The Film Daily (1926)

THE Monday, September 13, 1926 ». -3&^ DAILY And That's That! M By PHIL. M. DALV , ROMA," sister of Farina, has been added to Hal Roach's ganp. With a name like that shr ought to lend atmosphere to the Roach comedies. "A During the strike Chicago audiences found that picture shows without music weren't half bad. After hearing some m,u8ic perhaps they have decided that sometimes "silence is golden." Milton Sills is in "Paradise," and not only in the picture of the name. He's going to wed Doris Kenyon. The reason so many people are stvinmiing the English Channel, according to Lilyan Tashman, ts that, so far as tourists are coricerned, living costs are so high they cnn't afford to pay transportation costs. Pictures qualified as life-savers when 69 soldiers, attending a show, escaped probable death and injury at the Big Point Arsenal near Washington. Fox and Universal at Odds in Kansas (Continued from Page l) board has no power undei' the Kansas laws to use the hall for picture entertainments or conducting a business for profit. James R. Grainger of Fox inform ed THE FILM DAILY that he waaware of the Kansas situation. Nothing will stop Fox pictures from being shown everywhere, he said, ancl they will not be given away at cheap prices. If necessary Fox will book its product into schools and memoria' halls and will furnish machines and operators, he declared. At Universal it was stated that nothing was knovi'n concerning anj' trouble in Kansas. Brooklyn Strand Celebrates The Brooklyn Mark Strand is celebrating its seventh anniversary thi« week. A souvenir booklet is being distributed to patrons. Featured on the bill are "The Strong Man" anc< the stage attraction, the Happines.-i Boys. "New York" Starting Today "New York" goes into production today, with Luther Reed directing. William Powell and Mary Alden will corne from the Coast to play leads, while other principals will include Lois Wilson, Lya de Putti and Ri! cardo Cortez. Last Free Show Palmyra, Neb. — The last free motion picture show of the season was exhibited last week and it was estimated that the ten given this summeu cost $200. Endows Texas Hospital Amarillo, Tex. — Rental income from the Mission, beginning Jan. 1, 1927, will used for construction maintenance of a hospital for the poor at Dalhart, which R. S. Coon will endow. The theater is under 15 year lease, the aggregate rental amounting to $131,250. This is net income, because lessees of the property must pay taxes, insurance and the cost of repairs. If the theater is sold at the expiration of 15 years, the amount is to remain intact as a permanent endowment. The property is valued at $150,000. A Review of Reviews (Continued from Ptge 1) ing it as "formula number so and so." Before the end of the first reel even the casual observer will have formulated the entire procedure o'> the story. Scenarists, script specialists, writers of all classes claim that stories containing originality are rejected by producers because they lack box office drawing power. Certaiii1}^ if pictures continue to present only stories that are proven box office material the progress of motion picture." as an art is going to be snail-like. During the past week, for exam pie, out of ten or 12 of pictures reviewed, only "The Strong Man" could be said to be original, sure-fire entertainment. The others included such trite affairs as the cowboy hero who rounds up the gang of rustlers preying upon the herd of the girr,=father. Another, the hoary old tracl' nieller with the girl donning the jockey's outfit and riding her father's horse to victory. And another: the husband lured oflf bj' a jazz baby whr comes creeping back home to hi.'^ wife when he's had enough, and then the one about the husband huntiu'i mama who wants a rich husband for her daughter so she can pay her own bills. It is difficult to believe that such repetition exists. Naturallj' this condition is more apparent to a person who sees about 85 per cent of the pictures released but through observation and contact with the pic ture public this influence is felt and the fan, the real movie "bug," is reacting to it. It is interesting to noto in theaters, Broadway houses includ ed how man)' people walk out after the first reel. This is a fair estimate inasmuch as the test has been made only at the first running of the day With the exception of "The Strong Man," pictures of the past week were of a mediocre order. "The Stronp Man" did a roaring business at the Strand and only the booking of an other production prevented a holdover. Douglas MacLean delivered a first rate laugh provoker in "Hold That Lion," playing the Rivoli. Other releases included "Dancing Days," Preferred Pictures; "Unknown Treasures," Hollywood Pictures: "Racc^ wild," Elbee Pictures: "Forlorn, River." Paramount; "Riskv Business.' P. D. C; "The Blue Eagle," Fox; "Jack O'Hearts," American Cinema Assoc; "Paradise," First National; "The Gav Deceiver," M-G-M. Roach Won't Talk (Continued from Page 1) product ss the nucleus of its program of shorts. Denials were made by the company, although Roach';' refusal to comment on the projiosec' deal is taken to indicate that it ha.'^ been closed or is under way. Famous, also is reported jjlanninf to re-establish a short subject department. If the plan materializes the Harold Lloyd organization, it :s believed, would produce a number of two reel comedies. Differences in U. K. (Continued from Page 1) tion, was immediately rejected bv the Renters' Society as being utterly unsuitable and one which they could not possibly accept and a sub-coni mitee has been brought into being for the purpose of drafting suggestion;which tlie Societv would ?gree to in the C. E. A. bill. I am not at this moment able t'' publish the draft of the bill, but i' can be stated that many of the clauses would under no consideration be accepted by the renters. In fact T have it on unimpeachable authorit> that the bill shows the drafters aro almost entirely ignorant of rentin;. conditions. The first clause aloni calls for trade shows to be given ii ten important key centres before the film is registered, and a fihv can only be considered registered when the negative is in the countr\The unneces.sary nature of this clans is at once apparent, whilst it wil' open up endless difficulties. It would mean that a territorial renter as th i bill is at present drafted will haveto give ten trade shows before Incan register the film for his own par ticular territory. The bill also imposes stern penalties, that of making a false statemcn'i involving imprisonment as well aa fine, whilst showine unregistered' films has a ])enalt\ of £20 a (Ih\E. E. Lyons, well known mpnagin? d'rector of Biocolour, one of th' most important circm'ts in this conn try, is so convinced that legislation i.*-' unnecessarv that after reading th-i draft bill he has resigned from th-s blind-bookins committee in order t"" leave himself free to oppose the C E. A. action in anv wav. Orens Des Moines Branch Des Moines — Fontenelle Film Co., Omaha state right firm, has opened an office here. f IVE TEARS of Boxoraa sucassK/ ^ aniinoio the greatest jiogram of all.... ^ffi i^l«''^' r txcl"*'^^ Preferred ( Pictures ^ r c I t nted ij J • G ■ BAC H M AN T^U Sole Furtis.i DuiMbuio.,. INTER-OCEAN FILM CORP