Exhibitors Herald (Oct-Dec 1920)

38 EXHIBITORS HERALD October 16, 1920 □ n □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □DnaDaaDDDanaDDaDaaaDaDDQDDaaaaGaacaGG^aaaaaaaaaaaaDDDda Heraldgrams Q. Samuel I. Berkan, persona] representatiye Sydney S. Cohen, president of M. P. T. 0. A., passed through Chicago, Oct. 4, en route to exhihitors' conventions at Lansing, Mich., and Cincinnati, Ohio. * * * Maxwell Karger, director general of Metro, upon the completion of cutting and editing of "Polly With a Past," "The Misleading Lady" and "Fine Feathers," will forsake the New York studio in West Sixty-first street for the solitude of the Canadian forests. He will, spend two weeks in the North woods. * * * J. S. Jessey, special representative of the Arrow Film Corporation, is making a swing around the Western circuit, visiting state rights buyers, in the interests of Arrow Mr. Jessey will be gone three months. * * * . Louis Bal-m has resigned as Northwestern district manager for Universal, with headquarters in Chicago. Mr. Baum was formerly located in Cincinnati as Universal exchange manager. * * * Carl Laemmle, president of Universal will return to the United States from Furope about Nov. 1. He is greatly improved in health by his trip abroad. K. II. Cochrane announces. * ♦ * Bennie Zkidman and Ban Kane have formed a partnership in Los Angeles t" produce films. The first picture will be "From Rags to Riches." It is not the storj of Bennie's life, but an adapted melodrama. * * * Eve Unsell, the scenarist, who recentlj returned from Furope. has renewed her contract with Famous Players-Lasky. * * * V. P. Whitaker, division manager of Selznick Enterprises on the West coast ; C. C. Ezel, southern division manager; Sam Sax, of the Central division, have returned home following a conference in New York with Lewis J. Selznick, Sam E. Morris. David Selznick and other home office executives. * * * Geoffrey Nye, who recently returned from a ten months' trip to the Orient and Australasia, used as a selling argument 2,300 feet of studio film showing the size of the Goldwyn Culver City, Cal., plant. * * * B. D. Russell, of Russell, Griever & Russell, left Chicago for Los Angeles, Oct. 1, in the interests of Capital Film Company, where he will be joined during this week by C. M. Cloverdale, president of Capital. Upon liis return Mr. Russell will bring a print of Lester Cuneo's feature, "Lone Hand Wilson." C. H. MaOGOWZN, for eight years with I niversal. has resigned t< » head an organization to be known as "Macgowan's, Inc." They will distribute motion pictures both here and abroad. * * * Maj. Charles H. Bell, manager of the I^ondon studios of Famous Playcrs-I-asky. sailed for Europe on the Mauretania, Sept. :to. after a lour months' tour investigating motion picture production in America. * * * W. C. Herrmann, executive manager of I niversal's New York City exchange, is making a tour of inspection of exchanges in the United States and Canada. A luncheon was tendered Mr. Herrmann, at the Astor hotel, on the eve of his departure. He will be absent three months. * * * Jin. \w I'.nitv, director of publicity and advertising. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, accompanied by A. O. Dillenbeck, of the HantT-Metzgcr Advertising agency, New York, returned to New S'ork from the West coast Oct. 4. * * * Andrew J. Cai.laghan. president of A. J. ( allaghan Productions, Inc., had a narrow escape from death Sept. 28, when an automobile he was driving stalled on a railroad crossing. The machine was demolished and ' Mr. Callaghan received minor injuries in leaping from the car. * • * J. I. Schxitzkk, president of Equity Pictures Corporation, is making a three weeks' tour of the Middle West. He is making a first-hand study of the film market. * » * Fred WaRSEN, general manager of Associated Producers, left New York on Oct 5 for Los Angeles. Me made a brief stop in Chicago. * * * Marshall Neilan and his company are now in Glacier Park, Montana, where scenes for "Not a Drum Was Heard" are to be made. * » * Eugene H. Kalfmann, manager of the Accessory Department of Inter-Ocean Film Corporation, is visiting the company's West coast offices in Hollywood. □ Re-Takes News By J. R. M. □ Well, those who bet on the Sox" to win last year can still kid themselves that they picked the best team. * * * Woods Are Full of 'Em— Didja ever in your life see so many "I told you so" guys as there are nowadays? And they all knew baseball was crooked. * * * THF.Y had to put the x-ray on ACTOR LAC-KAY'S ANKLE TO SEE WHAT WAS THE M AT I KR WITH IT. AFTER HIS LMOI'MIK Willi Mil, SKY M'CKAW MICHT TURN IT ON JAWNS HEAD FOR THE SAME REASON. * * • Hard On the Dog— Every time we get a press story about them hiring a launch to take a pomcranian down New York bay to meet his mistress coming home from Urope, we get all excited and go out and kick the pillars out from under the "L." * * * Said Eric to Eddie — Fddie Polo said they wouldn't let him jump off the bridge across the Seine when he was in Paris. "That's the only dive they won't permit in Paris," remarked Eric Von Stroheim. who evidently knows. * » ♦ Canned the Players — The Chicago grand jury started to sitt the baseball evidence just as cold weather hit the town and the ash cans were all in use. * * * No. Indeed — Not all Harding followers are Cox sure of his election. * * « Wonder what Gov. Cox had that rowing machine installed in his private car for? * * * Is it possible Bryan tipped him off he might need it? » * * They Don't Get 'Em All— When John Emerson and Anita Loos of scenario fame moved to a newapartment in New York the other day they had to hire a special van to carry the scenarios submitted to them by amateurs during the last few weeks. How many little scenario writers have you in your family? THOUGH a man should never be judged by his clothes, it is usually safe practice to estimate the quality of a photo-play by the posters that accompany it. When RITCHEY posters go with a film it is safe to say that the photo-play itself is likewise excellent. — for fine automobile accessories are never found in a taxicab. RITCHEY LITHOGRAPHING CORPORATION 406 West 31st Street, New York Phone: Chelsea 8388