The Film Daily (1924)

THE ■%ti DAILY Tuesday, January 8, 1924 M. XXVII No. 6 Tuesday, Ian. 8. 1924 Price 5 Cents Copyright 1923, Wid'a 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. Kami. Managing Editor. Donald M. Mersereau, Advertising Manager. Entevrd 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, 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 — Internationale Filmachau, Prague (Ctecho-Slovakia), Wenxelplatt Quotations High l.ow Close Sales East. Kod. . 112 109^ 111 2,500 F. P. -L. ... 71?4 695/i 71 6,000 do pfd. .. 90 90 90 100 Goldwyn . . 10*4 10^ 1034 600 Loew 's . . . . 17^8 \7% \7y2 700 Al Kahn Here Al Kahn, distributor for Warners in the Kansas City and Omaha territories, is in town. (T~<§diicationctl 6\ctut£) \ &ann Foreign Distribution of Motion Picture Productions ^^ V^°* r 220 West 42nd St. G* New York. Chick. 2355 Cables — Geokann, N. Y. HetJ^otJflan $ut gtetmuer MADGE BELLAMY is in THE FIRE PATROL So are 10 Other Big Stars Ask I. E. Chadwick— He Knows A Newspaper and a Lawsuit (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Helena, Mont. — Under the caption of "Jim Bridger's Reputation," the Helena Independent says in part: "Virginia Bridger Hahn of Kansas City, daughter of the famous plainsman and guide, "Jim" Bridger, has brought a suit for $1,000,000 against the motion picture company which produced 'The Covered Wagon,' claiming damages because the old man is pictured as drinking whiskey and flirting with a couple of squaws. * * * She wants a million dollars because the producers did not pin a white ribbon in the button-hole of Jim Bridger's buckskin jacket and put a Gideon's Bible in his hip pocket instead of a flask of Jamaica rum. "The Independent has no desire to prejudice the case and keep the woman and her attorney from dividing the million dollars, but if anyone is guilty of libel against the memory of Old Jim Bridger, it is Mrs. Virginia Bridger Hahn and her Kansas City lawyer. It is a libel on the memory of any plainsman to allege, even in a court complaint, that he did not have guts enough to drink raw red liquor and pinch the voluptuous squaws until blushes showed through their well smoked skins and their breath came hot and fast." Fears Loss of Ocean Park House Press dispatches from Ocean Park, Cal. report the loss by fire of several theaters there on Sunday. Irving M. Lesser of West Coast Theaters, Inc., stated yesterday that, although no word had been received he was reasonably certain that the Dome had been destroyed inasmuch as it was built on Pickering pier, reported lost. The Dome had 2,000 seats and had been recently remodeled at a cost of $140,000. Lesser also stated he could not see how Jim Sams' theater, the Rosemary, escaped the flames. West Coast also operates the La Petite in Ocean Park. Consolidated Stockholders Meet (SptcM te THE FILM DAILY) Terre Haute, Ind. — Several hundred Wabash valley stockholders of the Consolidated Realty and Theaters Company at a meeting at the Liberty theater formed a stockholders' organization. The officers are W. G. Sanord, president, and W. A. Elliott, secretary-treasurer. A committee of three. William Blocksom, R. J. Collier and Elmer Levering, was appointed to represent this district at the meeting of the corporation Feb. 7, which Fred A. Sims, receiver, has scheduled in Indianapolis. Schedule Filed American Releasing Corp. has filed a bankruptcy schedule, listing liabilities at $334,000 and assets at $75,462. The principal creditors are: A. S. Kinografen, Copenhagen, Denmark, $5,000; A. B. Le Mats Filmbyra, Stockholm, Sweden, $5,000; Quality Features, Ltd., N. Sydney, Australia, $9,380; Wardour Films, Ltd., London, $57,500; Walker Pictures, London, $5,592; Rosette & Deutch, New York, $2,750 and Standard Engraving, New York, $7,908. Another Objection Texas Exhibitor Attacks Statement That Exhibitor Loses On Only Three Films Yearly H. A. Cole of Cole Bros, who operate the Grand theater at Marshall, Tex. takes exception to the statement attributed to "a prominent exhibitor of the Middle West" who declared in a recent issue that the average exhibitor does not lose money on three pictures a year. Cole says: "I am rather surprised that you quoted this statement so prominently, giving it the unearned dignity of being accepted as even possibly true. "It is possible that he is referring only to those houses that run a picture a week or more. I personally do not run a house of that kind, nor am I familiar with the business of that class enough to deny his conclusion. But I do not see where he gets the right to call this class the average exhibitor. "So far as the rest of us are concerned— the more than 90% OI houses, who run a picture one, two, or three days— his statement is so ridiculous that it hardly needs denial to one who is at all familiar with the business. Even in the best of years, when business was fine and profits big, there were few houses in our class that did not show a loss on more than the three pictures to which he refers. "And as to the last two or three years — I wonder how he would explain the houses closed and out of business (between 50 and 100 in this State alone); the changes and transfers in ownership (practically every one at a loss) ; and the dozens of business statements I have seen and verified, showing a loss not on a particular picture, but on an entire year's business? "I don't make a practice of answering articles, but such a statement, made in so prominent a paper as yours, might possibly be accepted by some who do not know the facts." ' Many Favor Sunday Movies Resolutions in support of permitting Sunday amusements in Jersey City were adopted at three mass meetings in theaters last night. About 5,000 persons favored the resolutions. Speakers declared the "blue laws" were absolute, and that closing of motion picture theaters, Sunday concerts and similar amusements was infringement of personal liberty. No Sunday amusements are permitted in Jersey City. World Film Rights to "BLOSSOM TIME"1 Original Story of "Dreimaderl Haus" Apply to MARY FORREST 1452 Broadway, Tel. 1944 Bryant Lee-Bradford Corporation Presents VENUS OF.THE SOUTH SEAS Featuring Annette Kellerman A 1924 Release HAL ROACH'S DIPPY-DOO-DADS COMEDIES "A Proven Product" 1 reel Pafhecomedy "" — (Sj~=: * —