The Film Daily (1924)

—. 3tfr« DAILY Wednesday, January >, ±924 i ¥il. XXVII Ni. 1 Wednesday, Ian. 2, 1924 Price 5 Celts Copyrifrht 1923, Wid's Film and Film Folks, 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. W. Alicoate, Treasurer and Business Manager ; Maurice D. Kann, Managing Editor. Donald M. Mersereau, Advertising Manager. " '-red as srcond-class matter May 21, 1918 at the post office at New York, N. Y., undei 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, 6411 Hollywood Blvd. 'Phone, Hollywood 1603. London Representative — Ernest W. Fredman The Film Renter, 53a Shaftesbury Ave., London, W. I. Paris Representative — Le Film, 42 Rue de Clichy. Central European Representative — Interna tionale Filmscbau, Prague (Czecho-Slo vakia), Wenzelplatz. No Quotations The Stock Exchange was closed yesterday, New Year's Day. Landau Not the Only One F. A. Reichstein, manager of the Majestic and Wilson theaters, Milwaukee in a letter to this publica'riorr Spates that the Majestic was closed all ~<L/ Monday, Dec. 24, preceding Christmas. He adds that Leo Landau who closed the Alhamhra and Garden in that city for Christmas Eve was not the only exhibitor in Milwaukee who had done that. Reichstein says he has been doing this for several years past. Showing for "Name The Man" A special showing for "Name The Man," will be given at the Capitol theater on Monday, Jan. IS at 10:15 o'clock. Foreign Distribution of Motion Picture Productions ^^ fcano rPot»«00 U°l v 220 West 42nd St. New York. Chick. 2355 Cables — Geokann, N. Y. HetJIotJWatt Protest Leasing City's Proerty (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Steubenville, O. — A. T. Loggie, has filed suit in the Common Pleas Courf, to restrain the city from leasing to the La Belle Amusement Co., headed by George Schaffer, certain city property upon which to erect a theater. Loggie alleges that the lease was made without securing competitive bids, and that it would be imprudent to rent the city's property for the small sum of $12,500 for the first year and $15,000 annually thereafter. Cleveland Chain Numbers Nine (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Cleveland — The Ohio Amusement Co., headed by Dave Schumann, Meyer Fine and Abe Kramer have purchased the Crawford, St. Clair Ave. and E. 146th St. This makes the ninth link in the chain of neighborhood theaters. L. Liverpool, O. — George L. McClintock has sold the Columbia to W. B. Urling. "Maytime" Premiere Soon (Special to THE FILM DAILY) San Francisco — The Granada, has been secured for the first showing of "Maytime," at an early date. Held Over For Six Weeks (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Los Angeles — "The Virginian," originally scheduled for a week's showing at the Mission, will play six weeks. Fox, Phila., Broadcasts Concerts (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Philadelphia — The Fox theater has inaugurated a series of musical concerts over the radio every Friday night, besides the regular Monday night program which is also sent through station WOO. The Fox house is the first in the state to install its own broadcasting station. Brown Expanding In Detroit (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Detroit — Sam Brown now has two theaters in this city, having bought out the Buchanan on the West Side for $10,000. He also owns the Astor on Hamilton Blvd. Navy Film at Capitol "A Midshipman's Cruise," a one reeler, produced by the U. S. Navy Department is at the Capitol this week. Cramer Mims Studio Dissolve (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Albany — Cramer Mims Studios, of Ntw York, have filed dissolution papers with the Secretary of State. Miller, Educational Manager In K. C. (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Kansas City — S. W. Miller, succeeds E. D. Tate, as Educational manager here. Greeks Form Producing Unit (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Hollywood — The Panhellenio Corp. has been chartered with a capital of $500,000. Greeks are backing the project. What of 1924? (Continued from Fage 1) of an increased consuming power, due to full employment at high wages, and an improvement in the position of farmers, factors which promise to remain during 1924. Neither a business boom nor a general depression is in sight for the new year, the "Guaranty Survey," published by the Guaranty Trust Co., declares in its annual forecast. Passage of the Mellon tax reduction plan is looked for, together with defeat of the bonus. Summarizing the world movement, the survey contends the outlook is for the maintenance of a sound middle course for business as a whole. "There appears a better prospect for the maintenance of the prosperity that now is developing since maladjustments of wages and prices have in a measure been rectified over the last twelve months, and its growth is not in the same degree dependent upon an accumulated demand arising from long deferred purchases," the financial editor of the Tribune says. "There are still several notably weak spots in the domestic situation. The building industry continues on an inflated basis and contributes to a major distortion of what otherwise would be a much better balanced structure than existed a year ago. The evils of wage inflation are also apparent in one or two other lines." B. C. Forbes in the American and other Hearst papers says: "Business starts the New Year in a state of sound health, a cheerful frame of mind and reasonably busy. "Of course, uncertainties lie ahead; uncertainties lie ahead at the opening of every year. Those of 1924 are not unusually grave domestically. In number they are unusually few. And, happily, the disposition is to face the outcome with a rational measure of confidence. "General trade has slackened somewhat with the arrival of Winter. Yet the volume of business passing still is well above the average." The National City Bank in its annual survey says, in part: "The greatest achievement of the year has been the demonstration that the United States can enjoy so large a degree of prosperity notwithstanding the unsettled conditions in Europe. The record of 1923 can be repeated if the American people but have the courage to proceed with the development of their resources and the equipment of their industries as they have done in the past year. There is no lack of work to be done. The chief occupation of the American people is that of supplying their own wants, but that their foreign trade is of a stable character the sustained exports of the last two years have shown. Our trade outside of Europe is growing. The balance between agriculture and the other industries is in the way of being restored, and if we will be satisfied with steady business, without a boom, there is good reason to expect that our hopes will be gratified in 1924." Giving the dollar a value of 100 cents on Jan. 1, the Department of Labor estimates that its value on January 1, 1923, was 64 cents. On this basis the wealth at the end of 1922 would be $256,000,000,000 instead of the estimated $400,000,000,000. Even so, the lower figure would represent an increase of 37 per cent in the ten years. Object To» Sunday Shows (Special to THE FILM DAILf) Newark, N. J. — A meeting of the South End Minister's Ass'n will be held tomorrow afternoon to discuss the refusal of Director of Public Safety, W. J. 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