Exhibitors Daily Review (Jul-Dec 1928)

Exhibitors DAILY REVIEW, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1928 DAI^^VIEW Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. Published Daily Except Sunday ARTHUR JAMES. Editor Wl. R. WILKERSON. Publisher Abraham Bernstein, Managing Editor; Herman J. Schleier, Business Manager. Executive and Editorial Offices, 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 409, New York. Telephone Bryant 1489. Address all communications to Executive Offices. Subscription Rates including postage paid, per year United States and Canada, $10; Foreign, $15; single copies, 5 cents. Remit by check, money order, currency or postage. Entered as second-class matter January 4, 1926, at the post office of New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published and copyright by Picture Publishers, Inc. Printed by Cline Printing Corporation, New York City. Most of our New York City subscribers are furnished their papers by carriers, in order that they will get a more prompt service than that given by mail. Subscribers will oblige by notifying us about any lapse in service. Joe Blair, West Coast Representative, 1255 Taramind Avenue, Los Angeles (Phone Hemp> stead 1514). London Office and Correspondent: Samuel Harris, "The Cinema", 80-82 Wardour Street, London, W. 1. Canadian Office: Canadian Moving Picture Digest. 259 Spadina Ave., Toronto, Canada. MAIN STREET by GORDON TRENT C. C. Pettijohn is exhibitor conventioning in Columbus today and so is Microphone Simmons — Alfred Santell, who was borrowed by S. Goldwyn from First National, to direct em Banky film will do it Manhattan, Al stopping at ye Hotel Warwick the while — Past presidents of the A.M.P.A. give a luncheon tomorrow at the Motion Picture Club in honor of present president George Harvey — G. William Wolf, who presidents for the Motion Picture Salesmen is hustling for their grand ball on the night of November 28 — Phil Goldstone of Biophone is the same Phil Goldstone who made such good pictures on the Coast — Canon Chase wants Federal censorship so that there won't be such a temptation to graft in state censorship, ooh wot a leff ! — E. Bruce Johnson is a patron of Kennedy's (food not film) these lunch hours — James R. Grainger is housed with a heavy cold, the fashionable malady of the day — E. W. Hamnions returned from California looking as though he had been shooting moose in Maine (which he also does very well) — W. E. Cullaway, First National's southern manager, is back from six weeks of success in the Dixieland (song writer stuff for the South) — Lieut. Richard Grace, the stunt aviator of "Lilac Time" is in town from Los Angeles for a fortnight and is writing a tome on his crash and crack up experiences in the movies and in the World War — Eddie Mnnnix leaves today for the Coast. GOLDSTONE TO HANDLE BIOPHONE IN MID-WEST Biophone's special representative, Mr. Henry Goldstone, is leaving for the Midwest territory fully equipped with a number of instruments which he will install in Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, and other key points. Mr. Henry Goldstone, who has been for the last few weeks in New York, has studied the complete system of the Biophone machines to such an extent that he is now in a position to not only discuss intelligently with exhibitors the equipment and installation, but he is so well posted as to supervise the complete installations. Moral Boa Constrictor to Start Coiling Next Week (Continued from page 1) of the motion picture industry". This newspaper recalls the time when Canon Chase agreed with leaders in the motion picture industry to withhold his activities in behalf of the New York State censorship bill until further conferences could be held and still in the face of this promise proceeded immediately upon leaving the conference room to have the bill introduced at Albany. This bill was subsequently adopted through the influence of Governor Miller who promptly appointed political censors who were nothing else. The motion picture indstry has still been paying the freight on this iniquity, to nobody's advantage. This faith breaker, Canon Chase has issued a bill of particulars containing 18 elaborate points in which he says that Federal censorship would end the necessity of censorship in the states, which of course it would, but even though it ended the necessity for it, it would not end censorship because this newspaper in a questionnaire to the governors of every state in the Union received word from 26 governors that their states would not be affetced in the least by a Federal program and that they would maintain a such censorship as they had might have, despite the Federal censorship. Another interesting item in the Canon's dream sheet is found in paragraph 6 which says informatively "to lessen the danger of the graft possible in local and state censorship boards and to secure better moral supervision of the films than through such boards". The graft charges are the Canon's and not the indstry's. Herbert Hoover, the next president of the United States, has said that the lowest moral standards of the film are higher than the present day standards of the spoken drama and that the pictures should do their own censoring because they have demonstrated that they can do so and that they are thoroughly and fully responsible. The Moral Boa Constrictor will hold forth heavily and will amuse and entertain the ladies, especially those who have no time to spend with their families and children, for the sessions at Washington next week. Stanley Taylor Cast Director Michael Curtiz has cast Stanley Taylor for a speaking role in Dolores Costello's next Vitaphone picture, "Alimony Annie" now in production at the Warner Studio. "The Barker" to Open Dec. 1 in Los Angeles First National's big special production, "The Barker," wil have its premiere western showing with dialogue and sound effects at Fred Miller's Carthay Circle, Los Angeles, about December 1st, according to an announcement just made by Ned E. Depinet, general sales manager of First National. Hays to Sound Int'l Amity Keynote Tonight (Continued from page 1) liams, Earl W. Hammons, Colvin Brown, John C. Flinn, William Vogel, J. J. Murdock, Louis Inerarity, Stewart Webb, Charles R. Rogers, Winfield Scott Palmer and a host of others. The governor of the state of New York will be represented by his son, Alfred E. Smith, Jr., and there will be present representatives of the Bank of Italy group and the Bank of America, together with officialdom from Great Britain and the Army and Navy. At the guest table presided over by General Hays, wil be Dr. A. H. Giannini, recipient of the cup, Mr. Sam Harris of London, Mr. Ralph Blumenfeld of London, Major Robert E. Bullard, John E. Otterson, Nathan Burkan, Commander T. E. Symington and the British Vice Consul, W. G. R. Howell . It is entirely probable that much interesting news will develop in the course of the dinner, as the speakers' table contains no wax works and the entire industry will be fully represented in this international amity gathering. NEWSREEL HAVE 5 MEN WITH HOOVER Five of Newsreels' finest photographers are aboard the U. S. S. Maryland, accompanying PresidentElect Herbert Clark Hoover on the South American tour, which began yesterday when the party left San Pedro, Cal. The five men who, through their previous efforts for their respective companies, have won the honor and distinction of this enviable assignment, are Arthur De Titta, Fox Newsreel; J. C. Brown, Hearst Newsreels Washington Staff; Robert Benton, Paramount Washington Staff; Merle La Voy, Pathe Staff man and Charles Sandwald, Kinograms New York Staff. Mt. Etna Destruction Scenes on Broadway Pathe News will show today pictures of the disastrous eruption of Mt. Etna in Sicily which Ray Hall describes as the most sensational which he has seen in his fifteen years experience. For the first time in news reel history is shown the total destruction of a city by a river of molten lava. Giovanni Pucci, staff cameraman of the Pathe News operating out of Rome, is the daring individual who took the pictures. He states that all the time he was getting them he was working in a rain of ashes, amidst blistering heat. ■•••••"•••••••"••••«••'•«•"< We would like to impress upon your minds that you have a date for Saturday Night, November 24, 1928. 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