Year book of motion pictures (1925)

April 7 Summer releases to total about 90 pictures. Cleveland arbitration board tries 107 cases from May to December, 1923. Joe Brandt, back from trip, pessimistic over future of independent producer. Carl Laemmle, here from Coast, predicts new season will be Universal's best. April 8 Distributing beads, at Astor dinner discuss combines of exhibitors and booking circuits. Conditions facing industry said to be serious Oscar Neufeld at I. M. P. P. D. A. luncheon suggests state right exchangemen form organization and get Hays to lead it. Coast convention planned for Warner franchise holders. No change in distribution for next season. Kloyd Brockell joins Balaban and Katz, Chicago. Sam Katz denies report of booking combine to embrace him, Lubliner and Trinz and Ascher Bros. April 9 Famous Players to make 70 pictures for 1 9241925. Plan to sell first group in block of forty. I. M. P. P. D. A. members to discuss Neufeld plan for state right organization at near meeting. K. A. Eschmann, First National, says summer slump could be warded off if distributors did not hold good pictures for fall release April 10 Censorship in New York will probably continue or another year. Repeal measures have slight nope of passage. Twenty-one PicMord-Artcraft films to be divided between Mary and Famous. Complete rights go with each. Important exhibitor leaders bold Chicago meeting to discuss plans for possible new national organization. April 11 Ten M P. T O units to form "Allied State Organizations. Will probably work in harmony with Hays office. Outgrowth of French Lick meeting. Hoof and mouth epidemic among animals holding up Coast production. First National to distribute Rockett's "Abraham Lincoln. Deal calls for $100,000 exploitation campaign. Censorship stands for another year. Long fight to pass Walker repealer ends when defeated in Assembly after passing Senate c . AP"1 12 Speculation over status of M P T O A in Chicago'0"™''0" °f A"ied St3te Organizations • I5.dU!tri^ S'ump in North Carolina causes d op in theater business. English inventor claims perfection of radio S£ reS ° Fr\"C,S Jenkins an American at work on same scheme. ,. _. , April 14 Mary Pickford and Famous Players divide Art vv n T.' Ma7 getS, e,even and Famous, ten. Wall Street Journal survey of industry placed Pictures in seventh place among industrial leaders Seven Paramount foreign managers here to attend sales conventions. Japan reported rehopeful earthquake; Central Europe looks April IS Hugh Mcintosh, wealthy Australian to make pictures showing British ideals. Exnlains plans r fV'^Jn ' prlor to sail'ng for Europe with J. D. Williams. Frank Rembusch, explains Allied State Organizations were formed to keep distribution out of exhibitor affairs. More states to join Supreme Court in Ohio .considering "blue law regulations. Decision expected soon Hal Roach has four features on new schedule Comedy list totals 104. April 16 Fifty exhibitors co-operating with Famous Players in effective check-up on story and player values. Joe Engel may produce for Metro. Mack Sennett in new deal with Pathe. To make 42 two reelers. E. V. Richards aroused over reported star combination to build theaters. Gives some straightfrom-thc shoulder data about existing conditions. Arthur S. Kane, back from coast, says sanity has returned in production. April 17 Metro takes over Goldwyn and forms MetroC.oldwyn Corp. Louis B. Mayer to handle all production. Capitol, New York ; California, Los Angeles and Ascher Chicago circuit included. Cosmopolitan to distribute through new company. New unit will issue $5,000,000 in preferred stock. France making determined try for mark in world's production forces. Historical series un der way, with leading celebrities in collaboration. 1 5ii April 18 French and German film men discuss reciprocity in films at Paris dinner. After Mae Murray completes "Circe" for Metro, she will make her own for Metro release. Thirty -five extended runs of "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon" at $1.50 top. Start Monday. April 19 No change in Metro-Goldwyn foreign organizations planned at present. The Capitol, new London house secured by A. H. Woods and Ben Blumenthal. To be operated along American lines. Kunsky theaters to run only big pictures in the summer, as move to hold patronage. H. B. Varner tells of development of exhibitor combines and why. Wall Street Journal survey indicates a steadying influence in industry. April 21 Federal Trade Commission decision branding Eastman Kodak, Allied Laboratories and Jules E. Brulatour a monopoly to be contested in court by Eastman. Allied to fo'Iow Government dictum. First National to release 52 next year. Harry Rapt to make three for Metro-Goldwyn. Detailed production plans announced. Production in England at low ebb. April 22 F B O. to release three Ideal Films (British) here. ' . M Jackie Coogan's last for Metro under present contract, "Dirty Hands." Emmett Flynn to film "The Houseboat on the Styx'' and "The Pursuit of the Houseboat." April 23 A highlight of Metro-Goldwyn combination to be Mae Murray in "The Merry Widow." League of American Pen Women hold conference in Washington. Many scenario editors attend. Murray Garsson to make several series for Associated Exhibitors. . Henry M. Hobart elected president of Distinctive. April 24 Balaban and Katz in deal with Mid West Theaters, Inc. Joint corporation formed with Floyd Brockwell in charge of film buys. SmallStraseberg circuit of Brooklyn theaters negotiating for Suozzo chain in Queens. Fourteen houses involved. Salesmen insurance planned by Paramount under provisions of newly-formed 100 Per Cent Club. Salesmen council to advise home office at annual session. April 25 Exhibitor leaders in Washington seek to have music tax removed through new legislation. Joseph Aller and Isaac Pacht plan 12 story exchange building for Los Angeles. M. P. T. O. meeting in Boston Tuesday to discuss convention arrangements. D. W. Griffith seeks $571,696 in damages from Al Jolson, alleging breach of contract. April 26 Oscar Cooper, banker, interested in film loans, leaves Guaranty Trust to join Shearson, Hammill and Co. 556