The Film Daily (1928)

THE [f re m M ^ m ^T' "r rrn^rrfr rfff pfft rr!=f -[Tf 0i r. ir^ FfT^ rrrf: — r prr FFff FfE 'f'--^'Ttf rpfi ^S F'P '-'If p -— I -.. i^" •• Film Center Buildin ^^tb Street • NINTH AVENUE • ^^th Street THE space you now occupy was Changedto-Fit — FILM CENTER BUILDING is Builtto-Fit — every inch of it, from ramp to roof, is designed for film exchanges — it concentrates them for efl&ciency — it isolates them for safety — and it embodies every device and safeguard necessary to comply with the letter and the spirit of the law — ^o% of the space is gone — how much of the balance do you need? A FEW DETAILS Fireproof storage vaults on every floor. Basement shipping platform with ramp to street. Special projection and inspection rooms. Whole floors of 18,000 square feet. Moderate rentals and low insurance. Entire conformance with municipal regulations. A FEW TENANTS First National Pictures, Incorporated. F. B. O. Pictures Corporation. Metro-Goldwyn Film Corporation. Educational Pictures Co. of America. Universal Pictures Corporation. Exhibitors Progressive Poster Company. OCCUPANCY DECEMBER 1928 z^sk— to show you 225 FIFTH AVENUE K'S^Mand 4200 pi atjs I FILM CENTER, INC., Guilders . . . ABE N. ADELSON, I'rcs. ■' loi Built-to-Fit Instead of Changed'tO'Fit! Monday, September 17, 1ft | See Meet Aiding Any Candidate as Unwise {Continued from Page 1) possible to put on the kind of demonstration of sound pictures President Wehrenberg and the other officers had 'hoped for. However, sound pictures occupied most of the time devoted to the executive session and all phases of sound picture exhibition was gone into. Most of the exhibitors present agreed that from a practical standpoint the immediate installation of apparatus for showing sound pictures is out of the question as far as small exhibitors are concerned. Sound pictures are too costly to be practical for the small theaters of this territory exhibitors believe. Fred Wehrenberg, veteran leader, was reelected president, the first to be named for three terms. Other officers elected are: Vice presidents, W. W. Watts, Springfield, in., I. W. Rodgers, Poplar BlufF, Mo., and Cairo, III., J. F. Ross, Wellsville, Mo., J. C. Newitt, Robinson, 111., T. E. Yemm, Duquoin, 111. ; secretary, Louis C. Hehl ; treasurer, Oscar C. Lehr, St. Louis; sergeant-at-arms, G. M. Luttrell, Jacksonville. III.. Executive committee: Joseph Mogler, St. Louis; J. C. Hewitt, Robinson, 111.; W. W. Watts, Springfield. 111.; Miss Mabel R. Miller, Madison, 111. ; Charles Goldman, Thomas James, Maury Stahl, W. C. Reeves, St. Louis; T. E. Yemm, Duquoin. III.; Mrs. A. Hall, Dupo, 111.; L. A. Burenstein, Springfield, 111.; L W. Rodgers, Poplar Bluff, Mo., and Cairo, 111. Delegates to represent association at the national convention to be held at Toronto, Oct. 16, 17 and 18, are Fred Wehrenberg, Oscar C. Lehr, Charles Goldman. Thomas James and Clarence Kaiman. all of St. Louis; Robert C. Cluster of Sparta, 111., and Johnston City, III.; T. E. Yemm, Duquoin, 111., and G. M. Luttrell, Jacksonville, 111. Great States Adds 8 More Illinois Houses to Chain {Continued from Page 1) added eight theaters to its chain, according to Jules J. Rubens, vice president and general manager. The new additions are: Lincoln-Dixie and VVasliington, Chicago Heights; Harvey and Garden, Harvey; Lyric and Grand Blue Island; Hippodrome and Grand, Alton. The Great States circuit now numbers 62 Illinois theaters. Ore. Showman Joins Fox to Take Over Ger. Post West Coast Bureau, THE FILM DAILY Los Angeles — K. L. and Mrs. Burk, their son and two daughters, were scheduled to sail Saturday for New York en route to Germany, where Buck is to become divisional manager for Fox. They sail from New York Nov. 15. Burk recently sold his Clarick, Empire and Orpheum, Baker, Ore., to Guy D. Hazelton of Missoula, Mont. Sound Pictures Hit as Detrimental to Music (Continued from Page 1) tcrs, decrease interest of music public and lessen desire on the part of children to learn to play musical instruments, the association believes. Joyce and Moore in Stage Play AJice Joyce and Owen Moore are to appear on the stage in "The Marriage Bed," Ernest Pascal's new play which is to have its premiere on the Coast. And That's That By PHIL M. DALY WITH talkers coming into vogUi the time-worn wheeze, "Unax ) customed as I am to public speal I ing" ceases to be a joke. * * * Frank R. Wilson, who has opem "Simba" at the Palace, Londo: cables that the picture has been ei thusiastically received and is doiri turnaway business. It is bein presented with Dulcetone accompan ment. * « * Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit, ha made a departure in his amusemer program. Heretofore there has bee nothing topical in the cartoons i which Oswald is depicted. But th imagination of Oswald's creator, th Winkler Company, was so fired b Commander Byrd's determination t reach the South Pole, that they hav made and will release in a very shot time a picture entitled "The Sout Pole Flight." * * * And noiv, Columbia is preparin for "The Street of Illusion. Charlie Branham, who recently too over the Oriental at Detroit screened it and pronounced it a woni wiring his enthusiastic views /jl the home office. Peculiarly,, tn\ home office print has not yet ai rived, so there's great anticipati&\ there. N. C. Unit Sold for M.P. T.O.A., Picquet Declarel (Continued from Page 1) ! has named its delegates to the naj tional convention to be held Oct. 16, 17 and 18 at Toronto. They are Sen. A. F. and Fuller Sams, and U. K. Price, Winston-Salem; an(i Picquet, Pinehurst. A nutnber o other members will attend the meet' ing, he declared. P. Jersey Theater Owners Called in "Blue" ProbI (Continued from Page 1) appear with their books and othe business records in Trenton nex Monday before the Case legislativu committee which is investigating fht administration of Hudson Coui The committee has received infon tion that the theaters here for sevi years have been compelled to ecu tribute to an annual campaign fuiu of the Hudson County Democratic organization, which action permittc them to give Sunday shows. Edward Kelly with Rothacker Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAJl'. Washington — Edward Kelly, as sistant chief of the motion pictiiri laboratory of 'the Dept. of Agriciil ture, has resigned to become man ager of production for the Rothackc Film Corp. of Chicago. Kelly be came associated with the motion picture work of the department in 1921|j as film editor and during his severjl years with the Motion Picture Lab oratory prepared scenarios for anc . directed nearly 100 educational films, 1