The Film Daily (1920)

^^BftADSTREET ^f FILHDOM VOL. XII No. 26 7/cRECOCHIZEI tAUTHORIT Monday, April 26, 1920 Price 6 Grata Holds No Contracts Levey of Universal Says Agreement I With Exhibitors Was I Verbal Only. Harry Levey, manager of the UuiI'ersal Industrial Department, stated \n Saturdaj' that the only undertanding he had with a number of niddle and far western exhibitor organizations on the industrial propoition was a verbal one. i Levey upon his return from Cleveiind Wednesday last stated that he ad closed negotiations with the ti4iami Valley Exhibitors" League, le Cleveland Exhibitors' .Ass'n, the jLmerican Exhibitors' Ass^i of Pennylvania and West Virginia, the Kansas City Exhibitors' Ass'n, the Michian Exhibitors' Ass'n, the St. Louis jxhibitors' Ass'n and the Northwest "xhibitors' Circuit. i Sydney S. Cohen of the New York jtate League stated that Levey had lot closed the deal as he claimed 'e had. Levey in explaining said lat Cohen had called up the booker t Universal and had asked consid{Continued on Page 4) Clarine Seymour Dead Clarine Seymour, who appeared in rhe Idol Dancer," a D. W. Grifth-Firsi Nat'l production, died last ight at 9 o'clock at the Misericordia ospital, 531 E. 86th St., following an )eration for intestinal trouble last eek. Miss Seymour was at work in vVay Down East" when taken ill. CHICAGO SPECIAL WID'S DAILY will publish and distribute from Chicago a special edition April,^ 27-30 inclusive. *^^:^^r^ This special issue will cover fully and completely report the important exhibitor plans as well as mattcia pertaining: to the Associated First National Theaters, Inc. meeting. "If you value your life you will turn over the secret papers to me at once" — Anita Stewart in "The Yell ow Typhoon," from Harold MacGrath's novel. A Louis B. Mayer-m ade First National attraction. — Advt. Sells Foreign Territory Inter-Ocean lias closed rights to "An Adventuress," according to a statement issued Saturday for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Belgium, Australia and New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, France and its Mediterranean Colonies, Switzerland, India, Mexico, Cuba, Holland, Spain and Portugal, Dutch East Indies and Strait Settlements. Porto Rico, Santo Domingo and Venezuela, British South Africa, Argentine, Uruguay and Paraguay, Chili, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, Egypt and Finland. Reade in Canton, O. {Special to WID'S DAILY) Canton, O.— The Trent Theater Bldg. of Trenton, N. J., has secured an option on a site here and will soon begin erection of a theater, according to Walter Reade, of New York, one of the men financially interested in the program. A lease has also been obtained on the theater being built in connection with the new Sieberling Hotel at Akron, C, according to Reade. Criterion Opening ^fany executives of the Famous Players-Lasky Co. attended the opening of the Criterion on Saturday right with Cecil B. De Mille's "Why Change Your Wife" as the attraction. The feature of the house is the large electric sign exploiting Paramount Pictures on Broadway — one of the largest of its kind. Stebbins Goes to Coast Arthur "Stebbins, vice-president and general manager of Reuben Samuels, Inc., has left for the coast to open an office in Los Angeles to take care of his company's coast business. Cleveland Exhibitors to Dine (Special to IFID'S DAILY) Cleveland, O. — The Motion Picture Exhibitors' Association of Cleveland \\ ill hold a dinner and dance to-night at the Hotel Winton. Pantages to Build Another (Special to WW'S DAILY) Fort Worth, Tex.— At a cost of $500,000 Alexander Pantages will build another addition to his chain. Convention Opens First National Members and Exhibitors Gather in Chicago — Important Sessions Planned. (Staff Correspondence) Chicago — First National members and exhibitors who expect to attend the meeting called by Willard C. Patterson of the Criterion theater, Atlanta, are arriving on every train. The special cars attached to the Broadway Limited will arrive here this morning bringing a number of important officials of the circuit from New York. The opening session of the convention is slated for this morning at the Hotel Congress. A number of important sessions is planned, notably that of Patterson's to discuss the formation of an Exhibitors' Defense League for the purpose of combating alleged encroachments of producing distributing companies in the exhibiting field. A number of important distributing heads of other organizations aside from First National will be here with their sales manager?. Delegations from a number of exhibitor organizations in the Middle and Northwest are expected to hear Patterson's plan. Ten delegates from the Chamber of Commerce will be here to look things over and obtain an idea of what business is transacted. Side Lights Sam Y. Edwards of San Francisco, who'll sit in on the Exchange Managers' session by virtue of his connec-i tion with Turner & Dahnken, wired I his favorite supply agents to reserve one bottle of green fountain-pen ink ' to guarantee his signature on hotel ' checks. • I Jimmie Grainger, New York manager for Marshall Neilan Prod, had his left-hand sparkler renovated and shined preparatory to attending the convention. Reports say that Henry Ford offered Harry Scott of Detroit a trip [ to the Chicago convention in a flivver, brand new. A later report states Harry has already bought his ticket. ' "I don't want to be late and want to get there whole," he explained. ' "The Woman Gives" will become : more than a title wh»n Norma^Tal i madge, who will accompany her husband, Joseph M. Schenck, to the convention, gives First National convention folks the first opportunity to see her in person. This is the first {Continued on Page 3) Western Producers— Eastern Representatire Get SOLOMON, he's wise. — ^Advt.