The Film Daily (1922)

;^i*BRADSTREET o/FILMDOH Authority Vol. XX No. 23 Sunday, April 23, 1922 Price 25c Copyright, 1922, Wid's Film and Film Folks, Inc. Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y., by WID'S FILM AND FILM FOLKS, INC. Joseph Dannenberg, President and Editor ; J. W. Alicoate, Treasurer and Business Manager; J. A. Cron, Advertising Manager Entered as second-class matter May 21, 1918, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free). United States, Outside of Greater New York, $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00, Foreign, $15.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. Telephone, Vanderbilt 4551-4552-5558. Hollywood, CaUfornia: 6411 Hollywood Blvd. Phone, Hollywood 1603. Chicago Representative : Irving Mack, 808 South Wabash Ave. London Representative : W. A. Williamson, Kinematograph Weekly, 85 Long Acre, London, W. C. 2. Paris Representative : Le Film, 42, Rue de Clichy. Central European Representative: Internationale Filmschau, Prague (Czecho-Slovakia), Wenzelsplatz. Features Reviewed Mae Murray in FASCINATION Tiffany Prod. — Metro Page 2 Dorothy Dalton in. .THE CRIMSON CHALLENGE Paramount Page 3 THE FIRST WOMAN R-C Pictures Page 6 MAN FROM HELL'S RIVER Western Pict. Exploitation Co. — St. R'ts . . Page 7 Pearl White in WITHOUT FEAR Fox Page 9 Irene Castle in NO TRESPASSING Holtre Prod. — Hodkinson Eage 10 Miss Du Pont in A WONDERFUL WIFE Universal Page 12 Katherine MacDonald in THE INFIDEL Assoc. First Nat'l Pict Page 13 IS MATRIMONY A FAILURE? Paramount Page 15 Hugh B. Evans, Jr., presents RIDIN' WILD Western Pict. Exploitation Co. — St. R'ts. Page 16 Wanda Hawley in THE TRUTHFUL LIAR Realart-Paramount Page 17 Franklyn Farnum in SO THIS IS ARIZONA W. M. Smith— State Rights Page 18 Short Reels Page 19 News of the Week in Headlines Monday D. W. Griffith has three more to make under contract as producer for United Artists. David Horsley turns to exhibiting field. E. M. Saunders and F. B. Warren report coiidition.s picking up. Tuesday Producers of educationals and industrials to form one national organization. Lambert bill on music copyright to be heard at puljlic hearing in Washington, May 5. C. R. Seelye buys old version of "Ten Nights in a Bar Room." Indiana exhibitors back Will H. Hays. M. P. P. D. A. and T. O. C. C. unite to aid in charity drive in Greater New York. Reported Boston company selling stock to make fihiis based on Hollywood scandals. ''First National group leaves for annual meeting at West Baden, Ind. Wednesday Ethel Clayton and Jane Novak to star for R-C Pictures. Rachmann-Hamilton difficulties settled. Former resigns office but holds stock interest in Hamilton units. Fifty thousand shares of Eastman common ofifered at $77.50. Will Rogers reported signed by H. O. Davis. N. A. M. P. I. annual report lists 77 theater members. Will H. Hays bans exhibition of Arbuckle films. ^ Thursday Marshall Neilan signed with Goldwyn. Richard A. Rowland may join First National. Famous Players to make serial in France for consumption there only. F. B. Warren thinks report of 2,500 theaters closed is wrong. Jim Quinn says elimination of tax on 10 cent admissions is responsible for adverse tax figures in January and February. Eastman stock issue subscribed. Friday First National to handle 60 pictures next year. Louis B. Mayer signs Fred Niblo for Metro release. William Brandt retires as T. O. C. C. president. Many executives attend Ritz dinner. "^Neilan's Goldwyn contract calls for eight pictures. James R. Grainger continues as sales manager. Christy Cabanne to make one film for Dependable. Nicholas Schenck thinks Arbuckle ban a temporary one only. Saturday S. S. Cohen after M. P. T. O. re-election. Rex Ingram renews Metro contract. "Pardoning the had is injuring the good"— Benjamin Franltlin,