The Film Daily (1918)

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bM^ DAILY Saturday, September 7, 1918 PLAN BIG GET-TOGETHER AT EXPO First Rally of New Exhibitors' Organization to be at Garden — Show Promises to be Success The first big get-together meeting of the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry, Exhibitors' Branch, will be held during Exposition Week in Madison Square Garden. The exhibitors of the old American Exhibitors' Association and the Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of America will meet at the Exposition in what will really be a grand patriotic rally with the "help-the-Government" spirit uppermost. William A. Brady is largely responsible for the plan. As soon as the amalgamation had been completed he set in motion the necessary machinery to accomplish his purpose. The Exposition promises to be a notable one. With the exhibitors now in, it will be the first gathering of the entire industry. Mr. Brady had some other ideas in mind when he arranged for this. It was done with two purposes in view. The first was to provide an opportunity for every branch of the industry to get together under one roof and by an interchange of ideas work out the most effective means of organizing the entire industry for war service. The work that the industry has done in the past in aid of the Government has been great, but with the business under the control of a centralized authority that service can be made one hundred per cent, efficient. That is what the Government and the industry expect, and it is hoped that this meeting at the Garden will be the first step to bring it about. The second purpose of the meeting is to afford an opportunity for the high administrative officials of the Government to see with their own eyes the things that the industry has accomplished up to the present time in war work and to bring them in close touch with the industry as a whole in order that they may comprehend the vast power of the motion picture as the most effective means in the country to-day of spreading broadcast to the people all forms of Government propaganda. High officials are expected to come on from Washington to attend the show. Mr. Brady has been in close touch with the various heads of departments who have expressed great interest in the work and have said that they have the fullest intentions of attending the show. Warners Sue Powers $12,500 Said to Be Due From Former Associate Albert and Harry M. Warner have filed suit in the Supreme Court against their -former associate in the film business, Patrick A. Powers, to recover $12,500 alleged to have been paid out in connection with the organization of Warner's Features, Inc., in 1913. The complaint filed by the attorneys for the Warners alleges that they made a contract with the defendant and Lewis J. Selznick in 1913 by which Warner's Features, Inc., was organized with a capital of $1,000,000. The plaintiffs at that time owned all the $100,000 stock of Warner's Feature Film Co. except 115 shares in the possession of Otto E. Goebel, James B. Clark and Herman Fitchenberg. The plaintiffs say that they transferred their stock to the new corporation for stock in that concern and that in order to get in all the old stock they were authorized by Powers to pay $12,500 to the three minority stockholders named under a promise that Powers would reimburse them. They say he has refused to do so. Notes from Indiana INDIANAPOLIS.— L. H. O'Donnell, manager of the Grand theatre at Washington, Ind., says "Tarzan of the Apes" drew capacity crowds on the three days it was presented there last week. _ A new ventilating system has been installed in the Bijou theatre, Hammond, Ind. The interior has been extensively remodeled and redecorated. Brandt Gets First Card Joe Brandt, of the Universal, obtained the first draft registration card of the class from 31 to 45 that has been issued in New York. Brandt is leaving for a trip around the country and made an appeal to his board for the card, which was issued to him yesterday. Robert Brunton, head of the Brunton studiosln Los Angeles, will superintend the direction of the first Kitty Gordon picture for United. Is pour mailing' list up to date for the coming' season? G. T. Sipe, manager of the Starette theatre, Newcastle, has made slides of all of the Henry county young men who are fighting for their country, and is exhibiting them at intervals at the theatre. The idea is proving to be extremely popular with his patrons. The Crystal theatre, Anderson, Ind., has been taken over by E. T. Miller, of North Carolina. Mr. Miller plans to remodel the house and operate it with feature pictures and vaudeville. Messrs. Welch & Walbourn, the former owners, have purchased an interest in a theatre at Jackson, Mich. Bookings have just been completed for the showing at the Oliver theatre, South Bend, of "Salome," a picturization of the heroine of Biblical days. The picture will be shown there for one week. Samuel Carlton, formerly manager of the Blinn theatre, Frankfort, has been named manager of the Sipe theatre, Kokomo. A remarkable program was enjoyed all last week by friends and admiring patrons at the second "birthday party" of the Circle theatre, Indianapolis. The anniversary was celebrated with the showing of "The Great Love," and a unique stage spectacle produced by S. Barrett McCormick, the guiding genius of the theatre. A series of tableaux, showing the different kinds of theatrical entertainment to be found in the representative theatres in Indianapolis, formed the spectacle. Big crowds were in attendance throughout the week. Another Y. M. C. A. Reel Finished The Publicity Department of the Y. M. C. A., which is turning out productions under the direction of H. E. Hancock, has completed another of a series of pictures. The first was "Twenty-four Hours in a Rookie's Life," which was distributed by Universal. The second picture is "Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Sailor," which the Universal will also handle. Otto Kruger, who is in the Ensign's School at Pelham, is starred with Helen MacKellar, late of "The Tailormade Man."