The Film Daily (1919)

Saturday, January n, igio Vol. (II No. 10. ialtrjay. January 11, 1919 Price S Cems Copyright 1918, Wid's Film and Film Folks, Inc. Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St., New 1 York, N. Y. by WID'S FILMS and FILM ! FOLKS, Inc. k F. C. ("Wid") Gunning, President and * Treasurer ; Lynde 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, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States, Outside I of Greater New York, $10.00 one year ; 6 Jmonths, $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 James J. Corbett has started work on his Universal serial "The Midnight Man." It will be in 18 episodes. Harry Carey now has the "flu." Allen Holubar is improved and Lyons and Moran are around again. ' I Naomi Childers will be seen in another Metro picture opposite Bert Lytell J in "The Blind Man's Eyes" to be di] rected by John Ince. i "The Hidden Truth," produced by she International Film Service, starring Anna Case, will be released by Select 'as a special. Myron Selznick has secured the Hattons' play "Upstairs and Down" for Olive Thomas' first picture. Mr. Selznick left yesterday for the coast. He will be joined by Miss Thomas in Chicago. The May Allison company will spend two weeks between Catalina and Santa Cruz Islands on a yacht that figures largely in "The Island of Intrigue" her next Metro production. Henry Otto is T director. The West End Lyric, which has been running Paramount first-run in St. Louis seven days a week, it is underStood have cancelled their contract and will run First National, United and State right productions. Frank Lawrence and Viola Mallory, film editors, who have been spending a month in New York completing work on "The Heart of Humanity" the big -^Allen Hulobar drama have returned to . Universal City. Rupert Julian has finished work on the new Monroe Salisbury-Ruth, Clifford feature adapted from the Hungarian story "Pirate Gold" and the film is to be released shortly under the title "The Mysterious Millionaire." Once Upon a Time. S LEWIS J. SELZNICK was in the jewelry busincs* on Sixtfc I Avenue. aii^ DAILY "The Law of Nature"— Anti-Alcohol Feature. David G. Fischer Prod., Inc., will give a special showing of its initial feature "The Law of Nature" on January 13th, at two o'clock in Wurlitzer Hall. "The Law of Nature" is in eight reels, and was written by Mr. Fischer in collaboration with Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, ex-Congressman from Alabama and prominent in public life. "The Law of Nature" will be presented first in legitimate theaters, and later will be sold on a state rights basis. The picture was directed by Mr. Fischer. Vincent Coleman and Dixie Lee appear in the leading roles. Others in the cast are Frances NeMoyer and Harold Salter. Stanley G. Mason was the cameraman. "Girl of My Dreams" Censored. Pennsylvania State Board of Censors have censored certain shots of the Billie Rhodes feature, "Girl of My Dreams," which show her taking a dip in a secluded pool in the mountains. Dayton Handles Stewart Production. (Special to WID'S DAILY) Dayton, O. — Altho the Libson interests who control the Strand and three theaters in Cincinnati have the 1st National franchise for both cities. The Dayton here is to play "Virtuous Wives." This will not be the first of the First National program that The Dayton has used for that house played "Tarzen of The Apes." "The Romance of Tarzen" and "Pershing's Crusaders." The more important offerings of the First National program can be exploited better at The Dayton as The Strand altho a first rate house has not the seating capacity of the Dayton. The Strand uses all the Chaplin pictures and can never take care of the crowds. The Dayton gets 10, 15 and 25 cents, the quarter seats being the entire lower floor, while the loges or balcony boxes are 35 This against a general 10 cent admission at The Strand with a few loges at 20 cents. The Dayton also uses a Concert Orchestra of fifteen pieces while The Strand does not have this feature. A Fox story tells about Theda Bara's little foot bein' caught under a heavy door and hurt so, she fainted. Well, it's all true 'cause I was there and saw it. It was hard to tell which looked the most pained, Theda or Fleming Ward, her leading man who opened the door on her foot. But Theda's maid gave her a glass of water and Fleming's valet gave him a glass of milk and the show was on. Dolores Casinelli says she likes bein' a lieutenant very much. Last summer when she went to Camp Upton for some scenes on "Stars of Glory" she sang to the soldiers and they were so grateful and liked her so much besides that they made her a first honorary lieutenant. I wonder what kind of a uniform she has? Lee Moran contracted the influenza just after finishing a picture called "You've Got Tt," making fun of the epidemic. Showing that it don't pay to make fun of a serious subject. I wish Houdini had been in our town the night our barn took fire and father lost his keys down the well. Wallace Reid calls his next picture a vacation. He has lots of scenes where he is driving a car at top speed and that is Wally's pastime. Just as soon as Charlie Brabin took a new lease on his apartment and bought two new oriental rugs and a bronze lamp, why, Mr. Fox said he had to go to Florida to direct Evelyn Nesbit. Mabel Norman nearly broke a beautiful tooth on a fake piece of candy in the store scene in "Sis Hopkins." The director said he was awful sorry but he just had to use it 'cause she had eaten up all the real candy in sight Suchet Singh from Bombay says that in his country the audiences always close their eyes during a kissing scene on the screen. I'll bet they fall asleep sometimes. I wonder if Dave Thompson remembers that he promised over a bottle of — of — oh, something "bubbly" to send me his very first picture post card from California. Publicity Edmund McCray of Oskaloosa, Iowa, has taken up the slogan, "Let's Go" and is applying it to the Lyric. All of his ad copy is to carry the slogan "Let's Go To The Lyric" and then will follow the name of the production. Ralph Ruffner of Butte, Mont, was the originator of the idea of "Lets Go to the Rialto theater tonight." Frank H. Vine has just been appointed General Manager of the New England branch of the United Picture Theaters. He has had long experienced in that territory. Wonder What Sammy Goldfish Goldwin is gonna do with that Foid family? New Incorporations Raleigh, N. C— Acme Film Co., to manufacture and develop films. Capital stock, $50 000. Benjamin Strasser, Jr., J. Henrie Boudelaire and C. M. Kelwe, incorporators. Harrisburg, Pa. — Holl is Smith-Morton Co., Pittsburg, motion picture supplies. Capital $10,000. Sacremento, Cal. — Fraser Motion Picture Syndicate, Reno, Nev. Capital $250000. George G. Fraser, San Francisco, president. Austin, Texas — R. D. Lewis Film C>">, Oklahoma City; capital $50,000. R. D. Lewis, C A. Bibbs and John S. Slocum, incorporators Austin, Texas — Liberty Film Corp, Oklahoma City; capital $25,000. L. C. Baxley, W. G Underwood and J. D. Morse, incorporators. Harrisburg Pa. — South Side Amusement Co., Pittsburg; $5,000. Beatrice Lando. Harrisburg, Pa. — Woodard Amusement Co., Philadelphia; $2,000. Springfield, 111. — Monee Amusement Co., Monee, dissolved. Columbus, Ohio— Elyria Theaters Co., Elyria, decrease capital from $200,000 to $70,000. Carson City, Nev. — Fraser Picture Syndicate incorporated; Reno; capital $250,000. QUOTATIONS Last Bid Asked Sale Paramount 30 35 30 World % y* Triangle % y, V