The Film Daily (1918)

Monday, November 18, 1918 DAILV mm Vol. VI No. 42 Monday, November 18, 1918 Price 5c. Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St. New York, N. T. By WID'S FILMS 6 FILM FOLK, Inc. F. C. ("WID") GUNNING President and Treasurer LYNDE DBNIG, 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; 6 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 Burton George announces the completion of his first independent picture, "The Bride of Chateau Theirry," starring Violet Palmer It will soon be ready for a showing. Sol Lesser, president of the State Rights Distributors, recently purchased the Victoria Cross picture, "Five Nights," for his California territory. David P. Howells announces the sale of all products of the United Picture Theatres, Inc., for Argentine. The contract was made through Jose Donati for the South American Film exchange. Gillespie Bros. & Co. have just closed a contract for the sale of 39 Select pictures, for distribution in Mexico. Negotiations were started some time ago, but posponed on account of the war conditions. Beulah Livingstone will handle the press work for the Crest features in addition to her other publicity work, hereafter. This will include the exploitation of Crest's recent issue, "A Romance of the Air," and several new pictures. Norbert Lusk, of the Goldwyn offices, left yesterday for the Coast, where he will have charge of the Goldwyn publicity. Mr. Lusk has won the highest regards of those with whom he has been associated at the home office. Mae Marsh's picture, "Southern Pride," has been retitled "The Racing Strain," because the former title was used recently for another picture. Rex Beach proposed the name decided on. Harry Northrup has completed his work on the new Douglas Fairbanks picture. Mr. Northrup plays Captain Hodgeson, the heavy role. Lina Cavalieri has just finished her new Paramount film, "Two Brides." Edward Jose directed the photoplay. It will be released in January. Douglas MacLean, who will be remembered for his characterization in "The Hun Within," appears opposite Vivian Martin in her new Paramount picture, "Mirandy Smiles." Elsie Ferguson, after her vacation during the cessation of film productions, will start work today on a new Artcraft picture directed by Emile Chautard and staged in New York. Miss Ferguson's next appearance on the screen will be in "Under the Greenwood Tree," released December 1. From St. Louis Cecil Mayberry Made Manager of Goldwyn Office ST. LOUIS.— Cecil Mayberry has been appointed manager of the Goldwyn Distributing Corp(, succeeding F. M. Brockwell. Mr. Mayberry was formerly manager of the Foursquare office in this city and is well known in local circles. He was also formerly the manager of the New Delmar theatre. Harry Strickland, branch manager for General, is going to Chicago to assume duties there. The influenza ban was lifted here, Nov. 13, and the theatres are playing to capacity houses. The new Liberty theatre started Theda Bara in "Salome" Sunday, Nov. 17. C. B. Price has opened the McNair theatre, at McNair and Pestalozzi sts. This house has been closed for over a year. Capt. Rozier Wickard, formerly in the service of the Aviation Corps of the U. S. Government, has been appointed special representative for Paramount for the eastern half of Missouri. Capt. Wickard served seventeen months in the Aviation Corps, and was in the battle of the Somme. It is understood the former location of the Kleine-Edison exchange at 3315 Olive street has been leased by Frank Hall, Inc. Local exchange men are worried over the situation relative to war pictures, as it is freely predicted that all propaganda war pictures will shortly be placed in the scrap heap. From the Courts Dressier Film May be Leased According to New Agreement The World Film Corporation, which acquired from the Marie Dressier Motion Picture Corporation the alleged right to lease the films, "Fired," "Red Cross Nurse," and "Scrub Lady," and which was enjoined from making any disposition of the films as the result of an injunction suit by the Dressier Producing Corporation, has made a working agreement with the plaintiff by which the films can be leased. The Dressier Producing Corporation alleges that Marie Dressier and her husband, James Dalton, took the films out of a safe deposit vault and disposed of them to the World Corporation in spite of the fact that they belonged to the plaintiff, and an accounting of the proceeds of the'film is demanded. Under the agreement between the World and the Dressier Producing Corporation the World is entitled to its share of the proceeds of the leasing contract, while the share payable to the Marie Dressier Motion Picture Corporation is to be held subject to the order of the Court in the injunction suit. A suit alleging false representations in the leasing by Louis Steinberg of the motion picture auditorium at 819 East 180th Street to Sophie M. Montulet has been filed in the Supreme Court by the latter, against Steinberg. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant presented that the premises were equipped with a heating plant and the plaintiff agreed to lease the hall for $2,400 to operate a first-class motion picture theatre. She says after she took possession she found there was no heating plant and no way of getting any heat, and after she took possession on October 4 she was unable to operate the place because it was too chilly. She seeks to recover $600 paid for the place with $200 rent additional, and wants the lease cancelled. Robert G. Furey has filed a suit in the Supreme Court to recover damages from the Greenwich Movies Corporation. The defendant has entered a denial. Aiding Returned Soldiers Leonce Perret, producer of "Lafayette, We Come," and "Stars of Glory," both patriotic features^ has announced his intention of giving preference to returned soldiers in_ the matter of employment and especially those who are wounded. Mr. Perret declares that this is only following the example of France and expresses the hope that other film companies will give the returned soldiers every possible opportunity.