The Film Daily (1921)

tMA DAILY Wednesday, January 5, 1921 Vol. XV No. 3 , Wed. Jan. 5, 1921 Price 5 Cents Copyright 1920, Wid's Film and Film Folkt, lie. Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y., by WID'S FILMS and FILM FOLKS. IN<C. V. 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 •f Greater New York, $10.00 one year; 6 ■lonths, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Addr-ss 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. Williampn, Kinematograph Weekly, 85 LongAcre, tondon, W. C. t. Paris Representative — Le Film, 144 Rue Kontmartre. J a— ' — i Quotations Last Bid. Asked. Sale Famous Players ... 49 51^ 49]/2 do Pfd. .: 77y2 ny2 78 *Goldwyn 4^4 5 D. W. Griffith, Inc Not quoted Loew's, Inc. \^A \W\ 16^ Triangle 5/16 U M World Film Not quoted i ♦Quotations by H. Content & Co. Re-open Plant Jan. 24 Jesse L. Lasky states that the Long Island studio of Famous Players will be reopened on Jan. 24, when three companies will start work. He states that $200,000 in additional electrical • equipment has been installed in the studio. Postponed Hugo*Riesenfeld has postponed the showing of pictures of the Vandenbergh-Paramount expedition from Thursday at the Rivoli to Friday morning. Loss $160,000 (Special to WID'S DAILY) Indianapolis — The loss suffered by the fire at the Lieber Building, 28 E. . Washington St., on the 29th is estimated as having done $160,000 damage. It develops that the Indiana First National exchange as well as that of Educational Films was badly hit by the blaze. Art Holah Here Art Holah, former manager for Pathe in New England, is in town. At Broadway Theaters Capitol The first number presents the finale from the second act of "Aida." The soloists are Miss Emily Beglin, Miss Rose Reed, Mr. Erik Bye and Mr. Max Sasonoff, assisted by the Capitol ensemble, Mile. Gambarelli and the Capitol ballet corps. The Capitol News is next followed by a recitation by Bertram Peacock as a prologue to the feature, "Bunty Pulls the Strings," a Reginald Barker production for Goldwyn. A postyuletide fantasy, "Funeral March of the Marionettes," is presented by the ballet corps. Then Harold Lloyd in his latest comedy, "Number Please," supplies the laughs of the evening before the concluding organ solo. Rialto The overture is "Rienzi," a Richard Wagner number. The Magazine is of ordinary interest. Mary Fabian sings the aria from "Joan of Arc." Hope Hampton is seen in Maurice Tourneur's production "The Bait," a Paramount picture. Joseph Alessi, renders "Inflamatus" from "Stabat Mater," a trumpet virtuoso. There is a Christie comedy, "Going Thru the Rye." Rivoli The Rivoli is celebrating its third anniversary this week. The overture is the Second Hungarian Rhapsody with a cymbal solo by Bela Nyary. The Pictorial contains a varied and interesting selection of subjects. A scene from "Lakme" is presented with appropriate setting and costumes. The Rivoli chorus and ballet take part with Grace Hoffman rendering a solo. Cosmopolitan's production, "The Passionate Pilgrim," is the feature which is followed by the Toreador song from "Carmen," sang by Edoardo Albano. A Cartoon comedy, "Out of the Inkwell," is very good. The organ solo concludes. Curb Stock Levels In the year just closed, the motion picture issues listed on the New York Curb Market experienced a number of rather radical changes, so far as price values are concerned. The most noteworthy change was in the Goldwyn issue, which reached a high level of 34 during the year, but closed at 4. The following table gives the issues, the total number of shares that changed hands and the high, low and closing prices: High Low Last Sales Goldwyn 34 4 4 22,074 D. W. Griffith, Inc.15^ U% 11% 3,950 Triangle ;. % A Vs 166,250 Unit. Pict. Prod.. 13^ 1!4 l'A 188,000 World Film 'A Vi Vi 5,200 do. 1st pfd yi 54 J4 3,000 do 2nd pfd 1 Vs Y» 13,300 Strand The orchestra opens the program with selections from Victor Herbert's "Natoma." Then comes the Topical Review. Prizma presents "An Indian Summer," a beautiful scenic. Joseph Martel and male quartette render a vocal prologue before the presentation of Maurice Tourneur's production, "The Last of the Mohicans" for Associated Producers. Kitty McLaughlin sings "The Bird Song" from "Pagliacci." Harold Lloyd is also on the Strand bill with his latest fun maker, "Number Please." Festival March is the organ solo. Dalton in New Company (Special to WID'S DAILx; Los Angeles — Emmett Dalton is one of the incorporators of the Standard Pictures Corp., a new company formed here. Associated with him are M. J. Grave and A C. Webb. Dalton a few weeks ago stated that he intended re-entering the production field. Maugham Signed W. Somerset Maugham, the English author, has been signed by Famous Players to write original stories for the screen. This, despite the fa*ct that Maugham stated very emphatically a few weeks ago that he would do no such thing. Delft, Marquette Opens (Special to WID'S DAILY) Marquette, Mich.— The Delft theater, operated by Delft Theaters, Inc., who run the Opera House, Marquette, Delft, Escanaba; Strand, Escanaba and Delft, Munising has opened. New Floor for Levey Studios Work has begun on the enlargement of the Harry Levey Studios at 230 W. 38th St. An entire new floor is being added to include executive offices, production department offices, cutting rooms, editing department rooms and rest rooms. Louise Fazenda Here Louise Fazenda, now under contract with Special Pictures, has arrived in New York after stopping off at a number of cities on her way east. "Never Were Partners"— Callaghan (Special to WID'S DAILY) Los Angeles — Andrew J. Callaghan denies an article recently publfshed in WID'S DAILY to the effect that he and Harry Leonhardt had recently dissolved partnership. He stated that he and Leonhardt have never had a partnership agreement but that they had a working agreement on "The Devil," recently completed withGeorge Arliss. INSURANCE EXPERTS TO THE THEATRICAL AND MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS. "ASK ANY PRODUCER." Did you ever hear of "Insurance Service?" Well, that's what we have to offer. 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