The Film Daily (1918)

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Monday, August 19, 1918 TsbijA DAILY ■''■urn iiiimirmi KvfT> Published n By in rh« Yf:ir itt, N.-m York, N. I. FILM FOLK, Inc. [>n< 3 \V*m mi, St. WID'S IT I.MS & F. C. ("WID") GUNNING President and Treasurer LYNDR DEXIfi. Editor Entered at Xe^vYork Post Office as Second cl.-iss Matter T<tiiis (Postape free) United States, Outside of Oreater New York. $10.00 one ypar; 6 months. $0.00; 3 months. $:3.00. Foreign, $20.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address ;ill communications to WII>'S DAILY', Tl-T.S West 44th St., New York, N. Y. TVlpnhonp? Vanderbilt 4551 — 2 PREPARING ENTERTAINMENT DRIVE Training Gamps Commission Asks Exhibitors to Give Ten Per Gent, of Receipts One Day a Month Robertson-Cole Take Rights Walter Hoff Sealey of the Robertson-Cole Company closed contracts last week whereby his organization will take over the foreign rights on all the J. Warren Kerrigan productions made by Jesse Durham Hampton. John H. Blackwood, representing Mr. Hampton, closed the producers' end of the deal. The first pictures which will be turned over to the Robertson-Cole people are "The Dollar Bid" and "A Burglar for a Night." The third production is "Prisoners of the Pines" the first print of which arrived Saturday. Mr. Blackwood intends to return to the Coast some time this week. Advertisers Want to Know The Associated Motion Picture Advertisers' Association has instructed its secretary, Allan Rock to familiarize himself with whatever has transpired thus far in the investigation now being made as to whether or not the industry is to be classed as essential. Mr. Rock wrote to Judge Parker Saturday in order to determine what has been done as to the classification of employes of the motion picture industry, and other rulings relating to the subject. The A. M. P. A. is taking this step preparatory to further action on its part. It feels that inasmuch as its members are composed of employes of the industry they are the logical ones to be heard in relation to whether or not they are to be classed as essential. Cassinelli a Lieutenant Dolores Cassinelli, who starred in "Lafayette, We Come," has been made a First Lieutenant in the United States Army, 3rd Battalion. 152d Depot Brigade. Major J. B. Brandreith made the appointment for the services Lieut. Cassinelli rendered in behalf of the Red Cross and those she is about to render. The new lieutenant is soon to stage a concert at Upton. In an effort to assure entertainment for the boys behind the lines in warstricken France and for the boys that are now in the camps over here, the Entertainment Division, has commismission on Training Camp Activities of the War Department is starting a drive to secure funds for that purpose. The idea underlying it is that all exhibitors throughout the country will be asked to contribute ten per cent, of their receipts one day a month for the purpose of buying and presenting "smileage" books to the boys that are at the front and who come from the town in which the exhibitor makes the donation. Each of the books so obtained will be stamped with the name of the contributor and with the name of his theatre, and thus, as near as the Entertainment Division can figure it out, the donations received from a town like Meadeville, Pa., or Circleviile, O., will be turned over to the boys who went to the front with the company from that town. The' same will apply to the big cities where the National Guard and the National Army men will receive the books that are obtained from the contributions in their home town. Harold Braddock, Director of the ntertainment Division, has commissioned J. L. Meyberg to take the matter in hand and obtain the co-operation of all of the exhibitor bodies and similar organizations in the industry and secure an expression of their willingness to assist in the movement. Thus far, Mr. Meyberg, who is at the Astor, has obtained the assurance of S. L. Rothapfel that he will pledge one-tenth of the receipts one day a month for both the Rialto and Rivoli theatres, and from Marcus Loew that he will do likewise. Tn addition. Mr. Loew wishes to donate 5.000.000 tickets to his various theatres to the department and let it sell them and take the entire receipts for the cause. At ten cents a ticket this would mean that Mr. Loew is offering a half million dollars to the project. Of the managers approached by Mr. Meyberg during the last week the Strand management was the only one I that declined, statin"; that it was not in a position to lend assistance to the project and refusing to allot one of its da-es as "Smileaire Book Day." The Entertainment Division proposes a nation-wide advertising campaign in the dailv papers for which space has been donated, and this will be used on "Smileage Book Day" each month advising the public which houses to attend so that the boys at the front will obtain part of what they spend. The natural inference is that if a house is not mentioned in the list the public will be aware of the fact that the management is "slacking" to a certain extent. After obtaining the co-operation of the New York exhibitor organizations Mr. Meyberg will start west and be in Chicago for the convention there of the A. E. A. and place the matter before them. Companies Formed Thelma Bradshaw Corp. is Chartered in New York State ALBANY.— The Thelma Bradshaw Motion Picture Corporation, with its principal office in New York City, has been incorporated with the Secretary of State. The enterprise is capitalizi d at $50,000 and has been formed to manufacture, produce and exhibit motion picture film of various kinds and engage in a general motion picture business. The directors are: Thelma Bradshaw. Benjamin N. Rosenbaum, of Elizabeth, N. J., and Joseph Hvozdik, Jersey City, N. J. The R. G. Matzene Pictures, Inc., of Manhattan, has also been granted a charter by the state for the purpose of producing and making motion picture and photoplay films and projecting and other machines used in the motion picture business. Its capital stock is $20,000, and has these incorporators: Alexander G. Scheer and Hannah L. Geller, New York City, and C. A. Weeks of Yonkers, N. Y. Foursquare Closes Offices CHICAGO. — The Foursquare Exchange has given up its offices in the College building and hereafter all Hoffman, Foursquare and Backer pictures will be handled in the middle west by the Celebrated Players Film Corporation. "Upstairs and Down" CHICAGO.— The Rialto de Luxe Picture Corporation is filming scenes for the screen version of Oliver Morosco's stage success, "Upstairs and Down," at the Essanay studios. Grace Valentine is the featured star and the picture is to be in eight reels. "Smashing Through to Berlin" has been held over for at least one more and possibly two more weeks at the Broadway theatre.