The Film Daily (1918)

Thursday, July 11, 1918 Published Every Hay in the Tear at West 44th St.. New York. N. Y. By Wins FILMS & FILM FOLK, Inc. F. C. ("WID") GUNNING President and Treasurer LYNDE DEXIG, Editor 1 : lit. red 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: Yanderbilt 4551 — 2 Cuts and Flashes J. Hesscr Walravcn is in Baltimore in the interests of the Paralta Company. Lieut. Earle Metcalf, former Lubin star, writes from France that he is well and happy. Distribution Manager Rork of the H:i worth Pictures Corporation, has started on a tour of the south on behalf of Hayakawa productions. Herman Rifkin, of the Eastern Feature Film Company, Inc., will be in New York during the latter part of this week to buy feature productions. The Quality Film Service of Pittsburgh has bought the Jester Comedies for Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. "Your Fighting Navy at Work and at Play," Educational's picture, has been completed and a print of it is now in New York. It took six months to complete. Mary Boland has just completed a picture for Bacon and Backer, according to Chamberlain Brown, who adds that Carl Hyson, of "Rock-a-Bye Baby" is to enter the screen game. Sergeant Raymond McKee, who starred in "The Unbeliever," is in town. He has been assigned to special picture work for the Government. Private Dick Hyde, who was one of tbe most popular boys in the film game around Toronto, and who enlisted in the Canadian Army three years ago, writes "Mickey" Lubin that he is well and is still hammering away at the Huns. FILM MEN & UNDERWORLD BLAMED Funkhouser Testifies That Picture Interests and Underworld Plotted to Oust Him I CAGO— Declaring that the motion picture interests and the underworld are responsible for the attempt to oust him as Second Deputy, Major M. L. C. Funkhouser, suspended, and charged with inefficiency, disobedience of orders, neglect of duty and a few other things, took the stand again on Monday. The statement, made under oath, came as an outburst during a tilt between attorneys before the civil service commission, over the admissability of extended testimony concerning his conduct of the moving picture censorship. "Did you ever receive complaints concerning permits that you denied?" attorney Vincent Wyman asked the second deputy. "Plenty of them." the Major replied. "That's what started all this fight — the moving picture interests and the vice interests trying to get me out of office." Testimony concerning the permit denied "The Spirit of 76" was intro duced and other pictures were to have been brought in but Charles Frazier, president of the commission, halted it. 'The question of censorship doesn't enter into this case except in a small way covered by charges of | violation of the ordinance," he said. I Funkhouser, later in the day, also j testified as to the charge of permit 1 ting the selling of stock in a motion pic i ture venture in the censor's room. The j Major replied: "An operator named I Walley came to me and asked for | permission to experiment with a pat I ent he was working on for an hour or I two, one or two nights a week after working hours. That was the last I heard of it until this trial. They say I he was selling stock, but that's all 1 news to me." The matter of shadowing private ! citizens also came up again in regard | to a missing report. It is said this person is not connected with t^e vice world but is in reality an attorney connected with the publishing business and in the battle to eliminate one-man i censorship in Chicago. Big Bill Steiner, of Jester Comedies, contemplates "looping" the country again. It will be his fourth trip in three months. Louise Huff has started on her second World production. The script was originally called "The Song of the Heart." but the title has been changed to "The Sea Waif." Many of the scenes of this production will be taken at Manasquam, N. J. The Arrow Film Corporation is publishing the "Arrow Bulletin" with the statement that it is for the benefit of state right buyers. The bulletin gives a short talk on the various pictures the corporation controls and also the recent sales made. On the last page is a complete list of pictures, the name of the star and the advertising material. Irvin V. Willat. formerly chief cameraman with Tom Ince, and later one of the directors of the same organization, is expected in the East this week. It is reported that he will be in Washington in some governmental capacity. A clean clean house profit. show+a —a clean Tom J. Geraghty has been engaged by Frank Powell to write the continuity for a feature, starring House Peters. The story is a screen adaptation of a novel of the border by Louis Dodge. The Powell-Geraghty story will be "shot" in and around San Antonio. The first release of Plaza Pictures recently announced by W. W. Hodkinson Corporation, will be "Petticoats and Politics," starring Anita King. Films Not Included It was officially announced yesterday at the Custom House that the ruling placing celluloid on the conservation list do«s not include motion picture films and that films intended for export are therefore unaffected by it. Officials have not yet heard of the order regarding licenses bat it is expected that aniaouncement of it will be made shortly.