The Film Daily (1924)

i j^Sunday, November 30, 1924 z«^^ DAILY United So gives his name Quoting forthcoming ( Continued from Page be watched with interest. He has a fine reputation. Of, being a square shooter. And phiying fair. We believe he will conduct United. On a square basis. And play fair. Until you, Mr. Exhibitor, have reasons to believe otherwise. You should accept his intentions. In that very spirit. MENJOU Not only a real artist. But a rarity. One of the few who i appear in pictures. Who can — and will — discuss the business end of things. Most artists are content. To talk of art. And their work. Not so Menjou. The first thing he does. Is to get going. About the box office angle. Of pictures. And artists. And directors. And then he will talk for hours. Likes the business end of the business. Some friend of his, however, thinks he is a real artist him special cigars. Wrapped" in soft paper. With printed thereon. Looks fussy. BENNIE ^ Harry Carr. In the Los Angeles Times Preview, again about little Bennie Zeldman. Says : "Bennie Zeldman, intimate friend and screen pupil of Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin, has been installed as production chief and is making some of the best pictures 1 have ever' seen on the old (Universal) ranch." AGAIN QUOTING Says Carr. About Cecil DeMille: "* * * he is trying to deliver a 'message' to the world through the picture fans. In which process he is due to break his heart. I feel sorry for him. ^All the 'message' that the average picture fan wants is the latest dope on what kind of garters the millionaire's daughters wear." MISSING SOMETHING Postcards John Ragland from London. Where he has been sightseeing with Syd Kent and William R. Fraser : "Miss my 1 morning's glance thru Film Daily. Regards.' Which shows Jojin isn't working. He can pick up th' little oV paper in any film office in England. SYD'S GANG Of publishers — editors and actors. Sure do look the goods. In the stills Syd Olcott shot. At Famous Long Island plant. I'his here Martin Quiglcy has one picture. In which he looks like a dreamy hero star. Mooning over his heroine. Who has gone ofT with the heavy. And Bill Johnston is some photo taker. As for the others. The only one who can be counted on. To earn his living. In pictures. Is Freddie Schader of Variety. If he isn't a character and a type. Then we know nothing about it. Maybe we don't. As for us. Say, we look like — Yep; that's it. GOOD TITLING Wires a Westerner. AVith a sense of humor. One Pat Dowling: "Did you notice that when Frank Newman's theater was robbed of $15,000 that the comedy on the bill was Walter Hiers in 'Short Change'?" No; we hadn't. Perhaps Frank did. TRAVELLIN' AN' TALKIN' Johnny Rock. Of \'itagraph. Told the Film Club in 1) ALIVE When "The Siren of Seville" went into the Piccadilly, Jack Fuld of Producers Distributing got busy. And worked out a cross word puzzle. It was a crackerjack. And the idea is being syndicated. To newspapers. Featuring the latest indoor sport. For newspaper readers. Reported to be going good. Incidentally for "The Fast Worker" (Universal) they used a cross word puzzle stunt. At the Rialto, Washington, and this proved a smart publicity trick. ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY GONE Eddie Sutherland, wdio is directing Tommy Meighan in his picture "Coming Through," needed a competent typist for a bit of office business. He wanted someone who could pound the keys like a regular stenographer. Approaching a group of young women already selected for the scene, he called briskly to one of them. "Type?" he asked. "Flapper !" the girl answered readily. She didn't get the "bit." PLEASANT READING That book about the Talmadge girls. Written by their mother. Tells a lot about the girls. That most of you never knew. And gives an interesting slant. On the personal lives of important picture folk. You might read "The Three Talmadges" to advantage. Atlanta. Of his early efforts — years ago — in picture making. Did a bit in a 50 foot film "His I'irst Cigar." Told the boys all he had to do was take two pun's and let nature do the rest. And Nature did. And Vitagraph had another release. BUSINESS .Actually heard in Pirolle's Restaurant. Rendezvous for film folk. Four film salesmen at a table, being asked "How's busi ness: First answered, "Pretty good." Second said, "Not so extra." Third wheezed, "Not so bad." Fourth bellowed, "Rotten !" PLAIN FOLK Out in Hollywood. You see stars lunching in cafeterias. Not so here. The Ritz looks like a restaurant studio. Almost daily. Wednesday saw Bebe Daniels, Lila Lee and Mrs. Adolph Zukor at one table. Connie Talmadge and party at another. And the day before at the Biltmore, Adolph Menjou. Incidentally, many Famous officials lunch at the Ritz regularly. MARCUS LOEW BETTER Looking a lot better physically. Marcus Loew returned from the Coast Thanksgiving Day. The trip gave him a lot of rest. And he needed it. THE "CONTINGENT" Bert Adler. Much upset over European news. Especially that which refers to the "contingent" situation in Germany. Writes Bert (relative to the German loan, etc.) : "While they are 'limiting the footage' (how innocent it sounds) of our pictures, they expect to have our money to put into films that arc frankly intended for our market via Yankee casts, direction, etc. The intention of the big German producers to make American-talent films is well known. Well known too is the fact that the big industrialists who are back of the big German producers are the backbone of the Nationalist Party, that has made the Dawes agreement possible. So the Berlin item in the British paper is worth more. Than your passing attention. While they are blocking us out. Is the 'lion's share' of this loan to be made available to influential Nationalist claimants?" SOME RULES Otto Kahn. International banker. Believer in pictures. Interested in Famous. Delivering "a message to young businessmen" at Harvard, gave out 10 principles for business success. They included : Go for a ride on the horse of your imagination from tiine to time. Be ready, be fully prepared, liut be patient, bide your time, and know how to wait. Consider as one of the essential requisites of your diet a supply of the milk of human kindness. Work hard, don't spare yourself, don't be an eight-hour-a-day man, but don't permit yourself to become a machine. I