The Film Daily (1918)

Friday, September 20, 1918 lM% DAILY Published Every Day in the Tear 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 DEMG, 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 The E. K. Lincoln-Cabanne feature, "American Spirit," will be released through Hodkinson, November 4. Viola Dana has completed "Oh Annice!", which was adapted from a storyr that appeared in Woman's Home Companion. Famous Players-Lasky will re-issue under the Success Series trade mark, Pauline Frederick's film success of former days, "Zaza," the famous French play. Earle Williams, the Vitagraph star, is reported as about to enter the lists of the Benedicts. The lady is a Brooklynite of the Park Slope section. The license is said to have been applied for in Brooklyn during the last few days. Comedies Ready "Huns and Hyphens," starring Lawrence Semon, will be out this week as t lie second of the Big V Special Comedy releases. It will be followed next week by "Roofs and Riots," featuring Earle Montgomery and Joe Rock. The fourth release will be "Bears and Bad Men," with Lawrence Semon, scheduled for October 7. Another National Anthem Day The Mayor's Committee on National Defense was so gratified by the success of National Anthem Day, as last Saturday was designated, that the National Association has been asked to secure the co-operation of the picture theatres in the city in continuing the work. To-morrow, the same procedure will be gont through in the houses in the city. The committee has assigned singers again, who will lead the audiences through the National Anthem. Drive For Laborers Screens to Be Used in Bureau of Employment Campaign A special drive for 350,000 mechanics and laborers will be started shortly via the screen in the Greater New York district. The National Association of the Motion Picture Industry has been requested to arrange for this campaign by the Bureau of Employment Service of the United States Department of Labor. The drive in the metropolitan district will be the nucleus from which will develop a national campaign. The shortage problem is especially acute here in the East where the great centers of war activity are scattered along the Atlantic seaboard. Motion picture theatres will be supplied with a series of slides free of charge with the request to exhibit them at every performance. Arrangements will be made so that each theatre will bear the address of the nearest offices to it. Harry Levey, Manager Harry Levey, manager of Universale industrial department, has been appointed manager of the Symphony Theatre, which, as stated in yesterday's issue, will be reopened to-morrow with Universale "The Talk of the Town" as the special feature. Attractions for coming weeks will be secured from Paramount as well as Universal exchanges. If you can't look pleasant keep away from the front of your theatre. Rivoli Starts First Production of Initial Feature Underway at Pathe Studio The Rivoli Film Producing Co., with temporary offices at room 601 Columbia Theatre Building, started work this morning on its first production at the Pathe studio in Jersey City. The first picture will be based on a story of modern drama that will contain no war action. The name is at present being withheld. Dr. O. I. Lamberger is the general manager of the company and the direction will be under the personal supervision of A. J. Bloome. Philip Hatkin, who has been cameraman for Fox for some time past, will look after the photography. James K. Hackett, Irving Cummings, Ormi Hawley, and Eric Mann are the principals in the cast. Dr. Lamberger said that all the minor parts will be portrayed by people whose experience in life has fitted them to play the characters of the story. Fall and winter fashions seem call for a house staff of women. to Frazier Named for Censor CHICAGO. — Mayor Thompson has made the following appointments to fill vacancies existing in the police department: John H. Alcock has been made general superintendent of police and Charles E. Frazier, president of the civil service commission, deputyr superintendent, succeeding Maj. M. L. C. Funkhouser, recently discharged. William Luthardt, acting second deputy superintendent of police and head of the film censor board since the suspension of Funkhouser, will return to his position as secretary to the chief of police, it is said. The city council took up the appointments at its meeting Wednesday. Williams Starts Off Earle Williams, in "A Diplomatic Mission," will be the first of Vitagraph's Blue Ribbon features to be released under the new booking plan, and is scheduled for release September 30.