The Film Daily (1918)

lal'4% AILY Saturday, September 21, 1918 New Red Gross Film "Marching With the Eagle in Italy," Fourth Subject Made The fourth Red Cross propaganda film, "Marching With the Eagle in Italy," will be ready about October 15. Like the other three features, this is done in one reel, was made by the Bureau of Pictures of the American Red Cross and is to be released through the exchanges of the General Film Company. "Marching With the Eagle in Italy" shows American aviators and troops arriving in Italy and also the ambulances and personnel of the Red Cross. It has more of a military flavor than the second and third of the Red Cross pictures, and in this respect is more like the first, "The Historic Fourth of July in Paris," which showed little else than things military. Are Keeping Jack Busy Jack Cunningham, who has to his credit the writing of a goodly number of the features which have come out of the West Coast studios in the past year, has been engaged by Robert Brunton to do the scripts for the Kitty Gordon pictures which will be made at the Robert Brunton studios, in Hollywood, for the United Theatres program as well as a number of those in which Bessie Barr.'scale will appear at the Brunton studios during the next year. Cunningham also has been engaged by Jesse D. Hampton to do a certain amount of screen writing for J. Warren Kerrigan, his second script for Mr. Kerrigan, on which work will be started in a few da>s is an adaptation of John G. Blackwood's play, "Come Again, Smith." At the present time, three stars. Miss Barriscale, Frank Keenan and Louise Glaum, are engaged in the filming of scenarios from Cunningham's typewriter. Miss Barriscale, in "Two-Gun Betty," Mr. Keenan in "Todd of the Times" and Miss Glaum in an out-door story which has not been finally named. FROM THE NEW YORK COURTS Shallenberger Answers Suit Brought by Gaine— Edison Sues Lincoln & Parker Go. Loughborough Made Captain James Loughborough, formerly with the Metro publicity department, has been promoted to the rank of captain in the U. S. Army. He has the distinction of being the first man in his regiment, the 305th Infantry, to be promoted and receive his commission of an advanced grade. Loughborough was gassed with mustard gas early in the summer and has since recovered and been made intelligence officer of his command. William E. Shallenberger has filed an answer in the Supreme Court in the suit brought by Hall Caine, novelist, against the Arrow Film Co. for an accounting of sums due him on the picturization of certain novels in which Caine contends that he has not received all the royalties payable. Shallenberger says that the Arrow Film Co. has been dissolved but as president and director of the corporation he denies that anything was due Caine when the corporation quit, and asks that the suit be dismissed. Thomas A. Edison, Inc., has filed suit in the Supreme Court against the Lincoln & Parker Film Co. for $20,000. The complaint alleges that the Lincoln & Parker Co. made a note to the plaintiff on April 1 last agreeing to pay $20,000 to the plaintiff in one month at the Chase National Bank, and permitted the note to go to protest when due. The Interstate Films, Inc., has filed suit in the Supreme Court against Gaspare Battaglia to recover $90.78 because the defendant got a print of the Billy West comedy, "The Candy Kid," for his theatre at Troy in July and failed to return the print promptly as agreed. You can't help high taxes, but you can cut down a big overhead that doesn't get you anything. Papers are on file in the City Court in a suit of the Greater Pictures Corporation against the Crystal Film Co. in which Justice Valente granted an application to make George M. Merrick the defendant on the ground that he claimed certain negatives sued for by the plaintiff. The court also dismissed the suit on the ground that the suit was brought in the name of the Greater Pictures Corporation by Samuel Berliner, alleging that he was secretary and treasurer, without authority. The suit demanded the delivery of the negatives of two plays, "Dynamite and Bombs" and "Love, Luck and Stakes." It was admitted that the plaintiff corporation was never organized, but Berliner claims he was to be secretary and treasurer, Merrick vice president and Louis Weiss president. Berliner claimed tliat Weiss and Merrick had abandoned the corporation and that he lost large sums carrying on the business alone and paying the debts contracted when the films were made at Miami, Fla., in the spring of 1917. Berliner alleged that he paid $3,000 out of his own funds to finance the corporation and that of $1,200 owed to the Crystal Film Co., $500 to performers, and $1,100 for posters he paid all but $200. He alleged that he had advanced $6,594, that Merrick put in nothing, and Weiss contributed only $340, which he got back. He alleged that Weiss devoted himself to his business of running the New Jersey Exhibitors' Film exchange while Merrick attended to his Motioncraft Film Co. Weiss and Merrick contended that Berliner paid the debts out of the assets of the corporation and declared that he never accounted. Two More Finished Metro announces the completion of two more pictures, both made under the personal supervision of Maxwell Karger. "Little Miss Money-bags," a Bushman-Bayne subject, was writte i by Elaine Sterne and directed by Charles J. Brabin. "Five Thousand an Hour," featuring Hale Hamilton, was directed by Ralph Ince, and is an adaptation of George Randolph Chester's story.