The Film Daily (1921)

TS&iJtA DA1L.V Thursday, June 30, 1921 Vol. XVI No. 90 Thursday, June 30, 1921 Price 5 Cenls 1. Wid's Film and Film Folks. Inc.". Published Pailv at 71-73 West 44th St., New York. N. V.,'hv WID'S FILMS and FILM FOLKS, INC. F. ('. ("Wid") Gunning, President and Treasurer; Joseph Dannenberg, Vice-President and Editor; I. W. Alicoate, Secretary and I. A. Iron, Advertising Manager. •ed as second-class matter May 21, 1918. at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Tii ins (Postage free) United States, Outside of Greater Now 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 Blvd. Phone, Hollywood 1603. London Representative — W. A. William-; ion, Kinematograph Weekly, 85 Long Acre, London, W. C. 2. Paris Representative — Le Film, 144 Ru Kontmartre. : Quotations Last Bid. Asked. Sale Famous Players .. 5S->6 59;/. 58/. d(i pfd Not quoted 'Goldwyn Zy2 4 1 v\ i.riffith, Inc Not quoted ,oew's, toe 10/ 1054 10/ Triangle Yi V% fij Id Film Not quoted •Quotations by H. Content & Co. Valentino With Lasky (Special to WID'S DAILY) Los Angeles — Rudolph Valentino, played Julio in "The Four icmen," lias been signed by Jesse Lasky to play the title role in 'The Sheik," which George Mclford irtly. "THE snCE OF THE PROGRAM" Dempsey Serial Jack Dempsey will be starred in a new serial to be called "The Starlei Rider." Fred C. Quimby, producer of the official motion pictures for the Dempsey-Carpentire Fight for Tex Rickard will produce the new serial. Work will start on "The Scarlet Rider" on August 1st, at the Brimton Studios in Los Angeles. It will constitute IS chapters and will be released by Vitagraph, the backers state. Quimby has produced Dempsey's screen productions for several years. "Daredevil Jack," ' Dempsey's last serial was also made by Quimby. The Vitagraph publicity department hadn't heard about the new serial yesterday afternoon. Goldwyn Leaves for Coast Samuel (ioldwyn left on Tuesday for the studios, where he will confer regarding some of the corporation's fifth year productions. Name Ch anged to Chicago (Special to WID'S DAILY) Chicago — The new Balaban & Katz theater being built at State and Lake Sts. will be called the Chicago instead of the Ambassador, as was first planned. Oswego House Planned (Special to WID'S DAILY) Oswego, N. Y.— While nothing definite has been decided regarding the building of the proposed theater here the plan is still under consideration. I. M. Schine of Gloversville, N. Y., and several representatives of New York picture interests recently paid a visit here. Canadian Managers' New Officers (Special to WID'S DAILY) Edmonton, Alta. — The Edmonton Theater Managers held a meeting recently and the following officers were elected for the coming season: Presilent, S. A. Buchanan, the Allen; vicepresident, E. J. Wolfe, the Empire; secretary-treasurer, E. Woolman, the Empress; directors, A. Entwistle, Gem and Princess; A. H. Lawrence, nt. and J. K. Reith, Rialto. Warfield Film (Special to WID'S DAILY) .Minneapolis — A local newspaper (litotes Marcus Loew as saying that David Warfield will appear in a film version of "The Music Master," one of his great stage successes. It has been variously reported that Warfield would make screen versions of his well known plays. Loew and Warfield are very warm personal friends, and because of that friendship whenever the report is revived Metro is mentioned as the distributor. DeGrasse Production The W. W. Hodkinson Corp. has signed a contract with Edward J. Atkinson for a series of productions. The productions will be directed by Jiseph DeGrasse. "Joseph DeGrasse Productions," is what they will be called. Bern to Direct Moore (Special to WID'S DAILY) Los Angeles — Paul Bern is to direct Tom Moore in his next picture for Goldwyn. . It will be "The Man With Two Mothers," by Alice Duer Miller. Ingraham On His Own (Special to WID'S DAILY) Los Angeles — Lloyd Ingraham is reported about to launch his own producing organization. He has made a number of features with the De Havens in recent months. 3MB i THE WORLD'S GREATEST NEWS REEL Today's Issue 52-B LOS ANGELES— Miracle man in real life. Brother Isiah astounds scientists with his amazing cures by faith. MEXICO CITY— Scenes of great Jum festival vividly reveal the great beauty o,' Mexico's Capitol. LONDON, ENG— Horse Guard stages world's most picturesque military ceremony in honor of the King's Birthday. WARSAW, POLAND— American Boys who are making a business of fighting under foreign flags are decorated by the President of Poland for bravery under fire. NEW LONDON, CONN.— The stirring race between the Yale and Harvard Crews as seen from an observation aeroplane. NANTERRE, FRANCE— The best behaved girl in town is crowned Queen by the townsfolk. Remarkable interesting ceremony which gives excellent idea of the customs of smaller towns of France. Scenes from San Francisco, New York, •/Trenton, N. J., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., etc., tetc. Ruth Roland was guest of honor ^recently at the Boosters' Ball, San Francisco, one of the biggest social! events of the year. De Havens Coming East (Special to WID'S DAILY) Los Angeles — The De Havens are to start for the East shortly on a vacation trip. They will be away about a month and when they reach Los Angeles again will start work on a new picture. Hamon Film Ready Soon (Special to WID'S DAILY) Los Angeles — "Fate," the picture dealing with the life of Mrs. Clara Hamon Smith, will soon be completed despite the efforts of film folks here to prevent its completion. John E. luce is directing and likewise playing the role of Jake L. Hamon. Production is at the Warner Bros, studio. One quality the RITCHEY POSTER always has — the quality of procuring satisfactory box office receipts. RITCHEY LITHO. CORP. 406 W. 31st St.,N.Y. Phone Chelsea 8388 TO HELL WITH THE TRUST! We Are in This Game to Fight — Boys — If We Hope to Maintain Our, Independence HERE'S THE FIRST SHOT HARRY McCABE "A WESTERN THOROUGHBRED" An Exceptional Drama of Box-Office Power in Five Parts — Wonderful Advertising FRANKLYN E. BACKER, Pre.. -* HORIZON PICTURES Inc « — ' ' ■ — ■' NOW READY STATE RIGHTS 1 WIRE » k WRITE Phone BRYANT 1352 TIMES SQUARE NEW YORK "// It's An 'Horizon'It's a Picture!"