The Film Daily (1919)

Monday, January 27, 19-19 sM^ DAILY Prominent Film Folk EVE UNSELL ORIGINALS ADAPTATIONS Many Successes for Prominent Comp. 272 Lincoln Road, Brooklyn, N. Y. CHET WITHEY Producer LOIS WEBER HONORARY MEMBER M.P.D.A. FANNIE WARD CLASSIFIED. The classified columns of WID'S fill a long felt want. It is the market place when buyer and seller— employer and employee or the small advertiser can put his story before practicalK every live exhibitor in the countn, every day in the year, at nominal cost Rate 50c per line. Cash with order. WANTED TO BUY. Second hand Theater equipments. Highest Cash Price— Box 65 this office. Second hand studio light (Cooper-Hewitt's) will pay cash. Must act at once. J. C, Box M. c|o WID'S DAILY. Studio equipment for production covering ■11 kinds of sets. Reception Hall, Library, Dining Room and Kitchen. Box 122, WID'S DAILY. _ _ Second hand studio equipment with full setting for parlor, bedroom and reception hall. Bo* 72 c|o WID'S DAILY. HELP WANTED. Pianist, with good reference who is not afraid of work, for house in Pennsylvania. Home arrangements. A. S. c|o WID'S DAILY. BOY WANTED To deliver Wid's Daily and make himself generally useful around the office. Excellent chance for advancement. Apply Business Manager WID'S DAILY. Operator Wanted— Must be alean est steady and willing to work; most be able to operate two Powers 6B machines and generating set ; must know the work from A to Z. Good steady job to the right man No booze fighter need apply. S. K. Leea. Baby theater, Jamestown, N. D. Operator and Al man for electrical work most know all about Powers machines Good position for right man. Address K. C e|o WID'S DAILY. POSITION WANTED. Piano player at liberty wants steady Job Bast of references. Will go anywhere. D. T •are of Wid's Daily. Operator who has worked Simplex & Powers Machines. Can give Al references. A. J. K., c|o WID'S DAILY. Gray Dead of Pneumonia. William L. Gray, manager of the Biograph studio is dead of pneumonia. He was 38 years old. Fifteen years ago Mr. Gray came to this city and became affiliated with the Biograph Company. He was a thirtythird degree Freemason, and is survived by his wife and parents. Masonic services were held at 8 o'clock Sunday night, at the Campbell Funeral Church, under the auspices of Mecca temple. CLOSE-UPS by COMLY In all this talk of billion dollar mergers, the name of the L-Ko Company is being mentioned by the wise ones as the dark horse in the back ground whose decision as to amalgamating will clarify the present chaotic condition of the industry. In the mean time, they are now closed, taking stock. Among the recent arrivals swelling the greatest galaxy of magnates ever exhibited to the public gaze, we note Ricord Gradwell, Sol Lesser and L. J. Mayer, all of whom are out here merely for their health. The fads in our set are constantly changing. At the present moment it is considered quite de trop to hunt for stars. We are now enjoying the exhilarating sport of seeking to be their releasing organization. Blackwood, John H., heaves into view with the startling announcement that Robertson-Cole would find it a pleasant thing to handle the products of Fairbanks, et al. It may be done. Our idea of a great cast: Grace Darmond, Forrest Stanley, Claire DuBrey, Barbara Tennant and Bertram Grassby, now performing in a Jesse D. Hampton special. This aggregation should make any theme authorproof. Earl Montgomery and Joe Rock are making their comedies so good that Vitagraph is only troubled by not having enough of them to meet the demand. Our old friend Billy Mong is now cavorting in front of the Brttnton Studios' camera corps, with his usual success. T. L. Tally to build the most magnificent setting for the photo-dramatic art in the West. Where have we heard that before? When there is no news you can always rely upon J. A. Quinn to start something. This time an organization to control the well known industry. Count me in Jack, I have a dollar and a quarter. Enid Bennett and Fred Niblo admit that thejy are of the few who can best play the leading roles in that thrilling drama of "Happy Though Married." House Changes. Denver. — L. B. Brown and A. F. Meighan of Theater Operating Co., are no longer in charge of the Princess and Rialto theaters. They now control the Strand, Rivoli and Isis. H. E. Elison, and George Graves are in charge of the Princess and Rialto. Use the Magazine Tips. In the current issue of ProgressAdvance, Paramount publicity department offers a new suggestion for publicity aid in the form of a compilation of what the magazines of national circulation are doing with regard to pictures. In part, regarding this feature, they say: "The 'fan' magazines are the feeders of your business. Three of them —just out — have a combined circulation of nearly three-quarters of a million. Each of them is displayedon the newsstands in your town and is read widely by the people to whom you look for patronage. Here are some ot the things worth looking at in each." They then detail all features in these publications which should be of interest. Exchange Notes. Seattle — L. M. Cobbs, who has just returned from a conference of Vitagraph managers in New York, has employed two returned soldiers for road men and says he intends to make room on his staff for as many of the returned men as he can manage. The two salesmen are A. V. Hile, who was with Pathe before he went into aviation, and Captain E. R. Bousall of Chicago. C. E. Kirkpatrick has been employed as salesman out of the Seattle Goldwyn office. A. J. Kennedy, who has had charge of the publicity department of the Paramount-Artcraft office for the past two years, is leaving that position to take over the automobile section of the Seattle Sunday Post-Intelligencer, an eightpage section. "Cannibals" Breaks Record. {Special to WID'S DAILY) Dayton, O. — All records for receipts and attendance were broken at The Dayton last week with a "double program," honors being divided by Martin Johnson's "Cannibals of The South Seas." and a Lois Weber productron "When a Girl Loves" with Mildred Harris. The "Cannibals" film had a "shade" on the Weber production as far as drawing power is concerned. The Martin Johnson production was advertised extensively. It is said that the receipts were about $200 better on the day than the last record established some time ago by one of the "Tarzan" pictures which also enjoyed an immense "draft" here. As "opposition" in two other "first run" houses The Dayton had William Farnum and Douglas Fairbanks. Dallas — Pearl Varvell, fo'-^ierlv salesman for General in East Texas has resigned to enter business herself. She is the only film woman in this district. WVrOS,wA STRIP USX IPS UMHKf. TRICK WELDON.W1LL1 AMS ts l\c.\HroPrswwjRK< JvCpQmRiK W. 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