The Film Daily (1924)

THC -s^m DAILY Tuesday, September 2, 1924 Vol. XXIX No. 53 Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1924 Price 5 Cents Copyright 1924, Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc. Pul)li.<:hed Daily except Saturday, a 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 Man ager; 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 ordei". Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. Phone Vanderbilt 4551-4552-5558. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, California —Walter R. Greene, 6411 Hollywood Blvd. 'Phone, Granite 1980. London Representative— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 53a Shaftesbury Ave., London, W. I. Central European Representative — Internationale Filmschau, Prague (Czecho-Slovakia), Wenzelplatz. OPENING {.Continued jrom Page 1) Every succeeding season is. Look back over the past few years. Note the changes that have occurred. Appreciate that still further changes — even more important — are in the cards. They may take a year. Or two. Or more. To develop. But they are on the way. And the better you are set; the better off you will be. The day has passed when you can put your house over by standing out front for an hour or so. So has the day when you could spend the night before carousing. This is a business, today, gentlemen. It may not be "a King's business" as Hays says. But it certainly is a man-sized job. Even for the best; the ablest; the most capable. Orpheum Resumes Former Policy Detroit — The Orpheum has reopened with its former policy of vaudeville and pictures. G© Otg** Cot?"* Ca,tvtv 220 West 42nd St. New York, Chick. 4052 Cables— Geokann, N. Y. Foreign Distribution DURATIZP TRADE MARK ^" YOUR FILM^ 220 WEST 42^° STREET .^^NEWVORK PHONE CHICKERINC ALLAhf'A.LOWNES , 2037 PRES. 9 On Committee (Continued from Page 1) The prize will be awarded "to the author, either American or foreign, whose story or play makes the best picture to be produced upon the screen and publicly exhibited in a theater during the year beginning Sept. 1, 1923." The first year ended Aug. 31, 1924. To give the jury time to judge the pictures and select the winner, the award will be made during the Christmas Holidays. Following are the rules formulated for the guidance of the judges. First: The term "author" shall apply to the person or persons so designated in the main title of the positive print of the motion picture production. Second: The author must have been alive when the filming of the story was begun. Third: The production must have been made by an American company. Fourth : The committee of award in judging exhibited films will consider as its standard the effectiveness of the pictures as public entertainment. K. C. Operators Renew Contracts Kansas City — At a meeting of the Kans-as M. P. T. O. it was decided to renew contracts for 1924-25 with operators. Downtown first-run houses accepted a contract calling for ten per cent increase to musicians, but this will not affect suburban theaters. Turrill, Shallenberger's Aide Howard Turrill has been appointed assistant to W. E. Shallenberger at Arrow. Turrill has had a number of year's experience in the business. Progress Buys Serial J. S. Jossey, Progress Pictures, Cleveland, has purchased "Riders Of The Plains" from Arrow. C. B. C. to Make "Who Cares?" C. B. C. will make "Who Cares?" bv Cosmo Hamilton. Anthony To Write Titles Los Angeles — C. B. C. has signed Walter Anthony to write the titles for all future pictures. Baseball Theme in Two Films Emory Johnson's new picture for F. B. O. now known as "The Grandstand Play'' will have a sequence in it showing baseball as it was played twenty-five years ago. "The Battling Orioles," a Roach feature for Pathe has an identical sequence. McDonald Selects Cast Los Angeles — J. W. McDonald has rounded his cast for "Frivolous Sal" in which Ben Alexander will be featured. The support includes Eugene O'Brien, Mae Busch, Mildred Harris, Mitchell Lewis and Tom Santschi. Columbia, St. Louis Closes St. Louis — The Columbia, 6th and St. Charles is to be closed permanently and an office building erected on the present theater site. The house is owned by the Cells-Tate interests. Webb Directing His Second Los Angeles — Millard Webb's second picture for Warners' will be "The Dark Swan." The complete cast includes Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, John Roche, Helene Chadwick, Lilyan Tashman, Carl Miller and Vera Lewis. Buy Toledo, la. House Cedar Rapids. la. — W. G. Greenhalg and E. G. Burdock have purchased the Cozy at Toledo, from H. H. Binions. The new owners have operated theaters in a number of Iowa towns, including Cedar Rapids, Onawa and Centerville. Pictures for Port San Luis Port San Luis, Cal.— N. H. Hilton has opened up a theater here which will be known as the Sunset. Molly O'Sullivan Abroad Molly O'Sullivan, English actress who appeared in "Janice Meredith", has retired from Chariot's Revue and is leaving for England next Saturday to appear in a picture to be produced by a British concern now being organized. New Story for Rin-Tin-Tin Los Angeles — Darryl Francis Zabuck is writing an original for RinTin-Tin, temporarily called "Tracked in the North." The dog will appear in it as soon as "The Lighthouse by the Sea" is completed. 120 NOVELTY REELS! First Run Specialties 1924-25 1600 B'way. N. y. c. 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