1 PRICE 10 CENTS ?"7 ONLY THEATRICAL NEWSPAPER ON THE PACIFIC COAST 4 i! EDITED BY JACK JOSEPHS Second Matter, Published Saturday at 800-801 Warner Bros, Entered as Class April 29, 1927, at Post- S-tHa-day", January It 1930 Every office, Los Angeles, Calif,, uPder Act of March 3, 1S79. town Building, 401 West Seventh St., Los Angeles, r WARNER BROTHERS SEEKING CHAIN FOR FILMS AND SHOWS i + . T — -- - i, f fllllTV I ITTP i?^ . - ' an (HTm TO TflV tUUIIT LIMb i OFFER TD FDX [I| the Act- The difficulties between Warner Brothers are reported ors Equity Association and Louis planning a coup on the Pacific O. Macloon have been amicably Coast which will result in the es- tablishment of chain settled and Macloon will be per- a of theatres with stage shows rivaling the mitted to proceed with his plans Fanchon and Marco Ideas. to open with '"New Moon,” a Inside Facts printed in a previ- musical show, at the Majestic ous issue the fact that it was un- : 1/hea.tre on Januai 18 or tL , e derstood Vvan Brothers were ibouts. ‘planning to ->ut stage, entertainment back into * Both M'acloon and his wife, Lil- their downtown and Hollywood house, lian Albertson, who also was and this week it was further blacklisted, have been returned to reported on reliable authority that they planned to full good standing. an- nex other theatres, either by Just how the matter was settled building, or, buying, or both, and * has not been given out, as the to run them on a combination parties agreed to refrain from is- stage and screen policy. Ceballos suing- any statements. The settle- is the rumored producer of the ment was made by Paul Dulzell, ensembles. secretary of Equity, who came to Offer the coast for the purpose of ad- Too Low For Fox One report had it that justing the matter and left for Warners had made an San Francisco, Monday, immedi- offer to West Coast for a block of their ately the matter was concluded. houses, but that the B. In the forefront of the confer- W. price had been far under what the Fox execs thought ence, it is said that the musicians reasonable for and stage hands unions were the theatres. The offer is understood represented and used their good to have been made in view of the offices in arbitrating the matter. many reports that the Fox organization is in The show which Macloon is to need of ready money to open with at the Majestic has meet the obligations undertaken the been in rehearsal for a week. A at time Loew’s and great number of principals who M-G-M was acquired by Fox. were in the “Desert Song” will again be seen in the cast of “New Warners are well along in their Moon.” There are to be 68 peo- big screen plans, and it is deemed ple in the cast and no expense highly probable that they will find the is being spared to make it an acquisition of houses an abso- even greater production than was lute necessity when they get into “Desert Song.” the making of the big pictures, as will all other organizations. The production will be followed Also Warners has by one of “Bitter Sweet,” an- gone in for an exceedingly high class of prod- other Broadway musical success, if uct lately, rivaling the plans of the producer mature that turned out by any studio properly. The rehearsals are be- in town, and it is felt that revenue from ing held in Hollywood. George a more or less extensive chain of their Cunningham is staging the num- own houses bers and Lillian Albertson the will be a necessity to guar- antee the book. increased expenses of the better pictures. Principals in of Louis ADELE cast BURIAN the O. Macloon’s production of “New Ceballos To Produce Larry Moon” are as follows: FAIRYLAND WIRED JEWELS MISSING COHEN TRIP Ceballos, producer under Perry Askam, lead; Josephine ON the Warners banner, is the sched- Houston, prima donna; John Mer- uled head of the stage department The Fairyland Theatre, Ana- Jewelry has been flying around kel, Charles Boyle, principal SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9.— which Warners plans to establish, comedian; Myrtis Crinley, Gary heim, owned by W. W. Whitson promiscuously at M-G-M studio it is understood. Larry has been J. C. Cohen, president of the Con- Breckner, Dee Loretta, JJahn has been wired for sound. and accordingly some of it has rated one of the leading stage show producers the Wagner, Eddie Russell, Howard been missing. Fred Niblo re- solidated Amusement Co. of Hono- on coast since Nugent, Wally Phelps, Jerry Ja- he first started knocking ’em dead REOPEN ANAHEIM ported the loss of a diamond and lulu, leaves .this week for a stay rette. with the classy shows he put on sapphire bar pin and Joan Craw- There will be an ensemble of The United Theatre, Anaheim, of four or five weeks in the is- at the W. B. Hollywood house 26 girls and 32 singing men. ford lost her diamond engagement when it first opened, and since he was reopened this week by W. W, lands. Cecil Stewart will be musical ring. has been increasing the reputation conductor of the Sigmund Rom- Whitson. steadily by the dances and ensem- berg score. GEM THEATRE SOLD NEXT AT ORPHEUM bles he has directed for the War- Scenery is being done by George BUY GLENDORA ner pictures, his latest offerings, Bentz, with Robinson painting it. now showing in “The Show of The Gem Theatre here has been “No, No, Nanette’ will follow Opening date is not yet defi- The Mission Theatre in Glen- Shows” at Warners downtown “Hit the into the Orpheum, nitely set, but is planned as either dora was sold by E. L. Frank to sold by H. Schwartz to Paul Deck” house being as smash stuff as has yet seen Jan. 18 or 20. J. A. Lasy. Neuerburg. opening January 23. been on the screen. YOU'LL j TWO INSIDE FACTS OF STAGE AND SCREEN SATURDAY, JAN. 11, 1930 W. B. SHOOTING STARTS SOON INDE FOR COMING “OH, OUTLOOK TIP-TOP CLASS OF SUSANNA” OPENING IS YEAR DARKEST IN HISTORY T WIN RF FEATURE OF LEGIT WEE The consensus of opinion in” such as Paramount, Fox, War- With only six legitimate shows, got away to a splendid start, capa- motion picture circles is that the ners, et al, are not encouraging running, it took a New Year’s" city and near capacity being the independents are through. It is the indes by offering them an out- STANDARD FOR 1 Eve and a holiday to bring the order of the day at the Mayan. believed that with the advent of let for their wares as heretofore. figures up to what would ordinar- the new season there will be no If made on “spec” they will be ily be but an average week. “Diamond Lil” at the Biltmore Warner Brothers, the only studio' longer such a thing as an indepen- bought in at a ridiculous figure attracted which took the usual holiday shut- First week of the big musical $13,500 last week while dent producer nor for that matter, which may or may not allow the down at the end of 1929 and the show, “Oh Susanna,” at the Mayan “That Ferguson Family” playing a state right exchange of any producer his money back. the highlight of the legit beginning of 1930, will be going was ses- its last Week at the President got genuine* importance. How Frozen Out sion, with the coming to town of again within a couple of weeks, a It is monopolized control and mere $5400. Even allowing for The change of conditions and with production probably up to Mae West in “Diamond Lil” for a the mergers that have frozen the _ the holidays, the disparity is sig- the development of the chain the- four pictures by the middle of second matter of importance. little fellow. There are about atre has been the cause of this February. “Oh, Susanna,” an excellent offer- nificant. “The Cat and the Canary” and not sound, as some seem to 32,000 theatres in this country. ing with a wealth of catchy tunes, The first picture due for actual is now current. think. The fact that the inde pro- Perhaps 5000 of them are wired filming is “Viennese Nights,” which The Majestic with “Among the ducer cannot dispose of his prod- for sound. That leaves the vast Alan Crosland will direct with an Married” in its fifth uct to advantage is a deterrent majority yet silent. Sound has week drew elaborate cast of names. This Os- that has shunted off prospective only come to be predominant in $7450, but “Dear Me,” an old- will re- the larger cities. The sticks are car Strauss operetta be picture-makers. Of those made MISS ASTOR TO BO timer at the Hollywood leased under a different title. An- Playhouse, last year, perhaps none of them still silent. Have they gone out other picture is due to follow garnered $5700 and is to give way will bring returns enough to war- of business? Assuredly not for ac- “Viennese Nights” into production to “It Pays to Advertise,” another rant the investment as well as the cording to reports they state busi- shortly after it starts, with only antiquity, next Sunday. responsibility. ness is very good among them. PART 1 SPITE OF the two probably going by the end The Vine St.