Exhibitors Herald (Oct-Dec 1920)

)2 EXHIBITORS HERALD October 23, 1920 Reading The Ouija Board J »Wrth J. B New York City, Oct. 12, 1920. Allen Rock is about ready to spring his winter release. The picture was directed by VVray Physioc. Aside from that we can say nothing at this time. * * * Max K. Mazub is to hit the trail for Harry Sherman in the west. Max was in New York last week. * * * EDMUND GrAINGEB has been paging furniture <luring the past week for King Yidor's new office in the Capitol Theatre building. Ed will probably avoid purchasing chairs as he doesn't want "bench warmers." * * » Fakirs in the Bronx advertised for two hundred ex-soldiers to act in moving pictures at seven dollars per day. Four hundred responded to the ad and it was then found that they had to pay two dollars and a half each for employment. They wrecked the office and the "it" was only saved from a mob finish by the police. In court he said he was acting as agent for some one else in the picture business. In some states these pickpockets would be hanged first and tried afterward. Too bad it happened in the Bronx. * * * IIakky O. Schwalhe, First National Secretary is on a hunting trip in Maine with Nathan Gordon, First National franchise holder of Boston. No casualties reported up to the hour of going to press. * * * Charles Christie, of Christie comedy fame, came to town last Thursday. He is stopping at the Belmont. * * * Pete Smith, Marshall Neilan's publicity director, arrived here October 11 from the Coast. Brown as a berry and as fat as his nature will permit. * * * Ed O'Hara, formerly coast publicity representative for Marshall Ncilan, is in New Eddie's Got the Gimme's York in connection with a production proposition he is fostering with his brother, Kenneth O'Hara. * * * Ediue Bonns is in town from the well known west Coast. While away Eddie was looking into this monkey gland theory and had his photo taken with a Chester comedian. Eddie can't afford to grow old while a member of the Alamo Boat Club. * * * Mrs. A. K. Be.mhx, operating the Bendix music bureau in New York, which supplies artists for motion picture theatres, has an enviable list of references. Included in it are the names of many exhibitors who have become shining lights of progressiveness and who are in charge of many of America's biggest motion picture theatres. Mr>. Bendix has such artists as Tavie Beige, the comic opera singer ; Cesar Nesi, Grace Hoffman, Jacob Rabiroff, Dorothy South under her management. » » * Jules Cowles, the well known character actor, was seen piloting a Rolls-Royce down the Avenue the other day. Must confess we thought Jules was acting as chaperon for someone but the Auto Red Book shows that Jules is it. How come? * * » Don't forget the A. M. P. A. "If-NotUhy-Not Dinner" on Friday, Oct. 15 at 7 P. M. at the Cafe boulevard. The tickets are $4 and the gang says it will be worth it. * * * "Blood and Bone" is the title of a picture soon to make its appearance. Sounds like Hundersons catalogue for the kitchen garden. * * * George Blaisdell, who has recently been appointed to the post of advertising and publicity chief for the Stoll Pictures, is the right man in the right place. George has the knowledge and the ability and if given scope enough he will make the new proposition hum. We know of no more able man to put the Stoll pictures on the American map than George Blaisdell. * * .* Grace Christie, whose bubble dance was a feat ure of "What's in a Name" is dancing "The Butterfly and the Beetle" at the Rialto this week. * * * A small riot was nipped in the bud in front of 729 Seventh avenue one day last week. Two boys were matching nickels in a front window and one nickel fell and landed on the window sill. Had the coin ever fallen to the sidewalk among the curb roosters there would have been a battle that would have necessitated the calling out of reserves and perhaps a flock of ambulances. They should put wire mesh on the windows. Eddie Bonns, general sales manager for Chester Productions, bums a light from one of the Chester players, after mooching a cigar from him. C. B. G. Has Slow Expose Of Baseball Crook Plays "The Great Baseball Scandal," a slowmotion camera expose of the trickery of crooked players and the plays by which they can throw games, is a timely single reel announced for the states rights market by C. B. C. Film Sales Corporation of New York. This single reel was edited by an authority on baseball and was produced by Lincoln A. Borthwick who made the motion picture "Babe Ruth; How He Makes His Home Runs." State Rights ^uyers NOW R.EADT THE VICTIM One of the mostpowerful dramatic m super features ever f i lmed ALSO. blG FEATURES •Hillroom Boys Comedies' .* Screen Snapshots' . 2~Reel Westerns Educationals and other • Short Staff c & c Film Sales Corp. Joe Brandt, Pres. 1600 5'way, N.Y