The Film Daily (1920)

pBRADSTREET F FILHDOM 7^RECOCHIZED AUTHORITY L. XIII No. 70 Friday, September 10, 1920 Price 5 Cent! tig Order for Bray imissioned by War Department o Make Special Films Dealing With Automobiles (Special to WID'S DAILY) Washington — Now the War Dement has fallen into line in real* the importance of the moving ire for educational purposes, lie Army, which has recently gone vocational training in a large , has decided to equip some of its •ses with sets of films by which iers taking occupational training the more readily absorb what is ire them. There are 107 courses the Army now, ranging from onomy to zoology, and 105,000 iers are receiving instruction g vocational lines. is announced by Major General Z. Harris, Adjutant General, that Bray Pictures Corp. of New York received the contract from the r Department to make these new s for the Automotive Department he vocational schools. An order been placed for making 35 com: sets, each set containing 10 reels, e used for instruction. The films valued at $800 a set. /hen completed and approved, the s then will be sent to all the milf departments of the Army, where ' will be put to work in the )o!s which teach automotives. he pictures are to be made like nated cartoons, with pen and ink, wing cross sections of gas engines, turetors, and other automobile hinery in actual operation. his kind of film was first deped during the war for the inction of machine gunners, to iv them what to do when a gum med. he same kind of films were then le for depth bombs, steam-shovels, le projectors, hand grenades, and non in the act of firing. iaven't Signed With Operators n official of the Theater Owners' .mber of Commerce stated yester that it was not true that the or ization had signed as a body with operators' union. He said it was ! that some of the members had ted as individuals because they no alternative, but as an organiza matter the demands of the union not even been acknowledged. Cohen Moves ydney Cohen will move the exece headquarters of the M. P. T. O. n 331 Madison Ave. to the 12th r of the Fitzgerald Bldg. The e exhibitors' organization will tinue in the Times Bldg. "Homespun Folks," Thomas H. Ince's first Associated Producers' special, is just "cut to measure" for th e healthy American public — full of laughs, love and politics. — Advt. BLACK BUSY Addresses Letters to Sydney S. Cohen, J. D. Williams and Wil lard C. Patterson — Tells Cohen "It's Strange" that First National Affairs Are Always "Allied With Your League and Committeemen's Activities" — Several Other Charges Made Alfred S. Black, president of the Motion Picture Exhibitors of America, took a morning off several days ago and dictated three interesting and somewhat heated letters, addressing them to Sydney S. Cohen, president of the Motion Picture Theater Owners of America, J. D. Wil'iams, general manager of Associated First National Pictures, and Willard C. Patterson of the Criterion, Atlanta, who called the well-remembered Chicago meeting which led to the formation of the national organization. (Continued on Page 2) Investigation On Black and Zukor Requested to Meet M. P. T. O. in Open Session Regarding New England Sydney S. Cohen, president of the M. P. T. O. of America, after reading the letter submitted to him by WID'S DAILY signed by Alfred S. Black, made the following announcement: The Investigating Committee of the M. P. T. O. of America will meet Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 10:30 A. M. at the Hotel Astor to hear the complaints of the exhibitors of New England against Alfred S. Black and the Famous Players-Lasky Corp. A registered letter has been sent to Alfred S. Black asking him to be present and an invitation will be extended to Mr. Adolph Zukor to again appear before the committee. Senator James J. Walker will act as counsel for the M. P. T. O.— the national organization. The trade press is invited to be present. Lazarus, A. M. P. A. President Paul N. Lazarus of United Artists was yesterday elected president of the A. M. P. A. (Advertisers). The slate as outlined in WID'S DAILY on July 30 was put into office with the exception of Arthur James ors. James by virtue of his connects chairman of the board of direction with the M. P. World automatically resigned from the organization. The officers are as follows: President, Paul Lazarus; vice-president, C. L. Yearsley; secretary, Julien Solomon; treasurer, Victor Shapiro; managing bulletin editor, Horace Judge; business manager, Tom Wiley. Board of governors, in addition to the ex-officio members are: Charles Barrell, chairman, Paul Gulick, P. A. Parsons, Harry Reichenbach and Jerome Beatty. Meeting on Oct. 4 Associated Exhibitors, Inc., will hold an important meeting of stockholders and directors in New York on Oct. 4. Betty Blythe in Fox Special (By wire to WID'S DAILY) Los Angeles — It is learned here that Betty Blythe will play the queen in "The Queen of Sheba," the elaborate Fox special which J. Gordon Edwards will direct. The actual filming of the story will start shortly. No confirmation of the above could be secured from the local Fox offices,