The Film Daily (1920)

Wednesday, December 22, 1920 ,...,.. - TSJJ^A PAIL.V rtibeN ews B No. 102 VIRO, EGYPT — Annual pilgrimage to ekka starts with pomp and splendor— the1 lahmal" or Sacred Royal Canopy leads the ocession. EY WEST, FLA — Mail plane service urishes between U. S. and Cuba — Letters A parcels are transported daily from Key est to Havana. JMOUTH, MASS— Remove Plymouth ,ck — The historic relic made famous by iding of Pilgrims, is moved during restorain of waterfront. DNDON, ENGLAND— Football as popir in Britain as in U. S. — King George atlids game viewed by 60,000; greets war terans and teams. SRDUN, FRANCE — American presents smorial to France in tribute to men who 1 at Verdun — views of the memorial, known i the Trench of Bayonets Monument. ERE AND THERE: — Leads Blue Law usade — Dr. W. F. Crafts, head of Inter'tional Reform Bureau, calls himself "rermer;" does not favor drastic laws. ItVERPOOL, ENGLAND — Crane performs [immoth task — huge floating crane lifts and linsports a 160-ton steel bridge as if it were toy. ARION, OHIO — Nation's future executes agree on policy — Warren Harding meets ilvin Coolidge at "front porch" for cont*ence [The President-elect also entertains leaders 1 the Democratic ranks. [EW YORK CITY— Gates of Giftland open de — Shopping centre in world's largest opping city swarms with an endless stream purchasers of holiday gifts. JFFALO, N. Y. — City's police ever watch\ — Department organizes machine-gun Iuad to run down bootleggers on Niagara intier. today HH ART DIRECTOR available to company desiring best in motion picture sets. Formerly an architect. Has been successful in designing sets for the largest eastern producers. His ideas about the future of motion picture technique are original and a step in advance of the current producers. Address Box K-10, care Wid's in the Shadow of i fheDomex / if?* ■ s A DAVID G. FISCHER PRODUCTION Xmas Specials Brcadway Theaters Arrange Showings for Children During Holiday Week The Broadway theaters are busy arranging special children performanees for the holiday week. At the Capitol, Edward Bowes has offered the hospitality of the theater for the annual Christmas party which I Mrs. W. R. Hearst is giving to the crippled and orphaned children of the | city on Christmas Day. S. L. Rothafel is preparing a program of Christmas cheer which will include the first ! Prizma feature production, "Heidi." i in which young Madge Evans ap I pears. The Capitol Ballet Corps will 1 dance a Christmas pantomime, specially arranged and staged. There will be Christmas music and Dr. Robyn wili preside at the consul of the Capitol Grand Organ. Animal pic I tures and other subjects will complete ' the program. This is the second year that the i Capitol will be used to house Mrs. ' Hearst's party, to which more than 5,000 kiddies have been invited. Toys and sweets will be given out to make a merry Christmas merrier. Two thousand children, charges of the United Hebrew Charities, will be guests of Hugo Riesenfeld during Christmas week at the Rivoli when he will give special matinees for the little folk beginning at 10:30 A. M. Five hundred will be entertained next Sunday morning, and three hundred each on the following mornings. The children's program will be especially created, and besides a series of screen comedies will have Miriam Battista as a special entertainer, as well as a pretentious Christmas pantomime and special music. About 6,000 more children from other organizations will also be entertained at the Rivoli. Ten numbers will be on the program. A Charlie Chaplin comedy, a Mutt and Jeff cartoon comedy, a Crazy Cat cartoon comedy, a Chester comedy entitled "One Best Pet" and another entitled "Ten Times Foiled" will be some of the screen comedies. In addition there will be a screen album of pictures of little folk from all parts of the world and a slow motion picture of an appropriate subject will also find a place on the program. A Christmas fantasy, with five soloists and a chorus of 30 will be still another attraction. The fantasy is based on an original story by Mr. Riesenfeld with special choreography by Paul Oscard. "March of the Toys," from Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland," will be one of the important musical offeirngs of the program. Inasmuch as children will not be Committee of 50 Revived in St.^ Leu's— Has List of Reform, Bills Prepared for the Legislature (Special to WID'S DAILY) St. Louis— The Committee of _50 organized in 1917 to determine legislation needed to better moral conditions in St. Louis, was revived at a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce on Monday. The committee includes representatives of various Catholic, Protestant and Jewish bodies and of leading civic and welfare organizations. They have prepared a list of 11 bills to be presented to the Missouri legislature when it convenes in January. Among the bills affecting directly or indirectly the industry are: The creation of a board of censors for moving pictures. A bill to prohibit the showing as well as the sale and manufacture of indecent pictures. To make it a misdemeanor to write or post indecent pictures on one's own property or on the property of another. To provide for the destruction of objectional literature and pictures on conviction. Similar bills were presented to the legislature two years ago but all failed of passage. Merry Xmas Goldwyn Films at F. P.-L. Theater St. Louis — The first showing of "Bunty Pulls the Strings" will take place at the Missouri Theater on Sunday, followed by "Godless Men" on Jan. 3. The Missouri is a Paramount house and up to the present tune has booked nothing but Paramount attractions. Fitzgerald to Direct Alison Dallas Fitzgerald has been selected by Metro to direct "Big Game," in which May Allison will be starred. —Merry Xmas Madeline Levey, daughter of Harry Levey, is now handling the publicity for her dad's company. admitted unless accompanied by their parents or guardians, Riesenfeld is extending an invitation to all to remain for the regular performance, which begins at noon. The regular program has Wallace Reid in "The Charm School" as the feature. Joe Plunkett at the Strand will cooperate with some of the New York newspapers who are sponsoring special perfromances in the morning. Two have already been arranged, one with the World and the other with the Mail. Next Wednesday morning 4,000 children will be the guests of the World and on Thursday a similar number as guests of the Globe. Charles Ray in "Nineteen and Phyllis" will be shown at these performances as will "Edgar's Saw," a Booth Tarkington comedy. 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