The Film Daily (1927)

THt 12 ( Week's Headlines Monday Wesco seeks Saxe, Circle Theaters, Skouras Brothers and Finkelsteiii & Ruben circuits as Middle West unit. United Studios of Chicago forms subsidiary company to develop circuit in Middle West. Marconi predicts newsreel events transmitted to screen by radio simultaneous with occurrence. Loew's net profit for year expected to be between $6.50 and $7 per share. Tuesday First National completes alliance with P.C.T, in England. Stanley-Keith-Albee deal reported off. due to closing of pool between Keith-Albee and Orpheum. First National reports production at Burbank shows all units five months ahead of schedule. Dept. of Justice investing alleged production blacklist. Louis B. Mayer again reported joming Tif fany-Stahl as production head. Spyros Skouras may head proposed fourcornered pool of Midwest circuits. Wednesday Bill introduced in Senate by Senator Brookhart to ban blind and block booking and arbitrary allocation of product. Frank J. Wilstach to succeed Jerome Beatty at Hays organization. William Atkinson retires as vice president and general manager of Roxy. Thursday Block booking faces double attack with Congress considering Brookhart bill and Trade Commission standing pat on "cease and desist" order. No radical changes expected in policy of Saxe houses to be taken over by Midwesco. William Evans of London Standard Film Co. makes deal with United Artists and Loew"s for formation of producing and exhibiting companies. North Carolina and eastern Missouri and Kansas exhibitor units rejoin M.P.T.O.A. House of Representatives approves admission tax exemption on tickets up to $1. Friday Collapse of Stanley-Keith-Albee makes deal for amalgamation of First National and Pathe appear remote. Paramount abandons neighborhood field in New York following deal with Loew's. Pantages offering $1,600,000 mortgage bonds placed on market. Loew's floats new $15,000,000 issue of preferred stock in expansion program. Paramount reports $5,650,427 net earnings in nine months. Hays organization in conference with Authors League seeks new formula to overcome story bans. Saturday Murdock not quitting Pathe; he lauds company's progress. Various theater chains hooking up with E. E. Fulton Co. Loew earns $6,737,205, a new record year for earnings. Washington exhibitors demand open market. Chains Completing Hcok-Up with Fulton (Continued from Page 3) $500,000, with the theater firms to take the remaining 50 per cent. _ Companies mentioned as being in the combine at that time were Stanley, Fox, Loew's, Universal, Publix, Skouras, Kunsky Enterprises, and Wesco. Since then Keith-Albee has entered the pool. Kelly Plans More Houses E. Thornton Kelly, northern NewJersey exhibitor, is reoorted preparing to build a theater in Pearl River, N. Y., while a house, now under construction in Bogota. N. T., is expected to be taken over. Loew Has 115 with 8 More Now Under Construction (Continued from Page 3) States. Over 100,000,000 cash admissions were paid to company theaters in the year ended Aug. 31. Complete list of Loew theaters as well as those of every other circuit and individnaily-owned theater of the United States appears in the 1928 FILM DAILY YEAR BOOK, to be issued in January. Open Market Demand Voiced by Wash. Unit (Continued from Page 3) he asks stating such a course would remedy existing abuses. An outstanding achievement of the conference, he says was "placing before the commission of evidence that, unless the present special privileges being enjoyed by the producer affiliated theater were curtailed, an eventual trustification of the industry, through the elimination of the independent exhibitor, would take place." How About Your Relief Fund Check? (Continued from Page 3) W. A. Calihan Al Boyd EMna Sussman Jack Cosman Harry Reichenbach Walter Eberhardt Abe Blank A. E. Fair George H. Davis Bob Lieber Nathan Burkan Cliff Hawley Ned Depinet Warren Nolan Wilham Massce Harold Franklin Wilham La Portes Sam Zierler Bert Adler Frank iSardino Eddie Grainger jog Seidelman R. A. Rowland Ned Marin Mrs. Harry Reichenbacl)poj„ Wiley The Film Bureau ^[,e Warner W Ray Johnston Raging Crewe AI Lichtman j^erb Cruikshank Jern^ Beatty j^; Briskin t; P?m Blumenthal j.^^,^ Hammons W. F. Rodgers John Flinn Elii^beth'^B" Perkins ''^^E^'J,^°' Eureka Amusement Co ^.^'P" ,*'°™„ ,„„ Emil Bemstecker ?''^^'w!^""n David Loew A. P. Waxman E. M. Schnitzer '!^"J.,^'e"'Ju t, Joe J Lee A. W. Smith, Jr. J. Homer Flatten Orson Kilbom Dave Bernstein T. J. Connors Pat Dowling Si Seadler Mabel D. Riesenfeld Sam Spring Eddie Saunders Executive Bob Lynch Harry Buckley Oscar Neufeld Bruce Johnson Walter Lindlar Joseph Vogel Barnes Printing Co. E. W. Kramer Paul Lazarus Sigmund Moos Cresson Smith Joe Hornstein Toseph Coufal Sydney Cohen Weiss Brothers Harry Warner Max Roth Fred Quimby L. B. Metzger Ben Rosenbaum Louis Phillips Carl E. MiUiken Leopold Friedman Harry Scott Walter Futter Ph>l Reisman Gabriel Hess f^fd Rothenberg W. J. German '".'^^ ^evy ?%^ ^l:^ NaTSItein C. C Pettijohn j^33^ L Lasky Budd Rogers Charlie Einfeld M. C. Howard Kathrin Salsburg Arthur Kelly Dave Chatkin Jack Fuld Pat Garyn Chas. G. iStrakosch Milton Schwartz Lila Belle Stebbins W. C. Boothby Jerry Stebbins L. F. Guimond Public Excluded from Free Shows Bath, N. Y. — Film shows will be continued weekly at the State Soldiers' Home, but the public will not be admitted, the board of managers has decided. Under these circumstances, the Schine Theatrical Enterprises, operators of the Babcock, will be permitted to furnish films, it is announced. Short Subjects (Continued from Page 7) who runs, or rather drives, away from home to escape a forced marriage. While the angry parent pursues she decks herself in a scarecrow's apparel and finally joins a duo of hoboes, one of whom is Billy Bevan. A barnyard bull fight is dragged in to afford a play on burlesque, with Bevan enacting a comic toreador, while the fair Madeline clings to a tree and incidentally safety. The end of it all is that the girl falls in love with the other hobo. "Horse Play" Stern Bros. — Universal How Not To Ride A Horse Type of production. . . .2 reel comedy Ma McGinnis, discovering that horseback riding is fashionable, forces the family to take it up, including Pa. Both new and old gags are brought into play. One of the kicks come when Pa, on board an old fire department horse, gets a thrill when the animal responds to an alarm. This is excellent comedy fare, directed by Gus Meins. "Injun Food" Bruce Scenic — Educational Unusual Shots Type of production. ... 1 reel scenic An interesting study is presented of Columbia River salmon in the kindergarten class learning the art of upstream jumping. The cameraman did some fine work. The reel finishes with one of those beautiful presentations of the sea in its various moods. Like all Bruce Scenics, this one has been done with care and an eye always to the novel and beautiful. "Flaming Fathers" Roach — Pathe Well-Known Beach Stuff Type of production. . . .2 reel comedy In this picture Max Davidson, its star, does a father who is assigned to prevent his daughter, Martha Sleeper, and her boy friend, Edward Clayton, from eloping. He escorts them to the beach and gets into an assortment of predicaments, finally stealing a policeman's uniform. This picture is notable for the absence of alluring bathing beauties in the foreground. Directed by Leo McCarey. Sunday, December 18, 1927 Jazz Carnival for 1 B'klyn Strand Stage (Continued from Page 9) were thrown various lights. The, routine was as follows: the opening was "Annabelle Lee" by the ensemble. Bridges flesh pink floods and two violet floods from dome. Kimm. and Ross, made up as convicts, followed with an eccentric dance. Stage black out, bridges off, white spot on ' dancers from dome. Next came Restivo, whistler and accordionist. Bridges deep blue floods; lemon spot from dome on artist; white at finish. The dancing girls then did a toe dance. Stage black out again; bridges and dome lemon floods, head high. Then followed Charles Jolley, tenor, who sang "One Little Dream of Love." Light blue borders on stage, deep blue borders and light blue box lamps; amber spot on singer from the dome. Veronica, toe dancer, was next to last number, closing with the ensemble. Loew Earns $6,737,205; New High for All Time (Continued from Page 3) for the 1926-1927 fiscal year with a greatly increased total of shares in the hands of the public. Assets are now listed at $91,631,254. Gross income, including receipts from theaters, film distribution totaled $75,394,219; theater operation and building maintenance appears under liabilities as $39,645,492 while the . M-G-M distributing system cost $7,-A 212,214 to maintain. | An analysis of the financial structures of all important organizations urill be found, as usual in the Fiyiancial Sectioyi of the 1928 FILM DAILY YEAR BOOK, out in , January. BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL ECONOMICS 1108 Sixteenth Street Washington, D. C. Co-operating with 42 Governments and loaning films free and speakers throughout the world for the purpose of public instruction. Schools, Churches and Clubs using Motion Pictures Should Subscribe for THE EDUCATIONAL SCREEN and keep up-to-date with the new films and new equipment "1001 FILMS" {Fourth Edition) Complete reference booklet, listing nearly 3,000 educational films given at reduced rate with each subscription $1.50 per year 5 South Wabash Ave., Chicago, III. Ma