The Film Daily (1923)

THE ■cB^H DAILY Thursday, August 23, 19 Vol XXV No. 45 Thursday. Aug. 23 1923 Price 5 Cents Copyright 1 o 2 J . Wid's Film ami Film Folks. Inc.. Published Daily except Saturday, at M 73 West -Will St., New York, N. Y., by WID'S FILMS and FILM FOLKS, INC. loseph DannenberR. President and Editor; J. W. Alicoate, Treasurer and Business Manlier; Maurice D. Kami, Managing Editor; Donald M. Mersereau. Advertising Manager. Entered as second class matter May 21. 1918, it the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March ,i. 1879. Terms (Postage tree) 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. Hollvwood. California — Walter R. Greene, 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-Slo vakia), Wenzelsplatz. Quotations East. Kod. 103^ 103 103 400 F. P.-L 74/, 72J4 72% 8,400 do pfd 88 87 87 200 Goldwyn Not quoted ' Griffith Not quoted Loew's Not quoted Triangle ' Not quoted World Not quoted Musicians Get Wage Increase ' Wage increases from $65 to $80 per week have been granted Local No. 802 of the American Federation of Musicians by owners of the large picture houses. The big first-runs in particular are affected. Sunbeam Theater Burns (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Los Angeles — An explosion in tinprojection room of the Sunbeam theater, 69th St. and Compton Ave., caused a sensational tire here. Loss, $50,000. Dowling on Trip Pat Dowling is due in New York next week from the MidWest where he has been visiting newspaper editors and exhibitors in the interest of Christie Comedies. Changes in Preferred Force Al Lichtman, announces the following changes in the Preferred sales force. Norman Sper has been appointed manager in Albany replacing Robert Harris, resigned. Paul Bush has been appointed manager in Chicago and Haskell M. Masters a special representative. f (SkLtLcciZionxit 0 tctuAjuJ THE SPICE OF THE PROGRAM" Favors Percentage (Continued from Page 1) should have the same chance to buy pictures on competitive bids. I other words, the exhibitor must not have to combat underground power that will take a picture away from him regardless of the proposition he may make. I have always believed that a fair and equitable percentage basis is really the fair way in which to judge the box office value. I appreciate the fact that it would be impossible for every exhibitor to run on the percentage basis in every city, but in key cities where there is an exchange and the producing company has an office force that can take care of the key city theater, I believe it would be the best for the producer to run his pictures on a percentage basis in these cities as well as large cities. It would be through this medium that they would know the real value of the picture in the territory. They could thus be guided as to what price they could ask in the surrounding territory. Very often the producer is over-enthusiastic over his picture and demands a price which is unreasonable, and at times possibly he underestimates his product. I know of no other medium that would give them a sound, reasonable and fair basis on which to work than on the percentage basis. Here, I want to give you a concrete example of what percentage basis means to the producer. Several weeks ago, a good friend of mine was in the city trying to sell me a production, which was unusual and he asked me what I thought it was worth. I told him that this was one picture the box office value of which I did not know and asked him why should either of us guess at this. Maybe he would sell it too cheaply or maybe he would over-rate it and I thought the best thing to do was to play it on a percentage basis. We are playing this picture this week. I am sure I could have bought this picture outright for at least $2000 less than the producer will receive for his share. Would it have been fair for me to have purchased this outright and not have given the producer all he was entitled to? The statement I am making to you is an actual fact. So you can see the value of a percentage arrangement in a key city or in a large city. Stillman, Cleveland Reopens ^Special to THE FILM DAILY) jCTeveland — The Stillman, after a y jrfx week's summer revival policy n-1 opened its regular season Sunday with The Spoilers." Jake Cooper Nearly Better (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Chicago — Jack Cooper of the 20th Century theater will be on the job soon after a six week's illness. Chaney Coming East Lon Chaney is due in New York from the coast on Saturday to appear at the premiere of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" at the Astor theater Sept. 2. Schlank Sees Overproduction" (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Los Angeles — Morris R. Schlank is back from a tour of the country. He declares there are too many features in production and that there will be a large oversupply this fall. Fecke Handling Own Sales George M. A. Fecke states that, while it is true he will produce the "Big Boy" Williams series, distribution will not be through Aywon but will be handled by him personally. Screen "The Gold Diggers" Abe Warner gave a dinner for David Belasco last night at Villepigues, at Sheepshead Bay after which "The Gold Diggers was screened. In the party were Benjamin Roder, Belasco's general manager and Mrs. Pearl Keating of the Warner scenario department. Uyour filmL. riSoRco 220 WEST 42 ^STREET NEW YORK PHONE CHECKERING 2937 ALLANA.L0WNES PRES. Kane, Jr. Joins Associated There are now two Arthur S. Kai with Associated Exhibitors. Kal Jr., son of the president has joined 1 advertising and publicity departmei QUALITY ART TITLES The Waller Studios Fred Waller— Grace Waller 11 East 14th Street Stuyvesant 2652 Fisher Productions, inc. .. oAnnounce That it has just complet and will shortly release a superlative motion picture "ENEMIES OF CHILDREN" TITLE AND ALL OTHER RIGHTO FULLY PROTECTED Distributed by Mammoth Pictures Corp. Victor B. Fisher, Gen'l. Mgr. 1540 Broadway New York There's no detail too delicate, no highlight too brilliant for faithful reproduction on EASTMAN POSITIVE FILM It carries through to the screen the entire range ot tones that care in exposing has secured in the negative. Eastman Film, both regular and tinted base — now obtainable in thousand foot lengths, is identified throughout its length by the words "Eastman" "Kodak" stenciled in black letters in the transparent margin. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY ROCHESTER, N. Y.