Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1921 - Mar 1922)

46 EXHIBITORS HERALD February 25. 1922 THERE is a good story floating along Broadway in connection with P. A. Powers buying into R-C Pictures, of which corporation he has become managing director. It is said Mr. Powers negotiated his deal with the London banking firm of Graham & Co., who were quite large investors in the company. John S. Woody, former general manager of Realart, has been looking about for a suitable connection ever since that company was taken under the Paramount roof tree. .Mr. Woody and Fred C. Quimby decided to team up and also decided that it would be good billiards to buy into Robertson-Cole. Woody and Quimby met by pre-arrangement one day last week, took the rubber bands off their bank rolls, counted up and verified their suspicions that collectively they had $250,000 in money, securities or something equally as good. Then they hied themselves up to the Robertson-Cole building to buy themselves part of a producing company. In the elevator going up to the Robertson-Cole offices they met Mr. Powers, and the three chatted about the weather or something. Arriving at the office of Mr. Cole, Woody and Quimby sent in their cards. Without waiting to be announced Mr. Powers walked into Mr. Cole's office and presented his credentials. Mr. Powers remained as managing director. Messrs. Woody and Quimby carried the B. R. back to the latter's offices in the Fitzgerald building, and are now figuring on some other place to use it. Broadway votes Nellie Revell one of the bravest of the brave. In spite of being confined to a hospital bed for the past two years with an incurable spinal ailment which makes it impossible even to change her position, Nellie is doing her bit. And she is doing it just as cheerfully as if she were in health. In addition to writing a daily column for the Evening Mail, and weekly columns for a couple of other publications, Miss Revell has accepted the chairmanship of the Theatrical Newspapers' Division of the New York campaign for Jewish War Sufferers. In announcing her acceptance Miss Revell writes : "Of course, you will understand that the position must be largely honorary for me in the present circumstances, but I am sending you this letter to tell you how much I hope you will give the committee your co-operation when they ask for it." And speaking of Miss Revell, who as everyone in the game knows, is conceded to be the best P. A. product for two decades, it is of interest to note that she sees all the good pictures. Never a week passes but what some of the P. A.'s visits Miss Revell at the hospital to learn what pictures she desires to see. Then an operator with a small projection machine takes the desired film to the hospital and Miss Revell has a little picture show all her own. And Miss Revell says the boys never forget. * * * Rupert rluGHES left last week for the coast, where he will begin work on another Goldwyn picture, the name of which is not yet announced. Mr. Hughes has been in the East for the past two months, during which time he has made a number of speeches against censorship. Before leaving he said : "I have told them all I know about ana against censorship and now I will get back to work directing another picture. Maybe when the censors look at it I will learn something more." * * * Carl Laemmle, one of the several producers now en route to the coast, after reading a lot of the drivel in the daily papers, thinks Hollywood is such an awful place that he is seriously considering building a permanent residence there for himself and family. Only Mr. Laemmle, who knows Hollywood about as well as anyone, places the word "nice" after the "awful." * * * Charles J. Pettijohn was laid up for a couple of days last week with a cold which threatened to develop into influenza, but is able to be on the job at his office, having, he says, escaped a couple of doctors. Mr. Pettijohn is of the opinion that colds are more serious than they were before Volstead tampered with the constitutional amendments. * * * Monte Blue has been engaged to play the lead in "The Queen of the Moulin Rouge" for Pyramid Productions. Lest some be misled, Jack Reilly, Pyramid P. A. hastens to explain that the lead is a male part. * * # Charlie Phillips looked over the lobby display of the "Four Horsemen" at the Capitol, and then tried to place a bet on the horse ridden by Bull Montana. "No other jockey would dare to beat that fellow," decided Phillips. * * * Horace Judge writes to say that if Universal's demon press agent really wants to see a man gnash his teeth, he thinks he knows one who can do that little trick. Horace says the man hasn't many to gnash, but he can gnash what he has. So there you are, Maud Robinson. * * * Jack Me a dor, who has been confined to his hotel room by an attack of influenza, is able to be about again. One of Metro's office boys, when told his boss had been laid up with "flu," looked up at Meador's six foot four or five, and said : "Gee, it must have taken a whole lot of flu to lay him up." * * * William Fox, another flu victim, is now in Palm Beach on a recuperating vacation. That's a good place to let the little tin germs run themselves to death on tiie beach. * * * This from the current A. M. P. A. Bulletin, which shows that the industry gets many a boost : Robert Sherwood, writing to Life, tells of I Georgia convict who was pardoned after serving twenty-five years of his sentence. The first thing he did was to see a motion picture show and the second to apply for re-admission to prison. Ever since Life this been deluged with letters disclaiming this as propaganda. * * * And this one also from the same bright publication, which shows — oh, well, you know what it shows : Somebody whispered there's going to be a six months' holiday in motion picture publicity. That will mean a "holler" day by heads of fillum companies who will have to hustle to hire their personal praise agents. John S. Spakgo. Arthur Brillant Director of Exploitation for Mack Sennett ARTHUR BRILLANT, the pint size P. A., who puts pieces in the papers about Mack Sennett and his bathing girls, doesn't look like a sailor, but he is, or was. He knows how to splice the main brace, say "heave ho" and use other nautical language to prove it. He doesn't look like a cowboy, but he was. He knows the north from the south end of a horse, and can call it a "cayuse" without letting his tongue trip. He's been both of these, besides a lot of other things, including war correspondent, secret service agent during the war, theatrical producer, magazine writer reporter, city editor, scenario writer and' exploitation manager. He admits to ali these indictments, but proudly asserts that he never was an actor, either stage or screen. Born in New York several years ago, Briilant took Horace Greeley's advice (not given to him personally), and hiked out to Minneapolis, where after playing personal appearances in the public schools, he toured the University of Minnesota to the diploma point, and then busted right into the newspaper game in Minneapol's, later working on papers in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Honolulu, Hilo, Manila, Shanghai. Tokyo Pekin, Hong Kong and New York. He was Associated Press correspondent with General Pershing in the Philippines, and with the federal armies in the southern revolution in China. After all these and probably a few other exciting adventures. Brillant decided to settle down to a quiet life writing about bathing girls, so he joined the Sennett forces as director of exploitation, where he still holds forth. Some day when we have a nice, new sharp pencil and a lot of paper and time we arc going to sit down and do a little figuring on the age of this bird.