The Film Daily (1920)

■sday, May 13, 1920 jMi DAIUV ^Jew Theaters Houses Planned stead, L. I. — Salvatore CalStrand, 2,000. sburg, Pa. — Frank E. Hollai ston, Tex.— A. Mendel, $15,colored people, and schedopen early in August. ington. Pa. — Spero Kosmos, >nd, Okla. — W. Z. Spearman, r Gem, to build. About onville, Fla. — Karl Thomp50,000. jstrator Turns Producer en a Hiller, well known ilr of magazine fiction, is com his first production in his It 135 West 44th St. in seven reels, and is called sleep of Cymba Roget," the a series that will be made by under the running title of Told Tales of a Studio," writCharles L. Gaskill. n Gardner, formerly with ViI, and who appeared in "Cleosome years ago, is in the first r has not yet made any arlent for the release of his prois. ind Us Your ^^a^ Junk Film ERSTATE SMELTING REFINING COMPANY immercial St. NEWARK. N.Y. BARGAINS Lthe News Model Camera ;w Ball Bearing Precision and Jell Howell Tripods with universal tilts. JOSEPH SEIDEN 5 B'way, City Bryant 1291 SAENGER VMUSEMENT CO. stinanent New York Office at 1780 BROADWAY H. GUERINGER, Representative GOODRICH BLDG. Floor TeL Circle 129t WE OWN THEM! Stories for Big Film Protions. The leading producare our clients. The play's thing, and we have it! ilebrated Authors' Society, 701 7th Ave., N. Y. C. Phone Bryant 1511 What About This Speaking on scenario writing, direction and productions of today, Erich von Stroheim, whose acting in and direction of "Blind Husbands" brought him into prominence last fall, expressed himself to a gathering of the Associated Motion Picture Advertisers as doubting whether the exhibitor was qualified to advise what kind of attraction the public wants, or whether the public itself really knows. "So uncertain, indeed, is the public," said Stroheim, "that it is just as likely to turn down its gladitorial thumbs today on the very production it will give life to tomorrow." Putting It Over Dayton, O. — Here's a stunt conceived by Paul Gray, assistant manager of Loew's Dayton, to exploit Mack Sennett's "Down on the Farm," which broke house records at that theater. Ben Turpin, the crosseyed funster, is one of the chief merrymakers of the film. Knowing this, Gray went to an optician and obtained the addresses of four cross-eyed men m Dayton whom he immediately engaed. The week previous to the engagement Gray had the four cross-eyed men walking around the town with signs on their backs and during the overture at the theater each night had them lined up on the stage while a spotlight played on them. The musicians in village costumes played a real "Hokum" overture. There were plenty of laughs from the house with these four cross-eyed individuals just standing on the stage without even cracking a smile. On the bottom rim of the asbestos Gray had an advertisement for "Down on the Farm." Ray Sells Second Hoyt Play Los Angeles — Charles Ray has sold "A Contented Woman" to Joseph Schenck, who will use it as a Constance Talmadge vehicle. This is the second of the Hoyt group to be disposed of by Ray, who sold "A Texas Steer" to Sam Rork a week ago. Green Directing Jack Pickford Culver City, Cal. — With Al Green as a director, work on the Jack Pickford vehicle, "The Man Who Had Everything," by Ben Ames Williams, was started last week at the Goldwyn studios. "Old Curiosity Shop" for Bessie Love Andrew J. Callaghan, who is in New York City looking for plays and novels for his star, Bessie Love, stated yesterday that "The Old Curiosity Shop," the Charles Dickens classic, had been definitely decided upon for future screening. A well known director is being negotiated for. Callaghan will remain at the Claridge for the remainder of the week. ■'Screen Snapshots" Territory Sold Jack Cohn, producer of "Screen .Snapshots," has sold Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky to the Standard Film Exchange of Cleveland; New York and New Jersey to the Empire State Film Exchange, and New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts to the Federated Film Exchanges. F. P. Re-issues in June Famous Players, who announced the re-issuing of "Old Wives for New," and Mary Pickford in "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," will release them both in June, the former on the 6th and the Pickford film on the 20th. AMERICA'S FINEST LABORATORY i i Located Atop The Palisades Opposite 1 29th Street Palisade Film Laboratories Palisadci, N. J. Monmere 621-2 Cleveland Ist National to Move (Special to WID'S DAILY) Cleveland, O. — The local First National exchange will move to 3648 Euclid Ave., a distance of eight blocks from the film center. 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