Exhibitors Herald (Jun-Dec 1917)

12 EXHIBITORS HERALD GOLDWYN DISTRIBUTING CORP. ELECTS OFFICERS; MANY EXCHANGES OPENED Within Sixty Days Concern Girdles North America with Branches; F. B. Warren and Alfred Weiss Aid Goldfish in Work with Exhibitors Goldwyn Distributing Corporation, recently chartered at Albany, N. Y., with a capital stock of $1,000,000 to handle the Goldwyn Pictures films throughout the United States, this week held its first meeting and elected the following officers: President, Samuel Goldfish; vice president, Archibald Selwyn; vice president, Alfred Weiss; vice president, F. B. Warren; treasurer, Gabriel L. Hess. Name Branches and Heads At this meeting announcement was made that branch offices had been opened in the following cities in charge of the men named, as follows: Atlanta, Arthur Lucas; Boston, Harry F. Campbell, 40-44 Piedmont street; Buffalo, George A. Hickey, 200 Pearl street; Chicago, F. M. Brockell, 110 South State street; Cincinnati, C. C. Hite, 215 East Fifth street; Cleveland, H. A. Bandy; Dallas, Louis B. Remy; Denver, Walter S. Rand, 1440 Welton street; Detroit, Abraham I. Shapiro, Peter Smith Building, Griswold and State streets; Kansas City, Richard Robertson; Los Angeles, G. C. Parsons; Minneapolis, R. E. Bradford; New York, Samuel Eckman, 509 Fifth avenue; Philadelphia, George T. Ames; Pittsburgh, C. C. McKibbin, 1201 Liberty avenue; San Francisco, Charles M. Simmons; St. Louis, Floyd Lewis, 3312 Lindell avenue, and Seattle, C. F. Hill. The street locations of the offices listed above without addresses are soon to be announced. A branch will also be opened in W ashington, D. C, within a fortnight. Open Canadian Exchanges Goldwyn Pictures, Limited, of Canada, with head offices in Toronto, has opened the following branches in the Dominion: Toronto, W. J. Reid, 37 Yonge street; Calgary, H. L. Xathanson, 315 MacLean street; Montreal, E. English, 337 Bleury street; St. John, I. Sourkes, 19 Market Square; Vancouver, William Hansher, 304 Orpheum Block; Winnipeg, L. Kaufman, 48 Aiken Block. In the brief period of sixty days Goldwyn virtually has girdled the North American continent and is rapidly arranging for expansion southward. Mr. Goldfish will be the active head of the Goldwyn distributing system, which is pioneering again by introducing new methods into film salesman ship. Incidentally, for the first time in the history of the motion picture industry, Goldwyn will establish a simultaneous issuance of its productions around the world — the same pictures appearing on the same days in the Linked States, Canada, Australia. Great Britain and other countries. Warren and Weiss Active In the management and operation of the distributing corporation, Mr. Goldfish will be actively assisted by Alfred Weiss and F. B. Warren, the two vice presidents, who are specializing in establishing the closest possible relations with the exhibitors of the country. Mr. Weiss has been an important factor in both the Mutual and Triangle organizations and Mr. Warren has been publisher and editor of important newspapers in Chicago, St. Louis, New York and elsewhere. Attend the Chicago Convention — make the voice of square-dealing heard upon the floor of that assembly. INCE DISPOSES OF HOLDINGS IN N. Y. M. P. CORP. AND TRIANGLE; TO PRODUCE INDEPENDENTLY Announcement comes from the office of Thomas H. Ince, New York, that he has closed a deal with the New York Motion Picture Corporation and the Triangle Film Corporation whereby he disposes of his holdings in those companies and has entirely severed his connection with both concerns. The sum involved is said to be $750,000. Mr. Ince's plans for the future are not as yet known, but it is stated he will undoubtedly produce on his own account feature films on a large scale. He will have several of the most prominent stars in the industry under him, he says, the names of whom will be announced in the near future. THREE SCENES FROM "THE IMMIGRANT," CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S NEW COMEDY THIS PRODUCTION IN WHICH THE STAR COMBINES PATHOS WITH COMIC ACTIONS, IS SAID BY CRITICS TO ' RANK AMONG HIS BEST SCREEN OFFERINGS ( ChaplinMutual)