The Film Daily (1918)

Monday, September 23, 1918 DAILY Published Every Day in the Year at 71-73 West 44th St.. New York, N. Y. By WITVS FILMS A FILM FOLK, Inc. F. C. ("WID") GUNNING President and Treasurer LYNDE DENIG, Editor Sintered at New York Post Office as Secondclass Matter Terms (Postage free) United States, Outaide 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: Vanderbilt 4551—2 Guts and Flashes C. L. Yearsley, advertising manager of the First National Exhibitors' Circuit, went to Boston last night to arrange for a motor trip back to New York in his machine, which was stranded in the Hub recently. Another son of Studio Manager W. S. Smith, of the Vitagraph-Hollywood plant, has gone in the service. Ernest Smith, cameraman for Paul Hurst at the Vitagraph lot, is the newest member of the Smith family to join the colors. The initial showing of "Ruling Passions," produced by the Schomer Photo-Play Producing Company, will be given at the New York Roof on Thursday at 2.30 o'clock. In the cast are Julia Dean, Claire Whitney, Edwin Arden and Earl Schenk. The picture was written and directed by Abraham S. Schomer. Lee Goldberg, of the Big Feature Rights Corporation of Louisville, which controls the First National franchise in Kentucky and Tennessee, is the gleeful dad of a son who has been given the name of Jay Myron. Lee figures that by the time the next Chaplin picture comes along for release, his son will prove an able assistant. Rights to Musical Comedy "The Belle of New York," perhaps the most famous of all musical comedies, has been secured as a starring vehicle for Marion Davies. Julius Steger will have charge of the production. The play was first produced at the Casino theatre, New York, with Edna May in the title role and was used, in part, as the background for the picture in which Miss May appeared a few years ago. FROM THE NEW YORK COURTS Woods Sued by Film Advertising Service— Chalmers Publishing Go. Starts Action Against Paralta Plays Al H. Woods has been sued in the Supreme Court by the Film Advertising Service, Inc., to recover $30,000 damages arising out of the purchase of the advertising matter for "The Fall of the Romanoffs." The complaint alleges that Woods, who owned half the stock of the Iliodor Picture Corporation, which produced the film, induced the First National Exhibitors' Circuit, which purchased the rights for the picture throughout the United States, to buy the advertising matter from the H. C. Miner Co. in which the defendant is alleged to be interested, with full knowledge that the plaintiff had a contract to supply the Iliodor corporation with all the advertising sheets for the play, in reliance on which the plaintiff bought $6,000 worth of the posters and other advertising. The plaintiff alleges that it lost $30,000 profits through the act of Woods. and $245 for advertising space in the Moving Picture World in February. The note was made by Herman Katz, treasurer, and F. M. Guinzberg, vicepresident. The Chalmers Publishing Co. has filed suit in the Supreme Court against the Paralta Plays to recover $5,792 on a note made by the corporation to the Chalmers Company on June 27 last, payable in two months A painful experience by two Brooklyn men in trying to run a picture house last summer has resulted in a suit by Jackson C. Marshal and Barney Worcal against the 966 Fulton Street Corporation, owner of the property at that address in Brooklyn. The plaintiffs say that through the representations of the defendant they rented the building as a theatre for five years, from July 16, last, at from $4,500 to $6,000 a year rent. The defendants represented that the plaintiffs could clear $300 a week, it is alleged, and also that a previous lessee had made $1,900 a week. The plaintiffs deposited $1,000 as security, paid $3,567 for repairs in fitting up the house, and had other expenses aggregating $4,851, and when their money ran out on August 31, they had to quit, they had taken in only $279. They sue for $78,000 damages as the profits they would have made in five years at $300 a week if the representations had been true. Start With National Anthem Because of the successful results of "The Star Spangled Banner" Day campaign instituted by the Mayor's Committee For National Defense by means of the aid and co-operation of the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry, it has been decided to request motion picture exhibitors of Greater New York to continue this practice. All exhibitors are therefore called upon to continue to have their audiences sing "The Star Spangled Banner" at the opening of each performance. Keep after the new arrivals in your town. They may like pictures, too. Producing in Australia Sydney, Australia, since the sport of boxing has been suspended, due to the stress of war and its preparations, has turned to motion pictures. The closing of the stadium, which has a seating capacity of 18,000, and in which the boxing matches were held, has given the well-known promoter, "Snowy" Baker, an opportunity to turn to moving pictures and he has formed a company which has filmed an interesting five-reel feature known as "The Enemy Within." The next production is to be called "The Call of the Bush." It is to be booked throughout the United States.