The Film Daily (1923)

Monday, December 24, 1923 THE -Z&>* DAILY To Work With Hays (Continued from Page 1) such as to prohibit their joining or because of other reasons. "Here," he said, "is a body then that will have an excellent representation from state righters, it is hoped, before its organization is completed. It merely means that the industry is closer to an organized state of affairs than before. We will work with the Hays group, the Cohen group, the O'Reilly group, the Brandt group and any other group existing in the business. Anything to further the aims of the independent operators along lines of saner and better business tactics." The distributors in the I. P. D. A. plan to take active steps to protect and enhance their prestige with exhibitors throughout the country by insisting that exchanges who contract with theater men for definite series of pictures supply them rather than substitute something else. They want to eliminate the kick-back that now reaches them through defaulting exI changemen. — Merry Xraas — All Christie Stars at Work (.Special to THE FILM DAILY) Hollywood — All four of the Christie stars are at work. Harold Beaudine is directing Jimmie Adams in "Black and Blue." Neal Burns is . doing "Call the Wagon." Al ChrisI tie is directing Bobby Vernon's, j "Ride 'em Cowboy." Dorothy Dei vore is making "Stay Single." BUYING SPECIALSFEATURES AND SHORT REELS FOR THE TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ADDRESS WITH QUOTATION Selznick Dist. Corp. FOREIGN DEPARTMENT 729 Seventh Ave. N. Y. On Broadway Astor — "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Broadway — "Flaming Youth." Brooklyn Strand — "Little Old New York." Cameo — "A Lady of Quality." Capitol — "The bteadfast Heart." Central — "The shepherd King." Cosmopolitan — "Under The Red Robe." Criterion — "The Covered Wagon." Forty-Fourth Street — "Scaramouche." Loews New York — Today — "Rosita." Tuesday — "Ponjola." Wednesday— "Wild Bill Hickok." Thursday — "Restless Wives." Friday — "Blow Your Own Horn" and "Pure Grit." Saturday — "The Day of Faith." Sunday — "The Meanest Man In The World." Lyric — "The White Sister." Rialto— "Don't Call It Love." Rivoli — "Big Brother." Strand — "Boy of Mine." Next Week Astor "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Broadway — "The Acquittal." Brooklyn Strand — "Tiger Rose." Cameo — "A Lady ot Quality." Capitol — "The Rendezvous." Cosmopolitan — "The Great White Way." Criterion — "The Covered Wagon." Forty-Fourth Street — "Scaramouche." Lyric — "The White Sister." Rialto — Not yet determined. Rivoli — Not yet determined. Strand — "Her Temporary Husband." — Merry Xmas — Strongheart Release in Feb. First National will release "The Love Master," a Strongheart picture made by Larry Trimble and Jane Murfin in February. — Merry Xmas — "The Hunchback" Closes in Chicago (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Chicago — "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," closed a run of seven weeks Saturday at the Harris. — Merry Xmas — Released In February Metro, which as noted, recently closed for the distribution of "The White Sister," will release the production in February. — Merry Xmas — Columbia Plans a Feature Columbia University will make a five reeler showing life of the students from the freshman days until graduation. Sanity at Studios (Continued from Page 1) comparatively smaller producers like Principal, but by the larger companies that bid actively for the services of the people whose names mean something in casts. Of course, there will always be outstanding pictures. 1 saw one reel of 'The Thief of Bagdad.' It is a marvelous piece of work in which Fairbanks has established what is absolutely a new high standard for others to shoot at. While 1 didn't actually see any material on the screen, 1 saw the sets Mary Pickford has constructed for Dorotny Vernon of Haddon Hall.' She personally told about the extent to which she is going to make the picture and the vast amount of money she plans to spend on it. "Pictures like that will, of course, continue to be made. They are, however, not the usual but the unusual. The point 1 want to stress is that while productions of that character will cost money and oodles of it, and while it is true there will be no scrimping along those lines, pictures of an in-between nature in which only several sequences of lavish sets and large expenditures of money are expected to carry over, will disappear." — Merry Xmas, — Two New Calif. Companies (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Sacramento — Articles of incorporation have been filed by two new picture companies. One is Dinky Dean Prod. Co. of Long Beach, with a capital stock of $750,000. Charles F. Reisner, Lewis Lipton, H. F. Millspaugh, Louis S. Simmel and A. Marcus are directors. The other, Edward Alexander Prod., Inc., Los Angeles, has a capital stock of $75,000. Its directors are G. C. Watson, C. H. Morrill and A. T. Marks. — Merry Xmas — Fish-Schurman Corp. Formed (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Albany — The Fish-Schurman Corp. of New York has been chartered here, listing 500 shares of preferred stock, each valued at $100 and 1,000 shares of common, $1 each. Active capital $51,000. The Fish-Schurman Corp will handle Goerz, the Austrian-made raw stock in this country. — Merry Xmas — Fischbeck With Olcott Unit Harry A. Fischbeck, cameraman, has completed his contract with Distinctive, and will photograph Sidney Olcott Prod, for Famous. LOUIS MEYER BB I! fjI'MjMid'K'ifl' I CRAFTSMEN FILM LABS. inc. 251 ^EST 19 th STREET W^TPCIISLS 7620-7461 » "WHAT THREE MEN WANTED ? 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