The Film Daily (1918)

7k BKADSTREET XfeRKOCHIZED Author sty Vol. VI, No. 36 Tuesday, November 12, 1918 Price 5 Ceni* The Best Bet R. H. Holmes, Theatre Royal, Emporia, Kansas. Dear Wid: Enclosed find check for $10, one year's subscription for Wid's Daily, the best bet in the business. Wishing you the greatest prosperity in the world. I am. Yours truly, (Signed) R. H. Holmes. Name Is Changed Corporation To Be Called Exhibitors Mutual Film The Mutual Film Corporation will hereafter be known as the Exhibitors Mutual Film Corporation. This was decided upon at the reorganization effected November 6, when Directors Clark, Brink and Cornelius of the Affiliated Distributing Corporation, secured financial and managing control of the Mutual. The new name was adopted in order to emphasize and further the idea of co-operation between the exhibitor and the producer and distributor, and in view of the fact that exhibitors control the corporation through an advisory board. Bennett Publicity Director Frederick Bennett, novelist and contributor to the leading magazines and former war correspondent, is now publicity director of the American Film Company. Mr. Bennett spent two years in California at some of the principal studios, wrote the Helen Holmes serial, "The Lost Express," and many other well-known stories. He is a graduate of New York and Chicago newspaper offices and was for some time general manager of the International News Bureau for all Europe. R. W. Priest, of the Film Market, Inc., has sold the France and Switzerland rights for the Mayfair Film Production, "Persuasive Peggy," starring Peggy Hyland to M. Monat, of Paris, France. U. S. FILM IN SINGLE REELS Hodkinson To Release Production Being Made by Division of Films — First Issue is December W. W. Hodkinson will release the new Government film that is being produced by the Division of Films. The picture is being made with the co-operation of the government by the Division of Films, from an original story by one of the employes in the Department of Public Information. It is being produced under the personal direction of Ashley Miller at Camp Mead, Maryland, with most of the action in the camp itself. Director Miller has a few well-known actors but the majority of the scenes are of soldiers in training. The picture is educational in idea and it is expected that it will be of particular worth on account of the authenticity of the scenes. There is a vein of dramatic action with a slight love story. The production will be in eight reels, one reel being released each week. It is so constructed that each reel is an episode that may be shown separately. This is the first Government picture of its kind and it is expected that it will be of the greatest interest to soldiers and their families, at present, and of historical value in the future. W. W. Hodkinson will have the first release ready December first and will issue one reel each week thereafter. Healthograms Ready K. W. S. To Issue First of Series November 21 The K. W. S. Distributing Company will release the first of a series of Healthogram short specials November 21. These specials will run four minutes. A most interesting co-operative arrangement is apparently in sight for exhibitors using Healthograms. The K. W. S. Distributing Co. has received a large number of letters from health officials throughout this country pledging their co-operation and support of the movement. Among the letters received was one from S. Dana Hubbard, acting director of the Bureau of Public Health of the City of New York. Upwards of 500 letters have been received by the distributing company from health officials and leaders in civic affairs from both large and small cities. The idea behind the Healthogram movement is to furnish specific information relative to personal treatment of individuals to keep them in proper physical condition. As one exhibitor put it, "If we had known about this before we might not have had to close for four weeks." Shallenberger Closes Deals W. E. Shallenherger, of the Arrow Film, returned from his trio in the middle western states last Saturday. Arrow Film reports the closing of contracts for "The dinger of Justice," with the First National Exhibitors ex-) change in Richmrnd, Va., for the states of Virginia, North and South Carolina. Florida, Alabama and GeorQia, also with Paul B. Elliott of St. Louis for the state of Missouri. "The Demon's Shadow" q-oer ;o tk Vj)C Film Co., of Atlanta, Ga„ r Ceorgia, North and Somh Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee. Marguerite Clark will soon return to New York to str<rt work pn "Mrs. YViggs of the Cabhase Patch," Alice Hegan Rice's famous suhject. Completing "Smile Film" CHICAGO.— Watterson R. Rothacker's three miles of "smile film" of the wives and sweethearts of soldiers taken under the auspices of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, is almost completed. Director Rex Weber is now selecting the best parts of it and assembling it into 500-foot lengths, for showing in the trenches. Each division or unit will get the portion of film taken in Grant Park, Chicago, showing relatives and sweethearts of that division. A graphic portrayal of the vital military moves that culminated in the surrender of Germany will be shown in the new government film, "Under Four Flag's." which comes to the Rivoli and The Rialto simultaneously next week.