Exhibitors Daily Review (Jul-Dec 1928)

Exhibitors DAILY REVIEW, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1928 N. Y. DAILY CRITIC TAKES RAP AT VITRIOLIC TULLY Betty Colfax's neat tribute to Jim Tully, the 'pug* who was NOT entertained at luncheon by the AMPA Thursday, appears in the N. Y. Evening Graphic and is worthy of repeating. Says Betty: "Jim Tully departs from New York, Hollywood bound this week, which is good news for Manhattan, but a sad message to send the West Coast movie colony. For of all the intruders who ever repaid badly needed hospitality with vitriol, Tully is a prize-winner. "No one knows better than Rupert Hughes, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Dempsey, Jack Gilbert, Jim Cruze or any one of a score of others the high cost of a friendly gesture in the general direction of Mr. Tully. "Self-styled hobo, giving the im pression of not wanting to tit Into any but his natural background, Tully has a powerful gift which he has used as a dangerous weapon. He can take a grain of truth, a shovelful of imagination and fashion an article highly entertaining to everybody except the victim. He walked the tracks into Los Angeles one morning and he's been shaking his dirt around the doorsteps and dressing rooms of Hollywood since. "Tully is the bugaboo of stars, producers, directors, cutters and electricians. That's what this extramp has done with a remarkable vocabulary, a sharp wit, a California calling list and an apparent absence of scruples. "How Hollywood will welcome the bad, bad boy of Vanity Fair." WARNERS TO INCREASE COMMON AND PREFERRED The New York Stock Exchange has received notice of a proposed increase in authorized common stock Of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., to 2,500,000 shares from 550,000 and the creation of 785,604 shares of new preferred stock. The last balance sheet of the corporation and its subsidiaries, for the year ending August 31, 1928, showed a net profit of $2,044,851. This compares with a net profit for the corresponding year previous of $30,426 and the present profit and loss surplus for the current period was $810,42!* as compared with a deficit of $1,234,412 on August 27, 1927. Rogers Film Gets Victor Pict-Ur-Music Announcement comes from the office of Louis T. Rogers that arrangements have been made with the Victor "Pict-ur-Music" Library Record Service for the Adaptation of the Non-Synchronous Sound Projector for his Emil Jannings' picture, "FORTUNE'S FOOL." This1 makes it possible for every theatre equipped with the Sound Projector of Electric Research Products to secure a cue sheet and records from the Victor Talking Machine Company for this picture. No Bow for "Zieggie" It seems that Clara Bow's contract was about up and Miss Bow got an idea that her services were worth quite a bit more money. So whether by luck or design, an offer came from Florenz Ziegfield Jr., New York's great stage producer, for lovely Clara to switch her makeup box to one of the Ziegfeld theatres. But Paramount had other ideas. They too, felt that their big star had an increase in pay coming to her with the result that "Zieggie" will have to wait, at least two more years if he want to tag Clara for his "Follies." Cantor Short Reel on "Criterion" Bill A short talking picture, "Eddie Cantor, That Party in Person," will be shown at the Criterion Theatre (,n Friday night as part of the preliminary bill to "Interference", Paramount's first all-talking picture. The Cantor film was produced at the Paramount Long Island studio under the supervision of Monta Bell and shows the popular stage performer as a singer, dancer and comedian. FIRST PATHE SOUND NEWSREEL ON BROADWAY The contents of the first Pathe Sound N'ewsreel, which is issued with RCA Photophone synchronization and out today reveals a wide variety of subjects. The reel opens with a demonstration of a non-shatterable bulletproof window glass; then follows with a massed group of four Texas Regimental bands playing "Over There". Other subjects include a historical resume of the Pathe News, featuring a Theodore Roosevelt subject taken in Christiana, Norway in 1910; a baby subject and ends with an address by Sec'y. of the Navy, Wilbur. EDWARDS APPOINTED Will Manage Two "l" Houses in Corvallis, Ore. Peter Pan The interior lobby of the Paramount Theatre is now adorned with a new statue of Peter Pan, which Charles Andrew Haffner modelled in bronze. It will stand at the head of the grand staircase. Fred A. Flader has announced the appointment of Cal Edwards, Jr., to the managership of the two Universal houses in Corvallis, Oregon, the Majestic and the Whiteside. 'White Slave Traffic' Opens Syracuse Empire on Thanksgiving Week Syracuse. — "Fighting the White Slave Traffic," the Woody & Adler production now playing Newburgh and Poughkeepsie, opens at the Empire here Thanksgiving week. The booking was made through A. Kaufman and a heavy exploitation campaign will be carried through. WE'LL PRINT IT IN GOLD if you say so — that greeting and that announcement of yours, or we'll say it in words of silver, ablaze with color — But you MUST SAY SO EARLY— as time speeds apace in the creation of the Eleventh Annual Announcement Number EXHIBITORS DAILY REVIEW out Tuesday, January 1, 1929 Your reservation made now will insure proper display — suitable copy and a fortunate result. They Arc Coming In, Now!