The Film Daily (1923)

THE •2&H DAILY Tuesday, August 21, 1923 Vol. XIV No 43 Tuesday, Aug. 21 1923 Price 5 Cents Copyright 1923, Wid's Film and Film Folki, Inc.. Published Daily except Saturday, at 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y„ by WID'S FILMS and FILM FOLKS, INC. Joseph Dannenberg, President and Editor; J. \V. Alicoate, Treasurer and Business Manager; Maurice D. Kann, Managing Editor; Donald M. Mersereau, 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. 'Phone: Vanderbilt 4551-4552-5558. Hollywood, California — Walter R. Greene, i 6411 Hollywood Blvd. 'Phone, Hollywood 1603. Chicago Representative — Irving Mack, 738 S. Wabash Ave. London Representative — Ernest W. Fredman. The Film Renter, 53a Shaftesbury Ave., London, W. 1. Paris Representative — Le Film, 42 Rue de Clichy. Central European Representative — Internationale Filmschau, Prague (Czecho-Slovakia), Wenzelsplatz. Quotations <; East. Kod... 1021^ 101 # IOIK2 400 F. P.-L 75/2 73 73X 3,000 do pfd Not quoted oidwyn . \7Vi uy2 ny2 100 Griffith Not quoted Loew's I6/2 16 16J4 1,600 Triangle Not quoted World Not quoted /GkliLC<xtiona£ V^ctuAjuJ IF CARBONS COULD BE MADE BETTER "BIO" WOULD STILL BE THE BEST M. G. Felder Sales Co. DISTRIBUTORS 1S40 BROADWAY NSW YORK, N. Y. FOR SALE Studio Contents. Complete Cooper Hewitts, Kleigel lights, Motor Generator, etc. Very low price. S 21 17836 U.S. THEATRESI SHOWING PICTURES » Under 250 seats, 30%; under 500, 70%; under 800, 85%; over 800, 15% The mott economical method of reaching theatres ia our ADDRESSING SERVICE, $4.00 PER M UP. Liata if deaired. 30 to 50% saved in postage, etc.. through elimina tion of dead and duplicate theatres usually listed. Multigraphing — Mimeographing — Folding — Enclosing — Mailing. MOTION PICTURE DIRECTORY CO 244 West 42nd St.. Near Broadway 'Phone Bryant 8138 Progress Penalized (Continued from Page 1) on unwarranted enthusiasm, the price for .the same picture is doubled and trebled. If you want to get your film service at a reasonable figure, you should own a little, tumbled-down theater, but if you build a big beautiful theater you can ezpect to pay a beautiful price for pictures. "I am not complaining — I am just explaining the system. I know that the distribution and the sales of pictures is all wrong somewhere. There doesn't seem to be any coordination between the buyers and sellers of pict u r e s. The Indiana organization turned down the F. I. L. M. Club and refused to work with it. The point that was made by some of the exhibitors was that the producers are insisting that we give play dates when we buy pictures, but at the same time they insist that we buy groups of pictures, 39 or 52 or whatever it may be, so that if we go before the Film Board, the Board will tell us that we would have to play these pictures and that would keep anyone else from play dates and who is not able to insist on block booking — i. e. the small independent producer. "I think block booking is going to ruin the industry, because it prevents booking the particular picture we want for community or thater. "I am not the most successful exhibitor in the w6rld, but I do know that there isn't anyone who has a more diversified group of theater and I know that certain pictures for certain theaters is the only way that I can operate them at a profit. Exhibitors are beginning to feel that every year some new marketing condition is enforced that makes it more and more difficult to run their business. For example: I had three pictures booked in in August in a certain town and in certain weeks, going on the theory that with these three big pictures I would be able to overcome the summer depression. That was the dope given out recently. "I didn't know when I booked them last May that there would be a Chautauqua one week, a medicine show for three weeks, and other local conditions of such a nature that it would be impossible for me to do anything except lose a lot of money and waste a lot of good pictures for that particular time, and the film company thinks that I should play them on these dates without any regard to the financial loss that I would incur doing it. I gather from what I heard at the convention that a lot of exhibitors are beginning to realize that if the film clubs are able to enforce their rules, it will not be very long until they will be running their theaters in every way except taking care of the losses. One thing seems certain, the stronger the rules the more opposition by exhibitors." Clara Beranger Here Clara Beranger is back in town from a trip to the coast where she conferred with William de Mille. Grand Back on the Coast (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Los Angeles — Sam Grand has returned from New York. Brenon Here Herbert Brenon is in town from the coast. Before leaving Los Angeles, he finished "The Spanish Dancer," the new Negri picture. Rockett Leaves Ray Rockett left for the coast last night. He will return in a few weeks with the first print of "The Dramatic Life of Abaham Lincoln." McConville to Supervise Jewel (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Los Angeles — Bernard McConville, is now with Universal as supervising editor oi all Jewell productions. itor oi Kearney Joins Preferred Patrick Kearney who has resigned as advertising manager of Cosmopolitan will shortly assume similar duties as advertising manager of Preferred. Pathe Denies Pathe denied yesterday that the deal for the distribution of the Chronicles of America series of historical romances included the non-theatrical rights as stated in yesterdays issue. Hal Hodes Better Hal Hodes, manager of the New York Educational office left the hospital last night, following a recent operation for appendicitis. Hodes will spend a few days in the country to fully recuperate. Phone — Beekman 9091 rnone — ueeicman yuvi HEAL SBtrvMaf lit Fulton St., N. Y. 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