The Film Daily (1920)

2 tMA DAIUV Val xiv No. 38 Mon. Nov. 8, i920.:price 5 Cents 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, 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. Terms (Postage free) United States, Outside of Greater New York, $10.00 one year; 6 ?lonths, $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 1603. London Representative — W. A. Williamen, Kinematograph Weekly, 85 LongAcre, London, W. C. 2. Paris Representative — Le Film, 144 Rue Hontmartre. Quotations Last Bid. Asked. Sale Famous Players . . 66 67 67 do pfd 79% 80 79H Goldwyn Not quoted D. W. Griffith, Inc Not quoted Loew's, Inc 19^ 20y2 20J4 Triangle Y% H % World Film Not quoted YOUTH, BEAUTY AND FUN is the new slogan exemplified in "Mr. Fatima," the latest Christie Comedy released through Educational Exchanges, Inc. — Advt. Actors' Position (Continued from Page 1) working their people day and night in order to shorten the term of their engagement and cut down the cost of their picture. They apparently care nothing about the quality of their product, and seem utterly oblivious to the fact that (in addition to the injustice they are doing the actor) they are spoiling their own work, for a tired actor does poor work, and looks haggard and worn on the screen. "This abuse we certainly must correct, and I feel sure we shall have the assistance of the better producers in correcting it, "I think I know personally all the heads of the first class producing companies in America, and almost without exception they are fair dealing, far-seeing and upright men, who have no more desire to do injustice to our people than we have to do injustice to them. I feel sure that these men would be perfectly willing to arrange a contract or agreement with tis that a certain number of hours should constitute a day's or week's work, because they would be doing no more than they are doing now except that the agreement would be down on paper. And having a definite agreement with these better producers, we could soon force the few slave drivers to come into line, and give our people proper working hours. 'Another abuse that we are aiming to eradicate is the gouging agent. We have no quarrel whatever with the legitimate agent who charges his legal 5 per cent and is satisfied with it. The fellows we are after are those who charge the actor ten, twenty, thirty and sometimes as high as forty percent of his earnings. Even cases have been reported to me where a studio would pay $7.50 a day to an agent for extra people, and all the actor himself got out of it was $3.00, the agent gobbling up the rest or splitting it with some employee of the studio. This is wrong and must be stopped. Other agents will take on numberless clients, and on the pretext that they are not agents but personal managers of the artists, get around the law and take from the actor 10 per cent of all his earnings. "Other cases have been reported to nle of agents influencing actors to sign long-term contracts with them and then making the actors pay them a commission, no matter who got them their engagements, thus compelling the actor in many cases to pay double commissions. "All these abuses are wrong, and it is in the hope of correcting them that the Equity Association has formed its own agency, where the commission charged is simply enough to pay running expenses." Italian Combine? (Special to WID'S DAILY) London — The Film Renter says things seem to be booming in the Italian film world just now, and that it learns on good authority that a new company has just been formed in Rome with a capital of five million lira for the purpose of improving the organization of the Italian film industry. "Judging by the interest that the Roman banks are taking in the business at the present time, it would almost seem as if a combine is on foot," says this publication, "as we hinted a short time ago, to capture the Italian trade. Dr. Pellinati, after his recent visit to his native country, was full of news in regard to this latest move by the financiers, and it would appear that there is a fairly substantial substratum of truth in the rumors on foot, judging by the report referred to above. Italian films have a big future before them, but it certainly will not assist their artistic progress or development if they perchance get too much into the hands of the moneyed classes." We Place Insurance for UNITED ARTISTS CORP. (Watch this Space for Others) AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE Don't wait with your insurance problems. To-morrow may be too late. Years of experience in the theatrical and motion picture field has enabled us to handle your problem with intelligence, dispatch and economy. May we prove to you how we can serve you better? Your phone's handy. Samuels Monday, November 8, 192 On Broadway Lyric— "Over the Hill." 44th St. Theater— "Way Down Ea fl Capitol — "The Branding Iron." Strand — Geraldine Farrar in — "'►. Riddle: Woman." Rialto — Thomas Meighan in — "Cfl rad in Quest of His Youth." Rivoli — Wallace Reid in — "Ahv 3 Audacious." Broadway — "So Long Letty." Criterion — "Something to Tl < About." Loew's New York— Today — Mai i Davies in — "The Restless Sex." ' Tuesday — Zena Keefe in — "Outf the Snow." Wednesday — Ethel Clayton "Sins of Rosanne." Thursday— Alice Joyce in— Vice of Fools." Friday— Corinne Griffith in— Broadway Bubble" — Buck Jo < in "Sunset Sprague," Saturday — Clara Kimball Younjr "Mid-Channel." Sunday — Nazimova in "Madj Peacock." Brooklyn Strand — Lionel Barrymi in "The Devil's Garden." Next Week Lyric— "Over the Hill." 44th St. Theater— "Way Down Ea " Capitol— "The Penalty." Strand — Otis Skinner in "Kismet. Rialto— Roscoe Arbuckle in — "'. Life of the Party." Broadway — Not yet determined. Criterion — "Something to ThJ About." Brooklyn Strand— "Twin Beds." Two More Assistants Promote Two more promotions from ranks of Realart's sales forces h been announced by John S. Woe Paul R. Aust, formerly at Seat now takes the manager's desk same office, and James S. Horn has been transferred from the I falo office to Pittsburgh, where is to take charge as branch manai \ Church Shows Pictures Hamilton, O. — Pictures are be| shown in conjunction with regij Sunday evening services at Presbyterian Church here. Knowing what the public want and being able to furnish it is a rare combination,— but it is found in the RITCHEY poster. RFTCHEY LITHO. CORP. 406 W. 31 st St ,H.Y. Phone Chelsea 8388