The Film Daily (1918)

Monday, July 29, 1918 ————■nil n jM^ DAILY Published Every Day in the Year at 71-73 West 44th St.. New York, N. Y. By WID'S FILMS & FILM FOLK. Inc. F. C. ("WID") 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 Cuts and Fishes Sidney B. Lusk, of Washington, has bought rights to the new Gaumont serial, "The Hand of Vengeance." A contract for supplying the U. S. S. "Dorothea" with fifty reels every two weeks has been awarded by the Government to General Film Co. May Allison has begun work on the new Metro feature, "The Testing of Mildred Vane," by Charles Dazey. Darrel Foster is to be her leadingman and Wilfred Lucas the director. Ike Von Ronkle, for a number of years manager of the Universal and Bluebird exchanges, has accepted the managership of the Goldwyn Chicago exchange, succeeding Harry Bailey. Doris Kenyon is spending two weeks in Halifax, N. B., resting, prior to beginning the third of her De Luxe features for the Sherry Service. Her latest picture, "The Inn of the Blue Moon," is to be released, Aug. 11. Pathe will give a trade showing of the first episodes of the new serial, "Hands Up," at the New York theatre roof, Friday, at 2 o'clock. This serial stars Ruth Roland and is directed by James W. Home, from a scenario by Gilson Willets. Rita Jolivet is contemplating a trip abroad to assist in the presentation of her feature, "Lest We Forget," in allied and neutral countries. World's rights to the picture, exclusive of the United States and Canada, are owned by J. Frank Brockliss, Inc. "The Great Love" at Strand "The Great Love," the initial Griffith-Artcraft picture, will have its first public showing, August 11, when a week's engagement starts at the Strand. Big Plans For Regent Charles H. Miles to Open Detroit House in September DETROIT.— Th< Regent theatre, Detroit, situated more than two miles from the heart of the city, will open in September with first-run pictures. Charles H. Miles, who is successfully operating the orpheum (vaudeville) theatre, is the lessee. Mr. Miles plans to have a 50-piece orchestra, and has engaged Henry Santrey, a singer whose popularit}' in Detroit is unquestioned. Everything will be of the finest. The scale of prices is not decided; but the policy will be one show in the afternoon and two at night. Frank Farrington, builder and controller of the new Colonial theatre, which has still to register its first success, has leased the house to the Cohen Brothers and Herman Warren. Messrs. Cohen and Warren now control the third largest chain of theatres in Detroit. Detroit stands high in the number of its first-run theatres. With the opening of the fall season Detroit will in all probability be supporting eight first-run houses. This means interesting business for the exchanges, and lively bidding for pictures not under contract. Tuesday, July 24. saw many of Michigan's film men march away to Camp Custer for military training. The Dawn Masterplay Company controls the distribution of the Ford Weekly in Michigan. Theda Bara in "Cleopatra" has been re-booked for the Washington theatre. The picture broke house record last winter. Majestic theatre, now closed for redecorating, will open in August. Manager McGee promises some innovations in picture presentation. Sidney M. Golden has just produced "Souls Unmasked." a six-reel picture, in Detroit. He has gone to New York to sell the negative, and plans to return to Detroit to produce his second picture. Mr. Golden says that Detroit is soon to be a producing center. Harry I. Garson, personal manager for Clara Kimball Young, exploiter of Blanche Sweet, and business manager for the Broadway-Strand theatre, Detroit, comes from California to spend a week in his native city. Receiver is Discharged Imperial Exchange Suit Against General Film and Others Settled Supreme Court Justice Mullan has signed an order discharging Joseph R. Truesdale as receiver of the Imperial Film Exchange, Inc., and cancelling the bond he gave when he was appointed. The application for the discharge of the receiver was made by himself, because he said his work had been completed. The receiver reported that a settlement had been made of the suit brought by the Imperial Film Exchange in 1912 against the General Film Co. and others for damages. In this suit the plaintiff alleged that the General Film, Vitagraph, Pathe Freres, Edison, Biograph, Selig, George Kleine, Essanay and Lubin companies had violated the Sherman anti-trust law, as result of which the Imperial Exchange had sustained heavy damages. The defendants at the same time were suing the Imperial for $12,568 alleged to be due. Receiver Truesdale reported that as a result of the negotiations with the attorneys for the defendants for a settlement he received from them $60,937. Of this amount he paid out $55,337 in legal expenses and in dividends to the three Imperial stockhold, William and Otto Steiner and William Devery. The balance less the fees of the receiver will go to these stockholders. Metro Convention Closes After two days of discussion and conviviality, Metro exchange men who came to New York for the two days' annual convention, which opened on Friday and officially closed with a dinner at the Astor, Saturday night, left for their homes yesterday well stocked with new ideas about the promotion of the Metro product. R. A. Rowland, Joseph Engle, W. E. Atkinson and Arthur James were the principal spokesmen. Present at the convention were: H. W. Kahn, Albany; E. J. Hayes, Buffalo; Chas. Kesnick, Atlanta; C. E. Smith. Chicago; E. R. Custer, Cincinnati; H. Almy, Cleveland; W. Skirboll. Des Moines; S. W. Hatch, Detroit; J. Grauman, Milwaukee; A. Fisher, Minneapolis; Jos. Klein, N. V.; Herman Jans, N. J.; J. Davis, Pittsburgh; Harry Lustig, West Coast district manager; S. M. Flax, Washington; C. Werner, St. Louis; Lee D. Balsly, Kansas City; W. H. Bachmeyer, Middle West district manager, and S. Shirley, Western district manager.