The Film Daily (1920)

DAILY Friday, July 30, 1920 Vol. XIII No. 29 Fri. July 30. 1920 Price 5 Cent Copyright 1920, Wid's Film and Film Folks, Inc. Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St, New York. N. Y., by WID'S FILMS and HLJa FOLKS, INC W. C ("Wid") Gunning, President and Treas ■rer; Joseph Dannenberg, Vice-President and Editor; J. W. Alicoate, Secretary and Business Manager. Entered as second-class matter May 21, 1918, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Terras (Postage free) United States, Outside •f Greater New York, $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, ♦15.00. Subscribers should remit with order Address all communications to WID'S DAILY, 71-73 West 44th St, New York, N. Y. Telephone: Vanderbilt, 4551-4552-5558 Hollywood, California Editorial and Business Offices: 6411 Hollywood Blvd. Phone, Hollywood 16X13. London Representative — W. A. Williamson, Kinematograph Weekly, 85 LongAcre, London, W. C. 2. Paris Representative — Le Film, 144 Rue iiontmartre. Quotations Last Bid. Asked. Sale. ,l Famous Players . . 7234 74 74 i'V do. pfd. .... 844 85 85 >Goldwyn 15 14 14 D. W. Griffith .... 15 14 15 Loew's, Inc 22 22^ 22^ Triangle Y% Unit. Pict. Prod 1H World Film y4 do 2nd pfd §i Exchangemen Make Ruling Buffalo — Three new rules have been adopted by the Buffalo M. P. Exchange Managers' Asso. as follows: No playing dates will be changed unless two weeks' notice in writing be given, payment of reatal therefor made at time notice of change is given; protection originally granted in contract be waived. \ — <S>o\dM agpetures 0.orP Wfrtion •ttCW VMM -» Sir: The Evening Mail says: "Cupid, the Cowpuncher" is not only a good story but it gives Will Rogers an opportunity to use his skill with the lariat and proclivity for writing clever titles." Cuts and Flashes Sydney S. Cohen has sent a letter to every member of the Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, seeking harmony regarding the music tax and suggesting its abolishment to the end of having exhibitors aid in popularizing compositions. Jules E. Mastbaum has been elected president of the Locust Club of Philadelphia. Friars' Dinner to "Doug" and Mary David W. Griffith, Mary Pickford's first motion picture director, will be one of the speakers at the Friars' dinner to Miss Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, to be held at the Hotel Astor on Sunday night. Other speakers will include William A. Brady, Raymond Hitchcock and Rennold Wolf. Following the dinner an entertainment will be given, and the first picture in which Miss Pickford ever appeared will be exhibited. Knew Nothing Of It (Continued from Page 1) In referring to a statement about the matter appearing in one of the metropolitan dailies, Reichenbach declared that on Saturday he would issue a bulletin concerning the matter. In regard to the suicide, Swan called the Universal publicity office on the 'phone and arrangements were made whereby J. H. Mayer and Mr. Bate are to appear before him at 12 o'clock today with all data and contracts concerning the exploitation of the Tsuru Aoki picture. An Ellsworth Motz, who it is alleged appeared before the police to furnish information about the "drowned woman" under the name of Harry Ellsworth, and Herbert Leverton were also asked to appear through the Universal office. Swann seemed to be quite angry about the entire affair and said significantly that he would "finish the fellow who did it if he got him." Asked whether he had made remarks attributed to him in one of the New York dailies, he stated that he did not know, not having seen the article. Gives Data (Continued from Page 1) prisse, Inc., a subsidiary of yours, trying to get possession of the New Theater. About three months ago your Mr. Morrison, at Dallas, Texas, took up the matter of leasing the New Theater over our heads. We had not been able to close a contract with the Southern Enterprises for some six months, and in some way the trustee of the New Theater property obtained the information that Mr. Morrison, at Dallas, was in the market to lease same. We feel sure that Mr. Morrison approached the trustee on the matter. "Your Mr. Dent came to Fort Smith, and we closed up a contract for quite a number of your pictures, some time after this correspondence with Mr. Morrison had started. Immediately after we had bought these pictures of yours, Mr. Morrison dropped negotiations for the New Theater, on the grounds that our present lease running over a year longer, had too long to run for him to now consider the matter. "His efforts could result in only one thing — and that was to boost up our rent, as we had a renewal clause for an additional ten years, the price of which was subject to arbitration. Now the trustee expects to use Mr. Morrison's tentative offers as conclusive proof as to why the place is worth nearly double what we are paying them. "If you are really sincere in seeking information, possibly this will help you out. "Yours very truly, "C. A. LICK, "New Theater, "Fort Smith, Ark." At Famous Players it was stated that Mr. Zukor had received the letter from Lick, but was not at the moment ready to comment upon it. Reichenbach 'said yesterday that tl;e first he knew of the action of the District Attorney was when he was passing a newspaper office in Pittsburgh— the Dispatch. "I was reading the bulletins," he said, "when I came across the one referring to Reichenbach. I have a brother who lives in Pittsburgh and at first thought it referred to him. But I discovered it was about myself. I was in Chicago at the time the suicide story was printed in New York. "When the letter finally arrived from the District Attorney I sat down and wrote him that there were a lot of important things happening in New York, such as the Elwell murder mystery, the trunk mystery and other matters such as wide open gambling, and suggested that he not waste good daylight on me. As soon as^i arrived in New York Thursday orning I informed him that I was due in Philadelphia Friday and suggested that I see him Thursday afternoon." wasti a^r«i ifl'orr S due Old Guard Going Nathan Friend Out of Famous Players— Few of Old Timers Left Nathan Friend, for a long time identified with Famous Players in various important positions, is no longer connected with that organization. With the passing of Friend, who is a brother of Arthur Friend of Famous, another of the "old guard" of that organization passes. There are very few of the old-timers left — "Al" Lichtman, in charge of sales, and Arthur Friend, who is treasurer of the company. Offer to Mediate George C. Woodruff, secretary of the M. P. Craftsmen, declared yesterday that the contents of the letter sent to William A. Brady consisted mainly of an offer to get together. He declared that it had been sent out by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Hands and that as yet no reply had been received. The laboratories according to him are shut down in most cases and little of the work is being turned out. Otherwise there were no new developments. Both sides apparently are still holdng out, with the National Association claiming a victory, and the union insisting with equal firmness that it holds the key to power. New Appointments F. B. Warren of Asso. Producer,1 yesterday announced that Irving Han ower had been appointed representa tive for Manhattan and the Bron: and Joe J. Felder for Brooklyn am Long Island. 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