Moving Picture World (Jan-Feb 1927)

96 MOVING PICTURE WORLD January 8, 1927 MOVING PICTURE WORLD FOUNDED BY J. P. CHALMERS. 1807 PobtUtMd TOUT tar CHALMERS PUBLISHINS COMPANY, 5 1 C Fifth Avtmn, Nn Yirk, N. Y. Talephom: Murray Hill 1 8 1 01 -2-3. Maabtr Audit Burtau tt Glr•ulitluu. John F. Cbaiman, prMldaat; Iieh P. CSulBcn, Sr., Tica-truldant; Alfred J. Ctnlmeri, rlce-presldent; 911u J. Cbalmeri, •eoreury and treaiurer; ftrin L. Hall, bustmu aianaier; F. Q. Ortera, editorial <ti u.n^iaf Editor — Aei W. Saraent ; Aaeoclate Bdlton — Sumner Smltb, Merritt Crawford; Adrertialna Department — -C. Schotteofeli, Out Fa u eel ; Circulation Maaafer — Dteali J. Shea. Branch Office i : Joseph Ealer, 5414 Glenwood Arenue. Chicago: Tom Waller, Taft Buildlna. Tine Street and Hollywood Bird., Hollywood. QaL Bshserlptlou price: $3.00 a year to countries whore stampe are not neceesary for posting ; $1.50 te Canada; $8.00 to other eountriee ■eq airing stampe for postaga Copyright, 1926, Cfcalmers Publishing Co. Copyright through act Great Britain and Colonies, under the gswelsleos of the Copyright Act of 1911. (All rights referred. ) Other publications: Cine HundlaL Published In Spanish and circulating In all ap.nt.S' i peeking countries ef the world. tosnlth and fcglleta heats. 5 VOL. 84 NO. 2 Pres. Coolidge Greets Goldwyns at Capitol Prior to his departure for Los Angeles, Samuel Goldwyn, accompanied by Mrs. Goldwyn and Vilma Banky, visited Washington where the Goldwyn party was received at the Capitol by President Coolidge, and later in the Red Room of the White House by Mrs. Coolidge and John Coolidge. Prior to meeting the President, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Goldwyn and Miss Banky were presented to Secretary Hoover and Secretary Wilbur. While in Washington the Goldwyn party lunched with the Count Ladislaus S'zechenyi, Ambassador from Hungary to the United States, and the Countess Szechen'yi, the former Gladys Vanderbilt. Governor Baker Switches Following the wave of protest from exhibitors, members of the Associated Industries of Missouri, state senators and others, Governor Baker of Missouri has Indicated that he would abolish his plan for a $10 tax on each motion picture film entering Missouri and, Instead, revert back to his original Idea of levying an admission tax of 10 per cent, on all theatres. The revenue derived from the tax would be used to bolster up the state educational fund. Sammy a Daddy A new Paramount baby has arrived. Sammy Cohen, with Fanamet in Berlin, and Mrs. Cohen are largely responsible. New York heard about it this week by the following cablegram: “Milkman on our block has new customer, Theodore . Marks Cohen, weighing 6 pounds. Arrived yesterday afternoon to brighten my declining years. Mother and son doing fine. Father has already started to grow moustache.” Delay Chaplin Film Present indications are that Charlie Chaplin’s “The Circus” will not be turned over to the editing room nntil September or October. The comedian, beset by publicity attendant upon his marital troubles, is taking a long vacation in Southern California. M. J. Soukias Sails M. J. Soukias of Astoria Films, Bucharest, left on the Berengaria January 7 after an extended stay in the United States. He will handle the product of the Pathe Exchange for Roumania in addition to his other ventures, and feels that he can make a clean-up with these short features. (Continued from preceding page) ties of this new field, William Fox said: “Heavy responsibility rests on those whose happy fortune it is to have the opportunity of public service through this new art. “This amazing accomplishment, now perfected, certainly is destined to have far reaching influence in the world. Its influence will be felt not only in picture theatres everywhere, but in 150,000 churches for reliigous purposes and in 170,000 schools for educational purposes, and in the 20,000,000 American homes. “Sight and hearing have at last been successfully combined on the screen; the scientists who have erfected this amazing development may have reached the highest achievement in this age of wonders. Therefore, it is fitting that in this public announcement they should be named. They are the engineers of the Western Electric Company and the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and the Case Research Laboratories of Auburn, (Continued from preceding page) of the “friendly move,’’ but by half a dozen other principals, acting for various interested parties. The situation is not unlike the “roast beef” episode in the old McIntyre and Heath act. If you recall “The Georgia Minstrels” you will remember that Heath asked the owner for the roast. If the man had said “yes” he would have had it. We listened to this latest proposition, but gave it no greater consideration than other earlier suggestions. With the largest verified exhibitor circulation, the respect and affection of the exhibitor body, the best background of past achievement, the most highly trained editorial staff and a publication that Is admired and respected, Moving Picture World feels that It does not require the assistance of any merger or combination to assure the continuance of a career that is just drawing to the end of Its second decade. Exhibitor Members Quit Kansas City Arbitration Exhibitors of Kansas and Missouri have severed relations, temporarily at least, with the Kansas City Joint Board of Arbitration. The board of directors of the M. P. T. O. KansasMissouri this week adopted a resolution, instructing President Biechele to instruct all exhibitor members of the arbitration board to withdraw until all exchange awards are complied with. The above resolution means that Kansas City exhibitors have joined Minneapolis and Detroit in severing relationship with joint arbitration boards, although the causes for such actions are not the same. The principal cause of the M. P. T. O. Kansas-Missouri action was a $500 award against the Pathe exchange to L D. McElro'y, manager of the Forty-fifth Street Theatre, Kansas City. COMING and GOING A party of First National executives, headed by General Manager Richard A. Rowland, left for Los Angeles on January 4. In the party were Natli Barr, Russian beauty now under First National contract; Ned E. Marin, sales manager; Mrs. Florence Strauss, scenario editor; Charles Rogers, producer of the Ken Maynard features, and Mrs. Rogers; and D. S. Squires, manager for Richard Barthelmess. • • • I. E. Chadwick, president of Chadwick Pictures, who has been at his studios in Los Angeles for several months, arrived in New York this week for a short stay at the company’s h6me offices. Jesse J. Goldburg, supervising director-general of Chadwick Pictures, who has been in New York for several weeks, has returned to Los Angeles. • • • F. H. Knocke, president of Medal Film Co., Inc., distributors of P. D. C.’s productions throughout the West Indies, has returned from a tour of inspection which took him to Porto Rico, Venezuela and some of the Lesser Antilles. * * * Harry Reichenbach has left New York for a ten-day trip to Hollywood. • • • Cresson, E. Smith, general sales manager, Mid-West Division of United Artists, left New York on January 2 for a fortnight’s trip to the Middle West. * • • Otto B. Mantell, general manager of United Artists, Cristobal office, has arrived in New York office, has arrived in New York. * * • Charles F. Schwerin, new special sales representative for United Artists, left New York on January 1 for Pittsburgh. • • • Max Ehrenreich, chief South Amer ican representative of United Artists, is in New York. • • • Ed Smith, general sales manager of Tiffany productions, left last Friday for the Middle West to open several new Tiffany exchanges which have heretofore been handled by Tiffany franchise holders. He will open an exchange In Kansas City and then proceed to St. Louis. • * • Polan Banks, 21-year-old literary prodigy with a novel and several original screen stories to his credit, left on January 2 for Hollywood to join Fox Films’ scenario department. He will continue writing originals. • • • Harold B. Franklin has left for Florida to open new Publix theatres at Miami and Jacksonville. • • • J. A. Fitzgerald of the Asheville Motion Picture Corp., Asheville, N. C., is at the Astor. • • • Paul Oscard is back in New York after opening Publix houses at Houston and San Antonio, Texas. • • • Paul Schofield has left for the West to do a scenario for Asher,. Small & Rogers. Vitaphone Closes Deal With Fox N. Y. Concerning That “Merger” We started Moving Picture World twenty years ago — the first successful motion picture trade publication in this country. Nine years later was founded Cine Mundial, with a present paid circulation of more than 50,000; today the most important magazine in the Spanish-speaking world. We carry the message of the picture to a wider field than any other publishing house In the world. We are not in the market for the purchase of any other publication. We are not in the market for any merger proposition. Standing solidly upon our own feet, we feel modestly confident of our ability to continue as an independent publication. Outside of the fact that we were approached with such a proposition, the story as related is wholly and picturesquely Incorrect. Negotiations were so promptly discouraged that they never reached a discussion of the status of the “Chalmers Brothers”: who really represent three generations. “While the Fox companies been interested for some time in the development of this and other new features in motion pictures, we have refrained from making any announcements until we could form and perfect an association which we felt was broad enough to develop these new fields. “We believe ‘Movietone’ pictures will appeal not only to the twenty-five millions who now see motion pictures weekly in this country, but to an additional twenty-five millions who are not now regular patrons of picture theatres. To that end we pledge our most earnest endeavor.” aHrry M. Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., said: “I cannot help but compliment and congratulate William Fox and the Fox interests for the foresighted step they have taken in obtaining a license from the Vitaphone Corporation. I consider this one of the greatest forward moves that has taken place in the industry since the inception of motion pictures and the birth of the Vitaphone.”