Year book of motion pictures (1925)

NATIONAL MOTION PICTURE LEAGUE 100 Broadway. Pres., Adele F. Woodward ; Viee-Pres., Daniel C. Heard; Vice-Pres., Dr. W. I. Ettinger; Vice-Pres., P. S. Mortensen ; Secretary, Mrs. Irving Crane; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Lillian M. McClintic ; Treas., Lee K. Frankel. Hoard o{ Directors: Mrs. Maude J. Baldwin, International Sunday School; Mrs. T. W. Barnes, Associate Editor Sunday School publication, Methodist Episcopal Church; Mrs. Dwight E, liartlett; George Gordon Battle; Daniel Carter Beard, National Scout Committee, Boy Scouts of America; Miss Bernice W. Bell, Public Library, Louisville, Ky. ; George A. Bellamy, Hiram House, Cleveland, O.; E. E. Bogart, Prin eipal Morris High School, N. Y. City; Mrs. E. E. Bogart; Mrs. Sidney C. Borg, Jewish Big Sisters; Dwight E. Breed, Texas Public Health Assn.; C. C. Carstens, Child Welfare League of America; Mrs. J. W. Chivers, Child Welfare Assn., Helena, Montana; Hon. Thomas W. Churchill, Former President New York City Board of Education; Dr. Ernest L. Crandall, Director of Lectures, New York City Board of Education ; Mrs. Irving Crane, Minerva Club, New York City; Grafton D. Cushing, S. P. C. C, Boston, Mass. ; Prof. Wm. H. Dudley, University of Wisconsin; Mrs. W. C. Eakins, Board of Education, Arlington, N. J.; Ernest D. Easton, New Jersey Tuberculosis League; Jacob S. Eisinger, University Settlement, New York City; Dr. William L. Ettinger, former Supertintendent of Public Schools, New York City; Dr. Lee K. Frankel, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. ; Mrs. A. H. Harriman, Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachcr Assn., New Hampshire; Mrs. J. Harrison Irvine. Carnegie Hall, New York ; Mrs. Frank E. Jennings, Parent Teacher Assn., Florida; A. W. Jones. Jr., St. Louis Tuberculosis Society; Dudley Grant Hayes, Board of Education, Chicago. 111. ; Mrs. Walter F. Jones; Mrs. F. J. Kane, ParentTeacher Assn., Portland, Ore.; Mrs. V. H. Kriegshaber, Parent-Teacher Assn., Atlanta. Ga.; Mrs. Herman Landauer; Dr. Milton S. Littlefield. Union Evangelical Church, Corona, L. I. ; Miss Bessie Locke, National Kindergarten Association; Owen R. Lovejoy, National Child Labor Committee; Wm. McAndrew, Superintendent, Chicago Public Schools; Bleeker Marquette, Cincinnati Better Housing League; James Minnick, Chicago Tuberculosis Institute ; Frank C Meyers, New York City Child Welfare Committee; Peter A. Mortensen, Former Supt. of Public Schools. Chicago. 111.; Lillian M. McClintic; Prof. M. V. O'Shea, University of Wisconsin; Mrs. Robert S. Phifer, Mississippi Tuberculosis Assn. ; Miss Teresa O'Donohue. League of Catholic Women; Wilfred S. Reynolds; Mrs. Frederick Schoff. Hon. President Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Assn. ; Timothy H. Shea, Republican State Committee, Wis. ; Mrs. Clinton B. Smith, New York State Federation of Women's Clubs; F. Wade Smith, Pastor M. E. Church, Oberlin, O. ; Dr. William F. Snow, American Social Hygiene Assn. ; Mrs. Henry Solomon ; Gustav Straubenmuller, Board of Education, New York City; John Tombs, Mrs. E. P. Wanzer; Dakota Public Health Assn.; Adele F. Woodward. FILM MUTUAL BENEFIT BUREAU Publishers of the FILM BULLETIN. Location Bureau and Special Exploitation Office, 4 W. 40th St., New York, Telephone Longacre 9122. Operated for the benefit of The New York Travellers' Aid Society and Association d'Hygiene Sociale de l'Aisne. Chairman, Miss Elizabeth Perkins; First Vice Chairman, Mrs. John Corbin; Second Vice Chair man. Miss Anne Morgan; Secretary, Miss Enid Yandell ; Assistant Treasurei, Miss Alice Fairbrother; Executive Secretary, Miss Sophie Smith; Executive Committee: Mrs. Gordon Knox Bell, Mrs. Harris Childs, Mrs. James Larkin, Mrs. Victor Morawetz, Mrs. Frederic Peterson, Mrs. Mai colm Smith, Mrs. Henry O. Taylor, Mrs. Dexter Blagden, , Mrs. . Albert H. Harris, Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Mrs. Harvey K. Lines, Miss Maud Aguilar Leland, Mrs. Clark Mellen, Mrs. Jesse Lynch Williams, and Judge Charles C. Nott. INDIANA INDORSERS OF PHOTOPLAYS In the 1923-24 published report of the Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays the executive officers and various committees line up as follows : State officers, 1924: Mrs. Fred L. Pettijohn, president, 2366 Park Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.; Mrs. David Ross, first vice-president, Haversticks Park, Indianapolis, Ind. ; Dr. Edna Hatfield Edmondson, second vice-president, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.; Mrs. Arthur Twining, third vice-president, 721 Wildwood Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind.; Mrs. Wolf Sussmati, fourth vicepresident, IS East Thirty-fourth St., Indianapolis. Ind.; Mrs. Theodore A. Wagner, honorary vicepresident, 1445 Broadway, Indianapolis, Ind.: Mrs. J. Frances Ake, recording secretary, 1040 Garfield Drive, Indianapolis, Ind.; Mrs. B. H. Moore, corresponding secretary, 269 Burgess Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. ; Mrs. O. C. Lukinbill, treasurer, 1902 East Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind. ; Mrs. H. C. Fledderjohn, film librarian, 1238 West Thirty-second Street, Indianapolis, Ind. REPORT OF THE PICTURE COMMITTEE By Mrs. Charles L. Davidson, Chairman The Indianapolis Indorsers of Photoplays maintain a voluntary picture committee composed of 12 regular and IS special visitors co-operating with the managements of the motion picture theaters, and are meeting with satisfactory results. Through the courtesy of the management of the picture houses we have two weekly admissions for each picture house and a special pass from the Circle Theater which is used in rotation by the members. There are eight first-release houses in the downtown ditsrict : Ohio, Colonial, Apollo, Circle, Crystal, Isis, Mr. Smith's and Palace. These are visited each week at the first showing, making a total number of visits to all houses 450 for the year. There are seven second-class houses in the downtown district. They are: Royal, Keystone, Palms, Gem, Manhattan, Annex and Lenwood. These houses show western thrillers and serials at the nominal price of ten cents. They are well patronized, wetl lighted, and nothing objectionable has been found during the year. The Picture Committee holds meetings once each month and oftener if necessary. At these meetings the pictures are discussed and, when indorsed, placed on the monthly bulletins. Whenever cuts are recommended by the Indorsers in any picture the exhibitor is consulted and, in most instances, consents to the request made. For instance, in the pictures, "One Week of Love," "'Rich Men's Wives" and "The Pride of Palamor," cuts were made at the request of the committee. After the exhibitor makes the cuts the producer is notified by the Indorsers of the cuts desired and, in many instances, they are permanent cuts, making the pictures indorsable. During the survey we found that many of the low priced smaller theaters could not show all "A" class pictures on account of the high cost. The suggestion was made that we classify pictures on the indorsed list, as follows: Starred Pictures — Excellent. "A"-Class — Good. "B"Class — Medium. This plan enables them to give a starred or "A"-Class picture, filling in with the best of the less expensive. A marked improvement in the western pictures has been noticed the last year. Also such stars as Tom Mix, Harry Carey and Charles Jones, whose pictures were formerly below the standard, have shown progress and they are now playing good, thrilling western pictures that are greatly in demand. Two successful serials are "The Leather Pushers." an athletic picture, and "In the Days of Buffalo Bill," a historical serial. F.ach episode is a comnMe story in itself. 589