Exhibitors Herald (Jul-Sep 1922)

CHICAGO TRADE EVENTS Screen Service Now Has Chicago Branch Office Here Serves Illinois; Indiana, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin National Screen Service has opened a branch at 732 South Wabash avenue, Chicago, from which the states of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri and Iowa will be served. Ii. C. Young is in charge of the office. A competent staff has been organized to handle exhibitor service in the five states. Serves Big Circuits National now has 1,200 subscribers to its service in the East and South, numbering among those it serves such theatrical enterprises as the S. A. Lynch circuit, the Stanley circuit, the Keith and Moss chain, the William Fox houses and others. National is an authorized representative of all producers and is in a position, according to its officials, to supply exhibitors with actual scenes from every picture produced. Plans Further Expansion Officials of the organization declare that it is only a question of a short time before slides will be discarded entirely, the trailer supplanting them. It is probable that the company will announce further expansion within a short time. Carter Is Fox Guest Lincoln J. Carter was a guest of Fox Film Company last week and Ben Garetson, who is doing special work for Clyde Eckhardt, used him to good advantage in getting publicity for "The Fast Mail," the screen version of Carter's play. "The Fast Mail" is a combination of all the thrills Carter wrote into several plays, such as "Down Mobile," "Bedford's Hope," "The Eleventh Hour," "The Heart of Chicago" and "Chattanooga." The picture played to capacity last week at the Rose theatre in Madison street. Hobart Henley Goes East Hobart Henley, one of Universal'* directors, passed through Chicago en route to New York, September 20. Activities on the Coast, according to Mr. Henley, point to one of the busiest seasons in the history of the industry. Mr. Henley is on vacation, and after a two weeks' stay in New York will return to Universal City. Rubens Again Under Knife L. M. Rubens, president of the M. P. T. O. of Illinois was operated on for the third time last Thursday. At the Presbyterian hospital in Joliet, physicians in charge report that the exhibitor's condition is gradually improving. UNIVERSAL STAGES UNIQUE STUNT— In connection with the showing of "The Radio King" on Sept. 20, District Manager Stern of the Chicago office, had Maurice Francill, of Marion, O., demonstrate his invention of running a miniature auto around the roof, controlled by a radio sending outfit. Many exhibitors and representatives of the press attended. Rothacker Prepares Print On Newman-African Film E. M. Newman, lecturer and globe trotter, returned from Atnca with 3u,uou feet of negative which he had developed at the Rothacker Chicago laboratory. Accompanied by two cameramen, he made a 7,000 mile trip through the heart of Africa from the Cape to Cairo. The journey took five months. "But it was well worth the effort," said Mr. Newman. "I don't believe there is a species of animal in the African jungles that we failed to get on film. We made cinema studies of 200 different tribes of natives." For a year he will show the pictures exclusively with his lectures. Then they will be published to the theatres. He opens at Orchestra Hall, Chicago, October 11. Falling Stone Fractures Skull of Frank Thielan Frank Thielan, of Aurora, owner and manager of a chain of theatres in Joliet, Ottawa, Elgin and Aurora, and president of Central States Fair Association, was struck on the head by a twenty-pound stone which fell from the sixth floor of an office building in Joliet last week. His skull was fractured. He is now in St. Joseph's hospital there but is recovering rapidly. Bandits Slug Harris Samuel Harris saved his box office receipts but not his hide last week when thugs held him up before his home at 4(i."i0 Ellis avenue. When the bandits failed to find the theatre receipts on his person they slugged him unconscious. NEWSPAPERS in cities where "Rich Men's Wives" has played have been extremely laudatory in their praise of this initial publication of Al Lichtman Corporation. It is a Preferred Picture.