The Film Daily (1919)

Hk Friday, January 10, 1919 ifrWi PMi-V Vol VII No. 9. Friday. January 10. 1919 Price S Cents Copyright lfU8. Wid's Film and Film Folks. Inc. Published Daily «* 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. by WID'S FILMS and F1LW FOLKS, Inc. F. C. ("Wid") Gunning, President and Treasurer; .Lyn.de Denig, Editor; Joseph Dannenberg, Vice-President and Managing Editor; J. W. Alicoate, Secretary and Business Manager. Entered as second-class matter May 21, 1918, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1870. Terms (Postage free) United States, Outside of Greater New York, $11.00 one year: fi months. $5. CHI ; 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 St. Louis Notes Standard Film has contracted for 'Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Southern Illinois on Tom Mix Westerns. Bobby Vernon was a visitor T,ouis during the holidays. St. A special meeting of the St. Louis Film Board of Trade is called for the latter part of the week to discuss the question of the increase in salary demanded by the St. Louis shipping clerks and inspectors union, as this advancement in some sections is thought to be exorbitant. The election of officers for 1919 of this union was held this week and the following were elected : P. J. Loughlin, president; Ed. Zone, vice president; R. J. Patterson, financial secretary; James Russ, recording secretary; Gus Geiselman, treasurer and John Caporal, business agent. CUTS AND FLASHES! Frank O'Neil of the Pathe office in St. Louis has been transferred to CharEdna Britton, formerly of vaudeville, lotte, N. C. makes her screen debut in the Houdini serial, "The Master Mystery." Mayer Silverman of the Liberty Film Renting Co. of Pittsburg is in town, stopping at the Astor. Universal press book for "The Heart of Humanity" will be ready for distribution in about 10 days. Manager J. H. Calvert of the Laemmle branch at Omaha is in New York on b-siress. Exhibitors' Mutual will release .lavakawa's double role picture, "Bond of Honor" Jan. 19. "A Soul Adrift," recently completed by Madame Blache, starring Dolores Cassinelli, will be shown to the Perret organization for the first time on Saturday afternoon. Release date has not been determined. Rupert Julian is to appear in "The Fire Flingers" by William J. Neidig, directed by himself. The script calls for a. double role and Julian has decided on ah innovation by having a likeness of himself take the second role instead of doubling himself. Manager Kashin of the Broadway has invited the commanders of the Atlantic fleet to a showing of "The Heart of Humanity" to-day. Kashin says the film played to 40 per cent more business the second week of the showin.? than it did the initial week. IV the Open Market "A Romance of the Air" with Edith Day and Lieut. .Bert Hall opened at the T'.'emont Temple Monday night to a capacity house. Lieut. Hall appeared in person and was enthusiastically receivedTickets for the performance were sold out 10 hours ahead of opening ti War Film Goes Over. "Wanted for Murder" played all the Loew Houses last week simultaneously to big business. At the Metropolitan in Brooklyn on the opening of the run, the line waiting to see the film was about a block long. "Suspense" Fourth Hall Picture. "Suspense" starring Mollie King, is the fourth of features to be released through the Independent Sales Corp. The rilm was produced bv Frank Reicber and is based on a story by Isabelle Ostrander. Kansas City — The De Luxe to open soon. Acme Pictures Corp., is the firm style of the concern which will produce "The Thirteenth Chair," starrng Yvonne Delva. Lconce Perret is directing the production at the old Pathe studio. In the cast are Creighton Hale. Marc McDermott, Marie Shotwell, Walter Law and Christine Mayo. There remains considerable mystt.y as to who Yvonne Delva is. Once Upon a Time. DAVID WARK GRIFFITH was an actor and didn't play N*» York. I wonder what General Pershing will say when he sees himself on the screen. I mean when he sees Harris Gordon impersonate him. George Holt, Walt Whitman and Dick Willis went for a swim in the ocean Christmas morning. That has a chilly sound until you read that it happened at Santa Monica. There is one thing my cousin says she can never forgive Jeannie McPherson and that's her curly hair. Back in the days when they used to dress together at the Edison studio, my cousin would have to get in real early so's she could get her hair curled with the irons. Jeannie would run in at the last minute, dip her comb in water, run it through her hair a couple o' times and a lot o' little curls would bob up. Shirley Mason says the key note of good acting is B Natural. The Lee children were studying a map of the world, with their mother. She said, "Now I'll find on the map where we were all born. Away over here in Hamburg is where Jane was born. Up here in Glasgow is where Katherine was born. Over here in Ireland is where I was born. And way way over there in Chicago is where your father was born. Katherine, amazed, said, "My! Isn't it strange that we all met." Aren't the coats short this winter ! I'll bet they're sellin' a lot o' flannel petticoats. Eisie Ferguson says that a long walk in the fresh air will sometimes dispel love sickness. It didn't work with me. You ought to see the sweet expression on Paramount Pete's face when he sees a photograph of Catherine Calvert Down in Springfield there's a little church that's been strugglin' along under a mortgage for years. The poor little church hadn't even a light except that furnished by an acetelyne plant in the shed. This wasn't so bad in the summer, but when winter laid the heavy snows around the little church why — sometimes the pipes would freeze and then the good people could have no service. Carmel Myers believes in giving useful Christmas presents, so she gave herself a super six sedan. A long time ago, when William Hart was a kid actor barnstorming through the middle West, he happened on a ga lg of bandits in the woods of Oklahoma. Flourishing a pass he invited them all to the show that night. Al Jennings was the leader of the gang. Now after many years he sends William Hirt a pass to see him in his first picture. All of which makes "Bill" Hart believe in casting his bread on the waters. Its going to be some fight (?) when the Selznicks, father and son, start "battling.'" Northwest Notes Beginning with the first of the year the Seattle Sunday Times is resuming its speciil motion p:cture section with a four-color front page. This section gained fame during the latter part of 1916 and the first of 1917 as the only newspapsr section in the United States devoted exclusively to motion pxtures. During the latter half of 1918 Government restrictions on paper necessitated the suspension of this as an exclusive motion picture section, but now that the restrictions have been removed the section will be resumed. The daily issues of the paper devote at least a page to screen news also. George Bellman, editor of the section, reports that, in spite of the closing of rhe theaters for five weeks during the "Flu" epidemic, his records of advertising show a 5 per cent, increase for the year over 1917. The Colonial has had its policy of second and later runs changed to first run and at the same time the admission prices for evenings and Sundays has been raised from 17 cents to 20 cents. The matinee prices of 10 cents remain. John Hamrick, managing owner of the Rex and the Gem has taken his family to spend the holidays in Kansas Chv, their old home. They will return in about six weeks via Lor Angvlcs and San Francisco. George Ring, manager of the Society, has returned from Fort Worden and has resumed management of his house, which Mrs. Ring looked after during his absence. QUOTATIONS Lasf Bid Asked S»k Paramount 30 35 ZG World % yA Triangle J4 Y,