The Film Daily (1924)

jf H£ 7Ao BRADSTREET o/! FILHDOM 2^^re(0cmizei Authority )L. XXX No. 51 Sunday, November 30, 1924 Price 25 Cents Four Units Here it Nat'l to Add to Eastern Companies— Starts "United States Flavor" About Jan. 1. First National intends producing in le P^ast in a very definite manner 1 al)out a month, two more units will ; added on at the Biograph plant. aking a total of four. Plans are being set for all of them ■Ibe kept busy permanently. It i.^ ■obabie that Colleen Moore, now at ork in "Sally," will be brought here 1 make some pictures. The floor )ace at the Biograph plant is suf ient to accommodate the additions Advance work on "United States lavor," the specal dealing with steel under way. Actual work will be unched about Jan. 1. No director \s been assigned as yet. P Lasky on Hurried Trip West I To supervise final editing of "Peter ' " Jesse L. Lasky will leave New . Tuesday for Hollywood. Lasky ts to have the finished picture in New York in time ' for it? St showing, December 26. Pathe Declares Dividends Pathe Exchange, Inc., has declnred dividend of five per cent on Class •nd Class B common stocks, Dec llto stockholders of record Dec. 15 Sailings Departures on the Majestic toda> Saturday) include John D. Tippet' d Vivian M. Moses. Features Reviewed Page A Sainted Devil Paramount 12 The House of Youth I Prod. Dist. Corp 12 The Law and the Lady Aywon — State Rights 12 Trieigrr Fingers F. B. 0 12 Forbidden Paradise Paramount , 13 H^r Night Romance First National 13 The Siren of Seville Prod. Dist. Corp 13 Wages of Virtue Paramount 13 Daughters of the Night Fox 15 The Mad Whirl Universal IS White Sheep Pathe IS Short Subjects 18 Two Large Foreign Deals Dave Mountan, of Richmount Pictures, Inc., has closed with Co-operative Film Exchange Ltd., for Australia for minimum of 52 subjects, to include practically the entire Rayart product and others. "Battling Brewster" and a second serial to be produced by Rayart has been sold to Universal for the Far East and South America, 24 features for Japan and the Philippine Islands and si.x for India, Burma and Ceylon. Samuel Suckno Dead Samuel Suckno, owner of the Albany and Regent theaters, Albany, died on Thanksgiving Day at the Mt. Sinai Hospital. He had undergone an operation for the removal of ul<"crs, but suffered a relapse. The fTuieral will be held in Albany Sundav. Asiatic Films in Pathe Review Motion pictures secured by the Roy Chapman Andrews expedition into Mongolia where the first dinosaur eegs were discovered will appear in three installments in Pathe Review. Warners Buy Youngstown House (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Youngstown, O. — The Dome has changed hands. Splitz Renner sold the house to Dan Robhins, of Warren, and to Warner Bros. This is the first house in this territory to be acquired by the Warners, following their announcement that they would buy houses in w'hatever key points it was impossible for them to secure bookings. Pomona "Blue Law" Valid (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Pomona, Cal. — The Supreme Court has decided that the "blue law" on the statute books of Pomona since 1921, but inoperative since its passage, is legal. It will be effective in a month. The fight against the measure has been conducted for some time by West Coast Theaters, Inc. Second Ave. House for M. and S. The Mayer and Schneider circuit will build a 2,500 seat theater at East 6th St. and 2nd Ave. They have just bought various parcels of land, aggregating 15,000 sq. ft. United By DANNY \Vell, it'.s all over. And United Artists continues. Reorgan-'ed — as anticipated — but with its own distribution. The chief "loint of reorganization being the presence of Joe Schenck. In the < ' usiness questions. Of United. As to sales policy, distribution, Mi'l other matters. Dend and buried is the idea. Of distribution. Through one '1' tlte old line companies. "We aim to keep the independent marKet open," s-iys Schenck. And that is fine. The closing — in idea •eceives a check. Probably the most wholesome. Of the many happenings. .Xnd statements. Ts this of Schenck's: that he wants every exhibit or who plays United i)roduct. To make money. So that United can make money. That is plain, simple good business. And it is up to you, Mr. Exhibitor, to see that this works. Exhibitors have had many complaints. Of prices paid for I'nited product. There have been a terrible lot of yelps. The holler has been widespread. Perhajis it has been Justified. According to Schenck this will be remedied. It should be. The stars of United Artists represent tremendous values. To the screen. To the industry. To millions of fans. To thousands of exhibitors. They include some of the very best drawing cards, ft should be their policv. To live and let live. And not to take every possible penny. Just becau.se they have an opportunity. Schenck's plans ; his policies ; his method of operation. Will {Continued on Page 5) Plans For United Twelve a Year Beginning Next Season— Hope Exhibitors Will Make Money on Each Release Future plans for United Artists vsere disclosed Friday by Joseph M. .S'chcnck. Chairman of the Board. Mary, Doug and Charlie Chaplin have agreed — with default penalties — to produce as follow's: Mary two a year; Doug and Charlie three each in two years. Griffith's plans \vill be determined later. Norma Talmadge enters United at the expiration of her First National contract next November, and will thereafter produce two a year. Plans under development will call for perhaps two more units which will assure United of 12 releases a year. To which Hiram Abrams says "that will be fine — that will be enough." Schenck again reiterated Friday the desire of the stars of United to retain their independence. "We were offered propositions from practically every important distributing concern in the Ijusiness," he said, "but we believed that for the independence of the market, for the better expression of our ideals that maintaining our own distribution would be the best thing to do. ".\nd let me add that this plan is for permanency. I would never have entered into this arrangement otherwise. We want every exhibitor who does business with us to make money. We want to make money. Neither of us can remain in business otherwise. "No productions of United Artists will hereafter be roadshown, "The Thief of Bagdad" being included. "We want stars and directors of imnortanre to feel that the market is heing held open for them. Independence should mean something besides i word." Hiram Abrams will have charge of ■listribution. although Schenck will =;tudv distribution problems and acluaint himself with many matters of s hirh, at present, he is posted but triflingly. Henley Here From Coast Holiart lliiilcy h;is arrived here from Hollywood. At the Ritz. State Ri^ht Releases Planned by Sam Bischoff — Takes Over Grand-Asher Studio For Productions (Special to Tim FILM DAILY) Los Angeles — Samuel Bischoff, former production manager for Grand-Asher has just returned from the East where he arranged with the (Continued on Page 2)