Exhibitors Herald (Jun-Dec 1917)

16 EXHIBITORS HERALD WM. A. BRADY TO PRESIDE AT ASSOCIATION MEETING IN CHICAGO SCHEDULED JULY 18 Members Convene at Princess Theater, When Nominees Will Be Elected to Board of Directors ; Captains of Industry Picked The first annual meeting of the members of the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry is to be held at the Princess Theater in Chicago on Wednesday, July 18, at 11 o'clock in the morning. The meeting will be presided over by President William A. Brady, who will present his report and call for the reports of the executive secretary, treasurer and the special committees which have been .created since the formation of the association last August. At this meeting the candidates who have been nominated by the various branches of the organization are to be elected as members of the board of directors to serve for the ensuing year. During the past week the producers, distributors, supply and equipment concerns and the general division, consisting of individuals and the trade publications, have held meetings and selected their candidates for directors. The producers have nominated the following: William A. Brady, World Film Corporation; D. W. Griffith, Artcraft Pictures Corporation; William L. Sherrill, Frohman Amusement Corporation; Carl Laemmle, Universal Film Manufacturing Company, and Adolph Zukor, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Distributors Nominated Distributors have nominated the following: J. A. Berst, Pathe Exchange, Inc.; Arthur S. Friend, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation; Walter W. Irwin, Vitagraph-V-LS-E; P. A. Powers, Universal Film Manufacturing Company, and Richard A. Rowland, Metro Pictures Corporation. Supply and equipment branch: Donald 'j. Bell, Bell & Howell, Chicago; J. E. Brulatour, Eastman Films; J. H. Hallberg, United Theater Equipment Corporation; Walter J. Moore, H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, and J. F. Skerrett, Nicholas Power Company. General division: Paul Gulick, Universal Film Manufacturing Company; Arthur James, Metro Pictures Corporation; William A. Johnston, Motion Picture News; Joseph F. Lee, state rights buyer, and Thomas G. Wiley. There are thirty members on the board of directors of the national as sociation at the present time, onetliird, or ten, of whom are nominated by the Motion Picture Exhibitors' League. Each of the other four branches above named nominates five directors,, and President Brady lias announced that it is his purpose to apply through the regular channel for an increase in the number of directors from the exhibitors from ten to fourteen and from the other branches from five to seven. "QUEEN OF SPADES," WITH NOTED STAR, WILL BE FIRST RUSSIAN ART FILM ISSUED Production Selected from Among Fifty Others Introduces to United States Public Literary Genius on Screen of Famous Author The debut of the Moscow National Dramatic Theater Company .in the recent Washington pictorial presentation of Theodore Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades," with Mozjunkhin the featured artist, officially introduced to America the Russian art films. The occasion of the first presentation in Washington last week was the special reception of the National Press Club to the special Russian commission now here and headed by Boris Bakmetieff. The choosing of "The Queen of Spades" from the fifty odd productions brought here under the direction of N. S. Kaplan was to show the great literary genius of Pushkin and high standards set in these Russian art works. In "The Queen of Spades" the artistic standards are of the highest. Scenic effects, costumes, local color ing and character detail-are replete ir their exactitude. The effective radica departure in this highly entertaining picture is the dramatic screen art o the actors and actresses depicting th characters. Mozjunkhin, the greates living exponent of the histrionic ar in Russia today, enacts the leadin role of Herman, the young officer. Hi1 tense acting and dramatic facial ts pressions in the tragic scenes are r< markable, it is said. "Queen of Spades" First "The Queen of Spades" will be 01 of the first pictures which will 1 shortly issued by the Russian A Film Corporation and will be rapid followed by other productions ffo. the works of Tolstoy, Sienkiewie Ostrovski, Andreef, Turgenieff, Dc toevski and Pushkin. FIRST FOUR GOLDWYN FILMS ANNOUNCED FOR PUBLICATION, WITH DATES, THROUGHOUT U. Mae Marsh Appears in "Polly of the Circus," Sept. 9; Mad ; Kennedy in "Baby Mine," Sept. 23; Maxine Elliott 'Fighting Odds," Oct. 7, and Jane Cowl in "Spreading Dawn," Oct. 21 m There is no longer any mystery or concealment as to the productions to be published by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, for that new company this week announces by name, together with the dates of publication, its first four productions. Goldwyn will inaugurate its publication of films throughout the world on September 9 with its most widely exploited little star, Mae Marsh, in "Polly of the Circus," Margaret Mayo's celebrated play, which made a big success in the dramatic field. The second Goldwyn picture will present Madge Kennedy, noted comedienne of the stage, in her first screen production, "Baby Mine," also K Margaret Mayo, one of her most if* cessful stage farce comedies, lis production will be issued SepterriT 23. Maxine Elliott in Film Maxine Elliott, dramatic favorit<» two continents, makes her first Ppcarance on any screen in Goldwfa third film, "Fighting Odds," by P Cooper Megrue and Irvin S. C§This will be issued October 7. Jane Cowl, noted emotional fcr of the stage, is the heroine and m in "The Spreading Dawn," the fell' Goldwyn film, which will be . m throughout the world October 21. f