The Film Daily (1921)

ZfcBRADSTREET of FILMDOM 7/fcRECOGHIZED Authority VOL. XV No. 1 Monday, January 3, 1921 Price 5 Cents Gish Production Interest as to What Will Become of the Feature Now About Half Completed Considerable interest has been aroused in film circles over what will happen to the partially completed production which Lillian Gish was making as -her first feature for Frohman Amusement Co. which, as noted on Friday, has passed into the hands of receivers. It is known that several producers and distributors have been approached with a view to taking over the production and completing it. It is also known that efforts have been made to interest D. W. Griffith to take a hand and complete it. And it is not at all impossible that this may happen. Albert W. Grey, general manager of D. W. Griffith, Inc., stated that the Griffith organization had no intention of taking over the Gish picture at the present time. When Miss Gish left the Griffith field to take up the contract offered by Wm. L. Sherrill there was much speculation as to how the venture would develop. The contract, for three years, called for a total of nearly $400,000. Up to the present about $54,000 has been spent on the production, and talk in film circles is to the effect that if Sherrill could have raised an additional $50,000 the production could have been completed. The assets of the corporation are given as $240,000, including a valuation on negatives of $157,000. They also include unpaid stock subscriptions amounting to $10,000. Dillon to Direct Barthelmess Jack Dillon, who has just completed two pictures for Realart with Justine Johnstone starred, will direct Dick Barthelmess in his first starring picture for D. W. Griffith, Inc. The company will start work in about a week at the Mamaroneck studios on a story by Joseph Hergesheimer. Nothing has been decided upon relative to distribution. Promise Films Free There was a mass meeting held •Friday morning of exhibitors and exchangemen at the 48th St. theater to complete plans for the Hoover relief fund. The F. I. L. M. Club members promised to donate free of charge the pictures which will be used at the special children's performance on the morning of Jan. 29. Thomav H. Ince personally has made or been present at the making of every one of the hundred big "punch" scenes in "Lying Lips," his second Associated Producers' production with House Peters, Florence Vidor and an all-stur cast. Released January 30. — Advt. A Few of 9Em Shrinking Who haven't press agents. Who don't want publicity, violets. Almost unheard of in the business. But they exist. Take C. E. Danforth. Ever hear of him? Not much. But oh, what a big boy he is in the Loew organization. Represents Van Ambergh & Atterbury on the Loew directorate. Little man. In stafure. That's all. But some big. Got General Motors together. i,ew more big things like that. Believes in Loew's, Inc. Until the cows come home. And then some. Quiet. Unassuming. Rarely comes north of Fulton St. Loves the big State *Bldg. Almost as much as Marcus. And that's some. UNASSUMING ONES AT FAMOUS H. D. H. Connick. Try to ^et him to talk. For publication. Can't be done. He's doing a lot of regular business like things on the Avenue. Came in rictures from DOWN TOWN. Always use Capital (letters) wren referring to Wall Street. Regular life of adventure. Big man in the Frisco fair. Remember it? Pretty good piano player. In years gone by. Get him to tell you about it. Great mathematician now. Regular Burbank. Makes two dollars grow from one. Ask him how. Maybe he'll tell. (Continued on Page 4) News Reel Combine Effected by Educational, Who Will Release It as a "Super Kinogram" Earl W. Hammons of Educational has just completed a merger of several of the news weekly organizations. Beginning immediately the reel will be shown as a Super Kinogram, and will contain not only the Kinograms, but the best of the news weekly material forwarded from Gaumont and another weekly. It is understood that the U. B. O. have already contracted for the reel for their entire list of houses, a contract involving a very large sum of money. Metro Film for Rivoli Hugo Riesenfeld has booked "Polly With a Past," starring Ina Claire, for the Riyoli beginning on Sunday. It is a Metro special. Prizma Tie-Up Company Plans to Allow "Black and White" Producers to Use Color Process Prizma, Inc., plans to work in conjunction with the so-called "black and white" producers whereby the latter will have available the Prizma color process for the insertion of strips of colored film in regular features where such insertions serve to enhance the dramatic values of the production. Carroll H. Dunning, vice-president of Prizma, in speaking of the plan stated that his company did not intend retaining for its exclusive use the color process which it owns. He stated that production plans would continue as in the past with a possibility of increased output. In this connection he stated that Prizma had completed two short subjects in. which Madge Evans appears and that in all probability a regular supply of longer subjects would be maintained. Paramount arranged with Prizma for the insertion of a colored strip in "The Painted Lily," a new Mae Murray-Robert Z. Leonard picturePrizma titled "Passion" for First National and has arranged for the prologue which precedes "The Last of the Mohicans" this week at the New York and Brooklyn Strands. It would not prove surprising if, in the future, Prizma developed the prologue idea extensively, since it has available an extensive library from which to draw suitable material.