The Film Daily (1918)

Tuesday, December 31, 1918 fol VI No. 83. Tuesday, December 31, 1918 Price 5 Cents 3opyripht 1918, Wid's Film and Film Folks, Inc Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. by WID'S FILMS and FILM MU.KS. Inc. F. C. ("WID") GUNNING President and Treasurer LYNDE DENIG, Editor Entered as second-class matter May 21, 1918 •t the post office at Npw York, N Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Term* (Postage free) United State*, Outaide •f Greater New York, $111.00 one year, ti 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 CUTS AND FLASHES Sessue Hayakawa's fourth production is called "Shadows". Arch. G. Kent, exporter, has arrived in Cuba. Ann Little, Paramount, has recovered from a slight indisposition and is ready to resume work. Colvin Brown, head of publicity for Exhibitor's Mutual has returned from Chicago. P>;'lie Rhodes' latest production for Affiliated release is entitled "Hoopla". Mrs. Pettijohn and C. C. jr., are back in New York. They returned Friday. Franklin Hutton, connected with the new Alma Rubens company and interested in the Brunton studios on the Coast is on his way to New York. H. P. Caulfield, formerly manager of the Garrick theatre, Los Angeles, is in Seattle preparing to handle the Lois Weber special, "Birth", in the Pacific Northwest. John Mack, Hill St. Theater, Newark, reports all records broken for a three-day run of a revised version of the M. H. Hoffman picture, "Suspicion". Grace Davidson, the star, personally appeared at the theater last Friday. Lynn S. Card, general sales manager of the Independent Sales Corp., has issued orders to all branch managers of the Film Clearing House to "knock down the railing in the front office" and invite visiting exhibitors to pow-pow regularly in the Film Clearing House offices. World is evidently getting ready for the distribution of "Under Four Flags,"' the Government feature. On the windows of the New York exchange appear the words "Branch Division of Films Committee on Public Information." "A Romance of the Air," released through the Independent Sales Corp., will open a four weeks' run in the Tremont Temple Theater, Boston. Lieut. Bert Hall, star of the film, will appear in person during the run. He will talk to exhibitors on the sales points of the picture in the hope of having them book it in New England. FIRES. The Lyric theater at Hawarden, Iowa, burned to the ground last week. The house was operated by Mr. Jobst and his son who was severely burned. Waterbury, Conn. — In a report to Mayor Sandland, Fire Marshal Frank W. Holland states that the fire protection of the theaters here is inadequate. Ocean View, Va.— The Otto Wells Amusement Corp. which was destroyed by fire will be rebuilt. "We have learned that throat-cutting does not pay, that the policy of dogeat-dog is just as fatal in the cinema industry as anywhere else. We have also learned that we can get together — a possibility that hitherto nobody believed.''— Samuel Goldwyn. IN THE COURTS The Yitagraph Co. of America has been sued in the Supreme Court by the Ideal Film Renting Co., a British Corporation, for $300,000 because of the alleged wrongful detention by the Vitagraph of the negatives of films belonging to the plaintiff. The plaintiff wants either $50,0Q0 or the films, and $250,000 more for damage sustained during the period when the Vitagraph company refused to give them up. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff owned the original negatives of "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray " "Caste," "Still Waters Run Deep," "Who is Without Sin?" "The Great Adventure" and "The Fallen Star." The Ideal company says that the Vitagraph is now in possession of these films, which are worth $50,000 and because of the defendant's wrongful refusal to return the films the negatives have become useless for further exploitation by the plaintiff, which has been prevented from reproducing copes from the original negatives in possession of the defendant and from making reissues and filling orders. The plaintiff alleges the loss of $250000 on this ground. Seabury, Massey & Lowe have appeared in the case for Vitagraph and have asked that copies of all papers be served on them. The Fiat Film Corp. has been named as one of the defendants in a suit by Marcus Daly, son of the late Marcus Daly, copper magnate, to foreclose mortgage for $24,000 on the property at 835 Columbus Avenue, in which the. principal defendant is Mary J. Noonan. The plaintiff alleges that interest due last June has not been paid. Kirkpatrick Gets Watch. To mark his second anniversary as a member of the executive office force of Exhibitors Mutual members of the field force and home office staff presented A. S. Kirkpatrick, Assistant General Manager, with a beautiful white-gold, diamond-studded watch. The presentation was made at Mr. Kirkpatrick's home in Chicago where he was ill, by S. J. RoUo. Sales Manager, S. T. Stephens, General Supervision and O. R. Hanson, Exchange Supervisor. "Mickey" Rights Disposed Of. \V. H. Productions have sold the rights to "Mickey" for Illinois to F. O. Nealson and A. Lowy of Chicago and the rights for California, Washington. Oregon and Arizona to Sol Lesser and Michael Rosenberg. In the territory surrounding New York about 18 theaters have booked the nicture for a week's run including Keith's Boston Theater, which never before exhibited a feature. In New York, in Proctor's Fifth Avenue, two acts of vaudeville were replaced by "Mickey" and this in a theater that likewise never showed a feature picture.