Exhibitors Herald (Sep-Dec 1918)

EXHIBITORS HERALD AND MOTOGRAPHY ti»iiminwwiMiimt ■ imhiiiiiiiim iiihmihhhihi kimiikk iimum tmmw | PERSONALS I !_. ™ "By George" J Interest was agog Monday of this week in all the exchanges because of the huge 18 to 45 lottery at Washington. All the young fellers in town who are managing exchanges exhibited considerable interest in where they were going to land in the draft and even the "young old men" who shuffle their way about the loop with a green ticket partook of the excitement. The severe epidemic of questionnairreitis is slowly being checked, but old Spanish "Flu" is still getting its victims. By the way, why Spanish? Hun Fever, us thinks, would be better for a low-life disease like that. Frank "Bonus" Rogers is back in town with a voice like a world series fan. Must have cheered those Pathe executives to an echo down to New York. Can't let this pass without congratulating Frank on the more sombre type of neckwear he is effecting. Harry Weiss, of Central, is back in town after plowing through Illinois roads for two weeks. It rained every day he was out, he says, and at one point a farmer, believing the mud clad craft to be Noah's Ark, attempted to board with a pair of twin ducks. Weiss is now boosting the good roads bond issue. Carl Laemmle came through Chicago this week headed for Universal City. Joe Brandt is making a tour of exchanges as is C. H. MacGowan, general auditor of the company. Must be painting and papering the New York office. I. Leserman has purchased two dozen Ford tires and has them draped about his office. They resemble anaemic dough nuts. Leserman hasn't been the same since that Greek exhibitor thought he was trying to sell him a seventy-five reel feature. Friend Cbatburn was week-ending the past seven days down to Galesburg and up to Madison, Wis. We always envied Chat. He's so constructed that he can sit in his own lap and a rough road bed is child's play for him. In the meantime the VVabash Avenue elevated structure goes unnoticed. Out-of-town exhibs swooped down on us in bunches this week. Among those we recognized or who were recognized for us, were Lee Jarodski, Danville; Miss Olga Heilstadt, Marquette Theatre, La Salle; J. F. Dillman, Strand, Freeport; Lillian Collins, Burke Theatre, Kenosha, and C. II. Camp, Plaza, Mount Vernon. And oh, yes, Charles Lamb, of Rockford, was also in our village, and Mrs. Lamb was with him. After he had visited all the trim exchanges and spent all the time he could, the Mrs. finally got him over to department store row and he went home a sheared Lamb. Max Herz, of the Silee Film Exchange, is down in New York looking after some business affairs of his company. Wouldn't be a bit surprised to see some new posters on the bulletin board in a short time. Chris Nelson, of the Colonial Theatre, Galesburg, who was stricken ill while on an auto tour, still remains in a serious condition at a hospital in Aurora, 111. F. C. Quimby, of Fort Wayne, and more or less well known in our city, made his first and last flight in an airplane last week. He says there ain't no such thing as getting in on the ground floor of that proposition. Friend Hollander has it in the N. Y. Telegraph that "Max Goldstine, district manager for Paramount-Artcraft in this vicinity will pack up his firm's belongings and move them from the Consumers Building to the Famous PlayersLasky building, which has been in the hands of artisans since early last July." He ain't fooling us, Max, we know you're going to hire movers just like everybody else does. Little Dorphia Browne, Watterson Rothacker's "find," is to appear in a feature entitled "Mama's Angel Child." The picture is to be published under the Monogram Films brand and is being produced at the Romaine Fielding studio. Penny Ross, a cartoonist, wrote the story for the play. i On the Firm' Line Ever and anon a spirit of optimism manifests itself which is worthy of comment. In Rutter of the Sherry Service, we found this spirit with a vengeance. He's moving his household effects from Quincy, 111. He has received the bill of lading and expects the said household effects within a couple of days. Oh, death, where is thy sting? George La Veen has been promoted. He is now second assistant to the second assistant sales manager or something like that. The bird who told us about it was not quite clear on the matter himself and of course Gawge , modest violet what he is, wouldn't say anything about it. What's a few fire plugs more or less to a feller like Salkin what's got a brokerage business. The genial Morrie will buy anything from United coupons in hundred lots to the asbestos concession in the well-known Hades. There's something funny about that first coupon deal he made. Morrie didn't look at the expiration date on the darn things. Art Thompson of the World staff has fallen a victim to Spanish Influenza and is pretty ill. He's putting up a game right and, with everybody in kingdom pulling for him, he can't help but win out. Speaking of Henri Ellman, as we weren't, that lad is now working on a regular schedule. Of course we don't say that blondes don't buy fillums. We've heard of such a thing. But if Henri is spending all that time trying to sell her fillums, she isn't easily convinced. Beehive, Henri, beehive. George West, of Bee Hive fame, is reported to have reached his quota of rat skins for that fur coat he is figuring on presenting to a fair stenographer. George isn't making any names public, but we'll ratify it without that. President Mitchell's edict concerning the Union depot sure made an impression on one "Chub" Florine. "Chub" not only uses the depot in question to the exclusion of all others, but has been taking his meals at the Union restaurant and is said to be contemplating the purchase of a Union suit. GEORGE WALSH IN A SCENE FROM "ON THE JUMP IX THIS LATEST FOX PRODUCTION THE POPULAR STAR IS SEEN AS A REPORTER, WHO EXPOSES A PRO-GERMAN PLOT. 52