The Film Daily (1918)

tM^ DAILY Wednesday, September 25, 1918 FROM THE NEW YORK COURTS Palmer Sues National Film Corporation — Davis and Gowen Bring Action Against Screen Club Harry A. Palmer has filed suit in the Supreme Court against the National Film Corporation of America to recover $2,400. The papers were served on Harry Reichenbach, vicepresident of the defendant, at 1604 Broadway, but the cause of action is not shown. In a suit of Rogers & Rogers, attorneys, against the Rochester Film Products Co., Inc., William Fox, and Henry E. Kondolf, to recover for legal services, the corporation and Kondolf have filed answers admitting that the plaintiffs were employed to organize the corporation, but allege that payment was to be fixed by the directors and the plaintiffs and this has not been done as yet. The Screen Club has been sued in the Supreme Court for $2,500 by kooert H. Davis and William H. Cowen, owners of the property at 117 West 45th street, occupied by the defendant as a clubhouse. The complaint alleges that the defendant leased the property in 1916 at $5,000 a year and that on April 24 last the plaintiffs were compelled to dispossess the defendant for non-payment of rent and the owners were not able to rent the property afterward. A judgment for $4,728 has been filed in the Supreme Court by Captain James H. White, U. S. A., against the New Amsterdam Casualty Co. because of the defendant's refusal to account for the sale of 400 feet of film worth $10,000. The complaint alleged that the defendant gave bond for the plaintiff in a suit against him by the Berlin Aniline Works, and the film was transferred to the defendant with power to sell it to satisfy any claim against Captain White. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant paid on his account only $1,764 and that the defendant has refused to account for $8,236. Charles F. Pope has testified in supplementary proceedings in the City Court on a judgment obtained against him by Chester Beecroft. He admitted that he got a check for $5,000 drawn by Beecroft to the order of Charles Thompson, and admitted that Thompson was merely a dummy for him in the purchase of an option for moving pitcure rights. He also admitted that he had Murray Feil cash a check for $1,750 made by the Trinity Corporation, of which Pope was an officer. Wid's Wanted Overseas Stockholm Enclosed please find cheque amounting to: U. S. Dollars; 20 — for which you will kindly enter my name as a subscriber for one year on your paper. Please put the address as follows: Mr. E. Skaar, Kammakaregatan 8, Stockholm, and please confirm receipt of this cheque. Yours faithfully, E. SKAAR. Soerabaia, Java, Tepekkongstraat 17 Telef 77 Noord I shall be very pleased if you will ship to Robinson & Walker of Seattle (our purchasing agents in the U. S. A.) 2 Wid's binders and payments will be made by these gentlemen. As you will know we have renewed our subscription to your weekly and we want to thank you personally for the great service same is giving us. We are, dear Sir, Very truly yours, MAURICE PEZARRO. The Oriental Trading Cy. Soerabaia — Batavia — Padang Singapore. Hart Is Here Bill Hart, the Ince-Paramount star, has arrived in New York from the Coast and he will make another Liberty Loan film before the drive gets underway. He is accompanied by his manager, E. H. Allen, his director, Lambert Hillier, and his film editor, Le Roy Stone. Hart arrived Monday night and is stopping at the Astor. BINDERS! for "WID'S DAILY" will cosf$l. 75 each hereafter Indianapolis Items Beitman is Appointed Mutual Branch Manager INDIANAPOLIS.— I. Beitman, of Indianapolis, has been appointed manager of the Indianapolis branch of the Mutual Film Corporation to succeed J. G. Connors, who left this week for Washington, D. C, where he will be affiliated with the motion picture department of the Committee on Public Information. The Transfer theatre at Ft. Wayne Ind., was bought last week by J. F. Mollet, owner of the Grand theatre there. Mr. Mollet is one of the pioneer exhibitors in the northern part of Indiana. Both houses will be operated under his direction. Edward Bingham and Harry Cohen, managers of the Regent theatre, 24 South Illinois Street, announced last week that all soldiers and sailors in uniform wil be admitted free at the Regent every morning in the week except Sunday, from 10 a. m. until 1 p.m. Reports from Terre Haute are to the effect that the new Liberty theatre, owned by the Terre Haute Theatres Company, which was opened there recently, is drawing large crowds. Over 5,000 paid admissions were recorded at the theatre last Sunday. All soldiers and sailors in uniform are to be admitted free of charge at the Grand and Theato theatres at Washington, Ind., beginning this week, according to an announcement by the O'Donnell & Eskridge Company, which operates the two houses. The Castle theatre, at South Bend, Ind., which was closed for a brief period while improvements were being made in the interior has been reopened. The Castle, which has been in existence only a year, has enjoyed a very prosperous business. F. C. Martin, of Dallas, Tex., connected with the Fox Film Company, and H. G. Stevens, also of Dallas, general supervisor of the Mutual Film Corporation, were the principal speakers at the meeting of the Indianapolis Board of Film Exchange Managers at their meeting last week. Maurice A. Fox, manager of the Orpheum theatre at Terre Haute, one of the youngest theatre managers in the state, has joined the colors and is now in training at Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis. "My Four Years in Germany" played a return engagement at the Oliver theatre for four days last week and had an excellent run.