Exhibitor's Trade Review (May-Aug 1925)

Page 28 Exhibitors Trade Review DAVIS PLANS TRIP TO COAST; TO OPEN HOLLYWOOD OFFICE T. Charles Davis, 2nd, will go to the Coast to open an office in Hollywood for the Davis Distributing Division and appoint a Western representative to look after the many attractions now in production for his organization. Air. Davis said : "Our business has grown so rapidly since we entered the Independent distributing field that we have had to take on a larger numher of productions than we had originally planned. "We have made it a point to keep our word with our customers, especially as to delivery, and with this end in view we have deemed it necessary to open an office in Hollywood. The number of productions now under way for us is a pretty good showing for the Independent field. We have the J. J. Fleming Productions and the Forrest Taylor Productions at Beaverton, Oregon, while in the Los Angeles section we have the two Ben Wilson Serials, the James Oliver Curwood Series, the Ken Maynard Series, the General Charles King "Frontier Feature" Series, the De Luxe Society Drama Series, the Peggy O'Day "Secret Service" Series, and the Womack-McKnight "Sheiks and Shebas" and "Hey Fella's" comedies. "We have about 104 productions made, making and to be made, so that it will require all of a cost representative's time to co-operate with the producers and give us publicity material and other matter on this SKOURAS BROTHERS REPORT $58,000 NET IN THREE MONTHS ST. LOUIS, May 22.— The net income of Skouras Brothers Enterprises, Inc., for the first quarter of 1925, ended March 31, before deducting Federal income taxes, but after deducting interest and depreciation and expenses, was $58,979.17. The board of directors at their meeting May 16 declared the regular quarterly dividend of 75 cents a share of the 25,000 shares of Class A, no par value stock. It is payable August 1 to stockholders of record July 25. This dividend will total $18,750. The board approved the contract with the Boaz-Kiel Construction Company for the general work on the New Ambassador theatre and office building, which will cost $5,500,000. goodly array of Independent output. We aim to offer the State Right buyers as large and fine a line of productions as any in the world and we have exercised an unusual degree of care and careful estimate in selecting our list of attractions so that we can give our customers what they want when they want it, and they in turn can be certain they will get what we sell them. "We know from long experience that there are loads of pictures on the market, but we are establishing the slogan and policy of 'Better pictures for less money,' not that old cry, 'Bigger and better,' but 'Better for less.' It is a question of selecting reliable producers, clever stories, adequate casts, good photography, and advertising matter with a punch. There you have a quality production for your customers to deliver when you have agreed to deliver. "It may develop that I shall have to spend most of my time on the Coast, leaving the New York office under Mr. Adams' charge." P. D. C. ANNOUNCES FORTY PRODUCTIONS FOR COMING SEASON John C. Flinn for the Producers Distributing Corporation announces at least forty attractions for the coming year. Marshall Neilan and Sam Rork are now found listed with Cecil B. De Mille, Al. and Chas. Christie, Hunt Stromberg, Frances Marion, Renaud Hoffman and A. H. Sebastian, in the roster of producers now associated with Producers Distributing Corporation. Only twenty-six of the forty productions to be released are listed in this preliminary announcement. Among them are the titles of six stage successes — "Three Faces East," "The Road to Yesterday," "Silence" and "Strongheart" which will be produced under the screen title of "Brave Heart." Fifteen works of fiction are listed for screen adaptation including "The Last Frontier" by Courtney Riley Cooper; "Simon the Jester," by William J. Locke; "The New Magdalen," by Wilkie Collins; "Hell's Highroad," by Ernest Pascal; "The People vs. Nancy Preston," by John Moroso; "The Wedding Song," by Ethel Watts Mumford ; "The Open Switch," by Frank H. Spearman ; "Her Two Men," by Richard Washburn Child; "The Volga Boatman," by Konrad Bercovici, "The Million Dollar Handicap," adapted from "Throughbreds" by W. A. Frazer; "Red Dice," adapted from "The Iron Chalice," by Octavius Roy Cohen; "Made for Love," adapted from "The Valiant Gentleman" byJM. J. Stuart, and "Steel Preferred," by Herschell Hall. Five original stories to be filmed are "The Valley of Fear," "The Flame of the \ukon," "The Man from Red Gulch," "The Unknown Soldier," and "Fifth Avenue." The first three titles will be Hunt Stromberg productions. Renaud Hoffman will produce "The Unknown Soldier." "Fifth Avenue" will be a Sam Rork feature. Two personally directed Cecil B. DeMille super-productions are announced in "The Road to Yesterday" and "The Volga Boatman." The first of these exceptionally lavish subjects will be an adaptation by Jeanie Macpherson and Beulah Marie Dix from the stage play, "The Road to Yesterday" by E. J. Sutherland and Miss Dix. DeMille's second will be "The Volga Boatman," from Konrad Bercovici's story. Nine productions also will be supervised by DeMille. These include "Silence," by Max Marcin. "Eve's Leaves," by Harry Chapman Ford, will be screened with Leatrice Joy. "Three Faces East," adapted from the play by Anthony Paul Kelly, will be directed by Frank Urson and Paul Iribe, with an all-star cast headed by Agnes Ayres and Robert Ames. "Hell's Highroad," adapted by Eve Unsell from Ernest Pascal's novel, will star Leatrice Joy, supported by Edmund Burns, Robert Edeson and Julia Faye under the direction of Rupert Julian. "The Coming of Amos," starring Rod La Rocque with Jetta G-oudal, Trixie Friganza and Noah Beery in featured roles, adapted from William J. Locke's novel will be directed by Paul Sloane. Paul Sloane will also direct "The Wedding Song," adapted from the novel by Ethel Watts Mumford, and "Made for Love," adapted from M. J. Stuart's novel, "The Valiant Gentleman." Rupert Julian will direct Rod La Rocque in "Red Dice." Six Hunt Stromberg productions are listed. Two of these will be Priscilla Dean pictures, Two Harry Carey pictures and two personally directed Stromberg specials. The great western story, "The Last Frontier," by Courtney Riley Cooper, originally started by the late Thos. H. Ince as the greatest film creation of his career, will be completed by Stromberg as his first special during the coming year. This will be followed by "The Open Switch," adapted from Frank Spearman's powa'ful railroad story, "Whispering Smith." Priscilla Dean will be starred under Tom Forman's direction, in "The People vs. Nancy Preston," and in "The Flame of the Yukon." Sam Rork is listed for four productions including "Fifth Avenue." Gilbert E. Gable presents The SKY RAIDER WIT H-^ Jacqueline Logan . AND Capt. Nungesser Variety says; "Celebrities do not mean much in this town. (Washington). The fact that Nungesser got so much attention speaks well not only tor the French ace but also for the film." From the story "The Great Air Mail Robbery" by Jack Lait Directed by T. Hayes Hunter Associated Exhibitors .Physical Distributor ^ Pa the' Exchange. Inc. John S. Woody, President Foreign Representative Sidney Garrett