Year book of motion pictures (1925)

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Aug. 25 Important distributors deny block bookings prompt exhibitors to withhold fall purchases. Admit some trouble in Greater New York Famous' profits for first half of 1924 $540,246 under same period of 1923. Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., take over Standard plant, Los Angeles. Theater Owners Dist. Corp. contract for six Criterion Pictures. Joseph M. Schenck coming East to confer with 1st Nat'l on future releases. Reported pact among local exchanges to interchange data denied by S. R. Kent. Fox seeks to restrain Art. Mix Prod, from using that name. Advisory board to assist E. E. Shauer on Paramount foreign sales. Aug. 26 Exhibitors permitted to use old admission tickets until Oct. 1. Time extension means saving in printing costs. T. O. C. C. won't grant operators demanded increase. Boston unsettled. Six hundred seat theater planned for 1558 Broadway, part of 15 story office building. Theater war probable in Ottawa. Aug. 27 Operators and T. O. C. C. deadlocked over fall wage scale. St. Louis unions win; Boston difficulties ironed out. Nat'l Bank of Commerce sees stability in industry. M. J. O'Toole extols service features of M. P. T. O. Resolutions against non-theatrical bookings and enforced extended runs. Pana, 111. gets Sunday sjiows after fifteen year fight. Paramount plans 250 joint runs for "Peter Pan." around Christmas. Coast directors angling for release for their first, "Her Own Money." Aug. 28 A. M. P. A. votes to aid Will H. Hays in eliminating undesirable features in advertising. Strand and Warfield, San Francisco in court over "Yolanda." Rex Ingram's difficulties with Metro-Goldwyn ironed out. Makes next picture abroad. Universal plans 14 Jewels on Spring schedule. Aug. 29 Metro-Goldwyn may get "Romola." Inspiration suing Henry Burton King for alleged breach of contract. Tom North and Max Cohen to make baseball two-reelers. General Vision Co. and United Cinema Service in non-theatrical exchange merger. Aug. 31 Admission taxes for fiscal year $77,712,523, an increase of $7,537,376 over previous 12 months. Chicago salesman finds tough going for independents in the Mid-West. Sees handwriting on the wall. Nine on Authors' League board to judge Zukor award of $10,000 for the author of the best American picture. Ten per cent tax still on in South Carolina. Hopes for action when General Assembly meets in Tanuary. Drastic slash in Fox English force. Sept. 2 Coast budget $137,0fl0,000 for coming year; $72,000,000 for pictures, rest for equipment, new buildings. Gordon Edwards series through Tiffany-Truart. Coast producers reported dickering with Curtis aeronlane people for Garden City, L. I., property as site for studio. One third of Southern Illinois' 260 theaters closed because of idle miners. Conditions serious. Famous Players Canadian Corp., Ltd., may enter theater field in Great Rritain. Court order strikes out $550,000 of Charles Brabin's $583,000 claim against Metro-Goldwyn. Sept. 3 Loew increases admissions five cents at scattered New York houses. Paris rcnorts Srssue Hayakawa rejoins Famous for "The Golden Bed." M. P. Directors' Holding Corp. will not make pictures for Grand-Asher, because of failure to meet financial guarantees. Sept. 4 Move on to unite all exhibitor factions into one committee to handle uniform contract. Robert T. Kane, former Famous production chief may make pictures for Paramount. Famous may eliminate $8,000,000 good-will item to offset criticism. Earnings ample for dividends. July tax returns $6,226,038, increase of $1,086,582 over same month last year. Al Steffes won't run for re-election at Allied States meeting. Future of U. C. I., Italian production outfit, in doubt. May stop production. Sept. 5 Famous Players will have its defense in the Fed eral Trade Commission charges, ready by October. Another spectacle planned by Fairbanks. Hopes it will outdistance "The Thief." iSept. 6 Selznick distributing for state right producers in many territories. Henry King seeks referee to hear testimony in litigation with Inspiration. National Theaters Corp. of California acquires twelve theaters in move to develop large chain. Sept. 8 Warners to build chain of first-run theaters to insure adequate representation. Ten millions for construction. R. A. Rowland returns from Coast optimistic over First National production plans.. Michigan M. P. T. O. cuts dues fifty per cent. Big convention for Saginaw. Universal dickering for services of Max Linder. Joe Brandt says Independents need even break from exhibitors to help them get by. Sept. 9 Cleveland territory divided into 49 sales zones New rules cover first-run bookings there. Famous Players Canadian Corp. buys six theaters in Montreal. Associated Advertising Clubs warn against operations of Paragon Pictures, Los Angeles. Companv reissuing Blackton features. U. F. A. of Berlin opens offices here. Plans to enter American market in definite way. Sept. 10 First National annual meeting to be held in Atlantic City next month. N. L. Nathanson denies F. P. Canadian Corp., will build theaters in England. A. S. Kane to represent Associated Exhibitors on Coast and John S. Woody here. Pathe to handle sales in small towns. W. A. Steffes, here from Minneanolis. predicts Northwest amusement boom. Conditions best in five years, he says. Tury-Metro-Goldwvn. Ltd., formed in England with capital of £200.000. Sept. 11 Selznick going through financial reorganization. $1,239,469 in debts paid off up to Sept. of this vear. Metro-Goldwvn profits from Sept. 1923 to May. 1924 total $686,892. New preferred stock admitted on Stock Exchange. John Jasoer in New York from Hollywood, mav close deal for disposal of Hollywood Studios. October designated as "Eschmann Month" by First National. Cash prizes of $8,000 for winning exchanges Seot. 12 Decision in the Federal Trade Commission's action apainst Famous will probably not be made before 1925. Sept. 13 T. M. P. P. D. A. considering own exchanges in territories state righters now find closed. German theater owners alarmed over "American invasion." Oppose importations during 1925. Eastman will contest Federal Trade Commission decision that they desist certain practices in raw stock manufacture. (Additional headlines of the vear will be found elswhere. See index.) 563