The Film Daily (1920)

2 m iMi DAILY V« AlV no. 33 Wed. Nov. 3. 1920 Price 5 CedtS 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 FILM FOLKS, INC. F. C. ("Wid") Gunning, President and Treasurer; Joseph Dannenberg, Vic«»-President and Editor ; J. W. Alicoate, Secretary and Business Manager. Entered as second-class matter May 2!, 1918, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States, Outside of Greater New York, $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscribers should remit with ord^r. Address all communications to WTD'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 1603. London Representative — W. A. Williamion, Kinematograph Weekly, 85 LongAcre, London, W. C. 2. Paris Representative — Le Film, 144 Rue Hontmartre. Quotations Last Bid. Asked. Sale. Famous Players . . 67 68 67 do pfd Not quoted Goldwyn 7 8 8 D. W. Griffith. Iuc Not quoted Loew's, Inc 19j£ 20 20 Triangle Not quoted World Film Not quoted New Contracts (Continued from Page 1) cent formation of its own agency. Kempton Green. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Equity Association, urged the 500-odd persons present not to talk about "'closed shop." "While we are relying on the producers to give us work and since they are the ones who are putting the bread and butter in our mouths, please don't mention "closed shop.' " he urged. When some of the more important producers were asked about Emerson's views and the possibility of a new contract they seemed surprised. The only contract now existing except with regard to stars, is a brief note signed by the actor to the effect that he or she is to work so many weeks at the figure stipulated. Walter Wanger of the Famous Players said that the producers would welcome anything that would help in producing pictures not in four or two weeks but in 16 weeks when often it was expected that the picture could be made in six weeks. He had heard nothing of any possible strike. General Manager Atkinson of Metro had heard nothing of the proposed new contract, nor had Myron Selznick of the Selznick Enterprises. At the Fox offices the same ignorance of any new proposed contract was expressed. At the Sunday meeting there was some talk of a possible strike, but it is understood that the leaders of the Equity deplored such talk and minimized the possibility of such a move. Putting It Over Here is how a brother exhibitor put his show over. Send along your ideas. Let the other fellow) know how you cleaned up. The Brooklyn Strand orchestra, Alois Reiser, conductor, Managing Director Edward L. Hyman and scenic experts collaborated this week to contrive an arousing overture, utilizing Rossini's "William Tell" as a foundation. The theme of the musical number was told by an ever changing scenic set, that of a pastoral valley, which was revealed in various stages of nature' workings. First there was a presentation of the sleeping countryside with attendant meditative music. The tranquil mood was then shaded with the coming of storm clouds, great billows overcasting the valley and auguring the approaching deluge. The mechanical work was perfect, the light shading exquisite. Then followed the breaking of the storm, with the resounding thunder booms, the flashing of lightning and the rain avalanche. With the dying of the storm and the softening of the accompanying orchestral music, the movement swings back again to the calm and the evergreens are shown glittering with diamond studded rain drops. Boston — Balloons carrying passes to the Park Theater, where "The Riddle: Woman" was the attraction, created a furore in downtown Boston last week. From a number of the tallest buildings in the Hub these balloons were liberated. It was originally intended to release a thousand of them, but the Boston Record, which sponsored the stunt, had to call "all bets off" when the Police Department informed the newspaper office of the conditions attending the chase for the balloons. The Boston Record used the aic in its campaign on behalf of its" "Riddle: Woman," search for whom is still continuing, after almost a month of hunting for her by Bostonians who have been baffled in every move. The Record tied up its "stunt" with the exhibition of the production. Omaha — A real live lion was used by Manager R. A. Ballantyne of the Moon to exploit "'The Revenge of Tarzan." Although the Moon had no music, because the musicians were not working, the picture did a wonderful eight-day business. The live lion, in a circus wagon cage elaborately decorated wiht posters, banners and signs, was taken at noon each day to visit two schools, where children gathered around it by the thousands. The children, of course, carried the advertisement home to their parents. A complete schedule of the city was prepared, and the lion wagon was before two new schools at noon of each day, regularly. When it was not out at the schools the wagon, by a special permit of the police, was kept parked in front of the theater. As the lion was on exhibition several days before the pic Goast Brevities (.Special to WID'S DAILY) Hollywood — Dorothea Wolbert, who has made a half dozen short reel comedies for Universal under direction of Vim Moore, has been signed on a long term contract by Irving" Thalberg. Howard Hickman replaces Jack Conway as director in Benjamin B. Hampton's Prod. Norris Mumper of the Benjamin B. Hampton organization ha returned from New York and again is at his desk as studio manager. Nils Bouveng, the largest distributor of foreign films in Norway and Sweden, was a recent visitor at the Metro Studios. Al J. Kelly, for more than four years an assistant at Metro, and Geo. Probert, who was seen in Madame Nazimova's last production, "Madame Peacock," have been named as Miss Dana's co-directors. Victor Eubank, who wrote the continuity for the forthcoming big Williamson underseas special, "Fathoms Deep," directed by Ralph Ince, is now manipulating his typewriter in a Hollywood bungalow. Milton Sills has been selected to enact the leading male role in the all-star production of "What Is the Matter With Marriage," which Dallas Fitzgerald is to direct. Edward Lowe, Jr., prepared the screen adaptation for this production from Jack London's widely read novel, "The Lady of the Big House." Abraham Lehr, vice-president in charge of productino of Goldwyn's Studios, is in New York for the purpose of negotiating some important story contracts and to discuss production matters with the company's home office executives. Mr. Lehr will be gone three weeks. Nell Shipman Prod. Inc., has secured the use of the Louis B. Mayer studio for Miss Shipman's first independent feature. GAUSMAN. Minneapolis, Minn. — C. A. Gordon is now selling for Pathe. ture started at the Moon, it was taken to nearly every school in the city before the picture's booked period closed. Manager Ballantyne also decorated the lobby of the Moon with plasterof-paris lions made for use at the Ak-Sar-Ben den, Omaha's municipal fun center. The lobby of the theater looked like a bit of African forest during the showing of the picture. MOTION PICTURE STUDIOS FOR RENT Immediate Possession See THEO. C. YOUNG 16 E. 42nd St. M. H. 8500 Wednesday, November 3, i Operators Get $12 Increase Boston — When exhibitors grant the operators an increase of $12 week, with very little dickering, th brought wages up to $57.50: ^ Exactly how many tickets a RITCHEY poster will sell nobody knows, — but that 't w'U sell more than any other poster possibly can everybody knows? RITCHEY LITHO. CORP. 406 W. 31st St.,H.Y. Phone Chelsea 8388 hy v Twenty Reasons why BETTY COMPSON is a Stf No. 17 The KINEMATOGRAPH (Bri ish) says: "BETTY COMPSON is SIMPL WONDERFUL." FIRST RELEASE 'PRISONERS OF LOVE' PRODUCED PERSONALLY BY BETTY COMPSON DISTRIBUTED BY GOLDWYN