The Film Daily (1918)

Monday, July 22, 1918 Tstt4i DAILY Published Every Day in the Year at 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. By WIH'S FILMS & FILM FOLK, Inc. F. C. ("W1D") GUNNING President and Treasurer LYNDE DENIG, Editor Entered at New York Post Office as Secondclass Matter Terms (Postage free) United States, Outside of Greater New York, $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $20.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communications to WID'S DAILY, 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. Telephone: Vanderbilt 4551—2 Guts and Flashes Harold Bolster, of the Goldwyn corporation, was in Detroit last week. Universal is under the impression that a number of exhibitors, judging by the title, have classed "The Brass Bullet" as a war serial. As a matter of fact it is a mystery serial with no war action. Tom Buckingham has signed a contract with Triangle to appear in leads. Gus Peterson leaves the company to attend the Cinematograph school at Columbia, in preparation for war service as photographer. Tom Terriss has started producing another Alice Joyce, Vitagraph, picture, in which there are only four characters, played by Miss Joyce, Walter McGrail, Herbert Standing and May Hopkins. Mr. Terriss is making scenes at his own estate at Brightwaters. Daniel Frohman, of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, states that the published statements that a young film star actor named Charles Frohman Stedman was a nephew of his brother, the late Charles Frohman, is incorrect, as Mr. Frohman had no nephew by that name. Laemmle is Dined Carl Laemmle was the guest of honor last Satnrdav night at a dinner given at Prince's, Arverne, L. T. The executives and sales force of the Big U. exchange in New York invited their chief and told him what a "regular guv" he was. Incidentally, the New York Universal Fxrhange is no longer to lie known as the Universal Film exchange but as the Big U. exchange and Saturday night's blowout was to celebrate the re-christening. From the Courts Burdick Still Determined to Recover Value of Fairmount Corporation Stock That Irving E. Burdick has not given up his attempts to recover $5,000 from the Fairmount Film Corporation as the value of stock in the corporation which the latter refused to transfer to him, is indicated by an application he has made to Supreme Court Justice Ottinger for an order staying the film company from taking any proceedings in the case, pending the outcome of a hearing before the Court of Appeals at Albany, September 30, in which the court will determine whether he can appeal to that court from the decision of the Appellate Division dismissing his complaint. Burdick said that if the defendant •s permitted to withdraw the $5,000 deposit 't was compelled to make to release its propertv from the attachment obtained bv Burdick. he will be unable to collect anything in case the Court of Apoeals decides in his favor because he is informed and believes that the defendant is "utterly insolvent." Suoreme Court Justice McAvoy has dismissed a suit brought by the City of New York against the Gnome Motion Picture Co. to recover a personal tax on an assessment of $3,000. Fredprick Kalmbach. of 1068 Hall place, Bronx, treasurer of the corporation, said that the corporation had quit doing business at the time the assessment was made. Educational Chartered Charles A. Dean Named as President of Distributing Company The Educational Distributing Company has been chartered with Charles A. Dean president. The company is designed to handle the product of the F durational Films Corporation of America throughout the United States and Canada. Mr. Dean left last nieht for Detroit. He will visit Chicago and Cleveland and other Middle Western cities. He is looking for fifteen or twentv men who need not have film experience, but must be keen business men. Serial For Australia The Famous Players-Lasky Australian Company has purchased the Wharton serial, "The Eagle's Eye." The deal was closed late last week, Chester Beecroft acting as agent. Tssy Goetz, of the Select exchange, has started on a two weeks' vacation in the mountains. Organization Stopped Efforts to Form Union in Detroit Checked by Exchange Men DETROIT.— An effort is being made in Detroit to organize the poster men, film examiners, inspectors and shipping clerks into a union as a part of the Detroit Federation of Labor. Agitators handed circulars to the employees as they passed out of the Film Building; but the exchange managers were quick to break up the plan. The operators' union claims that it had nothing to do with the movement. Dawn Masterplay Company, buyer of pictures, and controlling "Hearts of the World" for Michigan, has agreed to keep the Detroit Opera House open through the summer and fall. The opera house is to be torn down. "Hearts of the World" is the present attraction. Royal A. Baker and Lester Potter, Detroit's police-appointed motion picture censors, are very active looking after the morals of the people. In the month of June they censored 516,000 feet of film, condemned 5 pictures, and slashed the others. John H. Kunsky is announcing Kellerman's "Queen of the Sea," and Theda Bara's "Salome," as coming attractions at the Adams Theatre. Shannon Fife Enlists Shannon Fife, one of the most prolific and successful scenario writers in the business, who started in the early days of Lubin and came close to making a record in the number of one and two-reel scripts bearing his name, has been accepted for the Army and will report to Captain Horton at Fort Travis this week. Mr. Fife has been anxious to enter the Army ever since the beginning of the war, but on three occasions when he attempted to enlist, did not quite meet the physical requirements. Living at his home in Dallas and writing scenarios to order, he has attained the necessary standard and is now prepared to say good-bye to a host of friends in the picture business, until the end of the war. Sales Reported The Arrow Film Co. has made the following sales: "The Grain of Dust" and 50 reels of the J. Warren Kerrigan re-issues to the Specialty Film Co. of Dallas; "The Hand of Vengeance" to the American Film Co. of Boston, and four Lockwood-AHison re-issues to Harvey B. Day of Pittsburgh.