The Film Daily (1924)

Sunday, August 3, 1924 TH£ The Week's Headlines Monday TOl Hays addresses "Wampas." Determined • that salacious and untruthful angles in pictures and advertising must cease. Says industry has trust to fill. ree show evil denied. Northwest reports of practice minimized here. teady decline in plays bought for pictures. Prices still exorbitant. iwa, Western Missouri and Kansas and Chicago, possible applicants for Allied States Organization. Next meeting in Kansas City middle of August. d Grauman leaves for Europe. May build in Paris and London. earst said to be after "Peter Pan" for Marion Davies. Tuesday nperial plans to divide New York in 10 selling zones. Local exhibitors receptive. etro-Goldwyn admits $23,000 is due Brabin but denies "Ben Hur" damages of $500,000. !ek Ludvigh, of Famous, says next step in Griffith matter is up to United Artists. Jcal operators' union assessing members i2yi%i for eight weeks to raise war chest. Exhibitors becoming impatient. Ten Commandments" averages $14,000 weekly for 30 weeks at Cohan theater. Run ends Aug. 25. At the Criterion later. yron Selznick sails from London with Itunan Desires," negative. Wednesday ,11 selling in New York at low ebb. Independent circuits plan "buying agreement." Leaders urge exhibitors to hold off on 1924-25 product. lit Gleichman action against Famous on Detroit first-runs up for hearing. ichigan M. P. T. O. buys Imperial plan. X may build in Chicago. w booking combine may be attempted in "ew York. Thursday troit buying "agency" planned. Phil Gleichman to fight Kunsky move, rold Lloyd has not signed any new conract. Listening to offers from all ources. pyright changes and revisions on uniform ontract to be worked out shortly. rmer German Kaiser invests in new Gernan producing unit. trouble in securing first runs in Los l\ngeles, witness testifies at Trade Comnission hearing there. d Seal's new program to include novelty ihort reels only. Friday . troit theater project planned by Balaban fe Katz not expected to materialize. gland lifts McKenna duties on films. nry King will not leave films. To put on IP" )iay and direct later. s ntracts between Famous and Phil Gleich nan produced at hearing. }uis B. Mayer testifies at Government inestigation into Famous. No trouble on rst runs. 'Saturday ney Kent to testify at Phil Gleichman~amous hearing, when it is resumed at a iter date. amount scores again at Federal Trade earing in Los Angeles, when more manShiftK^ra declare they never had trouble seiiring first runs. T. Yoder plans new exhibitors' associaon in Atlanta, which may develop a cen•al booking project. ■ade launches "Greater Movies Season" Los Angeles. Two-hundred in lineup. n. M. P. T. O. to confer with ofiicials f Pa. Dept. of Labor & Industry, to iscuss emergency lighting system, iana protests the showing of pictures outIde of regular theaters. ich tr( iJJ V. Handling Olympic One-Reeler The Service Film Co., has secured rld's rights on "Our Olympic immers," a one-reelcr in which inny Weismuller, Warren Kealona i Bobby Skelton, Olympic chamns appear. Parade Starts Stunt (Continued from Page 1) sonal appearances. The civic aurities are co-operating to thp fullextent. The first runs are adverng co-operatively on twenty-four ets. Coast Brevities {Special to THE FILM DAILY) Hollywood — Mary Astor has returned to Universal to play opposite Reginald Denny in "Oh Doctor", being directed by Harry Pollard. The cast includes Otis Harlan, Tom Rick etts, Mike Donlin and Blanche Pay son. Julius Bernheim, general manager at Universal City, has returned from San Francisco, where, with Florence Brown, he visited libraries and museums on research work. Eva Roth, costume director, and John J. Roth, art director, formerly with Rex Ingram, have been added to the technical staff of Frank Lloyd's "The Silent Watcher". Emory Johnson has started his sixth F. B. O. production with the following cast: Tom Santschi, Johnnie Walker, Jane Thomas and Red Kirby. Irving Thalberg has made an addition to the cast of "The Great Divide", in Wallace Beery. Alice Terry and Conway Tearle play the leads. Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel will play the leads in "So This Is Marriage," an original by Carey Wilson for Metro-Goldwyn. Joseph Jackson is collaborating with C. D. Lancaster, a Chicago writer, on a three-act comedy entitled "Tough Luck". Editing and titling is completed on "The Flower of Napoli", which costars Madge Bellamy and Herbert Rawlinson. Carlos Prod, have begun "Fast Work" for F. B. O. starring Richard Talmadge. Jimmy Home is directing. Holmes Herbert has been selected to play the male lead opposite Corinne Griffith in "Wilderness". Hunt Stromberg has engaged Jimmy Dugan to assist in the direction of "A Cafe In Cairo". James Cruze has completed "A Drama of the Night", and is now cutting and titling. Marguerite De La Motte has completed her work in Blackton's "The Clean Heart". Anna May has been chosen as the lead opposite Fred Thomson in his next. Roy Ncill is cutting "Vanity's Price", made by Gothic Prod, for F. B. O. Ricardo Cortez has been added to the cast of "A Drama of the Night". Gibson Gowland has been added to the cast of "The Border Legion". Del Andrews is shooting the second of the "Go-Getters" series. GREENE Paramount Scores (Continued from Page 1) distribution at that time and to describe the economic reasons for the formation of Paramount and later, Famous Players-Lasky. Just why Tom White, production manager for "The Covered Wagon," was queried regarding that picture has not been made apparent. The fact was established that there is little inter-state commerce in the production of motion pictures, but the application of that bit of testimony is yet in the dark. Claude Langley was called to testify relative to the theater holdings of the Turner, Dahnken and Langley circuit. "Advoscope" Appears (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Portland, Ore. — A new machine has been put on the market by the Advoscope Co. It is called the "Advoscope" and is used in store windows, displays, etc., as an advertising medium. It revolves continually, automatically. Harris in Charge at New Orleans (Special to THE FILM DAILY) New Orleans — A. M. Harris has been named manager of the Producers' Dist. Corp. Exchange. Max Heine is the new assistant. M. H. Rexach and Alpha Fowler have joined the force. Rearrange Schedule (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Los Angeles — Under a revised schedule, William Beaudine is to direct "The Narrow Street" and Phil Rosen will start on "This Woman" for Warners. New House for Nashville (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Nashville, Tenn. — The Crescent Amuse. Co. will build a new theater in the building recently occupied by John Nykoff. It will seat 1,800 and show first runs. Ohio Exhibitor Dead (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Cleveland — H. R. Mickey, of the Majestic at Fostoria, is dead from apoplexy. Fall Outlook Good Mid-West Looks Promising — Record Wheat and Potato Crops — Exhibitors Pessimistic (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Kansas City — Conditions in this section are taking on a brighter aspect since late estimates of the wheat and potato crops have become known. Exhibitors, however, continue to be pessimistic over the fall outlook, because of the poor summer. The Kansas wheat crop is placed at 150,000,000 bushels, exactly $50,000,000 more than last year. Over 2,500,000 bushels of corn will come from Kansas and Missouri. The bank deposits are increasing steadily. One Kansas City bank increasing its deposits $2,000,000 in two days. The summer, however, has been a very poor one, more theaters closing down than ever before. But, with the end of the slump near, the houses are beginning to show signs of life. Painters and decorators can be seen at many theaters. Three Cornered Switch in South (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Atlanta — A three cornered switch among exchange managers resulted the resignation of Rufus A. Davis from Preferred, to go on the road for Southern States Film. Arthur Dickinson left Southern States in New Orleans to succeed Davis, while Fred Martin takes over the Southern States office formerly managed by Dickinson. WANTED— HIGHLY EXPERIENCED MANAGER, For three thousand seat Moving Picture Theatre. State qualifications in detail, communication confidential. Roess Ohio Theatre Cleveland, Ohio. CHADWICK PICTURES CORPORATION I. E. Chadwick, Pres. 729 Seventh Ave. New York The Second of the Chadwick 9 LIONEL BARRYMORE in (( MEDDLING WOMEN^' Written and Directed by IVAN ABRAMSON A RTAl BOX OfflCt AHRACTION With a Strong Supporting Cast including SIGRID HOLMQUIST and DAGMAR GODOWSKY Foreign Rights Controlled by Simmonds-Kann