Exhibitors Herald (Jun-Dec 1917)

1 E X H I B I TORS • HERALD] Over The Top 99 J. B. FIRST PRODUCTION PETROVA PICTURES PUBLISHED DEC. 23. New York, Dec. 4. Mat. M. Feely, the well-known film broker, met with a very serious accident at the fire at Parkway Baths, Coney Island, on Thanksgiving day. Mr. Feely was caught in a jam of people, who were crowed inside the fire lines, and before he could extricate himself from the crowd, the crossarm of a falling telegraph pole struck him, breaking his arm and knocking him unconscious. He was taken to the Coney Island Hospital and later to his home. * * * All agree that Jack Meador is the biggest publicity man in the industry. Ya! bo! six feet four, (liquid measure.) * * * Harry Palmer, the well-known cartoonist, has shelved his animated cartoons and is now making inanimate, talking pictures. That is the money talks and Harry will inanimate you for so many iron men per each. * * * Arthur Lang observes that lots of our movie stars, and smaller fry, are wearing "Glengarries" these days for the military effect, but he also wonders why they cover their pedal extremities with such heavy woolen socks. * * * A. J. Rodent, the moving picture actor, brought suit in the Municipal Court to recover $950, alleging breach of contract. He lost his case and had to pay the costs. This must be "Rough on Rats." * * * That hilarity heard last week in the region of Times Square was not, as is generally supposed, the cracking of one of Frank Hall's jokes, but was the unrestrained laughter of the audience at the Stanley Theatre, when they saw Harry Poppe, the well known press agent of the Rolfe studios, doing a bit of acting in a comedy called, "A Quiet Afternoon." Harry played without a net. * * * "By industry we thrive," cheerfully remarked Earnest Shipman, the other day. And well he might say this for that hive Df industry of his over on Forty-fourth street certainly has taken on a burst of speed during the past two weeks. Might be appropriate to hang a sign on the door reading, "Line forms on the right." * * * Suggest that a bill be put through the legislature prohibiting the use of the personal pronoun by the higher-ups of the big producing companies. To read some of the press stuff one would believe that the President or the General Manager was for sale instead of the pictures or the star. Make the fine a dollar per "I." * * * Du Barry, late Studio Directory, late B. Board, now signed up with Amusements. As Bill would say, "A setting hen, never grows fat." * * * Ed Corbett, whose press work is re sponsible for the success of more thespians in the good old days of Daly's Theatre than was any other one press agent, is now the publicity director for Hiller & Wilk, shaping the destiny of "Raffles." * * * Head line reads: "Mae Murray saved by a hair." Well, 'tis well to be saved, even by a hair, so long as you have an idea what you are saved for. Mae was saved for Bluebird's "The Eternal Columbine." Nature has been much more generous to Mae than to Ray as regards hair. If he ever started to fall you would have to grab him with ice tongs. A Chinese poodle has nothing on Ray. * * * Harold Edel, Managing Director of the Strand Theatre, gave his annual benefit for the Seaside Home for Crippled Children, Friday morning, at which affair the big theatre held one of the largest audiences of prominent New Yorkers since the opening of this pioneer motion picture palace. For this event a special program was arranged under Mr. Edel's personal direction. Good work, Harry, sav we. "Daughter of Destiny" Billed for Rialto Theatre N. Y.— Second Film Finished "Daughter of Destiny" the first of eight pictures in which Madame Petrova will star has been set for publication on December 23. On this date the Petrova Picture Company film will be shown at the Rialto Theatre, New York, and also in motion picture nouses throughout the country. The delay in the publication of "Daughter of Destiny" followed a conference between the executives of the Petrova organization and the First National Exhibitors' Circuit through the offices of which the Petrova productions will be issued. It was then decided to withhold the film until all of the exchanges were in active operation. Madame Petrova has since finished her second production, the title for which has not as yet been chosen, and has started on the third of her eight pictures to be completed in a year's time. Although December 23 will be the first public showing of "Daughter of Destiny" one audience has already viewed the picture. It was composed of the inmates of Sing Sing prison. The showing took place on Thanksgiving night and was at the request of E. K. Meagher, chairman of the Mutual Welfare League of Sing Sing prison. CARMEL MYERS, BLUEBIRD STAR MISS MYERS WILL APPEAR AS FEMININE LEAD IN THE SCREEN VERSION M S -ofc edmund WALK'S NOVEL "THE GREEN SEAL." (Bluebird) CHAS. 23