Exhibitors Herald (1925)

32 EXHIBITORS HERALD December 12, 1925 % NEW YORK — Julian Solomon says National Laugh Month is going to be so funny that he has to laugh every time he thinks of the funny stuff he is going to write about. . . . Bob Kane went to Leo BrechePs Plaza theatre last week to see “Bluebeard’s Seven Wives” and voted it a pretty good picture. . . . Abe Warner blew in from a Western trip last week and now Harry Warner is getting ready to go to the Coast for a long stay. . . . R. H. Burnside is thinking of making more pictures and a luncheon conference with Whitman Bennett may mean something or nothing. . . . "Pop” Linton, former treasurer of the M. P. T. O. — N. Y., was in New York last week and told of a new big theatre he is to build in his home town of Utica. . . . Harry Lichtig, of Englander & Lichtig, who has been in New York for three weeks, has returned to Hollywood. . . . Hal Hodes has just been elected president of the Short Films Syndicate, and now watch it hum. . . . Eddie Esch mann was presented with a nice shiny shotgun by his First National friends, but says he won’t use it on Broadway. . . . Leon Errol made a personal appearance at the Strand with Sam Rork’s “Clothes Make the Pirate,” and his legs didn’t wobble a bit. . . . Frank Tinney is back from Europe without Bubbles, but there is no record of anyone trying to get him into pictures. . . . Jack Coogan, Sr., left for the Coast •early last week, stopping en route for a visit to his home town of Syracuse. . . • Marcus Loew left November 28 for the Coast and now we can look for something doing on that Metro-United Artists merger. . . .Al Boasberg says he has gone to the West Coast to work, which brings up a question of what he called what he was doing here. . . . Dave Chatkin says he will join the Sam Katz organization ABOUT December 13, either the day before or that day after, but not on that date. . . . Charlie Raymond, of the Newman and Royal theatres, Kansas City, spent last week in New York looking them over on Broadway. . . . Eddie Hurley did NOT attend Tex Guinan’s farewell party at the Texas Tommy Club, and bears no marks of it. . . . John Lowell, who has been traveling and making a picture with Miller Brothers circus, is back in New York for a few days. . . . Larry Weingarten, with a new expense account book, left for a tour of the exchanges last week wearing a glad smile, Arthur Bernstein having left for the Coast the day before. . . . Paul Sloan is in New York for a couple of weeks and says it is a vacation. . . . Joe Weil, Paul Gulick and George Brown represented Universal at the Hays luncheon at the Waldorf, Mr. Laemmle being out of the city. . . . Sam Moross, recently resigned from the T. O. C. C., has become a motion picture theatre broker, so if you want to buy or sell see Sam, and this is not a paid ad. . . . John S. Robinson, late of the Meador-Robertson picture corporation, arrived from abroad. . . . Sam Berman, having finished electing Jimmy Walker, has purchased another theatre to take care of his spare time. . . . Budd Rogers, vicepresident of Lumas Films, is back from a trip around the country selling pictures. S. L. {Roxy) Rothafel will be the guest of honor at this week’s session of the A. M. P. A. and the session will not be broadcast. — SPARGO. At left is Hoot Gibson, Universal star who appears in “The Man in the Saddle”; below is Wanda Wiley, star of Century comedies; at right is Louise Dresser, star in “The Goose Wo mt MM “A Delightful Dozen ” Above is Marion Nixon, star in “Sporting Life”; right, Eugene O’B r i e n, star in “S i e g e”; below. House Peters, star of “Storm Breaker”; on his left is Edna Murphy of “The Little Giant.” Above is Virginia Valli, who appears in many Universal pictures of late. She is featured opposite Eugene O’Brien in a remarkable role in “Siege.” Below is Clive Brook, who is seen in “The Home Maker.” William Desmond, left, appears in “The Ace of Spades”; Cullen Landis, center, appears in “Peacock Feathers”; Jean Hersholt appears in “My Old Dutch.”