The Film Daily (1928)

Exhibitors DAILY REVIEW, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1928 25 United Artists Releases for 1928-29 Schedules Only 2 Silent BIG TIME CIRCUITS FLOCK TO COLUMBIA The Stanley Company of America has booked the Columbia program fur the following theatres in Philadelphia: Iris, Lafayette, Harrowgate, Family, Princess, Savoy, GarrickWilmington, Orient Darby, Villa, and their first-run house on Market and Chestnut Streets, the biggest theatre in their circuit. The Eastman Theatre, the most important first run in Rochester and notnriously hard to crash has booked the output 100 per cent. So have the Strand, Syracuse, and the Lafayette, liulTalo, tile two most representative houses in their territory. Another important deal was closed A itli the X'ictor Theatre, McKeesport, Pa. NEW FRENCH PROFITS TAX (Continued from page 1) The doubling of the present tax comes about through decisions of the lower courts, that American concerns doing business in France through legally organized subsidiaries must pay a double tax on its profits. The tax increase is based on the reasoning that profits remaining after payment of the first 18 percent tax, constitute the profits of an American 'parent' company on its French business and that the American company must also pay the French Profits Tax. American firms are expecting the highest court to uphold this reasoning and are either preparing to close down their plants and remove to other Euronean countries, or do business through rrench agents, who escape this huge tax. As far as the film industry goes, not much concern over this is felt, as the French market has been a meager one, financially, for American companies maintaining distribution offices and theatres, and they had previously been forced to submit to the Government the proposition that if certain laws that they proposed were put through they could not do business there any longer and would be forced to close their offices there. TRAVELERS select the (Great Northern lor Its wonderlul location In Chicago's "loop". They return beraiise the larqc romlortabic rooni<i. homelike environment, attentive service, excellent food and moderate charges make it an ideal hotel. '400 Newly Furnished Rooms, J day and up. So S4.00, SS.OO, 36.00. viva. f400 Newly Furnished Rooms, ■^ i2.no a day and up. Sample II RfH>ms S4.00, SS.OO, S6.00, S7.00 f and SS.OO. Jj Walter Craidlicacl, ManaRpr DEARBORN STRKKT FROM JACKSON TOQIINCY ^ N.-W Cnrngi Onr-ll.iir IMork 5 Dialogues, 12 Sound Synchronizations and 6 Indefinite United Artists have announced an imposing list of feature releases for the season of 1928-29. The total is twenty-five; twelve with sound effects and synchronization, five with dialogue throughout, two strictly silent and six that are indefinite in so far as sound and talk are concerned, they will, no doubt have one or both. Great Artists The list of star players includes Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Ronald Colman, Gloria Swanson, Constance Talmadge, Lillian Gish, Rod LaRocque, Ben Lyon, Alice Terry, Eleanor Boardman, Jean Hersholt, William Boyd, Lupe Valez, Phylis Haver, Lily Damita, John Barrymore, Louis Wolheim, Camilla Horn, Buster Keaton, Vilma Banky, Walter Byron, Dolores Del Rio and' Victor Varconi. List Ready In the list of productions we find the Chaplin picture "City Lights," John Barrymore's "The Tempest" directed by Sam Taylor, "Steamboat Bill" directed by Charles Reisner, "Two Lovers" directed by Fred Niblo, "King of the Mountains" directed by Lubitsch, "Coquette" with Miss Pickford and directed by Sam Taylor, "The Woman Disputed" with Norma Talmadge and directed by Sam Taylor, "Queen Kelly" with Gloria Swanson and directed by Stroheim, "Revenge" under the direction of Edwin Carewe, "The Awakening" directed by Victor Flemming," the Fairbanks picture "The Iron Mask" directed by Alan Dwan, "The Rescue" directed l)y Herbert Brennon, "The Battle of the Sexes" directed by D. W. Griffith, also "The Love Song" under the same direction, "Hell's Angles" directed by Luther Reed, Rex Ingram's "Three Passions," Henry King's "She Goes to War" and others. ■W. E. PASSES BUCK (Continued from page 1) furnish this, or any other production to the Academy with sound and as a consequence, the silent version would be shiijped for showing tomorrow. "The Daily Review" was not able to reach Mr. Brylawski, or anyone of sufficient authority around the HagerstowMi house, to find out how they got "Lilac Time" from the Washington branch of First National, with the sound and synchronized records. Depinet Speaks Ned Depinet, sales manager for First National, said, "I don't recall having passed any contract for the run of 'Lilac Time' and 'The Whip' in the Academy with synclironization. It is my impression that these pictures were booked for this house in their silent form." On being asked liow they received the sound version of "Lilac Time," Depinet replied, "I do not know. There must have been some error on the part of our Washington branch." Will They Serve? Mr. Depinet was asked, "Would you serve a house your sound or synchronized pictures knowing they would be run on equipment manufactured by an organization other than Western Electric?" He replied, "I cannot answer that for you." Sam Morris, general manager of Warner-Vitaphone said, "Our contracts call for our product to be run on only Western Electric equipment. Tiiis is nothing new and has been generally understood from the beginning." This was in reply to the question, "Will Warners permit a theatre to nm Vitaplionc sul)jects on equipment other tiian Western Electric?" No One at W. E. Will Talk A representative of this publication talked to several people at Western Electric, asking them all the same question, and the answer was, "We have nothing to say, other than the fact that we have to protect the product of Western Electric and if find that pictures are being run with equipment other than ours and one that does not do justice to this product, we will insist that the pictures be taken out. We are protected on the legal side and of more importance, is the technical side. We cannot afford to have productions recorded by us run on equipment that will not do justice to this recording." Other than this statement they all suggested "See Otterson," meaning J. E. Otterson, president of Electrical Research. W. E. Passing the Buck It seems that Western Electric is passing the buck on to the producerexchanges franchised by them. This is clearly demonstrated in the Hagerstown case. If W. E. wanted to make an example of the Academy, they could have demanded that the picture be taken out in as much as it was being run on Bristolphone. They did not. They said nothing, but First National refused to deliver '"] Whip" in its sound form, saying th was no contract for this version. Will Come To Head This question should, and no doi will, be brought to a head very so in as much as almost every theatre the country is trying to secure sou equipment with no hope in sight present, of getting an installati from Western Electric of R.C.A. ! at least six months. There are seve companies, such as Bristolphone a Powers Cinephone that can play be records and "sound on films," but e hibitors are a little squeamish abo getting this equipment unless the i terchangeability is decided. Althouikar this Hagerstown affair has cleared a bit, sufficient evidence has not be proven to justify certainty. pv en jerm ED ax, Sapene and Pathe To Abrogate Contrai PATHE.— Charles Pathe and Jei Sapene have come to an agreeme about the relations of Pathe-Cinen and Pathe-Consortium. The present agreement between t! two firms is annulled and each is fr to carry on its own activties. 1 Pathe will go ahead with his a i nounced production program. lenr sit ir It Zakoro Sells Four "Olympic Hero" StatJ, William H. Home, sales managf iW of the Zakoro Film Corporation, ai [k nounces that he has just sold the Ca ifornia, Arizona, Nevada and Hawa ian Islands rights for "The Olymp Hero" with Charley Paddock to tl Supreme Company of California IN AMERICA'S LEADING THEATRES SIMPLEX PROJECTORS HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEIR ADAPTABILITY TO ALL SOUND SYSTEMS ill ile )k (lie I lip im I 'es } la; 111 s Bl sii International Projector Corporation 90 Gold Street, New York il