The Film Daily (1926)

Page 6 Exhibitors Daily m THE BIGGEST MONEY MAKER ALONG FILM ROW With Burney Paul Kohner, casting director of Universal City, has a big job on his hands in securing histrionic material for the big special production which a new director, E. A. Du Pont, will produce with Mary Philbin starred. The Main Realty Co. will erect a new six story theatre building at Houston, Texas, in near future. Joe Hornstein of the Howells Cine Company plans to attend the Motion Picture Theatre Owners Convention to be held in Los Angeles June 1-5. Julius Jolson's new Star Theatre on Knickerbocker Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., will have a grand opening on the 22nd day of April. Picture celebrities will be on hand to launch the new theatre. Calderone's new Valley Stream Theatre on Long Island will also have a house warming on the ISth of April. Incidentally, Hi Gainsboro who was a member of the Board of Directors of the T. O. C. C. and one of the best golfers in the metropolitan district, opened his new Roosevelt Theatre at Flushing, L. I., the 16th of March. Another prominent official of the T. O. C. C, Sol Raives, first VicePresident, and a red-blooded, fighting arbitrating judge, as well, now has five theatres in the metropolitan district. He will be up among the big chain owners very shortly. The Calgary Stampede" Vniversal Pictures FIRST PLACE "Hogan's Alley" Warner Brothers SECOND PLACE «i^ r .u. o-_» "Tumbleweeds" United Artists "The Blackbird" 'Keeper of the Bees" F. B. O. "The Limited Mail" Warner Brothers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "The Phantom of the Opera" "Charley's Aunt" Universal Pictures P. D. C THIRD PLACE "The Gold Rush" "The Pinch Hitter" United Artists Associated Exhibitors Dale Wilson, owner of the theatre at Fort Towson, Okla., has taken over the theatre at Vallient, Okla., piid installed a new Velvet Gold Fibre Screen. Esister Greetings Blcinche Mehaffey, pretty universal player, turns artist to inscribe suitable Easter greetings to her friends and admirers in the industry. Finance Editors Deny Lasky Stock Sale The financial editors of the N. Y. Times and Evening Sun have commented on the reported sale by Jesse L. Lasky, Vice Presidenlt of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, of his stock interest in that organization, by declaring that the rumors that Kuhn Loeb & Company had taken over his interests, were baseless. Although Otto H. Kahn, prominent banker, whose name had been mentioned in the deal, refused to comment on the reports, other financial interests in Wall Street authoritatively deny that Lasky had or has any intention of selling his stock interests in F-P-L. Fox En Route to Coast William Fox left Thursday for Los Angeles in advance of the New York delegation which will start out next Wednesday for the Fox sales convention. Leo Young in New York Leo Young, California Studios publicity representative, arrived in New York this week to do the publicity and advertising for Nat Levine's serial. Capt. Day Signs With Associated Studios Capt. Richard Day, who has been identified with some of the most outstanding productions of recent years including Von Stroheim's "Foolish Wives," "Merry Go Round," "Greed" and "The Aferry Widow," has been engaged by the Associated Studios in Los Angeles as art and technical director. Though engaged primarily to work with Erich Von Stroheim on his productions which are to be filmed at the Associated, Capt. Day will also act in an advisory capacity in the production of the pictures that are to be filmed there for release through Associated Exhibitors. No Action on Seat Tax LOUISVILLE.— The state legislature's session has come to an end without taking action on the bills providing for censorship and a ten per cent tax on seats, much to the relief of Kentucky exhibitors who have been fighting the measures. New Office for Filmlab Filmlab, Inc., will move into its new quarters at 203 West 40th St. about May 1st. "Rose Bemd" Preview The Film Associates, Inc., of New York, which will reveal to public gaze the first showing in this country of the UFA picture "Cinderella" featuring Helga Thomas, at the Klaw Theatre, N. Y. City, tomorrow afternoon and evening, plans an early Spring showing of "Rose Bemd." This is another UFA picture based on the Hauptman play, and features Emil Jannings, Henry Porten and Werner Kraus, world famous stars. Steele Joins Inspiration Joseph H. Steele has been appointed West Coast representative for Inspiration Pictures, Inc., producers of Richard Barthelmess films. Foresees Promising Future For Picture Industry John H. Hertner, president of the Hertner Electric Co., manufacturers of the Tertner Transverter, who has just returned from an extensive southern trip, reports a very favorable outlook for the future of the motion picture industry. February's jL Earners Rat^j By Exhibitors! :'S The polls are closed. The are counted. The figures are piled. The results may be li characterized as the most imp news of the month. We know what were the Biggest Money ers for the month of Februaq which pictures grossed the m,., the cash till, but the drawing \fiu' which, when all expenses weii| ducted — rentals,, advertising atij erything else — left the most pro the men who showed them. Again Exhibitors DAILY VIEW in conducting this r wide survey has, by the enti response evidenced in exhibitoi tributions to this compilation, cated its judgment in offerinji "Money Makers" service as thi sort of booking guide availabl Where else is the exhibitor v, the coveted information — in words, the _ advance "dope' | whether the picture is "box-offini not, before he has played it, i from the reports of those whot already "cashed in"? Those cerned with the selling of the. ; ^.^^ ture to the exhibitor may b«f fectly honest. They may be n [ ™ tse U if lie vated_ by the most laudable i ^ . .-..''h pies m guarding against mis: [., sentation. But they wouldn't I man, and for that matter, good men, if their contentions w colored by the contagion of ettl asm for their own product. What seems to be a further r mendation in favor of a surv this sort is the consistency cjvv,) sult.s as indicated in the findin each succeeding month. In th spect, it is interesting to not«-i „, the biggest money-makers oi'r^ att CELEBRATE LOEWS "STATE" OPENING NEW ORLEANS, Apr. 3.— Loew's $1,500,000 State Theatre will be officially opened this evening, April 3rd. The first performance will be heralded by a street parade in the morning and a host of prominent players arrpresent at the opening. Norma Shearer in "The Devil's Circus" will be the feature of the first bill. Hudson Transferred _ Earl J. Hudson, eastern production manager for First National, will take charge of the company's coast production, and be succeeded by Al and Ray Rockett. Before beginning work in the western studio, Hudson will finish "Missmates" and then take a vacation. month generally figure amonj selections of_ another month, seems a specific assurance that office values, just like figures, lie. The particular value of a coni service of_ this sort is that eac| bbJ month brings in new releasw t\ of course in regard to these fl ^ terest in each succeeding compi is heightened. In the box prccedmg is pr ed those pictures, in respective of first, second and third which earned the largest profil exhibitors during the month of (Continued on page 7) Warners Lease To-da HOLLYWOOD, April 2.— I Warner, Jack Warner and 1 Lustig will leave today for York and will arrive Wednesc time to make last preparation the Warner Convention which in New York, Saturday, April Smith Transferred Sam Morris, general sales ma of Warner Bros., has called in J. Smith, Buffalo exchange ma for an important executive p< the home office. ■tSh % .;iie ins m t. *in