrua

Mel Hall

BOSIOH

Bench comber
Harry klorrlssey Oro
Chico SImone Uro
Carol DonnLson .
Louise Borday
Jack ft. Lorraine
Beach'Charmers (fi)

BIlBOtmb's
Peter Uodge Ore
Boyd Heathen
Parke ft Clifford
Charles ft Coleata
Dot Deerlng

CIn'b MnyCalr
Ranny W'oeha Oro
Nick Jer-ei Ore
Belle Baker
Bob Williams
Red Dual
Dol Rlos
Claire Francis
Boots McKennA Rov

Club Vanity Fair
Al Dlckerman Oro
Madol'e Harrington
Stella Roy

Cocoitnut Grove
Mickey -Alport Oro
Don Rico Ore
Buster Kelm Rev
^llly Pains
Marianne Francis
Evelyn Martin
Stapletona
Sandor Glana
Lou. Perry

<Helodj Lnange)
Gortrode Woodsum
Herb Lewis

Copley Floia
<8lieraton Room)
Rijby Newman Ore
Dorothy Lewis
Ted Cole
(Merrx-Go- Round)
Moj-k Gilberl 3
Copley Square Z^otel
Al DoForrnut
Arthur Ward
j Cfawfonl Hons*
Freddy Rubin Oro
Craw ford ettes
Solly Keith
Vera Lamont
York ft Tracy
Bobby Uernard
Uarya Breen

Pox ft noaadfl
Hilton George Ore
(Rlinmba Cafrlao
Boom)
Tvonne Adair
JoHO Uona
Unrron Lynn O'Ih
Charles Wolk Ore

nUHat
Pete Herman Ore
Frank Petty
• Hotel Bnulford
<Clrciis ,Room)
Jack DovIr
Lucille ft J Moloney
Hotel Bmnswiok
(Bermuda Temwe)
Haxol nruce
Allan Lane
Charlie Barnct Ore

Hotel Css«x
Ron Trovers Ore
Jnck Manning Oro
only Kelly
Adn Mnrova
1)111 Oroln '
VIn Dntcy
JcAD Monti
Sally Hnrrls

Hotel I^nni
Uob llonly Ore
Koy Ivcrs

PITTSBUB6H

Anchorage

Uoynard Dean Oro
Arlington Lodg*

^11 Cavesza Oro

Jjfa Qardnor

■rah Rngo

Ba I CO nodes

Miller l.'sllch Ore

Babs Joftrey
Bill Green's

Cljde KnIghl Oro
Bine Rhlgel Jnn

Lou Lucky Oro

asnny Austin

Harry Manning

cornoll Coopsr

flylvio Starr

Aoogle-Woogia Clab

Jpog Sherman

gwie Sinlon

Harry Comorsda

Buddy BlAlo,
J J Comorado
{ aub PetHe

( Pattl Gene

J Nelson Mopica
f ^Colonial
'• Art Farrar Ore
. „^>Mdle Pertoo's
, lenny Clark Ore
CI Clab

fat McCaulcy
jr«l Balleir Ore
Ufcrry Walton
11 .^Th(,atley
(Silver Grllli

''•"■othy iloirh"w>

Uscorta

(G^y eO'B)
Dorothy Neubltt
Hntfll .7lh ATcnne
Ulko Borker 4

Hotel Roosevetl
Art Baker 4
Jole

Hotel Sob en ley
Billy Hinds Oro
Joy Lind
Hotel Wm Penn
(Chatterbox)
Sommy Watklns Ore
Olenn Sterling
(Continental Bar)
Frank Andrlnl 4

Merry •Go-Bon nd
Howdy Baum Ore

New Ullloreat
Benny Burton Ore
Setty Lee
Skip Nelson

Klxon pafe
Al MarlBco Oro
Dob Carter
Looted ft Irmn Jemi
Roohello ft Beebc
Kretlow Dano

Orchard Inn
Rndy Gale Oro

Gaels
Charlie Laun On

Tloaa
Don Butter
BUI LeRoy Oro

S^nlrrel Coop
Tiny Miller
Joey Reynolds
Dole Harknoaa
Buddy Walsh
XMdle Miller

Taoht Club
M MIddremAii f»r/'

Hotel Mlnerra

Bunny McVey Ore
Barbara Douglass

Uutel Smncrftet

(Ballnese Boom)
Adrlenne
Roily Rolla
Harry Morshard O
Dotal Statler

(Tormce Room)
Lelghton Noble Oro

(Cafe Bonge)
Solvy CavlcchTo Ore

Hotel Veadome
(Fife ft Oram Bm)
Oscar Elgnrt Oro
Jolene
Victory 8
Terry Pepin
'lnt«niatloiuil Gate
Ted. CrowleT Oro
Norman Boleter
Jan Stalling
George Allen
Billy Hunt

Ken CInb
Porren Uroa Ore
Rusa Howard
Jerry ft- Lillian

L«tln Quarter
Anthony Bruno Or<
Rliamtwllers Ore
Don Rlcharda
Walter Donahue
Pat Rooney Jr
Nellie Durkin
O Bernard Doncem.
(Colstons -
J Hoist ft Milady
]Bob Du Pont

(Lonnge Bar)
Hum ft Strum .
Kucudoro ft La Plata

aitami Grove
Jlmniy McHale Ore
I.onnlo Fltz
Tom Cliolos
Ella May Waters
Phillips ft nreen
Oharlcs Homer
Ueorglno Stevens
Arthur Moriol

Bio Casino
George Horrls Ore
Ueuuy Drohan
Helen Carrol
Tritzl Schoff
Harold -ft I^wlor
Adrlenne Parker
Buster Kelm Ziev

(Garden T^nnge)
Mai ft F Deorbon

Seven Sean
E,!iircllUa
LuRoche ft Relno
Tiuccnnecrs
7 Seas Hawaiian^ O
Steubeiri

(Vienna Hvoin)
l^w Conrad Oro
Aitlr.l m, <'onsuelo
Ada GuiiZHlcs Trio
J.^orothy Dccrlng
Doris Abbott
Jimmy Marr

• Tlie Ca*e
Don DIBona Ore -
.TjlcIc Fisher
Tumora Dorlva
Klvcz Cortes
Sammy Dui-ns
Jimmy Marr
Artlnl ft C'onsuelo
rir-cites (6)

Tlc-Tioo
T.oulo Prima Oro
Joe Nevlles Ore
Murantn

Howard Fuller A Bl^
Tremont Plaza
1 Duke Lorenzo Ore

CLEVELABB

Alpine Village

Hubort Castle
Morlarty ft liell
Daro ft Cord a
l>ol Kay

Willie Matthias Ore
Bob Copfcr

RIdorn(*o Club
Jim MacKenzIo Ore

Fro«1dle*s Cnfe
Ann O'Connor
Both O'MaMey
Roy Rodger
Sharon Lj'nn Lino
Herb Ross Ore

Gourmet OInb
Royal Hawallans O
JutoB ft Wohb

Hotel Allorton
Joe Baldl Oro

llotel Carter
Thixlon Sprenger
Charles Wick Ore
Barbara Parka

Hotel Clevelund
Art Jarret Ore
Hotel Fenway Hall
Kenneth Itasinuttscn
Poison Gardner

Coram

Hot^l llollendea
Petor Higglne
OILIetto ft R'horda
Vlckl Nevada
cm McCune Ore

. Hotel Statler
Clint Noble Ore

.-J4t Conga Club
F^oddle Carlone Ore

LliidHoy's Skybar
Cats ft Fiddle
Itoy Raysor
Sue Sanders
Hat Simpson

Monaco's Cafe
Blaine, Elaine Bond
Kmnc Reynolds
Manny Landura Ore

Regal Clab
Duclty Blalvtn Ore

3700 Clab
Joey Bishop
Roborta
KvQiyn Scott
Hal Hnll
Uollln LaVolle
Don Walnh Ore

DETROIT

Book-Cadllloc Hotel
(Book Casino).

Meta Slaudor

Frank llagcn Ore
(Motor Bar)

Dlch Rock

Donery

John Boles

The rovvem (2)

Loa Vlajorofl (2)

Rio Broa

Don Ardon Done

Johnny King

Charlie Corlla'e

Benny Reah Oro
Casanova

WIlHon ft Merloti

Tucker ft Trcii>(iiii<'

Carl Denny

"Beth Farrcll

Florenza

Ronlnda

Wm Hewitt

t.ee Wnltors Ore •

\ Club Congo

T.arry Steele

MflrBar(«t Wnil;in«
MHMJt) HiilldB>

.Totinny Hudglns
Hob I'nrriKh
Miller ft Boogee
Conf;o Ore
Earl Dancer

Corkluwn Tavern
Hon Harris
Hart ft Allison
P.inchlta Villa
IM\1I Sklllman Ore
Frontier Hnneli
Denny McCurtIn
M:iry Ann Ruw-r
Julie Hewitt
Tnm Gary
Rsn'rltcros Ore
Irving Specter

Grmad Terrace

Gloria Porker Or*-
Earl Purchman

liny market .

Jordan ft Orae©
June Eldrldge
(linger Sutton
T.co ((AKca
Phelps jt C.ullen'i'ne
riiimnelte^Orc

Evad'a
Bun Val Serenaders
Irfmdoa Cbop Bouse
Marlon SUnfleld
Connie Barleau
Chet Everbart
Ruby Oro

Club MayColr
Marty Joyce
Carol Crone
Marvin Jensen
Dorothy Qerron
Phil Olsen Oro
Mickey's
Billy Meagher
Charles ft n Jenkins
Lo Temple
Ray Vincent
Deloroa Lamoot
MIckoyottea
Joe Banker Oro

Neblolo'a
Fay ft Andre
Johnny Policy
Laskey Sis
Clem Hawkins
Leonard Seel Oro
Norlhwood loa
Dole Rhodes
Theresa Rudolph
l.*on Am a to
Ray Carlln Ore

Olde Woyae Club
Rofoel do Loo Oro
Jack London

Palm Beach
Pat Pattenon
Potlno ft Rons
Bernard ft Rich
Gardner Gls
Monnio Drahe
D>in Pablo Oro

Penobscot Clob
Patricio Willis
Diana D .le
Pamela Britton
fJuy Welch Ore
Hock's -Redford Inn
Mao MeGmw Oro

Royalft
Everett West

Blbyl Bowan

Brucetta

Prof Backwards

M Paber Qls

Aylene Mason

Skeater Palmer Ore

sutler Hotel
Poncho Orv
Buhs
Harvey Stone
Jack O'Noll
Pauline Porks Gls
Carol Crane
r^nard Sool Ore

Baa Hleico
Gene Emerald
Olenn Dale
The Dordens
Dotty Sloan
Cliff Arvln
Al Alexander Ore

Stevadora
GonO S: flordy
Oreai Kelgfreld
Eddy Shepherd
Jack Thomiis ure

The Trop^
Merrlu Lianib Oro

Vemea
Dove Borndui
The Br -."lays
"June Wren
Delorcs l.nMont
Jack' Kelson Oro
WhItUer Hotel
(Gnid Cub Boom)
Hermon Fine

^Vooder Bar

Madelon Baker
Monuol Lope?, Ore
Sammy Diheri Ore

AOO Club ■
Dole Rhodes
Dl Giovanni
Good ft Goody
DotHo Ard
Ji-an Mnore
Joy ft Jnanlta
Delia' ft DriRO
Horace Houeh Ore

W. K.'s on P. A.'s

j^^^Contlnued ftom page 2|

sonalities — are more than willing to
spend hours in any store to push
sales.

Miami's BIc Week

Miami. March 3.

Climaxing a week-long Greater
Miami defense bond sale that netted
more than $1,500,000, sUtion WIOD
devoted an entire day to capping the-
drive with a $100,000 contribution
from its listeners. Planned by A. H.
Robb, general manager of the station,
the drive began at 5:45 a.m. and-
continued during every sustaining
period, and on local commercials
until 1:15 am.

Nightclub, stage, screen and radio
talent ap|>eared during the day and
in a special all-star show that began
at 11 p.m. Sheila Barrett, Jaue Fro-
man, John Boles, Larry Adler, Ruth
Land!, Gene Austin, Jerry Cooper,
Lorraine de Wood, Cross and Dunn,
Valero Sisters, Fifl D'Orsay, Sabu,
Al Bernie, Dean Murphy, Ruth Clay-
ton, Evelyn Brooks, Ros&lya Petrova,
Owen & Parker, Radio Aces, Stan
Ross, Emil Boreo, ''an Lanning,
Jerry Kruger, and virtually all other
ace club acts appearing locally
showed.

Plugged by announcements, news-
paper stories and ads, the drive also
used services of two local columnists.
Jack Kofoed of the Daily News and
Dorothy Dey'of the Miami Herald.

Chevalier

Continued from pace 2;

an interview printed in.a Paris. news-
paper, and afterwards subjected to
vitriolic criticism in Vichy, Chevalier
said, 'Song is an admirable instrur
ment for rapprochement between
peoples. When I was in the United
States, I did my best to make them
love France. I remained in France
and returned to Paris to follow the
Marshal blindly; 1 believe that all
that can lead to collaboration be-
tween the French and German
peoples should be tried. It's in this
sense that I recently spoke over the
radio.' .'

Free French SUnce

Free . French sources do not con-
sider Chevalier as a 'collaboration-
ist' in the sense that he would like to
see a blind devotion on the part of
vanquiiAied France for victorious
■ Germany. There appears to be a
strong possibility that Chevalier is a
Briand disciple in the matter of
Franco-German relations.

Supporting this belief is the fact
that although Chevalier has been
granted every facility by the Ger-
mans to sing in French prison camps,
yet he didn't entertain in Berlin
when he passed through. Apart ♦-om
that consideration Chevalier could
have managed easily enough to come
to the United States as Jean Gabin,
Charles Boyer and others did, and
earn more money than he Is getting
in Paris.

Chevalier remained at home, pos-
sibly misguided but hopeful of Im-
proving conditions fdr his country-
men."' ■ •

Theatre Wing's Canteen

:CoBUnued from page 3;

the guests being far from backward
in additional helpings.

Saturday and Sunday evenings
were previews for professionals and
the public, uonations from both being
generous. Visitors on those evenings
brought 1,000 pounds of sugar, along
with 800 pounds of colfee and a large
assortment of other viands. In addi-
tion there were cash donations
amounting lo $650. That money was
turned over to the Wing, which will
flnance the canteen. Actual expendi-
tures thus far have been less than
$150, which. is trifling considering tlie
result Figxired that around 4,000
persons visited the "anteen In the
flrst three' 'days. ' There was some
doubt whether the servicemen would
And the place, but that was soon diS'
proven.

23 Artists Contributed
Walls are decorated with colored
drawings, in panel fo'-n, mostly In
vivid water colors. No less than 23
artists contributed the sketches, all
connected with scenic studios or dC'
signers. A 'photomontage,' combined
pictures of many stage names,^gTeets
visitors on entering. Credits include
virtually every union and organlzS'
tion within show business, mostly
those identified with the legit stage.
The- list of group."! or businesses par-
ticipating totals 68.

In genrm charts on the floor are
company managers, press agents and
treasurers. Notliing is sold. It's- all.
free to the boys, and is the most
convenient, friendly gesture to the
lads In the army and navy, both .U. S.
and Allied nations, that has yet been
made.

Gertie Lawrence'*' Snake Dance

Gertrude Iiawrence in her wildest
abandon leading a snake-hip snake
dance of U. S., Canadian, British,
New Zealand jnd Australian sol-
diers, sailors, marines and flyers, was
the highlight Monday evening. Miss
Lawrence wound up a show put on
by her and the company of l-ady. In
the Dark' for the men from 6 to 7
p.m.

She had just bumped her way
around the dance floor to 'Jei.ny,' top
novelty tune from 'Lady,' when an
RAF lad lushed up, took her in his
arms and began to dance. An Amer-
ican sailor quickly caught on and
cut in. In about four seconds the
star had danced with 30 cut-ins and
was besieged with dozens more. It
being evident that they weren't all
going to get a turn, the snakcdance
provided the solution.

Show the boys saw was the flrst
9it a similar dish they are .to be
provided with each evening by the
casts of different Broadway legiters.
It followed much eye-rubbing and
surprise at the extent of the food
layout to which any boy in uniform
could partake — and entirely free.
And a la'^ could hardly set his cafe-
teria-style tray on a table before
there was a pretty girl hostess over
to sit and talk with him, help him
enjoy his food or dance with him It
he liked.

Now Peggy Wood, Selena Royle,
Jane Cowl and other members of the
Theatre Wing Committee are won-
dering where they are going to put
the crowds of servicemen that are
bound to flock to the Canteen after
getting reports from buddies who
were there opening night. Commit-
tee's iinmedlate worry, however, is
the milk supply. There wore a va-
riety of other drinks (all non-alco-
holic) available, but just about 95%
of the armed forces chose milk.
Milk is the one thing 4he canteen
is having trouble getting on the
cuff.

Plenty Fruit

Fruit, which the British boys dive
for (it's been a rarity abroad since
the war), is plentiful. Likewise
about eight different kinds of sand-
wiches, pies, cakes, doughnuts, candy
and cigarettes. Package-party pre-
views for the public over the week-
end also produced a flve-pound jar
of caviar — which no soldier has
asked for yet

'Bus boys' make the funniest sight
of all those from the theatre who lare
donating their services. Gals lie-
hind the counter are quite attrac-
tive in red and blue aprons and
winged caps bearing the American
Theatre Wing inscription, but the
bus boys " resemble leftover bar-
keeps in their long white aprons.
Among the table-cleaning crew
opening night were McKay Morris.
Bcmie Hart, Tony Ross, William

Miles, Tom Ewell and Donald Mac-
Donald. Th>.y work in three-hour
shifts as many days a week as they
can.

About 500 hostesses have been
signed up, each agreeing to give
three and one-halt hours a week.
Plan is lo have at least 25 on hand
from opening at 5 p.m. each day
until closing at midnight, with 60
on between 7J0 and 10:30. Virginia
Kaye and Vivian Smolen head the
'hope - you're - having • a-wonderful.
time' department

What producers of future tab re-
vues for this spot can learn from
experience of Monday's company la
need for more novelty material, and
If it's just slighUy blue that ain't
bad.

Among others who' enteitalned
was Oscar Catoire, who was mark-
ing his last night in 'Lady.' He went
Into the Army yesterday (Tuesday).
Rest Included Eric Brotherson, Getta
Petry, Johnny Sweet, Carl Nicholas,
Ann Lee, Margaret Westberg, Eliza-
beth Houston, Dan Harden and
Wanna Wannerholm. Donald- Ran-
dolph m.c.d. .

Entertaining at various times later
In the evening were TaUulab Bank-
head, Walter PIdgeon, Reginald Gar-
diner, Billy de WolfB, Johnny Greene,
John Carradlne and Jack Dempsey.

.'Best Foot' Forward' company put
on the show last night (Tuesday),
with 'Sons o' Fun' scheduled for to-
night and 'Leti Face It' for tomor-
row night (Thurs.).

rwood's Jive

— Contlnoed from, page 3 —

.seeking them, with the exception of
the top tew who demand big money
before heading for the -Coast A
strong fllm, or even a moderately
good one, .can do wonders for their
earning power in theatres, location
jobs and one-nighters. ltd good
showcasing that can pay dividends
In a lot of ways. For Instance, Glenn
Miller was slipping a bit before 'Sun
Valley Serenade' was released. It
contained the 'Chattanooga Choo-
Choo' melody, which^ with the help
of the picture, sold well over 1,000,-
000 copies and put renewed 'heaf
on Miller In all other divisions of
his band work. Incidentally, Miller's
next picture, for 20th, is tenta.Uvely
titled 'Orchestra Wife,' with the
leader in a star acting role.

Jimmy Dorsey went to the Coast
last fall and' made a feature tor
Paramount, with Doitithy Lamour
and others. It has not been released
yet but- after preview showings
Dorsey received offers from Metro,
20th-Fox and a second from Para- '
mount He was paid $64,500 for five
weeks work; asscrtedly the highest
amount doled out to a record name
so far. Glenn Miller got $59,000 for
si}- weeks on 'Serenade' and Sammy
Kayc's sweet band, usually less- In
demand for films, is getting $52,500
for six weeks. M-G vanted to couple
Jimmy Dorsey with brother Tommy
In a pic based on their lives;' it' has
been dropped because Jimmy asked
990,00L for eight weeks work, while
Tommy was willing to accept
$125,000 for the two bands, or $62,500.
Since Jimmy received more than the
latter for less shooting time at Par
he deems his M-G asking price justi-
fied and not as unreasonable at it
would seem.

Other Names

Other recording names whom films
have made use of the past six
months, beside the Dorseys, Miller,
Kyser, Krupa, and the Andrews Sis-:
ters, are Charlie Barnet Jack
Teagarden, Ella Fitzgerald, Woody
Herman, Alvino Rey-KIng Sister*
Merry Macs, Louis Armstrong, Bob
Crosby, Glen Gray, among others.

Inkspots, vocal quartet, were used
by 20th and are reprising for Univer-
sal; Bob Wills, one of the top rank-
ing hillbilly record sellers, has been
bought and Dinah Shore, another
new and widely known record name,
has been tested by both Metro and
20th.

In reverse-English, Gene Autry
has malnteined bis No. 1 mustang
meller rating by waxing hJmselt tor
Columbia, putting emphasis on cow-
boy song excerpts from his pix.
Companies like Universal and Re-
public Pictures likewise have culled
from Tin Pan Alley, but in another
way, by using pop song hits as titles
and themes of westerns. This is
merely another Ungent of course,?,
on the jazzique influence in Holly- ;
wnotl. ■ . ■ ■ ^1

Wediie8d«x» March 4, I94^

4

Blue Barron

and His Famous ORCHESTRA

featuring
CLYDE BUBEE
JIMMY BROWN
CHABLIE FISHER
BILLY COVER
"TINY" WOLF
THE 3 BLUE NOTES
and the
BLUE BARRON GLEE CLUB
•

Only Orchestra
Heard on
3 Networks
CBS — MBS — WJZ-Blue

P.S. — Oh yes! Incidently thanks
— Jinuny Cagney and Warner
Bros. — ^for a swell picture.

NEW RADIO FEATURE
"The Show of Yesterday
and Today"

Produced by

Alton Alexander

Evsry Sunday
2:30 to 3:00 P.M., EWT

WJZ-BLUE NETWORK

starting Sunday Apr. 6

LIMITED PERSONAL THEATRE TOUR STARTS MARCH 13
Akron • Youngstown • Pittsburgh • Philadelphia
Washington * Buffalo * Passaic * Brooklyn

RADIO

M U S I C

THE NEW TOftI
PUBIIC IIBRA

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VOL. 146 No. 1-

NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1942

PRICE 25 CENTS

Priorities KiD Mdse. Exhibits,
fietice It s Suicide for State Fairs

Chicago, March 10.
Outdoor show btislness interests
are meeting liera to form a united
front for purpose of obtaining a
bearing in Washington to find some
formula to replace attractions ruled
out because of priorities or hamp-
ered by Government restrictions on
flat cars, Lack of cheap labor was
idso among major problems to be
discussed.

Three organizations have been
combined ini Outdoor Showmen's
Congress which wUl function as
clearing house Qn^i "overall commit-
tee lor the Intertaatlonal State Fair
•Afecretarles, the Outdoor Congress
"'and' Showmen's League of America.

Intehiational State Fair secretar-
ies called their special meeting to
'ideijlde oti means of getting attrac-
tions to fill machine halls, ampithea-
trea and grandstands. Prlorl^tles
(Continued on page 55)

'Crack-a-Jap' Cocktail
tAqna) for IQc Stamp

■way

iz

Cocktail bar set up in the lobby
of the Criterion theatre on Broadway
last week netted the Government
more than $1,000 In the first five
days of operation. Bar offers, for
10c, a special 'Cr«ck-a-Jap' cocktaU.
It consists -of a glass of yrater, accom-
panied by jti lOc defense*^mp.

'Customers' are generally surprised
by the contents of the cocktails, but
take the rib good naturedly, and
there hasn't been a single squawk.
Bar was installed by LoU Pollock,
eastern pub-ad chief for Universal,
who^e 'Ride "Em Cowboy' Is cur-
rently at the Criterion.

Defense. Stamp* tor Admtsh

San Francisco, March 10.
First theatre herb to announce
policy of accepting defense stamps
tot admission is the President, bur-
uy house operated by Eddie Skolak.

BM BERNIE HAS PLAN
to ^AKE UP AMERICA^

Ben. Bernle has been talking to
"a*hlngton officials on an aggres-
sive 'Wake Up 'America' radio cam-
paign, primed to - get Amerlcsi out
of its war lethargy, and coinciding
with the growing national convic-
tion something must.be done to take
an offensive slant on the war; not
just defehslve.

: It's' figured that certain radio fa-
vorites, in homey, heart-to-heart
fashion, can best reach the masses,
via the mikes, and pound home the
need f of immediate mobilization of
all energies for this total war.

Winter Heat Crimps B. O.

New York theatres and cafes, were
caught with their cooling plants
down over the weekend, due to the
sudden warmth.

' June temp made it a problem,
^especially since the defense work
haa made N, V. more and more of a
weekend town. ,

RADIO LAUGHS
WANTED FOR
SUMMER

Ad agencies that are on the look-
out for jeummer radio shows seem to
have centered their' interest in ma-
terial that promises laughs. Their
quest is principally for variety shows
or comedy sketches,' The agencies are
of belief that as the war drags on
listeners will be more and more in-
clined to favor comedy programs.

Because there are few establish^
laugh shows available for purchase
these agencies find themselves faced
with the task of putting together
their own Ingredients, in both talent
and material.

ASCAP'S QUARTERLY
MEON AT $950,000

U the present trend of collections
continue ASCAP may distribute as
much as $950,000 for the initial quar-
ter of 1942, This figure is but .$90,-
000 less than the dlwy . which was
made for the like quarter of 1940.
It is even believed within the Soci-
ety's financial quarters that unless
war conditions cause a sharp decline'
in radio advertising that ASCAP will
be able to make a distribution of at
least $4,000,000 this year.

With the Society's overhead re-
duced by $600,000, as compared to
what it was at the end bf 1940, the
membership will have come Uirough
its fight with the radio interest with
but slight parings of their individual
performance incomes.

NEW TYPE OF '6L0EY'

NBC, the Marines and the Russel
Seeds agency have solved the diplo-
matic crisis in the radio program
of 'Sergt. Quirt and Capt. Flagg,'
The script will send the captain off
to distant battle fronts and forget
him.

The new argument partner will
be a sergeant of aviation, who will
twit Quirt for being antique In
fighting style.

CIT GAG ABOill

Professor Sees Holljrwood
Wasting Celluloid on Silly
Slapstick Instead of Pre-
paring Nation for Realities
and Casualties — Ameri-
cans Don't Fully Realize
Evil Nature of Axis

GESTAPO NOT FUNNY

^ By BOBEKT OESSNEB

(Chairman, Department of Motion
Pictures, New Tork University; for'
mer Warner Bros, staff scripter.)

The time is here when we can no
longer delay a reconsideration of
the motion picture industry's atti-
tude toward this War. No one doubts
the patriotism and good purpose
of the executive producers, but pa-
triotism' won't save MacArthur and
the Burma Road is paved with good
intentions.. The ugly fact is that
we are in danger of losing the war
because the Amerlcab public is not
(Contluuea on page 16)

20 Scenic Designers
Become U. S. Aides
On War Camonflage

Twenty of the top theatrical icene
designers -hAvecomblnedto use-thelr
professional talent for military , and
Industrial camouflage fof the U, S.
They, are attending classes three' aliid
four dayis a week in New York, with
camouflage instruction from Prof.'
Herbert Kniflen, of the Amierlcan
School of Design, and Baron^icholas
Cherkasoff, former captain in 'flie
Russian and British armies, both ex-
perts in the field. Several U. S
(Continued on page 50)

Capt: Wing (Tob/s Dad)
A Hero whh MacArthur

■ It is .reported that Capt. Paul
Wmg (father of former film player
Toby 'Wing), who was sent to" the
PhlUppines to organize a film unit
with General MacArthur 's troops,
has been promoted to a brigadier
general for success in a much tough-
er job than pictures.

According to scant reports avail-
able, Capt.: 'vying had .little time for
films when the going got tough and
stepped into a job as head of a
company using mountain pack how-
itzers. He had previously had
much experience with this weapon
and his ability at holding the Japs
at bay in the treacherous mountain
passes of Bataan led to his elevation
by .Gen. MacArthtu:.

'Sex Up die Beaotifd Honk 4 Mett^^
h Film Ads to Lure Unescorted Feins

U.S. Taxes- Brigber Side

American Theatre Wing Wat Serv-
ice is profiting by many a Broad'way*
Ite's income taxes this year. .John
Flnto, accountant for a Hock of legit
managers, has always offered his ad-
vice and services op Income tax fig-
uring free to- those ini show biistness.

Now he's making « small charge
and contributing it to the Theatre
Wing.

NAZI VICTIMS
TO SPEAK UP
ON NBC

Series of interviews 'with refugees
who were at one time Imprisoned In
Nazi concentration camps wlU be
spotted- on the "Behind the Mike'
progiam on the Blue (WJZ) starting
Sunday (IS). Plan is to make it
plenty outspoken as to the cruelties
and indignities Inflicted on the vic-
tims, by the Gestapo agents.

Spot wUl plug the sale of defense
bonds and stamps.

65-Sax Orch .

- .- -^ston, Maroh-10. -

An orchestra composed of 65 saxo-.
-phones Is being sponsored by Al
Navarro; who has played with local
orchestras and & now- a teacher.

Navarro has been ex^crlmehting
frith 20 saxes, and feels he has made
/Sufficient progress to add to 05. "the
new band Will tee pff at concert at
the New England Mutual Lifeln-
surance Auditorium vdthin a month.

, \t>itt«[burgh, March 10.
'Sex up the beautiful bunk of mea
in your ads,^ John Walsh, manager of
Shea's Fulton heni, . suggests, to ex-
hibs waOing about drooping grosiwf,
Walsb's Idea Isn't a sUD In tba dark
either; ifs based on careful retearcli
and study of conditions brought on
by the war. Make 'em more-glamor- '
bus for the .nowadays unescorted
f emmes.

■ He points out that film layouts
have always appealed. directly .to. ths
men,, what .frith the g«ls mostly -
always in sweaters, sarongs 6> one-
piece bathing suits,, - Reasons for thlf
wife obvloiid.- Mem usually paid the'
tariir, wh^rftyer they wanted to go
of .an evening, and the la^ ftletod
usually went along. N^fri Walih
says, he's noticed at his own tbeitte
a phenomenon that never happened
before, tn the evening, half of &
girls are ajttending ^ix imeseorted, .
(Continued on page 43)

Martinelfiy
Free As

Washlnj^pn, March 10.
At the Wdo divlt Club Victory
Rally held at the .Central High
School Auditorium Sunday (8) close
to 1126,000 was pledged by Jtallah'
Americans for the war. Rally had
Giovanni MahltiefUl and DusoUna
GlanninI, tenor and sopriwpj ^e-.
^ectively, ' of ' the Metropolitan
Opera.

■ *Both slngerB; donated theil- serv-
ices, (singlilg arias from Totca,*
'Cavalleria Rustlcana,^ <Fagliaccir
and 'AiSa' as well as a gtoup of songs.
The management of the concert was
lindier the direction of Ugo Carust,
executive assistant to the attorney
general. ■ '

ADTERTISEHSNT

lUchard Himber Fired!

'Howls For More*

Richard Himber, who is ctir-
renUy at Loew's State, New
York, is .doing an effective
afterpiece with' Cliff Nazarro,
also on the bill, that )ias th$
audience howling for more . . .
Himber's band retains all the
effectiveness on th9 stage that
established it as a national
radio favorite. . Lcn.

That is, flred the enthusiasm of
the folks down Meinphls way.
Following wirrf was sent to An-
drew Weinberger, Mr. Himber's
repSresentative, "Himber band sen-
sational. Ruslnesg breaking' all
records. Himber hardest working
band leader' we have ever had In
Memphis. Rush available dates for
return Himber engagement. Re-
gards." (Signed) Rojr Moore, Pro-
motion Manager, Peabo<i^ Hotel;

Himber and his band .of. 18
set to return in £!eptenib<tv'--_,
an Indefinite engagement foOiiiff^
Ing his St Louis appearaftce, ,

,1,1 .., 'i

MISCELLANY

Wednesday, March 11, 1942

Navy Benefit, Grossing 142G, Good
Test of Show Biz's 1007o Patriotism

At midnight last night (Tuesday)
the greatest benefit performance ever
staged was still in hfgh at Madison
Bquare Garden. N. Y., with the show
business going all out for the Navy
Relief Fund. The talent roster in
aggregate represented millions in
money, and the public, realizing that,
shelled out approximately $107,000
"for tickets scaled at $16.50 top ($1,000
for the' boxes). The program grossed
another $35,000, so the over-all gross
take was in the neighborhood of
$142,000, an aU-time record for a
single shot theatrical performance.

There was no accurate estimate of
the show's net profit at this writing,
but it's expected to approximate
$125,000. The net profit on the pro-
gram alone, which has 65 pages of
advertisements, is said to be $25,000.
Ads sold at ,$500 per page. Besides,
there were a number of outright
coin donations.

If some congressmen are still du-
bious about the patriotism of the
show business and showfolk, they
should have been forced to witness
'Jie turnout of talent for this per-
formance. Also, they should be
given a close gander at names of
"the people responsible for the effort;
such as Marvin Schenck, of Metro,
chairman, of the entertainment com-
mittee; Howard Dietz, of the same
film company, heading the publicity
setup; and Abe Lastfogel, of the'
William Morris agency, chairman of
the program committee and princi-
pally concerned In conceiving the
elaborate bejieflt Idea. It -was Last-
fogel, at a USO-Camp Shows, Inc.,
(Continued on page 27)

SPEEDY SAROYAN

Metro GItIdc BIm Fullest Bein on
Booney Pie

Fingerprinting
Wins Approval of
H wood Workers

Hollywood, March 10. .
William Saroyau u developing
Into a threat for Orson Welles as
Hollywood's newest 'genius.' Metro
Is giving him his way in the writing
and pfoducton of a Mckey Rooney
■tarrer, The Human (Tordedy,' and
speed with which he is moving has
other writers and producers worried.
After turning in a 2B5-page script in
less than a month, the studio- ac-
ceded to his demands to do his own
breaking-down Into shooting form
with a two-week time limit
• He is also talking hand in casting
which gives him full control of the
picture from the first script page
to the last fade. Metro Is giving
the q)eed boy free rein figuring
his shooting schedule will be in pru-
dent keeping with his other func-
tions. - '

Arthar Hammerstein
Under Observation

Arthur Hammerstein Is under ob
servation at the Good Samaritan
hospital, Palm Beach, and It is in-
dicated he has a kidney ailment It
was at first believed that he had
heart trouble but a cardiograph dis-
closed that organ to be functioning
normally.

Hammerstein was to have had
charge of the annual -children's
charity show held last week, it being
■ memorial performance for the late
Sam H. Harris.

Joe Lewis to Pix

Joe E. Lewis winds up his three
month run at Monte Proser's Copa-
cabana, N. Y., the end of next week
and heads for Hollywood and a Uni-
versal contract He has two- pictures
to make, thus setting back a Loew
State (N. Y.) commitment.

Copa has not yet decided on
headliner to succeed Lewis.

eiSTEBS SPONSOB SISTERS
Buffalo, March 10.
Teamed with the Johnny Long
Andrews Sisters stage show this
week are the Southern " Si,sters— a

couple of aero dancers proteged
the Andrews.
•■■ -drews girls picked the South
\ ^ . ■ in Hollywood and are
• ' asisting on co-bookings
■ IS, out of close friendship

by

re-

on

Four 'Casualties'

A bad backache * which has
bedded Al Jolson in his Miami
Beach home; a serious aUto. acci-
dent of Dick Powell's father In El
Paso, Texas, and out-of-town
commitments by Lou Holtz and
Paul Draper forced these four
out of the Navy Relief -show
last night (Tues.) at Madison
Sq. Garden. Otherwise, no dis-
' appointments.

Latter two acts are among
the headliners with Clifford C.
Fischer's 'Priorities' (vaude re-
vue) opening tomorrow at the
46th St. on Broadway, and
they're breaking-in out of town '
prior to Broadway.

Hollywood, March 10.

Willingness to be fingerprinted and
mugged wa* expressed by all the
motion picture Guilds, crafts and
unions through the appointment of
a committee of five to draft a stand-
ard questionnaire for mass identifi-
cation In the film Industry.

Committee consists of Frank Ca-
ruthers, labor representative; George
Cohen, for Producers Association;
John Dale, for Screen Actors Guild;
George Bodle, for Screen. Cartoon-
ists arid Publicists, and Nick Moran,
for Electricians. Members will work
with Fred W. Beetson on a general
system of .identification to cover not
only those actually engaged in
studio work but those who need
daily access to tiie lots for the trans-
action of allied trades or industries.
Idea Is to. standardize the question-
naire systems already in vogue at
various studios.

100^ MCA Package Deal

Hollywood, March 10.

Music Corp. of America has closed
a package deal with RKO for a
musical to be wholly financed by
the booking outfit. Only MCA
clients will get key iSpots.- Tim
Whelap produces and directs.

Talent Includes Guy Lombardo
and I«s Brown, sweet and swing
bands, Dinah Shore, Rochester and
the Ink Spots.

Bonds cost as little as $18.75,
stamps come as low as 10
cents. Defense bonds and
stamps can be bought at all
banks and postoffices, and
stamps can also be purchased
at retaU stores.

'WE, THE PEOPLE' JO GULF?

Meantime Account's Decision on
Screen Golld Not Made

If General Foods agrees to release
the option it has on 'We, the Peo-
ple,' the show will probably go on
the payroll of Gulf Oil. Both" ac-
counts are with the Young & Rubl-
cam agency.

Gulf liasn't Indicated what it
wants .to do about a summer pinch-
hitter for its 'Screen Guild' show or
whether it wants to continue the lat-
ter series next season, but the re-
finer has evinced some interest in
taking over the sponsorship of 'Peo-
ple.' Latter show costs around $7,-
000, whereas the bill for 'Screen
Guild' totals $14,000. '

Barry Wood with Brother
Barney Ra|ip to Warble,
M.C. and Toot Clarinet

Barry Wood Joins with his broth-
er, bandleader Barney Rapp, on a
series of one-night dance promotions
and single-day theatre stands begin-
ning next Monday (16). Wood,
singer on Lucky Strike's Hit Parade
past two years. Is to be accompanied
by a- new band Rapp is building.
Combo will work only first threp
days of each week — ^Monday-Wednes-
day — because of rehearsals by Wood
for his radio job. Opening is at
New Bradford theatre, Bradford,
Pa.

Besides vocaling and m.c. chores.
Wood will play clarinet He at one
time played tenor sax-clarinet with
Abe> Lyman, Vincent Lopez, Paul
Ash and Buddy Rogers bands. Wood
opens solo March 19 at Flatbush the-
atre, Brooklyn, follows with Wind-
sor, Bronx, then resumes with Rapp.

Richman to Frisco

Harry Richman opens April 15 at
the Bal Tabarin, San Francisco, for
four weeks, booked by MCA.

Thence into the Florentine Gar-
dens, Hollywood, May 15.

ABBOTT and COSTELLO .

•Abbott and Costello go buckitty— buckitty on a- dude ranch, carryino
on their push-ln-the-faco capers among tho cattle and the broncKoi.
It cooKcs laughs from the mldtoctlon.' —Walter Winchell

Universal Picture*

Under Personal

Chase A Sanborn Hour, NBC-Red
Manaqoment ofi EDWARD SHERMAN - '

THE BERLE-EVG POINT

By Milton Berle
♦ ♦♦♦ ^ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«»**««*«

Hollywood, March "10;

Went to Big Bear for some snow sports. Went down the tobogg^nsllde
at a fast clip, hitting 40 and 60 miles an hour— how I wish I had the to-
boggan' under me. • /: 1 ' " i j
Broadway Department ■'"•■!■'■??{ r-"

Georgie Price, the actor-worker, has become so successfuHft'^feiWrtie-
back on Broadway, he Is now wearing makeup to his office in Wall Street,

Jack Zero knows a playboy who once had plenty of money to bUrn, but
things went pretty bad with the guy and now he has just en6ujg}iijfno'ney to
rtnge. • ' ' • - '■

Leo Lindy Is pretty worried about his favorite herring, 'Ramona.* The
poor thing developed a bad case of insomnia and now swims In her sleep.

Gypsy Rose Lee Is a bad Influence on her car. She was driving down
Broadway when suddenly the gears began to strip.

Hollywoodlana - -'

Harry C^ane, the writer, knows a quickie producer who couldn't pay
bis hous'eboy the four months' salary he owed him, so he compromised —
he will star him .in his next picture.

Adolphe Menjou, the fashionplate, has just started a new fad. He Is
now sporting a double-breasted, carnation.

Just learned that Maxie Rosenbloom was the most popular child in
school when he. was in the fourth grade. He was the only one who could
afford to buy a daily Racing Form.

Jphn Barrymore has really turned over a new leaf. His doctor told him
to stay away from Seotch, so he's doing the next best thing— wearing kilts.
Musio Department

The publisher of the 'Zoot Suit' song, as an added inducement Is hand-
ing out a pair of trousers with every copy purchased.

Artie Shaw has a novel Idea for a new kind of orchestra. It will consist
of 12 bandleaders leading a one-man band.

Radio Department

Bob Hope has played so many Army camp benefits they are now print-,
ing his scripts on draft orders.

Hancnall Descriptions

'Oscar': Adored-award . . . Chinese Bqoking Agent: Yen-percenter . , .
Lawyer: Little Boy Sue . ; . Communist: Red-ucated.

Observation Department

The members of the Academy Award board have gotten together, and
decided that next year for a change they will hand out an Bttoi to an
Oscar.

Once upon a time only an agent worried about a commission.' Now,
with the war on, everyone you meet hopes a little 'commission' will come
his way.

I thought I'd seen and heard about everything, but the other day some-
one handed me a synthetic rubber check. (Enterprising feUow, eh, what?)

Eavesdropped at Charley Foy's: 'How can the girl of your dreams' be
such a nightmare?'

Eavesdropped at Trouvllle: 'She is so lazy he had to carry the torch for '
her.'

Eavesdropped at Band-Box: 'She has a lovely figure, but no one could
meet it' — ^

My brother, the one who smuggles sugar out of bloodstreams. Is making
money off hypochondriacs. He sells every one he meets • medicine ball.

IVbatever Became of»— ^ ?

ConsiTio Bros. & Morton WHWns Stanley & Bymet
Harry Watson, Jr. Nancy Welford

Afterpiece

When America gets through with Japan, there'll be gaps where there
used to be Japs. '

Groucho Marx Rebuttals

Beverly Hills.

Editor, 'Variety*:

It seems to me- I spend most of
my time defending myself against at-
tacks by trade-paper Pulitzers, jour-
neymen hacks and fly-bitten critics.
I liad no idea when first I embarked
on a shady literary career that there
were so many ^osts to .defend. I
imagined that once having written
a classic ('Many Happy Returns';
Simon tc Schuster; $1) it was done
with and I could then rest on my
literary oars and gracefully float
Into the harbor of the 10-best sellers.
How do you like, my metaphors?

Perhaps I was wrong In abandon-
ing the theatre and vice versa. ' I
used to do eight shows a week, no
one bothered me once the opening
night reviews were over and, if the
show was a success, I had plenty of
time and money for Llndy's, the
Polo Grounds and an occasional can-
ter In the park — and I don't mean
Eddie. I used to be a big Broadway
star with a fur-lined coat, three
Benham suits and a full line of Sulka
underwear.

If this sniping doesn't ^cease, I
wam^ all these puny Hunekers fll
abandon literature and go back to
the theatre. I was bom In the the-
atre and I. can die In the theatre and,
if next season turns out auythiAg
like this present one, it won't b« any
trick at all to . die in the theatre.

■ Groucho Marx.

N. Y. TO MIAMI

Oscar A. Doob.
J. Louis Schlne.
Morris Rosenberg.
PhU Spltelny.
George D. Lottman.
Jake Wilk.

MIAMI TO N.Y.

Milton Ag^r.
Neil F, Agnew.
Ben Bemie.
Nicky Blair.
Bill Brandt
Eleanor Holm.
Sam Rinzler.
Billy Rose.

Danny Kaye's AHerjgy to
MCA May Reach Board
Of Arbitration in N. Y.

Settlement of the dispute between
Danny Kaye, and the Music Corp ot
America, regarding a contract set
by the agency for the comedian's,
appearance recently on the Kate
Smith show, awaits arrival of Jules
C. Stein, MCA prez, from the Coast
In ihe.next couple of weeks. If the
matter cannot be adjusted It will-
have to go to arbitration under the
American Federation of Radio Art-
ists agreement vtrith the agencies.
American Arbitration Assn. would
handle the hearings.

Case involves the question of
MCA's right to book Kaye, who was
formerly handled by Columbia Art-
ists, but refused to go along when
MCA bought the later agency. Dis-
agreement had been pending for'
some time, but came to a head when
MCA booked the comic -ior the
Smith' date and he refused to go
through with the appearance.

MIAMFS 'SCRENOirr
TO PROTECT SHIPPING

Miami Beach, March 10.

It's curtains for Greater Miami's '
spectacular night skyline, whose
twinkling lights and floodlit hotels
mak6 it a landmark far at sea, un-
der orders of the Defense Ck)unci]i
cooperating with the arnxy and naVy' .
in seeking new ways to protect ship-
ping off the Florida coast

Officially it is called a 'scrtfenout'
and has been ordered into effect
along the- 3t>utheast Florida coast
from Miami to Fort Pierce.

Street lights, illuminated signs,
beacons .atop hotels and light in
home and hotel rooms facing the
sea were ordered screened so that
their glow would not silhouette ships
in the Gulf stream for night-prowl-
ing ■ submarines. Bryan Hawks,-
chairman of the Defense CQuncil,
made it clear that fear of enemy at- ■
tack by air or sea was not Involved.
■• First intimation visitors and resi- ■:
, (Continued on page 20)

Vedaeadayt March 11, 1942

MISCEIXAMT S

Winchell s Cissy^^Patterson Scrap May
Cause Him to Depart King Features

Although Walter Winchell j)rob.
ably will not renew bis 13-year as-
aoclatlon with King Features Syndi-
cate next November, chances are
that his New York outlet will con-
tinue to be the Mirror, the column-
ist told 'Variety* Monday (9). Winch-
ell, howeveTi confirmed that he
had generous offera from Marshall
Field (PM and the Chicago Sun)
and George Backer (New York
Post).

Combination of personal affection
for his bosses in the Hearst outfit
and ' appreciation of the Mirror's
contribution to his succ^s will be
the deciding fiactor in keeping his
pillar in its present spot, declared
Winchell. He emphasized that his
reason: for leaving KFS is entirely
concerned with Eleanor (Cjssy)
Patterson's Washington Times-Her-
ald and not the syndicate or Hearst
management.

Most tempting offer foi; an air
ternate New York release, said
Winchell, has been that made by,
Marshall Field and Ralph Ingersoll'
for PM. Freedom offered by the
paper's liberal editorial policy, plus
the Inhibitions removed by its ad-
vertising-less setup,' are. very at-
tractive, he admitted.

(AddiUon of WincheU, it is fig-
(Continued on page 55)

Call Steinbeck's %mi
A W Even Before If s
Ready As Stage Play

: Rarely if ever has a play on the
verge of presentation been a pre-
dicted success Inr the same way as
The Aoqn Is Down,' John Stein-
beck's new war novel. ' That the
book was published three weeks
prior to the stage premiere is in it-
self unusual, but (Asservers say that
the author wrote his story with the
plain intent of It being produced as
a play.

'""Moon,* being readied by Oscar
Serlin, is due at the Beck theatre,
N. Y.,- March 31. Book reviewers
went to town generally in praising
the story and mentioned its adapt-
ability to the stage, including one
who- was not as elated over it as a
novel.

R. L. Duffus, ia the N. Y. Times
went the whole way in his book cov-
erage, opining that 'Moon' is 'a novel,
a stage play, a motion picture, a
radio drama. It is all these things
' and merits being all of them.'' Stein-
beck's 'Of Mice and Men' drew wide
attention and was made into a stage
drama after being publfshed as a
book.

Serlin is also due to prese|;it 'Strip
lor Action,' new Lindsay and'Crouse
comedy. Same manager-author setup
applies to 'Life With Father.'

Can't Rib Commies Now;
'Ninotchka' Causes Burn

Washington, March 10. '
It's okay to rib Communists only
when they're on other side, op-
erators of Little theatre, local re-
' vival and first-run foreign pix house,
have decided. 'Ninotchka,' recently
revived hopefully, not only died at
boxoffice, but brought down ire on
heads of theatre ' management.
Angry letters have charged this 'is
no time to be making fun at our
allies.'

'Comrade X' has been sent to file-
and-forget department for time be-
ing.

PRC's Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong has been inked
to a four-picture pact by Producers
Releasing Corp. Her firsv nc wiU
be -The Devil's Sister,' which goes
before the cameras March 25. Max
Alexander will produce.

PRO also recently contracted with
Ann Corlo to make another film.

Ladies Ain't Like That

: Hollywood, March 10.

While other studios are
streamlining their glamour gals.
Republic is developing a set^of
femme heavies as a new twist to
western and .mystery pictures.
Among .the villainesses in recent
films are Lynn Carver in 'Man
From Ch.'yenne,' Beryl Wallace
in 'Sunset on the besert' and
Evelyn Bren'. in' 'Westward Ho,'
all leaders of rustling gangs and
frontier mobsters.

Idea is to plant a germ of
mystery in the minds of the
western film fans who are
usually of the male persuasion
and would never suspect a lady
of wrongdoing.

Number of legit Actors
h Uniform May Presage
Acute Casting Problems

A talent scarcity for legit shows
looms for next season, not because
of Hollywood but 'the war. Produc-
tion for the balance of the season is
slowing down and casting problems
should not be immediately acute, but
it is asserted that one-third of
Equity's male members eligible for
service are already in the armed
forces, while others are being drafted
at the rate of eight to ten weekly.

Shortage will be mostly juveniles
it is indicated. Eqdity officers say
that the departure of members to the
services does not necessarily mean a
solution of unemployment, pointing
out tiiat the men in the'flrmy< are'
members within the age span mostly
in demand by managers, .
' .For some time producers claimed
that Hollywood . ihad .absorbed too
much stage talent and partly blamed
casting difficulties on the drop in the
number of shows put on. There-
after, however, some showmen went
to the Coast to cast key parts and
there developed a flow of players
.back and forth. Such interchange' Is
likely now to cease, since Hollywood
will lose its percentage of younger
actors as will radio and other
divisions of the profession.

Equity says It had approximately
1,000 members out of 2,000 eligible
for service. Up to now around 300
are in uniform and the number wHl
.steadily increase.

SUPPER TO REYNOLDS
NETS 2 AMBULANCES

Enough for two' ambulances was
realized from the $10-a-head testi-
monial supper Saturday (7) night at
the Hotel Roosevelt; N. Y., to Quen-
tin Reynolds, Collier's war corre-
spondent. Fete wa. for the bene-
fit of - N~.e British-American Ambu-
lance fund, and many film folk from
the Coast bought tickets, turning
them over to service men. Even the
natives found the midnight unt|il
Sunday morning session beyond their
capacity, but'the gatherinf was gien-
erously sprinkled with celebs from
the stage, screen, radio, Industrial,
newspaper and other walks of life.

On the dais were Deems Taylor, as
toastmaster,- and Wendell Willkie;
among others. Reynolds' own ad-
dress was an impassioned stiff-upper-
lip speech, in the face of the bad war
news.

Joe E. Lewis, on the dais also, was
overcome by Reynolds* impassioned
tribute to the heroism of the British
and he couldn't perform.

KeigUey Pilots Benny

Hollywood, March 10. '
Jack Benny's forthcoming starrer
at Warners, 'The Widow Wouldn't
Weep,' will be directed by William
Keighley.

• Piloting will be done under Rob-
ert Lord's production supervision.

OF

At Television Pioneers They
Have Greatest Inyestment
and , Operating Ohrerhead
Plus Best Chance to En-
joy Post - War Expansion
Boom — But Just Now It's
AH Going Out

BLAME FLY

Television, th-at illusory boom, in-
dustry of a fanciful future when
peafe. shall reign, - is making its
American developers unhappy. The
Yanks - are distressed because they
are not : allowed to shut down In
war time. The English in Septem-
ber, 1939, were distressed because
they' had to.

Thir whole matter of' continuing
television under wartime conditions
seems to be tangled up in politics.
At least NBC and CBS seem to think
so. They seem to feel that Chair-'
man James L., Fly of the Federal
Communications Commission wishes'
them to continue partly because he
knows it's very expensive and th<fy
don't want to. That's the way they
(Continued on page 18)

Warn Cafes and Pubs
In Button -Your -Lip
Campaign in Frisco

San Francisco. March 10./
Niterles and drinkerlj^ are on viK
tual military probation here- as a
result of loose, talk by both service
men dnd civilians under influence of
grog. High ranking Army and Na-vy'.
officials have warned operators un-
less they act to curb conditions
which might lead to disclosure of
military information they will be
placed under bond with possibility
of more drastic action to follow.

Members of the Bartenders' union
and kindred groups have held meet-
ings with military bificials to learn
proper procedure and have been
instructed in- such matter as refus-
ing to serve intoxicated service men,
refusing to serve suspicious civilians
attempting to. buy drinks for men in
uniform, whom to call to report when
service men get out of hand or ques-
tionable characters . start asking
questions. . Suds dispensers are only
too eager to co-operate, not only
from patriotism, but because they
realize stroke of the pen can close
them, and permanently, unless dan-
gers of liquored tongues are elim-
inated.

Yen Lee Mortimer Goes
All-Ont for the Orient

'Never skipping a chance to aid
his friends, Lee Mortimer, New York
Mirror's film critic, gave his column
over the other day to listing most
of the Oriental femme performers
in the U. S. Purpose was to aid
Hollywood which. Yen Lee Mortimer
discovered via 'Daily Variety,' has
run into a, casting problem, with
three Chinese pictures being rushed
to completion at once.

Yen Lee's enthusiasm for slant-
e^ed femmes is shared by his fel-
low-critic, George Chan Nathan,
both frequently squiring Asiatic
dolls around N. Y. town.

Miss Peine for Niteries

'Virginia Peine, film and legit ac-
tress, may make 'her nitery debut at
the Sensgate hotel, Boston, which
opens Friday (13). She will 'essay
a singing single. Paul Small is book-
ing her. • -

Sensgate's room is a new addition
to Boston's cafe scene.

NX Times Critic Raps Congressmen
Who Malp Patriotic Show BiKiness

Some Trailer!

Baltimore, March 10.

Bill Saxton, of Loew's Century
here, is taking credit for the
record breaking advance sellout
of 'Without Love.' Katherlne
Hepburn legit venture ■ ujrrent
at Ford's and an unheard-pf
complete . sellout before initial
curtain time last night (Mon.).

Claims recently completed two
week run of 'Woman of Year'
(M-G), which incidentally
chalked up a big total uX $27,-
500 on its run, served as potent
trailer in advance of star's cur-
rent, p.a. in legit.

More Dialectic Song
Adaptations, in Swing,
Cfick in the Meboxes

Another cycle of . Americanized
}ive versions of Yiddish, tunes has
hit the country's jukeboxes. Rated
tops currently by coin machine nven
Is Benny Goodman's "My Little
Cousin,' adaptation of a Yiddish
musicomedy ditty originally labeled
'My Green Cousin.' It's said' to be
the most powerful- .Goodman disc
since he came through several years
ago with another similar excerpt
known as 'And the Angels Sing.'

Andrews Sisters' 'What 'to Do,'
derived from a Russian-Je'wlsh. folk
song, is also Increasing in favor.
Andrews gals, of course, rose to fame
on 'Bei Mir Bist du Schoen.' - Both
tfieirs and the 'Goodman waxing
were released last -week.

Another such adaptation, Cab Cal-
loway's 'Nain Naln,' is., also moving,
although it hasn't Indicated a sales
strength comparable with the other
two as yet. ' ' ,

SAM HARRIS MEMORIAL
BENEFIT NETS R600

Palm Beach, March 10.

Final countup of the 17th annual
Kiwanis Benefit for Underprivileged
Children here last week, celebrated
as a memorial to Sam H. Harris,
long a local winter resident, shows
a $7,000 net. The gfoss was. $12,-
000, expenses coming to $5,000. -

Ben Bernie and columnist Ed. Sul-
livan m.c.d the show, which Jack
Bertell / and Arthur Hamniersteia
have been booking for 17 years.
In the absence of Hanimerstein, hos-
pitalised with a bad heart, John
Golden delivered a cliiging eulogy
to Harris. . / •

Another cancellation, through' Ill-
ness, was Al Jolson, whose backache
confined him to Miama Beach and
he couldn't show. ' Show booked by
Bertell, through his Music- Corp. of
America Association, included Shel-
lah Barrett, Dixie Dunbar, MUI
Monti, Larry: Adler, Sara Ann Mcr
Cabe, Al TrahanV/Paul Haakon and
Patricia Bowman, Collette Barry
Revue, among others:

' Taking up the cudgels for show
business. Brooks - Atkinson, in the
N. Y. Times Sunday (8), chastised
Congressmen who cast 'casual
slanders' and 'ignominious remarksT
at the theatrical profession and pro-
fessionals. The reviewer pointed out
the importance of war aid being
given by the people of the stage,
screen and other amusements. "He
objected!, to actors being 'bracketed
with the gaudier parasites like per>
fume- 'peddlers, fan dancers, parlor
pinks, fancy uplifters, frills and
furbelows.' Wrote Atkinson:

•The relegation of actors to th«
category of useless and ridiculous .
meml>ers 'of modem society -comes
with poor grace at a time when so
many people, including government '
agencies, are requesting them to do-
nate their services to worthy causes.
Broadway and Hollywood- actors are
asked to help sell bonds, appeal to
the public for the Red Cross, raise
money for war relief and give pints
of blood, ahd/^e stars are naturally
expected to /tour th^ btmy camps
and help entertain 'mien In the armed
forces of the United States.'

'All this may seem trifling to mem-
(Continued on. page 40)

SASSOON TAKES OVER
COWARtt FILM BACKING

I^ndon, Feb. IS.

Noel Coward's nlmost ^ne-maii
naval film, In . which" he 'will appear
as well as script and direct. Is finally
going on the floor at J>enham after
^any protracted negotiations.

Originally, blurb went put ' that
Columbia Pictures (Lonilon) was be->
hind venture, but .it's understdod
CoL walked out. when it found that
cost of epic would be^abbUt $700,<WO;
Arthur Ratik^and Chailes M, Woolf
then became Interested In project,
readying $400,000, artd when deal
was practically fait accompU, th^
too gave Up. . •

Now Two Cities Films' Major J. M,
Sassoon,. chairman of the 6>nil>any^ .
Is to bankroIL . But 'no -dlstiHbut&ig
arrangements have yet been madp. ;

Ecbo of German Suit
In Wnf. Dieterle Claim

Idia Coudenhone-Kaletgi, actress,
filed suit Wednesday (4) In N.Y.
federal court against William Die-
terle, director, seeking dapiages. of
$7,840, representing art award of
9,600 gold marks, plup Interest, since
1024, Actress was given that amount
by a Berlin court eight yeaijs ago
in a suit against the director.

She charges !ihe was. engaged to
play in a production to have been
staged at the defendant's theatre in
Berlin on May 25, 1024, with Die-
terle guaranteeing to indemnify her
if the play failed to go on,

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No.-l

INDEX

Bills ; 48

Chatter ...,53

Concert-Opera .. , ..39

Exploitation ., 14-

Film Booking Chart. . ....... 18

Film "Ilevlews ; ' 8

Ho(j8e Reviews. . 47

Inside— Legit 52

Inside-^Muslc . , 42

Inside — Orchestras 41

Inside — ^Pictures is,

Insidfr^Radio ..I........... 34

International . , , 16

Legitimate \i 50

Literati . 52

Music- ;,' 42

New Acts.' 49

Night Club Reviews. , 49'

Obituary 54

Orchestras .. 4gi

Pictures . '. ' 4

Radio . ,„ 28

Radio Reviews.^. , . . . . . 38

Shorts Reviews •...<..' 20

Unit Reviews 49

Vaudeville 44

DAIVS VARIETY -

(Publlihei] In Hollywood bj
iSalljr Variety, Ltd.)
tlO a yearr-112 rorelCB.'.'',/

PICTURES

Wednesday. March 11, 1942

Addidonal $500,000 for Camp Shows;
Planning Summer Outdoor Tours

Additional $500,000 has been aV
lotted by the USO to Camp Shows,
Inc., to keep its program ot Army
entertainment rolllne until June 1.
Kew appropriation raises to slightly
over $1,500,000 the total amount al
located to CSI.

■ Coin will permit continued opera-
tion of ,the 24 units now out and
Inauguration of a schedule^ of out
door shows for the summer Present
units will wind up their tours
around April 16 and then there will
be a hiatus of two weeks or perhaps
a little longer before the outdoor
chows get under way.

It is figured that not so many
summer units will be needed to
maintain the present schedule of one
show available to every soldier
every two weeks. Average audi-
ences of about 5,000 are figured for
the outdoor entertainment as against
much smaller audiences in theatres.
Return of Abe Xastfogel, CSI chief,
trom the Coa^t this week will start
the routine rolling on building the
summer entertainment.

Lastfogel intends to hold a big
meeting of agents, bookers, man-
•gws^and others in show business to
allow them all to toss in their ideas
i:c . the outdoor units. .His objective,
Lastfogel declared, is to get shows as
different as possible from the winter
routine. Circus and carnival ideas
have been suggested.

More Hollywood Flayers

Greater number of Hollywood
name players are expected to take
to the camps as a result of hypo to
the Hollywood Victory Committee,
which provides the stars for CSL
One of the major aids has been or-
ganization of. a writers' group to
provide- material for the players.
Many have feared to go on tour be-
cause they are not equipped with
anything to do.

Only giiest on tour now is Harpo
Marx, who opened in San Diego
Monday (B) and continues until
March 26. He was actually slated to
start next Monday and spend- this
week rehearsing, biit Lastfogel
/talked him out of it in favor of do-
. Ing his rehearsing before an audi-
ence and thus giving the soldiers an
extra week. Mischa Auer is skedded
to go out March 30 and continue
until April 8.

JPart of the rejuvenation being
given the Hollywood Victory Com-
mittee entails its chairman, Charles
K. Feldman, coming east for six
weeks' to sit in with Lastfogel on
.. .CSI operation. FeZdman is also
' 'chairman of USO-CSI on the Coast
and it is figured that by coming east
and. getting closely acquainted \vith
the organization it will promote
amity and greater cooperation be-
tween the two coasts.

25^ofB.0.forNayyRefief

St Louis, March' 10.
More than 50% of the flicker
houses in this burg have already
pledged 26% of their grosses on
Tuesday (17) to the Navy 'Relief
fund.

Move, sponsored by the local 'Vari-
ety Club, Is expected to have jnore
than 100 houses in the gift plan by
the 17th.

More Criticism
On Tollyanna
War Newsreels

U^. Radio Coordinator
Sets H'wood Straight
On War-Aid Programs

Hollywood, March 10.

The Hollywood Victory Commit-
tee was. told by W. H. Lewis, former
CBS v.p., now Federal Radio coor-
dinator, that petty jealousies and
bickerings will defeat the purpose
of the all-out drive to bolster civil-
ian morale, and pleaded for the uni-
fication of home war effort. Local
bureau to exchange ideas with
Washington will be set up here.

Film stars were pledged to appear
on Government sanctioned air shows
and will pass up others.

Lewis said "This is War' and other
programs would originate here when
picture • talent is required. He will
announce the Hollywood setup after
returning to Washington. Consider-
able conflict in views anu on the
conduct of Hollywood shows for the
Government brought the warning to
the Victory Committee from Lewis
that unless all pull together to smite
the common enemy the desired ends
cannot be achieved.

Army Nixes Ty Power

Tyrone Power was turned down
by the Army Monday (9) in an en-
deavor to enlist as a flying cadet.

T\venty-seven-year-old fllm player
was nixed because he was married
*nd did not have a college educa-
tion. Ho made the application In
Kew York, where he appeared at the
Kavjr Rwlicf show last night

Public protest agamst the anaemic
and Pollyanna slant on World War
happenings and American military
and industrial participations, as
pictured in the newsreel releases of
the major companies, supplemented
by the shorts distributed by the War
Activities Committee, is finding ex-
pression through letter columns in
daily newspapers.

Typical ot audience comment al-
though somewhat more forceful In
criticism of the newsreels than most
protestitnts, is a letter by Lyman
Beecher Stowe on the editorial page
of the New York Times yesterday
(10). Stowe's complaint was directed
against a symposium of newsreel
shots indicating wholly satisfactory
coordination of industry in the pro-
duction task. He wrote:

A few days ago I dropped in
at a newsreel theatre on Broad-
way to kill an hour or so of time
between appointments.

One of the pictures was. called
'The Arsenal of Democracy,' and
represented American factories
running at full blast in war pro-
duction and using American ma-
terials. I kept waiting for the
moral which, I supposed, would
be some form of notification to
the public that ten or a dozen
materials essential for war pro-
duction are not to be had, eitTler
within our continental boundar-
(Continued on page 27)

INA RAY HUTTON

And Her Great New Orohtstra

N'ow headlining Paramount
Theatre, New Tcirk. Acclaimed
by press and public not only be-
cause of the personality and ver-
satility of Its dynamic young
slnElntr and dancing leader, but
also because of Its flno musician-
ship. A aure boxoffloe bet for
pictures.

Direetion
CHARLES V. VAXES AGENCY
30 Rockefeller Plaxa
New York

Army Film Company

Into Astoria April 1

Army's Training Films Production
Unit, now stationed at Fort Mon-
mouth, N. J., will move into the
Eastern Service Studios in Astoria,
L. I., between April 1 and 15.

War Department recently acquired
the property from Paramount and is
now preparing barracks, mess hall,
etc., for the men.

Picture House Fans
Cool to Lecturers;
Wanna forget the War

Milwaukee, March 10.

Execs of the Fox Wisconsin Thea-
tres, Inc., wha thought they' had
something recently when ' they
booked in a string of lecturers for
their better nabes, have changed
their minds aljout their acumen and
will be relieved when present con-
tracts are played out or paid off and
forgotten.

When theatre heads a few monttis
ago saw how the public crowded
lecture haUs and forums . to ca-
pacity at a buck or more per head
to hear discussions on topics of the
day, they figured they might just
as well get. some of tte gravy and
signed up Jan Valtln, T. R. 'Ybarra,
Elissa Landi, Cy Caldwell and Dr.
Otto Strasser.

Now they have already played
some of the best names on the list,
to disappointing returns. In some
cases less than 100 patrons were
attracted to the -intellectual feasts,
and from now on the showmen will
stick to show business^ and its ap-
proved sidelines.

It seems that either the theatre
doesn't provide quite the proper at-
mosphere for the lecturers, or else
the public prefers to -go to the thea-
tre to forget the topics of the day.

Wei.1'1 Par Confab

Hollywood, March 10:
Ed Weisl; counsel and member of
Paramount's board, is here for
studio confabs with Y. Prank Free-
man and Henry Ginsberg.

He will remain here the rest of
the week.

t « m I ' i I 1 > t t t t t t I I M > I M ♦

Uncle Sam s Roll Call

♦ ♦♦ « « m:

manager for New England, attended
by a flock of newspapermen and
women, show people and contenripo-
rary publicity pKiggers.

James ('Red') King, stege man-
ager at the RKOrBoston theatre for
past seven years, and substitute pub-
licity man during summer months in
recent years in the Boston RKO Qf-
flce, takes over Granara's job. Joe
Mansfield continues., as assistant

Warner Bros, homeoffice lost three
men and March of Time one this
week by being called and volunteer-
ing fdr military service. Hollis
Kennahan, Warner's tradepaper rep-
resentative in N. Y., resigned ef-
fective Friday (6); having enlisted
in U. S. Army. Don Gillette, who
had charge' of the h.b. house organ,
takes his place. Sam Weissman, of
the N. Y. advertising staff, also left
this week for Army duty, as did
Jules Goldmans, of Warner h.o. the-
atre- department Goldmans had
been with the company for 12 years.

Don Higgins, head of March of
Time publicity, was called up for
active U. S. Army service, March 5.
His duties will be absorbed by Al
Sindlinger, head of M. of T. ad-
publicity department.

Jack Granara In Air Corps

Boston, March 10.
Jack Granara, publicity chief for
RKO Theatres here, enlisted in the
Air Corps of the U. S. Army and was
inducted at Fort Devens (Mass.)
March 6; Granara, presumab]^
headed for the public relations de-
partment of the Air Corps, alter his
military training period, was given
a larewell party Wednesday (4) by
Harry McDonald, RKO divisional

. It's Lleat. Mallory Now

Memphis, March 10.
W..B. (Bart) Mallory', Metro booker
here and former assistant manager
at Loew's State, has accepted a com-
mission, in the Navy. Mallory left
last week for Rhode Island to be
sworn in as lieutenant junior grade.

War Activities' Field P.A.'b

A total of 46 men and women in
the theatre field, stationed in 41 dif-
ferent cities, has been appointed as
field publicity representatives of the
War Activities Committee. Monroe
Greenthal is chairman of this branch
of the WAC.

Field appointees indiide not only
(Continued on page 22)

Showmen's $50,000 Drife

Chloago, March 10.
flhowmen't Leafue of America

started the ball . rolling in the R«d
Cross drive for $90,000 from the out*
doon dlvlalon of the Amusament f
Recreation Division ot National De
fense with a lingle contribution of
|2,000 to the quota.

Balanco of the 60 grand will be
collected throughout the coming out
doors season by fairs, carnivals, dr
cuses, etc.

Outdoor* Red Cross drive Is
headed by J. C. McCaflery of Ajnuse
ment Corp. of America,

6 COS. EROM 5
CAMPS TOUR
OWN SHOWS

Sell-entertalnment program for
soldiers, instituted in the Second
Corps Area (New York; New Jer-
sey and Delaware) on a large acale
a couple months ago, Is startliig to
bear fruit. Six companies, from five
different camps, are about to -start
on tours of the approximately 30
posts in the area.

Sympathy of Major General Irving
J. Phillipson, commanding officer of
the Second Corps Area, for theatri-
cal entertainment as a morale build-
er has made the territory the out-
standing example of self-provided
amusement Heading the actual
work of getting the shows on is Ezra
Stone, radio's 'Henry Aldrich,' now
private in the Army's morale
branch. -

Two evenings of entertainment
are being provided by C^mp Up-
ton. One is a combination musical
revue, 'We're Ready,' and a band
presentation, a la Fred Waring, by
a crew batoned by Zinn Arthur,
The other Is Three Men On a
Horse,' featuring Stone.

Fort Hancock, whose personnel,
guarding New' York Harbor,- gets
virtually po leaves of any kind, will
send . 'Room Service' on totir. Pine
Camp, N. Y., is offering 'Petticoat
Fever.*" Fort Ontario has two oner
act plays, 'Goodrtight Caroline' and
'Submerged.' And Fort Dix, N. J.,
is offering 'Fort Dix Varieties,* re-
vue featuring Herbie Field's orch
with Jack Leonard.

Another show which had its
preem at Hancock last week lb ex-
pected to.be added to the list. It's
a screwball adaptation, with audi-
ence 'participation, of the 'Truth or
Consequences' radio show. Label Is
'Six Jerks in a Jeep.'

One show a night will be given,
with troupes staying in larger camps
two days if necessary. They'll travel
by Army truck, of course, carting
their sets with them.

Ten camps In the area have now
been- 'activated' by the thetare sec-
tion of the morals branch. That
means they have a staff of at least
three soldiers permanently assigned,
on a full-time basis, to - providing
nightly entertainment. One of the
trio is 'producer,' in general charge;
second Is a technical man, to build
and operate sets, lights, etc., and
third is musical director. ,

Metro's 'Don't Talk' Short

an UNIT ISSUES

AID REPORT ON
SERVICEMEN

Chicago, March 10.
The Amusement and Recreation
Division of tiie Chicago ^Commission
on National Defense, representing all
branches of show .business In the.
Whidy City, Iibb issued., a 12-page
report this week outlining its bene-
fits to United States servicemen.

Notable in the ARD effort is its
part in the Red Cross drive, in which
it has doubled its 'quota ot $30,000.
The' cafe owners themselves have
given $10,000, the bowling alleys
over .$10,000, theatres, $30,000, and
the Outdoor Showmen's League and
Outdoor Congress another $10,000.
. 'The ARD has already sold over
$10,000,000 worth of Defense Bonds
through its 15 committees, represent-
ing the various phases of the amuse-
ment industry. Heading these com-
mittees Is an executive advisory
board with , the outstanding theatri-
cal and recreational- names of the
midwest

The biggest item that emanates
from the ARD Is a 10-story building
formerly belonging to the Elks. It's
now devoted 100% to servicemen.
Between 40-50,000 servicemen pass
through this building weekly. There
are absolutely -no charges for any-
thing, and these include sleeping
quarters, laundry, tailor, games,
theatre and sports events tickets,
transportation, etc.

A Hammond organ was sought and
donated by Del Courtney end his
orchestra, with the musicians union
of Chicago furnishing outstanding
theatrical organists for two hours a
day.

Mayor Edward J-. Kelly acts as
chairman of the entire project, while
his wife, an active and .decorated
worker in the last war, Is in charge
of the 16 floors.

The executive board of the ARD
is composed of John Balaban, of
Balaban & Katz; James Coston, of
Warners; Hal Halperin, of 'Variety,'
and Edwin Silverman, of Essaness.

Metro has dramatized 'the dangers
of loose conversation during mod-
ern wartimes by making 'Don't Talk'
as a regular two-reeler in the 'Crime
Does Not Pay' series. Short fits in
with U. S. effort to wjrn- war indus-
try workers not to tblk about their
work or anything pertaining to mili-
tary activity.

•Talk' shows how Axis agents
hamper ^ Industrial output and that
their espionage efforts are helped
vastly by the loose talk'

L. A. to N. Y.

Richard Connell.
Lester Cowan,
William Dozier,
Janet Gaynor.
William Herbert
Jack Jevne.
Betty Kean.
Ben Kalmenson. -
Walter MacEwen.
Irving Mills.
Mike Romanoff.
Edward Sherman.
Robert Siodmak.
Ken Whalen,

South. Pacific War ,
Causes Par to Defer
'Botany Bay' Prod.

Turn of the . war has led Para-
mount, temporarily at least, to shelve
production of 'Botany Bay,' novel by
Charles Nordhoff and James Norman
Hall, hi which the studio has $S0,-
OiOO tied up. 'Botany Bay*' concerns
Australia and. the South Seas re-
gions which are now in the thick
of war, the same locale as the Nord-
hofl-Hall 'Muthiy on the Bounty.'.

Par hasn't definitely cold^oraged •
the yarn yet but has merely set it
aside for a few weeks until a bet-
ter view of the South Seas situation
can be obtained. If it appears that
the fUm, by the time it is released,
won't come out as a memorial to a
sad and dead past, studio will go .
ahead.

'Bay* . was bought by Par two
years ago, before any of it was on
paper. Since then it has appeared
as a SEPost serial and a' novel.

Japs' Radio Propaganda
Technipe Kicks Back

Japanese radio propaganda tech-
nique has been changed In at least
one aspect as a resdit of a promotion
stunt used by the United Press, the
news ageAcy pointed out last week.
Voices of captured Americans are
no longer being offered as bait for'
listening to the rest' of Jap propa-
ganda spjels, UP said.

Wire service's San Francisco lis-
tening post about six weelcs ago
found that "Tokyo was regularly send-
(Continued on page 25)

N. Y. to L. A.

Edgar Bergen.
Greer Garson.
Lois Andrews Jessel.
Jack Hurdle.
Hary UenetSKa.
Tyrone Power.-
Ann Rutherford.
Grad Sears.
Robert Wambaldt

Wedaesdftj,. Miirch 11, 1942

PAR MM

N.Y.

RKO Theatre Administration, Still
Conunitted to Duals, CanYSee Why
Its Fdm Co. Should Cut to 30 Pix

Tentative proposal to reduce RKO
output from 42 to 30 pictures an-
nually, exclusive of such outside
deals as with Samuel Goldwyn and
Walt Disney, would likely meet
pointed opposition from some RKO
theatre and distribution execs.
Though special provision has been
made for cancellations in event of
lower RKO production next year,
imder sales plan outlined last week
by the United Motion Picture Indus-
try sub-committee, lower shooting
'..''schedule has not been fixed.

' Need for all available product with-
in industry generally is stressed in
stand of the RKO theatre administra-
tion which is strongly sold on con-
tinuation of double billing until such
time as some major Industry de-
velopment makes it Impossible. Solo
billing, with exception of outstand-
ing product for Ilmittid bookings in
specific situations, has invariably
failed to maintain normal grosses.

Reported curresntly that RKO will
likely make more than 30 pictures
next season. Proposal to reduce
shooting schedule arose when prob-
lem of Government priorities, which
might necessitate cut -in production
at all studios, was taken up in course
of studio deliberations.

In huddles on RKO production for
next year schedule of from 30 to 40
'pictures, in addition to any speciar
distribution dealaf as with Goldwyn
has been discussed. Lower figure has
been favored as means of establish-
ing more compact studio operation
with closer supervision over smaller
- shooting schedule made possible.
Understood that 30-picturo pro-
gram, .if adopted, would not neces-
sarily cost as much as 42 pictures
this year but that every production
would be. given top budget where
warranted.

For 1941-42 season RKO had 48
pictures promised for distribution
Including three from Goldwyn, three
from Disney, 28 studio productions,
6 studio westerns, two from Herbert
'Wilcox, two from Wilhelm Dieterle,
three from Jerrold Brandt and one
from 'Votion.

Standing Pat at RKO

Hollywood, March 10.
Pat O'Brien signed a new contract
at RKO to make two pictures in ad-
dition to the one previously agreed
upon.

Following the first picture, 'Bom-
bardier,' O'Brien will appear in
'Battle Stations* and 'Father Mai
achy's Miracle.'

RKO DIREaORS
STRONG FOR
KOERNER

Hollywood, March 10.

Mystery surrounds the presence
here of Thomas Durell, Raymond
Bill and L. Lawrence Green, RKO
directors. Undisclosed whether they
are here on a fact-^ding jimket or
just to look over the studio property!
One insider said they are checking
up on the setup that greeted Charles
Koerner when, he relieved Joseph
IrBreen of the studio operation, and
what he intends to do.

Understood that the directors, as
well as George J. Schaefer, like the
idea of Koerner staying on as per-
manent studio head, and surround
ing himself with .theatre executives
who have showmanly ideas adapt-
able to pictures.

WABNESS-MacEWEN FART

~ Hollywood, March 10.

Walter MacEwen is washing up
his contract as a Warners producer
which has 18 months to go. He was
recently upped from story editor.
Splitup came after differences over
assignments.

.Warners gave him permission to
negotiate another studio deal.

Alp(»rson Has Koerner s RKO Theatre
Spot, Latter May Stay West Indef

REPORTED ON TAP

Surveying Theatre Properties
and Sites, with Possible
View to Building Up Sub-
sequent Run Chain, Main-
ly in Opposition to Skouras
and Century — Par Product
Shut Out of These Indie
Chains

Each Branch of the Fihn Industry
Phms to F^ht (or Its Own Priorities
Before WPB on Individual BasB

NO DECREE FEARS

Hollywood, March 10.
Paramount handed Mark Sandrich
new producer-director contract'
calling for four pictures In two
years, with optioni for more.

Pact goes into effect after Sand-
rich takes a 10-week leave of ab-
sence, beginning March 19,

Reported Paramount may invade
the Greater Mew 'Vork area and sur-
rounding territory such as Long
Island, Westchester and lower N. Y.
state by building up a circuit of its
own through acquisition of available
independent houses now in operation
as well as possibly erecting some' it-
self in localities which will stand an
additional theatre.

Such plans are said to be in the
embryonic state, but It carried for-
ward would be designed to provide
Par with a chain of subsequent-run
theatres in a large area where Its
pictures are at the mercy of several
strongly-entrenched indie chains like
Skouras and Century with whom Par
has had a product break.

Unwillingness of Par to sacrifice its
product to the Skouras and Century
circuits, totaling 85 theatres, on the
terms these circuits are willing to
pay, has forced the company to sell
away to Independents who are either,
in opposition to Skouras-Centiiry or
have followed them on pictures.

Because of this condition, under
the consent decree it is believed Par
(Contiilued on imge 20)

■fl-

Eddie Alperson, RKO theatre film
buying head, has moved into offices
in New York formerly occiipied by
Charles W. Koerner, theatre operat-
ing chief now in .charge of RKO stu-
dios on the Coast Harold Mlrisch,
brought into the home office several
weeks 'ago -from Milwaukee, is han-
dling out-of-town bookings/ while
Max Fellerman . continues as film
booking department head for RKO
theatres in this territory. Mirisch
was formerly with Warners.

Indications are that Koerner may
remain In charge of studio opera-
tions longer than originally sched-
uled. Status of Joe Breeti, currently
on vacation, is obscured by persistent
reports that Coast producers would
like to see him back as Production
Code Authority in the Hays office. .

Possibility also that RKO might
agree to a shift- placing Breen back
In the 'Hays office as an economy
move. ' Understood Breen holds a
five-year pact at $100,000 a year with
RKO.

Several Coast studio heads reacted
unfavorably when Breen quit as
PCA last summer in a surprise move.
Breen was a strong fave with indus-
try heads as well as with the Legion
of Decency as PCA chief, and sev-
eral studio heads have expressed
desire for his return.

Films Argue 'No Autos*
Bound to Hypo Nabes

Drastic rubber, conservation plans
recently announced In Washington,
which will leave 1,000,000 automobile
owners this year and an estimated
7,000,000 next year with nd place to
go, 'was pointed to last week by film
industry execs as one of strongest
natural arguments for leniency
towards film production and exhibi-
tion from- Government priorities of-
ficials.. Conviction is also held that
travel reduction combined with de-
fense wage spending will hypo box
office grosses to new highs far eX'
ceeding peacetime figures.

Poor man's entertainment will, ob-
viously become major form of re
laxation available for the masses, as
both local and resort travel is cut,
Anticipated that picture houses here
will benefit to same extent as In
England where grosses are now
higher than In peacetime. '

Exhibitors contend that drying up
of A product which is usually notice
able at this time of year should be
avoided this season and that big
potential grossers should be released
during next three months to cash in
on automobile travel curtailment and
the defense money In circulation.

Reissnes May Round
Out Duals in Event
Of Prod. Curtailment

Reissues will be used to fill open
playing time in dual situations in
event of any far-reaching fihn pro-
duction curtailment, but only as a
last resort, in view of widespread
opposition from majority of distribur
tion execs. Shortage of product is
not expected to reach acute stage
where reissues will be required gen-
erally this year to maintain double
bill policies.

Distribs figure deals on reissues
more trouble than low rentals war-
rant. Under current normal circum-
stances, where full program Is avail-
able, reissues also tangle up new
product deals, in many cases leaving
latest crop of B pictures unplayed.

Reported that survey has been
made of oldies suitable for reissue by
some distribs, with possibly 100 films
revealed as suitable repeats. 20th-
Fox is among distributing companies
that may offer a few reissues when
required.

BREN ASKS AND GETS
RELEASE^OM METRO

Hollywood, March 10.
Metro has released Milton Bren
from a producer contract at his own
request

Now on semi-active duty with the
Coast Guard, he expects to make
"The Woman Waifs for Me' as a
Charles K. Felman 'package' before
reporting for full-time duty with his
outfit

Sandrich Sealed at Par

ETENDEDRUNS
AaOWING
POLICY

.1 Minneapolis, March 10.
Shaping plans In anticipation of
film production curtailment expected
to result from war priority restric-
tions and changed conditions, many
exhibitors in this territory already
started cutting down on number of
weekly changes' and giving ex-
tended running tlm* to more pic-
tures than ever before.

Two of the principal St Paul in-
dependent houses, the Grandview
and Higtiland, now for example, usu-
ally make only two changes a week
instead o/ the former three and four.
George Granstrom, their owner, is'
only using a portion of the product
that he buys, playing Just the cream
of the various companies releases.

John J. Frledl, Minnesota Amus.
Co. (Paramoimt circuit) president,
Is committed to ths policy of the
longest possibls extended rtms for
meritorious ' product. - Hs now is
broadening this policy. Other cir-
cuits and Individual Independent
exhibitors ars falling In line.

Individual sulj-committeies, repre-
senting various branches of the film
industry, are to' be formed to battl*
for -priority classifications as individ-'
ual ' groups, from accounts. Each
branch of show business, such as
theatres, studios, etc., will submit •
separate report to the War Produc-i
tion Board on requirements for ths
coming year. War Activities Conn-,
mlttee, acting for the industry aa a
whole, has already submitted a gen-
eral repdrt which is now lielng
studied in Washington.

Should move -for the creation of
several sub-committees develop, as a
result of discussions which have
taketi place, final decision on grant-
ing of materials vital' to continued
operation of .the business, as pre-
sented in the- WAC report, may be
postponed for several weeksi

Reports are that a special motion
picture division, within the War
Production Board, is to be set up to
deajl exclusively with film. Industry
priorities. A. Julian Brylawski,
handling film priority - matters in
'WPB office, la cufrently part of a
department which acts on miscel-
laneous industries as welL

'Vast scope- of picture industry,
ranking fourth in America, and need,
for giving its many priority prob-
lems consideration by special de-
partment within WPB, has from ac-
counts, been repeatedly, stressed In
Washington by Joe Bernhard, head
of the theatre sub-committee of the
War Activities Committee.

Ifasliington' Moves Up

Hollywood, March 10.

Warners moved up 'George WasU-
Ington Slept Here' ahead of 'Widow'
Wouldn't Weep** for Jack Benny.
Reason for shift in schedule Is that
the 'Washington' script Is farther
advanced than "Widow.*

Schedulejl to roll March 23 with
J'erry Wald producing and WUUam
Keighley dlrectlQg.

Cagneys Join UA This Wd[; Renew
Talks on Goldwyn s Return as Well

Par Suspends Ellen Drew

Hollywood, March JO.

Paramount has suspended Ellen
Drew for refusing to play the femme
lead in 'Priorities of 1942.'

She didn't like the Idea of play-
ing a feminine welder In the yarn
about the U. S. defense industry.

Miss Drew is vacationing In New
York meantime.

Deal for WilUam and James Cag-
ney imlt to com* into United Artists
is all set and will be announced on
the Coast later this week, following
arrival there of UA prez Ed Raftery,
who left New 'York yesterday
(Tu es.). Negotiations for Samuel
Goldwyn to resume distribution
through UA la also hot, it has been
learned, and may be consummated
within a few weeks. Leo Spitz has
been repping Goldwyn in talks with
Raftery and Grad Sears In New
York during the past week. Seart
leaved for the Coast today.

Cagney deal is for two pictures a
year for three years. «. Financing Is
being provided by Bankers Trust
Co., New York,' and '. Security-First
National Bank, Los Angeles. UA, ' it
is understood, will have but a minor .
part in the financing, perhaps only
guaranteeing completion coin.

Raftery, during his stay in New
'York the past few weeks, helped
arrange financing for David O.
Selznick. Money is bekig put up. by
the same, two banks as for Cagneys,
plus Consolidated Film Industries.
Negotiations for the money have
now been virtually completed and
papecs may be signed later this
week. Involved are six pictures in
the n'bxt three years, with the banks
guaranteeing a revolving fund up to
a fixed percentage of production
costs. Top figure of $7,000,000 Is
mentioned in the papefs, but the
surn'oulslanding at any one' tfine "Is'
never expected to reach anywhere
near that much. Selznick must have
specific okay of the banks and CFI

to have more than .two films In pro-
duction at any one time,

Raftery alSo set financing of Hal
Roach's eight streamliners for next
season with the two banks and CFI
and they are expected to participate
in the Goldwyn financing If that 'deal
goes-through.

Cagneyo Cheek Oil WB Lot

Hollywood, March 10. ' -
James Cagney . and his brother,
William, checked off the 'Warners lot
at the expiration of their respective
contracts as actor- and producer.
New pact as a producing unit fdr
United Artists distribution awaits
the arrival of Ed Raftery, UA pres-
ident this week for final- confer-
ences.

Pending deal is understood to
call for two pictures a year for three
years, with the Cagneys drawing '
their financing with one of the two
banks interested in the proposition.
Bankrollers have been shown finan-
cial charts demonstrating that Cag- -
ney starrers in the last eight years
have grossed at least $1,000,000 each.

James Cagney has worked 12
years on the Burbank lot, with the
exception of a. period of contract
trouble, when he made two pictures
at Grand fTational while his diffi-
culties with Warners' were being ad-'
justed by the courts. His last film
under the old contract -was 'Yankee
Doodle Dandy,' still to be released. '
William Cagnejr has been a producer
''■fdr"fwo ■Vear's and' a "lialf.' fte wa»
formerly his brother's business man-
ager and also a film actor for a short
time,

l^sdncfdafr March 11, 1942

mOK PRODUCERS TO MTTLE MAJORS
ON PRIORITIES FOR RAW FILM STOCK

If Dualing Is Curtailed, It Means the End of the
Indie Producer— They Argue Non>Theatrical Fihn
Should Be Cut, Not the Lesser Producers

Battle looms between minor and
major producer - distributors over
allocation of raw film stock, and
other materials required in produc-
tion, as uncertainty over priority
rulings created disquieting discus-
sions within industry last week.

Reps of Waller; producing-dis-
tributing companies are voicing con-
cern over possibility that double
billing might be reduced or elimi-
nated In the event that a cut in' pro-
duction Is necessitated.

Contention among five or six lesser
companies, outside' the major ranks,
is that bulk of their revenue comes
from bookings on dual bills. Should
raw stock be made available only
'Within specific limitations, plans are
to explore every other means of con-
serving film without resortbig to cut
In production schedules.

Should it develop that Insulllcient
raw stock can be made available to
meet annual 100,000,000-foot positive
film requirement, producers plan to
approach raw film stock manufac-
turers with request to cut down on
film for amateur and 16 mm. photog-
raphy. Vast amount of footag^ Is
sold annually for non-theatrical pur-
poses. .'■

Diuls' 'Elimination Feared

Exhibs also fear dual elimination
which, theoretically flne-soundlng,
has worked out badly in most cases
'Where it has been tried out. Point
made to smaller distributors, already
concerned over possibility of produc-
tion cut, is that many second and
' third run situations would play sec-
ondary product first run rather than
use top money pictures which had
been thorou^ly milked. Dlstribs
reportedly see . comparatively little
additional revenue accruing from
switches of this kindi'
~ Since consumption of positive film
at the studios Is approximately
' 1/ldth of negative film required in
distribution, .Indications are that
methods of raw stock conservation
'would have to be sought in change
of Current distribution method. Even
a 25% cut in raw stock woidd neces-
sitate some form of delayed or
stagger booking system instead of
current national release arrange-
- nient. Hinterland situations would
liave'to wait longer for pictures, but
every effort Is being lhade to keep
' fte duals grinding.

H'wood Springboard

Hollywood, March. 10.
For Hbs second time In six
months the Screen. Readers
Guild had to tlect a new presi-
dent because its prexies have
been promoted to other studio
Jobs.

Altec Hunter Is ths latest prez,
following the resignation of John
Weber, who was made assistant
story editor at Paramount. Pro-
motions hava east the Guild 15
members In tiie Ust year.

Gpldw]!!, Disney's Jomt
So/ American Ebiissary

Samuel Goldwyn and Walt Disney
liave combined forces to- f&e extent
of hiring a special South American
representative to jointly represent
them, He is Bernard J. Gated^ for-
mer manager for Columbia in Spain
and for Metro in Latin American
countries He'll leave in a few days
to— make — headquarters in- Buenos
Aires.

Goldwyn and Disney have been
reported Joining up further by offer-
ing themselves as a combination to
distributors seeking. to make deals
with them. They figure in this way
to -get better terms. Disney is cur-
renUy contracted to RKO, whUe
teoldwyn is a freelance, having re-
cently completed a two-picture RKO
commitment.

Pair more than a year ago an-
nounced plans for a joint picture,
Disney to do cartoon portions' and
Goldwyn live action! It was to be
a life of Hans Christian Anderson.
Disney said recently that the project
had been dropped.

MPLS. INDIES
Sm BALKY
ON PAR %

MlnnMpolls, March 10.
' On top of tha fortuna which it has
cost Twin Cl<7 indepandeht exhibi-
tors becausa tha Minnesota anti-
consent decrea law; which they spon-
sored, rasultad in a oonslderable de-
lay 'in their obtaining new-season
product; many of tha boys are suf-
fering a considerable further loss
because of their refusal to buy Para-
mount on acqotmt of its demand for
four percentage pictures. If they
continue to boycott Warner Bros.,
too, on account of Its three-percent-
age films deal, after the availability
of this product, therell be a further
drain on their exchequers.

For example, such a b.o. click as
'Louisiana Purchase' has passed the
28c and 30c availability and now ia
available for tha 22c houses, with
most of the Minneapolis and St. Paul
higher scaled Indle theatres losing
out on it because Paramount hasn't
been purchased; The bulk of these
exhibitors only had Metro, 20th-Fox
and RKO of the consent decree com-
panies' product purchased before the
1941-42 releases went- beyond the 28c
and 30c availability. —
Despite tha unofficial boycott, Par
already has closed about 10 Twin
Ciiy Indie deals and even Warners
reports some sales. Paramount is
permitting the Twin City indies to
cancel its four percentage releases,
but inasmuch as these, of course, wUl
be the ace productions that privilege
doesn't mean so much.

Metro and 20th-Fox have closed
practically every Twin City indie ac-
count RKO, Universal and Colum-
bia also have fared well

Par's Dicker for March

Hollywood, March 10.

Deal is cooking, between Para-
mount and Fredric March to take
over the top male role in *I Married
a Witch,' recently passed up by Joel
McCrea after an argimient about
publicity.

Picture is slated to roll as soon as
Veronica Lake, femme co-star, has
. finished her present role in "The
Glass Key.'

Coslow Bases m Chicago
For New Sonndies Series

Hollywood, March 10.

•Sam Coslow is deserting Holly-
wood for Chicago to produce
Soundies forthe Mills slot machine
outfit Idea in shifting it to take
adventage of midwest talent in name
bands, theatres and niteries.

Series subjects will be produced
there by Coslow and directed by
Josef Berne' as soon as they 'wind up
their musical short. The Nightmare
of a Jerk,' for Paramount Hayden
Mills, one of the owners of Mills
Novelty Co., left for Chicago to , set
studio space and make other pre-
liminary arrangements.

Contracts in Clusters

Hollywood, March - 10.

Metro broke out with a cluster of
six contracts in one day, three of
them in the music department with
David SneH, Harold Gelman and
Vlncentfr-Minelll as signatories;

Others were Marvin' Borowsky and
Robert Thoeron, screen writers, and
Sammy Lee, dance director.

20th Moves Around Pilots

Hollywood, March lO:
Shift ia director assignments at
20th-Fox moved Irving Plchel into
the pUot seat on "The Pled Piper,'
instead of Archie Mayo, who Is now
slated to handle 'The Night the
World Shook.' Both pictures start
March 30, with Nunnally Johnson as
producer.

Pichel's new chore means another,
shift' He was originally. assigned to
direct the Bryan Foy production,
"The Lovef of Edgar Allan Poe,'
which is standing by for a new pilot

Birth Scene Scissored
From M of Bahy'
So Now It's OK in N.Y.

-After a four-year fight in the state
courts, the New York censors have
passed 'Birth. of a Baby,' from which
the birth scene has been eliminated
together with around 1,000 feet of
other matter of a controversial na-
ture. ^

The Division of Motion Pictures of
the State Educational Department
ruled during the past week that the
altered version ^o longer contra-
venes statutory prohibitions, and
therefore the picture must be li-
censed.'

Prior to the changes made, the
supreme court up to the state's high-
est tribunal, the Court of Appeals,
had'' ruled against the picture for
general consumption.

'Birth' was made early in 1038.
It was presented by the American
Committee on Maternal Welfare,
Inc., and was produced by Jack H.
Sklrball, who is now associated with
Frank Lloyd in producing tor Uni-
versal. William Sklrball, his brother,
who operates, a chain of tt^eatres in
Ohio, is said to have been ' finan-
cially interested in the distribution
of 'Birth' through Special Pictures,
which owns the sales rights,

Vincent G. Hart formerly with the
Hays' office, and .Norman Nicholson
have represented Special in Its
fight to clear the picture for com-
mercial exhibition. ' plans are under
way to sell "Birth' throughout N.Y.
state, with BiU Sklrball, as eastern
representative for Special, taking an
active &aa?I~in this connection.

Question of its boxofflce value re-
mains to be decided, especially In
view of the cuts made in order to
frer it for exhibition.

The 'Variety* review of "Birth,'
which was caught at a private
screening in N.Y,, March 7, 1038, had
this to say:

'Sociologically and medically of
great value, "The Birth of a Baby*
has commercial merit also. . . .

'Dialog is delicately handled...
Highlight of the film is actual de-
livery of a baby girl which may not
have been necessary, in order to get
over "the educational value and Irti-
portance of the message drawn, but
this phase Is. intensely, interesting. It
can be easily edited out where cen-
sors object. This is not in the class
with so-called sex films, for yrhlch
reason, where tlie picture is played
commercially, it«houId be advertised
in a dignified manner.' ,.

RKO Cookmg Up New
Deal For Tibher, Mofly'

Hollywood, March 10.

Jim and Marian Jordan (Fibber
McGee and Molly) are huddling with
RKO in the final stages of a ■ deal
for one more picture, with an option
for another. Edgar- Bergen and
Charlie McCarthy may also be in
the second film, as they were In
'Look Who's Laughing,' the first
package deal.

First Tlbber* picture, budgeted at
less than $400,000, figures to' gross
more than $1,200,000.

ITS I^DLAB $2 DIWT

Uni'versal directorate yesterday
(Tuesday) voted the regular $2
quarterly dividend on first preferred
shares.

Dlwy is payable April 1 to stock
on record March 25.

So Hiey Moved Ae Town to H'wood

Hollywood, March 10.

Gboat town, built by Vnlvarsal in the wilderness of .Arizona, was
knocked down |ind 'traniported on rubber all the way to Hollywood
to fave expenses. Town was slapped together for the exterior shots
needed in the Gregory La Cava picture, "Lady In a Jam.'

When the question of wbuildlng part of the town- for studio filming
came up there was a flurry of figures among the financial' master-
minds. Hie mathematicians worked out all possible angles, Iqcluding
priorities on lumber, plaster, bricks and what not, end discovered that
it would be chepaer to move the ghost town than to build a new one.
Five motor trucks shifted the scene more than 300 miles and actually
saved money in spite of the wear on tires.

Studio Contracts

Hollywood, March 10.

Donna Reed drew a player option
lift at Metro.

Dean Franklin Reisner inked wril-
Inx contract at Warners.

John Litel renewed by Paramoiut.

Geraldlne Fitzgerald signed new
contract at Warners calling for the
entire year Instead of her old six-
months-per-year pact

Olive Blakeney's player 'option
picked up by Paramount

Julie .Warren's acting . option
hoisted by RKO.

Roger Edens resigned by Metro as
musical arranger.

Janet Blair's player option picked
up by Columbia.

Joe Strauch, Jr., drew minor's con-
tract at Republic.

Charles Bracket's contract re-
newed by Paramount

Barbara Moffett's minor papt with
RKO approved by Superior CijlQrt

Triangle' Killing
Chases Eddie Barr
Into Army Service

Dallas, March 10.

His wife, Juanita Barr, having been
found- guilty Friday (6) of a charge
of killing a nite club dancer, Blanche
Woodall, Eddie Barr, exploitation
representative of RKO pictures with
headquarters in Minneapolis, plans to
join an armed force of the United
States in order to 'forget.' Mrs. Barr
told the Jury which gave her four-
y'ears penitentiary term, that ' rela-
tionship between her husband and
the dancer led to the shooting.

Terry Turner, exploitation manager
for RKO-Radio, said Barr's resl^a-
tion stated he was quitting because
the trial had upset him. He added
'Barr has been doing a good Job for
me.' Barr did not come here for the
trial although at the time of ,the
slaying he lived here as theatrical
editor of the Dallas. Journal.

Kmg Yidor Chairmans
U. of Texas Fdm Mnsee

. " Austin, March 10.

A depository of motion . picture
scripts, ^models of sets, custom de-
signs an^^production sttUs to be used
as research material in the study of
the .motion picture as a cultural art
form has been established here at
the University of Texas. The first
collection of factuLl 'material was
presented"' to University ' president'
Homer P. Ralney by King Vldor,
native Texan and Metro directors.

Vidor has been selected as perma-
ment chairman of a committee ' in
Hollywood to get material for the
university from his home studio and
from other major studios to be
added to the film library. Also aid-
ing him is Karl Hoblitzelle, prez of
the Interstate Theatres of Texas.

According to statements made here
on a recent visit by Vidor, "the
greatest need today Is for motion
pictures {hat will portray the United
States 16. a favorable light for Latin-
American audiences. Accuracy of
portrayal is all that is necessary
since all previous motion pictures
have left the impression that this
country is an imperialistic, capital-
istic one, besetted with glamour.'

They'fl Get the Works

Hollywood, March 10.

Hal Roach started off his 1042-43
streamlined feature program with an
international burlesque, 'Hitler's
Valet' produced by Gledh Tryon and
directed by Gordon Douglas.

Three toppers are Bobby Watson
as Hitler, Joe Devlin as Mussolini
and George E. Stone as SukiyakL

Airlines Decry
Lost Traffic of
Show People

By GEOBOE FBOST

Looking back on February as bna
of the worst months in their bistory,-
60 far as theatrical traffic was con-
cerned, airline operators at New
York's LaGuardia Field this week
are walking around with their fingers
and toes crossed, hoping that tha
curtent flow of passengers will re-
turn the gay, easily publicized and
readable stars of show business to
the alrlanes.

February is ncn'mally the worst of
the 12 months in aeronautical busi-
ness circles, with the traffic volume
graphs running far down on the
page. This season, however, the
volume indicator ran right down
from the page, especially on trans-
continental passengers who in nor-
mal times like to play commi\ter be-
tween Broadway and Hollywood.

Varied explanations are offered by
those on the inside of' the ticket
counter stands. There are many
alibis, and you can take your choice,
for they range from income tax pay-
ments to 'la guerre,' excessive
Christmas spending to the Lombard
accident, to bad weather and to a
general 'aw nertz' attitude amongst
vacationers since Dec. 7.

Lois Andrews to L. A.

Lois Andrews, her road trip ap-
parently ended, was - off this week
for L. A, aboard a Transcontinental
& Western Air stratoUner 'with her
babe in her arms. George Jessel
came down to bid the missus 'so
long,' and the two of them hollered
bloody murder when news camera-
men tried to snap plx of the Jtmior
member of the firm. They nixed tha
shots on the ground that their young
un was crying and wouldn't look
pert

Edna Ferber was skedded out yes--
terday (Tuesday) aboard a ' TWA
liner for Chicago and thence on to'
Seattle -via Northwestern Airlines.'
Lester Cowan, Columbia Pictures
producer, 'was a TWA arrival from
L. A. during the week.
. Conrad Thibault ran up some kind
of a marker for Chicago flights.
TWA had him out of N.Y. Thutsday
(5) and their, reservtion desks also
list him for N.Y. to Clilcago flights
for tomorrow (12) and Monday
(16). It is presumed that he will .
arrive back at the Airport-on-the-
Parkway in . time - to ■ make- the - last •
two departures.

Qnent Beynolds to K. C.

Remaining TWA notable was
Quentln Reynolds' departure for the
midwest After adventuring the
world over, Reynolds Is oft to
Kansas City, Mo.— of all places.

Mrs. William S. Paley, wile .of the
Columbia Broadcasting System bos-
seroo, looked right sweet as her pic-
ture Was snapped a couple 'of dajrs
back in the doorway of a United .Air
Line plane. Looked Uke a routine
'going away' picture for a while but
It tturned out that Madame P. is one
of a number of leading local social-
ites who have enlisted in the aid of
the New York Infirmary for Women,
and the delectable matrons pose for
commercial plx as one of their con-
tributions toward the charlty-suii-'
ported institution.

Walter Pidgeon was out and in
again on Washington, D. C, express
planes of the Eastern Air Lines,
laboring "for the Treasury Depart-
ment in the Great Cause, aud half-
a-dozen other film luminaries were
in and out on short hops to the na-
tion's capital Most of them speci-
fically ask that their names be
omitted from news copy, lest the
public think they are working for
-publicity and not as is the fact lor
Uncle 'Wh^ers.

Wedaesday/ March 11, 1<H2

PIGTUIUBS 7

Better Press Relations the Major
Objective of the Hays Organization
Right Now; Also Tiffs on the Code

■fi-

Streamlinlng of the Motion Picture
Producers- & Distributors Assn.,
launched last month, now is develop-
ing on two fronts— Public Relations
and Production Code Administra-
tion. The legislative section previ-
ously was taken care of through the
appointment of John G. Bryson as
legislative contact after -Charles C.
Pettijohn resigned his active post as
chief counsel, and the jotting of
Edward Roddan as MPPDA pub-
licity rep in Washington, Both pres-
ently are in the national capital, but
Roddan came to N. Y. last week to
huddle with the ihdustiry's Public
Relations Committee.

The PCA setup is still in ttie iron-
ing out stage but the public relations
alignment, .rated the most pressing
problem, is taking tangible form.
However, there is more to the PCA
problem than appears on the sur-
face. One faction feels the PCA
code needs tightening in line with
wartime conditions while others,
principally Coast producers, are con-
vinced they should be given more,
leeway to include more of the facts
of life in their productions. A num-
ber of fllnf officials believe that a
'name' 'executive should "head: the
PCA, part of this' urge- possibly be-
ing traceable to the surprisingly
stern control of Geoffrey Shurlock
as current PCA chief.

Won't Be Bollled
" Several Coast producers, including
the largest, have learned definitely
that Shurlock can't be pushed around
— unless they waiit to appeal his de-
cision to the MPPDA directorate.
His definite 'no! on certain PCA
topics, has burned them up, it's re-
ported, His only reply to squawks
Is that they won't get a code seal
when his'sug-gestions are ignored vn-
\eis they want to carry the issue to
the Hays directors, who always have
sustained the PCA head.

Undefstood that a couple of pro-
ducer's' attempted, to get by without
making suggested' revisions and
wound up by having to make the
changes anyway on the completed
picture. All of this' has not set well.
Hence the clamor from producers is
for a new PCA chief.

With the MPPDA public relations
committee meeting almost weekly,
some definite^ program is expected
as soon - as a regular paid secretary

.Is named Several men are tinder.

consideration, but no selection has
been made... Program for improved
relations with the public is expected
to produce a crackdown on stupid
publicity stunts and patently bad
ballyhoo, which in the past has
emanated from different individual
companies or their stars, and not
merely from outside sources.
■ Part of the campaign would in-
clude halting of thoughtless or in-
judicious comment by' stars, or
cracks that have repercussions in
Congress. Trade now regards the
ISJershey : draft ruling on- industry
stars and workers as the most recent
example of unfavorable public rela-
tions which might have been avoided
■with proper contacting. Also iinder-
stood that the public relations cam-
paign wUl attempt to temper war
activities bally, feeling being that it
Is bad taste to strive for $25,000
worth of publicity on a good deed
involving only $1,000.

Tendency to bally the war activi-
ties of stars and others in the indus-
tr- to the stretcfilng point does not
react so well with Joe Doakes, who
may be working hardet on defense,
but is ignored in the public prints.
Reported that a real effort will be
made to follow the old axiom that
80% of topflight public relations
often constitute avoidance of costly
mistakes which have repercussions
against the industiy.

Same Old Sub

Hollywood, March 10.

Undersea warfare has changed
a lot since th6 last international
conflict, but the old Columbia,
set, still recognize as the b6st
in town, is being used in 'Sub-
marine Raider.'

Originally built in 1928 for
Frank Cfipra's 'Submarine,' the
layout has been used often for
other pictures. Recently the In-
terior of the Sub has been
brought up to date, with wooden
machinery substituted for prior-
ity metals.

Bfackout Order
On N.Y. Marquees
Crimps Theatres

A bill to .put through a New York
ci\y ordinance making it obligatory
to turn out signs after dark, regard-
less of whether they are attended,
and could be instantly thrown by
a switch, may be introduced in the
City Council, according to reports
circulating in the theatre field.
Whether or not such a measure
would have a chance of passing is
dubious.

Meantime all theatres^ and other
establishments, which cannot Imme-
diately throw out their marquees
oi'' other signs, must prepare them
for instant blacking-out by March
17, under sji order of Patrick Quilty,
Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas
and Electricity.

Most' theatre marquees are on
switches and can be - quickly ex-
tinguished, but where they, aren't
the work of rewiring or fixing signs
must be done by the March 17 date.
The Quilty .order specifies that all
lights or signs must be turned off
at the close of each business day
but they may be kept on later if
some one is on hand to turn them
off immediately.

Large outdoor signs, many of
which are operated on a timeclock
basis and go off. autoinatically at set
hours, are being, revamped so that
they also can be thrbwn quickly.

Any ordinance which would mal.l:
it -necessary- to -put- out- marquees
and other visible lights by evening,
regardless of whether ' they are
manned and could be turned off on
a signal, would create, a definite
hardship for theatres as well as
other businesses staying open at
night. Thus, opposition to such a
proposal, if made, would probably
develop.

Seattle Theatres Beady '

° ' Seattle, March 10.
.•-Theatres in this area are prepared
to go into quick action, in the event
of an air raid.

The Theatre Defense Bureau has
been qrganized as part of the im-
portant Seattle Municipal Defense
Commission, officially appointed by
the city administration to organize
the civilian population against such
an eventuality.

The theatres are all prepared with
first aid on an elaborate scale. If
the situtaion becomes darker, and an
attack seems probable, they will put
a trained Red Cross nurse in each
house. At least the manager, pos-
sibly the assistant manager, too, are
taking first aid training.

If an alarm is sounded, the doors
will be thrown open at every show-
shop, as a haven of refuge. Au-
thorities want the people off the
streets. They will be welcome at
(Continued on page 18)

Extreme Variance Now Be-
tween the B.O. of the Top
Pictures and the Run-
of-Mine Product — Even
Names Can't Bolster Me-
diocrity

MUST MAINTAIN FLOW

A hi^ percentage of boxofflce
product must be maintained by the
producers as result of a public t^at
is becoming choosier in its film
tastes, according to theatre opera-
tors and managers who favor a cur-
tailment of yearly programs in the
hope that more attention to fewer
pictures will Increase general qual-
ity.

Circuit operators, both affiliated
and unaffiliated, as well as theatre
managers, point out that there is a
much wider variation in the per-
formance of pictures at the boxofflce
now than' there used to be.

They say that the big nictures
draw as much as hits did in the
past, in -fact it is seemingly apparent
that many good films now do better
than comparable product In .years
gone by. However, the medium-
grade or fair pictures do less than
formerly, while the poorer product
does nothing at all.

While the theory appears to be
general that double bills still enjoy
a vogue because a large proportion
of the public wants two for the
price of one, it is pointed out that
giving 'em a 'bargain' doesn't bring
'eip in when the attractions are not
of standout character. Also, the fact
that many people want to see the'
top picture and'skip the other would
Indicate that the theatre, is de-
pendent for a greater bulk of trade
on the big films.

Moreover, the fan trend is moving
more and more .away from names
when the 'pictures they're in do, not
measure up as. entertainment,
whereas in other years many a poor
film' got by if the star potency ex-
isted.' Not so today, regardless of
the names.

Belief is. mo'unting that If fewer
fllms 'were turned out, -providing a
higher percentage of quality, and
theatres were forced to go single-
bill, they would be .better .off than
at liresent .when ~sb many, dates on
the booking, calendar' are filled with
product that gets the go-by.

This is likely to come next sea-
.son '(1042-43). due .to war and a
tendency notwithstanding to -reduce
annual output. The consent decree,
in part, Yiaa been a factor encour-
aging the reduction of pictures
among the large majors, all^pf which
are expected to make no more than
48 during 1942-43. RKO will probably
turn out only around 30. All the
decree companies, RKO, Paramount,
Metro, 20th-Fox and Warner Bros.,
have for years made in excess of
50 each, with some on certain sea-
sons coming closer to 60. ,

HILDEGARDE'S PIX DEAL

BKO Wants Her; So Does Wiman
For B'way LegUer

, Chicago, March 10.

Hildegarde, star of the Hotel
Blackstone's new Mayfair Room
here, has an RKO picture deal on
the griddle.

Her manager. Jack Bertell (MCA),
fiew here from New York to talk
it over. She's also slated to return to
the Savoy-Plaza hotel, N. Y., March
20, and the deration of that engage-
ment wiU be governed by the film
offer.

Dwight Wiman's 'Warriors Hus-
band' is another possibility for Miss
Hildegarde, depending on when this
Broadway legit goes into rehearsaL

Film Industry Willing to Accept
Its Share of Wartime Taxation
But Wary on Dislocation of Its Biz

Still Our Bums

Hollywood, March 10.

They may be "Theni Loyely
Bums' in Brooklyn, but nobody
In Hollywood can call them that
Like one big family, the base-
ball fans in that bailiwick re-
serve the right to call their
athletes endearing names.

So 20th-Fox has changed the
title of its baseball picture to
'It Happened In Flatbush,' which
covers a vast range of dramatic
territory. Practically everything
has happiened ' there since the
Battle of iiong Island In the
Revolutionary War.

8 Majors Get
$1450,000 More
In Rritish Coin

'While the' American picture busl-.
ness continues hopeful of Great
Britain dropping Its present coin'
freeze plan, thus far the Motion Pic-
ture & Distributors Assn. ' has re->
ceived no word that the currently
frozen money will be thawed out or
that no freezing will be done in -the
future.

Eight U. S. major film companies
will receive around $7,450,000 on
April. 1, this representing the second
half of the money which was dis-
lodged by special pact last October.
The^r«gular quarterly payment cov-
ering the second three months of
the current year's frozen coin con-
tract, amounting to $5,000,000, .is due
later in the- month. -Eight maijrs
get $20,000,000 or about half of rev-,
enue collected in the 12 months end-
ing next October from Britain this
year.

RAINER, MUNI AGAIN SET
FOR BUCK CHINESE YARN

Hollywood, March 10.

Luise Rainer and Paul Muni, for-
mer Academy Award winners, re-
turn to pictures as co-stars In 'China
Sky' at RKO.

Picture will be based on -the re-
cently purchased novel ■ by Pearl
Buck.

Both stars appeared together in
another Pearl Buck best-seller,' 'The
Good Earth,' several years ago for
Warners. Both 'Sky' and 'Earth'
have Chinese backgrounds.

Miss Rainer apparently will do the
film upon completion of her current
engagement on Broadway in the re-
vival of J. M. Barrie's 'Kiss for Cin-
derella,' which opened last night
(Tuesday).

Cary Grant for 'Claudia'

Hollywood, March 10.

Cary Grant is DaVid O. Selznick's
choice for the top male role In
'Claudia,' to be produced by Selznick
next fall Grant wants the picture
to start not later than Sept. 15, after
which he will be tied up by other
contracts.

'Claudia' is now on toui: after 53
v/eeks in New York. Dorothy Mc-
Guire, star of the legit production,
is under contract to make picture
for Selznick when the road tour
ends. Donald Cook is the male lead
in the original N. Y. version.

Any new taxation affecting the
film industry will be received un-
opjposed unless theatres are singled,
out f Ar discriminatory or special tax
burdens not imposed on other indus-
tries. Attitude among industry
leaders is that the picture business
will accept its share of wartime taxa-.
tion, without squawking or seeking
modification, equally with other in-
dustries:' 1 .

However, report on- taxation by
the . United Motion Picture Industry
sub-committee headed by Spyros
Skouras points up need for watch on '
all proposed tax measures affecting
the industry* Proposal has been
made to set up industry- machinery
to guide Congressional conunittees
in setting up tax programs which
.would not dislocate the motion pic-
ture business.

Study of proposed national tax
measures outlined in recommenda-
tions from U. S. Secretary of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau reveals
no new taxation affecting theatres as
yet... Should a national sales tax be
adopted,- which would affect fflms
also, theatre 'operators anticipate
that such tax would be passed on to .
them by distribs. No grounds for
taking exception to such a tax are
foreseen, ho-wever, since the tax
would affect ail consumers.

Meantime the Skouras sub-com-
taittee has recommended that film
industry personnel Tocated in Wash- -
ington should report on all pending
tax measures. Another proposal,
-not yet .acted upon, - is that perma-
nent . committees of three be set up
In each, exchange centre to keep tab
on theatre taxation m'easures,' These
committees are to consist of an .. .in-
dependent exbib association repre-
sentative, -a distributor rep and onp
member representing affiliated thettr.
tres in each area..:

Films Breathe Easier

Washington, March 10, .

Film Industry watchers drew a
deep breath this week bwt kept their
fingers crossed as the fiolise Ways
and Means Committee got down to
concrete ideas about boqsthig ' Fed-
eral income by |7,50O.000,000 an-
nu'ally. No suggestrontop any stiffer
or tiew levies affecting. '{onusements
more thfm other lines -.of 'industry
and i)usiness.has be'enlieiinlsb far.

The Treasury's propiOtils, built
around much heavier individual iii-
cpme )>ites, included a number of
excises' but not the present 10% ad-
missions tax. Nor was anything saiit^
about a. footage levy on raw stock or -
positive' prints. Both of these have
been generally feared;

The shooting Is by no means over
— and Congress in the- past ' has
demonstrated how risky it is to relax
before .any tax bill is sent to the
White House— but the initial stage
of discussions wais a relief to the
legislative watchers on behaU of all
amusements. At least, as far as the .
Treasury is . concerned, films, the-
atres, night clubs, and sports are in
the same boat with all other money-
making enterprisres tliis year.

Casey Jones' Comeback

Hollywood, March 10.

RaiU-oads get a break In the 20th>
Fox location caravan to Phoenix,
Ariz., for outdoor scenes in the avia-
tion picture, 'Thunder Birds.' ' '

To save rubber, aU the personnel
and equipment, including sound
trucks, are . moving by raU. Local
trucks, hired in Phoenix, will be -used
for shoct hauls.

Mooney a Producer

Hollywood, March 10..

Martin Mooney «nd Max King
have set up their own production
outfit to make six features for Pro*
ducers Releasing Corp.

Will get going on the first plctur*
within a month. • ,

FILM REVIEWS

WedncBday, March 11, 1942

To die Shores of Tripoli

(COLOR)

aOlb Oeatury-Fox reloaae of Donyl F,
Zanuck (Hilton Sperllns) prodoctlon. Pea-
tuna Jobn Poyno, MMrMn O Hai«j Baa-
Oolph Scott, Nancy Kelly. , Directed by
Dnic« Humberntone. Screenplay by Lamar
TrotU, from story by Stove Flrfier; caniein,
Edwnrt Cronjager. WIlllDro Skall, Humr
Jnckeon: music, Alfred Newman: editor,
Allen McNeil. Tradeshown In ProJefJo"
room.. N. T.. March 0, •«. Running tine,
82 MINB;

Chris Winteni •"'^''JiS™

iiirv Cnrter Maureen O'Bara

Se'rwanrnr^l. Smith Randolph Scott

S'hTy 5e^{- ::::;:::■::;::: -^^^^

XfAiithv Henry Moi^n

Butch ■ ■ ■ ■ ......... Edmund MncDonald

Major' WliMn , ; "'^j!

captain Water. ^^Tod™

Job Sutton' Bflsll Walker

Bwitw Charlea Tnnncn

TonTHail Alan Halo. Jr,

Tom Han. . „„n,„„t Bnrly

1""^; -. ... Frank Orlh

mlj^i'V.

Uncle Bob.: Joseph Crchnn

General Gordon John IlTmlllnn

5„lOT Stanley Androwa

lieutenant ...Rlchnnl Lane

06n>9ral Gordon Jones

This is the film that brings the
U S. Marines to theau-e screens, and
the boxofllce situation is well in
hand To the Shores of Tripoli* has
-.landed well up to the front of the
series of army, navy apd air corps
features which are doing good busi-
ness, helped no little by current
events. It-' also provides top mar-
quee billing in tl" names of John
Payne, Maureen u'Hara, Randolph
Scott and Nancy Kelly.

Most of the recent fiction of the
military branches bas been con-
cerned with aviation *nd the differ-
■ent flying corps. Although the ma-
rines fly, too, this yarn is held right
close to earth, and a tale. Is unspun
that has little to do with the spec-
tacular angles of the service and
more to tell about the traditions of
the soldiers who go to sea. Lamar
Trotti prepared the screenplay from
a story by Steve Fisher, Action is
backgrounded by the marine train-
ing station at San Diego.

Althou^ the characters are the
conventional smart-aleck recnnt, the
hard-boUed sergeant, the pretty hos-
pital nurse and the girl who was left
behind, Ttottl has given enough
switches and twists to hold iaudience
Interest through 82 minutes. Bruce
Humberstone has directed with
showmanly appreciation for color,
both on and off the reservation. The
photography, handled by Edward
tronjager. William SkaU and Hawy
Jackson, is unusually effective, par-
ticularly some views of night target
. practice in the open sea.

It was reported that some of the
camera crew of this production were
at Pearl Harbor last Dec. 7 and cap-
tured a record of the Jap attack
Which is being preserved by tiie
Naw There are no holes in tne
story "as finally edited, to indicate a^y
enforced omissions. The yarn ends
'with the principals on the march, to
an overseas transport

Payne and Scott make an enter-
taining pair of fighters, whose diHer-
ences merge when news reaches the
station of the Pearl Harbor attack.
MissCHara, whose good looks here-
tofore have been confined to black
and white photography. Is rather
memorable under Technicolor treat-
ment, Nancy Kelly hasn't much^to
do, and does it rather weU. Audi-'
ences would be pleased with more of
William Tracy. .

Title is from tie Marine song,
which features the geograpby that
fhe corps has covered in the past 180
xears. Mention Is made in the Intro -
daSipn to the brllUant defense at
,WBk«.Island. ;
• It's 6. tlihely film, suitable for all
types of^eatres, Flin.

KID^ GLOVE KILLER

. Hollywood, March 10.

M«tro..GoHwyn-Mayer releoae of Jack
Chertak production. Features Van Hpflin,
Harsba Hunt, Lee Bowman, .Samuel S.
Hinds. ' Directed by Pred ZInnemann.
. Bcreenplay by AUen Rtvkln end John C.
fiUralns: original by HlKdns: camera, Paul
Vosel: editor, Ralph Winters. Previewed
•t Rlti, L. A., March 10, Runnlns
time. 74 MINB. - . ■ ■ -

Gordon HcKay Vnn Hoflin

Jane Mitchell MaiAa Hunt

Gerald I. Ladlnser Lee Bowman

Mayor Daniels .,, Samuel S. Elnflb

Captain I,yncti CllS Clark

Kddle Wrigbt Eddie QuIUan

Matty lohn Lltel

Bessie Wrigbt Catherine Lewis

lira. Daniels Nella Walker

■Kid Glove KlUer' is one of those
moderately-budgeted programmers
that appear at long intervals to rise
far above the level intended. Lack-
ing in marquee draft, which prevents
It from hitting above its class, pic-
ture will provide solid support in the
general runs-rincluding the keys —
and garner plenty of daUngs during
release, life.

Spotiight shines brightly on Van
Heflln in the lead, and Metro will
soon discover from audience reaction
that he's of starring timber. Player,
has a definite strong screen appeal
for all audiences. Hij skillful timing
and delivery of lines holds interest in
many sequences that might easily
have crumbled in less capable hands.

Story unfolds a compact and inter-
, esting drama of political QOrrupUon,
and the experiences of a scientific
criminologist In getting a test-tube
solution to the murder of the mayor,
Hefliu is the expert of tiie police de-

Eartment, assisted by Marsha. Hunt,
ee Bowman Is the slick young law-
yer who leads the mayor's reform

Rings On Her Fingers

' Holly woodi March. 10.
20th Century-Fox reloaae of Mllon Sper-
ling production. Stare Henry Fonda. Gone
TIemey; features Laird Cregar. Directed
by Rouben Mamoullan. Screenplay by Ken
Enelund: original story by Robert Plrosh
and Joseph Schrnnk; camera, George
names; editor. Barbara McLean. Trade-
ahown In L. A. March 10. '42. Running
Urns, as HINB. -

John Wheeler Henry Fonda

Susan Miller (Linda Worthlngton)

Gene TIemey

Warfn Laird Cregar

Tod Fonwick John Sheppera

Xfrs. Worthlngton Spring Bylngton

Kellogg Frank Orth

ColonM Prantlss Henry Stephenson

Mr*. Fenwlck Mnrjorle Gateeon

Fonwick, Sr George I^saey

Pei;^ Tris Adrlilh

Conductor Harry Hayden

MlBs Callahan Gwendolyn Logan

Butler Eric Wilton

■Newsboy Billy Benedict

Mra. Clancy Sarah .Edwards

Mr. Beasloy Thureton Hall

-Mre. Bensley.... Clara Blandick

a^ptaln Hurley..,.: Charles Wilson

Paul Edgar Norton

Chick i ..Geor«o Uoyd

Lnnrtlndy. . , Kathryn Sheldon

Driver Prank SoUy

R6ulette Dealer ....Mel Ruick

campaign while setting up under-
world control of the city for John
Litel. Faced with exposure of his
duplicit'^ by the mayor. Bowman sets
up an auto starter bomb to kill hlz-
zoner, and nonchalantly pursues both
his political ambitions and Miss Hunt
while Hefiln unfolds the trail in his
laboratory to the inevitable conclu-
sion. , ,

In addition to neatly devising en-
tertaining dramatic content, story
provides an Interesting exposition of
the inner workings of a scientific
crime detecting laboratory; mcluil-
ing functions of spectographs, mi-
croscopes, and chemicals. Picture Is
one of the best molded pictures of its
class and type that has come out of
the studios in many months. ■ _ .

Script by Allen Rivkin and John
C Higgins, from letter's original. Is
smoothly assembled and carries con-
sistent pace to suistain interest, and
displays' slick dialog. • Fred Zinne-
mann, newcomer to the feature di-
recting field, deftiy handles the Vari-
ous episodes for fine overall blend-
ing. Photography by Paul Vogel Is
toonotch, ..

Marsha Hunt catches attention as
the girl, and looks due for better
calibre of pictures from here on.
Bowman smoothly handles the heavy
assignment, whUe excellent support
is provided by Litel, Samuel S.Hinds,
Eddie QuUlan, and Cliff CTaik.

Walt

MiniatDre Reviews

Paradltig a vacuous story that gets
no assistance on the directing end,
■Rings on Her Fingers' is a . -light-
weight film that will need plenty of
strong support if slotted in the top
spots of the dualers. Picture tumbles
and stumbles along in boresome fash-
ion to en)erge as misfit entertain-
ment

Story Is of Cinderella texture,
without benefit of originality in
either its unfolding or direction.
Gene TIemey is a store clerk plucked
by confidence operators Laird Cregar
and Spring Bylngton .for a whirl as
cute decoy for their shakedowns of
rich victims. Fonda,- an accountant
vacationing in California with sav-
ings of $15,000 to buy a sailboat, gets
caught in the net and dipped. Later,
the east, girl and Fonda meet
.n, with latter confessing funds

all he had and he's a $65 a
weeK accountant. Pair falls In love,
with the girl devising means of giv-
ing him back the coin without dis-
closing her participation In the orig-
inal clip. She walks out on. Cregar
with the money, and Is headed for
marriage; money starts back to
Fonda via a gambling table, and it's
then a merry-go-round of confusion
until the romantic duo gets all the
coin and scrams. . .

Picture is filled 'with vapid situa-
tions that stretch the credulity of
audiences, and fails entirely in at-
tempts to get over ■ lightness and
smart Situations along the route.
Flrequent clinches of Fonda and Miss
TIemey do little more than consume
footage. He fails to emerge from the
mesh of story difficulties and static
direction . by Rouben Mamoullan.
Same g6es for Miss Tiemey, Cregar,
Miss Bylngton, and other members
of the cast Wolf

. Secret Agent of Japan

20th-Fox release of Sol M. Wurtzel pro-
duction. Directed by Irving FIchel, Screen-
play, John Larkin; camera, Luelen Andrlot:
editor, Alfred Day; musical director, Emil
Newman. Tradeshown In projection room,
N. T., March S, '42. Running Ume, 12
MINS,

Roy Bonnell Preston Foster

Kay Murdock Lynn Borl

Salto Noel Medlaon

Fu Ten Ben Tung

Doris Poole Janls Carter

Aleoaandrl Steve Geray

Traeger Kurt Kotch

Remsen Addla(«j Richards

Captain Larsen '..Ian Wolfe

Mre. Alecsandrl Hermlne Sterlar

Naval CapUIn .Solmer Jackson

Emlnescn. Frank Poglla

English Secret Service

■ Leyland Hodgson, Leslie Denlaon
Solaire Jean Del Val

Since there seems to be, a particu-
lar affinity presently between Japan
and espionage agents, America and
patriotism, this film must be put
down for the record as, at least, a
product of considerable enterprise.
That the picture doesnt achieve
more than moderately entertaining
proportions for the adult is basically
the result of 20th-FOx employing the

To the Shores of Trlp*U'

(20th) (Color). Newest entry of
military films takes care of the
Marines— also the boxofllce.

'Eld Oloye Killer' (M-G), Van
Heflln, new star candidate, in
scientific criminology meller.
Solid entertainment

•Rlncs on Her Flnren' (20th).
Inadequate script and direction
make this a boresome affair.

'Secret Agent of Japan* (20tii).
Okay for dual programs.

Itemarkable Mr. klppi> (20th)
(British-made). Draggy charac-
ter study that will find little
place' on U.S. screens,

'Who Is Hope Sehnylerf
(20th), Uninteresting . meller
about big town political cor-
ruption. Duals.

'Close Call for EUery Queen'
(Col). Latest iii series shapes
up as strong -whodunit as support
in duals.

'Sundown Jlm> (20th). Slight-
ly better than average western,
Introducing ex-footl>all star Jcflm
Kimbrough.

'Arizona Cyclone' (U). Good
Johnny Mack Brown western.

'Lone Star Banger' (20tii).
Serviceable Zane Grey story
wilts due to weakness of its star,
John Kimbrough, newcomer.

'Heart of the Alo Grande^
(Rep). If a Gene Autry western
can fall to do business, tbis is the
one; tedious musical bronc opus.

•Mr. Wise Guy'. (Mono). "East
Side Kids' In the standard re-
form school-meller. y

•Man With Two Uvea* (Mono).
Film plot is a nightmare; so's the
film.

■Today I Hans' (PRC).. Low-
budget meller, prcbably bookable
at Qioderate prices, that will
«erve proper dates all right

Tanya' (Artklno). Russian-
made film, with fioglish tities,
strong b.0. seen coming from
Soviet sympathizers.

usual spy meller situations. It's suf-
ficiently commercial, notably t<x the
dual-bills.

Story is none too subUe, focusing
on a British agent played with
plenty of s.a. by Lynn Bari, and an
American cafe owner with a shady
background, portrayed by Preston
Foster. Their collaborative run-ins
with Japanese agents in the Shanghai
international settiement form the
major yam, '

Foster and Miss Barl show off ex-
cellently, though some of the sup-
porting parts are pretty awfuL Noel
Madison, as the chief Jap, gives his
usually creditable performance de-
qpite tiie questionable makeup. And
some of the 'Japs' used in the pic act
and look like fugitives from a Chi-
nese hand laundry. Naka.

Remarkable Mr. Kipps

(BBinSH-MADE)

20tb Century-Fox release of 'Haorlee
Ostrer preducUon. Features Michael Red-
crave, Diana Wysyard, Phyllis Calvert.
Directed by Carol Reed. Screenplay , by
Sidney Gllllat from novel by H. G. Wells;
camera, Arthnr Crabtree: editor. R. B.
Deaxinr, Tradeshown In New Tork, March
10, lOU. Running time, SS »IN9.

KIpps (aa boy) ...Philip Frost

KIppa (as man) Michael Redgrave

Helen Walshlngbam Diana Wynyard

Ann Pomick (as girl) DIanh OUderwood

Ann Pomick (as yromao)... Phyllis Calvert

ChlUerlow Arthnr Alscoe

Chester Coote Max Adrian

Mn. Walshlngbam Helen Haye

Ronnie Walshlngham Mlehasl Wilding

Shalford Lloyd Pearson

Bogglns Edward RWby

Pearee Mackenzie Ward

Miss Merrle Hermlone Baddeley

Flo Bates Betty Ann Davles

Oandiot Arthur Dsnton

Doris Betty Jardlne

Old KIppa Frank. Fettlngell

Mra. KIpps' Beatrice Varley

Old Pomick George Carney

l^Mn. BIndon-BottJng Irene Bnwne

Sidney Revel Peter Graves

Man In Bath Chair, ,,.VIacouat Coatleroase

20th-Fox Is going to find Itself with
a severe adie In the temples trying
to figure out what to do with this
British-made, And Its 86 minutes
make it tough to slot It into the
lower dual position. It's a slow-
moving drama of hinterland England
at the turn of the century, about as
dated as the Boer War,

Actually, it's pret^- much of a
quality picture, carefully produced
and with a fine cast. But not for
U,S-A., 1942. A character study of
some Insignificant people of Folk-
stone 40 years ago, wholly devoid of
action or exciting incident hardly
can be expected to compete in a day
when, audiences appear to -want
either bellylaughs or lots of action.

Aside from the Innocuous H, G.
Wells story, the film proves that
slow-motion character study Is not
the metier of director Carol Reed,
The man who megged such success-
ful 'and fluspenseful mellers as 'Night
Train' and 'Girl In the News' ap-
pears at a complete los.? trying to
Inject sensitiveness and meaning
Into Wells' characters. Underplay^

Inc whldi RMd lanlNii, carves «iily
toIntensUy fiie audience naeticm of
*Wlio cares what happens to the peo-
ple In the picture.'

Vlchaei Redgrave u seen aa a
yoUng man whom none id the better
people in town cares much about
while he's a clerk In a dry goods
store. When he unexpectedly in-
herits a fortune they all find him
Intriguing and he gets engaged to
snooty Diana Wynyard. Before the
wedding, however, he runs off with
an old love, lowly Phyllis Calvert
Redgrave's acquired taste for the
finer things vs. Miss Calvert's in-
sistence on the simple life makes for
an unhappy marriage— until Red-
grave loses his money, ^en all's
well again.

Pity is the waste of such quanti-
ties of talent by cast, director, and
the properties department on £uch a
script Herb.

Who Is Hope Schuyler ?

20th-Fox release of Sol M. Wurtzel pro-
duction. Features Rlcardo Cortez, Mary
Howard, Joseph Allen, Jr., Sheila Ryan.
Directed Inr Thomaa Z. Loilng. Screenplay
by Amaud d'Usseau, based on novel by
Stepben Ransome: camera, Virgil Ullleri
editor, Looli Loeltler. Tradeshown (n I.OS
Angeles, March 9, '42, Bunnlnr time, SS
HINB,

Tom Mason Joseph Allen, Jr.

Diane Roariter Mary Howard

Lee Dale Sheila Ryan

Anthony Pearce ,' Alcardo Cortes

Veata Hadden Jania Carter

Phyllis Guerney Joan . Valerie

Robert Scott Robert Lowery

Alma Peam Rose Hobart

Carl Spence Panl Gulltoyle

Perley Seymour William Newell

Nash Pat Flaherty

Rosslter ..Charlea Trowbridge

Boggott ^ Frank Puglla

Stafford Ed Stanley

Judge Edward Keane

Ueatenant Palmer Cliff Clark

This is a hocus-pocus melange of
drama revolving around politicalcor-
ruption In a big dty, with couple
of murders committed along the way
to cotnplicate matters for both play-
ers and audience. Filled wltli obvi-
ous situations and not well told by
scripter or director, picture is light-
weight fare for dual filler spots in
subsequent t>ooklngs.

When district aitomey Cortez Is
indicted, Allen is appointed special
prosecutor to handle case on plans of
pseudo-cleanup officials. Key to
break the case Is 'Hope Schuyler,' a
vague figure who 'collected under-
world payoffs for protection,

Allen 'Mes to unravel the tangled
skein of corruption aided by Sheila
Ryan, modem newspaper gal, who
also haa romantic designs on the
prosecutor. After going through maze
of ' complications the expose comes
in a mountain lodge to solve every-
thing, and by that time the audience
has utUe Interest in the proceedings.

Script follows obvious lines, with
director Thomas Loring continually
delving Into over-theatrics to carry
the tale along in boring style, Allen
and Miss Ryan provide most con-
vincing petlormances, 'with able as-
slftance of Rlcardo Cortez In the
heavy assignment Others In case,
whlui looks like a training ground
for studio contractees, include Mary
Howard, Janis Carter, John 'Valerie
and Roberty Lowery. Walt

A Close Call for EUery

•Queen-
Columbia release of Larry Darmour pro-
dnctlon, Btan William Gargan, Margaret
Lindsay; features Charles Grapewln, Ralph
Morgan, Kay LInaker, Edward Norrls,
James Burke, Directed by James Hogan.
Screenplay, Erio Taylor; story, Kllery
Queen; camera, James B. Brown, Jr.: editor,
Dwlght Caldwell. At Strand, Brooklyn,
N. T., Uareh 6, '42. Rnnning time, 65
MDIS.

EUery Queen : William . Gargan

NIkkl Porter Margaret Lindsay

Inspector Queen Charley Grapewln

Alan Rogeiii ..Ralph Moixan

Margo Rogen Kay LInaker

Stewart Cole Edward Norris

Betxeant Velle James Burke

I.ester Toung.. Addison -Blcharda

Corday .'....Charles Judsla

Batea Andrew ■ Tombes

Housekeeper aalfe DuBrey

Marie Dubois Michael Chetnl

Fisherman... B»n Weldon

Butler Milton Parw>ns

With WlUlam Gargad filling the
bill nicely In place of Ralph Bellamy
In Utie role of the novelist master-
sleuth, current stanza In this who-
dim)t series rates as topnotch 'sup-
porting fare in the duals.

It's a conventional yam, Uppfl on
guilty -party being obvious in first
few frames of celluloid even before
the three murders are committed.
Nonetheless the tight script under
deft piloting of director James Ho-
gan is kept moving at last pace with
suspense maintained throughout

Story Is handled in light, pleasant
vein, though no attempts at sock
wimedy lines or gags are attempted.
Concerns wealthy retired budness
man in seai;ch of two daughters to
whom he Wishes to transfechls es-
tate. Shady past, dating back' to ad-
ventures In the Phllllplnes, brings
two ex-partners on scene demanding
cut of fortune.

_ Missing daughters, one phoney,
turn up in complicate events. Mar-
garet Lindsay impersonates one of
the missing daughters and helps un-
ravel mystery.

FUm Is strengthened by excellent
supporting players such as Ralph
Morgan, Andrew Tombes, Charley
Grapewln ^d 'Charles Judels. Pho-
tography -good, production values
standard. Mori,

SUNDOWN JIM

30tb Centntr-Fox teleaae of Bel li,
Wortu) nrodootlon, Teatima Jidm Sim-
bnugli. Vlfilnli; Gllmora, Arleen Wbelan.
IHrmted br James Xlnllqff. Screenplay br
Robert F. Metaler and WUllam Brackner,
from the Oolllet'g stoir by Ernest Haycox;
camera. Glen MacWllUams: editor, Nl<jc Do
Magglo. Tradeshown In New Toric. Jiarab
e, -42. Running time, BS MINB,

Jim Malora John Kimbrough

Tony Black VIrclnIa Ollmor*

Catherine Barr Arleen Whelan

HoOtt, Joseph Sawyer

Broaerldc Paul Hurst

Andrew Barr ....Moroni Olson

Dcbe Hyde Doii Coatello

Brick Brand I.eRoy Maaon

Nat Oldnyd ;.,..Lane Chandler

Ring Barr James Bush

Dan Barr Charles Tannen

Stable Proprietor '. Cliff Edwards

Da]e Paul 'Sutton

Clem Black ,,,..Rddy Waller

Stage Coach Driver Tom Fadden

Outlaw Frank McGrath

This Is one of the pair of westerns
which 20th-Fox destined to Introduce
a new mesa star to the hoss opry
firmament The other Is IJone Star
Ranger,' also reviewed this week.
Leather-tugger is John Kimbrough,
erstwhile AU-American back on a
champ Texas A. & M. grid squad.
However, Klmbrough's option was
dropped a couple weeks ago, even
before his first picture was released.
Which Is tipofl enough.

Aside from the totem-pole stiff-
ness and deadpan of the ex-football
player, 'Sundown Jim' is a better
than ' average tumbleweed opus.
Storyi of course, is the usual rou-
tine of the new marshal who comes
to town to InstiU law and'<irder and
has to prove himself better than the
feudln' ranchers to do so. But there's
more shootin' than visual and the
marshal is a combo of Superman
and all other 'western stars rolled
into one. So what else counts?

Kimbrough looks his part and- la
more than acceptable on that basis.
His immutable features, however,
would be more serviceable In a poker
session than on a screen. Also his
monotone. He gets good support
from '\r'«ginla GUmore and, ^leen
'Whelan, plus a standard crew of
rough-riding flU-lns, -

Director James Ttollng has made '
exciting, and tight, especially with
but a S3-mInute running time, the
screenpTay concocted from Ernest
Haycox's mag yam. Heroics, of
course, are even more than usually
overdone, but get' by for laughs.

And, oh boy, if General MacArihur
only had half the ammunition that
Fox used up in thisJwould those'
Japs be^ back In Tokyd|l Herb.

ARIZONA CYCLONE

(WITH SONOS)
TTnlversal release of Will Cowan prodne-
Uon. Stare Johnny Mack Brown; features
Nell O'Day, Foctr Knlsht, Kathryn
Adams. Directed by Joseph H, Lewis.
Story and adaptation, Sherman Lowe;
editor, Paul Landres; songs. Hilton Rosen,
Bverett Carter, Austin Grout; camera,
Charles Van Anger. At New York, N. T„
bill week Mareh a, '42. Running time,
56 MIN8,

Tom .,. Johnny Maak Brown

Muleshoe Fuzzy Knight

Claire Nell CDar

Elsie Kathryn Adams

Randolph \ Herbert Rawllnsoa

Quirt Dick Curtla

Draper Robert fltranse

Jsssup . .Glenn Strange

The Notablee

Another Johnny Mack Brown,
starrer in the boulder-and-dust divi-
sion .that will continue to keep hia
fanS"^in tow.

This time Brown Is running a
wagon freight line whose business la
sought through fair means or foul,
by a rival enjoying the questionable
backing of a local banker. The lat-
ter is also conniving to obtain a tele-
graph hauling contract for which ■
$10,000 bond has to be posted. All
but the 'Virtuous fall In their 'various
schemes and machinations.

A generous amount of action In the
form of riding; fitting, shooting,
etc., dots the plot 'while for good
comedy relief a veteran supporting
standby-Of. Brown's, _Euzzy— Knight,.,
is on the' job. "He's as much a staple
in the Brown westerns series as Dick
Curtis, the heavy. Girls are Nell
O'Day and Kathryn Adams, both of
whom show to good ad'vantage. Her-
bert Rawllnson has a minor part as
the' freight line O'wner 'who geta
bumped off toward the last *

Film includes three tiowboy songs,
'Wooden Leg Pete' by Austin Grout,
and <Let'a Go' and 'On the TraU of
Tomorrow,' written by Milton Rosen
and Everett Career. They are sung
by a cowboy group known as the
Notables. Char,

LONE STAR RANGER

20th Centnry-li'oz production and release,
Stan John Kimbrough; features Sheila
Ryan, Jonathan Hale, WUllam Farnum,
Troman Bradley, George S. Stone, Russell
Simpson. Directed by James Ttnllns,
Bosed on novel of some name by Zan*
Grey; adaptation, William Conaelman, Jr.,
Irving Cnmmlngs, Jr., and George Kane:
editor, Nick De Uaggla: camera. Luclen
Andrlot. Tradeshown In N.T. Mareh t,
-'42. r.mining time: S7 1IIN8.

Buck Duane ; John Kimbrough

Barbara Loneitrolii Sheila Ryan

Judge Longstnth Jonathan Hale

Major McNeil William Faranm

Phil Lawson Truman Bradler

Bnobre Georse E. Stone

Tom Duane Russell Simpson

Trlxle Dorothy. Burgess

Bkm... Tom Fadden

Red Fred kohler, Jr.

UltoheU Eddy C. Waller

Sheriff Harry Hayden

Hardin George Meltord

You may have to be a football
hero(to''ggt along with the girls, but
it won't help John Klmbrou^ as a
(Continued on page 20)

Happy Days in Qii AD Fix %
ToBe^aiiik&eatS^OMl^er'
Mty $18,000. Tarchase' Fine 24G

4r

Chicago. March 10.

Trade la excelleiit thla week, fha
session getting away shaiiply wHh
lines In evidence on the ddewalks
and in lobble&. Housea are all riding
to one of the big profit seslons of
the year, with neither war news not
Lent hurting.

The Carole 'Lombard-Jack Benny
picture is powerful In the Chicago.
•Louisiana Purchase' is a big winner
at 'the State-Lake and looks set tbr a
fine run. Drew rather mixed reports,
but the word-«f "mouth is fine. On
Saturday (7) 'Johnny Eager* edu-
cated the people Into the standee
babtt and is headed- for brilliant
take.

Brutally rapped was "Mr. and
Mrs. North' and the Roosevelt is tiie
one sufferer in town currently.

Esilmstcs for This Week
- ApoUo (B&K) (1,200: 35-55-65-76)
—'Creep Was Valley' (20th). Moved
here from seven fine weeks in the
State-Iiake- and its current eighth
loop week - Is aided by the Oscar.
Getting $8,500, fine. Last week,
'Bahama Passage' (Par) and 'Glam-
our Boy' (Par), finished third week
to $3,900.

Chicago (B&K) (4.000; 35-55-75 )-y
■To Be' (UA) and stage show. Curi-
osity and reports of picture's excel-
lence both combining to bring this a
rousing $90,000. Last week, 'All
Through Night' (WB) was put over
by Andrews ' Sisters (2d wk) and
liou Breese band on stage for fine
$45^00. c

GuTiek \BtiK) (900: 35-55-65-75)
—'All Through NlghV (WB) (2d
run) and 'Wise' Guy' (Mono) (Igt
run). Okay $6,000. Last week, 'Sul-
livan's Travels' (Par) and 'Hands on
Clock' (Par), finished second week
atgood$il00. >

Oriental (Iroquois) (3;2O0; 33-44-
05)— Tragedy Midnight' (Rep) and
Ted Wecms orch. Strictly the draw
of the Weems band currently for
hangup $30,000. Last week. Count
Basle orch put 'Honolulu Lu' (Col)
across to good $18,500.

FaUce (RKO) (2.500; 33-44-66-75)
— 'Hellzapoppin' (U) and 'Sealed
Lips' (U) (4th wk). Present combo
has done excellently on great pub-
licity bandlbig and will gamer
$10,000 on its windup currently.
Brilliant $13i00 last week.

BMsevelt (B&K) (1,500; 35-55-65-

75) — 'Bugle Sounds* (M-G) and 'Mrs.
North' (M-G). Got pasted by criUcs
and litUe here at $8,000. Last week,
'Burm~a~ Road' (M-G) and "Klldare
Victory' (M-G), okay $8,300 for
second session.

SUte-Lske-(B&K) (2,700; 35-55-65-

76) — 'Louisiana Purchase' (Par).
Opened in midwe^ and indicates
strength for run of several weelcs In
this big house. . Taking at least
$24,000 In Initial session. Last week,
'Greeh VaUey* (20th), finished great
seven-week stay to $10,800.

VbIMI ArtlsU (BSiK-M-G) (1,700;
38-95-65*75) — 'Eager* (M-G). Got
away fast and headed for hotdia
$18,000. Last week, 'Pulham' (M-G).
finished two-week stay to mild
$10,300.

Woods (Elssaness) diZOO; 35-55-69-
75)— 'Playmates' (RKO) and 'Jacks
and JIU' (RKO) (3d wk). Three
weeks will be the sum total of the
run here. WUl finish to okay $5,000.
after havhig managed good $7,300
last week.

TARIS'-VAUDE, $12,000,
WEAK IN BALTIMORE

' Baltimore,. SSarch 10. '

Strong product offsetting lenten
blues here, with no letup in usual
terrific weekend f espouse noted by
any of the downtowners. Very big
at Keith's, is -'Louisiana Purchase,'
and Loew's (Century Is also faring
very well with 'Shanghai Gesture.'
The combo Hipp took to a strong ad
campaign to adroitly sell 'Joan of
Paris,' but public Isn't buying.
Estimates for This Week

Centnry (Loew's-UA) (3,000; 17-
28-44-55)— 'Shanghai <3esture' (UA).
Drawmg steady response to $16,000.
Last, week, second of 'Woman of
Year' (M-G), held up strongly at
$11,200. ' '
^Hippodrome (Rappaport) (2^40;
17'-25-28-39-44-55-68)— 'Joan of Paris'
(RKO) plus vaude. Got smart sell-
ing in advance on star-making quali-
ties of Mlchele Morgan and Paul
Henreld, but biz Ught at $12,000.
Last week, 'Lady Willing' (Col) plus
vaude headed by George Olsen orch,
fair $12,900.

(Schanberger) (2,406; 17-
28-33-39-44-55)— 'Louisiana Purchase'
(Par). Fine $14,000 Indicated. Last-
week, second of 'Ride 'Em Cowboy'
(X^, fared well at $9,800.

Mayfalr (Hicks) (980; 20-40)—
•Lady For Night' (Rep). Should
reach nice $5,500. Last week. '(Jentle-
mMi Heart' (20th); fairish $3,600.

New (Mechanic) (1,581; 17-28-35-

44)— 'Son rury* (200i) (Sd wk).
Holding in alright fuhlon to Inch
out $3,000. aftar attracting very nice
$13,300 totia on pravlous brae*.

BMlya (Levlnl (800; 17-aB-40-SS>
—Target for Tonlghtr (WB) (2dwk).
Holding mildish paca. with moat r«>
sponse at night to possibU $3,000.
Got surprisingly- good $9,200 la
opening heat

Stanley (WB) (3,280; 17-28-40-50)
—'Captains aouds' (WB) (Sd wk).
Holding fairly weU at $8,000. after
chalking up booming total of $28,-
900 in previous two wedu.

Geve. Has Blizz.
ButHellz.'ToBe'
Each Big $14,000

Cleveland, March 10.
. Rip-snorting blizzard socked thla
town Sunday (8) and Mbnday. but
didn't ground any of the high-flying
film arrivals. Count Basle's orch and
Ethel Waters on stage are giving' Pal-
ace's 'Paris Calling' a lusty stanza.
•Hellzsapoppln,' at Hipp, and State's
To Be or Not to Be,' both going
nicely.

Estimate* for TUa Week

AUen (RKO) (3,000; 30-35-42-55)—
'Captains CHoudsT (WB> (3d wk).
Fine $5,000 on shif tover . Last week,
■Dangerously Live' (WB), good $5,500.

Hipp (Warners) (3,700; 30-35-42-
55)— "Hellzapoi^hi' (V). Cellulaid
corn's got market value here, shov-
eling In around $14,000, very pre ssing .
Last stanza, 'Captains Clouds' (WB)
(2d wk), fine $11,000.

Lake (Warners) (800; 30-39-42-(U)
— Dangerously Live' (WB). Thin
$1,500 on pushover. I,ast round, 'Son
Fury' (20th), good $2,000.

Falaoe (RKO) (3,700; 30-35-42-66-
66)— 'Paris Callhig* (U) plus Ethel
Waters and Count Etasle's band on
stage.' Strong vaude luring the ]ltr<
terbugs in f uU force, and smart $30,-
000 In sight Last we«^ 'What's
CooUn" (U) with 'Meet the People'
unit $19,000, satisfactory.

State (Loew's) (3,450; 30^5-^t:iS6X
—To Be' (UA). Drawing lat» CSsolt
Lombard's fans and hypoed by Jack
Benny's name. - Husky $14,000. tiast
lap, 'Bugle Sounds' (M-G), okay $U,-
500.

StUhnaa (Loew's) (1,872; 30<-30-43-
55)— •Woman Year* (M-G) (3d wk).
Worthwhile- $5,000 on h.o. after swell
$9,500 last week. -

m£' BLAZING (25,000
AND LEADING NEWARK

Newark, March 10.

Leading the rest of town by a wide
margin. Proctor's, with 'Ball of Fire'
and 'A Date with the Falcon' is zoom'
ing toward a terrific take. 'Dealgii
for Scandal' .and 'Dr. Kildare'ii vic-
tory' are also swell at Loew's.
Estimates for This Week

Adams (Indie) (2,000; 25-36-50-60)
— 'Burma Convov' (U) plus Alvino
Rey's band and King Sisters 4>n stage.
Band and temme singers resiwnslble
for powerful $17,000. Last week, 'Mr.
Wise Guy' (Mono) and Jimmy Du-
rante and Red Norvo's orch, good
$16,000.

Branford (WB) (2,800; 28-33-44-55)
—'Bill Hlckok' (WB) and 'Body Dis-
appears' (WB). Weak $12,000. Last
week, 'Captains Clouds' (WB) (2d
week), nice $11,000.

Capitol (WB) (1,200; 20-28-39-44)—
'Sundown' (UA) and 'Unholy Part-
ners' (WB). Going strong and ex<
pected to earn ' good $5,200. Last
week, 'Keep Flying' (U) and 'Wolf
Man' (WB), okay $4,600.

Paramonnt (Adams-Par) (2,000:30-
35-44-55)— 'Mr. Bug' (Par) and Tor-
pedo Boat' (Par). Mediocre $10,600.
Last week, 'Joan Paris' (RK<J) and
'Four Jacks' (RKO), fair $12,500.

Proctor's (RKO) (2,500; 28-44-60)—
'Ball Fire' (RKO) and 'Date With
Falcon' (RKO). This double and
five acts of vaude Monday and Tues-
day evenings will collect huge $25,-
000. Last week. 'Wake Up Scream-
ing' (20th) and 'Swamp Water' (20th)
plus vaude bill Monday and Tuesday
nights (9 days), terrific $30,500.

SUte (Loew's) (2,600; 28-33-44-65)
—'Design for Scandal' (M-G) and
'Klldare's Victory' (M-G). Almbig
for fine $15,000. Last week. Babes
Broadway' (M-G) and 'Miss PoUy
(UA) (2d -.Vc), neat ^13,000.

First Rms n Broadway

(Suhftet to Chrnig*}

WMk *t Umik U

AflMv-^'Klngs Row' (WB) (Oth
w»A).

QtnUiMi fn.'Varlaty.'Dsc. K 1S41)
OmptM—TbB Invaders' (Col)
(Idwedc).

Wetriewed Iti'VarMy,' Noo. 8. IMI)
Oritorim— "Bid* 'Em Cowboy*
(U) (3d week).
iamtiwd in 'ViMr/ W*b. a)

Olobe— 'Adventures of Martla

Eden' (Col) (IS).
(R«tH«u>ed in "Vartety.' Feb, 35)
Mnsle Hall— 'Woman of th«

Year' (M-G (Oth -wieek).
(Reirieued <n "VaTlety,' Jan. 14)
Fanmewnt— The Fleet's^ In*

(Par) (11).

(RetHeuied in 'Variety,' Jon: 31)
Bislto— 'North to the Klondike'
(U) (11), .
(Revleioeix in 'Variety,' Jan. 21)
BlvoU— To Be or Not To Be*
(UA) (2d week).
(RetH«uied in 'Variety.' Feb. 18)
Boxy — 'Song of the Islandto*
(30th)' (11).
(Revtoioed in 'Variety,' . Feb. 4)
Strand— 'Always in My Hearf
(WB) (13).

(Rctiletoetf in 'Variety/^ Morch 4)

Week of March 18
Astor— 'Kings Row* (WB) (7th
wedc).

Capitol — ^The Bugle SoundV
(M-G).

(Jletii«ued tn'Variety.'Dac. 17. 1941)
Mnalo HaU— 'Bedtime Story*

(Col).

(ReiTieuied in •VoTiify' Dec. 10, 1041)
PanuBaoDt— ^e Fleet's In'

(Par) (3d week).
Blvell— To Be or Not To Be'

(UA) (3d week).
Boxy— Song of tha IsIandiT

(20th) (2d wedc).

- Btnad-c-'Aiways In My Hearts

WB) (ad week).

LW 10. OK:
ROW FINE

$7,000

. Louisville, March 10.

Weather is clear and favorable for
attendance at downtown flrat runs,
and tha biz barometer is Indicating
■ healthy situation at local wickets.
All three houses grouped within ■
few feet of each other on Fourth
street are grabbing nice grosses.
Both 'Roxle Hart,' dualed at RIalto,
and To Be or Not to Be,' at Loew's
State, are heavy, and midwest pre-
miere of "Kings Row,' at Blary An-
derson, is getting strong -word-ot-
mouth and laudatory notices.

ItoUer Vanities of . 1942,' at-Jefler-
son County Armory, provided' strong
opposlsh to downtown film housed
last week, and added thre^ extra
shows Sunday (8) and Tuesday-
Wednesday (10-11) .

EaUmaIca for This Week -

Brown. (Fourth Avenue) iU400iM-
30-40) — ^"Woman of Year' (U-<3>^ and
'Hay Foot' (UA). Were pret^ weU
milked at showing week before last
at Loew's- State. Current pace indli.
cates light $2,000. Last week, 'Son
Fury (RKO) and 'Castle in Desert'
(20th), exdellent $2,800.

Kentaeky (Switow) (1,200; 15-25)
—'Birth Blues' (P^r) and Interna-
tional Squadron' (WB). Catching,
pretty consistent trade from school
children and shoppers, indicating $1,-
500. Last week, 'Corsican Bros.'
(UA) and 'Men in Life' (Col), fair
$1,400.

Loew's State. (Loew's) (3,300; 13-
30-40)— To Be' (UA) and 'Brooklyn
Orchid' (UA). Pic received mUed
reviews, hut biz is plenty boffo. In--
dicatlons are for strong. $12,000. Last
week, 'Shanghai Gesture' (UA) and
'Blondie to College* (Col), satisfac-
tory $9,000.'

Maij- Anderson (Llbson) (1,000;
15-30-40)— 'Kings Row* (WB). Got
recommendation from reviewers.
Pic had benefit of well-rounded cam-
paign by Monroe Rublneer, WB ex-
ploiteer, and class trade, word-of-
mouth and favorable weather are all
strong factors in building bumper
$7,000. Last week,- 'Man to Dinner'
(WB) (3d wk), good $3,400.

Bblto (Fourth Avenue) (1,000; 15-
30-40)— "Roxie Harf (20th) and
'Night Before Divorce' (20th). Prob-
ably fine $10,000. Last week, 'Sulli-
van's Travels' (Par) and 'Torpedo
Boat' (Par), ditto. -

Strand (Fourth Avenue) (1,400; 15-
30-40) — 'Jukebox Jenny' (U) and
■North Klondike' (U). Looks like
good $3,500. Last week, 'Mr. Bug"
(Par) and 'Road Happiness' (Mono),
eight days, fine $3,800.

^ifmg Imfi. Cots DownNX B.O.;
To Be' Strong $37,000, Invadeis^
40a rme.ijKI Ride for $24000

Springlike weather over the week-
end brought out large 'crowds, but
downtown as well as in the neigh-
borhoods the number filing past box-
offices was not ao large except where
the attractions were of an outstand-
ing character. 'Business on Mbnday
(0) was generally slow.

A- new entry that has been strong
since Its opening Friday (6) is the
Carole Lombard-Jack Benny To Be
or Not to.3e:,' which shoidd take the
RivoU to a good $37,000 on the first
week and holds. Campaign on the
film ran over $16,000, Including
house front, signs, etc.

■The Invaders,' which arrived at
the Capitol Thursday (6), received
fine notices and, like To Be,' has had
the backing of a big campidgn, -wltii
large- ads taken in the daUles.
Aroimd $15,000 cost was involved.
Picture opened with a bang and
showed good strengOi over the
weekend, but fell oft -with the pack,
on Monday (0). However, should
end at close to $40,000, away over the
bouse average, and holds.

Abbott and Costello maintain their
potent draught with team's ^Ihtest.
'Rldr 'Em Cowboy.' doing a whale of
a business at the Criterion. Comedy
ended Its first we*k last night
(Tues.) at $24,000 and starts ttie
second today (Wed.).

The Paramount moves In a new
bUl today (Wed:), 'Fleet's In' and the
Les Brown orchestra, .iplus Connee
BosweU. ' It held Ijidy Has Plans.'
with Ina Ray Hutton, Joan Edwards
and Jack Haley on thk stage, for
only one week, but did cxtracebr
wm at $44,000. This show would
have remained further had not book-
ings been set up in line with Easter
plans.

There's no stopping 'Woman of
Year,' now in ita fifth week at the
Music Hall and holding stoutly for
$80,000. or over. ICanagement will
retain tt • sixth week, matting the
runs of 'Phlladckihlii Story' and
'Rebecca,' only other pictures to
have pl^ed that long here.
^The State is. only fair this week at
$30,000. or bit above, with 'Remark-
able Andrew' (flrst-rtm) and the
Richard Himber band, plus Jane
Plduns and Cliff Nazarro.

Strand has slowed to a walk -«n
the third (current) week of 'Captains
oC Clouds* and Blue Barron^ looking
less tban $20,000, whUe 'Roxle Harf
has also petered out 'Harf dosed ait
tta Bon^ last night (TUes.), going
two weeks and six days. For the six
days, gross wm only $34.0007 very
mild, ^ng of Islands' was brou^
in last nl0bt on a preview (adver-
tlMd), with rMular nm begbinlng
this morning (Wed.).

BsUatatea Ut TUs Week

Astor (Loew's) (1,013; 35-S9-0S-
$1 JO)— "Kings Row* (WB)\ (5th wk).
Started sixth week yesterday (TUes.);
the fifth wa» $16,000, stlU good, whUe
the prior (4th) stanza was $19,000. .

Capitol (Loew's) (4,6eO: ^5-55-85-
$1.10-$1J5)— 'Invaders' (Col). Slowed
down Monday (0) after four power-
ful days up ahead, but stUl will be on
the hefty side on the first week at
close to $40,000. Holds over. Last
week, second for, 'Eager' (M-G>,
dropped to imder ^,000. mild.

Crttcrlen (Loew's) (1,063' 35-44-56-
76)— 'Ride 'Em Cowboy' (XT) (2d wk).
Beghis holdover to*iy (Wed.), after
soiAJng through to $34,000 In first
seven days. 'Whafs Cookln' (U), In
ahead, did $8,600; okay.

Globe (Brandt) (1,360: 28-35-551—
'Zola' (WB) (reissue). Doing poorly,
only ahout $4,500. Last veei, second
for 'GenUeman at Heart* (20th).
dropped to $5,000, lean.

Palaee (RKO) (1,700; 28-35-44-55-
65-75)^'Son of Fury* C20th) and
'Joan of Paris '(RKO), both 23 run.
This pair will eke out fairly good
$8,800. or better. 'Ball of Fh^e'
(RKO) (3d run) got $10,000 last
week, its. second, very nice.

Paramonnt (Par) (3,664: 36-56-85-
99)— 'Fleet's In' (Par), and, on stage.
Les Brown, plus Connee Boswell;
others. This show opens today
(Wed.), succeeding 'Lady Has Plans
(Par) and a pit bill including Ina'
Ray Hutton, Joan Edwards and oth-
ers, which pulled well at $44,000 on
the seven days. Up ahead, the sec-
ond week for 'Bahama Passage' and
Alvino Rey was $43,000, excellent

Badlo City Music Halt (Rockefel-
lers) (5,945: 44-55-85-99-$1.65)—
'Woman of Year* (M-G) and stage
show (5th wk). Continues very
steady, this week auKurlng $80,000 or
over. Last week (4th) was $86,000.
Due to its fine staying qualities,
'Year* will be held a sixth round.

Blalio (Mayer) (504; 28-44-55)—
'North to the Klondike* (U) onens
here today (Wed.). Last week. 'Our-
Russlan Front' (Artkino) (4th wk)
and 'Mr. Wise Guy' (Mono) (1st wk),
was $5,500, light, while prior week,
when "Front' played with 'Frisco
Lir (U), take hit $7,000. oke.

Blvoll (UA) (2,092; 39-55-75-85-99)
—To Be' (UA). In the whiner's cir-

cle at an indicated $37,000. good.
Last week, third for 'Mr. V* .(UA>,
dipped under $18,000, not so good.

B«xy (20th) (5386: 35-55-65-75-85)
—Song of Islands' (20th) and stage*
show, ^ng*' -was thro-wn In on a pre*
vl^ last nignt (Tues.), regular nm
begbinlng this morning (Wed.). Final
six dBy5 on third week for 'Roxle
Hart* (30th) was $34,000, weak. The
second stanza, however, was entirely
satisfactory at $40,000!

SUte' (Loew's) (3,450; 28-44-55-75-
90-$1.10) — Honarkable Andrew!
(Par) and Richard Himber, . Jane
Pickens, CUfl Nazarro in person.'
'Andrew* in here first nm, but biz-
only moiderate, looking no more than
about $30,000. Last week, 'Design
for Scandal* (MrG) (2d run)^ MischA
Auer, Golden Gate Quartet, other
acts, $22,000.

Strand (WB) (2,756; 35-55-75-85-
99)— 'Captains of Clouds' (WB) and
Blue Barron (3d-final wk). Less
than $30,000 Indicated on the blow-
oft (3d) week, poor. Last week (3d)
vaulted $30.000, oJb 'Always in Mr
Heart* (WB) and Ae Charlie Spivak
band open Friday (13),

Kaye^Screaming
Great $111500 In
A^;Tvy'10G

- Minneapolis.. Mtech 10.

Considering tha tough oiwoaltlon
from Lent; Income tax jmyment tlme^
and. outside attraetloni,. burets la
the local film houses li holding up
remarkably welL During a alx-day
run the Shriners" annual Indbor cir-
cus dug Into pockets to. the record
extent of: $49,(S0O. and ™w 1c«- Fol-
lies of 1B43' la stvthigSilier* Vat
circus left off. for a 15rdaybqxOflic«
blltt that proinisek to smash thxmieh
to newly $100,000,

Sananiy Koye and his band, plus 1
Wake Up Screaming' Is zocnninf .Or-
pheum takings; 'Son of runr* has the
State la the laoney, and 'HaymatesC
will lift the Gopher weQ Into the
profit column.

fer nis Week

,^AstaT (FBr*Sh>ger> (000; 17-a«)-:
'Perteet Sqob' (aoth) and 'Cloae Caff

TwfUght Tkail' (Far) and^Rlgbt to
Hnrt'(20th), all dual first-iUha Good
$3,000 indicated for «lght dara. I<ast
week, 'No . Hands Clock? (Par) and
"North Klondike' (U),-duaI flrst-nuuL
nice $1^00 In five days. ,
„ Ceetaix (P-S> (1,600; 30-40-9O>—
'Blan to Dinner' (WBX.: Moved here
from State after big week there. Con-
tinues to roll imd should stretch to'
neat $6,000. Last wedc. 'Crreen Val>
ley* (20th) . <Sd wk), strong $5,100
and moved to World.' . . ' . -

Gopher (P-S) (008; 28-30)r-'Play-
mates' (RKO). On the mild side , at
$2,500. Last week, 'Swanvi Water*
(30th), $5,300, very big.
^Orphena (P-S) (2,800; 39-44-55)—
'Wake Up Screamhig' (30th) and
Sammy Kayo's band. Kaye cadiing
In on fine impression made- at this
house Jast season. Catapulting toward '
tremendous $16,500. Last -week, 'Ba-
hama Passage' (Par) and Jan Sfivitt
band, vfery big $16,900.

State (P-S) (2,300; 30r40-90>— 'Son
of Fury* (30th). Prtwer-TIeiBey :
combo t>ox office bait Effectivfr ad-
-vcrllsing campalgv for fllin helping
plenty for good $8,500. Last weelt
•Man to Dinner* (WB). big,- il0.5fliK

Uptown (Par) (1.100; 30-40>-
'Weekend Havana* (30th). Satisfac-
tory $2,200 in prospect Last week,
'Died T?lth Boots' (WB). eood $2,600.

World (Par-Steffes) (350; 30-40-50-
60)— 'Green. Valley* (20th). After
sma.shing. two weeks at State and
single canto at Century, this priM-
wlnning picture la .still rolling. May
reach very big $3,000. Last week,
•Corsican Brothers' (UA) (2d wky,
poor $1,600. - '

Tory'-Tlayinales' Neat
$20,000 in Brooklyn

Brooklyn, March 10. '
Booming wicket biz at RKO Albee,'
flashing 'Son of Fury* and 'Play-
mates,' as well as at Fabian Fox,
which has second week of 'Captains-
of Clouds' and 'Blondie Goes to CoU
lege.'

Estimates for This Week
Albee (RKO) (3^74; 30-40-50-65)^-
'Son Fury' (20tb) and 'PlaymateaT
(RKO). Strptag combo bringing ha

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!• PICTURe GROSSES

Wcdaeiday, March 11, 1942

Fftt Recuperatn^ From Blizz;
Turchase' $15^, tm IIG. Great

I

Pittsburgh, March 10.
With mld-sprlng weather foUow-
Ing In wake, of worst snowstorm In
city's history, Golden Triangle was
back on the beam again over the
weekend and heading for favorable
grosses all along the line. As it
turned out, things w-ren't nearly as
bad as expected last week and takes
went way above low estimates, re-
sult of blazing finish after town had
dug Itself out of drifts, which para-
lyzed traffic completely for two
days.

* Big noise currently Is 'Citizen
Kane* at Fulton, city going in big
way for picture it has waited nearly
a year to see. 'Louisiana Purchase
Is getting a nice play at Penn,
although Ipooking (>icture right on
heels of stage version's visit Isnt
the boon it was originally expected
to be. Only other new attraction,
•Shanghai Gesture,' at Stanley, with
Bob Chester's band, will be lucky to
stay on right side of ledger.

Estimates for tlils.Week
Folton (Shea) (-.700; 30-55)—
•Citizen Kane' (HKO). Press and
public alike have been clamoring
fo- Orson Welles* first for nearly a
year now. Lack of attention in
Hearst press isn't hurting the least
LookL lUce better than $11,000, great
here. Last weiek, second of 'Hellz-
appopin' (U), only $3,200 after $9,800
opener.

Fcnn (Loew's-UA) (3,300; 30-40-
60) — 'Louisiana Purchase' (Par).
Few complaints at $15,500, although
something a bit better than that was
looked for in view of show's enor-
mous trade at Nixon (legit) and
added name power on screen (Bob
Hope). Last week, 'Captains Clouds'
(WB), was riding for $20,000 when
snowstorm broke, but had to be con-
tent with $16,000.

Rita (WB) (800; 80-40-50)—
•Woman Year* (M-G). Moved here
after fortnight at Penn and single
week at Warner and geared for a
regulation figure at this spot, which
is around $2,500. Last week, 'Dumbo'
(RKO), got $1,000, fcUowing great
$15,000 In two weeks at Warner.

Senator (Harris) (1,750; 30-40-50)
—'Ride 'Em, Cowboy' (U) (2d wk).
Abbott and CosteUo comedy got a
tough break from weather man last
week, snow costing it a possible new
house record. As it was, 'Cowboy*
grabbed around $10,000. this week
tihould easily do another $7,000 and
tnayhold.

Stanley (WB) (3,800; 30-44-60-66)
'^'Shanghai Gesture' (UA) and Bob
phesters band. Picture roundly
tapped and Chester hasn't big
enough r^p yet to overcome weak-
nesses of his screen support That
means arotmd $16,500, ordinary. Last
week, 'Skylark' (Par) and Charlie
Spivak's band, $16,500, hit by
weather. »
'.Warner (WB) (2,000; 30-40-50)—
V^aptalns Clouds' (WB). Brought
from the Penn and getting benefit of
former house's- natural first week
trade, which was deflected in the
wake of the big' snow. Looks like
around $6,500, fine, and at least, an-
other, week at the subsequent h.o.

?>ot, the Rltz; Last week, 'Woman
ear* (M-G), foUowing fortnight at
Penn. got $5,C00.

Benny-Lombard $9,000
h Port; Dancing' 6G

Portland, Ore., March 10.

To Be or Not to Be' at the Broad-
way Is the top new entry this week
but 'Ball of Fire' is not far behind
though on its second session at the
Paramount 'We Were Dancing' is
not cutting many fancy capers at
the ITnited Artists. 'Son of Fury' is
' real money on holdover at the
Orpbeum.

Estimates for This Week

Broadway (Parker) (2,000; 35-40-
BO)— To Be' (UA) and 'Bombay
.CUpper* (U). Strong $9,000. ^Last
week, 'Cai>tains Clouds' (WB) and
•Miss Polly' (UA), second week, solid
$6,000.

M a y f a I r (Parker - Evergreen )
(1,500; 35-40-50) — (Roadshow this
week). Last week, 'Woman of Year'
(M--G) (3d wk), exceptionally good
$4,000 for third stanza.

Orphenm (Hamrick - Evergreen)
(1,800; 35-40-50)— 'Sen Fury' (20th)
(2d wk) and 'Confessions Blackie'
■ (Col) (1st wk). Power starrer get-
ting nice $6,800 on second session
Last week, teamed with 'Obliging
Young Lady' (RKO), sturdy. $8,700.

Paramount (H-fi) (3,000; 35-40-50)
^'BaU Fire' (RKO) (2d wk) and
•Among Living' (Par) (1st wk)
Holding up in second week tor a
high $7,100. I^ast week, with -Week-
end Three' (RKO), tremendous
$9,700.

United ArUsts (Parker) (1,000; 35
40-50)— 'We Were Dancing' (M-G)
and 'Klldare's Victory' (M-G). Good
enough $6,000. Last week, 'Design
Scandal' (M-G) and 'Joe Sfnith,
American' (M-G). snappy $7,300. •

TO BE' SMASH f 15,000
IN DENVER; 'EAGER' IIG

Denver, March 10.

To Be or Not to Be' coupled with
•Castle in the Desert' Is getting big
money at the Denver while 'Johnny
Eager' and 'Shut My Big Mouth' at
the Orpheum is a distant second.
Heavy snowfall Friday did not crimp
grosses much.

Estimates tor This Week

AUddIn (Fox) (1,400; 25-40)—
"Through Night' (WB), after week at
Denver. Fair $3,500. Last week, 'Son
Fury' (20th), after Denver week,
trim $4,000.

Denham (Cockrill) (1,750; 25-35-
40)— 'Sullivan's Travels' (Par) (2d
wk) and 'Torpedo Boat' (Par). Mild
$5,000. Last week, 'Sullivan's Travels'
(Par), good $8,000.

Denver (Fox) (2,525; 25-35-40)—
To Be' (UA) and "Castle Desert'
(20th). Smash $15,000. Last week.
Through Night; (WJ) and 'Body
Disappears' (WB), trim $11,000.

Orphenio (RKO) (2,600; 25-35-40)
—'Johnny Eager' (M-G) and 'Four
Jacks, JiU' (RKO). Big $11,000. Last
week, 'Call Out Marines' (RKO) and
All Money Buy' (RKO), oke $8,800.

Faramonnt (Fox) (2,200; 25-40)—
'Lady for Night' (Rep) and 'Shut
Big Mouth* (Col). Nice $6,000. Last
week, 'Adventures Martin Eden*
(Col) and 'Wise Guy' (Mono), good
$6,000.

Blalto (Fox) (878; 25-40)— 'Son
Fury* (20th), after a week at Denver
and Aladdin, and 'KiUed Man*
(Mono). Good $2,300. Last week,
'Died Boots On* (WB), after Denver
and Aladdin weeks, and 'Melody
Lane* (U), •Btisfacto;in2,000.

ONCY BIZ OFF;
m OK $6,500

Cincinnati, March 10.

Cinema center's trade is at so-ac
level and several shades imder last
week, which is no surprise to ej^bs
in face of L«ht, Income tax payments
and auto tire {^oom. Oirrent lineup
has five new releases, a bit heavy
for Cincy, Bright spots are 'Song
of Islan<^' at Albee, . and 'Danger-
ously They live,' In the Grand.
Estimates for This Week

Albee (RKO) (3,300; 33-40-ISO)—
'Song of Islands* (20th). Satisfac-
tory $12,000. Last week, 'Woman of
Year* (M-G), big $16,000,

Capitol (RKO) (2,000: 83-40-50)—
'Woman of Year* (M-G). Moveover
from Albee. Great $7,000. Last
week, 'Gone with Wind* (M-G), third
week of second revival, and 17th
week of pic's stay in this theatre, al-
right $4,000. Scale was 45-55c.

Family (RKO) (1,000; 17-28)—
'Blue, White and Perfect^20th) and
'Sing for Supper' (Col), split with
■Yank Burma Road' (M-G) and 'Law
Jungle' (Mono).. Average $2,100.
Ditto last week with 'Harvard Come'
(Col) and 'Riding Wind' (RKO), di-
vided with 'Enlisted Man' (Pop) and
'Today I Hang' (PRC).

Grand (RKO) (1.430: 33-40-50)—
Dangerously Live' (WBV. Swell $6,-
500. Last week. 'Ride 'Em Cowboy'
(U) (2d run>, good $5,000;

Keith's (Libson) (1.500; 33-40-50)—
'Lady for Night* (Rep). Sad $2,500.
Last week, 'Captains Clouds' (WB)
(2d jun), okay $4,500.

lyric '(RKO) (1,400: 28-33-42)—
'Ride 'Em Cowboy'. (U). Second
transfer for third week on front
row. Fair $3,000. Last week, 'Louis-
iana Purchase' (Par), second move-
over and fourth week, good $3,000.

Palace (RKO) (2.600: 33-40-50)—
■We Were Dancln?* (M-G). Slow
tenioo at $8,000. Last week. 'Sulli-
van's Travel.<i* (Par), rough $7,500.

Shnbert (RKO) (2.150: 33-40-50)—
'What's Cookin" (U). Poor $3,000.
Last week, .'Paris Calling* (U), .falr
$5,000.

To Be', $4,000, *Woman'
$3,200, Hot in Lincoln

Lincoln, Neb., March 7.

•Front-nmning grossers this week
are 'Woman of Ye4r,* at Stuart, and
Carole Lombard's finale, 'To Be,' at
Varsity.

Estimates tor This Week

Colonial (Monroe-Noble-Federer)
(750; lO-lB-20)— 'Arizona Terror'
(Rep) and 'Man Betrayed' ' (Rep),
split with 'Silver Sage' (Par) and
'Borrowed Hero' (Mono). Poor $500.
Last week, 'Western Mall' (Mono)
and 'Scattergood Pulls Strings'
(RKO), split with 'Nurse's Secret'
(WB) and 'South Santa Fe' (Rep),
ditto.

Lincoln (J. H. Cooper-Par) (1,503;
10-20-44)— 'Roxie Hart* (20th). Slim

$3,000. Last week, "Man to Dinner'
(WB), 10 days, good $4,100.

Nebnuka (J. ft CkK)per-Par( (1,-
236; 10-20-28)— 'South Tahiti* (U) and
'Strawberry Blonde* (WB). Probably
poor $1,000. Last weelt, 'Blues Night*
TWB) and 'Riders Purple Sage*
(20th), fair $1,900.

Stable (Noble-Federer) (086; 10-
20-28) — 'Cadets Parade* (Col) and
'EUery 'Queen* (Col). Weak $U()0.
Last week, 'Shut Big Mouth* (Col)
and 'AU American Co-ed' (Col), fair
$1,300.

Stuart (J. H .Cooper-Par) (1,884;

10- 30-44)— 'Woman of Year* (M-G).
Possible $3^00, nifty. Last week.
'Son Fury* (20th). excellent $3,800.

Varsltv (Noble-Federer) (1,000; 10-
30-44)— To Be or Not* (UA). Splen-
did $4,000. Last week, 'Dangerously
Live* (W B). $1.800. poor.

OMAHA COOLS OFF, BUT
TO BE' FANCY $11,000

Omaha. March 10.

To Be or Not to Be* is a smash at
the Omaha, and at Orpheum, Jan
Savltt's band on stage with Buddy
Clarke, and 'Appointment for Love*
on screen, will get a nice but not
particularly big figure for that house.

Balmy, weather changed to rain
and cold over weekend.

Estimates for This Week

Omaha (Tristates) (2,000; 11-30-44)
—'To Be* (UA) and 'Brooklyn
Orchid* (UA). Last for Lombard,
smash $11,000. Ijast week, "Woman of
Year* (M-G) and 'Never Give
Sucker* (U), big $9,300.

Brandels (Mort Singer) (1,500; 10-
25-35-40)— 'Lady WiUlne* (Col) and
'Wild Bill Hickok* (WB). Swell
$6,000. Last week, 'Blues Night*
(WB) and '40,000 Horsemen' (Prlnc),
$3,800, poor.

Orpheum (Tristates) (3,000; 15-40-
55)— jan Savltt band and Buddy
Clarke- on stage, 'Appointment for
Love' (U). Good $14,0Q0. Last week.
'Roxie Hart' (20th) and 'South
Tahiti' (U), pretty good $10,000 at

11- 30-44C

Paramount (Tristates) (3.000; 11-
30-44)— 'Roxie Hart* (20th), move-
over from Orpheum and 'Castle
Desert' (20th), first-run. Poor $6,000.
Last week, 'Son Fury' (20th) and
'No Hands Clock' (Par), light $7,000.

State (Goldberg) (900; 25-35)—
liouislana Purchase* (Par) and
'Scattergood Strings* (RKO). -spUt
with 'Playmates* (RKO), 'Boston
Blackie' (Col) and Tanks Coming'
(WB). Good $1,000. Last week, 'BaU
Fire' (RKO) and 'Kathleen' (M-G),
spUt with 'Beast Berlin' (PRC),
'Burma C^onvoy' (U) and 'Swing It
Soldier' (U). fair $800.

Town (Goldberg) (1.500; 10-20-25)
—'Code Outlaws* (Rep). 'Ball of
Fire* (RKO) and 'Keep *Em Flying*
CU). triple split -with 'West of Tomb-
stone* (Col). 'Boston Blackie* (Col)
and 'Billy Kid Returns* (PRC), end
'Broadway Limited* (UA) and
'Danger on Wheels' (U). Nice $1,100.
Last week, 'Last Duanes' (20th),
'Army Girl* (Rep) and 'Niagara
Falls*^ (UA), triple spUt with 'Roar-
ing Frontiers' (Col), 'Take Oath'
(PRC) and 'Haiders of the West'
(PRC),, and 'International Lady'
(UA) and 'Date with Falcon' (RKO),
light $900.

KOW,' $7,500, TO BE,'
$7,200, BIG IN MEMPHIS

Memphis. March 10.

Main Street b.o.'s were rolling in
coin iihtll snowstorm hit yesterday
(9). Even with freeze, week should
begone olbestthis.season

'Kings Row' is surprising town
with heavy iKtxoffice draft at War-
ner's, and may eveij top Lombard-
Benny's 'To Be or Not To Be' at
Loew's State, though should be close.
Malco's 'Lady Is Willing' is pulling.
Estimates for This Week

Warner (WB) (2,000; 10-33-44)—
'Kings Row'. (WB). Terrific, exploi-
tation should account in part for
probable $7,500, gre^t Last week,
'Captains Clouds' (WB) (2d wk),
$3,600. very ' good.

Maloo (Lightman) (2,800; 10-33-44)
—'Lady WiUing' (Col). Dietrich ap-
pears to be getting over better than
past efforts. Indicates good $6,000.
Last week. 'Ride Cowboy* (U), $7,-
600. fine.

Slate (Loew) (10-33-44)— 'To Be'
(UA). Lombard presence on screen
seems to be working both for and
against feature, some preferring not
to see and others anxious. Looks
for $7,200, big. Last week, 'Joan
Paris' (RKO). $3,000. weak.

Palace (Loew) (2,200; 10-33-44)-^
'Vanishing' Virginian' (M-G). Rave
notices pfus ad campaign mapped by
Boyd Fry and Todd Ferguson nudg-
ing this one to $5,000, good. Last
week, 'Woman Year' (M-G) (2d wK),
,$3,500, okay.

Strand (Lightman) (1,000; 10-22-33)
—'Bedtime Story' (Col) (2d run),
three days; 'Melody Lane* (U), two
days; 'Twilight ftail* (Par), two
days. Ought to get good $1,700. Last
weiek, 'You Belong Me' (Col) (2d
run), three days; 'Bowery Blitz,* one
day. and '(jorsican Brothers* (UA)
(2d run), three days; $1,300, fralL

%ine,' At Long Last in Pl%, Snudi
$17,000; 'Pnrdiase' Great $19,000

LOMBARD-BENNY fINE
{14,000 IN.KANSAS C

Kansas City, March 10.

Carole Lombard-Jack Benny's 'To
Be or Not To Be,* in at the Midland
as bill topper, has things more or
less Its own way this weelc "Fan-
tasia,* as dual topper at the Orpheum,
is also giving a good report 'Sulli-
van's Travels' at the Newman Is
proving average.

Theatres played against- heavy
competition the end of last week and
opening days of current week. Po-
lice indoor circus packed them into
the arena of the municipal audi-
torium for five days.

Estimates (or This Week

Esanire and Uptown (Fox Mid-
west) (820. and 2,043; 11-30-44)—
'Roxie Harf (20th) (2d wk). Current
$5,000 pleasing, after first week's
$10,000 combo.

Midland (Loew's) (4,000; 11-30-44)
—To Be' (UA) and 'Brooklyn Or-
chid' (UA). Preceded by plenty of
notice and going along strongly for
$14,000. Last week, 'Mr. V,' (UA)
and 'Miss Polly' (UA), fairUh $7,500.

Newman (Paramount) (1,900; "11-
30-44)- 'Sullivan's Travels' (Par)
playing solo and getting average
$6,d00. Last week, "Man to Dinner'
(WB), second week, fancy $7,000.

Orphenm (RKO) (1,600: 11-30-44)
—'Fantasia* (RKO) and 'Jacks and
JiU' (RKO). Disney feature long
awaited and $7,000, more than satis-
factory, but won't hold over. Last
week. 'Call Marines' (RKO) and 'All
Money Can Buy' (RKO), mild $5,500.

Tower (Joflee) (2,100; ' 11-30)—
'Sleepytlme Gal' (Rep) and vaude.
Judy Canova helps along somewhat
here and week should hit $6,700, over
average. Last week. 'Paris Calling
(U) and vaifde. ditto.

mm HUGE

$44,500 IN HUB

Boston. March 10.

Snowstorm dented film trade here
Friday (6). but biz perked up over
weekend. 'Ride 'Em Cowboy,' hold-
over, with new stage show topped by
Woody Herman band at RKO-
Boston, la up In the ace money, with
'Woman of the Year' at Loew's Or-
pheum and State leading the town
and whamming for a holdover at
both .stands. Fourth week of 'How
Green Was My Valley' is big at the
Keith Memorial

Estimates for This Week

Boston (RKO) (3.200; .30-44-55:65-
75)— 'Ride *Em Cowtwy' (U) (2d
wk). with Woody Herman orch on
stage. Shaping un to okay $22,000.
Last w6ek, 'Ride 'Em' (U) and Dick'
Powell on stage, socko $34,800.

Fenway (M&P) (1.373; 30-40-44-55-
60)— 'Song of Islands' (20th) and 'No
Hands Clock' (Par), continued from
Met Will hit around $5,500. so-so.
Last week, 'Man to Dinner' (WB)
and 'Steel Against Sky' (WB), con-
tinued from Met, $8,000. biggest week
in months.

Keith Memorial (RKO) (2.900; 30-
44-65)— 'Green Was Valley' (20th)
and 'Niagara Falls' (UA) (4th wk).
Flirting with $18,000 and fifth frame.
Third week garnered $23,400. socko.

MelropoTIlan '(MiiP) "(4;367;- 30^0--
44-60) — 'Kihw Row' (WB) and
'Melody Lane' (U). Heading for
tepid $17,000. Last week, 'Song
Islands' (20th) and 'No Hands Clock'
(Par), $21,000; good.

Orphenm (Loew) (2.900; 30-40-44-
55)_'Woman of Year' (M-G) and
'Man Returns' (Col). Aiming at
$26,000, smash. Last week, 'Johnny
Eager' (M-G) and 'Hay Foot' (UA),
holdover, $20,000, ;socko.

Paramount (M&P) (1,800;* 30-40-
44-60)— 'Song Islands' (20th) and 'No
Hands ClocW (Par). Continued from
Met; around $9,000, satisfactory. Last
week, 'Man to Dinner' (WB) and
'Steel Sky' (WB), continued from
Met, $13,000, excellent.

Stete (Loew) (3,600; 30-40-44-55)
— 'Woman of Year' (M-G) and 'Man
Returned' (Col). Big $18,500. Last
week, 'Johnny Eager' (M-G) and
'Hay Foot' (UA), second week,
$15,000, very good.

Transinx (Translux) (900; 17-35-
44) — 'Law Jungle' (Mono) and
'Black Dragon' (Mono). Around
$4,600. Last week, 'Shut My Mouth'
(Col) and 'Man Headquarters'
(Mono), $5,000.

Wrap Up Those Feet

Hollywood, March 10.

Gene Tierney's next starrer at
20th-Fox will be 'China Girl,* a mod-
em Oriental yarn based on an idea
by Darryl 2anuck.

Ben Hecht is working on the script
with Harold Godsoe as technical ad-
visor.

Philadelphia, March 10.
•Citizen Kane' and Ixtulslana Pur-
chase' are leading the field by several
lengths this week, and both look like
they'll hang around for a long spelL
ICane,' in particular,' is enjoying .
hefty patronage, finally being . un-
veiled here after almost a year of
bickering - between Warners and
HKO.

. "Lady for a Night,' coupled -with
local debut of Chico Marx band, only
creating mild boxofflce ripple, while
holdovers of <Ball of Fire' and 'Cap-
tains of the Clouds' continue profit-
able.

'Purchase' is first picture getting
the new two-theatre, day-and-date
treatment by Warners. Hope starrer,
played the Earle Simday (8) In addl-'
tion to its regular screening at the
Fox. Earle, ordinarily closed on the
Sabbath, will, feature the biggest
grosser of the week— each Sunday.
First day of this experiment was re-
ported profitable by Warner execs.
Estimates for This Week

Aldltae (WB) (1,303; 35-46-57-68)—
'Citizen Kane* (RKO). Playing to
smash trade at $17,000. Last week,
'Vanishing Virginian* (M-G), poor
$7,000.

Aroadia (Sablosky) (600; 35-46-57)
—'Lady WUllng' (Col) (2d run). Do-
ing better than expected with okay
$2,600. Last week. Through Night'
(WB), mediocre $2,300 for third run.

Boyd (WB) (2,568; 35-46-57-68)—
'BaU Fire' (RKO) (2d wk). Slough-
ing off, but stUl lots of heat 'with
$13,000; Initialer last week grossed
heavy $20,000.

Earle (WB) (2,768; 35-46-57-68-75)
— 'Liady for Night' (Rep) Chico Marx
orch on stage. Only fair $16,000.
(Figure does not include Sunday
showing of Ijoulsiana' Purchase*
here.) Last week. 'Kildare Victory'
(M-G) with Martha Raye and Clyde
Lucas band, did better with $19,000.

Fox (WB) (2,425; 35-46-57-68)—
'Louisiana Purchase* (Par). Good for
sock $19,000 for opehing sesh. In
addition, 'Purchase' netted husky
$2,100 at "Earle Sunday (8). Last
week, 'Roxie Hart' (20th), wound up
second week with satisfactory. $12,000,

Karlton (WB) (1,066; 35-46-57-68)
—'Dumbo* (RKO) (2d run). Doing
nice biz, with $4,500 for this trick.
Last week, 'Hellzapoppin* (U), $4,000
for second run.

KeIth*B (WB) (2.220; 35-46-57-68)—
'Woman of Year* (M-G) (2d run) (2d
wk). Looks like pix of year, with
bright $5,500 for tills chucker. Ini-
tialer' of second run netted clicko
$7,000.

Stanley (WB) (2.916; 35-46-57-68)
—'Captains Clouds' (WB) (3d wk).
Having neat flight toY round trey
with okay $11,000. Second trip got
okay $13,000. To Be or Not to Be'
(UA) bows tomorrow (Wed.).

Stanton (WB) (1,457; 35-46257-68)
—'Sons of Sea' (WB). Poor 1,4,000.
Last week, 'Pacific Blackout' (Par),
ditto.

HM BEST IN PROY.;
'CAPTAINS' 2D $13,500

Providence, March 10.

Two holdovers mark this week's
blUs, with 'Captains of thejClouds' '
in a big second week at the MaJesticL
and 'Fantasia' showing but a slight
falUng off at- RKO- Albee. 'Mister^,'
at Loew's, is healthy.

EstlnuUes tor This Week

Albee (RKO) (2,200; 28-39-50)—
'Fantasia' (ItKO) and 'Mexicdn Spit-
fire' (RKO) (2d wk). Paced for good
$6,200. Last week, nifty $9,200. '

Carlton (Fay-Loew) (1,400; 28-39-
50)— 'Woman of Year' (M-G) and
'Kathleen' (M-G) (2d run). Despite
third downtown week, still going
strong for .nifty. $3,500. Last week.
'Roxie Harl' (20th) and 'Sunny Side"
(20th) (2d run), good $3,500.

Fay's (Indie) (1.400; 28-39-50)—.
'Sealed Lips' (U) and vaude. Nifty
weekend helping to good $6,500. Last
week. 'Cowboy Serenade' (Rep) and
vaude. nice $6,800.

MaJetUc (Fay) (2,200; 28-39-50)—
'Claptalns Clouds' (WB) and 'JaU
House Blues' (U) (2d wk). Knock-
out $16,000 In opening stanza war-
ranted a holdover, which is heading
for zowie $13,500.

Metropolitan (Indie) (3.200; 44-55-
65)— Dick PoweU, Ray Kinney or-
chestra, and 'Crimlpals Within' (Pro).
Kpocked off fair $8',600 in three-day
run.

State (Loew) (3,200: 28-39-50)—
'Mister V* .(UA) and 'Fiesta' (UA).
Strength of Leslie Howard's name
carrying this one to good $13,000.
Last week, 'Woman of Year' (M-G)
and 'Kathleen' (M-G) (2d wk),
zowie $14,000.

Strand (Indie) (2,000: 28-30-50T—
'Paris CaUing' (U) and 'Melody Lane'
(U). Not doing too badly and should
end UP with fair $6,000. Last weeKT"
'Mr. Bug' (Par) and 'Glamour Boy'
(Par), ditto.

WednesdAjr* March 11, 19'4>

PICtUBB GROSSES 11

Dancing'-^'Snuth' Reaching for Good
$14B in Frisco; Tans

San Eranclsca March 10.
Metro has a field day thli week
■wiA five releases oa .the. street —
'Vanishing Virginian' and "Yank on
Burnw Road' at. the Paramount,
%oman of the Year* at the St Fran-
cl^' 'We Were Dancing'^ and 'Jo«
Smith' at the Warfleld. Of them all
'Woman,' thlrd-iyeeker, seems to be
the most forte.

. Impact of liCnt denting b.o.'s gen-

errally.

Estimates for. Lad Week

Fox . (F-WC) (6,000; 35-40-95)—
'Roxie HarV (20th) and 'Castle in
Desert' (20th) (2d wk). Holdover get-
ting ilO.COO. Last {1st) week felt
the Lenten pinch, which held the
take to $17,000.

Golden Gate (RKO) (2,850; 44-50-
. 65)— 'Obliging Young Lady' (RKO)
nnd Horace Heldt on stage. Getting
$23,500 not comparable to last week,
when Tommy Dorsey hypoed 'Date
with a Falcon' (RKO) to smash
$27,000.

drphenm (Blwnenfeld) (2.440; 35-
40-<S5V-'Farl8 C^alllng' (U) and
•Swing Soldier' (U). Well sold for
around $9,000, okay. I^ast week,
Xady Willing' (Col) tind Treat 'Em
Sough' (Col) finished with $8,900.

Piirameiuit (F-WO- (2,470; 35-40-

65) — 'Vanishing Virginian' (M-G)
and 'Yank Burma Road' (M-G). Sold
equally, with fact Barry Nelson Is
a local boy also noted. Looks like'
$14,000, nice. Last (3d) week, 'Son
of Fury' (20th) and "Perfect Snob'
(20th), got okay M.OOO..

St. FraneU (F-WC) (1.475: 35-40-

66) — 'Woman of Year" <M-G^and
'Pacific BTackouf (2d moveoveWwk).
Still hot for $6,000 after smash $7,-
600 laH week.

CnitM Artlcta (UA-Blumenfeld)
(1.100: 35-40-58)— 'Shanghai CJesture'
(UA) and "Miss Polly* <UA) (3d wk).
Wilt pick up $6,900. Last (2d) week,
$7,400.

Warfleld (F-WC) (2.650; 36-40-55)—
'Were Dancing* (M-G) and 'Joe
Smith' (M-O). May reach $14,000,
which will b* good. ,I»8t (2d) week,
•Nfan to Dinner* (WB) and Ballet
Russe- ihori $12,000, good.

'Cowboy' Rides High h
Seattle, Sock $11,000;
Ttaymates' Blah 6iG

Seattle, March 10.

New bills mingle with holdovers
this week. 'Ride "Em Cowboy,' new
Abbott-Costello comedy. Is easily
topping the town with a great $11,000
at Orphftum. 'Shanghai Gesture' at
the Fffth Avenue is next best, while
"Playmates' is extremely dIsapt>olnt-
ing at the Paramount

Estimate* f«^r Tlila Week

Blae Meue (Hamrick-Evergreen)
(800; 30-40-58)— 'Johnny Kager' (M-
G) and "Mr., Mra. North' (M-G) (2d
wk). Good $3,000. Last week, same
pair grabbed dandy $4,200.

CollMam (H-E) (1,900; 23-40)—
'Green Valley' (20th) and 'Belong to
Me' (Col). Second run (2d wk),
nice U,300. Last week, same films,
neat $4,000.

Fifth Avenue (H-E) (2,349; 30-40-88)
'Shanghai Gesture' (UA) and 'Right
to Heart' (20th). Socko $0,700. Last
week, 'Design Scandal' (M-G) and
•Kildare's Vlctoiy (M-G), good $7,-
900

liiberty (J-vH) (1,650; 30-40-58)—
"Bedtime Story' (0>1) and 'Blondle
CoUege' (Col). Good $6,000. Last
week, 'Hay Foot* (UA) and 'Call
£llery <ueen' (Col), fine -$6,800.

Mnslo Bex <H-E) (850; 30-40-58)—
'Son Fury' (20th) and "Blue, White,
Perfect' (20th) (3d wk). Trim $3,800.
Last week, 'BaU Fire' (RKO), on
fourth week, torrid $3,100 for six
days. '
, Orphenm (H-E) (2,600; 30-40-58)—
'Ride 'Em Cowboy' (U) and 'Among
Uving' (Par). Riding high to a
great $11,000, and way ahead of field.
Last week, 'Man to Dhmer* (WB) and
"Treat -Em Rough' (U) (2d wk), big
$7,300.

Palomar (Sterling) (1,350:" 23-35-
50-58)— 'Frisco LU' (U) and 'Road
Agent' (U) plus vaude. Nice $6,500.
Last week, 'Sagedy Midnight' (Rep)
and 'Sing for Supper' (Col) plus
vaude, slowed to below expectations
for $6,300.

Parunoont (H-E) (3,039; '30-40-58)
—'Playmates' (RKO) «nd "Pacific
Blackout' (Par). Disappointing week-
end biz dropping this one to only
Uii i6,500. Last week, 'Son Fury''
(20th!> and. "Blue, White, Perfect'
(20th) (2d wk). fine $6,700.
, Boosevelt (Sterling) (600; 30-40-
58)— -Man to Dhmer' (WB). After
two oke stanzas at Orpheum, may
stay two weeks here. Big $4,000
?J opening stanza. I*st week (23-
40) with second run of "Hellzapbp-
?15\,<U) and 'Married Bachelors'
(M^G). Juicy #3,400.
. - Winter Garden (Sterling) (800; 20-
30)-|-'SUndown*-(UA) and "Chocolate
<M-G> <3d riilU«j.Strong
$3J00. Last week. "StartedlEvc' (Ul
and 'South Tahiti* (U). soUt with
Blues Night' (WB) and 'Women ic
War* (Rep) (3d run), big $3,200.

Key City Grosses

Estimated Total Gross

This week $1,998,700

(Based on 28 cities, 189 thea-

tret, cMe/lv fim runs, (ncluding

N. Y.)

Total GroM Sam* Week

Cast Tear $1,638,900

(Based on 25 cities, 172 theatres)

TO BE' STRONG
$13,000 IN BUFF.

Buffalo, March 10.

Turnstiles are. experiencing brisk
going again this frame, with the
wickets exhibiting strong draught
Andrews Sisters and. Johnny Long
orch, paired with 'Confirm or Deny,'
are shooting sky high' at the Buffalo.
The Marcus show at the Century lis
also rolling along at a stout pace,
and "To Be or Not to Be' is mount-
ing to high money mark at Great
Lakes. /

Estimates tor This Week

Boffalo (Shea) (3,500; 35-95)—
'Confirm or Deny' (20tb), Johnny
Long orch 6nd Andrews Sisters on
stage. Powerful triple bill should top
sweet $20,000.' Last week, 'Woman of
Year' (M-G) and 'Young America*
(20th) (2d wk), nearly $11,000, fine.

Great Lakes (Shea) (3,000; -35-99)
— 'To Be' (Par) and 'Brooklyn
Orchid' (UA). Good going for
around swanky $13,000. Last week,
'SulUvairs Travels' (Par) and 'Pacific
Blackouf (Par), not quite as virile
as expected, but satisfactory $10,000.

Hipp (Shea) (2,100; 30-45)—
'Woman of Year' (M-G) and 'Young
America' (20th) (2d .run). Remams
lively for around $8,000.- Last' week,
'Gone With Wind' (M-G), $6,000. oke.

L«f»yette (Hayman) (3,300; 30-44)
—'Martin Eden' .XCol) and Tirst
Beau' (Col). Slightly under par at
$6,000. . Xast week. 'Paris CalUng*
(U) and 'Badlands of Dakota' (U),
neat $8,700.

20th Century (Ind) (3,000; 30-55)
— Lady Jtor Night' (Rep) and A. B.
Marcus Revue on stage. House seem
to be 'hitting fast stride. - Indicates
another fancy $16,000. Last week,
'Unexpected Uncle' (RKO) and
Eddy Duchih on stage, ditto.

'Scandal f 16,000, Wow
InJ.C^'Joa]i\$10,000

Jersey City, March 10.

'Design for Scand^,' at Loe'w's, and
"Louisiana Purchase,' at Stanley, are
both' drawing powerful -attendance.
However, the State's lead feature,
'Joan of Paris,', is a weak grosser.
Estimates for This Week

Leew's (Loew's) (3j205;- 30-30-55)
— ^'Design for Scandal' (M-G) and
"Dr. KUdare's Victory' (M-G). Looks
like fine $16,000. Last week, "Babes
Broadway* (M-G) and "Miss Polly*
(UA) (2d wk). good $18,900.

Stanley (WB) (4,600; 80-39-96)—

■Louisiana Purchase' (Far) and "Right
Heart* (JOth). Expected to earn neat
$16,000.° Last week, 'Captains Clouds'
(WB) and 'Mexican Spitfire' (RKO)
(2d wk), okay $12,000.

State (Skouras) (2.200; 30-36-55)—
'Joan of Paris* (RKO) and "What's
Cookin' (U). Probably moderate
$10,000. Last week, 'Son Fury*
(20th) and 'Perfect Snob* (20th) (10
days), great $21,000.

'LOUISIANA' PLUS VAUDfF
GOOD $18,500 IN WASIL

Washington, March 10.

Glenn Miller is hottest boxoflice
item to hit this town in years. At
Capitol, orch played to 400 more per-
sons Saturday and 978 more Sunday
than did Mickey Rooney on his re^
cent personal. Picture is 'Joe Smith.
American,' and got good noticss, but
Miller's the chid draw.

Estimates for This Week

Capitol (Loew) (3,434; 28-39-44-66)
— tJoe Smith' (M-G), plus Glenn
Miller, orch. Latter great draw for
at least sockeroo $30,000. Last week,
'Yank Buhna Road' (M-G, plus Earle
Carrol's 'Vanities,' good $22,000.

Colnmbla (Loew) (1,234; 28t44)—
'Nazi Agent' (M-G). First first-run
house has had in weeks, should hit
top-notch $7,000. Last week, 'He-
member Day* (Par) (moveover),
above average $5.5(K).

Esric (WB) (2.216; 28-39-44-66)—
'Louisiana Purchase* (Par) plus
vaude. Good enough $16,500. Las t
week, "Captains Courageous: (WB),
plus vaude (2d wk). okay $13,500.

Metropolitan (WB) (1.600; 28-44)
—'Bill Hickok Rides' (WB). Aver-
age $5,500. Last week. 'AH Through
Night' (WB) (moveover), in for 11
days, profitable $9,500.

Pslsce (Loew) (2,242; 28-55)— 'Son
Fury' (20th). Okay $18,000. Last
week, 'Woman of Year' (M-G) (3d
wk), plenty solid $12,500.

'Woman', $21,000, Has
Heavy .Pali in SL L

St Louis, March 10.

Biz for the deluxers Is on the up-
beat currently, with Loew's leading
the field with "Woman of the Year?

Last week biz sagged at the wind-
up and grosses -were less than an-
ticipated.

Estimates for Thk Week

Loew's (Loew) (3,172; 30-40-44)—
'Woman of Year' (M-G). Robust
$21,000 In sight Third consecutive
week that house is screening one
feature and . shorts. Last week.
'Johnny Eager* (M-G) (2d wk), good
$12000

•Ambassador (F&M) (3.000; 30-40-
50)-^'BaU of Fire' (RKO). SweU
$13,500 for this one. Ijast week,
'Captains Clouds' (WB) and Tough
Come' (U) (2d wk), nice $0,700.

Fex (F&M) (6,000; 30-40-50)—
'Song Islands' (20Ui) and TelUng
Me* (U). Should gamer neat $11,800.
Last week, "Roxie Hart' (20th) and
"Whafs Cookin' 03). good $12,800.

BOasearl (F&M) (3,570; 30-40-50)—
"Roxie Hart' (20th) (1st wk) and
"Ride Cowboy* (U) (Cd wk). Fine
$8,500. Last week, "Cowboy* and
"Bombay CUomt* (U), good $5,300.
" LonU TfiM) (4,()00; " —

8t

'Son

,30-40)—
Wild BUI

Fury* (20th) and
HlckoV (WB). Not more than $3,000,
iiir. Last week. Through Nkhr
(WB) and "Playmates' (RKO), $2^00,

fOOti

'Ride Cowboy Smart $26,500 In
LA.; 'Eager' Snappy 27G, Hellz' Hot
$7,000 On 4th Wk.; "Captains' OK In 3d

Broadway Grosses

Estimated Total Gross

This Week $337,000

fBosed on 13 theatres)
Total Gross Same Week

■Last Year $283400

rBosed pn 13 theatres) .

'FIRE' GREAT
$30,000 IN DET.

Detroit March 10.

Lent hasn*t been much of a factor
here this year, with grosses stUl. run-
ning at a high level in the loop. 'Ball
of Fire.' coupled with "North of the
Klondike,' is rolling along at a merry
clip and wUI rate as hold-over at.the
5,(|iOO-seat Fox.

Also running above average is 'The
.Fleet's In' and "International Lady.'

- Estlma'tcs tor This Week

Adams (Balaban) (1,700; 40'5S-66)
—'Son Fury' (20th) and "Shut Big
Mouth' (Coi). Former picture moved
after two strong weeks at the Fox
and still good for additional $6,^.-
Last week, 'HeUzapdppin' (U) and
'South Tahiti' (U) (3d wk), good
$5,000.

Fox (Fox-Mlchlgan) (6,000; 40-55-
65)— 'BaU Fire' (RKO) and 'North
Klondike' (U). Great $30,000 and
probable h.o, Last week, 'Son Fury'
(20th) (2d wk) and 'Shig Worries
Away* (RKO), choice $17,600.

Michigan (United Detroit) (4,000;
40-55-65)— "Fleet's In* (Par) and 'In-
ternational Lady' (WB).Nlce $18,000.
Last week, 'Bahama Passage* (Par)
and "Blues Night* (WB), okay $17,000.

Falms-State (United Detroit) (3,-
000; 40-55-65)— 'Bahama Passage*
(Par) and 'Blues Night' (WB). Pair
moved after good week at Michigan,
looking for choice $11,000 here. Last
week, 'Louisiana Purchase* (Par) (3d
wk), and "Steel Against Sky' (WB),
fair $8,000.

UnJUed ArtlsU (United Detroit)
(2,000; 40-59-65)— 'Johnny Eager' (M-
G) and "Yank Burma Boad' (M-G)
(3d wk). Sound $7;000, foUowbig
$12,000 last week and $16,000 in first

Frisco's Alien Italians
But Slightly Affected

San Francisco, March 10.

Nine pjn. curfew for Italians and
other Axis aliens has only slightly
affected ti.0. at the Palace, Golden
State circuit house In North Beabb
district according to city manager
HalNeides.

'House has been opening at 0'.80
pjD. for some time, enabling rcsl-
denta of the clt7*a Italo sector to
catch their films before U. 8. 'war
curfew.

NATIONAL BOXOFFICE SURVEY

Carole Lombard -Jack Benny Open To Good Biz In Key
Spots; Abbott-Costello Ridin' High; 'Kane' Opens Big In Pa.

With much of the stronger holdover product of mid-
season out of the first runs and into the subsequents,
playing time is easier In the major key spots. Book-
ings on the newer releases are rolling In fast. 'Woman
of the Year* (M-G), 'Ride 'Em (^)wboy* (U), "To Be
or Not To Be* (UA), "Roxie Harf (20th) and "Kmgs
Row* (WB) are all moving. With such a wide range
of product for selection, public is resjionding and re-
ceipts for the week held to prevailing high figures.

Showmen's Interest was centered on the Carole Lom-
bard-Jack Benny starrer. To Be.' After a discouraging
start in Los Angeles several weeks ago when air raid
scares frightened the boxoflice, the film has caught on
in most pities where played. At the Chicago theatre
the figure of $50,000 for the Week Is outstanding. It
did well at the Rlvoli, on Broadway, but struck big
In Denver, smash ISO; excellent $14,000 in Kansas
City, and same in Cleveland. Omaha, Louisville, Buf-
falo, Memphis, Portland were all above normal.

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in 'Woman
of the Year' is currently best of the holdovers. To its*
credit are engagements of three weeks each in Louis-
ville, Cleveland and Seattle; two weeks in Frisco, Lin-
coln and Buffalo, a surprising $44,000 In two houses in
Boston, and an opening of 21G in St Louis. It Is
playing its sixth week at the Music HaU, N. Y, equal-
ling the rung of 'Rebecca* and 'Philadelphia Stoiy.'

'Kings <Row' (WB) has played In too few spots to

gauge its accurate boxoflice draw. It la holding over
at the Astor, N. Y., and has opened moderately In
Boston and Louisville and excellent^ in Memphis,
A. & C. Bepeat Clicks
With the consistency which has placed them high In
star rathigs, Abbott and Gostello are repeating previ-
ous successes with "Ride "Em (jowboy,* which grosses
$22,000 on its Boston holdover after a first week of
$38,800. It is in Its second week In Pittsburgh, third
in Cincinnati, and opened big In Seattle aind Los An-
geles. '

Through the boxoflice window: 'Citizen Kane* (RKO)
at long last -has opened In Pennsylvania. Smash $17,000
at the Aldine, PhUadelphia, and equally big In Pitt
'Captains of the Clouds* (WB) added $13,000 to an
opening of $16,000 -in Providence. 'How Green Was
My Valley' (20th) ended run of seven weelu at the
State-Lake. Chicago, and continues at a smaller hoaie
in' the -loop, behig followed by 'Louisiana Purcliase'
(Par), which is off to a smart start 'Song of the
Islands' (20th) is getting honorable mention hi the
keys. Chap lin's r evival of 'The Gold Rush* (UA)
pleased Immensely in Montreal. 'Shanghai Gesture*
(UA) completing three weeks in Frisco, and good
elsewhere. "We Were' Dancing' (M-G) held to waltz
time In Frisco and Portland. "Hellzapoppin' (U),
fourth week at the Palace, Chicago. "Johnny E^ger'
(M-GX topped $27,000, two houses, io Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, March 10.

Income tax filing week puts a slight
dent in local wickets . with all first-
riins feeling the effect. Ideal week-
end weather continues to provide
theatres with hefty business Friday
through Sunday with tapering off on
other days. But everything., in the
keys is getting by for okay profit.

'Ride 'Em Cowboy,' new Abbott-
Costello comedy, is catching a smart
$26,500 at the combined Hill,slreet
and Pantages. 'Johnny Eager' is a
shade lictter with $27,000 at the State
and ' Chinese. Numerous holdovers
are hitting a fairly good stride, with
six in the first-run houses and two
on continuing runs.

Estimates for This Week

Carthny Circle (F-WC) (1,516: 33-
44-55-75)— To Be' (UA) and 'Night
Divorcer (20th) (3d wk). Okay $3,-
000 as expected. Last week, so-so
$4,600.

Chinese (Grauman-WC) (2,034; 33-
44-55-75)— Johnny Eagep' (M-G) and
"Mr., Mrs. North' (M-G). Catching
heavy weekend play for nice $11,600.
Last week. ^Roxle Hart' (20th) anS
'Castle Desert' (20th); moderate
$10,500.

Downtown (WB) (l.ROO; 33-4^-66)
—'Captains Clouds' (WB) (3d wk).
Five-day week,' profitable $6,800,
with house swinging back to a Thurs-
day opening. Last week, satisfactory.
$9,5Q0 for second sesb.

Feor SUr (UA-F-WC) (960; 33-44-
55)— HIT. V (UA) (4th wk). Taper-
ing slightly '. to ^,700. Last week
closed with $3,000, ■

Hawaii (G&S) (1,100; 33-44-55-75)—
'Hellzapppin' (U) (4th wk). Heading .
for $7,000, elegant profit Last week,
solid $7,300.

Hollywood (WB) (2.756; 33-44-55)
—'Captains Clouds* (WB) (3d wk).
Fair $6,500 for five-day windup-pf •
third stanza. Last week, trim $0,-
500 for second stanza.

Orphenm (B'way) (2,200; 33-44-55)
—"Wolf Man' (U) and "Mad Doctoi*
(U)'wlth vaude. Moderate $9.000i.
Last week. Tragedy Midnite' (Rep)
and 'Never Give Sucker Break' (U),--
oft at $7,800. (

Pantapes (Pan) (2.812; 33-44-55)—
'Ride 'Em Cowboy* (U) and "Almost
Married' (U). Abbott and Costello
still hot n\imber6 here, with first
stanza heading for a big $11,600. Last
week, "BedOme 3tory' (Col) (2d wk)
and 'Blondie C^ollege* (Col), wound
up six days at tepid $5,300.

Fsr«nonnt.(F&M) (3,696; 33-44-55)
—'Lady Has Plans' (Par) and "Re-
markable Andrew' (Par). (2d wk).
Struggling on second stanza for ,
modest $9,000. Last week. . closed
with good $13,000,

BKO HlUstreet (RKO) (2,872; 33-
44-55>— "Bide "Em Cowboy* (U) and
'Almost Married' (U). Rousing box
office for downtown stand wltfal^ll,*
000. Last week, 'Bedtime ' Story* •
(Col) (2d wk) and "Blondle CoUege*
(Col), six days to light $9,000.

State (Loew-F-WC) (2,204; 33-44-
99-79)— 'JohniQ' Eager* (M-G) and
"Mr., Mrs. North' (M-G). Strong
wicket spinning for around $15,500.
Last week, "Roxie Hart* (20th) and
'CasUe Desert' (20th), okay $13,600.

United 'ArUsts (UA-FrWC) (2.100:
33-44-55)— "Roxie Hart* (20th) and
"Castle Desert' (20th). Not so good
with less than $3;300. Last week,
To Be' -(UA) and 'Nite Divorce*
(20th), profitable $4,800.

V*r«e • (Vogue) (920; 33-44-55)--
"Pjturi' (Indie) and 'Black Dragonr
(Mono). Horror show in black at
$3;Z00y Last week, 'Flying Cadets?
(U) and 'Sealed Lips' (U), . poor
$2,000.

Wlbhlre (F-WC) (2,296; 33-44-55)
—'Roxie Harf (20th) and 'Castle
Desert* (20th). Average $5,000 loom-
ing. Last week, "Son Fury* (20lh)
and 'Gentleman Heart' (20th) (2d
wk). Forced to stav second stanza
on accotmt "To Be unavailability,
Ught $3,500.

'GOLD RUSH' REISSUE
BIG $7,000 IN MONTI

' Montreal, March 10.

'Captahis .of the Clouds' Is saiUnfe
along for handsome take In repeat
week currently, after -smash gross
last week, and wUI top everything
In town again. There are other good
grosses ia sight for 'Hellzapopph],'
'Design for Scandal' and 'Gold Rush,'
making one of the best weeks ber«
In some time.

Estimates for This Week

r^laee (CT) (2,700; 30-45-62)^
'Hcllzapoppln'. (U). Pointhig . good
$730. Last week, 'Remember Day*
(20th), good $6,500.

Capitol (CT) (2,700: 30-45-62 >—
"Design Scandal' (M-O) and "Jacki
and JiU' (RKO). Sighting good $S.- .
000. Last (2d) week, "Bahama Pas-
sage' (Par) and "No Hands. ClocV
(Par), satisfactory $5,000.

loew's (CT) . (2,800;" 35-53-67)-^

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U EXPLOITATION

Wednesday, Mafch 11, 1942

Sabbath Reward for Film Which
Draws Best Biz the Other 6 Days;
Defense Workers Also Hypo Late Yk

Tradeskows

Philadelphia, March 10.

With many downtown theatres
playing to turnaway business on
Sundays, due to six-day shifts at
defense plants, the Stanley-Warner
circuit last week took steps to cash
In. Beginning Sunday (8) and every
Sunday hereafter, the vaudfllmer
Earle will lie open featuring the
film which plays to the heaviest pa-
tronage of the week at the other
deluxers.

Initial feature getting the two-
house treatment is Paramount's
'Louisiana Purchase,' which opened
Friday (6) at the Fox. 'Purchase'
played stimultaneously at both
houses, at the same price, and both
shows were well-attended.

The Earle has' ordinal'lly been
closed on the Sabbath' due to Blue
Law restrictions against stage shows.
The Earle policy during the rest of
the week will remain unchanged —
a stage, show and feature film.

Another step to get the defense
■ worker patronage taken by Warners
was the changeover of the Center
Into a 24-bour-a-day houst, mak-
ing three never-K:losers for the cir-
cuit in mldtown. The Center has an
Improved run over the .other two
—Family and Savoy — and Is alme^
to get the better class of stay-out-
laters. •

Helplnc Nabea Also

N.w York City neighborhood film
theatres, which, late last year re-
ported business running\20-25% be-
hind the previous year, now concede
that their boxoffice gradually is im-
proving. With priorities socking
maipy business firms and factories In
the Greater New Yorli« area and Ut-
ile defense spending, such condition
naturally was reflected strongest in
nabe operations. The Times Square
cinemas also hold up well because
of the vast influx of defense work-
ers into N. Y. over the weekend.

Now admitted that defense coin
Is percolating into neighborhood
areas; also that neighborhood ex-
hibitors arC readjusting their sched-
ules to fit current conditions. Trend
has been to stage late night shows
In order to catch the' late workers.

Workers who head for New Jersey
and other nearby' defense factories
naturally, are late in returning to
New York. Past 11 p.m. or mld-
' night performances hence are being
tried out by BKO and several other
circuits to attract this class of po-
tential patrons.

It's Too Late For Gobs
San Francisco, March 1.0.
Esquire theatre has discontinued
Its Sunday morning defense-work-'
ers' swing-shift matinee — ^by military
^order. r

With more sailors and other serv-
ice men than defense workers in
the iiouse, authorities decided the 2
ajn. closing order should apply to
theatres as well as bars.

Such Is Fame, Indeed

Minneapolis, March 10.
The fleeting quality of fame
again is illustrated here by the
newspaper ads for 'Playmates.'
They play up Kay Kyser and
specify the presence of Lupe
Velez, Glnny Simms and Patsy
Kelly.

John Barrymore, also in the
cast, is entirely omitted.

THEATRES AND OTHERS
FIGHT N. Y. CUFFO BHl

Theatre operators have been jbin'ed
by other business leaders in a move
to have. the proposed billon free ad-
missions for service men .withdrawn
before it comes up lor consideration
in the New York state legislature.

Measure suggesting cuffo theatre
tickets is being attacked as - 'con-
fiscatory' and a menace to other
forms of enterprise if imposed upon
picture houses.

Pressure from restaurant, nitery
and leglt operators to have Assem-
blyman Fred Hammer's bill with-
drawn is reported.

'Reap' 1st Par Picjnto
Music Hall Since 1936

Deal has been made by Radio City
Music Hall. N.Y„ for 'Reap the Wild
Wind,' with Cecil B. DeMille said to
have had a hand in its negotiation.
Picture, being released by Para-
mount and to be sold singly rather
than as part of a block, will go into
the Hall for Easter week starting
April 2. As result, N.Y. Par will
exhibit 'My Favorite Blonde' Easter
week. ' *

Although th^Hall was offered two
Par films last flji; 'Reap' will be the
first bearing- its label to play the
Hall since 1936.

Rep^s Femme Shortage

Hollywood, March 10.

Republic Is hunting a new femme
lead for its cliflhanger, 'The Perils of
Nyoka,' sequel to 'Jungle Girl,' to
take the place of Frances GifEord,
currently under contract at Univer-
sal and not available for loanout

Studio needs .not only a femme
lead but a: femme menace . for the
jungle chapter picture.

Wed., March 11 — 'Sundown .
Jim' and 'Lone Star Ranger'
.(20th), in all exchange cities
except Dallas, Oklahoma City
and Minneapolis (where they
have already been shown).

Thnrs., Abrcb IZ — 'Kid Glove
Killer* (M-G), In Albany, But- .
falo, Charlotte, ClevelandK.^
Dallas, Des Moines, Los An-
geles, Memphis, New Haven,
Oklahoma City, Omaha, Salt
Lake City, San Francisco and
Washington only, having been
shown in all other exchanges
on Tues., March 10 (with the
exception of IndlanapoUs,
where it was shown Wed.,
March 11).

FrI., March IS — 'Rio Rita' and
'Fingers at the Window' (M-
G), in all exchange cities.

Mod., March 16 — 'Bashful
Bachelor' and Tuttles of Ta-
hiti' (RKO), in all exchange
cities.

Taes., March 17 — 'Scattergood
Rides High' and The Mayor of
44th Street' (RKO), in all ex-
change cities.
,Frl., March 20 — "Mokey' (M-
G), In all exchange cities.

ALVIN, Prrr, REOPENS
MARCH 27 AS HARRIS

Pittsburgh, March 10.
Old Alvln' here, which has been
closed since roof caved In more than
16 months ago, win reqpen March' 27
as the John P. Harris, after founder
of chain which operates the house.
Circuit execs felt need of new name,
fearing Alvin would be too closely
associated with roof cave-in, when
100 patrons miraculously escaped' in-
jury or death and despite fact that
theatre has been rebuilt- completely
from top to bottom, and held a con-
test to pick a new tag. Winner re-
ceived $100 in cash and season pass.
" Harris wUI again become ace
downtown house for Harris chain,
with Senator, which has been flay-
ing Alvin's piled-up • product for
nearly year and a half, reverting to
twin-featu re spo t and h.o. theatre for
Harris clicKs.

Joltin' Jawn Jolted

Hollywood, March 10.

John Kimbrough, once an AU-
American footballer and more re-
cently a film buckaroo, settled his
screen contract with 20th-Fox and
went back to Texas. Studio is cut-
ting down the number of westerns
for the new season.

During his short career Kim-
brough was top-billed in two pic-
tures, 'Sundown Jim' and 'Lone Star
Ranger,' being tradeshown this week.

Priorities Crack Dishes as Film
Giveaways But Cosmetics Get 'Em

RKOSeUs'Kane'toN.L
Indies and Doing Well

. RKO is reported reaping a har-
vest throughout New England by
selling 'Citizen Kane' to Independent
houses, establishing them as first-
runs and backing all engagements
with special campaign^ Company is
getting percentage dates on the pic-
ture and accounts playing it, which
are ordinarily subsequent runs, are
increasing their prices.

'Kane' became backed up through
New England as result of failure on
the part of Loew's and Warner Bros,
to buy It following much stalling
after It was first available.

Touching 0£F the Cap

Hollywood, March 10.

Gregory Ratoff exploded the slatt-
ing signal as director of 'Strictly
Dynamite* at 20th-Fox, with Betty
Grable, Victor Mature and John
Payne in ' the leads.

Musjcal picture is being produced
by WllUam Le Baron, with script
by Robert Riley Crutcher.

Milwaukee; March 10.

With wartime priorities increasing
the ^cost of dishes, many of the
smaller theatre operators in this ter-
ritory have been casting about for
some erSatz gi'veaway to take their
place. Women's hosiery was tried
out in several houses, but was given
up because the gals required such a
variety of colors . and sizes that to
satisfy them a regular department
store stock was necessary. Now' a
new femme appeal has been found In
cosmetics.

Beauty aids were first tried out
rather gingerly in a couple houses,
theiii began to cUck and now at least
15 theatres are using them as trade
stimulators. DifiTeirent items are
given to femme adult patrons each
week— lipstick, rouge, powder, lo-
tion, cream, skin freshener, founda-
tion makeup and so on, and do they
go for it!

'There's nothing to the report that
dresses will be next in the line of
giveaways,' said Vincent F, De
Lorenzo, head of the Universal The-
atre Premium. Co., pioneer firm in
this line, which recently expanded
its activities by opening a branch in
Detroit, Mich. 'We'd run into the.
same difficulty as with stockings,
only more so.

'Dishes are still the old standby,
but on account of increased costs
the lower admission houses can't af-

foTd them. They had to have some-
thing less expensive, so hit upon
cosmetics and are doing all right
with 'em. Some of the bigger 'houses,
too, are finding the beauty aids
profitable.

'Quality dishes are now Gic big
thing; no more dime store stuff.
Mothers and grandmothers, having
filled, their ovrti cupboards, build up
dish sets for their daughters and
granddaughter^ so we expect this
business to last as long as girls get
married and set up housekeeping.'

WB's $100,000 National
Ad Drive on 'Kings Row'

Warner Bros, yesterday (Tuesday)
announced that It is launching a
$100,000 national advertising- cam-
paign on 'Kings Row,' currently at
the Astor, N. Y., on pre-release. It
will cover magazines, newspapers
and radio. Magazine space will
cover CoUIers, Liberty, Life, Look,
Woman's Home Companion and Good
Housekeeping, according to Mort
Blumenstock, eastern ad-publicity
chief for the company.

Newspaper coverage is mostly, to
include important dailies reaching
some 85,000,000 readers. Radio cov-
erage will be- via spot announce-
ments. 'Kings Row' goes on general
release April 18.

Interstate and Denver Reshuffle
Theatre Statfs; Key City Briefs

Austin, March 10.
A reshuffling of local Interstate'
Theatre personnel was affected hei^e
last week by Ixiuls No'vy, Interstate
city manager. Bill Heliums tpkes
over duties as manager of the State
with Earl Podolnlck taking over the
Capltot Jeff Wolff named assistant
to Heliums, while Ed Lumpkin wlU
aide- Podolnlck.

J. T. Woods to manage the Par-
amount. 'Gerald Raines steps from
manager of the Texas, nabe, to the
circuit's No. 3 dQwntown house, the
Queen.

Francis has been named new skip-
per of the Texas, while Jimmy Mal-
lory, formerly a chief of service, ha;
been named manager of the Austin.

Many Assts. Into Service

Denver, March 10.
The armed forces are getting a big
percentage of Fox Intermountain
assistant managers. Among those
enlisting are Phil Mullin, Isls and
Aladdin, Denver; Don Smith, Chey-
enne, Wyo.; Don Campbell, North
Platte, Neb.; Eddie Easton, Sidney,
Neb.; Melvin Seton, Longmont, Colo.;
John Phillips, Cheyenne, Wyo.; and
M. B. Fletcher, Larateie, Wyo., who
leaves soon. Virgil Ulrlch, owner of
the Chieftain at Strasburg, Colo.,
has bou^t the Trail at Deertrail,
Colo., from Art Goldstein, who is in
the army, and Harold Kepler, who
is subject to draft call.

C. A. Mulock has been made man-
ager of the Mission at Grand J'unc-
tion, Colo. It's a J. H. Cooper-Para-
mount theatre,

Elwood Voorhees, manager tot
Fox Intermountain theatres In' North
Platte, Neb., reserve officer,' has been
called for duty, and is stationed at
Ft. Warren. Wyo. Re is succeeded
by A. C. . Stalcup of Sidney, Neb.;
Jack Kramer, assistant at Ft. Collins,
Colo., gets the Sidney job and Otto
Bartuscb, assistant at the Fox, Sterl-
ing, goes to .Kramer's post at : Fort
Collins.

Clyde Anderson moved to Denver
to manage the Webber, coming from
the American at Butte, Mont Both
are Fox houses.

Vem Fletcher, Fox Intermountain
Theatre booker, moves from Denver
to similar job at Salt Lake City^
Ned Collins, Delta, Colo., moves into
Denver for the booker spot \

Atlas Theatres has reopened the
SalI3a, Saliva, Colo., closed for some
weeks due to a fire.

The Star at Imperial, Keb., owned
by .R. M. Hough, burned to the
ground. '

Derek Snyder^ National Screen
Service manager, can get ab..<ut on
crutches following several weeks' in
Denver hospital after breaking a hip.

Christie's New Job

Seattle, March 10.

Prank X. Christie, former head
booker for Evergreen and Hamrlck-
Evergreen in Washington and
Oregon, has resigned, and is now
film buyer for the organizations.
He's gone to L. A. on his first buying
trip. His successor as booker has not
been named. He succeeds Al Finke
of Portland, who Is city mgr. loT
Evergreen in the Oregor metropolis.
FInke has been in ill health .and the
double duties have been too onerous.

Jerry Ross, emcee at Palomar
(Sterling), first prexy of the Seattle
branch AGVA has handed in his-
resignation. He's too busy with his
daily chore for the John Danz vaude
house. His successor not yet selected.

Edgar Kelley, assistant to Vic
Gauntlett adv. mgr. for Hamrick-
Evergreen now working at the ship-
yards. Successor unselected.

Al Rosenfield, supt of Sterling
chain, announces Beacon theatre is
undergoing revamping, including new
seats. House closes for week starting
today. This is part of plan to re-
vamp all the naoors controlled here
by Sterling.

L. Si J.'s New Ballyhooer

Spartanburg, S. C„ March 10.

Harold Martin^ former Atlanta
Constltutloh news staffer, has re-
signed to join Lucas &' Jenkins chain.
He will establish and direct new ad-
vertising and promotion department
for Dixie area; where chain oper-
ates; also will continue his Sunday
Constitution column.

H. A. Daniel and partners plan
950-seater at Elgin, Texas.;

Legion theatre, Cartersvllle, Ga.,
$25,000 fire damaged. A. L. Cowart
owner-operator. Expected to re-
build.

.Due to hea'vy snowstorms and 'pos-
sible danger from roof cave-Ins, fire
department closed all Asheville the-
atres for several shows. Houses,per-
n>'tted to reopen after snow melted.

F. A. Greene, owner and manager.
State, Timmonsville, S. C, seriously
injured when ladder fell as he was
directing placing of placard adver-
tismg outside house.
. Clover (S. C.) theatre $2,000 fire
damaged: House cleared minus in-
juries when' flames broke out during
matinee,

Martin &; Thompson's Wellston.
Ga., house, recently remodeled and

reopened, $40,000 fire damaged. Will
be rebuilt

C. J, .Goodwin has awarded con-
tract to rebyild Swan, theatre, Bas-
trop, Xia.; cost $30,000.

Burned Colony, High street, Ports-
mouth, Va, will be rebuilt, Levine
Theatre Corp. announces.

Frank Dmmm Moves Up

Frank L. Drumm,'forpast 12 years
assistant to ilobert ."Wolff, branch
manager of the New York exchange
for RKO, has been appointed assist-
ant to Bob Mochrie, eastern sales-
manager, according to announcement
from Ned E. Depinet RKO v.p. in
charge of sales. Hari?y Gittleson,
editor of 'Flash,' RKO house organ,-
has been appointed assistant to 'wai-
ter Branson, western salesmanager.
Jack Level, handling traae paper
publicity, replaces Gittleson as editor
of 'Flash.'

Stage Mgr. to P. A. Berth

■ Boston, March 10.'
Eddie Belski, formerly of front
house staff of RKO-Boston theatre,
has succeeded James ('Red') King,
stag$ manager of that house, who has
been appointed publicity chief for
RKO theatres, Boston.

- Matthews to 69th St., Phllly

Philadelphia, March '10.
Haddon Matthews, manager of the
Stanley-Warner 69th St, has been
made manager of the Boyd, spot
made vacant by' the death of Harry
Torrante. Ray Myers of Uptown was
moved to 69th St; 'Silvert Setron,
from the Logan to the Uptown, and
Jack Minsky from the Astor to the
Upto'wn.' .

- Candidates for the award of merit
drive among S-W managers were an-
nounced last week. They include: Al
Reh, Stanley; Al Blumberg, Midway;
Marty Anlsman, Cross Keys; Robert
Loving, Earl; H e.r rr a n Comer,
Capitol; Iz Wlernlk, Strand; Ben
Blumberg, Lan; Charles Moyer,
Strand, Hanover; BUI Huffman,
.Warner, Reading, and Birk Binnard,
Lyric, (jamden.

Marty Goldenberg, former man-
ager of the S-W State, now in charge
of William Goldman's 'Band Box in
Germantown.

Bfjah Tsmple'a Besplte

. Reading, Pa, March 10.
Holders of first mortgage cer-
tificates issued by Rajah Temple,
Mystic Shrlners, o-wner of Rajah,
2,200-seater., have agreed to another
five-year extension of a plan by
which they. get 3% interest on their
bonds instead of the 5\4% stipulated,
the plan aiding the theatre o'wners to
get on their feet financially, after
hard sledding during the .depression.
T^e 3% plan has been In effect since
!flS5.

* in* addition to the first mortgage
bonds outstanding, $122,000, a second
mortgage of $300,000 rests on the
property. The theatre is in regular
operation as a film house, with se-
lected dates, throughout the season
for concerts and Junior Ijeague stage
shows.

MoGee Switches Houses
Salt Lake City, March 10.
Lynwood McGee named successor
to William Troxler, manager of
newly renovated Paramount theatre.
McGee, shifted from the State, re-
placed there by G. S. Phillips. Both
the State, and the Paramount are
part of tiie Lawrence chain, with
David K. Edwards as general man-
ager.

Bannon Takes Over In CIncy
Cincinnati, March 10.
Jack Bannon, special home office
representative for Universal, takes
over this week as the distributing
firm's Cincy. manager. He replaces
Harry Young, who temporarily filled
the .post since eight months ago. when
Pete Rbslan stepped Up as district
manager. Young returns to his for-
mer salesman's post in Columbus, O.

Garfield's Newest
Jamestown. N. Y., March 10.
B. M. Garfleia has qpened the New
Garfield theatre in nearby Frewsburg
following the completion of an ex-
tensive building oroeram. Owner,
also a partner In the Randoloh, plans
the erection of two more houses In
Chautauqua county In the near fu-
ture.

WB Reiral First Bon

Pittsburgh, March 10,
Warner.<!. which controls three the-
atres in Wllklnsburg, is reverting to
a former policy whereby the Regal
becomes a first-run house along with,
the Rowland, and the State will
eliminate third-runs ' for second-
runs. Regal, managed bv -Marty
Seed. .>!on of 'WB district sales man-
ager ;Harry Seed, and State are both
upping admissions in the change. '

Ramsey, N. J., House Sold
Ramsey theatre, Ramsey N. J., has
been nurchased bv a corporation
headed bv Joseph Kannon and
Samuel Stiefel. Old owners: Arnold
Amu."!. Corp., headed by Lester
Werther.

Wednesday, March 11, 1942

ADVSRTISEMEMT

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THE

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n.iiL-6.£ii.:6.ritt

Nmws and Gossip About tho Production' and Distribution of tho Bmst Shows In Town I

MUSIC HALL'S EASTER 'REAF

WRAPPED UP IN THEIR WORK

Movie work han It* compeniitloBi, ai thew two •tadlo li«Ip«n (oand dur-
ing fllmlnv of the naw V«raiUc* Lake pictare, ThU Gnn for Bin,' Thero
WHS BO ■Tiimbllnr from thJt pair when ihor xrttro ordered to tie up Vefovlcm
■Bd depoalt her In a cnpbewra. Director Bobert Tattle (top riarht) helnMi.

DEMILLE SUPER
OPENS MAI). 26

New York Premiere Follows
Hollywood Bow by One
Week; Caps Huge 30th
Anniversary Program

TWO NETWORKS
TO SEND OFF
FLEET'

'DE MILLE WEEK' PLANS

Smashing Records Becoming Habit;
2,550 Contracts Inked; 5th 2,000-Wk.

paramount has topped Its phe-
noiniefial January record for num-
ber of feature contracts signed in
a week, according to an announce-
ment made last week by Neil
Agnew, sales chief. During the
week ending Feb. 28, Paramount's
sales force inked 2,550 new con-
tracts; previous one-w«ek high was
2,476.

The week was. the fifth successive
one in which better than 2,000 con-
tracts were signed, Agnew re-
ported. Gains were reflected in ill
parcels offered to date, including
'Louisiana Purchase' and the Hop-
along Cnssidy Westerns.

Wjth Paramount's fifth block
coming up, headed by the Bob
Hope-Madeleine Carroll starrer 'My
Favorite Blonde' and including the
Barbara Stanwyck-Joel McCrea-
Brian Dohlevy epic 'The Great
Man's Lady,' as well as 'This Gun
for Hire' '(Veronica Lake-Robert
Preston), the stampede market can
be expected to continue. The trio
heading the bill of 'Great Man's
Lady' is the same combo marqueed
for last year's smash, 'Union
Pacific'

Pix and People

'Fleet' Tops 'Zanzibar,*
'Truth' in Det. Preem

Weekend business for 'The Fleet's
In' at the Michigan theatre, De-
troit, where it opened Friday,
topped the socko business rung up
by both 'Road to Zanzibar' and
'Nothing But the Truth' in open-
ing weekends there, it was reported
today. All three pictiu-es played
without stage shows.

DAVID LEWIS, who produced
'Kings Row' and 'AU This and
Heaven Too* for WB, joins Para
as associate producer next week.
• ★

BETn BUTTON, as a result of her
hit in 'The Fleet's In,' has been
handed a top role in "Thumbs Up,'
forthcoming musical. She's also
slated for a place in the Mary Mar-
tin starrer, 'Happy Go Lucky.'
★

SIDNET liANFIELD, director of
'The Lady Has Plans' and 'My Fa-
vorite- Blonde,'' has been signed for
another.

'STREET OF CHANCE' has been
announced as new title for the
Burifess Meredith-Claire Trevor
thrilier formerly dubbed "The Black
Curtain.' 'y^
ANN MILLER, whirlwind dancing
star who bowed in in "True to the
Army,' has been given a spot in
'Priorities of 1942,' new musical.
★

COLBERT Si MacMURRAT, teamed
last in 'The Bride Came Home,' will
duo again, in 'No Time for Love,'
forthcoming Mitch Leisen comedy.
★

ROBERT PRESTON, who dons Ma-
rine uniform-for 'Wake Island,* will
stick with the war to head the cast
of 'Sky Over China,' now in prep-
aration.

CHESTER CONKLIN, old-time
screen comic, has been added to the
cast of 'Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage
Patch.' Fay Bainter title roles. .

Full speed ahead on plans for *De-
Mille Week,* both in Hollywood and
New York was the order of the day
at Paramount today, following Joint
announcement by Charles M. Reagan,
Para assistant sales manager, and
Gus Eyssel, managing director of the '
Radio City Music Hall, that Cecjl B.
D€MiUe*s Technicolor 'Reap the Wild
Wind' would be the Easter Week
show for that showplace theatre.

'Reap' will open at the Music Hall
March 26, a week ahead of its pre-,
viously scheduled New York open-
ing. The New York bow comes one-
week after the Hollywood World
Premiere of the picture. A third gala
opening has been set for Charleston,
setting of many 'Reap the Wild
Wind' scenes, for April 19.

Board of directors of the AMPA
has set up an executive committee
to .line up details for the special De-
Mille luncheon which this body will
sponsor at the Waldorf Astoria to
honor the master showman during
his New York visit. Luncheon date
has been set for March 26.

Meanwhile, from the West Coast
additional plans for the huge 'De-
Mille Week' observance preceding
the opening have ' been reported.
Some twtoty blocks of Hollywood
Boulevard will be bannered and will
present special window displays
marking DeMille's thirtieth anni-
versary as a showman and Para-
mount's thirtieth anniversary in the
industry.

Foreign press correspondents of
Hollywood tendered DeMille a lunch-
eon at the Brown Derby last week.
Forty-five representatives from Eng-
land, South America and Europe
were in attendance, with William
Mooring of London, foreign press
dean, presiding.

Yesterday saw the greatest re-
union of old-time screen stars in the
history of Hollywood, when current
and former screen 'greats' gathered
for the Paramount-Cecil B. DeMille
Thirtieth Anniversary Luncheon in
the studio's historic gymnasiun^
building. The building was for-
merly the barn where DeMille filmed
'The Squaw Man'; it was ^his bam-
studio which establish^ i Hollywood
as the world's fi'.m center.

Stars of 'Reap the Wild Wind,' in-
cluding Ray Milland, Paulette God
dard, John Wayne, Susan Hayward,
Raymond Massey and Robert Pres-
ton, acted as hosts to the visiting
old-time stars. Bob Hope was mas-
ter of ceremonies.

'Reap the Wild Wind' will be trade-
shown March 18 in New York, Los
Angeles and Charlotte, Neil Agnew
has announced. These, showings will
mark the industry's first look at the
picture columnists have called 'De-
Mille's greatest,' and that Paramount
has designated as its thirtieth anni-
versary film.

Paramount will take two na-
tional networks to give' Its . new
fun-and-frolic musical 'The Fleet's
In' a national radio sendoU, It was
decided first of this week.

The company will gr on'the Blue
Network March 20, hitting 92 sta-
tions with a program featuring the
music of Jimmy Dorsey and his
vocalists, Dorsey ''will devote the
full show-^10 to 10:15 p.m., Eastern
War Time — ^to the seven hit tunes
of the picture.

Mutual Network will get a
second show the following Friday
night, reaching 75 stations coast-to-
coast with B show headlining
Dorothy Lamour, star of the pic-
ture, and other principals. Show is
scheduled for 9:45 to 10 p.m. or
immediately following, the Iiouis-
Simon fight. It is expected to draw
a heavy listening aud ence.

Paramount has paved the way, at
an added cost, for exhibitors to cut
into both shows with their own-
day,' date and theatre announce-
ments, where bookings have been
set in time.

'The Fleet's In' opens today for
its first. booking anywhere at the
New York Paramount. Thfe film
is considered a real jiatural for this
theatre, where Jimmy Dorsey's
band is sure to get a big hand, and
where Gil Lamb and Cass Daley,
who have important comic roles,
are old favorites with the stage
fans.

Paramoimt is rounding out its
radio exploitation of 'The Fleet's
In' by setting Dorsey platter shows
on record-playing stations wherever
possible; field men are planting the
platters.

Popularity of th* I^orsey band
and of the picture's tunes, among
them 'Tangerine,' 'Arthiu: Murray
Taught Me Dancing In a Hurry,'
and 'Not Mine,' are making this -a
not-too-hard ' sissignment,

'The Fleet's In* stars Lamour,
William Holden and Eddie Bracken.
Headers in the cast that follows are
Leif Erickson; Betty Jane Rhodes;
Betty Hutton; Daley and Lamb;
liOrrainc and Rognan; Dorsey's
vocalists Bob Eberly and Helen
O'Connell, and others.

GRAND LARCENY

latiqdaelav Fenr tb* Peanla, tha ,
onir fllm player kaowa <• have me-
ceeded In ■Trallaa a eceae from
Bob Hope. r«rer ^ea It la 'Mr
FaTorlta BIea4e,' Bepa't beat b'b4

PAR ORDERS SIX MORE
FROM PINE & THOMAS

' Paramount has signed a new pro-
ducing deal with BUI Phie and Bill
Thomas, calling for . ;!ii more of
their action films . during the year
beginning August 1, First fllm un-
der the new deal will bi 'Hell Driv-
ers,' an original screen fltory by
Maxwell Shane, Richard Arlen and
Jean Parker will probably- co-star,
The Pine-Xhomas combo has been
making history since its inception
a -year ago. i^tarting 6B with
'Power Dive,' 'Flying Blind,' and
'Forced Landing,' and continuing
with. 'Torpedo Boat'. and the forth-
coming 'Wildcat' and 'I Live on
Danger,' the pair have shown show-
men's flair for turning out thrill-
heavy action dramas. They hav«
consistently led their production'
classification in B,0. retiurns.

Hope to 'Face If

Bob Hope has been definitely ^et
to take the lead role in Paramount'*
screen version of the Broadway
musical comedy hit, 'Let's Face It,"
purchased rec'etitly. Picture will
roll immediately following 'jEtoad
to Morocco,' currently fUming
Hppe-Crosby-Lamour starrer. Her-
bert and Dorothy Fields will script.

'They've been put here all night; don't yon think we
.pught to tell 'em it's a movie title?'

/ 1«

■ Bt. tUttlafm rUtm, TlrmlMteM 8q— w

DOBBlUnOiUIi

tell n-opaganda Mimstry
Sets Up a Coordinated Film Org
Wliidi Lowell Mdlett May Copy

Ideas Committee,' consisting of
xeps of the Ministry of Information's
Films Division, screenwriters and
directors, has been ijecelitly set ut>
in England to bring forth ideas for
future propaganda pictures. Plans
•worked out may be used either by
the Government itself for Its shorts
end stiecial features or be handed to
xegular producers for commercial
release.

'Ideas Committee' is the final step
in a well-coordinated and highly-
efficient setup, the Films Division of
the M. of I., that Britain has evolved
through 2V4 years of war for dealing
with the industry and -making its
own pictures. It's an organization
that Lowell Mellett's Office of Gov-
ernment Film Coordinator in Wash-
ington has been eyeing as a pattern.
It's much more integrated than any
setup in the United States and one
that MeUetfs outfit will likely re-
semble in later stages. Earlier in
the war in England, as here now,'
there were a number of U. S. agen-
cies making films and dealing with
the industry.

Aside from being the Government
contact point with the BriUsh ver-
sion ot Hollywood, M. of I. Films
office .has five jobs:
' 1. . Production, for all Government
departments of plx to be released
. through regular film houses. Films
Division itself produces ■ aeven-
minute short each week that Is
shown in virtually eveij theatre in
the countzx, although there's no
__f0inpulsion on exhihs. Some of these
are made on contract by commercial
producers. These are provided free
to theatres, which axe divided into
peven' classifications of abont 700
Louses each, according to-' size and
typt. ■ First week, 700 houses in 'A'
^lass plajr the plc^ second- week the
prints go to "B' class, etc In addi-
tion to tlie briefles, 11 of L has also
made some features, such, as Target
for TonigW and 'Wavell's 30,000,'
which ar^ rjeleased ttirough the Kine-
matograph Renters Society <roughIy
equivalent to the Motion Picture
Producers and Distributors Associa-
tion here) at regular rentals.

2. M. of L Films setup produces
and shows nbn-theatrlc^ films
through its own -country-wide organ-
ization. Thesie pix deal with. special-
ized subjects and background of
campaigns. Among methods of ex-

' bibltlon are 100 mbbile tmits, so they
. can reach audiences untouched by
I regular cinemas, as well as special-
I Ized groups. They show a women's
" club, for instance, a program on war-
time cookery, household salvage and
child weUare, or another show deal-
ing with incendiary bombs, flrefight-
Ing and first aid. They gave 30,000
shows, reaching 5,000,000 people, in
1941.

Th^e plx are also available to
organizations through a central film
library and, in addition, are ex-
hibited in regular theatres hired for
special morning or other off-hour
iiiows by the M. ot I.

Afl IiBoriuees

3. Films Division takes all suit-
able films it makes and prepares
foreign-language editions. An aver-
age of 160 reels is going out each
week to 50 territories, by bomber,
airmail and ships, in Arabic, French,
Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Per-
sian and Dutch. Colonial Film Unit
has already produced 11 of a special
type of pic for. lllitei^te African na-
tives. These are simple' in narrative
and minus all camera tricks. They
are silent, with a commentary pro-
vided which local interpreters
translate into the dialect of tlie dls-
tiict.

4. Film."; Division acts a liaison
between M. of L and newsi'eel com-
panies. It' is fiilly cognizant that
reels offer widest and quickest cov
erage of the. country atid have the
organization for distribution of pix
requiring immediate nationwide cir-
culation. When the govermnent has'
a short message to get over In a
hurry it tacks a one or two-minute
trailer to the regular newsreel ib
leases. Censorship is speeded up
through weekly meetings of the
Films Division Newsreel Conmiittee,
newsreels. War Office, Admiralty.
Air Ministry and other ministries.

Another Films office subdivision,
War News Film Committee, also
meets weekly to coordinate move-
^ ment of newsreel lensers. Camera

assignments are rotated among reels
and product pooled.

5. M. of I. Films Division cooper-
ates with producers of features to
assist them with pix likely to aid
the war effort As soon as war broke
out, studios naturally tended toward
subjects dealing with the war or
with war backgrounds. M. of I.
Films office became the clearing
house for requests to shoot in' re-
stricted areas and approves such re-
quests only when satisfied that the
script is of definite propaganda
value.

Script department also advises on
scripts of features to obviate later
revision? made necessary by censor-
ship. It is also in connection wiOi
this 'aid to producers' section of the
Films Division that the 'Ideas Com-
mittee' has been set up. It is hoped
that the 'Ideas Committee' will pro-
vide a valuable liaison between the
creative side of the hidustry and the
M. of L

Harmon's Huddle

ROSE HARLEY,
KANE RETURN
TOENGLAND

David Bose, rranols L. Barley sni
Robert T. Xana Alpparcd for Eng-
land last week from New "Vork.
Harley is managliif director and
Ease is production ehief for SOth-
Fox In Great Britain, -wbll* Rose is
managing director for Faiampunt
there. Return of Kane indicates tliat
20th-Fox win continue (jaota film-
making on an extensive scale in Eng-
land. All three had been In the
U. S. since early ' December for
homeoffice and studio parleys.

Rose indicated before-he-left that
he hoped to get three quota fea-
tures made for Far in London dur-
ing the current season, but that only
'Channel Port' IS certain. He would
not confine the Paramount quota
film lineup to 'any number but said
that he would produce as many as
physically possible. 'Cliannel Port,'
like "Hatter's Castle,' already finished
in England and now on release,
originally was scheduled for Holly-
wood production, but was- switched
to Britain to fill out quota produc-
tion sked. 'Porf is about the Com-
mandos:

M-G Joins WB, 20th .
In Cnban Exbib Peace;
UA Only Co. Oat

Francis Harmon, executive
vice-chairman of the War Ac-
tivities Committee, huddled with
. Lowell Mellett, Government
. Film Coordinator, In Washing-
ton last week on type of short
subjects to be made for the Gov-
ernment

While in the capital Harmon
also completed details for dis-
tribution of 16 mm. reproduc-
tions of 20 current productions
for showing to men in (he armed
forces in combat areas.

-Havana,: March 10.

It's practically all over here but
the shouting in the major distribs
vs. circuit 6xhibs fracas. Metro last
week signed with Smith-'Valcarce
after several months' tug-of-war,
following on the heels . of Warners
and 20th-Fox deals which were
signed two weeks ago. Only outfit
remaining out is United Artists.

Feverish activity is noted in ex-
hibitor circles now that Metro has
finally made a deal with the circuit
Everybody is at last able to book a
large number of pictures which lay
in the vaults of the majors awaiting
first-ru]> arrangements.

First films to be shown by Metro,
Fox and Wameas will be, respective-
ly, 'Blossoms in the Dust,' 'A "yank
In the RAF'— aiming this week at
the America— and 'Footsteps in the
Dark,' according to reports from the
circuit

Anti-Nazi Pix Seen

Set for Brazfl Okay

Approval of Warners' 'Confessions
of a Nazi Spy' for exhibition In
Brazil paves the way for other anti-
Nazi pictures being okayed for that
country.

It Is the first U. S. picture with an
anti-Axis theme to be accepted In
Brazil since that country became
officitilly anti-Axis,

Toxes/ Fme $3,600,
Tantasia' Off at 4G,
^Eve' Fair 3^G, HaTana

Havana, March 10.
. Three top attractions did good
business here last week, although
the only one to merit the term 'out-
standing' was the gross garnered by
'LitUe Foxes' (RKO) at the Fausto.
The picture was pre-releas6d at the
America a few weeks ago to average
business, but went over expectations
in the Fausto showing, doing $3,600
for the week, excellent for the house.

^Fantasiai (RKO) was a disap-
pointment at the Encanto. At BOc ad-
mission, twice a day. the Disney
opus was figured to take in consid-
erably more than the $4,000 it finally
got. Conceded to be an artistic tri-
umph, film got unusual attention
from critics, but questionable han-
dling of publicity didn't help it' any.
Now playing a second week but do-
ing poor business.

At the America, The Lady Eve'
CPar) did a fairish $3,500 In a pre-
release engagement, one week, lec-
ture was given a good sehdofl with
special exploitation stunts. Gross,
fell below expectations.

lIoiMy Can Boy* Nice
$4,100 ia Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, March S.
. Slight Improvement at the- bmi,-
oflice here this week as a result of
letup in the . weather but summer
heat is still giving them doldrums at
the pfcture windows.

'All That Money Can Buy" (RKO)
did a nice 21,000 pesos ' (approxi-
mately $4,100 TJ. S.), best draw of
the week. .

Other estimates, all given in. Ar-
gentine pesos, currentlv at about 24c.
V. S., /olloto;

Ambassador (Lautaret and Ca-
vallo) (1,400; 2.50 and 2.00 pesos)-;
'Swing Your Lady' (WB). Weak
4,000 pesos. Last week, 'International
Squadron' slightly better 5,000 pesos.

Meal (Lococo) (970r3.00 and 250)
—'Appointment for Love' (U). Still
doing nlf:ely in the fourth week with
10,000 pesos. Third week drew
12,000.

Bex (Cordero, Caballo and Lauta-
ret) (3,305; 2.50 and 2.00)— 'Men In
Her Life' (Col). Fairish 17,000 pesos
for the second week after a nice
28,000 the first stanza. First Co-
lumbia pic to g ointo this house after
year of exclusive Metro.

Normandie (Lococo) (1,400; 2.00
and 1.5,0— 'Tom, Didk and Harry'
(RKO). Nice 11,000 on the first week
of the second run and should .go
awhile.

Honumental (Coll, Gatti and Cla.)
(1,300; 2.00 and 1.50)— 'Asi Ti Quiero'
(Andes Argentine-Made; Pan-Ameri-
can Distributed); About 5,000 pesos
for this indie, national.

Opera (Lococo) (2,400; 2.50 and
2.00)— 'AIL That Money Can Buy'
(RKO); 21,000 pesos. ' •

■ Broadway (Lautaret and Cavallo)
(1,863; 2.50 and 2.00). No films be-
cause of Carnival dances.

Salpaeha (Lococo) (950; 3.00 and
*.-0)— 'Suspicion' (RKO). In all
6,900 pesos on Its fifth-final week.
Last week did 8,000.

Pollock Back in London
After French Interning

London, Feb.' IS.

Jack Pollock, who used to look
after American acts in France, . is
back in London after 17 months lb
a French concentration camp.

He reports tliat among show people
confined there are Julius Marx, for-
mer Scala,. Berlin director; Jacques
Halk, wHo used to own the Rex
and Olympia theatres, Paris; Maude
Williams and the entire English
troupe of dancers from the Casino
de Paris. .

Need Bitter War Films

sCbntlnaed from pace la

awake to the menace of Fascism^
The ugliest fact of all is that we- are
at tills moment actually losing the
war, with the possible exception of
Russia, because we were not awak-
ened earlier

Many Institutions which shape or
control public opinion may be re-
sponsible, 'buf -I am concerned in
this writing only with the most ef-
fective of the chaiinels of communi-
cation, the motion picture. Radio
and the press have done good jobs,
but the htmian consclousn^s Is not
so much influenced by what it hears
or reads as by what it sees in pic-
torial images which have been dra-
matized. One 'movie like 'One Foot
in Heaven' can induce more people
to attend church than all the ser-
mons in the Monday morning pa-
pers, The power of the screen
places a responsibility upon the
studio heads which they m\ist dis-
charge with taste and intelligence
and foresight

Bespansible far Morale

To some large measure they are
responsible for morale.

Credit must be given for the few
pioneer anti-Nazi motion pictures
of the pre-war days, but how can
we praise the anti-Nazi film of to-
day which In effect diminishes the
menace and discounts the nature
of the- Nazis?

This question troiAles the highly
placed executives In - Washington
with whom I have spoken. It
ti'oubles the. intelligent moTle-goez.
It disturbs more civilian defense
workers than, we realize. It con-
cerns all of us.

As a script -writer '.who has
worked In Hollywood I can under-
stand how these misinterpretations
originate, but as one who is honored
to be associated wltli this 20th cen-
tury art form as a Professiir of
Motion Pictures I' can not. excuse
them. NeHber^ for that matter,
would t)ie intelllgait prodttcer want
to excuse'thoh. I walked'tiut on a
script-writing career In Hollywood,
even' l>efore my first script based, on
my flrst'hook was screened, to study
Jn -Europe the nature of the Hitler
menace. We all know today what
th'at plague means and how it
spreads. We know that the Nazis
are not Keystone Kops. This war
is no Mack Sennett chase. So why.
make it one on ceOuloidT

The basic error, I believe. Is In
using the wap it rHig^Hm i Ti n ^p^y as a
background for all types of films.
The motion picture has' attempted to
be topical since the early days vrtien
Dartyl Zanuek . 'was brilliantly is-
suing gangster films almost in com-
petition to the headlines. Catastro-
phies may b^" surefire backgrouiid,
but the Interest is )ilstorlcal In - the
case of the Chicago fire' '6i the
Frisco -earthquake; pictorial in the
case of a South Sea typhoon or hur-
ricane. The Gestapo do not so easily
lend themselves' to that type of hack-
ground, because the menace is real
aiid 'can strike any hour. ■ We- can
ridicule Hitler as a symbol, . and
thereby prove that we are not afraid
of what be. stands for, but we must
give the Gestapo the respect that we
would give a rattlesnake.

The 'Damb' Gestapo

- In one current-example-we ha'^e'
a troupe of poor players who strut
their brief hour on the Warsaw stage
and are heard again behind whisk*
ers and stage uniforms as master
minds who outwit the [supposedly]
'dumb' Gestapo. A ham Hitler who
Isn't even convincing to his stage
producer Is able, however, to fool
Hitler's personal guard. Such pre-
posterous scenes, and there a;e mqny
in the film, jar violently with the
bits of excellent comedy. There is
a need and a place for comedy, but
bombed and devastated Warsaw is
not the place. To see a comedy di-
rector traipsing over the corpse of
Warsaw is a touctf Indeed! Inasmuch
as the film is presented as comedy
the Nazi sequences are doubly in-
sidious; the Gestapo chief becomes
no more harmful than Ford Sterling,
the Keystone heavy. One expects
to see bullets explode about the
dancing feet of our hero. We are
assured that false hair and makeup
will win the war. Dr. Goebbels and
his staff, working day and night to
distract us from a total war effort
could not hope for a better idea.

In the past few weeks Americans
•everywhere have been shocked by
the cost<! of our complacency. Ihe
Normandie was demolished, either
through negleqt.or sabotage or both,
at a time when a simple barmaid
was outwitting on celluloid the best
brains of the Gestapo in Paris. Ger-

man battleships were able to slip'
half-way up the English channel
without being detected at a time
when an Oxford archaeologist 'witli
the aid of whiskers and a pair ot
marbles in his cheeks could -walk
into the Gestapo -headquarters in
Berlin and run them around like
sheep. Pearl Harbor had been
caught napping and Singapore col-
lapsed from over-confidence — but
fear not: a Parisian piano player or
a Broadway Runyonlte or a Wash-.
Ington stenographer can outwit the
Gestapo any day. One Boy Scout
is 'equal to 'a corps ot the Elite
Guard.

Dbaitrons Complaoenoy-

Hasn't this complacency already .
proven disastrous? We cannot af-
ford to be smug and superior in the
face of an enemy who capitalizes on
our lack of alertness.

The remedy is really simple. It Is
a question of taste. Slapstick be-
longs in the backyard where It has
always been. Keep comedy out of
the concentration camp. It never
was there.

No doubt some legitimate need for
'escape' entertainment exists but
blood and^ wine do not mix. We can
make plenty of satirical fun out of
the would-be Hftlers' in our midst,
the . nightshirt leaders, the peacock
uniform nuts, the monkey-'wrench
Congressman. Pelley. the profes-
sional anti-Semite, 'would be terrific
in Technicolor. We can laugh at
those fakers, and thereby prevent
anybody from taking them seriously.

But when it comes to the real stuff
we can take • tip from the English
film. The Invaders.' In spite of its
episodic character, the result of fus-
ing Canadian documentary back-
grounds with English studio takes,
here the Nazi Ideology is In dramatic
conflict with our democratic 'way of
hit, There la an ironic overtone in
this story wherein flv« and less Nazis
make 11,000,000 Canadians look like
sleeping beauties by Toaming free
and easy from. Hudson Bay to Banff
and back to Niagara before they are
oaui^t or shol

WUskers Wlanlnf the War

But before Dunkirk the British
movies -were also -winning tiicf -war
with whiskers. An amateur cricket
player could outbat a professional
terrorist ■ It appears; however, that
Pearl Harbor as ■ psychological Dim-
kirk has proven a dud. For a long
time 'we called this a phoney war;
too many stOl tiilnk it remote enough
to be taken as a qtorts contest lliey
hope MacArthur wHl make a touch-
down.

We are told that the London stage
Is alive with i^rama related realistic-
ally to the war. Including .satires
against complacency. The people
.there no longer 'want to be fooled by
politicians or playwrights. I sincere-
ly believe that the same attitude is
potential here. We Americans don't
want to be fooled by Keystone Kops.
Half-truths are not enough when our
lives are at stake. The truth may be
shocking, but we're a nation that can
take it

There is talent and technique and
taste in Hollywood; the military
films produced on a cost basis are
evidence that abilities cin be used
effectively. Let tlie same intelligence
apply, to the entertalnment lHm.- In-
the final analysis topical backgrounds
by themselves mean nothing; badly
produced war films make no money.

There are countless untold dramas
in the Uves of our tivlliah defense
workers, air raid wardens, factory
hands. Our -very lethargy is a drama
a^waiting treatment For meloifcama
let the G-2 or Naval Intelligence out-
wit the Gestapo, or vice-vfirsa. Why
not a surprise scene wherein the
cocky amatetir has his whiskers
Jerked off and Is given the spanking
of his life?

Bla<;k, Arnold Lease
Wales Theatre, London

London, Feb. 16.
George Black, In conjunction witii
Tom Arnold; has leased the Prhice
of Wales theatre from Charles Clore
and Alfred Esdalle, where he in-
tends to stage his O'wn and Arnold's
musicals. Phrst .!■ to he Arnold's
radio feature, 'Happldrome.' Under-
stood rental is to be $40,000 per an-
num.

Deal has caused Esdalle to comb
West End for another house in
which to stage his continuous revue
policy, and It's understood he Is
dickering with A. K Abrahams for
the London Pavilion, which is leased
by United Artists, with eight more
years to go. -

Wednesday, Mai^ch 11, 1942

IT

-for iH first opening, at *•
Miehigan Theatre, DeUoit.

Top* "Road to
ona-'NothingButtheTrutK I

from all audienees-they roared
at the big lineup of entertam-

er.| they «lapi»e«> P'«"*y t
Jimmy Dor*ey'» wild tendmgl

of the show was Bwibshell Betty
Hutton, who brought down tho
house with "Arthur Hflurroy Taught
Dancing in a Hurry" and other
numbers among theseven h.ttunesi

eooie

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■I;

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IS PICTUnBS

Wednesday, March 11, .1942

Inside Stuff-Pictures

Hollywood cowpokes, who have spent much of their time driving their
■Ution wagons over smaU town theatre circuits, are out of gas, literally
and figuratively. Restrictions on rubber slowed down the touring bucka-
roos and -now the threatened rationing of gasoline puts the riders right
back in their saddles. They can't gallop around the country on horseback
and the train schedules in these warlike days prohibit nightly jumps be-
tween Unk towns. Public buses are also curtailed by mllitery regula-
tions and overcrowded by passengers who have given up their motorcars.
Chartered buses are practically non-existent except for the use of workers
in munitions plants. The touring cowboy will have to use his horse or
walk.

Shortages in auto liies and in hunting and fishing equipment are caus-
ing sports magazine publishers to turn to motion pictures for news and
entertainment features. In a letter to 20th-iFox, publishers of Hunting
and Fishing and the National Sportsman, have asked the studio to keep
the magazines informed about future films of particular interest to men
whose hobbies are hunting, fishing, sporting dogs, camping and yachting.
The letter predicted a curtailment of long-distant sporting trips and
added, 'we believe this will mean an upswing in film attendance among
our more than a half-million readers, especiaUy to pictures having an all-
man or outdoor appeal.'

Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Hearst sheet, followed the usual San Simeon
line when 'Citizen Kane' finally opened in that -city last week after WB-
ioew pool, which had picture under commitments, agreed to release it
after delay of several months, whereupon Orson Welles" cllpk was imme-
diately picked up by Fulton, a Shea house. Paper accepted only small
ads from Fulton but didn't 'mention name of film. Copy read: 'I^atest
newsreel shots of war, cartoon comedy and feature presentation.' Money
for layouts Sun-Tele turned down was divided .evenly between Pitts-
burgh's two other sheets, Post-Gazette and Press.

The two picture houses in Reykjavik, capital of Iceland and • base for
American soldiers, sailors and marines, show two-year-old motion pictures,
so Phil Ault, United Press correspondent, wrote his cousin, a director of
Girl Scouts in Albany. Ault suggested that the Girl Scouts and others
send phonograph records of dance tunes, inasmuch as 'the boys in some
of the small camps get tired of playing the same old platters over and
over.' Pulp-story magazines would be welcome, altliough marty of the
American service 'men, explained Ault, have subscriptions to the gppular
U. S. weeklies.

Paramount is tangled with wartime difficulties in the filming of 'Forest
Rangers,' much of which will be shot near Santa Cruz, 'Cal. Company
will move to location by rail because of the rubber shortage. Due to the
same condition, the rental of trucks and autos for short hauls in the
vicinity are high. In addition, Santa Cruz is within the 300-mile limit,
which means that the studio must, send its own extras, many of whom
are- members of the California State Guard and can't leave the Hollywood
district without official permission. Location trip may be the last big
out-of-town jaunt for a long time.

Metro's film version of *I Married An Angel,' hit Broadway legiter of
several years ago, -was sent back to the studio lor repairs last week after
a print arrived in New York and was viewed by distribution executives^
They refused to allow the tradeshowings scheduled for this- week.

Studio, it is understood, will try to avoid major changes and improve
the film merely by re-editing. Final sequence' may also be resliot. Pic-
ture was produced by Hunt Stromberg and directed by Roy Del Ruth.
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are starred.

Realistic monstrosities of modem war have caused RKO to shelve
•Gwangi,' • high-budget mechanical spectacle dealing with prehistoric
monsters. Only ■ few human actors wcr« required by tha script yrtalch
dealt chiefly with wars of dinos^urt, broatoiaurs, ichthyosauri, and other
roughnecks of the antediluvian era. Special effects, built thus far, have
been laid away in mothballs to await a more peaceful txme.

Paramount got a lucky break in sending cameramen up in planes to
shoot background footage for 'Forest Rangers' among the wooded moun-
tains of Oregon and Washington. Since tilien tha Government has grounded
civilian planes in those' areas. It will be impossible to film scenes like
that for the duration.

Letters from the Treasury Dept, Washington, signed by Henry Morgen-
thau, Jr., have been sent to all exhibitors, urging them to show the Donald
Duck short, 'The New Spirit,' produced by Walt Disney as a contribution
to the war effort.

Tele's Pundtured Romance

:ContlnneiI from pace 3;

Blackout Order

Continued from pace

the theatres, at no charge, and will
be able lo sec' the regular show.

The first aid will be for any per-
.son who may require it, whether a
patron or if Injured on the streets.
The theatres are cooperating closely
with police and fire departments.
Would Assure Coordination

The purpose of the defense bureau
is lo assure concrete, definite and
positive coordination between the
hundreds of motion picture theatres,
legit houses, auditoriums, ballrooms
and other places of Indoor amuse-
ment' throughout the Seattle area,
for the duration of the emergency.
The Bureau shall act as a clearing
hoiise for orders, bulletins and other
information which the defensa com-
mi.<^ion or- the armed forces might
wish to dispatch immedlatefy to all
theatres. Instructions will also be
.<:sued by the bureau as to procedure
in blackouts and other emergencies.

Clarence R. Jnnis, attorney, heads
the Bureau. J. M. Hone, secretary of
Northwest Allied .Theatres Assn., is
alternate director. The council rep-
resenting theatres consists of- bill
Hamrick, of Hamrick - Evergreen
Tbeatres; Le Roy Johnson, of Jen-
sen-von Herberg, Joe Rosenfleld,
Sterling Chain; Guy F. Navarra,
nabers; Niel Walton, film dlstrlbs;
Hugh .Becket,. legit; .Ted Harris,
ballrooms; Lawis Vitalichj bowling
alleys, and Basil 'Gray," union labor.

The council has. In turn, appointed
various working committees, to deal
with publicity, communications, in-
terior auxiliary lighting, flra drills
in theatres and 'everything* that
might arise In an actual air raid.

The Municipal Defense Commis-
sion has highly pi'aised the theatres
for their constructive and liberal
plans to tie into the city- wide plan.

The local action is "taken as a
model and as soon as fully perfected,
steps will be taken to extend It
throughout the state of Washington.

think Chairman Fly thinks about
them.

NBC and CBS consider it unfair
to' have to pay out large sums of
.money on television staff and pro-
grams simply because . they are
pioneer licensees while other, later,
tardier licensees simply stall for
better times.

There are two notions concerning
television. One ^at it is a natural
for post-war expansion. Therefor
skeleton operations should go on in
order'to have an accumulated know-
how. Since' they expect to be the
principal beneficiaries- and leaders
NBC and CBS, under this view of
affairs, must carry the load or risk
cancellation of their licenses. The
other view about television is that
its tying up engineering talent that
would be more useful to the war
effort elsewhere. Moreover lack of
materials because of priorities rules
out any substantial experimental
advances for the. duration. It's bet-
ter sense, by this view, to, put tele-
vlsiofi in cold storage and start fresh
later.

Air Bald Instructions '

' Networks do see that some possible
wartime uses of television might be
possible, as NBC's tentative sight-
casting of instructions to air raid
wardens In New York. But tliese
are minor and blurred reasons for a

costly total operation forced by FCC
regulation to a minimum of 15 liours
of programming weekly. Essentially
the webs sum up their complaint in
the predicament of having to carry,
in order not- to lose out on their mil-
lions of investment, a .load which
other licensees can avoid even while
anticipating and assured equal bene-
Jlts later on.

Estimates of television operations
are anybody's guess. In one recent
year ^BC's outlay was. Estimated
arotjrfd $750,00(K. This might be high
now but probably both NBC and
CBS jointly spend $1,000,000 an
nOally at present calculations.

Phllco Tele Staff Shifts

Philadelphia, March 10.

Paul Knight, production npanager
of- WPTZ, Philco's television - sta'
tion, has been upped to program di'
rector, succeeding Ted Herr. Clar^
ence 'Thoman, formerly In charge of
remotes, now is production man'
ager. , . -

Other changes in the WPTZ per
sorihel: Robert Johnson, scenic de
signer to assist Thoman, and Wil
Uam Smith, formerly with the Ger^
mantown Theatre. Guild, as another
scenic designer.

This is the second reshuffling
the station's setup in the past two
months.

Cueing an Air Raid

Cohoes, N. Y„ March 10.

Arriuigements , have been made
with the management of Fabian's
new Cohoes theatre to flash a red
light on the screen, to notify air raid
wardens and volunteer firemen and
policemen, in the audience, to report
for emergency duty.

Local defense officials worked out
the plan with manager George Seed.

FILM BOOKING CHART

(For In/ortnatlon 0/ theatre ond fXm txchange bookers Varibty preseiiu
a complete- chart of feature releases of all the American distributing com.
ponies for the current quarterly period. Date of reviews as given in

Variety .and the fanning time of prints are included.)
Key to Type Abbreviations: M— Melodrama; C— Comedy; CD — Comedy
Drama: W — Western; D— Drama; RD — Romantic Drama; MU— Musical
Ficnires heretoith indicate date of 'Variett's review and running time.

WEEK OF RELEASE— 1/16/I1!

West of Torabitona (CoD W

Mr. and Mrs. Noitb (M-G) I2<1T C W

Private Snnffy Smith 2/2S C ST

Pardon My Stripes (Bep) C 67

Man From CtaayCBBC (Rep) 1/28 . - W M

Date With The Falcon (RKO) U/12 M ■ S3

OenUeman at Heart (2Mh) .1/7 D «7

Paris CalUns (U) 12/1* D 93

Shangal Gestore (UA) 12/24 . - O VI

C, Stanct-R. HaydoB

G. Allen- W. Poit

E, Keanedy-B. Duacan

H. Heniy-S. Ryaa
R, Roccn-B. Hayei
G, Sanden-W. Barrfe
C. 'Romero>C. landii
B. Scott-E. Berener
G. Tl«iaey-W. UosIob

WEEK OF RELEASE 1/23/42

Cadets on Parade (Col)

Man From' Headquarters (Mono)

Dcslcii (or Scandal (M-G) 11/12

SalUvan's Traveli (Par) 12/10

Woman of the Year (M-G) 1/M

Cowboy Serenade (Rep)

Four Jacks and a ilU (RKO) 11/U

RUht to the Heart (2«th) 1/14

North of the Kloadllie (U)

Mas Who Caraa to Dlnaer (WB) 1/7

M
D

CD
CD
C
W
C
. D
M

a

a

M

m

M
«7

71

F, Bartholomew'V. Lydon

F. Albertion-J. Woodbary
R, Russell-W. Pldgeoa

J. McCrea-V. iJtke
8. Tracy-K. Hepbnrn

G. Antoy-S. Bumetta
R. Bolser-A. Shirley
B, Joyce-C. WUde

B. Crawford-L. jChancy
B. Davls-M. Wooley'

WEEK OF RELEASE— 1/3«/42

A Cloia Call (or EUery Queen (Col) 3/11 H

Balow the Border (Mono) 2/25 W -

Tank Ob tha Baima Road (M-G) 1/14 RD

OkUflBf Tanac Lady (RKO) 11/1 D

■oB at rotr (iath) 1/7 D

Tzeat 1m Bonih (D) 1/14 C

TwiB Bad* (UA) C

Wild BtU HIekock RIdci (WB) 2/11 W

■S W. Oarcaa-M. Lladsay

M B. JoBei-T. McCoy

S9 L. Day-B. NelioB

M V. GarroU-B. O'Brlea

W T. Fower-O, lieraey

74 E. Albert

G. Brcat-J. Bannett

■t G. Beaaett-B. Cabot

WEEK OB RELEASE— 2/6/42

Dr. Kildara'j Victory (M-G) 12/3 D K
Law of the Joacla (Mono)

TaUay af tha Sua (RKO) 1/14 D 79

Tenax America (2ath) 1/7 C 7X

Bombay CUppar (U) 1/14 M St

Sons of tha Sea (wB) ^ - H '

The Prime Minister (WB) t>17 . RD 94

A Tragedy at Mldalcht (Rep) 3/4 M SS

L. Ayen-L. Batrymora
M. Moreland
L. Ban-J. Cralt
J. Wlthen-W. Traey
W. Gargan-L Harvey
M. Redgrave-T. Hobsoa
J. GletEUd-D.-Wynward
J. Boward-M, Lindsay

WEEK OF RELEASE 2/12/42

Onr Russian Front (Artklao) 2/18 40

Tha Lady b WUllac (Col) 1/21 D 93

Blondlc Goes to Collece (Col) 2/11 C 74

Bom to Slag (M-O) 1/21 MU 92

Weitera MaU (Mono) 3/4 W 54

Mr. Bag Goes to Towa (Par) ,12/10 81

Bahama Passace (Par) l2/ie D 82

On the Snaay Side (2«th) 2/4 M <9

Stacecoach Bnekaroo (U) - W

Can Out the Mariaei (RKO) 1/14 C SS

Rldlat tha Wlad (RKO) 9/10 W S4

Lady la Distress (Times) 2/18 M 82

Danceronsly They Lived (WB) M

(Dociunentaiy)

M. Dletricb-F. MacMurray

P. Slat letoa-A. Lake

V. Weldler-B. McDonald

Tom Keeae

(Cartooa)

M.. CarroU-S. Hayden
J. Damell-R. MacDowcU
1. Mack Browa-F. Knight
V. McLaelea-E. Lone
T. Holt-R.Whltaey
M. Redgrave-S. Gray
i. Garfleld-R. Hnasey

WEEK OF RELEASE— 2/19/42

Shut My Big Month (Col) 2/25 C 71

Johnny Eager (H-O) 12/10 M I9C

Mr. Wise . Guy (Moao) 3/11 H 70

Joaa of Paris (RKO) 1/7 D 93

Boxy Hart (20th) ;/4 D 72

What's CooUa' ' (U) 2/23 MU t9

Broektya Orchid (UA) C

Captalas of the Clonds (WB 1/21 M 113

J. B. Btown-A. Mara
B. Tayor-L. Tnraer
Bast Side Kids
M. Morgaa-P. Heaield
G. BOgers-A. Menjou
G. Jeaa-Aadrews Sis
M. Woodworth-W. Beadlx
J. Cagaey-D. KorgaB -

MONTREAL

(Ointinued from page 11)
'Captain Clouds' (WB) (2d wk).
Away out in front for another .big
gross at $8,500, after smash take $12,-
000 last week,

PrlAeeM iCT) (2,300; 30-40-52)—
'Conflrm, Deny' (20th) and 'Cadet
Girl' . (20th). Fair $3,500 in sight
Last week, 'Kathleen' (M-G) and
IKildare's Victory' (M-G), n.si. $3,-
200.

Orphenm (Ind) (1.100: 30-40-60)—
Gold Rush' (UA). Pacing for suc-
culent itfiO^y Last week. 'Give My
Life' (Regent) and 'One Night Paris'
(Regent), fair $3,200.

St. Denis (France-Film) (2,500; 30-
40)— 'Stradivarius' and "Troika sur la
Piste Blanche.' Average $4,000 in
sight Last week, 'Barbier de Se-
ville' and "Les Ycux Nolrs.' fair
$4,200.

BROOKLYN

(Continued from page 9)
healthy $20,000. Last week, 'Ball of
Fire' (RKO) (2d wk) and 'Obliging
Young Lady' (RKO), good $15,000.

Fox (Fabian) (4,023; 30-40-50-55)
-'Captains of Clouds' (WB) and
Blondie to College' (Col) (2d wk).
Continuing to pack 'em in to tune
of attractive $15,000. Last week,
first-rate $24,000.

Met (Loew's) (3,618; 30-40-50-55)
— 'Corsican Brothers' (UA) and 'Miss
PoUy" (UA). , Strong $20,000. Last
week. 'Design for Scandal' (M-G)
and 'Swing It Soldier' (U), nice $17,-

000. ' ■

Paramonnt (Fabian) (4,126; 30-40-
50-55)— 'Bahama Passage' (Par) and
'Steel Against Sky' (WB). Good
$16,000. Last week, 'SuUlvtin's
Travels' (Par) and 'Paclflr Blackout'
(Par) (2d w'c), mUd $12,000.

Strand (WB) (2,800; 30-40-50-55>—
'Call .Ellery Queen' (Col) and stage
show with Clyde McCoy's orch and
Mischa Auer. Poor $7,000 for four-
day run. Last week, 'Man Returned'
(Col) and Gene Krupa's orch for
similar : period, profitable $12,000.

TITLE CHANGES

Hollywood,. March 10.
'It Happened in Flatbush* is new
tag on "Them Lovely Bums' at 20th-
Fox.

"The Shadow of Their Wings' at
Warners became 'Wings for the
Eagle.'

'Street of Chance' release handle
on 'The Black Curtain' -at Para-
mount

WEEK OF BELEASB— 2/26/42 -

AdveatareiorMartlaEdea(CoI) Z/2S-
Maa Who Betnraed to Ufa (Cal) 3/4
Bock BlTcr Beaagades (Moao)
CasUa la tha Dasart (20(h-Fox) 2/4 M
Tha Mad Dr. af Market St (U) M

M 87 G. F6td-C. Trevor
M SI Howard-L. Falrbaaka
W (Baanbnsters)

SI S. Tolst-A. Whelaa
U. Mer^el-C. DOdd

WEEK OF BELBASB— S/B/4S

Arliona Banadnp (Maao)
The Lady Baa naas (Par)

1/21

W
M

HU

Slag Tear Wonlas Away (BKO) 1/7

Night Befara the Divarce (2ath-rox) 2/11 M

Ghost af makaastela (U) 3/4 . M

Ta Ba ar Not to Be (UA) l/ia C

Ballet Scan (WB> 1/4 M

Sleepy Time Gal (Bap) c

Itagecoaeh. Express (Bep) - W

T. Keeae.
77 r. OMdard-R. MllUad
71 B. Lahre-J. Havoc
87 L. Barri-M. Hnghei
S9 L. Chaaey-E. Aakeri
89 J. Beaay-C^ Lombard
•8 R. loomey-A. Longmire
t. Canova-T. Brown
D. IBarry-L, Merrick

WEEK OF BELEASE— 3/12/42

Lawleu PlalasnuB (Cal) '
Man With Two Uvea (Mono)
Song at tha Islaads (2fth-Fox)
Frisco Ln (U) tJlM
Heart af the Bio Oraade (Bep)
Yokel Boy (Bep) ^
Dndes Ara Pretty People (UA)

W ' C. Starr«tt-K. Hayden

3/11 M S7 E. Norrls-E. Lawson

1/4 5IU 73 B. GraMe-V. Mature

M SO L Hervey-K. Taylor

W O. Aatty

C A. Dekker-J. Davis

C ' BI. Woodworth-J. Bogera

WEEK OF BELEASB— 3/19/42

Canal Zone (Col) M

Kloadike Victory (Moao) M

Baahfol Bachelor (BKO) C

Raiders of tha Baaga (Bep) W

Rings on Her Flagers (20th) 3/11 C

Mr. V (UA) 7/9 " M

Murder la the Big Bouie (WB) H

85
128

C. Hanls-J. Rnbbard
E* Lowe-L. Fairbanks
Lnm It Abaer
B. Steel-T. Tyler
H. Faada-G..TIerBey
L. HoWatd-M, Morris
P, Emersaa-N. Johnson

WEEK OF BELEASEHS/B6/42

Two Yanks 1b. Trinidad (Col)
ABalit af J. Valeattne (Bep)
Kaaset oa the Desert (Bep)
Magalflceat Amfeanons (BKO)
Kenurkabla Mr. KIppa (mh)
You're Telling Me (U)

3/11

C p. O'Brien-B. Donlevy
H O. O'Keeta-B. Tarry
W B.Bogers-Q. Hayes
D J. Cetto»-D. CosteUo.

M 8S M^Badgiave-D. Wyaward
C H. Herbert-B. Paige

WEEK OF BELEASE-;4/9/42

Alias Bastoa Buckle (Col)
Fantasia (BKQ)
Secret Ageat of Japaa (toth)
Saboteur (U)

KipUagfi Joagle Book (UA)
The Male Animal (WB) 3/4
Olrl From Alaska (Rep)

M c. Morrls<A. Mara

. MU ° (Disney CartaoB)

l/ll M 72 p.Foster-L.Bart

^ M R. Colamlnga-P, Laae

D SabD-J. CaUela r

p US H. Fonda-0. deHavlUand

U B. Mlddleton-L Parker

TBADESHOWN AND.. FOB FUTOBE BELEASE

Cadet Girl (20th) U/12 RD

Vanishing Virginian (Hf-G) 11/3 D

Sealed Lips (U) U/3 M

The Bngie Sounds (M-G) 12/17 D
Land at the Open Range (RKO) 12/24 W

Ihnaderlag Hoofs (RKO) 12/11 W

Come on Danger (RKO) U/31 W

Kings Row (WB) 12/24 D

We Were Daaclag (M-G) l/li c

Salate to Conrage (M-G) 1/21 H

Torpedo Boat (Par) 1/21 M
The Fleets la (Par) 1/21 mu

Fly by Night (Par) I/21 m

This Time tor Keeps (M-G) l/n m
The Coaruhlp of Andy Hardy (M-O) 2/ii c

Larceny, Inc. (WB) 3/4 c
Blags OB Her Fingers (20th) t/11 ' M

Saadown Jim (2ftth> 3/11 w

To the Shores of Tripoli (2ath) 1/U M

Who Is Hopa Schnylcrr (loth) 3/II M

' S9 c. Laadls-G. Hoatgomcry

101 ■ F, Morgaa-K. Grayson

M w. Gargaa-J. Clyde

181 W.Beery.lI.BIala

*• T. Holt-B. Whiter

!• T. Holt-B. Whiter

58 T. Holt-F. Neal

127 A. Sheridan-B. Cnnmilnga

93 N. Shearer-N. Coward
83 G. Veldt-A. Ayers

59 B. Arlen-J. Parker

90 D. Lamonr-W. Holdea

74 N. Kelly-R. Carlson

71 A. Bntherford-B. Sterling

94 M. Rooaey-A. Bntherford
94 , B. BoblasoB-J. Wymaa
85 H. Foada-G. Tlemey

. 83 J. Klmbrongh-V. Gflmore

92 J. Payne-M. O'Hara

M J. AUea. Jr.-M. Howard

19

An IMPORTANT Message To the
Theatre Manager About FANTASIA:

V

t -

The opportunity to offer Walt Disney*8 FANTASIA to his patrons is an honor rec-
ognized by every alert and progressive showman.

To be able to see and hear this glorious attraction at a theatre^s regular popular price
sade is a privilege that will be recognized and applauded by your entire community.

FANTASIA is no ordinary motion picture. Its coming to your theatre is ain event of
extraordinary interest and it is hoped that every showman will avail himself to the full of
the opportunities it presents.

Unlike most motion pictures FANTASIA has a great plus audience waiting to see it . . •
those hundreds and thousands of alert, educated and prosperous people in every commu-
nity who are not regular theatregoers but whose patronage is so sorely needed by every
theatre. TTiese people are your plus audience for FANTASIA. i '

FANTASIA stands today perhaps the most widely publicized and discussed picture in
screen history. Its box office career is well known to you — well into a second year jvith .
more than 1,000 performances on Broadway — record road show runs in large cities at
$2.20 prices — r brilliant premieres and engagements thruout the free world*, an avalanche
of acclaim by critics and public.

FANTASIA is the picture thqt has earned for Walt Disney the highest tribute in the
motion picture industry— THE ACADEMTS IRVING THALBERG AWARD ,,,(dsothe
SPECIAL ACADEMY AWARD for **outstanding contribution to the advancement of the
use of sound in motion pictures through the production of FANTASIA" and the SPECIAL
ACADEMY AWARD to Leopold Stokowski and his associates for their unique achievement
in the creation of a new form of visuedized music — THREE AWARDS IN ALL!

Both the regular picture audience and the pIiM audience are ready for your presentatioii
of FANTASIA . . i both need only to be told of its local engagement.

In addition to the record publicity that has been given in inagazines, newspapers, col-
umns, reviews, and on the radio, great bodies of cultural groups thruout the nation have
been advised by letter and appropriate literature of the national, release of FANTASIA*

Women^s clubs, music clubs and associations, high school and college teachers and other
influential people in your community, people eager to extend the success of FANTASIA,
will help, you round up this vast new plus audience, if you but give them a chance.

Therefore we urge every theatre manager, every theatre publicity man, every showman
who knows the value of good will and public relations to make the most of the opik>rtunity
that the showing of FANTASIA presents.

FANTASIA is a picture of Prestige and Profits get both by going after both those
vital audiences — the regulars by increased advertising in your newspapers, on the air, on
billboards, and the plus audience by direct contact with the influential leaders of local
groups, whose memberships can pack to overflowing the largest auditorium in any eity«
town or village.

TECHNICOIOR FEATURI

RELEASED
APRIL 3...

THE SHOWMAN'S PERFECT
EASTER WEEK ATTRACTION!

Distributed by, RKO-Radio Pictures, Inc*

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20 FILM REVHSWS

Wednesdaj, March 11, 1942'

LONE STAR RANGER

' (Continued from page 8)

western star. Handing -him a six-
Bun and a ten-gallon hat to carry
out the exploits called for by the
hero of Zane Grey's old novel, 'Lone
Star Ranger,' has been a mistake.
As result, this western misses fire
lor all of its plot and action.

Kimbrough has made one other
■western for 20th, out tlio two will
be all, the company has decided.
Not because Kimbrough doesn't have
some he-man background. He has.
The husky fellpw comes from Texas
and was an AIl-American on the
Texas A. & M. eleven. Chanc?s are
he can put up the type of flght they
like to film, but, nonetheless, he
doesn't look the part. Moreover, his
odd southern accent is too much on
the gentle side, and never rin^ts true
In the interior of a badlands saloon.

The old Fox company filmed 'Lone
Star Ranger' in 1930. It is still a
western property that delivers, but
not with Kimbrough. The plot con-
cerns successful efforts of a Texas
ranger, 'working alone, to upset the
■well-laid plans of a judge and a local
biggie to grab lands as^ell as stage
a gold holdup, with killings and at-
tacks giving it substance. As uinjal,
much of the shooting aim is bad, and
the pub free-for-all in which Kim-
brough emerges without a scratch
after cleaning up the joint is a
laugh in reverse.

In some respects, also, the direc-
tion of James Tinling pays little at-
tention to detail. For instance, after
Sheila Jtyan takes a good soaking
while en route home, she arrives
with her early ''60s costume in the
neatest trim. Also the guy who's
driving that stagecoach je.' h<! around
on. those reins as thQUgh he is a
Jitterbug at the Broadway Para-
mount during a' Benny Goodman en-
gagement. The wonder is he doesn't
fall off his Ic ■ y seat-perch the way
be swings himself aroiud.

Kimlisough^s supporting cast, . In
addition to Miss Ryan, who's been
working in regular features also, In-
cludes George E. Stone, Jonathan
Hale, 'William Famum, Truman
' Bradle}[ and Russell Simpson. All
do satisfactorily, with Stone the
standout as an insurance agent who
pals up with Kimbrough. . Char.

MR. WISE GUY

Ifoaoirram releojio o( Sam Katzmon pro-
duction. SUra Th« E«»t Side KIOb' : fea-
tursB Ii«e Gorcer, Bobby Jordon, Hnnti
Hall, Billy Qllbart, Ouinn Wlllloma and
Onbrlel Dell. Directed by Wllliom NlKh.
Screenplay by Sam Robins, Unrvey fiates
and Jock Henley from original by Mnrlln
.Mooney; camera. Art Reed; editor Carl
Plerson, At RIalto, N. T., "tarjlng Marcb
4, 1012. Running time 76 MINB.

Murks l>o. Gorccy

Danny j. Bobby Jordan

Gllnioy Huntr. Holl

Knol)by. .V. Billy rtllberl

Manning OuInn William,.

Dratlor Warren Hymer

Charile Gabriel Dell

Ann ..Joan Barclay

mil Douglas Fowley

.=iPruno Sunshine Morrison

Pcowec Davl.l Oorccy

.-■holliy Bobby Stone

Dorothy Ann Doran

Walter Benny Rubin

Monogram has reassembled the
remnants of 'The Dead-End Kids'
fwhom it bills 'The East-Side K>ds )
for the umpteenth time and put them
into one of those reform school
mellers which seem their perpetual
destlr./. It's no better, no worse,
thai! all that have gone before and
will slide into the same bottom -dual
spot in the subsequents as its pre-
decessors.

The little rascals— pretty tiresome
little rascals by now— are given new
support In person of Billy Gilbert.
It's not much help, however, except
in one mildly funny sequence with
Benny Rubin. Otherwise, the tough-
guy lineup Is pretty much standard,
including Guinn 'Williams and 'War-
ren Hymer, who are probably living
those roles by now.

'This time the Innocent brother of
one of the kids is about to be exe-
cuted on a murder rap. Kids them-
selves are in reform school on a
phony ^charge. They get wind of a
way to locate the real murderer and
thus save the innocent brother,
whereupon they all bust out and per-
form said feat to the acclamation of
the headmaster of the small-fry
clink.

Ho-hum.' Hert.

Heart of the Rio Grande

(WTTH SONGS)'
Republic release of Harrr Grey produc-
tion. Stars Gene Autry; featurea Smiley
Bumette, Fay McKenzIe, Directed by Wil-
liam Morgan. Screenplay, Llllle Hayward,
Winston Miller; based on story by NowUn
B. Wildes: camera, Harry Newmann: edl-

Mr, Lea Orlebeck; musical supervisor, Raoul
rauflhnnr.. Reviewed In projection room,
N. C, March 6, '43. Running time. tSJIIINS.

Gene Autry Gene Autty

Frog Smlley Bumetta

Alice Bennett -....Fby Mc'tCenzlo

Connie Lane Kdlth Fellows

Ur. Lane Flerre Watklo

Tadpole Joe Straucb, Jr.

Bap Callahan William Hnade

Urs. Forbes.... J ...Sarah Padden

Pudge '....Jean Porter.

And Jimmy Wakley Trio

Republic, which for years has'
coined juicy profits 'from westerns,
has in this 'Heart of the Rio Grande'
abandoned the simplicity, direct aC'
tion'and vigor that itade Its earlier
boss' operas so ingratiating and has
loaded the picture with gobs of need-
less trihimings: Thie result in a
pompous, static yarn which will take
all of Gene Autry's boxoffice draw
to got average profits. It's too puerile
for hdult audiences, and too involved
for excitement-craving moppets.
Still, on the theory that all west-
erns pay off the modest nut, ItTl
probably get by.

Dressed-up story Involves a ty
coon's sDoiled daughter,- who is taken
to a dude ranch and there reclaimed
by the healthy outdoors and Autry's

Sood-natured sympathy and wisdom.
>s it turns out her, father Is also
salvaged from his sordid fortune
making, a villainous ex-ranch fore
man Is first chastised and then killed,
while Autry and a self-conscious,
carefully mdde-up school teacher find
sappy romance. Script is palpably
artificial,' situations are hackneyed
characters are almost satirically
broad, and the whole picture has an
air of ludicrous sanctimoniousness.

Autry, who's not getting any sUm-
mer these days, is still a stiff actor,
and his numerous vocals only im
pede the action. Smiley Burnette's
clowninp is on the oafish side, and
Fay McKenzie is stilted as the school
marm. As the brat who reforms,
Edith Fellows brings virtually the
sole believable note to the film, giv-
ing a varied oerformance in a fairly
good part. However, her posture is
unattractive. She has one song.
Other players are varyingly passable,
In variou.<! technical details 'Heart
of the Rio Grande' is faulty. In one
spot there Is a sound of tearing paper
before the action occurs on the
screen. In another, the sound of
drivintr motor is heard long after the
Birl driving the truck has stopped
feeding it the gas and Is applying the
brakes. Such anachronisms as dude
ranch cowhands carrying guns are
also evident. There is one definite
plug for the purchase of defense
bonds. It's a worthy idea, but Ir
relevant to the film's theme.

One line of dialog Is worth men
tloning. A character gives a dead
pan reading to. This Autry's quite
• fella, Isn't he.' Hobe.

Man With Two Lives'

Monogram release of A. W. Hackel pro-
duction. Directed by Phil Rosen.- Story
and screenplay, Joseph Hoffman: camera,
Harry Neumonn; editor, Mortin 0. Cohn;
asslsUnt director. AI Wood. Prevleived In
projection room, N..T., March 6, '42. Run-
ning time, 07 SIO^S.

Phillip Bennett Edward Norria

Hobart Bennett Frederick Burton

Lt. Bradley Addison Richards

nr. Clarke Kdward Keane

Prof. Toller Huch Southern

Louise Hammond Sleanor Lawson

Helen Lengol. . . .' Wllma Francis

R.glDaM Bennett Tom Beldel

Kifis., milott Sullivan

Hugo..: Anthony Wardo

Gtmpy Emie Adams

Jess ^ Kenneth Duncan

This one TTiU have trouble even In
the most remote exhibitor situations.

Ifs about a wealthy youth ap-
parently killed in an auto accident,
an operation that restores him to life
through the -'transfiguration of an
electrocuted criminal's soul and the
adoption of the criminal's ways by
the resurrected youth. The payoff
Is that the finale scene shows it all
to have been a nightmare by the
young sociality during his coma fol;
lowing the accident.
'What a nightmare! JTafca,

TODAY I HANG

Producers Releasing Corp. release of Max
Alexander-Alfred Stem production. Fea-
tures Walter WoK King, Mona Barrle,
William Famum. Dlr*:tor, ^llver Drake.
Story and adaptation, Oliver Drake and
George Merrick; editor, Charles Henkel;
camera, Bddle LIndlni At New Tork,
tf. T,. week March 8, '42. Running time
S6 MIMS,

Jim O'Brien Walter Wolf King

Martha Courtney Mona Barrle

Warden Burke William Fornum

Henry Courtney Harry Woods

Joseph Rand James Craven

Roger LannlDg ....Michael Raffetto

Slick Pheonoy ."5«m Bcmnrd

Detective Jotmson-, Robert Flak»

Kobbs Paul Scardon

Curreflt Short Sabjects

(FEINTS IN EXCHANGES)

iComiiiXed. by Besa Short)

'Pprky'9 Cafe' (WB) 7 mins.
Porky Pig cartoon comedy.

Leo Relsman and Band CWB)
10 mins. Novel band short di-
rected by Jean Negulesco, in-
cluding vocals and boogie woogie
piano number.

'Junele Jannt' (HKO) 9 mins.
Sportscope showing small ani-
mals perform.. ig.

'This Is Blitz' (UA) 21 mins.
Second 'World in Action subject
depicting German blitz methods
and entering conquered lands.

"The Arctic Giant' (Par) 9
mins. Superman color ca'toon.
Reviewed this issue.

'Thrills of the Deep' (U) B
mins. Deep sea fishing junket.

'The 'World We 'Want to Live
In' (Indie) 17 mins. Details per-
secution of- Jewish people in
Europe and Ame'.ir.-t, -.resenting
a series' of expressions from
Thomas E. Dewey, Al Smith,
Eddie Cantor and Wendell 'Will-
kie.

This Week's New Shorts

T/ MMMMMMM « M > H « M *« M «»«« MM « M »4 MM « M <>

TANYA

(With Songrs)
(RUSSIAN-MADE)

Artklno release of Mosnim Studios (Gre-
gory Alsxandrov) production, directed by
Alexandrov. Stars Lubov Orlova. Screen-
piny, v. Ardov; camera, Boris Peirov; score
and sons*, Isaac Dunayev.^iky; English
titles, Charles Clement. At Stanley, N. Y.,
March 4. '42. Running time, 1Z MINS.

Tanya Morozova. r... Lubov Orlova

Alexel Lebcdev TevgonI Snmollov

Maria Pronlna Elena TIapklna

The Mistress Vera Zhitkova

The Secretary RIna Zolyonaya

Taldyhin, hotel clerk Vladimir 'VoloAIn

Dorokhov, factory director: . . .Oslp Abdulov

Zubkov, foreman Nikolai Konovalov

Agrafena, an old weav,er. .Anastasla Zuyeva

Klavn 'Vera Altalakaya

Marusla.. NJna Fedosyuk

Varya Anna Terekblna

(In Riisiten; toith English Tttlej)
This Russky glorification of the
proletariat rates as first class morale
hypo in any language. It Is also good
entertainment, indicating strong b.o.
in situations where there ^e inclined
to be a greater number of Soviet
sympathizers due to the So'viet's cur,
rent victories.

Theme is based or. ^ forthrigbt
declaration embodied ia one of ue
songs, 'We have no fear, we recog-
nize no barriers,' all the more im-
pressive for its simplicity and ham
mered home via constant but inof-
fensive repetition.

Moscow, In this effo't, has suc-
ceeded In making the .'oor working
girl glamorous. The labor front is
handled in hero-worship fashion
commonly associated with the fight
ing front.

Cinderella yarn is about an llliter
ate maid-of-aUrwork In a Russian
hamlet who becomes a textile engi'
neer, is awarded the I^enin medal for
revolutionizing weaving output and
wins the yoimg engineer. In process
of acquiring skill and useful knowl-
edge the girl undergoes the ugly
duckling-swan transformation.

Lubov .Orlova comes through with
an excellent performance in the title
role, though some of her vocals could
be 'better. Musical score is interest-
ing, photography good, and support-
ing cast adequate. Yevgeni Samoi-
lov, juve lead, photographs well

MoH.

Producers turning O'lt pictures for
Producers Releasing Corp. do so on
very low budgets. C^snsidering also
that rentals are proportionately less
than for film from the majors, "To-
day I Hang' is a fairly good bet. It
doesn't measure up to requirements
for the better runs, but on. many
engagements the picture will serve
as well as, If not better than, some
of the 'B' product from larger com-
panies.

The cast Is headed by Walter Wolf
(used to be Woolf) King, a person-
able type, and Mona Barrle, whose
presence' helps make the murder
melodrama a palatable item. Except
for Miss Barrle there are no women
of any Importance in the cast.

WiUlam Farnum plays a benign
prison warden, while Harry Woods
and James Craven are partners in
crime revolving around the disposal
of a necklace they have come by
illegally. A very good type as a
mouthpiece who Is not without
stooping to crime himself is Michael
Raffetto. Sam Bernard, as a con-
vict, supplies mild comedy relief.

The story, written by Oliver Drake
and George Merrick, has been well
plotted and constructed, with sus,
pense expertly sustained. It con-
cerns the roundabout efforts of Miss
Barrle and others to clear an inno-
cfent man of a inurder conviction.
Drake, one of the writers on. the
story, also directed. Char.

Miami Screenout

fTh« Argentine Question' (March
of Tlme-HKO; 19 mins.)— With Ar-
gentina in the news because of Its
neutrality while other Latin-Ameri-
can countries swung against the Axis
powers, latest March of Time issue
carries much oignificance. It is a
comprehensive and impartial analy-
sis compiled on this Ucklish question
and projected in surprisingly brisk
fashion.

Film shows why Argentina was
hesitant about an out-and-out break
with the Nazis. In outlinipg Argen-
tina's dUemma, after showing how a
Chamber of Deputy "Dies' committee
in that country has exposed and
routed Nazi organizations, the short
smartly uses a Spanish narrator (who
spealts in English with an obvious
Castillian accent). Picture cites how
dependent the nation is on European
trade, with Argentinians fully cog-
nisant that after the war they again
must .depend on such trade for its
prosperity. Narrator also relates,
with pictorial evidence, how Argen-
tina is tied up with IMropean culture
and art. , „ . x,..,

Spanish narrator tells how the
middle class gradually Js becoming
prominent He shows that the vast
surplus of grain and meat products
presents an economic problem and
what a sore point the U. S. restric-
tions on Argentine beef is with the
country. He also points out the
strides made in manufacturing and
selling dairy products. ^ .

Conclusion cites how President
CasUllo's failure to go along with
the antl-Axls group gives Axis agents
a working base on the American con-
tinent, while at the same time Ar-
gentinians recall the fate df other
nations that appeased Hitler and
ponder how long their ultra-con-
servative government will stay
neutral. , x ^ .

'Victor Jurgens, who Went to Ar-
gentina- for this story especially, has
compiled a comprehensive photo-
graphic survey. Louis de Rochemont
rates a bow for his intelligent pro-
duction Job on an obviously tough
story. Wear.

ChnrohiU's Island' (UA; 21 mins.).
This is the first of three two-reel war
films ■via UA on 'The World in Ac-
tion,' and depicts the Battle .X)fBritato
at its direst moments. It is graphi-
cally pointed up by Nazi films, inter-
cepted at Bermuda by U. S. and
British censors en route to the Ger-
man ESmbassy In Washington Xbefore
Pearl Harbor). Stuart Legg, English
cameraman who has been m charge
of a documentary uillt for the Cana-
dian government for the past three
years, did an excellent editing job,
inter-splicing the confiscated official
Nazi blitz films (U-boats, etc.) with
Britahi's own film record. of the de-
fense of the tight little isle. It's
socko war stuff, realistic and punchy
enough to answer the plea for 'Wake
Up America.' Future issues in this
srries: The BatUe for Oil,' "This Is
tLe Blitz,' and there may be others,

Abel.

rnnHnnm from pa(e 2 ^,^_

dents had of the sudden order were
quickly erected signs on the county
causeway announcing, new traffic
regulations, requiring motorists to
use dim lights and limiting the' speed
at night to 20 miles per hour in
crossing between Miami and the
Beach.

Guests in beach hotels have been
instructed to draw _ their window
blinds before turning on the lights,
and all unnecessary spotlights used
in patios, terraces and gardens have
been doused.

Canvass of leading hotels shows
no wholesale exodus of guests as
result of screenout. «

littery hotel men got a piece of
good news in this connection from
defense qffidals, who surveyed ef-
fectiveness of screenout from the
ocean Friday (6) and reported it to
be a success as far as beach Is con-
cerned.

It was found, however, that from
one angle Miami's Blscayne Boule-
vard with its myriad neon signs
stands out like a Christmas tre« on
a darkened lawn. So woirk is. to be
started darkening the boulevard
from 10th street to foot of Hayfront
Park.

Only one theatre has ' been af-
fected so far by the screenout,
Wometco's Surf, -which faces' the
ocean, ,has had to darken Its mar-
quee and all its front lights.

'Carnival In Bracll' (Musical; Par;
Directed by Leslie Roush; featuring
Elsie Houston, Jose and Lollta "Vega,
Fernando Alvarez; 10 mins.)— Sock
Latm-Ameilcan one-reeler, lacking a
dull moment. The annual Mardi
Gras of Brazil Is excuse for parading
Latin-ATnerlcan artists and atmo-
sphere, 'with newsreel shots of actual
Rio de Janeiro festival trimly dove-
tailed into production material.
Singing of Elsie Houston, Brazilian
soprano, fits nicely into .the opening
sequence while the wild gyrations of
Jose and Lolita 'Vega- are nearly as
primitive as some of Brazilian step-
ping captured (but a mere flash) by
the newsreel camera. Fernando
Alvarez supplies change of pace by
introducing the current South Amer-
ican carnival anthem, 'Carolina.'
Exciting enough to make one want
to visit Rio at carnival time. An-
other to Les Roush's credit

Weor.

cameramen at Lowry Field tips how
vital this branch of service is in ob-
taining data for subsequent bombitig
attael^, shown for an effective
climax. 'Wear.

The Witness' (Robert Benchley
comedy; Par; 9 mins.) — One of those
droll Robert Benchley efforts. Pokes
fun' at Joe Doakes, the business man
who advocates moral courage — but
only mentally. Doakes (played by
Benchley) envisions what he would
do if called before an investigating
committee. He turns the tables on
the probers by interrogating them.
This is what he Imagines, he would
do. But when a survey 3ueftion-
a.tker comes to his home, his wife is
the one to display mor?' courage. A
trim boxoffice bet, with the Bench-
ley name something for the marquee.

Weor.

The Sky Princess' (George Pal
Puppetoon; Par; Technicolor; 7V4
mins.)— Musical fantasy based on
Tschalkowsky's 'Waltz of the Sleep-
ing Beauty' tune. For sheer beauty.,
of color, setting and lound, repre-
sents a rare surprise in Pal's puppet
group. Less action than usual, but
the music and ba:kgrounding make
up for this. Producer has used con-
summate skill in re-creating an imag-
inative, old castle with a sleeping
princess. Battle between the zealous
witch who guards the beauty and the
prince calls for remarkable Sound
effects, deftly executed, A smash
novelty, especially de luxe houses.

Wear.

Par Into N. Y.?

; Continued from page Ss

The Arctlo Giant' (Superman;
Par; 9 mins.)— Patterned on same
line as previous releases in series,
this one gets by in better fashion
because the 'man of steel* is more in
action and in less closeups. Human
figures here continue rather awk-
ward. Fantastic tale of i. pre-historic
monster, found frozen in ice and ac-
cidentally brought to- life calls for
the usual impossible heroics by
Superman. Those ' who appreciate
the newspaper cartoons will go for
this in droves; otherwise, entirely for
juveniles. 'Wear.

'Fopolar Science No. 4' (Popular
Science series; Par; Magnacolor;
Chicago miniature railroad testing
ground; New York rose gardens;
U. S. Army Air Corps photographic
division in action; 11 mins.)— {Strong
new entry for this series because of
variety and worthwhile subjects.
Miniature railway testing ground
where safety devices are ftied out in
Chicago Museum of Science includes
a plug for the Santa Fe's Super-
Chief. Largest rose gardens hi the
world at Newark (N. Y.) highlighted
as the spot where new offsprings of
many flower stocks are developed
Into new rose creations. Prof. Oakes
is in for comedy, withobt evoking
much laughter. Work of army

would not be violating that Instru-
r ixA since it..specifically says:

'Nothing herein' shall prevent any
such defendant from acquiring thea-
tres or interests therein to protect its
investment or its competitive posi-
tion or for ordinary purpo'ses of its
business.'

High Paramount officials decline to
comment with respect to ti)e pos-
sibility it may Invade the N. Y. zone,
but understood that the company is
quietly survejring the Situation to
check on theatres that might be
available as well as other buildings
which coUd be converted into pic-
ture houses and likely sites for build-
ing if the necessary materials could
be had. No details are known.
Territory

Any expansion by Par in N. Y,
Brooklyn, L. I, Westchester, etc,
would probably entail the develop-
ment of a circuit that would be in
opposition principally to the
Skouras-Centuiy chains but not in
conflict in any way with IjOew's to
which Par sells all its product flrst-
run.

Century circuit, headed by F^ed
Schwartz, Is In strategic locations iu
Brooklyn and on Iiong Island, while
the Skouras organization (outgrowth
mahily of the old Fox Metropolitan
chain) operates in N. Y. proper,
Westchester, northern New Jersey,
parts of Long Island and in such
lower N. Y.-state towns as Nyack,
Suffem, Ossinlng and Haverstraw.

The area in and around Jersey City
probably would not Interest Par
since Warners are taking the full Par
product in that region. Previously
it had been split between . Warners
and Skouras but since the break with
the latter WB is taking all of the
pictures.

'While Par required nerve to openly
break with Skouras-Ceptucy ^Ith
loss of 85 houses for its product, op-
position independents to whom the
company is celling are getting much
more money for Paramount than it
thought would be the case. Happy
to get Par away from Skouras-Cen-
tury, the indies are getting the maxi-
mum out of the pictures and al-
though booking them for three or
four days, are voluntarily extending
engagements to a week and In some
instances as far as 10 days. The ex-
tended time is reportedly going a
long way toward making up for the
loss of Skouras-Century. Also, the
Indies are not balking at -the terms
demanded by Far, in view of marked
improvement in the company's prod-
uct this season.

Some years ago, prior to the Par
bankruptcy in 1932, the company was
at loggerheads with Loew's on a
franchise deal and started to invade
Greater N. Y. by building several
theatres. These Included the Para-
dise, in the Bronx; Kings and Pitkin,
Brooklyn, and the 'Valencia, Jamaica,
L. 1

The theatres were turned over to
Loew's when a product peace was
negotiated and Par since then has
had no ambitions concerning ther
N. Y. territory, being content to stick
to Its Broadway Par and the Par,
Brooklyn, latter a part of the War-
ner -Par-Fabian pqol with SI Fabian
In charge of operation. ,

TTcdnesday, March 11, 1943

THE FIGHTING SPIRIT OF THE RAF ... IN

ONE OF HOLLY WOOD'JS BEST PRODUCTIONS!

It PICTURES

WednesdAy, Mvch 11, 1942

Uncle Sam's Roll Call

sCoBUuned from paca 4;

publicUy-advertlsIng employees ofager of the Beljnar to manager of

the New Oakland.

Alphonso Faenza, who has been
assisting bis father, Matteo Faenza,
owner and operator of theatres In
Republic and BentleyvlUe, has left
for the army. He's a graduate of
the Valley Forge Military. Academy.
Another son, Frank Faenza, has
gone into the business as booker and
general assistant for his father's en-
terprises.

Stanley Lleberfarb, formerly of
the PRC exchange, has Just been
promoted from private to sergeant at
Fort Monroe, Va, where he's been
stationed since enterkig the army.

Dave Kimmelman's Par exchange
here lost two girls to Cupid last
week. They were Dorothy Gold-
stein, secretary to Bill Brooks,
booker, who became Mrs. Samuel
Melnlck, and Mln Gable, cashier,
who changed her name to Mrs. Bill
Nixon.

theatres but also men who are on
the operating side, such as Roy Smart
of the Wllby-Kincey circuit at Char-
lotte; E. E. Whltaker of the Lucas
& Jenkins orgeilzatlon at- Atlanta,
and Hardle Meakln of RKO in Wash-
ington.

Other publiciiy fleld appointees are
Larry Cowen, Albany; Frank Hen-
son, Akron; Harry Browning, Joseph
Long, and Jack Granara, Boston;
■William Brereton Buffalo; Walter
Kessler, Canton; Bill Hollander, Chi-
cago; E. V. Dinerman, Cincinnati; Ed"
J. Fisher, George Mitchell and Knox
Strachan, Cleveland; Russell Bovim,
Columbus; Frank Starz, Dallas; Nate
Wise, Dayton; Dale McFarland, Des
Moines; Alice Gorham, Detroit; Sey-
mour Morris, Glovcrsville; Sam Gil-
man, Harrlsburg; Homer McCallom,
• Houston; William Elder, Indianapolis;
Jerry Sigmond, Kansas City; Thorn-
ton Sargent, Los Angeles; Sam Mus-
selman, Louisville; W. L. Crull, Nash-
ville; Lou Brown, New Haven; Ted
Emmerson, Omaha; Everett Callow,
Philadelphia; James Totman, Pitts-
burgh; M. M. Mashner, Portland,
Ore.; Bill -Mdrton, Providence;
Charles Harris, Rochester; Allen
Sparrow, Richmond; Ii. Kaufman, St
Louis; Helen Garrity, Salt Lake City;
Phil Phillips, San Francisco; Vic
Gauntlett, Seattle; JFrank Murphy,
Syracuse; Ralph Lawler, Toledo; Jim
Brennan, Trenton; Hardle Meakln,
Dan TerreU, and Frank IjaFaloe,
Washington, and Edgar J. Doob, Wil-
mington.

Bob Fonlk Jolnj Anny

- Hollywood, March 10. •
Robert Foulk, of the Paramount
talent department, has enlisted in the
army.

JJntll recently he was k<i assistant
director at Warners.

SoTensen Joln^ Vp

Salt Lake City, March 10.
Lou Sorensen, assistant manager of
the Utah, part of the Intermountaln
theatres chain, enlisted. Charles
Pincus, manager, at present carrying
on alone.

guests, celebrathig silver Jubflea wltb
soldiers from nearby Camp Gordon
among guests and patrons. 'You'r*
In the Army Now' booked as main
jubilee film.

Corp. Fred Stewart Bepprto

Bermuda.

Editor, •Variety*:

Your cast list of 'Heart of a City'
in Feb. 18 issue lists a 'Fred Stew-
art.' 'Taint me.

I've been in the army since 1 was
drafted February, 1941. Right now
Tm oji special duty as Editor of the
B.B.C. (Bermuda Base Command)
News (weekly). Last fall I wrote
and staged here a very auccessful
army show, 'Cfone With the Draft,'
and expect to do more when lt'<
warm enough for outside i>erfonn-
ances.

. To identify me, I've worked lor
Stuart Walker, Theatre Guild, Ac-
tors Repertory Co., Mercury Tbea-
tre. Group Theatre, Cape Playhouse
and Barter Theatre. And I expect
to go on working in the theatre as
soon as 'this show' Is over.

When "Variety' arrives it'a a Red
Letter day. It's the only way to
keep in touch with Broadway.

Corp. Fred StetoarU

Theatres Salvaging Old 'Scrap

To Beat the Jap in Milwaukee

.'Bergant Bcenllst*

Milwaukee. March 10.
Johnny Bergant, former chief of
Fox Wisconsin Theatres booking de-
partment, who was relieved of his
post, reenlisted In the United States
Marines, with whom he served in
World' War No. 1, and left Monday
(9) for active duty.

Edward Arnold, Mark Sandrlch
and Fred Beetson elected directors
of L. A. United Service Organiza-
tions.

Corporal Jason Bemie

Corporal Jason Bemie, Ben's boy,
at Fort MonmouUi, N. J., Is now a
sergeant

Lieut Ivan Annenberg, N. T. Daily
News circulation executive. In serV'
Ice at (Governors Island, emceed i
farewell shindig at Bill's Gay "SOs,
N. Y., to a fellow officer, a colonel
retiring from active service. -

Feteing Chas. Albert

Cleveland, March 10
Variety Club is giving a farewell
dinner Friday (13) for Charles Al-
bert its second v.p. and booker for
Warners, who wUl be inducted into
army service in the next fortnight
Special surprise ' program being ar-
ranged for him by committee coU'
sisting of Eddie Bergman, Moe B.
Horwitz, Eddie Miller, Bemie Rubin,
liew Milder and Nat Fellman.

It's s Great Idea/ Bnt . . .

Boston, March 10.
A mute for the bugler was the
farewell gift from Harry McDonald,
RKO divisional manager, to his press
agent Jack Granara, who enlisted in
the Army Air Corps. Granara pub
licized . the Keith-Memorial and
RKO-Boston for the past se
years.

Tri-Siatet* 6S In Service
Des Moines, March 10.
- Trl^States Theatre Corp. now has
6$ stars on their gigantic service
banner at home offices.

Recent personnel changes necessi
tated by men going into service are
as follows: Bill Beckley, formerly in
Sioux City, comes back to Des
Moines to manage the Strand and
Garden. Marvin Graybeal, who has
been manager of the Roosevelt, be
comes manager of the Paramount
and his successor at the Roosevelt is
Tony . Abramovich, formerly at the
Strand.

Ed Smith, formerly at the Garden,
now manager of the IngersoU. Max
Larson, formerly assistant manager
at the Iowa, now manager of the East
Town. Hod'McCuUoch, formerly at
the Ingersoll is now house manager
at the Paramount

Ballyhooer Bnrge Enlists

J. C, Burge, exploitation man at-
tached to Metro's Oklahoma City
exchange, has enlisted in the Coast
Guard. He leaves for the training
school at New Orleans next Tuesday
(17). Burge was formerly manager
of the Empress, Capitol, Midwest
and Criterion theatres in O. C

Bntoher Serves with Navy*

Washkigton, March 10.

Harry C. Butcher, CBS Washtog
ton vice-president and a Ueutenant
Commander in the Naval Reserve, is
on a tour of active duty with the
Navy Department. Has Indefinite
leave of absence from CBS.

He started last week.

He's Not Klddln*

Detroit, March 10,
Morton Malus, g.m. of Associated
Theatres, Inc., enlisted In the U. S.
Marines here. He had been with
the chain 12 years. Managers and
assistants have been going Into
service here so fast that one chain
head remarked, 'It only Is taking
two weeks now from usher to man-
ager.'

Another -adc^d, 'And two more
weeks to be promoted from manager
to buck private.'

Menken Jofaia Marines

Farewell party Was tossed Arthur
Menken, Paramount newsreel cam-
eraman, last Monday (9) night at
the Waldorf-Astoria, N. Y., follow-
ing his final lecture before entering
the U. S. Marines. Menken's lec
ture was presented with usual ac-
cbmpanylpg film, 'Battle for the Pa-
cific* gratis to the Maple Leaf fund
of the Associated Canadian organ-
ization.

Menken recently retired as news-
reel photographer to go on lecture
tour.'

Leo Cantor's 200%
Leo Cantor, after closing product
deal which made him the first Uni.
Versal salesman for his branch at
Pittsburgh to sell his territory 100%
in the BUI Scully sales drive, walked
to the nearest Navy recniltlng office
and enlisted.

His 200% mark resulted when
Cantor passed his Navy -enlistment
exam with a perfect 100% record.

Many Into Camp Upt«n

Camp Upton, N. Y., March 10.
Past -week has' found a flock of
former show, biz figures passing
through this Induction station for
the New York area on their way
into the Army. On this Ust Is Rob
ert W. Wilcox, 31, of Rochester, who
played leading juve roles In B prod-
uct for Universal and Columbia.
He's former husband of actress
Florence Rice.

Another recruit Is Jack Lenny, SB,
muslcomedy tap dancer of aome
years ago and . more recently an
agent and producer of vaude xmits
He was In 'Merry-(3o-Round' In 1027
and 'Shady Lady' and 'Strike Me
Pink' in 1933. Drafted at the same
time was John Bametfr24, conductor
of the recently-organized Brookljm
Symphony orch and staff conductor
of the New York City WPA Music
Project for three years. He's to be
assigned to Pine Camp, N. Y., to or-
ganize a band there.

Hollywood stunt man Morris H.
Blum was another Inductee, althou^
he's 49' years «ld>v He came to Upton
fresh from the RKO lot, where he
-was known professionally as George
Bloom. -' He was In the cavalry from
1013 to 1918 and also served In
Hollywood as a technical adviser.

Two New York orch leaders' are
also among the recruits. They are
Ted Duane, 28, who Just finished
lining up a band for Chico Marx.
He prevlouily had arranged and
played sax and clarinet for Jan
Savltt, Tommy Dorsey, Will Brad-
ley and Larry X^ton; Reuben
Walter, 36, was Inducted after play-
ing banjo and guitar for. Vincent
Lopez, Freddie Rich and Carl
Fen ton.

Wallace R Rooney, 33, former
Broadway legit player, who recently
returned from Fort McClellan, Ala.,
where he organized and directed
entertainment under auspices of the
Citizens Committee for the Army
and Navy became a private himseU.
He was last seen on Broadwaiy op
poslte Ethel Barrymore in Tarm of
Three Echoes' In 1939-40.

Pittsburgh Beornlts

Pittsburgh, March 10.
Jack Blatnlck, manager of WB's
Shadyslde theatre, left for the army
over the weekend and his post has
been given to Paul Williams, Cam-
eraphone manager. Al. Skeigen
moves from the New Oakland to the
Caraeraphone, and Kalman Erdecky
has been upped from assistant man-

Inclndlng a Badlo

Milton Karle, agenUng Johnny
Long Band at Shea's Buffalo, left
town Sunday night for the army
carrying a $200 bonus and a portable
radio presented to him by the mem-
bers of the organization.

Wllby-Klncey Staffer Volunteers

Spartanburg,' S. C, March 10.

Paul Belletjger, former assistant
manager Carolina and Palmetto,
Wilby-Kincey houses here, has vol-
unteered for army service. First of
W-K's local personnel to wear uni-
form. Indications others will go
soon, also that usherettes will " be
used in some houses. First here is
Mrs. Kathryn Lancaster at Palmetto,
former cashier at State. Usherettes
are being used in several Carolines
houses now with draft and enlist-
ments depleting personnel.

Imperial, Augusta, Ga., opened in
1917 with several members oi AEF's
famed Rainbow Division as first

Father Johu Son

St. Louis, March 10.
Walter Kelley, head shipper of the
RKO exchange here. Is resigning
this week to join his son, ;Walter,
Jr., as member of the Marine Corps.
Kelley saw 23 months of active duty
In France during the last war and
enters the ranks as a sergeant He
has been with Pathe and RKO for
the past 15 years.

Carl Fisher's Address

Carl Fisher, former general man-
ager for Gebrge Abbott and Llnd
say-Crouse, hi Signal Corps, Co. A
2d Battalion, Frt Monmouth, N.

HOFDra FOB A STAMPEDE

Hollywood, March 10,
Gene Autry and the Treasury
Department ride hand-In-hand and
volce-to-volce In current Re
public western, 'Home In Wyoming,
Buckeroo star has obtained per-
mission to sing 'Any Bonds Today,'
for the first time In a film.

Poofing to Save RoUier tires

Hollywood, March 10.

Community transportation for studio ^ployees Is being mapped
out, with plenty of road maps, by JOavld G. Garb&, studio manager
at Universal, with the Idea of saving rubber. Plan Is to pool all the
cars owned by the workers and use them in rotation on their way to
and from work, each car owner collecting the fellow workers In his
particular district on stipulated days . and being collected by some-
body else on other days. Other studios are a-waltlng the outcome of
the system which naturally Is complicated with mileage kinks.

Some of the employees travel long distances, to work.

And Yet So Far

Hollywood, March 10.
'Halfway to Shanghai' goes less
than halfway In costs for studio
■eta.

Aside from one outdoor shot
of an Oriental railway station,
the action is confined to three
compartments of a sleeper and
one scene In the diner, all on the
Universal lot

MARCH BLOWS UP 12 ^
NEW PICTURES AT PAR

Hollywood, March 10.

Month of March means 12 starters
on the production line at Paramount,
with six slated to go before the
lenses this week and eight winding
up in the editing rooms.

Prominent among the March
starters are 'Wake Island, 'Happy Go
Lucky,' "Merton of the Movies,' 'The
Major and the Minor,' 'Wrecking
Grew* and 'SUver Queen.'

Ejiroe Gifts His Tammany
Collection to Alma Mater

Edwin P. Kilroe, v.p. and general
counsel for 20th-Fox In New York,
has presented to the Cpliunbla Uni-
versity library his collection of docu-
ments, badges, handbills and a
myriad of other Items relating to
Tammany, the New York political or-
ganlzati<)n. Unique collection is said
to contain some 5,000 items, many of
them providing the only available
-way for historians to study Tam-
many, which dates back Into the
1700's.

Kllroe was graduated from Co
lumbla shortly after turn of the cen-
tury.

VEILLER K EEPS HIS $7,500

Belwyn Denlcil Bitht In Fee from
Loew'a^ Inc.

Bayard Velller, author of 'Within
the Liaw,* . was winner In a $7,500
action against him by Selwyn & Co.,
Inc., when Federal Judge Samuel F.
Rlfklnd In N.Y. dismissed the com-
plaint. The court held that although
Selwyn owned the rights to the play,,
having been assigned them by' Vell-
ler, the author had . received com-
pensation from Loew's, Inc., to
which plaintiff had no right

In 1914 Veiller assigned all rights.
Including renewal; to Selwyn. The
latter sold the film rights to Vita-
graph and these rights were subse-
quently sold to Loew's. In 1939
Loew paid Veiller $7,500 for ady
rights he might have In the play
but Sel-wyn claimed this money be-
longed to it The court ruled that
Loew's had simply purchased pro
tection, and that Veiller had no
rights to sell but received $7,500 for
the sale -of nothing. Selwyn was no
more entitled to receive this mon^y
that Loew's saw fit to pay for in-
surance, than they would have to
receive money from Veiller had he
been assigned to do the screenplay,
the court ruled. All Selwyn won
was a decree holding It to be the
owner of the renewal copyright

Soldier Re-Broadcasts

Cleveland, March 10,
WGAR is sending its regular Mon-
day Jack Paar comedy scripts to
Jack Glel, Clevelander in the Second
Armored Division at Ft. Benning,
Ga., where the programs are put on
as part of the Fort's entertainment
program.

Giel, in charge of the Fort's enter
talnment, emcee's with a fellow sol
dler taking the straight man part

Milwaukee, March 10.
Under the caption 'Ship Your
Scrap and Beat the Jap,' bulletins
went out this week to every theatre
operator in Wisconsin, explaining a
salvage campaign that only a few
days was Just an Idea, but which
gathered such Immediate momentum
that it has become an all Industry
project A suggestion made In a
meeting in the offices of the Inde-
pendent Iheatre .Protective Associa-
tion of Wisconsin and Upper Michi-
gan developed almost over night into
an eqthusiastlc movement, in which
Indies, chains and exchanges all have
joined in their most spontaneous
wartime effort to date. '

Practically every theatre has thou-
sands of pounds of valuable salvage
in Its storerooms, basements and In-
nimierable cubby holes— 4ld motors,
machine parts, signs, fans, belts, wire,
rubber mats, carpets and htmdreds
of other Items. AJl this material has
been discarded from time to time as
new equipment was Installed; there
was no profitable market for It, and
it was too good to throw away; there
it lays.

Now It is all going to be gathered
up for the war eilort Each exhlb
will get his junk together and ad-
vice Harry Perlewltz, head of the
Indie office here, when It WlU be
ready for pickup. Film Service
trucks on their light trips through
the state will gather up the stuff
and bring It Into Milwaukee Where
Charles W. Trampe, of Monogram
Pictures, has provided storage space.

Here the salvaged materials wUl
be sorted, then sold, the money re-
alized bekig devoted to army, na-vy
or other patriotic purposes yet to be
determkied. Tons upon tons of scrap
metal, rubber and other essential ma-
terials will probably be gathered up,
an idea of what is ivst laying around
being taken from the National The-
atre Supply Co., which, when it
moved recently from old quarters to
new, junked approximately two tons
of salvage.

Studios Most Vouch For
. Troupes In Zoned Areas

Hollywood, March 10.
All members of the motion picture
troupes on location in any part of
the Coastal area must be guaranteed
as American citizens by responsible
studio authorities, as a result of an
order Issued by the Eleventh Naval
District

Lieut Commander Alfred J. Bol-
ton, motion picture liaison officer
for the district detailed the regu-
lations to the studio execs. Same
rules go for the Army zones behind
the Naval area. Entry of non-citi-
zens Into such terrain is forbidden
under hea-vy penalties to the studios.

That Makes It Official

Hollywood, March 10.

Gary Cooper, borrowed from Sam-
uel Goldwyn, gets the top male role
In Paramounf s screen version of the
Ernest Hemingway novel, 'For Whom
the Bell Tolls,' to be directed by
Sam Wood.

Actor reports for -work as soon
as he finishes his current Job in The
Pride of the Yankees' on the Gold-
■wyn lot

RKO Tags McCarey

Hollywood, March 10.
RKO signed Leo McCarey to a
director contract, with his first pic-
ture slated to ^o before the cameras
in July.

Starter is a stiU untlUed story co-
starring Gary Grant and Barbara
Stanwyck.

Let's see how things stand at mid-reason!
Good things never cease when

The Friendly Company is your good provider! ^

The box-office records since last Fall

Have been merry with M-G-M money-shows.

Look them over and then see what follows them!

You'll ROAR with pride just like Leo.

Here are just a few since this season started :

*'Woman of the Year'' • '^Johnny Eager'' • *'Bugle Sounds" .
**Vani5hing Virginian" "Babes on Broadway" • *'H, M, Pulham, Esq.'*
'Two-Faced Woman" • "Shadow of the Thin Man" • "Smilin' Through"
*'*Lady Be Good" • "Dr. kkyll and Mr. Hyde" • "Honky Tonk" and others

And then from the company-that-never-stops-delivering :

"CCXJRTSHIP OF ANDY HARDY" (Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney and the Folks)
"WE WERE DANCING" {Norman Shearer, Melvyn Douglas)
"I MARRIED AI;jI ANGEL" (Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy)
"RIO , RITA" (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello)
"MRS. MINIVER" (Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon)
"SHIP AHOY" (Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton)
"HER CARDBOARD LOVER" (Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor)
"TORTILLA FLAT" (Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield)
At the mid-season mark alPs well with film business
Because all's swell with the industry leader, ROARING LEO !

Wcdaefdaj, Muwh 11, 1942

Wednes^y, Mkrcli ll( 1942'

PICTURES

2S

OiKFilmSalesmansLameiit

■ ' •

Tptin' Celluloid to Exhibitors No Picnic— Not Worth

the Cash or the Glory

Conned into trying his hand at
BeW'mg film, a vet of some years In
(:Kov> business in advertlslng-exploU
tatlon, management of theatres and
other fields says It's no row for him
to try to hoe and, If all territories
are 'like the one he was assigned to,
picture-peddling is the last thing he
wa 015*10 do, ■

With no further ambitions to be-
come a general sales manager, wl&
a nice New York office and plenty
of an expense, account, this seller's
lament is in part as follows:

'I can appreciate the slant from
a New York point of view, bright
lights, a snort at one's, disposal,
swank offices and good living. Yes,
It's a pretty picture. ' However^ my
assignment was entirely different.
Whistle-stops, boasting of from 300
to 2,000 population. Shooting gal-
leries working under the alias of
motion picture theatres, boasting of
capacities of 300 to 000, which was
big, by the way. All independent
exhibitors who used the theatre as
a sideline, said exhlhs being the
operator, janitor, bill-poster, etc.

'Yes, it was not exactly a pretty
setup. Jumps averaging from 200
to 400 miles. Tourist camps, greasy
lunchrooms, very often no telegraiili'
offices, and the reprieve coming
about onct every three weeks which
would afford y<ffi the opportunity to
get back to civilization for • real
bath apd soft bed. to say notUng of
• fleeting glance at your family.

'I grew so tired of trying to locate
exhibitors that I decided to buy a
compass. I managed tQ locate on*
•vary once in a while by hitting •
ranch or-farm. However, my inter
•it In livestock, ootton. «tc., did not
measure up. I was doing Okay, •ven
grabbing th« 10% inereas* over the
previous ycar'j product However,
the thought of being exiled to •
blacked-out country did not •xacOy
appeal to me.- Took everything hi
■trlde, even to. the ext^ of being
a good Democrat but could not help
but yearn for a few words o; even
■ friendly nod from people who
profess to know the picture game

'And now I am back in the old
racket where I at least talk the lan-
guage and command a bit of respect,
t was beginning to look like Walter
Brennan in character. It got so that
pavements gave me sore feet and
en electric light darn near blinded
me.'

SHAYNE, SMITH HEAD
CHI OPERATORS UNION

Chicago, March 10.

Peter Shayne was elected presi-
dent, and John Smith, business agent,
for the coming term of office as
heads of the Chicago Moving Picture
Machine Operators TJnlon last' week.

Glen Sweeney was. named v.p.,
Clarence Jalas, secretary-treasurer.
Executive board is composed of Rob'
ert 3ums, James Slco, George -Karg,
Joseph Berlnsteln. Trustees are Ed-
ward Schultze, Louis Sbarbaro, John
Piotrowskl.

Delegates to the convention of the
International AlQance of Theatrical
Stage Employees convention are
John .Mulvaney, Robert Bums, Peter
Shayne, Glen Sweeney, John Smith.
Sergeant-at-arms Is Sam Klugman.

Janitors Get $1 Raise, No
Strike Vs. 52 FWC Houses

San Francisco, March 10.

Threatened strike against 52 Fox
West Coast theatres In this area was
called off Friday (6) by Intervention
of the Theatrical Federation after
George Hardy, secretary of the
Building Service Employees (Jani-
tors), announced a walkout had been
ordered. Federation took over and
arbitrated the contract renewal, both
sides agreeing less than 24 hours
later to a |1 per day raise for the
• Janitors.

Strike wks originally set for
Saturday (7) by Hardy who sud-
denly broke off contract renewal
negotiations with Fox execs, who ex-
pressed complete* surprise. Week
previously, Hardy was tavolved ta a
short-lived Janitors strike at Nasser
Bros. Tower in which the manager
was slugged.

Jap Air Peril Filmed

Hollywood, Maroh 10,
Story of peacetime light by Amer-
ican commercial );>Uota ' against fha
weight of the Japanese war govern'
ment is told in 'Sky Over China,* to
be produced by Paramount.

Robert Preston draws the star spot,
with Vera Caspary doing the screen-
play, aided technically by Royal
Leonard, .who piloted Chiang Kal
Shek for five years'.

— :

N. Y.llttatres
To Oppose TPU
Wage Demands

Following fpmal preiantatlon of
demands by LooaL.Nci. 1, Tbeatrlcal
Protective Union, to : cover itage-
hands in New York ibcatrei, a meet-
ing will be: held tomorrow (Thurt.)
by representatives of Sieatre man-
agements to discuii demanded salary
Increases and changed working con-
ditions. Aeported reluctance of -N. Y.
theatres to entertain the dentands as
set up hr No. I 'may mean lengthy
negotiations toward a new eont^act

The stagehands .want a 1S% in-
crease under a one-year deal, while
the theatres favor' a longer contraet,
at least for two years. Old agree-
ment, which expired Feb..l, was for
a two-year term.

Present scale is $81.24 for heads of
departments; fWSi for maintenance
men; $71.24 for carpenters and prop'
ertymen, all for a live-day week.

One of the working conditions
which it is expected theatres will
vigorously oppose is elimination of
the seasonal employment clause
which heretofore hai given them the
right to dismiss an entire crew once
a year In favor of hiring another.

The stagehands seek elimination
•of this clause under a new agree-
ment, making it possible for a tiieS'
tre to replace a man only on grounds
of Incompetence, drunkenness or dis-
honesty. However, wliile such
charges might be brou^t by a thea'
tre, it Is pointed out .they'd have to
prove It since final action on a dis-
charge would be up to the executive
board of No. 1.

iTnlon also wants two weeks* vacS'
tlon with pay instead/ of one as well
as a reclassification of the Music
Hall, Roxy and State, N. Y., for pro-
vision of double crews such as at the
Paramount and Strand.

Committee representing theatres
in the negotiations include C. C.
Moskowitz, L. E. Thompson, Robert
M. Weitman, Frank Phelps and Irv-
ing Lesser. Union delegation Is
headed by Bobby Anstedt, president,
Solly Pernik, v.p. and 'Vincent
Solly Pernik, v.p., and 'Vincent

PEACE, IT'S WONDERFUL 1

Father Divine Inflnenoe at NW
Allted's Next Powwow

Minneapolis, Maroh 10.
For the first time within memory
Northwest Allied has sent out an an-
nual convention call which doesn't
carry any threats against distrib-
utors and which is peaceable in tone.
The body has made 'Indtistry har-
mony' the meeting's keynote and has
dropped Its belligerent attitude. In
explanation, the boys say they'll give
the peace dove a chance to fly and
see what can be accomplished In
the way of 'needed reform In trade
practices' by a conciliatory approach.

Organization has been influenced
to drop Its warfare' agabist distrib-
utors, hitherto always regarded as
'common enemies,' by pressure ap-
plied to It to tall hi line on 'Indus-
try unity.' And the Industry unity
plan's progress will be one of the
convention's principal topics of dis-
cussion, with Harry Brandt, pres-
ident of the New York Independent
Theatre Owners' Association, and
other industry leaders here to report
on unity.

Japs Radio

;Coiitlnueil from page 1;

ing over a program which started
with liie announcer giving names of
sU Americans whose voices, he
promised, would be heard at the end.
Gag, of course, was to get listeners to
sit through a propaganda discoutve
so that they'd hear the Americans at
th» finish. .

UP, ' as a ' promotion service for
client papers, eliminated the prop-
agenda and recorded the voices of
the prisoners. These discs were sent
to. papers in the Americans' home-
towns, ' The sheets genertfly printed
the talk, then presented the record-
ing! to the famlUes of the men.

Families complained, however, that
the. voices; although recognizable,
were duU and low-pitched and artic-
ulation was very slow.' Tbey sus-
pected that the m& had been doped
before being, allowed' to' broadcast
This suspicion got back to Japan via
American DXers and the propaganda
experts there reallzM that their stunt
was working in ^verse, creating re-
sentment instead' of convincing peo-
ple In the U. S. that .the prisoners
wera being as well treated as they
said. They thereupon rdlscoutlnued
the voices and now have a Jap- an-
nouncer read the' pi:lsoners'' messages
Inttglish.

Radio nien were of the, opinion
fbtt it wasn't .dope, but a technical-
ity, that made the Amerieahs soimd
10 atrange on the air. Apparently
the Japs were too wily .to stand them
beforjs an 'open mike, so re<iorded
their voices first and then broadcast
the recording; These waxings, it is
tiwught, were played back morie
slowly than the number 'bf revolu-
tions per minute at which they were
cut.' That resulted in a jCweifng of
pitch and the, 'slowness' which
aroused suspicion in this country,
technicians say.

U^. ReTeals SluD IBEW
Agent Took $50,000 In
Graft From Utifity Firm

St. Louis, March 10.

Arthur Schadlng, business a£ent of
IBEW, Local No. 1, who was shot and
killed by two men on Sept. 10, 1989,
was paid between $50,000 and $59,000
in cash by the Union Electric Co. of
Missouri to lirevenl imlon orgahlza-
tlon of the company's employees,
Federal authorities revealed here
last week. Schadlng's slayers have
never been apprehended. The story,
as omtllned by the U. S., was that
payments began in 1934 and con-
tinued up to the time of the murder.

Hie payments were made secretly
after Schadhig is said to have as-
sured execs of the public utlli^ that
he could save plenty of dough by
'Stoiq>lng organization of the em-
ployee s el igible to membership in
the IBEW. To cover up the i>ayoff
Schadhig is alleged to have delegated
a- imion' organizer to conduct phony
meetings among the utility com-
pany's employees. The feds have
been trying to find the two secret
hiding places in which Schadlng Is
alleged to have kept his booty." One
is said to have been on his farm in
Illinois, near St Louis, and the other
in a local bank safe deposit box.

Schadlng was felled by a fusillade
of revolver shots as he was leaving
the tmion headquarters in South S^.
Louis.

Col. Joins 20th, RKO
in Whitecollar Moves

Homeoffice workers at Columbia
voted 21B to 43 for Screen Office Sc
Professional Employees Guild, CIO,
to represent them as collective bar-
gaining agent. National Labor Re-
lations Board announced yesterday
(Tuesday). Loew's h.o. . employees,
who also balloted on Feb. 20 favored
SOPEG by 324 to 137.

NLRB ordered an election by
20th-Fox and Movleton« News em-
ployees within 30 days to determine
whether SOPEG shall represent
them. 'Voting is taking place this
week among RKO workers on the
same question.

NeY. Theatre Picketing Expected
In Pidblicists-Producer Showdown

Teamsters Defer Strike

- Hollywood, March' 10.

Walkout of studio teamsters at
Warner Bros, has been deferred
until the studio has .ah opportunity
to adjust- the grievance.

Assurances" were received' from
other unions that the picket line
woiild be . respected if a strike is
called.

Navy Removes
Of Umite^Bah
In Charleston

Charleston, S. C, March 10.

Rear Admiral WiUlam H. Allen,
commandant, Charleston Navy Yard
and Shcth ^aval District, has lifted
ban, turning thousands of' seamen
and shipyards workers back to thea-
tres, night spots and. oQier amuse-
ment centers.

City recently declared off limits
for Na'vy i^ersonnel, following- sev-
eral night spot and cafe brawls, in-
cluding two. slay Ings and reported
vice rings. Admiral Allen said
cleiUiup necessary, if bah lifted. Off
limits ruling put heaVy cxbnp in
theatres and other amusement takes.

NUerlea Oaii at 'Bbin4a
San Ahtook), March 10.

Army officials have listed ^three
downtown night 8pot^ as.V>ff limits'
to an soldiers in uiiR -aTeai Accord-
ing to Army officials, owner* of the
taverns have been notified in writing
that army personnel., would not be
allowed to enter their places of bust-,
ness due to the 'way the ownerk^jrere
conducting 'their businesses. -.

The Army, it was. said, would not
attempt to close the'nlg^t iipots but
would station M. <P: in front Of the'
spots to see no ' Army personnel
entered.. . -

Following the announpemeni the
three downtown spots dosed. Nanies
of the spots were not revealed by
army officials.

SCG-Metro Pact ~

Hollywood, March 10.

Screen Cartoonists Guild has ap-
proved a hewi two-year contract
with Metro calling for a 40-hour
week and new wage scales retro-
active to Oct 14.

Ceiling on salary for top inkers,
sketch and story men set at $95,

Kravitz Wfll Probably
Succeed Popkin at 30^

Morris Kravltx is reported the
likely choice to succeed Bert Pop-
kin as business manager of Local
306, Moving Picture Machine Op-
erators, covering . the New York
theatres. Enjoying the backing of
a large proportion of the member-
ship, he ran for biz agent in tht
last election in December and lost
out by a very small niarghi. Also,
Kravitz ran strictly as an In-
dependent rather than as a Joe Bas-
son or Harry Geller man.

While it was stated last week that
PopWn quit 306 due to 111 health,
undferstood that he and Gelber. the
new jpresident, did not s6e eye-to-
eye. PopUn, with the union many
years, was . a supporter of Basson,
who lost out for' the presidency.
A special election to decide >on a
successor to Popkin to fill out his
term, runnhig to J'an. 1, 1944, will
probably be held before the end of
the month.

As business agent of 306 Popkin
received $89 weekly, pliis |19 ex-
penses.

Instead of going away for a rest
as reported he was planning to do
Popkhi has Jotaed RCA to work on
the recordhig of the Universal
Newsreel which Is handled by this
organization. However, he is work-
ing only two days weekly on that
job.

Make-Uppers' Back Pay

Hollywood, March 10.

Makeup workers are the first to
profit by the agreement on retro-
active pay Increases between 20th-
Fox and the International Alliance
of Theatrical and Stage Employees.
Upped wages, dathig from July 1. go
to 116 maker-uppers.

Other departmental workers draw
a delayed payoff as soon as account-
ants have figured It out.

Months-old. contract negotiations
between the Screen Publicists Guild
of New York and seven of the major
tproducers came to ^another show-
down yesterday (Tuesday), when a
representative of the companies de-
clared, they would be unable to meet
the 11 a.m.- ultimatum set by the
SPG. Guild thereupon announced it
would embark on a campaign to
'place the collective bargaining dis-
pute before organized labor and the
vast-movlegoing public,' which is un-
derstood to mean .picketing of thea-
tres, distribution of literature and
organization of . a theatre boycott.
Picketing and other action may be
exp^ted any time after today
(Wednesday).

Meantime a complicating factor en-
tered into the situation, with picket-
ing of RKO theatres throughout the
five boroughs of 'New York started
jresterday . by the ,:Sign-Plctorla] &
Display . Union, Loi^ 230, AFL: It
maintains that workers' m'aking, lay-
out for signs and Ibhby displays in '
the RKQ Theatre department are
non-union, and.it has called , out on
strike 65 of its members en4>loyed
by six independent, shop's' which
make the signs and. lobby displays
for. the circuit Actually, some; of
the men in the RKO Theatres'' dis- .
Play department are members of the
SPG, whose jurisdiction is not rec-
ognized.- by LocaT 230. 'following
hearings on Loew's Theatre publi-
cists' affiliation ' recently, however,
th« National Labor- Relations Board
rul'ed the signmen • eligible , for' the
SPG and refused- to allow Local 230
on .the b^ot- ;

SPG set tfae.li ajn. deadlhie yes-
terday as, a.: result of negotiating
meetings' .w.itii producer reps l)io.n-
dajf and Tuiiisday (2-3) of lastrweek.
Agreement on a contract was
reached at' that time but producers'
reps declared they had to get ratifl-.
cation by . tlielr'- principals and
promised an ' answer in 48 hours,
whi^ .'-would have been noon on
"Ehnrsday f '<5).. • Friday Major Les-
lie E. Thondps^OD, of RKO, head 'of
the. vioiacBtH negotiating- cbmmlt-
t^;' tpM. the' SPG his group wbifid
have'; to., have an6ther meietlng Mon-
day (9). . Thereupon the ^^ulld set
the deadUne for yesterday.

There have been two major points
in dispute. One is the length of
time- the contract should nm (the
SPG wanting it' to be short/ and
the producers wanting , a long) pe-
riod) 'and blanket wage ihcrekses.
Producers, on the latter point, ate
understood to have olcayed 10%, but
SPG has demanded more, although
willing to compi^bpiise to ' achieve
other . points.

General membership meethig of
SPG has been called fo;; tomorrow
(Thursday) nlgbt. Individual units -
meik in' thehr respective offices' at
noon yesterday and. okdyed the
projected economic action. Only
major not Involved ih present ne- ■
gotlatlons is Warner Bros.

SKOURASES' ARIZONA
HUDDLE ON NT FUTURE

Phoenix, Ariz,, March ID.
District nqanagers from all peorts
of the country ere converging here
for a checkup by Tfatlonal Theatres.,
headed by ' Spy ros and Charles
Skouras.

Two-day huddle opens Thursday
(12) with abotit 30 representatives
in round-table, talks about new con'r '
dltloiis brought about by the war.

Gmimicks OK bnt Can,
Exhifas Can't Up Prices

Reghia, Sask,, March 10.

If Canadian houses or any other
theatres wish to give away, crockery
or other items -with each admission,
they are free to do so, but they
may not increase the admission price,
according to a ruling by the War-
time Prices and Trade Board.

lit some cases, applications had
been made to the board for the
charging of a service fee in addition
to the regul'ar admission charge at
theatres. The -extra charge was
claimed to be necessary to cover an
increase In the price of premiums.

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ITeclneaday, March 11, 1942

mm

Held over Chicago Theatre, Chicago. Breaks Saturday
attendance record Rivoli, New York City . . . held over.
Holds over in Columbus, Dayton, Cleveland, Buffalo.
Moves over from Lincoln and Surf to Miami and
Mayfair Theatres in Miami. Plays three theatres
simultaneously in Los Angeles and then continues at
three additional theatres. Breaks record in Ailentown.
ff's a sure-fire click everywhere!

All ittipcirtant proilurlion with
4nitp«n<H>, rxritvmmi mul humor.

PhtSlHTS

CAROLE LOMBARD JACK BENNY

ERNST LUBITSCH'S ..^j,

TO BE OR HOT TO BE

v.ik ROBERT STACK . FELDC BRESSART . LIONEL ATVvqLL
STANLEY RIDGES . SIG RUMAN
Pr.Jhttd aij DiitclrJ tj ERNiT LUBITSCH
Ortiinat slory ty Brnti tjibHicb and Mtlfblor Untyl
tcrttHfUy tf Edwin JhsIiis Maytr

- ■-■»™-rt-«v¥v.w.-irv^v-rtv.

Weduesthj, Mkrdt 11; 1942

PICTUBBS

27

SUNDAY FILMS
STEP NEARER
IN MISS.

Jac^oo, MlssL, March 10.

The Mississippi Senate okayed a
Sunday f'^" bin. 29-to-W last week,
thus opening the way for reconsid-
eration in the state ■ legislature's
House ot Representativea, which,
twice previously had beaten meas-
ures liberalizing blue laws.

This was' the first time the pro-
posal had come up in the upper
body. Passage there may have
some influence on possible change in
attitude 'of the House. Indeed, ef-
fect was quickly felt Thursday (5)
when the House Judiciary "B* Com-
mittee, hurriedly called together in
an effort to act before the bluenoses
could return to the attack, favorably
recommended the Senate measure to
the lower body. . „

BfU, which would allow Sabbath
flickers only for the duration of war
and In municipalities within 30
miles of an Army camp or base, is
on a local option basis. Adoption
'was urged off the record by high
Army authorities for morale of "the
military.

EVen in the Senate, the Idea pro-
voked bitter controversy, one em-
battled solon screaming that the
Pearl Harbor tragedy came about
because the soldiers and sailors were
aU attending ■ Sunday movie. ^He
got quick and pithy replies from the
supporters. '

Snnby Pbc SmicM In S. C.

Spartanburg, S. C, March 10.

Stations WSPA and WORD carry-
ing torch for Sunday films here.
Newspapers coveting battle without
taking sides.

Manager Walter G. Brown, '^own-
Ing and operating two stations, of-
fered Sonday show resolution at re-
cent citizens committee meeting. No
action.

Spartanburg-Camp Croft coordi-
nating comndnee, working between
camp and city in behalf of recrea-
tional and entertainment facilities,
has voted no need for Sonday shows,
due to many USO dubs and other
facilities, including tour camp the-
atres.

Paramount-A. H. Blank
Win Over R. Goldberg

Lengthy litigation in which the
TrI-States circuit, a Paramount-
A. H. Blank partnership in the mid-
west, has sought to force the closing
of a theatre in Omaha as part of a
deal It made with Ralph Goldberg;
Omaha independent, years ago, has
resulted in a ruling by the U. S. Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals upholdhig Par-
Blank. Understood Goldberg, who
has been ordered to close bis State in
Omaha within two weeks, may ap-
peal to the U. S. Supreme Court

Trouble grew out of a deal made
with Goldberg In 1934 imder. which
the Tri -States circuit took a 10-year
lease on the Omaha, with the under-
standing, that Goldberg close his
other house, the State, for duration
of the lease as one of its conditions.
He refused to dose tjie State, where-
upon Tri-State went into the courts
to force this action. The lease on the
Omaha meantime has'nearly run out,
with only two years to go under it.

Acting Like a Major, Too

Hollywood, March M.

Republic stepped up the speed of
its writing mill with seven additional
scripters, three of whom are work-
ing on as many Don Barry westerns
to be produced by George Sbermau.

Richard Murphy, Al Demond and
James Webb are doing the Barry
cowpoke yam, 'Code of the Desert,'
"Bad Men of Butte,' and one still un-
titled. Frank Gill, Jr., and Daniel
Moore are assigned to "Water Car-
nival,' and Olive Cooper and Mau-
rice Rapf are working on an untitled
Gene Autry.

•OSCAEITE'S' BEETH

Fostoria, O., March ' 10.

David B. Joy, who, two years' ago
was awarded an 'Oscar* for his de-
velopment ofi a film projector car-
bon, has been named assistant su-
perintendent of the Fostoria, O,
works of the National Carbon Co.
He was formerly head ot the process
engineering laboratory,-

W. Wallace Lozler succeeds him
In the laboratory post.

Navy Relief Benefit

^^^Contlaned from page z

board meeting, who siiggested that
Walter Winchell be enlisted to front
for and q>onsor the show, and there's
no gainsaying the excellent promo-
tion job Winchell did.

Program got underway at 8:40 .p.m.
with Lucy Monroe singmg 'The Star
Spangled Banner.' Backing her
chorally was the U. S. Navy Glee
Club from the Prairie State train-
ing ship.

Berlin'i Seng and floiadora Sextet'

Some of the' highlights were Kate
Smith's delivery of Irving BerUn's
new- tUne, *I Threw a Kiss in ' the
Ocean'; the double Floradora Sex-
tet especially written by Sylvia Fine
(Mrs. Danny. I'Caye) and including
Danny Kaye, Eddie Cantor, Boris
Karlofl, Ed Wynn, Clifton Webb,
Vincent Price, Eve Arden, Leonora
Corbelt, TaUuIah Bankhcad, Gert-
rude Lawrence, Sophie TuckeiJ and
Peggy Wood; and a host of others,
such as Andre Kostelanetz leading
a symphony of 60; Fred Allen; Ed-
gar Bergen; George S. Kaufman and
Moss Hart; Joe K Lewis, Jimmy
Durante, Bert Lahr, George Jessel,
the Inkspots — in fact, virtually every-
body on the bill scored big with a
very receptive audience.

The Coast was well represented by
such EteUar players' as Walter Pld-
geon, Tyrone Power, Randolph Scott,
LOretta Toung, Bette Davis, John
Carradine, Merle Oberon, Reginald
Gardner, Constance Bennett, Janet
Gaynor, Myma Loy, Madeleine Car-
roll, John Garfield.

Show's m.c.s were Winchell, Pid-
geon, Tyrone Power, Bert Lytell,
Randolph Scott, Ed Gardner, Jack
Haley-and Henny Youngman.

Madison Square Garden made its
terms very- easy for the. show, tak-
ing a flat rental of only $5,000, which
included the staff. All the unions,
■long with the talent, donated 'Qieir
manpower.

.. Nix 925,M» far Broadawt

Offer of $25,000 from Pabst beer
for the privilege ot-«ponsoring the
show on the Blue network was
turned down. Navy held that adver-
tising of beer on the program would
not b^ acceptable. It was feared
also that commercial sponsorship
would cause complications with
unions whose members were con-,
tiributing their services. In addition
to the $25,QOO Pabst was ready to
hand to Navy Reh'ef was another
$25,000 it was willing to pay for the
r«dio time.

Navy Relief has already profited
to the extent of $2,500 on the tune
which Irving Berlin wrote expressly
for it, 1 Threw a Kiss Into the
Ocean.! It was introduced by Kate
Smith a few nights ago. Berlin has
turned over a check for $2,500 ad-
vance royalties and has given Navy
Relief the copyright

The program, chairmaned by Marie
(Mrs. W. Averall) Harriinan, carried
55 pages of advertising at $500 a
page, plus some additional revenue
from anonymous advertisers who
prefered not to use th^ names.
Mrs. Harriman personally accounted
for sohdting 25 pages of total

Anny Regiilatioiis Hobble
Rep's Fifanmg m Alaska

Hollywood, March 10.

War regulations are holding up
Republic's plans to send a location
troupe to Alaska to make outdoor
scenes for The Great Northwest
Frontier.'

Alaska, is under more stringent
military jurisdiction than California.
Studio officials are negotiating with
Army authorities for permission to
shoot scenes in the far north. Pic-
ture is slated-to start in five weeks.

20tli to Vote on Diwys

20th-Fox directors are scheduled
to meet tomorrow (Thursday) to
consider both preferred and common
dividens.

Preferred stock divvy of $1.50 an-
nually has been maintained regu-
larly but voting of a common divi-
dent is dubious, according to recent
actions.

New Cinema Sleuth

Hollywood, March 10.

New detective series, built on the
character originated in 'The Kid
Glove Killer' by 'Van Heflin, is under
way at Metro.

Next on the list is 'Along Came
McKay,' with Heflin playing the
name role, a modem Sherlock
Holmes, with test tubes and what-
not.

Con. FihnV J513,451 Net

Consolidated FUm Industries, which
controls Republic Pictures, showed
a net profit of $513,451, or per
preferred share for 1941. This com-
pared with $590,031 or $1.47 on tiie
pieferred for the preceding year.

Company revealed 400,000 shares
of $2 preferred outstanding, and that
$10' was due in dividend arrears on
the stock at the end of I94I. Con-
solidated recently declared a 2Sc
diwy on the stock.

Statement of Herbert J. Yates,
president, to stockholders pointed
out. that the company is continuing
its policy of financing the production
and distribution of Republic Pictures
from which the company derives a
large volume of laboratory work.
He stated that gross income from
Republic in the past year was 26%
greater than 1940.

Repubic's net income for its fiscal
year ending last April 30 was $167,-
302 after providing for Federal in-
come taxes, and will be substantially
in- excess of that for the fiscal year
ending next April, according to
Yates.

Consolidated's estimated Federal
tax liability for 1941 totaled $230,000,
or $45,000 more than the $185,000 in
1940.

Lang^s Walpole Tale

Hollywood, March 10.
Director chore on "Blind Man's
House' at 20th-Fox goes to Fritz
Lang.

Story, written by Hugh Walpole,
British novelist, is being produced
by MQton Sperling.

More Criticisn

;CoiitlBBed from pace 4;

les or elsewhere, such as, for in-
stance, rubber which came from ,
Malaya, silk which came from
Japan, and certain essential In-
gredients in the manufacture of
steel, which came, from various
foreign countries — materials
which have how been cut off.

To my indignant amazement,
there was , no such moral or
warning, and the implication was
left with us in the audience that
'all was well in this best of all
possible worlds.*.

I consider such a picture,, how-
ever innocent of intention It
may be, inexcusably dangerous
and misleading at this time. Cer-
tainly, if I had been as unin-
formed on the subject as I was a.
few months ago, -I would have
come out of- that theatre exud-
ing complacency about our pro-
duction program. I say . that
people who present to us on the ,
screen or otherwise, a fod's*'
paradise, however innocently,
are as dangerous as the most
dangerous Fifth Columnist.
An industry executive who has
long been intimate with the newsred
situation declares that the newsreels
are not to be blamed for lack of au-
thoritative and docinnentary war
film. It is his contention that the
Army and Navy censors are keeping
a tight grip on scenes of military
action or preparation. With the big-
gest story in the world's history
blasting and bursting on a thousand
battle fronts, American newsreels are
bdng permitted, he said, to show
only a fraction of -available footage.

Involved in the causes of restric-
tions, it jwas pointed out, is not only
military necessities :uid the danger
of revealing information to the ene-
my but problems of civilian morale.
As to the right of the service depart-
ments to handle the former in any
manner they wish, there apparently
is no question in any minds. It is an
extension of regulation to the highly
controversial field of morale, how-
ever, that has stifled editorial selec-
tion and treatment of news by the
newsreel editors.

. Illustrative of this is the manner
in which the Army and Navy with-
held from the public the views of the
Pearl Harbor attack and damage.
The attack took place on Dec. 7, but
the reels, stringently cut, were nol
rdeased in theatres until Feb. 27,

In line with the above, and espe-
cially Mr. Stowe's opinion, 'Variety's'
review this week of the Embassy
Newsreel theatre, on page 49, suc-
cinctly starts off: "The -.newsreels
again this week offer a buoyant, ro-
seate picture of the war. The grim
and grisly side intrudes but once. In
some very brief glimpses of dead
Nazi soldiers on the Russian front
(Paramount). Thus newspapers and
radio may produce a sense of grave
misgiving, but there are the news-
reels for surcease from lowered
spirits. . . .'

N J. Indies' Nix, Conn, s ModificatiMs
Indicate Opinions Mer on UMPI

Further conferences of the sub-
committee of the United Motion Pic-
ture Industry may become neces-
sary to amend the sales plan worked
out 10 days ago, as a result of the
flat rejection of the proposals by the
Padfic Coast (Conference - ot Inde-
pendent Theatres Owners- as "un-
satisfactory,' plus action, of AUied of
New Jersey hi offering a substitute
plan.

AUied of-- Connecticut voted on
Monday (9) to approve the sales
program of UMPI on. condition that
there be an outfight 20% cancella-^
tion on the total cost of the block
of 12 pictures sold, including the five
that would be tradesbown.

Indications that opinion with re-

Gordon-Goefz Making
'Am. Way' for Cohnnbia

Hollywood, March 10.
Max Gordon and Harry Goetz will
produce The American' Way' for
CJolumbia release instead of RKO
which shared with Gordon tiie
$250,000 purchase price ot the'
George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart stage
play. RKO sold, its half, interest to
Ciordon-Goetz; after leaving the
story on the shelf since Gordon
left the lot three years' ago. George
Stevens tnll direct from a - script
now being prepared by Sidney
Buchman. Likely Fredric March,
who starred in the legit version on
Broadway, •wUI have the picture
lead. Goridon co-presented the legit
version -with the late Sam H. Harris.

British Film on Spitfire
Inventor Set for Release

Incomplete print of. The First of
the Few,' being shot in' England ■with
Samuel Goldwyn as a partner in the
production, arrived In this country
last week. Goldwyn will supervise
the editing for United States release.

Final scenes of the pic, which is a
life story of R. J. Mitchell, inventor
of the Spitfire, are now being com-
pleted at Denham. They include re-
enactment of the Battle of Britain,
with fighter- planes; pilots and
ground crews loaned by the Fighter
Command.

Leslie Ho-ward and David Niven
are starred. Film -wUI be released
during the summer.

spect to the UMPI selling plan Is dl*
vided Is gleaned from the fact that
four exhibitor associations during
the. past week voted unanimously to
approve it They are Allied of Mary-
land, Allied of Illinois, Allied of Ih"
diana. and the Independent Thea-
tre Owners Assn. ot New York.
. The New Jersey group, meetin{(
Monday (9) In Newark, recom-
mended that all pictures in thia
blocks of 12 be designated as to star,
director and synopsis -with the ex-
hib having the privilege of rejeding
any pictures if more than oine of th*
designations is changed.

New Jersey Allied also wants th«
option to ' caned a. straight 20% of
.the iotal amount of money repre-
sented under the cantrAct- made,
with any overages untler percentage
deals ta be. induded in 'computing
the cost involved, It an exhib de-
cides to cancel a film, sold under per-
centage, then the Tental is to b*
detennined' in accordance -with th«
average rental paid on the lour prior
picttires - of the same ^ompanj;
played.

Coast iBdrcs Nhe nan

San Francisco, March 1(L '
Trustees of the Pacific Coast Co^-.
ference of Independent Theatr*
Owners unanimously rejeded a prt>-
posed selling plan to replace the cur-
rent blocks-of-flve. under the consent
decree at session here. Resolution
adopted called the- 12^pictnres sdl« .
ing plan "unsatisfactory and not suf-
ficient in itself to correct present Ula
in ' the distribution and sale of pic-
tures.'-

PCClTO also went on record aa
believing, 'Unity in industry can only
be accompished when producers and
distributors discontinue increasingly-
unfair trade practices and unfair de-
mands In fihn rentals and percent-
ages and recognize exhibitors' right
to more equitable division of th«
boxoffice dollar.'

Ginger's Pair for RKO

HollywoO«^ Mafct 10.

RKO schedule for IS42-43 calls for
two pictures by Ginger Rogers, tb«
first slated to start in June.

Both films will be produced^Jis^.
David Hempstead, one ot them a '
musical, probably reunited with Fred,
Astaire. 'Studio has several yam*',
awaiting, the star's approvaL

\

New York Theatres

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OetrtllnntlNAJI. HIONITE SHOWS

28 IIADIO

Wedttesdajr, Miurcli H, 1942

Muflen Talk on Mo s First tar'
Opens Series of NCC Meetings
Dealing witth Aid to Government

A group of NBC txecutlves wlU
atert a tour Monday (IB) and con-
tinuing through April 1 *or confer-
ences with regional and affiliated
station officials regarding plans for
furthering the network's war effort
activities. First meeting will he
Monday-Tuesday at the Waldorf-
Astoria hotel, N. Y.

Subsequent sessions will be March
18-10 at the Netherlands-Plaza hotel.
Cincinnati; March 20-21 at the Bilt-
more hotel, Atlanta; March 23-24 at
the Baiter hotel, Dalles; March 26-
27 at the Drake, Chicago, and March
81-Aprll-l In San Francisco. Local
officials wlU preside at the various
gatherings.

NBC group will be headed by Wil-
liam S. Hedges, v.p. In charge of sta-
tions and . will include Roy C. Wit-
mer, sales v.p.; Dr. James Rowland
AngeU, ' public service counsellor;
Ken Dyke, promotion director;
Charles Brown, his assistant; Shel-
don Hickox, Jr,' station relations
manager; Albert E. Dale, informa-
tlon director; James M. Gained, of
'station relations; Clarence L. Man-
ser, program manager; Jules<Herbe-
veux, program manager of the Cen-
tral Division, Chicago; Frank . M.
RusSell, Washington v.p.; Harry
Kopf, Chicago v.p.; Sidney N. Strotz,
Coast v.p.

Russell will attend the New York,
Atlanta and Chicago confabs. Kopf
will be at the New York, Chicago,
Atlanta and Dallas meets; Brown
will be present at all biit the Dallas.
Dr. AngeU at New York, Chicago,
Cincinnati and Atlanta; 'thomas
RishworUi, in session. Dr. AngeU
- wlU attend the, New York, Atlanta,
Chicago and Atlanta meetings, with
Thomas Rishworth, in charge of pub-
lic service programs In the east, rep-
resenting him at th t DaUas conclave
. and Jennings Pierce, public service
'p'rogram chief In the W^, at the San
Francisco session. Strotz will be
present only in. San Francisco, with
the rest of the group making the
entire trip and wlfh Menzer and
Herbeveux splitting assignments. \ '■'
Mnllen'f Address '

At the New York meeting Frank
E. MuUen, v.p. and general manager,
wiU speak on iRadio's First War,'
with Menzer and Dr. AngeU also
giving talks'. If) addition, therci will
be various ope n di scussions.. Paul
W. Morency, of WTIC, Hartford, and
First District representative of NBC's
■tations planning and advisory board,
wlU • preside over .the ■ New York
meeting. James D. Shouse, pf WLW,
Cincinnati, wiU chairman the. meet-
k Ing there.

I Harry Stone,, of WSM, NashvUle,
iTenn., wUl chairman the Atlanta
^ eessidn. O. L. Taylor, of KGNC,
North Platte, Neb, ..wiU . preside at
the DaUas confab, Stanley Hubbard,
of KSTP, MlnneapoUs-St Paul, wiU
chairman the Chicago gathering.'
Arden, Pangbom, of KGW, Port-
land, bre., and Ed Yocum, of KGYL,
Billings; Mont., share chairmanship
of ithe San Francisco session. -

Businei* Outlook Gags

Recent rash of network cancel-
lations already has produced a
crop of gags. A web exec when
asked last week, "How Is buai«
ness,' Is reported to Save re-
torted: 1 don't know. Tm not
opening my malL'

Another quip, credited to L. B.
WUson of WCKY, Chicinnatl, is*
■Business is 80% better than last
year.' •

,WJSV Staff Rbgiied

' ' 'Washington, March 10.
- AU employees of WJSV, Washing
toi. outlet of CBS, w^e flnger-
prlnted'and photoed last week.

They're to be llsued Identiacatlon
cards siiiiilar to those in use at the
network's New York headquarters
the last few weeks.

WiNCHELL TIME
JAMONSUPPS
SOLVED

The Jergena Co., which sponsors
Walter WlncheU and "The Parker
Family,' has decided to keep 'the two
shows in their present Sunday 0-9:30
p.m. period on the Blue Network
but the repeat broadcast over the
four NBC-Red supplementaries wiU
occur at 10:30 p.m. instead of mid-
night The switch: in rebrqadcast
time solves the dUemma in which
the account found itself last week
when NBC advised that the three
NBC southern supplementary groups
which had heretofore been included
in Wincheil's Blue hookup would no
longer be available at.O p.m. Sterl-
ing Products, . which occupies the
Sunday 9 to 10 p.m. stretch on NBC,
had demanded deUvery of these
supps.

JergcBS was informed several days
later that it could avoid the loss of
these supps by moving the shows
altogether to the Sunday 10:30-11
p.m. segment on NBC. That would
have removed WincheU and the
serial entirely from the Blue, After
conferring .with its agency, Lennen
& MitcheU, the account elected to
remain Blue add NBC.

The NBC supps. over which Wln-
cheU wlU broadcast at 10:30 are the
southeastern, the southcentral, the
southwest and the 'Pacific. Listeners
in the southeast wiU hear him twice,
since the Blue southeastern group
wUl be part of the 9 o'clock broad-
cast ' .

'While Jergens ' was ' considering'
what choice to make Mutual came
into' the picture with an . offer to
supply the Sunday 8 p.m. EWT spot

POST TOASTIES OCCUPIES
MAXWm SPOT JUNE 3

General Foods wiU keep a variety
show going , throughout the summer
in the Thursday 8:30-9 p.m. slot on
NBC. The present Frank Morgan-
Fannle Brice' combination wUl have
a different product with the^ June 4
broadcast' Instead of MaxweU
House Coffee it wlU be Post Toastles.

In previous simuners this program
received vacations nmning from
eight to 13 weeks.

May Expand Tongh Talk

•Let's Fight,' the WEAP, New
York, quarter hour of mlUtary music
and pugnacious comments- now heard
at 7:46 a.m. thrice • week, may be
expanded to daUy airlpg In April.

Some commercial nibbles on pro-
gram, too.

Mary Mason Bronght Back
At Salary Increase For
"Mandie's Diary' Program

Mary Mason, whose contract as
title actress on 'Maudle's Diary*
was terminated several wedcs ago,
has been rehired for the same part
on the same show. New contract
carries a salary Increase and, in>
stead of providing for four years'
option on her services, in IS-week
cycles, is now a straight 13-week
deal. She receives blUing.

'When Miss Meson was slated to
go off the program another actress
was' substituted for the Feb< 20 re-
peat broadcast Recording of that
show was compared to a platter of
Miss Mason's performance in the
original broadcast of the same in-
staUment. Two discs were then
played before a ' rep resentat ive
femme audience, which voted in
favor of Miss Mason. Also renewed
for an additional 13-week stretch
was Gordon Graham, whose con-
tinuation as director had been in
doubt

Maudle's Diary* Is heard 7:30-8
p.m. (12:30-1 repeat) Xliursdays on
CBS. Wonder Bread (Continental
Baking) Is the sponsor and' Ted
Bates the agency. Show is produced
by the 'WiUiam Morris office and. Is
adapted by Albert G. MUIer from the
Graeme and - Sarah Lorimer maga-
zine stories.

Don't Gre Appeasers Sati^action of
Fordng Winciieli Off Air'-Combs

George HamUton Combs, commen-
tator on WHN, New York, was
among, the voices raised last week to
defend Walter WincheU now that he
has. drawn the ire of the negotiated
peace crowd, pro-Germans and other
. inich Uk.

Said Combs over the air, in part:
'Dwing the Uwt two or three
weeks, tt concerted ej^ort has been
made hy the appeasers and the re-
acttOTiaries and the pro-^osci^ts to
emborross WincheW. This cleuerly
orgahized campaitm Jk/s as its ob-
jective, either the dismissal of
WincheU from the United States
Kaiyy, or as an- altermtive, his re-

tirement from radio ... the navy
has, I believe quite properly, asked
him to remain for the time beirig, '
leost, at his present post of duty. •
do not know WincheU, but I recog-
nize that his attitudes on matters o'
public concern are sound and whole
some and decent. WincheU started
his almost solitary battle a0ai?tst the
Nazis when it'was extremely danger
ous for any man on the radio t6 un
dertake such a campaign. To chase
WincheU off the air would be a
distinct contribution to .Nazism ond
an equally distinct disservice to the
democratic cause and to the /undo
mental right of free speech!

RANALD MacDOUGALL
QUITS NBC SCRIPTING

Ranald MacDougall has resigned
from the NBC scripth^g staff, effec-
tive March 31, and wiU free-lance.
He's also 'writing a series of recorded,
shows, which Charles . Schenck is
producing, for shipment to England
and airing there by BBC. Latter
programs are about the U. S.

Before becoming an NBC staff
writer . about three years ago, Mac-
DougaU worked In the company's
mimeographing department

I'mth or Consequences^
On Transcriptions, Too

'Procter & Gamble will use off-the-
line records of 'Truth ' or Conse-
quence' to plug. Ivory Flakes In east-
em and midwest markets. The con-
tents of the records WiU be different
from the program that Usteners in
these two areas hear on NBC Satur-
day nights. They wiU be replicas of
the repeat broadcasts to the west
coast in which a new set of partici-
pants and gags is used.

The discs wUl be spotted, on night-
time schedules. Most of the selected
stations ' will start them next week.
Compton Is t^e agency.

HOWARD CLOTHES OFF

Drops 'Bulldog Dmmmond' March
22 — Feeli Scaroity of Wool Fabrics

'Bulldog Dnmunond,' half -hour
whodunit series Sunday nights on
Mutual, is not a possiblUty for re-
newal beyond the present sequence
ending March 22. InabUity of tiie
cUent, Howard Clothes, to get more
than a Umited supply of wool Is the
reason. Show had previously bden
expected to go through the spring
season.

Redfield- Johnstone' is the agency.

Harbord Paid $60,920

James G. Harbord, chairman of
Radio Corporation of America, was
paid $60,920 by the company and its
subsidiaries in 1941, according to re^
port Issued this week by the Se'
curlties & Exchange Commission. It
also revealed that he owned 847
shares of first preferred and 653 com-
mon shares.

SEC also listed May 5 as the date
for the annual RCA stockholders'
meeting.

Hammert Soials Scram Toi^
P&GSeriiil Opposition at 3^ P.M.

Samoff Heckled

David Sarnoff, head of RCA.
was Interviewed' by Charley
McCarthy (Edger Bergen) on the
63d floor of Radio City yesterday
(Tuesday) afternoon before the
lay and trade press. Dummy
gave Samoff a royal ribbing
about' the radio outlook.

It's first time auch an occasion
has been arranged. Strictly for
the insiders. Not broadcast

DONOVANITES
NOW PRODUCE
FORWLWO

Schanectady, March 10.

General Electric has discontinued
])roadcasting over Jts. shortwave sta-
tions WGEO-WGEA certain ItaUan
and German language programs that
it previously received from 'WLWO,
Cincinnati, in exchange for its
French and Swedish language pro-
grams. The exchange had previously
cleared by land wires through the
switchboard, of the Coordinator of
Information (Donovan Committee)
at 270 Madison avenue, New York
City. General Electric became miffed
uppn discovery that the German and
Italian announcers of WLWO had
been moved a fortnight ago from
Cincinnati to New York without
notification to Schenectady.

WGEO-WGEA have slnice made
arrangements to continue German
and Italian language shortwave
propaganda obtained from NBC and
CBS sources.

Okay With Crosley

Cincinnati, March 10.

Crosley-owned WLWO, shortwave
sifter station to WLW, expects to
maintain increasingly Intimate rela-,
tionshlp with the Donovaa Commit-
tee. It is anticipated that the recent
takeover of the German' and ItaUan
service by the Donovanites is the
beginning of additional servicing by
the Governmefi^ agency. Crosley
firm is said to see no reason for
disapproving poUcy of Coordinator
of Information to originate DX pro-
grams from its new studios in Man-
hattan and feeding them through to
the Cincinnati shortwave beams to
the outside world.

'WLWO wlU continue to originate
in Cincinnati its own program serv-
ices in Span^h for South America.

m MEEK' CAST ADRIFT
BY LEVER BROTHERS

Option on 'Mr. Meek' (CBS) was
not picked up last week when it
became due and the program goes
off for Lever Bros. AprU 1. It plugs
Lifebuoy, with RuthrauS & Ryan as
the agency.

Account hasn't decided as yet
whether it wants ' to Jceep the
Wednesday 8-8:30 p.m. i>eriod that
'Meek' occupies for t>itebuoy re-
placement R & R meanwhUe is au-
ditioning "The Amazhig Mr. Smith,'
with Jack Haley in the lead, in Life-
buoy's behalf.

Four Sterling and American Home
l^oducts tarlals In the S-4 pjaa. bour
on the Blua are being moved by tba
Blackett-Sahiple-Hummert ageiicy to
the 11-12 Bjn. period on the same
network. Transfer becomes effee>
tive March 23, the date of the next
18-week cycle. Hookup consists, itf
115' stations and the programs In-
volved are 'Orphans of Divorce'
(Bayer and R I<.,Watkln8), *Amanda
of Honvmoon HiU' (Haley's M-O
and Dr. Lyona); 'John's Other Wife'
(Edna Wallace Hopper and Wyeth
HUls) and 'Just Plain BUI' (Aha-
cin).

Move gets .the four shows away,
froih competition with the strong
quartet of serials on I^C in the 3-4
p.m. period. Latter include 'Against
the Storm,' 'Ma Perkins,' 'Pepper
Young' an.d ?Vlo and Sade,' aU spon-
sored by Procter tt Gamble. Oppo-
sition wlU now be 'Mary Marlin,'
"Right to Happiness,' The Bartons'
tor P. & G. and 'David Harum' for
Babbitt on iRed, and "Bright Horizon'
and 'Aunt Jenny' for (Seneral MlUs,
on CBS.

As a result of the serial transfer,
there wlU be a.t^eneral reshuffle of
the Blue daytime schedule, partic-
ularly as regards filling the vacated'
3-4 p.m. hour. Helen Hiett's news
series wUl be continued in the '10:19-
10:30 ajn, spot and . 'House in the
Country' serial wUl also stay at
10:30-10:45 a.m Untitled new show,
based on actual fact stories of army
chaplains and aired in" cooperation
with the War Department, wiU be
started in the 10:45-11 a.m. niche.

Among the other programs being
Considered as replacements are 'John
Doe, . American,' a folksy family
serial by Woody CUose,' who writes a
show caUed 'Susan' on the Canadian
Broadcasting Corp., and "Vance
and Lila . Starr,' now beard on a
Coast hookup. 'Sur lea Boulevards,' .
a French-language musical seides
from Montreal, may be scheduled in
the 8:30-8:45 period Thursday nights,
the Royal Northwest Mounted PoUce
band may be spotted Saturday after-
noons and a hiUbiUy show origin-
ating on Prince Edward Island, may
be put in the 6-6:15 p.m. daUy slot
on the network, though not locally
on WJZ.

RADIO WRITERS DRIVE
IN NON-KEY AREAS

Radio Writers Giuld has appointed
a new membership committee and
plans ah intensive membership
drive, particularly ' emphasizing
scrlpters outside of New York, Chi-
cago and Hollywood. Idea la that
the organization's priesent member-
ship in the key cities Is fairly com-
plete, but doesn't extend as weU In
other communities, where' GuUd
representation would presimiably be
more valuable for the writer..

New York committee . Is chal^-
maned by Nora Stirling, succeeding
PhUo Hlgley, who recently went to
the Coast on a Columbia film script-
ing deal, Other cojnmlttee members
include Ai^ Barley, Bob Newman,
Lynn Stone, Charles Jackson, EUza- '
beth Hart and Stuart Ayers.

"'Moose Jaw, Sask.-^oyce Carncross
added to CHAB, Moose' Jaw, as a
writer and Norma McBain as an-
nouncer.

CBSForgetsSununerTorecast'Series;
Too Busy Witii Mor^de IVograms

Coltmibla wUl not offer its usual
'Forecast' series this summer. Sus-
talner stanzas, offer'M the last two
summers to showcase various pro-
gram ideas and formulas for pros-
pective sponsors, wlU probab^ be
forgotten for the duration. Net-
work's program department too busy
with current 'and forthcoming war
shows.

Two current commercial shows on
CBS resulted from 'Forecasf pres-
entations, both from the 1040 series.
One is the Andre Kostelanetz-Albert
Spalding program, taken by Coca-
Cola, with some modification from

'Battle of Music,' retaining producer
George Zachary and scrlpter George
FauUqier, but not including Ray-
mond Paige or the classics-versus*
swing idea. Other is 'Duffy's Tav*
em,' taken virtuaUy Intact by Schick
razo:^ . from Ed Gardner's original
formula. General Foods takes over
sponsorship of the show next .Tues-
day bight (17) for Sanka coffee.

All Stephnuon, WNAC-WAAB,
Boston, pubUdty head, resigned to
enlist in Marines. James Powers,
from promotion d^partmen^ suc-
ceeds.

TWO GOOD WAYS

-Two broadcasts widely separated in type Sunday night (8)
provided interesting occasions for speculation. anent right and
wrong, eflfective or ineffective niethods of radio-communicating
intelligence and points of view to the public during wartime.
Because everybody seems, agreed that lies are never in order
and never good prbpaganda for a democracy, the viewpoint of
scholarship, as enunciated on Cesar Searchinger's 'Story Be-
hind the News' (NBC, 11:15 p.m.) was especially pertinent.
Making a guest appearance on the program because it was the
fourth anniversary thereof, Trof . James Shotwell, of Columbia
University, recalled what historians, did in the last war under
his chairraanshipv and bespoke the value of truth and carefully
checked statement. Sfich is the stated policy of this program,
of which the American Historical Assn. is the sponsor and
Searchinger the regular speaker.

, The power of calm statement, clear, balanced, realistic, has
been well exemplified by this series. Even when the news is
unpleasant (and hasn't it been?) the unadorned scholarship

now.

Essentially, however, Searchinger's program is probably
somewhat upper crust. However simply written and deliv-
ered, the th&ughts remain a;bit 'highbrow' for the masses. How
to best use radio to stir the latter is currently a problem that
the morale stage managers have not conspicuously solved. That
is where the second program of Sunday evening (CBS, 10:30
p.m.) may serve as an interesting contrast. 'They Live For-
ever', interpolated a section, of script built aroutjd Ed Gardner's
dese, dem and dose bartender character, Archie, of 'Duffy's
Tavern' fame.

Gardner discussed going' to a baseball game, a Brooklyn
Bums' affair. His whole vernacular was from the tough nfeigh-
borhoodSi But the. sounds and gab of the bleechers shouting at
the umpires, joshing each other; etc., built a powerful contrast
to the regimented; heils dramatized as takmg place , in the
Sportspalast of Berlin, The whole technique of eniploying ex-,
aggerated sports jargon and side-of-the-mouth delivery to get
across abstract ideas about good guys and bad guys, the lineup
for today between the United Nations and the Axis Nations,
packed a lot of potential wallop.

To sum up, absolute fidelity , to scholarship seeStis to fit
morale's best purposes for the fihcier vocabularies.. Down-to-
earth regard tor everyday lingo belongs to the program that
shoots at the lower strata of the population,

QUIZKIDSAND
ALLEN SWAP

•Quiz Kids' (Alka SelUer) will
make a special appearance Sunday,
March 29,^ on the Fred Allen (Tex-
aco) program. In return Allen -will
appear w^th the Kids on their own
program as quiz^-mOster. Latter date
will be April Fool's Day,

Jack Benny and the Kids did- a
similar swap last season.

FREAK mOSION
AT KOIN, PORTIAND

I Portland, Ore., March 10.

KOIN staffers got a jolt last week
from an explosion and fire in the
technicians' supply room. Caused by
spontaneous combustion o.!- a bag ot
disc filings, explosion blew office
doors open throughout the. studio
and knocked people off their chairs.
Announcer Joe Mitchell who was
' ready to put on a spot announce-
ment, landed on the floor when he
sat on a non-existent chair that had
been blown from under him.

Earl Denham and Jack Lombard,
KOIN technicians, were burned
about the face and hands, but not
iseriously. Damage to supplies, how-
ever, was considerable.

Bill Rambeau's New Three
Chicago, March 10.
William Rambeau rep office lias
been appointed as national sales rep
for three more stations.

They are WMIN, St. Paul; KABC,
San Antonio; KBON, Omaha,

To Write Special Radio
Show for War Board

Wastilngton, March 10.

Sandra Michael, author of 'Agahist
the Storm,' Procter & (Samble serial
on NBO, may write a show for the-
War Produiition Board, which last
week tooks,over the radio - depart-
ment of the Office of Emergency
Management Scrlpter has tenta-
tively agreed to do the new pro-
gram, but is uncertain about wliat
specific propaganda idea Is .to be,
stressed and what form the stanza
should take.

Bernard C. Shoenfeld, WPB radio
head, asked Miss Michael to do the
'series. She la currently In Palm
Springs, Cel., but the matter is being
handled for her In New York by
John Gibbs, her husband and pro-
ducer of 'Storm.'

Jay Simsjto WLW

Clnchinatt, March 10.

Jay ' Sims, who succeeded Peter
Grant on WL^i 11 p.m. news spot
Monday (9), Is piping the programs
from New York for a few days,
pending his final release from WdB,
where he has been doing a newscast
at the same time. The copy, pre-
pared by Fred Thomas, veteran
CrosI^ newsroom man, is filed from
here and, temporarily, la being re-
corded by Sims because of the WOR
stint. Sponsorsliip is divided be-
tween Salhepatlca, Mlnlt Bub and
Luden's cough drops.

Grant Joined the Army Monday
(9) at Fort Thomas, Ky„ opposite
Cincy, as Private Melvyn Meredith
McGinn.

SPECIAL BIIDIO

Broadcast Deaigned . to Raise
Hopes ol^ Victims of Nazis
—Will Be Heard Around
the World in Many Lan-
guages and Will Empha-
size Democratic Com-
raderie of Alien Races
Working' on Assembly
Lines of Motor City

GOVT. LIKES IDEA

Detroit, March 10.

Detroit will tell the United States,
the Uni^d . Nations and the enemy
what to expect from Detroit, now
that the motor city is stripped down
for war and nothing but war. A.
super-morale radio program will be
broadcast March 22 to -the whole
world, in wiiich not only will the
mechanical Imow-how of Detroit be
shouted, but will be shouted In half
a dozen languages to prove to Euro-
peans and Asiatics now under the
heel of tyranny that democracy Is.
real in Detroit, where all races and
all tongues .work together on the
assembly lines so that in due season
the United Nation^ will piln back the
ears of Germany,'. Japan and Italy,
A Newspaper I4clk

This radio program Idea began as
a suggestion by the 'cosmopollfjan
editor" . of the Detroit Free Pre^,:
Paul M. Dea'c, who also heads a n£w
group called 'Americans All/ which
is bringing the Immigrant stock to-
gether for the fight .Reaction to 'Qie
suggestion has been so enthusiastic In
Washington that- .Vice-President
Henry Wallace or Under-Secretary of
State Summner Welles may eon^e
here for the broadcast. . ^

The major radio clialnia are ex-
pected to take at least one-half hour
of the program from a ' Hally of
Freedom,' to be staged In an audi-
torium .here. Shortwave facilities
and' cooperation of the British Broad-
casting Corp. have been lined up. .

It's hoped the size, scope, polyglot
nature — German, Polish, French,
Italian, etc.— of program from fabu-'
lous Detroit, with Its production
genius, will make the Nazis feer 111
and . their, victims .feel the upsurge of
hope in the bold promise of rescue,

Broadcasts in many' languages. In
whole and in excerpi are' bein^ ar-
ranged, so that maximum impact on
behalf of democratic propaganda can
be obtained.

Tanks-Iilmeys Liaison

WMCA, N. Y., debuts today (Wed-
nesday) a series of programs aimed
at bringing British and .American
arfnaments workers into closer con-
tact Series will also be shortwaved
over WRUL. The tmity idea is be-
ing directed by the labor division
of the War Production Board.' '

Jnitial program will feature Sidney
Hillman.. Slated for later inclusion
are Ernest Bevin, British labor min-
ister, and other prominent United
National labor leaders. Both Amer-
ican and British munitions workers
will also participate in telling United
Nations soldiers wherever they are
what they, the worker^, are ^oing to
help defeat the Nazis, Italians and
Japs.

WiU Hire Wives While
Husbands Are in Army

Lincoln, Neb., March 10.

When Mrs. Barney Oldfleld started
in the KFAB-KFOR continuity de-
partment yesterday (9), general
manager Don Searle inaugurated a
policy with the stations which will
be put Into force where possible all
down the line.

As each member of the staff Is
taken into the army, he intends to-
bring on the spouse, if she can be
worked into tiie station staffs In
any way. Oldfleld, film chatterer on
KFOR, has been called into the
army, and Is stationed at Ft Bennlng,
Ga.

Rivals Offer to Cany Motoal Show
As a Favor to Uncle Sam But
Feed Weber llmiks It's lor Pleasure

M.D. Chides the Boy*

Troy, N. Y., March 10.

A caustic jibe at radlorspohsof .
claims for - vltamli products,
mouth W^es .and chewliig gufta '
was made by Dr. John j. Kainey,
Troy, physician. lie was speak-
ing on 'Medicine Iq Medieval
'Times,' before 'the Women's
Auxiliary of Troy Hospital. . -

'Although pure drug laws
were In force in Italy 600 years
ago, with death the penalty for
violation,' sajd Dr. Rainey, 'it Is
a rbatter of conjecture whether
even Emperor Frederl<^ H could
find ptmishment to flv the crime
of the . radio sponsor and his
satellites gloating over chewing
gum to 'Ward off gout; mouth
washes from which deadly gerins
shrink and die of chagrin, and
the . alphabetical vitamin, abso-
lutely guaranteed to make con- -
tested husbands more''c6ntented,'^

Lod Beer Show
Awards Bond To
TatriotofWeek'

Seattle, Ifarch 10.

One of the biggest shows eiver
produced In the Pacific Northwest
starts tomorrow over KJR at 7 fsn.
l^tled Tims to Relax' the half hour
show wUl go out over the Northwest,
triangle to KGA, Spokane and KOWt
Portland. , Sponsor Is Olympla Beer.

Show will feaure a 2S-pIece or-'
chestra under , the direction of Lloyd
Solberg plus vocallqta "and other, tal-
ent

There'll be a weeidy ^ward'of a
$50 t>efeqse bond to, the person who
has performed the most outstanding
service in the Interests of National
Defense In military or civilian serv-
ice in the Pacific Northwest during
the week,.

Engineer (L Rider Writes
Piece for CBS' Worksiwp;
Hepcat Lingo by Brown

Gene Rider, engineer~oh 'School
of the Air of the Americas' program
on CBS, lias scripted a drama to be
produced Marcli 22 on 'Columbia
Workshop.' Titled 'The Green Re-
ceipt' Guy della Cloppa will di-
rect it

Next SuDday afternoon's (16)
•Workshop' offering will be 'A ChUd's
History of Hot Music,' with Walter
Gross conducting the. orchestra. B.
A. Brown; who ha9 since become an
ensign In the na'vy, 'wrote the con-
tinuity in hepcat lingo, with the mu-
sical .greats such as Beethoven, Bach,
etc., talking in that Idiom.

An opera based on one. of Kip-
ling's 'Just So' stories, The Butter-
fly That's Stamped,' will be pre-
sented on the March 29 edition of
the 'Workshop.' Randall Thompson
'composed the music for the show,
which will run 59 minutes. Opus
Is titled 'Solomon and Balkis* and
was commissioned' by CBS and the
League of Composers.

For the Easter show, April 6, Max-
well Anderson's 'Free Company*
script, 'Miracle on the Danube,' will
probably be revived.

Memphis.— George Falder Is step
ping over from an announcing spot
at 'WMC to promotions manager for
the station. ' Fred Carder Into unl
form. ■

Despite the adoption by NBC .and
CBS several weeks ago: of- a policy
tabooing duplication of ., sustaining ,
programs, the two' networks -last '
'week asked the War Department for'
permission to broadcast a round-by-
rOuhd accoimt of the Jpe Louis- Ab«.-
Shnon bout which will be held.Fri- .
day, March 27, at Madison Square
Garden, N. Y., Jn behalf^f the Army
Relief Fund. Tact taken by NBC and
CBS is that since the event Involves
a Govefhmeht project, it ouighf not td>
be confined to a single network,
namely, MutuaL Latter web holds
the exclusive rights to all : Garden
fights with Gillette Razor as the third,
party to the contract . -

The Ariny authorities referred the
two older networks to Mike Jacobs,
who promoted the bouti and Jacobs,
in turn, -advised NBC and CBS to
take the matter 'up with Fred Weber,
Mutual general manager,. Weber in-
formed Jacobs that he could assure
the Army tbsit the . fight broadcast
would receive ample coverage
throughout the -counti^r via Mutual's
fatuities.

Mutual, on the. other hand, wasn't
sure whethier the' other networks^
offer of their fSdlltles.for the fight
bad been prompted by motives of
co-Aperftlon with -Uncle Sam or.'
whe&er they saw In this sltuaQpn it
chance to pay Mutual off for some of
the recent heckling: that they had
bad to take from that network^- :

r(Dc fight is slated to go On the air
atlOpjn: Both NBG *hd CBS bav*"
commercials it that hour. Wlth.th*
former It's the "Gapt Flagg and.
Sergt Qulrl? {Wings dgarets). shwf
and the latter, the Glenn MUltr pro-
gram (Cheiterfleld)..

Fred Weber. Mutu^ gtoeral man-
ager, has circularized h^s organiza-r
tion and the netwerk's afllllitc* :'
with « memo on what their pew tact
should he in ^^xplalhlng the separa-.
tiOn of the NBC and Blue nejtworks.
The note says mat . 'KBC has
achieved partial success in confUs- . -
ihg this Issue' but Urges that all con-
cerned with. Mutual make It clear to
outsiders that RCA omis all the
stock and controls all the opera-
tions of the two networks, KBC and
the Blue.
If you will coqstantly,' advises
Weber's memo, 'r^er 'to the two net-
works owned by RCA, we •Will pre- ■
vent the false Impression that these
are two separate networks.'

SPpNSOR'S DAUGHTER
ON BI(m HOOKUP

San Antonio, March 10. -
Universal Milfil is - extending its

radio coverage from KGKO, Fort

Worth, to stations of the Lone Star-

chalm Talent ' Is' singer Christine .

Strong. ' .
Added are: KTSA; here; KXY2.

Houston; KGNC, AmarUlo; KRIS;

Corpus Christi; KRGV, Weslaco, and

KFIM, Beaumont

.JfUss Stone, a qontralto. Is the

daughter of Gaylord Stone, president

of Universal Mills,
Handled tbroiiith the Ray K. Glenn

agency.

87 Blurbs Starting In
May 'for Continental Oil

Continental Oil Is Issuing order foe-
a spot announcement campaign to
start in May. Minimum is 87 blurbs. . '
The account elects to suspend the
announcements durlqf^' June and run
the balance off during July, August
and September.

Tracy-Locke-Dawson is the agency*

Treasury Weighs Views on Discs That
Local Stations Could Sell to Sponsors

Washington, March 10.

Lively interest in the possibility
of getting new Treasury Dept bond-
promoting records that might be
gponsored by local advertisers— thus
turning an unptofltable public serv-
ice into a source of limited revenue
— is being shown by broadcasters.
Hints that the Treasury may alter
present policies so the cooperating
stations can get some reimbursement
brought prompt responses.

The first cays man contained a
score of inquiries about the possi-
bility of obtaining platters which
could be offered for local sale.
Nothing has crystallized in this di-
rection, but the reaction to the first
tip probably will spur Vincent Cal-
lahan and his aides to perfecting the
vague suggestion.

Though entirely willing to devote
all possible resources and efforts to
raising money for war expenses, ra-
dio Industry leaders have been irked
lor months over the Treasury's re-
fusal to compensate — even indirect-
ly—stations which have been throw-
ing in gobs of gratis time for bond
plugging. Especially since news-
papers, magazines, and direct-mail
outfits ore deriving bh Income. Be-
sides buying large amounts of spac?,
the Treasury baa furnished mats —
both copy and illustrations— that,
newspapers have Induced public-
spirited concerns to Include In their
displays. Broadcasters, though, have
t)een giving away their fodlitles all
the time.

The present series of Treasury
.platters can't be sponsored. Under-
standing with the talent was that
no Jnoney-maldng would be toler-
ated.. This enabled tlie Government
to enlist the help of radio and screen
personalities who otherwise -would
have ballced or wanted a royalty or
have ~ been prevented by contract
terms from participating.

If the response Is sufficient, Cal-
ilahan is disposed to arrange for a
new bunch of ^Isci. that could be
tumtabled at some local advertls-
•r's expense.

MAKING A RECORD WITH
KAYE IS THE PAYOFF

Cleveland, March 10,
Klalne D. Beatty, 17, high school
student, wai named winner in "WSK.-
WCLE's contest (ft) to determine the
V}utstanding amateur vocalist,' Stunt
was sponsored by BUrt's, Inc., and
the ' Cleveland Phonograph' Mer-
chants' . Association,

Miss Beatty will leave for Chicago
In April where she wlU make a re-
cording with Sammy Kaye. Miss
Beatty will also be heard over
•WCLE's *Mutual Goes Calling' pro-
gram.

Network Premieres

(Morch 11-21)

March 17
'Gnldlnir W«l»t,' serial, replac-
ing 'Mystery Man,' 2:15-1:30 p.m.,
dally, NBC-Red (WEAF); Gen-
eral Mills (WheaUes), Knox
Reeves agency.

March 19
Dorothy Thomi>son, news l!om-
ment; 8:45-9 p.m;, Blue (WJZ);
Trimount clothes, Emil Mogul
agency.

March 20
Col. Stoopnagle (F. Chase Tay-
lor), variety; f-l-M pjn., Fridays,
Blue (WJZ); Ontario province,
Walsh agency.

WBBM Transmitter Must
Move, Navy Rates Old
Tower Aviation Hazard

Chicago, March 10.

WBBM Is moving its transmitter
from Glenview to Itasca (HL), the
move being necessitated by a de-
cision from the United States Navy
that the Glenview tower and trans-
mitter constitutes a hazard for flyers
at the Glenview airport

With the Navy Interested, Colum-
bla-WBBM has been able to procure
materials under a priority rating and
construction on tiie new transmitter
will go ahead at full speed for A new
660-foot structure.

Montreal, March 10.
Starting tomorrow (11) for an In-
definite run over CKAC, French lan-
guage Independent station, once
weekly. Imperial Tobacco, Ltd.
(Sweet Caporals) sponsors 'Le R^-
lie-ment du Rire' (Laugh Rally),
produced by Whitehall Broadcasting
Co. Fans are asked to send In Jokes
on given subjects and these are conj-
pared ..1th Jokes thought up by the
judges. If the fan beats the Judge he
or she gets substantial money prize.
Judges are Gerard Delage, OvUa
Legare, Hector Charland and Fred
Barry.

Show will also be aired on French
stations CHRC, Quebec City and.
CKCH, Hull.

Kent-Johnson Runs WJZ
AU-Night Disc Medley

■WJZ, New York, key station of
the Blue network, starts a local all-
night recorded show Monday (16).
Stanza to be titled 'Say It With
Music* will be available for spon-
sorship, with five nightly announce-
ments priced at $400 a week. There
will be three-minute hourly news
siunmaries, with spots available as
tione signals, station-breaks, etc.
Program running from 1-7 a.m. dally
will be produced by Alan Kent and
Gfaiger Johnson, who will also
handle It on the air.

Station experimented with all-
nlgl)t operation for some- weeks
after U. S. entry Into the war.
WEAF, New York outlet for NBC,
also operated all night for a while
at that .time. WABC, Columbia's
key station in New York, and WOR,
the local Mutual outlet, have had
all-night policies for some time.

Krents Succeeds Williams
At Council for Democracy

Albert N. Williams has resigned as
radio director of the Council For
Democracy, New York. He was on
salary directly to the CounclL' He
will be succeeded by Milton E.
Krents on assignment* from the
American Jewish Committee who has
recently been serving as radio con-
sultant to the Office of Civilian De-
fense in Washington. .

Conncil Is In a transitional period
since failure to negotiate a merger
with the Citizens Victory Committee.

Williams Is returning to freelance
radio work.

Dinah Shore Buys Freedom

' Neblett Trying Chicago

Chicago, March 10.
Johnnie Neblett, for the past
couple o^ years with KWK, St. Louis
on sports and special events, has quit
that town for Chicago. and free-lance
radio.

Has signatured with the James
Parks office and is set to turn out a
five-minute narration series tagged
Heartbeats Behind - the Headlines,'
which will be directed tiy Ted MaC'
Murray. ■

Williams Shaving Renews
True or False' on Blue

WllUams Shaving Cream ha« re-
newed for its "True or False* pro-
gram on the Blue, with the new
contract taking the show through
June 30.

The show will start soon on a tour
of army camps.

JOKE-TOPPING
SHOW ON CKAC

Wednesday, March 11, 1942

'Can Ton Top ThU7'

Joe Laurie, Harry Hershfleld and
Senator' Ford conduct a 'Can You-
Top This?' Joke rally, apparently
cimiiar to the aboye Quebec pro-
gram. Kirkman's Soap sponsors on
WOR, New York, local only.

Menkin's Suit Would Still
WMCA's (Freedom) Show

Lawrence Menkln, radio script
writer, filed suit yesterday (Tues-
day) In N. Y. supreme court against
WMCA, Inc., seeldDg an Injunction
against the radio program entitled,
•Voice of Freedom,* scheduled to
premiere today (Wednesday). Plea
for a temporary Injunction restrain-
ing the broadcast will be argued
today (Wed.).

Menkln claims. 'Voice of Freedom'
Is an exact replica of his script 'Mr.
V,' written by him In July, 1041, and
submitted to Walter Craig, program
director of WMCA. Script was re-
jected on the groimds It was un-
timely, plaintiff 'says, but he clauos
'Voice of Freedom,' sponsored by
Freedom House, was evolved In Feb-
ruary, 1942, by WMCA.

Hard to Avoid Newscasts

NAB. Warns 'Alibis Don't Go

Tht front page of the weekly bulletin of the National Association
of Broadcasters (dated March 6) under the heacUnc 'We Got a New
Job' talks very frankly to broadcasters about what's expected of
them. Briefly what's expected is some Ingenuity and leadership, at
least as much showmanship as they display In advertising, at least
as much Independent know-how and toiow-what as they are capable
of when perspnal profits are at stake. N.A3, says it In tl(ese words:

The aovemnient has just handed radio the biggest selUng job it has
9ver tackled. Here it is:

SELL THE PEOPLE THE WAR PRODUCTION PROGRAM.

Sell it, and sell it hard. ^

Sell it morning, noon and night.

Sell it until there is 'sweat and action on the production line to match
the blood and action on the battle line.'

And we're riot to say 'tpll us what to do and we'll do it' TJiofs out
the tuindoio, like 'business as usual'

The government has given us an order. Ifs up to us to sell the goods.

We have the facilities. We have the time and talent. And, whales
more, we know how to sell. J} we can make people buy anything from
baby food to tombstones, we surely can figure out a way to sell them on
the idea of getting to work to save their own skins.

And if we don't — well, we all know what thai means.

Mutual's February 11Z1% Over 1941

Meantime CBS Network Grosa for March, 1942,
Likely to Be First Dip Since 1939 .

•H-

San Antonio, March 10.

Texaco is set for newscasts over
station KABC with Tommy Reynolds
of the KABC news staff. Company
has been airing a series of newscasts
over the Texas State network, but Is
finding that in many dtles a majority
of stations are airing .newscasts at
the same time as the Texaco news
cast, . '

They have therefore arranged for
local stations to broadcast newscasts
at other -times In the morning, pref-
erably prior, to other heavy morning
newscasts periods.

Jack Hurdle to Coast
for S. Temple Shor,
Other B.&B. Shifts

Jack Hurdle, itaft director of Ben-
ton tc Bowles, planed Saturday (7)
to the Coast to take over direction
of the 'Junior Miss* program, .-with
Shhrley Templei for the agency. Hell
replace Mann Holiner, regular direc-
tor' of the Fannie Brice show, who
was brought hi at the last minute to
handle the 'Junior Miss' debiit broad-
cast. Hurdle will probably stay .on
the Coast with the program for at
least 13 weeksi possibly permanently.
Series Is sponsored Wednesday nights
on CBS by Procter Se Gamble.

With Hurdle's departure, there is a
general shift of Benton Sc Bowles di-
rectorial assignments. Don Cope, who
recently retutned after a lengthy ill-
ness. Is again handlhig the Gladys
Swarthout-Deems Taylor show on
CBS for Prudential, plus 'Mary Mar-
Iki' on NBC-Red (repeat on CBS)
for P. tc G. Fritz Blockl, recently im-
ported from Chicago, directs 'We the
Abbotts', on the Red for Best Foods,
'Kate Hopkhis' on CBS for MaxweU
house, and the New York cut-in com-
mercials on 'Junior Miss.' When
'Ab'botts' and "Kate' go off. the air in
few more weeks, Blockl will be
given other assignn^ents.

Ken MacGregor, who has been di-
recting 'Abbotts,' has gone to Chi-
cago on a more or less permanent
assignment to direct the WGN oper-
etta series. Including the three prize
contest winners. ' Roy Bailey Is di-
recting 'Portia Faces Ufe' for Gen-
eral Foods on the Red, and Theodora
Yates is handling Uncoln Highway'
for Shinola on the same network,

Kirby Hawkes, the agency's radio
head, who went to the Coast to help
ready 'Jimlor Miss,' will remain
there three or four more weeks. •

Cash-Pufl Deals Again Proposed
As Chiz Biz Spurts in Confusion

4t-

Dinah Shore has setUed her con
tract with the General Amusement
Corp, for a cash payment of $0,000.
GAC claimed that its convenant with
Miss Shore had two years to go.

Miss Shore has yet to work out a
similar settlement with NBC. Under
the management contracts which
bound her to NBC and GAC she was
to pay each 5% of her income.

Donald Hamilton at WOR

Donald Hamilton has joined the
etafle of WOR, New York, as office
manager of the program department,
a new position.

He was formerly with the "personal
loan department of the.JfatIonal City
Bank and before thaf assistant man-
ager of Norman Bel-Geddes & Co„
Inc., Industrial designers.

One effect of the recent batch of
network commercial cancellation has
been a resurge of activity among
those small ad agencies that special-
ize in ofl-the-rate-card deals. They're
back to circularizing station men
with a conglomeration of per-inqulry
plans. In no instance do they name
the account. Most of the letters give
the impression that the agency Is
seeking to gather a list of acquies-
cent stations before making a pitch
for an account that might be sold on
a per-inqulry arrangement

From one such agency, stations
last week received a questionnaire
that ran to closely-typed pages. All
products, It wrote, were to be sold
on a money-back, guarantee, and the
stations were to receive at least 30%
of the' selling price. The question-
naire asked for all sorts of case his-
tories dealing with the station's ptill-
ing power on cash-down offers.

Lieut. Bpward Nussbaum
Assigned to 'This Is War*

. Boword Nussbaum, Blue staff, pro.
ducer and asf Istant to Harry Frazee,
production head. of the network, has
resigned to take a First Lieutenant's
commission In the Army Air Corps.
He Is assigned to the four-network
•This Is War* series, assisting Nor
man Corwln.

Besides being the Blue's produc'
tlon aide on This Is Wat,' Nussbaum
was network production man on the
Elsa Maxwell show for Ry-Krisp,

'Sid Morse Into Air Corps

Sid Morse, of the William Morris
agency radio department, has been
accepted by the Army Air Corps and
leaves March 28 for training,

HeTl be stationed at Maxwell Field,
Ala,

Add: Doc Brinkley's Grief

Del Rio, Texas, March 10.
According to a statement made by.
United States District Attorney Sam
Rorex of Little Rock; Ark., 'Doc'
John R. Brlnkley, former: goat gland
operations wholesaler, would be
brought to trial there about June 1
on indictment charging mail fraud in
connection with his sex-reJuvenatlon
advertisements.

' liast Septemher the 'Doc,' his wife,
and six other persons were Indicted
on the ground that his mailed liter-
ature 'falsely pretended' that he 'had
found a real substance which, when
properly administered, would restore
to normal sexual vigor sexually weak
men and women.'

At the time of the indictment
Brlnkley was In a hospital at Kanstts
City, bedridden from a' leg amputa-
tion. He' la at preesnt on a Texas
ranch, location of which Is being
kept a secret, trying to regain his
health.

Mutual Network last month had a '
gross sale* Increase of IIZ.1% over
February, 1941. Hie billings for
February, '42, came to $938,185, while
the gross that prevailed for the like
-month of 1941 was $442,167. The ac-
cumulative total for the two first
months of '42 Is $1,962,697, or 107.2%
better than it was for the parallel
period of 1941.

Columbia will show at the end of
the current month (March) the first
dip Into the ttibiua region since
March, 1939. CBS' gross billings for
the current month will be Wider the
figure for March, 194L The last
minus stretch for that network b6gan
In April, '38, and ended last {ull year.

PhH Sphalny (drk Play
More Mifibry Stations;
White Along for BBD&O

Phil Spltalny's 'Hour of Charm'
program for General Electric opened
another tour of army camps 'and
naval bases with a show last night
(Tuesday) at Ft Bragg, N. C. It was
not broadcast All-glrl orchestra
plays tonight (Wednesday) at Camp
Stewart, Ga., and does Its NBC
broadcast Sunday night (16) from
Bay Front Park, Miami.

No dates have been set so far for
next week, but the March 22 broad-
cast will be from the Miami Naval
Air Base. Non-broadcast shows will
be played March 24 and 28 from
Chapman Field,- Fla. Regular broad-
cast March 29 will be from (jamp
BlanSlng, Fla., and a non-hroadcast
d^te will be played March 31 at
Quantico (Va.) Marine Base, on the
troupe's way back to New York.

Full production crew is'being taken
along on the trip-.by Spltalny. Dave
White, the producer-director for B,
B. D. & 0„ leaves tonight (Wednes-
day) after handling the 'Schaefer
Revue' broadcast on yEAF, New
York, for the agency, and will then
stay with the troupe throughout the
tour. Also going along are Jack
Meakln, I^C production man; Ed
Whittaker, the engineer, ahd Alton
Alexander, continuity writer.

During White's absence the 'Schae-
fer Revue' will be directed by his
assistant, ' Dick WendeUcen, Guests
on the show arc John Feeney arid the
Three Jesters, tonight (Wednesday);
Hazel Scott, March 18; Harry James,
March 25, and Dave Rublnoff, April
1. Program Is a local on WEAF, New
York. It Is also a B. B, D. & O. ac-
count

Spltalny will have his own p.a.,
George D. Lottman, plus Jim Burke
from the agency paving the way for
his Dixie camp tour.

Weston HUI to Sherman

Chicago, March 10,
Weston Hill, former v.p. and copy
director of the Kastor agency, join-
ing the copy department of the Sher-
man Sc Marquette agency.

HiU was formerly with Blackett
Sample-Hununert and Ruthrauff &
Ryan agencies.

Robert Wamboldt West;
Compton's Ralston East

Robert Wamboldt, who recently
Joined the Compton agency produc-
tion staff, left Saturday for the Coast
to take over supervision of the Ran-
som Sherman show there for Proc-
ter & Gamble.

Gilbert Ralston, the agency's net-
work production supervisor, who
went to Hollywood some time ago to
launch the Sherman program on
CBS, Is due back to New York
around April 1.

Wednesday, March 11, 1942 ^"SfitEfY

TII6 BIU6 is Building— Complete streamliniDg of the Blue Network operation Blue representative in hla normal place. From this purely momentaiy con-
extends even to oflBce reconstruction these days. Pictiu^e above explains \ fusion, however, will emerge new, conveniently grouped oflSces for the Blue
why you may currently be having some slight difficulty in locating your staff which will result in even better iervice for advertisers and agencies.

Live Wire Blue Operator inspects new wiring for electric clock. No clock-
watchers. Blue salesmen are concerned with selling time, not tellmg it.
They have a oonvmcing story for economy-minded advertisers (as who
Isn't these days) of how the Blue lowers your cost of distribution by
giving more listeners per dollar.

Open Door Policy continues on the Blue despite alterations. We're alwayi
interested in new ideas, new programs, and] new busmess.
Already the Blue Is »ettlng the pace for *42 with j&ve
bright new shows on the air. Remember, even in these
"reconstruction days" t<'a ea*y id da business with the Blue.

BLUE NETWORK COMPANY, INC. • A RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA SERVICE

sa

RADIO

Wednesdtf , MaiVh 11, 1942

For the Time Being Broadcasting Not
Subject to Special Tax As Medium

Washington, March 10.
Though no industry observer is
rash enough to predict what will
happen before the row la over,
broadcasting front men were cheer-
ed last week that the Treasiury De-
partment made no recommendation
to Congress for any direct levy on
radio in outlining ways of boosting
Federal revenues by $7,000,000,000-
pUis.

The Treasury, which has been
studying possibilities of skimming
•ome of the cream from networks'
and stations' grosses, was silent con-
-oerning the idea which actually
reached the Senate Finance Com-
mittee a year ago and which has
been preached by the printing trades
and other radio foes. Neither Secre-
tary Morgenthau, in his general out-
line, nor Randolph Paul, brain-
truster who talked details as well as
tax philosophy, made any passes at
broadcasters.

This does not mean that broadcast-
ing is sure to escape unscathed— or
without a fight. As all experienced
legislative watchers know, the rev-
enue-seeking solons often' fall back
on levies that never were discussed
at open hearings when 'they get
around to writing the revenue bills.
Furthermore, it is a veritable cer-
tainty the printing 'trades unions- will
renew their arguments in fkvor of a
drastic gross billings Impost (last
year they induced the. House Ways
& Means Committee to recommend
.a special levy that would have si-
phoned around $12,000,000 from in-
dustry coffers) or a wattage tec.

Warnings that the unions are
sharpening their bolog again are
seen in another receqt oommunlca-
tion from John B. Haggerty, presl-'
dent of the labor group, raisiog new
complaints about 'diversion' of ad-
vertising from printed to spoken
c^iedia. Viewing with alarm tht
' likelihood that war influences will
causa big advertisers to prune tiieir

R. J. TEICHNER UPPED

NBC Also Advances J. B. Mac-
Donald, Harry McKeon

NBC board of directors last Friday
(6) upped R. J. Telchner to the post
of treasurer, named John H. Mac-
Donald assistant treasurer and ap-
pointed Harry F. McKeon comptrol-
ler.

The promotion resulted from the
vacancy created by Mark Wood's
transfer as NBC treasurer to the
presidency of the Blue network.

Ralph Edwards % Dot

Ralph Edwards, ill with a glandu-
lar infection, missed last Saturday
nights' (7) broadcasts of his "Truth
or Consequences' program on NBC-
(WEAF) for Procter & Gamble.
Although ill the previous week; he
played the show, but was subse-
quently bedded with a temperature.
He's expected back for this week's
show.

Mel Allen, regular announcer on
the series, subbed for Edwards on the
Saturday show.

R. Coleman Joins KYW

Buffalo, March 10.

Roger Coleman, vocalist, has left
WGH^WKBW, to Join KYW, PhUa-
delphla, where he wlU be starred on
the EssUnger Beer program. It's a
new account for KYW.

Coleman, did • show for the J. N.
Adam Co. in Buffalo.

budgets, Haggartj has trl*d to crank
up his members with a buUatln r«-
ealling past tfTorts Ho protact the
work opportunitln' of Mid-holders
vie the radio levy whleh went by
the boards in the Benata Finance
Committee last year.

R

ALL DOT FOR VKTOKT

i;jU>IO b madr. Bafa* Uw
lint -aliet raaouadaJ arer Peod
Hmbor, Badle hod piepofed ttseU
In amy ncnieiiveia ond wo '
leady.

Twanty-ona yean age. U was a
nai* befry fonndad on the prind*
piiT Ih^ a fh^ght Is eenriarsd
quicker, mora clmly and non .
petgaunllr when U la s p e h an.

Today. Uke eTeir oHmt voBanl
and patriotic ai>Tear«ld aeiilatr
OUT conntiy. Radio, at wo know '
U today, has oniistod tai Us Hiiil
wot. Theta con bo no qnaaUoB
as to Its eoona or Its. dateimlna.
lion to *** U lliitongh tmtU the
wax and the peaeo that Mlowa
Is won.

Our duly la clear. ThMO b tliM
now ioi Bolhlnv' bul winnlaff lEa
wv, and we loco the task with the
full knowledge and oipoiloiico of
21 yeon growth un-
equalled by ony olhex
medium oi commanU
cation.

In ttmes like those
when smaller gains
vv... must bo sacilfleod fat

a-gisotei cause. Bote. JuDt toed-
Islng ttal ■odens woifa^ coaol
bo cendncled wltbeal M, Is tttow-
log over oomaetdcd gatas when
Uioy lalerlero wUh dM coauNa.
good, la woMng news ooeops
when suck Inleniadon Is Tcdudile
^to the eaemy. .and hoa laposed a
ligld censoitUp. ,

By piovldlng enleitalnmenl and re-
laxation, li b bolstering bob anay
and dvlBan morolo. By kospfaig
America the best'lBieinied naOon
la' Iho wedd, oalflod ocBoa la la.
atoBilr pesslblo. oBminattng cestty
. delays, and canylog irtlk It
Important pubBe opinion.

Thus, Badle, the gieot FUth Islalo,
la (dl oat lot Vktoiy. And Ameil-
caiis. ledlstng Its vUcd faap^rioneo
and KsponslbUUy. look to It oa
never belote In history for help and
eowttge.. and the VIcloty which,
Qod wUllng, Is sure
lo oomo.

.W3M k pteud to bo
a part el Ike Jlaeri-
•on sysloai ol bread.
casting ... the gtsot
FUih £iialo.

New NBC Stress On Religious items

(NBC press division at Radio City, New York, has adopted this speciail format
for publicity announcements of interest to churchmen.)"

-11-

NBC - March 6, ISkZ

Religious fleuis

HOLY WEEK
19^^2

The RED NETWORK of the National Broadcasting Company offers six pro-
grams of religious interest for Holy Week, April 3, 4« and 5, in 19^2.

AFRA SEEKS EXTENSION
OF SOUND EFFECTS PAa

American Federation of Radio
Artists will shortly start negotiations
with NBC and the Blue network for
renewal of ' its contract for sound
effects men. Union is seeking vari-
ous iKMsts over terms of the exist-
ing pact, which expires April 30.

Negotiations will also be under-
taken by AFRA soon with stations
WINS and WNEW, New York.
Latter deals cover all mike talent,
including actors, singers, announcers
and soimd effects men. Expected
there may be some difficulty in
reaching a- new agreement with
WINS.

Network Reiiewak

'Fibber HoGeo and' HoUy,' S2

weeks, US-station NBC-Red, effec-
tive April 7, Johnson wax, Needham,
Louis tc Brorby agency.

Peroy FaMh orohcstrs, SD weeks,
59-8tation NBC-Red, effective April
0, Carnation milk, . Erwlh Wasey
agency,

'Helpaiate',' 52 weeks, 35 NBC-Red
stations, effective March 23, Ciidahy
packing, Blackett-Sample-Huramert
agency (Chicago).

'News of the World.' 30. NBC-Red
stations, 02 ' weeks, effective March
SO, Miles Laboratories, Wade' agency.

Ja«k Benny, NBC-Red, two more
years, effective next fall. General
Foods, Young dt Rublcani agency.- ■■
'Otd Faahloned Revival Honr,' 175-
statlon Mutual hookup, 92 more
woeks,. effective March 20, ' Gospel
Broadcasting Assn., R, H. Alber
agency.

•mai't- My NameT', . SO-sUtlon
Mutual hookup, for 13 weeks, eitec-
tive April 7, Flelschmann's yeast
(Standard Brands), Kenyon & Eck-
hardt agency.

'Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne,' serial
on CBS, General Foods (La France,
Satina, Postum), effective March 80,
produced by HI Brown, Yoimg St
Rubicam agency. -

•Hynms of All {Chnrohcr and 'Betty
Croeker,' General Mills, CBS, affec-
tive March 23, Blackett-Sample-
Hummert agency, Chicago.

'Doable or Nothing,' 13 weeks, ef-
fective March 22, on 116 Mutual^ta-
tions; Pharmoco (Feenamlnt), Esty
agency.

. Baymend Gram Swing, IS weeks,
effective March 28, on 82 Mutual sta-
tions; General Cigar (White Owl),
J. Walter Thompson agency.

Sayre Rapisdell's Firm

PhiladelphU, March 10.

Sayre M. Ramsdell, formerly ad-
vertising head tor Phaco, has or-
ganized his own agency. It will
oonflne itself to Industrial accotmt
and operiate as Sayre .M. Ramsdell
Association, InA.

Frank A. Hutchins, v.p. of Hutdi-
ins Advertising Co., which handled
the Philco account tor lO years, will
hold a similar title is Ramad'oU'a
organization.

Piano I«sioni on WEE!

Boston, Maroh 10.
?hll Saltman, local piano instruc-
tor, will give keyboard Instruction
via w eekly Sund&y program over
Wnsi, with free eoplei of leuong on
request.
Starts March IS.

Normal Studio Gawkmg Okay

Defense Board Not Against Studio Audiences— It's
Control Rooms, Transmitters That Need Guards

StUNT FOR SHOW'S RETURN

Rasehlek's 'Galdlnr Light' for Open-
Ing Dears In the Dark

Minneapolis, March 10.

As an attention-getter to 'Guiding
Light,' Ima PhUllps serial wUeb x«-
turns to the air next week under
sponsorship of Wheaties (General
Mills), Walt Saschlck, p.a. o^ the
Knox Reeves agency, is using a novel
promotional campaign. Chief stUnt
is a' mail giveaway of a 'guiding
light' key-holderi which is designed
to illuminate a keyhole when the
user is unlocking a door at night.

'Guiding Light' starts Tuesday (17)
in the 2:15-2;3()' p.m. spot dally on
NBC-Red, replacing 'Mystery Man.'
It has been off the air since last
December, when Procter & Gamblo
dropped it after a five-year run.

Dixon's New NBC Post

Hollywood. March 10.

NBC created a new post here for
Sydney Dixon, for the past five years
.western division sales manager. He
win be national, spot sales manager,
turning over his former duties to
. Frank Berend.

Berend has be«n with an agency
heindllng auto accounts.

Marta AI;>ba's Series

Cleveland, March 10.

Marta Abba, Italian and Ameri-
can stage player in retirement here,
will do a series of 10 broadcasts with
.the Western Reserve University Ra-
dio Pl^rs over WGAR. She made
her radio debut two weeks ago with
the Reserve players' reproduction of
Pirandello's The Vise.'

Scheduled are Hiders to the Sea,'
by Synge; '12-Pound Look,' by
James Barrle, and the great Greek
classic. The Trojan Women.'

Washington, March 10.
Keeping unauthorized persons
away from communications facilities
doesn't mean the public should be
banned from studios.- The Defense
Communications Board, clarltylag its
recommendation to the radio ^Indus-
try of last August, has advised net-
work and station executives that
there is no necessity for locJdng the
door against sight-seers and all out-
siders.

Restrictions should, bo imposed to
stave off any espionage or sabotage
of technical equipment. Gawkers
should not be admitted to control
rooms, transmitter houses, store-
rooms, etc. Chairman James L. Fly
explained that no barrier was con-
templated denying the public entry
to places where business normally la
transacted. "

Reminder was Issued simultane-
ously that broadcsisters should not
discriminate against alien employees.
In accordance with New Deal at-
tempts to woo thb Axis nationals in
this country, Fly pointed out that the
only restriction on Japanese, German
and Italian workers Is where they
might have access to secret and con-
fidential information. Of course, no
disloyal person, no matter what na-
tionality, will be cither employed or
admitted to the premises. Fly added.

KMOX SIGNS FOR YEAR
OF 21 MEN AT $70

' St. Louis, March 10.
New musicians' contract was sig-
natured here last week following
confabs between J. Leslie Atlass and
Merle Jpnes of KMOX and James
C. jPetriUo of the American Fed-
eration of Musicians. New Colum-
bla-KMOX deal calls for 21 men on
the staff at $70 weekly, an increase
of $4 weekly per man.
. New contract is for a year as ' of
Feb. )^.m2.

DX TO U. S.

TO Fim PLI1CE5

NBC Has 11 ClienU Sub-
scribing to Shortwave
Service — Believe Soldiers
Can Hear Programs Fairly
Well in Iceland, Ireland,
Alaska, Caribbean, Ber-
muda

Anne Director Radio Head
Of Sterling Ins. Acct.

Chicago, March 10.

Anne Director has been appointed
time buyer and radio advertising
chief for the Sterling jisiirance firm
here. Miss. Director was formerly'
with the J. Walter Thompson agency
on the Coast and later with the
Raymond Spector agency in N. Y.

Neal agency regularly handles the
Sterling account, which is one of the
more' extensive -users of national
spot radio time.

STRICTLY GOOD WILL

There is a growing interest among
radio advertisers in having their reg-
ular sponsored, entertainments short>
waved to outlying ' American posts
(Iceland, Ireland, Alaska, Caribbean,
etc.) as a gesture of good will to the
fighters themselves and their fami-
lies at home. Advertisers appreciate
the ability to announce the programs
heard by the soldiers.

NBC alone has some 11 sponsors
who have the network broadcast a
delayed transcription version of their
programs. R. J. Reynolds, Alka
Seltzer, Johoson Wax, General Foods,
Phillip Morris, Emerson Drug, Bal-
lantine Ale, Schaef er's Beer, Colgate,
Fitch Shampoo and Kraft Cheese
are among the NBC sponsors pur-
chasing the additional shortwave
service at nominal fees. ^ '

Cost, on IS-week contract, is $60
for a half-hour and $142.50 an hour.
On B2-week pact it's $72 per half
hour and $112.50 an hour. Stations
used are WRCA, which, with a non-
directional antenna, reaches base$ in
Alaska and 'the Caribbean area; and
WNBI and WBOS (latteTa Westing-
house station programmed by NBC),
which cover bases in Ireland, Ice-
land, Newfoundland, Bermuda and
French West Africa. Although NBC
occasionally gets fan mail from Ha-
waii, the PhiU^jpines and Australia,
there's no claim of consistent cover-
age there.

Each Army unit, NBC has been
informed, has at least one ^ortwave
receiver on which it can pick up the
shows. Number of bases also have
public address ' systems Into which
the DXed. programs can be fed, so
that all the. troop can bear,

John F. Royal, v.p. of NBC, has
pointed out: 'With the ■ exception of
the mail, shortwave radio is the only
llnk^ between our boys and their
foUu. The closest thing to a letter
from home is the familiar voice of
a radio favorite. The President, in
one of hla i^eeches, spoke about
global war and here is an example
of global entertainment and news.

ClicqDot Clnb Spots

Clicquot Club Is lining up station
list for a spot campaign in the
spring. There will be two one-minute
e.t's daily for '17 iweeks, with sched-
ules starting the first week of May."

Initial contract placements will be
among New Engla^id stations.

PAUL PORTER RESIGNS
AS CBS COUNSEL IN D C.

Washington, March 10.

Paul Porter for the last five years
Washington counsel for CBS, haq re-
signed to becbihe as^islSKt adminis-
trator in charge of the Rent Dlvi-
elon of the Office of the Price. Ad
minlstrator.

Move is effective Monday (16).

Before joining CBS, Porter headed
the Agricultural ' Adjustment Ad-
ministration press staff and directed
radio phases of the 1936 Democratic
campaign in the farm belt Two
years ago he took leave of absence
for several months to serve as aS'
Bistent to Chester C. Dtfvis, agrl
culture member of the old National
Defense Advisory Committee. This
time he quits the web entirely, In-
stead of .being ji. $i79-year man. . .

Lnciues' Bingo on Bing

Hollywood, March 10.

Lord & Thomas finally landed Bing
Crosby for, a LucWes insert from
here March 28.

He hos long been the choice of
servicemen, but the agency had some
difficulty getting a waiver from
Kraft and J. Walter Thompson.

Not Forgotten Gesture

Chicago,' Ma:rcb 10.

WLS is putting out a little
mimeograph bulletin newspaper
for mailing monthly to all WLS
employees now in the Army,
Na'vy or Marines. Edited by
Chuck Ostler, the sheet con-
tains gossip and chatter that
would interest former staff
members and keep 'em hep to
the progress of the' organization
and ready to step right back
Into their jobs when they return.

In addition 'WLS has formed
a 'dime a month' club to buy
cigarets, etc., for the service ,
members.

Vander Pyle Annoimcinp

Cincinnati, March 10.

Ellis Vander Pyle, formerly of
WGAR sales department, is now do-
ing a three a week late afternoon
news broadcast for R. G. Dun cigars.

Also temporarily with 'WTAM an-
nouncing staff. "

Snowstorm of Radio Aimoimcements
Made on Behalf of U S. War Effort

Washington, March 10.

Radio's contribution to the war
effort, measured in terms of an-
nouncements rather than total time,
exceeded 10 plugs daily during De-
cember. . First check by the Na-
tional Association of Broadcasters,
based on actual reports from 455
stations, showed the immense de-
gree to which American broadcast-
ers are helping sell stamps, mobilize
manpower, and. lift morale.

Projected to provide an estimate
for the 855 commercial outlets, the
N.A.B. tabulation showed 320,000
war announcements. In addition to
35,970 boosts for Federal agencies

not directly concerned with national
defense matters.

Most numeroiis - were spot an-
nouncements ' seeking men for the
fighting forces. Stations aired 49,640
spot announcements on behalf of the
Army and 51,690 for the Navy. lii
addition there were 2,310 JS-miniite
transcriptions' for the Army . and
1,210 for the Navy.

The Treasury's stamp and - bond
sales drive was helped with 154,650
spot appeals to purchasers, plus 290
programs, running from 16 to 90
minutes. Stations aired 10,840 spot
announcements concerning civilian
defense, while .620 outlets carried
the hour-long Bill of Rights feature
Dec. 15.

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Inside Stuff-Radio

Keport current In the trade ttat Edward Petry bad entered Into heavy
flnnnrini commltmenta with the Hearst organization so as io obtain the
national sales representation of WBAL, Baltimore, wa^ denied by the
principals on the Hearst side of the deal last week. All that Petry had
obligated himself In the liquidation of International Radio Sales, adjunct
pf Hearst Aadio, imt, was the payment of rent on IKS' offices .premises for
» period of seven months. The total rents figure between |350 and $400
■ month.

Petry did his negotiating direct with William McCabe, publisher of the
N. Y. Dally Mirror, who. In January, fell heir -to Jurisdiction over the
Hearst radio properties. When approached by Petry, McCabe pointed
out that WBAL served as the major source of IRS' Income. Petry then
suggested that IRS be liquidated and that the remainder of the stations
on the IRS list be placed with some. other station rep outfit McCabe sub-
sequently cleared the way for Petry to make his proposition to the neces-
sary Hearst board of directors.

It was after the board had approved the rep assignment of WBAL to
Petry' and the latter's offer to assume the lease obligations of the various
IRS offices that Loren Watson was called in for a talk about Merging his
Spot Sales, Inc., with whA was left of IRS. Watson took over the occu-
pancy of the ntS .quarters aibd assumed but one obligation, and that was
to pay the IRS sales staff two weeks' pay In lieu of severance notice If
he should elect not to retain them after March 1.

The Compton agency is burned at WOR, New York, over the handling of
the recorded 'Wheatena Playhouse' -'series this season. Principal tom-
plaint Is over the recent shift in time for the show, from »%l:15-4:30
Monday-through-Friday afternoons to 10:30-10:45. Monday-through-Thurs-
day nights. In addition to vacating a spot which has presumably built
an audience, the show is heard only four times a week Instead of five,
and Is also being cancelled tomorrow night (Thursday) because of a
special Greater New York Fund' broadcast. Switch from the former aft-
ernoon spot was necessitated by WOR's scheduling of broadcasts of the
pre-season training camp baseball games of the N. Y. Giants and Yankees.

Also the agency early in the season had ^veral tussles with the con-
tinuity acceptance department of WOR over material In some of the
Tlayhouse' scripts. Tliere were .no deletions, however. Current season
Is the first time Compton has used WOR for the New York airing of the
series. Previously it was spotted on 'WEAF locally.

General Foods and, indirectly. Young & Rubicam agency, have been
embarrassed lately ' by inability to meet the demalid for the new cola
flavor Jello in some sales areas. Flavor was introduced some weeks ago
via the commercials on the Jack Benny program, but because distribution'
in certain sections of the country bad not yet been arranged, the plug was
supposed to have been cut on psit of the network, with a cut-hi com-
mercial substituted. However, the regular cola plug was accidentally
carried on the entire hookup, with a resultant demand for the new flavor
In areas where it wasn't yet available. Attempt was made on last Sunday
night's (B)' show to offset the situation, the comm»cial containing a state-
ment that 'If your dealer- doesn't have It In stock ask him to get It for you.'

for commercials and that It eux not adopt « poltojr of bUUBg tt» Anny
or Navy Instead Of the sdvertlser^

Before the Ford program left the air W. X Cwntron, Ito flommentrtor,
was the target for a pot shot from Wllltam J. McNilly, la Us MtonesprtU
Tribune column, 'More op Lms PmsomO.' Among othtr things,. McNilljr
commented, •What magic gift of dullntss U It that Mr. Cimwon POUVMa
that makes your bones positively acha when he talkst' Ha also aald that
he supposes "more pompous Windbags have lived somawhert,.sometlma.'

Mwally was prompted to make his attack by a particular Camaron talk
regarding the American' people's past sins betog re^ onslble for present
military bumlllatlona.

Robert J. Landry, radio editor of •Variety,* has written a book, •Who,
What, Why Is Radio?' (George W. Stewart, $1^0), which last week r«-
:elved a column and a half of space In Time Magazine, the latter tagging
[jandry as 'benignant but bunk-free' as a critic of' broadcasting programs
and practices. ^

Volume first takes up who regulates; who operates, who advertises.
The nature of programs and the conditions of their broadcasting is then
delineated. Finally the social problems of 'control' are examined.

Ed Yocum^ of KCrHL, BiUlngs, Montana, who recently advertised in
•Variety' for a 'vice-president willing to work,' writes in to report: 1
Imagine that you should be happy to know that while 'Variety' didnt find
me a vice-president, we did find a fine young feUow who wants to be a
good announcer, and seems to have all the necessary attributes Including

cover-to-cover readership of 'Variety,'

The British Broadcasting Corp. continues under fire in House of Com-
•rtnons, one member asldng whether F. W. OgUvle (recently resigned
Governor) was sacked, another why In BBC reports of Parliamentary
debates so many Members'- speeches are never rc;ferred to. Brendan
Bracken, heed of Ministry of Information, who answers for Government
in House on BBC questions, said he was n6t concerned In BBC internal
affairs, that it wes impossible to make reference to all speeches. One
M. P. asserted fewer, than one-half of listeners of a year ago now tuned
in to BBC,

In thfelr effort to induce stars who have their own commercial programs
to originate their broadcasts . from -camps. Army morale officers ' have
suggested that these stars take advantage of the special rate (40% of the
t«gular rate) which prevails for American Telephone Ic Telegraph Co.
facUitles.used by the U. S. government Thes«» morale officers have pointed
out that the Army or Navy cOUld buy the lines 6om the canqi to the
nearest point In the network loop and that the services could. In turn,
pill the programs Involved.- NBC has rejected ttie idea on the grounds
that under Its contract with the A T & T it does all the buying of lines

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4eighton& Nelson
Agency Arranges
Political Rally

Schenectady, N.Y., March 10.
The Leighton & Nelson advertising
agency Is staging, a '(^mival of Joy,'
with a numlier of radio professionals,
and a 'Miss Television' contest, at
Amsterdam Junior High School the
night of March 17 for Montgomery
County Democratic Committee, of
which Mayor Arthur Carter is chair-
man.

Two i)erformances will t>e given
in the annual 'Carnival of Joy.'
Bradley Kincald wQl come in from
WHAM, Rochester, while Annette
MeCuUough and Otis and Eleanor
have been enlisted from WGY, Sche-
nectady. Among the other enter-
tainers will be: Alboilce, magician,-
from New 'York; Fred Werner, Alio
and comedy performer, from New
York; Norman Rowe, colored tap
dancer, and Butch > Robertshaw's
dance band.

George R. Nelson wlU emcee the
shows.

Fetzer of Kalamazoo Is .
Ridected by M District;
Arney Presides for NAB.

Kalamazoo, Mich., March 10.

The Ei£^th district of the Na-
tional Association of Broadcasters
held its annual get-to^'ether here
last week. John E. Fetzer, of Kala-
mazoo, came to meeting from the
hospital. He was reelected as di-
rector of the N.A.B. district and left
the next day for Florida to con-
valesce from his recent Ulness.

J. Harold Ryan, the Toledo broad-
caster who is now assistant director
of censorship for 'Qie government,
was here to address radio men, as
were iJack Harris, of the War De-
partment's radio publicity staff, and
two Navy men, Lt. Holman Faust
and Ensign Edward R. Grace, Jr. .

C .E. Arney, secretary of the
NA.B., was here from 'Washington
and presided over the meeting.

CoBgressmaB Symiiattizes
WiA Censor ByroB Price;
Doflbts Ra£o Trophets'

Congressman Emanuel Celler, of
Brooklyn, in a recent address via
CBS on Hie BiU of Ri^ts in War,'
rtigfiiwwi censorship and the-- task
facing Byron Price. Stating that
the President "has shown excellent
judgmenf in selecting the former
AP executive- to head the Bureau
of Censorship, Congressman Celler
continued: Trice has an unenviable
Job, beset with many difficulties. It
Is not easy, to work out a system of
suppression, for example, of news
blasts against indiscretion in Iiigh
places, without suppressing criti-
cism.' Then CeUer asked,. 'What
shall be his attitude anent radio
commentators who make prophecies?
Do their predictions aid the enemy?-
If disheartening predictions prove-
false, have they unnecessarily hurt
morale?' The Congressman added.
These are close questions.'

Urging a 'continuous study and
intelligent administration' of cen-
sorship and emphasizing 'we can
well profit by English experience,'
Celler said, 'Athena herself would
haye difficulty In drawing the line
between news that is dangerous,
questionable or routine. Mr. Price's
job will grow Increasingly difficult
as we progress into the quagmire^of
war.'

Need Wax Support

Cleveland, March 10.

Responding to a plea from KGMB,
Honolulu, WGAR will transcribe
some of its better local broadcasts
and ship them to be aired through-
out the Islands.

WGAR action followed a plea by
Webley Edwards, manager of the
Honolulu station, who asked for help
to meet the Island's blackout keep-
ing the entire iwpulation Indoors.
Radio, Edwards- said, is the only
means of entertainment to keep
morale high.

Edwards asked for programs of 14
to 29 minutes In length to be broad-
cast on a regular schedule. WGAR
will send transcriptions of four
sho ws' a week.

Nettle's Argentinians

Mexico City, March 10.
Nestle of Mexico has expanded Its
thrlce-weekly 30-mlnute show at
XEW (150,000 watts) with the ad-
dition of an Argentinian musical in-
strumental trio composed of Salva-
dor Llamas, Victor M. Buchlno and
Francisco Barroso. Program is
drawing big fan mail from all over
Mexico.

Show Includes a question contest
for fans, 'What Do They Say?', top-
ical riddles, wittiest answers which
draw a |5 (Mex) cash prize each.

XEW also has a new weekly half-
hour program, 'Syncopated Sfere-
nade,* sponsored by G. Kessel, Mar-
vin watches, of which Guillermo
Morales is the m.c.

Duane Jones'^
Agency Sans
Presidents

Duane Jonea^ who has resigned as
partner in Maxon, Inc., to open his
own advertising agency March 19,
will function in his' new organiza*
tlon without vice-presidents. He
states that he Is returning to the old
status of client-agency relations
when an advertiser figured that per-
sonal service from the head of the
firm was important. Jones proposes
to specialize In package products.

Among the accounts that Jones
will represent are B. T. Babbitt
(Bab-O), Benson & Hedges (Vir-
ginia Rounds), Hecker Products
(H-O Oats, Cream Farina and
Force),' C. F. Mueller Co. (Macaroni)
and Joseph Tetley & Co. (Tea)-.
Practically all of these accounts are
in radio by way of network or spot.

AIRCRAFT WORKERS
OWN AMATEUR SHOW

Wichita. March 10.

Cessna .^craft Co. has started a
new program. Strictly Personnel,'
over radio station KFH Sunday
nights. Will display talents and per-
sonalities of employees. OUver
Elliott, director of employee rela-
tions,, in charge.

E(My McKean, KFH announcer. Is
master of ceremonies. Music by Gxe
Cessna factory chorus.

'Swop Night' Uses Guests
While Smith Visits West

'Swop Night' novelty sustalner on
the Blue network (WJZ), Saturday
nights, will adopt a regular guest*
star iMllcy In the next few weeks;
Milton Berle guested on the stanza
last week (7) and drew notably in-
creased interest

'While H. Allen Smith, the m.c Is
on the Coast gathering material for a
Saturday Evening Post series, the
program wQl originate there. That
wUl be another three or four weeks.

KYW-AiJL End Wrangle

Philadelphia; March 10.
- Local T7, American Federation of
Musicians, yesterday (Mon.) finally
came .to terms with KYW, after more
than six weeks .of wrangling over
terms of a new contract Under the
new termer each member of the
studio band, directed by Clarence
Fuhrman, receives a $9-a-Week in-
crease.

■nils is similar to the raise granted
to members of. the WCAU house
band .several '^veeks ago.

'Helpful Harry' Placed

San Antonio, March 10.

\The Perfection Stove Co., through
McCann-Erickson, lias placed the
transcribed household hints program
titled Helpful Harry on station
WOAI for a 13-week run.

Programs are to ba aired twice
weekly for five minutes, and wUl
debut' on March 18.

7HC O'NEILLS

Don (iilnian Program Boan

Hollywood, March 10.
Blue Network's program policies
in the western division will hereafter
be determined by a board of master
minds. Don Gilman,' Blue head, and
his program chief, Leo Tirson, func-
tion on the panel with Les Fox, LA.
manager for Paul Raymer, and reps
of KECA and KTMS, Santa Bar-
bara.

Board will pass on all programs,
both sustaining and those being pack-
aged for sale.

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Wednefld«j, Bhreh ll, 1942

SAblO

REPUICEIIIIENT
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Broadcastinc's Audience in
No Danger of Diminution
Under Priorities Ending of
Furthor Set Manufacture
on April 22 — Eidsting
Stocks of SeU to Be Sold
First Come-First Served

and other signaling apparatus for
airplanes, ships, and tai^, the man-
ufacturers wU be put to work on
sound-detecting equipment and other
electrical goods. The pinball and
juke-box makers will help turn out
military materials, along with Anns
engaged in camera, typewriter,
vacuum cleaner, and other electrical
manufacture. -

• ■ Syraense.— Nick Stemmler, sports
director at WSYB for the past . 13
years, tp St. Louis to Join station
KWK on March 19. '

AlMson Teaching Radio
To Defence Trainees

MlssouU, If oni, March 10.
George Allison, chief engineer at
KGVO, Missoula, is . teaching a
coiu^ in vacuum tube theory in a
defense radio training- school started
recently at Montana State Univer-
sity, Missoula.

. A. J. Mosby, KGVO manSger, was
Instrumental In establishing the
school.

Lever's WHN SportscasU

. Lever Bros, has bought two 15-
minute spoils periods daily on W9N,
New York, starting Saturday (14), to
plug Lifebuoy soap. Spots will be
Immediately before and after thb
^ooklyn Dodgers baseball broad-
casts. Contract runs for 29 weeks.
Ruthraufl & Ryan Is the agency.

Bert Lee and Dick Fishell, ^HN^s
two regular sports announcers, will
handle the shows, with Marty GUdk-
man subbing when necessary.

Chattanooga Medicine
Spoiisoirs Leon Huff

San Antonio, March 10.

Chattanooga Medicine Co. (Black
Draught and Cardui) is sponsoring «
quarter hour over WOAI with Lfon
Huff, cowboy singer and his band.

Placed by Nelson Cbesman Agency
for 13 weeks, Ave programs per
week.

Longvlew, Tens r — Fran k
added to sales staff of EFRO.

NO RATIONING

. Washington, March 10.
Manufacture of radios and phono-
graphs for civilian purchases ends
April 22, but available stocks wUI
be marketed on a flrst-come, first-
served basis, with no rationing or
priority allocations contemplated.
Official order foreshadowed a couple
of months ago was issued by the
War Production Board Saturday (7)

Phonograph Angle

- Record company officials don't
seem bothered much by the Gov-
ernment's cease-production or-
der to radio receiver and phono-
graph manufacturers. Red light
goes on April 22 after which
only repair i)arts.wlll be fabri-
cated. Since all disc makers are
now running virtually at produc-
tion capacity to keep up with
the demand of the number of
phonographs now in use, the or-
.der to halt fashioning them
doesnt figure to be disturbing.
At least not for some time. If
repair part making is ever cur- '
tailed then there will be reason
to worry.

One official pointed out that
some receiver manufacturers and
distributors already hive enough
new machines in reserve to last
until late this year. - Another re-
peated the above-mentioned ob-
servation that his press-machines
have all they can do to keep up
with present orders and he
wasn't giving too much thought
to the future, at least not yet-

colncident with a War Department
annoiucement that juke-box manu-
facturers likewise wiU convert their
plants to fabrication of military sup-
plies.

Taperlng-off' of radio production
was begun soon after Pearl Harbor,
with the Industry limited to declin-
ing percentages of IMI output Lat-
est order speeds the conversion, spe-
cifying no company may use over
$500 worth of parts and materials
ordered since Feb. 11 (excepting
wooden cabinets).

With this year's aggregate pro-
duction expected to total 3,000,000
units. Federal officials estimate the
United States wiU have 60,000,000 re-
ceivers in use> serving 87% of Amer-
ican homes, when the shut-down oc-
curs. This assures ainple coverage
in maintaining public morale and
keeping the people informed of war
developments, govenunent policies,
and world happ«nings, it is felt

Production of replacement parts
will go on, so that tiiere ta UtUe
dangeif of ■ decline in the radio
audience. Under limitations and
with official permission, factories can
continue, turning out essentials for
repairs. Details haven't been settled

y«t ■ .

Um of KsterUl

. Saving of critical materials needed
for military liippliei can be meas-
ured bymt- consumption. The In-
duitiy't. output of 18,000.000 sets last
year iavolvM 3,100 tons of aluminum.
10,000 tons of copper, 2S0 -tons of
nickel, and 70,000 tons of steel.

The Industry won'-t suffer. Con'
trasted. with last yeaVs |24tl,000,000
business volume, military orders, for
radio war equipment outstanding al-
ready exceed 11,000,000,000. The 55 set
manufacturers affected by the cease
fabricating order hold contracts in-
volvlng $500,000,000.

Besides transmitting, receiving.

^utdisdame
is different,,.

— N

Dtscoveting dealers to caity the ball *
Is a thing which the record proclaiim

A problem that never distaiuys us at all—
Take the case of Colonial Dames:

The message was briefs but it went to die spec
That is labeled G)n5umer Demand,

And all of the dealers thejr wanted, thqr gpt-»
KNX-tra rtsults, just as planned I

The time that we had was a fifth of a flash,*
We knew what to say and we said it;

Colonial Dames is corralling the cash;
The station's corralling the credit!

*WJt, ffi mhtiim ma 0 %mkl

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IN NEW YORK CITY ...

The Radio Trade Is Discussing: Special 'censorship and morale' edi-
tion of Saturday Review of Literature, edited by Edward Bemays—
Lifebuoy spots following ripht after Arrid's Jimmy Fidler on some
stations and the lack of check-up of schedule by local program dire^-
OTS—The grimly unsoftened 'They Live Forever" morale series on CBS ■
—Growing number of gags anticipating bad bosiness in 1943.

Today (Wednesday) is WHN Day at Radio Executives club. .. .many in
the trade are quietly interested in Studebaker sponsorship of Eric Sevareid
on CBS because automotives are so definitely considered outside the radio
family just now.... Bill Spire, McCann-Erickson radio head, ill with
grippe .. His wife, Dorothy LoweU, still in Le Roy hospital after birth
of son. . Richard Stark, announcer on 'Life Can Be Beautiful,' 'Against
the Storm' and 'The O'Neills,' leaves Friday for 10-day vacation. .. .Sub-
stitute spieler not yet selected. .. .Stark will go to Florida and do the
Phil Spitalny show from there 'Helen Holden, Government Girl,' sus-
taining serial on Mutual from WOL, Washington, folds March 20.... Hal
James, Compton program supervisor, to Toronto this weekend.

Sabu, juve actor from India, guests Saturday (14) for the second suc-
cessive' week on 'Rainbow House' via Mutual . . . Irene Beasley recorded
new series for Savarin coffee . . . Lucille Purcell has joined WOR special
leatures as secretary, succeeding Muriel Evans, resigned . . . Announcer
George A. Putnam recorded a set of spot blurbs for Jests, through Katz
agency . . . Carlo De Angelo looking for a new daytimer to replace 'Myrt
and Marge' for Colgate-Palmolive-Peet ... He opens a New York office
shortly for Sherman-Marquette, with Minerva Ellis, formerly of the Comp-
ton agency and novir with the Henry Souvaine office, as his secretary . . .
McCann-Erickson bought Frank Singiser's 7:30-7:45 p.m. news spot Sun-
days on WOR for Twenty Grand cigarets . . . John Garfield and Connee
Boswell guest Sunday night (15) on 'Keep 'Em RoUing,' with George S.
Kaufman . . . 'The Shadow' will do its season fold March 22 for Blue Coal,
from its Sunday spot on Mutual.

Max Wessels, former announcer has rejoined WWRL as a member of the
sales staff ... Phil Carlin, Blue network program vice-president, leaves
next week on a show-hunting trip to Chicago, Los Angeles and San^^ran-
cisco. He'll be away about 10 days to two weeks, traveling by train and
air . . . He returned over the weekend from a similar jaunt to Montreal
and Toronto. . \

Bill Sweets directs 'Listen, Americk,' Deep River Boys and 'Air Youths

of America' sustainers on NBC-Red (WEAF) Jack Meakin directs

'Story Behind the Headlines,' 'Luncheon Date With Ilka Chase' and

'Weekend Whimsy' on the same network Frank Somers is engineer on

'Stories America Loves' on CBS Lawrence Racies is the technician

for the 'Myrt and Marge' stanza and Robert Kania for 'Woman of G^ourage,'

both also on CBS Other CBS engineer assignments on commercial

shows are Vernon Gamble on 'Bright Horizon,' Theodore Miller on 'Gold-
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Seattle, March 10.

Gardner Nursery Co. began Its
llth spring radio campaign this
week, using a list of 147 stations for
five and 19-mlnute programs daily.
By- April 1 approximately 300 sta-
tions, located In all 48 states, will
receive time orders.

Northwest Radio Advertising Co.
is placing the business.

10 Stations Nod to WHK

Claveland, March 10.

Ten stations helped "WIIK, Cleve-
land, celebrate its 20th anniversary
(5), .when 'Mutual Went Calling'
from sister station WCLE. Also,
WHK carried a transcription later
that evening.

Ohio's governor, John Bricker,
spoke from' WHKC, Columbus. Par-
ticipating were WGN, Chicago;
WFBR, Baltimore; WGRC, Louis-
ville; WIP, Philadelphia; CKLW,
Windsor; WCAE, Pittsburgh; KSO,
Des Moines; WGR, Buffalo, and
WOR, New York.

Francis Pettay has been named an-
nouncer-emcee of 'Mutual (3oes Call-
ing.' Ho succeeds Pinkey Hunter.
Latter with fellow sportscaster, Jack
Graney, has gone south with the
Cleveland Indians to report on spring
training.

Gagnon for 'Dr. Malone* and 'CNellls,' Robert Anderson fof 'Joyc# Jor-
dan' and 'Mary Marlln' and George Sears for 'Kate Hopkins,'

John Monks, Jr., co-autbor of 'Brother Rat' and more recently a radio
actor, collaborating with Henry Flsk Carlton on a new radio series for
submission to agencies... .Lee Jones directing «Studlo X' and. the Pat

Barnes shows on NBC Gene Hamilton production man on the Concert

orchestra, the Paul Laval shows, 'Basin Street* and 'New Friends of Music*
on the Blue network (WJZ), with Cyril Armbrlster doing similar stints
on the 'Cab Calloway Quizracle'.and 'Music Hall* of the Air' via the same

net Edward Witanowski, Polish announcer of WHOM, left last week

to enter the army Francis Pettay replaced Pinky Hunter as m.c. on

Mutual Goes Calling' series.

Jo Ranson, Bklyn Eagle radio editor, also covering niteries. .. .be and
Al Simon took a ralncheck until autumn on their joint radio course at
Long Island University.

Frank Notris, 'March of Time' producer, and Finis Farr, scrlpter on

the show, to Washington over last weekend Jerry McGill now writing

Mr. District Attorney' In collaboration with Ed Byron, producer..,.
Marge Kennedy, of the Mutual press department, the only girl from a
radio office serving as a taxi-dancer (officially called hostesses) at the
American Theatre Wing's Stagedoor canteen for service men.... Doug
Coulter, CBS director of broadcasts, vacationing this week and next....
Vivian Smolen, subbing for Dorothy Lowell in the title part on 'Our Gal
Sunday,' was given air credit the first four days and will get it again for
her final stanza. .. .Miss Lowell, who recently became a mother, returns
to the show in about three more weeks. .. .Life mag is doing a picture
spread on the radio business.

Juves bouncing up and down in their seats at Woody Herman's broad-
cast on the Coca-Cola 'Spotlight' show at the Mutual playhouse last week
broke 23 seats, 15 on the balcony, and eight on the first floor. .. .Peabody
Awards committee, meets March 20 to make its selections. .. .Direction of
the 'Great Plays' series Sunday afternoons on the Blue, now handled by
Roy Lockwood, wUi be rotated among the various staff producers. .. .Kay
Lorraine making three jukebox films for Minoco. .. .'Let's Fight,' now
heard three mornings a week on NBC, will be extended early in April
to six times a week. .. .Bruce Kamman directing the Benjamin Moore
commercial Saturday mornings on the Red.... Frank Danzig, CBS pro-
duction man, into the Army ... .Richard McDonagh to Washington over
last weekend for huddles with Vice-Presiderit Henry Wallace about the
latter's program brainchild, 'Down Mexico Way,' on NBC. . .'.Fredric
March guests Monday night (16) In 'Dear Brutus' on the 'Cavalcade of

America' series ^Myma Loy appears the following week (23) from the

Coast Vinc^t Price guests Saturday (14) on Armstrong's 'Theatre of

Today'. . . .Kay Wynn casts both shows for B. B. D. & O.

Announcers George Bryan and Mark Hawley swapped CBS news spots
this week. .. .Former now has the 4:45 p.m. assignment and the latter
the 3:15 p.m. stint daily ... .Palmer Thompson authored tonight's
(Wednesday) , 'Manhattan at Midnight' script. .. .Aldo Ghisalbert directs

'For America We Sing' on the Blue network William Marshall handles

the Joan Brooks show and Fred Weihe does 'Into the Light' and the Jack
Miley series oh the same network Charles Warburton directs 'Stream-
line Journal' and American School News, also on the Blue Roy Lock-
wood handles the 'Alma Kitchell Briefcase' show and Richard Leonard
dittoing the NBC Symphony on the same hookup.

PUTS HOUR PLUG ACROSS/

WBNS

CEMTUM. OHIO'S OWLV
CBS OUTLtT.

Ask aw BiAia man onus/

IN HOLLYWOOD . . . ^

The Radio Trade is Discus^NG:^hc bumpy takibff for the Shirley
Temple show — luhefher there'll be enough government jobs to go
around for the radio big shots — That new C.A.B., high for the Jim
Jordans (.Fibber and Molly) and begrudged by no one — Don Gilman'i
Blue pang, how long they can keep keyed up at that high pitch.

Tom Lewis shuttled back to New York to see how the other half of
Young Ac Rubicam is holding up under the weight of war. . , .Burns and
Allen make their first camp pitch for Swan soap at Camp Haan, Kiver-
side, March 31 . . . .Harry Flannery, former CBS correspondent in Berlin,
now hawking the news at KNX for a storage company. .. .Another former
Berliner, NBC's Alex Dreirer, also shopping around for a Coast sponsor
. .NBC's sales promotion boss here, Bob McAndrews, lecturing Univer-
sity of California extension course siudes on how to sell radio advertising
..Sidney Strotz getting Into that commuting habit between here and
Frisco and vice versa. .. .Kathleen Filz, stock radio actress, takes the
vows soon with Dr. Christopher Hartsough and forsakes her career for
domestic life at Pensacola, Fla., where he will be stationed with the Navy
. .Edgar Bergen lecturing undergrads at UCLA on how to write radio
comedy. Then there Is a way?... Knox Manning, KNX newscaster, wait-
ing a call to the Marines after passing his physical. .. .Andy Kelly, recent
western manager for J. Stirling Getchell, now drum-beating the acts at
KNX. . . .Jack Van Nostrand here on one of those routine journeys cross-
country. .. .Tracy Moore combing the northwest for Blue Network biz....
Bobbl Valentine now aiding Norman Blackburn on J. Walter Thompson
publicity, moving over from KNX, where she sec'd for Holly Noble ....
Milton Berle's 'Three Ring Time' moves twice this week. First switch
Is- from Friday and Tuesday, which forced the show out of NBC, already
overrun with comedy units on Tuesdays. New pitch is at the Music Box,
legit theatre given up two years ago by CBS. .. .Lieut. James Stewart
snared by Arch Oboler for his 'Letter at Midnight' broadcast March 15....
Fibber and Molly now being shortwaved to all U. S. military outposts
In the far flung corners of the 'globe Pierce Grant, KNX photog, get-
ting told by the Marines.... Lum and Abner took another 13-week lease
on their Jot 'Em Down store.

IN SAN FRANCISCO . . .

The Radio Trade Is Discussing: That despite kidding Al JVelson took
for his over-plugging of the new NBC building, subsequent events shoiu
there might never have been a building to move into this week if he
hadn't stuck to his campaign — lufiether KSFO will get necessary equip-
ment to permit them to -uacote CBS studios after all, come April 15 —
Bill Ryan's getting out of a sick bed fo keep the KGO-Blue get-
together date with agency reps.

Art Kemp, CBS Coast sales rep, back from the east . . . Contends that
radio biz is going to be okay, no matter what priorities indicate . . . Stuart
Hannon, late of KROW, added to the KGO-Blue productioB staff . . . Al
Nelson has named Don Lawton sales promotion manager for NBC-KPO
in Frisco . . . com^s over from Botsford, Constantlne & Gardner agency.
. . . Columbia Pacific Network has won a 39-week renewal of Sunnyvale
Packing's three-quarters weekly 'Jane Endicott, Reporter,' for Rancho
Soups after a 13-week test . . . also signed California Prune and Apricot
Association, via Long Advertising, to a five-minute Saturday night news-
cast on the CPN . . . KYA going Irish Sunday mornings with Celtic Melo-
dies . . . with Eric Boden, formerly of Dublin, spinning the platters . . . Dr.
Phillips Fruit Juices— of Florida, no less — has renewed Its twice-weekly
quarter-hour slice of KFRC's Breakfast Club through Feb., 1943 . . . Acme
Beer has doubled its 'Toast to America's Allies' sked . . . Brlsacher,. Davis
account hereafter will spin its five-minute series twice nightly, seven days
a week, split between KPO, KQW and KFRC . . . James Steadman, for-
merly of WOAI, San Antonio, added to ICPO production staff , . . Coca-
Cola's Spotlight bands show originates in Frisco via KFRC (13) . . , Horace
Heidt is the band . . . KFRC's Lone Rang» getting fan mail from moppets
who want him to do something about Japs. . . .

Al Crapsey, KPO's new sales manager, got off to a good start by signing
Chamberlain Sales Corp. of Des Moines, Iowa, to $12,000 contract , .. . Deal
is for three quarters weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, using
Archie Presby, comic with records . . . Sid Strotz made the Frisco hand-
shake route under guidance of Al Nelson . , . Accompanied by Mrs. Strotz,
NBC exec met 125 ad, agency and other contact* at a penthouse cocktail
shindig. Later, at more exclusive sesh in Pacific Union Club, he got to-
gether with town toppers, with W. W. Crocker, baiik president, as host.

1.Q; to Yick s
And Grant Agcy.
Holds Account

Vlck Chemical terminates Its run
of "The Nicholls Family' March 29
and in the same week (April 1) as-
sumes the bankrolling of 'Dr. L Q.'
Latter program will remain in Its
present Monday 9-9:30 niche on
NBC. Mars Candy withdraws Its
sponsorship from the quiz March 30.

Instead of Morse Intornatlonal,
regular agency on Vick business, the
'I. Qi' show will be handled by tha
Grant agency, which has been pUot-
ing. the quizzer for the candy ac-
count. The latest 'I. Q.' deal was
made by Lew Valentine directly
with Jerry Patterson, of the Vlcjt
Co. Valentine was the original m.c.
on 'I. Q.' but returned.

John Pearson Reps WJJD,
Succeeding Paul Raymer

Chicago, March 10.
Italph Atlass has appointed the
John Pearson station rep outfit as
exclusive sales representative for
WJJD.

Succeeds the Paul Raymer firm as
national rep.

rersonalities

that sell

i

"Beats anything
we've ever done*'

It takes more Hun title t*
m s k e » homeinakers* , hour.
Chief Infredlent b a ho^e-
maker who knows her staff,
•nd how to get U across —

Like Helen Watts Schrelber,
nationally - known f e a t n r a
writer, whose daily program
on KSO has produced (cner-*
onsly for partlolpatlnf spon-.
Bors both local and nations^
Including Blue Barrel Soap,
Carey Salt, Hilex, Scotch Tape,

Writes one sponsor: "Our
results from Helen Watts
Schrelber's program art' more ■
than gratifyint — a large num-
ber of good Inquiries."

Says another: "The response
outshines anything else we
have done, and at far less ex-
pense. We'd have been happy
with 2* returns; we received
102."

Helen Waits Schrelber Is
just one of many Iowa person-
alities who givf KSO- and
KRNT the Personality that
makes friends with our listen-,
ers and customers for onr ad-
vertisers.

KSO;
KRNT

-"■\n vi „' .-

DES MOINES

Affiliated with the
Das Moines Register A Tribune
Rspreaented by The Katz Agency

ITedneedaj, Mmxch Ih 19i2

ST

'This Is War in the Lounge Car

The first This Is War' broadcast was beard on a train by Clarence
JordOD of N. W. Ajer agency, who later wrote his former ' colleague, .
H. !■< McClinton, producer of the series, this word-picture of the oo-
caslon as he observed It among the passengers:

'I was returning from San Francisco on the Overland Limited
the night this first program was given. In the Loimge Car there
were about 20 other people including — ^just across from me — a
Chinaman, obviously of the very highest type.

'The radio had been running off and on for some time with gen- •
eral programs, and the majority of the peoille.ln the Lounge Car
had been continuing their conversations or reading, with little or
no special attention to the radio except when a news bulletin came
on.

'In fact, the radio was tuned down very low, as Is usual on the
train, and only a small group of several people appeared to be
listening.

'When the program 'This Is War' came on, the radio was quickly
turned up to a volume clearly heard throughout the car, and a
. change came over the people. At first, some of them continued
to read, or to talk.* One by one, however, I noticed that they
stopped and before it was well under way the entire car was lis-
tening.

'I was particularly interested In the effect on the Chinaman op-
posite me. At times it looked like he was going to spring right
up out of the seat.

'Every once in a while, as Is usual in a train radio, we would
pass a bridge or some other obstacle that seriously Interfered with
reception — and each time someone would try to get the radio back
on the track. Finally the porter, noticing the Interest in it, came
out and stood right behind the radio to handle the volume dials
when one of these occurrences happened.'

Don Francisco TeDs Export Managers
Support of Latin Friends Is Vital

American manufacturers who are
profiting from the U. S. war pro-
duction program were asked yes-
terday (Tuesday) to invest part of
their Incomes in advertising in
South America. Plea was made by
Don Francisco, director of the ra-
dio division of the Office of Inter-
American Affairs at a luncheon of
the Export Managers Club of New
. York.

'Enlist your strength In the psy-
chological corps,' Francisco sug-
gested. 'Advertisers assist the -war
effort when they maintain or, where
possible, expand their local news-
papec sch«dules . . . when they plan
tljeir radio promotion In terms of
programs that promote Hemisphere
good y/iU. Consistent advertising —
more sponsors — more news — more
good neighbor commercials. These
are the flesh and blood of our kind
of psychological warfare.'

Loss of revenue represented by
the cessation of XJ. S. advertising
means the difference between oper-
ating at a profit or loss for many
friendly radio stations in South
American, Francisco pointed out. He
suggested judicious time buying.
Copy, he said. In Ueu of plugging
regular commercial products which
are no longer available, might well
explain to Latin American custom-
ers why shortages exist, 'Our neigh-
bors must be told that here in the
United Statea wt, too, are facing the
same problems,' Francisco declared.

Inter-American radio chief dis-

FIRST MARKETS

Th. rlchMt part of th. ;
for .valUbllltUi.

closed that four prominent Brazil-
ians are being brought north by his
organization to start a series of daUy
programs of news comment These
will be sent to Rio by point-to-point
and rebroadcast on an extensive
Brazilian network. Similar efforts
will be extended elsewhere, he said.

President's speech of Feb. 23 was
picked up for rebroadcast by more
local Latin American stations than
any previous broadcast in history,
declared Francisco. It was aired by
211 outlets.

Frank MaUen Presents
National Archives Set
Of Pearl Harbor Newscast

Washington, March 10.

Future generations of radio re-
searchers will be able to get a
graphic Idea of the way U. S. broad-
casting carried the stunning news of
Japanese perfidy Dec. 7-8. Complete
set of recordings of all NBC pro-
grama during the unforgettable houra
of the war outbreak now la preserved
in the National Archives. -

Collection of 20 platters, atartlng
with the first radio word about the
Pearl Harbor assault at 2:39 p.m.
that Sunday and running through tile
following dayl was presented, to
Archivist S. J. Buck last week by
Frank Mullen, NBC vice-president

The Archives' war ;collectlon may
prove one of tiie most Important fea-
tures. Besides the initial rash of
alarms, bulletins and communiques,
the Archives has obtained recordings
of the President's war speech to Con-
gress, Prime Minister Churchill's
dramatic talk to Congress, . and the
President's Jan. 0 firesida chat to the
nation about war plans and purposes.

—And KSAN, Frbco

San Francisco, Maroh 10.
Frisco's first swing-shift radio
show for. defense workers has been
inaugurated on KSAN here by Les
Malloy. Period from 1:18 to 1:48
a.m. nightly has been oonvartad to
straight myateiy drama, news, In-
terview* with visiting band lead-
ers, «to.

Malloy reports a flock of mail from
worker* as far distant as Iios An-
gela*. First fponsors are tha Xsqulre
theatre, to plug a iwlng-5hift mati-
nee, and the Fur Doctor, local fur-
rier.

Things That Can Happen
To a Broadcast Engineer

Cleveland, March 10. .
WHK was off the air some time
because of a loose connection in a
speech' amplifier at the station's
transmitter in nearby Seven Hills
Village. Programs knocked out in-
cluded the yodeling Olivio Santoro
and 26 minutes of the Musical Steel-
makers' show. Both network com-
mercials.

Trouble started at 4:54 p.m. when
a buzzing noise Interrupted several
other programs. Engineers -cut the
station off the air to make repairs.
WCLE, sister station, was not af-
fected.

JOE HIDDIESTON NEW
KIRO SALES MANAGER

Seattle, March 10.

Joe F. Hiddleston has been named
local sales manager for KIHO, mark-
ing the first step in a reorganization
of the staff. Hiddleston, recently
with the Pacific National Advertising
Agency, was also formerly on the
sales staff of KOMO-KJR.

Phil Riley has been trans^rred to
the local sales staff to handle sales
and sales promotion. Rhoda Llpke,
formerly sales secretary, is now in
the continuity department

Archie Morton will now direct na-
tional sales only. Loren Stone, pre-
viously national sales manager. Is
now assistant station manager.

Cleveland Radio Council Sets Rules
For Feminine 'Air News Wardens'

Cleveland, March 10.

Members of the Radio Council of
Greater Cleveland have gone, all-out
to promote 'sane and calm thinking'
during news broadcasts.

With an estimated 6,000 house-
wives already serving as 'Air News
Wardens,' Mw. Walter Magee, coun-
cil prexy, believes the number is
constantly growing. Accordingly,
the Cleveland chapter has devised a
series of eight regulations that each
warden must abide by. They are:

1. She would listen to war bul-
letins and war news over radio with
a ■ rational attitude rather than
through her emotions. She would
make every effort to listen ' ac-
curately.

2. She would not dial out a news
broadcast before it was completed
for fear what she had heard would
not be fully explanatory.

3. She would avoid as much as
possible listening to news repetition
by carefully selecting a daily sched-
ule news of broadcasts- to follow.

4. She would avoid all commenta-
tors who are on the emotional or
the 'predicting^ side.

5. She would • restrain herself
from carrying word-of-mouth dis-
tribution of what she had heard until

certain she Is dealing with facts—
not rumors.

6. She would carefully sift what
she hears and learn to separate news
from any possible propaganda.

7. She would take isad news
calmly with faith in her government
and our . fighting forces that good
news will surely follow.

8. She would be cautious in her
short wave dialing and if she does
hear broadcasters from Germany,
Italy and Japan, realize that such
broadcasters are on the air only as
propagandists.

Glenn Jackson Departs
WLVA After 13 Years

Lynchburg, Va., March 10.

Glenn E.- Jackson quits sales man-
ager's post at WLVA here this week
to become general sales manager tor
WGBG, new Greensboro, N. C, out-
let Jackson had been with WLVA
since it went on air 13 years ago. In
addition to daily sports column, Jack-
son built a hillbilly show with a wide
following in which he was known as
the 'Old Man with- Grey Whiskers.'

Will be succeeded by Joseph F.

right, assistant sales manager.

Full Pantries...

or '£mpty QumP

Bom of ignorance and fostered by selfish-
ness, the'Eih of hoarding can be dealt "with ,
only through education. But education is
often a long and tedious process, and
America's war efifort catft waitl To reach
the minds and hearts of thousands of
listeners quickly, WJR recently devoted
An entire "In Our Opinion" forum to
this vital subject.

Surprised Usteaers learned from news and
marketing experts led by WJR's News
Editor, that full pantries might mean
empty guns; that it takes a pound of

lugar to produce « pound of explosive*.
They learned, moreover, that no true
shortage of sugaf exists — that only feat
and selfishness can create one — and that
no one i^eed suffer^ all will do their part.

It was only a brief lesson — ^but listener*
tQok it to heart. Only a quarter-hour in %
Sunday afternoon schedule — but we can
think of no better use for such minutes
than to help speed the hour of Victory.

Wimtr. , , 1941 Variety ShiaimgiuigemeiH Ainard

lASIC STATION.,
O. A. Xlchardt, Preildent .

COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM
. Leo J. Fltzpatrlek, Vice P'^ildent and General Manager

• H » ,1 . - ► b I

Edward Petr/ '& Conipa<ty,k
National ReprMentattve

*y NIOB HISS'

Wtth Shirley Temple, EUlott tewU,
Marnret Lansing, Barbara EUer^
Patsy Moran, FrIscllU Lyon, Hofh
Bmndaee, David B«se oroh

30 Mlns.

PBOCTEB A GAMBLE
Wednesdayi 9 pjn.
ABC-CBS, New York

(Benton & Bowles)
In Salley Benson's original New
Yorker sketches, Judy Graves was
something of a vrohlem U, J^f^
parents. In 'Junior Miss,' the radio
version, she's obviously a problem
child to her sponsors, Procter &
Gamble, and the Benton & Bowles
agency. That things were drastically
wrong was obvious whea the pro-
duction setup of the show was over-
hauled cnly a day or so before the
premiere. But on the basis of
Wednesday night's (4) opener, Judy
Is going to take plenty of bringing

"'with Shirley Temple I. the title
part, the program should get under
way with a sizeable audience. And
with Eddie Cantor, the principal
competition currently on NBC, due
to fola for the summer, there will be
an opportunity for 'Junior Miss to
cop a following. But it wont be
easy. For there are a number of
lerious Inherent flaws in the show.

For one thing, Shirley Temple
seems n.iscast as Sally Benson s in-
tense but amusing young heroine.
Her familiar screen winsomeness
isn't suitable for the Judy character
as originally written. And her per-
iormance on the opening show was
strangely expressionless for a young
performer of her trouping experi-
ence. If the present emphasis on
comedy ij to be retained, something
jvill have to be done about either the
star's playing or to build the humor
on situations Involving her" serious-
ness.

There will apparently have to.be
more changes in the supporting cast
than those made Just before the
premiere, though possibly further
playing will allow the individual
characterizations to develop. Part of
Hilda is now rather broad for a
" comparatively subtle comedy show,
but Patsy Moran got several moder-
ate laughs on the opening stanza.
Prlscilla Lyon also revealel a knack
of cracking a laugh line, although
her part., as Judy's fiiend is ap-
parently being closely reined until
the lead character is established.
Part of Lois is reasonably well
played by Barbara EUers, but there's
possibly too little difference between
her voice and that of the star.
EUlott Lewis and Margaret Lansing
are adequate as the parents.

David Rose's musical score- was
satisfactory and Mann Holiner, who
was called in to redirect the show on
only a few days' notice, did as weU
as probably could be expected, t'lrst
half of the debut was definitely slow,
but the pace, laughs and obviousness
Increased in- the second half.

There were three commercials, bU
musical. Plugs for Ivory Snow, cut
In from New York, seemed long,
repetitiously written, ovex'-elabo-
rately presented and generally
tedious. Copy on the Coast end was
for Dreft. . .

Factor not to' be overlooked in the
future prospects of 'Junior Miss' is
that the adaptor Is a woman, Doris
Gilbert. Thus, the mistake frequently
iriade .on shows of feminine view-
point, of having male writers, di-

■ rectors and supervisors, who have no
Insight into a girl's outlook and
emotional approach, will presumably
be avoided. The feminine quality of
Sally Benson's original sketches,
with their treatment of girlish inci-
dents, situations and problems, was
one of their appealing points.

In its legit version, 'Junior Miss' is
currently a boxoftlce smash at the
Lyceum, N. Y. USO troupe is play^
ing the comedy at various army
cajjips and a regular road troupe

■ will probably go on tour in the fall.
Producer Max Gordon Is also pl?,n-
nlng a picture version for Colum'.jia
release. ifobe,

JIMMY FIDLEB
Film Gossip
15 Mins.

ABRID DEODOBANT
Monday, 7 p.m.
KECA-BIue, Los Attecles

It's pretty much the same old
Fldler with the same ol ' gab. He did
come through with a promise to be
more sympathetic, less the slashing
picture-painter of other peoples
faults as he sees them. The program
was decorated with so-called news
'exclusives' that sounded rather like
studio handouts, but perhanj this Is
an imaginary distinction for radio
purposes.

Fidler plays up heavily marital
bust-ups and obstetrical predictions.
In both he probably knows ^st what
his radio fans probably like best.
But with his old-style clinical studies
of Hollywood foibles and vanity
omitted the gosslper does suiter from
an impression of dishing dated and
lifeless material.

Not pretty are those commercials
for Arrld, good for that unpretty
smell under your arms. Arrld Is an
eyebrow-raiser as an account. Hdw
you gonna think about it, much less
talk about it, without snlSlng?

Fidler's editorial took Pollyanna
turn when he defended Tony Martin
and his navy recruiting job. His
open letter was critical of theatre
owners for giving away cash on
premium nights instead of defense
bonds. Fidler called it his bi| idea
even though it has been kicking
around ^Ince 'Any Bonds Today' got
Its first airing. .He went for plant
about Earl Carroll chorines 'adopt-
ing' soldier boys and added what lie
calls new department 'Hollywood
Does Its Bit' which concerns chari-
table and sympathetic acts by stars.

As has been' his custom for years
Fidler reviews new pictures and
^ves them beUs but with more bong
ihan formerly. Sounds more like Big
Ben. There's also mail catcher with
sponsor forking over $25 for war
slogans. He tags oil with 'and I do
mean you'' which is more or less his
trademark.

Announcer gets in last bark after
four solid commercials, before, aft
and twice in-between. Helm. -

A Flaw at La«t

Thursday's (5) episode of 'Our
Gal Sunday* on CBS for Anacin
contained a curious bit of plot-
ting. Heroine^ explaining to her
husband how she'd known of hi*
desperate Illness, said she'd
'found' a letter from So-and-So
to So-and-So . telling about it
She didn't say she'd been given
the letter to read, or even that
someone had told her about
hubby's condition.

The Implication seemed that
the heroine, the personification
of femme virtue, isn't above
reading other people's mail.

PENTHOUSE SEBENADE'
yiiax Jerry Burton, Eleanor Bowers,

Don Albert Orchestra
30 Mins.-^LocaI
Sustaining
Thursday, 9 pjn.
WHN, New York '

Pleasant musical half-hour stanza,
devoted largely to standard pops, is
bolstered by couple of okay vocal-
ists in Jerry Burton and Eleanor
Bowers. Burton imcorks a nifty
baritone -which marks him as a
comer. He impress>^s as. a. singer in
the semi-classical groove,' steering
clear of crooning style.

Warbled three numbers, 'Humpty
Dumpty Heart,' "Well Meet Again'
and 'I'll Never 'Forget,' all tuneful
selections with his best" results in
first 'two numbers.

Miss Bowers also came through
nicely with several pops, both sing-
ers backed up smoothly by the Don
Albert 'WHN house crew. Mori.

a work-
and an-

MOEGAN BEATTY
Military Analysis
15 Mlns.
Snstalning
Dally, 10:30 p.m.
WJZ-Blne, New York

All military experts who make a
business of voicing their views have
found themselves, since America's
ehtry into the war, limited pretty
much as to factual data at hand or
to spinning speculations. Despite
these limitations, Morgan Beatty
looms as an outstanding contribu-
tion to radio listening, especially for
those armchair strategists who ap-
preciate a clear, realistic analysis
of things as they are as compared
to the usual prentltious bombast.

What Beatty has to say bears
much more than the ring of au-
'thority. The man has a mind that
Is precise, concise and Incisive. The

Sattern that Beatty follows is to
rst present a broad outline of the
Current status of the global fight-
ing, then .proceed to analyze each
Segment of the six or more fronts
and finally draw all his ends together
in a summary that evokes admiration
for its lucidity, and compreheitsive-
ness. Beatty has the added virtue of
. a fine speaking voice.

The broadcast originates from
Washington. Beatty's background
Includes 14 years in the foreign serv-
ice of the Associated Press and as an
analyzer of war news and drafter of
large scale war maps for the same
organization. Odec,

JOHN CORCOBAN
News Commentator
15 Mlns.— Local
MOBRIS PLAN BANK
Dally, 10:30 p.m.
WFIL, Philadelphia

John Corcoran is doing
manlike job of reporting
alyzlng the day-by-day developments
of the war on WFDj. A former
newspaperman, he brings to the mike
a background of extensive traveling
on the Continent. Instead of just
reading dispatches, as many local
spielers are wont to do, he pain-
stakingly co-ordinates all the news
so that it tells a comprehensive
story, with the relationship of each
event to the other.

His British accent helps to give
him the extra added touch which so
many listeners seem to like In
newsgabber, especially in world
events.

Commercials are handled ably by
Tony Wheeler. Shal,

'GOOD OLD DAYS'

With Ethel Levey, Pat Barnes, Ethel

Gilbert, Lola Bates, Hal WHUrd
Sons s and Talk
30 Mlns.

CARTER'S PILLS
Sunday; 7:30 pjn. CWT
WLS-Bloe, Chicago

(Stocfc-Goble)

With 'Inner Sanctum' mystery pro-
gram being used by Carter's Little
Liver Pills in the east, the pill manu-
facturer has seen fit to take a mid-
west split of -seven Blue stations for
a 30-minute weekly Gay ' Nineties
show, with most of the talent from
the N. Y. Bin Hardey's Gay Nineties
cafe. And the pill firm has a sure-
fire winner in this program. Not only
will it corral exactly the people
whose age group fits in nicely with
the period covered by the show, but
it will attract all elements and ages,
for the show Is basically good solid
entertainment for everybody and for
every home.

There is something about the pop-
ular music of the turn of this cen-
tury that makes it ever-young, and
always appealing. There are many
young people who don't know the
words to the music of the early '20s,
but they all know the words of
'Daisy,' 'if I Had a Girl,' 'Red Wing,'.
'Shade of the Old Apple' Tree,' and
'In the Good QJd Summertime.' It is
a time in our country's history that
makes it stand out as the standard
of the nation, and for that reason, the
music of the period will go on foi-^
ever.

This program captures that heart-
free spirit of those days and does a
beautiful job of imparting that flavor
of the times to the listener. ' For .30
minutes the program lilts to the
strains of this country's great pro-
gressive period, with the sopgs rip-
pling through the loudspeaker.

Ethel Gilbert does the tear-jerker
with 'Ring Down the' Curtain,' and
gets the 'Spirit over excellently, 'with
juSt the right amount of scenery
chewing. Lulu Bates, Hal Willard
and the quartet were just right 'with
such oldies as 'Sailing Do'wn Ihe
Chesapeake,' 1 Had a Dream,' 'Sands
of the Desert Grow Cold,' 'Silver
Bell,' and 'Red Wing.'

But the outstanding item on the
show caught was the guest, Ethel
Levey, one of the great performers
of show business when vaudeville
was vaudeville. Miss I.evey Is up
there on the calendar, but she re-
main; a brilliant showman and per'
former. She clowned and gagged
with m.c. Pat Barnes with real ebul-
lience, and then went to work with
two tunes, 'Alexander' and 'Alex
ander's Ragtime Band,' the latter
particularly Impressing in . the man'
ner with which Miss Levey
whammed it through the radio. She
sang it 'With that ofd-tfme rag tempo
and it was great stu£F. Later in the
program she is back for the real bell'
ringer, a run-through of some of the
top George M. Cohan tunes, socking
solidly with 'Yankee Doodle Dandy?
Age has nothing to do with show-
manship, aiid today Miss Levey is as
brilliant as ever, and is a lesson to
any performer on how to sell a per-
sonality and ho w t o s fW a s ong. —

Gold.

BAKVKT BABINDf a
8laf«r, riaalit, OrguM
15 BUmw— I<««d
Snitalnlny
M-T-W; M.
WHH. New irark

Harding, a barlton* and a good
one, also playi a mean plan^ 'a
steamlng-at-the-seams organ, and Is,
when not otfiarwisa engaged, «
writer of hli own material, notably
Jingles which he has recorded as
radio conunerclalf for sundry adver-
tblng agencies. In Invading the local
New York one-man entertainment
field, he brings to WHN an unusual
combination of talents. This sug-
gests that after a suitabla length of
time and some puttering around witii
the formula to project hlmsell, Hard-
ing should begin to pick up an audi-
ence.

Most needed Just now is a more
personalized touch in the gab. This
is more than going after informality
in tone of voice or lau^. It means
giving the .listener little hints of
:iardlng't versatility, perhaps of his
professional activities. As heard last
week his accomplishments and per-
sonalis were not highlighted. Lis-
teners could easily imagine it was a
studio organist or pianist helping
him out.

Harding's deep voice lends Itself
the hymn which hf throws in
each broadcast This Is probably- a
good hunch, as there is a wide audi-
ence for tiia sentimental remem-
brance theme songs' of' the churches.

Land.

SAN QVENTIN

30 Mlns. — Regional

Snstalning

Sunday, 7 p.m.

KHJ-Doit Lee, Hollywood

From behind the walls of San
Quentin, with its 4,000 inmates,
comes this musical program.' which
Is comparable to some of tn6 pro-
fessional radio outpourings. ' 'That
musical talent abounds at this lock-
up Is evident. Program is pre-
ponderantly tuneful, with only a few
interludes of talks by inmates and
Warden Clinton Dufiy. (Incidental-
ly, the only warden In the country
born on the grounds; his father was
a steward at Quentin.) His remarks
are mostly inspirational ' and givfe
outsiders some mslght on what goes
on when the gates clar {.

There is no attempt to make
comedy save for the 1 vlty of theme
song, "Time On My Hands,' sung in
slow tempo by the glee club. Group
combined with the orchestra in a
rendition of 'Ballad for Americans'
that . had professional sheen. A
Negro carried the lead with a tonal
quality that hinted experience in
music before incarceration.

Program has picked up a Coast
listening audience and wul be con-

MONTBEAL WOMEN'S SYM-
PHONY
With Ethel Stark
Snstalning
CBF, Montreal

Montreal Women's Symphony Or-
chestra, under baton of Ethel Stark,
got its first airing Thursday (5) over
CBF. Used as a stop-gap in the
night's program layout, reception -waS
not altogether satisfactory with long
waits between playing to allow
lengthy descriptions of pieces to be
played given in French "and Eng-
lish.

Occasion was the opening of sea
son's concerts by the Symph with
EUen Ballon in a Rachmaninoff con-
certo (which, however, did not come
over the air). Moussorgsky's 'Bald
Mountain' was chopped off at finish
to allow for time exigencies which
also did not endear the radio con-
cert listeners. Lane.

tlnued by the Don Ijee network be
yond. the Initial span set by the
prison board and WarJen Duffy.
Listeners seem naturally sympathetic
and marvel at the quality of the
broadcast. Also odd to hear the an-
nouncer sign off as Inmate No. 62576.
Entire program is smartly produced
and unravels smoothly. Only out-
sider identified with the show is Mel
■Venter, who participates for the net-
work In various phases of the pro
duction. Helm.

SONGS OF MEN'

With Arthur Vinton, BUI Bargrave,

Nine Stont-Hearted Men
15 Mlaa.
Sustaining
Monday, 9:30 pjn.
WEAF-NBC, New York

Say a thliig loud enough and often
enough and people wIU start echoing
it For example, this quarter hour,
conceived ana produced by Lester
O'Keefe, is an echo to an Idea, now
pretty obvious, that wa are being
tested in this war to see whether we
are toughies or butterballs. 'What we
need to win is guts. Everybody
agrees and not . least of all Clarence
Menser, program chief of NBC; who
ha s al ready 'Shown an angiy mood
in 'WEAF's morning chlp-on-shoulder.
Let's Fight' Now comes 'Songs of
Men,' which la frankly devoted to
the idea that muscle and hair is bet-
ter than lard and fuzz on the male
frame. In a quarter hour that picks
musical pieces of a he-mannlsh na-
ture ana talks about them and the
war in gravel-edged language, the
main idea li to glorify masculinity.
There is even a dlsiUnct tendency
to. get superior about things, songs
and attitudes of fundamental fem-
ininity. To borrow one of O'Keefe's
own phrases, no frilly tra-Ia-la' Is to
be warbled by the basses and bass-
baritones 'Who rejoice in the stun-
ning appellation TTie Nine StouU
Hearted Men.'

To complete the gutsy setting of
the quarter hour, the narrator is Ar-
thur 'Vinton, who la the voice of
retribution in ttiat slap-'em-dowii
program, "Mr. District Attorney.' He
{mts a figurative plug of tobacco In
he program's mouth.

Little omens like this program sug-
gest 'witii growing explicitness, the
deep rumblings of something. Maybe
it's a reversion to the simple idea
of the frontiersmen who used to get
mighty put out with those horse-
thieves. Substitute Germans and
Japs for horse-thieves. liana.

'LYDIA'

With CUadla Morgan, Kay Brlnker,
David Gothard, Frank Lovejoy,
Peter Beanvals, Don MeLanghlln,
Joaa Shea, Ernest Chappell, WU'
Ilam Heeder
IS Mlns. (TrsnMrlbed)
WBEAIXNA
Dally, 10:80 pjn.
WOB, New York

iCompton)

As its final story ' of the season,
Wheatena Playhouse' Is offering
'Lydla,' adapted from the recent
Alexander Korda picture of the saitie
title. Like the fihn, it's a senti-
mental lavender - and - old-nostalgia
valentine, somewhat episodic, rather
innocuous and only mildly tiresome.
And like the others in the 'Play-
house' series, it's produced for the
Compton agency' by Ed Wolf AssO'
cls^tes, with Herbert Little, Jr., and
David Victor aclapting. Carlo De An-
gelo directing, William Meeder prO'
vlding organ, cues and Ernest Ghap'
pell anno.uncing,

Claudia Morgan plays the title
part, of Lydla as a .young, romantic,
garrulous and. sappy gal; with Kay
Brlnker handling the same character
as a reminiscent and still gabby old
woman. It seems Lydla had four
grand passions, each highly infec-
tious, but none fatal. From the epi-
sodes' heard, the heroine must have
been a eye-filling dish, but given to
anesthetic conversation. That and
a hellion grandmother apparently
proved too much for her successive
swains, 80 she's left with only rem'
inlscent dialog, and dramatized
flashbacks, for the listeners.

Eighth in the season's lineup.
•Lydla' is being heard on WOR, New
York, at 10:30-10:45 pjn., Monday-
through-Thursday, instead of the for
mer - time ot 4:15-4:30 p.m. dally.
Switch was necessitated by WOR-'s
broadcast of the N. Y. Giants train-
ing camp baseball games. ' Series
ends April 6, on a Monday. Hobe,

THIS n WAB.-IV'
With Tyrant -rcwtrf Hertea Qenld

Oreheitn
30 BUBS.

Satarday, t pjH ,
All Networks

Stephen Vincent Ben.et, who-hw a°
number of eloquent radlb'pleces to
his credit, wrote the fourth script for
the 'This Is War" series last Satur-
day (7). Dealing with the United
States Amy dad, especially, the War
Department In Washington, the script
played fairly well on the air, being
a warmly-worded Inventory of the
human stuff that makes up our fight-
ing strength.

Most of the 'way the script stayed
close to the line of realism. Here and
there a slightly phoney touch, like
the soldier-boy shortwavlng a mes-
sage from Iceland, jarred the ear.
Now and again some 'propaganda' '
interpolation may have raised some
eyebrows, notably Benet's defense ot
'brasshatlsm' and ^ scattered refer-
ences that. seemed to express Army
irritation with civilian critics and
Guam-blind Congressman.

It's probably smart to build up
the prestige of the high command.
Confidence In leadership is obviously
need of the times. (It's 'probably
soundly democratic, too, that the
U. S. high command' is sensitive
enough to public opinion to take
pains to explain something of its
fimctlonlng.) Probably not too many
Americans have reflected that merit
is the basis of Army advancement
Neither money nor social standing
count at West Point. And It's worth
underlining that our officers are rea-
sonable-mlnded disciplinarians, not
the sadistic and arrogant beau Ideal
of MItteleuropa. Quite humanly the
U;s. Army does not wish to be
blamed In this war for situations it
foresaw and tried to prepare against.
(Irritation with some of the mediocre
mentalities in Congress Is by no
means confined to the military t>

It was, oh the whole, both instruc-
tive and Interesting to discover some
'army viewpoint' on controversial
matters showing through Benet's
more or less conventional mustering
of Actional cooks, bombardiers, mas-
ter sergeants, stretcher-bearers and
jeep-jockeys. An Army does not
exist divorced from politics and
economics, and so it was appropriate
to the occasion to have it pointed
out that our existing army of 1,700,-
000 men was the triumph of the po-
litically clear-sighted over the bad
advice of the Lindberghs, Ham
Fishes and others.

On this score the Benet script was
tantalizing. It suggested that the
people's Army and Navy have per-
naps been too timid in speaking up
for themselves. They have not found
ways to let the people understand
the military viewpoint on a lot of
political questions. Americans may
justly fear the 'caste, system* that
military Jlfe does tend to nourish,
but on the other hand why is It un-
democratic for the high commands
to speak to the people more directly?
'Why Is it superior democracy to fil-
ter expert recommendations through
the biased, parochial intermediaries,
viz, coneressional committees, alone?
Our military might not be so much
a breed apart If we did not force this
pariah attitude upon them in peace
times.

Production-wise the broadcast was
routinely capable, although the or-
chestra under Morton Gould seemed
far away from the performers. . Ty-
rone Power carried the main voice,
less the 'narrator' than usual for this
kind of morale show. It was an able
reading by the film star.

Other radio programs have, of
course, told us a lot of Interesting
detail about training camps, selectees
and the tasks facing us militarily.
'This Is War' made a fairly effective,
and (tenerally clear, addition to this
broadcast literature. The main in-
terest of the script was In the clues
author Benet gave the public con-
cerning Army attitude on Congress-
men.

For-the— first time on the series
Norman Corwin as director shared
billing. Howard Nussbaum aot air
credit, too. Lond.

•LIVING HISTORY'
Interpretative Talks
15 Mlns.

Tuesday, 4:15 pjn.
WABC-CBS, New York

This is to be a series of talks by
historians and ofher learned gentry.
It is likely to have class, not mass, ap-
peal broadcasting. 'Which is no rea-
son for CBS not paying more atten-
tion to the microphone skills of Its
guests.

Dr. Henry Steele Conmager, his-
tory prof at Columbia University,
seemed uhlnstructed in the proper
tempo for radio reading. He marred
splendid analytic material by a lack,
of modulation and variation, produc-
ing a monotonous level. JtfCo.

XEQ Honors S. Zweig

Mexico City, March 10.

A memorial service, ' the first of
the kind to be given in Mexico in
honor of a foreigner, was presented
(3) for Stefen Zwelg. the noted Aus-
trian 'writer, who with his wife,
Elizabeth, committed suicide in
Brazil, March 23, was rendered by
local radio station XEQ.

Program used Margarita Marls,
Austrian contralto, and orchestral
numbers under the direction of
Ernest Roemer.

Wednesday, Much 11, 1942

COMCBBT-OnEMA

%9

The Metropolitait Opera: 1941-42

statistics and vital data for the 1941-42 season of the Metropolitan
Optra which wUids up March 15 In New York City (with spring tour
to follow) Includes these facts:
. Nnmber of pcrtormances In N..T.; 111.

Boad .partormaiieM; 60.
' Namber of Operas presented: 32.

Nnmber of prlnelpal singers; 88.

Most appearances: 45 by Wilfred Engelman, 36 by Thelma Votkipa.

Opera wdrt presented; Tosca', seven times.

Condttcters; Ettore Panlzza, 34; Erich Leinsdorf, 25; Wilfred Pel-
letter, 12; Paul Breisoch, Bruno Walter, 11 each; Sir Thomas
.Beecham, 10; Frank St. Leger, 7; Fausto Cleva, one.

Six perlernunees; 'Aida'i 'Lohengrin'. '

Flv^ performances: 'Rosenkavalier', 'Ti'aviata', 'Carmen', and

T^nnbauser'. '
Four pcrformanoes: Noz2e dl Figaro,' L'Elisir D'Amore,' 'Otellb,' ■

'Don Giovanni*. 'Magic Flute', 'La Fille du Regiment', 'Barber

of Seville', 'Rigoietto', 'Boheme', -Pheobus and Pan'.
Three pertorraanees: 'Samson et Dalila', 'Orfeo', 'X.akine', 'Le Coq -
• • D'Or', The Bartered Bride', Taust', "The Island God', 'Pagliacd',

'Walkeure'. 'Parsifal'.
Two pertsrmanoes; 'Ballo In Maschera', 'Siegfried' and 'Gotter-

daeminerung'. '

Given once: 'Butterfly' and 'Das Rhelngold'. (Of the' announced
operas 'Mlgnon' and 'Meistersinger' were not given.)

Performances by men: John Dudley 42; Alessio de Paolis, Norman
Cordon, 38 each; George Ohanov^, 32; Emery Darcy, 30;
Arthur Kent, 29; Salvatore Baccaloni, 22; Lauritz Melchior, John
Browhlee. 19 each; Leonard Warren, 17; Ezlo Pinza, 16; Charles
Kullman, 15, Raoul Jobln, Emanuel List, 13; Alexander Kipnis,
12; Arthur Carron, 10; Fredericbr Jagel, Francesco Valentino, 9
each; Julius Huehn, Herbert Janssen, Alexander Sved, eight -
apiece; Frledrlch Schorr,- seven; Richard Bonelll, six; Giovanni
Martlnelll, ■ Lawrence Tibbett, Jan Peerce, five each; Rene
Maison, John Charles Thomas, Robert Weede, four each; and
Richard Crooks, Nini Martini, Jan Kiepura, three.

Performances by women: Irra Petlna, 25; Maxine Stellman, Helen
Oldheim, 22 each; Kerstin Thorborg, 18; Jarmila Novotna, 15;
Llcia Albanese, 14; Bidu Sayao, Astrid Varney, 12; Karin Bran-
zell, 10; Rose Stevens, Elisabeth Rethberg; Stella Roman, nine
each; Lily Pons, eight; Grace Moore, sev'&n; Rosa Bok, six; Lotte
XiehmanD, Helen Traubel, Rose Bampton, Bruna Castagna,
Josephine Antoine, Lily Djanel, five each; Helen Jepspn, one. '

N. Y. Concert Reviews

JASCHA HEIFETZ
Violinist

Carnerie Hall, N. T., March 4, 1942'
When a. virtuoso reaches a position
whereby even his rivals call him
the world's greatest, the critic
merely reports, merely enthuses:
'Beauty of tone,' 'superlative in-
terpretative abilities,' 'staccati work
oi. ' an unbelievable character' and
'extraordinary brilliance.'
_ It Is possible other violinists may
have played better. It is not prob-
able. Eddy.

The N. Y. Daily Critics Said
Times (Straus): 'Superb form,
rcflnement, flhesse, restraint, master-
piece of interpretative art. uncanny
brilliance, feathery lightness of bow,
perfection of splccato, elflnlike,
ethereal delicacy.'

Tribune (Perkins): 'Superlative...
remarkable . . . wide, finely graded
raiige of color and dynamic shading.
Deceptive sense of entire ease . . .
Ingratiating quality.'

VLADIMIR HOROWITZ
Pianist

Carnerie Hall. N. r., March C, 1942

Vladimir' Horowitz is playing in a
style these days to virtually stop
comparisons with any other pianist
now before the public. ' 'At his Car-
negie ' HaU recital he reached an
apex in the Chopin B Sat minor
sonata which contained the ingre-
dients of delicacy, warmth, power,
majestic line, fiery emotionalism,
pathos and interpretative ability.
Especially in the hackneyed third
movement, the funeral march, he
lifted an enraptured audience.

The word, of course, is 'great.'

Eddv.

The N. Y. Daily Critics Said..

Times (Taubman) — 'When greater
virtuosity Is lavished on the art of
playing the piano probably Vladimir
Horowitz will do the lavishing.'

Tribune (Thomson) — 'Supernormal
—played the Liszt pieces faster,
louder and more accurately than
anyone else ever plays them . . .
tremendous . . .justly acclaimed tech-
nical powers.' ■

OUIOMAR NOVAES
Pianist

Town Hall, N. T, March 7, 1942

Rated by many as the 'world's
greatest woman pianist* for the past
wo decades, Guiomar Noyaes, of
°™5". again showed playing marked
with extreme delicacy, tremendous
crashing power when needed, a seh-
slUue understanding of her text and
scmtilating technical abilities. Her
poetic treatment of the 24 preludes
of Chopin was the high point of a
program v/hlch had virtually no flaws
m rendition and held the listener in
a spell. Eddy.

The N. T. daily cWHc* said:
Times (Straus)— 'Special niche of
ner own aniong contemporary pian-
ists. Technical perfection and in-
exhaustible fund of color. Charm. . .
extraordinary wealth of ..tinte and
nuances.'

BERNARDO SEOALL
Pianist

Town Hall, N. T., March 8, 1942

Brazilian pianist possesses an ex
cellent technique, is at home on the
platform, and plays with abundant
fire and imagination. His tone is pure
and large. Artistry and intelligence
is present.

A capable, good performer. Eddy.

The N. -Y. daily critics said:
Tribane (Lawrence)— 'Recital far
above average. Excellence of finger
work, rhythm and design. Fine basic
musicality. Did not always touch a
profound emotional core.'

Times — 'Wealth of interesting con-
trasts . . . silvery tones^. . excellent
. . . whole performance had the rapt
absorption that keeps an audience
hanging on every note.'

JULIUS SCHULMAN
Violinist -

Town Hall, N. T., March 8, 1942

Youthful violinist plays with good
technique and is Intently serious
about his work. Although intona-
tion is good, lack of freedom and
abandon in his playing made a rather
dull afternoon. The spontaneity that
Is the essence of. master work was
missing. Audience was treated to a
succession of correctly played notes
in con-ectly rapid or slow fashion,
with abundant shading but sans
heart. Eddy.

The N. Y. daily critics said:
Times (Straus) — "Well schooled
technique. Tone pure voluminous. . .
intelligent refined tbi)$. Insufficient
color variety sweep or Are to. escape
monotony of effect.'

Tribune (Lawrepce) — 'Playing con-
sistently well schooled and technic-
ably able. More imagination, how-
ever, would have brought a greater
degree of Interest to the recital.'

HENRI TEMIANKA
Violinist

Town Hall, N. T., March 2, 1942

Playing with a fiery brilliance and
intensity, Henri Temianka ripped
through a difficult and unhackneyed
program at his Town HaU recital
with consummate, ease. The violin-
ist's tone was rich and full, his ca-
denzas clean-cut and accurate -as -to-
pitch, his musicianship of the best.

His interpretative abilities were
sufficient to covir the widely di-
versified list of composers without
suffering in the transition. Eddy:

Met Opera Reviews

'Carmen' on Monday night (9) was
an uneven performance of the Bizet
thriller due principally to Lily Djanel
in the- title role failing to make the
character Live. Singer was vocally
and dramatically noissing the grand
style. Leonard Warren had the voice
for Escamillo, but his wasteline
warred with the'. idea he was a bull-
fighter. Licia Albanese stopped the
show with an excellently sung' 'Je
dis che rien.' but her costuming was
still faulty. ^ .

Sock of ih'e production -was Jlaoul
Jobin, whose fine French, excellent
acting, and almost flawless singing
was -climaxed in a show-stopping
'Flower Song.'

Sir Thomas Beecham directed.

'Tosca,' repeated Saturday evening
(7), was an imeven peiiormance.
Jan Kiepura again indulged in his
quaint' east European stage manner-
isms, but the ' tenor's ringing ' top
tones stopped the show again and
again, and it was for him that the
audience reserved its real acclaim,
despite the corny acting he Ibves.

Stella Roman in the title role was
most confortable in 'Vlssl d'Arte,'
which was artistically phrased and
sung, but all of her top notes. were
not true to pitch. John Brownlee,
appearing as Scarpia for. the first
time this year, was .smothered by the
orchestra, but sang artistically and
acted with cool restraint. His was
probabl.v the be.<!t Scarpia of the year
at the Met. Gerhard Pechner, Arthur
Kent and Alessio de Paolis contrib-
uted inore than their share in minor
roles, and Ettore -Panlzza kept the
entire production moving at a rapid
pace.

Experiment with 789^t Fiimarte
As 3d Recital House in New York

TIBBETT DROPS TOWN HALL

Baccaloni Traapie t« Substitute on
Maroh 18

Dlness of Lawrence Tibbett has
caused that baritone to cancel his
Town HaU endownment appearance
in N. Y. on March IS. He will be
replaced by Salvatore Baccaloni's
touring opera company with Florence
Cieorge, Elizabeth Wysor, Franco
Perulll, Ivan Petroff and Earl
Wrightson.

The comic basso of the Met' will
iPresent scenes from "Boris Qodunov,'
'L'EUslr D'Amore* and Don Pasquale'
as well as -a sprinkling' of operatic
arias.'

His company closes its formal tour
in -Hartford, Cohn., March 19.

The N. Y. Daay Critiea Said
Tribnne (Perkins): Technical slrill,
musiclacship, taste, appealing in
timber . . . spirit . , . well wrought
coloring.'
Telecram (Biancolli):. 'Fiery form.
. fresh vital guise. Temperament
and technique , . . fingers fairly
sizzled.*

Chi Opera Opens Not. 9

Chicago, March 10.

The Chicago Opera season 'will
open on Nov. 9 and run five weeks
through Dec. 9.

'While no opener has definitely
been set it is reported 'Gioconda' is
being considereoL

Alexander Kipnis stepped into the
Saturday matinee performance of
'Don Giovanni' and delivered an ex-
ample as Leporello of great artistry
against the disadvantage of a cold,
that constant enemy of opera singers.
The bass .nursed his voice and em-
ployed a wealth of stage skills to
bring his conti'ibution to a high level
of professional competence. As .sheer
technical conquest it was Kipnis'
afternoon, although more obviously
the huge, clear- voice of Ezio Pinza
wr-ipped up the Vocal honors.

Bidu Sayao was a charming co-
quettish Zerlina, singing both her
arias with impeccable musiciansh'p.
grace of manner and with beautiful
tone. Norman Cordon was a full-
voiced Commendatore, and Charlcd
Kullman a weak-sounding Ottavio,
not at all impressive vocally or dra-
matically.

VarmUa Novotnn was a lovely pic-
lure as Elvira, but her top tones were
not superior. Her acting was superb
Rose Bampton struggled hard and
sincerely with Donna 'Anna, but the
part was still not for her.

Mack Harrell appearing for the
first time as Masetto was weak of
vplc.e and not too free in his acung.
Bruno. Walter conducted with abun-
dant fire and regard for the score.

'Alda' Friday (?) was a routine
performance 'with some good spots.
Elisabeth Rcithberg in the title role
may have lost a bit of the quaUty
and breath control that was hers a
decade' ago but her poignant, sincere
acting and excellent musicianship
cover this up.' She made the top
'C* in 'O Patria Mia' with yards to
spare and generally dominated pro-
ceedings as a superb artist.

Leonard Warren as Amonasro was
in excellent bellow. He' chewed
scenery as stage direction permits in
this role. Hysterics adequate. Ar-
thur Carron pushed as Rhadames
and his make-up was no triumph.
Bruna C^stagna's acting was stately
and dignified -but the contralto's top
tones seemed frayed. Lansing Hat-
field was an adequate King and
Nicola Moscona a routine Ramfis.

Wilfred Pelletier, conducting his
first 'Aida,' set the pace for speed.

'Tanntaanser* for the last time this
season on Thursday (6) had Irene
Jessner in the role of Elisabeth.
Soprano' was in generally good voice
and her 'Dich teurle Halle! wSs but-
standing. Some of hei top tones
were somewhat shrill and spread but
this was minor to a fine introduc-
tion. Her acting was dignified, her
diction excellent, and her stage de-
-portmenL regal'. Lauritz. Melchior in
the title role again poured out a
wealth of tremendous tone which
never seems to weary. Kerstin-
Thorborg found Venus's music high
and her attempts to seduce Melchior
were not particularly convincing
from a thespic standpoint. Julius
Huehn was imposing as Wolfram
but vocally inadequate. -Other rolc.v
were in familiar hands and Erich
Leinsdorf led the orchestra.

3 MET OPERAS
IN T HE BUCK

The Metropolitan Opera ended Its
15th week of the season Monday (0)
with an estimated loss of aro.und
$3,600 based on an tstlmatad gross
of 169,500 out of a possible $87,900.
(Met scales to $7.70 top with 3,SO0
seats in th« house.) Estimates for
the week are:

Wednesday (4), "Phoebus and Pan'
and 'Le Coq D'Or* tsUmated at $6,-
5O0, loss, $5,500. \

Thursday <6), Tannhajiset,' prob-
able gross near -10,500, li»s, $2,900.

Friday (8), 'Alda.' j»erhaps $12,000,
even break.

Saturday afternoon (7), 'Don Gio-
vanni,' at a guess, $14,000, profit, $2,-
000.

- Saturday evening (7), Tosca,'
sized up as $10,000, profit %X,000 (at
$4.40 top).

Monday (9), 'Carmen,' estimaUd
take of . $13,S00, profit, $1,500.

MELCHIOR TO COLUMBIA
AFTER 15 RCA YEARS

Lauritz Melchior, Victor recording
arOst for close to 15 years will not
renew his contract and wUl shortly
shift to Ciolumbia Recording Co.

Melchior recently shifted manage-
ments from NBC to Columbia Con-
certs Corp^ He has been leading
Wagnerian tenor of the Met since
1926.

An attempt to establish a third rt<
cital hall in Manhattan on Wesjt 98th
street at the site xst the old Filmarte
theatre, to rival Carnegie Hall and
l^>wn.Hall, wlU be started March 80.
wheo) ^bert Speller, president of
Record Concerts Corp., will launcdt
• ne^ orchestre, the American Sym« \
phony under Frederick Drlwll, fO]r>
mer Boston . Symphony ■ conductor,
with Mirgaret Metzenaper as solo-
ist The program will consist of
arias from, 'Samson' and the 'St.
Matthew Passion' plus Beethoven's
'Ah Perfldo* by 'the- veteran con-
tralto, and Hayden's .Symphony In
D and American works for the or-
chestra.

On April V, the theatre will pre-
sent Elizabeth Wysor, contralto, and
John Walsh, baritone, in a joint con-
cert, and - on April 13, Otto Klem-
perer will conduct the AmericaM
Symphony with Elizabeth Schumann,
soprano, and Sonda Blanca pianist,
as soloists. lYom Ave to 10 Mon-. . .
day eveninc concerts are planned ie-
ttest the reccptiTlly of the N. Y. pub-
11c w a new intimate concert hall.-
The price scale will be B3 cents to '
$2,7B and the bouse seats 789.

Ciircy Goes Ahead With
Suihmer Opera Season

Cincinnati, March 10.

Unless war Intervenes, the Cincin-
nati Summer Opera Association will
hold its annual six-week summer
season this year at the Zoo.

A later curtain because of war
time and new amusement tax regula-
tions were discussed by association
offidads In a huddle last week vrith
Oscar F..Hild, head of the musicians'
union, and Park board and. Zoo execs.

MclLHENNY RESIGNS

Strawbridfe Succeeds Him as Head
of Robin Hood Dell Concerts, Inc.

_ Philadelphia, March 10.
Henry McDhenny, president-elect
of the Robin Hood Dell -Concerts.
Inc.. for the 1942 season, resigned
Friday (6), at a meeting of directors
after he announced he was entering
the armed services. Mcllhemiy, who
is 33. is curator of decorative arts at
the Philadelphia Museum of Arts.

Francis H. Strawbridge. Jr., a
broker and treasurer of the Dell, was
named to succeed. McUhenny. Mor -
ton Howard, concert pianist and pro ■
prietor of a record shop here, was
named treasurer.

'Music and War'
Talk by State
DepL Spokesmen

Milwaukee, March 10.

Charles A. Thomson, Chief of the
divlsioo- of cultural relations . oi the
state department, will make the key-^
note address- at the - IfationBl Con--
ference of Music Educators here-
March 26 to April X with 'Music in
the National Effort' as his theme,
and Btresslnif the need for tiiiltural
exchange In wartime tp Tnaintatn the
solidasity ot the United Nations. '. .

War departihentx>fflcl«U«Is4 will be -
here to advise the educators- on-
mobilizing musical- education forces
in defense:. ' Chile and Brazil Ixitb
will be represented at the confer-

ence.

DET. SYMPHONY SETS
SOLOISTS FOR M2-'43

Detroit, March 10.
With its annual deficit trimmed to
only. $15,000 through the staging of '
the AUied Festival, the Detroit Sym-
phony Orchestra has. announced K.
modified jaeet ' conductor prograin
for its 1942-43 season. Three conduc-
tors will appear for the series ' of °
14 subscription concerts. Desire De-
fauw. Sir Thomas Beecham and Vic-
tor Kolar,

A partial list of the soloists lined
up for next ^1 includes Rudolph
Serlfln and Betty 'Humby, pianists;
Albert Spalding, Roth Posselt and
Ilya Schkolnik, violinists; Dorothy
Maynor, soprano, and George MI-
quelle, cellist, with the Michel
Foklne Ballei Theater also scheduled
to bring in Irina Baronova, Alicia
Markova and Anton Dolin.

NCAC Expands List

The National Concert & Artists
Corp. has added seven additional
artists to its formerly published list

New people are Zinka Milanov,
soprano; Dorothy Sarnoff, soprano;
Doris Doe, contralto; Earl Wrightson,
baritone; Alexander Sved, baritone;
Bronlslaw Huberman. violinist, and
Roman Tbtcnbcrg, violinist.

Ft. Wayne Set for '41-'42

Foi t Wayne. Ind.. Marqh 10.

Fort Wayne Community concerts
for next season include Cleveland
Symphony Orchestra; John Charles
Thomas, baritone; the Ballet Russe
de Monte Carlo; Astrid Varnay.
soprano, and Adolf Busch and Rudolf
Serkin, violinist and pianist. Mrs.
W. H. W. Peltier Is president of the
Concert Association.

Current season closes March 17,
with Lotte Lehmann and Lauritz
Melcholr.

. SAUERKRAUT

Arthur Fiedler ^Rldicnles Percy
Grainger's 100% Ban Proposal

Boston, March 10.

Percy Glainger's idea to ban mu-*
sic created by enemy composers was
labeled 'ridiculous' by Arthur Fied-
ler, conductor of the Pops Concerts
at Symphony Hall and of the Espla-
nade Concerts here;

'It boils down to the same old
wheeze of the last wai* — renaming
sauerkraut, liberty cabbage,' and
giving every poor dachshund a
drawingroom snub,' Fiedler declared. '

'Fundamentally, music is a univer-
sal language. The sounds of the
human voice and the sounds pro-
duced by instruments are the same
all over the world. However, I do
object to playing anything that def-
initely portrays the Crerm'anlc and
am opposed to. using music wrttten
by HlUerian composers in Germany
who would receive royalties -every
time their composition is played.'

40 ORCHESTRA GROSSES

WiBdoiesday, Much llv 1942

17 Bands in Theatres lliis Week;
Huttoii,44aNXliler,30GDiD.C,
6asie-Watei% 20G, Geve, All Good

(EstijTMitcs /or This Week)
Blue Barron, New York (Strand;
1758; 35-55-75-89-99). WHh 'Captains
of Clouds' (WB) on screen (3d-flnal
wk). Losing pace to end finale at
under $20,000, poor, while last week
(2d) was okay at over 530,000, the
flrst seven days strong at $40,000.

Connt Basle,. Cleveland (Palace;
8,700; 30-35-42-56-66), plus Ethel Wa-
ters and 'Paris Calling' (U). Strong
stage show luring smart $20,000, de-
spite snowstorms.

Les Brown, Milwaukee (Riverside;
2,600; 30-40-50), with 'North to the
Klondike' (U). Band unquestionably
the draw. First time here and draw-
ing younger element for splendid
$14,000.

Cab Calloway, Detroit (Paradise;
8^00; 40-55). Coupled with 'Law of
the Jungle' (Indie). Picture strictly
sluffo, so $15,500 is big in week stand
at this . house. All due to band.

Bob Chester, Pittsburgh (Stanley;
8,800; 30-44-60-66), with 'Shanghai
Gesture' (UA). Although Chester
has played hotels and parks here,
he's looked upon" more- as. a dance
than a stage attraction, and with
pretty inadequate screen support-will
be lucky to do $16,'500, just fair.

Horace Ueldt, San Francisco
(Golden Gate; 2,850; 44-50-65), with
'Obliging Youn3 Lady' (RKO).
Combo pulling $23,500, not compar-
able to Tommy Dorsey's great $27,000
the previous week in this house.

Woody Herman, Boston (RKO-Bos-
ton; 3,200; 50-44-56-65-75).^ Support-
ing second wsek of 'Ride* "Em Cow-
boy' (U) on screen. Aiming at $22,-
000, okay.

. Blchard Hlmber, New York (State;
3,450; 28-44-55-75-90-$1.10). With,'Re-
markable Andrew' (Par) on screen,
-Jane Pickens, Cliff Nazarro, others,
on stage. Lack of strength from the
screen holding gross to $20,000, or
thereabouts, not so good.

'Ina Ray Hatton, New York (Para-
mount; 3,664; ,35-55.85'09). With.
.Joan Edwards, Hal LeRoy and -Jack
Haley In person; 'Lady. Has Plans'
(Par) on screen. Combination of
■stageshow and picture drew very
nice $44,000 on the seven days ended
last night (Tuss.). Due to prior book-
ings show could' not be held, though
gross more than justified it.' '

Silmmy Kaye, Minneapolis (Or-
pheum; 2,800; 39-44-55), with 'I Wake
Up Screaming' (20th): Second visit
here for Kaye and he's ace boxoilice
.card. Show also has Sue Ryan, sing-
ing coiAedienne. Going to good
.$16,500.

, Johnny Long| Buffalo (Shea; 3,500;
35-55), and Andrews Sisters head-
lining arid 'Confirm or Deny' (20tb).
All-around strong show,, topped by
harmony trio's fine draught, ..getting,
sweet $20,000.

- Chico Marx, Philadelphia (Earle;
2,768; 35-46-57-68-75). Teamed with
*Lady for a Night' (Rep) and a coupl^
of . acts. Not getting much help from
screen arid grossing sp-so $16,000. _
Clyde IMoCoy, Brooklyn- (Strand;

Ray Noble Caii*t Depend
On Frisco-LA. Airplanes

San Francisco, March 10.
Inability to secure necessary air
transportation has caused postpone-
ment of Ray Noble's third Palace
hotel engagement until his radio
program in HoUywrood goes off for
the summer. Paul Baron holds over
for an added two weeks until Al
Donohue's band comes in.

Bolstering Baron is Paul Sablon,
in from Florida, who opens tonight
(10).

Dunham, Dawn OK
In N. Eng.; Long,
Short in Ont.

Week's Best Records

Kay Kyaer: 'Zoot Sult'-'When
Roses Bloom Again* (Col. 36517).
First, an Infectious novelty, Is
top-rate material, well done.
Solo and trio vocals.

Glenn Miller: 'Story of Starry
Nlght'-'Skylark' .. (Blue. ' 11462).
Unusually pretty ballad, 'Night'
tune sells Itaelt strongly. Ray
Eberle vocal.

BIng Crosby:; 'Don't Want
Walk Without You'-'Moonlight
Cocktails' Deca. 5184). Crosby's
vocal virtually guarantees
'Walk's' success.

Harry James: 'I Remember
You'-'Last Night I Said a Prayer'
(Col. 36518). Both sides strong,
though Helen Forrest's 'Remem-
ber' lyric gives It an edge.

Frank Sinatra: 'Night and
Day'-'Night We Called' (Blue.
11463). Standard side makes
Sinatra's solo debut an auspi-
cious one. It's swell, -

Connt Basle: 'More Than You -
Know'-'Dowh for Double' (Okeh.
6584). While not too com-
mercial for machines Lynne
Sherman's vocal should help sell
first, a neat entry.-
' Shep Fields: 'Let's Say Good-
nlght'-'Fire Dance' (Blue. 11484).
Fields's theme, 'Fire,' is strong
demonstration of his new brass-
less band.

(Estimates)

Bob Chester . (Rensselaer Poly-
technic Institute, Troy, N. Y., Feb.
27). Chester" played to excellent 400
couples at $3.85 pair at Junior Prom;
gross, $1,540.

Sonny Dnnhain (Raymor-Playmor
B., Boston, Marbh 6-7). Dunham and
Kenton " paired drew 1,900 Friday,
2,100 Saturday -for big gross of $2,800.

Jimmy Joy (Cecil theatre., Mason
tlity, la., March 5). With good
weather Joy drew lowest gate of the-
atre's band policy; $650 at 30c-40c-
56c.

Johnny Long (London Arena, Lon-
don, Ont., Can., March 4>. Long
drew one of season's smallest crowds,
but operator classed it a 'swell band*
too new for his purposes; 1^10 at $1
advance, 7Sc door.

Frankie SUsters (Lyric theatre,
Bridgeport, Conn., March 2-4). Sat-
isfactory $4,900 at 50c top in three
days.

McFarland Twins (Theatre, Nortfi
Tonawanda, N..Y.,' March 4-5). Mc-
Farland's drew pcipr $350 in two
days at this 1,200-seater. Had good
weather, too. Band not known in
these parts;

CharUe Splvak (Brookline' C. C
Philadelphia, March 5). Spivak
clicked strongly here, drawing 2,280
dancers at $1. One of best of year.

Dolly Dawn (Shubert theatre. New
Haven, Conn., March 8). First shot
here, built to approximate 3,500 at-
tendance at 65c; okay for one' day.
- Lawrence Welk. (Totem Pole B.,
Auburndale, Mass., March 4-7).
Third stand in this area for- Welk
in five years and friends and word-
of-mouth made it big. Big gross of
$6,960 derived from 9,600 ^dancers at
$1.45 pair over four days.
Woody Herman (Memorial Audi-
Feb,

METRO RECORD
DEALSTE
PENDS •

2,800; 30-40-50-55), plus Mischa Auer
on stage zw\ 'Close Call for Ellery
Queen' (Col). Biz not good here at
$7,000.

Glenn Miller, Washington (Capitol;
3,434; 28-39-44-^6), with 'Joe Smith,
American' (M-G). Miller redhot
draw here and accounting for great
$30,000.

Alvlno Bey, Newark (Ad|:ms; 2,-
000; 25-35-50-60), with 'Burma Con-
voy* (U) and JCing Sisters on stage,
Orchestra and gal singers seem to be
doing all the bsxoffice pulling and
will be responsible for great $17,000.

Jan Savitt, Omaha (Orpheuiti; 3,-
000; 15-40^55) with 'Appointment for
Love' (U). Will get. good $14,000,
Band built from opening day on

Ted Weems, Chicago (Oriental;
8,200; 33-44-55). 'Tragedy at Mid-
night' (Rep) on screen. Weems or-
chestra solid in Chicago and will
garner fine $20,000 here.

Reisman Into Rainbow

Leo Reisman orcnestra goes into
the Rainbow Room, New York,
April 1. It's his flrst date there.
Helen Tamiris, dancer goes in with
Beisman, and it's her R. R. baptism,
vtoo.

Russ Smith- band concludes 10
' Straight months at the adjacent
Rainbow Grill next week (15).

torium, Buffalo, Feb. 27T Grossed
strong $2,194 on crowd of 1,740, of
which 1,210 paid $1.20 advance and
rest shelled out $1.40 at door.

On the Upbeat

vie Grayson into Cascades Room
of Hotel Pick-Ohio, Youngstown.

Doo Brown, who formerly man
aged a dance hall at Geeburg, O.,
has opened the Mart Ballroom,
Youngstown.

Grtiy Wolf Tavern in Masury, O
opened recently with Gray Lee and
his orchestra in the bi^ndshell, fol
lowing renovations.

George Takpblan, former manager
of the Villa, On the Dixie Highway
near Toledo, O., enlisted in the
Army.

Eddie Davis entered his seventh
straight year on the bandstand of
LaRue's, New York, last week:

Charlie Bamet has a new trumpet
section (curfetitly at Boston's Hotel
Brunswick), with Irving Berger at
flrst trumpet, from- Benny Goodman,
replacing Buddy McGuiness; Charles
(Continued ori page 55)

Though it w'as reported as having
gone cold during last week, - Metro's
recording company plans are still
alive, according to David Bernstein,
vice-president and treasurer of
Loew's Ihc.,^ who describes the
projects' position as 'status quo.' It's
understood that Tommy Dorsey, who
is to be' involved In the new com
pany if it's set up, has set a deadline
of 10 days hence and if plans don't
materialize by- then he will re-sign
His band with RCA- Victor.

Word from Metro's coast studios
Monday (9) stated that everything
himg o.n the decision of Bernstein
.and Nicholas M. Schenck, company
prez, both in New York. ■Govern-
ment curtailment of radio and
phonograph production as of April
22 has little to do with the delay in
getting going, according to the same
sources, - but, conversely, the (Gov-
ernment's action was supp(^ed to be
hindering factor in reporta from
the N. Y. end. ,

Eli Oberstein, head of the new
Classic Record Co!, Is said to have
the inside track as recording man-
ager because of his wide experience
in the field' and his connection with
Scranton Manufacturing Co., press-
ing plant which turned out' his .de-
funct U. S. Record discs and is. now
making his Classic sides. However,
Scranton plant, already loaded with
Oberstein's-and its-OMm-Uner-has-a-
limited production capacity and
can't look forward to additional ma-

Bands at Hotel B.O/s

(Presented heretoith, at a toeefUv talmtatlon, is the . esttmated cover
charge biisiness being done bv name bands In various Neti; Yorfc hotels.
Dinner, business (7-10 P.MJ not rated. Fi0urea after name_ oj hotel ffive
room capacity and- cover charpe. Larger amount destf^tates" toeefcend and
holiday price,) <

Vuveni -rotal
Wrek* Part Cova^a

Band Botel Flayed Wnvh Oo IHiU

f eddy Martin*... Waldorf (400; $1.$U0) 7 2;100 15,850

Benny Goodman*..New Yorker (400; 75c-$l, 90) 21 1,850 - 40,200

EnrlcMadrlguera,.Biltmore (300; $1-$160).. ..6 1,050 6,700

LanlMcIntire Lexington (300; 7Sc-$l .60) 4 1,300 6,075

Jimmy Dorsey Pennsylvania (500; 79c-$1.60) 4 2,250 0,750

Vaughn Monroe* Commodore (400; 7Sc-$l) ,. . 21 1,775 32,600

* Aster^ka -indicate a supporting floor show, although the band ts th*
major draw, -'

Los Angeles

Skinnay Ennis (Ambassador; 900( $1-$L50). Ndt pulling as anticipated
and slumped oil to just under 900 covers for two nlghta (Fri. and Sat.).

FhU .Harris (Blltmore; 1,200; $1-$1.60 mln.)..-'Blg weekend make up
skimpy biz on other nlghta; SflOO payees not too bad considering rubber
lack and long jump to this downtown site. n

Chicago

Chnok Foster (Contlnehtal Room, Stevens Hotel; 400; $1.50-$% mln.).
Foster is catching on nicely; turned In 2,200 in week tough i\l over town.

Xavler Cngat (Empire Room, Palmer House; 600; $3-$3.50 min.). In
eighth week Cugat continued nicely with 3,300 customers!

Gene Krapa (Panther Room, Sherman Hotel; 700; .$1.25-$2.50 min.).- In
first week here Krupa indicated plenty of sock and started well with 3,700.

Art Kassel (Walnut Room, -Bismarck Hotel; 300; $l-$2). .Art Kassel name
standard here; took down 1,600 patrons.

Emil Coleman (Majrfalr.Room, Blackstone Hotel; 350; $2.50 mln. Sat).
One more week for Coleman and Hlldegarde. Solid with 2,300 patrons.

]

.Boston

Charlie Bamet (Bermuda Terrace, Brunswick Hotel; 650; 55c-$l cover).
Carrying along strong in Htlrd week with 2,200 covers mainly on weekend
when cover is $1. One week to go; John Klrby follows.

Lelfhton Noble (Terrace Room, Statler Hotel; 450; $1 cover). Even pace
with 800 Friday-Saturday.

Knby Newman (Oval Room, Copley Plaza; 300; $1 cover). With Dorothy
Lewis Ice Show; fine biz for spot with 1,300 covers at $1.

Minneapolis

Mel Marvin (Minnesota Terrace, Hotel Nicollet; 600; $1-$1.50 min.). Lent
and 'generally adverse nlterie biz here bringing down totals. Marvin new
here, but has made very favorable impression. With floor show he fell oft
to approximately 500 customers.

Philadelphia

' Henry King (Garden Terrace, Benjamin Franklin Qotel; 500; $1.50-$2
min.). Wound up successful staiy at this spot drawing approximately 1,300
Hlners In* six days. Pancho's rhumba crew opens today (Wed.).

Baltimore

Don Bestor- (Charles Room, Belvedere Hotel; 600; $l-$2 mln.). Helping
offset Lenten blues in repeat engagement here. - Reaching for nice 2,700
covers in second week.

LOCATION JOBS, NOT IN HOTELS

(Los Angeles)

Claude Thombill (Palladium B, Hollywood, second week)-. Picked up
slightly despite Tuesday hight's blackout false alarm; count will be slightly
over 12,000.

Al Donahue (Trianoiv N, South Gate, Cal., third week). Only short haul
on rubber for this clientele; another good. 4,000 on' the books.

Jaok Teagarden (Casa-Manana B, Culver City, Cal.>. Down to around
3,000 to be charged oft to the general slump around town.'
- Oule Nelson (Florentine Gardens N, Hollywood). Felt the pinch along
with the others and managed just ovy 4,500.

(CWcaj/o)

Orrln Tncker. (BUckhawk; '400; $1.'25' min.). Tucker orchestra has been
doing excellently here; came through again last week with 3,300 patrons.

Boyd Baeburn (Chez Paree; 500; $3-$3.5.0 niln.), Willie Shore and Kitty
Carlisle headlining; business pretty good at 2,600 tabs.

(Baltimore)

Dick Bog«rg (Ch anticleer; 400; $l-$1.50-$2 min.). Fared better than last
week ipr ootn dmner'and noctum'^'respbnse Indicating 3,800 'cibvers on'the '
week: I>el Casino starts today (Wed.).

chines to handle M-G's line,

Dorsey's band cut five tunes at
Victor's Hollywood studios last week,
starting rumors that he had taken
his outfit b6ck to Victor. However,
sides he made were remakes of
previously cut tunes from his Metro
film, 'Ship Ahoy.' First tries were
duds he wouldn't allow released.

Bandbooker Bobeck of
PM elphia Jammed Up,
Morris, MCA Compkun

Philadelphia, March 10.

Anthony C. Sharkey, State agent-
in-charge of booking license en-
forcement here, yesterday (Mon.)
announced he would refuse to issue
a new permit to Carl Bubeck; local
band booker, following co'mplainta
at alleged money juggling filed by
MCA' and William Morris agencies of
New York.

Bubeck, whose office does the
largest booking of name aggrega-
tions in the Phllly area, was hauled
on the carpet before Sharkey last
week and confronted by a commit-
tee of irate cadeta of the Pennsyl-
vania Military College, who charged

they had given him $175 deposit for
Duke Daly, WUliam Morris-booked
band'for a college dance Feb. 28, and
who charged Bubeck failed to de-
liver. At the last minute the ciadets
were forced to hire a makeshift local
band for their hop.

The other rap against Bubeck
came from MCA which claimed it
never received a $225 deposit, which
the ' local percenter -was to have
placed for the hiring of Mltehell
Ayres' band for a one-night date for
the annual prom of Salesianum High
School, Wilmington, Del.

Officials . of the Musicians Union
said they were watching closely the
action taken by the State and may
also suspend Bubeck's AFM fran-
chise, unless he makes restitution.

Sharkey cleared Joel Charles, as-
sociated with Bubeck, of any irregu-
larities. Charles, an ex-bandleader,
said he would open his own agency.

Ed Drew, WPRO (Providence )
musical director, started last Satur-
day (7) with his band in Town Room
of Proyldence-Blltmore Aotel for
Saturday night dancing, since the
Garden Restaurant, ' where George
Sterney opened ' Monday (0), has
been turning them away heavily. '

Sonny Dnnham, March 14, Man-
hattan Center, New York; 15, Stanley
Arena, New Britton, Conn.; . 17;
George F. Pavllllon, Johnson caty,
N. Y.; 20, Temple Uh Phliadelphia;
21, Convention Hall, Camden, N. J.;
26, Trianon B., Toledo/27, U. of Lex-
ington, Lexington, Ky.; 28, Castl*
Farms, Cincinnati; 29, Eagle's B,
Milwaukee.

Stan Kenton, March 2e-April 1,
Central theatre, Pa^ic, N. J.

Johnny Long, March 20-26, Palace
theatre, CHeveland; 27-AprU 2, Earltt
theatris, Washington.

Bob Allen, March 10, Flatbush
theatre, Brooklyn; 27-20, Windsor
theatre, Bronx.

Lon Breese, March 15, New Moon
theatre, Vlncennes, Ind.; 17; Walde-
meer Park, Erie, Pa.; 20, Ritz B.,
Bridgeport, Conn.

Lnoky MllUnder, Manhattan
Casino, St.- Petersburg, Fla.; 13, Sun-
shine C, Orlando; 15, Harlem Square
C Miami; 16, Windsor jO, Fort
Lauderdale; 17,. Apollo B., Tkmpa; 18,
Aud., Jacksonville; 19, City Aud.,
(Continued on ()age 65)

Wednesday, Hiuch. 11. 1942

ORCHEtlXRAS

41

Inside Stuf-Orchestras

Glenn MUler lost another round In his battle with General Amusement
Co. over commission rates. MlUer asked that GAC be directed to post a
bond to Insure hla collection of disputed commissions In the event' that
he won his case, wblcb Is being taken to the'AFM's Executive Board;- He
was turned down, but told that should his point be carried he needn't
worry about GAC'b returning the money. Miller wants to pay GAC only
591 of his earnings as provided In-N. Y. state emplO}nment agency law. '

Leader paid GAC diluted commissions he had withheld while carrying
his case to the AFM, last Friday. In torn he was paid monies GAC had
withheld in payment for the leader's Chesterfield broadcasts.

At the beginning of a stage show at the Capitol theatre, Washington,
last week, MiUer stepped to the mike and requested patrons to look care-
fully at those sitting near them. He was looking for a sleeping man.

After much swlvellng of necks and questioning stares he informed his
audience that he was looking for Chummy MacGregor, his pianist, who
had gone out from to see the picture and hadn't returned. Pianist had
actually gone to a doctor and had been given a~bum steer on the starting
time of the show. He walked on when it was half over.

Bunny Berlgan was scheduled for a spot on Eddie Cantor's .NBC Ipana-
Sal Hepatica program last Wednesday (4), but was concelled during dress-
rehearsal wlien it was found mat^ial on hand ran far beyond the show's
30 minutes. Berigan was paid, his $250 salary; he was to have gone on
solo, his band laying oft that evening.

Trumpeter's faflure to appear on the show brought rumors among
music men that he had been 6n bad behaviour. MCA's Harry 'Moss
emphatically denied the feports while explaining Berigan's absence,

Dean Hudson's orchestra . has been definitely disbanded. . For awlille
after Hudson was Inducted into the Army last month the outfit was kept
together pending the selection of a substitute, but getting someone ex-
perienced, it was found,, would have been too expensive. Library has
been stored away ior the duration and Hudson wiU re-form whenever
he's .able. . '

Hudson, whose real name Is Marion Brown, is at Fort McClellan, An-
niston, Ala., a first lIRitenant.

Ran Wilde has begun an idea on his remote broadcasts from the Sir
Francis Drake hotel,- San Francisco, that l^s aroused some interest. He
is devoting all of his air time to the playing of standard musical comedy
tunes of the past and present, inserting- short highlights concerning the
history of each tune, its writers, show source, stage personalities of the
-era which originally played and sang the melody, etc.

So far the sustalner has ridden only NBC time in the Coast area, but
it's expected to' spread. .

Arthur Tracy, the 'Street Singer,' now on NBC thrice weekly for Ex-
Laj^, was called into Decca studios in New "Vork last week for a Special
recording session. He made a set of pop melodies current -here for Eng-
lish consumption only. Decca's English afiiUate recorded "tracy while
the latter was In that country and had nothing new by him, hence the
hurry-up caU> to mike Tracy here. English record sales are booming as
big, if not bigger, than U. S. sales.

Bob Mersey, 22-year-oId'^ arranger who left Teddy Powell recently to
join Jimmy Dorsey, goes back to Powell imder a contract h* signed last
week with Consolidated Badlo Artists, Powell's booking agency. CRA
is guaranteeing Mersey bis salary of $125 weekly. ,

Powell recorded yesterday (Tues.) in New York for RCA-Vlctor's Blue-
bird labeL

George Frazler, Boston Herald jazz columnist, will tee off Saturday (14)
a weekly record program titled af ler his -column, 'Sweet and Low Down,'
over 'WEEI, Boston. Interviews with band leaders wiU be Included. For
his first shot he will have Woody Herman as guest, but the banter will
be necessarily transcribed for Herman closes RKO-Boston theatre Thurs-
day to" open Friday (IS) at Hotel New Yorker.

Bobby Parks, ex-Cornell, with a snappy sextet, is the new dance combo
at the Hotel Astor's (N.Y.) Columbian Room, where Dick Kuhn also holds
forth in another room, the Broadway Cocktail Lounge. With himseU
faxing at the helm. Parks relies on a Novachord for odd effects, and also
on a dominant rhythm section for effect. No brass, but strhtg bass, piano,
violin, traps and two reeds; also doubling two violins -plua the Novachord.

It's Columbia Pictures shorts department that Is filming a two-reeler
■round Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, New York, with Hal Mclntyyre's
band, not Paramount Latter was wrongly mentioned as making the film
in last Week's 'Variety.'

Frankle Newton's band from Boston's Savoy Cafe will provide accom-
paniment for Llbby Holman when she records for Victor. She heard imit
while playing an engagement at the Hotel Somerset, • Boston. Joshua
White, who taught her to shig 'blues.' will act as guitar-accompanist.

On Fitch Pitch Fields
Forms Orchestra Into
Circle Despite Audience

Shep Fields tried an unusual set-
up of his Instruments for his band's
Fitch Bandwa.Son .broadcast a week
ago Sunday '(1). Instead of atring-
lag his 10 aaxes and four rhythm
across stage in rows, the conven-
tional method, he formed them in a
complete circle, with one pickup
mike in the center. He had a studio
audience to play to, too, and the ar-
rangement surprised them no end.

Since.hroadcBsting has become so
Important to the modern orchestra
. the 'balancing' of a band for a pro-
gram, so as to reproduce Its music
as accurately as a personal hearing.
Is a constant headache to leaders.
Some outfits, in studios or on remotes,
will experiment for hours with vari-
ous setups and numbera of mikes,
yet never attain a true 'balance.'
Fields' circle method has been tried
before, but assertedly never under
the eyes of a studio audience.

Isabella Barge la the new vocalist
with Tee Ross orchestra, which
played .first engagement for Music
Corp. of America in the Hotel Pick-
Ohio, Youijgstown recently.

Special Colombia, Okeh
Service for N. Y. Jokes

Times Appliance, New York dis-
tributor of Columbia and Okeh rec-
ords, opened its own sales counters
yesterday (Tues.) In N. Y. to service
coin machine operators direct It's
an experiment. Move is unusual be-
cause heretofore Times and Bruno,
Victor distributor, have contented
themselves with servicing Inde-
pendent, intermediate distributors
like Modern Vending, who, for a few
cents extra per record, give an op-
erator tha advantage of buying all
labels at one counter. Thnes' new
venture will handle only Columbia
and Okeh.

In addition distributors like Mod-
em give machine operators advice
on current best-sellers and ones
likely to achieve that rating. Many
box operators depend on them for
such information.

Beatrice Booze, guitarist - blues
singer, unearthed 'during a contest
conducted by Lionel Hampton at
Royal theatre, Baltimore, recently,
starts at Cafe Society Downtown,
New York, Friday (13).

Jivin' the Stuff

Midnight to dawn is being re-
ferred to In many war factories
as 'the swing shift' in deference
to the use of phonograph records
played during these hours to
divert the workers.

Commonly radio . stations in
areas with all-night production
have disc jockeys tumtablipg
dance, music thrqugh the wee
hours, too.

AFM BEGINNING
TO LICENSE
BAND REPS

James C. Petrillo, president of (he
American Federation of Musicians,
declared last week that the- inter-
national's new rule compelling band
managers, personal agents and repre-
sentatives to obtain AFM licenses
will become effective upon publica-
tion of the taboo in the imlon's house
organ. The International Musician.
The latter starts going put in the
mail at the end of the current week.
Aa far as the manager's compensation
is concerned, the amount according
to the new law,- is to-be limited to
5% of the orchestra's income from
engagements providing the' sum. Is
over and above union scale and
booking commissions.

The AFM's new law on ownership
of bands is as fallows:

'Leaders o/ hands or archestriu
■ are prohibited from directiv or
indirectly, throvLgh any deirfc.e or
method or device whatever, ac- .
quirlna any financial interest of
whole or part 'oumer ship in any
other bond or orchestra, pro-
vided that a leader may -wholIVr
but not In part, own any other
band 'which accepts or fills en-
gagemetUs under his own name.'
Also becoming effective at the end
of this week Is the AFM's law con-
trolling the method of financing
bands and the operations "of "pawn-
brokers' In the band industry; The
strictures set up by the uiilon la as
follows:

'To promote his business, a
Uoder maw borrow mo7ie« in ajiy
manner not contraventive of
Standing Resolution Wo. B8 or
any other rule^ taw or resolution
of the Federation, but he- must .
not make any agreements or ar-
rangement directly or indirectly
subjecting him to interest and/or
bonus of more than 10% per on-
num; nor Tnore than a total of
25% of the total sum borrowed
and which is to be repaid.'
Under the foregoing rule a leader
is barred from paying more than 10%
Interest on 'money advanced by the
financier for any one year. If the
loan is for more than 2% years the
interest and bonus can't exceed 25%.
so that if a loan Is lor lour years the
financier is banned from receiving
an average of 614% Interest per year.

WHN, NEW YORK. INTO
BANDJttK-UP BIZ

. - WHN, . New^York.. Ja laying .plans ,
to go into the picking up of remote
orchestra broadcasts wholeheartedly.
At the mpinentr the Loew's Inc.,
owned outlet ha^a wire in only one
spot the Top Hat Union (Hty, N. J„
but It Is figuring on nmiimg lines
into major hotels and suburban
danceries that play top bands.

Station recently boosted its power
to 50,000 watts.

Seymoiir Heller Joins
GAC as One-Night Aide

Seymour Heller, recently manager,
of the Ted Fio-Rito orchestra, Joined
(Seneral Amusement Co. laat Thurjs-
day (5) as assistant to one-night
booker Dick Gabbe. Heller left Fio-
Rito several months ago and has
been doing nothing since.

He was once with MCA's Cleve-
land office.

R. Kemper Builds 'One

Ronnie Kemper, former v'Q'calist
with Horace Heidt and Dick Jurgens,
signed with Uie William Morris
agency's Hollywood office last week
to become a bandleader on his own.
He's currently building a 12-piece
outfit and will play piano up front

It's understood he turned down an
offer , lo sing . with Paul Whiteman
enrbute to his own baton.

Monthly Releases Instead of Weekly
Proposed (or Columbia Records

DECCA KEEPS BOSWELL

Was Slated for Oolambia— Martha
Baye, Cantor Cat Discs

Connie Boswell remains - with
Decca Becords for another year.
Singer was On the verge of shifting
to Columbia Records, couple weeks
ago and - even had a recording datie
assigned to her at the lattei's stu-
dios. However, more, attractive
Decca terms cancelled the cliange.

Martha Raye does her initial sides
for Decca this week while Eddie
Cantor recorded for the same com-
pany yesterday (Tues.).

Good But fify. Biz
Outlook for Bands
Coming Siunmar

BJr BEBNIE WOODS

There's an optimistic feeling among
band bookers concerning tha com-
ing summer's business outlook Con>
sensus of opinion Is that the season
will be bigger than ever for all types
and callbeO' of orchestras. Few will
hazard a thought on whaf s In (tore
for one-night dance promotloiu,
whleh frequently draw from long
distances, hence are likely to be hurt
by rubber restrictions. But that
amusement' parka, theatres and loca-
tions wiU - be abnormally lively Is-
subscril>ed to unanimously - but with
one big If.'

The If concerns possible bomb-
ings. Harry Moss, of MCA, for one,
warns that the rosy picture be has of
the future will vani^ in bis opinion,
if any bombings t>f the - east coast
occur. He points out that Important
amusement ' resorts like. 'Virglrila
Beach, Va, Atlantic CUty, Aflbury
Park, N. J., Palisades Park. N. J.,
etc., are likely to fold entirely after
a bombing scare and the spirit-damp-
ening effect on other jobs would hurt
immeasurably. However, an exam-
ple of what report operators expect-
is clear ' Steel Pier, Atlantic City,
last year a weekend stand for bigger
names this year will buy on a full-
week basis.

Bookers point to the big businiess
done since Jan. 1 In all'wbrk grooves
as a basis for crystal-gazing the sum-
mer. They admit that some one-
nighters have been off, but 'point to
'Variety's' own weekly results 'to
substantiate their .assertion that
grosses generally have been up. They
also agree that the number of book-
ings have increased over the. com-
parable period of last year, indicat-
ing newer spots in. operation, more
theatres swinging over to a one-day
band policy, etc.

As far as confiiction between tire
rationing and one-night ballrooms is
concenied it's always be$n true that
many hav£..curtalled operatloato.one.
or possibly two nights weekly, then:
only with big names. 'When ques-
tioned on how he thinks these spots
wUl fare one booker cracked that
'dancers will crawl to where a top
band is on exhibition, It there's
no other transportation.' However,
such spots are virtually certain of
lower grosses.

One of best situated ballrooms in
the east In view of the rubber short-
age. Is -Andy Perry's 'Empire, at Al-
lentown. Fa. His spot draws from
a host of colleges and IndOstrlal
areas around Easton, AUentown, and
Bethlehem. All three towns are con-
nected by a- trolley line — which
passes ballroom door. Another is
Totem Pole, Aubiimdale, Mass.,
owned by the Massachusetts Traction
Co., and the terminus tot trackage
Into Boston.

An unexpected source of Income/
bookers say, will be from a number
of colleges, particularly in New Eng-
land, which are remaining In session
through the summer to speed grad-
uates for the Army. Cut college
budgets have hurt recently, but un-
looked for Summer bookings at
schools will make up for It

Mildred Bailey recorded with Red
Norvo's band at Columbia Records
last week. She got out of a Decca
contract on which she recorded solo,
just in time to work . for (Columbia
with Norvo, who's her husband.

Bridgeport Conn., March 10.

Columbia Records is mulling a '
new releasing policy whereby its Co-
lumbia and Okeh labels will be mar-
keted (i. e. released) once a month
Instead of the. present once weekly.
Comi^any officials have had several
nieetihgs -on" the subject past two
weeks, but so far haven't progressed
beyond the .talking stage.

Company's Idea behind the con-
templated move is to ease tha
struggle of production, (Conserve nia-
terials and help retail dealers. Fre-
quently the sale of a given week'a
new discs Is cut off by newer re-
leases that follow too closely. That'a
particularly true of some best-selling
bands; both bandleader and manu-
facturer want to take' advantage of
his popularity and release new disca
too fast, overlapping the rmx of pre- '
vlous ones, naturally curtailing th*
latter's sales.

However, Columbla'a idea Include!
a 'special release'' clause to cover
%nything they think too hot to hold
for 'the monthly general ahlpmenta.
In auch cases the disc or discs to
rated will ba marketed as soon a>
possible.

NEB. BOOKERS
ESCAPE STA11
CONTROL

Uncoln, March 10.

Omaha orchestra "boekm SmiI
Button. Howard M^tMt, and "Vi*
Schroeder cama out wlnnen over
Nebraska conunlsaloner of labor Q.
M. Olsen when -an opbildii ol Attor-
ney-Genetal JobnsoA stalled OlMn'a
try to bring boolp^ers ^nder Nebra>>
ka'a employment agency statuta;-
Argument started some months ago^
when Olsen heard of a catSsh-aa-
catch-cah. outfit, -which nicked -eacli
Individual- in a femme band a per-
centage of her pay. Be Immediately
assumed all agencies operated In tb».
same way.

Attorney general'* ' opltnlon' . was
that ' an agency whlph' gets iti iea-
from the leader/ only, and bopks only
bands and orchestras, ' comes under
the classtflcatloq of an artists* rep»
resehtative, which 'Js not covered. by.
the Nebraska employment ' dgency
law Olsen wanted to exercise.

UNIFORMS FOR MNCE
ORCHESTRAS A PROBLEN

Some bandleaders are stocking up-
as much as they dare on new uni-
forms for their men. Tailors hava'
warned tiiem that it won't be long
untii ''clpth foit Bu'cK uise vrijl be ~un>
available. Even now, by Govern-
ment order. It will be shortly Im-^
possible to continue certain styles.
Accordingly, there , are leaders who
are ordering double seta of every-
thing they havd made.

However, for some, banda that's
dangerous. All musicians aren't of ^
the same sroportlons and with the
Army taking men, other leaders
constantly on the prowl for replace-
ments, such foresii^t aa stocking
reserves can be a waste of money.

tombardo in Home Town

London, Ont, £Iarch 10.
Guy Loinbardo goes' to London,
Ont, Canada, his home town. April
30, to jplay a benefit for the Red
Cross and British War Relief at the
Auditorium and repeats the next day
at. Arena, Toronto, Both dates are
under auspices of Toronto Evening
Star.' It's Lombardo's first trip back
to London in five years. He's ac- .
cepting expenses only for the two
days.

Dates origtoally were to be played
April 13-14, but a benefit hop being
run on the 20fh by Toronto Mu-
sicians' local prevented. So as not
to hurt or interfere Lombardo will-
ingly rescheduled his benefits to
follow the Musicians'.

NBC, CBS, Blue Juhial Plugs

FollotcJtiff tabulation of popular music per/ormancej embraces all three
networks— NBC, CBS, Blue, and Mutual— os represented by WEAF—V/JZ,
VI ABC and V/OR N. Y. Compilation herewith covers weefc bcBinninp
Monday through Sunday iMarch 2-8) from 5 p.m. to 1 a.rn. and is
based on data provided by Accurate Reporting Service regular checfcinp
source for the music publishing industry.

jUI^£ PUBLISHER TOTAL

•Deep in Heart of Texas. Melodylane 35

How About You— t'Babes on Broadway'... Feist 32

Miss You Santly 32

•Lamp of Memory Marks 31

Blues in the Night. .t'Blues in Night' , Remick 30

♦How Do I Know It's Real? Chappell 30

Don't Want Walk Without You— t'Sweater Girl' Paramount 24

Wherever You Are Miller 23

I'll Pray for You— t'What's Cookin' Harms 21

When Roses' Bloom Again Shapiro 20

Sing Me Song of the Islands, .f Song of the Islands'. . gyj, 16

Somebody Else Taking My Place >

Sometimes '.

•A Zoot Suit

Happy in Love— t'Sons o' Fun'

Mandiy Is Two.

You Made Me Love You

Somebody Nobody Loves

.ril hemember April— t'Ride 'Em Cowboy' ■••••Leeds 11

White Cliffs of Dover Shapiro 11

Everything I Love— t'Let's Face rt' Chappell .; 10

Pooled •ABC 10

iie and My Melinda Berlin 10

Rose O'Day ^ Tobias 10

•There I've Said It Again Radlotunes 9

Anchors Awelgh..,; Robbins 8

Always in My Heart. .t' Always in My Heart'... Remick 8

•Angellne ••■.•■J. Campbell- 8

Day Dreaming T. B. Harms ..... 8

•I Think of You Embassy 8

She'll Always Remember Witmark 8

We'll Meet Again Dash ; 8

•All those Wonderful Years J. Campbell 7

Aimiversary Waltz Mayfair . . « 7

Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing. .t'Fleet's In* — Famous 7

He's Al in Army..,.;.^ ; Valiant 7

1 Got It Bad .....Robbins 7

•Memory of This Dance BMI 7

MoonUght CocktoU Jewel T

All Through the Night— f All "nirough Night' Harms 6

•As We Walk Into Sunset CLP 6

Blue Skies ......Berlin 6

Caissons Go RoUin' , Shapiro . . . - 8

Embraceable You Harms 6

I Remember You— t'Fleet's In' Famous 6

Someone's Rockia' My Dreamboat Advance 6

Tlca Tl Tica Ta ...Witmark 6

Chattanooga Chbo-Choo—t'Sun Valley Serenade'.... Feist ;.; — 5

Exactly Like You Shapiro 5

I'll Never Forget Maylair 5

Intermezzo .Shuberth S

Seek Paying Cora

WetJo'esdayt March 11, 1942

Tin Pan Alley Is stUl striv-
ing for that click sentimental
war ditty. One about the
baby's prayer is yet to come
up, but Jack MeskiU and Mur-
ray Mencher have delivered
one tagged, 'A Yankee Mother's
Prayer.'

Harry Tenney is the pub-
lisher. V

-Shapiro 19

•Berlin 16

• Greene-Revell ... 15
•Feist 15

• BVC 15

■Broadway 15

■ Robbins 13

APPm FROM VERDICT
FAVORING MARKS, BMI

ASCAP's general counsel, Frohllch
& Schwartz, have taken an appeal
from the decision which N. Y. su-
preme court justice Louis A. Valente
recently handed down In the test
action brought by'B.'B. Marks and
Broadcast Music, Inc., against the
Society. The Appellate Division has
been asked tA reverse Justice Val-
ente's ruling that the case falls
within the jurisdiction of the sUte
and not the Federal court.

Marks is asking the courts to af-
firm his contention that when he
walked out of ASCAP he became
the sole owner of the performing
rights and that the writers involved
had no authority to assign the ad>'
ministration of such rights to
ASCAP.

Inside Stutf-Mnsic

E. B. Marks has served notice on Bregman-Vocco-Conn that unless the
latter ceases publication Immediately of the time, 'Sing Me a Song of the
Islabd,' a. suit for infringement and unfair competition will follow. Marks
also wants an accoimting on the song. The controversy stems from the
connection thait the two publishing firms have with the 20th Century-Fox
production, 'Song, of the Islands,' Marks licensed the producer for the
title and unlimited sync use of its tune, 'Song of the Islands,' while B-V-C
obtained the publication rights to the remainder of the picture's score,
in which 'Sing Me a Song* Is Included. Mack Gordon and Harry Warren
did the B-V-C numbers In the picture. ,

A pipe organ manufacturer has taken two contracts for the production
of wooden ammunition boxes, according to Ray .M. Hudson, industrial
executive of the New England Council, wl}0 said the. factory was 'some-
where In New England.' '

Mills Music, Inc., has licensed Metro for the use of 'Me and My GaV
and 'How'ya Gonna Keep "Em Down on the Farm' in the fllmuslcal, 'Big
time.'

George Gershwin Assn.
' Incorporates in NX

Albany, March 10.

George Gershwin Benevolent Asso-
ciation, Inc., has been chartered as
a non-profit membership corporation.

Jacob p. Fuchsberg, of New York,
was filing attorney.

(Records beloto are crabbing most nlclcels this wiek in )ukeboxe»
throughout the counfry, as reported by operators to 'Variety.' Name*
of more than one band or oocalist after the titU indicates, in order of
popularity, tohos* recordings are being plawed. Figures ond nomes in
parenthesis indicate the number of weeks each song has been in the Kstings
and respectit)* publishers.) ' «

Deep Heart Texas '(4) Melodylane. j t}vJ'^cr^%y;v;.;;;;S^^^^^

2. Blues in Night (9)-Remick |

„ „ „ . . _ ,. ,, ,,. y . , (Glenn Miller Bluebird

3. MoonUght Cocktails (3) Jewel | Tommy Tucker Okeh

I Don't want Walk (3) Paramount j^LThn'Eoe:::!'BSd

Jealous — t'Femlnine . Touch' Mills ....

Jersey Bounce , ' ..Lewis ...

Long May We Love ' '. . . Sant^ . .

•Marines' Hymn. ..Marks .,

•My- Little CoUsin ..Dorraine

String of Pearls , Mutual . ,

•This Love of Mine Embassy

We Did It Before— t'Banjo Eyes' Witmark

The association, • organized ex-
clusively for fraternal purposes, will
have its membersh °< . confined to mu-
sicians who have cards in Local 802,
of the AFM. The incorporating di-
rectors Include Samuel F. Wllcomer,
Max Smolem, Sara F. Brown, Bob
Silvers, Sam Gould, Al Klein and
William Scheilline.

Prime purpose is to honor the
name of Gershwin; and it's done
with the consent of the composer's
estate.

• Indicates BMI licensing: •* indicates SESAC licensing; others are via
ASCAP, tfilmusical. t Legitimate.

STAN KENTON

and His Orchestra
ON TOUR
Soon to open at Frank Daly's
Valley Dale and Meadowbropk

-Sooa to ba n

on D«c«a rMords

0ASIBLEB8 BLCKB, EI. VHOOLO,
BEED RAPTURE, LA&DCNTO'
GITANO, CONCERTO FOB
DOOHOUSE ■

General Amuiement Corp.
F«n. Dir. I Carlo* Out«I

Stephen Swedish Set

Milwaukee, March 10.
Stephen Swedish and his orches-
tra, who go into the Empire room
of the Hotel Schroeder for three
weeks starting March 14, have also
been signed for the summer season
at the Modernistic ballroom In State
Fair park, opening May 24 and con-
tinuing through Labor Day.
■ This will be the band's fif th year
in this ^ot,. where name bands also
are used from time to time dtirlng
the season.

On Feb. 16

WALTER WINCHELL in 800
Newspapers, said:

"Get a recording ceiled *FIGHTI]S'. DOUG
MacARTUVW as done by Lucky MUlinder^s
crew»**

Listen to:

LUCKY MILLINDER

AND ORCHESTRA'S
Salute to Our Gallant General

"FIGHTIN' DOUG MacARTHUR"

BACKED BT

"WeVfr Gonna Have to Slap the Dirty Little Jap"

DECCA NO. 4261

HOTZ GAINS MEMBERS

Bat ASCAP in New York Smiles at
Bis Legal Advice '

Lincoln, March 10.

William Hotz, attorney, has ob-
tained a number of ballroom-opera-
tor, converts to his Nebraska Mtisic
Users Association. Membership in
the NMUA entails a down payment
of $10. R. R. Livingston, owner oi
the Capitol theatre, here and an exhib
leader, has been urging his fellow
fllmltes to stay out of Hptz' organiza'
tlon, saying that they would be better
oil not becoming entangled with the
NMUA and that a compromise on the
antl-ASCAP statute was due shortly.

Hotz, who recently brought a triple
damage action in WOWs, "Qmaha,
behalf, has been advising Nebraska
music users to perform ASCAP
music any way they wished and as
surlng them that they need' not fear
any infriilgefiient suits.

'Oh, Yeah' Says ASCAP

Publisher members of ASCAP de-
clare that they have compiled' con
slderable evidence of Infringements
by Nebraska users and they will be
gin filing suits In the local federal
court as soon as their Nebraska
counsels have completed the neces.
sary complaints. Under the copy^
right law a fine of $250 per hifrlnge
ment Is made mandatory upon the
presiding judge.

Hany James First CoL
Band on Co(»-Cola Gala

Harry James' orchestra played the
prize-winning ' Coca-Cola 'Spotlight
Bands' program Saturday night (6)
on Mutual, the first Columbia Rec
ords orchestra to get the assignment
Bank was picked up from Frank
Dalley's. Meadowbrook, Cedar
Grove, N. J., where it's playing,
which also Is a first. While many
mid-week shots have been band
stand pickups, Satiurday ones here'
tofore were dpne from a studio. ''.
Don't Want to Walk Without You'
recording rated James the best
seller broadcast.

Playing at Meadowbrook for the
first time James broke all attend-
ance' and - gross niairks there last
week. He opened Feb. 27.

10 Best SeDers on CoiitMaclunes

6. String of Pearls (3) Mutual.

6. I Said No (6) Paramount.

Rose O'Day (6) Tobias

8. Somebody Else Taking Place (2) Shapiro.

I Glenn Miller.: . . . . .Bluebird

(Woody Herman.- Decca

j.Alvlno Rey ..Bluebird

(Jimmy Dorsey ..Decca

( Kate Smith Columbia

} Woody Herman Decca

(Benny Goodman ..Okeh

I Vaughn Monroe. . . . Bluebird

9. White Cliffs Of Dover (10) Shapiro : j Ky.V.V.V.-.]^'"

^ X — 1. /'•^T V (Vaughn Monroe ..Bluebird
10. On Street of Regret (1) Loeb | gammy Kaye Victor

OTHER FAVORITES .

(These records are directly below first 10 in populorilv. Tunes'^o^th
number of weeks in porenthesis are fading, others gaining.)

" " " ~ " Harry James Columbia

( Sammy Kaye Victor

(Kate Smith Columbia

( Glenn Miller Bluebird

' ( Jimmy Dorsey Decca

(Johnny Long Decca

I Glenn Miller ..... .Bluebird

(Inkspots Decca

(Woody Herman.. Decca

we Did It Before (Witmark) j .V.coS^

You're a Sap, Mr. Jap (MiUs) ■ { ^i^ |»off .'.•.•.•.'.•.OkA

Sometimes

You Made Me Love You (22) Broadway.
Dear Mom (Republic)

Ev'rything I Love (Chappell)

We're Couple In Castle (Famous)

Someone's Rockin' Dreamboat (Advance) .

i-a^M^\ (Vaughn Monroe... Bluebird
) Tommy Tucker Okeh

Miss YOU (Santly) {fa^„S.S"^^e.\\\\\"VS;

My Little Cousin (Doralne) Benny (Soodman Okeh

What to Do (Leeds) ; Andrews Sisters Decca.

zoot suit (Greene-Revel) } jaSr^e^s:.^?:^^^

Vernon Stevens to MCA

Vernon Stevens, who booked Dave
RubinofTs recent string of concert
appearances, joins Music Corp of
America's Chicago ofiic>>. He'll
handle Concert bookings in the mid-
west of any artists In that field.

That includes longhair bookings
for bandleader Benny Goodman

Werner S. Heymann is making use
of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony- as
the theme for his .score in. 'Highly
Irregular* at Columbia.

The Song Everyone It
Talking About !

WE'LL

AGAIN

DASH - CONNELLY, Inc.

1610 Broadway, New York
SOLIiT OOHN, Ocn. Pnb Hipr.

(t

Champagne Music

of

99

LAWRENCE WELK

NOW ON RECORD BREAKING TOUR

• Third Successive
Engagement

CHICAGO
THEATRE

• Third Succeaatve
tngagement

RIVERSIDE
MILWAUKEE

• Outstanding
Engagemerxt

STANLEY
PITTSBURGH

OPENINQ TOWER THEATRE, KANSAS CITY
WEEK MARCH 20

DIreotloni FREDERICK BROS. MUSIC CORP., New York, Chicago

Wednesday, March 11, 1942

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44 MUSIC

W^dnesdaj, March 11, 1942

Treasury Song Books Copyright-Free
But AD Destroyed After Special Dates

4-

U. S. Treasury Department has ob-
tained permission for the free use of
a large group of familiar tunes in
a songsheet that it is putting out in
connection with Lucy Monroe's
countrywide tour through which the
purchase of war bonds and stamps
will be ' stimulated. The Music
Publishers Protective Association
cleared the tunes with the Individual
copyright owners.

The Treasury Department has
agreed to. print just enough copies
for each rally and to collect and
desti-oy them at the close of each
event. Purpose of this precaution
Is to prevent the sheets from becom-
Uig household items and thereby af-
fecting the sale of piano copies of
the songs involved. Each batch of
songsheets will' carry the imphint
of the place and town of the in-
dividual rally.

TONY GALENTO'S TUNE

Tony Galento, the former heavy-
weight pugilist, has placed a song
with Mills Music, Inc.

The title is 'Mender of Broken
Guitars.'

15 Best Sheet Music Sellers

(Weefc ending March 7)
Deep Heart Texas. .Melodylane
White Cliffs Dover. .. .Shapiro

Blues In Night... Remlck

Don't Want Walk. . . Paramount

Hose O'Day Tobias

Shrine of St. Cecelia Braun

Miss You .SanUy

Moonlight Cocktails Jewel

Somebody Taking Place. Shapiro

How About You? .Feist

Couple in Castle. .- Famous

Remember P. Harbor. .Republic

Dear Mom Republic

Elmer's Tune Robbins

We Did It Before Witmark

Sam Taylor, songplugger, one
month married, is going from his
honeymoon into the Army, having
Just been called. Taylor is with
Buddy Morris,

*

91^ HITS

3 Outrfanding Songs from the M-G-M Picture
"SHIP AHOY"

s^arrin, B..nor Pawell. R*a SVeHon Bert UJ.
VirsJni. O'Brien And Tommy Dor«y -nd h.s Orchestr.

THE LAST CALL FOR LOVE

ly E. Y. Harburg. Margery Cummings end Burton UTne

POOR YOU

Lyric by E-Y.Harbtjrg

Music by Burton Lane

I'LL TAKE TALtULAH

Lyric by EY.Harburg

Music by Burton Lane

THERE WON'T BE A
SHORTAGE OF LOVE

By Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Loeb

HOW ABOUT YOU?

Lyric by Ralph Freed Music by Burton Lane

From the M.G.M Picture. "Babes On Broadway,
starring Mickey Robney and Judy Garland.

HAPPY IN LOVE

Lyric by Jack Yellen »>y Sam E. F*'"

Revive 'Japanese Sunset*

PhUa^elphU, March 10.

Charlie BorrTlHr local soiig '
writer and ad man, has started a
one-man campaign to get radio
stations to plug the old-tlmef fave;

'Japanese Sunset'

m ELECTION
NOW FORESEEN
ATASCAP

Bribery Rsunpant ilnain-Or Stifl?

Topic of conversation that agitates publishers whenever, (hey meet
these days Is what they describe as the rampant condition of plug
payoffs around the Industry. All voice suspicions and Innuendoes
about the other fellow but despite all the talk either at ASCAP
committee meetings pr across restaurant tables the contactmen's union
has yet \o receive anything in the nature of a formal complaint

One form of bribery that Is frequently cited has to do with accept-
ing manuscripts at huge advances from band leaders when the pub-
lisher has no-intention of ever doing anything with the compositions.
The head of a major publishing firm during February made two such
payments, with $500 involved in each instance. He brought one of
these leaders into New York from his stand some 600 miles away,
paying all his traveling expenses. This publisher stated at a pub>
Ushers' meeting only''a couple weeks ago that bribery had become
general in the business again and that he had decided to do the same
thing as others and he deQed his competitors to imcover his subter-
fuges. ■ • . . .

No bitter contests are anticipated
in the balloting which is going on
currently for election to the ASCAP
board of directors. The ballots are
due in at the end of next week
The terms of the electees start April
1. itieanwhile .the ASCAP member-
shipwill hold its semi-annual meet-
ing at the Rite-Carlton hotel, N. Y.,
March 27, to hear the results of the
election and the usual speeches.

Running against the incumbents,
John O'Connor, Max Dreyfus, Jack
Mills and A. Walter Kramer in the
publisher section of the board, are
Edwin H. Morris, Sam Fox, Max
Winkler and Donald Gray. Gene
Buck and Jerome Kern are up for
re-election as production writers,
George. W. Meyer, as rep from the
popular division and Geoffrey O'Hara,
as delegate from the standard group.
In nomination against OUara are
Howard Hanson and Albert Stoessel;
Buck and Kern's contestants are
Sam H. Stept Vernon Duke and Bay
Henderson, while Meyer's place on
the board is being sought by Rube
Bloom, Sammy Lemer and Al Lewis.

Gray, who is head of the standard
house, H. W. Gray Co., is the lone
nominee for Kramer's seat. The pub-
lisher nominating committee com-
mitted the error of designating
(Continued on page 54)

ASCAP Settles Arthur
Schwartz's Claim for
"Dclinqaent' Royalties

ASCAP will not contest the suit
which Arthur Schwartz, production
writer, brought against it in the
N. Y. supreme' court several weeks
ago. The Society has decided, in-
stead, to work: out a financial set-
tlement with him. In this unprece-
dented move, as far as ASCAP pol-
icy is concerned, Schwartz will re-
ceive around $4,500 which he claims
were his legal and accountancy ex-
penses during the two years he
sought to get a raise in ASCAP rat-
ing. The highest amount that he
might have received if the case went
to trial was $8,S0O.

Reason that ASCAP officials ad-
vance for settling Schwartz's claim
was that Gene Buck, the president
had assured the composer that his in-'
crease in. classification woiild be
made retroactive. -The ASCAP by^
laws bar such retroactive payments.
Because a commitment had actually
been made to Schwartz, ASCAP
counsel thought it advisable to come
to an agreement with the writer
rather than let the issue be thrashed
out in the courts. It was also thought,
that in light of thtfpress tbat ASCAP
received during the fight with radio
it would '>e better, to avoid having
this internal controversy aired in
public. '

The ASCAP board of directors last
October overruled the decisions of
both the writfers classification com-
mittee and writer appeals board and
granted Schwartz a boost from
Class A to AA. In January Schwartz
engaged the law firm of Stimson,
Roberts & Putnam to file suit
Schwartz claimed that the Society
was derelict in according him his
proper rating over a period of two
years and he asked for the difference
between what he collected and what
would have been due him if he had
been put in Class AA in October,
1939.

The accountancy cost ' cited by
Schwartz involved the task of gath-
ering data for presentation to the
various ASCAP groups to whom he
presented lils application for promo-
tion. This data compared the uses
accumulated by his works as com-
pared to the performances obtained
by numerous writers already in
Class AA.

Kaye Sues, In Associated s Name, To
Test His Theory Against E.T. Fees

C. M. Finney, president of Asso-
ciated Music Publishers, Inc., and
the Muzak enterprises, disclosed yes-
terday (Tuesday) that he is starting
litigation to test the right of copy-
right owners to collect more than a
2c fee on electrical transcriptions.
He has retained Sidney M. Kaye,
head of Broadcast Music, Inc., as
counsel for this suit Kaye has for
several years openly contended that
publishers are not entitled to the
master or commercial fees that they
have been collecting and that com-
pensation for such licensees should
not be treated as any different from
those prevailing for phonograph rec-
ords.

Before yielding to Kaye's quest for
an indie transcription manufacturer
who would support a test of his le-
gal theory, Finney took the precau-
tion of signaturing a three-year
agreement for the recording use of
the Warner Bros, music catal^s. In
the- event he lost out on -his test
Finney would still be protected
under this contract against any sharp
raise in transcription fees. The deal
which Finney- obtained from Herman
Starr, WB music head, is the same
which Starr gave NBC's recording
division, namely, a flat annual sum
to be paid for 350 compositions.
Copyright Statute

Kaye stated yesterday (Tuesday)
that the test case Is being brought
to determine whether the price for
transcriptions should be the same as
provided for phonograph records
under Section IE of the copyright
law. He 'also said that the reason
transcription manufacturers have
been paying more than 2c is be-
cause copyrights owners have used
the device to restrict performances
on the air, and that this is nov
baped un<ler the consent decree
wHlch the Government granted
ASCAP in 1641. Only reference
made in the decree to transcriptions
is in paragraph 5 and th'ls merely
states that ASCAP 'shall not re-
fuse to offer to license' the perform-
ing rights whenever a manufacturer
or advertiser wants a single record-
ing and performing license for his
transcriptions.

Harry Fox, agent and trustee for
publishers In the issuance of tran-
scription licenses, was absent from
the city yesterday (Tuesday) but his
office stated that it welcomed the
test suit announced -by Finney. Also
that It might as well have the whole
Issue thrashed out in the courts so
that the copyright owners as well as
the licensees would know just where

each stood under the law on this
long argued principle.

The group which composes the
AMP, Muzak Transcriptions, Inc.,
Muzak Corp. and Wire Radio, Inc.,
■also announced yesterday (Tuesday)
that WaddeU Catchings bas become
chairman of the board so 'that he
could devote himself exclusively to
matters of development and- thiti
Finney has been named president' at
each of the five companies and in
complete charge of cdl operations.

Bin's PktHre Tunes

Hollywood, March 10. .
Harry Engel landed two tunes
from RKO's 'Syncopation' for. BMI
publication. ' Ditties are .'American
Rhapsody' and Under a Falling
Star.' .

' Leltli Stevens, music director of
the picture, composed the first and
coUabed with Rich HaU on the
other.

Jack Soholl and M. K. Jerome are
writing four new numbers for 'The
Hard Way'' at 'Warners In addition to
a symphonic tone based on tunes
popular in the early 1936's.

this Dance

BROADCAST MUSIC, Inc.
S80 fjfth ave.,'neiv tobk cits

CHERIO MUSIC PUBLISHERS, INC.

CIre lou Tliolt New No. 1 Sonc

CANCEL THE FLOWERS

Recorded by

l-LY .L.OMBAKU0 (Ueccu) 4105 CHABIOTKKBS (Okeb) 060»
UITCIIELL ArREB (DlaeblTd) BU302

and rnMitta for Ifonr ApproTol the Sons That Explains Itmlt

STRICTLY INSTRUMENTAL

Becorded by UARBY JAUES on Colombia Beoorda and Mnny More to Follow

CAPTAIN COLIN P.KELLY, Jr.

*A Coloriul Patriotic March'
Belongs in ALL Orchestra's Books

PIbuo Coplca- Available
CHAS. GUNTHER, Publisher, 4327 165th St, Flushing, New York

Wednesday, March 11, 1942

VAUDEVILLE 41

Eari CarroU seat Odds with AGVA;
Calk Union Tenns Unreasonable

Earl Carroll and the American
GulW'of Variety Artists came little
closer to, an agreement on Monday
(8) after the producer spent nearly
six hours with the union's national
board In New York. Sisveral stum-
bling blocks remain, chief of which
are the 'rehearsal pay and eight-out-
of-IO-weeks' work guarantee clauses.

AGVA wants hall-pay for chor-
ines and $30 p6r week ifor principals
lor rehearsals after one cuflo, or
•probation,' week. Union also asks
a rehearsal time limit of 10 hours
In any given day. Carroll offers
$16 rehearsal pay for chorines for
the second and subsequent weeks,
but no pay to principals and no
limit on rehearsal hours. On the
work guarantee clause, Carroll said
no imlt producer could possibly do
that.

Agreement was worked out on
mpst of the other terms, Carroll
agreeing to $42.50 weekly salary
jnlnlmums to . chorines iand $60 to
principals. He also agreed- to pro-
vide first-class transportation and
berths to chorines and principals
alike on overnight jupips. /
CwroU Calls Board Tetty'

Y^terday (Tuesday) Carroll
stated it was impossible^ to agree to
terms set up by « "petty little na-
tional board which, .with only one
exception, did not know the prob-
lems of unit producers and per-
formers.' In view of being on
'AGVA's unfair list,' and in view of
'AGVA's failure to exempt the Slate
Brothers' unit now at the Flatbush,
Brooklyn,' he was cahceUlng that
imit's live or six weeks' scheduled
bookings en route back to the Coast
after next week's Windsor, Bronx,
engagement, Carroll said. He also
stated' he would sue AGVA for all
monies he's losing by these cancel-
lations and that the members of the
' eastern unit's cast, would have to
so to AGVA for transportation back
to .the unit's point of origin, Holly-
wood.

As' for the Coast fracas Involving
the Dr. Rockwell unit, which has
been ' tied up by AGVA, Carroll
stated he would permit arbitration
Instituted by his rep, Herman D.
Hover, there. Carroll stated that he
came' east to try to straighten out
the sitUaUon directly with AGVA,
but found .its terms both 'VnTeason-'
abte' and Amplified.'

AGVA, on the other hand, states
that It has specifically exempted the
eastern unit. Slate Brothers' unit
is hooked to play a split week in
Akron, and Youngstown starting
M^ch 20, and Lawrence Golde
(Eddie Sherman), booker, stated
late y^terday (Tuesday) that Car-
ToU had not cancelled the dates.

Too Many Strandings,
Chicago AGVA Demands
Bonds on Actor Wages

Chicago, March 10.
Agenis, bookers and producers
who produce units or book nlte
clubs In or out of Chicago will be
reqtuired to post a bond guarantee-
ing performers' salaries, according
to a ruling Issued here last w?fek by
the American Guild of Variety
Artists. This ruling follows a flock
of strandings and non-payments
during recent weeks In this terri-
tory.

■ Bonds have regularly been de-
manded by other show business
iinions, notably the American Fed-
eration of -Musicians, - Actors Equity
and the International AlliaUce of
Theatrical Stage Employees.

LARRY ALLEN TO REP
NEW NCAC FOR FRISCO

San Francisco, March 10.

Larry. Allen, Consolidated Radio
Artists' rep here, will add letters
•NCAC to his door tills week. Takes
over National Concert & Artiste
Corp. franchise for this week. Alex-
ander F. Hoss, formerly NBC Artists
Service here, will move in with Allen
to take charge of the department

Allen also working on a Coast ra-
dio deal for Alexander Dreler, UP
fend NBC correspondent late of the
Berlin beat

Jackie Heller Booked

For 3 Nitery Dates

Pittsburgh, March 10,
Llttie Jackie Hellei:, vaude. and
radio singer who owns and operates
one of Pitteburgh's top niteries, the
Yacht Club, . with his brother, Sol
Heller, has left town for engage-
ments in at least three. other cities.
Opened' two-week stay Friday (6) at
Chase Hotel, SX. Louis, and from
there goes to Club Charles, Balti-
more, and then to Tic Toe Club,
Montreal, for his second ' loooking
there in three months.

Heller, who stars at Yacht Club
whenever, he's home as weU as act-
ing as ofitidal host, came in off' the
road a month ago to give his spot
here a shot in the arm, when,, biz
flagged a bit. He waited until things
Were rolling again before pulling out

It's 'Connee' Now

Connie Boswell has changed
the spelling of her flrsf name
from the above to ' Connee.
Switeh forced the Paramount
theatre. New York, to make cor-
rections in its adS' and In lobby
display billing.'

- She opens there today (Wed.) .
with Les Brown's orchestra' and
Jimmy Dorsey-Dorothy Lamotu:
film "The Fleet's In.'

Mpls. Does 114G
Forim'sBiz;
Tops Since ISi

Minneapolis, March 10.

Despite the fact that it's Lent last
week in the loop was biggest in
aggregate amusement takings since
1928 boom times.

'nie approximate $114,000 totel in-
cluded the $45,000 Stirineis' indoor
circus haul at. the Auditorium, a
record high tor the^show and more
than 25% in excess of last season's
figures. The Orpheimi, with Jan
Savitt's band heading a etege shoV,
chalked up $17,000 and the legit ver-
sion of 'The Man Who Cbsm to Din-
ner,' at the Stete, came througli with
$10,500. The Hlrsch-Katz Alvin thea-
tre burlesque, with Margie Hart as
guest s'ter, soared to $6,500. Other
bouses accounted for the remaining
$35,000.

Current at the .Arena, the 'Ice
Follies of 1B42' is doing big biz. One
picture, 'How Green Was My Valley,'
is in ^its fourth tremendous, down-
town week, apd The Man 'Who Came
to Dinner,' in its second.

The boxofflce showings are con-,
sldered all the more remarkable in'
view of the fact that the city Is not
so welPsituated as regards war In-
dustries and has been somewhat de-
populated by draft enlistments and
g 'shift' of 'iSopuI'ation' to greater In-
dustrial centers.

Sherman in N.Y. to Set
A-C Bookings for U^.

Eddie Sherman, leading indie
vaude booker and now also oper-
ating a Coast agency, trained into
New York Monday (9) for a two-
week stey.

While here he'll line up the the-
atre tour which Abbott and Costello
will make for the sole purpose of
raising around $350,000 to buy a
bomber. Team is currently irt work
at Universal in 'Pardon My Sarong.'

Sherman's N. Y. office this week
starts booking the Strand, Syracuse',,
three-day stand formerly booked by
Al & BeUe Dow. Sherman's open-
ing show, starting Friday (13), has
Barney Rapp's orch and Mischa
Auer.

Joy Bogen' Hotel Dates.

'Chicago, March 10.

Joy Rogers, chanteuse, set into the
NicoUet hotel, Minneapolis, for four
weeks storting March 27. Follows
that with 12 weeks of niteries in the
DcWltt hotel chain.

Placed throxigh the Music Corp. of
America.

From M. C. to Looey
Fort Worth, Texas, March 10.
Ted Adair, m.c. at the Clover Club,
Joins the Army Air Corps as a lieu-
tenant March 22.

'Skating Vanities' JI.O.
In LonisTilie, 30G Wk.;
Ice Follies' 73G;Bnff

r

Louisville, March 10.

Former "Roller I'ollies of 1042,' re-
named- 'Skating Vanities,' finished a
week's engagement at tiie Jefferson
County Armory Sunday (8), end re-
'sponse was so terrific that' Harold
Steenman decided to hold the show
over this week for a' couple of days.
Revue was ' originally scheduled to
close Sunday. • ■

•Vanities' played the local Armory
at $1.20 top. Including tax. Price
was strong factor in the bumper
biz, as pafrons in this town ace ac-
customed to prices in Une with those
charged at film houses. Estimated
gross on the first seven days eading
Sunday (8) indicates smash takie of
$30,000.

■This is first revue of the type to
play the town, although an Ice show
played the same spot couple years
ago. Ads stressed that it was a
musical show and revue.' rather than
a roller derby. Town has had an an-
nual roller derby at the Armory
promoted by Leo Selzer, and em-
phasis was placed strongly that this
was not .a Roller Derby -event, but
a roller skating, musical production.
Some patrons were evidently con-
fused on just what type of show to
expect

Tee FoUiea' $73,000 In BnfT
Buffalo, March 10.
Tee Follies' In six performances
at the Municipal Auditorium at $2.79
top last week showed to better than
50,000 people for a fine tally of over
$73,000.

lee-Capadei' SSO

Philadelphia, March \6.
Tce-Capades of 1942,' whicb^ ended
a nine-day run at the West Phllly
Arena, last week, grossed $66,000,
playing to approximately 40,000 cus-
tomers. Take was considered good,
but was hurt by the fact that it fol-
lowed Tee Follies' by less than a
month.

'RoUer Vanities of 1942,' roller-
skating revue, opens at the Arena
March 23.

OHIO NITERIES OFF IIP
TO 60^ DUE TO DRAFT

Youpgstown, O., March 10.

Night , clubs in this highly Indus-
trialized area are «ufferlhg from . a
large decline In business. Some re-
port their -volume Is off 80 to 00%
from befor«-tha-war levelj, eblefly
due to the draft

Contrary to expectatlonst the
greatly Increased earnlngB of work-
ers In the iteel plants and other de*
tense industries have not helped to
any appreciable extent to overoome
the loss of .customers.

Downey Heads New AGVA Groop
To Probe (iriffin s Part^ in Brawl

U.S. Blessing Stays

Texas Fair This Tear

DaUas, March 10,
The . Stete Fali: of Tex^s— amuse-
ments and all— will go on this fall as
usual despite the -war,, it's been an-
nounced. This was decided (1) when
the War Department said the Fair
grounds and buildings would not be
needed this year for military pur-
poses, and (2) when Secretary of
Agriculture Claudef R. Wickard gave
his blessing to lairs and expositions
thai; have branches boosting livestock
and agricultural industries.

This means the Fair wlU have an
audltoriimi attraction — ^It 'was Earl
Carroll's 'Vanities' last ye^ar— mid'
way carnival enteitainment, an Ice
show and a name bend and floor
show at Cafe Esplanade.

laGinu'dia Tnms
Deaf Ear to Ernst

Morris L. Ernst attorney for ihe
Gajety burlesque theatre, . New
Ybrki emerged from an hour-long
discussion with Mayor LaGuardIa
yesterday (Tuesday) on the bur-
lesque situation convinced that he
would be obliged to appeal to the;
courts for relief from the municipal
regulation whereby burlesque op-
erators have been refused : llcol^e
renewals without a hetetng;,

Ernst steted yesterday that he
asked the Mayor how far he, in-
tended to go with his 'one-man cen-
sorship' and that no satisfactory re-
ply was forthcoming. a result
Ernst said that he would apply for
a. -writ Of mandamus In Supreme
Court today (Wednesday), Legal
action which Ernst Intended' to take
last week has been postponed while
a possibility remained that sonit!
compromise between the Ueehite
Commissioner's' office and the burley
operators could be effected.

Ernst has also writtea to WNYC!,
municipally-owned radio station,
aisking for time to answer the
Mayor's attecks on burlesque. Ernst
said that the steUon should ' pro-
vide faim with an opportuidty to
answer the chief magistrate, who
bad so far has had exclusive use of
steilon .facilities in explaining fals
views on burlesque.

Independent Theatre Owners of
New York, among other ahow biz
organizations, have mad* official
protest against the aotlon of tiie Li-
cense Commissioner In tit 'if'-f bur.
ley <9eTatorf license, renenrals.

Cafe Op Held In Slaying

Albany, Qa., March 10.

Floyd WQlIamji, nlAt olu& oper-
ator, ha« been JauMl m luvesUga-
tloa loilf* dM^ of Joseph W'
Zalen, an Mnplbyee.

Sheriff Sobwt aeld ht was
informed we tv^ l^tVBt fcllbwlng
en argument outoloi fh* uub.

Cafe Turns Haying Boston Waxed
For Shortwaving to U,S. Troops

Boston, March. 10.

WRUE, local shortwave (toUon,
new steps Into Boston night clubs
for talent Acts are transcribed on
wax and broadcast on Saturday
mornings to the United Nations'
armed forces around the 'world.
Platters are fl^st Inspected by local
army officials.

Stunt was sterted 'by Cteorge
Clarke, Boston Record columnist
with assistance of Betty McDonald
of army press relations department

.First prpgratn was from Mayfalr
with Ranny Weeks, Julia Barbour,
Hum and Stnun, and others. Fur-
ther artiste will be drawn from lo-
cal theatres to enhance the club of-
ferings.

WLS Talent Booked

Into 116 Fair Dates

Chicago, March 10,
WLS talent unite liave bccft set
for appearances In some^llO fair
dates for the coming season, so far.
Last season WLS unite were booked
into 200 fairs and celebrations..

Makeup of the unite include
standard 'WLS names as Lulu BeUe
and Scotty, Joe Kelly, Joe Parsons,
Prairie Ramblers, Red - Foley and
Little Genevieve.

N. C. Nitery Bnnia

Reidsvllle, N. C, March 10.
Dutch WlndmlU burned reCenUy,
with $80,000 loss.

Gerald Griffin, executive secretary
of the American Guild of Varied
Artiste, is to .be reinvestigated by a
new AGVA committee for bis part-
in a brawl last fall in Tommy Dor-
set's N. Y, music publishing offices.
AGVA's national board, in a meeting
that lasted into Monday night (0).
decided . It couM not act oh the .
skimpy and indecisive ' report ten-
dered by the former - investigating
body. A resolution to dissolve the
old committee and form a new one
was made and passed.

New committee will be headed by .
Morton Do'wney, AGVA's national
president Others will be Paul
Draper, newly eliected'to the national
board to fill the vacancy left' by the
resignation of Henry' Dunn; Ben
Haskell and Dave Fox, Former com-
mittee was chalrraanned by .Dimn -
and included Walter Greaza, assist-
«nt executive secretary . of Equity; '
Mrs. Florence' Marston, eastern rep.
for Screen- Actors - Guild,- and Joe
Smith (and Dale), member of
AGVA's board;

Entire report appeared to rest on
the testimony ' that Dunn allegedly
gathered ' from ey;^- witnesses to the .
brawl, in which Griffin allegedly
.fired ImpoUQc .poll'tleal . insults.
Dunn, who recently tendered his res- '
lotion as AGVA's national treas-
urer, and national board member,^
sent Up from Florida a brief iiote in
which he observed that all thejjar-
ties involved In tlje fight .Kad'^yl-
dently been drinking.- That's all the
testimony -he could offer: nor did he
offer a decision, leaving thati in fact
to the national board. Greaza and
Mrs. Marston.^ted they couldn't^'in .
view of. Dunn's statement,- make a
proper report Smith was not pres- '
e'nt at' the meeting.

Danny Fltz, of Boston, then pro-
posed that Griffin be placed 'on' trial'
by the board 'as a member 'and' as
provided by AGVA's constitution. It
was pointed out to him, however,
that Griffin is standing flr^ is a paid
employee In this Instance rather than
as a member, so Fltz deferred to the . -.
r«!olutlon by Dave Fox that th'e for-
mer investigating committee be dis-
solved.

New probers were instructed to -
file their . report within . two , weeks, . '
with the report then iqailed'-to all .
national board members, whqr.. 'WiK '.
vote on the matter no later than tyo '
weeks thereafter. Thus a decision on .
le affaire Griffin remains in: abey- .
ance for at least another month.

The national board, in accepting
Dutm's latest of two resignations,
elected Draper to fill only his board '
position. The post of natibnal- treas^ -
urer is still open. '

Adequate Parking Most
Be Provided by Niteries/
Solons Rule in Mich^an

Detroit March 10.

Taverns' and roadhousea tbrou^-
out Michigan now are going to hiav*
to follow « standard pattern on park-,
Inglote. '

Following a conference of the
Liquor Control Commisslpn, Stet«
Police and State Highway Depart-
ment, all niteries on main highways
will have to provide ladequate park-
ing lote at a safe distance from the
roadway. The ruling has been passed
aionjg by the cominisslon to all liquor
licensees. It probably .will shutter
nuinerous spote near .the cities until
their owners can' provide the ap- .
provedl fois,

Fj^ult was that mOst roadhouse tia-
trans .were using angle piU:klng' on
the highway shoulders in front of
the spots. Numerous accidento were
resulting as these cars backed out
into the highways, 'with the Stat*'
Police *estimatlDg that there' was an
average of one fatall^ to every flv*
such Bcclderitsi The plan Is believed
to be a part of the same sharp po-
licing of an amusement places in
major defense centers, evinced bete
earlier when the commission ordered
a cleanup of all floor shows.

Richman Into S. F. Bal

San Francisco, March 10.

Harry Richman goes Into the BAl
Tabarin April IfS.

Booked via Herman Stein, head of
MCA office here.

46 VAUDIVnUB

Wednesthy, Vwch 11, 1942

Name Bands, 'B' Pix Held Responsible
For Spitfy Biz at Palace, Cleveland

Cleveland, March 10.

War conditions and the escapist
tastes of Cleveland's population of
1,SOO,000 are spotting the RKO Pal-
ace on the map again as one of the
few midwest deluxers that is con-
sistently making a vaudfllm policy
pay dividends.

For the last three months, accord-
ing to a survey of gross figures, the
S,700-seated house steadily averaged
better than $20,000 per week, despite
Pearl Harbor, the Xmas holidays and
the Lenten slump. That's nearly a
30% jump over last year's business,
surpassing every local theatre with
straight pictures, although the Pal-
ace's film product is not as strong as
that of other downtown chain houses.

How does it do it? That question
is answered by name band music
merged with heavy doses of celluloid
corn.

Although hot swing bands were
almost b.o. poison here a season oi
so ago, Clem Pope, pew RKO di-
vision manager, has found a bonanza
in them in these tiines, when purely^
entertaining music-and-action bills
are being given the biggest play by
defense workers in Cleveland's too-
making and airplane factories-
Pope claims it's simply a natural
war reaction by factory workers who
demand something light to loosen
their war-taut nerves and break up

WESSON BROTHERS

"rtco In One Satire"
Ar* Ever So Thankful To
•

HARRY MAYER
ZEB EPSTEIN
LEO MORGAN

FOB HATIMG MADE OCB
i WEEK KNOAOKUENT 'AT THE

STRAND THEATRE

NEW YORK

A MMt Pleaaatit and
3Iemorable Pat«.

P «,r • o n a I U(|B- m NEXT 6TOF
•ireni.iitt ABNER J.

OBESELER, Badlo COKAtiQ

City, Kew Toik CItr. II (Harch lith)

the heavy seven-work-days-per-week
routine. That Is why *15 of the 28
stage attractions he penciled in so far
this season have been Jiving orches-
tras, coupled with slapstick farces
or non-propaganda thrillers on
screen. Bands have been such heavy
grossers here that most of them hy-
poed low-B films into Grade A finan-
cial ratings. Top pullers have been
Glenn MUler, Woody Herman, Cab
Calloway and Artie Shaw, who set a
pace that hasn't fallen down even in
Lent.

While the tire and auto shortage is
sharply felt by some businesses. It
isn't making any visible inroads into
theatre- attendances in Cleveland.
Street car and bus companies report
that their transportation systems are
being overtaxed by new riders, who
leave their autos home during' week-
days. Parking lots In theatrical sec-
tor are still jammed as much as ever
with private cars on Friday, Satur-
days and Sundays, which have be-
come gold-mining days for loclil
theatres.

PHIL
REGAN

HELD OVER
LOOKOUT HOUSE
COVINGTON, KY.

Personal Representative!

FRANK VINCENT
Beverly Hills, Calif.

Bands Are the Thlnr

Milwaukee, March 10.

Ed J. Weisfeldt, manager of the
Riverside theatre, after demonstra-
ting repeatedly that bands are the
one thing audiences at the town's
only vaudfllmer will go for, it cur-
rently playing Griff Williams, with
six additional name outfits set to
follow. They are Frankie Masters,
Count Basle, Art Kassel, Dick Jurg-
ens.'Jan Garber and Sammy Kay*.
He's angling for more.

House is unable to get top picture
product and the bands get all the
credit for bringing In grosses, run-
ning as a rule from $12,000 to $15,-
000.

TREON, prrr, reopens

FOLLOWING lOG FIRE

Pittsburgh, March 10.
Trelon Cafe, on« of two Pittsburgh
night spots hit by fire several months
ago, reopened last week with Billy
Yates orch. Yates has cut his 10-
plece band, which for the past sev-
eral months has been barnstorming
through trl-stat« area, down to four
men for the engagement Trelon,
which suffered $10,000 loss, none of
It covered by insucance, has been
completely -remodeled since the
blaze.

Other local nltery, New Penn, was
entirely demolished, loss reaching
nearly $100,000, and owner, Lou Pas-
sarello, so < far has no plana for re-
building.

FERRY CLOSES
MONTE CARLO

2 Cafes Damaged by

Adjacent 46G Fire

Cleveland, March 10.

A six-hour fire that gutted a
bowling alley and a garage in an
adjoining building, causing $46,000
loss, also damaged two night clubs
and a theatrical restaurant next door
lest week.

Swank Gourmet Club was given
an unexpected bath by firemen's
hoses when water leaked through
the root and ruined Its walls, be-
sides smoking up all Its fixtures.

The Cow-Shed. Club, owned by the
Leltson ' Bros., is also being forced
to have its water-soaked ceiling re-
placed. Joe Schulman's Hickory
GriU, a hangout for theatrical lolk,
escaped with the least amount of
damage. Only Its walla were faintly
smudged by the smoke.

Panl Began's second option has
been picked up by the 365 Club, San
Francisco, eSectiv* March 12, as-
suring the mimic a minimum of nine
weeks.

Critic Raps Congressmen

I Continued froili yage 3;

Felix (Fefe) Ferry folded his
Monte Carlo, class East 94th street
(N.Y.) nltery, on Saturday night (6)
following an avalanche of bad pub-
licity stemming Irom the sizeable
number of tabs left by promlnents,
First reported In "Variety,* the
dailies picked it up and made exag-
gerated capital of the cufto trade
because they were big names and
some of the tabs were for ridicu-
lously odd amotmts,- such as John
Barrymore, $116; Phil Baker, $14:
Errol Flynn, $18; Mrs. W. R. Hearst,
■$11; James A. Farley, $28, etc.

Gene Cavallero, proprietor of the
exclusive Colopy restaurant, was
Ferry's biggest backer, but is now
out Ferry figures hell have a better
chance of reopening In April, ' with
some new policy, than struggling
along as he had been since the
notoriety on the bankruptcy pro-
ceedings, which listed $130,876 in
debts and $111,932 in assets.

Bill Robinson was the finale head-
liner, a^d his draw was poor, chiefly
ascribed to public doubt whether the
place was operating. Sonny Kendls'
band, due to bow into the Monte
Carlo tonight (Wednesday), suc-
ceecflng Ted Straeter and Bob
Knight is being deferred. Knight,
meantime, has become the new
cocktaU dansant band at Sherman
Billingsley's Stork Oub.

Ferry has in niind a reprise of the
burlesque strippery show he did
well with last year; or names such
as George Jessel, who was a more
recent dick, but not enough to sten;
off the clamoring creditors.

Ferry, who bjames the costly
kitchen, will ;eschew the food and
confine himself strictly to supper
club patronage. CavaUero, In turn,
prided himself on the Monte Carlo's
cuisine and blamed the costly bands,
acts, etc.

The m.c. has an adjacent annex
known as the Monte Carlo Beach,
which may be revived again for sup-
per operation, it being more condu-
cive to hot-weather service.

Saranac Lake

_By_IUli])y_Benway

Harry

Saranac, N. V;, March 10.
Martm flashing good re-

ports. Ditto for Harry Clifton
fjS^ v P'^^^' weekending in
relatives -ftere,
then back to the actors colony.

Rldiard 'Dickie' Moore knocked
uV' empe but still bedding it at
ws 33 Bloomingdale avenue cot-
'"C*-,."^ was formerly of Kllllan
and Moore.

.v^°l?,„?°?J''"' who made it here at
the Wm Rogers, shot In from the
big town and left with a mess of
okays.

The Will Rogers handing out prizes
at „Its knitting tournaments. Bob
COTgrove and John Eaton topping
both the men and women.

After a few checkups, Stanley
Hausch .will be on his way home.
He s an outstanding comebadc of the
season.

After three years away from the
colonv, William Headley (Headley
& Quinn) also a former theatre man-
ager here, was In' for a general
checkup. Then back to Wilmington
and work.

Jimmy Marshall, who for the pasit
two years ozoned In Gabriel, N. Y,, Is
now taking the air routine at the
Hotel Alpine actors colony.

Bobby Graham, ex-theatre column
1st of the old New York Sunday Tele •
graph and the Toronto Star, In circu-
lation after many setbacks. Would
like to hear from friends at 286
Dtmdas Crescent, Toronto.

Ben Merrick, ex-muslclan, back to
the colony after Miami sunshine. He
will remain here now.

Write to those who are 111.

b«rf of CongrcM who ar* giving
thalr voIc*8 to th«lr country on sal-
ary. But the many demands on tht
tim«, energy and skill of actors era
•normotu and exhausting jiut now.
In a recent hasty survey ot tha cur-
rent benefit and personal appearance
industry, this department discovers
Eddla Cantor and G«org« Jessel are
appearing freer on an averaga of
seven times a -week for patriotic
causes. Gertrude Liawrance and
Jana Cowl arc up to their eyebrows
In benefits, radio broadcasts and
work for the American Theatre
Wing, and Danny Kaye appears by
request about five times a week.
Bert Lytell, president of Actors
Equity, is now devot^g all his time
to the war work of actors and has
recently been given a drawing ac-
count from Equity so that he can
keep on living, Actors all over the
country helped to give the receht
infantile paralysis drive the patriotic
fervor that distinguished it 'No one
can estimate the value of what they
contributed in the exalting radio pro-
gram on the BlU ot Rights day.
They are only too glad to find them-
selves needed in a time of national
emergency. But they find It bard
to understand why Congress has such
a low opinion of their talents. Could
it be because there are so many bad
actors in .the Capitol?

'But some of our leading actors
Isave been busy for i long time re-
minding Americans of their spiritual
inheritance, engendering love for tha
country and portraying the grave
Issues of the day. As far back as
1934 Philip Merivale, in MaxweU
Anderson's 'Valley Forge,' was giv-
ing us a vivid and memorable idea
of the original cost ot our liber-
ties.

Inflnenoes en Thonghf
'Raymond Massey's portrait of
Abraham . Lincoln In Sherwood's
drama in the autumn of 1030 did
more, for the country - than Con-
gress's Neutrality Act, passed by
joint resolution at the same time.
For nearly two years Alfred Lunt
and Lynn Fontanne carried Sher-
wood's Tliere ShaU Be No Night*
around America and spoke every
day an inspiring salute to. 'man*s
unconquerable aspiration to digni^
and freedom and purity in the sight
of God.' liast year some American
and foreign actors gave us a horri-
fying glln4>se ot the cold brutality
of the Nazi mhtd in Elmer Rlce'a
'Flight to the West.' Paul Lukas, a
Hungarian, and Mady Christians, a
German, are at this moment con-
tributing to an tmderstanding ot the
full depravity of the Fascist menace
in LUUan Helhnan's 'Watch on the
Rhine.' • ■ «

'Helen Hayes is helping to explain
the monstrousness ot Nazi conquest
In Maxwell Anderson's 'Candle in
the Wind,' which Is now touring the
country. In the ordinary, course of
events, the Lord knows, we get
plenty of fultlle and Inconsequential
plays, ^ut .this sketch of recent the-
atrical history proves that actors
have consistently taken advantage of
every occasion to arouse Americans
to a love ot American Ideals and a
knowledge ot what faces them now.
No one can measure the depth or
breadth ot the influence they have
■hadr4)ut-every- one-knows-that-the-
influence has been Intelligent and
invariably high-ipinded.' Can Con-
gress say as much?

'If actors want to help the coun-
try,' some peevish congressman said
during the late hostilities, 'let them
grab a gun.' .Nearly three hundred
members of . Actors Equity are al-
ready ' in the armed fotces ot the
country and more than 250 of the
Screen Actors Guild. The public
knows ot the stars who are in serv-
ice, but naturally it does not know
of the more obscure men who are
also In the ranks. Moreover, this
department has been' told by people
In the Army that actors make good
soldiers. They are used to training
and ' discipline. They are likely to
qualify in drill more rapidly than
most green soldiers, for they are
physically coordinated by training
for the stage and they are mentally
alert. {lany of them are helping to
improvise entertainment in the
camps, but most of them are work-
ing at soldiering and sailoring in
line of duty like every one else. Any
good trouper has learned the first'
lesson ot being a useful member ot
a working organization.

"Money ContribnUons. '
•Although Hollywood is rich, the
professional . theatre la poor. But
since Pea^l Harbor it lias shaken
about $44,000 out ot its own pockets
for war relief for the American
Theatre Wing, which came into ex-

istence two years ago, iwhen Con-
gress was wrangling and stalling.
Actors are the most conspicuous
members ot the theatrical profes-
sion. In Hollywood and in New
York they are in such coi^stant de-
mand for war work on stage, screen
and radio that it has become neces-
sary to establish a co-ordinating
committee to investigate requestoi
many ot which are not legitimate,
and to distribute the burden as
widely as possible. Although Con-
gress may not have heard ot it, the
cotintry . is using them freely as
agents of good- will.'

Miokey Alport, currently at Bos-
ton's Cocoanut Grove, lost his entire
brass section: Joe Conne joined Gene
Krupa on trombone; Hy Cohen, "Brst
trumpet, to Army, while Charlie
Whlttemore laid aside his trumpet
because he felt, there was more
money in defense work. Alpert
gave them a farewell party and is
laboring with temporary replace-
mepts.

INA RAY
HUTTON

And Her Great New Orehesira
Canntlr B««4Ud1>«
PARAMOUNT, New York
STANLEY, PITT

Flttibargh. F«b. II,
rint tUn* (or Ib» lUr Ha(teD
around h«r« In a ooupU of y«.t,n.
and tli(r»'v» baan aoma obansea
mada. . . .Bha'a batonlne an all-mMa
orch now tnataad ot a fanuna o'raw
and It'a all lor tha battar. too. Qal,
up thcra In front In a allnkr, anrar
•vanlna town,' falrlr drip* a.a. and
kaap* tliat body waavln* rhythmlo-
allr anoufb to aatlatr tba moat ar-
dent dsTotaa of tha flstira tarrlflc

Currently, ataa'a sot an okay outfit.
. . . I.ayout ... la pratly solid and
tha lady** bo^a P>ay a lot ot mualo.
Arransamanta ara bIs-Uma and with
tha Tiaual. aapecta looked after more
than adeauately by -tha . maeetresa,
the audible onea are on a par.

. Cohn.

Maroh 20, Earla, Phlla.
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April 3, 20th Century, Buffalo
April 17, Palaea, Cleveland

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Wednesday, March 11, 1942

PARAMOUNT, N. Y.

Ina Ray Button's Orch with
Stwrt Foster; Joan Edwards, Jack
Haley, Hat LeRoy; "The Lady Has
Plotiy (Por), revteved In 'Variety,'
Jan. il, '42.

At one point In Ina Ray Button's
repertoire, one of her musicians
places a baby spot on the Up- of the
pit platform. The house then dark-
ens and the spotlight diffuses a warn
glow^^n the rear of Miss Button's
eloquent torsol And then the band
goes Into 'Dark Byes'l Symbolism?

And thafs the tenor of Miss Hut-
ton's entire act— the great stress on
her lush chassis encased In a low-cut,
skln-dlnglng gown. If there's any-
thing between the cuticle and tiie
shimmerlnr silk It's certainly well
camouflagr Besides, the imagina-
tive Impression that the gown's
foundation Is aotually nothing but
the ripely physical only adds so
much more to Miss Button's stage
figure, literally speaking.

It's eight years since Miss Hutton
first bounced her epidermis in front
of her first band, an all-girl aggrega-
tion put together by Alex Hyde, and
Irving Mills. It was then stated' in a
•Variety*- review that Miss Hutton
'spelled ^xofTlce forward and back-
ward,' and the band's subsequent
cleanup bore that out. Later Miss
Hutton bought herself out of the
Hyde-Mills deal and went on her
own, subsequently switching to an
all -male band,

While 5he's not Using as much
body-motion now as then, and
though restricted by the Paramount's
pit setup from changing her gowns
for every number. Miss Hutton Is still
a sock stage personality. She per-
sonifies sex appeal from her toes up
— the liana Turner of the musicians
union. And if the band is not quite
the best, that's easily overlooked so
long as -she is up front and getting
all the attention, anyhow.

Musically, the aggregation's most
distinctive- arrangement Is. (Dark
Eyes,' ' which segues Into a conga
finale that utilizes small bongos
which spell out Miss Button's name
in radiant paint, with the leader her-
self banging a large bongo and doing
the conga at the same time. Another
good feature of the orch is Stuart
Foster, goofllooking tenor, who does
alright with 'White Cliffs of Dover*
and 'Dear Mom.* Miss Hutton her-
self does a neat vocal Job on 'Blues
in the Night'

Of the show's other acts, only Joan
Edwards, herself well upholstered,
can take the eye-appeal away from
Miss Hutton. Miss Edwards, niece of
Gus Edwards and now on radio's
'Lucky Strike Hit Parade,' Is a fine
song saleswoman. 'Elmer's Tune,'
•Don't Want to Walk Without You
Baby' and 'Heart of Texas' brought
her a great reception Friday (6),
and then she doubly sold herself with
Hose O'Day' for an encore. In a
comedy afterpiece with Jack Haley
she indicates ability for speaking
lines, so what are the picture com
panics and musical comedy prO'
ducers waiting for?

Hal LeRoy, with four clever semi-
eccentric dance routines, was the
show's applause sock at this catch-
ing. He worked himself into a heavy
sweat for a very appreciative audi-
ence.

Jack Haley also got over, easily
and neatly. His letter from a draftee
got a lot of laughs and his medley of
songs from former stage and screen
hits In which he appeared clinched
his good reception. with Miss
Edwards he duets 'I'm Nobody's
Baby,' preceded by comedy byplay,
bnd It's a pleasing bit.

Biz was good at this catching

HOUSE WntSWS 47

particularly hefty cUcfc this work-
out Opening with .a danc* bit then
a fair harmonized vocal, they hit the
meat of their turn in a comedy se-

Jiuence wherein they're in the Army,
t's timely and extremely funny.
Byrd and Moore, house comecuans,
stralghted by Vivian Harris, have
one bit up front thafs amusing,, par-
ticularly to Harlem audiences. If s
built arotind a preacher, a sinner
and a soul-savine follower of the for-
mer. Line of three boys and three
girls helps it out with dance routines.
Biz good. W^d.

STANLEY, PITT

APOLLO, N. Y.

FatsJ/MXetis Orch^m wUh-Mvro
Johnson; 3 Shades of Rhythm, Evelyn
& Anne, Bumham, Harris & Scott.
Byrd & Moore; 'Public Enemies'
(Rep).

Fats Waller's pianology and show-
nianship plus are the major sources
of entertainment in this 00-mlnute
show, but it's supported most ably
by the Improved comedy-dance act
of Burnham, Harris and Scott Waller
Is surrounded by comparatively few
turns, carrying most of the time him-
self and doing a yeoman job.

Waller's keyboard and organ style
is accompanied by a band consist-
ing of four sax, three trumpets, two
trombones and four rhythm; it's a
neat playing group almost completely
subordinate to the leader's work. It
jumps oncasionaUy, and it's loud
when it uoes, but it gives its leader
the sort of rhythmic background that
enhances his. stuff, his playing and
ad libbing had this house in a con-
stant uproar.

From a strict critical angle the
voice of his singer, Myra Johnson,
leaves a lot to be desired, but she
sells her stuff In a manner that went
oyer.sbUdly with this auaence. She
did an original and a pop, then an
encore of 'I Got It Bad.' Evelyn and
Anne, tap duo, work in the opening
scene in tails; their stuff Is ably done,
out routines lack imagination. Three
Shades of Rhythm aren't on long, but
'bey leave a good taste with unison
rhythm taps, then fast challenging
and a whirlwind finish.

Burnham, Harris and Scott were
caught at this house last year, but
have added to -and improved their
turn to such an extent that it was a

Pittsburph, March 6.
Bob Chester Orch (14), Lewis &
Van, Araaut Bros. (4) & Sister Nelly,
Chester Dolphin; Betty Bradley,
dene Howard, 3 Notes, Cy Baker;
'Shanghai Gesture' iUA).

Okay show but the acts can take
more credit than the band. Bob
Chester has the makin's but he hasn't
quite found his musical metier yet.
Some of his instrumental specialists,
Cy Baker on the trumpet partic-
ularly, are as good as any making the
rounds today, dnd every once in a
while Chester bangs out a tune that
can stand up among the best arrange-
ments of it by the topliners. Still
the whole impression of his catalog
is one of competent undlstinction.

Vocalists have the same lack of dis-
tinction. Betty Bradley is an eyeful
and as oomphy as they come when
nature an.d Max Factor get together,
but voice is just passable, iand that
also ' goes for Gene Howard, whose
baritonic pipes doesn't match his'
lankiness, and Elise Cooper and the
3 Notes (all boys), latter a quartet
Chance for some comedy to be
worked up, however, between the
Notes, all little, and Howard,' well
over six feet since their first and
only appearance together is good for
fiock of laughs.

Chester's outfit is currently made
of five saxes, his one included; three
trumpets, three trombones, bass,
drums and piano, and their best
numbers come right at the front, 'Oc-
tave Jump,' 'Blues in' Night' and
'Chattanooga Choo Choo.* After
that, it's a tapering off process.

First of smash acts is that of Lewis
and Van, couple of male hoofers In
tails, who start off with some conven
tional stair stuff and wind up knock-
ing out some spectacular challenge
terp minus accompaniment. Chester
Dolphin ties things up again with
his sock juggling.

'Moonlight Bay' uses Howard, Miss
Cooper and the Notes for the vocals;
'Honeysuckle Rose' has Baker on the
trumpet reachlni; way up for that
last note to terrific palm-pounding,
and 'Wait TIU the Sun Shines Nelly'
is okay, bringing on Miss Bradley in
Gay '90s get-up for band's best nov-
elty. It's one of Chester's recent
discs but could be expanded better
visually. Next-to-closing niche re-
served for the Am?uts (4) and Sister
Nelly, with thehr old bird-whistling,
which used to comprise the whole
act coming now only for their fin-
ish. ITest of the turn Is devoted to
some swell acrobatic stuff with fid-
dles. Smallest of quintet who looks
like Ernest Truex, Is excellent com-
edy reliet and they're solid right
through. Band finales on Its theme.

Biz first-rate at last show tonight
(6). : - Cohen.

STATE, N. Y.

Richard Himher Band, Jane
Pickens, Cliff Nazarro, Olsen &
Shirley; The Remarkable Andretr'
(Par), reviewed in 'Variety,' Jan. 21
*42.

GOLDEN GATE, S. F.

- San FraTicisco, March 4.

Horace Heidt Orch (12) with OlUe
O'Toole, Doodles Weaver, Mimi
Cabanne, Larrv Coffpn, Fred
Lowery, Charles Goodman, Red Fer-
rington. Dona and Don Jtians (3),
Jerry Bourne; 'Oblipini; Younp Lady^
tRKO).

~For second we«k-in"Tow,-Gate h?s
a traveling band on its stage. Horace
Heidt current headed the house
band here in years past making It
old-home week, which meftns okay
biz, but hardly equal to the Tommy
Dorsey magnetism of last week.

Heidt has surrounded himself with
solid talent, his show here being par-
ticularly highlighted by the sock
work of Ollie CTooIe, topfiight
mimic; Mimi Cobanna, luscious vo-
calist from the south; Frankie Carle,
whose magnificent piano fingering is
a show-stopper, and Fred Lowery,
sightless whistler. Larry Cotton,
tenor, took a few bars despite a
tough cold and got an ovation. Band
itself kicks out some okay syncopa-
tion, working over 'Heart of Texas,'
'When Baby Smiles' and 'Ilose
O'Day.'

Charles Goodman, baritone, does a
smooth job; of 'Blues in Night'
and getting over nicely in other solo
bits are Red Ferrington with 'Mc-
Namara's Band,' Jerry Bowne with
'I Need Vitamin U' (his own), and
Dona Woods backed by the Don
Juans. Drummer Bernle Mattlnson
also gets a momentary spotlight.

Non-band members sit on stage
throughout, arising as called. Doodles
Weaver, of 'Meet the People,' was
billed and present but didn't per-
form.

Heidt works in some novelty, usmg
a moppet from the audience to con-
duct the opener and closing with a
stage version of his 'Pot o* Gold'
radio quizzer, with $1 apiece for win-
ners. Heidt also fllFs in by roaming
«isles and shaking hands at random.

Biz fine at show caught Wern.

Richard Himber and his men de-
liver very pleasant musical diversion,
and with several topflight specialists
also contrlbutteg, the current State
engagement is satisfactory;- The go-
ing Is music and song most of xae
■way, but there Is a neat change of
pace to comedy. Cliff Nazarro tak.
mg care of that

Nazarro still has his moments at
the piano, but the nut material Is his
forte, and he amused the packed
firstnieht house -with doubletalk.
Comedian lured Himber to the plat-
form mike several times, the baton
waver being jovial amid the down-
ing.

S^ms to be a tossup between
Nazarro and Jane Pickens as to
which drew the best audience re-
turns, with the edge possibly, going
to the songstress. Miss Pickens was
called back several times and was in
fine vocal form with 'I Got It Bad,'
and 'Don't Want to Walk Without
You.' She warbles "My Buddy.' 'Miss
You' and 'Making Best of Each Day*
effectively,, too. A bit earlier, Mar-
jorie Lee, of the band outfit sings
■Blues in the Night' and 'White CliBs
of Dover' okay.

Himber has something' of a dis-
covery in Larry Storch, a 19-year,
old lad who Is an impressionist.
Youth is first heard over the ampli-
flier doing Ronald Colman' and Peter
Lorre, then coming on stage to give
Jack Oakle, James Cagney and Clark
Gable. Storch makes a good appear-
ance and should develop into a
trouper.

Ralph Olsen and Lyn Shirley, who
precede Miss Pickens, are an excep-
tionally versatile dance duo. The
gtrl is agile and the boy pulls sonie
dbublejointed stunts that catch all
eyes. . '

The Himber bunch is newly
routined. A medley drew plaudits
and so did the oldfashioned low-
down, indicating a colored revival
meeting leading to ''Who Built the
Ark.' More on the orchestral end at
times, especially when the violins are
featured, the unit ends with the
house smiling as a result of the late
comedy punch. Ibee.

ORPHEUM, MPLS.

Minneapolis, March 1.
Sammy, Kaye Orch (14) with Alan
Foster, 3 Smart Girls, Sue Ryan; 'I
Wake Up Scrcaminfl* (20th).

Repeating its highlj; favorable im-
pression made at this same house
last season, Sammy Kaye's orchestra
again wham the customers and fill
the seats. There's no question re«
garding the aggregation's right to a
top rating among the novelty stage
bands. Kaye's master showmanship
has seen to that

The nresent eminence has been
gained through assembling a gang
thafs equally strong on the vocal
and musical sides, with perform-
ances noteworthy for their staging,
choice of nuinbers, arrangements
and, most of all, the entertainment.

As examples of the small details
lifting the Kaye troupe above the
common ruii of stage bands, there
are 'Tommy Ryan's brief snatches of
introductory vocalizing announcing
the various musical numbers, in-
stead of the customary perfunctory
emcee announcements, and the use.
of appropriate backdrops to provide
a sort of atmosphere for special
numbers. Then, too, there's the 'So
You Want to Lead a Band' stunt
which is as good for laughs, enter-
tainment and boxofflce as it was the
f.rst time around.

Kaye's boys— furnish— neariy— the
entire show, there being only two
acts in addition to the band. The
performanct runs heavily to the
band's musical numbers %nd singing,
but there's an ample amount of fun
mixed in and a bit of dancing, too,
with the melodic portion so ear'-
beguiling that everybody's happy.
Kaye impresses as smart In sticking
to sweet swing. At .this theatre, at
any rate, patrons seem to be getting
fed up on the hotter and noisier
stuff. However, that's not to say that
much of the Kaye contribution Isn't
torrid enough to suit -most jive fans.
Just the right number of old faves
are scattered among the hit-parade
selections.

Taking occasional flings at the
clarinet, Kaye is always the satis-
factory emcee and conductor. There's
much clowning between him and the
band to enliven the proceeding.
Practically every band number in-
cludes vocalizing by Individuals,
groups or the entire glee club to
make for added enjoyment.,

"When You're Smiling' is a fast
band starter. Alan Foster, romantic
baritone, scores with 'Dear Mom'
and 'Shrine of St. Cecilia.' Precision
tap and acrobatic dancing puts over
Three Smart Girls, attractive young
women. Maury- Cross, frojR~ the.
band, neatly vocals 'Chattanooga
Choo Choo' and 'Heart of Texas.'
Another band member, Arthur
Wright, pipes to good advantage
during 'White Cliffs.' Then Tommy
Ryan, also an accomplished -vocalist,
lays down his electric guitar to
evoke enthusiasm by hi? handling of
'Everything I Love' and 'Beguine'

with glee club accompaniment

A gypsy medley brings on the
"Smart Girls again tor terping with
tambourines. 'Dance of the Tam-
bourines,' band offering, with the
illuminated: tambs oH^the darkened
stage, is an oksy novelty. A catchy
number, 'Modern Design,' has the
audience joining in the fun. The
band clicks again with 'Remember
Pearl Harbor.' Sue Ryan is riotous
with'hpr comedy songs and clown-
ing.

As usual, Kaye has no difficulty
obtaining volunteers from the audi-
ence to lead the band, and his ques-
tioning of the contestants, as well as
their baton twirling, is productive
of many laughs. The band presents
a nifty appearance In its blue Eton
jackets.

A well-filled lower floor at the
opening matinee. " Rees.

KEITH'S BOSTON

Boston, March 6.
Woody Herman's Orch (15) with
Carolyn Grey and Billte Rogers,
Marion Belett t English BroViers
(3), Pat Henning & Co. (2); Ride 'Em
Cowboy' (U),

Abbott and Costello film holds over
here this week, with the Woody Her-
man band on st^e for support As
far as the band goes, this outfit mak-
ing its first stage appearance in Bos-
ton,- has plenty to offer the jitter cus-
tomers, but little, in the way of en-
tertainment for mass. appeal. To off-
set this deficit, management booked
in two vaude standards. .

Pat Henning, next-to-close, got a
good reception and extra bows for
his line of chatter and screwy im-
personations. Unfortunately, when
caught he was way^off base at the
mike, and mtich of his banter was
lost in a muffle 'of unintelligible
sounds. Marion Belett and the Eng-
lish Brothers, dressed in sailor out-
fits, in the trey spot,' repeating their
usual rough-house . routine, high-
lighted with smart aero tricks for
laughs. Trio got a flock of bows.

Two singers are featured with the
Herman band. Carolyn C^rey,
a smooth looker, vocals 'I Said No'
and 'Don't Want to Walk Without
You.' Gal gets by on her s.a., which
compensates for lust a fair voice and
a medium abihty to sell. Billie
Rogers is satisfactory in her singing
and trumpeting of 'Heart of Texas'
and 'Girl -with a Horn.' Berm^n
vocals 'Blues in the Nlghf and fel^
tures bImseU, with the glee club, in
'TIS Autumn.' Band offers a fine
arrangement of 'Blues,', but the
tempo is just a shade too slow. Best
band number is a jerkey jive special-
ty, "Fan If delivered by Berman and
the Woodchoppers. Frankie Carl-
son was greeted wildly when he got
a break for a hot and nifty session
with thedrums on '(3olden Wedding.*

Business on second show opening
day pointed to a fair tally for the
week.- Foi.

OLYMPIA, MIAMI

Miami, March 8.
Cross & Dunn, George Roger
Dancers', Paul Gerrits, Raul & Eva
Reyes, Ruth Clayton, Harry Reser
House Orch; 'Captains of the Clouds
(WB).

Smartly paced stage layout plua
sock pix make this , excellent buy.
Practically all the turns are from
local niterlesL and advancle publldty
buildup is bringing favorable b.o. re- .
turns.

As ever Cross and Dunn continue
to promote a saleable bill of goods
and they score. Boys are solid song
salesmen, and by judicious interpola-
tion of fresh material with standards,
they keep on rolling along.

Creorge Roger dancers are doing a
first out here, and provide sure-fire
entertainment '.Formerly a quartet
they now work as a trio (two males '
and femme). Group uncorks variety '
of breathtaking stunts, before cutting
loose with imeiqpected comic twist
Turnabout is so surprising that first
impression i$ that its legit mistake.
They're one of the few groups of this
type who never completely give way
to hoke. when the blowoff comes. A
first rate class cafe attraction, they
will command plenty of attention.

Paul Gerrits has been around, and
so have his gags. As a trick skater
he's standard, so It looks like a toss-
up as to whethier he should work on '
his rollers, or his gags.

Raul and Eva Reyes are among the
foremost exponents of the baccardl
bump tradition, and score solidly.
Rhumba routine of a car stalled In
traffic is a wow. *

Bow Ruth Clayton got billing as
'season's number one songstress' is
local $26 question. She aspired to
the personality pitch, but she's got a
long way to go. When caught dic-
tion was muffled, and range Is de.
cldedly Umlted.

Barry Reser's augmented house
bar^d does partlcularlv fine job ^th
overture, and backs up turns

socky

in fine fashion.

Leslie.

TOWER, K. C.

Konsas City, March 7.
Bobby Joyce & Ginger, Cycling
Whalings, Clark & Bailey^ Bob King,
Helen. Dersler, Jimmy Bunn, Herb
Six House Orch; 'Sleepytime Gal'
(Rep).

Bit of production and musical
background is called into play this
week and added to the regulation
variety bill.

Berb Six house band, with Jimmy
Bunn vocalllng, opens- in a patriotic
mood with 'Keep 'Em Flying" and the
simulation of air raid sound effects.
From there on Bunn emcees standard
acts and amateur winner via regular
formula for 45 minutes. Standard
acts assembled sold a little better
pace than usual and bill Is up by that
much.

First standard turn Is taken by
B'cibb'y Joyce and'Gl'iiger, pair tap-
ping out a hepcat number -with -an
acrobatic flavor, a soft shoe ' and a
challenge routine, with Joyce's clos-
ing aero work the standout- In the
deuce Bob King Is spotted wittuhis
pint-sized dummy^ a bit of a twist on
standard ventriloquism, and execu-
tion by King is first-rate. Where
most ventro dummies are sassy.
King's is cute juvenile, and material
to point this up would build the act
■ Am winner Belen Dersler shows
good voice possibilities for rhythm
singing on 'lA in the Army.' Clark
and Bailey turn is an aero Routine
with a semi-slapstick fiavor. Bunn
then turns his romantic baritone on
Dear Mom' and 'Wonder Who's Kiss-
ing Ber Now' for hearty response.

Closing spot is allotted to Bobby
Whaling and femme partner for
cycling routine. They use a break-
away bike, a straight bicycle for
round of tricks and close with a 'sec-
ondstory monocycle. Whaling's own
list of tricks on each vehicle Is
climaxed by balancing femme part-
ner on his shoulders .while perform-
ing.

Bu^n and the band hark back to
oper. ..g musical number to keynote
the close with a spot announcement
to buy bonds and stamps. Quin.

Gets 2 Years in Assault

Charlotte, N. C. March 10.
Robert ('Barney') Mills, 39, vaude-
ville trouper, has been sentenced to
two years .in State's Prls.on on each
of two counts of assault on a woman
by Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn In Su-
perior Court M Graham.

PAR, NEW HAVEN

Hew Haven, March 8,
Doc Wheeler OYch with Pearl
Boilev; Infc Spots (4): Red & Curley;
Moke and Poke; Eddie Wittsteln
House Orch; 'Wolf Man' (U).

Paramount Is again talking a brief
whack at flesh. Stage fare pas been
op the absentee list at this house for
some months, but judging from week-
end biz on. the current five-ddy stand,
payees ore taking' kindly to. the ac-
tivity onstage.

Bill is an all-colored one, with the
Ink Spots holding' down the keyiposi-
tion. Lads score easily with their
harmonizing -anti have fans yelling
for .more,, despite fact this Is one o2
their several local appearances. .Boys
draw generously from their recorded
numbers and feature 'World, on Fire'
for a sock reception. Red atad Curley
open the bill with a drumming-
dancing tuiTt that goes to town with
a traps-taps combo that i>acks •
healthy punch. It's a lio-velfy bit
with drummer challenging hoofer 'to'^
match intricate rhythms.' Moke and
Poke furnish A .-comedy touch With a
slambang song-and-dancesesslotathat
ends with a ll^tnlng jltte'rbiig fling
with one of the lads in femme attire.

For the band section, the Wheeler
aggregation puts On a music lest that
had a crowded house stomping, clap-
ping and joining In the 'vocals. Num-
bers are well chosen for ' variety and
hit a popular chord. Pearl Bailey,
band's vocalist, lays a couple of hoi
tunes across the footlights and closes
with a nice rendition of "Blues in
Night' Piano, bull fiddle and reeds
get featured spots that click. Show
runs an hour, with speed predoml-' -
nating. Eddie Wlttstein house orch
In for overture.

BIz-capaclty. --- Bone;-- -

PALOMAR, SEATTLE

Seattlet March 5.
- Neweomb Brothers, VMleau h
Roberto^Bick/ord & Crandall. Freddy
Strltt & Co., Dodson's Monkeys,
Jerry Ross, At Vies House Orch (6);
'Tragedy at Midnights (Hep) and
'Sing for Your Supper' (Col).

Freddy Strltt headlines this week's
bill and clicks nicely with his breezy
clowning and burlesque- magic; The
'. . . and Co.' Valerie, is an. attractive
foil for Stritfs alitlcs and also does
all right for herself on the terping
side. Windup Is a sock dance by the
duo.

The Newcomb b: others, on first,
knock out some melodies on a
battery of whiskey bottles, and also
please with a duet on a musical saw
and i cigarbox fiddle. Bowofl is a
version of 'When Day la Done,* with
lighted drumsticks on a darkened
stage. C^alled back, the boys did
'Beer Barrel Polka' for a good hand.

Valleau and Roberta please the
crowd' with a fast assortment of
magical tricks, spiced by Valleau's
patter.

On third, BIckford and Crandall
display nice timing and skill In
acrobatics and balancing, plus some
speedy adagio. Pair was a bit hesi-
tant in some routines^ but quickly
covered up to receive a good re-
sponse.

Closing Is filled by Dodson's
monkeys, who ride scooters, and tri-
(C'^ntinud on r-"- ■">'» ,

Variety Bills

WEEK OF MARCH 13

Namenla io eonaeoUoB wltb bUIi below Indleat* opraing day af
•how, wbctber MI or apUt week.

Paramonnt

NKW TORK CITI

IiOfl Brown Ore
Connft« Boflwell
Bob WJIII&mB
Fops & Txiiile
MIAMI

OlTBPto (1-4)
\7a)l7 Brown
Frances Faye
Haakon & Bowman
Oypsr Rowe T.c«
DRTROIT

HkhlKaD (II)

Andrews Sis
Johnny Lonir Oro.
Fred Sanborn
Southern Sis

TOLEDO
Paiameont (1^-JS>
Eddy Docbln Bd
Koy Davis
Ray & Trent
KIINNEAPOflJS
Orpheam (IS)
Bill Robinson
Ernie fields Bd

MEW TOBK GITl' 1

State (IZ)
Tlebor's Seals
Bstelle Taylor
Fr«n)c & J Hubert
Bert Lahr
Stuart MorKa-\ Dane

WASHINaiON
CapHol (»>
Rhythm Rockets
Caryl Gould
Del Rios
Jimmy Durante

Warner

MEW TOBK cm
Strand '(IS)
. Obaa Splvak Oro
Rogers Danc-
Frank Paris
(•)

Blue Barron Ore
Carole & Sherod
Wesson Bros
on Ic Bemie Malasn
BROOKLTN
Strand (18-16)
Joe Venutl Oro
Hal LeRoy
Oil UalBon

(•-»>
Clyde UcCoy Ore
M Aaer & J Hunter
Chick & Lee
Ma ysy A Brarh
PHILADKIJPBIA
Xwie (IS)
Duke BIllnKton Ore
Ethel Waters
Per Les Bate*
(•>

Chico Mane Oro
4. Franks
Alan Carney
Maxellos

PITTSBCBGII'-
Stanl«y (13> .
Chlco Harz Oro .
Tho Jansleys
Lorraine- & 'Rognan
(•)

Bob Chester Ore
Lewis & Van
Cheater Dolphin Co
Arnaut Bros tt Nolly
WASHTNGTON
Earie (13)
Kim Loo Sis
Jean, Jock & Judy
Mario & Florla
C Willys

(6)

The Willys
Kim Loo Sis
Jean. Jack & Judy
Mario & Florla

Gil ImA
Equlllo Bros
Tvette

PASRAIO

Central (U)
Ray Heotherton O
Martha Rays
Nash ft Evana
Ctindos Bros
■ PATERSON
llajestlo (17-19)
A I ft Jean Johnston
Bankoft A Cannon
I> Reld ft H Toblad

Speed Demons
(One to nil)

(is-ie)

OsRs ft Glamour R
PBILADFJUPniA
Carman (11-ia>
The Claytons

Blenders
Jed Dooley
Fantlnna

(lS-10)
Arlatocrats
Jim Penmen
Canneld Smith
Fay's (M)
Harold ft Lola
Carr Bros
Dans ft Kaplln
Barbara Doan
Tom ft B Wonder
PITMAN
B'wny (14 only)
C&rroll ft Dietrich
Bernard ft Ferris
Judson Cole
(One to flin
PROVn)F,NCE
Metropnlltan
(IS-lff)
Raymond Scott Ore
John Boles
Jack 4Taley
4 Fr anks

HQDTn RIl'ER
Capttol (lS-14)
Danny ft Lee Chans
Jed Dooley Co
Toung Keys

RKO

BOSTON
BostoH (li)
Clyde McCoy Oro
Bob Howard '
Dawn ft Huiuanet's
Chick L«e
(•>

Woody Herman Ore
Betett ft Bnc Bros
Pat Henalns C:o
' CLEVELAND
Falws (13)
Gray Casa Loma O
Rutble Barnes
Uttle Tonsil Guys
Eybll Bowan

Adf lanna ft (3iarley

. (»y
Count Basle Ore
Baby Lawrence
Oordop ft HoKer«
Kthal Waters
DAYTON
Caknlal (IS) '
Falodys

B Miller ft A Slesel
AmantBros ft Nellie
Lew Packer Co
Rajah Rabold
Gray Caoa Loma O
Rnthle Barnes
Anita Boycr
Little Toush Guys

Sens ot Purple Sate
Kay ft K ay

STRACCSH
. Strand (IS) --
Mlscha Auer
Barney Bapp Ore
Paul Sydell
Nick ft VIckl CblllDS

WOOD91DE
SnnnysMe (II-IS)
Rio Rita

Vlrslnla MeltoM 3
(Three to fill)
WATBRnCKT

Poll's (i!-ia)

DIcIc RoRern Oro
Jane Pickens
Block ft Sully
2 Zephyrs

tTORCRSTBR
Plymouth (ft-ll)
Raymond Scott Ore
John Boles
Frank Roas
Primrose ft Gold
TOCN08TOWN

Palace (IT-IB)

Bill Robinson
Ted Straeter Ore
Bob Knisht Or*
Bknoo* Door
Oenlse Mavlty
Dorothy Calabaa
WIIUo. Bry*nt- "
Wlnnl* JohnsoD
Audrey ft Phil
Willi* Dukes
Benny Carter Or*

St Olob
Carolyn BIddl*
Uarlon Joyce
Irts Karyl
Wann*ta Bat«*-
Frances Leslie
Wllna Novsk
Irene Kay*
Oroorerneera
Bobby Bernard
Dick Lewis Orr

62d SwlOK CiDb
Oelmar S
Ftankle Meadowa
Al Green

Oieenwlch Tlllos*
■na

Henry Arthur
Vera Neva
Carroll Chappell
Patricia Parker
I^rna Rhode
Gene Monet Ore .
Harlem Randesroa*
Edna llae Rnrrls
Princess Valda
Columbos Ore
Bobbe Gaston
Phil ft Audrey
Johnny Taylor
Savannah Churchill
Reeve Sis
Spordoe-O-De

Helen O'Connell
Pbll Wa«bbara

Hot*I Ploeadilly
XOeeivlsa Boon)
E*rT7 Bna

'H*t*| riem
/CeUIUaa Booa)
Ella Loihtn
Stanley Melba Or*
Hotel Ptass

(Persbui Room)
DIok Oasparr* Oro
Eleanor French
Frank Paris

Hotel Baoa*T*U
Goy Lombarde Or*
Kenny Oardnsr

Hatel BhemtoB

(Unnay Boom)
Ruth Lower
Satr Le«
Francis Kins
Henry Noble
Hotel BoToy-rioai
John Hoysradt
Ernie Hoist Ore
Harold Cooke Ore

Hotel St. Merits
(Cafe do In Fal>>
Charles Columbus
Kathryn Carroll
Terrl Franconi
Mack Perrin
Ford Harrison Ore

Betel St. Regis

(Irldlnm Room)
Maurice ft Cordoba
Hal Saunders On

Hotel Tatt
Vincent Lopes Ore
Sonny Skyler

Hotel Walilort-
Astoria

GoUerette*
IM Taylor
Kdlth DeUaoy
0*rri WJilU
Johnny ft Oaorto
Ansel Vel** Oio.
Snob lloa*lr Or*

Nai Clnb
Ben* Bloaa*
Lamonr 1
Jack Reynolds
UtUe Jo* UttI*

Old BoamMlaa
Sandle Bank*
Freddie Bernard
Ada Lublna
Ginger Imttm
Joe ' LaPort* Ore
' ' Plae* Btegaata
Phil Dant*
William Rosa t
Cliff Conrad '
Martin Lock*
Manya Borodklo
Jeannette Oarrett*
Bme*t Frans Or*
Queen Mary -
Shadrach Boy*
Ann Francin*
Sonny Tufts-
Chlqulta Venesia
Joan Ellis
Lee Reynolds
Bill Glass Ore

Qoeens Temc*
Phil Forster
BppI* Bruce
Roaly ft Eran*
Ames Dwyer
Jack Allyn
Ned Harvey Oro
Orooverneera

Rnlnbow Grill
Ross Smith Ore

BOOKING THE NATION'S LEADINQ INDEPENDENT
VAUDEVILLE THEATRES

EDWARD SHERMIAN AGENCY

NEW YOBK

BEVERLY HILLS. CAL.

Blue Barron Ore
CllfC Nazarro
4 Samuels
Val Sets

(13-16)
Meet the People

Cabaret Bills

HEW lOBKCHT

MEW TOBX OltX
Hoslo HaU (12)-
Wynn Murray
Betry Bros
John Tlettor
Robt Shanley
Efeanor Tennis
Nicholas Daks

RocKettes
Corps de Ballet
Erno Rapee Symph
_ Boxy (IS)
Falad's Pnppets
Bunny Rice
Dick, Don ft Dinah
Bob Hsnnon

Apollo (12)
Lil Green '
Tiny Bcadsbavf Ore
Edwards 31s
Snap ft Snappy
Triage

Lon & Jenkins

Windsor (13-lt)
R Carroll 'Vanities'
ASTOBIA
Stelnway (IMS)
Gloria -Parker
Grandma ^ Perkins
Al Delage ft Shirley
Ktuart ft Taylor Co
S Jades

BBOOKLTM
Platbnsh (IS)/
Stan Kenton Ore
Dave Apollon Co
Dixie Dunbar
Bonnie Baker
8 Acromaniacs

Bldgewood (11)
Illlana, (Mrs Laurel)
Eddie Lambert Co
Sonnon ft Patricia
Stanley ft Boms

3 Qalnes Bros .
Maytnlr (14 only)

Lenny Kent
Fisher ft Moore
-Winnie Johnson
(Two to fill)

Marine OS only)
T«enny Kent
Fisher' Moore
Winnie Johnson
(Two to (111)
. AKRON
Palaw (13-10)
Slue Barron Oro
' Olln Naaarro

4 Saraaela
Vol Sets

BALTIMORE
Hippodrome (12)
Ink Spots

SUa Fltxgerald Ore
Moke ft Poke.
Reds ft Corley

Stete (It-lS)
Carroll ft Dietrich
Bernard ft Ferris
Judson Cole
(One to All).

'3' 'Reeds ' ^ " '"'
Al Ferguson
Burns 3 ft Evelyn
(One to All)
BBIDOEPOBT
Lyilo (S-ii)
Charlie Splvak Ore
Bonnie Baker
Carr Bros
3 Zephyrs

OAMDKN
Torren (IS-IS)
Dude Ranc h Fnl
ELIZABKTH
Liberty (12-16)
Al ft Jean Johnston
C- Cablneers
Tim Herbert
Jtt, Vemes
(One to flin
FAIJC BITEB
BnpIre (10-12)
Ray Kinney Ore
Beatrice' Kay
Olivette ft Murray

PBEEPOBT
nceport (13 only)
Jesse Miller Co
Buddy Raymond
3 Galdes Bros
(Two to (III)
HARTFOBD
Steto <IS-IS)
Alvino Roy Oro
I^ne Bros
Spencer ft Foreman

HOTJOKE
Valley Arena (IB)
Ina Ray Hutton O
Jane Pickens
^ .TAflATCA
^lamalca (13-16)
Buck ft Bubbles
Oyrll Smith
Olivette & Murray
Gonzales 3
Catherine Wo'ilfleirt

LTNRROOK
I-^nbrook (14 only)
Jesse Miller Co
Buddy Raymond
3 Gaines Bros
(Two tn nil)
NEWARK
-Adorns (12)
Shep Fields Ore-

Annaadoli
□eo Morris Oro
Beverly Patem*
B«sclKombet

GalU Sis
Larry Blake
John Kilty
Various ft Vlda
Salaxar Ore
Cordoba Oro
Baa Mardea'*
Winter Boom
Dna Wbyte
Gabrialle Day*
Sossnne Daye
Guy Howard
Freshmen
Harry Stevens

Bill Bertoiottl'a
Lynn ft Marlanno
Claire WlllU
Betty Black
Virginia Gibson
Moya Glfford
Don Sylvlo Ore

Bm'o Oav W*
Rose- Perfect
Lulu Bates
Ethel Gilbert
Spike Harrison
George Tonak
Harry Donelly
Billy Xorralne
Charles Strickland
Benny Oraner -
Lulir Bates
Gay 90's Quartette
Bntlec'* New Boom
Steve Murray Bev
Happy Lewis

Cafe' UadlsoB
Allan Cole Ore
Gypsy Markoff
Marlynni Michael Co
Lea P^ker
Cole Uoatpj
Alleen Cook' •
Jean Brunseco

Cafe Boelety
(MIdtewB)

John Klrby Ore
Hazel Scott
'(^Iden Gate 4
Eddie South Bna
Cafe Soolely
(TOIag*)
Teddy Wilson Ore
Alberk AjnTnon*
Pete Johnson
Rose Dexter
Zero Moatel
Baby HInes

Cafe Vleana
Ruth Barr-
William Hoffman
Murray MlUer
Dolty Margens
Leo Pleskow Ore

Casa Malta
Antoinette Severio '
Tony ft E^strella
Rector Del Vlllar
Monallto

Juan Dimttrl Ore

Casino Basse
Nina Taraaova
Sasha PolinoS
Michol MIehon
Nadla ft .Sasha
Dmitri Matvlenko
Kris Kay Oro
Nicholas Matthey i

Cemttl's
Mae Barnes
Haywood ft Allan
4 Chaiiticleers
Dan Parrlsh

Olutenn Hoderoe
Charles Francis
John LIvIo
Ira Specter Oro
Chin L«e'*
Sandra ft Stanley
Mary Rowley
Darling Sis
Claudinette Loffose
Helen Glasaer

Evelyn Johnson
Ray Worth Oro

CUcby
Ann Gale
Walter Lynch
Clab U
Andrewa Of«
Erie Oro
Roberta Welch
Jack- Wblle-
Irena Carroll
Frankle Hyera
yince Cnmn
Hoy Sedley
Hazel -McNnlty
LllUan Fitsserald
Suaan Lans

Clnb Frisco
Joe Frisco
Mildred Fenton
Flbria Vestoff
Anne - Paige
Patricia Joyce
Frank Froeba pro
Clob Hasim'*
PhU Foster
June Sayres
Ehinice Jason
White (2>
The Dwyers

CiDb Uldhlgbt
Ramona
VI Bradley

Clnb UI

Connie Harris
Billy fAnn
Jack Goldle
Muriel Aacha Co
Clnb Samoa
Mabelle Russell
Linda Castro
Denlse Mavity
Ruth Le Br'un
Muriel Taylor
Joy Umlamaka
Rath Marthi .
-Ann - Reeve - •-
Evelyn Hannona
Snowden Ore

Club WhIUker
Maxine.
Roily Rolls
Lome ft' Mario
Arthur KnoUer
Alex Batkin Ore

Copacabaaa
Joe B Lewis
Loper ft Barraf
Fernando Alvares
Estellla
Samba Sirens
Walter Lens
Betty Jane Smith
Carol Dexter
N Brandwynne On-
Frank Marti Ore
Clnb F^lsca
Patricia Bt«nt
VIckl Georse
Miss Victoria

Coq Rooge
Dick Wilson Oro
Bela Blzony Ore
Diamond Horseshoe
Nlta Naldi
Betty Compson
Carlyle Blackwell
Joe E Howard
Ross Wyse, Jr
June Mann
Delia LIrid
Geo Fontana
Gilda Gray
Charlea Kins
Mangean Sis
Clyds Hager
Noble Slaale On
El Cblco
Trio Mextico
Maria Morales
Maria Lopes
Rita BalUa
Carlos Logo
Del Duca Ore

El 'Morocco
Chaoncey Grey Ore
Chiqulto Oro
Fefe's Monte Carlo

Uavnnu-Miulrld

Pilar Lopez
Roslta Rios
Men toys
Rolando
Don Casanova

Mexicano
Mayd Ore
Don Ollberto Oro
Hickory Hons*
Norma Shepard
Hoot Howley
Mercedes
Carol Boyd
Rollin Smith
(linger Wayne
Jean Murray
Larry Bennett Ore
Hotel AmbnHSudor ^

(Trianea Boom)
Jules Lsnde Oro
Claire ft Arena
Eric. Victor
Bicbard .Lane
Hotel Astot
(Colnmbin Bm)
Bobby Parks Ore
(Cooktall I.«nnse)
Dick Kuhn Ore
Hotel Belmont
Pbraa
(Olas*. Hat)
Covert ft Reed
Barbara Perry
Marsaret Scott
Belmont Ballade«r*<
Howard Lally Oro
Joe Pafomy Ore
Hotel BUtmor*
Bowman Roam)
Heaaley 2
Hasel Franklin
Maureen Holmes
Little Oe-Icers
Madrlgnera Ore
Botel Rossert
(Brooklyn).
Grace Vaughn
Nye Msybew Ore
Hotel Commedoro
(Centnry Boom)
Vaughn Monro* Ore
Peter Rotunda Ore
B ft R Arabros*
Cbarle Carrer
Marylln Uuke
Virginia Austin
Johnny . Mack
Commodorables

Hotel Edison.
Bine Barron Ore
Botel Bssoa Boose
Rosalie Grant
■HTvalyh Tynor'Orb
Hotel Sth Avi>
(Salon Madrid)
C^ss Franklin
DoMarlos '
Guy Rodlan
Kay Mardo'
Penny Bancroft
Burton Gross Ore
Hotel Lexinglan
Ray Kinney Oro
Meymo Holt
Napoo

LeIlanI laea
Nani Todd
Lehua Paulson
Hotel Lincoln

Llncolnalrea

Hotel MoAlpIn

Johnny Messuer Ore
Hotel New -Vorker
Woody Rermon Ore
Carolyn Grey
Tommy Taylor
Adele Inge
B ft B Wade
Ronny Roberts
Ice Ballet
Grace Harvey
Lynn Clare

Hotel Navarro

(Midnight Clab)
Marge ft Maon
Midnight Gipsies
Hotel Pork Centra

(Cocoonot Grove)
Elaine Jordan
Dora Maugham
Robert Haymon
Geoffrey Hale
Rochelle ft Beebe

(Bhnmba Boom)
Jnon Donrlgnes Ore
Julia Gerrlty
Fish ft Gold
The Three Deb*
Hotel FannsylTanla

(Cafe Booge)
JIminy Dorsey Oro
Bob Bberly

(Wcdgewood Bm) '
Hartmona
Dinah Shore
Freddy Martin Oro
MIscha Borr Oro

(Scrt Rm)
MIscha Bprr Ore
Hotel Warwick
(Baldcb Boom)
VIckl George
Sande William* On
BarrlcoB*

Calmt ft Dreodea
Jimmy Ames
Bert Lynn '
: LaBrun Sis
Jane Matthews
Dave Dennis Ore
Lollta Ordoba Ore
Iceland Bestaarant
Danny White
' Oreys
Les Hunt
Nola Day
Ted Eddy Ore
Anselo Ore
Jack Dempsey'*
B'waj Bestannnl:
Milt Berth 3
Linda Lark
Irv Carroll. Ore

JImmj Kelly'*
Marlowes
Montmarte Boys
Joe ft George
Raytaiond ft Joaa
Helen Holmea
Danlta Rivera
Margant Grey
Faith Arlen
Rene

Ami Jong
Jeannle Walters
Glenda Hope
Menya Del Ray
GwllI Ardmore
Isabel Brown
Rose WIthum
Peggy La Plant
Joe (^pello Oro

Kera'*
Jean Claire
Cornel Tanassy Ore

Kelly* Stablo
King Cole 3
Frances Wayne
Bruce Wendell
Nick Jarret Oro

La Conga

Lnba Mallna
Chaz ChaM
Ray Englleh

Nitz&~ ft "Rovell

Noro Morales Ore
Jack Harris Oro
La Marqnls*
nuth WInchell
Dorothy . Tanner
Consnelo Flowerton
Frsnces Connolly
Al Carr Oro

La Uartlnlane
Qeorgle Price
VIckl George
Delia Norella
Gil Galvan ^
MartlnlQueene
Herbert Curbello o
\'al Olman -Ore

Le Petit Palais
Mme C Alphand
Oscar Karlwel.i
Baocha Tashdff
Julian Fnhs
Sula Lester

l«oa A Eddlc'i-
Lionel Kay
Jan Murray
Mirth ft Mack
2 Tops

Martin Bros ft F .
Barbara Long
Clemens Belling
Chlnlta

Lou Martin Oro
Nerlda Oro

Unison Lools
Bill Drye
Carrie M Bevllle
Uatson Plem
Tommy Lyman
Gaston's Monte c:arl*
Pierre Beaucalr*
Nona Montes
LeCarlos ft Granada
Magda Loy
fi Madcaps
Chang T* Who
S C^n-Can Ols
Gaston

19tb Hole f^lob
Lenore Lemmon
Steve Murray

Ashbums
Sylvie St Clair

Rainbow Boom '
Henry Scott
Linda Ware

Uonn* Konto*
Al*ala SollaoS '
Cannsn C^avalUr* O
Ctomaat* Oro

MazlD* BalUvaa-
Say KorrU
Rasba ft Hirko

DfBke Botd
<OamiUls BaaM)'

B*ttr AUcn
Ruaoa |lamo* Or*

'Vladimir LanroS
Bll Spiyaok
Oyp*y Norma
Norma Lac*ro
AroadI StoyanoTsfcy
Adl* KnmotsoS
Nastia PoUaltova
Marnolm Sara
MIsoha VcanoK
Cornelia Cedolbaa O
Htotli Clab

Orae* RelUy
Charlea Banra Oro
Bob Knight Ore

The Place
Irene Barkley
Pat Ring
Evelyn Brock
Skeeta Tolbert

Dbangl Onb
Bill Dailey
May Johnson
llae Snoad
Jackie Mabley
Savttnnah tihurohlll
Socaras Ore
Wlrel
Helen Arthur
Connie Joyce
Baron ft Bernay

Veraallleo
Bergero Ore '
Fanohito Ore
Billy de Wolf*
Donna Devel
Harold Barne*
Kirk Alyn /
Paul Bartels
Six Ver-Slghs

Village nara
Al Robinson
June Bentley
Music Hall Brvs
Virginia Vaughsn
^ke Lockwond
Towne ft KQOtt
Cousin Lem
Claytons

Edward ft Diane
Palmer Oro
Trinl Ore

Vlllnse Vangnard
Burl Ives
Leadbelly Nero
Josh White
Debbv Best
Ann Robinson

HIAUI

Bar Unslo

Bill Jordan
Cliff Souze.
Michael Doyle
Rex Owen
Ann Sout.hertand
Marie C:.>i.ley

Heacbcomber
Laura Deane Hutton
Dr Marcus
Cheena de Simon*
Del Casino Oro
Canay Ore

Carronsel
Faith' Bacon
Patricia Hall
Lee Bartell
De Lamarrs
Danny Yates Oro
Casasova Clab
Val Irving
Ciymas
Bmil Boreo
Juanlta Rios
Fuller (6)
Ralph Rotgera Oro
Dan Shrader Ore
ClOTcr Clab
Josephine Delmar
Marjorle Knapp
Proser Rev
Hernandf?;! Ore
FiTO O'clock Clab
Arthur Bonn
Ruth Wayne
Margie Green
Albins
Xlcetwood Hotel
(Jewel Box)
Arthur Blake
Conauela Flowerton
Renay CurtJa
Joe Martin

Frollo anb
Jerry Cooper
Billy Vine
Suzanne ft Christine
Nlrma Cordova
DeCastro Co
Carol Vance
Nano Rodrlgo Ore

Jlmmle'o
Ray Vaughn
Red Thornton

'Martln'iliares

Roveil ft Jeanette
Les Robinson Ore

Latin Qearler
Harry Richman

Senor Wences
Herroanos Wms 3
Sloart Morgan
Carol King
Reynolds skatera
Diamond Bros
Kamarova Ballet
JoBo Cortox Ore
Jaime Christy Oro
Mother Kelly'*
Owen ft Parker
Jerry Kruger
Myle* Bell
3 1 Guesses

Not Clnb
Tubby Rive*
Nlcii Sett
George - Grass
Ted Blake
(Hinck Wilson
Vaddock
Jackie Miles
3 Heal Wave*
A^in Lester
Fotle Killer
Paddock Bonles
Tony Lopez Ore -
Boyal Palm Clab
Harry Richman
Jane FrohmKn
Jerry Cooper
Jack Cole
Chrlstlanis
Rose Blaine
Billy Sherman
Stan Kavanaugh
Abe Lyman Oro
The Dram
Antonio Alvarea
Eddie Shepherd .
Pat ^Paree
Coren

Wayne Shelton
Vaoderbllt Hotel
(Pago Pago Rm)

Dr Giovanni
Renee ft Root
Bee Kalmus
Wanger Ols
VenalUes

(Onlfstream Bm)
Rnssell Swann
Dean Murphy
Gomez ft Minor
f harlle Wright Ore

Winnie's BIptId*
Helflji Ita'ne'^
Dan Healy
Ban Perry
Screwy Huey
Carroll Dane

B*M
(Hartiw Boi)

ROM Korgan Or*
Phylisr Lynns
Jan*

Knight Bl*
Ooorao Benrr
Clarano* M*lt«r
Nlshthawlu
D*rb*n Ol*

SM Olab
Jaalc* Dal*
D*aDa Bonr
Vlo ;Art**e
Julio Garcia Ore
Johnny Honnart

Endl
a*ldelb*rs Oet*t
WafhsksTIar
Han* Muanzer Bna

SIO* anb
Danay Thorn**.
Bob O Un Ola
Mark Fisher Oro
Garneii Btasebar
Ascot Boye
Jimmy Nnone 3
June Price

Downbeat Bm
Stuff Smith
I Sharps & Flat*
Unemera Hotel
(GIos* Boose Itnl-

Cruaadera Ore
Mary Sinclair
Dorothy Timmlu*
Orand Terrace
Cootie Williams O
Loose Nuts
Billy Nightingale
Louis Bacon
Basle Bros
Mltzle Mitchell
Lovely Lake
nelalng*
(VodvU Lonncc)
Nick' Luoas
Lillian Clarke
Bob Ballentlne
Jack Herbert
Chet Roble

Hi Uat
Danny Rogera
Dorothy Wahl .
Amanda Follett* -
Betty Hill
Koy Perry
Mary B«th Sire*
Eddy Fens Oro-
H Martinez Oro
Winnie Hoveler Ol*
Ivanhnr '

Florence Sohab*n
Al Trace Orr
Holly Swanson '
VIerra Hawaliaa*
Helen Sumner
L'AlBlOB
Splraa Stamo* Oro
Gwandolyn V*au**II
Uuiray ft Camming

CHICAGO

Amboasador Hotel
(Pump Room)
Emile Petti

Battery

itay Benson Oro
Bbunarrh Hotel
(Walaot Boom)
Art Kaasel Oro
Gloria Hart
Staples ft Cemy
Gaynor ft Ross
Hadley GIs

(Tavern Boom)
Dave Prltchard Ore
Dick Ware
Bob Manhall
Annetts Shields
Dlackliawh
Orrin Tucker Ore
Lorraine Benson
Wbltey Roberts
Bob Haynes
Doris Dupont
Jose Rosado Oro
Blaeluton* Hotel

(BaUneso Bm.)
Ken Thompson Ore
Mary Jane Howard

Bras* Ball
Mike Riley Oro
Marlon Miller

Brevoort Hotel

(Cry*tal Boom)
Tony ft Oeorge
Verna Ray
Bob Billing* ,
Bddle Roth Oro
Brown Derby
Three Ryan*
Sonia Czar
Sherry Darlanr
Hoffman Bis

Cookie Seldel
Antoinette Ens
Beth Farrell
Ted Smith
Duke Tollman Orr

Capttol Loans*
Maurice Rocco
Joe de Salvo
Louis Jordan Ore

Chez Pnree'
Willie Shora
Kitty Carlisle
The Bllllngatons
The Smootbies
Carmen Antonio
CJbandra-Kaly Dane
Boyd Raeburn Ore
Bobby Ramos Oro
Evana Ols

Club Alabam

Bornle Adler

Jane -Jordan

Sid Schapps

Paulette LaPlerrr

Harriot Norrls

OInger Wood

Del Bates

Allan Cos

Dave Unell Ore

Eddie Rotb Ore
Coloalmo*

Dolly Kay

San Sued Dane

Rubyat ft Don

Kay Boley

Olga Ward

Jaek Waldron

Nlta Trlndall

Don Lang Ore
Congre** Hotel
(Glass Hat Bm)

Barry Wlnton Ore

Red Duncan

Jo Anne Hubbard

Oeorga Deveron
I*ob*l d* Itareo
La Balto Hotel
(Paa-Aia. Boom)
Bio ft Rita
Conohlta

Ambaosador* Oro

Mew Torkei
Jackie Oraen
NoU ft Nolan
Dalton Boy*
Jaok LaVler
Star>*ta

Arn* Bamett Ore
' (PIceadllly Orel*)
3 KnlghU
Billy U*y*n
Jim Marvin
Rooky Blaworlb

IM Chib
DIok Baoer Ore
Billy Carr
Walter ft 3 Brown
Sophia Parker
Inea Gaihbl*
Th* Monteras
Fernando ft Fair
Margo Wade - .
Yvonne Nova
Gloria Knlgbt-
Cal Herbert

Palmer Hoose

(Empira Room)
Xavler Cugat . Ora
Cardlpl
Dl Oatanos
Llna Roraay
Malguellto
Abbiitt Dancers

Bliermnn Hotel
(Celtla Cafe)
Gene Kerwin Oro
Jaros 91s

(Panther Booml
Qene Krupa Oro
Nllah Brooka Rev
Carl Marx

Rbnmba CosUut
Tito Oulzar
Don Tannea
Phil Levant Oro
Pierce ft Roland
Don Orlando Oro
Jack Rodreguei O

. 60S Clob
Don Harria
Alyce Cert
Janeen
Georglana
Aloha

Millie Wayne
Ginger Britton
Jerl Vance
Midge Fellow* °
Marlon Miller
Maxine DeShon
(00 GIs
Dolly Sterling
8o1, Lah* Ore .
.Tripoli 3

Btercn* Hotel
(Coatlaeatel Boom)
Chuok Foster OrO
Don DlFlavlo
Tar Best
0*0 Scherban Oro -
Lorraine WestfslI
Peter MllnlkoS-

ATLAimC CITT

Ambassador Hotel

Bert Batlow Oro
Chelae* Botri
Billy Van 3
Olaridse Betel
(HayfaTr Boom)
Marty Magee Oro

Clab Nomad
Helene Francl*
Kent Edwards
Wanda De Muth
Tiny Kayo - •
Manny DavU Oro
CaemMMUtao Hotel
Al MlUer

Paddock iBtn
Bob Bell
Paddockeen Oro

Peaa Atlantio Betel

(Fa fan Room)
Elliott Russell Ore

Presidrat Betel •
Bamon Rio Co
Marjorle Maxwell
Pedro AlbanI Oro
Blta CarUoB Hotel

(Herrr^ Go
Boom)
Eddy Morgan Oro
Traymon Botel
Wm Madden Ore

Onble* laa
(Black Boree'Plkel
Nan DeMar
-Stanley. Rich
Joan Clark

PHILADELPHIA

Clab BaU
Los Caballen*
Roaslltanos
Harry Rose
Jose Qonule*
Penny Davis
Peters Sis (3)
Ballloolles
Alkn Fielding On

Ben VTankllB
Helene Standlsb
Dorose Mldglev-
Galente * Leonarda
Pancho Ore

Benny tlie Bom's
Patsy CVNell
Bdobardo Sandeval
Bataan 3
Dolores Gomez

Carroll'* •
Qalnes. Ore

.WUkur Bancs..

Joan William*
Rexera (2)
Margie Kelly
Harry Bo*e
Grace Gordon
Otto Eoson
Pat Bernard
Carrnllovlles (t2>

Collese Ina
Sheila Starr
Julia Cummings
Roth Templeton
Music Hail Ols
Jerry Delmar Oro

Bmbosay
Geo Clifford
-Anne Francine
Mary Jane Brown
VIckl George
Carol Dean
Pat Sherlln Ore

(B Walton Boot)
Madelyn White
H'wood Blondes (3)
Castane ft Barry
Glamour Ols
Helen Heath
Eddie Do Luca Ore

Jam Sessloa
Lilly Kretehmer
George Lutz
Hopklns'Bathskellei
Janice Reice
Cy White
Dave Vanfleld
Dot Qarcy
Agnes Barry
Babe Cummlngs
Grace Steel
Dare Gold Ore
Lanier's Swing Bar
Men ot Rhythm (4)

Lexington ratine
Russ LeBeaux .
Murray Wood
M'ago- ft Carr
Frances Carroll
Jackie Whalen
Garvin Buscbell O

Udo Venlee

Billy Maye
Rhythm Vendors
Bill Joy
Jean Marshall
Tvonne York
Thelma*

UttI* Bath*b»ll«t

Hal ft Honey Be*
Peter* Sis
Hllde SIncmon
Leon Fields
Niles ft Jo-Ann
Viotor Hogo^s Oro
Loo'* Chantellor Bar
Buds ft Buddie
Brsklne Butterfleld
Don Renolda <4)

Hay OS
Mayo Swingsters
Harry .McKay

Mattel Bioftkn.

Joyettes

lUBstrei TBTera
Bd HoGoIdrlok, Jc-
Jos Lonegan
Anita

Margie March
Bally Foy

Sissy Gfnnle Lofta*

Ed McGoldrlok, Sr
Moravlaa Bar

Bon-Bon
The Serenadera
Dick Wade
Curt Waller (4)
Harray Bbythm Bar
Fay Bay
LIUian Bishop
Lee Warwick
Freddy Thompson
Mickey De Luca
Mary Love
Edna Robinson
Dotty King Oro
Fred Thompson (8)
- Ndl Dleghaa'a
Hale Hamilton
Leonard Cook*
McArthurs
Woxron Boden
Rhythm Maniacs
Guardsmen ft Mar'n
Goo Moore.
Geo MarchettI Oro
Old in>lU laTera
Anita James
Leslie Mitchell
Bill Sheridan
Al Kilbride
J/oroy

Billy Hayes' Ore
Open Door Cafe
Cieo Valentine
Jeannettes (10)
Grace O'Bara
Johnny Cahlil
Lord & Janice
Viola Klalas Oi-

FBlOmbo's
YTonettes.

(Continued on page SS)

Wednesday, Much 11, 1942

MIGHT CLUB REVIEWS 49

De- Japped IHikado' Travesty Clicks
In Clevelaiid Nitery; Other Reviews

during the trick and otber shots by
the remarkably clever Clerk and
Bob Anderson. Wally Shirk con-
tributes ah amusing running com-
mentary. Rces.

HAPPY HOUR, MPLS.

By OLENK O. Pm.LEN

' Cleveland, March 10.

Alpine Village's pioneering ven-
ture In revamping Gilbert and Sulli-
van operettas to titillate the laded
appetites of night club sophisticates
Is unique enough to give some new
production Idea to bonitacoa who
have been desperately scratching the
ground In search for them,

This capsuled and de-Japped ver-
sion of 'Mikado' was whipped up
purely as an experiment by the en-
terprising Herman Pirchner, Cleve-
land's No. 1 Impresario. It came
through the hopper In remarkably
good shape. More Important Is the
fact that It's a captr, atlng theatrical
novelty, comparable to Bill Robin-
son's 'Hot Mikado' In the way It Im-
bues the classic warhorse with a
front-page freshness and zfest

Instead of being sung in blackface,
this editloh is done in a satirical
•Arabian Nights' style that complete-
ly denudes it of all its traditional
Japanese atmbsphere.- Cafe's perma-
nent repertory troupe of 10 profes-
sional singers get away with it by
wearing vividly colored costumes of
Turkish sultans and harem queens.
Mikajlo hlmseU is played by the Al-
pine's singing owner, who ribs the
Jap dictator with bouncing, comic
horseplay, using all of what appear
to be Eddie Cantor's mugging tricks.

Relabeled 'Land of Pltty Poo,' the
entire operetta has been jived up
with so many unorthodox, laugh-
drawing bits of inventive business
that Gilbert and Sullivan wouldn't
recognize it Willie. Matthias, an
Imaginative bandmaster, and S^ron
Ryan did a slick job in cutting the
score down to about 30 minutes of
crisp music.

It s sung in the right staccato tern'
po by the cast, too. . All references
to the land of cherry blossoms are
discreetly deleted In the satirized by-
play, which is corned up just enough
to give the Savoyard addicts a boot
In the midriff. Most original piece
of lampooning can be credited to Bob
Copfer, one of the top tenors, who
slapsticks role of Koko In a Groucho
Marx getup that doesn't miss any
thing.

Ironic contrasts and the .frolicsome
Ingenuity of the production give it a
newness even to those who have
seen 'Mikado' many times before,
Treatment .In taking the possibly
offensive nip out of the Nipponese
theme also circumvents several dan'
gerous problems by changing the
background to a. mythical kingdom.
In these Inflammatory times It would
be courting suicide to stage the op-
eretta In original dress In a nitery
where some splffy-eyed customer
might go on a patriotic tear if he
piped anybody in a Jap costume after
liis fifth martini.

Experimenl^in reaching up in the
higher stratosphere of operettas Is
such a definite cllcko that It opens up
a brand new field of nitery show-
manship for Pirchner. Ne*r elevating
stage built on hydraulic jacks in cen-
ter of his 800-seat family boite makes
it possible for him to break into more
elaborate out-of-the-ordinary pro-
ductions to dress up standard vaude
acts. Tabloldlzed "Mikado' was built
around Hubert Castle, circus wire-
walking acrobat, and a coup}<> of
fairish dance acts.

As a followup, the "Alpine's light
operetta will next tackle De Koven's
•Robin Hood* in streamlined form.

Owner is giving singers carte
blanche to work out novel musical
stunts, on the correct assuihptlon
that-blase nitery -patrons-aref-fedmp
on straight ■ revues alone. The day
when a bistro co>Ud get by with sev
eral acts plus a beery-voiced bari
tone shouting Hoad to Mandaday'
are over, in opinion of Pirchner, a
believer in advanced production
showmanship. Practical value of his
Ideas is being demonstrated in fact
that his spot consistently does a land-
slide business to $1.50 minimum,

soldiers' coata and brief skirtii, come
out brushing teeth, yawning, etc.
until they snap to it

Remaining two Acts are both high-
Ui ■ - -- --- - - ■>

gilts. Team of Roch'elle and Beebe,
following current trend, kids the
pants off iMllroom dance, adagio and
other terp forms, and seem to get a
big kick out of what they're doing,
passing the kick on to the ringsiders.
' York hard and smoothly and gal is
a natural-born comedienne who has
her share of B.a., too. Over big here.
Lester and Irmajean, boy and glrL
call themselves acrobalancers,' and
description fits. Their strong-ann
stuff, In wliJch she matches her part-
ner in the heavy work, is socko and
some of act''.; tricks are about as good
as any In repertoire of their con-
temporaries. , ^ ^,
Bob Carter, m.c. and singer, and Al
Matsico's band, both of whom ap-
parently go with the lease inasmuch
as they're rounding out their third
year at same spot, are still big-tune
faves with the Nixon crowd, and not
without reason. Marslco's dansapa-
tlon is nice and ear-easy, and Car-
ter's romantic tenor improves with
age. ■ CoheTi,

NIXON CAFE, PITT

^, , Pittaburgh. Feb. 25.

Al Marsico Orch (8); Bob CorfCT;
Hocftelic It Beebe: Lester & Inna-
jean; Muriel Kretlow Girls (6); 60c
cover.

Not a big show but a good one,
uid among the nicest features is the
hue of six Kreaow girls. Usually
cafe ensembles around here are
pretty sorry affairs, being composed
for the most part of femmes who
mix with customers a lot better than
they dance. And their costumes are
generally something left over txom
an old 1910 Shubert jnuslcal.

Kretlow lines, however, have al'
ways been better than .average. This
one is even better than that. Gals
^are all shapely, good-looldng and can
actually hoot Th^ costuming is
colorful and In good taite; their
routines show some thought and they
have a flock of 'em. Kids are on
their toes all the time, no sloppiness
in their work at all and in four num-
bers at late show they click in each
of them. Best is a military thing set
to the 'can't get 'em up' theme. In
which femmes. In overseas caps^

dIw, CHI

PANTHER ROOl

(HOTEL SHEBHAN, CHICAGO)

Chicago, AforcJi 7.
Gene Krupa Orch (17) unth Roy
Eldredge, Anita O'Dqv; Nllah Brooks
Models (10), Frank Payne, Coltanon
Sister* (2).

In this room it's strictly the band
and never the floor show that gets
the pampering, the billing and we
notices, with pracUcally all of the
coin being earmarked for the orches-
tra. With the result that the Panther
Room is considered the home of or
chestras, Jiot of actors.

Gene Krupa has played this room
several times. Outfit had 'em jammed
in here from the opening in mid-
week and figures to be one of the
bright money occheslras of the sea-
son in this basement spot

Krupa's outstanding troupe is firm
and powerful in all its arrangements
and can really kick out that jump
rhythm. For dansapation it drives
the youngsters crazy trying to choose
whether to cut a rug or just to stand
and take .a gander as this musical
crew build up and tear down a

melody. . ^ ^.^ ^

Krupa doesn t work at the drums
as much as he formerly did, but
when he does he continues to be; a
brilliant showman and workman on
the skins. On the floor show, he
contributes a real piece of work on
'American Bolero.' . _. .

Roy Eldredge makes the most oi
his trumpet ^lolng. Really hep to
the jive Is singer Anita O'Day, who
realfr rides with a tune and fits bril-
liantly into the scheme of the Krupa
aggregation. ' . ■ .

For the floor show there Is Frank
Payne' with some fine impersona-
tions, particularly of President Roose-
velt, Jerry Cblonna, Edgar Bergen
and McCarthy. His poorest attempt
is Bob Hope and this should be ash-
canned. NUah Brooks has been here
and in other Ghl niteries with her
parade of manikins. At this show
they were doing all right with a pa-
rade of boudoir attire and non-attire,
finishing with a display of blackout
costumes to keep up the times.

Callahan Sisters also have been
making a tour of the local nlteriM
and are now doing well here with
their simple but effective dancing
act. Gi rls make standout appear
ance, which is the real asset COia:

Minnesota Terrace^ Mpls,

(HOTEL NICOLLET)

Minneapolis, March 7.
Mel Marvin Orch (11) toith Skip
Forrell, Lothrop & Lee, Coleman
Clark (3); minimum, $1 week days
$1.50 Saturdays.

In Its flrst appearance here, Mel
Marvin's ordiestra reveals itself as a
smooth, listenable outfit capable of
satisfying for patron dancing or
playing a floor show. Comprising
three saxes, three brasses and four
rtiythms, the aggrefatlon, despite its
limited size, leaves nothing to be de-
sired in the way of volume and tor-
rid swing. Arrangements that reflect
present-day jive tendencies are
adeptly handled so as to enhance
the enjoyment of terpin^ customers.
Marvin himself has a wmning smile
and his emceelng is okay, too.

Skip Farrell is a personable tenor
whose pipes are good enough to bring
out the surefire values of 'Blues in
the Night,' "White Cliffs of Dover*
and 'Shrine of St CecUia.'

When last seen at a local theatre,
the two Lathrop brothers were with
Miss Lee. As a twosome. Miss Lee
and one brother still make the top
grade with their ultra-neat appear-
ance, nifty dressing and poUshed
dance routines. ^ ,

Here before at a theatre, Coleman
Clark's table tennis exhibition is even
more socko in this intimate night
club, for which It seems ideal. It
provides novelty, laughs and thrills

Minneapolis, March 7.
Walter Fuller Orch. (5), Stream-
Une Sue, Melbtt Dupree, Count
LeRov, Ralph Brouw, Sinclair &
LeRoy; no corer or minimum.

This all-colored floor show seems
made to order for - a spot such as
this, which caters "to the masses,
particularly the younger element,
and does a land-office business much
of the time. Red-hot jive is ground
out by the wholesale during enter-
tainment effusions noisy enough to
put a boiler factory to shame.

Although comprising only five

§leces, the Walter Fuller orchestra
ellvers Kljpost enough volume to
blast a quarry. Fuller toots, a mean
trumpet and ocpasionslly vocalizes.

Streamlbie Susie is a hefty young
woman who does some hlptossing,
other body gyrations and a modified
striptease during her two appear-
ances. Atop a small .table. Count
LeRoy hite a fast tap dancing pace
on roller skates; It's an unusual
and good act Stepping out from his
emcee role, Ralph Brown goes in
for some spectacular taps. Sinclair
and LeRoy also are tireless steppers,
and first-Tate ones, too. Melba Du-
pree. songstress, has good looks and
fl'-'^-rate voice. She sells h"" -"t>s
nicely. Ree».

cycles and roller skate.. The act's
one baboon jplays the' piano and
answers questions in his animal way.
The six monkeys go through their
tricks in pleasing fashion. High spot
in the act is the superciliousness of
two dressed as girls and the mls-
chevious antics of a baby buggy
pusher. Dodson and his simian act
were in Honolulu on Dec, 7 and
came back on a packed ship.'

Jerry Ross takes 'em on and' off In
his ass\ired style, and the flrst show
ilayed to a. packed house. Good
louses are now the rule In this, the
to-wn's only vaude show. Reed.

New Acts

ELLA LOGAN

Soncrs
8 Mins.

Hotel Pierre, N. T.

Featured In 'Sons o' Fun' currently
at the Winter Garden, and consider-
ably improved since last caught by
'Varietj.'" in 1935 at the Academy, on
14th street, N. Y., Ella Logan's pleas-
antly burring style of line-reading
still wears well.v But she must needs
fortify her songalog with sturdier
stuff < than her present three-song
repertoire, which ipens with a
Scotch excerpt, 'Oh Dear What Can
the Matter Be?.' "Bill' and 'I'm In
Love,' if she's to click as a nitery
headliner. „ , -v

When she essays small-talk, rib-
bing' the 'kleptomaniac' habits of
other chanteuses who 'just picked
up* this or that number, she does
well, as far as she goes— hut she
doesn*t go far enough. In other
words, her. routine is just a brush, as
If suddenly impressed into service.
A one-to-fill booking is not all right
when you're also the lone star, as Is
the case at the swank Pierre's Co-
tilfibn Room whose fortunes have
been most spotty since inception of
the policy. .1
Stanley Melba's octet is the band,
comnrising two violins, sax, piano,
bass, drums, trumpet and guitar; e
sprightly crew on whose shoulders
falls the burden «f keeping things
lively throughout the evening. Bert
Allerton is the magico teble-worker,
but It's mostly chiefly up to JMBss
Logan. Abel.

WEAR BBOTBEBS (3) and ZONIA
"Vooal, Instramentai Quartet -
Hotel Continental, Kannui City

Bob, Floyd and Jimmie Wear, with,
Zonia (Mrs. Bob Wear) rounding
out their quartet have a little more
to offer than the usual twosome or
trio used in this spot. All four are
young and have personable appear-
ances and pep.

Instrumentation has Bob on clar-
inet, Floyd on guitar, Jimmie on
sb-ing bass and Zonia on accordion,
Arrangements variously feature an
-instru ment, a v oice, or a q uarte t
specialty. On the vocal side tnetr
group work as quartet Is, their best
turn, and they handle novelty tunes
such as "Bicycle Built for Two' In
flrst rate manner. Ensemble arrange'
ments show their instrumental work
to best advantage.

Male trio began some ^ears back
as banjoists aiming for tiieatre dates
with a 10-miniite turn. They still
cany banjos for nqvelty work, but
now make tiie Instrumental ensemble
their mainstay. Continued Improves
ment along lines they are now work'
ing should make them an outstand-
ing ensemble. Quiru

MARIANNE LOBBAINE
'One Woman Theatre'
Town Hall, N. T. ^ ^ ■

Billed as a 'One Woman Theatre,'
Marianne Lorraine comes as close to
that mark as any before the public
today. It was a mistake for her to
give a Town Hall concert, for her
type of acting and singing is more
suited for night clubs and the theatre
where she should click. Above
medium height she radiates person-
ality.

"The program consists of recitations
of French and English poems in
clean cut style with magnificent dic-
tion and backed by vibrant stage
presence. Her acting of her songs,
which are co-mingled with the reci-
tations, put them over, for she does
not possess a legitimate voice. Her
emotional quality is sufficient to grip
an audience, whether or not 'under-
standing the language, and her versa-
tility Is such that she can change her
mood at wlU. Eddy.

House Reviews

- Coatinaed bom pace <T i

PALOMAR, SEATTLE

HIPP, BALTO

Baltimore, March 7.
Adrian RolUni Trio, Git Lamb,
Dick Robertson, Martinez & Delita,
Kotherine We$tfleld, Felice lula
House Orch (13); 'Joan of Paris'
(RKO). .

Fairish and rather spotty layout,
which ambles along, in presentation
style, with ni\ Lamb as a comic
emcee and ^pice lula's house orch
on stage. Lamb, seen here in vari-
ous routines previously, has . im-
proved considerably since - last
caught. He luiows how to mug a
gag to prompt response- and his ma-
terial is fresh and intelligent

Strong opening slot is punched
out by Martinez and Delita. boy- and
girl aero combo which features some
slick tumbling and balancing. Pror
longed business in a headstand Is a
clincher fo^ audience response. Set
matters oirely for marionet manipu-
lation of Kathvtoe Westfield. Nice
appearing femme sends her spot-
lighted dolls through smartly build-
ing routines as a - maracas-swingihg
Cuban, a -waltzing lady in blue, a
jiving clo-wn and for a sureflte
closer Donald Duck on roller skates.
Act has considerable appeal

Some dunjb' soldier gagging, paced
by an offstage straight, draws some
laughs for Lamb next before lie
intros Dick Robefrtson. Does strictly
stock versions, a trifle on the offbeat
side, of current pops.

Lamb revives matters with his
very comic business of a jitterbug

?;ettlng a swing jag at p.a. of a
amous jive outfit in a theatre. Eiit
is a howl from the tee-off and good
for a- showhalter as spotted here.
Begs off -with Intro of Adrian Rollini
Trio, which doses. C^ombo of vlbra-
harp, bull fiddle and guitar is solid
from the opening swingaroo;
Biz all right Burm.

ORIENTAL, CHI

Chicago, March 7.
Ted Weema Oreh (15). Glorianno,
Perry Como, Mdrdonl, Marjorie
Daye, 3 Freshmen; 'Tragedy at Mid'
night (Rep).

The Ted Weems orchestra, long a
local^favorlte. remains a top-ranking
outfit for boxofflce as well as enter-
tainment. For business is good here
currently, and the orchestra' and
show' are pleasing for anybody's
audience.

Weems handles himself, the band
and the show nicely. Band looks
well and pro-vldes plenty of good
popular music. Perry Como really
sends 'em with his' vocalizing. Same
goes for Elmo Tanner who doubles
from the bandstand tor his whistling
bit, which has been standard in the
Weems setup for years.

Glorlanna has a nice voice but not
jnuch showmanship. She comes up
with some semi-classlcals and Indi-
cates an optimistic vocal future.
Other femme on the bill is Marjorie
Daye, who Scored easily with this
mob on her acrobatic dance stuff;
Makes fine appearance and has ex-
cellent wardrobe.

Comedy magic is sold smartly by
Mardoni, . who has a fine flair for
lowdown comedy of this sorb and
kept the customers in high spirits
throughout. He can play anywhere.
Three Freshmen are acros with an
assortment of standard prattfalls
mixed with good pyramid work and
balancing. Solid act tUrou^out and
went across welL
Biz fine at last show Friday (6),
Gold.

turhs in a nice bit' of comedy war-
bling in 'Can't Give You Anything
But Love' and McKenna's stew is
also click. The Three. Bany Sisters'
harmonizing— goes oyer. Nice job as
m.c. Is turned in by King. He's heard
in,, several neat saxophone solos as
well as vocalizing welL
ExceUedt lighting for the show.
Standing room as well as a long
line in front j)f the theatre at supper
.show opening day. Anotf.

EMBASSY, N. Y.

(NEWSBEELS)

The newsreela again this week
offer a - buoyant roseate picture of .
the war. The grim and grisly side
intrudes but once, in some very briei
glimpses of dead Nazi soldiers on the
RussW front (Paramount). Thus
newspapers and radio may produce
a sense of grave misgiving, but'there
are the newsreels for surcease from
lowered spirits.

American doughboys are on parade
la Ireland (Par). An RAF squadron
tees off for a raid on the French
coast (Fox). Congressman Dies re-
tails how; his committee once came
in possession of a map that showed
that the Japs had heinous designs on
the United. S^tates (Universal). A
cavalry troop somewhere In the
nortliwest demonstrates how this'
arm of the . service has been mobil-
ized for reconnalsance (Fathe).
Ftylng fortresses off Hawaii main-
tain guard over passing American -
convoys (Par).

Infiltrating this tepid, serene re-
cital of an entire world at war are
but a couple imtowerd rei^lnders of
what we ourselves are up against
and of the sort of bad licks we Bt^
taking. One is a plctureivOf a tor-
pedoed tanker aflame off the Jersey
coast, with 41 of the tanker's crew
missing (U), and another shows a
flash of what had been the destroyer
Jacob Jones and the arrival of her
11 survivors.

Only touch of newsreel enterprise"
evinced in the entire runoff comes
from Pathe. Private Joseph Lock-
hard had received promotion and
citation for being on the alert at his
airplane detector post on, Hlckam
Field, Hawaii, Den. 7 and the
cameraman reports a visit to his.
family in the SUiea and tiie sound-.-
track tells of the pride ,that bis girl
got 6ut th.) youth's recognition.

Donald A- Nelson and Henry A.
Morgenthau, Jr., bring messages that
seek to cut deeply iilto the conscious- '
ness of the civilian front From
Nelson come the highlights of his'
March 2 broadcast, in which h«
warned war Industry -workers that
they must give their utmost before-
it is too late, while the secretary ot
the treasury, repeating a statement •
that he had made to a congressional
eoffimltte& forecasts severe new
taxes and reminds his audience that
It Is cheaper 'to win than lose. ,'
• . Oiee. '

Mjeijestic, San Antonio

San Atitonio, March 7.
Wayne King Oreh (12) ; Barry Sis-
ter* (3), Joe and Jane McKenmh
Criss Cross; 'InterrMtUmal Sauadroic
(WB).

Headed by Wayne King's orches-
tra, this revue is fast-mo-ving and
plenty entertaining. Excellent steg-
mg and a neat supporting cast
presage excellent biz here and at
other Interstate houses for which it's
been booked.

Entire show is built around the
maestro and the orchestra's sock
waltz tempoes,

Criss Cross, ventrlloqulBt, turns In
a fine performance -with a cowboy
dummy. Joe and Jane McKenna
turn In a knockabout comedy routine
for plenty laughs and applause. Jane

Unit Review

MEET TH^ GIRLS

(BBOADWAT, CBABLOITE. N. O.)

CharloHe, tf. C, March 1.
The Hartzclls (2), Jerry Ttoins,
Eddie Jacobson, Michelle, Marv
Voder. Pagano Girls (i), Evans Mor-
gan Bajid (9); 'Treat 'Em RougV

^ust as the tltie implies, the accent
is on the femmes in 'Meet the Girls.'
The Pagano girls are ohe of the 1)est«
trained lln^ secQ here In some time
and step through some elaborate and
nifty routhies for heavy plaudits. ■

nuchelle does a semi-nude dance
which thou^ deftly executed, is
somewhat out of place In the Indian
setting. Mary 'Vaden, drum major- .
ette, follows with a fast aero thdt Is

Elenty good.. Hie Hartzells are ofcay
1 a vocal turn, and -Uiough their
voices and deportment belong to' the
concert stage, they even wow the
balcony brats with. their nifty piping
of the seml-classlcs, Hartzell wis a
rich, vibrant tenor, while the gal
kicks the high notes around with a
nifty soprano. Heavy plaudits for
this.

After getting off to a slow start due
to sUly patter, Jerry Lawton, Jtig-
gler, winds up for a Wow Jiilsh. He
specializes in juggling tennis balls,
using knees and toes in' keeping balls
going. His best bits are bouncing
balls on drum, for drum solo effect
and juggling iron balls and catdiing
them on back of qeck.

The Perry Twins are pleasing In a
terp turn which, despite their pleas-
ing personalities, is not improved by
their gags and zany radio Impersona-
tions. Their best offering Is a bttr-
lesk bubble number in which the
boys give -with some deft satire for
strong plaudits. They wind up with
a tap dance boxing match that Is so-
so. Eddie Jacobson, who opens. Is
pleasing ^n a standard aero act )b
which he contributes some nifty bal-
ancing and muscle co-ordination.

Good house % Wtftf Wu&IMIt.

so

UOnCIMATB

All B way Legits in Moderate Drop;
Tun', $37,fl(IO,Tace It', 30G, 'Banjo'
,000, All Feel Income Tax Time

Attendance dropped as anticipated
last week, but the declines were not
as much as first indicated because
weekend business was very strong.
No new shows last week and only
one (a revival) this week. There
were two closings, which were ex-
pected.

Estimates for Last Week-

Keys: C. iComedy), D (Drqwi),
CD (.Comedy-Drama), R (Ret>ue),
M (Musical), O (Operetta).

'Angel Street,' Golden (13th week)
(0-789; $3.30). No show om list was
capacity last week; not much off here,
with the gross approaching $13,000
level.

'Arsenic and Old Lace,' Fulton
(60th week) (CD-838; $3.30). Also
held up better than most others and
quoted over $13,500; still one of the
shows in top favor.

'Banio Eyes,' Hollywood (11th
week) (M-1,563; $4.40). Right up with
the musical leaders and over week-
ends there are standees; bettered
$29,000, which is real coin in present
going. , „

'Best Foot Forward,* Barrymore
(23d week) (M-1,104; $4.40). Dropped
off somewhat, with the gross around
$17,000; should provide fairly good
profit at the figure..

'Blithe Spirit,' Morosco (18th week)
(CD-936: $3.30). Went oft with the
field last week, when the gross was
slightly over $15,Q00; one of season s
standouts; should play into summer.

'Cafe Crown,' Cort (6th week)
(CD-1,064; $3.30). Eased off to around
$9,000; going along to an operating
profit and should stick through
spring. .

•Gnest in the House,' Plymouth
(2d week) (CD-:1,057; $3.30). Has fair
chance to make the grade; went well
over $8,500 and should pick up after
this week.

'Heart of a City,' Miller. Audi-
ences liked novel war«play, but not
enQUgh people attended; closed Sat-
urday after playing four weeks.

-<Hich -Kickers,' Broadhurst (18th
week) (M-1,142; $4.40)„Around $15,
000, which is lair money; is slated
to move to 44th Street after another
two weeks.

It Happens on lee,' Centor (re-
sumed' engagement) (67th week) (R-
3,026; $1.65). Unpredictable ice revue
may run Into another summer; un-
der the holiday pace last week, but
very gtnffl: over, $23,0(10 estimated.

'Jason.' Hudson (7tH week) (CD-
1,094; $3.30). Using cut rates and
two-for-ones; further cast changes
"has Lee Cobb replacing George
McCready and Helen Beverly taking
over from Helen Walker; rated over
$5,000. -

'Jnnlor Miss.' Lyceum (16th week)
(CD-1.004; $3.30). Was an exception
last week and held to form better
than other straight plays; quoted
close to $17,000.

'Lady in the Dark,' Alvln (re
sumed) (47th week) (M-1.387; $4.40)
Slipped to around $18,000; going out
on limited tour late next month, giv-
ing the engagement six weeks, more
on Broadway.

'Let's Faee It.' Imoerial (19th week)
(M-l,450; $4.40). Was affected, but
figures to come back; estimated
around $30,000 for sock musical.

'Lite with Father.' Ehipire (121st
week) (CD-1.082: $3.30). Held up
fairly well, with the gross rated well
over $12,000; aimed into another
summer. "\

'My SisUr Eileen.' Biltmore (63d
week) (CD-891; S3.30). Another com-
edy that is indicated to last into
summer period: drew Its recent aver-
age, being quoted close to $9,500.

'Sons o' Fan.' Winter Garden (14th
week) (R-1.519: $4.40). Off for first
time, but gross not materially dented
and. weekepy was jammed; rated
around $37,000.

'Sorlne Araln.' Playhouse (17th
> week) (CD-865: $3.30). Making a run
of it to the surprise of some predic-
tors: turning a weekly profit; nearly
$8,500.

Under This Eoof,' Windsor. Yanked
Saturday after two weak weSeks.
Revivals

' 'A Kiss -for Cinderella,-' Music Box
(C-1,012; $2.75). Presented by Cheryl
Crawford and Richard Kralcuer
written by Sir James Barrie; opened
yesterday (Tuesday).
'Porev and Bess,' Majestic (7th
. week) (M-1,175; $2.75).. Another ex
ception last week and held to great
attendance except midweek .matinee;
quoted around $22,000. .

Gilbert and Snilivan, St. James
(7th week) (1.520; $2.20). Slated to
finale at this weekend: moderate
grosser,'but some profit; $11,000 esti-
mated.

Added

'Priorities of 1942,' 46th St. (1,347;
$2.20). Vaudeville presented by Clif-
ford C. Fischer and the Shuberts;
- twice daily and three times Sunday
starts Thursday (12).

.'Of V We Sing,' Concert (R-781
$1.65). Started as semi-professional
attraction but now on eight-perform-
ance weekly basis; house on 58th
street formerly the John Golden.

W Fme $22,000
In St Louis Repeat

St. Louis, March 10.
'Hellzapoppin' was profitable in its
second visit this season, and one-
week stand at the American last
week at $3:30 top got estimated
$22,000 lor eight performances. Billy
House and Eddie Garr continue to
draw posies from the crix. Piece
garnered approximately $33,000 for
10 performances last November.

'Angel Street' opene.i Sunday (8),
with the house scaled to $2.20.

candle; $23,500, HOT
NEW DETROIT ENTRY

Detroit, March 10.
Candle .n the Wind' came through
with great biz in its six-day, eight
performance, stay at the Cass last
week. Play got estimated $23,500. In
addition to the eight performances,
scaled at slightly below the regular
level because of the guild sub-
scription, Helen Hayes" also tucked
in an added matinee as a benefit for
the Actors Fund. Latter grossed
$2,542.

The play was followed in by
'Hellzapoppin,' making its third ap-'
pearance here in 15 months and set
for two-week stay.

'Anger, $8,000, Not

Very Good in Cincy

. Cincinnati, March 10.
'Angel Street disappointed at the
Cox last week, fetching less than
$8,000 in nine performances at $2.75
top. Notices were excellent.

Sylvia Sidney dropped out of the
Saturday (7) matinee and night
show due to an attack of appendi-
citis, for which she underwent treat-
ment in a' private hospital. Miss
Sidney left with the troupe that
night for St. Louis, where, she ex-
pe.cted to resume her lead role. The
star's stand-in, Frances Greet, sub-
stituted in an aftle manner.

Biz slump also was evident for the
Feb. 26-28 engagement of Katharine-
Cornell in 'Rose Burke' in the Cox
at $3.30 top. Take was estimated at
under $9,500. Reviews were bad.

'Good Night Ladies'

Nifty $8,700 in Frisco

San Francisco, March 10.
'Good Night Ladies,' at the' Curran,
pulled nifty trade for estimated
$8,700 last week.
It was mostly window sale. .

ComeU, $12,500, CUdca
In Cleve. Despite Noticca

Cleveland, March 10.^
Katharine Cornell's drawing power
neutralized indifferent notices about
her new play, 'Rose Burke,' which
roUed up an estimated $12,900, very
satisfactory. In four performances at
$3 top at the Hanna last week. Alwut
80% of seats were sold in advance.
Including an engagement in Indian-
apolis the week grossed close to
$18 000.

'Panama Hattle' comes March 18;
'A'rsenic and Old Lace,' April 14;
•Macbeth," May 21,

'RHINE' FINE
$21,500. PHIILY

Philadelphia, March 10.
Philly may have had its booking
deficiencies during the early part of
the legit season, but indications are
that there will be no shortage from
now until May's warm weather.

Last week's biz was remarkably
good, considering such' factors as in-
come tax. Lent, weather, war, etc.
Estimates tor Last Week
Hellzapoppin,' Forrest (11th and
final week) (1,800; $3.42). Sudden
decision to yank show Saturday (7)
caused natural last-minute rush, with
show zooming to $22,000. Irving
Caesar's 'My Dear Public' in next
Monday (16).

'Watch on the Rhine,' Locust (2nd
and last week) Cl,500; $3.42), One of
season's biggest drama offerings as
far as-b:©^ IS concerned; $21,500 last
week. 'Macbeth' in this week only.
'Claudia* and 'My Sister Eileen'
booked next.

'NaUve Son,' Walnut (2d week)
(1,700; $1.50). ■ Reported $8,000,'
enough to warrant holding show for
third week, especially with competish
lighter this week.

Wednesdaj, March 11, 1942

3 Shows Scrafflnung flu; ItivaK' Hurt
By Mary Boland's Akence, $12,000

lllaclieth' $10,500 in M.:
Wekler Vice Anderson

Buffalo, March 10.

Maurice Evans' . production of
'Macbeth' rang up approximately
$11,700 here last week. Gross rep-
resented capacity and overflow In
four performances at $3.30 top at the
Erlanger.

When Judith Anderson was stricken
with laryngitis on the arrival of
Macbeth' here, Margaret Webster,
director, flew in from N. Y. to take-
over the part of Lady Macbethi Miss
Webster arrived at the airport three
hours before the opening curtain
and continued in the role for the
four shows of the local engagement.
Week included Rochester and Hart-
ford, and week's gross -was rated
close to $30,000. .

CLEVE. HANNA JOINING
GUILD'S ATS SETUP

3

TALENT UNIONS
NIX SBHI-PRO REVUE

Chicago, March 10.

'American Sideshow,' semi-profes-
sional revue locally produced- ■ by
Charles K. Freeman, closed last week
In the Civic after two days, when the
three performer unions pulled their
members.

Equity was the first to oppose the
show for its failure to go completely
union, and asked both the American
Guild of • 'Variety Artists and the
American -Federation of Radio Artists
to cooperate. Both AFRA and AG'VA
issued orders to its members to leave
the show.

Show met uniformly poor notices.

The Robins Sing

Milton. Stiefel will reopen his
Ivoryton (Conn.) playhouse some
time in June. It will be the 13th
season for the strawhat.

Producer recently returned from

Florida vacation.

Camouflagers

j^sContlnaed from paea Iss

Army officers are also assisting un
officially.

Group is called the Camouflage So-
clety of Professional Stage Designers,
Unit 1, with a membership including
Boris Aronson, Bradford Ashworth,
Lemuel Ayeis, Robert Bamhardt,
Stewart Chaney, Adrian Cracraft,
Manuel Esman,' Frederick -Fox, Philip
Gelbert, Edward Gelbert, Mordecai
Gorellk, Harry Homer, Carl Kent,
bavid Langworthy, Johannes Lars-
sen, Tom Lee, Samuel Leve, Jo
Mielziner, Donald Oenslager and,
Howard Wisler. It's expected that
other units will be formed in New
■york and elsewhere. '

Besides attending classes,' the
scenic designers are. also working
with models and otherwise familiar-
izing themselves with camouflage
methods for military and industrial
purpo'Ses: Flvt" of the" mew had
camouflage training in the last war
and three others served in the army,
though not In camouflage activity.

It is believed this is the first time
stage designers have participated In
camouflage work. It has previously
been done chiefly by architects and
artists.

Cleveland, "March 10.

New ■york Theatre Guild will add
the Hanna to its list of houses on its
subscription roster next year as re-
sult of a deal closed last week by
Warren P. Munsell of the Guild and
Carl Hanna, owner of Cleveland's
sole legit stand.

Milton Krantz, co-operating with
Playgoers, Inc., drama-sponsors, has
been working on the deal ever since
he was appointed manager of the
Hanna early this season. ,A mini-
mum of six shows are being prom-
ised by the Guild, which passed by
Cleveland up to now. The Playgo-
ers, Inc., who have been buying sub-
scriptions for a certain number of
plays for the last two years, will
form the nucleus of the Guiljl's lo-
cal subscription list. Lloyd Hunter
is resigning as group's president this
week, after a series of differences
over the theatre's policy.

Chicago, March 10.
One more week for 'Panama
Hattle,' "The Com Is Green' and 'The
Rivals.' Coming into the Erlanger is
C^dle In the Wind'; the Harris gets
'Angel Street,' but the Grand wlU
have to wait for a show.

Last night (Mon.) the Blackstone
!ot Its flrst show of the season, the
louse management bringing In 'Papa
All' for a return engagement.
Show played ' here for a fortnight
earlier In the- season, and drew both
flne press and business, but went to
New 'Vork, where it flopped. If the
show makes good here It will upset
the tradition of they never come
back.'

Estimates tor Last Week
'Blithe Spirit,' Selwyn (3d week)
(1,000; $2.75). Dipped sharply, get-
ting practicallv no. press support in
proportion to the space the show
rates In view of the names associated
with it, Under $13,000.

'Panama Hattle,' ' Erlanger (7th
week) (1,400; $3.30). Powerful, but
must leave Saturday (14). Solid at
$20,009.

.The Corn b Green,' Harris (7th
week) (1,000; $2.75). Pulling out
Saturday (14), although capacity last
week at $16,500 and will do an extra
matinee this week to take t:are of
some of the demand.

The Rivals,' Grand (1st week)
(1,300; $2.75). In for two weeks
under- American Theatre Society-
Theatre Guild subscription, and. the
prepaid ducats are holding up' the
wicket. Got bad breaks in departure
of Mary Boland from cast. A1)Out
$12,000, which is mostly subscription
coin.

Current Road Shows

'EOeen' Fine $11,500
InLA.;W$4200

Los Angeles, March 10.
Vly Sister Eileen' is bristling at
the Biltmore, tabbing estimatod slick
$11,500 in third week to approximate
^akes o'f initial two stanzas. Ilun has
been extended to at least eight
weeks, and piece has chance of stay-
ing 10. In any case, it's rxinch to
break long run cf Biltmore, held by
'Three Men on a Horse,' which
clipped off six and a half weeks sev-
eral years ago.

Hollywood Playhouse, on flrst
week of 'Rally 'Round the Girls,'
which moved up from the small
Assistance League showshop, chalked
up $4,200 for slight proflt. Scaled up
to $1, house hopes to catch extra
weekend coin with Saturday mid-
night show to replace Monday night
session.

'Blossom' 14G in Seattle

Seattle, March 10.

'Blossom Tirte,' with Everett Mar-
shall, marked up swell biz at the
Metropolitan, 1,500-seater, at $2.88
top last week (4-8).

Two matinees and the flve night
performances garnered estimated
$14,000.

'Arsenic' 4'/^G, Memphis

Memphis, March 10.

Totuing company of 'Arsenic and
Old" Lace' grossed so-so $4,500 in
three perfomiances last week (4-5)
at Ellis Auditorium. At Denver the
comedy cleaned up with takings close
to $18,000.

'HeUzapoppin,' with Billy House
and Eddie Garr playing return stand
after being here previous spring, did
$6,100 in same number of sl^ows the
weekend before.

(March 11-21)
'Angel Street' (2d Co.)— American,
St. L. (11-14); Harris, Chi. (15-21),
'Arsenic and Old Lace' (2d Co.) —
Erlanger, .Atlanta (11); Bijou, Chat-
tanooga (12); Ryman Aud., Nashville
(13); Mem. Aud., Louisville (14);
Coliseum, Evansville, Ind. (16); Eng-
lish, Indianapolis (17-18); Hartman,
Columbus, O. (19-21).
. 'Blithe Spirit' (2d Co.)— Selwyn,
Chi. (11-21).

'Blossom Time' — Mayfair, Port-
land, Ore. (11-12); Capitol, Salt Lake
City (14); Univ. of Wyoming, tara-
mle (16); Broadway, Denver (17-
19); City Aud., Colorado Springs
(20); City Aud. Pueblo, .CoL (21).

Candle In the Wind'— Victory
Dayton (11); Taft Aud.. Cincy (12
14); Erlanger, Chi. (16-21).

'CUndIa' (N.Y. Co.)— Nixon, Pitt
(11-14); Locust, Philly (16-21).

CUadU' (2d Co.)— Shrine Aud.
Des Moines (11); Orpheum, Daven-
port (12); ParkWay,_Madison,_Wis,
(13-14); American, St. Louis (16-21)
Com ■ Is Green'— Harris, Chi
(11-14); Parkway, Madison, Wis.
(16); Coronado, Rockford, IlL (17)
Davidson, Milwaukee (18-21).

'Hellzapoppin' (N.Y. Co.)— Ma
jestic, Boston (11-21).

Helliapoppin' '(2d Co.)— Cass, De
troit (11-21).

Junior Miss' (USO)— Camp Clal
borne, La. (12-14); Camp Living-
ston, La. (16-18); Camp Robinson,
Ark. (19-21)

Life with' Father' (2d Co.)— Met,
Seattle (11-14); Royal Victoria, Vic
toria, B. C. (16-17); Strand, Van
couver (18-10); Temple, Tacoma
(20-21). .

'Life with Father' (3d Co.)— Plaza
El Paso (12); Rialto, Tucson (14)
Orpheum, Phoenix (16); Music Hall,
Long Beach, Cal. (18-19); Russ Aud
San Di^go (20-21).

'Louisiana Purchase' — Shubert,
Boston (11-21).

'Macbeth'— Locust, Philly (11-14)
Ford's, Baltimore (16-21).

'My De^r Public' — Ojlonial, Bos-
ton ((11-14); Forrest, Philly (18-21),
■ 'My Sister Eileen' (2d Co.)— Bilt-
more, L. A. (11-21).

'My Sister Eileei^ (3d Co.)— Na
tional, Wash. (11-14); Nixon, Pitts
burgh (16-21).

'Native Son' — Walnut, PhUly
(U-21).

'Ont of the Frying Pai^ (USO)
Ft Leonard Wood, Mo, (11-12); Ft,

ItOAD' BIG $14,000
IN 8TH PHT VISIT

Pittsburgh, March 10.

Playing its eighth engagement at
Nixon last week, 'Tobacco Road,' at
$1.50 top, was excellent with esti-
mated $14,000, though hurt by snow-
storm which paralyzed traffic for
two days.

While considerably below show's
gross of a year ago, when it had to
insert an extra matinee and claimed
better than $19,000, tally represenfed
:>lenty of proflt for l>oth sides and
ndicates end is still nowhere in
sight, locally at any rate, for the
saga of Jeeter Lester. Attendance
for last three performances Friday
and ..Saturday was sensational, stan-
dees aplenty.

Tnrchase^ $23,000,
Big in 1st Hob Wk.

Boston, March 10.

'Louisiana Purchase' was unop-
posed here last week and tallied esti-
mated hdalthy gross at $23,000 for
its initial stanza. 'Life, Ladghter and
Tears' was also slated to open. here
last week, but was postponed and
then withdrawn because of Eddie
Do\irling's illness.

'My Dear Public,' new Irving
Caeser musical, came In Monday (9).
and 'Hellzapoppin' opens up a run
tonight (Tuesday). 'Wateh on the
Rhine' is scheduled here March 16.

Tabfic' $7;500 mN.H:

New Haven, March 10.

Preem of musical 'My Dear Public*
fell below expectations. Reviews
were friendly, but word-of-mouth
was mixed. Take was estimated
$7,500, not too good at $3.30 top for
four shows (5-7).

House has 'Watch on Rhine' for
this weekend (12-14) as the only
legit booking coming along. Dicker-
ing for a couple - of tryouts, but
nothing set.

Knox, Ky. (14-18); Chanute Field.
lU. (20); Ft. Sheridan, 111. (21). .

'Panama Hattle'- Erlanger, Chi.
(11-14); Hanna, Cleveland (16-21).

'Papa Is All'— Blackstone, Chi.
(11-21).

'Bally 'Bound (he Girls'- Play-
house, HoUywood (11-21).

'Bivals'— Grand Opera House, ChL
(11-14); Grand Opera House, Boston
(16-21).

'Bose Burke' — Erlanger, Buffalo
(11); Royal Alexandra, Toronto
(12-14).

Tobacco' Rood'- Plymouth, Bos-
ton (11-21).

'Watch on the Rhine'— Bushnell
Aud., Hartford (11); Shubert, New
Haven (12-14); Colonial, Boston (16-
21).

- 'Without Love'— Ford's, Balto (11-
14); National, Wash. (16-21).

tTednesdaj, ^arcli 11, 1942 ^

Ginld Flies Charges Agamst 'Ailing'
Mary Boland for Walkout on llivals'

' M

: : . ' ' . r i . ■! : —

N.Y. Theatre Canteen Hosts IJO
Servicemen N^htly in Fffst Week;
Mar Oases Mulled Out of Town

Chicago, March 10.

Mary Boland abruptly quit The
Rivals' at the Grand Opera House
after last Tuesday night's 0) per-
formance; Allegedly ill, she trained
for the Coast Thursday (5),

Rosalind Ivan, understudy, is tem-
porarily playing Miss Boland's role.

Charges have been filed against
Mary Boland with Equity by the
Theatre Guild, which revived The
Rivals,' on the grounds that she vio-
lated Her contract by walking but
after the second performance in Chi-
cago. Reported that the actress re-
fused to see a doctor assigned by
the management to examine her, nor
a physician named by Ikitiity. She
did, however, present a doctor's
certificate signed by a medico chosen
by herself, indicating she had chronic
bronchitis and sinusitis, but declined
to see Frank Dare, Equity's repre-
sentatiyc. in Chicago. That refusal
caused her suspension for four
weelcB. This Is the third time she
made sudden exits from shows,
dropping out of 'Face the Music,'
New Amsterdam. N. Y. (1932) and
'Jubilee,' Imperial (1936).

Already Snspended

If sustained, the charges may re.-
Bult in further suspension, with Miss
Boland already barred from ap-
pearances on the stage or any other
field of amusements. It is the
first Instance in which a name artist
would be so disciplined. When the
Associated Actors* and Artistes of
America was reorganized sev^eral
years ago, ■ an interchangeable ar-
rangement was agreed upon, so that
if a member of any afiiliate In the
Four A's is suspended the other or-
ganizations are bound to similarly
suspend.

Guild has no Intention of closing
The Rivals* Immediately. When
playing dates prior to Broadway Miss
Boland was also indisposed, and Eva
Le Gallienne, who staged the show,
stepped into the part. Guild sought
Miss Le Gallienne Immediately upon
Miss Boland's withdrawal but It was
discovered that she had just left a
hospital after an attack of pneu-
monia.

Margaret AnfUn Beplaeea

Margaret Angllh has emerged from
retirement to keep The Rivals' go-
ing, ste^'.ping into the part of I^.
Malaprop, /^hlch was suddenly
vacated by Miss Boland. An under-
study had taken over when Miss
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EQUin AGAIN WARY
OF CO-OP VENTURES

Equity is getting wary of new ex-
perimental or semi - cooperative
groups creeping into the New York
theatrical district contrary to its
policy, which is opposed to such ven-
tures because the actor almost in-
variably gets the worst of it Ordi-
narily Equity has not interfered
with such shows if not In competi-
tion with Broadway, Either in price
of admission or place of perform-
ance. Usually such shows_are_giyen
in little theatres or hotel audito-
riums.

Lately, however, several Independ- .
ent groups liave been formed, prob-
ably encouraged by 'Of V We Slug,'
a semi-pro outfit which graduated
from tiny houses to - the former
Crolden on 58th street, now called
the Concert theatre. Revue played
five performances weekly from Wed-
nesday to Sunday, but starting this
week is on a regular legit basis,
complying with the arrangement
with Equity that, after a trial pe-
riod, amateurs in the company join
the association and receive at least
the Equity minimum of $50 weekly.
Show conthiues its scale of $1.65
top.

Also on a five-night 'weekly basis
is 'Johnny Doodle,' a musifcal play
claimed }o have a professional cast
and opening tonight (Wed.) at the
Popular theatre on west 57th street.
Spot is a former Y.M.C.A. clubhouse
and Is also known as the Blackfriars
theatre when used by a Catholic
drama group using that name. An-
other little revue starthig \a 'It's
About Time,' to be given at the
Barblzon Plaza hotel at the end of
the month.

The Experimental Theatre is ncHnl-
naled as the sole outfit for show-
ings of that nature, but ET is 'not
active this season.

18 Angeb Phrngmg

Hollywood, March 10.

Eighteen angels,' ehlefly screen
writers, who bankrolled the atage
play, <Gaslight,' before it moved to
New York as 'Angel Street,' are using
their Broadway profits to form Gas-
light Productions, t company de-
signed to back or produce aspiring
legit ahows, locally or in tbe east

Hollywood' shareholders, who own
76% of 'Angel Street,' figure to split
a toUl of $200,000 by the end of the
season. Part of this amount will be
gambled on new productions.

EQUITY COUNCIL
VS.AGCYS.IN
ADVANCE

It was In the bag against, the legit
casting agents when Equity last
week turned down their application
for a basic agreement for the second
time. Four members of the coimcU
who favored a trial pact for one
year did not attend the session. Also
absent wa^ one of the committee of
three whichi recommended the grant.
Still another changed his mhid, with
the result that only one vote for the
agents was registered.

Council, however, ducked the issue
of naming a deadline when the
agents must pay the annual fee of
$25 each. Ruled that matter be taken
up at another time, when it is likely
that the casters will be «dvised va
pay or else. There arc 35 agents
with Equity permits, 32 being more
or less active, and to date only nine
have remitted the fee to Equity,
three having. been recently licensed.

Immediately after the council dis-
posed of the proposal, a letter to. the
agents already prepared was read,
starting with the iedlct: 'Tliat the
Equity agency policy be not changed
by any recommendations li . the com-
mittee's report' That move was a
complete surprise to those who
favored making the concession,' with
the result that criticism of the
'steam-rollering' was voiced.

Equity assured the agents that
there will be no increase in the
annual fee during the current year.
It told .the agents that there Is
nothing in the employment situation
of Equity membiars in the legitimate
theatre which warrants any Increase
(of commissions) w'-.ataoever.'

Claimed that acton pay agents
'somewhere between' $50,000 jsnd
$100,000 in commissions annually, the
wide spread In the amoimts indi-
cating the belief of the coimcil that
many members are violating the
'rules and paying 10% Instead of 6%.
It was also figured that the managers
should pay .the coAutilssloni to ' the
casters Instead of actors, because
'our records will show that there are
many cases when salaries are In-
volved where the Interests of the
manager rather than the actor Is
primarily considered.'

'Guesf B. 0. Big Enough
For Cast to Get FdH Pay

'Guest In the House,' Plymouth,
N. Y,, which most critics thumbed-
down, la doing much better tiian ttie
reviews indicated. Cast had agreed
to a 33%% salary cut If the gross
did not exceed $8,000, but business
considerably topped that figure last
week and full salaries were paid.

Cut arrangement oovers a two-
week period, but a new arrange-
ment has been entered into. Man-
agement avers it miscalculated and
at $8,000 an operating loss would be
sustained. New deal caUs for a slice
if the gross does not reach $0,000
or more.

Management guarantees continu-
ance for at least four weeks under
the changed agreemeift, but the pro-
vision to make up any salary slice
from possible picture rights money
has been dropped.

Shows in Rehearsal

<Tait«rday's Msglo' (The Light
of Heart')— Theatre Guild.

'What BIf Ears'— L. Daniel
Blank, David Sllberman.

The Moon is Down'— Oscar
Berlin,

'Johnny Sx4'-;-R o w 1 a n d
Brown.

'New' Producers
Play Important
RoleinN.Y.Legit

Most of the shows presented by
newcomers this season on Broadway
did not make the grade, but the vol-
ume of people who aspired to man-
agerial recognition well supports the
contention that the theatre will sur-
vive regardless of trends and in-
creasing handicaps. Some in show
business have been skeptical because
the amount of production Is away
under that Of former years.

They argue Hiat if certain show-
men with reputations for seasonal
bits retired or expired, legit would
pass out. It is emphasized that wJc.
managers of wealth are the key-
stones of the theatre as is, because
of willingness to back new shows
and keep theatres available. But the
records prove the situation to be
somewhat different and those with
the heavy bankrolls did not figure in
financing of the big majority of pro-
ductions presented this season. <
30 New Showmen . .

Around 30 new showmen have fig-
ured in the season's output to date.
Some may have taken a flier and
are likely not to be active as man-
agers hereafter, but that does not
necessarily follow for the others.
Money for backing, from outsiders
crops up In various ways and people
who have pieces of success^ con-
tinue as potential play investors.
There is quite a flock of them.

Shows by 'new' managers include:
'Village Green,' the Ohieys and Felix
Jacoves; 'The More the Merrier,'
Norman Pincus, Otto Premlnger;
'Mr. Big,' Gieorge S. Kaufman and
associates; 'Ghost for Sale,' Alex
Cohen; 'Viva O'Brien;' John Hickey,
(tester Hale, Clark Robtaison; 'As
You Like It,' Ben Boyaf, Eugene
Bryden; "High Kiekers,' Alfred
Bloomlngdale, George Jessel; The
Man With Blonde Hair,' Frank Ross;
'Rfaig Around Elizabeth,' Allen Bo-
retz, William Schorr; 'Seventh
Trumpet,' a religious, group; 'Angel
Street,' Shepherd Traube and back-
ers; 'Johnny On a Spot,' John Shu-
fa ert; 1«dy Comes Across,' George
Hale, Charles Rogers, Nelson Seabra;
'All in Favor,*- Elliott Nugent, Jesse
Duncan, Robert Montgomery; 'Guest
in the House,' Stephen and Paul
Ames; Under This Roof,' Russell
Lewis, Rita Hassan.

'Angel Street' Is the outstander by
a new manager. However, Olsen
and Johnson could be included in
the list, having a goodly share of
'Hellzapoppln' and 'Sons o' Fun,' and
said to be willing to take % filer In
'other 'sh'ows^

Dowling Dhess Forces
New I^er to Postpone
Premiere on Broadway

Eddie Dowling's continued Illness
has forced the postponement of his
production of Ufe, Laughter end
Tears' on Broadway, at least until
late this month. If not for the season.
Actor was described as a trifle better
at his Bayside, L. L, home yesterday
(Tuesday), but still bedded with a
stomach ailment. His appearance on
the 'We, the People' program last
night on CBS was cancelled for the
second successive week.

It's understood that Dowling has
been ordered by his physician to take
a long rest when he is sufficiently re-
covered from his present illness. He
is said to be seriously run down from
overwork on his legit production,
the radio program and his USO
activities.

.Last week's Boston engagement of
'Life, Laughter and Tears' was can-
celled.

ATW May Distrib Tu

Some change in' the setup whereby
free tickets for shows, pictures and
sporting events are distributed to
non-conmussioned men in uniform
may be effected in New York. Ducats
-are given the men at 99 Park avenue
by a staff appointed by Mayor
LaGuardia's committee on recreaUon
for soldiers and sailors of which Mrs.
Julius' Ochs Adler and John Golden
are co-chairmen.

American Theatre Wing may take
oveir supervision of the free- ticket
distribution, it now being felt that
such a function would be more ef-
ficient in professional hands.

PLAYWRIGHTS'
DISSOLUTION
DENIED

Report that the Playwrights Co.
was preparing to dissolve was denied
at that office this week. Manager -
writer group of name authors is not
expected to go into production again
until the latter part of summer. In
the interim office expenses will be
slashed.

Playwrights produced one play
this season, 'Candle in the Wind,' by
Maxwell Anderson, in association
with the Theatre GuUd. It also had
'There Shall Be No Nighf on tour,
the Guild also , being interested there.
Kobert E. Sherwood, who authored
'Night,' Lb in government service
whUe others in the combination have
not completed new scripts.

Playwrights have Sherwood,
Elmer Rice, Anderson and S. N.
Behrmto in the company. Sidney
Howard had been a member until his
death.

JOE LEBLANG'S ESTATE
DROPS TIMES SQ. BLDG.

Estate of the late Joe Leblang has
let go of the building at the north-
east comer of BroadWay and 42nd
street, claimed at one time to have
been the most valuable site in -Hie
world. Thus the dream of the late
tksket magnate of a $1S,000,0(>0 struc-
ture combining that spot, formerly
the Longacre building, and the ad-
joining Fitzgerald buildipg, razed
several years ago, has endecL

The coiner property is now called
the Hillman builSlng, renamed by
Alex L, Hillman, who has publica-
tion offices there for a group of pulp
magazines better known outside of
N. Y. Hillman held the first mort-
gage on the property. William F.
Jasie, who handles the Leblang es-
tate's "p'ropefiy,' 'soughf belter' 'Grins'
from EUlman on the groiud that the
building was not being tiperated at
a profit. Published rejected the pro-
posal and arrangements for him to
take title were reported having been
agreed upon several weeks '' ago.
Jasie is the husband of Leblang's
widow, T^llle. \

Leblang's agency and Its Postal
Telegraph adjunct occupy space
on the first floor and subway
level of the building. Originally
Leblang's. was quartered in the Fitz-
gerald building and was familiarly
called Gray's Drug Store, which
fronted the ticket counter.

/Kickers' Moving

nigh Kickers,' with George Jessd
and Sophie Tucker, is now slated to
move from the Broadhurst, N, Y.,.to
the 44th Street. It was originally
planned to move across the street to
the St. James, on the same block, to
make way for 'My Dear Public,'
Irving Caesar's new musical now
trying out

'Public' was due next week, but
will stay out of town untU the end
of the month. - 'When IClckers'
switches houses March 30, there will
probably be a revision of admissions
prices.

American Theatre Wing'a Stag*
Door Canteen for soldiers anil
sailors, under the 44th Street theatre;,
N' Y;> -Splayed' its flrsi week .an aa-
sured success. Popularity ' among
the servicemen, , mostly of the
younger element. Is established.
Average number of boys entertained
and given light repasts has been
1,200 niightly, hiearly 1,500 turning up
during some evenings. .

Manner in which actresses stuck
on the Job On three and four-hour
shifts, while actors cleared tablesr
is a credit to the profession. Their
assignments constitute hard work,
but should turn out a blessing by
Iceeping them In good physical coar
dltion. Girls on the dqnce floor said
they hadn't hoofed as much in
years. Out of town Canteens are
being considered, one spot offered by
Lee Shiibert being the former EUa
clubhouse In Boston,- while' another
location in Philadelphia is men-
tioned.-

Donations of food and other edi-
bles are being recei.-ved daUy and.
taken care -of by a day crew Of com-
pany mana{:ers and boxolflce meq. -
There .were some shortages, such iu
milk, and When Eddie Cantor'' heard
about it he said he would foot the
milk bills for as long ias the Ctihteen'
operates, which means a donation of
$175 weekly, $25 wortti being served
daily. ■ ■ ■ . '

That Anay C'bflce

A surprise is the preference for
milk rather than coffee, the boys ex-
plaining that at the camps a nerve
soothing Ingredient Is mixed, in the
Java and they don't want to-be re^.
minded. about It Wing woiild wel-
come donations of soft drinks and
the supply of butter -is another prob-
lem. There was a. shortage of sand-
wiches one session and a phone call
resulted in Zii being sent at once by
the Park .Central hotel. ]§us(ne^
firms and other -hotels,- cafes and
night clubs are contributing, includ-
ing Sardi's,'th6 Versailles, RainboTC
Room, Volson, lAarguery, Iiombaidl^
but some have asked that they' b«
anonymous. ^-

Irving Berlin cpntxlbitted a piano, .
and when it was cialled to his atten-
tion that the jtfaihg was out of tun*
he sent a new one. Nicholas Schenc)iL
was a visitor, enthused over the
Canteen and gave a «m«U. piano for
use on - the floor for entertainers. '

Entertahimeht from the' leading
musical shows gote oa iMshtly be- .
tween six aild seyen o'clock from
Monday to Friday: Ita'dy ' In "the
Dark' (Gertrude Lawrence), Monr
day; "Best Foot Forward,' Tuesday;
'Sons o' Fun' (Olsen and Johnson),
Wednesday; 'Let's Face If (Danny
Kaye), Thursday; 'Banjo Eyes' (Ed-
(Contlniied on p^ge S3) .

TREE' INTO ADELPHI;
EQUnT'S CONCESSION

Tun to Be Free,' which may get
a new .tltle.^s a regularly.produced
.revue, which -will be for the benefit
of the Army and Navy relief funds,
is definitely set for . the AdelphI,
N: Y., house, which will be renamed
the 54th Street, has been rented, for
$400 we^y. Spot has been a £ort ,
of weak theatre on Broadway's Ust,
but with the name authors Involved
and probably some name players, it's
figured the revue will draw despite
the location outside . the Tlmea
Square zone.

On behalf of the. authors, and
others Interested In .'Free,' Louis
Shaffer- secured a concession from'
Equity, which .will require <ine
week's salary guarantee instead' of
the usual two. He says that stage-
hands and musicians have exempted
the show ffbm salary botads. There
will be no concesston in.' wage scales,
however.

Most of the cast will probably be
engaged at ipodest salaries some at
the minimum, white the leads ar*-
being asked to make liberal pay re-
ductions. Players and .Start of re-
hearsals were hot definite early
this week.

Groncl) Marx for 'Free*

Hollywood, March 10.

Groiicho Marx is heading east for
a. major role in 'Fun to Be Free.'

Actor shoved off Sunday (8) for
New York to start r^earsalfl.

Wednesday, March 11, 1942

Inside Stuff-Legit

John Mason Brown, drama critic of the N. Y. World-Telegram, was
given an acid once over by the Kansas City Star for his recent lecture
date there. Unsigned piece in the daily read in part. 'Using some of the
better known plays of the last season or so as an axle, John Mason Brown,
New York dramatic critic, last night unrolled a long string of witticisms
and epigrams, most of them tinged with malice, when he spoke before a
Town Hall lecture audience ot more than 1,000 in the Music HalL Mr.
Brown's manner of speaking is much like that of an actor, but his words
are definitely those of a dramatic critic, a man who seems happiest when
he is able to demolish with one apt phrase the work of playwrights and
actors.' Article continued with quotes of Brown's opinions and comment
on various plays and playwrights..

Th« Dinner Stakes, one of the supposedly flossy events at Hialeah,
Florida, racetrack, last week attracted more than usual attention on
Broadway when it was noticed that Wise Bob, a longshot winner, was
entered under the 'silks' of F. Ray Comstock. Former showman, who
was teamed with Morris Gest In legit productions, was never known to
have had a racing stable and the appearance of Comstock's name appears
to have been a stunt.

Jockey Glub rules provide that it can designate or lease a horse for this
particular event, but the lessee, if winning with his entrant, merely has
-the privilege of buying dinner for the other people who have nags in
the race. The purse goes to the real owner ,in this instance the Lazare
stable.

Always prone to pull gags, Matty Zimmerman, of Leblang's ticket
agency, devised one to ensure privacy while he was in Doctors Hospital,
N. Y, for an operation.. He sent to Miami Beach for postal cards, ad-
dressed and wrote messages on 'em, sent them back to be mailed north
from there.

The stunt worked, although those around the agency had a hunch that
Zimmerman had not gone to Florida. He was discharged from the hos-
pital late last week.

'What Is an American?', a patriotic skit written by Philip Dunning flnd
Hal Borland, was played by members of the speakers' bureau, American
Theatre Wing, at the Manhattan Center, N. Y., Thursday (5). Occasion
was a victory rally imder auspices ot B'nai Brith for the sale of defense
bonds. .

'A Very Nice Dinner,' by Patricia CoUinge, was shown similarly last
week and for the same purpose at the St. George hotel, Brooklyn.

Richard Huey Is the only colored casting agent licensed by Equity and
It was believed that he picked a commission plum by getting jobs for the
cast and ensemble in 'Porgy and Bess' (Majestic, N.Y.). Understood, how-
ever, that nearly the entire cast was engaged direct by the management,
as when the show was presented in Maplewood, N. J., in the fall. Cast,
with but two exceptions, is the same as when the George Gershwin show
was originally produced in 1935.

Joey Keith of the Leblang ticket agency left the Hospital For Joint
Diseases, N..X., late last week, but will be under strict medical care at his
home. Patieiit has been ill for four months with a complaint that baffled
physicians for some time. . He was originally under treatment at the Jersey
City Medical Center, being transferred to th« New York hospital about
five weeks ago.

BUI Fields' plans for a vacation have been set back and he will remain
as publicist for 'Candle in the Wind.' Francis Robinson, who was to have
followed him as. agent for the Helen Hayes show, was called in the draft
and passed his physical.

Phil Stevenson was then selected for the 'Candle' assignment, biit is ill,
CO Fields decided to stick, for a time at least.

marital relationship, m- ch of the
action Is permitted to la«.

Miss Hepburn portrays the role of
Jamie Coe Rowan, whose father, an'
U. S. Senator, was one of the na-
tion's key men on foreign afTalrs.
Into her Washington- home, where
sh- prefers to live alone 'and em-
bittered because a tragic death
robbed her of her husband after two
years of happiness, comes by chance
Patrick Jamieson (Nugent), back in
America after 12 years of schooling
in diplomacy abroad as the son of
a U. S. envoy. He, too, has a 'ghost'
to bury; for exactly opposite .easons
he wants no truck with love be-
cause an ex-flame took a run-out
powder on him. This is the dis-
illusioned young man who has come
to Washington bent on convincing
the State Department that it is in the
interest of - world peace to unite
Britain pnd Ireland.

In one of the play's most delight-,
ful scenes the two decide to get
hitched on a pure basis of compan-
ionshijp. . It is In their struggle to
keep burled their respective 'ghosts'
that the play's complications arise,
culminating in the far-fetched po-
litical analogy arid the final clinch.

Miss Hepburn has a field day. The
playing of Nugent, however, is- In
the same metier.

J. M. Kerrigan, Audrey Christie
and Don Briggs are outstanding in
supporting roles, while Robert Chis-
holm, Barry Thomson and Leonard
Mudie also lend a capable assist.

Rosen. ■

MY DEAR PUBLIC

New Haven, March 5.

MuHlcnl comedy In two acts, 10 scenes, bjr
Irvlni; Cnesar nnd Charles Gottesfeld.
Music and lyrics by Caesnr. Sam L«rner
and Gemid Mnrhn,' with additional muslo
by Irma Hollander and The Rr.vuers; set*
tingfl, Allrart Johnson: costumes, Luclnda
Ballard; dnnccs, Carl Randall; book stage<l
by Joseph Povney; orchestrations, Hans
Splalok, Dun Wnlker and Ted Royal; con-
ductor, Genft Snizer. ^how features MUzl
Oreon, John Buckmoster, ' Tamara, Joe
Smith, Charles Dale. Cora Wlthorspoon.
PrcHcnled by TrvlnR- Caesnr at the Shubert,'
New Haven. Marvh C-7, '42; IS.SO top.

Man's Voice :.John Frank

Dnphno Drew Cora Wlthernpoon

Warden .Stanley Jessup

Flmt Actor • Edwin flmery

ActrcHM Darbara Dell Wrighl

Second Aclor. . . . : Harry Pederson

Two Koppoi-s. .Joe Johnson, Tony Matthews

.*{tn.(;e Doormnn Henry Sherwood

Waters Karl Maiden

Second Actress Qrace McTarnahan

Third Actor ■. Ray Koby

Barney Short Joe Smith

Jean .MItzl Creen

Byron Bach ;..John Buckmaster

Tho Revuem

Themselves (Dotty Condon, Judith TuvIm,

John Frank, Alvln Hammer, Adolph

Green)

Plrnt PlaywrlBht John PhlUlber

Second Plnywrlght, Frederlca Going

Ou!i Wagner Charles Dale

Doctor Lionel Inco

Secretary Katherlno Mattern

Hazel RDse Brown

The. Martins ;

Themselves (Phyllis, Jo Jean, Ralph,

Hugh)

THANK/

FOI TIEM KINI WORDi

Kickers.".

•n'HE MAN WHO CAME TO DIMNER-
"VOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW"
WARNER BROS.
Hct. LOO OjAYTOS .

Plays Out of Town

WITHOUT LOVE

Princeton, N. J„ March 4.

The Theatre Guild preiienta new comedy
by Philip Barry; (caturea Kathnrlne Hep-
burn and Elliott Nugent. Staged by Robert
B. Sinclair, with gettlni; designed by Robert
Edmond Jones; Incidental music by Rich-
ard E. Meyers. ' Production under super-
vision of I^awrence. TiSnpner and Theresa
Holburn. Presented for drat time at Mc-
Carter theatre, Princeton, N. J., March 4,
'42; $3.30 top.

Patrick Jamieson Elliott Nugent

Quentin Ladd Don Briggs

Anna... Emily Mossoy

Martha LAdd. Ellen Morgan

Jamie Coe Rowan Katharine Hepburn

Kitty Trimble Audre* Christie

Emmet J. M. Kerrigan

Paul Carrel , Barry Thomson

Peter Bnlllle Leonard Mudle

Richard Hood Robert Chlsolm

Butler Henry Vincent

Grant Vincent Royal Beal

When and if they get around to
taking the 'profundity' out of 'With-
out Love,' Philip Barry and Katha-
rine Hepburn will have done it
again. Only this time you can add
the name of Elliott Nugent to a tri-
umvirate that looks set for a solid
run.

Unfortunately for the play in its
present form, Barry is 'profound'
just about long enough to rob it of a
second act. Essentially, however.
Without Love' is comedy; it boasts
a first and third act that combine
sparkling, adult wit, refreshing
dialog, some delightful comedy of
the screwball variety, a tender sec-
ond-act curtain love scene that will
panic the femme trade, and a Hep-
bum that spans the gamut. The
Theatre Guild has mounted the pro-
duction tastefully, it enjoys a su-
perior Robert Edmond Jones setting
and Is topped by one of Robert B.
Sinclair's first-class staging jpbs.
Even in its present far-from-perfect
state it can hardly miss.

For Barry to grow concerned over
the sUte of affairs between Britain
and Free Ireland, as he does for too
long a stretch in 'Love,' Is definitely
not his metier. It is in a united
Britain and Ireland that he sees the
makings of a lasting and universal
peace. He , uses the thesis as a
springboard for his play, but before
the inevitable third-act analogy Is
drawn between the protagonist's
stirrmg plea for a brotherhood-of-
nations and his own precarious

Irving Caesar's initial production
effort finds itself in a similar pre-
dicament to that experienced by
Eddie Cantor's 'Banjo Eyes,' which
preemed here earlier in the season.
Meaning that the show has a wealth
of talent, but will require time and
utmost skill in cultivating it into a
click show. Reaction to opening per-
formance was that a lot of talent was
going to waste througH lack of sock
material. Joseph Pevney's staging of
the book is creditable within the
limits of the material.

Show has about 40 minutes to cut,
and the surgery is what's going to
determine its chances.

Authors start off with an interest-
ing idea that involves the film tech-
nique of taking the audience through
the rehearsal stages of a revue and
climaxing by putting on the show it-
self in the tag end of the production.

Topping the cast is Mitzi Green,
who figures in seven songs. Her ace
pep number is 'Feet on the Side-
walk,' which should go places. For
a romantic ditiy she duets 'Our Pri-
vate Love Song,' which gets across
nicely. She is attractively gowned
and pr.esents a handsome appearance.
John Buckmaster is fittingly cast as
the poet and he sells himself capably
in his legit role as well as in his
comedy specialty, 'Introductions.' Joe
Smith Is a surprise click as the pro-
ducer. Comic gets a lot out of
the role, Charles Dale is hand.ed
a less fortunate break on material,
but manages to squeeze some laughs
out of thin air. Cora Witherspoon
carries ofl the part of the producer's
wife in shipshape fashion.

Tamara is not listed in the cast, as
she plays no role, but is in for two
vocals which she delivers pleasingly.
One, 'Rain on the Sea,' includes a
ballet that's a highlight The Mar-
tins (4) draw a nice hand for their
harmonizing, working as unit and
also backing up other vocalists; their
pop tune, 'My Spies Tell Me,' gets a
healthy reception. The Revuers, do-
ing their first big production, click
with their musical clowning, a take-
oft on light opera being their stand-
out. They also do the 'Variety Says'
ditty they've used elsewhere. Kath-
erine Mattern does the laughter rou-
tine she introduced in the Vienna
refugees revue of a couple ot seasons
back; It goes over big. For show-
stopping vocalizing, Rose Brown does
'Color Line,' Negro melody that gets
encores. For 'Variety Says' routine
and the later 'Rhythm' a special 'Va-
riety' curtain has been deslgneH But
didn't reach N. H. In time.

Show is nicely mounted with lav-
ish emphasis more on costumes than
settings. Bone.

Newahkwka' New Sport

Climax of the new game of send-
ing newsmen Into defense areas and
war industries as 'potential sabo-
teurs'-^being played by scores of
papers across the country — came
during the past week with the toss-
ing of one' rfeporter into a Newark,
N. J., clink, a warrant lor the appre-
hension of another; and the arrest
ot three 'conspirators' In Bridgeport.
Conn. Many other newspapermen
however, were continuing to prove
how easy sabotage is without run-
ning into trouble.

In Newark, Thomas Finnegan, of
the Star-Ledger, was tossed -into the
cooler after cops became auspicious
of bis effort to get a pass inw a dock
area. He had a letter ot identifica-
tion as . a rep ot the S. A. Botage
(sabotage) Ca An irate judge not
only ordered him to jail, but refused
ball. After a night in a '..cell for
Finnegan, the court relented when
an assistani U. S. attorney declared
that the reporter was^ only doing his
job' and the Government wasn't In-
terested.

Bridgeport case was more serious,
State's Attorney obtaining a bench
warrant for Warren Glaser, of the
New York Mirror, after he had ex-
posed an alleged "birth certificate
mill.' Glaser showed that anyone
could prove he was a citizen in
order to get a defense job b^ ob-
taining a phony birth certificate in
Connecticut. Three Bridgeport men
who aided Glaser in preparing a
false affidavit were picked up im-
mediately.

New 'sabotage' game was started
by PM in December when one of
its newsmen, Ed Scott, got a job un-
loading the Normandle after wheed-
ling into the longshoremen's union
at a cut-rate. PM has continued the
barrage and one of its reporters and
photogs walked into a giant oil re-
finery in New Jiersey last week while
the head of the plant was in New
York chairmaiming a conference on
sabotage control.

In Buffalo, Mel Fineberg, of the
Buffalo Evening News, spent 12
hours walking through waterfront,
railroad and warplant areas. He
testified he could have blown up a
10,000-ton oreboat, taken over the
switching and signal tower of a rail-
road yard and left time bombs in
five plants, after walking; through
them unmolested.

In Boston, meantime, Bill Cunning-
ham, columnist on the Herald, told
in a page-one story how he had
photographed in detail the Navy
Yard and the Army loading base.

Clil Sun OK on Amns. Ads

Chicago Sim, new morning paper
operated by Marshall Field III and
Sjlliman Evans, has become firmly
established in show business adver-
tising circles, as is demonstrated by
its media record. On Sunday ot
March 1 the Sun reached a new high
in the number of Chicago theatre
accounts, displaying 249 theatres,
just five behind the leading paper,
the tab Times, with 254 theatres, and
ahead of the Herald-American with
248 theatres, and the Chicago Tri-
bune with 210.

In linage lot month to March 5,
the Sun_le£l_tlie .field in the amuse-
ment space, getting 9,114 lines total,"
to 8,912 for the second-running Chi-
cago Tribune; 8,783 for the Herald-
American, 8,069 for the Times and
5,950 for the News. Included the
Sun space for ads on the 'Ice-Ca-
pades' show current in the Chicago
area and sponsored by the H-A.

Cromwell's $l,0()ft,e00 Salt

James H. .R, Cromwell, former
husband of Doris Duke and one-
time U. S. ambassador to Canada,
filed a $1,000,000 action In N. Y.
federal court yesterday (Tuesday)
against Weekly Masses Co., Inc., and
Bruce Minton, claiming libel in an
article by Minton in the Feb. 24, 1942,
issue of New Masses, published by
the defendant, >

Cromwell 'charges the article, pub-
lished under the title ot 'Appeaser's
Who's Who,' accused him of being
pro-Nazl, hating the President, and
hampering national defense. He also
says a former article some years back
charged him with being pro-Roose-
velt and for war. •

S Pnblloatlons Bankrupt

Involuntary petitions of bankrupt-
cy were filed asainst three publica-
tions in the N.Y. federal court
Thursday (8) by creditors. Publi-
cations are the Swank Magazine,

Inc., Elite Publications, Inc„ and
Fox Publications.

.Buckley, Dunton and Co. are the
principal creditors involved In each
case, with that firm ' claiming It is
owed $10,000, $16,000 and $16,000,
respectively, from each of the thi^e
publications. Other creditors ot
Swank are Art Color Printing Co.,
$19,500, and Chemical Photo Engrav-
ing Co;; $417. Others of Elite are
Art Gravure Corp., $6,500, and Art
Color Printing, $24,000, Others ot
Fox Publications are. Phelps Pub-
lishing Co., $59,000, and the Chemical
Photo Engraving Co., $6,400,

Walter Farr'a Second Sooop
Walter Parr, ace U. S. correspond-
ent for the^ljondon Daily Mall, last
week brought on bis second interna-
tional 'incident' within less than a
year. This time a hullabaloo was
raised because the Mail on Saturday
(7) printed a Farr dispatch from
Honolulu reporting 'the movement ot
great convoys of American troops,
and materials to the southwest Pa-
cific' It was picked up and reprint-
ed In American papers the following
day.

Great irritation was caused by the
story in official Washington, which
objected to its revelation of 'military
secrets,' and among American pa-
pers, which objected to being scooped
on U. S. troop movements by a Brit-
ish paper. It wds all explained away '
by the Navy Siuiday (8) on the basis
that the story had been approved by
Navy censors in Honolulu (although
Naval headquarters in Washington
disagreed with the Honolulu judg-
ment) and that there was nothing in
the story that had not previously
been published in American papers.

Farr caused another bum by U. S.
dailies last summer When, while
serylhg as the Mall's Washington cor-
respondent, he scooped the world on
the Roosevelt^Churchill meeting at
sea. Newspapermen on the ship with
the heads ot the two governments
were still being restrained from fil-
ing stories when the Mail came out
with its beat. Combination ot a tip
obtained in a South Carolina dock-
yard and putting two-and-two to-
gether gave Farr the story.

PhlUy Balletln Wants Ledger Synd.

The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin,
which rec-.ntly purchased the
franchise, goodwill, ..name, etc., of
the defunct Philadelphia Evening
Ledger, last week offered to pay
$10,000 for the Ledger Syndicate,
which is still functioning.

Only other offer for the syndicate
was $2,500, submitted by Harold C.
Haydon, of Rochester, N, Y. Federal
Judge Harry E. Kalodner, undef
whose jurisdiction the liquidation of
the Ledger is taking place, will holtl
a. hearing Friday (13) on the Bulle- .
tin's bid.

Chi Snn Drops H'wood Burean

Chicago Sun has discontinued its
Hollywood bureau, dropping George
Hurrell's photo coverage, Sidney
Carroll's and the Jack Lait, Jr,-Lee
Mortimer columns. Sun's m.p. ed
and critic, Wolfe Kaufman, heads to
New York soon on business.

Sidney Skolsky's pillar is being re-
tained and will be given bigger play.
George Shaffer, who handles the
regular Los Angeles news coverage^
will also include' Holljrwood,

Clem McCarthy. On Derby

Clem McCarthy has been assigned
by CBS to be at the microphone to
report the running account of the
Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs,
May 10, teamed again with Ted
Huslng.

In addition' to his racing selections
in the N. Y. Journal-American, Mc-
Carthy's is a familiar voice on WHN
each afternoon giving race results
and comment.

Life Bans Itself in 'Hob
Life ma^ for March 9 is 'not being
sold on Boston newsstands, the pub-
lishers announced in ads in Boston
dailies, because of a group of nudes
and semi-nudes reproduced in color
in the issue.

However, Boston police officials
claim it hasn't been banned as yet--
'not until we receive specific com-
plaints.'

Ckorge Idtit to Cairo

George Lait, INS war correspond-
ent in London for some time, is en
route to Egypt via Gibraltar.

If the north Africa scene remains
static he may carry on to the PaclQe
war theatre, but tor the present he'U
be stationed in Cairo. His successor
in London not yet set.

Tednesday, March 11, 1942

CffAttER

53

Broadway

BUI Brandt returns from Florida
next week.

C, L. Oswald had a cyst removed
from Us eyelid.

Attorney Dennis P. O'Brien vaca-
tioning In Florida.

Jesse' Freeman CVariety') out of
hospital after operation.

BUI DoU out ahead of the Paul
Muni show for the Theatre Guild.

Charles G. Stewart general man-
ager and p.a. for -'What Big Ears.',

Bob WUby wb3 up from Atlanta'
last week to huddle with Par execs.

Rube Jackter, assistant salesman-
ager of Columbia, back from Florida
vacash.

Sonny Werblln, MCA v.p., due
back from Mexico, via Hollywood,
next week.

Tom -Gomez, legit actor recently
seen in 'Flowers of Virtue,' screen-
tested by 20th-Fox.

Back from Miami Beach: Billy.
Rose and Eleanor Holm,, the Nicky
Blairs, Milton Ager.

Harry Cohn and. the Mrs. (Joan
Perry) to Palm Beach for a month,
in company with the Nate Splngolds.

Music Man Mose Gumble (Warner
Bros, music firms) to' the Coast next
week for three weeks or so; usual biz
trio.

Ed Kennedy, of RKO's export de-
partment, went into the air corps
Friday (6). reporting to Mitchel
Field, L. I. :

NeU Agnew, Par's distribution
head, and Sam Rinzler, circuit oper-
ator, were arrivals from Miami yes-
terday (Tues.). ^, ,
The Elmer Rices (Betty Field)
have taken a place at Stamford. Ac-
tress goes to the Coast about AprU 1
for a picture.

Girls at the 20th-Fox h.o„ taking
Red Cross cOUrses, are practicing
on- their feUow workers in tleing
bandages, etc. - '

Radle Harris and Betty Lawford
are the Trojan women "of the Stage
Door Canteen, being on the job al-
most continuously.

CaA of changing elaborate signs
at 60 Bond stores because govern-
ment nixes two pair of pants esti-
mated at $100,000.

Louis Lytton, strolling Shake-
spearean interpreter, touring the
eastern schools, etc,, with his read-
ings from the Bard.

Jules Levey, independent producer
who releases through Universal,
back in N. Y. "followiilg a tour of
souttern key cities.

Don McGinnis, press agent, join-
ing his wife, Elou WilUams, torch
singer, whose run at Bronze Room,
Cleveland, has been extended,

Ruth Berrien, uhtU recently a re-
searcher for Fortune, has married
Henry Morgenthau Fox, nephew of
the Secretary of the Treasury.

Bill Hebert in and out ofi to-wn fast
after setting Robin ('Curly') Harris
for sports publicity on behalf of Sam
Goldwsm's Lou Gehrig picture 'Pride
. of the Yankees.*

Gagllne that has become common
on postcards sent norUt by Florida
vacationists reads: 'Having wonder-
ful time. . Wish I could afford it,'

Charlie MeDonald, RKO division
theatre manager, was among show-
men at the Inner' Circle party put on
by newsmen Saturday night (7) at
the Astorr

Testimonial dinner will be tendered
Vincent Jacoby, president, of Com-
bined Theatrical Crafts Council
Saturday night (14), wlt i Jimmy
Walkbr as toastmastcr.

Pathe celebrates its third-of-a-
century anniversary with a house-
warming party 'next month, coincid-
ing with recent removal to enlarged
quarters on Madison avenue.

Samuel Gold-wyn offices in N, Y.
being enlarged. Part of the suite
sublet to Alexander Korda being re-
claimed by Goldwyn; Korda^s staff
: -moving- to unother part of-buUding.-
One coniedian who plays semi-
benefits for 'tycoons at private parties
does alright by taking it in trade,
not cash: booze; cigarels, hats, shirts,
etc, depending on the industrialists
business.

Illness of ClUton Fadiman caused
postponement of 'Information Please'
fllmmg by RKO from Thursday (5)
to today (Wednesday) at Fox-
movietone studios, Alexander WooU-
cott guest guesser.

Monroe Crreenthal deferring his
usual Thursday trip to D. C, on be-
half of the War Activities Committee,
which he chairmans for the film pub-
licists, and going to C^i for the UA
regional 'sales powwow.

After four months surveying the
American scene in relation to the
Vox Pop reaction to the war, on be-
half of the N. Y. Sun. Ward More-
house resumes his 'Broadway After
Dark' column next Monday (16), He
then gets another war assignment.

Columbia Club, social organization
Columbia Pictures, is making its
annual dinner dance part of the na-
tional war effort by donating net
proceeds to the Navy Relief Society.
Dated for April 11 at Waldorf-
Astoria. '

Florence Walters, \.. o rose from
a cashier in the Aviation. Terrace at
LaGuardia Airport to an ice bal-
lerina at the New York hotel In six
months, hospitalized due to Injuries
suffered in automobile accident. In
her absence Betty. MuUer has re-
placed her. '

Horman Lorber, who started out in
early life as an actor but for years

has been . In th* Far^ules depart-
ment and now Is assistant to J. J.
Vnger, Mst«m dlvlilon chief, Is giv-
ing his services to the Stage Door
Canteen each Saturday night. Mrs.
Lorber la also doing her bit there.

Pedro Saenz, RKO manager, has
been lU, Now back at desk.

Pete ColU, Warners' Central-Amer-
lean chief, is off to Venezuela.

Walter John, American baritone,
mode debut at Fausto theatre.

Tito Gulzar here again for CMQ-
Crusellas and for theatre appear-
ances.

Manuel Alonso and Luis R, MoUna,
editors of local newsreels, were given
joint banquet.

^Arthur Pratchett left here for Mex-
ico, after laying out plans for cele-
bration of 25th anniversary Of 'Bexar
mount in Cuba.

Educational FUms of Cuba in-
augurated new projection room as
part of its new laboratory and re-
cording studios.

Eddy Peon, son of film director
Ramon Peon, has turned songwriter.
Has six tunes almost ready to sub-
mit to publishers.

I^iacio Blanco, head of Vicente
Blanco y. Cia„ Argentine film dis-
tribs, leaves shortly for Santo Do-
mingo, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.

Francisco Ichaso, film critic on
Diario de la Marina, is un for re-
election to the House of Represen-
tatives. Picture people campaigning
for him', ' •

Ernesto P, Smith onened new
neighborhood house, the Strand,
where old .theatre of same name
stood. Smith wUl soon also inaug-
urate the 'Universal in another part
-of city.

Recent talk of CMQ and RHC
merging was apparently just that—
talk. Amado Trinidad, RHC owner,
flatly denied even contemplating such
a thing. Said he would buy CMQ,.
but never seU RHC, nor enter into
any ^merger.

Havana

By Harry Martin

Erskine Caldwell relaxed here
couple of days.

Bemie Evans around beating'drums
for 'To Be or Not To Be' (Par).

Glen Garr holding another month
nt Claridge hotel Ballnese Room.

Everett Hoagland orch replacing
Eddy Howard at Peabody tomorrow
(U).

Paddock, nitery-casino oft-shut-
tered across state line in Mississippi,
is operating again.

Malco dates tabloid George White's
'Scandals' for six days commencing
next Tuesday (17). .

Michele Morgan and Paul Henreid
in for two-day p.a, at Loew's State
with 'Joan of Paris.' Terry Turper
in tow. . \ ,

'George Washington Slept Here'
and 'Thunder Rock* in rehearsal re-
stively, for Little and Civic The-

Jlmmy Lee back on the job as
flack for legit shows at Auditorium.
Had been on leave to National Asso-
ciation of Housing Officials hi prep-
aration for May convention in Bal-
timore,

St Louis

By Sara X. Borst

Local Metro exchange getting a
face-lifting. . x v

Nick Stuart orch current at Club
Coiitinental, Hotel Jefferson.

Jackie HeUer headlining floor
show at Chase Club, west end nitery.

Dorothy Faifbank, secretary to
Harris Wolfberg, district manager
for M-G, a recent bride.

MerrJU Rodiri, U-year-old local
dramatic prodigy, featured in 'The
Greenie' short subject -feature-cur-
rent at Loew's,

Nathtn Milstein drew near SRO
house to Municipal Auditorium for
.yiolin concert under auspices of the
Civic Music League.

'Hit the Deck,' 'Glamorous Night,'
'Show Boat,' 'Wizard of Oz,' 'No, No,
Nanette,' 'Ghrl Crazy' and 'WUd-
flower' skedded by Municipal Theatare
Assn, for al fresco season that gets
under way in Forest Park, June 4.

Theatre Canteen

Cnnanngd from pafc ilss

die Cantor), Friday. As the shows
play matinees Saturday and Sunday,
entertainment those evenings is by
individuals. 'Porgy and Bess' will
replace one of the shows this week.
Bands which appeared included the
372d regiment (colored) and Ernie
Hoist outfits.

Individual performers who ap-
peared: Jack Haley, Peggy Fears,
Jack Dempsey, Gil Lamb, Johnny
Ames, PhU Baker, Reginald Gard-
ner, Billy De Wolfe, Joy K;^ges,
Mary Anne Walsh, Johnny Greene,
John Hoysradt, The Hnrtmans, Paul
Draper, Henny Youngman, Hal Le-
roy, Vincent Lopez, Cliff Nazzaro,
Loper and Barrett, Beverly Roberts,
Margot Grahame, Kay Thompson,
Benay Venuta, Bea Wain, Jane Win-
ton, Walter Pidgeon.

London

Tom Arnold a flu victim.

Sherkot laid up for two weeks with
injured leg.

Hyams Bros, resuming stage shows
at their State theatre, Kilbum.

Cyril Lawrence confined to' his
country house- with heart ailment.

Claire Luce, the American aetress,
wants to return to the U. S. at an
early date'.

I^rie Tempest's library of some
2,000 volumes, plus son^e' period fur^
niture, sold by auction.

Percy Raphael, former ipdie' films
dealer, has joined Lou -Jackson, to
take charge of his Soviet films.

Geraldo turned down eight con-
secutlve weeks at the Regal, Marble
Arch, for Associated British Picture
Corp,

Harold Mellor, for years booker
and manager of Palace, Blackpool,
is out. His place is tsdcen by Clement
Butson..

George Foster and spouse moving
to Selsden Park, Surrey, making
their 12th change, since beginning of
the war.

Minnie Mcintosh, exhibitor, elected
pr^ident of Scottish Cinematograph
Exhibitors Ass'n, first wom'an prexy
of exhjbs' organization. .

Jack and Daphne. Barker out of
'Get a Load of 'This,' the Hippodrome
musical, due to latter's pleurisy, with
the. Bredwins substituting for the
Palladium.

Ben. Henry's picture deal with
Vera Lynn calls for $10,000 per pic-
ture, the money to be. invested in the
production, with English ace crooner
to share in the picture's profit

At a board meeting of Moss Em-
pires, R, . H, GiUespie was elected
chairman of the company, ' a post
made vacant by the demise of his
brother. Colonel J. J. Gillespie.

Marcel Hellman's deal with Metro
(London) calls for one picture,
'Jacqueline,' a French adaptation,
for which company is putting' up
$160,000. When this is completed,
Hellman ha^ two to make for Charles
M. Woolf.

Soviet pictures having - blggesi
vogue of their career in the West
End. Running concurrenUy are "Mu-
sical Story,' at United Artists' Lon-
don PaviUon; 'Below 50 Degrees
Zero,' at Metro's Empire,' and 'In
the Rear of the Enemy,' at Gaumont-
British Tatler.

Charles B. Cochran has given up
claim to Palace theatre for his forth-
coming revue, leaving it to Tom Ar-
nold and Lee Ephraim for their new
Jack Hulbert-Cicely Courtneidge
musical, which tries out at Manches-
ter and Blackpool, with Palace open-
ing around middle April.

George King to direct ■ 'Garrison
Theatre' for Sam Smith, shooting to
start some time in AprU.- - 'Beading
cast are Jack Warner, Tommy Hand-
ley and Freddy Schweitzer. Latter
is German, who was brought over
here by Jack Hylton some years ago
when he toured with his ' band In
Germany.

Nat Karson in for brief vacation.
Cardinl set\ for Latin Quarter
nitery.

Carrousel nitery has dropped Its
show.

Mrs. Gene Krupa in town for
vacation.

Sidney Lanfleld and frau in town
for the sun.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brandt ' doing
the town.

Matty Malneck checking up on the
local combos.

Arthur Hammerstein hospitalized
at Palm Beach. <

Vernon Duke judging local march-
ing song contest.

George Abbott winning local
rhumba contests..

Jack Oaki6 back on the beach.
This time for rest.

George D. Lottman choo-chooed In
to p.a. PhU Spitalny.

Dan Healy and Helen Kane hold-
over at the Riptide.

WiUard Alexander and his missus
grabbing at the brass rings.

Joh."- Roy, prexy of the Rainbow
Room, giving local spots the o.o.

Mary CarUsle reported Miami-
bound to marry James Blakely.

Lou Walters has decided to keep
his Latin Quarter open until April.

Sam Barken of Five O'CIock Club
became papa of seven-pound boy
Friday (8).

Frolic Club, which accordioned at
season's peak Monday (2), may re-
open later.

Harry Richman is tabbed ' for
Royal Palm at close of Latin Quarter
engagement,

Jerry Cooper replaced Jane Fro-
man at ttie Royal Palm, forced out
by a strep throat,

Guy Lombardo in town for one
day to drive his 'Tempo IV in Bis-
cayne Bay Regatta.

Dean Murphy switching from
Royal Palm to VersaUles hotel at
expiration of contract,

frvin Reiss in town with produc-
tion crew to shoot atmosphere shot
for Damon Runyon's new pic.

Phil Napoleon, 'Original King of
Swing' with Memphis Five, tootling
a trumpet for Del Casino at Beach-
comber.

(Continuous bad weather giving this
resort almost as bad a Crossley with
the tourists as the war-scare rumors

attendant to the Influx of air officials
into some of the lesser |iostelries. .

With the Oscar Doobs (Loew's) at
the Lord Tarleton are Morris Rosen-
bergs (Metro), theatre owner J.
Louis Schine, Gypsy Rose Lee; also
Phil Spitalny and his 30 gals,. Jack
Robbing and George Lottman, ail at
same Walter Jacobs hostelry.

Pittsburgh

By . Hal Cohen

Ruth Fisher, localite, making good
with Cleveland Playhouse in 'Spring
Again.'

Mary Morris directing Tech drama
school's next show, 'Importance of
Being Earnest,'

Sgt. John Ball, former theatre p.a.
here, named head of public relations
at Camp Shelby, Miss.

Mickey Reed's arn ^ call has
broken up the comedy acrobatic
team of Peck and Reed.

Loew's Canton (O.) manager.
Walter Kessler, brought his sister,
EsteUc, here for operation.

The Bernie Armstrongs (Dorothy
Bushey) expect their second visit
from the stork next summer,

Joe Heldt in to-wn ahead of 'Witb-
-out Love' and Elmer Kenyon back
home drumbeating 'Macbeth,'

Nick Andolina has dropped, idea
of taking over closed El Chlco on
account of stiff rent being asked.

Flora Bobson arrives Sunday (15)
to begin rehearsals for guest-starring
Playhouse appearance In 'Suspect.-'

Chuck Stein, inld,^et receptionist
in Harris Amus. Co. i office, has
joined 'Icecapades' in a specialty
act.

M. A. Rosenberg to Washington
and Detroit on official Allied exhib
business. He's national and local
prexy.

Esther Heller, who runs the office
for her. brothers at Yacht (Jlub, in
Presb-vterian hospital with a strep
throat. '-

Pan American has just published
'Mandolira,' a new tune by locaUtes
Fr.ink and La-wrence Andrihl, with
lyrics by Don Mario.

Tom Hume, who was Tom Koehler
when be went to Tech drama school,
coming to Nixon next week as The
Wreck in 'My Sister EUeen.'

By Lea Bees

Irving Gillman rejoined RKO sales
staff here.

W. H. Workman, Metro branch
manager, stUl incapacitated.

Dorothy Crane, of Welworth cir-
cuit, vacationing in Florida.

Edgar Rodberg, of Warners, off to
the Coast to enter defense work;

Shipstad-Johnson 'Ice. Follies of
1942'- ends IS-day engagtement at
Arena here March 24.
■ Eph Rosen back home from Salt
Lake City after resigning from Uni-
versal sales staff there.

Sammy Kaye's band topped Twin
City Variety club's midnight Red
Cross benefit stage show.

George and Arnold Crane, Cam-
bridge and Lake City, Minn., Indle
exhibs, are honeymooning. -

Minneapolis Symphony drchestra
back and resuming local concerts
after two-month road four. '

Bill Sears, Jr., son of Orpheum
manager, resigned from Minnesota
Amus, Co, to enlist in Navy.

Eddie Ruben tossed farewell party
for his circuit bortter, LoWell Kap-
lan, before latter entered army.

David, son of "Kelly' Evldon,
Warners' ad sales manager, now in
Navy, stationed at Pearl Harbor,

Shriners' annual indoor circus at
Auditorium grossed approximately
$41,000, or about 28% more than last
year.

Fred Weiiner transferred as man-
ager of St. Paul Strand to Gopher,
local Minnesota Amus. Co. first-run
loop hoase, to repl&ce Roy Slentz.
who resigned to entei" defense work.

S. A. Leading Men I

, Continued from pace l^ssJ
sometimes coming in litUe crowds
of five or six.

That's because their old ticket-pur-
chasers are in the army. So, accord-
ing to Walsh's theory, which sounds
plausible, the gala are shopping
chiefly for men stars and they prefer
them with plenty of oomph in the
right places. It's his thought that the
recent 'Son of Fury' was such a stick
of dynamite at the.-b.o. because the
ads almost generaUy featured Tyrone
Power showing off his manly form in
a loin cloth.

Of course, Walsh himself hasn't
had much chance to test the theory
at his own house since the Fulton's
recent pix have been 'How Green
Was My Valley,' for six weeks: 'HeU-
zapoppln' for two. and now 'Citizen
Kane.' But he's waiting for a chance
to dress up his ads with somebody
Uke Victor Mattire th a bathing suit
just to prove to himself that the film
advertising men are missing out on a
good bet.

Gals, Walsh insists, have to get
their romantic kicks viearlously since
that 'Uncle Sam's been pulling so
many ellglbles out of circulation, and
he believes now's the time to switch
the s.a, buildup to the males.

HoIbrwQod

back Briggs laid up with throat
infection.

Gabe York hospitalized for an eye
operation.

Jackie Cooper returned from a tour
of Army campf.

Michael Breen joined' the Earl
Kramer talent agency,

Steve Broidy in town on his tour
of Monogram exchanges.

Richard Whorf back from Bi'oad<
way for work at Waraers.
. Ben Kalmenson in town ,for sales
huddles on the Warner lot.

New post office at Santa Monica
was dedicated to WUl Rogers.
' Roy Rogers laid up with laryn-
gitis whUe Decca' recordings wait.

Cecil B. DeMiUe is a new director
of Hollywood Chamt>er of Commerce.

M J. Siegel back at his RepubUc
de-ik after sales meetings in the east

Harry Cohn • deserted Hollywood
for a. month to bask in the Florida
sun.

FUm Row tosses Its lOtb annual
dance at the Ambvsador hotel
April 17.

Greer Garson back from the Cana-
dian Victory Loan Drive to resume '
picture wwx.

Ritz Brothers back from a two-
week tour of the midwest for USO>
ATmy-Camps, Inc..

Dolores Del Rio got her final dl-.
vorce decree from Cedrlc Gibbons
and left for Mexico. -

Melvyn Douglas laid up with flu
whUe Columbia shoots 'He Kissed
the Bride' around'him.

George Zucco stabbed in the leg .
during a screen batUe in <HaIfway
to Shanehal' at Universal

-Walt Disney to Washington to dis-'
cuss a series of patriotic icartoons
with Government officials.

Sam Bischoff back at his producer
chore on the Columbia lot after five
vacatlonal weeks in the East

Juliette Compton. ' former ' Follies
girl, suing for divorce from her Brit-
ish husband, James Bartram.

Jean Arthur laid ' up with throat
trouble while Columbia is shooting
'Three's a Crowd' around her.

Buck Jones motoring ' through '
northern California, Nevada and Ore-
gon, shopping for a cattle ranch.

BiU George, cowboy actor, changed
his name to Bennett Geoirpe to avoid •
confusion with another Bill George.

Babe Ruth cut his wrist by. acel-
dentally Shoving it through a' win-
dow during a scene In "Pride of the
Yankees.' -, • , i

. Richard Pittenger, of 20tb-Fox, ap-
pointed coordinator of sports for the
motion picture industry on the (Civil-
ian Defense program.

J. M. G. Doog technical advisor en
Half Way to Shanghai' at Universal
after 30 .years a^ chief engineer on
Chinese -& Burma Jtailroad.

Errol Flynn ordered by his physi-
cian to abandon strenuous' sports- fend'
night life and get eight hours , of
sleep per .night to aUeviate 'athlete's
heart,*^ - »

AUeh Rlvldii, George Ctapenhelhier
and .Anthonr Vefller appointed to
represent the Screen Writers Guild
on the Orlglnti.ting Committee of
Writers MobUIzatlbn.

Cleyeland

By Glenn C. Pollen

Dotty Bostlck. nitery warbler,
elooed March 1 to ThomasvUle', Gi.
' Ralph Keating, baton waver and
Western Unloii exec, being conscript-
ed in AorlL

Mel ' Peterson,' tenor vocalist, re-
loining Jimmy MacKenzle's band at
Eldorado Club.

Georce Young- of local Roxle In
Fort Lauderdale, Fla„ for three
weeks of fishing. ' .

Martin Polster, manager of Circle
nober, expecting call from draft
board momentarily.

Frpdric McConnell's Play House
doing 'Spring Again' - and Thunder
Rock' in its twin theatres,

Ray Twardy. former comedy hl|^-
diver with BiUy Rose's Aquacade,
now m.c, at Boogie Wongie Club.

Jack Mundstuk. M-G salesman, '
.<:hUted back to Cleveland territory;
Gene Coen taking place In Toledo
field. .

Kenny Rasmussen and Leon 'Pol-
son') Gardner forming new piano
partnership at Fenway Hall's Conga
Room.

Judy Black temporarily quitting
orch led by her husband Troy
Sipger, to sing with Henry Thomp-
son's outfit.

Anne Fulgham practically walked
out of her College Inn, leaving it In-
the hands of Bed Walter, its chef
and new owhetv ."

Heidi yodellng at Alpine Village
•neain to bC near her hubby, Charles
Krai, Jr., 'Who is stationed in nearby
air corp camp.

Ann Corio closed "burlesk tour here
for rest in Miami, after which she
hies to Producers Releasing Corp.
studio to film 'Jungle Siren.'

L. E, Pierce conslderlni; Carmen
Cavallaro's Latin crew to follow Art'
•Tarrett Into Bronze Room In April.
Betty Barrett rejoined latter as ca-
nary last week.

Doug Georite threw up his %i
agency job -with Associated 'rbeatrca
to become p.a. for USO. following
foot^ps of Arnold Wells, another
local Dtitiltciz». '

54

Wednesday, March 11, 1942

OBITUARIES

CLAUD SAUNDERS

Claud Saunders, 63, one-time head
i>t Paramount's exploitation depart-
ment and" associated with show
business for more than 30 years, died
March 1 in Cheyenne, Wyo., ol a
heart attack. Burial was in Los
Angeles.

Following his graduation from
Baker! university In Kansas, Soun-
ders Initiated his theatrical career
as a theatre manager, and later was
advance agent and 'manager of stage
shows. He was general manager tor
Joseph M. Gaites Attractions for.
eight years, and in 1914 turned to pic-
tures, managing the road show pres-
entations of 'Birth of a NaUon,' 'In-
tolerance' and many other stellar
films of the early silents." Five years
later he organized the first exploita-
tion department in the industry for
the then Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
When that division was dissolved six
years lateV, Saunders remained with
the company to handle exploitation
in the middle west Shortly after, he
was district manager for BKO thea-
tres in Minneapolis and a year later
joined Ross Federal survey service
as general manager. For a time ne
conducted his own publfcity busi-
ngs, and two years ago went to Den-
ver as theatre manager for Fox-
Intermountaln'. For the ' past year he
had been publicity director for the
Fox theatres In Cheyenne.

Surviving are his widow, former
player ih one of the stage shows he
managed, a daughter and son.,

BAT COFFIN-

His Coffhi, 52, in the picture busi-
ness since the earl;^ silents, died of
'a heart attack March 3. in Dallas.
Services and burial were at Chero-
kee, la., his birthplace.

Deceased started his Hollywood
career as a scenarist, haying written
icreenplays for Kalem, Edison, Vita-
graph, Fox and other pioneers in the
film Industry. Alter the first World
War,. In jvhlch he served as a ser-
geant, he was successively a film
salesman, branch manager and the-
atre operator. He later joined First
National as midwest' exploitation
manager and was brought to Holly-
wood by Richard Walton Tully, then
• writer-producer, as personal pub-
licist Subsequently he handled pub-
licity. fo,r. many other studios and
was among the organizers of the
Wampav, which came Into promi-
nence by fostering baby . stars
through annual elections. With the
advent of bank night he controlled
the franchise in 11 tnidwest states.
He was program director for Don
Lee's television, station, W6XAO, up
to a year ago, and at the time he
was stricken had been, interested in
contest promotions Mr theatres and
newspapers.

three years and Is survived by a
brother, Louis, one of the Qwners of
the Cafe Arnold, N. Y.

BABBT ABBOTT

Harry Abbott 81, old-time circus
and burlesque press agent and
father of Bud Abbott (& CosteUo),
died March 0 In New York after «n
illness of more than two years. His
three other surviving children were
also in the. show business, another
son once being a theatrical manager,
while two daughters were burlesk
soubrettes.

Deceased was press agent for P. T.
Barnum. -Later he switched to bur-
lesk, primarily as advance man for
the Hurtig & Seamon shows. He re-
tired around 12 years go.

Sevlces will be held tomorrow
(Thursday) in Esty, Pa, his birth-
place, with burial in Crebeling
cemetery, AlQieda, Pa.

TOittX SABO

Tony Sarg, B9, artist puppeteer and
designer, died March 7 in the Man-
hattan General Emergency Hospital,
N. Y., as a result of a ruptured' ap-
pendix. He was bom in Guatemala,
Central America, and while in Lon-
don became infatuated with watch-
ing Holden, the puppet master,' and
shortly thereafter opened Hs own
puppet show In that city.

He c^e to the U. S. in 1915, and
the first book he lUustrated was
Irvin S. Cobb's 'Speaking of Opera-
tions.' ' Among publications for
which he made illustrations were the
N. Y. Times, Saturday Evening Post,
Colliers aqd Cosmopolitan. He had
been among the first to produce ani-
mated cartoons, and In Uie 1920's es-
tablish^ the Tony Sarg Co. of ma-
rionet shows. He had a display at
the World's Fair In 1939, and his
creations were used for years in the
Macy annual parade on ^anksgiving
day.

He Is survived by wife and daugh-
ter.

JAHES COLLINS

James Collins, 60, assistant for
many years to the. late Harry Hou-
dini, died Friday (6) In thie Philadel-
phia General hospital, Philadelphia.
At his bedside was Hardeen, Hou-
dlnl's brother, with whom Collins
was appearing In 'Hellzapoppin,'
which wound up a long- stay in
Philadelphia last week, Collins suf-
fered a hettrt attack last week.

He began his career as a magician's
assistant in 1902, when he answered
an ad in a London newspaper placed
by Hardeen: He later shifted to
Houdini, with whom he worked until
1926, and was credited with inventing
several Illusions .used by both
magicians. He Is survived by his
widow.

NELLIE PECK SAUNDERS

Nellie Peck Saunders, 73, a yeteran
of' the Chautauqua circuit stock
companies, silent pictures and
founder of the Town Hall Series and
Theatre Arts.'Group in Detroit, died
March 3 in Greenwood, S. C. She
was enroute to Detroit from, her
winter home at Coral Gables,, lE'la.
' Mrs, Saunders was born in Sagi-
naw, Mich,, and at an early age. en-
tered the Chautauqua Circuit with
dramatic readings, spending over 20
years od the circuit in the days of
William Jennings Bryan and Champ
Clark. Later she played Broadway
stock and, with the Bonstelle Play.,
crs, starring with. Katharine Cornell
and Frank Morgan. In silent piC'
tures she worked with Charles Ray
In Tailormade Man' and was the
only American to appear with the
Irish Players In their earliest visits
to the U. S. She established the
Town Hall series In Detroit 13 years
■go.

She leaves her husband, a son,
granddaughter and two great grand-
children.

JOSEPH PANI

Joseph Pani, 69, restaurateur
credited- with giving Rudolph 'Val
entlno his first jpb in 1914, died
March 4 in N. Y. Born In Milan,
Pani came to the U. S. In 1902 and
was employed by the Hotel Knicker.
backer, N. Y., for six years. He
then resigned to take over the man
agement of Castles-by-tlje-Sea^ Long
Beach, L. I., otierated by the then fa^
mous 'Ve'rnon and Irene Castle.
. Pani hired Valentino ^ a dancer
at ?50 weekly, later paying him
$1,600 for a one-night engagenjent.
Pani had also run the Colony and
Embassy restaurants In N. Y. and
was credltied with having established
-^the forerunner of the present day
'nl^t olub. He had been retired for

was an editor for a B'nal Brlth na-
tional publication. ,.
His wife, Betty, survives.

CHARLES BIIO.OKHEIM

Charles L. Brookhelm, 63, former
chief of Universal exchanges In the
Far East and personal representa-
tive for Carl Laemmle for 20 years,
died at his Hollywood home March 4
after several years Illness. Until six
years ago, when he retired from
active work, Brookhelm held various
positions Vlth Universal and had
managed the company's exchanges in.
Japan, India, the Philippines, France,
Spain and Cuba.

Body was-sent^to New York for
burial. Surviving are his widow,
brother and sister.

was moat noted for her song, Tulip
Time in .Holland.'
Surviving are three daughters.

J. WILLIAM LAWRENCE

J. William (Jud) Lawrence, 60,
who for 16 years directed his- own
orchestra throughout -. Ohio, died
March' 3 In his farm home niiar Ken-
ton, C after a long Illness.

Wife, mother, sister and brother
survive.

JOSEPH :.JOHNSON
Joseph JohhSbh, 71, bne-tlme 20th-
Fox studio exec, died March 7 In
Atlanta.

He was former city editor of the
Atlanta Journal and also worked
on N. Y. Journal. ' .

EDDIE DOWP

Ralph Cardamone, 28, profession-
ally known as Eddie Dowd,^ died
March 3 at the Will Rogers hospital,
Saranac Lake, after a lingering lU-

!SS.

He did a musical act with his sis-
ter, known as Dowd and Dowd, and
also a songwriter, his last pub-,
lished number behig 'We Met Each
Other in a Dream.' Survivhig are
his father, mother, two sisters and
one broth

RODNEY mCKOK

Rodney Hlckok, 60, former stage
and screen actor, died March 9 In
Los Angeles, after a brief illness.

Since his retirement from acting
he had been business manager for
Lionel Barrymore.

FRANK C. MASSDB
Frank C. Massle, 25,' manager of
Lyric theatre, Sylva, N. C, was" In-
stantly killed March 1 when his car
left a mountain highway during a
snowstorm and overturned several
times. Was son of J. tE. Massie, of
Waynesvllle, N. C, operating thea-
tres in Sylva, Waynesvllle and Bry-
son City, N. Y, and Gatlinburg,
Tenn. Became manager of Lyric five
years ago.

Wife, parents and several brothers
and sisters survive.

Edward A. Drohan; 54, former
stage manager of the Westchester
County Center In White Plains, N.
Y., died March 6 in Yonkers. ,He
had also been assistant stage man-
ager of the old Reliance- and Whit-
man-Bennett film studios in Yonk-
ers. He Is survived by a widow,
son and two daughters.

LES COPELAND

Les Copeland, composer, pianist
and entertainer, died in San Fran-
cisco March 3. He was widely known
both here and abroad, having played
at the Clover Club, London, aiid in
his own cabaret in Paris. Copeland
and Helen Trbc (Trix Sisters) wrote
the revue, 'Tricks,' which long played
in London; also many other revues.

Among the songs he composed
were '38th Street Rag,' 'What the
Engine Done' and 'Luxury.'

He is survived by his widow and a
son.

Otto Paul Pfankolben, '91, former
bassoon player in the N. Y. Phil-
harmonic Orchestra, died in Park
Ridge, N. J., March 5. Survived by
two daughters,

GUSTAVE TINLOT

Gustave Tinlot 54, former concert
master of the Rochester Philhar-
monic Orchestra, Minneapolis Sym-
phony, New York Symphony and the
Paris Opera Comique, died March 2
at his home In Rochester, N. Y.' He
retired from his orchestra post two
years ago to join the Eastman School
of Music.

Tinlot was bom in Paris and stu-
died music at the Paris Conserva-
tory. He won attention as a soloist
but preferred ensemble playing and
became concert master of the Paris
Opera where he met his wife, the
former Germaine Carriere, who sur.
vives. He also leaves a son, Jean,
and a daughter, Marcelle'.'

HARRT L. NEWMAN

Harry L. Newman, 65, who was at
one time in the music publishing
business as a salesman and partner
of Walter Douglas, died of a heart
attack in. his Bronx, N.' Y., home,
March 4. His other connections in-
cluded the Broadway Musir Co. and
Watterson, Berlin & Snyder.

Douglas bought out Newman's in-
terest in the firm at the outbreak of
World War I and Douglas himself
had to discontinue the business sev-
eral months- later because hia road
exploitation men were being rapidly
absorbed by the draft Newman
later went Into the knit goods field.

BERNARD LUSTIG

Bernard Lustig, 64, dean of To-
ledo's theatrical - press agents, died
suddenly March 2 In Cleveland of a
heart attack. He had been in failing
health sifice the death of his parents
within the past six months.

For many years he had been the
press agent for Loew's Valentine and
the Capitol theatre, Dayton, latter a
burlesque house. He was also tire-
less In the work ol various Toledo
charities and fraternities. He also

MARTIN CHAPMAN

Martin 'Chappy' Chapman, of Con-
nelly and Chapman, vaude team,
died Feb. 24 in- Dallas Texas. Atone
time he was manager of Leo Feist,
In&, in Kansas City.

Chapman for several seasons was
musical director of the Lois Bridges
Musical company and the Seaman
Players, and also was a member of
the Southern Harmony Four.

VASA -PRIHODA

- Vasa Prihoda, 41, Czech violinist
committed suicide hi Czecho-Slo-
vakla, according to reports from
London.

He was Introduced to America in
1920 by Fortune Gallo, who. had
arranged a tour for him that year.
Most of his career was spent abroad,
but 'he again appeared in U. S. in
1930.

GEORGE MacENTEE ■

George MacEntee, 61, stage actor,
died March 1 in New York. Bom in
Philadelphia, MacEntee spent the
greater part of his life in New York
He was a member of the J'esse Bon-
stelle Players. Productions In which-
he appeared were 'Gala Night,' 'Step
ping Sisteirs' and "Laugh That Oft.'

Surviving is his sUter.

FRANK W. DIAL

Frank William Dial, 75, former
superintendent of ring stock . tor
Rlnglin'g-BarnUm .& Bailey circus,
died March 7 at. his home In Strat-
ford, Conn,

Dial joined the circus when a boy
and stayed with It for 40 years.

ABEL QUIROZ CONDE

Abel Quiroz Conde, 32, .artistic dl
rector of radio station XEW, Mexico
City, died in M. C, March 1, after
a short illness. He was widely
known In radio circles throughout
'Mexico.

Parents survive.

HILTON SCHWARTZ

Milton Sch-wartz, 44, one time v,p,
of Fox FUms, died of a heart attadc
March. 7, In San Pedro, Cal. He
was formerly married to sister -of
William Fox.

Widow, Lucille Miller, film actress,
survives.

MRS. OLIVB THUXTON

Mrs. Olive Thuxton, composer,
died In Miami, Fla., March 4. She

C~:'es O. DIokson, 59, former
violinist w^th the Ruvlnsky string
ensemble t^nd the Toledo Symphony
Orchestra, died March 1 In Toledo
of a heart ailment. Wife, son and
two daughters survive.

Mrs. Annie Harris, sister of Abe
Montague, Columbia Pictures' gen-
eral sales manager, died March 2 at
her home in Boston, after an ex-
tended illness.

Gray Hollman, manager of Clifton
theatre In Huntingdon, Pa., died
there last week after an emergency
appendectomy. Body was taken to
Parkersburg, W. Va., for burial.

Foster Richardson, 52, prominent
bass singer, died in London Jan, 30.

ASCAP Elections

Contlaned from pace

Winkler as a nominee on the pop
publishers' ticket but rather than
have the ballots reprinted It was
decided, to; let the thing stand as is,
WlQkler is with standard firm of
Belwln, Inc. *^ '

O'Hara Doubtful
Gene Buck, George W. Meyer and
Jerome Kera of the three song-
writers up tor' reelection, to the
board seem assured to continue, but
there is some doubt whether Geoffrey
O'Hara m^y not be displaced by
Howard Hanson or Albert Stoessel.
They are in- the 'standard' nomina-
tions, and Hanson, as director of the.
Eastman School of Music at Roches-
ter, N. Y., and Stoessel as director of
the JuiUard Foundation are both for-
midable competition. ■ *

A no-velty of the present writers'
elections is the dispateh with which
Abel Baer, chairman of the nomi-
nating committee, paced -the pro-
ceedings in a little over an hour at
the Hotel Astor, N. Y., .last week
when both the candidates and the
incumbents were presented to the
ASCAP inembership, their back-
grounds recounted Via spokesmen
for each, and the whole thing dis-
posed of in 70 minutes.

' Baer*! Blog*
Ifs the first time the writers' di-
rectorate elections have been thus
presented In the history of ASCAP.
In addition, chairman Baer of the
nominating committee (which in-
cludes ITelson Cogane, Paul Cun-
ningham, . Mack' David, Slgmund
Romberg and Jacques Wolfe) got
-out a pamphlet for benefit of Qie
potent 20% ASCAP membership
domiciled in HoUywSbd, so they will
know what's what.

A surprise sleeper clause that
would .. automatically kayo Gene
Buck for ASCAP presidency Is the
proviso that only board members are
eligible for the presidency, and
should Buck fall 'in reelection this
would automatically stymie him
there. However, the writers seem
for Buck who, with Meyer, falls
within the 'popular' songsmlth clas-
sification. Kem is the 'production'
board member; O'Hara represents
'standard.'

BIRTHS

Mr. and Mrs, Roy Drushall, son,
Feb. 16, In Salt Lake City. Father
Is announcer for'KDYL, Salt Lake
City.

Mr. and Mrs. Alvln Pack, daugh-
ter, Feb. 19, In Salt Lake City.
Father Is salesman and special
evenUer for KOYL, Salt Lake City.

Mr. and ' Mrs. Richard Baehmaa,
daughter. In Pittsburgh, Mar. 1.
Father's on KDKA, Pittsburgh, staff.
,. Mr. and Mrs, Jo.ie Grant daughter.
In Medford, Mass„ Feb. 28. Father
Is WMBX (Boston) chief announcer;
mother was Carmen Trudeau, early
Glenn Miller vocalist.

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Bower, daugh-
ter, March 1, In New York. Father
Is a program producer at WOK, New
York.

Mr. and Iflrs. Joseph Kennedy, son,
Feb. 25, In New York. Mother Is
Frances Kennedy, copywriter with.
Compton advertising agency in N. Y.

Mr, and Mrs. Jackie Coogan, son.
In Los Angeles, March 4. Father is
the former kid star, now in the
Army.

Mr. and Mrs. Tom McAvlty, son.
In Hollywood, March 3. Father Is a
radio producer; mother Is the for-
mer Helen Mack, flUn and radio
actress.

Mr. and Mrs. James Saphler, son.
In ''Hollywood, March. 3. Father Is
a radio agent; mother Is the daugh-
ter of Nat Flnston, music head at
Metro.

Mr., and Mrs, John Gordon, son.
In Windsor, Ontario, Feb. 28. Father
Is program director of Station
CKLW.. Windsor.

Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Barhani, son.
In Salt Lake . City. Father is gen-
eral manager of Intermountaln Thea-
tres, Inc.

Mr. and . Mrs. Frank Snyder,
daughter. In Pittsburgh^ March 6.
Mother is former PoUy Rowles, one-
time Universal player and lately'
Pittsburgh radio actress,

Mr. and Mrs, Al Amundson,
daughter, In Seattle, Feb 28. Father
Is In the continuity department of
KIRO, Seattle.

. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Sowell,' daugh-
ter, March 2 In Nashville, Father Is
general manager of 'WLAC.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack House, son,
March 9, in New York. Father Is a
program supervisor with the' Comp-
ton advertising agency; mother is
Claire Hazel, former legit actress
and Bob Hope stooge.

Mr. and Mrs, Robert Howard,
daughter. In Los Angeles, Mfitch 8.
Mother Is film actress Andrea Leeds.
' Mr^ and . Mrs. Harold McKenzle^
son, .In Lis Angeles, March 9. Father
is Paramount film editor.

MARRIAGES

Ethellnd Teriy to Dick .Purcell, In
Las Vegas, Nev., March 3, Bride Is
former Ztegfeld performer; he's film
actor.

Eula Nelson, to John Sherman
Chapman, Feb. 7, In Louisville.
Bride is former Memphis dancer, on
tour for a year with Blackstone, the
Magician, as girl he sawed In half. '

Dorothy Propheter to Harry Se-
gail, in Yuma, Ariz., March 7. Groom
is a screen writer.

Alethia' Wilson to Louis Meltzer,
In Yuma, Ariz,, March 7. He's a
film writer at Columbia.

Gertrude Biy to Dr. Paul Flesch,
Feb. 19', ln\Spartahburg, S. C. Bride
Is secretary to Bert Labhar, sales
manager of station WHN, New York.

Gladys Searles to George Schnei-
der, Las Vegas, Nev., March 5.
Groom Is music research chief at
Metro.

Joan Germaine to Artie Mayno,
March 3 In Fairfield, Conn. Groom
is Bridgeport Conn., bandleader,

Margaret J. Florian to Robert K.
Weill Feb. 21 In Buffalo. Bridegroom
is radio director of Armand S. Weill
agency, Buffalo.

Marilyn Phillips to Marshall
Grant In Las Vegas, Ney., March 7.
He Is Universal producer.

EXCEPT FOR EXCEPTIONS

Victor Won't Add New Talent Dur-
ing War Period

Except for exceptions, RCA-Vlctor
Isn't adding any new talent to Its re-
cording roster of either the Victor
or. Bluebird labels for the duration.
Reasons are obvious — uncertain ma-
terial stocks, press of production
backlogs, etc., all combing to make
experiment with new 'orchestras or
singers a negative proposition.

However, if something .that looks
to have a brlgl)t future comes over '
the horizon It's a safe bet Victor will
sld^Bck Its intentions momentarily.

Wednesdaj* March 11, 1942

65

Bills Next Week

sContiimd from page 48|

Kaye tt Qns*
McNally Sis
lieory Pitrlok
McUollla Sis '
Fi-anliy SoUatb
3 I'eppera
Khlladalpbta Hotel
MnrciD Uoyd
Uoro & Youey
Iiiabtlle Johnson .
nick Whoxtan Oro

' Blta Cariton
Howard Lantn Oro

nomaii GtiUo
Al Copron' Oro
Newton & Newton
Imbe L«Tour
}«an Uorton
GJorlo Sals"
Beadecvaai

(Hotel Senator)
Internationals (3)
Ijoale St Boya

' Sam'a Cufe
Joan Maurey
J^ouise Ayera
Bella Belmont
Jue Jovlnelly
JoAnny Reno ■
I KloB'a Rbythro

SUver Lalca Inn
Col Geo Tleofl
Arlette Adolre
OliarleH "ilargo
Alice I^ueey
Di^chess & Herman
Kranl< Hassel Oro

6tnmp*B
Clianc; L<ee
Jack Suangler
Dolly RaonI Ola
Ltonnle Vale
Helen Jerrlco
Snn Bay Oordena
l^lUlan Stewart
Dashlngton
Jcane & Anthony
Dawn Lovely
Beatrice & Danny
Aftnes WllIU
Don Anton Oro
60tb St. Batlukaller
Ray Stevena
Billy Adams
Victoria Splvely

Billy Atkinson '
Uaouara
aalr PhlUpls
Blton Brown
Gene Carney
Tony Bennett Ore

Biraii dob
Vincent Rlzzo Oro
Jackie lios ; .
Kay fiamllton
Uarty Bobn
Blstona

Bheldona '
EOtb Century
3 Peppers
Kenny Sbafter <3)
Sally Im, Uar
Blanche Saunders .
A Strohman (3)
Tanlca Orlll
Nick Vnrallo Oro
Oscar O'Neill
Bddle Oalbreth
Zola Oray
Dolores- lioorell

IVarwlck Hotel
Roy Morton Oro
tteber's Itof Bran

Camden
Jack Moss
Tonl
Setfovlas
Accordlonalres
Trlxle

Tru & Trudy
Dave Pleriion
Pen-Bannerman ,
Jules Klacco's Oro
Syd Golden.
Kaths'r Bldoradlana

Wilson's
Joe Houffh ■
Art Mathues
Betty Roam
Qerard Beam .
Carol Joyce
Norma Krleqcr
Catherine WolIT GIs
Geo Uaquet Ore
Xaclii CInb.

Harry Holly
Jean Ware
Joan Coraz
plane Collier
Victor Nelson Oro
Al Gold

BUI LeRoy Oro

BqnlrTel Coop
Tiny MUler
Joey Reynolds
Dale Borknsss
Buddy Walsh
Sddle Miller
Trelon
Billy Tates Ore
Xacht Clab
H Middleman Oro
Bobby Flnkus
Ruth Foster
Sid Gold
Harriet Lane
.pinger Dulow

lOS

Bond Bos
Pete Snyder
BlUy Snytfse.
Peggy OoodwlB
George Tlbhlea Ore
Al Stone
Billy LanMn

Bu of Hnala
Ann Trlola
Felix de CoU
Roger Roland
Ken Stevena.
Dick Wlna)ow Ore-

BUtmoia Bewi
Ruth Craven
Donald Movla
Hurley * Radtordy
Larry Stewart .
Fetch & DeauTlUe .
Paul Wlnchell
Phil Harris Ore

Caam MaMBs
Kitty Kallen
Clint Garvin -
Jimmy MoPartlond
Paul ColUna
Jack Teagarden Oro

Cooooaat Oreva
Bklnnay Bnnla Ora
Carmen* -

Earl CanoU.
The Debonaira
W West * McGlnty
Dick A Dotty Remy
Gall Gall
Willis West. Jr
Alee Morlson
Xjl Vonn Moyer
Rue Willis
Xorlne Howell
Beryl Wallace
Sc Clair * Day
Mare Ballero
Bill Brady
Michel OrtlE Bd
Ilanny Strand Oro
Florentine Garden
NJT.G.

Prof Lambertle
Murtah Sis
Vera Sloans
Fred Scott
Kay Maylleld
Sugar Gelse
Oxzle Nelson Ora
Cliorlle Foy'a Clnb
Charley Foy
Johnny Howard
Lee Wiley
Danny Beck
Red Stanley Oro
Grace Hayes Lodge
George Uoyd -

Peter Ltnd Hayes
Iiauty Healy
Jack MaJone

Ineolto

Tea Jim Lewis
Lone Star Cowboys
Hollywood Tropics
Mariqnita & Poncho
Moxine Lewis
Paul Neighbors Ore
Dtok Tbomas
Hoaae or Hnrphr
Bob Hnrphy
»^'^t«. ' Welssner
.Beth Reynolds .
Ftankle Gallsgher

UtUe Troe
Lena Home
PhU Moore (4)
NIok Draper Ore

Ma cam bo Cate
Ptail Ohman's Oro '

Palladinm
Claude Thol-nblll Or

Pirates lien
Henry Grant
Casey Thompson
African Jungle D
Jack Gardner
Helen Golden
Nick Cochrane Ore

Seven Beaa
Benny Kaha
Puananl Mathews
Princess Luana
Chlet Sautlnl
Stanley Wheeler
Charlie Openul
Gary Spear Oro

Slapsy Unxlea
Allegro
Ben Blue
Johnny Morgan
Maxlne Marshall
Benny Leasy
FattI Moore
Sam Lewis
Jerry Bergen
Joe Flumor Ore

Streets of Paris
Charlotte Morey '
Wliigy Manone Ore

Bnannee Inn .
She^ton Brooks. Jr
Loumel Morgan 8

Trianon
Bob Crosby Ore

Tioovllle
Jack Bsekraan
Dorothy Dandrldge
Art Crlppen Oro

FinSBTIBfiH

AneboiBce
Maynord Dean Ora
Arilnctoa Ledsv

Phn^Caveua Oro
June Gardner
Fran Rago

nalnonafleg
Babg Jeltrey
A Frltsohe Oro
BUI Oreen'e
Herblo Kay Ore
Loralne Daly
Ben Fumeli '
Arnle Laddell .

Bloe Bldge~Iu
Lou Lucky Ora
Benny Aostln
Harry Manning
Cornell Cooper
Sylvia Starr
Uoogle-Weogle Ctab
Boog Sherman
Maile Simon
Harry Coraorada
Joey Klein
Buddy Blaine
J Comorada

aab Petite
Piccolo Fete Ore
Pattl Gene
Donovans
Blllle Valerie
Skip Nelson

Cork and Bottle
Nelson Maples
Colonial
Art Farrar Ora

Eddie Peyton's
Kenny Clark Ora

U Club
Lyda Rodndk
>lo4 Tarshta
Pat McCauley

Hotel Port Pitt
Een Bailer' Oro
jobnnr Mitchell
Hany Walton
Jeaale Wbeatley
Hotel HeuT-
(HUver OtUf>
Doratby Hatthrwa
Bacorta

(Ooy M'a)
rerotfayNesblU
kotel 7tb Avenne
Dave' Glfford
Swinging. Strings
Hotel Booieveli
Joe Tan

flam Bari '^^
Joe PetraselU
John Bongnldl

Hotel. Behealey
Billy Binds Oro .
Joy Llnd

Betel Wm Pens
. (Chatterbox)
Samniy Wstklns Ore
Glean Sterling

(Continental Bar)
Frank Andrlnl 4

Heny-Oo-Boand
Howdy Banm Ore

Vew Bnicreet
Bddla Welts Ore
Gerry Richards .

Nixon Care
Al Merlsco Oro
Bob Carter
Knight Sis
KretloT^ Dana

Orcliaid Inn
Rndy Gale Ore

Oasis
ChoiUs Laun Orr
' -■ • Flnea"'
Don Rutter

Shirley Heller
Shy-Voe
Tommy Carlyn Oro
Bette Smiley

Union GrlU
Sammy Waltara
Frank 'Natale
Mike Sandratto

TUIa Madrid
Btzl Covato Ora
Mark Lane
Michael Strange
Key Taylor
Jean Fmncia
Jerry Grey
Netha DeCniz

BOSTON

BeAcHconiber
Harry Morrlsaey Ore
Chico Simone Ore
Carol .'Dennlson
I^oulse Borday
Jack & Loriialne
Beach-charmera (t)

'bllnstrub'a
Peter Hodge Ore
Boyd Heathen
Louise Lorraine
Lee Juvellys
Bryant, Rnlnes & Y

Clnb Mnytair
Ranny Weelta Oro
Nick Jerrci Ore
Belle Snkcr ,
Bob Williams
Red Dust
Del RloB
Claire Francis
Bo.ots McKenna Rev
Clnb Vanity Fnir
Al Dlckerman Ore
Madel'e Harrington
Stella Ray

Cocoiinut Grove
'Mickey Alpcrt Oro
Don Rico Ore
Buster Kolm Rev '
Billy Pnlne .
Marianne Francis
Evelyn Martin
Stapletons
Sander Glanz
Lou Perry

(.Melody l.«unce)
Gertrnde Woodeum
Herb Lewis -
Copley Ploxa
(Slieruton Room)
Ruby Newman Oro
Dorothy Lewis
Ted Cole
Lucille LaMnrr
~ (Merry-Go-Roond)
Mark Gilbert I
(Topley Sqoan Hotel
Al DeForreat
Arthur Ward

Crawford House
Freddy Rubin Ora
Crawfordettes
Sally Keith
Vera Lament
York A Tracy
Bobby Bernard
Marya Breeo

Fox C Houads
Milton George Oro
(Bbnroba Caslao
Room)
'Yvonne Ad&Ir
Jose Mona
Barron Lynn GIs
Charles Wolk Oro-

m-Hat
Fete Herman Oro
Frank Petty

Hotel Bndford
- (CIrcns Boom)
Jack -Davis
Lucille & J Moloney
Hotel Brunswick
(Bemnda Terrace)
Hazel Bruce
Allan Lane
Charlie Bamet Ore

Hotel Bssex
Ken Travere Ore
Jack Manning Ore
Billy. Kelly
.\da Marova
Bill Groin
VI n Daley
JoAn Monti
Sally Harris
Hotel l.enox

Bob Hardy Oro

Kay Xvers-

Hotel 'Minerva

Bunny McVey Ore

Barbara Douglass -
Hotel Somerset
(BoUnese Room)

Adrlenne

Roily Rolls

Harry Marohard O
Hotel Statlar °
(Terrace Room)

Leighton Noble Oro
(Coie Rooga)

Saivy Cavlcchio Ore-
Hotel Vendome

(Fife A Drum Bm)

Oscar Elgart Oro

Jolene

Victory »

Terry Pepin
International Cafe

Ted Crowley Oro

Norman Bolster

Jan Stalling

George Allen

Billy Hunt

Ken Club

Farren Bros Oro

Rues Howard '

Jerry '& Lillian
Lotbi Qnorter

Anthony Bruno Ore

Khumbollors Oro

Ramon Navarro

Darrell MacArthurs

Ambassadorettes

Miller Bros & Lol

G Bernard Dancers
(Lonnga Bar)

Hum & Strum

Bscodero ft La Plata
- Miami Grove

Jimmy McBale Ore

Lonnle FItz

Tom Chales

Ella May Waters

Phillips A Breen

Charlea Homer

Oeorglns Stevens

Arthur Martel
Bio Casino

George Harris Ora

Benny Droban

Helen Carrol

Frltzl Schsft

Harold & Lawlor

Adrlenne Parker

Buster Kelm Rev
(Garden Lonnge)

MoT'* F DearboB
Seven Seas

Bstrelllta
LaRoche A Reina
Buccaneers
7 Seas Hawnllans O
'Stenben'a
(Vienna Boom)
Lew Conrad Oro .
Artlnl Sc Consuelo
Ada Gonzales Trio
Dorothy Deerlng
Doris Abbott
Jimmy Marr

, The Cave ,
Don DlBona Ora
J.tck Fisher
Tamara Dorlva
Blvez Cortes
Jimmy Marr
Artlnl A Consnelo
PIr-ettes (E)

Tic-Toe .
Lionel Hampton O
Joe NevUes Ore
Durante .

Howard Fuller A BIp

Tramont Plnsa
Duke Lorenzo Ore

CLEVELAHD

Alpine VllUge
Hubert Castle
Morlarty A Dell
Dare & Corda
Del Kay

Willie Matthias Ore
Dob Copter

Eldorado Club
Jim MacKenzle Ore

Fraddle's Cafe
Bums A White
Beth O'Malley
Roy Rodger
Sharon Lynn Line
Herb Ross Ore

Goormet Club
Royal Hawollana O
Jules A Webb

Hotel Anerton
Joa Baldi Oro

Hotel Carter
Tblxlon Snrsngar
Charles Wick Ore
3arbara Parks

Hotel Cleveland
Art Jsrret Ore
Hotel Fenway Hall
Kenneth Rasmussan
Poison Gardner

Coca-Ill

Hotel HoUendoB
Peter HIgglns
Marianne .
VIckl Nevada
Bill McCune Orr.

Hotel Stiitler
Clint Noble Oro

La CongB Clnb
Freddie Carlone Orr

LIudsay's Skybar
Cats A Fiddle
Ray Raysor
Sue Sanders
Hal Simpson

Monaco's Cafe
Blaine, Blaine Bond
Frano Reynolda
Manny Landers Ore

Bcsal Clnb
Duoky Malvln Ora

1700 Clnb
Joey Bishop
Roberta
Bvelyn Scott
Hal Hall
Bollle LaVella
Don Walsh Ore

DETBorr

Beoh-Cadlllao Hotel

(Boob CaslBo>
Meta Statider
Frank Gagen Ore

(Slotor Bar)
Dick Rock

Bowery
Terry lawlor
Oulll Quill
Burns A Nash
Carl Ford
Don Ardon Dane
Johnny King
Charlie Carlisle
Benny Resh Oro

Casanova
Jessica Garwood
Dolores LeMonta -
Ann IjeVelle
Tucker A Tremalne-
Florenza
Wm Hewitt
Lea Walters Ore
Clab Congo
Calloway Club Rev

Ijirry Steele
Margaret Watklns
Blllle Holiday
Bob Parrlsh
Congo Oro
Earl Dancer
Anise A Aland
Paul, Slim A Eddie
Honl Coles
Calloway Dane (t)
Corbtown lavera
Don Harris
Hart A Allison
Panchlta Villa -
Phil Sklllman Orr
Frontier Banoli
Denny McCurtIn
Phil A Yvonne
Stackle A Paul
Rancheros Oro
Irv.lng Specter

Grand Tetraoe^
Gloria Parkar Orr
Earl Parchman

Haymorhet
June Bldrldgo
CUirlotta A Meyen
Rosa Thurston
Leo (3asca
Phelps A Cnllenblne
Chsrmettea Oro

Bond'*
Sun Vol Seranaders
London Chop Uonse
MarloA Stanfletd
Connie Barleaa ~
Chot Everhart
Ruby Oro

Clab Uaytair
Marty Joyce
Carol Crane
Mervin Jensen.
Dorothy Gerron
Phil Olson Oro
Mickey's
Blliy Meagher
Charles A R Jenkins
La Temple
Ray Vincent
Dolores Lament
MlckeyettOB
Joe Banket Oro

Neblolo'a
Fay A Andra
Johnny Policy
X,agkey Sis
Clem Hawkins
Leonard Seel Ore
NortUwood Inn
Dale Rhodes
Theresa Rudolph
Don Amato
ftny Carl In Oro

Oldo IVa}-ne Clab
Rafael de Lao Ore
Jack London

Palm Bench
Pat Patterson
The Stonns
Gardner Ols-
Mqnnle Drake
Don Pablo Oro

Pehobscot Clnb
Patricia Willis
Diane Dale
Pam'^la Drltton
Guy Wolch Ore

Hack's Bedford Inn
Mao UcGrsw Oro
Boyala

BvOrett West

Sibyl Bowan

Brucetta

Prof Backwards

M Faber GIs

Ayleno Mason

Skeoter Palmer Ore

Statler Hole]
Pancho- Ore

Suka

Rilloir, Mur^an'-'A L
Harvey Stono
Jack O'Nell
Pauline Parks GIs'
Sural Orano -V :
I,e.opar(l.'Seel Oro .

... .iSan ....
Gerie^ Bmorald
Oleiln' Dale '
Tha.^vBordons. ■
Dotty Sloao
<ai(r AVvIn
Al Alexander Oro '

Stevodora
Good & (jopdy
Great Solgfreld
Eddy Shepherd
Jack Thomos uro

The Tronlcr
Merritt Lamb Oro

V Varnes-
Carl Denny
Kelso & Shirley
Vlckl Leiiler
June Wren
Jack Nelson Ore .

WliUder Hotel
' ((jnld Cub Boom)
Herman -Pine

Wonder ilnr
Madelon Baker
Manuel Lopez Oro
Sammy Dlhori Ora

EOO Club
Dale Rhodes
Dl Giovanni
Good -A Goody
Dottle Ard
Jean Moore
Joy A Juanlta .
Delia' A Drlgo
Horace Hoock Ore

Priorities-Fairs

sCoDtliiiied from pace Is

have ruled out machines, farm im-
plements, etc. and lack of railroad
facilities prevents movement of
cattle.

Outdoor 'Congress, combination of
carnivals, circuses, concessionaires
and outdoor attraction boolcers, is
worried over lack of attendance at
State Fairs, lack ol appropriations
from various states for Fairs, ..con-
fiscation of flat-cars and death of
cheap labor.

Showmen's Lea^e of America,
composed of members ftom these
two organizations, met for 'me spring
dinner and dance.

Carl Sedlmyer was elected presi-
dent of the CSC.

Army Cancels All Calif. Fairs

Hollywood, March 10. -
Military stress on the 'West Coast
caused th^ shutdown of the Cali-
fornia ' State Fair at Sacramentor and
all the other fairs in the war zone,
including the National Orange' Show
at San Bernardino, highest £pot In
the citrus fruit Industry, and the
Pomona Exposition, generally con-
ceded to be the world'5 greatest
county fair.

Governor Olson turned over the
lease . on the State Fair grounds to
Lieut Gen. John L. DeWltt, who de-
clared the territory an Integral part
of the defense program, not to be
used for "amusement purposes.
Other fairgrounds have cancelled
their autumn shows under the regu-
lations restricting large crowds in
the defense zone.

Rules caused financial grief to a
number of carnival and other out-
door Show people who had been fig-
uring on two fat weelcs in Sacra-,
mento and other profitable time at
the various county fairs.

Band Boolcings

-Continued from page 40^

Wajrcross, Ga.; 22, Frazler's Park,
Auburn, Ga.; 23, Aud, Macon; 24,
Palmetto Park, Augusta; 29, Memo-
rial Aud., Raleigh, N. C.

Bobby Byrne, 13, City Aud., Ports-
mouth, 'Va.; 14, Princeton U, Prince-
ton, N. J.; IS, Rltz B., Bridgeport,
Conn.

. Cab Calloway, M^rch 20, Ohio U.,
Athens; 21, Indiana U., Bloomington;
23, Grestone B,. Detroit; 2$, Aud,,
Columbus, O.; 27:ApriI- 2, Colonial
theatre, Dayton, O.

WUI Osborne, March 20-21, U. of
Missouri, Columbia; 24, O^heiim
theatre, Marlon, III.; 25, Illinois thea-
tre, Jacksonville, HI.; 26, State thea
tre, Logansport, Ind.; 18, C:ollseuin,
EvansvUIe Ind.; 29, New Moon thea-
tre, Logansport, Ind.; 28, Coliseum,
atre, Kokomo; 2-22, Brunswick hotel,
Boston.

. CharUe Splvak, March 27-28, VPI,
Blacksburg, Va.; 29, Kelth-Albee
ttieatre, Huntington, W. Va.; 31, East
Carolina Teacher's C, Greenville,
S. C;; AprU 2-8, Hipp theatre, Balto.

McFarland Twins, March 21 ,Wal-
dorf hotel, New York; 22, Ritz B,
Bridgeport, Conn.

Bob Strong; March 14. Inter-Fra-
temity Ball, University of Wisconsin,
Madison (Wis.).

Wmchell-Cissy Patterson

sContlnned from pace 3;

ured, could probably take PM out
of the red and P'Jt it on a paying
basis. His colum-ji Is variously es-
timated by circulation experts as be-
ing good for £he sale 61 from 100,000
to 200,000 papers daily in New York.
PMl.Jiow ha^ around 120,000 circulST
tion.atid needs 200,000 to break . eVen.
Chicago Sun Syndicate, might ban-,
die the column even if Wihch^ll
..decided to remain 'In the Mirror' In
New York.)

A Posy for Lyons
Columnist declared he wouldn't
consider the -Post unless guaranteed
that Its present Broadway para-
grapher, Leonard Lyons, would not
be removed-. Winchell recalled that
he invented 'The Lyons Den' slug
which heads the column and is per-
sonally fond of 'the kid' because he
is the single such writer who does
not try to ape WincheU,

He has had numerous discussions
over- the years with Capt. Joseph
Medill Patterson, publisher of the
•New- York News, Winchell said, and
was very interested in going with
that' paper' ^fter : Hearst teletyped
editors: Watch Winchell/ he's get-
ting dangerous and careless.' How-
ever, Capt Patterson's reported kill-
ing of ah Ed Sullivan column a few
months ago lambasting the isola-
tionist Clark Senate investigation
into anti-'Na^l films, Winchell said,
tipped him off -that the News was
not the place for him.

Hell deflhit^ refuse to ren^w
with King features when his con-
tract expires next Nov. 14, he ' said,
if the Washington Times-Herald Is
stlU on the client list for the column
at that time. If that's the only way
for him to get rid of the T-H, he'll
take it, he asserted.- T-H pact with-
KFS runs until 1045 and Winchell
said he . sees no w^y for the syndi-
cate to get' out of it although It has
promised to try. He pointed out that
when KFS comics were Bold to the
Washington Post some years ago,
when the contract with the T-H .was
about to expire, Mrs. Patterson
brought suit and won.

Pearson and Allen'.s Gripe
WincheU has been feuding with
Mrs. Patterson because of orders
which led to . the 'On Broadway*
column beigg heavily slashed, hid-
den among the classified ads, and,
for ■ while, being used only three
days a week. Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen have complained of
similar treatment to their 'Washing-
ton Merry-Go-Round' (United .Fea-
tures) and; at the expiration of its
contract on Aug. 6, it 'wUl go t(>. Eu-
gene Meyer's Post Winchell -would
also like to be in the Post, he said.
He claims Mrs. Pattersmt objects to
his attacks on pro- Axis j)ersoDali-
ties.

Another reason for wishing to
shake loose from Mrs. Patterson,
Winchell said, is an alleged personal
remark she jnade about him. She
also demanded that "you stop trying
to mold public opinion, with your
<blankety blank) showmanship. And
stop looking for Nazis under the
bed.' 'And finding them,' Winchell
retorted; Mrs. PattersoA also Widely
expressed the wish, he said, that he
be sent to active Naval du^ oA a
destroyer which wotdd then be sunk.

Following criticism In Congress of
his part-time duty without pay as a
lieutenant-commander In Navy pub-
lic relations, Winchell went to
Washington last week to renew his
oiler to accept active duty. He said
he was told by bis admiral: '

'Go on home cmd continue to do
what yoU' have been doing for -the
time being.'

Aside from his column, WincheU
had been working night and day for
weelcs on last nlgbfs show at Madi-
son Square. Garden for the Nwy
Relief Fund. Fund, through hit
efforts, will receive more than $135,-.
000 from the show and contributions.

In Ills battie with Mrs. Patterson,
WincheU atteitipted to take a paid
ad in the tab Wafhingon News last
week 'to state his siile. Paper' ac-
cepted it and then refused to print
it; however. It read:

'Attention Mr. and Mrs. Washing-
ton, D. C. A certain Washington
newspaper, whose Initials are the
Washington T-H, omits considerable
material from the coltnnn I write for
King Features Syndicate. The omis-
sions are usuaUy about certain so-
called Americans, pro-Nazis and
pro-Japs. And so. it is suggested
that if you want to read the drivel
as It appears originally, pl^e .pur-
chase the New York Daily Mirror,

for -jrhlcb I expressly waste paper
and printers Ins. . . .'
. '■Your New York Correspondent

•Walter Winchell.*

'On . Broadway' . apxieara in about
200 dailj; ah^ '.l^inday' papers.' Inr
eluding weeklies. serviced -with tbs
column in boiler plate form by Wesr.-
tern Newspaper Union, it .S[ppeara
in 855 papers.

On-tlie

sContlnned

-lipbeat

f ro^ page iu^^^JJ

Zimmerman in Joe Ferrente's chair,
and '.Johnny Carroll, ,from Riiby^
Newman, supplanting Neil Hefti,"
who will confine himself solely to.
arranging for Bamet together with
Bob Burnett, who also d^Opi>ed
trumpeting. ' CUS Leeman returned'
to the band, replacing a -series of
seven drummers,

. Gny Landls and his JoUy Friars
in the Victorian Rootn at the HIU-
crest Hotel, Toledo..

norold Mooney gave 'up .piano,
playing with Bob AUen to devote full
time to arranging. Replaced by Frank
Co wen. formerly with Artie. Shaw.

Bobby Boms, road manager wlth-
Charlie Spivak and before that with.
Tommy Dorsey, readying aflillrs for*'
Army induction.

Larry Thornton, former singer
.-nd for past twp year;; m;^ger of.
Dreamworld, nitoy in Sdtuate,
Mass., has Joined .the Navy,

Tommy Oarlyn returned to' Sky
Vue, Pittsburgh. Adding' Bett«
SmUey, WCAE songstress, as vocal'
ist.

Buddy SUffmui^.' ' altOi taXy to '
Benny Goodman from FranUe Mas-
ters. Bruce- Russell replaces with
Masters,

The Almansw (7) hBve.be«Q slgn^
for Decca recordings.- They.'re-cur>..
renUy on. the This Is WW proi-

Marlon- Francis left Mickey Air
pert's band to rejoin her former bots,
Frankie Masters, as vocalldt

Ina Bay HnUon recelvedi' bad. news
from Eddie .Zantfy's' drajQ; ' board, .
while at Stanley theatre, Plttsbutili»
last -week. Zandy's her tnuiipet ace.

Howdy Banm band Into M^n^-Qo.
Round. Pittsburgh, fbr two weelr*.
succeeding Gary I«e outfit.

Herble Kay oriob openied two-wd«k
engagement atJBUI Green's, Pitts-
burgh, Monday .(9), replacing Clyde
Knight outfit .

Oeo'rfle Avid took out license to
wed Maiy TUlllr, Earl CarroU Vani-
ties', looker ln° New York, last week.

I Mai

Mary Boland Walks

Contbwd — —

Boland walked due to 'Ulnets/ Mlss;
AngUn went to Chicago, Tuesday
(10), but may not enter the cast tm-
tU Monday (10), when thb show
reaches Boston.

Before "The Rivals' left the Shu-
bert, N. Y., after a . curtaUed *n-
gagement, GuUtf offlcei .«dced Bfisfe
Boland about going on tour. She
was told that the' show -would other-
wise close and she replied that she
tlld not want to bq responsible for
putting the other players out of Joltt.
Her change of mind so soon after the
show left N. Y. was therefore a Jolt
to the Guild.

Longest suspension banded oiit by
Equity was to the late Jeanne Eagels,
whose over-Indulgence in Champagne
forced 'Her 'Cardboard LovetT to
dose in MUwaukee in 1SZ7. She waa
barred'from legit engagements for .18
months, -but could appear elsewheie.
Miss Eagels died In 1929.

- Coast Versions -Differ

Hollywood, Mai'oh 10.

Story given out by Henry Rogers,
press agent for Mary Boland, that
the actress was coining here to make
a picture brought a fast denial by
Sam Jaffe, her agent He admitted
he's working on a deal at Warners
for the actress, but that It would not
be effective untU Bhe recovered from
her lUness.

Rogers declined to elaborate on Mm
statement that It was his understand' -
ing she left the show to resume her.>
picture work,

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VOL.146 No. 2

NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1942

PRICE 25 CENTS

Metrop#an Opera s Money Troubles
Phis War Make Next Season Doubtful

A board ot directors meeting,
ivhlcU lasted four hours without
ianglble results, wai held Wednes-
day (11) at the Metropolitan Opera
House to determine whether a sea-
<oii would be given next year or not.
AU'o{ the $1,100,000 secured in the
public drive last' year li reported
gone, and a deficit of more than
flOO,000 on this year's performances
la estimated. Uncertainty of war out-
look on top of all this introduced
possibility of a shortened season or
none at aU f<ir the first time in over
50 years. The deficit may be quadru-
pled, if taking in other expenses, such
as taxes,' theatre operation, stagger-
ing rehearsal costs, etc..

Edward Johnson, general manager
of the Met, tipped oft this possibility
at the last Tuesday performance in
Philadelphia, March 10, when he ad-
dressed the audience at intermission
and told of the directors' meetin{(,
plus the possibility of no Metropoli-
tan next season.

No decision will t)e made until the
company returns from its tour in
May, when the directors will meet
again.

B&K's Blanket Variety'
Subscriptions For Its
Personnel in U.S. Service

Chicago, March 17.
•Another Mganization attempting
to build morale among its ^x-
employees npw In the armed serv-
ices, and to keep them in contact
witli the business so that they wiU
be re-employifkble at the end of the
war, is the Balaban & Katl: circuit.

B.ScK, has taken out ft " blanlcet
subscription to 'Variety,' copies to be
sent to every B.&K. employee in the
armed . service.

•'Variety's* Special Service Bate

•Actors Equity Association recently
Initiated a plan to send 'Variety'
regularly to its members in the
.armed forces. A special rate was
computed for the mien in service.
The plan has proved so feasible that
'Variety' is extending the coopera-
tive arrangement to all other thea-
trical organizations — ^fraternal, labor
imlons, guilds, corporations — be-
cause of appreciative expressions of
inen In the services who find in
•Variety' each week an opportunity
to maintain Intimacy with evenU
and friends theatrical

Tire(d) of It AD

Hollywood, March 17.

Alberta Vaughan, silent film star,
is demanding custody of two auto-
mobiles and^two bicycles in her di-
■vori^ suit against Joseph EgU.

He's a casting director.

Broadway Jive

Business of Impatient cus-
tomer, in. a class restaurant,'
clapping his hands for better
service, and giving out to the
waiter, 'Well, what goes?'

Whereupon the waiter replies,
•All Right, Deep in the Heart ot
Texas,' and still continues to
ignore the impatient customer.

$648 PER MAN
FORONEDAH
RECORDING

■Vyhat is pyotiably the highest
amount of money given a band or
individual musicians for a recording
session was paid out by Mark War-
now Monday (16) to 16 men in his
orchestra. He paid them $648 apiece
for cutting , a total of 36-one min-
ute and 16 seconds transcriptions at
RCA-Victor studios in New Yorki
They were made between 10 ajn.
and 6:30 p.m. witfe five minutes'
rest each hoyr ^S^L
for lunch'.' 'Union sctlte! fQif^fie "Job
was $18 a record.

Transcriptions were for Lucky
Strike for use on various stations
as musical spot announcements.
Barry Wood, Joan, Edwards and
Lyn Murray, singers, all on the Hit
Parade on CBS with Warnow, were
used on 'the sides also.

'Shii^hai Gesture' B.O.
Inspires Metro To
Remake 'White Cargo'

Success at the b.o. currently be-,
ing scored by United Artists' 'Shang-
hai Gesture,' despite unanimously
heavy gunfire by the critics, led
Metro this week to acquire screen
rights to 'White Cargo.' 'Cargo,'
similarly to 'Gesture,' was a legit
sensation when- originally presented
in the '20s. Ann Corio has recently
been touring in it.

'Gesture' is figured clicking the
wickets 80 consistently because
fllmgoers associate the title In their
memoriea> with something bawdy
and perhaps even indecent. Al-
though they must surely • know
that the Hays office' has eliminated
whatever there was of that in the
play, before It reached the screen,
audiences apparently are still hope-
ful that there's enough left to be
worth- th^ price of a ticket

It took 31 tries before a treat-
(Continued on page 15)

ON SEASON OF 50

Tunert Raking In Heavy
Coin So .' Everjronre Hops
On Bandwagon — Par Sets
Pace with 12— Banda Will
Profit Handsomely

MOOD OF MOMENT

By BILL PBOGbON

Hollywood, March 17,
More musical films will come out
of Hollywood this year than at any
time In the cinema's history. Some
front oSi;^ guesses set tk« number
as high as 50, which ' woiild com-
fortably top the output of the early
'30s, the halcyon days of the filmu-
sicaL

Studio heads, influenced by grosses
on current and recent releases, have
set- great store by the lilt in the
celluloid. Contributing to this line
of thought are two other factors —
the public preference for light fare
and . the opportunity to cash ta On
the name bands, whose tunes waft
(Continued on page 18)

llasFffei So

WbyAUtfaeBunkr

AsbMissBosweU

Connee Boswejl's frankness- in
newspaper interviews during her
curreilt theatre tour has disconceHed
the advertising executives ' of the
Kraft Cheese Co. When interviewed
on her various stands. Miss Boswell
has scouted as silly announcements
put out by the account that she was
on a leave of absence from Its Blng
Crosby prograln,

. 1 don't know,' she has retorted,
'why they put out such stuS., To
put it plainly, I was fired. They
wanted Mary Martin in my place
and so they hired her.'

Cecil Brown's Lectures

Cecil Brown, CBS tommentator in
the Far East, whose recent criticisms
of British and American conduct ot
campaigns there led to his banish-
ment from the air, is being booked
for an«extensive lecture tour on his
return to the United States next
month.

W. Colston Leigh agency is asking
the extremely high figure of $750 an
-appearance -for Brown, and is ac-
cepting dates after AprU 13.

Fear Onus of

Authorized Peeling

Hollywood, March 17.

'Less covelage' .ls the new slo-
gan amon'g the fashion' design^
fers of Hollywood, relayed by
Fredi- W. Beetsoh, representing
the Producers, from the Textile
Division of the War Fcoduction
Board. Letter says:

'All designers must think along
conservative lines and not de-
velop -styles .which would lean
toward longer skirts, balloon
sleeves, or other fashlods that
would, show abimdant use of
material in dresses for stars, at a
time when the women of Amer-
ica are being instructed . to con-
serve materutL'

HEPBURN NO
M POISON"
TODAY

Katharine Hepburn, who only
several' seasons ago was publicly
labeled 'Boxoflice Poison* today ap-
xissti'is i'e the "hottest -smmTirln shew ■

buslnew. 'Woman of the Year,'
Metro film in which she is currently
starred, with Spencer Tracy, is roll-
ing up 'tremendous grosses through-
out the coun^, while 'Without
liove,' legiter which Is breaking in
out-of-to^yn prior to its Broadway
<)penlng,' Js grabbing stapdlng-room
trade.

And back of the current pair of
stage and scteen b,o. - clicks Is stUl
another that 'did equally good or
better biz, the ccllxdold and live
(Continued on page 25)

WincheA Warns Agency
To Hare Air Substitute
On Hand; Maybe Leaving

I<eilnen & Mitchell, agency on the
Jergens-Woodbury account, started
to look around Monday (IB) for a
successor to Walter Winchell, arhe
columnist has suggested to the agency
that It make plans in that direction
so that It won't be caught empty-
handed in the event he has to quit
his broadcasting activities. The im-
pression that Winchell gave was his
exit notice may be' limited to just a
few days.

Winchell, who holds a commission
of lieutenant-commander In the
Navy, has on several occasions asked
for active service, but he has been
told to go on performing his regular
chores; that he's more valuable to
Uncle Sam doing what he's doing.

Multitude of beaeflts and rallies at
which many perfotjiiers are beinf
shot-gunned 'lnt* app(|Stlnf hiM them
silently broodtngr faaitwl of being
called unpatriotic if ih^ speak up
in protest Qou^ liSs b««i increas-
ing by leaps ever tlnpe the ivar
started, despite the eftbrts of the
Talent Coordlnatliig ComiAltt^ of
the Associated A^n Jf Artlftaa ot
America in ^eiKr \Voric .and of tha
Viclwrj^ Comiiiitt«« in Hollywood.

What's bUrtliiit It that inany bane-
fits and raUjeS: ar« b^inf byvpaascd
around the Cbordlnatlni atid "Victory
Committees, wh\«b are Aippbfled t&
approve every fre* performance In
any way connected wltlv. the war
effort. Committees • are faHy cog?
nlzant that many ;ghows are going on
without' Iheir okay, but hesitate to
take -th^. disciplinary measures, via
th« perfoniler unions^ which It Is ill
their power to mete o\it against par-
ticipating actors. Like the actors
who peirform against their wlU^ com-
mittees are fearful of being charged
with the old lack of patrlotistn' bug-
aboo.

What's buminr the players Isn't
the appeairanees tbcy are asked to
make at events given the nod by the
Four A's, such as last week's giant
Navy Relief sjiow, but requests to
entertain a group- of 90 or lOp sol-,
diers or a wpinan's club of 304^ mem-
(Continued oh page 09)

firac^rlloore's Opera
Film for Par at 7SG
Guarantee, Mils i %

Grace Moore will close a deal be-
tween now and March 23 with Para-
mount -to make a picture tentatively
titled 'Prima Donna,' an operatic
fllmusical The Met soprano will
have to clear the title, for her story
bears the same title as the late ;^ltts
Sanborn's book, althoOgh the yarns
have notiilng in common. Her last
film work was in France three yeara
ago. .

Deal, which is- tentatively set, calls
for a minlmunt 'of |7,500 weekly,
10 weeks' guarantee, plus a percent-
age of the gross. Picture will prob-
ably be 'made in the summer.

Singer also bcfs been signed foi^
four .Telephone Hour programs on'
the air starthig In May, at th* close
(Continued on page 15)

But ItV NotOK for Sound

Detroit, March 17.

During the depression, hanks wera
converted into beer gardens here.

Now it is automobile salesroom*
which are going through a transition.
The latest was when one large
dealer took his tacks, which for-
merly contained tires, and used, them
as eHident display ' Counters lor
phonojrranh records.

laSCELLANY

W«dbdeedAj; Mareh 18, 1942

Navy Relief Benefit Record H^h
Grosser (156G) aoil a Great Siiow

By ABEL OBEEN
The Navy Relief benefit show at
= Madison Square Garden last Tues-
day night (10), ninnlng until un-
conscious, grossed |1W,000 for the
cause which, in the words of Lieut.
Commander Walter Wlnchell, one
of the prime spirits io Its promo-
tion, is truly a world's record for
a one-night stand, befits what
proved easily the world's greatest
show, representing, millions of dol-
lars In talent, the ticket sales of
$120,000 gross ($112,000 net) were
augmented by $35,000 revenue from
program advertising, and the differ-
ence up to the 156G was accounted
for by additional voluntary con-
tributions. Thus, the total ^oss ex-
ceeded earlier estimates «I $142,000.

Showmanship kaynoted this un-
dertaking from the vei^ start, fol-
lowing a sock buildup via seasoned
troupers— In printer's Ink and from
the realm of Thespls— so it's only
fitting that this show carried on in
su£erlBtive manner. But even the
case-hardened In the business, who-
take showmanship for granted when
properly manifested, curtseyed to
Marvin Schenck and Sidney Pier-
mont, the stage director, whose
railroad time-table clocking crowded
(Continued on page 94)

Painful Dental Sessions
Keep Moss Hart Inactive;
Intends to Take a Rest

Principal reason why Hoss Hart
Is mor6 or less inactive, this season
Is « prolonged series of treatments
by a dental surgeon to correct a jaw
bone condition that could become
dangerous, Wlien the extremely
painful dental sessions are over, the
playwright will take a rest.

Fleywrlgbt .wrote tbe book and
staged 'Lady In . the , Dark,' Alvin,
N. Y., laM season and directed
'Junior Miss' «t tjie Lyceuin last fall,
For the first time In years Hart has
no definite plans to collaborate with
George S. Kaufman, He says their
relations are entirely friendly.

Kaufman has been lufortunate in
his shows this season, not being In
evidence since The Land Is Bright'
flopped at the Music Box. Ifs
understood he Is Interested in Xady'
and 'Miss,' also being In on the op-
eration of the X^yceum.

IRVING BERLIN PLANES
TO U; SKY BIZ HIKES

Sbov folks* sky •chasing from N[ew
YorIc!s LaGiuardla Field continues. on
the slow' rise after ft had recently
slowed ;down to a .walk,

Irving Berlin was off to Los An-
geles eai-ly in' the week, aboard a
Transcontinental & Western Air fly-
ing carpet and TWA also toted
Georgle Jessel 'and Conrad Tbibaulf
part way to Chicago, Monday (16) •
The latter duo got as far as Pittsburg
when the weather man called the
third strike. Jessel trained back.
Arnold Ghige'ricb, the Esquire edi-
tor, TWAed'tn from Chicago to have
a look-see at the. mag's local offices,

Helen Jepson bounded in from
Toronto, on a Tralis<!anada Airways
flight, with plans ' to breeze right out
agoin tomorrow (10) for Hamilton,
Ontario, to complete a flva-week
High C toui*. Anatole Lltvak phote
the American way to L. A. to start
the week's sked.

Others Usted on tba American
manifests were Tyrone Power, set
for Chi after his appearance on the
Fred Allen showi Edgar Bergen out
to L, A,, Friday (13) In time to make
his own air show; and Bill Stern, of
the radio waves, who set for a week-
end on the Coast re the Gehrig pic-
ture.

Guy Lombardo and his entire band
were off to Richmond, Vlrglnny, on
Eastern Air on Thursday (12).

Flu Bugs Storm WB

. Hollywood, March 17.
Warners reported 00 employes,
Including four stars, on the ailing
list, most of them laid up by flu.

jSrrol Flynn is nursing an athletic
heart, Huihpbrey Bogart Is out of
action with a strained back, Ida
liupino It in the hospital with In-
fluenza' and Bette Davis is recover-
ing from an attack of ptomaine
poiKonJng. .

Winchell's Donations

Not generally known, nor did
Waltf r Wlnchell so announce it,
that the $5,000 check ■■ he pre-
sented to champion Joe Louis
for the Army Belief, '■Was his
(the columnist's) personal do-
nation. General impression was
that it came off the Navy BeUef
income.

Wlnchell, before and since
Pearl Harbor, has been do-
nating his $5,000 weekly radio
checks from his Jergens broad-
casts to this or that cause, for
Navy, Red Cross, ambulances,
etc.

'Qn Fred Allen's broadcast
Sunday night (15), guester
Tyrone Power announced he was
donating his check also to
Wlnchell. for. Navy Relief.

Bondt cost as little as $18,75,
stamps come as low as 10
cents. Defense hondt and
stamps can be. bought at all
bdnfcs and postofflces, and
stamps can also be purchased
at retail stores.

WAR JTITERS SOCK
HOLLYWOOD CAFES

HoUywood, March 17.

War Jitters has blacked out nite
life here worse than in San Fran-
cisco, which is holding up surpris-
ingly well. However, Joe E. Lewis
win resume activity at Ciro's the
first week In April, after a lull.

He'll double from his chores at
Universal, where he's slated for two
flhns. . .

Ted Lewis CUcklnjT'In S. F.
. San. Francisco, March 17.
Ted Lewis if clicking at Bal Tab-
arin and Harry Rlchman Is due here
next The Hotel Palace with Jean
Sablon is also attracting biz,

Benny Rubin Making:
Stage, Cafe Comeback

Benny Rubin, after a long stretch
in Hollywood, is making a stage and
nitery comeback!

His first nitery date, which started
Monday (16), is at the Bowery,
Detroit. He then goes to the Look-
out House, Cincinnati, opening
March 24, for one week, -with a two-
week stend at the Latin Quarter,
Boston,, starting April 10. William
Morris office is agentlng the. comic.

Kay Kyser Coming East

Kay Kyser will come all the way
east late . this month, whereas he
originally e;cpected to reach only
the midwest, He wHl play three or
four weeks of theatres and specially
sponsored concerts-dances out of
New 'York and do several Iniciy
Strike broadcasts from Army camps.

No bookings have been set up yet
ii) either category, SoWever.

Screen Actors Want to
Know How Any Film
Slack May Affect Jobs

Hollywood, March 17.
Screen Actors Guild is contacting
manufacturers of raw film stock to
determine what effect the threatened
shortage will have on futi4re jobs
for screen actors. Idea is to .get the
lowdown on the avallablUty of piB'
terials required in picture produc'
tion.

Guild is also Investigating reports
that various freelance actors have
been approached by studios using
the possible shortage of .film stock
and its consequent cut In. produc-
tion as a lever to force them to sign
contracts.

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; THE BERLE-DNG POCNT ii

•By Milton Berle

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Gombell or Judge for
Niblo's BVay Wor*

Hollywood, March 17.

Fred Niblo is planning a Broad'
way production, following a road
tour of 'Top Floor.'

Minna ciombell or Arllne Judge
Is to get the femme lead.

Tibber & Moll/ Repeat

Hollywood, March 17.
RKO .signed Fibber McGee and
Molly, top. radio comics, to aUother
one-picture deal Pair made their
film debut In Xook 'Who's Laugh-
ing' on the same lot, co-starred with
Edgar Bergen.

Jim Jordan's Father Dies

Hollywood, March 17.
Johnson Wax gave over Its Fibber
& Molly time tonight (Tuesday) to
the Government- for an important
broadcast from New York and Wash-
ington. 'Fibber' cancelled for first
time in seven years due to tiie
death Saturday (14) of Jim (Fibber)
Jordan's father, 00, in Kansas City.
Jordan went to Peoria for the
funeral. It's the first broadcast in
seven years that they've missed.

ABBOTT and COSTELLO

'Abbott and (loittllo go buekllty— buokltty on « dud* ranch, oarpylng
on thiir push'In-thcfaoa oapsrs among the cattle and .tha bronohos.
It eoaxei laughs from ths midssctlon.' —Walter Wincliell.

Universal Pictursa Chasa A 8anborn Hour, NBC Red

Under P«rsonal Manaoefnent.,of: EDWARD-.SHERMAN

" ■■ ' Hollywood, Marqh i7.

Went to the ptravlaw of my new picture, 'Whispering Ghosts.' When
Brenda Joyce appeared' on th)s screen they sighed. When John Sheltotf
appeared, they ytlled. When I came on. they Idl got up— and scrammed.

After the picture was over, Darryl Zanuck clapped ^me vn the back
and yelled, 'A ^fr is'hornt From now on Brenda Joyce gets the best
roles on the Iptl' ,

As I walked out of the theatre, 200- autograph fans n;shed over with
pencils — and aiked me to sharpen them,

. Breadway Department

Cliff Nazarro passed Tiffany's and noticed the moat hwutlful sugar tiara
In the window he ever saw in his life,

Now that all the burlesque houses are closed In New York, 300J)00 men
will now get the chance to become reacqualnted witii their homes.

Ben Bemle and Richard Hlmber have just struck a mutual bargain.
Bernie is' giving Hlmber violin lessons in return for some of Himber'a
hair.

Hellywoodlana

Billy Curtis, the midget, wh6 Is a great man wltb the ladles, has just
been made a 'Junior Wolf by the Hollywood organization, complete with
badge and friramlngs.

Bob Cobb, of the Brown Derby Cobbs, is opening a new, kind of res-
taurant. The celebrities will come In to gape at the tourists.

'Very happy to see Bette Davis In a comedy at last^aU because, really
and truly, I was running out of tear-jerker gags.

A certain quickie company is going to make a picture about an inex-
perienced servant, calling it, 'How Green Was My Valet'
Badlo Department

,The Music Box theatre, fr'om which my radio show now emanates. Is so
large I have to do a rebroadcast for the balcony.

There's a certain radio comedian who, before allowbig any one admlt-
tence to his shows, plays a record of Edward Arnold's laugh and it you
can mateiv it, he lete you in.

With. so many. shows going off the air because of priorities, the only
thing you'll be bearing soon is time signals set to muslo.

Tkere's No Truth t« tke Kvmer .

That Hitler accepts house painting jobs on the side..., That Charlie
Chaplin will remake 'The Kid' with him playing Jackie Coogan's role. . . .
That when Bob Hope suffers from amnesia, he counts benefits, . . .That
the House of Westmore and Max Factor's win merge.

Hancnall Deserlptlens

John Barrymore; "Booze in the Night' '. . . Fred Allen: "Deep in the Heart
of Texaco!' . . . Jack Benny: Living-stone in . a Great Big Way . . .
Charlie Chaplin: Tve Goddard good and that ain't bad.

.Observation Departaient

Met a jitterbug who isn't worried in the least about the shortage of
clothes. He just sent his long 'Zoot' jacket to the tailors, who made a
full summer ensemble out of the garment

' Went to the wrestling matches last night and the groaners put on m
performance as thpugh the Academy Awards hadn't been given out yet.
Now that rubber and sugar have run the gamut of gag writers, th(y
are waittng with bated breath for the next shortage, so &at fhey can be
funny again.

Eavesdropped at Pantages theatre: 'What a lawyer, his last client put
him pn' the standi'

Eavesdropped at Warners' HoUjrwood theatre: 'She looks like a ' pro-
fessional door-prize.'

Eavesdropped at Grauman's C3)inese: 'He got rings under his eyes get-
ting rings for her Angers.'

My brother (the one who smuggles Japanese shirts into Chinese laun-
dries) has just lnvente(^ a goldfish bowl with a diving board for the fish
who like to' show off. - '
Wbatever Became of 7

30 Pink Toes Fain It Dunn

Lang & Halev . 4 JVfannini; Sisters

Three Shades of Brown Shone & Squires

Afterpiece

The. Mikado Is going to look awfully funny acting- as houseboy in his
own palace to General MacArthur.

ALLEN CAN RETORT FAST

Comie Benny Vtatf Stepped Up,
Under Jiew Bnnday Spotting

Jack Benny and Fred Allen, who
have been carrying on a friendly
'feud' over the air for several sea-
sons, have intensified the stunt since
the Allen program has moved from
Wednesday to Sunday nights on
CBS. Shift briffgs the two comics
only, an hour-and-a-helf apart the
same night; giving their exchange of
insults much 'more ipolnt, " •

For the second successive time,
Benny devoted considerable time on
bla show last Sunday night (15) to
ribbing Allen> (incidentally work-
ing in a mention of 'Vatiety). Allen
subsequently termed Benny's story
a fanUsy.' Ha also referred to a
humorous column written by Ben
Gross in the N.Y. Dally News, In
which the Allen and Eddie Cantor
programs- were confused. Remarked
that any listener should recognize
the Cantor show by the sound of
eyeballs sticking out and hitting the
microphone.

Rise Stevens Cancels,
Gold Chases Her to Cal.

'Vancouver, March 17.
Unable to present her scheduled
concert here because of a chest cold.
Rise Stevens has returned to Cali-
fornia.

All her postponed Northwest dates
will be worked in between shooting
schedule of her next picture.

Heain Glued at M-G

Hollywood, March 17.

Metro handed 'Van Hefiln a new
player contract, with his next as-
signment In Tulip Tbne.'

Actor has appeared in sbc pictures
since he left Broadway last year
after a two-year run as Katharine
Hepburn's leading man in 'Phila-
delphia Story'

U-Boat Trepidations
Along Adantic Coast
May Hypo Ml Resorts

U-boat tanker sinkings on both
Coasts and around Florida, especially
on the Atlantic seaboard, wUl likely
give the borscbt circuit one of Its
biggest season.

Some of the beaches have re-
portedly bein badly;, drenched with,
oil, while restrictions, which may go
into effect, such as special identifica-
tion cards for permanept residents
in coastel areas, and blackouts, will
further hypo the frek to the moun-
tains in vacation time.

UA Calls Doris Dndley

Toronto, March 14.

With the Katharine Cornell pro-
duction of 'Rose Burke' folding ^•
night at the Royal Alexandra here,
Doris Dudley taxied immediately
after the curtain to Buffalo to plane
for Hollywood, where she is sched-
uled to play the feminine, lead
(Blanche Stroeve) in Somerset
Maugham's 'Moon and Sixpence'
(UA). Cast la topped by Herbert
Marshall and George Sanders.

Picture starts rolling Monday (16).

DeWolfe Uid Up

Billy DeWolfe was taken to Fifth
Avenue-Flower hospital. New York,
Thursday night (12) suffering from
heavy grippe. Ha had been working
the last two weeks at the Versailles
restaurant, despite lUness, with the
result he lost 18 pounds. It's expect-
ed he will be hospitalized at least a
week. -

The Nonchalants, doubling from
Clifford C. Fischer's 'Priorities of
1942' at the 4ath Street, subbed for
DeWolfe until Georgle Tapps went
in on Satin-day (14). ...•>-. -

Wednesday; March 18, 1949

Genhis Incorporates Itself

Walgreen's Habitues Now Have Co-Op Meeting
Place in Hostelry

Broadway's thesplc younger set
which for years has headquartered
in the basement of Walgreen's drug
store at 44th street, and the now-
dimmed White Way, Is ' opening a
'co-op eating, drinking and gossiping
spot of its own March 26. If. will be
In the "* currently-shuttered . dlninj;
room of the St.' James hotel, man-
agement of which professes to love
actors, whether they pay their room
rent or not, and' Ls donating the
space.

Room will be known as The
Genius Club.' The $600 or so which
Is required to obtain a beer license
and open the joint is being obtained
by selling f 10 memberships in
'Genius, Inc.' to actors In*the bigger
time. Jose Ferrer is acting as g.m.
of the -venture and donating about
$100. Money is to be returned to the
donors if and when the place shows
« profit.

'Genius' moniker results from the
thought that here will be a place
where Idea-rldden Broadwayites can
park at leisure throughout the day,
evening or middle of the night and
give vent to -the schemes and plans
which are on their mind. Leo Shull,
playwright-leader of the Walgreen-
Ites and prez of Genius, Inc., con-
ceived the club as a hatching place
for brainstorms.

Attractions ofifered by the spot are
many. First is a guarantee against
the annoying habit of Walgreen's
and other eateries of subtly suggest-
ing that If you've taken your allotted
two or three hours to soak up a
milkshake It's time you left. Another
will be 10c' sandwiches and 10c<beer,
with the profits, if any, to be plowed
(Continued on page 25)

OUTDOOR SHOW MUUED
W N.Y. FOR ARMY FUND

Inspired by- the success of the
benefit at Madison Square Garden
last week in aid of the Navy Relief
Fund, a similar outdoor show has
beeilk proposed by Bert Lytell,
Equity's head. Plan calls for spot-
ting the ■ event in one of the New
Yorlc's baseball parks and it is esti-
mated that as much, if not more,
could be grossed at lesser prices,
proceeds to go to the Army Relief
Fund.

A $5.50 top is mentioned, with the
bleachers at $1.10. Idea calls for a
symphony orchestra, with operatic
stars and sight acts. It has been
demonstrated before that other per-
formers can successfully appear out
of doors with the aid of amplification.

P. S. TO PW

N. T. Dally Tab Seen Given a Dose
of Own Medicine

PM, the New York tab, for months
has been having Its reporters wander
into important defense plants to
prove that they are not properly
guarded and sabotage easily • could
be committed. Last week the sheet's
own building in Brooklyn was wired
with an alarip system.

Reason, according to stall Info, Is
that a sly intruder, suspected of be-
ing from another paper, walked in
a back door, sauntered all through
press, composing and city rooms
without once being questioned and
finally wound up in publisher Ralph
IngersoU's office. He sat there a
half-hour or so, it Is said, and then
used In roll's typewriter to pre-
pare a note about his exploits which
the publisher found on his desk the
following day.

Morrow London-Bound

Edward Murrow, CBS newscaster
wm return to his London post in a
couple weeks. He is currently sub-
Wng.for Elmer Davis, who is on a
"orida vacation.

Davis Is due back this Monday (23).

Free-Lunch Baedeker

Leo ShuU, editor of Actors
. Cues, official daily gazette of the .
Walgreen drug store contingent, .
issued ' a Broadway theatre di-
rectory this week. In addition to
the usual U^ts of agents, man-
agers, theatres, etc., it has a
special section on how Indigent
actors may live.cheaphf. - . ^

Section lists all the bistros and
cocktail ' lounges in the Broad-
way area at which a .'Oc beer or
cup of coffee is. accompanied by
a free lunch. Specific viands
which each joint offers are
listed.

Rubber Shortage
Curbs Western
Stars- Personals

Hollywood, March 17.

Rubber shortage Is making this
year the final one for road tours
and p.B.'s of western film stars.
Every season during .January, Feb-
ruary and March, when California's
rainy season crimps western picture
production, five or six screen out-
door heroes hit the road and stay out
for three . or four months. ■

In' the past, they always -have
made these personal appearance
treks via automobUe . and station
jwagon, but few of them expect to
have enough auto tires to repeat the
usutd flrst-of-year tours next sea-
son.

Paves In ftlxle

' Spartanburg, S. C, March 17.
Boots and saddle boys giving tens
of thousands of Carolinas kids a big
winter.

No sooner had John Mack Brown
pulled leather out of this Dixie sec-
(Continued on page 22)

Bill Robinson TeDs
Off Mpls. Customer
For Racial Crack

■ Minneapolis, MaTeh~17r"
A male box occupant at the Or-
pheum's Saturday matinee took a
verbal lambasting from BiU Robin-
son after making an audible dls-
pf raging remark about the per-
former's color during the dancer's
act Although controlling his tem-
per admirably, Robinson did- not
spare any punches in voicing his
opinion of the offender, who, he said,
was no gentleman.

'Save that sort of stuff for the
Japs and Nazis,' he advised the
young man while singling him out.
'It hasn't any place here, and one
hardly would expect it in Minne-
apolis.'

The audience applauded Robinson
vigorously.

Owen Davis Recuping
From Major Operation

Owen Davis is recuperating in his
New 'Vork apartment from a major
operation that kept him in a hos-
pital for two months. A gall bladder
condition was the principal ailment.
Dean of American playwrights'- says
ho 'never felt better in his life,' btit
Is still very weak after medication
which he conceded he should have
had years ago.

Davis plans to rest in Georgia for
a time,- then will spend the summer
In Maine, as he has been his custom
for many years.

1NTD.S.1EDII
FOR MORALE AID

Rec^t Congressional Slurs
Against Theatrical Profes-
sion Stir Legit Defense to
Combat Possible Repeti-
tions — Point to Free Tick-
ets, Defense Botod Selling,
Talent Cooperation, Etc

Those Not-So4)olossal Days in
H wood RecaUed stt DeMiDe Fete

RIGHTEOUS IMMODESTY

Hope's Gag on *Variety*

An inside laugh in Para-
mount's forthcoming 'My Fa-
vorite Blonde' (Bob Hope-
Madeleine Carroll) shows a
closeup of 'Variety' masthead,
and Hope reading, 'Hollywood
Inks Percy, nixes Haines.' [Tnis
refers to 'Percy, the trained
penguin, which Hope (Haines)
handles In vaudeville],

Hope's topper Is, 'Walt'U they
ask me for an ad!'

Under the tmofflcial auspices of
legit showmen, the American The-
atre Wing is tabulating the activities
of the theatre in war work. Object
In establishing the records is foi*
possible summation later, when there
may -be criticism or belittling by
Congressmen such as the recent
Washington slurs against the pro-,
fesslon.

It is planned to detail diversified
efforts in aid of the Government,
both in financial and recreational
ways. That would Include the drive
to sell defense .stamps and bonds in
theatre lobbies, operating of the
Stage Door Canteen in New York,
benefit performances, camp shows
and all other amusements. - It's
pointed out that the benefit show
at Madison Square Garden last
week, when nearly $160,000 was
gotten for the Navy Relief Fund,
was only possible by the appearance
of topline performers. Same goes
for any ntmiber of camp entertaln-
(Contlnue'd on page 15)

GULF MAY DROP
SCREEN GUILD

Hollywood, March 17.
Rumbles are being heard again
that Gulf Oil will withdraw as bank-
roller of Screen Qfuild Theatre when
the four-year pact with Screen Ac-
tor's Guild expires April 19. Under-
stood petrol outfit will remain on the
air but with a lower' budget show.
Guild Theatre eosts Gulf around
$25,000 a week for time and talent,
with . $10,000 of that amount ear-
marked for' Motion Picture Relief
Fund's Country House in San Fer-
nando vaUey; DuPont is reported
interested in the program, having
become Hollywood-minded thls'sea-
son.

Relief Fund will have received
$1,130,000 from Gulf when the four-
year deal runs out hext month.

Buck and Bubbles To
Play a 'Jazz Concert'
At Town HaU, New York

Buck and Bubbles, vaude come-
dians and musicians, wUl be part of
the third in a series of jazz concerts
being staged at Town Hall, New
York, by guitarist Eddie Condon.
Bubbles will sing tunes he did in the
original 'Porgy and Bess' production
and do a Sand Dance, rarely seen on
the vaude stage today, but one pop-
ular. Buck Is listed as one of the
musicians along with Ray McKlnlcy,
John Klrby, Joe Sullivan, Hot Lips
Page,- etc.

Initial two concerts were musical
only with the exception of vocals by
'Lips' Page.

FOP aAliSEBS BODDT

Vancouver, March 17. '
Young Roddy McDowall's severest
critic went to see the British boy
actor in 'Son of Fury' here the other
night

. He was Andrew McDowall, Eng-
lish father of Roddy, here with a
deep-sea merchant ^p.

No Metro Disc
Firm Just Now
Says Loew's VP.

'Metro is not going into the rC'
cording business at the present time,'
David Bernstein, v.p. and treasurer
of Loew's, Inc., made that statement
in New York Monday (16). He would
not say that the idea which Metro
has, been mulling for. weeks ' was
definitely cold, confining himself to
the assertion that a 'question of sup-
plies' had. forced the sidetracking of
the issue. ^. . .

Ever since Metro's 'plans first V/ere
rumored responsible persons in the
recording and orchestra fields have
wohdfered where Metro expected. to
secure pressing equipment and mate-
rials needed .to manufacture disc:;;
Companies already in the business
have assertedly been bothered . by
war priorities on essentials to pro-
duction.

Tommy Dorsey's band; which com-
pleted a contradt with RCA-VIctpr
recently, was to have been one of
Metro's xecording names, along with
talent tied to the company via film
contracts. Dorsey was also to be-
come a stockholder and executive of
the hew company. He will likely re-
turn to Victor now, but also has an
oSer from Columbia Records,

Dorsey made some sides for Vic-
tor on the coast early last week on
a per side basis none of which were
connected in any way with his old
contract. He had completed that
agreement on his previous date in
Victor's coast studios.

Ben Bemie Houbled
From Yonngstown And
Into Local' Hospital

Youngstbwn, O.,. March 17.
Ben Bemie gave Tils two shows
nightly , at the, third annual Home
Show at S^mbaugh Auditorium here
last week, commuting most' of the
time ^tweeii the auditorium and' his
room..'' at ° St Elizabeth's hospital,
where he was treated for a' stomach
ailmetit imder, His real name of Ben-
jamin' AnceU. Bernie went to re-
hears^ Saturday (7), then visited
a physician who qrdered him to the
.hospital.

Until Tuesday (1) he retjirned^to
the hospital after each performance.

GYPSY SHOWEb TOO MUCH

MUmI Vaudfllmer Told t« .Caver Up
the Stripper, or Else

Miami, March 17.

Complaints from local women
forced Gypsy Rose Lee to clean ;Up
her monolog and don additional
covering for her . strip act currently
ai the Olympia (Par's local vaud-
fllmer). The city manager ordered
Police Chief Qulgg to investigate,
the chief In turn sent Ling, a traffic
patrolman, who decided Miss Lee
was reveaUng too much.

Chief ordered Olympia to clean
up or close.

Hollywood, March 17.

Film industry in particular and
Hollywood in general paid its re-
spects to Cecil B. DeMille as the
Grand-Old-But - Still • Youiig - iSxa.
of pictures in 'a double ceremony.
Part of the commemoration, attended
by 200, clpepna biggies, was the un-
veiling' of a bron2'e plaque . In 'Thft
Bam.' More important was the
award of a superrOscar to DeMille,
a statuette sculped In his own image<

BuUt to' shelter farm animals in a
corner of a lemon grove which Is
now the corner of Selma and Vine,
streets In the heart of Hollywood,
•The BaVn* made history as the site
of the world's first motion picture
feature. The Squaw Man.' Its; di-.
rector was a young fellow named
DeMille, then an adventurer iA k
new-fangled idea known as the
kinema and. now a highly- respected
director of the Hollywood Chamber
of Commerce. General id6a of the
luncheon w^s that "The 'Batn,'. De-
Mille,. Hollywood and the film ln<
dustry aU grew Up 'fojiether. '
.• All-BUr Shoir

It was an all-star show with a
cast of 'playerjs who .have achieved
worldwide note under DeMilte'a
direction. First he . paid tribute to
the. stars who had worked in The
Barn' ... and pass.ed .on, Wallace
Reld, bustin Famum, Douglas Fair-
banks, Jam& O'Neill, Oscar' Apfel
and Elliott Dejcter.

Youth is not a question of ye«r»
(Continued on- page 63) -

2 HUM A CTRESSES
FOR BttOADWAY PLAYS

■ Hollywood, March It.

' Two film actre&ses will be in play*
on Broadway lief ore summer- gets- hj;
Gijenda Parrell goes east for 'Life
oir RUey,'' after finishing In 'Three'k
a 'C^owd' at Columbia, and Geral-
dlne Fltz.ijerald i)njls Qut Thursday
(19) for New. York to talk ov«r lead-
in 'Lottie Dundass,' Which she prcr
miered at David O. Selznick's sum-
mer leglt venture In iSaaU Barbara
last yee^r.- .

Gitbert Miller produces t|irougta.
Eirrangement with Selznick.

Trade Mark ItsglBte't-ed
POtJNDEt) nr, fllMS BIIA'ICBMAN
roblloli^ W«*kly by VAIinnrt, Hw.

Sid Sllvorman,' Pr«clA«nt
IC-i W-est 4Sth Straet, Kew^rprk,' N. T.

SDlSBCniPTlON ' ;

Annual $io Forqicn 11)

SIngI* ' Copl«a C«i>ti

Vol. 148

No. 2

INDEX

BIUs 4»

Chatter 63

Concert-Opera 36

Exploitatirn 16

Film Reviews.. .' 8

"House Reviews 20

Inside — Legit . , . .' 52

Inside— Music ., 42

Inside— Orchestras . ; , 39

Inside — 'Pictures S7

Inside — ^Radlo 35

International . . , 15

Legitimate .- SO

Literati 27

Music 43'

New. Acts 48

■Night Club Rev-ews 48

Obituary 54

Orchestras r9

Pictures 4

Radio ,. 30

Radio Reviews 36 1

-Shorts Reviews 25

Unit Reviews... 46

Vaudeville r44

DAII.T VARIETY

(Publlahnd In Hollywood br
Daily Vai-IMy, Ud ).
tlo a year — %\t toraleo

Victory Parades, to ^ Sale of
Bon4 Planned By National Theatres

Phoenix, March 17.
Continued and detailed coopera-
tion with every Government depart-
ment, to mt(lntain morale of both
the home and armed forces, was
pledged jinanimously by district
tnanagers of affiliated circuits of
National Theatres at meeting here
last Thursday (12). As a result of
this action, discussion led to deci?
Blon for the various theatre circuits
to become prime movers in each city
lor establishment of a Victory Par-
ade and celebration with full back-
ing of civic and business groups.
Idea will be advanced, not only to
generate public enthusiasm, but also
to sell Defense Stamps and Bonds in
large wads. Speakers from Wash-
ington and film celebs from Holly-
wood are to be enlisted for the
parade celebrations to push the
drive for widespreail sale of stamps
and bonds.

Keynote of the meetings centered
on participation of all afllliated the-
atres in every local effort to inten-
sify .the war effort Meeting among
themselves during the daytime ses-
•ions, the district managers also or-
ganized themselves for the Spyros
Skouras showmanship drive, which
wlU get under way in all NT circuits
late in the spring. Spyros and
Charles Skouras, and other execu-
tives' moved into the Thursday night
meeting for general discussions.

Affiliated circuits of National The-
atres represented included Fox De-
troit, Fox Wisconsin, ^Pox Midwest,
Pox International, Fox Evergreen
and Fox West Coast. Among those
ettendLig were Spyros and Charles
Skouras, Elmer Rhoden, Rick Rlcket-
•on, Mike Rosenberg, Andy Krapp-
man, Tom Page, Bill Powers, Harry
Piepel, Dick Spier, Nick Turner,
Harry Huffman, Ray Davis, Hal
Baetz, Bob Selig, Bill Geehan, Henry
Poleete, Fred Soutar, Harry McLel-
lan, Jim Long, Ed Haas, Ed Jamie-
ton, Sen Lawlor, Al Finke, John
llamrick, Al Rosenberg, Thorton
Sargent, B. V; Sturdivant, George
Bowser, Stan Meyer, Spencer Leve,
BUI Tedford, Homer Gill, Lou Christ,.
Terry McDaniels and Roy Evans.

B&K CEDES ITS 250G
STATION TO U.SH.

It Cnn't Fly Here

Hollywood, March 17.

China won a dramatic victory
over Japan on the Warners lot
where a NiM>onese flag was
flaunting at the masthead of a
prop freighter on the 'Acrosi the
Pacific' set.

Six Chinese, actors, who were
willing to play Jap roles for ajt's
sake, couldn't stretch their art
far enough to play under the
hated banner of the Rising Sun.
After a sitdown strike, the of-
fending flag was pulled down.

Capra to Supervise
Documentary Fiks
For Armed Forces

TElE

Washington, March 17.
Frank Capra's assignment in the
role of Major in the Signal Corps
is to supervise production of news
and documentary films which will be
used to keep American troops posted
on what goes on in the world. Two
releases a month are scheduled.

The reels will be partly historical
and partly current. . Reviewing de-
velopments since Japan's grab of
Manchuria a decade ago, they will
bring modem history up to date and
explain why the United States Is
at war with the yellow race.
Orientation pictures, to be made in
HoUywood, New York, Washington,
and Ft. Monmouth, N. J, will sup-
plement lectures now . given the
rookies. _

Another series will Tje produced
showing what the enemy and our
allies are like, their methods of
operation, weapons and objectives.
These weekly releases will include
shots from conUneTcial newsreels
and similar sources.

iBefore starting the project. Brig.
Gen. Frederick H. Osbom, Army
morale chief, will huddle with pro
ducers in Holl}rwood to outUne the
needs and desires.

Seven Hollywood scripters already
are organizing the new educational
series^ Services of writers, dlrectori
and actors will be donated, while
the newsreel companies have offered
their libraries at cost

Jock Lawrence^ DX. Stint

Hollywood, Uarch 17.

Jock Lawrence quit hla manlfbld
pubUc relations jobs In the picture
Industry for ilmllar <iuty with the
War Department In Wsshlngton.

Among the postj he held was as-
sistant to president of the Producers
Association.

U5. Bonds, Stamps
Rallies Best In
Suburban Houses

Nashville, March 17.

Defense rallies held in suburban
theatres are exhibitors' best method
of aiding sale of defense bonds and
stamps, is the opinion of Crescent
Amus. Co. officials after a thorough
test of the plan.

In addition to offering competi-
tion to various sectors of a, city, giv-
ing small areas a chance to arrange
their own programs, the suburban
theatres' plan also clears the down-
town areas of a city from serious
traffic congestions which would re-
sult if giant rally was held in major
theatres.

In addition to creating .community
consciousness, the suburban idea
has been a boom to biz, as in every
theatre where Crescent has held
such a rally grosses have upped
considerably.

The suburban Idea as worked out
by Tim Sanders gets wide house-to-
house publicity from residents of
area where rally is to be held.

WeiheKdqr, Much 18» 19^

11ieatre$ %e Owdk-Goiiig In
The Interest «f Monde

Nke Quiet War Front

Hollywood, March 17.

There la so much noUe of war
preparation around the 20th-Fox
studio that ' the compatiy Is
spending $70,000 to btilld its own
war front In Sherwood Forest,
far from the airplane factories
where aircraft Intrudes at the
wr<mg time and n^s quiet bat-
tle scenes.

Studio Is burning up plenty of
valuable rubber on the long
drag to Sherwood, with 1,100
extras on the payroll depleting
scenes of the German invasion
of 'France.

Chicago, March 17.

Balaban & Katz has turned Hs tele-
vision station over to the Navy 100%
for the duration of the war. Station
cost B.ScK. $250,000, and the Navy is
using it to turn out technical spe
cialists in communications. Will turn
out approximately 140 trained tech
nicians in every 16-week course.

Station will prove particularly use^
ful as coverage medium for Chicago
area In case the regular stations are
forced off the air due to war condi'
tions.

War PifDesiBterest
Among Stodents in Pix
Of Foreign Codntries

Teaching Film .Custodians, Inc.,
separate entity set up by the Mo-
tion Picture Producers & Distribu-
tors Assn. to handle educational pic-
tures for institutes of learning, re-
ports a great increase in number of

travel and foreign'locale shorts. Rea- . .„

son is that high school and college fPf«c^„arf"ow a war We are

JESSEL CAMPAIGNING
FOR MORE NAVY SHOWS

George Jessel planed, to Chicago
Sunday (15) after the performance
of 'High Kickers,' Brbadburst. N.Y.,
to' address a meeting, purpose of
which is to arrange a mammoth
benefit at Soldiers Field for the
Navy Relief Fund. He will stop
over in Pittsburgh on the return trip
tor a similar purpose.

Understood that Jessel is in line
tor a Navy commission in the mo-
rale division.

students shortly expect to be fight-
ing for U. S. in these distance lands —
hence, the yen to see what the for-
eigo countries look- like to which
this country is sending forces.

Film Custo^ans handles all regu-
lar short features releases after a
year or over old. They are reduced
to 16-millimeter for distribution to
educational Institutions at stipulated
rental fees. Various film companies
in business made pacts with Cus-
todians for this, the unit carrying on
the actual handling distribution and
bookings at. the Hays office in N. Y.,
although a separata corporation.
Film Custodians has proved self-
sustaining, and may shortly show a
small profit

Major companies will be asked in
the next 40 da^s to renew their old
pact whereby Film Custodians has
access to oldie shortly prints suited
for schoolroom use.

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U. S. Borrowing I6inin.
Projectors for Troops

Washington, March VI,
Uncle Sam asked last week'for the
loan of up-to-date 16mm. sound
projectors to teach defense workers
and soldiers how to go about their
respective jobs. Shortage of alumi-
nuin, which has caused shutdown of
manufacturing, prevents the Govern-
ment from buying the apparatus.

The War Production Board noted
approximately 35,000 machines were
manufactured and sold in 1039, 1940,
and 1941, many of the. purchasers be-
ing Industrial firms. Army, Navy
and other governn^ent departments
are anxious to buy or borrow these
projectors for use in visual training
programs.

Lieut Everett Walsh Assigned

Everett Walsh, manager of the
art department of the Buchanan
Agency, has become a lieutenant In
the U.' S. Coast Guard and Is al-
ready assigned to duty.

Bob Fontainne, artist with Bu-
chanan, who has privately flown
planes, has enlisted in the Army
Air Corps and is waiting to be
called.

Jerry D.- -Lewis, -of- Warner h.o.
publicity staff, where he has been
doing, special features las well as
contacting columnists, reported for
Army service Monday (16). ife en-
listed. Warner co-workers threw
Lewis a party Sunday night (15).

Owen Davis, Jr., enlisted in the
Army Monday (16).

Bill Slater, sports commenator for
Paramount News for six .'years, has
been called up by the army and
will serve with the rank of Major.
Final stint for - the Par newsreel
was last week.

Tom Ratcliffe,. of Metro's eastern
play department, acquires his khaki
next. Monday (23).

FAIRBANKS HAS NO CINCH

He's on Snb-Chascr Dnty In.V-Boat
Torpedo Zone

Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., in
New York ' for a short time last
week, revealed that it's no glamor-
boy job to which the Navy has of'
dercd him. He's doing full sea duty,
currently being assigned to one of
the most dangerous jobs in the
armed service. He's on a tiny sub
Chaser in the torpedo , zone off the
Atlantic coast.

One of the tankers, sunk by a
IT-boat last week, was hit just four
qiilcs away from Whefe Fairbanks'
ablp was at the time.

Rowland, PhiUipsburg, Pa., enlisted
as army air cadet and left for serv-
ice several days ago. He's the son
of Austin Interrante, aotb-Fox sales-
man here. Latter's wife, Mrs. Marie
Interrante, will manage the house
for the duration.

Winter Marries, Flies

Montreal, March 17.
John A. Winter, (JFCT, announcer,
wiBds ' up his honeymoon Saturday
(21) to settle down at the Manning
Depot of the Royal Canadian Air
Force for a course In radio location.
He was married the week before.

PiU's EnroUees

Pittsburgh, March 17.

Walter Crood, manager of Harris'
Downtown Ne^vsreel theatre, who
was recently inducted Into . the
army, has been named to the field
artillery officer's candidate school
at Fort Bragg, N. C. Henry Miller,
who manages Harris' Eas^ Liberty
Newsreel house, took his second
physical last week and shoves off
for camp any day now.

William Interrante, manager of

Rowland wltb HaeArihnr

Douglas Rowland, former legit
actor. Is with the Army Engineers,
with Gen. MacArthur's forces on
Bataan Peninsula In the Philippines.

He's the -ausband of Bettlna Cerf,
who's currently In the cast of
'Nathan the Wise' at the Studio thea
tre of the School for Social Re
search, N. Y.

Jack Bobbins' boy, Howard
(Buddy), who left U. of P. to enlist
is now Sgt;. Robbins at Fort Dix.

Charles Seton, house attorney in
New York for Columbia Records, en.
listed in the Na'vy last week. He
goes In as a plain seaman.

Place was taken by Kenneth
Raines, from Columbia Broadcast-
ing legal staff.

Odeon's Bond Buy

'Vancouver, March 17,
Odeon theatres throughout Canada
have devoted a week's entire income
to the purchase of Canadian Second
'Victory Loan Bonds.

As a means -.of -.contributing to
maintenance of .public morale in
Umea of atreaa and the building of
good will, theatres ere lending tfiem-.
selves to a rapidly-growing -move*
ment urging people to go to chiirch.

This la being done in communities
where theatres are or aren't, open on
Sundays. In the majority Of the
country's cities and towns shows are
now permitted on .the Sabbath.

While up to now in various scat-
tered parta of the nation exhibitors
or circuit operator* have made up-
speclal trailers encouraging their
patrons to attend church, or in other
ways through handouts and the like
are'dolhg 9o, the first known instance
where paid advertising has been
taken is in Savannah, Ga. The Lucas
Jenkins circuit, -operating- five
houses in Savannah, went 'for a half-
page spread In the papers with the
notation that 'this advertisement is
published and paid for in the interest
of the churches of Savannah.' .

Ad is headed 'The Church Is the
Hope of the World' and 'We Must
(Hing to It Now for Strength and
Guidance.'
Copy points out, in part, that:
''We, who walk a dark and danger-,
ous road today, must turn to the
church for strength.' We, who loved

Tony Sharpe an Unsign

Troy, N. Y„ March 17,
Tony Sharjpe, music^ director of
'WTRY, Troy, has been comml?-
sloned an ensign In the Naval Re-
serve.

FORD DONATES USO 10
MORE MOTOR CANTEENS

Detroit,- March 17,
A fleet of 10 new 'clubhouses on
wheels' were presented the USO by
the Ford Motor Co., chiefly for serv-
ice In camps on the West Coast.
Each of the units carries a sound
motion picture projector and a li-
brary, of featture films; record player
and a library of both popular and
cUissical music; books, stationery,
mall box and complete . canteen
equipment.

Edsel Ford previously presented
10 such rolling clubs to the USO
which were put in service along the
Atlantic Coast and because of their
popularity the added contribution
was made for other sections of the
country. The vehicles were designed
with tiie idea of not only bringing
the USO set vice <into the bigger
camps but to wheel in for soldiers
and sailors on detached duties such
as guarding docks, bridges, arsenals
and production plants.

Stripperies Get Heavy
Play in N.O. from Soldiers

New Orleans, March 17,
French Quarter nlterles have been
doing big biz since featuring stripper
shows, which are largely patronized
by soldiers from nearby army camps,
One spot, the Puppy House, has
floor show made up. exclusively of
strippers, and has been getting big
play. All joints have special rates
for service men,

Lohr Get* Hla Wings

Camden, S. C, March 17.
Cadet Jordan 'T. Luhr, refused part
In 'Flight to Uie West' when Broad-
way play wai being cast, iMcause
you don't look like an aviator,' will
get his wings soon at Shaw Field,
U. S. Army Ate C»rps training
(Continued -on pdge 18)

N. Y. to L, A.

Edgar Bergen.
Irving Berlin.
Phil Carlln.
WiUlam Dozler.
Sam Fllashnlck.
Harry I^netska.
Anatole Lltvak,
Myrna Loy.
Bin Stem.
Ink Spots.

building the machines of war — the
tanks and guna and planes and sheUa
and ships, without which we cannot
conquer.

'Yet all these things that we are
building <»nnot insure our victory.
For victory demands of us a- greater
strength than mass of men and
weight of guns. A strength that
stems from the unfaltering faith that
right will triumph; that hate and
cruelty cannot endure; that mercy
and compassion and brotherhood
some day will rule .the world.

The doors of the church are open.
The light of the faith stiU bums. The
altars await a nation that bows its
head to God — and In that act of
himibleness finds strength to hold its
head up proudly against whatever
foe may come.'

The L. & J. circuit, operating only
In Georgia, Is headed by Albert
Lucas and William K. Jenkiha of At-
lanta, Paramojunt Is a partner In the
circuit. Jenkins is presently in N. Y.
on a brief 'visit

In addition to the local good-will
established by the L. tt J. action and
that of other operators who In one
manner or another are recomitiend-
ing more church-going, the theatre
is taking a step that is seen as a ges-
ture which cannot hurt futUre rela-
tions between the Industry and the
church.- ■

HARRY COHN SUGGESTS
RUNNER-UP OSCARS

Before Harry Cohn, Columbia Pic-
tures president, left New York for
a Palm Beach vacation, he expressed,
himself on the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences, in con-
nection with the Oscars. - He won-
dered why it would not be feasible
to name the also-rans, Just as in
other competitions. '

The winners alone are named by
the Academy's statisticians, whereas
it would be good showmanship to
also announce the runners-up, as in
any - other competition where one-
two-three rank Is disclosed. That
would lend extra distinction to, as
well as consolation, to those who
didn't top.

L. A. to N. Y.

Tommy Dorsey,
Sam Engel
H. William Fltelsoa
Geraldine Fitzgerald.
L. Wolfe Gilbert -
Walter MacEwen.
Adolph Menjou.
Jean Mulr.
J. L. Murphy.
Arnold Pressburger.
Stanley Rau.
Dr. Mlklos Rosza.
Bud Saunders.
Randolph Scott
GradweU Sears.
Herbert Sllverberg.
Red SUversteln.
BUI Stem.
Sunny Werblln.
Eustace Wyatt

Wednesday, Mtreh 19*, 1942

piGxinuss

EfflS STRESS
IILL-OUT EFFORT

. With everyone, Including exhibi-
tors, rapidly becoming, more and
more ' war-consdous as ' the world
conflict extends itself, it is believed
the time Is not far off where 100%
distribution of defense and U. S.
Government shorts may be obtained
and where theatres will play them
on all shows, or as many shows as
they can possibly crowd them into.

Inclusion of the war shorts on
every performance from the biggest
de luxe operation down to the daily-
change 'shotgun' in tank towns is
the goal of the War Activities Com-
mittee, Its various committee mem-
bers and other Interested parties
because, as pointed out, these shorts
carry a definite messagie and it is
important that everyone attending
theatres see them.

Some Indifference to defense films,
which has been noted in theatres
throughout the country is to be
stopped via coordination 'of exhibitor
and distributor channels to maintain
a close check on playing time made
available.

Government officials, who have
been keeping tab on defense films,
have registered displeasure with
playing time and Lowell Mellett,
U. S. film coordinator, brought the
matter .to the attention at Francis
Harmon, executive vice-chairman of
the War Activities Committee, in
Washington last week.

Exhibitor and distributor repre-
sentatives are to meet with the WAG
tomorrow (19) to work out plans
for extended playing time for all de-
fense pictures, in line with the Gov-
ernment request. The U. S. wants
defense films played at every per-
formance every day that theatres are
in operation.

. Where theatres are paying less
attention to the defense shorts than
they should, an4 playing them only
on certain shows, opening or closing
with them, or in other waya not get-
ting them to the maximum number
of tans, the owners and managers
(Continued on page 27)

'Have D.C. Cue Us on War Pix'

Increasing criticism Is being heard of the Government's failure to
make fuU use of films as a No. 1 propaganda medium. The beefs are
coniing from both within and without the industry. Most voluble in
the former category is Bosley Crowther, film critic of the New York
Times, who on Sunday (l6) gave his column over for the third time
to asking: 'Why our great motion picture Industry has not been more
rapidly enrolled to help get across to the public the facts and deep
significance of this war?'

Inside the industry, a top exec of the major producing outfit of
documeritary-typff reels haying wide theatrical distribution, squawked
to 'Variety': 'Why doesn't Washington tip us off to the propaganda
line? We could make releases smashing across the ideas they want
to drive home, but we can't find what it is they desire.'

As pointed out by this exec, the failure to get a comprehensive war
film program started apparently rests entirely 'with the Government,
rather than the industry. Hollywood has shown every willingness to
cooperate If the way is pointed. It's fearful that. going ahead on Its
own it might take the wrong path, or what seems to be the wrong
path, and open itself to terrific criticism.

Winant s Return
May Expedite Eng.
Pix Coin Thaw-Out

With America's ambassador to
Great Britain, John Winant, In U. S.
presently, the film business Is hope-
ful that strides may be' taken In
the matter of unfreezing U. S. dis-
tributor coin in Britain, Matter of
thawing otit the revenue still held on
the British Isles no doubt will be
discussed with Ambassador Winant
both via the State Department and
the Hays association. At least some
formula is expected to be suggested
before the ambassador returns to
London.

The eight U. S. major film com-
panies will have $36,000,000 or more
tied up in Great Britain by next fall,
unless some means is found for dis-
lodging the money now frozen and
to be Impounded under the present
frozen coin pact. It likely will be a
month before any new arrangement
(Continued on paga 16)

Survey Shows Even Isolationistic
Midwest Strong for Defense Fihns

Repeated reports In New York and
Washington that exhibitors through-
out the country are not giving full
playing time to war shorts are not.
borne out, by a national survey by
'Variety' within the past five days.
Actually, Ki not altogether certain
whether exhibs are really showing
the shorts during every performance
every day, but from what they re-
port they are doing, they are cer-
tainly at least giving moral support
to the war program.

There seems to be no doubt from
the survey of Chicago, ' Philadelphia,
Minneapolis, Omaha, Hartford,
Providence, Detroit, Cincinnati,
Kansas City, Cleveland, Boston and
other keys that the , pictures ap-
proved by the industry's War'Activi-
tles Committee are at least being
booked. Whether they are actually
being played is another matter,
with the exhibs 'Variety' telked to
claiming they are; whereas elements
m New York and Washington main-
tain they are being screened only
irregularly, and at odd hours.

.Surprise element in the survey is
that the Midwest, always the most
isolationist sector of the country, ap-
pears to be more enthusiastic about
playing the War Activitlei Commit-
tees films than other territories.

Only spot where there's a definite
squawk from WAC execs about
exhlb cooperation is Philly.

Chi Even Gives Marquees
Over to Patriotic Drives

„ Chicago, March 17.

Exhibitors In the Chicago area
have indicated and continue to dis-
play aUnost 100% cooperation on

defense and war activity films. Both
trailers and regulai; shorts are being
used by exhibitors generally and
are being dated, booked and played
as regular subjects.

On the Walt Disney short, 'New
Spirit,' -alone there were more than
300 play dates out of the .Chicago
area, which Is practically 100% of
the potential.

Booking charts indicate that the
percentage of playdates on the Gov-
ernment shorts and trailers runs
around 95%, with only the occa-
sional exhibitor bowing out of play-
ing the reel on an excuse of no
playing room on the running time.

Exhibitors have been playing such
10-minute shorts as 'The Bomber,'
'Women in Defense,' three-minute
items as 'Pots and Pans,' 'Food For
Freedom' and shorter stuff labeled
'America Preferred,' 'Where Do We
Go,' 'America Builds Ships,' 'Bits
and Pieces,' 'Army in Overalls.'
Many weeks 100-foot trailers are
tagged right on the newsreels re-
leased by Pathe, Metro, 20th-Fox
and Paramount, . and these are be-
ing used Intact by Chicago and mid-
west theatres.

Not only are. the exhibitors screen-
ing the regular federal shorts, but
have been regularly using trailers
prepared by the Chicago Commis-
sion on National Defense.

GROUCHO INTOvMUSIC BOX?

Berlin Also Trylnf t« G«t Fred As-
taire For New Mnalcal

Irving Berlin is trying to get
Groucho Marx for a new 'Music Box
Revue' on Broadway next season.
While on the Coast, Berlin is talking
to Fred Astaire about returning to
the stage in the show.

Berlin left a sickbed to go to
Hollywood primarily for a preview
of his film 'Holiday Inn,' (Par; CroS'
by-Astaire).

Joe Afler Qints Con. Labs

Hollywood, March 17.

Joseph ^AUer has terminated 18
years with Consolidated Film Indus-
tries as vice president-director on
account of Ul health.

He was one of the organizers of
the Rothacker-Aller laboratories,
which was absorbed by Consolidated.

If Prod. Is Cnrtaited
All Majors May Market
Reissnes Next Season

Though opposed to reissues under
normal circumstances, virtually all
the majors are making a survey of
old pictures for distribution next
season — just in case. Reported that
nearly every company will have one
or two reissues on selling lists next
year in event of curtailed production.

Offer from an Independent dis-
tributor for rights to reissue one or
two United Artists films was nixed
with explanation that UA would not
consider deals of this kind for the
time being. It was said that com-
pany was going over Its oldlproduct
carefully In event It is decided to
reissue any film under the company
trademark.

20th-Fox Is also going over books
for substantial releases of yester-
year which can be dusted off for an-
other showing and other distribs are
reported taking stock also.

This summer Charlie Chaplin
plans to reissue a sound version of
"The Circus,' produced as a silent in
1927, following profitable indications
for "The Gold Rush' which was re-
vamped at cost of $125^000.

Meantime, 'Gone With the Wind'
is again opening at the Astor, New
York, on March 31, marking its thlr.d
return to Broadway. 'Wind' first
opened on Broadway Dec. 19, 1930.

Hunt Stromberg
May Take Over
Wanger s UA Unit

Deal being discussed by Hunt
Stromberg ' with United Artists is
understood to contemplate the pos-
sibility of his taking over the former
Walter Wanger- company. UA some
months ago bought out Wanger's in-
terest and now owns the whole set-
up.

Stromberg, who recently left
Metro, and is now in New York, is
said also to be liolding discussions
with RKO. It has been repeatedly
reported that he Is being considered
to succeed Joe Breen as permanent
production chief for the company.

UA deal Is considered by insiders
as the more likely one, however,
because It would' giva Stromberg
the opportunity to make the type of
pictures with which he was asso-
ciated at Metro, rather than take
exec duties of an entlr* studio. UA
could undoubtedly provide Strom-
berg with the same kind of financial
setup that it had . arranged for the
William and James Cagney unit,
with coin 9omlng from the Bankers
Trust Co. In New York, and the
Security-First National on the Coast.

New Pic Making Setup

Sacramento, March 17,
New film making company, At-
lantis PlcturM Corp., flltd articles
here for th« production of films In
California.

Directors ar« listed as ' Edgar
Ulmer, P. R. Van Dulmaa and Andre
Dumonceau.

Washington, March 17.
Indecision on the part of several
Federal agencies about the role they
want the film business — both featur%.
and newsreel producers as well as
exhibitors — to play in the war effort
seems chiefiy respontsible for the In-
dustry's bewilderment and the con-
tradictory yelps about doing the
wrong thing.

Most constant Irritation, from the
Governmental standpoint, is the
sugarcoating that newsreel editors,
Hollywood producers, and theatre
operators seem determined to piit on
everything pertaining to the war.
Though it's acknowledged the whole
film business must help give the peo-
ple relief from strain and depressing
news, consensus' is the industry
hasn't done anywhere, near as much
as-it- could to jolt the American peo- '
pie into greater awareness that this
war is a serious affair, liable to last
a long time, bound to cause far-
reaching inconvenience and Jboth
physical and financial injury.

"The reason Washington hasn't been
harder boiled to date is realization
the British went through a com-
parable series of Headaches before
things were shaken down, along with
tacit admissions U. S. officials have*
not reached accords on major policy
questions. As soon as the. agencies
chiefly concerned with' public morale
—notably the Office of Facts St Fig"
ure's and the Office of Government
Reports — reconcile their own • di-
vergent ideas and work out a mu-
tually-agreeable policy, therell be
little .disposition to overlook Indus- '
try ' shortcomings— or tol^ate ' such
deliberate nioves to mislead tBe
(government as showing sequences
in Washington that are cUpped .
everywhere else — or listen to the ar-
guments about public resistance and
competitive influences.

Becornhe'.fli* Hnnuui EleAient
Films of necessity must exercise
self-restraint in telling the stark
truth, It is recognized. The- public
stomach won't stand too big doses of
realism — especially when It buys •
(Continued on page 16)

Newsreel Execs Pass the Buck Back
To Gov t for Any Tollyanna Hue

HEAVY TAX WRITEOFFS
WILL DENT EARNINGS

Phllly Zone Lukewarm

Phllaaelptila, March 17.
Less than 100 of the 700 theatres
in the Philadelphia territory are
regularly playing the patriotic fihns
put out by the industry's War Activi-
(Continued on page IS)

Although having two weeks to go
before completion of the first quar-
ter, picture companies following the
calendar year on financial reports
now look for a heavy decline In the
initial quarter earnings this year be-
cause of .writeoffs under the new tax
schedule. Majority of film corpora-
tions are laying aside funds well in
excess of the present taxation law
requirements but not quite as heavy
as those recently outlined by Secre-
tary Henry Morganthau, Jr.

If anything resembling Morgan-
thau's recommendations are voted by
Congress, it is predicted in the trade
that film company tax bill in the first
three months this year will be dou-
bled over a year agb. This will
show up in the first quarter reports
of companies with financial years
ending in December.

But with such as Warner Bros,
and (Loew's), Metro having fiscal
years concluded in August, the first
heavy bite under new tax require-
ments will show up in the last two
months of the second quarter (Jan-
uary and February) and all succeed-
ing quarters.

By MIKB WBAK

If there has been any past
tendency of the newsreels 'to paint
a too roseate picture of the war, re-
sponsibiUty rests with various Gov-
ernment agencies censoring the reels,
including the propaganda branSh
and its' attitude until now on the
war, according to newsreel execu-
tives.

Obviously not desiring to be
quoted, because they consider the
distributing company presidents
their official spokesmen, the editors
of the reels were inclined to believe
they are being made the goat of any
complaints by Washington agencies
that they have assumed a too 'happy'
slant on the war, Most of them
claim they merely tried to keep In
step with the Government propa-
ganda policy, which they admit and
have recognized for some time as
being overly optimistic,

'What can you expect,' asked one
executive, 'when reel after reel of
Government film or U. S.-sponsored
subjects shouts about the great
strides made on the war effort? You
can hardly expect us to toss cold
water on this terrific buildup until
we have some' Inkling from the
propaganda agencies that they want
to stick closer to actuality,'

While admitting there Is presently
too much overlapping and no clear
definition of policy 'on what we can
do' and can't' by Washington bureaus
and censors, newsreelmen are will-
ing to overlook that because appre-
ciating the organization process
takes time.

Ole Debbll Censorship

If th£r<! Is any' asoouiit of same-
ness and oniy a Itw tai^ or planes

shown In a reel, It Is not the news-
reel$' fault but the censoring groups,
they aver. Military censorship Is
strict and specific regarding the
revelation of certain Individual units.

Asked by 'Variety* why the news-
reels had hot used soiue of their
own initiative, one official said 'How
can you when confronted with so
many censoring bodies, with each
Individual unit only too willing to
crack down on the slightest provo-
cation. If they want facts, we'll give
them to the public at least as. much
as some of the censorship . permits.
I have long contended that the
public wan& the facts, no matter
how. shocking. Bi^t censorship re-
strictions up to pow have wrecked
perfectly good stories. Maybe the
censors will become more lenient —
but I doubt it.'

Regarding the tameness of the
newsreels, one high executive sim-
ply suggested seeing the censor.

'The' newsreel business differs lit-
tle from the newspaper business,' he
said. 'We all get about the same
'copy.' . We merely edit out or pre-
pare the story In keeping- with the
pattern of the reel, juiat as a news-
paper fits 'its news to the publica-
tion's mould. Hearst Is inclined
towards sensationalism.,. Twentieth-
Fox has a policy of never showing ■
dead person in the reel. Paramount
likes to stress the human angle even
if it brings In a bit of pathos. With
the newsreels getting exactly the
same material from all war .fronts,
it is a matter of fitting what Is avail-
able to the style of the reel.
Vocal Impact

'Some of the newsrooms are not too . ,
strong on voices. We can imftcMk
(Continued ott page-25>^

PICTUBES

WedneMky, Much 1«, 1942

nully Indies Worker
Callhig for a 40% Ceiling on Fix
And Profit Equalling 50% of Rental

Philadelphia, March 17.
Independent exhibitors serviced by
the Philadelphia exchanges, who are
up in arms against the rental terms
cf distributors, have devised a so-
called buying plan for themselves
which seeks to place a 40% ceiling
on picture bookings, and breaks
downs the playing unit overhead to
the point where the exhib is left a
lybfit equal to 50% of the -film rental
. paid. .

The plan was presented at a meet-
Ins in Philadelph;a Monday (16), at-
tended by 150 eiAibitors buying for
250 theatres through the Philly ex-
changes. Altsnding were members
of ■ the Allied Theatre Owners of
Eastern Pennsylvania, the United
Motion P'^ture Theatre Owners*nd
exhibs who belong to neither or-
6; . •

The forrnula Is broken down for
six-day theatres having overheads of
$350, $500, ;'750 and $1,000 weekly
with seven playing units applying, as
well as for seven-day houses under
the same overhead where 10 playing
units figure on the week.

Plan includes a notation that it is
necessary for the exhibitor to have
a profit margin of one-half of the
film rental paid the distributor on
thp big j)iclures so that the exhib
can pay for the short subjects and
take care cf me losses on the lov/-
.jracket features.

When Dualinr
It is also proposed that those the-
atres usin,!; double features with high
percentage pictures should receive
an alJowance of the cost of the sec-
ond features or a reduction of 5% in
the cost of the top picture, which-
ever is ..most applicable to the thea-
tT" in question.

\ revers!on clause is recommend-
ed under v.-hich a picture must gross
a fixed cmount or the percentage al-
location is lowered to a point agreed
upon between exhib and distrib
when the contract is made,^ this to
descend below the lowest percentage
figure lo a flat rental in event the
gr'^ss dips that far. ^

It wais agreed that a group of the-
atre owners would seek to try out the
buying plan on the Philadelphia eX'
changes' and report back to Ui'e body
at another meeting to be held' on
March 30.

. Under the plan, worked- out by .a
steering committee selected at a pre
yious meeting, percentage rentals
would be. pegged on a graduated
scale from 25% to 40% based on
business done by the plctur'es played
Plan. proposes seven playing units
per week for theatres operating six
days and 10 units for those that are
open seven days.

Formula, rt developed, to leave the
sxhib a profit equal to 50% of the
. film rental paid, calls tor the follow.
Ing:

'A _^0% picture must, do 250% of
the playing time unit overhead to
gross enough money to pay; the' ex-
changes 40% rental.

'A 35% picture must do 210%~of
the playing time unit overhead to
gross enough money to pay the ex-
changes 35% film rental. .

'A 30% picture must do 182% of
the playing time unit overhead to
gross enough money to pay the ex-
changes 30%- flbn rental.

'A 25% picture must do 160% of
the playing time unit overhead to
gross enough money to pay the ex-
changes 25% film rental.'

Save That, Too

Hollyivood, March 17.

At least one film exec is put-
ting teeth into the warUme
economy which grows sharper
week by week In Hollywood.
Exec recently bad X-rays taken
of his molars in a dentist's chair.

When the dental work was
done be fetched the X-ray films
to the studio and handed them to
the prop chief with an economi-
cal Sjunctlon: "Put these away.
.You never can tell when we will
have to use an X-ray of teeth in
a picture. " .

Par Drops 3 Directors,
MaDn, Samish, Padala

Hollywood, March 17.
Paramount droi>ped three directors
5n 'B' divisi n '^hakeup. Options
lapsed on Anton Mann, Adrian Sara-
Ish and* Edward Padula.

Samish came from radio and Mann
Is the only one to have made a pic
ture.

Michel Kraike, aide to Sol
Siegel, gets going in higher budget
bracket

UA EXECS SEE
WAR AIDING
NABES

Studio Confaraete—

Chicago, March . 17.
United ' Artists sales ■ convention,
headed by Grad Sears and Carl Les-
erman, at the Blackstone Hotel here,
has taken as its keynote the need for
new sales policy In view of
changed conditions due to trans-
portation problems brought by war.
UA sales execs feel that nabes and
small town houses will improve,
against the big A houses, and that
therefore these smaller houses must
expect ..to pay their .proportionate
share of rentals In view of upped
trade.

Monroe Grcenthal, publicity chief,
pressed home the point that sales to
exhibitors and release .dates must
coincide with the full blast of pub-
licity, promotion and advertising.
Stating that too often publicity and
ad campaigns had cooled off long
before actual lelllng to exhibitors
and release of pictures, exploitation
chief David E. Wesher pointed out
that' radio Is dut to reach new highs
because of Ia;k of. transportation and
that motion pictures must coordinate
with radio rather than fight it as
competition. Radio iiiust-be adapted
as an exploitative medium, he said.

'Jimgle Book,' new Alexander Kor-
da production, is being screened to-
day (Tuesday) and Hal Roach
streamliners, To Be or Not to Be,'
Gold Rush' and other coming re-
leases all will be discussed.

Besides some 48 sales and district
men present are Hal Roach, Ed Pes-
kay, John Shanks, Steve Pallos, Ar-
nold I^essburger and Heiiry.Brasch.

Hollxwood, March 17. '

George Sklar's writing option
picked up bj; Columbia.

Jean Porter inked acting pact with
Hal Roach.

Tim Holt signed for six more
Westerns at RKO.

Sidney Salkow** director opuon
lifted by Columbia.

Rex Williams drew an actor con-
tract at Warrters.

Dick Purcell Inked player deal at
Republic.

Frank Sully penned an acting
ticket at Columbia.

James O'Neill Taylor drew one-
year contract as cameraman at
20th-Fbx.

Ring Lardner, Jr., Inked writing
pact at Metro.

Gene Raymond's contract with
RKd to be held in abeyance while
he is in the Army.

Michael Kanin handed scripting
ticket by Metro.

Richard Arlen signed to star in
four more films for William Pine
and William Thomas at Paramoimt.

Daniel B. Clark renewed for one
year as chief of 20th-Fox camerai
department. ...

Carolyn Lee's moppet contract
with Paramount revised by Superior
Court to permit, outside pictures.

Johnnie Johnston drew new player
contract at Paraitiount

Bruce Cabot signed new pact at
Paramount.

Freddie Bartholomew Inked two
picture acting deals with Columbia.

Charles G. Clarke drew new cam-
eraman contract at 20th-Fox.

Tdrk^s'Redatiiig StaUs
ItrNatiohirRelease

With a representative number of
theatres rebooking 'Sergeant York'
at the advanced scales and terms
which applied on initial engagements
in such houses, Warner B|pos. will
hold up general release of the film
indefinitely. It had been slated to
go out at regular scales on general
release in July.

Picture is said to have grossed
close to $5,000,000 at theatres played
so far during the past year, with
over $500,000 of this amount shown
at boxoSlces In Greater N. Y. where
it received wide coverage.

Par Would Keep Play
Going Until Fdming
Of lady in the Dark'

Paramount, which has a financial
interest in the legit production of
Tiady In the Dark,' hopes to keep the
show operating in Chicago next fall
and winter until the picture version
is released In January. Start of lens-
ing on the film will take place dur-
ing the summer, exact date hinging
on availability of Ginger Rogers, who
will star in the Gertrude Lawrence
part

One script for the film has already
been completed, but it is expected
it will be considerably revised before
production actually starts. Legiter
closes in New York April 27 and goes
to Philadelphia and Washington be-
fore closing down for the summer.
It will reopen in Chicago in Sep-
tember". '

lews

On lIMn Sales Han; CanceHation
Gauses Under Fore; Exhibs Squawk

Casing the Gabbers

Hollywoodi March .17.

Now that the air if again
jwarming with film gosslpers.
Hays ofirice ii policing the lanes.
Stenographic riaport Is taken of
every tattler's mouthlngs and
carefully scrutinizing for overt
paragraphs.' . Sponsored gabbers
are Jlmmle Fldler, Jimmy Starr,
Erskine Jolmson, Hedda Hopper
and George Fisher.

Penalty for taking too many
liberties with picture personali-
ties is revocation of their cards
giving them the run of the
studios.

PATHE DOES W
COVERAGE FOR
ALLREELS

Odlom Adds 2,300 More
RKO to His Portfofio

NO IDLE ^GESTURE'

Wcingarten Claims He Loaned Press-
bnrger $19,000

Roach Glorifying B'klyn

Hollywood, March 17.
Hal Roach is becoming Brooklyn-
consclbus iri his streamliners. After
making 'Brooklyn Orchids' he comes
back with 'Brooklyn Bridget.'

;'Max Bear.: plays a- -health- if arm'
operator in the second Flatbusher. .>

A suit by Max Welngarten against
Arnold Pressburger, producer of
'Shanghai Gesture,' was revealed In
N.Y. supreme court yesterday
(Tuesday) when the plaintiff ajjplied
for a warrant of attachment against
Pressburger's property in N.Y
Weingarten claims to have loaned
the producer $19,000 to pay for the
completion bond on the picture.

Money was to have been repaid
by Aug. 1, 1941, either to the plain-
tiff or Joseph Auerbach, and
t)laintifl says that $4;000 of the sum
borrowed still has not been paid.

. 'Washington, .March. 17.

Floyd Odium tightened his grip , on
Radio-Keitb-Orpheum in January
according to the latest Securities &
Exchange Commission disclosures.

The Wall Streeter, via American
C!o:r a subsidiary of his-Atlas Corp.
investment trust, acquired 2,300.
shar p.'! o f RKO common. .. in _§ix
batches to boost' the contents of that
portfolio to 287,230 tickets. In its
own right Atlas holds 981,323 shares.
Atlas also obtained 100. pieces of con-
vertible preferred, raising its hold-
ings of this "variety to 51,171 in ad-
dition to 327,812 warrants for RKO
common.

The S.E.C. reveale~d'two Paramount
insiders swapped preferred for com-
mon ducats during January.' Austin
C. Keough, Par attorney, addecT 5
shares of 2d preferred, but turned in
10 in order to add 9 shares of com-
mon to his stack. Maurice Newton
acquired 17 and turned in 20 pre-
ferred tickets and got in exchange 16
more common shares. At the end
of the month Keough held 1,946
common and no 2d preferred ;New
ton, 10,665 qommon and 1-3 pre-
ferred.

Loew's kept on buying up paper ol
Loew's Boston Theatres. Adding 181
shares of the subsid and boostiug its
control of 118,984 shares of common:

Counterpart of the Associated
Press plan for newsreels will be
placed in actual operation with the
consummation of Inter-American
Relations Group proposal for news-
reel coverage In U. S. for Latin-
American distribution. Project was
approved last week, with final de-
tails to be' okayed before the end
of this month, whereby Pathe news-
reel would make 22 complete news-
reel' 'pictures for the Coordinator
of Inter-American Relations. These
would be released by the film divi-
sion of the Inter-American grdup,
with the other four newsreel com-
panies distributing the material to
and United Nation it desires.

Setup reads like the ideal A. P.
newsreel ' coverage proposition,
Pathe would supply a sound creW,
contact man and electricians and
film stock. This newsreel would also
provide five master prints of each
topic photographed. Inter-American
film division director (via newsreel
division) would hand Pathe the as-
signments and the newsreels, be-
sides Pathe, are to get a copy of
each story with the extra print go-
ing to the Inter-American group for
its own use.

Understood that the Inter-Amer-
ican group would retain exclusive
non-theatrical rights to le-millimeter
material as obtained for use in other
American republics as it sees fit.

Proposition was worked out on
angle that because of war conditions,
this is a nice way to secure addi-
tional ...dqm^stic .co.yerage to be fed
to Latin-American market. 'This is
predicated, on belief that ttie reels
are spending bulk of coverage dough
on the . warfront; hSnce, the' Inter-
American group is offering this to
help ' the reels and also cement
hemisphere sollaarity. Group is said
to appreciate how effective news-
reels are in providing suitable
propaganda. Approval of plan now
has to go through' the other four
newsreels.

Some of objectives of this U. S.
coverage for, the other American
countries is to keep the Latin-Amer-
ican nations pictorially informed on
events In U, S., furnish realistic
answers to Nazi and Japanese
propaganda and at the same time
show ' to these Latin-American
countries the heightened pace of
U. S. armameqt progress for the en-
tire hemisphere.

Trotti's Producer Movenp

Hollywood, March 17.

Lamarr Trotti moved up to an as
sociate producer status at 20th-Fox
after seven years as one of the
studio's top scripters.

He gets his first producer credit
on Thunder Birds,' currently film-
ing oh • location • at Phoenix, Ariz,
Next will be The Ox>-Bbw Incident.'

Allied States Asea^ national
hibltor organization whosa itanc*
with, respect to th« Vnltad Motion
Picture Industry's lalaa plan Is du-
bious, will hold a special meeting in
New York next Tuesday (S4) to dis-
cuss widely divergent views with
respect to the plan. Allied hopes
that all units In Its association have
voted on the UMPI sales proposals
by that time so that the 'various
points of view may be digested.

Abram F. Myers, general counsel
of Allied States, notes, however,
that 'Allied has never officially ap-
proved any plan except the Neely
bill and seeks only to develop a
plan that will satisfy a majority of
exhibitors.' Col. H. A. Cole, of Al-
lied's Texas unit and former pres-
ident of the parent organization, Is
a member of the "UMPI subcommit-
tee which drafted the proposals to
sell pictures hi blocks of 12, with
cancellation applying to seven of
each block that aren't tradescreened.

Following the AUied N. Y. ses-
sions, the 'UMPI subcommittee of
which Jack Kirsch, heading Allied of
Illinois, Is chairman, will reconvene
in N. Y. Wednesday (25) to discuss
action taken by exhib groups, possi-
ble revisions of the plan and any .
future steps to be taken.

Considerable opposition to the
UMPI plan, as -standing, is reported
within state unit ranks of the Mo-
tion Picture Theatre Owners of
America, but all units of the MPTOA
have not yet voted.

This includes Allied Theatre Own-
ers of N. Y., an MPTOA unit of close
to 200 members, headed by Max A.
Cohen,' also a member of the XJMPI
subcommittee. Cohen, who will urge
acceptance of ' the UMPI plan when
the Allied board of 11 meets, has not
set a date for - the meeting Of the
directorate but will hold . It prior to
next Wednesday (24).

Latest information Is that seven -
exhib associations have voted ap-
proval of the UMPI sales plan, seven
have rejected It end two have voted
acceptance with certain exceptions.
In some cases wherie regional exhib
organizations have rejected the plan,
they have made counter-proposals.
Most objections seem to be against
cancellation privileges, which under
the UMPI plan calls for two out of
seven pictures, .not. screened, for
exhibs averaging up to $1(H) In
rentals and one out of the seven for
those paying higher license fees.

Come the Big Guns

Hollywood, March 17.

New Wax Department training
film, '105-mm. Howitzer Mechanical
Training,' went into production at
Paramount, with location shots to be
made at Ft. SUl, Okla.

Picture Is being filmed as one of
a series under general supervision
of the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts & Sciences. B. F. McEveety
directs and Lieut. Col. Marlon P.
Echols? is technical advis6r.

Nixed in Mo.-So. III.

St. Louis, March 17.
Members of the MPTOA of East-
ern Missouri and Southern Illinois
last week at a meeting held here and
presided over by Fred Wehrenberg,-
prez., nixed the new selling and
opined that while this new selling
is a step forwai'd it does not give
the exhibs much more than they had
under . thp blqck-pf ■jflve j)Olicy, . _The
members of the organlzatloii also as-
serted that they preferred to buy
the entire output of the producer
with a 20% straight cancellation
clause.

The resolution, unanimously adopt-
(Continued on page 52)

Win. Fox's 25G Releases
1% Diwy to Theatre Corp.

A dividend of 1% wlU be paid
creditors of Fox Theatres Corp., now
in liquidation, as a result of an order
signed yesterday (Tuesday) In N.Y.
supreme court by Justice Morris
Eder, in which the court approved
the account of the trustees of the
company for 1941. Money for the
settlement was secured through the
payment of $25,000 in cash from
William Fox in settlement of a claim ,
of $7,000,000 by Fox Theatres against
Fox, and the dropping of a counter-
claim in the same amount by the
former Fox prez.

■ The. settlement also released $85,-
000 held in reserve by trustees, Leo-
pold Porrino and Kenneth P. Stein-
reich, in case Fox had won his suit
Fox 'Theatres has assets of about
$150,000 left out of some $35,000,000
a decade ago. Approved claims of
$8,000,000 will eventually receive
about 1%%. in dividends tliiougb,the
final liquidation. ' ' '

W^ednesday, March 18. 1942

picnniEs

RE-HIRE

Solons ID Uniform Fail to Repeal
Miss. Law; Still No Sunday Fix

By TED a. lilCZZA

Jackson, Miss., March 17.
Despite cheers of soldiers in the
galleries and pleas of two represient-
atives who have enlisted,' the Missis-
sippi legislature says there shall be
no Sunday shows. The bou£e Thurs-
day (12) killed the senaterapproved
Sabbath film bill by a margin of 70
to 49.

Minister-representatives begged
their colleagues not to 'ask the devil
to come in' as they led opposition
to the measure which would have
permitted SUnday operation of shows
within 30 miles of army posts for the
duration of the war.

It was the third time the house has
refused'-to relax the state's 120-year-
old Sunday laws,, which also forbid,
among other worldly pleasures, bull-
flghting and cock^gbting.

Soldiers from the Jackson alrbase
cheered futilely the speeches of Rep.
Ike Sanford, of Covington county,
who appeared in a private's uniform,
and Bep. George Woodliff, of Hinds,
who has enlisted in the naVy.

'The same God that said 'Honor the
Sabbath Day' also said Thou Shalt
Not Kill," ' declared Sanford, 'but wc
all know we'll have to fight.'

Woodlift reminded legislators that
golf courses, 'including one at Mill-
saps college, a Methodist institution
operated on Sundays and charged $1
green fees, more than soldiers could
pay. He described Jackson's streets
lined with soldiers on Sunday, and
the already overtaxed post recrea
tion facilities.

Films are shown on Sunday on
army reservations.

Ministers In the house were vehe
ment in pleas to kill the bill.

When the three-hour debate was
over. Rep. Thomas J: Reed, of
Natchez, remarked: "The house didn't
give these boys Sunday movies, but
at least we gave them a free show
today.'

'Brotherly Love' City

Philadelphia, March 17.

Theatre managers who are In-
ducted into the armed services
were assured last week that
their Interests would be pro-
tected back home by film ex-
change salesmen.

The exchange boys — members
of Motion Picture Associates —
passed a resolution pledging
'every available assistance' to
absentee exhibitors who are
forced to leave their theatres
without proper provision for
supervision.

In the event that the operator
Is called away In a hurry, MPA
will appoint one of its members
to step in and handle things
until a qualified person could be
obtained, satisfactory to the
owner, to carry on during his
absence. The stop-gap aijper-
vision by the MPA will Insure'
no loss during the interim.

The salesmen Also pledged
they would not sell their product
away from exhibitors in the
service.

Florence, S. C, OK's Snndays
- Spantanburg, S. C, March 17.
City fathers tave okayed Sunday
shows for Florence, S. C, due to
many officers, and men at air base.
Four South Carolina cities now have
Sunday shows. Others are Charles-
ton, Columbia and Beaufort. Spar-
tanburg, with 18-000-man Camp
Croft, stUl without, although bitter
fight Is being waged between preach'
ers and citizens with radio stations
leading fight for ban- removal.

Newspapers reporting as 'running
fight' but keepfaig on sidelines, ditto
exhibitoTK— ~-

CHAS. FREEMAN MOVES
UP IN INTERSTATE CO.

Charles J. Freeman, in charge of
talent booking for- the Interstate
Circuit In Texas, has been made as-
sistant to Raymond WUlie who, as
executive assistant to R. J. O'Donnell,
v.p. and general manager of the
chain, is in charge of operation of
70 theatres in eight key Interstate
towns.

As result of the appointment,
Freeman moves into the operating
end of Interstate, while also con-
tinuing to handle vaude and legit
bookings In theatres of the circuit.

long Time in the Saddle

Hollywood, March 17.
Gene Autry is doing a continuous
ridmg stunt at Republic, galloping
out of 'Home in Wyoming' and into
Beyond the Great Divide' without
WKing time to water his hoss. Idea
js to finish the two pictures in time
w 60 out with his rodeo show, open-
jng in Cleveland AprU 8 and closing
'"Providence, R. I„ May 26,

Great Divide' is the fifth of six
ui?, Z"" Autry's program for
'iwi-42. In addition, he has two
specials to make, 'CaU of the Can-
yon and 'The Bells of Caplstrano.'

Arrest Absconding
AssL Theatre Manager
Who Embezzled $3381

Cleveland, March 17.
Hunted by the F. B. I., bonding
company detectives and city police,
Robert J. Herbst, S3, was nabbed
here exactly five days -after he em-
bezzled $3,881.77 from the RKO
Keith's 105th St. theatre, where he
Was assistant manager. Herbst was
due to report to the army draft
board on the day (9) he took a
powder with the theatre's weekend
receipts. Instead of taking the
dough to the bank, ha said he was
so tempted by having such a large
amount in his hands that he grab-
bed a taxi and hid oiit in a lolal
suburban residential hotel under
the name of Robert B. Kertz.

Likker .and high living were
blamed by the former theatre door-
pian, who had been promoted to the
assistant managership only six
months ago. He said hs h«d been
drinking heavily over the weekend
and spent $994 of the. embezzled
money before ^being. caughC, D eteC'
{J^res'wefe TippecT'blf fo Ki? where-
abouts by anonymous call, saying
he had bought a second-hand car
for $994,. and also by the hotel clerk,
who reported' that he left $1,000 'in
hostelry's safe without asking for a
receipt. Police recovered $2,170 In
liis possession and confiscated his
car. Herbst is being held without
bond.

Misses Benson, Gilbert
New Metro Writing Team

Hollywood, March 17.

New femme writing team of Sally
Benson^ author of 'Junior Miss,' and
Doris Gilbert, who collaborates with
her on scripting of the Shirley
Temple radio series, has been put
under contract at 'Metro.

They have been assigned to the
screenplay on 'Meet Me in St. Louis.'
based on Miss Benson's Kensington
yarns in the New Torker.

Shoodng for the Moon

Hollywood, March 17.
Stanley Kramer was upped to as-
sociate producer on the David L.
Loew-Albert Lewln picture. The
Moon and Sixpence,' which went
into work yesterday (Mon.) on the
RKO-Pathe lot for United Artists
release.

Previously Kramer has been gen-
eral production executive and cast-
ing directorjtn 'Moon.'

DISGHAilGED ASST
TEST

AI^o $646 Back Pay in Suit
Against State, YoungS'
town, O. — Establishes Ini<
portant Film Row Prece-
dent

OTHERS MORE CO-OP

Cleveland, March 17.
Case of Clarence E. Wire vs. State
"Theatre Co. of Youngstown, O., lU'
volving a young draft^e's battle to
recover his job after he had been dis'
charged from the army, established
an Important precedent In^dhio law
records as the first one of its Ifind
here .and In the Country. With the
aid of Don C. Miller, U.S. attorney
here, the former assistant manager
of the State In Yoimgstown won all
rounds in his fight against the theatre
which refused to reemploy him. J.
W. Trunk owns that theatre.

Besides- recovering his job, he re-
ceived 17 weeks' back pay atnount
Ing to $646 after Miller had prepared
to sue the theatre-holding company,
basing his claim on (be Selective
Service Act According to this fed-
eral law, the company was compelled
(Continued on pag« S2) <

Us 1st Quarter
Net,
Last Year, 703G

Universal net profit for tha first
■quarter of Its fiscal year, enillng last
Jan. 31, amounted to $l,!n8,31S, as
compared with $703,795 In corre'
spondlng quarttr a year ago. In
both Instances this Is after aU
charges, but before Federal taxes
and special reserve. Company
wrste off $231,818 as special reserve
for foreign contingencies In the
Initial quarter of current fiscal year,
U's net, after writing off Federal
taxes and * special reserve, totaled
$845,941 for the first quarter, as
against $553,795 In the quarter end-

Eeb-^.U1U-

Company announced that the old
board of directors had been re-
elected, wlth^the exception of J. D,
Penick,' resigned, at the annual
stockholders meeting held Monday
(16) at Wilmington, Del. Penick
was succeeded by Allen L. Carter,
Jr., of Baltimore, as representative
of first preferred shareholders.
Penick had resigned some time ago.

Other directors are Nate Blum-
berg, D. C. Collins, J. Cheever Cow-
din, Preston Davie, John J. O'Con-
nor, Peyton Gibson, C. D. Prutzman,
Daniel Sheafler, Budd Rogers and
William H. Taylor, Jr.

Universal Annual Earnlnes

1930-40
Net profit except as noted:
(t) Deffcli

1930 t$2,047,B21

1931 ' 615,786

1932 t 1,^50,283

1933 ....> t 1,062,216

1934 238,792

1935 t 677,186

1938 t 1,988,524

1937 1 1,084,999

1938 t 591,176

1939 1,153.321

1940 2,390,772

1941 4,396,499

(1941 by Quarters)
First Second Third Fourth
Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter
$703,795 $1,055,539 $992,530 $1,044,634
(1942 by Quarters)
First Second Third Fourth
Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter

$1,518,315 •

Note: All of 1941-42 figures are be-
fore tax deductions.

Texas Theatre Owners Emergency
Connn. Setup May Be Model for Others

A Four-Door Film

A. M. Botsford, the 20th-Fox
pub-ad boss, was -kidding about
film advertising showing doors
being broken down In a mad
rush by customers. Then an-
other ad showed two doors be-
ing broken down; both In th*
outer and inoer lobby.

Botsford is now waiting for
'sotaie Fox film to open so he can
bin It, 'A four-door picture,'
showing fo\tr portals being
.splashed by uncontrollable
'masses.

Breach of Promise 25G
Award Vs. Former Fox
Theatre Exec Upheld

Wichita, Kans., March 17.

Award of $25,000 in breach of
promise suit of June E. Herd, Kan-
sas City, Mo., against Stanley Cham-
bers, former Fox theatre executive
here and at Kansas City, Mo., -which
had been vacated by Judge I.
Williams here, in 1940, stUl stands
according to a decision of Kansas
suprema court. The vacated judg-
ment had been entered on docket
hera against Wheeler' Kelly Hagny
Trust Co., which, Miss Herd claimed,
held properties of Chambers. The
trust company maintained it held no
property of the defendant and had
Judgment Vacated.

Chai&bers had also been sued for
breach of promise. in 1034' by Hazel
Spencs, Los Angeles, who asked
$50,000.

Eastman's Record High
Saks, '41-{181^l9a9

What may be a forerunner of
similar action in other parts of the
coun'by are steps set In motion In
Texas designed to lend aid to exhibi-
tor m%ml}ers of Texas Theatre Own-
ers, Inc., who ftre facing problems,
financial and otherwise, as a result
of the consent' decree, the war and
the national emergency.

The thought ahderlying the or-
ganization of what will be known
as the Emergency Problem. Commit-
tee of Texas Theatre Owners, Inc.,
is to help Texas exhibs over any
crisis threatening them due to loss
of business through shifting popula-
tions', increased costs of ■ operation,
distributor terms, etc

The Emergency Problem Commit-
tee set up to Impatlially look into
the problems of any exhibitor in
trouble consists of two excbangemen^
representing national distributors;
two representatives of large circuits
a|;d three exhibitors from among the
Independents of the state.

Distributor reps are Leroy Bickel,
branc^manager for Metro at Dal-
las, and liloyd Rust of the Republic
exchange there. 9. J. O'Donnell,
v.p. and general manager of the
Interstate circuit, who recommended
means of giving aid to needy exhibs,
and R. E. Griffith, head of the .
Griffith chain, are the major circuit
members of the committee, whUe
the independents aro C. W. Sadler ot
Weatherford, 'Tex.; Tom' White of
Burnett and H. R. Bisbee of Gar-
land.

Pnr DEUXERS, NABES
TUT B.O. GENERAUY

Rochesterv- N. Y., March 17.
Eastman Kodak set an alltime
high In sales In 1941 with a total of
$181,831,909 for the company and
wholly owned subsidiaries in the
Western Hemisphere, according to
the company's annual report Added
to this was an operating Income of
$51,758,743.

Net income of the conq>any was

$2,500,000 to create a reserve fund
for possible Inventory losses due to
the war. Rochester's No. 1 Industry
also wrote off ^14,978,528 net invest-
ment in ' subsidiaries in enemy and
enemy-occupied countries.

Provision for income and excess
profits taxes also set a new high of
$20,000,000 compared with $0,173,218
paid In 1940.

Expansion last year principally
for new plants in Rochester and
KingspOrt, Tenn., cost $18,330,082
for land, buildings and equipment.

The Kodak company also lianded
out \asi week the largest wage divi-
dend in its history, $3,740,850 to 31,-
588 employees in the Western Hemis-
phere. Of this $2,760,241 went to
20,700 Rochester employes.

The 1941 net Income of $21,588,790
compared with $20,076,739 in 1940
with earnings per share $8.57 and
$7.96 respectively.

Dozier Feted, Back West

Pittsburgh, March 17.
General price hike has been put
into effect here In all downtown
first-run houses as well as flock of
nabes. Rise in admission scales, first '
here In some tlms, was launched by .
WB and okayed by competition rif^it
down the line, including Harris chain, .
Shea and Loew's, although letter's
sola property locally, Pena, Is
aligned with Warners in booking ar-
rangement.

Morning and afternoon prices re-
main same, 30c and 40c, iiieludinf
tax, in key spots but evening ad-
mission has been pegged a nickel
higher, going from four bits to 55c.
Additionally, early bird scale has
been eliminated on Sattirdajrs and

way here until 2 p.m. on account
of Pennsylvania Blue Laws, It's
straight evening price, 69c, from
opening to close.

Figured on average attendance of
late that rearrangement of prices,
together with the Sc boost, 'wiU mean
extra $1,000-$1,800 per week, de-
pending on size of house.

William Dozier, Paramount's Coast
story editor, left New York for the
Coast Monday (16) after a week of
o.o.lng Broadway plays and confab-
bing with writers', agents and pub-
lishers.

He was hosted by • the eastern
story department at a cocktail party
Friday (13) to which story eds from
other companies, agents and others
were invited. It was Dozier's Initial
trip to New York since assuming
the Par pqst,

Siegel Steps Up at Far

Hollywood, March 17.

Shift at Paramount moves Sol C.
Siegel into a new berth as a member
of the B. G. De Sylva production
unit. Siegel's present 'producer
chore will be assumed next month
by Walter MacEwen.

liacEwen, after producing two
pictures at Warners, settled hia
contract _ and moves over to Para-
mount in a production executive
capacity.

Assignment starts April 3, after-
MacEwen ■ has returned from an
eastern vacation.

Dietz Laid Up

Howard Dietz, Loew's v.p. director
of advertising and publicity, active
on numerous show biz committees
working for various Government na-
tional defense agencies, is ill in hos--
pital due to overwork.

Dietz, who produced the U. S.
Treasury Hour radio program, has
been away from tils office for more
than a week.

8

FILM REVIEWS

Wednesday, March 18, 1^42

RIO RITA

(WITH SONGS)
'Metn nlwuie of Pandro S. Bermoa pro-
duction. SUrs Abbott and Coatello; («at-
urea Kathrm Qniyaon, John Carroll, Broa
Voluala. Directed by S. 3yJvnn Simon.

• Screenplay, Richard Connell and Oladya
Lehman; apeclal material, John Qmnt;
songa, HatT7 TIemey, Joaeph McCarthy,
Harold Arlen, B. T. Harbuts; muale direc-
tor, HertMrt Stothart; arranEementa, Uur-
ray Cutter. Imo Amaud, Paul Marquardt;
cnment, Geonre Folaoy; apeclal. effecta.
Warren Newcombe; editor, Ben Lewfa.
Trndeahown March 13, '42. Runnlns time,
01 MINH.

'Doc' Bud Abbott

'Wlahy' :..Lou Coatello

Rita Wlnolow Kathtvn Qrayaon

ntcardo Montera*. John Carroll

Lucette Brunjwick Patricia Dane

' Mnurlce Cralndall.... 1'om Conway

Jake ...Peter Whitney

Harry Ganlley Barry Nelaon

and Broa Voluala

Like all Abbott and Costello pic-
hires to date, on their home Univer-
sal lot and on borrowed tinie (this
one for Metro), the stars carry it to
big bozofflce results. And, like all
A. .& C. entries, without them it
would be so much celluloid.

'RicT'Rita' is two other fellers, so
far as the oft-fllmed version of the
former Ziegfeld stage musical is
concerned, Metro has used but the
original title song and the 'Rangers'
number; both by Harry Tiemey and
Joe McCarthy, plus an additTonal
ballad by Harold Arlen and Yip Har-
burg (a Eo-so 'Long Before You
Came Along').

Script relies principally on the
Nazi espionage story concocted by
Richard Connell and Gladys Leh-
man. It's localed in a Texas border
town; the plot has to do with mys-
terious radiocasts to a foreign power;
the manager (Tom Conway) of
the heroine's (Kathrm Grayson) ho-
tel is really a Nazi 'spy; his girl
friend Patricia Dane Is (or isn't) a
G-woman In disguise (the plot's con-
fusing on this point), end Abbott
and Costello, along with hero John
Carroll, save the day In the nick.
Ifs that kind of a plot
. But the stars' lavorite scrlpter,
John Grant, has given them enough
hokum material to pimctuate the
proceedings; and when they're stuck
they bring in the apple-changing
bit; the *mirage' (which turns out to
be real, choice food for the hungry
vagrants); the talking dog (a swal-
lowed radio bit); the centrifugally
whirling auto at the gas-station,
which. distresses Lou Costello while
Bud. Abbott berates him, and, later,
also tends to foil the villains; the
laundry-chute hokum, secret code,
mysterious radiocasts, etc.

between, Metro's Brazilian Im-
' portation, Eros. Volusia, does a
rather .frank seml-coochlng Latin
excerpt' Touted as the glamour gal
of the Carmen Amaya school of
terpers, she's been given effective
presentation In' the fiesta setting,
supported by a fenime troupe. An
arresting personality, Senorita 'Vo-
lusia can cash in on her Metro
buildup in ensuing platform and
cafe bookings, where, she will find
good response.

John Carroll, playing a star radio
crooner, returning to the scene of
his Texan chilhood, Is 'vocally Im-
pressive, along with his general ef-
fect as the Juve lead. Ditto Kathryn
Grurson, who evidences a fine col-
oratura sopamo with thi Shadow
Song from 'Dhjora' (incidentally a
new classic excerpt for screen audi-
ences, which, by now, what with
Grace Moore, Deanna Durbin, et- al.,
must have heard almost all of the
more famiQar arias). Miss Grayson's
vocal prowess is unusual and pre-
sumably falls into the groove where
Metro might have a successor to
Jeanette MacDonald in r^erve. Car-
roll handles the title song; and the

* V -lually familiar TElan^rer's -Sorlg"'ls
likewise reprised by Miss Grayson
and himself, backed by galloping
tooop which, for a time, lends the
Sim an aura of becoming a de luxe
musical western. But It soon cuts
deeply into the . counter-plot idiom

Director S. Sylvan Simon has
spaced the A. & C. nonsensities with
a good sense of .timing to properly
break up the hoke, the libretto keep-
ing It hanging together. There are
a couple Of reprises 6fi soirie of the
business, such as the tequilla-stew
scene (blinking owl) and the whirl-
ing-dervish effects at the gas station
jmd In-the laundry-chute, but withal
the 91 minutes pace -well. It's built
lor laughs, and since laughs spell
b.o. nowadays, the film is well un-
derwritten. Xbel.

The Great Man's Lady

^Paramount releaee of William A. Well-
man production, directed by Wellman.
fiSn Barbara, Stanwyck, Joel McCrea: fea-
torea Brian Donlevy,. Screenplay, W. L.

ftor^ h„ v*i-^°!?,°"«"' on "hort

Bcott, aeet director, Joseph Tounnnnan
Jjarteahown March 20, -iZ. nunSlng^Ilme:

&'H^?l!^v.v.v.-.v.="''''?oeT"M7c*;5!:
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Glrl Biographer ! .Kat«e''tt

Prank M. Thomae

— \

'The Great Man's Lady's boxofllce
and entertainment slgnlflcanci' will
be best measured by the fine per-

formance of Barbara Stanwyck. She
alone must carry It

Paramount has given this draina
the usual production accoutrements
that go with 'A' pictures, but the
disturbance to the flUn's continuity
through the use of the trite flashback
technique, plus a tedious story of the
pioneering west, tend to slow the pic
ture to a walk.

It's a conglomerate of the familiar
story of a woman's inspiration to a
man and his ultimate achievement
from a pioneer in the west to a seat
in the u. S. Senate. It is a story of
intense drama, yet It leaves one
strangely unmoved.

Opening of the picture shows Miss
Stanwyck as a centenarian being in-
terviewed by reporters upon the un-
veiling of a statue of the late Senator
Ethan Hoyt The reporters are in-
tent on confirming the frequent ru-
mors that she was the secret wife of
the senator. This she always denied
because the known fact would,
through a force of circumstance,
have brought disgrace upon the
memory of the deceased man.

However, after dismissing the re-
porters with her usual indlgnance,
Hannah Sempler (Miss Stanwyck)
finally relents and tells the story to
a young girl writing the biography
of the great man. That's where the
flashback technique comes in. "The
film forms a liberal background for
Miss Stanwyck's dramatic pyrotech-
nics. „ ...

Joel McCrea « dlsappomtlng as
Ethan Hoyt, with whom Miss Stan-
wyck elopes at the age of 16 from her
stuffy Philadelphia home. SlcCreas
role has been written •with little re-
gard for consistency, for he's alter-
nately indicated as a sturdy symbol
of the old west and a weakling.

Brian Donlevy', as a gambler, con-
tributes a steady performance in the
triangle, but the writing generally
gives him the worst of It Rest of
the performances are tantamount to
bits.

Director William A...Wellman, who
also produced, failed to keep the film
moving briskly, though he was re-
tarded considerably by the basic
yam. Naka.

Fingers at the Window

Hollywood, March 14.
Metro-Goldwyn-Moyer releaaa ot Irvlnf,
Starr production. Featurea Lew. Ayxee, La-
ralne Day, Baall Rathbone. Directed by
Ctaarlea Lederer. Screenplay by Rbae Cay*
lor and Iiawrence P. Ba^mann, from aAty
by Roae Caylor; camera, Harry Stiadling
and Charlea I,awton; editor, Geoi^ Boem-
lar. Tradeahown In L,. A. March 13, '42.
Ruimlns time, 7S MINB.

Oliver DuOy. Lew Ayrea

Edwlna Brown Laralne Day

Dr. H. Santella Baall Rathbone

Dr. -Cromwell Walter Klngaford

Dr. Knrt Immelman Mllea Hander

Inapector Qallagher...;. Charlea D, Brown

Lieutenant AUIaon CIIS Clark

Lieutenant BchaeSer Jamea Flavin

Ogllvle Ruaaell Oleaion

Devlan i.... William Tannen

Haguay k Mark Danlela

Krum Bert Roach

Dr. Chnndley .Ruaaell HIcka

Fred Blxley Charlea Wagenhelm

Officer O'Garrlty Robert Homana

Tingers at the Window' is a typical
whodunit aimed to catch attention
from mystery-inclined addicts. With
the three topllning names, it carries
strong marquee 'values for supporting
spots in the regular dual runs.

Lew Ayres plays a- ham actor who
saves Laralne Day-<rom the depreda-
tions of an ax wl^lder, and goes on to
expose the mastermind behind the
murderer. Miss Day is the marked
victim of attack, until Ayres stroUs
onto the scene, to protect her. De-
spite the many devious and familiar
expositions of -shadowy figures, and
all the airxlllary theatrics, both
Ayres and Miss Day live through to
the finish for the final clinch, when
Basil Rathbone Is exposed as the sin-
Ister'-figure behlntf'lt' atl:-=a5>-"ejt--
pected.

Cast is well set up, 'with director
Charles Lederer grooving proceed-
ings in regulation whodunit fashion
to accentuate every dramatic angle
possible. Despite the obvious con-
clusion, there's more than passing in-
terest in the mystery setup until the
last reel, when the expose provides
credible reasons behind the crime
wave.

Production mounting is adequate
for this nominal' B ofiCerlng. Wolt

TUTTLES OF TAHITI

Hollywood, March 17.
RKO release ot Sol Leaaer production.
Stars Cbarlea Laughton; features Jon Hall.
Directed by Charles VIdor. Screenplay by
S. Lewis Mcltzer and Robert Coraon; adap-
tation by Jamea Hilton from novel. 'No
More Qaa,' by Charlea Nordhoff and jamea
Norman Kail; camera, Nicholas Mueuraca;
apeclal eltecta, Vernon L. Walker; editor,
Prederlc Knudtecn: dialog director, Paul
Le Pare: aeat. director. Edward Kllly.
Tradeahown In L. A, March 16, '42. Run-
ning time, ei MIN8.

Jonna Charles Laughton

Cheater ...Jon Hall

Tnmaro Peggy Drake

Dr. Blondin Victor Francen

Oene Reynolda

5''""y •■ Florence Bates

.Tenacn. curt Sola

stama Ruau Adeline de Walt Reynolds

Nat Mala

^'^o- Leonard Sues

gff'? Jody ailbert

5""-'. Tommy Cook

?«Po" Jack Carr

JJonu Jimmy Amea

^"•fl Emie Adams

Tupa Jim Spencer

"'«•'■- ■ Alma Ross

Teddy Infuhr

This is' a fairly close cinematic ver-
sion of the Charles Nordhoff and
James Norman Hall novel narrating
the adventures of bn^ Indigent and
irresponsible family of large num-

Mimatore Reviews

<Uo Blt»' (M-G) (Songs). Ab-
bott & Costello; that's all, brother.
OK for the b.o.

The Great Han't Lady' (Par).
Disappointing with Barbara
Stanwydt's excellent perform-
ance the Tote b.o. lure.

'Finfers at the Window*
(M-G). Mystery meller aimed
at the whodunit addicts. Good
support fare of its type.

The TotUea of Tahiti' (RKO).
Charles Laughton and. Jon HaU
in lightweight film that will tab
nominal biz In regular runs.

'My Favorite Blonde* (Par).
Bob Hope • Madeleine Carroll
starrer, surefire for boxoftice.

'A Gentleman After. Dark''
(UA). Crook drama that went
wrong; modest grosser on dual
setups.

<The Mayor of 44th Street'

(RKO) (Songs). Topnotch B
entry provides general entertain-
ment as solid dualer.

This Gun For Hire' (Far).
Low calibre melodrama, meriting
attention only via Veronica Lake
and new player, Alan Ladd,

Troe to the Army' (Par)
(Songs). Lowbrow comedy In
an army camp filled 'with fa-
milar material. Mild dualer.

'Henry and Dlisy* (Far).
Latest in the Aldrlch Family
series Is below par.

The Bashful Bachelor' (RKO).
"Lum and Abner' comedy that's
moderate entertainment for ttie
rurals.

'Scattergood B 1 d e a High'
(RKO). Another In the C. B.
Kelland series; program support
for the family and rural circuits.

hers in Tahiti. In detailing the life
of the family group In episodic form,
there's no attempt to generate dra-
matic emphasis necessary to holding
attention of film audiences. Result
Is a rather imeven picture that will
have to battle to get through topline
bookings for moderate grosses.

The Tuttle family of Tahiti Is nu-
merous, languorous and irresponsible.
They're ready to bet all earthly pos-
sessions on a cockfight — and do.
Grandma Adeline de 'Walt Reynolds
is the nominal head of the family,
but shiftless Charles Laughton bets
all the family possessions on the
cocks — loses, and when his sons,
headed by Jon Hall, salvage a derelict
ship, the family hits a brief stretch
of prosperity. But they're back in
the familiar groove again, with an-
other likely bird to sweep away the
meagre family assets. '

Hall, stripped of his leotard of pre-
vious South Sea island pictures, plays
more of a straight role. His romance
with Peggy Drake is minor.

The rather brief biography of the
^ttles Is a compilation of incidents
that make better heading than film
rendition. There are a number of
humorous moments, but story is not
In cinematic form to sustain general
audience interest of the 91 minutes
of running tlitae. Director Charles
Vidor did his best through indi-
vidual and overall characterizations,
to overcome the story deficiencies,
but even his topnotch work did not
bring the picture 'up to. front-line at-
tention.

C^st is 'well set up, with liSUghton
predominant throughout as the good-
time Charlie without regard for
iTim"etSi^ri«Blfl6JreT3tHi»8S'.' HaH-ani"
Miss Drake are adequate as the ro-
inantle team, with best support per-
formances being provided by Miss
Reynolds, Curt Bols and 'Victor
Francen.

Production values are of 'A' calibre,
with special effects of storm at sea
particularly effective. Walt

' My Favorite Blonde

Paramount release of Paul Jonea produc-
tion. Stars Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll,
Directed by Sidney Lanfleld. Screenplay,
Don Hartman, Frank Butler, from story by
Melvln Frank, Norman Panama: aaat di-
rector, Arthur Black; editor, Wm. O'Shea;
camera, Wm. Mellor. Tradeahown In N. T.
March 16, 42. Running Ume, 78 MIN9.

Ijirry Haines Bob Hope

Keren Bentley Madeleine Carroll

Mma. Stephanie Runtok...Oale Bondergaard

Dr. Hugo Stregtr...'r;'. George Zncco

Miller Victor Varconi

Karl , Lionel Royce

Ulrlch Crane Whitley

Lanzr Otto Rejchow

Turk O'Flaberty , Charles Cain

Dr. Faber 4... .Walter KIngsford

Sheriff BrvlUe Alderson

The stars and the title are a natural
for the marquee, and -the brisk 78-
minute melodramatic farce gives sub-
stance to the promise. Result Is a
surefire boxoffice entry.

It's topical' yet not . too weighty
with international Intrigue, end Is
paced in a ligbt laugh manner that
makes It ideal 'escapology' fare f^r
anybody's auditorium.

Madeleine Carroll Is Ideally cast as
a British agent who involves vaude-
vUlIan Bob Hope Into a helter-skel-
ter coast-tQ-coast hop from Broad-
way to Hollywood.

The blend of a secret scorpion
(containing the revised flying orders
f6r a Convoy of L6okh6ed bombers
headed for Brltfiln) wltli the ■wacky

•einl-baek>tag« •tmonhere, on al
fresco plumbers' .picnic, Nazi spies,
etc., has l)«en y«n..knead_ed by tto
authors and director Sidney Lanfleld
alike.

It's A constant chase, as a Swedish
merchantman carries both Miss Car-
roll and the spies Into New York
harbor. The resourceful blonde
looker dashes into Bob Hope's dress-
ing room, where bis novel^ penguin
vaudeville act has just been signed
for $500 a week and his owner, Hope,
at $30 a week. (When Hope reads
the bald phraseology in 'Variety,' he
pulls a neat Inside laugh by cracking,
'Wait 'til they ask me for an ad.')

The chase Is full of pistol-shots,
hair-raising taxi dashes, RB rides,
shanghaied trucks and planes, until
the fateful landing In California, just
before the Lockheed bombers' flight
commander Is headed off by the news
that the enemy Is hep to the pro-
jected route, hence to new plans.
(Examination of the story as to why
coded ' telephone and telegraph
couldn't serve the same purpose is
beside the point; it's that kind of a
story and the customers wjll find no
faults.)

The tempo Is bright and brisk, and
producer Paul Jones and director
Lanfleld permitted themselves still
another conceit when BIng ftosby Is
seen idling at a picnic bus station.
Crosby directs the lammlster Hope
and Miss Carroll toward the picnic
grounds. As Hope gives Crosby one
of those takes, he muses, "No, it can t
be.' That's all, and It's one of the
best laughs In a progressively funny
film.

Hope, without mugfiing or even
overdoing the 'takes,' just about has
everything his own way. ably foiled
by the beauteous Miss Carroll, who
gives obviously full credence to the
title. The suoport chiefly foreign
names. Is excellent Abel.

A Gentleman After Dark

United Artlets release of Edword Small
production. Stars,.Brlan Donlevy. Miriam
Hopkins. Preston Foster. Directed by Ed-
win L. Marin. Screenplay bv Pattereon
McNutt and Oeorse Bruce: based on atory
by Richard Washburn Child; camera. Mil-
ton Kraaner: editor. Arthur Roberts. Pre-
viewed In Projection nooiti' J" March
12, "42. Running time: 7i SIIN8.

Harrv MeHon Brian Donlevy

Flo Melton Miriam Hopkins

Tom Oaynor Preston Foaler

Stubby """1?. ^"'"'I

Bddl .-^'"i:.?!!^

Miss Clark Gloria Holden

Enu Oallbra Douglass Dumbrllle

Diana Sharon Douglas

Paul Rutherford. Bill Henry

torlous work by the cast and direc-
tor. Lacking suftlcient marquee vol-
tage ^for -key spots, picture neverthe-
less' will proviae KreiVK-niuppoit-^n
the regular nms.

George Muipl^^ ably handles the
lead spot with major assistance from
Anne Shirley, WllUam Gargan, Rich-
ard Barthelmess, Rex Do'wning and
Freddy Martin with his band. Joan
MerriU takes care of major vocal as--
signments, smacking over three songs
In fine s^le. Anne Shirley briefly
sings the chorus ot "When There's a
Breeze on Lake Louise,' a sweet tune .
which, although not -prominently dis-
played in the picture, looks like a
candidate for popularity.

Story details the experiences ot
Murplqr, former vaude hoofer, in
operating chain of dancehalls along
44th ' street 'When . his layouts are
razzed by a gang of kids, he contacts
the leader and hires him as an office
assistant with the idea of trying to
reform the youth. After sponsoring
parole of Barthelmess, former dance
hall racketeer of the street Murphy
is the victim of former convict's at-
tempt to blitz the business and take
over'. Barthelmess temporarily en-
lists the aid ^f young Do-wning, but
at the finish youth and his gang stand
on Murphy's side to save the enter-
prise. Neatly-concocted romance
winds through the proceedings be-
tween Murphy and Miss Shirley.'

Zest is added to a well-rounded
group- of performances and the con-
sistent pace maintained In direction
by Al Green from compact script pro-
vided bv Lewis Foster and Frank
Ryan. Score by Mort Greene and "
Harry Revel consists of four num-
bers that add much to all-around en-
tertainment factors- of the picture.
Murnhy handles one dance In sbow-
manly style, while Freddy Martin's
band is SDoUi^hjed for a few tunes.
PhotoRMohy by Robert de Grasse is
uniformly good.

'Million Miles from Manhattan' Is
a candidate for popular dance band
recordlnes with its ' neat tempo.
'Heavenly, Isn't It?' is a ?ood sen-
timental number, while "You're Bad
for Me' is slightly torchy ani^ okay.

Walt

Belabored reformed crook drama
that is headed only for mild grosses,
largely on dual combos. Picture will
do little to enhance the cinematic
careers of Bri^n Donlevy, Miriam
Hopkhis and Preston Foster. . Don-
levy takes the rap for the inglorious
direction and wobbly scripting. The
Heliotrope Harry role appeared tail-
or-made for him, and not his fault
tharS turns ou this way. He failed
to get directorial support and never
quite manages to survive the te-
dious pace.

Failure to develop this character
of Harry, the sliave, uncatchable gem
thief, and Intrusion of maudlin .mo-
ments concerning' his yen to give
his offspring a decent future, are the
yam's worst fla'ws. Another is the
late, and too hurried, effort to stress
the aven^g husband angle as bis
wife turns blaclcmaller. Instead,
many divergent trends are intro-
duced, submerging the more perU-
nent angles in a claptrap of closeups
and v/indy passages.

Brian Donlevy only manages
to make the character appear life-
like in the film's final scenes.
Miriam Hopkins, as his fun-loving
wife, gives a capable enough per-
formance though showing up badly

ter makes a stem detective. Mua
comedy contribution is made by
Harold Huber, the gem thief's faith-
ful chauffeur and confidante, whUe
Philip Reed, Douglass DumbrUle,
Sharon Douglas and Gloria Holden
head the support. , « „

Patterson McNutt and ^George
Bruce share the blame for Indecisive,
meandering script, while Edwin' L.
Marin directed with heavy hand.

WeoT.

The Mayor of 44th St.

(SONGS)

Hollywood, March 17.

RKO relaaae of Cliff Reld production.
Stars Qeorge Murphy, Anne Shirley: featurea
William Oargan, Richard Barthelmess, Joan
Merrill, Freddy Mariln and band. Directed
by Alfred B. Orten. Screenplay by Lewis
R. Foater and Fitonk Ryan: story by Rob-
ert D. Andrewa; saggested .by Collier's
magazine article by Luther Davla and John
Cleveland; camera, Robert de Grasse; edi-
tor, Irene Morra; oast director, Clem Beau-
champ: songs, Mort areene, Harry Revel;
musical director. C. Bakalelnlkolt: dances,
Nick Castle. Tradeahown March 17, '42-
Running time, tS HIMS.

Joe Jonathan Qeorge Murphy

Jessie Lee Anne Shirley

Tommy Fallon Wlllhun Gargan

Bd KIrby Richard BartlielnieBS

VIckl Lane...... ..Joan Merrill

Freddy Martin Freddy Martin

BItz Rex Downing

Herman .Millard Mitchell

Mamie :.Mary Wickes

Oromm Bddle Hart

Red Roberta Smith

KIrby'a Attorney Marten Lamont

Lew L'uddy Walter Reed

Bddle (House Manager) Robert Smith

Head Walter Lee Boonell

Dude Kenneth Landy

Hilda Bather Unllr

Carter John H. pilson

"M^yor of 44th Street' Is a U^tly-
textured drama providing top B
grade of entertainment through merl-

THIS GUN FOR HIRE

Hollywood, March 16.

Panuoount releaaa of Rlcbanl M. Blumen-
tbal production. Stars Veronica Lake. Rob-
ert Preston, Directed by Frank 'Tuttle.

Screenplay by Albert Malts and W. tl. Bur-
nett, baaed on novel by Graham Greene;
camera. John Seltz; editor, Archie Marshek.-
Tradeahown March 16, '42, Running time,
as MINB.

Ellen Graham Veronica Lake

Michael Crane Robert Preston

Wlllard Gates Laltd Cregar

Philip R^ven Alan I^add

Alvin Brewster.'.... Tully Manhall

Sluky Mikhail Raaumny

Tommy , Mara Lawrence

Annie Pamela Blake

Steve Finnerty Hnrry Shannon

Albert Baker Frank Ferguson

Baker's Secretary Bemadene Hayes

Night Watchman James Farley

Cripple Girl Vtrlta Campbell

Veronica Lake Is the young woman
with the long blonde tresses who
walked In and out of the airplane
hangers and the hearts and affections
of aviators In 'I Wanted Wings,' at-
tracted a considerable amoimt ot
popular curiosity, and an extraordi-
nary amount of publicity. After
some months, her second appearance
for -Paramount was in. 'Sullivan's
Travels,' In which she was brought
along to the point where she handled
a bit of comedy in a manner both
satisfactory and prophetic of better
things to come. Her career reaches
a state of arrested development how-
ever, with her third film, "This Gun
for Hire.' It's a vehicle of Uttle im-
portance and limited appeal.

The idea of presenting Miss Ijake
as the heroine of an exciting melo-

terlal selected isaStfficOyuhsunea^^'
to her. It is a very Involved yam by
Graham Greene which deals with In-
ternational Intrigue and treason, hav-
ing to do with the sale of a secret
chemical formula to the Japanese.
Albert Maltz and W. R. Burnett
wrote the screenplay, which Is a suc-
cession of gunplay scenes in which
Miss Lake becomes the unwillinK ac-
complice of a yoimg klUer. He is
Alan Ladd, who had a small bit in
'Joan of- Ppris' lately. Something of
a romance was developing between
(Continued on page 25)

StORY BUYS

Hollywood, March 17.
Metro bought 'Diamond Horse-
shoe,' by J^les Connolly.
— David O. Selznlck acquired the
Henry James yam, 'Wings of a
Dove.'

Andre Lamp sold his mystery
yam, /Lost and Fountl,' to Mono-
gram.

Universal purchased Harold Shu-
mate's pioneer story, "Frontier.'

ZOth-FQx has purchased a Reader's
Digest yarn, 'How the Diplomatic
Mails Go Through,' by Francis Wick-
ware. Price was $1,260. It was
originally labeled, "Nine Days to
Ankara,' and Is an espionage meller
based on fact with a diplomatic dis-
patch courier as the protagonist. It's
for Sol Wurtzel's unit.

James O'Hanlon sold his n^stery
novel, 'As Good as Murdereid,' to °
ZOth-Fox.

Monogram purchased Time Bomb,'
sabotage story by Soott Littleton. ' ^

WedncBdaj. Mardi IS, 19*2

nCTVBE OKiMUnW

Holdovers Sow Chi* marines' and
Vande 38G m 2i Tnrchase' 17G Same

• Chicago, March 17.

Business has been great on the
weekends but there's growing evi-
dence of mid-week sluggishness In
downtown theatres. Weekend? are
Uke New Year's Eve, only problem
being where to put all the people.

Best pace being stown l»y 'Johnny
Eager' which started like a 'Whirl-
wind at United Artists and is okay
on its second session. ' And the other
cood spot is the Palace, -where Xook
Wbo's Laughing* and 'Call Out
Marines' combo is in the money.

Best flesh attraction is the Frankte
Masters orchestra In the Oriental
with 'Road to Happiness.' ^ „

Otherwise it's holdover stuff. Chi-
cago with To Be or Not to Be' and
vaudeville is plenty big on its second
session. 'Louisiana Purchase' at the
State-Lake also is a topnotcher.
Eatimates fer This Week

ApoUo (B&K) (1.260; 35-55-65-75).
—'Green Valley' (20th). lUs makes
' it nine weeks in the loop, and the-
second week here, fine 98,000, after
excellent $8,000 last week.

Chicago (B&K) (4,000; 35-55-65-
75)— 'To Be' (UA) and stage show.
Second week fo'r the film, snappy
$38,000 after powerful ' $49,500 last
wccic

Garriek (B&K) (900: 36-55-85-75)
—•Through Night' (WB) and 'Wise
Guy' (Mono) (2d wk). Third week
in loop for 'Night' Good enough
$5,000 after $6,100 last week. .

Oriental (Iroquois) (3,200; 33-44-
55)— 'Road Happiness' (Mono) and
Franlde Masters orchestra on stage.
Up to Masters to do the business
currently. Okay $18,000. Last week,
Ted Weems orchestra on stage plus
Tragedy Midnight' (Ren), good
$18,100.

PaUce (RKO) (2,500: 33-44-66-75)
—'Look Laughing' (RKO) and 'CaU
Marines' (RKO). Neat $15,000. Last
week, 'Hellzapoppin' (U) and 'Sealed
Lips* (U) finished fine four-weeker
at $10,200. ~

- Boosevelt (B&K) (1,500; 35-55-65-
75)— 'BedUme Story* (Col) and 'Wild
Bill' (WB). Average $10,000. Last
week, 'Bugle Sounds* (li(-G) and
'Mrs. NorHi' (M-G), meagre $7,200.

State-Lake (B&K) (2,700; 35-55-
65-75)— 'La. Purchase* (Par) (2d
wk). Took down healthy $22,200 in
its first week and will hold to an-
other fat stanza currently at $17,000.

UniUd Artists (B&K-M^) (1,700;
35-55-65-75)— 'Johnny Eager* (M-G)
(2d wk). Currently wiU get bright
$14,000. Last week, hefty $17,700.

Woods (Essaness) (1,200, 35-55-65-
75)— 'Paris CaUing' (U) and 'Give
.Sucker Break* (U). Fair $7,500, and
may hold, Last week, ."Playmates'
(RKO) and 'Jacks, JiU* (RKO) (3d
wk), okay $5,300.

Xovfboy' Ridm' High in
Newark, Dandy $18,000;
W-Shep Fields 15iG

Newark, March 17.
^Abbott and Costello's 'Ride -Em
Cowboy* is consistently packing the
v.J5fHli0.c'...W.4.P'obabl7 -will be-ttw
towns No. 1 grosser this week.

Johnny Eager* at Loew's also Is at-
tracting nice business.

'South of Tahiti* and Shep Field's
band on the stage is doing well at
the Adams.

EsUmaiei for HUs Week
Adama (Indie) (2,000: 25-35-50-60)
—•South of Tahiti' (U) and Shep
yield s orchestra on stage plus five
additional vaude acts Monday night.
Good $15,500. Last week, 'Burma
Convov' (U) plus Alvino Rey's band,
the King Sisters and extra Monday
• night vaudeville, fine $17,000.

Brenfoi'd (WB) (2,800; 28-33-44-55)

— Ride -Em Cowboy* (U) and -Sing
Supper* (Col). Abbott-Costello team
lavorltes m Newark, dandy $18,000.

weric, 'BiU Hickok* (WB) and
$12000 ^'^PP*^"' ^^3^' weak
Capitol (WB) (1,200; 20-28-39-44)—
,™ll2apoppta* (U) and 'Paris CaU-
ing (U). This second-run dual go-
ing for an okay $2,900. Last week,
„S™dojJTj' (UA)..and 'Unholy Part-
ners' (WB), swell $3,800.
•»« //l?V*"»t (Adams-Par) (2,000; 30-

Weeltend Three' (RKO), Nice $13,-
liS?- I^t week, -Mr. Bug* (Par) and
Torpedo Boat* (Par)i slow $10,500.
■Bf^""!?''? <RKO) (2,400; 28-44-60)—
and 'Date with
Sfcon* (RKO) (2d wk). Probably
VrtU coUwt big $15,000 on holdover,
tfjj with five acts of vaude

$25"oo^ Tuesday nights, terrific

(Loew's) (2.600: 28-33-44-55)
Mr. \W^?a«er* (M-G) and 'Mr.,
& ^'*'9' Great $15,500.

an?.?n5'^ pesign Scandal' (M-G)
ll^OOO ' Victory* (M-G), neat

'Eager' Strong $16,000 in
Jersey C; Travels* 14I4G

Jersey City.' Btarch 17.

All tfareervflrst-run house* -on, the
'square' are heading for pleasing biz.
Loew's, with ''Johnny Eager,' is the
leader.

Estimates (or This Week

Loew*s (Loew's) i3,205; 30-35-53)
—'Johnny Eager* (M-G) and "Mr-
Mrs. North' (M-G). Pdwerful $16,-
000. Last weeli, "Design Scandal'
(M-G) and-Kildare's Victory* (M-G).
good $14,000.

StvDley (WB) (4,500; 30-39-55)—
'Sullivan's Travels' (Far) and "New
York Town' (Par). Pleasing $14,-
500. Last weeic, 'Louisiana Purchase"
(Par) and 'Right Heart' (ZOih), neat
$15,000.

SUte (Skouras) (2,200; 30-35-55)—
"Roxie Hart' (20th) and 'Go West"
(Col). Good ^12,000. Last wedc;
'Joan Paris' (RKO) and "Whaft
Cookln* (U), mild $9,Q00,

K. C BIZ DIPS;
UOUDS' OK 9G

Kansas City, March 17.

Mild take all around this week.
Comment is that income tax pay-
ments have brought a temporary palj,
but attractions themselves have lit-
tle magnetism. 'Captains of the
CHouds,' at Orpheum, is getting the
best returns, and holds. Tower is
In the swim with the Mills Brothers
heading the vaudeville plus 'Bombay
Clipper.'

Estimates for This Week

Esqnire and Uytown (Fox Mid
west) (820 and 2,043; 11-30-44)—
'Son^ Islands' (20th), Wednesday
opemng got off to fair start with the
week showing $7,500, okay. •Last
week, 'Roxie Hart* (20th) stayed for
five days, $4,000, nice for abbreviated
holdover.

Midland (Loew's) (4,000; ll-30-44>
—Were Dancing* (I^-G) and "Joe
Smith, Americaiv (M-G). Trade con-
siderably slaclcened from past few
weelis, so-so $8,500. Last week, "To
Be* (UA) and "Brooklyn Orchid*
(UA) dueUed for hefty 113,500. .

Newman' (Paramount) (1,900; 11-
30-44)- 'Udy Has Plans*. (Par). God-
dard-Milland combo taking house to
average $6,500. Last weeic, 'Sullivan's
Travels' (Par) solo, slight $6,500.

Orphe'nm (RKO) (1,600; 11-30-44)
—'Captains Clouds' (WB) and 'Spit-
fire at Sea' (RKO). Aviation thriUer
is leading tly^ town at $9,0(>0 and an
extended run. Last weelc, 'Fantasia'
(RKO) and 'Four Jacks, JiU* (RKO),
mild $6,500 for the Disney film, most-
ly via carriage trade.

Tower (Joflee) (2110; 11t30-50)—
'Bombay Clipper' (U) with Mills
Brothers heading vaude on stage.
Upped admissions may bring this one
up to $8,800, pleasant but not big.
Last weelc, 'Sleepytime Gal' (Rep)
with vaude at 30c top, nice $6,800.

CAGNEY TRIM $15,000
IN PROSPEROUS BUFF.

Buffalo. March 17.

With defense workers payrolls hit-
ting the ceiling hereabouts, public is
keeping the turnstiles revolving at
main street theatres.

'Captains of Clouds' at the Lakes
is rearing along at high altitudes,
while 'Call Out Marines* Is snappy
at 20th Century.

Estimates for This Week .

Bnffalo (Shea) (3,500; 35-50)—
'Were Dancing' (M-G) and 'Joe
Smith' (M-G). Press indifferent but
looks like pleasant SI 1,000. Last
weelc, 'Confirm, Deny' (20th), Johnny
Long orch and Andrews Sisters on
stage, rousing $21,500.

Great- Lakes (Shea) (3,000: 35-55)
—'Captains Clouds' (WB). Sizzling
$15,000. Last week, 'To Be' (UA)
and 'Brooklyn Orchid* (UA), swanky
$15,000, or near.

Bhip (Shea) (2.100; 30-45>— 'To Be*
(UA) and 'Brooklyn Orchid' (UA)
(2d run). Sioft on moveover. prob-
ably .$7,500. Last week, "Woman
Year*^M-G) and 'Youne Amftlcan'
(20th) (2d run), oke $7,000.

Lafayette (Hayman) (3,300; 30-44)
—•Wolf Man* (U) and "WhaVs Cookln'
(U). Fine S9.50p. Last week. 'Mar-
tin Eden' (Col) and 'Her First Beau'
(Col), mild $6,300.

20th Century (Ind.) (3.000; 30-55)—
'Call Out Marines* (RKO) and 'Sing
Worries Away* (RKO). Nifty $12,-
000. Last week. 'Lady for Night'
(Rep) and A. B. Marcus Revue, on
stace, fancy $15,500.

First Runs on Broadway

iSiOtieet to CTumoeX.

Week •! HHoh IB

Aator-'KlDgs Row* (WB) (7th

(Sevietoed in "Variety,* Dee. 24, 1941)

Oapltol— "Use Invaders* (Col)
(3rd week).

(Setrteued in 'Variety,' Nov. 9, 19U)

CrHcrloB— Vide "Em Cowboy*
(U) (3rd weel^.
(Reviewed in "Variety/ Feb. 2)
■ Globe — 'Secret A g en t of
Japan' (20th) (21),
(Reoieto'ed in "Variety,'. March 11)
Mosle HaU— "Bedtime Stoiy*
(Col).

iRevlewed in "Variety," Dec. 10, 1941)
Fanmonnt— "Fleet's In' (Par) '
(2nd week). .

/ (Retriewed in "Variety,' Jan. 21)
BUIto — "VaUey of the Sun'

(RKO) (18).
(Revteujed'ln "Variety,' Jan. 14)
MvoU— "To Be or Npt To Be*

(UA) (3rd week).
{Reviewed in 'Variety,' Feb. 18) '

Boxy — 'Song of the Islands'
(20th) (2nd week).
(Revietoed in "Variety,' Feb. 4)

Str and— "Always In My Hearf
(WB) (2nd week).
(Reoietoed in" 'Variety,' March 4)

-Week of March M
Aator — "Kings Row* (WB)

(8th .week).
CapUel— "Tbe'Lady Is WlUing*

(Col).

(Retrlewcd in "Variety," Jan. 28)
Mnaie BUI— "Reap th« Wild
Wind' (Par)..

Panunoiint— "The Fleet's In'
(Par) (3rd week).

Blvoll— To Be or Not To Be'
(UA) (4th week).

Bexy — To the -Shores of
TripolT (20th) (25). .
(Retrfeued in 'Variety,' March 11)

Strand — The Male Animal' ■
(WB).

(Retrieued in "Variety,* llfarch 4)

ToBe'WowlSG
Mo Ace Film;
Tanta^' lOG

BaltlQiore, March 17,
It's the big weekends here that are
helping local cinemas to profit these
lenten weeks. With enough patron-
age under their belts on the getaway,
the remainder of the week doesn't
matter so much. Combo Hipp, lean-
ing heavily on potent -stage layout
of Ella Fitzgerald orcb and Four Ink
Spots, coupled with 'A Date with
the Falcon? is big. Also highly po-
tent Is To Be or Not To Be' at Loew's
Century.

. EatlnuUes for Thb Week
Century (LoeVs-UA) (3,000; 17-
28-44-55)— To Be' (UA). Very con-
sistent response both day and. liJght
with solid $15,000 on tap. Last.week,
'Shanghai Giesture* (UA), dropped
down after strong weekend to $12,200.

Blppodrame (Rappaport) (2,240;
17-25-28-39-44-55-66)— 'Date with Fal-
con' (RKO) plus stage layout headed
by EUa Fitzgerald orch and Four Ink
Spots foir socko $16,500. Last week;
'Joan of P^' (RKO) plus vaude,
tried hard via strong ad campaign
but onily moderate $11,800.

Keith's (Schanberger) (2,406; 17-
28-33-39-44-55)— Xa. Purchase' (Par)
(2d wk). Holding up very strongly
at $10,000, after ringing the bell lus--
tily with solid $13,900 on first round.

BUyUir (Hicks) (980; 20-40)—
'Road I^ppiness' (Mono). Unexcit-
ing $3,000i Last week, 'Lady for
Night' (Rep), fairly good $4,200.

New (Mechanic) (1.581; 17-28-35-
44)— 'Roxie Haft' (20th). Drawing
nice $6,000. Last week, 'Son Fury'
(20th), wound up healthy three-week
stay to grand total of $16,600 on run.

Boslyn ^vin) (800; 17-28-40-55)—
■Law Tropics' (WB). Mild $3,500.
Last week. Target Tonight* (WB)
(2d wk), added $2,700 to trim hiitlal
sesh at $5,200.

Stanley (WB) (3,280; 17-28-40-55)
— "Fantasia* (RKO). First try at pop
prices after previous road show run
last season. May hit $10,000. Last
week, 'Captains (Houds* (WB) fin-
ished oiit big three-week run. for
fine $34,400 on three stanzas.

Lewton RKO Producer

Hollywood, March 17.
Val Lewton checked in yesterday
(Mon.) at RKO under a new con-
ract as associate producer, with no
definite asslgniAent for the time be-
ing.

For eight years Lewton had been
story editor for David O. Selznjck.

Tkef-Les Brown-BosweO $59,0(10,
% in Spotty N,Y.;1dands' $33jN0,
lleart'-Spivak, $25^000. Both lid

. Although large crowds were drawn
downtown over the weekend, grosses
on Broadway are spotty. More aiid
more it*s booming a question of sw-
vival of. the fittest;- which accoimts
for the $70,000 which the Music HaU
will do on the sixth (final) week of
'Woman of the Year* ending tonight
(Wed.).

New shows elsewhere h^ve failed
to stay the drawing powers of "Wom-
an." On its engagemept of six weeks
the total gross will top $530,000, an
average of nearly $90,000 a weA

Dividing tjie lion's shsire of the
spoils is the Paramount, which has
developed terrific momentum witih
its pitband policy, Tind currently is
whamming *em with "Fleet's In* and
a stageshow Including the Les Brown
band, Connee Boswell and other acts.
House finished Its flxst seveii days
with this show last night (Tues.) at
a sock 459,000 and begins the second
today (Wed.). Schedule calls for an
additional (3d) stanza to bring the
Par up to Eastei*.

OtL the briefer side, among other'
attractions, era three pictures play-
ing irtraight-fllm operations, l^ey
are 'Invaders,' now In Its second
weeli; at the Capitol, where it will
get enough sit nearly $30,000 to go
a third; To Be or Not To Be* (Riv-
oli), which is holding up satisfac-
torily for a $27,000 second weelq and
"Bide "Em Cowboy,' a Criterion blz-
eetter at $15,000 on its holdover end-
ing last night (Tues.). The Abbott-
Costello comedy begins its third
canto today (Wed.).

'Song of flie I^ands' is disappoint-
ing at the Roxy on ability to pull no
more than $33,000. the first week but
will hold over anyway. '

Likewise, "Always In My . Heart*
and the Chnrlle Spivak orchestra are'
letting the Strand dovim to less than
$25,000, a rather thin. take. However,
also holds over.

The second-run State has 'Corsican
Brothers* on its screen, with Bert
Labr heading the vaude biU. Doing
well at $25,000, or in that -vicinity.

"Kings Row,' which ended its
sixth Week Monday (16) at the Astor,
continues to hold up pretty okay, get-
ting $16,000 on -the week. It remains
here throujih March 29, with Metro
bringing 'Gone with Wind' back, to
house March 31.

' Eatimates tot This Week
Astor (Loew's) (1,012; 35-55-05-
$1.10)— -Kings Row* (WB) (7th -wk).
On sixth week through Monday (16)
EtiU on satisfactory side at $l6,00j).
Prior week (5tfa) close to $18,000.
Closes run here Sunday night (29),
with 'Gone With Wind' (M-G) com-
ing back for repeat engagement
March 31. .

Capitol (Loew's) (4,620; 35-55-8S-
$1.10-$1.25) — Invaders' (UA) (2d
wk). Maintains good pace and this
week (2d) will be close to $30,000.
Holds third stanza. Initial seven
days cUmbed to nearly $40,000,. very
good.

Criterion (Loew's) (1,062; 35-44-
55-75)— "Ride "Em Cowboy' CU) (8d
wk). Finished second lap last night
(Tues.) at $16,000 and starts third to-
day (Wed.). First week smash
$24,000.

Globe (Brandt) (1,250: 28-35-99)—
Martin Eden' (Col). Will be oJc. at
$7,500. Last week, "Zola' (WB) (re-
vival), $4,500, poor,

Palaee (RKO) (1,700; 28-35-44-99-
65-75)— "AU "nirough Night' (WB)
and 'Playmates' (RKO), both 2d run.
Doubleton looks about $8,000, fair.
Last week,' 'Son of Fury' (20th) and
'Joan of Paris' (RKO) both 2d run,
$8,800, rather good,

Paramonnt (Par) (3,664; 35-55-85-

I) — 'Fleet's In' (Par) and, on stage,
Les Brown, Connee Boswell, others
(2d wk). Begins holdover today
(Wed.) after smashing through to
$50,000 first seven days. Show-
booked In for total of tlvee weeks.
Last week, 'Lady Has Plans' (Par)
and Ina Bay Hutton, Joan Edwards,
others, in person got $44,000, very
good; only one week's stay.

Badlo City Mnsle HaU (Rocke-
feUers) (5,945; 45-55-S5-09-$l.e5)—
'Woman of Year* (M-G) and stage-
show (6th-finr.l wk). On the blow-
off will be around $70,000, nice,
while last week (5th/ was $79,500.
Film, third to play here as long as
six weeks, will have grossed in ex-
cess -of $530,000 on its run for huge
profits to both distributor and thea-
re. 'Bedtime Stoi^' (Col) opens to-
morrow morning (Thurs.).

Blalto (Mayer) (594; 28-44-55)—
'Valley of Sun' (RKO) opens here
today (Wed.) following sllriit week
with 'North to Klondike' (U). only
$5^00. Previously, 'Russian Front'
(Artkino) (4th wk) and 'Mr. Wise
Guy' (Mono) (1st wk), $5,500.

BlvoU (UA) (2,002; 35-55-75-85-90)
—To Be' (UA) (2d wk). Conttaues
to do well, this week (2d) appearing
$37,000 or thereabouts. The -first,
strong $37,000. Run indef.

Boxy (20th) (5.886: 35-55-85-75-85)

'Sonc of Islands' (20th) and staee-

shaw> A weakle at' only about<433,000
biat remains over just the same, -with
"Shores of Tripoli' (20th) to follow.
The -final six aays on third week ct
"Roxie Hart' (20th) $25,000, light.

SUte (Loew's) (3,450; 28^55^75-
S0-$1.10)— 'Q>rslcan Brothers' (UA)
(2d run) and Bert Lahr on stage.
Points to about $25,000, good. - Last
Stanza, 'Remarkable Andrew* (Par)
(Ist'run) and Richard Himl>er, Jane
Pickens, Cliff Nazarro, $20,000.

Strand (WB) (2,756; 35-55-75-85-
99)— 'Always In My Hearf (WB)
and (3>arlle Spivak. .Less thGib
$25,000 Indicated, but will hold over.
Last week, fourth for' 'Captains of
(Houds* (WB) and Blue Barron,
$20,000, not good.

TO BE' TERRIF

mm ciNCY.

Cincinnati. Alarcb 17.
' Nice assortment of product this
week and b.o. Is up over last weelc
(Parent leader, far In van. is To Bef
or Not to Be,' at the Albee. Grand
also Is scoring with "Ghost of
Frankenstein.* 'Gold Rush' la tttiow
expectation; at the Palace but will
get okay $9,200.

Estimate* for ThU Week
Albee (RKO) (3,300; 33-40-50)—
To Be* (UA). Terrific $16,000. Last
week. 'Song Islands' (20tii), good
$13,600,

CapHol (RKO) (2,000; 33-40-60)—
"Woman Year' (M-G). Holding for
second week of moveover run. Okay
$5,000 foUowing lest week's great
$7,500. ■ -

FamUy. (RKO) (1,000; 17-28)—
"Black Dragons' (Mono)- and T,ady
in Morgue' (Indie), spilt with "Treat
•Em Rough' (U) and? 'Perfect Snob'
(20th). Good $2,200. Ditto last week-
for 'Blue, White, Perfect' (20th) arid
'Siiig for Supper* (Col), divided with
"Yank Burma Road' (M-G) and /Law .
Jangle' (Mono).

Grand (RKO) (1,430; 33-40-50)—
Ghost Frankenstein' (U). Sbd^
$8,000. Last week, 'Dangerously Live'
(WB), nice $5,500.

Kelthi's (Libson) (l,SOO,%a3-40-60)—
"Hickok Rides' (WB). Good $4,800.
Last week, 'Lady for Mighf (Rep),
five days, meagre $2,000.

Lyrio (RKO) (1,400; 28-38-42)r-"ia
Army' (WB) and 'Gentleman Heart'
(20th). Slim $2,800. Last week,
'Bide 'Em Cowboy' . (U) third sesh,
on main line, all right $3,000.

Falaee (RKO) (2,600; 33^60)—
'Gold Rush (UA). Acceptable ^,200
In sight but some complaints irom
customers about dubbing treatment
of Chaplin's foriner release ' imder
same name. Last we^ "Were
DadtOng* (M-G), Ump $7,000.

Slwbert (RKO) (2,160; 33-40-60)—
'Song lalMida' (20th),' Transferred
from Albee tor aiecbnd week. Thin
$3,000. Last week, 'What's Cookln'
(U), dull $3,600.

m ISLANDS' f 9300
IN PORT; ^UOE' 7iG

Portland. Ore., March 17,.
'Song of the Islands* Is tolling to
a terrific total at the Qrphetmi.
'Bugle Sounds' also Is strong at the
United Artists.

Esitmates tor ThU Week
. Bro«dw»y (Parker) (2,000; 30-40-^
SO)— To Be' (UA) and 'Bomber CUp-
per" (U). Holding up to good $6,900
on second sesh. Last week, strong
$9,000.

HaytaJr (Parker-Evergreen) (1,-
500; 35-40-50)— "Wolf Man' (U) and
'Mad Doctor" CU). Horror duo built
on Friday-the-13th plug, going over
for exceptionally big $6,000. Last
week, roadshow.

Orpbcnm (Hamrlck-Kvergreen) (1,-
800; 35-40-50)— "Song Islands' (20th)
and 'Blue, White' (20th). Ringing
up terrific $9,800. Last week, 'Son
Fury' (20th) and 'Confessions
Blackie' (Col) (1st), nice $6,800 on
second week of 'Fury.'

Farameont (H-E) (3,000: 35-40-50)
—'Ball Fire' (RKO). Staying a third
stanza -with "Pacific Blackout' (Par)
added. Nice $5,100.. Last week, with
"Among Living' (Par), winning $7,-<
100.

United Artists (Parker) (1,000; 36-
40-50)— "Bugle Sounds' (M-G) and
"What's Cookin* * (U). Strong S7,500.
-Last week, 'Were Dancing* (M-G)
and 'Kildare's Victory' (M-G), disr
annointin^ S4.S0O.

10

Wednesday, March 18, 1942^

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NATION .WIDE ft£if4$|/ APRIL 3rd !

"; ' ^ (THE MAN BEHIND YOUR .BACK] ., - , .

wi,h Norman LIOYO Otto. WER Alan BAXTER AMRUGER ; Dorothy PETM^

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

Directed by ,

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

JACK H. SKIRBALL

Wcdn^ay* Miircih ^8, 1942

nCTUBE 6R0S8E$ U

'CaptainsVMappmg %
Frisco; larinesTlus Vaude Fine 17G

4-

San iFrahclsco, MarchJlZ,
Street gpot^ thli week. To B« or
Not . to ' Be' 1>ow«d into ilM- Vnit«d
Artists for awell revlcwa and lots of
publicity, du« partly to sal* Of de-
fense bonds In the boxofflce, with
free pix of Carole Lombard to pur-
chasers. Latter angle netted news-
paee brealcs with art, not usually ac-
corded houses.

' Golden Gate has done a splendid
selline Job on 'Call Out the Ma];lnes'
and a vaude bill, holdovers else-
where helping combo to fine week.
At the Paramovmt 'Vanishing Vir-
ginian' is helping 'Yank on Burma
Hoad' through its second lap, and at
the Warfleld 'Joe Smith, American,'
is saving, the day lor "We Were
Dapcloe.' Tox has a solid new entry
in 'Captains in the Clouds,' but 'Mar-
tin Eden' is proving mild at tiie Or-
pheum.

Estimates fan lUs Week

Fox (F-WC) (5,000; 35-40-55>—
'CapUins Clouds' <WB) and 'Sleepy-
Tiine Gal' (Rep). Goint over big,
excellent $22,000. Last week, *Rozle
Hart' (20tb) and "Caatie Deserf
(20tli). faded to $9,000 on five days.

Golden Gate (BEO) (2,650; 40-44-
65)— 'Call Out Btorines* (RKO) and
vaude. Holdovers elsewhere con-
tributing to excellent $17,000. Last
week, 'Date Falcon' (RKO) and Hor-
ace Heidt ork, above early expecta-
tions for nifty $23,000.

Orphedm (Blumenfeld) (2,440; 35-
40-55)— 'Martin Eden' (Col) and
'Stork Pays O/T (Col). With local
Interest in Jack London, may get
$8,200. Last week, 'Paris Calling'
•(U) and 'Swln« It Soldier' fU),
profitable $8,700.

raraaaont (F-WC) (2,470; 35-40-
55)— 'Vanishing Virginian' (M-G) and
*yank Burma Boad' (M-G) (2 wk).
Doing surprisingly well at $8,000.
La.<;t week, $13,000, with 'Virginian'
getting bulk of credit

St. Francis (F-WC) (1,475; 3B-40-.
85)— 'Woman Year' (M-G) and 'Pa-
cific Blackout' (Far) (3d moveover
week). A gold mine, still good for
$5,000 in fourth week on street Last
(second moveover) week, okay
$6,000.

United ArUsU (UA-BIumenfeld)
(1,100; 35-40-55)— TA Be' (UA) and
'Brooklyn Orchid' (UA). Aided by
excellent press breaks. Including
bond sale in lobby, $11,700. Last
week, 'Shanghai Gesture' (UA) and
'Miss Polly' (UA) (3d wk), tapered
off to $5,400.

Warfleld (F-WC) (2,650; 35-40-55)—
•Were Dancing* (M-G) and 'Joe
Smith, American' (M-G) (2d wk).
'American' getting credit for most of
neat $8,000. Poor word of mouth on
'Dancing' held first week to mUd
$12,500.

GRA6LE MATURE SLOW
$8,500, PACING OMAHA

Omaha,. March 17.

Captains of tl^e Clouds' Is making
the best showing tUs week at Brap-
deis, coupled with "Obliging Young
Lady.' Rest of town just is soggy
and so is the weather.

EaUmatea far TU* Week'

Bnmdafa (Mort Singer) (1,500; 10-
25-35-40) — 'Captains Clouds' (WB)
and 'Obliging Young Lady' (RKO).
Socko.$6J500...JLaat.week» "Lady Will-
ing^ (Col) and 'Bill Hlckpk' (WB),
nice $5,800. . ,

OrpheoBi (Trlstatea) (3,000; 15-30-
.44)— 'Song Islands' (SOth) and '(^n-
tleman at Heart' (2Wh). STow $8,500.
Last week (10-40-55). Jan Savltt re-
vue on stage, plua 'Appointment
Love- (U), good $14,000, but not in
the top bracket for scale and show.

Omaha (TrisUtes) (2,000; 11-30-44)
-Were Dancing' (M-O) and 'Mr.,
Mrs. North' (M-G). Light $6^00.
Last week, Tto Be' (UA) and 'Brook-
lyn Otchld' (UA), smash $11,000.
^A^^.*?"."""* (Tristates) (3.000; 11-
30-44)— To Be* (UA) (moveover
from Omaha) and first run Torpedo
Boat' (Par). Offish $5,500. under
?nmuv^*- 'Roxle Hart'

(20th) (moveover from Orpheum)
and 'Castle Deserf (20th) first run,
slow $5,200,

„State (Goldberg) (000; 25-35)—
Babes Broadway' (M-G) and 'Miss
Polly' (UA) spUt with 'Tarzan's
Jr?astu;e' (M-G) and 'Fiesta' (UA).
Fair $900, including Wednesday night
amateur show. Last week. 1a. Pur-
«°<I Scattergood Strings'
(RKO) spilt with TPlaymates' (RKO),
Boston Blackie' (Col) and "nmks
^on-mg' (WB), good $1,000 .

TKANS-XUX'S BET DIPS, 22a

Trans-Lux Corp. reported to stock-
holders last week net profit of $22,-
603, or 3c per share lor lfl41, the
most unsatUfactoiy 12-month period
m years. . - . .

Pointed "out that the business of
Trans-Lux Movie Ticker Corp. suf-
lered further because of dropping
179 installations In stock broker of-
fices to a total of 1.018.

Key City Grosses

EsUtaatet Tatal 4Ir*«r
Tkli Week $M4I4M'

(Based on 26 cities, 170 theo-'
fras, chitfly ftm tutu, includino
N. Y.)

Total Gross Sana Week
Laat -Tear , . . . . .n,747,C«t

(Based on 26 cities, 179 theatres)'

TO BE' FROTHY
$20,000, PHILLY

Pblladelpbla, Marcl^ 17.

Lots of shekels at the boxofflce
this week, with virtually every
house getting a cut of the melon.
Best of straight fllmers is the Benny-
Lombard hit, -To Be or Not to Be,'
netting a healthy $20,000 at the
Stanley, plus a hangup $2,300 for a
one-day bonus stand at the Earle on
Sunday (15). (Tha 'bonus* is re-
served for the film making, the best
showing of the week at the first-
runners.)

Also in the big dough is the Earle
with Duke Elfington's band and
Ethel Waters, teamed with Sullet
Scars.'

Estimates for This Week

Aldlne (WB) (1,303; 35-46-57-68)—
'Citizen Kane' (RKO)- (2d' wk).
Slumping a Utile but still okay at
$12,0<KI. BoW-in last week, good
$15,000.

Arcadia- (Sablosky) (600; 35-46-57)
—'Vanishing Vhrginian' (M-G) (2d
run). Pretty good $3,000. Last week,
'Lady Willing^ (Col), surprised with
$2,6()0 for second run.

Boyd (WB) (2,568; 35-46-57-68)—
'BaU Fire' (RKO) (3d wk). CoolUg
off a trifle with $10,000 for trey
round. Last week, take was nice
$13.(tt0. 'Male Animal' opens Thurs.
(19)r

Earle (W?) (2,768; 35-46-57-68-75)
—'Bullet- Scars' (WB) with Duke
Ellington orch and Ethel Waters.
Combo' of gangster meller and sepia
stager netting profitable $21.(iiD0.
Laps ahead of mediocre $16,000
snared by 'I,ady for Night' (Rep)
aided' by Chice Marx band.

Fox (WB) ' (2.425; 35-46-57-68)—
■Louisiana Purchase' (Par) (2d wk).
StiU a good buy with $15,000 in the
tills. Opener last week "brought
heavy $21,000 in addition to neat
$2,200 for one-day Sunday take at
Earle.'.

Karlton (WB) (1,066; 35-46-57-68)
— Roxie Hart' (20th) (2d run). Good
$5,000. Last week, 'Dumbo' (RKO)
fared nicely with $4,500 for second
run.

Ketth'a (WB) (2.220; 35-46-57-68)—
'Captains Clouds' (WB) (2d run).
Looks like husky $5,500 after long
stay at Stanley. Last week, 'Woman
Year* (M-G), soUd cUck at $5,000. for
svond week of second fun.

SUnley (WB) (2,016; 35-46-57-68)
—'To Be' (UA). cnickeroo $20,000

§' lus an extra $2,300 for special Sun-
ay showing at the Earle. Last week,
'Captains (Clouds' (WB) bowed off
with good $1I;000 for third week.

Stanton (WB) (1,457: 35-46-57-68)
-'Gentleman After Dark' (UA).
(^tcKift(r"6n nicely Tor' $B,«tf: East,
week, 'Sons of Sea (WB), perked up

HOLPOVERSHITB-KUN 'SODg Of Islwds' LUSh IB

S%gisll LA.; TIeet in' Pert 14G,

'JPary* $13.0M on 24 Wk— 'CapUtan'
Oiwii no for Third

Brooklyn, March 17,
Downtown sector of City of
Churches packed with holdovers,
only exception being the Strand
-which Is doing blah biz with 'Body
Disappears' and Joe Venuti orches-
tra on stage. Fox is in its tbird week
with 'Captains of Clouds' and 'Blon-
die Goes to C!oUege.'. Fabian Para-
mount, Loew*s Met and RKO Albee
are on second weeks.

Estlmatea for This Week

Albee (RKO) (8,274; 30-40-50-55)
—'Son Fury' (20th) (2d wk), and
'GenUeman Heart* (20th )^ Satisfac-
tory $13,000. Last week, coupled
with 'Playiaates' (RKO), sturdy
$20,000. .

Fox (Fabian) (4 ,023; 30-40-50-55)—
'Captains Clouds' (WB) and 'Blondie
College' (Ctol) (3d wk). Still soar-
ing at $11,000. Last week, same pair,
attractive $15,000.

Met (Loew's) (3,618: 30-40-50-55)—
'Corsican Bros.' (UA) (2d wk), 'Mel-
ody Lane' (U). Sturdy $13,000. Last
week, 'Corsidan' and 'Miss Polly'
(UA), booming $20,000.

Panmennt (Fabian) (4,126; 30-40-
50-55)— 'Bahama Passage* (Par) and
'Steel Against Sky* CWB) (2d -wk).
Okay $11,000. Last week, same
combo, nice $16,000. •

Strand (WB) (2.800: 30-40-50-55)—
■Body ' Disappears' (WB) and stage
show with Joe 'Venutl's. orchestra and
Hal LeRoy .on stage. Wobbly $6,000
in four days. Last week, 'Call El-
lery Queen' (Col) stage show with
Clyd« McCoy's orchestra and Mischa
Auer, meagre $7,000 for 6ame period.

lady Phns'-Dnrante
Solid ^19/)00 in D.C4
Tarckse'lSGonlLa

Washington, March 17.

With .only one new film in town,
there's not much, excitement this
week. "Lady lias Plans,' at Capitol,
Is a walka ./ay leader. This house is
StiU recovering from terrific $30,000
grabbed on Glenn Miller's personal
appearance plus 'Joe Smith.'
Estlmatea for TbL Week

Capitol (Loew) (3.434; 28-39-44-66)
— Iiady Plans' (Par), plus Jimmy
Durante anu others on stage. Solid
$19,000. Last week, 'Joe Smith'
(M-G), with Glenn Miller orch on
stage as magnet, sensational $30,000.

CalambU, (Loew) (1.234; 28-44)—
'Na?i Agent' (M-G) (2d wk). Hold-
ing to all right $4,000. Last week,
same film, very good $6,800.

Earle (WB) (2,21«; 28-39-44-66)—
"La. Purchase* (Par), plua vaude (2d
wk). Okay $15,000.. Last weeK
same bill, excellent $20,000.

MetrepaUtan (WB) (1,600; 28-44)—
'Captains Clouds' (WB) (moveover).
Third downtown w;ek fine $6,000.
Last week, 'Hlckok Rides' (WB),
nice $6,200.

Palace (Loew) (2^42; 28-55)— 'Son
Fury' (20th) (2d wk). Still healthy
$11,000. Last week, same picture,
elegant $17,500.

50G Restraint Sdt

Valdosta, da, Mardb 17.
Suit of Southern Pictures, Inc.,
against Martin Amua. Co, Inc., al-
leging restraint of trad* and asking
$50^000 damagaa on March federal
docket here.

Plalntifl -alleges It andetivored to
open a Valdosta unit and that Mar-
tin company praventad it from book

after sad start for satisfactory $4.7 'itig films for prqlactlon It^ Valdosta.

'Cowboy lSGH.O.,lIellz'(GonFirth

Broadwaiy Grosses

Estimated Total Grass

This Week..,; $325,718

(Based on .13 theatre*)
Tatal Gross Satea Week
Last Year. . ...'v .$318,1$$
(Bused on 14 theatres)

WHOTlilG,
Pin. WINNER

Pittsburgh, March 17.

Biz continuing fast pace here, with
'Ball of Fire' at Penn the b^st
straight flimer. Grabbed terrific first
three days ' and 'may smash recent
'Woman of Year' .mark. Combo of
ChiOo Marx band and 'Dangerously
They Live' is lifting the Stanley
back into the top brackets, 'Citizen
Kane' in holdover is doing, fine at
Fulton and stays a third stanza.
'Lady Is Willing'- opened slowly at
Senator.

Estimates for Thia Week -

Faltoa (Shea) (30-35-50)— 'Citizen
Kane' (RKO) (2d wk). Orson
Welles' picture Is maintaining a fast
clip and drawing plenty of press
comment except, of course, in the
Hearst paper. But other two dallies
are mpre. than makbip 'up for this
deflecHon. Nice $6,500 on b.o., which
means - a 'third week. (jp^nlng
stanza, "Kane' got better than ^10,-
000.

Penn (Loew's-UA>— (30-45-55)—
"Ball Fire' (RKO). Blazing along to
one of year's best grosses here.
Nearly 112,000 over the week-end
and with .a weather break, Stan-
wyck-Cooper comedy should get ' a
smash $19,0Q0 or better. Last week,
'La. Purchase' (Par), fine $17,000.

BItk (WB) (800; 30-40-55) -.'Cap-
tains Clouds' (WB) (3d -wk). StiU
potent after great .session at Warner
and Penn. Heading for $3,500, swell
for this small-seat b.o. spot. Last
week, 'Woman of Year' (M-G) (4th
wk), very good $3,00Q.

Senator (Harris) (1,750; 30-40-55)
—•Lady Is Willing' (Col). Dietrlch--
McMurray picture, slated to open
Fridwr (13), didn't get under way
until last Sunday, and no line yet on
its chances. 'Ride 'Em Cowboy* (U)
held over two days of third stanza,
excellent_$l,800. In second week,
Abbott-CosteUo hit $6,500 on top of
$10,000 for opener-. Only heaviest
snowstorm In town's history stopped
it from house record first staiiza.

Stanley (WB) (3,800; 30-44-55-66)
— 'Dangerously Live' CWB) and
Chlco Marx' band. Third of the
Marx, Brothers Is exerting strong
pull. Neat $18,000 or near. Last
week.'Bob CStester band and 'Shang-
hai Geshire' (UA) n.aii. $16,000.

Warner (WB) (2,000: 30-40-55)—
■La. Purchase' (Par) (2d wk). Moved
hare from Penn, and' doing smash

first-run wlndup Frida)c_(20). lisst
Week, 'Captains Clouds' (WB), also
moved tram Penn, good $7,000,

NATIOim BOXOFFICE SURVEY

Round The Clock War Production Spurs Theatre Attendance
—Door Wide Open' for New Smash Entries

It is of no aid to the country's ienemies or salve for
their- sensibUltles to make It known that 24-hours-a--
day production in some of the major industrial cities
Is a proven fact, evidenced by radical changes in
hibition policies, the better to meet the public need
for entertainment. In Seattle, Hartford, Bridgeport,
Detroit and a' dozen other cities theatres are opening
their doors in early forenoon hours to catch workers
before they return to theb benches and assembly lines
on„the afternoon shift.

The longer hours for the boxofflce may well be tht
reason why receipts have been holding consistently
high, despito a lack of several smashing new -features
in the current month. Most of the holdovers in the
first runs date back to tha holidays. Tliese include
•Louisiana Purchase' (Par). 'How Green Was My Val-
ley' (20th), 'Ball of Fire* (RKO), 'Son of Fury' (20th),
•Keep 'Em Flying' (U). "Yank in the B.AJF.' (20th),
■Man Who Came to Dinner' (WB), and others.

Of late weeks only "Woman of the Year' (M-G), To
Be or Not To Be' (UA) and 'Captains of the Clouds'
(WB) have hit commensurate grosses. Showmen an-
ticipate a slowing down through the spring months,
although there ari. several big films on the release
threshold.

Ci'rrenHy. 'Rl('e "Kti Cow'ljoy' (U) nnd 'To Pe.

starring C^ole Lombard and Jack Bei)ny..are standing
tha brunt of the first run*. Former is one of the popu-
lar Abbott tc Costello releases, and is holding over In
most of tha larger spots: Third week in Bostdd
brought 17G. and second week in Seattle, . St. Louis
and Los Angeles are satisfactory.

To Be' Is best in town at nearly every showing, in-
cluding- Baltimore, Cleveland, Portland and Philadel-
phia.

'Woman of the Year" (M-G) reached $33,000 in two
houses in Boston, and la holding well JUi St Iiouls and
Frisco.

Soma of tha week's high spots: 'Song of Islands'
(20th) leads in Los Angeles ^Ith a twln-bousa showing
of $28,500. 'We Were Dancing* (M-G) la aklddlng
badly, with weak to poor showings in Buffalo, CHeve-
lanfl. Frisco. Louisville and Omaha. Only Kaiisas City
gives an encouraging report on the newest Norma
Shearer starring film. 'Louisiana Purchase' (Par)
holding over in Baltimore, first run. 'Green My Val-
ley' (20th), runnerup to "Si^eant York' for extended
run honors, is in fifth week in 3ostoiL 'Captains In
Clouds' \(WB) touched the boUing point In Frisco at
$22,000. 'BaU of Fire' (RKO) had a luminous 18G
sequel to an openln? of $.30,000 in Detroit.

Los Angeles, March 17. -
First-runs still are doing the bulk
of their business on weekends, with
tha Saturday rahi last week denting
grosses generally. This was over-
come by the Sunday upbeat which
generated capacity biz.

'Song of the Islands'- is pacing the
city with $28,500 at the Chinese and
State. 'Paris Calling' opened for a
good $5,500. at:the Four Star, indicat-
ing a four-week run In this deluxer.
Tfie Hollywood 'Paramount, opening
next Wednesday with the preem of
'Reap the Wild Winds,' adds another
first-run. to .Hollywood Boulevard,
and figured to go a minimum of four
weeks.

Estimates for This Week

Carthay Circle (F-WC) (1,516; 33-
44-55-75)— 'To Be' (UA) and 'Night
Divorce* (20th) (4th wk). Final week
so-so. $2,500.. Last -week, good $3,800.

. Chinese (Grauman-WC) (2,034; 33-
44-55-75)— 'Song Islands' (20th) and
•(Donflrm, Deny* (20th). Profitable
$11,500. Liast week, 'Johnny Eager*
(M-G) and 'Mr., Mrs. North' (M-G),
closed with $11,200, nice.

DowBtewii (WB) (1,600: 33-44-55)
—Dangerously. Live' (WB) and
"Sleepy Time Gal' (Rep). Back to
Thursday opening -with nominal $10,-
000. Last week. 'Captains Clouds
(2d wk), 90lld $6,800 in five days.

Fenr Star' (UA-F-WC) (000; 33-
44-55)- 'Paris CaUlng* (U). Opened
strong' and heading for neat $5,500.
Last week, 'Mr. "V*^ (UA) {4th wk),
$4700.

Hawaii (G&S) tl,100: 33-44^55-75)
— 'Hellzapoppln* (U) (5th wk). Trim
profit at $6,000. Last week, good $6,-
500. ,

Bollywood (WB) (2,756: 33-44-55)
—'Dangerously Live' CWB) and
'Sleepy Time Gal' (Rep). Mahily
weekend trade'for okay. '$9,000. Last
week, 'Captains Clouds' (WB) (3d
week), -five days, nice $6,500.'

Orphenm (B'way) (2.200^; 33^-55)
— ^'Man to Dinner' (WB) and. vaude
headed by Art Taturo^ Good $9,500.
Last week, 'Wolf Man' (U). "Mad
Doctor' (U), and vaude, hit $9,000.

PantaKes (Pan) (2,812; 33-44-55)—
'Ride Cowboy' (U) (2d wk). and
'Weekend Three' (RKO). Mild sec-
ond stanza hittinx $6,000. Last week,
'Ride Cowboy' (U) and 'Almost Mar-
ried' (U), cllcko $11,500.

Faramonnt (F&M) (3,506: 33-44-55)
—'Fleet's In' (Par) and "No Hand*
Clock* (Par). Sailing smartly ta
$14,000, Last week. 'Lady Has Plans'
(Par) and 'Remarkable Andrew*
(Par) (2d wk), light $0,000.

BKO Vlllstreet (RKO) (2,872; 33- •
44-55)— 'Hide Cowboy* (U) (2d wk)
and 'Weekend Three*: (RKO). Down-
town audiences comedy..-mluded, trim
$9,000. Last week. 'Cowboy* and 'Al-
most Married' (U), excellent $15,000.

Staia (Loav^-P-WC) (2;204; 33-44*
55-75)— 'Song Islabds' <^Oth) and
'Confirm, Deny* (20th). Merry $17.-
000. Last week, 'Johnny Eager' (M-
G) and "Mr.. Mrs'. North* (M-G), ex-
ceUent $15,500.

United Artlsia (UA-F-WC) (2,100:
33-44-55)— 'Johnny Eager* (M-G) and,-
Mr„ Mrs. North* (M-G). Upbeat to
$4,500. Last week, 'Roxie Hart'
(20th) arid 'Castle Desert' (20th),
lair $3,200.

yoirne (Vogue) (020; 33-44-55)-*
•Plturi' (Indie) and 'Black Dragons?
(Mono) (2d wk). Horror combo sell-
ing seats, neat $2,600. Last week,
okay $3,200.

WUshlr» (F-WC) (2,296; 33-44-55)
—•Johnny Eager* (M-G) and 'Mr.,
Mrs. North' (M-G). In high gear
•with $5,500. Last week, 'Roxie Hart*
(20th) apd 'Castle Desert' (20th),
below expectations , at $5,000.

Can. Victory Loan Nicks
Vancouver Biz Somewhat

'Vancouver, March 17.

Business In general has faUen off
somewhat, a fact probably accounted
for by recent 'Victory Loan, which
raised nearly $1,000,000,000 in th*
country, and depressing war news.
To Be or Not to Be' (UA). iowever,
Is doing excellent business at tha
'Vogue (Odeon). opening well, with
tiie second day topping the first 'Soa
of Fury' (20th) Is also doing excel-
lent biz at Capitol (FP).

Curfew on Japs here does not ap*
pear to have hurt business gireatly,
although this wlU probably be mor*
noticeable on holidays, when Nip-
ponese normally atterttl well.

Real headache for downtown thea-
tres Is expected^ to come when gaa
rationing Is put into effect at tha
beginning of April, although subur-
ban shows will no doubt benefit.
Partial blackoutr of advertising
lights and window displays has had
some effect, of course, but general
war industry upswing helps counter-

12

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WtAntBiAff Mbrch ;18, 1942

PICTURE GROSSES IS

M Hot $19,000 in Cleve. Despite
Food Show; 'Piayinates'-G. Gray Ditto

Cleveland, March 11.

Food show at civic auditorium
drewr.210,000 bat still did not pall
appetite* , of movle-goefs, Deliticer*
ar? iodise advantage of milder days
to pile tip attendance, with 'Ball of
Fire' heating Up the Hipp to a hot
$l9.0d0. .^Playniatea* 'Uo Jiving up a
so-io vaude hill at Palace to a good
figure, but 'We Were Dancing' at
State is nothing to dance about.
Estimates tor TtaU IVeek

Allon (RKO) (3,000: 30-39-42-95)—
■Hellzapoppin' (U). '2d wk). On. a
shiftover, approximately $6,000, iine.
Last week, taptains Clouds' (WB)
(3d' wit), high flying $4,100.

Hipp (Warners) (3,700; 30-35-42-
55)— -Ball Fire' (RKO). Smart ex-
pljltation adding impetus to solid
matinee trade, great $19,000 and a
ho Last weelt, 'Hellzapoppin' (U),
satisfactory $13,000.

Lake (Wf.rners) (800; 30-35-42-55)
—•Captains Clouds' (WB) (4th).
Hitting okay $2,000 on shiftover.
Last week, 'Dangerously Live' (WB)
(2d) anemic $1,300.

Palace (RKO) (3,700; 30-35-42-55-
66)— 'Playmates' (RKO) plus Qlen
Gray's orchestra and Sybil Bowan
on stage. \ hepcats' bill in all de-
partments. Started slowly but clijnb-
ine to around $19,000, Last week,
Tiris calling' <ij> with Ethel
Waters and Count Basle's orch, un-
der $16,000, mild.

State (lWs) (3,490; 30-35-42-5 J)
—'Were Dancing* (M-G), Just a
powder-pufl piece, ordinary |12,000.
Last week, T-o Be' (UA), smart
$16,400.

StUimaa (Loew's) (1,872; 30-36-42-
55)— 'To Be' (UA), Moveover from
State, steady enough to catch worth-
whUe $6,(W0. Last week, 'Woman
Year* (k-fi) (2d wk), pleaslnit
$6,700.

Invaders' Clean Up in
Seattle, Lasb SIO^,
mW7fion2dWk.

Seattle; March 17.

Big payrollf with graveyard and
pre-grave shifts has restated in the
experiment with early ahows at the
town's leadhig first run houses. In
response to personnel department of
Boeing's, Hamrlck-Evergreen circtdt
Is trying out oUa day weekly at each
of Its three major houses, with shows
starting at 6:30 or B:45 a.m., to per*
mit a complete thow by 1 p.m.

This will accommodate, thowe whb
report at the 3 pjn, shift, not only at
Boeing's, but elsewhere. Iti!gtilar
price of ntatbiae admission prevails,

Llberb' is pUyinf sola this week
with The Invaders^ and doing best
In town., riftfa Avenue has Koxie
Hart' and Paramount 'Bugle Sounds'
for close seconds, Orpheum Is hold-
ing 'Ride Im Cowboy' for strong biz.
MtUw»»tm tttrTkki Week

Blae Mease (Hamrfek-Everfiecn)
(850; 304(M«ji— 'Shanghai Gesture'
(UA) and 'Riihi to Heart' <20tb) (2d
wk). .Moreover from Fifth, Big.
$3,ab0. L«st week, 'Johnny . Eager'
• (M-O-OTd -Mr, ifit Worih' (W-G),
after three weeks browed out with
sweU $3,100.

Collsenm (H-E) (1,900; 23-40)—
•Babes Broadway* (M-G) and 'AU
Money Buy' (RKO) (2d run). Very
good $3,200. Last week, 'Green Val-
ley' (20th) and 'Belcmg to Me* (Col)
(2d run), solid $3,200 on second sesh.

Fifth Avenne (H-E) (2,349; 30-40-
B8)— 'Roxie Hart' (20th) and 'Con-
firm. Deny' (20th). Plenty of moxie'
for swell $9,500. Last week, 'Shang-
haie Gesture' (UA) and 'Bight Heart'
(20th), big $9,800.

Liberty (J-vH) (1,^50; 30-40-58)—
The Invaders' (Col). Big campaign
pushing this one to an Immense $10,-
500. Last week, 'Bedtime Stor/
(Col) and 'Blondie College' (Col),
nice $6,000..

Music Box (H-E) (850; 30-40-58)—
Son Fury', (20th) and 'Blue, White,
•Perfect' (20th) (4th Wk). Excellent
Is'Wo' veek, same pair, grand

Orpheum (H-E) (2,000; 30-40-58)—
Ttide -Em Cowboy' (U> (2d wk) with
'Killed Mam' (Mono) as new added
feature. Big $7,000, Last weefc "Ride
Cowboy' 01) and 'Among Living'
(Par) hotsy $10,800.

Palomar (Sterling) (1,350; 23-35-
80-58)— 'Yokel Boy* (Rep) and
Queen Murder Ring' (Col) plus
vaude. Neat $6,800. Last week,
*!fisco Lil- (U) and 'Road- Agent'
(U). plus vaude, big $7W).

Paramount (H-E) (3,039; 30-40-58)
— Bugle Sounds' (M-O) and 'Oblig-
ing Young Lady* (RKO). Great J»,-
l A J^"^' week, 'Playmates' (RKO)
S^r I?*"^"* Blackout' (Par), not so
not, $6,300.

RoMcvelt (SterUng) (800: 30-40-58)

— Tllan to Dinner* (WB) (4th wk).
Solid $3,600 for fourth session. Last
week, same film, $4,200, big.

Winter Garden (Sterling) (800; 20-
30)— 'Unholy Partners' (M-G) and
'Feminine Touch' (M-O) (3d run).
Good $2,700. Last week, 'Sundown'
(UA) and 'Chocolate Soldier' (M-G)
(3d run) nifty $3,200.

^ry'-Robinson Phis
FieMs Band OK $14,000
In Sad Mpk; To Be' 8G

Minneapolis, March 17.

It's the old story, of Income tax
payments and Lent crimping local
boxofflces. Trade here figures that
tax payments in particular are play-
ing havoc, cutting down - patronage
during the past 10 days an estimated
25% and still being severely felt.

Current top boxofflce performer Is
the late Carole Lombard's last star-
ring vehicle, 'To Be or Not to Be,' at
the State, . The Orpheum's stage
show, headed by Bill Robinson, plus
'Bedtime Story' and Ernie Fields'
band, arc mighty well, all considered.
. - Estimates for VhU Week

Aster (Par-Singer) (900; 17-28)—
'Wolf Man' (U) and 'Mad Doctor'
(U). Horror show, wham $3,200.
Last week, 'Perfect Snob' (20th) and
'Call Eilery QDeen' (Col), spilt with
Twilight Trail' (Par) and 'Right
Heart/ nice $M00 In eight days.

Century (P-S) (1,600; 30-40-50)—
'Son Fury' (20th) (2d wk). Moved
here after corking first week at
State, En route to mQd $3,500. Last
week, 'Man to Dinner' (WB) (2d
Wk), big $5,000 oh top of great $10,-
500 InitStl canto,

Ge^er (P-S) (998; 28-30)— 'In
Army' (WB). Should crack through
to fairly good $3,000. Last week,
"Wake Screaming' (HKO), Ught
$2,500.

Orphean (P-S) (2fl00; 30-44-55)—
■Bedtime Story' (Col) plus Bill Rob-
inson and Ernie Fields' orchestra in
all-colored revue. First visit here in
11 years for Robinson, and he doesn't
mean as much to the younger gener-
ation. .Orchestra enthrely unknown
here. However, show well liked and
take my reach good $14,000. Last
week, 'Wake ficreamlnr (20th) and
Sammy Kaye band on stage, very^blg
$10,600.

State (P-S) (^300; 80-40-TO— To
Be' (UA). Heavy exploitation and
advertising hewing. Fairly nice
$S,000. Last week, 'Son Fury' (20th),
good $ft,000. - ^ ,

Vpt«w« (Par) (I,100j 30r40)-T:Jt-
tlc Fixes* (HKO). First neighbor-
hood Showing, very big $3,000, Last
week, 'Weekend Havana' (20th), also
first nabe, good $2JM)0,

Wei Id. (Par-SteSes) (390; 30-40-90-
M)-'Lydla' (UA). T^^j^rtoodjnr
500, Last week, 'Green Valley' (JOth)'
(4th wk), fine $2,000 after piling up
heavy grosses on three precedfag
weeks, «

Itoxie' Smart $9^ m
Denrer; la4r Plans' 7G

Denver, March 17.
'Roxie Hart' and 'Night Before
Divorce' at the- Denver is taking the
top money this week, and consider-
ably ahead' of others. Hbwe-ver, all'
houses except the Rialto are running
above average.

Estimates for This Week
AUddtn (Fox) (l"",400; 25-40)-^To
Be* (UA), after week at Denver.
Good $4,000. Last week, 'Through
Night' (WB), after Denver weeit,
fair $3,500.

Brea^way (Fox) (1,040; 25-35-40)
—'Johnny Eager' (M-O) and 'Four

Jacks, Jill' (RKO), after Orpheum
week. Fair $3,000. Last weekj legit
show, 'Life With Father,' with sell-
outs most of time.

Denbam (Cockrill) (1,750; 25-36-
40)— 'Lady Has Plans' (Par). Solid
$7,000. Last week, 'Sullivan's TraveU'
(Par) (2d wk) and Torpedo Boat'
(Par), fair $5,000. ,

Denver (Fox) (2,52u; 25-35-40)—
'Roxie Hart' (20th) and 'Night
Divorce' (20th). Nice $9/00, and
best biz In town. week, to Be'
(UA) and '(Castle Desert' (2(ith), fine
$14,000.

Orphevm (RKO) (2,600; $8-36-40)
—'Valley of Sun' (RKO) and 'Joe
Smith, American' (M-O). Fair
$8,200, Last week, 'Johnny Eager'
(Rep) and 'Shut Mouth' (Col), fine
$11,000.

Paramount (Fox) (2,200; 25-40)—
'Ghost Frankenstein' (U) and 'Mad
Doctor' (U). Good $6,000. Last week,
'Lady for Night' (Rep) and 'Shut
Mouth' (Col), nice $6,000.

Rlalto (Pox) (87tf; 25-40)— 'Through
Night' (WB), after Denver and
Aladdin weeks, and 'Cadets Parade'
(Col). Poor $1,500. Last week, 'Son
Fury' (20th), after Denver and
Aladdin weeks, and 'Killed Man
(Mono), oke $2,300.

'Eager' Nice $8,000, Best
In Mont'I; 'Bedtime' 6G

Montreal, March 17.
'Captain of Clouds' into third week
with Juicy gross in sight, and 'Gold
Rush' taking a second call for an
other nice take highlighted the cur
rent week showings along the main.
'Johnny Eager* looks like best In
town.

Estimate* for This Week
Palace (CT) (2,700; 30-45-62)—
'Johnny Eager* (M-G). -Big S8,000.
Last week, 'Hellzapoppin' (U), nice

$6,500,

Capttol (CT) (2,700; 30-45-62)—
Bedtime Story' (Col) and 'Queen
Murder Ring' (Col), 'Trim $6,000.
week TDesIgn Scandal' (M-G)

I^st

and 'Jacks and 'Jill' (RK;6),"dltt6
$6,000.

Loew's (CT) (2,800: 35-53-67)—
'Captains Clouds' (WB) (3d wk).
Further smart $6,500 ahead after
Juicy $8,500 last week.

Princess (CT) (2.300: 30-40-52)—
'South Tahiti' (U) and 'Sucker Break'
(U). Sighting nice S4.000. Last week,
'Confirm, Deny' fSOth) and 'Cadet
Girl' (201h), oke $3,800.

Orpheum (Ind) (1.100; 30-40-60)—
'Gold Rush' (UA) f2d wk). Still
clickinK with healthv' $4,S00; foUow-
ii\? very good $6,000 last week.

St. Denis f'='rance-Film) (2,500; 30-
40)— 'Feu dp Faille' nnd 'Cette Vieille
Canaille.' Fair 84.000. Last week,
'Stradivarlus' and 'Troika sur la Piste
Blanche,' good enough $4,20Q. .

7rarels'Mild^ll,000,
SLLonis; Woman' Big HO.

^. St. Louis, March 17.

^Blz at the deluxers siarted off
sluggishly with r.aln« hurting. The
Woman of the Year,' lioldover at
Loew's, downtown, should be the
be:t coin getter.

Estlniates for This Week

Leew's (Lbew) (3,172: 30-40-44)—
"Woman of Year' (M-G) and shorts
(2d wk). Should add another fine
$14,000 to robust $20;000 gathered
on first week. '

Ambasasdor (F&M) (3,000; 30-40-
60)— "La. Purchase' (Par) and
'Glamour Boy' (Par)^. Nice getaway
pohits to a good $13,000 for second
best;hi town, ''Last week, "BaU Fire'
(RKO) and shorts, neat $10,000-

Fe» (PgcM) (6,000; 30-40-90)—
•Lady 'Willing' (Col) a-id 'SuUlvan's
Travels' (Par). Fair $11,000. Last
week, 'Song Islands' (20th) and
'TelUng Me' (U). Swell $13,600, and
better than anticipated.

Mssonrl (F&M) (3,570; 30-40-50)
—'Ride 'Em Cowboy' (U) (2d wk)
and 'Ball Fire' (RKO), Average
$5,900. 'Last week, -Roxie Hart'
(20th) and 'Ride 'Em Cowboy,' fair
$5,200,

St- Leals (F&M) (4,000; 30-40)—
'JaU .House Blues' (U) and -Frisco
Ul' (U), Oke $3J5O0. Last week,
Through Nlrfit' iWB) and 'Play-
materf (RKO), mild $3,200.

Technicolor's $6^90^89
Sales; Net Profit, $942,912

Despite a full year's operation at a
reduced price to producers, Tech-
nicolor, Inc., net profit for year end-
ing last I>ec- 31 totalled $042,912 as
against $682,126 in 1940. Net sales
rose to $0400,280 as compared with
$5,103,404 in the previous year.

Of total revenuer. Technicolor paid
$33.37% to Ubor, 12.15% for taxes,
3.97% executives, management and
general clerical salaries. Company
paid $1 In dividends in the past year,
covered by the financial statement as
compared with 76o, In 1040.

Corporation showed, cash balance
of $3,402,777 which U about 3.8 Umes

'Gesture'-Long-Andrews % Padi$.
Solid Det$3il000;ironian' Lush 15G

current liabilities, . Herbert T,
KalmUE, president pointed out that
the company cut the price on posi-
tive prints by Ic, per foot about the
middle ot lg4b but 1041 net profits
topped -;1030,,. a previous high earn-
ings year.

Kings Row' Neck-V-Neck
With towboy/ $15,000,
Pror.;To Be' Nice 13G

Providence, March 17,

Abbott and Oostello's 'Ride "Em
Cowboy' at HKO Albee and 'Kings
Row' at Majestic- are riding high
this week; Anal figures likely wiUJbe
samt at each house. At present
pace Albee bill is cinch holdover;

Be or Not. To Be' at Loew's State
started ' slowly' and may disappoint,
although the snowstorm may have
•made the. difference on the usually
busy Saturday,

Estimates for This Week

Albee (RKO), (2,^00; 28-39-50)—
"Bide "Em C6*i1joy' (U) and 'Bom-
bay Caipper' (U)- Showing consid-
erable strength and headed for hold-
over. Theatre ad .offering free ad-
mittance -to patrons' arriving o'n
horseback was changed tp anyone
bringhig horseshoes, 800 arriving in
one ilay. Should hit near the top
at $16,000. Last week, 'Fantasia'
(RKO) and 'Mexican Spitfire'
(RKO) (2d wk), gqpd $0,200.

Carllen (Fay-Loew) (1,4C0: 28-30;
50)— 'CapUins Clouds' (WB> ani
'JaU House Blues' (WB) (3d down
town wk). Doing fairly well at
$3,200. Last, week, 'Woman Year'
(M-G) and 'Kathleen' (M-G) (2d
run), nice $3,900.

Pay's (Indie) (1,400; 28-39-50)—
"Bullet Scars' (WB) and vaude. Good
$0,800^ Last week, 'Sealed Lips' (U)
and vaude, ditto $0,800.

Majestic (Fay) (2,200: 28-30-50)—
■Khigs Row' (WB) and 'Don't Get
Personal* (U). Steady biz pushhig
this combo to nifty - $I5,00(!!, Last
week, 'Captains Clouds' (WB) and
'J^ail House Blues' <U) (2d wk), neat
$12,000- - •

MatrepeliUfi Gndl*) (3:200; 44-55-
09)— Rayrioond Scott and his orches-
tra, Johii Bole# and Jack Haley and
Freckles Home' (Mono). Way off
for only fair $0,000 In three-day <rnn,

Stat* (Loew) (3,200; 28-30-50)-
'To Be* CUA) and 'Brooklyn Orchids'
(UA). Not hitting the stride ex'
pected, but stin nlc» at $13,000; lisst
week, 'Mister V (UA) and "FlesU'
(UA), good $13,000,

Siraod (Jndle) (3,000; 28-30-90)—
'Martin Eden' (Coiy and 'No Hands
Clock' (Far), Holding- its own
steady business for neat $0,900. Last
week, 'Paris CallinC (U) and Mel-
ody Lan e' (U). solid $0^

TITLE CHANGES

Hollywood, March 17.
'Nightmare of a Jerk' at Para-
mount became Iflgbtmare of «

Goon.' -

•Boothllt Bandits' If release tag on
'Marshal of Sundance' at Monogram,"
Metro switched from The Big
Thne' to 'M« and.Mjr Oal.'
'C!hlna Pass' Is new handle on 'Sky
w (JhJoa' at Paramount .

e Man Who Lost His Way* Is
new handle on 'Crossroads' at Metro,
Universal switched froni "Boy Meets
Baby" to 'Love and Kisses, Caroline.*

Hlfoman' Hefty $3330 OD H.O. bi Two
Hub Runs; 'Ride 'Em'-McCbyl7G on3d

Boston, March 17.
Holdover films, "How Green Was
My Valle/ and 'Woman of the Year,*
are doing the business hore this weelc
Third week of 'Ride *Bm Cowboyl Is
holdhig up well, with Clyde McC!oy
On stage at the RKO-Boston, 'Lady
Has Flans' is only so-so.

Estimates for This Week
Boston (RKO) (3,200; 30-44-55-86-
75)— 'Ride 'Em Cowboy' (U) (3d wk)
with Clyde McCoy band on stage
(one week). Sagging a bit, only so-
so $17,000, Last week, 'Ride JSm Cow-
boy' (U), with Woody Herman on
corraled $25,500, very good

Fenway (M&P) (1,373; 30-40-44-55-
60)— 'Kings Row* (WB) and 'Melodv
Lane' (U). Con'inued from one weefc
at Metropolitan, aiming at $7,000,
good. Last week, 'Son' Islands'
(20th) and 'NO Hands Clock' (Par),
continued from Met, nice $0,000.

Kellh Henorlal (RKO) (2,000; 30-
44-05)— 'Green Valley' (20th) and
'Niagara Falls '(UA) (5th wk). Hold-
ing up well at $15,000, .and polnthig
to a sixth stanz^ Fourth week hit
$18,000. very g(5od.

MelrapaUtMi (MIcP) (4,367; 30-40-
44-99-0O>-Xady Has Plans' (Far)
and 'CastU Desert' (20th). On the
soft side, around $16,000. Iiast week,
'Kings Row' (WB) and 'Melody
Lan? (U), slide $10,000.

Orpheua (Loew) (2,000; 30-40-44-
55)— 'Woman . Year* (M-G) and "Man
Returns' (Col) (2d wk). Still spiffy
at $19,000. Last week, $25,300, ter-
rific,

Paramoont (M&P) (1^; 30-40-44-
55-80)— TCings RoV (WB) -and 'Mel-
ody Lane' (U). Continued tttm one
week at Met, solid $11,000. Last week.
'Song Islands' (Par) and 'No Hands
cnock' (Par), conttanied from Met,
$0,200.

9tot« (Loew) (3,600; 30-40-44-95)—
•Woman Year* (M-G) and 'Man Re-
turned' (Col) (2d wk). Flirthig with
nifty $14,500. Last week, tallied
$18,500, very big.

Translux (Translux) (600; 17-35-44)
—'Cadets Parade* (Col) and 'Man
Two Lives' (Mono). Slow $3,000.
Last week, 'Law Jungle' (Mono) and
'Black Dragon' (Mono), better at
$3,800.

Detroit, March 17.
Biz Is In the higher brackets here
with holdovers stiQ evidencing that
Detroit is bucking Lent successfully.
Michigan will easily lead the pack
this week with a combination of
'Shanghai Gesture''plus the Andrews
Sisters and Johnny Long's band on
th» stage. Showing plenty of strength
and a sure holdover are 'Woman of
the Year' and 'Joe Smith, Ameri-
can' at this United Artists.

Fox goes into its second week of
'Ball of Fire,' with 'Castle in the
Desert' as a fresh starter, figures up
to those customary for good first
weeks,

Estlnutes for Tbla Week
. Adams (Balaban) (1,700; 40-55-65)
—'Son Fury' (20th) and 'Shut Big
Mouth' (Col) (4th wk>. Still good .
for $5,500 after a choice $6,500 last
week.

Fox (Fox-Michigan) (5,000; 40-55-
68)— 'Ball Fire' (RKO) (2d wk) and
'Castle Desert' (20th). Continues
strong with $18,000, after a huge
$30,000 last week with 'North Klon-
dike' (U) as second film.

Michigan (United Detroit) (4,000;
40-55-65)— 'Shanghai .Gesture' (UA)
with Jolinny Long orch and Andre-\vs
Sisters on stage. Solid $36,000. Last
weelc Fleet's to' (Par) and 'Intl.
Lsidy' (WB), nk* $18,000.
jTahM-SUte (United Detroit)
(3,000; 40-53-a5)-^Fleet's In' (Par)
and 'Intl, Lady* (WB) (2d wk). Pair
moved over from -Michigan, for ripe
$12,000. Last, week, 'Bahama Passage*
(Par) and 'BlUes Night' (WB) .(2d
wk), choice $11,000.
Vnltied Artists (United Detroit)
W (2.000; 40-55-65) — 'Woman Year'
(M-G) and 'Smith, American' (M-G),-
Big $15,000, and. holdover. Last
week, 'Johnny Eager* (M-G) ' and
'Yank Burma Road*^ (M-G) (3d wk),
nice $7,000.

'Song IslandsM8,500,
Heads Offish UyiUe;
^Dancing' MiM f 7,000

Louisville, March 17.
Crop of filnis on view this week
are none .too potent to stand up
against strong opposish from income
tax payment'-'. tixne. Tendency of
ticket buyers Is -to splurge, on out- •
standing films— then - pass up the
weak ones-. That's' the case this
weelc Product is so-so: biz is tepid.
Hx>. of 'Khigs Row' w healthy at
the Mary Anderson, but. otherwise
it's nAh. ' ■
. Recent strong opposish at Jeffer-
son County Armory, first 'th4 'Roller
Vanities' for a h;o. three 4(JS, Cab,
Calloway's orch which .pls^ed to a
capacity . crowd, fcn^ then' Saturday
(14), the basketbair game drew
10,000 for navy relief,

' Estlsiatee fer.Tlils Week
Brewn (Fourth Avenue) (1,400;
19-30-40)— To Be' <UA^ and 'Brook-
lyn Orchid' (DA), Moved here from
State after big week there. Medium
$1,800, Last week, 'Woman. Year*
(M-G) and 'Hay Foot' (UA), fairish
$2,000,

Kentiieky (Swltow) (1,200; 15-25)
— 'Hellzapoppfai' (U) and ^Itese
Falcon* (WB), Low admission and
top notieh-' brand of ' .second-runs
JfMM..thl!li>ouseln-ih«jeunning-ccn---
slstently, currently satisfactory at
$1,000, iLast week, 'Birth Blues'
(Par) and 'IntL Squadron' CWB),
okay $LSO0.

Lvew's State (Loew's) (3,300;. 15-
30-40)— 'Were Danchig' (M-G) and '
'Adventures Eden' (Col), Present
combo is weak, light $7,000. Last
week, To Be' (UA) and 'Brooklyn
orchid' (UA), strong $V.,000, and
moveover,

Mary - Aadersen (LIbSon) (1,000;
19-30-40)— -Kings R<)w' (WS) (2(1
wk). Shaping up as healthiest bill
in town, considering s(zc of- house.
Currency satisfactory $4,000.

Ktott* (Fourth Avenue) (lAOO; 15-
30-40)- 'Song Islands' (20th) and
Frisco LU' (U), Betty Grable pull-

ing the male patrons,, and' Vic
Mature (local boy) proving fa.o. lure
for some femmes. Showing stamma

at all right $6,900. .
Harf aOW kni

lowing
Last week, 'Roxie

. 'Night Divorce'

(20th), fine $9,000.

Strand (Fourth Avenue) (1,400;
15-30-40)— 'Body Disappears' (WB)
and 'Steel Agahist Sky' (WB).
(>)mbo potently should attract ttrong
civilian male and soldier trade, bu^
basketball game Saturday (14),
which 'drew largest crowd (10,000)
ever at a court game In the south
kept 'em away from this film house.
Medium $3,000, Last week, 'Juke-
box Jenny' (U) and "North Klondike'
(U), good $3,600.

SUCCOE FOB FIEE VICTIMS
st Dallas, March 17.

Hubert Covington, owner and
manager of the Lisbon theatre, gave
all of Thursday (12) night's pro-
ceedf. to the Lisbon (Texas) families
whose homes were burned recentlv.

14

WcdneBdajT) M«rch IB* 1942'

WARNERS!

'^'^'PiMfl? D^IijI/ ^^^^"^ COMMINGS * RONALD REAGAN . BETTY HELD

In KINGS ROW wUh CHARLES COBURN . Claud. RoInt.Judllh And.rwn . Nancy Col.man
K.aar«n Verne « Maria Ouipenskaya . Harry Davenport "Directed by SAM WOOD

Screen Play by Casey Robinson • From the Novel by Henry Bellamann.MuiIc by Brich Wolfgang KorngbW

INTERNATIONAIf l«

Brazifian Hays OffkeVFormedfcr^
Fix Industry in Its Worst Depression

Rio de Janeiro, Marcli 10,
The BrazUlan Kovenunent has
given the local pic. Industr;^ a much-
n^ed transfusion by Icreatlnic a Na-
tional Council of Cinematography In
an effort to pull it but o^ one of the
worst depressions' since it* birth
about 10 years ago. This modified
Hays oflice'wlll have absolute power
over producers, distributors land ex-
hibitors, whether Brazilian, or for-
eign operating in ibis country, and
will be under the Division of Cinema
and Theatre of the Department of
Press and Propaganda.

Among the most pressing duties of
the Council'are (1) to guide the rela-
tions between pic importers or dis-
tributors and exhibitors, which in-
cludes such American firms as M-G,
RKO, Universal, Par, tJA, and otheife
which operate here, as Brazilian con-
cerns and (2) foster the production
of local pictures and see that the
book of rules guiding their exhibition
is strictly observed. JjChe exact mean-
ing of 'guide the relations between
Importers or distributors and exhib-
itors' was not dearly defined by the
government but was beUeved to be
connected with price-fixing and
block-booking. American business-
men believed, however, there would
be no interference with their biz
methods.

Some of the rules that will be the
duty of the council to enforce were
put down on paper by the govern-
ment. They are: (1) every exhibitor
must include at least one national
sh«6t in every program and (2) every
e:(lilbitor must show one full-length
Brazilian feature at least once a year
and for the same length of time as a
foreign production, generally one
week, Including Saturday and Sunday.

BRm EASING BANS ^
ON ANTI-FASCIST PIX

Rio de J aneiro, March 4.
Brazil's new anti-Axis stand has*
opened. a so-far tightly closed valve
and rel^sed a fibck of anti-German,
Italian Bnd Japanese films. With the
British t>roductlon, *3 Cockeyed Sail-
ors,' runnbig two weeks so far; local
public for the- first time saw satirized
versions, of Hitler and other Nazi
well-lcnowns. A story dealing with
the single-handed capture of a Ger-
man pocket-battleship by three tars,
there was plenty of room for a good
many slaps. AthOugh definitely C-
grade, 'Sailors' . went over big here

as'' a .novelty; •

Already getting a press buildup is
Warners 'Confessions of a Nazi Spy,'
and . the ° af temOouer, O Globo, is
sponsoring a special showing for the
benefit of. 'officl&ls, newspapermen
and army men as part of their cam-
paign against the dangers of fifth-
cdlumnlsts in this coimtry. .

Metro's The Mortal Storm;* after
gathering dust in the censor's office
-lor. cver-a year, hes received Its-ckay
and will follow 'Dr, Jekyll and Mr
Hyde' at the Cine Metro.

BrazU Donates $15,000
For Rio Stage Troupe

Rio de Janeiro, March 4.

The Brazilian government has al-
lotted a subsidy of $15,000 for the
operation of a theatrical company
from March to. September, 1942,
which will be expected to make an-
other $5,000 in order to meet the
six months' bills. The government
won't make a cent out of the deal
unless the company shows a net
profit of over $?0,000, which would
be 10 times more than net profits
ever made by a theatrical group in
Brazil, including well-lcnown foreign
companies.

Plays wUl be restricted to those
written by Brazilians, as the basic
idea of the subsidy is to stimulate
local talent while foreign actors will
only be engaged U no Brazilian Is
available or fitted for the part. The
authors of the most acclaimed orig-
inal plays will be awarded a cash
prize at the end of the year.

'Cantinflas' to Tour

Mexico City, March 17.
Cantinflas' (Mario Moreno), Mex
tramp comic, is readying a theatrical
road company for a tour of Guate-
mala as soon as his highly successful
revue, sponsored by Ramon Reachi,
ends at the FoUies Bergeres here.
Comic Intends to call his Guate-
..jnalan troupe the 'Vlctorv V.'. ,

M« J. \yilson Backing
Goodhart in Brit. LegH

London, Feb. 20.

.Maurice J;. Wilson, who promoted
the now-defunct Grand National'
Films here, is going in for play pro<-
ducing. He's behind Geoffrey Good-
hart, who has produced several
shows out of town. '

First venture is Clifford Qdet'a
'Golden Boy,' which, although a fair-
ish success at. St. James'' theatre
three 'seasons ago, has not played the
sticks, for which 'Boy' is slated.

MEX FILM BIZ
LOWEST IN YRS.

Mexico-Cit. , March. 17.

Cinema business hire' is at ibi
lowest ebb in several seasons. Sev-
eral frontline houses are staggering
alonS with a cut as much as 60% of
normal. Lent, of course, is one
factor. Current lack of really No. 1
pix, U. S. and Mexican, is another
reason. Too many first-run houses,
causing a' scattering of patronage, is
cited as a prominent cause.

Exhibitors are currently grymabling
more than ever about the civic
system of figuring their taxes, calcu-
lation that is based upon the theory
that each cinema ' has all its seats
occupied every show. Though the
cinemas now have half' their seats
empty, and some of them even more
than that, they must pay .taxes on
the basis of full houses. Exhibitors
intend to petition the civic treasury
department to modify this computa-
tion of taxes.

Would Up Admish

London, Feb. 20.

Cinematograph E^^hibitors A&sn.'s
general committee has accepted 'in
principal' increasing of admissions
to meet rising costs of materiaV'Sind
labor. . "■'

With former up nearly 100% and
some items more, latter up 25% and
likely to rise again in six months,
admissions are about the only mass-
consumed commodity In ' this coun-
tr:- on which there has bieen no price
raise since September, 1930.

Ask War Stripes

sConUnned from V*Kt S;

ments in.which professionals are ap-
pearing gratis.

Plans to Partlclitate

For the purpose of giving full
credit -to show business, the Wing
alms to participate in the distribu-
tion of freer tickets to shows, pic-
tures and sports events in New York.
Thousands of ducats are given to
men in uniform at 99 Park avenue,
quarters of the United Service Or-
ganizations.. Shows and events avail-
able are listed there, and to the
average man in uniform .it would
seem that the tickets come from
USD, whereas the courtesies are
tendered by the managers.

Free ticket bureau is part of
Mayor LaGuardia's Conmiittee on
Recreation and Entertainment and is
under the Office of Civilian Defense.
If the Wing does not have the facili-
ties to take over 'free tickets, it pro-
poses to supervise the distribution,
main purpose being that full ciredit
be given to show business.

Talent Cntons' Coordination

It was with the same objective
that the talent unions formed a co-
ordinating committee. Various actor
and artist group leaders have no ob-
jection to members giving their serv-
ices without pay in the camps and
other service centers, but have de-
cided that the name of each union
shall be credited. All professionals
have been ordered to contact head-
quarters in New York, Chicago and
the Coast before maldng such ap-
pearances,- and designated repre-
sentatives will advise the members
whether the show or event is
'cleared.' If warned otherwise, play-
ers and others In .the actor artist

Uewellyn James Set
Aa Stoll Circuit Chief

. ' ' London, March 17.

; Llewellyn Johns, a director and
booker .of the Sir Oswald Stoll
theatre circuit, .haa. been appointed
its .managing director. He moves
into th* position vacated by .the
death of Sir' Oswald Stoll last Jan. 9','
Severn interests have been bid-
ding for the 100,000 founder's shates
held bfgely by' the Stoll famHy,

MEXICO NAMES
%m BEST
AUENPIC

Mexico City, March 17.

Mexico's own Oscar banquet was
bigger and better tills year, with two
innovations, presentation of a trophy
by President Manuel Avila Camacho
and the announcement of the prize
winners a la Holly wooc:, at midnight
recently diurlng the annual banquet
here of the Association of Mexican
Cinematographic Critics.,

Association chose 'Citizen £ane'
(RKO) as the outstanding foreign
pic exhibited in Mexico last year
and "Fantasia* (RKO)' as the most
technically perfect alien film pre-
sented here in 1941.

President's prize, a silver plaque,
was carried off by tAy, Que Tiempos,
Senor Don Simon' C^ose Were' the
Days, Senor Don Simo) '), production
with music and - featuring Mapy
Cortes and Arturo de Cordoba, who
is now working 'in Hollywood for
RKO. Made by Films Mundiales,
S. A., it was the best pic of 1941, in
the judgment of the cricks.

Other winners were:

Julio Bracho, megger of 'Simon,'
best director; 'Anita Blanch, . best
juvenile actress; Jorge Negrete, best
male juvenile, and 'Cantinflas'
(Mario Moreiu)), ace tramp comic
who was named most popular actor.

Cricks voted a posthumus credit to
Carlos Lopez, pic player, who '^as
drowned last Feb, 13'.
.. Other credits: - :

Matilde Palou, best actress; Angel
Garza, best actor; Jorge Fernandez,
lop scenery expert; Manuel Esperon,
b;st song writer, and Consuelo
Rodriguez, best sound.
' Association made no award for
1941 scripts and went on record as
urging tlie producers to give more*
attention to stories.

Latm-America Pfoblem
On Shipping Pictures
For American Firms

Buenos Aires, March 10.

Redudtlon in shipping and terrific
crowding of airmail facilities have
posed problems for U. S. film compa-
nies throughout Latin-America. Boats
are now so infrequent and Indefinite
that even those companies which only
relied upoii sea delivery for dupes
are now forced to use the more ex-
pesive air-express methods. Even this
Is uncertain, since increase of the
war effort has now put priorities on
everything fiying south. Passengers
on' official business get first call;
other passengers on general business
come next, with the latter on a par
with first-class mail. Air express is
next An instance of tossing out the
packages to permit passengers are
no longer a rarity.

This has not only affected .lllms,
but air express delivery of such niag-'
azines as Tlmej a recent edition of
which was tossed out of the plane'at
Lima, Peru, to wait Its turn on the
south-bound route because of - the
lineup of passengers.

Postal departments in practically
all countries in Latin America have
issued warning urging business firms
to limit mailing ' of items to other
parts of the Americas because of
curtailed space. Reduction of steam-
ship connection- between Trinidad,
'Venezuela and Colombia has caused
an accumulation of mail at Port of
Spain, much of which had . to be
taken to the U. S. first before de-
livery.

union setup are subject to punish-
ment if they make appearances.

Coordinating office did not figure'
in the Naval Relief Fund show be-
cause preparations- for Its .showing
had started before the talent groups
decided to 'clear' all gratis shows
for the camps.

American Film Executi?es in
. To Evacuate Australia for States

P,4^'s ipisciiss Better
: ;For^ign A<Ja, Publicity

J . JPl&ns fo^.-bettet public relations in
jldrel^-tf^uintrles wet**', outlined 'at
Mondays- 'bjS) nie£ting of the! Inter-'
national Ad-Publici^ committee of
major' IT; S.- film cbmpanleff at the
Hays office in New York. .
'Spread of ''Victory' slogans, orlgl-
nalftr outlhied by Jerry Keyser, War-
ner Bros, foreign ad-publlcity chief)
in Latin-American countries, was re-
ported. They are being used -extenr
sively in Cuba .and Mexico. In the
latter country* th«' 'Amerlc4-^Freb
and United— 'Victory' slogan and ih>'
signia has been c''9pled froid th^ film
company advertisements by General
Motors.

CANADIAN PIC
PROSPECTS BIG

WashIngton,'March 17.'
Bright prospects for.' better film
business in CZanadm-liaiva' been 'r^
ported- by the Commercje;- depart-
ment , " ' ' I - . . ; .

Gross receipts,o( Dominion, bouses
this year are-'weU in exc^si'. of cor'
responding 1941 figures and the out-
look 'is '.iencouraging because of
booming employment and mor« lib-
eral spending. Purchasing power of
the Canadian population has In-
creased markedly, while exhlbs have
managed to increase -their opera-
tions without ' appreciably boosting
their running costs, the report said.

• Sydney, .March 17,
, Local film buslnfess. is expecting a
flock- of Amerlcai;' exiaoutives of
U.:-S. distributors ;here- to liead for
home shortly, Tbo^ reported leav-
ing f or U. S. are : native Americans,
itot of military ' age, who 'want to
see their families out. of the imme-
diate war .zone.

Following losses in Far East via
war, Nick Pery, Columbia's super-
visor in* Austraiik-Far ' East,' moves
here as managing -director for Aussie
territory. -Supplants Cecil Mas6n,
present matiager, who resigns after
payoff arrctngement.

Orace Hbpre Opera

sCoutlaved irom page Is

of Iher-tour. She receives $4,900 an
appearance and is optioned for sev-
eral more; She will tnake concert
appearances In. San 'Diegd,' Long
Beacti, San l^ancisco,' Phoenix, 61
Paso, Denver and Montreal in- {he
next fbw weeks .besides apearlng
In army camps for the tJ. B. A. '

She has been inviting several hun-'
dreds of soldiers to appear at each
concert which is not a U.S.O. propb-
siton. Singer also will appear with
the Met on tour and from Sept. 24,
1941, to the end, of April wUl have
made about 76 appearailces at $2,000
per. She has been asked to sing
in Mexico this summer ty Ezequid
Padilla, Minister of Foreign -Affairs,
and will probab;|y cohcertlme and
sing in Opera there,'

Singer was tiie' most popular of
all operatic personalities ' to have
made pictures, having made two' for
Metro in 1930 and then joined Co-
lumbia in 1934 for 'One Night of
Love,' the all-time b.o. - star of op-
eratic productions.
■ She 'also appeared In _5'0ve^ Me
Fofevfer,' "The King Steps" Out,'
'When You're In Love' and 'IH Take
Romance' for Columbia before buy-
ing off her contract and making a
complete film .version of Charpen-
tlere's opera, 'Louise,' in France.
Since 1939 she. has been inactive In
pictures.

'Shanghai's' B.O.

■ssCdntlnned from page Issss

meht of 'Gesture' was worked put
which the Hays' office approved.
Metro, it is figured,' will have less
trouble with 'Cargo,' as it will prob-
ably make no effort to be faithful
to the original. Main stumbling
block is marriage of a white man to
a dark-sklrmed gal ' (Tondeleyo' —
the only femme in the play). Gal
is also built up as having beep lii-
timate with many white men' on
the coast of Africa, which. - is the
locale of .the yam.

'Cargo' rights, bought from Forum
Productions, Inc., cost Metro $25,000,
Play was -written by I«on. Gordon
and originally presented by Earl
Carroll at the Greenwich 'Village
theatre In 1923. Annette Margules
was starred and won her some of the
same fame as Florence Reed did In
the part of 'Mother Goddam' in
'Gesture' three years later. 'Cargo'
also had a successful run in Lon-
don in 1924. It was filmed in Eng-
land hi 1030 by British-International,
but never shown in this country. . ,

Ralph Clark, Sr., Warners' man-
a^g director, his son, Ralph, Jr.,
also with company,. and Clay Hake,
20th-Fox ..chief 'in Australia, are re-
ported retumlng^ to U. S. 'Warner
chief, wlio is said to have planned
bis trip three' months ago, has left
Sydney and is bringing his family.
Hake reportedly skedded his trip
early in December.

Harry,. Hunter, Paramoimf a man- '
aghig dli:e.ct6r, la said to haVe ar-
raiitced .three years ago to visit New -
Yoirk in the spring of 1042, but no
recent . word '. has ■ been received - on
when h^ is coming. Re Is expected
to brli)^ his family back with him
for the 'duration. Hunter was in
N. Y; three years «go and then
planned his' i^tum, vl^It, aqcordinc
to the home office.

(George A*plegate, Western Elec-
tric representative, ali^ Is reported
due back in America soon from the
Aussie:, terrltpi^.

BUENOS AIRIS WEAK AT
FIX B.O4 TEPr OK 7G

.Buenps Aires, March 10.
Lack of strong fare left its mark',
at the local boxofflce again- last week;
wltb^none ot the first-nmners push-
ing up. into the tbpmoney bracket*
except the Opera. Tepe.Le Moko,'
a. French-made, TT-A-distributcd
oldie, with Jeaq, Cabin and-Mirellle
Balin, clocked an excellent 28,000
pesos '(approximately $7,000 S.).

• Other estimatet, ,bH: ffiven- in Ar-
gentine pesos; cwrentlti at about 75e, -
ioWow: . "- .

Ambassador .(Lautaret and Ca»
vallo) AlAW, .2.5P;. 2.00" pesos)—'
'Nine Lives Are Not -Enough' (WB).
Did badly. ■

Heal (Lococo. ' (970; 3.00 and 2.50)
-^'Appointment for Love' (U) (5th
and last week). Drew very O.K.
8)000 pesos. Last week did 10,000.

Jt«x (Cordero, Caballo add.' Lau-
tai'et) (3,305; 2.50 'and 2.00).-r-'Lady
Be GoodJ (M-G). Nice 25,000 but,
surprisingly? not held over. Last
'week, 'Men In. Her Life' did fairish
17,000 for the second stanza after
a dicko 28,000 previously.

Nonfaandle (Lococo) (1,400; 9.00
and. 1.50 )—'Lydla'- (U-A). Good 12,-
OOfO in its flrjtt week at this housft
after an extended run 'at the higher- .
priced IdeaL Last week, T^om, Dick
and Harry' (RKO) r^ted 11,000.

Monumental (Coll, Gattl and Cla.)
(1,300; -2.00 and 1.50)— 'El Profesor
Cero' (Sono Film; Argentine-made).
Excellent 10,000 despite mixed no-
tices, due malhly to name valutf of
local comic, Pepe Arian.

Opera (Lococo) (2,400; 2.S0 and
2.dO)-^'Pepe Le Moko*). (French-
made U-A di^trlb). Excellent 28,-
000. Last week 'AH That Money Csxi
Biiy' (RKO); 21.0!l)0. . .

Broadway (Lautaret and Cavallo)
(1.883; 2.50 and 2.00)-T'Dive Bomb-
er' (WB). -Fairish 6,000 after two
weelcs at the Ambassador. Last
week, no . films because' of carnival
dances. ':

SulpBcfaa (I.0COCO) (950; 3^00 and
2.60)— 'Hold that Ghost' and (40,000
Horsemen' (both U), "Weak 7,000 on
repeat first run. Last weelc, 'Sus-
picion,' nice 8,900 on its '6th final
week.

Mex Playwrights Cut
Royalties to Aid Stage

Mexico City, March 17.

Mexican dramatists and other -writ-
ers for the stage have voluntarily
cut their royalty to 6% from Xkm
customary 10% so as to help tho
staggering theatre In Mexico. -

Royalty donation Is being con-'
tributed to funds that are being
raised, undeo government super-
vlslloj),. to,ijpaprftvfr,thfr.thfi«tr«v , , .

16 EXPI.OITATIOM

ireine»a$j, Minreh Ig; 1942

N.Y. Screen Publicists Pampliletize
Bway Dekers; Picketing Next?

+-

Handing out of leaflets by the
Kew York Screen Publicists GulTd
In front of Broadway theatres- since
last Thursday (12) has apparently
brought no change In contract-nego-
tiation stalemate with prtductrs.
ihat elicited the comment from one
of the SPG leaders Monday (16),
'We're not just going to hand out
leaflets forever.'

Should the SPG 'Action Commit-
tee' caU a walkout, to accordance
with the power voted it by the gen-
eral membership: Tbtqrsday (12), it
win have a healthy strike fund. In
BddiUop to regOlflf due* pUed.up to
meet the situaUon, it has levied an
assessment of 10% of each member s
weekly salary, payable In two in-
stallments. It has also Uned up
backing of many labor and other
groups in New York and on the
Coast. . .

Leaflets have been passed out
from 7 to 9 each evening. In front
of cl^t major Broadway houses.
They make clear, however, that the
60 to 100 SPGltes who give them
out are not on a picket line or strik-
ing. Unioft-consdous theatregoers
who ask the ieaflet-handers whether
It is okay to enter the. houses are
told: 'Certainly. Please go . hi and
enjoy yourself,'

Handbills state, 'AH we are ask-
ing you to do AT THIS TIME is;
1. Write Will Hays. . . . protesting
Bgainsf the producers' unpatriotic
penny - pin'clilng, tnlllions .- wasting
policy. 2. Ask«your friends, relatives,
co-workers to help us win this flght
against companies that will not obey
the law of the land and deal in sim-
ple good faith and decency with
their employees.'. • '

Charging companle* refused medi-
ation, in the seven-month battle,
four-page p'amphlets twice mention
Willie BiofTs tleup with the indus;
try, -point out increases in various
companies profits la5t year and add:
The SiEC. discloses that movie fexecs
giye them^ves 18J)6% of the In-
dustry's net profits each year. This
Is second .highest of all Indusmes,
though the jmovies are only, the 14th
largest In America from standpoint
of volume of business and lltb in
Bales.' . .

. VaUti to Negotiate
Guild currently is burned because
It claims aa agreement has twice
been reached with reps named to ne-
gotiate for tile compaitiesr but prin
cipals tioth; times have repudiated
their recommendations. Majo^ points
in dispute are' SPG's demand for
15% overall wage increase against
tomeofllce offer of 10% and Guild's
request for a one-year pact while
companies want it to rup at least two
and downtown theatres Stmday (15)°
Theatres at which handbills are
being distributed are Music Hall,
/ Capitol, Paramount, Rivoli, Palace,
Loew's fit^te, Astor and lloxy.

Meantime, jurisdictional dispute
betweefi the SP(i and Sign-Pictorial
ti Display Union; Local 230, AFL,
whiph resulted in latter organization
picketing Broadway houses for two
days .last \veek, has been ' settled.
More than 90% of the artists in RKO
l!heatres .b.ti., who were the men in
dispute,' iiave joined 'the'SPG, which
has filed with the National Lalior
Relations Board for' certification
their collective, bargaining agent.

If ThU potm't Wbrk--

Milton Berkowiti, chltf pro-
JecUonist at Capitol ihe»tr«,
N.Y, rigged up a Uve wlte.atf
tached to spark plug of 4il« car,
to catoh tire thieves after, friend'a
automobUe had been frisked of
all four wheels. . ^ , .

He now has * disc with loud-
speaker hidden in car atUched
by wire to whejsU which goes
into action in case rubber-remov-
.crs try anything, yelling 'StopI
Tire thief!'

F^urgarcoatihg

|_— sGeaUanc* from pafe Ss

Wise, m MINN.
EXHIBS NOW
VERY CO-OP

Milwauke'e, March 17.
* Wisconsin -and Minnesota exhibs,
who formerly . composed two. antag-
onistic groups, are now huddling in
the ■ frIendUest possible fasUon,
common ptoblems having brought
about unity that a few years ago
was considered Impossible of attain-
ment, and indications are that the
hatchet will remain burled from
now qn. . . . ■

Will Ainsworth, Andy Gutenberg
and Harry Perlewitz, respectively
president, v.p. and business manager
of the Independimt Theatre Protec-.
tlve Ass'n. of Wisconsin and Upper
Michigan, are in Minneapolis tbday
and tomorrow (Wed.) attending coa
fab of Allied Theatres of the North-
west at the Nicollet hotel, and
stronger cooperation ^than ever is
expected to grow out of the love
feast.

While conditions' rising ovt of the
national emergency are receiving due
attention, the exhibs are. sUll look-
ing to the future in remedying i
borderline situation that has beep
the source of much bickering in the
past'

Theatre ops in the west part of
Wisconsin are servlced out of Minne
apolls due to their geographic loca-
tion, yet, because .they do business-
in -the Badger State, they are com-
pelled to -work tmder Wisconsta
la-ws ttiat often conflict with Minne-
sota le^Ialion where they are
greatly concerned. Some Indies be-
long to the official Wisconsin or-
ganization, others belong to North-
west Allied; imafllliated with either.

Under the^ plan that has ' been
worked out by the heads of both
groups, these exhibs can now belong
to both groups by paying half dues
to each, and thus obtain the benefits
of ntembershlp in each, being welded
Into what to all practical purposes
is a single efficient unit

More Than 500 Torn Ont
For Jay Emanuel Fete

Coast Unions Co-Op

Hollywood, March 17.

Members of the Conference of
Studio Unions distributed more than
10,000 pamphlets outside Hollywood
and downtown theatres Sunday (15)
night asking public support of N. Y.
Screen Publicists Guild -in demands
on major picture companies. Ckin-
f erence leaders promised picket lines
at theatres here if walkout is ordered
by N. Y. group.

Pamphlets were sent here from
N. Y. to test cooperation expected
from Coast units in return for sup-
port N. Y. publicists gave Screen
Cartoonlstii Guild in controversy
with Walt Disney. More pamphlets
will be distributed tonight

Phila'delphla, March 17.

Jay EmanueCwldely-lcnown Philly
exhib and trade paper publisher,
was guest of hortor at a testimonial
dinner tendered him last night
(Mon.Vby Mo.tlon Picture .Associates
at the Benjamin Franklin hotel
the occasion of Emanuel's 30th an
niversary In the picture Industry.

More than 500 attended, among
them George Dembow, Joseph
Eagen, Charles Reagen, Bob GiU-
ham, Joe Bemhard, Bill Scully,
Herbert Yates, BlU Rodgers, Ed Al-
person, Herman Robbins, S. Barrett
McCormick, Arthur Mayer, John H.
Harris, Charles Lewis, Arthur
Greenblatt, Paul Terry, Jules Lapi-
dus, Barney Balaban, Harry Brandt,
Jack Cohn, Ned E. Deplnet Harry
Gold, Ed . Kuykendall, Jules Levey,
E. K. O'Shea.

New War Time and Tires
WiU Shutter 1 Drive-In

Milwaukee, March 17.

Drive-In theatre here is not ex
pected to be in operation this year.

It is situated 10 miles out of town,
and tire rationing, for one thing,
would dlscotuage trade, while day-
light saving, for another thing, would
prevent protection \mtil too late to
get a play, even if It weren't for the
rubber situation.

ticket with the desire to b* amtisea,
•ntertahied, and, transported -friMn •
workaday atmosphere.

But that doesn't excuse the re-
fusal to give any reallsfic vjew»—
to. newsre«!l» or educat>on«l iborta-r
or patrlotlsm-stlrrtag feature^ to
the eyes of Federal suthorltit*.

Hope to held tbat— <?nc« the pro-
ducers, editors, and exhibitors can
b« convtoeed of their obUgatlon to
help tOt up ^greater wflllngneaa to
undergo fa«ariflc«— some of the com-
petitive, cash-box 'obstacles can be
removed. That,- hoyrrvcr, U m f tep
to be taken later, ^though a few mild
gesttires have occurred alritady.

Whether it's the exhibitors or the
producers and exhibitors who are
most open to criticism Is a matter
disagreement, among Federal
authorities. Washington is piqued,
is certain, with- both. Certato
theatre gperatorsr^v^n major-
iompany owned chains —.have
ignored the efforts of the (Jovem-
ment, Hollywood ^troducers, and the
hewsreel" editors; shelving (3ovem-
ment-made diorts, cllpptog war
scenes, cancelling features with -war
themes, and so forth. Steady flow
of reports concern exhibs who run
the (lOvemment films to ibarly-mom-
tog hours to almost emp^r houses,
for Instance. .Many inBtanceit are
known where camera crews lensed
stories deemed of major importonce
the war effort, and' home-office
shippers deleted every foot

Bnt on the dther EbuiA—

The alibi that the public won't go
for war shots week in and week out
doesn't impress a lot of U. S. au-
thorities. Any population that -will
'stand the fashion show, beauty pa
rade, spinach festival, crowds-jam'
Coney-Island fare year after year
won't balk, it Is argued, at weekly
releases containing sequences about
different sides of toe war. Espeeially
when ^ere are so many different
phases of the war, like sinking tank-
ers, airplane production. Congres-
sional' heariiigs, speeches, orders and
regulations hitting every household
and po'cketbook— plus actoal hos-
tilities. _

A couple of tocidents potot up the
Governmental dissatisfaction. In
some cases 'the reel editors are
blamed; m others the exhibs.

-^ashmgton feels toe public hasn't
been sufficiently acquamted via toe
screen wito the reasons why auto-:
mobile tire sales have been forbid--
den; clotoes styles have been radi-
Q^lly altered; gasoltoe rationing Is
necessary.

There should have been more
visual education. It is felt about toe
economic consequences of toe Jaqpa-
nese thrust through the Netherlands
East Indies and- of toe wav£ of
tanker sinldngs. Ingenious camera
crews and editors, officials argue,
could put over toese lessons with-
out scarmg sailors toto refustog to
put to sea or buildmg up any form
of appeasement feeUng. ^

The competitive reasons for soft-
pedaltog are appreciated. Federal
people understand toere is no pos-
sibility of lengtoening the amount
of playing time, toat rival houses to
toe same block cannot offer toe
identical bill, that toe public won't
stand repetition of poorly-made in-
dustrial or governmental pictures.

HiflforBinNewaArOdMfBj^^

Sqiselchecl

' Loi Angeles, Bbrch 17.
Jinx mkuAurf will conttoue
4iider that title; In splte-^f ft It-,
gal appMl to flunk to5 T*lken-
burg* and fo through lU* a
•Jinx.' ' ,j

- Superior Judge WHson decided
the action wa« too drastic, a dig-
nified way of sfluelchlng a pub^
llcity stunt

SLANG FORUM

FIRE'^BAILY
INDET.

Winant's Return

Harines' 'Tripoli' Bally

Marme Corps League Is sponsor-
ing premiere of To toe Shores of
Tripoli' (20th-Fox) at toe Roxy toe-
atre. New Yorli, March 25. Army
and navy officials and detachments
of marines from. Quantico, "Va., and
toe Brooklyn and Philadelphia Na-vy
Yards will be hosted by toe League,

Tripoli' was shot largely at toe
n^arine base at ?ah .Diego, Cel., wito
tfutoorization and assistance of toe
U. S. Marine Corps.

S^sContoined from page Sss

is worked out, if then. Britisb pact
might be applied also to Australasia.

Problem of getting frozen U. S.
dirtributor com from Australia, New
Zealand and Bermuda was prmcipal
topic discussed by foreign sales chiefs
of major U.S. fllm companies when
they huddled last Thursday (12) at
the Hays office to New York.
Though a ne-vf money pact for New
Zealand has been- du.. stoce the first
of toe year and a new one should
have been placed to effect last March
1 for Australia, foreign managers
are not pressing for such contracts
just now because of the Jap mvasion
toreat to toe latter. .

Altoough no word has been re-
ceived by the Hays office regardmg
toe unfreezing of American dis-
tributor money in Bermuda, several
major companies have been advised
that it will not be tied up much
longer. For the eight companies,
the total amount frozen Is said to
represent less than . $300,000. Be
cause the U.S. has a inilitary base
to Bermuda now, it has developed
toto a tiigh proUtoble market wito
much American coin to evidence,
About $6,200,000 is frozen m Aus-
tralia; $1,500,000 in New Zealand.

Detroit, March 17.
Plenty of comment and amusement
was stirred up. bi this area when a
slang semtoar was run oil In con-
Junction wito "Ball of Fire* at toe
Fox last week. Theatre staged a
special showtag of toe pbc and
rounded up college , and hl^ school
profs and stodents for a forum on
toe slang,

It tamed out that toe unWer^es
and schools to toese parts are fuU of
professors who believe that slang Is
Vitalizing toe American language
more toan ever toese days,' altoough
admitting • toey were constantly
floored by toe sudden changes to toe
language; Toungsfters were used to
toterprettog toe.flippo language Used
to toe picture and translattog It toto
otoer slang and . old English for toe
benefit of otoers at toe forum. '
^ The press had a, lot of fun -wito toe
slang Seminar, quoting toe professors
on toe fact that tousle was develop-
tog its own language and enriching
Americanese, and that every genera-
tion now is developing its own lan-
guage.

'■Variety* was. mentioned to the
discussion as a particularly good
sample of how toe entire language
Is being enriched wito nev wor4s
and phraseii; 'Hypo' -was selected as
one word which expressed sopietotog
never., adequately stated before and
a particularly 'flextole' new form.

InTokea WiH Horwitz
Setnp to Trial April 9

Muddled situation to Houston, fol-
lowtog deato of Will Horwltz lately,
with toierests to four toeatres a sub-
feet of controversy, comes up to Ap-
pellate Court to Texas on April 9.
The toterstoti Circuit In -which
Paramount is a 50% partoer, owns a
50% Interest to three of the Houston
toeatres which Horwltz operated,
while a fourth, toe Uptown, Is to
volved in Horwltz's wHl together
with interests to toat to^tre which
he personally turned over.

Will Hamblen,, attorney tor Hor-
wltz, seeks to run the Houston thea-
tres, a move .that is opposed by In-
terstate wito respect to toe three to
which it owns a half Interest.

Horwltz,. who got In trouble
through operating a Mexican radio
stoUon, constontly fought the dis-
tributors and though he was todl-
rectly a partner of Par's, he made
no exception so far as that company
was concerned.

iSeattie, March 17.
rrank -Qhriftle, formerly chief
booicer for the Hatorlck-Evexgreen
circuit, -Katlotaal Ibeafrea affiliate to
Watfitogton and Qregon, baa bean
otot«d fllm buyer for -toe chain.
„ ■uccOHig Al nOc^ wh6^win;^eon-
tiauc neimMtr aa oftarator of th*
Portland (Ore.) theatre division
which he has handled berctofort to
addition to fllm buytog. . -

Irvtog Barnr aiepi up at chief
booker for H-E.

Hin'a WB District

Newark. Harcb 17..
Lcto Hill has been appototed New-
ark: district manager for 'Warner
Bros. B"' was formerly manager of
the Branford here. New Branf(»d
nianager is Harold Weldmbom, who
waa asalaUnt manager of toe Stanley
to Jersey City and toen manager of
to« Da Witt to' Bayonne.

BlaOMweta' Newest

Uncoln, NA., March 17.
Mrs and Mrs. T. H. Stottower, who
have theatres to Wichita, BeU Platoe,
and Oxford, TSana^ will open a new
one to Mulvane, Kans., to May.

Two old-timer eAIbs to Nebraska
are Ralph Falkenfaurg. ,6f toe Ma-
jestic, Lextogton, who has been
sho-wuig' flims stoce IOCS, and to one
location since 1S15. and Bruce Mer-
rill, of Edgar, who has been to the
same town since 1908,

BIrsi. Cox Beepcaa

-Memphis, March 17.
Mrs. -Emma Cox opened- her new
Gem, Qsccola, Ala., Sunday (16)
wlti) "Captains of toe (Houds.* House
seats 600. Replaces one that burned
late last year.

Xwck Baanon'a Ctooy. V Bertk
Jack Bannon -waa appototed man-
ager of XTniversal's exchange to Cto-
dnnaU tills week, according to an-
nouncement by William A. -:Scidly,
general sales manager. 'He replaces
Harry Young.

ScUne'* Scotia. N. T.; Baase

Scotia, N. Y., March 11-
'TThe Rliz has been taken over by
Schtoe. J. J. Hamilton manager of
Scotia.

Plattel. Taagbaai Swap

-Vancouver, March 17.
Ben Plottel, manager for Empire
Universal distributors here, trans-
ferred to Wtonipeg to take overthe
company's office toere. Frank
Vaughan, Winnipeg manager, ^comes
liere.

Jehnay Haed t* iUlwaakee

MUwaukee, March 17.
Irvtog Steto, who resigned as as-
sistant manager of the Biyerslde the*
atre here to manage toe Elko
(Mantoe c]rouIt> to Elkhart, - Ind.,
has been succeeded by Johnny Hood,
formerly at toe Times to Wauwatosa.
Kenneto Meyer, formerly, at . -toe
Warner here,' has been made treas-
urer Qi toe Riverside.

CaUahan Keads O. •( C

Waxahachle, Hexai; March 17.
Dave P. Callahan, city manager of
toe Robb & Rowley theatres her*,
wa? unanimously debited presldoit of
toe local Cniar^er .61 Commerce for
the coming year. -

Laew'* Taleda Paeetitt

Toledo. March 17.
Complete rebuilding of the old
Loew's 'Valentine to downtown To-
ledo, at a cost of approximately $60,-
000", Is announced by Jack Lykes,
manager. The toeab«, one of toe
city's showplaces to years long gone
by, will be given enlarged ■ seattog
capacity.

CRAZY OVER HORSES

Bnt Horseshoes Come to Handy for
the CUtvernment

MORGAN'S SWITCH

How

About Forctog Featares
Craok Shorts?

Oscar Morgan, who sold features
for over 25 years and probably
forced plenty of shorts wito 'em
durtog ills sales career, is now to
charge of shorts sales for Para-
mount and comes up wito the
toought of what would happen if an
exhib wants toe Superman shorts
(Par) and a smart film peddler
wouldn't sell unless he was able to
force the features on toe deal

It's somethtog toe United Motion
Picture Industry 'hasn't gotten toto
yet, notes Morgan.

The consent decree says shprta
can't be' forced with featores, but
nothtog on deals vice versa.

Providence, March 17..
'Whoever started toe rumor toat
the 'horse was a thing of toe past'
sure pulled a fast one on George
French, manager, and Bill Morton,
publicist of Providence's RKO Al-
bee. Boys toought It would be a
nice stunt to offer free admittance
to anyone ridtog up to toe boxoffice
on ..horseback or by brtogtog a
horseshoe along to sort of help carry
out toe bill's theme, "Ride 'Em Cow-
boy.'

Offer was good on one day only,
but toe 100 or so shoes toey expected
tn get got a lltUe out of hand and
more than 800 were received at the
end of the day.

Required a special crew to stack
and clean up the debris, but the
gag, despite toe headaches It brought
on, still bad a happy endtog. The
Government was looktog for scrap,
and as it turned out, tols proved
one swell way of digging it up. At
last reports contact wai betog made
with Ciovemment officials to take it
a\yay.

Wednesday, Marck 18, 1941

IT

— — w

Hi

Only three times in all its fabulous years has Radio City Music Hall held ia picture for six weeks^
Twice this honor came to.M-G'M; previously for *ThiladelphiaiStory"and now for the box^fficjl
triumph "WOMAN OF THE YEAR/* Congratulations to all who took part in its makirig|
SPENCER TRACY, KATHARINE HEPBURN in a GEORGE STEVENS production with Fayr
Bainter, Reginald Owen, OriginaL screen play by Ring Lardner, Jr. and Michael Kanin. Directed by
George Stevens^ Produced by Joseph JLwMankiewicz., A MetrorQoldwxniMayer Picture^

18 PICTURES

ITednesdajr, March 18, 1942

Midwest Likes War Films

;ConUiinc4 from ]>ag« Ss

ties Committee and the Government,
according to Jay n^omigi, cbainnan
of WAC In this territory.

A poll of representative exhibs
•hows that this condition is due to a
variety of reasons, notably lack of
interest and Jack of playing time due

theatre has a certain duty in carry-
ing out necessities of war Informa-
tion by use of the screen but other-
wise province of the theatre is apart
from war.

Cutting of newsreels 'or shorts,
is given little attention here, and

to being loaded up with regular any practices along that line are in-
frequent and only made to conform
to the theatre programs.

shorts and double features.

Only a few gave the reason, attrib-
uted in other territories, that of
shelving defense pix because of audi-
ence influence and desire to make
people forget the war. One exhib,
operator of a large chain, blamed
the lack of 'coordination' in the
distribution of the flbns.

'Exhibitors are snowed under with
letters from various Government
and charitable agencies, so that they
tend to ignore mail requests,' he '
said.

This exbib suggested that the
Government or film industry accig n
a man full-time to the territory to
personally contact theatre-owners
and keep after lliem.

"Thaf s the only way to wake them
up from their lethargy/ he asserted.
He also claimed that distribution of
the Alms, through the re;galar ex-
changes was foolish, insofar as the
distributors would give preference
to their own shorts, on which they
make a profit, instead of plugging
the Government bnefles,

Emanuel said that' exhibitors were
no different than, the rest of the
American people. ' .

They need a bomb to fall on them,
before they idealize the seriousness of
the \var situation,' he said.

.'In file last war exliibitors had to
pay for the patriotic films, and they
were booked almost 100%. Now that
they're free, it seems we can't get
them too interested. Oliere are a feV
— a very few, thank God— rwho are
out-and-put Nazis and. tell you
frankly they aren't in sympathy with
the war effort at all'

Emanuel 'said that affiliatiMl thea-
tres in this area are just as guilty as*
Indies in'sluffln|; off defense shorts.

NO SWiVEL-CHAIR

H'woad Tcid Slraal Carpi
FlgbUar HCM

Wanta

Is

Isolatioiustic Detroit
Now America^ Arsenal

ioetroH, July 17..

This arfa, once rated as the heart
of the j^olalia|ri&t belt. Is 100% on
patriotic .'^cmres. Detroit, whitib
sluffoed piany a picture • year :ago
as 'waniongedng,' today is booUng
solidly on eveijjttung It ean get to'
help, stir up the public to the fact
•we're in y War we've been lodng.' .

The chaoge of heart came as
quickly „as Giose ' Jap bombers to
Pearl Harbor. By the next morn-
ing this production center was no
longer isolationist and the theatre
men were quick to sense the shifting
change of heart.

Omaha. Awake to the War

Omaha, 'March 17.

Led iff vigorous 'Let's-Have-It-
^Straight' tone froin all sides,
' Omaha's, exhibitors are pulling no,
• puncliesr-. on their screems. If the
subject' .matter .is unpleasant, they
ahoiV-ft-. anyway and audiences here
seem t{> lyiant exactly that. Matter
of fact, ..when the terrible ' Pearl
Harbor havoc pictures were on tap,
exhibitors here took extra newspa-
per space to -advertise them. Sugar-
coated theme; and Pollyanna stuff
are not required from Ibe screen
here, although audiences are very
susceptible to piatriotic things.

However, top reaction getter is
any reference or picture of Mac-
Arthur. Audiences here simply
tear off roof whenever his face ap-
pears. Scenes of sunken U. S. ships
or any other realistic films are
viewed calmly with little or no de-
mand for sugarcoatlng.

Exhibitors here have all deter-
mined to run the kind of stuff the
Government agencies want, ' namely
realistic stuff that will wake the
people up. FeeUng here Is that rest
of the country has a wrong impres-
sion of the middle west. The people
do know there's a war on.

NW No Longer Aloof On
War; Likes Deffcnse Films

Minneapolis, March 17.
John J. Friedl, Minnesota Amus.
Co. (Paramount circuit) president,
who is chairman of the War Activi
ties committee for this territory, says
that more than 400 theatres here-
abouts had signed Government
pledges to show all defense and kin-
dred films and that, as/ the result of
a recent campaign,- 200''moi;e vKte
enlisted, nils represents the vast
majority of the territory's show-
houses; he points out. Minnesota
Amus. houses have shown all the de-
fense and kindred releases to date
and will continue to -do so, according
to Friedl.

At the same time, Trid Strom,
Northwest Allied executive secre-
tary, annotuced that the matter of
showing these U. S. defense films was
to have a prominent place at the an-
nual convention of this independent
exhibitors' organization' here this
week. This is at the request of and
in cooperation with Friedl, he states.

ifore than 95% of the territory's
independent ediibitors have signed
pledges to show the releases, accord-
ing to Strom, who believes the cur-
rent goal of 100% will be attained.
The independent exhibitors have evi-
denced a willingness to cooperate
and have done a fine job, he asserts.

Neither Friedl nor Strom have en-
eountered any complabit from ex-
hibitors on the score that the films
might decrease a show's entertain-
ment value, and hurt business, they
sa}'. Inasmuch as this territory has
been con^dered - strongly isolation-
ist — at least up to' the time of the-
Pearl' Harbor attack— this support of
the Government film program stacks
up as all 'ttie -^re laudable, in the
trade's opinion.

K. C. Cuts But Slightly
Kahsas City,- March 17,

Defense shorta aind films of kind-
red nature are receiving full co-
operation from £rst -run theatres.
Six downtown houses play defense
releases concurrently as much as
possible, but all managers agree in
trylng.to. ^ace them iiroperly.

Managers imanlinously ' report
little or no comment from custom-
ers snint pio^agipida quality of fea-
tures or shoctk, and iden in this «rea
aaoat ' " '

'Wake Dp Amerlc**

New Haven, March 17.
Consensus among exhibs here re-
garding 'showing of defense and
kindred films put out by War Ac-
tivities Committee and government
agencies is that such films definitely
should be iSiown. Opinions of sun-
'dxy contacts ranged frdm the
thought that exhibs chould show
them as a patriotic duty, whether
they personally wanted them or not,
to the way one manager expressed
it as follows: "These films are cer-
tainly providing something for the
public's own good in the matter of
vital information along protective
lines. If a patron is so stupid as not
to recognize this and complains that
his program of straight entertain-
ment is being interrupted^5y propa-
ganda, then I'd just as soon tell him
to keep the hell out of my theatre.'

Numerous opinions coincided in
the belief that these films are func-
tioning vitally in the 'Wake Up,
America!' campaign needed to stir
the complacent ones. To date, very
few complaints have been received
from audiences and in several cases
i the pix have been applauded.

One angle noted by exhibs is that
films are becoming progressively
more entertaining, thus salving the
straight propaganda tangent.

Other opinions: 'In normal times
we wouldn't allow anything of this
nature on our screen, but today
we're at war and every possible me-
dium, of which the screen is one
of the best, should be utilized to
bring home to the public the se-
riousness of the situation. Com-
plaints? Well, we had one or two,
but we even had complaints wh^
we started playing the national an-
them in our houses, so what are
you going , to do with such people?
Just ignore them and by all means
run these defense films.'

Hollywood, March 17.
As far as the Signal Corps
concerned, there will be no uphol-
stered sit-down jobs for Hollywood
execs or actors. That was the gen-
eral idea of a talk by Major General
Dawson Olmstcad to 150 leaders of
the film industry at a luncheon on
the 20th-Fox lot

Signal Corps, the general ex-
plained, ran second to the infantry
in the loss of life during the' last
war. In this war,' he continued,
everybody who wears a uniform is
taking the same chances. Mean-
while, he thanked, the film Industry
for its cooperation in the free pro-
duction of training films, which
could not have been done better
through any other medium.

BONUSES Am) BONDS
.Los Angeles, March 17,
Low bracket, workens Jp the Fox-
West Coast circuit headquarters will
draw a 10% epiergency salary bonus,
payable quarterl/ and retroactive to
Jan: 1. ■ " .

Norman Freeman Succeeds
Capt Muchnic at RKO

Norman L Freeman, asistant to N.
Peter Bathvon, -v.pL and chairman of
the executive committee of RKO,
has been upped to post of assistant
fecretaty'of RKO Pictures.' He as-'
snmes in part duties of George
Muchnic RKO Pictures assistant
secretary-treasurer, who left the
company last week to join tJJS. Sig-
nal Corps as captain.

He was given a lunch by RKO
Thursday (12) at Toots Shor'i, with
Ned Depinet, v.p. acting as toast-
master. A parchment zcrollj travel-
ing bag and pipes were given him
as a sendofl.

Balance of departmental work for-
merly under Muchnic's jurisdiction
will be .^lit up. Harry Micbaelson,
.short subject sales head, 'will handle
16 mm. rights, Sid Kramer wlU have
full charge of prints, and Lou Gau-
dreau is given charge of the ptu*-
chasing department

Gaudreau lias been assisting S.
Barret McCormick, RKO advertis-
ing head, in addition to purchasing
department work..

Ed Fay's Defense Post

Providence, March 17.
Gd Fay, head of the Fay chain of
theatres, was named chairman of
the Rhode Island Amusement Divi-
sion No. 3 of the Rhode Island State
(Council of Defense, this week, as
local theatre managers and repre-
sentativeB met to draft a Manual of
Theatre Code of Procedure. Tte
move was felt necessary by the the-
atremen because of the proximity of
the Rhode' Island theatres to war
plants, etc. W. K Spra^ is coor-
dinator of the Divisiop and Ed Fay,
deputy.

Spragg inunediately announce!
plans for personal Inspection of the
State's theatres to determine toelr
value in the event of raids.

Other committee members arc
Judge James E. Dooley, E. M. Loew,
Clinton F. Payne, Maurice Saflner,
Charles E. Kiutzman, Ardiibald
Silverman, Ralph Snider, Louis M.
Gordon, Albert <3. Clark and S. A.
Schwartz.

Plan, devised by Chirles P.
<SkourAs; president, .cali^ fpr pefense
• „ , ,. ■ . - ' 'wids «* part -t>t the bomis,- with the-

Roll Call

; Continued from page 4;

school here. Luhr, who will be fuU-
fiedged pilot-officer in few weeks,
began stage career via strawhats,
playing opposite £lissa Landi in
"The Warrior's Husband' at Ivory-
ton, Conn.

N. T. Strand's Service- PUqne

A plaque has been erected back-
stage at the Strand, N. Y., on which
will be inscribed the names of all
boys working in the house who are
called to the colors.

Additionally, Zeb Epstin, managing
director of the Strand, has completed
arrangements under which the en-
tire staff of the theatre has pledged
itseU to buy a defense bond for
every lad entering the armed forces.

Fiimusicals Biggest Year

C*>tiBae4l.frMi page 1;

Cleve.'s BecrDlti

CTeveland, March 17.

Bob Ledvlna, secretary to LeRoy
Repp, head of Cleveland musicians'
union, becoms a conscriptee this
week. William Pieber, trumpet and
sax with WlUard Pott's 'WHK studio
band, Cleveland, also inducted along
with JE^est Ksirdon, violioift; Fer-
dinand Maresh, bass, and Martin
Morris, French Jiorr, all of Cleve-
land Symphony O rches tra.

Marvin Plake, 'WiL, St LooiS,
gabber' wbfo has been . handUug a
'Hunting and Fishing' progran^gbU
ly, lias Joined Ihe ir.SJf^ is Ll*it,-

■ ■." ■'<■, .i%V».-i' ■ ..... - .'. .■

over the alrlanei and issue from the
coin machines.

Of all the companies plotting to
s-vdng the eountry to music. Para-
mount probably leads the list In
filans already nude for this type en-
tertainment Studio has laid heavy
coin on the line to back its judg-
ment on the trend, paying out %UtS',-
000 for 'Lady in the Dark,' to be
filmed in Technicolor, and $225,000
for l/efs Face It' Influencing Par-
aiAounfs musical program is the
hea'vy biz done by its Technicolor
extravaganza, IxMilslana Purchase,'
the Buddy De Sylva stage success
for which $150,000 was paid, ^ust
going into release are -The Fleet's
In,' for which Paramount has high
hopes, and Irving Berlin's 'Holiday
Inn,' in which Berlin is reported to
have • percentage share' in ,the
profits.

In addition to 'Lady' and l^et's
,'FBee It,' Paramount has 10 other
pntpertles slated to get the musical
treatment Studio just purchased
IDeady Money,' a Broadway legit
play of 25 years ago, and wlU give
its straight comedy plot a musical
shot to fit the new trend. Other
inters are tbe currently filming
'Road to Morocco,' the Ifitest Bing
Croday-Bob Hope-Dorottiy Lamour
travel-laugh;' *Happy-(3o-Lucky,' to
be made in Technicolor with Mary
Martin, Dick Powell, Rudy Vallee^
Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton;
'Manhattan at Midnight,' Hmmbs
TTp,' "Very Hot in Haiti,' •Priorities
of 1942,' •Merton of the Movies.'
Block Tliat Kiss,' and the Texas
Guinan tuner, for which a reported
$15,800 was paid for rights to use
the Guinan name and background.

To date -only dicker studio is mak-
ing for a band is with^ Claude
ThorahiU's musical crew, current at
Hollywood's Palladium. There is no
indication -which of the tune films
Paramount will spot the outfit in as
yet

Par's BoutUal Talent

Talent lineup available for Para-
mount musicals is impressive, headed
by the Crosby-Hope-Lamour trio.
In addition to those named for the
tune-pix, studio has Dona Drake,
Gil Lazhb, Lorraine & Rognan. Cass
Daley, 'Vrictor Moore, MaiJorie Reyn-
olds, Virginia Dale, Betty Jane
Rhodes, Judy Canova, Oscar Levant,
Johnny Johnston, Billy De Wolfe
and Zorina, all capable as comics,
singers, dancers or 'What-have-you.

Company is talking with Fied
Astoire about doing the male lead in
'Lady in the Dark" and if Ginger
Rogers can be persuaded, studio
will team her with Astaire Bi. the
picture, marking their first joint
film venture since their musicals at
RKO.

Musical program at Paramount is
not entirely due to B. O. D« Sylva's
post as «xccative producer since the
company lias always atressad a tune-
ful note in Um product, but his ex-
perience in succ««tully stegfaig
Broadway shows and his previous
film productions ara figured to be a
major help towards making the
1042-41 crop boxolUce draws. Re-
cently placed under contract for the
musical division wsSi Rapul Pcne
Du Bols, who did sets and scenery
for Ox* De Sylva legits, Du Barry
Was a Lady* and "Fanama Hattie'
Du Sols' ti«±et followed his work
on the filmlzation of "Louisiana Pur-
chase,' and he is now busy on
Happy-Go-Lucky' seta ;.nd cos-
tumes.

20th-Fox ia scheduling seven mu-
sicals and has already signed two
top bands to supply the tuneful in-
terludes. First of this group Is 'My
Gal Sal,' Technicolor opus on the
life of Paul Dresser, which is being
edited. Starred are Rita Hayworth
and 'Victor Mature with songs by
Dresser and Leo Robin and Ralph
Rainger. Another on the list Is
StrlcHy Dynamite,' with songs by
Rfl/bln and Rainger, and Betty
Grable, Victor Mature and John
Payne heading the cast. Production
starts soon with Gregory Ra toff di-
recting for William LeBai«n.

•Orchestra . Wife' will use Glenn
MlUer and his band with George
Montgomery and Maureen O'Hara
heading the cast. Picture Is an-
other William LeBaron production
with John Brahm directing and
Mack Gordon and Harry Warren
writing the tunes.

Sammy Kaye and his band star in
Iceland' with Sonja Henie and John
Payne, picture being the third mu-
sical on L«Baroi)'s production sched-
ule -with H. Bruce Hunfl3«r»tone to
direct this one. Oordon and Warren
are doing the music. A second
9on]a Henir starrer is 'Quota Girl'
' Anotbcr - <}lcniv MUler - slni'et
coming up is Velody Man' to be.

produced by Biyan Ft' and seventh
musical ptottied - tiy Mth-Fox is
'Campos fa) the -Clouds,' a Ralph
Dietrich production.

Coiumola liaa an untitled Fred.
As^aire-HUa Haywprth fllmusical in
the prQtaratlon staig^ Xayler Ciigat
to fumidi the orrM^lial moments.
Louis ' Kdelman will produce and
now has Ernest Pagano and Michael
Fe^er busy OB a aeript. Studio is
dickering with Jerome Kem'to do
the music and Johnny Mercer to
write the Isrrics.

QMUm Wlator Gardeneri
Also, coming up at the Gowcr
Street lot is tiie Gregory Ratoff-
Harry M. Goetz production, 'Winter
Garden.' Set so.far are BUIy Gax-
ton and Jack Oakle, .with Cole
Porter to do the music. Rumor has
OiCUme Winter Garden favorites
slated for the picture, but so far
their, status is only talk. Third defi-
nitely - scheduled ' Columbia musical
is 'Pal Joejr.' which Harxy Joe
Brown wlT make: .

RKO, still to set a definite pro-
gram for the new year, is planning
a Ginger Sogers musical and one
otlier to be irodoced and directed
b> Tim "Whelan undc. a package
idea submitted by Vusie Corp.

Republic has 'Hit Parade of 1942'
coming up for the nc season with
one and maybe two name bands to
be used. Studio ia also understood
to be luq>efiil that Dinah Shore,
femme record and. radio name; can
be secured. Still to be made for
this season are four musicals, 'Moon-
light Masquerade,' with Betty Kean
and Eddie Foy, Jr.; "Luy Bones,'
with Judy -(^ova;' 'Shanly Town,'
witb Mary Lee, and Tahiti Honey-
moon.*

Universal is still indefinite .as -to
number or tities of the musicals- it
will contribute to the tune trend,
but expects to supply the usual
number of Deanna Durfoins aqd will
continue to hitch stories around
popular song tities in the -smaller-
budgeted field. The Abbott tc Cos-
telto comedies fall in the inuslcal
class and three or four can be ex-
pected from the funsters. Harry
James checks in next month for a
musical with the Andrews Sisters.
Uttrafu Mickey aad la-dy
Metro is plotting a gobdly total of
musicals to show off the talents of
Mickey Rooney, Judy- (Wland,
Kathtyn Grayson, JeaHetto Mac-
Donald, Nelson Eddy, John Carroll
and the others under coiitract, who
caL, give with a laugh, m song or a
dance. Currently in work is 'Me
and My Gal,' a story 9t vaudeville
formerly tdgged The Blginme' and
starring Judy Garland. Joe Paster-
nak has -three time productions
coming vp, ■ spotting younger vocal
talent, itirst of which will be 'Tulip
Time.'

Curious turn is taken by Hal
Roach: In plalming his .1942-43 .pro-
gram of 'streamlined features' for
United Artists.' Producer has
dropped idea of doing any miuicals
ior the season, figuring to stipk to
his forte of straight slapstldc comedy
without dressing It up with songs.
He did three this year, bH ot which
did well for their, booking slot.

Warners will olleir at least seven
inters, two of them dealing vdth the
lives of music world favorites. Jgst
completed was Yankee boodle
Dandy,' the sAga. of George M.
Cohan, and coming up is "Rhapsody
ii} Blue,' tha lift of George Gersh-
■wln. The perennial "The ' Desert
Song,' which crops up yearly on the
company's program, is slated to face
the cameras this year. 'A Night at
Tony PSstor's* is down on the pro-
duction slate, as is "The Gibson Girl.'
Now in release Is 'Always in My
Heart' In prpductlori is 'The Hard
Way,' havhig to do with vaude hoof-
ers and starring Ida Luplno, Dennis
Morgan, Joan Leslie and Jack Car-
son. Company is also eyeing name
bands as screen possibilities.

Whett die Blackout Comes

Hollywood, March 17.
How to act during a blackout is
the tiieme of the first Civilian De-
fense Film, which want jnt'o pro-
duction at Metro, with Mervyn
LeRoy directing under supervision
of the Research Council of -the
Academy of ' Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences.

Titie is 'Instruction for the Air
Raid Warden,' *nd the picture de-
tails all the- vital steps to be taken,
not only by the wardens but by the
civilians la case of « bombing at-
tack. Fflm will - be . distributed,
gcatls, tiuou^.thc.>countiy;

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A Columbia Picture

to HOUSE BEVnSWS

Wcdnesdajt March 18, 1942

lise Vade Does ij^lmd^^^^
Fischer s Tiiorities,' Z-a-Day^ $l-$2

By ABEL GBBEN

'Priorities of 1842,' presented as
ttTaioM vaudeville by Clifford C
Fischer (In association with the Shu-
berts); opened March 12, '42, at 46th
St. theatre. N. Y.; stars Xou Holte,
Willie Howard, Phil Baker and Paul
lyraper; ertsemble music, Marjorie
Fielding ond Charles' Barnes; chore-
oerraphv. Miss Fielding; musical di-
rector, Lou Forman; $1 mats, $2 nipht
($2.50 top Sat. and Sundav).

Principals; Lou Holtz, Willie Howt
ord, Phil Baker, Paui Draper, Joan
Merrill^ Hazel Scott, Helen Reynolds
Skaters, The Nonchalants, Gene
Sheldon and' IfOretta Fischer, The
Barrys, Johnny Masters and Rowena
Rollins, pione Denise, Lari and Con-
chito, Beocrley Lane, Joe Morris.

Girls:. Ha^el Baher, Michelle Mag-
nin, Mary Lou Savage, Potricia Don-
nelly. Lillian O'Donell, Margaret
Lone, Sheila Herman, Trudy Byers,
tiane. Sheila Hermanj^ Trudy Byers,
Lee Loprete, Sonia Tanya, Mumal
Pins, Lorayne Lloyd, Helen Wenzel,
Gott Hereford, Helen Beck, Aleita
yllbert, Lee Myers, Joan Dore, Carol
Gordon.

Vaudeville has come back — in a
legit house, the 46th Street, but It's
vaude none the less.

Cliflord C. Fischer has turned the
trick. A veteran of the wars (Irom
H. B. MarinelU to William Morris,
Sr.) he has been steeped in the
varied tradition and where others,
such as Kurt Hobitschek and' Frank
Fay failed, Fischer hasn't

He's giving the customers the best
CI (mat) and $2 (night) live enter-
tainment bargain on Broadway. He
has a four-ply starring quartet in
Lon Holtz, Willie Howard, PhU
Bcker and Paul Draper, alchough
it's nbt the accredited headliners but
Hazel Scr.tv who winds up the hit of
the bill. ' However, the kudos for -all
•:.e generous, tne- .entertainment
plehtifu], the refuse enthusiastic,
Uie buEihess lusn. Result was a
£2,041.50 second night (Friday); a
|£68 first matinee (Friday); a $2/453
third night (Saturday) when the ttM
acale tilts toJ[2.76),.an: Fischer can
gross up to $30,000, ii going clean, on
a )10,000-$12,000 show nut He looks
headed for ^4,000 this week.

The opalng night (Thursday) was
fomewhat abortive and the notices
Friday somevAat mixed, but in the
main good. Perhaps the severest was
Biook Atkinson In the N. Y. Titncs
who called the talent 'mediocre.'
•This burned up tito Fischer menage
(from management to talent) who
couldnt reconcile themselves to the
' adjective considering that Howard,
Holtz and Baker have enjoyed earn-
ing power of from $3,000 to $5,000 a
wedc In one or another fonn of
variety— cafes, presentation nouses,
revue an(|/or radio. '

None the less, seemingly In face of
the somewhat tepid morning paper
reviews, the first matlnee's take of
$368 perhaps cued the economic out-
IooIf the best; And the rainy Satur-
day was no damper either. On
Stturds^ there Is a midnight abow;
.on Sunday an extra mat Is crowded
in at 5:30 p jn. Both night shows sold
out

Fischer, who is war-repatriated
American, after being long domiciled
li ' Pa^'is and ',IiOndon, became best
known in recent years for his Tblies
Bergeres* revues and the cabaret-
theatre policy he created at the
French Casino, International ..Casino-
etc. These were still nothing more
than dressed-up vaude, and the same

foes for the current show at the 46th
treet theatre.
Despite the Broadway dopesters
recallmg that 'Hellzapoppin* (en-
other glorified vaudeville) started at
the 46th Street before going into the
Winter (warden for its now historic
marathon run, Fischer's deal with
the crafts and Guilds Is strict^ as a
vaudeville show. Equity okayed him
that he can operate under AGVA
regulations; that addition of Mar-
jory Fielding's 18 girls from former
Club VersalUes (N. Y.) floorshows
Is merely a 1042 streamlining of the
variety pattern.

And while the show plays re-
vuesque, it's forthright vaudeville.
Perhaps the only other compromise
will be . Fischer's decision not to
change bills fortnightly, or with any
ijegular frequency; hell run 'em as
long as buslaess warrants. That's
how it diiTers from the Palace tra'
dition of weekly changes, save for
occasional holdovers of headliners,
although there were record-breaking
Cantor-Jessel-Winchell type of Aows
towards the last days of big-time
vaudeville at the formef Kelth-Al-
bee flagship.

The change from TSuirsday to Fri-
6vr removed all cautiousness. The
mikes which cluttered up the stage
only cropped up for Joan Merrill's
specialty, ah upstage pianology by
the. personable and dusky Hazel
Scott and as a prop (dead) in Willie
Howard's' satire of a John J. Anthony
broadcast. Otherwise, the theatre
which has housed several B. G. De
Sylva lilt musicals, sans mikes,
showed oS the Variety talent to ex

cellA:t''advantage.'' - • • ■' ■■

The pacing too was Improved. Miss

Scott wafl moved down fntm late
second half to next-to-close the first
halt. Johnny Ibaten, ' and Rowena
Rollins, whom Fischer has been
privateJy touting as new coined:^'
finds, e^)eelally the femme, were out
the second nlgiit

The Fielding girls aren't e^eelally
needed but tfaafi the 1942 com-
promise. They're' all right fairly
Itersonable, but no ' wow, but since
he prime idea of Fischer's 'Priorities
of 1942' is for 'escapology' and
comedy, he will retain them. They
plug the waits adequately, if not
particularly distinguished in their
pulchritude or presentation.

Lou Forman, who, batoned at the
old Palace, Is back, looking even
better with a prop Westmore, and
foiling for Holtz in his pidgin-
Spanish bit with C^nchita.' Lari and
Conchlta are the lAtin pair who
oHldate in the Brazilian routine for
the first act finale.

Entire motif Is Informality. Holtz
emcees in a white suit and only
makes a diangc almost near the end.
He shoidd do so between halfs, and
flash at least three wardrobe
switches. Otherwise, he's the same
oonferenderlng, Lapidus-telling, dia-
lectic comedian.

Wllll« Howard Is a funny man
throughout as funny as .he has been
In his long and varied rareer. Gene
is now retired, referred to only as
his manager. Howard does a Scotch
dialect routine In the audience, with
Holtx on the rostrum, that has a play
on 'Chambers' and 'Potts.' That
should go out It's unnecessarily
vulgarrand Howard has thrown away
enough oUiar stuff that he - can res-
urzect not to miss this.

Phil Bako's act is a bit nonde-'
script but he totals up well. Joe
Morris (and Flo Campbell) is his
stage box plant where formerly Sid
Silvers did the stooge. Baker stiU
manages with the accordion, later
doing a medley accomp for dancer
Paul Draper. Latter is the fourth
co-headliner, next-to-shut and does
ao minute* «f titeellent terping to
overly •nthuiUitlc returns. He
somewhat ovtntayB and should cur-
tan It Anoflier show-stopper is
Hazel Icott lAo boogie-woogies
Chrain aad other cTnsslrs, in between
■traUht venlohi of pops and kindred
rouUnci. She opens vocally, but
whama '«m at the Steinway. The
■iafc was ctnick, but they had to
tot* bade ft* piano for an encore.
Miss Soott hai been a click at Cafe
Society Uptown for a couple of sea-
sonc, and tho jazzophile cognoscenti
rightbdly deem her out of this world.

Joan ttmlOt a radio, record and
cafe product tutored by Al Siegel in
the mike manner, la lost without am-
pUflcatlOB. A personable brimet,
ihe hai an arreatuig command of the
rostrum and authoritative vocal
chorda.

Helen Reynolds Skaters (8), stand-
ard, act i9en whammo. TheyVe
clidccd Li cafts and the like, and re-
peat on 'West 40th street Hie Non-
dialknti (3), with their comedic
aero stuff, arc a bit wasted in the
deuce, but have since been given bet^
ter apotUng to reopen the second
half (a much hetter Idea). PhU
Baker, with his 'do, do' routine; ihe
radio satire on Pepslcola commer-
cials, registered Charles Boyer, etCn
better than opening night, with as-
sistance from Diane Denis and, later,

Joe JMonrls. _

HoHk punctuates throughout with
stories. Willie Howard's radio satire
('Crazy With the Heat' excerpt) en-
lists Al Kelly, Lora Saunders, Charles
Senna and John Leopold. Later
Howard, ably foiled by Lora Saun-
ders, one of those tall gals with
whom the comedian usually likes to
work, whams with a wacky piano
routine, along non-existent Topper'
lines, playing the Steinway that Isn't
there, bawling out people who are
Invisible, etc. It's the 'mad woman'
routine, he, too, had done in 'Heat.'

The first half has a 'ribbing-the-
other-comedlans' routine wherein
Holtz and Howard..p.ut Caator, Jes-
sel, Danny Kaye, Olsen & Johnson,
et al., on the pan. Baker later loins
'em, bawling them out for being so
unchlvalrous to feUow-troupers, and
for the topper, of course, he too puts
In a slug for a competitive comic.

1 Waltzed With a Major' Is a Ver-
sailles excerpt which The Barrys,
svelte dancing pair, first tntroed at
the nltery. Beverley Lane and the
IB beauts officiate.
. Gent Sheldon, panto-comic banjo
1st Is shown to the best advantage he
ever enjoyed, and will undoubtedly
wind up bemg 'scouted' by Holly-
wood, although he's been aroimd in
the picture houses, etc. l«retta
Fischer Is an excellent straight
What impresses most with Sheldon
is that In the confines of a compara'
Uvely small legit house like the 46th
Street (1,347 seats) he and all the.
other acts show up as If in Tiffany
setting. [It's a wonder some of these
audible acts click at all in the mam-
moth picture houses, and a reasonably
s^^fe prophecy Is that If Fischer's
vaudevMe renaissance has any effect
on all other show business— and well

it may— the trend will be back to the
small theatre; i. e, U Ifa to ba
straight vaudeville. The combina-
tion- theit*«iJjt:ffiU!3^<W
and big pictures, are someUiiiig elM
again, with their 3,000 and more ca-
pacities. Don't forget the old Palace
had only 1,700 seats.]

FoUowing Sheldon came Draper,
with his show-topping stepping;
more- Howard (who also did tbe
Scotch hokum earlier in the last
half) and the finale.

A notable improvement also, since
the Thursday preem. was the cut-
ting down of the Yiddish asides.. It
was obvious to the show-wise thpt
between Howard's dialectic style and'
Holtz's Lapidus lingo, the temptation
for inside ad Ubs would react nega-
tively. The fear was fulfilled Thurs-
day night but Fischer (and the Shu-
be'rts, his associates) did a quick axe-
ing Job. (Ihus, when Holtz pulled
an ad lib, 'IH translate it for you;
we want all of you to understand
everything,' he was greeted with ap-
plause.) '

Fischer patently built this show for
the times, on the theory they want
a lot of laughs. If some of the ma-
terial is familiar to this or that- group
of show-goers, if s not overly familiar
to the masses, -and it can stand re-
prise, anyway, in tne hands of expert
troupers. So, for commercial pur-
poses, Fischer really has something.
The best answer is the boxofflce.
From "Thursday preem through Mon-
day ■ night the 13 shows grossed
$21,000.

Does that prove anything about
vaudeville's comeback?

STRAND, B'KLYN

Joe Venuti Orch (14) toith Koy
Starr; Hal Leroy, Gil Maison Co ,(2).
Belett A English Bros. (3); 'Body
Disappear^ (WB).

Joe - Venuti orch appeared to be
candidly Indifferent at show caught
Friday (13), opening day of the
weekend booking. Only, a moder-
ately effective aggregation musically,
getting maximum refuse when
brass section is given fiul play, band
is badly in need of vocal specialists.
Kay Starr, singer, who tried with a
couple of numbers, falls to Impress,
while Venuti's violin specialty is only
mildly effective. Drummer, given
most prominent spotting of the in-
strumentalists, registered handily
solo and with band. - One of band's
better orchestrations is a novelty
number, 'Musical Cocktail,' In which
'Venuti has ea^ of the Instrumental- -
ists doing a different number. All
blended nicely.

For the rest bill Included three
corking outside acts, most outstand-
ing on marquee as well as on stage
being Hal Leroy. Leroy has been
spotted around the New York metro-

golitan area quite frequently of late,
ut he's always okay for another
look. Had to beg off, as usual, after
his classic tap routlnov winding up
with .siesta on chair.

Belett and English Bros., two boys
and femme, went big with their sock
comedy acrobatic and dancing rou-
tines. Gil Maison clicked with a
deftly routined animal turn which
includes a monkey and three dogs.
Monk got laughs by making a wDd
apparent attempt to bite band leader
Joe Venuti whenever Maison said
"Frank Buck.' Balancing with monk
and dogs went big. Mori.

ORIENTAL, CHI

Chicago, March 14.
FranJcie Mastars Orch (16) urfth
Phyllis Myles, Lou Herth; Chester
Fredericks & Cb. (2), DuVoI, Merle
& Lee, Lois Andrevjs; 'Road to Hap-
piness' (Mono). - - .

To see Frankle Masters on the
stage of the Oriental is like seeing
Roosevelt in the "White House. It's
been going on for years. For Mas-
ters goes way back with Chicago
stages; being one of the heart-cruiii-
ers arourid town during the days of
the m.c. faves. Yet despite the years
he still looks like a cherub and has
the same polish and the youthful ex-
uberance that made him' a Chicago
moniker.

Masters runs the show in a pro-
fessional manner. In addition, he
has a good dance orchestra that's
well arranged and punches out the
lop-tunes wltH-a"Tilair for-fihowman-
shio and musicianship.

Phyllis Myles vocals 'Blues In the
Night' and does It weU. Lou Herth
doubles with straight baritoning and
some comedy, both plenty neat

Chester Fredericks tied this house
up in knots with his standout nov-
elty dance turn. He can play any'
where. The femme Is a good dress'
up for the turn and gives it a nice
touch of flash. DuVal, Merle and
Lee scored excellently with this
audience, getting a heap of laughs on
their knockabout and the burlesque
adagio stuff.

Lois Andrews (Mrs. George Jessel)
has plenty of heart Making a great
appearance, she is sold immediately,
then proceeding to make this audi-
ence sit up and listen to her trio of
pop tunes. Iiliss Andrews hasn't
much of a stage voice, but she's got
a. sock kna^ of handling a crowd
and a knowledge of how to make 'em
like her. She had them eating out
of her hand it ihe show caught, and
she could have stayed longer.
' Business was pretty good at last
show Friday (13). , Gold.

STRAND, N. Y.

CharU« Sptoak Orch with CrArrii

Frank Paris Marlonets, George
Roger* Dancert (3); 'Aluwys In Mv
Hearts (WB), reviewed in 'Variety.'
March 4. 1942.

Strand presents a pleasant stage
session althotigb rather heavy on
straight music. Fortunately. Charlie
Splvak's band is highly listenable
and the overtime - given it could be
possibly objectionable to only a
mihor audlenc« segment

What Splvak could well, use, how-
ever, is a solid vocalist to spac)e out
his likeable subdued swing. One
femme with real pipes .would be a
profitable trade for the quintet (four
boys and a girl) now 'with the band.
Leader of the quintet Garry
Stevois, also steps out to do a
couple of solos,

Stevens is a soothing warbler and
clicks especially well on 'Dear Mom,'
but 'doesn't have enough buoyancy in
either voice or mariner to carry the
heavy spot he's assigned. QiUhtet
blUed as The Stardnsters, offers
harmony that's too simple to amount
to much.

Splvak's combo Is especially strong
for stage work. ° The muted ar-
rangements, while allowing for
plenty of Jive, keep the volume
down so that long listening sessions
are jiossible without discomfort to
an average audience. Same thing
cannot be said for some other jive
outfits, which now seem to be veer-
ing toward the corny side in their
all-out Jive. Drummer Davey Tough
and an unbilled clowning Jitterbug
trumpeter give additional lifts to the
orch.

Two topnotch turns fill out the
stage show. They are the George
Rogers Dancers and Frank Paris'
marlonets. Rogers Dancers are two
guys who do' amazing lifts, tosses and
swings of a little gal, peppered with
the antics of the usual comedy ball-
room team. Their serious work Is 'so
good that the satire is really un-
necessary. It would add more to the
act were it done a bit miore subtly.
Turn can't miss, however. ..for top
audience reaction.

Paris' work with marlonets has be-
come pretty much. standard now and
never falls to dick. His figures are
spotlighted on the stage while Paris
is in full view but unobtrusive be-
cause of the lighting and his dark
costume. Herb.^

ORPHEUM, MPLS.

Minmeapolis, March 14.
Ernie Fields Orch- (14) with
Esielle Edson, Bye Sisters (3) &
Melrin Moore. Bill Robinson, Jimmy
Smith; 'Bedtime Story' (Col).

This aU-Negro show is pretty much
aU Bill Robinson, but .that should be
enough for anybody. The plenty
evidences of audience satisfaction at
the performance caught indicate
that the unit, opening here, iW. get
by nicely. For such midwest spots
as St Paul, Davenport and Sioux
City, the previous Jimmie Lunce-
fOrd-Robinson combo evidently car-
ried too heavy a nut so that this ap-
parently, economical layout 'aside
from Robinson, probably *was assem-
bled to bring hack the ace dancer to
these hinterlands. By the time the
show reaches the Oriental, thicagq,
next month, a number of rough
edges undoubtedly will be smoothed.

Robinson, of course, takes top bill-
ing over 'unknown' band. Despite
the fact that he hasn't played here in
11 years, his rep imdoubtedly has
percolated somewhat at least into
the constiousnes of" the current'
younger swing devotees who make
up the bulk of the stage show crowds
at this theatre.

The Fields' orchestra is very much
on the brass side, with nearly all
numbers of the noisy, repetitive type
that neglects melody for Jive. There
are four saxes, five brasses and four
rhythms. Field goes in for occa-
sional tromboning, besides emceeing
and conducting.

'Ciood Enough to Keep' gets the
band off to a blarey start Then
Estelle Edson sings in lively fashion
Tve Got It Bad' and 'Swing Time
Up in Harlem.' Individual band
members grab a»e spotlight for brief
soloing during Thursday Evening
Blues.*^ which is plenty hot

The three Bye Sisters mix a little
stepping with their swing vocalizing
during their satisfactory renditions
of "Dadd/ and, 'Hi, Now.' Melvin
Moore, still another singer, does all
right with a medley of the day's pop
hits and finishes with 'Marie,' The
band's torrid 'Swing Junior' gives
the drummer, Dick ' Dixon, the
chance to engage In some lusty
pounding.

Robinson has everybody happy
with 'his ingeniously contrived and
perfectly executed soft shoe crea-
tions, exXiberance, good humor, mil-
lion dollar personality and all-
around talents. With a bit of clown-
ing, storytelling and gagging inter-
spersing the pedal shakEog, It's en-
tertainment tops. Jimmy Smith
comes on to hoof . .several musical
selections on a dance-a -phone In-
strument a novel offering, and he
and Robinson finish with some pre-
cision stepping.

A good house at the Saturday af-
ternoon (14) show caught ■ ' Reci.

PARAMOUNT, N. Y.

SfOite, Jftupn^Zmaig, amtt Bonny
Connec BosttitU, Pop* ft Louie, Bob
Winiom*; Til* Fleefs In* '(Par),
retrfetoed In "Variety,' Jan. 21, '42.

It's- old home 'weck here, and for
the regular Paramount tana they're
getting ft heavy dose of their favor-
itea both on screen and stage.

The picture, "Flget'a In,' la made
up almost entirely of talent who
have at one time or another pltiyed
this house in person. Dorothy La-
mour. who stars; Eddie Bracken. Gil
Lamb, Betty Hutton. Cass Daley and
the dance team of Lorraine and B^og-
Ban all of whom are In the film, have
all worked the stage here. Jimmy
Dorsey's band, also in the picture,
never played the Par. Current band
on the pit platform, that of Les
Brown, is here for the first time, but
Connee (nee Connie) Boswell, Bob
Williams and tiie Pops-Louis pair are
repeats.

The Brown band (15) has been
coming along fast and probably will
become one of the top outfits in the
business, Musically, it's got the
goods. It plays only two numbers
by itself, giving more attention to
the vocalists, who, in 'addition to
Miss Boswell, Include tfiree singers
carried by the orchestra— Jtalph
Young. Buteh Stone and Betty
Bonny.

In Stone, singing comedian, the
Brown band has a l>ig asset He also
clarinets with the orchestra. Stone
Is doing four numbers, with 'Good
Man Hard to Find' and 'Feets Too
Big' putting him across strongly.
Latter number, closing, Is sold ex-
tremely well.

Young and Miss Bonny are on
earlier. Former, a baritone, does
' Tis Autumn' acceptably; while Miss
Bonny vocals 'I Said No' and 'Joltln'
Joe ' a number that's a bit aged. Both
Young and Miss Bonny could Im-
prove their selling, though they ara
getting over okay.

Miss Boswell closes, stopping the
show. She Is on 15 minutes and Is
a pp-werful click all the distance.
Dressed in white and standing before
the microphone, her routine includes
'Sweethearts and Strangers,' 'Heart
of Texas.' 'Don't Want to Walk,'
'White Cliffs,' and for a strong blow-
off sings the national ahttiem, with
the audience rising to do it With her.
Miss Boswell's 'White Cliffs' arrange-
ment, excellent includes a recitation
portion, while backgroimding on the
drop are appropriate scenic effects.

Pops and Louie are not on so long,
dojng only a couple of aott^ioe num-
bers, but they're big hits and had
to beg off. Williams, with his dog.
Red Dust, likewise scores decisively.
The lovers of Jive who haunt this
house didn't fail to go all-out for this
great dog act

"Whole show runs 80 minutes— just
right. Char.

STANLEY, PITT

Pittsburgh, March 13.
Chico Marx Orch (15). Lorraine k
Rognan, 4 Jansley*. Ginny Perkins,
Ziggy Lane; 'Dangerously They
Live^ (WB).

Band Leaders' union will probably
have to throwAip a picket line around
<%ico Jfarx. He's showing every-
t>ody how useless stick-wavlne is.
Once his orch (It's a new Ben Pollack
outfit and a good one, too) strikes
up. Marx Immediately relaxes. H«
sits over in a comer of the platform,
waving his baton disinterestedly
whenever the sjplrlt moves him,
.which isn't very often, end mimches
away at a banana. Kind of a pleas-
ure for a stage to have a comedian,
instead of an animated piece of oak;
fronting young men with horns, espe-
cially a comic like this Marxman.
He's rigged up In his familiar screen
sartorial 'splendor' and kids custom
and tradition among ' the maestri
with malice aforethought

Result Is an extremely amiable
entertainment not only musically
but in the other departmenta as well,
what with two such socko acta a*
Lorraine and Rognan and the Four
Jansleys looking after the extra-cur-
ricular stuff. Band, made up of flva
saxes^ three^ frombones. three trum-
pets, piahd. guitar,' bass "and' diriims,
gets things off fast with 'Heart of
Texas' and Ginny Perkins keeps it
moving. Gal sijnger, in starle. resem-
bles Martha Racye crossed by Betty
Hutton and Judy Canova. and wows
'em with some Hawaiian Jumpln' Jivt
and 'Now They Call It Swing.' 'Blues
in the Night' Marx introduces as 'a
number never before heard on any
stage,' and Jansleys foUow with their
risley mop-up. Four men. their foot-
spinning and balancing Is A-pIus. but
they're missing a bet by not enlisting
Marx for a stooge midway In thi
turn.

Band's male vocalist Ziggy Lane,
has a nice voice and knows how to
use it but he's making a mistake in
using numbers geared at the same
funeral tempo. This Love of Mine'
and Dear Mom.' They're super-
arranged at such a yawning gait that
nobody would be surprised If the
boys on the stand take cat-naps be-
tween ncrtes. Fast tune. Ben Pol-
lack's 'Shondel.' foUows to pick
things up again, and ttien Lorraine
and Rognan' come . on tor th.elr
(Continued on page 22) ' ' "<

Wednesday, March 18, 1942

21

oof

O THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI' Is as exciting as a landing by the Marines 1" -^Waltfr Winckeli

■ * ■ » ■

"TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI' paclcs terrific Itoxoffice soclcl 'Natural' for oil audiences I Defi-
nitely one of the finest pieces of entertainment to issue from the 20th-Fox portals I No finer masterpiece of
rcn¥/ red-faiiooded thumping action has come out of Hollywood's studios I Delivers a wallop that no film has been
able to top this season I An achievement in Technicolor 1" '—The Film Dailf

***TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI' in Technicolor looks lilce a natural for these stirring times. Granrf
ientertalninent with plenty of romance for the feminine trade and loads of he-man stuff for the males!"

!—Shn>men*s Trade KtvU»

"^TO. THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI' win pay off handsomely/ both as a topical subfect and as colorful,
Showmanly entertainment I Timely theme • . . presented In striking Technicolor 1" —Daily Varietf

**TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI' win doubtless And a place in hit-listlngsl Technicolor has nevoid
beeii more effectively employed I One scene alone Is worth the price of admission I One of the most stirring
spectacles ever captured on celluloid 1 Can be sold In large and profitable doses 1" ^—Boxoffiee

""ih THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI' timely dynamite for boxofficesl A knockout I A swell cnidience
picture for our times I The screen has known many service pictures but few can hold a candle to the Technlcqlored!
splendors of Darryl F. Zanuck's production I" -Hollywood Reporter:

"TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI' brings the united states Marines to the screeni And the bexblHce

.situation Is well In hand!" -VarUty

nd 30th Centufy-Fox air-
borne showmanship wttl tell
it to the mlllionsi A terrific
coast-to-coatt rocHo borroge
. . . dedicated to the flghling
Marines . . . and w nan a t t ng
from Quanticol In the wake
of this nottonal network cam-
paign will «ame local upmt
covercqfe of Onpracedeoted
Intensity and |ir«p«rti«n»l
LISTEN INI LiSTIN INI

22 HOUSE REVIEWS

Wednesdajr, March 18, 1942

STANLEY, PITT

(Continued from page 20)

■masheroo. Team, last here in May,
•was a last-minute booking, having
become available when Glenn Miller,
with whom them had four weeks to
go, was suddenly called to the Coast
by ° 20th for another picture. Just
about one of the funniest teams
around these days, and audience re-
fused to let 'em get away. They made
It tough for Marx to follow with his
piano specialty and he smartly had
the femme stick around for an intro-
ductory bit with him so he could ease
Into his fingered keyboard magic.

And that's what it is— magic. Film
fans are familiar with his style, the
fast roll followed by the single-digit
plunking, but Judging from tlve palm-

Eolishing, most of the mob was hear-
ig it for the first time. Had to do
half a dozen numbers and could
easily have stuck around for that
many more. Fast, funny show, ex-
cept for Lane's mistake in selections,
and over biff with flrst-show house
that was full uo downstairs and
three-quarters in the balcony, despite
cold drizzle outside. Cohen.

TOWER, K. C.

Kbnjos Citv, March 14.
Mills Brothers (5). Ted Claire, Pan
iAvnvmav.. AToblc Trio, Hose Mone
Cooper, Jimmy Bunn, Herb Stx
House Orch; 'Bombov Clipper^ (U).

Mills Brothers haven't played
Kansas City in nearly five years, but
In the interim they seerh to have lost
none of their potency. Although
their popularity isn't what it was on
their last stand here at the Tower,
their name still furnishes some heft
for the marquee and their per-
formance adds a strong closmg
punch, to the 45-minute stage route.
Accompanying standard acts meas-
ure up rather well and week's vaude
Is one of best variety bills seen here
In weeks. , .„

Herb Six house band, with Jimmy
Bunn vocalUng, begins with a nov-
elty on 'Income Taxes.' Pan Merry-
man makes a duo entry in an adagio
aero and a modern Interpretation of
the Cakewalk near closing, both
satisfactory. „ j

Strong applause Is drawn by Ted
Claire, who has returned to the
U. S. after three years in Australia
and the South Pacific, his touch ap-
parently being as good as ever at
comedy chatter and pantomime.

As his own contribution Bunn
warbles lioil't Want to Walk' and
then gets confidential with 'I Wonder
Who's Kissing Her Now,' which 'got
strong appreciation. Noble Trio of
two men and fenune contribute ultra
acrobatics and tinge work with
comedy. Rose Marie Cooper, an
eight-year old amateur entry, has
unsuitable song In 'Kiss Boys Good-
bye,' but toetaps for better results.
Filial 20 minutes are given over to
the Mills boys.

"Bombay Clipper* fneans little as
magnet, and biz Is up apparently be-
cause of the singing Mills. Qutn.

FLATBUSH, B'KLYN

start Kenton OrcK (15) unth Red
Dorrit, Eve KvigMf Acromaniacs (3),
J>ixte Duftbar, Dave Apollon & Co.
(5), Bonnie Baker; Shorts & News-
reeis.

youthful, clean appearances. An ex-
ceptional opening act, strongly re-
ceived. here,

Dixie Dunbar was bothered a bit
by Kenton's accompaniment (band
lacks experience In this line), but
clicked easily regardless. She's in
a tough spot following the Acro-
maniacs, but a rhythm tap followed
by one at rhumba speed and a third
to 'Comes Love' put her over with
ro6m to spare.

Apollon, his FlUplno trio and
singer-dancer Eleanor Whitney also
taps the bell. Apollon's smooth
showmanship rides herd on a flpck
of laughs gotten out of his time-
honored, but effective, patter with
his two guitarists and bullflddler.
Meat of turn is the pop and stand-
ard melodies played by them, ac-
companied bv Apollon's own mando-
lin. Miss Whitney. • lively looker,
solidifies the r.ct with a *I Got to
Get Hot' vocal and neatly routined
and executed taps.

Miss Baker, recently spilt from
Orrin Tucker's band, gets in 'What
Do You Think I Am,' 'Is There a
Latin In the House.' 'April Showers'
and 'Oh Johnny* in her baby-voice
style, but fails to sell any of them.
Her delivery is cpld. She obviously
was disturbed by a lethargic re-
action to her stuff.

Biz good. Wood.

GOLDEN GATE, S. F.

STATE, N. Y.

San Francisco, March 11.
Arlene Harris, Franlclvn D'Amore
Si Co. (2), Frank Gaby, Frank Evers
& Dolores, Igor & Tani/a, Crewe &
Somers, Charles Kaley, House Orch
(13), Peggy O'Neill Line (12); 'Call
Out the Marines' (KKO),

Running about 85 minutes, this
stage show Is one of the liveliest and
most entertaining the Flatbush has
ever presented. It has its faults,
namely the booking of Bonnie Baker,
who's as out of place with Stan Ken-
ton's drive outfit as her 'Oh Johnny'
Is dated. There's so much happen-
ing preceding her closing spot that
things should have ended with Dave
Apollon's group, with the elimination
also of Eve Knight, band's new
vocalist.

Kenton's Coast combination of five
sax, three trumpets, three trom-
bones and four rhythm ^including
leader's piano, which he rarely
touches), is one of the strongest, best
rehearsed crews to reach Gotham.
It's a heavy drive group equipped
with excellent arrangements, some
. 8ne,ojnes for stage work and others
tnaf are knockouts for one-night
stands. Ballad numbers, which were
lacking only a Tew weeks ago, are
gradually being added; several are
used here to good advantage. When
caught a full house went for the new
group uinstintlngly.

Opening 'Concerto to End All Coa
certos,' an original - studded with
team and itidlvldual solos. Is a par-
ticularly enjoyable tune while 'Easy
to Love,' done seml-symphonlcally,
rates - similar reaction. In other
spots, too, there was excellent work,
partiqiilarly behind the finale of the
Acromanlacs. Red Dorri^, sax-
vocalist, exhibits a peculiar, but neat
style on 'I Don't Want to Walk' and
"Time on My Hands,' latter going
over best. Miss Knight gets only
one chance, on 'St Louis Blues.' It's
too short for a nroper evaluation of
. her voice. Kenton handles an-
nouncementa easily enough and wiU
be better with experience.

Acromanlacs, trio of aptly titled
young fellows, present an acrobatic
turn that's a cinch \o click on any
bllL Their fast' routines of" well-
executed material are enhanced by

House band and line back this
week after a two -week layoff for
traveling bands. . Opener revealed
the line haSn't forgotten its routine.
This time it's done while band plays
Heart of Texas.'

Frank Evers and Dolores, wire act,
on first, Dolores hulalng during set-
ting up of apparatus. Pair does its
standard trick terping on the strand
for solid returns. New finish has
both working the wire simultane-
ously.

Crewe and Somers, boy-girl tap-
pers, deuce, with male half showing
ingenuity in a baseball panto-tap
solo midway. Band then takes over
for another of its torrid arrange-
ments, plus trick lighting, tbls time
working out on Rachmaninoff's
•Prelude,' a slick job.

Halfway mark is allotted to Arlene
Harris,, who does her straight party-
line gossip radio monolog as heard
on the Al Pearce show. Material-
routine, with appeal mostly for dial-
twlrlers.

Franklyn D'Amore, strong-man
who lugs his femme partner on in a
sack. Is next and although his acro-
batics have l>een around here before,
he's still a solid dick.. His lift from
the back of a chair particularly gets
"em,

Frank Gaby, In the next-to-dosing
with dummy. Is also familiar here
but likewise lands although inclined
to get tough at times. His closing Is
still a slick bit of biz, wherein he
ventriloquizes a song with a live
stooge, even while lighting a ciggie.
Dance team of Igor and Tanya,
sophisticated dress act with a some-
what surrealistic routine, doses with
house line working in for the finish.
Biz average at show caught. Wem.

Stuart Morgan Dancers, Frank and
Jean Hubert, Capptf Barra. Har-
monica Five, Bert Lahr vtith. Rims
Brown, EsteII« Tovlor; 'Corsfcan
Brothers' (UA).

It's a fast show, long on comedy
because Bert Lahr is present. There's
one weak spot In the five-act bill,
but that turn doesn't take much time;

There Isnt a thing in connection-
with Hollywood about Lahr's act,
whleh is the way it should be be-,
cause he is of vaudeville and musical
comedy, scoring in those fields long
before the Coast used his comic kiss-
er -and flair for tbe ridiculous.

Lahr's act consists of two skits
that were laugh-getting hIghUghta In
"^e Show Is On,' a revue presented
at the Winter Garden, N. Y., a few
years ago. They're still cllcko. Turn
opens with a travesty on a guy being
examined by an income tax man,
Russ Brown being' the inqtiisitor and
Lahr, of course, me taxed one. Secr
ond part of the Lahr goings-on has
hiin with a prop sxe and dinky tree
doing his now-classic 'Song of the
Woodman.' Nothing delicate about
Lahr's monkeyshines, but he is a
tunny' guy.

Stuart Morgan quartet certainly
fling their little blonde around plenty
to close the show. They have adagio
stufl down to a science and the rou-
tine is strenuous enough to keep
them in prime physical form. They
got over, as usual.

Frank an(^ Jean Hubert fill the
keystone easily. The -stew stuff re-
quires plenty of action, too, includ-
ing the comic pantomiming. Man
;ets a laugh with a cigaret bit, while
lis partner is just as agile. Disclos-
ure of one 'guy' as a dame when she
doffs her hat 'to display, her plati-
num tresses Isn't Important, for tfie
act stands on its own.

Cappy Barra and his harmohica
quintet were put into the show when
Tiebor's Seals, originally booked
here, were held over at the nearby
Music HaU. The Barra troupe opens
strongly, After a semi-classic the
Iwys.with the mouth organ do 'Heart
of Texas' to set themselves well with
the audience. Allen Green, of the
Barra outfit; warbles 'Diane,' and
fhen comes a harmonica jam session.

Estelle Taylor is on next, faring
mildly with ditties including 'Don't
Want to Walk' and "Luck^ in Love.'

Ibee.

HIPP, BALTO

APOLLO, N. Y.

Tiny Bradshaw's Orch (14); til
Green, Glenn & Jenkins, Edioards
Sisters- (2), STiap & Snappv, Lalage,
Mills, L ee & Powers; 'Young Amer
ica' (20f7irr

Tiny Bradshaw's vigorous show-
manship,- backed by a capable band,
has improved vastly since the outfit
first appeared at this house several
years ago. Neat combo features
'Jersey Bound' and 'In the Groove,'
compositions written by members of
the orch. Surrounding acts- are far
above standard for this house.

Glenn and Jenkins, - blackface
male funsters, hand the show a real
lift Their patter and timing are eX'
perL Edwards Sisters,' pair of
speedy tapsters, are better than
when they first showed up here two
or three years ago, but mil to cash
in on their poten^alities.

Lalage, one of two white acts on
bill, still is cUckeroo with her
aerial work. Blonde does some
work on the rings but continues to
do best on her deft one-arm turn-
overs. Continues to be a fine vaude
or nitery bet Mills, Lee and Powers
(New Acta), other ofay turn,
panicked folks here. In the deuce
with their comedy rough stuff.

Snap and Snappy, two agile boy
steppers, are devaoping into a first -
rat& combo, but should lean more
on their fancy tumbles and stunta
employed as dosing effort

Miss Green sings 'I Hate to Call
You Names,' Td Get Somebody
Else' and "Romance In Dark' in typT-
cal blues fashion. For the date here
there appeared to be too much same-
ness in Ker tunes, but she scored
heavily anyway.

Biz way bfl for first Friday night
show. Wear.

Baltimore, March 14. ■
Ella FifzcreraW Orch (15), 4 InJc-
spotj. Moke (fir Poke, Bed & Curley;
'Date With Falcon' (Col).

The Jive is loose and rhythm is
rampant here with response extra
heavy from the hepcats but also
fairly potent with a more sedate cross
section attracted by the Inkspots.
Fast and lilting setto Is rather brief,
and necessarily so, for extra shows
are being rung In daily and, more
particularly, on weekend.

Fronted by an luibilled, clarinet-
playing bandsman, in the groove with
both instrument and announcements,
band Is typical in instnmientatlon
of four sax, six brass and foyr
rhythm. Swings out from the tee-
off with arrangements nicely scored
and sharpfy handled. All sections
have their Innings and solo chairs
also get off in hectic fashion.

Following swingy opening by band.
Red and Curley wham out some fast
hoofery and dose with their socko
routine on the multiple drums. Boys
work fast and puncn frorn start to
finish, winding up to big response. A
scream number by the band spaces
matters for appearance of Ella Fitz-
gerald, -who sells tff'the hilt Vocals
of 'Heart of Texas,' 'Don% Walk
Without You,' 'Blues in Night' and,
for encodes, the inevitable Tlsket-
Tasket' and '5 o'clock Whistle.' Had
them- yelling for more when caught

Moke and Poke follow with vocal
of 'Breaking In New Pair of Shoes,'
interlarded -with tricky and well-
timed tappery.' Funny gagging leads
Into vocal of Tuzzy Wuzzy7 with
hectic Jltterbugging enlisting smaller
members a howl.

After a band number. Ink Spots
take possession and wham, from the
very first Intro. IJb ■ Java Jive,' *Do
I Worry,' 'Is It a Sin,' -Feet's Too Big'
and, in answer to shouted requests,
'If I Didn't Care.' Bring back Miss
Fitzgerald for a bow to break the
demand for more and line up en-Ure
troupe for a rendition . of 'Star-
Spangled Banner.'

Biz very big. Burm.

MICHIGAN, DETROIT

Detroit, JVforch 13.
.Johnnv Long Orch (14), Andrews
Sisters (3), Fred Sanborn, Southern
Sisters, Helen Young, Bob Huston;
•Shanghai Gesture' (UA),

Bringing in a stage band new to
this area and hooked up with the
queens of the local jukeboxes, the
Michigan Is making ripe plucklngs
with Rs pleasant' bill. ' With a style
of music not as frenzied as the bands
which proceded It, I^ong's combina-
tion is registering across a wider
variety of tastes, -winning over more
than Just the hep trade. The outfit

plays a nice ■how, climaxed -with
the Andrewa Sisters, Hollywood
polished, having the audience dap-
ping hand In rhythm— and then car-
rying on for more of the same
rhythm stuff.

Long's band gets ofC to a nice In-
dian beat with 'Mlnnetonka' before
the Southern Sisters do their un-
distinguished acrobatic dancing,
mildly received. It's Helen Young
scores swiftly with 'A-1 In Army' '1
Said No,' a deft 'Daddy* worked with
the band and, for an insistent encore,
she flashed a comedy knack with
'Elraer*s Tune.' With a nicely con-
^Ued contralto and her cutle-come-
dlenne manner, singer registers far
above average canaries. Long's
slick southpaw ^ddUng* backed by
nice orchestration, goes through a
medley which Indudes 'Jealous',
'Aloha' and on-wlth-the-band in a
dipped rhythm version of 'Shanty
Town.' It drives home the fact that
here is a solid swing combination.
Bob Huston, with the Bing Crosby
quality, keeps it up there with "You
Are Everything,* Tls Autumn* and
the oldie "Blue Skies. Fred Sanborn
mote than fills the comedy end with
his xylophone.

. Andrews Sisters .harmonise
through 'Aurora,' 'St Cecelia,* 'Heart
of Texas' and for a -wlhd-up, "Boogie
Woogle Bugle Boy.' It had the
audience up to a piteh -where Long
could prove that there's nothing like
the national antiiem to quiet the
house and finish a show in the hour
limit.

' House full at evening show caught

Pool.

KEITH'S BOSTON

Boston, March 13.
Clyde McCoy Orch (13) with
Freddie Stewart ond Bentiett Sisters
(4), Carl DawTie, Chick & 'Lee, Bob
Howard; 'Ride 'Em Cowboy' (U).

McCoy band plays a return en-
gagement here this week. In support
of third week of the Abbott & Cos-
tello picture. The 'Sugar Blues' orch
has a good datice beat and the lea'der
is an ace trumpet manipulator, but
the outfit Is presented In a conven-
tional pattern that does not distin-
guish it from many another band
resting i from dance hall dates.
Freddie Stewart Is the anticipated
crooner, getting over with a couple
of pops.

The four Bennett Sisters supply
the proper femme touch. Bennetts

Army' and 'Booglie Wooglie Piggy*
for their Initial offering, and later
they come on for a session of rhythm
taps.

Bob Howard, next- to -shut almost
saves the show With his gusty song-
plugging at the piano. Opens with
'Shine,' following with 'Hats Off to
MacArthur.' Qis Impression of a
playerpiano Is very okay, except that
he milked it a bit when cadght. En-
cores with more comedy and A shot
at that Neopolitan nifty, Una Luna
Mezza Mare,' which seems to be a
surefire number at this house.
Howard Is a natural entertainer, and
one of the best In his line, but he
should tone down some of his chat-
ter, which Is occasionally tinged with
too much variety. - . .

Chick and Lee, playing the n}ld-
way spot have some good material,
and some that's not so good, in their
impressions of radio personalities
and programs. Boys were on too
long opening show, but when their
time is cut down they should regis-
ter more solidly. Carl Dawn and his
Humanettes deuce with a fair assort-
ment of marionet tricks,

McCoy's trumpeting on ^asin
Street' and 'Sugar Blues' shows off
his--telent- to --good advantage-- and
was pleasing when caught. Leader
cut down his announoements to a
minimum, but would do wdl to in-
ject a bit more punch and clarify his
diction.

Fair biz. Fox.

Rubber Shortage I

^^SiCoatlnned from- pace 3 ^^^J

tion than another sagebrusher. Bill
Elliott, pltehed camp in a series of
one-day theatre personal appear-
ances. Both drew heavily on inter-
views and pix, plus round of dinners
and luncheons. Wllby-Kincey, Pal-
metto Amusement, North Carolina
Theatres, Inc., iad other steady
weekend western feeders.

Penalty for Yippee Fame

Fact that' he was wearing cowboy
garb and was known as a aiieen
player saved Tex Rltter, Columbia's
western star, from a series of iefty
police fines recently In Delaware
and Maryland where he's making
personal appearances. Souvenir
hunters, seeking something to re-
member Rltter by, stole his motor
car license plate from his station
wagon and auto, at Seaford, Del.

Cops stopped him but overlooked
the missing license tegs when he
explained who he was and why
they were missing. Rltter winds
up, his current p.a tour early next
month.

ROXY, N. Y*

House Orch; 'Sonff of the blonds'
(20th), reviewed in "Variety,' Feb. 4.

Couple of diverting acts lift the
Roxy's current stage snow above av-
erage. GeneraUy, It's the customary
combination of individual turns aiid
Gae Foste^-Esqulres routines, with
Bob Hannon clicking again as sing-
ing m.c.

Opening number by the Foster girls
Is an Impressive bit of formation
roller-skating, with the Esquires as-
sisting' and. cllinaxed by a difficult
turntable maneuver. Effectively cos-
tumed. Dick, Don and Dinah follow
with a sock comedy acrobatic and-
dance turn. Act h^ l>een aro'und
some time, and continues to improve.
Two men open with an eccentric soft-
shoe routhie, after which the attrac-
tive gal Joins them for knockabout-
comedy and some goofy, rather baf-
fling tricks with a large sponge-rub-
ber ball, and flnaling with okay bal-
lancing. .

Sunny Rice, another standard act
follows with a piano accompaniment
to an effectively staged dance num-
ber by the Foster girls -and Esquires.
She then doffs her floor-length skirt
for a short, flaring one, and does an
applaitse-getting tap routine Includ-
ing some tough tap-spins. She's a
looker and her togs are. becoming,
but the effect was somewhat marred
at this catehlng by rumpled stocking
seams.

Hannon, besides being m.c. for the
other acta. Is on here with rousing
vocals of 'Heart of Texas' (during
which members of the Foster troupe
circulate through the aisles and un- '
successfully try to stimulate the
hand-clapnlng bits), "Johnny Dough-
boy' and "Hats Off to MacArthur."^

Salici Puppeta, possibly too fa-
miliar for maximum reception, close
the show with their standard bita and
then are joined by the Foster girls In
a' South Seas number that cues Into
the feature picture, 'Song of the Is-
dands.'

House was about two-thirds filled
downstairs at the dinner show
Wednesday (11). Hobe.

EMBASSY, N. Y,

(NEWSREELS)

Overboard optimism of newsreel
commentaries concerning U. S. de-
fense and war effort, to which "Va-
riety' called attention In a Page One
story two weeks ago, is definitely
curtailed In current jeleases. Not
only has there been a leveling do-wn
of th^ tone of the commentaries—
which heretofore have all too fro- .
quently assured U. S. audiences that
tiieir country's production capacity
made it absolutely unbeatable— but
in one clip It is definitely stated that
'what we need is thousands more
planes like this.' Commentator only
sloughs the thought in, but that's a
lot better than not mentioning -it at
all. Clip is Paramount's, the Com-
pany that has also sinned least in
the past in encouraging American
complacency,

'What on paper looks like it should
be the most exciting of the war news
pix. the fall of Singapore doesn't ac-
tually turn out that way. It doesn't
seem so much the fault of the tJnl-
versal cameraman, however, as of
the facts. People pictured seem sin-
gularly calm, unhurried and unruf-
fied amidst the terrible destruction
and ensuing evacuation. Actually,
more interesting shota are Par's 'and
Metro''s of burning tankers in the
Atlantic and Metro's of a ship towed
Into Newport News despite the fact
it had been literally cut in two by a
torpedo -or -mine. ■

Some domestic military news ap-
parently has been imtouched cen-
sorialy. Pathe*s sequences are good
of the troop train which hit an auto
with dire resulta and Fox*s of the
munitions which exploded after a
collision. Less exciting, but news-
worthy, was the shift in Army (Fox)
and Navy (U) commands and the
commissioning of Negro fliers for the
first Ume (Pathe).

On straight domestic news cover-
age, aside from the war, reels show
Some pleasantly unique footage. Out-
standing In newsreel photography Is
the camerawork by Pathe on Boston
warehouse flre. Lenser used -unusual
Imagination, camera angles and nerve
to get really excellent ^ota, far from
the ordinary flre scenes.

Par showed initiative in coverage
of spy trials' In New York. Cameras
not bel|ig allowed in the courtroom,
reel shows Its photog being turned
away by a guard and then Introduces
a femme artist who subbed for him.
Gal's drawings are shown and ex-
plained. Herb.

Just Another Jnngle

Hollywood, March 17.

Tarzan leaps from one jungle to
another, this time with Sol Lesser as
his, trainer and RKO as releasing
outlet for two pictures.

Johnny WelssmuHer Is moving out
of his old Metro forest after a long
tenancy apd Maureen O'SulIlvan
goes along as the femme lead.

Vednegday, M«rch 18. 194,2

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IT'S ALWAYS

THE

EXTRA

N«W5 and Gossip About thm- Production' and Distribution of tho Bo»t Shows In Town I

PICK SLICKS FOR EPIC PIC

LAMB'STALE:

An imsKlnery inicirlew be-
tween GU Lamb and Cam Dale7,
two principals «f Par's mnsleal
fan and frollo hit. The Fleet's In'

FEiHEMAeS
BAG BIG ABS

The Great Man's Lady* to
Get Super Sendoff in Four
Slick-Paper Pubs; Will Hit
S0,000,000 Readers

KICKOFF APRIL 4

Paramount home office ann<)unced
today that it would pitch a top na-
tional magazine advertising cam-
paign behind the new Barbara
Stanwyck-Joel McCrea-Brian Don-
levy epic. The Great Man's Lady,'
one of the leaders in its fifth block.

Decision to hit the- slick magazines
for the picture followed New York
screenings 2ast week. General ver-
dict was that l^ady* has everything
it takes to make a boxoSice sensa-
tion, limited only by fbt amount, of
selling put behind it.

Stanwyck's boxoSice stature has
increased by leaps and bounds re-
cently, particularly following 'Ball
of Fire' release. This, plus the fact
that the picture re-teams the trio of
Union Paclflc,* should prove potent
in receipts.

Typical of advance reaction to
Tha Great Man's Lady' is the com-
ment from Jay Emanu' of Exhibitor,
who said after a screening that 'if
Stanwyck doesn't get the 'Oscar*
then the Academy Awards are a
fake. She. was swell. Her character-
ization was Immense.' Of the pic-
ture, Jay said 'It's a money picture,
and you can well be proud to say
it's a Paramount picture. A fine
piece of real entertainment that wUl
keep the boxoffices biisy.'

Ads for 'The Great Man's Lady'
wiU begin to appear with the May
issues of the Ladies Home Journal'
and. McCalls, which hit the news-
stands April 24. Both mags will
carry socko two-color ads pointing
to national release. May 1, the June
Cosmopolitan will follow up with a
two-color layout, and May 8, LIFK
will hit the stands with a half-
page, ad. -. - ■ - -- ,

FLEET'S Ilf IN
PLENnOFTIN

Paramount's The Fleet's In' Is
proving itself in the big money in
three pre-release dates, weekend re-
ports show. Picture is in its carry-
over second week at the State, De-
troit, and outgrosslng both 'Aloma
of the South Seas' and 'Road to
Zanzibar' for similar dates there.
Top business was reported in the
New York Paramount and in L. A:
as welL

Audience comment at the N. Y.
Paramount was imiformly good, and
one unusual feature of the cards
turned in was that practically every
player came in Jot special praise.
Following examples are typical;
'One of Dorothy Lamoiur's best' . .
'William Holden is perfect' . . . 'Ed-
die Bracken was tops as' usual' . . ,
'Gil Lamb is a riot' . . . 'Jimmy Dor-
sey was terrific*' ... 'Helen O'Connell
and Bob Eberly are really-good,* all
of which appear on cards. General
picture comment ran from 'Best mu-
sical comedy of the year' to 'enjoy-
able ttiroughout.'

William Allen White Editorial
Orders Kansans to See 'AnA'ew'

Paramount's The Remarkable
Andrew* continued to add to its
remarkable record for remarkable
publicity breaks last ^week, when
the famed editor William Allen
White gave it a full two sticks on
his editorial page li^ the Emporia
Gazette.

White's editorial closed with a
summiary order to E^ansas to 'pack
the house when it comes to Em-
poria.' . Appearance of the comment
followed a special screening ar-
ranged for him, after Partimqunt
heard about a recent White edi-
torial in whlck the editor yearned
for the return of Andrew Jackson
and his fighting spirit
/Headed by the picture title, the
editorial read:

The other day we saw the pre-
view Of a-picture on the screen that
should make its place and way in
this world at this time. In the pic-
ture, "The Remarlcable Andrew,
Andrew Jackson returns, old Boots
and Whiskers, to the modem world
as an incarnate but invisible spirit
His phantom focuses for us the eyes
of a brave, honest man upon the
problems of today, the waste of to-
day, the skullduggery of .today, the
tragic cynicism of today — because
we are all too sophisticated and thus
we accept without shock and with-
out protest things which a hundred
years ago '^ould have given An-
drew Jackson and . his followers
cause for outcry and revolt
' The moving picture as a medium
for presenting dramatically lucid
thought and timely warning was
never used with greater force and
emphasis than it is used in 'The
Remarkable Andrew.' This picture
deserves and surely will earn a
wide and serious hearing in this
country. For it brings a vital mes-
sage, indeed a trumpet call to the
fundamentals of honesty, courage

Everybody Sing

. Announcement this week that
Paramount will produce "Ready
Money' as a musical during the -
coming year brought the stu-
dio's list of tune films up to a
brand new high. 'Ready .
Money* is a James Montgomery
stage hit of some seasons back.
' Already in'work or readying
are the foUowfhg song-and-
fun films: 'Road to Morocco'
(Crosby-Hope-Laniour); 'Hap-
py Go Lucky* (Mary Martin-
Dick Powell-Rudy VaUee-Ed-
die . Bracken-Betty Hutton);
'Lady in the Dark' (Ginger
Rogers); "Let's Face It' (Bob
Hope); 'Manhattan at Midnight*
(Crosby-Martin); Thumbs Up•^
'Very Hot in Haiti'; 'PrlorlUes
of 1942'; 'Merton of the Movies'
and 'Block That Kiss.' ~

Our Favorite Blonde On
Kate Smith Hr. Phgging
For IHy Favorite Blonde'

Madeleine Carroll, co-star with
Bob Hope of the fifth block Para-
mount pic 'My Favorite Blonde,'
will guest star on Kate Smith's
network show March 27 with hefty
plugs for the picture, it was an-
nounced today, Madeleine wUl ba
interviewed by Kate on the noon
show of that date, then will star in
a sketch in^the evening sliow, 8 to
8:55 p.m. SWT. Both shows go out
over 00 stations of the Columbfs
Broadcasting System,

and civic intelligence which ths'
United States needs so badly.

'When it comes to Emporia, pack
the house.'

Z i\ ■ 1 ^

SI

'But Madge, I tell you, it's only a
' movie title, honest I"

S4

y A'Ri&TY WcdneBday« March- 18. 1942

WkeH GoodFeilo^s Get Together/

On March 1st, National Screen Service began to sell and
distribute all M-G-M Standard Accessories through its
' 31 branches ■ ■ . and on the same rental bas^s that has al-
ready proved so popular and economical. •We welcome,
this new association and know that it will provide
benefits for all. • It s di NATURAL for better business!

iTedncfldaT^, Wig A 18, 1942

PICTUBB8 25

Film Reviews

^Colitliioea from pat* Ha

THIS GUN FOR HIRE

these two when the police finally
eaught up with the ^outh at the. end
of the picture and he Is peppered
with lead. These WTeeii mtaacres;
at course, are jiist make believe, but
gometlmes tryine on the squeamish.
Also slightly (Uscoilcertlng to the
heroine, as all the flrmpathy went to
Ladd.

Other players in the film had difii-
cult assignment ttrlng to give some
credence to an improbable -story.
Robert Preston played a policeman,
who was too easily outwitted to de-
serve Miss I^e in the end, but he
cashed just the same. Laird Cregar
\»as an interesting heavy, and TuUy
Marshall a reprobate of the worst
kind.

Miss Lake's previous films have
had the benefit of first-run bookings
In the better theatres. This Gun for
Hire' has difficulties ahead. Flin.

TRUE TO THE ARMY

(WITH SONGS)

Hollywood, March 17.

Piirninount roleaaft of Julm Scbsrnur pro-
doctlon, . Veaturea Judy Canova, 'Allen
JoneB, Ann lllllcr, Jerry Colonna, SIrcrtnl
l>y Albert 6. RoKell. Screenplny by Art
Arthur and Bradford Kopcs; adaptation by
>:dniund Hartmnnn and Val Burton, baecd
on novel by Bdnard Hopo and play by
Mowurd t^lndsay; camera, Daniel Fapp;
editor. Almn MncRorler nonsa I^rarJc Loch-
'ear and il.irold Spina; nualcal direction.
Victor TounR. TrndeabowD tn li. A. Uoreh
IT, '4:. Running time, 16 ^UINS.

l>alay Ilnwiilnii Judy Cannva

rrlvnte Bill Chandler..,. '.Allan Jones

Vlckl ^^nrlaw Ann MUlor

I>rlvule VothcrRlll Jenr Colosna-

Beiveani Butea..v Wllllnm Demareut

Colonel MHrlow ..Clarerfce Rolb

. I.leutrimnt Danvers William Wright

Junior Bdirard Fawley

Ice Bdwin Miller

llay Artliur Loft

l*rlvatc DuRnn .Gordon Jones

Private O'Toole Rod Cameron

Hercrant Rlin;a Eddie Acuft

Tareot- Sergeant Edgar Dearlng

Drnko..- J'..., John Mlljnn

Mae . ' Mary . Trecn

Congrosainan. . .'. Selmor Juckaon

This is Judy Canova's fifst pic-
ture away from her contract studio.
Republic, and is aimed to get her be-
fore audiences of the key first runs
and circuit houses. Picture will only
partially accomplish that purpose.
It's a familiar and static affair that
tosses the O^arkian comedienne into
an ai;my camp so she can masquerade
as a soldier and escape from a racket
gang on her trail. The broad com-
edy displayed, veering to slapstick on
several occasions, will -mildly satisfy
on the secondary and family book-
ings as dual support, but picture
fails to merit front line attention.
- There's little novelty in either the
. comedy or presentation. Director AI
Rogell seems to be handicapped by
a minor league script which ^reventsi
smooth setup of the episodes tied to-
gether, and even the song and dance
numbers — with the exception of a
tap dance routine by Ann Miller —
could be enhanced by better spot-
ting.

Miss Canova is a circus high wire
artist who seeks refuge in the army
camp where boy Irlend Jerry Co-
lonna is, stationed. Allan Jonei, for-
mer actor, is putting on the camp
show, and'jqins Colonna in keeping
the girl under cover via a uniform
masquerade. After rolling wackily
through sufficient footage, camp
show is put on for a finale — at which
time the gangsters put in an appear-
ance to be rounded up by the cops.
There's minor romantic thread be-
tween Jones and Miss Miller that is
unimportant.

Songs are' of ordinary calibre, de-
livered by Miss Canova aiid Jones.
Miss Miller's tap dances are high-
lights of the proceedings. Miss Ca-
nova is handicapped by the poor ma-
terial provldedL while Jones and Ca-
nova seem to strqln in attemlpting to
overcome the deficiencies of their re-
spective assignments. Support in-
cludes William Demarest, Clarence
Kolb and William Wright Wolf.

HENRY AND DIZZY

Paramount release of Sol C. Slegel pro-
rtnctlnn (Joseph Slatrom, associate pro-
dofor). Features Jimmy T.ydon, Charles
3mlth, Mary Anderson. Directed by Huch
Dennpll.- DrlRlnal screenplay. Vol Burton,
bancd on characters created by Clifford
nohlsmlih; camera, Dan Fnpp: dim editor,
. Evoroll Dnuglns. Reviewed In 'Projection
Room. N. T., March 18, '42. Running time:
M MIN8.

Honrj' Aldrtch » Jimmy Lydon

Phyllis Michael Mary Anderson

Dizzy BteVens Charles Smith

Mr. Aldrlch John Lltol

lire. Aldrich , ....Olive Blakeney

Mrs. Bradley Maude Bburne

Mr. Urndley , ..VauRhan Qlaser

Jennie Kilmer. ......... .i .Shirley Cootea

Mr. Stevens Olln HowlanJ

M»- Kilmer Minerva Urecal

vft; Weclts..,.-. Trevor Bardette

VUly 'n'coka Carl 'Alfalfo' Pwltiior

frarap .....Warren Hymer

•'«">■■' ; Noel NelU

J'amela Rogers. Jane Cowan

Latest In Paramount's Aldrlch
family series, 'Henry and Dizzy,' Is
more or less typical, but below aver-
age. It's palpable Class B stuff, too,
broadly contrived for adult audi-
ences, even in the neighborhoods,
put passable for Juve matinee trade
m the duals.- Fact that th . Aldrlch
name isn't used in the title creates
a selling problem a'd the usual lack
or marquee names will also hurt.

Story 1b In the groove of Clifford

Goldsmith's origlnaL T^..t is, Henry
Is tied up for nearly an hour in ■
constantly incretiing tangle of
trouble and, just as nls case seems,
completely hopeless, the whole maze
unravels as U by miracle. In the
case of 'Henfy and Dizzy' . scripter
Val Burton -Jtist about knocks him-
self out with the Invsnllon of comic
plot complications, but never makes
it credible and rarely funny. Story
deals with Henry's and Diz^« fran-
tic devastatinp efforts to raise $120
to pay tor an outboard motorboat
they've wrecked. They almost raze
the tt>wn in the attonr^t. Ifs all
frenzied, pat and a trifie juvenile.

Hugh Bennett's slap-dash direc-
tion accentuates the hectic flavor of
the yarn. Jimmy Lydon is again ac-
ceptable as Henry, with Charles
Smith doing okay as usiial as his pal
Dizzy. Mary Anderson, currently
featured as the evU brat in the legit
'Guest in the House,' at the Plym-
outh, N. Y., gives a pleasant per-
formance as Henry's loyal sweet-
heart, while John Litel and Olive
jBlakeney are convincing .as always
ao the dazed Aldrich parents. Maude
Eburne stands out among the others
for a laughable bit of comedy mug-
ging. Hobe.

The Bashful Bachelor

RICO relr.txe of Jack William 'Votlon pro:;
ductlnn. SUirs I.um and Abner (Ctiester;
Lnurk ' and Norrls Goft) ; features SSaSu
FItU). Grady Sutton, Oscar O'Shen, Louise
Currlc. Directed by Malcolm St. qiolre;
a»HlHtant director, Charles Kerr. Screen-
plny, riinndler Sprague. from . original
f*tory by T.nuclc and Goff: camera, Pi^ul
Ivuno; editor, Duncan Manafleld; music
director. I.ud Gluskln. ' Prevlswed In. Pro-
Jwtlon Room. Starch 12, '42. ■ Running
tlliu>: 76 .MIN.S, .

liUm Chester Xjtuck.

Abner Korrls Goff

Oernldlne t ZaSu Pitts

Codilc ;.. Grady Sutton

SdUire Shimi) Oscar O'Shea

Murjorle ....Louise Currle

WIdder Abej'nathy,.;....;ConBtance Purdy

.shorlft Irving Bacon

Joe Enrle-Hodglns

Pitch .Man (. Bonny Rubin

Hayseed audiences should find this
latest 'Lum and Abner' rural comedy
moderately entertaining and th^
boxoffice indications with that type
of theatregoer should be of equal
proportions. There's nothing here,
however, for blase metropolitan,
audiences,

""Lum and Abner' (Chester Lauck
and Norris Goff) give their usually
standard performances, whlcli is all
to the good despite the monotony of
the characterizations, while the
stoiry, though of familiar vintage, can
pass muster sufficiently for the type
of audience a', which producer Jack
Votion has aimed this latest in the
'Lum and Abner' series.

The basic theme revolves aroimd
a racehorse that Abner has acquired
through the trade of the mutually
owned delivery car that 'Lum and
Abner' used for their general store.
A lesser theme concerns the bashful
wooing by Abner of ZaSu Pitts and
the complications that beset the ro- .
mance when a designing 'widow'
compromises Abner Into near-mar-
riage. Of course, the horse wins the
big race, which heli5s to make every-
thing okay,- along with the discovery
of the 'widow's' belleved-to-be-dead
husband.

Outside of the three principals
there's little to recommend the rest
of the cast. Oscar. O'Shea is a blus-
tering local power, inclined to over-
act at times, while Iioulse Currie
lends the Dim's only s.a. with a nifty
chassis and looks, but her presence
in the film is lost She's aoparently
in the comedy for chiefly decorative
purposes, since the story doesn't
concern her in_lheJteast Naka.

Scattergood Rides High

Hollywood, March 17. •
RKO roloase of Jerrold T. Brandt (Frank
Melford) production. Stars Guy KIbbee.
Directed by Christy Cahanne. Screenplay
by Michael I/, Simmons; camera. Jack
)IncKen/.lo: editor, Henry Borman; asst,
director, Jo!m E; Burch, Tradeahown In
L. A, March IT, '43. Running time. eOHINS.

Scattergood Balnes Ooy KIbbee

Mr. Van Pelt Jed Prouty

Helen Vnn Pelt Dorothy Moore

Dan Knnx ' Charles LInd

Phillip Dane Kenneth Howell

Mrs. Van Pelt RsKlno. WalUce

Mrs. Done... .....Frances Carson

Cromwell Arthor Ayleswortb

Hipp Pant White

Toby Phillip Hurllc

Martin Knox Walter 3. Baldwin, Jr.

Trainer Lee Phelps

Fourth of the 'Scattergood Bailees'
series continues the rural philoso-
phies of the character. Interspersed
■with convenient dramatics revolving
around trotting horses. Sltuatldn of
the country business man outwitting
the city millionaire Is always good
fare for the hinterlands, and this one
dishes lip that episode with plenty
of trimmings. Not as good as pre-
vious issues, 'Scattergood Rides High
will provide mild support in the
family and small to'wn spots.

Scattergood assists a neighbor and
latter's son in the family efforU to
maintain a breeding and training
farm for trotters and pacers, and the
crossroads business man sticks around
long enough to outwit the city slick-
ers and save the boy's assets. There s
a minor attempt to inject romance
between the farm boy and rich girl
from the cjty. In addition to eie-

Cnrrent Short Subjects

(PRINTS in' EXCHANGES)

(Compiled by Besa Short)

'Symphony Hour* (RKO) 7%
mins, Mickey Mouse conducting.

•What's the Matador' (Col)
16 mins. .Three Stooges.

'Groom and Bored' (Col) 15%
mins. Comedy featuring Johnny
Downs and Marjorie Dean.

The B*vcn' (Par) 14 mins.
Cartoon satire on Foe's poem.

'WlDC* Ar Defense' (20th) 11
mins. Training of Navy fliers at
Pensacola. -

•ConnU the SaUorl (WB) 7
mias. Merrie Melodle.

'Weddlng.TelU' (WB) "1 mins.
Reissued Keystone with Louise
Fazenda, Walter Hiets, Marie
Prevost and Ben Turpin. .

'Don't Talk'! (M-G) 22. mins.
Documented warning against
war gossip from FBI material.

'Eat Me Kitty Eight to the Bar'
20th) 7 mins. Cartoon.

'Sham Battle - Shenaaigans'
(20th) 6% mins. Color cartoon.

'Heart of Mexico' (20th) 10
mini. Travel film with Lowel
Thomas nanatlon.

mental comedy between two colored
boys, Paul White and Phillip Hurlic.

Guy Kibbee again is Scattergood,
with support including Jed Prouty,
Dorothy Moore, Charles Lind, Ken-
neth Howell, Regina Wallace and
Frances Carson., It's an adequate
lineup for this minor programmer.
Direction by Christy Cabanne is
okay, but script lacks smoothness,
pace and compact dialog. Walt.

MI VIUDA ALEGRE

('My Merry Widow')
(MEXICAN MADE)

Mexico- City, March 11,
Film Tnint release of Posa Films pro*
ducllon, stars Emma Roldan and Jorge
by 'Gabriel J'ieueroaicosfSaraaatiioln— n— n
Reyes; features Angel Garasa. Delia Ma-
gana, Boatriz Ramos and Margarita Mora,
Directed by M. Dclgado, Cameraman, Ga-
briel Flgueroa; music, Rafael do Paz;
adapted by Jaime Salvador from the French
stage comedy, 'La Solr Revlllon.' Re-
viewed at Cine Teatro Alameda, Mexico
Ctty. Running tlrae,.M MINS.

Mariano Angcl Garasa

Roslta. Beatrix Ramos

Marmot Margarita Mom

Carlos Jorge Reyes

Dona Lnpe Emma Roldan

Margarlto Alfred del Dlestro

Sexton : Luis G. Barrelro

Maid -...Delia Magana

Dona Morlqulta Concha Oentll Arcos

Posa Films, one of the newer pic-
ture producers headed by Santiago
and Ramon Reach!, clicks again with
this comedy, which closely follows
In plot'. 'La Soir ReviUon,' Gallic
laughter that was socko in pre-\rar
Paris. Characterizations and situa-
tions, though, are truly Mexican, and
the production deals with a cross-
.current of upper middle-class life in
this land.

Acting is of a high order, partic-
ularly that of Angel Garasa, the
SfKinish comic, who makes his Mex-.
lean film debut as the spouse who
'resurrects' himself from 'the dead to
put a hitch into the affair being car-
ried on by the family medico, Jorge
Reyes, with Beatflz Ramos, who
plays Garasa's wife.

Garasa is perfect as the Spanish
grocery magnate. Delia Magana,
veteran Comedienne, does well as the
family maid. Margarita Mora, who
has a big rep here as a congarhumba
dancer, is good, though her costum-
ing In the nitery sequence is un-
showmanly. Dougr.

Kate Hepburn

^sContlbued from pace

versions of "The Philadelphia Story.'
'Woman of the Year' closes a six-
weeks run at the Radio City Music
Hall tonight (Wednesday), a record
equalled pnly by her 'Philadelphia
Story,* and 'Rebecca.' ' Between
•Story* and 'Woman,' Miss 'Hepburn
will have grossed well over $1,000,000
at the Music Hall alone.

Meantime, 'Without Love,' took
$29,000 out .of Baltirriore last week,
is expected to do aroimd $26,000 in
Washington this week, has a tre-
mendous advance sale in Philly for
the next two weeks, and will have a
total of almost $125,000 gross by the
time it arrives at the Shubert, N.Y„
during the week of April 5.'

Each of these successes means not
only a boost in the Hepburn repu-
tation, but in the Hepburn bank ac-
count as well, for Miss H. is no babe
In the financial woods. She owned
■ heavy chunk of the legit version
of 'Story,* plus the screen rights,
which she sold to Metro at a huge
profit, and now holds a big Interest
in 'Love' and has a similar deal on
the screen rights with author Philip
Barry as she had on 'Story.' Control
of film rights in her hands means
she won't sell unless she goes with
them and she demands a heavy fee
for her personal services.

This Week's New Shorts

ThU Is Blltx' ('.World In AcUon'
Documentary; NA; 22 mins.), — Stuart
Legg, crack documentary film pro-
ducer and editor in John Grierson's
'government unit for Canada, has hit
the bullseye again. Young English'
man who turned out 'Churchill'^ IS'
land' repeats with this' resume of
German blitz tactics. By shrewdly
cutting seized Nazi reel material
with other available newsreels from
various fronts, Legg has projected a
dramatic story about the onrushing
Nazi hordes.

However, the producer has shrewd-
ly built up p story of such Nazi in-
vincibility, and then calmly pulled
it apart. Legg outlines stops that
have been taken to slow up the Ger-
man machine, how it has been halted
in Russia and even now tanks may
be stopped by alert people not armed
with anti-tank gims or tanks. Use of
camouflage, protecting planes from
air attacks and arming of United Na-
tions without tipping future cam-
paigns are covered.

Picture pulls no punches. It is
Nazi warfare at its peak, but always
showing how this military machine
may be overcome. There is an al-
most unbelievable amount of action
material packed into less than - 25
minutes. Ifs a type of documentary
film that might well be copied in the
U, S. because ' this is the sort of
screen fare that registers with thea-
tre patrons. "This Is Blitz* Is smash
boxoffice — a short that can be bally-
hooed, with word-of-mouth sure to
help. Wear.

'The BalUe for Oil* ('World In Ac-
tion' issue; UA; 21 mins,)— Urgent
need for oil in modern war is thesis
of latest Stuart Legg compilation of
battle scenes, with the relentless
warfare of German U-boats high-
lighted. Because he had access to
seized Nazi newsreel material, im-
ustial scenes pliotographed from a
German submarine lift this above
other shorts covering the same tojpic.
It stresses the necessity of keeping
Britoin's supply lines reaching into
oil-producing friendly nations open.
Also the need Germany has for 'black
gold^ and how the Russian campaign
has depleted its previously well-con-
served supply of the fluid.

Subject stacks i|p well with others
in this exciting series, large^ be-
cause of Legg's expert cutting and
compilation of material, because part
of it looks familiar. Yet in his hands
it becomes a moving, spine-tingling
adventure. " Wear,

■Under the SheddlBjr Ctaestnnt
Tree' (Cartoon; Col., 8% mins).
Reminiscent of a hundred others, it
lacks ingenuity, and falls very flat
with the conventional explosion fin-
ish. Draughtmansbip pretty bad,
and animation spotty.

•Wacky Wlfwapis' (Color Cartoon;
Col,, 8 mins,). Just a screen wait.

'Screen Snapshols*' (No. 7, Col,, di-
rected by Ralph Staub; 10 mins.).
Amusing film record of Edgar Ber-
gen-Charlie McCarthy broadcast at
West Coast air corps training center,
doing a court-martial burlesque with
assistance of James Stewart. Fun-
niest passage is when the profession-
als 'blow* their lines;. Should do big
at nabe houses where names of prin-
cipals can ride the marquees.

'Three Stooges In Cactns Makes
Perfect' (com., Col.; 17 mins; pro-
duced by Del Lord and Hugh Mc-
Collum). You wouldn't believe it
possible In this day and age.

The -Great 'American Divide'
(Travel; Col,, lOVi mins.). Camera
journey through some of the western
national parks, winding up t^' Yel-
lowstone and Old Faithful. Excel-
lent for any screen. Len Sterling's
comments entertaining. Flin.

'Pussycat Cafe' (Oddities: Univer-
sal; 9' mins.). Cat that is fed direct
from source, a cow, without inter-
ruption gives this its title. Despite
such a mediocre -start, one-reeler in-
cludes several average freak Items.
Largest dog in world, an Irish wolf-
hound in Atlanto, and a New Jersey
collection of world-war guns, planes,
tanks are outstanding if familiar.
Only fair filler.

ThrlllB of Deep* (Sports subject; U;
9% mins:). There've been so many
similar fishing bfiefies, it is to this
one's credit that it holds interest.
Gives fishing trip, from closeup on
how reel and rod is made, until a
fighting sailflsh Is towed into the
boat. Deft photography plus nice
productibn job by Tom Mead and Joe
O'Brien put this over.

'Merry Madcaps' (Musical; U; 16
mins.). . Some mighty fine talent
here, but there's too . muclf of It.
Tighter editing job and shearing of
two or three acts would make it a
worthy addition to even a deluxe
operation. As Is, only fits in certain
houses where 16 minutes screen time
can be spared a single short that's
strictly vaudeville. Nat Brand-
wynne's orchestra gives tlils a lift.
Then a letdown produced by some
tapstering of Grace Costello, capable
enough for a juvenile but out of place.
Swlnghearts warbling 'Swing It,
Mother Goose* pick up subject again.
Three Aces ere okay with an adagio,
and Fields, and Fingerle no doubt
will be liked with their piano duet,

but drags proceedings. Jerrle Kru-
ger is tops with fig Foot Pete,*"
bqogle-woogle tune. Mark Plant's
huskj' ballading. looks like a screen
test, and appears dragged in fore-
most Wcor.

<Mickey*s Birthday Party' :(WaIt
Disney-RKO; 8 mins.). Rings in nu-
merous famiUar Disney characters as
Minnie .Mouse tosses Mickey a birth-
day party, Donald Duck!s conga
with Clara CJuck and Gooty*s efforts
to bake a cake are highlights though
the terplng is too prolonged. In best
Disney tradition, and topflight . car-
toon comedy suited for aU accounts,

'Children of iht SUrs* (Picture
People-RKO; 8 mins.). Corny script
antl bad handling of subject matter
ruins bright possibilities of this topic.
Cheryl Darline, 28-month-old daugh-
ter of Roy Rogers, comes, close to
salvaging this blah short.

'Jangle Jannt' (Sportscope-RKO; 7
min.'). Lion cubs' and some trained
animals of their size romp in the
forest for fairly comical results;
Deft cutting and photography plus
Frederic Ullman's fine production Job
make this worthwhil i. Weor. .

Execs Pass Buck

jContlnned from pate 5;

on this. But that Is also true of
some radio war commentators. Some
of the reels could stand rapid-fire
voices, say Of the same timber .as'
Floyd Gibbons. This should pep up
the reels, and get away from the
sameness so prevalent in radio
voices.' • .

Regarding the alleged policy of
some newsreels pulling their
punches, one editor stated: "When
the defense shorts or propaganda
fllmtf laud the great defensive war
effort of the U. S. and cite strides
taken in building up armament,' it
is only natural for ^e newsreels to
follow in much the same vein. Espe-
cially, when you consider that news<
papers which have pointed to flaws
and delays in the war machine have
been accused of being "out of step
with the country.*'

Typical illustration of .what cen-
sorship delays, mean is the current
pet peeve of the neVsreels regafd-
ing censoring of material photo-
graphed outside the U. S. Current
ruling is that all such material
must be.'Sbipped to Washington or
New York for development and In-
spection. A story photographed by '
the newsreels in Ireland must be
shipped to the. U. S. for developing
and inspecting before it can go to
Great Britain or any other of
United Nations ouUIde the U. S.
This takes so much' time, the reel
Is old stuff when it arrives in the
foreign market.

In contrast, the newsreelers say.
Great Britain allows their newsreels
to ship direct to the ultimate market,
development aiid inspection behig
done in the field;

Genius Incorporates

ssiContlnncd from pace

back into the theatre showcase pro-
jected by the group. There will
also be an expansive cuil for those
without moolah. And a small stage
and pji. system on which' the actors '
-will be encouraged (whoever heard
ot an actor needing encouragement
to get on a stage?) to -entertain
themselves.

Walgreen tribe, via a dance two
weeks ago, netted $1,000 for the pur-
pose of renthig a theatre by tha
year, liiey hope to use this as a
down payment and worry about gett
ting the rest of the rent later. Di-
rect approach to the NYTlmes real
estate department on renting Times
Hall (former Little Theatre) elicited
little enhuslasm and group is now
trying other means of contact,

If the Times' Town HaU can't be
obtained, the actors are prepared to
continue negotiations started with
several otk«r small houses. Former
Little theatre is favored, however,
because of Its location and general
layout. Times recently changed Its
name and announced, it would be
used Icir promotional purposes after
It was ioOhd difficult to lopate com-
mercial producers who wanted it.
Newspaper is using It tarely,' how-
ever.

Bombs Start Falling

Hollywood, March 17.

Robert Stevenson drew the dlreC'>
tor chore on the war picture, 'Bom-
bardier,' at RKO.

Film goes into production next -
week under supervision of ReeVet
Espy.

to

HAL HALPERIN

in sincere

appreciation

★

★
★
★
★
★
*
★
★

★
★
★
★
★
★

★
★
★
★
★
*

Permit us to acknawledge our sincere
thanks to you, our fallow worker, for
your indispensable services in behalf of
the entertainment industry V defense and
morale program in the city of Chicago.

Largely through your per-
sonal efforts the Amusement Division
has gone away over the top in the Red
Cross drive, leading all other trade
groups in Chicago, with contributions
aggregating nearly 200 percent of our
quota. ^

Moreover, you have done
a magnificent job as administrator of the
affairs of the Amusement Division of the
Chicago Defense Commission. Through
your tireless efforts in this capacity it
has been possible to provide regularly
scheduled programs of outstanding
quality for the Chicago Service Men's
Center and the various camps and train-
ing stations of both the Sixth Corps
Army Area and the Ninth Naval District.

As fellow citizens aware
of the urgent necessity of maintaining
high civilian and armed-force morale,

WE SALUTE YOU, ana

say

again .... Thanks, Hal.

Sincerely,

EDWIN SILVERMAN • JAMES E. COSTON • JOHNBALABAN

PSSsUEfir

picrmuBs 27

WlneheD aad^ 8i«e
A two-port biography of Walter
WInchell wlU appear in Liberty, first

Installment in the issue of March 28,
' It Is by . Fred -AllhofT and headed
!• «Walter Winchell, American Phenom-
l- enon.' Winchell is quoted as saying,
•'■ The .credit— or blan^p— lor nakiDg
Walter Winchell goes to two persons^
both now dead. One -was Sime Sil-
i vennan of 'Variety'; the other, breezy
' garrulous Texas Guinan of night club

Story states 'Siiqe would give
Wincbdl storjei'.on llbnday that
'1 'Variety* would run under a banner
. Wednesday, and taught. him the. code
of Times Square, 'jiever tip oflf.' (Ac-
'. tually, Sime would turn gaUey proofs
over to tl^e columnist, telling him to
check off the Kerns' be would use.
Sime then killed the yams' which
Winchell selected.)

Biographer continues, 'From 'Vari-
ety' too, Winchell will tell you to-
day, came his inspiration for color-
' ful word coinage.'. Stated also that
he was never inside a night club
until one day he picked up an item
concerning one such spot, run by
the late Larry Fay, a 'notorious old
time racketeer.' Story concerned
the bouncing of a customer who was
thrown downstairs, Sime, 'his
P oadway mentor,' sent for him and
took Winchell to the club where
Texas Guinan held sway. Texas told
him a phoney side of the affair, but
it started a friendship that led to any
amount of gossip and news. One in-
cident bad Texas bawl out another
reporter who cuSed tiis way in- the
. clubs, Winchell saying he 'gays his
check or leaves a fat Up on the table
for the waiter,' although 'a mention
In his column is worth everything
on the<menu for a month.'

As for .Wincfaell's earnings, 71%
of the money he received in 1941
will go to the Government in In-,
come taxes. He gets $5,000 weekly
for his Sunday night radio broad-
cast, $1,200 weekly from the Mirror
for his column, plus more than $3,-
000 to $3,200 weekly from Its syndi-
cation. Highest earnings hi one year
were - $431,000. That was in 1937
when he made two pictures for 20th
Century-Fox at $75,000 each (with
Ben Bemie).

Colomnlst 'On Ice'

Walter Winchell has retained at-
torney Morris L. Ernst to represent
him in his dispute with Eleanor
Patterson, publisher of the Wash-
ington (D. C.) Times-Herald, over
the paper's failure to use his 'On
Broadway' column regularly and
unexpurgated. Ernst, noted for his
defenses of civil liberties, looks on
the catfe as a basic issue concerning
all authors, particularly newspaper-
men,

'Whether a publisher can put a
writer on ice 'is the issue involved,'
£mst declared Monday (16). 'Every
author ordinarily works not only for
money, but so. that his writings see
the light of day and he is being de-
prived If his' material >s not printed.

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Putting an author on tee is
a particularly flagrant abuse when
the publisher has. bought exclusive
.territorial rights.'

Ernst said he ' hasn't had an op-
portunity yet to study correspond-
ence and contracts, so isn't prepared
to .state what steps be wUl take or
wbether he will go to court.
Winchell. lias asserted he will refuse
to renew his pact with King Fea-
tures next November and go over
to. another syndicate If the T-H. is
still among the colium's«ustomeis.

Webb Miller's Widow Wins

Unanimously afCirming an award
by the N. Y'. State Industrial Board
of $10.38 weekly to the widow of
WelJb Miller, European news man-
ager of the United Press, the Ap-
pellate Djvision, Third Department,
held in Albany that the correspond-
ent was on 24-hour-a-day duty when
he fell from a train bound from
London to Cobham, May 7, 1940.
Miller was en route to his tempo-
rary home in Cobham, to collect his
baggage. He had been ordered that
day to go to Rome. The court ruled
Miller was fatally injured in the
course o£ his employment.

Court also affirmed an award of
$3.46 a week for her son, Kenneth,
from the date of Miller's death until
the youngster becanie IB June 17,
1940.

Farr and War Censorship
Violent debates are raging in
Washington about the Walter Farr
:lLoiidon Daily Mail) piece over a
week ago about progress of a con-
voy across the Pacific. Scribes are
getting nowhere in their disctissions
whether the Britisher- was ethical
(having violently-conflicting views)
but they are yelping in chorus about
the censorship iaconsis tencies . The
admirals and generals simuUaneoTisIy
are citing the yam as a horrible ex-
ample of thoughtlessness on the part
of the blue-pendlers.

Preponderant feeling of the D. C.
scribblers is that Farr 'character-
istically exaggerated' the few facts
in his possession and 'engaged in
deliberate misrepresentation.' Care-
ful reading of his piece revealed
nothing that isn't common gossip
here. Some of his acquaintances re-
marked the yarn easily could have
been typed before he shoved off. .

"Deepest resentment Is felt at the
War Department. Even though
nothing said by the Britisher, indi-
cated where the convoy was at any
particular time, the generals con-
cerned about successful transfer of
troops and equipment complained
that such exciting descriptions of
U. S. convoys likely would cause the
Japs to redouble their efforts to sink
American vessels in Paciflc waters
and station more subs between Cali-
fornia and Hawaii. The Navy , of-,
flcials were more piqued over cen-
sors who allowed the fanciful piece
to go out of Honolulu and then come
back into this country for republi-
cation. One high-ranker commented
Friday (13) he was extremely wor-
ried when he saw the London dis-
patches and .inqjlied strongly the
censorship— both outgoing and In-
coming—will be tightened severely
as a result.

Newark ledger In Contempt

The Newark Morning Ledger
Company and its publisher, S. I.
Newhouse, last Friday (13) were ad-
judged in contempt of court by the
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals sit'
ting in Philadelphia. The court
charged the company and Newhouse
with, failure to reinstate Agnes
Fahy, a reporter, 'and give her $10,-
000 in back pay as ordered May 2,
1941.

Miss Fahy was fired Sept. 22, 1937,
and the.NLHB later found thafher
dismissal violated the Wagner Act
in that she was dismissed for ac-
tivity in behalf of the Newspaper
Guild. (She was president of the
Newark, unit). The Circuit Court
upheld the board and gave the com-
pany and Newhouse seven days to
purge themselves of contempt.

Stent Iieaves Satevepost.

Policy difference which led last
week to the resignation of Wesley
W. Stout'as editor of the Satevepost
was primarily over whether the mag
was to take on a purely escapist tone
or be a vital, semi-crusading organ.
Stout favored the latter policy, while
the management wants the Post to
be a quiet magazine of entertain-
ment and Information.

Stout is an isolationist, but since
the war had adopted an attitude of
'Now we're in it, we've got to fight
it out to the best of our ability.' He
scheduled, as a result, some pretty

strong articles, a few of them being
virtual exposes. Management dis-
sented at the Post's becoming the
organ of opinion which Stout de-
sired.

Ben Hibbs, brought over from the
Curtis Country Gentleman as edi-
tor,- has a reputation qs being ex-
tremely conservative. He has never-
theless accounted for a large in-
crease in the circulation of the
Country Gentleman during his ten-
ure as editor,

Time's $3,748,908 Net

Net profits by Time, Inc., of $3,
748,908 for 1941, against $3,494,590 In
1940, were reported last week. That
represents the take on Time, Life,
Fortune and Architectural Forum.

Henry R. Luce, board chairman, in
releasing the figures, also pointed
out that circulation of Time during
1941 had increased from just over
850,000 to almost 1,000,000. Life, at
the end of the year, stood at 3;290,000
circulation. .

Common stock, which was split up
last December, 4 for 1, into shares
of par value of $1 each, earned $3.95
per share. On a comparable basis.
1940 profit equalled $3.70 per share.

Slang In Spades
'The • American Thesaurus of
Slang,' by Letter V. Berrey and Mel-
vin Van Den Bark, with a foreword
by Dr. Louise Pound (Crowell; $5),
has jiist been brought out. The pub-
lishers, who also publish Roget's In-
ternational Thesaurus, have .given it
a similar treatment, elaborately
cross-indexing . over 100,000 terms
culled from the 'slang of motion pic-
ture, radio, .circus and carnival, stock
market, tramp and criminal, jour-
nalism, football, soda fountain, col-
(Continued on page 46)

Exhibs All^Out

;Coiitinued from page Ss

are not trying to sluff, it is generally
"believed. Their ' intentions may be
good, else they, wouldn't accept dis-
tribution, but averred that often the
shorts running up to 10 minutes. In-
terfere with schedules, particularly
when, regular shows are long, create
some overtime, etc.

The War Activities Committee is
carefully selecting the shorts to be
played in theatres and, as part of
the program to stir and educate ex-
hibitors to full use of the defense
briefies,' WAC or otheif representa-
tives may make trips throughout the
country to sit down with circuit
heads, district managers and others
to personally urge fullest coopera-
tion.

A WACommitteeman believes that
shortly, when the proper conscious-
ness toward the ■ war euurt has
aroused the country's ezhlbltoTS,
they will quickly fall in line.
Getting »0% DictrlbBtlan

The WAC is very satisfied with
the distribution the defense shorts
are getting, with the figure placed
at dose to 90% already. ±u spread-
ing the gospel on the war briefies,
pointed out also that the exhib as-
sociations throu^out the land ootdd
lend a very helpful hand by can-
vassing their own members.

An important angle is stressed by
the head of one or the Independent
circuits, operating in the Greater-
N. Y. area, who takes the position
that the war shorts are entertaining
as well as informative, thus have «
legitimate place on all programs.
This operator says that he has been
impressed by the fine audience reac-
tion in his theatre to them.

He adds, also, that a short like
'Ring of Steel' with Spencer Tracy,
has genuine marquee value through
the Tracy name and should be ad-
vertised. The Walt Disney Treasury
Dept. briefie. The New Spirit.' like-
wise had marquee value, he feels.

According to R. J. O'Donnell, v.p.
and general manager of the" Inter-
state circuit, who was in N.Y. last
week. Interstate is advertising de-
fense shorts in the papers and is
playing the shorts on ah soows In
their 166 theatres in the southwest
The Robb li Rowley, Jefferson
Amusement and Griffith circuits,
which together with Interstate em-
brace 50% of the theatres in Texas,
are doing the same.

Because some of the Fox-West
Coast houses were assertedly open-
ing and closing shows with the war
shorts, Spyros Skouras, president
of National Theatres, of which F-WC
is part, is said to have given strict
orders that the briefies oc used on
every program. Generally, it is be-
lieved major circuits and the larger
indies pledged to play the shorts,
are including them on all or most
perfo.rmances, this meaning that a
large proportion of the population is
reached.

New edition o^ Who's Who in America, out this week, contains many
additions from show biz. They include Bob Hoi>e; Ezra Stone, Jamer
and Marian Jordan ('Fibber McGe^ and MoDy*^, Vera ZbHna, Heni7
Fonda, Jean Arthur; George Balanchine, Anton Dolin and Serge Ouk» '
rainsky, choreographers; Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Gabin, William Dieterl*,
Preston Sturges and John Ringling North.

Other newcomers are Eve Curie, newspaper writer and lecturer; Erich
Maria Remarque, German author: Sigrid Undset, Danfih Nobel prize whi«
ner; Bruno Walter, Austrian conductor; Lariy Allen, Associated Press
correspondent; Hallett Abend, New York Times correspondent, and ElizB«
beth Hawes, fashion writer.

One of those p.a. rarities, where a press stunt was shot into a film, andi
caused the producer to revise his shooting schedule, is the 'all-star, all-
American band' being incorporated by William Dieterle into his 'Syncopal
tion' film for RKO release. The Satevepost poll, set up by publicist David
E. Green, breaks April 11, listing the all-star band voted by SEP readers.
The bandmen selected. have been shot for a montage sequence (finale) Into
the 'film, due for May 15 release, and their combined name value eclipses
the regular cast toppers, Bonita Granville and Jackie Cooper. P.a. Gree^
incidentally, is also effecting a 'National Syncopation Week,' with ASCAF
and Music Publishers Protective Ass'n cooperation, as a stunt for the filn);

. Government application demanding that Paramount and 20th-Fox giv*
up 16 and 20 theatres, resffectively, acquired since the consent decree, will,
not be heard March 19. as scheduled, both sides' having agreed to postpons
the hearing. The N. Y. federal court will be asked to set a hearing in
early April, at which time both sides will be ready.

The Government and the film companies are agreeing on stipulated facts
and the law so that the court's burden will be cut and the entire contro-
versy will take less than a day to try. The U. S.. claims that both com*
panies acquired the theatres in violation of the terms of the consent de*
cree. -i ,

•In the review on 'Carnival in Brazil,' Paramount short, in last week's.
'Variety,' credit for direction was inadvertently given to Leslie Roush«
Latter directs and' produces eastern Paramount shorts. Actually, Stanley-
Simmons should have been credited as producer and director.

RKO Dropping Info
Please*, Tictnre People'

Present intention of HKO is to
drop 'Information Please.' from its
lineup of shorts for 1942-43. Also
'Picture People* series, covering Hol-
lywood personalities, will be missing
from the lineup.

famous Jury TrlalsT, directed by
Jean Lenauer and produced in N. Y.
by Frederic Ullman, Jr, will be add-
ed. However, these dramatic shorts
are intended to replace 'one of the
present two-reel series, which will
be eliminated next season.

Rep. Parades Again

Hollywood, Mac(!h 17.

Third 'Hit Parade' Is in the mak-
ing at Republic, a musical produc-
tion supervised by Edmund Grain-
ger. Picture is titled 'Hit Parade of
1942,' skipping 1041 after 'Parades' in
193S and 1940.

Film Is the third for this year on
Grainger's schedule. Others are
"Flying 'Oger^ and 'Make Way for
the Commandos,' non-musicals.

Thief Took Everythoig
But Ellis Levey's Tirei

San Francisco, March 17.^ .
Ellis lievey, western divisior^al
chief for Telenews, got a reverse
homecoming welcome after a swinf .
ealrt; last week. Parked his car neai:
the' Frisco house before going boms'
to unload it and a thief saved hiia
the - trouble, . snatchii.g clothei^
cameras and personal belongings*
running into several hundred smack'
ers. •

All the robber left was the tires. .

WeUman'smowlBcideHt*

Hollywood, Marcb 17.

William Wellman draws the diree>.
tor assignment on The Oxbow Incl*'
dent,' based on the Walter von Til«
berg novel, at 20th-Fox.

filming, starts when Wellman fln«
Ishes bis current job, Thunder
Birds,' now bi work on location al
Phoenix, Ariz.

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New York Theatres

DETTX • VICTOB JACK

GBABLE • MATUEE • OAXIE
*Song of the Islands^

IlM ■ Bl> POYV 1*b Awe.
Slas* Show. A 1 « iMk Bt.

HELD OVER— 3RD WEEK

laurence Ij«slle
OLIVnSB • HOWARD

BATUOND MAastnc
"THE INVADERG"

A Columbia Picture

CAPITOL SrS£

..•MatHT wuuiui nni . mmt
UMOUR • HOIDIN • IRACKIN • OOtSIV

In Panmevnl't

"THE FLEET'S IN"

B WAY 8.
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PALACE

tUTAKTS TOMOKBOW

GINGER ROGERS
•ROXIE HART'

— and —

Urure Cabot -■ CMataww BmbcU
■Wll.n Itll.I. IIIOKOK BIDKIi'

"A OHBAT SHOW."— Herald Tribone

50c, SI &S1.50 n;'-'"h^o'h'er

2NI> TEAR— 2ND EDITION of Ul*

Sensational Mualcat Icetravaea.ma

IT HAPPENS ON ICE

at Amtrki't Only Ic* ThMtra
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2ND WEEK

"Always in My Heart"

A Now Warnsr Broii. Hit Wllh \

GLORIA WARREN

— In Feraon —

CHARLIE SPIVAK
STRAND B'way & 47th St,

■AOIO
OJtY

MUSIC HALL

*«EDTIME
STORY"

Spectacular Stage Productions

LOEW'8

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BBOTHKBs**.
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FAtMBANia, U,

Ob Bliga
B«rt LAHR
OUm

Startt Thiiri,.M>r. l»
lltH. TAYLOR
Una TURNER
"JOHNNY
EAGEB"

In Pffion
Louli rRIMA

a ORCH.
H«ry
YOUNSMAN

"TO BE OR
NOT TO BE"
UNITED B|voLr.M

ARTiars

OMfi oun t at A.m,

MIDNITE tHOW*

CUFFORD ۥ

PRIORITl

At the 46th STREET

Lou

Holtz

Hifl personality Is a
better plot than most
muncal comedies can
boast oL'
lOHN MASON BROWN
World-Telegram

When I told them vaudeyille
was not de^d — ^they didn't be-
lieve me— We did it before and
we ore doing it agaiiL

WilUe

Howard

'1 . . is one of the Great
hmny men oi America'
BOBjERT SYLVESTER
Daily Mirror

Joan Merrill

*. . • lovely and per*
suasive songstress.
Clicks with her clever
arrangements of pop-
ular Uts.'

ROBERT COLEMAN
Daily Mirror

*. . . Sings ond plays
superbly.'
lOHN ANDERSON
N.Y. loumal-American

Helen Reynolds Girls

*. . . Skating troupe is astoniahing.'
WILETTA WALDORF
N.Y. Post

Also oi

t

And Otb

It

ICHER

S OF 1942"

lEATRE, NEW YORK

PhU

*. . . is .an inToriably
winning p*iforaier.'
RICHARD WATTS, IR.
Herald Tribune

Assisted by
DIAME DENISE
and JOE MORRIS

Paul

*. . . on* of the Perfect
donee'n of the world.*
RICHARD WATTS, JR.
Herald Tribune

and Loretta Fischer

*. . . Another standout
. . .' ingratiating com-
edy pqmtomimiBt ond
top-flight banjoist . . .
has a style of Us own.'
ROBERT COLEMAN
Daily Mirror

the BlU

The Nonehalants

Lou Forman

\ . . provides a welcome nostalgic touch for the
two-a-day veterans.'

ROBERT COLEMAN, Daily Mirror.

Musical Director

Star Acts

80

RADIO

Tednesdaj. Harefa 16, 1942

Cw^es^noi Not TogeAer on FCC;
One Suggests J. L. Fly Too Tough,
Other That He's Too Easy-Going

Washington, March 17.

Denial that the Federal Communi-
CBtions Commission has any precon-
ceived ideas about severing stations
from newspapers highlighted the
House Rules Committee hearing
Thursday (12) on the Cox resolution
proposing a special Investigation of
the regulatory unit No action was
talcea on the measure, as the legis-
lators granted Chairman James L.
Fly a further opportunity to answer
charges that radio monopolies have
gone uncheclced.

The hearing was an instance of
badly mixed signals. With Rep. E. E.
Cox wanting the Commish grilled
for getting too tough to attempts to
break up monopoly, ReprRichard B.
Wigglesworth, perennial FCC critic,
yelped that the regulators have been
lax to curbtog the networlis.
Wigglesworth appeared as a backer
of the Cox suggestion.

Charges of improper radio law
administiation brought a reply from
Fly tliat the Commish apparently has
the same idea as some of Its critics
about certain potots. He referred
to the Wigglesworth complaints that
networks control the lion's share of
the most desirable facilities and shot
back that the regulators have toves-
tlgated and sought to curb monopo-
lization by the chatos. Wigglesworth
protested that 95% of the night-time
wattage Is devoted to airing CBS,
NBC, and Mutual programs, and
aSiUates are forced to kick 'back
from 26.5% to 100% of their eam-
togs.

The newspaper owneisiiip question
figured more Important^ than the
reform rules, as Wigglesworth told
Cox he beared the regulators want to
establish 'conplete control' over all
commimicatioa media. Cox subse-
quently fired a barrage of questions
at the Commish chairman on this
Bttbiect, 'With Fly vigorously dis-
claiming aijy thought of collecting
evidence that would support a policy
adverse to the press.

It is open to question whether the
Commish h^s statutory power to
forbid publishers to own outlets.
Fly acknowledged, declaring he
'never contended' the Communica-
tions Act conferred such authority.
Even 11 it should be found- desirable
to divorce the two media, the valid-

.'ity of Tules to this effect would be
subject to challenge.

Familiar squawks wer« repeated
by Wigglesworth. He nientioned
long-term leases, transfers at prices
far above the physical worth of the
properties involved, and the employ-
ment of Dr. Goodwto Watson (whom

. ' the House ordered dropped from the
payroll June 30). Most members of
the Rules Committee seemed more
toterested In Watson than In the

. regulatory problems, with Jack
Nichols, an Oklahoma Democrat, and
Hamilton Fish, the New York Re-
publican, both showtog displeasure
over Watson's continuance on the
Commish staff and Cox charging
the FCC has 'more fellow travelers
and more revolutibnistsT than any
other government outfit

In' answer to Wigglesworth's com-
plaint the Commish tolerated mono-
polies. Fly pototed to provisions of
the order which have been sus-
pended indefinitely) requirtog NBC
to unload one of Its two skeins. The
regulations, when fully applied, will
compel NBC to turn one set of out-
lets 'tiack to their owners' Fly re-
marked.

Murder Can Wait

'Our Gal Sunday' last week
had lis hero. Lord Henry, en-
route to stop a murder. He
passed the music room where his
wife was playmg the piano. She
urged, then insisted he pause
V to listen.

She played a jingle all the
way through about paying your
tocome tax.

Then Lord Henry went about
his business of preventing the
murder.

Priorities Quickly Kayo
New Savarin Coffee Show
On WHN With Downey

Priorities cancelled Morton
Downey on WHN, New York, almost
the same night he started his series
of five-times-per-week broadcasts at
6:15 for Savarin coffee. Government
decision to cut down on tto cans on
the basis of the 1940 quota kayoed
campaign, to . 1940, Savarin was
selling restaurants and hotels and
only this year 'decided to go after
the dlrect-to-consumer trade.

Kudner agency hopes to ' shift
Downey from WHN to a network
and another sponsor.

Bntter Not Expands

Minneapolis, March 17.-
Butter Nut Coffee, now sponsoring
Elmer Peterson, news analyst and
foreign corre^ndent over WCCO,
also Is taking over the sponsoTship
of the "Noontime News' .broadcasts of
Cedrie Adams, the town's ace news-
paper columnist, on the same station.
. Adams has been on the air with
news programs for the last ntoe
years and his previous' sponsor was
the local Ford dealers' organization
which has *discontinued all radio ad-
vertising. Adams started with But-
ter Nut after the termtoation- of the
Ford deal without losing a d&y on
the air.

HARVEY HARDING

BARITONE
PIANIST
WHN, New York, 11:30 A.M.

Mon.-Tues.-Wed.
WNBT, New York, Televlalon
"Harding', a 'baritone and a good
one, also plays a mean piano, a
steamins-at-the-seams organ. In In
vadlng the local New York one-man
entertainment field, he brings to
WHN an' unusual combination of
talents."

Land, Variett, March 11, 1942
Manaoemant
NATIONAL CONCERT AND
ARTISTS CORPORATION

SoiNremeConrttoHesirCB&IIBC

. ■ ■»' . : \ • . ■

y WiwblDgtoiw ilUch 17.
Vniethw tht ipsclal thi««-Jti<)g« NewYork coatt was rUht in hold-
ing It has no Jtirlsdlctloo at tliii stage ta decide oa the vtijdlty of the
Federal CommunlcatlMir Commission's' lantl-dMmopely* telorms will
be settMd by the United States Supreme Court. Another hearing in
the procedural 'wrangltog was j>romlsed Monday (16) by the final
tmiplras. -

Review was granted NBC and CBS.' which ban obtained m stay
order loiblddliig' the crmckdown element from~ceveting afflUatlons
before' May. Argumett may not take place until so late this term
Mat « declsioa might be postponed tmtll after the summer -vacation,
to which case the Supreme Court probably wUI supplement 'the tem-
porary Inlunction and tell the FCC to hold the rules to abeyance until
the fall term begtor.

Sole questloo to be settled at this stage is whether Superior Judge
Xam'ed Hand was correct in his toteipretation of the .networks'
remedies. 1^ -the highest court agrees ^ special itatutoiy tribunal
lacked power to wel^ the constitutionallijr of the cdmmlsh actions,
the chatos tEen wUI havis to wait until the regulators deny a license
renewal for an affiliate before they can make another plea for judicial
relief.

Drive to Oust NeviOe MiHar;
Latter Reported in Fu[h&g Mood

SCOnFARNWORTH,
WRITER, INTO ARMY

Scott Farnworth, author and male
lead of the 'Jones and I' dramatic
sustainer Saturday mornings on CBS,
leaves the cast after this week's
broadcast, to go toto the army.
However, he totends to try to cbn-
tmue scripttog the show from camp.

Auditions for a replacement to
the lead part were held Monday
(16) and the successor Will be se-
lected this week.

Alice Frost Into Colgate
*Woman of Courage' Show

Change of writers and title ac-
tresses will be made on the "Woman
of Courage' serial, effective with the
|tlarch 30 episode on. CBS for Col-
gate-Palmolive-Peet. Alice Frost,
until nearly a year ago star of
•Big Sister,' takes over the femme
lead, succeeding Esther Ralston.

Addy RIchton and Lynn Stone,
who corauthored • 'Hilltop House'
until Ward Wheelock turned it mto
. The Story of Bess Johnson' for
C-P-P, will succeed Marie Baumer
as 'Woman of Courage' - scripters.
Miss Baumer will take an extended
vacation to Canada Ted Bates is
the agency on the 'Courage' show.

Ft Monmouth Remote On
WMCA, Under D'Airtega

WMCA. New York, will ftick up
a performance of 'the N. J. WPA
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by lyArtega, from Fort
Monmouth, N. J., March 73. M.c.'d
by Bob Ripley, of 'Believe-It-or.-Not,
the program will ride wires paid for
by the station, It's the first of a
series the outlet expects to broadcast.

There's a second show, also to be
conducted by D'Artega, on March 30
from Fort Dlx, N. J., and others lui-
der different conductors will follow.
Show will air 9-9:30 pjn .

Lou Cowan's Quia Kids' broad-
cast on Alka-Seltzer this week (18)
-will originate to Minneapolis, before
the W«oten'a Institute.

wheahesco.
reshuffling

Oeaaral Mills made a reibuSle of
Ito natwoik sohedule, effective yes-
terday d^iesday). Changes move
'B^mfls of All Churohes' and 'Betty
Crocker' from CBS to. NBC-Red,
nrlth 'Valiant Lady' movtog over
from the latter network to fill the
Columbia spot.

Under the revised Itoeup,' 'Stories
America Loves' moves soon to 10-
10:15 a.m. on CBS, with 'Valiant
Lady' followtog It at 10:15-10:30 ajtn.
across the board.* Schedule on NBC-
Red also brings a new setup of shows
to the General Mills afternoon hour
block, as follows: 'Light of the
World' at 2-2:15, 'Arnold Grlm's
Daughter' at 2:19-2:30, 'Guiding
Light' at 2:30-2-.45 and 'Hymns of All
Churches' (and 'Betty Crocker") at
2:45-3. 'Stories America Loves,'
'Gniding Light,' 'Valiant Lady' and
'Hymns' (with 'Betty Crodrer') are
handled by the Knox Reeves agency.
"Light of the World' and 'Arnold
Grim's Daughters' are handled by
Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Chicago.

Reason for moving *Va1iant Lady
from the NBC-Red hour to the
morning spot on CBS is to strengthen
the General Mills momtog half-hour,
as well as to break up the solid
Imeup of dramatic shows in the hour
afternoon block on NBC-Red. The
account ultimately totends to extend
the present morning half-hour off
Columbia to a full hour.

'Myrt and Marge,' now occupying
the 10:15-10:30 a.m. spot on CBS,
goes off March 27, when 'Stories
America liOves' moves back to re-
place It . Ksox Reeves agency also
hopes before long to take over an
additional 15 mtoutes, givtog it a
solid-hour morning block.

Beginning April 2, General Mills,
through B. B. D. Sc O., starts an.to-
stitutional show twice-weekly at
9:45 a.m. for the Red Cross. Kath-
arine Seymour, who recently re-
signed as 'Light of thie World'
scripter, will write it . '

SEIPMAWM JOINS OFF

Harvard BadIo Haa Among Those
Joining Maekiclah Agency

Charles A. Selpman has left Har-
vard University where he was spe-
cial radio aide to the president to
joto the Office of Facta and Figures,
the MacLelsh organization. Seipman,
long an executive of the British
Broadcasttog Corp^ has been at
Harvard for three years. He was
leaving there to any event next
December. The government agency
opentog hastened departure.

Alvln M. ^osephy, Jr, .assistant
news and qiedal 'events director' of
WOB, New York; la another resign-
ing to join the radio staff of .the
Office of nicts and Figures.
FraakWllson to OFF

Frank Wilson, 'writer and program
supervisor 'with Lord & Thomas, re-
signs this week to Joto the radio
staff of the (^ice of Facts and Fig-
ures.

He has recently worked on the
Kay Kyser series.

QUITS $40,000 SPIEL
FOR OFF COAST JOB

Paul Douglas has resigned as an-
nouncer of the Fred Wartog and
Glenn Mill^ shows for Chesterfield
clgarets and 'will take a Ck>ast job
with the Office of F!acts and Figures.
In doing so be gives up one of the
more lucratlvai announctog assign-
ments, believed to pay nearly $40,-
000 a year.

BUI Bivans, announcer of the "Vox
Pop' program for Bromo-Selt2er,
takes over the Waring diow Mon-
day (23) and will add the Miller
stanza when it returns from the
Coast, whera the bandleader is cur-
rently making a -picture.

Its pretty well in the open by now
that an attempt Is under way to ease
out Neville Miller as paid president
of the National Assoclatloit-of Broad-
casters, The exit will occur during
or shortly after the Cleveland coh-
'ventloD, accordtog to the trade poll-
ticlana,. Meanwhile It's reported that
friends of Miller and Miller himself
wiU fight . the issue. ' John Sheperd
is reported to aspire to a stop-gap
occupancy of the NA.B. job. This
would tie to with his chairmanship
of the Broadcasters Victory Coun-
cil and would be .« further gesture
presumably calculated to please
Chairman James Fly of the Fed-
eral Communications Commission.

The campaign against Miller is fed
"from a number of causes of dissatis-
faction but its chief fertilizer is the
now-famous St. Louis , convention of
last sprtog when I^Uer 'insulted'
Fly and the whole 'antl-monoply' is-
sue got a little too well aired In the
press. ^

Miller's friends apparently resent
as luifalr the penalizing of the paid
president for carrytog out instruc-
tions.' Critics reply that Miller was
first and last handsomely compen-
sated for his N.A.B. work and will
be given heartbahn on his contract
that runs to 1044 so that there is no
occasion to develop a "persecution'
slant

Tkdge for Victory'

Seattle, March 17.

KOL is. broadcasting a number of
flve-mtouta programs plugging the
'Americans Pledge for Victory' cam-
paign of the Seattle Betall Sales and
Advertistog Club. Campaign got un-
derway on Sunday, March 15, with
a program, aired over the Washington
state 'Victory Network,' which in-
cludes all radio stations to the state.

In addition to the flve-mtoute pro-
grams KOL is using dally spot an-
ribuncements to fu.rther the campaign.

Blue Wants To Cut 'Binding Tradition '
By Taking Sustainers From Admen

The Blue Network's latest move
to get away from the '^ lading tradl-
tlonzT of network operation entails
the purchase of program production
service from advertistog agencies as
well as freelance producers, to the
case ot agencies the network pro-
poses to schedule on a sustatotog
basis programs obtained from that
source with the hope that after the
series has had an ample buUdup the
agency involved 'will toduce one o(

its accounts to assume the time and
program obligations.

One such ' 'outside* proposition
under consideration is the projected
'Chaplam Jim, U.S.A.' serial. The
Army has asked Frank Hummert, of
Blackett-Sample-Hummert, and his
-wife, Anne Ashenfaurst, to produce
the series with the understanding
that it will be carried on the Blue's
daytime schedule. The production
and other details of the serial would
be administered by Air Features,
Inc., on m cnflo bads .and the Blue

would pay the cast, director and
writer bills.

The q>ot suggested for the 'Chap-
lato Jim' serial U 10:45-11 ajn., or
just preceding the hour which, start-
ing this Monday (23), will house the
B-S-H agency's four Sterltog Prod-
ucts, shows:

Cued by the U.S. Army radio di-
vision, the series will be aimed at
housewives to prepare them as
mothers, 'Wives and sitters for the
grlnfraer outlook of conflict.

NAB.HOPESFOR
PRESENCE OF
FLY

Cleveland, March 18.
Preliminary discussions for the an-
nual National Association of Broad-
casters oonventloa to be hdd here

May 11 to 14 -were held when Secre-
tary C.' E, Amery was to town last
week vlsittog stations. Hotel Statler
has been designated as official head-
quarters and more than 1,000 radio
men are expected.

Mrs. Walter V. Magee, president of
the Radio Council of Cleveland and
Dorothy Lewis of New York are
planntog to bring women toto the
N.AB. convention discussions for the
first time, Mrs. Magee wUl leave on
a business trip to the Ea^t'to line up
speakers for the women's confer-
ences.

Sight-seeing excursions, a golf
tournament fl"i1 m ^jf^nar being
planned for the entertatoment side.
It is hoped that James L. Fly, chair-
man of the Federal Communications
Commission, wlU be one of the
speaken.

Jrving Strouse Heads
WINS Program Dept.

Irving Strouse, radio writer-pro-
ducer and former press agent has
been appointed p rodu ction and pro-
gram director of WINS, Hearst sta-
tion In New York. He authored and
directed the Invisible llieatre'
series over the station last season.

Robert L. Cotton, whom Strousr
suc ce e ds , has no Immediate pl^p^. .

'

Trade Surprised to Discover How
Many Wotten Listen After Midn^t
Under War Labor Conditions

-Mail puUlnK accounts have become
quite BcUva in buylns time on ata-
tioiu that operate between midnight
and 6 a.m. What faais surprised this
type of advertiser Is the large per-
centage of women who are up at
these hours, i>artl«ularlT, In the war
production areas. They are either
waiting for their husbands or sons
to come ofl the late shift or busy
preparing the luoch-pail - for man
about to leave for the lobster (early
nm.) shift

Among the accounts that are buy-
ing into these all-hlght broadcasts
ere the Knitters Guide, Consoli-
dated Drugs, Sun-Ray: Vitamin, Hie
Airplane Spotters Guide and Amer-
ican Schools (vocational courses).

BENDIXWEIGHS
INSnTimONAL
PROGRAM

Bendix Corp. is listening to the
idea for a half-hour program which
has been developed by the Buchanan
agency. The intent would be strictly
Institutional.

In between orchestral and vocal
numbers the show would treat in
dramatized fashion the heroic ex-
ploits of Americans in the present
war. .

YANKEE WEB OPENS
NEW STUDIOS FRIDAY

Boston, March 17.

The Yankee Networic formally
.opens its six new studios here this
Friday (20). They will be used
mainly by WNAC, since other Bos-
ton outlet, WAAB, moves to Wor-
cester in June.

Special feature Is the three-story
high studio built to house the new
AeoUan-Sklnner organ.

Mutual wlU salute Yankee from
8:30 to 9 p.m. opening night, wlille
the letter's stafl will take over for
a half hour at 11:30 p.m.

Paterson's Newark Branch

Paterson^ N. J., March 17.
Local station WP AT opened new
offices and. studios tliis week in New-
ark but retains its main offices and
studios here. New facilities will be
used chiefly for sales and a few spe-
cial events programs.

Henry L. Miller, formerly with
WDWS, Urbana, m., has been named
program director of WPAT, succeed-
tog Milton Bernard K^e. I^ester B.
Gerken, formerly, salesman .-with
WAAT. Jersey City, has Joined
WPAT ai director of sales in New-
ark and New York. Tobias B. Flint,
formerly with WPEN, Philadelphia,
and WEVD, flew York, and WiUiam
Stanford, new to radio, have Joined
the sales stafl for the same terri-
tories. MUton Flamm remains in
Charge of national sales in New
*ork, while John E. Pearson, of Chi-

, jago, becomes national sales rep for

. 'he midwest

'<!»^^,.""«''«"'" 'Brief Case' and
weamUned Journal' exchanged on
vi * schedule for new series 'Meet
^j^Nelghbors' to hit M-W-F af-

Bert Wheeler to CBS

Old Gold cigar'ets (LoriUarcb is
switching its. Bert Wheeler half -hour
show from the Bliie -Network to CO'
lumbla April 29. It will be the Wed.
nesday, 8 to 8:30 pan. period.

The final broadcast of the series
on the Blue wlU be April 24.

AJ^JH for Second Time
Yanks Dance Remotes
Because of Cisler

American Federation of Musicians
pulled the sustaining dance bands
from Mutual Monday night (16) bs
the result of a renewed tiil between
Steve Cisler, of WGRC, Louisville,
and the Louisville musicitms local.
It is only a few months ago thai
Cisler's tangle with the union was
responsible for remote dance units
being barred from Mutual for over
a week. Issue this time has to do
with the union's demands that CiS'
ler employ more stafl men.

Fred Weber, Mutual general map.
ager, yesterday. (Tuesday) advised
James C. PetriUo, AFM prez, that he
(Weber) would readily take a trip
to tiOulsviUe if an AFM rep were
assigned to participate with him as
concUiators in the dispute.

ORSON WELLES TO TELL
OF BRAZILIAN JUNGLE

Rio de Janeiro, March 10.

Among the series of broadcasts
being made by Orson WeUes from
Lsitln America, one will have as a
theme the jungle-surrounded city of
Manaos, on the upper Amazon river,
whereto Welles departed this week.

The broadcast win be directly
from Manaos and will deal with the
mode of life of its inhabitants, to-
gether with a description of the Bra-
zilian hinterland.

Rishworth, Max Jordan
SiNsak at ^War Gmt

. Dallas, March 17.
' One of a series of nationwide ra-
dio 'war clinics' dealing with 1942
network plans will be held by Na-
tional Broadcasting Co. executives
htre March 23-24. NBC staff mem-
bers and affiliates will attend.

Thomas D. Rishworth, director of
public service programs for • NBC,
win lead discussions on effects of
,wBr. on broadcasting, program sales,
public relations and giving govern-
ment agencies the most efficient co-
operation. '

Max Jordan, former chief of NBC
European staff, wiU also speak.

BILL NEWELL TO KOMO

Vanconver Man DIscIiareed From
Air Force on Injnry

Vancouver, March 17.

Bill Newell, former radio director
and chief news announcer of .the
Vancouver Sun, has been appointed
to the news announcing staff of
Komo-KJR, Seattle, effective Mon-
day, March 23. Newell, a native of
San Francisco ,has been serving with
the Royal Canadian air force with
the rank of flying officer, but was
recently discharged because of an
Injury, he left his radio job at the
Sun to enlist, returning to the news-
paper after his discharge.

He has been announcing news and
special events In Vancouver for the
past 10 yi^ars and also had charge of
the Sun radio page.

WARCUES NBC'S

More Intelligent Uae of
Available Time Needed

- Because of Wartime De-
mands — ^Religious Policies
of NiBtwork Broadened,
New Groups Recognized^ —
Youth Activities. Stepped
Up

Sponsor HeldJJable for Security
Taxes on Musicians Engaged
As Pari of Package Programs

UNITED NATIONS' CHOIR

By BOBEBT J. LANDBT'

The NBC program department in
New York is now reorganizing its
'public interest' schedule, to confoiin
withMwo new realities: (a) the war
and (b) NBC's own recent 'sepa^
ration' from the Blue network.
Changes are anticipated in several,
directions, notably among youth pro-
grams, religious programs and ediir
cational programs. Wartime empha-
sis will be given prior - over every-
thing else. In particular Clarence
Menser and his colleagues want to.
anticipate U. S.. morale needs and
have tibe network exercise the
initiative and leadership in its own
name and as evidence of private
management's determination to__do
aU, and more than all, the Govern-
ment wants done.

Thomas Rishworth Is now in
charge of the public interest pro-
grams (the job' the late Walter' G,
Preston, Jr., flUed) and he has just
returned from a swing around the
nation. NBC is tentatively dedicated
for the Immediate future to. tiie fol-
lowing sequence of themes for
public interest programs:
Health
Home
Music
Z/iterature
' Religion

Juvenile Deltnquencv
■ Agriculture
Youth in Wartima
Pacific War Batin
Science

News Roimdfablet ■
Not 'all of the new proposals have
been endorsed and not all the details
of those programs that have been
sanctioned Have been worked out
But the '#ar with Its new- demands
and pointa of view is expected to
make a rapid overhauling of the
whole schedule probable.

Program for Tenth
Among the expected programs Is
one devoted to yount citizens from
14 to 21 years of age whose attitude
toward the war, and participation
therein, will be treated. Ezra Stone
is in prospect ais emcee of this show
to be entitled 'Young America, Let's
Go.' Gilbert Harrison, previously
familiar to and with organizational
radio programs, is now with the
Ofice of Civilian Defense which will
cooperate. Quotations taken from
the actual mail received by Presi-
dent Roosevelt from children will
b' incorporated as part of the pro-
gram. Such writers as Booth Tar-
klngton. Moss Hart, Paiil Green,
Stephen Vinctnt Benet, John Stein-
beck, Lillian Hellman, have agreed
to contribute interludes.

Other projects of the NBC public
interest planners include:

Bellciooii maslo program, probably
Sunday afternoon, including an NBC
house orchestra under Frank Black
and picking up church choirs ex-
tensively throughout ■ the U. S. A.
and also skipping to the cathedrals
and churches of o^er United
Nations.

A What-we're-Cp-Acsinat-In-the-
Orlent series to be presided over by
Upton Close and to include plckrups
from Asiatic points and Asiatic
spokesmen, possibly such figures as
Mme. Kai-Shek, Nebru of India, etc.
Bellgloni. Policy
NBC will broaden out ita coopera-
tive lines in the Jewish and Protes-
tant fields. The Blue network hav-
incT taken over the long-established
'Message of Israel! series NBC has
made contact with a new pre-

Pat HiU's Injury

Buffalo, March 17.

Broken kneecap suffered In auto
smashup will keep announcer Pat
Hill away from WBEN mikes for a
month or so.

Technician Gil Hoffman, who was
with Hill, was slightly hurt but is
already back at his control panels.

Foreign Language Radio
Usefol; Fly Declares,
But Must Be Careful

James L. Fly, chairman of the
FCC, during the question-answer
period which followed the discus,
slon on 'Free Speech and Censor,
ship in War-Time,' on Theodore
Granik's American Forum of ' the
Air, over Mutual, declared that while
foreign language broadcasts emanat
ing from stations in this, country are
and must be 'carefully checked,' he
was 'opposed to banning them.' Hie
FCC head said ' foreign-language
broadcasta are useful In carrying to
a segment of the population mes-
sages on defense-bond purchasing,
enlistments, etc.

People are familiar with foreign
languages are apt on tuning in, said
Fly, to hear names like Hitler and
Mussolini and to assume erroneously
that the broadcaster is whooping it
up for the dictators. Actually, said
Fly, he is teUing listeners that Hitler
and Mussolini must be defeated, that
they endanger our existence and way
of life. Fly. continued: 'All these
stations are owned and operated by
American citizens, 'prq>ared to do
well a difflciilt duty.'

LOUIS DEAN JOINS
ROCKEFELLER OFHCE

Louis Dean, formerly radio direc-
tor for the Arthur Kudner agency,
has joined the radio division of the
Rockefeller Committee on Latin-
American Relations.

Dean's connection prior to Kudner
was the Campbell-ESwald agency.

Cli£F Pease's Asiatic T<mrg
Provide Him with a Job

Seattle, March 17,
Clifl Pease, foroterly in the pub-
licity department at KOMO-KJB,
is noV handling ■ newscaster's itint
on KJR. Pease, who formerly di-
rected tours through Japan, China
and the Far East has knowledge that
makes him a natural for a news spot
at this time.

He replaces Bob Ferria, who has'
been Inducted "ll^to the Army.

vlously unrecognized group, the
Synagogue Council of America. The
former monopoly of Protestant r^dio
program clearance long enjoyed by
the Federal Council of Churches of
Christ will be modified with a new
co-si>onsorshlp Sunday- school series
with the International Council of
Religious Education.

Wartime morale programs ore
making such demands upon NBC
free time that the whole distribution
of opportunities has to be -re-
examined. C>ne program that is be-
ing cancelled as of March 28 is 'Call
tq Youth' which has been 'sponsored'
in four-months intervals respectively
by Jews, CathoUcs an*; Protestanta.
Meantime the Oflice of Facts and
Figures in Washington, which Is at-
tempting to organize and coordinate
Government agency use of the air,
has rul^d that the Smithsonian
Museum's program. The World- Is
Yours' can well be given a rain-
check for the duration.-

Advertisers will- have to assume
the obligation for social security tax
payments in the case of musicians
who.' are part of a program- which
has been bought on a package^rbasia,
according to ^ ruling issued by the
American Federation . of Musicians.
The. union's national executive board
will not enforce, .this jegulation on
package shows .iinder contract, but
all such agreements as far as they
affect musicians, must In the . future
be made oh the AF^s 'Form B . con-
tract.

The AFM's board wants the adver>
tisers or Ita agency to . be consld«
ered the employer of the leader and
his sldemen and not the producer
who furnishes the program so that
the mtislclans will have securer, pro*
tection on the payment of .the tdxes.
The Form B contract lista the sala-
ries, of all the men in' a musical
unit^ and stipulates that the employer
will be responsible for the payment
of the band's social security taxes.
Pro-ams of the package- type in-
clude The Fitch Bandwagon, The
Treasure Gheist (Horace Heidt) and
Coca Cola's Band Spotlight.

NEWS ANALYSTS'
OWNASS'N
FORMED

Oroup of aauM new< commetata-
tors in New York ionned . their owm
organization lost week, ibe Aiio< ot
Radio Newa Analysts. Memberihi]^
1* restricted to those who prepare
their, own broadcasts u wcU as d(«
liver them, and who do not reai
oommerclal annoxmtjemcnts,' .'

At the organization meeting Trh
day (18) at the Harvard Club, A
V. Koltenbora was elected pres*
Ident; JUymond Oram Swing and '
Ilmtr Davis, vlcf-presldents, ani
Quincy Bowe, oictetary-freasuren
Ainu of tte group, are to 'eo«p«
Wate mora ofroctivebr In the United
Natlona' war and aventuol peace cfk
forts to adtleva Intantatlonal undcr»
otandlng; to aitablUh and maintain
a oode ol ethlca whldi' shall goveri
their professional conduct; and for
other purpoaei irtilcb will advanci
tbetr profeaalonal welfare and im»
prove the , atandarda ef analytical
news broadcastliic.'

GUNTHER BREW USING
WFBR, WOL FOR aUIZ

Baltimore, March 17.

The Gunther Brewing Co. hat
changed the station hookup and tima
for ita 'Quiz of Two Cities.' The ste -
tion connection has been WFBd,
Baltimore, and WMAL, Washington.
WMAL Is being replaced by WOU
Washington, so that the program will
now be confined to two Mutual af-
filiates. H: E. Hudgins Agency
handled account ^

The time move la from. Friday T
p.m. to Wednesday 8:'i30 pan, effec-
tive tomorrow (18).

WJSV Expands.Newsers;
Ann Gillis Returng

Washington, March 17.

Station WJSV, local afllllate of
CBS, has considerably expanded Ita
news and special eventa depart-
ments. Paul Glynn, of the news and
special events statT, has be«n tipped
to assistant in the department

Ann GIlUs,. department chief, har
returned from a two-montb vaca-
tion.

S3

RADIO

Five Brazifian hess-Propaganda
Experts to Live for Year in U.S.

Five Important members of the
prazilian Department of Press and
Propaganda 03.1^., to use the Por-
tuffuese initJala) have c6me' to the
United States to spend at least a
year here accompanied by their
families. They are the guests of, and
will cooperate with, the Nelson
Rockefeller offlca of Inter-American
Cultural relations. Party, arrived by
clipper in two sections. . Included
•re:

Dr. Assls da Fieneirdldo, who is
assistant director (No. 2 man) of the
D.I.P., accompanied by wife.

Dr. Julio Bsiata, director of broad-
casting for DJ.P., who visited the
United States last spring and at-
teniiih the National Association of
Broadcasters convention in St Loius.
He brings his wife and two children.

Dr. Ramnnde Magalhaes, assistant
to the director of D.IP., who brings
kl" wife.

Dr. Orlgenea Ltas*, writer, wife
and child.

Dr. Pampen dl Saw*, editorial
writer of Le Nolte, Rio de Janeiro,
and Senora dl Sauza.

Party will take up resldenca in
New York City to consult with- the
Rockefeller committee regularly.

•THIS IS WAR'
RATES 20.7 IN

CA.B.

Initial rating given This Is War,"
th% Government-commanded, indus-
try-produced oym half-hour pro-
gram, by the Co-Operatlv* Analysis
of Broadcasting, is 20.7. The rating
' embraces the second and fourth in'
(taUments, Feb. 21 and March 7, of
ihe series. The program is carried
on all cross-country networks and Is
made available to all independent
stations. *

The rating is practically the same
for all sets in operation at that Sat-
urday period (7 pm EWT) and rep
resents hardly any Increase over the
sets found in operation of a Satur-
day evening in January.

C.A.B. rating is slightly lower than
surveys privately made for the Of
flee of Facts and Figures and is re-
garded as not too good for a show
with four networks, or a practical
monopoly of the air.

Farm Talks Oct 49
President Roosevelt, with Vice
President Wallace and Secretary of
Agriculture Wickard, speaking
March 9 on a special farm bureau
program, drew an audience of 49%
according to the Cooperative Anal-
ysis of Broadcasting.

Program was heard at 9:45 p.m.
on the four major networks.

A Coi&ic't Dream

Average radio comedian has a
new height for his ambition.

It's to have a staff of nine
writers, like Bob Hop*.

W6IG. Going 10 Kw.,
Gets Philly BasebaU^
From Atlantic, Wheaties

Philadelphia, March 17.
WIBG, which goes from 1,000 to
10,000 watts soon, will broadcast all
the home games of the Phils and
Athletics this season. First time out^
let has been given a shot at this
sports program.

WIBG, which up to now has been
classed as a 'minor station,' was
awarded the gam* broadcasts after
WIP informed Atlantic Reflijlng and
General Mills, co-sponsors of the
games, that It couldn't clear time for
night games becausa of co mme rcial
commitments to Mutual. WIP has
had exclusive ballgama broadcasting
fo r the past two yeui.

WIBG now only broadcasts on a
daytime schedula but expects to have
Ita new transmitter completed be-
fora the beginning of tha baseball
season next month — at least in time
for the first nigbt gama early hi May.

In additio n to airing tha games in
PhiUy area, WIBO will feed thft show
to the Atlantic Network, consisting
of WGAL. Lancast er; W ORK, York;
WAZL, Hazelton; WEEU, Reading;
WEST, Easton; WSAN, AUentown;
WILM, Wihnlngton, Del., and WFPG,
Atlantic City, N. J.

Byrum Saam, of the WIP announc
Ing staff, has been selected to handle
tha play-by-play, with Taylor Grant,
free lancer (formerly WCAU staffer)
taking care of color and commercials,

McLain, Allen Anthony
Move with t Q. Show

Chicago, Maidt 17.

Jimmy McLaIn, and not Lew Val-
entine, will be the mx. and qulner
on ttia Dr. I. Q.' show for Vlck^ Just
as he has been for Mars Candy,
when the show switches sponsorship
on April 6. And Allen Anthony will
continue as commeiclal anaotfficer
on the show for the Grant agency
which continues to handle the show
for Vlcks.

Valentine has no longer any con-
nection with the show or with the
Grant agency since he was replaced
last year by McLain.

Time period will be switched to
9:30-10 p.m. KWT Mondays on the
NBC Red Instead of 9-:9;30.

Despite switch of sponsorship of
tha 'Dr. I. Q.'. program, there will
not be any change In the Mars ac-
count The Grant agency here con-
tinuea to handle the Mart adver-
tising and Is readying a new type of
program and advertising set-up for
the' candy account

We&Mdtjr, March 18, 1942

War Pirodoctkn Board Sil^ for
IHcGee' Becomes l-Tm 4-Networker

WHEATIES-MOBILGAS
SPONSORING INDIANS

LICENSED BY FOX

MacGregor ti SoUle an(

Pay $10 Per Master

Cleveland, March 17.

General Mills (Wheaties) and
Socony (MobUgas) Vacuum OU Co.
are set to sponsor the Cleveland In-
dians basetmll games this season over
WHK-WCLE. Jack Graney and
Pinky Hunter will take the mike on
opening day, April 14,. recreating
play from Detroit First home game
is April 17.

General Mills is expected to make
its commercial plugs shorter and
with a humorous slant.

With none of the three Cleveland
papers sending their baseball writers
south to cover the Indians, both
WHK and WGAR have the aeld to
themselves. WGAR recently sent Its
sportcaster Bob Kelley south to com-
pete- with Graney and Hunter, who
have had complete radio control of
spring baseball for the past three
years.

Some, Not Enough,
Interest in Treas.
Sponsor 'Balloon

Washington, March 17.

Wh'Ue Initial response was en-
couraging, the Treasury Department
has made no concrete moves so far
to arrange for bond-plugging pro-
grams that could be locally spon-
sored. Not enough evidence of in-
terest Is seen to Justify the ext
pense, while some potent- officials
still dislike the thought of allowhig
commercialism of recordings paid
for by Uncle Sam.

First weekfs mall included 80 to 90
letters, nearly all indicating a de-
sire for new recordings that might
be aired with local advertisers par
tiaUy reimbursing the stations. A
few demurrers were included.

Until it Is evident that enough
broadcasters would try to get home-
town concerns to participate, Vince
Callahan cannot line up talent or
argue with his superiors that the
project should be undertaken. .

In the meantime, Callahan is in-
terested in new ideas for new shows.
Suggestions from any program di-
rectors will be welcome.'

Costly to Bergen

It costs. Idgat iSergen at much
as $2,000 when he broedcasta
his (Hiase tc Sanborn Coffee
show from a training camp;.

fa addltlm to the telephone
line he has the expense of a
couple Pullman cari or air
trai^^rts,

Special Eyents' Heads
Get Radio Execntiyes'
Awards for Radio News

The Radio Executives Club, New
York luncheon group, is making its
first awards for 'outstanding con-
tributions in distinguishing the
American System of Broadcasting* at
today's (Wednesday ) meeting.
Plaques are being given for foreign
news coverage in triplicate to:

Abe Schechter, NBC.

Paul White, CBS.

Adolph Opfinger, Mutual.

Awards are result of a special
committee's deliberations plus a vote
of the 250-odd members of the Club
of which John Hymes of Lord &
Thomas is incumbent president.

Today's session also has the Mu-
tual team of Joe Laurie, Hariy
Hershfield and Senator Ford pitted
against admen in a stunt replica of
'Can You Top This?'

Death of a parent forced Marion
and Jim Jordan's 'Fibster McGee and
ICoBy* oft ttw NBC network latt
night (Tueadajr). Tb«. time being
avaUeble the . Needham, Iiouls &
Broby, agency tax 'Johnson's - Wax,
offered it gratl* to the War Produc-
tion Board'* radio divlsioii which
quickly put together a special one-
time program to cidmlnate with a
talk by Donald NelsMi. the get-it-
done expert of this War.

Program snowballed from a single
substitute on NBC alone into a four-
network proposition. CBS cleared,
(Toca-Cdla . stepi>ed aside , on Mutual
and finally the Blue made arrange-
ments.

William N. Robson and Dorothea
Lewis wrote the script, Robson di-
rected. liOtter .devotes halt of each
week on leave from Lennen & Mit-
chell with the War Production Board
radio section under Bemle Schoen-
feld.

TED TAYLOR EXEC SECY
OF VICTORY COUNCIL

MacGregor Se Sollie and Standard
Radio have signatured new licensbig
contracts for their recorded radlc
program libraries with Harry Fox,
agent and trustee. The music fee Is
$10 per master.

C!ontract Is for a year and all other
eonditions are the same aa contained
In tha old agreement

Ben Kagan Joint WPB

Washington, March 17.

Radio department of the War Pro
duction Board, recently moved over
from the Office of Emergency Man-
agement, is being expanded and en-
larged. Number of programs will
be added and the staff enlarged.

Ben Kagan, with a New York
agency background, was hired last
week to the staff by Bernard C.
Schoenfeld. '

Gab-Conditioned 11 AJt.
Audience on Bine Chain
Awaits Sterling Products

The Blue Network will spot a cou-
ple of serials, 'Into the Light' and
'Aggie Horn' at 10:30 to 11 a.m. dur-
ing the week with a view of- having
a dialog-minded, audience at hand
when the group of Sterling Products
serials take to the air, which Is be-
tween 11 a.m. and noon. Affiliated
stations will be asked to co-operate
with the network In this effort

The four Sterling serials are 'Or-
phans of Divorce,' 'Honeymoon Hill,'
'John's Other Wife' and 'Just Plain
BlU.' The switch of the latter from
the 3-4 p.m. span to the earlier pe-
riod becomes effective this Mon-
day (23).

San Antonio, March 17.

O. L. (Ted) Taylor, president of
the Sunshine Broadcasting Co.,
which operates station KTSA here,
has )}een appointed executive , secre-
tary of the Broadcasters Victory
Council. .'Taylor will leave at once
for Washington to take his post as
one of the many dollar-a-year men.

Taylor at the present time is ac-
tive manager of station KGNC,
Amarillo, a post he took over in
1934. He is also president of the
Texas Broadcasters Association
member of the Board of the National
Association of Broadcasters and of
the executive committee and is
president of the three companies
which operate four Texas radio sta-
tions, KTSA, here; KGNC, Amaril-
lo; KRGV, Weslaco, and KFYO,
Lubbock.

Taylor's work will be coordinating
radio activities between broadcast-
ers and governmental agencies and
departments, with special emphasis
on the'Offlce of Facts and Figures,
Accordingly, much of the responsi-
bility for streamlining of the broad-
casters part in the war effort will
fall to him as' liaison officer.

ALL BUT SIX
AFFOJATESOK
BLUE

The Blue Network now has con-
tracts with aU but six of its affili-
ated stations. .As part of the di-
vorcement plan affiliates were asked
to transfer their contracts from
NBC to the Blue and the holdouts
on this score consist of WMPS,
Memphis; WMRC, Greenville, S. C;
KLO, Ogden, and John Shepard's
Boston and Bridgeport outlets,
WNAC and WICC, respectively,
woe, Des Moines, also has not
signed with the Blue, holding to a
policy that it maUitained toward
NBC for years. WHK, Cleveland,
has tied up with the Blue only imtil
September, when it Is slated to go
Mutual.

Shepard breaks with NBC and
the Blue June 16, and his tenUtive
commitment beyond that date Is with
Mutual.

'ELLERY QUEEN' OFF JULY 4

May Have New Time Upon Belnrn
in October

Aug. 1 Deadline on Joint Discount
For Accounts Using NBC and Blue

Advertisers who have programs on
both the Blue and NBC will not be
entitled to a joint dollar volume dis-'
aount after Aug. 1, 1942. ThI* dis-
eount has. to do with ttte amount of
bluings that an account accumu-
lates during the week. The elim-
ination of the Joint discount la part
of the divorcement move. After
Aug. 1 an advertiser will figure his
weekly dollar discounts, which range
from 2Vt% to ia%%, on the basis
of the business he has on each net-
work.

Blue network clients have been

given to understand t^t where their
hookups include NBC itatloni tha
money discount IrUl remain un-
changed. The bUllngv for the NBC
outlets will be oomblned with the
billings for the Blue stations and
the dollar volume discounts prevail-
ing for the Blue wQl ha apjpUed to
the total. The onhr exception to
this arrangement will be when the
NBC station* are used between 8
p.m. and 10 p.m. In that event the
quantity discount will be reduced by
6%.

'Ellery Queen' program will prob-
a1 ly take a summer hiatus after the
July 4 broadcast. When it returns
October 11 it may or may not have
it. present spot at 7:30-8 pjn. Satur-
days on NBC-Red (WEAF). ' One
reason for moving would be the
complicated setup necessitated by
the present repeat broadcast at 12:30
Thursday night,

Fmmerson Drug (Bromo-Seltzer)
last week renewed 'Quean' for an
additional 13 weeks, effective April
11. Ruthrauff & Ryan is the
agency. Carleton Young and Marian
Stockley play the leads on the show,

Stella Reynolds on Leave
To Become a Mother

Stella Reynolds has resigned as
author of 'Amanda of Honeymoon
HiU,' effective with the Friday (20)
chapter. She Is going to have a
baby. She is the wife of Arnijld
Moss; legit and radio actor. Eliza-
beth Todd, Blue network staff
writer, takes over the 'Amanda'
scripting with the Monday (23)
broadcast

Program is the Blue for Phillips
magnesia and Haley's M-0.

Don Norman Sponsored

New daily series on Mutual,
'Your Date with Don Norman,' will
be locally sponsored' beginning
March 80 on WOR, New York, and
WGN, Chicago. Account Is Andy
liOtshaw & Co.

Arthur Meyerhoff, Chicago, It the
agency.

B. GROVES RADIO HEAD
OF DUANE JONES AGCY.

Brent Groves has been named
media and radio director of the
newly organized Duane Jones adver-
tising agency!, .Groves comes from
Maxon, Inc, Before that he, was
with, Blackett-Sample-Hummert in
Chicago.

The Jones agency's account heads
include Eugene Hulshizer (Mueller
Products), and Paul A. Werner
(Benson & Hedges), C. Frederic Bell
(Hecker cereals). Henry TurnbaU
will head the staff as assistant to
.Tones.

Biggar Heads Union

Cincinnati, March 17.

George C. Biggar, WLW program
director, was elected president last
week of • the Crosley Employees'
Credit Union, third largest organlza-
Uon of its kind in Ohio.

He succeeds Eldon Park, former
WLW assistant sale manager and
now a sales rapresentati-^e in the
station's New York office.

CBS Uneasy Under NBC Jabbings;
Promotional Counter-Blasts Due

As soon aa it has engaged a new
sales promotion director the Colum-
bia Broadcasting System will con-
centrate Its promotion efforts In the
direction of counteracting some of
the hard promotional jabs that It has
had to take recently from NBC. This
barrage had had quite a disturbing
effect on CBS and the higher-ups hi
that network feel it Is time that thev
go (bma figures out which would
counterbalance NBC'a chest-thump-
ing.

One of NBC's recent promotional
pieces that draw a sharp twinge of
pain at Columbia concerned the fact
that various program popularity
polls showed that NBC had an al-
most monopolistic control of the
night-thne topllners. NBC, it was
noted at CBS, adroitly emphasized
the half-hour angle. The CBS
counter-exploitation will, it is under-
stood, not only make capital of the
network's full-hour program leaders,
but play up its listening status on
the daytime schedule.

VedneBday. March 18, 1942 . l^filEfY RADIO

WELCOME MAT FOR AOORS

UNKNOWNS HAVE
CHANGE AT Y O

Seasonal Dip Earlier This Spring

C.A.B. Charts Fred Allen at 23.8 for First Sunday
—Walter Winchell Down 2.1 Points

jVery Few Advertising Agen-
cies Do Mord Than File
Name and Address But
Young & Rubicam Is De-
veloping a Patient, Sym-
pathetic System of Gen-
eral Auditions

DIRECTORS HELP

Young fit Rubicam in New York
ha been giving much emphasis in
recent months to that much-deplored,
little-attacked trade problem — hew
program directors and new actors
can get to know aboi . each other.
For years the same comparatively
email group of voices have appeared
and re-appeared on the programs
out of Manhattan principally be-
cause they were 'reliable' -and all
program directors are in a hurry and
demand such reliability from per-
formers — reliability meaning the
producer's own knowledge that so-
andso possessed quick-glance facility
with stock radio characterizations
and dialect requirements. .

Whole question of the New York
agency 'closed door' has long baffled
newcomers. Often actors and ac-
tresses sought ulterior reasons for
f barriers. They gave credence to
idle gossip that graft was passed,
that social and intimate angles ex-
plained favoritism. (Mind you. It
ould be!) More often it was sheer
organizational habit and inertia and
lack of the necessary directorial
time to sift the really talented from
the impossible ones who knocked at
the doors.

While New York radio executives,
have long agreed in theory — and
when relaxing at a shop talk bull
session — that It w'as a pity that new
talent couldn't penetrate the re-
ception desks few directors would,
the next day, mend their own
habitual avoidance of the unfamiliar
■ame.

Novak of Y & B

Bob Novak of Ydung fic Rubicam
has since last September had the as-
signment of infinite tact and patience.
He is stiU. trying to bring the out-
siders and the insiders into gradual
acquaintanceship. In encouraging a
sympathetic policy the agency itself
recognizes the responsibility Inherent
ii. its being the principal produping
organization for big time radio
entertainments.

Y fit ■ R runs 'general auditions'
which Novak ha^ sought to make
self-justifying rather than an empty
curtsey to showmanship. Above all
the idea is to avoid the run-around
system common in most agencies
where the auditioned person be-
comes a mere name and address in a
file that nobody .ever consults, even
lii an emergency.

A former policy o' submitting
complete detailed reports to all
Y fit R producers concerning all
talent, good- or bad, as classified by
general auditions has now been
superseded by a practice of high
selectivity. Once promUing un-
knowns are spotted it becames
Novak's task to get such persons
personally introduced to Y fit R pro-
ducers. For this purposr he moves at
the rate of 10 minutes per producer
per week. In short each producer is
asked to have two flve-minute talks
once weekly with persons he never
niet before or heard of.

Blackett-Sample-Hummert through
its Air Features is the only other
agency that has apparently ever pro-
fessed to emphasize an open door
policy to -new acting talent. Talent
must write for an audition and they
are called indefinitely at the con-
venience of the agency. (The ideal
general audition, from a performer's
standpoint, takes place at a stated
time and place, open to all without
prior appi.intment.) .

William Es^^ agency auditions are

by prearrangement only with 'people
called when they are needed.' J.
Walter Thompson does very little,
since so many of its shows now come
itom. Hollywood,' anyhow. Pedlar fit
Ryan generally discourages callers
by a rebuff, 'no casting is contem-
plated.' B.B.D. fit O. chills strangers.
Lord fit Thomas is said hot to have
held any auditions for a year or
more, '(^uite a long wait' is the only
hint given at RuthrauiT fit Ryan.

Novak keeps a diary for Young fit
Rubicam of audition talent that finds
placements. In other words, of new-
comers to Y fit R who succeed in
crashing the gates. Recently on
some 17 different broadcasts the hew
voices used included Ray Van Sickle,
Lois Wilson, Ck)nnie Elrod, Clifl
Stork, Cecile Roy, Hal Cranton,
Edmonia NoUey, Ed CuUen, Sylvia
Leigh, Helen GeddWTMMeUhe Lee.

H. A. KENT NEW HEAD
LORILLARD (OLD GOLD)

H. A. Kent was promoted last
week from advertising manager to
president of P. Lorillard & Co. (Old
Gold).

Frank Hopewell, the. company's
sales manager, will take over part of
Kent's former duties.

Bankers and Hillbillies

San Antonio, March 17.

The Bankers Casualty Life Insur-
ance Co., will air a series of three
quarter-hour programs per week for
13 weeks over station KABC. Pro-
grams to use Dick Haynes hillbillies.

Accoimts placed by McCabe
agency. " ' ' "

Popularity ratings on both night-
time and daytime network shows
slid off generally for the final week
of February and the first week of
March, according to the latest re-
port of the Co-operative Analysis of
Broadcasting. The figures -indicate
that listening has passed its . mid-
winter seasonal peak somewhat
earlier than usual. The. drop was as
marked in weekday shows as in the
Sunday setup.

-- Frea Allfeh gdf23.8 tot his Initial"

broadcast (8) in the Sunday night
■spot (CBS), while Walter Winchell
(Blue) that same night showed a
loss,, of 2.1. Despite the general
downward budge In ratings, tha
leaders were still well Intrenched.
Following are the latest ratings for
the four top popular programs:'
Fibber McCSee and Molly, 42.8; E^gar
3ergen, .36.7j Jack Benny, 38.9 and
Lux 'Theatre, 34.2. • . - • •

STORE ROOM
FOR RENT

With the whole nation geared to produce for total
war, there is danger that it may create thousands of
new "forgotten men"— the wholesale and retail
dealers who supply the needs of America's con- -
sumers.

As plants are converted to 1 00% war production,
as sources of raw. materials are frozen by govern-
ment priority, it is not surprising that the first .thought
of some manufacturers is to curtail advertising,
conserve resources.

Thus the. dealer— in difficult straits.— throMgh- no
fault of his own— may lose an invaluable aid to
holding the structure of his business together. These
thousands of honest, sincere business men who have
given unstinted cooperation to countless promotions
and special campaigns deserve" a better fate. For,
wartime or peacetime, they can — and do — make
or break any campaign — at the point_of sale.

Meanwhile . . . with restricted automobile travel, the
American small community, suburban and rural, is
due to rehim to its own. Hence the importance of
cementing strong dealer relations is greater even
than in normal times.

To all your dealers, continued adverHsing Is the
strongest possible evidence of your good faith in
helping to protect the investment they have made.
. Your. cPDsisteot schedule, of advettising, reduced
though it may be. Is a constant reminder that you're
seeing them through. ~

And after . . ;

Advertisers who stick, instead of seeking distribu-
tion, will be sought out by the cream of financially-
stable retailers who have weathered the war . . s

And dealers, who in less strenuous times may be'
tempted by tr ionger mwarn- fre« g(>ocb, or dhy
one of a score of merchandising deals ... in lieu
of advertising . . . will, be infinitely harder to lure
from the fold of advertised brands.

WLW

THE NATION'S MOST MERCHANDISE-ABLE STATION

84 RADIO

WedniesdAj, March 18, 1942

From the Pkroduction Centres

liV mW YORK CITY ...

The Radio Trade Is Discussing: The arrival from Brazil of a group
of radio experts and their familiea to spend a year in the VS.A.—the
new Hummert daytime serial for the War Department arid Secretary
Stimson's expected announcement tomorrow (Thursday) of another
big event — the spirit of deep pessimism among radio talent, although
immediate outlook is strictly good and summer at least fair.

Herbert Swope, Jr., former CBSer now in navy, had tumor removed
from arm recently... .Ken Dyke among other NBC officials addressing

special NBC insiders' meeting in Radio City this week Frank Mullen

the keynoter Gilbert Harrison, well known«in radio through the Con-
ference of Jews and Christians, now with Office of Civilian Defense,

Chief worry of the Blue: getting newspaper columnists to spell it BLUE,
although caps are usually reserved for initials ... much joy last week
when the A.P.'s ' radio editor, Charles ButterAeld, compromised with
BLU. . . ,

'The Sheik,' with Edward Trevor and adapted by John Bassett, started
Tuesday (17) as the vehicle on Stories America Loves' for General Mills
on CBS. . . .Howard Teichman no longer scripting the show, but continues

.on "They Live Forever," Columbia's Sunday night propagarda series

Sam Kaufman has joined the NBC press department as editor of the com-
pany's' house organ. Transmitter. ...Publication was formerly written and

edited by the pageboy staff Alan Hale, who handled the Cubs and White

Sox baseball games last summer, will assist Red Barber on the Brooklyn
Dodger broadcasts over WHN this season. . . .With priorities cutting down
the supply of. paper clips, NBC ha^ nolifled agencies to fasten scripts to-
gether with staples. .

Charles Paul, the radio organist, has bought a place at Summit, N. J

Elizabeth Todd has authored a new evening half -hour series, The Thatcher
Family,' depicting living conditions in the U. S. after a hypothetical Axis

victory NBC is seeking a sponsor for it. . . .Charles Henry, assistant

program director at Young & Rubicam, goes into the navy this week. . . :
Francis Van Hartesveldt, director of the 'Aldrich Family,' an expectant
father. . . .Connie Ernst resigned trcm the Treasury Department staff pro-
ducing the Fredric March recorded series and joined the Coordinator of
Information office to do a transcribed series for shortwave? ;

Todd Russell, who does commercials for Procter & Gamble shows via
CFRB, Toronto, subs this week for Richard Stark as announcer on three
P. & G. serials, 'Against the Storm,' 'Life Can Be Beautiful' and 'The

O'Neills' He's in New York for the assignment McCann-Ericksofi's

two network shows, 'Dr. Christian' and 'Death Valley Days,' will stay
en the air over the summer.... Ed Gardner, scheduled to guest Saturday
sight (14) as kibitzer-sleuth on the 'Ellery Queen' program, failed to show
....He was in a script confab for his own show, 'Duffy's Tavern,' and

forgot the date A friend of announcer Ernest Chappell was in the

studio and took ov^r the assignment Charles Herbert, CBS producer,

has written a patriotic song, 'Let's Get Going Over There.'

Robert' Montgomery, a lieutenant-commander in the navy, has been

assigned to the White House as assistant attache F. J. Bingley, of

Philco, will teU about 'Television in Philadelphia' at the meeting Friday
night (20) of the American Television Society,- at the Woodstock hotel,
N. Y Harry Herrmann, script and feature editor of the Donovan com-
mittee, to the midwest on a material search Cecil Cames, of the 'We,

the People' production staff, to Mexico for vacation. .. .He's a bullfight
fan. .. .Wilfred Roberts, .NBC production head, muUing a new series in

cooperation with the National Assn. of Manufacturers Don Becker In

from his Virginia plantation for huddles with Carol Irwin, of Y. & R. on
the Twig Is Bent' series, which goes network soon.,,. Bill Coryell, for-
mer special cop. at NBC and recently with Y. & R., back Into the navy

after 'years of civilian life And Jack Reeder, senior contact man with

Y. & R., into the navy as a lieutenant-commander Ed Kirby, John

Cullom, Jack Harris and Lou Cowan, of the War Department radio depart-
ment, in New York last week to set up a local office.

Tom Harrington, Y. & R. radio head, planning lengthy vacation start-
ing in a few weeks WQXR working out a budget for a 'workshop'

program "being offered by Joel O'Brien He'd produce, not write....

George McGarrett, of Y. & R. radio production staff, to Chicago to head
the agency's office there. . . .Dave Levy, recently director of 'We, the
People,' to be transferred to similar assignment on the Kate Smith pro-
gram — Sam Fuller, who has the latter show, awitches.to 'Duffy's Tavern'

Bill Lewis and Douglas Messervy, of the Office of Facts and Figures,

in Tlew York last week for agency huddles.

Johnny lyes, formerly with Phil Lord's production office, serving as a

senior lieutenant with the navy at the Panama Canal Phil Cohen has

joined the Office of Facts and Figures. .Ray Sweeney, formerly con-
tinuity director of WMCA, now with the N. Y. Daily News and writing

that paper's news programs on WNEW "Telephone Hour' moves April

e from 8-8:30 Monday nights to 9-9:30 the same nights on NBC-Red....
Ross Worthington, formerly chief of special events for the radio branch of
the War Department's public relations staff, has joined the shortwave
special events staff of the Rockefeller committee.

Richard E. Noyes, former radio actor, named radio director with the
Army Air Corps at Napier Field, broadcasting over. WAGE, Dothan, Ala...
Abe Burrows, Mac Benoff and Parke Levy are writing the 'Duffy's Tavern'
frtili^am. . .Elea'nor-Shbtkley,' formerly a secretary- with -Young -& Rubi-
cam, transferred to the agency's new business department. ..Mrs. Elizabeth
Reeves, of the Knox Reeves agency, in from Minneapolis last week for
production huddles on the various General Mills shows... Tom Hutchinson,

former television director at NBC, replaced Jam«t Andrawi ai director of
'Big Sister' for Ruthrauft & Ryan... Andrews becomes agency contt^ on
the 'Ellery Queen' show... James and Ftlzabath Bart called. In to do story
plotting on the 'Bright Horizon' show, with John Young continuing u
regular scrlpter. ..Henry Hull, Jr., directs for Y, 8e R...(>y Newman, who
has been splitting his time between WWRL and WAAT, now full-time
announcer at the latter station. ..John Monks, Jr., co-author of 'Brother
Rat' and currently coUablng with . Henry FlsK Carlton on a new radio
series, added to cast of 'Amanda of Honeymoon HllL' '

Mary Watkins Reeves, author of 'Romance of Helen Trent,' maternltylng,
.. So is Virginia Clark, star of the same show... Pearl Buck authoring an
original for Sunday night's (22) ^eep 'Em Rolling* program... Edith Dick,
WWRL assistant general manager, bedded with an attack of grippe...
Nancy Douglass, whose husband, Jack Hurdle, just went to the Coast to
direct 'the Shirley Temple series, joined cast of 'Amanda of- Honeymoon
Hill'. . .Doris Halman back as writer of 'Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons,'
succeeding David Davidson. ..Karl Swenson and Ethel Wilson newcomers
to 'Mr. Keen' cast... Katherlne Emmet, of 'John's Other Wife' troupe,
doubling In- legit 'Guest in the House,' at the Plymouth theatre. ..Hugh
James now announcing 'America, the Free.'

IN HOLLYWOOD . . .

The Radio Trade is Discussing: The visit here by W. fi. Lewis of
Office of Facts and Figures closely followed by Bernard Schoenfeld,
radio head of Office of Emergency Management, both on the trail of
film stars for radio shows — The early seasoTtal C.A.B, drop end what
underlies it, coming at a time when the agency boys looked for a sus-
tained period of high figures — loxitv in developinp new comedv talent
to keep morale buoyant. ' (a

Cecil Underwood, producer of 'Fibber and MoUy,' now in his 18th year
on radio. Started in Spokane when time bad to be taken out in mid-day
to allow the tubes to cool. . . .Kay Kyser, who never had time for gambling
in any form, taking his gin rummy seriously. .. .Baukhage, NBC's war
analyst, looking the 'town over.... Walter Johnson, talent booker for
Screen Guild Theatre, made regimental adjutant of First Evacuation
Corps, California State Guard.... Mann Hollner doubly 'honored' by
Radio Producers Club. Breveted with plaster finger pointed upv/ard for
a perfect record as past president, having never called a meeting, arid a
plaque (strictly stag) for elevating Maxwell House Time, which he pro-
duces, to its highest all-time C. A. B Bill Stern in town to call World's

series play in the Lou Gehrig .picture, 'Pride of the Yankees'. .. .R. P.
Myers, NBC's copyright attorney, soaked up some slightly damp sunshine
before proceeding to Frisco on network biz.... Jack Benny will split his
originations between the NBC studio- and. nearby camps, alternating
weekly Ed Plaut, prez of Lehn & Fink, looking over the town for a
new raaio show....I)on Clark, who 'nearly' produced the Chase & San-
bom program for Kenyon & Eckhardt, switched over from 'Red Ryder*
to Al Peace's Camel piece. Myron Dutton replaced on 'Ryder'. . . .Harry
Maizlish signed Dr. H. H. Chang, multiple-titled student of Far East af-
fairs, for a KFWB commentary series Hal Styles started a new series

on 'KFWB to supplement his NBC broadcast Ken Nlles announcing

'Three Ring Time.' Bill Goodwin had to bow out when the show moved
to Tuesday time on accoimt of his Burns and Allen stint. .. .Martha Tilton
broke out with a new facial at NBC. Poison oak.... Bill Davidson left
KHJ to do bis barking on KFI-KECA.

IN CHICAGO , . .

Jack Scott of the Schwlmmer & Scott agency appointed chairman of the
radio bureau for bond drive of Treasury Dept. . . . Bob Elson and Bill
Anson, who have a joint program on WGN, are figuring on opening a
bowleg alley for the spare time . . . Elson's sports reel, known as 'Bob
Elson's Sportscast,* is hitting the first-run theatres in Chicago this week.
. . . New casting in 'Romance of Helen Trent' are Agatha Anthony, Elmira
Roessler, Francis Allen and Linda King . . . Norma Jean Ross added to cast
of 'Scattergood Balnes' . , . Three NBC engineers becoming radio technique
instructors, W. F. 'Lantermah and E. A. Holm at Northwestern and P. J.
Moore at Illinois Institute of Technology . . . Emmons Carlson, sales pro-
motion chief of NBC here, improving after serious illness In Loretto hosp.
. . . Phil Martin becomes night manager of NBC here, succeeding E. C.
Cunningham,' who joins NBC-Red sales traffic department. ...

Caesar Petrillo vacationing in Arizona, and is being subbed for as WBBM
musical director by Joe Englehart .' , . Charlie Garland, WBBM assistant
commercial manager, appointed division chief of northwest Chicago area
for Office of Civilian Defense . . . Jack McCormick subbing for John Har-
rington on the WBBM newscasts, who is, in turn, domg the WBBM 'Sports
Review* for Pat Flanagan, who is out at the basebaU training camps . . .
Virginia Payne of AFRA named head of Chicago radio division of Ameri-
can Theatre Wing War Service . . . Loretta Young guesting on the 'WJJD
Music Hair program in connection with special Navy Relief broadcast . . .
Sherman Marks added to continuity staff of WJJD by Ralph Atlass.

All 275 employes of NBC here have enrolled 100% in purchase of de-
fense bonds and stamps out of salary... Art Llnick back at WJJD after
illness of several weeks and may get going with his 'Schlagenhauer' show
in addition to sales duties. . .Fred Reed laid up with infecte.. molar...
Jack Brand comes in fromlKTSM, El Paso, to replace announcer Fred
Kasper with the Blue who goes to the army.. .E. R. Borroff in Toronto
in connection with new Ontario Show series! . .Everett Mitchell doing a
jj.ersonal at the Winter Show in Valle> City, N. D... Nancy Martin, Jack
Baker "and Don JSlcfTeiU pefsohalling at the H'om'e and' Flower Show -in-
Minneapolis...

*■ - —

DRYS EXTEND
INFLUENCE

Seattle, March 17.

The Washington State Broadcast-
ing Association met on Mard; 12 in
Olympla with the State Liquor
Board to consider restrictions on the
radio advertising of beer and wine.
The 17th District of the National
Association of Broadcasters was rep-
resented by Harry Spence, KXRO,
Aberdeen.

Donald Graham, vice-president of
KOMO-KJR, Seattle, was spokesman
for the radio men, and he urged
that there be no further restrictions
placed on beer and .wine radio ad-
vertising, stressing, the fact that the
stations have their own restrictions
on this type of advertising. These,
which Include no programs adjacent
to children's or religious programs
and none on Sunday also bar stations
from urging the use of beer or wine.
Only thing featured in the programs
is the brand name of the liquid ad-
vertised.

Proposed new restrictions are
modeled on those in force in Oregon
which call for no beer or wine ad-
vertising before 10 p.m. or after 1
a.m.

A committee, consisting -of Robert
Priebe, KRSC; Donald Graham,
KOMO-KJR and H. J. QuiUiam,
KIRO, was appointed by the broad-
casters to confer further with the
state liquor board.

New chairman of the board is
Evro M. Becket, Seattle hotel man-
ager.

Drys Narrowly Defeated
Columbia, S. C, March 17.

Attempt of the drys in South C^aro-
lina to impose a ban on liquor, beer
and wine was defeated in the state
senate last week.. The vote was 25
for and 19 against. Had the measure
gone through, radio stations and
newspapers would have been de-
prived of a revenue which, because
of current advertising conditions, has
assumed a much enhanced value.

Stations carry no liquor accounts
but many of them have 52-week con-
tracts on beer and wine. All state
dallies accept one, the local Herald,
carry liquor advertising.

In opposing the dry forces the
wets advanced as their main argu-
ment the point that prohibition
would rob the state of millions of
dollars in annual taxes which would
probably have to be offset by a saled
tax.

JOHN B. HUGHES NEWS
ON MBS FOR ANACIN

John B. Hughes moves to a night-
time schedule for, American Home
Products next week. The commen-
tatoris product will bp Anacin and
the periods on Mutual will be 10-
10:15 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.
Blackett-Sample-Hummert - Is the
agency.

Because of the takeover of these
t_wo .spots by_ Hughes, Raymond Gram
Swlijg's new Bustalhing schedufe'wUI
include Saturday and Sunday.

JERRY DANZIG OF WOR
NOW NAVY LIEUTENANT

Jerry Danzig has left the publicity
directorship of WOR, New York
City, to become a lieutenant, junior
grade, In the United States Navy.
He will function in the morale and
publicity division headquartering at
80 Church street. New York.

Took up duties this week.

Danzig's duties as publicity chief
will be assumed by Dick Pack, as
acting director.

Okla. Web's New Rep

Oklahoma City, March 17.

Oklahoma network, comprising
seven stations in the state, all affil-
iates of thffBlue network, has desig-
nated; the Radio Advertising Corp,
as its national sales representative.
New York office of RAC is headed
by Paul S. Wilson and the Chicago
office by James T. KeUey.

Seven Oklahoma network stations
are KOME, Tulsa; KBDC, Muskogee;
KGFF, Shawnee;' KADA, Ada;
KVSO, Ardmore; KCRC, Enid, and
KTOIC, key station in Oklahoma City.

COVERING

MARYLAND!

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Wednesday. March 18, 1942

bmde Stuff-Hadio

Autobldgraphlea are lUf e one's wine cellar— of ereatest interest to one's
self and Immediate circle— and Uka Chase's Tast Imperfect' (Doubleday,
reran; $2) Is probably comparable. It's free, frank, intelligent, informa-
tive, replete with anecdotage, logrolls nobody, doesn't spare the horses,
and in its nostalgic hark-backs to her Paris and Riviera rearing, not a
little nostalgic.

Seemingly her mother, Edna Woohnan Chase, and her husband, BUI
Murray (who heads the William Morris Agency's radio dept.), felt Miss
Chase had a story to tell, and for this she affectionately chides them in the
dedication.

Incidentally, husband-agent Murray did not forget the commercial as-
pects, Doubleday, Doran having paid $1,000 sight unseen for an option.

The bepuzzling effect produced in the trade by the announcement that
Sidney N. Strotz had been made responsible for the management and
operation of KPO, San Francisco, was cleared up at NBC yesterday CTues-
day). It was explained that the formal announcement had been put out
at the request of Strotz, who wa^ transferred to the vice-presidency in
charge of NBC's Pacific division in early January. Strotz had advised
the home office that he wanted his authority to Include KPO with the
apparent misconception that the station's manager. A, E. Nelson, was still
reporting directly to William S. Hedges, v.p. in charge of stations. Nelson,
as it turned out, had come under the jurisdiction of the v.p. in charge of
the Pacific division since 1940.

Carter's Little Livfer Pills renewed Bill Hardey and his Bill's Gay 90s
(N, y. nitery) -6how, "the Good Old Days,' a Sunday evening Blue network
commercial, heard only west of Chicago, but emanating from New York.
With the renewal, the talent insisted that Hardey, their boss, go on a
salary and not throw everythhig into the kitty to be split equally among
the performers, as Hardey had been doing, declaring himself out. None
the less, the restaurateur. In drawing the fixed .'salary 'as impresario of
the show, is also throwing that back into the common pool for the talent

IVpographlcal error rendered somewhat pokitless "Variety's' report last
week of the quip made about outlook by Ii. B. Wilson of WCKY, Cincin-
nati. It shoidd have read, of course; 'Business Is 60% better than next
year.'

Benton & Bowles agency recently instituted a 10% cut on all personnel
earning over $4,000 a year. They were told that the move was merely
temporary and that the cuts would be returned as soon as the agency's
billings started on the upgrade.

B & B last year lost the Colgate-Palmolive business and Continental
Baking account and of late there's been a reduction in the Maxwell House
coffee (General Foods) and Best Foods budgets.

Informs FCC That WPEN, Pinladelphia,
k Tool of Race Track Mobsters

come, come, gentlemen..

, RADIO 85

New Englandgs Surprise (ffiC
(And Trade) With Qaini Air
Comedians Are Angering Public

PhUadelphIa, March 17,.

State Public Utility Commissioner
Richard J. Beamish, crusader against
gambling, yesterday filed complaint
to the Federal Communications Com-
mission against WPEN, charging that
the station was 'deliberately co-
operating* with a gambling outfit to
evade the laws of the State by dis-
seiriinating racing Information over
the air. WPEN's broadcasts, spon-
sored by the Armstrong racing form,
started last week following the re-
moval of the telephone service ' of
the Pennsylvania .Publications, Inc.,
publisher of the racing form, imder
the orders of the utility commlsGlon.
(This orffer was upheld by the State
Superior Court).

WPEN has a' regular five minute
daily program in which race results,
prices, scratches, etc., are broadcast.
In addition, flash race results are
given throughout the day.

The commission maintains that
, bookmaklng establishments keep
their radios tuned into WPEN all
day and thus 'encourage gambling.'

Beamish also asked the FCC to act
-against the DiaJSOttd-StatrTeieplrene
Co., Delaware, which he claims was
'evading ttie law" by supplying serv-
ice from Wilmington whereby

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profit on the eort of the show.
Onr speeUl akUl In the writing of
oommerolals has the respect of
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Wo want a laUsman who knows
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bookies may obtain racing dope
de^ite the fact that Pennsylvania
BeU service was discontinued. This
is also a subterfuge of the Armstrong
sheet publishers, Beamish claims.

Beamish told Paul A. Walker, FCC
Commissioner, that unless the radio
outlet and phone company are
curbed, their activities would spread
to Jersey, New York, Ohio and Mary-
land.

In addition to action by the FCC,
Beamish asked the XT. S. Attorney
General Francis Biddle to Investi-
gate.

Arthur Simon, general manager of
WPEN, declined to comment

SELL SIDEWALK
PAVINGBY
RADIO

Pittsburg, March 17.

Charlie Denver, Post-Gazette col-
umnist on KQV, has a series of
weekly quarter-hour chatter sessions
every Sunday afternoon at 4:30.
Sponsored -fcy West Penn Sand &
Gravel Co.

Sponsor, looking for street-paving
customers, has labeled Danver's
program 'Sidewalks of Pittsburgh.'
Although Danver's paper custom-
arily frowns on air comnvercials for
its 'by liners, management agreed to
let him broadcast providing there
was no mention on the air of either
his Post-Gazette connection or the
column he conducts.

He was sponsored over WCAE
several years ago by Yellow Cab Co.

SCHMID OF MUTUAL
LECTURES AT WHARTON

Robert A. Schmid, Mutual's direc-
tor of advertising promotionr de-
livers two lectures at the Wharton
School of Finance, of the University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, today
(Wednesday).

Schmid will treat with the current
trends and problems of broadcasting,
particularly as they are affected by
the war.

KGW's 22-Hoiir Sked

Portland, Ore., March 17.

Station KGW, local NBC-Red out-
let, has increased Its <broadcasting
schedule to 22 hours a day, remain-
ing on the air around the clock, ex-
cept for the 2-4 a.m. period.

Early-morning hours are filled
with recorded music and news. An-
nouncers Allan Sheppard and Herb
Johnston handle the additional
broadcasts.

LANNY ROSS
TO WHEELOCK

Lanny Ross Is being transferred by
Campbell Soup from Ruthrauff &
Ryan's supervision to the direction
of the Ward Wheelock agency. The
switch becomes effective April 6.

Ross has a new 13-week opUon
taking effect the same day." He has
been selling spaghetti. His new as-
signment involves soups.

With the shift of the show to
Wheelock, Lee Cooley, of the R. &
R. production staff, will be suc-
ceeded as .director of George Zach-
ary. The latter, a free-lancer, al-
ready handles the Kostelanetz pro-
gram for Coca-Cola (D'Arcy agency)
and 'EUery Queen' for Bromo-
Seltzer (R. & R. agency).

NBC held on Monday-Tuesday (16-
17) the first of its propos,ed series of
wartime regional meetings in which
executives of the network headed by
Frank Mullen, general manager, jivUl
get together with the seven regions
into which NBC 'counselor-affiliates'
are divided. Paul W. Morency of
WTIC, Hartford, presided at the Wal-
dorf-Astoria hotel -with some 45 men
present representing 11 stations -and
the Radio City delegation.

Two-day meeting produced a sur-
prise Tuesday (yesterday) when,
without naming names and without'
the trade or the world at large be-
ing prepared for the charge. New
Englanders stonped that 'certain ra-
dip comedians' are indulging too
much in double entendre, innuendo
and ofif-color humor, and tiiat the
public is aroused about it.

The I^ew England viewpoint seems
also to have surprised the NBC offi-
cials who did not suspect anything
like Ipubnc protests' against jokes
was serious. Not with the U.S.A.
fighting for Its life.

Flanking Frank Mullen at the
meetings were Frank , Russell, Abe

Schecter, Ken Dyke, Albert Dale*
James Rowland Angell, Clarence
Menser, Max Jordan.

Shoose's CInoy Meeting

Cincinnati, March 17.

As second district chief of NBCb
Stations Planning and Advisory
Board, James D. Shouse, general
manager of Crosley stations, will be
chairman of a two-day conference
of owners and managers of 7TBC
affiliates in this region starting here
Wednesday. (18).

William S. Hedges, Vice-president
In charge of stations for NBC, who
is conducting a series pf, conferences,
fornierly occupied Shouse's positibn
with Crosley stations. The meetings
started in New York and, after the
Cincy x>ne, move to Chicago, Dallas,
Atlanta and San Francisco, ending
AprU 1.

Purpose of the powwrws Is'to spur
cooperation between the stations on
war effort *

Dallas.— Lynn Blgler of KWTT,
Wichita Falls, has joined WFAA-
KGKO as announcer.

are your competifors running
obvious circles around you !

Have you noticed the trend to
buy, sponsor more and more
WOR-created shows? No? Dear
sir, where have you beenl Such
WOR-created hits as *^Here's
Looking at You". "Can You Top
This?", "Go Get It", "Jack Demp-
sey's All-Sports Quiz" are how
doing some of the sweetest jobs
in New York radio.
Now, along comes Treadeasy
Shoes to buy another WOR-cre-
ated winner, "Rambling with
Gambling." And, Swan Soap, not
to be outdone, bought "Happy
Jim Parsons."

Do you just want to sit still and
let tiie vnstaria climb up you and
ignore the brass facts of what
WOR has done (is doing) to

build the kind of shows sponsors
want to make people bu\f what
diey have to sell?

Maybe you don't want to make
sales. Maybe, th<^ugh, youU want
to write WOR's office at 1440
Broadway, in New York, for more
FACTS ... about good WOR-
created shows . . . budtto sell and
sell and SELLi

36

RADIO

Wednesday, Marcfa 18, 1942

Editorial Calls This Is Vlfar' Slurs
At Congress Unwarranted, Unfair

Minneapolis, March 17.

In a lead editorial addressed to
Archibald MacLelsh, Federal Office
ot Facts and Figures head, and titled
'Cut It Out, Archie!' the local
Evening Star Journal, always a
strongly Interventionist sheet and
ardent supporter of the President's
foreign policy, soundly rapped the
Saturday (March 7) This Is War' air
program, declaring that 'It contained
a below-the-belt punch at congress
which exemplifies the dangers that
arise when the government goes into
the radio business.'

The Star Journal took exception
to that portion of the script which
quoted Lighthorse Harry Lee rela-
tive to military unpreparedness.
called his comments 'contemporary,'
asked if congress members, who
voted against the draft extension
and fortifyina Guam and who, in
March, 1940, cut down replacement
planes to 57,_were listening, and then
answered in -the negative, asserting
they've more important things than
the fall of Singapore to think about,
(uch as pensions and fandancers.

'Now it's pretty dangerous busi-
ness,' declared the editorial, "when
the government's executive branch
uses what purports to be a non-
political patriotic program— and cer-
tainly ought tote that if it is to
have any right to the air, on free
time, on a nationwide super-hook-
up — subtly to undermine the confi-
dence of the people in congress as
an institution.

'For the President, or any of his
ipokesmen, to go on the air to at-
tack congressional acts or policies
naming names and putting the argu-
ment on a straightforward plane, is
one thing; it is quite another" when
the Office of Facts and Figures
which is in fact the office of domes-
tic propaganda, dresses up as pa-
triotism a generalized slur on popu-
lar government.'

Humanity Against Hitler'

New recorded series, 'Humanity
■ Against Hitler,' has been offered to
various Government agencies at cost
by Brinckerhoff Studios, program
production outfit in New York. It
Is aimed as a 26-week, half-hour
show, to be written by Garrett Por-
ter from current and recent history.
Ken Fickett directed the audition
records.

Cast for the audition platters In-
cludes Jeanett* Nolan, John. Mcln-
tyre, Dwight Weist, Ed Jerome, Ted
Jewett, Ted De Corcia, Paul Luther,
Bill Adams, Peter Donald and Jack
Smart. Elliot Jacoby's orchestra
supplied the • music." All talent
worked at union minimums.

Yoban Coffee in N.Y.

Chicago, March 17.

Yuban Coffee will start a cam-
paign on three New York City sta-
tions beginning April 13. Outlets
used will be WHN, WMCA, WNEW.

Will average five announcements
daily on each of the three stations.
Schedule set . through the Schwim-
mer Se Scott agency here.

Brunton Adds Personnel

San Francisco, March 17.

Ralph Brunton shuffling KQW
operations here to dovetail with his
new CBS wire. He has brought in
Glenn R. Dolberg as manager of op-
erations, with Charles W. Reed, late
of Westco agency, ifl charge of mer-
chandising and promotion, and Dor-
othe S. Lesser as coordinator of
women's activities. '

Qolberg was program and produc-
tion chief at NBC here for several
years, until the Red-Blue split.

Iowa State Intervenes
In WMIN Bid to FCC

Minneapolis, March 17,
Iowa State college, Ames, la., has
Intervened ^n the application of radio
station WMIN here for permission to
change its frequency from 1400 to 830
kilocycles.

WOL, the college station at Ames,
operates on a 640-kilocycle wave
band, and its engineers contend that
granting a 630-kilocycle band to the
station here would interfere with re-
ception from WOL.

Voice of History

New York,

Editor, •Variety':

In your Feb. 18 Issue, page 28, you
have an item about Sonovox being
used on Shell Oil discs for the 'first
time that the mechanism has been
adopted for a radio commercial se-
ries.'

May we point out that we pre-
sented Buick's 1942 models to the
public during the week of Sept. 29,
1041, by means of 15-second chain
breaks over 51 stations, in which the
Buick horn talked an' advised lis-
teners~no 'Better Buy Buick.' "This
was the first use of Sonovox for com-
mercial purposes, according to
Wright-Sonovox, Inc.

Ida Lee Sidemall,
Arthur Kudner, Inc.

Philadelphia, March 17.

WIP, Philly!s 'pioneer voice,' last
night (Monday) celebrated its 20th
anniversary, making it one of the
oldest outlets continuously on the air
in the country.

Only ceremony connected with the
event was a 30-minute broadcast with
a dramatization of the station's first
broadcast, March 16, 1922, with music
of that period and a brief address
by Benedict Gimbel, Jr., WIP prexy.
Gimbel explained that elaborate
ceremony was being dispensed with
because of la guerre.

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30 Mlns.

Satnrday, 7 p.m.
All SUtions

Installment No. 5 might be ranked
as the most dynamic document pro-
pounded by this series to date. Its
virtues were many; its faults but one.
George Faulkner furnished a bril-
liant, scorching script Thomas Mitch-
ell's vibrant- voice aiid -flne diction
invested the narrative with an im-
passioned lift. The producing facul-
ties of Norman CorWin were at their
keenest and Andre Kostelanetz' play-
ing of the musical background as
scored by Tom Bennett, added much
to the depth and sweep of the theme,
'United Nations.' The weakness of
the project stemmed from the effort
to crowd too much data into the half
hour. The effect was kaleidoscopic
and points too easily blurred in the
process.

The program skyrocketed with
tributes to our allies and gave stir-
ring testimony to the ruin that has
come to those nations infected with
disunity, but the passage that stood
out like a dazzling light was that in
which our own brand of morale
saboteurs received attention. In
quick strokes of pungent dialog this
interlude recalled such sneering com-
ments of current coinage as 'Some
day we .will have to fight the Rus-
sians' and 'Why doesn't our navy stay
home and take care of the subs?' The
answer was freighted with lashing
scorn. The 'gentle listeners' must
have been startled, if not refreshed,
by the series' sudden turn for the
virile and tough. "These,' reminded
the narrator, 'are the voices of rats,
the voices of our own fascists, the
voices of our own loudmouthe^d crit-
ics. They are but rats in our midst!'

Opening kudos of the script went
to the Russians. What the four and
a half years of fighting by the Chi-
nese has meant to us served as the
next topic of praise. Then 1^2 heroic
work performed by Britain's various
armed and civilian services. Fol-
lowing a like bow of honor to the
Dutch defenders in the Indies came
the parade of the other European
nations wbo though conquered were
still part of the fight against the Axis
host. Among the credos that the
script poured forth thereafter were:
'America holds the balance of

power between good and evil in
world politics.'

'Who rules the TiiacWnes rules the
bombers. Who rules the bombers
rules the world.'

'Whof are we waiting for? Shall
we join mankind in the fight to pre-
terve the tcorld from, slavery? It's
about time'.

'It's us or the Rats for the next
1,000 veoTs."

For its epilog the program chose
the John Donner poem, 'For Whom
the Bell Tolls.' Its recite! by Mitch-
ell provided an impressive fadeout.

Odec.

Frank Cuhel, Liz Wayne
Escape the Nipponese

Mutual received word this week
of the escape of two of the cor-
respondents from the Dutch East
Indies. But two others who were
in spots controlled' by_ the enemy
are still unreported.

Frank Cuhel escaped to Aus-
tralia from Java. Elizabeth Wajrne
reached Port of Spain, Trinidad,
from Batavla. She will teke the first
available Clipper to the U. S.

Royal Arch Gunnison, who was In
Manila when the Japs occupied It,
U still' unheard from. And John
Paul" Dixon, Mutual rep in Berlin
when the Germans declared war on
the U. S., is. likewise unreported.

WHBQ LEAVES HOTEL

THEOmULS'

'OLD VIENNA VEBSCS THE NEW
ORDER'

With Willy Trenk, Elisabeth Schn-
inann, Emmanuel List, Kor( Banm,
Rpbert Goldsand, Robert Stolz,
Hertha Glati, Joseph . Sohlldkrant,
Lee Jay Cobb, Panl Brelsacli, Har
old Maresch, Faul Peter Fuchs,.
Konnl Llss, Irwin Strauss, Amster-
dam Strinc Quartet
45 Mlns. — ^Looal
Sostainlng
Sun., 6-6:45 p.m.
WNTC, New York

This one-time shot on the anniver-
sary of Hitler's march into Austria
turned out to be a poignant, nostalgic
musical and dramatic pot-pourri of
deeply moving quality. It resolved
itself into an outpouring of affection
for America in which a group of tal-
ented Austrian refugees have found
a home. Austrian hill-billy songs
mingled with classics and original
lyrics set to U. S. melodies satirizing
Schickelgruber registered equally
welL One of the best in latter cate
gory was a jingle set to the tune of
Pepsi-Cola musical spots. Franz
Schubert's "Military March' Interpo-
lated with 'Seig Hells' is a bit which
could well be used in cabaret and
vaudeville shows.
. Willy Trenk, with engaging accent,
came through the mike as a topnotch
entertainer for whom there should
be a spot in niteries. He was for-
merly program producer and direc-
tor at the municipal radio station in
Vienna.

Potent dramatic skit, with Joseph
Schildkraut, Lee Jay Cobb and 10
year-old Honni Liss, pictured a meet
ing of Beethoven and Franz Schubert
in Central Park with Schubert point
ing out to the youngster the simi
larities between Vienna and New
York, that 'Vienna's lilacs bloom
again in Central Park and the Hud-
son is as blue as the Danube.' Dis
tinguished vocalists included Hertha
Glatz, alto at the Met; Kurt Baum,
Met tenor, and Emanuel List. Am-
sterdam String Ensemble was under
direction of Paul Breisach, Met con
ductor. Mori.

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Crosley Broadcast Division Acquires
Big Gncy Elks Qub, lOOO-Seat Hall

WIP in 20-Year Class

Swapped Publicity for Rent at
Clarldge Memphis

Memphis, March 17.

WHBQ is moving from its quar-
ters on the third floor of the Claridge
hotel to a site as yet unselected.
Local stetion, devoted to play-by-
play coverage of sports events and
broadcasts' of name bands from the
Claridge Balinese Room and roof
garden, will • settle elsewhere this
summer upon expiration of its lease
on the -present home.

Station moved into hotel 10 years
ago under agreement for airing or-
chestras and otherwise publicizing
inn's activities on reciprocity basis.
Growth and consequent need for
larger quarters given as reasons for
impending transfer by Manager Bob
Alburty.

The hotel will movft its own offices
into the rooms vacated by - WHBQ
and will set up a cocktail lounge in
the present office space, according to
Lawrence Levy, manager. He said
arrangements will be made with an-,
other station for broadcasting music
from the hotel.

Cincinnati, March 17.
On or before Ma> 1 the Crosley
corporation's broadcasting division
will take occupancy of the flve-story
building at 9th and Plum, which has
been the clubhouse- of Elks' lodge
No. 5 and was purchased last week
br the radio flrin. -Remodeling pro-
gram begins immediately. Sale price
was reported at $227,000, which pro-
vides full payment for bondholders
who backed the original investment
Property, in the downtown section,
will be completely occupied by
offices, studios and newsrooms of
WLW and WSAI and shortwave
WLWO.

Crosley's present broadcaisting
headquarters in the company's main
factory, four miles from heart of
city, will be given over to production
of war materials, which already is
utilizing most ' space in that ' elght-^'
floor plant

For a while, up to several years
ago, the - Crosley broadcasting di-
vision was located In the Union
Central annex, downtown.

Elks' home has a 1,000-seat audi-
torium, restaurant and bar facilities,
bowling, alleys, numerous lounges
and private rooms. Some of the
recreational portions are to be re-
tained for use by employees. The
lodge, whose membership has
dwindled in late years, is' to occupy
a smaller building on E-tst 4th street,

Instellation of a booster station for
5,000-watt WSAI, on the Doctors'
building, west 8th street was started
Tuesday (17). This Improvement
under direction of Robert J. Rock-
well, technical supervisor of Crosley
stations, wUl improve WSAFs signal
in Clncy's basin district. Its trans-
mitter is in Mt Healthy, 14 miles
out. Rows of hills intervene.

Transmitters for WLW and WLWO
are in Mason, O., 22 miles north of
Cincy.

WEU Off Matual

New Haven, March 17.
WELFs affiUatlon with Mutual-
Colonial ends Junft^ 12, WICC,
Bridgeport drops basic Blue net-
work membership to go exclusively
Mutual.

WICC and WELI have both been
carrying Mutual and Shepard re
gional output for almost two years,
foriner' Blue commitments leaving a
lot of Mutual time open to WELI.

FalstafF Beer on WOAI

San Antonio, March 17.

The Falstaff Brewing Co., through
Black^t, Sample & Hummert, ^ill
air a series of transcribed 15 minute
programs over station WOAl start
ing Monday, March 30.

Series will be aired Monday
through Thursday- and one program
on Saturday.

WGBG, Greensboro, N.C.,
Begins Broadcasting

Greensboro; N. C, March 17.
WGBG, -this town's new station,
has opened. Layout Is 1,000-watter,
950 kc, daytime only. Ralph M. Lam-
'beth Is president and Herbert G,
Mitchell Is commercial manager.

At New Bern, N. C, the Coastal
Broadcasting Co. Is constructing new
station, 'WHIT, to be opened soon.
Louis N. Howard Is president. .

New $30,000 studios for WSPA
and WORD, Spartanburg, S. C, aro
under construction,

osBOBNE steasuds at wben

Buffalo, March 17.

WBEN has added Osborne Put-
nam Stearnes as 'The Food Magician'
operating 9:30 a.m. spot with chats
for housewives. Will be organized
on participating basts.

Stearnes was most recently with
Detroit's WXYZ.

DETROIT'S I.EADINO
INDEPENDENT STATION

Carries More National
Advertising than Any
Other Station of its
Power in the Country.

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With Landt Trio

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Daily, 4:30 p.m/-

WABC-CBS, New Tork

The Landt Trio, familiar on vari-
ous networks and local stations and
for various sponsors for more than
10 years, have an afternoon sustainer
spot across the board on CBS. Pro-
gram uses a back-slapping geniality
formula, with the listeners constant-
ly urged to sing along with the lads.
It's a pleasant show of broad appeal.

Guesting on the show caught were
five studes from Mt. St Joseph's
school, Baltimore, doing a barber-
shop harmony- number: Accompani-
ment is provided by a Hammond or-
I gan and piano. Ken Roberts is an-
nouncer. Hobe.

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Wednesday, March 18» 1942

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Frisco's Ustening Picture Blurred
By Sundry Changes of Position

San Francisco, March 17.

Latest Hooper reports paint an In-
teresting picture of what recent
juggling of affiliations, etal., has ap-
parently done to the Frisco radio
scene. With NBC and the. Blue In-
volved In divorcement and CBS
jumping from KSFO to KQW, KFRC
had slid into the strongest position
ever held by the Don Lee outfit, a
solid second place morning, after-
noon and night.

KQW has benefited vastly by the
CBS line. It's in first position
mornings and third place afternoon
and evening, being just 3/lOths of a
point behind KFRC at night. A
stronger signal in present weak spots
would give CBS the break it has
been striving for. Hence the struggle
for 50 kw.

NBC's KPO, although in third
place mornings. Is easily the leader
with an overall Frisco tab of 30.8
against its nearest competlsh—
KFRC's 19.8.

Bill Ryan of the Blue has got him-
self a job with KGO and he knows
It. Long the step-child of KPO, best
KGO can show Is a fourth place at
night while on the over-all It's In
fifth place. KJBS, indie, nosing out
the Blue by 3/lOths of a point.
These are, pre-spllt (Jan. -Feb.)
ratings.

Ryan's competitors concede, how-
ever, that if anybody can do any-
thing with KGO, Ryan's the lad, and
his' preliminary overtures in getting
acquainted have already netted him
favorable attention.

KSFO, ex-CBS outlet which was
riding in the 20s and 30s last fall,
now has an over-all rating of 7.8.
Station is going through Its readjust-
ment period and may even hit fur-
ther lows before shaking down into
Its new indie field, but the contrast
Is a tough pill to take. Bob Ander-
sen's news, which once hit an early
morning high of 6.6, Is now down to
2.1 and others figure In proportion.

More than cold figures, however.
Individual personalities will do much
to determine the future relationship
of Frisco juicers.

JUNK YARD CAPTURED,
WLW DESCRIBES EVENT

Cincinnati, March 17,
Transcribed 19-minute program of
Uncle Sam'« first wartime seizure of
junk metal, which occurred Friday
(1^ in Valparaiso, Ind., near Chicago,
was made by Jim Cassldy, WLW
special events director, and aired by
that station the same night.

Between clanking sounds of the
junk's transfer to trucks, Cassldy In'
tervlewed Frank Shimiak, owner ol
the yard and accumulated material,
and also drew comment from federal
agents who did the requisitioning.

LOU CHIOZZA ON WHBQ

Will Call Memphli Game* (or Pan-
taia Draf Chain

Memphis, March 17.

Pantaze Drug stores, owned by
Plough, Inc., frequent useri of radio
on national scale, will sponsor
WHBQ's Southern League games as
called by Lou Chiozza, former major
league infield star. Chiozza, who re-
tire from baseball a year ago and
Is In business here, is new to radio,

Deal for Pantaze sponsorship hung
fire several days while station comb-
ed through possible sports chatter-
ers available in an effort to find one
suitable to drug outfit. Bob Al-
burty, WHBQ manager, had done
the airing the past several years for
Coca-Cola. Beverage firm Is drop-
ping baseball sponsorship after 10
years due to shortage of sugar and
consequent curtailment of soda pop
manufacture.

Tire Scarcity
Closes KMBC s
Rural Follies

Kansas City, March 17.

KMBC's . 'Brush Creek FoUies'
folded as a visual show, making its
final stand in the Ivanhoe Temple
last Saturday night. Show remains
on the air In Its usual spots, as Sat-
urday night sustainer on KMBC and
as Saturday afternoon sustainer on
CBS. Saturday night visual show
has been staged for five years, usu-
ally going off during summer.

Visuals will be discontinued until
tire situation improves. Have de-
pended largely upon rural trade.

Jimmy McConnell, manager of the
KMBC Artists bureau, continues
with the personal appearances of
the 'Follies' personnel in Kansas and
Missouri towns In the KMBC listen-
ing areef.

'Mrs. Burton' Show Back
To Benton-Bowles

Hollywood, March 17.

Coast daytime serial, "Tha^Secon^
Mrs. Burton," goes back to Benton
St Bowles May 1. Young Si Rubicam
has had It for th* past year.

General Foods has alternated the
program to hypo seasonal sales on
its products handled by \bM two
agencies.

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Network Premieres

(March 18-28)

March 1»
Dorothy Thompson, news com-
ment; 8:45-9 p.m., Thursdays,
Blue (WJZ); Trimount clothes,
•Emil Mogul agency.

March 2»
Ontario show, variety; 7-7:i30
p.m., Fridays, Blue (WJZ); On-
tario province, Walsh agency.

WNYC Lawyers
Maul Coverage
Gaims of WCCO

Washington, March 17.

Touchy policy question ' whether
duplication^ of network programs
conforms to the public interest re-
quirement of the Communications
Act has been raised in exceptions to
the proposed findings of the FCC on
the application of WNYC, New
York's municipal outlet, for added
time on the 810 kc riblfon now dom-
inated by WCCO, Minneapolis.

Proposition which the regulators
avoid in their antimonopoly reform
report was stressed Monday (16)
when Gotham attorneys asked for
oral arguments on the tentative denial
of the WNYC petition. The excep-
tions included denial that WCCO is
the only clear-channel outlet serving
Minnesota, pointing out that WBBM,
Chicago, is received throughout ihe
state, and referred to the 'ready
availability' of CBS programs from
other outlets in WCCO's secondary
service area.

In attempting to get the Cdmmish
to reverse itself, the New York at-
torneys by indirection recalled past
complaints that the webs waste fa-
cilities by delivering the same pro-
gram to a particular area from sev-
eral outlets. Demurrer noted that
CBS programs can be heard from 'a
minimum of four and a maximum of
10 stations' in the region east of
Minneapolis. Commish was advised
'this "simultaneous duplication' gen-
erally occurs during the hours when
It was feared WNYC would interfere
with WCCO's coverage of remote
areas. In the other direction, from
one to six plants carrying CBS pro-
grams can be heard by persons in
WCCO's secondary area, the state-
ment added.

Other objections to the proposed
decision included a note that much
of WCCO's secondary service in 'en-
tirely imaginary* because of inter-
ference from Cuba and the observa-
tion that WNYC frequently has op-
erated at night, under special author-
ity .. granted with CBS permission,
without bringing any squawks about
collision of signals.

MAJOR BOWES'
2 FROM MIAMI

Major Bowes' amateur hour will
emanate from Miami weeks of
March 26 and April 2. Bowes has
been ill. It's first time his program
has originated from anywhere but
New York.

Whether local Miami amateurs
will be used or talent transported
from New York isn't .settled yet.
Program virlll come from CBS' Miami
outlet. Bowes Is sponsored by
Chrysler Corp.

Father Coughlin Sued For Taxes,
Collected $11^000 Via Radio;
His 'Religious Status Denied

Herman Succeeds Carr

Cincinnati, March 17.

Harold Carr, production director
of WLW since l93i, was relieved of
that post last week and his assistant,
Chester Herman, moved up In charge
of the department. Carr remains as
a member of the production statT.

Herman was stage manager of the
St. Louis Municipal Opera company
before joining WLW three years ago,

On April 1, Eugene Patterson, pro-
gram director of WLWO, shortwave
station, transfers to the (^rosley staff
In New York as co-ordlnator of In-
formation. He has been with the or-
ganization for a decade.

Bob Howard, who wai on the sales
staff of International Radio Sales be'
fore It folded, has joined NBC spot
sales.' He starts today (Wednesday)

Detroit, March 17.
' Huge radio earnings of' Father
Co\jighlin were disclosed here as the
State of Michigan began action to
collect unpaid unemployment com-
pensation. The action is being con-
tested by the Radio League of the
Little Flower, Father Coughlln's set-
up, on the contention that it is 'a
charitable and religious institution'
and therefore not subject to social
responsibility.

The Unemployment Compensation
Commission has ruled that the radio
efforts of Father Coughlin did not
belong in the religious category, and
is seeking the collection of the un-
paid taxes since 1936. The refusal to
pay the taxes has resulted in several
of the League's employees being re-
fused unemployment benefits in re-
cent years, during which the em-
ployees have been reduced from 30
to only seveu persons.

Father Coughlin's radio income, it
was disclosed, was $1,163,00 for the
years ' from 1937 through 1940. A
breakdown of the figures shows the
income by years as;

1937 $404,469.98

1938 574,416.66

1939 102,254.92

1940 82.283.55

The present hearing o'n ''an appeal

from the commission's ruling that
the income is taxable was adjourned
to. permit Miss Alberta - Ward, the
bookkeeper for the league, to refresh
her memory on expenditures of $44,-
865 for real estate and sums of $2,500
and $5,000 given to Father Coughlin
which she could not identify.

It also was revealed at the State
hearing that the Federal internal
revenue department, after reviewing
the financial statements of the
league, has ruled Father Coughlin's
organization 'liable for certain taxes.

Of the total receipts. Miss Ward
testified, the league since its exists
ence has paid $1,458,658 to the Shrine
of the Little Flower, Father Cough-
lin's parish. As president of the
league, Father Coughlin was paid
$2,600 in 1936 and '37; $2,000 in 1938;
$2,100 in 1939 and none in 1940, in
addition to other sums which were
listed as 'advances.'

The league also was shown to be
the owner of the Social Justice Pub-

lishing Co^ possessing the entire
block of stock after investing $1,000
in 1936. The books showed that sub-
sequently the league made loans ot
$83,000 and $145,000 to the publish-
ing branch. Miss Ward said that sh«
served without payment as book-
keeper for the league, but drew «
salary as bookkeeper and vice-presi-
dent of the publishing company.

AUTO CLUB SET
FOR FOOTBALL
IN FALL

Detroit,. March 17.

Despite tire rationing and i'hi end .
of pleasure car' manufacturing, the
Automobile Club ot Michigan agaia
has signed with WWJ for the broad-
casting of all University of Michigan
footbaU gdmes next fall.

Ty Tyson, who has reported the
games since 1924 for 'tne station,
will be assisted by Paul Williams
on the eight games beglmiing on
Oct 3. \

The contract, signatured by Harry ^
Bannister, manager of WWJ. and
Richard Harfst, general manager of
the automobile club, also calls for
spot announce'hients following the
Tiger baseball games this summer.

The AutomobUe Club, which re-
cently set a membership record of
180,000, said its radio advertising
will not be institutional but predi-
cated on the basis of "Keep 'Em
Going', stressing the proper care of
cars and servicing during the • war
emergency.

Tootsie Rolls Use Spots

Blow agency Is placing a spot cam-
paign in Tootsie Rolls' behalf.

It's for 15 to 20 announcements a
week In eight weeks.

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C0NCERTn4>PEItA

VcdBKisday, March 18, 1942

Met Drops $10Z000 in '41-42,
Gross Estimated at $1138^;
Loss of Hagstad Felt Keenly

The Metropolitan Opera Co. at
N. Y. concluded Its 59th season
Saturday (14) with an estimated
season's loss of $102,000 on a 'Var-
lety'-estlmated gross ot $1,138,500.
Final week of the season saw a prob-
able loss of $1,000 with an estimated
gross ot $56,000 out of a possible
$72,000. This Is one of the worst
financial years In recent Met history,-
for this loss probably doej not take
other items into consideration, with
that stun estimated at perhaps an-
other $100,000.

'Variety,' over the entire season,
has estimated the probable weekly
grosses ot Met performances. In the
table' below 'Variety will summarize
the season showing the estimated
profit and loss of each opera given.

Those showing a profl' as esti-
mated were:

'Fanst (S), gross, $39,500; profit,
$7,000.

Travlata' (5), gross, $61,500; profit,
$4,500.

'Marrtagt of Figaro' (4),' gross,
$48,500; profit, $2,500.

'Don GloTannl' (4), gross, $51,500;
profit, $6,500.

'Magic Flute' (4), gross, $50,500;
profit, $2,500.

'Alda' (6), gross, $71,000; profit,
$2,000.

'Daughter of the Beglment' (4),
gross, $49,500; profit, $4,500.

'Rlgoletto' (4), r^QSS. $48,000;
profit, $3,000.

'Carmen' (5), gross, $60,500; profit,
$3,500.

'Bntterfly' (1), .gross, $10,000;
profit, $1,000.

Wagner's Decline-

Metropolitan's biggest drawing
card of past half dozen years,
Richard Wagner, was a loser, this
season. A total of $26,500 'was esti-
mated, lost on these opens which
had made money during the appear-
ances here of Klrsten Flagstad. Lack
of a b.o. ' name to succeed the
soprano killed the operas' drawing
power.

.Qnly 11 of the 32 operas on the
Met schedule made money and the
three Mozart operas, 'Don Giovanni,'
'lirriage of Figaro' and the 'Magic
Flute' roUed up profits of $11,500 be-
tween themi 'Traviata' and 'Rigo-
letto' profits of $7,500 can be' at-
tributed to interest in Jan Peerce
.who drew capacity at all his five
performances.

Taust,' 'Alda' and 'Carmen' are
foolproof standard works which
draw a paying public regardless ot
the casting and they made money.
'Daughter of the Regiment' de-
pended on the drawing powers of
Lily Pons and Salvatore Baccalonl
to make money.

The Island God' in pi<oving a
deficit proposition fulfilled the tra-
dition that no' new American work
has ever been known to make
money. Double billed with 'Pag-
liacci' it might have drawn better
had the Met made a more judicious
choice in the casting of Canio, for
the audience wants a well sung
'Vest! la Giubba' abovu everything
else, and Arthur Carron is not c.;n-
sidered a draw at the house. Last
season with Martinelli in the same
role the house sold out repeatedly.

'Phoebus and Pan' and 'Le Coq
D'Or' were panned In the daily press
and had few ingredients of drawing
power in the casting. 'Orfeo' and
'Rosenkavalier' are prestige operas,
carried at a loss, for their appeal
seemed scant. Lack of a name sup-
porting cast hampered Salvatore
Baccaloni in drawing for 'L'Elisir
D'Amore,' heretofore a tenors' opera.
'Otello' suffered because of the vocal
illness of Lawrence Tibbett and the
casting of Alexander Sved who does
not draw as 'lago.' Martinelli could
not carry the entire production on
his shoulders.

Lastly of the big losers, 'Samson'
had Rise Stevens miscast as Dallla
and lacking a name Samson opposite
her^

Generally speaking the season was
a poor one artlsticall.- It was
hampered by the death of Gennaro
Papi, with few sul'jble conductors
to relieve the hard working Ettore
Panizza in the Italian wing, and
with Sir Thomas Beecham a dis-
appointment both es a-i operatic
conductor and a drawing card. The
Mvt had no top b.o. draw as a name
with Baccaloni, Lily Pons, Grac^
Moore, Jan Peerce, Helen Traubel,
etc., being among some ot those who
attracted some, but not enough.

Met Opera Reviews

The Magio FInte' on Wednesday
(11) was presented with three roles
assumed by artists heretofore not
heard in them. Nicola Moscona took
over Sarastro and delivered a fall
performance. The bass was digni-
fied, stately in his action, but did not
have sufficiently low voice to cope
with either of his arias. It was ade-
quate, but hardly standout Stella
Andreva made a roguish Papagena
and Norman Cordon an exceUent
full-voiced" High Priest. His was
the standout performance vocally
and artistically among the new-
comers. Charles Kullman was ade-
quate, John Brownlee excellent vo-
cally and dramatically, and Nadlne
Conner just fair, among the other
principals. Karl Laufkoetter'S' gar-
bled English still distresses the ear
and the same is -true of other for-
eigners in the cast. Bruno Walter's
conducting was good in spots, but
the whole performance dragged in-
terminably.

Tanst' at Saturday matinee was
not a good performance, Charles
Kullmar^ in the title role struggled
hard and looked well but his light
voice did not cope with the brilliance
required in the uppermost notes of
his part. Licia Albanese again
looked too mature as Marguerite and
while adequate, was not good enough
vocally to hold interest. .

Leonard Warren's Valentine was
well sung. - Norman Cordon, replac-
ing FBI-visiting Ezio Pinza, deliv-
ered a fair Mephisto, singing his
arias well. But performance moved
slowly and had little life to it.

'Rosenkavalier' was - an excellent
exam{>le of an opera with no stand-
out voices but so well presented as
to be one 9t the best of the current
season. New to piece was Jarmila
Novotna in the role of Octavian and
she, of all the personnel, fell short
Vocally she found the part not in her
ranee and dramatically, despite a
justly-admired tt'imness of figure
she failed to live up to the picture
of a young boy. , Lotte Lehmann In
good voice repeated her princess, a
job of considerable vocal ■ splendor.
Emanuel List was an excellent boor
as Baron Oehs, but Marita Farrdl
had some difficulty with the tessitura
of Sophie. Erich Leinsdorf did an
excellent job in the pit

'Pagliacci' and 'The Island God,'
repeated by the Metropolitan Thurs-
day (12), was an ' average per-
formance of each opera. Only new
casting in either was Robert Weede,
singing his first Tonio at the house,
Baritone was in splendid voice with
stentorian 'A' flats and 'G's* in the
Prologue. His acting was excellent
and generally he was probably the
best Tonio of the current season and
of several past seasons. Arthur
Carron as Canio showed the seme
vocal deficiencies as before, and
Licia Albanese's Needa is hardly
more than adequate vocally.
Francesco Valentino and Alessio de
Paolis were good as Silvio and
Harlequin respectively. Wilfred
Pelletier drowsed at the baton. "The
Island God,' in its third showing,
again showed remarkable color in
orchestration and a lack of sense' of
the th^tre in its composer. Opera
would, probably sound better in the
original Italian than the flowery
English translation. Cast was ±he
same as in preceding presentations
with little variance as to per-
formances except that Raoul Jobin
and Astrid Varnay almost put the
opera oVer with a terrific rendition
of the. powerful duet in the third
scene. Ettore Panizza conducted.

'Lohengrin,' repeated Saturday eve-
ning 04-) by the Metropolitan, was
the last performance of the season at
the house. Opera received an aver-
age presentation with Lauritz Mel-
chior in good voice topping the rest
of the principals vocally, physically
and dramatically. Astrid Varney
ended her 'discovery' season -with a
well-sung Elsa, but' the youngster
shows signs of weariness. The Met
has not spared her in heavy roles
which apparently are too much for
her at this stage, despite her ability
to sing them and sing them well.
Kerstin Thorborg was. good as Or-
trud, although finding some dif-
ficulty with the upper tessitura of
her taxing role, but acting excellent-
ly. Mack Harrell appeared as the
Herald and was vocally short of sum-
moning sufficient power to flU the
house. Balance of smaller parts were
in familiar hands, and Erich Lens-
dorf led an orchestra which seemed
happy the season was over.

PAUL LOUIS INTO NAVY

fiadia Head ot Celmnbl* Coneertt
Into Uniform

Paul Louis, 37, .for the past six
years head of the radio talent and
booking department of Columbia
Concerts Corp., has been appointed
a first lieutenant In the Navy Air
Force. He will leave April 1 to take
up his duties near Washington.

Louis was formerly 'with NBC
Concerts Corp. in the sam* depart-
ment, and also served on tha Chi-
cago Tribune.

MEMPfliS TURNS
DOWN PINZA
BOOK

Memphis, March 17.
Guilty or not guilty it's just tha
same in Memphis. Ezlo Pinza wai
booked for the Beethoven Club's
concert series next year, announce-
ment being, made last week on tha
same day word came over wire that
the F.B.I, had arrested the Italian
tenor for questioning. Next day the
club cancelled him saying his repa
tatlon had been shadowed by the
publicity.

Memphis group two years ago
cancelled the Don Cossack Choir be
cause of public opinion at time to
anything Russian due to the pro
Finnish sentiment then prevailing.

Other three attractions on sched-
ule remain intact, being the Clh-
cinnati Symphony Orchestra, the
piano duo of Rosa and Josef Lhe
vlnne and Roland Gundry, young
violinisj. Substitution for Pinza will
be . named shortly.

Pinca's Position

Ezio Pinza in a burst of patriotic
zest in 1936 made statements about
the Ethiopian war which were wide-
ly publicized. Friends think him no
Fascist sympathizer any longer, he
having since taken out first papers,
stayed away from Italy, married an
American wife and issued no com-
meht on political matters.

It's no secret there's been a lot of
bickering backstage at the Met this
season due to mixed national strains
and with politics running higli.

New Radio Opera April 25;
NBC Presenting lessner's
'Nightingale and . Rose'

A new radio opera entitled 'The
Nightingale and the Rose' commis-
sioned by NBC will have its world
premiere April 25 from 2-3 p.m. on
a ' nationwide hookup. Opera was
written by George Lessner, Hun-
garian born composer, end is based
on Oscar Wilde's fantasy.

Singer's penciled in so far include
Vivian Delia Chiesa and Margaret
Daum, sopranos, and Earl Wrightsori,
baritone, Frank Black will conduct
the NBC Symphony orchestra and
the program is under the direction
of Clarence Menser.

Grant Divorce on Grounds
Wife Is a She-Nazi

Detroit, March 17.

Accusing his wife of preferring
the company of Nazis,"GabrieI Greg-
ory Zolot, formerly a member of the.
Don Cossack Choir, was granted a
divorce here by Circuit Judge Rob-
ert M. Toms. Zolot, now a choir
leader in a Russian Orthodox Church
here, said that he married his wife,
a German, in 1927 while on tour in
Europe with the choir.

Beside testifying that he could not
get his wife to l^ve Germany, Zo-
lot said he had failed in attempts
to bring to this country their 13-
year-old daughter whom he did not
want reared under the Hitler re-
gime.

UARIAN ANSEBSOFS BIG $4,000

Montreal, March 17.

Marian Anderson sang here at the
Plateau HaU Friday (13) to a
lammed house of 1,100 seats plus
400 standees at $1.50, other prices
being $3.50, $3 and ?2.50 rush seats.

Gross was $4,000.

Louis Kaufman, violinist (and
concertmaster of the 20th Century-
Fox Film Co. orchestra) will give a
recital at Town Hall, N. Y., March 26.

'Spcmtaiieous Aversion to the Nazis

Mor« Appropriate Just Now Than Shnis«i Erika
Mann Replies to Deems Taylor

N. Y^Xoncert Reviews

AI.BXANDEB BBAILOWSET
Planlat

Caraegla Hall, Marota 16, 194>

An all-Chopin program exhibited
remarkabla technical powers of the
pianist, but thosa 'wera in some re-
spects overdTB'wn as to the power
and strength of attack on the instru-
ment Tha interpretations were set'
forth In a clear, cold, crystal style,
lack ot 'warmth being evident at
times.

Sentlmentalism seems a pre-requl>
site in Chopin's music. Eddy.

Th* N. y. daily critics said:
mbuM (Boehm) — 'Unaftectlonate
treatment . . . shallow and brittle
tones. Remarkable digital dexterity
. Cold fury.'

Telegram (Blancoll)— "Fine graded
nuance and romantle elan. Spanned
a wide terrain from pure whimsy to
hurtling drama.'

ANNA ANTONIADES
Pianist ,

Carnegie Hall, N. Maroh 3, 194t

Young pianist has decided promise,
but Is perhaps being rushed too fast
Her main Idea seemed to be to fill
Carnegie HaU. with sound, the result
being distorted pitch and rhythms
and exaggerated fortl.

She needs Work, and plenty of It,
plus more poise. Tha self-assurance
she now possesses is Insuilicient,

Eddy.

The W. Y. Daily Crttics Said
Snn (Thompson): 'Fleetness and
strength of flxigers sometimes at the
expense of tha music. Impulsive,
vig.orous execution rather than
poetic or distinguished conceptions.'

Times (Parmenter): 'Too pro-
nounced habit of pounding awa.-,
Temperament, energy and flair for
the keyboard.*

BLAIB HoCLOSKT
Baritone

Town HaU, N. T, March 14, 1942

An excellent baritone voice of tre-
mendous possibilities both in the
concert and operatic flUd. Sincere
musicianship and understanding is
possessed by Blair McClosky.

Hampered by a cold which caused
slight deviations from pitch and an
occasional lack of color, the singer
fought his way tlirough the handi'
cap and deliirered an excellent rC'
cltal.

Range &tends from 'G' to a good
top 'A* flat, and tha voice itself Is
warm and big' in size. He bears
watching. Eddy.

Tha N. Y. dally crttics sajd; ~
Times (Straus) — 'Intelligent, mU'
sldanly and expressive. Diction ex-
cellent Ringing top tones and stir-
ring dramatic intensity.'

FLORENCE HARTLEY
Soprano

Town Hall, March 16, 1942

Soprano possesses a big voice of
good qualify and ample range, but
so erroneously is it projected that
she was unable to more than attempt
to cope with the program she preH
sented. Her vocal method is such
that she^lmost always lacks breath
support, and tha result Is frequent
deviations from pitch and tones
shaken by' a violent vibratto.

Eddv.

■ The N. y. daily crttics said;

Trlbone (Boehm)— 'So faulty pro-
duced that its potentialities were
more hinted 'ttian realized. Large
voice . . . naturally good quality "

Times (Straus)— 'Voice of excep-
tional possibilities. Unfortunate
faults of production . . . shakey,
spread. Insecure In pitch.'

AUBREY PANKEY
Baritone

Town HaU, March 16, 1942

Colored baritone Is best -suited for
the songs most always associated
with his .race than those which re-
quire a more extensive range. Voice
is of fair size, nice quality, but lim-
ited and neutral, on top. An 'E' just
about lets him out His interpreta-
tions Were carefully and intelligently
worked out and his diction clear, but
lack of necessary top tones was too
serious a handicap. Eddy.

The N. y. dailw crttics said;

Times '(Straus) — 'Light lyrle voice.
Musical accurate and refined. Tend-
ency to tighten upper part of the
short range and emit hollow breathy
tones.'

Tribnne (Perkins) — 'Good voice,
ample volume, warm and substantial.
Range of color had its limits ... oc-
casional departure from clarity of
tone.'

Deems Taylor has gotten himself
into table talk around New York
and has been called various names.
Including fascist,' as the result of a
clash between himself and £rlka
Maim, German refugee daughter of
the famous novelist Taylor read
aloud over CBS in a Philharmonic
orchestra entre'acte a recent letter
Miss Mann wrote the New York
Times objecting to 'U. S. perform-
ance fees and royalties going to Nazi
composers. Taylor poured ridicule
on the -letter and its writer, where-
upon CBS was confronted with a
demand by Miss Mann to go on the
Philharmonic program to answer
Taylor. This CBS refused but gave
her a Saturday night spot which she
finally accepted although claiming
the time and iludience violated fair
play' and put her at a disadvantage
in attempting a rebuttal.

'I'd feel a lot better,' said Miss
Mann, 'if I and all those who are
waiting with anxiety for news from
the theatres of war, were not sub-
jected to having this news sand-
wiched in between recordings by
musicians (Nazis) who at the. very
moment may be instigating tiie loss
of a thousand American lives. I'd
feel a lot better if American radio
stations .would decide to play
records by Vladimir Horowitz or
Artur Rubinstsis instead of bv the
Nazi Gieseking; by Myra Hess or
Rudolf Serkin instead of by the Niazi
Backhaus; by George CTershwin in-
stead of the Na:d I^nz Lehar.'

Referring to her letter to the New
York Times which had l>een criti-.
cized by Taylor, Miss Mann said 'I
didn't see any reason why the vari-
ous Nazi concert-artists should be
admitted to our radio programs,
particularly since there are so many
friendly musicians, both Americans
and Europeans, who are at least'
their artistic equals.

'Spontaneons Aversion'
'Of course, I do not think that
our listening to Mr. Hitler's obedient
pet-artists has much to do with our
attiude towards bitlerlsm. Never-
theless our Indulgence seems to be-
tray a certain, lack of .spontaneous
aversion on our part, a certain lux-
urious detacliment which makes us
almost forget who is our enemy. Our
enemy, incidentally, heartily enjoys
and appreciates our lenience, all
the more so, since, in many cases,
we are accumulating his royalties
for him.'

Saying she was bewildered by
Taylor's- radio remarks. Miss Mann
asked 'What was Mr. Taylor re-
proaching me for? I had not ad-
vocated the smashing of records and
the burning of books. I had not
acted against justice and freedom by
writing, my letter to the Times. Was
It prejudiced to call an enemy an'
enemy7 Was it intolerant to re-
member the enemy as barbaric and
ruthless, even when he played the
piano with such extraordinary sensi-
bility?

'In an effort to clarify the situa-
tion 1 drew up a little list of all the
possible viewpoints that might be
taken in connection with our prob-
lem. I said: 1. Some people would
like to ban Beethoven, because he
was a German; I should most cer-
tainly not Some people might even
wish to ban Arturo Toscanini, be-^
cause, regardless of liis anti-Fascist
convictions he's an Italian; I should
most certainly not 3. Some people
would Uke to ban Richard Strauss,
because he's a Nazi. Mr. Taylor
would not I wouldn't either be-
cause I would'nt ban any cultural
effort in a Democracy. But I would
feel somewhat better if we'd decide
to drop Strauss from our repertoires
for the time being.'

In opening. Miss Mann told of
listening to a piano-sonata played
by a German pianist 'I used to
know, an ardent and active Nazi. The
sonata was fine ana he played it
Yet I was imable to enjoy it.

John BarbiroiU, British iKirn con-
ductor of the N. Y. Philharmonic
orchestra will fly to London in mid-
April to conduct the London Sym-
phony, Philharmonic and B. B. C.
orchestras. He will return in July.

■well.

Not for one moment could I ban-
ish from my eyes the actual picture
of the man who' was playing that
sonata, a man who had put both his
art and his person at Hlfler's dis-
posal, a man who for years had been
touring Europe as ona of the
Fuehrer's numerous 'cultural' propa-
ganda-agents, undermining the mor-
ale and the sense of self-preServa-
tlon of Europe's democracies,'

Vedncsaay, Wtch 18. 1942

RHVBAS

Inside Staff-Qr€h«lras

EU Obersteln It seeking coin macfaine coverasa for bis Xlita label Two
tuts of the Week* releasei. Ha has been talking deals with dletributon
to machine operators and claims to have lereral in New York and more
In phlladelpbla who are liandling his output. When Oberttebi first started
his new company late last year he had no Intention of competing with
other manufacturers for coin box business.

Beeinning April 10 his Clastic Record Co. will increase its weekly re-
lewe from one record to three and hillbilly and race record output will
be Instituted. .

Sammy Kaye has been having trouble recently over an imposter who
has represented hlmseU as the bandleader's brother. Last winter a fel-
low using the name Fhll Kaye ran up a bill at a Detroit garage and ad-
vised its owners to send tiie leader the bill. He also professes to have
Invested a wad tt money in Kaye's band.

Kaye hasn't been able to catch up to the maiquerader, but knows that
be's the manager of ma. orchestra led by • girl.

Bunny Berigan broadcast from the Brookline Country Club, Plilladel-
phia, last Saturday night with the aid of candles. A few minutes before
sdieduled 4S-mlnute broadcast, over WCAU from the one-night stand, the
'spot's UithtS were doused by a'Shbrt , ^ • - • ; - -

Father of Jimmy and Tommy Doraey, is In grave condition in Friend
Hospital, Philadelphia, He's been confined there nearly a year.

N Y. Paramount Also Wants Kaye
And J. Dorsey; WoiiU Blilz Strand

Paramount theatre, New York,
made overtures last week to two
bands that regularly play the oppo-
sition Strand. If the propositions
were to be accepted the Par would
have contracts with four bands rafed
the top theatre b.o. outfits in New
Yorl^. thereby putting a large dent
In the Strand's pit band policy.

As it is now, the Par regularly
plays Tommy Dorsey and Glenn'
Miller, while the Strand does Uke-
wise with Jimmy Dorsey and Sanuny
Kaye. If either one were to grab
oS all four that house would have
a minimum of 12- weeks and possibly
16 weeks of the most powerful or-
chestra attractions available, if each,
were played only once. Contracted
for twice a year, of course, the weeks
would be doubled and constitute
opposition that would virtually force
the foldhig of the band policy at the
house that didn't have them.

MCA OificKik
In Hollywood
For Meeting

Confab of officials of Music Corp.
of America got tmderway at agency's
HoUywood office Monday (16). Bill
Qoodheart, of New York headquar-
ters, left last week by train, picking
up lyArve Barton, head of Clevc'
land office, and Maurey Llpsie, of
Chicago branch, on the way. Hal
Hackett, radio department head in
N. Y., flew out over the weekend.

Julet Steh), president, is In Holly
wood. Sonny Werblin is there, too,
after a vacation In Mexico.

Saxie Mansfield Retires
For Plumbing trade

Saxie Mansfield, tenor saxlst who
dropped out of Woody Herman's
band last week after being with it
from the days 'it was. under . Isham
Jones' baton, is leaving the business
entirely. He will return to Spring-
field, O., his home town, to go into
plumbing and heating contiract work
with a company owned by his
father. Latter has been ill.

Mickey Folus teplaced Mansfield
when Herman went into the New
Yorker hotel, N. Y, Friday (13).

Harry James Doing Well

Harry James orchestra broke its
own attendance and gross mark at
Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook, Cedar
wove, N. J., last week, after setting
marks in both categories the
week before, the first .of a four-week
stay. Band has done -as much' busi-
ness in Its first two weeks as any
«thtt top name did in two and a half
weeks previously,'

Dailey refuses to divulge accurate
™Portant night figures, but poinU out
James phiyed to approxhnately 650
S! uv' ^ Tuesday (10), more than
oouwe the pull of any predecessor
on that evening. ■

Week's Best Releases

Jimmy Dorsey: Tomorrow's
Sunrise'— 'I'm Glad There Is
You' (Decca 41B7). "Glad' side
has all requirements of solid
ballad hit. Bob Gberly vocal

Benny Goodman: 'Jersey
Bounce' — 'String Pearls* (Okeh
SS90). While it drifts a bit, ar-
rangement of 'Bounr-' Is strong, -
rhythmic box bet.

King Sisters:- 'Hey Zeke'—
•When Roses Bloom* (Blue
11472). McFarland Twins start-
ed 'Zeke,' light ^. novelty;
Kings solidify indicated ma-
chine -future.

Horace Heidt: -'Deep Heart
Texas'— 'Loretta' (Col. 36525).
Late, but Heidt's 'Texas' is in
the race with both feet. En-
semble vocalling.

Art Kaasel: 'Kiss Me Good-
night Sergeant Murphy' —
'Chances Are' (Blue 11471).
First, h(imorous novelty, is fine
box stuff, .well done. Kassel
and chorus vocal.

Vaaghn Monroe: 'Don't Tell
Lie About Me, Dear'— 'All for
' Love' (Blue 11468). Typical Gay
90's melody, 'Lie' packs wide
appeal Monroe's vocal is good.

CUnde Thornhill: Tjamp of
Memory' — ^'Memory Lane' (Col.
- 36523), Solid playing in band's
baUad style treats strong new
pop and standard smartly. Dick
Harding vocals.

If YoQ Alk Him—

Dallaa, March 17.

According to Cervtl Craig
there is nothing but trouble and
discord ahead tor orchestra
leaders who plan to replace
drafted musicians with female
players,

'In. tiie first place a women
can't stand up fn the brass sec>
tion. Its extremely' bard work ,
even for a man.' /Qmost as true
of the reed section.

But the biggest drawback
would be the male mustcians
themselves.

AFM APPEALING
SECURITY TAX
DECISION

Mrs. Weil Gets Back Son
(T. Dorsey) Music Firm
Inclnding 'Smile Again'

Chicago,. JJarfih. 17. .

Mrs. Milton Weil takes back from
Tommy Dorsey the Sun Music Co.
catalog, willed her by her husband,
and which she sold to the band-
leader about three years ago. Ac-
cording to the terms of the sale
Dorsey was to Jiave made periodic
payments to Ker and since none
have been made recently she is to
resume control. Sun is separate and
apart from the Embassy Music Co.,
non-ASCAP firm that" Dorsey also
operates, and which he retains under
general and professional manager
.Tack Johnstone.

One of the tunes that Mrs. Weil
gets With thfe take-back of Sun cat-
alog is '111 Never Smile Again,'
Dorsey's biggest hit as a music pub-
lisher and one of his biggest as a
bandleader.

General Samuel Ansell, ohlef
counsel for the American Federation
of Musicians, is preparing to take
the Griff Williams decision on social
security to the U, S. supreme court.
The circuit court of appeals for the
Chicago area recently reversed a
finding of the lower court that the
employer of a band rather than its
leader was responsible for the pay-
ment of the social security tax.

The circuit court upheld the Gov-
ernment's contention that Griffin
was the employer of the members of
his band and that the hotel in which
they had performed could not be
compelled to pay social- security
taxes for them.

CATALINA LOOKS LIKE
A ZERO THIS YEAR

Casino on Catalina Island, Califor-
nia, probably will not' operate with
name bands this year. Reason, of
course, is that area will spend much
of its time under blackout conditions
and the use of exi>ensive names
would be prohibitive.

Several bands had already been
mentioned as headed .for stretches at
the spot, but none had been assigned
definite dates.

Buffalo Ballroom in New
Hands After 20 Y<6ars

Buffalo, March 17.

Dellwood Ballroom, operated for
20 years by family of Arthur J.
Funk, is now running as Main-Utica
dancery under new group which also
runs Esquire dance hall. Group in-
cludes Harold Austin, bandleader;
George Hall and Francis CoughUn
of Crystal Beach . Amusement Co.
Marks a 'homecoming* to Austin,
who started his band at old DeU-
wood 10 years ago and now comes
back as manager-maestro.

New management hopes to sublet
Esquire, concentrating its efforts cn
Main-Utica shuffle parlor. Mrs.
Funk moving tt) suburban dancery,
Dellwood Lodge, ln_^Aprll. Latter
always was operated through' hot
months, moving Into city location
for the cold ones.

Hoax or Swindle?

Goodman Seeks Vocalists

Benny Goodman is conducting au-
ditions for a trio or quartet of vocal-
ists. His eventual selection will not
disturb vocalist Peggy Lee, but Art
London, male singer, is on notice.

Goodman for years went along
with only a girl singer; It's only re-
cently that London was hired.

Buddy BIch headed for Army.
Tonuny Dorsey looking for new
drummer. -

Cleveland, March 17.

Local Better Business Bureau is
looking-for the culprits of a phoney
£rat dance who advertised the ap-
pearance of Jimmy Dorsey and dis
tributed tickets for the unbooked
event. The circulars and tickets
mentioned 'Zi Phenax,' a non-ex
istent frat, while. the place and date
was the Hotel Cleveland, March 13,
It happens that the students of Case
College have a dance booked for the
same spot and date and with Miami
U's Campus Owls and Russ Carlisle
as the bands.-

The chairman of the Case dance
can't make out whether somebody
was trying to embarrass his event or
whether it was an out and out at
tempted swindle. Dorsey, it . was
learned, couldn't have played a local
date even if he had been approaclied,
as his crew is set for the Pennsyl
vania hotel, N. Y., up to May 2.

Sammy Watklns' new singer at
.WUliam Penn hotel, Pittsburgh, is
Glenn Sterling, until recently Fed-
eral Reserve bank clerk in Cleve-
iaod,

Kansas Gty Band Brings In Subs
From L A.; Local Mnsidans Piref er
Pay, Hours of War Factories

NO CLEVELAND RECOUNT

A..TM. DbaUowa OVU Kapl'a Com-
plaint en MiUI Votei

Cleveland, March 17.
Protest registered by Otto Kapl
against laxity of rales' - in recent
election et OleivCland musicians'
union officers, in which he was
edged out by LeRoy Repp for the
presidency, was dismissed by the
national headquarters In New York.
Kapl, former pmy who had beein
running for re-elecUon, klciked about
the ellgihiUty of out-of-town vote*,
particularly ihosa of Cleveland ifisn
now in the army.' Ther« were 380
ballots mailed In by touring, mud-
clans, 38 of whom are in amy
service.

Union's national board of direc-
tors ruled that servicemen could still
vote in' this case^ ■nd.refused to re-
consider ■ recount It would not
have mattered mudi, since Bepp was
voted into office by an overwhelming
majority.

Ban on Jam Sessions
Evokes Boston Diuly
Cohmnist to Protest

Boston, March 17.

The perennial question of 'sittingr
in' among musicians was aired in an
open letter to President James C. Pe-
triUo of the American Federation of
Musicians -from George Frazier, Bos-
.ton- Herald jazz columnist. Writing
in his daily column, Frazier argued
against the union's restriction upon
musicians that forbids them to play
with other bands free of charge after
their regular nightly stint.

Frazier pointed out that many mu-
sicians enjoy playing, thus for 'kicks.'
'For him it Is a night off/ he wrote.
Since they are not advertised, Fra-
zier feels the musicians should be
aUowed to sit-in.

He argued for two paragraphs for
those in Army ranks who, when on
a furlough, enjoy the taboo pastime,
but the strict rule stands for. the sol-
dier as well.

In closing, Frazier wrote: 'That is
why I have written this letter, to ask
you to repeal a stupid rule that has
long since outlived whatever' use-
fulness It might once have had.'

What prompted the musicians
union to clamp a ban originally on
the sitting-ln practice was' that some
night spots advertised it as a feature
of entertainment Such spots would
hire a trio or quartet of instrumen-
talists with strong Inclinations to-
ward free swingeroo, and then de-.
pend on. augmentation of the com-
bination by cuffo guestees. This
method became quite common in 52d
street, N. Y, spots. ' .

Skip Nelson Skips Idea
Of His Own Orchestra

Pittsburgh, March 17.

Quitting Joey Sims' band to start
one of his own, Skip Nelson, pianist-
vocalist, ran into usual trouble find-
ing musicians these days and de-
cided to work for somebody else for
the duration. So last week he
joined small 'Piccolo Pete' outfit at
Rltz Hotel's Club Petite here, re-
placing Henry Miller, who left to
become arranger for Bernle Arm-
strong at KDKA.

Another newcomer to the Piccolo
Pete outfit Is Jimmy Zummo, for-
merly a well-known local maestro
in his own right, who succeeded sax
player Art Schamberg, recently in-
ducted Into the army.-

Joe Shribman Out

Joe Shrlbman was let out of the
General Amusement Co. headquar-
ters In New York last week and is
now in Florida vacationing,. He had
been working on location bookings
tor orchestras; only a few months
ago he was moved in to N. Y. from
Chicago, where he booked one-nlght-
ers.

He's nephew of Cy Shrlbman, New
England baUroOm operator.

Kansas City, Iklarcfi 17,
Billy Bishop's orchestra at th*'
SouUjem Mansion gave up two men,
to anned services lart week,; i}ouf
Boll, -tsiimpet man. and Ulrlch 'Ham'
Berger, Mzl^ Bldipp was ioiced
to find replacements In Los Angclea
becknse defense Industty In Kansaa
C%. has drabied off muslclana
who prefer the iteady houra an^
pair to odd-honr, odd-job work «t
bands. Some miislcians are work-
ing «t defense jobs and managing t»'
play dance jcribs on side.

Ntw men In Bishop band are Rudy
Lo«rai irumpet, and Kd Mayer, sa:t

MDanonieii

Dates to CSl

Camp Shows, InOq is asking band>
leaders not to play any charity date^.
of any Und' unlfss dearad through,
or at -least reported to, that body. .
There have been several- objections
recently to- name outfits playing for
free on their own hook where they
unwittingly Interfered with paid
dance promoitlonB nearby. To' fore-:
stall repetition of such inddenta'
bandleaders currently in New York,
were asked to attend-, yesterdaiy's .
(Tuesday) meeting - between, band '
booking agency oiitdals and' CSI
men. Thesa meetings are held each
week— during which bookers report
open dates of their Bands and CSI
fills the free evenings with Artny
camp bookings. ' . '

It was explained to leaders that
the best method of avoiding confllc-
Uon with private enterprises Would-
be to do oiily those afCaIrs sanc-
tioned and appointed by CSI. It was
a)so pointed out' that tuider such an
arrangement the embarrasment of
possibly havhig to refuse an ap-
proach for a charity date would ba
lifted from a leader since each could
simply refer the requestee to CSL •

HANK D'ANlCa TOURS
12-MENFORWM. MORRIS

, Buffalo, March 17,

Hank D'Amieo left here last week-'
end with new 12-man band to begiQr
Ufa with the WUliam :M6rria office.
Opened at McKeesport, Pa., moving
on to dates In Youngstown, O.,
Cleveland and Detroit. D'Amieo la
former Bob Crosby, clarinetist ~
Counting D'Amieo, who leads with
clarhiet, group has five reeds, four
brass and three rhythm. Jim Foster,
local boy, who was with' McFarland
Twins, does the vocals arid Tick
Smith will -manage. -

Niesen, Libby Holman,
Martha Raye on Decca

Gertrude Niesen refcords for Decca
In New York tomorrow) (-Thurs.),
She is to do a series of pops on a
per-slde arrangement Libby Hol-
man also is to cut for Decca. She'll
record an album of tunes with- which
she's been identified, accompanied
by guitarist Joshua White.

Martha Raye is to make het Initial
sides for the same companjr this
Friday (20), a date that has been
postponed seyeral times.

Dofly Dawn as Single

Dolly Dawn has broken up the
band she took over from George Hall
last Fall and henceforth will be sold
as a single, singing act

She disbanded earl^- last week
after completing a location job at
the Roselend Ballroom, New York.

«u

ORCHESTRAS

Wedneidaj, March 18, 1942

On the Upbeat

Art Paulson band flUs In Sunday
night at New Yorker hotel, New
York Terrace Room; Hal Miller's
{{roup will spell Peter Kent's In
Manhattan Room similarly

Johnny MoGee orchestra now be-
ing booked by Music Corp. of Amer-
ica. First date Is El Ra&cho, Ches-
ter, Pa., this, weekend (21-22).

Jan Garber to record for Elite
Records in ChicaRo. Friday (26).

Oeorce Wald succeeded Hal How-
ard at- the Plantation Cactus Room
In Dallas. Henceforth the Plantation

wlll .be dark on Monday nights, when
Manager Joe I<andwebr will send his
bands to Camp Wolters, Mineral
Wells, Texas, for free soldier enter-
tainment. Each Tuesday night ad-
mission to the Plantation will be by.
25c in defense stamps.

' MeredUh Wilson recorded album
of tunes for Decca last week, his
second.

Tone Carnevale, who closed (8)
after five months at WiUiamsviUe
Glen outside ' Buffalo, forming . new
combo to include himself on piano,
Max Miller on violin, Nick Alico on

sax, Russ Messina on accordion and
Lou Impelletler, bass.

Horace Heldt'i band moves Into
the Orpheum,' Los Angeles, today
(Wednesday) for one week. Bob
Crosby slated tor .the week begin-
ning April i,

Bnnny Sbawker has taken over
drummer spot with Xies Brown.

Bay Tnc'cl, saxist with Jan Savitt,
and Jeanne Blanche, vocalist . with
the same band, were married last
Wednesday (11). at,. Omaha, Neh.
Savitt and Mary Lou Wilson, bride's
friend, stood up for the pair.

Al Donahue and his orchestra
checked, in at Universal for a mu-
sical short, 'Radio Revels.'

10 Best Seflers on XonhMachines

(Records belou) are ffrabbtno mott nieMa t\\\a week tn jufceboxe«
throughout th* country. o» reported bv operators to "Variety.'" Womet
of more thnn'one band nr uocallst after the.- title indicates. In order o/
poputaritv. tflhose .rerordtnps ore being ptaved . Picrures and names in
parenthesis .indicate the number' of tpeefcs each tonu has been in the listinot
and respectit><t' publisher*.)

B I G ■ on his Return Engage-

ment . . . Currently at the New York

STRAND

BIG ■ In the Jukeboxes with

'I Surrender Dear' — 'This Is No
Laughing Matter' — Arthur Murray
Taught Me Dancing In A Hurry' — ^'Dear
Mom'— Exclusively on Okeh records.

BIG ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Record Breaking Tour
of One Night Stands . , . Just Concluded.

BIG

■ ■■■■■ Record Breaking Appear-
ance -in- the- Cafe Rouge at the Pe
sylvania Hotel, New York . . . and al-
ready signed for a return engagemiemt
starting May 4 . . . for the entire
summer season.

The Man Who Plays the Sweetest Trumpet in the World

CHARLIE SPIYAK

AND HIS ORCHESTRA

featuring THE STARDUSTERS and GARRY STEVENS

Personal Mcmagemeiit— DON W. HAYNES 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York

1. Deep Heart tTexas (&) Melody lane.'.... |

2. Blues In Night (10) Remlck |

3: Moonlight Cocktails (4) Jewel k.. |

4 i Oon't Want Walk .(4) Para.motmt. .... |

5. String of Pearls (4) Mutual |

6. Somebody taking Place (3) Shapiro.!.. |

7. On Street Regret (2) Loeb |

8. Rose b'Day (7) Tobias............ , |,

9. Miss You (1) Santly |

Alvint Rey Bluebird

Sing Crosby Decca

Woody Herman . ; Decca

Cab Callowa:'.., Okeh

Glenn Miller .Bluebird

Tommy Tucker ..... .Okeh

Harry James Columbia

Vausbn Monroe. . . .Bluebird

G'.eiip Miller Bluebird

Woody Hermati Decca

Benny Goodman Okeh

Vaughn Mbnroo. . ; .Bllebird

Vaughn Monroe ..Bluebird.
Samitty Kaye ........Victor

Kate Smith Columbia'

Woody Herman ..Decca

Bing Crosby .D^cca

Samyy Kaye.. ..Victor

Sammy Kayf ■ ..Victor

Jlmraj lJdr.''ey..;.. ...Decca

OTHER FAVORITES

(These records are directly beloto /Irst.lO .ln poputorlt]/. Tuijes lolth
. number o/ weeks in parenthesis are fadincr, others paining.)

I • ■

10., White Cliffs of Dover (11) Shapiro.

Dear Mom (Republic) r:

j Sammy Kayc.M Victor

JKate Smith....... Columbia

\ EVrything I Love (ChappbU). j Sy^"«ey\\\\\f ^D^a

( Johnny Long Decca

( Glenh Miller Bluebird

( Inkspots , .Decca

I Woody Herman. , Decca

Couple In Castle (Famous).

Someone's Rockin' Dreamboat . (Advance).

Sometimes (Berlin) } ^""8"" J^V^""- • -Bluebird

(Tommy Tucker Okph

My Little Cousin (Dorralne) Benny Goodinan Okeh

What To Do (Leeds).. .Andrews Sisters Decca

ZootSuIt (Greene-Revel) \ ^^y ; Columbia

( Andrews Sisters Decca

Tangerine (Paramount) J jimmy Dorsey .... Decca

(Vaughn Monroe ...Bluebird

Mandy Is Two (BVC).

f Abe Lyman .'Bluebird :

( Vaughn Monrpe . . JSluebird

How Do I Know It's Real? (ChappeU) ^S'^'^t'® 'J*^'^ ....Bluebird

( Guy Lombardo .Decca

Band Reviews

WILL OSBOBNE OBCH (14) *

With Marianne ^

Hotel Mnehlebaoh, Kansas City

Will Osborne went Into semi-
retirement couple of' seasons back,
turning his then H^ell-known 'slide
music' outfit over as a cooperative
group ' to singer Dick Rogers for
batoning. Offer of a spot in Warner
picture., .'Blues in the . Night,' last
summer brought him back to activie
music, and band that be now fronts
is the one organized- for the ' film
chore, with ' a minor, subsequent
change or two such as demanded by
the draft and similar emergencies.

Gone is the old 'slide music' from
this Osborne crew, and in its^ place
is a sweeter, fuller style. The style
is 'quasi,' of which the strongest
component is sweet-swing. Sweet-
tiess is the band's long forte, and
weU done: StiU it might lean a bit
more to rhythm and novelties, even
though jive and the heavy beat are
admittedly not popular as they
wer'ea-season or two ago..

Instrumentation is on a 5-5-3 basis
and vocals are handled by Osborne
in his long-recognized 'ballad style,
by Marianne (Dunne) in her special
forte of rhythm-singing, with Dale
■Tones occasionally leaving his string
bass for a Jlvey lyric. Sax section
carries both baritone and bass, sel-
dom seen here, and Is manned by
Murray Wald, Ijon Doty, Bob Mar-
tin, Maurice Lopez and Joe Adams.
Brass is apportioned to trumpet trio,
Jim Hardy, Bud Dietz and Herble
Bass, and duo of . trombones con-
sists of Bud Jenkins and Elmer
Schneider. ~' Besides Jones In the
rhythm department, Joe Stevens Is
at the piano and Dick Shanahan at
drums.

Arranging is the chore of Carl
Leaf, who began with crew as an
instrumentalist but found the cleff-
ing duties a full-time assignment.
His notlhgs bring out fuU ensemble
work, frequent brass mutings <)nd
leave rhythm section to its basic
background task. Osborne is doing
no instrumental work with this crew,
handling the baton, vocals - and
m.c.lng. Qutn.

DON JUAN RODBIGO OBCH (6)

With Carmen Abrln

Hotel President, Kansas City

Rodrlgo's crew exhibits perhaps
the widest range of versatility of any
ensemble yet . to be spotted In the
Drum Room. As per dancers' re-
quirements here, a typical set by
Rodrlgo may veer frotn a rhumba
and conga to a bit of Dixieland
fiwing, back, to a modrfm sw^et bal-

lad and close on a medley of old
favorites, which Is about all that can
be asked of such a group.

This wide range of portfolio Is
garnished by the work of Rodrlgo.
himself, alternating at piano, solovox,,
accordlon - and a regular turff at
YocaUing ballad& His Work Is per- .
ionable and accomplished. John
Horton leaves his trumpet to double
on piano In place of the leader.
Latin vocals done in a'pleasing bari-
tone are the ■ specialty of Manuel
Arredondq, sax man, with Jose Ri-
vera of the sax section obliging with
InstrunientBl specialties and novel-
ties. Neal Smith rounds out the sax
section and Carlos Guay thumps
drums, with various members aiding
on maracas, bongos, claves, etc.

Carmen Marin is added to the en-
semble for this engagement and may
become a regular If booking arrange-
ments with the Frederick Bros, office
can be ironed out. She's a Latin-.
American— type -4n— contralto— range_
and will probably add considerable
to the group when her arrangements
have been more completely co-
ordinated with Rodrlgo's portfolio.

Qutn.

PAm. MOokBEAD Orch (7)
Hotel Paxtop, Omalw

First local venture of expanded
Vic Schroeder agency into location
field worked happily for all con-
cerned. Moorhead's a figure In the
territory, ' but for past two months
band has been going it alone, with
the headman serving as exec in the
Schroeder (Office. The road band Is
doing one-nlghter business under
Moorhead's name, while latter heads:
this small combo, not exactly a pick-
up outflt, because all the sldemen are
from the 14 Schroeder bands.

Paxton's been using Latin (Darryl-
Harpa) and continental (Juan Ma-
kula) outfits, so a band without an
accent, musical or otherwise, is a
novelty. Instrumentation is three
sax, bass, drums, piano and trumpet,'
the la^t handled by Moorhead. Neil
Whiteside does the rhythm vocals,
Moorhead the ballads. Shying from
too much novelty, the outfit uses
SolOvox and vlbraharp sparingly,
leans to sweet arrangements. Band
was set for three weeks, bi;t two-,
week option has already been picked
up.

VSA still far from sold on locaUon
work, although the agency's Eddy
Dunsmoor has been successful at It
on the Coast and in Oklahoma and
Texa? the pastysar,,,, ,

TWO IMPORTANt DATES IN SONG HISTORY

On November 11, 1938, KATE SMITH sang
for the first time "GOD BLESS AMERICA."

On March 6, 1942, KATE SMITH intra-
duced another song, by the same writer
"I THREW A KISS IN THE OCEAN."

43 ORCHESTRA GBOMM

Wednesday, March 18, 1942

Brown Sets Band Pace in Beatres
At Strong SOG. Long Solid $36,000.
Masters OK 18G, Spivak Lags, 25G

(Estimates for This Week)
Les Brown, New York (Paramount;
3,864; 35-55-85-99)— With Connee Bos-
well, other acts, on pit platform;
•Fleet's In' (Par) on screen. Fact
that several favorites of the Par fans
who have played house in- person
are among those in "Fleet's In,'
couples 'With current stageshow to
provide heavy draught; first week
through last night (Tues.) a sock
$59,000. Show remehis three weeks.

Duke Ellington. Philadelphia
(Earle; 2,768; 35-48-57-68-75)— Backed
by Ethel Waters on stage plus 'Bullet
Scar^ (WB). Combo racking up
hefty $21,000 with little help from
mild film which was either panned
heavily or fluffed by crix.

Emie Fields, Minneapolis (Or-
pheum; 2,800; 39-44-55)— Wittr Bill
Kobinson rightly bUled over band,
but dancer's first local appearance in
11 years. First time here, for band.
All-colored stage revue, plus 'Bed-
time Story'- heading for satisfactory
$14,000, due principally- to Robinson
and film.

Shep- Fields, Newark (Adams; 2,
000; 29-36-50-60)— Plus 'South Tahiti'
(U).- Sharing bill with other acts.
Including Yvett« and GU Lamb. Or-
chestra Is helping to good $15,500,

Ella Fltcgerald, Baltimore (Hippo-
drofne; 2,240; ,17-25-28-30-44-55-66)—
With Inkspots «nd 'Date with Fal
con' (ItKO). Band' and Inkspots car-
rying load; rosy $1000. Squeezing
' In extra shows dally.
■ Glen Gray, "Cleveland (Palace; 3,<
700; '30-35-42-65-68)— With 'Play-
mates' (RKO). Burden is largely on
Gray's organization because'picture
and supporting vaude not too forte.
Okay $15,000, excellent considering.

Johnny Lone, Detroit (4,000; 40-
05-85) — Teamed with Andrews Sis-
ters on stag^ and 'Shanghai Gesture'
(VA) on screen, giving band a boost
Solid $36,000, with Long crew shar-
ing credit three ways.

Chloe Marx, Pittsburgh (Stanley;
3,800; 30-44-55-66)— Plus 'Dangerous
ly Live' (WB). Few praised picture
so It can't be considered much help.
. Hence Marx gets credit for $18,000,
slightly better than par here. Some
stage assistance' from Lorraine
Rpgnan, popular. In town.
FranUe Masters, Chicago (Orien

tal; 3,200; 33-44-95)— With ' 'Road
Happiness* (Mono). Masters strong
favorite in town and will take nifty
$18,000. Film means nothhig on this
date.

Charlie Spivak, New York (Strand;
2,756; 35-55-65-99)— With 'Always in
My Heart' (WB). This combination
falling to attract 'em, with less than
$25,000, lean, Indicated for first week.
Holds over anyway.

Joe Vennil, Brooklyn (Strand; 2,-
600; 30-40-50-55)— With Hal LeRoy
on stage and 'Body Disappears' (WB).
Four-day run oniy feeble $6,000.

GrlB Willtoms, MUwaukee (River-
side; 2,600; 30-40-50)— With 'Go West'
(Col). While appealing to more con-
servative band fans rather than jit-
terbugs, drew satisfactory. $12,000,
okay at this spot. Helped by Georges
and Jalna on stage. .

The Song Everyone la
■ ' Talking About t

WE'LL
MEET
AGAIK

DASH - CONNELLY, Inc.

1619 Broadway, New York
. SOUT COHN, OcB. Fie. Har.

MEREDITH WILLSON'S

AMERICA CALLING

Band Bookmgs

My Foster Son—*

Teddy Powell'fl is anothar
band with a star Instrunlentallat .
BO young that the leader has b«<
come his guardian. He's 17-year
Old Tommy Taylor.

Corky Corkoran was the flrrt
Instrumentalist (tenor sax)
playing under such an arrange*
ment. He was first with Sonny
Dunham and later the guard-
ianship -was transferred to Harry
James, whom he's now with,
Raymond Scott for a while re-
cently had a drummer In his
band under a similar Ifegal set-
up.

If - the Army continues to
drain oB of-age musicians
there's a good possibility such
deals will be common.

Scott Amherst Date
Nets87%Studes;
Spivak Sock 6y23

Georgia Anid, March 23, one-night.
Log Cabin, Armonk, N. Y,

.ToBuny Doraey, May 1, Pennsyl-
vania State College, . State College,
Pa.; 2, Sunnybrook B., Pottstown,
Pa.; 3, County Center; 'mxlte Plains,
N. Y.

Gray Gordon, April 22, two weeks,
Brunswick hotel, Boston.

Lonls Prima, April 4, four weeks,
Syracuse ' hotel, Syracuse.

Johnny 'Sitat' Davis, one-night,
Sea Girt Inn, Sea Girt, N. J.; 6,
Armory, Passaic, N. J.

Bine Barron, March 20, Liberty
theatre, Zanesvllle, O.; 21, Castle
Farms, Cincinnati; 22, Palace thea-
tre, Marion, O.; 23, State theatre,
Uniontown, Pa.; 24, Falrmount thea-
tre, Fairmount, W. Va.j 25, Majestic
theatre, Johnstown, Pa.; Warner
theatre, Mdrgantown, W. Va.; 27,
April 2, Stanley theatre, Pittsburgh.

Tommy Tacker, March 21, Wal-
demere Park, Erip, Pa.; 22, Union
theatre, Philadelphia; 23, Maryland
theatre, Cumberland, Md.; 24, Manos
theatre, Greensburg, Pa.; 25, Co-
luraibia theatre, Sharon, Pa.; 26, Basle
theatre, Washington, Pa.; 27, Car-
negie Tech, Pittsburgh; 29, Myers
Lake Park, Canton, O.; 31, Essex
house, New York.

Bob Allen, April 4-5, Metropolitan
theatre. Providence; 8-8, Pljnnouth
theatre, Worcester, Mass.; 9-10, Poll
theatre, Waterbury, Conn.

jlmble Lnnceford, April 1, Town-
ship Aud., (Columbia, S. C; 2, City
Armory, Charlotte, N. C; 3, Palais
Royale, Norfolk, Va,; 4, Aud., Ches-
ter, Pa.; 5, Renaissance Casino, New
York; 6, Kxueger's Aud., Newark, N.
J.; 7, Roseland B;, Taunton, Mass.;
8, Symphony Hall, Boston; 10, Odd
Fellows Temple, Wilmington, Del.;

11, Memorial Hall, Trenton, N. J.;

12, Ritz B., Bridgeport; 15, Colonade,
Washington, D .C.

Al Donahoe, March 20-21, Pioneer
hotel, Tucson, Ariz.; May 6, indef.,
Palace hotel, San Francisco.

Lnoky MUIInder, March 26, Aud.,
Bristol, Va. 27, Aud., MartUviUe,
Va.; 28, Aud., Charleston, W. Va.;
20, Aud., Monessen, Pa.; 30, Nu-Elm
B., Youngstown, O.; April 2-9, Para-
dise theatre, Dletroit.

Bands at Hotel B. O;'s

(PfMtnteil hwwith, at a wteMv totmlattoti, ft fht estimated cover
oharpa bMlnwt betna dona by noma band* in varioua New York hotels,
Diniur bustnaw (7-10 PJSi not rated. Fioure* afUr tiama of hotel gloa
room capacity and eovtr ehar0«. Larger amount ietignate$ weekend and
holiday pr<c«.)

OoTcra Total
Waaka nut OoTcn

Band Hot«l FUred Week Ob Data

Freddy Martin*... Waldorf (400; $1-$1JI0) ; ...8 1,800. 17,650

Woody Herman*. .Naw Yorker (400; 76c-$1.50) 0 fl.lOO 1,100

EnMc Maclrlgu6ra„BUtmora (300; $l-$liiO) 7 860 6,560

LahlMcIhtIre..,.lia[lnKton (300; 75c-$l JO) 5 1,329 7.400

Jimmy Dorsejr.... Pennsylvania (600; 7Sc-$l.e0) 5 3,250 11,000

yaughn Monroe*.. Commodora (400; 76c-$l) ........... 22 1,525 34,129

*Astertsk$ Indicate a supportinir floor show, although the band is the
major draw, 1 2 days.

Los Angeles

Sklnaay Ennls (Ambassador; 900; $1-$1.50). - Getting along as ' well as
can be expected for only, two nights (Frl., Sat); 800 covers not so velvety.
Ennls' radio rep hasn't helped, ' *

Phil Harrla (BUtinore; 1,200; 50c-$l).- Name proving strong magnet, an-
other 6,000 payees on the- week. Drawing from all sections of town.

Dave Rose, former arranger for
Bob Chester, now with Frankie
Masters. Chester starts four weeks
at Sherman -hotel, Chicago, May 0. -

CATCH THE NEW

JOHNNY LONG HIT

I'M BREATHLESS

DECCA No. 4191
★

Personal Management—- Jack Phllbin
Direction— GENERAL AlVIUSEMlENT CORk

(Estimates)
Charlie Splvak's draw at Brook-
line C. C, Philadelphia, a week ago
Satiirday (7) was not 2,260 as re-
ported by 'Variety,' but totaled 2,470,
a new season's record for the spot.

Gns Amhelm (Mauere's Pavilion,
Bremerton, Washington, March 11).
Amhelm drew nice total of 760
dancers at 75c advance, $1 at door.

Henry Basse (Westwood Country
Club, Little Rock, Ark,, Mar<;h 13).
Busse played to fine crowd of 1,161
people at $1J2S and $1.50.

Bobby Byrne (Ritz B., Bridgeport,
Conn., March 15'). Ritz found
Byrne's lure okay, playing to 1,232
youngsters at 88c..

Del Conrtney (Capital theatre,
Manitowoc, Wis., March 11), Scaled
from 20c to 65c house drew 2,113
with Courtney for gross of $1,715;
neat.

Bank D'Amloo. (Palisade^, Mc-
Keesport, Pa., March 13). Jim klc-
Girr, operator, says D'Amico played
to 1,000 dancers at SSc ahd 300 spec-
tators at 25c.

Tommy Dorsey (S-weet's B., Oak-
land, ^al). Dorsey's' C::oast dates
have been great; at this spot . he
played to 5,423 admissions, topping
Glenn Miller by 1,250; at Pacific
Square-^, San Diego, he followed
with 5,810 admissions, beating a Kay
Kyser mark.

' Sonny Dnnham-Lang Thompson

(Raymor-Playmor B., Boston, March
13). Dunham and 'Thompson drew
1,900 In twhi spots for neat enough
gross of $1,330. Following night
(Sat) Thompson teamed -with local
Jacques Renard and drew same
total.

Les Hlte (Roseland State B., Bos-
ton, March 14). Hit played Raymor
last week and drew strongly. He
got 800 here at 65c-55c for $540,
okay for spot.

Bed Norvo (Aragon B., Toledo, O.,
March 14). Considering Lent Norvo's
1,208 at SOc for $604 was 'good'.

Raymond Soott (Amherst College,
Amherst, Mass., March 6). Out of a
student^ body of 750 Scott played to
850 and .their partners at hop for
studes only; at $3.30 couple gross,
according' to bommitt'eeman Bill
O'Donnell, 'exceeded combined total
of past five annual proms.'

f3urlle Spivak (Lyric theatre,
Bridgeport, Conn., March 9-11).
Spivak set up a new record here,
too, drawing $6,500 in three days at
-50e. top to run past.^ Eddy Du^hln's
$6,200.

Herby Woods (Toteni Pole B., Au-
burndale, Mass., March 11-14).

Woods, local combo, puUed 7,200
in four, days at $1.45 couple for
$5,220 gross; not equal to work of
nam* bands but socko for a local.

Chicago

Chno^ Foster (Continental ' Room, Steve'hs Hotel; 400; $1.50-$2 min.).
Foster doing- all right In week, Lent and tax generally In slump; 2fi00
customers again.

Xavler Cngat (Empire Room, Pahner House; flOO; $3-$3.60 min.). De-
spite drop-ofl «f convention business Cugat held on well with 3,200 cus-
tomers.

Gene Kmpa (Panther Room, Sherman Hotel; 700; $1.25-$2.60 min.). In
secon4 week Krupa continued along at excellent pace with 3,400 patrons,.

Art Kassal (Walnut Room, Bisinarck Hotel; 300; $l-$2 min.)'. Kassel
holding on well with 1,800 diners last week.

Emll Coleman (Mayfalr Room, Blackstone Hotel; 350; $2.60 min. Sat.),
Finished bang-up room opening stay with strong help tiom SOldagarde.
It wasn't the minimum that counted here, with tabs runnli^g into three
figures. That's the kind of trade Hildegarde drew. In final, week, great
2,400 customers.

Boston

Charlie Bamet (Bermua Terrace, Brunswick Hotel; 660; 66c-$l' cover).
In fourth week, Bamet did well with 1,900 covers mabily on weekend
when cover la $1. Average for four weeks was 2,200, .a record for sirat.
John Klrby opened Monday (16). ^

LelghtoB Nobia (Tarraca Room, Hotel Statler; 460; $1 cover). In ninth
week of Indeflnlta engagement, stayed right with his normal 800 FFlday-
Saturday, only lata nights, with dinner biz fine.

Baby Hewnum (Oval Room, Copley Plaza; 300; $1 cover). With fiOrothy
Lewis Ice Show; drawing good biz for spot with 1,400 covers. Grift Wil-
liams opens Friday (20) with ice show remaining for another fortnight

Baltimore .

Don Bettor (Charles Room; Belvedere . Hotel; 500; $1'-|2 min.). Felt
Lenten slump and dropped a bit to 2,200 covers on third week. Has two
more rounds to go In this after theatre spot' which keeps closed on Sun-
day nfghts.

Philadelphia .

Paneho (Garden Terrace, Benjamin Franklin Hotel; 500; $1.50-$2 min.).
Played to> about 900 diners in first four days - of return engagement—
(Continued' on page 6^)

: -A. . — — =3

Mrs. Thomason's BdDet

Spartanb\i7g, S. C, March.. 17.
Mrs. R. T. "rhomason, whose bus-'
band is leading Carolina distributor
of juke boxes, records' and sheet
music,' was seriously wounded by
accidental gunshot at tiielr home
here. Mansion had been burglarized
several times, resulting in large
hauls . of jewelry and other valu-
ables.

Mrs, Thomason, ihvestigating
prowler, who fled, fell while carry-
ing revolver, received bullet . in
spine.

Totem Pole Location
Policy Resumes May 27

Totem Pole Ballroom, Aubumdale,
Mass., returns to -its location policy
about May 27. Dick Jurgens, Chi-
cago area favorite, may be the first
band In, but contracts aren't signed.
It would be Jurgens' first eastern
date; he had been scheduled orig-
inally for Frank Dailey's Meadow-
brook, Cedar Grove, N. J., but sev-
eral things interfered.

Totem Pole began Its location
policy last Fall, but suspended It in
favor of week-end operation -for the
winter.

. "A NEAT ENTRY"

- —Variety, Mar. 11, 194Z

"More Than Yoa Know"

. . AMD

"Down for Double'*
OKEH Raeord No. 6584

COUNT BASIE

And His Orchestra

Per. Mgt: BOLTON EBBINS

"Champagne Music

99

of

LAWRENCE WELK

NOW ON RECORD BREAKING TOUR

a Third Successlvi
. Engagement

CHICAGO
THEATRE

• Third Successive
Engagement

RIVERSIDE
MILWAUKEE

• Outstanding
Engagement

STANLEY
PITTSBURGH

OPENING TOWER THEATRE, KANSAS CITY
WEEK MARCH 20

Diractloni FREDERICK BROS. IVlUSIC CORP., New York, Chicago

MATERIAL AVAILABLE— PROGRAM IT TODAY

SLAP-HAPPY WACKY

(From the Promised Land)
MurFfiy Singer Mi4eio. Pub. Ci>.> 1674 Broadway, N. Y.

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Heart-llirob lyads Sen StroDgly;
More Pop Hits Current Hum Usual

Tbe sheet music business last week
nmiined a complexion that hasn't
prevaUed within that Industry In at
least 15 years- Instead of the big
turnover In copies being confined to.
tbe top tliTBe or four songs, there
were seven songs selling between
3 WW and t.W copies a day. This
lit of seven tunes reflects, a strong,
comeback for the 'heart-throb type
of baUad.

Because the sales pull is spread
' over so many songs, the alignment
of best, sellers will during the next
few weeks undergo far more fre-
- quent changes than has been cus-
tomary. Whereas 'White Cliffs of
Dover* held No. 1 ' spot for eight
weeks, the indications are that the
present contingent of sheet hits will
make it tough for any one of them
to remain at the top for half that
run.

'White Clifls' . rates as the only
sentimental war ditty that has clicked
In a big way since America's entry
In the war. The torch ballad, "Blues
In the Nl^t,' continues to move in
substantial quantities across the
counters, while 'Miss You' and
'Somebody £lse Has Taken My
Place,' . representative of the more
corny school of ballad, seem to be
surging sturdily to the top of the
best-seller roster.

tins Biartel.aold his. song, 'Ganga-
ria,' to Republic for use in 'Remem-
ber' Pearl Harbor.'

Ifa the CHAMPAGNE noveUy,
. Sparkling and gtty^

VqsZokt Eer

(Meant **Khat do you $ayf")
Amagei by VIO SCHOEN

Bc««rded by
BARON ELUOTT

ACME MUSIC CORP:

562 Fifth Ave., New York
SAMMY SSATEII— Gen. Mgr.

MEREDITH WILLSON'S

AMERICA CALLING

'Junkman's Serenade'

Milwaukee, March 17.

Sam 'Lawent and Norman Mil-
ler,' ybimgsters with songwriting
yen, hitchhiked to New York
and hounded a lot of music pub-
lishers In an effort to get a hear-
Ing for their 'Jvmkman't Seren-
ade,' but didn't get beyond flrst
base, which In this case was Jo-
seph .E. Howard's promise to
have the number printed.

Elated for so little the boys re-
, turned to Milwaukee wher*
Law^nfs father Is junk dealer.
He got the Milwaukee County
Junk Peddlers' union to adopt
the song as its pfficlal anthem.

Nobody has any money yet
but with junk dealers whistling
as they work the plugs here are
terrific.

VON mZER IS TIRED
OF GENE BUCn QUERY

Harry Von Tilzer, of Harry Von
TUzer Music and Lou Levy, of Leeds
Music, appeared beiore the pub-
Ushers' availability committee of
ASCAP last week to ask for boosts
In their rating. Levy explained that
he as purchaser of the Jenkins Music
Co. catalog wanted the latter cata-
log's availability points Included
along with the rating of the Leeds
catalog. It was agreed by the com-
mittee to abolish a separate rating
for the Jenkins catalog and to assign
the points involved to Leeds.

In asking for an increase'" in
Broadway's • rating Von Tilzer re-
called that every time he appears
before the. writers classification
committee on a Uke quest as a writer
Gene Buck, ASCAP prez, remarks,
'You're also a publisher. Why don't
you ask the publishers' availability
committee for more money?' The
recital drew an angry retort from
thC'Publlshers' committee. They sug-
gested to Von Tilzer that the next
time Buck made such a comment he
was. to be told that the publishers'
availability, comrnlttee had 'held that
it ' is none of Buck's concern as to
how this committee disposed of pub-
lisher requests.

. Because of his status as a writer
director on the ASCAP board Buck
also functions as a member of the
writers' classification committee.

BM-Miitiial Delay the Ink

Broadcast Music, Inc., will not
have a new contract from the
Mutual Network tomorrow (Thurs-
day), the date on which BMI's new
nine-year agreements are supposed
to go4nto effect Mutual Instead has
elected to go along on a month's ex-
tension of Its license with BMI.
' During that month Mutual will
pay BMI on the new fee basis and
without prejudice.

Lennle Hayton writing the- score
for 'Pierre of the Plains' at Metro.

THE MUSICAL TREAT OF 1942

"THE TALE OF
PETER AND THE WOLF"

From the Orchestral Fairy Tale by

SERGE PROKOFIEFF

, POPULAR LYRICAL ADAPTATION BY HAROLD J. ROME

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COPIES AND ORCHESTRATIONS NOW AVAILABLE
Write for Material

Hannaii Music, hc^ 1619 B'way, New York, N. Y.

General Mansser:— HARRY GOODMAN

15 Best Sheet Mosk Setters

iWeek ending March 14)

Deep Heart Texas. .Melodylane
Don't Want Walk.... Paramount

White Cliffs Shapiro

Blues In Night Remick

Moonlight Cocktaa Jewel

Miss You Santly

Somebody Taking Place. .Shapiro

Rose CDay Tobias

Shrine St Cecelia.. Braun

Sometimes - Berlin

Remember P. Harbor, .Repi|blic

Couple in Castle Famous

How About You, .....t... .Feist

Well Meet Ag<Linv rr .Dash

You Made Me. Love You. .B'way

ASCAP BACK
IN KANSAS

ASCAP resumes its licensing of
Kansas music users today (Wednes-
day) under an agreement that has
been worked out between the So-
ciety and the Kansas attorney gen-
eral. The pact accords ASCAP the
status of compliance with the state
law which requires agents for copy-
right owneris to- file applications to
do business with the Kansas authori-
ties.

John G. Paine, ASCAP general
manager, will meet with the attorney
general of North Dakota in Bis-
marck, Friday (20) ' to . outlitae a
similar agreement of compliance.
Slated to attend the meeting also is
a cemmlttee of North Dakota broad-
caster's.

An agreement which would give
ASCAP legal standing in Florida is
still in abeyance.

Tobani FamUy FmaHy
Wins a Round in Long
Fight With Fischer

Carl Fischer, Inc., Is appealing to
the N.Y. circuit court of appeals for
a reversal of the $5,000 judgment
that the Tobani family was granted
the week before last in the Appel-
late Division. The heirs of the late
Theodore M. Tobani, composer and
arranger; have been engaged in liti-
gation with the publishing firm for
the past five years and this makes
the flrst decision In their favor. Out
of the earlier litigation ensued the
famous Tobani decision oh copy-
right renewals.

The case in which the Appellate
Division favored the Tobani heirs
pertained to a promise that Carl
Fischer made to the late Tobani in
1928. Renewal rights to some . of
Tobaal's arrangement were coming
up at the tlnie and Fischer agreed to
pay Tobani a pension for life and
pay his wife $5,000 within 30 days of
his death. Mrs. Tobani died six
inonths later and her husband sur-
vived her by seven years ' during
which time Fischer paid him $7,000
In pension money.

After failing to establish their
rights to the Tobani arrangements
through litigation, the Tobani heirs
brought up the matter of the $5,000.
In bringing suit In the Queens su-
preme court' the Tobani children
contended that the promised money"
was invested In Mrs. Tobani, and it
accrued to her estate even though
the Fischer agreement provided that
she was hot to be paid until after her
husband's death. Supreme court jus-
tice Henry J. Wenzel, before whom
this issue was tried, ruled in Fisch-
er's favor, ruling that the estate had
no. claim since the husband outlived
the wife. Finding of the Appellate
Division -was -a reversal- of- -Justice
Wenzel's decision.

Leslie and Gottler Sue
Over Tune in Fox Pic

A suit by Edgar Lesll . and Archie
Gottler, songwriters, . against Mills
Music, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox
Film Corp. was revealed Friday (13)
in N. Y. supreme court when a note
of issue was filed for an April 6
trial. Suit had been filed June 17,
1941, but had not been disclosed up
to this time.

Plaintiffs, composers of the song,
'America, I Love You,' gave it to
Kalmar & Puck to publish In 1016,
with all other rights remaining with
them. Mills subsequentlr acquired
rights to the song, and the complaint
la that Mills granted 20th-Fox per-
mission to use the song, without
their permission, in "Tin Pan Alley.'
An Injunction, accounting of profits
and damages are asked.

Prices Demanded fw Kx R^ts
To Taimliair Ati^'^^ed Wa^^^^^^
Out of Reason by FihhMakeFS

On his return last Friday (13)
from a visit to the wes^ coast; Hany
Fox, agent and trustee, reported that
his recent meeting with film pro-
ducers disclosed that they war*
anxious to make a inueb wider use
of famlUar. music but that publishen
were^ because of misunderstandings
as to soundtrack uses, making' audi
expansion difficult Fox waa ln<
formed tiiat the prices ajdced for that
class of music was far out of line
and that as a result of thia condition
studios were discouraged from de-
pending on fanilllar music as much
as they would like to and instead
made broader use of the material
furnished by their staff arrangers.

Fox. explained, that what the
studios had particularly In Wind was
background music. The film pro-
ducers think that the average pub-
lisher has a distorted conception of
the use to which his familiar music,
is; put, and that this misunderstand-
ing Is largely xe^onslble for tite un-
justified synchronization price* aaked

In many. If a publisher Is told that
a tune of his Is to be used several
times In a fUm he immediately
jumps to the conclusion that K's to
be given produ(itlon treatment and
he sets a blgb fee. The fact as It
usually turns out. la that -the multiple
use has been decided on merely as a
device for breaking up a contlnuoiu
flow of dialog by having one of the
characters hum a few bars of some
familiar sotag.

Fox stated that the studios sug-
gested he moke three bi. four tripi
a year to Hollywood so that he caii
keep himself more familiarized with
the music problems of the producers.

Charlie Wjuren Recigna

Charlie Warren has resigned as
professional manager of the mangle
Music Coip., a (ubsldlaiy of
3regman-VoccO'Conn. ,

Warren ha* been ill for a couple
weeks. and he plafl to take a vaca-
tion Immediately.

TH6 ODDS AJE

proven " '

Hoagy C«rm!chaert graatatf song tinc* "Stardutf"

THE LAMPLIGHTER'S SERENADE

Lyric by Paul PrancU Webster Musff |»y Ho«gy C«rmleW<l:

The first big novelty teng of tho^wAr

DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE

(With Anyone Elf« But Me)

By Lew Brown, Charlie Tobiat «nd Sam H. Stept

Everybody's prediction — A Hitt

SOMEBODY NOTOPT tbVEr

Words and music by Sy Miller

Tlie popular one>step in the tempo of "Ferry-Boat Serenade"

IF I COLJLD ONLY PLAY
A CONCERTINA

Lyric by Al Stillman

Musie by Joe Burke

R O B B I ^| S .MUSIC c: o ^= O R A T I O N

44 msic

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VftatteftJayt March 18, 1942

Inside Stoff-Miiac

r-imobell Connelly & Co., British music publisher, which has the
rieWs to W C Handy's ■Memphis Blues' outside of the U. S. and Aus-
tralasia has started a $30,000 suit in N. Y. supreme court aeamst Para-
moun over the use ol the song m 'Birth of the Blues.' Since Brian Don-
levy plays the character of 'Memphis.' the trumpeter ia the film, and the
song is utilized in the cavalcade of blueslana. CC & Co. calls it unfair
competition wherever the Par picture is released.

Par countered, at first, that If CC wants to sue, it would have to sUrt
Individual actions in England. Brit. Indies, South Africa and wherever
It thinks its rights are infringed. But J. T. Abeles, attorney for CC,
charges ParamoLu and Mercer & Morris conspired to defraud CC. and
thus is suing for ?50,000 damages, within the U. S.. on a conspiracy and
fraud charge, rather than making it a copyright .Infringement charge.

■Memphis Blues has since reverted in Its publication rights to Handy
Bros. Music Co., of which the Negro composer, W. C. Handy, Is partoer.
But at the time of the fllmizaUon, Mercer & Morris were involved as the
Joe Morris Co. had the rights before M & M.

publisher

•Blues in the Night,' Dinah Shore and Kostelanetz. A "m«in<.tion that
ought to suit about anybody. It happened the other Sunday, but nothing
happened A good tune, a good singer, and a good band. Thpr're past the
fl?s?eTeht bars'and it's a stage wait. What's the ^^^^^'^iXj'^lL toZ
You can't hear the accompaniment. The engineer has cut 'he band to the
point where Miss Shore sounds as if she's singing alone. J^at s Kostela-
Setz with her, but the engineer has annihilated . him and ruined what
promised to be!

A reminder of what those engineers caiV do sometimes.

Blue Barron, teamed up with 'Captains of the Clouds' (WB), rode on the
crest of big business at the Strand, on Broadway, despite a weak final
stanza Engagement was for four weeks, rare at this house. Takes were
$48,000, $40,000, $27,000 and $20,000, respectively.

Add what theyVe talking about in executive music trade circles: the
feudin' Tnd tiffing going on nbw between Sidney M. Kaye BMI) and his
conferee, Ralph S. Peer (Southern Music, Peer International, etc.).

and which provides that neither
ASCAP noT any pf ft« members
shall 'exercise any right or power
to restrict from public .performance
for prbiif Dj- a itcetiR* or said de-
tendant any popyright musical com-
position . , . for the, purpose of per-
mitting the fixing or regulating of
fees for the recording or transcrib-
ing of such composition.' The im-
plication made . by JCaye Is that
ASCAP ;p.ercit)ers hpve used their
power to restrict a number in the
ASCAP repertoire as a means of
forq.ing transcription, manufacturers
to pay a spepial fee for their li-
censes.

Several music Industry lawyers
last week expressed themselves as
puzzled by Kaye's tactics. It seemed
to them that Kaye was imperilling
the position of his broadcaster af-
filiates by forcing this issue into the
courts. They pointed out that in
the event he lost and the courts held
that copyright owners cDuld Issue a
license for a specific mechanical use
when the copyrights would find
themselves free to apply this same
principle to phonograph records and
limit such licenses to home use.
Kaye, . they further pointed out.
might be stirring iip a hornet's nest
which could result in a situation
whereby broadcasters would be
compelled to pay an extra fee for
the airing of phonograph records.

SIGMDND ROMBERG
AGAIN HEADS S.Pi.

Kaye s Tn^Gonna-Sue Backfires

His Threatened Action Againrt Harry Fox b Called
Off by C. M. Finney— Purpose Puzzles Lawyers

Sydney M. Kaye, v.p. and counsel
of Broadcast Music,' Inc., may not,
alter all, get an opportunity to test
cut In the courts his theory of what
lee should be paid for radio record-
ings. The campaign in that direc-
tion which Kaye had worked out
with Waddell Catchlngs, chairman of
the board- ol. Associated Music Pub-
Ushers, Inc., and the Muzak inter-
ests, struck a snag over the past
weekend. C. M. SSnney, operating
president of the AMP and Muzak,
advised Harry Fox, agent and trus-
tee on mechanical rights/ that the
contemplated test suit would, not
materialize and that he (Finney)
yjp\i\i go on negotiating whatever
natters that have been in abeyance
between them.

Finney's declaration to Fox came
while the transcription industry was
abuzz with a report that an import '
ant change in the stock ownership
of the AMP and Muzak was about to
ba consummated. The report, which
emanated Irom downtown financial
circles, indicated that WlUlam Ben
ton has become the sole owner of the

MEREDITH WILLSON'S

AMERICA CALLING

AMP-Muzak stock and was slated to
replace Catchings as chairman of the
board. Benton, a former partner in
Benton & Bov/les agency, came into
the company last year as owner ol
33 ' '3% of the stock. He subse-
quently acquired the 33 1/3% held
'by an Englishman, F, L. Miller, thus
leaving outstanding Just the stock
owned by Catchings.
V Kaye's Letter Started It
Fox learned ol the proposed suit
on his return last Thtirsday <12)
from a visit to the west coast There
was a letter..on his desk Irom Kaye
In which the BMI oftlclal informed
Fox that he (Kaye) had been re-
tained by the AMP to litigate the
tights ol a copyright owner to
charge more than 2c per disc lor the
right to Include his tune In an elec-
trical transcription. Fox Immedi-
ately addressed an answer to Finney
expressing his surprise at this sud-
den change in their relations and
serving notice that he would file an
Inlringement suit the moment that
the AMP used one ol his (Fox) cli-
ent's tunes wlthotrt obtaining the
proper manulacturing license. Fox
also wrote that b« has been advised
by cotmsel that the ' consent decree
granted ASCAP by th* Government
nowhere authorizes a recording lor
broadcasting purposes may be li-
censed in the same way as a phono
graph record.

It is Kaye's theory that the con-
sent .decree does apply to transcrip
tlons. The portion ol th« decree
which 'he relers to-lsio Paragraph It

Sigmund Romberg has replaced
Irving Caesar as president ol the
Songwriters Protective Association.
The naming occurred at a meeting
ol the SPA council Monday (18)
Caesar had asked to be relieved of
the office because ol his occupation
with other pursuits, such as broad
caster, legit musical producer and
music publisher. Romberg was
president lor several years prior to
1937.

. Committee was named at the' same
meeting Monday to nominate candi-
dates lor the council. With Charles
Tobias as chairman, this committee
consists ol Abel Baer. Stanley
Adams. John Jacob Loeb, Paul
Cunningham, Ia)u Handman and
Ray Henderson. The SPA will hold
its annual meeting the middle of
April. .

What the alphabet means to your tpeUing
ABC Bojiga mean to your programa

THE ANG^LUS WILL RING AGAIN

The most talked of new song- — ^just released

BARREL HOUSE BESSIE

Melody by writer of "I Don't Want To Walk Without You^l
Lyric by writer of "Musio Maestro Please"

PENNY ARCADE

By writer of "Merry Go Round Broke Down"
ABC MUSIC CORP., 799 Seventh Ave., New York

^ JERRY JOHNBTON, Praf. Mgr.

Cleveland Philadelphia Chicago Hollywood

PC CBS, Bine, MBtnal Plugs

Following (abtilatlon 0/ popular mtisic ptr^qrtnonces enibraces all three
networks— IIBC, CBS. Blue, and Miiftial— as represented bv WH^AF—WJZ,
W ABC and WOR N. Y. CompilaHon herewith cotter* week beginning
Monday throuoh Stindov (March 9-15) /rom.. 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. and is
bated- on .data provided by Aceurdte Reporting Service regular checking
source lor the music piibliaMno induitrv. '

TITLE . . P.OBLISHEB TOTAL

Don't Want Walk— t'Sweater Girl' Paramount ....... 31

Deep in -Heart Texas Melodylane 30

Miss You,.. Santly 26

Rose O'DaJr. ... '....; Tobias 20

Somebody Else Taking Place.: ....Shapiro 25

Tangerine— f Fleet's In' ^ i . .'Famous 19

Blues in the Night— t'Blues In Night'. Hemlek ■. .... Ifl

I'll Pray lor You— t'What's Cookln" Harms 18

When Roses Bloom.- , Shapino it

How About Yon— f Babes on Broadway'. Feist 10

Sometimes - Berlin 16

Wherever You Are. > Miller 10-

Fooled v.... ABC 14

•How Do I Know It's Real Chappell 14

•I Think of You '. Embassy 13

A" Zoot Suit Greene-Revell ... i;:

Sing M: Song Islaod— t'Song of the lalandf.' BVC

Somebody Nobody Lovfcs Robblns 1*^

Anchors Awelgh ; Robbihs : 11

Jersey Bounce ...Lewis M

String of Pearls Mutual U

■ ,. Remlck 10

Advance 0

Frtst fl

..Mills 9

Marks H

-..Berlin' 9

Btoudway 8

....... Famous '. ... 8

Berlin 8

T. B. Harms 8

Chappell 8

Block R

Braun 8

Herman Starr Deddes to
Publish 'SoIdier^s Dream'

Herman Starr, head of the Warner
Bros, publishing group, has advised
Edwin. H. Morris, ol Mayfair Music
Co., that he (Starr) proposes to go
ahead with his release ol the AI
Dubln-CliS Friend song, 'A Soldier's
Dream,^ even though Morris has a
number out with the title ol "What
Does a Soldier Dream 01.' The lat-
ter time, written by, Dave Fraiiklln,
has already been recorded five ways.

Starr had a lengthy discussion last
week with Morris over the two
songs' similarity ol theme but, alter
ttrinking It over, he discarded the
suggestion that he shelve the- Dubin-
Friend number lor a while..

Always in My. Heart— t'Always in Heart' .

Autumn Nocturne....^

Happy in Cbv^i'Sons o' 7un' —

Jealous— fFemlnlne Touch'

*Lamp ol Memory

Me and My MeUnda

You Made Me Love You

Arthur Murray Taught Me— t'Fleet's In",

Blue Skies '.

Day Dreaming -

Everything I Love— i'Let's Face It'

•Last Night I Said Prayer

•♦Shrine ol St,' Cecelia.

Anniversary Waltz Mayfair 7

Full Moon. ..Southern 7

i Paid My Income Tax Today Berlin 7

If You Build Better Mouse Trap— t'Fleefs In' Famous 7

Lamplighter's Serenade Robb'ns 7

Mandy Is Two ,...BVC 7

Racing with the Moon ; Regent 7

She'll Always Remember Witmark 7

Tica Tl Tlca Ta; Witmark 7

We're Couple in Castle— t'Mr. Bug Goes to Town*. . . Famous , 7

White Cliffs ol Dover < Shapiro 7

•AngeUne J. Campbell 6

♦Heavenly. Isn't It7— f Mayor ol 44th Street' Greene-Revell ... 6

I Remember You— f Fleet's In', Famous 6

ni Remember April— t'Ride !Em Cowboy' Leeds 6

•Marine's Hymn Marks , 0

Moonlight Cocktail Jewel 6

On the Street ol Regret Loeh ^

We Did It Belore— t'Banjo Eyes' ,_Witmark 0

Don't Sit Under Apple Tree . i . ^ Robbins 5

♦Dear Mom... ? Republic 5

Embraceable You Harms 5

In the Spring. tf^L'. =

rU Never Forget 51!?'???! J I

Intermezzo < Shuberth 5

My Little Cousin • • .'Dorralne 5

Skylark— t'Skylarit' ." , Famous 5

Someone's Rockin* My Dreamboat Advance »

We'll Meet Again. 5

• Indicotes AMI licensing; •• indicotes SESAC Heen$ing: others are via
ASCAP. t F-ilmusical. | LeeitiTnate.

Music Notes

Boy Webb assigned to score
Favorite Spy' at RKO,

■My

Freddie BIch scoring 'Wildcat' at
Paramount.

DAvId Battolph writing the musical
background lor 'Street of Chance' at
Paramount.

Bay Wbltley cleffed three songs,
•Grab that Bari of Fire,' Twilight
Trail' and 1 Hear the Call of th*
liOnesome Trail' for a forthcoming
musical western at RKO.

Merry Macs quartet have taken
five tunes lor publication by their
Merry wood Publishing Co.: 'Tee
oU-aa-go,' by Roy Chambarlain, Edna
Fisher; 'Never Before,' Joe McMl-
chael; 'OUvla,' Eddie Cherkos*.
Jacques Press; 'Hoy Mable,' Fred
Stryker; 'Cheailn' on Sandman' by
Bill McCrystal, Sid Garrlsk are
tunes.

Maok Pant, contact man htr* for
I. B. Itlarks Muslo, has bacoma a

member of Co. B, 2d Platoon, Sth

Medical Training Battalion, Camp
Lee, Virginia.

Faol Herts composing an original
score for "Not a Ladles Man' at Co-
lumbia.

FrsB* VTucmM assigned as musi-
cal conductor on 'House ol Seven
Tulips' at Metro.

Lad Gloskln assigned to write the
score lor Edward Small's picture,
'FHenSly Siemiesi' "

Edwmrd PmI doing backgroimd
music on 'Annie Roon^ lor 'Edward
Small.

Jimmy MeHngh writing music for
Harry Sherman's 'Happy Go Lucky'
at Paramount.

•Taylor-Mizzy as_Team

Santly-Joy-Select has put Irving
Taylor and Vic Mlzzy imder contract
as a . writing team. The tleup is ex-
clusive and has options running for
five years.

. The initial song pitbllshed under
(his alliance is The Tliree Llttla
Sisters.'

Chart Mnslo Co. of Chicago has
acquired VJ5, rights to 'Chlu, Chiu,'
South American melody.

MEREBITH WILLSON'S

AMERICA CALLING

CHERIO MUSIC PUBLISHERS, INC.. .

01v« Tab Their TSmt W*. I Sm*

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V«dne9d«yt Mwrch 18, 1942

■A

4 Major M. Bookiiig Offices Confer

or

Philadelphia, March 17,
BepMsentatlves of the four maj
York booking offices conferred
iMt week with State Department of
'lahor and Industry officials here on
■' tte Question of selling tilent in Penn-
H^vania under the recently enacted
booking license legislation,
^^^am C. Douglass, head of the
employment, agfncy department, out-
Wed the law and warned that the
booking offices would be held liable
ifany of their representatives sought
*a do business in this state , without
a license. He also warned that any
local night club or theatre owner
.«ho went to New York to buy would
be charged with aiding . and abetting
a violation.-All deals mxist be cleared,
he said, through a locally Ucensed
Bfient, or an office set up here by
|?e New York firm, also under State

license. ^ - , ...

Meeting with Douglass, and his as-
sistant, Anthony C. Sharkey, were
representatives of Music Corp. of
America, William ^Morris, Consol-
idated Radio Artists, and General
Amus. Corp. plus their attorneys.
• Clilef objection of the New York-
ers against setting up offces here was
that they would be liable to the pay-
ment of corporation taxes, despite
the -fact that' In most cases their
business is entirely transacted in New
York. Only alternative to setting up
local offices is clearing through local
agents, and thus split commissions.

Frisco's AGVA Would
Suspend Meetings for
Duration; Map War Aid

San Francisco, March 17.
. Local American Guild of Variety
Artists unit has issued Its llrst four-
page printed monthly bulletin tabbed
•For Your Information, Please.' Lead
story advises that membership meet-
ings have been cancelled for the du-
'ration so members can spend the
time dohig something to help the
war effort

.Unit currently is without officers,
elective board having been dis-.
solved by the nalional, and no elec-
tion has been called as yet by Theo-
dore Hale, administrative chairman.

CAROL BRUCE FOUOWS
JOE LEWIS AT N.Y.COPA

Carol BjTuce will be the succeeding
headlined to Joe E. Lewis at the
.Copacabana, N. Y., bu^ there will be
'a 12-dfty interlude between Lewis'
closing (March 22) and Miss Bruce's
opening (AprU 3). Reason Is the
temue singer's current date at the
Chez Paree, Chicago, which winds up
April 2. William Morris agency set
Ulsf Bruce for both- dates.

Lewis will have rung up a record
run for a headliner at the Copa. He
opened Dec. 31. Lewis now heads
for Hollywood and a Universal film.
By coincidence,' Miss Bruce has- just
ended a U stint •

Monte J»roser plans to run his new
Copa show intact until June 1, then
shift It as a unit into the Hotel
Roosevelt New .Orleans, and thence,
Aug. 1, to the Piping Rock, Sara,
toga, which he and Julie Podell will
•gain operate, as they did last sum-
teer. ■

_Copa is now the only nltery ln
N. Y. on the air witH"a commercial
.««je.n.. .nlghta weekly... ..station U
yfNEW, and prdgfam.' af ri:^'tf ' p.m,;'
Mt by the Blacltstone agency, is corn-
Posed chiefly of Samba apd the Bra-
*man records linked to the songs
T>«d in the dopa's shows~.

Ramon Reachi Sets Up
Mex Booking Agency

. Mexico City,' March 17.
-5°f"«os first organised show busi-
W f**'"'^ has been established
by Ramon Reachi, known in

»«."u*^ \ P^"™*"" (Ramon and
wenite, ballroom dancers) and
operator In New- York (La
5J?^<lue), Agenda Teatral Pan
trtl 1^ It will have affiliations
jwa leading U.S. bookers for Amer-
JcMi acts in this country.

Bookings in Mexlqo have been
Pwiy much hit-miss. • • - •

Insuranc«

Joe E. Lewis, who heads for
the Universal studios from New
York, March 31, for his Initial
picture, has been writing news-
paper pals:-

'I wanted to write you before
I went to Hollywood because I
might accident^ly make a good
picture and find myself too iin-
l>ortant then to tell you how
much I appreciate your help.'

USO ORGANIZING
CAMP SHOWS
IN CHI AREA

Chicago, March 17.

Camp Shows, Inc., for Clilcago
area is now being organized through
the United Service Organization and
a working executive committee has
already been appointed. Offices will
be set up in the Woods building and
shows will be sent out regularly to
12 camps and 11 naval bases in the
Sixth Corps Area and the Ninth
Naval District

On the committee ar- Jack Irving,
local head of American Guild of
Variety, Artists; Frank Dare, Equity;
Ray Jones, American Federation of
Radio Artists; Glena OToole, Amer-
ican Guild of Musical Artists; Dan
Graham, Charles Hogan, David
O'Malley, Ethel Bennett, Abe Cohen,
Harry Kalcheim, Morris Lipsey, Ed
Benkert and Carl Baumann of the
Chicago Federation of Musicians;.
John Balaban, Herbert J, Lorber,
head of the ITSO in Chicago, and
Hal Halperin, head of the •'Variety'
Chicago office. Col. Nopman B.
Woods and' Lieut. Commander
Robert A. Brown hcve consented to
sit in on the committee, as advisors.

Harry Delmar, chief of the taienl
division of USQ-Camp Shows, Inc.,
arrives in Chicago next Tuesday
(24) for the purpose of gandering
performers for future imits. Hell
look over everything agents have to
offer for the CSI summer units.

Delmar will be in Battle Creek,
Mich., Saturday (21) to see Sam
Roberts' 'Gay 90s' unit

VAUDBTIIiLB

45

Ontdoors Men Vote Aid
To Chi Defense Group

Oilcago, March 17.
Outdoors amusement men' have
tied themselves in wltU the regular
Amusement and Recreation Division
of the Commission on National De-
fense.

Integration was voted by the Out-
doors Amusement Congress In its
meeting in town test week.

CARROU-AGVA
PATCHDKPUTE

Hollywood, March 17.
Pending arbitration of seven, dis-
puted points with American Guild
of Varied Artists by three arbiters
to be named by American Arbitra-
tion Association, Earl Carroll will
send out his *Doc' Rockwell unit
opening today (Tuesday) -at San
Diego. Troupe comes bade to town
for a week at the downtown Or-
pheum opening March 25. Both Car-
roll and AGVA have agreed to com-
ply with the findings of the arbi-
trators.

Points in dispute comprise guaran-
teed playing time, tumisliing of
dress suits for males, strike clause,-
rehearsal pay, train berths for prin-
cipals, number of weelcly perform-
ances and minimum salaries.

YACHT CLUB, pnr,

KIBOSHED BY FLOOD

Pittsburgh, March 17.

Small flood here last week, when
Monongahela river reached 23 feet,,
put the Yacht Club, one of town's
leading nlteries, out of commission
and forced management to shut
down for four days. Gangplank
leading on to boat was smashed by
rising waters, result . of .heavy, sfiow.
and rain recently, and club's water
main was also broken.

Spot which is owned and operated
by Little Jackie HeUer and his
brother, Sol Heller, made an effort
to reopen in mid-week, after getting
gangplank, repaired, but couldn't
when swift streams kept tossing boat
from side to side. Show, the tab
'Fun for Your Money,' which had
■opened only -two- -days -before; -was
forced to lay off until waters re-

2 Ohio Nitery Fires

Toledo, O., March 17.
An explosion and fire caused $1,300
damage March 11 to the Three Star
Night Club here. It had been under
reconstruction alter a $1,500 flre sev-
eral weeks ago. It's believed an ac-
cumulation of gas escaping from an
open pipe beneath the floor was
ignited by a gas heater.

Port Clinton, O., Fire

Port Clinton; O., March 17.

The Beach Bar night club building
at Scher's Beach, near Port Clinton.
O., was destroyed March 11 by flre
of undetermined origin with loss es-
timated at $5,000. Loss partly cov-
ered by insurance.

Spot owned by William Gabel and
operated by William Cullens.

A Job at Billy Rose's
Diamond Horsesiioe
Is Equal to a Career

Enlisting in- the Army or' being
signed by Billy Rose for his Dia-
mond Horseshoe, N. Y, jneans vir-
tually the same stretch for an act.
First anni tonight. (Wednesday) of
the current extravaganza at the spot
sees all but two members of the cast
having worked a full year and some
of them almost the entire 33 months
that the Horseshoe has been open'.

Joe Howard holds the.^ marathon
record, having served in the Rose
entertainment corps for a solid 2%
years. Gilda Gray is another long-,
distance record holder, winding . up
22 consecutive months tonight. Clyde
Hager has 17 months to his credit
Noble Sissle's band has been at the
Horseshoe since opening night

One-year players in the John
Murray Anderson show Include Nita
Naldi, Carlyle Blackwell, CharUe
King, Four Mangean Sisters, Ross
Wyse, Jr., and June Mann. Betty
Compson has been in for .six
months.

Rose statistical department figures
that when the 730th performance of
'The Silver Screen' conies off to-
night ^ust. about one-third of
1,000,000 patrons wUl have gazed
upon it. Year's nm of a nitery
show Is believed to be a record
cracked only by the Mighty Midget
of Marathon Musicalla himself. His
initial Horseshow hoopla. Turn of
the Century,' went on for 17 months.
Previous high, as far as' Broadway
aJi.s can recall, was the seven
months that one of Zlegfeld's Mid-
night Frolics ran on. the Jlew .Am-
sterdam roof.

Mj^ Acts Against lewif Barley;
2 Theatres Cited by Policy Mayinr

Chi AGVA Pledge

Chicago, March -17.
' Arrangements have been made
by tHe local American Guild' of
Variety Artists for - an AGVA
group donation of blood to the
Red Cross national, blood bank
drive, .

Some 260 Ati-VA. member*
have alicedy made pledges.

Army Takes Oyer

Cape Cod lliteries

Boston, March 17.
Several nlteries will not reopen
for.-tiie..summer on .Cape. .Cod, since
the Army stepped in and took over

these is Lou Walters' Latin Quarter
at Old Sliver Beach, where the hotel
is b^lng used t6r barracks. Waiter
conducts the Latin Quarter at Miami
Beach and Boston, with another to
open in former location of Gay
White Way (ex-Cotton Club), New
York. >

Al Taxier's Casa Madi^Id will i>e
dark, while he will attempt to keep
the Rio Casino, Boston, open
through summer if heat doesn't
prevent

J. Rines Into Loew's State

Joe Rines, musical, director at
WMCA, New York, is booked for a
week at Loew's State theatre, N.Y.,
opening April 2. Hell use WMCA's
studio band behind him as he did
when he played the house last fall.

The Hartman's, John Boles and
George Prentiss acts booked fbr the
same week.

N.Y. BURLESQUE
HEARING
TODAY

New York burlesque theatre
operators will get a hearing today
(Wednesday) before Justice Aaron
J. Levy in N. Y, supreme court
when plea for a renewal of license
for the Gaiety theatre, on Broad-
way, comes up.

Morris 'L. Ernst, attorney for the
Bonserk Theatre Cor^., which
operates the Gaiety, filed action last
Wednesday (11) seeking relief from
'Indecency' ruling by License Com-
missioner Paul Moss whereby all
hurley houses were shuttered.

Last week Equi^ adopted a reso-
lution opposing Moss* burley shut-
tering and a similar motion was pro-
posed before the Associated Actors
and Artistes of America. Latter
wrote Moss on behalf of all' enter-
tainers, Ufglng that the licenses be
renewed. ' .

MIAMI SEASON SEEN
WINDING UP IN RED

. Miami, March iV.

Local season, as It goes ' into Its
finish, may be summed up as- poor.

No gambling, wto jitters, hit 'n'
miss crowds combined to keep -things
down. Even the few hotels doing
well have compromised on. their
rates.

Walters Sets April 15 to
Open B'way Latin Quarter

Lou Walters, whose Latin Quar-
ters at Boston and Miami Beach
have been eminently successful. In-
vades Broadway to place the name
on the -Great White Way, nitery
formerly operated by George Wl^te,
with an opening tentatively set for
April- IS. Rube Bodenhom, designer
of many Boston clubs. Is now oh the
Manhattan I scene tfi Ox over the
spot

For bis opening show Walters wUl
have 'Frank Ma^Dne and liis~troupe
of Apache dancers, Emlle Boreo,
Martelts and Mignpn, Irene Hilda
and singer Helen Carroll. Mme.
Kamarova, former, producer of
dances for Clifford G. Fischer and
French Casino, N. Y.,'wlll produce
the shows.. Kamaroff, ex-director of
the .Opera dbmiqUe, Paris, her hus-
band, will handle the music. Irving
Zussman, former partner In New
York's La Conga, wlU be one of
Walters' partners and also press

Cafe M.G. on Probation'
As Cleve. Hit-Run Driver

Cleveland, March 17.
Jack Ulmer, emcee at the Hot
Spot, downtown night club recently
declared 'out of bounds' by the
arng, promised Police Judge Perry
A.'Frey he would make restitution
on medical bills when he pleaded
guilty to drunken driving charges
and failure to ^ojf) his car after it
struck Miss Evelyn Snyder, a pe-
destrian. His driver's license was
suspended, for a year and he was
placed on probation.

Meanwhile, Harry Kowit, club
manager, ' who was refused citizen-
ship because of the army ruckus, de-
clared he was selling his interest to
Nate P^ilisdort; part owner of sepia
I Cedar Gardens,

Minneapolis, March 17.
' Burlesque is under Jlre here as th«
result of a police department morals'
squad report forwarded to the city
council by Mayor Marvin B. Kline.
In .ttie report, .Elmer Hart, morals^
squad chiei^ - charges thai a show
'Witnessed by . him at the Gayety,
Iiewls^SlUman burlesque. - theatre,
was 'lewd and' Indecent'

A letter from the mayor contain-
ing the Haft -report requested thiit
the council refer It to the license
conomittee for . 'proper action.'

In his letter, the mayor also .stated
4hat he had had complaints about
the type of performance at the
Hirsch-Katz Alvin; two-a-day biir-
lesque house. However, . aldermen
jumped to the Alvln's ' defense, de-
claring they had attended a number
of performances- at that house 'wltb
thehr- wives, and frlehds, h4d en-
joyed the shows and saw nothing
'wrong with them. .

Several aldermen expressed re-
sentment at- the mayor's action, in.
putting the problem up -to the coun-
clL They pointed out that as police
department head he, the mayor, had
power to prohibit theatrical 'pei;-
formances and revoke theatre li-
censes If he' saw fit They acctise the
mayor of trying to toss a hot potato
into their lap.
One of >the chaplains at the' local
S. Army post, Fort Snelling, has
been on the 'War path against bur-
lesque., U. S. Army {(uthorlties also
have brought about the raiding of
several disorderly houses and have
exerted pressure on city officii
for a clamping, down of tbe lid. It
has been claimed that soldiers in
uniform have been preyed .upon in
night spots by loose ^women.

On his part, the mayor, in -a radio
address, declared that the admin-
istration is trying to see that 'enter-
tainment Is kept as wholesome as
possible' for soldiers, ' He said that
50 'sneak imlicensed all-night Uquor
clubs' operating when be took office
have been forced either to dose Or
cut operations drastically.

If FJ)JL Goes on Air
Again, Showman Wants
. Labor to Wai?e Oyertmie

Minneapolis. March W.-
Harry Ka^ manager : of itiu
nirsch-Kats Alvln, burlesque house,
Is trying to liiake a deal with big
stagehands Bind orchestrr to permit
the halting of . the performance
whenever President Roosevelt' is «a
the air to allow Sor thie broadcast-
ing of the talk through the bous*
VA. (ystem. Katz wants the unlong
to waive overtime on such occasional -
figuring that the final curtain would
ring , down approxinoately luJf an
hour later than usual.

By advertising Out the Rresldent'e
talk would be heard In <ul], Kati
thinks that he aili^t kvtrt the box-
office collapse ibtA Inviuriably.occurg
when tlie elMM inecutlva is scfaed-
uled'for ■ radio «peecb.

PAR, CLIFF IISCHER
DISPUTE TITLE °

niere's a dispute between. Par*- .
mount Picture* and Clifford C.
Fischer on the uM td 'Priorities' la
a title. Paramount doUu it has reg-
istered such « title tor a proposed
musical, while Fischer claims he ha^
prior right for his priorities of
1042', two-a-day vaude. which opened
Thursday (12) at the 46th Street,

N. Y. . ;

Paramount may cue, on - the basla
of unfair practlcia and competition;
inasmuch ag titles can^ be copy-
righted.

Texas CoHegiaos Slated
For Interstate Rovue.

Dallas, March 17. '
Interstate Circuit, Inc., has an-
nounced it wUl shoot the works on
a stage extravaganza to be linown
as 'Varsity Vanities', involving ex-
clusively undergraduates of Texas
colleges ctnd universities.
' There wIU be 'a 6ix-week summer '
tour, with the students being paid
|26 weeidy plus expenses. After the
round of Interstate houses the show
will be offered to USQ for soldlef .
entertainment

46 VAUDEVILLE

W«dBe»d«7, March 18, 1942

Literati

sContlnaed Iron pace 2};

lege. Army, Navy, etc,' to quote the
jacket text.

Co-author Berrey has been sur-
veying American speech since 1931
and created ihb idea ot this anthol-
ogy. His colleague added to it Di.
Louise Pound, who Is president ot
the American Dialect Society and
v.p. of the Linguistic Society of
America, enlisted Berrey's collabo-
rator, Melvin Van Ben Bark, Eng-
lish tutor at the U. of Nebraska.
Others also collaborated in con-
tributing to this yeoman undertak-
ing, including an ex-'Variety' man,
Jack Edwards (Hollywood office).

The Conwayese, Menckenese, Win-
chellese, Glbbonish, 'Variety' -ese
(style created by 'Variety') are used
lor authority, but there is no identl-
flcatipn of the late Jack Conway
having worked on and created his
style in this paper. The authors
seemingly assume that's- generally
known. There are other grave
omissions, such as any credit to Bugs
Baer, certainly a slang creator; the
late Sime Silverman, founder of
"Variety," likewise credited by
Mencken, et al., as a stylist; nor of
Cieorge Ade and other immortal
creators of Americana,

But these are captious details,
nothing as compared . with the ex-
traordinarily cotfiplete, well indexed
and cross-indexed bibliography.

Canadian Mounted PoUcre. Convict-
ed were his wife, son and daughter.

While Stuart was on trial, he and
the three other members of his fam-
ily obstructed ik>I1c« after a court
order had been issued to bring the
editor to court Stuart had previ-
ously pleaded illness in absenting
himself from the trial.

Canadian Ed In Jail

Charles C. Stuart, newspaper edi-
tor of Blaine Lake,' Sask., is now
serving nine months in jail for print-
ing articles contrary to national war
services regulations. Recently, three
members of his family each received
12 months suspen4ed sentences and
were pjaced under bond when they
pleaded guilty to obstructing Royal

PHIL
REGAN

Opemng March 19
CAPITOL, SCRANTQN

Paraonal Repreaantativei
FRANK VINCENT
B«>varly Hilli, Calif.

Leo Dolan Vie* Geo. LaU

heo Dolan, day city editor at In-
ternational News Service, is sched-
uled to go to London to flU the po-
sition formerly held by George Il>ait.

Lait has been assigned to duty at
Cairo by INS.

Vrugiuy'a Anti-Axis Move

In a move to squeeze out totali-
tarian propaganda, the Uruguayan
Government has ruled that importa-
tion of acwspapers or other publica-
tions printed in any other but demo-
cratic languages used ollicially in^
the South American continent would
be banned.

Languages are Spanish, Portuguese
and French.

Publications mailed to Uruguay
contravening the regulations are al-
ready being mailed back. Anti-Nazi'
German language newspapers, espe-
cially the Argentlnlches Tageblatt,
are appealing the decision. Several
other countries, notably iBrazil, have
ruled out local publication of papers
in anything but Portuguese, although
permitting a certain number of im-
ports.

Strictly Week.End

' Even the top New York niter-
les nowadays depend on week-
ends for their buslneu. Hi* fact
that the young men are In the
Army, mi auto parking Is dan-
gerous (tlre-steallng, etc.), only
the weekend crowds of defense
workers, usually out-ol-towners,
can be depended upon in sizable
numbers these days, c

It's curious .also to tee gobs
and doughboys in uniform at the
swankiest boites, this lielng the
contingent of former 'regular
customers' who furlough and
frolic on Saturday and Sunday
only.

But the bulk of the biz comes
from out-of-towners these days;
visitors in Gotham for a week-
end of fun and spending.

S3?er Kept as Exec While
Harry Kalcheim Becomes
Chi Morris Office Head

LITERATI OBITS

Jose A. CunprabI, 62, owner and'
publisher of Ija Prensa, Spanish
language daily in N, Y., died in N. Y.
March 11.

Fred Essary, 60, chief Washington
correspondent of th* Baltimore Sun
for three decides until last Novem-
ber, died there March 11.'

Rhodes N. McPhall, 55, reporter
for many southern dailies, died
March 7 in Birmingham.

Jackion 8. Elliott, 66, once head
of the Associated Press news de-
partment, died March 10 in Palm
Springs, Cal., where.^-he had been
living in retirement. ^

Alva Gibson, 79, for many years
editor of the Marlon (Ind.) Leader-'
Tribune, died March 8 In Los An-
geles of a heart ailment.

Oeorce W. GrUUn, 63, who up to
a year ago had been with the Macon
Telegraph and News in Macon, Ga.,
died there Miarch 19.

Harry Kalcheim goes t Chicago
in a week or so' to become overall
head of the William Morris Agency
branch there, Mo-ris Silver con-
tinues there as the nominal head,
, Kalcheim was until recently book-
ing head of Paramount theatres.

In his Chicago post, Kalcheim will
be the coordinating head for all of
the departments of thi Chi branch,
theatres, niteries, bands and radio.

SET REPORT HCARIIICI

SllvcntoB* Fladlofs ob' 4 AOVA-
.Leeals «• Re JUrti Sbertly

A report on tiif ^temd atatui-of
three Coasl and on*, midwest local
of the .American Guild ot Variety
Artists will be read in New York
before the boards of AGVA and the
Four A's within th* next two weeks.

The report, stUl being prepared,
will be based on the Undings of
Jonas Sllverstone, attorney for the
national office of AGVA, wlio re-
cently made a tour of inspection of
the Sa'h Francisco, Hollywood, Los
Angeles and Chicago locals.

20th Century, Buff^

Sets Four Shows

Buffalo, March 17.
The 20ih- Century has underlined
four stage shows for the next - few
weeks,

Robert T. Murphy, manager, this
week announced the following book-
ings: 'Meet the People,' tab unit
March 27; Ina Ray Hutton orch and
LeBrun Sisters, April 3; Lou Breese
band and Connee Boswell, April 17,
and Benny Goodman, April 24.

Saranac Lake

By Happy Benway

Tolies Berf ere,'
Fischer s $3,000
Revue for USO

Special edition of Tolies Bergere'
will b* built by producer Clifford C.
Fischer to tottt military and naval
posts this summer for USO-Comp
Shows, Inc. It will cost about fS.OOO
a week to operate,

'Folles* was one of the shows defi-
nitely decided on for the hot-
weather outdoor program at a meet-
ing ot various managers, producers
and agents with Abe Lastfogel, CSI
chief. In New York yesterday (Tues-
day).

Lastfogel emphasized that he
wants the summer policy to^how
considerable novelty and get' away
from the more routine presentations
which limited caipp facilities ne-
cessitated during the 'winter. He
asked everyone ^ to toss in sug-
gestions for that ''plirpose.

Ferry's Girl Show

Felix (Fete) Ferry's Monte Carlo,
N. Y., which he shuttered until April
1 voluntarily, pending reorganiza-
tion, reopens with a girl show.

John Laitouche is authoring the
special material. Ferry will operate
solely, eschewing the dinner- policy
and just as a supper club.

QERT NIESEN OK DECCA

Gertrude Niesen makes first re-
cording for Decca tomorrow (19).
Term deal is being worked out,

Clifl Nazarro is making a single
disc for Victor.

Paul Draper succeeds Paul and
Grace Hartman, dance team, at
Wedgwood Room, Waldorf hotel,
N. Y., April 2, Hartmans go into
Loew's State, N, Y,, that day.

' Le* (Castaldo) CBstle rehearsing
new band in New York.

StiU Hayingl

EARL CARROLL

— wnnES

with

Slate Brothers
Buster Shaver with
Olive and George
and

The Wiera Brother*

Cast of 80 Host Beoutiftd Girl*
in Vm World

40th Week

EARL CARROLL THEATRE

Hollywood, Calif omia

*Star Spangled Glamour*
4th Month

LAVISH PRODUCTION
GORGEOUS GIRLS
SPLENDID COMEDY

See MILES INGALLS
Hdtel Alter, New York City

Saranac N. Y., March 17.
First blackout in the actors colony
a 100% success. It lasted one-hau
hour.

WiUiam 'Whitey' Matthews, for-
merly with the Zlegfeld 'Follies,'
Mclntyre and Heath and Ned Way-
burn as a hoofer, is a new arrival-at
the Will Rogers hospital. Just a
little run down. Yours truly trouped
with this newcomer during 1016-17
with Neil O'Brien's .minstrels.

Roy Nunnley left the Rogers after
a brief routine of sanatorium atr.
He went to Portsmouth, O,, to con-
tinue the cure,

Murray Freedman, ex-Rogerslte,
here for a o.o, and a mitting ot the
gang. His report was 100% okay.

Fred EssUnger, who mastered
many ups and downs, recently licked
that rib' operation. He's now back
in circulation.

Air raid wardens at the Will Rog-
ers are Eddie Vogt, chief; Colin
Tracy, Harry Martin, Jack Mulvaney,
Stanley Rausch, Oscar Price and
Jerry Sfiger.

Alexis Thompson, the sportsman,
got away with minor bruises when
his bobsled went over the top. He
was doing better than 60 miles an
hour, it's figured,

Veronica Lake attended the local
high school as Constance Keene.

Uons club minstrel skedded for
March 20, with Jimmy (Lambs Club)
Marshall producing. Profits will go
to the local Defense licague.

James Heagney, ex-ShUbert prod-
uct, who did so much for this colony
as a sports instructor, is on the mend.
His frau, Winnie, is Dr. George (Will
Rogers' son) Wilson's secretary.

Dolph Singer has written a new
number, 'Hey, Jap, Youll Never See
the Rising Sun Again.'

Thanks to the Charles Cogens and
Dorothy Maxwell for their reading
matter to the colony*-
Wrlte to those who are'llL

RISKY INSURANCE

Inaoranee Counsellor Boys Into N.T.
NItery

Morris H. Siegel, who^ 'Insurance
Counsellor' programs are heard on
various radio stations, has bought an
interest in the Beachcomber, New
York nitery, that has been in finan-
cial straits for some time. His half-
brother, Robert Roberts, is repre-
;entlng him at the spot, with Walter
Maier also aiding in the operation.
Siegel is understood to have invested
$20,000 in the venture.

For the present; the Am'erican
Guild of Variety Artists is collecting
nightly to cover the salaHes of its
members performing there. Accord-
ing to officials of the union's New
York local, the Beachcomber's bond
was recently forfeited to cover
money owed the cast New York
local 802, American Federation of
Musicians, has for some time been
collecting nightly for Its members'
pay. . !

MoHs Dancer's Plea

Toledo, O., March 17.

The Court of Appeals at Toledo
has taken under advisement the ap-
peal of Mrs. . Ada Brockett. 23,
known as 'Zorlta'. snake and spider
dancer, who was con'vlcted last sum-
mer In Municipal Court on the
charge of indecent exposure. She
was sentenced to six months In the
workhouse. -

Zorita was a ^dancer at the Ken-
tucky Klub her* when arrested on
Aug, 19, 1941.

New Toledo Nitery

Toledo, O., MarcE 17.
/ New. theatr* cafe, the Holly wood
Club, has opened locally.
Cost is estimated at $160,000.

Cabei and Dresden, dancers, will
double Into Loew's Stat* on Broad-
way from the Hurricane, N, Y,, week
beginning March 19.

Bddl* Welti «reh, featuring Gerry
Richard on vocals, into N*w BUI-
cr*st, Plttsbttrgh, for IndaflnitA-stay,
succeeding Benny Burton band.

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HILDEGARDE

A review by CLAUDIA CASSIDY
of the Chicago Sun

If people say of a girl "she isn't pretty and she
can't sing," she may have the making of that elu-
sive creature^ the^chanteuse. They used to say it
of Yvette Guilhert, they said it of Raquel Meller
and now. they say it of that enticing sprite, Hilde-
garde. Hildegarde of the Milwaukee Spanish 'and
bumplesB **Jenny," who is currently appearing at
the Mayfair Room of the Blackstone Hotel.

When Hildegarde is in a show, there isn't any
more show. With her little piaUo and its curious
contraptions, its trick lightng, her occasional ac-
companist, familiarly known as Leo the Lion, and
an orchestra to back her up now and then, Hilde-
garde is a one woman show even aa that other nose
wrinkler,. Gertrude Lawrence, who has appurte-
nances of plot, cast and staging, but is neverthe-
less, like Hildegarde, alone with her audience.

There are people who resent this sort of thing
as a form of voracity as shocking as the man eat-
ing orchid. I am told of a college professor whose
lectuivs on the drama writhe with adjectival loath-
ing of Miss Lawrence, who in his estimation shares
with Tallulah Bankhead the succinct solution as
to what's wrong with the stage. I am told by a
friend that Hildegarde infuriates him with her
''condescension" and her "cathedral" atmosphere.
Myself, I think all these girls are outrageous in a
delectable way. They amuse me — ^Lawrence with,
her crackling skill, Bankhead with her throaty
impudence, HQdegarde with her mischievous
wheedling and her sudden lapses into purely
phoney stained-glass glamour. They all have
something — personality, charm, magnetism, what-
ever you want to call the elusive spark that makes
others listen while one performs.

Hildegarde has a funny little voice -with a whis-
per in it, but what she does to you with "Vienna"
and "The Last Time I Saw Paris" is to remind you
poignantly of things you had and lost or perhaps
never had at all and want. She isn't pretty? Well,
I wouldn't say that. K yon have charm, a nice nose
and a lovely figure that sways to music, I wouldn't
call that ngly. Nor would I underestimate a girl '
who can work on a floor, surrounded by table
'customers, who are the most indififerent, the most
casaaUy rude of all who pay to be entertained.
Who can pilti the i^olie crowd into her spell until
a man at the back of the room Is whistling a gentle
obbligato to her singing, while a man down front
succumbs to herj^lea to dance with her and enjoys
it so much he gets good and doesn't want to stop.
Who can twist a phrase ever so slightly and make
a song her own, even by adoption a song like
"Jenny," which everyone knows belongs to Ger-
trude Lawrence. For to meet the Lawrence on her
own ground takes doing, and Hildegarde does i(.

DECCA BECOROING ARTISTE
PERSONAUTY SERIES

. . . a definite
attraction^' . ^

ice

say

GEORGE SUTER. Manager, Sayoy^aza, New York
A. S. SRKEBY, Managing Director, Blackstone Hotel Chicago

MICHIGAN AVENUE AT BALBO
CHICAGO
HARRISON 4300

Th* Gotham, New York City
The Drakg, Chicago
The Blackctone, Chicago
The Evanthire, Evaiiston
The Town Houte, Loa ^geles
Belleview Biltmore, Belle^r, Fla.

March 13, 1942.

Miss Anna Sosenko. Personal Manager

Hildegarde

Savoy Plaza Hotel

Now York City, New York.*

Dear Miss Sosenko:

I wish to take this opportunity of thanking you for Hildegarde's
splendid engagement during the past nine weeks in our new Mayfair
Room at The Blackstone.

Hildegarde played an important part in the success of this Room. .
We are delighted with her work and will look forward to having her

back lor a repeat engagement at an early date.

/

Again Hildegarde has proven to be a definite boxoffice attraction
and I con say without hesitation' her recent engagement in. our new
Mayfair Room was even more successful than her previous two engage-
ments in our Camellia House.

Assuring you of my appreciation for your cooperatioh,

*- Cordially yours,

A. S. KIRKEBY,

Managing Director.

HILDEGARDE

A review by ASUTON STEVENS
of the Chicago Herald-American

A high time was had with Hildegarde,
in the Mayfair room at the Blackstone
Hotel, and it was high time it was had.
She rejofced the iears of OdB "ardent mi-
crophone baler by singing and speaking
without one. She had a way with a song

that was all her own save for a sweet .
souvenir of Milzi Hajos, whom she is too
young to remember.

Sometimes she put into a Cole Porter
(say) liebeslied more pause than mbato
(pipe the reformed music critic back at
.his old tricks.1) and .the rhythm of the
portage perished. But she always held
uiflioflieiast-tiyliiJile.The' very'crotikeiy
listened. She was a magnetic one-man
show.

Tcnonal Munagcr
ANNA 808BMC0
Savoir-PUza, New York

Personal Rep.
JACK BERTBLL
MuhIc Corp. of Amcrlcn

OPENING

FRIDAY. MARCH 20th

SAVOY-PLAZA

NEW YORK

48

REVIEWS

Wednesdaj, March 18, 1942

JSighi Club Reviews

Terrace Room, N.Y.

(HOTEL NEW TOBKEB)

Woody Herman Orch (15) with
Carolyn Gray, BHlie Rogers; Ice
Show with Adele Inge, Bill k Betty
Wade, Ronnv Roberts, Bob Russell,
Ice Balltt (6) ; minimum, 75c. week-
days; $1.50 Saturdays.

Terrace Room cUcks again with a
new ice revue built around the same
principals who peopled the previous
production, all in support of the
talented Woody Herman band,
•which hegan its' second booking in
the room. Produced and staged by
Donn Arden, the 35-minute blade
exhibition is colorfully costumed,
laid out not oiily with contrasting
hues in mind, but also for timeliness.
Titled 'Red, White and Blue of 1942,*
it's in three parts, starting with 'red,'
etc.

In the initial segment, Adele Inge,
Ronny Roberts and Bill and Betty
Wade, three classy sets .of skaters,
and the line combine to work out a
Brazilian idea Uiat not only covers
the color angle, but also, through
choice of theme, vaguely furthers
the 'good neighbor', policy.' Second
portion shows the line in white, sum-
mery gowns and the palatable skate-
dancing of the Wades to 'Say It Wtth
Music' 'Always,' etc., a brilliant bit
that neatly separates the previous
Latin pace from the fast finale. Lat-
ter assumes a timely military motif,
Ronnie Roberts contributing his
speedy and dangerous acrobatic
skating. Miss Inge is ,ln for her
'specialty, too, a series' of breath-
taking stunts that include flying and
standing full-flios. The Wades and
Robert', n'us '*if.s lD"e prd the I'ne
then Dol.'sh it oft together^ Bob
Russell m.c.s and sings occasionally,
do'ng an okav rob.

Herman's combination of four sax,
three ti'umpets, three trombones and
four rhythm, led by his showmanly
clarinet and s<ix playing, is un-
deniably one of the crack combos of
the moment It plays soft and hot
but always with i;ood taste and a
relaxed styl^ that's not only excel-
lent listening, but a definite urge to
obey the 'Keep 'Em Dancing' slogan.
Bahd has come far in the past two
years and from any angle it rates its
success.

Carolyn Grajr, vocalist, has Im-
^proved tremendously since her initial
^showing with the band In N. Y. last
fall. Billie Jlogers sings well In a
style all her own and plays trumpet
specialties. ■ Wood.

Cocoanut Grove, Boston

''Boston, March 12.
Itflckev Alpert Orch (11), Verdyn
& Wallv 5tapIeton, Sandjor Glanz,
Antonia Torre^. Kelant. Billy Poyne,
Ruth Wallace, Buster Kiam Boys &
Girls (12); $1.50 minimum.

' If there's a nitery bargain in town
It's here at the Grove. In addition
to the conventional* floor show there's
an exhibition of table tennis, with a
champ player challenging any and
all comers, plus a brief fashion show.
On top of that, tonight's (12) trade got
a close ogle at featured players from
•My Dear Public'- and 'Hellzpoppln','
both playing currently in the Hub.
Thursday is Theatrical Guest Night'
at this club, with Mickey Alpert

orchestra leader and m.'c handling
the intros.

The Alpert band, by the way, Is
currently hitting top stride for dance
rhythm and is definitely a draw for
the hoofing contingent

Sandor Glanz, one of the champ
table-tennis playefS, first plays Ver-
dyn Stapleton, of the Stapleton dance
team. She's ranking women's player
and gives him zippy competition.
Glanz shows off some trick shots and
offers to play any customer. Volun-
teers get handicaps and win cham-
pagne for their defeats. Result is a
good-time_ atmosphere often sought
out seldom achieved in local clubs.
Lou Perry does the commenting on
the play-by-play.

The Stapletons do three dance
numbers in varied tempo, including
their comedy number familiar to lo-
cal vaude fans who see them occa-
sionally on Boston stages.. Couple
get over nicely on talent and ■ per-
sonalities. Antonia Torres, featured
solo dancer, is another standout in
the current bill, registering in two
spots with her Spanish routines, spar-
kled up with sofe nUhty castanets.

Kelani, another featured dancer,
waves the hips and warms up. the
ringsiders with her hula specialty,
spotted in the production number by
the line girls and boys. Ruth Wal-
lace, singer with the band, capaoiy
ooens the show with Don't Want to
Walk.' Three chorus routines, di-
rected by Buster Kiam, impress by
the sheer whiz of action created by
12 busy people cavoring around on a
sn"iU flour space.

Billy Payne effectively tenors 'Day
Is Done,' 'White Cliffs' and 'Rose
O'Day.' He's a local standby. He
alternates with the band leader as
m.e FOX.

Havana-Madrid, N.Y.

Pilar Lopez, Rosita Rios, Don Cas-
anova, Paco Luceno, Trio Tuchiteco,
Rolcndo, Carlos Montoyo, Maya
bond (7) ond Don Gilberto Rhumbos
(6) ; $2 and $2.50 minimum.

Lopez & Ferrer have been operat-
ing the HavanarMadrld for several
seasons on Broadway, periodically
changing its Latin revue.s, and
weathering all kinds of changing-
tides in the fortunes of Manhattan's
nlteries. They come up again with
a good new show, holding over Ros-
ita Rios, stiindard with her fine yo-
cal delivery, and headlining .Pilar
Lopez, modestly heralded as "Spain's
greatest dancer.' She may not be
wholly that but she's certainly com-
petent although more In a concert
platform sort of a way. She was
doubling from the Shubert theatre
with Argentinita, who la Miss Lo-
pez's sister, but no more now. It's
her cafe debut, and her terps are
strictly for the Latin idiom spots-
Don Casanova, despite that tough
handle, is more for the masses. He's
a good singing emcee, pacing the
proceedings well and mixing up bis
ballads as expertly as does Senorita
Rios with her admixture of familiar
Latin faves.

Rolando, whose distinction la . a
somewhat mouldy-looking Mahatma
Gandhi takeoff, is a question for
cafes. He's heralded as a Mexican
pantomimist,. and whUe the panto
part looks authentic, he might clean
up for the intimate confines of a
cafe. Trio Tuchiteco are In the
now familiar idiom of mixed Mexi-

Tnwicus
LOEW

BOOKING
AGENCY

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LOEW BUILblNO ANNEX

;1«0 W. m> St, N. V.C • Myul *.7«M

can trios, doing peasant dances.
Carlos Montoya is the Inevitable
guitar specialist; Paco Lucena, flam-
enco dancer; and the 'Maya and Don
Gilberto bands alternate for show
and dancing. Withal a gouu atmos-
pheric buy for $2. AbeL

Le Ruban Bleii, N.Y.

Maxine Sulltoan, Kay Moon, Raaha
& JVTtrfco; $2 minirnum.

Maxine Sullivan, probably getting
the top salary ever paid by host
Herbert Jacoby for an act at this
drawing-type boite, is more than
proving her worth. This is a return
booking, and the ofay customers,
Lent and income tax or not are
turning out In sizeable strength for
the dusky chanteuse. With her three
rhythm pieces for. nice stylized ac-
companiment — emphatic but not too
jivey — Miss Sullivan croons 'Don't
Want to Walk Without You,' 'Rose
O'Day,' 'Summertime' and the in-
sistent loch Lomond' to telling re-
sults: . Polite,' soft-voiced, not too
obtrusive, this comely colored girl
pitches her racial confreres to new
heights. -With Hazel Scott (who, by
coincidence, was caught by this re-
viewer earlier in the evening, also
tieing up the proceedings at the 46th
St vaudeville policy). New York
boasts of two of the finest stylists in
their field.

Supporting talent is hit 'n' miss.
The hit is Rasha & Mirko, Serbian
guitarist -singers. With emphasis on
Slavic melodies. Ifs good stuff for
this .counterpart of what was
formerly called a 'continental atmos-
phere.' It's the type of act that
whams in chici vodka joints like the
Maisonette and Casino Russe, N. Y.,
the Troika in Washington, D. C, et
al. A pair of personable Slavs, the
men know their ohchichomls.

The mtssout is Kay Moon (nee
Morris) who needs seasoning with
her late 19th century excerpts, doing
yesteryear ballads, plus a dash of
Vesta Victoria, Alice Lloyd, etc. The
idea is deft, the execution a bit
strained.

For the $2 minimum, this polite,
compact room (no dancing ever,
utilizing Herman Chittison only for
relief pianologs) gives good after-
theatre divertissement value. Abel.

BLUE ROOM, N. O.

' (HOTEL ROOSEVELT)

New Orleans, March 15.
Joe Retchman Orch, JWartels and
JVIigTion, Bob Evans, and Raul and
Eva Reyes.

Despite the Lenten season and the
town's .predominantly Catholic popu-
lation, this leading nocturnal ren-
dezvous continues to attract ca-
pacity biz. Current entertainment is
among the best offered in swank
nitery in some time.

Joe Reichman's crew and three
acts make up the program. On the
strength 0% his previous visit and
capable btod, the 'Pagliacci of the
Piano' drew large house at opening.
The band's swingy, yet can switch
easily to softer rhythms when the oc-
casion demantis, particularly for the
dinner session.

The band is sparked by the adroit
pianoing of the leader. He contrib-
utes numerous specialties at the key-
board in which he- displays mastery
of technique^ particularly in his in-
terpretation of ^Smoke Gets in You;
Eyes,' which got plenty of palm-
poundlne from the first nlghters.

The Three Martels and Mignon
(three men and a girl) do very fast,
cleverly conceived adagio routines,
with the running time only seven
minutes. But it is a big seven min-
utes of entertainment thrillingly and
colorfully performed. Management
should have used this sock act to
close show rather than as opener.

Show's only comedy comes from
Bob Evans, who manipulates dummy
with line of chatter that drew plenty
of laughsi Best part of act is when
wooden kid sings, being particularly
in form with 'Irish Eyes' and 'Write
Myself a Letter.'

Raul and Eva Reyes, Latin dancers,
snared plenty of bravos with their
below-the-border routines. Conga
and rhumba are their specialties,
with routines original and interest-
^■■^ig: Teom'scbred heavily? ' " • ■t-—-
Members of Reichman band con-
tribute several specialties to garner
their share of the applause. Band
also provides fine background for
acts and keeps the tables empty dur-
ing dance periods. Liuzza.

El Morocco, Montreal

Montreal. March 15.
Benny Fields, Al Bemte, Jack
Denny Orch (9), Robinson & Martin,
Carlos St Cariia, Irene Hilda, Line
(8); no cover.

Featuring best billing to come to
Montreal in many months. El Mo-
rocco had Its opening Thursday (12),
could have done three times the
business and thoroughly earned it.
This new spot, on its air-condition-
ing, appearance, lighting and ele-
gance, is way ahead of anything of
the kind in this city.

Benny Fields is a surefire asset on
any floor. He has not been seen here
for 15 years and accounted for the

big (urnaway crowd. Fields knows

every trick in the tiouper'a xepertoty

and it's amazing what he can do to
a crowd with a minimum of effort
He and Al Bemie between them took
up 75% of the 90 minutes the show
ran opening night He has some
new gags and some not so fresh but
still solid and garnering plenty
laughs. He also gets the best out of
the melody and lyirics.

Bemle emcees but has a neat spot
of his own. He is a flne. funster, a
clever miralci and his material is up-
to-the-minute and good. He was
forced back repeatedly for bows.

Show is generally solid but a bit
overloaded on running time with
these two standouts, at least at this
viewing. It will likely be cut

Jack Denny has a nine-piece local
orch that does its stuff adequately,
while the maestro, who was here for
a number of years, has a following
among the oldsters. Providing the
contrast are a brace of dance teams
and a French songstress. Robinson
and Martin put across a smooth ada-
gio act that goes over well and got
them a good hand. Carlos and Carita,
South American duo, are a boy and
girl team with plenty of tropical
dance effects and special costuming.
The.v also were well received. Irene
Hilda sings French songs and begs
off with quaintly accented English
ditty.

Line of eight girls, imported from
Chicago, ooens show with dance
based on 'Bolero.' Routines are in-
teresting throughout and wardrobing
hiph class. Gals have requisite looks
figures.

Arthur Davidson nnd Harry Han-
sher operate the club. Lane.

Biltmore Bowl, L.A.

(BILTMOBE HOTEL)

Los Angeles, March 12.
Donald Nov»s. Paul WincheK,
P<!tcli & DeauuilU?. Radford Jt Hurley.
"Phil. Horn.? Orch (14); cover, $1
Soturday; 50c. week nights.

For some years now this down-
town spot has been concerning the
bonifaces of Hollywood, Bevhills
and' wa.y points. 'What keeps it
going?' is pretty much of a stock
question in the bistros. It's fairly
close to 20 miles round trii from the
beaten nitery paths, but it would be
well worth the long haul to get a
lOHd from Joe Faber on how to keep
a bowl filled.

C-rrent setup gives an idea of
how he got the room over the hump
and kent it there. There's a name
band, Phil Harris, on the stand; Don-
ald Novis, a longtime fave with the
locals, heading the floor show, and
three other acts. Just enough en-
tertainment and good time to unllm-
ber the nethers. Dt\ ks start at 35c
and the victuals are both reasonable
and toothsome. No gimmicks, and
the customer is king. That's the
Faber formula in a nub. For a time
the cover was dispensed, with a
minimum substituted. Now the
cover is back and the trade is just
as flourishing. Give the customer
anything he wants^that's the motto.
Wanna play a few hands of gin
rummy? In no time at all a deck
of cards and a score pad are on the
table. Another popular Faber inno-
vation' is his instructions to the
waiters not to hustle drinks.

Best answer to how* all this is
working out is the weekly turnout
of around 6,000. Rarely is it imder
5,000. No Sundays.
' Naturally, Harris is top draw in
the current aggregation and a smart
choice. He has that radio rep to
back him up and his crew plays
dansable music. As emcee and song-
seller he doesn't miss a trick. Band
opens with its Jell-O ra'dio signa-
ture and then Harris goes into his
old stahdbv, "That's What I Like
About the South.' Sittef's are out on
the floor on the downbeat and Har-
ris keeps them happy and hopping
with a neat change of pace.

Novis is inau^ratlng his come-
back here and should win back his
old popularity. He is singing as well
as ever and can still reach those
high notes with silken clarity. He
took at least a half dozen encores
and used up most of his repertoire
of songs identified with his earlier
success. Paul Winchell and his
dummy suffer from comparison with
Edgar Bergen, with material being
on the blue side. He's a first-rate
ventriloquist, but Charlie McCarthy
has dimmed all that. Fetch and
Deauville, tumbling tapsters, have
a whirlwind turn tbnt fills the
dancing soot.

Badminton team of Noel Radford
anil Bill Hurley give a flash ex-
hibition of how the shuttlecock
should be l»atted around. They're
past masters at the game and shop-
men along with It. Every exchange
is made to appear difficult.

Helm.

Niesen for Chi Chez

Chicago, March 17.

Gertrude Niesen has been set by
Joey Jacobson and Mike Frltzel to
headline the next show at the Chez
Paree opening on April 3. Other acts
include Jackie Miles, Three Murphy
Sisters and Evelyn Famey.

Band will be Milo Franklin's, new
to Chicago nlte Ufe.

Unit Review

SKETCHBOOK REVUE

(BBOADWAT, CHABLOTTE. N. C.)

Charlotte, N. C, March 13.
Neisi Trio, George Shreck, Bob &
Helen Watson, Ernest Hlatt, Pat
Sherfdan, Cello Dancers (10), Hughie
Emmons Band (4) ; 'Man -from Head-
quarters' (Mono).

Frank Baylor's 'Sketchbook Revue'
is a trim, fast-moving tmit that's
solid entertainment from start to
finish.

The Neiss Trio, acrobats, top the
show with a. sock performance on
the bounding trampoline. A daz-
zling array ^of perfectly-timed aerial
gyrations are contributed by the
girl in the troupe, while her partner
provides comic relief with soine
superbly executed clowning. Third
member of troupe works as catcher.
Act ends with all three in glittering
display of aero-dynamics that stops
5how.

George Shreck, sourpuss comic. Is
pleasing in a knockabout comedy sin-
gle. This includes some trick fid-
dling . and clarineting, interspersed
with gags and clowning. He works
In some gag clarineting for laughs
and scores heavily with dancing and
aero antics. Bob and Helen Watson
satisfy with a ballroom terp, with
the line as background. Miss Wat-
son opens show with a contortionist-
acrobatic single that is plenty good.

Ernest Hiatt Is okay in a comic
monolog in which he works in some
smooth patter, although it drags in
spots. Hiatt, who has pleasant per-
sonality, d^veries material with
smoothness and finesse. He winds
up with a staccato -tempo song in
which he reels off the history of his.
life. Got nice hand.

Pat Sheridan; baritone, scored
solidly with his nifty piping of 'This
Love of Mine.' He follows with
'How About You' from the sidelines
for a parjide number by the line. He
Is a clean-cut looking, chao and
makes hit with the femmes. He also
works in a college professor getup in
the opening number by line, which
has a campus setting.

The Cella dancers, trim built and
nifty lookers, are pleasing in four
appearances. They open with col-
legian number, in which they work
in a nice I6g routine seated on stools,
and follow with a brief jungle num-
ber. Parade number is so-so and
they wind up with a nifty can -can,
with several girls doing specialties. -
Girls wear smart costumes. Hughie
Emmons backs show up from pit

Good house on show caught.

Just.

New Acts

MILLS, LEE A POWERS
Comedy. Dsnolnr
6 Mins.
Apollo, N. r.

Trio of male funsters consists of
two boys who play straight for the
short, stock clown. Veteran hoofers,
they include neat comedy and knock-
about gymnastics plus showmanship.

Tapstering has been framed about
continual abuse of the smaller lad.
Burlesque Apache dance could be
further developed. They loom ■ as
okay for night clubs or vaude.

Wear.

TED CLAIRE
Comedy
6 Mins.

Tower theatre, Kansas Clt^

Vet trouper Ted Claire introduced
his new act here after returning to
the U. S. fronl'^three years Down
Under. Routine he's now showing is
basically a character pantomime of
a Brooklyn snowbird, but embel-
lished with some pointed comedy
lines. Rounds out his act with a
broad burlesque of A Jolson doing
'It All Depends on You,' and a soft-
shoe semi-eccentric terp.

Customer approval was hearty.
Only possible question could be
whether a dope is not more an ob-
pect of pity than of comedy. To the
average theatre patron such a .char-
acter.is likely unknown and no ques-
tion arises for this spot, but It may
be a consideration in larger cities.

No little part of Claire's work Is
his personable delivery and stage
presence. Quin.

Waste Rubber Stretched
Into Det. Nitery Admission

Detroit, March 17.

In a move to turn niteries .to de-
fense purposes in the same fashion
that theatres have gone patriotic
here, the Bowery launched a rubber-
collection night. Instead of the reg-
ular admission, Frank Barbaro gave
entry to anyone who came in with
rubber articles.

Remit of the collection was 300
pounds of waste rubber, which will
be turned over to the federal salvage
group. Because of the success of the
project, the nitery will continue the
free admission night on all Thurs-
days.

Wednesday, March 18, 1942

49

Variety Gills

WEEK OF MARCH 20

Nmneral* In Miineetlon with klUi below Ind l wte epoiliic ' Cay of
«h«w. iHiefher fun t'r sp^t week.

Paramoont

NBWirOBKCITX
Fsnunoont (IB)
.•tei Brown Oro .
Connee Bo»w«U .
~ Bot Williams
FoPB & Louis
OHIOAGO
Becal (Z0>
Coupt BbbIs Ba
Pot, Pan * SMItat

cmcAOO

Chlca«o (M)
Jan Savitt Ore
IiOiralne t Rognsn
I Jean Blanche

HiAia

OlyiBpta (.U-tt)
Rod Rosers
Jack Cols Sane
U Aner ft J Hanter
Llrae it

ST. PAUl
Orphciim (tO-29)
Bin Robinson
Bmls Fields Bd
OXAHA
Oiptaenm <te)
Sammy Kays Oro

NEW «mK OITT

Stats <ie>
Brlcklaysrs
Both Clayton
Cbbot ft DresdsB
Heany Tonngman
Louis Prima Oro

' WABHIMOTON
Gatdtol

Rhythm Rockets
Mata ft Harl
Oeorsa Beatty
MarJ Qalnawortta

Warner

NEW TOBK cm

Stnwd (M)
Cbaa Splvah Ore
Rogers Dano
7<'Bnk Paris
BBOOKI.TN
filnind (tO-28)
JJmmy Durante
Red Korvo Oro
Ulldred Bailey
4 Franks

(13-16)
Joe Vsnutl Ore
Hal LeRoy
on Malaon
Belett ft Ens Bros
FBnLADELFHIA
Sarle (tO)
Ina R4y Button Ore
Jlackstone
Barr & Estes
(IS)

Soke Elllncton Ore
Bttael Waters
Peg Leg Bates

FITTSBVRGn
Studey (20)
Dnke Ellington Ore
Ethel VTaters
Peg Leg Bates
(13)

C%tco Mane Oro~
The Jansleys
Lorraine ft Rognan
WA8BINOTON
Barle (»»)
Ray Kinney Ore
Carr Bros
The Diplomats

(18) .
The Willys
Khn Loo Sis
Jean, Jack ft Judy
Mario ft Florla

vncA

Stuley (t4-Z«)

Jimmy Dui^ante
Red Norvo Ore
Ma) BoWes Unit
Mildred Ballsy

(17-lB)
Ina Ray Hutton Ore

RKO

BOSTON
Boston (2U)
AlTlno Rsy Ore
The 4 King 81a
Spencer ft Formaa
Lane Bros
(IS)

Clyde McCoy Oro

Bob Howard

Dawn ft Unmanettaa

Chick ft Lea
CLEVELAND
Vateee (M)

Andrews Bis
, Johnny Long Oro

Helon Young
* Bob Houston

Fred Sanborn

Soattaem 81s

(13)

Gray Casa Loma O
Ruthle Barnes
Littis Tough Gays
Sybil Bowan
Adrlanna ft Charly
DATXtoN

csioiUsi <ze)

Ghioo Marx Oro
GU Lamb
Rullo ft V Flckert
Carroll & Dletrloh

(18)

The Fmludys

B Miller ft AI Slegkl
4 Arnaut B ft Nellie
Lew Parker C9
Rajah Rabold

Independent

XRW TOBK CITY
Uosle Han (U) .

Rdwina Eustlc
Hilda Eltonte
DlUa Dave
Alma Lee
Muriel Gray
Nlcboliis Daka
T'Pon Foklne
Rimini Olmsted
S^rge InnalloS
Corps de Ballet
Rockettoa

Srno Rapes Symph

Boxy O-V)
7'alacl's Fnppsta
Sonny Rice
Dick, Don ft Dinah
Bob Hannon

Apollo (18)
Les Hlto Oro
Ralph Cooper
S?'!ffy:"J9n)wn. - -
CiauAla McNeil
Beachcombers
4 Gls ft 4 Boys
■ Genrge Wiltshire
WlBdwr (M)
Stan Kenton Oro
Bonnie Bakor
Dave Apollon Cor
Dixie Dunbar
8 AoromanlacB
ASTORIA
BtelBway (20-t2)
Joey Adams
2*ny Conzonerl
EJdle T^mbert Co
Tmmy ft Hutchle
Nathane Bros

BBOOKLTN
„ .BUtbuh (19)
Bob Allen Oro "
Barry Woods
2 * WaUrfall
B Welle ft 4 Faye

Irii'-S^X""
Koilolt, Mari^ ft D
■Dorothy Carlson Co

Hartoe (M only)
Cy Landry
Jed Dooley Co

'0 fl'l)
Mcwfalr (»l only)
Cy Landry

Dooley Co
(Three to mi)

AKBON
Palace (M-SS)
Eddie Diichin Ore
Roy D&vis
Uay ft Trent
Lois Harper

(»>-«S)
B Carroll Vanities
BAr,TIUOBE
Hlppwlrame <ie)
Stuart Morgan Dane
Jaclde Miles
Paul Bydell
Lnster Cole ft l)obs

The Co-Eds
Juggling Jewels
Ann Lewis

State (tS-tS)

Clarissa

Prot Baokwards
Bob Baston Co
E Varsity Co-Eds

•- '-(1*.81)
Gags ft Glamour. R

BBIDOEIPOBT
lyrlo (te-lS)
Abe Marcus Show

_ CAMDEN

ToweiB (XO-tK)
Claytons
Carol Gould
Del RIos
Dana ft KapIIn
Bmer Mountaineers
■UZABKTH

Liberty a^2i)
8 Jados

Rnftaell ft Farrar
Fin Olson
Jesse Miller Co
(Two to nil)
FAIX BnTER
Xmplia (17-19)
John Boles
Heller ft Riley
Bob Baston Co
S Reeds

Happy. Tom ft J
FBBBPOBT
Vreeport (to only)
Ethel Wormann
White ft Stanley
D|)!'Brown
Marten Florens Co
(One t o All )
HABTFOBD
State (20-22)
Gypsy Rose Lee
Dick Todd
Geo Olsen Oro
Paul Gerrlts

KABKIBBOBO
State (28-28)
Uarc&a Show
V HOI.TOKX
Taney Arena
(U-16)
Ina Ray Hutton Oro
Jane Pickens
(Three to lUl)
JAIIAIOA
Jamalra (17-19) .
Al Deloge ft Shirley
Nathane Bros
Tim Herbert
The Lavernes
S Potato Bugs

' I.TNBBO0K
I^brook (2i osdy)
Ethel Wormann
White ft Stanley
Bill Br6wn
Marten Florenz Co
(One to All)
NEWASR
Adams (19)
Charlie Barnet Oro
Monroe Bros
Aunt Jemima
Steve Bvans
PASSAIC
Cential (19)
Lou Breese Ore
Jack Haley
Rose Marie
Bob Dupont
2 Zephyrs

PATERSON
Majestic (24-29)
Keith Variety Show

(29-28)
The Peletlers
Ted Lester
Caroline Manners
Sully ft Thomas
Bil l M aton's Rev

PHILADEUPHIA
t Jacks
Johnny Barks'
Kay, Katya ft Kay
'(One to ril)

Blay's (19)
Trlxle

Merrill Miller
Keaton ft Annfleld
Zonia Duval
PITMAN
B'way (21 only)
Keith Varie ty Snow
FBOTIDKNOE

Hetropontan
(20-22) .
Ray Bolger
Joe VenutI Oro
Benny Venuta
Hermanns 'JTms S
SOUTH BITEB
Capitol (29-21)
Bob Easton Co
Olenn ft Jenkins
3 Potato Bugs
(Two to Oil)

' STBACVBE
Sinad (2»-X2)
Cliff Nazarro
Hal Leroy
Ted Hack.
Bstell e Tay lor
WATEBBDRT
Poll's (19-29)
Abe Marcus Show

WOODSnXB
Bunnyslde (21-22)
The Lavemes
Leonard, Semon; S
Walter Walters
Elizabeth's Canines

Carlos Logo
Dal Dvca Oro

n Morooce
Ohanncsr Grey Qn

Chlqnlto Ore
Vsfe's Henta Cado

Bill Robinson
Ted Straeter Oro
Bbb Knight Oro
Vaaaof* Door

Helen Humes
Billy Daniels
Stump

Sammy Price
Dolores- Colbsrt
Jane Leslie
Lee Norman Oro

81 Clob
Carolyn Blddls
Marlon Joyce
Iris Karyl .
Wameta Batea
Frances LssUs
Wl^ma Novak
Inhe Kayo
Grooverneers
Bobby Bernard
Dick I<ewis Ore 1

S2d Swine Club
Delmar 3
Frankle Meadows
Al Green

Onenwleli TDIage
Ina

Henry Arthur
Vera Neva
Carroll Cbappell
Patricia Parker
Loma Rhod6
Gene Monet Ore
Harlem Bendezvons
Edna Mae Harris
Princess Valda
Columbos Ore

Julia Oerrity
Fish Gold
The Three Debs
Hotel Petmaylvanla

(Cafe BMge)
Jimcny Dorsey Oro
Bob Bberly
Helen O'Connell
Phil Washbnm

Hotel Ploeadllly

(Oeorglan Boom)
Kstry Ens

Hotel Pierre

(Ootmion Boom)
Ella Logan
Stanley Melba Ora
Hotel Plasa

(Persian Beom)
Dick Qaaparre Or*
Eleanor French
Frank Parts

Rotd Boosevatt
Guy Lombardo Ore
Kenny Gardner

Hotel Sheraton

(Uariay Boom)
Ruth Lowe
Sair Lee
Francis King
Henry Noble
Hotel SavoT-Ptaai
Hlldegarde
Bob Grant Ore

Hotel B*. Horfts
(Cafe de U rate)
Charles ColumLua
Kathryn Carroll
Terri FraneonI
Mack Perrln
Rosalie Gibson
Ford Harrlaon Ore
Hotel Sntton

Chung T* Wha
t Can-Can Ola
Gaston

19tb Hole Clob
Lenore Lemmoa
Steve Unrray
Golferettes
Lou Taylor
Edith Delaney
Gerrl White
Johnny ft (leorge
Angel Velez Ore
Snub Hosely f>r*

Not Clob
Belle Sloane
Lamonr 2
Jack Reynolds
Little J04 LittU

Old Banmaalan
Sandle Banks
Freddie Bernard
Ada Lublna
Ginger Layne
Joe LaPorte Ore

Place Elegaat*
Phil Dante
William Ross '
ClUf Conrad
Martin Locke
Manya Borodklo
Jeannette Garrotte
Ernest Frans Ore

Qama IfaiF
Shadra^h Boys
Carlisle Sis -
Sonny Tntts
ChlQulta Veaeda
Joan Ellis
Bill Glass Oro

Queens Tenaca .
Phil Foreter
Epple Bruee
Healy ft Evans
Agnes Dwyer

BOOKING THE NATION'S LEADING INDEPENDENT
VAUDEVILLE THEATRES

EDWARD SHERMAN AGENCY

NEW YOBE

BEVERLY HniS, CAL.

WOBCESIXB
Plyimmth <19-U)

AJvIno Bey pro

4 King eiB

Lane Bros

Spencer ft Foreman
X0UN08TOWN
Palaee (29-23)

Eddie Ducbln Ore

Roy Davis

Ray ft Trent

Lois Harper

Cabaret Bills

NEWTOBECITT

Armando's

Geo Morris Ore
Beverly Patemo

Beachcomber .
Gallt Bis
Larry Blake
John Kilty
Various ft Tlda
Salazor Ore
Cordoba Oro
BUI BettoIotU's'

Batty Black
Linda Kobblns
Bernlce Alarle
Moya Glfford
Don Sylvlo.Ore

BlU's Gay 99*0
Rose Perfeot
Lulu ' Bates
Ethel Gilbert
George Tonak
Harry Donelly
Billy Iiorralne
Charlie Ross
Bemle Graner
Benny Graoer
Gay 90's Quartette
Bntler's New Boom
Steve Murray Rev
Happy Lewis

Cafe UadlaoD
Allan Cole Oro
Gypsy MorkoB
Marlynn Michael Co
Les Parker
Cafe Hontftamasse
Aileen Cook
Jean Brunoeco

Cmit Sodetj
(Uldtown)
Joe Sullivan
Hazel Scott
Golden Gate 4
Eddie South Oro

Gate Socletr
(Vmnge)
Teddy Wilson Oro
Albert Ammons
Pete Johneon
Rose Dexter
Zero Mostel
Baby HInes

Cafe Vienna
Rath Barr
William Hoffman

Murray iiiiior""

Dolty Horgens
Leo Pleakow ore
Cosa Uorta

Antoinette Sevarin
Tony ft Bstrella
Hector Del VlUar
Monallto

Juan Dimltrl Oro

Nina Taroaova
Sasha Pollnoff
Michel Ulchon
Nadia ft Sosba
Dmitri Matvlenko
Kris Kay Ore
Nicholas Matthsy O

Cerattl's
Walter Lynch
Mae Barnes
Haywood ft Allan
4 Chanticleers
Dan Parrish

Ohateaa Modeme
Charles Francis
John Llvlo
Ira Bpector Oro
Chia Lee's-
Sandra ft Stanley
Mary Rowley
Darling Sis
Claudlnette Laffoso
Helen Glasaer
Evelyn Johnson
Ray Worth Oro

. CUcby

Ann Gals
Walter Lynch
Clob 18
Q Andrsws Oro
Erie Ore
Roberta Welch
Jack White
Irene Carroll
Frankle Hyeia-
Vince Cnhran ,
Roy Sedley
Hazel McNuIty
Lillian Fitzgerald
Susan Long

Chib PMsco
Joe Frisco
Mildred Fenton
Florla Vestott ,
Anne Pillge
Terrace Boys
Patricia Joyce
Frank Froeba Oro

Club Maxim's
Phil Foster
June Sayres
Eunice Jason
White (2)
The Dwyer*

Chib Midnight
Ramona
Vi Bradley

CiBb 181
Connie Harri*
Billy ft Ann
Jack Goldle
Muriel Asche Co

Club Samoa
Mabelle Russell
Linda Castro
Denlse Mavity
Ruth Le Brun
Muriel Taylor
Joy Umlamaka
Ruth Martin
Ann Reeve
Evelyn Honnons
Horley Bowes (4)
Snowden Ore

Ohib WbKaker
Maxlne
Roily Rolls
Lorna ft Mario
Arthur KnoUer
Alex Batkln Oro

Copacabaaa
Jiie B"*o(ri!<, .:: ' .r.
Lop'e'r &~Barrat
Fernando Alvarez
EstellU
Bamba Sirens
Walter Long
Betty Jans Smith
Carol Dexter
N Brandwynne Ore
Frank Marti Oro

dob Prisco
Patricia Brent
Vlckl Georg*
Miss Victoria

(Toq Bonge
Dick Wilson Ore
Bela .Blzony Ore
Diamond Horaeslioe
Nlta NoJdl
Betty Compson
Carlyle Blackwell
Joe B Howard
Ross Wyse^ Jr
June Uann
Delia LInd
Geo Fontana
Ollda Gray
Charles King
Uangean Sis
Clyde Eager
Noble SIssle Ore
El Chi CO

Trio Mextico
Maria Morales
Maria Lopez
Rita Bahla

Bobbs Caston
Phil ft Aiidrsy
Johnny Taylor
Savannah Churohlll
Roeye 81s
8pordoe-0-De

Havana-Madrid
Pilar Lopez
Roslta Rios
Carlos Montoya
Rolando
Don Casanova
Trio Tuchiteco
Pace Lucena
Maya Oro ,
Don Ollberto Oro

Hickory Hons*
Norma Shepard
Hoot Howley
Mercedes
Carol Boyd
Rollin Smith
Ginger Wayne
Jean Murray -
liarry Bennett Ore
Hotel Ambassador
(Trlaaoa - Boom)
Jules l,ande Oro
Claire ft Arena
Eric Victor
Richard Lane
Hotel Astor

(Columbia Bm)
Bobby Parki Ore
(CodrtaO loonge)
Dick Euhn Orn

Hotel Belnewk.
Plaza
(Glass Bat)
Covert ft Reed
Barbara Perry
Margaret Scott
Belmont Balladeers
Howard Lolly Oro
Joe Palumy Ore

Hotel Blltmore
(Bowman Boom)

Heasley 2
Hazel Franklin
Maureen Holmes
4 LlttlA De-icer*
Madrlguera Ore
Hotel Beaseit
(Brooklyn)
Grace Vaughn
Nye Mayhew Oro

Hotel Commodore
(Centnry Boom)
Vaughn Monroe Ore
Peter Rotunda Oro
B ft R Ambrose
Charle Carrer
Marylln Duke
Virginia Austin
Johnny Mack
Commodorables

Hotel Edison
Shep Fields Orr.

Hotel Essex Hsnse
Rosalie Grant
Evelyn Tyner Ore
Hotel Btb Ave
(Salen Madrid)
Cass Franklin
DeMarlos
Guy Rodlsn
F^x Marde
Ponhy Bancroft
Burton Gross Oro

Ray Kinney Ore
Meymo Holt
Napua
LeIlanI laea
NanI Todd
Lehna Paulson

Hotel Lincoln
Llncolnalres

Hotel MeAlplB
Johnny Messner Ore
Hotel New Terlcer
Woody Herman Ore
Carolyn Grey
Billy Rogers
Adelo Inge
B ft B Wade
Ronny Roberts
Ice Ballet
Grace Harvey
Lynn Clare

Hotel Navarro
(Midnight <3nb)
Morgo ft Mann
Midnight Gypsies
Hotel forli Central
(Cocoanot Orpve)

Elaine Jordan
Dora Maugham
Robert Raymen
(Seoffrey Hale
Rochelle ft Beebe
(Bitnmba Boom)
Juan Donrigues Oro

(Cafe Sntton)

Joe Laps Ore
Hotel Begis
(IrUlam Boom)

Maurice, ft Cordoba

Hal Saunders Oro
Hotel Daft

Vincent Lopes Ore

Bonny Skyler
Hotel Waldort-

Astoria
(Wedgewoed Bm)

Hartmans

Dinah Shore

Freddy Martin Oro

Stuart Wade

Mlsoha Borr On
(Sort Bm)

MIscha Borr Oro
Hotel Warwtck
(Baleigh Boom)

Vlckl George

Sonde Williams Ore
Horrlcane

Alan Gale

Alice Dawn

Fay ft Gordtfn

Dave Dennis Oro

Lollta Cardoba Ore

Iceland Bestaoiant

Danny Whits

• Grsys

Les Hunt

Nola Day

Tsd Eddy Oro

Angalo Oro
'Jock Dempoer'a
B'way Beatanrant

Milt Hsrth 2

Linda Lark

Irv Carroll Ore
JInuay Kelly's

Ramon ft Joan

Carter ft Sharp

Montmarte Boy*

Helen Holmes

Danlta Rivera

Margaret Orey

Faith Arlen

Rene

Ann Jnng
Jeannle Walter*
Glenda Hope
Joe CaPello Oro

Kern'*'
Jean Claire
Cornel Tanassy Oro

KeDy** SUM*
King Cole 3
Frances Wayne
Bruce Wendell
Nick Jatret Oro

la Conga
Luba Mallna
Andy Mayo
Lorry Daniels
NItza ft Ravell
J ft L ^Iler
Nero Morales Oro
Jock Harris Oro
La Horqals*
Ruth WInchell
Dorothy Tonner
Consuelo Flowerton
Frances Connolly
Al Corr Ore

La Hortlnlane
Georgie Price
Vlckl George
Delia Norella >
Gil Galvon
MortlnlQueens
Herbert Curbello O
Vol Olmon Oro

L« Petit Calais
Mma C Alphond
Oscar Karlwels
Sascha Toahoir
Jullon Fuhs
Snlo Lester

Looa * Eddie's
Lionel Kay
Jon Murray
Mirth ft Mack
2 Tops

Martin Bros ft F
Barbara JLong
Clemens 'Belling
Chlnita

Lou Mortln Ore
Nerldo Oro
Halson Ixml*

Bill Drys

Carrie M Seville ■

Halson PIsR*
Tomihy Lyman
Ooaton's Monte Carlo
Pierre Beoucoire
Neno Montes
LeCorlos ft Granada
Mogda Loy
6 Madcaps

Jack Allyn

Nsd Horvsy Oro.

(^oovemesrv

Russ Smith Oro

Ashbnms

Bylvle St Clair

BatnboTT Room
Henry Scott
Linda Ware
Monna Montes
Alexis Dollaoff
Carmen Cavalloro O
Clemente Ore

Bnban Bleo
Mojdne Sullivan
Kay Morris
Roaha ft MIrko
BaaMon Krelchms
Vladimir LozAroS
Ell Stilvack
Gypsy Norma
Norma Lncoro
Arcadi fitoyanovsky
Adla Kncnetzoff
Nostlo Pollakova
taaruslo Sava -
Hisoha Vzonoff
Cornelia Cedolboa O

Stork dab .
Grace Rellly
Charles 'Bourn Oro
Bob Knight Oro

The Place
Irene Barkley
Pot Ring
Evelyn Brock
Skeets Tolbert

ITbangl dab
BlU Dolley
May Johnson
Roe Snead
Jockle Mabley
Savannah Churohlll
SocoTos Ore •

Wlvel ^
Ford Crone
Helen Arthur
Connie Joyce
Boron ft Bemay

Venollle*
Bergere Oro
Panchite Oro
Georgia .Tops
Donno Devel
Harold Borne*
Klrh Alyn,
Foul Bartels
SU Ver-Btghg

'Vniogo Ban
Al Robinson
Tex Fletcher
Mnslo ' Hall Bora -
Towns ft Knott
Palmer Oro
Trlnl Oro

Village Vangoard
Burl Ives
Leodbelly Nero
Josh Whits
Dehby Best
Ann Robinson

' Bar al Mnslo

BUI Jordan
Cliff Soazs
Miehosl Doyle
Bex Owea
Ann Soatherload
Marie Stanley

Beachcomber
Laura Deoae Hutton
Dr Marcus
Cheena de SImone
Del Casino Ore
Canoy Ore-

Carroasel
Ealth Bacon
Fotrlda HaU
Lee Bartell
De Lamarr*
Danny Tates On

Casanova Clab
Val Irving
Clymaa
Bmll Boreo
Juanlta Rio*
Fuller (8)
Ralph Itotgen On
Dan Shrader Oro

. Clover Clob
Josephine Delmar
Marjorle Knapp
Proser Bev
He.^nondez Oro
Xlve O'clock Chib
Arthur Boran
Ruth Wayne
Margie Green
Alblna

Eleetwoed Hotd
(Jewel Box) '

Arthur Blake '
Consaela Flowerton
Renay Cartis
Joe Mortln

PToile Olnb
Jerry Cooper
BUly Vine.
Suzanne ft Cbrlatino
Nlrmo Cordova
DeCostro Co
Carol Vance
Nano Rodrlgo Ore

Jlmmle'*
Ray Vaughn
Red Thornton
Martingales
Rovelt ft Jeonette
Les Robinson Oro
Latin ttoartn
Harry RIchman

Benor Wences
HermonoB Wms 8
Stuart Morgan
Carol King
Reynolds Skaters
Diamond Bros
Komorovo Ballet
Jose Cortes Oro '
Jolme Christy Oro
Hother Kelly's
Owen ft Parker
Jerry Kruger
Myle* Bell
8 Qnesses

Nat Olnb
Tubhy Rives
Nick Sett
.Goorge Gregg
Ted Bloke
Chuck Wilson
laddook
Jackie Mile*
t Heat Wave*
Ann Lester
Foils Miller
Paddock Ponie* '
Tony Ix>pez Oro
■oral Palm. Clab
Horry RIchman
Jone Frohmon
Jerry Cooper
Joek Cole
Cbrlstlani*
Bose Blaine
Billy Sherman
Stan Kovonough
Abo Lrmon Oro
. The Dmm
Antonio AlVorex
Bddle Shephacd
Pot Pores
Coren

Woyns Bhelton
Taodeibllt Hotel
(FagD Pago Bm>

Dr Giovanni
Renee ft Boot
Bee Kolmus
Wongsr Gls
▼enaiUe*

(OnHstrcam Bm)
Russell Swonn
Dean Murphy
Ooraez ft Minor
ChiirUe Wright Ore

Wiaale'* Blptld*
Helen Kane
Dan Heoly
Ben Perry
Screwy Hney
Carroll Done

CHIOAfH)

Ambassodar Hotol
(Pamp Boom)
Emlle PetU ^
BuUeij

Ray Benson Oro
Bismarck Hotel
(Walnut Boom)
Art Kas»el''Oro^"" -"
Gloria Hart
Staples ft Cemy
Gaynor ft Ross
Hadley Gls

(Tavern Boom)
Dove Pritehard Ora
Dick Ware
Bob Marshall
Annette Shields
Blackbawk
Orrin Tucker On
Lorraine Benson
'Whitey Robert*
Bob Haynes
Sconlon ft McOuIre
Jose Rosodo On
Blackstone Hotel
(BoUnese Bm.)
Johnny Duliy Ore
Pattl Clayton

Brass Ban
Margie Whitney
The Cavollers
BrcToort Hotel
<CrystaI.B*OBi)
Tony ft George
Joan Boylor
Bob Billings
Eddie Roth Ore
Brown Derby
Three Byon*
Sonia CzoT
Mory Ana

Pot Perry
Potay Shaw
Hoffman Si*
Ted Smith
Dnke Tellmoa On

Ctepltol Loong*
Maurice Rocco

iBrjflawa

Louis Jordon On
Ohes Pare*

Willie Shore
Corol Bruce
The 'Billingstons
The Smoothies
Comen Antonio
Chaadra-Kaly Daao
Boyd Raehurn Ora
Bobby Ramos Oro
Bvass Gls

Club Al.li«n«

Bsrnle Adier

Florence White

Panlette LaPlerr*

Horrlet Norrls

Ginger Wood

Del Bstea

Allon Coo

Dove Dnell Oro

Bddle Roth Oro
CokMlno*

DoUy Kay

Son Sued Done

Rubyot ft Don

Xoy Boley

Olga Ward

Jack WatdroQ

Nlta Trlndall

Don Lang Oro
CongTcs* Hotel
<aias* Hat Bm)

Barry Wlnton Ora

Red Duncan

Jo Anna Hubbard

Drake Hotel
(OanlUla Sea*e>

Batty Allen
Ramon Ramos Ora
Edgevater Beaeb
Hotel
(Marine Bm)
Ceo Davidson Oro
Singing Morlnes
Blanche Bradley
Rollei ft Dorothea
Nlghtbowks .
Dorben Gle

aas Clab
Jonlce Dole
Deono Berry
Vic Artese
Julio Garcia On
Johnny Honnert

BItel'a
Heidelberg Octet
Hans Muene^r Ens

Rathshellar
Louie ft Gang

SI90 Clab '
Danny Thomo* .
Bob O Lin Gls
Morh Fisher Oro
. Oarrhift otagebar
Ascot Boys
7immy Noons 8
June Price

Downbeat Bm
Stuff Smith
8 Sharps ft Flats
(Itaemsre Hotel
<aias* Hease Bmi
Crusaders Ora
Mary Sinclair
Donthy TlinmlBS
Grand Terrac*
Cootis Williams O
Loose Nuts
Billy Nigbtlngol*
Loul* Bacon
^Bosle Bns
Mitzle Mitchell
Iiovely Lake

Helsing*
(Vodrll Lanage)
A Verdi ft Dolores -
Leslie ft Carol
Novelty Aces
union Clorke
Jack Herbert

HI Bat .
Diana Barry
Carlos Vesta
Betty Hill
VI Mar i
Mory Beth Sire*
Bddy Fens Oro -
H Mortlnez Oro
Winnie Hoveler Gls

Ivanhoer
Florence Schubert
Al Trace Or«'
Holly Bwanson
'Vlerrn Rowallan*
Helea. Sumner

I/Alglob'
Splros Stamos Ora
Gwendolyn Vaau**!!

Marray ft Cummlna
tieorgs Ds^eroD
Isobel da Marco
l» flalle Hotel
(Pan-Am. Boom)
Rio ft Rlto
Conehlta

Joee Manzaneres O

New Torher
Jaekle tiraen
Noll ft Nolan
Ddlton Boys
Jack lAVler
Starlets -
Arne Bornett Oro
(IMrcadillT Circle)
3 Knights
Hilly Msyen
Jim Marvin
Rocky Blswortb

100 Club
l}leb Bouar Ora
DlUy Corr
Sophia Porker
Wilma Novak
Martin ft Morgo
flobble Allen
Fernando ft Fa<r
Col Herbert
Palmer Honso
(Empire Bonn)
Xavler Cugat Ora
Cordlnl
Di Gotoao*
Llao Romoy
Malguellto
Abhiitt Dancer*
Shennah Hotd
(C^ltle Cafe)
Ceo* Kerwin Ora
Jaros Sis

(Panther Boom)
Gene Krupa Oro
Nllah Braoks R*T
Carl Uarx'

Bhnmba Oaalno
Doa Tannen
Phil Levant Ora
Pierce ft Roland
Don Orlando Ore .
Jack Rodngns* O

.609 CUb
Don Harris
Atycs Cert
Joneea
Aloha ^
MlUle Wayne
Ginger Britton
Jeri Vance
Midge Fellow*
Marlon MlUer
Mazlne DeSnoa
«0« ' Gla
Dolly Sterlias
Bel Loke Ora .
Tripoli 8

Steven* Hotel
(Coatlnental ■«*■*)
Chaek Footer Ore
Don DIFlavlo
Tar Be<«
Geo Scherhon On
Iiomlna Westfall
Peter MllnlkoS

ATLANTIC CITT

Ambassador Hotel
Bsrt Estlow Ora -

Chelsea Hotel
Billy "Van 3

GlarMg* Motel
(Moyfabr Boom) .
Marty Mage* Oro

Club Nomad
Helena Francis
Kent Bdwards
Wando D4 Mutll .
Tiny Kays .
Manny Davl* On -
Cosmopolitan B*tel
Al Miner

Paddock Inti
Bob Ball .
Paddooksera Ote

Pean Atlantle- Botal

(Paba Boom)
XtUott Rossell ' Ore
BMaMeBt BaM '
Ramon Rio Co
Marjorle Maxwell
Pedro Albaal Oro
Bits Cai^ Hotel

^'"^ssSi^***** "

Eddy Morgan brd
'xnynMe* B*(d
Wm. Maddsn Oro*'

Oabls* Ian
(Blaek Mans Hk*)
Nan DeMar
Stanley ■JUok -
~oan Clark

PHUJkBi

dab BaU

Iios Caballeros
Edna Jonls
Bollotons
Harry Rose
Nine Blanc3'
Penny Davis
Peter* SI* (3)
Bollloolies.
Alan Fieldlas Oro

B«a irraaklla
The Duano*
Tanya ^mara
HUrqulta ft Batista
Pancho Oro

Beany tha Bam'a
Patsy aNslI
Edeuardo Saadeval
Bataan 3
Dolores Gome*
Carrdl'a
Gaines Oro
Wilbur Rone*
Rlaa Rothschild
Rex^rs (2)
Margie Kelly
Harry Ross
Orac* Gordon
Otto Bason
Pat Bsraard
CarroUpvlles (11)

.Caliese ina
Connio Henson
ThunderbolU
Bstelle Bork
Lou Tomaaco
Scarey Gavin
Rnth .Templetob
Huslo Hall Xlls
Terry Dtlmar On
Embassr
UlitSiirS ~ ■
Anne Franclne
Mary Jane Brown
Vlckl George
Carol Dean
Pat SherllB Ora
(H Walton Baot)
H'wood Blondes (3)
Costone ft BaiT7
Glamogr Gls
Paul Lo Paul
Helen Heath
Gerry Bis

Eddie De liuca On

Lilly Kretchme/
George Lata

Bepklns'BathskcIIer

Frankle J,ester
Sammy Weston
Joan William*
Agnes Bariy
Reglnl
Janice Rice
Jane Lynd
Dove Gold Ora
Lawler"* Swing Bar
Men of Rhythm (4)

Lextagtoa Ca^bw
Russ LeBeaox *
Hurray Wood
Mago ft (Urr
Frances Carroll
Jackie Whalsa
Gorvln Busehsll O

IMa ?sd<*
Billy Maya'
Rhythm Veadom
Josephlns Bcblenk
Bob Camming:
Don nt" Roberta
Bill Joy
Jean Marshall
Yvonne Tork
Thelma*
I.1ttl*
Peter* Sis
Hllde Simmon
Leon Field*
B)l]7 ft Bnster
Renee Villon
6ld Golden
Vleter Hago** Ora
Jack Teagarden Ora
Lob's Obantoner Bar
nuds ft Buddie
Bnklne ButterdeM
Bon Bon
Dick Wads
Cart Weiler 4
Ronnie Thompson

Mayo*
Mayo Bwlngstere
Harry McKay
.Muriel Brook*
Joyott** • .

iUHtrel Tavera
Bd MaQotdrlck. Jr. ,
Jo* Lonegan '
Anita "
Margie Mai'eb
sally For

Wtasy Glnnla Loftoa
Bd McGoldrlok, ar
Moravian Bar

Boh-Boa

Tile SjreKadeia— - •—
Diok WAde
Curt Wellef'<4)
Marrajr Biijtbm Bar
Fay Bay'
Vivian Mullhem
Madame Gene
Dotty L«e (3)
Mickey De Luca
Ann Rnsee)!
Betty Behrl*
Fred Tnomjwon Ore
Dotty King Oro

Nen Dlesluui'a
Hale Hamilton
Leonard Cook*
McArthur*
Warren Boden
Rhythm if^^i s r g
Guardsmen ft Uoi'a
Geo Moora ,
Geo MarehettI Or4

Old VMg ttiitrm

Dee Wayne
Barry McKajr
Lillian Stewart-
Al Kilbride
BlKx HayeiT Ore.

Open Door <We '
Johnny COim
Valdes ft Peggy
Rita Zane
Grocv O'Hara

(Continued on pa{(e 65)

B way Has Ae Income Tax Blues;
'Sons' Still Tops, 38G; 'Cinderella'
OK $8,500, 'Junior Miss' Neat I6I/2G

Broadway legit business slid
furtiier last weelc as prospective
ttieatreeoers were engrossed in pay-
ing income taxes. There should be
some recovery this weelt. Revived
'A Kiss for Cinderella' started fairly
well while 'Priorities' (vaudeville)
strong. List bounced up Monday
(16).

Estimates for Last Week

Keys: C. (Comedy), D (Drama),
CD (Ctrniedv-Drama), R (.Revue),
M (Musical), O (Operetto).

' Angel Street,' Golden (14th weelt)
(D-789; $3.30). Dropped around-
$2,000 for first time since opening,
with tailings approximating $11,000;
oltay at that level.

'Arsenic and Old Lace,' Fulton
(61st week) (CD-838: $3.30). While
not up to last season s form, grosses
consistently profitable; eased off with
field; around $12,000.

•Banjo Eyes,' Hollywood (12th
week) (M-1.563; $4.40). Has been
somewhat affected but should come
back; among list's favorites and par-
ticuUrly strong at weekends; $27,000
estimated.

'Beit Foot Forward/ Barrymore
(24th week) (M-1,104; $4.40). Near-
ing six months mark and should play
out the season; felt tax dip more
than some others; $16,500 estimated.

'BUthe Spirit.' Morosco (19th week)
(00-936; $3.30). Dropped under
$15,000 for first time; has been close
to best money among straight plays
and still fine grosser.

'Cafe Crown,' Cort (7th week)
(CD-1,064; $3.30). Figured to have
dropped around $1,000, with last
week's takings quoted around $8,000;
said to better even break at that
figure. '

'Gnest In the House,' Plymouth
(3d week) (CD-1,057; $3.30). Busi-
ness quite promising in the offish
going, with gross rated well over
$9,000; quoted getting over $1,400 on
Sunday night.

'High Kickers,' Brqadhurst (19th
week) (M-1,142; $4.40"). Slipped to
around $13,000, but an even break
claimed at that figure; after another
week goes to road instead of switch-
ing houses,

It Happens on Ice,' Center (re-
lumed engaBement) (68th week)
4JEt-3,026; $1.65). Dropped under
ll9,500 last week, still profitable for
Ice revue; cinch for bigger money
at Easter.

'Jason,' Hudson (8th week) (CD-
1,094; $3.30). Sticking longer than
first indicated; >comedy has fared
mildly to date, with takings some-
times varying; around $5,000.

'Johnny 2x4,' Longacre (C-1,016;
$3.30). Presented by Rowland
Brown; written by Brown: iijterpo-
lated songs by (Gladys. Shelley and
Harry Archer; opened Monday (16).

''Janlor Miss,' Lyceum <17th week)
(CD-1,004; $3.30). Stood up much
better than most others^- with gross
not far from $16,500 claimed; only
slightly -under capacity.

•Lady Id the Dark,' Alvin (re-
sumed) (48th week) (M-1,387; $4.40).
Better than previously, with final six
weeks announced probably helping;
quoted close to $21,000.

'Let's Face It,' Imperial (20th
week) (M-1,450; $4.40). Musical
leaders not further dented, and-this
one drew fine money, estimated close
to $31,000.

'Life with Father,' Empire (122d
week) (CD-1,082; $3.30). Very lltUe
off, proving draw of long-running
laugh show, quoted close to $12,000.

•My Sister Eileen,' Biltmore (64th
week) (CD-891; $3.30). Now playing
Sundays,' matinee and night, which
should attract new clientele; rated
around $9,000.

'Sons o' Fun,' Winter Garden (15th
week) (R-1,519; $4.40). Biggest draw
in town, packed them in again Sun-
day (15) and claiihe'd close to $38,0'0'd
last week.

'Spring Again,' Playhouse (18th
week) (CD-aeS; $3 JO). Slipped to
around $8,000 last week, but has done
rather well; aimed through spring.
REVIVALS
'A Kiss for Cinderella,' Music Box
(1st week) (C-1.012; $2.75). Mixed
notices but good attendance, as indi-
cated by takings of $8,500 in seven
times; Saturday (14) surprising at
scale.

•Porgy and Bess,' Majestic (8th
week) (M-1,17S; $2.75). Advance sale
helped keep popular revival in the
real money; gross nearly $22,000
again.

ADDED

'Prrorltles of 1942,' 46th St. (1,347;
$2.20). Sharp difference of opinion
over vaudeville show spotted in legit
theatre, but excellent business re-
ported; opened Thursday (12).

'Of V We Sing,' Concert (1st week)
(R-781; $1.65). Business for Initial
full week rated around. $3,000; prob-
ably under* even break for modest
fevue.

mssom' OK 9G

Portland, Ore., March 17.
Mayfair theatre showing 'Blossom
Time' four nights and one matinee
here last week (8-12) to well-filled
house. , . . ,

At 85c. to $2.75 admish, show
grossed around $9,000; satisfactory.

HAYES-'CANDLE'
27G FOR WEEK

'CLAUDIA/ $18,000,
GETS BIG PLAY IN Pm

Pittsburgh, March 17.
Nixon came up with another
smash in 'Claudia' last week, origi-
nal Broadway company, launching
tour here after 13 months in N. Y.,
grabbing estimated $18,000 at $2.75
top. That's pretty close to absolute
capacity, with subscription sales re-
ducing what would ordinarily be the
possible take by several grand.
House had only 50 or so balcony
seats available for each performance,
with result that gallery, usually hard
to sell, got a big play and down-
stairs went clean practically every
night.

Crix raved about show, calling it
one of best entertainments of season,
and big biz will probably result in
a return engagement in May, when
'Claudia' winds up Boston run. Dor-
othy McGuire, who has title role,
isn't due on Coast to make screen
ve.sion until mid-summc".

One of the 'My Sister Eileen' com-
panies is current.

Wednesday. March 18, 1942

'Hellz' Tops Hub, Uy^; 'Purchase'
Neat 21G,TuUic'NG 9a 'Road' 5G

Cincinnati, March 17.
Racking up close to $13,000 on
three night performances and a mat-
inee in the last half last week at the
2,S00-seat Taft theatre, Helen Hayes
in 'Candle In the Wind' finished out
an estimated $27,000 week. Top here
was $3.30.

In the first half of last week the
show played one-nighters in Toledo
and Dayton, O., with Ft. Wayne, Ind.,
sandwiched between. Take in To-
ledo was approximately $5,400; Ft.
Wayne, $3,100; Dayton, 45,600.

C3incy's next road show is 'Arsenic
and Old Lace' in the 1,300-seat Cox
for the week beginning March 22
Top is $2.75.

'Watch on the Rhine* tenants the
Taft for three days, beginning April
2. at $2.75 top.

'EILEEN,' $11,500 LA,
'RAUY' 3G AND OUT

at

Los Angeles, March 17.
'My Sister Eileen' continues strong
the BUtmore for $11,500 in its
fourth week. Comedy looks like
record-breaker, for the house and
may get eight weeks. Night scale
has been clipped from $2.75 to $1.50
top, with mats at $1 top. Comedy. is
returning to San Francisco after this
run for three more weeks.

'Rally Round the Girls' faded to
$3,000 for second' week at the Holly'
wood Playhouse and closed Satur-
day (14).

'Life With Father* relights Holly-
wood Music Box next month, with
Dorothy Gish and Louis Calhern
starred.

'ANGEL STREEF NICE
$11,500 IN ST. LOUIS

St Louis, March 17.-
'Ansel Street,' starring Sylvia Sid-
ney, Victor Jory and Ernest Cos-
sart, closed a one-week stand at the
American theatre Saturday (14) with
nice b.o. in spite of stiff opposisb
from several quarters. Nine per
formances grossed an estimated
$11,500, with the house scaled to $2j
Piece copped raves from the crix.

'Claudia,' with Beverly Bayne, Reed
Brown and -Phyllis Thaxter in the
.lead roles, opened a two-week stand
at the American Sunday (15). House
is scaled again at $2.80.

IVIACBETH' NEAT
$24,000 IN
PHILLY

Philadelphia, March 17.

At no time in several seasons have
legit bookings been piling up the
way they have during the last couple
of weeks.

Katharine Hepburn's 'Without
Love' is playing here two weeks in-
stead of one, the first at the Walnut
starting next Monday and the sec-
ond at the Forrest the week of the
30th. 'Panama Hattie' will follow it
in at the latter house.

The Walnut, which is holding 'Na-
tive . Son' this week (fourth in
Philly), is set for 'Arsenic and Old
Lace' in April and expects TTie
Rivals' ahead of that, with two weeks
of 'Blossom Time* also reported for
Aoril 6. The Locust gets 'My Sister
Eileen' on April 6, and after three
weeks of that, The Corn Is Green.'

Last night's two openings were 'My
Dear Public,' Irving Caesar's musical
tryout at the Forrest for a fortnight,
and 'Claudia' at the Locust for three
weeks.

Estimates of Last Week
'Macbeth,' Locust (one week only)
(1,500; $3.42). Maurice Evans-Judith
Anderson revival of Shakespearean
tragedy got expected raves and
grossed $24,000.

■Native Son,' Walnut i3d we^k)
(1,700; $2.50). Hauled in $7,500 and
management held It for a fourth
week. Hepburn vehicle, 'Without
Comedy,' In next week and then
moves to the Forrest for an addi-
tional six days.

imiNE' SMASH $8,500
IN NEW HAVEN WEEKEND

New Haven, March 17.

Weekend stand of 'Watch on
Rhine' snared juicy biz. Paced at
$2.75 top, four performances copped
approximately $8,500.

Theatre Guild' Will' Starc-Amer lean
preem of Paul Muni in 'Yesterday's
Magic' at Shubert here March 27-28.

'Hattie in Strong Chi Wind-Up, 21G;
'Corn' Long on Green at $18,500

Chicago, March 17.,
Three shows departed and two ar-
rived within the week. 'Panama
Hattie' finished great eight-week run
in the Erianger and. was replaced last
night (Monday) by 'Candle in the
Wind.' "Hattie" was riding high at
all times and could have stayed
longer.

Same goes for 'Corn Is Green,'
which was an absolute smash in the
Harris but was forced to leave Sat-
urday (14) after eight weeks in or-
der to fill American Theatre Society
dates in other towns. Was replaced
on Sunday (15) by 'Angel Street.'

Advance on 'Angel Street' was just
fair. Other departer was 'The Rivals.'
'Papa Is Air is back in Chicago, this
time in the Blackstone, following two
big weeks earlier in the season prior
to its disastrous N. Y. try. Started
off fairly well and m^y make a run
of it due to smart handling by Black-
stone management.

Estimates for Last Week

•Blithe Spirit,' Selwyn (4th week)
(1,000; $2.75). Again much under ex-
pectations, with continued marked

laxity in press, inexplicable in view
of great power of names associated
with this production. Just bettered
$12,000.

•Panama Hattie,' Erianger (8th and
final week) (1,400; $3.30). Left on
Saturday (14) for points east. Was
ousted long befor6 its time here, fin
ishing to another strong $21,000.

'Papa Is AIV Blackstone (Isl week)
(1,200; $2.76). Brought back to town
for a second visit this season, this
show must strive to break the local
precedent that repeat visits never
make the grade. With low-cost show,
this one has excellent chance. Came
up with neat $6,500, profitable, last
week.

'Corn Is Green,' Harris (8th and
final week) (1,000; $2.75). Left Sat
urday (14), though it could have
stayed on for many more weeks,
Finished ta top money with a nine
show week at $18,500.

The Blyals,' Grand (2d i^d final
week) (1,300; $2.75). In for only two
weeks, but even that short stay was
kicked around by scram of Mary
Boland three days after the opening.
Finished with $12,000.

Shows in Rehearsal

'Autumn Hill'— Maze Llebman.

Teaterday's Maglo' — Theatre
Guild. ,

•The Moon Is Down' — Oscar Serlin,

•What Big Eears*— Daniel Blank,
David Silbennan.

HEPBURN 2!IG IN
BALTO RECORD

.|Baltimore, March 17,

Katharine Hepburn broke a house
record at Ford's last week In her
new effort, 'Without Love,' by Philip
Barry. Scaled at a top of ^.33,
house was s.r.o from the very teeoIT,
with the final count reaching wham-
mo figure estimated at $29,000. This
tops all previous counts built by such
potent draws as Helen Hayes, Lunt
and Fontanne and Katharine Cornel],
as well as the terrific biz hung up by
Miss Hepburn in her last appearance
In this 1,900-seat house- with The
Philadelphia Story.'

'Macbeth,' in currently, had both
upper floors sold out a week In ad-
vance, with downstairs interest also
reported extra bullish.

Current Road Shows

(JVfarch 18-28)

•Angel Street* (2d Co.)— Harris,
Chi. (18-28).

•Arsenic and Old Lace' (2d Co.)—
English, Indianapolis (18); Hartnian,
Columbus, O. (19-21); Cox, Cincy.
(23-:Z8).

•Blithe Spirit* (2d Co.)— Selwyn.
Chi. (18-28)..

•Blossom Time'— Broadway, Den-
ver (18-19); City. Aud., Colorado
Springs (20); City Aud., Pueblo,
Col. (21); Aud., Amarlllo, Texas

(23) ; Majestic, Wichita Falls, Texas

(24) ; Majestic, Ft Worth (25);
SKrine Aud., Oklahoma City -(26);
Robinson Aud., Little Rock, Ark.
(27); Ryman'Aud., NashvlUe (28).

'Candle In the Wind*— Erianger,
Chi. (18-28)

'CUudla* (N.Y. Co.)— Locust, Phil-
ly (18-28).

'Claudia' (2d Co.)— American, St
L, (18-28).

'Com la Green'-rDavidson, Mil-
waukee (18-21); Hartman, Columbus,
O. (23-25); English, Indianapolis
(26-28).

'Hellzapoppiri' (N.Y. Co.)— Majes-
tic, Boston (18-28).

•Hellzapoppin' (2d Co.) — Cass, De-
troit (18-21); Hanna, Cleve. (23-28).

'Junior Miss' (USO)— Camp Liv-
ingston, - La. (18) r Camp Robinson,
Ark. (19-21); Camp Wolters, Texas
(23-24); Ft. Sill, Okla. (26-28).

'Life - With Father'- (2d" Co.)—
Strand, 'Vancouver (18-19); Temple,
Tacoma (20-21); Mayfair, Portland,
Ore. (23-28).

'Life With Father' (3d Co.)— Music
Hall, Long. Beach, Cal. (18-19) ; Russ
Aud., San Diego (20-21); City Aud.,
Fresno, Cal. (23-24); Fox, Bakers-
field, Cal. (25); Lobero, Santa Bar-
bara (27-28).

•Louisiana Purchase* — Shubert,
Boston (18-28).

•Macbeth'— Ford's, Balto. (18-21);
'NafionaI,'Wash. (23-28). '

•Moon Is Down*— Maryland, Balto.
(23-28).

•My Dear Public'— Forrest, Philly
(18-28).

•My Sister Eileen* (2d Co.)— Bilt-
more, L.A. (18-28).

'My Sister Eileen' (3d Co.)— Nixon,
Pitt. (18-21); Masonic Aud., Roches-
ter. N. Y. (23-24); Shea's, James-
town, N. Y. (25); Erianger, Buffalo,
(26-28).

'Native Son'— Walnut, PhiUy. (18-
21); Nixon, Pitt (23-28).

'Out of the Frying Pan* (USO>—
Ft. Knox, Ky. (18); Chanute Field.
111. (20); Ft Sheridan, 111. (21);
Camp -Grant lU. (23); Ft Custer,
Mich. (23-25); Pine Camp, N.Y.
(27-28).

•Panama Battle'- Hanna, Cleve.
(18-21); Cass, Detroit (23-28).

'Papa Is Air— Blackstone, Chi.
(18-28).

'Kally 'Bound the Girls'— Play-
house, Hollywood (18-28).
'Blvals'— Grand Opera House, Bos-

Boston, March 17.

'Hellzapoppin' ' copped top gross
here last week against second week
of 'Louisiana' Purchase' afad the one-
week . tryout of "My Dear Public*
That old perennial. Tobacco- .Road,*
still showed some pep. In Its first of
two Weeks' stan^.

•Watch on the Rhine' opened last
night (16), with a big advance sale
at the Colonial; The Rivals* opened
same night at the Opera House.
Every major house, except the Wil-
bur, Is now tenanted.

Estimates for Last Week

'Helliapoppin', Majestic (1st week)
(1,667; $3.30). Fine evening trade and
only the matinee downbeat kept it
from exceeding $24,500. Here Indefi-
nitely, and looks strong for four to
six weeks. (This is the Jay C. Flip-
pen-Happy Felton Company.)

'Louisiana Purehase,* Shubert (2d
week) (1.500; $3.30). GetUng a good
steady play, with publicity helping.
Garnered a neat $21,000 for second
frame. Indef. run.

"My Dear Public,' Colonial (one
week) (1,643; $3.30). Tryout took
rather tame press notices, but con-
sensus is that if the production can
be whipped together the talent will
carry It along okay. Took around
$9,000, disappointing.

Tobacco Boad.* Plymouth (1st
week) (1,480; $1.65). Pop-price re-
turn engagement tallied around $5,-
000. One more week here.

'Belli' 23a In Detroit

Detroit March 17.

AlthouJ;h making Its third dip into
Detroit In^ 18 months, 'Hellzapoppin*
clicked for an approximate $23,Gi00 in .
-10 performances at the Cass. Billy
House-Eddie Garr company went at
the regular $3,30 top price.

Comedy was followed in Monday
by 'Panama Hattie,' set for . two
weeks. Local rialto also brightened
up more with, the Shubert-Lafayette
back In operation with 'My Sister
Eileen.' Latter is being sold at pop
prices of $1.10, 83c and 55c.

CORNELL $20,000 IN 2
CITIES, FOLDS 'BURKE'

Toronto, March 17.

Katharine Cornell production of
'Rose Burke' folded here Saturday
(14) at the Royal Alexandra after
1,551-seater grossed a satisfactory
$9,500 on split-week engagement of
four performances scaled at $3.80 top.
Near sellout saw over. 60% of seats
sold In advance.

'Burke' had been getting spotty
notices; hence, the decision to fold,
with biz generally lukewarm.

Week of March 16 has 'Hellzapop-
pin' (2d CO.) in at $3.60 top but only
on four days' notice. -

'Burke' $1«,6«0 In Buffalo

Buffalo, March 17.
Miss Cornell, showing 'Burke' to
her home town folks at $3 JO top last
week, drew nice $10,500 In four per- '
formances.

Near-Capacity $16,500
For 'Father' in Seattle

Seattle, March 17.

•Life With Father' (Percy Waram-
Margalo Gillmore) . wound up six
nights and two matinees at Metro-
politan Saturday to capacity biz,
with exception of two evening per-
formances.

Gross at $2.88 top for the 1.500-
seater, close to estimated $16,500,
again reflects Seattle's defense- pay-
rolls, which keep, on mounting.

Eqoity Council Names 3

Patricia Collinge, Dudley Digges
and Leon Ames were chosen yester-
day (Tuesday) by the Equity council
as Its three representatives on the
nominating committee that will
name the regular ticket for the as-
sociation's election of officers and
council members at the annual mem-
bership meeting next May.

Six nominating 'committee mem-
bers representing the membership
will be elected at the quarterly
meeting March 27.

ton (18-21); Ford's, Balto. (23-28).

Tobacco Boad'— Plymouth, Boston
(18-28).

•Watch on the Hhlne'— Colonial
Boston (18-28).

'Without Love*- National. Wash.
(18-21); Walnut, Philly (23-28).

'Teatcrday's Ha.gic' ('Light Of
Heart') — Shubert, New Haven
(27-28). .

y«aiiMJiiy» M>rch 18, 1948

UEGltlBfAtB «i

N. Y. Show Bc-^ponsored Canteen Host
To 10^ Servicemen in Second Week

Amerlcan Theatre Wln^'i SUg*
Door Canteen for aarvlcemen, altu-
ited btneath ,the;44th Street theatre,
New York,Ts njore than holding lt»
itrong early pace, a* Indicated dur-
ing the part, week, when Ita acUvl-
tles Were expanded. During the
Canteen'i aecond week ending Sat-
tttday (14)., aoldiera, saUori

•nd air force men in allied unlfonni
were furnished with free refresh-
jnents and entertainment nightly,
towert number were present on
Sunday (8), when the count wag 1,-
338, while the biggest crowd was on
hand . Thursday (12), the docker
registering 1,728. The. average
nightly attendance was around 1,500.

The Canteen and legit managers
are affording plenty of diversion for
the men, Some visit the spot, have,
"dinner and are entertained or dance
until performance tfane. They then
tee 9 show on the cufi and fre-
quently repeat their visit until mid-
night, which is taps for the Canteen.

The number of firms and Individ-
uals donating foodstuifTs and supplies
is steadily moxmtlng. Principally
needed now are sweets of all kinds.
It's suggested that when cookies and
■uch are prepared in private homes,
an additional halting be made for
the Canteen. Around 1,000 half-
pints of milk being served dally
and two dairy firms are contributing
to the supply with the stipulation
that there be no publicity; Dona-
tions of coffee are also anonymous.
$800 Betrlgerator Donated

The baking industry's Defense
Recrieation Committee is supplying
ail the bread and many cakes, in ad-
dition to which it donated a refrig-
erator costing more than $800.
Among those making donations are
the following: .Philip' Morris and
Camel clgaretts, Sterling Salt, Smith-
field Ham Products Co., Lipton's
Tea, Pet Svaporated Milk Co., Hell-
man's Real Mayonnaise and sand-
wich 'spread' and E. Kahn, meats,
plus at least 20 wholesale butchers.
James K . Stroock (Brooke Uniform
Co.) Is paying the butter bill.
Needed are soft drinks, first such
contribution coming from Yale and
Josephson's Cider Mill on Broadway.
An . unusually welcome gift is . a
slicing machine, which comes In
handy in the commissary.

During the week the guests of
honor who appeared on the platform
were Reginald Gardiner, Tallulah
Bankhead, - Jack Dempsey, John
Carradine, Lynn Fontanne, Bette
Davis, .Janet' Gaynor eind Tyrone
Power. \

.The' Entertainers.

Those, Who entertained; Georgie
Price, NBC house band, 'Porgy and
■ Bess' cast, Morton DoWney, Ted
Streater, Club 18 'gang,' Jack Pearl,
£rlk Rhodes, Roger Stearns, Grace
Morgan, Dwight Fiske, Rex Weber,
EsteUe Taylor, Delmar, Delmar and
Delmar, Wynn Murray, Fred War-
ing, Gertrude Niesen, Colette Lyons,
Connee (nee Connie) Boswell,.
Vivlenne Segal, Buck and Bubbles
with Ed Condon's orchestra, Eddie
Lambert and Nancy Shannon, Shir-
ley Booth, George Tapps, Jack Zero,
-Eleanor - Whitney, - Belle- Rosette
Swing Trio, Ernie Hoist band,
Frances Mercer an^ Alex Al^XBnder,

Also, Betty Garnett, Mary Small
and radio gang, Ubangi Club chorus
line, Bert Raeburn, Norma Terris,
Betty Field, Gloria Hope, Leonard
Elliott, Wesson Brothers, Nancy
lloland, 'High Kickers' company,
Jane Pickens, Fred and Paula Stone,
Muriel Angelus, Landt Trio, Phil
Sands orchestra, Peggy French and
Richard Kollmar.

Hadie Harris heads the entertata-
nient committee, Helene Dumas
handles the group getting food do-
nations, while. Marion Moore is in
charge of the commissary.

•Eileen' Nfteiy Party Nets
$280 for Theatre Wing

Party held recently at the. Village
Barn, Greenwich Village nitery,
signaled the 000th performance of
'My Ulster Eileen' (BUtmore, N. Y.)
and netted around $280, which was
donated to the American Theatre
Wln^. Players and all guests bought
tickets at -12.00 each, ^e house get-
ting half that coin.

'Eileen* Is now playing Simday
performances. Midweek matinees
are now out, along with Tuesday
nij^t, Shirley Booth one of the
leads, being In the 'Duffy's Tavern'
broadcast that evening.

Boland Unlikely
To Attend Probe
Of Guild Charge

With reports from the Coast indi-
cating that Mary Boland will be
confined to her home until next
week, it is doubtful that she will
appear before Equity's council in
New York next Tuesday (24) to
answer charges of contract-jumping.
Ttie Theatre Guild filed the charges
when Miss Boland suddenly left the
cast of 'The Rivals' in Chicago last
week, claiming Illness. It is not im-
perative that -he be on hand since
she can either present her side -of
the situation by letter or haVe some-
one represent her when the charges
are heard.

Equity moved swiftly in suspend-
ing Miss Boland for four weeks soon
after she abruptly quit Chicago for
California. In that way complica-
tions were avoided, preventing Miss
Boland from entering Int' a picture
contract prior to Equity reaching a
decision on the charges, linder the
arrangement between ' the ' talent
unions, no suspended member of any
one union Is permitted to accept en-
gagements within another's Jurisdic-
Uon.

In addition t.; a powble term sus-
pension and fine, or both, the Guild
Is asking damages of |4,000, olalmed
to be the management's expenditure
on outdoor paper, advertising and
oVan advance outlays. As the
actress had a run-of-the-play cop-
tract, claim against her, if upheld,
could require payment from her to
itii Guild of $1,000 every week the
a'.'jraction conthiued after her with-
drawal. An extended tour has not
been anticipated.

TUN TO BE FREE' TO
OPEN IN M. APRIL 20

Tentative opening date of Tun To
Be Free,' authored gratis by name
jwiters and composers, is April 20 at
.the 54th Street theatre, N. Y.,
lormerly caUed the. Adelphia. Net
P'^?£«eds of revue, which has a
patriotic theme, will be devoted to
Army and Navy Relief Funds. It's
aue to start rehearsals Monday (23).
A„ some delay over

eompletlon of the financing but it's
^jPected that the required money
*|n be banked this week.

Tree' wiU have a niunber of pre^
views instead of out-of-town tryoUts.

Mise Boland Leavea Hospital

Hollywood, March 17.

Mary Boland was released from
Hollywood hospital last Tuesday
(10), and according to her attend-
ing physician. Dr. William Branch,
will have to pass another week at
least conflned-to- her home. - - •

Her . illness' has been diagnosed as
a bronchial and sinus ailment.

'Kickers' to Fold in N.Y.
Next Week, Maps Tonr

Instead of moving to the 44th
Street theatre, N. Y., as previously
intended, 'High Kickers' will close
at the Broadhurst, N. Y., the end of
next week and, after laying off
Holy .Week, open a road tour April
8 in Boston, probably at the Shu-
bert theatre there. Engagement will
be for two weeks.

George Jessel musical then goes
to Baltimore, playing the week of
April 20 at Ford's theatre. Sub-
sequent dates Include one-week
stands at the National, Washington,
opening April 27, and the Nixon,
Pittsburgh, starting May 5. Show
then goes to Chicago, probably at
the Erlanger, for a run starting
May 11.

Willie Schneider Mends

Willie Schneider, manager of one
of the touring companies of 'Life
With Father,' who had both legs
fractured in Oklahoma CUy elevator
accident, expects to remain at St.
Anthony's hospital there fpr some
thne.

P. Nominate

Oliver Sayler, Leo Freedman and
Philip Stevenson were nominated
Thursday (12) for chairmanship of
the press agents chapter of the As-
sociation of Theatrical Agents and
Managers. Sayler is the incumbent
chairman.

Dick Maney was the sole nominee
for vice chairman, Alfred Tamarln
for secretary and Ted Goldsmith,
treasurer.

Joey Road Fold
Puzzles Troupe;
Had Done OK Biz

■Why 'Pal Joey' ended its tour after
being out for 12 weeks, during which
It operated at a profit, is a mystery
to those in the show. It grossed be-
tween $12,000 and $14,000, which was
okay considering 'Joey's' operating
nut of around $8,000, but four tveeks
or more of playable tiihe were
scratched, regardless.

'Joey' had a profitable run at the
Barrymore, N. Y., last season. Shu-
berts then made a deal last summer
with its producer, George Abbott,
whereby he continued to operate the
show, the former guaranteeing
against losses. After a short layoff
the musical relighted at the Shubert
and then moved to the St. James.
Net during summer and thereafter
was around $25,000, which was split
SO-SO between Abbott and the Shu-
According to members of the Ab-
bott office, the 'Joey' closing was
primarily due to the difficulty of-
getting suitable further bookings,
plus railroading complications.

STUDES MEET CANTOR

Comedian Addresaei Dmmatie
School's Gradoatlnc Class

Eddie Cantor was the principal
speaker Monday (18) at the BSth
annual commencement exercises of
the American Academy of Dramatic
Art, N. Y. Ceremony was held . at
the Empire theatre, N. Y., with
Frank Gillmore, president of the
Associated Actors & Artistes of
America and a former president of
Actors Equity, presiding. Forty-six
students were graduated. -

Besides making an at-tlmes seri-
ous, at times-humorous speech about
the theatre and an actor's attitude
and obligation to his profession,
Cantor . answered numerous written
questions submitted in advance by
members of the class; His 20-year-
old daughter Marilyn, the only one
of his children to evince an Interest
in an acting career, was among
those receiving diplomas.

Bin Morris' ElectioD As Agent Prez
Eases Tension With Equity on Fees

B.anyai to Run Summer
Theatre in Del Monte, Cal.

Hollywood, March 17.
Georges V. Banyal will take over
operation this summer of the Del
Monte (Cal.) theatre, opening July 1
with Tonight at 8:30,' a biU of three
Noel Coward one-act plays, House
has 42i5 seats. Robert H. Harris, of
17ew York, wil be resident stage di-
rector.

Spot will operate under Equity
rules.

T^ative Son Set
For Pitt 3d Time
h One Season

Pittsburgh, March 17.
For first time since oldest gray-
beard can remember, a legit show will
play here three times in one season.
Play is 'Native Son,' which comes
back to Nixon liext Monday (23)
after having previously played here
twice this year, first in September
and again in November. Original
engagement resulted in estimated
fine $12,000 at $2. top, and only a
grand less than tiiat was second visit
at $1.50 top. For third run, 'Son' will
play at straight $1 for all orch and
balcony seats, with 730-seat gallery
going at straight 50c.

Date for return of 'Native Son' be-
came available when 'Without Love,'
Katharine Hepburn play, decided to
play Philly instead of Pittsburgh on
its way into New York. 'LoVe'
caused quite a bit of turmoil at local
drama desks, having been one of
those ofl-again; on-agaln things for
couple- of weeks. Understood that
PhiUy got the call because it has
only had three subscription shows
this season, while Nixon has already
had five, with sixth and last, 'Watch
on Rhine,' conUng April 13.

"Rhine' has been booked here for
fortnight, first week subscription and
second straight, but Nixon was noti-
fied by IIBO couple of days ago that
«ngBgemeut would be limited to sin-
gle week. Figured that could be
traced fo Herman Shumlln, producer,
who hasn't been able to target ex-
perience of his 'Little Foxes' here
when H fl<vped on two dllTerent oc-
casions, first before going to N. Y.
and later after it had run up a record
engagement there.

Lc^t IVess Agents in the Middk
As Stagehands-Phot(^$ iHsagree

Attempts have been made a num-
ber of times recently by stagehands
to prevent newspaper and mag
photogs from taking pictures on
stages of Broadway legit houses. It's
a dual effort by the International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Em-
ployees local to force the exclusive
use of cameramen who are members
of Photo Employes Union, Local
21314, AFL, and to bring about em-
ployment of.cxtoa electricians when
pictures are being shot.

In the middle, and in a ticklish
union situation, are the legit press
agents, who hire the photogs. They
are AFL members themselves (As-
sociation of Theatrical Agents and
Managers) and don't want to offend
sister AFL unions, but resent the
efforts to force them to use PEU
members exclusively, claiming the-
outfit is not completely . representa-
tive of the field. At the same time
they're fearful that should news-
paper and mag lensers — most of
whom are Newspaper Guild (CIO)
members — be barred, the p.a.'s will
lose many picture publici^ breaks.
There's also danger of a jurisdic-
tional dispute with the Newspaper
Guild.

PEU's Viewpoint
Al Stoltman, prez of PEU, ex-
plained Monday (16) that he had
enlisted the aid of the stagehands
because his members, were being put

out of work by newspaper and mag
photogs who, ' on bona fide assign-
ments, nevertheless took extra shots
and made extra prints which they
sold to the p.a.s. Until some method,
of controlling this extra-curricular
activity can be worked out, Stolt-
man declared, he will^ atempt to
prevent anyone but members of his
union from doing theatrical photog-
raphy.

Stoltman said his beef isn't against
the newspaper shutter-clickers, who
;don't do so much of the print-sell-
ing, but against the mag men. Even
many of the Gashflends given assign-
ments by major mags such as Life
are free-lancers. They pocket con-
siderable coin. on the side from the
p.a.s and thus Stoltman wants them
in his tmlon.

PEU sought ATAM support,' which
latter promised if, after investiga-
tion, latter found there was no rea-
son why non-member photogs
shouldn't join PEU. Matter hasn't
come to a head yet.

Meantime, lA is demanding that
an extra electrician be employed
for every electrical connection a
photog makes while taking stage
pictures. And a whole stage crew
is being demanded when color pic-
tures are taken. That's a matter In
dispute in lA's negoilatlons with the
League of New York Theatres for
a new contract, but also has the
blurb-boys in the middle..

William Morris, Jr., -was elected
president of the Theatrical Artist*
Representatives Association last week
in New York, replacing George Gold>
smith. Latter had. advocated that
the casters withhold payment to
Equity of Its $25 annual fee, but .th«
change in leadership aecon^panled ■
somewhat revised attitude. It was
agreed to turn the fees over .to
TARA, which will remit the money
to Equity 'under protest'. About 30%
of the casters had previously kicked
in. Equity sent word to TARA that
a bulk .payment Is not accepitable,
each agent being required to remit
direct

Equity did not specifically set ■
deadline for payment but letters
were sent each agent 'suggesting' the
fee be sent pronto'. If responses are
not received. Equity plans to sum-
mon the casters in groups of three
or four,, the latter to explain why
their permits, should not be revoked.
It's stated around Equity that had
tht fee Ijeen paid without delay, th^.
casters may have fared better in
their applications for a basic agree-
ment They were twice turned
down: / .

Agents 'regard the fee as a tax
and' do not concede Equity has a
right to make the levy. They pro-
pose that their differences be arbl<>
trated. In a letter to Equity, Morris,
for TARA, wrote;

'We believe our requests for •
basic agreement and ' a revision of
your agency policy, as submitted to
and, as -we understand, approved by
your various committees, were per-
fectly fair and proper. We also be-
lieve your action in rejecting , our
proposals is unjustified and wholly
inequitable and would result In a
disadvantage for your members and
ours.'

At the TARA annual tneeti^ig last
Wednesday (II), Olga Lee was
named secretary and Eve Glncher
treasurer, replacing Al Knight,' whose
permit was re'voked. Walter Bat-
chelor, Jane Broder ' and' Martin
Jurow were made v.pls.

EDMED0WL1GT001I4
BmiM'CANimED

For th^ present, -at least; Eddl*
Dowling's presentation of Ufe,
Laughter and Tears,' the William
Sarotran-Sean O'Casey playlets, is
off, tiie bo<dcin8 at the Booth, N. Y.,
having been cancelled. 'Whether
the show wilLgo on mostly depends
on Dowling's health. He's being
treated for stomach ulcers at hi*
home at Bayslde, L. I., Tefuisfaig to
be. hospitalized.

It cost around $16,0P0 ior Ufe'
to play four one-nighters, a Boston
engagement b«ing caUed off when
Dowllng became ill. Production
had been taken to thft Hub and
hung, wfaicb added to the outlay.
Cast received, a 'second week's sal-
ary and was dismissed.

L'ville Operettas Start '
July 6 With ^Vag. King*

Louisville, March 17,
Summer operetta season in the
Iroquois amphitheatre, Iroquois
Park, opens July 6 with a revival of
'The Vagabond King.' Subsequent
presentations will include '.Sweet-
hearts,' 'No, No, Nahette,' . 'Blossom
Time,' "Naughty Marietta' and Hose-
Marie,' closing Aug. 15. Season tick-
ets are priced at $9.45, $0,01,. J&3(L
$5.70, $4.20 and $2.29, with seats for
single performances from $1.65 'to
40c.

Fred.de Cordova, stage director of
'High Kickers' on Broadway, leaves
the George Jessel show to come here
this week for preliminary produc-
tion huddles wltti members of the
local sponsoring, committee. Hell
direct the productions.

Treasurers Ball

Annual entertainment and dance
of the Treasurers Club of America
will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel, N. Y., 'April 12. Boxofflce men
formerly conducted shows, for I^"
relief fund in- theatres but switched'.^
to the hotel's -grand ballroom last^
year. Show will be staged on the
dance floo.r.

It is the- treasurers B3rd -dlmllar -
event. Admission Is $2.75,

52 LEGITIMATE

Wednesday; March 18, 1942

Plays on Broaiiway

B airia.

JOHNNY 2x4

MfloilniNia In Ihii-.' ailH (.'■ ur KcnnoMt,
*lth Inclilcniol muBlr. Wriiifn nml piv-
•ented by nowlnml Urown, stnKPtl Iiy An-
thony Brown. HCItlnp I)V Ho\viircl ri;iy. lit
LonRnrre. N. Y.. Marrh in. 'Vl nt $"..nn loi>
($1.40 oprnlPK).

Creepy Leator I.onerKnn. .Tr.

Pete t^w Eckels

BoUleg Tehuill M'yner

Butch Mnrle Austin

Rudy Denton .DouKlan r)enn

Burna Rnskyn

fMnrlnnne OTlilen
"Muriel Colo

■ Irene Colletl

Jo<«l .Tnhhuon
Niilalle Draper
Ciirolvn Promwoll

Ohio CuBtomer .Fildle HoiIbp

Mlk« Maloney nnlph rhnmliora

Johnny 2 k 4 r . Jnrk Arthur

fChnrles.vdlpr

Taoht Club Boys. Ceoi-so Kelly

Rodney McT<fnntin
I Don RIchnrds

Coaly Lewis Bnrr>- SulUvnn

Bettle-Pun Bert Reed

Mnry Colllnii Evelyn Wyokoft

Dutch Ja<-k Lnnibort

Martin Arthur I<. Sneha

Mabel Ismliel Jeivell

Knuckles Kelton Harry Rellaver

Mldnl Rerl Frohman

Apples I#eonnrd Puea

Billy the Booster James. Curto

Harry Al Purant

Cigarette Girl Monica I.ewla

Maxine Karen. Van Ryn

Dot Wllina Drake

Jerry Sullivan ....Ruiniel Conway

Kean Tliom Conroy

Bottles (rrotrn up) Lance Elliot

Also; John Harvey, Syl I*amont, Dearon
Darnay, Charles L. DouRlaa». Chester
Adams, Fr«d Cotania, John Stark. Jack
Parsons, ■William Sharon. Paul Clare. Vic-
tor Finney. Joseph Mnrtel, James Fallon.
Gtephen Morrow, Carmen Coall. ^Ilchnel
Sprcder. ■WIIHamrForester. Eleanor Swayne,
Bea Barclay, Jordle Mrl,enn. Mar^v Martin.
Eleanor Pryne. Ellwin Evans, Betty Tiacall,
Kanny Clark. VIrcInIa -WyckofT. Maxine
Sheppard. Ruth Mnltlnnit. y.y--r\t Pitt orch.

Rowland Brown, former wTrlter-
director at various Hollywood studios.
Is the author-oroducer of 'Johnny
2 X 4,' a tawdry and rather dated
bit of hokum melodrama containing;'
innumerable extraneous musical
numbers. Localed in a Greenwich
Village night club of the 1928-36 era,
It might have been natched together
from old pie"es of P oictures. It's a
Eorl of antique 'Broadway' with-
songs, and it's exceedingly dubious
boxoflfice,

'Johnny 2x4' title refers to the
herb of the piece, the nltery owner
who plays one of those dwarf pianos.
Amid a welter of floor show per-
formers, cigaret girls, waiters, rum-
runners, hoodlums, drunks, loungers
and the incidental riff-raff of Pro-
hibition days, the show tells about
the Good Guy nitery owner, his Wise
Guy bootlegger and racketeer pal,
the- Nice Girl singer going from the
club to Hollywood, and all (he car-
bon-copy characters of stereotype
melodram^^ This nostalgic valentine
to the unlamented Volstead era is
frequently interrupted for songs and
musical numbers as part cf the night
club entertainment. Most of them
are reasonably good, but all are ir-
relevant.

One of the largest casts seen on
Broadway since "The American Way,'
many of the players allegedly having
been recruited from Walgreen's
basement, dpes its best with this
shoddy material. Jack Arthur, in the
title part, is direct and ingratiating.
Evelyn Wyckoff. wiio left the cnst of
Xady in the Dark' to replace Jessie
Matthews in 'Lady Comes Across.'
again impresses in the sugar-candy
role of the young nitery singer. The
part f^lTers little acting scope, but
Miss Wyckoff has looks and fdesnite
a cold that roughened her low notes)
a melodious voice. Isabel Jewell,
from films, does as well as could be
exnected in nn Incredible prostitute
role, while Barry Sullivan doesn't
' "Spare . "the swp.gper~of 'the gangster
lady-killer 'and Bert Frohma"Ii pro-
vides a convincing gunman. Harry
Bellaver is a plausible punk.

Those v/ith numbers, besides Miss
Wyckoff; include Yehudi Wyner (pi-
ano), Marie Austin (comedy songs),
Douglas Dean (tap routine), the
renovated "Vacht Club Boys (songs),
and Leonard Sues (trumpet). Merle
Pitt's house band from station

WNEW, New York, Is on stage.
There are numerous unintentionally
funny lines end several embarrass-
ing bits of mawkish sentiment. But
flrst-nighters were particularly
iimused at a nance columnist for a
Hollywood fen mag.

Anthony Brown, not to be contused
with the author-producer of the same
name, staged the shaw and Howard
Bay designed the authentically
shabby setting. ' Hobe.

A Kiss For Cinderella

Play In three nets, seven scenes, hy Sir
James .M. Barrle. Revived by Cheryl
Crawford and nichnrd W. Krakeur. Stars
Lulse Ralncr; features Ralph Forbes and
Cecil Humphreys. SetllnKS by Harry Hor-
ner; danccH by Catherine LIttlcfleld; oos-
lumes by Paul du Pont. SlnRed by Lee
StraebcrK. At the Music Box, New York,
.March 10. '12; J2.75 lop.

.Mr Bodlc: Cecil Humphreys

Policeman Ralph Forbes

Miss Tiling Lulse Ralner

Mr. Jennlnfc-s Victor Morloy

Mrs. Moloney ', F.mlly Loralne

Marlon Doris Pataton

Coster Le Rnl Operll

Gladys At>l>y Bonlme

Delphlnc. Elizabeth Leiand

Chine ChlnK Marilyn Chu

Gretchln Patsy O'Shea

Godmother Edith MnB

At' the Ball

Courtiers: Bllnor Brocklnrldse, Helen

Kramnr, Jean Reeves, Lukas HovlnEn,

John Tares, Robert Wilson

Pages Victor Chopin, Fred Hunter

Lord Mayor Victor Morley

Loitl Times Roland Bottomley

Censor ,;...Glen Langnn

King Cecil Humphreys

Queen Ivy Troutmnn

Prince Ralph Forbes

Beauties. .Jacqueline Oately, Blanche Faye

OlKn Daley, Doris Hughes, Beatrice

Colo

Venus Eunice Lee

Bishop Le Bol OpertI

Ellen..-. Jacqueline Gately

Dr. Bodle Edith King

"Danny Olen Langan

Xurse Sapih Burton

Plays Oot of Town

DEFIANCE

(TALE DRAMA DEPT.)

"THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER'
"VOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW"
WARNER BROS.
Met. LOD-OLAXTON

Twice winner of the award for
best screen performance of the year
by the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences, Luisc Rainer
makes her initial stage appearance
in New York in a revival of Sir
Ja.nes M. Barrie's 'A Kiss for Cin-
derella,' playing a role whic:i Maude
Adams created back in 1916:. The
venture is something less than
wholly satisfactory for Miss Rainer
and the sponsors of the iterprise,
Cheryl Crawford, and Richard W.
Krakeur. Although the boxoffice is
keyed to a popular scale, the appeal
of the play is very limited, and the
star's film following is not likely to
rush to sec her in a part which is
unsuited to her particular style.

When first produced,' "Kiss for Cin-
derella' profited by the timeliness of
its theme, which deals with a Lon-
don slavey of scant income, but gen-
erous instincts, expressed in her
mothering some waifs during the
first World War. In the text are
several references to wartime Lon-
don of 25 years ago, such as the dan-
ger of permitting a light to burn as
a careless beacon for an occasional
invading Zeppelin. In effect, these
allusions lose significance, consider-
ing the mental picture of present-
day London and the banging around
it has received from the Boche.

In the same groove, the whimsical
nature of ' the Barrie characters is
so out of key with the viewpoint of
1942 that the very elements which
enhanced the play a quarter of a
Century a^o defeat its purpose now.

Miss Rainer is no neophyte behind
the footlights. She achieved consid-
erable success on the Continent be-
fore she went to Hollywood for
films. Also, she played ttie present
role at a short engagement in Maple-
wood, N. J., last-summer.

As her part is made plausible
wholly through characterization of
a slavey. Miss Rainer is seriously
handicapped by an accent that is
jarring and gives Improbability to
the role. Such vocal deficiency also
is heightened by the splendid de-
livery of the two male, leads, - Ralph
Forbes, as the policeman-suitor, and
Cecil Humphreys, acting the friend-
ly sponsor dnd benefactor. Both of
them excel.

'Kiss' is one of those plays with a
dream second act, where everything
joes fantasy. One . wonders—what
would have happened ' to English
literature if 'Alice in Wonderland'
had never been written. It is far
from Barrie's best wor. Sundry
characters in exaggerated costumes
present what purports to be a fever-
ish idea of the Cinderella story^
and probably is.

Production generally Is excellent
and the scenes move quickly and
silently ■ into place under guidance
of Lee Strasberg, who directed.

How fast is tKe world's pace! J. M.
Barrie, darling of a generation ago.
Is dated. Flin.

New Haven, March 11.

The Yale drama department,
which usually concerns Itself prima-
rily with productions that offer an
outlet for the talents of Its faculty
and students, has come up this time
with' a play that has commercial po-
tentialities. This, of course^ if the
public Is not too escapist mmded to
want its drama served up tense. Play
deals with Gestapo activities In occu-
pied France ana, wh'le not exactly
brutal, is anything but . light enter-
tainment.

Theme is timely, being laid in a
small village shortly after the fall of
France. The Kneelands, American
owners of a chateau in the village,
are helping a French woman
smuggle yQung Frenchmen out of the
country ' into Africa to fight the
Nazis. Local Gestapo suspects the
household, bui can't get anything on
the members.

A young American lad, Introduced
to daughter Kitty Kneeland, cul-
minates a quick romance by be-
coming engaged to her, but he turns
out to be a Nazi agent paid to pick
up information via the romance
route. The local Gestapo captain Is
killed when he secretes himself in
th6 chateau and discovers the
smuggling angle.- His superior, ac-
companied by the young American,
traces the murder to ue chateau
occupants and obtains confessions
from them by third degree. When
he is about to turn them in he is
killed by the American lad, whose
romance with the girl prompts him
to Abandon the Gestapo.

Play, written by Elizabeth Arm-
strong, has an authentic ring to it.
Author is said to- have fled France
herself under circumstances similar
to those depicted. Writing is inter-
esting and is canably carried through
by Frank. McMuUan's staging. An
evce'lent settinc. originally designed
by George Hsndrickson and re-
rtecor?ted for this oroduction by
Robert Lowen, figures importantly.

Good performances are con-
tributed by -Lawrence Dobkin' and
Frank Bevan. as the Gestapo officials.
Nancy Lee Keith, the French mother
who eni;ineers th-j smuggling, does
well with .the role. Mary Dickson,
Joe Steinberg and Grace Baily play
the Kneeiond -family, and Norman
Holland and Betty Lou Evans ere
the Nazi-paid American agents.

There's a thought for pix in this
script. Bone.

hade Stuff-^jit

Le« J. CobD and hl« wU«, Helen Beverly, who succeeded George Mac-
ready and Helen Walker, respectively, in the leading parts In 'Jason,' at
the Hudson^ N, Y., have considerably altered the flavor of the show.
Playing the part of the critic, created by Alexander Knox, Cobb Is cast
against type and la not aa' believable In the role. However, his playing
has more vigor tHan Knok's and the show as a whole-jseeras more the-
atrical. It lesi platullble. .Miss Beverly Is also not as suitable as Miss-
Walker for the part of the critic's .wife. '

To one seeing 'Jason' for the second time, author Samson Baphaelson's
naive conception of drama critics and crHlclsilti seems even more naive
than before.

Re-Hire Draftees

: Continued from pace

eesj

SAMUEL FRENCH

SINCE 1830
AUTHORS' REPRESENTATIVE
Plays for Stale, StrHn and Radio
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an Well 7lh Strstl. LSI AnMin '.

Cleveland Orchestra On
Fortnight's Concert Tour

Cleveland, March 17.
The Cleveland Orchestra Is on a
two-week tour. Opening was at To-
ledo yesterday (16) and appearances
are scheduled as far south as Win-
ston-Salem, N. C, and Princeton,
N. J., in the east. '
. ArturQ Rodzinskl conducting.

Oscar Serlln, his staff and the actors In The Moon ts Down,,' have their.-
Angers crossed, hoping that the play will measure up to the wealth of •
press plaudit! accorded John Steinbeck's book, from which the drama
was adapted. Not only book reviewers have praised the war novel, but
commentators have been tossing verbal posies its way. Eleanor Bioosevelt
devoted hisr column in the N. Y. World-Telegram to' 'Moon* Friday (13),
President's wife saying 'it should .be a stirring dramatic.performance.'

Steinbeck drama opens In Baltimore Monday (23) and is due into the
Beck, N. Y., the following week.

During the intermission 6U 'Let's Face It' at the Imperial, N. Y., to-
morrow (Thursday) night, Danny Kaye, star of the show, "will be formally.'
notified by Leonard Smith of the Newspaper Guild that he Is to. receive
that organization's 'Page One Award' as the outstanding comedian of the
year. Sylvia J'ine (Mrs. Danny ^aye) will also be onstage to be notified'
of her winning a similar, award for her part In Kaye's -rise in the theatre.
The actual presentations will be made April 10 at the Page One ball of
the Newspaper Guild at the Hotel Astor,

'A Kiss For Cinderella,' revived at the Music Box, New York last week
with Lulse Rainer, was originally presented in N. Y, in 1916 by the late
Charles Frohman. Although- Maude Adams was starred it did not make
much of a Broadway run, playing approximately three months.

Paramount controls the rights to 'Cinderella;' having absorbed the
Frohman plays. Royalties from the revival are payable to the film firm
and the estate of Sir James M. Barrie, who wrote the fantasy.

Seating plans of legit theatres and stadia in New York have been pub-
lished in pamphlet .form by Lenore Tobin, who is in the New York office
of the Shuberts. Booklet, called Stubs, sells at 6(k! and outline - locations
of the theatres and stadia plus the seating arrangement of 36 theatres, not
including either the Adelphi or the New Yorker. In addition are the in-
terior plans of Madison Square Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie
Hall, Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium and Ebbets Field.'

to re-employ him unless it could
show a change in economic status
which would prevent IL >

Wire came to Miller who, under
the act, must act as counsel .without
charge, about fopr weeks ago. The
latter investigated the case and then
drew up the suit which demanded
that the former theatre employee be
re-hired at his old job or one equal-
to it in seniority and salary, in addi-
tion to being paid back-salary for
the 17 weeks during which the the-
atre owners stalled him. Miller did
not file it, because they quickly
agreed to comply after reading up on
the strict rules of the Selective Ser-
vice Act. It provides that the U.S.
distrt^attorney may arrange an out-
of-court settlement, which was suc-

cessful-in -this-case.

Precedent

Setting a precedent for all similar
cases in the future, this dei^ision
rocked the local Film Row. There
have been several examples lately
here of young theatre men in sub-
ordinate positions who, after serving
a stretch in the army during the first
draft, returned to find their jobs
filled and got a rather cool reception.
As result of Wire's victory, several
of ' them are planning to enter sim-
ilar -sv.its under the Selective Ser.-.
vice Act.

Where this ruling probably will af-
fect movie business most' is in ex-
(ihanges and theatre staffs of ushers,
which have lost a large amount of
young men to the army. Although
som'e local chains have tried to solve
the scarcity of ushers by engaging
girls, their brass-hats said that any
ex-male ushers who have been hon-
orably discharged from the army
will find their jobs or the equivalent
waiting for them.

This promise was particularly
stressed by Nat Wolf, division man-
ager of Warners' 30 Ohio theatres,
which are having more men con-
scripted due to the fact that their
personnel include a larger percen-
tage of draft-age employees than
other circuits. To date the Ohio 'WB
chain has lost 32 men. Charles Al-
bert, booker and second vice-presi-
dent of the Variety Club, will be the
33d when he Is Inducted Match 24.
Barkers of the. Variety Club gave

Arthur Hammerstein, hospitalized briefly In Palm Beach recently, has
returned to his home near Chicago, 't^t year he became part-time gentle-
man farmer in Evanston, III., but vacationed in Florida during the winter,
as has been his custom,

According to a letter received In New York from him last week, he
wrote: 'I don't know what was the matter with me, if anything.' Former
producer has been inactive in show business for years.

Margaret Anglin, who replaced Mary Boland In the touring The Rivals,'
was last seen on the boards in "Fresh Fields,' presented at the Empire,
N. Y.,. in 1936 for a moderate engagement Prior to that she was in re'tire-
ment for a considerable period.

'Rivals,' which played one week in Chicago Instead of two. because of
Miss Boland's disaffection, jumped to Boston's Opera House (y» Monday
(16).

Emlyn WiUiams' 'Light of Heart,' renamed 'Yesterday's Magic,' wKlch is
being produced by the Theatre Guild with Paul Miml starred, was origi-
nally presented in London in 1939 with Godfrey "Tearle in the lead. Play
survived the blitz for quite awhile.

Williams then rewrote ttie lead part to fit himself, took the show mto
the provinces, and,, after playing a year, returned to liondon, where it
clicked. New play opens in New Haven March 27.

There is a strict rule barring civilians from the American Theatre
Wing's Stage Door Canteen, New York, except those assigned to duty, but
Bob Mizzy, for(nerly wed to Gypsy Rose Lee, did manage to get a look.
Louis Schoenceit, a ticket broker, fixed it for $50, which was donated to
the American Theatre Wing.

Disbursement of profits from 'Arsenic and Old Lace,' Fulton, N. Y., and
its Toad company for the month of February amounted to $26,400, nearly
$20,000 under January. The road company particularly ran into spotty
business, with February's short month also a factor In the lower gross.

Sam Byrd, at various times a Broadway actor, manager,, director and
producer, has been given an advance royalty of $2,500 by Houghton-
Mifflin for a book on his native south. Labeled 'Small Town South,' it will
be published during the summer.

him a farewell party last Friday (13),
presenting him with a gold watch.

Because of the shortage of theatri-
cally-trained men, Wolf appointed a
girl to one of the first managerial
posts in this locale. She is Ruth Gar-
rett, former cashier for Warner's IjC
Roy in Portsmouth, O, for U years,
who was made assistant manager last
week.

UMPI Sares IHan

^sContlnaed from page 6^^^

ed, reads: 'It is hereby moved that
in lieu of. clauses 'A' and 'B'
enumerating' the manner in which
the exhibitor shaU have cancella-
tion privileges, the cancellation
privilege be corrected to 20%
straight cancellation, to apply on all
pictures, and that the word 'reason-
ably' be inserted imder the 'regular
customer' clause after the words,
'maintain and operate his theatre
in 'a' and preceding the -words,
'modern manner,' so that Ihe sen-
tence in this clause shall read as
follows: 'maintains and operates his
theatre in a reasonably modern man-
ner."

^V^e Sing* JWay Shift
Nearer B'way Area

'Of V We Sing,' a New York re-
vue, that graduated from amateur to
professional status, may move from
the Concert theatre, which is out-
side the theatre zone. House men-
tioned to get 'V is the St. James,
vacated by a Gilbert and ' Sullivan
outfit Saturday (14). Figured that
the revue, retaining its $1.65 top,
wiU fare mush- botlet in. the Times
Square district. St. James was to
have gotten 'High Kickers,' which
switches instead from the Broad-
hurst soon to the 44th Street.

'V is being operated by Alex H.
Cohen and Lennie Hatten, young
showmen who aim to keep the show
running another six weeks regard-
less of house location. Duo will
then troupe ''V in the. expanded J. J-
Leventhal pop-price circuit, with 12
weeks to. follow in summer stock.
Cohen has a piece of 'Angel Street' '
at the Golden. ' He was also in on
the recent 'They Should Have Stood
in Bed,' which flopped. .

Mich. Allled'i 20-Xi V\x Idea

Detroit, March 17.
Qlrectora of Michigan Allied have
endorsed w alternate selling plan
which would call for films to be sold

in larger blocks, of from 20 to 24.

The plan also calls for the blocks
to be sold twice annually rather than .
on a quarterly basis. The greatest
support for the endorsement of the
directorate comes from the out-State
exhibitors who believe thai It would .
provide -''..fern with numerous advan-
tages.

W#AieBd«Tv JAMteh 18, 1942

CHATTER

5»

Broadway

Kate Pl«tt Of B*K to <«wn W-

^Mwy March agenting 'Johnny 1x4.'
at the IX)n««cr«.

Benrimo. stager and author, r«-
ported seriously HL

Juliette, theatrical costumer, hu
•tfone out 01 burineaa. ^

BUlT Kose and Eleanor Holm Rose
backfrom Miami Beach.

Jake Wilk. WB awry editor, bade
irom Florida; also George D.

^lSlS*Gordon, Texas operator and
partner of Paramount's, licensed to

%?iSuaS''a" Lawrence, Pat realty
executive, confined to. bis home witn
bad case of grippe/

Eddie Moran, screen scrlpter, has
a n?w musical drama, 'Just Around
the Comer,' making the rounds.

St Regis Iridium Room has de-
terred to the times and formal dress

Armandos, openlna a farm near
Brewster. N.T, lor the summer
roadhouse trade. .

No mysUdsm to why Connie Bos-
well became Connee. She Just got
tired of dotUng the i's, and irbl-
trarily changed It ^ - . .

Wlulam Morris, Jr., due bade
from HoUywood next week. Willard
Alexander of the agency returned
from Miami Beach wis week.

Norman Moray, short-subject sales
chief of Warner Bros., on the Coast
Monday (16) to discuss production
plans and policies on the brlefles.

Ben Kalmenson returned to the
Warner h.o. during the past week
after conferences at the studio, plus
st^s at some exchange points on
the way east \ . . . .

Bill Jenkins, of the Lucas & Jen-
kins chrcult in Georria, arrived in
town Monday (16). B. E. Wfaltaker.
Atlanta -cl^ manager fot the chain,
came In with 'him.

Marjery Fielding will agam stage
the new VersalUes nitery show
opening in April, new costumes,
people, etc, but It will- not put em-
phasis oh any names. '

Alec Moss, in charge of Par's eX'

Sloltatlon department at -the h.o.,
ue back Friday (20) after contact-
ing various field representatives
throughout the country. . .
.Anatole Lltvak, who came in from
' the Coast last week, shoved off for
Chicago Sunday (IS), accompanied
by l^one Power. Lltvak will visit
In C:hl before going on back to Hoi
lywood.

Henry Anderson, In charge of the
Insurance department for Puamount,
will address the assembly of Hunter
College tonight (Wed.) on the part
women may be asked to play in
civilian defense.

Leonard Goldenson, head of the
Pu theatre department, and Sam
Dembow, Jr., are due In Hollywood
tomorrow (18) for the 'Reast Wild
Wind' prerjlere a-?ter contacting Par
partners on the way out. -

Quentlu Reynolds got bis Collier's
mag salary doubled, and he celebrat-
ed it with a cocktailery at Toots
Shor's for the entire mag staff, ex-
cept the top executives. He wanted
this party Just for the kiddles.

Rob O'Donnetl, Interstate execu-
tive, who has Jimmie Webb,- the
fighter, under his wing, left Sunday
(IS) for Bellas after seeing the fight
Friday night (13) when Webb lost.
Fighter was a former projectionist
In one of the Houston theatres in
. which Interstate is interested.

Jimmy Sileo, photographer for the
Music Hall, exhibiting over 20 pic-
tu«a at the seventh annual photo
exhibs of the Press Photographers
Asm. being held at the N. Y. Museum
of Sdence 8t Industry In Radio City
_ -from -now-untU-April-12:— Iniaadca-
are shots of flhn Industry stunts and
scenes of.M. H. stageshows.

Nlghtf ), directed b7 Hugo Cturlaten-
Mn. 'for Lamlton.

nn damaged NIRA Studios, caus-
Inf iuipcnnon M Tonter* Sur*
jCSOuthani Bordtr'), indie production
of San BIu TDmf,

Monitor Pictures to release 'Pal-
abra de Qonot* ('Word of Honor')
with Luis Sandrhii, AUela VlgnoU
and Roberto AlraUi.
. Mario Sofllei inked to direct
'Vacadoncs en el otro Mundo' CVa-
catlons In the Other World'), original
by Amorin and Gomez Mairfa for
Sono Film.

Artistas Argentinos Asociados
started first pic, 'El Viejo Hucha'
cold Miser') at SIDE Studios, Lu-
cas Demare meg^g.- Stars Enrique
Muino and Francisco Petrone. -

Buenos Aires

By Bay Josephs

,„PaMo Petrowich, ChUean director,
in town for o.o.

.,Sono Fihn signed Zully Moreno
^!!?""l^.Ann Sheridan.
--^%PfUos, rep for Alex Korda,

r>r F^' short local stay.
~n*T Lione, general manager

M^coco, to Mar del Plata for va-

trtJif* ^''bedjJnd. former RKO exec,
Electra in Vicente

(itn^„?^*,*K/"' vaeash from Disney
Seers 1*^^
G«,'2!iP'f 8 new house on site of ^

&^-".?s;>rrr^*'°'^'=^°"

si^S£l3JI Lebendeger, of Fermata,
wSJSJ'Jf concert of the

season at the Odean.

Cine
pos-

-.-jvu at me udean.
derrS^M^.'fiJJ open with -La Casa
MSS^^ J?^.?:? Ho'^'^'). d!*"*-

«£i ^que Gustavino.
wori?^'!?'*"'^' leading Indie, started
ui%JS?i found stage. Wli —

throughout,
yjihnoteca Argentina releaalng

?'Si"??n**'l«» "With loca
offlS^*** blessing of government

a„tSS"SJ?onstant, Trench dlrector-
noj, cutting 'Slnfonla Argen-
Argentine Symphony') at

NwftI?'"*. ^<erman started 'Su
dc . BodM* ('Her . Wedding

Rio de Janeiro

Mexican Chucho Martinez at the
Urea Casino.

Hollywood's Lenl .Lynn at the Co-
pacabana Casino.

Team of Vic and Joy, local muscle
crunchers; to go to U.S. shorMv^

Raoul Roulien, one-time Hollywood
actor, opened own play here, 'In
Wolfs Clothing.'

Ballet Russe expected - here from
New York for ollictal opera reason
at the Municipal theatre.

French actress Falconettl arrived
here from Europe to stage series of
French plays.

From Buenos Aires comes Eduar-
do Morera to open new field in Bra-
zil for ArRentine plcts. '

Radio Educadora, local -broadcast-
er, aired The Life of Charlie Chap-
lin,' by Edmundo Lys.

Metro's 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'
and RKO's 'Little' Foxes* opened Rio
de Janeiro film season for 1042.

Brazilian actor Jaime Costa opened
1942 theatrical season In Rib with
'A FamlOa Lero-Lero' at the Rival.

Brazilian colored team of Henricao
and Carmen Costa preparing go to
New 'York for nite club appearances.

Brazilian dancer Eros Volusia ex-
pected shortly from Hollywood,
where she hdd role In 'Rio Rita.'

I>onora Amar left by boat for
New York, where she will appear at
the Copacabana with Brazilian sam-
bas.

Elections for board of directors of
SBAT (Society of Brazilian Authors
for the Theatre) scheduled for end
of March.

Team of Don, Dolores and Doree,
acrobats, at the Urea Casino for two
weeks' engagement, thereafter back
to New York.

Mexican Ana Maria Gonzalez lead-
ing Atlatitlco Casino floor. show, with
U.S. songstress June Marlowe play-
ing second fiddle.

Municipality announced $500 year-
ly award for best 'cultural' radio
program. Must^be unsponsored "and
have educational value.

H. L. Correa de Azevedo, Brazilian
musician, published booked titled
'Six Months hi the United States,',
dealing with North American music.

Orson Welles complaining that too
much dining and wlnhig by Brazilian
officials and sodaltes are robbing
him of work time. Score sheet on
first week of March: IS dinners, 33
luncheons, lots of cocktails.

M-G and eKhlbltor Luis Severlano
Ribeiro, owner of biggest chain of
deluxers and nabes In Rio, reached
agreement for showing Metro films
In letter's theatres after release
through M-G's own three deluxers.

By Hal Cohen

Rosey Roswell signatured again to
broadcast Pirates bSseball games this

season. . „

Clinton Haber, veteran actor with
the Catholic Theatre Guild, off for
the army.

Eve Herbert, secretary-treasurer
of local AGVA chapter, to Miami for
a few days.

Milton Karle, Johnny Long's p.a.,
came home for army induction last
Friday (13).

Press drama critic Kap Monahan a
battalion fire chief for air raids in
Mt Lebanon.

The Bill Greens and Al Mercurs—
they're both nitery owners— back
from Miami vacation. ._ - —

Tom Foraham, WB district maha
ger In Erie territory, fought imder
MacArthur in France.

The Carl Czolbas (he's manager of
the Model theatre) wiU fiU a bassinet
some time next month.

'Skating Vanities' booked Into Gar
dens April 4 for week, with Gene
Autry's rodeo following.

Universal club dinner - partied
salesman Leo Cantor on his enlist-
ment in the Naval Reserve.

Maynard De^ne, .Anchorage band
leader, transferred to armored force
headquarters at Fort Knox.

Audrey Tremaine, showgal, and
band leader Herbert Frltsche have
announced their engagement. .

Connie Krebs, of RltO's Coast pub
Hcl^ staff, in town over weekend on
annual tour of the film desks.

Chet Clark, WCAE announcer,
leaves this week for Maxwell Field,
Ala- to become aviation cadet

Bob Alda. Harry Savoy's straight
man in hurley, has Joined 'Fun for
Your Mon«y' company at Yacht.club.

Tom Bodkin brought boHy of his
wife, former Te^dy Hudson, here
from New York for burial Monday
(16).

London

Major Perdval Wren, author of
'Beau Oeste', left around $7,600.

Jack Davies is no longer con-
nected . with the Archie Pamell
Office.

Friends of Hugh D. Macintosh
have subscribed to give him a suita-
ble burial.

Phil Hyams. In bad car smash, out
of hospital after three weeks and
practically recovered.

Margaret Bonner, wife of actor
Leo Genn, has become casting di-
rector at Elstree Studios.

Roy Kellino, who was divorced
from Pamela Ostrer, has married
Mrs. Norma Simon, also, divorced.

Maxwell Anderson's play, 'Key
Largo' staged here by the Cambridge
Amateur Dramatic Company Feb. 11.

Carroll licvis, due here in Febru-
ary, has postooned his arrival from
U.S. to Aprirdue to inablli^ to get
passage.

Deborah KeiT. film .ictress. »""'-
ing personals in I^eeds in aid of
Prisoners of War Fund sponsored b;
Yorkshire Evening News.

First big touring show sponsored
by Geraldo being tried out at Em-
pire, (Aiswick, with full Stoll and
Moss Empires tour to follow.

EUleen Radstone, 14-year-old who
used to entertain at Mr Raid shel-
ters. Is being auditioned by Charles
B. Cochran for his new xevue.

Difficulty of getting musldans has
caused Joe Loss to cancel tlu'ee
weeks vaudeville when four of his
men were called up for service.

Lou Praeger, band leader, dis-
charged from the Army after . six
months in hospital with broken arm.
He's lining up new aggregation.

Since Joining the 'Brains Trust',
popular BBC feature, Dr. Malcolm
Sargent, British conductor, has been
doing tumaway biz at bis concert
recitals. '

Margaret Rawlings honeymooning
after a secret marriage to Robert
Marlow, non-professional. She was
formerly married to jproducer Ga-
briel Toyne.

Jackie Hunter and Geraldo parted
due to former asking for new terms
to which latter refused to comply.
Hunter Jis now under longtermer to
Jack Hylton at $300 per.

Terence Rattigan, author of
Trench Without Tears', has com-
pleted a new play, "The Next of Kin',
about the RAF. He is a Pilot Officer
and on leave from West Africa.

'Lady Behave', thie Hylton-MolU-
son-Lupino musical, folding In early.
April at His Majesty's theatre, with
Jay Pomeroy having leased theatre
for six weeks to stage 'Tsar Zolton',
new Russian opera.

Archie Pamell has contract with
Maurice Bloom, owner of Phoenix
theatre, to stage four weeks vaude-
ville there. First week did not prove
so hot so Pamell asked for contract
cut to three, to which Bloom agreed.

'Vernon Sylvaine has completed
'Worth A Million' musical, adapted
from his old farce of same name,
with Eddie Moran supplying tunes.
Jack Hyiton reading book to dedde
If it's suitable vehicle for Arthur

Persistent success of Jack Helton's
pantomime 'Jack and JUl', at Palace,
in which Brian Michle Is featured,
has caused delay in new British
Broadcasthig Corp, Monday night
feature. Show is to star Magda Kun
with Mlchle.

Jack Waller has scrapped his own
musical version of 'Cradle Snatehers'
of which he holds all English rights,
and Is' now doing -the Vmton Free-.
dley-Cole Porter version ('Let's Face
It'), and wants Bobby Howes to play
the lead. Tace It' Is currently on
Broadway.

Hueh Findlay. press agent lor
Gaumant-Brltlsh for several years
and later with Michael Balcon at
Gainsborough, has Joined Ealing Stu-
dios as head of the press department
He replaces Danny Danlschewsky.
who moves up to the scenario de-
partment as script writer.

Firth Shepherd's musical, with
tunes by Manning Sherwln, which
replaces 'Up and Doing' at the 8a-
ville theatre, tries out at Manchester
In April. Carroll Gibbons. Savoy
hotel maestro, will not wield the

Park by Munidpal Theatre Assn.
Season gets under way June 4,

Navy fliers were inducted into the
service on the stage of the Gravois,
a St Louis Amus, Co. nabe, as part
of a bally campaign for 'American
(Tavalcade of Aviation-' Manager Roy
Muehlemann cooked up the stunt

"The Enchanted April,' directed by
Gordon Carter, gete under way at
the .St IjOuIs Little Theatre Thurs-
day (19).. Cast Includes Jane Bruce,
Jean Fisher, Ann Printy, Betty Jor-
dan, Al Hohengartett, Charles Hol-
man. Joseph KIngsley, Winifred Lane
and Mercella Glassman.

By Lea Bees

Edyth Bush Little Theatre offering
'Room Service.'

Doug Pratt, Columbia home-office
district auditor, in town.

Gene Krupa and Dick Jurgens to
be Orpheum April headliners.

Helen Hayes cancelled Lyceum
booking, but will come in later in
season.

Ralph Zeuthen, formerly of sports
staff, now handling Evening Times
film reviews.

Sue Ryan, singing comedienne, out
of Orpheum now part of week be-
cause ol Infected throat.

Harold Ihudium, city manager for
Elson cinema circuit in Cloquet^
Minn., enlisted in the Navy. .

W. H. Workman, Metro branch
manager, sufficiently recovered from
illness \o leave hospital for home.

'Vladimir . Horowitz ' cancelled last
week's soloist anpcarance with Min-
neapolis Symphony orchestra be-
cause of illness, Leionard Shure
pinch-hltting.

' Frolics, first northwest combination
stage and loimge, has Ken lliompson
trio and Mary Jane Howard from
Hotel Blackstone, Chicago, for ini-
tial attractions.

J; E. Melone transferred from Des
Moines to local Warner exchange as
office, manager, succeeding Herb
Blass, who takes over head booker
post. .

Miami

Winl Shaw spotted Into the Five
o'clock.

(Sypsy Rose Lee broke all records
at (Casanova Club. -r' .

George Lottman In town and
bedded with- a cold. -

Ben Marden is reported trying .to
lease Versailles hotel.

Cross and Dunn held over another
two weeks at Beachcomber.
' Dr. Marcus coUapsed during show
at Beachcomher and Is now recover-
ing at the VanderbUt

Elmer Davis stopping over few
days before 'beading for Key West
and the fishing grounds.

Patricia Hau, Latin Quarter
chorine, Is reported heading for N.Y.
to merge with Sonny Kendls.

PhU Spltahiy's 'H6ur of Charm'
girls quartered at the 'Lord Tarleton,
which win be their headquarters
during tour of southerly army camps.

SL Louis

By Sam X. Horit

Mardonl currently headlining floor
show at Club Continental, Hotel Jef-
ferson. . , ■ ^ » J

Ed Engler, an employee at Loew's
for 11 years, tossed stint overboard
to make munitions.

St Louis Variety Club to partici-
pate in campaign to raise local quota
of $89,000 for national $5,000,000
Navy Relief Society fund.

(Jov. Forrest Donnell has nixed
move to use the State Fairgrounds,
Sedalla, Mo., for an alien concentra-
tion camp. Instead, the fair will be
held the week of Aug. 23-30.

'Sally' and 'Song of the Flame'
have been added to sked for presen-
tatlon In al fresco playhouse In Forest

DeMille Fete

jCoDtlnued froni page ijss

but of mentality, DeMlUe said,, re-
viewing hir 30 ytora and 66 pro-
ductions in the still youthful film In-
dustry. He introduced his first lead-
ings lady, Winlfried Kingston; Bill
Farnum, his star in The Squaw
Man'; Anna Q, NUason, Mildred Har-
ris, Jane Darwell, Jack Holt, Rey-
mond Hatton, Monte Blue, Conrad
Nagel, ' Leatrice Joy, Noah Beery,
Richartl Dix and WUllam Boyd, who
learned their early lessons In 'The
Barn,' and Julip Paye, who is cur-
rently In the cast of 'Reap the Wild
Wind' and has appesired in more
DeMille pictures tiian any other
player.

Laaky. QoMwyn Ex-Pariners
' At the table were two of De-
Mille's former partners in the 'Squaw

stick In tfils show, as-hc couldnlt-get:;WEan*--«ntunr,.Jefi5t Laskysmd-Snm;
to terms with Sheph'ard. But his -' " " -
band will stay on under • lesser-
known leader. Alice Delysla will
also not be hi show, as originally
contemplated, with Dorothy Dickson
practically set to replace.

uel Goldwyn. Talking about the
troubles of The Barn' In those days,
the producer-director told about im-
porting Oeraldine Farrar from the
Metropolitan Opera company and
'building Hollywood's - first star
dressing room. They made three pic-
tures in three weeks, including 'Car-
men' at the 'coIptsalV cost of $iZO,000.
Another early blgb-biidget special
was Ina Claire's first starrer, cost-
ing aU of $9,000.

Among the guests were Nell Mc-
Carthy, DeMille's personal attorney
through the years; Louis Bl' Mayer,
Dr. A. H, Glanninl, Henry Ginsburg
and Buddy De Sylva. Absent was
his brother. Prof. William De Mllle,
who was busy wlft his drama' classes^

Helen Westley seriously ill.

May Robson ill with neuritis.

Denny Morrison joined the Loew>
Lewln publicity, staff.

George White upped ffom assistant
to film editor at Metro.

CHiris-Pin Martin on a stage tour
of the Southeastern states.

"Margdret McDonell upped to 'story
editor post by David O. Selznick.

Ernst'Lubitsch checked Ui at 20th«
Fox after a vacation at Yosemite. .

W. Ray ' ' Johnstone, MonoiU'am
chief, laid up with throat trouble. -.

Irving Berlin back from New York
for a sneak preview of 'Holiday Inn.'

Rise Stevens checked in at Metro
after a concert tour of the north-
west

Jack Roper teaching Victor Mature
and John Payne to box for a screen
battle.

Damon Ruiiyon checked in at RKO
after vacationing in Florida and New
York.

William Dozler back at Paramount
after 10 days in the east on -a story
quest

Jack McGowan, Metro writer. In
the hospital after a heart attack on'
the lot

The George (Gabby) Haysea cele*
brated their. 28tfa wedding anni-
versary.

Billy Cook, now 16, returns to the
screeh after taking a year out to,
grow up.

Patricia Morison moves off the
Paramount lot after thre^ years to
freelance.

Ida Luplno collapsed on the set at
Warners and was ordered to talcfi a
week's rest

Deanna Durbln back from an east-
ern tonr during which -she sang for
50.000 soldiers.

Melville Burke In town 'signing
players for his strawhat theatre In
Skowhegan, Me. -

Pauline Garon, star of sUent films,
filed suit for divorce from Jack Al-
ban, screen player.

Carol Wajrne, screen actress,' sue-
Ing Robert Webb. Republic casting
director, for divorce.

Sugar (jeise, nitery . entertainer,
won a divorce from Jack B. Fain,
nifdit club operator.

Claude Blnyon appointed chttlmlaii
of Public ' Relations Committee of
Screen Writers Guild.

Frances Raebum making her debut
ab'.Metro as screen sister to her real
sister. Hathryn Grayson.

Darryl F. Zanudc to Washington
on -his periodical visit to the Army
Signal Corps headquarters, '

Henry Steidienson ' laid up with
bronchitis while 'Halfway Shang- .
hai' shoots around him.

Perry Lleber and Feg Muray are .
starting the fifth consecutive year of.
their weekly croquet joust

Robert Steele, Universal actor and
former athlete, appointed chairman
of ihe.USO sports committee. -

W. C Fields to Soboba Hot Springs
to renew his old acquaintance 'with
drinking water for five weeks. ■■

Andy' Kelly became assistant to
Arch Reeve oh the Public Relations
Committee of Producers Association.

Mike Frankovldi moved, up as as-
sistant to William O'Sulllvan, asso-
ciate producer of serials it Republio,

Dolores Del Rio to Mexico on va-
cation, pending the start of a .Mer-
cury Production picture there in
May, .•

' Joe Schnltzer, head of Western
Costume Company, ordered to rest
for several monffaa after a heart at-
tack.

Carole Landls asked Superior Court
to legalize her screen name. Cur-
rently she Is Frances Lillian RIdsta,
Hunt

Ann Rutherford back in town alter
entertaining 200,000 feoldlers on her
tour lor the Hollywood Victory Com-'
mittee.

Jack Kapp, president of Decoa
Records, in iown to supervise platter
cutting by contract bands and Holly-
wood names,

Ralph' Blodc. resigned as v.p, of
Screen Writers GuQd to become as-
sistant regional director of U. S.
Division of Information.

Frank Shaw, associate producer at
Universal, celebrated his 30th anni-
versary In pictures. His career be-
gan as a messenget boy with Vita-
■grapVi.-inJBnKiWTii Jn-iSia; -

fornia; but wired a message: 'You'
seem to have won your 30 years
war, but dont let success go to your
head. You must have been clean
all your life because you are always
mentioned in connecUon with bath-
tubs.'

Lyda.Sue of the ^ellzapoimln' cast
is planning to wed an eniign. .

Boxy Is plannlhs weekend vaude-
ville, if house can gtt okay from fir*
marshal.

KYW is holding open house at the
studio for servicemen Thursday eve-
nings iEmd Sunday afternoons.

Claude Bennett, general manager
of the Bellevue-Stratford; has been
upped to president of the company.

Blckley Relchner, the songwriter,
made his debutas a vocalist with
Joe Frasetto's WIP studio band last

week under the name of 0)rey Scott
Chris MacDonald , assi stant to Mort
at the University of Southern Call- Lawrence, pUot of 'WIP's 'Dawn Pa-

KtroV has tendered hit resignation.
H^s behig replaced by Milt Gott-

lUke DuOy, moitre dliotel at the
Bellevue-Stratford, wHl be manager
of the RIvw Drive Terrace (formerly
the Paric. Catino), which, opens
March 26.

84

O B I T U A R I E S

BACHEL FIELD

Rachel Field, 47, author of the
best-selling 'All lius and Heaven,
Too,' besides nuirerous other books
and plays, died In Los Angeles
March 15 after an operation com-
plicated by pneumonia. Heaven,'
written in 1938, was subsequently
purchased for films by Warner Bros,
for $50,000.

The author's first novel. Time Out
of Mind,' was published in 1935. Her
latest, 'And Now Tomorrow,' will be
published in June as a book and is
now running In serial form in a
magazine.

Miss Field's early writing included
several one-act. plays presented in
small theatres. She later became
associated with Famous Players-
Lasky, for which she prepared di-
gests of books and plays. She also
' started to write children's books- -at
this period.

Survived by her husband, Arthur
S.' PedersoD, literary agent, with
whom she wrote a book "To Se«
Ourselves,' concerning. Hollywood;
a daughter and her mother. A great-
uncle was Cyrus W. Field, who laid
the first Atlantic cable.

Arthur Pryor'a band. He was one
of the pioneers in the movement to
organize musicians and for 10 years
was president of the Camden unit
the Musicians Union.
Survived by widow.

ABTHUB E. STAHLSCHBODT

Arthur E. Stahlschmldt, 78, com-
poser, lecturer and vpice teacher,
died March 11 in Utica, N. Y. He
had helped to popularize Rudyard
Kipling's writings in the U.S. and
had composed musical backgrounds
to Kipling's 'Barrack Room Ballads'
and 'Recessional,' and The Mermaid
and the Goat.' p.n operetta.

He was also known as a magazine
writer.

HABGVEBITE PAUL-EUEBICH .

Marguerite. Lemon Paul-Emrlch,
former soprano of the Metropolitan
and' Covent Garden' Opera com-
panies, die4 March 10 In New York.
She sang at the Met prior to 1010
and made appearances with the
Philharmonic, Boston and Philadel-
phia orchestras. She created a prin-
cipal role .in the opera Tiefland' in
1910-1^ at Covent Garden.

Survived by her husband.

ALEXANDER VON ZEHLINSBT
Alexander Von. Zemlinsky, 69,
composer, conducter and teacher,
died in N. Y. March 16. An intimate
of Brahihs and Mahler, he had been
the teacher and brother-in-law of
Arnold Schoenberg, who taught the
' late Artur Brodanzky, Met conductor,
and Erich VfoiUganjg Komgold, now
composing music for Hollywood pU.
. Bom in 'Vienna, the composer
wrote six operas, three symphonies^
chamber music, songs and an ora-
torio. He was credited 'with the
discovery of Maria Jerltza in Vienna,
where he had conducted at all the
principal opera houses.- His musical
education had been received at the
Vienna Conservatory and his first
opera, 'Sarema,' was produced in
Munich in 1897.

In this cotmtry sodie of his works
had' been heard through perfomi-
ances by the N.Y. Philharmonic and
through playing, by Brodanzky. Sur-
'Vlved .by widow and daughter.

MBS. IDA HALSET TEED

Mrs. Ida.Halsey Teed, 78, former
vaudeville headliner, died* March 14
at the home of a son, Charles Teed,
in Cleveland. She and her late hus-
band, William Teed, toured the
Keith and Orpheum circuits for 12
years as Halsey and Teed, a song
and dance team. They retired after
the births of their two sons. Her
husband died last December.

Surviving are two sons 'and two
brothers. '

HAT ANGLE SCHENCK

May Angle Schenck, 82, former
concert pianist, . died in Rochester,
N. Y., March 14. S^e was the widow
of Ludwig Schenck, onetime mem-
ber of the Eastman School .of Music
faculty, and a dL^ector of the Roch-
ester Symphony and Philharmanlc
orchestras.
Surviving are .two daughters and
brother.

ED SmXIVAN

Ed Sullivan, 37, with Paramount
Pictures for many years and man-
ager of Interstate's ace house In
Dallas,, the Majestic, since 1036, died
unexpectedly .Wednesday night (11)
from what Is believed to have been
a beart attack. . Widow and two
daughters survive.

Originally from Cblcagp and start-
ing In show business, with Balaban
& -Katz, Sullivan orga^iized theatre
servicing policies for Par throughout
the - cpuntiy before going Into man-
'agerial work. He was house man-
ager of the. Paramount, N.Y., under
Bob Weltman in ' 1036, when Karl
Hoblitzelle, president of Interstate,
' hired him to manage the Majestic,
Dallas.

FERDINAND TROTTMAN

Ferdinand (Frank) Trottman, 78,
'theatre operator In Milwaukee for
45 years; died March 12 in that city,
He was a vet in hurley operation,
first at the old Standard theatre in
1890, later at the old SUr. In. 1011
he went Into the picture . business,
building tiie Gem. He bought up all
the product available for his area,
then came the depression and he
was wiped piit

Trottman live4 In recent years 6n
■n old-age pension supplemented by
periodic -contributions from the Va-
riety Club, which paid for his
burial.

OBA MAE DAVIS

Mrs. Ora Mae ' Davis, 36, for 10
years associated with the Carolina
Playmakers and Paul Green,, play-
■wright, at Chapel Hill,. N. C, died
March 6. She had charge of cos
tume designing and was dance iU'
structor for Playmakers. She de-
signed the costumes for Green's his-
torical dramas. The Last Colony'
end 'The Highland Call.'

Survivors Include husband, dra-
matics professor at University of
North Carolina.

FRED S. OAPEBOON

Fred S. C!aperoon, director of
WCAM, municipally owned station
of Camden, N. J., died Monday (16)
at his home in C!amden of a heart
.ailment He was In his middle 50's.

Capetoon, who was with th« sta-
tion- since 192V,imerIy played with

(16) in his home in BrookUne, near
Phiiadelphla.
Survived by widow.

John Barber, 74, one-time theatre
manager, retiring IS years a$o, died
March 5 in Sharon, Pa., after a long
Illness. . _ .

Mrs. Louise Bonaaek, ' 80, former
concert singer, in St. Louis, dle<t last
week of a heart ailment in Pasa-
dena, CaL

Larkln H. Brown, 76, father of
Clarence Brown, film director, died
March 11 In Hollywood.

Victor Twist, 71, father of. John
Twist, film producer-writer, died in
Los Angeles, March 13.

as generous a galaxy of talent into
five hours as was. humanly possible.
Piermont vice-chairmaned the: En-
tertainment Committee, of which
Marvin Schenck was the head, but
thfe letter's Illness forced him to
operate from a sickbed for some
tlme^ The extra burden, found his
first aide more than equal to the.
emergency.

Between them, along with such
showmen as Don All>ert (the mu-
sical director), Phil Bloom, Ruby
Cowen, William Howard, Lester
Isaac (the sound director),. Harry
and Nat Kalcheim, Ray Katz, Jesse
Kaye, Arthur Knorr (the lighting
director), Richard Krakeur, Leon
Leonidoff, Harry Mayer, Larry
Puck, Frank Roehrenbecli, Harry
and Leonard Romm, Rpbert Welt-
man, Max WoUt and Allen Zee,, they
assembled, an all-star show the re-
prise of whose names best tells the
fiteiy. .

Talent LInenps

There were alternating emcees,
Winchell, Tyrone Power, Bert
Lytell, Ray Bolger; George Jessel
and Jack" Haley; plus the Qaer* Fos-

HILLIE WALTON

Mrs. Mlldollne. Lewis, 22, known
professionally as Millie Walton,, for.
mer dancer with Nils T. Granilund
shows, died in Akron, O., March 11
after a long illness; - She also was
dancer in New York musicals and
night clubs.

Husband, parents and three sisters
Survive.

STLVIA HILLEB

Sylvia Miller, 37, longtime secre-
tary to Pete Harrison, publisher of
Harrison's reports, died in' New
York, March 16, following a pro-
tracted ailment.

Her husband, Liouis Brooks, attor-
ney^ survives; also her mother
brother and two sistiera.

CABL FISCHEB, 84

Carl Fischer, 3d, 30, grandson of
the late N. Y. music publisher, died
In Englewood, N. J., March 14, of
gas asphyxiation. >

Survived by widow, mother and
sister.

WILLIAM H. BBtNS

William H. Bruns, 80, owner of
Rye Beach, summer resort, near
Sandusky, O., died March 8, leaving
his widow, two sons, daughter" and
brother.

Wednesday^ March 18» 1942

Many Hi^il%hts of Navy Show

4 ** ************** * *************************

Navy Benefit

jCoatlnned irom page Zs

Charity's Friends

As Is customary with all such
ftmctions, where a sizable bene-
fit gross i^n prospect, certain
basic traveling expenses for the
talent are considered legitimate.
Hence It's the more to the credit
of the Hollywood visitors, and
others, that they turned back the
'reasonable -expenses' allowed.<
' The one signal exception -was a
star who also .put in a bill for
her husband, maid a ' secre-
tary. It was nixed.

The hotels cooperated gener-
ously .by cuffoing sojne of the -
visitors for the occasion, or
slashing rates sharply.

UABGHABET HAMILL.

Margharet HamUl, 00, opera and
concert singer, died Slarch 8 In New
York after a three-month illness.

James W. Jordan, 00, father of
Fibber McGee (James Jordap, Jr.)
of the radio team 6f Fibber McGee
Molly, died March 14, in Holly-
wood. His son's attendance at .the
funeral marked the first time in the
program's seven years that Fibber
missed a performance.

'Jack B. MbCoUlster, 67, former
bass viol player with the Los As'
geles Philharmonic Sjrmphony or-
ehestra and vet theatre and nltery
musician, died March 12 in Colum-
bus, O., of a heart attack.

Widow and three brothers sur-
vive.

Bebert J. Taylor, 67, veteran mo-
tion picture operator, died Sunday

ter Girls; Lucy Monroe; Benay
Venuta; Loretta Young; Jimmy Du-
rante and Eddie Jackson; Fred Al-
len; Kenny Baker; Bette Davis;
Kate Smith; 'John C^arradlne; Joe E,
Lewis; Andre Kostelanetz batoning
his own orchestra in Its first pub-
lic appearance (non-radio); Merle
Oberon; Connie- Boswell; Dln^ih
Shore; Billy de Wolfe; Georgle
Tapps; Music Hall Rockettes (Rob-
ert Shanley, soloist) in their socko
Martinique routine; - the 'Buckle
Down 'Winsockl' number, with full
cast- and chorus, from. 'Best Foot
Forward'; the full 'Jenny' cast In
costume, with Gertrude. -Lawrence,
from "lady In the Dark'; Edgar
Bergen ('Charlie McCarthy'); Regi-
nald Gardner; Ed Gardner (^Duffy's
Tavern'); Bert Lahr; Constance Ben-
nett; Martha Raye (whose 'open letv
ter to Japan,' followed by a lusty
Bronx cheer, was the hit of the eve-
ning); Joe Louis (Ute colored champ
who was presented with a $S,006
check by Winchell for Army Re-
lief); Danny Kaye; Janet .Gaynor;
John Garfield; Grortrude Niesen;
Myrna Loy; Betty Bruce; James
Barton; the De Marcos; Eddie Can-
tor; Ink Spots; Chico Marx; the much
heralded double Florodora Sextette,
comprising Eve Arden; Tallulah
Bankhead, . Leonora Corbett, Ger-
trude Lawrence, Sophie Tucker and
Peggy Wood, along with Eddie
Cantor, Boris Karlofl, Danny Kaye,
Vincent Price, Clifton Weljb, Ed
Wynn' (conceived by Sylvia Fine,
who is Mrs. KBye)> and Olsen &
Johnson with a generous hunk of
'Sons of Fun,' including Ella Logan,
Carmen Miranda and Rosario Se
Antonio, plus chorus. This latter,
it is safe to assume, was O.&J.'s
way of -thank-you to 'Winchell, whose
plugging materially helped put their
'Hellzapoppin* across. ".

Smooth BilnoB
The mechanics were well-nigh
pertect The 21,000 who jam*

Highlights of the Navy Relief show were:

1— Martha Raye's: 'And here's an open letter to Japan' (business of • '
lusty Bronx cheer Into a mike that amplified It like a howitzer),

2— Constance Bennett (before reading her origUial MacArthur poem:
T want to bring relief to that wonderful Navy of ours' (business of much ^
cheering from the gobs, concentrated - In one section back of the stage). '

3— Cole Porter's 'Beguine^ and "Blues In the Night' (Kate Smith and
Dinah Shore.both did the latter), which songs got great plugging; also
Irving Berlin's new 'I Threw a. Kiss in the Ocean,' world-preemed by Miss !
Smith, as a tribute to the Navy and likely to become an 'oaicial' song.

4— Ed Wynn's superlative curtsy to Eddie Cantor as 'the first citizen,
star and humanitarian of the theatre.' That It was spontaneous was fur-
ther highlighted by Cantor being in his dressing room and not hearing .the
laudatory tribute from a fellow-star, Ife was blacking up for his ensuing
specialty, and didn't come on imtil several minutes later.

5— John Garfield's stirring reading of Gene Fowler's dramatization of
the sinking of the Jervls Bay; TyronS Power's gradousness and eloquent
m.cing; in fact, the preparedness of nearly aU the Hollywood personalities
to do something besides ihe traditional 'glad -to be here' boloney.

6— The exceptionally smooth backstage "mechanics' of getting the stellar
names on and off; also the wonderful patience of most of them. Edgar .
Bergen, for one, sat around -for more than an hour, never once showing
anxiety; ditto Myrna Loy,<who got herself a seat out front to watcb tiie
show imtil her~turn came. Ed Gardner endedred himself to many with his
backstage comedy. He fortified himself before going into the 'Duffy's
Tavern' routine, and every now and then he asked Sidney Piermont If he
would have to wait long enough to make another drink necessary.

7— ^There was a noticeable coolness among. -and. between some of the
femme slllging stars; on.thfe other hand, Dinah Shore was profuse in her -
praise of Connie Boswell's singing. Miss Shore rushed over to. kiss Miss
Boswell when she came off.

8 — ^Bette Davis was almost mobbed when she left the Garden, the tene- -
ments across the street from the Garden virtually emptying Into a mob
scene. There was another crush when Ty Power exited.

9 — Schrafft's went all-out in its backstage buffet donation. A corps of -
servers were on hand, and as many sandwiched, ice cream, coffee and ..
cookies as an army could consume. The biggest crush at the counter came
when Jimmy Durante needed extra room for his schnoz, and when the 'Best ^•
Foot Forward' ensemble came off the stage. The George Abbott cast is not
only young— it's voracious. What saved the day (for the food) was the
fact that the kids didn't have much time between eating and grabbing their
bus back to the Ethel Barrymore fteatre.

10 — Aside ftoni his stint as ih.c, Walter Winchell spent most of bis tiine
'^atchipg tHe show from a standing position in front of the side boxes. He
tol4 Marvin Schenck and Sidney Piermont, 'You know your lob better than ^
I do,' and from there on became. an -interested and evidently very -amused
spectator. .

11 — While the show's routine Was all set in advance, some extemporaneous .
bits -crept in. Martha Raye's razoo was one of them; another that clicked
was Ray Bolger's rhumba with Gertrude Niesen, an especially big hit for
the servicemen sitting ir. the sections behind the stage. Bolger was one
of the few on the bill who inade .a point of pl(.ylng'to the boys in uniform, -
rather than the paying patrons out front

12— The ' great organizing job by the showmen who handled ihe back- ' -
stage shenanigans— and the laugh when Harry Levine CP.aramount), who. .
was on the door, announced Constance Bennett as 'Miss Bennett and the
Five Crackerjacks.'

. 13 — ^The fortitude of Marvin Schenck, Metro's eastern talent head, who; •
had just left a sickbed, in -sticking it out to the very end as the show's
routiner -with his former Loew's booking office sideldck, Sid' Piermont.
Latter was crpuched on the steps leading up' the' stage, getting the talent .
on and off, and never once left .his post in the nearly six-hour running
time of the show.

14 — Dpn Albert mentally maestroed the pit banil for most of the show -
from a chair. He was so crippled by arthritis that he had to have -stand-
ins. One of 'em was Henry Frankel, of WHN, who pfficiated prpllfldally.

15 — Gertrude Niesen shewed her' spprtsmanshlp by helping a ypung
sailpr cpllect autographs from the. stars.

16— 'l^e Flag's Still There, Mr. Key,"- which George Jessel and Ben
Oakland composed (still unpublished), was debuted .at the Navy Relief
Show by Jessel. It' was the second world preem of a number, Kate Smith
dittplng with Irving Berlin's 'I Threw a Kiss in the Ocean.' '

17— OPrpgrams were distributed gratis, but enclosed-, envelopes welcomed
volunfary contribution;. The next day's mall was almost staggering.
One check was for $500; aiiother tor $60 in 'payment' for the free' souve-
nir prpgrams. — J .

packed the Garden felt nary a
stage-wait. Whole pit orchestras,
from the respective musicals in
town, shifted quickly and quietly
for their stars. Kostelanetz's large
symph was set up unobtrusively
onstage. Timing was excellent; no
hogging the limelight, and every-
thing held to a minimum. Crowd-
ing over SO acts intp five hours is
something of a world's record, com-
parable -with the new high gross-
mark set by this show.

But 'one of the smartest aspects
of showmanship w^ the importa-
tion of talented Hollywood names,
thus giving the show both 'glamour'
and, more impprtant, some 'new'
faces; for the Gotham gadabouters
have -had their generous "iill of -the
tireless, unselfish, . ev4r-giving tal-
ents such .as Cantor, Jessel, Law-
rence, Wynn, Kaye,' Joe Lewis,
et al.

MARRIAGES

Jeanne Blanche to Ray Tucd, in
Omaha, March 11. Bride is dancer;
he's with Jan Savitt band.

Marilyn Phillips to Marshall Grant,,
in Las Vegas, Nov., March 7. Groom
is a producer at UnlversaL

Lorraine Hayes to Morgan Hill, in
Las Vegas, Nev., .March 6. Both are
.screen players,

Kathryn Ryke to MUo Boulton,
March 8, at Elkton, Md. He's a
radio announcer.

Jcsephine Caldwell tp Jphn Har-
klns, in New Yprk, March 6. Bride
is a Ppwers model; he's assistant to
Mitchell Rawson, eastern publicity
manager for WB.

Betty Blopm to Nathan Barnett,
in Detroit, March 0. He operates the
Alden theatre, Detroit.

BIRTHS

Mr. and Ih^rs.. George Evans, con,
in Pittsburgh, March 4. Father is.
'WB soimd engineer.

Mr. and Mrs. Don Hugo, son, in '
Pittsburgh,- March 5. Father Is withl.
Al^Marsico orch.

Mr. and Mrs. Sid Carroll, son, in
Hollywood, March 10. Father is Hol-
lywpod correspondent for Esquire
Feattires;

Mr, and Mrs, Harry Spears, daugh-
ter, In Hollywood, March 8. Mother
Is Jean O'Neill, radio singer; father
is chief audio supervisor at KNX,
Hollywppd.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hyman,
daughter. In San Antpnlp, March 10.
•Fatnerrli chief ^nglBser of statlp.n
KABC, San -Antpnlp.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hpmer, spn,
March 12, in Milw aukee. Father is
annpuncer at 'WTMJ, Milwaukee.

Mr. and Mrs, Mprt LIchter, spn. In
Los Angeles, March 11. Father is
head pf Warners publicity mailing
staff.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles PPwers,
daughter, Feb. 22, in New Yprk.
Father . is assistant manager at
Ypimg & Rubicam; she's Edith
Wppd, radip actress.

Mr. and Mrs. Hartler Sater, son,
recently in Portland, Ore. Father is
announcer at station KGW-KEX,
Portland.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Colley,'son, in
Seattle, March 12. Father is an-
nouncer at KIRO, Seattle.

Ted Flo BIto's band will hit the
Interstate circuit, Texas, playing
April 3 at the Majestic, San Antonio;
April 10, Metropolitan, Houston, and
April 18, Majestic, Dallas. Fori
Worth and 'Austin may be added..

55

\m Next Week

. Jttnettoi (IJ) '
TloJa. KlalM Ora

TronettM
XaX« a gr»y«

Victoria Lane '
Jiiiu Camminn
aSry Patrick
udlaiUa Bli
y^ggky Soblutb
% FWPWa -
j^IUdelpUs Hotel
IlirclD Lloyd
porn & To»w
WMII* JohaaoD
. Wharton Ore

BIU Cnlton
aoi^aM Xanln Ora

Hante Orill*

• iJ' CaproB Oro
jfirrlD FuUov*

JUDlU

»«be LaTour
OlorJa Dalo .
B«ndezTODi
(Hotel Senator)
loteroatlonala (8)
Stale St Boys
' ' Bun'e Caf«

' joaa Manrey
'Pepper Garat
jIuJne York ■
Joe Jovlnelly
I fOoK'a Rhytbm
BUtoc Lake Ina
Col Geo Beed
Uorlta

Oharlea Margo
Alloa Lucey
Dadieaa & SeraaD
Frank Uoasel Ore
Stamp'*

Cbaos 1*0
Jtok spangler
Dolly - Baoul Oil '
lioDDle Vale
H«l<n Jerrlco
fiia Bay OaideM

Jo* Altce
Harry Cornish
Jtane & Anthony
Dawn Lovely
B«atrlce & Danny
AfDM WIUIs
Son Anton Oro
(Ml St. Bath Ik ell or
Hartll. & Banoua

vm AtUa«o>
JUmiaM

Clair Fhlllpla -
aiton Brown
Oene Carney.
Tony Bennett Or*

Swaa dob
VInoent Bluo Oro
Jaokle Lee
Kay HamUton .
Marty Bohn
Blstona
MfoNally Bl*
8 Key*

gotb Centary
8 Pepper*
Kenny Shaffer (8)
Sally Mar
Bob Bell
A Strohraan (8)

. Taalca GrUl
Nlok Varsllo Ore '
Dorothy Lull
Bddle Oalbreth
Zola Gray
Peggy Heavqns

Wanrfck Ilotel
Roy Morton Oro

ttaberr* Hat Braa

Jaok Vai*
Tni* * Tmdy
Tempi* City (4>
eegoTlaa .
Aooofidlgnalr**
Trial*

aold*n Pair
Day* Planoa
Pea BanaemiBii
Jul** rtseca'* Ore
Syd aoia*&

Ratlic'r Bldbradlant

Jo* Bonab
Art HatEnM.
Batty Baam - .
Oarard. Baam '
Carol Jfoyo#
Moma Xrteger
Catb*ite* Woltt 01*
a*o Baqilat Oro

Vacbt ClDb

Barry Holly
Jean Ware
Joan Coraz
Dlan* Collier
victor Nalaon Oro
Al Qold

lOSAH&EUSS

■ Band Boa
Pet*. Snyder
Bl^ 'Snyder
Fetfy Qoodwln
Otoige Tibbies Oro
AT Blong
' BlUy Lankln

. Bar et Hnile
Ann Trlola
Ftlla da Cola
Roger Roland
Ken Stovena
Dlok-'Wlnslow Ore
BOtnore Bowl
Donald Novie
Hurley & Radford
Lany Stewart
Petes & DeauTllle
Paul WlncheU
- Phil Harris Ore

' p*«a Uanana
Kitty Kallen
Cll|it Oarvln
Jimmy McPartland
Paul Collins
Jaik Teagarden Oro

Oaeoanat Orov*
SUonay Bnnia Oro
Cannene

Earl CarroU
The Debonair*
W Weat A McQInty
Dlok L, Dotty Remy
QaU Gall
WIUIj West. Jr
Alto Uorlaon
La Tonn Moyer
Rue Willie
Morlne Howell
Btrrl Wallace
»c CUIr ft Day
IfOTo Ballero
Bill Brady
lllchtl Ortiz Bd
Jiapny Strand Oro
nwentlne Oardea
N.T.O.

Prot Lambortle ^
Muriah SI* ^
Vera Sloana
r^td Scott
Kay Usylleld
Suitr Qelt*
^e Nelson Oro
— iJarlle-royTChilr
Charley Poy
Jolibny Howard
Let Wiley
Red Stanley Oro
Oie* Bay** Lodge
Geprg* Uoyd
Peter LlDd Hayes

Mary Hsaly

Jaok U^lon*

Ineoito '

Tex Jim Lewi*

Lone Star Cowboy*
Hollywood Tcoplos
Uarlqmta A Fancho

Maxlne Lewis

Paul Neighbors Ore

Dlok Thomas
HwB* or Mnphy

Bob Murphy

Martin^ Welssntr

Beth Reynolds

FrankI* Gallacltar
Little XCM

Dootsle WllUama

Lena Hon*

Nlok Drapar Oro
Uacaaib* Caf*

Phil Obman'a Or*

Claud* Tbomhlll Or

Henry Grant
Jack Gardner
Helen Golden
Mldc Coohran* Ore
s*T*a >*w ■

Benny Kaba
PuananI Ifatliaw*
Prlnc*** ' LOBDa
Chief BanUnl
Stanley Wheeler
Charlie Opens)
Gary Spear Oro
< Slapey Hail**
Allegra .
Ben Bin*
Johnny Morgan
Maxlne Mareball
Benny L«*sy
PattI Moor*
Sam Lewi*
Jerry Bergan
Joe Plumer Oro

Streets of Part*
Mead "Ltcc' Lewis
Bvelyn Myer*
WIngy Manon* Or*

Swaanee In*
Shelton Brooks, Jr
-Loumel- Momn-f —

Trianon
Bob Croaby Oro

TromO*
Miss MarrlB Mima
Jack na>lnn*B -
Dorothy Dandrldge
Art CnppaB Oro

iiaeborag*
Uaytiard Dean Oro

Poll Cavezzh Oro
Jnn* JBardnor
*raD Rago

.. ..Baloo.niiae*
B'abs JeKroy
A Frltsohe Oro
„ BUI Greaa'*
Herkl, Kay Ore
Urthia Daly
Ben Pumell
Amlt Laddell

Mm BIdga Inn
^0 Lucky Oro
geiiDy Austin
«rtT-Mannlng
£jn!«U Cooper
oylvU Starr

■«>««».WoogIe aob

Bndjy Blolna
_J Comorada
„ Ctab PetUa

plftrG."nV°"
gfttorans

sWp Nelson

"SsssCier*''

*'*»'*har Qto

pirrsBUBaH

"•"r CUrk Dtp .

Max Tanhl*
Pat lf*Canl*y -
_B*t*l Vert nit

K*a Bailer Ore
Jobnny UltobaU
Rfcny Walton-
Jasile wkaaUay
Uoi*l Henn
_ (HUtmt OrUl)
Dorothy Matth»w*
Ilaoorta

„ <pay tr*)
Boretby Nasbltt

Hotel nk Atmid*
Oar* OlSord
Switoglnv «trlng*
BeM HMMTeM
Joe Vera
Sam Barl
Joe PetTo**lU
John BoilgBldl

Hotel IBofaenley ^
Billy binds Oro
Joy Llod

Hotel Wm Pean
<01iatt«rbox)
Sammy Watklns Ore
Glenn Sterling

(CaBttBeatal Bar>
Frank Andrlnl 4
^ Merry "G a B a n d
Howdy Baum Orr

New HOkreat
Bddre WelU Ore
Gerry Rlohards
mxaa oafs
Al Matlsco Oro
Bob Carter
Kalgbt Bis
Kretlbw Dano

Oasia

CliarU* LaoB On-

FIB**

Don Rutter
BlU LeRoy Or*

'Bqobial Oaop
Tiny MlUer
Joey Beynolda
Dale Barkaaaa
BiMdy Walsh
Bddle Miller

TreloB >
Billy Tatee Ore
Caebt Ctab
H Middleman Or* .
Bobby PInkus
Ruth Foster
Sid Gold

Harriet Lab*-:>
Olngar Dnlow
Iblrley Beller
Bhy-Tae
Tommy Carlyn Oro
Bette Smiley

IlBlon Grin .
ggmmy Waltara
Frank -JKatala
Hlk* Bandiatu '
ymm HMiU
■t«i 'Covata Ore
Hark I«n*r
Mtobael Strang*
K*y Taylor
J*aB Franola
J*rry ar*y - -
N*tlia 0*Ctai

Bdsioi

(•)

, Beachcomber
Barry Morrltser Ore
Chlco SImone Or*
Del Ohrel
Joae & Mona
Bob Sherman
Louise Borday
Booch-channera
BUastnib'*
Petar Bodga Ore
Boyd Heathap
La*- JuTsUya .
Dlan* Westmor*
,CarI A Juanlta -

Clnk aiayCalr
Banny W**ka Oro
Hal Roberts Oro
Frances Faye
Bea Webber
Irl* Ison '
De Maranvlllee
Boot* MoRanna Bay
^h* Tantty lUr
Al Diokarman Oro
Uadere Harrington
StelU- Bay

Coaaa^Bt Grere
Mlck*y Atpart Or*
Don BIco Ore
Buater Kalm Bav
Billy Pnlne
Mhdalyn White

(Melody Loonge)
Gertrude Woodsum
Herb Lewis
Copley Plaaa
(Sheratoo Boea)
GrUt WllUams Ore
Walter King
Bob Kirk
Dorothy Lewis
Lucille LaMarr
(Merry-Oo-Bonnd)
Mark Gilbert 8
Copley Square Hotel
Al DeForrest
Arthur TCard

Crawford Hen**
Freddy RUbln'Ora
Crawtordattaa
Sally Keith
Vera Lament
York * Tracy '
Bobby Bernard
Marya Brean
(Bhnmba Casia*
Basm>
Tyonne Adair
Jota Mona
Barron Lynn Ola
Charles Walk Oro

HI.Hat
Peta Herman Ora
Frank - Patty
Ratal Bradferd
(CtrcB* Boaa) '
Jaok Dana
Liuolll*-* J lUloaey
Hotel Braaawleh
(IlenaaJa Tienaea)
John KlrbyOrc
ttatal a*MB
Ken Travera Ora
'Jaok. Manning Ore
Bllir Kelly
Ada Uarora
Bill Groin
VlD Daley
Jean HontI
Sally Harris

Sotal FeBsgato
. (Satin Baoa)
Anna There**- WhU*
LnollU A F Bobcrts
Walter Boar

Dotel Lenoa
Bob Hardy Oro
Kay Ivors

Hotel IBaerra
Bunny MoVey Oni
Barbara Douglas*.
Hotel BoBMnat

Adrlena*
BoUy BolU
Harty Marahard O
Hotel Statlar ^

(lame* B ea m )
Lalghtoh Noble On

' (Caf* Boan)
Oalvy .CavlcobTe Ore

Hetal VaadoBW
(jgfU » Onrn/Hm}
Oacar Blgart On
Jolane
Blla Wllaon
Alan Douglas*
Helen Bhepard
Kaa Olok
Farren Bros Or»
Russ Howard
Jerry & Lillian

Latin Qoarter
Anthony Bruno Oro
Rtuimbollera Oro
Beaulce Kay
Harold FrentlB*
Carman Samenlengo
Park A Clifford
Darrell MacArthurs
Ambassadorettos
G Bernard Dancers

(Lodnge Bar)
Hum & Btrum
Bscodero & La Plata

Bio Caalne
Gaorga Harris Oro
Harry da AagellaO
Helen Carrol
Lola Andrews Jessel
Ctaarldtaera
Bobby Johnson •
Buster Ksim Rev
-..(Oardaa Laaag*)
Hal A T DearboB
Baraa Sea* .
EstrelUta
LaRocba- A Balna
Bueoanaam
7 Seas Hawallaas O

tt«llMB'«'

- (TleBBB BaoB)^

L*w contad On "
Artlnl A Consuelo
Ada Gonsales Trio
Dorothy Deerlng
Doris Abbott
JlmmyMArr

.Iha Oar*
Don DlBona On
jAlik Fisher
Tamara Dorlvs
Blve* Cortes
Jimmy Marr
Artlnl A Consoato
Fir-*ttes (S)

Tlo-Toe
Lionet Hampton O
Joe'Nevll** On
Durante

Howard Fnller A BU

Tremoat Flam
Duka Lonnio Ora

nT.BVBTJiint

Alptaa yinaca
Del Kay

WIlUa Uattbia* On
Bob Copfer

BUwada ClBk
Jim MacKenzl* Oro

hoddta'a .Oafa
Lola A Andre
l4Urry Vincent
-Al-laekey-Oro —
Beth O'Malley
Roy Bodger

O uuiiae t Olak
Boyal Hawallana O
Jules A Webb

Hatal AII*rt*B
Henry Plldner Oro

Hatal Cutav
ThlztoD Spranger
Cbaria* Wick Ore
Barbara Parka .
- Hatal Clevalaad
Art Jamt Oro
Hotel Fenway BaU
Kenneth Raamossen
P(^»*D.S*rdii*r. ...
Coram

Hotel HoIIaBdaa
FaUr Hlgglns
Marianne
Vlcld Nevada
BlU UcCnne Ore
Hotel Statlar
Ollnt Nobla Oro

I* Cangs Clak
Freddie Carlona Ore
._Ml»4»ay'» •kf»ax .
Cs4a A Fiddle
Ray BayaOr
Sua Baaden
Hal aimpaon
Pearl d* Lueea

Maaaca'a Caf*
Blaine, Elaine Bond
Frane Reynolde
Manny Landers Ore

tUal Clab
Dooky MalTin Oro

S7M Olob
Joey Bishop
Boberta-
Evelyn Bcott
Bal Hall
EoUle LaVelle
'Son~ Walsh Oro

DETSOIT

Booh-CadlUao Hotel

(Book CaelBO)
Meta Btauder
Frank Gagen Ore
' (U*t*r Bar)
Piok Rook

Bowiery
Benny Bnbln
Tvetta Rugel
GulU Gulll
Burns A Nash
Don Arden Dane
Johnny King
Charlie Carlisle
Benny Resb Ore

Casanova
Jessica Garwood
Dolores LeMonte
Al A Jonn Allen '
Leo Gasca
Florenza
Wm Hewitt
Lee Walters Ore

Club Congo '
Calloway Club itrv
Larry Steel*
Margaret Watklns
Blllle Holiday
Bob Parrlsh
Congo Oro
Earl Dancer
'Afnlne to Aland
Paul. Slim »L rddle

Honl Coles
Calloway Dane (6)
Corktown Tavern
Dod Harris
Hart A Allison
Panchlta. Villa .
Fhll Sklllman Ore
Prontler BancU
Kelso & I^e
Ginger Blchmond
Hazel Kennedy
Maokle A Paul.
Raneberoa Ore
Irving Specter

Grand Terrace
Gloria Parker Ore
Barl Parchman •
Baymarket

June BIdrldge
Carlotta * Movers
Ginger Button
Maurice

Tom * Verne Cowan
Cbarmettes Oro

Hand'*
Sun Val Bennadtra
LoBdon Chop Hooae
Connie Barleau
Chat Everbart
Rabjr Oro . ^
eiob'Mayfatr
Harty Joyce

Canl Crane
Marvin Jensen

Dorothy Gerron
Phil Olaao Ora

Mkkey'a
Billy Meagher
Ghartaa * R Jenkins
La Temple •
Ray Vlneaot-
Delerea Lament
Mickeyettes
Joe Banket Oro '

Neblolo'*
Kay & Andre
Johnny Policy
Laakay Sis
Clem HawkloB
Leonard Seel Ora
■ - Ifertbwood Ina
Oal* Rb'odes
Th*r*aa Biidolph
Don Amato
Bay CarliB On'
. QUa Waya* Clak
Bafa*l d* Lao On
Jaok London

PBia Beack
Fat Patterson
Buloff, Morgan A L
Gardner Ola
Monnle Drake- .
Den Pablo On -..

Penobaeot Clafe
Patricia Willis
Diane Dale
Pamela Brltton
Guy Wolch Ore
Hack's Bedford Ina
Mao McGraw Ore .

Bbyal*
Tanner SI* -.
8 Gueaaea
Louise Glanb
Howard MlohoU
M JViber Ola
Aylene . Maaon
Skeeter Palmer Ore

Stotler Hotel
Faaobo Ore
Saka

Olga Anton
Ann Brewer
Taft>KretlDw 01s
Harv*y Stone
Jack CNell
r,eonard Beel On

Saa DIero
Gene Smerald
Glenn DnJe
The Bordene
Dotty Bloah
Ollff Arvln
Al Alexander On.

Btevadora '
Good & Goody
Great Selgfrald
Eddy Shepherd
Jaok .Tbpraaa Oro
Th* Tiroplcr
Marrltt Lamb On^

Carl Denny?*
Burgess & White
Blllia Dixon. '
Pee "Wee Vurray
:Ja«k Nelson On
WMtUer Hotel

(Gold Cob Uaomi
aennaa Flha

Wonder Bar
Madelon Baker
UaAuel Lopes- Oro
Sammy Dlbetl On

' MI"CMb
Dal* Bhodaa
SI Giovanni
Good * Goody
Dottia Ard
Jean Moore'
Joy A Juantta
Delia A D/igo-
Hoiaca Bonefc On

Benefit Racket

^SsCOBttnoed fron page l^ss
bers which to raising cain -to- bay
unUornu which It doesn't need any'
wSy.-. Wise to the lact that the Co>
ordlnatlng end Vlctoiy outfits haVe
been ' nlxine these ' .shows, unless
there's a very good reason for do-
ing otherwise, promoters are clrcuin-
venting -the committees.

Patriotic Promoters
Most pi these promoters — many of
them -agents — are motivated not by
any patriotism, but strictly to mak^'
big-shots of themselves and get pub-
licity, Mrs., Blanche Witherspoon,
exec secretary of the Coordinating
Committee, charged Monday (16).
Most of them are staging shows en-
tirely too often for the same £roup
or -for groups that are much too
small, she declared.

What the two committees are des-
perately, trying to avoid is sending
$3,000 worth of talent to a benefit
that will net $300. As Eddie Can-
tor pointed out in an Interview in
'Varied two weeks ago, many per-
formers would much prefer to do*
Date the money than to go to these
minor shindigs.

Definitely turned down by the
Four A's bodies are benefits or rallies
where other Items, aside from talent
are being paid for. Niyed this week,
for instance, was a request for en-
tertainment by the American Wom-
n's Voluntary Services of Brook-
lyn when It was discovered it 'was
paying $600 for rent of the Hotel St
Cieorge ballroom and full scale for
Vlncoit'Lopez'g band.

VttB, Witherspoon, after flnding-
heisdf almost, knocked out in trying
to weigh all the requests for talent
during the first three weeks her
committee was established, has set
up a icreening-Out process now. For
instance, any organization which
wants to hold a rally to sell defense
bonds— thafs currently the biggest
gtn^e use of talent — must first get
an okay <rom'the Treasury Depart-
ment's local office and then frOm
'Washington. Mrs. Witherspoon only
'considers reqiiests that the Treasury
Department thinks will draw enough
people to mean something. Same
system now applies to the Red
Cross and other such groups.

USO-<^amp Shows, -Inc., acts as the
screening agency for all entertain-
ment at Army camps or Na'vy bases,
although numerous shows are be-
ing, given in these spots without
knowledge or approval of CSl, much
'to its chagrin. "These are put on by
morale officers or guys seeking per-
sonal prestige .^who know they
couldn't get a CSI okay because the
grout's are too small or the shows
are too frequent.

While the number of benefits con-
nected with thie war has naturally
spurted since Dec. 8, other types of
cuffo-talent shows have greatly
fallen oS-. Whereas Theatre Author-
ity—which still must approve non-
war benefits— a year ago this time
used to oluy as inaoy as a half-
dozen shows on a Saturday night
alone, it now has only about two a
week.

Suggestion has been made that
even for the war benefits TA take
19% of the gross, as it does for fund-
raising events for hospitals, orphan-
ages, etc This would be used for
actors' own war charities, such as
the Ame^can Theatre Wing Can-
teen in New York.

Detroit AG'VA Cracks Down

Detroit, March 17. .

Cracking down on the abuses' in'

Bands at tHi' Box Office

sGoatlnned from pace tt;

Wednesday to Saturday (rooih is closed on Sunday). Heniy King woimd-'
up successful seven-'weelE_stay at the spot last Tues. (10).

Minneapolis

Hel Marvla (Minnesota 'ferrace, Hotel NicoUet; 900; $l-$lj50 nilaX
Still feeling effect*' of Lent- and other local factors and trade down to
approximately .400 nightly. Paul Rosini,: ihagiclan, replacing .Cteleman '
Clark, table tennis star, in floor show which also hicludes Lathrop and'Iiee.

San Francisco

Sma Baron (Rose Boom, Palace Hotel, 500; 50c-$1.26). Arrival of Paul
Sablon for two-week; piteh proving a tetriflc lift for a week of 1,950 covers.
Hollywood mbb was in attendance for 'Sablon's' debut.

LOCATION JOBS^ NOT IN HOTELS

, • . (Los AngeleB'>

Clande ThomhlU (Palladium B, Hollywood, third week). It's a' long )iaul
on rubber to here and' efTects. beginning to be felt Bettered O.fHM) wkidi'
Is off normal biz.

Bob Crosby (Trianon N, South Gate, Cal,. first week). Called back for
'another three wedu after a recent 16-week stand. . (Opened Thursday (12)
and geared lor 3,000 count -

Jsek TescsrdeB (Casa .Manana B, Culver City,: CaL). Not favored by
elements, weather, location or conditions and struggled to tab a. meager
2,300.

Onie' Nelien (Florentine Gardens N, Hollywood). On the downbeat
with ttie' others and notched around -4,000 customers.

. (Chleoffo) J

Orrin Toeker (Blackhawk;i 400; $129 mln.). Tiicker band ' doing' great '

}ob in this downtown spot anf held room to fine 3,100 visitors.
Boyd Baebam (Chez Paree; SOO; $3-^JS0 mln.). Willie Shore headlia«

Ing on ttie floor show. Business holding nicely at 2;000 tabs. -

(Baltimore)

.Bel Casino (Cbantldeer; 400; $l-$lJH)-^.inIn.). Opened very strong last -
Wed." (11) drawing patronage built during -Florida , stay. For dlnner. and'
nocturnal activity played to ^,300 covers in seven-day week.

the use of free .entertainment the
Detroit local of AGVA has been
placed under a strict ban to. appear
only- on. programs officially von-
sored by the USQ.^

Charging a lack of centralization
in the efforts. to entertain the men In
service a^d.wltb "no less than 15 out-
fits trying to nm things,' Lcs Ciolden,
executive secretary of the local, . i^ld
that the entertainers In this area
were beefing because they were be-
ing exploited by niteries and organi-
zations cashing in on them 'for free'
and then taking all the bows.

There is nothing unpatriotic in the'
complaints of our members," Ciolden
said. They are only too' willing tb
do what thSy can to help in the war
effort but they have been run ragged
and we've got to place this kind of •
ban on - their exploitation under pa-
triotic pretexts.''

He 'Cited the Instanceof perform-
ers being rounded up to entertain
the soldiers and sailors and' on their
appearance discovering that there
were only seven members of the mil-
itary presents-all of whom had paid
admissions— and that the . sponsoring
organizatlpn then went out and took
all the credit without mentioning the
performers, for the 'benefit'

Golden also charged that the Mich-
igan area, 'with 10 military esteUlsh-
ments in a close district, "was being
treated like a hick' to'wn, although
the USO here has $90,000 to spend.'
He cited another instance in which 'A
large - group of entertainers were
rounded up and made a trip to Camp
Custer, jit Battle C^eek, Mich.— to
discover that the day before they
arrived the. outfits bsd been moved
away on maneuvers.

'Acfo'ts liave' little time to them-'
selves in their brief careers and they
are wilting to do their part within
reason,' Ghilden declared. 'If a de-
fense worker is employed longer
tiian'tbe stated union 'hours, lie gets
overtime pay. . Yet no oQe calls him
unpatriotic for this. - Why should
actors and actresses be imposed upon
under the guise of patriotic enter-
tebiment?'

The 'ban is purely a local affair.
The national organization has made
no ruling on It The Detroit AG'VA
has offered to form its own compa-
nies for tours of the nearby camps.

'We're as anxious as anyone to
keep the soldiers and sailors en-
tertained.' (Golden added, %ut this
city and state is being treated as if
we still were going to church with
guns on our shoulders to fight In-
dians. Other cities, leas Important
than Detroit have had this matter
settled long ago.^ Here, however,
entertainers are- being exploited.
■What, we want to do is give enter-
tainment not publicity to Individuals
and groups who solicit the enter-
tainers.' .

In the future all Detroit enter-
tainment for the armed forces will
have to be cleared through USO of-
fices In Chicago.

4 ^^^^^

PklUy Orlpe

Philadelphia, March 17.
The first unit of actors, under the
supervision ^ the Philadelphia Of-
fice of Civilian befense council's en-

terteinment division, staged its ln>
Hlal show tor sefvlce men last' week.
The unit 'consisting of eight - acts
:and a baud, performed at Theatre
No. '5, Ciamp Vix', N. J:, and plans
are being made for -similar troupes
to play armories, cahtonments -and
military .'and Naval , hospitals Jn. tibls
area.

'The Initial troupe -.performed
gratis, even paid their own iffixtS'-
portation and had the blessing of.
the American Guild of 'Varied Art-
Ists and the Musicians Union.. 3Ut
privately, unipoi officials' and fUeih- .
hers are burning at the tact that
they , are being Ibrced to v/6A. -on ,
the cuff, eveh spradljfg their own'-
money , for mosportetion, whUe
others are cashing in on the 'W6r
effort

Charles BorrelU,-' chairman of. the''
OCD's entertainment committee, has
submitted a plan — worked out "by
AGVA and AFM Officials— under. ',
which a nominal' Imilitary fee' would
be paid actors and musicians,- as
well on transportation expenses. The
plan will be discussed by the OCD's
executive board tomorrow (Wednes-
day). - " .

Under thlsproposal, Sunday .vaude>
viUe shawft will be held in a Philly
theatre, 'with the Sanetlpn of defense
and city officials.' All profits ac<
crued from these Shows would go
toward defraying ^expenses for'sery-
ice men's entertsiinnient

lifiiwULkee,' March 17.

Theatre benefits were styled ■
racket in arguments preceding the
granting Of an injunction . by CiS'
cult Judge ^WiniaR). F. Shau^iii^.(^.
against Charles H. - Anderson, ^ilei'
promoter, whom file Wl^onsin Tele*
phone Co. chsiiMted with conspiracy
to defraud by misuse of Its cervices.
Order also was directed against jfive
phone subscribers who'sold theatre,
ticket* by phone for Anderson, , re-"
celving 7c. for each ticket sold.

Many theatres here have profited
by the ticket sales campaigns con-
ducted via telephone, and In Issuing
the injunction. Judge Shaughnes^
commented that, while the 'ogtensl*
ble purposes' of the solicitation was
to raise iponey for charitable or so-
cial organizations, those agencies
actually received only a "very Insig-
nificant amount o| the money'.

Testimony was given that the
'charity* received 10% of the price
of tickets, Anderson got 25% and the-
theatre coUected 65%, If 'tickets aold
were not used, Anderson retained all
of the money.

BBC's Town HaU' Set
For Vaude by Hylton

London, Feb. 20.
Jack Hylton has bought the radio
feature, 'Old Town Hall,' from the
British BroSdcastIng C^rp., which he
starts touring the halls in ««rlr
April,

Heading cast Is Clay Keyes, who
created idea on the air. Letter's sal-
ary is $400 per, with one-tUrd of
pnMIts. .Keyes ^Maa-liurmerly • Jug*.
Rler in vaudeville.

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frohibitioiis Return Ifeld Po&nble,
Mkl^san N^t Qub Men Warned

Detroit, March 24.
' If drinking la shown to Interfere
with war production, Prohibition
'.will' return to America,' James C
„j)ot9ch, member of the Michigan
^quor Control Commission, warned
300 night club and tavern keepers
at a mass meeting here. The Cdm->
mission has been particularly active
throughout the state, with its major
armament program, In cleaning up
floor shows and laying down sharp
xestrlctions where war workers are
coucerned.

. Dotsch pointed out - that recent
national poUs of public opinion had
shown an alarming Increase In dry
sentiment throughout ' tlie country,
with a major poll showing that 36%
of the people now favored Prohibi-
tion, adding 'that nobody thought It
would happen during the last war,
but It did.'.

In warning the clubs and taverns
to keep their noses clean, Dotsch
Baid, "We are at war and the Amerl-
(Continued on page 23) '

Hotel Roofs Uriicertam
! On Operations Under
Air Raid Conditions

Hotel roof nlteries, which start
looldng ahead around this time, are a
bit uncertain about things, what with
possible aW-raids, Some are totally
^different, such as the Rainbow
Room, in the heart of Radio Cit^
•nd a natural target for the air. That
goes also for the Hotel Astor, In the
heart of Times Sq., which Is already
publicizing the return of Tommy
l>ot»ey.

_But other hostelrjies are.imcertain.

^ ''Ot sure whether
Its Viennese Roof will reopen, aijd
ij even thlnUng of contlnuhig Its
iridium Room all summer, plus pos-
r~^,J'^'"« basement Maisonette
- mitv-^^ *° 'air -raid- sheltered

.,'5***'.?.^^ nothing ofliclal from the
authorities about summertime roof
4hp?'^'"/°*! gripevine Is

Ih.™ *"?'*„^^'*° aerlalattack Is
J«^^P^f " W"*"'"* be wise not to
congregate people in roof restau-

<!IIITRY PRODUQNG
M ON^NAPOLEON

Vichy, March 24.

Cl^l- 1^^^ C^ire
the Sf- ^ ''a^ed on

ca^e«. Napoleon, is before the
• !Sf ^ ^ « ^^Is studio. The facts

tlMs Napoleonesque ambi-'

Mortay shares stellar billing
w«h Gultry.

. Glaif Like Mad

There's nothing the matter
with New York nitery business
that a little favorable war news
couldn't cure. But so far it's
blah, the Income jtaxitis reflex
being one factor, and a general
yen to stay home these days.

'But let MiacArthur tiurn %
neat trick or two, a:id boy, will
they start being g'-ad like mad,'
to quote one bonlface.

No Pulitzer Prize
For Drama Seen
Possible TliisYr.

With the deadline this season for
the Pulitzer Prize, ti'waKds having
been passed, Broadway Is wonder-
ing whether the comiiuttee Will pass
up makln'g a drama .citation for 1941-
42.- Idea that the' committee may
rate it a passed season is based oh
the theory ttat few "plays of dra-
matic substance have' been pre-
sented. Pulitzer .committee, how-
ever. In the past has plucked some
obscurities for the honolr.

Straight-play standouts so far this
season are 'Junior Miss' and 'Blithe
Spirit,' with the latUr'not eligible
because of foreign authorship (Noel
Coward). Both are comedies but
the award went to at least one. play
(Continued on page 52)

$112,420 CRAWFORD
CHECK FOR RED CROSS

Hollywood, March 24.

Hollywood raised $526,768 for the
Red Cross drive, which topped any
previous collection by 'the Industry
for any charity. Despite the new
high mark, Los Angeles was the only
big city to fall short of Its quota.

Largest donation was from Joan
Crawford, who turned over her $112,-
420 check, received front Coliunbia
Pictures for her work in "He Kissed
the firlde.' Cary Grant's $25,000 Was
second hlgh^t.

LYE'S TBAII£B

Danny Kaye, selling defense
stamps In a booth at Macy's, N. Y..
last week, felt that business was not
all it should be. Whereupon he let
out at the top of his lungs wltii:
'Stop that thief.'

'Stop that thief— Hitler, Buy de-
fense stamps,' Kaye continued as the
mob gathered 'round. Biz shot right
up.

L IIF
THE FIITEST

Recording* Mean ETerjrthlng
Today, but Shellac and
Other Stocks Are Forcing
Arbitrary Selection of
Who May Cut Flatten —
Draft Putt Fremium on
Remaining Musician* .

NEW BANDS' FUTURE?

There probably will be few new'
dance orchestras developed of im-
portance for the duration. It now
appears that the present top bands
and the group just below that cate-
gory will be frozen until the halt of
hostiUtles. The 30 to 40 in that
group,, and the comparatively few
n^w outflts that have already ofe-
atid a' demand for their work, wUl
sop up the gravy of a quickening en-
. (Continued on page 2Z)

M'ARTHDR UPS
MELBOURNE
THEATRES

Melbourne, March 24.

Ovation given Gen. Douglas Mao-
Arthur when he. arrived here last
week from Adelaide was refleited In
an upswing In show business, with
downtown sections packed.

Local cinemas, as' well as those In
Sydney and other key cities, have
been using all available newsreels
and other film material on Mac-
Arthur with terrific audience reac-
tion being a big factor in the box-
office draw. Many Aussie newsreel
imits put out special Issues on the
MacArtbur appointment to com-
mand United Nations forces in the
(Continued on page 52)

MENTION TOM CONNORS
TO SUCCEED SO) KENT

Election of a president of 20th Cen-
tury-Fox to succeed the late Sidney
R Kent is held likely within the
next few weeks, since his death va-
cates the second top executive post
in the corporation. Chairmanship
of the board of directors has been
unillled since Joseph M Schenck
resigned the position a year ago.

Control of the board is balanced
between the heavy stock ownership
(Continued on page 53)

Bdin's

Aims for $250,000 for Army Relief

Too CIqm

Llma^ O., March 84.

Proprietors of cstabllifaments
having juke boxes who. were re-
cently tailced by City douncll 116
a year oh each lUBchlne and an
.addittonki $1 on eaeh t«bl*-sia«
coin box Have d<iveloi>ed a dis-
Uke for a certain tune.

To them it soiulds like Uetp
in the Heart of TAXES.'

B'way Theatres
All Set in Case
Of a Blackout

Wltii a blackout Imminent In New
York City, the Time* Square de luxe
theatres have quickly 'prepared them-
selves for tUch an eventuality, while
meantime consideration U being
given to chandellen -Chat oould be
highly dangerous In case of a bomb-
ing.

Virtually all downtown picture
houses hava be«n:.equ|ppad ''wlth
blackout curtains, jnoft of them dur-
ing the past week, but In the neigh-
borhoods or In outlying' to'wns^ man-
agers have done little, which' gives
(Conthtued on page'03> -

FLOCK OF lOtfGHER'
WARPDlOlifHIWAY

The film Indus^ U watching
closely for:the bojcbflld* reaction to
a string, of so-called ^bitter- waf films'
shortly' to hit the .theatric. These
feature*, which are tepiited to pic-
ture the Japs and Nazis as reported
from actual zone of operations, are
packed with the facts, of life. There
are hints in the easi that several
likely will contain more s.a. angles
than ordinarily permitted under the
Haysian code, being linked up with
recent atrocity stories coming in
from Poland, Russia and the Far
East

Group of films which are said not
to pull any punches include -'Re-
member Pearl Harbor,' 'Flying
Tigers' and several stressing the
exploits of the British Comm^dos.

EBEEDLET, WB FBOOUCEE
Hollywood, Maroh 2f.

'Vhiton Freedley, the Broadway
muslcomedy Impresario, has been
signed by 'Warners and Is due in two
weeks to start production of a mu-
sical.

In the cast wlU be Ann Sheridan,
Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan and
Irene Morgan,

Washington, March H
Revival of the World War I aU-
soldler musical ebmedy, 'Yip, ^ Yip,
Yaphank,r ' will be undertaken by
Irvhig Berlin, th'* War ,D<9artment.
announced todajr (34>.'~ ■ . . -.
' Openlog.on Broadway In May, with
receipts' going to the Amur Relief, a
quasl-o^lclal. agency caring for
Midlers and theU dependeqitsj tiew '
versioh of 'Ylpj Yip^ YaphanV yriU
be ohristened 'This Ir the . Army.'
Berlin will be the only mpmlM|r''-«t
the cast who, will not be a dcmAbfj,
but he'll wear his stfgeaittai'.Mitonn
and sing his 1918 hit 'O^^iir I.
Hate to Get UiTtn the U^aalfit* Sa
the show.

Author of 'God Bless Anierlcii'-
wrote and produced the orlgisial
show in 1018 while a Mrg^t at
Camp Upton, L, L

'When the new show completes its
run it will be fllm«d, the War De-
partment has stated. ,

Berlin's Bew to War Deyt

Berlin's intimates have khown ot
(Continued on pag» 63)

Benny CokUes It's
Too Tboghio Broadcast
To Soldiers— and jfones

Hollywood, March 24.
J^ck Benny will continue to d»'
camp shows, but no mora Smiff
broadcasts from^ cantonments, or
bases, .He believes It itikt* hlffl and
his \vrlters 'out of ttia gtiffrrt' and
makes It difficult to get back again, i
. Benny finds It difficult tacntertala
soldiers and home folks ttom tfaa
same script. As an alternative h*
'Will make aS many camp.tftows as
possible between picture commit'
ments and broadcasts.

BEHER BREAKS FOR
NEGROES IN H'WOOD

Milwaukee, March 24.

Negroes are 'to be given" an In-
creasingly prominent part in pic-
tures, it was revealed here by Wal-
ter White,. -jxecutlve secretary of tha
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, whose
recent transcontinental trip with
Wendell Willkle laduded the Mo-
tion Picture Academy Award dinner
In Hollywood.^

He asserted that Darryl Zanuck
and other production <^lefs had
promised a mor^ honest portrayal ot '
the Negro henceforth, using them
not only as red-caps, porters end in
other menial roles, but In all tha
parts they play In the nation's every-
day life.

One Instance of the Valr play* at-
titude is the report that th« U^e of
Paul Robeson, the Nelpro baritone. Is
being considered for fllminit by two
Hollywood companies.

MISCELLANY

HfvAuiuiaj, Kwreh 1942

Eddie Cantor Marks 25th Year in
Musical Comedy with Reminiscences

By ABEL GREEN

Yesterday (Tuesday) midday on
the stage of the Hol^wood theatre,
on Broadway and 5ist street, Eddie
Cantor celebrated his 2501 anniver-
eaiy as a muslcomedy star ('Banjo
Eyes') in the company of yesteryear
Ziegfeld cronies— jsongsmiths, show-
gii-Ls,' et al.— and concluded that his
Broadway orbit hadn't just been lim-
ited to moving from Broadway and
42d street (New Amsterdam, where
he started for Ziegfeld In the 1917
Tollies') to 51st street Oh no. Much
more has transpired In those 25 years.

Cantor has plenty to say- about the
transition of American comedy,
Broadway stage comedians, general
show trends, the national morale, etc.
For one thing, he chided American
ctage producers for^ being behind
times EG lar AS the talen they 'pre-
Eent' Is concerned; and also . the
American public which supports
both.

Much has happened In a quarter-
cf-a-century. American i^udiences
are more liberal in their acceptances;
more intelligent in their standards.
Whether two wars, or radio, or more
((Continued on page S5)

Fischer s Vaude
Revival Hitting
2d Week

Cllftord C. Fischer*! TriorlUes of
1942' definitely entered hit classlfl-
^atlon last week, tha xecond ifor the
vaudeville revival at the 4eth Street
theatre, N. Y., with grasses up $3,000
from the initial stanza. B.o. jiuriped
trora $22,000 the first week to a likely
$25,000 thl5 week.

Kemaining the major problem are
the daily matinees. They're running
only SO-75% of capacity during thtf
-week, although selling out weekends.
Current grosses are giving the trio
of comedy stars, WUIie Howard, Phil
Baker and Lou Holtz, around $2,000
a week each, as they are In on a per-
centage.

CHAPLIN'S $44^32
U.S. TAX DEFICIENCY

A deficiency In the income tax «f
Charles Chaplin or $44,532, repre-
senting dividends on 334 shares 'of
stock of United Artists, must be re-
computed in accordance with a deci-
sion of the U. S. Board of Tax Ap-
peals. Opinion grows o'it of i deter-
mination by the Commissioner of In-
ternal Revenue that there was a
deficiency in Chaplin's Income tax
for 1935 In the amount of $65,208,
vhereas Chaplin claims an overpay-
ment of $24,938.

The $44,532 represent: accumu-
lated dividends of UA released Iroin
escrow and paid over to petitioner
In 1935. Chaplin claimed that the
amounts set aside in each year were
not true dividends, whereas In the
majority opinion of the U. S. Board
of Tax Appeals it is declarei that
if this were true *then It would seem
that the action of the corporation in
the taxable year, making them im-
conditlonall" available to petitioner
(Chaplin), was tantamount to the
declaration and payment by the cor-
poration of a dividend in the aggre-
gate amount of $44,532 upon ihe 334
chares which petitioner had re-
ceived.'

In either event', the opinion
reads, 'we are of the opinion that
the amoxmt was received as divl-.
denda from a domestic corporation
which is subject to taxation.'

Chaplin paid a tax for 1935 of
$224,135.

Colorfnl Pr«-Prolubition
Era Recalled by Death
Of Jacques Bustanoby

Death of Jacques Bustanoby at 62
on Monday (23X in New Yorls, fol-
lowing on the heels ■ of Joe PanTs
demise within tluree weeks, removes
almost the last of the great pre-
Prohibition bonifaces. George Rec-
tor, now an epicurean expert food
and wine taster and writer on gas-
tronomic subjects, alone is left of
the famed Rector's, Churchills,
Healy's,' Retsenwebei's, Shanley's
and Bustanoby's tradition.

Like Panl, who buUt Castles-by-
the-Sea for Vetnon.and Irene (Castle
at Long Beach, x^ong Island, and who
later re-employed Rudolph Valen-
tino at $1,500 a week after having
him around his joints as a gigolo (as
dancing partners were then called),
Bustanoby pioneered what today
are accepted cafe standards.

When Bustanqby ran Soiree Ar-
tistiques on Friday nights at his
Beaux Arts room on West 40th
street, N. Y., that was the forerunner
of today's guest-nights and now con-
sidered more or less of a trade evU.
Then Bustanoby got the cream of
talent such as .Anna Held, Blanche
Ring, Lillian Russell, Bob Fitzslln-
mons (who demonstrated his punch-
(Continued on page 16)

Red Skdton Renewed

Chicago, March 24.

Red Skelton wUl go along for an-
other year on 119 NBC stations for
the Brown & Williamson tobacco
firm. Through the Russel Seeds
agency, the program and period has
been renewed effective April 28. This
is for Raleigh cigarettes and tobacco.

'Plantation Party,' for B. & W.
Bugler tobacco, was also okayed for
another year on NBC as of May 1.
Also through the Seeds agency, this
nroeram is on 65 stations.

Gene Autry Heading
East With His Rodeo

Cleveland, March 24.
Six arena dates are signatured and
set for Gene Autry's new stream-
lined rodeo, 'Flying Ranch A Stam-
pede," which starts its eastern safari
April 9-15 at XHeveland's Arena
operated by Al Sutphin.' American
Legion sponsoring its local Six-day
visit following break-in in Houston,
Tex.

From Cleveland the film cowboy
star and his rodeo are galloping to
Pittsburgh, Gardens, April 16-22;
Philadelphia, Altena, April 24-30;
Washington, D. C, Uline Arena, May
2-10; New Haven, Arena, May 12-18;
Providence, Rhoda Island ' Audi-
torium, May 20-28.

Troupe probably will play several
other stands on its way back to
headquarters In town of Oene Au-
try, Okla,

Bonds cost as little as $18.75,
stamps come as low at 10
cents. Defense bonds and
stamps can be bought at all
banks and postofflces, and
stamps can also be purchased
at retail stores.

H wood Notables
Sl^ Into N. Y. for
S. R. Kent Funeral

By GEORGE FROST

Airline travel took another up-
swing this week at New York's la-
Guardia Field.

The west to east travel lines toted
a goodly handful of film execs, most
of whom came in for just a few days
to pay their last respects to Sidney
R. Kent. In the latter group were
Tyrone Power, who Amerlcan-Alr-
lined in from Chicago to act as a
pall-bearer and was on his way back
to the Windy City Monday (23) night;
and Joe and Nick Schenck, George
Schaefer, Lieut.-Col. Darryl Zanuck
and Charles Skouras, all of whom
(Continued on page 55)

CAROL BRUCE'S TILT

Songstress Climbs from $150 to $1,690
a Week In Cafes

Two seasons ago, in' her last New
York nitery. engagement, Fefe Ferry
was paying Carol Bruce $150 a week
at the Cafe Pierre, N^ Y., and she
was getting .the same in 'Louisiana
Purchase,' from whence she doubled.
She returns to N. Y. niterles April
5 at $1,000 "for Monte Proser at the
Copacabana, ciurenUy getting $1,250
at the Chez Paree, Chicago.

Incidentally, producer B. G. De-
Sylva of the stage musical was then
doing a bumup at her cafe doubling,
but it was this spotlighting which
got her a Universal contract, since
abrogated. .

IVoj^tic Indeed

Qaorgc J. AtwcU, the Rockefeller Center builder, has prepared cards,
rttprlnting: "Aia Inscription Is from tfa« tombstone of St Francis of
Paula, 1416-19M, in Klrby Cemetery in £ss«^ England:

Wh*n pictures look alive with movements free;

When ships, like fishes, swim beneath the sea;

Whan men outstripping birds shall scan the sky —

Then half the world, deep-drenched in blood, shapil diet, .
Think of someon*, 400 years ngo, predicting wbkt wom4 happei at
ibis data; but all those things are here, as X take' it . .'. movies, l&b-
marines and airplanes^

George J.^AtySel\.

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ABBOTT and COSTELLO

"Lik» all Abbott and Costello pictures to date, on their home
Utiiv«r««l lot and on borrowed tima (this one for Metro), th» stars
carry It to big bpxofflce results. And, like all A. A C. entries, without
them It would be so muoh celluloid." — Abel in 'Variety,' Mar. 18.
Raviaw on 'Rto.Rif>' '

Review on 'Rio- Rita

Soon on National Release

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Under Personal Management' of : EDV?4Rn «>;! ERMAN' '

Universal Pictures

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Hollywood, March 24.

Went to a dude ranch for a holiday and had a million laughs-^so did
the horses when they spotted my outfit.

Tried doggin' steer. I leaped on his- back, bore him to the ground by
bis horns, and as I lay panting on the ground, he whispered: 'You're a
mad. Impetuous boy!'

Entered the lasso contest and did terrific for an amateur — I only roped
■myself three times.

Walked over to a fellpw who took care of the horses and said, 'Where
do I room, groom?' And he was so polite, he' said. In a bunk, punk.'

Walked over to a steer and started petting him. He turned to me and
said, 'Oil, no you don't, youll get yoi^r steaks somewhere else.'

HoUywsodlana

Billy Curtis, the midget, has the Showboat fever In his veins so he's
planning to get a troupe together and play all the swimming pools in
Hollywood In a canoe. •

The rubber shortage is miirder for Hollywood writers. When they
write a bad scene and can't 4iuy an eraser to rub out the wordage, they
leave it as is ancT it emerges as a "B" picture. .

Joan Davis saysjhat summer Is officially here in Hollywood. All the
panhandlers liave ^vitched to grey flannels and berets.

Nowadays, before a bandleader can ;go out with Lana Turner, he has
to give her a musical audition and be a member in good standing at his
local.

Laird Cregar knows an actor who has such a bad case of insomnia he
keeps his sleeping taUets awake.

Joe Frisco had a horrible d);eam the other night He dreamt a horse
he'd bet on won.

Mnslo Department

Mack Gordon knows a composer of cowboy tunes who rides aroimd on
a horse and when he gets an idea for a song, taps it out 'on a portable
piano built into the saddle.

Have you heard what one of Bing Crosby's horses said to his sweet-
heart during a race: 'I Don't Want to Walk Without You Baby.'

Badia Department

There's a certain radio comedian, who has a surefire way of testing eggs.
He puts each gag in an incubator and if an egg hatches, discards it im-
mediately.

There's No Tmth to the Bumor:

That the Mikado will make a good-will tour of the United States....
That Tommy Manville is forming a woman's ambulance corps comprised

of his former wives Tliat Steve Hannagan hired a press a£e$t to exploit

him' That Guy'.Kibbee collects hair tirusbes f or sentimental reasons....

That Carmen Miranda was ever seen in. a pair of 'low-heeled shoes.
Hangnail Descriptions
Eccentric Mystic: Queer-Seer . . . Minej^s Outfit; Soot-suit ... In-
expensive Horror Actor: Cbeap-creep . Jap Navy: A Beat-Fleet.

Observation

With gas rationing going into effect soon, a fellow will be telling his
£al the truth when his car happens to run out of fuel on a dark road.

Read where they iiave frozen women's styles for the duration.
you imagine going to a refrigerator every time you want a new. style
and thawing one out.

They've had so many fights at the ice hockey games between the play-
ers, the management presented each player a hockey stick with built-in
boxing gloves.

Eavesdropped at Plaza hotel: 'HimI All his life he's been living on
borrowed ad-libs.'

Eavesdropped at Knickerbocker hotel: 'He's a great success. He was

bom in the gutter — now he sweeps ii.'
Eavesdropped at Beverly HillThOtel: 'She sings like a bird — a bird-doj|.*
My brother (the one with the dreamy teeth) has turned Inventor again.

He's invented rubber yam so that when you drop a stitch it hounces

right back.

Whatever Became of 7

4 American Aces ReiUy ti Comfort

£tta Shirley & Co. Bragdon tt Mnrrissey

Margaret Young • Julian Hall's Entertainers

Afterpiece

Dig in, America, from Mother to Gramps. Buy, buy Defense Stamps.

Forrester and Dietrich
Settle $98,450 Film Suit

Suit of Forrester-Parant Produc-
tions, Inc., against Marlene Dietrich,
for $98,450, was settled and discon-
tinued out of the N. Y. Federal coiurt
Friday (20). Action sought damages
for alleged breach of contract In
1938 whereby the actress agreed to
make a film in France for the plain-
tiff, a French producing company,
and then backed out due to the out-
break of the war.

Attorney for plaintiff refused to
disclose terms of the settlement out-
side of stating a 'substantial sum'
had been paid by the actress.

Jack Forrester, repatriated Amer-
ican producer, la now in Holly-
wood.

Mary Healy's U Topper

Hollywood, March 24.
Last-minute shift in the cast of
'Strictly in the (Sroove' at Uruversal
placed Mary Healy in the top femme
spot originally slated for Jane
Frazee.

Picture is the first director chore
for "Vem.- Keays; recently, upped
'Zrojn assistant. '".'.'i'^I n. .••■"}■

NAZIS GIVE RECEPTION
FOR DARRIEUX, OTHERS

Berne, March 24.

Several French screen stars, in-
vited by the Grennan C^ema Cham-
ber to attend* a reception in their
honor, arrived in Berlin last week
and were m4t by representatives- of
the German cinema industry, ac-
cording to a Berlin radio announce-
ment. Among those in the party
were Daniiile Darrieux, 'Vivlane Ro-
mance and Albert Prejean.

Josef Goebbels has received the
French players during their stay,
which is to Include a visit to 'Vienna
and other German film centers.

Hitting the Line for Col

Hollywood, March 24.

Minnesota contributes its first All-
American football player to the. films
in Bruce Smith, halfback last au-
tumn and now signed by Columbia
to star in 'Gophers of Minnesota.'

Athlete signed a contract to play
ir. a Jack Fier production, and went
back to Minneapolis to graduate l>e-
fore '■ he starts his picture career in
June.

WednesdAy, Marcli 2S, 1942

idflCBLLAlty

MEXICO HPS rrs soMBieo

Forget Dollar Bolster Monde,
Spitahy Urges at Marine Base Show

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Br JOE SCHOENFELD

Miami, Uarch 24.

la a two-hour seml-classlcal and'
Jive concert, at the U. S. Naval Air
Training Station here, the last hall-
hour ot which was his regular Sun-
day night (23) broadcast for General
jQectrlc, Phil Spitalny maestroed an
eloquent message to tlie show busi-
ness at large to go all-out In enter-
taining the U. S. armed forces, his
jniislcai tour de force was sharp
punctuation for prior' verbal bar-
rage on the necessity of name per-
jonalltles in general, and the name
bands in particular, to forget for the
duration the dollar sign and bend
•very effort to the more important
task of bolstering tlfe morale of the
llgbtlng men to ultimate victory over
the Axis.

The base at Opa-Laclca is hardly
a large one, having an enlisted per-
(onnel of onl^ 1,500, but nearly
1,000 men, their wives and children
jammed the excellently equipped
base theatre end enthusiastically re-
telved Spitalny's 75-minute, well-
balanced fore-piece of the broadcast,
then the radio show itself, and finally
(Continued on page 54)

N. Y. Merchants Propose
Matinee Change-Oyer To
Avoid Traffic Snarls

It has been proposed by a group
of merchants that .Broadway man-
agers change the curtain time for
matinees in Broadway theatres. If
afternoon performances start at
i p.m., as suggested,' instead of 2:30,
as is the custom, it Is believed by
tlie merchants that traffic congestion
wUl be lightened on matinee days.
Idea -was- placed before the League
of New Yorlc Theatres but no action
has been talceii.

No change in nightly starting time
has been considered as yet. Propos-
als to stagger curtains were con-
sidered on various occasions, par-
ticularly before the present parking
rules were adopted. Such procedure
nay be followed if war conditions
make It - advisable, particularly in
the event of air raids.

RINGLING CIRCUS OPENS
IN NEW YORK APRIL 9

RiiigUng Bros., Barnum & Bailey
chrcus will open its seaso'n at Madi-
son Square Garden April 9, New
York indoor date running 32 days,
about four days longer than last sea-
son. Having its own railrqad equip-
ment, little interference in travel is
anticipated because of travel priori-
ties.

Preparations for this season's show
•tarted last summer. Materials and
accessories, including tires, were
contracted for considerably In ad-
■vance, so that war priorities hardb^
nguted in the outfit's preparations.
P9S3ibility of travel schedules being
upset because ,of troop, movements
lias beenf considered, but the circiis
M said to have gotten the nod of
Washington, what. with the show's
morale value.

Gross for the opening performance
JWU be turned over to the Army Re-
lief. Naval Relief and InfantUe Pa-
ralysis Funds, It was stated by John
Jingling North, the Big Top's owner,
•formerly, the boxes on opening night
were taken over by the Circus Saints
and Sinners. There wiU be no cour-
tickets for the performance,
with the possible exception of the
working press.

It'i 'Blinky' Lou Irwin

Hollywood, March 24.
Tj'jcraame of 'Blinky,' hung on Lou
^la, agent. 25 years ago by Damon
«unyon, has atuck.

ft shows up in Runyon's Universal
^^t' '^^^^ Minds the Baby,'
Shemp Howard as the cinema
counterpart.

Practice Licks

Hollywood, March 24.

William Saroyan, who does
everything ' in his own way, is
creeping up on film production
by easy stages.

Before' he produces and di-
rects 'The Human Comedy,' a
full-length' feature at Metro, he
is shooting a short, 'A Number
of the, Poor,' written by himself,
with' Mabel Taliaferro In the top
role.

JEROME KERN
OFFASCAP
BOARD

Jerome Kern s lost his post on
the ASCAP board of directors after
20 years of consistent service. He
was defeated In the balloting which
closed last Thursday (19) by Ray
Henderson In a relatively close con-
test that included Al Lewis as the
third candidate. Henderson's edge
was around 700 votes. AU th« other
writers who also won were re-
electees^namely, George- W. Meyer,
Gene Buck and Geoffrey CHara.
' In the election of publisher di-
rt ctors John O'Connor, Jack MUIs
and -Max Oreyfus each received an
additional term, while Donald Gray,
of. the H. 'W- Gray Co., displaced an
Incumbent from the standard field,
A. Walter KAmer. The terms of the
(Continued on page 42)

Shirley Temple Has More
Time and Improvement
In Air Show Expected

Procter 8c Gamble and the Benton
& Bowles agency hope that with
Shirley Temple through work last
week on 'Edward Small's production
of 'Miss Annie Rooney' at United
Artists, the 'Junior Miss' program on
CBS can be rapidly smoothed into
shape. First broadcast since the ac-
tress finished the picture will be
heard tonight (Wednesday). Fact
that Miss Temple was simultaneously
working in the film and on the radio
show was figured to have Hurt the
latter, as California labor laws pro-
hibit minors from working more than
nine hours a day. Under those con--
ditions, her picture shobting schedule
left insulllrient time for radio re-
hearsals. Program was figured tg
have suffered accordingly.

Kirby Hawkes, Benton & Bowles
radio head, who went to the Coast
to ready the program, will remain a
week or two longer, while several
weeks of scripts are accumulated.

'HATTIE' HEADACHE TO M-G

Half of Flctnre Will Be Revampea
At Addliloiul Coat ot $300,000

HoUywood, March 24.

'Panama Hattie' failed to jell in
the first cooking .and is going back
into the Metro production pot for
added Ingredients costing about
$300,000, raising the total cost to
more than 41,000,000. Picture, based
on the B. G. De Sylva stage musical,
showed a lack of something in sev-
eral sneak screenings and was or-
dered back to the lot for alterations
of approximately half the footage.

Re-shooting will be delayed a
month while Ann Sothern is busy on
'Get Rich Quick Malsle.' Arthur
Freed is producer of Tanama' and
Norman McLeod, now piloting 'Jack-
ass Mail,' was director. Understood
Roy Del Ruth, presently directing
the Maisie film, will handle the re-
vamping of 'Kittle.'

SALUTES H'lNOOD
S

Film Galasiy of Stars Junkets
to Ensenada to Entertain
Mexican Soldiers and Sail-
ors in the Lower California
Military Zon*

IMPORTANT TRIP

. Ensenada, March 24.
Hollywood came to Mexico Sun-
day (22) on a significant mission — to
solidify international friendship be-
tween Mexico and United States.
Hollywood again proved Itself cap-
able of carrying out any Govern-
ment request and staged a three-
hour show for Mexican soldiers and
sailors stationed in this Lrfiwer Cali-
fornia military zone.

Boys in uniform and' their con)-
manding officers left no doubt as to
success of the mission.' Every per-
former chalked up personal click
and talent lineup was as big as^any
presented to American service men'
(Continued on page 22)

TOO FEW WAR
TUNES GOOD
FOR SALES

Coin machine operators In -New
York are closing their machines to
the fiood of war melodies being
turned out They shrug off Tiew
ttme& with quick and bored dismis-
sal at distributing point demonstra-
tion playing, adding pointed remarks
about the. quality of the majority of
numnbers they're asked to consider.
They feel that entirely toto many
such tunes have been 'written, few of
which have been capable of maldng
money for them.

One operator probed last \veek ex-
plained that most of the machines he
services are placed in barrooms and
similar stands and that be has had
requests to remove war time discs he
had inserted. Standard nimibers like
the 'Marines Hymn,' etc., were okay,
but all of the stuff written since Dec.
7 was found wanting with the excep-
tion of 'Remember Pearl Harbor,'

Andrews Sisters to Coast
For 3D Pix After Yande,
Disc Dates End This Wk.

Cleveland, March '24.

Andrews Sisters are being recalled
by Universal to make three more
pictures after they close their vaude
tour at the RKO Palace here this
jy.efik. Followl)5jg.9.<}iiick trip to New
York lb finish some wax 'plaKerfior'
Decca; they, are leaving next Tues-
day (31) for the Coast.

Rated now as the highest paid
vocal trio in the business, Andrew*
Sisters woiuid up their socko stanza
at Detroit's Michigan last week with
$8,200 as their percentage of the take,
Johnny Long's orch also appearing
with them at the Cleveland RKO
Palace, where they are spurting busi-
ness up to a corking $22,000.

PEARY'S 'GUDERSLEEYr
TO BE FILMED AT RKO

Hollywood, March 24.

Harold Peary, 'The Great Gilder-
sleeve' of radio, signed a two-picture
deal with RKO.

To establish the character, the first
picture will be titled 'The Great
Gildersleeve.'

Phoney Manager Snares Bing Crosby
In a Fast-Moving Comedy of Gyppery

Nodiing to Nip-on

Hollywood, March 24.

Owing to international com-
plications, the four actors cast as
Jap soldiers In 'Remember Pearl
Harbor' at Republic are strictly
non-Nipponese.

Paul Fung and .''ames B. Leong
are (Chinese, Al KUoime is a Ha-
waiian and Pedro Regas Ii a
Greek.

FUN TO B£ FREE'
LIKELY TO BE
SHEVED

Tun to Be. Free,' the patriotic
re'vue^for which name authors and
composers have contributed material,
Will probably be shelved, 'with the
possibility of a later presentation. In-
ability to obtain enough backing It
the reason. Revue had been budgeted
for $40,0Q0, which the 'writers agreed
.shouild be on hand before the show
started rehearsals. Understood that
a little more than half that sum has
been' raised. '

Several producers were unsuccess-
fully approached to become inter-
ested after the original backer setup
feU through. Oris declined because
he felt that S charity show, should,
not be placed in con^tltlofi wltHT
regular' shows. Proceeds of 1'ree'
were to go to th* Army and Navy
relief funds.

No explanation was given as to
why , all th« promised backing was
not secured but It was ventured thai
hea'vy income tax payments were
responsible. It had been set to pre-
sent 'Free' ln'th« Adelphl, on 54th
street, the location being outside tfa<
theatre district. /
' Among the backers mentioned
were John Hay Whitney, Mrs. Mar-
shall Field, Howj^rd S. Cullman and
Harry, if. (itiggenheim.

Hepbnm Play Dne On
BVay Soon Despite
longer Tonr' Talk

'The sock business being ,drawn by
'Without Love,' ^tarring Katharine
Hepburn, out of town has led to
some speculation as to whether the
Theatre Guild would bring the play
to Broadway or continue the cleanup
^on the road. Guild disavowed any
such intention although Its attractions
have fared much better on tour than
on- Broadway^- 'Love,' r.egarded a
sure thing by Nftw Yorkers 'who have
seen the Philip Barry play, will open
(Continued on page 42)

FLORA ROBSON SKEPTICAt

'Xb iSttre siiSt~iij>sfin l;iiOT£i^%iit
Telia WB Director

Pittsburgh, March 24.

Flora Robson, guest-starring at
Pittsburgh Playhouse in 'Suspect,'
was paged by ^f^B via long-distance
phone from Hollywood last .week for
a roj'e in 'Now 'Voyager,' new Bette
Davis starrer, which will feature
Paul Henried, on a loan from RKO.
Irving Rapper, who is- to direct pic-
ture, personally called English ac-
tress and she asked him to send along
a script first, inasmuch as film doesn't
go Into production for few weeks and
her engagement at Playhouse doesn't
wind up until April 11.

Miss Robson told Rapper that after
her sad experience In 'Bahama Pas-
sage' at Par, she wasn't taking any
more filfn roles sight unseen. She
also referred to 'Passage' In local
newspaper interviews as 'one of
those pictures I'd be happy, if you'd
forget'

A serlo-comedy of errors Monday
and yesterday (Tuesday) almost
threw N.Y.'s tiieatrlcal business Into
a turmoil before the culprit, on4
Robert E.- Ray, who- claimed to b*
Blng Crosby's manager, was 'appre-
hended by the' police and Everett
Crosby, and locked up in the 54th
street • jail. In tbe two-day period
he had deceived the J, Walter "Thomp-
son Agency, NBC,. Shapiro, Bern*
stein & Co., Paramount, Irving Trust
Co., the Hotel Astor, Eddie Cantor,
et al. The crooner's sole manager
is his brother, E'verett, who assisted
In the apprehension of Ray. '

Latter blew into New York Mon-
day (23), armed with numerous let-
ters on stationery from Crosby's
Hollywood office and an amazing
Eunount of Information concerning
the workings of said office and
people connected with It.

He went to J, Walter Thompson
and declared he wanted to deposit
some money for Blng Crosby, who
was getting In later this' month. Th*
(Continued 6(i page 22)

Lois Andrews Okayed
For Same Boston Cafe
Date Denied Year Ago

Boston, March 24.
Lois. Andrews Jessel reported
yesterday (23) at Boston City Hall,
labor department to obtain her 'edu.i'
cational working certificate' In con-
formance to 'a local ruling.' Mrs.
Jessel turned 18 today (Tuesday)
and opens tonight at Rio Casino,
which ispot-she left In> haste a year
ago when the llcenslng Ijoard leai'htd
she was not of age t'6 work in a s{)Ot
selling llqudr. Since then she's be-
come of age, and also a mother. ,

. Her last appearance here was part
of a booking scoop by Rio's 'manager,
Al Taxier, who traded on the at-
tendant publicity due to her hus- .
band, George Vessel, working at
nearby Club Mayfair, whose man-
ager, Michael Redstone, wad bittet
at first, but later Jiappy when Ills
club pulled more thaii he expteted,/
necessitating holding- over Jcsset

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INDEX

Bills 47

C.h£(tter 53

Concert-Opera 3B

Exploitation 15

Pihn Booking Chart;..., r.-.v 1*-

.JKlm .H.«j£w&.^;^

"Foruiin ~~ r.' . l5~

House Reviews./ 48

Inside— Legit M, ,

Inside — ^Music 44

Inside — Orchestras , . . .■ 42

Inside — Radio 37

International 10

Legitimate ...' 50

Literati 52

Music , ; 42

Night Club Reviews i. 49

Obituary 54i

Orchestras 39

Pictures 4

Radio 24

Radio Reviews 32

Shorts Reviews.,.; 18

'Vaudeville 45

(FublUbed .la Hollywaad t>r
Sall7 Varldy, Ltd.)
lit a rear— 112 forelsa

Rim Exec of Britisb Propaganda
Ministry Detaik How England Also
Had Its Troubles With Defense Pix

Some ot the same difficulty now
being experienced in the United
States in gcttirig government shorts
played regularly in theatres was
foUnd in England early in the war,
Thomas Baird, ol the Films Division
ot the British Ministry of Informa-
tion, declared in New York Mon-
day (23). Baird arrived here last'
• week for a fortnight's consultation
with U. S. film men.

The difficulties vanished as our
product improved and the war got
itiffer.' explained Baird. 'There
never has been the slightest govern-
ment pressure on exhibitors to play
the shorts, but. all use them regu-
larly now, except , perhaps for a few
infrequent occasions when a house
schedule makes It impossible to
work a short in.'

Baird said that the MOI got to-
gether with exhibs early in the war
and learned from them that a six- or
eeven-minute reel would be the ideal
length. Since thea all have been
made in that running . time. MOI
turns out one a week, 700 prints
getting them througK Britain's 4,500
houses in afcout. eight weeks. Regu-
lar run system is loosely adhered to,
with distribution via a commercial'
trailer agency (similar to National
Screen Service here) that handles
the films under government contract.
Actual B.O. Values
'As the government shorts have
continued to improve, there's come
to be an actual demand for them at
the Iwxoffice,' asserted Baird. 'For
one thing, with the war situation so
■erious, people have a definite taste
to learn everything possible about
It Anothef thing that brings them
In is vanity wheii films concerning
■ervices in which they ^rtlcipate —
(Continued on page 22)

Martha Raye, Herbert,
Ann Sheridan, PearV
Odiers Tonring Camps

Disney's Samba GoodwiUer

Highights the
Stage Door Canteei

By BADIB HABBIS

(Chairman of Entertainment
Committee)

'Aquarela do Brasll,* wMeh will be
the first Walt Disney cartoon comedy
based on material gathered on his
Latin-American trip, hos been near-
ly completed and will be released
soon, according to Phil Reisman,
RKO foreign sales chief. In this,
Donald Duck, is taught to dance the
samba by a Brazilian parrot,

Parrot idea and backgrounds were
sketched by Disney artists on Walt
Disney'js Uek .through South Ameri-
ca. Material sufficient to make 12
cartoon comedies on Latin-American
subjects is available, Reisman stated.

Genl Praises
H'woodforlts
Traimng Films

One of the major ^eatuica of tti«
Canteen is the glamour and btauty
of the 'in person' actora dominating
the scene.

The . other ev<niug Jane Cowl,
looking . tres fetching in her new
Ebster bonnet; came over to one of
the soldiers and in her most charm-
ing manner asked, 'Is there anything
I can do for you?'

•Yes', was his reply, as he smiled
at her wistfully, 'CouW you intro-
duce me to Lionel S^tnder?'

'Owar^ for Soldier Eninrbjimnent

' --. Wwhbigton, ISaxdi 24.

■atl>(a«Uoa- with mUlUry aitd; civilian xeovatlonal faoDiilti for
toldten and inUora was expraned. Uwday .(SI) br Baymoad B. Fos-
diek, of the Joint Army and Navy Commlttea pn Wellara & Recrea-
tion, who reportad to tha War, Dcpt that Jamusemuit jtrojects of this
aatura 'are far ahead of anything bed In the last war,!

Fosdlok, haM of th*. C«nmiittea on Ttalnlng Camp Activities in
World War t, baaad bls report on a totir of five stattona and camps- just
oomplated by tha Commlttaa, tbe flnt of • lerlcs 'of Inspection tours
contemplated to cover the entfre conttaental United States.

Six stage and screen narhes are
turrently on ^est tours of Army

camps andiNaval bases under spon-
aorship of USO-Camp Shows, Inc.
Martha Raye and the Condos Bros.
Started Monday (23) at Fort Knox,
Louisville, Ky., and wind up April 2
at Fort Sheridan; 111. Ann Sheridan

• teed off with the 'Funzaflre' unit at
Fprt Francis E. WArren, Wyo., on
Monday, and continues until Ihc
troupe hits Fort Wood, Mo., April 2.
Hugh Herbert got under way with

. the 'Out' of the Frying Pan^ legit unit
last Friday (20) at Chanute Field,

. IlL, and finishes up at Fort Mon-
mouth, N. J„ April 4. Jack Pearl
headed out Monday (23) with the
"Follow the Crowd' revue from Camp
Pendleton. Va., and continues to
Parris Island Marine Base, S. C,
April 11. Cliff Hall is back working
With' Pearl for the tour.

Mi!>cha Auer kicks off next Mon
<ay (30) with the Thumbs Up' unit
at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga. He
goes from there to Fort Bennlng, Ga.,
and finishes at Fort McClellan, Ala.,
April 7.

In the concert department, tenor
Nino Martini win guest at Paine
Field, Seattle, Monday (SO), and Nel
.. .•on Eddy .-makes. an - af^earance -ai
Fort Dix, TNf: J., April 2,

Holly^yood, March 24.

Training films turned out in Holly-
wood has made possible the handling
of 4,000,000 recruits with unequalled
rapidity and precision, declared Brig.
Gen. F. H. Osborne at the luncheon
Monday (23) tendered him by the
War Activities Committee.

Osborne voiced the army's deep
appreciation to the picture Industry
for what it has done in -the war
emergency. Major Frank Capra, of
General Osborne's staff, said, 'One of
Hitler's chief weapons has been films.
We will turn that weapon against
him.'

' Osborne said that the use of the
se^een in' education on a scale never
before imagined -may mark another
important step in t]ie development ol
this industry and will' mean even
greater use of the screen after the
war.

He also praised the Industry -for
giving such tremendous: help in fur-
nishing stars for camp entertainment.

Speakers in Theatres
Plug Defense, Bonds, Etc

Mllwauk^, March 2^.

Four-Minute Men of World War
No. 1 have given away to Three-
Minute Men in the current emer-
gency, and all •houses In this area
have been thrown open to speakers
plugging civilian defense,, both in
air raid precautions and in buying
defense bonds.

FoUowup trailers are now being
•hown with detailed instructions on
how to . behave during blackouts
when' they come, and all theatres
have been, designated as shelters In
case of bombings, regarded as not
likely here owing to the city's im'
Boriance as a producer of war ma
ierials, practically the entire town
being dotted with huge industrial
plants turning out weapons to be
lued against the Axis.

Some ot the boys stationed In
nearby territory have become regu-
lars, turning up nighi after night
Harvey Frlnfrog ■ of Hamilton, O.,
now with the Coast ^jiuard at Ellis
Island, checks in eyery afternoon at
3 o'clock, deposits his coat,- goes to
movie, and checks in again on

the stroke of 5 now calls most

everyone by their first ntmes, and
introduces himself as Uil Canteen
mascot Sergeant Pearl, of New Gal-
lop, Ariz.,' stationed at (aovemors
Island, is .another permanent cus-
tomer the Sarge, who was in the

last war, collects- autographs, but
claiiiqs he is not interested in celebri-
ties half as much as he Is in the
gang who are running the works.
Another private of Fort Devens,
Mass., has just discovered the place,
but already he's kissed Janet Gay-
nor and made a date to have lunch-
eon with Cbnnee Boswell now be-
fore he checks- In he wants to know
in advance what 'star* Is 'scheduled
for a personal appearancel

The other night your reporter ap-
proached a corporal from Fort Dix
who has also been a steady visitor,
"You haven't missed an evening,
have you?' I iisked.^

'No', h^ replied, Tve discovered a
new home.'

With thoughts of a lonesome
low from the middle- west soma'
(Continued on page 23)

CAMP SHOWS ALSO GOOD
FOR TALENT-TUTORING

WAC'S PRESS PREVIEW
OF 8 DEFENSE FILMS

War Activities Committee is spon-
soring press preview of eight gov-
ernment defense shorts at the Astor
theatre. New York, next Monday
(30).- Among flms to be screened are
several already in release in addi-
tion to three new subjects shortly to
go into general distribution.

Publishers, film editors, columnists,
syndicate writers, radio commenta-
tors and film trade press have been
asked to attend. Several Ciovem-
ment officials are coming from Wash-
ington for the showing.

Hollywood, March 24.

Plan ot using studio stock players
in touring units for soldier entertain-
ment worked out by the Hollywood
■Victory Committee, serves the dual
..^vpose of amusing the boys and
giving the young actors ah oppor-
tunity to gain experience before am
audience. Scheme had -a successful
break-in ^st week with presents'
tion of 'Goodbye Again' by an RKO
group at a Mojave desert post. Be-
cause of the small auditorium in the
out-of-the-way cantonment four
shows became necessary.

f^aywrights Allan - Scott and
C^rge Halght waived their royalties
on 'Goodbye Again,' former Broad-
way legit hit for- the presentation.
Studio department designed and built
the sets. Players donated their time.
Plan 'was developed by Helena Sor-
rell, RKO drama -coach, and Ben
Piazzi, talent chief.

- . '. ' ■ , < >

Uncle Sam s Roll Call

♦«♦>♦«♦♦♦♦>♦♦♦♦♦♦«♦«♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 7

AX'AH's- 0«tat le-AraM pi=dueted-[nto.l(hpki-a.t~Gacip Upten.

Association of Theatrical Agents N. . Y.
^■='^SStCem"-J)&-iSlB5l,C.':^^
now in unlforn): Dick Williams,

Felix Salmaggi, Manny Gurin, Irving
Pincus, - Paul 'Vroom, Reginald
Denenholz, Dixie French, < Carl
Fisher, whUe a number of others
await being called to report

George Hoffmann, receptionist at
Universal's horaeofflce, called for
active duty.

Howard Ross, staff arranger for
Mills Music, 'Inc., the past 10 years,
has joined the Army.

Publicist Seaman Jacobs' farewell
is to be marked by his newspaper
pa.s ai the Hotel Pierre, N. Y., with
a cocktailery before getting his
Army unle.

Ben Leddy, Harold's brother, due
for the service. He is general aide
to Connee Boswell, wife of Harold
Leddy, her personal manager.

Frank Ford, aide to Victor Ratner
at Lord & Thomas agency, has joined
U. S. Navy.

Robert Driscoll O'Brien, son ot
theatrical attorney Dennis F. O'Brien,

'.' -^^— *ij>^i*--^—

Many Scribs in Service

Hollywood, March 23.

It's disclosed 36 members of - the
Screen Writers Guild are now In ac-
tive service. Frank Capra is listing
50 more to write scripts for the (gov-
ernment in Washington.

Shopping the new contingent is
Tristam Tupper, who holds rank of
Ueut-Colonel, public relations de-
partment Army's Armored Division.

Writers will go to Washington in
groups of five or six and work on
their own time in two or -three-week
stretches. Government work will
not Interfere with studio commit-
ments, scripterj being called only
between regular assignments.

MacysAdCluef
Lines Up Stars
For Bond Sales

List of show bis namea available
for aid In seDing defense stamps Is
being compiled by the pablldty com-
mittee of New York department
stores, headed by -John • OoodwUlle,
Macy'B ad chlet It's hoped to buUd
up a talent pool from which celebs
can be drawn for the various stores.

Stars are stationed ln''bootbs for
an hour or so In the stores selling
the stamps. They don't perform at
their professional . specialty In any
way. Stores advertise the appear-
ances, however, and presence of the
names is said to perk up the sales
considerably.

BOany people apparently save up
their stamp buying for periods when
a show biz biggie is on hand as
clerk. Cohnee Boswell at Macy's
last week, for - Instance, sold $360
worth ot stamps to one man and
$800 worth to two others-
minutes later.

a few

Jukepix for Navy

American warships may be
equipped 'with jukebox films so th&t
Navy men can be entertained aboard
ship during blackouts. Officials have
reportedly made inquiries as to type
of equipment available and product
which could be supplied,

..Small size mac^es could be used
to take care ot. 250 men at a ses-
sion. «

L. A. to N, Y.

Reports continuing to arrive this
week in 'Variety's' nationwide sur-
vey of public and exhibitor response
to the Government's war shorts
show they are meeting with virtually
universal approval. It appears,' how-
ever, that many exhibs are taking
the shorts as added attractions that
can be played -if there's time and
sloughed if there's not, rather than
as a 'must? Item every performance
every day.

That's a reflection of the situation
that prevails In New York, as
brought out at a meeting of theatre
operators called by .th^ War Activi-
ties Copunittee last Thursday (19).
It was pointed o'ut there, as it will
be at similar conclaves throughout
the co\mbry, that it's not a matter of
the shorts fitting into a theatre's
schedule, but the schedule^ being
made to fit the shorts.

Exhibitors refusing to accept or
play Government defense shorts are
to come under Investigation by an
industry police system composed ot
salesmen, office managers and ex-
change managers under plan pro-
posed, by Robert Wolff, RKO dia.
trlct manager, at the WAC meeting
Thursday (19) at the Hotel Astor,
New York.

Proposal 'was made by Wolff after
Francis Harmon, executive vice-
chairman ot the WAC, warned ex-
hibitors and distributors gathered
for purpose ot ensuring 100% co-
operation In showing -of defense
films, that there will Inevitably be
more compulsory unless there is
more voltmtary cooperation.

Elarry Brandt, who headed the
conunittee on pledges, said that more
than 12,000 exhibs had signed to
play Government defense shorts. He
reported, however, that U. S. officials
had checked various theatres and
found houses showing the pictures
(Continued on page 23)

Lt Cmdr. Eddie Peabody
Has a Flock of Crack
Musicians at Gt Lakes

Billy Bced, Te-He

■ Miami, March H.
Billy Reed, former hoofer and
most recently executive assistant to
Monte Proser at the N. Y. Copaca-
bana, has enlisted in the Navy at
the Opa-Lacka air training ' sta,tIon
here. He entered the service today
(Tuesday) 'with a yeoman third-
class rating and assignment to the
morale division.

Off the stage for the past few
-years, Reed has ' been doing nitery
show production. He staged the
Copacabana-type. show at the CHover
C!lub here this season.

From- WBBM In Army

Chicago, March 24.
WBBM-Columbla recently < saw
Its 17th employee leave for the
armed forces when Lieut Thomas
Noble, WBBM news 'writer, departed
to Join the 162nd Signal Corps.
Earlier 'in the same week Jack <Sa-
(Contlnued on page 32) ■•<^ii'

Sydney Buchman.
Ed Cashman.
Morgan Conway:
JpeCptten. ..
Laird (jregar.

' " Glenda Farrell.
Jinx Falkenburg.
Lillian Gish.
Harry Goeta.
William Goetz. °
Lou Harris.
Alfred Hitchcock.
Edward Hyans.
'Jack Kapp,
Kay Kyser.
■Nornjan Lloyd
■Robert Poole.
Tyrone Power.
Hal Roach.
.Joseph M. Schenck.
Nicholas M. Schenck.
Lyle Thayer.
SoT M. Wurtzel.

N. Y. to L. A.

Russell Birdwell.
Betty Held.
Joe Glaser,,
Mose Gumble.
Bert Lahr.

By 'TEOMAN CHET BBOUWEB

(Former 'Variety" Correspondent in
Fort Wayne)

Great Lakes, 111., March 24.
From the ranks' of the greatest
bands in the 'country have come the
men who form the band, music and
entertalnm^ division at the U. S.
.Na'val Training Station here. Lieut
Commander Edwin E. . (Eddie)
Peabody; string Instrument star
who- has been a headllner for many
years, has worked for several months
recruiting the men who make up
the Great Lakes military band and
rhythsrm . orchestra. Lt. Cmdr. Pea-
body's department Is doing the Her-
culean Job ot maintaining the morale
of new recrulta of Great Lakes at
a high standard through frequent

Hours,' radio broadcasts and appear-
ances tor recruit dances and pro-
grams.

vOrrln Tucker's . band is getting
along these days 'without Everett
Ralston, pianist-arranger, who U
now performing those duties with
the Great Lakes dance creW. Bob
Moonan, formerly with Del Court-
ney,- is now chief organist and pi-
anist at the station, and Carl Hase-
man, Maurle Sherman's ex-pianlst
also Is playing for the entcotainmenl
of recruits at Great Lakes..

Trumpet men in the office include
several top stars from stage and
radio headliners, Don Jacoby lef<
Les Brown to join the Navy; Bill
Haley was with Lou Breese, and
Henry Jackson played with Jai
Savltt, Ina Ray Button and Plersoi
Thai before enlisting. Frank Laurit
was with Sev Olsen at tha NlcoUei
hotel In MlnneapoUe, while Georglt
Schuster came to Great Lakes froR
, (Coritlntied on page 20)

Wednesday. Mwdt 25, 1942

KENT^S COlNTRroUTIONS

The passing of Sidney R. Kent removes from the filni in-
dustry an executive who \yas first to visualize, and then bring
into effect, the. potency of unified national distribution of mo-
tion pictures. It was he who brought business order from the
chaos of the state rights, or disintegrated territorial system of
distribliting films, and reconstructed a more pliable, responsive
and efficient system of centralized control.

The Kent plan, which was worked out during his early years
as saJes manage!- of Paramount, became the pattern of all the
major companies, with the exception of United Artists. He was
the first to develop tlie block-booking formula, to publicize on
a showmanship scale a whole year's supply of films in advance
of their production, and then, through the, force of his person-
ality and skill, as a nati.onal director of saUs, actually convert
such a promotional layout into millions of dollars of contracts,
which were liquidated when, as and if the pictures were deliv-
ered to thousands of theatres.

In such a scheme as first conceived and effectuated by Kent,
there was no place for connivery, or misrepresentation, because
year by year customers, and the prices they paid, were retained
solely on the strength of tKe previous season's performance by
the studio.

It jKas-a.pIan.also.~w.hich.. had merit in attracting, adequate
finance to the film industry, always insatiable in costly experi-
mentation^.,.^ The j)rijn_e,weakness .of the. block booking formula.
' was that it pfacedf a premium against the unusual and sensa-
tional film by limiting its boundary of revenue. Hence came
the next step, also a Kent innovation, by which film rental
was regulated through percentages of boxoffice revenue.

But Kent was much more than a shrewd and able sales ex-
ecutive. His direction of Fox Film Corp., its merger with 20th-
century Films and the important place currently occupied by
the institution, of which he was president at the time of his
death, were all ievidences of his ability. He possessed to an
am.azing degree that characteristic of leadership which sur--
rounds itself with generous and unquestioned loyalty of sub-
ordinates and co-workers. He repaid- in kind.

Of late years,. also, he occupied a unique place as an industry
leader in the adjustifient of internal relations between major
companies and independent exhibitors. Although he headed
one of the larger companies, he was empow;ered on more than
one.- occasion to act as spokesman and representative of' ex-
hibitors. His influence in these matters was powerful, as re-
cently demonstrated when, too ill to attend in -person, he sent
a letter to be read to a joint meeting in Chicago of distributors
and -exhibitors outlining fundamentals for the formation of the
unity plan, currently robust as the United Motion Picture In-
dustry— a "forum and instrument for self-regulation and .de-
termination of industry policies.

The Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, in eulogizing Kent
at the funeral services attended by hundreds of industry work-
ers, declared: 'He possessed a high conscience about making
the industry' he helped to g^uide as socially useful as possible.
He stood for the clean against the unclean, the* constructive
against the destructive, the publicly serviceable against the
merely and meanly' profitable. He felt deeply the responsi-
bility associated -with his power, the social obligation inherent
in the tremendous influence of pictures he presented, to the
people. Everyone who cares about America's estate at home,
and her influence and reputation abroad, will pray that his
ambition may descend on those who follow him — as h^ phrased
it, 'The constructive use of the motion picture as a public
service'.'

WANGER'S 2D FOR U

MUUIUUUK 9 VA I'ArabUn NiKhts'— To Follow 'Eagle

Stromberg s UA
Dicker Shifts
To Hollywood

Hollywood, March 24.

Hunt Stromberg is back from
*T«w York to confer with Ed Rattery
on a United Artists releasing deal.

Sel2nlck is also in on the
parleys as Stromberg's agent.

Reported that Stromberg, Is seek-
ing a five-year deal lor three to six
pictures annually. UA ofllclals
*"»tild arrange flnanchig through
tastern banUng interests for 60%
w ye necessary cota, with Strom-
berg taking caxe of -the balance.

FILMS AWAIT
IIUP6D[GISIi

War Developments the' De-
termining Factor — Produ
cers Must Agree Among
Selves or Face Arbitrary
Government Ruling —
'Maintenance - Repair* Or-
der for Theatres

DUAUNG REDUCTION

Uncertainty over priorities Is
holding up definite production .plans
tor next ' season. Major producers
are now talcing the problem seri-
ously where they previously ex-
pected a quick, easy and extremely
favorable decision .from the War
Production Board,

Though Donald M. Nelson told In-
dustry leaders that every effort
.would, be made to maintain film pro-
duction and exhibition as near nor-
mal as. possible, anything may hap-
pen to original recommendations
due to the fast changhig war situa-
tion.

Overconfidence among producer-
distributors has given way to un-
easiness, as rulhig. on a priority
classification for the industry re-
mains to be argued with no definite
time, for a decision in sight. Just
(Continued on aage 10)

K-A-0 NET, 738a
ON $15,195,368
GROSS TAKE

Keith-Albee-Orpheum net profit
for 1941 toUUed $736,095, after aU
charges including provision for in-
come taxes, as against $780,004 in the
previous year. K.A.O. wrote off
$260,040 for income taxes as' com-
pared with $219,932 In 1940. Corpo-
ration now is the largest theatre
subsid of RKO.

Gross income amounted to $15,195,-
368 of which $13,402,477 came from
theatre admissions. K.A.O. paid
$426,275 on its preferred shares and
$301,595 on common during the year.
Corporation's capital surplus state-,
ment showed a- balance of $9,652,266
as of last Dec. 31. ,

Ross-Arthur Combo in
Two-Picture RKO Deal

qua

. Walter Wanger readying to release
his 'Eagle Squadron' via Universal,
has concluded a pact with the studio
for another picture. It will be the
classic 'Arabian Nights' and will go
Into production immediately follow-
ing completion of 'Eagle.'

'Nights' will be in color with the
cast including Sabu, Jon Hall and
Maria Montez. Sabu, who has been
seen exclusively in Alexander Korda
pictures in the past, has been inked
to a termer by 'Uni'^ersal.

Neal's Homecoming Pic

Hollywood, March 24.

William R. Neal, after several
years In England, returned to the
American scene as director of 'Des-
tiny,' which rolled yesterday (Mon.)
at Universal. :«

Richard Tlx and Wendy Barrle
play the top roles.

Hollywood, March 24.

Frank Ross, producer, and his
wife, Jean Arthur, incorporated as
Frank Ross. Inc., closed a two-
picture deal for the 1942-43 pro-
gram at RKO.

First film will be 'Another -Da-wm,'
to be made from an original story
by Ross. Actress is pacted to ap-
pear in at least one of the two
pictures.

DISNEY BACK WITH UA?

Beported Leaving RKO and Betnrn-
log to His Old Ooiflt

Hollywood, March 24.

Although no deal Is yet in nego-
tiation, it is understood that. Walt
Disney may release future product
through United Artists, following re-
ports he is not renewing with RKO.

The RKO deal provided for a flat
sum. for shorts, with Disney financ-
ing features and the studio giving
him an attractive percentage releas-
ing arrangement which was negoti-
ated six years ago by M. H. Ayles-
worth previous to the release of
'Snow White.':

Sarnotf, Angry Over McDonough Shift
Threatens Action Blocking RKO Deal
With Schaefer; Wants New Exec Setup

Harmon's Huddle

Francis Harmon, executive
vice-chairman of the War Activ-
ities Commltte*, left for Wash-
ington yesterday (Tues.) to con-
fer wltii War Production Board '
officials on film industry pri-.
oritles.

Appointment of sub-commit-
tees and general summation of
industry 'requ'irementf, based on
materials used last year. Is tem-
porarily held bade pending out-
come of deliberations with pri-
ority officials.

Small^utsDown
Prod, for 6 Mos.,
Future Too Hazy

Hollywood, Marc^ 24.

Edward Small, indie producer. Is
not going to make any more pictures
until next autumn. With th« shoot-
ing of the final seen* U. "Miss Annie
Rooney,' he announced the shutter-
ing of his production department for
six months, partly to get an eco-
nomic slant on future war conditions
and partly to get back some of his
Investments in six films;

Small has completed his quota of
six productions for United Artists
release this year and has taken over
the distrlbutlou ot ibt British-made
picture, 'Mister V.' Three on his
UA schedule, tatSniational Lady,'
'The. Corsican Brothers' and 'A
Gentleman After Dark,' are In re-
lease. Twin Beds' goes out April
24 and the other two, .'Friendly Ene-
mies' and 'Miss Annie Rooney,' are
in the editing stage. Publici^ and
cutting departments will continue in,
operation for several weeks. Mean-
while Small has movtd out of his
offices at General. Service Studio.

Church Leader Sahites
Picture Biz in General
H.M. Warner Especially

The film business was pralsfrd as
'ari Industry with • hearV by the
Rev. Dr, Daniel A. Poling, church
leader, at a Freedom Dinner given
him by. a large group' of Christian
Endeavor people, >Monday (23) at the
Roosevelt hotel; With Will Hays act-
ing as toastmaster, and Mayor F. H.
LaOuardla among the speakers, the.
church leaders lauded the picture
bushiess in general.' fpr making fine
morale-building productions, and
praised Harry^-K.-Warner Ani-Waj^;
ner Bros.' in particular for tiieir pro-
duction of 'One Foot In Heaven,',
story of a country parson.

While the Freedom Dinner was in-
tended primarily to honor Dr. Poling
for his religious work and wAr ac-
tivity, it developed Into a tribute to
the film industry and praise for the
harmony created between the pIc:
ture- business and -the Protestant
churches of U. S. Dr. Poling paid
particular tribute -to -Harry Warner
for his humanitarian work, and ex-
pressed gratitude for- the popularity
attained by WB's 'Heaven.' Poling
announced that Warner personally
had contributed $10,000 toward Chris-
tian Endeavor' societies.

Among picture people at the din-
ner were Carl E. Milllken, secretary
of the Hays association; Francis S.
Harmon, vice-chairman of the Indus-
try's War Activities committee and
formerly of the Hays office^ and Mort
Blumcnstock.

Hollywood, March 23.
_Davld Samoff's bum over the let«
out of Joseph McDonough at RKO Is
believed behind the sudden departs
ore for New York by George J.
Schaefer following, receipt of a 42*
page Report on studio conditions
from McDonough.' Sarnoff Is re-
ported ' BO Incensed he threatens to
take legal action, if necessary, to
block Floyd Odiuim's proffer to
Schaefer of a new five-year contract
as company president with a. six*
month cancellation clause.'

Sftmofl' told Odium, In so many
words, his complete dissatisfaction
with conditions at RKO and Is |tsk-
ing for an accounting and a new
executive . setup.' ' The proposed
Schaefer contract Is < consequently
dangUng In mid-air: It is considered
quite possible that the Joe Breen
contract will be settled so that*'he '
can return to his old berth in the
Hays office. Understood that Breen
is ready and wllHiiig to admfailster
the Productioqt Code again but a cer-
tain major studio (Metro) has set up
objections. Believed reason for Nick
Schenck's trip here was to persuade
the company to withdraw Its objec-
tion. Schenck had to push back east
for the S. R, Kent services.

With Breen'a exit maneuvered,
Charles W. Koemer would remain as
general manager in charge of opera-
tions and sparking the cretitivie' dlvi-
sion. If Breen stays it Would b? as
vice-president in charge of stiidtos,
but Koemer would function as pro-
duction head -with Iteghiald Amour
as chief aide, and William Holman as
comptroller,^

Company's biggest h«adache at this
time is coin for plcture-taiaking.
Banks advanced aroimd $3,009,000
last June for production but cur-
rently studio has only $500,000 pa
hand to draw from. ' "That means
fresh financing Is needed for the new.
season. •

For the past week three RKO
board members hava been around
the lot exsimlnlng all manner of op-
eration. Ed Welsl, personal attorney
for Odium Is also looking . the lot
over and with Xj. Lawrence Green IB
understood to have made report on
conditions to Odium over the week-
end on his desert ranch near Indld.

Understood that Odium was flatly
told by Sarnoff it he persisted In ex-
tending -Schaefer's contract, for &v»
years, he (Odium) would have , to
buy up Samoff's Inters In studio
and Sarnoff. would have the backing
of the Rockefeller fiiteresta.

Hays Report to
ibessRdedf

m

'Vital role the American picture
industry will play In building- morale'
both of men In the service and
civilian population is expected to
form the main thesis of 'WiU Hays'
annual report on the state of the film
business next week. He will present
the report as a highlight of the an-,
nual meeting of the Motion Picture
Producers & Distributors Assn. next
Monday (30). How the fllpt industry
may best help forward the War ef-
fort will be the underlying thought
of the annual message,

Because of several vital topics,
which have not been acted ' on he-
cause of the absence of directorate
quorum, a session of the MPPDA
directors likely will follow the an-
nual mesting of the association.

PICTDBBt

W«daesa«;^ Mur«li 25, 1942

NX Appeal; Coort Roles Against
Joe Schenck and Moskowilz; Matter
Now Goes to die Ui. Supreme Court

The Circuit Court of Appeals In
N. Y, late Saturday (21) upheld the
conviction. o{ Joseph M. Schenck,
former chairman of ' the board of
20th-Century-,Fox Film Corp, and
that of Joseph H. Moskowitz, east-
em representative of 2(>th-Fox, on
charges of vloIatLig -nd aiding and
helping to aid the evasion of In-
come tax return? ar.ine years 1935-
1937.

The decision of the court was
unanimous, and in a 15-page opinion,
Justice Thomas W. Swan pointed
out, that in the court'j opinion, the
trial of the two film executives was
a fair one. Last remaining hope, of
Snhciick an-' Mos:-owilz to stay out
of Jail for the three and one-year
periods set by the trial court will
depend on appeals iu Washington to
the U.S. Suprirae C^urt, Since de-
fense-counsel claimed the constitu-
tional rights of both. men are being
tampered with, it may be a- matter
for the Supreme Court to decide.
Both will remain at liberty for the
next fortnight, during ' which time
the Circuit, Court will issue a man-
date and set the' time for surrender.
During this time attorneys for the
defense will -pply in certiorari pro-
. ceedlngs to the U.S. Supreme Court
' for a review. Should this be denied'
. both film executives must surrender
and go to jalL Should It '.e granted
they will have an. additional six
months of liberty, pending the de-
cision of the Supreme Court, this
being estimated by the time required
to prepare wd file the' record, se-
cure a date for hearing, the hearing,
and a final decision by th Supreme
Courts

Both tiie defendants were convict-
ed after a six-week trial on April
24,'X941, by a jury before Federal
Judge Grover Moscowitz of evad-
ing payments of income taxes.
Schenck allegedly evaded $253,692,
and was aided by Moskowltz, who
kept his accounts, it was charged.
Schenck was fin- $20,000' and sen-
tenced to three years in prison; and
Moskowitz was fined $10,000 and sen-
tenced to one year and a day/ The
latter was found . guUty on one
charge, the year 1936, while Schenck
.was found guilty on the years
1935-36.

Findings

' The opinion of the. Circuit Court,
which . consisted of vJustlces Swan,
who wrote the opinion; Harrle B.
Chase and Jerome N. Frank, re-
hashed much of the evidence pre-
sented at the trial, apd then made
several pertinent findings. The first
of these declared that Moskowitz,
who compiled income, tax returns
for Schenck, 'did not (attempt to
make any accurate separjttlon be-
tween business and p.ersonal ex-
peiises. He knew that Schenck en-
tertained lavishly and that part of
his' outlay tot entertainment could
properly be treated .as a business
expense. He adopted the method of
estimating the deduotable business^
expenses "by taking the arbitrary
percentage of . certain items which

' he knew would include both bust-
uesk'and persiiial expenditures. The
ir.'^thod of computation resulted in
. producing deductions which had
little relation to Schoick's actual
business expenses, and Included
many items whicfii were proved to
be of a surely personal nature*.
_ It. was pointed out by .the Circuit
Court that if carelessness had caused

■^•^^yixr^'Vf-mitfviabl-ini -the- men could
nof be held~crlminaUy liable, but it
was up to the- trial jury to say
whether or not intentional traud had
been committed. Since the jury had
decided that fraud had been com-
mitted, the Circuit Court ruled,
'After examining the length;- record
' we . are satisfied that the case was
fairly tried and correctly submitted
to the jury.' One of the major de-
fense points, which charged' im-
proper charges' to the jury and
prejudice on the part of t]ie trial
Judge, was thus tossejl out.

Other points touched on were such
things as the correctness of allowing
Schenck's failure to report $40,000
winnings on election bets in 1936
to the jury, which the Circuit Court
ruled' were correct, and also that 'it
Is not necessary., for the prosecution,
the Government, to prove an evasion
of the entire amount - alleged in. the
indictment, for the proof is sufficient
(Continued on page 22)

Keeps on Hopping Along

__Holl7wood, March 24.

Hopalong Gassldy continues to
gallop in 12 more westerns during
the next two years under a new
contract betweea Harry Sherman
and Paratnount, Seal also calls for
four early American pictures with
Richard Dlx in the top roles, and
two hl^-budget western specials.

William Boyd was contracted to
carry on bis old Job as star of the
Hopalongsi first of which will l>e
'Lost Canyon,' to' be directed by
Lesley Selander.

D£AN PLEADS GUHn
IN SURPRISE SWITCH

Sto£o Contncts

Nick .Dean, alias Nick' Circella,
former Chicago night club operator,
hoodlum and personal bodyguard to
William Bloff, pleaded guilty in a
surprise mov* in N. Y.' federal court
Wednesday (18) to charges bt ex-
torting 'over $1,000,000 from Para-
n ount, Warner Bros., 20th Oentvuy-
Fox and Loew'i, thr<iugh threats of
calling a strike. Dee and Louis
Kaufman liad been accused by the
Government of - this extortion, but
both had pleaded not guilty.

Kaufman, former lAPSE man in
Newark, will be' tried April .7, the
day that federal Judge John C. Knox
v.'ill set Dean's sentence. The latter
is subject to a $10,000 fine and 10
years in JaU. Dean had acted as
BioCTs 'collector' in Chicago, after
the latter liad gone to California, it
is claimed. Dean had successfvdly
evaded capture by Government
agents for months, and was believed
dead until apprehended in a Chi-
cago restaurant some months ago.
Buth he and Kaufman are out on
balL It is charged Iwth men used
threats to a^rtort' thc money, saying
if it was not forthcomln;, iOiey would
call a strike in 'the lATSE.

Buffalo Variety Fetes .
Former Barker, Now Dl

Buffalo, March 24.
' 'Variety Club, Tent No. 7, tendered
the first testimonial of the year tp
former CSilef Barker, Jake Lavene,
who has been 111 for two years. Over
ISO barkers wera -present, including
Mayor Joseph J. Kelly, who present-
ed a check to the guest of honor.

Lavene is under constant care of
his physician, wtao was present dur-
ing the celebration.

PRC'S CONVENTION

Franehlse-Heltws Oeaverga — on-
' HoBrweod Mar «-T

Producers Kalaaslng: Corp. will
hold a national aoaventlon of its'
franchise-holders In Hollywood May
4-7. — . ■,.

Leon Fromkess, y.p. in charge of
production, arrived in Hollywood
Monday (H> and will remain imtU
the conclave, IrorUng in the interim
v»ith (^rge Batcheller, in charge of
feature production, and Slg Naufeld,
supervisor of westerns, on the 1942-
43 product to be announced at the
conventloa

Leo McCarthy, newly-named as-
sistant .to sales manager Arthur
■Greenblatt, left Saturday (21). for a
tour of the western, exohanges, which
are under his supervision. He'll wind
up in Hollywood in time for the
convention.

Hollywood, March 24.

Michael Harold Bamitz, 14 months
old, signed by Universal.

Richard Fraser, British actor,
inked contract with Warners.

Mrs. Leslie Morris, known profes-
sionally as Leslie, stffied as chief de-
signer by RKO.

Lupe 'Velez renewed for three
more pictures by . RKO.

Robert Weldon handed actor ticket
by 'Universal.

Pete ^Smith renewed for three
years as shorts producer at Metro.

Roy Rogers optioned for one year
by Republic.

Janet Burston drew minor contract
at Metro.

Wiard B. Dmen renewed as art di-
rector at 20th-Fox.

Lee Bonnell inked actor ticket
at RKO:

Don Porter banded player ticket
by Universal.

Richard Simmons drew- playing
pact at Metro.

Bennett George signed to ride
another year for Harry Sherman
at Paramount

Andy Clyde renewed for two
years by Parmount _

B.O. FELT PAST
WEEK'S INCOME
TAX:10%DIP

Boxoffices throughout the nation
were hit harder by the stepped-up
income tax this year than ever, be-
fore in history, in the opinion of the-
atre men, who state that aggregate
quick reports on business showed a
sharp downward trend during the
past week. . Extent of the drop is
difficult to estimate pending final
figures, but believed that the descent
compared with the same week for

1941 was at least 10%.

Operators in possession of reports
on business point out that Wednes-
day (18) two days after the deadline
for the filing of income tax returns,
was generally very bad, but that the
past weekend (21-22) was not-so poor
in ratio to averages as that particu-
lar day. On the entire week, how-
ever, since payment 'of taxes was
madei the trend has been downward,
regardless of pictures, weather or
other favorable factors.

An, operating executive for one of
the large chains attributes a portion
of the drop to Lent and Holy Week,
which starts Sunday (29), although
experience in recent years has been
that the- Lenten period has not had
any important effect on grosses in
some sections of the country.

.Expectation is. that the severity of
Income taxes, hitting the lower wage
earners for the first time, will not
only be reflected in theatre grosses
at-thi8-time,-but also on each quarter
when installments must be paid as
wen as between when people are
saving their money in order to meet
payments as they become due.

Lester's Studio Move

Hollywood, March 24.
Sol L^SE«a: closed a deal for rental
space at -the. California Studios,
owned by HaTry Sherman, and Is re-
modeling several . offices prior to
moving in,

Sherman has five sound stages on
the lot, two of which are rented by
Columbia. . In addition, he Is re-
building the old western street to
save rubber when sagebrush films
demand village gunplay.

PLENTY BAND
SHORTS BY RKO

Hollywood, March 24.

RKO is giving music a heavy ride
in shorts, wilii 13 of the briefies
slated for the .new season built
around bands.

Usjjal other short subjects com-
plete year's output.

Sid Koit % IMes of Heart Attadil
M-Fox hfn an hdustry Leader

S«lzmck'sOlli«r Outfit

' Sacraimento, March 24.

David O. Selznick filed incorpora-
tion papers for D.O.S. Films, Inc., a
company designed to . operate his
personal buslnjAs aSairi «part from
hi- present producing organization.

Listed as directors are Charles E.
Mllllkan, Richard M. Goldwater,
Herschel B. Green, S. Earl Wright
and Donald A. Dewar.

Selznick is opening offices in New
York about May 1, following expira-
tion of tiie. lease on his old quarters
at the end of April. Former offices
were held in the name of his old
company, Selznick-Intemational, no
longer functioning in production.

UA ASKING FOR 402 FOR
RE-EDITED 'GOLD RUSH'

Whether Charles .Chaplin goes
through with his plan for re-editing
and adding a sound track to "The
Circus,' made in 1937 will depend
on b.o. success scored by 'The Gold
Rush' (1925), wHich he has given
similar treatment. 'Gold Rush' has
had three experimental dates so far,
two of which have been very big
and one, stUl In its first week, rather
mild.

United Artists is seeking 40%
terms for 'Gold Riuh.' It cost about
$125,000 to rejuvenate it and if it
shows' a profit, Chaplin will make
an immediate start on 'The Circus.'

Meantime, he ha^ paid approxi-
mately $25,000 for screen rights to
Paul 'Vincent Carroll's legiter,
'Shadow and Substance.' How soon
this goes before the cameras hinges
on whether Chaplin decides to do
the screenplay himself 'or hire some-
one else. If he does- it himself, in
conformance with his manner of
working, it may take a year or more.

Hawks' 'Jenny' For

New RKO Releasing

Torlrait of Jenny,' novel by
Robert Nathan, has been purchased
by William Hawks for independent
production. Hawks and his brother,
Howard Hawks, recently inked a
releasing 'pact with RKO. 'Jenny,'
published a year ago and previously
a Red Book mag novel, brought
around $6,500 for screen rights.

Another book to be filmed - for
RKO release is 'The Fallen Sparrow,'
mystery novel by Dorothy B. Hughes,
which tne studio bought last week.
It's to be serialized in American
Magazine before book publication.
Price approximately $12,600.

'Lassie Come Home,' ji short story
by Eric Knight, Has been purchased
by Jack Emanuel, an indie producer.
Price around' $3,S00. Metro bought
an u^produced play by one if its
studio employes, Patricia Coleman.
Called 'Bury Me Not,* It brought
$40,000.- 7

Mickey, Freddie Team

Hollywood, March 24.

Mickey Rooney and Freddie Bar-
ttioTomew are team^' again for the
flxst time Jn four, years on the screen
in 'A Yank Eton,' which rolled
yesterday (Mon.) at Metro under
Norman Taurog's direction.

First time the kids played together
was in 'Llttie^ Lord Fauntleroy' six
years ago. They met again in 'Lord
Jeff' in' 1938. .

Hooves WiU Fly Faster

Hollywood, March 24.
Gene Au try got a Way to bn un-
usually fast start in 'Beyond the
Great Divide' at Republic, intent on
finishing the picture in time to Join
his rodeo tor its eastern Invasion.

Opening of the boss show in
Cleveland has been set back one
day, from April '8 to 0, to give the
star an extra day to complete .his
• -Hodlywtjod chore.' ■ ' '"

Cahn, Leaves 'Gang*

Holljrwood, March 24.

Metro upped Edward Cahn from
his chore as pilot of 'Our Gang'
comedies to directorship of features,
with 'O* Train,' a Jack Chertok pro-
duction, as his first job.

Cabn's former assistant, Bert
Glazer; became 'Oiir Gang' director.

KING BUBBEB

Hollywood, March 24.
King Brothers, who recently com-
pleted "Klondike Fury' for Mono-
gram releasee, are going in for front-,
page stuff in their next picture, 'Hot
Rubber.'

Film, dealing with the tire situa-
tion, is being whipped! up by Henry
Miller for early production.' ' " ~ '

Sidney Raymond Kent, 96, whose
courage, for^lght and executive
ability long since .esjiablished him
as an outstanding leader in the/mo-
tion picture Industry which he
helped develop, died in his pent-
house .home on Park avenue in New
York City at 3 ajh. March 19, follow-
ing a heart attack an hour earlier.
Mr. Kent, president of 20tb Century-
Fox Film C<>Tp., had spent all day
Wednesday (18) at His office

Mr. and Mrs. Kent had planned
leaving for a vacation in Florida on
Friday (20). Recovering early last
winter from a heart condition which
had kept him-in bed several months,
Kent recently had been putting in
considerable time at his office and in
January, following eastern labor
sessions which he attended, he went
to the Coast for two weeks of studio
huddles.

Mr. Kent also attended a three-
day sales session of his company in
Chicago three weeks ago and since
returning to N. Y. had been spend-
ing more time in his office than pre-
viously. .

Heart Trouble

The 20th-Fox head suffered his
first heart attack about three years
ago, has had others, and from time
to time has been forced to either
remain away from work or go into
the office only for a half day or
shorten He is said to have taken up
Christian Science recently. -

Mr. Kent would ha've been 57 on
July 30 next, but of late years aged
considerably in appearance. He
was among the six highest paid ex-
ecutives in the film business and
tor more than a score of years had
made big mone^. When he resigned
from Paramount in January, 1932, to
go to 20th-Fox, he was earning $104,-
000 yearly, plus handsome bonuses
which Far had given its executives
for several years. Mr. Kent was
earning nearly $4,000 weekly with
20th up to last year, when he volun-
tarily cut his own salary, earning ex-
actly $126,519, plus expenses of $200
weekly. Kent also had oil interests
in Texas.

Alger Career

Kent's Horatio Alger career was
glamorous -and meteoric. - He was
born oh a farm at Marysvllle, Kan-
sas, the son of English immigrants.
When he was 13 the family nioved
to Lincoln, ^eb., and Mr. Kent gave
up school to go to work stoking boil- ,
ers in a greenhouse at $5 a week.

Three years later Kent went to
western Canada and joined a sur-
veying crew working for the Ca-
nadian National Railway. Before
he yta^ 20, he hooked up with the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. in a re-
sponsible capacity and in 1912 joined
the American Druggists' Syndicate,
finally, becoming assistant, to the
president.

His first brush with pictures came
through his acquaintance with Frank
Hitchcock, former Postmaster Gen-
eral of the United States, who had
been assigned to liquidate the old
General Film Co. which had been
declared In violation of the Sherman
anti-trust laws. Hitchcock and Kent
spent three years settling the com-
pany's - judgments, which-amounted.-
to $25:000,000, and then be contacted
Adolph Zyfcoc^or . a position, with
Famous Players-Lasky.

Starting out as a special sales rep-
resentative on trouble-shooting as-
signments in various parts of the
country, he became branch manager
at Kansas City, subsequently a dis-
trict manager in that area end finally
in May, 1919, was appointed gen-
eral sal^ manager for Famous.
Pioneered Sales Methods

A super-salesman ^ho quickly
won the devotion of those who
worked for him and, in turn, was
equally devoted to them, Kent -in-
augurated many 6f the methods of
selling film which are standard In
the industry today, including selling
on percentage. He was the first to
divide the country into sales zones
and organized the first training
school for film .salesmen.

In 1926 Kent became general
manager of Parsimount and in 1930
he was elected a vice president.
Friction in Par at a time when it
was nearing bankruptcy led to Kenf s '
resignation in January, 1932, and the
same month he joined 20th as presi-
dent. He previously had been made
an offer to become president of
RKO but that deal. feU through.

As president of x20th-F6x, Kent
wati responsible for. the Qnandal re-
organization of that. company which
gained for him the esteem of ihe
(Continued on page '53)

VedhiBddy, March 25; 1942

m FILMS CANT BE ON

Despite UMPI Opposition, No New
Plan for Blocks-of-12 Is Expected;
Individual Distributor Concessions?

Although there has been opposi-
tion to the selling plan of the United
Motion Picture Industry calling for
bloclcs-of-12, sources dose to devel-
opments In the VDSPl movement do
not look for a substitute plan at
meetings of the subcommittee start-
ing today (Wed.) In New. York.

It Is believed in this connection
that the final sales .formula to be
agreed upofi by XJMPI- will not vary
much from the original. plan worked
out two weeks ago, despite outright
rejection by two exhib associations
and objections raised by others, in-
cluding the Motion Picture Theatre
Owners' of America.

Predictions are that there will be
110 change so far as cancellation
privileges under sales in groups of
12 are concerned, although pointed
■out that distributors may voluntarily
grant additional concessions when
making deals. UMPI plaii calls for
quarterly sales and a maxintum of
12 pictures at a time, Including five
that are to be tradeshown and seven
that are not. Exhibs averaging up
to $100 In rentals may cancel two
out of the seven unscreened films,
while those averaging higher license
fees, based on prices paid during.
1040-41, may cancel out only one.

Principal - complaint against the
UMPI proposals concerns cancella-
tions, with the MPTOA and vario.us
regional exhib units wanting an un-
conditional 20% on the entire group
of 12 pictures or In whatever num-
ber they are sold. Although various
state units In the MPTOA have not
reported action, several have ap-
(Continued on page .18)

Uncle Sam's Tax Income
From Amusements in Jan.
Dqis Nearly $2,000,000

Washington, March 24.

Downbeat in tuxnstile volume sent
. the Treasury's February haul from
' amusements (both commercial and
home'varietles) down nearly $2,000,-
000. under the prior month's level
but, due to the relatively i)ew levies.
Uncle Sam's aggregate take was al-
most $6,300,000 better than In the
corresponding 1041 stanza.

Latest monthly Treasury summary
' showed Saturday (21) an overall
grab of $13,147,101 In comparison
with $15,080,880. in January and
$6,845,000 in February, 1941.

Though the take slumped as usual
at the start of the year,- the broader
admissions- lev3r-was;chteflyTesponf
sible for the better Rowing from
amusements. (Last year there were
no comparable Imposts on records,
musical Instruments, slot machines
and jukeboxes, bowliiig alleys and
pool tables).

Admissions yielded $0,769,397 in
February (based- on January re-
ceipts), Whli^ was a decline of
$1,586,242 under the previous month's
payment to Unci; Sam. This is the
second monthly slump In a row, but
the actual Government haul still
topped by more than $2,000,000 the
■biggest sum pocketed last year be-
fore the scale was changed. After
only two months, the Federal Treas-
ury has credited almost $1,000,000
more than was collected in three
months last year. ■ •
• Booming sales ' of radio .sets was
Indicated by the Treasury — undoubt-
edly a residt.of the first War Pro-
duction Board order lor curtailment
of output. The tax receipts were
$2,697,303, as compared, with . $2,650,-
820 the preceding month and a mere
$350,140 the sam:e 1941 "stanza. Rec-
ord sales continued upward, with
the February tax collections touch-
ing $140,863, a rise of $19,100 in a
month. -

The other levies brought In the
following amounts during February:
musical instruments, $360,487; slot
machines and jukeboxes, $168,803;
^llng alleys and poolrooms, $38.-

SIow Jerk

Hollywood-,' March 24.
Henry Fonda shoved his finger
into the machinery of a tractor
. and didn't jerk It put soon,
enough. 20th-Fox has suspended .
shooting on the picture for three
weeks.

Title Is The Magnificent Jerk.'

Par Bnishoir
To RKO Pix in
NW Bums Latter

Minneapolis,. March 24.

Angry over allegedly "unfair,' first -
run, play-oft treatment for its prod-
uct in the Twin Cities, at the hands
of the Minnesota Amusement Co.
(Paramount circuit), RKO here is
threatening to release its pictures to
Twin City subsequent runs before
they've had downtown first-runs.

Moreover there are intimations
that the dissatisfaction may throw
a monkey wrench in the machinery
as fai: as the pooling of - RKO and
Mort H. Singer Twin City theatres
with those of Minnesota Amvs. is
concerned. RKO declares It isn't
going to sit by as theatre partners
and permit Its pictures- to pile up
while other distributors' releases are
being played. However, the present
pooling arrangement was renewed'
only a short time ago and has nearly
a year to run.

- Among the 12 RKO pictures ac-
cumulated on the shelves is 'Dumbo.'
What burns up the company
especially Is the fact that this film
has been repeatedly announced for
the Century and 'then set back, only
to have Paramoimt's cartoon comedy,
'Mr. Bug Cjoes to Town,' finally
shoved in ahead, of It for the week
starting Friday (27). 'Dumbo' had
been advertised on the Century
screeen and In the lobby as 'coming*
for more than a month previously.
Now it apparently has been . post-
poned Indefinitely.

MILGRAMADDS6M0RE;
LARGEST PHULY DiDIE

Philadelphia, March 24.

Affiliated 'Theatres last -week
added six more to the group, bring-
ing the circuit's , total to 25 houses —
the largest indie circuit now in this
territory. The newly acquired thea-
tres include the Shaver, Shavertown;
Band Box, Middleburg; Diamond,
Hazelton; Favini, Scranton; FavinI,
Jessup, and Favini, Peckville — all in
Pennsylvania.

President of the circuit Is David
E. Milgram.

Censors SdH Outlaw
Hughes' The Outlaw'

The Outlaw,' gathering dust for
the past year while producer How-
ard Hughes has batUed with vari-
ous censor boards over the cuts de-
manded, will be released later this
spring or in the fall. Sxact time
hasn't been determined yet, how-
ever, and no dates have been set

New York and Pennsylvania cen-
sors are the only ones with whom
agreements haven't- been reached and
negotiations are currently continu-
ing. Hughes feels that a settlement
in the two states can be made with-
out going to court

DISTRIBSWANT
THOSE WEEKENDS

Exhibs Say It's OK With
Them, Providing They Can
Arrange Three or FoUr
Sundays in Some Soirt of a
New Weekly, Calendar

TOUGH ON TERMS?

Milwaukee, March 24.

Exhibs here are all hot and both-
ered over .the Increasing .t)ercent
age : demands of the distrlbs,- pro
testing there aren't enough Sundays
to give preferred playing- time
to all the pictures the sellers in-
sist be. shown only on weekendls
when trade is lush.

'You'll give us a Sunday date on
this picture,' say the distribs to the
exhibs, 'or you don't get It at all.'

.'AllrlghV retort the exhibs, 'you
change the calendar to give us three
or four Sundays a week and we'll
play It; otherwise we can't.'

Iliua the argument, goes, and
they're getting nowhere fast

Business on weekends under pre-
vailing conditions is decidedly up,
while the trend for the rest of the
week Is down, a condition attributed
to booming defense industries In
which men are working such long
hours that theatre-going during the
week is out the weekends being the
only time in which the workers can
relax.

Under percentage bookings, for
which the ante has risen from 30
and 35% to 40 and 50%, the exhibs
want to play their best product' on
the weekends to get the most out of
it, and the distribs assert that if their
product Isn't dated for a Sunday it
is automatically placed in the 'crow'
class and Its earnings hurt accord-,
ingly.

The indies particularly are com-
plaining, most of -them being de-
cidedly opposed to percentage, pre-
ferring by far the flat buy, but if
they don't take a percentage deal
they don't get the product

Daylight saving, which hurt tem-
porarily when it first went into ef-
fect locally, has ceased to be a de-
terrent to trade now and business
is right back to where it was be-
fore, but what it will be as the
weather warms up and the days be-
come longer Is something they're
currently worrying about

FAB'S N.T.-HADE ftUIZ SHOSTS

Paramount is producing Its first
shorts In the east since disposing of
its Astoria studio to the U. S.. Army
this week. Employing the old Edi-
son plant In th^ Bronx.

L^le Roush Is producing a new
group -of- 'Quiz Kids' -shorts, shooting
( arting Monday (23).

Indie N. Y. Circuits Looking Over
Theatres That Might Be A?^^^
Follows Survey of Houses By Par

Hbppy Herded Home

Hollywood, March 24.

Tire shortage, not redskins or
rustlers, routed Hopalong Cas-
sidy out of his mountain loca-
tion- at Lone Pine, CaU and
chased him back \o the vicinity
of Hollywood where Harry Sher-
man, his producer, has a studio
with a western street

Sherman Is adding a few more
wild west touches, such as a
bank to hold up and a . saloon
for Indoor gunplay. It Is cheaper
than transportation to the dis-
'tant hills.

AH But Metro
Want Joe Breen
BackMHays

'With exception of Metro, reiMrted
that all major company members of
the Motion Picture Producers &
Distributors' Association are now
agreed to bring Joe Breen back as
head of the Production Code 'Ad-
ministration. Understood that draw-
back to consummating proposed
deal with Breen lies In o.vercomlng
opposition of M-G studio execs who
registered -displeasure when Breen
left his PCA post in a surprise move
to become head of RKO studios.

Majority of MPPDA members
have not given up hopes of getting
Metro to agree to Iplans which .have
been worked out. Nick Schenck,
Loew's prexy, wh6 went to the
Coast last we6k, was to take up the
matter while at the studio. Schencic
favors Breen's return, from ' ac-
counts, ~ '

Meantime Breen's posltlon,^at RKO
is that of studio head. Placed di-
rectly under Breen Is Charles 'W.
Koerner as head - of the qreatlve
division. Understood that all other;
studio execs are to report directly
to Kdemer, instead of to Breen, as
formerly, while this arrangement
remains- In force.- Reginald Ar-
mour, assistant general manager In
charge of the back lot K. Rettig,
'William' Holman and others are
Under Koerner's . wing under- ciic^
rent experimental setup.

^hibs Discuss Sx-Bay Theatre Week
luEvent of FifanorPtower Curtailment

Recalling that picture houses went
on a six-day week during ^orld War
I, first closing on Sundays and later
switching to Mondays or Tuesdays,
exhibitors are again discussing pos-
sibility of the six-day operating basis
in event of curtailment of product

Of possibly greater significance fai
theatre operation would be the coal
situation in casp of slower transpor-
tation due to right of way to war
material shipments, while .power and
labor supplies would also come un-
der consideration when war Indus-
tries hit their peak.

Some operators are of opinion that
a six-da.v.-.week will not come into
effect until such time as power be-
gins to be used up at a rate which
will call for conservation. These
operators' also recall -Ihat "dufing the
last war, when houses first closed
Sundays, grosses on Monday were so
heavy that the Sunday closing loss
was fully compeaiated for.
- Of the several propositions

advanced for cutting down the
amount of screen running . time
per theatre, ' it is understood' that
many exhibitors favor the one-day-
per-week shutdown idea. Nothing
will be done until the priorities rul-
ing Is made, but it has been under
discussion and pointed up as the
most logical solution for economiz-
ing on material.

Any such shuttering would logic-
ally fall on an off-day such as Mon-
day when numerous theatres play
only to 25-40%. of capacity. Ma-
jority of houses have sufficient seat-
ing capacity to take care of this
added 25-40% business, lost on Mon-
days, on the following day, or
spread but through the weeic One-
day closing would reduce the
amount of positive film consumption

I by' one-seventh. Further it would
mean a saving on power, wear-and-
tear on equipment and also, free the-
atre employees an extra day -week-

lly for a war defense work.

Independent circuit operators In
the Greater New York area are re-
ported Inspecting theatre properties
that may be on the market with a
view to sewing, theni up for them-
selves in a move obviously designed
to buck Paramount on a plan to
invade . the territory by acquiring
a chain of its own, as result of prod-
uct difficulties.

Paf,, which could not get together
with the Skourais and Century cir-
cuits on a product deal this season,
is said to have -made a comprehen-
sive survey of the entire zone in
which these chains operate, includ-
ing N. Y., Brooklyn, Long Island,
northern New Jersey, Westchester
and lower N. Y. state, to detenriine
the advisability of organizing, a sub-
sequent-run chain of its own as
guarantee for outlet of its pictures.

High company executives are tm-
derstood to have personally In-
spected ntmnerous theatres and
looked over sites on Which Par might
build, as well as stores which lend
themselves to conversion into pic-
ture houses; but no options, so far as
is known, ha^'e been taken, ■

Meantime, -with ihdle operators
learning about Par's hiterest in
buUding up a circuit for ItseU in
the Greater . N. Y. zone and sur-
rounding country, they are them-
selves, scouting around to see if
there are any stray houses, on- the
avaUable lists which they mi^ht
grab.

Terms Squabbles
Pu^rted interest of Par In ac-
quiring or buUdlng theatres in
N. Y, Brooklyn, Westchester, etc.-
stems from inability of the distribu-
tion department to obtain what it
believes fair iettns' for lt» pic-
tures from 8ubse<)uent-run circuits -
which it sells in' the metropolitan
N. Y. region. In order to play the.
.territory. It is In the position of
having to give its product to the
independents, such as Skourss Bod
Ontury, or not play (he 85 houses
of these two circtUts at sU, Bbth
Skouras and Century refused, to
(Continued on page 18)

If a StageMs Fired •
For Stew Stitf^ Biirdes
Of Proof s on nieatre!

Negotiations between Tlieatncal
Protective Union .No. 1, New York
stagehands, and N. Y. th*Btres usihif~
stageshows, ate In a stBUt of flux as
result of discord over the condition
with respect to seasonal employment
and the discharge of members for
stated causes.

The union wants, a new' contract
which would make it inciimbent
upon the management of a theatre to
prove dunkenness, incompetence . or
dishonesty in order to fire a stagey
hand Tor- mainteiiant¥° mtfiS, •whef eiri"
previously under the so-called sea-,
sonal employment clause, a theatre' ~
could replace an entire crew iwic*
a year if it liked.

Managerial resistance to the no-
fire clause arises largely from the
fact that If a theatre feels it is justi-
fied in discharging a stagehand or
maintenance man, it must prove it to
the executive board of No, 1 befora
the man may be removed from tha
payroll.

Pointed out that If a stagehand
showed up at the theatre drunk this
would then probably mean that doc-
tors would have to be called to at-
test to the fact or else No. 1' might
decide otherwise.' In any event on
charges of drunkenness,. Incompe-
tence or dishonesty, ttie theatre
would have to give a two weeks'
notice.

In addition to repeal of the sea-
sonal employment clause. No. 1 if
asking for a 16% Increase, retroac-
tive to Feb. 1 last and other condi- -
Uons,

8 FILM REVIEWS

Wedaesday,^ March 25,' 1942

REAP THE WILD WIND

(COLOA)

Paramount release of 0«lt B. BaM\l»
prortucllon; dlrecled by DeMllle. Stiin
Ray Mlllana. John Wum, Paulette OoS-
aaril; featurea Hnymond iUseey, Rouert
Freston, Susan Hayward. Iiynno Overman.
Bcreonplay by Alan LeMay, Charles Ben-
nott and Jesf<» Ln"kv. Jr., from novel l<v
Tholma Slrabel. Associate producer. Bill
Pine; nsHO. director, Arthur Rosaons soore,
Victor Youns: camerae, victor Mllner,
TS'llllam V. Skall; procesa photogropny,
Fnril.t Rdo'inrt: ^'Itm-. Ann^ niii'fheM.
Prclcwed In P"J«ctlon Room. N. T..
March 20. "42. Running tlino: Isl .MiriB.

Stephen ToUlver R«f ^}lt^l

emit. Jack Martin ■^■•;'?}'^r, JZ'^x

Loxl Claiborne Jf"""""., °«JlirJ

Kine Cutler »,.Roymond

Dan Cutter A?"**'''„?r^*?5

Crusllla Alston,... Suaan Hnyward

Cnpl. Phillip Phllpolt T-ynno Overman

•Bully* Brown Chorlea nicUfnrd

Commoaor* Devereaux. . . . Walter Hampden

Ivy Devercanx Mnrttxi O'Drlacoll

Maum Mario

Mrs. Clalboma • • Elisabeth Rlfdon

Aunt Henrietta. Bereaford. . . .Heddn. Ho per

Mrs. Mottrenm • • y'r">r

Cftot. Carrulhers Kc'th Richnnis

5!nU Meat .Orcnr Polk

§?,o Limb. Wey ^'lllle D«yl,

Bnm. the Mate J-ane Chonjller

Judw MnT^•In "^'r'^™ "x.^rrm

Capt. of Pelican i; • • V JL"^L'i

Doctor Jepson ^"^^i.i^ J^SZ^^

JA. Fatrngut Mllhum Stone

Chinkapin Ben Carter

Marking his 30th anniversary as a
producer, director and writer of mo-
tion plcttjres, Cecil B. DeJtille once
again delves into the less familiar
archives of American historical lore.
This time he brings forth "Reap the
Wild, Wind,' a melodrama of Atlantic
coastal shipping in the windjammer
days, 100 years ago. It is a film pos-
sessing the spectaculiar sweep of col-
orful backgrounds which character-
ize the DeMille type of screen enter-
tainment Also, it is his fifth suc-
cessive piece of - screen Americana,
starting with The Plainsman' and
Including TChe Buccaneer,' 'Union Pa-
cific,' and 'Northwest Mounted Po-
lice.* In popiilarlty and boxoflice.
draft, however, it is unlikely to reach
the records of Gome of its immediate
predecessors.

'Wild Wind' is peopled with men
who.saUed the seas for rich profits
as ships' owners and masters in trade
with the West Indies and So. Ameri-
can ports. In conflict Is a daring
and scavenger group that lived on
the water front of the daug^ous Key
West passage and thrived on salvage
recLiiimed from cargoes of vessels
wrecked mi the reefs In tropical hur-
ricanes. Some of the "rescuers^- were
not above scheming with confeder-
ates for th« delibeiate breaking up of
ships. Salvage was a racket al well
as a hazardous trade.

Heroine of' the stoiy, as told orig-
inally by lliejma Strabel In a Sat-
evepost serial. Is an untamed daugh-
ter of the shoals, who has fallen Iteir
to a salvage dtip. Paulette Goddaxd
plays the. part with a good deal of
physical enthusiasm. Much is de-
manded of her. She does a turn at
tiie piano as a chanteuse. Later she
Is. struggling In the water fully
clothed. Romantically, her affections
are torn between two rivals. Bay
Milland and John Wayne. Tbe 'trio
carry star billing. Other DeMille
pictures have had more potent mar-
quee lure. ' '

It interest in the sea-faring vicissi-
tudes of the principals sags in spots
dicing the two .hours required for
tinreeung '^e fllin, the cat^ may be
attributed to the manner In which
the story is told; rather than any
lapse in the scenic panorama or in the
efforts of the players.

After a. short foreword by DeMille,
the picture opens with scenes of a
hurricane, shipwreck and . struggle
for bounty among the salvage' work-
ers. This melodramatic tempaJs-lqa.
swift to be maintained. Various
angles of plot and contest necessarily
must' be introduced. The pacing is
une\ren.

Towards the end, however, the ac-
tion quickens. There Is a unique film-
ing of an imdersea battle between a
giant squid, of octopus descent, and
the two male protagonists. Despite
Its obvious makerhelieve. It is shrewd
filming, realistic and thrilling,.' and
likely to he the most talked about
■ -lh<iraisiR-tM"ia<-T»lrtniv, — -■-^^^'r?

Done in Technicolor throughout,
- .the prt(du«kntt ls~a'."tlata trtuMi*,
Some of .'the marine scetifes are
breath-taking. . There is ' skillful
bleridlhg, also, of process photog-
raphy and.mlniature,.both above and
below the water line. -Farciot ^dou-
art Is credited 'with these unusual
scenes. Major camera a^ienment
fell to Victor Mllner and William V.
Skall. . • ,

Cast Is a large one and DeMille has
assembled some well known support-
ing ptoyers. Raymond Massey. in ^he
role of the' chief villain and sabo-
teur. Is menace enough' lor a dozen
' films, I^ne Overman has One of
bis happiest assignments in a com-
edy part. With so much emphasis
on action, there is scant time for
Susan Bayward and Robert Preston
--io develop their secondary rntnantic
plot Walter Hampden, Elisabeth
Risdon, Hedda Hopper and. others
have' bit parts.

Much of interest is in the architec-
tural reproductlDns of the period.
The Interiors ere elaborate and the
costuming vivid. Production -Uiroughi
out expresses the finest technical 'at-
tention, both in preparation and exe-
cution. Flin.

JUNGLE BOOK

(OOLOB)

TTnlted Artists releaas of Alexander Korda

S reduction. Fasturea Sabu, Joseph Callela,
obn Qualrn, Frank Puglia, Roaemary De
Camp. Patrlrla, U'Rourke, Ralph Byrd.
DlrcFted 'by Znltsn Korda, Screenplay and
dialoi; by Laurence Stslllngs, from Budyar<l
KlpUng'a liook. ProducUon designed by
Vincent Korda. Cameras. Leo Qarmea and
W. Huwiml Oreon: music, Mlkloa Roisa;
editor. William Ifombock. Prerlewert In
projection room, N.Y..' March 29. 'VI. Run-
njni; time, lOB mNS.

Mow-Rll VAl^^"

Kuldco Joseph Callela

The Barber John Qualen

Tho Pundit Frank Puglla

Mensua Roaemary Do 'Camp

Mahnia Patricia O'Bourke

Da,.ea Ralph Byrd

Rao John Mather

FJncllah Cilrl Faith Brook

Sikh Noble Johnson

On the same grand scale of pic-
torial elaborateness which charac-
terized 'Thief of Bagdad,' Alexander
Korda brines again to the screen the-
diminutive East Indian player, Sabu,
in a film version of Rudyard Kip-
ling's 'Jungle Book.', It is impressive
panorama of India, a country and a
people that right now are holding
the attention of the world. Such
timeliness as showmanship may ex-
tract from that angle, and the fact
that the book a generation ago was
widely read, may help its boxoffice
intake. It is a problem in exploita-
tion, nevertheless, with need of spe-
cial handling in key cities.

Kipling's character, Mowgli, who
strayed into the jungle as a child and
was brought up by a she-wolf in ap-
proved Remus and Romtilus style, is
most likely to be confused by film-
goers with Tlarzan. Laurence Stal-
lings has written the screenplay, and
although he has developed some of
the spectacular opportunities, the
human-interest elements have been
slighUd. Mowgli's return to the na-
tive village as a grown-up yotith and
his subsequent adventures in civili-
zation are handled in neither a hu-
morous nor dramatic manner, ' The
saga of the boy who could converse
with animals is related very serious-
ly, whereas the theme might have
been better entertainment it treated
in a lighter vein.

As directed by Zoltan Korda, the
fiction takes secondary place to the
highly interesting and sometimes
amazing views of jungle animajs in
the brilliance of colored photography.
Nothing was spared in effort and pa-
tience to assemble an unusual gallery
of wild life. Some of the vistas,
which in turn were designed by Vin-
cent Korda, gave the illusion of deep
forest depttis, of dank underbrush
and forbidden nooks. Tigers: pan-
thers, hyenas, elephants and the en-
tire Jungle population lived . and
fought for survival Ii^ these sur-
roundings, ^

Much of the wild life as shown in
Its natural habitat Is- interesting.
Some sign language between the
animals and Mowgll mi^t ade-
quately have conveyed ell the neces-
sary dramatic values of their Inti-
macy. It Is something of a shock
and a t»mplete destroyer of illusion,
therefore, when Sabu carries on a
whispered conversation With his
cobras, pythons and some of the wild
beasts. It is also a little silly.

Depending almost entirely on- the
pictorial grandeur and the produc-
tion novelty, Korda has neglected
any but 'a slight development of the
human equation. Players therefore
have unimportant assignments, with
the exception of Sabu, who swims
and swings his way through the
jungle with ease and grace. Joseph
Callela; Jdin Qualen, Rosemary De
Camp and Patricia O'Rourke have
the other leading roles. FUn.

Mioiatare Reviews

•Reap the Wild Wind' O'er)
(Color). Another seml-hlstorlcal
DeMlUe production, tyeighty with
action at sea 100 years ago.

'Jungle Baak' <UA-Korda)
(Color), Sabu In an elaborate
pictorial version of Rudyard Kip-
ling's story; needs special selling,

'Batch Minds tke Baby* (U>.
Fine film version «t Damov,
Runyon tale. Strong for gen-,
eral runs,

'TWO Tanks In Trinidad' (Col).
Pat O'Brien and Brian Don-
levy in rowdy service comedy
drama. Ok general appeal,

'Juke Box Jenny' (U), Juke-
box talent spotted in static filmu- .
sical for mild support, in duals. .

'Mokey' (M-G), Training
.ground for studio talent, a lower-
case budgeter with light enter-
tainment appeal. Dual fillers.

'Tokel Boy' (Songs) : (Rep).
Mediocre filler for duals.

'Man From Headquarters'
(Mono). Entertaining Indie that
will do all right.

Butch Minds Baby

Hollywood, March 21,
Unlvonal releose ot Damon Runyon IMay-
falr-Jules Lcvny) pTOductlo m.- Fea tmta 'Vli^
cinia Bhice, Brod Crawford, DRk' 'FUtvi.
Directed by Albert 3. RogelL Screenplay
by Leonard Splgelgusa, -from magBslne story
by Damon Runyon; cnmera, Woody Br«dell;
editor. Slllton Carroth; oast, director, How-
ard Chrlatla, Previewed at RKO H1U-
etroet. L. A., Horcli 20, 42, Running time,

Susie O'Neill Vlrslnla Brace

Aloyslua Grojia ('Butch'),, Brod Crawford

Donnla Devlin Dick Foran

Brandy smith Porter. HaU

Ilany the Hone RIchud Lue

BUnky Swaen.er,;,.,...„..,S)>emp Howard
Mrs, Tatoocl Roslna Galll

Wy^mlnc Bill. '. . . ,Fu2ty Knfeht

Cflctuj Jiptt jj^. J . . .Grant Withers
J. Wndflworth Carrlncton. .Russell Hicks
Michael O-Nelll Baby Michael Banlts

from there on It's a continual series
of laughable and human episodes. In
which Crawford takes the baby un-
der his wing— sidesteps law-brealdng
for the Idd, but also jeopardizes his
liberty to provide tl^e yoimgster -wrlth
an eventual education. He's threat-
ened and helped in turn by Dick
Foran, young cop on the best, who's
also stuck on the baby— and Miss
Bruce.

Picture Is studded with typical
Runyon bright situations and unes;
for which director Albert Rogell and
scripter Leonard Splgelgass can take
bows. Characters are clearly sketched
for 'maximum attention. Spigelgass
caught the spirit and lightness of the
Runyon tale for effective screen pres-
entation, and Rogell carries through
to turn out a zesttul job of direction.
Picture rates a follow-up from Run-
yon for a possible series.

Cra'wford" turns in a top perform-
ance as the tough cafe-:cracker and
slow-thinker, whosebraih starts func-
tioning when he's given responsibil-
ities of the baby's care. Foran Is
excellent as the young c<)p, who's
continually confused by the strange
soft^in? of the ex-convlct Dy the
baby infiuence. Miss Bruce does well
as tiie young mother and romance
Interest virith Foran. Shemp Howard
plays the partts off a Runyon char-
acterization— an ex-bootlegger mug
with bad eyesl^t who continually
stumbles Into people and doors.
Strong support Is provided by Rich-
ard Lane. Rosina Galll and Porter
Hall. Baby Michael Bamltz Is one
ot the cutest tots uncovered In Holly-
wbod in- some time, and Rogell show^
cases his antics, coos and smiles to
greatest advantage. Wolt. .

2 Yanks in Trinidad

(ONE SONG)
Hollywood, March 20.
Columbia releaas of Samuel BlschoS pro-
duction. Stois Fat O'Brfeii and Brlaa Don-
levy. Directed by Orcgory Batoir. Scraan-
play by By Bartlett. nichard Carroll, Harry
Sesali; story by Bartlett; additional dialoff,
Jacic Henley; camera, FhlUlp Tansora; edi-
tor. Viola Lawrence; aast. director. Nonnan
Doming; song by Sammy Cahn and Saul
fjiaplln. Previewed at PantSBeo, March M,
'Ml. Running time, K MTNS.

Tim Reardon.'. .....Pat O'Brien

"Vlnce Barrows Brian Donlevy

Fatilola Dare ...Janet Blalr

James W. Buckingham ITT.... Roger Clark

Serseant ValcnUne. Donald UacBride

Chlcoso Hagen John Bmery

Jos Scavenger Frank Jenks

Mike Fondlse , Frank SuUy

Bubbles 'Veda Ann Boiv

Colonel .Powen • Clyde Fillmore

Sea Captain i Dick Curtis

Maltn D' Slg Amo

'Butch Minds the Baby* is an ef-
fervescing and spontaneous piece of
entertainment for widest audience
appeal. It's typically Runyonesque
in both story and dialog, and the
screen tran^osltion retains all of the
delightful flavor of the author's
original. Although light on marquee
strength, picture is fine entertain-
ment that will catch plenty of cus-
tomers when wocd gets around — and
may surprise 'with hefty biz. It's a
cinch for the family circuit

Picture has all the Ingredients
necessary tor maximum audience at-
tention. As title indicates, there's a
baby, a cute toddler of about a year,
to catch ohs and ahs from the women
patrons; and strong wicket attention
will be obtained from the latter. So
far as the men' are concerned\ pic-
ture's a natural

Brod Crawford, ex-safe cracker
paroled from Sing Sing, is provided
with job of janitor ot a bro'wnstone
flat building. Wfajen he sav«s Vir-
ginia Bruce fromsuldde attempt, tha
iough guy goes soft for her baby and

"Two Yanks In Trinidad' Is a rough'
and-ready rowdy service comedy-
drama closely following the familiar
Quirt-Flagg formula.. It's a godd.pIe-
ture of Its type, and due for moderate
attention and fairly profitable biz as
key billtopper. Best groove, however,
will be along the family circuit

Story evolves come new twists to
•aife iocceptca' Mf«^'«tf-'appwj«!»PTim«»
service picture to generate solid
brawling laughs. oi'Brien and~i>an
levy are partners— bit shot racketeers
and close pals. A minor Inddent
separates them, with O'Brien joining
the army to escape Donlevy and the
mob. He's sblpped to duty in Trini-
dad, 'With Donlevy joining up to fol-
low with" bodyguards Frank Jenks
and Frank Sully, There are the
usual difficulties between Donlevy
and tough top sergeant Donald Mac-
Bride, until the pair get tangled with
a German agent maneuvering to get
shipments ' of oil through tiie bay
minefields. Feud ends' with the two
pitching In to save each' other and
capture the Nazi spy.
'.O'Brien provides a vigorous por-
trayal as the two-fisted lead, and
Donlevy clicks as the pursuer "whose
continual disregard of army disci-
pline keeps things in an uproar.
Jenks and Sully add minor trimmings
as the two stooges of Donlevy, whUe
MacBride is the tough sergeant al'
though sketched too broad 'via dliee-
tion, Janet Blair handles her assign'
ment as the cafe entertainer Id <0M

Buowntaniy vcfve,'^ Ro(er cusIe 'hHI

Jdin BntiT ai* also okay In aup-
portlngipote . „
^DIic«cti«a by Oregor^ Hetoff ac-
c«ntaate« every altuanon, both in
comedy and drama, but picture main-.
tfiws generally fast pace to provide
sufficient general entertainment for
the regular runs. Wolt

JUKEBOX JENNY

(WITH SONGS)

Hollywood, March 23.
Unlvonal nleass ot Jas. O. SsnfonI I>ro-
duetlon. Stars Ken Murray, Harrlkt H11-
llard, Charles Bamet bond, Wlngy Manone
band. Milt Herth Trio; features Iris Adrian,
King's Men, Uartorle Oateson. Directed by
Harold Toniig, Original screenplay, Robert
Lees. Fred RInaldo, Arthur "V. Jones, Dor-
cas Cochran; camera, John W. Boyle; muslo
by Milton Rosen, Everett Carter, Charles
BarneL Running time, SB MIN8.

Malcolm Hammond.- Ken Uorray

Genevieve Hotton.. Hari-let Hllllard

Soger Wodsworth.... '....Don Douglas

Jinx Corey Iris Adrian

Mra. Horton.,... Mnrjorle Oateson

Randlnl ' , ,'.SIg Anfo

Tommy .....Joe Brown, Jr.

Brother Wicks... Med Hadley

Brother Chllds... Jack Arnold

Judge ....Charles Hslton

Jinx's Lawyer WlllIMm Buhl.

Gravea Don DUlaway

MIn Carruthers .Clairs DuBrey

Flnt Ctntom OtAcer James .PUvtn

Dancer ; LaRlnna

Universal utilizes popular jukebox
talent for musical showcasing In this
program .filmusical that will mildly
entertain as support In the secondary
duals.

Static story and the same kind of
direction provides bumpy presenta-
tion of the lightweight story pio'vlded
as a framework for the musical dis-
play of current off-beat tunes. Effort
to provide comedy moments fails
entirely with strained presentation
by writer and director.

Ken Murray is the dynamic sales
manager for a record company oper-
ated by Don Douglas and bankrolled
byitlarjorle Gateson. Douglas Is en-
gaged to the letter's daughter, ' Har-
riet Hilliard, but roped into inebri-
ated marriage by Iris Adrian. In
assisting to extricate Murray from
his romantic difficulties, Murray
falls for Miss Billiard, and winds up
making her a favorite of the jtikebox
trade through deft manipulations of
the recording and dubbing processes.

Charles Barnet, with his orchestra
and trio', headline the musical enter-
tainment, and his name may attract
a few extra customers. Miss Hilliard,
Miss Adrian and the King's Men
capably handle the vocal numbers-
all In modem tempo — ^whlle the Milt
Herth Trio toss off two snappy tunes
'with their 'unusual instrumoit com-
bination.

IScore Is evenly divided hetween
past favorites and new tunes. Bar-
net's "Fifty MflUon NltAels' Is a
peppy number for record attention,
while 'Svrlng It Mother (}oose,' sung
by Miss Adrian, and 'Give Out,' vo-
calized by Miss Hilliard, are above
par. Swing tempo for Then You'll Re-
member M and 'Sweet Genevieve'
is excellently arranged. Musical se-
quences are spontaneous - and peppy
throughout, but the cast lacks enthu-
siastic direction to provlde'inore than
static performances. Even 'Murray
finds difficulty In :tossing out lines
for any kind of laiigh reaction, and
most <d the story episodes are bore-
some. -^oXt.

MOKEY

Hollywood, March 24.

Metro release ot J. Walter Subon produc-
tion. Features Dan Dniley. Jr„ Donna
need, Bobby Blake, Directed by Wells
Root, . Screenplay .by Boot and Jan For-
tune, baaed on stories by Jennie Hnrrla
Oliver; camera, Charles Sosher; editor,
Frank SqlUvan. Tmdeshown la I,. A-
March H, '42. Bunatag Uma. \1 MIMS.

Herbert Delano,..'. Dap DaUey. Jr

Aathea Delara ,,Donna_lUed.

Mokey Delano........ Bobby Blake

Booker T. Cnmby Cordell Hickman

Brother Cumby.,Wm. 'Buckwheat' Thomas

Cindy Mollehus... Etta McDanlel

Befonia Comby ....Marcella Moreland

f?t 5««l v Geonte lloyd

Mr. Pennington......... Matt Moore

Annt Deedy Cleo Desmond

Mr. Oraham ...ClUt Clark

Mrs. Oraham , lifary Field

Brlokley Aotry -. Bob1>y Btebblna

IftMds Ben Sara VoDanlel

Is. minor leaf le entertain-

. mimii .

filler dating in the secondary duals.
IPs a draiBfi of a " lirne^Sai^iEf Bby
who continually generates trouble for
himself and parents In semi-Incor-
rigible manner. It's loosely-woven
and 25 minutes too long In the tell-
ing.

Picture Is one of the so-called
training camp series tossed out by
Metro in recent blocks CFlnger At
the Window* and 'Kid Glove KUler'
were ot similar setup). In order to
give new talent in all lines a chance
to show their abilities for the front
office execs at a minimum of produc-
tion cost. Main difficulty In this in-
stance is a rambling and non-jelling
script that dwells too much on In-
cidental material rather than hewing
to. a straight line of dramatic telling.
UtUe Bobby Blake, in the title rmA,
displays talent at times, but Is han-
dicapped by the burdensome end epi-
sodic script provided. Dan DaUey,
Jr„ Is okay as the father, while Donna
Reed Is good as the new wife In the
hoasalOU Ufao tried to -understand
the misehlevloasness ot tier newly-
actjulred st^nou.

'Milpt 'wUb'ilfeft'EVatHneii In MOdttlon

to taandlinK the direction chorea,
might have done better on the meg-
glng end If his writing had been more
compact. Yam Is rather hard to
catph and bold audience, attention.
There are Intermittent periods ot
sympatl\y and bewilderment at the
antics forced on the youngster dur-
ing his BcqiiialUon of a new mother,
but it adds up to a rambling narra-
tive of minor Interest for the <on-
loolier.

Bad judgment Is evidenced by
studio officials making this one un-
suitable for the Idd trade. During
young Blake's runaway he waves a
knife end talks abovit cutting off his
head — certainly not good in a picture
tliat might be sho'wn to children ot
impressionable age. . Walt.

YOKEL BOY

(WITH SONGS^

Republic releaae ot Robert Korth produc-
tion. Featurea Albert Oekker, Joan Davis,
Eddie Foy, Jr., Alan Mowbray. Directed
by Joseph Santley. Screenplay by Isabel
Dawn from story by Russell Rouse, baj^ed
on lecit muslcnl by Lew Brown: camera,
Ernest Millar; editor, Edward Unnn;
musical director, Cy Feuer; songs, Lew
Brown, Ram- Stept, Charles Tobias and
Rhawn-Petrlllo-Rosa. ■ Previewed In Pro-
jection Room, N, T., March 18, '42. Run-
ning time: <• MIMB.

BngKsy Malene ......Albert Dckker

Molly Unions .Joan Davis

Joe Ruddy Eddie Foy,. Jr.

R. B. Harris Alan Mowbray

Al Devecs. Roscoe Kams

Araatotr Mikhail Rasumny

Vora Valolne Lynne Carver

Trigger Marc Lawrence

Professor Tom Dugnn

Johnson Pierre Watkin

Painter ;T...,.Jam«B C. Morton

Stenographer Marilyn Hars

'Yokel Boy' works so hard to be
funny you can .ee the perspiration
standing right out on its brow. And
that ain't funny. Chalk it up as a
modest supporter In the duals, likely
to click better with th 'yokel boys'
than the big cit folk.

Republic bills the film as being
based on the stage musical of the
seme name by Lew Brown. It's true
enough that Rep paid $5,000 for
screen rights to Brown's 'Yokel Boy*
— bi4t it must be saving that script
for another picture. This is based
on an entirely different idea and
doesn't- even contain any of McA
music of the legiter. Show was .
purchased as a vehicle for Judy
Canova. star of the Broadway ver-
sion, whom Ren had under contract,
but she's apparently gone, with tite
original plot and music.

The' picture story, concocted by
RusseU Rouse and screenplayed
Isabel Da'n'n, starts off with a novel
enough idea, but gets lost in Inferior
'Writing and direction, .Joseph Sant-
ley. 'whom Rep repeatedly assigns
to megging these fllmusicomedtes,
just doesn't have the touch to set
them off, .

Eddie Foy, Jr„ probably as yokel
a boy as can be found any:where, is
neatly cast as a guy from the- stix
whose local paper claims he has
seen more .'films than^,«nyone else in
the country and can pi'edict to the
dollar what a picture' will gross in
the hometown, Roscoe Kams, p.a.
for a brokendowr. Hollywood studio,
brings him to the Coast as a gag,
idea being hell pass on all the com-
pany's sfripts.

. Hearing producer Alan Mdwbray
trying to cast a gangster role, Foy
suggests the gangster himseU for the
part and he's duly assigned to sign
the tough jiw (All «rt Dekker) lor
the role. . Defcker gets screenstruck,
causing
while :

cated ' wiui . vox musuLvauiui b sum.

Joan Davis. Tom DeUcer's assistant
Lawrence are LsKker's assistant .
mobsters.

Foy is the only member of the
cast who seems to have been able
to successfully get over the. bad
situations ond^ lines, Dekker and
Miss Davis sadly overplay for the
comedy. Femme is given two tunes,
'It's Me Again,' by C3iarles Tobias,
Sam Slept and Lew Brown (who
did original "Yokel Boy' tunes) with
revised lyrics by Sol Meyef , and
'Jim' billed bp written by Shawn-
PetriUo-Ross. Neither counts for
Petrillo-Ross. Neither counts for
much as. done by Miss Davis, though
the heart-throb melody of 'Jim' Is
still suggestive of its one-ttone click
proportions. Herb.

Man From Headquarters

Uonognm nkase of Undsley Panons

production. - Features Frank Albertnon,
Joan Woodbury. Ditwted by Jean Tsr-
broogh. Stoty and adaptation, John Kiatt
and RoUo Lloyd: editor. Jack OgUvle;
camera. Tnillam Strohhach. At New
Totk, 'N. T., , dual, week March 17, '42.
Runnlpg Ume: M SUNS.

Larry Doyle Frank Albertson

Ann 7oan Woodbury

Marvin..,- John Maxwell

Padroni ..'...« Max Hoffman, Jr.

Jonta DIok Elliott

Hotel Manager.,... >Byron Fonlger,

Hotel Clerk. Robert Ksllard

Qoldle ....«Arthttr O'Connell

Knucks, Fool Bryar

Kate ; Irvlna MltcbeU

Wseks ...,.,O«0iKS O'Hanlon

Telegraph Olrl,... Christine Molntyis

For an independent, 'Man from
Headquarters' rates several degrees
irt>ove average. It's a romantic .
drama with an underworld and
newspaper background that will
hold Its own where not pointed too
hljh.

Fictare represents a good 'writing
Job and has been fery well plotted.
John Uatl and.Ro- Lloyd did the
■tory,>.supplVln4t dialog that stands
' ' < (Continued on iwge 18)

Wedneodaj, BIwrch .2S, 1941

picnmi; oRosm

Trisco LiT-Biisse Ringed $20,000
In Dinner ^vitt (ftay 33G,
Turchase'13Gm3d'Story'10GH.O.

Chicago, March 24.

Weekends remain terrific but week-
days BJ« more and more putting a
crimp In the total take. Hence, man-
agers are beginning to take the week-
end coin with a grali» of aatt because
of midweek lulL ,

Henry Busse orchestra plus Trisco
LU' Is scoring Impressively at the
Oriental for a sturdy $20,000. In
the Chicago the Jan Savltt band is
proving ' a ' good attraction helped
vastly by "Man Who Came to Din-
ner,' with an aU right $33,000 in
prospect.

Eatlmate* for This Week

Ap«Ue (B&K) (1,200: 35h05-69-7&)
— ^"Appointment Love' (u) and 'Gen-
tleman Heart' (20th). Good $9,000.
{last week. 'Green VaUey' (20th) fin-
ished truly great run In Chicago,
having played a run of nine weeks
In the loop between the State-Lake
and this house, winding up with a
splendid $7,100.

*^ChlcBBo (B&K) (4.000; 35-55-75)—
"Man to Dinner' (WB) and Jan Sa-
vltt orchestra on stage. Excellent
comblnatio.., okay S33,000. Last
week, To Be' (UA) plus stage show
(2d wk), disapRplntlng slump after
a great first 10 days, $30,000. Under
expectations.

Garrlck (B&K) (900; 35-55-65-75)
—'To Be' '(UA)and Torpedo Boat'
(Par). First-named in a move-over
from the Chicago, but second film is
new in town. AU right at $7,500.'
Last week, "Throuth Night' (WB)
and 'Wise Guy' (Mono), finished
two-week stay here to good $4,800.

OrienUI (Iroquois) (3,200; 33-44-
B5)-^'Fflsco Lir (U) and Henry
-Busse orchestra on stage. Largely
the Busse band which Is accounting
for business,, excellent $20,000. Last
week, Frankie Masters orchestra
with Hoad Happiness* (Mono), okay
$17,100.

Palace (RKO) (2:500; 33-44-66-75)
—■Look Lau^!hing' (RKO) and 'CaU
Marines' (RKO) (2dwk). Fair enough
$11^000 after taking $15,300 on initial
session,

Roosevelt (B&K) (1.500; 35-55-65-

75) — 'Bedtime Story' (Col)' and 'Wild
Bill' (WB) (2d wk)» For holdover
session saUsfactonr $10,000 after hav-
ing snagged fine $11,300 last week.-

State-Lake B&K) (2.700; 35-55-65-

76) — *La. Purchase' (Par) (3d wk).
Riding right along and doing fairly
weU at $13,000, after nice $17,400
last week.

United ArUats (B&K-M-G) (1.700;
35-55-65-75)— 'Eager' (M-G) (3d wk).
Taylor-Turner, picture has caught on,
another fair $9,500 currently fol-
lowing heftv $14,500 last week.
Woods (Essaness) (1^00; 35-55-65

(Col). Nice $9,000. Last week. Paris
CalUng' (U) and 'Give Sucker Break'
(U), fair $7,300.

Ice Folfies' Hit Mpls.
M mman Year' Nice
$10,000; Kone' Ok 7G

_ Minneapolis, March 24.

Drawmg capacity crowds of 6,000
nightly during its 15-day run, 'Ice
Follies of 1042^ continues to be tough
opposition for film houses still suf-
fering from boxotfice Jolts handed
by federal and state income tax
drains, and Lent. An added blight
currently to biz Is the hi Builders'
MOW at the Auditorium. Despite aU
tms, filus unfavorable weather,
woman of the Yeai' is giving a nice
account of itself.

• AlUiough held for a second week,
To Be or Not to Be' has been a
heavy disappo .atment here. The only
loop stai{e„sbfiw_:tHltsch-JC9ti h!

in prospect. Last wedc. To B«'
(UA), disappointing $8,000.

Uptown (Par) (1,100: SO-40) — '
'Johnny Eager' (M-G). First neigh-
borhood showing. lAlld $2,000. Last
we^ 'Little Foxes' (RKO), big

WorU (Par-5tefffl3) (350: 30-40-90-
60)— "Lrdla' (UA) (2d wk). Light
$l,200rFirst week, mfld $1,800.

TO BE' ROBUST
1!IG. ST. LOUIS

St. Louis, March 24.

The product and b.o. la dull cur-
rently, but To Be or Not lb Be' «t
Loew's is off to a swell start "Lou-
isiana Purchase' is fairly good on h.0.
at the Ambassador.

Estimates for Thia Week

Loew'a (Loew) (3,172: 30-40-44)—
To Be' (UA) add 'Brooidyn Orchid'
(UA). Robust $19,000. Last week,
'Woman Year' (M-G) and shorts (2d
wk), neat $13,800 added to sock $20,-
000 first stanza.

Ambassador (F&M) (3,000; 30-40-
50)— 'La. Purchase' (Par) aind 'Glam-
our Boy' (Par) (2d wk). Good $10,-
000 after nice $13,000 on initial ses'-
sion.

Fox (F&M) (5,000; 30-40-50)—
"Rings on Fingers' (20tb) and 'Joan
Paris' (RKO). Not much; meagre
$8,000. Last week', "Lady Willing'
(Col) and 'Sullivan's Travels' (Par),
$8,800, disappointing.

MIssonrI (F&M) (3,570; 30-40-50)—
'Captains Cloudi' (WB) and 'Song
Islands' (20th). Good $6,500. Last
week, "Ride 'Eni Cowboy* (U) ahd
"Ball Fire' (RKO). neat $5,500.

St Loaia (F&M) (4,000; 30-40)—
'Dumbo '(RKO) and In Army* (WB).
So-so $3,000. £<ast week, 'Jail House
Blues' (U) and 'Frisco LU* (U), fair
$3,100.

Benny-Lombard Grand
l(12M Seattle's Best;
"Were Dancing' Oke 7G

Seattle, March 24.
Days have been shifted for the
early-forenoon (9:30) matinees- with
which three leading Hamrick-Ever-
green houses are experimenting upon

pr-!^2;™!?\i^,f)"U''fdrn't

(ColV NfPoMftnn Tji.f«,«*v Carle early weeK-oay mais oion I ao

First Rnns on Broadway

(Subject to Change)

Week of March 28
AHor— "Kings Row* (WB) (8th
week).

(Jtevtetoed in "Variety,* Dec. 24, 1941)
- Cqiltol— "The Invaders'. (Col)
4th week).

(Reviewed In MTarlety,' Nov. 6, 1941)

Criterion— 'Ride "Em Cowboy'
(U) (4th week).

IRtoteiMd In 'Variety,' Feb. 1)

Globe— "Two Yaolcs in Trin-
idad' -(Cpl) (28).

(Revieued In curreTit issue)

Musle Hall— 'Reap the Wild
Wind' (Par).

(Bavl«wed itv current Issue)

Paiamonnt— "Fleet's In' (Par)
(3d week), i
(Reviewed In 'Variety,' Jan. 21)

BUIto — 'Strange Case of Dr.
RX' (U) (27).

BlvoU— To Be or Not To Be'
(U) (4th week).
(Reviewed tn 'Variety.' Feb. IB)

Boxy — ^To'the Shores -of Trip-
oU' (20th) (25).
(Rinrtnoed in 'Variety.' March II)

Strand- "Rie Male Animal'
(WB) (27).

(Reviewed <n 'Variety,' March «),

, .W«'ek of AprU 2
Aatbr— "Crone With the Wind'
(M-G) (Repeat) (31).

Capitol— The Bugle Sounds'
(M-G).

(Reviewed In 'Variety,' Dec. 17, 1911)

Mnsle Hall— 'Reap the WUd
Windy (Par) (2d week).

Faramaniit— "My FaVOTit»
Blonde' (Par) (1).
(Reviewed in 'Variety,' March 18)

Elvoll- To Be or Not To Be'
(UA) (6th week).
' Bozy-^TO the Shores of Trip-
oli* (20th) (2d week). -

Strand— The Male Animal'
(WB) (2d week).

■■ BstlmatM for This Week

(Par.-i,inger) (900: 17-28)—

•S"^ M lllon* (UA) spilt with
5?'nbay Clipper* (U) and Treat "Em
Bough' (U). Good $2,000 in eight
.22*;.,^^^ 'WoU Man' (U)

and Mad Doctor' (U). terrific $3,300
In seven days.

Tf'ni?'',^,-}?-?) ^l-BO"; 30-40-50)-
"To Be' (UA) (2d wk.). Considering
the praise giv.n Jils on?, the lack of
boxofflce interes-c is amazing. Moved
here from State after a dlsappoint-
■ H^f ♦^/S,;?^?'.^ stm hobblrng to
pSSi.^w'SSPiv" *at Last week. "Son
JtiS <2d wk.), fair $4,000

after good *.9,000 first week.
In 28-30)-'Blues
w«v'*ft* SSPd $3,500. Last

nSli.^ (^). mild $2,900.

-^JP*??*..^-^) <2.800; 39-44-55)—
pxfe Hart' (20th). GlJiger Rogers

'Box

M nnS^'^v"* ^ these parte, oke
WOO. Last week, 'Bedtime Story'
(Col) plus BUI Rotlnson and Erme
600. ""^Jiestra J. Stage, good $14,-

•Wn^H* <?-3> «.3oq; 30-40-50)-

ttffi^.iT*^ Year" (il-G). Praise
AT^J?".**":! ^ one, and it may
«a.v here for two weeks; Big $10,000,

well, and so they are shifted to later
in the week.

■ 'To Be or Not To Be* at the Para-
mount is easily the best new entry,
doing great business. "The Invaders*
has a big second stanza at the Lib-
erty.

Estimates' for This Week.
Blue Moose (Hamrick-Evergreen)
(850; 30-40-58)— 'Roxie Hart* (20th)
and 'Confirm, Deny' (20th) (2d \vk).
Moved from Fifth Ave. Looking 131
swell $4,300. Last week, "Shanghai
Gesture' (UA) and 'Right to Heart'
(20th) (2d wk), nifty $3,300.

Collsenm (H-E) (1,900; 23-40)— "La.
Purchase' Par) and 'Swamp Water'
(20th) (2d run). Good $3,300. Last
week. 'Babes Broadway' (M-G) and
•All Money Buy* (RKO) (2d run),
good $3,100.

Fifth Avenne H-E) (2.340: 30-40-
58)— "Were Dancing' (M-G) and
'Nazi AgC'i'' (WB). Oke $7,000. Last
week, 'Roxie Hart* (20th) and *Cpn-
flrm. Deny* (20th), big $9,300.

Liberty (J-vH) (1,650; 30-40-58)—
'Invaders* (Col). (2d wk). Catching
on for a big $7,000 on second stanza,
week^same film, swell $10,000. ^

'Bugle Sounds' (M-G) and Obliging
Lady' (RKO) (2d wk). Moved over
from Paramount Trim $4,000. Last
week, 'Son Fury' (20th) and "Blue,
White, Perfect* (20th) C4th wk),
plenty hot $3,000.

Orpbeom (H-E) (2,600; 30-40-58)—
'In Army' (WB) and 'Jute Box Jen-
nie' (U). Mild t5,000. Last week.
'Ride Cowboy* (U) and 'KlUed Man'
(Mono), okay $6,700 for se^'-nd sesh.

PalomsT (Sterling) (1.3!^: 23-35-
50-58)- 'Sullivan's Travels' (Par) and
vaude. Gnorl $7,000. Last week,
"Yokel Boy' (Rep) and 'Queen Mur-
der' fCol) and vaude, so-.<:o $6,500.

P^rpmoant (H-E) (3.039: 30-40-68)
—To Be' rUA) and 'Ca<;*ie Desert'
(20th). Magnificent $12,000. Last
wefik. "Bi'^le Sounds' (M-G) Pnd
'OWiRlng I«dv* (RKO). nice M.300.

«^*5eTclt (Sterlioo^ <««k 30-40-58)
— 'M>>n tn Dinner' (WB) (5th wk).
TTar*^ to let go of and Will get solid
.*3.000 even on fifth PR'h. Last week,
o"^.. fllm. wand $3,700.

Winter Garden (SterJlnft fftOO; 20-
ao)— 'Foo* in HPiven' (WB) and
>t^pr^oA fpf^helor' (M-<^> (3d "-un).
"mr flon Last w«?k. "Unholv Part-
.perB* CM-OI and 'FoT>'T»<.nf( Touch*
7M-G.) /3d run)i good. $2*03. .•

K.C. BIZ, FILMS
DUIX, W 5G

Kansas City, March 24.
For second week in succession biz
is mild, and so are the pictures.
Tower with I>awrence Welk ahd orch
with 'Right to th^ Heart' is satisfac-
tory but not big despite ah admish
tut 'Captafn of the Clouds' at the
Orpheum is strong enou^ on Its sec^
ond week.

Estimates for This Week . .
Eaqnlre and Uptown (Fox-Mld-
weat (820 and 2.043; U-30-44)— 'Wolf
Man' (U) and 'Strange Case of Br.
RX' (U) doubled. Horror angles ex-
ploited . to . satisfactory $6,500. Last
week, 'Song of Islands' (20th), both
spots, ran nine days for $9,000, pleas-
ing If not record-breaking.

Hldlaad (Loew's) (4,000; 11-30-44)
—'Lady Willing' (Col) and 'Vanish-
ing American' (M-G). Light $7,500.
Last week. 'Were Dancing* (M-G)
and 'Joe Smith, American: (M-G),
fair $8,000.

NewBum (Paramount) (1,900; 11-
30-44) — "Remarkable Andrew* (Par)
and 'Mr. Bug* (Par). Little magnetic
power here, slow $5,000. Last weelc,
"Lady Has Plans' (Par), average
$8,000.

Orpheam (RKO) (1.600; 11-30-44)
— Captains (Houda* (WB) and "Splt-
fire Sea' (RKO). (Captains' account-
ing for good $7,000 ifi nine days. I.ast
week, same pair, lively $9,000.

TawerCToflee) (2,110; 11-30-50>—
"Right to Heart' (20«h), with Law-
rence Welk's band on stage. Gratify-
Ing $9,000, mostly due to orchestra.,
firsifr date in K. C. for Welk. Last
week, 'Bombay Clipper* (U) with
Mills Brolikers heading vaude bill,
likewise nice at $8,000.

OK $82,000; Tleet s In -Brown lins
Boiwen 48G 2i Tapr^^^ 30G

Business on Broadw^ remain^
spotty, ranging from poor to good or
a bit better. Payment of mcome
taxes, from wliicta a large slice of the
population is recovering, probably
Is having some effect on boxpfflces.
Lent also figures.

'Bedtime Story,' one of the new
pictures, is leading the parade . at
$82,000 or thereabouts, quite satisfac-
tory for the Music Hall. Other en'
tries are playing secondary first-runs
while la the holdover column, 'beet's
In,' aided at the Paramount by the
Les Brown orchestra, Connee Bos-
well and others, is on top. The Par
show closed its. second week last
night (Tues.). getting a substantial
$48,000, and begins Its third (final)
stanza today (Wed.), being a good
draw combination.

'Invaders,' now in Its thirTI week
at the straight-film Capitol, is doing
well enough at $26,000 or better to
remain » fourtti, while 'To Be or Not
To Be.' at the Blvoli, looks a suitable-
$23,000 this week (3d) and goes an-,
other.

. ^Strand Is poor at only around $20;-
000 with 'Always in My Heart' and
the Charllti Splvak band on the sec-
ond and final week. With Spivak
on the stage, business likely would
be much better if he was in with a
stronger b.o. picture. House opens
'Male Anlmal*^ and Shep Fields on
;Friday (27).

^ Holdover week of 'Song of Islands,'
concluded last night (Tues.) at the
Roxy, also very disanpolnting at
$28,000. To Shores of Triooll' onena
this morning (Wed.). 'Klhiu Row,'
which closes 8-week run at the AstW
Sunday night (29). did a mite better'
the past week (7tb) ^Tt $16,100 than
the prior lap (Sth) when it got $l0,-!
000. Metro moves 'Gone With the
WindLback Into tbe Aster Tuesdsy
(31) for a 'repeat date.

Abbott and Costello's 'Ride "Em
Cowboy' wound up'its third weelcat
the Criterion last night (Tues.), get-,
ting a good $11,000, and goes another
session. - State, playing 'JohnAy
Eager* second-run, with Louis Prima
orchestra' and Henny Youngman on
the staee. is doing strongly at a prob-.
able $30,000.

Bstbnates for "This Week. ...
Astor (Loew's). (1,012; 35-65-M.
$1.10)-T'Kings Bow' (WB) (8<h-
flnal wk.). - fioldihg up well, with
last week (7th), concluded Moiiday
(23), bringing In $16,100, a littie bel-
ter than the . sixth round wtiich was
$16,000. '(ktne With Wind' (M-C)
opens- on repeat date here, Tuesday
(31).

CaplUl (Loew*s) (4,620; 35'S5-S5-
$1.I0-$1J25)— Invaders' (Col) VIA
wk.). Remains steady at $26,000 or
over this week and holds. Last weeik
(2d), wa» $30,000. 'Bugle Sounds'
(M-G) is due Thursday (2).

Criterion (Loew's (1,062; 35-44-55-
7^'Rlde 'Em Cowboy' (U)' (4th.
wk.).. Pace continues solid with thtf
third stanza, through last night
(Tuesday), running to $11,000, Sec-
ond week was nearly $15,000, strongs
Globe (Brandt) (1,250; 28-35-55)—
'Secret Agent Japan* (20th). CUdc-.
ing satisfabtorlly- for $8,500 or bit
ttetter, but probably will not be held
over. Last ' week, 'Martin Eden'
(Col), fair $7,500

Falaee (RKO) (1,700; 28-35-44-05-
88-75)— 'Boxia Hart' (20th) and
•WUd Bin Blckok* (WB) (2d run).
Thi» combo appears about $9,000,
okay. Last week, Through Ni^tf
(WB) and 'Playmates' (^O) <2d
run), $8,000.

FarMMw* (Par) (3,664; 39-55-S5-
90)— 'Fleet'j In' (Par) and, on stage.

Sportsmen s Show Bops Qeve., But
-Long-Andrews Sis Trim %UM

. Cleveland, March 24.
Every stand drawing lush trade, in
spite of the annual. Canadian-Ameri-
can Sportsmen's Show, which cut in
by detouring 14,000 potential movie-
goers to Public HsU last Saturday
(21) opening.

Palace, nevertheless, is sailing way
ahead of competish, and Its Average
take with ^T^ady Is WUling,' heavUy
fortified by Andrews Sisters and
Johnny Long's orch on stage. 'Shang-
hai Creature' was hit by crlx and only
average at State. 'Ball Of Fire' is
still hot stuff for Hipp on the second
lap.

Estimates for This Week
AUen <BKO) (3.000; 30-35-42-55)—
'Men in Life* (Col). Fairly' satisfac-
tory $4,000. Last week, 'Hellzapop-
pin' (U) (2d wk), sweU $5,000.

Hipp (Warners) (3,700; 30-35-42-
55)— 'BaU Fire' (RKO) (2d wk). Re-
markably, robust and aided by smart
salesmanship here; nice.. $11,000 on

h.0. after sizzling $10,000 last weeik.

Lake (Warners) (800: 30-35-42-55)—
"Hellzapoppin* (U) (3d wk). Shipped
oVer from Allen, it*8 bucking the:
Billy House-Eddie Garr legit prpduc-
tion at the Hanna around corner, but
capitalizing publicity. Good $2,600
on tap. Last week, 'Captains Clouds'
(WB) (4th), okay $2,000.

Palaee (RKO (3,700; 30-35-42-55-
68)— 'Lady WiUing' (C!ol) plus An-
drews Sisters and Johnny Long's
orch on stage blU. A sock combo,
aimed to hit a great $22,000 or hot-
ter. Last weeli, 'Playmates' (RIvO)
with Glen Gray's,' landed only a
fairish $18,000. s

State (Loew's) (3,450: 30-35-42-55)
—•Shanghai. Gesture' (UA). Put In
the middle l$y strong rival product,
average $11,500. Last weelc, 'Were
Dancing' (M-G). weak $9,500.

StIUman (Loew's) (1.872; 30-35-42-
55)— To Be Or* (UA) (3dwk). Hold-
over more than pleasing at $5,000,
after nabbing $7,500 last week.

Les Brown, Connee Boswell, others
(Sd-flnal wk.). Big money-making
show, ' with, the second semester
ended last night (Tuesday^, puning
a sturdy $48,000. Initial sevoi days,
sock $59,500. ^ p

Badle CWi MmIo HtfD (Bocke-
tellers) (5,945; 44-55^9941.65)—
"Bedtime Stoiy' (CcJ) and stage-
show. Should get $83,000 or. In that
vidni^, rather good. Last week,
sixth for 'Woman of 'Veai:' (M-(I).
was $71,000, oke. 'Heap the Wild
Wind' (Par) opens tomorrow mom-
lug (Tlinrsday).

, Ualta (Mayer) (504; 28-44-55)—
"Vall^ of Sun' (BKO). Finldied at
$a,(DO, better than average, on week
tt.ded last nlrf»t^(Tues.), but boWs:
two addltknal days with "Strange
Case Or. B-X' (U) opening Friday
(XTX Last week; 'North Klondike'
(U), $5,200. liST ^

KhreU (UA) (2,002; 35-55-7S-«5-00)
—To Be* (U-A) (3d wk). Holding to
« fmrlr good pace at $S%(na this
wedc.andremam«. avcB. Last week,
hit $27,000. nice for second stanza.

mm 20tfa> (5,880; 3S-55-SS-75«>
—Shores IVlpoU' (20th> and
stagMhow. Opens this tiK»»lhg
(WedJ, succMing 'Song- Uaqds*
(20tb) which did not do weU; first
week onjy. $32,000. current . week
'$28,000, thin.

Stale (Loew's) (3,458; 2d-4tr55>-75-
00-$1.10)-^Johnny ^ag^ (M-q) (Sd
.run) and Louis Prima lend,, plus
Henny Toungman. bdlcatlOnif - are
lor tooundJW.000. fdie.' I*st Week,
•Corslcan Bros.^ (UA> (2d run) and

M>— 'Always in l^JIearf (WB) tind
Charlie ISpivak (2d-flhal wk>. Things
stil^ yeiy alow here, with no more
tiian kbotit $20^000 seen on the bold- '
over,^foUowiiq|( slow $35,000 ^flfst
weelff Spivak. held dowj>^ by t&e pic-
ture. New show Fridtor (2T), 'uiio
iixSroBV TfA Shep FiSS.' '■ '

|2^0iiudb.Jl^

' Oqiahal^ Ibxc^^ 34,''
.Sammy Kaye baiid oustage^vehed
in- near . blizzud at i^ipheum,^ tmt
aided by The Lady Has ^ans' -wfll
run. up .a great $22,0Q(V and miiy
craac the aU-time . record Ibt-nSe.
houses 'Bide r^Bm (Cowboy', at^ tire
^naba with Abbott and Cosiello Plus
Young America' Is also In the Ugger
coin brackets. - Paramount (Ta-
lAatcs) and State. (CfoIdbergV Ifoth
downtown houses, have elosedr for-.
mer because of bad busbess and la^
tet by -court order.

^ . ter This.. Wiek-'". ■

..^5?''^ (Tristates!) (3;000; 15-40- .
5S-05>— :Sanmiy Kaye and; band on
Mage with 'Lady Flaiu^ (Ar}.
Smash $22,000 and maybe' hit new
nouae record. Last wedc, (UOQH4)
<Song IslandiT (20th) and '(3eotlemen
Heartr (20th). slow $^500. .

Oauka (IMstatcs> (2,000; 11-30-44)
-'Bide 'Em Cowboy* (U) and ToUng
America' UOth). Big $10,000, "pqs-

9^?,'-.^ I'***- we*. 'Were.
Dwidngf (M-G) and "Mr.Htsi North'

m-cy, light $0,000.

_agaii4«ls CHort Sliiger^ (IJOO; 10^
35^-35-40)— 'Csi^tains Oouds* (WB)

and 'Obl^Ing LBdy' (BKO) (2d wk,),
$4,000. Xast week, smash $^700.

nice!

(Goldberg) (1,400; ll-3(j-30-
40>— 'Jtow Open Baagv' (BKO)
•Among <Uvlw' (Par) and 'Jungle
Mm' (Cm) Mple split with 'Crlml>
nals Wftbln' (Cap), 'Argentfaia
Nights' (U) and 'Bider ChayeHne'
(Cap),, 'PtaMMites' (BKO) and
'Fiesta' (TTA). Good $1,000: I^
week,- - 'Swaaip - WoiiiSn' dwSJ.
'CtambUng Daughtera (PBC) ind
"Tfrn Meet Again' (BKO) trUle sisUt
Witt 'BJUy Kid' (PBG) .'^I^:
i^t*" (tt) and 'Star VlgUantcs' (Col)
'BcMt Bttlla' (PB^r T^rtioon'
(Par), f Mr llOO, ■' . ■. ''^f

^Bahama Passage* Topper
Li Jeney City, 916«500

'Bahama_R2rtge,N!^'tiSl^i^,
Is th« best drawing, attractldn in
town. 'Johnfiy Eager' hair been held
over a second-week for nice btutntss
at Loew's;

BiUmates far 7tU» -Week
„toew'M (Loew's) (3J}05; 30-35-5S)—
'Johnny Eager' (M-6) and 'Mr, Mrs.
North' (M-G) (2d wk>. Pine $11»000.
Last week; $17,000, great .
^Stanley (WB) (4.500: 30-35-55)—
'Bahama Passage' (Par) and 'Jfigfai
Jan. 16' (Par). Neat tl8jm. '
week; 'Sullivan's Travels' (Par) aud
'N. Y, Town* (Par), pleasing $14,000.

State (Skouras) (2.200; d(fr35-S5>-
'Always in Heart' (WB) and 'Martltt
Eden' (Col). Moderate $8,500. Last .
week. 'H<ixle Hart' (Smh) and 'CJo
i West' (Col), good $12,500.

10

VedncBJay, March 25, 1942

KORDA

RUDYARD

^^^^^^^^

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Here is the campaign

thai is reaching millions !

NATIONAL MAGAZINE ADS IN FULL COLOR -in a aioantic $150,000

campaign reachlno BO^OOO^QOO readers oi Life, Look^ Good Honeekliepino and
Metropolitan Cornice (eupplement to big key-city newepapers coaat-to-cqaet)!

24-SIIEETS BY THE HUNDREDS aU over the country) h e a a4-eheet picture
^d only the biggeet poBter-epacB can do iuetiGe to ite bigneeel

PUBUCITY THAT SPEAKS TO MILLIONS with big break, in Life, Look,
Hearst newepapers and the New York Times Magazine I

COAST-TO -COAST RADIO SHOWS with Sabu appearing on 'Truth and
Conssqnences", "Ws Ths Psople", the Oka Chaee Luncheon, Stella Unger, Bill
Stem, "Hobby Lobby", Elsa MaxweU, "Rainbow Houee", "The Breakfast Qub", and
NEC Talavisidhi

SABU'S TOUR TO 31 CITIES under the auepices of ths U.S. Trsasury Oepart.
ment. Over 2^000,000 linee of publicity— most of it.on page one I On the HUX) mile
tour, Sabu apoke on 44 radio etations, addrssssd psrsonally 1,000,000 childran in
: IBS schools, appeared in 26 of the country 'e leading department otorssi

2-COLOR NEWSPAPER ADS era one epecial feature of the out-of-this-world
pressbook cempaignl

SCHOLASTIC AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING PROMOTIONS bring printed

study material on "Jungle Book" before thousands taf schoolroom classss and di-
rectly to 22,000 women's clubs in which over 20,000,000 fans participate I

BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT, CEREMONIES CRACK NEWS WIRES as

Sabu and iSavsmor William H. Wills dsdicata plaque to Rudyard Kipling at hoUse
where "Jungle Book" wae written I

NEW BOOK EDITIONS IN THOUSANDS OF STORES-a book whose jacket

billboarde the picture 1

JUNGLE BOOK FASHIONS-nierchandise in etores from coast to coas^ Jewelry,
ecarb, handbags, handkerchiefs and other show-promoting tie-ups I

COLOR TRAILER in which the highlighte of "Jungle Book's" wondsrs ars pre-
sold with all ths superlativeB of gorgsous Technicolor 1

THE PERFECT EASTER PICTURE because right from its inoeption, every item
of this hard-hitting campaign has bssn schednledio-reach its maximum effective-
ness at prsclssly ths moment when it mesne the moot box-office dpllarsl

8

^trednesdajt; M<iirc|i 25, 1941

PICTUBB OaOSSBS 11

Xowboy Tops Newcomers in Frisco, ^
$m'Clon(k'12GH.O.^

San Francisco, March 24.
• Biz is only as good M the plcturei
this week. Fox Is holdhig 'Captains
nf the Clouds' for okay results, while
fwoman of the Ye^ U stlli forte
In its fifth week on the street at the
St Francis. . ' »i.

Orpheum gets a hreak with Ah-
bott and CosteUo'9 'Ride "Em Cow-
hov ' 'Playmates la not as strong
is expected at the Gate. "Lady Ha»
Plans' at the F&ramount and 'Blnga
On JH[?r, Ftngerj" it Warfleld are

'^Nice^weather Is hurting a little,
EsUnutM for Thl» Week

Fox (F-WC) (5,000; 35-40-«5)—
'Captains Clouds" ('WB).and 'Sleepy-
time Gal" (Rep') (2d wk). Healthy
$12 000 on the holdover after nifty
$23,000 on the first sesh.

Golden Gate (RKO) (2,850; 40-44-
65)— Tlayniates' (RKO) and vaude.
May get around $17,000, satisfactory,
but below expectations. Last week,
'Call Marines* (RKO) and vaude,
much better than expected, excellent
$18,000.

Orpheom (Blumenteld) (2,440; 35-
40-55)— 'Ride "Em.Qjwboy" (U) and
Trisco LiP (U). Abbott & CosteUo
still strong, nlce-$15,000. Last week.
•Martin Eden' (Col) and 'Stork Pays'
(Col), unable to g0t past $11,200 In
nine days.

Faramonnt (P-WC) (2,470; 35-40-
56)— 'Lady Has Plans' (Par) and
Torpedo Boat' (Par), Strictly a
weakie, no more than $13,0q0. Last
week. 'Vanishing Virginian' (M-G)
and 'Yank On Burma Road' (M-G)
(2d wk), bowed out with $7,000 fot
five days.

St. FrancU (F-WC) (1,175; 35-40-
65)_'Woman Year' (M-G) and 'Pa-
•ciflc Blackout' (Par) (4th rjoveover
wk). Still bringing In the long green
for a nice $5,000, same as last week,
third of moveover.

United-' Artists - (UA-BIumenfeld)
(l.lOOr 35-40-55)— To Be' <VA) and
'Br<5bklyn Orchid' (UA) (2d wk).
StUl doing nicely at $9,200 after a
/solid $11,700 first stanza. "

Warfieia (F-WC) (2.850; 35-40-55)
— 'RinRS On Fingers' (20th) and "Se-
cret Agenf Japan' (20th). Not so
forte at $12,000. Last weefc 'Joe
Smith. American* M-G) and !We
Were Dancing' (M-G) (2d wk), lasted
only five days for mild $7,000.

Pitt on Downbeat Ent
To Be' Snappy $15,000;
Van. 16'-Ellington 18G

I>ittsburgh, March 24.

Biz off sharply this week .and for
usual reasons— Lent, Income taxes
and no spring 'weather. 'To''Be or
Not To Be' Is doing nicely at Penn
but below expectations.. The Stan-
ley has Duke< Elllngtoh-Ethel Wa-
ters combo, with "Night of Jan. 16,'
but a definite disappointment.
Estimates ttr This Week

Fulton (Shea) (1,700; 30-35-55)—
'Citizen Kane' (RKO) (3d wk). Eas-
ing way off, '$4,000 or less for this
the final steinza. Last week, 'Kane'
got around $5,700^.maklng $19,000 for
the three weeks.

Penn (Loew's-UA) (3,300; 30-40-56)
— iTo Be' (UA). Figured a dnch for
top money of year, But Isn't achiev-
ing expected smash. Will do around
$15,000, all right, but several thou-
sand below pre-openlng estimates.
Last week, 'Ball Fke' (BKO) laded
after great start but stlU managed
to grab around $17,000, neat

Senator (Harris) (1,750; 30-40-55)
—•Martin Eden' (Col) and 'Sleepy-
time Gal' (Rep). House has gone
to Sunday opening for a few weeks,
/last week, Xady WUllng' (Col), a
disappohitment at $5,000.

n\it. (WB) (800: 30-40-55)— 'La.
Purchase' (Par) (3d wk). Reached
here via usual- Penn-WWaier-Ritz
route, fair $2,700. Last wceTc, "Cap-
tarns Clouds' (WB), which followed
same path, $2,500.

Stanley (WB) (3,800; 30-44-55-68)
—'Night Jan. 16' (Par) plus Duke
Ellmgton band and Ethel Waters.
Slow getaway presages ordhwry $18,-
WO unless picks up greatly later on.
Last week, CHilco Marx and "Danger-
ously Live" (WB), fine $20,000.
-Warner (WB) (2,000; 30-40-55)—
Jail Fire' (RKO) (2d wk). Brought
here from Penn and duplicating ex-
m bSI* showing at bigger house, fine
W,70p. Last week, "La. Purchase'
(Par), al so h.o, from Pern, $ 8.400.

Espy Out of RKO

' Hollywood, March 24.

HMves Espy checked Out of RKO
?■ * . months on the producer
list following a friendly termination
or his contract •

During hU four months on the lot,
tjspy did not make a picture, al-
ynough several had been assigned on
"is schedule. These are being re-
assigned to other producers.

Key City Grosses

Estimated Total Qrow
This Week.. ........ .|l,T44,3e«

(Based en 26 cittM, ISO thea-
tres, chiefly flrtt runs, including
N, Y.)

Total Gross fiam* Week

Last Tear...'.. $l,e81,7M

(Based on 26. citUf^ 181 theatres)

TCANrFORTE
15G1NBALT0

Baltimore, March 24.

Biz here is holding up desplt* the
Lenten season. In » commanding
lead is 'Citizen Kane' at the combo
Hipp. Alsb scoring, nicely jU 'Sulli-
van's Travels,' at the Stanley. Rest
of town is mostly h.o., but steady.
Estimates for ThI* Week

Centnry (Loew's-UA) (3.000; 17-28-
44-55)— 'To Be' (UA) (2d wk). Hold-
ing up nicely to possible $11,000 after
solid $15,700 on first round.

Hippodrome (Rappaport) (2,240;
17-25-28-39-44-55-66)— '(Citizen Kane'
(RKO) plus vaude. Leading town at
pleasing $15,000. Last week, "Date
Falcon' (RKO) owing it largely to
accompanying stage layout of EUa
Fitzgerald orch and Ink Spots, Aocko
$18,200, biggest In weeks and topping
estimates by big' margin.

Keith's (Schanberger) (2,406; 17-
28-33-39-44-55)— 'La. Purchase' (Par)
.(3d wk). Maintaining. good pace at
$8,000 after a rousing $22,900 for pre-
vious brace,

Mayfair (Hicks) ■ (980; 20-40)—
•Frisco LU' (U). Nicely sold for
fairish $4,009. Last .week, 'Road
Happiness' '(Mono), unexciting $2,900.

New (Mechanic) (1,581; 17-28-35-
44)— 'Roxie Harf (20th) (2d wk).
Steady going for $5,000 after all right
$6,900 on initial sesh.

Boslyn (Levin) (800; 17-28-40-55)—
'George Air' (Indie). Drew some
favorable crlx response but no b.o.
at $2,500 or less. Last week, 'Law
Tropics' (WB), also mfld at $2,700.

Stanley (WB) (3,280l17-28-40-55)—
'Sullivan's Travels' (Par). Getttog
some action, particularly on week-
end, healthy $11,000. Last week,
'Fantasia' (RKO) did not catch on,
faltering $7,200.

lady Has Plans' Neat
(9,000 in DnU L'viUe

Louisville, March 24.
Downtown film houses are doing a
little bettei* than last week, but noth-
ing terrific. Pleasant weather over
the week-end didn't help either.
Moveover of 'Song of Islands' to the
Brown is pacing for sweet biz, while
'Kings Row in its third week at
Mary Ann is okay. l,ndy Has Plans'

at Walto is fairly good, as is "Lady
Is Willing' at Loew's SUte, but gen-
eral paco is slower.

Estimates for ThU Week

Brown (Fourth Avenue) (1,400; 15-
30-40)— 'Song Islands' (20th) and
'Frisco Lil' (U). On moveover from
Rialto, splendid $4,000. Last week.
To Be' (UA) and "Brooklyn Orchid'
(UA), medium $1,800, moveover.

Kentnoky (Switow) (1,200; 15-25)—
'One Foot Heaven' (WB) and 'Play-
mates' (RKO): Good $1;400. Last
week, 'Hellzapoppin' (U) and 'Mal-
tese Falcon' (WB), solid $1,500.

Loew's State (Loew's) (3,300; 15-
30-40)— 'Lady WUling' (Col) and
•Mister V. (UA). This big seater not
quite up to par but better than last
week, $8,500, ah-lght Last week,
'Were Dancing' (M-G) and 'Adven-
tures Eden' «:ol), medium $7,000.

Mary Anderson (Libson) (1.000; 15-
30-40)— 'Kings Row' (WB) (3d wk).
Fine $3,600. Last week, excellent
$4,000 for second sesh.

Blalto (Fourth Avenue) (1,000; 15-
30-40)— 'Lady Has Plans' (Par) and
'Sing Worries Away' (RKO). Catch-
ing pretty fair femme- trade on mat-
taees, but hight^biz is slightly off.
Satisfactory $9,000. Last week. 'Song
Islands' (20th) and, 'Frisco CU' (U),
better than expected $10,000.

Strand (Fourth Avenue) (1,400;
15-30-40)— 'What's Cobkin' (U) and
Treat 'Era Rough' (U). Fairly prof-
itable $3,500. Last week, 'Body Dis-
appears' (WB) and •Steel Against"
Sky' (WB), fine $4,000.

TWO YANKS'-SCANDALS
LUSH {10,000, MEMPHIS

Memphis, March . 24.

Biz is doing peculiar things in a
funny booking setup., .. Malco had
George White's tab 'Scandals' on
stage with Columbia's Two Yanks
in Trinidad! from Tuesday through
Sunday (22). Started hot, sagged
after lukewarm notices, and then
came back strong at finale.

Loew's Palace has 'Song of the
Islands' for so-so second week after,
a good openhig session. Two new-
comers: are 'We Were Dancing' at
Loew's State and 'Always in My
Heart' at the Warner. Both look
okay.

Estimates for This Week

Warner (WB) (2^; 10-33-44)—
'Always Heart' CwB). Favorable
press edging this one to $5,000,. better
than expected. Last week, 'Kings
Row' (WB) (2d wk)t amazing $4,800,
after first week's sockeroo $7,900.

Malco (Liftman) (2,800; 17-55-66)
—Two Yahks' (Col) and White's
'Scandals' on stage. Upped admishes
holding this one up to $10,000. on
six-day run, good for flesh and' film
combo. Last week, 'What's Cookin'
(U), four days, $3,000, not bad.

State (Loew) (2,600; 10-33-44)— •
'Were Dancing' (M-G). Critics and
public both seem divided over this
one, but sturdy $6,000. in' sight. Last
.week, 'To Be' (UA) (2d wk), $2,600,
all right

FaUce (Loew) (2,200;- 10-33-44)—
'Song Islands' (20tB) (2^ wk). Satis-
factory $3,000 after, socko $6,800 last
week.

Strand (Llghtman) (1,000; 10-22>-33)
— 'Uttle Poxes' (RKO) (2d run),
three days; 'Jailhouse Blues' (U)i two
days, and 'Night Jan. 16* (Par), two
days. Sluff house havhig fine week
that might mean $1,000. Last week,
•Mad Doctor' (U), three days; Treat
"Em Rough' (U), two days; and Si-
erra Sue' (Rep), two days; $1,600,
nice.

lleap $20,000 With Special Plr«ein
h L A.; Tersonal''fleiA Excellent
$16,500, 'Bugle' Hot 24G in 2 Spots

Broadway Grosses

Estimated Total Grosi
This Week $309,600

(Based on 12 theatres)
Total Gross Same Week
Last Tear.... $303,206

(Based on 14 theatres)

■ROXIE filFTY

$12,000, ciNcy

Cincinnati, March 24, -'-
'Roxie Hart' is the topper currently
at Palace -with . a nifty figure. .'In'■^'
vaders' at the Shubert also Is .dandy.
Keith's is doing fairly good with~
'C^l Out -Marines.'
- Biz in general'is off from last week,-
being so-so.

. Estlnutes for This Week
Albee (Rkd) (3,300; 30-40-50)—
'Shanghai Gesture* (OA). BTah $8,-
600. Last week. To Be' (UA), big
$18,000. .

Capitol (RKO) (2,000; 33-40-50)—
'To Be' (UA), Switched -from. Al-
bee. Fairly good $4,500. Last week,
•Woman 'year' (M-G), second week
of moveover stay, fair $4,000.

Family (RKO) (1,000; 17-28)--
.'Treat "Em Rough' (U) and 'Perfect
Snob' (20th), spUt with 'Mad Doctor'-
(U) and •Big Shot' (PRC). Normal
$2,100. Ditto- last week on 'Bombay
Clipper' -(U) and. 'Obliging Lady'
(RKO), spUt Svith 'Black Dragons'
(Mono)' and 'Lady Morgue' (Indie).-

Grand (RKO) (1,430; 33-40-50)^
'Ghost Frankenstein' U) (2d wk).
N.s.h. $3,500 after excellent $7,00()

Keith's (Libson? (1,500; 93-40-5(1)
—•Call Marines' (RKO). Fairly good.
$4,500. Last 'week, •Hickok Rides'
CWB), meagre $3,800.

Lyrlo (RKO? (1,400: 28-33-42)—
'Woman Year.' (M-G). Fourth down-
town week. Slow $2,500. Stole last
week for 'In Army' (WB) and 'Gto-
tleman Heart' (20th).

Palace (RKO) (2,600; - 33-40-50):-
"Roxie Heart' (20th). Smash $12,000..
Last week, 'Gold Rush' (UA), disap-
pointltig $8,5(KK .

Shnbert (RKO) (2,150; 33-40-50 >—
'Invaders' (Ool). Hefty $8,000, Last
week, 'Song Islands' (20th) (2d run),
okay $4,000.

U's 48 Scripters

Hollywood, March 24.

Ten additions to the Universal
scripting staff In the last week raised
the total to 48. '

Latest members are Boris Ingster,'
Leo Townsend, Lloyd French, War-
ren Wllfidn, Elmer Clifton, Bertram
Millhauser, Charles Kenyon, John
Grey, Bidiard Brookg and Lynn
Rigga.

NATIONAL BOXOFFI CE SURVEY

DeMille's 'WUd Wind' Starting In the First Riiris-'Cowboy/

'To Bcf' 'WiMnan of Year- riaid4G»ptaiiis? JBe^ :

Cecil B. DeMUle's "Reap the Wild Wind' w»3 the only
important new boxoffice entry of the week, opening
at the newly ohristened Paramount theatre (formerly
(El CaplUn) in HoUywood. Scaled at $5 for the
premiers night, with most of the receipts earinarked
for Navy relief, tiie ftiitlal stanza may reach $20,000.
Too early for showmen to place an accurate estimate
on its boxoffice draw. It opens tomorrow (Thurs.) at
the Music Han hi New York.

same group of fllns which has carried the exhibit-
ors' burden for the past five or six weeks continues
to support the first run load. "Ride 'Em Cov/boy* (U)
is mahitaining Its early strength. One of the best
figures in the country is $29,000, first week In Detroit,
where Abbott & CosteUo have been strong uniformly.
Picture is holding over in Providence uid Newark,
and opened big in Omaha and Frisco.

'To Be or Not To Be' (UA) has been a strong starter
nearly everywhere, but lacks staying quality. Such
was its history in a holdover engagement in Chicago.
St. LouU opening is big 19G, Seattle good $12,000,
and Boston,, two houses, $37,000. Mhineapolls was
disappolnthig.

Many first runs remain for 'Woman of the Year"
(M-G), which lately completed six weeks at the Music
Hall, N. Y. It Is in its fourth week hi Frisco, opened
big in Minneapolis, aiid touched $20,000 in Brooklyn.

'Captains of the CloUda' (WiB) Is one of the few
films with war backgrounds that has kept in the upper
boxoffice brackets. The Invaders' (Col) is doing well,
but not great.

Scarcity of smash product may best be visualized
by the outstanding accomplishments of the few re-
maining top films of midwinter. 'How Green Was
My VaUey' (20th) is hi its sixth week, first run, hi
Boston. 'liOulsiana Purchase' (Par) is in its third
week in Baltimore and its second in St. Louis. Both
spots standouts. 'Man 'Who Came<to Dinner' (WB)
Is big m Portland and Chicago. 'Ball of Fire' (RKO)
is best in town in Montreal, second week in Detroit
and third in Cleveland. Each of -these features has
cleared mpst of the initial runs.

Some tablecloth etchings: 'We Were Dancing' (M-Cx)
just getting by in most first runs. 'The Lady Has
Plans' (Par) popular in the midwest. Present world
situation and the problems of its leaders dwarf the
historic iaccomplishments of an earlier day, 'Remark-
able Andrew' (Par) hardly an eyebrow-lifter, although
concerned with Andrew Jackson, tlian whom few were
more heroic. That Academy award publicity for
'Citizen Kane' has shot new life into its bookings.
Best in Baltimore; third week In Phlladelphhi. 'Khiga
Row' (WB) stronger than first estimates. So's 'Roxie
Hart' (?Oth>.

Los Angeles, March '24,
■ -Only so-so 'business in the Los An*
geles area thls,\yeek with Horactt
Heidt and his band coupled With
•Don't Get Personal' at the Orpheum
is' topping The Bugle Sounds' at
Loew's State to lead with a nicft
$16,500. 'Malt Animal' with 'Lady
For a Night' 'at the 'Hollywood >nd
Warner's Downtown also is in the
money with a combined take of $21,-
500, ■ .

Business is helped vastly by hefty
weekend trade but: income tax pay-
m.enis' and. tHr' 'pire-tlastr '.- period is
cbipbinihg to soften takes all along
the Une.

. Faiiichon and Marco remodeled the
legit El Capitan ^d opened it as
the Faramount, Hollywood. Preem.
of Cecil B. DeMiUe's- 'Reap the Wild
Wind' was staged.; Wednesday night
fo opening of :!hpiise - with major
-portion' of $5.5,0 scale donat.^d. lo
jSfajy Beliet Took sturdy $20,000 on'
;Weeltt including opening night .'biz.
'Reap: runs solo this week at the
Hollywood bouse, and then goes Into
.the' downtown Paramount for day-?
and'date booking for ' indeflpite pe>
riod.' ■ ■' ■■

j.Esthnatcs 'fet ^ls Week,
; Cartbay Clrole (P-Wic.} -;tljSi6: 33-
44-55-76)— fSoiig .if ■ Islands';- (20th)
and. 'Confirm, .Deny (20th). "Combo
moved here for continuing first run.
^ood $3,500. Last We6k,. 'To Be' '(UA)
and 'Night Divorce" (20th) .(4th wk.),
.Ught- $2,200... .." , . •

'Chinese (Girauman-WC) (2,()34; 33-
44t55-75 )— 'Bugle Sounds' (M-:G ) - and
'Yanlc Burma Road" (M-Cf)i More
action, on screen than-
ntfnilnal $8,500,. Last .
IsUndsV (20th)> ahd 'Confirm,
(20th), solid $11,500. ' .

Dbwniown (WB) (1^00: 33-44-55)
—'Male Animal' (WB ) .and' 'Ladr
For Night' (Rep). .Local' tep.di •Anl-
piaj' play Is mttag to moderkteV|10,.
SOO.'Last Week, iDangerousIy. Live^
(WB) apd 'Sleepy Time Gal'^uWiep), ■
rang up $9,000. . ;

. Four SUr (UA-P-WG) (900; 33'-44-
65)-'Faris (iaUing,' -! (U) (2d ' wfc.).
Weekend maihly- responsible for n^ld
$3,000 but p»ofit,:Here, First wefek
."banged .Qut:a good:- $S,1Q0.

Hawaii (GiSj d.ipO; 3S^-65-^6)
— 'Hellzapoppin'^ (U) (6th tt^k,)V Con.
iinUes In high gear, smacko- $5,000.
Last week, solid $5,60ff; ,

HeUy«eod .(WB) (2,766; 83->44-5S)
—'Male Anlitf." (WB) arid ,%ady
For. Night' '"--^ tT..j._- ..L'L.A
$i;,000, .L
Llye' (WB)
(R«)), okay. $?.ogo;

Orphenm (Bway) (2,200; 33-44-55)
—'Don't Get Person^r <U). and
Horace Heidt baifd bn stage. H^idt
drgani;^tiou Is {lulling, for excellent
$16,500. Last week;;^an. Came Din*
ner*- .<WB). and ' stage show; fair
$9,000. - ■ .1 - ...

Fantages (Pan) (2,812; 33.44-55)—
'Lady WilUng' iCoV) and 'Martin
Eden' (qbl). Meaare $7,900. Last
weelL 'Ride Cowboy' (U) (2d wk.)
ftndTITeekend Threfe' (RKO),. $6,500, •
not bad for holdover sesh.
. Farsmeimt (F&M) (3,596; 33-44'
55)— 'Fleet's In' (Par) and 'No
Hands Clock' (Paz) (2d wk.). Need-
-ed 'advertised previews- on holdovife^
session for weak $9,000, First wee^
under .expectations at '$12,000,. -

Paramount HoUyvabd -. (F&M>
(1,450; 44-55-6Sr75-8a) — Heap Wild
Wind' (Par>.: Opened (18) for run
with smacking $20,000 with -preeiir
at $5.50 inchided: Without opeiilng
ni*t take, $13,500.

JlKfr .HlUstreet- (HKQ)— : JLaidf

wuiing' (^ir aiia -mvM^m^*:

(Col). Okay $8,500. with bulk oa
weeReiur'biz. La^st • week. ' 'Ride' Go-vv«
bd/ (U) (2d wfc.) and 'Weekend For
Three' (BKO), profit at $9,000, nlc*
on second stanza.

State (Loew-F-WC) (2,204; 33-44-
55-75)-^ 'Bugle Sounds' (M-G) and
'Yank Burma Road' (M-O.VHot zc-
tlon for solid ^15,500. Last week
'Song Islands' (20th) and 'Confirm.
Deny* (20th). smash $17,000.

United Artists (UA-F-WC) (2,100;
33.44-55)— 'Song Islands' (2()lh) and
'Confirm, Deny'^(20th). Striklhg-good
$5,000. Last week, 'Johnny Eager'
(M-G) arid 'Mr. Mrs, North' (M-G),
profitable, $4,300. .. - '

Vogue (Vogue) (920; .33-44-55)-.
'Pituri' (Indie) and 'Black Dragoni"
(Mono). Wound up second wee)(
with a weak $1,800, and house tossea
out first-run policy of horror ptQ^
grammers for subsequent booluBga
at 25c scale.

Wllahire (F-WC) (2,296; 33-44-53)
^'Johnny Eager' (M-G) and 'Mr,.
Mrs. North' (M-G) (2d wk.). Hold-
ing a second week to allow continu-
ing first run ot "Song Islands' at
nearby Carthay. Heading for okay
$3,500 after excellent $5,800 on first

Wc^«sd«ir, Murclh 25, 1942

A STATEMENT TO THE EMPLOYEES OF WARNER BROS.
PICTURES, INC, DELIVERED BY ITS PRESIDENT,

HARRY M. WARNER

"One hundred feet of wasted film niay cost
the life of an American soldier who may be your
own son or brother.

"I am not asking you to eliminate waste
merely because of its dollar and cents value, but
because of the materials involved. It makes no
difference if you're in the picture business or
the grocery business. Every foot of lumberr
every nail and every bit of material is. Vital to
the war of production that our country is waging
with our enemies. It is this all out marshalling
of our resources that is going to prove the
decisive factor in this struggle for freedom.
Therefore, it is up to every individual to save,
save and save on materials so that our war
.machinery will have the materials to forge into
munitions, ships, guns, tanks and planes.

"One sheet of paper wasted may appear
insignificant. But unfortunately there may be
130 million sheets of paper wasted in a single
day throughout the United States. Think of
ywhat that means in terms of machinery tied up
and labor employed that could be utilized for
war production.

"A take is ruined because a 'mike* shadow
was cast upon the face of a player . . . or, the
player missed his lines. It is just a hundred
feet or. so of wasted film. The dollar valuers
trivial, but the rnaterial value is great. ' For just
multiply the wasted takes throughout the in-
dustry, and we have a staggering total of film
material lost. Once again, the manpower and
material and machinery needed to replace that
^waste could be freed for war production.

"Who would have " thought just a few
months ago that tin cans would be so important
in the film business? Yet, unless we can return
empty film cans we can't get any new film,
because of the shortage of tin for our war
machinery.

"We have not as yet, and when I say we I
mean the American' people, gotten down to all-
out war effort. It isn't enough that we buy
defense bonds, act as air raid wardens, help in
civilian defense, or our sons go off to camp. It
is up to every single man, woman and child to
start thinking and practicing wartime economy
at home and in business. Arid that doesn't mean
rnerely the saving of dollars. It means the sav-
ing of our nation's resources, the conservation
of materials and the absolute elimination of
waste.

"We in the motion picture business use
tremendous amounts of materials of every de-
scription. Materials that today are of vital
implortance in our national defense. Let us, by
6ur almost fanatical devotion to the elimination
of waste, make free this saving of materials for
war purpose.

"Waste is criminal at all times but in times
of war it is worse than the sabotage of enemy
agents. After alt, saboteurs can destroy only so
much, but with 130 million people daily wasting
materials, the aggregate loss is staggering. And.
conversely, the saving can be enormous.

"Therefore, I again urge everyone to help
America win this war by constant vigilance
against waste."

Vedne8d»7; March' 2g> 1942

PICTURE OB088BS / IS

Hide Tm Cowboy Sockeroo $29,000,
Del; 'Suspion 196, Hlfoman' Sock Zd

Detroit; March 24.
Nearing the tag end of Lent^ biz
here-continues on a level high above
average II marks the second straight
year Detroit has rung the bell in the
usual dismal season.

.Fox v'ill shoot a big figure with
•Hide 'Em Coivboy,' with The WoU
Man Beturns' tucked on. Also above
normal will be Michigan's 'Suspicion,'
Dlaying the town late and helped by
«ie Academy Award, coupled with
■Law of the Tropics.' Further evi-
dence of the good biz here is "Ball of
Fire' in its third week at the Adams,
'Fleet's In' and 'Shanghai Gesture'
stretched out for triple and duo ses-
sions respectively at the Palms.
EsUmatea for This Week-
Adams (Balaban) (1,700; 40-59-eS)
—'Ball Fire' (RKO) (3d wk) and
•Spitfire at Sea' (RKO). Former
moved after two weeks at Fox and
Blven a freshener, good $6,500. Last
week. 'Son. Fury' (20th) and 'Shut
Big Mouth' (Col) (4th wk), nice
$5,900.

Fox (Fox-Michigan) (5,000; 40-55-
65)— 'Ride 'Em (Jowboy' (U) and
•Wolf Man Returns' (U). Sockeroo
$M,0D0. Last week, •Ball Fire' (RKO)
(2d wk) and 'Castle Desert' (20th),
continued with a strong $17,000 after
huge $30,000 on first sesh.

MIohican (United Detroit) (4,000;
40-55-65) — 'Suspicion' (RKO) and
•Lawr Tropics' (WB). Big $10,000
coming up. Last week, 'Shanghai
Gesture' (UA) with Johnny Long
orch and Andrews Sisters on stage,
sock $39,000.

Palms-Stato (United Detroit) (3,-
000: 40-55-65)— •Fleet's In* (Par) (3d
wk) and 'Shanghai Gesture' (UA)
(2d wk). Looks like oke $7,000, with
no great strength in the latest move-
over from the Michigan. Last week,
•Fleet's In' (Par) (2d wk). with
Intl. Lady' (WB), choice $12^100.

tlnlted Artiste (United Detroit)
(2,000; 40-55-65 )-^'Woman of Year"
(M-G) and 'Smith, American' (M-G)
(2d wk). Continuing to roll along
with a strong $11,000 following big
$15,000 last. week.

Inraders' Wham $13,000
InM^'ladfPlansMOG

Buffalo, March 24.

Ticket selling remains on the
bullish side, but showing somewhat
of a leveling off tendency, 'Invaders'
at the Lafayette Is the crack- ftt-
former. 'Dangerousir They Live'
and •Lady Has Plans' dual cards at
the Buffalo and the Great Lakes re-
spectively are neat coin makers.
Estimates for This Week

BnSalo (Shea) (3.500; 35-55)—
'Dangerously Live' (WB) and "Bom
Sing' (M-G). Not too impressive at
$11,000. Last week, 'Were Dapctag'
(M-G) and 'Joe ' Smith. American'
(M-G), disappointing $9,000.

Great Lakes (Shea) (3,000: 35-55)
—Lady Plans' (Par) and 'Torpedo
Boat' (Par). Stacking up oke at
over $10,000. Last week, 'Captahis
Clouds' (WB), rousing $16,000.
• Hipp (Shea) (2,100; 30-45)— 'Cap-
tains Clouds' (WB) (2d run). Hefty
$8,500. Last week, 'To Be' (Par)
and 'Brooklyn Orchid' (UA) 2d run),
nice $8,000.

'Lafayette (Hayman) (3,300; 30-44)
—'Invaders' (Col) and 'Sing Supper'
(Col). Socko $13,000. Last week.
Wolf Man' (U) and 'What's Cookln'
(U), fancy $9,200.

Century (Ind.) (3,000;
30-55)— 'Joan Paris' (RKO) and
.^our Jacks, JIU' (RKO). Lazy
$8,500. Last week, 'CaU Markies'
JgKO) and 'Sing Worries Away'
(RKO), snug $11,500.

"BaU Fire' Towrid $8,500
In Mont'L; 'Eager' Oi/zG

^^^^^^ »

Montreal, March 24.

S5 ^^^^ is mich above

to^?' " -™*'*' *^}^..P'^

Estimates lor This Week
.T?*'**"^ <Or) (2,700: 30-45-62)—
mSSi'*^ ^"f*;! <M-6) ;2d wk), good
last week. 'o^owing big $9,0(10

Thi?!?'*?}. ^fr'^L^t'*; 30-45-62)—
^Ja, and -Mexican

rSi^® Handsome $6,500.

Bedthne Story' (Col) and
$8,000 ^""^^^ ^'^K* neat

nifl*?!" . (2,800; 35-53-67)—

to^ F^lt (^0>- Best grosser in
te.^'^g""^"/ ^ISPO- "St week.

•vJmI^c!' /?Si,.<2,300; 30-40-52)-
•A^t? ^^<'^> and 'Sing Worries
A^y* (WB) Good enough HOOO.
^Jje* 'Sonth Tahiti' (U) and
Sudter Break' (U), good, $3,800.
JtSSaV J.^> «.1M;: 30-40-60)
wS^f ^^^^ (3d wk). StlU

fln* HMO last

40?*" CPra.nte-FUm) (2.500; 30-

M OOft "?»5»ee Hongrolse.' Mediocre

^etS" vFH? and
^ette Viellle Canaille,' weak $3,200.

Fonr for Cohen at Rep

Holly wood,- Match 24. ..

Two pictures were added to Al-
bert J. Cohen's production schednle
at Republic, making a total of four.

flew yams are 'Hold Yovi Wife*
and ThfaH Kill Yoa' Others are
'Winter Carnival' and 'Broadway
Goes to College.^

lady Has Pbns' Sturdy
$16,000 in Newark, Same
For 3(ight Heart'-Bamet

„^ Newark. March 24.

Thfe Lady Has Plans.' at Para-
mount, and Charlie Barnet's orches-
tra splus 'Right to the Heart.' at the
Adams, are Newark's only new flrst-
run shows this week.' both doing
strong business. Town has three
holdovers, with the Branford's 'KIde
'Em Cowboy,' in second week, pull-
ing best.

Estimates for This Week
Adams (Indie) (2.000; 25-35-50-60^)
—'Right to Heart' (20th), Charlie
Barnet's orchestra, Aunt Jemima and
five extra vaude acts Monday night.
Bamet band mainly responsible for
nice $16,000. Last week, 'South of
TahiU' (U), Sbep Field's band and
extra Monday nigth stage show, good
$15,500. .

Brantord (WB) (2,800; 28-33-44-S5)
-'Ride "Em C>3wboy' (U) and 'Sing
Supper' (Col) (2d wk). Abbott and
Costello continue to pull strongly;
neat $12,500. Last week, same com-
edy, dandy $18,000.

Capitol (WB) (1.200; 20-28-30-44)
— 'Corslcan Bros.' (UA) and •Pacific
Blackout' (Par). Second-run combo
fair $2,500. Last week, 'Hellzapop-
pin' (U) and 'Paris Calling' (U), good
$2,900.

FMamonnt (Adams-Par) (2,000: 80-
35-44-55)— 'Lady Has Plan? (Par)
and 'Maxwell . Archer* (Mono).
Pleasing $16,000. Last week. •FU7-
mates* (RKO) and 'Weekend Three*
(RKO), meagre $9,000.

Preetor's (RKO) (2.400; 28-4M0)
—'Ball Fire* (RKO) and TOte With
Falcon^ (RKO) (3d wk). Plus a five-
act vaudeville bQl Monday and Tues-
day evenings, strong $10,000. Last
week, terrific $10,900.

State (Loew's) (2.600: 28-38-44-98)
— ^"Johnny" Eager' (M-G) and 'Mr.,
Mrs. North' (M-G) (2d wk). Fine
$11,000. La^ week, powerful $16,500.

PORTLAND BIZ HOT

'Dinner' - 'Queen' Terrif $10,000 —
.'Geitnre'-'Orchld' Wham tO

Portland, Ore., March 24.

Rolling in on the heels of good
bally, 'Man Who Came to Dinner* is
pulling strong at the Paramount, and
'Shanghai Gesture' is going over well
at the Broadway.

Estimates for This Week

Broadway (Parker) (2,000; 35-40-
50)— 'Shanghai Gesture' (UA)' and
'Brooklyn Orchid' (UA). Going over
for strong $9,000. Last week, 'To Be'
(UA) and ^Bombay Clipper' (U) (2d
wk). high $6,500.

Btoyfalr ■ (Parker-Evergreen) (1,-
500; 35-40-50)— 'Wolf Man' (U) and
'Mad Uoctor' (U). Holding three
extra days to take magnlf $8,800 in
ten days; House going legit this
week.

Orphenm (Ramrlck -Evergreen)
(1,800; . 35-40-50)— 'Song Islands'
(20th) and 'Blue, White, Perfect'
(20th) (2d wk). Great $6,100 fh sec-
ond stanza. First week, swell $9,800.

Faramowit (H-E) (3.000; 35^50)
— lUan to Dinner' tWB) and 'CaU ED-
ery Queen* (Col),.^ Terrif $10,000.
Last week, 'Ball Fire" (RKO) With
•Pacific Blackout' fl>arl .Ost), closed
IKlrd week''fof hlce"$!5fl00i - -

United ArtliU (Parker) (li)00;.35-
40-50)— •Bugle Sounds' ^-G) and
•Frisco LU' (U) 1st). Grand $5,000
on second sesh of 'Bugle.' rlrst
week, big $7,900.

Gable's Fl]ing Picture

Hollywood, March 24.

'Shadow of the Wing,' a tale of
U.S. Army fiyers. will be Clark
Gable's next starrer at Metro.

Victor Fleming Is director dnd
Sam Zimbaljst producer.

Reunion of Harrys

Hollywood. March 24.
' Old combination. Harry Edwards
as. director and K^rry Langdon as
comic, is reunited in the next Lang-
don two-reeler, slated to start at
Columbia March 25.

Edwards piloted the comedian in
his first feature. Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp.'

DENVER HOLDS FIRM

'Gotnre* $10.500— 'Vanishing Vir-
ginian' 90, 'Lady Plans' 8G H.p.

Denver. March 24.

■Shanghai Gesture' teamed with
'Brooklyn Orchid' at the Denver is
doing top business currently, with all
but one house running above aver-
age. ■ ,
Estimates for This Week

AUddln (Fox) (1,400; 25-40)—
Boxie Hart' (2eth), after week at
Denver, Good $4,500. Last week. 'To
Be (UA), after Denver week, good
$4,000. ^ "

Breadway (Fox) (1.040; 25-35-40)
—'Valley Sun' (RKO) and 'Joe Smith,
American' (M-G), after week at
Broadway. Meagre $2,500. Last
week, '^hnny Eager' (M-G) and
•Fonr .Jacks. JUl' (RKO), after Or-
pheum week, fair $3,000.

Denham (CockrlU) (1,750; 25-35-40)
—•Lady His Plans' (Par) .(2d wk),
and 'Ronarkable Andrew' (Par).
Nearly $8,000. Last week, 'Lady Has
Plan/ Ftur), $7,500.

Denver (Fox) (2J2S; 25-35-40)—
•Shanghai Gesture' (UA).and 'Brook-
lyn Orchid' (UA). Strong $10,500.
Last week. "Roxie Hart' (20th) and
■Night Divorce' (20th), good $9,900.

Orpkeom (RKO) (2,600: 25-39-40)
—•Vanishing VIrgidian' (M-G) and
Tlbrzan's Treasure' (M-G). Sturdy
$9,000. Last week. 'Valley Sun'
(RKO) and 'Joe Smith, - American'
(M-G), fair $8,200.

FMamonnt (Fox) (2,200; 25-40) —
•Dangerously Live' (WB) and "D. A.
Carter Case' (Rep). Robust $0,900.
Last wedc 'Ghost Frankenstein' (U)
and Had Doctor' (U). good $6,000.

BUie (Fox) (878; 25-40)— To Be'
(UA). after m week at each Denver
and Aladdin, and 'Road Happiness'
(Mono). - IWr $2.000 . Last week.
Through Mlghf (WB>. after Denver
and Aladdlo wedca. and 'Cadets on
Parade* (Cd), blah $1JOO. .

Passage Best
Straight Film
. PhiUy. $17,000

Philadelphia, March 24.

•BaUania Passage' copped the duke
over Hale Anunal' f6r the top
grosser of tha week among the
straight fllmera and received. Ihe
extranlay 'gravy* abowing at the
Earle on Sunday. Boxoffica grosses
were down a bit under last week's
biz, hot they're still above that of
corresponding Lenten weeks of pre-
vious years.

'•What's -Cookln',' teamed with Ina
Ray Hutton orch and Blackstone on
the Earle stage, is okay as are the
holdovers of 'Citizen Kane' and To
Be or Not to Be.'

Opposish this- week consists Of
three leglters olus the 'Skating Van-
ities of 1942,' roller skathig show
which opened at the Arena Mon-
day (23). .

Estlntates for This Week

Aldlne (WB) (1.303; 35-46-57-68)—
•Citizen Kane' (RKO) (3d wk).
Dipping slightly under last week's
take with $8,500, sliiek third trip.
Second sesh sloughed oiT to fairish
$9,000.

Arcadia. (Sablosky) (600; 35-46-57)
—•Green Valley' (20th) (4th run).
Lack of product forced this house
to book this pic which Is playing the
nabes. A poor $1.00tf for five. days.
Last week. 'Vanishing Virginian'
(M-G), mild $2,300 for second run.

Boyd (WB) (2.568; 35-48-57-68>—
•Male Animal' (WB). Runnerup in
the first run league with nice $16,-
000. Last week, 'Ball Fire' (RKO)
bowed off with hangup $11,000 for-
third stanza.

Earle. (WB> (2.768; 35-46-57-68)-^
'What's Cookin' (U) with Ina Ray
Hutton orch and Blackstone oh stage.
Okay $21,000. Not In same class,
however. with elegant $27,800
chalked uo last week by 'Bullet
Scars' (WB) anil all-sepia show
he^TevI roy tfufce EllUigtdn band and
Ethel Waters.

F»x (WB) - (2.425; 35-46-97-68)—
•Bahama Passage' (Par). Rapped by
crix but netting a- husky $17,000 nlu?
an extra $2,000 for the added Sun-
day "bonus' showing at the Earle.
Last week. "La. Purchase,' nice $14,-
0(M) f or holdover sesh.

KarUon (WB) (1.066: 35-46-57-68)
— 'Roxie Hart' (20th) (2d. run) (2d
wk). Milked dry with only a me-
diocre $3,500 for this try. Initlaler
of "second run a pale $4,000,

Keith's (WB) (2,200;- 35-46-57-68)
—'Ball Fire' (RKO) (2d run). StlU
percolating after moveover from
Boyd with good $5X00 on tap. Last
week. 'Captains Clouds' (WB), fair
$4,000 for second run after - Its long
stay at Stanley.

Stanley (WB) (2,916: 35-46-57-68)
—To Be' (UAt (2d wk). Chalklns
up okay $13,000 after hefty $18,000
for initial stanza olus $2,300 for ex-
tra showlnp at Earle. 'Ride "Em
Cowboy' (U) opens tomorrow
(Wed.).

SUnton (WB) (1.457: 35-47-57-88)
—'Gentleman After Dark' (UA) (2d
wk). Neat S5.000 for h.o. l^st week,
for this thrlllei surprise $8,000.

To Be' Giant $39,000 in 2 Hob Spots*
K. Kyser21G Ditto, in 6th

Waniers' 'Buffalo BID'

Hollywood, March 24.

Life of William F. Cody, the 'Buf-
falo Bill' of dime novels and circuses,
Is being rushed for early production
with a high budget at Warners.

Ronald- Reagan draws . the title
role, with Mlchad Curtis directing
and Hal Wallls producing.

Dancing' $12,000 For
Pro?.; Invaders' lOG,
'Song Islands' $9,000

Providence, March 24.
Hypoed by b^tj- exploitation, "The
Invaders' Is doing big biz at Strand.
Still ntf^ is "Rlda 'Em Cowboy' on
its second week at RKO Albee. Ma-
jestic's 'Song of the Islands' also is
stepping along nice^.

Estimates for ThU Week

Albee (RKO) (2,200; 28-39-50)—
'Hide 'Em Cowboy* (U) and 'Bombay
CUpper' (U) (2d wk). Heading for
nice $7,500. Last week, zowie $13,500.

Carlton (Fay-Loew) (1,400; 28-39-
50>— 'Kings Bow* (WB) and 'Don't
Get Personal' CU) (2d run). Fast
$3.500. Last wc«^ 'Captains CHouds'
(WB) and 'Jaa%use Blues* (WB)
(8d downtown wk), good $3,200,
.ray's (Ihdic) (i.4«l: 38^-90)—
•Gambling Lady* . (Indie) (reissue)
and vaude. Fairish $6,000. Last
week. 'Bullet Scars' (WB) and vaude,
good $0,800.

Hajestio (Fay) (2,200: 28-30-50>—
'Song Islands' (20th) and 'Gentleman
Heart' (20th). Pulling' plenty, neat
$9,000. Last week, 'Kings How'
(WB) and 'Don't Get Personal' (U),
wham $15,000.

MeiropoUtan (Indie) (3,200; 44-55-
05) — Ray Bolger, Joe Venutl orches-
tra, and Benay Venutl plus 'Riot
Squad' (Mono). Didnt do too well;
fair $6,900 In three-day run;

State (Loew) (3.200: 28-39-50)—
•Were Dancing' (M-cS) and 'Joe
Smith. American' (M-G). Fairly good
$12,000. Last week. To Be' (UA) and
'Brooklyn Orchids' (UA), nice
$14,500.

Strand (Indie). (2,000; 28-39-50)—
Invader^ (Col) and "Blondle College'
(Col). Showing a fast $10,000. Last
week .'Martin Eden' ((2ol) and -No
Handis Clock' (Par), mild $6,500.

Lincoln Biz Nosedives;
Hings* $2,500, 'Lady' 2G

. Lincoln, March 23.

The Lincoln theatre held 'Captains
of the (loads' for 11 days to get to
midweek opening but not too good.
B.o. fare rather thin. '

Estimates for This Week

Colonial (Monroe-Noble-Federer)
(750; 10-15-20)— 'Cowboy Serenade'
(Rep) and 'Sahit Vacation' (RKO)
split' with 'Riders Range' (Rep) and
'Argentina' (RKO). Good $600.
Last week. 'Below Border* (Mono)
and "Melody - Three' (RKO) split
with 'Come Danger' (RKO) and
'Rookies Parade' (Rep), fair $500.

Lincoln (J. H. Cooper-Par) (I.503-,
10^30-44>— 'Rings on .Fingers' (20th).
Fairish $2,500. Last week, 'Captahts
Cloudsf (WB), $3,500, not too good
considerlng^l-day run. . ■

.'ebraska (J. H. Cooper --Par)
(1538: 10-20-28)- — 'Paris C^aUing*
(U) and 'CasUe In DesertT (20th\
Verv sac. $1,200. Last week, "Young
America' (20th) and TbU Wa^
(Par),- $1,100. blah.

State (Noble-Federer) (986; 10-25-
30)-r<-Qlo<idife Singapore' (Col) and
'DevUTs Bland' (CoD «pllt with 'Shig
Supper' (Col) and "Ladles Retire-
nteUC (WB). ' SweU $1,700. Last
Week, ^nolulu Ln' (C^ol) and 'Harr
vard Come' (Col) split '.ith 'Marines*.
(BKOX- and '^itflfe Sea' (RKO),
good $1,300.

VarsKy (Noble-Federer) (l.lOO: 10-
30-4*)— 'Valley Sun' (RKO). Blim
$1,800. Last week, 'Shanghai (Gesture'
(UA), fair $1,500.

Slaart (J. H. Cooper-Par) (1,859;
10-33-44)-.''Lady Plans' (Par). Mild
$2,000. Last week, '£!ong Islands'
(20th). smooth $3,000.

Hands-Off Ufaming

Toledo. O.. March 24.
Lawrence Aubiy, Toledo projec-
tionist, has invented a strictly hands-
off tmrglar alarm for bis automobile.
The alarm will cause the horn to
toot at the slightest nudge to the
car. Should the push be harder the
louder and longer the toot of the
horn.

Idea came to Aubry while re-
pairing a short circuit in a pro-
jector. It is operated by a switch
inside the car. Ha has applied for
a patent.

Boston, March 24.

To Be or Not To Be,' topping bills
at Orpheum and State, is leading
the town on straight film fare. Al-
vino Rey on stage of the. Boston,
with 'Valley of Sun' Is next best.
Sixth week of 'How Green Was Val-
ley' is staunch at . the Keith Memo*
rial, and seventh stanza is possible.
Metropolitan taken over I>y the Met
Opera company for 10 days starting
last Thursday (19).^

Estimates for This Week

Boston (RKO) (3,200; 30-44-55-65-
75)— -Valley of Sun' (RKO) and Al-
vino Rey band on stage. Dandy
$22,000. Last week, •Ride 'Em Cow-
boy* (U) (3d wk) and Clyde McCoy
on stage, $17,400, solid.

Fenway (M&P) (1.373; 30-40-44-
55-6Q) — •Playmates' (RKO) and
•\oung America' (20th). Aiming at
$8,000, very good. Last week, 'Kmgs
Row* (WB): and 'Melody Lane' (U),
moveover from Met. $6,600.

Keith Uemorlai .(RKO) (2,900; 30-
44-65) — 'Green Valley' (20th) and
'Niagara Falls' (UA) (eth wk). Ele-

fant $16,000. Last week, same duo,
16.000, excellent.

Metropolitan (M&P) (4,367; 30-44-
95-60) — ^No show this week. Hdusa
rented to Metropolitan Opera. . Last
week. "Lady Plans' (Par) and 'Castle
Desert' (20th), $14,300, meagre.

Orphenm (Loew) (2.000; 30-40-44-
55)— To Be' (UA) . and "Brooklyn
Orchid' (UA). Doing standee biz at
terrif $22,000 gait. Last week,
'Womah Year' (M-G) and 'Man Re-
turns' (Col) (2d wk),- $17,400, great

raramonnt (M&P) (1.800; 30-40-
44-55-60) — 'Playmates' (RKO) and
"Young America' (20th). Aiming at
big $13,000. Last .week, "Kings Row*
(WB) and 'Melody Lane' (U), moved
over from Met. $10.800.. good. ,

State (Loew) (3,600; 30-40-44-95)—
To Be' CUA) alr.d 'Brooklyn Orchid*
(UA). Smash -$17,000. Last week,
'Woman Year' (M-G) and 'Alan Re-
turns' (Col) (2d wk), $14,700, very
good.

Translnx (Translux) (900; 17-35-
44) — 'Russian Front' Gndie) and
■Pardon My Stripes' (Rep). Preemed
here last Tuesday (17) at $1.10 top
under auspices Uunlan War Relief
e * heading £or $4,000, better than
average. Last week, "(^dets Parade*
(C6I) and "Man Two Uvea* (Mono),
$2,800, disappointing.

SIEGE GETS BKGIE
ON P/« TAKEOFF

Hollywood, March 24.

Sol C. Siegera.^flrst production job
as a member of the B. G. l)eSylva
unit at Paramount will .be « high-
budget outdoor melodramatic 'spec-
tacle, still untitled, on the order of
'Man of (inquest,* wliich he made at
Republic.

Meanwhile, Siegel is doing' pr'e-
limbiary work on three' pictures,
'Priorities of 1042,* 'China Pass' and
'Lady Bodyguiird,* before he steps
into his new chore, lUs work on
the lower-bracket films will be taken
up by Walter McEwen, who checks
into the studio April 3,

'Woman' Strong $20,000
Pac4^B'UyB;lloxie'17G

Brooklyn, March 24.-"'
Best showing this stanza -is Loew's
Metropolitan, with -'Woman of Year.'
RKO Albee Is second best with
'Roxie Hart' and 'Joan of Paris.*
Bdlaates for This Week '
' Albee fRK©>-(3^74; 30-40-50-ga>-^.v:
'Roxie Hart' (20th) and 'Joan of
Paris' (RKO), Upped. to okay ;$t7.-
000. Last 'week, "Son Fury' (20th)
(2d wk) and 'Gentleman HeartT
(20th). fairish $13,000.

Fox (Fabian) (4,023; 30-40-50-5S)—
•Ladv for Night' (Hep), and 'WoU
Man' (U). Dull $12,000: Last-week,
•Captains Clouds' (WB) and "Blondia
College' (Col) (8d wk), nice $11,-
000.

Met (Loew's) (3.618; 30-40-50-55K-
•Woman Year" (M-G) and "Hayfoot*
(UA). Strong $20,000. Last week.
'Ctorslcan Bros.' ,(UA) (2d wk) and
'Melody Lane' (U), good $13,000.

Faramonnt (Fabian) (4,126; 30-40-
50-55)— •Lady Has Plans' (Par) and
•Mr. Bug" (Par). Dlsapnolntink $13.-
000. Last week, "Bahama Passage'
(Par) and 'Steel Against Sky' (WB)
(2d wk). okay $11,000.

Strand (WB) (2,600; 30-40-SO^)—
'Among Living' (Par) and stag*
show with Red Noirvo's orchestra
and Jimmy Durante on stage. So-so
$6,500 for four days. Last week,
'Body Disappears' (WB) and stage
show with Joe Venutl's orchestra
and Hal LeRoy, dull $6,000 for Same
period.

AH SPRING!'

Leo, you're a, tonic to film business — ever gay, ever enthusiastic
It's easy to see why you're so merry 1 Good news from Califomial
Five great pictures previewed in one history-making week 1

"MRS. MINIVER" (Talk pf the Coast! Greer Garson, Waker Pidgeon.)

"RIO RITA" {Abbott and Costello riotous in a Big Musical !)

"TORTILLA FLAT" (Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John GarfM. It's Great^)

"TARZAN'S NEW YORK ADVENTURE" (Tops for the series^) .

"SHIP AHOY" (Eleanor Powell Red Skelton, Tommy Dqrsey & Orchestra, A honey!)

And while Preview audiences are cheering these completed, previewed hits,

Leo*s happy Studio is humming with activity, with other Big Ones under way.

'William Powell, Hedy -L-amarr ^re eompleting-"Till You Return" (his first dramatic role in years!)
Clark Gable, Lana Turner are making an attraction to top their **Honky Tonk"!
And hell follow it with "Shado^^^ of The Wing" and "The Sun Is My Undoing" (hest'Seller!)
Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor are clinching in"Her Cardboard Lover"— it's terrific I
Wally Beery in "Jackass Mail" is doing swell I

And Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young are making a sure hit— "Shadow Of A Lady"!
Just a few of the Spring flowers that will -bring your box-office golden showers!
Ah Leoi

Wednesdajr, Marcb 2S, 1943

EXPLOITAnOH

IS

More Femme Managers as They Go I R«afigK n.y. nacb

Des Moines, March 24.

Beverly Richards, 22, has been
Obined manager, st the Iowa and
Howard theatres at Jeflferson, Iowa,
t succeed Melvin Klnkead, resigned
to enter mUltary service. She Is* the
first woman to be appointed as man-
ager by the Pioneer Theatre Corp,
of Minneapolis.

Trl-States Theatre Corp. here has
also appointed Marearetha Hudgell,
formerly with the Esquire, Daven-
port, as assistant manager of the
Rocket, Rock Island, lit
' Other personnel changes In the
Davenport district of Trf-States ln>
elude uie. folic wing: Orvllle Rennie
has been named city manager at
Rock Island. Robert Schmitz of the
State, Cedar Rapids, named manager
of Spencer, Rock Island. Carl
Noack, formerly of Spencer, re-
signed. Robert .Danico, assistant
' manager of the Fort, Rock Island
to Capitol, Davenport. Horace Spen-
.cer, from Capitol, goes to Fort, Rock
Island. Wm. Voss, formerly of the
Rocket, resigned to Air Corps,

New bonklrk, N. T., aOO-Seater
BuSalo, March 24.

Dunkirk will- have « new 800-
seater to be built by Dalton iSurget
and operated by Clyde Lathrop.
- Strand at Dundee, N. Y., closed, its
former operator Leland LeTart hav-
ing been inducted into the array.

Hiltonla. Hilton, N. Y., operated by
E. C. Weeks, closed indef.

Carl Polvino, manager of the
Cuba, Cuba. N. Y^ drafted.

Burnett Park, Syracuse, Is open
again, re-christened the Erin.

WlUlam, Jr., son of Shea's Buffalo
manager, William Brett, promoted to
sergeant and transferred from Army
Corps Institute, where he has-been
teaching English to Southern recruit-
ing headquarters.

Daniel McCaren, former Metro
checker, appointed house manager
of the Cataract, Niagara Falls.

William E. J. Martin, secretary-
treasurer of the Variety Club, Tent
No. 7, for past' 10 years, resigned.
No successor named. -

Cataract and Strand, Niagara Falls,
N.. Y, pooled with Shea's Bellvue
under Par-Loew-Shea operation, re-
ported to have termipate<f the
merger and are now back under the
management of A. C Hayman, own-
er of the piroperties.

J efferson. Auburn, N.Y., and Palace,
Clifton Springs, reopened„but oper-
ating only weekends. ,
, James Fater, formerly with Uni-
versal, now C(duRtbla salesman in
Syracuse territory.

Charles Taylor is back as adver-
tising director with the Shea-Par
chain following absence of many
months due to a severe illness.

Doag. Fl^iph Promoted
Spartanburg, S. C, March 24.

Douglas Finch, State, promoted to
assistant manager of Palmetto,
Wilby-Klncey's new local unit.
James Jennings shifted by WK from
Columbia, S. C, systeift to become
assistant manager of Carolina, top
local house.

Martin ti Thompson chain opened
new Pinevlew, Ga., house.

I

Uoyd's Pitt Exohange

_ Pittsburgh. March 24.
„^8ar E. Lloyd, until recently a
K. Y. aim distributor, has organized
the Victory Film Exchange hfere to
nandle Independent product in the
tri-states area.

Herman Black appointed to RKO
sales and wlU be asslmed new terri-
torial block, the West Virginia river
area.

Shut Halifax Theatre

Halifax, N, S, March ?4.
The provincial premier and his
mernment have ordered the closing
of the Communitar, Yarmouth, the
m S^m5 J"st been

Franklin, top man In the Franklin
? Herschom circuit, and C. H. Ben-
nett, chairman of the Nova ScftUa
Board of Censors, over what the lat-
ter alleged to be failure to conform
to safety regulations.

MoNatt-Keaaler Deal

,^ Naples, Texas, March 24.
,„ waiter McNatt sold half interest
m his houses, the Morris at Dalnger-
fleld- and the Village at Hughes
jsprjpg to Frank Keasler, east Texas
lumberman and theatre operator.

Besides the half interest In the two
.S'"s«..deal also Includes a partner-
Svlr''*, expansion move planned
MfNatfc Duo plan to buUd and
operate two theatres In sites near
Government projects.

Boy Taylor Reopens One

Detroit, March 24.
p«„,2'*'*, <*V6r three years, the
.fjwers in Grand Rapids, Mich., has
beaa put back Into operation.

Remington Succeeds Bid
Solomon for Fox in Chi

Detroit, March 24.
' ^itb Eddie Solomon going Into
the Army, Harry Remington, for the
past five years press agent at the
Fox theatre here, has been named to
replace ^ him as advertising and
press representative for 20tb Cen-
tury-Fox, with headquarters In Chi-
cago. Job takes in the Great Lakes
area.

Remington, In addition to servhig
as the theatre p.a., also hai)dled press
relations for the Detroit Lions; prO'
fesslonal football team, for two
years, and although worldng for •
rival chain handled the world 'pr»
miere of 'Younr Tom Edison' here
for Metro.

Edwards' Qniz to Qoantico,
Expenses Paid for AH
By Fox Fdm £xplpiteers

' Ralph Edwards' Truth or (Conse-
quences' program originates at the
Marine Base at Quantlco, Va„ this
Saturday night (28), its traveling ixr
penses paid by 20th-Fox, film comr
pany. 20th is bringing the show to
the Marines stetioned there as . a
means of plugging its 'Shores of
Tripoli' film, based on that branch of
the service. Plugs for the film will
be Included In the broadcast, with
the consent of Edwards' sponsor.

In addition to the people necessary
to his broadcast Edwards is taking
along two mothers of Marines sta-
tioned at the Navy base. Trips are
their 'consequence' penalties for
missing question on last week's (21)
broadcast Marines, of course, wUl
be contestants on.- the coming show.

NEW UNSERS' PAa
SIGNING THIS WEEK

Final signaturing of new wage-
hour agreement between the Inter-
national' Photographers union and
the five newsreel companies looms'
this week following approval by
negotiating group last Friday (20).
Top union executives and homepf-
flce officials nofv must pass on- new
arrangement worked- out. in huddles
last week.

Newsreel cameramen get a 10%
wage tilt and generally the same
terms as those agreed on by the In-
dustry on the Coast several months
ago. Lensers . on active, war du^
will receive a $25 'weekly bonus be-
sides their- usual union pay. News-
reel cameramen working with.U. S.
armed forces also will be covered
by $25,000 Insurance. U. S. news-
reels already have their men cov-
ered by this amount of insurance
when on the battlefront.

Many minor points have been
added to the 'pact, negotiated last
week, principal one covering an in-
terpretation of what constitutes
working hours for sound men.

SPG Cancels Picketing
Pending Concifiation

Republic's homeoflice publicity
$taa has been realigned, with Eve^n
Koleman, who has been assisting
Charles R. Jones in advertising,
handling tradepaper and fan maga-
zine publicity. Steve Edwards, who
joined Republic several months ago,
will do newspaper contact and other
publicity; Both are under Jones,
eastern ad-publiclty chief,

Reassignment of Miss Koleman
became effective last week on her
return from a rest in Cuba.

FTC Cracks Down
On 5 Commercial
Film hoducers

Washington, March 24.
Long; arm of the Federal- ^ade
Commission tapped five producers
and distributors of advertising trail-
ers, two booking agencies and one
trade association Monday (23). For-
mal Charges of attempts to suppress
co'mp«titlon and enjoy a monopoly
re registered', in a ' Government
complaint based on operations in the'
last four yeaf6.

Moti6n Picture Advertising Serv-
ice of New Orleans, Unitet^.^Jlm Ad.
Service of . . Kansas City, ' Ray-Bell
Films, Inc., of St. Paul, Alexander
Film Co. of Colorado Springs, Colo.,
and . A. V- Cauger Service; Inc., of
Indejpendence, Mo., were the chief
targets. . Complaint also embraced
booking agencies allegedly organized
by the producer-distributor firms,
the Screen Broadcast Corp. of New
York and General Screen Advertis-
ing, Inc., of Chicago. The commish
alleged the major participants set
up the Association of - Advertising
Film <-Companies ' to tighten their
gHp on the trailer trade.

The F, T. C. papers named Albert
E. Fair, president of .Screen Bro'adr
cast Corp'., .j. D.' Alexander, piresl-
dent of Alexander 'Film Co., 'and
C. J. Mabry, .treasurer of Motion
Picture . Advertising Service Co.
Latte'r Is secretary ot the trade as-
sociation. '

Respondent distributors control
about 90% of the bushiess, the F, T.
C. alleged, noting that about 8,000
of 'the nation's film houses are con-
sidered 'good prospects for national
and cooperative screen advertising
and are under contract with the re-
spondent distributors to exhibit films
advertising products under: either
national advertising or cooperative
programs.' The commish iloted that
the cost often Is paid by the adver-
tiser.

Hearst Still in a Pet;
!Kane' a Balto Secret

Screen Publicists GuUd of New
York yesterday (Tuesda'y) cancelled
plans fo r picket ing theatres jwd fur- __,

Ing intervention of the U. S. Concilia-
tion Service in its stalemate with
producers on contract negotiations..
Picketing, was called off following
word from the Conciliation Service
that It was arranging another meet-
ing between SPG and the companies,
possibly today (Wednesday).

Leaflet distribution has been going
on in front of eight major Broadway
houses for about' 10 days and actual
picketing of the Roxy and Para-
mount was originally set for last
Friday (20). It was postponed until
last night (Tuesday) with the an-
noucement by the War Labor Board,
to which the Guild appealed, that it
was asking the Conciliation Service
to Intervene.

Ro'xy and Paramount were chosen
for picketing because 20th-Fox and
Paramount pictures, respectively,
were playing at the houses. These
two companies, particularly Fox, are
claimed by Guild leaders to be stall

Baltimore, March 24.
'Citizen Kane.' getting a belated
playdate at the combo Hipp here was
completely ignored by the local
Hearst News-Post with no editorial
mention or inclusion 'in weekly art
layout noted.

Theatre ads invited public to see
The Year's Best Show at the Hipp
This Week' with no mention of title,
cast or accompanying stege layout.

House now Is being run by Roy •'j

."yior, who. also xuns the Souuilawft tag signing of a pact to which other
m toe .-t«wn<^ -.v>.'c.,v.»;»v„..„ , . ..... .'.-I^stadlos are ready -to accede'.

Hollywood, March 24.
New schedule for preview days,
announced by the Hays office, con-
tains elastic provisions for changes
due to unavoidable delays and nec-
essary retakes.

Officii lineup is: Mondays- for
Paramount; Tuesdays^ for Metro,
20th-Fox and Samuel Goldwyn;
Wednesilays^for Warners and Re-
public; Thursdays for RKO, Colum-
bia and Universal, and -Fridays for
Monogram and otlier non-members.

NortWest Allied s Star-Ckunber
(Piress Barred) Confab a Puzzler

Goodbye, Nellie Gray

Hollywood, March 24.
Girls left behind by soldiers is
the general theme of forthcoming
musical, 'Sweethearts of 1042,' at
Warners, to be produced by Robert
Lord.

Among those 'left behind will be
Prlscllla Lane, Brenda Marshall and
Alexis Smith.

' Minneapolis, March 24«
Northwest Allled's newest cam
palgn for film rentel reductions is
based on Bn alleged shift of popula-
tion out of this territory into war
Industry sections and the U. S.
armed service, causing boxofllce
damage. However, ' If iQcal film
branch managers' reactions' and at'
titude are any criterion, the or-
ganization of independent exhibitors
will get .short shrift from the com-
panies In this move and In its other
Current demands— one, perennial
and persistent, for the elimination
of percentege, . and the other to
knock out the weekly : payment plan
of selling short subjects.

'fhese were the principal discus-
sion tdt>Ics here at the body's annual
convemio'n, this a 'secref one with
all sessions behind closed doors and
reporters, barred, for the first time
In the orgahUation's history.

The population dislocation resolu-
tion declares '^'-.'competent and ac'
curate stetlstics^. continue t9 reveal
a lack of defeniie; ojfderii^'iuid a large
shift of population to;^diist]^l cen-
ters out of the northwiest territory,
as well as a loss 'of men Into the
armed services, reducing the num-
ber 'of active anA potential theatre
patrons." . Be(!|i'useT.0f 'such popula
tlon shift ' ejad. its' - resultant) loss of
revenue,' the ; resoIuilpiijMCpntlnues,
It befsomes imperative iliBi>the dls^
tril)ut^)ra ' recoS:iiI^>' inoc<^.^'lhBti ever
these factors In be^ptiatingCfllm con-
tracts and In adjusting contracts al-
ready entered into bety^een thenv-
selves and Allied . memb«rs,'

But local' exchange beiads assert
that boxofflce. figures, npt .claims,
control, and that grosses In 'the vast
majorl^ of thexterrItory'B'sItuatiQi&'
now are at a peak for a niunber.'of
years. Whatever loss of population
some spots In,: the territory have
suffered has beeot more than offset
by increased Income and purchasing
power due to higher larm prices,
increased' employment and better
wages, it's claimed... '/.

One resolution adoptecl at the con-
vention Is construed aa an Implied
threat that Northwest Allied may
sponsor theatre divorcement ligis-
lation In Minnesote. The resolution
instructs the body's legislative com-
mittee to continue its study of pro-
posed theatre divorcement legisla-
tion, 'both as to Its operation under
the consent decree and the possible
necessity for stete legislative action
at the next session.'

A pledge of support and approval
Is given to the Industry UQlty plan
with the belief and expectetion.that
the progralh's portion providing a
method of ironing out Industry prob-
lems will be carried out In the spirit
of equity and. fairness to all parties
concerned.'

Flag for. W. B. Frank's Fix
A most unusual -resolution called
upon members to give extended play-
ing time to certain pictures ('All That,
Money Can Buy,' 'Martin Eden' and
'Syncopation') already produced or
about to be produced by ■«' veteran
local owner of one of the circuit's
most prosperous circuits and a North-
west Allied member himself (W. R.
Frank) In association with others.
This particular exhibitor Is regarded
by distributors as one 61 the toughest
of all buyers and one of the most In-
veterate foes of the producer-distrib-
utors and his reputedly^^cohslderable
fortune, now being inv^ited In part
In film production, was made from
theatre operation^^~

Prior to the convention, trade
paper and other reporters were

nouncing tfia^^ resolution ma. nc
tion of the board, of directors, trade
press reporters will not be admitted
to any of the annual conventions.'
The Btetement informed the prass
that 'an official stetement detailhig
all of the convention business and
representing the official views of the
association will be issued by a special
committee immediately after each
convention Session.'

The day after the conclusion of the
two-day convention, trade press re-
porters received their first account
of the sessions in a seven-page 're-
port to the trade press,' prepared by
Fred Strom, executive secretary, and
approved by the special coimnlttee.

There is much speculation In trade
circles as to the reasons for ih-
augur.ating the star chamber sessions
and censorship. The action has given
rise to numerous nimors In this re-
spect There have been suspicions
that the trade -press barring was In-
fluenced by a desire to cover up dis-
cord Jn the ranks, financial difficul-

ties, the smallpess of non-Twin City
exhibitor attendance, general ' satis*
faction with deals and current favor-
able operating conditions. There also
was the suspicion that the actloa
might be in line with an appease-
ment program and a 'desire 'to avoid
publicity for belligerent utterances
which might be made from the floor.

Roach Capitalizing
Sears and Greentlial's
Rib Into Next Picture

' Hal Roach is swltohing a rib on
himself— rigged by, Grad Sears and
Monroe Greenthal at last week's
United Artists sales meeting in Chi-
cago—into -a gag for his next film.
But HiUer will be the victim Instead
of Roach.

It all started when Roach and his
eastern rep, Ed Peskay, broke into
a convention session noisily beating
pans and wearing - sandwich boards '
.announcing is slightly profahe terms
that whatever was being said about
the rest of the UA produpt was bunk
and that the salesi^en should wait -
until they hear abou Roach'f .
Streamliners ' the following day. '

Next day, 'vhen tfie producer be-
gan to ^eak, he found ead. gag met
by stony sUeLce, every man in the.
ropm yawning In unlsoii, everyone
applauding wildly at times when
there w^s no' reason fo applauding;
and similar uitics. Finally; ^wiien
everyone suddenly got tip, took a
glass of water and beg n talking
Idudly to his neighbcrs. Roach turned
to Sears and asked fo. a. recess.

Overnight, to get £iu|nk with Roach
for his' gag of the previous day,
Greenthal had had painted 'largo
signs with' Instructions about re*
malning silent, yawning, eto. He. sat
behind Roach jirvming out the signs
ant cueiiig \h» salesmen.

When: '.We' . producer; finally ■ wised'' -
up on how "h^ Jiad been' ribbed, ho
ordered the signs sent to the studio.
He's- now plarjiing a similar stunt
for 'Hitler's Valet', next on his
Streamliner slate.'

NEW J. P. HARRIS, PITT,
TO OPEN SANS FANFARE

Pittsburgh, March 24.
Opening ol town's newest first-run
house, the J, P. Harris, formerly, the
Alvin, has beien delayed for. eight
days, due to late arrival of last-
minute furnishings. House, which
has . been completely rebuilt follow-
ing roof caye-ln in November; 1040,
was to have been unveiled Friday
(27), but won't get under way now
until April 4. Opening attraction
will be .20th's 'Tto the Shores of -
Tripoli.'

Harris company added In opening
announcement that there 'would bo
no hoopla, attending the dedication,
but' that Harris ^^ould merely open
its doors at 10 a.m, without benefit of
fanfare, explalnhig that's according
to principles of late Senator John p.
Harris, who founded chain bearing
his. name and who stated 37 years
agtf-, when he opened world's Jrst
Nickelodeon here, that 'the moving
picture is for the masses.' However,
there'll be B brief dedicatory servico
pigh^ .with s hort, add resses -by..-
SJ / Bciiuy and Frank 'J. Hafflo,
president of circuit. '

Bill Zellbr, who managed Alvin at
time of near-disaster', but has since
been appointed supervisor for entiro
chain, will look after new Harris for
first few weeks pending appointment
of permanent manager. .

New Stndio Pact Giyes
FlacksJlO% Wage m

Hollywood, March 24.
Producers and Screen Publlcista
Guild agreed on a new two-year
contract calling for a. 10% Increaso
In minimum wages. Retroactive dato
is still in debate, -with the studloa
offering Jan. 1 and the flacks hold-
ing out for Oct 9.

Proviso In the contract permits •
reopening of negotlatldns before two
years If the cost of living mounts too
high within that period.

16 INTERNATIOHAL

33% From IVevious Year During 1941

Feature production In England
jfluring 1941 decreased 33% from the
previous year, with a total of 48
pictures turned out, figures which
just arrived in New York from Lon-
don reveal In 1940 the British film
Industry made 72 features and it cut
that number by 24 In 1941.

Total of 523 pictures, domestic and
foreign, Including reissues, were
available to English exhibs during
the 12 months. That was only 18
less than the year previous, largely
due to the increase- in Americatf
product available. While only 423
HoUywood-mades were tradeshown
In Britain in 1940, 451 were sent
there last year.

In addition to the U.S. product,
there was one Australian picture
tradeshown (4 in 1940), four French
(12 in 1940) and four Russian (none
in 1940). British reissues in 1941
emounted to 15, while there had
been 30 the year before.

Heaviest decrease In type of Eng-
lish-made product was in comedy,
■with only eight new laugh-getters
made to 15 of them . the previous
year. Gangster dramas also, showed
ti downturn, with only two of them
against seven in 1940. Mystery mel-'
lers decreased from six to phe. Ro-
mantic (iomedies showed a slight
tilt, from pne to' three.

Mellers, 74 of them, constituted
the greatest single type of American
import. There were -54 comedies
and 54 comedy-dramas, 49 westerns.
88 dramas, 3.6 romantic comedies, 26
gangster dramas and a vsrie\y of
other types.

PK inn AMONG
MEXINDUSTRIES

Mexico Cil7. March 24. .

Pictures, are Mexico's sixth biggest
Industry, from the ^standpoint of the
pumbeir of employees, payroll and
tax settleinents, a survey of the busi-
ness reveals. Pictures enaploy 12,370
persons — 5,818 in-production, .5,793. in
exhibition, 535 In distribution and
£24 elsewhere. '

Industry represents an Investment
«f $75,000,000 (Mex) (19,000,000 U.S.)
(With a payroll of about $10,000,000
(2,500.000 U.S.).

PAR'S J. L PERKINS
PRISONER IN MANILA

!

Indirect word has been received
t)y Paramount that Its representa-
tive in the Far East, James E. Per-
kins, Is alive and safe in Manila.
Message came from Robert Perldns,
Universal rep in the Orient, who is
avprisoner of war in Singapore.

Robert Perkins. Is son of the Par
Boanager.

Lange, Pratchett

To Latin America

cilice representative of Paramount's
foreign department, left early last
week for Havana on business,

A. ^L. Pratchett, Par managing
director for Central America and
most of South America, is heading
for Chile.

Abates Mex Fears

Mexico City, March 24.

Fear of an acute shortage of raw
materials has been brought to atten-
tion, of domestic pic producers by
Santiago Reach), p.resldent of Fosa
Films," S.A., with the assurance that
they can depend upon ample sup-
plies of celluloid and. other essen-
tials at least for this. year.

Reachl, recently back from a busi-
ness visit to Hollywood, New York
and Washington, announced here
that he had received that cheering
Information In official cirQies of the
three metropolis.

Lisbon Saves Electricity

Lisbon, March 24...

Film theatres here will have to
cut down on screenings to leave elec-
tric power, according ^to a decree
just Issued.

New regulation reduces use of
electric light 50% in streets and 25%
in homes.

ESDAILE PLANS
LONDON CASINO
REVUES

London, Feb. 24.

Alfred EsdaiJe is seriously consid-
ering reopening the London Casino
for his former Prlr.ee of Wales the-
atre policy, of continuous' revues.

Casino was erected 15 years ago
by E. A. Stone,' and as- the Prince
Edward It flopped from opening. In
1934, Clifford C. Fischer converted
the spot into an eatery-theatre, with
the late Martinus Foulsen, of Cafe
de Paris, and Cafe Anglais fame,
having third Interest in venture.
Spot was instantaneous hit and made
big money. Then Government be-
gan to insist that, as It was a the-
atre, it was subject to Entertainment
Tax. . After protracted argument^,
house folded.

It was later sold to Green. Bros.,
tobacco people, and leased by Es-
daile and Charles Clore, -who tried
to emulate. the Fischer policy.. But
that lasted a ^hort .time.

Esdaile will have tp remove all
the restaurant accoutrements and
bring b~.ck; the- theatre seats, and.
with the Office of Works only al-
lowing $400 for rebuilding or reno-
vating any property. It seems doubt-
ful if the conversion can be .done
that cheaply. -

Maurice Bloom bops
$56,p in 20 Weeks
Of London Vaude Try

m

London, Feb. 24.
Maurice Bloom, who insisted he
could make vaudeville pay in the
West End, has, after 20 weeks op-
erating the Phoenix theatre, dropped
1$56,000. He now cpntemplates quit-
ting and may stage his own musical
show.

Bloom, bought the property for
$250,000 10 y?ars after it was built
at cost of over $600,000. , Advised
against the vaude bug, Bloom was
warned of the name-talent shortage.
George Black saw the writing on
the wall even before the war, al-
though he was In a position to bring
talent in from America and tiie Con-
tinent, and. for this reason he
switched his. policy to 'Crazy' shows
and revues at tba Palladium and
Holborn Empire.

■---?aceff:^wltte.t3ir>idw4ousr*iffieidl»ft
in getting any names or turns with
a semblance of ■novelty. Bloom was
burdened with a lot of mediocrities,
occasionally . booking a name band.
Result house became known as the
provider of suburban standard bills
at West End prices,' with transients,
who are the mainstay of the West
End, flgiu'ing they could see the
s&me bill at half the price's' charged
at the Phoenix, near home, without
having to brave the blackout.

MULLDiaATOR
OF BRITISH PIX

7 Cinemas, Including 4
In J^. Y^Piay GcnntiwiJPiJt

Four theatres in New York and
one each In Detroit. Chicago and Mil
waukee continue their pre-war pol
icy of German-language pictures,
with apparently , very little protjest.
In the meantime, Ernst Elsele, v.p.
of UFA, has' been refused permission
by the Treasury Department to le-
organize the company to do business
in pon-propaganda Deutsche films.
Treasury took over the German pic-
ture outfit day after Pearl Harbor;
while FBI interned its boss, George
Nitze.-

None of the houses now playing
German product are using anyUiing
that, on the surface, at least, re-
sembles propaganda. Most of it Is
year-old fictional stuff. Anything
made after the start of the Nazi re-
gime in 1933 Is understood being
scrutinized closely by the FBI and
various anti-Nazi groups. 5^

Open In New York are the Casino
and Garden In the Yorkvllle sector
of Manhattan, and the Wagner and
Mozart in Brooklyn. The Hinden
burg In Irvington, N. J, and the
Transfer In North Bergen are under-
stood to have made application for
permission to relight

London, Feb. 24.

Rumor again current ia that Gov-
ernment Is planning to appoint a
Controller of Cinematography to
more or less dictate to the whole
film Industry. Idea is not new but
has never foimd favor with the film,
trade and not much with Govern-
ment except with certain elements in
Board of Trade. Present revival is
said to emanate from Simon Row-
son, once a director of Gaimiont-
British and now in Board ot Trad^'
as adviser on cinema business."^

Another incursion by Board of
Trade Into film busmess 'is current
demand to. Producers Assn. to ^et
full 'details from all producers and
units of all wardrobe bought on
clothes rationing coupons. .At. pres-
ent, sale by one producer to another
is ' impossible as - it still involves
coupons, and idea of retailed list
asked by BOT is believed to
enhance the possibility of .an ex-
change system between studios.

SANTIAGO REACHI SET
AS MEX GOVT. AIDE

Waller Sues Hylton

London, Feb. 24.

Jack Waller has issued writ against
Jack Hylton, claiming he agreed to
stage with him a musical cavalcade
to comprise the hit numbers from
most of the old Clayton & 'Waller
musicals, including "No, No Nanette'
and 'Mercenary Mary.* Hylton claims,
he never committed himself- in
writing and. Is .therefore not liable.

Friends are trying to patch it up.

Mexico City, March 24.

Santiago Reachi, who before . he
became presidents of Pote Films,
S.A.i was, an advertising man here,
has been named by the government
to coordinate and direct the presi-
'dential program to up industrial and
agrlcultui;il production.

Reachi is brother of Ramon
Reachi (Ramon & Remito, ballroom
team), widely known in U. S. amuse-
ment circles, and Manuel, represen-
tative of the Mexican government in
Hollywood.

HOYTS, 20TH IN DEAL

Aussie Theatre' Clrenlt Finally
Signs for Product

._ ->'r=r-T.~^-Sy:dT«e>r.-ailJ5ch'24;i:

Hoyts circuit has concluded a
long-term product deal with 20th-
Fox after the agreement had been
oh the fire for many months. Terms
not disclosed.

Though the distribution company
is related to Hoyts through National
Theatres, 20th-Fox's. main theatre
subsid, which in turn controls the
Australian cinema circuit, the re-
lationship has meant little in getting
together on film deals.

Foster Heads Agents

London, Feb. 24.

Harry Foster appointed president
of the Agents Association in place of
late Lionel Wallace.

Foster was joint viteprez with
Archie Parnell, who keeps his po-
sition, with Gerard Heath taking the
Foster spot

Mex Scenarists prgBnize.
Mexico City, March 24.
Scenarists in Mexico have formed
a .union, with headquarters hert. ' '■

A Salnte From Ansae Etfitor

Erie Solomon, editor of the "Film Weekly' of Sy4ney. Australia,
and former M.P., sent the following c^ble to 'Varied and other trade
publications: , '

■ - Sydney, March J8. „

.' Everyone in. Motion Picture tf-ede. throughout Australia thrilled
with General MacAithur's appointment as Supreme Commander-''
in-Chief of Anzac area. Our hand 'of fellowship In welcoming
members of U.S. forces who have joined Anzac troops 'in AUs- —
tralia. Believe me, we will make your boys welcome. This nation
Is determined to end aggression In the PcclBc, and, now mobilized
for an all-out tn wbr .'effort, greatly appreciates U. S. cooperation.

Eric Solomon, 'Film Weefcly/

Priorities Delay Pix Plans

-Contlnned from page $s

how much production for next year
will be .affected, and -v^hat type «f
product is to be curtailed, is cur-
rently one' of the major production
headaches, pending a WPB decision.
. Priority problem Is not entirely
matter of raw film stock allotment.
Belief in the industry is that the
greatest saving in essential materials
is to be achieved, mostly through
cutting do'wn outlays for materials,
sets, ..cutters, tipie^and labor at the
studios:

For the time being it is understood
that no action will be taken to curb
production, pending parleys with in-
dustry representatives; and Wash-
ington ' prlPtlty pfllclals hope that
curtailment In consumption of most
articles can be effected by- imder-
standings -and' voluntary agreements.
Chances -are^. however, than an order
will be issued regarding raw stock.
Francis Harmon huddled with Don-
alds. Hyndmaii of Eastman on this
point on: Monday (23) in New York.

Until' recently various interests
within th6 producing and exhibition
rankS'>were in violent conflict Eich
group wanted iho. other to absorb
most 'Of the curtailment It is under-
stood that there is now Identity if
not harmpiiy 'of view . among the
various industry ^groups.' - Should
there be any -further disagreement
over -who should bear the brunt -of
curtailment, prlprltle^ '! officials he-
lleve they will have. to clamp do'wn
with rigid Government orders.
Save Wherever Poaslbie
Indicative of the tKreatening short-
age in necessary supplies was a bul-
letJta issued ta stiidia employees by
the Wai* Acclivities ; Committee last
-week stating,: 'The .studios- where:
you work miay be forced to close un-
less materials, tools and e^uipme;it
whi^ you use in ypiir' 'work are
cared for and conserved. It is vitally
important to the . maintenance of
motion . pl6tui:e production and to
your.'jpb that therebe ho wastage
of materials' used.- xtiis means you.'
mtist save on lumber, metals, tools,'
hardware, nails, iSlm, ."chemicals,-
paint paint brushes, electrjxal and
sound equipment, office 'supplies,
etc.'

One major studio recently In need
of 1300 tons of -nails was able to
obtain only 400 tons, and similar
curtailment' in other requirements
has also, been reported.

Top executives are currently dis-
cussing possibility of some reduction
in dualling next year. With pro-
ducers .already, taking decided views
on how large their. Individual allot-
ments will be, indications are that
WPB officials will ask various
groups to decide among themselves
extent of cut each will absorb. Fail-
ing this there is a likelihood that
the WPB will hand down arbitrary
curtailment orders with penalties
for violations.
' Priuif Dnals, Up Shorts
In line with this possibility in-
dustry^heads have been checking
over what pruning can be done on
feature production schedules and
hQw-tber-ohort:-.fBa'.'tre lineups may
be augmented or improved.

Shortage of labor is another im-
portant factor in future production.
Large number of studio workers are
already reported working on double
shifts, while demand on the studios
for technicians in the armed -forces
is further expected to curtail work-
ing staffs on the Coast, if the ex-
perience in Great Britain can be
taken as a criterion.

is likely to seek voluntary coopera-
tion of ell user's. Ofllcibls a.-e atill
wrestling with questions of military
demand vs. raw material output,
with no decision to date how much
civilian consumption should be cur-
tailed.

Theatre Expansion '

Meantime, issuance of the order
restricting tiie^tre expansion is ex-
pected momentarily. Lawyers have
been in huddles in their first move
to whip the decree Into proper form.
'When rubber-stamped . it will put
the exhibition branch on a'main-
tenance-and-repair basis, allowing
"hew ' building ' only In unusual cir-
cumstances, such as in case of fire or
where existing houses are inade-
quate to care for partonage created
by .establishment of new defense in-
du^rUls and naval bases.

This order, putting theatres on a
'maintenance and repair' basis, is
still being phrased. A. Julian Brylaw-
skl has assured the War Activities
Committee,' however, that there is
no intention of jumping the gun with
restrictions on .production until in-
dtJistry leardera are given an oppor-
tunity to agree among themselves.

Fixed Film Rations

Washington, March 24.

Though War Production Board is
officially described as not wanting
to be 'hurtful' and anxious to keep
the film industry going as near nor-
mal as possible, some reduction in
film consumption is inevitable. Most
likely outcome of the current studies
is an ultimatum that no consumer
can have m.':re than a fixed per-
centage of his 1941 requirtments, so
that no particular group or user will
suffer more than another.

Before an arbitrary reduction In
any materials are"ok'dei'fea,fhe WPB

THREE LONDON LEGITS
WARMLY RECEIVED

'■ London, March 24.

'School for Slavery,' strong propa-
ganda melodrama- by Lajos Biro,
Hungarian playwright which opened
at the Westminster theatre March
17, was' -cordially received. With
drastic cutting and proper exploita-
tion It should prove successful.

New Schubert play 'Blossom Thne,'
opening same day at Lyric, waa
given a splendid reception. Richard
Tauber Is starred, and Schubert's
original music is used.

'■Why Not Tonight' matrimonial
farce opening at the Ambassadors,
March 19, has an even money chance.
First nighters liked It <

GFD Deal on Gaumont
Delayed by Kent's Death

London, March 24,
Deal for Arthur Rank, chief
backer of General FUm Distributors,
to buy 20th-Fox Interest In Gau-
mont-Bdtlsh is still Incomplete be-
cause of Sidney R. Kent's death.

Robert Kane Is here with docu-
mentary instructions as negotiator
from 20th-Fox officials and Kent,
but negotiations have been tem-
porarily halted.

Bustanoby

-Contlnved tnm pai e 2-

ing prowess), Nora Bayes, et a1, to
make Impromptu fun.

Bustanoby introduced the bunny
hug and grizzly bear, the turkey trot
and Gaby glide to -his. customers, a'
daring Innovation then to have danc-
ing with dining.

Prohibition was the undoing of
these 'lobster palac^ for two rea*
sons: (1) the diehard bonifaces
couldn't compromise their wine cel-
lars and cuisine with 'Volsteadian
boozing and -iZ) the new crop of
guzzlers knew from nothing so far
as fine cuisine standards -were con-
cerned. So It hit Joe Panl and Jac-
ques Bustanoby hard.

Both essayed roadhouse ventures;
both fUvved. . Bustanoby's last try
was a de luxe East 56tb street res-
taurant which achieved same meas-
ure of recapturing the' Bustanoby
dining tradition, but somehow there
weren't enough customers to appre-
ciate it .■ '

Legit Gronp Names Giiltry

Vichy, March 24.
Sacha Guitry has 'been elected
president of the Dramatic Artists As-
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Ladd Lads Made: Okayed by Trade
-And Wins John Chapman Accolade!

Alan Laddi young Paramount
discovery given his first major role
as The Raven' in the flfth-block
picture, This Gun For Hire,' has
hit the jackpot on his Initial spin,
it appeared when the clips were
counted today.

Praise for the budding menace,
in trade paper reviews, was of
rave caliber. In addition, John
Chapman, syndicated columnist of
the New York Dally News, pre-
dicted ^atly that "when Para's
This Gun For Hire'- comes out,
Alan Ladd will be the hottest men-
ace since Humphrey Bogart and
Edward G. Robinson began their
criminal careers!'

Typical of the trade press ex-
citement over Ladd was the Hol-
lywood Reporters statement that
there's 'no need to haU Ladd as
a comer; he' has arrived in one
jump,' Daily Variety says 'story
proves inspirational to a skillful
young actor, Alan Ladd, whom it
elevates to the status of stardom.
Yoimg Ladd looms as one of the
most promising of the screen's new-
comers in a long time; his person-
ality rides through every scene and
will win admiration from men and
^omen alike.'

MP Herald says: 'performance
turned in by Alan Ladd, a new-
comer who portrays the salaried
assassin, is one to be talked about
and .remembered.' Showmen's
Trade Review says: 'Alan Ladd's
^rtrayal of the cold-blooded killer
13 a work of art, a -Job that ranks
with the best ever seen on the
screen.'

Even 'Variety', In turning in the
only negative review of -'This Gun'
to come from the entire trade
press, slipped Ladd a backhanded
compliment by saying that his
death at the end was disconcerting
'as all the sympathy went to Jjadd.'

Film Daily, In chaiacterizlhg the
picture ^as 'a quality melodrama
that packs tremendous suspense
and should ihoot up boxoffice
grosses,' cites Ladd as 'easily the
standout in the cast,' after prai.s-
Ing all acting. 'His work/as the
cold-blooded killer gives/you' the
chills,' review adds.

AUn XmAA u :Tb« B»Tca,' P^c>>o-
klller of Thta . Gan for" Him;' Imd;
icTlewen heimld l)lm •• the nnd oi
the jrear.

Before th« trade verdicts were
in,' Paramount studio had spotted
Ladd's unusual ability. In quick
succession, following first screen-
ing of - 'Gun' rushes, Ladd was
skedded into three more pix.

First announcement was that
Ladd would go into The Glass Key'
as menace.' "About a' we'el^' later the'
studio announced purchase of the
London play, The Man in Half
Moon Street,' as a Ladd vehicle.
He's to get stellar billing in this.
Recently the third announcement
came through; Ladd wUl go into
'Bed Harvest' following "T^ie Man
in HaU Moon Street'.

Afl Hands to Listening Stations!
'Fleet s in' Gets Second Air Show

One of the biggest listening au-
dience? ever lined up for a spot
program is expected Friday night
for Paramount's second radio send-
off^, show on behalf of "The Fleet's
In,' gob-gal-gultaw hit starring

mainour, Holden and Bracken.
The show goes out over 81 sta-

. tIons\>f the Mutual Network
Sixty-nine of these stations will

Scarry it at 9:45 to 10 p.m. EWT—
sandwiched directly between the
popular Coca-Cola 'SfeiUlght
Bands' show and the Joe Louis- Abe
Slmpn fight Position should net
"««ners from both features.

Twelve remaining stations will
cany delayed brc\adpasts, . some.

Immediately after the Louis fight.

Dorothy Lamour, 'William Hold
en, Betty Hutton and Betty Jane
Rhodes, all of 'Fleet,' wlU be fea-
tured. Music will be supplied by
Victor Yoimg's Paramount Record-
ing Orchestra.

First radio show for 'The Fleet's
In,' originating In New York, went
out over the Blue Network last
Friday night. Jimmy Dorsey and
his orchestra were the attraction
and the Dorsey band featured hit
tunes from the picture, including
'Tangerine,' 'Arthur Murray
Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry,'
'I Remember You' and the title
tune. The Fleet's In.'

liAUGGS UUeHT

Minority Report — But Defi-
nitely — Filed by Scribes on
Par's Fifth Socko Block;
War Nerves or Overtrain-
ing Suspected in Panning

SINGING OFF KEY

Paramount was pretty puffed up
last week. Execs went around hum-
ming In the halls, stenos popped their
gum with a more gay abandon than
usual. The reason: trade reviews
for Par's fifth block were an almost
undiluted peaen of praise.

Then 'Variety' came, out
, Frankly, we still don't know what
happened. All we know is that only
on "My • Favorite Blonde" did
■Variety* see eye-to .eye with the
happy scribes of other trade pubs.
They (Abel) caUed it a "surefire
boxoffice entry." . For the balance
. . .' well, we just didn't please 'em,
thafs all. ^

Now, Paramount doesn't mind
taking its lumps when there's cause.
But this time it hurt So for the rec-
ord — and for the sake of those ex-
hibs who read only "Variety,' here's
SL picture-by -picture «ample of how
Paramount's fifth block reviews
sounded:

<Hy Favorite Blonde' . . . (Box-
office). 'A definite money attraction'
(MP Daily) 'laugh provoking, gag-
filled . . . pace fast and furious . . .
78 minuties of solid entertainment'
(Film DaUy) ,a magnet and money-
maker; bright gag-laden ... . coli^
to the boxoffice.' (ITwd Reporter)
'Watch . out at the boxoffice for a
hefty money maker.' (Dally Variety)
'One of the studio's top money pic-
tures of the year. Should do smash
business everywhere.' (Showmen's
Trade Review) 'Hope at his wise-
cracking best ... a natural to reap
tich rewards at the boxoffice,' (MP
Herald) 'star-studded cast, accel-
erated p'a'ce, ■ delicious "strealc 6t
comedy ... all indications of dol-
lars at the boxoffice.' CVarlety*)
'surefire boxoffice entry' . . ■ ;
(Thanks, pals).

*REAP'S' GOLDEN HARVEST BEGINS

Paramount's thirtieth anniversary plcturt, C. B. D*MUIe's 'Reap
the Wild Wind,' begins its New York harvest tomorrow at the
Radio 'City Music HaU. Already Uie Technicolor epic has piled up
an impressive record on the 'West Coast; it's playing an SRO week
at the newly opened ' Hollywood Paramount, where the 'World.
Premiere was held last Thursday. .

'Reap' opens big — and grows — the record In L.A, shows. Business
upped daily ttere following the sellout opening. Sunday biz "was
100 p4ir cent above opening day!

Newspaper reviews in L.A. paralleled the trade reviews; they
were uniformly raves. The L. A. Herald and Express called it s
'smash hit; the best picture from DeMille in many years'. The L. A.
Times called it 'surefire boxoffice; DeMllIe gives his audience a
show, one that most of them - will want to' see more than once'.
L.A. Dally News labels it the best of all DeMille films'.

aid) 'here is screen merchandise
that is as lilting as the song of a
bird on the first day of Spring...
will prove true to .the boxoffice. . .
kept the preview audience laughing
continually, with music, dancing,
romance, a plot that has the quality
of adrenalin, and a talented cast'
(Film Dally) '"'Slam-bang comedy
should go over with sock as family
film fare. . .bang-up entertainment
packed with howl-provoking situa-
tions. . .family tradft will eat it up
afid then cry for. more.', ^furious,
breathless, nonsensical film that
strives solely for laughs and gets
them imstintedly. . .one long romp'.'
(Showmen's Trade Review)
'shbultl be received with' gales ot
laughter. ..should draw better-
than-average patronage.' (MP
Daily) 'Fast-stepping and fast-mov-
ing; has plenty - to recommend it
f 01* outright entertainment.' (H'wd
Reporter) 'an honestly whacky com-
edy, milked dry of laughs by the
vigorous efforts of its cast' (Daily
Variety) the usual film audience
.win vociferously applaud.' (Va-
riety, who must have 'had a bad
night) familiar and' -static, . .will
mildly satisfy.'

This Gnn for 'Hire' (MP Dally)—
'Skillfully blended blood-and-thun-
der melodrama with psychopathic
overtones. . .taut action and 'sus-
pense/ (Dally Variety) 'Due lor
critical raves and the klnd'-of cus-
tomer ballyhoo a well-made pic-
ture of this kind invariably gets. . ,
will do sturdy business.'' (^oUy-
wobd Reporter) *You11 go a long
way to find more tense and grip-
ping melodrama . . .word ^UI surely
get . around that here . is a : hit R-
tractlon.' (Film DaUy) 'QuaUty
melodrama packs tremendous sus-
pense; should shoot' up boxoffice
grosses., .deliberate, Inexorable

pace that works up- terrific, excite-
ment' (MP Herald) 'Builds up a
suspense equalled by few; films in'
lis category... performances of the
best. . '.script a demonstration, of
sklU in the maintenance of tension
. . . productloh tip - top . . . direction
sparkles. ..excellent entertainment,'
(Jay Emanuel, in a letter) 'Should
do a' barrel of business... the best-
drama made in many a season.'..
(Sho'wmen's Jrade Review) 'Box-
office dynamite that seents beaded
for outstanding business... top-,
flight ... a hit attraction . . . will profit
by word-of -mouth.' "(Variety...
see what we mean?) 'Little im-
portance and limited appeal...
volved... improbable story.'

•Henry snA Dlisy' • ■ • (MP Dally) .
'good, all-around screen fun for the
entire famll} . . . solid, homespun "
appeal ; . . a strong drawing drd .
at the boxoffice . , , plenty U solid
entertilnmeill'. (Bokoffict) 'certain
to gamer steady family patronage,
especially in the neighborhoods....'
mom, pop, slstie and junior will,
have a good time, with this entry*.
(DaUy Variety) "Henry Aldrlch
hangs up another hour's . solid
amusement . . . wiU whet the ap-
petite for more'- (FUm Dally) 'wUI-'
go over with the family trade'. '
(Showmen's Trade Review) 'stacks
up as good family entertainment
. . . should aaiists the paying cus-
tomers of all ages'. (H'wd Re-
porter) 'Boisterous ^lvenUe antics
give the Aldrlch Family another
vigorous screen workout'. (Variety,
our pals) 'more or less typical but.
below average.'

. fere's <h«.ree«rd,. On tbe <■«•
of It Fammoiiiit fecu that .IT*
been robbed'. And we Tcnttfrs to
predict that tke eld B.O. repeHa
wlU' prove we're right. . .

'Great Man's Lady' (MP

Dally) 'tender and sensitive story. . .
should have strong boxoffice appeal
for women. . .Barbara Stariwyck brU-
llant' (Daily Variety) 'fine, emo-
tional entertaInment,_$ol«'._wlth sin-
cerity and dep'th. , .strong theatre,
particularly for the feminine pa-
trons.' (MP Herald) 'heart Interest,
adventure and an exciting pace to
most of the episodes. . .should please
the majority of any audience.'
(Showmen's Trade Review) 'will ap-,
peal to both sexes. . . a superb piece
of screen entertainment that smart
showmen wUl be able to cash in on.'
(H'wd Reporter) 'one of the great
performances of the year gloriously
given by Barbara Stanwyck. ..enter-
tainment' on an heroic scale. . .fine
drama.' (Jay Emanuel of Exhibitor,
in a letter) 'A fine human piece -of
real entertainment that wiU keep
the boxoffices busy. If Stanwyck
doesn't get the Oscar, then Academy
Awards are a fake.' (Film Daily)
'lots of appeal. Should go over par-
ticularly well in small communities.'
(Variety, for gosh.sakesi) "Fine per-
formance of Barbara Stanwyck alone
must carry It Leaves one strangely
unmoved.'

'True to the Army*... (MP Her-

''It's no use, Chief; they just can't grow *em In time to
ballyhoo *Tme to the Army*!**

18 PICTURES

Wjedaesday. March '25,. 1942

This Week's New Shorts

'Hollywood War Etforta' (Picture
People. HKO, 8 mlns.)— This month's

Ssrfect lesson In how not to depict
ojlywood's war efforts. It's bad
enough tliat the script takes civilian
defense too lightly, but that's no rea-
son for the narrator also to take the
whole thing as one grand joke. Fact
that Hollywood celebs are devoting
time and energy for U. S. defense is
highly irritating when kidded in
childish fashion.

•Pinto Junior' (Walt Disney-RKO,
7 mlns.)— Pluto, Jr, puppy of the
big mongrel, repeats some of pappy's
Elap-happy errors in Its initial film
appearance. lA>oks like a happy ad-
dition to the Disney tribe. Lots of
customary ingenious touches usually
associated with Disney's better ef-
forts and only a couple of lapses into
repetitious action scenes. Geared for
maximum laughs in all types of
house.s.

'Heart Born' (Edgar Kennedy com-
edy, HKO, 17 mlns.)— This would
have been a lot funnier held to about
eight minutes. Edgar Kennedy again
is the abused hubby, this time tipped
by neighbor to pull fake sickness in
order to arouse sympathy at home.
Steam-roller type of comedy plus un-
believable characters mar Kennedy's
efforts to introduce some humor.
Okay for some subsequent theatres
where they like slapstick.

Ten Pin Parade' (Sportscope, HKO.

9 mins.) — This shows the marvels oi
streamlined bowling alleys in Holly-
wood. Even it it did not follow
other shorts on bowling, this briefle
itill would be tiresome. Idba of hint-
ing that medicos approve bowling for
all types of elderly people to keep
nt not only is misleading but is nO
boost, for picture .theatre attendance.
There must be more interesting
sports for the screen than champ
keelers in action.

'Who's Who In the Zoo' (Looney
Toon cartoon comedy, WB, 7 mins.)
— Burlesque tour of animal zoo, well
gagged maximum chuckles. Top ani-
mation by John Carey enhances this
different cartoon comedy. Best for
better class of theatres.

Then and Now* (Transportation
novelty, WB, 10 mins.)— This is
neither flsh nor fowl because factual
has been blended with feature film
clips, and then part of it kidded.
Fair^ entertaining because showing
such varied modes of transportation
— street car, subway, elevated,- motor
car. buggy; plane,' railway, etc.
Tame entry, any way figured.

'Conrad the Sailor' (Merrie Mel-
odies color, cartoon comedy, WB, 7
mins.) — Daily Duck plagues the
jovidPsailoi' on a battleship. Snappy
repartee of bird plus excellent voices,
originality and superb color make it
topnotch. Safe bet on any bill.

Leo Belsman and Orohestra (WB,

10 mlns.) — Heisman plays 'St. Louis
Blues,' "Make Love With a. Guitar,'
•This Thing Called Love' and Take
It' in standard fashion. Unbilled
femme balladist warbles 'Called
Love' for maximum'retums. More
of this comely singer, and fewer
closeups of.horn-tooters would have
helped. So-so band briefle.

'Aloha Hooey' (Merrie Melodie
color cartoon comedy, WB, 7 mlns.)
—Goofy crow and wiseacre seagull
flirt with a hula girl (saronged bird) .
Inane story feebly projected.

'HantteK Don at Work' (Sports
Parade in color, WB. 10 mlns.)—
Blown up from* 16-millimeter orig-
inal, not :helped by Knox Manning's
narration. Bird dogs arc good, but
sound' and color is lukewarm.
Meagre fare.

Itfaybe Darwin Was RIkM' (Com-
edy,. WBv 20 mins:)— Despite care--
less cutting (which permits this to
run too long), Slapsie Maxie Rosen-
bloom puts this cicross. Broadly
sketched comedy epi.sodes trace high-
lights in Maxie's imaginative ca-
reer. Nat Hiken's original scripting
plus B. Heaves Eason's direction
make it worthwhile for most houses.

'Don't Talk' (Crime Does Not Pay,
Metro, 22 mins.)— This gripping mel-
odramatic briefle answers both the
exhibitor and. the government. Ex-
"lTtb"Witt-like itT>ecause his custom-
ers will go for the picture while the
U. S. will appreciate "how deftly it
puts across the drive to halt idle
chatter about defense activities.
Short traces operations of spy ring
attempting to toss monkeywrench
into America's war production ma-
chine. Illustrates how loose talk,
spoken Innocently, is picked up and
often serves enemy snoopers trying
to slow TJ. S. armament program.
F.B.L ultimately runs down gang
but only after a series of harrowing
experiences. Film drives home the
point that 'It pays to think twice
before you speak once,' Straight-
forward story, omitting heroics, well
enacted, makes for sterling enter-
tainment while forcibly illustrating
how vital silence is with America at
war, J, Newman gets the laurels
for his smart dirction, A 'must' on
any nrogram,

'GolDf to Freis' (Our Gang com-
edy, Metro, 11 mins.) — Strictly for
juvenile consumption; mighty thin.

'Land of the Quintuplets' (Fitz-
patrlck color travclttalk. Metro, 8
mlns.) — ^Rather comprehensive sur-
vey on homelife of Dionne Quints
done in splendid color to add realism.

One of better entries in this series.

The First Svallow' (Color car-
toon, Metro, 7% mics.)— Relates
legendary tale to explain why swal-
lows nest at che mission at Capis-
trano. Off-screen narration de-
scribes the lonely padre who started
the first migration to the mission.
Unusual cartoon with color and
sound making it effective. Wear.

Current Short Sabjects

(Prints in Exchanges)

(Compiled b« Besa Short)
'Going to Press' (M-G), 11

mins. Our Gang.
'Goodbye, Mr. Moth' (U), 7

mlns. Color cartoon.
'Hontlng Dogs at Work' (WB),

9 mins. Labrador retrievers in
color.

'InUrlor Decorator' (HKO), 18
mlns. Edgar Kennedy comedy.

'March of Time' No. 8 (RKO),
19 mins. The Argentine Ques-
tion.

'Maybe Darwin' Was Right'

(WB), 21% -nlns. Maxle Rosen-
bloom comec!y.
'Soreen Snapshots' No. 8 (Col),

10 mins. Made at San Diego
Naval Base. With Gruucho Mai-x,
Alan Jones and Virginia Weidler.

'Variety Views' No. 106 (U),
10 mins. Montana fheep in
spring time.

Film Reviews

^Continued from pace O5

Man From Headquarters

UD satisfactorily on all counts. There
is some comed:', but not much. How-
ever, Frank Albertson plays it on
the light side, in the face of the
difficulties he gei:, into as a police
reporter.

Locale Is at first Chicago, where
Albertson has solvec. a murder case,
then shifts to St. Louis, to which he
has been shanghaied by gangsters.
He meets up with Joan Woodbury,
stranded in St. Louis, and after sur-
mounting many ob^'-acles they suc-
ceed in pinning a holdup .on the
CHiicago gang'.eadbr' against whom
Albertson is supposed to- testify on
th mur'' -;r rap. '

Because of f;ood body plot and
situations, the film mo es along at
a sprightly gait, holding the interest
the full distance. Lindsley Parsons'
production ob is adequate and the
dir.ectlon, by Jean Yarbrough, en-
tirely capable.

Albertson handler his role well,
while Miss Woodbury, a former
dancer, is "an attractive type who
performs in b thoroughly natural
manner. She will igo higher.

Lessers incluae ' two excellent
gangster types, Arthur O'Connell
and Paul Bryar, that are played
partly in a light comedy manner,
Byron Foulger as a hotel manager,
also good. ' Char.

UMPI Opposition

^^ Contlnued from pa^je 1;^^

proved the UMPI plan, including
Attie'd Theatre 'Owners' of New York-
headed by Max A, Cohen of the
UMPI subcommittee.

The four MPTOA members of the
UMPI subcommittee— Ed Kuykendall,
Lewen Pizor, Joe Vogel and Max A.
Cohen — met yesterday afternoon
(Tues.) to canvass returns on the
sales plan from various state units.
The group reported that while some
regional associations of the MPTOA
are willing to go along on the LTdPI
plan, the majority are not so inclined
and principally want a straight 20%
cancellation. MPTOA will go into
the situation further in aii open-
minded manner in the hope of ob-
taining better unity among its own
organizations.

Approvals

Several units in the Allied States
-Assn. have already voted approval
and doubted that Allied, the parent
organization, will recommend any
drastic changes. Allied's board met
In N. Y. -yesterday (Tues.) to dis-
cuss a sales plan based on sugges-
tions made by its various state units,
which Allied will take before the
subcommittee today (Wed.).

UMPI subcommittee reconvening
today (Wed.) in N. Y. is headed by
Jack Kircch, president of Allied of
Illinois, which has bkayed the sales
formula. Kirsch i^ .chairman and
was one of the prime leaders in the
unity movement.

The committee of the whole of
UMPI, of which Bill Rogers, sales
manager of Metro, Is chairman, is

scheduled
(Thurs.).

to meet tomorrow

BIoek-of-B Ml'"' .

Chicago, March 24,

United Motion Picture Industry
meetings to be held in New York
this week are expected to clarify the
atmosphere on the new selling plan
submitted by the committee of the
whole. Allied group will meet first,
with Jack Kirsch, Sidney Samuelson
and Col. H. A. Cole sitting around
the table; and then there will be the
committee of Ave, which consists of
the three Allied Men, the three Mo-
tion Picture Theatre Owners of
America group of Joe Vogel, Ed
Kuykendahl and Max Cohen; three
non-afflliate men, who are Bob
Poole, Bob White and WllUam Crock-
ett and one each from each of the
afflliates with the exception of Unit-
ed Artists and Universal.

As' to the outcome of the various
meetings there is a pretty good cer-
tainty that the present setup of sell-
ing blocks-of-flve will be discarded
entirely. After years of fighting for
the elimination of total blockbook-
ing, and having finally obtained the
split contract deals, the exhibitors
now find that the present five-block
deals work unsatisfactorily. The dis-
tributors are apparently quite satis-
fled with the blocks-of-five setup,
but, also, are ready to accept the new
sales plan now being recpmmended
by the UMPI group. However, what
is holding up the new sales plan Is
again the exhibitor, as there are sev-
eral groups throughout the country
which are battling It

Nevertheless, these occasional ob-
jections will surely be Ironed _out
and the block-of-flve plan will go
into the discard along with the late
blockbooking. Blockbooking itself
will never come back into show
business as long as the Department
of Justice retains its present deter-
minations.

On all these current negotiations
the D. of J. Is' keeping close-mouthed
and making no statement one way or
another, merely waiting for the ex-
hibitor and distributor groups to
make up their minds.

Distributors . are admittedly fuUy
cooperative with any plan that mee^
with the approval of the industry
group as a whole. While the dis-
tributors are completely satisfied
with the present block-of-five deal,
the distributors are also willing to
make any changes that will bring
unity into the industry.' Under the
block-of-flve system the distrlbs
were in an excellent position to force
weak pictures on the strength of the
one or two good pictures in each
block. There was no cancellation,
which has always been . the bane of
all producers who have pictures on
their hands. But, despite this, these
distrlbs are apparently ready agd
willing to - forego the advantages
which accrue to them under the
block-of-flve deal if a new system
can be arranged satisfactory to aU
parties concerned.

Indie N.Y. Circuits

rContinDcd from pagt 7^

okay terms with Par on its- current
season's (1941-42) pictures, with re-
sult it has sold away on everything
available to date to independents
who are in opposition to the two
chains.

It may be that Par's interest ill
a circuit of- its -o^n is -motivated by
instances where pictures that ordi-
narily would be lucicy to get three
days in a Skouras or Century house,
have- played up to 12 days in com-
petitive theatres and returned a
rental'profit to Par t-nrlce the amount
they would have realized otherwise.
In other words, the experiences
noted in selling away from Skouras
and Century make it obvious that
pictures 'are 'bounced'- by "big" buyers
who care nothing about the distrib-
utor's return, or the Irrefutable fact
that once a playdate is gone it can't
ever be regained.

'Whether indies or Par cross the
line first on acquisition of theatres,
the Loew circuit is not involved in
any manner. Par sells Loew first-
run in all neighborhoods and towns
adjacent to N. Y., while Skouras-
Century and other Indie circuits
follow Loew's on the product. Any
circuit which Par might build up
would be strictly In the subsequent-
run class rather than flrst-run
against Loew's, although there may
be some situations where It could
play its product first-run without
causing conflict With Loew's,

SBIVE-IN SET FOB SEASON
Memphis, March 24.

Bernard Wollner's Drive-In, oniy
motor spot in to'^m, reopened last
Friday night (20).

Spot has succeeded in buying
Warner product for the first time.

FILM BOOKING CHART

(for in/onnatlon of theatr« and film exohange hookers Varsty presenit
a complete chart of feature reUates. of all the -American distributing eonu
paniei for th« xurretit quarterly period. Date of nvlew* at given in

Vjuuett and <he runnlno time of prints are Included.)
Key to Type Ahbreviationst M.— Melodrama; C — Comedyj CD— Comedy
Drama; W—Wettem; D— Drama; KD— Romantic Drama; MU—JWtwicol.
Figures herewitH indicate date of VAtaet-x't review and runntntf time.

WEEK OF BELEASE— 1/36/42

A Close Call tor Ellery Queen (Col) 3/11 M

Below the Border (Mono) 2/25 W

Yank On the Burma Road (M-G) 1/14 RD

ObUflnc Yoanic Lady (RKO) 11/5 D

Son of Fury (ZOtb) 1/7 D

Treat 'Era Ronxh (TI) 1/U ' C

Twin Beds CUA) ^ C

Wild Bin Hlckock Bidet (WB) 2/11 W

fiS W. Qargan-M, Lliidsay
58 B. Jones-T. McCoy -
S5 L. Day-B. Nelson
HO J. CarroU-E. O'Brien
98 T, Power-G. Tlerne;
74 E. -Albert

G. Brent-J. Bennett
O. Bennett-B. Cabot

WEEK OK BELEASE— 2/e/42

Dr. KUdare's Victory (M-G) 12/3
Law of the Jungle (Mono)
Vaney of the Sun (RKO) 1/14
Yonnc America (20th) 1/7
Bomhay Clipper (U) 1/14
Sons of the Sea (WB) 11/29
The Prime Mlaliter (WB) S/17
A Tracedy at Midnight (Rep) 3/4

D 92 L. Ayers-L. Barrymor*

M. Moreland

D 79 L. BaU-J. Craig

C 72 1. Wlthers-W. Tracy

M M W. Gargan-I. Hervey

M 8Z M. Redgrave-V. Hobson

RO 94 J. Glelgnd-D. Wynward

M 6S J, Boward-M. Undsay

WEEK OF BELEASE S/12/42

Oor Russian Front (Artklno) 2/U

The Lady Is WUllng (Col) 1/28 D

Blondle Goes to College (Col) 2/11 C

Bom to Slug (M-G) 1/21 MU

Weitern Mall (Mono) 3/4 W
Mr. Bng Goei to Totm (Par) 12/19

Bahama Pissage (Par) 12/10 D

On the Sniuiy Side (20th) 2/4 M

Stagecoach Bnckaroo (U) W

Calf Ont the Marlneg (RKO) 1/14 C

Riding the Wind (RKO) 9/10 W

Lady in DIstrcn (Times) 2/lS M

Dangeronily They Lived (WB) M

49 \Docamentary)
93 M. DIetrlch-F. MacMurray
74 P. Slngleton-A. Lake
•2 V. Weldlec-R. McDonald
54 Tom Keene

81 (Cartoon)

82 M. CartoU-S. Hayden

69 J. DarwcU-R. MacDowell
J. Mack Brown-F. Knight
6« V. McLaglen-E. Lowe
64 T. Holt-R. Whitney
62 M.'Redgrave-S. Gray
3. Garfleld-R. Hn.-isey

WEEK OF BELEASE— 2/19/42

Shot My Big Month (Col) 2/25 C

Johnny Eager (M-G) 12/10 M

Mr. Wise Gny (Mono) 3/11 M

Joan of Paris . (RKO) 1/7 D

Rosy Hart (20th) 2/4 D

What's CooklB" (U) 2/23 MU

Brooklyn Orchid (DA) 1/28 C

Captains of the Clouds (WB 1/21 M

71 J. E. Brown-A. Mara
196 R. Tayor-L. Turner

70 East Side Kids

93 M. Morgan-P. Henreld

72 G. Rogers-A. Menjou
69 G. Jean-Andrens Sl.s

51 M. Woodworth-W. Bendix

113 J. Cagney-D. Morgan

WEEK OF RELEASE— 2/26/42

Adventnres of Martin Eden (Col) 2/25 H

Man Who Retnmed to Ule (Col) 3/4 M

Rock River Renegades (Mono) W

Castle In the Desert (20tIi-Fox) 2/4 M

The Mad Dr. of Market St. (U) 1/7 M

87
61

61

G. Ford-C, Trevor

J. Howard-L. Fairbanks

(Rangebnsters)

S. ToIer^A. Whelan

C. Mcrkel-C. Dodd

WEEK OF BELEASE— 3/S/42

Allzona Roondnp (Mono) W

The Lady Baa nans (Par) 1/21 M 77

BiBg Yonr Worriei Away (RKO) 1/7 MU 71

Might Before the Divorce (2fai-Fox) 2/U M 67

Ghost ef rrankenstelii (U) 3/4 M 65

To Be or Net t* Be (UA) 2/11 C 99

Ballet Scan (WB) 3/4 M 59

Sleepy Time Gal (Rep) C

Rtagecoaeh Ezpreti (Rep) W

T. Keene '

P. Goddard-B. MlUand
B. Lahre-J. Havoc
I.. Banrl-M. Bnghes
L. Chaney-E. -Anken -
J. Benny-C. Lombard
R, Toomey-A. Longmlre
J. Canova-T. Brown
D. Barry-L. Merrick

WEEK OF BELEASE— 3/12/42

Lawless Plainsman -(Col)

Man With Two Ltrea (Mono)

Song 9t the lalaada (2«th-Fex)

Fliic* Lll (U) 2/18

Heart ef the' Rio Grande (Rep)

Tokel Boy (Bcp) 3/25

Dndea -Are Prdty People (UA)

W C. Starrett-K. Hayden

3/11 M 67 E. Norrls-E. Lawson

2/4 MU 73 B, Grahle-V. Matnre

M 49 L Hervey-K. Taylor

3/11 W 68 O. Antiy

C 69 A. Dekker-J. Davli

C M. Woodworth-J, Rogeri

WEEK OF BELEASE— 8/19/42

Canal Zone (0«I) ■-'^

KIOBdUlt Tlctoty (Mono)

The Fleeta In <Par> 1/21 °

Baahfol Bachelor (RKO) 3/18

BaMera of tha BaBga (Bcp)

Blnta on Her Flngera (2901) 3/11

Mr. V (UA) 7/9

Butch Mlndi The Baby (U) 3/25

M C. Morrit-J. Hnbbaid

M E. Lewe-L. Falrbanka

MU 99 D. Lamour-W. Bolden

C 76 Lnm tt Abner
W B. 8teel-T. Tyler

C 85 H. Fomda-G. TIerney

M 120 L. Howard-M. Morrli

C 75 V. Bmce-B. Crawford

WEEK OF BELEASE— 3/26/42

Two Tanka In Trinidad -(Col) 3/25
Affairs of J. Valentine (Rep)
SoBset ea the Deiert (Rep)
Magniflcent Aaabcraons (RKO)
Remarkable Mr. Klppt (2ath) 3/11
Ton're Telling Me (U)

C 82 P. O'Brien-B. Donlevy
M D. O'Keefc-B. Terry

W R. Rogeri-O. Hayes

D J. Cotton-D. Costello

M 84 M. Redgrave-D. Wynward
C H. Herbeit-R. Paige

WEEK OF BELEASE— 1/2/42

Alias- Boatoo BlacUe (Col)
Fantasia (RKO)
Secret -Agent of Japan (20tb)
Saboteur (U)

Klyllag's Jungle Book (UA)
The Male Animal (WB) 3/4
Girl From Alatka (Ilep)

M C. Horrls-A. Mara

MU (DItney Cartoon)

3/I1 M 7Z P. Forter-L. Bart

M. R/Commlncs-P. Lane

D Sabn-J. CaUela

D 126 H. Fonda-O. deHavlUasd

M R. Mlddleton-J. Parker

WEEK OF BELEASE— 4/9/42

The invadera (Col) 11 /S D

Land of the Open Range (RKO) 12/24 W

The Shores of TrlpoU (20th) 3/11 D

The Strange Case of Dr. RX (U) M

Unseen' Enemy (U) M

Murder In the Big House (WB) M

Home In Wyomin' (Rep) W

123 L. Howard-R. Massey
60 T. Holt-R. WUtley
82 J. Payne-M. O'Hara
L. Atwell-R, Kaowles
D. Terry-A. Devine

F. -Andersoa-O. Meeker

G. Antry-C. Barnclt

"WKE^it«>'--1KEL'iBX&E^::^;'y«/4* — ; .

Down Rio Grande Way (Col)

Hello Annapolis <CoI)

Aunt Emma Paints the Town (Mono)

Tuttles of Tahiti (RKO) 3/18

Mississippi Gambler (U)

Fighting BIU Fargo (U)

Gold Riuh (UA) 3/4

Kings Row (WB) 12/24

Westward Hoe (Rep)

W C. Starrett-B. Haydeq,

M J. Parker-T. Brown

C Z. Pltts-R. Pryor

M 91 C.Langhton-J. Hall

M K. Taylor-FXangford

W J. Mac Brown

C 71 C. ChapUn

D 127 A. Sherldan-R. Cummlngs

W B. Steel-T. Tyler

TRADESHOWN AND FOB FDTOBE RELEASE

Vanishing Virginian (M-G) 12/3 D Ml

The Bugle Sonnds (M-G) 12/17 D 101

Thnndering Hoofs (RKO) 12/31 W 69

Come on Danger (RKO) 12/31 W 58

We Were Dancing (M-G) 1/21 C 93

Salute to Courage (M-G) I/2I M 83'

Torpedo Boat (Par) 1/21 'M 69

Fly by Night (Par) 1/21 M 74

This Time for Keens (M-G) 2/11 ■ M 71

the Courtship of Andy Hardy (M-G) 1/11 C 94

Larceny, Inc. (WB) 3/4 . C 94

Sundown Jim (20th) -3/11 W S3

Who Is Hope Schnyler? (2»th) 3/11 M J5

Gentleman Alter Dark (UA) 3/18 M 74

This Gun for Hire (Par) 3/18 M 80

My Favorite; Blonde (Par) 3/18 M ,78

Mayor of 44th Street (RKO) 3/18 MU 85

The Great Man's Lady (Par) 3/11 D 99

True to the Army (Par) 3/11 MIT 76

Fingers at the Window (M-G) 3/18 M 79

SeaUergeod Rides Blgh (RKO) 3/18 C 65

Reap the WUd wind (Par) 3/2J D 121

Mokey (M-G) 3/25 M 87

F. Morgata-K. Grayson
W. Beery-M. Main

T.. Holt-B. Whitey
T. Holt-F. Neal
N. 5hearer-N. Coward
•0. Veldt-A. -Ayers
R. Arlen-J. Parker
N. Kelly-R. Carlson

A. Rutherford-B. Sterling
M. Rooney-A. Rutherford
E. Robinson-J. Wyman

J. Kimbrongli-V. Gilmorc
J. Allen, Jr.-M. Howard

B. Donlevy-M. Hopldns
V.Lake-R. Preston

B. Hopc-M. Carron
O. Mnrphy-A. Shirley
B. Stanwyck-J. McCrea
J. Canova-A. Jones
L. Ayrei-L. Day

G. RIbtee-D. Moore

R, MlUand-F.' Geddard
D. Dalley-D. Reed^ .

Vednesday, March 25, 1942 ^"^^RlEff "

20 PICTUBB8

WcAtesdaj, Hurdi 25» 1^42

Fort Totten s Origmal Solder Show,
Whfle NSG, Sek a Pattern for Others

Br QEBB GOLDEN

Soldiers at Fort Totten, N.
Monday (23) night -witnessed the
woild preem of a' new type of Army
entertainment that their brothers-in-
arms will fee lots more of tmder
USOtCamp Shows, Inc, auspices
next winter. It was the first of three
experimental performances of a
nine-person revue employing ma-
terial culled from Broadway's hit
musicals ot seasons past

Tabbed 'It's All Yours,' show was
put together by Hume Pronyn, Ruth
Wilk, Jose Ferrer, Nancy Stem,
Peggy Clark and Dick Lewine.
Mediocre manner in which this par-
ticular show shaped up mattered
little. Important thing is that it
proved to top CSI execs a great
iormula for the futiure had been dis-
covered.

. AbeLastfogel, CSI topper, .on hand
to view 'If s AU Yours,' determined
9t once that two or more units would
be built on the formula next season
to vary the straight vaude and legit
diet. He also plans to build com-
panies with a repertoire of legit and
this type revue for entertaining at
off-shore buses where a troupe must
remain for a period of as long as
eight weeks.

"Yours' was prepared as an ex-
periment by the production group
working with CSI. Having>an Idea
of how it runs, aim now will be to
■mooth 'it out, substitute other ma-
terial where necessary and get it set
MO that the same or another company
can tour In it 'Yours' was staged by
ttdward Duryea DowUng.

If the stuff the group dipped into
the barrel' for is the best they could
find, it's a sad commentary on either
the quality of Shubert musicalia or
the selection, and its appears to be
the latter. Some of the stuff Is badly
dated ('Give It Back to the Indians,'
which Mary Jane Walsh sang with
•uch success in 'Too Many Girls' just
three years ago), while other parts
cf it seemed Insignificant even as
pure escaiteology in the world of
today. For Instance, "Noises in the
Street* from Two Weeks With Pay,'
Somehow 'noises In the sixeet' ap-
pear' to be one of -Qie le^ of a
■oldier's worries. Some of the ma-
terial, alsbi proves just too decrepit
and weak to survive^ resurrection.

At least part of ;the material for
these revues will bayfe to be special-
ly written or obtained from current
■how;. . It must -have some element
of timeliness, ;some. recognition of "the
world as It Is, today. It must also
be closer to the soldier. Gags based
on Joe Private'^ own Army problems
never fail to get the biggest laughs
In camp performances. Skits from
■hows written and presented hy
■oldie'rs might provide a g<iod source
of material They also have that in-
nocently bawdy quality which 'It's
All Yours' misses completely — and
needs so liadly. The whole of USO-
Camp -Shows, Inc., aitd its produc-
tion sta£r' could do the Army no
better service than paying a vi^lt to
•We're Heady,' a little original musi-
oal revue written and staged by the
boys at Cdmp Upton, N. Y. It starts
a tour of 19 posts in the Second
' Corps Area tomorrow (Thursday),
"Yours' opens with 'Cronyn and
Gilford doing the Invisible apple tree
and ''do you want yoiu: palm red?'
gags from 'Hellzapoppin'; the com-
pany in "The Show Is On' opening
from the musical of that name
Cronyn and the company In 'The
'Voice of Experience' sketch, takeoff
on the radio program; Virginia Bolen
warbling and terping 'Never Marry
a - dancer' ""from"" ' TSevehge "Wlflj
Music'; Gilford doing his Hialto
theatre' routine; Christina -Lind sing'
Ing a couple ballads; Ferrer, Gilford
and Melissa' Masoti In "Banger —
Author at Work,' skit from 'Straw
Hat Revue' (this got the best recep
tion of any skit but was considered
' too blue and cut. after Monday's per-
formance); Jane K^an and Don LI
berto ' canarying and doin^ a.baUet-
tap to 'I Wish I Were in >jOve Again'
from 'Babes in Arms'; Cronyn,
Ferrer and GiKord patterhig 'Noises
In the Street'; Melissa Mason throw-
ing her long legs around and getting
herself Into impossibly awkward
positioi^s (it was the top personal
triumph of the show); GiUord,
Cronyn and Ferrer In a skit about sA
annoying Walter, from 'Straw Hat
Revue'; Ferrer doing 'Song of the
Woodman,' which Bert Lahr made
famous In "The Show Is On'; Jane
Kean and Virginia Bolen singing
'Give It Back to the Indians';
Cronyn doing the aged skit of the
guy who can't get a phone number
down the block while everyone else

Greed Backfire*

Milwaukee, March 24.

Local •xhlb found the take
from popcorn and soft drinks
■ales during intermission so
profitable that he figured he
could do twice as well by hav-
ing two Intermissions.

Now his customers have
launched a campaign to abolish
all - intermissions.

PUBLIC KIDS
GIVEAWAY
PROGRAM

Detroit March 24.
Kidding which has grown up
around a give-away program via
'WXYZ here has forced the station
to caution the public to judge
whether it Is authentic by checking
their telephone conversations against
the voices coming over the air. Sta-
tion has been conducting a 'I've Got
Your Number' program, in which it
calls up householders at random,
asks them If they are tuned in on the
station and If the householder can
give the code word given early on
the program he Is awarded a radio.

However, practical jokers have
been chlml|l°g In on the program with
various, gags, calling up the innocent
citizen and asking, 'What station are
you tuned In on?" If the citizen is
listening to the'give-away program,
the gagster chirps, 'Well, you won't
get a radio from me,' ind sundry
other cracks. The kidding of the
public has spread to an extent where
the atatlon has cautioned the Jpubllc
to compare -Oielr conversation with
that coming over their radios to
make sure they aren't going for a
quick one.

COUS 1ST 6 MOS. NET
UP $1,140,000 OYER '40

Columbia Picturts net Income for
the first six montba of the com-
pany's fiscal year ended lait D^. 27

exceeded that of the correq;)ondlng
1940 period by more than $1,140,000,
before tax deductions. Company
reported $1,514,712 after all charges
excepting provisions for Federal In-
come and excess profits taxes, as
against $374,216 in the corresponding
period ended on Dec. 28, 1040, before
taxes.

Columbia net profit for the first
half ending on the December date
totaled $737,749 after Federal in-
come and excess profits taxes which
compares .with a net profit of only
$307,006 in the corresponding period
ending Dec. 28, 1040, also after Fed-
eral taxes.

For the period the company
showed Federal income and excess
profits taxes to be $776,063 while In
the corresponding period of 1940 the
Federal Income taxes amoimted to
$67,210.

COI.VMBIA nCTDKES EARNINGS,
1930-42

Net profit, except as noted: (t)
deficit

1930 $1,285,058

1931 : 560,869

1932 574^92

1933 740,241

1934 1,008,834

1935 1,815,267

1936 1,568,816

1937 1,317,771

1938 183,393.

1939 2,047

1940 512,185

1941 552,744

(By Quarters ^f or Fiscal Tear Ended

June 29, 1941)

First Second Third Fourth
Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter
$153,878 $153,128 t$32,242 $277,9,p0
(Currest Fiscal Tear by Qoarteri)

First Second Third Fourth
Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter
$261,705 $476,044

Pi'edict OK of lA Plri^am of Reforms
To Forf end Any Lahor Radeteering

t4-

Ginveriatibn Piece

One exhlb to another:

"How's business?'

"Lousy, and also Tve got • bad
cold, but how about you?'

liy theatre's doing well ani^ I
have no cold.'

^Things are abnormal with
you,' retorted the other exhlb.

Eddie Peabody

-Centlnoed from page 1;

U. ACQUIRES 21
mRLOCK'
STORIES

Ex-Sho^nnen Staging
Original Camp Revue

Fort Riley, Eans., March 24;
Trainees at Cavalry Replacement
Training Center here readying, mu-
sical revue. The Life of Riley,' for
late spring preem. Show marks first
full-length production attempted by
Special Services branch (formerly
labeled morale branch). Lt. Andrew
'White, former BVed Waring bari-
tone, supervising.

Sketches and lyrics being written
by ex-pros Including Pvt Julian
Claman ex-Broadway p!a. and
former itaga manager for The Re-
vuers; Pvt. Irving Kapner, former'
Federal "Hieatre playwright; and
Pvt. Jflseph Hopkins, former New
Orleans TImes-Plcayune newsman.
Pvt. Eddie (Duke) Herzog, ex-
Claude Thomhlll and Jimmy Dorsey
arranger, and Pvt Robert Ward,
JulUlard Institttte grad, handling
the score, Ward's "First Symphony'
recently preem,ed on CBS by the
Juilllard Graduate School orchestra.

Show calls for aU-male cast of EO,.
to be selected in next couple of
weeks as soon as new Increment of
trainees hits the Replacement Cen-
ter,

Fresbaw In Person >
Enlisted men' viewing 'Call Out
the Marines' (RKO) at the War
Dept Iheatre at the Cavalry Re
placement Training Center here sud-
denly began cnllTng the name of
fellow-private, Gerald Preshaw, who
was also watching the pictute.

On the screen, singing with the
Six Hits and A Miss vocal team, was
Preshaw, working at his civilian
occupation.

comes along and immediately get
Australia; Jane Kean giving conga
lessons to soldiers called from the
audience, and the finale, a reprise ot
"Noises In the Streef with slightly
altered lyrics.

Sock of the show was Miss Kean's
dancing lesson, principally because
of the audience-pfirtlcipation angle
Ferrer was togged in khaki as a
stooge but was quickly back-
grounded by one ot the soldiers, who
proved he knew just about all there
was to stooging.

Lewine an^ Morgan Lewis at a
couple pianos' handled the music

Phil Levant's band. Byron Baxter
is still anoQier trumpet man in the
station's dancq band.

Freddie Simon, of Charlie Ag-
new's band; Eddie Schaefer, of 'Lou
Breese's organization, and Chester
Breskin, Of Ted Flo Rlto's orches-
tra, fill the trombdbe Chairs.
The Sax Boys
Sax men now at Great Lakes hall
from many 'name bands. George
Kaitz was with Russ Morgan, Bob'
Smith left Charlie Teagarden, and
Don Baker is an ex-Art Kassel man.
Edward Karpowicz played with
Goldle,' former 'Whitman trumpet
star and now a maestro in his own
right and Glen Rohlfing was with
Ben Bernie and Henry Busse before
he was drafted into the Army sev-
eral months ago. Following his
temporary release from the Amiy,
Rohlfing enlisted in the Navy.
Irving Schandelmeier was with Ann
Dupont's band, and Joe (Beanie)
Warcup comes to Great Lakes after
playing with Bernie and Busse.
Carl Recheyglel forsook Boyd Rae-
bum, and Phil Coomer played with
BiUy Baer's orchestra. .Thala Rush
was with Vincent Lopez and Arnold
Johnson, among other bands, before
enlisting. Herb Sanders tau{;ht
woodwind instruments afthe Amer-
ican Conservatory of Music In C3ii-
cago before his sailoring days.

Four drummers in the Navy now
Include Wilfred Hanson, another
ex- Army man, who played with
Herble Kay before being drafted.
He came into the Navy after his
Army release. Milt Challfoux was
a staff drummer at Chicago's CBS
studios, and Sam Tannenbaum beat
out rhumba rhytfim with Don
Pedro's crew. Chuck Johnson, who
doubles as drummer and vocalist
with the Great . Lakes rhythm or-
chestra, receiyed his musical train-
ing with Frankle Tnmibauer ^ and
Ernie iPalmqulst.

Hanl^ Larsen, bass fiddle man,
came to the Navy from Gay Clar-
Idge's band.

Lou Mlndling, last Xavler Cugat's
manager, was with MCA and the
CBS Artists' bureau before en-
listing. Bill Fischer, who directs
the new Navy vocal orchestra, sang
with The Commanders at Chicago's
Chez Paree before enlisting. Dan-
nie Hoctor, dancing star of "Meet
The People,' is also at Great Lakes,
as is D. W. BeUab, former Prot of
Music at the University of Texas.

Chief Specialist Robert Linden,
attached to Commander Peabody's

Washington, March 24.
Denis P. S. Conan Doyle, son of
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of
the "Sherlock Holmes' mystery
stories, has consummated a deal be-
tween the heirs to the estate, in-
cluding himself, a brother and sis-
ter, and Universal Pictures Co.,
whereby U acquired the film rights
to all the Sherlock Holmes short
stories, but none of the full-length
novels.

U's deal gives it a choice of three
stories yearly, with year to year
options for seven years. It therefore
can use a total' of 21 stories, chosen
from a group of more than 50, it It
exercises all its options. Yearly
amount is $36,500, with total cost
running to $255,000 If 21 pix are
made. ' Studio also has right to create
one Sherlock Holmes story on the lot
each year ii it chooses to use only
two of the originals.

Part of the funds will be paid in
the U. S. and part in England. Loeb
& Loeb represented Universal in the
deal and H. William Fitelson of Fit-
elson & Mayers represented the es-
Ute.

20th's Inner Sanotams

Hollywood, March 24.
20th-Fox bought three Inner Sanc-
tum mystery yams, currently on the
air, in a deal wlUi the publishers,
Simon & Schuster, with provisos
for the use of actors now perform-
ing in the radio broadcasts. They
will be given screen tests.

Ralph Dietrich producers the se-
ries, beginning with "The Creaking
Door.' Options call for five more
withiii three years If the first three
click.

Pvt Jack Friend Noble
Authors 2d Camp Show

Camp Stewart, Ga,, March 24.
Broadwa'y and Hollywood contin-
gent in service at this anti-aircrAft
post wiU put aside gas masks for
greasepaint long enough to stage an-
other original musical revue here In
April. This is the result of the suc-
cess of the initial effort "'Who Is
Leslie?,' recently presented.

'Rest Assured,' ■ ' portraying the
seamier side of a selectee's induction
pains, was written by Pvt. Jack
Friend Noble, former Hollywood
scenarist. He had a hand 'In the
'Torchy Blaine' series, "The Great Lie'
and' other pictures, but his fame here
lies solely on authorship of 'Leslie,
Lead wlU be played by Pvt Fred
Kelly, who succeeded his brother
Gene as the dancer in 'Time of Your
Life,' the William Saroyan play, on
Broadway.

They Shall Have Masic

Hollywood, March 24.

Music gets a heavy play In the
RKO shorts subj.ect program for
1942-43, with 16 musical brlefles,
each buUt around a name band.

Ih addition to the tuners, the
shorts schedule consists of 104 RKO
semi-weekly newsreels, 13 Sporto-
scopes, 13 varied subjects and four
two-reel courtroom dramas.

staff, was stage director and as-
sistant production manager for Sonja
Henie tours and 'It Happened On
Ice,' now on Its second year In New
York, before coming Into the Na'vy.

The elaborate program of tefotms
in the International Alliance of
Theatrical Stage Employees, de-
signed to provide greater protection
to the luilon and wipe out evils of
the administration of George - E.
Browne, former president and his
personal assistant Willie Bloft, will
be adopted at the annual convention
in June, It is predicted. According
to lA and other union sources, ^nti-
ment among the rank-and-file of
members is strongly behind the plat-
form, suggesting a majority vote of
delegates in Its favor at the June
conclave. At the lA, whose board is
100% behind the reforms program,
officials state that very favorable re-
ports concerning it are coming in
from all over the country.

Recognizing a crisis existed in its
affairs, immediately after his ap-
pointment as president last Novem-
ber, Richard F. Walsh went Into the
entire situation and under a policy
not to 'allow a repetition of acts and
conduct such as was carried on by
my predecessor In office and his per-
sonal representative, we explored
means to prevent any recurrence of
the unfortunate regilne- that pre-
ceded me.'

In a special bulletin to all mem-
bers of the lATSE, numbering 45,000,
Walsh goes Into the .situation in a
very frank manner; citing the many
steps that have been taken during
the past few mohths with a view to
setting up a program of effective re-
forms. After huddles with at-
torneys, a program was set up and
the lA called upon Attorney Gen-
eral Francis Blddle in Washington
for the purpose of informing him
that the new administration in the
lA was to conduct itself lawfully and
was determined to effect such re-
forms as were necessary to achieve
this end.'

Arnold and Correa
lA also set forth its plans to As-
sistant Attorney General Thurman
Arnold who 'indicated his interest .
and his determination to punish
such wrongdoers in the Alliance as
the Department of Justice Investiga-
tors should find.'

Later the lA went to Mathlas F.
Correa, U. S. attorney for the south-
em district at New York, who prose-
cuted Browne and Bloff, as well as
to Boris Kostela: .etz, assistant U. S.
attorney in N. Y. 'A helpful dis-
cussion ensued,' according to Walsh's
bulletin'' to the lA members, 'but it
was emphasized that any reforms
suggested by them were of an un-*
official character and that the nature
of their 'views waa not meant in any
way to Influence the action of our
counsel or the action of the Alliance.'

Recommendations which Walsh
urges the coming June convention to
adopt includes clauses concerning
eligibility for office In the lA.

No member of the lA who has been
previously convicted, sentenced and
imprisoned in a penitentiary for a
crime anywhere in this country or
Canada may hold an office In either
the lATSE or any of Its locals, re-
gardless of whether offices are filled
by election, appointment or other-
wise.

Also, no person will be eligible for
an elective or appointive office in
the lA unless he has been a. member
in good standing foi* not lesi than
five years ImmecUateiy preceding
date of convention .that noiidnates
him or date of his appQintment.

Recommendation with regard to
Initation fees is that no local shall be
allowed 'to charge -a fee In excess
of four times the highest weekly
wage scale applicable to the position
which will be held by the new mem-
ber after entrance Into the lA.

A quorum will be required for
action at conventions and elected of-
ficers of the lA henceforth shall
serve for two years Instead of four
as in the past

New Chain Theatre Tax
fiU Proposed in N.Y.

-Albany, March 24.

Assemblyman Louis Bennett
Bronx Democrat Introduced a .bill
for a levy on "chain stores,' including
theatres. Tha measure make pay-
ment of a yearly license fee a con-
dition for the lawful operation of
such establishments.

The fees ere fixed as follows: $50
each, for outlets In excess of two
and not more than five; $100 each,
for six to 10; $200 each, from 11 to
25; $1,000 each, for more than 25.

■Wednesday, March 25, 1942

21

22 PICTURES

Wednesday, March 25, 1942

Free Camp Show Attendance Jumps
From 56% to 90% in First 2 Weelis

First two weeks of free admission
i to shows being offered at Army and
Navy bases by USO-Camp Shows,
Inc., lias been seen attendance jump
from 66% of capacity to around
90%. That's considered substantia-
tion by CSI exces of their repeated
recommendations to tte War De-
partment that the 15c and 20c taps
on the shows which started last
November be removed.

Attendance hasn't yet hit capacity
at every pertormailce. It Is figured,
because soldiers are wary of free
entertainment Many have discov-
ered a couple extra hours sleep is
more profitable than some cuSo
talent they have been subjected to
In the past CSI execs feel that
overflow attendance will be reached
as soon as word gets around that the
free shows possess real quality.

Keeping lip the quality is, in fact
the major' concern of the moment
to Abe Lasttogel, CSI chieftain. Ifs
too easy when you're presenting free
shows,' he declared, 'to let the
quality slip. We're going to remain
on constant guard against that The
boys can be reassured there'll be
no letdown.'

Summer program for .the camp6
Is nOw well-advanced in the plan-
ning stage. ' There will be 15 shows,
consisting of seven major ones and
eight lesser ones. Former' will cost
^ound $2,500 a week to operate
and the latter around $1,000, same
ratio as now prevails for ^e two
camp circuits. . New policy, how-
ever, will be to give no publicity
to the distinction between the big
and little shows, as has been .done
with the winter program of 24 units.
Fewer Shows in Hot Wea ther
Reduction in numtieF of shows
during, the summer results from two
angles. For one thing, instead of
each soldier being given an oppor-
tunity to see a show every two
weeks, the period will be 3% weeks.
That's said to be because extensive
maneuvers in warm weather make
a too-frequent schedule impractical.

The other angle Is that up to
6,000 boys' can view a single per-
formance of the summer shows,
yrhlch will be outdoors, whUe the
winter average is much lower. Plans
envisioned, by A. J. Balaban, Last-
iogel's assistant, are being drawn up
for new type outdoor stages in the
camps. It's hoped to have them in
as many as possible of the big
posts by summer. .

Balaban's plan calls for a struc-
ture made in sections which ca^ be
easily erected or removed to fit
various types of shows. There'll
be. a band shell for entertainment
that requires it but the shell can be
■ easily knocked down to give a flat
platform, visible from tojic sides,
for the occasional carnival type
Bho^s envisioned, and for boxing
and other sports.
" Cbqrles K. Feldman, of the Holly^
wood Victory Committee and Coast
head of CSI, who is In New York
sitting In with Lastfogel for six
weeks, explained that there'd be a
great stepping up of jUm names
with the shows during the summer.
It's likely, he said, that every unit
Will have with it an important film
player.

Kenneth Thomson left the Coast
last night for a series of conferences
with Lastfogel and Feldman on ad-
ditional coin for Coast activities. As
chairman of the Hollywood Victory
Committee, he will urge appoint-
ment of a central coordinator to dear
requests for star appearances al
camps, on the rhdio and for other
defense effort functions. He will talk
to Government officials in Washing
ton before returning to Hollywood.

Entertain 250,090 Soldiers Weekly

Hollywood, March 24.

Total of 250,000 soldiers per week
are being entertained by 25 . tm
heralded Camp Shows units, ' ac-
cording to Harper Sibley, national
president of the United Service Or
ganlzations, stopping off on a lunch
eon here pn his national tour.

Camp Shoyir units, he fexplalned,
travel the roads night after night
to provide a basis of amusement,
heightened at tlm^ by such tours
as those by Mockey Rooney, Deanna
Durbln, Rosalind Russell, Judy Gar-
land, Dorothy Lamour and Edward
G. Robinson. In addition, he said,
programs have been presented by
niunerous name bands and concert
performers. Luncheon was attended
by Edward Arnold, Hollywood head

2 ARMED THUGS SUCK
UP WB FORUM, PHULY

Philadelphia, March 24.
Two armed thugs held up six em-
ployees of the Stanley-Warner
Forum in northeast PhiUy shortly,
after midnight Sunday (22) and
escaped with $1,700.

T'he bandits entered through a side
door as the house was being locked
up for the night Charles Machln,
electrician, was knocked down with
the butt end of a revolver and Sellg
Goldman, usher, was ptmched when^
they didn't move fast enough to
suit the holdup men.

The six were huddled Into the man-
ager's office where Jack Field, assist-
ant manager was forced to open the
safe. Others threaten^ by the
thieves' were Jack Goldman, pro-
jectionist; and three other ushers,
John Begglns, Abe Feldman and
William Wardle. After warning the
men not to call police, the. bandits
escaped through the front door.

British Defense Pix

^L'ontlniied from pace 4;

such as the Air Observers Corps —
are being, shown.'

Baird divided the MOI brlefles
into five general and somewhat over-
lapping' categories. It's believed
y. S. pix will eventually take this
same form. All the films, of course,
are basically morale-raisers.
Hie 'UpUft FUm'
Flrs;t |s the 'uplift film,' such as
"London Can Take It' designed to
renew faith of people in them-
selves.

Second is the 'how-to-do-lt,' such
as 'Dig for Victory' (on war garden-
ing) and 'How to' Black-Out'' These
have, proved particularly popular be-
cause people think they should know
these things for their O'wn protec-
tion and are anxious to see the pic-
tures In order to learn.

Third is the 'descriptive film' or
'how-it-is-done.' Example was the
popular 'Ack-Ack,' describing how
an anti-aircraft barrage Is ejected.
It was particularly Important In
raising morale through creating
faith in home defenses when it was
released during the heavy blitz be-
cause most people couldnt under-
stand why so many shells shot into
the air brought down so few planes.
Tliey understood better when they
were shown how tough It Is to aim
an A, A. gun.

Fourth are reports ' on specific
operations, such as the Commando
raids.' These are comparable. to mag'
azine articles on film. They are Im'
portant in Britain to show that there
are offensive operations going on as
well as defensive.

" 'Pat-on-the-Ba«k Film'
Fifth are the 'pat-on-the-back' and
general informational type. In this
comes the pix on the Air Observers
Corps, Fire Warden Service, etc.
They not only help, create an esprit
de corps in the various civilian de-
fense agencies, but show people
what service their neighbors are
giving.

In addition to these pictures, once
a month or so a full one- or two-
reeler is turned out by the MOL
These are handed to one of the reg-
ular distributors, who rent them to
exhibs. Government gets a per'
centage of the returns 'and the fllms
generally, pay -for themselves. They
are of tiie documentary, type, such
as 'Merchant Seam^'n.- T\v<s'lull-26a~
tures .ha've growd- from what were
originally . planned as two-reelers.
One was "Target for Tonight' and
the other "Wavcll's 30,000,' the story
-of .the Libyan campaign.

Criticism recently heard of Holly-
wood features treating Hitler's
hordes lightly as comics ' or fools
doesn't apply in England, Baird said.
War's too close to. home there, he
declared, to treat the Axis as any-
thing but a menace.

WHITE ELEPHANT PiUt,
OMAHA, FOLDS-AGAIN

' Omaha, March 24.
Another chapter in the atrange
history of the Paramount theatra'
closed Friday (20) when the big de-
luxer (3,000 seats) at the edge of the
business district maintained Its repu-
tatloji as a white elephant against
the most determined effort to ke^
it rolling since It was built a dozen
years ago. The house was operated
by Trlstates Corp. (A. H. Blank-Par)
and formerly housed Publlx stage
shows and Paramount pix.

For years It would open a few
weeks at a stretch, then fold. I<ast
Dec. 6 It opened under new policy,'
two first nms moved over from
their other houses the Orpheum and
Omaha. Stage roadshows were
scheduled for any dates that could
be secured. More than $30,000 was
spent on remodeling the canopy
and other repairs and for a month
it looked like success. Then the sag
came and the house's grosses started
dropping from $11,000 or thereabouts
to the $4,000 bracket. 'Sergeant York'
ran three weeksv House folded Fri-
day (20), Two more roadshows are
scheduled for the spring, after that
it's' anybod/d guess.

Just two days after the marquee
lights of the Paramount went out
the State, owned and operated by
Ralph D. Goldberg, folded five blocks
down the main .drag. The reason
here was a court order which was
granted to Trlstates Theatres Corp.
Latter sued on the ground that Gold-
berg had signed an agreement to
keep the. State closed when he made
the deal to lease the Omaha to'Trl-

RoH Can

jContlnned from page

hUl, WBBM production assistant and
Jack Slattery, engineering, went to
the Army as selectees.

Other 'WBBM employees now In
service are Capt. Oren Weaver, for-
mer director of news and special
events; ' Ensign Robert Morard,
special events; Lieut Frank Leb-
nert, engineer; William Barthelman,
transcription department; Donald
Danielson, press department; Vin-
cent Rossi, accounting; Ed Cldiuid,
continuity; Martin Michaleco, main-
tenance; Bob Croft Bill Connor,
Roy Gleason, Bob Myers, Mat
Homer, Michael Sullivan, all former
guides. 'WBBM has now switched
its guide staff to gtrls.

Leslie Atlass, Jr., son of the vice-
president of ColumbiSfWBBM, has
been in the service for some time
now, joining the signal corps of the
33d Division.

N. 'T. Par's Army-Bonnaes

The' Paramount, N. Y., has evolved
a plan to place some spare cash Into
the pockets of any of. its employees
if and when they become inducted
into the army.

Anyone called' to the colors who
has worked for-tiie theatre one year
gets two weeks salary as a gift,
whereas if longer than this with the
house an additional week's pay is
given for each six months over,

Robert M. Weitman, managing di-
rector of the N. Y. Par, has handed
out .bonuses at Christmas time for
several years and recently Instituted
a wartime bonus plan. In view of
higher living costs, under which a
percentage of sAaries is paid over
once monthly.

Bill Murphy, booker in the War-
ner exchange in Atlanta, drew an
army uniform oh Monday^dO).

DEABNA JOINS UP

Hollywood, March 24.

Deanna Durbln goes into war work
on the screen In her next Universal
picture, "Three Smart Girls Join Up.'

Bruce Manning produces, from a
story by Derek Bolton, RAJP. pilot
now being screenplayed by Paul
Jarrico and Richard ColUns.

of C^mp Shows; Fred Beetson and
Dr. H. Giannini, of the L. A. USO
board.

•_. iTwooff^Mters lb6"S««'"^ •'^■
Hollywood, March 24.

Lee Frederick slated for a'lrole In
the nekt 'Lum and Abner' picture,
passed It up to enlist in the Navy.
John Glover, sound technician at
RKO, moved back Into the Navy,
where he had done a previous hitch.
■ Lieut Robert Montgomery shoved
off for Washington to hear his 'fliaal
orders about active sea service.

Two network announcers checked
out for the duration. Aubrey Ison,
NBC spieler, joined the land forces,
and Charles Anderson,' Mutual-Don
Lee barker, took to the sea. John
Christ former producer for J. Wal-
ter Thompson agency, moved from
I the Army into the Na'vy as bn ensign.

Sam Byrd an Enslpa
Charleston, S. C„ March 24.
Sam Byrd, Broadway actor-pro-
ducer, has reported for duty as- en-
sign at Sixth Naval District here.

His first assignment here Is to pro-
mote Navy Relief Society benefit
show. Assigned to public relations.

1 BHf^^^B'

Mexico Salutes

by Camp Shows, .Inc. Our Latin-
American neighbors know how to
respond to good antertalnment and
efforts of Hollywood troupe to please
were made easier by 'sympatlco* of
audience. Names Included James
Cagney, Mary Martin, Irving Berlin,
IiOrenzo Barcelota, Laurel & Hardy,
Ann Miller, Lupe Velez, Lucille Ball,
Desi Aniaz, Arturo de Cordova,
Nicholas Bros., Joan Bennett, Dick

Powell, Joan Blondell, Adele Mora,
June Prelsser, Merry Macs, Jinx
Falkenburg, Douglas & Wright
Rosita Moreno, Corinna Mura, Casa
Daley, Catherine Booth, - Barbara
Britton, Linda Gray, Martha O'Drls-
coll, Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Lola
Moixtez, Amarllla Morris, Senor Lee.

Program was put together and
run off without a hitch by Mark
Sandrich. Production assistants
were William Dover, Johnny Mas-
cblo, William Scully, ZIon Myers,
Jose Romero and WlUiam McGarry,
Nat Yotmg's 14-plece band lent the
musical touches.

Trip was arranged by the Holly-
wood Victory Committee and the
Motion Picture Society ' for the
Americas with Kenneth Thomson
representing former on trip, and
Walter Wanger and David L. Hop-
kins the latter. Film group of press
writers and cameramen trained from
Los Angeles to San Diego. Re-
hearsed and spent the night at Coro-
nado, making the buiiq>y trip to
Ensenada via bus for a . reception
and luncheon given at headquarters
of the Zone Commander, General
Juna FUipe Rico, before the show
got underway at Teatro Maya, 700-
seater, whose walls bulged 'witb an
audience which consisted of the
14th, 4th and 18th Infantry Bat-
talions, one Antl-Alrcraft Battery,
an Aviation unit and sailors from
the Mexican Navy.

Importance of the trip was
summed up In a letter from Com-
manding General Lazaro Cardenas,
who said, 'There Is no doubt that
the presence In this city of such a
distinguished group of artists will
surely contribute to strengthening
ties of better understanding' be-
tween our countries, leaving here a
very definite spirit and Impression
of optimism and faltb in victory of
democratic Ideals which' are the
imderlylng foundations of our res-^
pective nations.

Plioney Manager

-Contianed (rem

Thompson agency sent him to Irving
Trust, where he deposited two
checks, one for $5,000 In BIng's name
and one for $1,000 in his own. He
returned to Thompson to say that
the bank was closed and the agency
cashed a $50 chtick for him. He
proceeded to the Hollywood theatre
where he wheedled four tickets to
Cantor's show from the actor. C:an-
tor, suspicious, wired the Coast,
which declared they did not know
him. Thompson agency also had
some qualms and wired (California.
Same reply— they did not know blm.
Fast Worker
. In the meantime Ray let no grass
grow under his feet He contacted
John Royal at NBC, but Royal
phoned Everett Crosby, and a trap
was set for Ray. The latter had pro-
ceeded to the Fbamoimt theatre and
told executives ^e was In town for
BIng's next picture. He was wined
and dined, but no' check- was cashed,
although it was requested. Para-
mount, also suspicious, checked —
wlsh-tt»€- sacie^i«sul"is/-''-No-ene- had
ever heard of him. He also was
taken fp dinner' by Russell Holman
of Paramount* He then went to the
Astor hotel and tried to arrange a
large parfy for Bing. No soap. Re^
turning to the bank, he became sus-
picious and ran out before the teller
could call for helj>, since the Thomp-
son agency had already warned
Irving Trust he was an Imposter.

After a wait of some hours in
which he failed to keep an appoint-
ment with Royal at NBC, Louis
Bernstein, the music ptiblisher;
phoned Everett Crosby. Ray was
there with a song he was offering
for publication, for nothing. It was
one Bing was going to record, he
had said. Bernstein had phoned
Jack Kapp, head of Pecca, who
knew nothing about it, and ttien
Bernstein phoned Everett Crosby.
The trap '^as set again.

■When Ray returned at 8 p.m. yesp
terday (Tuesday), Everett Crosby
and the police were waiting for him.
He has not talked up to press time,

A man of 4B, he liad In his posses*
slon a letter from BIng's secretary
in California giving him $1S and
wishing him luck. A call to Bob
Crosby In California revealed Ray
had written Bing a hard luck letter
from jail In Missotirl come time ago
and Blng had sent him the money.

I Sell

Schenck-Moskowitz

lonttaaed from page

Si It shows any substantial portion of
the tax liability to have been wU«
fully eyaded,'

The court ruled In this regard that
the crime of income tax evasion may
be committed by taJtlng fraudulent-
deductions from the gross Inccme re« .
ported as well as by fraudulently
failing to report income received.
Fair Charge

The court held that Judge Mosco«
witz's chcirge to the jury .was a cor«
rect and fair statement of the ap«
plicable principles of law and the
Claim of tiie' defense that the jury
was confused cannot be Maintained.
The court also held that the constl-
tutlpnal rights of thi defendants had
not been violated.

The defendants, In their appeal,
hired former N. Y. Supreme Court
Justice Joseph M. Proskauer and
John W. Da-vis to argue the appeal,
Proskauer having represented
Schenck, and Davis, former Presi-
dential nominee, for Mosko-witz.
Proskauer stated that he would
probably appeal the decision, but
wished to confer first witii Davis be-
fore making a final, decision. Matbias
F. Correa, U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of N. Y., who tried
the case for the Crovemment de«
clared that both men's surrender
within two weeks 'Was expected by
the Government if no appeal is
taken.

Top Bands

jCoatlnned from pase 1;

tertainment business; to. what extent
is anybody's guess, but it will be big.
For many lesser .units It will be a
fight to survive.

There are at least three good rea-
sons for all this:

Firstly, record companies are pre-
paring to eliminate from their lists-
most- of the less-than-socko orches-
tras now occupying time and ma-
terials on various labels. Since re-
cordings today ere the most im«
portan^ medium to a band's progresi
—ho band can hope for big success
without a record contract Disc sale*
are at absolute t>eak, but limited
amount of materials to sustain that
page (shellac, a major Ingredient li
almost unobtainable because of its
Indian source) will force favoritism.

Secondly, as musicians are called
up into Aimy service there wUl b^
a deflection of manpower — all men
remaining outside conscription going
to bands that can pay highest wages.
The old 'Survival of the fittest*
wheeze will have deadly meaning. As
men like Buddy Rich, Tonuny Dor-
sey, drummer; At>e Moast, Leg
Brown, sax-clarlnet; Joe Lippman,
Jimmy Dorsey, pianist, and many
other top-notch men go into the
ranks the vacancies they'll leave will
bb filled by raiding lesser bands.
These tactics will delete or. kill off
many of the lower ranking groups,
and tiie new ones, before they get
started.

Thirdly, tbere will undoubtedly be
a great deal of hesitation in the
future on the part of men who here-
tofore have laid out financial back-
ing. With the recording situation
sour to newcomers new ventures
will be decidedly risky. And there
are few backers today putting fresh
cash into bands without hope' of
quid:- retums.r7-AnQtti.eE. restriction
Is " thT' 'AiheHcanTeaeTatlon- of
Musicians' new rules on financial aid.

Those three points, though there
are others (including laqk of radio
time), are sufficient to justify a
conviction that no band that hasn't
already justified its existence will
dlsurb the current rankings. Most
won't even survive until peace.

U Buys 'Heart of Texas*
Song for Yq)pee Musical

Universal will make a super-
western with the title; "Deep in the
Heart of Texas.' It has purchased
rights 'to use the tag from the
writers of the song hit Don Swander
and Jule Hershey. George Waggner
will produce the pic, cast including
Robert Stack, Broderick Crawford,
Andy' Devlne and Anne G'wynne,
Universal registered the title for
film use back In January. Para-
mount , also registered It, but not
until last Wj^ek.

VeJneflday. March 25, 1942

PIGTUBES 29

1 00% Showing Gov't War Shorts

jt'fintlnned from pate

onlr once or twice daily, somebmea
not at aU. TljlB matter was then
brought to attention of the War Ac-
tlviltles Ci)mnilttee with result that
theatres are now to be caretully
checked to ensure that the shorts are
played regularly . -'^^ ,^

As for public reaction, 'Variety's'
torrespondents report that the flints
generally" are being applauded and
in some, cases cheered. It's the old
itory, however, of the good ones get-
ting keen response and the poor
ones a cold reception. There have
. been a few comolalnts to managers
In some cities, but 'these squawks
mainly have been in unsigned letters.
They are suspected of coming from
pro-Nazi. el«nents trying to dissuade
houses from playing the pix.

Difficulty from the exhib end,
jurvey shows, is not the theatre-
men's intentions, which are 100%
patriotic, but' a misinformed atti-
tude. What they think is all-out
cooperation Isn't that at all. That's
evident, for instance,., irom a state-
ment by Frank E. Newman, Sr., prez
of Hamrlck-Evergreen Theatres, cir-
cuit in the northwest He declared:

"in every situation wp show each
propaganda picture at least at one
flrst-run and one second-run house.'

Newman's Intentions are no doubt
good, but the WAC and Government
aim is to have the pix played not
In 'at least' one first-run and one
second-run, but in every first-run,
second-run and subsequent run
every performance every day.

Isolationistic Cleyeland
Gets Its Quota of Warpix

Cleveland, March 24.

Thb Is probably the -most Isola-
tionistic, war-conservative state in
the union, ° but exhibitors are hot
pulling their punches In trying to
shake the old die-hards out of their
complacency. Although playing up
'escaplstic' features for the factory
defense workers, who demand a
lighter change In entertamment
pace, theatre owners ai^e balancing
them by adding realistic war shorts
to their bills without tampering
with newsreels.

Despite all this coordinated 'pa-
triotic showmanship, exhibs pri-
vately are astonished by the indif-
ferent, 'business-and-pleasure-as-
usual' attitude of Clevelanders.
Straight anti-Nazi pictures, their
tecords show, are generally below-
average grossers here If they aren't
bolstered by topnotch names. The-
atre men attribute this'negativeness
to too many speeches by Senator
Taft, CJoughlln and other midwest
isolationists In this territory.

It's Good Bnshiess Also

Pittsburgh, March 24.
. No sloughing anound here of pa^
triotic .pix. Theatre, chain and Indie
operations alike, are going all-out
for the Government-made exhibs
and playing them as regularly as
they come along. One circuit op-
erator said It was actually a pleasure
to. put them on the screen since a
lot of the shorts were made better,
and packed more real entertainment,
ttan many of the one- and two
reelers coming from major lots.

A well-known Indie exhib stated
the case for his entire crowd bluntly
when he said that It was not only
patriotic but good business as well,
•ince his customers liked them and
•t the same time he was saving
coin for shorts he'd otherwise have
to buy.

NW Very W«r-Hlnded

Portland, ^re,,. March 24,. _
'"Xocar Kouse' In general are run^
nlng the war propaganda shorts ob.
talned from Government sources or
through regular distribution.

Roy Brown, booker for Hamrlck-
Evergreen Theatres, said that war
Bhorts were being regularly used by
Evergreen Theatres. He said there
have been no complaints about
sugarcoating* or too much propa-
Sanda and that the Items were be-
ing used on regular program sched-
ules.

So far as can be learned from
other sources, there Is little or no
complaint around these parts about
we war shorts. Theatre men seem
to feel that it is receptive propa-
ganda for the pubUc. This attitude
^7 be due to the Northwest being
'potential invasion zone and thus
talecting a greater degree of war-
mindedness than obtains In other
parts of the country.

If Good, Folks Like "Em'

Memphis, March 24.
"6 play 'em. If they're' good,

Drive In, Pard

Los Angeles, March 24.

Second local film house en-
tirely devoted to cowboy pictures
is the Pony Express, until re-
cently the RegaL

Theatre was bought by the
A.B.C. . Corp.. which has been
operaUng the Hitching Post on
Hollywood blvd. along the same
lines. All the available film
buckaroos are being lined up for
the opening next month.

folks like 'em. If they're bad, they
don't.'

That's what exhibs in the Memphis
territory are saying about the Gov-
ernment's shorts and newsreels
slanted with war propaganda.

Thus far feeling in this sector
seems to be that the thing hasn't
been overdone. PubUc Is definitely
war-minded and all set to cheer at
any excuse. But even hot Southern
blood can boil only so far. Few
reels shown hereabouts that lacked
conviction of sincerity got definitely
cold shoulder. ^

Par Loses a Decision
In Stockholder Soit;
Another B.&B. Vs. 20th

Paramount Pictures lost a decision
In N. Y. federal court Monday (23)
when Judge William Bondy refused
to order a stay in the suit of Lillian
Ratner and G. Arthur Peck, minority
stockholders, against Paramount, un-
til such time as a similar stockholder
action had been decided in N. Y. su-
preme court. The film company had
claimed it would be burdened with
defending two similar actions at the
same time.

Judge Bondy ruled there was no
way to tell which would come to
'trial first, and he would not deprive
the stockholders in the federal court
of the right to sue. Action seeks
the return of $100,000 paid by officers
and directors of Paramount to George
E. Browne and William Bioff, con-
victed labor leaders, in an attempt
to prevent a strike in the Interna-
tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees;

Another stockholder action against
20th Century-Fox Film Corp. by nhie
minority stockholders was revealed
Monday (23) in N. Y. supreme, court
when the film company asked the
court to dismiss on the grounds of
failure to state a' cause of action.
Suit Is Important only in that it is
the first time since the suits against
film companies, arising ' out of the
Bioff-Browne transactions started,
that a plea for a dismissal has been
made by a defendant.

Action seeks the usual reliet re-
turn of the $100,000 paid to BlofI and
Browne. An accounting by officers
is asked.

Fifarang die Home Front

Hollywood, March 24.
'She's la the Army,' a tale of ci-
vilian life \iader war conditions,
goes Into work, this week at Mono-
gram with Jean Yarborough direct-
ing.

Technical supervisors are Lieut.-
Col. John W. Colbert, national com-
mander of Women's Ambulance De-
fense Corps, and Victoria Bonn,
commander of the local unit

Canteen Highlights

^^L'onUnned from page *ssSm

where, alone In a big city, I in-
quired, ^And where is your own
home?'

'New York City,' \^as his retort.

All the radio announcers organ-
izing to share the emcing of the
floor show. Among those taking
over: Ted Husing, Del Sharbert
Harry von ZeU, Allen Prescott Sid
Walton, Rus Johns, Warren HuU.

GRIFFIS PROBABLY TO
HEAD NAFL NAVY FUND

Reported Stanton Griffls will be
named national chairman of the
Navy Relief Fund.

Chairman of the executive com-
mittee of Paramount Griffls is very
active In other connections, including
av.chalrman -for.. Kew- York of. the.
Amusement Division of the Defense
Savings Staff of the U. S. Treasury.

Prohibition

-ContlnDed from qafe 1;

can .people will not let anything
interfere with victory. If an addi-
tional 15%' of the people come to
believe liquor is hurting war pro-
duction, you will be out of business.'

Pointing out that it wasn't just a
matter of serving too many drinks
to the men employed in the muni-
tions plants, he said that any
drunken driver was a menace be-
cause of heavy loads of defense
workers on the streets. He added
■that it came down to the fact that
cars and tires now are irreplaceable,
and the souse who smashed up cars
was doing 'as much damage as an
enemy and hastening the return of
prohibition. If you want to keep
the country as it is, watch your
step.'

No Casting'

When Brock Pemberton served as
busboy the other evening' so m^y
actors found excuses to come over
and' greet him that Ezra Stone piped
up, ''Why dou't you put a sign on
your apron— NO CASTING TO-
NIGHT!"

Has anyone given credit to Horace
Braham for his coinage of the title.
Stage Door Canteen?

Add Broadway and Hollywood
visitors of the week: Sidney King-
siey, Hiram Sherman, Jason Bernie,
Don Ettingler, Jaro Fabri, Robert
Wilcox, Ezra Stone, Art Lewis, Nor-
man PIncus — ail in uniform.

James Stroock and I'amlly giving
their all to the Canteen. .. .Jimmy
donating all the butter, Bianca on
the entertainment committee and
Gloria and Gerald Ine serving as
junior hostesses.

Vinton' Freedley hasn't missed a
Thursday night from 1 to 7 when his
'"S.el's Face It' company performs,
Takes some rf the chorus kids to
dinner at Sardi's afterward. 'Yes,
they order steakl'

Bette Davis was so Impressed with
the whole setup of the Canteen that
she wants' to organize one patterned
exactly like it 1:-. Hollywood. Is
thinking of the Trocadero; now
shuttered, but the lads from "Cali-
fornia claim it's too inaccessible.
Should be in downtown L. A.

Tyrone Power a big cUck in his
Informal gab 'est with the boys.

When I asked h:m if he didn't
think he should explain to the boys
why I was on the stage holding his
hand instead of Ann^b^lla, he
cracked 'back, 'Don't you thhik I
ought to explain that to Annabella?'

Betty Lawford's newly acquired
bunions are her 'service stripes' for
her non-stop marathon.

Janet Gaynor, looking very glam-
orous (her green velvet gown
through the courtesy of Adrian) gave
the boys a thrill by - getting on the
iSoor and dancing with them. Ditto
Zorina and Gertl. Niessen, both of
whom led the conga line.

Sir Cedrlc and Lady Hardwicke,
John Garfield, Sonjq . Benie and
Phyliss Brooks also giving the boys
ajglimpse of HoUywpoQ. _ And,_bow
they "eat" irupl

When Jane Cowl inlioduced Fred
Stone the other evening and who,
in turn, was introducea lierself, a
sailor standing nearby said, 'I didn't
catch the name'.

'Jane Cowl,' he was told.

'Is She an actress?'

"Yes, and a very distinguished, one.'

"You'll have to forgive my ig-
norance,' he answered apologetically,
'You see I 've beer, out of touch
with things — I've been away from
New York for the last six months.

Scotching Wastage

Newest wrinkle in^ preventing
waster of paper supplies developed
this week at RKO's homeofflce.
Even top executives are not using
envelopes carelessly;

Most of them are sending com-
munications around the N. Y. office
in old envelopes, old names being
scratched put and new ones written
in — the the envelopes re-routed.

8 Majors^ Plus Rep„ Mono and PRC
To Rush 16-nmL Prints to All Ms

Bo'w-Stealing Gen't

Hollywood, March 24.
A certain general on the Coast
is taking literally the Bard's quo-
tation, 'AU the World's a Stage,'
and being one of its actors, has
taken a sudden interest in bill-
ing. ,

When one of his charges was .
given leave to do a Government-
sponsored broadcast here, the
camp's headman did a bum
when no mention on the pro-
gram was made of him. He fig-
ured he was entitled to at least
» courtesy credit on the air.

Theatre Wing Canteen
Draws 11,000 Boys In
Week; New High Mark

American Theatre Wing's .Stage
Door Canteen hit a new attend-
ance high last week when 11,296
boys in uniform were given gratis
refreshment and entertained in the
popular spot under the 44th Street
theatre, N. Y. High for the week
was registered Wednesday (19) eve-
ning with 1,940 on hand.

On Friday. (20) evening ca^ of
three Broadway musicals were on
hand through a mix-up in schedules,
'High Kickers,' 'Banjo Eyes' and
'Porgy and Bess.' Latter two split
the time. 'Kickers' is to go on one
night this week. Adding the ex-
citement, Pathe News men arrived
at' the same- time and took a sound
shot of Eddie Cantor and June Clyde
singing 'I'm Going to Have a Baby.'

Entertainers during the week in-
cluded Fred Keating, Maxine Sulli-
van, Ezra Stone, Eddie Lambert
Nancy Sherman, Earl Hines, Mary
Van Kirk, Gertrude Niessen, Gloria
Vestoff, Ruth Clayton, Sid Marion,
Zorina, Cedric and Lady Hardwicke,
Nick Kenny, Henry King, Buck and
Bubbles, Eddie Condon's., orchestira.
Bob Knight and Stork Club orches-
tra, Margie Haywood, De Haven and
Tiny, Jerry Seers, Kenneth Walton,
Cappy Barra, Janet Gaynor, ' Jimmy
Daniels and Gloria HilL

Less than $1,000 has been ex-
pended on the canteen to date.
That's considerably less than cash
donations received. Wing has
$30,000 on hand, donated by show
people.

Film Industty offered a sweeping
plan for supplying IB-mlUimeter
prints of current feature pictures and
shorte gratis to ail American Expedi-
tionary Forces throughout the world
last week. Eight major companies,
plus Republic, Monogram and Pro-
ducers Releasing Corp., as well as
manufacturers and laboratories sup-
plying the picture .business, joined
in the expansive setup, which Is ex- -
pected to cost the Industo' more than
$1()0,000- annually.

Figure would be many times that
amount if the .11 producerrdistrlbutor
companies had hot been able to gel;
stock and printing done at cost ahd
If all had not agreed on the co-
operative, effort.

Estimated that.'some 1,200 prints of
features and 1,600. prints of' shorts
will ];e use.d the first year. This will
enable fighting forces throughout the
world tp see latast U.S. screen pro-
ductions even it regular' theatres or
regulation 35-mm. equipment Is not
available where stationed. They wUl
be shown gratis to' men in. the serv-
ice.

Industry gift is strictly on picture*
of 16-mm, size so that the usual pic-
ture shpws can be given despite lack
of available -35-mm. equipment

Figured that raw stock on' shorts
would cost about $9,0()0 while fea-
tures would run more than $80,000.
Printing and other costs would bring
the, total to $100,000.

U.S. Army also announced that
distributors had agreed In the fu»
ture to release prints of latest pic- .
tufes for showing -at army posts^
camps and stations in this country.'-
within 30 days of national releass
date.

WB Theatres Prepared -
To Meet Any bnergency

Los Angeles, March 24.

Warners theatres' employees on
the Coast are getting a compulsory"
eyeful of Instructlctns on. war emer-
gencies In .the form of a I3-pag»
booklet containing all. the details of
their responsibilities In base of air
bombing.

Instructions cover the use of fire-
fighting apparatus, specially installed
in all Warner theatres to combat pos-"
sible Incendiary missiles and first-aid
treatment In case of injury. One or
more members of the staff -of every
theatre is required to take Red Cross'
courses and conduct weekly drills for
other employee^, . .

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24 RADIO

Wednesday, March 25, 1942

R EME3IB ERI iTHM I&

At least three men, perhaps more, are suffering a
grueling ordeal of nerves, uncertainty and all-night
rewrites in connection with the Saturday night
morale programs, 'This Is War.' The three badg-
ered, buffeted and bleary-eyed gents are: W. B.
Le"wiT"of the Office of Facts and Figures, H. L,
McClinton, executive head of the production unit
on the program, and Norman Corwin, director of
the series. It is probable that regardless of whether
•This Is War' goes on beyond the originally-
financed 13 weeks they will require a breathing
spell for the sake of their health.

'This Is War' is now well ahead in the race to be
dubbed the most criticized program in radio history.
The critics have been of all kinds, professional and
amateurs, friendly and unfriendly, fair and unfair.
Because the series is identified with, and blessed
by, the White House, it has been considered fair
game by a number of sons of appeasers. But they
nave probably been a minor element. Most of the
critics have been well intentibned. This does not
lessen the fact that the productvon staff knows, th?
White House knows, Archibald MacLeish knows,'
and the more or less loyal opposition knows that
'This Is War' is dynamite politically.

Although the let's-get-g'oing gallery impatiently
urges 'This Is War? to employ stronger language
and make more positive recommendations, there
has been much in the first six weeks that has galled
the negotiated peace brethren, infuriated the we'U-
get-Roosevelt-yet publishers and brought forth all
sorts of irate mail. As an Obbligato to this venomous
sibillance the producers have found that th'ose who
essentially agree and sympathize with them are also
giving out with their own kind of inharmonious
commotion.

noring the value of the messages the program is
attempting to get across to the general public.

Every day in every way the staff of 'This Is
War' grows wiser and tireder. Crises are of three
general kinds; (1) major breakdown crises, (2)
medium nightmare crises and (3) routine St. Vitus
shakes.

The bulletin of the Broadcasters Victory Council
-recently referred to 'carping critics'. Meaning those
devoted listeners to 'This Is War' who gather each
Saturday night at seven to inspect, dissect and re-
ject the techniques employed while seemingly ig-

One of the major breakdown crises came last
week when political considerations killed off Donald
Ogden Stewart's 'Production Now' script and re-
sulted in the hasty substitution of Philip Wylie's
'It's Up to You.' (Meaning you, and you, and you,
dear public!)

'It's Up to You' was number six in the series. It,
differed from the five earlier programs in avoiding
the narrative-illustrative form. Instead the pro-
gram was framed in the proscenium airch of a visit
by a Government official, called Ed Bascomb, to ah
everyday citizen, called Wilbur Jones. The citizen
(Everett Sloane) eagerly cornered the official to
find out what's what in the war, but discovered
that the Government man (Claude Rains) had
come to the citizen to'find out what the people are
doing. Because — thesis-^the people will win the
Avar in the end and the peace, too, by their moral
courage and staying power.

The program had these flaws: a disturbing, un-
necessary, superfluous cornet solo supposedly by
Ezra Stone in the background; and - a somewhat
vague significance in the son character ; a . perhaps
over-obvious stress on the sounds of walking upon
stairs, gravel; the dubious cliche of telling the av-
erage man (listener) that he is 'average' whereas
he's an average American and, brother, that is
something different, if you know your geography.

"""-Stpry-telling qualities infused through the visit
method came closer to being standard,' as against
poetic, radio. The dialog was clear, most, if not
all, of the thoughts well registered, the characters
familiar and believable. Best of all Philip Wylie
pressed sure literary fingers against the strings of

middle-class Americana. "The tones were clearly
in key.

"These ideas were left with listeners, left to sim-
mer, left to spread; left to neutralize plenty of poi-
son. Listening America was told:

— That it was up against the dirtiest, slimiest,
cleverest propaganda in history ; that all of it didn't
come from Berlin, but some was made in the
U. S. A.

-T-That rumors are spread and multiplied to shake
the Americans' nerves and. prepare emotionally for
appeasement. _^

— T*hat too many people are fighting the Gov-
ernment instead of Germany, unions instead of Japs.

— That there are newspaper publishers who use
freedom of the press to undermine national unity
and the whole future of all freedom.

Undoubtedly the most telling character study in
the broadcast and one that could be amplified and
re-used again and again as a glowingly odious
symbol of everything that must be discredited and
shamed was the' garralously 'smart' lady in the
cocktail bar who talked down ajl sense, all fact, all
patriotism to spout cascades of cheap cynicism,
paralyzing suspicion and specious argument. All
standard Goebbels patter.

Faults there have been ,and undoubtedly will
continue to be, in Mhis I^ War.' Many will prefer,
different radio methods. (Many, for that -matter,
are bored with the whole war which they cannot
forgive for disturbing the social season!) Many
have such advanced ideas of what ought to be done
that they are naturally impatient with the great,
slow-moving Government of a great, slow-moving
people. ■ But don't sell that gathering avalanche
called the U. S. A. short and don't underestimate
what 'This Is War' has done and is doing as a
first-try, a tentative beginning, a hurried, impro-
vised, trail-blazing job of morale under difficult,
confused conditions quickly following (oh, don't
forget!) the fine job of morale-undermining by
friends of the Axis in our midst. They only gave,
up speaking on the radio a little while agol

Siknces a Show, Martim Inquires

Roland -Martini, XRdlo editor for
the Gardner agency, has raised the
question as to whether the advertiser
•hould be held responsible for the
payment of talent in Ihe event a pro-
■"gram were required to go oft the air
by order of the air Interceptor com-
mand. Martini last week suggested
to the union talent employed on the
agency's various programs that they
get a ruling on such a contingency
from their respective unions.

.Question as put by Martini Is
whether the talent, which Includes
writers and freelance directors,
should or should not be expected to
gamble on the hazards of war as well
as the advertiser. In Martini's opin-
ion the talent should In such cir-
cumstances accept the hazard;

AT&T MUSICAL
INTIME CHANGE

American Telephone &' Telegraph
takes over the Monday, 9:9-30 p.m.,
period on NBC April 27. It now
occupies the 6-8:30 slot the same
evening. N. W. Ayer, agency on the
■ recount, figures that because, of. day-
light savings 0 o'clock Is a better
time, even though the program will
be opposite the Lux Theatre (CBS).
Also that It would rather follow
The Voice of Firestone' than . pre-
cede It.

'Dr. I. Q.,' which had the Monday
'S-9:30 period, when it broadcast for
Mars Candy, will move forward a
half hour, with Vick Chemical as
the sponsor.

Brief A&P Spot Contracts

A & P stores Is placing a brief spot
campaign through. Paris tc Peart.'
. It's for 12 one-minute spots to be
run oB in three weeks.'

Fitness to Fight Is
Theme of Bhe Series;
Using Crack Mnsclemen

Glenn Cunningham and tieslie Mac-
Mitchell, co-holders of the world
record for the mile run,.,wUl guest
April 5 on the debut chapter of "nie
Show of Yesterday and Today,' to be
aired 2:30-3 p.m. Sundays on the
Blue network (WJZ) by the U. S.
Division of Physical Fitness. Also
guesting on the first broadcast will
be John B. Kelly, director of the
DPF and fomier Olympic champion
oarsman. Subsequent guests' wiU in-
clude Jack Dempsey,- Joe Louis,
Connie Maek and Leo Durocher. '
"nMusfc ToT the ■sRovT-m'Se-'pTtfit'
vlded by the Blue Bar];on orch. Out-
fit is currently on a theatre tour,' so
the April 5 stanza will originate at
Philadelphia, with subsequent shows
airing from New 'York, Hartford,
Sptljigflslj, Mass., and elsewhere.
Alton Alexander, formerly with Ed
Wolf Associates, and Ira 'Walsh, for-
merly with WPEN, Philadelphia, ere
writing-producing the series for the
DPF.

Frank Wilson. Jom« O.F.F

Frank- Wilson has resigned from
Iiord & Thomas to join the Office of
Facts and Figures April 1.

In addition to writing various L &
T prograins Wilson was the author
of The Bishop and the Gargoyle,'
which had a sustaining run on NBC.

Roy de Groot, War Victimj
Joins Donovan Office

Roy de Groot. British announcer
In the United States for the benefit
of his eyesight which he partly lost
in the war. has been hired. by the
Donovan Committee in New York.
He will act as a European news edi-
tor. •

, BBCer has been doing a series on
WQXR, New York, following partly
successful medical treatment over
here.

Race Track Radio Tips
Cost Pair Stir Stretch

Washington, March 24. '
Two race track tipsters who, in
December, 1941, were caught at the
Charlestown (W. Va.) track broad-
casting .'sure tips* to their confed-
erates got stifl sentences and- heavy
fines for each. Joseph M, Woznlak,
who broadcast from the grandstand
by means of a portable radio trans-
mitter concealed in his sleeve, was
given 15 months in the .clink and a
fine of $600 in addition. His accom-
plice, 'WQliam M. Brennan, who
flashed the results from a 'nearby
tourist cabin to confederates listen-
ing in outside places,, received a simi-
lar fine and a sentence of one year
and a day.

Pair was trapped by Federal Com-
munications Commission monitoring
officers who .intercepted the mes-
sages, traced the origin of the trans-
missions and kept the defendants
under surveillance until trap was
sprung.

VICK KNIGHT
TO DIRECT
JORM

1942 Layof Periods

17- Week Vacation for Jack Benny; 11 for
Smith; Six for 'Henry Aldrich'

Kate

Option Picked Up

' -J

Chicago,' March 24.

Kastor agency here has picked- up
'Abie's Irish Rose' for Procter &
Gamble's Dreme Shampoo, for an-
other seven weeks. .

ITeriewal is as of April 4.

AFRA Fees Raised As
SL Lonis Chapter Loses
Half of Memhers to U^.

Since

Vlck Knight la glvhig up his $700
a week Job as director of the Fred
Allen program for Texaco to devote
aU his time hereafter without pay as
a volunteer civilian radio director as-
signed to produce U. S. Army 'Com-
mand Performances' transcriptions
to be broadcast shortwave from the
United States to American troops
overseas. The coming Sunday pro-
gram will be his last for Texaco.

Knight will spend two months or
so in Hollywood making a series of
recorded programs with screen
talent. Thereafter he will probably
return east but may do other troop
jobs in other towns. Army places
the platters qn various shortwave
stations. About half a dozen have
already been cut imder Knight's
direction but the job is demanding
all of his time.

Ed Kirby,' chief radio publicist of
Army, made the deal with Knight
last Friday.

St. Louis', Ma'rctr24.
The inlation fees for membership
in the St. Louis Chapter of AFRA
has been upped 100% from $25 to
$50, action having been taken last
week. Yearly dues of the 150 mem-
bers also Increased. Both changes are
effective as of May 1. The national
executive committee is expected to
ratify the unanimous vote of the
local members, durlne the„,qurxPD*

the U. S. declared war
against the Axis powers the mem-
bership of the local- chaptei^ has
shrunk from 300 to 150 with the
greater percentage . 6f the members
being Inducted into the service.
Others are devoting 100% of their
time to defence work In' the many
plants in and near St Louis.

Ex-Radioites Use Army
Spare Time Over WHEB

Portsmouth, N. H„ March 24.

David E. Thomas, baritone former-
ly on CBS Bfid now serving as a pri-
vate In the harbor defenses at Ports-
mouth, has started a weekly song
program on 'WHEB, Portsmouth.
Announcer on the show is Private
Kenneth Ash, formerlv with 'WIBC,
Utlca. N, Y.. and. NBC, and the
scripter Is Corporal Ted Lazarus,
formerly with TTnlted Artists. Series
Is titled 'A Soldier Sings.'

.Thomas Is a brother of Thomas L-
"Thomas, NBC baritone. '■

Three General Foods progranu are
due to go oS the networks in July
without having vacation pinchhit-
ters. Jack Benny (NBC) wiU'be ab-
sent for 17 weeks; Kate Smith
(CBS), 11 weeks; and the 'Aldrich
Family' (NBC), six weeks. Miss
Smith's vacation IsVeduced by two
weeks' this- 'time so as tO' preserve
the account's discount status, while
'Aldrich' gets a couple nxore weeks
off than last season.

The food packer doesn't :have to
worry about the hiatus rules as far
as they concern Benny since NBC
guarantees the comic the main-
tenance of his Sunday evening pe-
riod. This guarantee was accorded
.him. early last year when -he and
Gieneral Foods were negotiating for
a renewal of contract

10% SALARY

Detroit March 24.

A blanket salary i^Ise of 10% was
given 129 staff members of WJR
here, retroactive to Jan. 1, Half wUl
be paid In cash with the other 9%
paid In U. S. Defense Bonds:

The announcement was made at •
staff meeting through Leo J. Fite-
patrick, vice-president and general
manager, authorized in a telegram
from G. A. lUchards, president of
WJR.

LQ. Vitamms m PhiHy

Chicago, March 24.

First six-week run of Dr. L Q. pro-
gram under its new sponsorship of
Vlck's Vitamins Plus will be In the
Stanley theatre, Philadelphia, start-
ing on April e.

Handled through the Grant agency
here, program will ride over 02 NBC
Stations. "''■.■'. >i .'■ f' • i ' "

Wednesday, Hteh 25» 1942

RADIO t5

Radio and Criticism Go Together

. l^ndon, March 9.

If Byron Price, of the U. S. OfIic« of Censorship, or Archibald
MacLeish, of the U. S. Office of Facts and Figures, think they have
t^ubles, let them listen to this summary of the questions flunf in Par*-
llament recently against the radio programs of the British Broad«
casting Corp. Brenden Bracken, Minister of Information, has to And
official answers to these M. P. taunts:

That broadoasta to Germany make Garmani laugh at Britain.

That the BBC uses Bralntrusters that fled to America as soon as war
broke out. '

That the BBC misled the public about Malaya and Libya.
That there was favoritism to certain M. P.'t in BBC news bulletins.
That the air was full of complete'and dull details about trifling news
and no details about big news.

And In Cautda

Toronto, March 24.

Because of pressure brought by His Majesty*s Loyal OppoBltion, a '
■pedal committee of ibe House of Commons has been apiiointed to
carry out an Immediate Investigation of the Canadian Brbadcastinf
Corp. and also the- activities of private stations, r Much of the pro-
cedure will deal with the administrative system of the CBC, Its broad-
easting policies «nd flnannlal arrangements.

Currently there's considerable criticism on the part of Canadian
citizens who resent tlM tenor and antl-Britlsh tone of certain Amer-
lean commentators. ■

£d Kirby, OAo^ on Army Publicity
Due to Trade Civvies for Unifomis

Ed Klrby, head of the radio pub-
licity branch of the United States
Amy Bureau of Publle Relations,
Is expepted to go Into uniform .soon.
A^e will probably bo commissioned
a major or lieutenant-colonel, con-
tinuing jmder military status his
praent duties. Various members of
his staff, mostly civilians to date,
will also probably be pressed Into
military service. Wyliss Cooper, who
will write the new 'Army Hour'
series on NBC starting; In. April, is
scheduled for a majbrshlp and the
musical director of the series Is also
to be a khaki-wearer, Jack Joy from
Pacific Coast radio.

Prospective obliteration of civilian
status of the radio .staff, In whole oi:
in part, has been anticipated for
some time. Apparently the presence
of. un-u'nUormed personnel at impor-
tant ' inside conferences gave ' too
much violence to army tradition.

The radio publicity, section has en-
joyed considerable flexibility and
freedom from red tape frustration
through the past two years. Among
Its privileges was the right to com-
axunlc^ite directly, instead of tttrougb
'channels,' with morale officers any-
where.

SOLDe FACTS
FOE WOMEN

-The Women's Section of the United
Btatti Army has recently Issued an
'Information Kit', consisting of seven
booklets on the fighting fitness, re-
UgtoB, recreation, housekeeping,
food, medical treatment and uni-
forms of soldiers.

-^^if'^fn-m^iss.

terial should be useful to radio sta-
tion special events departments, and
the Mary Margaret McBrides.

VETERANS BROADCAST
mm FOR VICTORY'

San Antonio, March 24.
• The local unit of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars wUl sponsor a series
S.^'^Mdcasta each week over station
«ABC. Broadcast wlU be a fluarter
hOur in,- length. Programs will be
titled 'Unity for Victory.'
Joe C. Bettencouft, known as the
voice of the VFW,' will be principal
speaker on the openhig broadcast,
Which wiU be aired Friday, March 27.

Toleao-Shernill G. White, for the
.past lour years with Ted Helft 8c
^cijtes, IrtdianapoUs; radio sales
promohons, most recently ta Toledo,
resigned to join the amy. ," .

W. B. Lewis Addresses
New York Meeting Of
The Adyertising CouiicU

A meeting was held In New York
City, March 19, under the auspices

of the Advertising Council at which
W. B. Lewis of the Office of Facts
and Figures explained the pending
radio problems., Doug Merservey,
Lewis' aide, accompanied him from
Washington - and Paul West of the
Association of National Advertisers
called the meeting to order.
Those present included:
John Hynes, Lord and Thomas;
William Fricke, AAAA; Roy E. Wil-
son, Wheeling Steel Corp.^ Roland
Martini, Gardner (Pet Milk); Ralph
Robertson, Colgate; D. B. Stetler,
.Standard Brand; J. H. West. Proc-
ter & Gamble; George Morrison, In-
ternational Silver Co.; W. H. Suber,
Gulf Oil; Gerald O'Beim, Hall
Brothers; E. C. Hawlet, Armstrong
Cork; Francis H. Marling, Pure OH;
John S. Allen, General Foods Corp;
George. McMillan, ANA; A. W. Leh-
man, C.A'.B.; E. B. Smith, General
Mills; John J. Louis, Johnson Wax;
R. O. Partridge, United Fruit; E. J.
Fitzgerald, Carnation; F. S. Cannon,
Sun Oil; Edward S. Morse, Celanese;
A. Starke DempewolIT, Celanese;
George C. Tormley, R. L. Watkins;
M. U. Bent. R. L. Watkins; E. J.
FInneran, National Dairy Products;
John S. Wilkinson, Carnation; L. H.
Ashe, E. R. Squibb; A. Craig Smith,
Gillette; F. W. Wile, Jr., Advertising
Council; T. H. Christgan, Land
O'Lakes Creameries; F. H. Brlnkley,
Vick Chemical; William E. Nagle,
J. B. Williams; Robert Brenner, B. T.
Babbitt; Harold Kemp, Lewis Howe

■A!li''.:»/y j»/<" * '»W

'DOC BRINKLEY VERY ILL

Has Another Heart Attack in Del
Bio Residence

Del Rio, Texas, March 24.

John R. Brlnkley, famous broad-
casting 'doctor,' Is in a critical con-
dition here In his palatial home as
the result of a new heart attack suf-
fered last week. Relatives were
called to the home. Brlnldey at last
report remained conscious.

nie once famous goat gland spe-
cUiIlst . and Mexican border broad'^
caster who had a leg amputation
several months ago in Kansas City,
had been about recently and appar-
ently on the road to recovery.

Brlnkley was adjudged bankrupt
fa San Antonio last year and is at
the present time under Federal
fraud indictment In Little Rock, Ar-
kansas, this being based on letters
and pamphlets sent from here and
Little,. Rock to p.erions in other
•states.' , . 1 . .

FULL FACILITIES

United State* Army to
Broadcast Every Sunday
-Afternoon for Duration^ —
Series Expected to Become
Barometer of Attitude and
Emphasis — Many Tough
Problems of Psychological
Nature Faced

FAMILY ANGLES

The United States Army will,
starting April 6, broadcast a full
hour program every -Sunday after-
noon at 3:30 for the duration
at the. war. Ttiis Is made possible
by the following donations to the
service;

BCA: Free world-wide communi-
cations pick-ups permitting the
Army to make visits and interviews
with Its own scattered troops and
with the leaders of its allied armies,
etc.

; NBC; Free facilities of coast-to-
coast network, orchestra, production'
staff, studios,' etc.

. The series will be the most ambi-
tious undertaking of the radio sec-
tion of the Army's Bureau of Pub-
lic Relations. It will be a-> attempt
to establish " vicarious, emotional
contact between soldiers, a., symbol-
ized fa the t>rogram, and their fami-
lies, as symbolized by radio listeners.
It Is hoped to make tht program an
important civic event each week,
Sunday afternoon befag a deliberate
choice because of the family dinner
get-together on that afternoon hav-
fag a special . signiflcance.

Many Tasks
The 'A.ciny Hour' wUl have many
propaganda problems. Among them
is .tile new kfad of war that Is befag
fought behfad a screen of mystery
fa lands too strange and too far
away for the average citizen to com-
prehend the conditions, Th&re is also
a question of 'luildlng up 'pride' in
the fighting forces and among the
fighters as well. There Is also the
problem of casualties tor which the
nation must be prepared.

It Is also hoped that the customary
reluctance of the military to reveal
information can be overcome occa-
sionally to permit these officially-
sponsored radio broadcasts on Sun-
day afternoon to spring a scoop now
and then. In any event the pro-
posed series is scheduled to last*as
long as the war lasts and to become
a barometer of War Department at-
titude and emphasis as' the grim
months and years ahead unfold.

It is not expected that the Navy
will emulate the Army. The Navy
will be given the courtesy of ttie
program as and to the extent it may
so desire, according to expectation.
The Navy's morale problems are en-
tirely different, however.

•The Army Hour' will combine
many elements, including some sen-
tlme ntallty pnd_6atrio.tlsm in historic

RMYSHOW

Tornado a Radio Secret for Hours
Until Wartime CFearance Is Given

The Final Giggle

The Mutual Network's acci-
dental scoop in carrying. General
Douglas MacArthur's voice from
Australia as an exclusive turned
the'tables nicely on various rival
press agents, notably Lou Ruppel
of CBS, who had kidded Lester
Gottlieb, Mutual publicist, for
issuing a statement tsaptloned:
'Mutual Offers War Deport-
ment Facilities ior Talk bv
General MacArthur.'
With the crack, 'Who wouldn't?'
the radio special eventsmen
around town nomfaated the .Gott-
lieb piece as one for the ~3e-
' partment for filling blimps with
helium. But when Mutual came
through with the coveted voice
of the man'. of the hour it was
no longer fimny at CBS or else-
where.

Ruppel had sent a. collect .wire
to Gottlieb, readfag, 'Are you
kidding?' After Mutual aired the
actual Mac Arthur talk and re-
peated it several times via tran- .
scrlption, Gottlieb wired Ruppel
coUect, 'We «fa't klddfag.*

COAL-BOYING
IN SUMMER

Blue, Coal la preparing for a spot
campaign geared to prevaQ upon
householders ta--stock. up on anthra-
cite during the summer because of
the possibUlUes that the need for
War goods tcausportatlon will make
it tough fof them to get delivery
later on. Hie schedule will consist
of recorded announcements.

Ruthraufl Ac Ryan Is the agency,

BALLANTINE TO WSAY
WHEN WHAM GOES DRY

Rochester, N. Y., March 21
wham's bah on beer and liquor
advertisfag resulted fa WSAY get-
ting first Blue net program, Bal-
lai^ine Ale, Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m.

"This Is regarded as possible open-
fag wedge in WSATs. effort to pro-
vide outlet for Red net shows that
WHAM cannot caryy.

tlmentality pnd Datriotlsm in historic I

and the United Nations, perhaps
some attention to any domestic
abrasives that faterfere with high
combat efficiency.

Series will be under Ed Kirby, Lou
Cowan, Jack Harris and their col-
leagues. The special events branch
of the Army radio publicity set-up
will come info play in a prominent
way. In this section are Brooks
Watson, formerly of WMBD, Peoria,
Bin Bailey, formerly of WLW, Cin-
cinnati, and Lewie V. Gilpin,, former-
ly Broadcasting Magazine. Short-
wave activities are imder Lieut
Rankfa Roberts, formerly of Texas
State Network.

The script section of the Army's
Radio Branch is supervised by Cap-
tafa Edwin Curtin, formerly of
BBDO and the New York World's
Fair. He coordinates the. activities
of public relations officers at Army
camps throughout the country.

Advertising agency lialsdn em-
ploys John CuUom, formerly of
World Broadcasting System. -Liaison
with educational groups talk to

Major Harold Kent, formerly In
charge of radio for the Chicago
Public School System.

Researcher for the Kirbyltes -Is
Lieut, A. M. Wharefild, formerly
with C. E. Hooper.

Cooper resigned the ..scripting as-
signments of The Story of Bess
Johnson' and 'Sphrlt of '42' to write
the Army series. He's prtmioted from
captain to major. Program will be
directed by Bob Colson,

(Authorship of the 'Bess Johnson'

Memphis, March 24.

Last week's tragic mid-soath tor-
nado, with a death toll of 125 and
scattered over the three states ad-'
jacent to Memphis, blew local radio
stations into an einbarrassfag' cen-
sorship dither. Wartime regulations-
on broadcastfag weather news had
tiie four stations fa an uproar for
most of 'Monday night {16). No two
handled the 'problem alike,
' Storm broke fa the late after-
noon. WMC .and WMPS decided
quickly to stick to the radio code,,
wired Washington for permission to
make news reports' oh a. weather
subject This was not forthcomfag
until 10:95 p.m. Meantime, as early
as 6:57 p.m., WREC and WHBQ had
both isued appeals for Memphis
doctors and nurses to report for du^
fa the stricken area, but had kept
information on the actual locale and
damage of the gale -to a minimum. '
" That brought a flood of calls to all
stations. WMPS stuck it but until ,
final word came through from .Wash-
ington.., But at 9:30, WMC revealed
that a storm had struck and tYAt
doctors and ntirses had already been
sent . At 10 pm. WMC's news an-
nouncer, Aubrey Guy, explained for ;
the first time that no details c'oiild
be given because of censorship! By
tills time, WREC was hackfag away.
Its 10:30 newscast studiously ^void-
ing mention ^f either the storm or
the rescue work from Memphis.
WHBQ Issa'es Beports

Meanwhile, however, WHBQ, us-
ing International News Service re-,
ports, gave detail? of the disaster at
9 o'clock, even revealing the extent ;
of damage- B(;ffered :ai . Western
State hospital for '.the Insane at- Bo-
livar, Tenn.

Official censorship clearance came
through Just l>efore .ll o'clock .and '
all stations inunledlately inmieked the
ether with full reports. 'The Cbm> .
merclal Appeal's early edition's, with ■
considerable cove.rage, had been on
the streets of Memphis since '

^tuatlon soon provoked stdrth of -
discussion as to who did right, and
who did wrong. under circumstances. '
One station . executive' contended
that his opposition's 'violation of the
code is an open favitatlon for Wash-
ington to cancel all news - services
to all radio stations, except probably
a government news service.' He said
the regulation oh weather broadcasts
of any sort 1» clear and 'forbids any*
mention of a weather story wlthbut
specific release Is granted by the -
censors.'

. Another- manager contended that
they had observed the spirit of the.
ruling by -wlthholdfag Information'
regarding .actual location of the
storm's fury and that the Issuance
of appeals for doctors and nurses was
a public service fa an emergency
rather than a means of circumvent-
ing the restrictions, .

ayef; Cario iJe Angero aixecn ii
for the Sherman-Marquette agency.)

'Fall

Oat for Fan'

Chicago, March 24.
Columbia this week starts a week-
ly army morale . show tagged 'Fall
Out for Fun.' Formerly heard on
WBBM here only, the show will be
offered to 23 stations fa the midwest
area. First broadcast emanates from
Camp Grant, Rockford (HI.), with
Eddie Dunn as m.c, and handled
through program chiet- Stu Daw-
son and special ' events director.
Chuck Logan.

Various army bands at each camp
provide the musical framework, with
some new aMgles, tops among which
befag a tree long -distance telephone
call to an army man. Soldier has
free phone call to any number In
United States or Canada, but will
not know which of his three choices
has been put on- the wire.

Also there will be a 'do you want
to be an actor' routfae, with prizes
for amateur actors, announcers and
sound-effects men.- ■

miHEPEOPLt'

'We, the People' will replace ths
Screen Guild shinw fof Oulf Refining
fa the letter's Sunday CBS half-
hour April 24. 'People' wlU likely
contfaue for the safne account
through ths fall and winter season.

Young and RuUeam is agency.

'Grinding Liiht' Adds
StationB Via Disci

Chicago, March 34.

In addition to its regular NBC rid%
'Giildfag Light,' daythne serial. Is bs>
fag recorded by General Mills for
spolUhg on some 20 stations fa be*
half of Wheatles.

Set through the Knox Reeves
agency, the recordings are being
done by NBC Radio Recordfag .
vision here. . ; -.

t6

RADIO

Wi^eiday, Mardi 25« 1942

AdrerlBDig Does Plenty to He^
Win the War. Malldel Points Out

Boston, March 24.
'AdvertUlng If helping the United
Nations v>in the war,' David Malldel,
head of the advertising agency bear-
Ing -his name, told WCOP listeners
In an interview with spieler George
Crowell, broadcast yesterday (23).
He pointed out the job that agencies
•re doing to 'harness advertising ex-
penditures of their clients to work
lor the Govenunent'

'Advertising copy in newspapers,
inagazlnes, billboards and the radio
Is being geared up to sell defense
•tamps, bonds, enlistments, etc,'
U^Uuel said. Though the Govern-
ment is spending its own money for
these purposes, the amount spent by
private advertisers far exceeds the
Government expenditures. . . ,

'Advertising is serving to- ease the
shock of daily living changes and to
prepare the way for future changes
which are coming fast and furious.
Yesterday we woke to <flnd our tires
gone; today we have g^ rationing
before vis; tomorrow, sugar ration-
ing, and we're taking It all in stride.

'Thanks are dite the tire manufac-
turers, gasoline .companies, automo-
bile makers, railroads, utilities, and
hundreds of private enterprises, who
ere using their advertisfaog dollars to
explain the reasons for shortiages, the
necessity for strict economy, to urge
conservation, and* io prevent hys-
teria. The same advertisings money
Is telling you hQW proud you should
feel to be able to pay the tremendous
.taxes our Government needs to In-
sure our American way of life, and
we're taking It and liking It . . .

.'America Is the world's greatest
user of' advertising media, and
America's advertising Is becoming
one of the most powerful weapons
with which to strike down the Axis.
Advertising is selling U. S. stamps
and bonds, enlistments in every
branch of service, students tp trade
schools and skilled help to defense
'Industries. -

'Advertising is selling many subtle
things as well: courage. Industry,
strength, tolerance, alertness io gos-
sip and immunity to dangerous
propaganda; economy in the kitchen,
prevention of waste, new appreciS'
tion for the farmer, unpatriotic ef'
feet of hoarding; the keep-ntum'
chum idea to thwart ' spies, combat
lies, and save lives,'' Malkiel con-
cluded. '

im Grey In
Those We Love
Replaces Cantor

Bristol-Myers will' sponsor Ihose
We Xiove' as a summer replacement
for the Eddie Cantor program for
Ipana and Sal Hepatlca. Show will
originate on the Coast an4 wiU prob-
ably feature the 'same cast as when
it was on the air before,' Including
Nan Grey, Richard Cromwell ^d
Donald Woods. It will fill Cantor's
pres'ent 9-9:3ff p.m. spot -Wednesdays
on NBC-Red (WEAF).

Those We Love' is written by
Agnes Rldgeway. It was original^
sponsored by Pond's Cold - Cream
through J. Walter Thompson and
was later bankrolled by Procter It
Gamble for Dreneishampoo, through
the Kastor agency.

Rinker and L MacHarrie
Join Bhe Net Prodacers;
Hamihon Vice Nnssbanm

Two additions to the Blue producer
Btafl were mdde last week by Harry
Frazee, network production head.
They are Al Rinker, until recently
director of the 'Gay Nineties' series
on CBS' for American tobacco, and
.Lindsay MacHarrie, until recently
director of 'Myrt and Marge*, on CBS
tor Coigate-Palmolive-Peet. '

Gene Hamilton, producer and for
' mer announcer of 'Chamber Music
Society of Lower Basin Street' on
Blue, has been appointed assistant to
Frazee, succeeding Howard Nuss-
baum, .who resigned to take a first
lieutenant's commission In the Army
Air Corps assigned to the This Is
War* program.

MEX. PATENTS COLOR

Mexico City, March 24.

Patents for a process of television
in colors have been obtained In
Mexico and the U. Si by its inventor,
Gulllermo Gonzalez Caraaroia,
staff technician of local radio station
XEW and brother of Antonio, the
painter. The inventor' was en-
couraged In his experiments by
Emillo Azcarraga, owner, and Othon
M. 'Velez, manager of XEW. Azcar-
raga aided him to obtain patents in
Mexico and the U. S.

Camarena will not, of course, be
able to make commercial use of his
Invention until after the war.

Chesterfield Adds 4 Wks

Chesterfield cigarets has renewed
Its . campaign- of two-mtnute tran'
scrlptions for another four weeks, ef-
fective April 6.
The schedules allow for 70 blurbs
.._*week.-.

Warns of Profanity

Recent handout Issued by the
Broadcasters 'Victory . Council
Inveighed against what it al-
leged Is the Increasing u^e -of
profanity on the air. Statement
read:

'With no intent to be purifonl-
cat, loe still tWnle there's too
many 'damTU* and "Ticks' 0oin0
out o«er the normally pristine
Tcilocycles these days. Granted,
the 'words carry an impact be-
cause they sound so strange com-
ing from the .living room loud
(peafcer. But FCC regulations
concerning the conduct of brood-
oasting stations Itaven't been
altered — profane language is stilt
taboo:

BLUE PRESS DEPT. IN
CLOSE T0FRIS(;ONEWS

San Francisco, March 24,
One efiect of the'^^C web split-
ting here has been closer coopera-
tion between the Blue network
(KGO) and the Shopping News,
only newspaper In town carrying a
full-time radio editor. NBC, seeking
to woo the dailies, had never culti-
vaW the shopper despite its 100%
coverage on both sides of the bay,

'Web got breaks, however, due
largely to personal friendship lie-
tween Milt Samuel, then press
chief here, and Tom Foster, the
radio, ed, .Blue now. is getting lead
stories, layouts and similar estcellent
breaks with only passing notice for
KPO-Red.

Payroll Traffic

Lynohbarg, 'Va^Latcit addition!
to WLVA announcing atail here are

Mark Gettlngs, formerly of WARM,
Seranton, and Bill Huff, of WBAY,
Portsmouth, O, Brings staff to full
strength, first time since draft began.

Xonngstowa, O.— Stewart Wilson
has joined the Riding ataff of
WKBN from WHLD, Niagara FaUs,
N. Y. Robert Provence, news edi-
tor, has resigned to attend the
school of journalism at the Univer-
sity of West Virginia. '

Fort Wayne, Iiid.-^im Miles, for-
merly with WING, Dayton, O,, u
director of the 'Farm, and Home
Hour,' has become assistant farm
program director of WOWO and
WGL under Tom Wheeler,

Toledo.— Al Ruhfel, of the pub-
licity staff of WSPD, htia joined the
army at Camp Perry.

Pontiso, Hide— Monte Meyer has
been promoted to commercial man-
ag of WCAR.

Miiaoiila, If ent^— James Barber,
assistant manager of KG'VO, Is tem-
porarily doubling as newscaster on
the twice-daily Texaco series. He's
replacing Bob Walker, who resigned
as news editor.

Hugh Bader has resigned as an-
nouncer at KOVO to Join the an-
nounchig staff of KBON, Omaha.
Frank Manzarl has been added to the
KG'VO announcer lineup, and Harold
Oilman, of WSLB, Ogdensburg, N.Y,
joins the KGVO spieler ranks tills
week. .

Beglna, Sask. — ^^New announcer
with CJRM Is Oscar GuUander.

Mrs. Audrey Counsel! added to
staff of CKCKj replacing Evelya
Simpson, who . has .gone to Toronto.
Mrs. Counsell Is from CJOC, Leth-
brldge, where she has been replaced
by Margaret Jestley, of CJAT, Trail,
B. C.

Troy, N. T^Bob Colville, former-
ly of WKNY, Kin gston. N. Y„ Is a
new announcer at WTKY.-

Moose Jaw. Sask. — Glen Turner,
salesman with CHAB, has joined the
King's Own Rifles of Canada to boost
the number of CHAB men on active
service, to five. Earl Cameron, an-
nouncer, has been transferred to the
sales staff and has been replaced by
Norm McBain, Winnipeg. Everett
SmaUwood has been added as trans-
mitter operator.

Boffalft.— Mai Wyman, WEBR an-
nouncer, leaving this week to join
Army.

Santa Barbara — ^Lou Kroeck has
been promoted from Sales manager
to general manager" of KTSM.

Parkersbnrg, W. Va.— Rollie Mar-
shall has become manager of the
Marietta, O., remote studios of
■WPAR, Parkeirsburg, W. Va., MU-
dred Chemoff has joined the mer-
chandising and promotion staff of
■WPAH,

Don't &7>Broataers

Nawipap«r tdvtrtlflnf lineage throughout tht country In- February,
the Mcond full month of war, dropped mor* than 4% from February,
IML January wai off aUghtly more than 4% from the same month
the prevlotu year.

Heaviest decline during both months was in the automotive division,
reflecting the Oovenunent's ban on sales of cars. This was pff 70%
' In February compared with a year ago. ■ >; '.

la New 'York city every dally but the two Hears^papers, the JouMiil-^ !
American and Mirror, skidded. World-Telegram lost 117,700 lines,' Sun;
suffered a 81|850-llne drop. News lost 62,000 lines.

NAB. To Hire Publicity Director

Committeo Sees Kirby's Absence Causing Lag
Good Will and Increase in Trade Disunity '

in

Edgar Kobak South

Edgar Kobak, Blue Network's
executive v.p.. head* aoutii this Sat-
urday (28) for a vacation. Hell
spend most of It around the Caro-
Ilnas,

It will last -two weeks.

Cantor CaOs
War Clause
Over - Tough

Eddie Cantor and Bristol-Myers
are still dickering their renewal for
Ipana, because of newer and tpusher
war clauses. The comedian objects
to one all-inclusive proviso which
would or could also cancel him
should some 'other B-M product, not
of his own direct sponsorship, be af-
fected by war or crisis.

Since Cantor has other radio bids,
he's not rushing to renew.

CECIL CARMICHAE
RESIGNS FROM WLW

' Cincinnati, March 24.

Cecil Carmichael resigned last
week from the Crosley corporatlgn's
broadcasting division. He had charge
of public relations for WLW, WSAI
and shortwave WLWO. Came here
from WBT, Charlotte In April, 1938^
when the latter took over as man-
ager of WK?C.

Realignment of - -Crosley's publi-
city staff will be made this week by
Shouse following his return from a
trip to Washington.

Baymond P. Brandt, chief Wa^-
Ington correspondent of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, is temporarily pinch-
hitting for Earl Godwin on nightly
NBC news program. Godwin on va-
cation.

39 Points for Wartime Advertisers

The Advertlshig Federation of America has compiled
30. points as a code covering 'specific' tasks for war-
time advertising.' They are:

L Continue all normal distribution functions that do-

not impede war effort
2. Maintain channels and trade contacts for future
■f ■ndU3tij.__. _

feservi .jitbmer good~wlll," "■" " ~r-.~ -- -

4. Keep brand names alive.

8. Prepare to build markets for post-war output of

enlarged capacities,
e. Keep enterprises alive and capable of resuming full

employment

7. Preserve desire for eventual higher living standards.

8. Discourage lowering of present living standards

beyond necessary restrictions of war.

9. Help maintain freedom of press, *radlo, and other

Information facilities.

10. Guide buying of consumers with newly hicreased

purchasing power.

11. Stimulate use of products that can be supplied in

plenty.

12. Educate consumers on conservation, care, and re-

pair of articles in use.

13. Help to spread oUt. seasonal demand,, reducing

pealts in transporta'tion requirements.-

14. Discourage hoarding of commodities.

15. Explain elimination of frills in merchandise and

service,

16. Explain substitution of materials.

17. Inform public on reasons for product scarcities and

delays.

18. Deny false rvunors of scarcity and"rlslng prices.

19. Explain industry's part in war effort

20. Foster national unity.

21. Promote intelligent patriotism.

22. Glorify service with our fighting forces.
Arouse enthusiasm of workers for production

achievement.
Educate public on nutrition and other- health mat-
ters.

Cooperate in campaigns for avoiding waste and
. collecting salvage.
Help seU Govermnent bonds and stamps.
Assist ill flnancinl campaigns of voluntary service

organizations;
Help in organization and conduct of home defense.

29. Assist hi recruiting of specialists for armed forces.

30. Aid in promoting reallocation of skilled labor In

war .industries.

31. Avoid-advertishig devices that draw upon critical

materials. y

32. Avoid dlsclostag -Information useful to the entoiy.

33. Avoid giving unsupported information or mfslead-

ing impressions about the state of the nation or
the progress of the war.

34. Avoid mere boasting of advertiser's patriotic ser-

vice or technical achievement without conveying
helpful Information.
Avoid panic advertising b.ased on fiireats of hl^er

prices and scarcities.
Avoid waste in advertising.

37. Continue efforts to make merchandise advertising

as 4ielptully informative as possible.

38. Aid and encourage the movement for" education of

consumers toward more efficient buying for sat-
Isfactlpn of needs.

Washington, March 24.

Employment o'f a new. public rela-
tions boss as quickly as he can be
lined up was decided Saturday (21)
by the special commit^e named to
consider overhauling of the National
Asspdaticin of . Broadcasters' admin-.
Istratlve machinery as a preliminary
to preparing for dark days for - the
radio industry.

Ed KIrby, loaned to the War De-
partment a year ago to head the
Army's radio branch of the public
relations dlvlsiouj will remain on the
payroll until he has been given a
miUltary conunlsslon (Jie's heen
working for the ' Government on a
$l.aryear basis), but his successor
will go to wofk whenever the win-
ning candidate, can start In the
meantime, the special group will try
to frame prellibinary recommenda-
tions' for tiie May convention con-
ctfnlng other possible changes in the
headquarters machinery and redis-
tribution of functions and respon.
slblUties.

Feeling was voiced that much of
the reason for the NAJ3. internal
dissension Is diie to the let-down In
publicity. Shice Klrby's departure,
the job has been handled mostly on
catch - as - catch • can baslsf ' evlth
Joseph Miller, the labor relations
director, shouldering much of the
load but unable to concentrate on
this aspect of operations. With In-
evitable neglect of the public rela-
tions endj the N.A.B, has received
black eyes on several occasions,
while intra-industry salesmanship on
behalf of the trade body has been
left largely to Neville Miller.

Overburdened

The conmilttee — John Gillln, How-
ard Land, John Elmer, Ed Klauber,
Don Ellas and Paul Morency—
agreed Miller has been forced to as-
sume too many burdens. Other
members of the staff likewise have
been over-worked. Realistic view
was taken of the sniping and wire-
'pulling that hak threatened to bring
'even dissolution of the NAB itself
and of the 'Interiial situation In the
Industry* characterized by factional
feuding..

Chief decision of the investigators
was 'Uiat thoroughly competenf
publicity head should be hired soon,
'able under the direction of the
president and board to' carry out the
public relations functioning ef-
ficiently and effectively both to the
end of accomplishing a better public
.tmderstanding of. tiie Industry, Its
purposes and Its needs, and to the
end of enabling the president to ex-
ercise directive rather than a func-
tioning part In public r^ations
activities.'

The inquiry, outgrowth of the
^anoke meeting several mpntbs ago
when John Kennedy campaigned for
reelection as regional director, on an
economy platform, is unlikely to bring
any specific results In other direc-
tions before the Cleveland huddle,
l^lth'tiie Board unlikely to meet ex-
cept to complete arrangements for
the convention. It's improbable any
action will be taken during the In-
terim. The committiee hopes to Have
some concrete suggestions to lay be-
fore the membership, when reper-
cussions from the Fourth District as-
sembly are expected.

35.

36.

39.

At all times, do eyerything possible to help- pre-
serve our American system of free competitive
. enterprise. i-. . .- ^-I'o/

Silver Theatre Deciding
Fature This Week

International Silver's radio career
during the warm weather will be de-
cided with the coming week. There
will be one of two 'choices, either
continuing the present -Silver The-
atre' for an additional lb weeks be-
yond April 26 or Inserting a phich-
hitter for 23 weeks.

Account has the Sunday 6-6:30 pjn.
period, on CBS and Young & Rubl-
cam Is the agency. . •

Vedaegdby, MMrch gSj 1942

fjf eantim* Other* in N. A.B.
Gall Paid President a lia-
bility to Indiutry— Some
Fear Cleveland Conven«
. tion May Give Public Bad
ImpreuioB'

100% Agin the AiU

' Hollywood, March 24;'
. Lewi* AUen W«iu, general
marmger of the Don - Lee web,
has forbidden hla newscasters to
mention any newa'ltem credited
to Axis radio or communiques
and not confirmed by United
Nations.

Weiss took leadership two
years ago In banning voice of
Hitler. Latter used to be heard
on many U. S. stations by plck«
up.

ONLY WAR COUNTS

Neville Miller's future as paid
president of the National Association
of Broadcasters has apparently been
strengthened in. the lest week; His
friends on the NA3.. board, in the
south, and among those who give
him part of the credit for-^hipping
ASCAP have mtistered a counter-
propaganda In his favor.

Last week's action in deciding to
Immediately hire a new public!^
director for the NA3. (see separate
story) was symptomatic of the com-
ing to alertness of the Millerites.
They are saying that If Miller Is
forced out for the real, or supposed,
appeasement of Chairman James L.
Fly of the FCC no first class, self-
respecting man would consent to
succeed him and the whole principle
of a paid president would have to be
dropped.

This is not, however, unwelcome
to some minds in the N.A.B. who'
argue that riddance of a trade lia-
bility should not be Impeded by fan-
ciful loyalties either to set ways or
definite persons.

Trading A Scalp

Friends of Miller are calling at'
tentlon to the alleged .political mo^
tlvea and favor-seeking bias of some
of the broadcasters who are taking
the leadership against him. Idea Is
obviously to try to 'shame' the group
that, pro-^iUerltes aver, is willing
to trade the scalp of a faithful. If
not entirely popular, employee for
better wavelengths, more juice and
whatnot All of which, some think,
promises a dirty convention in
Cleveland.

Here, again, there is an articulate
group within N.A.B. that regrets the
possibility of the N.A.B. meeting
with the trade split or embittered
by charges and counter-charges of
deals, vengeance raised to a cult,
lelf-seeking disguised as something
eke, and poker faces everywhere.
■t Miller will be the main issue at
Cleveland apparently although
much-advertised fieatures have a
babli of not always being that way
when the gavel comes down. Not
' all of Miller's opponents in the
N.AJ3. can be 'successfully counter
attacked. Some of them just favor
a more exi>erlehced broadcastei
type, others a ; more politically
knowledgeable chap, others ^a better
mixer.

. The remember-we're-on-publltf-
display-ln-Qeveland view Is eX'
pressed In ration to the war. Any

' outburst of Internal hatreds (and
holding closed. meetiiigs Is no cure)
would gravels embfirasi gOM piib'-
. 11c relations.^ More positively it la
. being urge<i that this convention re-

' frain from overdoing self-interest
«nd devote itself to national interest
namely the war. To do otherwise Is
to court a bad impression with the

. American people and to create an
atmosphere congenial to adverse leg
islatlon.

Washington, March 24.
More harpoons were hurled at FCC
Chairman James L. Fly last week —
reputedly with the approval of Dem-
ocratic leaders— as the House Rules
Committee discussed for the second
time' the proposal of Rep. E. E. Cox
of Georgia for a special inveitigatlop
of the regulatory board. No action
has been taken yet on the resolution,
which few observers believe has any
chance of passage even If rubber-
stamped by the' Rules Committee. .

Charge that Fly has 'a Gestapo'^
which is' designed to 'beat and tear
down every person who dilTers with
the commission,' was flung by Cox
after Fly conceded the Commish
hasn't the confidence of the pubUc.
The accusation was hotly denied by
Fly, who again pointed his fingers at
the two elder networks and reiter-
ated the New Deal contention 'there
is too great a control of broadcasting
by two New York companies.'

Cox quizzed Fly about 'a perfect
army of ambitious young nivestl-
gators,' and the head regulator coni-
mented the Commish has 'just nine'
sleuths and complaint-handlers. When
Fly angrily asked the Georgia Dem-
ocrat to elaborate and be specific,
the latter snarled 'I'm not accusing
you of anything except terrorizing
the small operator.'

Restore Girl Voice-Tosser

San Francisco, March 24.

O'Connor-Moflatt department store,
which used Shirley Dlnsdale, juve
ventrUoqulst, to boost Xmas toy biz,
Ms restored the moppet to ether
^th double time. Gal and her
dummy now on 10- minutes M-W-F
on Ba»0 in a Sam Dlxon-scripted
Judy In Wonderland,' with Archie
Presby helping on Inddentol parts
Ruthraua tc Ryan is agency.

Gal, discovered by Milt Samuel,
■pulled fan mall for weeks after she
J[[*nt o£r the air, unprecedented

FLY ASKS COX
TO BE MORE
SPECiHC

VntGINU PAYNE HEADS
RADIO WING IN CHI

. Chicago, March 24.
American Theatre Wing 'War Serv-
ice is now organized in Cliicago and
already is underway with consider-
able endeavor. Virginia Payne, of
Chicago Federation of Radio Att-
ists, and radio performer, has. been
appointed head of the radio division.
Helen Menken has same job in Man-
hattan.

To raise funds for Chicago activi-,
ties, the Theatre Wing haS started
appearances of headliners in Mar-
shall Field's book department. Are
autographing books for contribu-
tions, with the cash to go into -can-
teen setups. All of the top radio
shows have been set to make reg-
ular appearanpes in the book de-
partment for this drive.

Program or Bhrb for
Brewer at Least Hdnrly
On KTSA, Sail Antonio

San Antonio, March 24. '

The Lone Star . Brewing Co.,
largest buyer of local radio time, has
renewed its series of broadcasts over
station KTSA. Sponsor airs a total
of five programs per day on a six-
day ba^ There is either an an-
nouncement or a program concern-
ing Lone Star Beer every quarter
hour throughout the day. '

Account is handled through the
Conroy agency.

Esther Half on WEBB

BulTalo, March 24.

Singer Drug Co. putting Esther
Huff, women's commentator, on
WEBR for Monday-Tuesday-Wednes-
day moriUng chate at 10:45. Elbe
was with WGR for past four years
as pilot of Women's Magazine.

She'll commute to JJfagara Falls
on T hursdays for program over
WHLD, for drug' company's store
there.

More Generous Policy on Cre^
For I^ectors. Writers at Radio City

Replacing its Temoua Fireside
Plays', . series, the ' Blue network
(WJZ) launches the "Blue Theatre
Players' program April 5 in the
2-2:30. pjn. spot Sundays. Show will
depart from the former policy on the
NBC and Blue networks by using
scripts purchased.. in the free-lance
market and by giving air credit- to
both authors and. producers.

There will ^ a permanent com-
pany for the 'Blue Theatre Players/
including Santos Ortega, Frank Love-
Joy and Joan Hanks, with additional
actors to be recruited for each show.
Various Blue staff producers Will
handle . Individual shows. Members
of either the Blue or Red writer
staffs, as weU as outside free-lancers,
may submit scripts, all of which will
be paid for at prevailing rates.

At least at the start, each program

will take the listener 'backstage', for
interviews with the players, pro*
ducer, etp. Idea of the' series wa«
worked out by Ron Ferguson, Blus
script editor, and' Hany Frazee, pr»>
duction head.

Policy of giving air credit to pro*
ducers, as well, as writers. Is also be«
ing followed oh Certain other sustain*
ers, oh both NBC and Blue networks.
Explained there 'is ao set rule as to
whether such binins Is given, the
matter depending ' on . clrtfiimstahces.
Unlike CBS; both the Red and Blue
networks ' havei - long- had absolot*
bans on director credits on the air.

BoUe Sedan, former Hollywood
character actor^ is now in 'Orphans
of Divorce' for p& Lyon'a Tooth"
paste. . '

in Praise of Vi Bnms

New York.
Editor, "Variety':

In 'Variety' last week there was an
article which commended the audition
procedure at Young & Rubicam.
Although this article was 100% ac-
curate, I take this means of request-
ing that you be. good enough to
acknowledge also the efforts of Vi
Burns who has worked so closely
with me from the Inception of this
system to discover and develop de-
serving talent I
I ask that you recognize her only
because I feel no enterprise which
has reached the proportions that the
auditions have at Young & Rubicam,
could be successfully executed by
anythhig but combined, concentrated
effort I hail 'Vi Bums for her co-
operation and patience, without
which none of this would have been
possible.

Bob Novak.
Young Si Rubicam. '

The Voice of MacArthur

Melbourne to Miituat to Millions of Americans

At 10:15 a.m., Saturday, March 21, 1942, excfusivefy over
fhe Mutual Network , the American people heard the voice
of General Douglas MacArthur... for the first time since
he began his heroic defense of Bataan.

This broadcast marks an important "first"— perhaps the
most important news btemt of World War n. All the nletf :
works have been striving to. bring the actual living voico
of MacArthur to their listeners.

It^ not surprising that Mutual should be the first to
accomplish this . . .

The Mutual Broadcasting System

THE FIRST NETWORK FOR NEWS

tS RADIO

Wednead«7, Murcli 25, 1942

Mum Not a Dainty Product
To Thrust Upon An Artist

Bristol-Myers' decision tu change
products on the Dinah Shore pro-
gram Sunday nights will be opposed
by the singer. Show now plugs Sal
Hepatlca, a laxative, and Minlt-Rub,
but effective May 3, the sponsor in-
tends switching the commercials to
Mum, a deodorfoit, and transferring
the series from the Young & Hubi-
pam- agency to Pedlar & Ryan.
(Tliere's also understood to be a
plan to move It from its present
Sunday night spot on the Blue to
some other night and another net-
work.)

According to Miss Shore's attor-
ney, Henry Jafte, th^ singer will not
consent to the shilt of product to a
deodorant, on the ground that the
proposed association would not be
becoming for a femmc artist JafCe
has been confined to his home for
nearly a week with an injured foot
and has not had a chance to study
the singer'^ contract with Bristol-
Myers. However, he declares that
unless the agreeinent unequivocably
requires her to continue- undw' the
proposed new setup shb vrill refuse
to do so. In case of a dispute on
ihe matter, it would be subject to
iurbitration undei the American As-
sociation of Radio Artists' agency
code. •

Besides her Sunday night series,
Miss Shore also is a regular oh the
Eddie Cantor prograin Wednesday
nights on NBC-Red (WEAF) for
_ Bristol-Myers. Products on the lat-
' ter show are Sal flepaticai and.Ipana
toothpaste. Although she signed last
fall to do the Sunday night, series
for the. laxative product, she is un-
. derstood.to have been somewhat un-
happy about '.the situation from the
first Her dissatisfaction ic believed
to have subsequently Increased be-
cause of the characteristically long
Bristol-Myers laxative commercial
copy on the program.

Question of a performer's obliga-
tion to continue . n a program if the
sponsor, changes the commercials to
au undesirable product bas arisen
from time to time in the past, but
has never been tested under the.
AFRA code nor in the courts. ('Easy
Aces' dldnt fancy association with
Flit.)

Meanwhile Jjristol-'Myers has ap'
parently dropped its idea of buUding
a new variety show around the
singer to plug its new cosmetic prod
uct Touche. Account had previously
planned to sponsor such a show
starting in the fall.. Miss Shore is
currently appearing in the Wedg^
wood room of the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel, N. Y. She is also being sought
by Metro fo: a one-picture deal,
through the William Morris office,
However, Music Corp. of America
is after her for a picture to be pro-
duced this summer by RKO, while
bids from still other studios have
been made. In addition, Johnny
Green, composer of the ccore of a
legit musical to be produced in the
fall by George Abbott, is after her
for that show.

Bill Lawrence is slated to produce
the Shore program when it goes to
Pedlar & Ryan. There also will be
a successor to announcer Harry Von
Zell, but Paul Laval's orchestra will
«tay on the show. Origination wiU
move to the Coast when Miss Shore
■■gofes there lor. a picture.

Hollywood, March 24.

Program running' two hou rs, 30
minutes, was aired on the KFWB,
Warners station, last Thursday night
(19). Occasion was the 17th anni-
versary of the transmitter. Program
was paced by Manny Ostroft, pro-
gram director.

In recounting early days of the
station, Jack L. Warner, head of the
film studio, disclosed that he once
sang on the station, using the name
of Leon Zuardo. AJid not too good,
he admitted.

KXEL Waterloo,
(NewSOKw.Job)
Goes to Blue

KXEL, the new 60,000-watter In
Waterloo, la., has signatured a con
tract of affiliation, with the Blue
Ketwork. It had outbid Mutual.

Station is on 1D40 kc. and is jointly
owned by Joe Dumond, John E. Fet-
cer, John Blair and Horace Lohnea.

Memphis— WMC has added Leon
Goodwyn, former news editor of
jKCMC at Texarkana, to Its an
nouncing staff.

KFWB's 17th Anni

Fred Morrison Heads

■ -JRadiio Niflwsttm^^^^

° Washington, March 24.

Election of officers of the Radio
Correspondents Ansociation Monday
(23) puts Fred W. Morrison of Mu-
tual Broadcasting System in position
of president Morrison succeeded H.
R. Baukhage, Blue Network (NBC)
commentator, who was made a. mem-
ber of the board of directors.

Other officers electeu: Earl God-
win (NBC) treasurer; Francis W.
Tully, Jr., Yankee Network, secre-
tary, and Eric Sevareld. (CBS) vice-
president. I

Baukhage was directed tc appoint
a committee of three to determine
whether, the association would hold
its annual banquet this yeair. White
House Correspondents' Association-
journalistic rival of the Radio Cor-
respondents — already has ditched all
merrymakings 'for the duration*.

Carey Salt Co. has Farm News oh
WHO, Des Moines, three day^ a
week at 6:30 a.m.

Sorry

. The- New. York Telephone_,

'Company infortrtBtioir— sttviee'-
was queried lest week by radio
author Eric Bamouw for the
telephone number of the Blue
Network. Girl had no idee, Bar-
nouw reports, how the Blue could
be reached by phone.

'Are you sure they liaven't
some other name?', she inquired.

TUMS DROPS FAY,
CONTINUES HEIDT

Lewis-Howe Co. (Turns), is not
renewing Frank Fay when the
comic's contract runs out April 18.
Reason given by the agency, Stack-
Goble, was that the sugar shortage
has 'forced the tablet manufacturer
to curtail production. Fay show was
catching on In popularity.

Account will continue with the
Horace Heldt show on the same net-
work, NBC.

HOUSEBAND
DRAWSINO
SPONSOR

Philadelphia, ^arch 24. -
Esslinger's Brewery will i^nsor a
weekly 15-mlnute show on BCYW.
Will include the KYW studio band,
led by Clarence Fuhrnian, Krank
Coleman, tenor and a sports com-
mentator.

This is the second time in the
past few months that Fuhrman's
band has found a bankroller. He
Is currently on a show sponsored
by the Keystone Automobile Club.

Akron. — William S. Gray has
joined the announcing staff of WJW,

hear their

Up on the nation's bookshelf goes "Thirteen by Cojrwin,'*
— the ninth book recently published ^hich took as its text
the ^astomm^* programs of CBS. More and mor^, pub-
* lishers are. turning to the literature of "the air for source
material. This may not be a trend.
But we think it writes this story t the literature
of the air has come of age. .

Day in, day out, the air is full of "first editions"
. . . printed in decibels instead of type, signed by our
advertisers and ourselves.

CBS sustaining programs alone would fill a five-foot
8helf each week. And in any one year, CBS builds for its

millions of listen^s a \^'^ell-Btocked,yv^ell-balAnced librflry.

Columbia Broadcasting System /

Arhe Uallci an oun, becauio the nittalning programs are oura— written and producrd
uder the aponsorahlp of the Colomhla Broadcaiilog Syatenb

TTedncBdAy, Mwcli 25, 1942

BADIO

19

SERIALS CUNG TO M

PhiHy Announcer Nabbed,
Held in $20,000 BaU For
Evading Army hdnction

Philadelphia, March 24.
William J. Grlskey, foriper KYW
announcer who disappeared from
the city last Jan. 20— two days be-
fore he was to be Inducted by his
draft boord — was arrested by th«
FJB.I. last Wednesday (18) at the
home of relatives in Wllllamsport,
Pa. Agents first traced him. to Lake-
wood, Fla., where he had obtained a

jo?> a « an announcer for Station
WWFO, but had iklpped.

Oriikey i* now here, held for bail
of $20,000 for draft evasion.

GrUkey came to KYW more than
a year ago. He iormarly held an-
nouncing jobs at varloui stations, In-
cluding WHN, New York, and
WBEN, Buffalo.

Ben Pratt With Souvaine

Ben Pratt will heodquarter at the
Henry Sauvaine program-4)ullding
office in New York to act ac its
press agent.

Ha will meahtime continue as an
ariist's representative simultaneously.

L MAGNIN ON KYA;
HEAVY BOND DRIVE

San Francisco, March 24.
I; Magnlh has purchased a quar-
ter-hour morning strip 'on KYA in
a deal handled direct by station boss
Hal Meyer. Account wiU use KYA's
'Behind the Scenes' interview show,
shifting origination to a defense bond
window In the.'downtown store. Eric
Boden will " mike the showcase
celebs.

Time is 10:45 to 11 a.m. and firm
will go heavy on plugging sale ol
bonds ahd stamps.

Tom Mix' Show Vacations

The Tom Mix' series bows off the
Blue Network this Friday (27), fin-
ishing its customary seasonal run of
26 weeks'.

Ralston will return the show to the
same web in October for Its ninth
consecutive season.

Butler Joliu Erwln-Wasey

F. Willard Butler has joined the
radio department of the Erwln-Wa-
sey agency as assistant to Ed Fitz-
gerald.

Butler comes from NBC.

DISEASE, GRIME
THEMES TO FOBE

No Lightening of the Daily
Dish of Woe — ^Authors Lis-
ten to Each Other, Cauiing
Unconacious (and Con-
sciout) Duplication of Sit*
. uational Sequences on
Many Programs

SOBS FLOURISH

via Columbia

Hand- wringing anguid, always a
staple of commercial daytime radio,
is apparently not giving way. -to ei-
capist comedy, despite .the war, or
trends toward frivolity on tHe parf
of pictures or the stage. Partial sur-
vey' of current and recent story «e-
quence? of the daytime -serials re-
veals an unusual amount of sob
stuff.

Most popular -of the trials and
tribulations at. present appear to be
'diseases' and 'criminal charges.'
Of the ailments, brain tumors seem
to ■'bp . thf iavorlte of the moment.
Leading characters of 'Kate Hopkina'
and ;Valfant I>ady' siiflier from that^
while, a .child in .'Bright Horizon'
has an eye tumor, the m^le lead of
'Our Gal $unday'.ls just on the way
to recovery from. soine similar Idnct
of aiiinent and a character in' the
'Amanda of Honeymoon Hill' show
was refused by the. draft board be-
cause'of high blood pressure. Ther*
Is an insane character in' the 'Joyca
Jordan' serial and a moron boy with
'Bachelorls, Children,'^ while a youth
on thV'BaviS'irarura' program was
rejected by the Coast Guard for
some ailment. '

There have been charges of mur-
der or other serious crimes against
characters (invariably innocent) la
'Riglit to Happiness,' 'Our Gal Sun-
day,' "Myft and. Marge,' 'John'*.
Other Wife,' 'Bess Johnson' . and
(Continued on paf^ 31)

W. B. Lewis Says

res to
Avoid Overlaps

W..p. Lewis, of the Office of Facta
and Figures, last Thursday (19) ex-
plained to a group of advertiser rep* '
the general system' that this Gov-
ernment department wilt seek t«
maintain In working with th6 back-
ers of commercial programs, Lewis
stated that tk« OFF wanted to avoid
overlapping broadcasting on the
sama topic and that it proposed to
allocate the announcements so that
tiie material on morale end infor-
mation won't be weakened by too
close repetition.

'^♦^^'••''•'''^g ih ' ''il^r'A^^^ ^ ' S-e^^r^s' ' ^^^' "
leaVe it to them or their agencies
to rewrite it as they wish. As for
the airing of -tjie blurbs, they will
be so spaced among commercial pro-
grams as to reqiure one broadcast
in every four weeks.

The .meeting at which Lewis spoka
was arranged by Paul West, presi-
dent of the Association of National
Advertisers, and it was held under
the auspices of the Advertising
CounciL

Air Fishermen's Festival

Seattle, March 24.

Tishermcn's Festival,' held ad-
nuaUy here by halibut fishermen,
was .broadcast over KJR to the
Pacific Coast Blue network on Sun-
day (22). I^ev. O. L, Haaviki of the
Btdlard First Lutheran - church, a
former Norwegian fisherman, of-
ficiated at the ceremony, and a
chorus sang folk songs.

Program also went out over short
wave to Norway.

to RADIO

>W«dneBd*7« March 25, I942

ASCAP Prepares Musical Program
Copy Suitable for Radio Sponsor
Use; Service Free to Broadcasters

ASCAP is Introducing a new serv-
ice angle to its station licensees this
we«k. Continuities for musical pror
grams, based on numbers in the
ASCAP, repertoire, will be made
a^'ailable without (iharge. The ini-
tial series of scripts will provide for
hatf-hour programs, either live or
record^ with the continuity fitted
to eight musical numbers and' prop-
erly timed for the Insertion of com-
mercial announcements. This series
and others to follow will be avail-
able 13 weelcs in advance. The ap-
pended index will cove - both publi-
cations and recordings.

Another phasi a the 'ASCAP
Radio Service' will be si>ecial con-
tinuities and Indices for holidays and
other special occasions. Latter series
will include such titles as 'Songs
From the Shows', Taarchinc to Mu-
alc' and 'History in Music'. Broad-
casters will be asked t submit sug-
gestions and requests to fit their lo--
calized needs.

What prompted ASCAP, it ex-
plains, to establish this service was
the realization, that some broadcast-
ers were not obtaining the full bene-
fit of their ASCAP licenses, which,
the Society figured, was due mainly
to the tremendous size of the ASCAP
repertoire. ASCAP says that It has
had a staff of writers and research-
•is working on this project for
months, with thousands of musical
numbers cross-indexed -and their
historical data properly correlated.
The programs, It assures, will be
kept free of plug songs or mention
of ASCAP.

Network Renewals

■True Or False,' 68 Blue stations,
13 weeks, April 6; J. B. Williams
Co. (shaving cream), J. Walter
Thompson agency.

Telephone Hoar,' , 85 NBC-Red
stations, S2 weeks, AprU 27; Bell
Telephone Co., N, W. Ay er agency.

Gabriel Heatter, 19 Mutual sta-
tions, 52 Weeks, April 5; Barbasol,
Erwin-Wasey agency.

Madison Square Garden Hfhts;
average of about 190 Mutual stations;
June 1; Gillette razor, Maxon agency.

Lanny Boss, 58 CBS stations, 13
weeks. April 6, Campbell soup. Ward
Wheelock agency (from RuthrauflE &
Ryan).

Walter Winohen and 'Parker Fam-
ily,' 98 Blue stations, 13 weeks, ef-
fective March 29, Jergens-Woodbury,
Lennen St Mitchell agency.

Gabriel Heatter, Mutual, 62 weeks,
March 31, Zonite Products (Forhan's
toothpaste), Erwin-Wasey agency.

'Araoa 'n' Andy,' 62 CBS stations,
13 weeks, March 30; Campbell's soup,
Wheelock agency.

'Plantttlon 'Party,' 84 NBC-Red
stations, 62 weeks, July 3; Brown' &
Williamson tobacco,. Seeds agency.

Earl Godwin, NBC's Washington
correspondent, resumed broadcasting
Monday (23) v/ith what hd said was
'something of a broken leg', suffered
when he slipped while fishing In
Florida. He had gone there to re-
cuperate from the grippe;

WMC Gets 5 Kw. FoH Tme

Memphis, March 24.

WMC, station of The Commercial
Appeal, has been granted" a night
power Increase of from 1,000 to
5,000 watts by the Federal Communi-
cations Commission. Station has
been using 5,000 watts daytime, 1,000
after dark.^ Permit is a revision of
the daytime increase grant Issued
several months ago.

Henry Slavick, WMC manager,
said additional antenna and' other
equipment would necessitate the
er.ectlon of two new towers. The
mat^lals have already arrived, -he
said, and. work will be completed
within 60 days.

BOMBS OVER
CINCINNATI'

Cincinnati, March 24.
Simultaneous airings by Cincy's
five stations Sunday (22) afternoon
of a half -hour program, 'Bombs Over
Cincinnati,' inaugurated a series of
special weekly broadcasts designed
to awaken people in this Inland zone
to the danger of air attacks. Times
of subsequent programs will be stag-
gered.

Series is in cooperation with the
local Civilian Defense Council. Ini-
tial program was done by Crosley
staffers. Bob Grey and William
Meredith did the scripting, Harold
Carr directed the production, John
Cornell was narrator, and William
Stoess batoned a WLW studio or-
chestra. . Actors and sound techni-
cians were from WLW-WSAI.

Carr, who is easing up on work,
due to his need for fest to overcome
ailing health, will be succeeded as
director of remaining programs in
the series by Charles Lammets, of
WLW.

Gosh . . . Mr. Hooper

Ordinarily we're pretty modest fellows out here at
Don Lee, Mr. Hooper, but .your January report on the
Pacific Coast... It almost embarrasses us. It shows
85 % of Doa lee's evening programs in the 4 major
markets went up, only one program down and the
rest even. . . why, no other network came even close
to that Gosh . . . your recent survey taken outside the
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland
markets showed that in half the cities from 65% to
100% of the listeners were tuned to Don Lee* . . . and
now this -it even shows that 40% of our programs
were up more than 25 % ... you shouldn't have done
it. If positively makes us blush. No wonder more
Pacific Coast adverdseis use us than the other' 3 net-
- works combined.

FOR THOSI WHO LIKE TO TOY WITH FIGURES:/

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Network B . . .

48%

47%

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NetwofkD . . .

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26%

5%

... Aad the February figures just out show Don
Lee up 76% over January and still leading sub-
stantlally all other networks.

♦For copiu of tUi ttm>*f wri$* WMm BitiMtrt, C*». StUs Mtr.

DONLEF

MOMAS t. Itl^TtM, WWUr.*UIN WIISS, VICI-PRIS. *W. MM. • iSIS MIMOSI AVI, MOUVWOOV; CAUfOaNIA

The Radio Trade Is Discussing:' Koltenhom'a doing a Boake Carter ■
opointt lobor ond the possible reperctMstont— the nen)c-beoHno betno
taken on This Is War" by Btl( Lewis, Hay McClinton and Norman
Corwln— the trade politics behind the status of NevilU Miller In the
IiA£.—lSutual'» >iensatiomil lueky scoop <>/ Douplas AlocArthur's Ams-
tralian talk and the Incredulitv of CBS— John Hutcheni* Times piece on
John flarrvmore eaplolning. why youngsters vum't believe he toos once
a oredf Shafcespear^n.octor.

•Easy Aces' started 13th year on the air with last night's broadcast on
the Blue (WJZ)'for Anacini Jane and Gesaihaii Ace, of the three-nights-
a-week series estimate, have ethered about 8,000 '^Isodes . . . Burnet
Hershey, WMCA news analyst and prexy of the Overseas Priess Club Is ill
from strep throat at the Gotham hospital '
• Georga McGarrett, now. handling a spot show In iSt Louis for Young tc
Rublcam, will probably take over direction of the Kate Smith program
succeeding Sam Fuller, who's now directing •Duffy's Tavern' , , . Dorothy
Lowell returns today (Wednesday) to the title part of "Our Gal Sunday'
•America the TiLt' resumes Its repeat show policy effective April 4
Frank Gallup 'announcing 'Stella Dallas' ,' . . Lt Howard Nussbaum taken
off his production stint on the 'This Is War' series and assigned to duty in
Washington, succeeding MaJ. Norman Sweetser, wbo gets a roving assign-
ment for the War Department.

Barbara Bruce, Audrey Egan and (^rleton Young added to 'Just Plain
Bill' cast . . . Lucille Wall recovered from Illness and returned to femme
lead of 'Lorenzo Joniea' . ". . Dave Levy, director of 'We, the People,' vaca-
tioning In Florida pending the program's return to the air . . , MUo Boul-
ton will be the new m.c. on the show, incidentally . . . Athena Lorde
joined cast of 'Young Widder Brown' . . . Donald Dixon guests Sunday (2B)
on the Kostelanetz show, with Frank Parker getting the nod the following
week (8) and Astrld Varnay the one after that (12) . . . Arthur Hanna
replaced Stephen Gross as director of 'Amanda of Honeymoon Hill' . . ,
Carl Buss succeeded Doris Halman as scrlpter of 'Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost
Persons.'

Ingrld Bergman guests Monday night (30) on 'Cavalcade of America'
in a new story about Jennie Llnd, adapted by Norman Rosten from ma-
terial unearthed by Carl Carmer . . : X/fone Power appears on the same
show the next week (6) . . . Glenda Farrell guests .Saturday (28) on Arm-
strong's 'Theatre of Today,' with John Boles getting 6ie nod the following
week (4).

tianny Ross to Florida honeymooning . . , Jan Pearce subbing on radio
program for a week , . . Max Jordan temporarily working with Sterling
Fisher on his Latin American 'university' ... Ed East and Polly continuing
on WJZ three days weekly, for White Rose Tea under newest optional
period . . , National Council on Freedom from Censorship met yesterday
(Tuesday) at Hotel Woodstock, N. Y, to pass resolution on radio-news-
paper issue.

Columbia's 'The People's Platform,' returned to the. air after five weeks'
absence, with Lyman Bryson presiding and Hanson W. Baldwin, military
critic of the New Yoilc Times, Frank Gervasl of Collier's, Carl Randau
and H. R Eklns, former UP correspondent in the Far East, guesting....
Marion Martin, who conducted the 'Woman's Page of the Air' over WBAB,
Atlantic City, for the past year, to New York to rejoin her' husband
Alien Martin, writing news broadcasts for NBC.

Elaine Kent and Ian Martin added to cast of 'Against the Storm'...
John Jacob Niles, authority on American folk songs, makes a return guest,
appearance on the same show Monday (30).... He's on a lecture
tour of colleges.... Previews of 'Abie's Irish Rose,' which airs Saturday
nights on the Red for Procter & Gamble, moved from Tuesday to Wednes-
day nights. .. .Mutual heaved a stag party Monday' night (23) at Gal-
lagher's restaurant for 'boxing writers and radio editors.... Jocko Max-
well, Negro sportseaster of WWRI^ named the station's sports director,
succeeding Cy Newman, who joinefWAAT.

Larry Harding, CBS producer, and Barbara Lee, actress, who were mar-
ried six years ago after meeting on a 'March of Time' program, have never
worked on a broadcast together since then. . . ..WHN celebrated its 20th

birthday last Wednesday (18) With the- season-end fold 'of Texaco's

'Metro'politan Opera' broadcasts, the Blue network's Saturday afternoon
schedule'- includes 'Fantasy and Melody,' Evelyn Knight, Elwood Gary^
'Here's to You,' a musical from Canada, Phil Bovero's orchestra, '.Club
Matinee' and Jimmy Dorsey's band. .. .Mar jorle Winget, secretary to
Keith Kiggins, Blue network v.p. In charge of stations, recuperating at
home from appendicitis. .. .Jotm B. Hughes, who started last night (Tues-
day) a twice-'weekly' Mutual series for Anacln, moves his present dally
sustainer- series beginning AprU 6 from poon 'to 1 pjn..,.Boake Carter
takes over the noon spot.

John Hoagland, formerly of the Blue network sales staff, a cadet cap-
tain In the Army Air Corps training detachment at Douglas, Ga Milton

Cross reading the commercials on the 'World's Most Honored Music' series
on the Blue, for Longines watch. . . .Douglas Browning handling the com-
mercials on the Dorothy Thompson show on the same network, for Ti'l>^
mount clothes.'... Also on' the Blue, Bill Spargrove is doing the 2:30^2:45

p.m. and the 3:30-3:35 p.m. news periods Bob Elge, CBS television

sports supervisor, commissioned Lieutenant (junior grade) in the G<^;iut
Guard, but continues his regular job' until called for active duty —
Charles Woods, news announcer on Stations WCAU and 'WFIL, Philly,
doing the 11 p.m. news spot on WOR, but cominutes to Philly until his

contracts there expire Fred Cole, formerly of WBZ, Boston, joined the

Blue announcing staff,... 'I'll Find My Way,' sustaining serial from WGB,
Buffalo, 'shifts time April 6 from 1 to 1:15-1:30 pjo, on Mutual. '

IN SAN FRANCISCO ...

Milton Samuel of the Blue and Gil Paltrldge of KGO have completed
a deal with RKO whereby a KGO plug will be attached to all "March of
"Tl'me*' and' Information, Please' reels shown In Northern California thea-
tres . . . houses using the subject 'will get courtesy plugs on KGO in return,
(Co^ntinued on. page, 3S)

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outlet:

ASKAtWBlAn

Wednesday, Mwrch 25, 1942

lUDIO

SI

It's WMEX or WHDH in Boston— Mutual Excludes
. It from Cleveland Sept. 1

The Blue Network has not decided
as yet whether Its new Boston af-
filiate will be WMEX or WHDH after
June 15. WBZ, the Blue's present
Hub outlet, goea NBC June 16.

Another slated vacancy that the
Blue has to solve Is Cleveland. WHK
switches to Mutual Sept 1 and the
Blue will be left without the choice
of another full-time station. ' Net-
work expects aM ^rom the Federal
Conununicatlons Commission in over-
coming this situation.

In New. England so far the Blue
has an affiliation commitment from
WFCI, Pawtucket, R. I., and WELI,
New Haven, the former taking caro
of the scheduled^ loss of WEAN,
Providence, and the latter, of WICC,
Bridgeport-New Haven.

Cling To Miseries

-CoBtlnned from page 2

•Kate Hopkins,' while 'The Man I
Married' and 'Orphans of Divorce*
have dipsomaniac characters. Girl In
'Against the Storm' is about to marry
a man she doesn't love because she
believes ' her real heart-throb . is
dead.

Mortf»f es Fald Off

Mortgage foreclosures, standard of
hokum melodrama, have apparently
just about dl/iappeared from day-
time air. Possibly the Federal Hous-
ing Administration, with its low-in-
terest mortgage opportunities, haa
at last scotched that. However, de-
ductions or predictions from that
woidd be mere speculation and have
no place In a news story.

Not AeoldenUI

According to agency script editors,
It isn't coincidence that daytime se-
rials so frequently contain similar

following the program with the idea
of being guided in similar decisions
In their own lives. That was too
great a responsibility for scrlpter
Orhi Tovrov, so he went into a
huddle with himself and came up
with the idea of 'discovering' that
the girl was~ under -age. In that way
he sidestepped the" "whole decision.

An almost ' exactly similar situa-
tion exists currently with the 'Jones
and r sustainer serial oh CBS, only
in that case the gh-l's age is defi-
nitely known. Neither Scott Fam-
worth, the author, nor William
Spier, the network's script editor,
has figured out a solution yet.

Lucille Cohan Off WJSV

Washington, March 24.

Lucille Cohan, for three years the
local "Nancy Dixon' for Cluett-Pea-
body via WJSV, has quit because of
her huAand's health,

Nancy Osgood, who has filled the
same role In Detroit, fillc' the spot,
effective Monday (23).

NBCS WAR CLINIC TO

San Francisco, March 24. -
Members of the NBC War Clinic
who will come west for sessions here
March 31 ind April 1 already have
bluing. Letter received by friends
of a web exec in the east describes
the august body as 'the flea circus,'
which is catching on. Blue sabotage
suspected.

Those 'skedded for the Frisco
powwow are BlU .Hedges; Roy C.
Wltmer, Kenneth Dyke, Charles
Brown (an ex-Friscan now.^aseistant
promotion director). Sheldox Hick--
ox, Albert E. Dale, James M, Gaines,
Clarence Menser and Max Jordan.
Arden X. Pangborn (KGW) and Ed
Yokum (KGHL) will chairman the
meet Sid Strotz will head the
Hollywood gang.

HABOLD TRITE JOINS WWJ

Detroit, March 24.

Harold True, for many years chief
announcer and a newscaster on
WXYZ, where he also was Identified
with the 'Lone Ranger' program, has
joined the news staff of WWJ here.
He has two evening broadcasts
scheduled daily.

True resigned last fall from WXYZ
to run unsuccessfully, but close, for
the Detroit City Council.

Going to NBC in New ^land Shifts

Hartford. March 24. '

NBC's afflltate setup in the New
England area may undergo a drastic
change as a result of a protest sub-
mitted by WnC, Hartford, against
the switch of WBZA, Springfield, to
NBC affiliation June 15. Paul Mo-
rency, WTIC's manager, notified
NBC last Week that his station would
not stand for the signal overlapping
that would result if WBZIA con-
tinued as a synchronized satellite of
WBZ, Boston, when the latter quits
the Blue Network for NBC. Colum-
bia is watchinf this situation closely
In the hope, of acquiring WTIC as a
successor out let in Hartford to
WDRC. WTIC operates at 50,000
v-atts and WDRC at 5,000 watts.

What would Inject the drastic ele-
ment in any such realignment of af-
filiation is the fact that such stations
as WTAG, Worcester; WJAR, Provi-
dence, and WCSH, Portl and, have a
regional alliance with WTIC and
would logically be interested in the
network welfare of the Hartford

outlet WDRC's contract with CBS
has three years to go but, it is un-
derstood that this factor will prove
of minor moment, in the event WTIC
became available.

Westinghouse has' been trying" for
five yeats to obtain permission from
the Federal Communications Com*
mission for the desynchronizatlon of
WBZA but without making progress
at any' time. For a while the elec-
tric company sought to get a fran-
chise on 550 k.c, I^u't the Navy De-
partment strongly objected to any
commercial station on the east coast
getting close to ita own wavelengths,
namely, 540 and 530 k.c.

NBC hopes that the WTIC break
will be avoided Westinghouse de-
ciding to close down WBZA entirely.

Rambeau's Nutmeggera

Chicago, March 24.

.William Rambeau rep Ann has just
been signatured as exclusive sales
rep for two Connecticut stations.

They are WATR, Waterbury, and
WNAB, --pport

Bad fpr. Nerves 7

Buffalo, March 24.
Soap operas were lambasted
es 'destructive' and morale-
breakhig to an estimated 22,000,-
000 women who listen to them by
Dr." Louis Berg, New York psy-
chiatrist here Wednesday (11).
Berg told the Buffalo Advertjs-
hig Club the relief from tension
such serials afford is 'analogous
to the relief obtained when, one
stops beating one's head against
a wall.'.

'The dominant pattern in many
serials,' he said, 'is essentially of
a problem play in which nearly
all the dramatic values are de-
structive. . . . Endlessly be-
labored, this creates a morbid
and hysterical excit-tment — the
tnore so when it Impinges on
nerves already attuned to ab-
normalcy.'

The psychiatrist likened the
repetition of daytime serial plota
to Hitler's propagandizing, claim-
ing the human nervous system
at present 'can be broken by the
iteration and reiteration of a
single note, long held and end-
lessly repeated.' .

plot situations. Most serial author*
listen to each ottier's programs
periodically. Other writers listen
particularly to shows with a hlgb
rating or that have received favor-
able trade comment For Instance
if 'Woman In WblteLor 'Ma Perkins,
for IKe'' last 1fe# inontha see-sawing
as top' serials, have a provocative
story situation, many of the other
daytimers wtU soon .turn up with
slightly revised sequences of a simi-
lar nature.

With the exception of 'Against the
Storm,' which has been dealing vig-
orously with Gestapo persecution
and brutality in Germany, few of
the serials have made more than A
■rague, tentative approach to war
subject matters. In increasing cases
cases the question of enlistment or
draft of younger male characters has
arisen, but the treatment has gen-
erally been toward super-serious
hoke.

An example of the complications
of such subject matter is offered by
m Perkins,' in which the heroine's
son was going Into the Army and
couldn't decide wh,ether to marry hi?
girl before leaving. When the se-
quence had lieen on" the air a short
™»e It became evident from the
usteMr mall that numerous mothers
ana their sons -and daughters were

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VeAicgd»y« ftbrch 25, 1942

GENERAL DODOLAS M.-.eARTHUR
Talk_ ^

"^'AiTis? :

TraDsoccanic
Siistainlng

WOR-Mutual, New York.

American . listeners last Saturday
(21 > were treated to the voice of
General Douglas MacArthur for the
first time since the outbreak of the
war with Japan as the result of a
combination of fortuitous accident
and foresight. While all four Ameri-
can networks had been wondering
how each could score a scoop on the
others by staging a pickup from
Australia, Mutual suddenly found
itself presented with the break. All
perfectly inscribed on wax. The net-
work capitalized the incident for all
it was worth. The initial broadcast
of the Fv East Commander's words
went on at 10:15 a.m., EWT, and they
were repeated over the network on
four occasions over the network dur-
ing the afternoon and night.

The opening words from the Gen-
eral quickly laid at rest any qualms
•tbat might have been harbored in'
the broadcasting trade or in Army
precincts as to how the MacArthur
voice would measure up to the heroic
stature which this soldier has as-
fumed in the world's esteem by his
stand on Bataan Peninsula. His pre-
pared talk, delivered to newspaper-
men on his arrival at the Melbourne
railroad station, came through with °a
rich baritonic rtfsonancy. • It sug-
gested a depth of ease and self-as-
sui-ance. Also the manner of one ac-
customed to public speaking. The
pronunciation was dipped and suc-
cinct, with the exception of but the
two closing words. The reportei-s
asked him to repeat them and fhat
he did in conversational stride. They
were the words, 'soldiers' faith.'

What gave his reading of the pre-
pared statement an added dramatic
fillip were the sounds in the back-
ground.. Aside from the noise of
focomdtive whistles and nioving
trains, there could be heard .the
sounds of tramping feet and the
whiplike commands of officers as
their troops drew up for the official
greeting. Only once did this back-
aground noise become so dominating
"as to compel the General to pause in
his delivery.

Mutual's break on this particular
'first' was the result of an order that
Fred Weber, the network's general
manager, had Issued upon the advent
of war in the Pacific He asked at
the time that Press Wireless make it
a practice to rick up the early morn-
'in% news broadcast by the Australian
Broadcasting Commission, These
broadcasts were recorded and given
the 10:15-10:30 a.m. period on the
Mutual schedule.

What actually happened last Satur-
day morning (21) was tbat the ABC
Included in its regular news period
a recording of the MacArthur ar-
rival, so that's what Mutual tJroad-
cast was, a recording of another re-
cording. Obviously It was sotne-
thing that slipped foy the monitoring
services of the other networks, al-
though it is quite possible that if
they had caught the broadcast the
policy of their resp^ctives networks
on the subject of broadcasting re-
corded programs would have nuli-
fied their alertness. Odec.

'THE WAR PRODUCTION DRIVE'
With Donald Nelson

iZO ailns.— --•■>

Tuesday' (March-T'r)79'rjB"p.ni. '"
Four Network;

Anotlter four-network broadcast,
this time a o.ie-timer for the War
Production Board embodying a talk
from Washington by the get-it-done
expert of this Tight, Donald Nelson.
The program proved an effective
session in which the listener re-
ceived at least one niece of news
that was new, namely: a statement
that airplane Production was 50%
ahead of Pearl Harbor. The script
used verbal illustration rather than
a story, but the whole was threaded
together and given point and direc-
tion by several artful devices. Chief
and best of these came every four
minutes as the program unfolded as
voices interrupted to drive this
thought home;

'Since this program began the
Unite ° States has built another air-
plane — anolher tank.' '

The sound oi a clock ticking, the
emphasis of the importance of time
and the skeptical, challenging foot-
no^: to each declaration, 'That is, if
we are on schedule,' all added up to
a strong impression-leaving message.

Essentially the program's illus-
trdtive porUonj dealt with Nelson's
own blueprint (previously publi-
cized) to bring management and
labor into closer plant cooperation
and with various practical ways of
stepping up the tempo of produc-
tio: everywhere. The open-minded-
ness of authority to suggestions from
the rank-and-flle was re-stressed.

The script, co-authored by William
N. Robson and Dorothea Lewis,
tagged many of the defeatist rumors
and comment, as 'made In Berlin'
and received at this end by short-
wave. Labor leaders who hate busi-
ness and industrialists who despise
unions were both characterized as
saboteurs at .heart. Grimly, it was
asked, 'Do we really have ■ unity?
Are we on schedule?' Then the
prophecy of what it woidd be like
if we don't , win the war. Plain-
speaking here. 'Tue Nazis will work
our tails 6ft.'

The program, in short, did two
things, besides providine an oppor-
tunity for boss Nelson' to be heard:

Positively ... It hammered out a
strong 'beat' like a coxswain steps
up his oarsmen. It shouted faster,'
faster, faster. We are gaining, but
not enough, -not enough, not enough.
Time is everything. Since this pro-
gram went on the air we Only

289 days left in 1943 to meet our
quotas.

Negatively ... It slurred, slammed,
shamed the buslness-as-usual clique.
It ridiculed those who fear Moscow
more than Berlin, It scorned the
feeble intellects of management that
does not realize that in a fascist
economy of, desperation management
alon-T with labor Is caught tight in a
vise of slavery. It scorched 'the
groundless fears of a few timid
people.'

The special musical score, which
Tom Bennett stayed up all Monday
night to wrlta, hclpsd th« program
to ring out clearly on Tuesday. The
undertaking packed emotional wal-
lep, and to that axtant rasiT b« rated
as one morale program that probably
came close to its ^lectlves. Land.

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W5C-RtD AND BLUt • 5,000 WATTJ DAY AND NIGHT

ONTARIO SHOW

With Madeleine Carroll, Col, St»*»-
, twele. Georgia Day,.,Il»TeD»vlM,

Singers, Lulgt Rorasnelll
Comedy, Songs, Band
30 MiOS.

PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
Friday, 7 p.m.
WJZ-Blue, New York

(Walsh)

When the Ontario government set
(his particular scries with the Blue
Network the motivating factor was
to tie the same as applied last sea-
son, namely, drumming up Yankee
tourist trade. Meanwhile the United
States went to war and rationing of
tires and gasoline .set in. Since the
money for the series had been allo-
cated, the Ontario authorities de-
cided to go through With their orig-
inal American broadcasting plans,
and the m-ogram which went on last
week (20) was the first in a weekly
group of 27. As the opening script
expressed It, what this series now
liopes to do is 'to create ever greater
friendship between the Province and
the people of the United States' so
that when the latter 'can again come
to Ontario there will have been built
a bridge of understanding.'

The initial program was not quite
as strong in up-to-the-minute net-
work entertainment as it was in
friendliness and charm. Colonel
Stoopnagle could have been equip^d
with a much funnier script, even
though his sallies with Madeleine
Carroll and others, in the cast ac-
counted tor a pleasant enough mood.
Miss Carroll will, with an occasional
weekly exception, be regularly part
of this Friday nicht hoopla. It
should prove a decided asset in at-
tracting a steady audience. . Her
speaking personality and infectious
laugh accomplishes much in bright-
eninj; up the half-hour.

On the musical side the program
i.s a^ain the darbs. In contrast to
the silky contralto of the 18-year-
old Nancy Douglas there's Georgia
Day, who knows how to sell a
rhythmic pop tune to a . fare-thee-
well. Dave Davies makes plenty
rich melody out of a romantic ditty,
the Albert Whitehead Singers blend,
perfectly in the ' background and
Luigi Romanelli's experienced baton
keeps the tonal going at a rich, well-
rounded pitch. Odec.

'AMERICA KEEFS FATTH'
Talk, Musle
30 MIns. — Local
Tuesday, 8d0 p.m.
WHAM, Rochester, N. T.

Patriotic program, first of a series
of 10 created by Charles Siverson,
WHAM program , director, should
raise this station's reputation. BuUt
around an orchestra and narrator,
each program will treat a diflerent
phase of American life and culture,
bringing in different choirs, soloists
and speakers to broaden interest

On the first program was a bond-
selling talk by David, C. Barry, local
banker, in which he gave one of the
most startling pictures. of what de-
tfeat would' mean yet heard over the
air.

The chorus of 140 high-school chil-
dren, Imown as the Inter-High Choir
directed by Marlowe Smith, alone
assured a large listening audience.
And the songs, grouped as 'Songs of
Freedom,' were the ones being sung
by school children throughout the
country, and stire 'to bring a htim-
.ming response among listeners. As
stmg by these fresh young voices
they brought a tingle to the listener's'
spine.'

Rev. Max Kapp, minister of First
Universallst Church, as narrator gave
America's creed, a selection from
MUtoB, and part of Lincoln's Gettys-
burg address, his deep resonant, voice
making them especially effective.
Two' announcers were used In series
of punch lines on what individuals
caii do to aid the war effort.

Program movfed fast, its tlmaly and'
varied content treating a desira tor
mora. Cord.

'DUFFY'S TAVERN'

With Id Oardner, Shirley Booth,
Eddl* Qreen, Charles Ciantor,
Harry Von Zell, Teddy Wilson's
M«sle

3* DSIns.

8ANKA COFFEE
XBSsdiay. 9 p.m.

WABC-'Ca^.'^IMFi.Toi* _ .

(Young A RiMcdm)
- Lik* the- -third draft Is crowded
with fat men, Tuesday nistht on. the
networks Is crowded with numy
men. Ed (Sardner entars tha con-

gestlon of Bums & Allen, Fibber
IcGee tt Molly/ Bob Hop^ Bed
Skeltour MUton B«tI«, Bob Burns.
It's pretty sure to b« a peak night
through the gloom;- months ahead
when folks «re gonna want to.Mcap*
from tha headlines Inti th* surcease
of himior.

The amiable llUterptes of tht
imaginary Ninth mvenuo Tavatn arc
little changed since moving undar
the sponsorship ot Sank*, mrry
Von ZeU Is there to talk Up th«
product; Teddy Wilson from Cafe
Society Downtown (nltery) cets In
some scattered hot licks; ahlrlsy
Booth, Eddie Green, C'-arli^ Cantor,
all reveal, impretentlous tQ.'s. It
was a very useful colnddenea that
th- new series. ' -.r' - J St Patricias
Day night. It ende/ with th* Irate
Mr. Dtifly bawUng at the other and
of the phone when an Irish tanpr
named Sam Bush really gave out
in true high Olcott.
So it was- all quite amusing period.-
Land.

DOROTHY THOMFSON
News Cammeirt
llLMins.

Thnrsday, 8:46 p.m.
WJZ-BIae, New York

iEmll Mogul)

Dorothy Thompson returned to the
air last week (19) In on exception-
ally, benign mood. She had been
absent lot a year, and Miss Thomp-
son was so happy over the 'event
that she muffled any tendency that
she might have harbored . toward
giving out with her customary
trenchant, and often searing criti-
cisms and warnings. As the col-
umnist put it at the closing point of
her broadcast, 'Next, week I might
come back with a flock of criticisms,
but this week I can't find it in my
heart to say anything against any-
body.' •

Anyway, everythine on this par-
ticular occasion looked bright and
rosy to Miss Thompson. Her task,
she had explained during her
preface, would be to tell America's
story to Americans and to review
and comment on events of the past
week. Congressmen and newspaper
publishers have been bewailing, as
they see it, the lack of cooperation
by this or that group toward the
war effort, but Miss Thdmpson ex-
pressed the view that these and
other critics have been, overlooking
and underestimating the cojintry's
accomplishments since Dec. 7. She
thought that the United States has
done well in transforming from a
peace to a war economy so far and
that Hitler and the Japs had. gone
far astray In their expectations and
hopes that the selfishness of Ameri-
can plutocracy would frustrate
such a quick transformation. Miss
Thompson also had a good word for
the Dart that labor and management
is playing in the derhocratizing of
industry and a sympathetic comment
on the problems with which the
farmers are now faced. .

The sales copy on this occasion
couldn't have been much briefer
and there was no break into ' her
script for a plug. All that Trimont
Clothing had to say was that Its
brand could be bought in 763 stores
and that for the money it was an ex-
cellent buy.

'What will likely favor this series
when It comes to collecting Miss
Thompson's type audience is that the
program is scheduled Just before
'Town Hall of the Air.' Odec.

VERA BARTON

Wllk Walter Gross Orch

■vtrmM.-'.. .T.r'rtsT:-'^"

Sastalnitfir"

Toes, and Thnrs., 8:3« p.m.
WABC-CBS, New York

. CBS Is building up Vera Barton
as the "next new big singing name,'
That's a tall order, but the network
has something in this song stylist
who, reminding of the Dinah Shore
schopl, chirps a pop with the best of
'em.

She's unique in her easy style of
balladeering, giving out in lusty con-
tralto as she did 'You Made Me Love
You,' 'When the Roses Bloom Again,"
'Sometimes' and 'Somebody Nobody
Loves.' Her theme intro is 'Just a
Moon Ago,' which her maestro, Wal-
ter Gross, composed. Thati too, is
a neat number. . Gross flashes a fine
orchestral accomp for his solo stint,'
tearing off a Lehar pianologlstic ex-
cerpt that breaks up the four vocal
numbers by Miss Barton in effective
manner.

Said to have sung with bands like
En'och Light and Duke Dalley, Miss
Barton, on her own, impresses no
little. She used to do her stuff in a
continuous segueing manner, sans
annuncorlal interruptions, but on
the Friday night caught the spieler
interrupted with the song titles. The
former was a better idea, and em-
phasized her easy-flowing style
deftjy.

Miss Barton has more than the
casual makings of a new singing
star. Abel.

'AND SO TO BED'
Play ,
70 Mlns.
BBC, London

Comedy by J. B. Fagin, adapted
for the air by Cjmthla Pughe, pro-
duced by Peter Creiswell (Sunday,
Feb. 23), with PhyUU Neilson-Terry,
Betty Hardy, Allan- Jeayes, (^ecU
Trouncer.

Fagan's three-act comedy of a
Pepys amorous adventure, cut to 70
minutes for broadcasting, was a cap-
able piece of adapting. Production
smart and put over the Charles It
atmosphere well, but would have
benefited by cutting down tendency
of small-part women to overdo gig-
gling' and chatter, though this may
have been an engineer's fault and not
producer's.

Good performances all 'round, and
sense of reality well put over despite
difficulty of non-visuallty for period
stufl.~ Cecil Trouncer's Pepys and
Allan Jeayes' King Charles excellent,
with Betty Hardy as Mrs. Pepys out-
standing. This latter, in strong con-
trast to modem country wench role
by same artiste two nights earlier,
marks- her as - flrst-EIass air per-
former.

GOD'S COUNTRY*
With Milton Bacon, Borl Ivei
15 Mlns.
SnslauiiDf
Saturday, 11:15 a.m.
WABC-CBS, New York

Milton Ba'on, formerly with
WCKY, Cincinnati, and Burl Ives,
the back-country guitar-playing
singer of American folk ballads, are
teamed with this beguiling song-and-
story tribute to rural Americana.
Bacon travels around- the country
gathering material, originating his
portion of the show from the nearest
Coluipbia outlet, while Ives remains
in New York to provide the musical
interludes. It's an . unpretentious,
homey, agreeable show, particularly
for a Saturday- morning sustainer.

As heard lasi, week (21), the pro-
gram dealt with Henderson, Ky., its
origin, history and several of its
notable sons. Among th« latter
were Daniel Boone, 'w. C. Handy,
tour governors, two senators and
John James Audubon, the great or-
nithologist-painter,- whose last name.
Bacon was careful to explain, should
be pronounced Aud-yii-bon, with the .
accent on the first syllable. It was
Interesting talk, with an appealing
Americana flavor.

Ives sang two numbers, both well
suited to the show and pleasantly
done; One was. Randy's 'Careless
Love,^ a sort 'of Negto workman's
lament. The other was an Audubon
favorite, a bird song obviously de-
riving from the Elizerbethan English
folk ballads.- Hooe.

Cotton & Tunick a Firm

New radio progrsim' agency. Cotton
Se Tunick Productions, has been
formed^ in New York by Robert L.
Cotton and Irve Tunick.

Until last week Cotton was pro-
duction manager of WINS, New
York. Tunick, formerly continuity
director of WINS, was more recently
with the radio divlilon of the U. S.
Department of Education.

-^Tednesday, Marcb 25, 1942

RADIO

S3

INCLUDE US OUT

•The Americjin Thesaurus of Slang* recently" made its appear-
ance (Crovvell, $5), causing considerable puzzlement to 'Variety'
that supposed itself reasonably familiar with words through which
persons in the radio trade communicate with each other. The sec-
tion devoted to the alleged patois of broadcasting is loaded with
strange, unreal, straining words and -phrases which the compilers
of the Thesaurus present to posterity as the langtiage of the radio
we know. For the benefit of future historians this small dissent is
hereby formally filed. 'Variety' neither recognizes nor allows to
pass unchallenged as authentic such odd verbal fish as these:

Monkey — for a program director.

Old cow hand — for a studio shower-arounder.

Tuner-outer — for a radio columnist.

Radiocan — for a radio actor.

Broadcastigatpr — for a blunt-spoken commentator.

Script-teaser — for a comedian.

Lads and lassies of radiofoMd— for listeners.

Netting — for a network.

Miketivity — for a broadcast.

Spray the parlors — for on the air.

Microfun — for humor.

Radiopen house — for a miilti-starred program.
Catcha ivire on a netting — for a sustaining contract.
Go up the golden stairs-^ior an audition.
Radiodorous — for displeasing.

Bus lines on Lone Star
Chain with Newscasts

San Antonio, March 24.

The Bowen Motor Bus Lines will
air a series of Sunday afternoon
quarter hour newscasts over the sta-
tions of the Lone Star Chain start-
ing Sunday, March 29. Broadcasts
will be announced by John Hiclis of
the KGKO, Ft Worth, news staft
from where the broadcasts wiU-
originate.

Other stations on the LSC to carry
the' broadcasts will be KTSA, here;
KRGV, Weslaco; KGNC, Amarillo;
KXYZ, Houston, and KFDM, Beau-
mont

Major Ed Kn^ht On
Doty ip Mankittaii As
Aide to CoL W. H. WeBs

Major Ed Knight, formerly public,
relations head of the French Line
and well acquainted in radio, has
been assigned as aide to Col. Walter
H. (Cappy) Wells , at a new Manhat-
tan branch of the War Department's
Bureau of Public Relations.

Office opened this week and will
do liaison between the Army and
the news services, etc.

Memphis Open Air Theatre Steps Into
Time, Borrows Idea, of Met Auditions

Memphis, March 24.

Memphis Open Air Theatre Au-
ditions, a 10-week half-hour program
sponsored by th* Memphis Ice In-
dustries and produced by the
Kremer-Howard advertising agency,
will take the Sunday afternoon spot
on WMC va^ted by the Metropoli-
tan Opera Auditions of the Air this
week. Local summer musical organ-
ization will pattern its radio talent
hunt closely after Met setup, with
hearings open to- all singers of the
mid-south and a contract with the
MOAT for its five-week season com-
mencing In July as the reward.

Three young hopefuls will come to
the WMC mike each week, ac-
companied by a 17-piece concert or-
chestra directed by 'Joseph Cortese,
Mallory Chamberlin will m.c. the
broadcasts. Judges are to be Mrs.
Robert L. Jordan, vice-<presldent and
chairman.- of talent for the MOAT;
H^rry Martin, iimusements editor of
The Commercial Appeal, and Robert
Johnson, dramatic critic for the
FresE-Scimitar.

Prograpis will emanate from the

WMC studios and will be opea.to th»
public. Ice co-op Is making arrange-
ments for a distribution of limited
number of tickets. Series will be on*,
of most elaborate commercials at^
tempted on local station in recent
years.

KGW'S 20TH YEAR,
PARTY FOR 2,000 GIVEN

Portland, Ore., March 24.

StaUon KGW, local NBC-Red out- ■
let, celebrated Its 20th birthday Sun.,
day <22) with a party attended by
2,000 Portland citizens In the Masonic:
Temple ballroom and a special net-
work broadcast. Several KGW
altminl, including Kay St Germain
and Mel Blanc, were picked up from .
Hollywood as part . of the show,
wbtch had Ralph Rogers, KGW pro-
gram director, aii m.c •■■

Sidney N. Strotz, NBC vice-presi-
dent came from Hollywood to attend.

CAMP WHEELER
B'CAST 1.300
PROGRAMS

Camp Wheeler, Ga., March 24.
Functioning like the production
department of an advertising agency
— and turning out many more pro-
grams than most — the radio division
-of the Public Relations Office here
has aired 1,300 shows In the past
year. With a number of former
commercial radio naen on the staff,
PRO etherized its first program
within two days after the camp was
activated just a year ago, March
19, 1941.

Initial airings were produced by
Pvt Harmon H. Hyde, former gab-
ber and producer on WP^O> Provi-
dence,, R. I., and Pvt Arthur F.
Schoenfuss, engineer for WABC,
N.Y. They turned out 'Camp Wheel-
er Reports,' a weekly news program
of training activities at the nation's
first infantry replacement center.

Three weeks later, when additional
trained personnel jomed the staff,
scheduled was upped to five shots
weekly on WBML and WMAZ, Ma-
con. Ga. Short, time later, PRO set
a series of 15-minute transcriptions
by which the New England troops
in camp brought news, of their ac-
tivities to parents and friends via
WDRC, Hartford, Conn.

Radio division of the PRO short
' time later came unaer command. of
lileut— now Captain — Edwin P. Cur-
tlh, who had directed radio publicity
for the New York World's Fair and
had handled production for NBC and
the BBD&O agency. In May of last
year he had 24 programs of all
types on the air weekly.

Transcription sei^vices have been
extended to other northern stations
and have been on WINS, N.Y, for
ilx months and WHBL, Sheboygan,
Wis, for three months. WHBL this
week Is starting to service seven
other staUons with the platters. The

(etters to the stations; .Test ta-ans-
criptions are now being' ttade^tor
WBT, Charlotte, N. C; WPTF, Chat-
tanooga, -Jenn, and WCAE,- Pitts-
burgh.

KGO Into Drake Hotel
For Luncheon Gabbing

. San Francisco, March 24.

KGO and Sir Francis Drake hotel

,7,* J"' together on a deal which
wiU have a Blue line In the dining
room Tuesdays at 1 p.m. for a
luncheon-table pickup. Ann Holder
■Will conduct the sesh, at which
cetebs wUl chat over their teacups.

Hotel now has a. KQW line, also.
Samuels' Jewelry havinj switched
Its. Alt LinWetter dancefloor inter-
views to the Drake from the Palace.

Jim Murray, director of promo-
Uoa at WCAE, Pittsburgh, in Mercy
Hospital there, receiving treatment
»9» stomach disbrd^.

• And hew Ron Mulhelland goMl Not
buying, but seiKnq . . . soiling hlnMolfi.
hte pononallly and fits amazing now
•tanza of lato ovoning turntablo magtc
to ono of tho biggost markots In tho
world-i-tho voft Philddolphla motrepoll*.
tan dofonM aroa whoro tho por capita
•ponding incomo it woll abevo tho na>
tional avorogel

Moonlit Music Hall is a broozy show toll*
oi'od to tho likos of tho folks who man
tho production lines. Variety and Bill*
board soy Its terrific; tho best, recording
show that Philadelphia has over «o«n«
So, if yov want to got going In Phllodok
phia, why not go fo morilror wHh Ross
Mulhellond's Moonlit Music Hail.

Moonlit Mutit Hatt-h midUUo
in 10 m'mulotlr'^AMHloiKikf
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RADIO

WediiMd«7, Much 25, 1942

WOR'S 'PERSONALIZED SHORT TALKS'
INSTEAD OF JUST WAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

New York Station Attempts to Tailor Comment to Its
_ Personalities — 'Make Copy Sound Like Person
Who Reads It' Is Bob Simon's Idea

station WOR, New York, Is at-
tempting 'to do something on Its own
Initiative' about the war, that some-
thing being away from the standard
patter and conventional ways used

by all radio stations at the present
time. Its chief continuity writer,
Bob Simon, has thought out and
worked out a plan to equip each
regular WOR personality with 'short

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talks Instead of spot announcement*'
that are tailored to fit the individual
and the program.

WOR will not editorialize, in the
sense of originating lines of morale
comment, but will confine its eSorta
to known. Government-endorsed
matters. During the month of Feb-
ruary, in similar vein before the new
'short talks* method was worked out,
the station carried anti-rumor warn-
ings couched, in jingle form. In gen-
eral all material is rewritten from
government documents, data and
communiques. The personality war
talks run from 100 to 250 words
average.

Here's the way different WOR per-
sonalities are fitted with words to fit
them;

Martha Seane

(Household HInU)

In the course of a week you'll meet
up with plenty of women who taUc
about doing without new tires for
their cars or new girdles or new alu-
minum kitchen ware. . .And these are
only some of the things many of us
are doing without — and are going to
do without for the duration. . .But
don't think of going without as some-
thing passive. Think of it as a war
effort — as something you do for Vic-
tory. Very often going without is a
form of production. Going without
new tires helps to provide rubber for
our tanks and battleships...

Bamona
(Singing Pianist)

We sing some giddy songs at these
meetings of ours, but^ like all Ameri-
cans, we have plenty of serious
things to think about these days...
Because it's up to every one of us
not just to do a little, but to do
everything we' can for Victory! And
not just waiting for somebody to teU
>is what we can do — but looking for
all we can do — and doing it. . .

Stan Lomaz
^(Sportca^er)

A lot of 'fellows who used to tee
up a new goU ball every few holes
won't be doing, that this season.
There'll be new golf balls, yes — but
not so many that you can put one
into play every time the one you're
using gets a little nicked or you just
want t^ change it for luck... There
won't be so' many golf balls, becausie
Uncle Sam n^eds that rubber. The
rubber that might have gone into
those nice, white,, shiny new pellets
is going into tanks and trucks and
ships and planes to win this. war.
So here's a tip — ^hang on to your golf
balls, even if they don't look so good
and you thjnk they won't go so far.
The golf balls you didn't get are in
the service now. . .

Children's— Concert

Yoimg people are eager to help in
America's war effort. . .What you can
do in the way of actual work de-
pends somewhat on what is required
in your community. But there's one
way in which evety youngster can
help — and help greatly. That's by
saving. . .by getting the most use and
taking the best care of things he
owns... by saving rubber, metal and
paper which will go into war pro-
duction. . .

John Gambling

, (Physical Cnlturlst)

If you've ever looked through a
book of famous quotations, you'll
know how much has been said about
time — the time we have to get things
done, the time that goes by so quick-
ly, that time that is so valuable. Time
has always been a timely subject,
you might say. But it rarely has
meant so much as it does now — in-
this war. And I'd like to quote a few
lines from the stirring speech that
Donald M. Nelson made over WOR
and the Mutual network Tuesd;^
night... 'We have but little time.
That time has been bought at the
price of American boys fighting on
lonely islands'. . .etc. We must re-
member those words of Mr. Nelson.
We must remember what he said
about time. The little time we have
has been bought for us by our sol-
diers and sailors and marines. They
have fought it for us. We must re-
pay it by work— more- work that
will bring us victory.'

Happy Jim Farsont
(Disc Jockey)
.. .Somebody was saying the other
day that there were three parts to
our war effort — fighting, producing
and 'Going Without'.. .And he men-
tioned that 'going without' was half
of it. As important as that. . .All of
us can help by 'going without'— and
if you ask, 'Going without what?'
well, the answer is going without

Non-Inflammab^

singer Bitarc*Ua Hendrlcki^
about to ba auditioned for a
commercial series, wai confab-
bing wlth^ th* sponsor'! wlf*
when the latter remarked that
a certain radio star 'couldn't poi«
slbly be a nice woman and have
a voice to Inflame men that way.'

When it came time for her to
sing, Miss Hendricks made a
quick switch of numbers, offer-
ing only very genteel ^elections.

things we might s like to have but
which are more In^iortant to the
nation than they are to us. . .Like
new tires for the car... or extra
woolen clothing. We've already
heard about some of the articles we'll
go -without... .and no doubt we'll hear
about more. But: every time we go
WITHOUT something... that some^
thing is going WITH our fighting
men. So — let's not think of 'going
without' as just letting go of some-
thing. Let's think of it as what It
really is — part of our contribution to
winning this war.

ONE STORE HAS
141/2 HOURS

Cleveland, Match 24.

With its 12% hours of weekly pro-
grams over WCLE already making
it one of the largest local sponsors
in the country, Burt's Department
Store has started three new shows
over the station, boosting its time to
hours weekly.

New shows are half hour of hill-
billy music and a daily resume of
best-selling records of the day based
on a day-to-day survey of the moSt
popular numbers on coin machines
and counter sales. Burt's has large
record department and is believed
to sell the most RCA-Victor 'nation-
ality' recordings In the country.

On two occasions Burt's took all
WCLE time on Sunday for its broad-
casts.

Recently, Burt's have been plug-
ging its service with 'the Army has
come to Burt's.' Located in the
Terminal 'Tower, Burt's has moved
its departments in order to give the
Army Ordnance, also located in the
Tower, additional space. After clear-
ing with Army Public Relations on
the use of the term 'army,' Burt's
has refused to drop the word when
soldier brass hats began to squawk.

2S% MORE FOR
MUSIC IN BUFF

Buffalo, March 24.

New full-year contracts providing
25% pay boosts • were signed last
week' between Musicians Local .43
and managements of WBEN and
WGR-'WKBW. Identical pacts stip-
ulate house bands of 14 men at both
places, upping salaries from $40 to
$50 a week,

Hay Caldwell, local president, said
both companies went 'weU over' last
year's contract figures, which stipu-
lated WBEN spend $28,000 for music
and WGR-WKBW $24,000.,

W. WUcox Trains Youth
To Earn Commissions

San Antonio, March 24.

Ward Wilcox, senior salesman of
the KTSA staff, is to be the in-
structor in a sei:ies of classes to be
held here at the San Antonio Junior
College each week.

Course will deal in Radio Adver-
tising. Salesmanship.

PrlscUU Kent Joins NBC

Priscilla Kent, from Constance
Hope publicity office, has joined the
NBC script department.

She has free-lanced for various
commercial shows in the past.

Parliament Hears BBC
Fees to Radio Talent
Rapped as Too Hi^

London, March 13.

Some members of the House of
Commons have raised questions
about the fees paid band leaders and
stars by the British Broadcasting
Corp. These parliamentarians think
that the fees have been too high.

One legislator wanted to know
why the troupe in the 'Brain Trust*
show should receive $80 for a live
broadcast and the same sum each
week for a rebroadcast of the same
program from disc the same week.
Another asked if $300 for a seven-
minute talk by what he described
as 'an alleged star' from the 'Hi
Gang' program was a normal fee.

Stars of 'HI Gang' consists of Vic
Oliver, Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels.

First Federal Savings & Loan As-
sociation of Rochester, N. Y., is
sponsoring EMIton Lewis newscasts
over WSA'jr five nights a week.

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RADIO

IN CINCINNATI
USTENERSGjET
BASEBALL

Cincinnati, March 24.
Two beer and one aoft-drinic firms
were signatured last week to sponsor
baseball broadcast? tills season on
WCPO and WKRC. WSAI continues
Socony Vacuum Oil, and General
Mills (Wheatles) as advertisers sup-
porting its diamond airings. Until
1941, when WSAI and WCPO divided
the milcing job, sponsors were the
same.

. WCPO has Red Top Brewing un-
der contract Whether a co-sponsor
Is to participate -will be determined
at a meeting this week between Mor-
timer Waiters; station manager, and
the brewery, WCPO's mikers are
Sam Baiter and Harry Hartman.

WKRC has Burger Brewing and
Wagner Bottling as sponsors of the
baseball broadcasts to be done by
Waite Hoyt and Dick Nesbitt

Roger Baker and Dick Bray carry
on as WSAl's announcers of the Reds'
National Iicague games.

The three newcomers are local
concerns.

Each of the stations Is carrying
playJjy-play accounts of the Reds'
spring training games with separate
sponsors.

—And In Cleveland

Cleveland, March 24.

Ology Cigars and Lyon Tailors
have signed again to sponsor 'Dugout
Interviews' of Cleveland Indians
daily over WCLE.

Shubert's Music House will back
Sunday baseball resume over the sta-
tion, and Tip-Top Beer wiU finance a
2:30 p.m. dally 'Talk of the IJpwn'
over WCLE.

Bold Back in NuhTlUe

Nashville, March 24.
With Southern Association opening
date tluree weeks distant, the ques-
tion of whether or not WSDC will air
Nashville baseball games la still a
mystery. With Important aircraft
and ship-building Industries located

Baseball Warning

Washington, March 24.
Repeated caution about thought-
less disclosure of weather infor-
mation was given broadcasters
Monday (23) by. the Office of
Censorship. Witlv the baseball
season approaching, the Federal
tut-tutters reminded the industry
to be on guard against incidental
mention that might tip off the
enemy.

If weather "conditions cause
cancellation of a game, shnply
•tate the fact that the game has
been cancelled without describ-
ing the cause. The unchallenga-
ble baseball broadcasts of 1942
will make no reference to the
weather c6nditions at the scene
of play,' said J. H. Ryan, assist-
ant director of the censorship
unit

within Nashville the possibility that
night broadcasts'would be banned by
War Department, WSDC and club of-
ficials have been relnctant to decide.

Too, the possibUity that no night
games would be allowed as a power
conservation method "has aided the
delay. Then rationing possibilities
have held Holsum Bakers and Socony
Vacuum from making option com-
mitments.

Gos9 on Premium Brew

Baltimore, March 24.
Baily Goss, WBAL announcer, has
left the station to take on job as
sportscaster for National (Premium)
Brewing Co. here. Will cover all
local sports activities and interview
celebrities for ambitious sports cov-
erage planned by brewery over all
local stations.

Bacon Calls for WTOL

Toledo, March 24.
Roger Bacon will broadcast the
play-by-play descriptions of the To-
ledo baseball games tliis season over
WTOL, Toledo.
General Mills is the sponsor.

EIBO'S KS. Gab Sessions
Seattle, March 24.
'Medical Rountable,' tie-up with
King County Medical Association,
begins weekly over KIRO in AprU.
Hazel Kenyon. is producing.

Nmuis Get FM Okay

Amarillo, Texas, March 24.

The first commercial FM grant In
the southwest was made by the Fed-
eral Communication Con^misslon to
the Amarillo Broadcasting Co.,
which owns KFDA. FM station will
operate on a channel of 45.1 mc.
covering 6,000 square miles. Gil-
more Nunn and J. Lindsey Nunn are
principal stockholders.

Duo are also majority stockholders
of station WLAP, Lexington, IQr.,
and WCMI, Ashland.

'JALNA'INNINE
1-HOUR PARTS

Toronto, March 24.

First of the nine-episode dramati-
zations of the 'Jalna' family saga
teed o& Sunday (22) over the na-
tional network of the Canadian
Broadcasting Corp. Emanating from
CBL, Toronto, this first radio adap-
tation of the Mazo de La Roche clan
was written in its broadcast version
by Carolyn Darling. The nine one-
hour installments (Sundays^ 10 p.u.
EDT) are under the direction of
Rupert Lucas. Barbara Everest of
the British stage, plays the head of
the House of Whiteoaks; Ivor Lewis
is Nicholas; Courtney Benson plays
Young Finch; Rupert Lucas will be
heard as Renny.

Special music has been written by
John Weinzweig.

Liggett &Myer» on WJSV

Washington, March 24.
One of the largest local tobacco
accounts ever signed puts Liggett &
Myers on WJSV for 60 two-minute
programs weekly. Recordings will
be spotted eU over tiie board every
day of the week, plugging Chester-
fields.

Newell-Emmctt placed the busi-
ness. The local CBS outlet already
has Old Gold on for three 15-minute
shows weekly as part^f the Godfrey
^undiaL

Hfhat This Town Needs Is Some
Honest Radio Criticism'-Wicliita Sun

The Wichita Sun, local 'outsider*
sheet, has been causing quite a stir In
the Wichita area through the me-
dium of a plain-speaking radio
column which its editor, Jimmy
White, writes imder the caption
'Land of Make-Believe.' *He socks
the rival sheets and radio stations
very bluntly. Spealdng of the reac-
tion to his comment he recently
wrote, in part:

'Wichita has never had an honest
critic -of either radio or movies. All
shows — good, bad and worse — are
labeled superlative in the daily
press.

'We Intend to be in the future
and, have been in the past, an honest
radio critic. For those who do not
think we are competent to judge
radio shows, we present herewith
our qualifications: —

'We are, we have been told, a
washed up has-been who has been
taking spite on our betters via the
sour grapes method. Tch! Tch!

'It is a human fact that perform-
ers love bouquets and have a whole-
some horror of brickbats. If the
bouquets are synthetic, that is ok
with the performer. Perhaps his
ego does not permit him to know
the difference. At least all bouquets
look the same among the clippings
in his press-book, although some do
not smell so sweet. We have never
donated a false nosegay to a radio
performer or show yet.

'If we say. the Butternut Jam-
boree is ' a darned good radio show,
you can bet your last bond that
that Is our honest opinion. If we
say John Speer is a nifty comic
and an even better dramatic star,'
we don't say It because John Is our
friend. Because, friend or no friend,
If It were our belief that Johnnie
was missing a bet or two, we would
not hesitate to' iay so. Cktlden si-
lence la not one of our few cardinal
virtues,

'We realize thia column could not
appear in the Eagle or the Beacon.
'We would not be aUo'wed to tread,
upon the sancrosanct toes. . . .
Honest criticism ntver hurt any

honest performer, artist or commer-
cial station. And in show biz, thes*
days, honest criticism Is a rare
thing.'

Houston Office of R & R
Placing Beer Waxes

San Antonio, March 24.
The Galveston-Houston brewerle«
will air three quarter-hour tran-
scribed programs per week featuring
the Korn Kobblers In the interest
of Southern Select Beer.

Account was placed . thVough th«
Ruthrauff & E^an Houston office.

WHK DISCS TO LIBRARY

Coward-Lawrence, Windsor, Wellea
and Massey Stored Away In Wmx

Cleveland, March 24.

WHK has given Its 'Dramatic Col-
lection' of recordings of speeches
and dramatizations to the Cleveland
Public Library.

Among the recordings were Noel
Coward and , Gertrude . Lawrence
presenting scenes from 'Private
Lives'; King Edward 'VIII abdication
speech; Orson belies as 'Jtdius
Caesar* and Raymonl Massey's 'Abe .
Lincoln in Illinois.'

AITSr mess STABTS on "WEEL
Boston, March 24.
Ann Hicks, Boston Herald feature
writer and repor ter, started ^ yester-
day (23) on WEEI with a r^dla pro-
gram, The Family Front,'

Modeled after her Sunday- Herald
column of same name; . .

Kalph B, ' AnsUUn, as^t. vice-
president RCA Manufacturing Co,
granted -}eave of absence to go onf'
planning board of War Production
Board at Washington. Left lut Fri-
day (20).

A.bout 22 weeks ago, WCCO first introduced Darragb Aldricli on the air to
the 1,400,000 women listeners in its primary area. Her novels and plays, the articles
•he had written for women's magazines had already made her nationally kno^m.

She knows Northwestern women well... has lived among them... written about
them ... for 25 years. Thousands of listeners, on farms and in small towns, from the
Twin Cities to Twin Valley were moved to write, "Yju muit have led a life like
mine ... to know so much about my problems." Mrs. E. E H. summed it up :
"Lady, are you psychic? How else could you happen to discuss, on your
program almost every day, some problem that is uppermost in my mind and
in the minds of so miny of my friends?"

Small wonder her progrsiia has a Hooperating of 6.4% in the Twin Cities—
33.6% of the available audience at the time she's on the air! Never has
WCCO had a women's participation show such as Mrs. Aldrich's that
attained so high a rating in so short a time!

Y)u needn't be psychic to recognize this fact: ^
"Yours Truly, Darragh Aldrich," on the air Mondays
tSrough Fridays, 1 •.30-1 :45 p.m., is one of the year's best
buys in the Great Northwest. For rates on a participation
basis, call us or your nearest Radio Sales office.

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WapeUniyersity s 'Showmanagemenf
Survey (A la Tariely') of Locals

Detroit, March 24.

As final work in their course mem-
bers of the Radio Broadcasting
classes at Wayne University were
asked to become 'Variety' corre-
spondents and rate the six stations in
this area. Garnet R. Garrison, di-
rector of the radio department, dis-
tributed to the class 'Variety's show-
management Survey and asked the
students to use this as the basis for
their analysis of the Detroit stations.

In asking them to rank the stations
In order of showmanagement they
also had to give the reasons for their
ranking.

Following are some of the typical
student commentary on Detroit sta-
tions:

WWJ

'Paul William.s has lot to learn
about natural delivery— he Is too
rigid.'

'Lacking in symphonic music'

•Well-balanced programs.'

'Burns me up to see beautiful
equipment going to waste.'

■Portrays showmanagement to a
high degree.'

'Auditorium fin.est local set-up.'

'Newsmen know news,^ but lack
radio voice.'

'Too many newscasters and in-
terpretations.'

'Musical organization too much on
popular sidej

WJR

Usually tune WJR Immediately
when without definite prograiA In
mind.'

'A good job In Its appeal to farm-
ers.'

'Most versatile musicians In Detroit
ranging Irom soloists to full choral
"SiVa sjmiphonic presentations.-* • ■ ■

'WJR has aggressive enthusiasm of
showmanagement but not same
quality as WXYZ.'

'Gordon Shaw's commercials so
sincere that I' almost dashed out
right then to use the product'

'Fine religious programs.'

'As an announcer, Harmon Is losing
his reputation as a football player.'
WXTZ

'Seems to have improved im-
mensely In the past year or so.'

'Stjft competition for WJR and
WWJ.'

'If would cut down on Its 'speed'
drama could do itself a favor. Lone
Ranger Is an excellent production,
but with the Green Hornet, etc., It
becomes galling. In this fast drama

policy, WXYZ Is not only misusing
its Ulent but is typing them.'

'Harry Colder Is probably our best
newscaster.'

'Charm gal too mushy.'

'For some reason WXYZ seems to
be on the cocky side.'

'Announcers lacking In sincerity
when they whip through their spots
—not that I demand they put heart
and soul into each rendition but some
Interest in the product by the an-
nouncer makes it more bearable for
the listener.'

CKLW

'Very mediocre.'

Too much transcribed music, too
much corn and too little variety.'

'Good appeal for Canadians
through contact with men overseas.'

'For a large station a lot of small
town boys.'

WJLB

'Announcing not too good with the
boys either passe or young, inexperi-
enced.'

'News on the hour appeals.'

'Announcing getting better — like
old friends.'

'Good job of giving American
Ideals and vie^vpoints to a foreign
speaking element.'

"Off the cuff' technique deterio-
rates into rambling.'

WJBK

'Holds particular attention to our
Immigrant population.'

'Language programs mean that
WJBK does not have popular appeal.'

'Twenty-four hour service impor-
tant now with defense shifts.'

'String of commercial spots dis-
tasteful.'

Take us to London and Berlin

it

They visited with Churchill at 10 Downing
Street. They looked into Hitler's gaudy
chanceUety. They were in the East End
when the .Stukas came over, and along the
Wilhclmstrasse when the R.A.F. roared
back in reprisal

Yes, Clevekndcfs who went to Public
Music Hall on that recent memorable eve-
ning heard a vivid description of wartime
London and Berlin as WGAR presented
Edward R. Murrow and William L. Shirer,
radio's famed foreign reporters, speaking

jointly for the first time from the same
lecture platform.

WGAR sponsored this event for the benefit
of the local Civilian Defense Fund. Citizens-
supported it generously and' enthusiasti-
cally. For, like Americans everywhere,
Qevelanders arc depending more than ever
before on their radio stations to tell them
^hen, where and how they can do theit (jart.

From The Production Centres

sContlnned from pace 30;

. . . Idea was originated by Samuel months ago, tut finally confirmed this
week . . . Pat4Celly now producing KFRC's 'Breakfast Club' and 'Quiz of
Two Cities,' replacing Ben Harkins, now with the govt . ,-. April 28 now
set for baptism of NBC's new studios, with Jack Benny heading a flock
of Hollywood guesters . . . Oakland boys much pleased over BiU Hynn's
gesture In bringing the KGO Blue gang over to meet them at lunch ,
station's rating is higher In Oakland than In Frisco, fact which Ryan isn't
overlooking . . . CBS gang In the Palace hotel can hardly wait for an air
raid — because the Palace bar happens to be the hotel's air raid shelter
some aren't even waiting for a raid . . . Harry LeRoy added, to KQW's
staff to replace Lee Woods.v who has shifted to NBC's news room
George Stuart and Ralph Kennedy, KQW engineers, conducting radio
engineering courses at Santa Clara University for U. S. Office of Educa*
tion' . . . Bill Ryan has added Clifford Ogden to KGO's sales staff
comes up from KTMS, Santa Barbara . . . Al Nelson's private kitchen and
dining room In the new NBC building baptised with a special breakfast
(16) for O. B. Hansen, NBC engineer just In from the east . . . appears
now that KSFO will use the 17th floor of the Mark Hopkins hotel pending
more elaborate remodeling originally planned . . . station beginning to
move its equipment and is expected to let CBS have Its studios by April
15 . . . CBS and KQW planning special events for the great day . . . KPO
press dept. announces at least 'a score' of complaints from listeners that
there's lots' of static and too much noise on the station 'since It started
broadcasting from the new building' . . . although programs still originats
in the old studios, and, of course, transmitter hasn't been moved . . . Har-
vey Peterson (Ricardo) batoning a new transcontinental out of Frisco
Saturdays . •. . it's 'Ricardo Time,' piped via the. Red at 2:30 PWT . . . Marie
Houlahan, CBS praiser, now making personal hinterland jaunts — and
coming away with half -column publicity breaks In rural sheets.

Don Thompson, now a writer-producer with NBC, was formerly dra-
matic director for WHO, Des Moines.

Oakland radio contacts are still talking about the KGO-Blue luncheon
which came to them. Tossed by Bill Ryan to Introduce the station staff,
It's believed the first time on record that a Frisco group has invited the
trans-bay folks to a feed on their own grounds. Usually they're Lsked to
trek across the bridge to Frisco. Gesture was ample enough but the reac-
tion has convinced the Blue gang that the Oakland market may be the
springboard they're seeking.

Milton Samuel, Blue press chief. In town on a swing of Blue affiliates. ...
Radio gang still chuckling over 'nabbing' of engineers George Stuart and
William Wright near the KQW transmitter. . . .Boys were making field
tests when folks in the neighborhood get suspicious and notified author-'

itles the Japs had landed fact they're both six-footers apparently made

no diff to alarmed citizenry KFRC's Phil Stearns, ex-actor newscaster,

has picked up a new sponsor in Golden State Milk, using three quarters

weekly at noon same dairy also using Jim Doyle out of Hollywood at

6:15 on Don Lee Although John Laurence is now in the Navy, he still

gets a chance to sing on KGO occasionally, billed as the 'singing sailor'....
his p.a.'s in uniform always pull a regl hand. .. .-Four Mutual newsmen
have been lost in the wars, according to word at KFRC. .. .Dolores
Maurine Hiller, 16, Livermore, Cal., high school gal, chosen at auditions
here as western rep in the-NBC-Juilliard School of Music contest for new
violinists. . . .she'll compete in the finals for a year's scholarship under-
written by NBC KQW's Judy Deane peddled two osculations at five

bucks a smack during a defense bond sale here in which she got rid of
$1,000 in stamps. .. .George Wright, 21-year-oId organists, gets spot left
vacant at KFRC by Elbert LaChelle, now in Naval service at San Diego
,...KPO will try agricultural news at 6 a.m. Monday through Friday,
starting this week, with Eddie King voicing the rural chat, ...

ITS HOLLYWOOD . . .

The Radio Trade is Discussing: Tailure of norale ■programs to call
the sons-of-appeasers by their right names — Don. Lee Network's flat
ban on any news item credited to an Axis source and going without the
story if there is no United Nations version available — that continuinff
headache, 'Junior Miss.'

• ASIC STATION ... COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM
C. A. Rlchardj, Pr«>ld«nt . . . John F.-.if<>t>« VIc* FrMldtInt and Canaral Managar

Edward Petry t> Company, Inc.
Notional RaproMntotlv*

Bill Von Zehle being moved back to New York to handle, MCA clients
for radio there. Coast radio hates to lose a nice guy like him. He'll work
back east with' Hal Hackett. .. .George Moskovlcs brought George. Harsh-
barger ioto his sales promotion department at KNX, . . .Femme stock
players organized Radio Women's War Relief to knit, and get up gift pack-
ages for the lads in campa, Most active are Verno Felton, Sara Berner,
Martha Tilton, Lurene Tuttle, Mrs. Sanford Bamett and Violet' McKie. .. .
NBC's §id Strptz and John Swallow to Seattle for KGWs 20th anniversarT' ■
gala. .. .Jerry Lester concluding a year on Kraft ^usic Hall and going on

a tour of theatres Bill Baker, General Foods account exec for Benton

Sc Bowles, here to talk over summer plans for Maxwell House Time with

Mann Holiner Lud Gluskin, Coast musib director for CBS, awaiting a

call to duty as commander in naval aviation. .He was a navigator In the
last war... .Charles Beardsley, prez of Miles Laboratories, looking in on

his firm's Coast shows Mary Martin picked up for another 13 weeks

on Kraft Music Hall.... Bob Karll in from Chicago to do his last acting
stint on NBC before changing .over to* O.D. . . .KNX building a new
comedy show around Jacqueline DeWltt, recent arrival from the East.
Al Span produces. .. .Fletcher Wiley takes his last bounce for CampbeU-
soups April 3.;.. Frances Scully wUhdrew as NBC fashion ed here to
devote full time to her two Blue network programs. Martha Sherwin took
over, with Ray Schultz handling pb<Jtbs. .. .Two nags from Chet Lauck's .
(Lum of L & A) stable paid -fancy prices in winning at Hot Springs.
'Lum's Pride' will leg It in the Kentucky Derby. .. .John Greene, who
scripts the 'Blondle' show in New York, In town to meet the characters. . . .
Bill Thompson paraded through the Brown Derby playing bagpipes, an
annual St. Patrick's Day custom with the versatile 'Fibber and Molly' .

comic Victor Borge got an option lift on Kraft. .. .Ruth Barnard quit

Don Lee after eight years" as traffic manager to go Into war work.... Paul
Henning recovered from his long illness and is back on Dick Mack's Seal-
test writing staff.

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WMCA, New York, Is to announce this week to its listeners that hence-
forth studio audiences for. its radio programs will be required to buy ad-
mission with various loodstuflfs, which will be turned over to the new
American Theatre Wing Canteen. Latter was opened recently to provide
free meals; and entertainment to service men,

Station doesn't know yet .what It will ask as admission to broadcasts.
That win be determined by what foodstuffs the Canteen lacks. Spot an-
nouncements will Inform listenersTprospectlve audiences what to bring.

This Is War' has an arrangement whereby various qewsi,apers arotind
the country receive. the weekly radio manuscript in advance an>; Illustrate
the basic idea week by week from stock photographs in their own local
newspaper morgue. Allen Meltzer handles publicity for the program,
which is financed by the four networks.

Dailies giving a weekly photographic splash Include Detroit Free Press,
Chicago Times, Pittsburgh Press, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Memphis
Commercial Appeal, Richmond Times, New York PM.

WOH, New York, was victorious in a suit for alleged unfair competi-
tion against William W. Orlofl in the N. Y. federal court recently when
Judge Murray Hulbert issued an injunction preventing the defendant
from using the name 'W. O. H. Printing Co."

No damages were awarded by the court and costs were equally divided
between both sides. Defendant operated a printing establishment in N. Y.
and Bamberger complained the public was deceived into believing he
was associated with its radio station.

Gloria Wood, new Clyde Lucas vocalist, is younger sister of Donna,
who, with her Don Juans, Is a Horace Heidt turn. Both girls used WBZ,
Boston, for springboard and were taught by their mother, the former
Gertrude Anderson, who sang with 'Three Queens and a Jack,' one of
radio's first popular quartets. Girls are from Arlington, Mass.

Sammie Hill, network radio actress in New York, was divorced in
Memphis (9) by Thomas Lee Land, non-pro, whom she married June 17,
1935, at Hernando, Miss., on charges she deserted him Jan. 15, 1940, to go
to New. York and take up a career in radio and dramatics.

Phil Baker is on the jump Sunday night between his own Take-It-or-
Le'ave-It radio show (CBS) and doubling into Cliftord C. Fischer's 'Priori-
ties,' vaude show at the 46th St, theatre, N. Y., which also has a Sunday
night performance.

Sam Gill, who joins Lord & Thomas agency, New York, as director of
research, has been identified with the C. A, B. and with Life's continuing
study of readership. L. & T. has not had a research director of late. Bob
Leding and Sam Miller previously handled this assignment.

Charles C, Shaw, news editor of station KTSA, San Antonio, spoke on
•Religion and the Axis' from the pulpit of the Woodlawn Methodist
church at the regular Sunday evening services on March 22,

Old Gold program (Bfert Wheeler-Herbert Marshall) transfer to CBS
followed, by a short period, the transfer of salesman Don Roberts from the
Blue to CBS. He serviced J. Walter Thompson for both webs.

There's no advertising on the British radio stations, but Scott and Whaley
In "Kentucky Minstrels' recently advisfed use of Owbrldge'a Lung Tonic,
• much publicized British cough curt.

:: Argentine Activities ;:

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By BAT JOSEPHS

Buenos Aires, March 17.
Farmacla Franco-Ioclcsa, which
claims to be the world's largest drug
store, inaugurates series on Radio El
Mundo (LRl) daily at 2:30. Show
stars Silvio Spaventa and company
In dramatization of "El Audaz' (The
Audacious One'), original by Julian
Glmenez Sastre. Franco-Inglesa,
which unlike U.S. drug stores, has
no sodas, sandwiches or other stand-
ard U.S. drug store stuff, just begin-
ning to use radio in a big way.

Camelia Qolroga set with Radio
Prieto (LS2^ for long-term contract
beginning in April.

Ernanl Broga, Brazilian pianist-
conductor on Radio Argentina (LR2)
for 'Hore del Brazil,' locally pro-
duced Brazil boosting program.

. Phillips Milk of Magnesia program
on Radio Belgrano (LR3) drawln,;
raps from local critics for over
emphasis on talk. Show stars Mecha
Ortiz and Pedro. Laxali, with script
by Dr. Pedro Miguel Obligado.

Radio Stentor (LS8) has added
Nelida Rumbo, pop Argentine singer.

V. S. jazz featured by Gran Con-
dal cigarettes on Radio Mitre (LR6i
Sunday night show at the peak hour
o'f 8:30. Stars Augustin Magaldi.
comic, with imitations of screen and
radio personalities.

Taoece, U.S. lipsticlc, opens series
on Mundo Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays, at 3:45 p.m. Uses critic of
daily 'El Mundo' and Valentina, who
writes for the 'Editorial- Haynes.'
Horacio Zelada as speaker, ZuUy
Moreno, local firm starlet, was guest
artist on the opener.

'Dayrico,' an English butter and
dairy product firm, opens pop mu-
sical program on Belgrano Tuesdays
and Fridays at 7:30. Orks include
Francisco Lomuto, Roberto ZeriUo,
Felisano Bruneilli, Pedro Laurenz
and Raul Marengo.

Chilean radio star Gaucho Romero
now visiting Argentina.

Erskine Caldwell Describes Moscow s
24-Hoiir Programs Under Bombings

Russian radio announcers often
carry portable microphones into the
midst of military battles- giving lis-
teners the orders of officers, the
shouts and sounds of fighting. Er-
skine Caldwell, the novelist-news-
paperman .who recently retturned
from the Soviets, revealed something
of 'special events' a la U.S.S.R, in
a broadcast last week (IS) for the
Blue's program 'Behind the Mike.'

Moscow radio broadcasting contin-
ued 24 hours daily right through the
worse Nazi bombings. Studios were
two depths below street level in an-
ticipation of this very predicament
Said Caldwell:

'Air raids and all, I'd be broad-
casting from a studio which looked
like a padded ceU.. Mattresses
around all the walls and on the door.
The microphone would shake, the
table would shake, and the glass
through which I could see the men
in the control room would rattle.
A huge demolition bomb had landed
nearby. The men in the- control
room would grin at me, wave their
hands to indicate that the broad-
casting facilities were still intact and
I'd continue.'

To make up the 24-hour radio
schedule the Russians used radio
plays ■ especially written by their
best playwrights, poetry, marching
songs, talks and episodes di heroism,
in addition to' the broadcasting of
actual battles frorn the front — all
designed to keep up the people's
morale. There were also numerous
shortwave broadcasts. "

Russians can't listen to foreign
broadcasts, because when Germany
invaded Russia, the Soviet Govern-
ment took all individual, radios away
from the people. They hear offi-
cial broadcasts through each apart-
ment house in Moscow having a cen-
tral radio set.

Caldwell obtained the material for
his own broadcasts from official
handouts, from personal o"bservation
and sometimes from Russian corre-

spondents and officers who had been
at the front.

Describing f o r e i-g n broadcasts,
Caldwell gave an example of what
a commissar might say to German
mothers, 'Mrs. So and So, your son,
Fritz, -was killed yesterday on Such
and Such battlefield because h^ was
a tool of Hitler. He foolishly fought
instead of desertlri!g and coming over
to us. Hitler— not we— killed him.
But if you have another son and he
is sent here, the same thing will
happen to him. Don't let hhn be
sent.' Once a' commissar broadcast
so heartrending a plea to German
mothers that he had even the Rus-
sians crying.

CHARLES O'CONNOR DIES

Had Successful Career as Annonncer
— ^Wldow Former BockeUe

Charles O'Connor, announcer on
various Philio Morris programs until
last fall, died suddenly March 17 at
his home at Douglaston, L, 1, He
was 30. He Is survived by his wife,
the former Emily Ryan, at one time
a captain of the Radio City Music
Hall Rockettes, and a Jlv.e-year-old
son.

After seme experience in stock,
O'Connor Joined NTSC in 1931 at the
age . of 20, the youp,gest announcer
ever hired by the company. He was
noted as an . unasiially versatile
spieler, being particularly facile at ad
lib descriptions and fill-ins. "His
earnings -were formerly , Very big.,
Joining Philip Morris- In 1937. he
developed a highly individual style
of drawling informality in - reading
commercials, Which • presently be-
came Identified with the product
However, he never' used it on his-oc-
casional outside assignments nor
after he lefl PhiUp Morris last lall
to free-lance.

At the time of the Japanese at'
tack on Pearl Harbor, O'Conpor re-
turned to NBC to help out tenipo,-
rarily, but left again after a fe-ir
weeks to free-lance. " 1"

J

A River Rouge in Washington. D.C

There's no forest of smokestacks in the Nation's Gipital but
that brick building two blocks long, down near the UnioA
Station, is no industrial bantam.

It's the Government Printing Office, the largest printing
plant in the world. Day and night, 7,400 persons are employed* "
on its acres upon aaes of floors. The monthly payroll is just «
whisker more than one and one-half million dollars.

The GPO is only one of many "industrial" operations in
Washington, where approximately 200,000 men and women
are now on the Federal payroll.

Thousands of newcomers to Washington find their radio set*
the common denominator between homes just left and a new
community. More than 85,000 new employees .will come here
in 1942. They will rely on the friendly, familiar counsel of CBS
and the warm, new friendliness of WJSV. In Washington— buy
Columbia's 50 Kilowatt WJSV.

*Thg GPO employs as many men and women in a mechanical capacity alon* 4t
the total payrolls of three of the nation's leading publishers combined.

WJSV

WASHINGTON'S 50,000 WATT STATION

Owned and operated by CBS. Represented nationally by Radio Sales: K
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88 CORCBRT«-OPERA

WcdneBdaj," Miirch 25, 1942

$25,000 (rf Frisco Municipal Funds
Earmarked for Opera Company,
Unions Pressured the City

San Francisco, March 24.

The City of San Francisco has laid
•side $325,000 for publicity purposes
•nd $48,000 of this sum will go to the
San Francisco Symphony orchestra
and $25,000 to the San Francisco
Opera Co. These sums assure sea-
whs for both organizations.

Granting of the money represents
» victory for the San Francisco
unions, which went to the govern-
ment of the city and demanded funds
for the continuation of the opera.
Season, under the direction of Gae-
tano Merola, gets under way in late
September and runs 10 weeks in
San Francisco, Los Angeles and
neighboring cities. It was the first
time unions have ever gone to bat
for a theatrical venture and their
victory may have similar reper-
cusslons..in'.othec.'Cltles ,wher'e-opera
and ^mphony concerts are threat-
ened.

Concert Theatr(fc;H:¥;"
Using 36-Man Orchestra
For Its Experiments

The Concert ' j^atrei 'formerly
the Filmarte of N. Y. will have two
permanent conductors in its initial
Spring season. These will be Dr.
Otto Klemperer and Laszlo'' Halasz,
the latter musical and artistic di-
rector of the St, Louis Opera Co.
The orchestra to be presented will
be known as the Concert orchestra
and will consist of 36 men.

Klemperer will stress orchestral
programs with dis.fihguished guest
soloists of vocal and instrumental
reknown, while Halasz wiu present
operatic personalities with programs
to be presented on Mondays of each
week. Blisabeth Schumann and
9ondra Bianca are the soloists on
Klemperer's first .program on April
13, while on April 20 Don Giovanni'
In concert form will be given by
Anne BoseUe, - Margit Bokor, Felix
Knight, Jess Walters, Carlos Alex-
ander and Gerhard Pechner. A tour
of the orchestra with soloists for
next year is being, planned.

Philharmonic's 100th

On AprU 2, 1942, the N. Y.
Philharmonic, oldest orchestra
in the U. S., will celebrate the
100th year of Its founding. The
program scheduled will have
Herbert Janssen,' Met baritone,
as principal soloist with the
Westminster Choir; Meg Mundy,
soprano, and Salda Knox, con-
tralto, also soloists.

The date of the first Phil-
harmonic Concfert, Dec. 7, 1842,
Beethovtr/s Fifth Symphony
which was usea,_ will be re-
peated.

MET UNCERTAIN
OF NEXT YEAR

N. Y. Concert Reviews

JOHN CHABLES THOMAS
Baritone

Town Hull, N. M»r«h 17, 19«

Veteran baritone, after , almost
three decades before the pubUc, sUU
reUins enough of his lyric quality
and big resonant tones to. captivate
an audience. Whether it be the long
flowing legato and smooth top tones,
or the savage bite to his more dra-
matic works, his impeccable diction
and excellent training stand him ia
good stead. A capacity audience de-
manded and received close to a dozen
encores. Ediy.

The N. y. dailv critics soid;

Tribune (Boehmi^: 'Demonstrated
that from the purely technical aspect
he still seeks his peer among present
day baritones. Tonal production to
the point of -perfection.'

Times (Straus): 'Evening of dis-
tinguished vocalism. . .Subtlest atten-
tion to minute details. . .keenest in-
sight. . .rich resonant tones. . .fresh at
the end as at the beghinhig.'

'i.~iI9ie "Metropolitan' Opera- Go. will
Issue no contracts to any of its artists
until next November. Since its sea-
son generally gets under way that
moiith, this will mark the latest sign-
ing of artists in its history.

It is still undecided whether the
company vyill be able to have a sea-
son next year since the losses
sustained this x.ear have left it in
the red with ho operating capital
available. It is deemed unwise to at-
tempt another public aflje^^'af this
time. Met board meets in late May
to make a final decision after the re-
turn from the tour.

SAIDEN6ERG UNVEILING
DENVER UTTLE SYMPH

Denver, March 24.

Daniel Saidenberg's third orches-.
tra, the Saidenberg. Little Symphony
of Denver, will premiere April 7 at
the Biroadway theatre.

His other ,^wo orchestras were the
Chicago Symphonietta (1936) and
the Little Symphony of N. Y. (1940).

JOSEF HOFMANN
Pianist

Carnegie Hall, N. T., March 22, 1942
The 65-year-oId piaflist, now in his
55th successive year before the
American public, was sufTerine from
a terrific cold for this, his only ap-
pearance of the year. Despite some
weariness that hampered the terrific
power he is capable of summoning,
his exquisite playing of Chopin was
about the finest heard in N. Y. this
season. Showed his usual exquisite
phrasing, smooth flowing legato and
crystal tone. Eddy.

The N. Y. daily critics said:
Times (Straus)— 'Playing was as
amazing as it ever has been in ex-
quisitely shaded, limpid, singing tone
of unsurpassable loveliness as well
as in subtle poetry.'

Tribnne (Boehm)— 'Disclosed flash-
es of the true virtuoso of other days.
Occasion not one to be treasured
amot^ more memorable ones.'

TABA BEBNETTE

Town Hall, N. T., March 17, 1942 ■

Yara Bemette, 22-year-old Brazil-
ian girl planiste, demonstrated amaz-
ing skill and sensitive touch together
with a great style. Interpretative
ability was tha'. expected of a far more
mature musician. A light, almost fra-
gile touch, together with great
strength and power and with no
break to the melodic line, a flawless
haunting tone and complete control
were among her jiccomplishments.

£ddv-

MET LINE-UP IN DALLAS

Chiesa, Thibault Jointly
Replace Ezio Pinza

Memphis, March 24.
A joint concert by Vivien Delia
Chiesa and Conrad Thibault replaces
the Ezio Pinza booking on the Bee-
thoven Club's annual Civic Music
series for nextiseason.
■ — Pinza, Metropolitan basso, was an-
nounced as one of four artists dat-
Ings tor next year only 24 hours -be>
fore the FBI grabbed him in New
York' on alien investigation char.rr^.
Local Club immediately canccllwj
the booking.

BACCALONI'S SCHEDULE

Number of U.S.O. Dates Inclnded
—Set Well Into 1943

Five Operas In Four Days for Ex-
pected Sell-Ont

Salvatore Baccalont, Met opera
comic basso winds up his present
aaason on the road' with the Met
April 24. He will rest for six weeks
during which time he will make six
records for Columbia.

On July 1, he will start a one
month tour of U.S.O/ camps and on
Aug 1, he starts across country giv-
ing individual concerts before ar-
riving in San Francisco" for the open-
ing of the opera season in Septem-
\teT. From there he goes to Chicago
(or that season and back to the Met,
if it opens. He takes a six weeks
leave of absence Jan. 8 to Feb. IS
for the continuation of his operatic
ooncerts which are selling next year
between $2,500-$3,000 against . .the
91,750 to $2J)00 this season. He will
give 21 performances In the six
weeks. He is dropping 'L'Elisir
b'Amore,' and will substitute.'Barber
~of Seville' in its place, while carry-
ing the 'Boris' and 'Don Pasquale.*

Dallas, March 24,
' Five operas in four days will be
giy,en here by the Metropolitan
Opera in its fourth annual season,
April 15-18 inclusive. Complete sell-
out is predicted for the run, which
will attract audience from entire
southwest, even dipping down to
Mexico City for avid opera fans.
— Included for presentation this yeai
are 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' 'Don
Giovanni,' 'Carmen,' 'Aida,' and 'II
Barbiere di Siviglia.'

Lily Pons and Jan Peerce, two of
Southwest's. favorites, will make
'Lucia di Lammermoor,' opening
presentation ' to be conducted by
Ettore ■ Panizza. Ezio Pinza, Rose
Bampton and Josephine Antoine will
be in "Don Giovanni' set for April
Paul Breisacb conducting, and

16.

Wilfred Pelletier will conduct Bizet
work April 17 with Lily Djanel,
Raoul Jobin and John Brownlee in
top roles.

Panizza will conduct afternoon
performance of Aida April 18 with
John Gurney, Bruna Castagna and
Stella Roman- heading cast Series
closes with evening performance of
'11 Barbiere di Siviglia' conducted
by Frank' St. Leger with Salvatore
Baccaloni, Bidu Sayao, John Charles
Thomas, Pinza, singing stellar roles,

The N. Y. daily critics said: ..

Tribune (Lawrence): 'Unheralded
excellence. . .beautiful quality of tone
impeccable technique. ..sensitive
approach. . .lovely • presence. ..tre-
mendous talent.' .

Times (Parmenter): 'Fiery persua
sive in terpretator. ..highly devel-
oped technique. ..big line; note-
worthy beauty of tone.'

ntENE BOSENBEBO
Planiste

Town Hall, March 21, 1942

Blessed with intelligence and abil-
ity, Irene Rosenberg, IS-year-old
planiste, proved one of the best of
the juvenile invaders of the sea-
son's recitalists. She has imagination,
brilliant tonal quality, shadiH B * ' a nd "
dynamic control, and a digital facil-
ity at braviura worthy of many a
famous artist. ,

Program had a tendency to slow
down, which was not the artists f iult,
but those who advised her to choose
works that produced this effect. The
p-^iuW bears careful watching for she
"•may be headed for the top.

Eddy.

The N. Y. daily critics said:
Tribune (Lawrence): 'Substantial
technique and ably molded contracts
of tone — real talent.' ■

Times (Straus); 'Inborn aptitude
for the keyboard. Playing accurate,
clean and transparent. Unusual tech-
nical facility. . .sure control of color
and rhythm.'

Womn s music Appredatioii' Ahead
Of Concerts Puts Series Into the Black

Cincy Open's Stunt

Cincinnati, March 24.
Tha Cincinnati Summar Opera
Association haa Invited radio
station* throughout tha country
to organic* and conduct 'Aria
Auditlona' with tha reward to ba
a six weaka acaaon hara at pro-
fessional salary for ii- different
regional winnera starting June
18.

t Run-offs should occur between
AprU 2S-S0.

SET BOOiONGS
WELL AHEAD

Already set on > tha programs' of
the Pittsburgh Symphbhy for next
season ara Robert Casadesus, I^Iov.
27 dnd 29, Jascha Helfetz, Dec. 4
and 6, Rudolph Serkln, Oct. 30 and
Nov. 1, Henri Teihlanka, Nov. 6 and
8, and Vrqnsky and Babin, Nov. 13
and 15.

Columbia Concerts Corp. which
handles the abova named artists has
also booked Nelson Eddy, Lily Pons,
Vronsky and Babin and Albert
Spalding with tha National Sym-
phony of Washington on tffr^rafZ^S'
Yale University Course and has
Eddy, Zino Francescattl, Josef Hof-
mami,~HeIeh, Jepson and tha General
Platoff" Co58acE""Offofil* with, the
University of Washington In Seattle.

Some otheu set recently for the
1942-43 season ara Halfeti and Eddy
with Harry Zelser, concert buyer of
Chicago, Casadesus, Francescattl and
Helfetz with tha Rochester Civic
Music Association, and Helfetz, Paul
Robeson, Bartlett and Robertson,
Rudolf KIrkusny, Marcel Hubert,
Kurt Baum and Serkln and Busch
on the YJltRA. course in N. Y.

HUMPHREY BOULENS
INTO ARMY SOON

11 MET OPERA NAMES
FOR SOUTH AMERICANS

South America's opera season
opening In Buanoa Aires on May 20
with 'Ballo In Maschera' and run-,
ning to tha and of September, In-
cluding a season at Rlo, will fea-
ture 11 Metropolitan Opera artists,
tha larg;est number to go sinca the
Met started to sand people down
'se^ei'al~^y ears -'^ago? "

Thosa to go will ba Rose Bamp-
ton to tha Teatro Colon in Buenos
Aires and not to Rlo, Bruna Cas-
tagna to both bouses, Frederick
Jagel to both, Raoul Jobin to both,
Leonard. Warren to both, Zinka
Mllanov to both, Norlna Greco to
both, Norman Cordon to.^uenos
Aires, Lauritz ^ Malchtor the saipe,
Irene JessnSF^'ffiif ''swnei* "anSf B^ii'
Sayao stlU pending on both. Some
additions may b* made. How -the
artists are to get there Is. a p.roblem,
since ' planes are out, Government
priorities having taken them over,
and the singers will not risk ships.
Norina Greco only got a plane
March 13 by wirhig Cordell Hull
dlr.$ct, and by tha interventioh of
her manager, J. J. Vincent, Silvio
Piergill of Rlo, and tha South
American government.
. This may not work in all cases.

TelU Pessl, harpsichordist, has
Just completed a series of Bach and
Scarlatti recordings for RCA Vicbor;

Claude Lapham's Score

ClaiideT' Lapham wrote the score

for the Greek drama, 'Iphigenla,'
which is being presented at Ma-
thews Hall, Columbia University,
this vfsek^ .33).K.muslc Is .based on
the Greek Dorian and Mixylodian
scales.

Dr. ..Milton Smith, head of the
university's drama department. Is
the 'producer.

Humphrey Doulens, personal rep-
resentative for Nelson Eddy, Lily
Pons and Grace Moore, and member
of the Metropolitan Musical Bureau
branch of Columbia Concerts Corp.,
will be inducted into th- army in
April. Doulens was a former mem-
ber of the Citizens Military Train-
ing .Corps.

He has been secretary of the Mill-
ta.'y Training Camps Association of
Fairfield County, Conn.

Johann Strauss' opera, 'Die Fle-
dermaus,' wUl be given its first
N. Y. performance in several years
at the Pythian Temple in West 70th
street, April 11 and" 12. - Rudolf
Stoltz wiU conduct, and Margit
Bokor of the Vienna State Opera,
and Desi Halban, daughter of Selma
Kurtz, one pf Austria's greatest
singers, will appear.

Good Music for Camps

Fort Devens, Mass., March 24.
Led by Arthur Fiedler, conductor
of the 'Pops' and Esplanade Con-
certs In Boston, 06 members of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra visited
Fort Devens for a concert sponsored
by the soldiers "and sailors commit-
tee, and attended by over 1,200 sol-
diers.

Jean Bedettl, 'cellist, and Jesus
Maria Sanroma, pianist, were solo-
ists.

This was the fourth of a series of
^Symphonies for Soldiers' at Fort
Devens, but the first appearance of
this group here. Plans are under-
way for ilmilar concerts at Camp
Edwards,, and other New England
cantonments.

C:anton, O., March 24.
For the first time in its five-year
history the Canton Symphony Or- .
chestra Association will end its sea-
soii in the black, according to James
M. 'Atmgst, association president. In.
previous years, it was necessary for
the association to pay off its annual
deficits with the proceeds of patron
n oney pledged for the next season,
but next season tbft orchestra will
be able to operate on a pay-as-you-
gn basis.

Creation of a women's division,
ill charge of music appreciation
hours started this year, was credited
for the success of the current season.
They held discussions Sunday pre-
ceding the Wednesday concerts.

Richard W. Otipenheim has been
diiector and conductor of the OS-
member orchestra since Its inception.

LeonariTWarren Flies to
Buenos Aires Majr 10 for
O^peratic Appearances

Iiconard Warren, 30-year-oId Met-
ropolitan Opera' baritone, has been
signed to open the Buenos Aires
opera season on May 20, singhig Re^
nato in 'Ballo in Maschera.' Singer
leaves by plane May 10 and arrives
May 15 with his wife. ,

Among other operas in which he
,wf ill , ^fiptstt . . ar», .'Rijgalettp,; ,'.Aida,'
"Travlata,^ ''Simon ' dbccanegra' 'and
'Trovatore.'

Not Worth WhUe Suing
That Quentin Reynolds

Pittsburgh, March 24.
May Beegle, local concert im-
presario, has decided - to drop con-
templated suit against Quentin Rey-
nolds for his failure to appear at
Carnegie Ziall for wind-up of pro-
gram. Original January date was
shoved back to March 17 when bu-
reau booking . Reynolds informed
Miss Beegle that he wouldn't be
back from Egypt by then but would
be available this month. Week ago
sh^ was informeid he couldn't make
it. Decision to abandon suit was
made because amount 'of' damages
would be hard to prove inasmuch
as a substitute lecturer was ob-
tained. Jay Allen. '
' It was the second disappointment
in the - Town Hall series this year. -
Illness forced Clare. Booth to can-
cel at last minute several months
ago and lUca Chase came in to re-
place her. *■

MET AUDITION WINNERS

Cary, Margaret Harshaw, Frances
Greer, Harvont, Get $1,000 Each '

Concluding Its seventh season of
sponsorship of the Metropolitan
Opera Auditions of the Air, the
Sherwin-Willlamis Palnt 'Cor addcd-
four more of the contestants to ap-
pear -on- its ■ program- of the roster
of the Metropolitan. Elwood Gary,
tenor, Margaret Harshaw, contralto,
Frances Greer, soprano and Clifford
Haryuot, baritone, were the winners.

Gary, sang 'E Lucevan le Stelle'
from 'Tosca' showing a clear but
somewhat nasal lyric tenor, with
good top notes. Both 'A's had plenty
of ring beTiind them, and the tem-
perament in his singing indicated
he is a prospect to watch. Miss
Harshaw disclosed a contralto with
some difficulty making the low 'A'
flat in 'Amor vlens alder' from
'Samson' audible. The top 'G' was
ok. Frances Greer displayed a qual-
ity much like that of Luorezia Borl,
and with a firm ringing clarity to
the top 'B' In the MusetU Waltz
from 'Boheme.' Clifford Harvuot
showed a powerful baritone of good
quality in the unhackneyed 'Zaza,
plccola zingara' from 'Zaza,' but the
range of the aria did not disclose
whether he possesses adequate top
tones or not.

All four received the customary
$1,000 checks from the sponsor and
concluded with a hodge-podge of a
'Martha' quartet In English.

Hlkloa ttossa, Hungarian com-
poser, who composed and conducted
the score for Alexander Korda's
'Jungle Book', arrived in N.Y. March
10 to record the music for RCA-
Yictor.

UTednesday. AUrch 85, 1942

Cjuiy^ M An Times!

Pblladelplila, March 24.

Police offlclaU and FBI aeentt Issutd a warning lait waak to all
draft eligible muslciana and entertalnan coming to Philadelphia to
bring along registration cards and keep them on their person or face
l>elng tossed into the hootegow.

The cops and the G-men bavc teamed up in a drive against possible
draft evaders and are forcing aU 'suspicious' males to produce their
draft cards on demand. Failure to have 'the pasteboards on their
person has resulted In the jugghig of hundreds of men In the past
couple of weeks. It means a night In the dink, a hearing before a
U, S. .commissioner, and . you oant get. out until the card Is piroduced.
or your draft board back home Is checked thoroughly.

Last Saturday night two downtown niterles were raided by state
liquor control boaAl' agents for after-hour sales. Every one was or-
dered to prtfduce their' draft cards, A half dozen musicians pleaded
that their cards were at their hotels hi their other suits. But their
pleas fell on deaf ears.' Hiey.had to spend the night in a cell.

SL Louis Union Bars Free Camp Dates;
CSI to Clear All Service Bookings

St Louis, March 24.

Cuflo personals of name bands at
the Sfervlce Men's Center, an enter-
tainment .spot operated by the USO
for soldiers in the Municipal Audi-
torium here, "has been banned by
AITkl, ' Local No. 2.- Last week the
local refused to permit ' a band to
play without charge. Discussing the
situation, Al G. Schott, business rep-
resentative of the local, said, 'The
union is willing to do its part but
the load is getting too heavy for
us to carry alone.'

Explaining hat the revenue of-
tooters has been seriousl. reduced
by the war, Schott declared that 'the
n.usidans cannot provide free music
all the.time'. He said the union has
decided to stop cuffo music until
some arrange.nent can be made by
which its members car earn a fair
salary. Powell B. McHaney, chair-
man of the USO committee, which
operated the Center, declared the
organization is without funds from
which to pay orchs.

To Boate A" Cuffos

Camp Shows, Inc., wlU nave full
say in the future over the charity
work of orchestras connected with
any of the various leading booking
agencies. At last week's meeting be-
tween CSI'^fficials and agency ex-
ecutives it was unanimously agreed
by the leaders who attended by re-
quest that henceforth all requests
to play charity dates will be referred
to CSI. Letters asking for confirma-
tion of the rule were sent to leaders
on the road.

From the leaders and managers
who were able to show up it was
learned that many more bands than
was at first thought had played, or
agreed to play, without pay for vari-
ous charity organizations. Many of
the dates, if played, could conceiv-
ably cut into the receipts..of regularT
ly operated promotions operated by
men who make possible a band's ex-
istence. This Is the prime reason for
the CSI's asking leaders to allow
that agency, to route charity dates.
They, and the agencies, want to see
deservhig charities helped, but at
the same time they 'wish to protect
dance _ operators who have a big
stake In ballrooms,. etc.,Jtha±.-thfiy
run. . .

EUa Fitzgerald Goes
Along whli Trio Only
After Present Band Tour

Ella Fitzgerald's current road trip
with her band wUl be the last she'U
take accompanied by that outfit. Be-
giuUng July 1 the singer will be
backed by an Instrumental-vocal trio
called the Three Keys, composed of
piano, guitar and string bass. She
has made her first Decc& recordings
with the trio, which will be released
in about a month.

Her band, ■ under arranger-leader
Ernie Barefield, will continue in op-
eration under Moe Gale, manager of
both.

McEachren on Own

• Murray McEachren, who plays
practically every Instrument used in
me modem band. Is stepping away
tfom his current slot with Paul
Whiteman to set up a combination of
oia own. 'V^Hllam Morris agency.
Which handles Whiteman also, will
•book McEachren.

^fore he went with Whiteinan,
^cEachren was for years a member
«c Glen Gray's Casa Lomana. ■ •

WEEK'S BEST RELEASES

Benny Goodman: 'My Little
Cousin'-'Zoot Suit' (Okeh 6608).
, Solid-beat adaptation of Jewish
melody, 'Cousin' Is sure-fire.
Peggy Lee vocaL

Dinah Shore: 'Goodnight Cap-
tain Curly-Head'-'Skylark* (Blue.
11473). Both sides Orst-rate;
'Skylark', new pop, has an edge.

Artie Sba. '-. 'Sometimes I Feel
Like Motherless Chlld'-'Just Kid-
din' Around*. (Vic. £7806). .'Kid-
din', instnmiental, is Shaw's best
in months; rhythmic stuff solid
for boxes.

Horace Heldt: 'Lamplighter's
Serenade'-'Caissons Go Rolling' «
(Col. 36536). Both well done.
'Caissons' is best, hoWever, by
virtue of whistled choruses
backed by fine piano.

Woody Herman: ■'Lamplighter's
Serenade'-'Even Steven' (Decca
4253). Versio. of first is best yet,
vocally (leader and ensemble)
and instrumentally. 'Steven',
original vocaled by BilUe Rogers,
bolsters.

Shep Fields: 'Dear Old Pal'-
'Caissons :Go Rolling' (Blue.
11477). Fields' saxes make 'Pal'
fine box and sales material. Ken
Curtis vocals. 'Caissons' is too
iast.

ShoreleSans
ligbts Slows
Jersey Plans

Hotel and amusement park owners
along the New Jersey coast aren't as
eager to set up summer talent sched-
ules as they were even two weeks
ago. Blackouts of all lights easily
seen from the Atlantic Ocean , on
which n^ast border, and a new rule
forbidding all lights that can be seen
from the sky, has slowed them up
considerably in their summer plans.
No-Ilghts.rule, which amounts to a
complete blackout, Is effective 10
miles inland.

Result Is that none of the agencies
that usually supply talent to the
piers, hotels and ballrooms in the
affected area has an Idea of what
may happen with the annual book-
ings for these summer resorts.

GAC BRINGING THREE
OUTPOSTERS TO N.Y.

Oidying Roadhonses Seek
AHematiTe Transportation
To Get Customers Set

- Roadhouses within the New York
area, but far enough away to mfike
a trip to them a fairly long drive,
are already, beginning to ponder the
tire, and particularly the gasoline
situation.' Such name Iiand danceries
as Frank Dalley'a Meadowbrook,
Glen Island Casino, Log Cabin, and
Blue Gardens, will be bit hard in the
event, of a serious gasoline shortage.

Dalley and the owners of Glen
Island have been mulling method^'
of keepmg their spots alive, the for-
mer a bus line from central Mont-
Clair, about three or four miles away.
Montclair is the nearest town of any
size and a terminal for public bus
lines that run Into and connect 'with
lines from other parts of northern
New Jersey. Glen Island owners
have been thinking about a taxi serv-
ice from the Bronx. Fordham. Road,
the focal point of that borough, is
about the same distance away as
Montclair from Meadowbrook.

There. Isn't much that can save
Log Cabhi and Blue Gardens. Both
are a good distfince from White
Plains or any-^ther Westchester
County community capable of suffi-
cient patronage.

DECCA'S SOCKO
.$781,050 NET
FOR 1941

Palladiiiin, Hollywood, Bmeficiai^
Of Film Studios' Deals with Bands

Ju$t Please 'Em

Aubumdale, Mass,, March 24.

After listening to orchestra
leaders rave about their drawing
. power for- some time, Manager
Roy GUI of Totem Pole Is star-
tling the baton-wavers with this
remark:

Totena Pole can guarantee
you ' In normal weather 1,500
people on Wednesday, 1,200
Thursday, 2,900 Friday and 3,000
to S,500 Satitrday. All we ask Is
for you' to please the crowd.
We'll bring them In.'

General Amusement Corp is bring-
ing the managers of its branch of-
fices into New York for a three-day
business talk session, starting April
1. Principal idea of the meeting is
to get the out-ol-town men better
acquainted with the New York
execs and afford them an oppor-
tuni^ to see and hear the booking
outfit's newer bands.

The visitors will' include. Art
Weems, Chicago; Arthur Frew, Cin-
cinnati, and Ralph Wonders, Los
Angeles.

Mike Me-riello, NBC studio
trumpeter, in New York, forming a
band of his own.

Decca Record -earnings hit an all
time high for the year ending Dec.
31, 1041. After all charges and pro-
vision for normal and excess' profits
taxes the net profit was '$761;040,
yearly double the company's $433,713
net of 1840, and equal to $2.01 a
share en 339,329 shares of capital
stock outstanding as of Dec. 31,
Last year's per share earning was
$1.15. , ^

Figures revealed a net sales in-
crease of 67% over 1040; total sales
for 1042 were $8,218,145 aa against
$5,281,481. Company revealed in its
report ftat It had opened additional
distributing facilities during the year
at Hartford, Conn.; San Antonio,
Chicago and Brooklyn, N. Y., mak-
ing 12 branches In all. Kore new
ones are to be established at Buf-
falo, Richmond, Va., and Charleston,
W. Va.

An annual stockholders meeting is
dated for AprU 7.

Claude Thomhin Set for
Par Fdm Some Tune
Next FaH or Winter

Claude Thombill'i Is another band
signed for pictures. Currently at the
Palladlimi Ballroom, . Hollywood,
Thornhill has been contracted by
Paramount Pictures to make a film
between S'ept 14 next and Feb. 1,
1043.

. Reason the date was set so far
ahead is based on a union rule.
Thornhill's outfit is a traveling band,
and, in order to double into two Jobs
within the jurisdiction of a local not
Its o'wn, both contracts have to be
filed with that local before entering
its jurisdiction. Since the band was
already at the Palladium when it was
signed by Par the studio would have
been forced to pay 100% for stand-
by men had it used Thornhill now.

BUFF BANDS TOP
TAKE FOR SICK FUND

Buffalo, March 24.

'Parade of Bands' for benefit of
Musicians Local 43 drew its heaviest
gate In four years with 7,510 turn-
stile count here recently. Exclu-
sive of almost 1,000 service men ad-
mitted free.

Tickets at 55c prcsale and 75c at
door turned $4,750.50 into local's
sick fund.

Pickets Away,
Frisco Hotel
Peace Possible

San Francisco, March 24.
With picket* alMcnt trocn San
Francisco for the first time since
Aug. 80 last, -Mark Hopkins and St.
Francia have had deals- pending.
Mark has Henry King penciled in
for April 6, providing the strike is
finally settled by that time. , Harry
Owens and a couple of others are
under eonaideration.by the St Fran-
cis.

Although pickets were withdrawn
with entry of the War Labor Board
into the picture, strike is still in ef-
fect and bands can't work untih^nal
settlement is in the bag. Mark was
blacked oiit Sept. .15, Catching Herbie
Holmes on his first Coast date. St.
Francis was struck two weeks later,
catching Paul Pendarvis on the po-
dium.

VERA BARTON OF CBS
GETS VICTOR BUILD-UP

Leonard Joy at Victor is recording
Vera Barton today- (Wed.) on her
.first four waxinga, since the disk
company Is tying In with CBS'
buildup of the new 19-year-ofd
songstress 'whom ' Music Gorp. . of
America Is' projecting. CBS is giv-
ing her periodic across-the-board
buildups as a potential ''next new big
voice.'

Miss Barton, a Brooklyn girl, wUl
make 'JUst a Moon Ago,' 'Mean to
Me,' the new Irving Berlin 'I Threw
a Kiss In the -Ocean' and 'Just a
Baby's ''Prayer at Twilight,' the
World War I hit being revived to
coincide -with the present mood.
Walter. Gross, who batons her CBS
series, composed 'Moon Ago,' her
thematic, With Mack ' David, but
Xeonard Joy wlU-eonduct-the -Victor-
dates.

Skip Nelson Joins Marx,
R^lacing Ziggy Lane

Pittsburgh, March 24.
. After auditioning flock of male
singers to replace Ziggy Lane, who
got his marching orders here last
week, Chico Marx .picked Skip Nel-
son, pianist-vocalist with Piccolo
Pete band at Club Petite, for the
spot. Nelson left town with Marx,
who is fronting Ben Pollock outfit
on his current p.a. tour, following
Stanley theatre engagement here,
which ended last Thursday night
(19).

Nelson was recently with Joey
Sims' outfit and quit to form his own
band. However, he found U)o much
difficulty rounding up ■ gang due to
inroads war has made on Local 60's
rolls, so dropped the idea and joined
Piccolo Pete instead. Had been 'with
the latter outfit only two weeks
when the Marx break came along.
.Lane received his notice while play-
ing at Stanley and will be inducted
into Army In New York today
(Tuesday).

Eddy Dnchln album- of Cole Por-
ter tunes next for release by Co-
lumbia Records. Following Is book
of Sigmund Romberg tunes by Al
Goodman band. ' ' ■ ■ '. ' ; -

Palladltmi BaUroom, Hollywood,
which opened alxtut a year ago aa
one of the largest diiicerles of ita
type, has benefited Immeasurably
from the popularity of the high-,
powered combos brou^t to' the
coast to make pictures, thereby giv-..
ing the Palladium unexpected
chances to play them.

Perhaps none of the important
bands' the spot has used since open-
ing would have gone to the coast
without a picture contract Eastern
pickings in locations, one-nighters,
etc., are far more numerous and
lucrative and ' few of the biggies
would trek westward' without spe-
cial reason; too, long stays out of
New York, headquarters lor music
publishers, are' dangerous since
'tunes for recording purposes are so
important. Yet the Palladium has
played or now has booked Jimmy
Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Mil-
ler, Woody Herman, Eiammy Kay*
and Harry James, the cream of the-
crop. All were brought westward by
pictures. ^ .

Tommy Dorsey Is so far the only
<Jhe to play the Palladium twice,
though Herman Is -tcheduled for a
return date July 1. Dor$ey played
a total of 16 weeks, Jimmy Dorsey
two, MiUer three, ^erman four; Kaye
is down for four while he makes a
picture for 20th-Fox with Sonja
Henie, and James plays four while
filming for /Universal vi\Vt ■ the An-
drews Sisters. Out of approximately
70 weeks of operation, including the
forthcoming Kaye and James stands,
it fneans that the Palladium operated
almost half the total with the highest
powered bands U the bii^essr Be-
tween them they have averaged
roughly 17,500 patrons a week.

Few location ballrooms are in as
fortunate >a .tosIUon.

Interstate Circint Puts
Name Baffii^ on Air;
Bays Network Perioik

San Antonloi March 24. '
The Interstate Theatres , Circuit
will use the Texas QiiliUty Group
to plug the personal apptfarances 61"
name bands. . Contract with the re?
glonal is for. 10 weeks and the broad-
casting of the bands will take pla(je
while they are' touring the circuit's

spots. ■' '^ :

Ted Flo RIU Is slated to do three
broadcasts, the flrM while -he is
plasring Houston, the second from
Dallas and the. third here. Flo Rita
opens his local date April 3.

Horace Heldt wiU do a simUar
broadcast series ^as he follows Flo
Rita around the' circuit.

LWALD/NEWCOMER,
DITO LINCOLN HOTEL

Jerry Wald's orchestra, In circula-
tion only about six months, gets Its
first crack at a New York hotel spot
P. has been booked for a 12-wcck
slay at the Lincoln hotel. New York,
opening AprU 4. Lmcoln's Blue
Room has been dark sinc£ Jan. 3,
when Harry James exited. James
was supposed to have retum<id April
3, but canceled to make a picture
for Universal Pictures with the
Andrews Sisters.

- Wald hops from the Roseland Ball-
rcom, N. Y., right into the Lincoln.
At that dancery now, he closes
April .2.

Bert Block Into Army

Bert Block, ex-bandleader and
lately a personal manager, was in-
ducted into the Army Monday (23)J
He's at Fort Monmouth, N. J., where
he will lead a post band.

Block had been handling the af-
fairs of the McFarland Twins or-
chestra, which is to be taken over
by attorney Lee Eastman, a new
addition to lawyer-personal man-
agers.

Barry Wood on Bluebird

Barry Wood goes from the SOc
Victor label to the 35c Bluebird side*
next month. His first tunes tot Blue-
bird will be made with Dinah Shore,
a group of four that haven't yet been
selected.

Wood has he«n on Lucky Strike's
Hit Parade on CBS for two. straight
yeart.'" ' ' ■ • • • ■

40

ORCHESTRAS

Wcidnesday, March 25, 1942

On the Upbeat

Wayne King booked for week's en-
gaeement at Stanley theatre, Pitts-
burgh, beginnl-ig April 3.

Ralph Springer orch into Trelon
Cafe, Pittsburgh, for indefinite en-
gagement, replacing Billy Yates out-
fit.

Gene Jones, A. B. Green and
Lenny Grace, all of Herbie Kay
band, received their inarching orders
last week.

Jimmy Gamble band opened en-
gagement at Bill Green's, Pitts-
burgh, Monday (23), following
Kerbie Kay orch.

Sammy Lombardo, IS-year-old
trumpeter with Stan Vinton band
in Canonsburg, Pa., near Pittsburgh,
off for New York to join the Barney
Rapp crew.

Ann DnFont and her Men of Mu-
sic into New Colonial, Pittsburgh,
for a run following eight-week stay
at Ohio hotel, Youngstown, O.

Hal Leonard's orchestra playing
New Kenmore hotel, Albany. The
Star Spangled Ice Revue, with Dor-
othy Franey, is on the floor.

Bine Barron orch booked into
Stanley theatre, Pittsburgh, for week
of March 27.

Bay Scott pulls out Blue Gar-
dens, Armonk, N. Y., one night
March 27 to fill-in for Harry James
at Pennsylvania State College.
James pulled out by picture work
for Universal on Coast.

Dick Catan moving hisliand April
S into Park Lane, Buffalo,

denevieve Llpton. singing with
Maurice Spitalny's band on dance

KENTON

And Hla Orchestra
ON TOUR

-Jort nlMund-

on Decea records
UHENTO aiTANO
CONCERTO FOB DOOHOU^B

Qanaral Amutement Corp.
ren. Sb.i fjulM flaitcl

dates in and around Pittsburgh
while Faye Parker Is awaiting stork

Ecldle' Weltb orch, With Gerry
Richards as vocalist, into New Hill-
crest, Pittsburgh, for four weeks, re-
placing Benny Burton band.

Boogie Woogie Prof

Buffalo,. March 24.
Roger Brown, WBNY disc
Jockey, turns up Monday (SO) as ,
lectur«r in Grosvenor Library
longhair music series.
. Talking on "Bach vs. Booglp-
. Woogie.* • •

10 Best Sellers on Com-Machines

Billy Yates, formerly with Don
Bestor.- Qut his band from 10 to four
men for engagement at Trelon Cafe,
Pittsburgh.

Knights of Note (six-man en-
semble) comes into the Drum Room,
Hotel President, Kansas City, begin-
ning March SO.

Sonny Dunham band, on verge of
shifting to Decca, remains on Blue-
bird label.

Ray ConnUt, ex-Artie Shaw trom-
bonist, replaced Sid Brantley With
Vaughn Monroe.

Marie Greene, soprano, recorded
with Shep Fields band at RCA-
Victor last week.

Ray Herbeck band replaces Cecil
Golly's at Donohue's, Mountain
View, N. J., April 1.

Ted Alabaster, formerly with- Bob
Chester, replaces Bobby Bums as
road manager with Charlie Spivak.
Bums enters Army tomorrow
(Thursday) .

Tone Carnevale combo held over
through April at Wllliamsville Glen,
outside Buffalo.

Dean Kincaide, sax-arranger, has
gone back to playing with the Al-
vlno Rey band, for which he ar-
ranges.

Johnny McGee band replaces
Muggsy Spanier's at Arcadia Ball-
rooftT,* New York, tomorrow night
(Thurs.).

0

'Snooky' Lanson, formerly with
Ray Noble, has taken vocalist spot
with Al Donahue. Latter opened
Palace hotel, San Francisco, last
night (Tues.).

Sonny Skylcr, vocalist with Vin
cent Lopez, leaving that band to head
a new comlio of his own which is
now in rehearsal.

i;r Sir :■ '

Becgle Chlldi goes network when
he opens Friday (27) at Netherlands
Plaza, Cincinnati, for six weeks, fol-
lowed by a fortnight at Detroit's
Eastwood Gardens;

Bob Aitor has taken on Ernie Fi-
gueroa, who plays trumpet on the
tiOuis Armstrong style, replacing
Gordon Boswell who went to Jerry
Wald. Rudy Tanza takes lead alto
spot ' from Ray Heller, who Joined
Will Bradley. . '

George and Joe Fenton (not re-
lated), who traveled New. England
territory with own band, later spilt
ting, have both taken defense jobs
for the duration 'somewhere in
Maine.'

Sax Solo Origiimtor,
Frank Mnd^e, Dies at 74

Hollywood, March 24. '

Frank Mudge, 74, reputed origi-
nator of the saxaphone solo in vaude^
vllle, died March 17 Ini Los Angeles.
He toured this country and Europe
for nearly a half century with vari-
ous vaude units and minstrel show.";..

In later- years he appeared In vaudr
with his son, Charles Morton.

Band Reviews

GEORGE MORRIS' ORCH (5)
Armando's, New York

Comprising piano. Novachord
(doubling sax), drumb string bass
and maestro George . Morris on the
horn, this combination gives out in
solid rhythmpation at Armando s.
class East 55th stree". restaurant-
nitery. Boniface Armando has a
good Idea of no music until 9:30, In
order not to disturb the diners, and
then an early dinner show with
Beverly Patemo — who has. figured
in the pub'.lc prints — as, a vocal in-
terlude. Like. most socialite song-
stresses. Miss Patemo must depend
mostly on her personal, following.

The dance combination, however,
Is more professional, knows how to,
mix up its dance sets, and is pat for
a class room of this calibre. Abel.

JIMMY HARRIS ENSEMBLE (4)
Hotel Continental, Kansas City

Furnishing dance rhythms for
patrons of the Continental's dinner
spot, the Penguin Room continues
to be something of a problem. Small,
Intimate room can't house a- regular-
sized orch, and tendency has been>
to these smal -Jr groups. This one
of four Is too small and the instru-
mentation is basically incorrect tor
the soft-tonts needed here.

Harris himself, at the piano, and
Harry "Flip' Mariotti, on the reeds,
fulfill their assignments nicely, btft
guitar of WlUard Nastas doesn t live
up to specialty work. needed in so
small an outfit. All are over-
shadowed by the drums of Norman
Kaufman. Nastas, howeve;', doubles
neatly as balladist and chimes in
with Harris on the arranging. .

Own.

(Records ' betow are ttrabhing most nicfceb this toeeh (n iukeboxet
tKroughout the country, as reported by operators to "Variety.' Names
01 more ttuin one band or uocalist ofter the title indicates, in order o) -
popularitt/.. whoa* recorditiflrs are being played Figures and names m
parentheids indicate the number of toeeks each song has been in the ti.<itinps
Ttid re-tper rit>e publishers.)

1. Deep Heart Texa. (6) Melodylane { tt'crS::V::::f 'otca

2. I Don't Want Walk «) Paramount). .... j «^„7J«™«;-;;;f^^^^^^^^

s; Moonlight CocktaiU (5) Jewel. j 7. .°^^^^^^^^

•4..StrIng Pearls (5) Mutual ) « ^1!^^„;; .^'^^^Jf.

5. Somebody Else Taking Place <4) Shapiro. { ^^'^^y^G^^^^^

6. Blues. in Night (11) Remick - ]

Bluebird
...Victor

v^>s^:...., l^r^^Se:::::::::^^

9. couple in Castle (1) Famous j ^°^:„"Vme7 .-.•.•.•.•.BluS

10. Someone's Rockln' Dreamboat- (1) Ad- ) In!:spots . , Decca

vance (Woody Herman Decca

7. Street of Regret (S) Loeb j V-ghn ^Monroe .

8. Miss You

OTHER FAVORITES

' (These records ore directly below first 10 in popularitv.
number of weeks in parenthesis are fading, others gaining.)

Tunes with

White Cliffs Dover (12) Shapiro.: |

Dear Mom (Republic) |

Tangerine (Paramount) j

Ev'rythlng I Love (Chappell) |

Sometimes (Berlin) ' |

My Little Cousin (Doraine)

What to Do (Leeds)

Zoot Suit (Greene-Revel)

DON KAYE ORCIH (12)

WKh Betty Parker, Beverly /Blake,

Ben Adams, Kingston Ebner ,
Turnpike' Casino, Linooln, Neb.

Two girls take the most bows out
of Don Kaye's' room-hotel designed
orch, which is not In its proper baili-
wick In this ballroom due to its soft
tempoes, and would be out of place
in any such roomy enclosure where
the traffic is young and jitterbuggy.

Fenunes are pert yoimgsters, Bev-
erly Blake, able 6n both violin and
electric guitar plus being an attrac-
tive blonde, and Betty Parker,, a
brunet with s.a. in song and .appear-
ance. Girls, plus being featured, are
reinforced by the keyboardist, King-
ston Ebner, and slide man, Ben
Adams,- vf or quartettlng. As such,
they tend to scat a little. Art.

FRANKIE MASTERS

and His ORCHESTRA

Just finishing theatre tonr btifore opening

THIRD RETURN ENGAGEMENT

in the

ROOSEVELT HOTEL

NEW YORK ,

ON APRIL 3, 1942

(6&EH RECORDS)

Representation: MUSIC CORP. OF AMERICA
Personal Management: ARTHUR MICHAUD

Mandy Is Two (BVC) |

How Do I Know It's Real? (Chappell) |

:::::.:::::{

Jersey Bounce (Lewis).
Skylark (Famous).

Sammy iCay» . ., Victor

Jimmy Uor.tey . . : Decca

Sammy Kaye..,.- Victor

Kate Smith ...... . Columbia

Jimmy Dorsey Decca

Vaughn Monroe ...Bluebird

Glenn Miller Bluebird'

Jimmy Dorsey Decca

Vaughn Monroe. . .Bluebird

Tommy Tucker Okeh

Benny GoodiT<an Okeh

Andrews Sisters Decca

'Kay Kyser Columbia

Andrews SUters Decca

Abe Lyman Bluebird

Vaughn Monroe ..31uebird
Freddie Martin ....Bluebird

Guy Lombardo Decca

Benny Goodqian Okeh

Woody Herman.. Decca

Harry James, Columbia'

REASONS ENOUGH

Joke Boxes Eat Up Plenty of Mate-
rials, Besides Nickels

Washington, March 24.

Here's the reason why the Federal
Government put the lid on manufac-
ture of jukeboxes in order to oomph
war production.

A single machine of large size re-
quires brass enough to make 750
cartridge cases. The aluminum in
125 big.^ets would make one fighter
plane. Steel in- a big model equals
the amount needed for five machine
guns. 'In addition, the 42. pounds of
plastics would be released for con-
trol panels 6nd other gadgets, on
badly needed alrcra|t. .

Harlan LeoAaird Re-Casts

Kansas City, March 24. '
Harlan Leonard, the colored jlvlst,
has brought his reorganized band
into the Mayfair Club here. Loss,
of Tad Dameron to Jimmy Lunce-
ford to handle arrangements and of
drummer Jesse Price, who now
heads his own band, along with
some departures to the armed forces
caused Leonard to set up this new
crew.

Myra Taylor continues as -vocalist
and Ernie Williams is fronting and
handling blues vocals. Leonard is
working without trombones, his in-
itrumentatlon including four sax
(his own special forte), three
trumpets and four rhythm.

"There'! a little
Armitrong In 'am all"

and hla

Famous Orchestra

featuring
SONNY WOODS
VELMA MIDDLETON

Opening Mar. 27
for Four Waeka

CASA fAAUAU^

HOUTWOOD, CAU
Broadoostliiv Nlcbtly
Don Im > HatniU Netwark

DECCA RIECORDS

OF G I A S [

Lon Breese plays two weeks at
Roosevelt hotel, Washington, D. C,
o'penlng April .4.

The solid tune thai PUBLIC ACCLAiM U making
A$ Big a HU At

TUXEDO JUNCTION

JERSEY BOUNCE

Beedrded by

Benny Goodman Jimmy Doraay Earl Hinea
OKEH DECCA BLUEBIRD

„. . MlltHarthTpIo
Shap Fialda King Slttara Vooal by Tarry Shand
BLUEBIRD BLUEBIRD DECCA

LEWIS MUSIC PUBUiSHING CO., Inc.
1«1» BrOBdwmy. New York .

Jan Skvitt
VICTOR

Red Norvo
COLUMBIA

Vednesday.. MmtA as, 1942

ORCHE8TBA QS08SB8 4t

Prima Hefty $30m Brown 45G H O.
Both NX; Kaye 22G, Omaha Despite
BE Rey Ditto Hub, Heidt 1(1/26 LA.

, (Estimates for Thlt 'A eefc)

Cbarlle Barnet, . Newark (Adams;
2 000- 25-35-50-60)— With Aunt Je-
mima on stage find 'Right to Heart'
(20th). Band Is. getting the business
lor Adams, nice $16,000.

Count Basle, Detroit (Paradise; 2,-
200- 40--55)— Coupled with Treat ."Em
Koiigh* (U). Nothing but the band
to offer, with a slight falUng off ^^om
preceding weeks; $11,000, par but not
the best for house.

Les Brown, New York (Paramount;
8 664; 35-55-85-99 >— With C^onnee Bos-
weU, other acts, on stage; 'Fleet's In'
(Par). Growing popularity of the
Brown orchestra, plus pull of Miss
BoswelTaccountiiig for much of big
business here. First week was a
smash $59,500, wtile the second con-
cluded last night (Tues.) was $48,000.

Henry Basse, Chicago (Oriental;
J,200; 33-44-55)— With "Frisco hH'
(U). Busse band largely is account-
ing for business, film being a pro-
grammer: Superb $20,000.

Dnke ElUnpton, Pittsburgh (Stan-
ley; 3,800; 30-44-55-66)— Plus Ethel
Waters and 'Night Jan. 16' (Par).
This combo Is one of the big dlsap-
pohjtraents of the year, though biz is
off all over here. In past, Ellington
and Waters each has been big locally.
With picture that's nameless but still
praised, total won't be more than
$18,000, only so-so>

Ina Ray Hotton, Philadelphia
• (Earle; 2,768; 35-46-57-68-75)— (Check-
ing in with sound $21,000 abetted by
Blackstone, the magician, and 'What's
Cooliin' (U) on screen. Miss Button's
crew accounting. for much-Of dr^w.. .

Sammy Kaye, Omaha (Orpheum;
J.OOO; 15-40-55-65)— Playing with
•Lady Has Plans' (Par). Despite near
blizzard, packed them in from the
start Terrific $22,000 or possibly
better,~and may come close to-crack-
ing all-time house record here.

Johnny Lon^r^leveland (Palace;
8,700; 30-35-42-55-66)— With. "Lady Is
Willing' (Col) and Andrews Sisters
on vaude biU. Latter vocal trio for-
tifyhig band on its first trek -here.
Strong $^,000, flattering biz.

Hed Norvo, Brooklyn (Strand; 2,-
800; 30-40-50-65) — Plus Jimmy
'Schnozzle* Durante, on stage and
'Among the Living? (Par). No great
shakes at $6,500 for four-day run,
with Durante the big draw.

Loots Prima, New York (State;
8,450; 28-44-55-75-90-$1.10) V- With
Henny Youngman on stage and
'Johnny Eager" (M-G) (2d run).
Combination of Prima band and
Henny Youngman In person provid-
ing good support for picture at in-
dicated $30,000, atrong though not
.socko.

AWlno Bey, Boston (RKO-Boston;
8.200; 30-44-55-65-75)— With rVaUey
of Sim' (KKO). Dandy $22,000, prbi-
cipally on band's draw.

Jaa SftTlU, Chicago (CHiicago; 4,000;
85-55-75)— Plus 'Man Who Came to
Dinner' (WB). Excellent combo get-
ting a bright $35,000.

CharUe Splvak, New York (Strand;
2.756; 35-55-85-99)— With 'Always In
My Heart' (WB). Weakness of pic-
ture holding Splvak band to disap-
pointing business; first week only $25,-
000, while current one ending tomor-

row (Thurs.) night will be no-better
than $20,000. IiLboth cases slow.

Joe Vennti, Providence (Metropol
Itan; 3,200; 44-55-65)— Plus Ray Bol-
ger, Benay Venutl and 'Riot Squad'
(Mono). I'alr $6,500 for three days,
depending on- band and vaude acts
for pulling power.

Lawrence Welk, Kansas City
(Tower; 2,110; 11-30-50)— Combhied
with 'Right to Heart* (20th). First
date In K. C. for Welk and more than
satisfactory considering. Film means
little, hence credit .for most of $9,000
goes to stage band.

BENNY GOODMAN WEDS

Bride b Sister of Jazi Critic John
Hammond

Astor Clicks $6,525
In 4 Days at TP.;
Gray s Hot $2,900

(Estimates)

Bob Astor (Totem Pole B., Au-
bumdale, Mass., March 18-21)., On
first appearance here Astor proved
solid hit, drawing 9,000 in four days
at $1.45 couple for fine $6,525.

Georfle Auld (Roseland-State B.,
Boston, ' March 21). Playing return
date with new band Auld pulled 900
at 65c-55c for $540, considered good
for spot.

Bob Chester (Memorial Aud., Buf-
falo, March 17). Chester drew
medium 940 on St. Pat's night hop;
480 advance at $1 and rest shelled
out- $1.25.

Rtggle Chllds-Bay Harrlnfton
(Raymor-Play'more B., Boston, March
20). Childs and local Harrington
drew 1,800 in twin dancerles at 75c-
65c for neat $1,260. On Saturday
(21) Childs hooked up with Roly
Rogers, another local, and lured 2,-
000 at same prices for big $1,400.

Bemie Commtna (Cecil theatre.
Mason City, la., March 17). Cimi-
mins gross $682 at 30c-40c-5ec, good
gate despite bad weather.

Tommy Dorsey (Plat-Mor B.
Kansas City, March 19). Dorsey's
3,750 at thus spacious dancery was
fine. Prices, $1.10 advance, $1,25
door.

Glen Gray (Shubert theatre. New
Haven, Conn, March 22). Gray,
plus vaude and shorta, crowded In
five stiows to top Eddy Duchin's
house mark; approximately $2,900.

Jimmy Lnnceford (Dixieland, Lex-
ington, Ky, March 16). Big fall
off from previous appearances;
Luncetord drew BOO at 00c. Bad
weather, however, hurt

Locky Millindcr (Two-Spot C,
Jacksonville, Fla., March 18). Mil-
linder's reception was 'good,' but he
drew, only fair 379 at $1.10.

BoIy Boteri (Georgian Room, Stat-
ler hotel, Boston, March 20). Play-
ing for Boston U. prom' Rogers got
credit for largest attendance in five
years; 600 dancers at $5 couple for
$1,500.

Benny Goodman was married Fri'
day (20) to Alice .Hammond Duck
worth at Las Vegas, Nev., where. tlie
bride had recently secured a divorce
from her first TiUsband. New Mrs;
Goodman is the sister of Jolin Ham-
mond, jazz critic formerly connected
with Columbia Records. .

Goodman has been on vacation
since his band left the New Yorlter
hotel. New York, March 12. He is
due to resume work April 3 at the
Earle theatre, Ptdladelphia.

Band Bookmgs

Alvlno Rcy, April 9, K. of C. HaU,
Rochester; 10-16, Shea's T., Buffalo;
17-20, 21-23, Palace T^ Youngstown-
Altron; 24. Lafayette (J, Easton, Pa.;
25-27, Coin Operators Convention,
Cleveland; May 1-7, Stanley T.,
Pittsburgh; 14-20, Capitol T., Wash-
ington, D. C. •.

Carl Boff, March 29. Ritz B.,-
Bridgeport; April 2, week, Palomar
B., Norfolk, Va.

Blae Barron, April 3-9. Earle T..
Philadelphia; 14-16. Empire T., Fall
River, Mass.; 17-19. State T., Hart-
ford, Conn.; 20-22, Rhodes-on-Paw-
tucket Providence, R. I.; 23-24, Poll
T., Waterbury. Conn.: 25, Arena, New
Haven; 26, Valley Arena, Holyoke,
Mass.; 27-29, Lyric' T„ Bridgeport;
30-April 6, (Jentral T., Passaic, N. J.

Jlmmle Lnnceford, April 16, Arm-
ory, Baltimore; 17,, Strand B., Phila-
delphia; 18, Snell's Academy, Syra-
cuse; 10, City Aud., Buffalo; 20,
Greystone B., Detroit; 22, HUl City
Aud, Pittsburgh; 24, Aud., Beckley,
W. Va.; 25, Arena, Huntington, W.
Va.; 26, Sunset TerraceJL, Ihdianap-
oUs; 27, City Aud., Dayton, O.; 30-
May 2, Municipal Aud.. St: Louis.

Coont Basle, April 4, Memorial
HaU, Dayton, O.; S, Eastwood Park,
Detroit;- 6, Sioux City Aud., Pitts-
burgh; 7, Convention Hall, Camden,
N. J.; 9-15, Adams T, Newark. N. J.;
17-23. RKO T., Boston; 24-30, Civic
T., Portland, Me.

Will Bradley, March 28, Lakeside
Park, Dayton, O.; 29, Aragon B.,
Cleveland: 30-AprU 6, Flint A. C,
Flint Mich.; 9, Statler hotel, Cleve-
land; 10, State Fair Grounds, Detroit.

Henry Biuse, March 29, TlvoU T.,
Richmond, Ind.; 18-23 Tower T„ Kan-
sas City; 28, Larmar B, Fort Dodge,
la. ' ■ .

Beccle ChUds, March 27-April 23,
Netherland-Plaza hotel, Cincinnati;
26, Trianon .B., Toledo.

be! Courtney, March .27, Show
Boat, B., St. Louis; 28. Frog Hop B.,
St Louis; 29, Skylon B., Sioux City,-
la.; April 3-7, Paramount T., • Des
Moineis: 8, Coliseum, Oelweln,- la.; 9-
11, Coliseum, Sioux City, la.

Bay McKlnley, April 4, Cleveland
hotel. Cleveland; 5-6, 8, 10-11, Ara-
gon B., Cleveland; 12, Trianou' B.,
Toledo; 14, Aud., Buffalot 17, GM B.,
Detroit; 18, Rutgers XT., New Bruns-
wick, N. J. .

Chleo Marx, April 4-6, Temple T.,
Rochester; 7-9, Stanley T., Utica, N.
Y,; 10-16, RKO T., . Boston; 17-23,
Civic T., Portland, Me. .■

Duke EUUvton, March 27-20, Trl-
state T., Moline, HI.

Earl Bines, March 28, Paris B.,
Milwaukee; 29, -Palais Royal, South
Bend, Ind.; April 5, Savov B., Chi-
cago; 6, Armory, Louisville; 8, Castlt
B., St Loiis; 9, Municipal Aud,
Kansas City; 11, Blossom Heath,'
Oklahoma City.

Vsnfhn Monroe, April 20, Bllt-
more H.. Providence. '

Bed Norvo, March 27-Aprll 2,
Oriental T.; Chicago; B, Palace T,
Fort Wayne; 10-16, Stanley T., Pitts-
burgh; 24-30, Colonial T., Dayton.

Bands at Hotel B.O.*s

(Preiented heretirfth. as a weekly tabulation, ia the eatirjtated cover
charge fnuiriesa being done by name bands in various Nero York hotels.
Dinner business (7-10 P.M.) not rated. Figures after- name of hotel give
room capacity and cover charge.. Larger, amount designates weekend and
hohday price.) ■ ■

. Coven IMml

null ■> . . W««lu Fast Ccven

Jhnmy Dorsey,... Pennsylvania (500; 75c-$1.50) e 2,750 13.750

Woody Herman*.. New Yorker (400; 75c-$1.50) 2,125 3J123

f^H^^M "^f ■•■5r"^?°'"* "''°'*^-»'''0) 8 800 7,350

KeddyMartln*.. Waldorf (400; $1.$1.50) 9 2,375 20,025

LanlMcIntire Lexmgton (300; 75c-$1.50) 0 1,400 . 8.400

Vaughn Monroe*. Commodore (400; 75c-$l) 23 1,850 35,073

« supporting /looT show, althouffh the band it the

major draw. 1 2 days.

Los Angeles

„^'''°i°1tL <Anibassador; 900; $1-$1.50). Picked up slightly for

around 950 covers on the two nighta (Fri. nnd Sat)

rm Barris (Biltmore; 50c-$l). Helped by parties and annual Walten
ball to a good count of 6.500. Has been consistent since be moved In.

Chicago

^ Chuck Foster (Continental Roohi,' Stevens hotel; 400; $1.50-$2 mhi.).
In week generally tough throughout town Foster did fair with 2,700; hotel
crowded by Hotel Men's convention. . . no*"

Xavler Curat (Empire Room, Palmer House; 600; $3-$3.50 min.), Cugat
doing aU right; held up last week with 3^00 patrons; ■

Gene Knipa (Panther Room, Sherman hotel; 700; $1.25-$2J0 mln.).
Slump affected this spot with the others, but an extra strong weekend
brought it back; sweU 4,800 customers.

Art Kasscl (Panther Room, Bismarck hotel; S50; $l-$2 min.). Suffered..
too, slipping to 1,600 diners on the session.

NeU Bondshn (Mayfair Room, Blackstone Hotel; $2.50; min. Sat). Jana
Froman headlining and accounting for trade, taking 1,600 customers for
nrst week

Boston

John Klrby "(Bermuda Terrace, Brimswick hotel; 550; 55c-$l cover).
Following Charlie Barnet Kirby's smaU group had large aislgnment; did
extremely well to draw 1,950 covers, mainly on weekend when cover Is Slw

Leichton Noble (Terrace Room, Hotel Statler; 450: $1 cover). In tentli
week. Noble kept good even pace with 850 Fridby-Saturday. only lat*
nights, With big dinner biz, . , .• , . ' »

Bnby Newrara (Oval,'Room, Copley Plaza;'300; $i cover). .' Wltli Dorothy
Lewis' Ice Show; In final week drew good biz for spot with' 1,200 covers
m five days. Griff WUliams opened Saturday (21) to 400 covers, usual
big crowd for night ^ ■

Baltimore

Don Bcstor (Charles Room, Belvedere hotel; 500; $1-$S mln.). Holdlna
all right for time of season; played to 1,700 covers, mostly in later part «5
week.

Philadelphia

Panoho (Garden Terrace, Bertjapiin Franklin hotel; -500; $lJ0-$2 inln.).
Rain, hail and snow Friday and Saturday evening, hurt and kept biz t«
1,042 diners for Pancho's first full week at this spot

Minneapolis

Mel Marvin (Minnesota Terrace,' Hotel NicoUet; 800; $1-$1J0 mln.).
Income taxes, war and Lent blamed for a falling off. Third week for
favorably receive^ Marvin and one to go. Floor show includes Paiil
Rosini, magician, end Lathrop tc Lee, dancers. MUd average of 450 -
nlgbtly.

LOCATION JOBS, NOT IN HOTELS

(Los Angeles)

CUude ThomhUl (Palladium B, Hollywood, fourth week). War jlttcru
slightly subsided; spot getting beck to around normal with 11,600 statu
through the chopper. • . .. ' *

Bob Crosby (Trianon, N, South Gate, Calif.). No. coiitplahits at ajSOO,
although he averaged much better oh his- previous stand. ■ • ' , :

Jack TesfsrdcB (Casa Manana, B, Culver City, Cal.), Got around 4,500
on the week counting Monday's benefit for lata Jlmmx Walsh, , which
drew 1,600, >

0»le NeIi«B (Florentine Gardens N, Hollywood)..' Hovering around tha
4,000 mark, with Nils Granlund's floor show sparking the trade;.

(Chicago)

Orrin Tucker (Blackhawk; 400; $1J!5 mln.). Tucker fell off last ..week
like the others but stlU all right at 2.50O visitors.

Boyd Baebnm (Cher Paree; 800; i3-$S.60). WlUla Short on the floor
■howi last week about the same with 2,800 customers.

THIlEE NEW GREAT SONGS by Irving Berlin

ME and MY MELINDA

Boy Meets Girl To A Swell Irving Berlii i Tune

I THREW A KISS IN THE OCEAN

The "Blue Jacket" Romantic Ballad

THIS TIME

The Song for All Americans THIS TIME anci ti./ A«i Tim^

IRVING BERLIN INC., 799 7«h AVE., NEW YORK, DAVE DREYER, Prof. Mgr.

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42

ORCHE8TRA8--MU8IC

Wednesdaf, Mareh 25, 1942

To BMI to Steacly Its Cad Portion

Columbia and NB'^ have agreed
to help Broadcast Music,. Inc., out of
a ticklish financial position by ad-
vancing substantial sums of money
to the licensing organization. Each
network has committed ItseU to ad-
vance in cash the estimated license
fees for their owned and operated
stations and for the networks' share
of the cost of clearance at tbe source
for six months. The effective date
of CBS' advance was March 12,
1S42, and NBCs Is understood to be
six months thereafter.
■ The advance was made necessary,
It was explained in a letter to CBS
affiliates by Edward Klauber, CBS
K' executive v.p., last week, by the fact
that the required payments to Ed-
ward B. Marks Music Corp. for the
broadcast use of- the latter's catalog
as well as other publishers' works
had put a substantial strain on.
BMTs cash position. BMI has made
i*- the practice of keeping cash ear-
marked for a full year's Installments
to Marks', whose contract has. 3%
years to go. . • .

In his letter Klauber declared, that
he thought the broadcasting indus-
try should continue to support BMI
.so that It may never again' find itself
■*wlth6ut' an alternative competitive
source of music' Continued his . let-
ter, 'Since, as you know,' the broad-

casters themselves control this or-
ganization through the election of
its board of directors by stations
which are Its licensee-stockholders,
we believe that BMI's activities will
be geared to the desires of the
broadcasters within the scope of Its
budget and income.' BMI's budget is
understood to be built on the as-
sumption of support from the entire
radio industry,

Marks' contract calls for the pay-
ment of $200,000 a year. NBC and
CBS had each underwritten $400,000
of the obligation. '

Lairy Taylor Abandons
' Music Publisher Role

Larry Taylor, one-half of the mu-'
sic publishing firm of Reis Si Taylor,
has given up active participation in
that firm' and returns as vocalist to.
the Charlie' Bamet band. Taylor
will retain .his, interest in the firm
and Reis will operate it' .

Singer was, with Barnet before go-
ing Into mtislc publishing; he joins
the band next week.

Walter Jarnwn and Paul Webster
cleffed Uttle Tangle Toes' and You
and, the t^altz and. Me', for "Tulip
Time' ait Metro.

Of HITS

"SHIP AHOY

THE lAST CAU FOR LOVE

POOR YOU
I'll TAKE TAIIUIAH

THERE WON'T BE A
- SHORTAGE OF lOVE

HOW ABOUT YOU?

^ \t r M Picture "Babe* On Broadway.

HAPPY IN LOVE

Lyric by J.ckYelle„ Music by Sam E. Fam

' - from Oisen and Johnson's "Sons O' Fun

The B«ach Goes On

song title has been borrowed for
a Hawaiian ditty. Out of thU
merger has come 'ThereH Al-
ways Be a Beach at Waikiki.'

John Redmond, James Cava-
naugh and Nat Simon wrote It, ,
and Mills Music, Inc., Is publish-
ing.

Jack Robbins, Jive
And Conga Kid, Goes
Strong for Longbairs

Th«re has . been a decided trend
reciently to the use of American mu-
sic In the place of the classics com-
posed by European writers- in the
schools of the country. Whereas at
one time music teachers in colleges,
high schools used 'Poet bhd Peas-
ant' and similar classics as the ve-
hicles to put students through paces,
they are now turning to the works
of 'Vincent Youmans, Ferde Grof e,
and a wide list of modern American
compositions, which, they find. In-
terest pupils a great deal more and
results In stimulating th6 desire to
learn. ■

The trend has captured the inter-
est of music publishers who see . In
it a' source of Income heretofore
lacking; that is, those publishers who
have copyrights on and publish the
type of music Increasingly being
used. Jack Robblns, one of those
interested In 'the surge toward the
works Qf Ainerican writers, leaves
today (Wed.) for Milwaukee to at-
tend the Music Educators' National
Conference there, taking with him
executives of his trio of publishing
companies, Hugo t'tey, Ed McCau-
ley and D. Savino. It's the first time
he has visited a National Conference
get-together. • It's a decided switch
for Robblns, known as the 52^ St
kUler-dlUer and the 'conga klng'^of
Miami and Havana.

Jerome Kern

jConttamed from page 3;

nqw. electees starts next 'Wednesday
(1). Official announcements -of the
results of the director elections Will
be made at 'Friday night's (27) an-
nual meeting of the'ASCAP mem-
bership in the Ritz-Carlton hotel,

N. y. .

Ray Henderson ele'cted.member of
ASCAP board directors, replacing
Jerome' Kern, who, with Al Lewis,
constituted hls^ ballot opposition.
Henderson won over Kern by about
lOCT' votes. It will be first time Kern
has not held an ASCAP post in over
20 years.

Other, writers who won director-
ships in balloting which closed past
weekend were Gene Buck, George
Meyer and Geoffrey O'Hara. Latter
three re-electees.

Of publishers' camp Johii O'Con-
nor, Jack Mills and Max. Dreyfus
were each voted another term, while
Donald Gray defeated Ai Walter
Kramer, who was seeking a second
term.

, ' The vote count showed the fol-
lowing totals:

Henderson 1M25

Lewlr 18,232

■ Kern 18,204

Bnek 43,e«7

O'Hara 3S;«St

Meyer 28,272

Dreyfas ' 2,660

O'Connor 2,486

Gray .> 2,041

Mills 1,966

: Continued from page 3;

at the Shubert, N. Y., week' of April
6.

It has been Miss Hepburn's custom
to lay off during , summer, another
reason for the possible deferment of
'Love' until the fall, but the Guild
has ordered tickets and arranged for
a number of theatre parties. Report
that the-star may do a picture during
the summer is also discounted. That
goes, too, for a report about Paul
Muni, who returns to the boards In
'Yesterday's Magic' also a Guild at-
traction, on Friday (27) in New
Haven. Muni is reported to have
been called to Hollywood for: a Co-
lumbia flhn, 'The Commandos.*
'Magic' )s due In New York April 16
at the Guild theatre. The latter, an
EnUyn Williams play orlginallir dalled
"The Light Of Heart' and 'Love' are
among the highlights of the spring's
premieres. . - -

Coliui^^q announced Muni being
duci- on 'ttie Coast Jiuie 1.

IiBHdeStiitHOrciiestras

Whether Tommy Dorsey will eontlnua with RCA- Victor (now that the
Metro deal for a new recording company is off) will not be settled until
the leader gets back to New York. He Is working his way east to open
at the Paramoimt theatre, N, Y., April 1. Beside quarrel with Victor
which prompted his steaming up the Metro proposition Dorsey is assert,
edly burned additionally at tiie- company for releasing against his wishes
the version he made oy'Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses,' out recently

Before the Metro Idea started Dorsey had been talldng to Columbia
Recocds about a shift to that outfit's 60c label

Mutual network will begin on March 29 a definite schedule of orchestra
remote exchanges between ^OR, New York; WGN, Chicago, and KHJ
Los Angeles. Whereas ,the present coverage of one station's pickups by
the others la mdre or Jess haphazard due to news programs and other in-
terruptions, ihe new schodule will set aside periods during which the
bands picked up are to be "Certain of outlet in each territory.

From 12 midnight to 12:30 aon. WOR will, carry Chicago bands serviced
by WGN; 12:36 ito 1 p.m., WOR's pickups will be carried by WGN and
KHJ, Los Angeles; at 1:1B a.m. KHJ remotes wUl 'come through to the
others. Plan is to be carried out seven nights a week.

Duke Ellington, currently playing Stanley theatre in Pittsburgh, la
celebrating his 20th anniversary, a band leader this'weelc. He organized
his first -outfit on March 26, 1922, and three of - the original four men In
the Ellington crew at that thne are still with him. Following Pittsburgh,
Ellington jumps to MoUne, 111., for a three-day stand apd then heads for
Hollywood and an eight- week' stay' at the Trianon Ballroom...

Present "meeting' between Music Corp. of America executives in Holly-
wood will continue to April 1, One of the many things being discussed
at the' confab, it's understood,, is how best to allocate commissions and
service charges among various New York, Cleveland, Chicago, etc;, offices.
Problem is a source of constant squabbles.

Execs attending meeting are Jules Stein, Billy Goodheatt, Sonny Wer-
blin, Hal Hackett, Maury Llpsey. ' D'Arve' Barton, Cleveland branch head,
didn't go.

Reason Merle ' Pitt's 'Five Shades of 'Blue' orchestra, house band at
WNEW, N. Y., was selected' for its current ^ot in the new Broadway
show, 'Johnny 2x4,' Is unusual. Producer Roland Brown heard Pitt's band
on A^sspciated Transcriptions from a" station on the Coast and when he
came to New York to cast the play^ remembered and his signing the band:
followed.

Pinky Tomlln's current stand at' Hotel MuehIebach,'K. C, was booked
weeks ago with, the auxiliary purpose of making a rendezvous with the
stork. The expectant Mrs. TomUn, knowing the birth would have to be
by Caesarian method preferred a K. C. medico, and TomUn accordingly
arranged the' band date with' Manager Bailiey Jpffee;

Kyser-s Eastern Dates

Kay Kyser's orchestra has been
booked, for only three one-day dates
whiile in the east He may play
n.cre, but It's understood that he will
devote the greater portion of his
time -to doing free Army camp per-
formances." Daites are Arena,- Tren-
ton, N. J., April 4; Arena, New
Haven, next day (5), and a hop at
the Boston Garden under 'Qie aus-
pices of the Boston American for
'Bundles for Buddies' fund. Latter
will be a concert and dance proposi-
tion with two sepa: ate admissions.

Bookings have not bee: . set up by
Music Corp. of America, Kyser's
booHers, with any mli.imum gross
in mind, .but for Uie three dates it's
possible to. reach a $50,000 take.

Easter Is Great

As it was during' the Christmas
holidays past, the band business Is
sold out of talent for the Easter
weekend. All agencies. Music Corp.
of America, General Amusement,
William Morris, assert that they
haven't .a band worth mentioning that
isn't booked.

According to~ Harry Moss of MCA,
the scarcity of MCA talent for those
days also extends Into the mid-west
offices;

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Hollywood, March 24.
Harold Roberts, once a familiar
figure at football games as leader of
the University of Southern Califor-
nia band and later public relations
representative for the Musicians
'Union, la 'now a niunber in San
'QuenOn^rison'. . :—••" '— r- — :'
-.^.89feerts..enteMd_tha house
■^after conviction oiT'cliarg'es'iS'morlQ'
offenses against . small schoolgirls.
His stretch Is from one to d(| years.

Uaek Qordon and. Harry Warreb'
Writing songs for 'Springtime In the
Rockies' at 20th-Fox.

ARUE SHAW CHECKING
IN WITH DRAFT BD.

, Hollywood, March 24.

Artie Shaw left by train, for New
Yoi4c today to report to his local
draft board. He has been h^e sev-
eral week on vacation, recovering
from an Illness that kept him in a
N. Y. hospital for a few days before
he came here. Shaw is supposed to.
reorganize his band, but the army
may prevent that.

Leader' was 'reported as having a
1-A classification at one- time, . but
subsequent advices claimed he 'lad
been pushed back- to a 3-A rating
due to .his mother, who depends on
him. . ' ■

King Mostly Bnsmessman

— •■ .

Clevelatid, March 24.

Ted King is iropping band
leader's ^r61e, after ' his orchestra
close» at Southern Tavern April 4,
to devote his full time to new band
booker's Job with the William Mor-
ris Agency branch office in Cleve-
land. ^

Up to now King has been working
only part time with Phil Brown,
agency's manager, handling his
music and club departme:-'' here.

Intends keeping his crew, consist-
ing of Clevelanders, intact and in
circulation for local dates. King to
direct It occasionally, but doesn't
want to tour any more.

Davl^ Snell directing music for
'Appointment on -the Pacific' at
Metro.

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CHERIO MU8I0 PUBLISHERS, INC.

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Wednesday, March 25, 1942

MUSIC 49

tip m PtabMer Branch of MAP

Br BEN BODEO -

A bitter battle within the publisher
contingent of ASCAP Is forecast
when the publisher members meet
next week to discuss the adoption of
a revised system of royalty classifi-
cation. A number of small publish-
ers have already declared their op-
position to the newplaui scoring It as
another step toward enhancing the
financial strength of the rnajor firms
with large standard catalogs. The
smaller pubs also contend that if the
new method of classification goes
through competition from them or
newcomer publishers will be serious-
ly discouraged and curbed.

The rev^ped system of classifica-
tion which is slated to be reported to
the ASCAP publisher faction calls
for: -

1. An increosc of the perform-
ance porrton of the cUusi/Ication
bosis from 50% to 60%.

2. A reduction of the seniority pro-
vision from 20% to 10%. Ralsljifl of
t?ie Seniority ceiling, or when the
longevity of a pttblWicr's ■member-
«hip ceases to count in Ms favor,
from 20 to 26 years.

3. No change in the availability
fesment of the cUiasification break-
doum, this.remaltiifii; at 30%.

4. '.' Allocation of seniority to new
publisher member* after t^ey have
been in the' Society for two years.

5. ' ileali^nment of the point values,
asHgne'd to radio . performancesi
which would operate as. /oltows:

(a) . A network . .commercial
performance would coimt a full
point at night and three-fourths
of a point on a daytime program.
' 0)) A network sustaining per- '
formance would count half a
point, riegardless of the broadcast
time.

<c) Special arrangements of

Sublic domain music. would have
le value generally of,I/10 point,
but added value woiild be as-
cribed to such arrangement con-
sidered to be above the rank and
file by a special committee ap-
pointed to do the rating.
' (d) ''nieme songs on sustaining

program would be figured at
one-fourth a point and thoie on
commercial programs at half a
point After a themer has had
a consistent run with a night-
time commercial program for
three years its value would b« ,
automatically raised to- a full
point, whereas similar circum-
stances would rate a daytime
commercial themer three-fourths

. of a point.

(e) Credits as regards com-

. merclal programs would be de-
termined on the same basis as
network time rates, with 6 pjn.
EWT, being the dividing Itoe
between daytime and night-time
programs.

The above plan constitutes a com-
promise with one that had been sub-
mitted by Herman Starr, head of the
Warner Bros, publishing group.
Starr, who controls through h& cat-
alogs, - particularly Harms, Inc., a
massive amotmt of most used stand-
ard tunes, had asked for the assign-
ment of a much larger relative value
to commercial performances. When
the classiflAtion plan committee got
around to taking a vote last week,
Starr sUted that he didn't like the
proposed new system. The other
(Continued on ptTge 44)

IF A HIT. ITS
SURE TO BE A SUIT

"White Cliffs of Dover/ which has
already sold 650,000 piano copies. Is
no ' exception to what has become
almost the rule In the music busi-
ness, that a smash hit Is bound to
bring a claim of Infringement from
an amateur. Shapiro, Bernstein &
Co., publisher of 'White CUffs,' last
week heard from John J. Laurldson,
an amateur writer, who In a letter
alleged that this song had much In
common with one he wrote some
time ago.

The title of Laurldson'i. number
was 'Freedom,' • ■

KWK Sidesteps BMI

■ ' St. liOiiis, March' 24,
KWK, local Mutual aaiUate, has

gone exclusively ASCAP in so far as

its music source is concerned. '
Station announced last week that

It has not renewed with Broadcast

Music, Inc.

ASCAP ROYALTY
PAYMENT AT

$950,000

ASCAP board of directors voted
last Thursday (19) to declare a divi-
dend of $950,000 for the Initial quar-
ter of 1942. -It's but $60,000 under
the distribution for the like period
of 1940, at which time ASCAP had
in. operation licenses with every
class of user.

The diwy for the first quarter of
1941, when the Income from radio
war but a trickle due to the fight

NBC Log Lags

The distribution for the cur-
rent quarter will be based on the
performances that prevailed for
the final quarter of 1940, This is
due to' the fact that one net-,
worki NBC!, has failed to fur-
nish ASCAP. with its per-
formance log for the .perioid be-
ginning, Oct 28, 1941, when that
web resumed relations with
AS(jAP.

with the major part of the broad-
casting Industry, actually figured
$650,000, After royalties were paid
for the final quarter of '41, ASCAP
found that a tax situation made It
necessary for the Immediate distri-
bution of $350,000, Later members
were informed that the latter would
have to be treated as part of the
subsequent quarter's .payoff. The
$650,000 dividend was declared three
months later.

Gene Buck Defeated in Attempt
To Get ASCAP Expenses for Gflbert

Gene Buck, ASCAP. president ex-
perienced another deleat last Tliurs-
day (19) In his repeated efforts to
get the Society's board of directors
to defray L, 'Wolfe Crllbert's travel-
ing expenses when he comes from
Bollywood to New York to attend a
board meeting. The debate on the
issue was highlighted by acrimoni-
ous exchanges between publishers
and the Buck-Gilbert combination,
wlUb John O'Connor, publisher di-
rector, recalling iiowihe had clashed
with the same pair during a recent
visit to the West Coast. Only way
that Gilbert can now get his ex-
penses paid is through a vote of the
entire ASCAP membership. After
the signatures of 15% of the writers
have been affixed to a petition, the
matter would be submitted to both
writers and publishers^ wltb adop-
tion, requiring a {il% weighted vote.

The incident that O'Connor re-
lated to the boiard occurred on the
eve of the ASCAP 'Wist Coast mem-
bership meeting , several wecjcs ago
In Hollywood; Gilbert, according to
O'Connor, had accused him of : fet-
tering several antl-wrlter retsolu-
tlons. Buck chimed in op the same
theme and ' O'Co.nnor then warned'
Buck that' If he (Buck), made an at-
tack on publishers at 'the forthconv^'
Ing meeting he (O'Connor) would
take the floor and show by the rec-
ords that the publisher faction on
the ASCAP board , has in no way
jeopardized the interetts of the
wrlferi

It was following this Hollywood'
meeting that ' 170 writers llying in
that region signed a resolution ask-
ing that the ASCAP bylaw barring
the payment of a director'! ti^vellng
expenses be iamended. Ais a; member
of the Society's adniinistratlve com-
mittee O'Connor Introduced the
resolution at last niursday's (19)
assembly of directors. - It failed of
adoption because it did '-not ' receive'
an affirmative vote of two-tbirds Of
the directors present.

The current indications are that
Buck will not be re-elected presi-

dent when the board meets for that
purpose next month. The same
block of 11 publishers continues to
be opposed firmly to granting him
another term. Since a two-third«
vote .of the 24 boardmen Is required
for confirmation, Buck will be able
to retain office only as a holdover.

Buck has repeatedly sttited that h*..
will stick to his $35,000-a-year post
as president because the wrltera
want Mm.

ASCAP PUBS
START^UITSIN
NEBRASKA

Several New York publishers who
are affiliated with ASCAP. wIU bcglii
serving Infringement stilts on Ne« '
brt^aka music users, this week. These
^ubs reported Monday (23^ that tha
necessary attested complaint* weri»
on -Hielr wiiy to Nebraska counsel.
Practice adopted by the firms In-
volved Is first to gather, the evldienco .
by checkers on the spot secondly,
to jpirepfre the complaint; In New
York and then to i&all the ioomplalnt
to Kebraska lawyers for filing with
the local federal court

After deciding that It could not
make any compromise- with the Ne>
brakka law wbibb bars it from doing
business In that «tate; ASCAP in
January tijmefl .track to its members
the performing rights as tttey applied
to Nebraska.'

' WEOODSKT WITH B-V-0

Bregman-VocoO^Conn has named
Ira S. Wegpdslcy business manager.
. He was formerly with. Paramount
Pictures and General ^ Records.

JUST DUl. . . AND LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENING TO
THIS GREAT BALLAD BY BEN SELVIN AND BOB EFFROS

RECORDINGS

TONY PASTOR (Bluebird)

. , , just released . . . and Ws « wow I _

HAL MclNTYBE (Victor)

... has already waxed a 'beavMfuX Mefpretation.
and has recorded it'ln his new motion plcfi»re short,

\ HORACE HEIDT (Coluinbia)

... has reserved "The Mem'ry of'^hif Donee" /ojr next dat*

GENE KRtlPA (Okeh)

...hat reserved it and i$ drummin' up a great, disc arran^i-

ment. , , ' '

/ BOB STANLEY

' . . . featuring it . coast-to-coast over Mutiwl Wetworfc, ■

TOMMY DOHSEY

' . , . featured It in a special arrangement on the air . . . Just
jFouT days after seeing the fir it copies / „

GUY LOMBARDO

. . . is' doijifl It coa«t-to-coa«t, '

CECIL DAVIDSON

... Is featuring it via the airlaties from ih/t Edge-
water Beach Hotel, Chicago.

VAUGHN MONROE

'. . . loves it — is playing and stn^ing it at the Hotel
Commodore, New York. .

SHEP FIELDS

. , . has a fine arrangement, that he will feature at the
Hotel Edison, New York.

FREDDIE EBENER

. . , is doing a great. racUo job on it.

LANNY ROSS

.... America's populor tenor featured it over Colum-
> bio Network.

HITCH YOVR BATON TO THIS SKYROCKETING SONG!

LUD GLUSKIN

. , , is. c?iarmtn0 radio audiences with his band's lt(«
terpreiation,

FRANCES CRAIG

, . . is doin0 a great job on it from the Herrnltag9
Hotel. =• ,

JOHNNIE MESSNER

. . . hear his fine arrangement at the Hotel McAtpIn.

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44 MUSIjC

Wedneoday, March 2S; 1942

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15 Best Sheet Music SeDers

Two suits for declaratory relief on the renewal rights to songs have
tangled in two difT«rent litigations. One is Fred Fisher's 'Peg o' My
Heart' and the other concerns Al Piantadosi's That's How I Need You,'
which Metro used in 'Barnacle Bill,' and on which Piantadosi- is also
suing Feist, the publishers thereof.

In both cases, songsmiths Fisher (deceased, suing through Ann Fisher,
the widow) and Piantadosi (now residing in California) allege neither
was 'written for hire,' hence the renewal rights belong to them. The
courts are asked to. interpret who owns the rights. ,

In the case of Fisher's 'Peg o' My Heart,' this song is now published by
three different Anns — his own. Feist and also Famous. Feist was the
original publisher, lyricist Al Bryan ceded bis share' of the renewal
rights to Famous Music, whUe composer Fisher, claiming the renewal
rights belonged to him, and that Feist could not automatically renew them,
is also issuing an edition.

Meantime ASCAP has adopted the practice of withholding credits on
performances in the case of split renewal disputes until the issue has
been settled.

Irving Berlin, Inc, held back 'A Pink Codrtail fof a Blue Lady' for
HUdegarde's reopening at this Savoy-Plaza totel, N. Y., this past .weekend,
counting on her impetus to make it a hat. Originally it was 'Pink Cham-
pagne,' but a then current I'Blue Champagne' tune prompted 'the change
to 'Pink CocktaU:"^ Hfldegarde is also Catapulting Til B« Seeing, ^ou/ a
dormant Sammy Fain— (the late)— Irving Kahal song from a Royal Palm
revue (Miami) into importance, just qs she's doing with 'The World Is
Waiting to Waltz Again,' and 'Ask Your Heart,' the last co-autiiored by
Gerald Marks-Welter Hirsch'-Anna Sosenko. Latter, who is personal man-
ager for Hlldegarde, authored 'Darling. Je Vous Aime Beaucoup,' which
ia the- songstress* tfaen^atic, and while 'Heart' has been with Chappell lor
some eight years, tiie singer's current impetus is forcing ttie publishers to
' "work on it' •

Incidentally, a new record high reopening gross lias prompted the S-P
management io tilt Its tariffs -to %2M, |8 and $3.50 minlinum, which is
utraordinary tor a room that depends on one* lone stw to thrive.

Charles Handy, v.p. of Handy Bros. Music Corp., clarifies the rights to
•Memphis Bluest' In the following. letter, as regards a suit .over the use at
the «ong in "Paramount's 'Birth of the Blues' fllmusical. The Handy letter
'We publish the Memphis Blues,' of which our president, Mr.
W. C. Handy) Is. composer and owner.
_ In 70ur Issue of March 18 you atate that Campbell Connelly Be
Co. has the. rights to this 'nuiiiber ontalde the tTttited 'Sta ~
Australia. W« dispute this statement. Sucli foreign sights •■ have
been obtained on any version of 'Memphis Blues' belong to Mr. -
Handy, and we stand ready to show.~any proQ>ectlve producer
that no one but oiinelves. need be applied to for synchronization
rights in this number, for exhibition anywhere.'

^e beautiful English melody, 'Sleepy Lagoon,' by Eric Coates, which
the British composer-conductor also recorded with a .large symphony in
London (pnd which Colinnbia alone released in America.) has now been
'adapted' as a pop song< by Jade Lcwrence (Chappell publishing). Latter
seems to specialize' in Tin Pan Alley versions of tunes such as 'Yes, 1^
Darling Daughteir' (from a Russian folk song), 'CHilrlblrl' (Italian), etc,
end making' them .'into big. pop hits.

Tony- Martin has Just waxed^Slaepy Lagoon' for Decca, with a crack
Victor Young arrangement for backup. It's a cinch for best-seller.

Geoffrey O'Hara, writer of 'K-K-K-Katy,' which was popular during
World War I, . has written another for the currant struggle titled
•J-J-J-Joey,' the story of a tank driver.

Deep Heart Texas. ..Melodylahe
Don't Want Walk. .. .Paramount

Moonlight Cocktail Jewel

Miss You. .Santly

White Cliffs Shapiro

Blues in Night.. Remick

Somebody Taking Place. Shapiro

Sometimes Berlin

Rose O'Day Tobias

Shrine St. Cecelia.. Braun

How About You? ; . . . .Feist

m Pray For You Harms

Dear Mom Republic

Couple In Castle ...Famous

How Do I Know Real?. Chappell

'Who-Geto'Wbat'

sContlnuedtrom pace 43;

pubs on the committee voted for its
recommendation.

Edwin H. Morris, who had argued
strenuously for the recommended
plan, pointed out last Thursday (19)
that the publisher members of
ASCAP could not help but consider
the new method a sound one If they
but realized that what gives the
ASCAP repertoire Its true valnc is
the rich backlog of standard num
hers and not current music. The
radio industry, he added, proved for
10 months that It could get along
with its own or current tunes.

The smaller publishers look upon
the plan as giving ever? advantage
to firms with backlogs and a crttsher
for those publishers that have to
depend for their performance income
on their current releases. One small
pub went so far as to term the new
method of royalty classification as
spelling the death knell of his con-
freres in the Industry. He expressed
resentment of the threatened loss, of
50% ' in his seniority value,, and
scathingly arraigned .the ."biggies'
withln- the— Society— for -what he
termed the penalty that they have
improvised not only for youth, but
for 10 months of loyally. By the
latter he was referring to the 10'
month fight between the radio inter'
ests and the Society. Still another
point made by thU 'pubUAer was
that, once the major publishers got
away with reducing the value of sus-
taining usages, the process would
continue from time to time until the
value of a sustaiolng point would
become negligible if not totally
worthless.

Hlldciarde'e next recordings for
Decca will be albums of 'My Dear
Public' (Irvine Caacar's new mu-
sical) or 'Warrior's Husband,' Rodg-
ers and Hart eoore.

FolUywing tabulation oi popular music perjonnances -embraces oK three
nctioorfcs— JfflC, CBS, Blue, and Miitual-r-os representid by WEAF—WJZ,
WABC and WOR N. Y. Compilation hereurith cooers week beginning
Monday fhroueh Sunday (Morch 16-22) ]rom i p.m. to 1 a.m. and .ts
based on data provided by Accurate Reportinff Sertrice regular checking
source for the music publishing Industry.

xnxE roBLiSHFn total

•Deep In Heart Texas '...., i.Mclodylane 30

Tangerine— fFleet's In' Famous 29

Don't Want Walk— t'Sweater Girl' Paramount 27

She'll Always Remember Wltmark 24

•i&w Do I BCnow It's Real? Chappell ; 22

Miss You Santly 21

How About You?— t'Babes on Broadway'. ........... Feist 18

Blues in the Night— t'Blues in Night'. H<* nick 17

I Remember You— t'Fleet's In' ..Paramount 17

Somebody EUse Taking Place.......'. Shapa-o 17

Sing M J.Song Island— t 'Song of the Islands'. BVC ............. 17

We'll Meet Again ;. .....Dash 17

When Roses Bloom Shapiro 17

Full Moon Southern 14

Jersey Bounce Lewis 14

Rose O'Day,. Tobias 14

♦A Zoot Suit Greene-Rcvrl 13

ril Pray for You — t'What's Cookin' '....Harms 12

Day- Dreaming T. B. Harms 11

Don't Sit Under Apple Tre^ ^ Robblns 11

♦Lamp of Memory ^. ..Marks .'. . 10

Me and My Me^inda Berlin .,.'10

Skylark .....Morris •.. 10

Somebody Nobody Loves Robblns 10

Somctim'es Berlin 10

*Last Night I Said Prayer Block 9

Moonlight Cocktail ;..Jew'el .-. 9

You Made Me Love You Broadway 9

Always ln~My Heart— t' Always in Heart' Remick 8

'*Breathl^«' ...,».CLP 8

Happy in Love — t'Sons o* Tun' .' Feist 8

Hats Off to MacArthur Pioneer 8

'Memory of This Dance BMI 8

Talking to the Moon Foster 8

Wherever You Are ^ller

Anchors A weigh bobbins

Arthur Murray Taught Me — t'Fleet's In' Famous

Bliie- Skies Berlin

If You Build Better Mouse Trap— t'Fleet's In' Famous

ni Remember April— tHide 'Em Cowboy'. . Leeds

Jealous — tTeminine Touch' Mills

Johnny Doughboy Found Rosa ..Crawford

Fire Dance. .„ .j...,jji,Gala3iy_ij.,.f.ia.'_._!

"Shrine of St. Cecelia Braun ...

You Can't Hold Memory. In Arms Leeds

'Heavenly. Isn't It?— t'Mayor of 44th Street' Greene-Revel ..

I Got It Bad Robblns

*minkot You Embassy ,

If You Are But a Dream J. Campbell. ....

•Marine's Hymn Marks

Perfect Song Chappell

Sleepy Lagoon Chappell

String "of Pearls Mutual

Cancel the Flowers Cherlo

Dear Old Pal BVC . i...

Everything I Love— fLet's Face It' ..i. . . Chappell

In the Spring. Ager .,

Racing with the Moon Robblns

Someone's Rockin' My Dreamboat. Advance

White Cliffs of Dover Shapiro

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LIE ABOUT ME

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LITTLE
SISTERS

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Smooth, Silky, Rh;

Smiley Bomette sold 'Wouldn't
You Like to Know' to Republic, to
be sung In 'Beyond the Great
Divide.'

Fontaina Fox gave Paramount
I)ermIsslon to use bis dally strip
character, The Powerful Katrlnka,'
as a song title in 'Priorities of 1942.

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ASCAP, t Filmusical. t Legitimate.

Music Notes

Herbsrt Btoihart composing the
score for 'Randoni Harvest' at Metro.

Brenlslsa Kapar is doing back-
ground musle for *A Yank at Eton'
at Metro.

Charles ' GBnther is publishing
latest patrlotlo tune, 'Captain Colin
P. Kelly Jr.'

Morris BtebS scoring. "Hello An>
nspolla' at Columbia. ;

Kenny freree have written The
Air Rald-Waitlen Song.'

Lae BeblB and Ralph Ralnger
turned' in thre* dittlet .to supple-
ment the seven Paul Dresser num-
bers in ley Gal Sal' at aoth-Fox.
Their tunca are 'Oh, the Pity of It

All,' 'Here You Are' and 'Me and
My Fellow.' Seven Dresser tunes
In the picture are 'On the Banks
of the Wabash,' 'Volunteer,' 'The
Convict and the Bird,' 'Liza Jane,'
•The Gay White Way,' 'Come Tell
Me What's Your Answer' and the
title song.

The Song Everyone l»
Talking About!

WE'LL
MEET
AGAIN

DASH . CONNELLY, Inc.

161B Broadway, New York
BOIXT OOHM, Ont. Pra. Hsr.

Helli. PHIL SPITAUY;

You and your ^Hour Qf Qiarm** girls are getting the
cheer* jon deMrve at all the armj camps jovl are playing.
Wa*re prond to have you as our gaests.

Congratulations on all the fish yon are catching I

WALTER JACOBS

i^mti iiici

Weinesimjf March 18. 1942

TAUOEVILUB

Richman All Set to Resip as AGVA
VP. Unless Griffin Quits Meantii

•4-

Mlami, March 24.
Harry Richman, current, at the
BoyU Palm here, says he has his
resignation from the vice -presidency
of the American Guild of Variety
Artists already written out How-
ever, he won't send it through 'if
AGVA gets rid of Gerald Grlflln,
national executive secretary, and
sets up death benefits, relief and sick
funds.

Richman says AGVA right now is
hardly operating to the actors' good.
Its administration is chaotic and
working at cross-purposes, plus the
fact that it has been discredited to a
great extent,' Richman adds, 'and
only niy great friendship for. Morton
Downeyt president of AGVA, has
stopped me from resigning up .to
now.' As he put it, he didn't want to
leave Downey holding the bag.

According to Richman, he spoke to
Harry Goodinan, brother of Benny
Goodman, and R'occo Vocco, music
publisher, ' immediately after the
brawl at Tommy Dorsey's N. Y. of-
fices last fall, and that he gleaned
from them that Griffin's part in the
fracas was 'deplorable.'

Committee of AGVA members
probing Grlfllh's allegeif part in the
Dorsey brawl met Monday (23) in
N. Yv but failed to reach a^ decistoii.
■ The committee;' Tieaded by' Morton
Downey, will probably have a ver-
dict when it meets again next Mon-
day (30).

Nitery Rewards Bayers of
$100 Bonds with Phone
Talks to Picture Stars

Detroit, March 24.
> Patriotic nitery tieups here, which
launched rubber salvage coilectlons
one night a week In lieu of admis-
sions, now are including telephone
links to the Hollywood stars.

Proposed by Benny Rubin during
his appearance at the Bowery, with
added touches from Frank Barbaro,
the owner, the nitery now Is offer-
ing direct telephone conversations
with Coast players' for the first two
purchasers of $10C defense bonds on
Fridays, Saturdays ar Sundays.

It has produced some terrific off-
shoots. First purchaser of a $100
"bond, a woman, gabbed three min-
utes with George Brent on the West
Coast from the nitery floor, hung up
and said: 'I'd like to increase my
purchase by. $500 more.' She
wouldn't teU what he'd said.
' Audience, gets the Detroit end of
the conversation and Barbaro, who
at first feared pix stars might not go
for the nitery tleup, said he has
Iseen amazed at the list of players
who have lined up for future phone
conversations to boost defense bond
sales 2,500 miles away.

MCA OFnCIALS RETURN
FROM COAST MEETING

Zorita Appeal Denied

Toledo, March 24.

The conviction in Toledo Municipal
Court of Ada Brockett, night club
dancer known as 'Zorlta,' on the
charge of indecent exposure, haa
been upheld by the Court of AppeeSs.
Following her conviction as the re-
sult of a dance she gave In the Ken-
tucky Klub, Toledo, on Aug. 15, 1641,
she was sentenced to six months In
the Workhouse but appealed the
clase. The Appeals Court ordered the
sentence to be executed.

'Zorlta' left town last September.

Buffalo Actors
In Strike Vote
Against Cafes

Buffalo, March 24.

Controversy between American
Guild of Variety, Artistj_and .western.
New York night club owners cul-
minated, at a general meeting of the
actors held Thursday (19),. In a vote
authorizing a general strike against
all owners falling to pay the mini
mum wage scale adopted by the
union last month. v.

Actors, imder stewardship of
Prof. Maji, are asking for $25 for
line girls and $35 and -$40 minimum
for m.c.'s and performers for a seven-
day week. Attempts are being made
to reduce the number of- shows from
three, to two nlghUy and to Improve
dressing room conditions here which
actors claim are the 'worst,' as well
as the eventual stoppage of the prac-
tice of enforced 'mixing.'

Owners have refused acceptance
of the scale, claiming that the rate
is based upon union schedule for the
largest cities only. ^

Following the strike vote, with pos-
sible threats of sympathetic action
by cooks, waiters aqd musicians, and
in an ^attempt to avoid a general
strike of all entertainers in the Buf-
falo area, executive committees of
AGVA and the Niagara Frontier
Night Club Owners Assn., Inc., met
with the Federation of I<abor ar-
bitratlon committee over the week-
end.

Music Corp. cf America v.p.s Bill
Goodheart and Sonny Werblin, who
huddled with J. C. Stein in Beverly
HlUs, get back from the Coast early
liext week. General budgeUUs was
on the program. Hal Hackett, also
•n MCA v.p;, returned from the par-
Ifej^ this week due to impending radio
deals. ■ ■
^ Prexy Stehi Is slated to visit New
york April 15 or thereabouts in the
hopes of straightening out Danny
Kaye, whose" run-of-the-play in 'Let's
Face It' expires in May; also his deal
With MCA, since Kaye seems in-
cUned to book henceforth through
William Morris (pictures, radio, etc.).
™8 tangle la a holdover from the
MCA takeover of CBS Artists Bu-
»au, Kaye objecting to 'being sold
down the river,' as he puts it.
■ Meantime, MCA in New York is
«la to have effected a $500 weekly
Wvlng In general overhead through
fJ^salsal of overlapping stenos, book-

GOLDEN GATE, FRISCO,
BOOKS ACTS TILL AUG.

San Francisco, March 24.

Golden Gate theatre (RKO) hels
booked acts as far ahead as next
August, Count Basle being set In for
week of Aug. 0. Lineup of advance
bookings. In fact. Is heaviest in
months, with following already sked-
ded for week stands:

Ritz Bros., March 25; Jack Teagar-
den, April 1; Earl Carroll unit, 8;
Xavier Cugat, 22; Harry Howard's
Beachcombers, 29; Ted Lewis, May 6;
Abbott & Costello, May 13.

Pennsy Cafe Operator
Gnihy nr Bank Swindle

Philadelphia, March 24.
Buford S. Smith, operator of
Smitty's night club on the outskirts
of Lancaster, Pa., was found guilty
by a jury last Wednpsday (18) of a
$70,541 bank swindle. It was Smith's
second trial, the first Jury failing to
agree.

The prosecution charged that Wil-
liam F. Sahm, Jr., a bookkeeper,
confessed to embezzling $307,000
from a Lancaster bank and making
false deposits in Smith's name to
the tune of $70,541. Smith gave
Sahm the power of attorney to do
this, the state charged. • •

CANTOR URGES
RAN ON MIKES

Local Stations Get Star Tal
ent On Cu£F and Pretence
Of Microphones Makes
Performers Self-Conscious
— Al»o Brings in Contrac
tural Difficulties «nd GeU'
erally Upsets a Smooth
Performance

CORELLl CONCURS

Eddie Cantor, who does aa mai^
benefits as (mybody, and who re-
iterates they're a fine thing for the
mtmy fine causes they serve,' again
pointed to this past Sunday night's-
benefit at the Hotel Astor, N. Y, as
evidence of the "braeflt racket* and
how it frequently does morf harm
than good, especially to tHe artist
Cantor's target this time was the
practise of picking up these gala
entertainments by some local radio
stations which, with or without com-
pensation, thus ^ot Itself an all-^tar
gala show and a new listening audi-
ence at modest or no exjiense. .
_ ^e..eYil-lP -the.fl,cti>M. JIea.Ja..the
restriction that the mike imposes on
the average performer. And when
the artist forgets the radio tabus, the
results are frequently embarrassing
and oftUmes suicidal, ^

Willie Howard's explosive gosh-
darnit (but he didn't say it that way)
in his soap-box Communist routine
was one illustration; EArlier In the
evening, ' three stalwart , Javanese
Dutch soldiers were taking bows, in
person, at the Jewish Consumptive
Relief Society benefit (which was the
Auspices at this Hotel Astor benefit,
emceed by Nick Kenny, the radio
columnist) and they, not knowing
about radio or anything, ad libbed
about Goerrlng and Goebbels in
some picturesque sdnavagun lan-
guage — only they, too, didn't say it
that way.

Blacking Oat ' Cantor

CZantor told aU this io Alan (Torelll;
executive secretary of the Theatre
Authority, and Corelli agreed that
radio pickups of benefits should be
eschewed. The star pointed out that
the average guester. comes into a
hotel or - Madison '-Sq. Garden or
some theatre breathless from doing
his own stint He himself was not
aware Astor event -was being picked
up until somebody noticed thi^
WMCA mike. Since Cantor Is ex-
clusively Bristol-Myers, under spon-
soiehip, the WMCA. announcer
blocked-Out Cantor's ..comedy, talking
through the, scene, and later fiUing
In with music, while the laugh re-
sponse to Cantor was only audible
through the mike.

Similarly, the WMCA announcer,
familiar with Belle Baker's routine,
blocked her. out after 1<ast Time I
Saw Paris,' but. was unprepared for
Howard's explosively profane tag-
line. ,

How' It Inhibits acts was evidenced
also by Benny Baker's observation,
'Well, this gag has another tagline,
but we're on the radio you know.'

Mills Bros. Work East

Ka.isas City, March 24.
At the Tower theatre here last
week, Mills Brothers are working
east for a return to the Chez. Mau-
rice Club, Montreal. Between the
Tcwer and Muurlce dates group will
play at the Flint (Mich.) Athletic
Club and the Paradise theatre, Der
troit.

In their Kansas City date the
Mills Brothers w&re using a new
guitar background, with Jotm Smith
OL the Instrument. Norman Brown,
their longrtime plucker, left the
singers following a St. Iiouis date
beforo they made the Tower stage.
Brown returned to New York, where
Hi ehter<d«4 'airiWy;' ' ~' '

FBI Rounds Up Miaiiii IGtery Men
As Leadofs of $10,(IOO>000 Lottoy
Ring; Raid Carried Out in 36 Cities

Vande Demand Win

Spartanburg, 8. C. March 34.

State, Wllby-Klncey'a local yauder,
plana to shift policy and continue
■tage ihowa throughout spring and
summer due to demand by thousands
of ' aoldlera and defense workers.
Further policy la to hike , iarlfls
■lightly for atage ahowa, ilottihg in
'B' pix as llllerf.

Takes all winter la Dixie have
been bly for vaudfllin.

Uncle Sam Helps
Morris Mice To
Ease Chi Strain

Awkward Chicago managerial situ-
ation of the William Morris agency
has been atral^tcnad out with Irv-
Jng Iiazar'.ff.«nllstmant.«t^Camp' tip-
ton, N. Y, yasterdv" (Tuesday),
seguehig Harry Kalchelib Into his
spot In charge of cafe and hotel
bookings. This eliminated the pres-
sure on Morris B. Silver, who was to
have been augmented by Kalchelin
in charge of the Chi branch. In which
Silver owns a largA share.

Kalcheim has be^n dipping into
every branch of the Morrii office
since leaving Paramount where he
was thfr.chlef talent booker.

Sam Bramson,' yiho was to have
come east from, the Chi Morris of-
fice, now remains there.

No other, agency revamping will
be necessaiy since no more key men,,
other than Het Manhelm (literary
d^ipt.) are due to Join the oolors, at
least immediately. Bob' and John
Lastfogel, both nephews ,ot Abe
Lastfogel, v.p. and g.m. of the Mor-
ris office, who have Joined Up, held
down Jobs as aides to key men. Bob
Lastfogel enlisted In the navy Mon-
day (23); John has been at Fort.
Monmouth, N. J., for several wAks.

NAB SiNGER, MUSICIAN
ON REEFER CHARGE

St. Louis, March 24.

Phyllis .Walters, 20, nitery singer,
and Russell H. Rohrkasse, S7, band
tooter, last week pleaded guilty in
the East St Louis Federal Court to
a charge of delivering reefers to
Federal narcoUe agents. Tbey iasked
for probation' but action wa*. de-'
ferred until the Probation Officers
made an Investigation.

Tipped oil that reefer parties were
b^ing Ue^ in 2ast St Louia for
soldiers in training at Soott Field,
BL, and Jefferson Barracks, Mo.,
both hear here, Fed offlceta' 418-
gulsed themselves In khaU and Obr
taine^ some of the drug olggles from
the pair. The purchases were made
In. East St touls althqu^ the
prisoners asserted th^ Uved In this
burg.

Poleo Loses Contract '
Tiff With Minentch

' Hollywood,' March 24.

Contract between Borrah Mlne-
vitch, harmonica band leader, and
John Piileo, one of his playirs/ was
upheld as valid by Herbert Silver-
berg, arbitrator, under yxilea of the
American Arbitration Aasociatlon.

Puleo declared the Contract, signed
in .September, 1840, was invalid And
remained at Earl Carroll's theatre-
restaurant after ^e Mlnevitch
troupe moved .out Sllverberg ruled
that the pact is binding and that
Mlnevitch I5 entitled to the exclusive

Miami, March 24.

Lou Cohen, 'operator of the May-
fair club and seven other wi^dy
known loeal nitery figures, were ar*
rested hei;* Friday (20) as FBI
agenfai, operating limultaneoualy la
19 clUes,. attacked what they, dec
orlbed aa the nation's largc«t lottery
ring, with astlmated earnings of $10.«
WQ<fi!iP a year.

Topping the list of Miami arrests
were Cohen and two of his brothers,
Charles and Joseph. The three wersi
known to be actively, associated with
the Mayfalr club and held to hava
been the main backers of other >b'>
eal nlteriee whose adjoining, blua
rooma were frequently, raided dur-
ing the gambling blitz. '

Charles Oeffleri said by authorities
to be Cohen's tleup with the El
Bolero club, was also arrested here,
and others I In the Miami roundup, ^
directed by Chief Agent ». g; Dan-
ner, were Seymotu: Bums, his wlf^.
Rose; Benjamin Lustgarten and
Joseph Ginsberg. Bums' was der '
erfbed as angel of -a popular bead
pub.

Cohen was among those indlcte-
in a Pittsburgh lottery ring case tw-
years ago. The case -tiras dlsmissei
for lack of evidence after' Cohei
had been under a $10,000 bond for t
year during which he tentlnued to
operate and expand his bhaln of bars .
and nlteries In Miami.

Present charges concern alleged
interstate shipment of lottery tickets
to Albany, N. Y., and Wilmington,
DeL The FBI did not Outline ojiera-
tion of the lottery, but the payoff '
was reportedly based - on guessing
beforehand certain figures in tba
daily Treasury balance, '
. The northern report of the cajse
came from FBI Dire9t6r J. . Edgar .
Hoover In WasWngton, Who named
the Cohen brothers as' the' ring-
ledders of the lottery syndicate^ with
estimated earnings of . $10,000,000 «
year from the sale of 4425,000 tIckeU
printed weekly &i All^any and at -
Fort Plain, N. Y.

Bond posted here totals ^110.000.
and Is 'one of the largest ever -ft-'
corded locally.. ' , •. . . '

During the open gambling la^t
summer, Cohen's o^dicate dashed
frequently with thi^ local setup,
when it was reported to be att^pl-
Ihg to open up In ft . bigger way,-
Alter Governor Holland's, order
closing up all gambling operations;
Cohen did hot figure In the news
until now.

Passaic Theatre Puts on '
Special Show for Defense
Workers on Uhster Shift

Central theatre) Passaic. N. 3^ op.
erated by A. Preskel aAd John'Ack.
erman, Is putting On apedal vaudflim
show after, mfdflli^ every Saturday
In response to requeitt from.^^ Wright -
aeronautical ahd other .war plant ex«
eciitives.that entertainment be' ipt^
vided ■ workers In tisstic wiu^ .in-
dustries, whose. i'Joba don't permit
theninfo see shows any other time.
Show goes oh around 1:30. a.ita.'| run-
ning approximately twotmdohe-haU
hoUrs, .

The Centra must p^ stagehands
.and projectionists timO <in'd one-half.

Wriglit's and the other pl^ta'dd
not give the Central a&y <n(Ti<rtiiin|
gro.ss guarantees, 'and In ' SOme .In-
stances, receipts ' have be'en' lower
than. operating costs, tJnderstood,
however, tjiat late shows are to con-
tinue indefinitely,. ; „.:': ■'

AMerts P&trrotiim :

Buffalo; March 24. -
War brought change In title to Auf
Wiedersehn, nitery Just outtlde city
limits,

Spo^ near plane-producing plants,
QQW ta£8 Itself patriotically «• tha
'Alrlanes.'

46 VAUDEVILLE

WedncBdtyt March 25, 19i2

N. Y. Supreme Court to Issue Verdict
Witldn 2 Weeks on Burley Closing

New York Supreme Court Justice
Aaron J. Levy wlU Issue a decision
within the next two weeks on the
legal action designed to force N. Y.
License Commissioner Paul Moss to
grant a permit to the Gaiety, N. Y.,
to which Moss recently denied a
license renewal. The jurist was ex-
pected to rule on the action Monday
(23), but decided to reserve opinion.

During last week additional pro
and con argument was heard,
churchmen upholding Moss while
fhow people expressed opposition to
his alleged 'arbitrary' procedure.

Brooks Atkinson, N. Y. Times
drama critic, on Sunday (22) said
•that while he hated to find himself
defending burlesque theatres, there
is a grave matter of democratic prin-
<Jple at sUke In this affair. If Com-
missioner Moss can close burlesque
theatres without ■ permitting the
burlesque managers to defend them-
selves, he can close legitimate and
motion picture theatres by the same
autocratic methods and apply iMlitl-
cal or any other kind of censorship
■t will . . . The Mayor should put
a stop to this totaUtailan non
sense . . .'

Ernst's Argument
Justice Levy took under advise-
ment the plea of the Gaiety for a
writ of mandamus to compel Moss
to grant it a license after hearing an
argument Wednesday (18) when
Morris Ernst, attorney for the
Gaiety, pleaded that Moss's action in
denying a license to the theatre In
the absence of a convictlbn was a
violation of the constitutional rights
of the Gaiety's operators. On Mon-
' day (23) both sides filed briefs. Moss
filed several from clergymen and ih-
cluded onelH his own. In the latter
brief he' stated that 'at no time in
my temire as Commissioner of
Licenses have I set myself up as a
oensor of theatrical performances. I
am' of the opinion, however, that in-
dividuals whose past conduct demon •
•trates a hardened determination to
use the theatres operated by them
as a means om purveying fifth are
morally imflt to b« trusted with a
(Continued oa page U)

NEWAGENTBni
SOUGHT IN N Y.

Albany, March S4.

Senator Condon and Assemblyman
pstertag have introduced a state bill
fliat would regulate theatrical
agencies. It provides for • gross fee
io be otiarged applicants not to ex-
ceed amount Ustied in schedule 1 of
maximum fees filed wHh and ap
; proved by Oommlssionet of licenses
or other licensing agency, vaudeville
and circus engagements excepted.

'Measure eliminates' gross fee of

Army Needs May Nix
Det. Gronnds for Fair

Detroit, March 24,
Whether Michigan will have a
State Fair tliis year la contingent on
whether Army officials decide to use
the extensive -grounds here as a
concentration point for equipment.

Decision of the Board of State Fair
Managers 'on whether to go ahead
with plans for the '42 fair 'Was post-
poned until oflcial word was re-
ceived on whether the fairgrounds
would be used for storing tanks and
other mobile equipment produced
here before moving It on to the'
training camps. There also have
been indications that the Army may
have in mind some other plans for
the extensive grounds located within
Detroit.

NITECLU6BIZIN
N.Y.DOINGAN
OFFBEAT

Outside of the hotels with name
bands. New York's niterles are cur-
rently, on the quiet side so far as
business is concerned. Monte Proser's
Copacabana, which Joe E. Lewis
hypoed into Important attention,
alon^ with the perennial Stork club,
which does all right regardless, and
the Waldorf-Astoria's Wedgwood
Boom (Freddy Mart'u's band, Dinah
Shore and The Hartmana) are the
big money-makers.

Hildegarde's return to the Savoy
Plaza, N. Y., put that spot into the
big league, but otherwise things are
quiet. The yersaillies does okay on
dinner biz, but is oS; ditto La Mar
tlnlque, although Georgia Price has
resuscitated' that room a bit and has
renewed a. fifth week. Class hotel
rooms like the Persian (Plaza hotel).
Iridium (St. Regis) and Cotillion
(Pierre) are blah. . -

The big barns and little bars ou
and off Broadway get the defense
workers and furlou^iing soldiers
and sailors on weekends, while on
some nights class spots like El
Morocco ara suffering from hunger,
and other times okay, depending on
some social gala. In the main it's
no longer fashionable to dress up
and wax ostentatious about vintage
wines. Tha Rockefellers' Rainbow
GrUl (informal) packs 'em in, on a
bargain basis, but the more formal
Rainbow Room Is as spotty as the
rest of the town. The 62d street
Joints see-saw with the trends, and
that takes in %t, I<eon & Eddie's and
Jack 'White's fun factory at Club 18.
The others usually suffer.

Springfield, Mass^

Theatre Mulls Bands

Springfield, Mass., March 34.

Because Charlie Barnet'a ona-day
sUnd drew fou; full houses at OBe
top, Court Squara theatre 1» seri-
ously considering offering name
bands once a week. Bamet, with
Jane Pl(&ens as the co-feature, had
about 7,000 customert before he left
the house .Wednesday (18).

Manager Ed Harrison la trying to
unravel red tape with musicians'
union, which is hinting it expects to
provide « standby band, and with
Loew's office at Boston, which 1«
lining up possible attractions. House
has been running a split week, films
only first four days and vaiidevllle
last three with one picture. An en-
tire]^ new bunch of customers
showed up for Bamet show, accord-
ing to Harrison.

A. C. LOOKS TO
NEW SEASON

AUanUc City, March 24.

Despite blackout threats, Atlantic
City is going ahead with plans for a
big season beginiting with Easter.

Frank P. Gravatt, operator of
Steel Pier, has signed Jimmy
Dorsey's band for the opening night
(East*r Sunday); Alex Bartha's
band will return at that time as
house orch. llie Three Ink. Spots
head the vaude bill, which marks
opening of the Music Hall on the
pier.

Kenneth Baker, resident manager
of .Traymore beachfrontery, has
opened Submarine Grill as day and
night spot. This room has been re
modeled and is now open for cock'
tall dancing, and -on through the
night. Max Malamut, of Ritz-Carl-
ton. has named ^Herbert Frank as
manager of Merry Go Roimd Room
of hotel. Frank was formerly ■with
Benjamin Franklin and Bellevue-
Stretford, Philadelphia. Louis S.
Parsons, formerly . of Stacy-Trent
Hotel, Trenton, now managing Sena
tor Hotel here.

Smberts Map l-d^Jkj B'waj Vaude
Snn3ar 1o Cliff Fisclier s Priorities'

Film Deal Key to St Loo
Hotel Date for Hildegarde

St, lioulsj March 24.
Hotel Cniase here Is going In for
a big-nama policy and would Indiiot
its May reopening with Hildegarde
from N4w York's Savoy-Plaza. TMs
deal depends on a film dicker for
the songstress. RKO director Tim
Whalan is currently in New York
talking to her about a fllmusical
which Music Corp. of America, pack-
aged.

Matty Malneck band will officiate
at the C^hasa regardless. The chan-
teuse is wanted for five weeks to
open,

Hildegarde, who returned Friday
(20) to the Savoy-Plaza, N. Y., has
turned down ' 'Warrior's Husband,'
forthcoming Dwlght Deere Wiroan
show.

Saranac Wolf Tells
Off H'wood Wolves

Saranac Lake, N. Y., March 20.
Editor, "Variety":

Boy, I'm mad; for the past' two or
three years I've heard about those
Wolves in Hollywood and I've read in
Lee Mortimer's column about the
original organization of the Wolves,
but them Hollywood actors are steal
Ing my stuff, and I am that mad that
I am showing a high temperature.

During 1936 I organized the Lone
Wolves of the North. Every mem-
ber had to be a health-seeker and a
member of the Actors colony. The
dues were 25c a year, that money
being used to buy clgarets for the
less fortunate 'who could not make
the grade, or buy stamps for them, so
that they could write home to their
folks.

'When one got his card and a mem-
bership into the Wolves, that would
enable him to go from one room to
the other wolfing; but, if the Wolf
was caught holding bands with
girl, he was fined 10c, and that went
into the charity fund. If he . was
caught trying to out- wolf another
wolf, he was fined 15c and his card
suspended for two, weeks.

We health-seeking Wolves wolfed
on ^he up-and-up, and we got to be
so well known here that the town
folks wanted to join the Wolves,
which we let them do at 25c a throw.
This letterhead proves the Wolves Is
our organlaztion, and we are mad
beca'use the Hollywood Wolves are
horning in on us, original Wolves.

I have just seen bur lawyer, and
we are going to sue that Hollywood
mob of Wolves 10c a piece, plus 6c
for wolfing without the O. It, for the
Big Chief Benway.

I hava been a "Variety* mugg for
years, and I know that 'Variety' will
see fair play and see that In the fu-
ture all wolfing must be OKd by this
office.

Us time-markers' and health'
seekers are the original Wolves, and
we 'want credit for it, and we are not
going to let that Hollywood gang
out-WoU ug.

I am- enclosing a paid-f or-Iife Wolf
card; now you, too, can woU and
howl.

Howllngly yours,

Happy Benway,
Big Chief and President.
(Protective Ordec Lone Wolves of
, the North,' Founded lips'?.)

AFN BLAMED BY
RKO FOR EXIT
OFVAUDE

Majority of RKO houses la the
New York metropolitan area 'which
have been booking one and two-
nlghi vaude shows are glWng up ll've
talent with exception of occasional
secondary name bands 'owing to diffi-
culties in making terms with musi-
cians union officials.

Attempt to revive combo vaude
and picture policy around New York,
which was lieing given impetus by
profitable RKO operations in San
Francisco', Cleveland and Boston and
further stimulated' by hefty grosses
being chalked up "by Clifford C.
Fischer's straight two-arday 'Priori-
ties of 1B42' at the 48th St. theatre,
is being abandoned unless any drastic
reduction jn flhn product makes live
shows necessary.

Some theatre operating execs
within RKO wSb have been vaude-
ville-mlnded were stymied when
musicians union recently held that
even if a single act appears in ^ pic-
ture house, regardless of fact that it
may be an Instrumental turn, thea-
tre must pay for en orchestra .of five
men whether the pitmen are used or
not. In many picture houses there
is no pit for musicians . and men
would h!|ve to be- retained without
working, if theatre operators agreed
to such arrangement.

Issue at stake, according to theatre
operator involved, was not merely
matter of paying for a band. Idea
was to try out with several acts on
experimental basis, lopping off
the second feature. Contention was
that combo family vaude and flim
shows would stand up as well as
double features and that once this
was proved to satisfaction of top
RKO executives there wduld be em-
ployment for 80 to 100 more musi-
cians in picture' houses around New
York.

Aside from labor problem theatre
operators believe that greatest ob-
stacle to revival of standard vaude-
ville in nabes is the Broadway sector
with its name talent and the pro-
hibitive cost of such talent for houses
outside the Main St$m.

Click of Clifford C. Fischer's 'Pri-
orities,' two-a-day vaudeville show
at |l-$2 scalej_ has in^ired the
Shuberts, In association with Music
Corp. of America, to simulate a sim-
ilar Broadway- show.- This would
glv* the- Shuberts a double-feature ■
straight-vande show, since they'i-e
also in with Fischer at the 46th St.
theatre. Site . of the second vaude
revue not yet picked.

Jack Bertell, MCA v.p., has pre-
sented a package' of his clients, in-
cluding The Hartmans, Hildegarde,
Harry Rlchman, BUly de Wolfe and
others as the nucleus of the Shubcrt
initiolers. An embellishment on the
'Priorities' motif would be to have
Eddie Davis and Guy Bolton write
special rnaterlal for the sketches,
and yet maintain the straight-vaude
format. The . setup would operate
under rules rather than Equity,
American Guild or Variety Artists,
which governs such other glorified
variety shows as 'Sons of Fun' and
'Hellzapoppin.' AGVA, however, has
jurisdiction over 'Priorities,' though
it's in a legit house.

Shuberts may extend their vaiide
Idea 'still furthet, since tjiey have
the advantage of ' controlling so
many small., legit theatres, ideal for
the planned policy. The Broadway
(nee Colony) is one .such, and the
44th St., now deprecated as a 'jinx
house,' still lends itself well for va-
riety-shows.

Flsoher's Long Career Becalled

Extraordinary click of Fischer's
'Priorities,' incidentally, has Teem- .
phasized' this showman's career, of
over 35 years.

Fischer ^aa foreign talent booker
for H. B. MarinelU &'Co.; and later
for WlUlam Morris. He's been knock-
ing around the world capitals as a
talent scout and later a producer
since 1B05.

It was Fischer who first brought
Harry Lauder to America for Klaw
& Erlanger when the latter were
operating Ihe New York theatre on
Broadway (now the site of the Cri-
terion) as bigtlme vaudeville op-
position to B. F. Keith. This was in
1907. When Lauder met the late
William Morris, in Fischer's words,
'the great Scotch comedian fell in
love with Bill Morris; he had never
met such a high-type showman and,
of course, to this 'day anything Sir
Harry Lauder does*is with the Mor-
ris agency.'

Hold Over Faber Danoera

Chicago, March 23.
Margaret Faber Dancers have had
their option picked up again on their
present date at the Club Royal*, De-
troit, being held over indef.

Cafe Unit Compromises
On Shortened Pitt Date

Pittsburgh, March 24.
Charles V. 'Yates, owner of 'Fun
for Your Money,' nltery unit, agreed
to forego cast salaries for four nights
that Yacht Club, local cafe where
show is current, was closed down last
week on account of high water,
which made spot Inaccessible, pro-
viding engagement, originally sched-
uled for a fortnight, 'was extended
an additional week. This Yacht
Club management okayed and show,
originally slated to dose Thursday
(IB) will continue through this
week.

' " Lee Trent' lef t'.'Fuh' here ' over'
weekend and was replaced by Bob ■
Alda, who's been doing straight in.
bqrley this season for Harry Savoy.
Show seeking another replaceitient
for Phyllis Merrill, acfobatlc dancer,
who is retiring from show biz for
domestic lUe in Baltimore, where
her husbahd of five months works
for Westlnghouse company.

PHIL
REGAN

Opening April S

LATIN QUARTER
BOSTON

Personal Representative i
FRANK VINCENT
Beveriy Hllli, Calif.

RENEE AND ROOT

ROYAL PALM CLUB, Miami, Fla.— NOW

DOBOTHT. DET says: 'nUoat .Orapefnl Danoe Team la this Area."

Wednesday. March 25, 1942

47

Variety Bills

WEEK OF MARCH 27

Namerali fai eoiineeUoB wltb bUb below tndloat* opcnlnr of
■how. wbottacr fall or ipin week.

Paramonnt

vmr XOBK rlTT

K». Brown Bd
ConnM Bo»w«il
Bob wnilami
Pops ft Iioula
MIABa
OljnpU (M-Sa)
Tommy Trent
filma A Bailey
Uttio Tough au7«

Sybil Bowan
Helena Gardner
CHICAGO

Chksco ' (27) .
Carl Bramy & Pati
KANSAS cm

Newman (27)
Btfmmy Kaye Oro
Rue Ryan
3 Smart Ola

Loew

NEW TOBK CITS

State (tl)
Ji'fk Ovynne Co
Beatrice Kay
Hermaooa Wllll|fm»
Oeorva Beatty
Johnny Scat Davia O

WASHINGTON
Capital' (M)'
Rhythm Rocketa
Cliff Nazarro
Frank * J Hubert
Laatar Cole it Peba

Warner

NKW tobk cm

StniBd <t7)
Bhap Flelda Oro
Georia Tappa
Vary Small
Alan Carney
<M)

Chaa BpWak Or«
BoKera Sana
Frank Paria
BBOOKLTN
Staand (t7>M)
I4g HIte Ore
Btapln Fetchit
■thel Watera
Gordon A Rofera .

(JO-M)
Jimmy Darenta
Red Norro Oro
Iflldrad Bailey

4 Franka

rHII<ADET.1>HIA
Kaite (t7)
IiOO Braeae Or«
l*w Parker Co
The Jansleya
Gertrude NelnaoB
Jinx Falkenbnrs
<M)

Ina Say Button Ore

Blackatone
Barr * Batea

VASHINGTON
Karle (17)
Johny Iionr Oro
Soatham 81a
Bob popont
<M>

Ray Kinney Ore
CarrBroa
The DIplomata
. nTTSBDBOa
- Sta^ (t7>
Blue Barron Oro
DIek, Don A Dinah
F Tanay' Bapbom
<M>

Duke Blllniton Ore
Bthal Watera
Pes I>IC Batea
, UTIRA
Staaley (U-tt)
Jimmy Durante
Red Nonro 'Ore
Mildred Bailey
Rnthle BarneK
I.ANOABTBR
Capital (1-1)
Blackatone

RKO

BOSTON
Boataa (t7)
Jimmy Durante
Ina Ray T^ttun Bd
Cheater Frederlcka
Cort H'wood Stara
(M)

Alvino Rey Oro
The 4 Klnr Sla
Spencer A Forman
Lane Broa

CUSTEI.AND
Palaoe (t7)
Chlco Marx Ore
Rollo A V rickert

Gil I^mb
liarry Adler
(to)

Andrewa Sla

Johnny Long Ore
Fred 'Sanborn
Southern Sla

DATTON
Coionlal (27)
Cab Calloway Oro

Chi CO Marx Oro
on I^amb
Rollo''A V Pleliert-
Carroll A Dietrich

Independent

NEW YOBK cm

Ifoale BaU (2«>
Bdwlna Buatia
Gil Malson Co
Jeanne Devereaux
Henr; Calvin
Owen McBrlda
Corpa de Ballet
Rockettea

SrBo Rapee Symph

- aoiy (wr "

Uarlo A Florla •
Lowe, HIte, Stanley
12 Baqulrea
Bob Hannon
„ , ApoUo (2«)
.Salute to Negro Tr
Red Allen Oro
Dolorea Brown'
Slim Thomaa
iralher A Walker
.Wladaor (t7-:»)
Bob Allen Oro
N Rae A Waterfalla
Barry 'Wood
F Roaa A Anita
-Walla A 4 Faya
BBOOKLYN
Flatbnah <2«)
\7alter Powell Oro
Jane PIckena
Jack Haley
Cappy-Barra Boya
Naah A Evana

llaylalr (28 only)
Bio A Rita
Stanley Burna
I>«n A Lee Dale

Majtao (t» only)
Bio ATllta
Stanley Burna
Don ft Lee Dale
BMgewood "
y»rd A Klni
Gonzalea 8
LewlB ft Lorraine

» PoUtTWa - " ■
ASTORIA

ir?fsJ"r,'?

Keith Union Sq Fol
-.BALTIMORE-
Wppodrame (26)

Jackie MIlea

Kim Loo aia
• ShyrettOB

S^^.J^lIer A Sla
T«S I-oeter
Solly ft Thomaa
SWrey Sla A Dean
V. (2«-2S)
*«»P Smiling Roy
fc,»oynI (26)
3S'*l»»for«ld Ore

(2S)

Reda A Curley
BBIDGEPORT
Lyrio (23-20)
Fata Waller Oro
Myra Johnaon ,
Harria A Howell
Whitey'a L Hoppara
Carl A Harriet -
BUFFALO
■ CiBtary - (26) "
Meet the People
CAMDEN
Towern (27-28)
' Manhattan Scandala
ELIZABETH
Liberty (20-20)
White A Stanley
T O'Neal A Knthe
Gonzalea 8
Dorothy Carlaon Co
(One to 611)
FALL BIVEB
Kmpin (24-26)
Joe 'Venutl Oro .
Bonnie Baker
Stuart A Taylor
Gordon's Raoketeera

FREBFORT
FIreeport (27 only)
Ward A King
3 Potato Bugr
HARTFOBS
Stato (27-20)
Hal LeRoy
Mugay Spanler Oro
Romo Vincent
Tvette

JAMAICA
Jamaica (27)
Ruthle Barnes
Munaon A Anderaon
Rons of Purplo Rage
George Freema
The Wallablea
(2S-26)
'Al' A flBwi) .'^ohonin-,-
Cy Landry
Trent
Fred Rookie Co
6 Cabtneern

LTNBROOK
T<ynbrook (26 only)
Ward A King
3 Potato Bugs.
NEWARK
Adama (26)
Clyde McCoy Oro
Del RlOB

Henny Toungmnn
S Miller A A Slegel
PASSAIC
Central (26)
Stan Kenton Oro
John Bolea
Dave Apollnn Co

PATEBSON
Hajeatte (Sl-^)
Ruasell A Farrar
Don Scott Dane
Judaon Cole
Wllaon 3
(One to fill)
(27-80)
Kite In Rio
FHILADBrTHIA
Carman (SI-2)
Al A Jean Johnaton
Keaton A Arm Held
i Speed Deniona
(One to 611)

(27-30) .
Sylvia A Clemence
Fred Keating
4 fildneya

Fay'a (20)
Nick A V Colllna
Carol Lord
Cleotorlo

T. Waldman A Suzle
Jean' Carroll
PITMAN
B'way (2« oaly)
Howard Fuller A Sla
Ted Lester
Bully A Thomaa
Storey 61a A Dean

' PBO'VIOENOB
Uetropolltan
(27-20)
Alvino Rey Oro
Lane Broa
Spencer & Forman
SOUTH BIVEB
. Opitol (37-«6>
Fred LIghtner
Brent A Marco.il
Fred Rookie Co
6 Demona
(One to nil)

STBACUBR
Strand (27-29)
Ray Heatherton O
Bonnie Baker
Johnny Wooda
4 Macka
' WATERBURX
Poll'a (26-27)-
Fata Waller Ore
Myra Johnaon
Whitey'a L Hoppern
Harria A Howell
Carl' A Barrlet

woonsiDE

Snnnyalde (26-20)
Al Delage A Shirley
Lewln A Lorraine
Art Conroy
i Topa
(One to All)

Cabaret BiHs

HEW i0BS CITT

Geo Morrla Ore '
Beverly Faterno
Beacheambai
Yvonne Bouvter
Hope Emeraoa
Roaalllanoa (2)
Leon Fields
Helebe Traven
Andrewa Sla
Jeanette (Jarratt
Salazar Ore- ''<
Cordoba Ord
Ben HardCB Riviera

(Wlnlor Boom)'
Adelaide Moffett

•Una Wyte
' Suzanne Daya

Harry Stevena

Freshmen

Guy Howard
BUI Bemiotiro

Betty Blaok

Linda Kobblna

Bernlce Alarle

Moya Olfford

Don Sylvlo Ore
BlU'a Gay STa

Roae Perfect
Ldiln Batea
Ethel Gilbert
George Tonak
Harry Donelly
Billy Lorraine
Charlie Rosa
Bernle Grauer
Gay 80'a Quartette
Cafe Society
(MIdtown)
Joe Sullivan
Kenneth Spencer
Hazel Scott
Golden Gate 4
Bddle south Ore

., Pate Society
' (Village I
Teddy Wllaon Ore
Albert Ammona
Pete Johnaon
Roae Dexter
Zero Mostel
Baby HInea

Casino Rnaa*
Nina Taraaova
Sasha Pollnolt
Michel Ulchon
Nadia A Saaha
DiAltrl Maivionko
Kria Kay Oro
Nicholas Matthey O

Cemtira
Walter Lynch
Mas. JBw.nea. ^. .., .
Haywood A Allan
4 Chantlcleera
Dan Parrleh

Chatean Hoderao
Angela Velez
Gabriel

Maurice Shaw Oro

Chin Lce'a
Sandra A Stanley
Mary Rowley
Darling Sla
Claudlnette LAffoae
Helen Glasaer
Evelyn Johnaon
Ray Worth Oro

aob 16

O Andrewa Or*

Eric Ore
Roberta Welch '
Jack White
Frankle Hyen
VInce Cnrran
Roy Sedley
Hazel McNulty
Lillian Fitzgerald
Ann Paige

Club Frisco
Joe Frisco
Mildred Fentoo
Florla Veatoir
Terrace Boya
Patricia Joyce
Frank Froeba Oro
- -..iu/Coiiacflbomv-y'
Loper A Barrai
Fernando Alvarez
Eatellta
Samba Slrena
Walter Long
Betty Jane Smith
Carol Dexter
N Brandwynne Ore
Frank Marti Ore

Coq Rouge
Dick Wllaon Oro
Bela BIzony Oro
Diamond lloracahor
Nlia Naldt
Betty Cnnipaon
Carlyle Blackwel)
Joe B Howard
Roaa Wyae. Jr

June Mann
Delia LInd
Geo Fontana

DeMarloa
Guy Rodlaa
Fay Marde
Penny Bancroft
Burton Oroaa Oro

Hotel Lexington

(Hawaiian Bm)
Tutaal
Momlkal
Molntyre Oro
Napua
Lellanl laea

Hotel HeAlpIn
Johnny Mesaner Oro
Hotel New Vorkcr
Woody Herman Ore
Carolyn Grey
Billy Rogera
Adele Inge
BAB Wade
Ronny Roberta
Ice Ballet
Grace Harvey
Lynn Clare

Hotel Nnvarro

(Midnight riDb)
Margo A Mann
Midnight G^palea
Hotel Park' Central

(Cocoanut Grove)
Blaine Jordan
Dora Maugham
Robert Rayn^on
Geoffrey Hale
Rochelle A< Be«b*

(Bhnmbu Boam)'
Juan Donrlguea Ore
Julia Gerrlty
Flah A Gold
The Three Deba
Hotel Pennaylranla

(Cafe BoBge)
Jimmy Dorsey Oro
Bob Bberly
Helen O'Connell
Phil Washburn
Hotel rierro

(CotUlloB RaoBi
-Ella L,ogan
Stanley Melba <ir«

" Hotol ' riata

(Penlan Boom)
Dick Gaaparre Ur*
Eleanor French
Frank Parla

Hetal BooaoTeli
Guy Lombardo Ore
Kenny Gardner .
Hotol Sheraton

(Mnmy Bmmbi)
Roth Lowe

-^rry Daolela
NItza A RaVell
J A L Seller
Noro Moralea Oro
Jack Harria Oro
La Marqniao
Francea Connolly
Al Carr Ore

Im Hnrtlnlooa

Georgia Price
Peggy Newton
Don Welamuller
UartlnlQueena
Herbert Ciirbello O
Val Olman Ore

Leon * Eddle'a
Eddie Davla
Eric Thorson
Robinson A Martin
Carol Dean
Nathane Broa
M A B Whelan
C de Seemon Tr
Gerry Laraon
Lou Martin Oro
Nerlda Ore

IMb Hole CInb
Lenore I,emmon
Steve Murray
Golferettea
Lou Taylor
Rdltb Delaney
Gerrl White
Johnny A George
Angel Velez Ore
Snub Unaely Ore

Old Roomanlan
Sandle Banka
Freddie Bernard
Ada Lublha
Ginger Layne
Joo LaPorte Oro

Placo Deganto
l>hll Dante
William Roaa
Cliff Conrad
Arllne Thomp'soa
Diane Nelaon
Martin Locke
Manya Borodkin
Jeaiftiette Garrotte
Brneat Franz Oro
<|ne«a Harr

Shadracb Boya
CarlUle Sla
Bonny Tnfta
Chlqulta Venezta
Joan Blllo
Bill Glaaa Ore.

Qneena Terraeo
Phil Forater

Fleetwood Hole!
(Jewel llnxl

Arthur Blake
Conauela FInwertop
Renay Curtis
Joe Martin

Fiollo Club
Jerry Cooper
Billy Vine
Suzanne A Christln<-
Nlrma Cordova
DeCastro Co
Carol Vance
Nano Rodrlgo Oro

JImmle'a
Ray Vaughn
Red Thornton
Martingales
Rovell A Jeanette
Lea Robinson Ore
Latin Quarter
Harry Rlchman
Benor Wencea
H^rmanoa Wma 3
Siuart Morgan
Carol King
Reynolda Rkatera
Diamond Broa
Kamarova Ballet
Joan Cortez . Oro
Jaime Cbrlaty Oro
Mother Kelly'a
Owen A Parker
Jerry Kroger
Mylea Bell
3 Gueaaea

Nut ClBb
Tubby Rlvea
NlCk Sett
George Gregg
Ted Blake
Chuck Wllaon

Paddock
Lenny Kent

3 Heat Waves
Ruth Wayne
rolls Miller
Paddock Ponies
Oscar hoP9Z Oro

Pfptlde
Pat Roooey, Sr ^
Jadin Wong
nan Perry
Carroll Gle
Royal Palm CInb
Harry Rlchman
Jane Frohman
Jerry Cooper
Jack Cole
Ghrlatlanla
Roae Blaine
Billy Sherman
Stan Kavanaugh
Abe -Lyman O-o
. The Dram
Antonio Alvarez
Eddie Shephard
Pat Poree
Ooren

Wayne Shelton
Vanderbllt Hnlel

(Pago Pago Ru)
Dr Giovanni
Renoe A Root
Bee Kalmus
Wanger Gla
Vcmalirea

(Gnlfatream Rm)
Rusaell Swann
Dean Murphy
Gomez A Minor -
Charlie Wright Ore

Winnie's RlpUde
Helen' Kane
Dan Healy
Ben Perry '
Screwy Huey
Carroll Dano

CHICAGO

Ambaaaador Hotoi
(PUap Room) '
Emile PettJ

Battery
Ray Benson Oro
' BUnaarrlk Hotel
(Walnnt Boom)
Jimmy Joy Ore
Betty Burna
Hadley Ola

(TBTorn Room)
Dave Prltohard Oro
Dick War*
Bob Marahall
Annette. Shlelda

BOOKING THE ATATION'S LEWING INDEPENDENT
VAUDEVillE THEATBES

EDWARD SHERMAN AQENCY

NEW YORK

BEVEBLY HILLS, CAL

Gllda Gray
Charlea King
Mangean Sla
Clyde Hager
Del Duca Oro
Noble Slaal* Ore

El Chico
Trio Mextlco
Maria Morales
Maria Lopex
RIU Bahia
<^loa Lugo

B Uoroccn
Chauneey Grey Ore
Chlqulto Ore

Famons Uoot
Helen- Humea
Billy Daniels
Stump

Sammy Price
Dolorea Colbert
Jane Lealle
Walker A Walker
Smltty A Ralph
Lee Norman Oro

' M CInb
Carolyn BIddle
Marlon Joyce
Iria Karyl
Wauneta Batea
Francea Lealle,
WlI'ma Novak
Irene Kaye
Oroovertieera
Bobby Bernard
Dick Lewla Ore
Oreenwloh Village
Inn

Carol Chappelle
Rita Renaud
Gloria Manner
Joan Colllar
liorna Rode
Gene Monet Oro

■ Havana-Madrid .
Pilar Lopez
Roalta Rloa
Carloa Montoya
Rolando
D'&n Caaanova
3 Juchlteco
Pace Lucena
Maya Ore
Don Gllberto Oro
Hickory Honao
Norma Shepard
Sona of JIva
Jean Murray-
Ijarry Bennett Ore
Hotel Aelor
(Colombia Rm)
Bobby Parka Ore
(Cocktail Lonnge)
Dick Kuhn Ore
Hotol Belmont
Plaza
(Olaas Hat)
Covert A Reed
Barbara Perry
Margaret Scott
Belmont Balladeera
Howard Lally Oro
Joe Fafumy Ore
Hotel Blltmore
(Bowman Boom)
Heasley 2
Hazel Franklin
Maureen Holmea
'v4'V»t*tttfce.-iBi;4*#*ntn^
Madrlgueru Ore
Hotel Commodora
(Century Room)
Vaughn Monroe Ore
Peter Rotunda Ore
BAR Ambrose
Charle Carrer
Marylln Duke
Virginia Austin
Johnny Mack
Commodorablea

' Hotel Ediion
Shop Flelda On-
Hotel Eaaex Uooae
Itoaalle Grant
Uvalyn Tynor Oro
Hotel nth Ave
. (Salon Madrid)
Cass Franklin j , ,

Sair Lea
Francla King
Henry Noble
Hotel Savoy-Plaaa

Hlldegarde
Leo.Kahn
Bob Grant Ore

Hotel Si. Morlla
(Cafs de U Palx)
Charlea ColumVua
Kathryn Carroll
Terrl Franconl
.Mack. Parrin
Roaalle Gibson
Ford Harrison Or*

Hotel Bi HeBls

(Irldlnm Boom)
Maurice A Cordoba
Hal Saundera Orr

Hotal Taft
Vincent Lopes Or*
Sonny Skyler

Hotel Waldorf-
Aatoria

(Wedgwood Rm)
Hartmana -
Dinah Shore
Freddy Martin Oro
Stuart Wade
Mlacha Borr Oro

(Bert Rm)
Mlacha Borr O'v

Hotel Warwick

(Bolelgb Room)

Vickl George
Sande Williams Orr

^ Hnrrlcan*
Alan Galp
Alice Dawn -
Fay A Gordon
Bert Lynn
Nancy Healy
Dave Dennis Ore
Bobby Quinton Ore
Iceloind Beataurant
Danny White
6 Greya
l.,eB Hunt
Nola Day
Ted Eddy Ore
Angela Ore -
Jack Dempacy'a
B'way Reatanranl
Milt Herth 3
Linda Lark
Irv Carroll Ore

Jimmy Kelly'a
Ramon A Joan
Carter A 'Sharp
Montmarte Boya
Helen Holmea
Danlta Rivera
Margaret Grey
Faith Arlen
Reno

Ann Jung
Jeannie Waitera
Olenda .Hope
Joe Capello Oro
King Cole 3
Francea Wayne
Bruce Wendell

Relly'e Stnblo
Nick Jarret Oro

La Conga
Luba Mallna

Bpple Bruce
Healy A Evan*-'
Agnaa Dwyer
Jack Allyn
Ned Barvey (See
Groovernaara

Balabaw Grin
Ruaa Smith Or*
Aahburna
Sylvl* 8t CUIr

B*Biy Scott
Linda Ware
Monna Monte*
Alexia Dollnoff
Carmen Cavallaro 0
Clemente Ore

■■ban Blea
Maxine Sullivan
Raaha A Mirko
Kay Mo'rria
Jamea'CoiPP, III
Boaalan Kntebma
Vladimir LazaroS
Ell Splvack
Oypay Norma
Norma L*ueeru .
Arcadl Stoyaniivaky
Adia Kuznetzoff
Naatia Polloknva
MaruBia Sava
Mlacha VzanoS
Cornelia Cedolban O

Stork CIbb
Grace Reilly
Charlea Baum Oro
Bob Knight Ore

The Plac*
Irene Berkley
Pat Rln^
Evelyn Brock
Skeeta Tolbert

UbaogI CInb
Bill Dailey

May 'Johnaon -

Kae SoAad
Jackie Mabley
Savannah Uhurohlil
Socaraa Oro
WIval
Ford Crane
Helen Arthur
Connie Joyce
Baron A Bernay
Veraallle*

Bergere Ore
Panchito Orr
Billy Do Wolfe
Donoa Devel
Harold Bornea
Kirk Alyn
Paul Bartela
Six Ver-Sigba

VUbige Rara
Al Robinson
Tex Fletcher
Muale Hall 'Bo.va
Towne A Knott
Palmer Oro
Trlnl Oro
Village Vanguard
Burl (vea
Belle Rosette
Art Hodea
Ann Rohlnaon
Bddle Heywood 8

HiAin

Bar. of Moalo
Bill Jordan
Cliff Souze
MIehael Doyle
Rex Owen
Ann Southcrland
Marie Stanley

Beaeheomber
Croaa A Dunji
Senorlta Martinez
Cheena de Simone
Canay Ore

Carronael
Faith Baron
Patricia Hall
T,ee Bnrteli
De Lamarra
Danny Tatna Ore '

Clob

Caaanova

Val Irving

Clymua

Emil Boreo

Jitanlta Rloa

Fuller (6)

Ralph Rotgera Ore

Dan Shrader Oro

Clover CInb

Joaephlne Delmar
Marjorle Knapp
Proaer Rev
Hernandez Ore

Five O'clock CInb
Gale Mannera
Colstons . .
Db Oaetrb*

^Blacktewk .

Orrin Tucker Ore

Lorraine Benson

Whltey RoberU

Bob Haynea

Seanlon A MeGulre

Jos* RoaadO'Oro
Blacliatoa*. Hotel
(Ballne** Bm.)

Johnny Duffy Oro

?attl Clayton
Bras* BaU

Margie Whitney

Th* Cavallera
Brcveort Hotel
<Ci7*«al Boom)

Tony A Georg*

Joan Baylor

Bob BJlllnga

CMdia Roth Oro
Brown l>erby

Three Ryana

Danny Rogers

Judy Ellington

Mary Ann

Pat Porry

Hoffman Sla

Ted Smith

Ppke Yellman Ore
Capitol Lonnge

Maurice Roceo

Joe de Salvo

Bin Turner Oro
. Clin Pare*

Willie Shore

Carol Bruce

The Billlngatona

The Smoothies

Chandra.Kaly Dane

Boyd Raeburii <(rp ,

Bobby Ramoa uro

Evans Gla

Club Alubani .

Bernle Adler

Florence White

Paulette LaPlerre

Harriet Norria

Ginger Wood

Pel Eatea

Allan Coo

Pave (Jnell Ore

Bddle Rotb Ore
Cnloatmo*

Polly Kay

San Succi Dano

Rubyat ft Don

Kay Boley

Olga Ward

Jack Waldron

NIta Trindall

Don Lang Ure
Congvesa Hotel
(Glaaa Hat Bm)

Barry WInton Ore

Red Duncan

Jo Anna Hubbard
. Drake Hold
(CnmUlU Ifouae)

John Baboatlan

Ramon Ram<iH Ore
Edgowater Rncb
Hotel
(Marine Bm)

Cee Uavldaon Ore

Singing Marines

Blanche Bradley

Rollet A Dorothea

NIghthowka

Dorben Giit

86A Club

Janice Dale

Peana Berry

Vie Arteao

Julio Garcia Oro

Johnny Honnert
Eltera

HeldelberR Octet

Hnn^ Mnenz^r Kna
RathHkellar

Louie A Gang

. SlOO CInb.
Danny Thomaa
Bob O ;jo Ola .
Mark Fisher Ore

Uamck Btagebar
Ascot Boya
Jimmy Noona 8
June Price

Downbeat Ba
Bluff Smith
3 Bharpa A Flata
Oladya Palmer

UraoBMra Uut«4
(Ulas* Hone* Kroi
<.;rusaden Ore
.Mary Sinclair
Dorothy Tlmoiloa
Grand Temr*
Sootl* WlUl'ama O
Brown A Lee
Candy A Pepper
Bvelyn White
Jackie Wllliama
Lovey Lane
Hdilng*

(Vadvll Loangf)
Carl Freed
Lean* A Carol
Novelty Acca
Lillian Clark*
Jack Herbert
HI Hat
Diana Barry
Carloa Vesta
Betty Hill
VI Mar 2
Mary Bath BIras
Kddy Fens Ore
H Martinez Ore
Winnie Hoveler Gls

Ivanb**
Flol-ene* BohulMn
Barney Rrchards O
Vlarra Hawaiian*
Helen Sumner
l/A||loa
Splros Stamo* Ore
Owfcndolyn Veausall
Murray A Cumuiin*
George Deveron
Isobel de Marco
l« 8all* <Uiil*l

(Pu-Am. Boom)
Jose Manzanerea O

Mew torhar
Jackie Green
Noll A Nolko
Dallon Boys
Jack LaVler
Htarleu

Arne Barnelt Ore
(Piccadilly Circle)
3 Knighu
Billy Meyers
JJm Marvin
Rocky RIaworth

100 CInb
Dick Bauer > Ore
Billy Carr
Sophia Parker
Wllma Novak
Martin A Margo
Bobbie Allen
Fernando & Ku r
Cal Herliert
PnlmetllvOBo

(Empira Boom)
Xavler Cugal Ore
Cardini
Dl Gatanus
LIna Romay
Maiguellto
Ablxitt Dancers

Sherman Hotel
(Celllo Cafe)
Gene Kerwin Oro
Jaros Sis

(Panthrr Room)
Gene Krupa Ore
Nilah Brooks Rev
Carl Marx

Bhumba Casino
Don Tannen
Phil Levant Oro
Pierce A Roland
Don Orlando Ore
Jack Rndregues O

«0« Club
Don Harria
Gay Knfght
June'March
Carrie FInnell
Kay A Wellington
.Mile Jean
Janeen
Aloha '
Millie Wayne
Ginger Britton
Jerl Vance
.Midge Fellowa
fiOfi Gla'
Dolly Sterling
Sol Lake Oro
Tripoli 3

Stevena Hotel
Chuck Foster Oro
Dhn DIFIavIo
(Contlnentnl Room)

Tar Real
Geo Scherban Oro
Lorraine Wasirall
Peter HIlnlkolT

Al Miller

Paddoc* lata
Bob Bell
Paddoekeera Oro
Penn Atlantic llqteii

(Palm Boom)'
Olllott Russell Ore

Preatdent Hotel
Ramon Rio Co
Marjorle Maxwell
Pedro Albanl Ore

Bits Carltoa Rotol
(Merry Go Bannd

Boom)
IMdy Morgan Ore
Troyraora Hotel
Wro Madden Ore

Oablea Inn
(Bbck Horae Plk*>
Nan D.eMar
Stanley Rich
Joan Clark

peelaselfhia

ATLANTIC CITT

Ambassador Hotel
Bert Bstlow Ore
Chelsea Ho(«'l
Billy Van 3
Claridge Hotel
(HayfaP BoOia)
Marty Magee Or'-

CInb Nomad
Hoiene Francis .
Kent Edwarda
Wanda De Muih
Tiny Kaye
Mahny Davis Ore
rMinntioll'nn lintel

CInb BaU
Tria Wayne
Balletorea
Harry Roae
Nino Blanco
Penny Davis
Peters Sis (3)
Ballatorea
Alan Fielding Ore

Uen Ftanklln
The Duanoa
Tanya Tamara
Mnrqulta A Batlata
Pancho Oro

Uenny the Bum'*
Patsy O'Noll
Bdouardo Satldeval
nataan 3
Dolores Gomea
CarreU'*
Gaines Oro
Wilbur Itanc*
MimI Stewart
Noel Hlghtown -
Irene Dale
Madge A Cart
Harry Ross
Grace Gordon
Pat Bernard .
I'^rrnlloTlies (12)

CoUege ina
.Marie Holts
Joan Maury -
Thunderbolt* .
Eatelie Bark
Lou Tomojieo
Scarey Gavin
Ruth Templetoa
Mnalo Hall Gls
lorry Delmar Or*

IH FInto*
Day, Dawn A. Duak
O'Connor 2
Bert St Clair
Amy Organ
Eddie King Oro

Bttbaaar
Billy Hey
Geo Clifford
Ann» Franclno
Mary 'Jane Brown
Vlokl . George
Marc«lU CUlr
Pat Sherlln On*
(H- Wallna Bo*f>
H'wood :B10BdeB (3)
Caataoa A Barry
Qlamoor Ola
Paul Lo Paul
Helen Heath
Gerry Sir

Eddie De Lnca Ore
Jam BaoMo a

Ann Row
Lilly Kralchm*»
George Lots
Teddy Walton
Fnnklo Meadow*
H*pkln*>BatIiBkcll*i
Frankl* T,eater
Hrmmy Weston
Jokn Wllliama
Agnes Barry
ReginI
Janice RIc*
Jane Lynd
Dave Gold On
Dolly Parker
LawUr** Swln* Bar
Men of Rhythm (4)

Lexlngtoa Ca*lM
Paul Kane
Sonia Smiley
Deloyd Mackay ,
4 Octaves '
Jackie Le*
Johnny Came
Jackie Whalen
Garvin Bna^hall O

Udo Teak*
Billy Mayo
Rhythm Vendora
Sid Raymond
Jlabe iCumminga
Dnnny Roberta
Bill Joy
Jean tlarahall -
UNle Bathakeller
Peters Sla
Hilda -Simmon
nilly A Buster
A I Bchepk ■
■yvonne York
Sid Golden
Victor Hugo'a On
Jack Teagdrden Ore
lioa'* Cliancellor Bat
Ruda ft Buddie
Ernie Swan
Curt Weller 4
Ronnie Thompson

Mn^o* '
Mayo Swingstera
Harry McKay
Muriel Brooke
Joyettea

HInatrel Tavera
Ed McGoldrlek. Jr
Warren ft Durkin
Joe Ixinegart t
Anita

Margie March
Sally Foy

Biaay GInnle Lottur
Bd McGoldrlek. Br
Moravian Bar

Bon-Bon

Kenny Shaffer (3)
The Serenaden
Dick Wad*
Curt Weller (4)
Unrroy Bhytbm Bat
Fay Ray
Gloria Carpenter
Lillian Bishop
I.ea Warwick
Marian LoVe
TonI Anderson
Stanley Robinson

Madame Gene
Dotty King Oro
N^l Uleghaa'i

Hale Hamilton
l.eunard Cook*
UoArthura
Warnn- Boden
Rhythm Manlae*
Qunrdsmen A Mar's
Geo Moor*
Geo Marchettl Oro
Old Falla Tnvua
Oee Wnyne
Harry McKay
Karll

Shannon ft Nein
Al Kilbride
Billy Hayek' -Oro

Open lloor Caf*
}ol>nny Cahlll
Banka A Fay
Rita Znne
Grace O'Hkra
Jeahettea (12)
Viola Klalas Ore

- Palnmbo'f
Tvunettea
Kay* A Grey*
-Viotcria Lao*
Jnlla'Cummlpga
Henry Patrick
.Otto Baaon ''
Franhy Seblotb .
3 Peppera

- Phltadelplila Haid

Marein Lloyd .
Dorn A Toaoy
laabelle Johnson
DIch -Wbartop 'Ora
''Slta OaritoB
Howord l4inlB Ord

Roman drUI*
Al Capron Oro
Valdoz A Peggy
hhella Starr.
Dave Btelner
'Gloria Dale ^
ReBdeavsa*

(Hotel Beaator)
Ward Palmer (4)
Boale SI Boy*

Sam** Car*
Joan Manrajp
Pepper Garat
Joe Armstrong ,
Billy William* .
Loretto
Joe Jovlnelly
3 King** Bhytbm

Bllw uk* Ua
r'ol Geo R**d >.
Mnrftn

Warner A ValaM*'
Alice .Lncay
DnehOa* A Hcrmaa
Frank Hasbel Or*- ■

^StaaiR'6 '
Dolly Raul G1« '
Bella Belmont
Jack Spangler
Dolly RaonI Gl*
1,onn(* Val*
Helen Jerrlco
Baa Bay Oardcao
Joe Alte* -
Bamtt A .Smith
Dawn Iiovely
Beatrie* A Danny
Agnea 'Willis
Don Anton Oro '
«ttb St. Ba«liaikcil«*
■'Invell A RanOn*
Blliy'Atblnadn
Bett); Campbell
Joan Carney
Elton Brown
Gene Carney
Tony Bennett Or*

Swan Clab
'Vincent Rlzzn Or*
Bonnie Stuart
Marty Bobn
Elatona
.M'cNally Sla
3 Keya .

Vnti Ceafbiy
3 Pepper*
Cleff Tonera
Ulnnehe Saunder*
A ntrohman <3)
Venic* Grin
Nick Varalln On
Dorothy Lull '
Eddie Galbretb
Zola Gray
Peggy Heavena
. Warwick Hotel
Roy Morton Oro
tteber'a Hof Bra* •

CamdoB
Jack Moas
Heg-Keboo '
Segovjas
Aceordionairca
Trixle

Frank Dl Nunzla-
Da>e PI«r«on
Pelt Bannerman
Jules .Flarco'a Or*
Syd Golden
RathK'r Btderkdrana

Wllaon'*
Jo*- Rough
Art Mathuea .
Gerard Beam
Carol Joyce
'Eton Boya
Catherine Wolff QU
Geo ISaquai Oro

Vncht Clak
Harry Holly
Anita Jamea'
Betty.. Frederick*
Jacqueline Ilermaa
victor Nelson Or*
Al Gold

LOS ANGELES

Bond Box

Pete Snyder
BUiy Gray
Virginia Craig
Billy Snyder
(>earge TIbblaa Ore
Billy Lankin

Bar of Mnalo

Ann Trlola
Felix de Cola
Roger Roland
Ken Stevena
DIek Winalow Oro
Blllmoro Bowl
Donald Novla
Hurley A Radford
I.arry Stewart
Patch ft Deauvlll*
Paul WInehell
Phil Harria Ore

Caaa Manaaa '

Kitty Kallen
Clint Garvin
Jimmy McPartland
Paul Colllna
Jack Teagarden Or*

Gocuannt nrov*
Sklnnoy Bnnl* Or*
Carmene

Earl Carroll
The Debonair*
W Wcat A McGlnty
Dick ft Dotty ReiBF
Gall Gall
Willis West. Jr
Aloe Morlaon
La Venn Moyor '
Rue Willie
Mortne Howell
Beryl Wallac*

(Continued on page 95)

48 HOUSE REVIEWS

Wednesdaj, Much 25, 1942

MUSIC HALL, N. Y.

Leonidoff production of 'Music
Album'; tettings, Bruno Alaine atid
Sergei Soudeikine; costumes, WtUa
Van and H. Rogge; lighting, Eugene
Braun; Emo Hapee conducMnff; £o-
tuina Eustis, Rockettes, Alma Lee,
Muriel Gray, Nicholas Daks, Hilda
Elfonte, Dim Daye, Leon Fokine,
Himini Olmsted, Serge Ismailoff,
Ceorgina Yeager, Adele Harper,
Belle Kelman, Viola Lenn, Judy
Sammons, Alma Wertley; 'Bedtime
Story' reviewed in 'Voriety' Dec. 10,
1941, 'Morch of Time's 'Argentine
Question'; Richard Leibert and Cass
Parmenter at organ.

After Freddy Martin, et al„
plugged Tsch?.tkowsky Into the Hit
Parade, and a waggish Tin Pan
Alleylte was inspired to indite
'Everybody's Malcing Money but
Tschailtowsky,' Leon Leonidoff, im-
prcsirio of Radio City Music Hall,
decided it was time to honor the
great Russian tunesmith dlong the
fines previously devoted to Irving
Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and
Hart and other contemporary tune-
smiths. Thus, 'Music Album* this
week dramatizes some of the im-
mortal composer's best melodies,
starting with a superb interpretation
of the '1812 Overture,' following
which Edwin Eustis sopranos 'None
But the Lonely Heart' ps the
entr'acte specialty.

•The Nutcracker Suite' is subdi-
vided into ' four portions, each a
breath-taking spec on decor and
lighting, wherein the Rockettes par-
ticipate in the ""Dance of the Mirli-
tcns; Alma Lee, Muriel Gray and
Nicholas Daks interpret the Chinese
Dance; Hilda Elfonte, Ditta Daye
and the Glee Cliib highlight the
Arabian Chant; and the Russian por-
tion has Leon Fokine, Riihini Jplm-
sted. Serge Ismailoff, assisted by a
femme terp sextet, doing the 'Tre-

fak.' The lilting Waltz of the
lowers- (which Walt Disney and
Leopold Stokcwski plugged into the
Hit Parade in their own way Via
•Fantasia') is the finale.

Biz good opening (Thurs.) night
for 'Bedtime Story*; (Col), after
•Woman of the Year' tenanted here
for six weeks, parring the previous-
run record. AbeU

KEITH'S BOSTON

Boston, March 20.
Aluino Rev Orch (13) with King
Sisters (4), SIceets Herfurt, Eddie
Julian, John Fallchick, Jack PalTncr;
Spencer & Forman, Lane Brothers
,(2); ■VaUey of the Sun' (RKO).

First stage appearance .here of
Alvino Rey's orch marks another in
a long line of band shows this sea-
son. Rey's offering is above average,
and he, personally, impresses satis-
factorily as a modest maestro and a
nlmUe twanger of the electric
guitar.

King Sisters, sharing top billing
with the band, dose the show with a
liQi^up of tunes that got better re-
sponse as they progressed. 'Jersey
Bounce,' their closer, is a particular
stunner. Open with 'I-A, follow jvith
"Tls Autumn' and 'Arthur Murray.'
Yvonne King encores with a show-
stopper version of 'I Said No.' .

Lane Brothers are standouts, dls'
playing unique risley stuff and
polishing off with, some' jump -rope
tricks that seemed impossible until
they figured 'em out. Spencer and
Forman, youthful dance duo, get off
to a good start in the deuce spot with
precision taps, closing with a brief
stop-time session and a flash jitter-
bug- finale.

Orchestra offers two novelties that
lift it out of the nm-of-mill groove,
One is a. comedy opera bit, with sev-
eral boys burlesguiiig it/ in song and
costume. Best part of this one Is the
introductory commentary by Danny
Vanelli. The other nifty Is Eddie
Julian's nifty solo on the skins.

'Whole presentation Is enhanced by
sure showmanship all , the way.
Skeets Herfurfs hot clarinet on
•Idaho,' Jack Palmer's vocal of 'Heart,
of Texas' and Rey's guitar solo
of 'Star Dusf are specialties that help
make band stand out.

Good biz at opening show. Fox.

ORIENTAL, CHI

who is good with straight-forward
personality and a neat singing style.
Ruth Pet^ is the featured singer, a
clean-cut sock from start to finish.
She has a flashy delivery made to
o{.der for any audience.-

Two other standard acts make up
the bill. There are the ubiquitous
C^ahan Sisters, with good-looking
wardrobe and cute appearance.
They're pleasant enough in tap and
other routines. It's 99% appearance
of this act, fdr there is not too much
on execution, but the appearance
makes up for plenty. And here also
is Walter 'Dare' Wahl with his
burlesque hand-to-hand acrobatics'
winding up with a couple of legiti-
mate lifts.

Biz fine at the last show Friday
(20). Gold.

APOLLO, N. Y.

Les Hite Orch (IS)- «)ith Claudia
McNeil, Jimmy Anderson; Eddie
Rector, Red Se Curlew, Ralph Cooper,
Dewey Brown, Vivian Harris, George
Wiltshire, DaTicing Boys & Girb (6);
'Bombay Clipper' (U) .

Overlong show (95 minutes), but
the type that 'sends' Harlem audi-
ences. Les Hite's band, which re-
cently completed a long stay at the.
now-shuttered - Chatterbox road-
house. Mountainside, N. J., effective-
ly accompanies • the .doings and
strikes out neatly ort its own. Com-
]}Osed of four sax,' three trumpets,
':hree trombones and four rhythm,
Hite's outfit plays cleanly with good
beat and nicely paces Itself between
blarey and muted offerings.

Hite's is one of the few colored
bands that offer a bit of showmanly
thought for stage shows. In addi-
tion to its good work musically, it
boasts soloists effective with this
audience and several men with a
flair for comedy. One of the best
tunes it played here, employing all
the above mentioned attributes, was
a new original titled 'Swlngin' in a
Blackout' •

Claudia McNeil, has an ex-
traordinarily deep vocal style which
serves her in good stead with
'Beguine,' but hurts several origi-
nals, lyrics of which aren't' clear.
Jimmy Anderson's a tenor who went
over fairly welT with a trio of pops,
including a comedy version of 'Heart
of Texas.'

Both acts of Eddie Rector and Red
and Curley went over solidly. Rec
tor is a clever, agile tapster whose
forte is buck and wing. Red-Curley
also tap, but the ineat of their act
1 routine ' built around a set of
drums; both boys hammer away for
comedy and rhythmic results.

Ralph Cooper, assisted- by Dewey
Brown, George Wiltshire and Vivian
Harris, works effectively in corned/
skits. He pleased this audience
mUhtily.
Biz fair. Wood.

Chicago, March 21.
HenVy Busse Orch (15), with Lee
Edwards; Rut(i Petty, Callalian Sis-
ter* (Z),. 'Walter 'Dare' Wahl & Co,
(2); 'Frisco Lll' (U). ,

Renry Busse remains one of the
standards of the music business, and
today he Is selling as well as he has
over a period of 20 years. The mere
Introduction of his' 'Hot Lips' theme
IS enough to bring the house up with
a thnnder of welcoming applause.
He's still one of the bright snowmen
in the music business, one who has
showmanship plus a knowledge of
music. And "the Busse label is so
weU established that it is a pretty
good guarantee of business for any
theatre, dance spot or nltery.

Busse employs the right touch of
cbmedy to make an audience relax.
Ordiestra plays pop and standard
'iHittbers and turns out a good job
at all times.

Busse's . vocalist is Lee Edwards

TOWER, K. C

Kansas City, March 21.
Lau>reTM:e Welfc Orch with Jonc
Walton; Professor Cheer, The Stat-
lers (2): 'Right to the Hearf (20th)

Less than five years ago Lawrence
Welk's orch was building a regional
rep in the hinterlands of Nebraska,
Iowa and the Dakotas, Since then
successive steps have taken him to
some of the better spots in the east
to the radio and to a considerable
following at Chi's Trianon ballroom.
Now he's back near the area of his
first rep, and presenting a more than
creditable stage show in his first ap
pearance in this town.

The hour on the" Tower stage is
filled f avora bly with only a pair of
standard aqts'^ aiding the specialties
of the band- and its members. Stand-
ard acts, the Statler dancing duo and
the pantomimic Professor C3ieer
make their assignments add to the
show. Statlers take two turns, first
a rhumba and slow motion combo
leading into a terpsichorean Cook's
tour of the World, and near closing
a limber ragdoll routine that is
standout Cheer Is on midway -with
his novelty musical and fad^ imi-
tations, topping bis work by tapping
his skidl with a pair of daves to
resonate a tune.

Welk concentrates- on m.c.lng (a
task which bis European accent kept
him from for years). He has a small
session of demonstrating his by now
trademarked 'Champagne Music,'
reeling off a nifty 'Canadian Capers'
and rhythmic 'Elmer's Tune' on his
accordian. Best work of the orch
is in the vocal department where
Jane Walton and Bill Kaylor (trum
pet man) oblige with first rate singing.
Leader calls freely from his instru-
mentation personnel of three rhythm
induding piano, three trumpets (no
trombones), three reeds, three fld-
-dles and the special and second
Diano work- of Tommy Sheridan. At
Welk's call Leo Fortin shows a mel-
low trumpet on ' 'Tls Autumn.' band-
members clown up his recorded ver.
sion of 'Back Home in Illinois,
Everett Olson and Roy Cohen pro
vide some fancy fiddling and Red
Howe thumps torrid traps.

AlthouRh not yet in the top rank
of stage bands, this crew is &rstrate
entertainment and more and better
things will likely be heard from
them right along.

FUm was of little help at the
b.o. ■ " ' Quin,

STANLEY, PITT

Pittttwrgh, March 20..
Duke Ellington Orch (16),^ Ethel
Waters, Peg-Leg Bates, Me Ander-
son, Marie Bryant, Herb Jeffries.
Reginald Bean;" 'Night of Jan. Iff
(Par),

WB deluxer hasn't come up with
stage show .entertainment like this
in months. It's sock from curtain to
curtain, and should generate plenty
of word-of-mouth down the stretch
to pick- up slack of unaccountably
slow opening. Ellington's always
been a fave here on his own and
so has Ethel Waters, both here at
four-bits and at Nixon at $3.30, and
bringing them together on same bill
was expected to prove a b.o. bomb-
shell. That's what made the half
house at getaway such a 'puzzle, and
with weather conditions perfect at
that. However, once talk gets start-
ed, together with fact that the film,
'Night of Jan. 16' (Par), is being
hailed in the papers as«a sleeper,
things should be much better.

Show gets off with bang on Elling-
ton's crack medley of some of his
own tunes, 'Mood Indigo.' 'Solitude,'

Go

i Thing , ^ - ,

Caravan,' etc. Features maestra at
the piano (he's standing up now at
the keyboard, elevated on a stand)
and Herb Jeffries and Ivie Anderson,
both A-1 pipesters, on the vocals.
Opening Is followed by orchs radio
themer, Take the A Train.'

Miss Anderson clicks with her solo
spot on '1-A in the Army.' 'Give Me
a Man Like That.' and 'Rock in My
Bed.' and Junior Raglin's bassins on
Ellington's 'Jack the Bear' and Ben
Webster's tenor-saxlnR on Cotton
Tail,' also by the Duke, aft succes-
sive clicks. Rest of orch's part is
from last season's Coast revue. Jump
for Joy,' in which Ellington was fea-
tured, and indudes wow 'Concerto
for Clinker.c.' featurin.e Instrumental
spcciaVKts; Jeffi-'Ses slpf?lrg 'Flarnirijo
and 'Brown Skin Gal in Calico
Gown'; Marie Bryant, a brownskin
with oomph, and Ray Nance in 'Bh-;
felio' and. for a flnsle, 1 Got It Bad.
with Mi«s Anderson vocalizine; ap«
Johnrv Hodges making magic witb
the.5ax. ... L J

La Waters really gives out and
could have stuck- around all after-
noon. With Reeinald Bean at, the
niano. she s»»rt<! out with 'Dinah,
then reaUv kills 'em with one o* her
famed fimibie <>ntenrtTe numbers. Tor
Doin' What Ynu Tlid Last Night'
VpM wrv through 'Bread and Gravy
she brin(?<! on a femme trio to back
her uo. Thev stick for a swell splr-
itnal. 'When My N?me Is Called, and
sincer polishes off with three old
faves". 'St LoMis Bhies.' 'Stormy
Weather.' and 'Am I Blue.' She tells
mob 'Blues' was first number, she
ever did on a stase. at Lincoln the-
atre. BaTtimore, 27 year.<! pgo. when
she was hilled as Sweet Mama String-
bean. The Waters voice tnay not be
quite what It used to ba— but what
a saleslady and show-woman!

Next-to-closing is reserved for Peg-
Leg Bates; the natural spot for him
since nobodv could possibly follow
him. He's always been a smash at
Stanley, more so now than ever, al-
though there seems to be " '"ndency
on Bates' part to talk a ^ne too
much these dfeys. However, when he
bows off with that acrobatic stuff on
the wooden peg, house comes Hown
and stays that way. All the Di>ke
rould do to get 'em to stick for his
'I Got It Bad' closer. They figured
It was all over with Bates' exit.

Cohen,

instruments clicked. Also doeg cork-
Ing Imitation of Fop«y«, Baruacla
BUI and OUve O7I exchangliiir dialog.
The gal iu also on for Mme bria
comedy imtter and a cotiple of tunes
when Rosj accompanies with trom-
bone imitation. _ '. „

Nan Rae and Mrs. Waterfall
(Maude Davis), also in the oomedy
vein, do standard routine, former
playing straight. Mrs. 'waterfaU
dicks from beginoing as a simple-
ton, with the attire enhancing the
characterization. Material is f^r the
most part familiar but sells on de-
livery. .. ,

Wells and Fotar Fays, conventional
acrobatic and hoofing combo includ-
ing two boys and three girls, regis-
tered moderately. Two of the girls
are outstanding with tumbling and
difficult twists while another im-
presses mildly with double-jointed
routine. Boys are on for usual aero
stuff, Wells also essaying some com-
edy.

Biz good. Mori.

OLYMPIA, MIAMI

Miami, March 20.
Mischa Aucr, Joyce Hunter, Lime
Trio, Joan Brandon, Rod Rogers,
Jack; Cole Dortcers, Horry Reser
House Orch; , 'SulHDan's TraveW
(.Par).

Exceptionally well-balanced bill,
with Mischa Auer and the Jack Cole
dancers proving surefire attractions
and a supporting lineup that pro-
vides full quota of entertainment,

While Auer's gags are not exactly
firecrackers, .he refrains from dish-
ing out any of the customary hoke,
and -that's a relief. Surprise for
locals is Auer's keyboard dexterity.
Aside from accompanying his wife,
Joyce Hunter, he tosses off a couple
of nifty pianologs to eartingling re-
turns. Miss Hunter is definitely an
asset. She's a tall, statuesque bru-
net with plenty of orb appeal and a
voice to match. Do"' a fine job on
'Blues in the Night,' then counters
with 'Cockles and Mussels.'

Cole and his d -icers have estab-
lished themselves as ace nltery at-
tractions here, and Olympia is cash-;
ing in on word-of-mouth buildup.
Group defies conveption In that East
Indian terpology as practiced by
them/ aoparently has no b.o. limita-
tions. They scor. as solidly with an
uninitiated audience as with one hep
to the steps.

Lime trio likewise rates bows.
Gollywog characterization by senior
m-^mber of troupe is almost unbe-
lievable. - Makes his appearance
doubled up in a box, and It Isnt
until the bowoff that most of payees
realize Umberlegged dummy is In
the flesh.

Joan Brandon and her 'magic are
standard, but still seem a hit. Rod
Rogers bows 'em on satisfactorily,
but as a eomic he's confusing and
unamuslne.

Harry Reser's house band comes
through with socky overture and
b::cks up show in solid fashion.

Leslie.

FLATBUSH, B'KLYN

Bob Allen Orch (15), Billy Wells
& 4 Foys (5), fVanfc Ross & Anita,
Non Rae & Mrs. Waterfall, Barry
Wood; Shorts and Newsreels.

GOLDEN GATE, S. F.

With exception of two turns which
are a little overlone (Nan Rae &
Mrs. Waterfall nlus Billy WeUs and
Four Fays), it's' a well-balanced,
family-time type of standard vaude
entertainment at the Brandt strong-
hold this week.

Barry Wood is; of course, the mam
draw and as socky on stage as via
radio. He smacks over' 'Great Day'
for an opener and ties in a nlug tor
his Lucky Strike 'Hit Parade' oro-
gram before colng.lnto 'Don't Want
to Walk Withniit You' and 'Rose
O'Day.' Uses 'Hiart of Texas' for
strongest returns, with boys from
band -walking up to front of stage
wearing huge sombreros as back-
erobp'd, and encores with 'Any Bonds
Today.' Wood's clarinet bit, when
unable to beg off, should be elim-
inated in favor of another vocal.

Bob AUen orch is a youthful,
snappy, tuneful aggregation. Allen
Is personable and warbles pleasantly
though suffering by comparison on
this lineup .owing to presence of
Wood. Band composed of piano, bull
fiddle, drums, guitar, five sax, three
trumpet' and two trombone, is a lit-
tle too brassy at times but functions
smoothly for the most part. 'Lone-
some and Sorry,' wltb vocal by Allen,
is about best in the repertoire,
though 'Remember Me' and novelty
orchestration where band imitates
orchs of Sammy Kaye. Glenn Miller,
Horace Heidt Tommy Dorsey, Benny
Goodman, eto., are also good.

Comedy department is ably sus-
tained Jccr.Fr^nk Ross 9od Anita. Ross'
oral ■ imitation? 'o'f various musical

San Francisco, March 18.
Rufe Davis, Watson Sisters (2),
Ford, Harris & Jones, Raymond Wil-
bert. Lard Se Lyons, Hector, Amelia
& Ramon, Peggy O'Neill Line (12),
Charles Kaley House Band (13);
'Playmates' (RKO J. - ■

Okay standard bill.

House band's weekly solo taking
.the opening spot this sesh. Boys
swing out on the jive side, warming
the atmosphere for the initial team.
Lord and Lyons, balancing act. Boy?
have injected okay novelty via the
audience-plant route, one coming up
to climb onto a bottle-balanced chair.
Lads have okay personality, and
mob, heavily sprinkled with soldiers
and sailors at show caught went for
'em.

Ford, Harris and Jones, sepia step-
pers, deuce. Like most acts of this
kind, tiiere's terrific commotion
without much actually happening,
although the. boys'. footwork is excel-
lent and they really sell. Left cus
tomers asking for more. Following
are the .Watson Sisters, hefty team
celebrating a quarter century in
vaude.

Some of their material has been in
vaude as long as they have, but the
gals have the polish which only vets
can show. Their infectious wanta-
man banter had the service hmeri.
shouting 'more'! as they begged off.

Also nostalgic is the hoop-and-
patter stuff of Raymond Wilbert
Act's finish, in which he makes a
hoop climb a ladder of string, Is okay
novelty. .

Pace abruptly changes with arrival
of Rufe Davis in the next-to-closing.
Mimic goes through his standard
vocal sound-effect routine, seen here
before. Pretty corny but the mob
went for it Some of his individual
efforts are excellent, but edge is
taken off by too much -mugghig and
a jarring oft-repeated biz of fooling
with his hair.

House line makes its only appear-
ance to bring on Hector, Amelia and
Ramon., who first appear on a raised
stage behind the band. Overall
dressing and llehting make a swell
finish, with' the Cuban team— dancers
.and a skin-thumper — coming down
front for their okay Latin hotcha. .

Biz satisfactory at first evening
show caught. Wem,

STATE, N. Y.

Henny Youngman, The Brick-
layers, Ruth Clayton, Cabot &
Dresden, Louis Prima Orch with Lily
Ann CarroU, Ruby Zwerling House
Orch; 'Johnny Eager* (M-G),

Hybrid stage bill at the State cur-
rentl7» -with Henny Youngihan and
the Louis Prima band topping. Lat-
ter fills the- second portion, and, with
Youngman's . meandering comedy
chatter talcing plenty of time, the
show runs a bit overiong. It's a lit-
Ue tiring.

As always, Youngman has a rapid
fife line of comedy, never bothering
with an' elaborate buildup for snap-
per line, but simply rattling off an
endless succession of one-two feeders
and gags. His style is rather special
and his 'following is somewhat lim-
ited, so he rarely gets a big, solid
laugh, but draws a string of isolated
guffaws and chuckles. He always
gives the impression of kilTing time
and staying on too long.

Opener is a ' dog act The Brick-
layers, a standard and invariably
sock turn. Against a construction-
job scaffolding set and with np one
on stage, "the uncanny pooches climb
up ladders, run in and out doors,
carry prop bricks and toss them up-
wards on a oatapult to their canine
mates on .the scaffold. Meanwhile,
other dogs do souse acts, puU wa-
gons on and off stage, ride scooters,
play dead and, in a spectacular finale,
hop back and forth on swinging plat-
forms. Man comes out and takes a
bow at the close.

Ruth Clayton, who drew comment
at Florida nighterles earlier this win-
ter, makes her Broadway bow in the
second spot In apsearafice she re-
sembles Jane Pickens, but when
caught she was ' unbecomingly cos-
tumed. Frillv lavender .go-wn didn't '
go - well - with her chestnut blonde
locks. .'She has a pleasant fairly po-
tent . voice of pood rsnfre, but her
mpnner is a bit too cut<> for she lacks
style and subtlety. However, she
doesn't lack assurance. Did four not
too well chc^n . numbers when
caught. - M'.ss Clayton has possibil-
ities, and with strenuous training mi
experience has the stuff to become a
genuine click..

Cabot and Dresden, terp pair, have
'appeared In New York niteries. but
are billed as maWng their Broadway
vaude bow here. They're passable;
Make a nice appearance and display
some neat lifts and turns, but don't
offer much grace afoot. Do three
routines, all similar in style.

Prima and his orchestra are pre-
senting pretty much the same stuff
they've shown at other vaude spots '
in Greater New York. Prima him-
self continues to improve as m.c. and
front with an ingratiating hot-zany
brand of clowning and some sizzling
trumnet work. Bar^d opens with its
'Be Happy' trademark number and
highlights such tunes as 'Georgia
Brown,' Tlckati-'Kckate,* 'Blues m
the Night.' and a .vivid arrangement
of the Tchaikowsky Prelude in C-
Sharo Minor. Lily Ann Carroll,- yo-'
calist with the crew, has agreeable
low toaes, but is ear-splitting shrlU
on the higher ones. HObe.

STRAND, B'KLYN

Red Norro Orch with Mildred
floiley, Kay Allen & Fran Snyder;
Jfmmy Durante with Eddie Jocfcson,
4 Fronfcs; 'Among the Living' (Por).

Jimmy Durante came to Brooklyn,
Friday (20), for a four-day hitch,
and Brooklyn plled-lnto the Strand
in great s^le for a gander jat the
Schnozzola. And the folk ol Flat-
bush, 'Greenpoint - et al,, loved him,
pounded their palms off for more
and proved again that a schnozzle
and an accompanjring sense of humor
can provide a career.

It's almost Impossible to describe
Durante's act. It's got nothing— yet
it's got everything. A few mediocre
gags, a turn at the piano, a bit of
rou^house. It's as Intangible as an
Axis promise. But he gets away
with it all easily.

The schnoz uses every other act on
the bill, particularly Red Norvo and
the men in hii! orch, as stooges for
his gags. Each one is good for just
a minor giggle, biit the /<;umulatlve
effect is of a continuous tornado of
laughter. Durante is also assisted in
a bit by Eddie Jackson (Clayton,
Jackson and Durante) in his- old
strutting routine,

Otherwise, the show bdongs to the
Four Franks, a setup for the easily^
pleased Brooklyn audiences. Two
boys and two gals, who refer to
themselves as brothers and sisters
and .have been doing virtually the
same turn for 10 years, are almost a
whole show in themselves. They tee
off vrith a number on saxophone and
trumpets, then quickly don fezze^
grab tambourines and beat it out
seated on the floor while one of the
femmes does a wild terp. They also
offer a load of pretty snappy pre-
cision tapping by the group. There *
also a roughhouse. comedy acrobatic
lovemaking session between one- of
the couples on a sofa' which is plenty
good for guffaws.

Norvo's . comparatively new crew
makes a good impression with a
brand of music that seems on the
jive side of sweet swing, yet isnt
. (Continued on page 49)

Wednesday, Marct 25, 1942

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Nigbt Cfaib Reviews

BEACHCOMBER, N.Y.

Yvotme Bouvier, Hope Kmerson,
UBiene Travers, Andrews SUters
(2)7 Leon PteWs. JeanetU Garrett,
The RoasaUmos (2); iMlita Cordobo
andiott Salazar Orchs; $2 -$250 nUn-
imum. Saturda y, week day none.

Morris H. Slegel, the 'Insurance
CounseUof of radio, had better take
out a policy, on this new venture of
his. operation of a nlteiy which he
has entrusted to a relative. It's not
a bad show, but the toute ensemble
lacks zing and showmanship. 'Ifs
overboard, and with strlt)ping of the
non-essentials it might fare better.
~ Leon Fields emcees. He's a so-so
conferencier. Topllning is Yvonne
Bouvier, personable and accom-
vllshed Frenchy songstress who did
two pops, 'Day Dreaming' and 'I Said
No,' on the evening caught

In between ar^ a number- of turns.
Eope Emerson,- somewhat Amazo-
nian songstress at the Steinway, with
her saucy song material, has done
better in classier, smaller boites.
Her opener about TVA, CCC, etc., is
now a dated theme and should be
shelved for the duration.

Opening are the Andrews Sisters
(2), Indifferent dancing pair, and of
course not' to be confused with the
swing-singing Andrews trio. Helene
levers in the deuce is a comely
brunet with no voice; just flat
Jeanette Garrett Is a graceful terp-
gter, making good ■ use of her
rhythmic hands and body.

Heralded piece-de-resistance, as
special added -attraction, are The
Rossilianos, billed and announced as
Poland's premier da^icers.' That
gives the pair a sympathetic aura,
but they manage well on their own
with an opening tango, then old-
fashioned waltz and finally, a Polish
polka finale.

Beachcomber has gone through
several transitions since Monte
Proser had It. It's been perked up
a bit in the decor department, with
a neo-Copacabana atmosphere and
relighting, but It needs a pep talk in
the kitchen; 'and some good show-
manship in general, if to <lo a come-
back. Abel.

HURRICANE, N.Y.

Alan Gale, Alice Daunt, Nancy
Healv, Bert Lynn; Fay & Gordon,
Dave Dennis Orch. Bobbv Quinton's
Rhumba Band; Minimum, ^ week-
days; ^JSO, Saturdayt.

This looks like a special economy
dish concocted for Jient It certainly
wont do much to encourage future
trade for this Broadway spot. Con-
siderably pepped-up line routine, a
couple of flashy acts and some solid
comedy are needed to put It over.'.

M.c. Alan Gale provides one of the
few lifts with a soapbox orator bit,
but that's insuflicieni to compensate
for his lackadaisical introducing dur-
ing the rest of the show. Lme of
10 gals, who have shown some pretty
good stuff In past Hurrleane< revues,
exhibits dull and slow routines. Cos-
tuming is also 1^ than mediocre, dis-
guising the feounes' better points.

Brighter moments are contributed
by Fay and Gordon, ballroomers who
step on a small, circular raised plat-
form. Gal's an okay looker with a
lot of grace, and they get In some
nice turns and lifts on the skhnpy
floor. Another comparatively strong
entrant in Uie hoofery division is
Nancy HesQy, something of a Hurri-
cane regular, ' . .

Bert Lynn, electric guitarist, has
apparently never heard of Pearl Har-
bor. His piece-de-<reslstance is an
, Imitation air raid, lii which the plane
noises and sirens produced by the
guitar are abetted by the drummer's
simulated bomb droppings. Boom is
blacked out and a spotlight plays
through it Ifs a fine technical tri-
umph, but In extremely bad taste.
In his more musical moments Lynn
offers an overdose of Paderewskl
gestures and saccharine personality.

Vocals are being handled by Alice
Dawn. She's okay optically, but is
nnich too shrlU and loud with most
of her tunes. What could -be done
to soften the pipes Is doubtful, so
Miss Dawn might concentrate On her
salesmanship, in which department
fne appears to have greater possibil-
ity.

Specially-good word might be said
for Bobby Quinton's rhumba crew,
Jfhich alternates on the stand with
Dave Dennis's band. Quinton's hot
on the vocals, getting in a load of
•inuahig tamale double-talk. Herb.
\ — — —

Latin Quarter, Boston

_ ^ Botton, March 19.

JBeotrlce Kay, Aadio Rogtie* (2),
wfc & Clifford, The Dorrel Moc-
ArtJittra (2), Ambassodorettcs (3),
Ceome Bernard Dancers (B), Kay
»fl/le, Tony Bruno OrcTi (11); $2

♦1,?*^ doing a whammo biz athigher-
wan-average prices for Hub niteries,
wo Latin Quarter Is filling the seats

with a-good bill topped by Beatrice
Kay.

Judging from the audience reac-
tion, Miss Kay has a definite f ol-
lowmg from her radio run ('Gay
'SOs'), and there's no doubt that they
like the old-fashioned songs as she
sells 'emu When caught, on dinner
show, the torchy -voiced gal was
knocldng 'em dead with 'Curse of an
Aching Heart,' 'Harmony Joe,' Tis-
ket-Tasket,' Take Me Out to Ball
Game' (with audience participation),
and 'Wonder Who's Kissing Her
Now.' Scored best with 'Daddy,'
given a lift by a special patriotic sec-
ond chorus. Miss Kay begged off
after six tunes.

Radio Rogues, minus one of their
partners because of illness, . double
here from 'Hellzapoppin' and sock
over a nimiber of swell radio and
film impersonations. But somebody
should ,tip off the boys- that Fred
Allen is\now with Texaco, They're
still identifying him with Sal Hepa-
tlca..

Park and Clifford, ace risley duo,
garner hefty plaudits for their smooth
muscle maneuvering which climaxes
in the sensational leg lift by the
slightly-built ground man. Am-
bassadorettes, fast aero trio of gals,
gets over nicely. MacArthurs are a
dance team, olcay in a waltz and a
faster whirl number for a finish.

Line of- six girls and three twys
open and close the show doing a
conventional routine called a 'glove
ballet' and a peppier piece featuring
some comedy by one of the boys in
an Hawaiian hip-weaver production.
Tony Bruno's band has been a stand-
by here for several seasons and still
satisfies the dancers. Fox.

Green Room, N.Y.

(HOTEL EDISON)

Shep Fields Orch (15) with Ken
Curtis; no cover.

Shep Fields' band of nine saxes
and four rhythm (bolstered by an
apparently unending ' stream of
flutes; oboes, etc.) has come a long
way from the point at which it was
first reviewed by 'Variety* last fall
at Manhattan Beach, N. Y. Then It
gave evidence of l)eing a successful
venture by Ihe former 'Rippling
Rhythm' maestro. Caught at this
room^perated by Maria Kramer, at
its opening last week, the group
strengthened the impreisslon that ft
will be very successful.

Extensive rehearsals . and a full
schedule of working time has
rounded the combo into a polished,
exciting aggregation, as accom-
plished at setting up Jump tempi as
it is at laying it down sweet and
quiet There will be those who may
miss the absent brass section, .but
odds can be given that it won't be
the dancers. The group sets up a
full-bodied rhytlun when it's needed;
can drive with all the push and none
of the ear-splitting blare of eight
brass, and is excellently equipped to
sell smoothly. For a spot such as
this the band's ideal.

Fields has spent a lot of time im-
proving his library lately. Besides
keying up with current pops, he has
added a stack of standards and nov-
elties, all of which have benefited
from an arranging staff that gets
better acquainted with the possibili-
ties in the band's instrumental setup
as time goes on.

Fields does nothing but direct, a
position In which he's- experienced,
therefore comparisons with modem
playlng-leaders aren't detrimental
to him. Ken Curtis, vocalist, is
varyingly effective. Sometimes his
work is toneless and unfeeling, at
other times gopd. Wood.

CASANOVA CLUB

(JHIAMI BEACH)

Miami Beach, March 12.
Emile Boreo, Vol Irving, ■ Bob
Fuller Sextet, Juanita Riot, The
Clymas, Let Mademoiselles (6),
Ralph Rotgers Orch (8), Danny
Schroder Orch (4); $150 minimum.

Since its opening, Lou Walters'
Miami Beach branch, with Emile
Boreo at the helm, has been hotter
than the proverbial tliird rail, hit-
ting its peak with Gypsy Rose Lee's
record-breaking stand last weeic '

Now, with Hialeah closed and the
season's end In view, less expensive
talent Is. being imported to fill the
gaps. Of the original layout only
Boreo and Juanita Rios remain to
ring up a full seasonal engagement.
Walters has shifted Bob Fuller's
long sextet into this spot from the
Latin Quarter, but for both Val
Irving and the Clymas this is a first
out locally.

living's advance trailer was ter-
rific, but he fjils to register in per-
son. Comic is an indefatigable
worker, but hasn't a single line of
really socky material, find in at-
tempting to ctver up he •'oes com-

gletely overboard, wearing out both
imself and the customers.
Bob Fuller's sextet does not get an
opportunity to sell Its wares quite
as eflecUvely in this smaller room
as in the larger Latin Quarter. Hep-.

ertoire, routining a ^ showmanship
are lacking. As Is, It has the vocal
ability, but lacks flair of Royal
Guards and others of like calibre.

Rather unusual twist is provided
•by the Clymas, who appear both as
baUroomoIogists and aj Apache team.
Routines are okay, but standard.
Switcli, however, is quite startling
L that their getup and appearance is
vastly changed. ' Juanita Rios con-
tinues as a standout attraction.
Latin lass's well-dresseld frame is
displayed to optic advantage, and
her south-of-tne-border movement
well regulated.

Boreo remains Boreo. That is to
Say, he still impresses as though
someone had touched a fuse to him
and' he can be expected to blow up
momentarily, but never does. After
running through rep, he apparently
bows to the inevitable and goes into
his wooden soldier walkoff. He
really should hock a fev of tiiose
routines. The customers are begin-
ning to sing with him.

Ralph Rotgers and Danny Schrader
combos do a capable job for show
and patron hoofing. -iL^slte.

Marine Room, Chi

(EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL)

Chicago, March 20.
Cee Davidson Orch (14) with Neva
Patterson, ■ Singing Marines and
Blanche Bradley (9), Rollet & Dor-
thea, Dorothy Dorben Dancers (8).

Marine -Room of - this northslde
family hostelry has never been able
tb make up its mind whether or not
it likes show business. Its total as-
sociation with show business has al-
ways been with hesitation,, even
when it has booked in some of the
biggest bands infthe business. Some-
how, the room always gave the im-
pression that it was merely tolerat-
ing the show, and never that it really
liked it

Result is reflected in a sad-faced
audience much more interested in
their food than in the show. Not
that the food is that good, but merely
because it's the kind of people the
Marine Room attracts. 'The north-
siders come here to eat because ifs
about the swankiest place in this dis-
trict For them also the show is an
after-thought

Budget is so tight that an extra
spangle oh a chorus girl's costume
would apparently' call for a directors'
meeting. Dorothy Dolrben -Dancers
have been here for a long time, and
they are good-looking girls and well-
costumed, but some of their routines
are much too elaborately conceived
to be executed by only eight girls.
It would take at least 10, and better
still 24 or 32, girls to put across some
of the production ideas and routines
picked out for 'them.

Singing Marines are a good male
vocal octet, ' and suitable for any
quiet nite club which goes in ' for
male choruses. Blanche Bradley Is
the soprano fronting the chorus, and
she adds a nice femme touch to the
act Rollet and Dorthea are a fine-.,
looking dance team who specialize
in novelty acrobatic stuff. Plenty of
neat little tumbles and hand-to-haftd
work mixed in with the straight
dance routine. Acceptable anywhere.

Cee Davidson for years was with
the Balaban & Katz CHilcago theatre
pit orchestra. Has been playing the
off-ni^ts here for some time, and Is
currently given .an opportunity to
hold down the major spot with his
own orchestra. . Davidson Is count-
ing on a reaction from the air-time
to get him started In the pop-dance
music field. • - ■

It will be noteworthy if Davidson
is thus able to establish himself that
quickly, for things rarely happen
like that. Davidson maybe hopes to
do it in his four-week stand here,
and that's the rub. Given a long
spell of air time, something might
break. But as it stands now the
Davidson band cannot hope for that
kind of recognition In a short time.

Orchestra is pleasant and listen-
able. Plays straight music with a
nice lilt and an easy manner, and In
course of time should have a follow-
hig. But, it hasn't the sensation nec-.
essary to' establish itself. Otherwise
it's perfect for this quiet type of
room, where the people like the
standards of 'Tea for Two' style.
Neva Pattersort is the vocalist with
the band and fits in prettily with Its
style. Gold.

Sablon (Plus Baron Bd.)
Waxes for Decca in L.A.

Before coming east to open the
Chez Paree, Chicago, April 3, Jean
Sablon, accompanied by Paul Baron's
band, recorded extensively for Decca
In Los Angeles. Both just closed at
the Hotel Palace, San Francisco,
Sablon heading' to Chi and the band
going Its own way but due to an-
chor April 17 at the Hotel Muehle-
bach, Kansas City.

Sablon replaces Ciertrude Nlesen,
slated to go into the Chez, but bow-
ing out for personal reasons. Estel-
llta from the Copacabana, N. ' Y.,
and Jackie Miles open coincident-
ally at the Chez, this marking a de-
parture for the Chi nitery In play-
ing three relatively little known
local names on one bill. Irving
Lazar, of William S^orrisi sget^ted:

House Reviews

sCantlnaed. from pace 48^

STRAND, B'KLYN

blasty and Is rather llstenable, al'
thpugb it could stand a bit more
smoothing out Norvo himself is, of
course, tops on the xylophone, at
which he takes a couple of sessions. '

Topping the band's vocal corps Is
the. Norvo frau, Mildred Bailey. Her
blues, as in her celebrated "Rockin'
CHialr,' seemed on the subtle side for
the locals and passed off without the
accustomed ovation. Miss Bailey did
get 'em, however, with a novelty
tune, 'Arthur Murray Taught Me
Dancing.' Incidentally, those trick
shoes the warbler has adopted are a
bad bet serving only to attract fur-
ther attention to Miss Bailey's w.k.
but unique flgger.

Also in the Norvo canary con-
tingent are Kay Allen and Fran
Snyder. They're both passable for
the assignment Snyder looics as
though, with some good handling, he
could tiecome rather effective. He
suffers now via unsteadiness of pitch
and in the manner he presents him-
self -16 the mike. He needs to - im-
twist those shoulders and learn to
use his hands properly.

Incidentally, those pantaloons
Norvo's men wear- are strictly from
com. Herb.

PALOM AR, SEATTLE

Seattle, March 18.
Barbarina & Her Pals, Lucille
Lane, Peppy & Peanuts, Lane &
Hartcr, Billy Barty & Sisters, Al
Vies House Orch (6); TTofcel Boy*
(Rep) and 'Ellery Queen and Mur-
der Ring" (Col).

A rather weak show this .week,
with «bme of the individual acts
clicking, but the shew as a whole
never really gets going.

Standout is Peppy and Peanuts,
who have a very dlistinctlve routine,
further enhanced by the . contrast
between tiny, peppy Peanuts and
huge, sleepy Peppy. Attired In blue
costumes that practically knock an
eye out, the pair opens with a jitter-
bug dance that clicked, following
with a satirical South American 'Way
song and' dance that got a big hand.
Tired act by Peppy plus the explo-
sive miming of Peanuts sets this one
off, but seems more suited for club
or nitery work than the stage.

Bartiarlna .and Jier pomeranlans,
witti an unbilled assistant, step off
some mildly pleasing tricIuL^ -with
attentloit focused mostly on Batba*
rlna's scanty attire rather than the
pooches. Lucille I,ane has the voice
and figure lor her 'Songs You For-
get-to Remember,' leading off With
'Comin' Thru the Rye' In good a^le
and socking 'Honey Boy', and 'What
Can the Matter Be?' for a big hand.
Her treatment of 'Mattei* nicely
combines the old 'and new In song
arrangements, with the swing pan
a catchy . bit : '

Lane and Harter, on fourth, are
adequate In a song, and patter act
that has been seen before, and Billy
Barty and his sisters take care of
the windup position with songs and
dances. - The sisters. Evelyn and
Dolores, give out with hot arrange-
ments of 'South American Way* Ad
'Chattanooga Chop Choo,' alsol;)lay-
ing own accompaniment on- ac-
cordion and fiddle, BUly, well liked
here, pleased with ' his drumming
and talk, bowing off with cousing
jitterbuggery with Dolores.

Biz good at second afternoon eltpw.

Reed.

STATE, HARTFORD

Hartford, March 21.
George Olson ' Orch with Jerry
Mitchell, Saxie Dotoell, 3 Arnolds,
Paul Gerrits, Dick Todd, Gypsy Rose
Rose Lee, Sam Kaplan Pit Bond;
'Klondike Fury' (Mono). .

Bill Friday (20) at opening show
wai beset by two handicaps, faulty
spotting ana p.a.- system. Crack-up
of latter forced three acts that ordi-
narily require amplification In tills
huge house to actuUly play to first
few rows.

This Is a new George blsen band
and takes up first portion of show.
Second half consists of tfutside acts.
Three Arnold standard (two boys
and a gal), sell hand-to-hand stuff
and three-high building, with gal
topping. Paul Gerrits Is on twice.
First ibne out he does mimicry, then
on second trip he Indulges In fancy
rolleiskating svnchronized with In-
dian club juggllnff. Rated high with
pew purchasers.

Gypsy Rose Lee Is on for a parody
and stnp. Was socko wHh stub-
holders. Dick Todd, In closing spot,
does a trio of audlence-wlnnlng
songs, 'Rose O'Day,' 'Do This More
Often' and 'Dont Want to Walk.'
Gerrits, Miss Lee and Todd suffered
Immensely from lack of amplifica-
tion, although Miss - I,ee was in a
better spot than others because great
part of ner bit is visual.

Olsen has • gbod show band,
strong on . mualclanahlp as well as
tioveIty< V'et maes^ro^s new outfit

should have no difficulty on book*
ings and entertainment.

Band is strictly sweet and boasts
four fiddles, bass, viol, four sax, two
trumpet, two trombone, piano, traps
and bullflddle. Needs a-HtUe poUsh-^-
ing and at.show caught string section
couldn't be heard over the brass. .
Saxie Dowell an.' Jero Mitchell do
vocals in doubling from the stand.
' Biz OK opening show. EcK

HIPP, BALTO

Baltimore, March 21.
Jackie Miles, Paul Sydell & Spotty,
Lester Cole and Girls (7), Stuart
Moroan Dancers - (4) , .-Felice lula
Hous^ Orch; 'Citizen Kone* (RKO).

Brief and rather innobuous show
is held down in thne and stature by
accompanying' film portion ('Citizen
Kane').

Jackie . Miles from .the niteries and
capable of doing a job in what few
theatres are still available to- vaude
paces the layout Weaves in and out
with okay material, some of it fa-
miliar and some of it fairly fresh, but
all good for nice response;

Rest of list are standards, with
Lester Cole and his singing se:(tet.of
femmes opening the works with 'a
medley of musical-comedy numbers;
including 'Make Believe,' 'That Man
of Mine7 "Why Do 1 Love You'.dnd
others, all from 'Show Boat' Fol-
lows with Intricate and very show-
manly arrangement of a patrlotie'
poem. Drew a terrific respond . Act
has style and real musical ability. A
natural for any theatre or nitery.
: Patil 'Sydell and his educated
pooches remain tops a$ a canine^tum,
building from the teeoff and register-
ing to the hilt with the clever bal-
ancing by the hounds. Fits In extra
well here and makes spot for extend-
ed comicalities of Miles, whiph In-
cludes the dissection of popular songq
a la Joe E.- Lewis, and some good
gags expertly timed for best laugh,
results.

' Stuart Morgan dancers £lose, with
the three bare-chested lads tossing'
around the tiny femme for some
socko tricks.' Throws and- etches
are tops in adajeio, and inusiced back-
ground Is well timed for a constantly
building climax and a curtaln-gettitotf
finish.

Biz okay. Bum. ,

EMBASSY, R Y,

(NEWSBEELS)

Hie vast majorltr of !cllpb on thU
week's show bear So. one way or an-
other upon the war, at home
abroad; but th6re are not many ac<
tual action shots. Much of what lit-
tle there is has come out of the flies.

Bill packs much interest and the
special lengthy compilation on Creh-
eral MacArlhur Is partlctilarly timely
as well as' Interesting. News of the
Day has done an excellent Job' on
MacArthur, creating strong, audience
acclaim for the .hei'o of Bataaa

Opening with planes and guns lu-
perimposed on- maps, News of the
Day picks up MacArthur when he
was decorated jn Frahce, carries him
down through the . yeaks, to hig nd-,
dress to the graduating claM at West
Point in 1933 and later when he re-
ceived another military decottttion,

Following up the SlacArthur spe-
cial. Paramount -'.offers some aimon
footage in connection with the of-'
fensive against the Jap fleet 'wfaloh
knocked off or damagea23 Nipponese
^ps. 'Planes and l>orabing flgufa-.'
while there If also a dip of a slnkA
Ing VesseL .

A recap of What has occurred since •'
Penrl Harbor is alsQ shown. '
Includes revived shots' of Pearl Har-
bor, with fires raging; subnsisision ^
Thailand, Hongkong. Manila, Singa- •
pore and Java. Included are action
scenes In Bataan, Singapore and Java,
latter showing huge fired that de-.
stroyed oil wells. .
' Fox-Movietone cameras caught
bombs that missed theiJ^ targets, la
connection with an attack on a con-
voy bound for- Maifar. These look
like the McCoy,

Tex McCrary this week discusses-
convoying, shlppincf supply lines, job
of transporting men and matel&Is,
etc.. In an engrossing special clip,
while H. V. Kaltenborn theorizes on
questions sent to him from fans. Be-
fore commenting on qtiestlons itS-
celved, he discusses Australia, Mac-
Arthur and a United Nations offen-
sive. Chan

^tartjng Early

" Baltimore, March 24.

The Summit, sununertime :sub-
urban nitery here,' will make an
early start this year, opening Thurs-
day (26) with Louis Prlma's band,
A consistent fixture on the local ni-
tery front founded in pre-prohibltloa
days' by the late Joe Brltbman, ni-
tery pioneered in name bands In this
vicinity. Prima proved a big dravr
here last siunmer on exteiided run.

Phil Ellis managing.

50 LEGITIMATE

■ WednesdAj, ■ March 25; 1942

B way Improves; 'Sons' Still Leads
At $38,000, 'Johnny Opener $5,000.
'Spring' OK 8I/2G, 'Priorities' 2II/2G

Broadway legit business Improved
Immediately after the federal income
tax payment deadline was passed last
week, grosses going up In most In-
stances despite heavy rain through
Saturday afternoon and night. Sun-
day business was a factor in the. pick-
up. Only new play, 'Johnny 2 x 4,'
drew doubtful press and ditto first
week's business.

Estimates for Last week

Keys: C. (Comedy), D (Drama},
CD ' (Comedy-Drama), R (Revue),
Af (Musicol). O (Operetta).

'Anrcl Street,' Golden (15th week)
(D-785; $3J0). Claimed to have come
back to strong pace and indications
are for summer stay; rated around
112,500.

'Arsenic and Old Lace,' Fulton (62d
week) (CD-838; $3 JO). Also went
up and there's talk of staying Into
next season; quoted figures ap-
proached $14,000.

'Banjo Eyes,' Hollywood (13th
week) (M-1.563: $4.40); Went upward
nearly $4,000, starting with big Sun-
day, and was quoted close to $31,000;
among season's musical big three.

'Rest Foot Forward,' Bajyymore
(25th week) (M-1,104; $4.40). Came
back. too. with gross approximating
$19,000, betterment being around $2,-
COO over previous ^eek.

'Blithe Spirit,' Morosco (20th week)
(CD-936; $3.30). Improved, too, and
■has been among straight play lead-
ers since opening; rated well " over
$15,500.

'Cafe Crown,' Cort (8th week)
(CD-1,064; $3.30). ^bout held its
own, with the grosS arovmd $8,000;
makes- some money at that ' level;
Sunday a lifesaver. ;

'Gnest In the Hoosc,' Plymouth
(4th week) (CD-1,057; $3:30). Cast
agreed to cut if takings dropped but
full salaries so far; gross quoted be-
, tween $9,500 and $10,000.

'Hlfh Kickers,' Broadhurst (M-1,-
142; $4.40). Final and 21st week;
musical was to have moved but goes
to road instead; around $15,000. "

It Happens on Ice,' Center (re-
sumed engagement) (69tb week) (R-
3,026; $1.65). Somewhat better and
Is turning, a profit weekly, with in-
dications of going through second
season; $20,000. ~

'JasOB,' Hudson '(9th week) (CD-
1,004; $3.30). Approximating $5,000
or slightly less; srobable even break
at that figure but under expectations.

•Johnny 2 z 4,' Longacre (C-1,016;
$3.30). First week appi!^ximated
$5,000; mild money for play ^ith ex-
ceptionally large cast; snoiud pick up
this week, according to indications.

'Junior Miss,' Lyceum (18th week)
(CD-1,004; $3.30). Bbst money aiiioi^g
straight plays and last week's gross
approached $17,000; special matinee
Monday for school students; is be-
ing toured in camps, too.

'Lady in the Dark,' ''(Alvin (re
Bumed) (49th week) (M-1,387; $4.40).
Went to around $22,000, another win-
ning week;« last weeks announced,
but expected to extend well into
May.

. Xet'B Face It,' Imperial (21st week)
(M';1,4S0; $4.40). Back to virtually as
much money As early months; quoted
at $32,500; another of the musical
big three.

'Life With Father,' Empire (123d
week) (CD-1,(,82, $3J0). Some im
' provement, but this long stayer al
ways in the- money; gross quoted Bt
$1-.,800; expected to play through
another summer.

'My Sister Eileen,' Biltmore (65th
week) (CD-891; ;f3.30). Much bet-
ter than normal, with gross at $11,-
300; two performances Sunday, when
$3,000 was drawn.

'Soils O' Fun,' Winter (harden
(16th week) (R-1,519; $4.40). Tops
the musicals and the entire list; busi'
ness contirue<^^t remarkable pace,
with gross approximated at $33,000.

'Sprhv Aeain/ Playhouse (19th
week) (CD-SeS; $3.30). Up somewhat
ai.d management well pleased with
business, which topped $8,5q0 last
week.

BEVrVALS
'A Kiss for Cinderella,' Jtfusic Box
(2d week) (C.-l,012; $2.75). Better
than Indicated early last week; tak'
Ings went to nearly $8,000; okay for
A.K. play. .

'Porey and Bess,' Majestic (9th
week) (M-1,175; $2.75). Cinch for
run, with line at boxofflce- almost
continuously; grossed $22,500 last
week, slightly better than previously,
ADDED >
•PrlorlUe* «t 1942,' 4eth St. (1,347
i2.20). QS to excellent start, with
the first full week grossing $21,500
- vaudeville show big at mght anc
'• weekend matinees; other afternoons
•lair.

'Of V We Sing,' Concert <2d week)
. (R-781; $1.63). Talk of bringing this
Tevue .downtown with same scale
retained: bit better, with takings
' arolind $3,S0O in 'heatre away from

TILEEN'-FURNESS OK
f 12,000 IN PrnSBURGH

Pittsburgh, March 24.
Third c'eqipany of 'My Sister
Eileen,' headed by Betty Fumess,
did okay at Nixon last week even if
the $12,500 gross at $2.75 top was a
little under expectations. There
were reasonable alibis, however. In-
come tax time. Lent, etc. Got away
to a slow start and downoour for
two nights just an hour or so be-
fore curtain time didn't help any,
but show picked up sharply down-
stretch and wcund up big. So well.
In fact, that there was talk of a
return engagement some time in
May, possibly at more popular
prices, around $1.50.

Also coming back in May Is
'Claudia,' on' strength of show's
great $18,000 week before last, but
at same scale, $2.75. TTiat's because
it played here under subscription
auspices and there's a clause in
American Theatre Society-Theatre
Guild contracts that prevents sub-
scription play from a return at any-
thing less than established prices.

Nixon currently has 'Native Son,'
third engagement for it here this
year, playing at straight $1 for en-
tire house except gallery, which
goes for four bits.

'RHINE' $23,
LEADER IN
BOSTON

Boston, March 24.
'Watch on the Rhine' copped top
gross last week with sellout biz all
the way, and advance on second
stanza indicates another capacity
tally. 'Hellzapoppin' (N. Y. com-
}any)- continued to take big coin in
ts second week,- while 'Louisiana
Purchase' bowed out Saturday . (21)
after three good weeks. 'The Rivals'
was pale in its single week here.
Tobacco Road' went out Saturday
(21) after two okay frames at $1.65
top.

Estimates for Last Week
'Watch on the Bhine,' Colonial (1st
week) (1,643; $3.30). Socko biz, aided
by Guild sul>5cription list. First
week, $23,000, very -big. One more
to around $20,000, pretty good.

'Hellupoppln,' Majestic (2d week)
(1,667;. $3.3(1). (jetting good word-of-
mbuth and steady trade; $23,000 last
'v^eek;- Indef run.

'Louisiana Porchase,' Shubert (3d
week) (1.590; .$3J0).. Slowed down
to around $20,000, pretty 'good. -

Tobacco Boad,' Plymouth (2d
week) (1,480; $1.65). Closed with
$7,500, okay.

'The Blvals,* Opera House (one
week) (2,944; $2.75). Not strong
enough to offset uptown location.
Tallied around $5,000, poor.

W NIFTY

m LONEY MTKI^

Milwaukee, March 24.

Four-day engagement of Ethel
Barrymore In "The Corn Is Green
sold out consistently at the Davidson
theatre last week without much pub-
licity. Estimated gfoss was $13,600
at $2.75 top. Extra chairs averaged
38 per performrnce. 'Corn' also
played Madison and Rockford,
week's total going over $20,000.

In spite of consistently good busi-
ness this season, only one legit at-
traction remains to be played, 'Watch
on the Rhin e,' In May.

'CLAUDIA' FINE
17G.PHILLY;
TOBUC'llG

Philadelphia, March 24.
Solid $17,000 for the first of three
weeks of 'Claudia' (N. Y. company)
at the' Locust Street theatre was
easily last week's local legit feature.
John (Solden production, playing
American Theatre Society subscrip-
tion, won outstanding notices and,
on word of mouth, drew plenty of
straight boxoffice attention, with
promise of even more this week and
next

On the other hand, the town's only
musical, 'My Dear Public,' had plenty
of headaches at the Forrest, where
it grossed just over $11,000. Notices
ranged from so-so to n.g., with the
latter being pretty tough.

This week^s opener (last night)
was 'Without Love,' Theatre Guild
production of the new Philip Barry
comedy, with Katharine Hepburn, at
the Walnut. This one is on ATS sub-
scription, too, but splits local en-
gagement between two houses, mov-
ing next Monday (30) to the Forrest.
Larger lower floor, of latter house is
reason for shift. This week's show-
ing at the Walnut promises to be
close to sellout, with mail-order sale
alone for the Forrest over $15,000
when It closed Saturday night.
Estimates for Last Week
Clandla,' Locust (1st week) (1.500;
$2.85). Neat. $17,000 in first of three
weeks, first two to be on ATS sub-
scription. 'Sister Eileen' in April 6.

'NaUve Son,' Walnut (4th week)
(1,700; $2.50). Skimpy $5,500 in final
week, but engagement a £nancial
success.

<My Dear' Poblle,' Forrest (1st
week) (1,800; $3.42). Notices tei>id
to definitely adverse. Biz droopy with
just over $11,000. '

hade Stdf-L^

John <3olden la helping tp hypo the ticket sale for. the Joe Louis-Abe
Simon melee to be held at Madison Square Garden this Friday (27)
proceeds of which go to the Army Emergency Fund. Advance sale was'
much under that of the recent Louis-Buddy Baer event which provided
$80,000 for the. Navy Relief Fund.

Earlier paucity of publicity may be explained by the fact that some of
the sports editors are south with the baseball t^ams. But Golden instantly
got the support ol John Kleran, N. Y. Times sports columnist,' after the
showman was asked to help by Col. H. Clay Supplee of the Second Corps
Area, headquartered at Fort Jay, Governors. Island. Kleran last week
devoted a column to the 'flghtr with the ' showman's part in the bout's
promotion being prominently linked in. the piece. Over the weekend all
papers plugged the bout and a sellout is predicted. Gate, at $25 (op, is
figured to reach $125,000. <

Other leglt managers who' showed interest in boxing were William A.
Brady, who handled Jim Jeffries; the late Sam H.- Harris, who managed
Terry. McGbv'em, and the late L. Lawrence Weber, who promoted the
Jess Willard-Ja'ck Johnson affair in Havana.

One reason for canceling out-of-toWn dates for 'Lady in the Dark*
(Alvin, N, Y.) this spring was the proposed two weeks In Washington,
which bars- children under 14. There are half a dozen kids under that
age necessary to the 'Lady' plot,

.Doubtful if the show will ever regularly play th6 capital, and the same
goes for 'Watcb on the Rhine,' which has skipped that live stand because
two youngsters are vital to the drama. 'Watch' did play Washington as
a 'command performance' on the last Stmday in January for the Presi>
dent's Infantile Paralysis Fund, and the local authorities did not attempt
interference.

Earlier in the winter Max (Gordon played 'The Land Is Bright' there,
although that play bad one t>oy imder the age minimum. Performances
were not Interrupted but Gordon'had to answer a summons later and was
fined $100 for the violation. He also played 'Junior Miss' there but the
age of the lasses in that' comedy came within the l&w..

Coast writer Rowland Brown who made his debut last week as an
author-manager with 'Johnny_ 2 X 4,' at the Longacre, N. Y., called the
cast together on the second night and said that if anyone thought of some
funny lines they would be put in. That -may explain dally rehearsals after
the critics panned the debut

'Johnny' was over-produced in that there seem to be too many people
in the play, indicating that it must draw substantial grosses to break'
even. Tliere are 39 players in the cast, plus a fiock of extras and a band
on stage. Company has 81 on the payroll. Even with an exceptionally
strong premiere take, gross for the first week was around $5,000.

Brown has been a prolific story man. Perhaps his outstanding yam for
Hollywood was 'Angels With Dirty Faces,' in which 'James Cagney and
Pat O'Brien starred.^r Warners.

Third company of 'My Sister Eileen' has its Own weekly publication.
The Sob Sister Sentinel, which is distributed to members of cast and
crew every Wednesday. Editors are Michael Ellis, Barnet Biro and Doug-
las Morris, who play -three of the six future Brazilian ^admirals, and
Robert Downing, assistant Stage manager. ' It's a single sheet of mimeo-
graphed news relaying inside of doings in the comt>any as well as gossip,
and breezy bits of information. Publication started during show's Boston
run and will continue for the duration of tour.

Harvard Theatre Collection is saving copies of the paper for Its files
because it is the only backstage newspaper in the United States ^today.

2d 'CUodls' lOG, St. L.

St Louis, March 24.

Raves of crix couldn't overcome
lethar^ of natives, and so 'Claudia,'
featuring Beverly Bayne, Reed
Brown and Phyllis Thaxter (second
company), wound up the first of a
two-week stand at the American
theatre Saturday (21) with only fair
b.o. ~ ,

With house scaled to $2.80; nine
'performances grossed an estimated
$10,000.

'HATTIE' 22G, CLEVE.

Cleveland, March 24.

Hitting two sellouts during eight
I>erformances at $3.30 top, all - of
which drew smart biz, 'Panama Hat-,
tie' deposited $22,000 at the Hanna
last week.

'Arsenic and Old . Lace' Is house's
next booking, April 14, following cur-
rent 'Hellzapoppin.'

Hayes 'Candle OK $16,000 in Chicago,
'AngeF Fine 13G, 'SpiritM3G, ?apa 6G

Chicago March 24.
Two shows came in here last wsek
and both are doing well, though con-
siderably otl capacity. 'Angel Street'
drew great notices ' but indicates it
will need some time to warm up the
boxoffice. 'Candle in the Wind^ has
Helen Hayes, and that's all that is
necessary to insure fine business, but
the raps for the play itself are prov-
ing costly.

Estimates for Last Week
^AnfCl Street,' Harris (1st week)
(1,000; $2.05). Notices were fine and
show should settle down for a run.
Came through to $13,000.

'BUthe Spirit,' Selwyn (5th week)
(1,000; $2.75). Power of the names
associated with this play keeps it rid-
ing profitably. Up around $13,000;

'Candle in the Wind,' Erlanger (1st
week) (1,400; $3.30). Three weeks
only for this. Helen Hayes ^ama;
came through for okay $16,000. '

'Pap* Is AU,' Blackstone (2d week)
iifim; ^75). In second appearance
and second week, show slow at $0,'!'
000, which should be on tli« right
side in view (tt abort .cast « ■.

Evans' "Macbeth' Wow
$24,000 in Nifty Baho

Baltimore, March 24.

This town-Is definitely In a legit
boom. Last week, in spite of a ful-
some three nights of the Met Opera
against him, Maurice Evans brought
his 'Macbeth' through an «stlraated
$24)000, smasho, at Ford's. Scaled at
a top of. $2.78 -for the 1,900 .seats,
Shakespearean tragedy was an up-
stairs sellout for the week before
opening night, and higher-priced
seats were at a premium from Wed
nesday on. AU this In spite of rec
ord-breaking take of Katharine Hep-
bum in ^Without Love' which
reached $29,000 the week previous
in the same house.

Both legit houses here are open
currently; the indie-booked. Maryland
with Oscar Berlin's production of
John Steinbeck's -The Moon Is
Down,' and Ford's with the theatre
GuUd Pt04uctlfui «t,'The Bivala.'

Accustomed as he is to public' speaking, the N. Y. World-Telegram's
dramatic critic, John Mason Brown, breezily rierainlscences on his adven-
tures of bringing culture to the hinterland in a breezy book, 'Accu'stomed
As I Ani' (W. yf- Norton; $2). 'Veteran of tiie platform circuit, crick
Brown's findings on' sundry manifestations of Americana are authoritative <
and, what's more, they're recorded for posterity — well, anyway, for the
Sardi's-Shnbert Alley disciples— in breezy, intelligent, shrewd and enter-
taining manner. Which is enough recommendation, certainly, to. make
this book worthwhile.

George J. Bowman, of the National City Bank, attached to the 41st street
and Broadway branch, N. Y., died at the age of 75 last week. He was little
known to the present generation of showmen, but was on intimate terms,
with the late A, L. Erlanger coterie of legit managers.
■ Deceased was with National City through its various transitions, which
included the Commercial Trust and East River Bank, prior to their being,
absorbed by National City.

Starr Kamp, Air Corps prlyatie who attempted suicide by stabbing last
jveek in St. Patrick's Cathedral, N. Y.,' is a fonner actor on the Coast. He
was identified by Eleanor Sinclair, of New York, who knew him when she
was an actress at the Pasadena (Cal.) Playhouse. Neither Kemp nor Miss
Sinclair is' a member Equity, however; ' ' .

Current Road Shows

(March 25-ApHI 4)

'Angel Street' (2d Co.)— Harris,
Chi (25-4).

'Arsenlo and Old Lace' (2d Co.)—
Cox, Cincy (25-28).

'Blithe Spirit' (2d Co.)— Selwyn,
Chi (28-4).

'Blossom Time'— Majestic, Ft Worth

(25) ; Shrine Aud., Oklahoma City

(26) ; Robinson Aud., Little Rock

(27) ; Ryman Aud., Nashville (28).

' '(handle In the Wind'— Erjanger,
Chi (28-4).

'Claudia' (N. Y. Co.)— Locust
Philly (25-4).

'Claudia' (2d Co.)— American, St
L. (25-28).

'Corn Is Green'— Hartraan, Colum-
bus (25); English, Indpls. (26-28);
American, St L, (30-4).

'Hellzapoppin' (N. Y. Co.)— Ma-
jestic, Boston (28-4).

<HeIzapbppin' (2d Co.) — Hanna,
Cleve. (25-2ft).

'Jnnler Mils' (USO)— Ft. SUl,
Okla. (26-28); Camp Barkeley, Texas
(30-1).

aife -With Father* (2d Co.)— May-
fair, Portland, Ore. (25-28).

'Life With Father* (3d Co.)— Fox,
Bakersfield, CaL (25); Lobero, Santa
Barbara (27-28).

lUaobetli'— National, Wash. (25-
28); Nixon, Pitt (30-4). '

'Moon la Dewn'-r-Maryland, Balto.
(26-28).

'My Dear Pnblle'— Forrest, Phllly
(25-28).

'My Slater Eileen' (2d Co.)— BOt-
more, L. A. (25-4). .
'My Slater Eileen* «Sd Co.)— Shea'a,

Jainestowin, N. Y. (25); Erlanger,
Buffalo (26-28).

'Native Son'— Nixon, Pitt (25-28).

'Out of the Frying Pan' (USO)—
Ft Custer, Mich. (25); Pine Camp,^-
N. V. (27-28)..

'Panama HatUe' — Cass, Detroit
(25-4). ■

'Papa Is All'— Blackstone, Chi
(25-4).

■BlvaU'- Ford's, Balto. (25-28).
Tobaccy Boad'— Plymouth, Boston
(26-28).

'Watch on the Rhine'— Colonial,
Boston (25-28); Erlanger, Buffalo
(30-l); Taft Aud., Cincy (?-4).

'Without Love' — Walnut, Philly
(25-28); Forrest, PhlUy (30-^).

'Yesterday'* Magic'— Shubert, New
Haveii "(27-28); NaUonal, Wash,
(30-4).

HELLZ' (2D CO.) FAIR
P,400 IN TORONTO

Toronto, March 24.

Supposed to be' sotne compensation
for the worst season in the 36 years
history of the Royal Alexandra,
'Hellzapoppin' (second company)
grossed just a fair $20,400, with 1,-
524-seater at $3 top.

Chief reason for audience fall-off
In first two performances of the week
was the fact that •HeOzf came in here
on oiOy four days' notice (show
originally set for .<^, Detroit), this
leaving little time for any press cam-
paign.

House Is dark week of March 23,
then 'My.. Sister' Eileen' for week of
March 30.

Wednesday* Aiwrcli 8St ^942

fl

TBne(s)HeakMWoiiiids

'A joyless book about a sulky assignation . , . oUmi avcrythlnf but
a good time . . . .although Tal Jo«y' la •xpartly dont, oan you draw
sweet water from a foul well?'— Bro«k* AtklaMD, i» Mm N. T. TlmcM,
Dee. 26, 19«.

'But 'Johnny 2 x 4* Is only a hack's dream. It made this department
homesick lor 'Pal Joey."— BrMka . Atklaaen, Jf. T, TIhm, March 17,
18«. '

Critics Forced to Review 'Amateurs
Due to Lag in Broadway Production

With Broadway premieres slowed
to a dribble In recent weeks, the
critics have been o"Olng far afield to
view svmdry performances, few of
which have been designed for regu-
lar presentation. Somie have be?n
frankly amateur shows, others of a
semi-professional .gating, but the re-
viewers have bad to have some kind
of material and therefore braved
metropolitan hideaways and tiny up-
stairs auditoriums that somehow be-
come aotive as Broadway produc-
. tlvity wanes.

Most of the showings have been
on the negative side, but one has at-
tracted some attention ar.J may be
brought uptown for a spell. Play Is
•Nathan the Wise,' a rfe vised revival
which, however, was performed by
professionals distinctly as an experi-
ment. Another project which lured
the critics was 'Johnn. Doodle,' a
play with American legendary songs.
It was classed of high school calibre
by those who covered it, and nearly
all admitted having retreated to
ttelr typewriters after the first part
Saroyan in AfAln

'Doodle', a sort of by-product of
the summer theatres, was shown last
week, when a . . William Saroyan
quickie, 'Across the Board On To-
' morrow ' Morning,' was ..also trotted
out ' To fill out the bill another one-
actor, 'Theatre- of the Soul,' by
Nicholas Evreinov, was also per-
formed. Despite the racetrack ImpU-
cation of the 'Across' title. Brooks
Atkisspn, N. Y. Times, called It . . .
'an Impudent excursion into meta-
physics, . much more amusing than
you would siispect from the shrill
and splintery acting ... a boozy
gambado.. . . wastes a lot of words
on metaphysical matters that Mr.
Saroyan does not understand . . . call
It boogie-woogie drama played on a
piccolo, but skillfully acted to the
rhythm of a dance or piece of mod-
em music, it could be. highly amus-
ing.' '

> Equity Is quiescent on the matter
of little, cooperative or experimental
ventures. It is felt, as they flare up
Bi.ddenly, that such shows will likely
pass from attention as. quickly and so
long as they are not competitive with
Broadway either as to admission
scale or quality. Thus Equity feels
there Is no need to clamp down the
lid.

Only one new show, 'Johnny 2 x 4',
opened last week (Longacre) on
Broadway. ^ None will arrive this
week, but three Uttle theatre affairs
are scheduled.

Next week 'The Moon Is Down,' is
slated to open at the Beck and 'My
Dear Public' at the Broadhurst,
whUe 'Nathan the Wise' wIU be
brought uptown to the Belasco.

Hammerstein Editing
Caesar's 'Dear Public*

Oscar Hammerstein n is editing
Irving Caesar's stage musical, -"My
Dear Public,' currently at the For-
1 St, Philadelphia, in general tunhig
and staging.

Among cast changes is Joy
Hodges; replacing Mitzi Green op-
posite John Buckmaster.

rtouls Lazar, New York Industrial-
ist- and a 'familiar figure around
Miami racetracks as a stable owner,
1* Caesar's chief angel for 'PubUc*

Contest Designer's Will

. Springfield, Mass., March 24.
will of Ralph P. MulUgan,
™?tufflle and stage designer who died
vhesterfleld, N, H„ Dec. 8, 1B41,
!«aylng an estate of about $200,000,
tWU be contested In Hampden Coun-
'y^obate court, April 6.
v5'"> couatoB, Ignored In the will,
?r\fl}ed obJecUon to the bequests,
J^5}<* Include one of $50,000 to Has-
•wa Short, Broadway stage director.

Nelson Seabra Almost
Lost 25G 'Anger Coin

.Suit of Nelson Seabra against Lee
and John Shubert, Shubert' Theatre
Corp., Select Theatre Corp., and
Ralph McBane has been settled out
of the N. Y. supreme court Action
sought to recover $25,000 advanced
by Seabra to McBane, end action
was settled when the defendants re-
turned the nioney to the plaintiff. -

Suit charged that In the summer of
1041 McBane approached the plain-
tiff saying he had $29,000 and was
about to produce a play entitled
'Double or Nothing* which needed
another $26,000 to finance It Plain-
tiff was offered ^% If he invested
$25,000. It Is alleged that the 25G
was put up and McBane started
negotiations with the Shuberts for
the production. Plaintiff then de-
cided to -withdraw, but the de-
fendants refused to give him his
money back. Fltelson k Mayers
represented Seabra In the action.

Pitt Ikatre Beefs
On Unsuitable Sets
Of B way Legiters

PitUbuigh, Murch 24.
Management at Nlxon theatra here
registered strong protest with tJBO
last week against practloe of Broad-
way managers In fending out Broad-
way hits with sets designed for orig-
inal New York produotlons. Dis-
satisfaction was brought about fol-
lowing complaints of gallery patrons
that they couldn't see half of what
was going on In 'My Sister Eileen,'
In which much of the action takes
place at a window at back end of
set.

Nixon has largest second balcony
of any legit theatre In the country,
around 730 seats, and It's long been
an axiom here that coin taken In for
gallery seats represents house's
profit over a period, of a year. For
'Eileen' last week, gallery sale was
the smallest any play has had ' In
some time and that was attributed
entirely to fact that they couldn't
see what was going on. Real word-
of-mouth playgoers are those who
scale the heights and their gripe got
around quickly.

Same thing was true of 'Claudia'
week before, only not so much so.
Set was the same one used at Booth
theatre, N. Y., during hit's 13-month
run, and Booth has about 000 seats
less than Nixon. Result was that
all the action thisit took place down-
stage and at the telephone, where
several pivotal scenes were done,
was just a blackout for the gallery
clientele.

' Nixon wapts something done about
it, and immediately. Customer com-
plaints are giving the management
an awful headache.

Dixey/83, Recupes

Atlantic City, March 24.

Henry E. Dixey, 83, veteran ac-
tor. Is In the City Hospital, as a re-
sult ^of an auto accident Despite
his age and a broken arm, physicians
say his condition is not serious.

Dixey, at the turn of the cen-
tury, appeared in The Adonis/ The
Man On the -Box,' 'Becky Sharp,'
'Bought and Paid For* and other
productions of that generation. He
played 608 consecutive perform-
ances In 'AdoaU' at the Bijou Opera
House, New York.

AGENTS, E QUITY €001 OFF

TABA Chawtca fer ^Baale Aeeord
Washed Vp Ttlu SeasOiT

Situation between legit casting
agents and Equity has quieted down.
At their recent annual meeting the
Agents decided to pay Equity the
annual .$to fee required from each
caster but they wanted to make the
payment come in bulk from the
nieatrical Artists Representatives
Assocation, the agent group. Equity
was dubious over such an arrange-
ment, however, and flguircd It might
imply a basic working agreement
which was twice refused TARA.

Equity thereupon advised WilUam
Morris, Jr., tne new prez of the
'agents -association, that such .remit-
tances were no dice. As the coin
had been collected by TARA from
members who had been holdhig out
Morris thereupon sent Equity a
cashier's check, rather, than one from
the association. Equi^ accepted but
individual receipts were sent to each
agent

That about washes up TARA's ex-'
pectatlons for an agreement this
season but some members of Equity's
council favor giving the "boys' 'a
break and the Idea may be steamed'
up again, possibly in the fall.

$l-Top Dnuna Fmds
Big Reception in Del,
Seen Aid to War Thrift

Detroit March 24.

Popular priced drama still seems
to be the big lure for war-Industry
workers, despite their big earnings,
with $1 top legit making a major
bid here. '

When "My Sister Eileen' ducked
into the Shubert-Lafayette here for
a fling at bargain basement shopping,
it was experimental. Top. prices
were $1.10, with plenty of two-bit
and fiOc seats, and matinees being
strictly shoppers' guides, at • BOc
top. Result was that the comedy
picked up a solid $8,000 and seems
set for a run of from six to 10 weeks.
Rouse also has started to look around
on the Idea of going throutfli the
summer with the marked-down
theati'e.

Itcsults hare has . been so sharp
that Cleveland officials eamt. up to
see If Frank McCoy, 'the -producer,

would , operate at the Hanna theatre
there.

Operators here see the pop-priced,
long-run drama as a solution to the
transportation difficulties which vlU
moimt during the war for companies
on the road: The Idea icems to be
that rather than Install stock It will
be a solution of the problem If the
road shows are pegged at a price
that will let them milk out the pub-
lic and. settle down to longer runs.
WhUe the $1 level seems to be the
answer at the present time, the feel-
ing is that as. the wartime earnings
mount the price could be hiked
gradually with the Increased Incomes
to find the pojnt where the shows
could get their longest runs at the
best prices.

'Eileen' Sock at Pop L. A. Prices

Los Angeles, March 24.

Dropping the scale to pop prices
at $1.60 top, second company of "My
Sister Eileen,' at the Biltmore
bounced to virtual capacity at all
periormances last week (6th) for
$12,500. Comedy stays at least two
more weelis to establish new house
record, and If Holy Week biz standis
up, company will remain indefinitely.

Plan is to move back to San Fran-
cisco for month's booldng at the
new pop prices before closing for
the season.

Summer Group Plans
To Reopen Easton House

Easton, Pa., March 24.

Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, Inc.,
which stages summer plays at Jut-
land, N. J., near here, plans to .re-
open the Orpheum theatre, Eastop,
which has been closed -for the past 10
years. A proposal has been made Uk
the city of Easton by the playhouse
to consider a compromise on de-
linquent taxes due on the theatre,
one time owned, by Wilmer and
Vincent where many road shows
were staged. Richard Hetrlck, presi-
dent of the playhouse, said that If
the theatre Is acquired,- plays would
be presented there on a year-around
basis. Community organizations are
being urged to support the plan.

Robert Uhgerlelder, counsel for the
playhouse, said that the playhouse
is willing to pay $2,000 to acquire the
title to the property and that re-
conditioning would cost at . least
$11,000. The Orpheum has -a ,seating
capacity of about 1.200.

In Equity, Tmmimfiiig
bmg Row Among Membershqi

laij' to Conliinie

' Indef on Braadway

"Lady -in the Dark* which early
last week was advertised as being
In its final six weeks at the Alvin,
N. Y, switched plans fast . due to
increaised biz. For the Sara H.
Httrrls presentation which was a
sock mwical success last season and
islstlU turning a weekly profit has
announced its continuance on Broad-
-way Indefinitely, ' It . had . been
planned to play< five weeks out of
town this spring (three in Phila-
delphia), but Ijady*. will not go on
tour until next season'. Ads In the
dallies still . state 'last weeks.'

Iiady' profit to date has been
around )35,000. Its overall cost of
production was $150,00Q. That In-
cluded cost of a unique Insurance
policy covering <;>ertrude Lawrence,
the show's star, which was $10,000.
Protective policy against Miss Law-,
rence becoming 111 was secured be-
cause It -n^s conceded that with-
out her the show could not be
performed. It cost ^15,000 to keep
the show closed during 11 weleks
last summer, when Miss Lawrience
vacationed.

The Moss Hart-Kurt Welll-Ira
Gershwin musical rates as one of
the most successful attractions in
recent seasons in which a picture
firm participated. Paramount has
a material share. Its Investment now
refunded, being estimated around
$45,000.

Playwrigt Asks
StarSystemFor

ewwers

Haiiiert B. lairmann, Boston at-
.iotiaey who wrot* Under TUm Roof,'
sft>oUtionlft drama which tarried
briefly at the Windsor, N. H., recent-
ly came forth with an Idea about
rating the critics In a letter to t
New York newspaper. Reviewers
credited the author's accurate his-
torical knowledge of New England
and' his ability as a writer, 'but aU
agreed the ' play was . not- effective
drama.

Ehrmann suggests the star system
for riivleweri^ i^th playwrights -to
rate 'etn. One star would go to a
'smart aledr, two stars to the fellow
who's ' chle^ concerned . w.ith the
structure of a play and not at .all to
Hs meaning or audletuie response.
Three stars would be pinned on the
critic who made some attempt to
explain the meaning of the^play and
whether the audience seemed to get
enjoyment or stimulation from ' It
Tiiat would be the limit Ehrmainn
opines, for there are no four-star
critics'.

Ehrmann,, who studied in the late
Professor George P. Baker's '47
Workshop' at Harvard, wrote the
letter as a follow-up to Ben Hechf s
lament over what the critics said
about hU.'LUy of the VaUey,' which
had an even briefer stay (one week)
at -the same theatie. He concedes
that.Hecht used up all-th$ words in
saying what he thoi t,ht of the,critics,
but Ehrmann suggests 'specific rem-
edies'. In addition to.&e star-rating
Idea, he also thinks that If critics
had to pay full price for their tickets
they might see more . good In the
plays.

Ehrmann received inspiration for
his essay afte.- his drama 'played to
12 responsive audiences until the
critics reviewed, the opening in New
York. Then there were no further
audiences'.

Comedie Francaise Does
♦Don Carlos' Then 'Hamlet'

Vichy, March 24.
Comedie Francaise is putting -on
Schiller's 'Don Carlos* In Paris.
'Hamlet' ig-io be presented as the

The long-contested antlrlsm
amendment was v6ted Into EquIty^s
constitution Saturday (21),' -when 552
referendum btallots- favored adop^
tion, with 2B8 opposed. Apparently,
the issue has ' been finally, disposed
of after 21 ninths of bickering
within tM membership, but there
were efforts to forestall the refer-
endum by opponents to the measure
up to . the last minute. Amendment '
bars Communists. Nazis an^ Fas-
cists from holding office In Eqidty -or
being employed by the association.

Discussion i' dlcated' that .there was
some, confusion, over voting, rights
but Insufficient time 'remained" be-
fore the referendum deadline Friday
(20) night for clarification.

New. Boles Due on. FIntml 'Votes
Equity Is due to &dopt neW riiles
on t>lural voting^ Number of du-
plicated votes, >lf any,' was not dis-
closed but It 'was doubtful If such
ballots figured . in thie referendum
result as its .adoption was virtually
certain. Voting, which -was much '
heavier than when the issue was
first pa^ed on .to the membership,
placed the amendment on the books
by a' majority of almost 2 to 1. Pra(
viously, when the question ofvpre-
senting the amendment was .put to
the membership by referendum
questionalre, the vote was very light
and the margin In. favor was rather .
scant. '
. At a meeting tarly last fall the
amendment was voted In,: but
council nixed It p^sumably ' because
of the difference of opinion over -the
term 'sympathizer*' (of. isms). That
term was later deleted frdqtv con-'
slderatlon. In that form a 8ubse<
quent meeting a^oP^ ^e amend- '
''ment but th« required two-thirds
majority was not ..registered. Coun-
cil '-was then ordered by petition to
send out th'« decisive xeferendtmi
to the whole . mettberdi^O, such vot- >
ing -being ' decided by - k sla^le- ma-
jority..

JLamberton Started It' ' '

. The antl-istn Issue was':Started by .
Congressman William I*. Lambert-
son, who in 1940 read into the. Con-^
gressional Recbtd thb' charges . that
tiie council was dominated, by 'Cotn-r
muiilsts or sympathizelrs : to 'that
cause. Later, the Nazis , and Fascists
were included In the general situa-
tion but there continued td b^ deter-
mined opposition,, the latter faction
claiming there are. Equity rules to'
discipline members who may be-
Inimical to the welfare of tha.. asso-
ciation. ) \/ '
The Lambertrdh ' charges -wera
never substantiated, and ' although-
Equity welcomed '.investigation by
th« Government none waa iever
made. Some of thos^ 'hemed' by
Laotabcrtson have b^n' actiye tb op-
posing the amendmeht At the itust
election, when several independents
were . elected to the council, 10 ot
that body Includlitig two y.p.s, re-
signed, saying they feared 'it migjit '■
be dominated' 'ny radicals. Subse-
quent developments have hardly up'.
h^d that -contention. "-111029 Avho
walked out Included scnne of the
most active people in Equity, affairs.'

Welles in Special Phone
Hookup from Rio as Part
Of'Son'Cf^rationmPitt

Big party -wIU be tossed back-
stage at Nixon theatre, Pittsburg;,
tonight (Wednesday) after perform- '
ance of 'Native S^n' to celebrat*
show's flrstyblrthday. Scheduled fea-
ture Is telephone book-up -with
Orson WeUes, In Rio de Janeiro
making a picture for RKO, who will
speak to C^ada Lee, star of shpw,
iand convey his best wishes' to more
than 30 members of the' cait

'Son,' playing its third engage-
ment in Pittsburg this -^son,
opened at St. James theatre. New
York, on March 29, 1041, and al-
though it received good notl'bes it
had only a three-nio'nth run and
was never a big winner. With pro-
'luctlon cut (or road purposes;
however, and taken over from
Welles by Jules Leventhal on A
sharing arrangement tour baa paid
back original Investment and <ds6

52 LEGITIMATE

P^ARtEfr

Wiodnesday, M«rc1i 25, 1942

Steinbeck s IHoqii' INsapiipiiits
As Legit Drama in Baho Tryout

Baltimore, March 23.
Drama In two acts by John Steinbeck,
■dBpted from book of Mme title: pre-
genied by Owar Serlln; directed by Cheater
Brekin; netting. Howard Bay; opened at
Maryland theatre. Baltimore, March 23,
$2.77 top.

Dr. Winter 'Whltford Kane

Joseph Joseph Sweeney

Sergeant Ednin Gordon

Captain Bentick i..John D. Seymour

Mayor Orden Ralph Morgan

Madame Orden Leona Powers

Corporal.... Chirlea Oordon

Colonel I.anser Otto Kruger

Oeorse Cor«ll..>. E. J. Ballantlne

Annie Maria Palmer

Soldier Kermlt Kegloy

Major Hunter Rueeell Collins

LIutenant Prackle Carl Go.ie

Captain Lo(t..: Alan Hewitt

Lieutenant Tender William Eythe

Soldier I Victor Thorley

Molly Morden Maria Palmer

Alex Morden Philip Foster

Will Andeni George Xenne

Tom Anders Lyie Bettger

Touted way in advance because of
favorable critical attention to recent
publication as a novel, John Stein-
beck's 'The Moon Is Down' has a lot
to measure up to. As presented here,
the dramatization follows the book
almost literally, and because of this
suffers from long stretches of dialog
which may read better than it plays.
There are compelling scenes and
some dialog that bites and takes hold,
but these spots , are distantly sep-
arated and too slowly paced to ac-
complish a sustftined drive and ef-
fective dramatic impact. As present-
ed here it is a play of some force and
Ikotential possibilities, but there is a
man-sized ]ob of prunine. pointing
and speeding to be done. Second act.
particularly, cries for considerable
work.

Story deals with the citizenry of
■ oi Wan Norwegian towii'ihvade'a by
the Nazis. Their resistance to en-
slavement and the stolid adherance
to the inborn rights of a free people
clash with the dictums of the new
order as preached by the conqueror.
This spirit is exemplified by the sim-
ple and kindly mayor, the village
doctor and the entire cross-section
of the town's .biunble populace. The
Nazi officers charged with occupy-
ing the countryside discover the
strength of this unconquerable .spirit
and find that their victory is hollow
and of temporary import only.

Last two scenes of first act rise to
strong emotional climax, particularly

on first-act curtain, which points the
sharp distinction of the two con-
trasting philosophies. The second
act, however, fails to prove and de-
velop clearly this dramatic conflict.
The mayor, as played by Ralph Mor-
gan, doesn't quite convince, and the
Nazi colonel charged with carrying
out the job of economic reform pre-
sents a most bafflipg character. De-
picted by Otto Kruger, the role is
played down to the<pbint of weak-
ness. This Hitlerism representative
is too muddled and undecided about
his particular part of the ruthless
job at hand. He does not present
sufficient contrast to point up effec-
tively the real truth and. premise the
play starts out to prove.

There is a smartly conceived and
well performed dash of romance and
frustration uortrayed by Maria Pal-
mer and William Eythe. The coun-
try doctor also takes on some stature
as played by Whitfotd Kane. Rest
of cast generally measures up. Set-
ting by Howard Bay is topflight.

Maybe too much was expected of
this one. There will no doubt be
some audience for it when it reaches
Broadway. What is accomplished
between its catching here and its
projection there will determine the
real strength of Its acceptance.
'Watch on the Rhine' and 'There
Shall Be No Night,' both of which
also preemed here, did a much bet-
ter job locally of the same basic
theme. Burm.

THE NICE HARMONS

HiVirwroo-i. March 18.

Comedy In three acts (four scenes^ by
Wllllom T. Tlldcn: presented by the Rudy
Vallee Co.: Ftngcd by Johnstone White:
«>t' by Wllll.irt Robertson; stars Tllden,
Tala Blrell. B'll Henry: supportlnir cast:
Joyce Miller. Therexa r.von, Jlipmy Cnr-
nenter. Jack Finch. Olga Pnpp. Grace
Henry: at Assistance LenfEue Playliouse.
Hollywood, March 18, '12; »1.00 top.

Sports flgures, champs and not-so-
goods have long pitched for the
stage and screen, but the percentage
of suc:esses has been lean and un-
promising. But still they come.
Now it's Bill Tilden, one of the
greatest racket wielders of all time,
making his bid, not his first, but a
maiden bow, nevertheless, to the
flicker Columbiises. It's his coin in

''Definitely is an attraction —

DONT MISS HER''

HERSCHELL HART in DetroU News
(FEB. 24, 1942)

SAID OF

CYNDA GLENN

AND— READ ON

"Seldom have we heard such feminine laughter-
squeals and such masculine guffaws at the
Bowery as we heard last night at the opening of
tall, red>headed, big-eyed Cynda Glenn, who bills
herself as a mimic, but certainly deserves credit
for much more. Miss Glenn has contours, grace
and topflight entertaining ability. She mimics
film ladies, cafe society lushes and French
diseuses so penetratingly that laughter literally
bursts forth. Her opening, in which she 'sits' on
a piano, while she sings, convulses the spectators
because her 'sif ting' consists of sprawls that fur-
prise as much as tickle. SHE DEFINITELY 13 AN

attraction; SO doitt mss her?^ '
OPENED MARCH 23rd

Tic-Toe Club

MONTREAL, CANADA

Completely Attired

N. V. Daily News assigned
Jack Turcott to Australia for war
coverage and he was- told to get
outfitted by Abercromble and
Fitch, no limit on what he de-
sired being made. Reporter got
himself properly garbed for the
new job and reported at the
office sporting two wrist watches.

.He explained that one ticker
WAS sot for Australian time and
the other would be kept at New
York war time, so that he
wouldn't" miss the paper's dead-
line.

tl:e venture, stor-; with the aid
an . comfort of his friend, Rudy Val-
lee, who ' is now identified with a
venture called Rudy Vallee Presents.
Valles's deed w ; ti, cast many of
th . players, including Tilden, Tala
Blreli and Joyce Miller. The piece
won't do Tilden apy harm, but it'll
do far more for th: Miller kid, a
15-year-old who gets around with
the flourish of a Gerti'.^ Lawrence.

To Tilden's credit ;s his spread of
acting honors. While he concocted
the meeic little familv play, he cut
himself in for only r small part.
Just enough, for the film scouts to
get a. line on his histrionics. He
skips blithely through his part with
aj little effort as a lob over the net,
and at no time does he ham oi; hog.
He gives a pleasant performance
albeit lacking the polished finesse of
a trouper. Shall one say he has
possibilities? N'j juvenile and not
yet well enough Jong in years,- as
athletes go, for character parts, but
the sturdy middle-aged type. There
should be something in pictures for
him, for, after all, he's a name in
tennis circles and the game is played
in every village and hamlet in the
country.

The Miller moppet has the fattest
part ?i\d handles her lines like a
veteran and moves around with
poise and' a sense of the fheatfltal.''
She's the 'Junior Miss' type, and by
this t'n-e should be testing at some
of the celluloid factories. She's a
cross bstween Shirley Temple and
Jane V/ither.i ">nd a personable, cute
kid alons with It.

Miss Birell plays the mother role
with neat restraint, and gone is the
accent that ' numbered her davs in
the cinema. This showcasing should
help her regain her onetime hold in
the sprocket drama. Bill Henry, a
breezy juvenile, hasn't a lot to do,
but he manages to give his role an
occasional sp:. 'k. He's a clean-cut
lad and rates a better break than
he's been getting in films, what with
the. studios -:rying for his type.

Tilden's story and the pace of di-
rection are not the happiest mediums
for ' the advancement of the leads.
Yarn concerns the romantics in a
family, the elders carrying on inno-
cently with heart partners of their
offsorine, <ind the vcungsters making
a play for the oldsters. It's innocu-
ous fun, but too thin to buck the
professional tide. Helm.

Pulitzer Prize

;Coatlnued from page

of that type heretofore ('You Can't
Take It With You'). There are sev-
eral plays in the. mbderate-success
class that could get the Pulitzer
nod; there are also two or three
musicals which may be considered.
Comtnittee stepped away from tradi-
tion to cite a musical some years
ago, that winner being 'Of Thee I
Sing.'

New York Critics Circle has a
later deadline' but announces its se-
lection l>efore the Pulitzer awards.
Critics usually decide between the
middle and end of April and there-
fore will await the arrival of 'With-
out Love' (Katharine Hepburn) and
probably 'Yestierday's Magic'- (Paul
Muni). They will also include "The
Moon Is Down,' John Steinbeck
drama, coming next week.

Three plays are In the running
as the 'best foreign-authored' attrac-
tions, 'Spirit,' Angels Street' and
'Magic'

Not TINIng N. T. DalUet

New York dallies are planning no
Increases in newsstand sale prices,
business managers of various sheets
declared Monday (23). It had been
reported' that two papers would tilt
prices from 3c to Sc.'

It's not safe to say that 'it eventu-
ally won't be necessary to up the tap
and the idea has been thought of,
for both morning and evening sheets
b,m.s agreed, but the move is by no
means in Immediate prospect.
Similar situation applies to adver-
tising rates, it was saI3.

Pinch on dailies with newsprint
prices rising and advertising getting
scarcer is bringing various econo-
mies. N. Y. Journal-American, for
instance, this week dropped its com-
plete stock" tables and listed only
about 50 top stocks.

John C. Martin Bankrupt

John C. Martin, ex-publlsher of
the defunct Philadelphia Evening
Public Ledger, and son-in-law of the
late Cyrus H. K. Curt.s, founder of
the- Saturday Evening Post, fljed a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy in
Federal Court, Hiiladelphla, last
Friday (20). Martin listed his UabiU-
ties at $3,502,920.05 and his assets at
$14,858.

Martin said he only had $5 In his
pocket; $572 In bank and $1,013 In
'wordly goods'. A claim of $13,000
for commission as an executor of the
Curtis estate Is also listed as an
asset. His debts include $2,460,824
owed three banks, $658,000 owed the
Curtis estate, and the balance owed
for taxes.

Vernon Pope OB Look

. Vernon Pope, editor, of Look magi
resigned yesterday (Tuesday). "He
leaves lor Florida today, for a vaca-
tion before . announcing new plans,
but wUl be available to Look as a
consultant imtil -May 1, when his
resignation becomes formally effec-
tive. He's been ed since the mag^s
^irth in 1937, and before that was
Sunday editor of ' the Bes Moines
Register.

Harlan Logan, v.p. and gjn. of
Look," 'Will assume active editorial
control. Daniel D. Mich has been
named exec editor and John T.
Hackett, m.e. Mag li said to be at
its'* all-time circulation peak, nTore
than 2,000,000. - .

MacArthur

Contlnned from page I;

southwest Pacific, giving nation-wide
coverage.

No Dark Theatres

Sydney, March 24.

Reports which reached the U. S.
that theatres are closed in Australia
are untrue. Aussie government thus
far has not clamped down on cine-
mas, as Great Britain did at the out-
set of the war In 1939, despite the
Jap invasion threat

Radio stations here are plugging
U. S. screen fare particularly. City
is wide open to members of the

a.e,b;.. ,. , •, ..

Gnlia'f mit^ Paperf
'White Paper' is being prepared by
the New .York Newspaper. Guild for
submission to the War Labor Board
and the President, documenting
Guild allegations that publishers ex-
press themselves In their editorial
columns as favoring arbitration, but
refuse to' arbitrate with their own
hands.

Guild is at the moment stalemated
in negotiations on wage increases
with the Associated Press, N. Y.
Times, Internatlolnal News Photos
and Time mag. In each case, It
states. Guild' proposal to arbitrate
has been turned down.

Bnlletln Withdraw* Offer

The Philadelphia Evening BulUtin
on Saturday (14) withdrew its bid
of $10,000 for the Ledger Syndicate
made March < 2 in Federal court
Allen Woodruff, counsel for the Rul-
letln, told tha Court that the BuUe-
tin made the offer on the assump-
tion that the services of all the au-
thors, artists of the syndicate would
continue.

It was learned, he explained, that
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Gilmer (Dorothy
Dix) had Indicated she wanted to
sever her connections with the syn-
dicate. Mrs. Gilmer, whose column
is the Ledger Syndicate's mainstay,
Is reported making a deal with the
Bell Syndicate.

Pans Press Enthusiasm

Washington officialdom Is said to
be considerably irked at insistence of,
daily newspapers to banner line
minor victories by the United Na-
tions for the sake of street pales.

Also putting in a protesting oar Is
the Treasury Department, which
claims that the sale of Defense Bonds
and Stamps takes a dip with every
headline screaming over a successful
naval engagement which, didn't war-
rant the large block typ* used. Pub-
lishers, it Is understood, have been
asked to soft pedal luch minor skir-
mishes and failing to heed this ad-
monition may be faced with sterner
measures.

UP Economy Vletlm
Hollywood Cltlzan-Newi dropped
its United Press service In a' cam-
paign of economy. Harlan Palmer,
publisher, bad used XJP since he
started hia first papef, the Hollywood

Citizen. Understood the sheet will
continue to. use Fred Othman's XJP
column as a single f eatiu-e and there
is a probability that Sid Skolsky'a
United Features dally writing will be
retained.

Citizen-News continues as a fran-
chise holder , of the Associated Press
In the Hollywood district

Ad Agenoy'i Self-Ballyhoo

Pitltik 'Advertising Co. of San
Antonlq has instituted a local news-'
paper campaign on its own behalt
Company is calling attention to the
fact la its Institutional copy that It
has served the southwest for the .
past 23 years and that now is the ,
time; to redouble all advertising
campaigns.

Now that the nation is at war and
some advertisers will curtail their
advertising budget Pitluk is en-
deavoring to sell advertisers that no.:
firm can afford the luxury, of silence.

Marriage Ban Lifted

Charlotte lAorgan, assistant society
editor of the Rochester, N. Y., Dem-
ocrat & Chronicle, and W. Frank
Thompson, Rochester Times-Union
ci-'pyreader, were married March 14
in Erie, Pa» '

This was first nuptials of two Gan-
nett employees since a ban on mar-
ried women was Dlted recently.

Waring Heads Charleston Paper

Thomas R. Waring, former New
York Herald-Tribune staffer, has
been named managing editor of the
Charleston (S. C). News and
Courier. He succeeds Thomas P.
Lesesne, who died recently.

...^J-lterary. A.n.M-Bllt« .

Fiction editor of a national mag is.
asking for three copies of all manu-
scripts. One copy Is to be placed in
vaults for safekeeping in case of an
air raid.

LrrEBATI OBITS

Gay V. Morthimer, 60, editor and
publisher of The Lehtghton Leader,
Lehlghton, Pa., died there March 19.
. Frank E. Hubler, 79, an organizer
of the Youngstown Arc Engraving
Co., Youngstown, O., and among the
first to make and run a half-tone en-
graving ' on. a high speed perfecting
newspaper press, died March 19 of
injuries after being hit by an auto-
mobile. He had been with the firm
nearly 50 years.

Mrs. Elliabeib E. Colbertson, 76,
president of the Mount Vernon (0.)
News, died March 20, leaving two
soi^i, one of whom is George, man-
ager of the News.

John Burns, 61; sports editor for
ovar 20 . years on Rochester, N. Y.,
newspapers, died March 22 in the
office of The Democrat and Chron-
icle, Rochester, of a heart attack.

Victor Marcnerltt«, 72, French au-
thor and novelist, died March 23 at
Monestier, France. He was the au-
thor of 40 books, including 'La Gar-
conne' ('Bachelor Girl'), which cre-
ated a French sensation two decades
ago and. caused . his expulsion from
the Legion of Honor.

CHAITEB

Tom Brady moved to Hollywood
to write studio news'lor N. Y. Times.

Pittsburgh Press' chest Is puffed
out at kudos recently conferred on
Cecil Brown and Cy Sulzberger by
Overseas Press Club. Both' are
alumni of the Scrlpps-Howard sheet's
city staff.

Bill Walker, vet Pittsburgh news-
paperman, named assistant city edU
tor of morning Post-Gazette, suc-
ceeding Charlie Leith, recently ap-
pointed chief of detectives In Alle-
gheny (Pittsburgh) County.

Louella Woodfprd, daughter of
writer Jack 'V^oodford, who wrote
her first novel at 13, has. just had her
latest, 'Strange Daughter,' published.

Beth Brown's syndicated dog
stories for Hearst getting attention.
Break in N. Y.' Journal- American
first .■

"THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER"
"YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW"
WARNER BROS.
Mat. JAtV OLAXTOM

Broadway

Alfred Hitchcock , due thl» woek
Irojn the Coast

Kay Kyser 'hi Irom Cout to line
•ui program at p.a. touw.

Bob CDonnell up. fcoiu" Salle* on
Mcond trip In two weeks,

Sam Kopp has become.numaBer of
the Park theatre, Newark, N. JT

Jack KapPt.Decca prez, back th!a
week from HbUywood ju^et.
'Betty Howard, casting director of
Pedlar & Byan agency, to Reno.

PL. Thompson, Western' Electric
ad-publidty chlet- a, grandfather.

Hunter Perry, Par's Virginia part-
ner, In town during the past week.
■ The Bill Gucringers of New Or-
leans In towii on semi-annual visit.

J. L. Murphy, production asso-
ciate to Harold Llbyd, east to scout
talent

Click of the Hotel Biltmore's ice
revue may shift It to the roof for the
ftunmer season.

' Mitch Rawson left for the Coast
Friday (20^ to huddle ' on Warner
publicity matters.

Abe B?mstein - leaves today for
SpringOeld, Mass,, on an exploitation
assigmnent for Columbia.

Cynthia White, Greenwich- Village
<mavoress' and writer, resting m
Acajpulco, Mexican resort

McSorley ' Mounted . Literary So-
ciety blossoms forth in ai: Uptown
jol..^ next Wednesday (1).

Virginia Peine has embraced the
Catholic faith preparatory "to the
Quentin Reynolds nuptiab.

.Ethel Merman preparing for August
motherhood.' Her husband is Bob
I,evltt New York newspaperman.

Roy Haines and Arthur Sachsbn
of Warners In Detroit to hold a two-
dav sales meeting for tha; territory.

Columbia Club's annual dinner
dance (April 11) at the Waldorf, will
be informal, aU receipts to Navy Re-
lief. . .

Clem Shams, colored Coast fighter
licked at Madison So. Garden last
Friday, is spoiisored by Olsen and
Johnson.

Lew Walters got back from Boston
yesterday to stert casting his Latin
Quarter on Broadway, last the Gay
White Way.

Dance Joint at 48th street, gutted
by fire last -Wednosday, ruined din-
ner business at McGinnis' eatery
underneath.

Par postponed Cecil B. DeMllle
cocktallery from Sunday (22) until
today (Wed.), out of respect to mem-
ory of S. R. Kent

, Coast. agent Charles K. Feldman,
east for six we^' siervice In Camp
Shows headquarters. Joined by his
wife Monday <23).

The Eddie Brackens (Connie Nick-
eison) expect an heh:. Brackens,,
both former Broadway legit players,
now In Hollywood.

Harry KalnUne huddled with WB
theatre zone managers in Newark
yesterday (24) on coping with In-
creased operating costs.

Gus Eyssell. managing director at
Music Hall, hosting CecQ B. DeMIlle
at dinner party in studio apartment
tomorrow (Thurs.) night

A. W. Schwalb6rg, supervisor
Warner exchanges, planed In from
Coast after three-week checkup on
op*ratlons In varloiK zones.

Al Margolies on a, jury panel re-
quiring his appearance in court
every morning for the past week, but
he hasn't been called to serve yet ■ ■

H. M. Rlchey, of Metro, served as
an air-raid warden in Westchester
yestteday morning (Tues.) from 4
a.m. to 9 a.m., then came to work.

Henry Jafte, theatrical . attorney,
returns to .his office on crutches to-
day (Wednesday). Tore the liga-
ments in his foot playtog handbaU
last week. ^ ■>

Hedy Lamarr and George Mont-
gomery announced their engagement
yesterday (Tuesday) from toe Coast
Actors met on a Hollywood badmin-
ton court. ' ■

Jinx FUkenLurg, ma«' cover model
l!^*!^^^?''"*'"* pictures, due in
town todai (Wed.). Will map per-

•PhlSde?pSi1.""" ^
Herbert J. Yates, Republic Pic-
tures chairman, lef- for the Coast
hUmedly Thursday (19) for hiid-
JUM on production matters. Plans
to be back in N.Y. Monday (30).
ueorge Jessel now hasahotse-and-

S-lf^^u^^.^^^^'sPosal. • gift of a
«uy who f ormerly sold automobUes
■na who has snagged 100 tandems
« a speculation In case of emer-
gency. ..y

-Lee and Jerry Seelan,
of Joe E. Lewis' materisl,
3«>>«a signed by Fefe Ferry to
SPi* sW'Pt, lyrics and music for new
J5?S'f Carlo show. Nitery Is sched-
to r eopen ar ound .Eajster week.

By Hal Cohen

•PiSfe°" v*!**^ J?«°'?e Jessel-Sophie
jJJ,^^ show, "High Kickers,' -}ve& of

nSSI* i?'^?^?'''' hoxoffice man at
^. V-layhiiuse, IB 1-A

Af i5 ^'.T.-^*y » band. H«
' Tommy Tucker

fiCZ^^Rpsenberg, newt

the Penn. and bis missus celebrated
thefr golden wedding anntversary.

Billy Stnyhom, pianist-arranger
with Duke Ellington at Stanley,
former loda Jerk in Hill district
drug store liere.

Bad weather grounded screen-
writing Epstein Twins, here for sev-
eral hours last wedc en route back
to Coast from Wa^ngton.

George Lloyd, Tech drcma school

gaduate, big hit in Holhrwood at
race Hayes Lodge and also signed
for first picture, Shirley Temple's
'Miss Annie- Rooney.'

Tom Connors

; Continued from pace 1;

In the corporation still retained by
Chase National Bank Interests and
the studio pperatlng group, headed
by Schenck, Darryl F. Zanuck and
William Goetz. Latter have suffi-
cient strength to veto any names not
meeting the qualifications they might
demand. ^

Present ranking executive officer
of the company Is Hermann G.
Place, chairman of the executive
committee and a Chase bank ap-
pointee. Others In dominant sta-
tions-have wider experience in op-
erations of the film industry. William
C. Michel, executive vice-president
and treasurer,' has been active
throughout the . Kent tenure, al-
though he joined the company dur-
ing the Harley Clarke regime, fol-
lowing withdrawal of William Fox.

Others who undoubtedly will be
seriously C9nslder'ed by the directors
as' candidates for the unfilled posts
are Spyros SkoUras, head of National
Theatres, in which 20th holds a stock
interest of 42%, and Thomas J. Con-
ner's, -who joined the executive staff
of the company recently as Kent's
assistant Latter is believed generally
In the trade as the most likely choice
to succeed Kent, as his selection
would unify ijnportant stock. owner-
ship interests.

Conners has been In the film busi-
ness since 1913 as a salesman for
Pathe. He joined the Metro organi-
zation in 1916 and was one of the
top sales managers' when he resigned
to take the .post with Kent His
.transfer had the heartiest support of
all factions within 20th-Fox and
Metro.

Herpaan 'Wobber, In charge of dis-
tribution, several months ago re-
quested and obtained permanent ap-
pointment to west coast activities ol
the company. Associates .say he pre-
fers his present assignment to any
pther.

London

.i-TT — j» newly elected
of. Natlonaf i^led,/wlll be
Aiii^Si* ^« April 12; ■ .
fc£jH^'»$»y county's annuar free
^^f?i''5"/*'»««'«>«>ed by county
gJsstodertforJhe-dirfaflon.'.
u^-iaoBits, veteran doorman at

CO

Theatres-Blackout

-Continued from page J;

rise to eonunent that it's about t&e
they awoke to ^e fact that a war's
on.

Most active among downtown N. Y.
theatre operators with respect to
blackout teats and alr-rald precau-
tions are Bob Weitman of the Par-
amount, • Times Square zone war'
den; Herman L'andwehr; manager of
the Capitol, who Is a warden on the
block in which that theatre is lo-
cated; Zeb Epstin, managing direc-
tor of the Strand, and Al Rosen, man-
ager of IjOew's State.

With respect to chandeliers, engi-
neers are studying the situation in
most theatres but the Par, on deci-
sion by Weitman, will take down the
three 3,700-pouhd pendants which It
has In its Inner lobby regardless. In
their place special lighting equipment
will be installed.

The Capitol, where an auxiliary
lighting and heating system has been
installed, has the chandelier prob-
lem under study. L.andwehr took the
matter up with city officials, and
engineers for the theatre are study-
ing the situation. Cap has a large
downstairs space where it can take
care of close to an entire houseful
of people. Par and Music Hall sim-
ilarly have large quarters downstairs,
Hall the larger, where It can shelter
folks who are in the theatre. So
can the Roxy* but the Strand, State
and Rlvoll do not have much extra
space. Hall, which has surveyed the
diandeller situation but taken no ac-
tion, has. installed an elaborate emer-
gency lighting system. It has taken
many other precautions, as has all
of Radio City..

In . preparation for blackouts, the-
atres have' 'arranged for fluorescent
buttons for doormen and other at-
taches,- as well as ultra-violet paint
for boxoffices, doors, et?.
■ The Capitol has already built a
blackout boxdSice in. the lobby close
to . the entrance doors from which
there will be no leak of light in case
of a 'blackout or raid.-.
. Blackoiit curtains already installed
In -most of fthe downtown N, Y. film
houses are pulled to one side like
drapes but can- be . stretched across
the entire door 'on a juoment'^ notice:

Arthur Mynard. 71, Leicester ex-
hlb, kiUed by skidding bus.

Robert ReiUy back in vaudeville
after twp years with ENSA.

Tommy Trinder has offered to buy
Maurice Bloom's Phoenix theatre.

Harry lUTears, last year's Cinemato-
graph ' Exhibs Assn. . pre^xy, elected
chairman of Bournemouth branch.

Eric Barker ('The StroUer'), of the
Evening News, fell In blackout in-
juring his pelvis. ' He's been seri-
ously ill at St Stephen's hospital.

Bristol, Northeast Lancashire and
London branches of exhibs assn. so
far have agreed to organization's rec-
ommendation to top admlsh prices.

Herbert WJlcox finishing cutting of
Anna Neagle opus oh" life of Amy
Johnson, famous aviatrlx. and I^veS
for Canada en route to Hollywood.

Attendances In London likely to be
■further affected by transport short-
age as London Passenger Board Is
reducing bus services by one-third
to conserve gas and oIL

Captain Pickerin?. for years gen-
eral factotum to the late Captain
Bertram Mills, acc circus operator in
Eneland and now with the Ministry
of Food, has serious eye ailment

Flanaean iind Allen received check
.for $20,000 .^om George Black as
bonus he promif^ed them 6n top of
their salary in 'Black Valvet' which
recently finished 36 weeks' run at
Victory Palace.

Mmneapolis

By Lcs Rees

Jascha Heifetz here for concert.

Maico 'Reds' and Metro on top in
Film Bowling League.

Eddie Valet St. Paul independent
exhibitor, passed away.

Martin Kelly's' 'Sports and Travel
Show' into St Paul Auditorium for
a week.

Harriet Arvan, Minneapolis, and
Harriet Zazulak, Duluth; joined 'Ice
Follies' here.

■Twin City Variety Club tossed
luncheon for members entering U.S.
armed service.

W. H. Workman, Metro branch
manager, recovered from long illness
and off to Florida for rest ,

Glen Roberts resigned from Na-
tional Screen to beconlc 20th-Fox
assistant ad sales muiager.

Bill Robinson-Ernie Field show
went from Orpheum here' into St.
Paul Orpheum for four dt^rs.

Burglars broke into- Agat^ local
nabe house, three times within 11
days, obtaining small sums of money.

Eph Rosen, veteran local film
salesman, recently with Universal at
Salt Lake City, has Joined Metro
here.

. Gordon Grc^.ie, former Minnesota
manager, returning from Paramount,
Omaha, to become Pa tagea theatre
manager for Eddie Ruben.

Joe KeUy and his radio Quiz Kids
drew 12,00C to St Paul Auditorium
In one-nlgbt appearance under
Woman's Institute auspices.

Paul Roslnl, magician comedian,
bito Hotel NlcoUet Mhmeiota Ter-
race floor show, replacing Coleman
Clark, compelled to d^art by previ-
ous contiacts.

Kansas City

By John Qnlna

Andy Anderson, KMBC musician
and arranger, inducted into the
army.

Tommy Dorsey mauj his annual
one-night stand at the Pla-Mor ball-
room last Thursday (19).

Sammy Kaye band will relight
Newman stage to vaude for a week
beginning next Friday (27).
''' Tom Connolly, director of pro-
gram promotion for CBS, in town as
Arthur Church's guest and speaker
at the ad club.

Verle Bratton, Millard Ireland,
John Bondeso'-. and Will Yearout,
WREN execs, putting their heads
together as a barbershop quartet

St Louis

By Sam X. Hnrst

Annual police circus to run from
April 16 to 19 at the Arena.'

Sam Komm, exhib with interests
here, in St Louis County and East
St. Louis, was unable to attend the
opening (if his new Brentwood be-
cause of illness.

Civic Music League has skedded
a program of four concerts and one
Opera for next season. 'La Boheme'
will be in English. Yehudi Menuhin
is among the artists skedded for a
p.a.

John Kennedy inked as stage di-
rector for the Municipal Theatre
Assn., whose season gets underway
In Forest Park playhouse June 4.
Dick Berger returns as production
manager.

Republic Pictures Is huddling with
Harry 'Pappy' Cheshire, head of the
KMOX hillbilly galaxy, to make an-
other flicker, (^eshire was featured
in. "Bamyard Follies,' Rep flicker,
several years ago.

Mess Sergt Santo Cullotta, at Fort
Leonard Wood. Mo., who starred with
the St. Louis Grand Opera 'last sea-
son, accepted a bid to warble at Gov.
Forrest Donnell'g dinner for ttaestat^

supreme court Justices last week.

Marshall Hariris, who leased his
Normandy, St Lows County, to Fred
Wehrenberg, has sued St -I.ouIs Car-
dinals for- $10,00<l damages because
wife was injured by foul ball last
summer. She obtained a $10.0004udg-
ment last week.

Sid Kent Dies

^1

EC g II

fs^ConUbned from pace

Chase National baiik. He also . was
largely/instrumental in effecting the
merger in August 1935, with 20th
Century. Pictures' which brought Jo-
seph M. Schencki Darryl F. Zsuiuck
and William *Goetz - into the com-
pany.

Kent is survived., by his widow,
Mrs. Lilyan White Kent; a daughter,
Peggy Ann (Mrs. Don Wilson, wife
of the radio announcer);- a sister,
Mrs. B.- C. Barber of Laramie, Wyo.;
and two brothers, Arthur H. Kent of
San t'rancisco, and Lawrence R.
(Larry) Kent , who is an operating
executive with Fox-West Coast. Rob-
ert T. .Kane, in charge of 20th-Fox
production interests in England ' for
^any years, is a brother-in-law, both
having married sisters.

Funeral services were held Mon-
day (23) at Al ajn. at the Riverside
Church, N. Y. with honorary pall-
bearers including' Zanucli, Joe and
Nick Schenck,' Spyros Skouras, Tom
Connors, Herman Wobber, Adolph
Zukor, Will Hays, George J. Schaefer,
Hermann G. Place* Bill Qoetz, Sol
M. Wurtzel, W. jC. Michel, A. M.
Rotsford, (^orge Skouras, Sydney
To well, Watterson Rothacker, Julian
Johnson, Otto Ki^gel, CHiarles Skou-
ras,- Walter Hutchinson, AJ Boyd
Jack McKeon, Dr. Edgar Mayer, El
mer Short, Hugh Strong, Senator
Daniel O, Hastings and Frederick W.
R. Price.

NumeroVis industry execs flew In
from fee Coast, while- others came
from other points.

Dr. Hafiy . Emerson Fosdick offi-
ciated at the services, attended by
over 1,000 persons In and Out of show
business. Burial, which was private,
was at Ferndiff Cemetary, Ardsley,
N. Y.

Out of respect to the memory of
Mr. Kent, the 20th home office' was
closed all day Monday (23), while
all company branch offices and ex-
changes throughout the world shut
down at 11 ajn, for the day.

The War Activities Committee re
quested all units of the fllm Indus
try and all -theafr^ to pause at 2
p. m. Monday (23) In tribute to Mr.
Kent

On behalf of ihc WAC, Francis
Harmon n»de tiio following jtribute;

"The W«r AcUvitiea Committee has
suffered a grievoualoss In the death
of Mr. Kent He look the Initiative
in caUing the meeting at the Union
League Club on June fi, 1040, which
led to the present organization. . On
his last day In office, Wednesday
(18), he spent 40 minutes talking
earnestly with me about ways and
means for Intensifying the industry's
Victory effort.'

Holywood

'Yip Vip Yaplianlt'

sssContUiaed from page 1^^^

his plans, but he wanted no publicity
until the War Dept first and official-
ly accepted his proffer, which he
made to MaJor-General Irving J.
Phillipsop, commandant of the
Second Corps Area, which embraces
the New York-New Jersey-Connecu-
cut zone.

Berlin foresees a terrific net profit
potential, at least $250,000 for Army
reUef, with the utilization of a t^ea-
fre like the Centeri In Radio dty,
for • run. It would operate like a
legit at legit musical scale. ' The
talent and name-power is there. For
Instance, what with Joe Louis, the
colored champ, as one end man, and
Ezra Stone, as another, in a minstrel
sequence, plus a wealth of personali-
ties from show business — Hollywood,
Broadway, radio, niteries, etc.— who
are now in Uncle Sam's armed
forces, it paclcs name-power.

Berlin even stated he'd underwrite
the Initial expense, if necessary, by
going into some theatre, such as the
Broadway . Paramount or Loew's
State, for a couple of weeks and do-
nate that revenue to get the machine
rolling, and then count on the ooten-
tlal gross taking to carry things
along,

Berlin felt that If one of his songs,
'God Bless America,' could net the
Boy and Girl Scout* of America over
$90,000, he could do much more for
the service men with an elaborate
'Yip Yip Yapbank' revival. Including
new tunes, etc.

The filmlz^tion possibility Is tome-
tbtng.:lh^7n^aB;i>e|iti.«vokr«d..

-Danny Winkler laid up with Influx '■
enza.

Ida Luplno in the hospital, a fin
victim.

Lou Costello laid up with throat
infection.

W. C. Fields to British Cofumbia
on vacation.

Ann Sheridan on a iO-day tour for
Camp Shows, Inc. -/"X^-

Bette Davis back ai Warners after
an eastern vacation.

Hugh Herbert left for a tour of
piidwest army camps.

Robert Lambert bankroller for In-
die films, being sued for divorce.

Wilson R.- Stone checked in at Co-
lumbia as studio labor relations man-
ager.

Florence G. Kenton filed divorce
suit against Erie C. Kenton, film di-
rector.

Archie Mayo returned to work as
director at 20th-Fox after a month's
vacation.

Dorothy Lamour became honorary
colonel of Hollywood American
Legion Post.

Frank Dawson played his 100th
butler role in 'He Kissed the Bride'
at Columbia. -

Norman H. ' Moray, sales manager
for Warners .shorts, in town for
studio buddies.'

Bobby Gilbert, of vaude, and hia
son drew the same draft number;
3,000 miles apart

Connie Mack, dean of- baseball
managers, gendered Columbia studftf
with George Stevens.
' Joe Hubbell, currently with News
of the Day, celebrated his 30th yt^T
in the newsreel business;

Walter Bradfield, John Del VaUe
and Leon Gutterman dropped from
Paramount publicity staff.

Jerry Brandt back from RKO home
office huddles to resime production
of 'Scattergood ' Balnes' pictures^

Ralph Muiphy ' to be honor guest
June V, Commencement Day, at
Syracuse University,- his alma mater.

Harold Lloyd to Columbus to rep-
resent Hollywood Chamber of Com- -
merce at American- Bowling Con-
gress.

Bert AUenbLrg succeeds Edward
Arnold as uhalrmisn >f Penhanent
Charities Committee of the picture
industry. , ■ ■ • • .

Mrs. William Morris. Sr., here vis-
iting her son. Bill, Jr. Accompany-
ing her to the Coast was her sister,.
Elizabeth Berlinghoff.

Major Frank Capra and his new
boss. Brig. Gen. F. H. Osborne,
luncheon guest of War Activltiea
-Committee of film ihdustlry;

■Tteak. Neill, formerly in Washing-
ton for International News Sendee,
paused In Hollywood before shoving -
off for the South Pacific as war cor^
respondent '

Hairy Romanoff, city editor of
Cnilcago Herald-American, in Holly-- -.
wood on vacation, visiting his dauim-
ter, n student at UCLA, and looUnir
over the pre<-5eason basebaQ gamei
between Cubs and Sox.

By Leslie Hurls

Major Bowes due In.

(Sene Krupa- Is In tbwn.

Pat Rooney hoofing at the Riptide."

Lt Omunander Walter Winchell
in town. -

Jack Cohn is 'shoppiri- locally for
a house.

Danny iSulllvan is now on the door
at the Ball. .

Gene Austin due to check out for '
the Coast next week.

Mlscha Auer In for Olympla thea-
tre appearance and rest
. Honerchlle.Wlldet-hetejvaltIng. to .
catch ellpper for Rio and nlteiy en-
gagement .

Hope Minor (Gomez and Minor)
will marry Edward E. Stokes, Cin-
cinnati sportsman.

Alfred -McCosker grabbing a lasi
tan before checklni; out of ihe Rciney
for his desk in N. \.

Frank Katzentlne, operator of
WJVAT, has donned a ma'lor's bars
and Js off for the armv.

Joe Louis paid an unskedded visit
to Duke Ellington at ihe Earle last
week.

Robin Rood Dell reported planning
to use usherettes this summer be-
cause of scarcity of males, '

Frankie Donato, former xoanager
of Carroll's, now holds the same iK>st
with DIPanto's nitery In Northeast
Philly.

Wes O'Neill has resigned as pub-
licity director of the Ritz-Carlton
hotel to go with the Immigration and
Naturalization Service.

Joe J ean a nd. PhylUs Rogers, who
sang on WIP as the Blue Belles, nov
appearing here In Irving Caesar'f
musical; "My Dear Public?

Bank Lawson, head of a hillblUr
troupe known as Knl|Aii« of the Roaq,
have leased Sunset park, 40 miltii
from PhlUy, for. the summer season.

Hamburger Heaven has been forced
to drop Its tag because of threatened
litigation from Gotham eatery of the
same name. JtH be known ai Mil-
ton Kellem'a (he's an ex-band
leitder).

54

iTedneBdajr, March 25, 1942

OBITUARIES

CBABLES A. TATLOB .

Charles A; Taylor, 78, former
theatrical producer and playwright,
died March 21 in Glendale, Gal. He
had been termed 'master of melo-
drama' as a result of the numerous
melodramatic successes he had
written.

Taylor was a conductor on the
Southern Pacific before joining a
San Francisco paper, where the city
editor suggested he write for the
theatre. His flrist play. The Brother's
Crime,' was produced in 1889. In
1890, he wrote his most popular play,
•Yosemite,' which was produced In
San Francisco at Billy Emerson's
theatre. After the success of
•Yosemite,' Taylor came to N. Y.,
where The Brother's Crime' was
produced as "The Derby Mascot* at
the' Bowery theatre.

In the next few years he wrote
The Queen of White Slaves,' "The
King of the Opium King,' The Queen
of the Highway,' The Female De-
tective,' Throu^ Fire and Water'
and The Child Wife.' In 1892 he
had five success on Broadway at the
same time, earning him $250 each
in weekly royalties. Jle married
Laurette Taylor, actress, In 1900, and
two years later wrote a play for his.
wife and Joseph • Santley called
•From Bags to Riches,' which was
Miss Taylor's .first play. The actress
and playwright were subsequently
divorced.

Taylor had also been Involved In
early film production, having made
The Whirlpool' with Ethel Barry-
more;

Surviving are a son, Dwlght Tay-
lor, fiilm writer, another son and a
daughter, Mrs. William Courtney,
^80 a writer. '

Body forwarded to South Hadley,
Mass., for .Interment

MBS. C ABO BOLLEB

Mrs. Caro Milla, 74,. mother, of
Marli^ Miller, the late dancing
Starr died MarcU 18 in a hospital at
San Jose, Cel., her home in recent
jrears. . .

Herself an actress, Mrs. Miller and
her husband had toured .for years as
two of The Five Colimibians, enjoy'
ing success in Europe as well as this
country. During five years of her
career, Marilyn lived in Merbphis
with Mrs. filler's twin brother, L.
W. Thoropsonv and learned to dance
there' from a Negro janitor.

Xater Marilyn went with her
mother on tour, breaking Into the
parental act by accident when caught
jneaking across stage by a , sudden
curtain^ rise during an appearance in
Scotland. A surprised audience ap
plauded, thf tiny : lass .turned and
bowed primly, was soon going into
her dance'. 'When Lee Shubert of
fered Marilyn a contract after seeing
her dance at 12 at the Winter
tiarden In New York, her mother
gave up the stage to devote her time
to furOiering the daughter's career.

City by plane and ahe arrived the
day before he died. .

Surviving also are several broth-
ers, among them Bamon, 'associated
with another brother, Santiago, pres-
ident of Posa Films, S. A., and
Manuel, representative of the Mexi-
can government in Hollywood.

FBANK MUDGE

Frank Mudge, 74, said to be the
originator of the saxophone solo as
a feature In vaudeville, died March
17 in Los Angeles after a long Ill-
ness.

As a trouper with the Humpty
Dumpty company, deceased toured
the country In 1893 and two years
later traveled with .the Hi Henry
Minstrels. In 1896 he organized his
own vaudeville act with his wife as
partner and played the Keith,
Proctor and Hyde & Behman time.
Later he toxired England, Ireland,
Scotland, Wales and South 'Africa

LAWBENCE J. DABMOUB

' Lawrence J. Darmour, 47, film .pro-
ducer, died in Hollywood March 17
after an illness of several months.
_ Bom in Flushing, L. L, he had gone
to' the' Coaist 17 years ago, when he
founded the Standard Cinema Co,
.. there. In 1026 he started the Larry
Darmour film studio. -

Darmour Introduced Mickey
Rooney to pictures in Mickey MC'
Guire character comedies, 72 of
which were produced' between 1926
and 1932. He entered the film busi-
ness in' 1916 througix the Gaumont
Picture Co., with which he was a
film inspector and later a news cam'
eraman. After the conclusion <fi
World War No. 1 he joined' Lewis
J. Selznick as editor of the letter's
BewsreeL'

With hliB own company he ptO'
duced over 300 two-reel comedies
and in the' past five years made 20
Jack Holt features, six Ellery Queen
pictures and some serials. He re
leased through Colimibla.

Surviving is a widow and three
■iBters.

BODOLFO BEAOHI

Rodolfo Reachl; 45, of the old
Mexican family which has long been
Identified with international show-
business, died March 16 in the
lAjnerlcan hospital, Guatemala City,
After a. short illness. He was on an
air tour of Central and South
America In the .Interests of Grant
Advertising, S.. A., a Mexieah'
American publicity firm of. Mexico
City, of which he was ' an executive,

Reachl was taken Ul tbe day of bis
fitjrlVal in. Guatemala Clt7. His wife,
Agnas, was summoned from Meklcio

FRANK N. HEAKN, JR.

March 28, 1932
Ttn jtan *liic« yea went mwuf,
bnt yoB live In my htaxt forever.

MOTHER JULIA KNOX

and came back to America in 1006
to join Ed Blondell's Katzenjammer
Kids show. In later years he toured
with his son, Charles Morton, as the
Mudge and Morton Trio. He had
not, been active professionally for
several years.

SIDNEY B. KENT

Sidney Raymond Kent, 66, died at
3 a.m. March 19 at his home In New
York following a heart attack.

The president of 20th Century-Fox
survived by his 'widow, Mrs.
Lilian Kent; a daughter, Peggy Ann,
who is Mrs. Don-'Vllson, wife of the
radio announcer; a sister, Mrs. B. C.
Barber of Laramie, Wye; and two
brothers, Arthur H. Kent of San
.Francisco and Lawrence R. Kent,
executive with Fox-West Coast The-
atres. Funeral 'was held Monday
morning (23) at 11 ajn. at the River-
side Church,' N. Y.

Details- In film section.

^BALPH M. DUNBAB

Ralph M. Dunbar, 62, originator of
summer opera In Memphis and a
pioneer in legit production 'On ^e
old Chautauqua circuits, died of a
heart attack at his home in Memphis
March 17. Though ailing since a
previous attack .in California last
August and regarded as near death
in November, Dunbar had recovered
sufficiently to take his customary
place in the cello section of the
Memphis Symphony orch only a
week prior to his death.

Survivors, in addition to -his
widow, are a sop, daughter, and a
sister.

O. W. HATNES

G. W. Haynes, 67, owner of the
Strand string of theatres In , west
Tennessee, died March 14 at Meth'
odist hospital, Memphis.'

A 'former Cake County planter,
Haynes entered show business in
1935 with the purchase of the Strand,
Dyersburg. Chain expanded imtll he
was operating a dozen houses at
time of death. In 1937 Haynes moved
to Memphis, transferring headquar'
ters to be near Film Row.

Surviving are widow, stepson and
stepdaughter,' two brothers and a
sister.

years ago, was featured as a' soloist
with John Philip Sousa's band, Wal-
ter Damrosch's orchestra and Fat-
rick Conway's musicians.

She had appeared on the Keith
circuit and In Gilbert and Sullivan
operettas with DeWoU Hopper,

ADOLPH EISNBB

Adolph Eisner, 96, theatre man-
ager for Balaban & Katz, Chicago,
died In Miami of a heart attack on
March 17. Eisner had been with
B. & K. tor 14 years and had been
manager of the Century and Panthe-
on. Started as booker with General-
Film Co., and later was exhibitor in
Kansas City,

Widow survives. Burial in Chi-
cago.

MBS. CBABLES W. DUMONT

Mrs. Charles W. Dumont, 66, for-
mer contralto .soloist who had toured
with the orchestras of Walter Dam-
rosch and 'Victor Herbert, died in
N. Y. March 23. She had also ap-
peared at the Bangor, Me., Festival
as soloist, and was the widow of the
former president of the American
Law Book Co.

Surviving is a brother and sister.

ALICE MAT BHODES

Alice May Rhodes, 77, who toured
the United Kingdom In the early
1900s as one of the first women
trapeze artists, died March 13 at
Scappose. Ore. She originally
started out with her sister In the
aerial act, but later teamed with her
husband in an act known as - The.
Edgertons.

Survivors are the widower, sister
and two brothers.

CHARLES O'CONNOR

Charles O'Connor,- 30, radio an-
nouncer for Philip Morris until re-
cently, died suddenly March 17 at
his home in Douglaston, L. L

Wife, former Emily Ryan, at one
time in the Radio City Music Hall
(N. Y.) Rockettes, and a five-year-
old son survive.

Details in-the radio section.

JACQUES BUSTANOBT

Jacques BustaUbby, 62, last of the
surviving' Bustaiioby brothers, fa-
mous restaurateurs, died March 23
"In N. Y. following a 10-week Illness.
Born in France, he came to the U. S
In 1896, having been preceded by
his three brothers.- Further details
on Page 3. '

LOiriSE ELLIOTT WHITNEY

Mrs. Louise Elliott Whitney, 84,
noted concert singer .of the late 19th
century, died In Boston March 20.
Widow of Dr. WllUam, F. Whitney,
she sang in the tJ. S. and abroad.
When she married, she gave up her
career.

Surviving are two sons.

EDWARD C. CONN
Edward C. Conn, 69, for more
than 10 years assistant manager, of
Steel Pier, Atlantic City, and also
an entertainment promoter In New
England, died March 15 at his home
in Lynn, Mass.

Leaves widow and two . daughters
and four grandchildren.

MTBON BOLL

Myron Holl,~76, former band direc-
tor and for years a member of the
niayer Military Band, Canton, O.,
died March 21, the last siurviving
member of his family.

MOBBIS JONES

Morris Jones; 61, former blaclctace
comic, and ' since 1911 l booking
agent for neighborhood houses and
clubs in Greater Cincinnati, died
March 16 at Jewish hospital [n that
city following a brief 'illness from
pneumonia complicaited by a heart
ailment,

' Bom in Chicago, . Jones began
trouping at the age of 12 and played
vaude circuits in the U.S., Ilngland
and Australia. Leaving the stage,
Jones was a booking agent in Chi-
cago before locating in Cincinnati.

Survived by widow and five step-
children.

MENNETTE M. STAfFOBD
Mennette Miller Stafford, 68, one-
time stage actress, died March 22, in
Hollywood, after a long illness. She
trouped for nearly 40 years with her
husband, Harry Stafford, who sur-
vives. I

donla, N. Tt. Two sons and a daughter
survive.

Or. Hnrray Eeker, 66, dentist, well
known In the theatrical- profession,
jumped or fell from the .window of
his former wife's apartmtot In 'New
York last Friday (20>. He Md been
depressed for some time.

George D. Troop, 41, trombonist,
died March 16 in Barre, Vl., of, a
heart attack. He had played with a
number of name bands.

Walter P. Wells, 67, father of Jim
Wells, sportscast^r at 'WBEN,
Buffalo, died March 16 in Buffalo.

MARRIAGES

Lillian Passman to Ed Mlchelson,
in New York, March 21. Groom
is in Warner homeoftice publicity
department.

Mary Eunice Medairis to Eugene
Snyder, in Marlon, Ark., March 16.
He's musician, with Everett Hoag-
land band.

Cornelia Warren Fairbanks to
Daniel' Erlcourt, In Crown Point,-
Ind., March 19. He's Chicago con-
cert pianist'

Alice Duckworth to Benny Good-
man, in Las 'Vegas, Nev., March 20.
He's the orchestra leader. Bride is
descendant of-. Cornelius 'Vanderbilt

'Veronica KItson to Arthur J. John-
son, in Los Angeles, March 20.^ He's
the songwriter.

Helen Welty to Robert Schuetz,
March 20, In Los Angeles. He's
Coast manager of NBC's recording
division; she's his assistant

Jerry Lleberman to Leigh Jason,
in Dayton, O., March 19. He's film
director. '

Jack Hlvely and Dorothy E.
Lovett, at Dayton, O., March 20. He's
a film director now at the army sig-
nal corps' film labpratory at 'Wright
Field, and she's an actress.

Madeleine Dunne to Tom Gor-
man, March 7, In New York. Both
are radio actors.

Pert Kelton to Ralph Bell, March
6, in New York. . She's a legit-pic-
ture actress; he's a radio and legit
actor.

Athena Lorde to James Bowles,
March 7, In New York. They're
radio actors.

HABBY BBOOKS

Harry Brooks, 72, actor, minstrel
and banjoist,' died in N£w York
March 14.

., Actors' Fund of -America arranged
his funeral, and Interment was in
the NVA plot, N.Y., March 17.

Survived by widow and four
daughters.

" HBSi JOSEPHINE DUNFEB
Josephine Dunfee, .68, concert ao-
prano. died Mtrch 16 in CtalttenfAfo,
N.y, ..Singer, vljo JjW-'ijiflittdaillipie

TEODOBO VALCABCCL

Teodoro 'Valcarcel, 43, Peruvian
composer, died in Lima, Peru^ March
20.

JACK LA'WBENCE ^ .

Jack Lawrence, 54, veteran vaude
actor, died in Los Angeles, March 21.

Balph Dnnbar, 65, musical direc-
tor of the Toledo Civic Light Opera
Co. in 1939 and 1040, died March 19
in Memphis of a heart attack. He
was a producer and director of musi-
cals, workc;d also as a performer and
producer.

His widow, Joceeta Howe, who
was dance director and performer
in Toledo operas, and two children
survive.

Mrs. Hilton Page, Jr., 20, died in
Greenville, Texas, March 18, from in-
juries suffered in a plane xirash near
Greenville. She was the wife of the
Staff organist at station WOAI, San'
Antonio.- The pair had been wed
onljr three months ago, '.

Arthw B. .fluumlags, 76, {6rmer
.bandleader, #t4..¥fu^,l> -in Jttp-^

BIRTHS

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Marx, daugh-
ter, in New York, March 13. Father
is member of ^'Variety' advertising
staff.-

Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Barhydt
son, March 12, in Kansas City.
FaUier is director of promotion and
publicity for KMBC, K. C.

Mr. and Mrs. Wiif* 'Yearout son,
in Lawrence, Kans., -Feb. 7. Father
is librarian' at WREN, Lawrence,
and -'Ye. Old Timer* oh the air.

Mr. and Mrs. Rod Holmgren,
daughter, in Des Moines, March 15.
Father is news . commentator for
KSO-KRNT, Des Moines.

Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Hatfield, a
son, Maury Lester, in. Seattle on
March 16. Father is chief engineer
at KIRO.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cooley, a soii
In Seattle on March 10. 'Father Is
an announcer at KiRO.

Mr. and Mrs. Horace Hagedora,
son, March 14, In New York.- Father
^ salesman for station 'WEAF, New
York.

Mr. and Mrs. William Warren, son,
March 20, in New York. Mother is
the former MUdred Solly, chorus
girl and daughter of Joe Solly, legit
bill-poster.

' Mr. and Mrs. Mel Williams, - son,
in Durango, Colo:, March 14. Father
is announcer at KQ^, San Fran-
cisco.

Mr. and Mrs. Nat Wyhecoff, dau^-
ter, in Hollywood .March 20. Father
is Coast head of Southern Music Co.

Mr. and Mrs. Leon- Shamroy, son,
in Hollywood, March 19. Father is
clnematographef and v.p. of Inter'
national Photographers Local 659.

Mr. and Mrs. WiUlam Blum, son,
lu Fargo, N. D., March 11. Father is
in publicity department of Universal
home office 'n New York; mother is
foi-mer/MIldred Brucegaard, former
ly with Monarch Theatres, N. Y.

Mr., and Mrs. Robert C. Mayo, son,
March 22, in New York. Father is
account executive of station WOR,
New York.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew De'ng'os, son.
In Buffalo, March 12. Father Is trom'
Ironist of 'WBEN, Buffalo, house band:
Mr. and Mrs. Duke Wales, daugh-
ter, in Los Angeles, March 21. Father
is RKO studio publicist

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Davis, daughter,
in New York. Mother is Gloria
Blake, stage an^ screen singer.

Mr, and- Mrs. Stewart Seymore,
46n,.ln.Kew.York. Uwcch 32. father
h ^th Crawford Music PUbUfhan.

Marine Base Show

jCoatliiiMd from pst» 3

a' IS-mliiute afterpiece. While the
Opa-Lacka base is considered the
'grbvy train' by the seaman .sta'
tloned there, due primarily- td the
plentltude of entertainment the men
get c'uffo twlqe-a-week -from the
^laml nlteries, the Spifalny entour-
age of SOiodd girls, was^a new dish
and it was lapped up from start to'
finish. ,

The .reception emphasized Spital-
ny's contention that the U, S. soldiers
are 'hungry for entertainment' He
has already appeared at several
army camps and naval bases. Camp
Bragg In North Carolina and Camp
Stewart in Georgia, being' of recent
date, so he can speak with authority
on the band phase of servicemen's
entertainment. ' And that's a cinch '
he says. It's not a question of one
number being a bigger hlt| because
•all are big hlts.*^ .

This held true Sunday night here,
the sweeter tunes going fully as .well
as Mary McLenahan's sending with
her percussion drum solo; or Cathe-
rine's rocldng of the audience with
her trumpet and vocals on 'Blues
in the Night;' or Evelyn's mellow
violin; 6r the lush-voiced Maxine
and the superb bell-toned larynx of
'Vl'vlan; or anything and anybody else
for that matter. ' All ;smashed over.
Including Beatrice Ifowe, satirical
mimic,, evidently an added starter.

It any number got the edge, It
was probably . 'Blues,* wKIcfa drew -
such a riotous response Spltalny had
Catherine reprise It in the after-
piece. Then came the national an-
them and goodnight to the boys,
with Spltalny walking off dripping
with perspiration.

Girls Liked |t Too

If the seamen were aiSprecIa'tive,
50 evidently were' the girls. "They
appeared as enthusiastic playing for
the boys and their families as the
latter 'were in receiving them. The
responsiveness of the audience was
further demonstrated when Spitalpy,
with the help of a flying lieutenant
keyed up the audience to hearty
singing of 'Well Do It Again' and the
hymn, 'Abide With Me,' as part of
the program portion. Latter, Spltalny
annotmced, ' was not only being
broadcast' on the entire NBC-Red,
networli, but also being shortwaved
to the armed forces abroad via
Schenectady, N. Y., and Oakland,
Calif. '

Spltalny has dedicated himself for
the dtiratlon to entertaining the
armed forces— and that also goes for
all the girls. With the exception of
transportation expenses, which Gen-
eral Electric is defraying, the girls
and Spltalny are themselves bearing
the brunt Outside of their salaries
for the once-weekly broadcast none
is being paid for the army and naval
encampment appearainces. In fact,
Spltalny turned down offers {torn
USO-Camp Shows, Inc., to tour un-
der its auspices and thus draw some
compensation, -

That shbuld also go for all the.
other name bands, Spitalniy says.
Making money nowadays should be
the least important thing— "making
victory possible is all-important' he
added. 'What good wiU money do,
anyhow, should the Axis triumph?'
is a question Spltalny aims at band-
leaders who are financially able to
do the same thing he's doing. As
for himself, Spltalny says he wouldn't
live under Hitler's domination— 'as
U I could if I wanted.'

■When and wherever possible, Spl-
talny will tour his band through the
camps and play for other patriotic
purposes. Thus nine days ago (16)
he played in a public park In Miami
to more thah 20,000 people for Bun-
dles for 'Bluejacketis. . Everybody at-
tending the concert, also hooked up
to a GE broadcast had to bring some-
thing of use to sailors. He was sur-
prised to see so n^any people bring-
ing' objects of more than ' intrinsic
value, many toting several cartons
of cigarettes when one pack would'
have been sufficient Most touching,
however, was the little old lady who
was first line with a large box of
cookies she had herself baked. .'

Next Saturday (29) on the way
north, Spltalny will bring his band
to the Jacksonville, Fla, Naval
Training Station, and the following
day will play at nearby Camp Bland-
ing, also doing his Sunday night
broadcast from there. At Blandlng.
If he gets as big a turnout as he did
at Camp Bragg, which has about the
same number of soldiers, Spltalny
may again play to 20,000 men, ' prob-
ably doing four, shows. ' Hell, get
another -crack at tremendous audi-
ences April L^when he's scheduled
to appear at the Quafitleo, Va., ma-
rine eorj^. base. ' ■'

FORUM

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FIoMlo Pet* Oro
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Dtl Bio ft Dorothy
Jot Reoo

Ctfik ud BotUa
KtlMD Uaplea

-'Ann da Font Oro
BMl* reytaal
Kenny dark On '

SI Clab
Lyda Rednok
Max Taiabla
Pat UcCauIey
8 Aderablea
Bally Bice

Uofel Fort Ptt«
X<n Ballav.Oro
Johnny Ultchall
Hkny Walton
Jaasia Wheatley -
Hatel HeaiT
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norottay Uatttiraa
Escorta

(Gay td-B) '
Dorothy -Naabltt
ilotal 7th ATaM*
Save QUrord
Swlntlng Strlnga

Hetd Booaeyalt
Joe Vera'
Sam Barl
Joe FetTonlll -
John Bongnldl

Hatal Hfhralny
Billy Hloda Ore
Joy Und

Betel Wtti Feu
. . -tChattertHu)
Sammy Watklne Ore
Glaan. Sterllns

(CaaUaaatal Bar)
Prank Andrlnl f

Hanr-Oo-BoBad
Sowdy Baum Oro

Naw pniocat
Bddia Welts Oro
. OeiTy-JUohardr
RIna Cata
Al Manaeo Oro
Bob Carter
KnUbt Sla
Bobby Belmar
Kratlow- Dane

Body Oala Oro
OaalB

Charll»> Laan Ore

l>on Butter
BlU liORoy Oro

Tiny Miller
Joay Raynolda
Dale Hjarkneaa
Baddy Walah
SMTdle' Miner
Btny Sloan

Trelaa
BUly Tatea Ore
TaaM CIdb
a Middleman Ora
Bobby FlDkna
Riltb Foster
Sid GoTd
Bob Alda
Phyllta Merrill
Maok Fearaon
Netaoa ft Marsh
Olnger Palow
Btatrley BaUer
fty-Taa
Tommy Carlyn Oro
Bette Smiley

. Dataa UeUI
Sammy Waltera
(Tank -Katale
Mike Sandreilo

VUto Madrid
Btil Ca«ato Oro
Mark Lane
Feter HlsRlne
Barl ft J 1/each
Broadway Debs

BOSIOH

. Beaeh ea mbar
Barry Uorrlaaey Oio
Chico Slmone Oro
Carol Dennleon
Marlon Bebersa>
Joee'ft Mona
Bob Sbermaa
lioulae BoTday
Beach-chanAera ((>

BtlnCnb'B
Peter Bodga' Ora
Boyd Heattea
Faltb Hope
Charlea ft Celeste
BUly ft A St Oeorge
' Clnb Maytalr
Xanny Weeks Ore
Hal Roberta Oro
' Franota Faye
Hea Webbar
Irla lB»a
Da BontnvlUea .
BootaMoKanDK.Bay
Clab Vanity Ibb
Al Dtokerman Ore
a aarrlnctoa
Stella Ray

Coeaumt Oroya
Mickey Alport Oro

gon Rico Oro
2!«ter Koim Rae
Billy p«in,
Uadoln Whlta

'•«J-*^Jni

^.Copley Flasa
(ShetaleaBaom)

nrlR Williams Oro
Waller KliiT
BebKIrk
Porothy Lewis

(Uertymo-Bonad)
Mark Gilbert »
Copley Sqnan Batd
Al DeForrost
Arthar Ward
" Crawford noase

Satly Keith
- »»i?-?<'"y Corlea

innnmba ra»lao

V >p Room) .»
Tvonne Adair

J 2*"yn Lynn OU-
^'♦«i,Wolk On>,

V ..'"-Wat

f rV*. Herman Orr-i

Frank Petty
' Hatal Biadront
. < C l n.aa Boom) '
Jack Davis
Lucille ft J Maloney
BaCat Bianawlck
(Bavadto Tarraco)
Oray Gordon. Ore

Ken TraTers Oro
Jack Manning Oro
BlUy Kelly
Ada Marora
Bill Groin
Vln Daley
Je^ Monti
Bally HarrU
Itotel Feasgato
(Satire Boom)
Anne Xberesa White
liaeUlo B T Robert*
WaMar Boag

Bob Hardy Ore
Kay Ivera

Bonay MeVey Om
Barbara Doilglai*
Hatal

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Dwlgfat Flake '
Harry Maiahard JO
Botd Btatlar'

(Tomco Bmui)
Lolghtos Noble Oro

(Cats Bouge)
Salvy Cavlccblo, Orr

Hotel .Veadoraa

(FUe B Dtam Bm>
Osoar Blgort Oro
Jolene
BlU Wilson
Uelan Douglass
Helen. Shepard
Kea Clob
Farren Bros Ora
Rass Howard
Jerry ft LllUan

.latlB '<)urter
Anthony Bruno C>ri
Rhumbollers Ore
Gna Van
Billy Vine
Estelle ft X<eroy
Radio Rognea.
P Ramos Toy Boys
_ (Laaasa Bar)
Ham ft Strum
Baondero ft La Plata

Bio Caaino
Oaorga Harris Ore .

Barry ila.AngellaO
Helen <;arrol

I/ols Aadrawa Josasl
Ckarlotaoxa
Bobby. Johnaon
Bostar Kalm Bar

tOarte I«aca)'
Msl ft r DearboB

flayaa fleas
BstralUta
I«Bocha ft Balna
Bnoeanears
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(Vleaaa BaaaQ

Law Conrad Oro
Artlnl ft Consualo
Ada Gonzales Trio

Dorothy Deerlog
Doris Abbett
Jimmy Morr

Tbs Cars
Don DlBona Ora
Jack Fisher
Tamara Doijva >
Blvez Cortes-
Jimmy Marr
Artlnl' ft Consntlo
Plr-ettee (E)

Tic-Toe
Tiny Bradshaw Ore
Mae Wynn 4
F Hendenon Oro
Tremoat Flasa.
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Alpine Tillage
Del Kay

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Hob Copter

Eldorado, Clnb
Jim MacKenzle Ore

Ftoddle's Cafe
Lola ft Andre
Larry Vincent
Al Lackey Ore
Charlea, K Seene
Roy Rodger

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Royal Hawallana O
Julea'.ft, Webb

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Henry Plldncr Oro

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Thtxloo Sprenger
Charles WIek Oro
Barbara Parka

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Art Janet Ore
Hatel Fenway B^U
Kenneth Rasmussen
Poison Gardner-
Coram

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Doralna ft Bills
Novelle Bros
Sylvia ft Christian
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Bin McCnne Ore

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Clint Noble Oro
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Freddie Coxlone Oic

Lindsay's Shybor
King Cole 8
Ray Baysor
Sue Sanders
Hal Simpson
Pearl de -I.uua

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Blaine, Elaine Bond
Frano Reynolds
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Joey Bishop
Roberta
Bvelyn Scott
Hal Hall
HolUe LaVelle
Don Walsh Ore

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Heta Stauder
Prank Gagerr Ore

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Dick Rock

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Joe Termini
Kay Reda
Kaya ft Kaye
6 Jitterbugs
GuUI Oulll
Don Arden Dane
Johnny King
Charlie Carllais
Benny Resh Ore

Jessica Garwood
Delores LeUonta -
Al Daro
Colllna ft Anita
Sheila Woode -
Wm Hewitt
Lea Walters Ore
Clnb Coaga
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Margaret Watklos
BllUe Holiday
Bob Porrlsh
Cepgo Oto
Barl Dancer
Anise ft Aland
Paul, Slim ft 'Rddle
HonI Coles
Calloway Dane (4)
C^rktown Tavem
Don Harris
Hart ft Alllaoa
Panchlta Villa
Phil Sklllman Ore
Fceatler Bancb
Dave Barnum
Janeeso

Carlotta ft Myers
Clark ft Van
Rancheros Ore .
Irving Speotor

Grand Tenaea
Gloria Parker Ore
Bar] Parchman
Hnymarket
June BIdrldge
Phelps ft Cullenblne
Hazel Kennedy
Jack ft Jill Carr
Lea Nichols
Charmettea Oro

Hand's
Son Val Semiladers
LoadoB Chop Boasa
Connie Barlean
Ch«t Everbart .
Ruby Oro

Clob Uayfair
Marty Joyce
Carol Crane
Mervin Jensen
Dorothy Gerron
Phil Olson Ore
Mickey's
Billy Meagher
Charlea ft R Jenkins
La Temple
Ray Vlnrent
Deloraa Laraoat
Mlokeyettas
Joe Banket Ore

NabUlo'a
Fay ft Andre .
Johnny Policy
Leakey Sis

Clem Hawkins
Leonard Seel Om

Nortbwood Ibb -
Dale Rhodes
Theresa Rudolph
Don Am a to
Ray Carlln Oro

Olde Wayae Clob
Howard Benedict O
Jack London

PaUn' Beaeb
Pat Patterson
Coral le & Kaye
The Duquesnes
John Le Bel -
Pauline Porks Gls .
Monnle Drake
Don Pablo Oro

Fenobseet Olob
Patricia Willis
Betty Allen
Pamela Britten
Guy Welch Ore
Hook's Bedford Inn
Mao McGraw Oro

Boyale '
Tanner Sis ^
3 Guesses
Louise Olenn
Howard Nichols
M Faber Qls
Aylene Mason
Hkeeter Palmer Ore

Btatler Hotel
Pancho Ore

Baks ' ' ^
Olga Anton
Peplto Co
Tatf-Kretlow Gls
Harvey Stone
Jack O'Nell
I,eonard Seel Oro

Ban Mega
Gene Bmerald
Glenn Dale
The Bordens
Dotty Sloan
CUtt Arvin
Al Alexander Ore- -

Stavadara
Good ft Goody
Great Satgfreld .
Eddy Shepherd
Jack Thomoa Ore

Tlia nrapka
Le Ray ft Sharps
I/yle Carlyla Ore
Dale Rhodea
Ana Lee

Carl Denny
Koia ■Waoky' Kay*
Hammond ft Kenn'y
Babe Moore
Pee Wee Murray
Jack Nelson Oro
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(OoM Oab Beom)
Hermaa Flae '

Madelon Baker
Monnel Lopea Oro
Sammy Dlbert Ore

■H dab
Dale Rhodea
Dl Giovanni
Gdod ft Goody
Dottle Ard
Jean Moor*
Joy ft Jnanlta
Delia ft Drigo
Horace Hooch Ore

H'wood Notables

-Continued from pafels

had return reservaUom lor flighto
yesterday (24) and today (23),

William Goetz, of the Fox office,
cloud-chased out ou American's
MercuTjr to the West Coast, and
Benny Goodman used tiie game line
on his way to Phoenix, Ariz., to get
himself married.

Other Trs-elera
Others on American's flying pull-
mans were film editor Laird Creger,
lu from L. A., Josef Hofmann,
pianist, who was L. A. bound from
N. Y,, and Rosemary Lane'j mother,
who was scheduli^d out -to the Coast
yesterday (24).
Transcontinental tc Western Air's
flying carpets also- winged Inward,
some of the Hollywood mob headlAg
for the'Kenf bier, 'but return res'-

ervation* were sUll unsetUed'at this
scoring.

Slmone -Simon was off to Colum-
bia, O.. on Friday (20) and back
In town aga;*) the following day,
apparently doing -diores for a fash-
Ion house; K«ith Davis, of Fred
Warlng's -Pennsylvanlans, chose the
TWA route for a short hop, and
Donald Ogdoi. Stewart; of the Metro
script staff, has a TWA reservation
from Lu A. to N.Y. for Sunday (29).

Lois Andrews Jessel was hade in
town, arriving, on a - TWA star-
streaker, to be met at the port by
husband George Jessel; another
TWA to L. A. traveler was Sir Cedrlc
Il^rdwicOke.

Gaston de Pamcins; who^ authored

WHAT THEY THINK

, Three Months After Pearl Harbor

Honolulu, T. H., March 6.
Editor,' 'Variety':

Hdd no idea^ when I sent my last
lettier on. to'yoi^ (30 days. after Pearl
Harbor) ^ would' have brought me
116 letters to date, 'from all parts of.
the .country, askih^ me to send in
more news like - it^. but , tl)at. would
be impossible. Letters from people
I do not know> all over the States,
so one knows '.Variety' is weU read.

to L, A.

Jack . Kapp, pres. of Decca Bee-
,oi'ds,-sent me. a letter that spund'ed
t^e Eskimo yam, 'Kabloona', was off as though lie . were weeping, and

another from Ben Cammaick, foreign
r^p for RKO, another from Harry
Brand (Fox) and many, of the' so-
called -lads who can take - anytiiing
as -it happens along. Anyway it
was reassnriiig-to know tl)ey at least

Cantor's 25th Year

^Continued' from page 2;

reading, or what may be the partial | tool^ time out of Jheji; busy Wves^to
or whole answer thereto, it's a cinch ' ' ~ ~ '■- — - _«.«-»-
that no longer must It bpy-meeti;
loses-and-flnaily-again-meets girl for
the finale. The iconoclastic refuta-
tion of this time -honored show stand-
iar^ is 'Banjo Eyes,' where Cantor
meets the heroine, and then the boy-
girl plot becomes subjugated to
something else.

Perhaps one answer is that, so long
as theiy laugh, they're well satisfied.

They love Groucho Marx stepping
out of character, and hea'rt-to-heart-
ing the customers, 'I wonder if Will
Hays will pass this/ They like the
tongue-in-cheek self-ribs, so long as
ifs a laugh, of. which the. whole new
cycle of Benny, Allen, Hope, Skelton,
Fibber are prime examples. When
the 'jBanjo Eyes' heroine ,is being
pursued and rassled with by Cantor,
she ad Ubs, 'Oh Ida!'— a departiure
from character and a hark-back to
the realistic, (where she implores the^
star's real-life wife, Ida Cantor, come
to her rescue) — and thafs the biggest
laugh in the show.

On the subject of lauglis, and to
^pport his critics of unimaginative
manager, Cantor can't see why they
haven't long since bought space and
baliyhooed,
'Jlecreofion is essential— ;F. D. R.'
The President has said that Every
factor in the war effort embraces
some form or another of 'morale,'
which is another way of saying di-
version from the martially realistic.

Oh the subject of morale. Cantor
is impressed every day with the all-
out self-sacrifice of his fellow folk
in the theatre for the boys in the
armed branches. It takes on sundry
manifestations from the Stage Door
Canteen -to camp entertainment.
Just how difficult are some of the
camp junkets was reprised once again
by .Cantor who recalled that even
lesser towns like Trenton, N. J., and
Gary, Ind., in World War I had big
and sitialltime vaudeviiie theatres;
that It was much easier for talent
playing local stands, doing only two
or three shows a dayl to hop out into
camps for' some fre^ fun, and enter-
tainment for the boyse-rbut now it
means difficult hegiras from big
cities to distant camp sites for. the
same purpose, at considerable per-
aonal physical and financial sacrifice.

Cantor kudoses the - showgirls of
today, however, as having it all over
the 1917-1918 Zlegfeld crop for ex-
ample; and that also goes for the
boys in the line of any musical com-
edy. They can step as well as the
Marilynn Millers and Jack Donahues
of yesterday, lacking, of course, the
stars' charm and personality. But
the talent Is there; the training has
lieen rigorous and tiiey can do hoof-
lag routines witli the>best of 'em.

Cantor harkg back to Sddie Dowl-
ing; Ray Dooley, Jidmny ITooley, Bert
WiUiams, George LeMalre, Harry
Fox, E^rank Tlnney, WilBe and Eu-
gene Howard as a few -who were -with
him in one or another Ziegfeld or
Winter Garden show. He cites these
as examples of the fullness of talent
In another era, as against the paucity
of favorite fun-makers whom you.
can count on your iiands — and that
takes in the holdover stars like the
Jolsons and Wynns and Jessels and
Tuckers.

Cantor, at 50, is a veteran of 35
years In the ttieatre. The quarter-
of-a-century steins, from -his Zlegfeld
days. Before tliat he toured vaude-
ville with the Gus Edwards acts,
and, of course, was the 'old boy^ of
the troupes. He'd worried about
timetables, railroad fares, etc. He'd
buy the tickets.

send along a letter to me, which
will never be forgotten.-. Charlie
Eiofeld also4

As. you perhaps know, we had a
return- engagement from one of the
yellow bellies, this week (three
months after Pearl Hai^l>or)i and-^aU
-we can say about their marksman-
ship is they hit the Island anyway.
It was a brilliant .moonlight night
when he started over, but when he
reached, here a sudden heavy rain-
storm' and high winds and excep-
tionally . hea-vy cloud -'formation
ruined his visibility-, and result, he
hit '"a* hl^ spot where he dropped
his eggs( -about three-quarters of a
mile from where I Work, but tbank
Divine Providence no one was in-
jured or damage done. Thirteen
weeks after the 'first- attacl^ Hawaii
.is ready to' a man for them' and. If
they plan any more sneak attacks
you may expect fragments of their
outfits in New York. Thafs How
far we are ready to blow .tiiem to.

Bestrictlon .on- liquor wa^ .lifted
here this past week "and th^ first
three days' netted for- Uncle- Sam
$29,000 in. fines. We 'Are put- on
trial, and If it' Is to 'be abused it
will be denied for the entire dura-
tion; and this provost marshalt is no*
softie, believe .me. For blackouts
and speeding during .daylight he- is
equally' as severe, and if, -you are
arrested for any violatiott today,- to-
morrow you either pay. or go bye-
bye. Liquor is -rationed but one
quart ^0 • a,,^persbfa of liard liqUor,
or three quarts of wine each wedc,
and the pUghtest infraction means
destruction of your card. ^

Copper mall for all first class mat-
ter is the only j^ay to get ma0 here
reasonably early, all -other second
class o.k: As-yet I have not received
the Jan.' 14tti issue, and all of us
here iHlss our magazines much,

Go'Vt. only permits a drawing ac-
count from your* hank of $200 per
,montb, no-more, irreeardless of who.
or what you lire. - So naturally' it
slowed up hundreds.

Director John Ford is here on a
tour of duty -with -(h^ navy and
bought out tiie opening night of
*How. Green Was My Valley' at, the
WaiUkl. theatre, and ga-ve every
man in uniform the. preference, just,
for them and their officers.

"The commandant has granted me
a very special privB^^ge of a perma-
nent pass to go- Into tiie various hos-
pitals where there are, or would, be^
any show lads confined. Seenis he
has. a tender spot in his heart for-
'Variety' and gets many a laugh out
of the slanguage used by the paper.
He got one of the gobs who was a
hoofer and «a all-rotrnd trouper to .'
decode it; as he put it So, when
I get an opportunity, I shall make
the rounds.

tty card arrived oJc thanks, and
please know correspondence Is
about' the only thing we may look
forward to here. Before long; it
would not at all surprise me if .pri-
vate autos were also, asked to be
racked for the duration.

Mabet ThoiTtas.

. Rogers Jewelry Renews WHK

Cleveland, March 24.

Rogers Jewelry Co. has renewed
Its dally 15-mInute news program
over 'WHK for another year.

The firm also renewed for the
same period its 15-mlnute 'Musical
Gems' broadcast of recorded inusic,
which ■ follDWi' th* :fifeW9c6st. ''■•'•'

Short Hetnorles Indeed

New York.

Editor, *Variety':

In the N. Y. Thnes, Feb. 7, Repre-
sentatives Heffmaa, Bennett, Faddls,
Taber and Curtis ore quoted as- hav-
ing slurred the theatrical industry.
This was in connection with their re-
fusal to appropriate civilian defense
funds for work done and to be done
by .members of the theatrical pro-
fession.

Have they forgotten Carole Lom-
bard so soon? Have they forgotten
that entertainers raise money for De-
fense Bonds, Red Cross, Tuberculosis,
Infantile Paralysis, British, Russian,
Chinese, Finnish, French and Greek
relief agencies? Have they forgotten
that entertainers are used to cement
L|itIn-AmerlcBii relations? ■ '
' Do'-'your'tfiitifr We •IrfprrrHkc^^ble'

politician who helped, elect theip and
whose name appears' bashfully on
their City, County or State payroll
has made as great a contribution to
our way of life as the entertainer. ■

The entire industry should protest.

., JtM. .

(Formerly An Entertainer, Now

. a Soldier in the S. Armyj .

[Name wittiheld by- request — ^Ed.1

What Is a CpmeilllBn7

(Hiioago.

Editor,. •Variety/: . ,

It seems there is' considerable dif-
ference of opinion about what a
'true comedian' Is. Some of the
critics are saying, for instance, that
Olsen and Johnson are' not true
comics but only showmen.
' So someone might decide how you;
tell a 'true comedian' from an arti-
ficial one or a fake one. How about
he who comes on the stage with a
hundred different ga^lgeta that , do
odd -tricks? And the prattfall guy-
is he jnct ' p iiniahln g'' Vjlinaplf 7

Are we to finally conclude -that a
'true comedian' b a fellow who has
a iheUow -tone and ' character? ' A
young guy. can't be' a true comedian-
He's Uto fresh, and. artiflciali -It
Is really bard to understand 'what a
real conxedixm -is - 'outside "Victor..
Moore, Bobby Clark, Lew Doctc-
stadter and WHl Rogers. '

D6es anybody know what a real
comedian -is? ' .

'. '. Cart Peterson.

iurl^ Voiiict

iGonUaoed fr«m paie

theatre license and should be denfed'
the opportimi^ toi pervert a noble*'
cultural institutions to that purpose.'

JzL support of the license codimls-
sioner's action in refiistnic to grant
license renewal to - tiie- Gaiety and
other, burlesque theatres, aHof 'which'
are now cioBed; were ccjlmitted- af- •
fidavits from Robert -W; Searle^ .gen^
eral secretary of the Great^- New
York Federation of Churches; R^.
Joseph A. UlcCafftey, .sastor ot. the .
Roman Catholic- Church 'of the Holy
Cross, and' Rabbi (Soldsteln, on be-
half 'of the- Reformed Rabbis .and the
New York -Board of Jewl^ Min-
isters.

Testimony submitted. 'in court bj
Policie Commissioner VaTegoitine was.
that there had been some '98 .arrests .
on ' various' charges made, in XbH
vicinity of the (Saiety iheatre .and oT
these ther^ had been 50 convictions
during the past 10 years.

Mpls. Passes the Back <
On Bnriesk to Mayw

Minneapolis, March 24: .
Refusing his request to refer com> '
plaints against burlesque to its 11*
cense coAirbittee for aptfippriate ac-
tion,' the city coutt^ lias tossed the .
hot potato of^ what to do about it
back into th» lap -of Mayor M. £■,'
Kline. The aldermen adopted a -reso*
lutlon suggesting that the^ police de-
partment, headed offlci^Oy by the
mayor, teOce action S the hurlesque
theatres are vlnlatinff the law. It
was declared this* 'belongs distinctly .
In the mayor's dei)«rtment'

Mayor KUue had:bEoughtthe mat*
ter to. the council's attention in « '
letter containlcg a police department '
iLorals' squad report assertion that
a -show 'Witnessed at the Lewls^lU-
man Gayety, burlesque, was lewd
and Indecenf and that oomplailnts
also had been received regaxding tb*
type of perfohnance- at the Hlrgch-
Kafz Alvin, ' twora-day burles^ua
house.. A number of aldetmen, how-
ever, ^ defended the Alvin, asserting,
they' bad ' attended 'perfonnaiices
'&ere and not only had seen nothing
wrong, but also had enjoyed the
shows. ,
. The mayor's reiuciance io act him-
self and his apparent desire to pass
the buck to the council lOr possible
revocation of the theatres' licenses
may be due to a doilbt whetiier the
courts would sustain, police, action in
closing the houses. It also may be
due to the fact tliat ' two previous
mayors. Who bamed shows in' Mln-.
neapolis, were defeated at the nexi.
election, .coihcidentally or ^ Otherwise.

'; PortUnd'a.DdTe

Portland, Ore., March 24..
Portland's drive against . obscene
shows -eontihues. The city 'council
has ordered Harry L. Akins, man-
ager of the Gaiety, to show 'cause
why the theatre's license should not :
be revoked, IVs accused of per-
mitting obscene shows.

The Star, burlesque, was forced
to surrender its license Feb. 27, but
the theatre reopened last i^^eek un- -
rl?r new mnnp^emerit.

Wednesdaj, March 25, 1942 <

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