The Film Daily (1918)

DAILY Thursday, July 11, 1918 FROM THE NEW YORK COURTS Isadore Cohen Appointed Receiver of Art Dramas, Inc. — Other Legal Actions With the consent of the Art Dramas, Inc., City Court Justice Schmuck has appointed Isadore Cohen receiver of the property of the corporation to recover outstanding claims of $1,600 alleged to be due the corporation, which has no other assets. The appointment of the' receiver was asked for in supplementary proceedings on a judgment for $103 obtained by the Lewis Publishing Co. George H. Wiley, vice-president of the corporation, who testified in the case, said that the corporation was formed two years ago and the stock of one hundred shares was divided between him, Herbert Blache and either W. L. Sherrill or R. L. Giffin, but the stock has had no value. The business was formed as a program concern, to act as clearing house for film manufacturers, he said. Each manufacturer was to pay $300 for each picture put out and each exchange paid $500 for a release, New York contributing 14 per cent, and the remainder of the territory a percentage to make the total of $500. Mr. Wiley said that the U. S. Amusement Co. of Ft. Lee owes $638. Other releases were for the Apollo Pictures, Erbograph Co., and Van Dyke Film Corporation. The business developed slowly, Mr. Wiley said, and only 70 per cent, of the territory was sold. The books are kept at Wiley's present place of business, the Supreme Sales Co. The W. L. Sherrill Co. was in on only one feature. The corporation has a claim of $1,000 against Rotograph Co., which pictured the corporation's features. The Standard Film Co., of Chicago, owes $250 and the Standard Film of Kansas City owes $600. As to recovering the claim against the U. S. Amusement Co., Mr. Wiley said that J. M. Shear of that company can be found. "I understand that the Seligman banking interests are behind him and will come to the rescue if he is sued," said Mr. Wiley. A judgment for $3,082 has been filed in the Supreme Court in a suit of Maurice J. and Jack M. Kraus, trading as M. J. Kraus & Co., against Moses Bijur, treasurer of the Clinical Film Co., and Siegfried Elkan. The complaint alleges that on January 24 last the Clinical Film Co. made a note for $3,000 which it agreed to pay on February 25, and which was secured by 600 shares of its stock. The defendant endorsed the note but when it fell due it went to protest. The defendants did not defend the suit. Pliny P. Craft has filed suit in the Supreme Court against Alfred E. Thomson of 145 West 45th Street for an accounting of a film venture. The plaintiff alleges that prior to June, 1915, he was in close relations with the Honorary Commercial Commission of China then making a tour of the United States, which was anxious to secure motion picture films showing complete pictures of various industries and of other things of interest. The plaintiff had the concession of taking the official motion pictures for the commission and its tour, and after a number of pictures had been taken under the plaintiff's supervision, from which the plaintiff expected to derive large profit, the defendant suggested that they go into equal partnership in the enterprise and they did so. The plaintiff says that after he had spent $4,000 with the consent of the defendant, they decided to suspend the project in 1916 because of the unsettled political conditions in China, but the defendant has refused to pay his share of the expense. Hugh D. Mcintosh Here The Honorable Hugh D. Mcintosh, member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, Australia, and owner of the largest theatrical enterprises there is in New York. He arrived on Tuesday evening and is stopping at the Astor. Mr. Mcintosh is the managing director of Harry Rickard's Tivoli Theatre, Ltd., in Sydney and also a leading spirit in various other places in Sydney. He is here on government business, acting as special representative. He carries with him letters of introduction to President Wilson and Col. House at Washington and after his visit to the capital, he will go to France and England. In Sydney, he owns the "Sydney Times" and the "Daily Mirror," the "Referee," and the "Greenroom." Notes From Indiana Women Operators Are Being Considered in Evansville INDIANAPOLIS.— Women motion pictun operators are considered as ;i possibility at Evansville, Ind. Five of sixteen Evansville operators have been called to the service and all the eleven remaining, except one, are within the draft age. Hobert Johnson, Indianapolis, has filed suit in circuit court against Richard Bruner, asking the appointment of a receiver for the Washington Theatre, 518 Indiana Avenue. Johnson alleges he and Bruner were partners and that Bruner refused to let him share in the profits. The Princess Theatre at Bloomington, Ind., will lie open only three nights a week — Thursday, Friday and Saturday — during the months of July and August. A small child was injured and several other persons had narrow escapes when a motion picture film which was being exhibited at the New Grand Theatre, Crothersville, Ind., caught fire and nearly caused a panic. The fire occurred during the presentation of "The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin." The boy injured was the grandson of George Terrell, manager of the theatre. The New Film Service Company's exchange at Indianapolis is preparing to move its present location at 129^4 West Washington Street to the Wimmer building, Illinois and New York Streets. Metro and Paramount to Clash The Metro N. Y. exchange and the Famous Players-Lasky-Artcraft exchange are to have a baseball battle next Saturday afternoon on the field nf the Lights clubhouse at Freeport, L. I., at 4 P.M. Joseph A. Golden has taken Leah Baird, Charles Hutchinson and other members of his company to Newfoundland for the making of the sea episodes in the Leah Baird serial. Buyers' Lobby Installed An innovation in the new quarters of the house of J. Frank Brockliss, Inc., has been installed by President Sidney Garrett. A visiting buyers' lobby has been furnished completely, both as a rest and conference room, as well as a foreign film journal library. Every motion picture publication, whether published here or abroad, is kept on file for the reference and edification of foreign buyers. Send Your Address Letters held at the office of WID'S DAILY, which will be forwarded on receipt of proper addresses, are addressed to Helen Holmes, Madge Kirkly, David Powell, Francelia BilHngton, Juliet Day, Grace DeCarlton and Ann Murdock. Previously advertised: Alan Forest, George Fisher and Lillian Hamilton. Prints of "Her Moment," the sevenpart dramatic picture starring Anna Luther, have been sent to the General Film exchanges for pre-release showings.