The Film Daily (1919)

Tuesday, January 21, 1919 Vol. VII No. 20 Tuesday, January 21, 1919 Price 5 Cents Copyright 1918, Wid's Film and Film FoHss. Inc. Published Daily at 71-73 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. by WID'S FILMS and FILM FOLKS, Inc. 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 of Greater New York, $1U.OO 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: VanderbUt 4551-2 DAILY Among Exchangemen Tracy Barham assumed managership yesterday of the Atlanta Fox office. Publicity Dayton, 0. — Until about two weeks ago Dayton film houses did not receive much space in The Dayton News. All this is changed, however, and the News has been giving a two column » . o i ■ TT 1 , • ,1 head to the Sunday comment by their A A. Schmidt has been appointed i dramatic editor. There has been a dedistnct manager for Universal in the , cided mcrease in advertising in the ocal dailies since the opening of a ' Lawrence E. Kennedy is now manager of the Los Angeles Fox office. Central States succeeding J. I. Schnitzer, new sales manager. Schmidt will be in charge of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh offices. Headquarters in Cleveland. S. J. Goldman, is the new Mid-west district manager for Universal. He has his headquarters in Chicago and will have charge of Milwaukee, ! Minneapolis, and Omaha branches. large house here some months ago All of the downtown picture houses are now mentioned in review in The News. The Journal has been devoting attention to pictures incessantly, reviewing the attractions at the downtown houses frequently. Cuts and Flashes M. Kashin, manager of the Broadway, returned to his desk yesterday after a severe attack of the "flu." Dr. D. L. Ditmars will show pictures of marine life around Naples at New York University at 4 o'clock Feb. 12. Tom P. Forman, Lasky, is in charge of the house built and managed by boys in the service at Vancouver Barracks. Shows Industrial Films. The Western Electric Co., gave a showing at the Lexington of four industrial pictures to the employees of its New York office. "A Square Deal Frank Mayo, former World player, and recently with Mary MacLaren, has been engaged for the support of Anita Stewart. "Purity", it is understood, will have its first St. Louis presentation at the Oeden week of Jan. 26, under the title of "Innocence". M. R. Dick has been handling the picture in St. Louis. Eddie Dustin, Pathe Exchange manager, St. Louis, has recovered from the "Flu". Eddie has had quite a tough time of it lately, as his wife and children were also ill. There is a quiet tip out that a somewhat sensational announcement on or about Feb. 5, will solve the Broadway mystery of "What is Rothapfel going to do?" Bobby Vernon who appeared in a number of Triangle Keystone comedies is now discharged from the Navy and will make his first screen re-appearance in Christie comedies. Every other Saturday night has been designated "General Nrght" at the U. S. Naval Air Station at Montauk Point, L. I., by Lieut. F. H. Richardson, chairman of the station welfare committee. On these nights the show for the boys will be made up entirely of General subjects. Once Upon A Time HOBART HENLEY was an actor— a bad actor "Heart" Still Going Over. "The Heart of Humanity" has been booked for four first run showings in Chicago houses starting the second for His Wife" made by Harry Levey,) week in February. The houses are the of Universale industrial department j Pantheon,, the Casino, the 20th Cen1 was 0ne of the films shown. There tury and West End. wjh be another performance to-night. George Cohan in "A Prince Thei Was" has a little fun with the failuii of the Caruso picture. Jesse Lasky enjoyed the Comedy tl [ other night. Winners of Contest George J. Schaefer of the New Yorj exchange of World Film won the gol watch offered in the contest for th biggest ^booking of "America'J Answer." The salesman's prize wai won by Bet: S. Morgenroth, who wr receive a silver cigarette case. The contest provided a prize for tb exchange manager of World securing the highest percentage of contract! the percentage being based on th number of theaters in his respectiv territory. The salesman's prize wa to be awarded to the salesman secuj ing the highest percentage of contract; on the basis of the number of theatee in his territory. In figuring the pei centages no allowances were made fa closed theaters, the full number of the aters in each territory, whether opei or closed, were used in the computa tions. Some of the exchange percentage are as follows: New York, 60; SeattU1 54; Denver, 53; Boston, 50; Detroilj 48; Cleveland 45; St. Louis, 42 Atlanta, 41; Dallas, 38; Kansas City 38; Philadelphia, 34: Ind'anapolis, 31 Minneapolis, 31 ; Pittsburgh, 29: Buffalo, 28; San Francisco, 25fi Chicago. 25; Cincinnati. 24; Wash' nvon was in the I in^on' 23< Salt Lake< 21. The eleven highest salesmen an* their percentages : Ben Morgenroth, New York. 88% Plui II. E. Friedman, New York. 83% Jay Emanuel, Phila 74% J. C. Bullwinkle, Boston 70% Salesman Rose, New York. .67% H. M. Davis Boston 63% Fmile Bullwinkle, N. Y 61% F. C. McConnell, Detroit. . .58% A. L. Ehrlich. Cleveland. . .58% B. Lyon, Chicago 55% H. M. Starretl, Cleveland. .53% Funny bow all these villains are such nice fellows off the screen. An Australian soldier has sent Sally Crute a "Kooka Burra" (whatever that is). Ida Max Parks, Universal director, says an actor should translate his voice to his face. Gee ! I'd like to be around when they try that. In the "13th chair" Marie Shotwell wears a dress of gald cloth with spiders runnin' around on it, and well. — it fits her figure pretty fondly. I'.elie Daniels ol Pathe received fixe proposals of marriage on Christmas Une house day,— and refused them all, — remem1 hi in' I guess that savin' "'bout Peace While D on Earth — " and flivvers is certainly the last word in round-upB. Summin' up all the press stories about Dorothy Phillips 1 guess we'll have to say that she's in love with California — and her husband. Lila Fee has a pet horse named "Hippocrates." He has a wooden legin fact he has four. Cause that's the kind of a horse he is. Doris Lee who's playin' opposite Charles Ray is lookin' for another bungalow 'cause the piano she got for Christmas is too large to get through the doors and the horrid old owner ouldn't let her tear down the side of liillie Rhodes in "Hoop La" a circus picture. I can hardly wait to see it. It's got a livin' skeleton, a bearded lady, a band of clowns, pop corn, peanuts, sideshows and evervthin'. mountains of North Carolina a young mountaineer who was workin' extra in the picture goi to talkin' to Ft and told her that he was awful happy 'cause he bad ju^' married the prettiest jjirl in the mountains. Doris ' curious said she'd like to see M i s Anderson received an offer to i ner> so '-u' t0uk ner '" hi cabin 'llld Doris got a shock-for the girl who was only 18, chewed tobacco, ate clay, was wrinkled and looked 15. But her husband thought she was beautiful. That's worse than a case 1 know back home of a man whose wife has only two teeth. But he's always go go to England to appear in pictures — but she refused. Guess she thought one Mary Anderson in Englai enough. Tom Mix says that there's a cattle man in Prescott, Arizona, who uses an aeroplane to locate his lost cattle fori in' around braggin' about her and sava round-up. Then the boys go out in I in' "Well she may only have two teeth a flivver and shoo 'em in. Aeroplanes I —but by josh thev hit" House Changes. Utica. N. Y.— Eugene L. Koenke.i representative of Wilmur & Vincent, has purchased the Colonial Block on Bleecker street.