The Film Daily (1922)

THE sm^ DAILV Monday, April 24, 192 Vol. XX No. 24 Monday. April 24. 1922 Price 5 Cents Copyright 1922, Wid's Film and Film Folks. Inc., Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y.. by WID'S FILMS 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, •t the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States. Outside o{ 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. 'Phone: Vanderbilt 4S51-4SS2-SS58. Hollywood, California — 6411 Hollywood Blvd. Phone, Hollywood 1603. Chicago Representative — Irving Mack, 808 S. Wabash Ave. London Representative — W. A. Williamson, Kmematograph Weekly, 85 Lon^ Acre. London, W. C. 2. Paris Representative — Le Film. 42, Rue de Clichy. Central European Representative — Internationale . Filmschau, Prague ^zecho-Slo vakia), Wenzelsplatz. Quotations High Low Close Sales P. P.-L. .. 823/^ 8l3/i 82^ 2,100 "^ do pfd. . 93'/^ 93^ 93^^ 100 X*Goldwyn .. 85^ iy% 8^ 6,600 Griffith Not quoted Loew's .... 18 175^ 173^ 1,200 Triangle Not quoted World Not quoted ♦Quotations by H. Content & Co. $75,000 Theater for Shreveport (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Shreveport, La. — A contract has been let to erect a theater to cost $75,000, for the recently organized Stewart Theater Company, of which C. C. Stewart and J. K. Stewart, Jr., are president and secretary-manager. Saturday Evening Post WILL TELL 12,000,000 PEOPLE ALL ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES SHORT-REEL FEATURES IN JUNE! ■ THE. SPICE 01; T)JE PROCHAM" TT S P«t. Off Quality Service Associated Screen News, Inc. Laboratories Flushing, L. I. Phone, Bryant 1939 Sample Prints Developing Release Work Impressions, Not Confessions (Continued from Page 1) (Nowadays, however, the exhibitors have all taken a course. In Art, Literature, etc. And most everybody in this industry. Now eats with his fork.) ACOUSTICS And I do not believe any of the stories that go round. Such as the film salesman, who told an exhibitor that he thought his acoustics were rather bad. And the exhibitor replied : "That's funny! I don't smell anything." ,; ? PHENOMENAL PROGRESS MADE Seriously, though^the progress made in every branch of this business during the past few years, is phenomenal ! Can you imagine the effect the growth of this business would have upon a man who, say, went to sleep ten years ago and awoke tomorrow. Are we going to make proportionate progress during the next few years? Or are we all saturated with the cry of hard times. Are we going to sit by, do nothing, and wait for good times to roll around? GOOD TIMES MUST BE CREATED Good times will never come unless we create them. Upon analysis, times are really not hard. They are merely not soft. If one wants to be truthful, one must admit, times were unusually soft for most of us during the war, and the period immediately following it. We have no right to expect such soft times. It is not in the cards. If we reconstruct our afifairs, we will find the profits far greater than even during the period preceding the war. We have grown to expect too much. COMEDY OR TRAGEDY? I do not know whether Danny expected comedy or tragedy, so you may interpret the foregoing paragraph as you like. Considering everything, I think we all have a great deal to be thankful for, for having hit upon the picture business as a career. It has everything else beat a million miles. I love the picture business and everybody in it. Even my enemies. Without them, it would be dull. CONSIDER YOURSELF MENTIONED My friends would naturally expect me not to overlook this opportunity for free publicity by mentioning their names. But I have so many and this paper is so small — so friends, consider your names as having been mentioned. It is not often that a fellow has a chance to fill the space reserved for an Editor. And if Danny would only print the things I have often thought about Editors — "OH BOY !" "AL" LICHTMAN To Producers and Directors After you have made a production, and release has been arranged, are you certain that your interests are being satisfactorily attended to? Are you satisfied that the accounting is to your liking; are you willing to allow the ordinary exploitation aid of that big machine to safeguard your property? These are only some of the points of the service which this organization will insure you. OSCAR PRICE 555 Fifth Ave. at 46th St. Murray Hill 2372 New York Paragon Buys "Ne'er-Do-Well (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Newark — Paragon Film Exchai ; has purchased "The Ne'er-Do-Wi for Northern New Jersey. The d 1 was closed with Robert W. Priest ! New York. Detroit Managers Shifted (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Detroit — J. B. Dugger has bn appointed Paramount manager, s ceeding Fred North, who will be charge of sales. ; Hiir Ralph Quive ' has tendered resignation as manager for Amerit Releasing, and has been succeec by C. Eiseman, formerly with Pa mount in Washington. Tom O. Eyerie left Saturday to ' sume the management of the Kan;' City branch of Vitagraph. Harold Shaw with Alliance (Special to THE FILM DAILV) London — Harold Shaw will pi duce for Alliance. His first picti, will be "Love and the Whirlwind.'' Phcne— Beekman 9091 im^M XBALi SBRVIC 119 Fulton St., N. Y. 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