The Film Daily (1922)

// THE Features for 1922-'23 (Continued from Page 1) tributors places the coming output at 513 as compared with 615 last year, and that of the state right organizations at 395 for the coming season, as compared with 128 last year. In gathering the information which forms the basis of this article, the estimates published are in all cases those supplied by the distributor. If state righters carry out their present plans, certainly it indicates a remarkable improvement in production in that branch of the business and consequently considerable faith in its future. Only three companies are not included in the list of national distributors; Allied Producers and Distributors Corp.; United Artists and Vitagraph. Officials of those companies stated they could not tell at the moment what their new schedules called for. Below will be found the national distributors and the state right distributors in alphabetic form. The latter list is subject to revision: National Distributors 1922-'23 1921-'22 Releases Releases Allied Prod, and Dist No estimate American Releasing 60 . . Asso. Exhib., Inc 20 l8 Famous Players 75 95 •Film Booking Offices 36 28 First National 60 50 Fox 57 93 Goldwyn 20 30 Hodkinson 24 24 Metro 36 32 Pathe 6 26 Playgoers Pict., Inc 26 36 Selznick 16 40 Select 20 United Artists No estimate 24 Universal 57 65 Vitagraph No estimate 54 Total 513 615 *R-C Dist. Corp. changes its name to Film Booking Offices tomorrow. State Right Distributors 1922-'23 1921-'22 Releases Releases Affiliated Dist., Inc., 4 10 Arrow 26 36 Ay won 15 32 Big Feature Rights Corp 12 C. B. C 6 8 Clark-Cornelius 26 East Coast Prod., Inc 28 Equity 12 10 Export and Import 4 Federated 6 Graphic 6 Hamilton, G. H., Inc., 24 Howells Sales 12 Lee-Bradford Corp 12 National Exchanges, Inc 24 Producers Security 30 32 Rialto Prod., Inc 26 Second Nat 24 Smith, Wm. M. Prod 8 Truart Film 12 Warner Bros 6 Weiss Bros 12 West. Pict. Exploit. Co 36 Wiley, Geo. H. Inc., 16 World Film 8 Total 395 128 Going After African Material (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Seattle — Hereford T. Cowling, Burton Holmes travel man, has been shooting scenes of Mount Rainier, Snoqualmie Falls and Olympic Peninsula. On Aug. 25 he leaves America for a seven month's trip over the trail made by Theodore Roosevelt, in Africa. / -sm^ DAILY Friday, June 30, 1922 Coast Brevities (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Hollywood — Priscilla Dean will next appear in "Live and Love," a society story, by Edward. S. Moflfat. Herbert Rawlinson's next production will be "The Rainbow Chaser," which Harry A. Pollard will direct. Lee Moran will go to Europe where he will appear in several pictures which will complete his present contract with Century. Dick Hatton will start work on his next picture in about three weeks, having completed "Ridin' Through." Al Santell is up and around, having completely recovered from the operation for appendicitis. C. M. Franklin will start work at the United studios on a new series of two reelers in which children and animals will be features, after he completes the Chinese story which he is now directing. Helene Chadwick and Gaston Glass will appear in "Gimme." ' Marshall Neilan has arrived at Culver City studios and is mapping out his first production for Goldwyn. Viora Daniels, after spending a year and a half with Christie is contemplating making her bow in features. George O'Hara and Fred Jackman will co-direct Mack Sennett comedies. Jack Mower will be seen in "Bitter Sweet," which Lambert Hillyer is directing for Universal. Eva Novak will be seen in "The Rock of Ages," in support of her sister, Jane. It is an R-C production. Warner Oland has a comedy role in "East Is West." Malcolm MacGregor will play the stellar role in "Broken Chains," now in production at Goldwyn under direction of Allen Holubar. Viola Dale will play the feminine lead in Harry Carey's forthcoming production, under Val Paul's direction. Eugene Manlove Rhodes wrote the story. Raymond Hatton, Adolph Menjou, Arthur Rankin, Walter Long, Fred Huntley, Anne Cornwall and Claire DuBrey will be seen in the cast of "To Have and to Hold" which George Fitzmaurice is producing. Gloria Swanson is now at work on "The Impossible Mrs. Bellew," under Sam Wood's direction. Buster Keaton's next comedy for First National release is "Day Dreams." Katherine MacDonald has finished "White Shoulders"; "Money 1 Money! Money 1" Avill follow. H. E. GAUSMAN. Guts and Flashes Louise Du Pre, is starred in "The Proof of Innocence." Casco Prod., Inc., is distributing on the state right market. "Mr. Potter of Texas" starring Maclyn Arbuckle is ready for release through Producers' Security. Mildred E. Phillips formerly associate editor of Fox News is now managing editor of Starland Revue. Ethyl Murray, who won a recent beauty contest in Canada is appearing in "Missing Millions" with Alice Brady. Jean Acker will appear in person next Wednesday at Loew's Palace in Brooklyn and at the Avenue B, in New York and at the Boulevard on Thursday where she will conduct an opportunity contest. Century Comedy releases for July are "Live Wires," "Apartment Wanted," "You and Me" and "Hello Mars." Hugo H. Kempf, Arthur S. Kane, John C. Ragland and Robert F. Noonan are the officers of the Film Storage and Forwarding Corp"., which will spend $200,000 on the erection of a film warehouse in Long Island City. Clen Cavender, who has been appearing for Fox for some time, is now with Century. Bradley in Seattle for "U" (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Seattle— George E. Bradley, h. been sent to Seattle by Paul Gulic. of Universal to .act as special publicit manager for the local exchange, McMuIlen is Transferred (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Peoria, 111,— R. C. 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