The New York Clipper (August 1917)

August 1, 1917 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 35 PICTURE MEN FINISH WAR WORKPLANS BRADY HAS MOBILIZED INDUSTRY "Washington-, D. C, Joly 29.—A mobil- ization of the motion picture industry to aid in war work was announced yester- day by the Committee on Public Informa- tion. It was stated that William A. Brady, who was deputized by President Wil8on in June to marshall together, for co-oper- ative purposes, the persons and interests in the motion picture industry, had com- pleted his organization. The announce- ment states that Mr. Brady, as president, and D. W. Griffith, as chairman, will see that their organization co-operates with the Committee on Public Information, the various departments of the Government, the Red Cross and the Council of Na- tional Defense in using films to spread information regarding the plans and pur- poses of the Government in war times. The war co-operation board will have representatives assigned to the various departments of the Government to carry forward this work. The personnel of the board and the branches of the Govern- ment to which tbey will be assigned are as follows: War Department: P. A. Powers, Uni- versal Film Company, New York; Eugene M. Clark, Jefferson Theatre, Natchez, Miss.: W. A. Johnston, editor, Motion Picture yews. New York; Cecil B. De Mille, Laslcy Studios, Los Angeles. Navy Department: John R. Freuler, Mutual Film Corporation, Chicago; Joseph F. Coufal, Novelty Slide Company, New York; Stanley Mastbaum, Stanley Com- pany, Philadelphia; Arthur James, Asso- ciated Motion Picture Advertisers, New York. Food Commission: Arthur S. Friend, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, New York; Alec Pantages, Pantages Circuit of Theatres, San Francisco; Thomas H. Ince, Ince Production, Los Angeles; Donald J. Bell, Chicago; John Wylie, editor. Moving <■ Picture World, New York. Treasury Department: Adolph Zuker, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, New York; Marcus Loew, Loew's Enterprises, New York; J. E. Brulatour, Eastman Films, New York; Walter W. Irwin, Vita- graph, V-L-S-E, New York; George K. Speer, Essanay Film Manufacturing Com- pany, Chicago. Department of Agriculture: Stephen A. Lynch, Triangle Distributing Corporation, New York; Lewis L Levine, Regent The- atre, Brooklyn; W. R. Rothacker, Roth- acker Film Manufacturing Company, Chicago. Department of Interior: Richard A. Rowland, Metro Pictures Corporation, New York; Samuel A. Rothapfel,. Rial to Theatre, New York; Walter J. Moore, Miner Lithograph Company, New York. Aircraft Division: J. A. Berst, Paths Exchange, Inc, New York; Louis F. Blu- menthal, National Theatre, Jersey City; Edward Earl, Nicholas Power Company, New York; Theodore Mitchell, D. W. Griffith, Enterprise, New York; J. H. Hallberg, United Theatre Equipment Cor- poration, New York. Committee on Camp Training Activ- ities: Samuel Goldfish, Goldwyn Pictures, New York; Lee A. Ochs, president Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of America, New York; Dr. Cranston Brenton, Na- tional Board of Review, New York; Mrs. J. Stuart Blackton, Vitagraph Company, Brooklyn; William Farnum, actor, Fox Film Corporation, New York. To the Commercial Economy Board: Louis J. Selznick, New York; Thomas Eager, exhibitor, Lincoln, Neb.; William B. Donaldson, Billboard Publishing Com- pany, Cincinnati. To _ the Shipping Board: William L Sherrill, Frohman Amusement Corpora- tion, New York; Lewis B. Mayer, Ameri- can Feature Film Company, Boston, Mass.; Edward J. Fisher, exhibitor, Seat- tle, Wash.; William E. Lewis, Morning Telegraph, New York. To the American Red Cross: For the East—William Fox, Fox Film Corpora- tion, New York; Mitchell H. Mark, Strand Theatre, New York; E. S. Porter, Pre- cision Machine Company, New York. For the West—Jesse L. Lasky, Lasky Studios, Los Angeles; Peter J. Schaeffer, Jones, Lincoln, Schaeffer & Co., Chicago, TO.; Douglas Fairbanks, Lasky Studios, Los Angeles. To the Women's Committee: Mary Pickford, Lasky Studios, Los Angeles; Anita Stewart, Vitagraph Company, Brooklyn; Ethel Barrymore, Metro Pic- tures, New York; Margaret Mayo, Gold- wyn Company, New York; June Elvidge, Peerless Producing Company, West Fort Lee, N. J. To be ex-officio members of all the above committees: David Wark Griffith, Chairman of the War Co-operation Com- mittee, Times Building, New York. To the Council of National Defense: William A. Brady, World Film Corpora- tion, New York. The following committee of women will act in conjunction with the Food Com- mission ; Cuida Bergere, American Play Company, New York; Gail Kane, Mutual Film Corporation, Santa Barbara, Cal.; Marguerite Clark, Famous Players Studio, New York; Kitty Gordon, Peerless Pro- ducing Company, West Fort Lee, N. J.; Norma Talmadge, Selznick Pictures, New York. - FRENCH WAR FILMS ARE FAKED EXHIBITORS SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS NEW BRENON FILM NOTABLE Aside from the fact that Herbert Brenon's latest production, "The Fall of the Romanoffs," promises to be a notable feature and one that will probably take its place in the constellation of great big pictures, its cast of characters include a half dozen famous international figures. The Czar and the Kaiser are both im- portant characters in the story, and the other notables who figure prominently in the action are the Czarina, the Grand Duke Nicholas, Prince Felix, Rasputin and, of course, Iliodor, the Mad Monk—this role being assumed by Iliodor, the real char- acter. Edward Connelly is credited with a really remarkable characterization as Rasputin. Nance CNeil, famous picture star, is the Czarina. Others in the cast are: Alfred Hickman, George Deunenberg, Charles Craig, Conway Tearle and others. VITAGRAPH WONT CHANGE Walter W. Irwin, general manager of V-L-S-E, which distributes Greater Vita- graph film, announces that there will be no change in rental policy of his organiza- tion in the United States and Canada. He says that the distributing policy of the organization will continue as it hag during the last nine months. War pictures, marked "French Official," bat which, in reality, are very unofficial, containing faked scenes and prejudicial matter, are being exhibited at the present time in many moving picture theatres in the United States. The matter has reached the attention of Edmond Ratisbonne, the bead of the French Official Pictorial Service in this country, and he has issued a warning to the effect that they are not the real thing and should not be advertised as such. Ratisbonne states that ne is ready to put a written endorsement on all bona fide French war pictures, and suggests that all exhibitors demand seeing this endorse- ment before booking any pictures of this style. As matters now stand, Ratisbonne states that the Allied armies are open to much misrepresentation, and declares that it is the patriotic duty of all American exhibitors to make sure they are screen- ing bona fide war scenes before exhibiting them to their patrons. Ratisbonne admits that certain un- scrupulous parties are using patched up official pictures, with others that are not official, with the result that a distorted and wrong impression is given to the Amer- ican picture-going public. "I wish to call the attention of all patriotic exhibitors," says Ratisbonne, "that these are times when the perform- ances of our armies must not be misrep- resented and every exhibitor should do his bit by not allowing the exhibition .of any pirated pictures." TRIANGLE-HART CASE ARGUED Argument on the application of the Triangle Film Corp., for an injunction before trial, restraining the Artcrait Pic- tures Corp., from leasing and distributing pictures made by the William S. Hart Producing Co., under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince, was heard by Judge M. B. Manton in the United States District Court last Thursday. After listening to A. S. Banard, consul for the applicant, and J. V. Ludvigh, attorney for the de- fendant. Judge Manton advised them to submit briefs. The defense cited the de- cision of Judge Hotchkiss in the Federal courts, in the Triangle case against Douglas Fairbanks as a precedent under which their client could sever his connections with the Triangle concern. The plaintiff, how- ever, stated that the Hart contract was entirely different in construction. BLUEBIRD GIVES WAR LUNCH More than a million signatures have been gathered on a "Letter of Cheer" to General Pershing, which is the result of an idea of Joseph Brandt, of Blue Bird Photo Plays, Inc. To-morrow, at the Hotel Astor, a war luncheon will be tend- ered to the United States Senators, Gov- ernors of States and Mayors of cities, to afford- them an opportunity to inspect the album containing their signatures to the letter. The letter is said to have no counterpart in American history. At the luncheon the Bluebird Company will act as host and Joe Brandt will have charge. SHEEHANS SETTLE DIFFERENCES Through the signing of an order of dis- continuance in the action for a separation brought by Kay Lanrell Sheehan against Winfield R. Sheehan, general manager of the Fox Film Corp., by Justice Finch, in the Supreme Court, it was ascertained that, after ten days of estrangement, the couple have settled their differences and are living together again. The reconcilia- tion took place shortly after the papers were served on Sheehan. The order of discontinuance was submitted to the Court on July 16. Neither of the parties in the case would discuss the matter or the conditions of the reconciliation. ART DRAMA HAS YIDDISH POSTER So popular is Joe Welch, the famous character actor who is presented on Art Dramas Program in an adaption of his famous play, "The Peddler," among Jew- ish audiences, that special posters, printed in Yiddish, have been gotten out for use by exhibitors catering to members of that race. "BAB'S BURGLAR" COMPLETED "Bab's Burglar," the first "Sub-deb" Story by Mary Roberts Rinehart. in which Marguerite Clark portrays the character of the seventeen-year-old schoolgirl, has been completed. HARLAN DOING U PICTURE Kenneth Harlan, who appeared in "The Flnme of the Yukon," will soon be featured in a Universal picture entitled "The Whim." FE1BUSH JOINS HOFFMAN Joe Feibush, for two years with the Bluebird pictures.selling forces, has joined the ranks of M. H. Hoffman's Four Square Picture Corporation, and will handle the New York and Brooklyn territory for the concern. NAGEL TO BE FEATURED Conrad Nagel is to be featured in a film by the Rothacker Film Company. The name of the film will be "A Boy of the States." LESSER AGAIN COMING EAST San Francisco, July 31.—Sol Lesser, the transcontinental commuter, is en route to New York again. SELZNICK HELPS RED CROSS Lewis J. Selznick donated the proceeds of the first public showing of his first Constance Talmadge picture, "The Les- son," to the Long Beach branch of the American Red Cross. The picture was seen by a big audience at the Hotel Nassau Sunday evening, July 29. TANGUAY FILM TO CHANGE NAME Application was made in the Supreme Court before Justice Ordway last week to change the title of the Tanguay-Webber Film Corp., to the Eva Tanguay Film Corp. Justice Ordway's consent is ex- pected this week. WILLIAM A. BRADY, Director-General, WORLD-PICTURES Present Star Cast ARTHUR ASHLEY GERDA HOLMES EDWARD LANGFORD "The Iron Ring," Directed by GEORGE ARCHAINBAUD Story by HORACE HAZELTON