The Film Daily (1921)

onday, June 20, 1921 iM*i DAILY Watch the Fur (Continued from Page 1) Frank a chance. To lose more than usual. Betting on that tball eleven. Of Tech. Say Pittsburgh. And watch the set. COAST NOTES Nobody workin. Ain't it tuff. Stars losin' their motor cars, d homes. And more sob stuff. Just like it. Kinda hard. One question: What did they do with their's? When it rollin' in. Easy like. There's an old adage. Somethin' mt layin' up. For a rainy day. But that's so. It don't rain much. Out Hollywood way. w it's pourin'. DOUG'S WORRIES Outside of income tax. Told of in Collier's. About his ious smile. And his gymnastics. Says he started smilin'. d had to keep on. "Measured by film length, I have smiled ir twenty miles," sez he. And : "If I leaped upstairs via the cony instead of going up the usual way the least worry any>. had was why I was doing it. What people wanted was to me jump to a higher balcony." Then he adds he is "free" the smile. And the gymnastics. Yes? CLEVER LETTER Written by Van Beuren. AJ. To Exhibitors. About sop's Fables. Out via Pathe. Have you got yours? If not it. Snappy stuff. Familiar like. Like this. And the cut :he end ! Clever ! I'll say so. KID STUFF Seems th' fashion. Lots of showmen doing it. Fixing up the kiddies. May attract grown ups. With the stunts. rry Crandall started it. In Washington. Brandt's crowd rig it here. But the daddy of 'em all is Karl Hoblitzell. y down in Dallas. How he did it. And why — . See Sun ir's issue. Darn good stuff. With lot's of ideas. Tippin' jl off. To a good thing. Don't overlook it. THAT COMMITTEE Editorial. And otherwise. Of the National Association, mder what it's gonna do with Pathe's features? And Hodson's? And Vita's? Plus Universal's. And a few others, lose product will be out. When those distributors refuse let the Committee committ? Betcha a nickel a fine row deDps? And being a sport we'll make that two nickels. COLLINS ON HIGHBROWS Frederick. Sure you remember him? Remember Petrova? jyway. Collins writes on "Highbrow Hand-Me-Downs." Satevepost. And it's right interestin'. Sorta wallops Mister thor. And tells him to come down to earth. Incidentally Is this yarn : "Some years ago, before the legitimate actor fell out of the vie heaven — the annoying analogy between author and actor 1 recur — a distinguished actress of' great beauty and charm >, e a dinner to the men who controlled the fifty largest picle theaters of the country. The dinner was a bubbling sucks. Wine flowed as wine could flow in those days, and the [y smiled as only she could smile. Finally the hostess, who :hat time was drawing a salary equal to an author's ransom, rde a neat little speech, in which she asked for suggestions criticisms to help her in her picture work. She got them, e Seattle man's patrons did not like her walk; the Detroit 'lie requires something a little more snappy in the wardrobe ; cago objected to her always being photographed with her »d side to camera ; Boston found her cold ; and finally the itleman from Louisiana closed the meeting with a solemn "ning that his women patrons did not like her corsets ! The tess at that dinner never made another picture. Neither aid you." DANNY. $500,000 in Chicago House (Special to WID'S DAILY) Chicago— Purchase of 300 ft. frontage on Chicago Ave., extending through 1734 to 1800, from Hermitage Ave. to Wood St., has been concluded by Herman R. Misch, who will build a department store and theater to cost $500,000. Big House for St. Paul (Special to WID'S DAILY) St. Paul — A new theater to seat 1,200 on Wabasha St., the construction of which will involve improvements aggregating $300,000, has been assured by transactions completed by the Friedman Brothers Holding Co. 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