The Film Daily (1921)

DAI&.Y Saturday, January 22, 1921; Saengers Plan Another (Special to WID'S DAILY1 Shreveport, La.— Plans for the immediate erection of a $50,000 picture theater, by the Saenger Amusement Co.. are announced. Award Contract (Special to WID'S DAILY) Terre Haute, Ind.— The Indiana Theater Co. has awarded the contract for the new Indiana to John Kherson of Chicago. The building is to cost $500,000. Cohen Gets Another (Special to WID'S DAILY) Philadelphia— Will Cohen of the Model, Imperial and Astor theaters, is reported to have acquired a lease on the Crystal Palace, which has three years and eight months to go, for a consideration of $12,000. Miles Abandons Plans (Special to WID'S DAILY) Scranton, Pa.— It became known last week that the project of the Miles Amusement Co., of Detroit, is to erect a house at Scranton. was declared off. Aschers Open New House (Special to WID'S DAILY) Chicago— Ascher Brothers' new West Englewood, which cost $800,000, and has a seating capacity of 3,000 opened recently. It is the second house opened by this firm last month, the other being the Portage Park. Walter Russell will manage the new theater. Casey Bros, on Coast (Special to WID'S DAILY) Los Angeles — Patrick and Terence Casey, the novelists and short story writers are here to put some of their works into screen form, such as "The Gay Cat," "The Wolf Cub," "The Story of William Hyde" and "The Chase of the Four Fools.-' »•• ^ . Printing that is Distinctively Different BARNES PRINTING COMPANY INC. We Never Disappoint" 36 East 22nd Street GRAMERCY 945 Big Coast "Lab" Planned for Los Angeles — Will Have Capacity of 1,200,000 Weekly (Special to WID'S DAILY) Los Angeles — The Standard Film Laboratories with a capacity of 1,200,000 feet weekly are planned here. The structure is to be of reinforced concrete construction and will cover a ground area of 120 by 75 ft., and is to be two stories and basement. It will be located on Seward St. near Santa Monica Blvd., supplanting the present offices of the corporation at 130 W. 5th St. Financing of the big project has resulted in an alliance between So. California and Utah capitalists. The officers and directors for the ensuing year are as follows: C. E. Vermilyea, president; John M. Nicholaus, vice-president, at present the laboratory director at the Lasky studio, and well known for his successful work; S. M. Tompkins, secretary and treasurer, who has just resigned as superintendent of the Universal City laboratory. The Salt Lake City members include C. B. Stewart, O. H. Hewlett, Dr. G. F. Harding and L. A. Whitemore. Fred E. Mines of Los Angeles and William Nisle of San Bernardino complete the board. Two hundred men will be employed when the plant is opened, which will probably be within 90 days. New Morsoco Star (Special to WID'S DAILY) Los Angeles — Morosco's latest announcement is that Charlotte Greenwood will be starred in pictures. Her first picture for the Morosco Prod., Inc., will be "Linger Longer Letty." Morosco will also produce a new Anna Nichols play entitled "Weeds." Miss Nichols will have charge of the school for playwrights and scenarioists at the proposed "film city" which Morosco will erect here. Candler Sales Candler Pictures have sold "His Enemy's Daughter" for New Englland, to Popular Film Exchange, 14 Piedmont St.; for Missouri and Kansas, to Independent Producers Film Corp., 3504 Olive St., St. Louis; for New York State, to Joy Film Distributing Co., 117 W. 46th St.; for Minn., Wis. N. & S. Dakota, to Elliott Film Corp., Produce Exchange Bldg., Minneapolis. New Cincinnati Exchange (Special to WID'S DAILY) Cincinnati — Charles L. Casanave has resigned from the National Exchange of Ohio, Inc., to head the Queen City Film Exchange, a new unit with offices at Broadway and Pioneer. The exchange will serve Ohio and Kentucky. William Busch, formerly with the Wilson Film Co., is associated with Casanave. Start Production Soon (Special to WID'S DAILY) ! Memphis, Tenn. — The Southern Film Co.. expects to begin filming their first comedy Feb. 1, according .* to H. J. Mooney, head of the concern. The Dire Results The high cost of prohibition became apparent when M. S. Epstein of the Joseph M. Schenck organization, who returned from his post in Los Angeles yesterday as business manager for the first John Emerson-Anita Loos production, "Wife Insurance," stated that empty liquor bottles had been rented as props at 30 cents a day apiece. The expense was $30 a day for 100 bottles used. "It seemed an outrageous expense, and we tried to find our own bottles at first," said Epstein. "It was impossible to collect more than a dozen bottles which bore well known stamps such as 'Gordon Gin' or 'Dewar Scotch.' Champagne bottles were not to be found at all. But one canny Los Angeles gentleman had cornered the whole supply of empty bottles and made a business of renting them to movie companies — and in the end we had to deal with him, as the other companies had." City-Owned Theater Ninteen years from Feb. 1, the city of New York will be in possession of a full-fledged picture theater. This will come about through a lease made about a year ago of the property on East Broadway, Henry St. and the space under the Manhattan Bridge to the Manbridge Realty Co. Since making the lease, the company, of which Henry E. Jacobs is president, has practically completed the theater upon which Philip and Louis Brenner have just made a permanent loan of $72,000. It is said to be the only theater extant that is built upon city-owned property, and Jacobs is having prepared a bronze tablet which will bear the message that the structure was built on city property during the administration of Mayor Hylan, who will be asked to unveil the tablet in a few days. According to the terms of the lease the theater, which cost $230,000 to build and will be named The Florence, will revert to the possession of the city at the expiration of the lease. Theater Project Abandoned (Special fo WID'S DAILY) Cincinnati — Because of alleged ar bitrary demands on the part of cer tain labor unions Benjamin L. Heidi ingsfeld, attorney, acting for the con structors of a $300,000 picture hous at the northwest corner of McMillai St. and Melrose Ave., west of Peeple Corner, states that the project hai; been postponed indefinitely. Plans for the theater, also to l elude a group of flats of the kitchen, ette type, were prepared by Rapp t Rapp, of Chicago. 'In the S hadow o/ i the Dome A DAVID G. FISCHEK PRODUCTION ] DIRECTOR! OF THE TRADE * RELIABLE GUIDE FOF READY REFERENCE ACCOUNTANTS EDMONDS & BOUTON, INC. 56 Pine St., 1645 La Brea Av New York City. Hollywood, r ADVERTISING— PUBLICITY MERRITT CRAWFORD The Screen Bulletin 904 Fitzgerald Bldg. Bryani Sh ARTISTS AND ART TITLES F. A. A. DAHME. INC., Art Titles — Animation — Leaders 220 W. 42nd St. Bryant 67 MARTIN-McGUIRE & NEWCOMBl Art Titlet 727 7th Avenue Bryant 5' ENGRAVERS 1 HE STANDARD ENGRAVING CO. If Mall Tones — Line Engravers — Electrotyp 225 W. 39th St. New York Bryant 8( ENLARGING AND COPYINl W. J. MORAT Grainless Enlargements M. P. Film 302 E. 3Jrd St. Phone Vand. 7 MLM CLEARING New Deal in Cincinnati (Special to WID'S DAILY) Cincinnati — The National Exchange of Ohio, Inc., has arranged to distribute its product through the Lande Film Co. National has moved from the 5th floor of the Broadway Film Bldg., to the quarters occupied by Lande. National, besides its own product, handles the Equity series and other independent material. Start Work Feb. 1 (Special to WID'S DAILY) Los Angeles — It is announced that construction on the $150,000 building to be erected by the M. P. D. A., as a permanent home will commence on Feb. 1. JAWITZ PICTURES State Right — Export & Import — Film Cl'r 729 7th Ave. Bryant 9444 LABORATORIES EVANS LABORATORY Quality Motion Picture Printing 416-24 W. 216th St. Wad. 3*< CLAREMONT FILM LABORATORI 430 Claremont Parkway Tel. Tremont 31 H. J. Streyckmans, General Manager NICHOLAS KESSEL LABORATORI • Kessel Kwality Prints" Fort Lee N. J. Fort Lee PRINTERS BARNES PRINTING CO Motion Picture Specialists 3d East 22d St. Phone Gramercv PROSPECT PRESS Quality Printing for the Trade 188 W 4th St. Spring STUDIOS KSTEE STUDIO AND LAB., INC Srndio — 209-219 E. 124th Harlem ■ " ,'.„rt,„_161 W !25th Morn 49M I