The Film Daily (1918)

Saturday, July 13, 1918 TS&ljA DAILY afcBBADSTREET of FILMDOM woman M Published Everv Day in the Yenr at 71-7.", Wesl lltli St.. New York. X. Y. By \YID-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, X. Y. Telephone: Vanderbilt 4551—2 Cuts and Flashes < harlcs R. Rogers, Select's Boston manager, was in town yesterday. Sam B. Hardy has signed with Bacon and Backer through Chamberlain Brown. Pearl White started yesterday on her new serial, "The Lightning Raider" in the Astra studio. The Associated Motion Picture Advertisers are soon to launch a campaign for members. The Portola theatre, San Francisco, used about fifty large bill boards recently to advertise Alice Brady in "The Ordeal of Rosetta." MOVE TO DELAY ELECTION BEATEN N. A. VI. P. I. Decides To Go Through With the Boston Election — Hrady Not a Candidate At an executive committee meeting of the X. A. M. P. I., held at the Hotel Astor yesterday, it was decided to hold the election of the Association in Boston on Friday of next week. A resolution was made and voted down to postpone the election in Boston and hold it in New York at a later date, \nother resolution which was passed was that all of the manufacturers present would send their stars to Boston for the Exhibitors' ue Ball next Friday night. A special train will leave here Friday afternoon to carry the stars to on. The members of the N. A. M. P. I. are to leave Xew York in time to be present at a banquet on Thursday night at which T. P. O'Connor, head of the British Government's Film Commission is to be ashed to be the guest of honor. William A. Brady, it is understood, stated at the meeting yesterday that he would not again be a candidate for the office of president of the N. A. M. P. I. and it was rather generally coni i ded among those present that William Fox is the most likely man to fill the office. This was stated rather publicly after the meeting. \' the Fox office neither Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheehan nor Mr. Zanft could be reached yesterday and there was no one else present to talk for the head of the firm. Alice Brady is on location at Babylon, Long Island. She is working on her picture to follow "The Death Dance." J. Searle Dawley is directins. Universal Clambake Today The office and sales force of Universal will hold a clam hake at College Point today. The entire staffs of the various Universal companies in New York will be on the scene. L. William O'Connor, formerly cameraman for J. Stuart Blackton, is now enrolled in the School of Military Cinematography, Signal Corps, Columbia University. Marion Davies is completing "The Burden of Proof" at the 48th Street studios under Tulius Steger's direction. John Merkyle and L. Rogers I.yiton are in the cast. It will be her second Select. "Bill's Budget." a scries of stereopticon slides are being released through the General Film Company. These slides, which are hooked the same as film, consisl of a dozen jokes, monologues and 'epigrams. In a recent report, Sidney Garrett was erroneously mentioned as an incorporator in the K. W. S. Distributing Company. This company was incorporated by Edwin E. Wolf and Mr. Garrett is not connected with the organization. Called a Swindle Buyer of Worthless Stock Is Awarded Judgment The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has decided that Joseph X. ( ohen, a young man who had $20,000 he didn't know what to do with, and wdio was induced to invest it in stock of the Globe Co-operative Film Co., which was to produce a South American hunting picture that would compare favorably with Paul Rainey's African picture, is entitled to a judgment against Martin C. Wright, a broker's clerk, who sold him the stock. The court, however, decided that Charles B. Toole, the broker in the transaction, who employed Wright, is entitled to a new trial as to the judgment against him because certain evidence in the case wdiich was proper as against Wright, was prejudicial as against Toole. Concerning the film ipany the court said: "The company was a mere paper corporation, it neither controlled nor had any option on the picture it exhibited to the plaintiff, and in fact the wh ile transaction was a very common, swindle." George J. Schade, owner of the Schade Theatre of Sandusky, Ohio, put over "The Venus Model," Goldwyn production, for his theatre in good form with a swimming contest and a cup donated by Mable Xormand, the Mable Xormand Venus Model Cup. Don't forget your credentials when you go to Boston. Some folks weren't very welcome at Chicago last year. M. Ramirez-Torres, head of the trio department of Bathe, is on ay to the Coast to join Ferdinand Zecca, director-general of productions. He will be away several wi eks.