The Film Daily (1924)

THE Two Tax Bills In Ga. {Continued from Page 1) ment of the 10% Federal tax. A strong battle is expected to be started immediately by exhibitors against the adverse legislation, which was expected when the Federal tax was lifted, a few weeks ago. Anna Aiken Patterson, in discussing the proposed measures, editorially, in "The Atlanta Film Review," says, in part: "It seems inevitable that theaters will constantly be the target for taxation. The public seems to labor under the delusion that theaters are coining money. Until the men who make our laws can be persuaded that theaters are already bearing more than their share of this tax burden— and that the imposition of an admission tax on the public which the theater is forced to collect constitutes an oppression against the theater there will be small chance of escape." Two New Topeka Houses (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Topeka, Kans. — Two new theaters will be opened next month. The New Grand, on Jackson St., is about completed and will open the latter part of August, while the National Theaters Co., owners of the Grand, will rebuild the Orpheum into a new house, which will seat 1,500. Enterprise to Handle Larkins (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Kansas City — Enterprise Dist. vvill distribute the George Larkin series in this territory. The first will be "Tango Cavalier", followed by "The Apache Dancer". The series is in addition to 51 other features Enterprise will handle during 1924-25. Gary with "Reel Journal" (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Kansas City, Mo.— R. C. ("Bob") Gary, former Paramount exploiteer, will have charge of the new exploitation department which will make its appearance in the next issue of "The Reel Journal". A manager wanted for large house in city near New York. Apply Box M213 c/o Film Daily 71 W. 44th St., N.Y.C. Newspaper Opinions "Bread"— Metro-Goldwyn Capitol AMERICAN — * * * some one who had never read the book and who saw the picture called it a ripping film, but if you have read tlie book you will not think that it is a faithful translation, and you are going to feel that you wish you might have had a better scenario * * * BULLETIN—* * ♦ a good feature ' * * DAILY MIRROR—* * * It's a good picture too, with a smashing moral * * * Mae Busch is excellent as the heroine and Robert Frazer * * ♦ makes an excellent hero. The rest of the cast carries on impressively. * * * "Bread" is the kind of a picture which should prove popular. DAILY NEWS—* * * The picture strikes the same snag in logic that the book by Charles Norris does. Otherwise it is as delightful a play as you'll meet in a month of picturegoing. There are some wonderfully directed home scenes that are carved from life and some humorous byplay of married life we all know so well. Mae Busch gives a compelling performance. * * * EVENING JOURNAL—* * * Though the photoplay is well acted and intelligently treated, and there is the usual happy fadeout, one is left with the Impression that, were there six more reels to follow, the same situations would have happened all over again. HERALD-TRIBUNE — In casting his "Bread" Victor Schertzinger has done a good thing. * * * Unless you are devoted to the writings of Charles G. Norris, we've an idea that you will like this picture. * * * The story proceeds slowly, but it holds one's interest at all times. MORNING TELEGRAPH— • * * a drama of life, well told, with life's shadows well depicted. ♦ ♦ * but with nothing of the morbid about it. * * * Not a bit of padding » ♦_ * every action, every scene, every detail being necessary to carry on the story. * ♦ * POST — * * * It is full of good comedy, real sketches which might be of the lives of yourself or your neighbors, and it is very welt acted throughout * * * It is intended, apparently, only to give you a pleasant hour and a quarter, and no questions asked; and in this it succeeds admirably. ♦ * * SUN — * * * Regardless, however, of its lack of fidelity to the book * * * "Bread" manages to be quite entertaining of itself. The title, at any rate, is identical. It is pretty well filled with hokum and is laden with much patter about marriage which gives one the expectation that something is about to be heavily proved. Nothing is, and there is a measure of relief. » * * TELEGRAM—* * * The story is told with much detail, absorbing in character, and whether one agrees with the solution or not. there is no question but that the characters carry certain lines of conduct to their logical conclusion. * ♦ * TIMES — * * * one of those efforts which does not stand close scrutiny, and one which, we are certain, will not win any new patrons for the silent drama. * ♦ ♦ Victor Schertzinger directed ♦ • * and he appears to have made it for people who are foreign to the average idea of social life. * * * WORLD — A surprisingly efifective performance is given ♦♦ * by * * * Mae Busch ♦ * » "Bread" is a right good picture play. CLARENCE BROWN PRODUCTIONS Universal Super-Jewels 'W SIGNAL TOWER" NOW PLAYING AT THE STRAND Was Made Deliberately for the Box Office Exhibitors can depend on CLARENCE BROWN PRODUCTIONS TO BE BOX OFFICE ASSETS "The Signal Tower"— Universal Strand AMERICAN — * * * is worth seeing and so is Wallace Beery. A visit to the Strand theater to accomplish this little thing will help the movie patron to spend a pleasant two hours. ♦ ♦ ♦ BULLETIN—* * * a splendid featuie * * * replete with thrills and vivid with interest. It is about the best film the Strand has shown in some time. * * * DAILY MIRROR—* * * If you like hairraising melodrama, accent on the o, you'll delight in this Universal-Jewel production, despite the fact that the story is the shoddy old triangle of the villain making an ineffectual stab at breaking up the hero's happy home. * * * DAILY NEWS—* * * Enthralled isn't too strong for the splendid melodrama knowingly directed by Clarence Brown. It's so human, so thoroughly understandable. * * * The scenery and cast and handling of the theme couldn't be improved upon. ♦ * * EVENING JOURNAL—* * * A magnificently staged railroad wreck, gorgeous scenery, and a well developed plot * * * HERALD-TRIBUNE— * » * a perfectly thrilling picture, * * * It is a good, frank melodrama * * * We will say that Clarence Brown has done a marvelously clever piece of directing. He arouses your interest from the very start * * * MORNING TELEGRAPH—* * * will not prove disappointing to those who go to the theater hoping to see a good story well told and intelligently directed. There isn't anything strikingly original about the photoplay, but the characters are so ably drawn, the acting so consistently good, and the suspense so adequately maintained, that it is altogether satisfying. * ♦ * POST—* * * There are two thrilling wrecks and many beautiful shots of trains speeding through the dense mountain forest or crawling around serpentine curves and over spindly trestles. There is plenty of comedy, action, heart interest — in fact, this film has just about every thing that a good, strong drama should have. It's mighty good entertainment, be the weather hot or cool. * * * SUN — * * * one of the most brilliant examples of naivete that the screen has fed to the tiny tots along Broadway this year. * * * "The Signal Tower" is stupid as to story, but if one loves wrecks of any sort one should see it by all means. TELEGRAM—* * * There are not only melodramatic thrills in "The Signal Tower", * * * but there are plenty of human touches that make this the best of the summer films. » * * TIMES—* * * Although the subject of this film is not new and there are a number of sequences in which the director has been forced to utilize miniatures, the narrative is told in such a way as to make it emphatically gripping. ♦ * ♦ WORLD — * * * a vigorous human story of railroad life in the mountain forests of the Northwest, held us tense and thrilled * * * it is everything we want in a motion picture drama of this type. • ♦ * Won't Do "Peter Pan" (Continued from Page 1) sociates in United Artists. Besides, I don't believe a grown-up woman is convincing in trousers, particularly in such a part as Peter Pan. Jackie] Coogan or some little girl, slim as a' boy, would be the one to play that." Assuming that Miss Pickford was quoted correctly, insofar as Griffith is concerned, the news proved interesting to those at the latter's office. They didn't know a thing about it. Changed to "Sinners in Silk" (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Hollywood — -"Sinners in Silk" will! be the title of Hobart Henley's first| for Metro-Goldwyn, originally titled "Free Love". A Picture That Draws and Holds Crowds Sol Lesser presents Baby Peggy in Captain January with Hobart Bosworth Irene Rich Lincoln Stedman Harry T. Morey and Barbara Tennant Directed by Edward F. Clin& ? cA !BundfSa£ SiciuAjee JylcAte^ jWluctLcm Distributed through our territory ial franchise holders who own and operate individual distributing bran ches in every key center. COMING SOON PRODUCERS DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION i -*^ -^*" ^^ -^^ -^^ -^^ f TheLEOEND. mwnmm WITH PERCY MARMONTanc^ZASU PITTS Directed ty RlMliD HOFFMAN-^ Mapttd by AL COHN Trom ihe^Photopkij Magazine' story bij FRANK. CONDON .^ RENAUD HOFFMAN PRODUCTION-* ^^■^-■^^^--^^''^^-^■^^'^'^•°^^^!^^^^