Exhibitors Herald (Apr-Jun 1922)

44 EXHIBITORS HERALD April 29, 1922 RL'.MOR has it that Eddie Bonns is so jealous of the success of Herb Crooker and Victor Nurnberg since their song, "The Isle of Zorda" has met with such a pleasing reception, that he is thinking of writing a song himself which he admits will be a real song, with music and lyrics by E. Bonns. The only small thing he has to overcome according to Louis Marangella, is that he doesn't know anything about music and has the same amount of knowledge about lyrics. As Marangella explains it Bonns is about in the position of the man who was about to cook his own breakfast and said : "If I had some ham I'd have some ham and eggs if I had some eggs." * * * And that Herb Crooker is getting himself in training to back Longfellow, Goldsmith and the Campbell's Soup poet clear off the boards. Having an idle moment between the pie and the demi-tasse one day last week nonchalantly and with one hand, Crooker dashed off the following for the A. M. P. A. Bulletin : A movie queen and a male star lead Had both decided to wed. He'd bought the ring, the darned old thing When he cracked her over the head. The folks all asked why the thing was off For their love had been divine. "On the cards this dame, she wanted her name In much bigger type than mine." Nellie Revell, than whom there has been no better or better loved P. A. on Broadway for the past two decades, has not lost her cheerfulness in spite of the fact that for the past three years she has been confined to a hospital cot with a spine injured beyond repair. Says Nellie, in a column she conducts in a local paper : They let me sit up for thirty minutes last week, but they pulled three teeth in the meantime. I must have gone to sleep with my mouth open and a nurse saw I had teeth and reported me to the doctors. Anyhow, I seem to be getting closer to that operation for dandruff every day. After that I wonder what new outlet they will find for their personally conducted Cook's tour restlessness? They can't do anything more to me unless they rig me up as a radio receiving station. * * * Lewis Allen Browne, for three years special writer for the Selznick organization, who wrote the continuity for Owen Moore's latest picture, "Reported Missing," has just finished a story and continuity for the H. L. Steiner production starring Arthur Housman. Mr. Browne resigned from the Selznick staff because he did not want to pull up stakes and move to the coast, and is now doing free lance work, which includes original stories, adaptations, continuities and titles. He has a suburban home at 347 Highwood avenue, Leonia, N. J., and declares that all the attractions of the coast cannot lure him away from his dogs, chickens, ("be sure and explain that they are not the Broadway variety but Rhode Island Reds," he warned us) and garden. * * * Many of the wise birds of the industry have been predicting that the radiophone craze would hurt the film business, and now these predictions have come true. Leo Pollock, who has been dealing publicity from the top, bottom and middle for Cosmopolitan pictures since Hector was an infant canine, has gone over to the radio. Last week he resigned his position to take a job as radio editor of the Nezv York Journal. * * * Among other changes at Cosmopolitan is the departure from that organization of James F. Sayles, who has had charge of the advertising department. C. L. Dixon, formerly with Cosmopolitan, but more recently looking after exploitation for R-C pictures, has returned to his old love, having taken over the management of both the advertising and publicity departments. * * * Members of the A. M. P. A. received a shock when it was whispered around at last week's luncheon that Ben Grimm had fallen so hard for the English since reaching London a couple of weeks ago, that there was danger of his joining Willy Waldorf Astor and other expatriate plutocrats, or plutocratic expatriates, as you please. Diligent search in running down the rumor disclosed that it was based on the fact that Ben since reaching London, had changed his cognomen to "B. Harrison Grimm." Paul Gulick declares that in spite of "B. Harrison Grimm's" address being No. 1 Pall Mall Alley, he is confident that B. Harrison has not yet renounced his American citizenship. Herman Stark, violinist at the Criterion, has deserted "The Loves of Pharaoh" for a few days. It's a girl at the Stark domicile. Papa Stark declares he has been in a position to make a competent and complete survey of the beauty of Dagny Servaes, who plays the queen in the Lubitsch production, and that the damsel who won the love of the Egyptian monarch, does not run one, two, three with the little queen of the Stark clan. And now Dore Davidson, who has made a place for himself in film history as a Yiddish papa, has acquired the personal appearance habit. He made his first appearance at the Rialto recently in connection with the picture "The Good Provider." * * * Monte W. Sohn, well known in film circles, and recently editor of the Trade Review, is now connected with the Commanday-Roth Company in the capacity of advertising and printing service counsel. * * * Bill Yearsley, says P. A. Parsons, has fallen from grace and he is thinking seriously of scratching his name off the Izaak Walton list. Yearsley is the man who invented the fish-hook, Parsons conceived the idea of the fish-line, leaving the credit for devising the fishing-rod to \\ alton. For lo, these many years Yearsley and I'arsons have never failed each other on ;i proposed trip to lure the finny monsters from the unsalted H20. Yearsley went fishing last Saturday. Parsons didn't. At the last minute, so Yearsley says, P. A. called him on the phone and said he couldn't go as Lowell Dutton I'arsons objected to his being away from him so long. P, S. — Lowell Dutton Parsons, age three weeks, is the heir apparent to the Parsons throne. ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN and Niles Welch at the parting of the ways in "Reckless Youth," the latest SelznickHammerstein production, Rutgers Neilson, of "Topics" and "Fables" was married April 17 to Miss Mary Adele Howard at the Church of the Holy Communion, in New York City. John S. Spargo. Magicians in Protest _A gainst Films Which Expose Their Methods (Special to Exhibitors Herald) NEW YORK, April 18.— In a lettei • to managers of various Broadway theatres Harry Houdini, president of th( Society of American Magicians, protest! the presentation of films exposing th< mysteries of the profession to the pub lie". He terms the practice "unethical," "un professional" and points out that th> result is injurious to the business of tlv magicians. According to his letter, th magicians have a hard enough time as i is, inventing and creating new ideas. Kansas City Arranges "Go to Theatre Week} (Special to Exhibitors Herald) KANSAS CITY, MO., April 18. — Tb office of First National here has arrange a "Go to Theatre Week" in the Kans; City territory for the week of May 1. H. G. Gill will be in charge of the e: ploitation phase of the campaign, whi special one-sheet posters are to be fu nished the exhibitors at cost, about fr> cents a sheet. Special exploitation campaigns are be laid out on each separate pictu booked from First National for a run du ing the week. [Will Star Carpentier (Special to Exhibitors Herald) NEW YORK, April 18.— Georges C; pentier is to appear as a film star und the direction of J. Stuart Blackton England. —