Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1924-Mar 1925)

32 EXHIBITORS HERALD February 28, 1925 New YORK. — Billy Brandt wants to find someone who can tell him the difference between a projectionist and a motion picture operator and Charlie O’Reilly says it’s the pay envelope. . . . Morrie Ryskind found the weather wouldn’t prevent so he resigned his job with Doc. Riesenfeld. . . . Joe Schenck is back from Europe looking hale, hearty and full of pep. . . . Paul Gulick says Universal’s picture “Once a Pedlar,” is not the story of a film salesman. . . . Bill Goldman is here from St. Louis and willing to talk about his new 4,000 seat theatre. Lou Jacobson declared a holiday last Saturday as he makes it a rule not to work on Valentino’s Day. . . . Christy Cabanne returned last week from Rome where he has been working with Fred Niblo on the direction of “Ben Hur.” Quinn Martin is making speeches to Press Clubs on why he doesn’t mingle socially with beautiful motion picture actresses. . . . Joe Plunkett let up on radio long enough to stage the presentations of “The Lost World” and “Quo Vadis.” Benny Schulberg said good-bye to /. G. Bachmann Sunday and left for the West Coast. . . . J. Gordon Edwards says William Fox invited him to go back home and he accepted. . . . Barrett Keisling volunteered to show Ed Obnstead, Riesenfeld’s new publicity director, how to get from the Rialto to Times Square . John Flinn says whoever started the P. D. C. -Warner Brothers combination story, was simply making funny noises from the face out. . . . Charlie Christie, here for several weeks getting Carroll Trowbridge, his Eastern representative, established in new offices, leaves this week for home. . . . Paul Mooney attended the opening of “Charley’s Aunt” and thinks it a right good show. . . . Senator Jimmy Walker may enter the producing game and again he may not with the last one the best bet. . . . iMrry Trimble has gone back to the Coast to make a picture for Universal. Phil Rosen, director of “Abraham Lincoln,” et al., has signed a long term contract with Sawyer & Lubin. . . . Bruce Johnson sailed Saturday for several months in Europe. . . . Tom North, ahvays there in big sporting matters, is telling the world that Mickey Walker, welter champ, is a great film actor. . . . /. Charles Davis, 2nd, is sales tripping in Midwest territory. . . . Glenn Allvine figures he’s going to be pretty lonesome when “The Ten Commandments” closes. . . . Bill Yearsley is due back from the Coast this week if he doesn’t find some good fishing place along the way. . . . Nat Rothstein says the Kentucky cave prisoner affair is not one of his publicity stunts for a F. B. O. picture. . . . Ray Johnson was mistaken for a matinee idol and offered a job by a casting director. . . . Editor Howe asks “Didn’t we guess right” on the de Mille hook up, which is not denied, but a lot of others had it and didn’t guess. . . . Wilfred Noy, preferring America to his home country, refused an offer to return to England to direct pictures. . . . Bill Hurst is the busy bird handling the business end of both the Fox and Glendale studios. . . . Harry Warner, after getting set here for a lot of big things, commuted back to the West Coast last week. — SPARGO. The down town corner of Eighth and Walnut streets, Kansas City, was rocked when a bomb wrecked the front of the World-in-Motion theatre, owned by Earl H. Roraback. Damage was estimated at $5,100. The house had been picketed for several months by the operators’ union. About ten days ago the pickets were withdrawn. The withdrawal, according to M. Coffee, secretary of the Picture Machine Operators Union, was because of finances only. Any labor trouble, he said, could not have been responsible for the explosion. An investigation is being made, however. The auditorium of the theatre was not damaged. Mr. Roraback is an operator, although not a union operator, and has been operating his own projection machine. Will H. Hays back in Hollywood. Among the first men the “big boss’’ of filmdom visited was Frank Lloyd, producer-director of "The Sea Hawk,” “The Silent Watcher,” “Her Husband’s Secret” and other First National attractions. The wholesomeness of the Lloyd specials drew compliments from Mr. Hays. Prominent Hollywood celebrities. Dorothy Farnum, who wrote the scenarios for Warner Brothers “Main Street,” “Beau Brummel” and other Classics, and her husband, Maurice Barber, general manager of Cinema Finance Corporation, leaving for New York to sail on February 17 on a world tour.