The Film Daily (1921)

MftADSTREET / FILHDOM 7/cRECOCHIZED Authority )L. XVI No. 39 Monday, May 9, 1921 Price 5 Cen*« Jolson In Films st — Company Affillown — A New for Him ID'S DAILY) 'he Times says in 1 11 Work on C iation Not Ventur (Special to ,os Angeles — t: That Al Jolson will return to Los eles in June, following the close his current season with 'Sinand that he will then become cture actor, is the announcement e by himself the other day. While Jolson was frank about fact that he was to become a ure star, he refused to make any he details of his film connections wn at present, due to some comation concerning his theatrical af The comedian has so far refused lure of the camera. Now, how, he states that it appeals to him ly, and. as his contract is underd to be a very good one, he felt he could not afford to let the rtunity go by." rhen Associated Exhibitors, Inc., first formed, it was reported Jolson would make pictures for organization. Warren Must File Bond be Appellate Division of the Sule Court has decided that Fred tVarren, former manager of the dated Producers, who is suing 100,000 damages because he was larged March 26 last, must file nd of $25,000 if he wants to hold attachment he obtained against property of the defendant here. :ers of Associated Producers statlat because of the tying up of the oration's bank account and its lity to pay checks drawn against account, damage of $5,000 to 100 a week may result which may $250,000 before the case is de the plaintiff loses the suit he will to pay the amount the defendcan prove it lost because of the hment. Plans Indefinite ie Marsh's plans for the future indefinite. She told WID'S LY on Saturday over the telee that she had completed her •act with Robertson-Cole, for she made two pictures, "The 'Fraid Lady" and "Nobody's iss Marsh stated she had come to visit her mother and that she ded leaving for Los Angeles the Df this week. ■fe-r^fci '11, y I Itfl ■^ Mb ' <l ■Bi.fl ppWW*— ^.:j;: { ] vi f ^^ * ■' JH "THE SOUL WITHIN"— AUDREY MUNSON Maddened by the belief that the model he idolized had played him false, the sculptor destroys his life's work — his masterpiece. A thrill that no spectator will forget. Perry Plays, Inc. — Advt. Soft Times "Hard times are not coming," says the Philadelphia Bulletin. "Soft times are just going." Righto ! Now about admissions. More talk. Of reductions. Fox to start. Summer schedule. So they say. Means nothing more. Mastbaum did it in the Stanley. Talk from other points. Along the same line. It's all wrong, dear Agnes. All wrong. Why take out all the teeth? Just because one aches. Business is off. Generally. Nothing new in that. Maybe it's tough. Not to make profits of last few years. But what of it? Sun. doesn't shine all the time. And don't forget this : It'll be hard to raise 'em. Once they go down. You could do it in war times. Everything was up. Doing it later will be different. Keep your nerve. Stiffen your backbone. Keep your prices where they are. If the old time product was worth your old admission, isn't present day stuff more than worth that slight increase? Think it over. And before you decide to cut admissions visit the cellar. Take a good stiff hooch. Then stick along. And you'll never regret it. KEEP TIME OPEN Hustling salesmen. Getting play dates. Keeping exhibs busy. Scratching for time. Just a tip : don't get excited. Keep some time open. Lot of pictures coming. For pre-release. Before Fall season opens. Don't be blocked out. When they reach (Continued on Page 4) Big Films Slated Fox Going Into Spectacle on Large Scale — Gordon Edwards to Be Away for a Year or More William Fox plans to enter upon the production of spectacles on a large and definite scale. Several pictures of importance have been scheduled for European production. Rome will be the base of operations for the European producing unit in charge of which will be Abraham Carlos, former Paris manager of the Fox organization. Carlos, accompanied by J. Gordon Edwards, John D. Braddon, art director, and Michael Miggins, Edwards' assistant, are due in London the early part of this week. It is now officially admitted what has been published in these columns on numerous occasions, that one of the important pictures to be made abroad will be "Nero." Another will be a story depicting the histon oi Francesca di Rimiini. Another will depict important occurrences in the life of Alexander the Great, this film to be produced in Greece, according to present plans. _^ The plans as mapped out before Carlos and Edwards sailed were quite ambitious. Edwards plans to make "Joseph and His Brethren" in Egypt and of course finish "Mary, Queen of Scots." He will likewise visit Berlin and Vienna for scenes which will (Continued on Page 2) Dooley Due Here Tomorrow Thomas W. Dooley of the Exhibitors Film & Service Co., 565 South Salina St., Syracuse, will be in New York tomorrow and Wednesday. He will be at the Astor. Primitive Stuff What Leander De Cordova Is Up Against Working in South Africa Part of an interesting letter from Leander de Cordova from Durham, South Africa, telling of his experiences in directing a feature over there: "It has rained now for over three weeks. in which time I was only able to work two days, and the rainy season is supposed to be over. And on the clear days you sit and 'wait for the clouds' and all the rest of it. "I was at a place called Waterval Bovea for a week and was driven out by rain, but I must tell you of my experience there — I had to find my location so went direct to Sergt. Venter of the African Mounted Police (on (Continued on Page 2)