Exhibitors Herald (Jan-Mar 1920)

March 20, 1920 EXHIBITORS HERALD 37 z Topics of the Day □ □ □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□DDQDQDDOD "Well, Mike how's the world treating you ?"' "Very seldom, sorr, very seldom." — Home Sector. * The peace treaty is expected to reach the door of the Senate again, when it will probably be referred to the committee on rugs and carpets. — Indianapolis AYzo\ * Wanted : Bartender capable of mixing mince pies. — Dallas (Tex.) Xews. "Marrying again. Willie ! Why ye've been married three times already." "Four times Sandy." "'Ye're awful wasteful wi' women.'' — London Blighty. * Japan's "A. B. C." has 2.600 letters. Parents the next time your son kicks about going to school, just mention the fact to him. — Xczv York Telegraph. Some people use a jackass to draw a conveyance : others employ a lawyer. — New York Evening Globe. Two men in Wyoming walked 2.">0 miles through zero temperature to be naturalized. Some of our best citizens are not born but MADE. — Cleveland Plain Dealer. * Xews Item : A man in Hodar. Xeb., is the father of ten children. For the past 20 years he has used Honey and Tar Compound.— Chicago Tribune. * America is experiencing a new birth of freedom. It is learning the error into which it fell when it began to confuse political with human rights. — Seattle Times. * Post card from her husband out West : I'm standin' on .th' edge of a precipice lookin' down 9,000 feet, wish you wuz here." — Youngstown (O.) Telegram. * "Sam. you ought to stay at home and keep out of trouble. Look at your eye." "Man, yuh don't know what yuh talkin" 'bout — home am trouble's headquarters !" — Louisville Journal. * 0 Deacon to village soak : "I was so pleased to see you at service last night." "Well, well', so that's where I was !" — Marion Chronicle. * Teacher — "Xow Willie, what animal supplies your mother with clothes?" "My father." — Sing Sing Bulletin. If there were more men working and fewer trying to save the country, the country would soon be able to save itself. — Xcw York Mail. * Preacher : "Young girls, immodestly clothed, spend half their nights shimmy dancing, and — (Voice from audience) : "'Where at?" — Kansas City Star. * "Why do you go to church so often?" "Man, it is a beautiful sight to see one man keep so manv women quiet." — Houston Post. * "Don't you want to invest in a talking machine?" "No I married one." — Baltimore American. Wanted — Cook : one with some Scotch in her preferred. — Indianapolis News. GEORGE INVADES STRANGE TERRITORY Interesting scene from "One Man in a Million," George Beban's new feature which will soon be ready for distribution by Sol Lesser. As a delineator of Italian characters, Mr. Beban has few equals. Transfer of Lesser Executive Offices To Coast Complete With the arrival in Los Angeles from New York of Max Roth, general manager of the Sol Lesser enterprises, the transfer of the Lesser executive offices to Los Angeles from New York has been completed. Los Angeles is to be production, distribution and exploitation center for Mr. Lesser, who previously has conducted his international distribution from the Longacre building, New York. Temporarily, Mr. Lesser, who is making pictures starring George Beban and Annette Kellermann, will conduct production activities at the Brunton and former Griffith studios. Exteriors for the Kellermann film are being photographed at Brunton, while Beban is busy at the Griffith studios cutting his recently completed picture, "One Man in a Million." The executive staff for Sol Lesser includes Max Roth, general manager: Harry Hammond Beall, publicity director: F. Rubenstein, executive secretary: Irving Lesser, eastern representative, and E. H. Messer. auditor. Mr. Lesser recently took over the physical distribution of the Special Pictures Corporation. Within five days the marketing of the product for the United States was arranged by wires from Los Angeles. Adolph Zukor And Others Re-elected Directors Declare Quarterlv Dividend Of $2 A Share On Common Stock Directors of the Famous PlayersLasky Corporation at a meeting on March 4, in Xew York, re-elected Adolph Zukor president; Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president, and Cecil B. DeMille. director general. Other officers re-elected for the regular one-year term were: Vice president. Frank A. Garbutt; treasurer, Arthur S. Friend; secretary, Elek John Ludvigh: assistant treasurers, Emil E. Shauer and Eugene Zukor; assistant secretaries. Ralph A. Kohn, Frank Meyer and L. S. Wicker. The board declared the regular quarterly dividend of S2 a share on common stock, payable April 1 to stockholders of record March 16. Mrs. Frank Jay Gould To be British Film Star LONDON, March 9.— Mrs. Frank J. Gould, -whose marriage was recently dissolved by the courts in Paris, has signed a contract to become a film star with a new British motion picture combination, according to this morning's newspapers. She will receive a salary which is considered phenomenal for Great Britain, it is said. DeKoven Heirs Sell Lyric to Smothers (Special to Exhibitors Herald) NEW YORK, March 9— E. E. Smathers has acquired the Lyric theatre, West Forty-Second street, for a reported price of $650,000 from the executors of the late Reginald DeKoven, who died recently in Chicago.. Owing to the existing lease of five years to the Shuberts, Mr. Smathers has no plans for the immediate future. It is rumored that the Lyric was acquired for D. W. Griffith. New Canopy Is Erected PEORIA. ILL. — A new canopy has been erected on the Capitol theatre. The dome is of art glass and is patterned after the dome of the capitol building. Washington.