The Film Daily (1921)

The Motion Picture Industry will save 250,000 Children from Starvation What have YOU done? MOTION PICTURE DAY, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26th Daily Doings of Hoover's Doers Official Organ of the Greater New York Motion Picture Committee of the European Relief Council Edited by the A. M. P. A. Publicity Committee. Printed and Published by Courtesy of Wid's Daily ASSOCIATED MOTION PICTURE ADVERTISERS' COMMITTEE in co-operation with MOTION PICTURE DIVISION EUROPEAN RELIEF COUNCIL Room 305 Capitol Theatre Circle 4411 Today's "Thank Yous" I Miss Adelaide N. Farans— for help in mailing notices. Miss Schumann — for clerical assistance. These motion picture stars are with us for next Wednesday, Moving Picture Day: DOROTHY PHILLIPS MAE MURRAY RUTH ROLAND MARY McLAREN MOLLIE KING VERA GORDON MARTHA MANSFIELD Northwest "Pep'^ In the Northwest there is a well organized movement to put the drive successfully over the top. Ray A. Grambacher, Regional Chairman for the Spokane district, has written Mr. Hoover as follows: "I have appointed on my committee representing the theater owners of Spokane: H. S. Clemmer, Dr. H. C Lambach, Charles Stilwell, J. W. Allender, E. Clark Walker, Charles Packeritz, Mr. Ternune, C. D. Woodward, Charles York and C. S. Crews. "At our meeting it was decided to have a Midnight Matinee, starting at eleven o'clock at the three largest theaters, namely, Pantages, Clemmer and Liberty. "We will immediately start an advertising campaign with slides on the screen in every theater in town. Each theater will speak in its daily newspaper regarding the matinee. We will endeavor to persuade the merchants also to include in their newspaper ads a mention of the matinee. "The entire proceeds of the matinee will be given to the Starving Children fund, "We mean to put this proposition over successfully to show the general public that the theatrical people are really alive and will make a success of whatever they attempt to do." Important Notes At the executive committee meeting Wednesday it was announced: The F. I. L. M. Club, to help along the special Saturday morning matinee, will purchase tickets and have as its guests the various schools and institutions in the neighborhood of local motion theaters. There is to be a meeting of the Four Minute speakers on Monday night at 8:15, in the Fifth Ave. Baptist Church, 8 East 46th St. Commander George Barr Baker, Dr. Thos. E. Greene and Jerome A. Meyers will address the Four Minute speakers and give them the details of the things to be mentioned at the theaters on Wednesday, Jan. 26th. More than 500 speakers, both men and women, have already replied and signified their willingness to serve, but additional volunteers can be placed to good advantage if they will get in touch with Motion Picture Headquarters at 122 West 49th St. The Transportation Committee in addition to having made arrangements for supplying all shows for the morning of the 29th, is now working on obtaining a sufficient number of closed cars so that the stars who are to make personal appearances on Jan. 26 will have proper transportation. Those who have closed cars to offer for this purpose should get in touch with Mr. Rosenbaum of the Transportation Committee, or Mrs. Foerster at the Capitol Theater, Circle 5500. DO Send in Your SIGNED PLEDGES to Leo Brecher 305 Capitol Theater Bldg. Preparing Programs The Theater Committee and the Film Committee are working together to provide the theaters with the children's matinee programs. The film committee is to receive a list of the theaters which will conduct the Saturday morning performances of Jan. 29. The shows for these theaters will be ready for distribution on the afternoon of Friday, January 28. The film committee is already collecting this special material and assembling it in program form. NOTICE! Special European Relief posters will be delivered to Greater New York theaters with the films booked by them for their regular shows of next Saturday, Jan. 22. Please use these posters to good effect. Stars You're Needed Bert Adler, chairman in charge of star appearances on the night of Jan. 26 in behalf of the drive for the starving babies of Europe, is out after as many stellar lights as he can secure for that evening. It is suggested that company heads and managers who have artists available that night communicate with Adler, who is located in the Brokaw Bldg., 1457. Broadway. And. right away, too. Phone, Bryant 1058 A dramatic tabloid "THE INVISIBLE GUEST" (150 ft.) GET IT at the New York Paramount Exchange, 729 7th Ave., free of charge for this drive. Get it now and run it now! It's for the cause. Big Stores Co-operate Chairman Paul Lazarus of the A. M. P. A. Committee to secure co-operation from the big department stores in advertising Motion Picture Day, has met with gratifying response. Next week Lord & Taylor and J. B. McCreery & Co. of Manhattan and Abraham & Straus of Brooklyn will carry in their copy in the daily papers a notice of Motion Picture Day. Ryskind Busy Morrie Ryskind, the new popular author, has arranged to celebrate Motion Picture Day at "F. P. A."'s Contribs' Dinner on the 26th with an activity in behalf of the big film doings. In Electric Lights Motion Picture Day has been beaming at Broadway crowds o' nights from several of the Selznick electric signs. By next week it is possible that other electric signs may be proclaiming the motion picture industry's interest in the Hoover campaign for Eu:opean Relief Regional Directors^ The exhibitors who have accepted Mr. Hoover's appointment as chair-, men of the "Save the Children" drive in their respective territories are: W.i Bernstein, Colonial Theater, Albany, Mr. Larsen, Keith's Theater, Boston; Mike Shea, Shea's Hippodrome, Buffalo; Dr. Sam Atkinson, Allied Amusement Assn., Chicago; Henry Lustig, Cleveland; E. T. Peter, Dallas; F. F. Schwie, Duluth Amusement Co., Duluth; Fred Dahnken, Turner & Dahnken, San Francisco; Gore Bros, and Sol Lesser, Los Angeles; James C. Clemmer, Seattle; Ray A. Grombacker, Spokane; W. A.'' Greaper, Union Ave. Theater, Portland; Wm. Swanson, Salt Lake City; Thos. Vickroy, Tabor Theater, Denver; Fred Seegert, Regent Theater, Milwaukee; Jake Wells, Colonial Theater, Richmond; Frank L. Newman, Kansas City; Harry Crandall, Metropolitan Theater, WashingtonHarry Goldberg, Sun Theater, Omaha; A. H. Blank, Des Moines; Eugene V. Richards, Saenger Amusement Co., New Orleans; Jules Mastbaum, Philadelphia; John P. Harris, Grand Theater, Pittsburg; J. C. Ritter Rialto Theater, Detroit; Theo. L. Hays, Loeb's Arcade, Minneapolis; Joseph Mogler, St. Louis; E. M Fay, Providence; Louis Blumenthal, National Theater, Jersey City; E. H Bingham, Colonial Theater, Indianapolis; J. A. Maddox, Southern The«Mr: Columbus, O.; Charles W. Whitehurst, New Theater, BaltimoreH. B. Varner, Lyric Theater, Lexmgton, N C; C. D. Cooley, Strand Theater, Tampa, Fla.; W. J. Steffes, Minneapolis; H. C. Farley, Montgomery, Ala.; L. T. Ditmars, Majestic 1 heater, Louisville; E. T Lester Rialto Theater, Columbus, S. G; L. M. Miller Palace Theater, Wichita, Kan.; S. Z. Poll, New Haven, Conn.; Sam L. Rothafel, Capitol Theater, New York City; Alfred Black, Black's Theater, Rockland, Me.; C. H. Bean Pastime Theater, Franklin, N. H.; H. S. Graves, St. Johnsbury, Vt ■ Fitzpatrick & McElroy, Chicago W A. Dilhon Strand Theater, Ithaca, ^i ' ^Y; -H Lint°n, Hippodrome Theater Utica, N. Y; Theo. Jellenk Albany Theater, Schenectady, N. Y ; C. A. Lick, New Theater, Ft Smith, Ark. SLIDES! Special advance slides will be distributed from the Capitol Theater building by Mrs. Foerster's aides at the same time that packages of tickets are issued to theater men. Decorate your theatre lobby next week— Let your public know there's something doing!