Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1924-Mar 1925)

32 EXHIBITORS HERALD January 3, 1925 And Now Altogether: “We Resolve That — ” WELCOME^ 19251 That*s Marguerite de la Motte*s greeting to young 1925 in the person of Edirin Hubbell^ Wampas baby star. Miss de la Motte played **Essi€** in **The Clean Hearty'* a Vitagraph production. M. C. LEVEE, president of United Studios — I resolve not to make any New Years resolutions — and not to break them. ♦ * * TONY MORENO — I promise never to say that the industry is still in its infancy and in the event that I do say it I promise never to say it again. ♦ * * LOUISE GLAUM — I resolve never to refer to myself as “The Peacock Girl” and hope that my friends will never use the phrase again in connection with my name. ♦ ♦ ♦ HELENE CHADWICK — I resolve never to get mad at an advertising solicitor but I do not promise that advertising solicitors will not get mad at me. * * ♦ PAT O'MALLEY — I resolve never to have a photograph taken of myself and my three babies — excepting for publicity purposes. ♦ * ♦ MAURICE TOURNEUR — I resolve to buy tickets for the Wampas Ball and I further resolve that I will make an attempt to get into the hall. ♦ ♦ ♦ MARGUERITE DE LA MOTTE — that I will make my most artistic picture this year. ♦ ♦ ♦ HARRY O. HOYT (director) — that I will not fall below the standard I have set myself in "The Lost World.” * * * ROBERT VIGNOLA (director) — that there will be no deviation from the keynote of wholesomeness which I have sounded in my past year’s production. ♦ * * JOHN BOWERS — that I shall continue my policy of rejecting all roles which I do not consider suited to my talents regardless of the monetary rewards offered. ♦ * * DOROTHY MACKAILL — that I shall continue to justify the faith of producers and directors in my abilities and that I shall double my followers among the fans. * * SAM WOOD (director) — that my productions the coming year shall represent the highest average of my achievements. ♦ ♦ ♦ BERT LYTELL — that I shall make evident to my friends what a stimulus their appreciation has been by doing the best work of my career. ’ * * * CORINNE GRIFFITH — that every new year of my career shall be marked by the same enthusiasm that I brought to my first year of work on the screen. Do You Remember? {Continued from page 31) the limelight in connection with the Dempsey-Carpentier pictures. April True’s action in incorporating second T. O. D. C. brings about reconciliation between Cohen and Harry Davis. Majority of exhibitors interested in distributing proposition. • Martin J. Quigley, publisher of Herald, warns producers against jeopardizing public’s good will by lowering moral character of films. Carl Laemmle first of score of producers to congratulate him on stand. * Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin and D. W. GrifiBth issue statement that all have renewed their contracts with United Artists for period of three years, spiking rumors of organization disbanding. * New York exhibitors oppose biU offered in New York legislature as substitute for censorship. Plans to repeal censorship subsequently fail. • March edition of the “Box Office Record” is enthusiastically received ’ by Herald subscribers. « Edward Earl, president of Nicholas Power Company, dies in New York at age of 53. « R. R. Biechele is elected president of the Kansas exhibitor league. « Jerome Beatty joins Universal as head of exploitation staff. « L. James San heads $6,000,000 merger of New York film laboratories. * Metro Pictures Corporation and Goldwyn are merged into one organization, taking in production interests of Louis B. Mayer. Marcus Loew heads combine, which in addition to vast production and distribution properties includes 106 theatres. • Exhibitors of Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas, Indiana, Illinois and Texas form Allied States Organization with A1 Steffes as chairman. May Balaban & Katz combine their interests with Midwest Theatres, forming first powerful state-wide theatre chain in Illinois. * Walsh of Connecticut, Woodhull of {Continued on page 34)