Exhibitors Herald (Jan-Mar 1920)

EXHIBITORS HERALD □ Young 1920 got off to a good start anyway. * * * Davih Wark Griffith arrived in New York city on January 2 from Miami, Florida, where he finished the exterior scones for his forthcoming feature. * * * Everybody seemed to have a good time New Year's eve, even though it was the year of the great drought. Some excellent imitations were given by ye old tyme "stews" too. * * • Arthur Loew, son of Marcus Loew. and Mildred Zukor. daughter of Adolph Zukor, were married in New York on Tuesday, January 6. * * * Pacl C. Moonev, general sales manager for Louis B. Mayer Productions, arrived in New York city last week after touring the principal cities of the country from coast to coast and back again in the interests of "In Old Kentucky" and the new Mildred Harris Chaplin pictures. * * * Martin J. Quiglev, publisher of Exhibitors Herald, is in New York on business. * * * Lieut. Charles L Reid, recently of the U. S. Signal Corps, Photographic section at Archangel, Russia, and Lieut. Eugene F. Sullivan of the same corps are nowmaking preparations for a long tour of Furope for the purpose of making educational and scenic motion pictures. » * * Theodore KoSLOFF, famous Russian dancer, has affixed his signature to a longterm agreement, by the terms of which he will appear in and assist in directing future Paramount-Artcraft pictures. * * * Leon T. Osborne has signed with Cliff Smith to direct Edythe Sterling Productions. These will be distributed through Republic Film Corporation. * * * Lewis J. Selznick was made chairman of the committee of distribution, to head a campaign to combat the spread of Bolshevism, at a conference between officials of the government and representatives of the motion picture industry at Washington, D. C. last week. Oren F. Woody, Los Angeles branch manager for Realart. tendered a dinner to Arthur S. Kane, former president of Realart Pictures Corporation, at the Hotel Alexandria, on December 23. * * * Nathan Ascher, of the firm of Ascher brothers, Chicago, went to New York on January 2 to transact business for the firm. * * * Sol Lesser's plans for the near future include the erection of a modern studio to cost $200,000. * ♦ ♦ R. D. Craver, W. N. Snead, M. P. Cobb. B. Lea. Harry Lea, Gordon Tugcle, Edward Rosenstock and John F. Pryor, all from Dannsville. Va.. and exhibitor members of the southern clan of good fellowship, have been staying at the Hotel Astor, New York, for the past ten days. * ♦ * E. Wertheimer of London has purchased Robert McLaughlin's special feature, "The House Without Children," for British Isles. He will tour the principal cities of the United Kingdom giving special presentations. * * * Lloyd Young, advertising counselor for Argus Enterprises, Cleveland, O., has completed and published a press book on the state right feature, "The House Without Children." * * * Alfred Tanzer, formerly on the staff of the United Pictures Theatres of America's Chicago office, as Wisconsin representative, has been promoted to the position of manager of the Detroit office by J. A. Berst, president of United. * « • Geoffrey Xyk. bmu associated with large motion picture enterprises in Australia and New Zealand, has been appointed Goldwyn representative in the bar East. Mr. Nye left New York for San Francisco December 'i~ and sailed for Shanghai, where he will begin his campaign of exploitation, lie will be gone nine months. * * * Mrs. Robert Jackson, who acted in a confidential capacity for the late "Smiling Bill" Parsons in California, has resigned from the National Film Corporation of America. Ill health is given as the cause for Mrs. Jackson's resignation from National. .□ Re-Takes ^ News By J. r. m □ We'll SeeNotice where the packers get two years in which to unscramble their tea, coffee, sugar and grocery business from the meat and egg industry. They say it's awfully hard to unscramble an egg and maybe two years won't be long enough in which to do it. No, Indeed — See where some one has been stealing Hugo Riesenfeld's clothes on the installment plan while he has been directing the Rivoli and Rialto theatres in New York. He's shy five suits and two vclour hats up to date. If anybody'd try that on us we'd have to stay in bed till the culprit was caught. We buy our suits on the installment plan, but we can't afford to lose them that way. Sounds Fishy — And we have it, on good authority, that Florence Billings, an actress, recently returned to New York City from Florida, where she was working in a Selznick picture, and she didn't bring back a pet alligator. Germans Getting Wise — Headline : "Kaiser a Fool ; Son a Triflcr," is the way the German national congress summed up "their majesties" at Amerongen. But the information comes about five vcars too late. SEE WHERE THE "MAYFLOWEK" IS GOING TO SAIL BACK TO ENGLAND XEY1 MAY. WELL, YOU CAN'T BLAME HEK. WITH THIS COUNTRY DRY IT WOULD BE KINDA PUNK TRYING TO CELEBRATE THE SHIP'S 300TII ANNIVERSARY OVER HERE. The present price of "skee" is making more teetotalers than the W. C. T. U. Is One Enough — Harry Smalley says they're building a large corral out near Los Angeles to hold the bulls made by directors. There's going to be a lot of dry humor after Jan. 16th. DRE-EMINENT among posters is the RITCHEY poster. It is invariably a work of force and power— a dynamic concentration of essential advertising values! It's popularity with exhibitors is easily explained. — It gels results! THE RITCHEY LITHOGRAPHING CORPORATION 406 W. 31st Street. New York Phone. Chelsea 8388 46