The Film Daily (1918)

Friday, November 15, 1918 DAILY Vol. VI No. 39 Fiiday, November 15, 1918 Price 5c. Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St. New York, N. Y. By WIDS F1L.MS <J D1LM FOLK, Inc. F. C. ("WID") GUNNINd President and Treasurer LYNDE DENIG, Editor Entered as second class matter May 21 1918, at the post office at New York, N. Y. under the Act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States, Outside of Greater New York, $10.00 one year; *> months, $0.00 ; 3 months, 3.00. Foreign, $20.00 Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communications to VVID'S DAILY, 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. Telephone : Vanderbilt 4551 — 2 Guts and Flashes Christine Mayo has finished work on the World .picture, "The Little Intruder," in which she played in support of Louise Huff. John Meador, of the Metro Publicity Department, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Machine Gun Company, Seventh Regiment of the New York Guard. Julia Arthur as Edith Cavell in "The Cavell Case, or the Woman the Germans Shot," presented by Plunkett and Caroll, is to be the second Select Special which is ready for immediate release. It had a pre-release showing at the Strand theatre. Constance Talmadge has finished "A Lady's Name," a story by Cyril Harcourt, directed by Walter Edwards. Production has been started on a story, details of which are not announced. Thomas Wakefield, former Edison casting director, has just been invalided home from France, having been wounded in the battle of Chateau Thierry. His many friends will be glad to hear that he has been decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Medialle Militare. John Barrymore, now playing evenings in "Redemption" at the Plymouth theatre, has started work on his new Paramount picture, "Here Comes the Bride," during the day. The film is adapted from the stage versi m produced a few years ago at the Cohan theatre. John Robertson is directing. FROM THE NEW YORK COURTS Vitagraph Wants Bill of Particulars — Suit Against Photoplays Go. is Dismissed have been taken to have the suit tried. The plaintiff appealed to the court to postpone the hearing for a week to give him a chance to try to find his The Vitagraph Company has filed an application in the Supreme Court for a bill of particulars in the damage suit brought against it by Richard Lambert because of the contract for j witnesses, but the court refused. production by the plaintiff of "The Blue Envelope" and the defendants I A judgment for $1,625 has been enproductions of "The Blue Envelope ' tered in the City Court by George Mystery," in which it is alleged that Hill in a suit against the Under Sea defendant used the word "Mystery" Amusement Corporation. The com in smaller type than the rest of the plaint alleged that the Under Sea name. The defendant wants to know Amusement Corporation made a note how the plaintiff estimates he suffered through its president, Sohmers H. $25,000 damages; to what extent the Smith, for $1,546 on May 29 last to plaintiff alleges the play proved profi the plaintiff, and permitted it to go table; to what extent the plaintiff to protest when it was due. The de billed the play in New York and out fendant did not answer the suit. side places, and what steps the plain tiff alleges the defendant took to ad City Court Justice Meyer has disvertise that it intended to produce the missed a suit of Hyman Zolinsky play and when the plaintiff gave no against the Eclipse Film Co. to retice to the defendant of his rights. cover $2,000. The complaint alleged that on July 17, 1916, an auto truck City Court Justice La Fetra has dis owned by the defendant ran into the missed a suit by Robert T. Thornby plaintiff at 8th avenue and 34th street against the A. H. Jacobs Photoplays and caused the damages for which he Co., Inc., to recover $1,800 for ser sued. The Eclipse Company convices. The suit was filed in January, tended that the plaintiff was negligent, 1917, and the defendant asked for the and got the case dismissed because dismissal on the ground that no steps of Zolinsky's failure to prosecute. Bert Ennis, publicity manager of the Petrova Pictures, has been away from his office for two weeks with a bad case of the "flu." He is expected back next week. The new laboratory of the Bureau of War Photographs, of the U. S. Division of Films, at Broadway and Manhattan street. New York, has been completed and is now in operation. Capt. G. W. Hance, of the Signal Service Corps, who has been preparing aimy photographers for active service at Columbia University, has taken charge. The World Film Corporation, which is to distribute the new "U. S. A. Series," which will comprise twelve two-reel pictures, to be produced by the Division of Films, has notified its exchanges that the first picture, "When Your Soldier's Hit," will not be released until December 23. Finishing Metro Studios Work on the Metro studios at Hollywood is nearing completion. The plant includes several large stages. The studio at 61st Street has been rented to Leonce Perret and Madame Blache is now working there. The Metro people are moving all the property they need from the studio to California. Maxwell Karger, manager of productions, leaves for the Coast next week. Lightless Nights Ended CHICAGO.— Lightless nights in Chicago and throughout the state are at an end. The fuel administrator's "lightless" order which darkened all display signs Monday and Tuesday nights, since last June, has been rescinded and artificial illumination is again permitted seven nights a week. Fuel Administrator for Illinois, Raymond E. Durham, announced recently there did not appear to be a possibility of a shortage of coal of the kind used to generate electricity and issued the following official order: "As Illinois is fortunate in having a surplus of screenings which is the class of coal used almost exclusively for generating electric current, and as the indications are that there is no possibility of a shortage in this grade of coal during the coming winter, effective immediately the lightless night order is hereby withdrawn throughout the state of Illinois, except that external signs and ornamental lightings are prohibited between the hours of sunrise and sunset every day." It is said lightless nights four nights a week will continue in the East and two nights a week in Ohio and Michigan. Tom Mix has undergone an operation on his knee, but it is reported that he will soon start work on his next picture, "The Wilderness Trail," by Frank Williams.