The Film Daily (1918)

Tuesday, November 12, 1918 DAIB.Y Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St. New York, N. T. By WID'S FILMS 8 FILM FOLK, Inc. F. C. C'WID") GUNNING President and Treasurer LYNDB DRNIG. Editor 'Kntered as second class matter Mav 2] 1018, at the post office at New York, N. Y. under the Act. of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States, Outride of Greater New York, $10.00 one year; <3 months, $5.00; 3 months, 3.00. Foreign, ?20.00 Subscribers should remit with order. \.Mress all communications to WID'S DAILY. 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. Telephone: Vanderbilt 4551—2 Pictures Help Good Roads CHICAGO. — Moving pictures played an important part in Illinois during the recent election, in putting over the $60,000,000 bond issue for good roads. At the close of the campaign the propaganda film, "Through Illinois Over Unchanged Roads in a World of Change" was shown in hundreds of theatres throughout the state. Ten prints of the picture owned by the Illinois Highway Improvement Association were exhibited and virtually all of the big theatres in the City of Chicago endorsed the bond issue by showing the film. Officers of the Highway commission are elated over the success of the venture and the sweeping victory. FROM THE NEW YORK COURTS World Film Must Pay for Not Heating Studio — Acme Go. Obtains Judgment D. P. Howells has bought Fox's spectacle, "Queen of the Sea" for India, Ceylon and Burma. The Appellate term of the Supreme Court has decided that the World Film Corporation must pay a judg.ment for $1,080 as the balance due on a contract with Michael E. Kelly for the installation of heating apparatus in the studio of the Peerless Features Production Co., at West Fort Lee, N. J., costing $2,497. The defendant contended that the plaintiff agreed to furnish a plant which would give a temperature of not less than 65 degrees in zero weather, whereas the studio usually was about 35 to 40 degrees, and the defendant had to burn oil stoves and salamanders to keep the working forces warm. The plaintiff contended that the studio was always heated sufficiently to keep the breath of the actors from showing on the pictures and that this was all that was required. In a suit brought by Clara Kimball Young against the Japanese Fan Co. to recover $200 deposited with the defendant for the purchase of art objects, the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court has affirmed a judgment of the Municipal Court dismissing the complaint and giving the defendant judgment for a balance due because the plaintiff was at Hollywood, Cal., when the case was tried. The Acme Lithographing Co. has obtained judgment for $683 in the Supreme Court against the Lincoln & Parker Film Co. of Worcester, Mass., manufacturers of educational films, for posters ordered for "World Travel Series," "Treasure House" and "Mines of Bolivia." The defendant couldn't pay the sum because the Federal War Board refused to give it per mission to sell its stock, and the defendant's president wrote the plaintiff that if suit was brought against the defendant the suit "would not yield five cents on the dollar." The plaintiff did much better, because an attachment against the defendant's property was obtained on the ground that it is a Massachusetts corporation, and personal property in its studio in the Bronx worth $442 was seized, which is better than sixty cents on the dollar. Desmond Starts West Plans To Make Twenty FiveReelers and Two Specials William Desmond left New York last week for Los Angeles, to commence his new work under the direction of Jesse D. Hampton. Desmond's contract with Mr. Hampton is for two years and during this period it is expected the former Triangle star will make twenty five-reel stories and two additional specials. R. William Neil, who has directed most of the Dorothy Dalton-Paramount pictures for Thomas H. Ince, will be Desmond's director at the Hampton studios. The first story will be "For the Love of William," in which the actor will have ample opportunities to display his screen artistry. The Desmond-Hampton pictures will be released in this country as well as in the foreign field by the Robertson-Cole company. J. Stuart Blackton has not yet decided upon any distribution plan for "Safe for Democracy," which was shown at the Rivoli theatre last week. ■llltiNIHIIIIIIIIiliniNlllllllll t With a Borrowed Typewriter TOM J. GERAGHTY wrote ALL the best selling PARALTA PLAYS, such as "A Man's Man," "The Turn of a Card," etc. (See this or any other copy of W'uVs box office barometer figures) NOW— SCENARIO EDITOR, METRO WESTERN STUDIOS— HOLLYWOOD Writing with George D. Baker, Metro productions, for May Allison — "Kate of Kentucky" — now assembling "Thirty Days" — now shooting. "Peggy Does Her Darndest" — now being cooked up. Original story — "Breath of Ages" — starring Sessue Hayakawa — now shooting. CABLE ADDRESS, Kwas-Nujol.