We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
afrMADSTREET of FILMDOM
DAILY*
jtfrRECOCHIZED AUTHORITY
VOL. XVI No. 17 Sunday, April 17, 1921 Price 25c.
Copyright 1921, Wid's Film and Film Folks, Inc.
Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y., by WID'S FILMS AND FILM FOLKS, INC.
F. C. ("Wid") Gunning, President and Treasurer ; Joseph Dannenberg, Vice-President and Editor; J. W. Alicoate, Secretary and Business Manager; J. A. Cron, Advertising 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 of Greater New York,
$10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00.
Subscribers should remit with order.
Address 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
Boulevard. Phone, Hollywood 1603.
London Representative: W. A. Williamson, Kinematograph Weekly,
85 Long Acre, London, W. C. 2. Paris Representative: Le Film, 144 Rue Montmartre.
Features Reviewed
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA Fox Page 2
D. W. Griffith presents DREAM STREET
United Artists Page 3
Mayflower Photoplay Corp. presents. . . .THE OATH R. A. Walsh Prod.— Asso. 1st Nat'l Pic. .Page 5
Sessue Hayakawa in BLACK ROSES
Robertson-Cole Page 7
Alice Lake in UNCHARTED SEAS
Metro Page 9
PROXIES Cosmopolitan Prod. — Paramount Page 10
WHAT'S A WIFE WORTH Robertson-Cole Page 14
News ot the Week in Headlines
Monday
George King, general manager of Allied (United; Artists in London. Henry B. Walthall may star for First National.
Tuesday
Local film men talk of revived National Booking in recently formed Peerless Booking Corp.
Keith and allied theater circuits book Pathe News. Involves enormous number of days.
Adolph Zukor and other officers of Famous Players re-elected.
Wednesday
Maude Adams to direct pictures, according to report.
Experimenting with new color process. New coast company plans to make pictures in Peru. Louis B. Mayer to film "The Wandering Jew." Court refuses to restrain showing of "Wallingford"
film made by Cosmopolitan Prod, for Paramount
release. Censorship killed in Iowa, Nebraska and New Jersey.
Thursday
Series of non-theatrical exchanges planned. Idea national in scope.
St. Louis exhibitors want different method of selling pictures in their territory. To see producers about it.
Friday
F. B. Warren Corp. formed. Latest entry into distributing field.
Stanley Co. of America to build theater at Broadway and 46th St., New York.
The last of the Franco-American-Cinematograph dream. Andre Himmel in Paris confesses he forged letters in an effort to interest capital.
Another version of the Bible made in France.
Reeves Eason, Jr., in THE BIG ADVENTURE Saturday
Universal Page 16 Harry Levey plans chain of theaters to show educa
tionals. Mabel Normand in WHAT HAPPENED TO ROSA Lomk)n hearg y p A _Famous Players deal has been
Goldwyn Page 18 closed.
Distributors reported having cut rentals in southeastShort Reels Page 19 ern territory.
"Pardoning the bad is injuring the good'9 -Benjamin Franklin.