The Film Daily (1918)

Monday, December 30, 1918 # >AIUV fol. VI No. 82. Monday, December 30, 1918 Price 5 Cents Copyright 1918, Wid's Film and Film Folki. Inc. Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. by WID'S FILMS and FILM rOLKS, Inc. F. C. ("WID") GUNNING President and Treasurer LYNDE DENIG, Editor Entered as second-class matter May 21, 1918, •t the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States, Outside •f Greater New York, $10.00 one year: 6 ■lanths, J5.00; 3 months. $3.00. Foreign $20.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communications to WTD'S DAILY, 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. Telephone : Vanderbilt 4551-2 CUTS AND FLASHES Minneapolis. — H. E. Elliman has concluded negotiations for the purchase of the Shaefer Film Laboratories. J. I. Schnitzer, general manager of the Universal Exchanges in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo is in town, stopping at the Knickerbocker. Watterson R. Rothacker has presented each of his employees with an insurance policy on which he will pay the premium while they remain in his employ. Louis Seel, formerly of Hulette, Nash and Seel, has. opened his new office at 367 Wadsworth Ave., where he will ai before specialize in animated film specialties. Capt. Bud Fisher, the cartoonist, (Mutt and Jeff), has just completed his first photoplay, a comedy of errors, entitled "The Adventure Shop", for Vitagraph. The comedy is issued as a Star Series release, with Corinne Griffith in the stellar role. Kenneth Webb directed. According to "Popular Science" a hand electric generator with which motion pictures up to eight or ten feet wide can be given, has been devised. A projector uses slow-burning film, so that it can be used anywhere without the booth or insurance restriction. The entire outfit weighs only 97 pounds. Universal has purchased from the Argosy Film Co., the negatives of "The Craving" featuring Francis Ford, and Grace Cunard's post-war drama "After the War." They will be released the second week of January. The Cunard feature being made a Universal Special Attraction. North v Notes Although th rrence of the epidemic of ii i began about December io in Seattle attendance at the theaters was not affected until the week before Christmas, when nearly all motion picture houses reported a falling off in attendance that they could explain only as due to the fear of the disease. One or two theaters that had unusually strong shows reported business as good as usual at this time of the year and even a little better. The number of new cases and deaths due to influenza are declining. Authorities are taking no steps to enforce restrictions on public assemblies. Joe Baum, salesman for Universal in the Seattle territory, died of influenza in a Seattle hospital on December 17. Mr. Baum's brother, Sol. Northwest manager for Universal, with headquarters in Portland, Oregon, was with him at the time of his death. John Danz, who operates the Colonial and Star theaters of Seattle, is ill with influenza and his entire family has been stricken with the disease. The De Luxe Feature Film Co. of Seattle has obtained the Northwest rights to "Mickey" and the new Warner special, "The Kaiser's Finish". The Greater Features Co. of Seattle is rushing the European print of the German Fleet Surrender, made by the Gaumont Company, to all its exhibitors in the Pacific Northwest. Onarter pa^e ads were used by the Clemmer theater in announcing this "scoop" to its patrons of Seattle. A. W. Eden, until this week manager of the Northwest territory for Fox, has resigned to take charge of the Seattle Select office. K. L. Burke, for the past six months salesman out of the Seattle Fox office, has been appointed manager. B. R. Kellar, in charge of the booking department at the Fox office, has been given a similar position in the San Francisco office. H. H. BrowneH has been placed in charge of the Seattle Mutual office. Mr. Brownell comes from the Portland office, where he was manager. L. Wingham formerly of Los Angeles, i<5 the new manger of the Portland office. Ted Johnson formerly salesman for Metro out of Salt Lake, has been engaged to work out of the Seattle Mutual office. ^1 ^mSBmuBBB^^ Who is Yvonne Delva to appear in Leone Perret's "The 13th Chair" as advertised on the electric sign at Broadway and 46th Street? New House in Minneapolis. Rumors are current concerning the erection of a new tTieater in Minneapolis to have a seating capacity of 3000. The names of several large chaintheater owners are coupled in this connection. New Companies Battle Creek, Mich. — Auditorium Amusement Co. Cleveland. — S. & S. Theater Co., $50,000, Geo. T. Sharp and James E. Scovill. Pittsburg. — Perry Amusement Co., $5,000 Frank S. Niegel, F. F. Patterson, M. H. Graham. Wilmington, Del.— Ginns Theater Co., to conduct places of amusement ol all kinds; capital $50,000; incorporators, Elias Wetstein, Wilmington, Del., Robert S. Ginns, Philadelphia. Cleveland. — Gordon Square Theater Co., capital $10000; incorporators, James E. Scoville, Geo. T. Sharp. New Philadelphia Exchange Philadelphia — The Superior Film Exchange, Inc., is the name of a new organization formed by exhibitors here. The exchange will be run on a co-operative booking basis and it is announced that they will secure about 200 theaters in Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. "Carmen of the Klondike" will be the first release. "Eye for Eye" Going Strong. The new Nazimova production "Eye for Eye" is going strong with the exhibitors all over the country. Metro reports, that over eighty first run theaters have booked the film for snecial runs. It is claimed that the film has secured for them many exhibitors who have never shows Metro releases before.