Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1919)

EXHIBITORS HERALD Arthur James presents: His Majesty, The Prince of Wales. * * * A. J. is far from a royalist but we understand he was very gracious to the distinguished visitor, the visitor in turn letting it be known to the whole wide world that he enjoyed his visit to William Fox's Academy of Music. ♦ j(t ♦ Tom Ince did permit the King of the Belgil'ms to look in on the Goldwyn studios. As Will Rogers put it the Belgium monarch went through the Goldwyn plant so rapidly that Bull Montana could have doubled for him and no one would have noticed the difference. But all Arthur James did was to allow the others to work in the mob scene outside the Academy of Music. * * * Fred J. Herrington, all worked up over the ills of the business, stopped in Chicago this week en route to the West to continue his Paul Revere. When Adolph Zukor steps into Los Angeles it means a gathering of the clans in the Alexandria Hotel lobby. When A. Z. is in town everybody that's anybody in pictures just seems to sort of drop in to see what's going on. ♦ # ♦ According to the news Sid Grauman is going to answer Sam Rothapfel's entrance to Los Angeles by taking a fling at Roxy's old stamping ground — Broadway, N. Y. Everybody seems to be out after a circuit or chain. Before long you may hear of some of them asking to trade their chain for a life-line. * * * Eva Tan quay arrives in L. A. with a bang and the echo from exhibitors says, "I don't ." ♦ ♦ ♦ F. B. Warren, vice-president of the W. W. Hodkinson corporation, the man who is making "Gross" look like a new word for certain producers, made a hurried trip to Chicago over the past week-end. Albert E. Smith, president of Vitagraph, made a brief visit to Chicago on his way to the West Coast. T. D. Bonniville, who was with the Division of Films in the capacity of Director of Publicity and Advertising, has accepted the office of manager of publicity and New York representative of Grossman Pictures, Inc. Anita Loos, of the John Emerson-Anita Loos Productions, has submitted to a throat operation which will necessitate her retirement from active work for a brief period. * * * Douglas Fairbanks has engaged Carlyle R. Robinson as director of publicity and advertising for the Fairbanks organization. He has had a wide experience in motion pictures and recently returned from a trip to England with Sydney Chaplin. Mr. and -Mrs. Edgar Lewis left for California on Tuesday, November 25. Mr. Lewis expects to purchase an estate in California and make their permanent home there. He will produce his future productions in the West. H. C. Cornelius is at present spending a vacation at his home in Grand Rapids, Mich., and will leave shortly after the first of the vear for the Pacific Coast. Arthur S. Hyman will leave for New York this week to assist in the formation of a new national distributing organization, made up of independent exchanges representing every territory in the United States. Robert Anderson of Universal sailed for Nyborg, Denmark on Saturday. Carl E. Wallen of the International Film Service sailed for Europe on Tuesday en route to Turkey. * * * James Young who directed Norma Talmadge in "A Daughter of Two Worlds" for the First National has left for California. Mary Pickford and her mother paid Chicago a brief visit Sunday, November 23, stopping over on her way to the West coast. JAZZ By G. S. C. Nominations in Order — Now is the time for some convincing gent to come forward and get the industry on the preferred list. 'Member fuelless Mondays — no six day week for the pictures. The Lather of Fame — A convention of college women in our city voted to begin a campaign to purify the pictures. If they succeed in their object Ivory soap may be jarred from its pedestal. Another Heart Throb — One of the film companies this week took a "shot" of a dog's heart beating. Inside stuff, wot? Pome for the Week — A reformer is a funny bird He sets the world askew. But we can't think of an easier graft. We really can't, can you? Answers to Correspondents: Horace: No, Captain Perry's discovery of the North Pole was not produced in the films. The Cap'n wasn't sure he was going to discover it. May B. Yes, we agree with you.. If you write enough scenarios, sell enough of them and get enough for them, the venture will be profitable enough. Diplomatic Note — "Convention calls O'Brien back," reads a headline. Well, that's the only thing even a convention can safely call an Irishman. Booked SolidIntervention again looms up as a panacea for what ails Mexico. 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