The Film Daily (1918)

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Saturday, September 7, 1918 AIL.Y Publishtd Every Day in the Y«ar at 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. By WID'S FILMS A 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, Out■Jde of Greater New York, $10.00 one year; ( 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: Va»derbilt 4551—2 Would Inspect Books Stockholders of Two Bayonne Theatres Allege Misappropriation Differences between the stockholders of two Bayonne film theatres, the Bijou and Royal, have resulted in an application in the Supreme Court by Wolf Bass, treasurer and director of the Consumers' Film Service Co., owner of the Bijou, and secretary of the A. W. Amusement Co., owner of the Strand, and his wife, Dora Bass, owner of the lease of the Strand theatre, for an order compelling ;the two corporations to permit them to inspect all the books in order to determine whether or not there has been any misapplication of the funds of the two corporations. Mr. and Mrs. Bass, who hold 7y2 shares of stock in each corporation, told Supreme Court Justice^ Ottinger that the corporations have -been organized three years, but that when they demanded to see the books recently David Kaiserstein, president of the Bijou corporation, and Aaron Binsoff, treasurer of the Strand company, refused permission. The plaintiffs contend that both men have been drawing more than they are permitted under the agreement and that they have borrowed money without authority to the extent of several thousand dollars. Justice Ottinger dismissed the application. Reed Hamilton has been engaged to play the part of Lieutenant Philip Halbert in Norma Talmadge's Chinese picture, "A Tale of the Forbidden City," which is now being filmed at the Norma Talmadge studios. PRODUCERS PLAN FUEL SAVING Economy in Picture Making Subject of Meeting Next Week — To Prepare Report Eddie Laemmle is now assistant director to Jack Dillon, who is making Edith Roberts' new Bluebird production, "Beans." The Producers' Branch of the N. A. M. P. I. and all studio managers will meet in the Association's room at eleven o'clock on Tuesday to discuss methods of saving fuel in the actual making of pictures. The meeting will be along the lines set forth by the Fuel Administration. The results of the meeting will be shaped into a report and sent to the Standardization Commission of the Federal Fuel Administration at Washington where a meeting will be held on Wednesday at ten o'clock to talk over whatever recommendations are made by the film men at their meeting in New York. The Standardization Commission was originally formed by Dr. Harry Garfield, Fuel Administrator, as a result of the suggestions made by J. H. Hallberg, who is technical advisor of the Fuel Conservation Committee of the National Association. The Commission comprises Messrs. Hallberg, representing the N. A. M. P. I.; Law, Committee on Gas and Electric Service of the Committee on National Defence and Kressler representing the Fuel Administration. Harry Crandall represents the National Association in the Fuel Administration and is also an ex-officio member of this Commission. In 3000 Theatres Quimby Closes Record Contract for Official War Review F. C. Quimby, sales manager of Pathe, closed one of the largest contracts on record. This was accomplished when negotiations finally were completed with J. J. Murdock, head of the United Booking Offices, for placing the Official War Review in 3,000 vaudeville houses in the United States. It is now almost a million dollar booking, which is said to be unprecedented for a subject of this lyPe\ This country-wide field of exhibition and exploitation includes alike the vaudeville houses in the large cities and the modest theatres in the small towns. The big circuits, which have called into service all of their publicity and exploitation facilities, are the U. B. O., Orpheum Circuit, Western Marcus Loew Circuit, William Fox Circuit, B. S. Moss Circuit, Ackerman and Harris, San Francisco; Pantages and Hodkins, Chicago; Interstate Circuit and the Gus Sun Circuit. Two Incorporations Selig Enterprises and I.-D.-Amusement Corp. Granted Charters ALBANY.— The Selig Enterprises, Inc., of Manhattan, was incorporated with Secretary of State Hugo yesterday. The corporation has a capital stock of $2,500 and is authorized to manufacture and deal generally in motion picture and photoplay films. The concern also proposes to conduct theatres and engage in the theatrical business. The incorporators are: Zade A. Metzler, Albert A. Rosenthal, and Florence Nordenschild, 19 Cedar street, New York City. The I.-D. -Amusement Corporation of Manhattan was also granted a state charter. The company is capitalized at $5,000 and is formed to act as proprietors and managers of motion picture and other theatres, and to present motion picture offerings and stage attractions of various kinds. The directors of the enterprise are: Moritz Isenburger, Minnie Isenburger and Harry W. Doniger, 2795 Eighth Avenue, New York City. Singer Preparing Feature Julius Singer of King Bee, who has just returned from Chicago, is preparing to produce an elaborate feature to be called "Belgium, the Kingdom of Grief." The length of the production has not been announced. Can't Pay Fee CHICAGO. — Moving picture "fans" of Oak Park met with the board of trustees recently to discuss the recently passed censorship ordinance. Many of the theatres in South Oak Park must quit business, it is said, if the borough insists upon collecting $2 a day per theatre for censoring the pictures. Two women censors are now holding down the job. The meeting was for the purpose cf annulling the ordinance, as it works a hardship, it is claimed, on the theatres. Many residents favor its repeal. Last Saturday two exhibitors were arrested for displaying uncensored films. They said they could not afford to pay the fee demanded. Whereupon the patrons, fearing to lose their entertainment, held the indignation meeting. President Calvin H. Hill refused to cast the deciding vote when there was a tie, and announced he would make a decision later.