The Film Daily (1918)

Friday, July 12, 1918 DAILY Published Every Day in the Tear at 71-7.H West 44th St., New York, N. T. By WID'S FILMS & FILM FOLK, Inc. F. C. ("WID") GUNNING President and Treasurer LYNDE DBNIG, Editor Entered at New York Post Office as Secondclass Matter • Terms (Postage free) United States, Outside of Greater New York, $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 .months, $3.00. Foreign, $20.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communications to WID'S DAILY, 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. Telephone: Vanderbilt 4551—2 Guts and Flashes "Lafayette, We Come," will be completed Saturday. The second release of the Plaza Pictures will be "Angel Child," with Kathleen Clifford. Walter Abell, who appeared with Anita Stewart in "Mind the Paint, Girl," is playing with Marguerite Clark in "Out of a Clear Sky." Army photographers were on the scene yesterday to take pictures of the Mayor Mitchel funeral cortege on Fifth Avenue. Thomas D. Soriero, manager of the Park Theatre, Boston, and of the Strand, Lowell, is in New York for a few days. The first Douglass natural color picture will arrive in New York in a few days. It is "Cupid Angling," and features Ruth Roland. The Cinema, Los Angeles, played it all last week. Crest Picture's new feature, "En L'Air," with Lieut. Bert Hall and Edith Day, will be started at Ithaca tomorrow where the aviation scenes will be taken. The Kozy Theatre, Paducah, Ky., under the management of Rodney Davis, has been re-open»d, following the completion of many improvements in the building. "Hearts of the World," which moved into the Colonial Theatre, Chicago, where Griffith's former cinema masterpiece, "Birth of a Nation," had such a remarkable run, bids fair to make a longer stay at this popular hO'ise than the "Birth" p'cturo. SECOND GOVERNMENT FEATURE "America's Answer" To Be Presented At The Cohan Theatre, July 29 The second of the U. S. Government feature films is almost ready for showing to the public. The Committee on Public Information through its Division of Films under the direction of Charles Hart will exploit the picture. The Cohan Theatre has been secured in New York for the run of the feature here and it will be shown for the first time July 29. The picture is entitled "America's Answer," and is practically a follow up of "Pershing's Crusaders," and will show in a comprehensive manner the work that has been done by our Army in France, as well as the strides in preparation to carry the war through to a successful conclusion that have been made in this country. Fred Zwifel, formerly with "The Birth of a Nation," and Willard Coxey will handle the New York presentation for the Division of Films, according to yesterday's announcement. Elliott Dexter and Theodore Roberts have been chosen to fill the principal roles in support of Ethel Clayton in her first Paramount picture, an adaptation of the play, "Leah Kleschna." The Associated Motion Picture Advertisers, at their meeting yesterday, passed a vote of thanks to the "Moving Picture World" for the section devoted to that branch of the industry by the publication. Alice Joyce, working under direction of Tom Terriss, and Harry Morey and Betty Blythe, directed by Paul Scardon, will start work on new pictures at the Vitagraph Eastern studio this week. The regular meeting of Film Exporters of America, Inc., scheduled for yesterday in the Yacht Room of the Astor was not held because of the fact that David P. Howells, temporary chairman of the body, had not returned from Washington. Jack Levy, .who for some time has been connected with the New York exchange of the Fox Film Corporation, has been appointed manager of the Fox exchange in Philadelphia, to succeed George Dembow, who has volunteered for the army. Remember that a convincing salesman does not necessarily mean a' convincing picture. Sullivan Resigns Assistant General Manager of Mutual Leaves This Week Denis J. Sullivan, Assistant General Manager of the Mutual Film Corporation, has tendered his resignation, to take effect July 13, and no successor has as yet been named for the position. Mr. Sullivan has been affiliated with Mutual for four years, having started in the Milwaukee office as salesman. Previous to that he was identified with the exploitation of serials and played a prominent part in the selling end of the "Million Dollar Mystery." He was, before his entrance into the picture business, connected with the executive selling board of the American Tobacco Company. Light Entertainment Pathe's program for the remainder of July and for August will be composed of light entertainment. The bst is comprised for the most part of comedies, but there are also two dramas. The program includes "Annexing Bill," with Gladys Hulette and Creighton Hale; "More Trouble," with Frank K^enan: "Cupid by Proxy," with Baby Marie Osborne; "The First Law," with Irene Castle and Antonio Moreno; "Waifs, "t with Gladys Hulette and Creighton Hale; "The Ghost of the Rancho," with Bryant Washburn and Rhea Mitchell; "Winning Grandma." with Baby Marie Osborne, and "The Girl from Bohemia," with Irene Castle. The Vitagraph Blue Ribbon feature, scheduled for August 5, starring Harry Morey, supported by Betty Blythe, lias been titled "All Man." It was adapted from "Fiddler's Green," a "Saturday Evening Post" story. An O. Henry picture to be issued August 19 will be called "The Changing Woman."