The Film Daily (1922)

4 7Ao brAdstreet o/* FILHDOM Vol. XXII No. 55 Memorandum Book Fox Records of Jim Callahan's Producing Company mcern in Troub .Atlantic City — Tin ames Callahan Motion Picture Corp which secured a' Delaware charte last January authorizing the sale o a million dollar capital stock in the form of 100,00.) shares at 10 each, was recently probed before Justice of the Peace Paxson. James Callahan, its president, was at that time in the city jail, unable to secure $20,000 bail. Charles Dunn, proprieto • of a delacatessen store, is secretary, and declared that he had $300 invested ir the stock. The records he possesse: of the million dollar corporation, ar^ kept in a pocket memorandum bool and a stock certificate book. Callahan was arrested on complain of Mrs. Ernesta Vannucci, hotel pro prietress, who had invested $300 in the company. The company floated considerable stock in Bridgeton and Vineland. During the stock selling time in i Bridgeton a studio was operated. The officers of the Callahan Corporation, according to Secretary Dunn are: President, James Callahan; Vice iContinued on Page 2) The Troubles of an Exhibitor The following has been received from Zeke Beesun, Split Lip, Nevada: Dear Danny: I have read with interest the grief of Brother Deneker at Pneumonia and while he sure has my sympathies, I want to state that I am anything but a heavy hitter in the Luck League. I own and operate, the Smellsbad Theater at Split Lip, about 60 miles north of Pneumonia, as the Ford flies, and we have a population ! of seventy-six souls and two insurance agents. My house is situated about eight doors from the main street, and it takes a pretty good front to pull the neighbors ofT the drag. If the occasion demands it, I can crowd 83 customers into my house, but I am taking a chance in doing so as the last time I done it, fourteen were suffocated. You see the Smellsbad wasn't built for a theater. Prior to my taking it over, it was used as a temporary freight station for cattle, and although I fumigate it before every show, the minute I get a few folks in, the odor of swine pervades the atmosphere. The last time I had (Continued on Page 3) Ti^^RECOGMIZEII Authority Price 5 Cents After the Adams boys saw "Thorns and Orange Blossoms" they booked it at once fot the U. S. Photoplay theater in Paterson, N. J., and for the Newark theater in Newark, N. J. Wise exhibitors. Watch the army of boosters grow! The Al Lichtman exchanges are handling distribution. — Advt. Through Allied Prods. & Distribs. The productions of the newly formed Affiliated Authors, Inc., will probably be handled by Allied Prods. & Distribs., according to Frank E. Woods, one of the organizers of the producing company. Reports Coast Active Frank Lloyd, who arrived yesterday from the Coast to direct Norma Talmadge in "Within the Law," reports considerable production activity in Hollywood. "The Metro, United, Selznick, Goldwyn, Fox, Universal and Famous Players studios are all busy," Lloyd said. "The producers are maintaining a healthy atmosphere out there. While there is nothing hectic about the situation there are more productions now being filmed than for some time." Lloyd's plans for the future, after he finishes "Within the Law" are not yet definite. Tony Gaudio, camera man, arrived with Lloyd. The Talmadge party, including Norma. Constance, Mrs. Margaret Talmadge and Jos. M. Schenck arrived yesterday on the Mauretariia 1 after several months abroad. Stahl to Coast John M. Stahl will leave for the Coast soon to start work on "Money, Love and the Woman" for Louis B. Mayer. Hays Coast Representatives When the Hays organization opens offices in Los Angeles, pursuant to tlie plan previously noted, the men in charge will be Thomas J. Patten, former postmaster of New York City, and Jos. O'Neill, now with the Hays organization, according to present indications. Straw Vote Against Censorship fSpecial 'n THE FIT.M DAILY) Cleveland, O. — W. D. McGuire, of the National Board of Review, addressed the Chamber of Commerce at luncheon here on the difficulties, inconsistencies and arbitrary character of State censorship. McGuire followed his talk by screening several cuts made by various censor boards in comedies and news weeklies. A ballot was taken on the films with a resultant vote of more than two to one that the picture should have been passed without change. Analyze Plans Many Important Film Folk Discuss English Productions Ideas With Col. Bromhead For the first time in the history of the industry the question of how .\merican film folk viewed the idea of British made productions — as to their desirability for America — was liscussed in the open yesterday at the Astor. The discussion came in a brief after luncheon talk as the result of ■"ol. A. C. Bromhead, of the English Gaumont Co., announcing the ambitious plans which his organization has in mind: of making large and important pictures destined to find a place among the picture successes of and in America. The Colonel, who sails on the Majestic today, briefly outlined his plans^ — calling for the first to be made by an American director, with American stars, in Fngland and producing Hall Caine's "The Quality of Mercy." Harry Warner, of Vv^arner Bros., urged Col. Bromhead to proceed carefully, making clear that one of the difficulties of English productions was the British atmosphere injected, to which Warner declared, there was objection from American audiences. (Continued on Paite 2) British Boom England Expects the Cinema to Become Leading Industry — Its Theaters Equivalent to Continental Cafes (Special to THE FILM DAILY) London — Writing in the Daily Express, G. A. Atkinson says: "Organization and the leadership of such men as Lord Ashfield and Sir William Jury are solving the problems inherited from get-rich-quick days. "In another five years the cinema industry will probably occupy the fifth or sixth place in this country's commercial hierarchy in respect to capital invested, numbers employed and corporate influence. "The reader will say, 'How can that be? How can a business which exists on a purely artificial and rather Democratic entertainment hope to challenge in wealth and importance such vested interests as railways, banking and shipping?' The answer is that patrons of cinema theaters, at which weekly attendance now aggregate 40,000.000, are not so vitally interested as the reader might suppose in the actual quality of this entertainment. (Continued on Page 2)