Exhibitors Herald (Jun-Sep 1924)

158 E X H I B I T O K S HERALD July 5, 1924 Where Strength is Economy BULL DOGS are Strongest Economy in film shipping cases means using the strongest cases money can buy. Rull Dog Film Shipping Cases are proof against express handling and all kinds of wear and tear. That’s why they are economical. They save your films and have the longest life of any case on the market. . Accom m odates reels packed flat. Made in sizes from 2 to S reel capacity. ■ Ipproved by the Bureau of E.xplosivcs Bull Dog Film Shipping Case Made of galvanized steel throughout, top and bottom extra heav}' and dra\\n in onepiece. Riveted, not welded. Body ^ is of one piece — Tough fibre lining. Our special lock is springless, unbreakable, and will not shake open. Permits reels to rest on itid. Made in all sizes from I to 8 reel capacity. .approved by the Bureau of Explosives. Nu-Code Film Shipping Case Has the same high quality and durability as the Bull Dog, but is of a different model, permitting reels to rest on end. The strongest case in its class. Give either of tliese cases a test. Try them out under the hardest usage. You will find that their strength is your best economy. Write totfay for circulars giving full description. RUSSAKOV CAN COMPANY Film Case Department 936-946 West Chicago Ave. Chicago, Illinois Cosmopolitan M.-fRION D.4I'IES’ new picture, "Janice .M credit h,” is occupying plenty of the atteiitioii of^ the Cosmopolitan organization. .Aot! ing is being spared to making this forthcoming feature shine even among the star's past array of outstanding productions. Rapid progress is being made in the diming at the 44th Street studios in Neio fork. Among the larger scenes dnished are the Ride of Paul Revere, the battle of Le.vington, Patrick Henry’s speech, t :e Boston tea party, Valley Forge and others. Despite the fact that many big scenes hair been taken, others of equal proportion remain yet to be made. The production schedule, however, is being well maintained, Cosmopolitan reports. Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford, Jlaclyn .drbnckle, Joseph RAIgour and ot' ers appear in the supporting cast. E. Mason Hopper is directing. First National ACTIVE WORK has begun at United Studios on Earl Hudson’s special for First National, “The Lost World,” which is from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel. This will be one of the company’s “Dreadnoughts,” which means one of its biggest pictures. Bessie Love, Lewis Stone and Wallace Beery will play the leading roles. Harry O. Hoyt will direct. . . . Colleen Moore’s next First National picture called “Temperament” is practically completed. Conway Tearle plays opposite Miss Moore. ■9 + + JOSEPH M. SCHENCK has signed Eugene O’Brien and Ronald Coleman to play opposite Norma Talmadge and sister Constance in forthcoming pictures. Norma’s next is called “Fight” and is an original screen story by C. Gardner Sullivan. Another original script is bein.g prepared for Constance. . . .To Colleen Moore fell the honor of opening the Venice Investment Company’s newest theatre, the New Dome at Ocean Park, with her “The Perfect Flapper.” + + + AN ACTRESS WHO CAN convincingly play the part of the repentant Magdalene will find a job with Thomas H. Ince. Mr. Ince is looking for someone to play this part, and as scon as he makes his choice the cameras will go into action filming Kathleen Norris’ novel, “Christine of the Hungry Heart.” John Griffith Wray will direct. . . . Norman Kerry has been given an important role in “Tarnish,” being made by George Fitzmaurice and Samuel Goldwyn. Producers Distributing Corp. A CONTRACT HAS BEEN closed by W. E. Seymour, eastern division manager of Producers Distributing Corporation, and G. Falkner, Washington branch manager, whereby “Hold Your Breath" will be shown at the New Tivoli theatre, W’ashington. Included in tlie deal for the Crandall circuit are also "The Lightning Rider,” “Not One to Spare” and "What Shall I Do?” + + + SALESMAN JOHN R. MAHON of the Philadelphia office of Producers Distributing Corporation has closed a contract with the Broad theatre, Pennsgrove, N. J., whereby only that company's pictures will be shown in the Broad during .■\ugust. The program comprises twentyfour features, thirteen All Star comedies, six of the Rod and Gun films, twelve Great .\merican Authors, four Triarts, six Bray comedies. iMovie Chats and Fun from the Press. + + + “MIAMI,” STARRING Betty Compson, is off to a flying start, according to a telegram received bj Paul C. Mooney, vice-president of Producers Security Corporation, from Manager Ralph Kreutuzherger of the American theatre. Salt Lake City. Kreutuzberger wired the cheerful information that “Miami” opened to the biggest business of the year with two resorts throwing open their doors as counter-attractions. Vitagraph PRODUCTION OF “The Clean Heart” has been started by J. Stuart Blackton. This A. S. M. Hutchinson story has Percy Marmont in the leading role of Philip Wriford and Otis Harlan as Puddlebox .... Whitman Bennett has begun production at his Yonkers studio of “Two Shall Be Bom,” which Vitagraph will issue. Kenneth Harlan, Jane Novak and Sigrid Holmquist will have the featured roles. . . An elaborate press book is being compiled by Vitagraph on “The Code of the Wilderness,” which will be published this summer. + + + ARRANGEMENTS ARE BEING MADE for a Broadway showing of “Behold This Woman,” the J. Stuart Blackton oicturization of the novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim with Irene Rich, Marguerite de la Mctte, Charles Post, Rosemary Theby, Harry Myers and Anders Randolph in the leading roles. Prints are being rushed from the Brooklyn laboratories to all branches for publication this summer. Members of the executive family of Vitagraph who have seen this latest production by Mr. Blackton are enthusiastic about it. Associated Exhibitors J’RODl CTIOR LAHTS OF Associated E.vhibitors arc c.vtrcmely busy. Murray IV. Garsson is completing "The Lawful Cheater.’ the drst of a series of four. Howard Estabrook has started on his second production in the east, "The Price of a F^arty. ’ If illiam K. Howard is preparing an adaptation of the .Saturday Evening Post Story, "fVherc Is the Tropic of Capricorn?” Arthur S. Beck is making "T'-e Grcat^ Chicago Fire” and Monty Banks, who_ is now on the zvest coast, is' ready to begin the drst of four feature comedies. Century HERE’S YOUR LINEUP OF NEW Century comedies for July: “.Lost Control,” featuring Harry McCoy, Hilliard Karr, Jack Earle and others; “Starving Beauties,” featuring Wanda Wiley, the new Century star, and the Century Follies Girls; “Budding Youth,” starring Buddy Messinger and the Century Kids; “Her City Sport,” featuring Waunda Wiley with Harry McCoy and Hilliard Karr; and “Paging Money,” featuring Henry Murdock and “Spec” O’Donnell. Developing Printing Tinting Toning Titling Editing The “Laboratory Individual Attention” Cameramen and Small Producers Write for Estimates on Ycur Work Dirmeyer Studios 259 Monroe Avenue Rochester, N.Y.